First-class 1% -- 99% the accommodations in steerage
Remind me, who gets into the life boats first?
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| WOMEN |
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| TRADE |
The tariffs that #Trump is using to kill
American business will now kill the taxpayers, too: BILLIONS in welfare to the
losers in the #TrumpTradeWar. [Norman Goldman, July 24, 2018]
LIGHTHIZER'S TUESDAY: A MEETING WITH LIAM FOX: The
transatlantic EU-U.S. trade talks will kick off this week with a meeting today
between U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Liam Fox, the U.K.'s
secretary of state for international trade and Britain's point man for new
trade deals.
The meeting will provide an opportunity for the two trade
leaders to discuss the possibility of a U.S.-U.K. free trade agreement. But Fox
will also raise concerns about the Trump administration's decision to impose
tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the EU and call instead for a
multilateral solution to global issues of overcapacity in those two sectors, a
U.K. Embassy spokesman said.
Fox will also give a speech Wednesday morning at The Heritage
Foundation and meet with Ross later this week. [POLITICO's
Morning Trade, July 24, 2018]
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| REFUGEES |
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| RACE |
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MIKE
POMPEO
Secretary of State
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• Tuya Smart, a Chinese developer of IoT and voice AI
platforms , raised $200 million in Series C funding. Future Fund (Australia)
led, and was joined by NEA, China Broadband Capital, CICC Global Bridge
Capital, Quadrille Capital, and C.M. Capital Advisors. http://axios.link/pl3k [Axios Pro Rata, July 24, 2018]
• Campfire, a Hong Kong-based co-working space
operator, raised $18 million in Series A funding from Kwai Jung Group, Fast
Global Holdings and Sa Sa. http://axios.link/CV5A [Axios
Pro Rata, July 24, 2018]
• GlobalWebIndex, a 9 year-old provider of consumer
insight data, raised $40 million from Stipes Group in its first-ever round of VC
funding. http://axios.link/hdsr [Axios Pro Rata, July 25, 2018]
⛽ Ouro Preto Óleo e Gás, a Brazilian energy company owned by EIG Global Energy Partners, has
entered exclusive talks to buy two shallow water mature oilfields from
state-owned Petrobras.
The losing bidder was Trident Energy, backed by Warburg Pincus. http://axios.link/pDvd [Axios Pro Rata, July 25, 2018]
• ColdQuanta, a Boulder, Colo.-based developer of
ultracold neutral atom technology, raised $6.75 million in seed funding. Maverick Venturesled, and was
joined by Global Frontier Investments. http://axios.link/sH2l [Axios Pro Rata, July 26, 2018]
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| FOREIGN POLICY |
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| ENVIRONMENT |
TAKE THE LEAD: A new coalition announced its creation Monday with its sights
set on sending the Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol to the Senate for
ratification. The "Let America Lead " coalition touts the National Association of
Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Chemistry Council and
the American Council for Capital Formation as its founding members, and says it
will work with conservative leaders at all levels to demonstrate to the
president that the amendment "is a win for American workers." The
amendment would phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons, a global-warming
inducing chemical used in cooling systems. George David Banks, the former
climate and international energy adviser to Trump, is serving as a senior
adviser to the coalition. [POLITICO's Morning Energy, July 24, 2018]
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| DEMOCRATIC PARTY |
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| SENATOR BOB CORKER |
Our farmers have been in nonstop, saying they
want trade, not aid, and now they’re being put on welfare,” Sen. Bob Corker
(R-TN) said, according to the Post. [The Fiscal Times, July 24, 2018]
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob
Corker (R-Tenn.) acknowledged "concerns" about where the administration is on Russia. [POLITICO
Huddle, July 25, 2018]
Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.),
a frequent Trump critic who is retiring after this year, was having none of it.
“It’s the president who causes people to have concerns,” Corker said. He listed a series of statements Trump had made this month that he said appeared “purposefully” designed to “create tremendous distrust in this nation and our allies.”
“Why does he do those things?” he demanded.
Pompeo did not answer.
“It’s the president who causes people to have concerns,” Corker said. He listed a series of statements Trump had made this month that he said appeared “purposefully” designed to “create tremendous distrust in this nation and our allies.”
“Why does he do those things?” he demanded.
Pompeo did not answer.
[http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-essential-politics-20180727-story.html?utm_source=Politics&utm_campaign=00d125c23e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_db59b9bd47-00d125c23e-82564717]
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| READ |
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| GREAT BRITAIN |
BORIS M.I.A: “We’re still waiting for our host…” Germany’s Europe
Minister Michael Roth tweeted from London. He
was waiting along with more than a dozen other participants — six Western
Balkans countries who aren’t yet EU members but would like to be, eight EU
countries and the Commission — gathered in London for a much-touted Balkans
summit, but the U.K. foreign secretary was nowhere to be seen. The unmissable
irony is that the U.K. had loudly insisted on hosting the conference. It was
supposed to show off its leadership and tout its role in shepherding the
Balkans’ bid to join a club Britain itself has vowed to leave.
A few hours later, Johnson made it clear he wouldn’t be showing up at all.
Instead, he resigned
from government. And with a bang: In his letter of
resignation to the prime minister, he described the “Brexit dream” as
“dying, suffocated by needless self-doubt” and that under May’s plan, the U.K.
was “truly headed for the status of of colony.” Well, then.
Gotta love British political lingo: “This is Boris’
last chance to show he’s not an irrelevant panty wetter,” one senior Tory aide
told Tom McTague — meaning Johnson should quit if he wants to convince any
proper Brexiteer he has a backbone and cares for a chance of becoming calife à la place de la
calife.
Novichok claims
a life in Great Britain
Detectives in Great Britain have launched a murder investigation,
following the July 8 death of 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess, who was exposed to the nerve agent
Novichok in Amesbury, Wiltshire. She leaves behind her family,
including three children. A 45-year-old man hospitalized with Ms. Sturgess is
still in critical condition.
“There is no evidence that they visited any of the sites that were
decontaminated following the attempted murders of Sergey and Yulia Skripal in
March this year. We are not in a position to say whether the nerve agent was
from the same batch that the Skripals were exposed to,” the Metropolitan Police
said in a statement on Sunday.
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| ITALY |
The Italian senate overturned the country’s mandatory vaccination law
Monday, effectively ending required vaccinations for children, according to
the Financial Times.
The law, which requires children to have 10 vaccinations before attending
school, was originally implemented this March after measles cases spiked in the
country. But the Five Star Movement and the League, two anti-establishment
groups that formed a ruling coalition two months ago, campaigned on ending
it—and with Monday’s 148-110 vote in the upper house of parliament, they are
close to success. The overturning amendment must now be passed by the lower
house; in the meantime, parents will not have to provide proof of vaccination
before their children attend school. The amendment has drawn harsh criticism
from other parties, who warn that Italy had over 4,000 more measles cases in
2017 than it did the year prior. A member of the nation’s Democratic party
noted that this move puts Italy behind nations like France and Germany, which
are increasing their vaccination programs, arguing that it has made the nation
“a kind of Wild West in which the health of children will be left completely to
the family.” [The Daily Beast: PM Cheat Sheet, August 6, 2018]
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| FRANCE |
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| ASIA |
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| CHINA |
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| EGYPT |
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| AUSTRALIA |
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