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White House wants to take steps aimed at easing inflation while still looking tough on China

WASHINGTON—President Biden is expected to roll back some tariffs on Chinese imports soon, a decision constrained by competing policy aims: addressing inflation and maintaining economic pressure on Beijing.

People familiar with the situation say what comes next has been pending with Mr. Biden in recent weeks and that he could announce his decision this week. It could include a pause on tariffs on consumer goods such as clothing and school supplies, as well as launching a broad framework to allow importers to request tariff waivers.

Read more … https://www wsj com/articles/biden-might-soon-ease-chinese-tariffs-in-a-decision-fraught-with-policy-tensions-11656927001?mod=mhp

They’re going to avoid this thread, I’m starting to think maybe that “igbodude” na Mynd44’s alt…. That user just vanished, I see some news wey e suppose Dey share here on Skynews…. Reality don dawn em, e don clear now.

We told em back then to calm down….

E don smoke his gbana again

US energy producers roast Biden for demanding 'companies running gas stations' lower pump prices

The U.S. Oil & Gas Association took a hit at President Biden after he tweeted on Saturday that "companies running gas stations" should simply "bring down the price you are charging at the pump," telling him that he should "please make sure the WH intern who posted this tweet registers for Econ 101 for the fall semester."

"Working on it Mr. President. In the meantime - have a Happy 4th and please make sure the WH intern who posted this tweet registers for Econ 101 for the fall semester...," the tweeted

On Sunday, Biden tweeted that "companies running gas stations" should take note that "this is a time of war and global peril."

"My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril," Biden tweeted on Saturday. "Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now."


Biden's tweet comes as gas prices are averaging at $4.812 nationwide, which is up 5 cents from one month ago. In some states, however, prices are much higher.

In California, the average price per gallon of gas is $6.244 and in Illinois, it's $5.325.



Biden has attempted to deflect blame for the increase in gas prices to Russian President Vladimir Putin, dubbing it the "Putin's Price Hike," a term used repeatedly by the White House, despite his campaign promise to always take responsibility and not blame others.

The call for action from Biden follows a failed proposal from the Oval Office to implement a 90-day gas tax holiday, which was dismissed by even Democratic lawmakers as outlandish.

During the presidential campaign, Biden vowed to sacrifice the energy boom, low prices, and even jobs for the sake of his green agenda.

In the December 2019 Democratic debate, moderator Tim Alberta asked: "Three consecutive American presidents have enjoyed stints of explosive economic growth due to a boom in oil and natural gas production. As president, would you be willing to sacrifice some of that growth, even knowing potentially that it could displace thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers in the interest of transitioning to that greener economy?"

"The answer is yes," the former vice president said.

Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have delivered about 870,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada to Texas refineries, and "paused" oil and gas leases on federal lands during his first hours in office. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently warned of a discretionary Environmental Protection Agency rule that, if imposed, would raise gas prices even further.



Source: https://www foxbusiness com/politics/u-s-energy-roast-biden-demanding-companies-running-gas-stations-lower-pump-prices

God don Dey call me for the past 5 years now, I just Dey ignore the call, now my phone dey DND e no Dey enter again ….

My papa na pastor, so the revelation came say na me go collect batton, I just look em laugh very hard, unless say all the congregations wan go hell fire if there’s one, cos na me go fest enter….

godofuck231:
Putin need visit nigeria , Nigeria needs some of those bombs

Nigeria needs liberation

paafin:
Lisichansk fell under two days.

Something is terribly wrong with the Ukrainian military

no oh, Ukraine is winning oh.. this news na propaganda oooo

Ballzproblemm:
SIMP! download book then move on , you dey use style they shoot shot

”shoot shot” lol, 99% “f” moniker on NL, don’t be surprised say na niggas with hairy balls dey behind em

Dvdpity:
Those lands where never Ukrainian lands. They were russian lands given to Ukraine by russian ruler's. Go and read history. Ukraine was just a small enclosed lands. All the lands Ukraine is claiming was added to it by russians.

don’t mind those western slaves…. Most of em are clueless asf

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should have surrendered to Russia, former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has said.

Speaking to Piers Morgan on TalkTV, Ecclestone said the Ukrainian president "could have stopped it himself". He continued: "If this had happened and I was there and I wanted to protect my people, I'd have got hold of Putin and said, 'listen, we've got to stop this'."

Questioned by Morgan on whether he would have surrendered, Ecclestone replied: "I'd have found a very dignified way to do that because that's probably what will have to happen anyway. "To end this they should talk to each other... about what's happening."

