Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called Monday for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a Gaza truce deal immediately, as he met top US officials in Washington. “I believe that any political interests should be set aside for this. This is way more important,” Lapid told reporters outside the State Department after meeting Secretary of […]
US President Joe Biden on Monday reiterated his firm opposition to political violence, hours after Donald Trump blamed him and Vice President Kamala Harris for rhetoric the Republican said led to an apparent second attempt on his life. “I’ve always condemned political violence. I always will,” Biden said in Philadelphia, stressing that Americans resolve their […]
The US federal government is the nation’s largest landlord and still owns 28 percent of the land in the US. The time has come for large-scale privatization.
“Attention Seeking” EU Commissioner Thierry Breton Resigns After Musk-Trump Censorship Dust-Up
One month after the EU disavowed comments by commissioner Thierry Breton after he threatened to punish Elon Musk’s X platform for a lack of censorship, he’s out…
In a Monday letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Breton explains that despite French President Emmanuel Macron designating him France’s official candidate to the College of Commissioners, “you” (von der Leyen) “asked France to withdraw my name – for personal reasons that in no instance you have discussed directly with me.”
In short, you can’t fire me, I quit!
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my colleagues in the College, Commission services, MEPs, Member States, and my team.
Together, we have worked tirelessly to advance an ambitious EU agenda.
Breton was roundly chastised by the EU for suggesting that he would punish X if they don’t immediately crack down on “content that promotes hatred, disorder, incitement to violence, or certain instances of disinformation,” on the same day that Elon Musk and Donald Trump had an unfiltered discussion on the platform.
Brussels accused Breton of going roguewith the letter to Musk – saying he never sought approval from European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to send the letter.
“The timing and the wording of the letter were neither co-ordinated or agreed with the president nor with the [commissioners],” the Commission said in an August statement reported by the Financial Times.
“Thierry has his own mind and way of working and thinking,” said one EU official who asked not to be named.
Politico Europealso reported that four separate EU officials said that Breton’s threat to Musk caught many off guard within the Commission.
“The EU is not in the business of electoral interference,” said one of those officials. “DSA implementation is too important to be misused by an attention-seeking politician in search of his next big job.”
S&P Futures are slightly lower this morning. Big week ahead for Central Bank meetings from the FOMC, BOE & the BOJ. Markets are expecting a dovish narrative from the Fed on Wednesday. CRM’s Dreamforce conference starts tomorrow. MSFT is expected to speak today at 11:00 on a Copilot announcement. A Federal appeal court will consider whether the U.S. government has the rights to force TikTok to sever ties with China. In Europe, markets are displaying muted losses, healthcare and luxury stocks are positive. and oil prices higher but off the morning highs. China demand remains underwhelming.
…STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS SPREADING ONSHORE ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA…
As of 8:00 AM EDT Mon Sep 16
the center of Eight was located near 32.7, -78.2
with movement NW at 3 mph.
The minimum central pressure was 1005 mb
with maximum sustained winds of about 50 mph.
The standard belief is that slavery was about obtaining “cheap labor,“ yet nothing could be further from the truth. Slavery comes with high opportunity costs, which is why American slave owners depended upon several government regulations to subsidize their “peculiar institution.”