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Using the Cooliris Wall to Amp up the Virtual Company
Today there is so much business done online that one would hardly have to speak to another human being in order to continue with life in more or less the same manner as usual. That being said, it is a constant game of trying to grab the attention of virtual viewers over the millions of other websites that make their home on the World Wide Web.
By Dave Greenfield for Team Think | April 22, 2010 -- 07:32 GMT (00:32 PDT) | Topic: iPhone
Today there is so much business done online that one would hardly have to speak to another human being in order to continue with life in more or less the same manner as usual. That being said, it is a constant game of trying to grab the attention of virtual viewers over the millions of other websites that make their home on the World Wide Web. Anything a business can do to amplify its chances of being notices, of being perceived as personable is worthwhile, which is exactly why I am taking a moment to make mention of the advancements made by a company called Cooliris. This company has made information share visibly interesting, which means that your employees and your customers will remain focused on you.
With the Cooliris 3D Wall, your website becomes a place to hang versus just another stop on the daily internet surf. Borrow images from Ted in Accounting of the recent company picnic, or run RSS feed of industry related news, or even follow the blogs of people writing about your company and make it all visible to everyone in one super cool location. Better yet, take these company promotions on the road with Cooliris Mobile. For the iPhone or the Nexus one, your company can work together to create the best possible collaboration of videos, industry news, and company photos to make customers want to know more. Keep them watching, reading, and wanting more even while on the road.
The company reports that approximately 45,000 walls have been created in the past four months; the largest percentage of which were embedded to Facebook, but with nearly 500 million visitors to the social networking site per month, companies with a Cooliris wall will be communicating in a way that the public understands- visually; interactively. Much of Cooliris is still in beta trial, but that means that the company holds promise of further development. I, personally, would love to see the wall become even more interactive- especially the mobile version- perhaps, a click to call feature for businesses within the wall (they are already working with Google in some facet)
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Nine sells stake in Southern Cross
The shrewdness of the move is reflected in Nine's jumping share price.
Glenn Dyer,
Finally something sensible from the Nine Network, chaired by the former treasurer Peter Costello. This morning it sold its 9.9% stake in Southern Cross for $1.54 a share — a nice $30 million profit, seeing the company paid $1.15 a share earlier in the year.
But after getting a regional affiliation deal with Southern Cross mid year (which replaced the long time Nine affiliate, WIN, which is owned by Bruce Gordon), Nine had been expected to sit on its stake and turn it into a bid for Southern Cross once the Federal government managed to change the media ownership and TV audience reach rules. Nine CEO Hugh Marks signalled a change of heart about the media rules changes when he called on the government to get rid of the remaining licence fees instead of changing the rules. That was in Nine's submission earlier this week to a Senate inquiry into the proposed changes.
In other words, money, cash retention, cash flows and not spending money unnecessarily on what could be a silly deal (at too high a price), is now the new mantra at Nine (and at Seven). Not that you heard that reason mentioned by Marks, except for the odd mention of "unintended consequences".
The decision to sell is obviously a vote by Nine that those changes will not come quickly enough, or at all, given the situation in the Senate and the simmering opposition to any change in some parts of the National Party who fear the elimination of local news coverage (for them) in regional markets if the networks are allowed to merge.
The early reaction in the sharemarket told it all: in a market down almost 1% in the first hour of trading, Nine shares jumped 3.7% to $1.005, while Southern Cross shares fell more than 8% to $1.55. In other words investors see Nine as benefiting from the sale — not just the profit, but the absence of a value-destroying deal and all the distractions associated with it). Southern Cross shares fell because the chances of a takeover has vanished, so the premium for control the greedy punters and hedge funds had built into the share price has gone for the time being. — Glenn Dyer
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One fine example was human nature. I'm sure those who were in the fourth seminar that day (Hear! Hear!) would agree with me that the lecturer is an MCP. For the sake of clarity let me spell out his name (if YOU happened to read my blog, go ahead and sue me if you want): Professor Madya Dr. Abu Bakar, a dean in a local university, british-educated, doctorate holder, erudite face. Everyone would think he is a well-defined man on first impression. That's what I thought too. Hell I was wrong.
First up, being a government servant, he openly made accusations that our parents didn't perform their duties as taxpayers, hence we should be 'grateful' that we were given the chance to study in America using money that our parents didn't contribute in. What absurd! I assume that he meant well to advice us to study hard so as not to waste our country's revenue, but making biased and groundless accusations would definitely not punch that message into my head. My loathe for him had just started.
Then he went on with his presentation on 'Kedaulatan'. What he did was just reading information out of a book, which was given to us later, and making stupid word definitions.
"Terbilang… maksudnya boleh bilanglah! Apa terkenal! Itu pun tak tahu!"he sneered back.
Hello, according to Kamus Dewan Edisi Ketiga published by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 'terbilang' in context means 'terkenal', 'terkemuka'!
Of course I won't argue further about his more supercilious rantings on definitions of 'bijaksana', 'kesetiaan' and a dozen more. What irked me most was his biased view on gender issue.
His statement really sparked emotions amongst the girls present. I mean, who wouldn't?
He added, "tak kira perempuan itu tak pandai masak,tak pandai baca, tak pandai akalnya, asalkan cantik, lelaki patut kahwin!"
I can't accept his ideas simply because it's too sexist. Isn't beauty something too superficial to judge a woman? Isn't money too materialistic to judge a man? I can't believe I was hearing all this from an educated man. He should have known and acknowledge that this world has evolved in its complexities that society is no longer functioning as the way it was before. Women now no longer stay in homes being housewives only; they have proved to be as capable as men in most professions,if not more. And men should not be as condenscending as that professor in viewing women's abilities.
For me, I believe that everyone has his/her own abilities. It would be a pity if we let gender to overrule it. Bak kata pepatah, "Apa gunanya kemenyan besar setongkol kalau tidak dibakar?"


