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    Expert says the Chinese military could seize Taiwan’s government buildings in under an hour

    China would need sufficient naval logistics assets to both launch and sustain any invasion of Taiwan. It currently lacks that sealift capacity, which means that it does not have the capability at present to invade Taiwan. It is building capacity up - but much more slowly than it was in the...
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    If Joe Biden is not the real Joe Biden

    Bosi has the same reliability as a tissue paper raincoat and truthfulness of a 3 dollar note
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    The Triumph of Bidenomics!

    According to the US BLS data, the average American worker. But sure, your anecdotal experience trumps a dataset drawn from a survey of 60,000 households. What's that saying about facts and feelings? Sure they can. But, wage growth running ahead of food price inflation is what the real world...
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    The Triumph of Bidenomics!

    Wage growth (not seasonally adjusted), rolling 12 months: 2022: 5.1% 2023: 6.2% 12 months to March 2024: 4.7%. By indexing prices and wages at a baseline '100' at the start of 2022, I make it that food prices are at an index of 115.673 (to April) and wages are at index of 117.524 (to March)...
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    The Triumph of Bidenomics!

    Per US BLS data, food prices are up 2.2% over the past 12 months (to the end of April 2024). That includes a 1.1% increase in 'food at home' and a 4.1% increase in 'food away from home'. For 2023, food prices were up 2.7%. For 2022, food prices were up 10.1%. For 2021, food prices were up...
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    White House has "corrected" transcripts from Biden's public comments at least 148 times since the beginning of 2024

    I did. It's making molehills out of ant mounds. These are nitpicks, at best. It is normal. People who speak in public often, often make mistakes.
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    White House has "corrected" transcripts from Biden's public comments at least 148 times since the beginning of 2024

    Yeah. And? Working for a business conference firm, we generally use the 'speech as written' not 'speech as delivered' in our transcripts. We only use live transcript when we don't get a pre-written script or there was an interview, panel discussion or debate. Speaking as someone who gives...
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    President Biden and Democrats have a plan for American energy: make it harder to produce and more expensive to purchase

    What about data from the oil industry? https://www.api.org/-/media/Files/Publications/Monthly%20Statistical%20Report/2024/API-Monthly-Statistical-Report-March-2024.pdf
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    Houston-area school board votes to remove 13 chapters from state-approved science textbooks, citing controversial topics

    What specifically are you looking for? Pages 4-7 inclusive. If you want to better understand the physical science basis and how human behaviours are leading to both global warming and warming-induced climate change, then the IPCC is a really good place to start. The 2021 version in...
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    Houston-area school board votes to remove 13 chapters from state-approved science textbooks, citing controversial topics

    Try this https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiJ7JSHyJCGAxVBxzgGHULiB14QFnoECA8QAQ&usg=AOvVaw0IERg1bK7Gui1NUZ_2h-W4
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    President Biden and Democrats have a plan for American energy: make it harder to produce and more expensive to purchase

    It's all freely available through the US Energy Information Administration. Weekly Petroleum Balance Sheet: www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/weekly/pdf/table1.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjtyYnu546GAxWjlK8BHenwD_kQFnoECBMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2PkHNIB-NEMQHyoJvZJvI5 Weekly Petroleum Report: Weekly Petroleum Status...
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    President Biden and Democrats have a plan for American energy: make it harder to produce and more expensive to purchase

    Which Biden administration policies, specifically, are having a "significant impact" on oil prices? Are these policies having a greater, lesser or similar impact to oil & gas industry decisions on pricing when you look at refinery capacity, field exploitation and/or stock dividends and buybacks...
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    We don't need war all we need is money

    Huh? I asked for evidence of US venture capital firms "using this situation to buy up Ukraine's agriculture"? Have you got any?
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    We don't need war all we need is money

    Corporations didn't invade Ukraine (twice), Russia did. Sure. Successful commercial relationships have always led to peace, right? Just ask the Soviet Union on the 23rd of June 1941. Polish farmers HAD been blocking access to Ukraine, because Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted normal...
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    Seats in European Parliament for Russia and Ukraine

    None of those things would be happening if Russia hadn't invaded. Russia leaves Ukraine, all those problems go away.
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    Abolishing the British Monarchy

    No. Not even by stretching the word 'senior' beyond all recognisable measure. There are certainly familial political dynasties in the US - the Kennedies, the Bushes, the Roosevelts, the Rockerfellers, the duPonts and so on. A lot of these families have intermarried - particularly those from the...