No, Admins just don't want anyone ODing on Hormel products.
Watch the stripe(or gravel) on the right shoulder when headlights approach, it will save your night vision and reduce strain.
Almost time for 10th Mountain?
Next Generation Squad Weapon Completes Cold Weather Testing
https://news.clearancejobs.com/2024/04/03/next-generation-squad-weapon-completes-cold-weather-testing/
BBerg Newsletter
Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day: Americas
Good morning. Markets wait for Powell comments, jobs data gives a payrolls preview and Citigroup strategists say US stocks have room to resume their gains. Here’s what traders are talking about. — David Goodman
Waiting for Powell
US stock futures are falling this morning and Treasuries are resuming a decline as traders wait for remarks by Fed Chair Jerome Powell. While it’s only been a few days since Powell last spoke, the stakes are high — the comments are his first since a suite of stronger data this week prompted traders to trim bets on the number of rate cuts this year and sparked a rout in global bonds. Some may be hoping for some dovish balm from Powell, but Pimco has seen enough already, and is positioning for the Fed to deliver fewer cuts than other major central banks this year. That case may have been strengthened by data Wednesday showing euro-area inflation slowed more than expected last month, cementing prospects for an interest-rate cut by the European Central Bank in June.
Payrolls preview
Powell is talking amid a rush of Fed speeches. Five other officials are talking today, while two others said yesterday they still expect the US central bank to cut rates three times in 2024. The other big event today is the ADP’s employment report, which may give traders a preview of Friday’s ever-crucial payrolls data. Economists predict the figures will show employers added 150,000 workers last month, the highest this year, amid a pattern of labor markets in developed countries consistently beating expectations.
Further to go?
Stronger data so far this week has taken some of the steam about the rally in US stocks, with the S&P 500 stumbling after its biggest first-quarter gain in five years. But Citigroup strategists suggest there’s scope for gains to resume as investors appear to be showing “persistent” demand for US stocks. Overall positioning isn’t stretched compared to history, strategists led by Chris Montagu wrote in a note, saying this leaves room for further gains.
Musk on Disney
Tesla shares had a bruising day yesterday, falling almost 5% after the carmaker delivered just 386,810 vehicles in the first three months of the year, missing Bloomberg’s average estimate by the biggest margin ever. However, founder Elon Musk also has other firms on his mind. In a post on his X platform today, Musk said that while he doesn’t own any Disney shares right now, he would “definitely” buy them if Nelson Peltz was elected to the company’s board.
Taiwan quake
Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in a quarter century leveled dozens of buildings on the eastern side of the island, killing at least seven people. The tragedy has potential repercussions for global markets and the economy, because of the critical role Taiwan plays in the manufacture of advanced chips, the foundation of technologies from artificial intelligence and smartphones to electric vehicles. Shares in TSMC — the main contract chipmaker to Apple and Nvidia — declined as the company evacuated factory areas, while Nvidia shares have fallen 1% in premarket trading.
What we’ve been reading::
This is what’s caught our eye over the past 24 hours.
Fed blocks tough global climate-risk rules for Wall Street Banks.
China’s defense of its currency is heading toward a milestone moment.
FTSE 100 falls as record continues to prove elusive.
Tottenham Hotspur is in talks with potential investors.
John Authers says markets see a cyclical recovery.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-03/five-things-you-need-to-know-to-start-your-day-americas
Nor seizure without due compensation. Like a son, as in Press Gangs, which will be reintroduced, I would imagine.
Former French PM Phillipe's mayoral office searched in corruption probe - source
Apr 3rd, 07:40:15
PARIS (Reuters) - French authorities were searching the mayoral offices of former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe - also the mayor of Le Havre - as part of a preliminary investigation linked to possible corruption and financial wrongdoings, a judicial source said on Wednesday.
Philippe, who is widely seen as a potential candidate to succeed Emmanuel Macron in France's next presidential election, could not immediately be reached for comment.
French paper Le Monde earlier reported the probe is targeting Philippe directly, as well as some of his aides.
https://PiQSuite.com/reuters/former-french-pm-phillipes-mayoral-office-searched-in-corruption-probe-source
Jake Novak
@jakejakeny
This is what I mean when I say: "Loss Leader/Regime Media." Do Disney execs really love Biden? Probably not. But they use ABC News & ESPN as loss leaders; trumpeting regime messages in order to save their more lucrative businesses from regulatory problems.
Former ESPN host says her Biden interview was entirely 'scripted' by network execs: 'Every single question'
'I was on script and was told not to deviate,' former 'SportsCenter' host Sage Steele told Fox News Digital
https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-espn-host-says-biden-interview-scripted-network-execs
https://twitter.com/jakejakeny/status/1775505136053264397
Just prefer the confirmation, every now and then. My panacea.
History Lesson on how to blow yourself up, financially:
Jared
@jaredhstocks
1/ Selling “penny puts” in the $SPX complex has become commonplace in today’s markets, it’s essentially now a socially acceptable practice amongst portfolio managers. This is the story of James Cordier from Optionsellers, a fund that blew up and the infamous $150M margin call.
https://twitter.com/jaredhstocks/status/1775271225172087237
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1775271225172087237.html
Victor Davis Hanson
@VDHanson
Why Are They Destroying Us?
If someone wished to destroy America, could he do anything more catastrophic than what we currently see and hear each day? What would an existential enemy do that we have not already done to ourselves?
