U.S. Commerce Secretary Has Stake in Tencent, Parent Company of WeChat
Pictured is U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
The U.S. Department of Commerce is reviewing a ban on Tencent Holdings, the parent company of WeChat, issued under the Trump administration. And a government financial disclosure document shows that current Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and her husband own financial stakes in Tencent.
A financial disclosure document filed with the Office of Federal Ethics (OGE) on Jan. 19 shows that Raimondo and her husband, Andrew Moffit, have stakes in Tencent, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported. The recently confirmed commerce secretary promised to divest from other financial positions because of potential conflicts of interest, but she did not mention withdrawing her stake in Tencent.
Raimondo and Moffitt jointly own shares in two emerging-markets exchange-traded open-ended index funds (ETFs) that consist of several foreign stocks, including Tencent. The couple’s total position in the two ETFs is valued between $365,000 and $750,000. The total value of the pair’s shares in Tencent could be as much as $44,490. The specific amount was not provided in the financial disclosure documents from the federal Office of Government Ethics.
The WaPo said the Justice Department said in a court filing in February that “with the inauguration of Biden, the Commerce Department has begun reviewing a number of recently implemented agency actions, including the (former) Secretary’s ban on the WeChat mobile App in question in this appeal.”
The Daily Caller News Foundation said the Federal Ethics Act prohibits government employees from engaging in official business in which they have a financial interest, and that government officials who hold shares in ETFs may be found to have a financial interest in “specified matters,” and that Raimondo’s stake in Tencent may be exempt from conflict-of-interest laws.
Arizona to Lift Epidemic Restraining Order to Open for Business
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, a Republican, announced Friday (March 5) that Arizona will open businesses and end restrictions on the number of business patrons, while continuing to maintain social distancing and wearing masks. The executive order also prohibits local authorities from implementing “extreme measures to shut down businesses.
In addition to Arizona and Connecticut, Mississippi and Texas announced earlier this week that they would lift the state’s mandatory mask order and restrictions on the number of business patrons.
Risk of epidemic infection two to three times lower for those who wear glasses
A study published on the Medrxiv preprint website suggests that eyeglasses may provide good protection against the new coronavirus (CCA virus). People who wore glasses for more than eight hours a day had a lower risk of infection, which experts speculate is due to the fact that they touched their eyes less often than people who did not wear glasses.
Sohu quoted FoxNews.com as reporting that airborne droplets produced by people infected with the CCP virus when coughing, sneezing or talking spread virus particles, which can survive on the surface of objects for a long Time, and their own hands touching the virus on the surface of objects and then touching their faces, noses, eyes, etc. may introduce these viruses into their bodies. A person will touch their face on average more than 23 times in an hour and touch their eyes at least 3 times, so the eyes are likely to be an important route of infection.
Report: 966 people died in the U.S. after being vaccinated against the CCP virus
According to reports of adverse vaccine events collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 966 people died after receiving The CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) collected reports of adverse vaccine events that showed that 966 people died after receiving mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) vaccine for the CCP virus.
Chinese Professor Convicted for Words The Cultural Revolution in American Education?
The picture shows the BLM (Black Lives Matter) Occupy New York City Hall movement that lasted for half a month in mid-2020, in which the New York Times “1619 Project” falsified history and became the basis for the “Black Lives Matter” theory.
Racial tensions in American society were reignited last year by the death of Sigmund Freud, and now more and more people are discovering that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is the guiding philosophy of this movement, and that it is only a matter of time before it causes social unrest.
In a 17-page paper published in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) in March 2020, Dr. Norman Wang, director of the Cardiology Specialty Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPMC), stated that “the American medical community has made a difference through diversity, inclusion, and equality in AA affirmative action. Affirmative action efforts for AA through diversity, inclusion, and equality have been largely unsuccessful because of the use of ethnic and racial admissions criteria at institutions of higher education that limit the number of qualified applicants and legitimate competition.” “Ultimately, all aspiring medical and cardiology majors must be evaluated on the basis of individual scholarship rather than racial and ethnic identity.”
As a result, the paper was attacked by radical Twitter users who demanded that it be labeled “racist” and retracted, and the matter grew larger and larger until August 2020, when Professor Wang was removed as director of the University of Pittsburgh and subjected to disciplinary action.
On December 19, 2020, The Dalton School, one of New York City’s most elite and expensive ($54,180 per year for grades K-12) private schools, made headlines in the Western media after an anti-racism manifesto signed by dozens of faculty and staff members caused an uproar. The Dalton School made headlines when dozens of staff members signed an anti-racism declaration.
The school refused to open last December, even though most other public and private schools in New York were letting students back in. Parents joined together to demand that the school reopen, but the school’s “social justice warrior” minded staff made a series of radical demands based on “critical race theory” that the school would not open if the parents did not meet their demands. This was essentially holding the school hostage.
