https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691/

https://www.amazon.com/False-Alarm-Climate-Change-Trillions/dp/1541647467/

The governor of California is walking with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the governor’s dog, then bites the governor. The governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie Bambi and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural. He calls animal control. Animal control captures the coyote and bills the state $200 for testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it. He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the state $200 for testing it for diseases. The governor goes to the hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and getting his bite wound bandaged.

The running trail gets shut down for six months while the California Fish and Game Department conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals. The governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a ‘coyote awareness program’ for residents of the area. The Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world. The governor’s security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The state spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training, re: the nature of coyotes. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) protests the coyote’s relocation and files a $5 million suit against the state.

The governor of Texas is wheeling along with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and tries to attack him and his dog. The governor shoots the coyote with his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging.

The governor spent 50 cents on a .380-caliber, hollow-point cartridge. Buzzards ate the dead coyote.

And that, my friends, is why California is flat broke and Texas is not.

The South China Morning Post reports, citing Caixin, that HSMC employees received an offer to quit their jobs through the WeChat app. The message contained information that HSMC had no plans to reopen and release products. The initiators of the layoffs did not mention any other explanations, and the employees were not offered any material compensation. As a result, about 240 people are expected to lose their jobs.

When the local authorities acted as one of HSMC's investors in November 2017, they expected to offer jobs to 50 thousand employees over time, and annually produce products worth up to $9.25 billion. A couple of years later, the plant construction project faced financial and legal problems - site the land on which the construction was carried out was arrested by a court decision. The reason was the delay in financing, which led to the bankruptcy of the main contractor.

In 2019, HSMC managed to attract Chiang Shang-yi to the post of CEO, who managed to work not only in SMIC, but also as vice president of the Taiwanese company TSMC. By the summer of 2020, he left HSMC, officially citing personal motives, but privately citing the dire state of affairs at the company. HSMC even has one ASML lithographic scanner at its disposal, which allows it to work with 7-nm lithography, but it will most likely be sold to some of its competitors to cover the resulting debts.