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Hi Natasha, if the example of having a single apple in your luggage by mistake is your own, as an resident of Australia you should be aware of the following;In 1999, a population of painted apple moth was discovered in West Auckland. It was found on nearly 100 different species of plants. It cost $65 million to eradicate this pest. We declared it successfully eradicated in 2006 and don't want it back.This is an Australian species which would ruin NZs apple exports.Likewise the formerly pristine Fiordland sounds now have an invasive seaweed species, brought in on fouled boat hulls. They don't want any more.
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"Investors are not just looking to invest in science projects but in real companies.”Says it all doesn't it.Decades and decades if tax-payer funded research and development, failure and trying again, university funding, subsidizing massively the earlier commercial efforts ....So that private funds can now, finally, come in and take 25 percent off the top as profit -now that tax-payers have invested billions, taken the highest risks with our money, to bring those costs down.And all we ask is that they pay their taxes - the only ROI we'll get from our investments. Not paying their share of taxes is their stealing our investment returns. But they call taxes a "burden" and lobby for reducing their taxes even further, they hide their income and profits etc.This VC funded "opportunity" is just another free ride on tax payers' backs.This is farce.
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Kevin K NOT SO, Kevin. If what you say were true, there would have been NO POINT in EMT presence! I'm a retired BSN, CCRN nurse in Maryland. EMT could have taken O2 sats and provided oxygen prn, and BPR readings serially to establish deterioration in status; they could have done serial Neuro Checks to establish deterioration in status; repeated listening to lungs sounds; maintained open airway from blood pouring from mouth, and provided optimal positioning, etc. They could have provided a blanket for warmth: Its January 7 at night in Memphis, TN, and you have a severely injured man ON THE GROUND! They should have called in immediately for EMS on an emergency basis! If all they can do is take instructions from police who are UNTRAINED in medics, then SHAME on AMERICA!
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Karen, my mom was like this too. She died suddenly at age 59. At her memorial service, the funeral home had to keep opening the folding walls and bring in chairs, to expand the space for the unexpected number of mourners. For instance, the staff of our neighborhood grocery store all came. 32 then, now 67, the memory of my open hearted mom continues to inspire me to be my best self.
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Kickstart affordable housing: minimum 800sq ft for 1bdr and +200sq ft for each additional room minimum. $18/year/sq. ft. lease maximum and the units immediately join rent stabilization program. Program covers Manhattan and Brooklyn initially.Every sq. ft. built this way releases 4sq ft. of vouchers to build new market-rate housing. Every new project absolutely requires these vouchers - or your project cannot be approved. Period. These vouchers may be sold on open market and are kept track of centrally by the city, which takes a 10% sales fee for each transfer (avoid churn; self-fund the program). Cheaters have their units immediately converted to $18/sq. ft./year starting rent stabilized units and join the program at a penalty rate of 2:1 (ie: if you cheat and build an extra 100,000 sq. feet of market rate units without the proper vouchers, 200,000 sq. ft. of your units are permanently converted to stabilized.).
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They can spend, what, $60 billion to produce a money-losing half-baked SecondLife knockoff, which is so bad that even their own employees don't use it... but can't bankroll something that would actually help people get around in the real world?
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Secretary Blinken’s visit is a charade, as anyone following the Israel/Palestine situation knows. The United States supplies Israel with billions for U.S. weaponry and technology to control and illegally occupy Palestinian land; the U.S. allows contributions to Israeli settlements by U.S. citizens to be considered for tax deductions; the U.S. could have insisted that Israel be satisfied with 78 percent of historic Palestine decades ago, but instead continues to support a brutal occupation and the expansion of ethnically-exclusive settlements on Palestinian land.
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Christians believe that God has a Son. God closed off Heaven when Adam ate thee forbidden apple after tempting by a talking snake. God then sent his Son down to Earth, born to a Virgin. God decided he would forgive Adam's sin, and open Heaven, BUT ONLY IF MEN KILLED HIS SON BY NAILING HIM TO A CROSS. His son rose from the dead, went back to Heaven, and will come again at the end of the world to deliver a terrifying judgment.This obviously is pure mythology, and people should not take seriously anyone who peddles this mythology as Truth.