In addition, Criticalrace.org, founded by William Jacobson, lists more than 200 universities that promote critical race theory, including 23 in New York State. He describes it as “a radical ideology with a racial focus” and tells Fox News that people need to know that higher education “is the root of the problem.
In fact, 62 years ago, former FBI agent W. Cleon Skousen wrote the book “The Naked Communist,” warning Americans that communists were planning to destroy the American system from within with “cultural Marxism,” much of which “all began in our schools.”
Chapter 13 of the book lists 45 communist goals. Number 17 reads, “Control the schools. Use them as a propagation zone for socialist and current communist propaganda. Soften the teaching curriculum. Control teachers’ unions. Add partisanship to textbooks.” Now, while American parents are busy working and living the American dream, their children are being taught to hate America in school.
Clare M. Lopez, founder/president of Lopez Freedom LLC, recently published an opinion piece in The Jewish Voice, “Marxism in the Classroom,” in which he said it all began when John Dewey, Herbert Marcuse Through the American Education Association, people like John Dewey and Herbert Marcuse brought the socialist concept of “progressivism” into American schools, gradually indoctrinating students with critical race theory, identity grievances and anger at “victims.
He recommends that parents attend school board meetings more often and demand answers, something a patriotic and responsible American parent would do to ensure that their children are not indoctrinated by shadowy Marxism that hates parents and this country.
Founder of anti-virus software McAfee indicted in investment scam
The 75-year-old McAfee, known as the “father of antivirus”, is the founder of McAfee. He and his executive adviser Jimmy Watson were indicted on March 5 on seven counts. The two are charged together with one count of conspiracy to commit commodities and securities fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit securities and peddling fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and two counts of substantive wire fraud. McAfee was detained in Spain last October for tax problems, while Watson, 40, was arrested in Texas on Thursday (4).
Oriental Daily News reported that once convicted, will face a maximum of 20 years in prison, may also have to pay a fine at the same time.
The indictment alleges that McAfee, Watson and other members of McAfee allegedly bought certain cryptocurrencies at low market prices between December 2017 and October 2018, and publicly sang their praises through Twitter to artificially push up the prices and then sell them for profit. In addition, McAfee and others are suspected of concealing the receipt of compensation from startups to promote digital tokens for initial token offerings (ICOs) on Twitter.
6 children’s books accused of discrimination suspended, Dr. Seuss 15 books on Amazon best-seller list instead
Six children’s books by the late classic children’s book author Dr. Seuss have been suspended from publication due to discrimination in their content, causing a rush on Amazon. 15 of the site’s top 20 bestsellers are Dr. Seuss’ books.
World Journal reported that Dr. Seuss, a classic children’s book author who released numerous picture books during his lifetime, recently stopped releasing six picture books due to the content of the illustrations involving racial discrimination against Asians and African-Americans; however, the results backfired and these books caused a wave of rush on the online shopping mall Amazon, and even rushed to the best-seller list. As many as 15 of the top 20 books on the list are Dr. Seuss’ books.
Dr. Seuss Enterprises, which is responsible for publishing books for the late author and illustrator Theodor Seuss Geisel, announced in a statement on National Book Day this year, March 2, that it would no longer release Dr. Seuss’ books. The statement announced that it would no longer distribute six of Dr. Seuss’ picture books, emphasizing that “these books portray people in a harmful and wrong way. Ironically, both Obama and President Trump have mentioned Dr. Seuss in their speeches.
The picture shows former First Lady Michelle introducing Dr. Seuss’ book “The Cat in the Hat” during National Book Day.
The PLA fleet has surpassed the size of the U.S. military, but what about its strength?
According to estimates by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), the PLA Navy will surpass the U.S. in the number of warships by the end of 2020, making it the largest fleet in the world.
The Taiwan Free Times quoted CNN as reporting that this does not mean that the naval power of the Chinese Communist Party has surpassed that of the United States. First of all, the U.S. Navy has more than 330,000 people in service, still better than the Chinese Communist Party’s 250,000 people; the U.S. Navy still has more destroyers and cruisers than China in terms of tonnage, and has more than 9,000 naval vertical missile slots, while the Chinese Communist Party only has about 1,000, which means that the U.S. has a significant lead in ship-launched missile capability.
In addition, the 50 U.S. attack submarines are all nuclear-powered, compared to the 62 Chinese submarines, only 7 of which are nuclear-powered, and the overall combat capability gap is not small.
Finally, the U.S. has a battle group of 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the Chinese Communist Party currently has only two ships or the product of the Soviet era, the strength is completely unmatched. Military Writer Eric Wertheim has said, “A single U.S. carrier and its battle group is more powerful than the entire air force of most countries.”
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