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The Dying of the Right: Republicans WILL Believe Anything
Filed under: Commentary,Opinion — Tags: Chris Christie, Christopublicans, Clinton, Con Game, David W. Maurer, Delusion, Fascism, Gary Younge, George W. Bush, Goldwater Republicans, Jimmy Carter, John Kasich, Obama, propaganda, reality, Republican Party, Rick Snyder, Right-Wing Media, Scott Walker, Teabaggers — RS Janes @ 5:11 pm
If it's about Obama, Clinton or poor old born-again Jimmy Carter, nothing is too absurd for the gullible right-wingers, as long as it's defamatory. Some of these dizzy neocons, in a massive exercise in psychological projection, seriously believe liberals and progressives are fascists who want to see them in camps or dead, even though no evidence of this exists outside of the empty spinning flywheels of right-wing propaganda. (And these are the same bubbleheads who enthusiastically thumbs-up such Republican reptiles as WI Gov. Scott Walker, OH Gov. John Kasich, NJ Gov. Chris Christie, and MI Gov. Rick Snyder, the latter actually trying to secure the power to nullify local elections and run towns from the governor's office. If that's not fascism, I don't know what is.) They didn't learn the lesson of the Junior Bush years: There is a steep price to pay for those who create their own reality, and disinformation and delusion inevitably lead to ruin. The current incarnation of the GOP as a minority Christopublican-Tea Party is already sliding down the slippery chute; in ten years, both of these addled factions will have been shunted to the sidelines where they belong and a true conservative secular Goldwater Republican Party will reemerge to own the brand.
"Stupid or 'lop-eared' marks are often played; they are too dull to see their own advantage, and must be worked up to the point again and again before a ray of light filters through their thick heads. . . . Always they merit the scorn and contempt of the con men. Elderly men are easy to play because age has slowed down their reactions."
– Excerpt from "The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man" by David W. Maurer, published in 1940, (pgs.103-4). The film "The Sting" was based on Maurer's book.
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Polls suggest there are between one in three and one in four Americans who would believe anything. More than a third thought President George Bush did a good job during Hurricane Katrina; half of those thought he was excellent.
Throughout most of 2008, as the economy careered into depression, just over one in four believed Bush was handling the economy well.
As Bush prepared to leave office in January 2009, bequeathing bank bailouts, rampant unemployment, and Iraq and Afghanistan in tatters, a quarter of the country approved of his presidency.
These are national polls that span the political spectrum. So you can imagine how concentrated the distortions become when filtered through the tainted lens of the right. A poll earlier this month revealed that a quarter of Republicans believe a community rights organisation called Acorn will try to steal the election for Barack Obama next year, while 31% aren't sure whether it will or not. It won't. Because Acorn does not exist. It was defunded and disbanded after a successful sting operation by conservatives a couple of years ago.
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Q: 10 seconds of delay to access to a local MySQL Docker I got a VirtualBox VM from a coworker that he set up with vagrant (though I only launch the VM via VirtualBox and log as vagrant with vagrant as a password).
In this VM, he set up a dev' environnement for one of our application. The network configuration of the VM is like so:

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*Adapter 1: NAT

*Adapter 2: Host-only adapter (vboxnet0 - basic settings, without DHCP)

Inside this VM there is a MySQL docker launched via the .bashrc (docker start mysql > /dev/null 2>&1), this docker is used by our application. The problem is, whatever I want to do with that MySQL, it took exactly 10 seconds to connect to it (even with just a telnet). Have you any idea where could be the problem? I join to this question any data that could be relevant to help me. Thank you in advance.
A look of my /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.56.101
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.56.0
broadcast 192.168.56.255

When I do a route -n:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         10.0.2.2        0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
10.0.2.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
172.17.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 docker0
192.168.56.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1

And a ifconfig:
docker0   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 56:84:7a:fe:97:99
          inet addr:172.17.42.1  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::5484:7aff:fefe:9799/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:536 (536.0 B)  TX bytes:648 (648.0 B)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:1d:ae:8b
          inet addr:10.0.2.15  Bcast:10.0.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe1d:ae8b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:391 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:406 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:39758 (39.7 KB)  TX bytes:35582 (35.5 KB)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:57:d0:a2
          inet addr:192.168.56.101  Bcast:192.168.56.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe57:d0a2/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:13376 (13.3 KB)  TX bytes:1276 (1.2 KB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1472 (1.4 KB)  TX bytes:1472 (1.4 KB)

veth493bc8d Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 7a:ac:69:9c:1a:b6
          inet6 addr: fe80::78ac:69ff:fe9c:1ab6/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:648 (648.0 B)  TX bytes:1296 (1.2 KB)

Edit: Also, my /etc/hosts (****** represents some of our sub-domaines.domains):
    127.0.0.1 localhost
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
172.16.200.11 *********.********.fr

