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The Charlie Kirk Show
Is It Time to Decouple From China? David McCormick Explains
"So provocative idea that some people have floated out that I sympathize with on moral terms, but I also understand that it's rather aggressive is that time to decouple. I mean, there are some really thoughtful people that are talking about economically, that's a harsh measure that would definitely mean that there would be rising costs and probably economic uncertainty. But is that something we should be entertaining or at the very least, you know, identify ten or 20, 30 different sectors. They say we want to make this your thoughts. What I call it in the book is strategic decoupling. And listen, I was shocked, Charlie. I can't believe it. And I know I should follow a no such things, but that our pharmaceutical supply chains during COVID were so dependent on China. I was, you know, I knew we were highly dependent on microchips but 90% of the microchips that we require are manufactured 90 miles from Mainland China in Taiwan. So it is an absolute travesty that we have an entire semiconductor industry which is critical to every aspect of national security and economic well-being that's offshore. So that's a perfect example where we need to decouple. There are a number of areas where we need to bring those capabilities home or have them within our closest allies where we can be dependent on it. And that's going to have implications for our ability to have manufacturing jobs here at home in very positive ways. It may raise costs but it will create actual security.
ACN Newswire
Nissin Foods Becomes Eligible Trading Stock under ShanghaiHong Kong Stock Connect
"12 a.m. Monday March 13th, 2023. Nissan foods becomes eligible trading stock under Shanghai Hong Kong stock connect. Hong Kong march 13th, 2023 AC and newswire Ness and foods company limited quotas and foot squad, and together with its subsidiaries, the Cuoco stock code 1475 will become a new eligible stock for trading under the Shanghai Hong Kong stock connect, effective today, march 13th, 2023, in accordance with the latest expansion of the scope of eligible stocks under the stock connect scheme as announced by the Shanghai stock exchange, the Shanghai Hong Kong stock connect was officially launched in 2014. With the aim of establishing mutual stock market access between Mainland China and Hong Kong. The stock connect allows qualified investors in Mainland China to access eligible Hong Kong share southbound as well as Hong Kong and overseas investors to trade eligible a shares northbound subject to a certain amount of daily quota. As announced, the scope of eligible stocks will be expanded to include stocks of international companies that are primary listed in Hong Kong and are one constituent stocks of the hangs in composite large cap index or hangs in composite mid cap index or two constituent stocks of the Hanks and composite small cap index with a market capitalization of 5 billion Hong Kong dollars or above. In addition, the scope of eligible stocks for southbound trading under Shanghai Hong Kong stock connect will be expanded to include constituents of the Hanks and composite small cap index with a market capitalization of 5 billion Hong Kong dollars or above MR. Kyoto, executive director, chairman and chief executive officer of Nissan foods, said quote nis foods has experienced study development in both business and the capital markets since its listing in Hong Kong in 2017. I am pleased to see our sure sapo's investment value gradually being released. Being included in Shanghai Hong Kong stock connect is a major milestone in our corporate development, indicating that Nissan foods will be accessible to more traders in Mainland China through the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock connect which the group earned inclusion earlier. Looking ahead, we will continue to enhance our corporate governance and investor relations with the aim of creating long-term value for our shareholders about Nissan foods company limitedness and foods company limited the Cuoco 1475 is a renowned food company in Hong Kong and Mainland China with a diversified portfolio of well-known and highly popular brands, and the largest instant noodle company in Hong Kong. The group officially established its presence in Hong Kong in 1984. The group primarily manufactures and sells instant noodles, frozen foods, and other food products under its two core corporate brands, namely quote together with a diversified portfolio of iconic household premium food brands. The group of past 5 flagship product brands, namely squat, itchy quad, quote dull instant noodle quad, quote dal dim sum quat and quote fukuoka are also among the most popular choices in their respective food product categories in Hong Kong. In the Mainland China market, the group has introduced technology innovation through the quota CEO capco concept and primarily focuses its sales efforts in first and second tier cities. Nissan foods is a constituent of 8 hanging indexes, namely hanging composite index, Hanks and consumer goods amp services index hangs in stock connect Hong Kong index hangs in stock connect Hong Kong mid cap app small cap index hangs in stock connect Hong Kong, small cap index, hang seng sage K Mainland China companies index, hang sing S HK XH companies index, and hang sing small cap investable index. Nissan foods is eligible for trading under Shanghai Hong Kong and Xinjiang Hong Kong, which included earlier stock connect. For more information, please visit WWW dot missing rope dot com dot HK. Copyright 2023 ACN newswire. All rights reserved. WWW dot ACN newswire dot com.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"mainland" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Its earnings reporting season in China and more companies have beat than missed, and this may bode well for the equity market on the mainland as we look ahead to the remainder of the year, but at the moment the Shanghai composite is only up a tenth of 1% Got a market holiday in South Korea right now in Sydney, ASX 200, better by just a tenth of 1%. We did have economic expansion in Australia, but at a rate that was below forecast GDP in Q four up a half of 1% and in Tokyo now the nikkei down a tenth of 1%. We'll take another look at markets in 15 minutes. Let's get to Ed Baxter next for a look at global news headlines, Eddie. All right, thank you, Douglas U.S. is saying that some Central Asian countries may be helping Russia circumvent sanctions. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says a U.S. will not hesitate to slap sanctions on those countries or on China itself. It seems to take a different tact investing in those countries to help stop the business flow going in that way and help them find other partnerships. The Kremlin is saying Russia is open to Ukraine peace talks, but will not give up its recently annexed regions. Ukraine, of course, says this is a non starter. Supreme Court Justices line of questioning seems to indicate the Biden student loan program is in trouble in the court. Volkswagen is reaffirmed its commitment to its plant in Xinjiang, the despite this despite constant concerns about a potential human rights abuses against Uighurs, New Jersey, planning to end attack surcharge on New Jersey's highest earning businesses the end of the year and some McDonald's franchisees are objecting to the company's use of rapper Cardi B to sell a sandwich package romantically for two, they say her use of profanities and sexual content violate the golden arches code. And that's a Big Mac. In San Francisco, I'm at Baxter and this is Bloomberg are let's check
AP News Radio
Police scour landfill for evidence after model killed and dismembered
"Hong Kong police have begun searching a landfill site for evidence related to the grisly killing a model Abbey Choi. Choi's ex-husband, his brother and father, have been charged with her murder. Please say they're now searching for the missing body parts, including the victim's hands and torso with excavators and shuffles. Soy's family dressed in black have gathered near the rural house, where some of her remains were found to pay respects. The gruesome killing has transfixed many in Hong Kong and across the border in Mainland China, the self governed sudden Chinese city has a very low level of violent crime.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Are We Hearing From Joe Biden?
"Hearing from Joe Biden? He said that we are going to support Ukraine for as long as it takes. That means another year, another 5 years, another ten years and let's make sure we have our facts right. I know we obviously have a very conservative audience and I know based on your emails you send me freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com, you are against the war in Ukraine, but several of your Republican senators and several of your Republican congressmen are the most enthusiastic advocates for this new endless war. So this is not just Joe Biden. This is both parties. In fact, Republicans are pushing for even more aid. In Ukraine. Joe Biden and cut four, the United States will support Ukraine for as long as it takes. There is no end date, there is no limit as Ukraine, one of the states in our country might as well be for neoliberalism. For neoliberals, they don't see borders, borders are an abstract concept. We're all one world. Pick up four. Freedom is priceless. It's worth fighting for, as long as it takes. And that's how long we're going to be with you, mister president, for as long as it takes. We'll do it. Thank you. I mean, I just get a kick out of saying that zelensky represents freedom. The man that bans political parties, the man that literally does not allow the Russian Orthodox Church from existing or worshiping in mainland Ukraine. Zelensky is a corrupt oligarch. Does that mean he deserves in his people deserve to be invaded by Putin? No. But to make zelensky somehow the standard bearer of western freedom is just laughable.
