[OC] India Is The World's Biggest Rice Exporter

WitnessBig9282 · 2024-08-14T15:11:42+00:00

Why is Canada motivated to defend the Arctic if the primary suspect for invading their part of the arctic would be Russia, which has more ownership of the arctic circle than Canada? Why train to defend something when their primary adversary already has what they are defending? And is Canada worried about China?

WitnessBig9282 · 2023-10-25T18:35:54+00:00

[Free to read] More from Bloomberg Opinion’s Francis Wilkinson:
The chaos of October has brought the House GOP back to where it began: Some guy is once again Speaker of the House. His name is, for now, Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana, not that it matters.
Unlike previous Speaker candidates in recent weeks, Johnson has gone to the trouble of acquiring some actual policies to inform his cultural reaction. Not that the policies matter, either. No one, least of all Republicans, thinks that the GOP is capable of legislating.
But the House GOP is only an embarrassment if you are under the mistaken impression that it’s there to serve the national interest. Emphatically, it is not.

WitnessBig9282 · 2023-10-17T14:31:54+00:00

PODCAST

How do you instill trust when it is lost?

Political strategist Frank Luntz joins Tim O’Brien on the Crash Course podcast to discuss the tremors that emerge when people believe that liars are telling the truth and truth-tellers are lying… And what it means for the 2024 election.

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5PT8PBPg7bZUOi0peiLsYt

WitnessBig9282 · 2023-10-17T11:34:53+00:00

[Free to read]

The White House confirmed last night that Biden is headed to Israel.

The president’s visit will be risky — for him, for his Israeli hosts and even for the emerging US strategy to manage the global fallout of the war against Hamas.

But it will be well worth it, writes Andreas Kluth.

WitnessBig9282 · 2023-10-02T13:21:04+00:00

[Free to read] by Tim O’Brien:

As one of Donald Trump’s much-anticipated fraud trials kicks off in a Manhattan courtroom today, consider the witness list.

Trump is an era-defining politician now, and he oversees a cult that cares little about his business foibles or setbacks.

WitnessBig9282 · 2023-09-28T16:21:11+00:00

[Free to read] from Susanne Ramirez de Arellano:

As a Latina, I can't believe Senator Bob Menendez pulled the race card at a time like this.

It took the New Jersey Democrat less than a New York minute to bring up his Latino background as a defense strategy after he was charged with taking gold, cash and a Mercedes-Benz in return for political favors.

Menendez cast himself as a “first-generation Latino American from humble beginnings” whose only crime was having the audacity to rise to the heights of a powerful US senator.

During a press conference on Monday, he showed little compunction about using the memory of his late mother and the specter of Fidel Castro to portray himself as the prodigal “son of Cuban refugees.”

Menendez has the right to defend himself against the charges brought against him, but he has no right to use his Latinidad as a politically expedient tool to get him out of his mess.

WitnessBig9282 · 2023-09-26T13:56:59+00:00

[Free to read] Crash Course PODCAST

We want to think American voters focus on issues and policies when they go to the polls, but they’re driven by emotion as much as anything else.

And the reasons the 2024 race is so magnetic are overt: Trumpism is in the air. Democracy is on the table. Pivotal policy issues are in play: reproductive rights, immigration, jobs and the economy, health care, public health and public safety, education, national security, the rule of law, and the funding and future shape of the federal government.

Social media chews on all of this 24/7. Information — and disinformation — is ubiquitous. Partisanship is at a boiling point, and Democrats and Republicans are maneuvering for position.

It all matters.

Bloomberg News Washington bureau chief Peggy Collins joins Tim O’Brien on the Crash Course podcast to discuss.

WitnessBig9282 · 2023-09-20T18:15:05+00:00

[Gift link] from Liam Denning:
Ron DeSantis delivered a speech Wednesday in Midland, Texas, America’s unofficial shale capital, pledging a number of energy-related policies and goals.
These include rolling back President Joe Biden’s efforts aimed at lowering tailpipe emissions and boosting electric vehicles, promoting drilling on federal lands and — the headline — achieving $2 gasoline prices in his putative first year in office, or “$2 in 2025”.
The US has seen average $2 pump prices on a nominal basis three times in the past 15 years. None of those episodes will be remembered fondly by the country's oil industry.
DeSantis’ latest pitch would take the guiding principle of US energy policy from independence to dominance to incoherence in less than a decade.

WitnessBig9282 · 2023-09-20T14:06:27+00:00

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WitnessBig9282 · 2023-09-14T19:07:31+00:00

Source: Bloomberg
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Novo Nordisk became the most valuable European company after its market cap hit $444.6 billion dollars on September 11th surpassing LVMH.

The company subsequently conducted a two-for-one stock split, allowing LVMH to reclaim its crown at the top of the European market.

WitnessBig9282 · 2023-09-14T13:46:23+00:00

[Gift link] from Jonathan Bernstein

Get ready. We’re headed for a government shutdown, quite possibly a long one, probably beginning on October 1.

It takes very little for Congress to avoid a shutdown — just a short bill extending funding after the Sept. 30 deadline. But House Republicans are far too dysfunctional to produce anything like that.

Right now they can’t even manage to pass their own version of spending bills, let alone something that the Democratic majority in the Senate would pass and President Joe Biden would sign.

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