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Inflation traumatizes people.1970's and 1980's inflation caused enormous scarring to people that left a mark for decades.Inflation is a powerful economic bogeyman; all you have to do is say 'inflation' and people will conclude that the sky is falling regardless of the facts on the ground.We are slowly stabilizing inflation, but it's too soon after the inflation car crash for people to feel secure....and rising gas prices just pour fresh salt in the open wounds.Many people - not all - had their wages increased to counter inflation.And the job market remains healthy.Our 3.5% unemployment rate is a 50 year low.And "a majority of Americans rate their own financial situation positively" but 75% say the economy is poor.Welcome to the United States of Cognitive Dissonance.....where reality, facts, evidence and experience prefer to take a consistent back seat to perception, psychological ops, media marketing and the nattering nabobs of negativity.With one half of the political ecosystem dedicated to preaching that 'the sky is falling', many will actually believe the sky is falling in spite of reality.Remember, much of this country was bamboozled into thinking Iraq had something to with 9/11 and that universal healthcare somehow was a Death Panel.Republicans know that if you say 'Up Is Down' and 'Down Is Up' enough times, 40% of the nation will believe you.But for the reality based community, the economy keeps chugging right along.Hang in there.
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Expatre Somehow I doubt that a $3 billion Irish gas station company will be motivated to really plug the Thruway into the local food economy. I am anticipating weird, expensive airport-food.
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The argument here is really just so much petulant window-dressing, given that the US left the gold standard 50 years ago, devalued the dollar with the 1985 Plaza Accords, and has illegally printed trillions of dollars electronically well beyond the scope of the constitution through an illegal cartel known as the Federal Reserve. It's frightening to think that any rational, well informed American citizen would take this incredible argument that purports some constitutional purism seriously. The government has continuously and egregiously violated the rule of law so much through the last 50 years it would be difficult to find a common legal thread that authorized just a fraction of its printing press activity. Take for instance the just under $990 billion of currency in print against the more than $30 trillion the FED produced 'out of thin air' following the 2008 financial crisis. Or, consider the more than $1 trillion in interest on the national debt for this fiscal year. Add to that the notional value of the OTC derivative markets ($600 trillion; $12.6 trillion net according to BIS), and you get the sense that you simply do not understand the situation or are purposely gaslighting your readers. The national debt is very much negotiable, and is a very small piece of the puzzle in the wider financial leviathan created with the introduction of the Federal Reserve system. If it were any other way, then perhaps the 'trillion dollar coin' wouldn't be trending again.
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Debbie: " It has always been very tough to buy a house and amass the down-payment money."Yup. Now thrown in a $45k student loan on top of that.
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$125 for an omelet? The emperor truly has no clothes.
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If there were limits on outside investment companies buying up everything people could compete but regular folks have large real estate holding companies as their neighbor or competitor. In Austin, 30 percent of the residential properties are owned by these vultures.
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M. T. Greene: “Joe Biden conceivably stole those documents. What people need to understand the president is the only one that can declassify documents and not the vice-president. For Joe Biden to steal documents and have possession of them..”. Jan. 9, 2023Oops!“Did you take any classified documents with you from the White House?” D. Muir to Mike Pence. “No I did not”. M. Pence.Oops!The “stick foot in open mouth” party formerly known as Republican.
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"_...but the average cost of eggs has nearly doubled._"Don't know where you live but would you buy me some eggs?Here, Kroger store sold Kroger Extra Large Eggs for $1.79/ dozen all the time just a few years ago. Large were $1.59, but there were reasonably often sales at $1.00/dozen. They are now $5.09 and $4.89, respectively. The other stores in town charge more, BTW.The only thing that has "nearly doubled" are the wallets of the fat cats gouging people for the last source of good protein at what was an affordable price.I love (chicken) eggs any way they are cooked, and have consumed a dozen a week for many, many years, but will not pay $5 for a dozen bird eggs. I may be crazy but not THAT crazy.
