Biden says he’s considering Australia’s request to drop prosecution of Wikileaks founder Assange
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long U.S. push to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents.
For years, Australia has called on the U.S. to drop its prosecution against Assange, an Australian citizen who has fought U.S. extradition efforts from prison in the U.K. Asked about the request on Wednesday, as he hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for an official visit, Biden said, “We’re considering it.” -snip
Going to be lame if Biden does this, Assange showed himself to be on Putin's payroll in 2016 and doing Putin's bidding. F*ck that guy.
The candidates
Joe Biden
President
Joe Biden, at 81, will be the oldest ever major-party presidential candidate, breaking his own record set in 2020. Mr Biden won a seat in the Senate at the age of 30 and held it for over three decades. He made failed bids for president in 1988 and 2008, and served as Barack Obama’s vice-president. Despite a reputation as a centrist Democrat, in office he has pushed to expand the state and lobbied for unions. He has also led an international coalition to support Ukraine against Russia’s invasion. Although he promises to “finish the job” if re-elected, many voters think the job may finish him.
Donald Trump
Former president
Donald Trump’s extraordinary campaign follows his no less remarkable term as America’s 45th president, which concluded shortly after his supporters staged an armed attack on the Capitol. His alleged role in instigating the attack and a broader effort to overturn results of the 2020 election resulted in two criminal indictments, in federal court and Georgia state court. He faces two others, totalling 91 felony charges. The 77-year-old denies all wrongdoing. Mr Trump is a self-proclaimed billionaire, who made (and lost) much of his money in real estate, before he became a reality-TV star. This time his campaign pairs familiar culture-war issues (building a border wall, “left-wing gender insanity”) with fresh grievances (against the lawyers prosecuting his cases and the judges overseeing them).
Sources: FiveThirtyEight; national polls; The Economist
US will require background checks for gun shows and online firearm sales
The sale of firearms on the internet and at gun shows in the US will in future be subject to mandatory background checks, the justice department said on Thursday as it announced a “historic” new action to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals.
The closing of the so-called gun show loophole, which exempts private transactions from restrictions that apply to licensed dealers, has long been a goal of the Biden administration, and is specifically targeted in the rule published in the federal register today. -snip
What a crazy liberal-socialist-communist idea, making it harder for a criminal and/or lunatic to acquire a gun because a simple background check is now required.
Originally posted by RobtardCriminals, yes. Lunatics? What defines a lunatic?
US will require background checks for gun shows and online firearm salesThe sale of firearms on the internet and at gun shows in the US will in future be subject to mandatory background checks, the justice department said on Thursday as it announced a “historic” new action to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals.
The closing of the so-called gun show loophole, which exempts private transactions from restrictions that apply to licensed dealers, has long been a goal of the Biden administration, and is specifically targeted in the rule published in the federal register today. -snip
What a crazy liberal-socialist-communist idea, making it harder for a criminal and/or lunatic to acquire a gun because a simple background check is now required.
Just to be clear, I was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, am I a lunatic?
Biden administration agrees to provide $6.4 billion to Samsung for making computer chips in Texas
The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide up to $6.4 billion in direct funding for Samsung Electronics to develop a computer chip manufacturing and research cluster in Texas.
“The proposed project will propel Texas into a state of the art semiconductor ecosystem,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on a call with reporters. “It puts us on track to hit our goal of producing 20% of the world’s leading edge chips in the United States by the end of the decade.” -snip
This is what job creation looks like 🙂
Samsung doesn't need $6.4b of US taxpayers money.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68738046
It's Jan-Mar 2024 quarter operating profit was $6.6 TRILLION