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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:20:46 GMT -8
Your debt will stay with you if you can't budge it.
No CHIPS Money for China Factories
US tech companies that receive federal funding will be barred from building "advanced technology" facilities in China for 10 years, the Biden administration has said.
The guidelines were unveiled as part of a $50bn (£43bn) plan aimed at building up the local semiconductor industry.
It comes as business groups have pushed for more government support in an effort to reduce reliance on China.
They are faced with a global microchip shortage which has slowed production.
"We're going to be implementing the guardrails to ensure those who receive CHIPS funds cannot compromise national security... they're not allowed to use this money to invest in China, they can't develop leading-edge technologies in China.... for a period of ten years," according to US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo., explaining the US Chips and Science Act.
"Companies who receive the money can only expand their mature node factories in China to serve the Chinese market."
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:22:47 GMT -8
While the Judge Sucks Up to Previous Guy, US Security is In Danger
A document describing a foreign government’s military defences, including its nuclear capabilities, was found in the FBI’s search last month of former US President Donald Trump’s Florida home, according to a report in the Washington Post.
The US newspaper, which cited people familiar with the matter, did not identify the foreign government discussed in the document, nor did it indicate whether the foreign government was friendly or hostile to the United States.
According to the Post report, some of the seized documents detailed top secret US operations that required special clearances beyond top secret clearance.
Some of the documents are so restricted that even some of the Biden administration’s most senior national security officials were not authorised to review them, the Post said.
How Are You Going to Find a Special Master to Review This?
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:26:55 GMT -8
EVERY Front. A Bloodbath
On Tuesday, Ukraine advanced on every front. There were Ukrainian counteroffensives in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and in two different areas of Kharkiv oblast. The number of towns that were either thrown into dispute or fully liberated by Ukraine just in the last 24 hours reads like a month of Russian progress in this invasion being rolled back overnight.
And sometimes it’s more than a month.
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Russian forces lost territory on all fronts during the 28th week of war, as a counteroffensive spread from the southern Kherson region to the eastern and northern fronts of the country, demonstrating Ukraine’s ongoing ability to seize the initiative.
North Ukrainian forces launched a new counterattack in the northern Kharkiv region on September 6.
Despite radio silence from the country’s political and military leadership in Kyiv, Ukrainian and Russian military bloggers reported heavy fighting in Verbivka and Balakliia, 70km (44 miles) southeast of Kharkiv city, which Ukraine recaptured in early May.
Ukrainian forces appeared to have reclaimed Verbivka, where they posted geolocated footage showing dead Russian soldiers.
Rybar was one of several Russian military bloggers reporting continuing fighting around Balakliia on the evening of September 6, but early on September 7, reported that the town had been completely surrounded.
“[Balakliia] is in the operational encirclement and in the range of fire of Ukrainian artillery. All entrances are cut off by [enemy] fire,” he wrote.
Russian reporters also said that Moscow’s forces had blown up bridges across the Balakleyka and Krainya Balakleyka rivers to prevent Ukrainians from advancing further.
Unconfirmed reports said the attack triggered a collapse of the Russian front, which was weakened last month to redeploy forces to the south.
The offensive appears to have resulted in a bloodbath for the Russian military.
Ukraine reported 460 enemy fatalities, an extraordinary toll for one day.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:29:37 GMT -8
Tanks A Lot
Tanks Not So Many
- Russia had 3300 tanks at the start of the war.
- Russia is losing 10 tanks a day on average. Ukraine reports current Russian tank losses at 2097, after 196 days of fighting. Rounding these numbers a bit, we get ~2000 tanks over ~200 days, so 10 every day.
They had 3300, lost 2097, with 1203 remaining. Round down to 1200 for sanity. 10 lost per day leaves us with 120 days to go. Four months. Just about when 2023 rolls around.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:31:15 GMT -8
QOP Opposes Election Reform That Could Help Them
Republicans have been up in arms about “jungle primaries,” or nonpartisan open primaries, and ranked choice voting, or RCV, systems that eschew traditional election formats. Such is the rage that in both Tennessee and Florida, laws have been enacted that essentially forbid any jurisdiction from experimenting with ranked choice voting in any format. And after Democrat Mary Peltola’s surprising victory in Alaska’s special U.S. House election last week to fill the vacant seat of longtime Republican Rep. Don Young, who died in March, rallying cries against RCV have reached a fever pitch. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who has long opposed RCV, even called the format “a scam“ in a tweet following the results.