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Robert Kentridge Oregon voters approved measure 110 to legalize small quantities of various drugs at the same time they passed measure 109 on psilocybin. Unfortunately, the state botched the rollout of measure 110. People caught with small quantities get a $100 ticket instead of being arrested and jailed. They're supposed to get some sort of counseling in lieu of the ticket but most just ignore it completely. The problem is the state failed to get drug treatment programs set up in time, so all sorts of druggies busted with small quantities of hard drugs now go free and commit more crimes to support their habit. Measure 110 is driving the cops nuts. I still support it, but the state needs to get its act together soon and get the treatment programs running up and running.
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All his hoopla is about PR; him (whoever him is) selling dysfunctionalism on a massive scale unlike any family for profit. It’s only an exclusively about payola. First the Netflix for a cool 100 million and now the tell all book for 25 million? More? Not a bad haul. Compounded through conservative investments, it will last through several generations. Hey Harry, how about founding a new non profit to end poaching of elephants and rhinos.I’m baffled how anyone could be interested in this stuff; whether American or British. It’s truly boring. Now, can I sell my memoirs for… hum, a cool million?
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Bad choice for host. He was just awful and uninspiring. He should invest that 500K he got paid wisely, as I do not see him making a living in stand-up comedy.
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It seems to me that there are numerous opportunities for the US to address some of its fiscal problems primarily on the „increasing revenue“ side.Much like corporations look to increase sales revenue in addition to managing costs the US government might look to do the same thing ….1) Close corporate tax loopholes and collect the tax revenue it should on all US corporations 2) Streamline and simplify tax code so that the Überwealthy pay their fair share (what, they might take their investments and wealth elsewhere??? The US is one of the lower taxation countries for the standard of living it offers - very few of the ultrawealthy will actually leave the US)3) Require FICA taxes to be paid on all income earned, not just up to a threshold of $160,000 - how about including on capital gains as that is how the ultra rich are able to avoid paying income taxes4) Eliminate subsidies to the fossil fuel industries ($20.0 billion in 2021) that have had record breaking profits in the past few yearsWhile spending needs to be looked at and reduced it seems a very one sided approach.Good luck from a US citizen who moved to a much higher taxation country to enjoy a much better quality of life!
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Sarah Of course we do. Usually around 3am and, also of course, doing so while standing in front of the open fridge while the door is dinging is de rigueur.
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It’s sadly ironic that Germany is a part of NATO, barely paying its way at 1.3% of GDP compared to the much poorer Greece, Poland and Baltic nations, which all pay 2%, and that Merkel climbed into bed with Putin for cheap fossil fuels, yet today expects other members of NATO to do far, far more than Germany itself to prevent the Ukrainian war from spreading to…Germany. You can’t have it both ways, Germany. This is your war, too, and it’s not ok to simply say “pass” anymore and expect others, namely US taxpayers, to pay for what you will not.
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Noting that it costs $500k annually to keep someone in jail is a specious argument. His two top executives have already cut plea deals that clearly implicate him in the alleged fraud. And while his attorneys can always use the Trump playbook to run out the clock by stonewalling, if SBF is really down to his last $100K, he likely can't afford that level of representation. If he goes to trial in October, the case can be settled within a year. As for the $500K/year to keep him in custody, we can afford it as a society in the interest of treating celebrity and non-celebrity offenders equally.If just 5% of the face value of the bond is at risk, we're still talking about $12.5MM. There clearly seems to be a big gap between the cost of the bond and the parents' assets, which would explain why two other unidentified individuals also co-signed. Given the magnitude of the alleged fraud, it would serve the public interest to know who these individuals are, how much collateral is actually at risk, who contributed what, and why.Our US prosecutors' concern for SBF's well-being in a Bahamian jail is a bit misplaced. The companies were based in Hong Kong and the Bahamas to avoid US regulations. So, if you pick your domicile, you take the consequences. From what was reported about the conditions in that Bahamian jail, the Brooklyn detention center would look like Club Med in comparison, so it's hard to imagine SBF fighting extradition too hard.
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Where did all that money go? They make like 195B per year on search—this doesn’t make any sense.