Finance Magnates
China and Hong Kongs Regulators Sign MoU on CrossBorder Shares Listing
"8 p.m. Friday, February 17th, 2023. China and Hong Kong's regulators sign mal on cross border shares listing. LTP GT the China securities regulatory commission CSR and the Hong Kong securities and futures commission. SFC have entered into dot finance magnates, dot contours in memoriam doom of understanding class worms main term quote it 6 zero 5 C 5 7 two 8 zero three four 6 F zero zero zero 9 6 7 6 8 C one 5 four F one aqua target qua Blanco memorandum of understanding mole tagged that seeks to. Strengthen their cross border regulatory efforts in securities offering and listing by domestic companies in both countries dot LTP GT LTP GT SFC announced the cooperation on Friday in a joint statement published on its website. According to the Hong Kong securities regulator, the male outlines the methods and procedures for the. Issuing and listing of shares in both countries the memorandum also provides clarifications on how both regulators will go about a joint cross border enforcement and information exchange. In addition, the agreement explains how financial intermediaries in both countries are to be supervised. LTP GT LTP GT to Mel will facilitate the CSR C and the SFC in discharging their supervisory functions. Jointly combating cross boundary offenses and misconduct, safeguarding death. Legitimate interests of investors and ensuring the steady and healthy. Development of both markets, the regulator explained in the joint statement LTP GT LTP GT China crackdowns on. Cross border online broker to meanwhile, the signing of the agreement comes days after Hong Kong based brokerages dot finance magnates come, for example, can broker suspend accounts off Mainland China clients target qua blank wrote quote follow caught started, suspending client sapo's a council tagged from Mainland China. In order to comply with China's ban on international brokers that are offering. Services without a local license both Hong Kong listed bright smart securities and the Hong Kong unit of Chinese broker gua taijin and securities issued. Notices on the account suspension, although the latter later withdrew the notice. From the public domain, dot LTP GT LTP GT to move follows the top ref cops dot finance magnates dot com for its future end up FinTech face irregular action in kinako target qua Blanco, rel caught follow quad a warning issued by CSR tagged against foot of holding. And up FinTech holding operating as Tiger brokers, two popular hung registered online brokers that provide investors from Mainland China. Access to global stocks to stop accepting new clients from Mainland China. This came as the Chinese regulator does not offer licenses to online brokerages. Specializing in cross border trades LTP GT LTP GT channel tough refs dot finance magnates dot com forks regulation for two up FinTech faci uncertainties emulsion line brokers target crop length quark will quote follow caught started, mulling over tagged, banning online. Brokers from engaging Chinese citizens in late 2021 in that year, sun tangy head of the financial stability department of the people's bank of China, dot finance magnates, come forks regulation kind of warrants and license said broker sac accepting mainland clients quote target qua Blanco rel quat follow quad noted battle tagged cross border online brokerages are driving in China without a driver's license and are conducting. Illegal financial activities a year later, taffer dot finance magnates dot com for its future end up FinTech face irregular actioning kind of target coop Blanco rel quat follow kwasi SRC declared battle tagged photo and up FinTech. We're operating in unlawful securities business, and will be asked to take. Corrective measures dot LTP GT this article was written by Solomon Oladipo at WWW dot finance magnates dot com
Forkast
Huobi to expand in Hong Kong as it bets on China
"4 p.m. Friday February 10th, 2023. Huabei to expand in Hong Kong as it bets on China. Kobe global plans to expand its operations in Hong Kong, anticipating that Mainland China will soon follow the city's recent pro crypto shift, says Justin sundae.
AP News Radio
3 tourists stabbed in Puerto Rico after being told to stop filming
"Authorities in San Juan Puerto Rico say three tourists were stabbed early Monday. I Norman hall. The three tourists are from the U.S. mainland police say the attack happened in a renowned seaside community known as la perla, which is popular with visitors, police say the confrontation began when one of the tourists who lives in South Carolina began videoing a mobile hamburger cart and was told to stop and leave the area. Two of the tourists remain hospitalized, including one who was stabbed 6 times, no one has been arrested, the attack happened nearly two years after a tourist from Delaware was killed and set on fire after
Mark Levin
Shooting Down the Chinese Balloon Lies on Protecting Hunter Biden
"The balloon the spy balloon How did we allow this to cross onto our mainland of a country I'm just curious about that Aren't you curious about that Do we not have norad which tracks Santa Claus and all these other things that we didn't see this thing coming And really legit is it too high up in the sky Is that what it is Is that the problem Because it seems like if that is the case we have some major problems in the future If these balloons can go really really high up so high up that we can't see them let alone pop them could be a problem for us Ask yourself this question If Joe Biden was really concerned with this spy balloon and wanted to send a message to China would he do it Would he do it Ask yourself that question The answer of course lies in his son Hunter Biden Crackhead idiot's son who we know was on China's payroll The answer lies there I think China has so much on this guy and so much on this family This president would never dare stand up to China Would never dare Look I got news for you This is a big country We have a lot of undeveloped land We have a lot of rural land The idea that America doesn't have enough room for everybody that we need to stop having children because we don't have enough places to build houses It's all a lie There's plenty of room We could shoot this thing down very easily and nobody would even notice There was so much undeveloped rural land in this country with Woods and fields and farms and everything else And we have all these neat ways to track where it is so we could know hey it's going over a big gigantic farm And we can evacuate everybody and shoot at the hell down if we wanted to If we wanted to we don't
AP News Radio
China, Hong Kong scrap cross-border travel quota, COVID test
"Travel between Hong Kong and China will no longer require COVID-19 PCR tests, nor be held to a daily limit as both places seek to drive economic growth. Hong Kong leader John Lee says from Monday there'll be a full assumption of travel between Hong Kong and the mainland Lee added quotas for travelers will be scrapped and all boundary checkpoints will reopen. The announcement came a day after Lee unveiled a tourism campaign aimed at attracting travelers to Hong Kong that includes 500,000 free etiquettes for tourists. Hong Kong's tourism industry has suffered since 2019 after months of political strife that at time turned in to violent clashes between protesters and police, as well as the implementation of harsh entry requirements because of COVID. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
AP News Radio
As China Reopens Its Borders, Mixed Feelings at Home and Abroad
"China opens its borders to quarantine free travel while the number of COVID cases is on the rise. Passengers were piling off the first train arriving at a newly reopened crossing point on the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China. Many of them eager to reunite with friends and family they not seen since the start of the pandemic. Their among international travelers now able to visit China without facing the mandatory quarantine period imposed by the government three years ago. From now on to enter the country passengers from abroad need to show a negative test result taken within 48 hours of the journey. China's easing of border restrictions comes as the virus continues to spread in the country and critics are concerned over lack of transparency from Beijing. In other countries, including Germany, Sweden, and Portugal, testing requirements are being imposed on travelers from China to
Blockchain Consultants
A fake baby bump shows the limits of US chip sanctions on China
"2 p.m. Friday December 23rd, 2022. A fake baby bump shows the limits of U.S. chip sanctions on China. Guards on the zhuhai border between Macau and Mainland China recently intercepted a woman wearing a fake baby bump. In many parts of the world authorities would expect to find drugs in such an appendage. But this one contained 202 processors and 9 smartphones. Chip smuggling into China is booming, creating a lucrative black market. The post a fake baby bump shows the limits of U.S. chip sanctions on China first appeared on blockchain consultants.