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_______ Note: We hope you enjoy your last issue of SNS for 2018, and we look forward to rejoining you after the holidays! - Ed.
October 8-11, 2019 Expires Jan. 1st, 2019 Through January 1st, we're giving all SNS subscribers the chance to register for Future in Review 2019 for just $3900. That's $2000 off the retail price. At the turn of the year, that price will jump to $4500, so if you plan to join us in La Jolla, this is the best price you'll get. We look forward to returning to our FiRe roots on the beautiful California coast, October 8-11, 2019, at The Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla.
Note re: Our Recent Special Alert: Last week we sent out a Special Alert asking members to write to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee requesting that he adopt his Task Force's recommendation for a 3- to 5-year suspension of commercial whale watching of the endangered Southern Resident orcas of Puget Sound. You responded in large numbers, and a few days later, the measure was accepted. The governor has now recommended a 3-year moratorium, starting in 2019. Thank you to all of our members who stepped up. We had been told that this was at risk, and it would seem that your letters made a real difference. - mra
"China Should Thank Trump" by Scott Foster "As repeatedly argued in this space, in many ways, the Chinese should truly thank Trump for what he is doing towards the country. Without his actions, the Chinese government would not have scaled down its over-the-top propaganda drive about how amazing China has become, nor would it have been forced to reflect on its own limits and pitfalls. Nor, more pertinently for Chinese consumers, would China have been so forthright in lowering or even removing tariffs on imports including consumer goods and drugs, which it has done three times in the past year or so. "This is all about China itself, which direction it will take, and what China should do to counter the headwinds it faces." - From "China Should Thank Trump and Stop Using Trade War Excuse for Confused Economic Signals," by Wang Xiangwei, former editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post, who is now the newspaper's editorial advisor in Beijing (South China Morning Post, 10/28/2018)
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