1. Report: American Companies Are Leaving China
The coronavirus COVID-19 that originated in China may be the last straw that finally has triggered American companies to exit China. In the Global manufacturing consulting firm Kearney’s seventh annual Reshoring Index released on Tuesday, co-author Patrick Van den Bossche writes:
Three decades ago, U.S. producers began manufacturing and sourcing in China for one reason: costs. The trade war brought a second dimension more fully into the equation?risk?as tariffs and the threat of disrupted China imports prompted companies to weigh surety of supply more fully alongside costs.
COVID-19 brings a third dimension more fully into the mix, and arguably to the fore: resilience?the ability to foresee and adapt to unforeseen systemic shocks
More here. Data shows they really are leaving.
2. Italy’s Communist Recipe for Disaster
[…] Beginning in about 2014, Matteo Renzi, the imbecile ex-mayor of Firenze (Florence) acting as the leader of the Partito Democratico (synonymous with the Italian Communist party), somehow managed to get himself elected as Italy’s Prime Minister. To give you a proper frame of reference, Matteo Renzi was so far left, he would make Barack Obama look like Barry Goldwater!
At the same time that Renzi was leading Italy into oblivion, strange things were happening in Italy’s economy. Banks were failing… but not closing. Retirement ages were being extended… for some reason the pension funds were dwindling or disappearing. The national sales tax we call IVA (Value Added Tax) rose from 18% to 20%, then to 21% and again to 22%.
And in the midst of all this financial chicanery, the Chinese began furiously buying up Italian real estate and businesses in the North.
(Overall a good article explaining how communist leaders in Italy made that nation vulnerable to China, resulting in horrifying amount of death from Wuhan Flu)
3. Science Magazine Apologizes for Associating Chinese Virus with China
Nature, one of the world’s leading journals of biological sciences, urged scientists in an editorial this week to embrace the technical name favored by China’s government for the deadly disease that emerged from the Chinese city of Wuhan.
“We must all do everything we can to avoid and reduce stigma; not associate COVID-19 with particular groups of people or places; and emphasize that viruses do not discriminate — we are all at risk,” said the editorial in Nature magazine, headlined “Stop the coronavirus stigma now.”
(Political correctness may yet kill us all)
4. About those Red Flag laws
5. Stunning exchange between an Idaho Sheriff and a doctor within that state
6. With Federal Incompetence Increasingly Obvious, Premiers Reject Giving Trudeau Emergency Powers
The Trudeau government continues to show disturbing incompetence in their handling of the CCP Coronavirus Crisis.
From refusing to ban flights from China, waiting too long to call for shutdowns, trying to make a disturbing grab for power, and leaving the borders open until it was too late, and listening to corrupted WHO advice, the federal Liberal government has gotten it wrong every step of the way.
And now, the Premiers seem to be realizing it, quickly rejecting the idea of the federal government having emergency powers.
According to a recent report, the Premiers strong, and swiftly, rejected the latest federal government attempt to use the Emergency Act:
“B.C Premier John Horgan — whose province has shown progress in flattening the curve of its coronavirus outbreak — was so angry he used an expletive and called the ordeal a waste of time, said sources.
On the call with the prime minister, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, chair of the Council of the Federation, questioned why the federal government keeps raising the act, which the provinces consider a non-starter.”
7. Turkish navy thwarts Greek coast guards in Aegean Sea
The Greek coast guards harassing a Turkish-flagged merchant ship which was traveling in line with the international maritime law in the south of the Samos Island of the Aegean Sea, immediately left the area following arrival of the Turkish Armed Forces, said security sources on April 9.
The Turkish vessel “Ak?nturk-2” was harassed by the Greek guard boats near Samos Island last week while it was traveling using its right to freedom of navigation in compliance with the international maritime law, the sources said.
Turkish air and naval forces, and coast guard units stepped into action upon hearing the distress call of the ship, and moved towards the scene while maritime surveillance command repeatedly warned the Greek coastal guard units.
