Posts by Kim Browne
Why Democratic Leadership Is Totally Clueless About Modern Politics
The Democratic Party leadership’s strategy of downplaying many of Trump’s actions as a “distraction” is a mistake, say political writer G. Elliott Morris and Amanda Litman, executive director of Run for Something, a group that helps younger Democratic candidates pursue elective office. Such rhetoric is boring and means that the public tunes out Democrats, Morris…
Read MoreTrump’s ICE Raids Just Cost the U.S. a Massive Business Investment
South Korean businesses have suspended at least 22 U.S. projects after an ICE raid on a Hyundai Motor factory site in Georgia detained hundreds of South Korean workers. Some 475 employees, including 300 South Koreans, were taken into custody Thursday at the Savannah-area battery plant. Videos released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials showed…
Read MoreTrump Border Czar Targets Boston Mayor in Bizarre Rant
On Wednesday, border czar Tom Homan, as he is wont to do, threatened a local elected Democrat on Fox News. This time, Homan targeted Boston’s Democratic mayor, Michelle Wu, who has earned national prominence—and the ire of Homan and the White House—for spiritedly defending her city from incursions by the Trump administration. Asked about Wu’s…
Read MoreEpstein Survivor Reveals “Disgusting” Truth Depicted in Birthday Book
“In 1991, there was something that he did when I was there initially training me to do massage, as he had trained a very dear friend who trusted him, spoke highly of him and directed me to him,” Michaels said, identifying herself as one of Epstein’s earliest known survivors. “And during that time where he…
Read MoreBlackRock gets US$10 billion financing for Aramco deal: sources
The majority of the financing is a seven-year loan facility, which could later be refinanced in the bond market [RIYADH] A group led by BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) unit has arranged a roughly US$10 billion financing package for its planned investment in Saudi Aramco natural gas infrastructure, people familiar with the matter said. The…
Read MoreUS: S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record highs on boosted rate-cut bets
[NEW YORK] The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hit intraday record highs at the open on Wednesday (Sep 10), after cooler-than-expected producer inflation data boosted bets on interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, while a surge in cloud computing firm Oracle added to gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 20.2 points, or 0.04 per…
Read MoreRepublican Can’t Decide Whether He Wants to See Trump’s Epstein Note
The Daily Wire, for instance, did not cite “three separate signature analysts,” It cited three “AI research systems”—which did not remark, at all, on Trump’s signature, but rather compared the diction in the 2003 letter to Trump’s other publicly available writings. The AI models apparently cast doubt on the note’s authenticity, finding it inconsistent with…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump Press Sec Seethes as Dumb New Epstein Spin Goes Awry
Sargent: Well, Steve, you’ve been covering politics a long time. There was a time at which you would have expected senior leaders of a party whose president is in such a pickle, in such a deep scandal, to go to the White House and say, Mr. President, this isn’t working. We really have to do something else…
Read MoreCenturion wins shareholder support for Reit listing plan
The Reit will accelerate the group’s growth and support sustainable capital recycling, says chief executive Kong Chee Min [SINGAPORE] Mainboard-listed Centurion Corp won overwhelming support at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on Wednesday (Sep 10), for its planned listing of Centurion Accommodation Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) and related transactions. This includes the divestment of…
Read MoreThe One Percent’s Fear of Death Is Wreaking Havoc on the World
Once you start to see it, you see it everywhere. First, there is the spectacle of Bryan Johnson, who is spending millions to stay young, injecting his son’s blood plasma into his veins, electroshocking his penis, following a strictly regimented diet that looks for all the world like an eating disorder. When Katie Drummond interviewed…
Read MoreAlibaba mapping app steps into local business rankings, intensifying competition
[SHANGHAI] Alibaba’s mapping app Amap is moving away from its traditional focus on navigation and encroaching into rival Meituan’s local-lifestyle territory by launching its own ranking of restaurants, hotels and tourist destinations. Alibaba and Meituan are among the prominent tech companies in China locked in a bitter battle for market share in “instant retail”, flooding…
Read MoreChina’s green tech firms pour billions into overseas factories
Industry giants, including Contemporary Amperex Technology, BYD and Trina Solar, have announced billions on overseas factories in more than 50 countries [HONG KONG] China’s world-leading solar, battery and electric vehicle (EV) companies have sharply increased foreign investment plans in recent years, pledging more than US$210 billion since 2022, according to new research. Chinese companies are…
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