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Ad revenue is down mostly because of privacy laws and apple settings.If companies are having a hard time selling things you’d think they would spend more on ads.Also Google was one of the investors in Open-AI,as well as having their own AI research,yet their search engine is getting worse.
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Growing up in Paris, France, the evolution of what is available now vs. back then in the international aisle has changed drastically, especially when it comes to American food. Back in the day, you'd be lucky to get peanut butter and that was about it. It wasn't until the late 90s when things started to expand and things like oreos, cranberry juice, and a few other items started to trickle out and become available. What's interesting too is that roughtly 20 years-or-so-ago, TGI Friday's opened up a location in Paris but boy did it bomb - HARD! Closed after less than six months. A complete disaster. Europeans are pretty hard-trenched into having delicious food of high quality and nothing of bad quality typically does well. Even the "junk food" in France consists of greasy but oh so delicious "Grek" sandwiches which are very similar to lamb shawarma in pita with a few sauces and fries on it.
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Can ChatGPT write its own sales pitch yet? No doubt it can generate AI-pseudo babble. :)The software guys have built a decent prototype. Kudos to them. The challenges are:1) Garbage in, garbage out. Is it possible to select training data to sensibly answer any question posed by a human? For a set of specific tasks like customer support, yes. General AI, no. Error rates for specific tasks can be measured.2) Cost. It is the main issue with large language models, most of which are too expensive to run, unless you are Google / Microsoft and can afford billion-dollar super computers. Practical AI is done with much smaller, less costly models for specific tasks.Not saying that it can't be done, just that it's a lot harder than it looks.
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I enjoyed your article! Thank you.My spouse and I have books we bought in London in 2014 that we haven't cracked open yet. I doubt we'll ever read them - too busy with work and too mentally exhausted after work to read. But tbey look great all piled up in our parlour table.
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I'd love to have a family.After I graduated with honors from College and then from law school, I spent between 24 and 31 being rejected for a jobs as a paralegal; a legal assistant; a waiter; a cash-register operator; a front desk attendant... over and over; all whilst being told that my pre-employment personality tests show me to be "unemployable".In desperation, I lied on one of those personality tests and finally got my first job in 2007. It paid $8 per hour, fifteen to twenty hours per week. In Washington, DC.I became a paralegal just in time for the money to run out, and moved to California. Then I lost my job and, as I was awaiting my last paychek, my former boss falsely accused me of embezzlement and denied 2/3rds of what they owed me. Then, in a desperate attempt to avoid becoming homeless, I made my own job. After nine years, I am earning more money now than at any time before in my life...I live in a two-room converted shack, with a car that is falling apart. And I lose about 1/3rd of my income to taxes.I remember very clearly the day I tried to do volunteer work for Habitat For Humanity, only to discover I did not have enough cash to pay for the bridge toll. I went to make a withdrawal from my bank account. The ATM did not permit me to do so, as I had less than $50 in my bank account. Later that month, I was told I could not never donate blood, due to where and when I was raised.This is the world in which I live. There is no room for my family here.
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Morgan the gave her a wedding that cost £32 million, allowed her to be married the church even though she is divorced, something denied King Charles and Princess Anne, and renovated Frogmore Cottage for them at the cost of £3 million. That sounds like acceptance to me.
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Other Just to be clearer - good investments generate good returns. The US government has been borrowing trillions upon trillions of dollars to make "investments" and look at the shape we are in. Much of this borrowed money was doled out as political payback in the guise of an "investment." Who is measuring the returns on all this borrowed money and where are the numbers? Our $31.4 trillion in total public debt outstanding is larger than our economy as measured by GDP of $25.7 trillion. Our borrowings dollars are increasing faster than our economy and revenues it produces. How do you call it an investment if you can't or don't measure specific returns and the state of our nation keeps getting worse. Or we are just lousy at investing!
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The response to the first letter ignores a critical fact: the freeloading relatives do not own that house or any of the appliances or plumbing fixtures needing repair. Why should they pay to repair and maintain things they do not own? The (bitter) letter writer points out that the property could be rented out for $6k a month, and says there was an “understanding” the couple would “maintain the house” while being allowed to live there rent-free. But what qualifies as maintenance? Keeping it clean, and the yard tidy? You should have put an agreement in writing, if you were attaching conditions to this deal. This arrangement may have started with good intentions, but it’s been detrimental to everyone, especially the couple’s children. They have been taught, by example, to take no responsibility for themselves, and to expect things to be given to them becsue they deserve that. Not good.