Here are eleven now familiar steps to civilizational destruction:
1) Wipe out a 2,000 mile border. Allow 10-million foreign nationals to enter unlawfully. Have no audit of any; nullify all federal immigration laws. Let toxic drugs in that kill 100,000 Americans a year. Give free support for those millions who broke the law. Smear any objectors as racists and xenophobes.
2) Run up $35 trillion in national debt. Keep adding $1 trillion to it each 100 days. Defame anyone wishing to cut wild spending as cruel and inhumane.
3). Appease or subsidize enemies like Iran and China. Demonize allies like Israel. Allow terrorists to attack Americans without response. See Islam as either similar or superior to Christianity. Make amends to leftist governments for supposedly past toxic American international behavior. Follow the lead of international agencies like the UN, ICC, and WHO to atone forpast American neocolonial and imperialist behavior. Recede to second-tier international status, befitting American decline.
4) In a multiracial democracy, redefine identity only as one’s tribal affiliation. Ensure each identity group rivals the other for victimhood and the state spoils it confers. Redefine all political issues by race and sex oppressors and oppressed. Destroy all meritocratic standards of admission, retention, promotion, and commendation.
5) Redefine violent crime as understandable, cry-of-the-heart expressions of social justice. Ensure no bail and same-day release for arrested, repeat violent felons. Empathize with the violent killer and rapist; ignore their victims, especially if slain police-officers.
6). Emasculate the military by using non-meritocratic standards of race, gender, and sexual orientation to determine promotion and commendation. Deliberately smear as racists and insurrectionists the largest demographic in the military who in recent wars died at twice their numbers in the population—so that they leave or never join the military. Encourage retired high officers to slander their Commander-in-Chief. Cut the defense budget. Stop producing sufficient weapons, but leave billions of dollars’ worth of arms to terrorists.
7) Reinvent the justice system to indict, bankrupt, convict, jail and eliminate political opponents. Use ballot removal, impeachment, civil suits, and state and federal indictments rather than elections to defeat an opponent. Mob the homes of non-compliant Supreme Court Justices, attack them personally by name.
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8) Encourage the fusion of the bureaucratic state with the electric media to form a powerful force for political audit, surveillance, censorship, and coercion. Marry the FBI to Silicon Valley and hire its contractors to warp the news and hound supposed enemies of the people.
9.) Make war on affordable gasoline and natural gas. Substitute inefficient, unreliable, and expensive wind and solar power, even as energy prices bankrupt the middle class.
10.) Marry late, but preferably not at all. Consider males toxic, especially boys. Have no children, or as few as possible. Otherwise, assure children they are entitled, and must be sheltered. Raise them to have grievances against past generations and current norms.
11.) Turn world-class universities into indoctrination centers. Suspend the Bill of Rights on campuses. Train youth to graduate despising their own culture and civilization. Recruit foreign students from hostile nations to subsidize campus commissarbloat. Replace the curriculum with therapeutic propaganda. Ban the SAT/ACT and do not evaluate high school GPAs. Ensure merit does not select the student body. Charge tuition higher than the rate of inflation. Bill the government when students default on their loans.
So why are those controlling Biden using him to advance much of such a destructive agenda that would end America as we know it?
1) They are delusional and think their socialist and globalist agendas are working and will save us.
2) They are raging nihilists who do not like the U.S. and deliberately want it destroyed as a service to the world. A ruined U.S. is preferable to a strong America.
3) They are Jacobin revolutionaries who are intentionally erasing the old United States as a prerequisite for creating an entirely new America that will arise from the ashes with no trace or even memory of its past.
4) They have no agenda. They are aimless fools, and utter incompetents. These bunglers just wing it day-to-day, in response to what their radical media, academic, and political masters dictate is necessary for them to retain power. They have no idea of the damage they are doing.
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A bit of 1-3, but probably not 4.
https://twitter.com/VDHanson/status/1775272720252760080
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Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
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Reading Jack Smith's response on jury instructions and it's clear that the gloves are off btw DOJ and Judge Cannon.
One defense attorney just told me: "The tone Smith is taking with Cannon is no longer persuasion but outright threats. Unheard of dynamic btw DOJ and the bench."
Jack Smith's response is hysterical (and not in a funny way in a desperate way) bc he knows he has little control over her decision related to final jury instructions.
And he is arguing the basis for Trump's "unauthorized possession" of national defense material rests on Obama…
I will separate out Smith's threats to Cannon (unusual and toothless for the most part) later but this is basically the jury instructions DOJ wants to use.
This also might be a problem for DOJ bc it appears Trump still had Q security clearance at Dept. of Energy–one that DOE retroactively rescinded after Smith indicted Trump.
Also during March 14 hearing, DOJ claimed there was no formal process for a president to either receive or lose security clearance. So this might be another area of contention
This is why Smith is so angry–he knows if Cannon proceeds with the proposed scenario presented in her jury instructions order, he is, as one defense attorney told me at the time, f*cked.
He essentially demands that she rule now on jury instructions (she doesn't have to) or…
A reminder that this is Smith's indictment.
Charged a former president for the first time on violating the Espionage Act.
Now Smith's wants the jury to interpret the language of the law based on Obama's Executive Order not the Presidential Records Act.
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status … 3612239017
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1775 … 92626.html