House approves statehood for DC in 232-180 vote

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/504746-house-approves-statehood-for-dc-in-232-180-vote

Trump signs executive order to prioritize skills-based hiring

President Trump signed an executive order Friday to redirect federal employers to weigh applicants’ skills over college degrees.

President Trump signed an executive order Friday to redirect federal employers to weigh applicants’ skills over college degrees. "Today, I'll sign an executive order that directs the federal government to replace outdated … degree-based hiring with skills-based hiring," Trump said Friday during a meeting with the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board. "The federal government will no longer be narrowly focused on where you went to school but the skills and the talents that you bring to the job." Trump added that his administration had valued merit for a long time. Adviser to the president Ivanka Trump, who co-chairs the board, said the order will allow the government to "better recognize the talents and competencies of all Americans" it hires.

Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, adviser and co-chair of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, recommended the federal government which employs more than 2 million civilian workers re-strategize who they hire. “President Trump built the most inclusive economy once and will do it again,” Ivanka Trump wrote on Twitter on Friday. The White House isn't necessarily eliminating degree requirements but is instead encouraging that skillsets for jobs be prioritized, making a degree less important. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, the board's other co-chair, said the need for apprentices and vocational training was widely needed prior to the coronavirus pandemic that has now put millions of Americans out of work. The Office of Personnel Management will be responsible for executing the new directive in an attempt to get more Americans back into the workforce quickly. Private companies are encouraged to follow this new protocol, and companies like IBM have already rolled out initiatives like this, reportedly hiring 15 percent of its workforce from non-traditional backgrounds last year – hiring based on skill rather than one's level of education.

This strategy is expected to help employ individuals from underprivileged areas who could not necessarily afford a two- or four-year degree. The workforce advisory board is expected to announce details of a private-sector ad campaign led by Apple, IBM and the nonprofit Ad Council as a way to encourage alternate pathways into the workforce besides education.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-executive-order-prioritize-skills-based-hiring

>>9762011

>Can she just stay out

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>>advisor

Why are you hell bent on taking something positive and trying to turn it into a negative?

>>9762080

>>>9762046 (You)

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>She was given family business and has nothing to do in WH xept visiting dad for a day at work

1. You need to sauce that.

1. Typical statement of someone who sounds very jealous for no good reason. Ivanka has her own accomplishments and is very well educated.

1. You have offered nothing intelligent regarding the EO signed..which by the way will benefit quite a few people.

Svetlana Lokhova Takes Her Russiagate Defamation Case To Another U.S. Court

‘I suspect we are seeing the tip of a very large iceberg, and that there will be further revelations from the FBI,’ says Svetlana Lokhova’s lawyer. While Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s three-year ordeal fighting the Deep State is nearing an end, the civilian cast as his paramour and a Russian “honey pot” in the plot to take down the Trump advisor and, in turn, the president, continues to fight for justice. Now that fight moves on to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, where the attorney for the Russian-born Svetlana Lokhova, filed a brief earlier this week asking the federal appellate court to reinstate Lokhova’s defamation lawsuit. A little more than a year ago, Lokhova, now a U.K. citizen, filed suit in a Virginia federal court against the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, NBC Universal, and Stefan Halper, for defamation and interference with contract. Lokhova’s complaint alleged that Halper, who served as a confidential human source during the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, “colluded with the media defendants and others to ‘leak false statements about [her] as part of a nefarious effort to smear General [Michael] Flynn and fuel and further the now debunked and dead narrative that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.” The complaint further alleged that “Halper intentionally misrepresented that Lokhova was a ‘Russian spy’ who ‘had an affair with General Flynn on the orders of Russian intelligence’ and ‘compromised General Flynn.’”

A chance meeting in February 2014 between Lokhova and Flynn—then President Barack Obama’s director of the Defense Intelligence Agency—at a dinner at Cambridge University where Lokhova was completing her Ph.D. in history provided the silver for the scandalous tale Halper allegedly crafted and then sold to the media outlets. The story that Lokhova had an affair with Flynn began with inuendo when the U.K. Sunday Times ran an article suggesting impropriety between Flynn and an unnamed Cambridge student. Later reporting by U.S. outlets named Lokhova as the “Russian” and relied on an unnamed former senior U.S. official’s expression of concern about the meeting to provide a veneer of credibility to story. Each story spun the tale further, while adding hyperlinks to the earlier reports. The earliest reports, however, came more than a year before Lokhova filed suit. That delay caused the district court to dismiss Lokhova’s complaint based, in part, on the one-year statute of limitations. The district court also found Lokhova’s complaint failed to adequately allege facts to show that Halper was the source of the defamatory statements given the various media outlets. Accordingly, the court threw out Lokhova’s lawsuit.

