The UN’s new species extinction group IPBES is an offshoot of another UN doomsday group, the IPCC Recent doomsday predictions from the United Nations claim that millions of species are about to become extinct due to human activity and global warming. The predictions come from a new UN body called the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on […]
Effect of Trump China tariff threat uncertain
Trade correspondent L.C. reports: The US-China trade talks apparently aren’t going as well as US and Chinese officials indicated after USTR Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held talks in Beijing last week. In a threat that took most observers by surprise, President Trump tweeted on Sunday, May 5th: For 10 months, China has […]
US Afghan diplomacy is a disgrace
The US continues to disgrace itself by negotiating with the Taliban despite repeated Taliban humiliations of both the negotiators and the US-allied Afghan government from 2013 to the present. US negotiators have acquiesced in the Taliban’s refusal to negotiate with the Afghan government, insisting that it is a US puppet. This ignores the fact that […]
Positive outlook for China, Japan trade talks; USMCA stalled
Trade correspondent L.C. reports: President Trump is moving to wrap up trade talks with Japan and China and to get Congressional ratification of the USMCA. The trade talks are moving toward possible conclusion by the end of the year, but the USMCA is running into opposition from trade unions and Democratic legislators in the House. […]
Why Democrats shouldn’t complain about a citizenship question on the Census
Democrats are worried that if there is a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, illegal immigrants (and perhaps even legal Hispanic immigrants) won’t participate. This, Democrats fear, will lead to their being underrepresented in Congress and to the states where they predominate receiving less-than-deserved Federal funding. But there’s a simple remedy to this fear — […]
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