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"The country continued to grow first of all because consumption growth stayed on trend, and secondly because of strong net exports. Severe energy shortages, the consequence of unintended consequences of environmental measures and ill-considered utility regulation, also depressed third-quarter growth."
 
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A metallurgist in Washington state pleaded guilty to fraud Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines. (AP - 09 November 2021)

Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn, Washington, was the director of metallurgy at a foundry in Tacoma that supplied steel castings used by Navy contractors Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding to make submarine hulls.

From 1985 through 2017, Thomas falsified the results of strength and toughness tests for at least 240 productions of steel — about half the steel the foundry produced for the Navy, according to her plea agreement, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. The tests were intended to show that the steel would not fail in a collision or in certain “wartime scenarios," the Justice Department said.

There was no allegation that any submarine hulls failed, but authorities said the Navy had incurred increased costs and maintenance to ensure they remain seaworthy. The government did not disclose which subs were affected.

Thomas faces up to 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine when she is sentenced in February. However, the Justice Department said it would recommend a prison term at the low end of whatever the court determines is the standard sentencing range in her case.

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See what happens when Beijing thinks it's being civilized by not calling out liars immediately when they lie? Obama worked against the environment in his presidency all because he didn't want China making all the money from offering the world cheaper green technology than from the US. Obama logic at work. Just like he thought countries that want infrastructure loans would rather have greater restrictions placed on them than China would place on them. Here he thought the world would chose more expensive Western technology over cheaper per kilowatt Chinese green technology. Because of that every year during his Presidency at annual UN environmental summits, the Obama administration would make the absurd demand that the burden of sacrifice was only on developing countries while Western allied developed economies didn't have to do a thing guaranteeing no agreement would ever be made. He engineered it to fail because he knew the US Congress over domestic US political bipartisan squabbling would never pass any international agreement thus Obama and the US would be blamed for its failure. And then he gets applause from the international usual hypocrite suspects like he were a champion of the environment. They delayed helping the environment for twelve years including Trump's term. And they take the environment seriously?
 
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See what happens when Beijing thinks it's being civilized by not calling out liars immediately when they lie? Obama worked against the environment in his presidency all because he didn't want China making all the money from offering the world cheaper green technology than from the US. Obama logic at work. Just like he thought countries that want infrastructure loans would rather have greater restrictions placed on them than China would place on them. Here he thought the world would chose more expensive Western technology over cheaper per kilowatt Chinese green technology. Because of that every year during his Presidency at annual UN environmental summits, the Obama administration would make the absurd demand that the burden of sacrifice was only on developing countries while Western allied developed economies didn't have to do a thing guaranteeing no agreement would ever be made. He engineered it to fail because he knew the US Congress over domestic US political bipartisan squabbling would never pass any international agreement thus Obama and the US would be blamed for its failure. And then he gets applause from the international usual hypocrite suspects like he were a champion of the environment. They delayed helping the environment for twelve years including Trump's term. And they take the environment seriously?
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Can someone actually tell me just what Obama accomplished tangibly with respect to Climate Change agenda. I couldn't think of anything substantial or substantive regarding his legacy proposals or legislative agendas that were able to support his rhetorical prose into actual concrete actions that's being felt by a substantial people in America.
 
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San Francisco should've been the first city but that tells you how long the Democrats-are-racist-too establishment have been in power in the city. San Francisco is the only US city where the white population is actually expected to increase by 2050. And I'll blame Asians with their do-nothing beliefs to why Democrats have literally been openly racist in San Francisco. They don't have to worry about elections because the largest minority group in San Francisco believes doing nothing when wronged is the best course of action. In nearly every other city, Democrats have to deal with African-American or Latin-Americans because they're more politically active. But in SF it's a unique situation. The adage goes "power corrupts" does not escape even with liberal Democrats. A decade ago there were a flurry of east coast newspapers apologizing for their historic participation in the slave trade over a hundred years ago. Not only large newspapers but also small town newspapers gave out apologies. The San Francisco Chronicle spear-headed most of the anti-Chinese movements including the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Never heard an apology from them.
 
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AssassinsMace

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Can someone actually tell me just what Obama accomplished tangibly with respect to Climate Change agenda. I couldn't think of anything substantial or substantive regarding his legacy proposals or legislative agendas that were able to support his rhetorical prose into actual concrete actions that's being felt by a substantial people in America.
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He only has the Paris Accords that happened during his last year in office. He dropped his absurd demand that only developing countries had to make all the sacrifices. But then he knew that the next President would be blamed if ratification didn't pass Congress. He was literally going to railroad Hillary Clinton with the eventual failure. But "luckily" Trump won and killed it before it would get to Congress for a vote.
 
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Biden-Xi virtual summit next week.
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Meaningless but whatever. We all know that Biden is just another puppet for the national security establishment

Biden will say "One-China" policy, and a day after the meeting ends, you will see front page on the news about another US provocation on China using the Taiwan card
 
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