Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

Treasury officials on Wednesday urged Congress to pass either a new borrowing limit or another suspension of the debt before a July 31 deadline. The Treasury will continue to initiate the types of bookkeeping maneuvers it has used in the past to keep the government from breaching a level that would trigger a default on …

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Many active cases in tourism reliant country despite Sinovac vaccination. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56992121

Organized crime unhappy Prinsloo made them look like clowns.

Colonizing Mars with microorganisms https://interestingengineering.com/fungus-growing-on-mars

We’re not in Kansas anymore. https://nypost.com/2021/05/06/caitlyn-jenners-anti-newsom-ad-previews-big-challenge-for-dems/

I won’t blow smoke up your exhaust pipe because 2022 will be one tough election. Between a media that relishes lying, to a corrupt court afraid of being mobbed at home, to a Democrat Party that will ruthlessly churn out fake votes like confetti for a tickertape parade, the game is stacked against Republicans Don …

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Starship lands successfully.

If political incorrectness is a disease it ought to ban itself. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/01/867200259/protests-over-racism-versus-risk-of-covid-i-wouldn-t-weigh-these-crises-separate?utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&s=09

The most important divorce in America today is not between Bill and Melinda Gates but within the political center. What held it together was the need to pay the national bills and the glue of residual shared culture.

Identity politics in Africa. https://nypost.com/2021/05/04/ethiopia-at-a-crossroads-amid-spiraling-ethnic-conflict/

Bizarre photo showing giant Bidens beside miniature Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter keeps the Explainers busy.

About 300 students will get to sit at the ceremony, while their families cheer them on virtually. According to the school’s ceremony plans, family members — even the parents who helped pay the tuition — will not be allowed to sit in the stands. … While the students will be sitting about six feet apart …

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One school district in Washington state has evidently decided that Asians no longer qualify as persons of color. https://reason.com/2020/11/16/equity-report-north-thurston-asian-students-of-color/

Will the electric guitar intro work? A 36-year-old CIA employee also wants you to know how else she sees herself – that she is proudly a “woman of colour,” is “intersectional” and is a “cisgender millennial”. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3132143/why-woke-cia-recruitment-video-angered-us

Elliott is telling analysts that the sell-off is overdone – and comparing the decline to one following an advertiser pullback during Black Lives Matter protests last year – and when Twitter banned the account of former President Donald Trump, according to the report. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3689377-twitter-cuts-losses-on-report-elliott-is-buying-post-earnings-slide

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/us/census-news-republicans-democrats.html