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"mainland" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"I'm Larry kofsky from the Bloomberg newsroom. Japan and Mainland China take center stage for traders with most other markets worldwide closed at least through Monday for the Christmas holiday, investors are expected to show little appetite for risk and made concerns about a wave of COVID-19 infections in China. China's national health commission said it would stop publishing daily case numbers for the coronavirus Bloomberg herskowitz has more on that. The move comes as the accuracy of China's data was questioned after millions were infected nationwide, and the official tally remained strikingly low. The commission did not provide a reason for the change in policy in a statement on Sunday, but said that the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention will release COVID related info for studies and reference. Some Chinese cities have reported daily infections that far surpass the official tally, adding to doubt of the number provided by the NHC, Bloomberg reports as many as 248 million people likely contracted the virus in the first 20 days of December. Erika herskowitz, Bloomberg radio. When Wall Street gets back to work on Tuesday, investors will be trying to put a positive finish on a bad year. Stocks rose modestly on Friday ahead of the Christmas holiday with the Dow and S&P 500 gaining about half a percent, but the market has still been down for three consecutive weeks. With retail egg prices setting the pace for food inflation this year, investors will be waiting to hear from Cal main foods. As it reports quarterly earnings this week, kalman is the nation's largest egg producer, it may have something to say about the bird flu epidemic that is decimated U.S. poultry flocks, consumers have been spared much of this year's higher egg prices, grocers have held the line on retail egg prices to help maintain store traffic. It's been a rough year for Tesla with losses reaching $219 billion in December alone, Tesla shares have fallen for the last 6 days in a row, and have shed 65% of their value this year. More on the suddenly struggling automaker from Bloomberg's Courtney Dunham. Price and production cuts in China and heavy discounting in the U.S. have weighed on chairs, investors are also growing increasingly concerned that CEO Elon Musk is more focused on overhauling Twitter than keeping other automakers pushing into the electric vehicle market at bay. The company plans to produce its first pickup, the cyber truck next year. Courtney donahoe, Bloomberg radio. Tesla yesterday halted production at its plant in Shanghai one day ahead of schedule. The early closing was announced in an internal company notice seen by Reuters, it comes as Tesla and its suppliers face operational challenges stemming from the spike in COVID-19 infections in China, the factory will remain closed until January 1st. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I'm Larry kofsky. This is Bloomberg. It's the big take from Bloomberg news and iHeartRadio. I'm west Kosovo. Today, why are billionaires parking piles of money intended for charity? Instead of giving it to charity. You know that old F. Scott
AP News Radio
N Korea fires 2 ballistic missiles capable of reaching Japan
"North Korea test bars to ballistic missile Sunday capable of reaching Japan, the move of possible protest of Tokyo's adoption of a new security strategy to push for more offensive footing against North Korea and China, the launches come two days after the north claimed to have performed a key test needed to build a more mobile powerful intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the U.S. mainland, South Korea and Japan condemned the north's latest missile launches on Friday, the Japanese government adopted a national security strategy that would allow it to carry out preemptive strikes and fire powerful crews missiles.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Lie in History With Dr. Andrew Huff
"The truth finally is coming out. One of the great crimes the last century was the American political involvement in Mainland China. In the development of the Chinese coronavirus. Gain of function research, which Anthony Fauci said they weren't doing, which I believe he lied under oath. But there is a bombshell new book called the truth about Wuhan. How I uncovered the biggest lie in history. By doctor Andrew huff and he joins us right now. Doctor Hough, welcome to the program. Tell us about yourself and the work that you did with the eco health alliance. And then make the argument that this is the biggest lie in history. The floor is yours. Well, that should be somewhat easy to do. Thank you for having me, Charlie. I'm not a typical scientist. I started off my career in the U.S. Military as an infantryman. I served in operation enduring freedom, operation Iraqi freedom. That was going to be a career after and then after my second deployment had to change your heart decided to go out for my next passion science. My degrees are in psychology. Security technology engineering, geographic information systems and my PhD is environmental health with an emerging infectious disease, especially track, which is epidemiology essentially. And the PhD student, I was groomed to be a leader in bioterror biosecurity. I worked at a Department of Homeland Security center of excellence at the PhD student on full scholarship, head on my dissertation research published, and they started bringing me out to Washington D.C. to meet all the key players all the top bureaucrats at the three letter agencies in national security and bioterror and bio warfare. When I wrapped up the PhD, essentially all the people that had trained me asked me point blank, where do you want to go next? I kind of went to the State Department, CIA Department of Defense Department of Homeland Security really had my choice. My befriended a couple of scientists who worked at sandia national laboratories, which is their primary mission there is to manufacture make nuclear weapons technology. So this is the most secure national laboratory in the country. I actually worked in biologics and public health and then complex simulation modeling for doomsday events. Working there, I had a change of heart. I realized I didn't want to work for the defense industrial complex anymore. And furthermore, with a top secret clearance, when your work is continually being classified, you get to a point where you're not able to leave that environment
Bloomberg Radio New York
"mainland" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Runoff. I'm Brad Steve. And I'm Doug prisoner at Bloomberg world headquarters in New York. Let's check the sours top business stories and the markets we are seeing a rally in equities in Hong Kong as local authorities on the Chinese mainland ease some of the most strict COVID measures. Morgan Stanley is now bullish again on Chinese equities after nearly two years. Earlier today, on Bloomberg daybreak, Asia, our Paul Allen spoke with Carlos Casanova, senior Asian economist at ubp, he gave a rough timeline as to when we can see China's full reopening. It's certainly very important for the global economy, but we are still in the cautious camp in thinking that there will be starts and stops and it won't be smooth sailing going forward. Despite these partial reopening measures in cities like Shanghai and Hangzhou, the cases have been spiraled out of controlling is absolutely going to fuel the positive narrative around equities this week. We are a little bit concerned, however, about vaccination rates. So the vaccination rate for the elderly remains very low at 66%. This full reopening will not happen until that level is hit. We have to wait until around April for that to take place. Pick a growth number for me for China and 2023. In our opinion is around 4%. However, given that we do expect the reopening to happen next year and that COVID zero cost between three to 5 percentage points of GDP this year, setting a target next year could be fairly easy in the sense that they would have to mess up a tremendously in order to miss that growth target. Most likely, we will not know until March, but we are entering the December premium and one day after the prenup is a central economic work conference. So over the next few weeks, we will have a good idea of whether or not China will plan to aim the target or not. If they do, it's a positive sign for sure. That is Carlos Casanova from ubp. Right now in Hong Kong, the hang seng is up three and a half percent on the Chinese mainland Chung high composite better by 1.6%. We check markets every 15 minutes here on Bloomberg. In Tokyo, the nikkei up a tenth of 1%, although in Seoul the Cosby is down 7 tenths of 1%, global news 24 hours a day, on air and on Bloomberg quicktake. This is Bloomberg. This is Bloomberg Wall Street week with David Weston from Bloomberg radio. Credit, it's what makes the business world go round. And years of fiscal and monetary stimulus have made sure there's plenty of credit to go around. But now the fed and other central banks would like there to be just a little less lending so we can get inflation down. History cautions strongly against prematurely loosening policy. We will stay the course until the job is done. Which is hitting deals, particularly when it comes to private equity. What affects dealmaking is uncertainty. Uncertainty is the enemy of deal making. But it turns out that as the government regulates lending from the banks more, the world of private credit has exploded. The more you regulate parts of the financial system, the money tends to flow to the unregulated parts of the financial system. Having all that credit going on outside of the regulated part of the economy is not ideal. But that leaves the question whether private credit will be able to step in as the banks pull back. Private credit is really important, but private credit has also pulled back a little bit, not because of the availability of financing or because they are stuck with bad loans like some of the large banks are. But because of the enormous uncertainty. And to take us into this
AP News Radio
University students sent home as China tries to end protests
"Chinese universities are sending students home amid protests against coronavirus restrictions, China's ruling Communist Party is trying to prevent more protests after weekend crowds in at least 8 cities demonstrated against its zero COVID policy and called for the resignation of president Xi Jinping. Police route in force, and there was no word of protest Tuesday in Beijing or other major cities. Yesterday in Hong Kong, activists at about 50 university students from the mainland lit candles and chanted slogans in a show of support. Some restrictions were eased and now universities are sending students home, calling in buses to take people to train stations, qinghai university where students protested Sunday, said they were protecting students from COVID-19, but dispersing them to far flung hometowns also reduces the likelihood of more campus activism. Dali Yang and expert on Chinese politics at the University of Chicago says authorities are hoping to diffuse the situation.