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Privatizing health care. A simple and disturbing formula. The patients are not the "end." Not the "objective." But the "means" to an end (profits).This is the result. It's also why we spend far more on health care than any other country (19% GDP)($12,000PP v. comparable country average of $6000.) and rank lowest among developed countries on most outcome measures.
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This review of Gaetz’s career includes not a single bill that he sponsored. Not a single measure he’d like to see passed. Not the slightest evidence he has any goals at all beyond sheer power. The best that can be said is he voted against animal testing and had a conversation about psychoactive drugs for vets.If the FBI refuses to tell him whether the sex trafficking investigation is open or closed, you may be sure it is open. His buddy Greenberg sang like a pigeon, asserting he’d watched Gaetz have sex with a 17 year-old girl. Gaetz is yet another child of overweening privilege, wealth, and irresponsibility. He egged on the insurrection, indeed may have played a part in it. He believes he’s above the law, he can act with impunity because of who he is, son of the guy who owned a house in a movie.Gaetz’s chief moves in the coming years will be to try to stay out of prison.
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Cheryl Ann An alternative could be opening a fresh tab, copying the link (long press should offer that option as well) and paste it in the fresh tab and see if that is more stable. DK why, but now I am thinking Thomas Hardy novel. No not Tess, nor Judas…I was going to post the newly reorganised state of the Bee property today but given the general allergy to suggestions about using dictionaries, I probably won’t. Outside Observer I see you discounted MATED in your winning game yesterday, so did I (actually I wanted MAXED) but is that a general rule of the Wordle list no regular plurals, no regular past tenses? I might know subliminally but can’t remember for sure…
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If the GOP, all of them, not only the most radical of the party, honestly wanted to balance the budget they would go after the 600 billion owed in uncollected taxes by the wealthy and corporations. The 600 billion was from a former US Treasury official speaking to NPR on station WGBH this morning. Instead, their first action was to gut proper funding for the IRS. Who do you think the GOP really serves?
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A very timely article: about two months ago, I purchased masks advertised as KN95. After they arrived, it became clear to me that they were too thin to be KN95. I said as much in my review, because I could imagine that someone who did not check masks as carefully as I do might get very sick with Covid.Ever since, once a week, I get emails offering me money to take my review down. As of this morning, the offering has increased to $40; it began at $25 and went up to $35 a few weeks ago. I have not responded to any of these messages...nor will I for any price, but I suppose there are people out there who would accept the promised money.
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Why hasn't Santos been subpoenaed yet?Why isn't Santos being investigated by the IRS and the FBI? Why isn't the Department of Justice investigating his campaign finances?Why isn't he sitting in a deposition room as we speak?I am sick to death of our elected officials committing what appear to be blatant criminal violations out in the open while our legal system sits on it's hands for a half a decade or more trying to decide if they should do anything about it.Santos "gave himself" $700,000 to fund his own campaign? A guy who supposedly couldn't make rent a few years ago? A guy who stole check books and used multiple alias in the not too distant past? A guy who, according to the IRS made $55,000 last year? A guy who lied through his teeth about everything he's ever done?Where is the law?Oh, that's right! It's currently being written by grifters like George Santos.Everyone knows that Trump paid off Stormy Daniels with a check for $130,000 over seven years ago. And the public has known this for almost as long. Yet here we are, seven years later, reading about how District Attorney Alvin Bragg is having some "preliminary meetings" about it?At this rate, Donald Trump, a blatant insurrectionist, may be dead for 20 years before they get to an indictment. Meanwhile, a red-light ticket violator is prosecuted and convicted in less than 5 seconds in this country.The only possible conclusion? That Justice isn't blind in this country. It's a co-conspirator.
