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To: ggersh who wrote (186787)	4/22/2022 3:11:59 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218059

Since you are already brace-braced, i pass along a note here below, and comment that ‘and i thought the New England area was a pretty reasonable place, unless of course i am mistaken and Rhode Island is not considered to be part of New England zerohedge.com Rhode Island: Mandatory Vax or Pay Double Your Income Tax Via Sovereign Man Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Rhode Island: Mandatory Vax or Pay Double Your Income Tax A bill introduced in the Rhode Island legislature would require every eligible person who resides, works, or pays taxes in the state to take a COVID-19 vaccine. Anyone who refuses will be fined $50 per month, AND “shall owe twice the amount of personal income taxes as would otherwise be assessed.” The state will DOUBLE your taxes if you don’t comply. This also applies to parents who refuse to inject their kids. Any medical exemption requires the signature of three different doctors, with each document notarized. But even medical exemptions can be thrown out if a government bureaucrat decides those doctors are wrong. How is this still a thing?? Click here to read the full bill. Woke Activists Accuse Black Man of Dressing in Black Face A Parent Teacher Association for the Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) in Arizona recently held a 1970s-themed fundraiser event. After seeing photos of the event, however, a member of the SUSD Equity and Inclusion Committee howled that the event was racist. Why? Because the committee member accused the DJ of wearing black face. The only problem: the DJ was not wearing skin darkening make-up. He is actually black. Oops! Fortunately the true facts came to light, and everyone was informed that the black DJ was not wearing black face. So you’d think that the Equity and Inclusion committee member would simply apologize, or admit that he is a deranged fanatic who clearly needs some anger management therapy. Nope. Instead he doubled-down on his belief that the DJ had darkened his skin tone. Ironically, this lunatic holds a PhD and teaches at Arizona State University, and he claims to specialize in “anti-bias training.” Clearly another trustworthy expert. Click here to read the full story. BLM leader says tax requirements are “triggering” and “deeply unsafe” We recently talked about Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter who spent $6 million of donations on a California mansion. But that wasn’t even the whole story— the organization has also failed to make numerous financial filings required of non-profit charity organizations. Now Cullors says that it is “triggering” to hear the number “990”, which refers to the IRS form number that the organization failed to file. “This doesn’t seem safe for us, this 990 structure — this non-profit system structure,” Cullors continued. “This is, like, deeply unsafe. This is being literally weaponized against us, against the people we work with.” It almost sounds like she is an advocate for financial privacy and less government intrusion into personal financial affairs… which I agree with! Except, like all the corrupt bosses in the political class, Patrisse Cullors believes that only SHE should be exempt from these “deeply unsafe” disclosure rules. The rest of us commoners should still have to file, because apparently we aren’t triggered. Click here to watch the full interview. Biden Finishes Speech, Shakes Hands With Thin Air After delivering a recent speech in North Carolina, President Biden turns to his right, and with a spark in his eye, extends his arm to shake a hand. The problem was that no one was there to shake back. So as John Philip Sousa’s The Stars and Stripes Forever plays farcically in the background, the leader of the free world shakes hands with thin air. Biden then turns his back to the audience, and wanders the stage looking around confused. Click here to watch the video. Wimbledon Bans Russian Tennis Players The All England Club which hosts the Wimbledon tennis championship has banned Russian and Belorussian players from this year’s competition. The organization said “it is our responsibility to play our part… to limit Russia’s global influence through the strongest means possible.” Because a guy whacking a ball on a grassy court apparently gives Putin more influence? The chairman of the committee recognized that “this is hard on the individuals affected,” and that “they will suffer for the actions of the leaders of the Russian regime.” So, we acknowledge that we’re making innocent people suffer. Just like Putin. But we’re going to do it anyhow. Click here to read the full statement. Swedish Musicians Banned for Playing Russian Instruments A Swedish folk band was ready to help raise money playing a Ukraine benefit concert in the Swedish city Uppsala. But the organizers of the event uninvited the band after apparently receiving complaints that the members play a Russian instrument called the balalaika. One of the band members told a Swedish broadcaster, “People wrote that the balalaika is a symbol for Russia and to play for Ukraine on a balalaika is a sacrilege. They compared it to a swastika.” So the running tally of pro-Russia symbols now includes the balalaika, the letter Z, and certain breeds of cats. Are you keeping track? Click here to read the full story. New Yorker Earned $125,000 Ratting Out Fellow Citizens According to a 2019 New York City ordinance, commercial vehicles can be fined $350 for idling with the engine running for more than three minutes. And New Yorkers who report these incidents are allowed to keep 25% of the fine. That’s $87.50 per violation in your pocket for ratting out these criminal masterminds. Naturally, with the supply chain as dysfunctional as it has been, plenty of short-handed drivers have been keeping their engines idling for slightly longer than the critical 3 minutes. But that doesn’t matter in New York City, where the government has issued millions of dollars in fines, and one brave citizen has pocketed $125,000 in commission. I’ll bet he’s an Amazon Prime member. Click here to read the full story. Contributor posts published on Zero Hedge do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Zero Hedge, and are not selected, edited or screened by Zero Hedge editors. Sent from my iPad