Lokhova vowed an appeal and now her attorney, Steven Biss, has filed his opening brief with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In his brief, Biss hammers the damning facts that show the harm done to Lokhova, while also hitting an array of legal points underlying the lower court’s decision. But the Fourth Circuit will likely focus on one question alone: whether, under Virginia defamation law, linking to an older article constitutes “republication” of that article for purposes of restarting the statute of limitations. The answer to this novel question is unclear, although Biss provides several precedents from other courts that suggest hyperlinking an article triggers a fresh defamation claim. While the federal appellate court will likely focus on this purely legal question, recent developments raise a second issue that should garner the court’s attention: Recently declassified information suggests Halper may have told dossier-author Christopher Steele that Lokhova and Flynn were romantically involved. Another recent declassification indicates that this same false rumor was reported to the FBI. Biss stressed these developments, in telling The Federalist that the district court improperly “short-circuited” the case. “The recently released FBI closing communication and declassified testimony of David Kramer prove that Halper played a central role in the concerted effort to discredit Flynn and smear Lokhova.” “I suspect we are seeing the tip of a very large iceberg, and that there will be further revelations from the FBI, including disclosure of the electronic communication documenting the August 11 meeting with Halper mentioned in the IG Report,” Biss added.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/26/svetlana-lokhova-takes-her-russiagate-defamation-case-to-another-u-s-court/

>>9762208

>Declared unlawful assembly

Moar of those "peaceful protestors" how much longer before people push back on the media and the dems for pushing this lie.

Hollywood insider calls for fundamental shift in U.S.-China relationship

Chris Fenton is calling for a fundamental shift across all business sectors to prioritize national interests while pursuing business profits

Hollywood insider Chris Fenton believes that the United States should recalibrate its relationship with China. Fenton, the CEO of Media Capital Technologies, formerly served as the President of DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group and General Manager of DMG North America. During an interview on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast he said that people have compromised American principles while pursuing the economic opportunities afforded by doing business with China. Fenton explained that "there's shareholders, there's investors, there's people that have very big motives when it comes to big uses of capital and investment. And if you have opportunities to figure out how to get a good return on that investment, sometimes that causes us to compromise the values and the national security principles that we hold dearly as Americans," he said. He said that both sides of the political aisle must work together to address the problem. "It's something we need to come together on, almost the same way as we came together for World War II—and I'm not saying this is a war, but this is a very serious situation where we need to back really strong principles and values and a rulebook that companies and industries need to follow in regards to their engagement to that market," he said. Fenton noted that the U.S. needs to tackle "the supply chain issue," noting concerns about American dependence on Chinese pharmaceuticals and the gutting of American middle class jobs.

"We have seen the decimation of the middle class in large part because of our manufacturing push overseas in order to create products and services that are cheaper for Americans here," he noted. While markets would suffer if the U.S. took needed steps towards recalibrating its relationship with China, the shift would "grow our sense of security as a nation" as well as "increase high-paid middle class jobs here in America." "So if we somehow come up with a better ticker that we can put in the bottom of every cable news network screen than a Dow Jones Industrial Average, we might be able to put together the resolve to play the long game to get this done. Because remember, the [Chinese Communist Party] plays the long game. They're not on quarterly earnings reports, they're not on two or four year election cycles," he said.

Fenton is calling for a fundamental shift across all business sectors to prioritize the national interest while doing business with China, though he openly admits that he has contributed to some of the problems he believes the U.S. must address by reconfiguring its engagement with China. He explained that in retrospect he believes he "was complicit in a lot of the things I think we did wrong in regards to the U.S. and China exchange." He said that the people of Wall Street "need to self-reflect and say, Hey look, let's continue pursuing it, but let's do it with the interests of America and Americans at first priority, and then let's figure out how we can create business and keep driving it forward. But let's make that a second priority. Let's make America number one.' And that's something we need to do in all industries,"''' Fenton said.

https://justthenews.com/world/asia/hollywood-insider-calls-fundamental-shift-us-china-relationship