Ecclestone also repeated his criticisms of Mr Zelenskyy, claiming the Ukrainian president was after "publicity".

He added: "He's looking for a bit of publicity, nobody had ever heard of him before.

"Now he's talking to the press and the United States and everybody else.

"And not just talking to them, making sure he's speaking to them when it's being televised and broadcast worldwide."

Earlier today, the former F1 boss defended Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine and said he would "take a bullet" for the Russian president.

Appearing on ITV's Good Morning Britain, Ecclestone described the Russian leader as a "first-class person" and appeared to downplay his invasion of Ukraine.

"What he's doing is something that he believed was the right thing he was doing for Russia," he said.

"Unfortunately, he's like a lot of business people, certainly like me, we make mistakes from time to time.

"I'd still take a bullet for him. I'd rather it didn't hurt, but if it does I'd still take a bullet, because he's a first-class person."

Ecclestone added that the war could have been averted if Ukraine's president made "a big enough effort" to speak to Mr Putin.



https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-news-live-zelenskyy-kremenchuk-putin-12541713

redseason:
I fail to see how their deployments changes anything. Russia will never attack a NATO country and no NATO country will attack Russia first because it will not be able to trigger article 5. Secondly, there will never be a shooting conventional war between Russia and NATO, the best will always be proxy wars.

As for their predictions, it’s all useless. Joe Biden personally twitted that his sanctions will turn the ruble to rubbles. The UK predicted no military gains for a month in thesame week mauripol fell. They predicted Russia has run out of missiles one month into the war, as of today Ukraine says it bears over a thousands missile strikes per hour. They predicted the missiles don’t work, the leveled cities tell a different tale. They predicted a gloom for the Russian economy, but theirs took the major hit. They have been predicting a Ukrainian counter, but cities and towns keep falling. They should stop predicting and start taking stocks of on field events.

Beautiful write-up

Mynd44 Seun Lalasticalala

Brussels — NATO solidarity was on display at a summit meeting this week in Madrid. One after another, officials pledged to stay the course and combat Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

But as this war bleeds into summer and civilians continue to perish in horrific rocket attacks, NATO needs to ask how its strategy might fail. We can imagine some of the ways in which a hypothetical “Red Team” analysis might reveal how Ukraine’s allies could squander their current advantages and lose this conflict.

[s]When you look at the scorecard so far, Putin appears to be failing in his war aims. Russian troops are bogged down in a bloody battle of attrition[/s]. Ukraine, rather than bowing to Moscow’s hegemony, is joining Europe with candidate status to the European Union. A revitalized NATO is bolstering its eastern and northern flanks, with Sweden and Finland joining the alliance. And Russia is on the way to losing its energy markets in Europe and its access to Western technology.


The West is “sending an unmistakable message” to Putin, President Biden asserted in Madrid on Wednesday. The Pentagon plans to send an Army corps headquarters to Poland; more U.S. troops to the Baltic states and Romania; two more Navy destroyers to Spain; and two more squadrons of F-35 fighters to Britain. “We’re stepping up,” Biden said in announcing the expanded U.S. commitment.


What could go wrong with this picture? Plenty, the Red Team would argue.

The biggest challenge is the battlefield itself. U.S. and British intelligence analysts are forecasting a slow, static campaign in the Donbas region, with the Ukrainians able to contain Russian breakouts with newly arriving multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS), additional artillery ammunition and more ground-to-air missiles.

But what if the weapons pipeline is slow or inadequate? The Pentagon has been limiting its deliveries of the MLRS — wanting a “proof of concept” — and has provided only a fraction of what the Ukrainians say they need. Deliveries of some other weapons have been slow, too, sources say — with far fewer on the battlefield than the Ukrainians want.

An example is the small but lethal Switchblade drone, which can attack Russian tanks, ships or command centers. The drone comes in two models, with flight time ranges of 15 to 40 minutes. Back in March, the Biden administration announced plans to send Ukraine the first of what would be 400 of the smaller drones, according to a source familiar with the weapons system. But the source said the Pentagon sent just 10 of the larger models. The Ukrainians have requested several thousand more of each version, but there has been no U.S. response, according to this source. The drones are made by AeroVironment.



Political fatigue is another problem for the United States and its NATO allies. The war in Ukraine is relatively popular now, but complaints will surely grow as U.S. gasoline prices remain high, natural gas supplies dwindle in Europe during a cold winter and voters ask why money isn’t being spent on domestic needs.