AP News Radio
China virus protests hit Hong Kong after mainland rallies
"Hong Kong residents have taken to the streets to protest China's zero COVID policy, which is now entering its fourth year. Protesters chanted freedom and we don't want revolution we want reform. We don't want a leader. We want votes. The demonstration comes after people around China took to the streets in anger at the government's strict COVID policy that has confined millions to their homes. The rallies throughout the mainland prompted the government to ease some restrictions, nevertheless, police were out in force the day after the protests. One of the Hong Kong protests took place at the Chinese university of Hong Kong, where about 50 students lit some candles in memory of those who died in the urumqi fire, days earlier, they also sang a protest anthem which hooked back to their anti government protests in 2019. Protests in Hong Kong have become less frequent under rules imposed to crush a pro democracy movement in the territory which is Chinese but has a separate legal system from the mainland. I'm Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
American Casino Giants Win 10-Year Macau License Renewals
"Macau has renewed the casino licenses of several foreign owned casinos in a bid to boost its economy at a time when revenue has plunged under antivirus restrictions. The former Portuguese colony awarded the licenses to MGM Resorts Las Vegas Sands wind results and three Chinese rivals after they promised to help diversify its economy by investing in non gambling attractions. Macau is under pressure from the Chinese government to diversify with retailing entertainment and other industries and to reduce reliance on gamblers from the mainlands its main revenue source. The territory of 700,000 people is the world's most tourism dependent economy which has shrunk since anti COVID restrictions shut down most tourist travel in 2020.
AP News Radio
U.S. condemns latest North Korean missile launch
"Japan says a North Korean missile launched had a range to hit the U.S. mainland Japan's defense minister yasukazu Hamada says preliminary analysis shows the missile fired by North Korea is believed to be an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of targeting the entire U.S. mainland He says it landed inside the Japanese exclusive economic zone about 120 miles west of haikyo Japan's most northern main island Hamas says the north's latest missile launch is a reckless act that threatens Japan as well as the region and the international community
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"mainland" Discussed on a16z
"And what's interesting is those people who will accept that are often folks who will contest the idea that the state and the nation are disallowed, but it's actually a very useful analogy to see that they can be aligned, but they can also be disappointed. I've obviously not somebody who's anti management, but I recognize that you want equity structures and things like that to align folks, right? Once you kind of realize that the nation and the state are different, you can reexamine all these words. Example, multinational, right? So multinational for multinational corporations actually a misnomer. It really should be called multi jurisdictional or multi state. Because it's not as if Google has a direct ambassador to the catalonians and the basques and the Kurds and so on. It's actually talking to the states that have the administrative units, right? So it's multi jurisdictional once I see it. The United Nations, as we just discussed, is really best called the selected states because it doesn't have all the nations of the world, right? And in fact, many nations missed out on that game of musical chairs and they don't have a seat at the United Nations. And now you can actually realize, oh, there's a whole queue of people people's really I should say groups, right? With long histories and cultures that are boxed out of the United Nations. And one that's very prominent is like the invention of the Kurds catalonians. One that's sort of becoming a nation are like the Taiwanese. Where there wasn't like historically this huge necessarily difference from Mainland China or at least there is some difference in a lot of folks in Taiwan came from Mainland China because the Kuomintang, the nationalists also Civil War a bunch of them moved out. Now Taiwan is like this, that's a very famous example of something that's served on the boundary between just a group of people and like a full fledged country that's recognized for everybody because China leans on people to not recognize Taiwan, right? That's like a famous example, but there's lots of other things that are in this sort of boundary zone in different ways. Where some countries recognize them, but not all. So it's not part of the club fully, but it's also not totally not part of the club. It's like in this nether zone. This is a book called invisible countries on this. What I'm getting at is once you distinguish the nation in the state, you reexamine words like multinational. You review them, reexamine words like the United Nations. Reexamine words like national security or phrases like national security. Really, that's like federal security, right? Nation is often used to mean the whole thing, but really it's like federal, like the overall government, right?
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
What Can Be Done About DOJ Corruption? President Trump Weighs In
"The big question. What can be done with the corruption at the DoJ, the FBI after multiple impeachments against yourself that failed the Mueller probe? I designed this a few weeks ago. My producers said it was excessive. It is now the hottest selling item on our website. It is a mug that says, Biden's Gestapo, the FBI. Can it be fixed with a new director, or do we have to scrap it? Well, we have no choice. If we don't fix it, you're not going to have a country left anymore because our country, we're not a confident country anymore. And we always had a law enforcement system that we thought, and you know, if you go back to the local level and the police and the job they've done, even there, they've taken their authority away. So the opposite. They've taken their authority away. And we have crime in these Democrat run cities. We have crime, like nobody's ever seen before. People being pushed randomly from the subway trains that are coming down at rather rapid speeds. Look, what's going on is just not even thinkable. I just saw that and I'm not sure this is possible, but I'm just seeing that truth to vote two of the people were arrested. Catherine, engelbrecht, who, as you know, is a fantastic woman. Have you seen that? This morning, I mentioned it 7 a.m. thanks to a corrupt judge in Houston, both Catherine engelbrecht, the heroine and the hero of 2000 mules her partner Greg Phillips were arrested for refusing to give up their source for the Chinese company that was taking election data to Mainland China. Is this fixable? Because I know you have great respect for both Catherine and Greg. They were central to the national film. This shouldn't be happening in America. And the job they did was on tape. It's not like, oh gee, they made something up. I mean, they have cameras. Government cameras taking nobody bothered to go look at the tapes, right? But they have government cameras that have it absolutely on tape. The job they've done. And then you say, well, how come they don't do this with the leaker? The leaker of the Supreme Court, because if you went and got to that reporter, that's a terrible thing that happened. It puts our justices at tremendous risk and that continues. So they can't find the liquor. It's very easy to find the leaker. If you did the same thing to the reporter, as you did to Catherine engelbrecht, who's a great woman, you say, we want to know who the leaker was because the leaker gave the story to this reporter.
