Tag: China
CA Assembly Dem Budget Chair Phil Ting Outed for Extramarital Affair
It was revealed over the weekend that California Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), the budget chairman for the California State Assembly, frequented the dating site, “What’s Your Price?,” carried on a four-year extramarital affair in and out of motels with...
President Trump Orders Federal Retirement Funds Invested in Chinese Equities to be Pulled
President Trump is moving to cut investment ties between U.S. federal retirement funds and Chinese equities, in a move that is tied to the handling of COVID 19, Fox News reported Monday evening. “National security adviser Robert O’Brien and National Economic Council Chair...
California’s Coronavirus By the Numbers
Only a few blocks away food service employees, bartenders, waiters, bakery workers, ice cream parlor employees, barbers and hair stylists, day spa workers and estheticians, boutique and retail clerks, seamstresses, Uber and Lyft drivers, manufacturing employees, and gym employees, aren’t...
More Warnings of U.S. Dependence on Goods Produced in China, and CalPERS Investments in China’s Military
Last month, California Globe reported about Rep. Jim Banks’ (R-IND) letter to sent California Governor Gavin Newsom, calling for the investigation of the CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Yu Ben Meng, for his “long and cozy relationship with China.” The California...
Coronavirus and Leviathan: Is Gov. Newsom Exploiting a Crisis to Expand State Government Power?
Executive Order N-25-20, issued on March 12 by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, “readies state to commandeer hotels & medical facilities to isolate & treat COVID-19 patients,” and also “readies the state to commandeer property for temporary residences and medical facilities...
Coronavirus Hysteria: The Numbers Don’t Warrant the Media Hype
Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in California because of the 114 reported cases of the coronavirus in the state of 40 million residents. Was this to play into the hand of the media, which has hyped...