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Top-Seeded Rafael Nadal Loses at Australian Open After Injury Nadal, who has won 22 Grand Slams, lost in the second round to Mackenzie McDonald, an American who has never cracked the top 40 in the world rankings. MELBOURNE, Australia — The end came all at once for Rafael Nadal, and then it happened slowly. Nadal, who has won 22 Grand Slams, lost in the second round to Mackenzie McDonald, an American who has never cracked the top 40 in the world rankings.
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Why do I think this entire economy is a house of cards? It makes no sense. Seventy percent of our economy is consumer based yet sixty percent of Americans can afford a $400 emergency. Prices are still high, inflation still high and personal debt at record levels. I just don’t believe these numbers. The stock market is all over the place and Europe is an economic disaster. Oh, and the Petro Dollar is probably over which is the end of our standard of living.
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j How interesting. And tell us j, how is it that you have this inside information on Durham’s findings and what his final report will say? Your comment seems like a pre-emptive strike, not this article, but like Barr and Trump, you project upon your political enemies the malfeasance of those you hope to protect. Just to clarify a point in your comment, it was the DOJ Inspector General who discovered Clinesmith’s crime; how easy it was for Durham to pick that evidence up and run with it. In the end, for his “heinous” crime, Clinesmith was given probation. But you may be right about interference in our electoral process by the agency. Apparently James Comey announced the reopening of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails eleven days before the election because he feared that the New York FBI office was about to reveal that information, and he that any such revelation - very much against the agency’s policies regarding making public anything about an ongoing investigation - should come from him (I think I have those details right, but anyone, please correct me if I am wrong).
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clh / Sigh; will you people please read the full article before commenting? Weisselberg was hit with a $2 million fine. Big enough for you?
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whether Chinese expansion goes away or not depends on a lot of things, Kirk C. For one, the Chinese economy is expected to contract, meaning less money to funnel into foreign aid. For another, the Chinese people are increasingly questioning why this foreign generosity occurs at the expense of rural children dropping out of school b/c they suffer from debilitating worms and/or their families can't afford eyeglasses. For a third, local populations are objecting to Chinese influence. I could go on, but bottom line is that there's no inevitability to this expansion.
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31 billionaires make $billions every year operating "non-profits" that rely on these players' work. But author thinks we're all complicit for having a cable package. Very tone deaf article.
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I am so very grateful to Ms. Khan for taking on this issue. My husband has been living and working in a different state for 3.5 years because of a non-compete clause. He’s a general surgeon. When he signed his employment contract with his private practice, Minnesota courts weren’t enforcing NCCs, because they are bad public policy. Then the courts changed their minds and started enforcing them, right as my husband was being squeezed out of a private practice and he was looking for a new job. He turned down a nearby job offer because it would have violated the NCC. He took a job in two states away, planning to be there one year, until the NCC he had signed expired, and then find a job here again. He flew back and forth on weekends. We didn’t want to uproot our children from their school and extended family. Then COVID hit. The medical system was turned upside. I parented alone, not seeing him at all, for eight weeks, as his co-workers quarantined or fell sick and he covered every surgical emergency at his hospital. Three years later, we’re still living this two-city lifestyle with him flying home on weekends. The end is finally in sight - he will be coming home for good in July after 4 years of this. Our kids are 10 and 13.That NCC clause created havoc for our family. There can be no justification about intellectual property or company practices. There are no secret surgical techniques that are the intellectual property of one practice. Glad the FTC is taking this on.
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conesnail As a quick Google search will confirm, Amazon makes boatloads of money: $33 billion in 2021. <a href="https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-income#:~:text=Amazon" target="_blank">https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-income#:~:text=Amazon</a>%20net%20income%20for%20the%20twelve%20months%20ending%20September%2030,a%2056.41%25%20increase%20from%202020.
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BarbaraAnn - good point, and a fix would be to make the door with a soft hold on it when it is open, like an automobile door.
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CharlemagneAlthough pharmaceutical companies invest a great deal in research and development, they depend heavily on the basic research that is publicly funded. They push the ball across the goal, but they take credit for the many yards of effort by others that brought them there. Certainly they should be "rewarded", in order that further research and development can be sustained. But they should not be given free rein to pillage and plunder.