WTOP
"mainland" Discussed on WTOP
"Russian missiles hit as many as ten cities, including the capital of Kyiv, Russia's Vladimir Putin says the missile strikes are in response to a Saturday attack on a bridge that links the Russian mainland to the Crimean territory. Police in bladensburg say that officers shot a suspect late last night on 57th avenue after officers responded to a call about men tampering with nearby cars. Shots were fired when the suspects attempted to run over officers. There was a chase after the shooting and two suspects were eventually taken into custody in southeast D.C., stay with WTO for more on these stories in just minutes. Now coming up in money news. The Dow is up a 160 points, name change for a local gym chain. I'm Jeff cable. It's 9 48. Traffic and weather on the 8s and Jack Taylor's in the WTO be traffic center. Okay, we're looking good on the bellway through Maryland and Virginia should find nothing in your way inner or outer loop. Looking good. Topside without delay from 95 to Georgia avenue, no worries, branch avenue down toward the Wilson bridge looking good between Alexandria and mcclain, staying in Virginia 95 had been a little slow coming out of falmouth, easing very quickly. There was a wreck that was after centerport Parkway up near mile post one 38 over 5, completely cleared from the travel lanes and delays have eased back completely. No worries, the rest of the ride into woodbridge, headed into and through Springfield. Trouble out of nokesville on 28 near fitzwater drive, that's a reported crash that was a wreck earlier in percival on telegraph road out in your hughesville road, and there was an earlier crash reported in Centreville and clear if we still got any authorities there 29 up near bull run post office road All right, you're looking good as you make the trip downtown where a quiet on the freeway, but that is inbound, leaving Virginia if you're headed from the district, south out of the third street tunnel under the freeway past main avenue seems to be a delay unclear if we've got some work or something on the case bridge. D.C. two 95 and I two 95 are looking good earlier delays are gone, northbound rock creek Parkway, an earlier recca before water side drive seems to have cleared as did the debris, but still very slow in the district, southwest, going westbound or inbound on main avenue, headed up toward independence avenue under there we'd had an earlier tractor trailer stuck and been along the right side of the roadway. Some slowing in Maryland had been in Gaithersburg going three 55 south, turning right on to shady grove road as you climb the hill up toward pleasant road. That's where we had the crash. You may be under direction. Two 70s good, otherwise, between Bethesda and Frederick, north and south, no late issues between the beltways, 95 where the Baltimore Washington Parkway. Whether you're moving down the street across the country or around the world, interstate moving has been delivering quality moves you can trust for over 75 years. Visit their website had moved interstate dot com. Jack, Taylor WTO, P traffic. Amelia Draper with our forecast here and Amelia. If you have to have a Monday, they should all look like this. It's beautiful out there. Plenty of sunshine and we're looking at a
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"A murdered FDNY EMS lieutenant will take place today and tomorrow. Family, friends and coworkers have been gathering to remember Allison Russo elling. She was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack in a story of queens last week. The wake Faro eling who is 61 would take place in comic. Police arrested 34 year old Peter Zeus, who has a history of mental illness. Search and rescue efforts are still underway in parts of Florida and the wake of hurricane Ian over the weekend responders took to the air grabbing people from rooftops and evacuating barrier island residents by boat after Ian wiped away roads leading to the mainland. Florida governor Ron DeSantis said teams are conducting sweeps in areas hit hardest by the storm. There's more urban search and rescue teams in Florida now than in any one place in American history since September 11th. Meanwhile, President Biden will visit Puerto Rico hit hard by hurricane Fiona. Brazilian president jair Bolsonaro fought his way to a runoff election against his leftist challenger, former president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Lula got 48% while Bolsonaro received 43%, however, neither one got the simple majority needed for a victory. These college students say that they voted for Lula. I voted to Lula to Brazil, be wood in the future. Boson arrow is opposite to democracy. The candidates will face each other in a high stakes October 30th presidential runoff. It's a big defeat for Moscow and Ukraine last week, Russian president Vladimir Putin used a sham referendum to declare four areas of Ukraine as part of Russia, but one of those regions, Le Mans, almost immediately fell to Ukrainian forces. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin is doomed to lose the war in Ukraine, that's from former CIA director David Petraeus, the retired four star general says Russia's army is quote shambolic. He announced the annexation and he's already lost a really critical element in that critical city that would have been a very key supply hub, had they been able to go farther. And that's just going to continue. He's going to continue to lose on the battlefield. Petraeus spoke on ABC's this week, which can be heard Sunday's on Bloomberg. Justice Brown Jackson will make her debut as the Supreme Court's new term kicks off today. Global news, 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts more than a 120 countries, a Michael Barr, this is Bloomberg Nathan. Thanks, Michael
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"I guess what assets would you be looking in in China that are potentially undervalued at the moment? Yeah, a $1 million question, Juliet. But quite clearly, post the Congress expectation for more certainty from a low base, that's pretty reasonable statement. I then basically go across a board and everything is discounted in China. Again, because of Beijing's policy pivot in March 21 that has really confused the west and trying to acquire and buy future earnings. So there's so many opportunities in Mainland China. But obviously, the domestic demand that the more consumption expectation for the decade ahead, there's just so much upside, but right across the board, Juliet, there's just discounts for what's been going on and the disappointment. So obviously, the 5 and a half were never going to happen from a year ago, but obviously now we're getting that three and a half, possibly a two handle. So they're really going to turn it around for this calendar year and get both upgrades for 23 and then 24 and beyond. But again, the certainty from party Congress creates opportunity, the more opportunity in certainty they can create for investors. They need capital. It is finite still. There's opportunities right across the board to Mainland China, staying away from property still as that destruction is working through the system and to the PBS they come up with some type of broad based solution. But a bad bank perhaps can be part of that narrative. But yeah, it's discounted throughout for many, many reasons. You can flip a switch on dynamic zero, but you can't flip a switch on the Chinese property crisis. Is that something that there are going to be suffering the consequences from that for years to come? It's spot on. And really looking for a new quote, a Mario Draghi, PBOC, Beijing narrative, like something big has to happen to solve what is significant. This is the biggest property impairment, the world's ever seen. And it has to be addressed some way. But having said all of that, again, it's all about that certainty and policy that need to start from a low base and create that. And then with the opening up of Mainland China, let's look at the template coming out of Japan much smaller, completely different economy, for this reasons, but the opening up of Japan is a smaller template of what will be happening in Mainland China when they do decide to
WNYC 93.9 FM
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"Islands could be underwater. I'm getting a boat back towards the mainland now. The government is building 300 houses on the mainland, as well as a school and a health center, but they're not completed yet. But it's not just this community that wants to escape the ever rising tides. The population of ten other islands also say they want to leave now, but they have no houses to go to. Some of the people I've spoken to on other islands have no plans to move. But here on guard there's an eagerness to start a new life on the safety of the shore. The gunner people once lived on mainland South America. But after the Spanish conquest, they gradually fled to these islands to escape violence and disease. Islander magdalena therefore sees the move to the mainland as a historic return. Our ancestors lived on the mainland, near the province of Darien. When the Spanish arrived, they wanted to abuse us, so we had to come here. So we'll be returning to what it was like before. But magdalena says you'll miss life out at sea. Our life here is peaceful without the stress. We don't have the humidity they have in the cities. Clean air the sea give us lots of oxygen. We don't have cars. We don't have any fuss. If she lives to see her island submerged, it will be a day of great sorrow. Grace livingstone reporting for NewsHour from Panama. Distribution of the BBC
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"And I'm Doug kisner at Bloomberg world headquarters in New York Let's check this hour's top business stories and the markets shares in Mainland China are trading higher as the market resumes trading after a weeklong holiday It is the best post lunar new year holiday since 2019 However these gains are not as robust as the rally seen last Friday in Hong Kong where the hang sang rallied by three and a quarter percent after a three and a half day holiday break Now just before the lunar new year holiday China's CSI 300 fell into a bear market right now it is higher by 1.6% meantime several Chinese travel related stocks are trading lower This is after the state broadcaster CCTV reported China's domestic tourism fell year on year during the lunar new year holiday Beijing has reported a pick up in new COVID infections among arrivals for the Winter Olympics China has already locked down a city of 3.6 million people in guangxi province a top epidemiologist in China says the country has no plans to adjust its zero COVID policy meantime in Hong Kong the city is set to report another record number of coronavirus infections and in Australia the country is planning to reopen its borders for vaccinated Visa holders We check markets every 15 minutes here on Bloomberg We are on the lunch break in Japan and EK two 25 is down 9 tenths of 1% in Hong Kong the hang sang weaker by three tenths of 1% The Shanghai composite is up 1.9% in sold the Cosby weaker by 6 tenths of 1% and in Sydney the ASX 200 is down just a tenth of 1% The U.S. tenure treasury now in the Tokyo session is yielding 1.90% Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick take powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts and more than 120 countries This is Bloomberg This.
