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Reading the Globe #007: Indonesia ties, Cancelling Pelayo, Theranos on trial, Skyrocketing South Korean real estate
The United States and Indonesia are building a formidable alliance, driven largely by the two nations’ shared antipathy toward the Chinese government’s designs on the South China Sea and more general concerns about China’s role in the region. An August 3 Reuters report detailed the marked success of Tuesday’s meeting in Washington between U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi. The two officials reportedly spoke at length about a strategic partnership designed to counteract China’s longstanding territorial ambitions in the waterways north and east of Indonesia and also to continue a joint response to the Covid-19 crisis. In the last year and a half, the U.S. has emerged as one of Indonesia’s most generous benefactors in the fight against Covid, donating eight million vaccine doses to the Asian nation.
Horror author Cynthia Pelayo is the latest in the seemingly endless parade of victims of cancel culture. As Rachel Llewellyn has reported in an article on the website Book and Film Globe on August 2, Pelayo planned to follow up her hit police procedural Children of Chicago with an anthology of writings entitled Cops vs. Monsters. In an age when so many progressives loathe and seek to disrupt and defund the police, that’s a rather unfortunate title. To the woke mob, cops are monsters. Not some of them, but all of them. The very people who never tire of warning others about the evils of stereotyping and generalizations joyously engage in the same and are quick to lash out at anyone seen as sympathetic to those who don uniforms and badges and put their lives on the line to protect the public. Online rage against Pelayo’s editorship of Cops vs. Monsters led her to abandon the project in haste and cancel her online accounts.
As the trial of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes looks set finally get underway, with July selection scheduled for the end of August, speculation abounds about what strategies the prosecution and the defense will put to use. Elizabeth Holmes is the defendant who, as a nineteen-year-old Stanford dropout, launched Theranos back in 2003 with extravagant claims about her company’s potential to revolutionize the medical and startup fields. And more...
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The United States and Indonesia are building a formidable alliance, driven largely by the two nations’ shared antipathy toward the Chinese government’s designs on the South China Sea and more general concerns about China’s role in the region. An August 3 Reuters report detailed the marked success of Tuesday’s meeting in Washington between U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi. The two officials reportedly spoke at length about a strategic partnership designed to counteract China’s longstanding territorial ambitions in the waterways north and east of Indonesia and also to continue a joint response to the Covid-19 crisis. In the last year and a half, the U.S. has emerged as one of Indonesia’s most generous benefactors in the fight against Covid, donating eight million vaccine doses to the Asian nation.
Horror author Cynthia Pelayo is the latest in the seemingly endless parade of victims of cancel culture. As Rachel Llewellyn has reported in an article on the website Book and Film Globe on August 2, Pelayo planned to follow up her hit police procedural Children of Chicago with an anthology of writings entitled Cops vs. Monsters. In an age when so many progressives loathe and seek to disrupt and defund the police, that’s a rather unfortunate title. To the woke mob, cops are monsters. Not some of them, but all of them. The very people who never tire of warning others about the evils of stereotyping and generalizations joyously engage in the same and are quick to lash out at anyone seen as sympathetic to those who don uniforms and badges and put their lives on the line to protect the public. Online rage against Pelayo’s editorship of Cops vs. Monsters led her to abandon the project in haste and cancel her online accounts.
As the trial of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes looks set finally get underway, with July selection scheduled for the end of August, speculation abounds about what strategies the prosecution and the defense will put to use. Elizabeth Holmes is the defendant who, as a nineteen-year-old Stanford dropout, launched Theranos back in 2003 with extravagant claims about her company’s potential to revolutionize the medical and startup fields. And more...