127.0.0.1 mysql
127.0.0.1 postgresql

127.0.0.1 *********.**********.com
127.0.0.1 *********.**********.com

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Summer always has a tiresome family get-together that you have to go to; why not make it so much better with the addition of jumping castle hire? Warning that you may need to keep an eye on some guests, particularly drunk uncles, or anyone over seventy really, this is tons of fun for everyone else.
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Air India : Govt to sell 100% stake, calls for bid
Struggling Air India might be forced to shut down by June next year unless it finds a buyer as "piecemeal" arrangements cannot be sustained for long, according to a senior airline official.
NEW DELHI: For the second time in two years, the government has rolled out the process to sell Air India by inviting bids to sell its 100% stake in AI and AI Express and its 50% stake in the ground handling JV AI-SATS. Interested parties will need to submit their expression of interest (EOI) by 5 pm on March 17, 2020, and qualified bidders will be notified on March 31. However, the preliminary information memorandum (PIM) for this key strategic divestment says these dates may be subject to change.The combined debt of AI and AI Express is Rs 60,074 crore. Interested bidders (IB) will be expected to take over Rs 23,286 crore of this debt — all of which is debt for aircraft that they will be taking over as the transaction. The brand name Air India, and its associated terms, will need to be retained by successful bidders for a time period that will be mentioned in the request for proposal (RFP) to be issued after March 31.
The iconic Nariman Point HQ in Mumbai and the corporate HQ in Delhi near Connaught Place are not part of this transaction and will remain with the government. Successful bidder will be allowed to use them during the transition period for a couple of years. "AI is in possession of various articles of arts, paintings, objects and artefacts. These are not a part of the proposed transaction," the PIM states.Air India, Bharat Petroleum Corporation to be sold by March: FM Nirmala Sitharaman
The government is looking to wrap up the sale of state-run airline Air India and oil refiner and marketer Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) by March, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday. Sitharaman said there is a "lot of interest" among investors as evident in international road shows ahead of the sale of Air India.
Learning from the experience of the first unsuccessful bid, the key changes made this time are: Offering to sell 100% government take in AI and AI Express, instead of 76% earlier. This change gives complete operational freedom to the new owner. Secondly, last time the bidders were expected to take over debt of Rs 24,576 crore and current liabilities of Rs 8,816 crore — a combine figure of Rs 33,392 crore.
(These trademarks are proposed to continue with AI post sale. The time period for which they need to be retained will be mentioned in the request for proposal that will be issued after March 31 when qualified bidders have been selected.)This time the debt expected to be taken over has been reduced by almost a third to Rs 23,286, crore all of which is backed by aircraft part of the transaction. The principle this time has been to make current assets equal to current liabilities for bidders. The entire working capital and other non-aircraft debt will be retained by the government.The transaction advisor is Ernst & Young LLP India.Without buyer, Air India might be forced to shut down in six months: Airline official
Struggling Air India might be forced to shut down by June next year unless it finds a buyer as "piecemeal" arrangements cannot be sustained for long, according to a senior airline official. Amid continuing uncertainty over the fate of the national carrier, the official said there is also need for funds to restart operations of 12 grounded narrow-body planes.
"Any private/public limited company, limited liability partnership, body corporate, whether registered or incorporated in India or outside India; or Fund; in each case which is eligible to invest under the laws of India (subject to such parties obtaining applicable statutory approvals) either as a sole bidder or as part of a Consortium are eligible to participate," it says. The interested bidder, whether a sole bidder or a consortium, should have a minimum net worth of Rs 3,500 crore. Net worth of each participating member in a consortium should be at least Rs 350 crore (10% of Rs 3,500 crore).If a schedule Indian carrier is a member of such a consortia with its equity shareholding in the consortia upto 51%, the minimum net worth criteria will not apply.
Except IndiGo, all other scuffle Indian airlines have a negative net worth. "The negative net worth of a member, only if it is a scheduled airline operator in India, would be considered as nil. However, the remaining members of the consortium in this case will have to meet the minimum financial capability" criteria it says. Foreign airlines will need to meet the net worth criteria.
With 121 aircraft in its fleet (not including the 4 Boeing 747s that will be retained with the government with an AI subsidiary not being sold for VIP use), AI's debt as on March 31, 2019, was Rs 58,282.9 crore, with contingent liabilities of another Rs 3,178 crore. AI has 13,629 employees (permanent and fix term contracts) with wage arrears of Rs 1,383.7 crore and a provision has been made in AI books for Rs 207-crore arrears for narrow body fleet employees.
With 25 Boeing 737s in its fleet, AI Express has Rs 1,791 crore of debt.
The PIM states in Q2 FY 2019-20, AI and AI Express' combined share of international air travel to and from India is at 50.64% (among Indian carriers) and18.4% on an overall basis (considering both Indian and foreign airlines); and within India is 12.72%.
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Mohari founder establishes the Scheinberg Relief Fund in response to Covid-19 pandemic
Mark Scheinberg, the founder of Mohari, has launched The Scheinberg Relief Fund, together with his family, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. With an allocation of US$50M, its mission is to provide a meaningful difference with strategic, high impact relief for individuals and communities in locations where the family has a personal or business presence.
"My family and I are proud to be supporting initiatives and charitable organisations that are battling on the frontline against Covid-19, globally and locally.
We hope this fund will help reduce the immediate and long-term impact of those affected by this terrible disease."
Mark Scheinberg, Founder, The Scheinberg Relief Fund
Donations have already been made to non-profit organisations and initiatives in 10 countries across 4 continents. These include Canada, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Isle of Man, Israel, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom and the United States.
The Funds supports social benefit projects within four categories: Recent projects include:
AmCham and CRUSA (Costa Rica) – In co-ordination with Costa Rican business associations, the Scheinberg Relief Fund funded and facilitated the purchase of 40 Cepheid GeneXpert testing machines and 4,032 testing kits for the nation's healthcare system. The initiative was led by the CRUSA Foundation, AmCham and AED, with the Ministry of Health and Costa Rica's national healthcare system (CCSS).