The Dork Forest
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"You have a lot of that fun word play and he did and he did the lyrics for that, but not the music. Okay. And what about Jesus Christ superstar the next, which was by the way, was I credit Jesus Christ superstar as my religious experience? Me too. Really? Yes. It's finally Jesus maintenance. Yes. If I made, I was 12, 13 years old, my mother had the album. And I listened to it all that I would cry when he died. Yes. And I'd be like, oh, but he's coming back. I mean, I think it made the teachings of Jesus like accessible to me. 'cause I never really I was raised Catholic, but I never connected to what I was hearing. There could be no harder job than to be a priest or a pastor or someone who's trying to teach people about a spiritual experience and about spiritual teachers like Jesus, right? And there's no way. I mean, you have to be really good at it. Who wrote Jesus Christ superstar? Andrew laid Webber. There we go. And he kind of stuck the landing on it. A 1000%. Have you seen a live production of that? Yes. I've seen several Jesus Christ superstars. I tried to see if I have the chance I try to see it, because there's so much that I love about that show. That's the show that I put on when I need to clean my house. I find it so energizing. Yeah. And at least four of those songs are on my constant rotation. Like when pilot talks to Jesus, that's on my rotation when pilot has the dream. I used to listen to starting the starting over song. Can we start over? It was actually a downer. And ever since 2016, no donors. That's fair. That's fair. Yeah. I did superstar. Another kind of sad ending. Apparently, today came for that guy. But what's so I mean, that show face obviously a ton of controversy when an open on Broadway. And everybody was like heretics and all these things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And also, as much as I did totally glean, I think some of the legitimate teachings of Jesus from it, I think what the show is also really saying is Jesus was a pretty cool guy, religion. Well, and the politics around all of it and the things that were coming when he was just like, I'm just trying to get everyone to realize that they are enough, you know? Yes. And so and it's all of that. And I remember the Mary Magdalene song, one of my roommates in college at the co op that I lived in, which is like a door. Was from Mainland China. And was she from mainland? She might have been, I think. Yeah. And very religious. And I would listen to that. She was like, that song is so beautiful. What is it about? Where is it from? And I was like, oh, Jesus Christ, superstar. She was like, well, do you have to lyrics? And she was so furious about that song..
Learn Astrology with Mary English
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"Just have to give out not copy it. Right. So while the me waffling, let's get to the questions. So since I've been on this journey to study astrology like many others, I've been curious about my romantic relationships and career. I'm not yet old and I think we can reveal the age of 32. And you've been in one serious relationship for two and a half years when you lived in Paris. And you dated quite a few other guys since then, but they're never quite worked for me for you. I believe that your need for freedom, Venus in Aquarius moon and Virgo. No, your moon and Virginia and about freedom is about things specific. And literally moving around the world didn't quite allow for me to settle. I've always been interested in guys who aren't interested in me. Isn't that the age old question? I wouldn't say I've had too much bad luck in a relationship so it's never in bad or beautiful relationships but I think I just never quite found the right one. Maybe I'm not in a hurry. The question is, how would you go about interpreting the person's attitude towards relationships and birth chart? And what you might encourage the person to take note of if they wish for relationships to happen. Good question. So what you need to take of. Okay, so briefly a minute ago, so you need to look at the signs that your Venus and Mars are in as well as your sun sign away. It's all location. Do you know what I suggest? I suggest that you start dating somebody that comes from a country where you were born, that is probably isn't living there at the moment, but will understand a little bit more about culture because it's easier to feel loved with someone who has inverted commas is similar culture to yourself. But because the sun is in the fourth, you really like your roots because you talked about it in your email to me. And that was what prompted you because I'd mentioned something about that particular country. That you felt to definitive with me because of what I'd mentioned about so the somewhere within you, you're quite proud. But you're quite massive. You're happy for where you've come from, yeah. I don't know where you're located in our continent. Sorry. So it's important, it would help you if you were to meet someone from the same area of the world from where you were born, yeah. So you don't come across now I know someone. And her mother was German and her father who still life was from Hong Kong, okay? And when they first got married, they went to choose a bed. Okay? Simple thing. Got married. They went to choose a bed to sleep in. And they got to the big shop and she caught the bed and she was Leo this lady. I don't know what sign of the husband did. I think it's a Pisces. Anyway, got into the bed shop. She got on the bed and she's bouncing on her, and she's giggling. She's giggling because she's thought it was fun. He meanwhile comes from Hong Kong. Now I can't remember his mainland. Yes, he's from Hong Kong. He wasn't for Mainland China. It was Hong Kong. In his culture, you giggle when you're embarrassed. Okay?.
How'd It Happen Podcast
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"Mainland china I started seeing a therapist year in psychotherapy rejected with family. Just kinda sorta rebuild my self esteem And i have been so long being angry and sad and ashamed and embarrassed and just a about a year later when the pandemic happened. I got in touch with with two mentors.
The Bad Crypto Podcast
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"And loss of industry manufacturing and a family's homes. Electricity or needs to be cut off to maintain the security of the great. I think that central government has made its decision and everyone is to requisite before even got lots of appearance with the crypto. But I think this time is very different. And we have seen that, okay, who are being Chinese crypto companies, they have been held a very clear that yes, this time, they will stop the business in the Mainland China. It was shut it down from Manning to the other financial services, because it changes. Yeah, it's convincing to see how this plays out. It seems like every other month there's something from China that they're banning this or that or the other, it's definitely something worth watching. So let's get back to matrix port then. Setting this company up, what makes it different from some of the other crypto financial service companies? Yeah, we are kind of full stack service firm. We provide custodian. And we also structure lots of financial products and a solutions to our customers. And a lot of those structure products are indeed introduced by Mercedes port into crypto world. In the first place, for example, two currency, it can help people to get a very high yield from its principles. If the cryptos volatility is not high enough, it's worth it, or your currency product can help with people do a lot of the profit. And we also structured some products like smart trend. We just use the interest to buy options for our investors. So we investors have some of a judgment over their coming price over the coming period. They can say, okay, I think Bitcoin is a bullish trend. I can investigate as much fun. And we will use the interest to buy a call option. And if the investors is right, they will get a very high yield like a 30 or 40 API. But if they're wrong, they probably will be around. They want to lose any money because we just use the press ball. We just use the interest to buy the option and at their principal will be safe. And we have some other structure products for innovative. We also have found. And we use the money and the two trade those basis arbitrage opportunities in the perpetual market and the spot market, that there is not I think we are kind of a category creator in this market. We know that a lot of other companies are trying to learn from us, but we're kind of a category creator in this market..
