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New Lockdowns In Europe Put The Brakes On The Oil Demand Rebound

Written on . Posted in PT Global Economy.

Daily Wire: Road traffic and transportation fuel demand in most of Europe at the start of 2021 is likely at its weakest since the end of the first lockdowns in the late spring, according to Bloomberg estimates and analysts, as more people stay at home with renewed lockdowns to fight soaring COVID-19 cases.

Despite the start of vaccinations in Europe, many countries continue to battle record daily new coronavirus cases and have been on lockdown, again, since before Christmas.  Read More

Rams just earned two extra draft picks thanks to a new NFL rule and the Saints could be next

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CBS Sports: The Los Angeles Rams are going to have one extra pick in each of the next two drafts thanks to a new NFL rule that was implemented barely two months ago. Back in November, the NFL’s 32 owners approved a resolution that called for teams to be rewarded any time a minority member of their organization was hired away by another team to be either a head coach or a general manager. The idea behind the new rule was to encourage teams to hire more minority coaches and executives and develop them.

Under the new rule, any team that loses a minority coach or executive to a head coach or GM job will be compensated with two third-round picks that will be awarded as one pick in two consecutive years.

Falcons interview Brad Holmes a second time for GM vacancy, per report

The first benefactor of this new rule is the Rams, who just lost their director of college scouting, Brad Holmes, to the Lions. According to multiple reports, Holmes has agreed to a five-year deal to become the general manager in Detroit. Since the Rams lost a minority employee to another team, the NFL is now going to award them two third-round picks with one coming in 2021 and the second one coming in 2022.

If a team loses a second employee to a head coach or GM job, then that club will receive three third-round picks that will be spread out over three consecutive years. Read More

 

Abbas’ advisor praises rock thrower: “May his hands be blessed”‎

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  • PA: “Rocks frighten the Israelis” – praise for rock thrower

  • Palestinian rock throwing is lethal

Palestinian Media Watch: The picture above of an older Palestinian man throwing a rock with a sling ‎shot would almost be comical if rocks being thrown by Palestinians were just ‎a game and not a lethal weapon with which Israelis have been murdered.‎

The PA claims rock throwing is “peaceful resistance,” but in reality it is an act ‎of terror and thousands of Israelis have been injured and some have been ‎murdered by rocks thrown by Palestinians, among them, for example, these ‎victims: ‎

Asher Palmer (25) and his infant son Yonatan were murdered by a ‎Palestinian who threw a rock at their car, making it overturn, killing ‎them both in 2011. ‎

Adele Biton (3) was driving with her mother and siblings in 2013, ‎when Palestinians threw rocks at their car, causing Adele’s mother to ‎lose control of the car, which crashed. Adele sustained severe head ‎injuries and never recovered. She died in 2015.‎

Alexander Levlovitch (64) was murdered by Palestinian terrorists who ‎threw rocks at his car and caused it to crash in 2015.‎

Israeli soldier Amit ben Yigal (21) was murdered by a Palestinian ‎terrorist who threw a rock down on his head from a building in 2020.‎ Read More

Blaming “Lower Interest Rates,” Northern Trust, the #3 Trust Bank, Quietly Laid Off 500 People #2 BNY Mellon Quietly Followed

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“Lower interest rates… reduced our earnings in 2020 and will put pressure on our profitability this year.” After having promised, no layoffs in 2020. But this is 2021.”

Wolf Street: Northern Trust Corporation’s promise early in the Pandemic to abstain from layoffs in 2020 expired on January 1, and last week, the layoffs happened. There was no announcement of the layoffs, and as of this moment, there still hasn’t been a public announcement, but on January 7, two days after people started reporting that they’d been laid off, or that some of their colleagues had been laid off, Chairman and CEO Mike O’Grady sent an email to the remaining employees about the layoffs, the “majority” of which had been “completed earlier this week” he said – meaning January 4th through 6th.

Mike O’Grady said in the email, which WOLF STREET has reviewed, that the bank made “the extremely difficult decision” to lay off 500 people, or “about 2.5% of our partners.”

“To create value now, and in the future, we must adapt and improve,” O’Grady wrote.

Northern Trust, with $2.1 trillion in fiduciary assets, is the third largest FDIC-insured trust bank by fiduciary asset. Read More

Biden Inaugural: National Guard Troops Authorized to Use Lethal Force as D.C. Turns Into Police State

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Gateway Pundit: National Guard troops deployed in Washington, D.C. for the Biden inaugural in the wake of the storming of the Capitol last week have been authorized to use lethal force, according to a report by U.S. News that cited a Defense Department official. The D.C. National Guard had issued a statement Wednesday that troops under its command had been authorized to carry weapons.