Queremos #Serutiles (Spain) – In a unique partnership between Four Seasons, Grupo Dani García, Mohari and OHLD, the kitchens of the Four Seasons Hotel Madrid were put to use for the first time, preparing 1, 000 meals per day for families in need. The recipes used to prepare those meals were from Michelin Star chef Dani García's own collection, food he usually cooks at home for himself and family.
Toronto Foundation (Canada) – The Scheinberg Relief Fund provided support that ensured 1000s of Toronto's elderly continue to receive wrap-around services such as meals-on-wheels, grocery and medication delivery, transportation, virtual/telephone programming and critical social work to tackle isolation and loneliness.
ZSL Zoological Society of London (UK) – The Scheinberg Relief Fund donated a much-needed cash injection to ZSL, which doesn't benefit from government grants or government led-emergency relief schemes. This enabled zoos, including London Zoo, to keep running by supporting the feeding and care for over 20,000 animals and paying wages of frontline workers.
For further information please visit https://scheinbergfund.org
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Date: November 29, 2006 Print article -
America's "Play Station" Generation Will Not Endure
As was the case in Vietnam, where a wholly capable military was betrayed by cowardice from inside the Beltway, the moral/spiritual component of the nation's strength is ultimately the determining factor in the its success or failure.
America is increasingly accepting the notion of a "cut and run" response to Islamic terrorism. Post-election talk on Capitol Hill, from both sides of the aisle, focuses ever more on the notion that America ought to simply accept the "futility" of the Iraq situation and sound "retreat." It has been done before, and the country survived, so why not now?
In certain respects, America did indeed back away from its frontal opposition to Communism when it pulled out of Southeast Asia in 1972. And while that action was followed by genocide in Vietnam and Cambodia, those leftists who had caterwauled incessantly over the dozens of Vietnamese who had been killed in My Lai, suddenly reverted to absolute indifference over the millions who were slaughtered in that region after America had abandoned them.
Moreover, the waving of the white flag across the Pacific was not followed by North Vietnamese tanks rolling through the streets of America, purges of anti-Communist "dissidents," or the establishment of a Gulag on our soil. So, in the eyes of the anti-war protestors, nothing bad came from the defeat.
In truth, this nation kept up its valiant fight against Soviet Communism, though it had to do so on a different front. And within a generation of the Vietnam debacle, the USSR collapsed in the face of Ronald Reagan's resolve, and much of the danger it posed to the United States substantially faded.
Unfortunately, those on the left took the absolute wrong message from the events, as they invariably do. Since the advances and retreats of the Cold War unfolded in a theater that was far removed from the common citizen, liberals were afforded the luxury to bask in their ignorance. Thus they naively presumed that their fawning "peacenik" philosophies had won the day.
Far from such sophomoric and simple-minded postulating, the harsh truth is as it always was. America will prevail, or it will fall, based on its strength. And as was the case in Vietnam, where a wholly capable military was betrayed by cowardice from inside the Beltway, the moral/spiritual component of the nation's strength is ultimately the determining factor in the its success or failure.
Since the dark days of Vietnam, America's military capabilities have only increased. Yet concurrently, other events within the culture of the nation have opened a grim possibility. Although from a purely military and logistical standpoint America is far more able to fight and prevail in a war while sustaining far fewer casualties among its own forces, the public at large no longer has the "stomach" needed to do so.
The courage and resolve among the nation's citizenry, so necessary to underwrite a military venture and remain committed to it until its completion, has apparently been leached from the souls of the American people. In vain hope that they can simply conjure up a false sense of security and thereafter live free of danger, Americans are now unwilling to consider the looming possibility of more attacks by the Islamists or other rogue regimes.
Worse yet, a significant portion of the population appears to be staunchly committed to remaining in such a state of denial at virtually any cost. September 11 should have been the only "wake up call" the nation ever needed. From that point forward, the single national response ought to have been an iron will to overcome any who had participated in the horror, and all who might aid and abet a sequel to the event.
Unfortunately, the message being trumpeted by America's leftists has been heard, loud and clear, throughout the world. Reaction to it is as ominous as it is predictable. America's overt enemies, such as Iranian "President" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, are increasingly emboldened to actively undermine American interests, and ever more belligerent in their antagonism towards us.
Far from presenting a united front to our enemies, and thus persuading even the marginally rational among them that they would decisively lose in a military engagement, the constant laments from liberals, who only see America's shortcomings, has taken its toll. The result is an America with a broken morale and growing pessimism. This message has not been lost on those who seek our demise.
In response to the mid-term elections, America's enemies throughout the world have been reinvigorated and are voicing their commitment to drive this nation into oblivion. The fronts on which we face hostility are many. Across three continents, one unavoidable simmering cauldron after another has begun to boil.
Through their meddling, self-serving liberal politicians have further constrained America to wage the terror war within the perverse framework of "political correctness." Thus, they have shown our adversaries that, as a nation we are indeed weak, and moreover that such weakness can be exploited. Yet this is not a weakness of armament but a weakness of the soul.
Much of the world is at present, either too cowardly to admit that a clash of civilizations is going on, or has concluded that collusion with Islamists and other thug rulers is the most pragmatic approach to the danger they pose. It is certainly easier to denigrate America while it carries the torch of freedom, with no fear of reprisal, than it is to stand firm against the tides of militant Islam, which will most certainly reap a backlash of hate and violence.
Yet despite any futile hopes of clinging briefly to its past comfort and indifference, no such option exists for this country. Regardless of their recent electoral gains, those who would cower from the fray cannot be allowed to set policy. An America that increasingly bends to the wishes of an effeminized culture, and is afraid to mete out whatever is necessary upon its enemies to achieve victory, is an America that will ultimately bear the scars of battle inflicted on itself in defeat.


