Commentary The recent AUKUS submarines announcement finally overcomes the political roadblocks that have bedevilled the replacement of Australia’s ageing fleet for more than a decade. The most significant aspect of the arrangements is the deployment of up to four U.S. Virginia-class submarines and one UK submarine to Australia from 2027. This was the original timeline…
AUKUS Overcomes Obstacles to Protect Our Waters and Combat Hostile Ideologies
Australia Finally Gets the Defences It Needs as AUKUS Clears Final Hurdles
March 19, 2023
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Commentary The recent AUKUS submarines announcement finally overcomes the political roadblocks that have bedevilled the replacement of Australia’s ageing fleet for more than a decade. The most significant aspect of the arrangements is the deployment of up to four U.S. Virginia-class submarines and one UK submarine to Australia from 2027. This was the original timeline…
A Victory for California Gig Workers
March 19, 2023
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Commentary I’m a gig worker. Freelance-writer division. The Epoch Times and other publications pay me for each piece I write. Especially at age 67, I like it a lot. I work from home with crucial help from my little Pomeranian, Ollie. He makes sure I get up and walk instead of staring at a screen…
My Take on the Possible Trump Indictment
Commentary The goal isn’t the political fallout. They know that former President Donald Trump isn’t going to exit the race—nor is he constitutionally required to—in the event of an indictment in New York over an alleged hush-money payment to an adult film actress while he was a presidential candidate in 2016. The goal to keep him from…
Anthony Furey: The Need for Maximal Disclosure on Beijing’s Election Interference
March 19, 2023
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Commentary It looks like we finally have one political leader serving in higher office who actually wants to know more rather than less about the allegations of the Beijing Communist regime’s interference in our elections. British Columbia NDP Premier David Eby says he’s “very troubled” by these allegations. He wants a “thorough and independent investigation”…
What’s Ailing Regional Banks?
Commentary Bank runs, as they say, have a way of spiraling. The first two bank failures, those of Silvergate Bank and Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), were the results of idiosyncratic circumstances at those two entities. Or so the analysts say. But when New York-based Signature Bank was also taken over by regulators on March 12,…
Is Your Bank Safe Now?
March 19, 2023
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Commentary One week ago Sunday, the Federal Reserve Board, alongside the FDIC and the U.S. Treasury, announced plans—in the wake of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)—to provide liquidity to U.S. banks in an attempt to “bolster the capacity of the banking system to safeguard deposits and ensure the ongoing provision of money and…
A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great, But What’s the Cost?
March 18, 2023
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Commentary There is no such thing as a free lunch. So goes the saying. Someone always has to pay. The question is only—who and when? This is a truism based on our experience as a society over millennia of generations. Similarly, there is no such thing as a four-day week with no diminution in income…
‘Persecution, Not Prosecution’–Ramaswamy Calls on DeSantis and Haley to Join Him in Condemning Trump Indictment
Commentary CHARLESTON, SC—The afternoon of March 18, only hours after rumors of Donald Trump’s possible indictment by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg in the Stormy Daniels affair went flying around the internet, insurgent presidential candidate entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy called upon two other fellow candidates, announced Nikki Haley and presumed Ron DeSantis, to join him in…
Century-Old Law Leaves US Government in Losing Position Against CCP’s Propaganda War
March 18, 2023
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Commentary In 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) demanded that the Chinese language Sing Tao News Corporation register as a foreign agent. But the efforts from the U.S. government have done little to stop the media group from helping the Chinese regime’s propaganda efforts in the United States. Sing Tao Daily is the oldest and…
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