EARLY EDITION: Five Fast News Stories To Bring You Up To Speed (Thur. Apr 6)
TODAY: China vs Dollar; AMLO denounces Bragg; Trump/Biden Polls; China's Shocking Study; DNC presidential rival
1. China making moves to displace the US Dollar as the universal currency
The Belt-and-Road initiative they have been cultivating around the world was specifically designed to make other countries dependent on China and easily manipulated as part of their goal of displacing America as the world’s superpower.
To succeed, they will need to undermine American influence — political and economic. They have launched a Chinese-based app that will allow the purchase of train tickets through a single online gateway, creating universalized access to ticketing outlets from across 140 different countries with an app that now serves 700 million a day, issuing 1,500 tickets a minute without a glitch. But they will not accept the US Dollar.
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Laos, in the heart of Southeast Asia, is the first country to sign up to the platform, with travellers using their smartphones to book tickets from March 15.
The main servers, within the Chinese border, can handle requests from passengers around the world in different languages, according to a paper published by the Chinese-language journal Railway Transport and Economy in March.
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In just 15 years, China has built more than 42,000km (26,000 miles) of high-speed rail at home, long enough to go around the Earth at the equator.
Chinese belt and road investments have also seen the construction of high-speed rail and heavy duty cargo lines in other countries. Beijing is pushing for the standardisation and integration of rail networks spanning eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa.
— SCMP
2. Mexico denounces charges against Trump as political
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the charges filed in New York against Trump, who is campaigning to regain the presidency in the 2024 election, represented “the degradation of due respect for the law.”
“I don’t agree with what they are doing to former President Trump,” López Obrador said at his morning news briefing. “I do not know if crimes were committed, it’s not my place.”
“Supposedly legal, judicial issues should not be used for political, electoral purposes,” he said. “Don’t make up crimes to affect adversaries.” –NewsMax
3. Latest Trump polling will wipe smile off of Biden’s face
If Alvin Bragg’s political circus was intended to destroy Trump so he wouldn’t be an election threat, George Soros may want his money back. Because Bragg’s stunt — despite the triumphant grin Biden was sporting on the day Trump was arraigned — looks like it has backfired. Badly.
Rasmussen’s poll was conducted shortly before the official arraignment. It showed a big swing since the last numbers in February.
While it is still unknown if Biden will run for another term or when he will announce his decision, the president is trailing his predecessor in the poll by the largest amount to date. In the hypothetical showdown between the two, Trump leads 47 to 40 percent of likely voters, with 11 percent saying someone else and two percent not sure.
The most recent poll is a reversal from February, the last time Rasmussen Reports conducted a 2024 head-to-head national poll, which showed Biden leading in the hypothetical matchup 45 to 42 percent. –Breitbart
4. Study from Chinese CDC throws cold water on wet market theory
Fauci leaned hard on Big Tech to actively suppress anyone claiming the virus came from the lab and not from natural zoonotic transmission vectors. But now, even scientists from within China are finding holes in Fauci’s explanation.
Covid’s natural origin theory was today seemingly dealt a huge blow — by China’s very own scientists.
In a fresh twist to the never-ending saga, Beijing-affiliated researchers ruled there was no proof to definitively say the virus jumped from animals to humans at a now-infamous market in Wuhan.
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[…] in one of the most eagerly-awaited papers on the topic, experts from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said: ‘The evidence provided in this study is not sufficient to support such a hypothesis…
‘The possibility of potential introduction of the virus to the market through infected humans, or cold chain products, cannot be ruled out yet.’ — DailyMail
5. Biden now faces a Kennedy as rival for DNC 2024 nomination
Joe Biden likes to invoke the Kennedy family from time to time in his various anecdotes.
Now he is running against one of Camelot’s heirs.
Kennedy Jr. filed to challenge President Biden next year as a Democrat, joining self-help guru Marianne Williamson as the only other declared major candidate in the party in the White House race.
The 69-year-old is the son of former US attorney general, senator, and 1968 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy – who was shot and killed by Sirhan Sirhan on the campaign trail.
He is also the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, who was also assassinated while in office. –NYPost
His outspokenly unorthodox position on the jab makes for an interesting wrinkle to this race.
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