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Interview with Michelle Branch: 'I don't think I can afford to remain silent about politics'
MIchelle Branch is fine. In a deft display of rock 'n' roll multitasking, the American singer-songwriter signs an endless stack of CDs in a Nashville warehouse behind early '00s hits like 'All You Wanted' and 'Goodbye to You' as he speaks me. And as she prepares for her first headlining tour since the pandemic. And as she navigates the past month's occasionally salacious headlines surrounding her marriage to Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney. As we speak, a breakup is on the horizon due to Carney's apparent infidelity. In mid-August, Branch called Carney – and his alleged lover – on social media before being arrested for hitting him. The charges against her were later dropped and the couple announced their separation. A week into our conversation, however, the status of the couple's marriage looks markedly different: Divorce proceedings have been suspended for six months as the couple vow to work on their relationship.
Carney produced Branch's new album — her first in five years — so it's difficult not to talk about him or the possible awkwardness of the timing of his release. "I was able to break it down a bit," says Branch with an audible shrug. "I'm really proud of the record we made together and I love the working relationship I have with Patrick so I can put it that way." There is a brief pause. "But the other day I was rehearsing an older song, 'Goodbye to You,' which said, 'The last three years have been make-believe,' and I was like, 'Oh, this is so relevant!' Songs have a weird way of doing that."
Twenty years ago, when she was still a teenager, Branch rose to superstardom. Thanks to their groundbreaking debut album The ghost room, their videos were inescapable, and their songs, like the guitar-driven single "Everywhere," were, well, everywhere. However, Branch's release pattern since then has been patchy at best, with huge gaps between albums. After 2003 hotel paperIt would be another 14 years before her next solo album, 2017 Hopelessly romanticwhich she first worked with Carney as a producer.
Branch's fourth album, The problem with feverShe's a pandemic record — and she's well aware how boring that may sound. "I hate referring to the pandemic all the time," she says. "We're all so sick of it at this point." The new album is a smorgasbord of songs written over the last 11 years; some in 2011, others in the months following the release of their third album. There are also some new ones written in Branch and Carney's home studio.
"We realized that the pandemic wasn't going anywhere and we couldn't just drink wine every night and have dance parties in our living room, we had to actually do something productive with our time," she says, laughing. And so the ornate The problem with fever was born, a swooning blend of lushly layered orchestral pop and somber guitar ballad dazzling with Branch's innate and intuitive songwriting flair. Sample "You Got Me Where You Want Me" and its brooding sensuality or the solemn, longing pounding of "Closest Thing to Heaven."
Branch was born in 1983 in Sedona, Arizona. The city is as unique as it is spectacular, a majestic example of sacred geology with huge, towering red rocks surrounding the small desert community. It's a bit like an American version of Glastonbury in Somerset, widely regarded as a place of pilgrimage for lovers of crystals, tie-dye and alternative therapies. Branch says it was an odd place to grow up. "There's not much you can do about rebellion," she says. "You can read astrology or go hiking to a vortex." For all the non-hippies out there, this is a supposedly natural "energy center."
I recently asked my parents, 'How could you let your 16-year-old daughter move to Los Angeles on her own?!'
At 16, Branch moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in music and moved into a sublet owned by her then-manager. "Now, as a mother to a 17-year-old daughter, it's crazy to shake my head around. I recently asked my parents, 'How could you let your 16-year-old daughter move to Los Angeles on her own?!'" With a deal signed to Madonna's Maverick label, Branch ignored the city's trappings and worked hard to make it right to go to the studio every day to record their debut album, The ghost room, and do little else. The effort paid off, her first five singles all charting in the top 20 of the US Adult Top 40, earning her comparisons to other major singer-songwriters of the era including Alanis Morrisette, Fiona Apple and Jewel. "Everywhere" won Branch the 2002 Viewer's Choice Award at the MTV Video Music Awards and the album sold over two million copies in the US.
The teenage Branch's songs were portraits of teenage angst at the turn of the millennium, filled with big, dramatic choruses and sad longing. But her latest release finally gets Branch political, especially in the scathing "I'm a Man." "When I was a younger artist I might have shyed away from it, but now I don't think I can afford to be quiet," she says. Two weeks before we speak, Tennessee's "trigger law" went into effect, making abortion a criminal offense in the state where she now resides. "It's really annoying."
Branch has taken to social media to support reproductive care over the past year, although some of her fans have been shocked by her attitude. "I turned my comments off because so many people just weren't informed," she said of a post lamenting Roe v Wade's fall. "I also get very upset when comments come from men who don't know what it's like to have ovaries! If you don't agree with me, you don't have to follow me. You don't have to buy my records and you can keep your comments to yourself."
Branch also speaks from his own experience. "I had a miscarriage in late 2020 and you are talking about a D&C (dilation and curettage) which would now be considered an abortion. But what happens if you don't go through this on your own and you get an infection and go into septic shock?" she asks, before considering the many subtleties of why women want abortions. "It's really nobody's decision but a woman and her doctor," she adds. "It really feels like we're living in the dark ages in America right now, between feeling like we're going to get shot in the street or get arrested for trying to have children."
Gun violence is another topic that Branch is passionate about. When I ask her how she is dealing with the impending threat of public shootings, she is outraged. "That's interesting, because an American journalist would never ask me that question – it's just part of our everyday life here."
Branch's voice trembles as she explains how worried she gets every time her daughter goes to the movies; how "terrifying" it is that her four-year-old son has to do active marksmanship at school. It even influenced Branch's own relationship with live performance. "You're on stage, playing a show at a festival, and you're like, 'Could someone come in here with a gun?' It's absolutely incredible to live your life like this. It just sort of normalized."
The problem with fever was finished and ready for a 2021 release, but when Branch found out she was expecting her third child, the project was shelved. "I didn't want to push myself to promote the album while I was pregnant, I wanted to curl up and enjoy the time at home," she says. Branch gave birth to daughter Willie Jacquet Carney in February 2022 and was ready to get back on track with the publication a few months later. But not before she made a quick detour to London, the city she was planning to move to before meeting Carney. Back before she met Carney in 2015, she said, "She had just got my ex-husband's blessing to take our daughter Owen and try a year in London because it's one of my favorite cities in the world. Then I met Patrick and he lived in Nashville and we fell in love and here I am!"
Nashville was good to Branch. She first came to live in the city in the mid-2000s and formed a country duo called The Wreckers with friend Jessica Harp. They released their only album, Hold on, look pretty, in 2006. In Nashville, Branch has embedded himself in a refreshingly supportive network of fellow musicians. "The cool thing about Nashville is the close community and camaraderie between artists and writers," she says. "I feel like there's nowhere else like that."
"My hero Sheryl Crow is just my neighbor and texts to check on me"
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She mentions Maren Morris, Margo Price, Nikki Lane and country crossover star Kacey Musgraves as friends. She and Musgraves only came to town a few weeks ago and ended up singing with the house band at a local pub. "She just said, 'Hey, I want to get up and sing a song.' Next thing you know, she's up there and we're all making harmony… Only in Nashville!"
Another friend is Sheryl Crow, whose songs Branch covered as a teenager. "She recently texted to check on me," she enthuses. "She's always been such a huge inspiration and I'm pinching myself; my hero Sheryl Crow is just my neighbor texting to check on me." Like I said, Michelle Branch is fine.
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Whoa: PTA Says 'The Master' Title Originally Came from the Internet
Source: Vancouver Sun, Canada.com
Say what? It's the year of PTA, meaning we've got a new Paul Thomas Anderson film, with plenty to talk about. PTA himself has been out doing interviews around the world, mainly with notable newspapers and other high class media. However, one of my favorite quotes was caught by our colleagues at The Playlist, who are going to be in the spotlight of attention now. In an interview with Katherine Monk of the Canada.com, PTA was asked directly about the title of "The Master", his new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams, and his response: "In fact, the Internet actually gave it its title first."
I love his very frank answer to the question of how he chose the title The Master: "You know, you're the first journalist to ask me about the title. Really, it was just a process of elimination. In fact, the Internet actually gave it its title first. A version of my script got out online years ago [that story below] and they referred to it as The Master, even though it didn't have a title on it or anything. So we just ended up calling it The Master. We never did find another title for the film." The rest is history. Especially with it already setting per-theater-average limited opening records. I guess I always assumed the title was something he had come up with, but The Playlist goes on to take credit and explains what happened for those catching up. Recap:
"I was kind of like in search of a story, in search of a kind of venue," PTA explained about his super early gestating ideas about the story. "I had a situation where he snuck on a boat -- he ended up on some boat that he didn't belong on -- I had variations on that. And there was this master of ceremonies who wondered, 'Why are you on my boat?" Messing around. It was all kind of vague like that - I was just sort of messing around writing, and then about four or five years ago, I started becoming more specific, 'What is this? Where are these pieces going?'"
The backstory: In 2010 a very early sketched-out version of the script leaked online… Curious and eager to see for ourselves, we got our hands on the script and analyzed what was clearly a Paul Thomas Anderson script (albeit one in very rough form) and its similarities to the history and details of Scientology.
For the purposes of the article we referred to the script as "The Master," and well, apparently the name stuck. What's fascinating is how similar that raw sketch was to the final film, even though it clearly grew and changed. But the fundamental basics -- as you can tell by reading the original piece -- are still there in the final product.
How crazy, but amazing, is that story? It's a good title anyway. I've been hearing rumors that The Weinstein Company has had nothing to do with the marketing of the film, and may have even been angry at the way PTA is running his own show, including hosting his own impromptu 70mm screenings. Take that thought and combine it with this news that the title itself was a creation of the internet rumor-mill, which later stuck because, why not, it's insane to think about. This is why I love PTA, he's a genius through simplicity. And this is why I love that his film is making truck loads of money. Fine with me if it works for the audience, too.
"I don't really enjoy the fruits of my labour," PTA quips later in the interview. "I'm much more interested in the labour… but I really can't complain. I love my job." Read the complete interview on Vancouver Sun for more. This title situation is similar to Cloverfield, too. While quotes from co-writer Matt Reeves initially claim the name was their creation as an early fake-company project name, the title Cloverfield later ended up being used just because it was the title everyone kept referring to it as. J.J. Abrams explains a similar situation: "By that time [Comic-Con], the name Cloverfield had already leaked out, and the fans already knew it by that name, so we just decided to stick with that." Same with The Master - why not? It works well.
Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master is currently playing in 5 select cinemas in New York and Los Angeles now, expanding into even wider release this weekend. Catch the grand 70mm experience while you still can!
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Reader Feedback - 6 Comments
wow, who gives a fuck
dillinger on Sep 17, 2012
go back up and read the grey box . Don't you realize they're saying THIS SITE gave the movie its name . :o) that's why it's news ...
Dominic A on Sep 18, 2012
A famous scriptwriter / director ? at least knows OF the site , if not being a possible frequent reader . Is he taking ideas he sees here ?? HMMMMM
The Master suckd, really boring and not enough action! id rather see The Avengers again, that was a masterpiece! and JP should stick to rapping.
Troy Duffy on Sep 17, 2012
Ha, trolling used to be a patient man's game, you'd wait for a reply, but now you have a running tally of how many people you're pissing off. Don't feed the trolls
Richie G on Sep 18, 2012
The Master is an excellent title, I don't think he could have found something better if he tired 🙂
Davide Coppola on Sep 17, 2012