KLIF 570 AM
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"To make it back to the mainland. After now, Tropical depression Enrique cancelled earlier trips. It's been a lot rough, rougher in the past, so this was a really easy, easy ride over this passenger says it was surprisingly smooth sailing from Martha's Vineyard. The lines to get on a ferry. Not as ideal. Many on the Cape and Islands glad the storm moved further West flooding tourists salvage their vacations from crabbing to fishing people, enormous thankful it wasn't worse. The National Hurricane Center predicting the storm system will be back out in the Atlantic by tomorrow. Here's the problem we've seen across the country. Certainly we've seen it here locally. In trying to reopen schools, and that is a shortage of bus drivers. The labor shortage and effects of covid 19 are making the drivers shortfall. Worse. About half the workforce is over the age of 65 more vulnerable to the virus, For example of Montana school district is dangling $4000 bonuses and a local bus company offered people to test drive some of the big yellow buses to entice people to get behind the wheel in Pittsburgh. The driver shortages so bad the first day of school was pushed back two weeks and more students are going to Have to walk to school to ease the shortage. School bus companies are trying to persuade drivers saying it could be good income and hours for retirees or stay at home Parents. Rob Dawson, Fox News. Well, get ready for another Powerball drawing. Starting tonight you get one more chance to become filthy rich. This is the week Powerball goes three nights a week in that new night is Monday, meaning today just like the existing Wednesday and Saturday drawings of the multi state lottery game. The Monday night drawing requires pics of numbers between one and 69 for two bucks a game plus the $1 power play option. But now there's an add on called double play. It's yet another dollar, but the payout on double play alone is $10 Million.06 states, however, don't participate. Those are Alabama, Mississippi, Utah, Nevada, Alaska. And Hawaii. Evan Brown Fox News Coming Up on K. L I f The Plano School board is getting together this morning and just about 25 minutes.
The Current
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"In two thousand seventeen when a trans woman disappears from the village alarm bells. Go off. go missing. Rose end up dead so her friends. Decide enough is enough. This is the story of what happens when sex workers and trans people stand up to fight the system that failed them. I'm justin laying. And this is the village season two available now on the cbc. Listen app and everywhere. You get your podcasts. This is a cbc. Podcast of a vicious ravenous route with powerful jaws like a steel trap. Each vox and biz boys cats batch dogs hogs elephants in lopes peasants. Ferrets jury f jails unlikely starring but make no such animal octopuses penguins people. Hove's yaks new swales canoes while the beaches one no rabbits a rabbit balloon. Looney tunes tasmanian devil is a spitting spinning world of destruction. But in real life these marsupials have had a hard go they still number around the island of tasmania but for three thousand years. They have been extinct on the australian mainland. Now they're getting a warm welcome back. Mena jones is an ecologist at the university of tasmania. She studied the animal for thirty years. And she's an adviser to a group that released eleven devils into a wildlife park in new south wales matt. Galloway spoke to her in october. Here's their conversation. I think for a lot of us. Really the only impression that we have of the tasmanian devil is what we just heard from bugs. Bunny there. how does the real tasmanian devil compare to the cartoon version. Well i think it's a quite a funny story really because the people who came up with the typhoon devil had apparently never been has never seen it has many devil in the flesh but there are certain key aspects about tents. Which kinda get it right. You know devils a full of character their belligerent towards each other. They're very very food driven. They'll gorge themselves to their stomachs. Just delighted their screams growls and screens or enough to rice. The devil but the flip side of that is the devils There are predator and like most predators. They really smart animals. They're very wary of people so they quite shot then not aggressive towards people at all in fact as a researcher working on these animals in the field i can call me a devil whisper but i can just pick him up and devils that i worked on for berin pie lives. I could just take out of the second. Sit in my lap. And i would take the hit on the my arms. You know to get out of the sun. If i had someone with me had met before that could feel tints up a bit while they listened to the voice since. I don't know that person. So you know the they both full of character full of belligerents. Great michael is but they're also really not animals. Do they spin around. I mean in the cartoon they're like whipping around and they buzzed through trees and underground they do they do. They actually spin around. I have had a dribble spin around. It was just before the nineteen now headed biggest. Devil that i've ever captured. He was fourteen kilograms. And we're not finished handling most sitting on the ground with my leg. Seven from you know a big quite relaxed. I'll listen guy that he was fully fooling himself just prior to the mating season but embraced away and they stopped it out for maters away and he actually spun out and he charged me became to skidding halt and later away and just sort of huffed and grump to that around again and took off the decide but that probably go very often. You mentioned the sound of the tasmanian devil again. I mean we have the idea of what it sounds like in the cartoon. This kind of spitting roaring wild beast. This is what to real tasmanian devils. John mike kind of devilish. If i do say so myself why have they had such a hard go on the mainland. As i mentioned they've been extinct there for three thousand years not more or less why i went extinct. I mean being three thousand views drawing climate and they range had been pretty much. All of the australian mainland perhaps a desert and they contracted down to a very small area in the more temperate part of southeastern australia round about that time the human population increased with. You told us this is the aboriginal population which would have increased potentially competition for pry and potentially also direct professional the devil and also. The dingo arrived in australia. The dingo it was a domestic dog at timing on fishing from indonesia and that spread very rapidly. Land the synergy of those three things. The devil the mike it and the solid saint also went extinct and we can pick up a genetic signature intense mania of a near extinction event of both devils and policies fan time and all we hadn't has made it was the climate event we didn't have the increase in average for population and we didn't get inga's so it does indicate the you know the comet probably fit the scene and the other two factors bumped it off now that we know roughly why that went extinct. There's no reason why we can't put them back. What's the benefit. just finally putting them back there. Well the devil predator originally the two top predators in australia with a solid thing which is not not really actually as big as if it's not really a wolf it's more of a solid looking coyote And the devil which is a must be hiding bit. It's not very big. They're only between sort of sympathy twelve kilograms. But they're the top terrestrial predator in australian ak- systems so with the extinction of those two on the mainland and the arrival of the bingo. We now have dingoes on the mainland fulfill that top predator role but dingoes con live everywhere they kind of bend from shape country because the pretty destructive on shape so there are many places that now lack atop terrestrial mammalian predator and top predators are pretty good persecuting invasive predators like red foxes in australia and feral cats so this then means that the devil functions as the top predator in protecting smaller by diversity which would be impacted by predation from feral cats so it helps keep it helps keep things back in check in some ways it does. Yep do they call you. The devil whisper have been called dead. It's a it's a good thing to have a business card. I really appreciate you telling us more about an animal. That as i say. We know only from reputation reputation from a cartoon. Perhaps it's not something that you want to build Your knowledge on thank you very much. Thank you bye bye. Mena jones is an ecologist at the university of tasmania matt. Galloway spoke to her in october. And since that conversation more good news for the real life tasr in late may seven. Babies were born to some of the devils that mena jones helped reintroduced to the mainland the first newborns in the wild in three thousand years ecologists said. It's a good sign for the future of the species in australia for more. Cbc podcasts goto. Cbc dot ca slash podcasts..
