🌁 🇺🇸 San Francisco leaders are expressing concern that Whole Foods' exit from the city as a result of 'high theft' and 'hostile transgender customers' will make it extremely difficult for residents to steal healthy food.

https://sfstandard.com/business/downtown-san-francisco-whole-foods-market-closing/

A truck carrying 40,000 pounds of toxic soil from the East Palestine train derailment site was involved in a crash and overturned in Ohio's Columbiana County

🚛 🇺🇸 Truck hauling contaminated soil from East Palestine derailment clean-up site crashes

Officials said the truck was hauling 40,000 pounds of contaminated soil from the clean-up site. About 20,000 pounds of soil spilled onto the road and the berm.

"According to the Ohio EPA, the spill was contained and not a threat to nearby waterways," the release said. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/contaminated-soil-east-palestine-derailment-clean-up-site-truck-crash/

🐦 🇺🇸 Elon Musk on the revelation that January 6th may have had at least 40 federal agents embedded within the crowd in the Capitol:
"The court proceedings will hopefully illuminate this matter"

📎 Elon Musk

🇦🇺 🇸🇪 Austal to Develop Hydrogen-Powered High-Speed Catamaran for Sweden’s Gotland

Australian shipbuilder Austal has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Sweden’s Gotland Company to develop the design of Gotland’s upcoming high-speed catamaran, the “Gotland Horizon X”.

The 130-meter-long catamaran will be able to operate on fossil-free fuels, including hydrogen, and will transport 1,650 passengers and 450 vehicles at speeds of up to 35 knots between the Swedish mainland and the island of Gotland.

https://gcaptain.com/austal-to-develop-hydrogen-powered-high-speed-catamaran-for-swedens-gotland/

👥 🤳 Google, Twitter, Meta and TikTok’s executive ranks have included over 200 former employees of surveillance government agencies, creating an employment pipeline between the government and Big Tech companies, a Daily Caller investigation found.

🔎 “Across Silicon Valley, Big Tech firms have increasingly hired individuals with affiliations to the U.S. intelligence community. It is alarming to see former officials from agencies like the CIA and FBI embed themselves within these corporations, as it raises questions about their potential influence on corporate policies and business practices,” Jake Denton, a research associate in the The Heritage Foundation’s Tech Policy Center, told the Daily Caller.

🐦 The majority of the former FBI, DOJ, CIA or DHS executives employed by Twitter — 26 employees — left the company in 2022 or 2023, around the time Elon Musk took over as CEO

⚡️ “There has been an enormous spike in Big Tech hiring of former FBI employees beginning in 2018. I think this is important because it was around this time we saw a lot of the censorship of conservative accounts,” FBI whistleblower Steve Friend, who left the bureau after seeing a divergence from the FBI’s usual practices in the Jan. 6 investigations, told the Daily Caller.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/09/google-twitter-meta-tiktok-crawling-hundreds-former-feds/

🇺🇸 🤝 🇨🇳 Top Treasury Official Says US Not Seeking China Decoupling

The US is not seeking to decouple its economy from China or limit the country’s growth, the Treasury’s top international official said on Monday.

The worsening relations have weighed on the global economic outlook, the International Monetary Fund warned last week. The fund said tensions between the US and China drive geopolitical fragmentation and risk damaging the global economy, with foreign direct investment and other capital flows increasingly being channeled toward aligned blocs of countries.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-10/top-treasury-official-says-us-not-seeking-decoupling-from-china

https://archive.ph/EphWc