MARIETTA, OHIO (November 30, 2018)—The Washington State Community College (WSCC) Foundation recently honored Douglas Mallet and Esther Salem as the 2018 WSCC Distinguished Alumni. The Distinguished Alumni awards are presented annually to graduates who exhibit the qualities of community and professional leadership that represent the mission and goals of the College.
J. Douglas Mallett was presented with the Outstanding Professional Achievement award. Mallett graduated from WSCC in 1974 with an A.A.B in Accounting Technology. In the four decades since his graduation, he has held a variety of executive and financial positions, which have provided him with invaluable experience successfully developing and implementing creative financial management strategies. His career accolades include 25 years with Marietta Savings Bank where he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. He is the founder of WestMar Mortgage Company, where he held the positions of President and Chief Executive Officer for nine years. He is also the Founder/Partner of Mallett Rentals, and for the last several years, Partner and CFO of MNW Energy LLC. Currently, he is the CFO at Farrar Scientific Corporation.
Mallett also serves Marietta and Washington County in numerous capacities. As a dedicated member of the First Baptist Church of Marietta, he is Past Chair of their Trustees and of the Stewardship Commission. He is a member of the Washington County Children's Services Board, of which he is also Past Chair, and he is the Chair and Co-Founder of the Washington County Foster Families Foundation. In 2017, Doug was elected to a four-year term on the Marietta City School District Board of Education, where he currently serves as President.
Esther Salem was presented with the Outstanding Community Service award. Salem graduated from WSCC in 1995 with an A.A.B. in Microcomputer Applications Technology, then went on to earn an A.A.B. in Computer Systems Technology/Support Technology in 1999. She also has a B.A. in Anthropology from York College, SUNY, and a M.Ed. in Educational Technology from the University of Rio Grande.
Salem currently serves as a Professor of Computer Science at WSCC with plans to retire at the end of the year after a nearly 20-year teaching career at WSCC. Throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley and abroad, Salem is involved with several non-profit organizations. As a volunteer for the American Red Cross, Salem offered services on the ground to first responders and residents of New York City after the September 11 attacks, and she participated in the cleanup after the tornado outbreak in Norman, Oklahoma two years later. She currently serves on the disaster action team for Washington County and also volunteers for the Marietta Area Recycling Center, the Humane Society of the Ohio Valley as a board member, and the Mid-Ohio Valley Habitat for Humanity. In addition, Salem served for five years on the Board of Directors for the Washington County Chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
Overseas, Salem has taught in impoverished areas of China. In 2016, in cooperation with WSCC and Marietta College students, Salem solicited and delivered donated computers and laptops to schools in rural Ghana in West Africa. Her service has been inspirational to many other volunteers, including her students, who have participated in community projects of refurbishing and donating computers to local schools.


