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Britain sacrifices steel industry to curry favour with China

AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD / DAILY TELEGRAPH

LONDON, March 31 – Britain’s special relationship with China is becoming more expensive by the day. It now threatens to destroy the British steel industry, a foundation pillar of our manufacturing economy.

Britain is not alone. Most of Europe’s steel foundries are heading for annihilation under the current EU trade regime, with unthinkable consequences through the network of European and British supply chains.

It is hard to pin down the exact moment when George Osborne’s love affair with China turned into a Faustian Pact. Continue Reading →

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Fidel Castro lashes out at Obama after Cuba visit

Kejal Vya / Wall Street Journal

HAVANA, MARCH 28 – Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro slammed President Barack Obama’s recent visit to the Caribbean island, warning his countrymen to beware of Washington’s sweet talk as both nations embark on a long and uncertain path toward improved relations.In a long column published Monday in Granma, the newspaper of the Cuban communist party, the elder Mr. Castro decried Mr. Obama’s call to set aside the countries’ decades of animosity and look to a common future as neighbors. “One assumes that each of us runs the risk of a heart attack hearing these words from a U.S. president,” Mr. Castro wrote, outlining a long list of grievances including the failed U.S.-backed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. “We don’t need the empire to gift us anything,” he added, touting his economically crippled country’s independence from foreign powers. Continue Reading →

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Hillary Clinton urges voters to think of Supreme Court pick

Molly Beck / Wisconsin State Journal

MADISON, MARCH 28 – Hillary Clinton on Monday urged a small crowd at UW-Madison to consider future rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court when casting a ballot in Tuesday’s presidential primary and in November’s general election.

Clinton, the former secretary of state and current front-runner in the race to become the Democratic presidential nominee, said to a group of invited guests at the Gordon Dining and Event Center that the next president is likely to appoint more than one justice to the nation’s highest court and warned of the impact of a Republican candidate making those choices.

“This election has ripped away the curtain and made it absolutely clear to everyone how essential the Supreme Court is,” Clinton said. “I will keep talking about it and advocating and calling on the Senate to do its job and I hope there will be a great chorus of voices across our land that will do the same.

“It’s our Constitution, it’s our court and it’s our future,” said Clinton, who stopped Monday in Madison and Milwaukee, kicking off a two-day tour of Wisconsin in advance of its April 5 primary. Continue Reading →

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Beware the toxic rule following co-worker, says Harvard study

Every workplace has them. The colleague who bad-mouths you behind your back at the water cooler. The boss who takes credit for everyone else’s ideas. The sexist jerk people actively avoid by taking circuitous routes to the printer and lying about their happy hour plans.

These employees are the bane of American enterprise and they’re everywhere. Not only are they detrimental to a company’s morale, they are extremely costly to its bottom line and can do far more harm to an organization than outliers at the other extreme — the superstar employees — do good. But who are these people exactly? And how are they different from the rest of us? Continue Reading →

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Harry S Truman President Harry Truman, in 1945. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

U.S.leadership matters today, just as it did after World War II

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What would the world look like today if Harry Truman or Dwight Eisenhower had shared the foreign policy inclinations of Barack Obama or, far more dangerous, Donald Trump? Obama has presided over an experiment in withdrawal from the Middle East, a region that the United States had long considered vital. Trump would accelerate the withdrawal, and make it global, because “we’re a poor country now,” as he told The Post’s editorial board last week. Continue Reading →

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