The Greek elements left the scene following the arrival of navy forces and coast guard units, and the merchant ship continued its course later on.
Security sources said the Turkish Armed Forces are determined to protect Turkish rights and interests under the international law in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas.
8. China Uncensored on the WHO and Taiwan and Trump.
(Boris Johnson is out of ICU now though)
https://twitter.com/EM_KA_17/status/1248720541680353282
9. We must speak to Brad Johnson about this one
https://twitter.com/KevBoat44/status/1248684823981559809
10. Taiwanese Youtuber irks China by promoting Taiwanese leader
11. The violent communist extremist head of WHO wages a war of rhetoric against Taiwan
12. New, larger wave of locusts threatens millions in Africa
(Didn’t the EU just make insects OK for Europeans to eat?)
KAMPALA, Uganda — Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts of Africa were already threatened by another kind of plague, the biggest locust outbreak some countries had seen in 70 years.
Now the second wave of the voracious insects, some 20 times the size of the first, is arriving. Billions of the young desert locusts are winging in from breeding grounds in Somalia in search of fresh vegetation springing up with seasonal rains.
Millions of already vulnerable people are at risk. And as they gather to try to combat the locusts, often in vain, they risk spreading the virus — a topic that comes a distant second for many in rural areas.
It is the locusts that “everyone is talking about,” said Yoweri Aboket, a farmer in Uganda. “Once they land in your garden they do total destruction. Some people will even tell you that the locusts are more destructive than the coronavirus. There are even some who don’t believe that the virus will reach here.”
Some farmers in Abokat’s village near the Kenyan border bang metal pans, whistle or throw stones to try to drive the locusts away. But mostly they watch in frustration, largely barred by a coronavirus lockdown from gathering outside their homes.
(Delta Delta Tango!)
Thank you Richard, M., Sassy, EB., Wrath of Khan, Johnny U., C., Babs and many people including some new ones who’s names I have not quite committed to memory yet. But thank you all who puts your efforts in for our joint benefit.
Revisiting an old video we made about the Islamic use of terms for the purpose of deception.
Delta Delta Tango
That is what they need, but the so called environmentalists will oppose the use of anything that will solve the problem, they think that there are too many people on earth and want the vast majority of us to die off.
5- This world we have now is not meant for VTB readers. You are of another time and place, I think. That’s why we’re so bitchy.
It doesn’t get much more sophisticated than this Sheriff. I mean the whole shootin’ match. I mean life, liberty and where the two meet inside this world we have right this very minute.
There is no milligram of coincidence that this rebel comes from flyover country. He is mythical and real, both. His myth enchants and leads us, while his resurrection (wondrously coincidental timing?) assures our conviction and courage to go the way of our own conscience. The picture displayed behind the men speaking is there intentionally.
It doesn’t matter where you are or what you do for a living. It does not matter your religion or stature. You are not alone while you ride alone, and you will be fine on any dusty trail.
Think I’ll move to Alberta,
To breath that air,
Or jump the border,
And try it there:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/20/myth-of-the-cowboy
He ignores a lot of history in his monograph, especially when he talks about the movies creating the myth. What he is ignoring is the way so many of the old cowboys, lawmen and outlaws that were too old to keep up the witld ways moved to Hollywood and worked as actors, wranglers and stage hands in the Movies. Many of the early movies were based on stories the old timers told to the “Green Horns” making the movies, and some of them were real tall tales. From what I have read most of the men started out telling the stories the way they happened by after a few times they got bored and started to change the story every time they told it.
I not how he doesn’t report that the Western Books and Movies were killed by the left because they didn’t like the idea of people taking care of their own problems. The western books are starting to come back but in these the heros are almost always lawmen instead of working hands who were simply doing what they thought were right. Sadly with the hold hte left has on our school systems it will be a long time before the attitudes of that time will be taught in school.
FYI A lot of Louis Lamour’s books are based on real incidents in history, he will shift them from Texas to Montana and other locations but for the most part his books follow what really happened. What we need is another historian fiction author like Lamour to revive the western genre.