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The newspaper Le Parisien launches a collection of NFT around the historic front pages
With the "Crypto-unes" project, The Parisian became the first French press title to launch an NFT collection based on its historic front pages and created a unique opportunity for its readers to own a piece of newspaper history.
Obviously, everyone wants their piece of the "NFT cake". We learned this week that the French newspaper The Parisian launched an NFT collection based on its historical front pages.
According to the newspaper, " Owners of 1000 NFTs for sale have access to exclusive advantagesincluding the possibility of regular exchanges with the editorial staff of Le Parisien and thus improve the editorial attention to Web3-oriented topics, to facilitate public understanding".
The idea behind this initiative of the popular French media is simple: change the most unusual headlines to NFT. The end of the Second World War, the victories of the French football team in 1998 and 2018, the coronation of Elizabeth II, the loss of Princess Diana or the fire of Notre-Dame, all hot topics that change into non- fungible tokens.
There is a total 100 outstanding headlines of the Parisian who will be available in NFT at a price, in the month of October.
Three rarity levels and one random mint
According to Le Parisien, "Crypto-unes come in three levels of rarity : Common (six copies each), Rare (three copies each) and Unique (only one copy each, this one is animated)".
Thank you for a random mints*, any buyer can expect to get a Unique NFT. In addition, each NFT purchased will be accompanied by a digital newspaper subscription one to two years, depending on the rarity of the latter.
One of the front pages of the Parisian. Source: Twitter
Talk to the editorial staff
The newspaper hopes through this initiative to create a dialogue between its readers-buyers of the NFT and its editorial staff. "Crypto-unes du Parisien buyers will create a community and have the opportunity to talk to journalists on the editorial staff. Each month, they will be invited to participate in live editorial conferences, around Web3 topics. Thus, they will help inform the readers of Le Parisien about the evolution of crypto, blockchain or even the metaverse through educational articles accessible to as many people as possible," explained the press release received by Cryptonews editorial staff.
From a technical point of view, know that Le Parisien will make its mint on the market there developed by the group LVMHon the blockchain Ethereum. It relies on technological developments in Consensies and its internal technical teams.
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The Sandman: Jenna Coleman Learned Latin to Play Joanna Constantine
Jenna Coleman had an unusual way to remember her lines in The Sandman
By Nobelle Borines
One of the most intriguing characters in The Sandman is undoubtedly Johanna Constantine, the gender-bent version of John Constantine. After all, the character is just as skilled (if not better) than her male counterpart and was perfectly played by none other than the former Doctor Who actress Jenna Coleman.
But playing an exorcist is not just about looking good in a trenchcoat. Jenna Coleman confirms she had to learn Latin in order to properly exorcise the demons she had to face in The Sandman.
Jenna Coleman recently spoke to Total Film along with The Sandman co-stars Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Gwendoline Christie. During the interview, Coleman confirmed that she took the time to learn Latin for her role in the Netflix series.
"I had to learn Latin for this at the same time as learning French for The Serpent, and they are so different in terms of the way you move your mouth. It's basically the entire opposite of what you do for French. So that, in particular, was challenging," Coleman said. She then shared how she managed to memorize her lines more easily.
"I would find myself, when we were doing a lot of voiceover work and me walking around London actually, just repeating and repeating the lines. Performing exorcisms, as I was going about my day," Coleman said.
It's amusing to imagine Jenna Coleman just walking around London performing exorcisms and it certainly worked out for her in the end. With that in mind, we're hoping that we'll see more of Joanna Constantine in the future.
Fans have been asking for a spin-off show focusing on Constantine since the premiere of The Sandman and Neil Gaiman himself has supported the idea. Needless to say, we're keeping our fingers crossed on more of the character soon.
All 10 episodes of The Sandman are now streaming on Netflix.
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My Hero Academia updates: manga hiatus, FUNimation streaming, possible two-cour season 2
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This Monday's (July 4th) issue of Weekly Shonen Jump will come bearing the bad with the good. Even as Blue Exorcist fans rejoice with the announcement of a new [...]
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Update: Yona of the Dawn manga will resume this month
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Manga artist Masayuki Ishikawa announces hiatus due to health issues
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The Maria the Virgin Witch mangaka Masayuki Ishikawa announced on his official Twitter this week that he's taking a break from his work due to long-term health [...]
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Benjamin James Agajanian (August 28, 1919 – February 8, 2018), nicknamed "the Toeless Wonder", was an Armenian-American football player, primarily a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL), the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and American Football League (AFL).

