Peak Wokeness

The tide has turned on wokeness. Here's your daily news digest for 14 March 2023.

Peak Wokeness
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Has Wokeness Peaked?
“The jury is still out in terms of whether the Great Awokening is winding down,”

Australia

Can Australia curb its killer cats?
Free-roaming felines kill billions of native animals and pose a huge threat to endangered species.
Is Australia up to the Aukus challenge? | The Spectator Australia
One hundred miles or so south of Sydney, lies tranquil Jervis Bay. On its shores, largely reclaimed by the bush, are the abandoned foundations of a large nuclear power station. When it was built in…
Does Australia need an Indigenous voice to Parliament? - The Centre for Independent Studies
CIS welcomes Anthony McAvoy, Shireen Morris, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine for a debate on the Voice to Parliament.

International

Xi Jinping says China’s military should become a ‘Great Wall of Steel’
Speaking to the National Peoples’ Congress, the president says China must ensure its military can safeguard the country’s sovereignty, security and developmental interests, as their new premier takes a swipe at the US.
Hundreds of Illegal Immigrants Attempt to Storm Border at Texan Port of Entry
Border patrol agents were forced to erect temporary barricades at a port of entry along the southern U.S.…
Moscow admits it ‘doesn’t know’ who attacked Nord Stream
Top Russian security official Nikolay Patrushev mocked the idea that a private group could have blown up the Nord Stream pipelines

Business, Finance & Investment

A Bank Failure Jolts Markets, Sending Stocks Down Sharply
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank added to worries about the economy. The S&P 500 suffered its sharpest weekly decline of the year.
The Top 5 Money Reasons to Buy An Online Business
Online businesses are great financial assets to own. Because they’re digital, you can run them from anywhere in the world or you can have employees from any country running the business for you. When built well, they can also be almost-passive sources of income. And, because of their simplicity and…
US Fed announces $25B in funding to backstop banks
The Federal Reserve’s $25 billion Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) will offer up to one year loans to certain banks.

Culture

Michelle Obama Is Not Coming to Save the Democrats
Michelle Obama Is Not Coming to Save the Democrats. By Jane Guenther Parent. My favorite new conspiracy theory goes like this: the Democrats know they are in big trouble for 2024. They have this ad…
If We’re Doing Reparations, Here’s Who Should Pay Them
With the growing push to pass some type of reparations legislation, it becomes increasingly necessary to lay the foundation for both the support for and opposition to such a move. Florida state senator Blaise Ingoglia introduced S.B. 1248,
Ten terrible years of Pope Francis
The church has lost all its moral authority

Crypto & Blockchain

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Circle Scrambles to Right USDC After Signature Bank Failure
Circle Internet Financial is racing to find new banking partners for its USDC stablecoin.
Bitcoin And Crypto This Week: These Events Will Be Crucial
The Bitcoin and crypto markets are once again facing an extremely important week, which will be shaped not only by macro data, but also by the brewing US

Postscript

Georgian Protests are Deja Vu All Over Again
Good old Lavrov. They don’t call him “Captain Obvious” for nothing. RT: The protests that have gripped Georgia over the past week closely resemble the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed on Friday. Backed by external powers, the protests are just another plot…

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