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OMG. Republicans are blocking a bill to for the IRS to recover $180 BILLION from tax cheats, which will also add 100 BILLION to budget deficits over the next 10 years and, IN THE SAME BILL, cut taxes outright for the wealthy by .. and cut funding. We need wealthy AMERICANS to stand up — and not stand with Republican greed.
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“Its side”? There is no ‘side’ here. Black people — like all people who are working to ensure inclusion and participation — are not Democratic tokens, nor are we engaged in a high-stakes game of politics. We are fighting for our lives.Yes, Biden was speaking to a primarily Black audience, but to borrow from Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, we, too, are America, and that truth illustrates our demands for equality, equity, and justice. This is not a matter of winners and losers, nor a tug-of-war between “sides.” While politicos may seek to describe it that way to rally their bases, journalists should have the discernment to separate partisan posturing from substantive issues and describe each one accurately. Accuracy matters. The struggle for access to the ballot and fair housing, education and employment practices — among other rights, liberties, freedoms and opportunities — is central to the fate of the republic. Yet this newspaper routinely characterizes “our democracy” as a winner-take-all game limited to white people and those who have or can easily assimilate into the so-called American dream. Such framing feeds the narratives and mindset of those who believe they need to “take (their) country back,” rather than being productive and collaborative contributors to an ever-evolving nation and society.The author should reconsider the framing of this article.Have you learned nothing in the last 10 years?
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My question is about the 850 pre-Covid Article 28 psychiatric beds that remain "off-line." In NYS, Article 28 covers voluntary, not-for-profit hospitals like NYU Medical Center, NY Presbyterian, the Northwell System, Mt. Sinai, Montefiore, and other major, politically powerful organizations. Prior to Covid, those 850 Article 28 beds provided a real service to people with severe mental illness, their families, and the entire community by offering acute care-level (about 30 days) of inpatient care to individuals whose symptoms of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, etc., had worsened for any of a host of possible reasons. Those loss of those 850 beds have likely contributed to the increase in the visibility of severe mental illness in our midst, and to the suffering of many individuals and their family members. The question is have these 850 beds been permanently converted into far more profitable beds for competing redundant cancer treatment centers, orthopedic and plastic surgery "institutes," etc.? Governor Hochul and her administration are to be commended for proposing serious next steps to address the long-standing enormous gaps in our mental health treatment system. But the devil is in the details, one of which is enforcement. Will $2,000/day penalties be sufficient to influence the multi-billion dollar Article 28 empire in NYC? I doubt it.
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Protecting the giant isn't necessary. They have recovered their investments and spend fortunes to market (passed on to us all). 30 price increases over 20 years. They don't need you defending them.
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So, it is confirmed. Bret Stephens lives on a different plane from most of us and anything he writes must be taken with a huge grain of salt. I live in the NYC area with my husband on $100,000 per year (we are in the arts). Yes, we fill a bit of a pinch but we have a nice lifestyle and would not dream of complaining--we know we are relatively privileged. If he thinks that a family making $400,000 per year (even in NYC) are struggling, he is not acquainted with reality.I do love his paragraph about Prince Harry, though. Nailed it.
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Andy Last I checked, most tech jobs can be and are done remotely with many positions nowadays 100 percent remote. That certainly begs the question why do we need the H-1B visa at all?What open roles require both a unique skill set otherwise unavailable in the US and a presence in San Francisco?
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Democrats should be open to join with a few moderate Republicans and support one of them to become the Speaker. This will ensure a functioning House that can truly debate policies and legislate. This happened in Ohio and also in Pennsylvania.
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I will give Tim Cook some credit, volunteering to sacrifice some of his benefits to help Apple avoid major layoffs. How many jobs could have been saved if the top brass of Google, Meta, Microsoft etc., for just one year gave up their billions in income? I mean how can you possibly even find time to spend the tiniest percentage of your money?