Early life
Born in Santa Ana, California, he graduated from San Pedro High School in the San Pedro community in Los Angeles. A placekicker, he played college football at Compton Junior College and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II as a physical training instructor. While playing in college, Agajanian had four toes of his kicking foot crushed in a work accident and then amputated in 1939,

Pro football career
Agajanian played professionally in the National Football League from 1945 through 1959, then in the newly formed American Football League for the Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers in 1960, 1961, and 1964.  He also played for the Dallas Texans in 1961 and the Oakland Raiders in 1962.  He is one of two players (the other was Hardy Brown) who played in the All-America Football Conference, the American Football League, and the National Football League.

He was pro football's third kicking specialist (after Jack Manders and Mose Kelsch), booting field goals for 10 different professional teams in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, including two NFL champions: the New York Giants in 1956 and the Green Bay Packers in 1961. In the 1956 title game, he went 5-for-6 on extra points and 2-for-3 on field goals whole in the 1960 title game he was perfect on extra points (one) and field goals (three).

He led the league in field goal attempts in 1947 (24) and 1954 (25) and also led in made field goals (15) in the former.

Later life
After retiring from the field at age 45, he was the Dallas Cowboys kicking coach for 20 years. He also coached Chicago Bears kicker Mac Percival for the 1968 season.

Agajanian died in Cathedral City, California, on February 8, 2018, at age 98. His older brother was the late Motorsports promoter J. C. Agajanian.

See also

 History of the New York Giants (1925–78)
 List of American Football League players
 History of the Armenian Americans in Los Angeles

References

External links

 Ben Agajanian, the oldest living Los Angeles Ram at 96, gets a real kick out of their return to L.A.

 "Ben Agajanian, Square-Shoed Kicking Star, Dies at 98," by RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, The New York Times, Feb. 13, 2018

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Stocks to Buy / Alibaba Group Is a Political Battlefield Stock
Alibaba Group Is a Political Battlefield Stock
China still needs foreign investment, and a crackdown has made BABA stock a bargain
August 1, 2021	 By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor	Aug 2, 2021, 6:00 am EST	 August 1, 2021
Alibaba Group (NASDAQ:BABA), the leading Chinese cloud stock, is not going out of business. You're not about to be prohibited from owning BABA stock.
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But that's not the way it's trading. Shares hit a short-term bottom of $186 on July 27 but have since bounced back to $195. That's a market cap of $530 billion, but a price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 23. It's just over 5x last year's sales of $111 billion, based on the current exchange rate of 6.46 yuan to the dollar.
By way of comparison Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is worth $1.06 trillion with a P/E of 32. It is selling at over 10x this year's expected $94 billion in sales.
Something is out of whack. That something is politics.
Chinese Communists
Over the last year, China's government has done what American trustbusters only dream of.
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Their system is to give business its head, then restrain market leaders by quickly punishing them for past actions. In the American system companies are punished slowly, when old laws are reinterpreted or new laws are passed.
If Mao Zedong were alive, he'd be rolling around in his grave at China's prosperity, its fierce competition and its lack of regard for the poor. Xi Jinping has recreated the Imperial mandarin system. He could be overthrown, based on poor performance. But performance is fine, a growth rate of 7.9% year-over-year in the second quarter.
What's different is the dominance Alibaba and the major Chinese tech companies like Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), JD.com (NASDAQ:JD), and Tencent Holding (OTCMKTS:TCEHY), have over the economy. China's consumer society has grown up around Alibaba's mobile-first technology. It's as if Walmart (NYSE:WMT) never existed.
Americans Get Out
American conservatives and Chinese "communists" both want American investors to leave. China wants local investors to get in on the action. The recent fall in prices is their opportunity. American conservatives want a new Cold War. Decoupling the two economies is essential to that project.
In China, the iShares MSCI ETF (NYSEARCA:MCHI) is down 30% from February. Didi Global (NASDAQ:DIDI) shares collapsed after their IPO. This drew the ire of TV analyst Jim Cramer, who had recommended them.
The threat that BABA stock could be de-listed from American exchanges, which the Biden administration is maintaining, is potent. That's because China still needs foreign investment to grow, although its leaders don't want to admit it. Without foreign investment new companies will have a harder time challenging Alibaba.
The Bottom Line on BABA Stock
What China's floods and America's wildfires, prove is that a new Cold War can't happen. There's a bigger enemy out there, and it's all of us.
Chinese regulators are already signaling that they've gone far enough for now. Some American hedge funds are already getting back in. Recent sales by ARK Innovation (NYSEARCA:ARKK) probably represent a bottom.
Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang has said his company will be "more thoughtful." But it still has the market advantages it had before the crackdown. Co-founder Joseph Tsai still owns the Brooklyn Nets. Warnings that American money is about to be kicked out of China, and that BABA stock may quickly fall to $152, look overblown.
How would you like it if American investors were kept out of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) or Facebook? That's what has happened to China and BABA stock. The balance is being redressed. But you can still profit from it. That's assuming you can still breathe, and that the Chinese can swim.
On the date of publication, Dana Blankenhorn held long positions in BABA, JD, FB and AMZN. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines.
Dana Blankenhorn has been a financial and technology journalist since 1978. He is the author of Living With Moore's Law: Past, Present and Future available at the Amazon Kindle store. Write him at danablankenhorn@gmail.com or tweet him at @danablankenhorn. He writes a Substack newsletter, Facing the Future, which covers technology, markets, and politics.
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