Bill’s latest with Dave Janda (also posted under Interviews)
Bill’s Commentary:
“This may just be one of the last articles you will read from PBS as their funding will be cut. Rich, if you asked me!”
Musk says Trump ‘agreed’ USAID should be shut down, staffers told to stay out of agency’s headquarters
WASHINGTON (AP) — Staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters, and yellow police tape and officers blocked the agency’s lobby on Monday, after billionaire Elon Musk announced President Donald Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency.
USAID staffers also said more than 600 additional employees had reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight. Those still in the system received emails saying that “at the direction of Agency leadership” the headquarters building “will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, Feb. 3.” The agency’s website vanished Saturday without explanation.
Bill’s Commentary:
“I’m not sure, but the 3rd paragraph sounds like “leveraged Communism”?”
Trump signs order establishing a sovereign wealth fund that he says could buy TikTok
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that outlines plans for a government-run sovereign wealth fund to serve as an economic development tool and perhaps be used to buy TikTok.
Among the aims for the fund would be developing infrastructure such as airports and highways, and it could help the U.S. extend its influence in areas such as Panama and Greenland.
“We’re going to stand this thing up within the next 12 months. We’re going to monetize the asset side of the U.S. balance sheet for the American people,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said during a media parley. “There’ll be a combination of liquid assets, assets that we have in this country as we work to bring them out for the American people.”
Bill’s Commentary:
“This certainly will not make their fan base happy…”
Roger Goodell Discusses The NFL’s Full-On Embrace Of Its DEI Program Which Is Not Being Rolled Back
NEW ORLEANS – A considerable list of corporations and businesses in the United States have announced they are shuttering their diversity, equity and inclusion programs because they apparently figured out that hiring based on race or gender doesn’t often lead to finding the most qualified people. Well, the NFL doesn’t share that opinion and isn’t rolling back its DEI program.
The NFL’s robust DEI arm is going to remain, commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday. And his defense of the league’s DEI program was so positioned as to make it sound as if it’s not about tipping the scales to minorities and women at all.
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