Tesla’s expansion plans in China put on hold due to US tariffs

May 12, 2021

US electric car producer Tesla has reportedly held off on plans to buy land to expand its plant in the Chinese province of Shanghai and turn it into the company’s global export hub, as uncertainty over US-China relations grows.

Tesla refrained from bidding on a plot of land that is in close quarters to its factory, according to unnamed sources familiar with the matter, as quoted by Reuters.

With an annual capacity of up to 500,000 vehicles, the company’s Shanghai plant is currently manufacturing Model 3 and Model Y vehicles at a rate of 450,000 units per year.

Earlier, the automaker was reportedly planning to increase the capacity of the existing production lines to expand exports of its China-made Model 3 to more markets, including the US, according to sources. The company currently ships China-made Model 3s to Europe.

However, with 25% tariffs on imported Chinese electric cars imposed, on top of existing levies introduced under former US President Donald Trump still in place, the automaker is planning to put limits on the share of China output in its global production.

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US Businesses Are Closing Because They Can’t Find Anyone to Work. Here’s Why.

May 12, 2021

In a recent interview, economist Lawrence Summers said the government’s juiced-up unemployment benefits have created a record labor shortage.

For the last 10 years, Larry and Roxane Maggio ran a deli—Ludovico’s—in downtown Haddonfield, a borough in New Jersey.

Last month, however, they prepared their final catering orders. The couple decided to close their business—“and not because business is bad.”

“We just can’t find anyone to work,” Roxane Maggio told the Philadelphia Inquirer last week.

Similar stories can be found across America, where businesses are struggling to find employees. In Spokane, Washington, job postings “appear to be around every corner,” but employers simply can’t find people to fill the jobs.

“It’s been challenging,” said Matt Jensen, who serves as Director of Sales and Marketing for Davenport Hotels, just one of many businesses in Spokane searching for dozens of employees.

A Record Labor Shortage

These anecdotes are no aberration. Data show that small businesses are reporting a record number of job openings.

“I think we’re seeing rising evidence of labor shortages,” economist Lawrence Summers said in a recent Bloomberg interview, which highlighted a recent National Federation of Independent Business survey.

“You can see that in small business surveys, where we’re at record levels in terms of difficulties of finding labor. You can see that in terms of the data on job vacancies, which are at near record levels,” said Summers, a former president of Harvard University.

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CDC Exaggerates Danger of Outdoor COVID-19 Transmission

May 12, 2021

The New York Times has done an analysis on what it says is a misleading statistic released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the ramifications of the distribution of such information.

At issue is the CDC’s announcement last month that “less than 10%” of COVID-19 transmission was occurring outdoors, a percentage that quickly caught on.

The Times equated it to saying that sharks attack fewer than 20,000 swimmers worldwide annually, when the actual number is about 150, calling it “both true and deceiving.”

Dr. Muge Cevik, a virologist at the University of St. Andrews said the CDC’s benchmark “seems to be a huge exaggeration,” explaining that the share of transmission that has occurred outdoors appears to be below 1%, with other experts saying it might even be below 0.1%.

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Twitter, Facebook Refuse To Remove Army Of Chinese Propaganda Bots, Oxford Researchers Reveal

May 12, 2021

Platforms including Twitter and Facebook are failing to suspend and label thousands of bot accounts linked to the Chinese Communist Party, according to a new investigation conducted by the Associated Press and the Oxford Internet Institute.

“A seven-month investigation by the Associated Press and the Oxford Internet Institute, a department at Oxford University, found that China’s rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts that have retweeted Chinese diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times, covertly amplifying propaganda that can reach hundreds of millions of people — often without disclosing the fact that the content is government-sponsored,” the outlet summarizes.

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Evidence of Self-Spreading Vaccines Being Used For Depopulation (Video)

May 12, 2021

To find the truth, simply follow the money trail

Unvaccinated women are continuing to report miscarriages and excessive menstrual bleeding after coming in contact with the recently vaccinated.

Newsom offers cash to voters from budget windfall, federal COVID relief money, ahead of recall vote

May 12, 2021

“This is one more reason why borrowing and sending tens of billions to California was a crying shame” – Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney.