But the GOP — particularly the more traditional wing of the party that is alarmed at the divisive nature of the general election candidates who emerge out of Republican primary contests — shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss such formats. More open primaries and ranked choice voting formats might be the tools the GOP needs to regain control of the party from the MAGA-fueled fringe element that seems to be driving it off the cliff’s edge.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:33:14 GMT -8
This Doesn't Sound Very Christian to Me. It Sounds Like a Prison Leasing Out Inmates to Earn a Profit.
For girls who were depressed, drinking, skipping school or fighting with their families, Trinity Teen Solutions claimed to offer a cure. Desperate parents paid $6,000 a month to send their children to the Christian therapeutic program at a working ranch in a remote area of Wyoming, often without visiting first.
What girls encountered once they got there, according to 22 women who spent time at the ranch as teens from 2007 to 2020, was a nightmare of hard labor and humiliating punishments that left some injured and others with post-traumatic stress disorder.
In recent interviews and court filings, the women described injuries to their hands, legs and feet, including cuts, frostbite and in one case torn ligaments requiring surgery, from hauling heavy metal pipes to irrigate fields and carrying bales of hay they said weighed over 50 pounds. The girls built barbed wire fences, dragged carcasses of dead animals into a pile and were driven around the county to clean churches and recreation centers, they said.
“From the time we woke up in the morning to the time we went back to sleep, we were always doing work. Always,” said Taybre Conrad, 19, who left the ranch in 2020. “And they were having us do the type of stuff that grown men do.”
If they stepped out of line, girls were forced to run up and down a small mountain, dodging rattlesnakes, or were given only a can of olives and beans for a meal, according to former residents. Three women said that staff members who accused them of being “stubborn” tied them to a goat with a leash for days at a time.
Down the road from Trinity Teen Solutions, which serves girls, sits Triangle Cross Ranch, a program for boys run by the same family that has also long been accused of forcing children to perform manual labor. The state has confirmed numerous regulatory violations over several years, finding that the ranch made teens box each other as punishment and tried to interfere with government investigations. One former Triangle Cross Ranch resident said staff members branded his arm in the shape of a cross in 2012, leaving a lasting scar.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:35:50 GMT -8
A Federal Pardon Doesn't Help
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:39:01 GMT -8
Who Was the National Republican Senate Committee Working For?
Rick Scott blew through millions of campaign dollars to build voter lists that people suspect are about his own ambition:
Guess Who Wants to Run For President.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:40:41 GMT -8
Speaking of the Christian Thing to Do, ...
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:43:30 GMT -8
What? Him Worry? 
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:50:57 GMT -8
This is a Big Diehl
Geoff Diehl, a former state representative endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has won the Republican nomination for Massachusetts governor over businessman Chris Doughty, who was considered the more moderate candidate in the race.
The victory for Diehl sets up a general election contest against Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey, who would be the first openly gay person and the first woman elected governor of Massachusetts if she wins in November. The state’s current governor, Republican Charlie Baker, decided against seeking a third term.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:52:42 GMT -8
Backpedaling Faster Than a Cornerback
Scott Jensen, Republican candidate for governor in Minnesota, is fleeing from his own position against abortion after his poll numbers took a dive.
“I would try to ban abortion,” Jensen vowed in a March interview with Minnesota Public Radio. In the past, he has also said he would work to ban it without exceptions for rape and incest “unless the mother’s life is in danger.”
Now, with voters outraged over the issue after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Jensen has released a new video insisting abortion is a “protected constitutional right” in the state and “no governor can change that.”
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:56:30 GMT -8
"I Can't Believe How Many Idiots Thought I Was Legit Out of Jail". Did They Believe the Ball and Chain Was Real?
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 7, 2022 8:58:15 GMT -8
It Wasn't Previous Guy's Tariff's
The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in July as exports hit a record high, a trend that could see trade continuing to contribute to gross domestic product in the third quarter.
The Commerce Department said on Wednesday that the trade deficit declined 12.6% to $70.6 billion. Exports of goods and services edged up 0.2% to $259.3 billion, while imports fell 2.9% to $329.9 billion.
Trade added 1.42 percentage points to GDP in the second quarter, despite an overall contraction in economic activity, after being a drag for seven straight quarters.
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