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This latest crackdown on China’s Christian community comes two months after the government began implementing a number of regulations on faith. Under these restrictions, religious groups must gain government approval for any sort of religious activity, including using one’s personal home for a religious practice, publishing religious materials, calling oneself a pastor, or studying theology.
A provincial government engaged in a multi-year campaign to remove crosses from the tops of churches, while Xi has suggested that religions that inadequately conformed to Communist ideals threatened the country’s government and therefore must become more “Chinese-oriented.”
Last fall, the Communist party reportedly visited Christian households in Jiangxi province, forcibly removing dozens of Christian symbols from living rooms and replacing them with pictures of Xi.
in reply to: China Just Banned Online Sales of the BibleRex, eat the salad
Go ahead, make my day
More cowbell
Play it (again), Sam.
As IBD says,
… it’s hard to imagine a clumsier, more ham-handed way of seeking to redress unfair trade practices than a 25% tariff on global steel imports. The collateral damage may include workers from Ford (F) and General Motors (GM), along with American car buyers and — if the Dow Jones industrial average’s 420-point dive on Thursday is any indication — U.S. stock investors.
As IBD says,
China, which the Commerce Department characterizes as by far the worst offender, accounting for about half of global steel overcapacity, only provides about 2% of U.S. imports, so it won’t feel much direct impact from a 25% tariff.
In other words, it’s hard to imagine a clumsier, more ham-handed way of seeking to redress unfair trade practices than a 25% tariff on global steel imports. The collateral damage may include workers from Ford (F) and General Motors (GM), along with American car buyers and — if the Dow Jones industrial average’s 420-point dive on Thursday is any indication — U.S. stock investors.
You are right – they never work; Remember Smoot–Hawley? Those tariffs pushed us over the edge in the Great Depression…
Although economists disagree by how much, the consensus view among economists and economic historians is that “The passage of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff exacerbated the Great Depression.”
in reply to: Stocks open with sharp losses as Trump touts tariffsHe must have slept through all the history classes too!
Remember Smoot–Hawley?
Although economists disagree by how much, the consensus view among economists and economic historians is that “The passage of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff exacerbated the Great Depression.”
in reply to: Donald Trump: ‘Trade wars are good’Very sad…
IBD also said of the tariff proposal, “it’s hard to imagine a clumsier, more ham-handed way of seeking to redress unfair trade practices than a 25% tariff on global steel imports. “
in reply to: Canada threatens retaliation on Trump tariffsEven the steelworkers union want to exempt Canada:
The United Steelworkers, which backs Trump’s actions, has urged the administration to leave out Canada, arguing that they aren’t part of the problem.
in reply to: Canada threatens retaliation on Trump tariffsAccording to this article in IBD,
Canada is the biggest steel exporter to the U.S., shipping 5.8 million metric tons in 2017, or about 16% of total steel imports. Yet Canada is also, far and away, the largest export market for U.S. steelmakers. Through the first three quarters of 2017, the U.S. ran a relatively minor trade deficit with Canada of about a half-million metric tons, according to Department of Commerce data.
Mexico, although it’s the No. 4 source of U.S. imports of steel, actually imported more steel from the U.S. than it sent here through the first three quarters of 2017.
in reply to: Canada threatens retaliation on Trump tariffsAhhhhhhhh… What country is this???
That picture says it all …. Amazing!
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who has pushed an assault-weapons ban for years, was visibly giddy
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Certainly an interesting idea; it seems the air marshals have done some good. After all, we protect our money with armed guards, we protect the White House with armed guards, maybe we should protect the children.
in reply to: How Texas is a model for Trump's gun-toting teachersWell, the world of politics is certainly a strange one…
Wow, CPAC is certainly very different than is was a few years ago; remember when it was dominated by the Ron Paul crowd?
Wow! And in Ohio, no less…
Read my lips …
Yeah, “$15.5 million in 2019 and $15 million in 2020” certainly does not sound like “a proposal to end federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)” to me!