To: ggersh who wrote (186787)	4/22/2022 3:49:43 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218059

Let’s see if the trouble-maker Wang Xicong gets what might be coming … since it is open season on anything to do with real estate and developers. In the case of China China China, such ‘what’s coming’ would be a common-prosperity greater-social-good, whereas in USA such would be alarming. Sort of like ghostly photons, simultaneous true / false, depending on where, when and how observed. bloomberg.com Social-Media Scandal Costs Top Chinese Scientist $2 Billion Yiling sank after the son of a billionaire questioned its drug Wealth of founder and his family has dropped below $4 billion Venus Feng April 23, 2022, 2:00 AM GMT+8 Lianhua Qingwen capsules.Source: Future Publishing/Getty ImagesWu Yiling is one of China’s highest ranked scientists. With a fortune that neared $6 billion, he was also part of the world’s 500 richest people. That was until last week, when the son of another Chinese billionaire sparked debate online with a post doubting the efficacy of Wu’s drug used to treat Covid-19. The herbal remedy, Lianhua Qingwen, is one of threetraditional treatments the central government has recommended and was sent to households in Shanghai and Hong Kong during the latest omicron wave. After a meteoric rise in Wu’s Shijiazhuang Yiling Pharmaceutical Co., the warning by Wang Sicong sent its shares tanking by the maximum 10% limit for two consecutive days. The slide then continued, taking the stock for its worst weekly plunge ever and down 35% from an April 11 peak. The wealth of Wu and his family has dropped $2 billion to below $4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. “Now Yiling is facing a test to restore its market recognition,” said Kenny Ng, a strategist at Everbright Securities International in Hong Kong. “In the short term, demand for Lianhua Qingwen should still be strong as the pandemic in mainland China is not yet eased, but in the long term, investors need to rethink whether its revenue can maintain decent growth as Covid subsides around the world.” Debate over the efficacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine -- or TCM -- has intensified in recent weeks as the nation fights its worst outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. While the government has been promoting the remedies, they haven’t received the nod from regulators with global credibility, and the World Health Organization hasn’t approved or recommended the use of Lianhua Qingwen to treat Covid-19. Also read: China Tries to Win Global Acceptance for Traditional Covid Cures The plunge in Yiling’s shares started on April 15, after Wang, the son of property billionaire Wang Jianlin, shared a video on Weibo questioning whether the WHO had ever recommended Lianhua Qingwen as a coronavirus remedy. That came after he called on the Twitter-like platform for China’s securities watchdog to investigate Yiling. Both posts were later deleted, and on Tuesday Weibo banned Wang because his account “violated related laws and regulations,” according to a notice on his personal page. The following day, Yiling vowed to take legal action against defamatory statements and reiterated its Lianhua Qingwen has some “rare” adverse effects such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain. A representative for Yiling declined to comment. Wu, the son of a doctor in the northern Hebei province, became interested in medicine when he was a teenager. The 72-year-old studied the traditional Chinese practice and received his master’s degree from the Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine in 1982. He then worked as a doctor before founding Yiling in 1992. The company, which produces treatments to help with conditions including colds, cardiovascular diseases, tumors and diabetes, listed on the Shenzhen exchange in 2011. Lianhua Qingwen came shortly after the outbreak of SARS, and in 2003 the nation’s drug regulator approved it to fight the virus. That same year, Wu was elected as a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a top national government advisory body. Then in 2009, he joined the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the highest rank a scientist can achieve in China. While some TCM treatments have several producers, Yiling is the sole maker of Lianhua Qingwen. China has recognized the capsules -- a mixture of honeysuckle, rhubarb root, sweet wormwood herb and other natural ingredients -- as an effective way to reduce mild Covid-19 symptoms such as fever and sore throat. Singapore, which last year warned the remedy wasn’t approved to treat the coronavirus, is now doing a trial. The pandemic has been a clear win for Yiling. Sales jumped 51% in 2020 and rose to 10.4 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) in the first three quarters of last year -- already 32% higher than for all of 2020. That year, Lianhua Qingwen accounted for one-third of the traditional drugs used to treat flu-like symptoms in China’s public hospitals, while Yiling’s respiratory remedies made up almost half of its revenue, according to the latest available annual report. In a push to elevate Chinese innovations, President Xi Jinping’s government has been promoting TCM as a Covid-19 treatment to allies worldwide. It’s sent specialists to Cambodia and supported clinical trials in Pakistan, while Russia has been selling Lianhua Qingwen since 2020. The remedy is now available in more than 20 countries. The rise of Lianhua Qingwen has been a boon for Wu and his two children, who together own 55% of Yiling. Shares of the company, the only listed TCM maker with a treatment recommended for Covid-19, have almost tripled in the past three years, compared with losses for Chinese stock indexes. But questions and comments are now inundating the page of Yiling’s investor-relations platform, urging the company to further clarify market concerns and provide compensation. “We have enough of your company’s empty talks,” wrote one investor who wasn’t identified other than with the auto-generated name cninfo943685. “Please show more solid clinical-trial data and the latest sales results to restore market confidence.” — With assistance by Dong Lyu, Jane Zhang, and Pei Yi Mak Sent from my iPad