At a conference here this week linked to the NATO summit, sponsored by the German Marshall Fund (of which I’m a trustee), I heard calls for victory in Ukraine from attendees from Germany, Poland, Latvia, Romania, Greece, Spain, Britain and the United States. They all argued that the fight is worth the sacrifices. But many also worried that it lacked sufficient political support at home.

The leaders of the Group of Seven discussed two of the trickiest problems at their summit in Elmau, Germany, this week — lowering energy prices and easing food shortages caused by the Russian blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, from which it exports grain. The G-7 leaders have ideas, but few specific plans. These problems can’t wait; the costs could become unbearable for the West.

One way to lose wars is through unwise provocations. Lithuania’s recent decision to block transit to the neighboring Russian enclave of Kaliningrad was meant to enforce E.U. sanctions, but was it sensible? Several European and U.S. officials told me they were dubious, since the move could provoke a Russian counterattack and then a Lithuanian invocation of NATO’s Article 5 mutual-defense pact


NATO is right to avoid direct attacks on Russia that might lead to catastrophic nuclear escalation. [/b]But that doesn’t mean Ukraine shouldn’t fight back against missiles fired from inside Russia. If Putin uses his territory as a sanctuary for launching rockets in an unprovoked, illegal war, the protection of his border dissolves.

[b]If Ukraine can stop Russia on the battlefield, it will have to decide eventually what kind of settlement it wants — since an unconditional surrender by a nuclear-armed Russia is unlikely. But that diplomatic moment is probably a long way off.

This is Ukraine’s war to fight. But NATO needs to plan its strategy as if the alliance’s own credibility and survival were at stake.


Source: https://www washingtonpost com/opinions/2022/06/29/nato-summit-madrid-ukraine-biden-weapons/


Mynd44 Seun Lalasticalala I no Dey expect FP but I go mention una regardless

isokomarine:
American are not scientifically good, they only buy other people brain

America na country of immigrants

shogsman:
Imagine a clueless boy who doesn't even know mauripol is part of Donbass here debating on ukraine

nah ASUU keep dos kids at home, na their papa still Dey feed em….they have zero clue… he would have use google before e comment, but na nairaland “free mode” e Dey use

seunny4lif:
You are late
2011 was it for me, I saw the destruction of Libya and how MSM reported it.
Lost good guys to NATO airstrikes in Libya

Nah President Trump open my eyes, sadly I swallowed the Libya saga too, I remember how I Was happy wen Gaddafi was killed, mumu me…. Those bastards western msm, nah guru for Brainwashing games….

Now I’m free, I don’t believe a thing I read or watch on their channels…. I only use foxnews to read some favorable reports about President Trump….cos others dey paint am as Lucifer as usual, I chop plenty ban on Twitter for defending him then… I’m just happy Musk don buy Twitter, fvck those left retarrrrds….

Information na very powerful tools…

citygarden:
This News won't get to front page, if is the west leading, in twinkle of an eye �. It will hit front page

of course, na anti Russian news dey hit FP recently, too bad for em , reality don catch up with em, they gat nothing meaningful to post recently

I go call una once again

Mynd44 Lalasticalala Suen front page

blazingblender:
When you give people license to anything
This happens
Because they are exercising their rights okwia??
Rip to the beautiful innocent baby girl
Your killers will surely be apprehended

There’s a reason why “Chicago” is nicknamed “Chiraq”

YinkaOlusesi16:
Father lord, let ur peace reign in america.

Are you an American? You never pray for your country finish

Even 5 months old pikin isn’t safe in America….

Mynd44 Seun Lalasticalala

Cecilia Thomas was struck in the head in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood

A five-month-old baby girl died in Chicago after being shot in the head while sitting in a car Friday.

The Chicago Police Department said the deadly shooting happened at approximately 6:45 p.m. in the 7700 block of S. South Shore when the female infant was sitting inside a vehicle.

A second unknown vehicle approached, and an occupant fired shots from inside, police said.

The baby girl, since identified as Cecilia Thomas, was struck in the head and was transported to Comer Children’s Hospital. She was initially listed as in critical condition but later died from her injuries.

A second victim, a 41-year-old male, was traveling in a separate vehicle and self-transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the eye area, police said.


He was initially reported in good condition.

Police said Friday night that there are no offenders in custody, and area detectives are investigating.

Andrew Holmes, a community activist, told FOX 32 Chicago that the suspect vehicle is possibly a red Chrysler and the shooter is possibly an unidentified female. He said he hoped surveillance cameras or witnesses with her information would be able to help identify her further and bring her to justice.