Photos show hundreds of National Guard troops at U.S. Capitol

A reported 20,000 troops are being deployed in the nation’s capital. Checkpoints have been established. Razor wire topped fencing has been erected around the Capitol and Supreme Court, large swaths of official Washington have been blocked to vehicular traffic. Many Metro stations in downtown D.C. are completely closed.

The Washington Monument is closed and the National Mall is set to be closed. Airbnb cancelled all reservations in the D.C. area for the period of the inauguration. Hotels are being pressured to do the same. The message to Americans is stay away from D.C. Read More

Stock futures lower as Biden unveils $1.9 trillion stimulus plan

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CNBC: Stock futures were lower early Friday morning after President-elect Joe Biden announced details of a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, one of the top agenda items when his administration begins next week.

Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were down 116 points. Those for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 both traded in negative territory.

Biden’s proposal, called the American Rescue Plan, includes increasing the additional federal unemployment payments to $400 per week and extending them through September, direct payments to many Americans of $1,400, and extending the federal moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures through September.

Study Reveals Rampant Anti-Semitism, Hate, in PA, Gaza UNRWA School Materials

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Jewish Press: The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE), this month issued its “Review of UNRWA-Produced Study Materials in the Palestinian Territories,” revealing that they “contain material which does not comply with UN values.”

This inappropriate material is present “across nearly all sets, subjects and grades, although some appear more frequently in certain subjects than others,” according to the report. Here are a few examples:

Encouragement of violence, jihad, terrorism, and martyrdom

UNRWA-produced material frequently references, and sometimes directly reproduces, texts and phrases from the PA textbooks that glorify violence and sacrificing one’s life and blood to defend the “motherland.” Such examples include Arabic grammar exercises that use the language of jihad and sacrifice and passages that celebrate known terrorists such as Dalal Mughrabi. In past statements, UNRWA officials have explicitly denied teaching students the sections of the PA curriculum that discuss Dalal Mughrabi, making the inclusion of these passages even more surprising and concerning.

The study authors noted: “We were unable to find any direct condemnation of violence or approach to resolve conflict within the UNRWA-produced material.”

Encouragement of violence, jihad, terrorism, and martyrdom

UNRWA-produced material frequently references, and sometimes directly reproduces, texts and phrases from the PA textbooks that glorify violence and sacrificing one’s life and blood to defend the “motherland.” Such examples include Arabic grammar exercises that use the language of jihad and sacrifice and passages that celebrate known terrorists such as Dalal Mughrabi. In past statements, UNRWA officials have explicitly denied teaching students the sections of the PA curriculum that discuss Dalal Mughrabi, making the inclusion of these passages even more surprising and concerning.

The study authors noted: “We were unable to find any direct condemnation of violence or approach to resolve conflict within the UNRWA-produced material.”

Newly sworn-in Michigan Rep. catching heat for Capitol Hill office map alteration | KDNL

 

(Map in office of US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib)

Erasure of Israel

A consistent issue in the UNRWA-produced materials is their failure to acknowledge the existence of the State of Israel, a UN member state. Read More

Mexico’s Left-Wing President Mounts International Campaign Taking On Tech Companies After Trump Bans

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Daily Wire: Left-wing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reportedly vowed to take on tech companies on Thursday in response to the bans that President Donald Trump has faced on social media.

“I can tell you that at the first G20 meeting we have, I am going to make a proposal on this issue,” López Obrador said. “Yes, social media should not be used to incite violence and all that, but this cannot be used as a pretext to suspend freedom of expression.”

Twitter CEO defends Trump ban, warns of dangerous precedent

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey

“How can a company act as if it was all powerful, omnipotent, as a sort of Spanish Inquisition on what is expressed?” López Obrador asked. Read More

CHILLING: AOC Wants a Gov’t Commission to ‘Rein in’ Media to Prevent ‘Disinformation’

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said in an Instagram post that she and several other members of Congress were exploring the possibility of setting up a commission to “rein in” the media, whom she accuses of spreading “disinformation” in the lead-up to the Capitol attack.

Since I don’t think she’s talking about stifling the New York Times or Washington Post, I wonder who she has in mind to “rein in”?

This was the same Instagram interview in which she admitted that she feared for her life during the Capitol attack, so it’s not surprising that the media would ignore her suggestion for censorship and lead with her life being in danger.

But her suggestion that the United States Congress needs to form a commission to rein in the news media has gone largely unreported. Read More

Airbnb canceling and blocking DC reservations during inauguration week

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CNBC: Airbnb is canceling and blocking future reservations in the Washington, D.C., metro area during the week of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, the company said Wednesday.

  • Guests who had reserved a place will be refunded in full, the company said.
  • It will also reimburse Airbnb hosts with the money they would have earned. Read More

The FBI has warned of armed protests being planned for Washington, D.C., and state capitals in the run-up to the inauguration.