WGN Radio
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"Price. Then before six And that, of course, will be news time from the Northwestern Medicine newsroom first as he has every Thursday for Steve, with the weekly thought later conversation. We're on this morning with David Fowler s. V P of Capital Markets at Associated Bank, David Good Morning. Welcome back. Steve. Good morning. Thanks for having me. I want to begin our discussion with Brexit. Which is your You know your area. That's your R expert on that. And I know we've had quite a few discussions about how all of this is, uh, you know, washing out Now that Brexit is in place and we've seen, you know, months of how things are working. One of the impacts is Northern Ireland and how it's impacting. The people there are in the economy there. Talk to us a little bit about not only the economic part of that the trade part of that, but the social impact of Brexit in Northern Ireland. Sure. Well, that's certainly you know, a topic that's close to my own heart coming from Ireland myself, You know, I think when we look at, um Brexit, Northern Ireland is the one area within the UK That really has kind of a unique situation within this whole process. I think the last time we were talking We were. You know, those sausage wars are just starting where there was a, um Quite a kerfuffle about the importation of Fresh meat from the mainland UK, So Britain into Northern Ireland and how that might have to stop as object. June 30th. Because of, uh you, uh, phytosanitary regulations. You know this. That proposal was postponed for another, You know, three months, with the EU, giving an exemption until the end of September, But I think it's just an indication of kind of some of the stuff that's going on. Um To a large extent. You know, I think Northern Ireland particularly union, the unionist Committee community in Northern Ireland, Um, you know, feel that they're in a very kind of a limbo like stop it. The unionists, years, politicians and the Unionist Party voted for leave. But the majority of people in Northern Ireland voted to stay within the European Union. And they have you know the problem that the unions have is that they basically have to enforce something. That people didn't want. So that's always very difficult. Um, certainly, I think the protocol for Northern Ireland Is Really unworkable. Um in many ways, but it is something that the UK government not only Devised but campaigned on supported inside and I think the European Union looks at this as being something where We have an international agreement and we have to keep to our side of the agreement. But you also have to keep to yours. And this, I think is kind of so there's this tension between The UK as you over the northern protocol. The summer is always a very tricky time in Northern Ireland, because this is one they have marching that they call it, Uh, yesterday July, 12. Uh, celebrates the victory of the William of Orange over the Um Stuart And this goes back to 16 89, you know, every year seniors, um Social groups go for big marches along within the towns and villages in Northern Ireland. And, you know, this is seems the provocation to the nationalist community and often the riots and general chronological trouble. You know, since they know that, uh, since the northern oil agreement good Friday, get myself and called In 1998. We've seen a kind of general kind of de escalation of tensions. But you know, I'm always got to remember with the troubles are like I go up through it. And, you know, everybody knows that this is just something that Is bubbling underneath us and anything that makes northern Norman feel different from the rest of the UK. Is something that makes the union is very concerned. You know, I was going to ask you the question then becomes, I think, What is the solution? What happens next? I mean, when you have the you know, when you kick the can down the road for another three months. That doesn't really give a lot of You know, feeling of, uh, of assurances that this is going to be solved in a in a good way? Yeah, it's gonna be. It's very It's very difficult. Now. There are ways around it and the you have offered, for example, to sign a fighter Sam Street deal So which will cover 80 of some issues with Food products would be covered by this deal. It would allow free importation and amount of the UK into Northern Ireland to tell me what you frankly, um, similar to the deal they have with Switzerland in some other countries. The UK and said they won't sign up because that means that requires them to kind of align their agricultural standards with those of the and they want to leave the EU so they don't be part of that. Um, it is kind of an installment. In one way, there is no solution in another way. Basically, what needs to happen is that and we're starting to see it. We're seeing a change in trade flows. Instead of fresh meat coming from, you know Britain to Northern Ireland. What we probably will state is fresh me coming from the republic into northern on where there are no restrictions. This would make mean that you know, Big UK grocery chains would have to change their supply chain, um, sourcing, but that's something that can be done. So what we found we have seen this. We've seen quite a large growth. In inter island trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic. But we have seen a drop on the significant drop off in trade between both Northern Ireland, Britain and certainly the Republican. But So there are ways around it. Um, you know, with the good with the goodwill we can always find a way. The trouble is, I think that, um It may be politically experienced. For Britain to use this is kind of a stick for the and I think that could decadent up in a very tricky place. David. Great conversation is always how can somebody get a hold of you and have a one on one if they want Sure. Well, that's number is 8665248836. And my email is David Doc dollars. That's david dot f A l O er Associated bank dot com. Alright, David. Thank you very much. We'll see you next time. Let's bless you. Thank you. David Fowler is the senior vice president of capital markets At Associated Bank. You can meet our thought leaders and hear more of our thought. Leader. Conversations out. Associated bank dot com Forward slash thought leadership Now. The WGN Associated Bank Market Desk outlook for this Thursday July 15th new jobless claims expected to be at their lowest level in more than a year, when the weekly report comes out later..
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"Well, we got the hang sen closing in on a major milestone. Doug what you're saying? Yeah. We're getting very close to that 30,000 level to gain here is about 6/10 of 1%. Paul. You're absolutely right. It was a big day yesterday. Hang saying, closing at the highest level since May 2019 mainland investors really driving a lot of the price action, shifting out of a shares and buying those listed shares in Hong Kong. We're looking at strength and Hong Kong among health care stocks. Along with consumer, discretionary and information, tech stocks as well. Meantime, on the Chinese mainland, we have the Shanghai composite Up about 3/10 of 1%. The dollar remains weak here and that has given us a stronger yen and a stronger offshore Chinese yuan the You wanted 6 47 68. If you look at what's happening on the Chinese mainland, I think I mentioned the Shanghai composite, which is up about 3/10 of 1% right now, the end strong at one of 3 80. That is a wing, maybe a little. Bit on the Nikkei. It's down about 3/10 of 1% in Seoul, The Cosby Ahead just 1/10 of 1% and in Sydney. The ASX 200 is higher by about a half of 1%. Wt I crude oil put in a bit of a rally in the New York session we gained about 1.2%. The bet here is that the additional stimulus that we're expecting whether or not going to come anywhere near 1.9 Trillion. Who knows? But the stimulus will nonetheless boost the American economy and improve the demand for crude oil and crew. Distillates wt I right now in Asian trading at 53, 22, 10 YEAR treasury building 1.9% in the Tokyo session, Paul Treasury secretary nominee Janet Yellen sold the latest relief plan during a confirmation hearing. She described President elect Biden's at $1.9 trillion package as vital support for the economy. Over the next few months. We're going to need more aid. Neither the President elect's nor I proposed this relief package without an appreciation for the country's desperately but right now, with interest rates of historic lows, the smartest thing we can do is act big and the longer and I believe the benefits will far outweigh the costs. Republicans already criticizing the size and certain components tied the longstanding Democratic goals and these include raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and expanding family and medical leave. Ellen also said she'll be working with Biden and his team on a second anticipated economic package. To quote get through these dark times. Now, At the same time, Yellen seemed to avoid citing the potential benefits of a weaker dollar. She said the U. S will not seek a weaker exchange rate. The United States does not seek a weaker currency to gain competitive advantage, and we should oppose attempts by other countries to do so. Now she went on to deal with the China's saying that the U. S. Is prepared to use its full array of tools to address what was termed China's abusive trade and economic practices. This is assigned, the Biden administration will aim to continue at least some Of Donald Trump's hardline practices and Paul I noticed that in the New York session well during New York trading, I should say that soybean futures fell the most in about three months. You have plenty of work to do Still on that relationship, Netflix has had a very big year, biggest year in company history, in fact, and it's ended with a bang. She is the streaming giant rose and late trading after the company said it had added 8.5 million customers and that come concerns about a slowdown in growth. Lindberg said. LA blows got the story new shows like the Queen's gambit and period drama, Bridgeton helped the company had 8.5.