"And it’s supposed to have been a female shooter, and my message to her, it won’t be long because I hope one of these cameras or somebody got her information and knows how she looks," he said.

You just took this baby’s life. This baby was an infant, this baby didn’t do nothing to you," Holmes added. "We understand it may have been two cars shooting back and forth at each other."

"We’re not going to stand for this in this city," Holmes told FOX 32. "We need this city to do what we got to do to put eyes on this young lady, on this driver until both of them have been arrested because this is disgusting, this is a disgrace, this is as low as you can get."

Ja'Mal Green, another community activist who is running for mayor of Chicago, said he is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction of the 5-month-old’s death.


A 5-month-old girl was just shot in the head in Chicago. My heart breaks for this young girl & her family," he said in a statement. "I am offering a $5,000 reward NOW to someone who comes forward to give answers that can lead to an arrest & conviction! $2,500 when they are arrested, $2,500 when convicted. It’s time to get to the root of this violence so we can create a better city for our Children."


This comes as more than a dozen people have been shot in Chicago so far this weekend. Early Friday morning, the 18-year-old brother of Fox News contributor Gianno Caldwell was shot and killed in the 11400 block of S. Vincennes. Chicago police said Sunday that still no arrests have been made in connection to the shooting that also wounded two other people.

https://www foxnews com/us/chicago-5-month-old-baby-girl-dies-being-shot-head-disgrace


Mynd44 Lalasticalala Seun

DOTian:
Russia has boasted its troops have killed “up to 80” Polish fighters in “precision strikes” in eastern Ukraine.

This is as the Russian troops have completely occupied the city of Severodonetsk in the eastern region.

The Russian defence ministry said in a statement on Saturday that “up to 80 Polish mercenaries, 20 armoured combat vehicles and eight Grad multiple rocket launchers were destroyed in precision strikes on the Megatex zinc factory in Konstantinovka.”

In another development, Russia has said it cannot have Polish flag in its monuments.

The President Vladimir Putin-led government said this while removing Polish flag from Soviet massacre memorial, which commemorates the thousands of Poles killed by the Soviet Union.

This is amid heightened tensions between Russia and Poland over the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The mayor of Smolensk city, Andrei Borisov confirmed the removal of the flag from the Katyn memorial in western Russia.

“There cannot be Polish flags on Russian monuments. Even less so after the frankly anti-Russian comments by Polish political leaders,” Borisov said on social media platform, VKontakte.

He backed the Russian Ministry of Culture for removing the flag, insisting the ministry “made the right decision by removing the Polish flag. Katyn is a Russian memorial.”


LINK: https://dailypost.ng/2022/06/26/war-russia-kills-80-polish-soldiers-removes-flag-from-katyn/


Lalasticlala
Over to you

lol, you no go smell front page, but if na the other way round, your FP na banker …

I don’t remember the last time I go church

God1000:
Poor Russia, Putin is trying so hard to save face

Do you have TV at home

You’re steadily sounding like some who lives in a refugee camp…. Abi na free mode nairaland you Dey use, you can’t access other websites

Ok

A commander of an elite unit of Ukrainian marines has told Sky News the majority of his best trained troops have been injured or killed.

Speaking near the frontline, south of the city of Severodonetsk, company commander Oleksandr said a core of experienced soldiers who had been fighting together since 2018 have been lost.

"My unit was 100% made up of professional soldiers who have a lot of experience. Now, 80% are incapacitated from serious injuries or death," he says.
In comments which will alarm those backing Ukraine in its four-month long war with Russia, he says he does not know how long his unit can sustain such losses.

"I don't even know how to answer this question," Oleksandr says.

"It's hard. It's hard but we have no choice."
Read John Spark's full eyewitness report below...

Source: Skynews

God1000:
Russia will be wiped out completely, you don't threaten a nuclear armed country no matter how small it is

in your wildest dreams….

A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that London will be the first city to be bombed in the event of another world war.

Speaking on Russia's Channel 1 television, Andrey Gurulyov, a State Duma politician, said the UK capital would be hit first if the blockade of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad led to war.

"We'll destroy the entire group of enemy's space satellites during the first air operation," he said.

"No-one will care if they are American or British, we would see them all as NATO.

"Second, we'll mitigate the entire system of anti-missile defence, everywhere and 100%.

"Third, we certainly won't start from Warsaw, Paris or Berlin.

"The first to be hit will be London.

"It's crystal clear that the threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons."

Source : Skynews

Sleepy Joe

I no receive alert oooo

Sleekfingers:
Pervert

ni baba e