(Just the News) California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is offering COVID-19 relief money to resident-voters amid a likely recall election vote – using a stunning $75.7 billion state surplus that was fueled by capital gains taxes collected during the pandemic and $26 billion in direct state aid from the federal stimulus plan that congressional Democrats passed in March.

Newsom announced the plan Monday in a statewide road show. Money in his $100 billion California Comeback Plan will help residents pay utility bills and back rent, according to Politico.

Voters mounted a successful recall petition drive sparked largely by what they considered Newsom’s mismanagement of the pandemic, including over-strict health-safety measures.

The checks would arrive in voters’ mailboxes before the recall voter is expected to be put to residents on a November ballot.

Former Gov. Gray Davis, who was recalled in 2003, suggested the announcement is good news, telling Politico: “It’s very significant, and it dovetails into the general perception that we are coming out of the pandemic, the worst is behind us, the future looks brighter as evidenced by the checks the public will soon receive.”

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Ashli Babbitt’s Heartbroken Husband Breaks Silence as Capitol Police End Investigation on Devastating Note

May 12, 2021

“Say her name.”

That cry from Black Lives Matter and other anti-police activists has been a call to action to memorialize victims and mobilize mobs against police shootings — and yet the name of Ashli Babbitt has not passed their lips.

Despite compelling evidence that the unarmed 35-year-old Air Force veteran was unjustly gunned down by a Capitol Police officer during the Jan. 6 incursion at the U.S. Capitol, Babbit’s death is not featured in the sacred litanies of activists.

And unlike other highly publicized police shootings, the officer remains blissfully anonymous as the Department of Justice announced it did not have sufficient evidence to prosecute the killer cop as they closed the investigation.

Ashli Babbitt’s shooting was officially dismissed and was ignored by the people most vocal about police shootings, but her family is left grappling with the immense pain and loss of such a tragedy.

Her husband, Aaron Babbitt, spoke to Newsmax on April 29 about the stonewalling the family has endured from officials as they pursue a wrongful death claim against Capitol Police, about the last memory of his wife and the utter horror of watching her die on television.

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150 People Expelled From FL Church After Trying to Vote Out Leadership

May 11, 2021

One hundred fifty official members have been expelled from a conflict-ridden congregation in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Leaders of First Baptist Church (FBC), led by Pastor James Welch, recently terminated the membership of a “discontented” and “disaffected minority” who had rebelled against leaders.

The dissenters had formed an Advocacy Group and voted out the church’s leadership last fall. But church leaders say those actions are invalid and warrant “biblical discipline.” Attempts to solve the disagreement, including arbitration, have been unsuccessful.

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Doctor mocks vaccine skeptics, then DIES after covid vaccine, as media scrubs wrongful death case

May 11, 2021

A 48-year-old Ohio doctor unexpectedly died on April 27, 2021. There was no official story on the cause of his death, only a satirical obituary that was written in the first person. The news of his death made waves around the world. Various media outlets from MSN to Fox News praised his self-written obituary and extraordinary life as a doctor. The news of his passing was featured in news outlets ranging from Australia to the United Kingdom. Dr. Thomas Flanigan was a loving husband and father. He was also a middle-aged plastic surgeon who often used satire to communicate his views on medical topics. He was very public about his views on vaccines, and even used Facebook to mock vaccine skeptics.

Doctor marketed for Moderna and mocked vaccine skeptics just weeks before suddenly passing away.

On January 6, he got his first dose of Moderna’s experimental vaccine. He got on Facebook to advertise for Moderna, posing for the camera shot. “I did it for the free orange juice. I’m pretty sure the needle was like a foot long. The good news is that I didn’t feel the microchip going in but I can hear local radio stations now,” he stated.

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Traders scramble to buy gasoline from Europe after US pipeline outage

May 11, 2021

Commodity traders have booked at least six tankers – provisionally – to start shipping gasoline from Europe to the US in the wake of the outage of the Colonial Pipeline network, Reuters reports, citing data from Refinitiv.

The United States has declared a state of emergency.

Colonial Pipeline Co. shut down its network, which supplies close to half of the gasoline and diesel that the East Coast consumes, on Friday following a ransomware attack on the infrastructure. This prompted fears of fuel shortages and price spikes at the pump.

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