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My husband and I have been going to southern Africa for an extend trip at least every year since the late 90's. Typically we go alone but over the years we have taken people with us as well as joined specialized trips with known naturalists. The Masai Mara has been a free for all --- for most of that time.What people have to understand is the Mara is a public park -- with an entrance fee. You have many "camps" at the edge of the park and only a few that actually sit within the boarders of the park. At sunrise and before sunset .. all action goes to the river. There are just too many people allowed into the park -- needing too many vehicles. Only the local government w/ support of the national Kenyan government can fix this problem.The Conservancy is a section away from the river where people have gotten together and bought up farm land along the edge of the park and opened the fences -- built luxury camps. Africa is littered with old farms built on poor soil .. this is a way to bring them back to what they were before colonial times. I'm skipping a lot of history here. We have stayed there and did not bother to take the trip to the river. Botswana's model is few people w/ very high fees. Not hard to spend 5k a night per couple in the better camps .... very few people. May go all morning or afternoon and not see another vehicle.A few years ago from Tanzania ... just outside the season we had a great morning all alone w/ a Mara migration crossing.
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Allan That is due to the general world issues. The trump policies were ineffective and the wall crumbles while some states waste time with containers of all things. Inflation is due to Covid and supply chain issues primarily. Hence it is global in nature. There is no support for the monetary view and if that were true inflation would have soared during the near decade of QE with the Fed dumping $80 billion dollars a month into the economy. There is also no intel or other material that supports the view that Putin attacked for that reason. Well there is Fox and other outlets that pander to less informed people. The Six Day war is not a relevant example if you study it. In that war Israel had geographic proximity to its opponents and could move armor against Syria, Jordan and Egypt. There is no corridor through which Israel could do the same with Iran and little likelihood they could maintain supply chains or achieve air superiority over the battlespace. Afghanistan is not even relevant. That was an asymetric conflict wherein US conventional advantages were countered with low level conflict. I await a fact based and substantive counter. Not simply talking points from questionable sources.
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Mark you might not be old enough to remember, but when Worldcom, Enron, Arthur Anderson, etc. all blew up, there were many articles in the media asking whether you can trust US companies. This passed in the US and and the big regulatory push on internet companies in both the US and China now shall pass too. Chinese people will be able to invest in their markets. In fact, many Chinese stocks have already doubled recently.
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$2 million in missed tax payments. Heck, Trump's accountants wouldn't even bother to notice such a minute amount.As to those gun charges, it's funny how Republicans never want to tighten gun laws.And where is the Republicans' outrage about an American citizen being denied a passport just because he was unfairly being persecuted by the IRS, no doubt the story they would tell if it was them or one of their children
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Calm Blue Ocean Food trucks and deli counters are profitable only because overhead & labor is significantly reduced. Before graduating with a culinary degree, I was required to mock up a restaurant concept and figure the ROI. Nobody in the class could make a profit until reducing the square footage, labor requirements, and eliminating equipment. I had a mentor who said "this restaruant is going to be a success if it takes every penny my father has." My culinary degree is the reason I never even tried to open my own restaurant.
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I have a "doom pile" of books. It's been on my dining room floor since I moved from another apartment in the same complex almost three years ago. At the time I didn't have a dining room table or bookshelves because my previous apartment had flooded repeatedly--which was the reason for the move, as the management needed to more or less disassemble and reassemble the plumbing by excavating the ground under the floor. I suppose losing both furniture and possessions to flooding that was out of control was traumatic, and I let it stick.I didn't get new bookshelves for over a year, but even when I did, I didn't move the books from the "doom pile" to the bookshelves. Instead, they became convenient "clutter holders" (no dishes or glasses). I need to declutter those shelves first before I address the "doom pile". I do suffer from severe depression and the flooding (and pandemic) only made it worse, but I know I need to address the issue. As others have mentioned, having a friend intervene to help can make a big difference. I need to open up to my friends about it--"the first step is admitting I have a problem". I know I have it, and I'm afraid to admit it to my friends. In that sense, I'm letting the fear and anxiety in my own mind control me.If you've read this far, thanks. I'm glad I took the (small) step of putting this into writing for the first time.
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The US government, through the Millennium Challenge Corporation, signed an agreement in September 2022 to provide $20 million for several projects in the Solomon Islands. I was surprised that wasn't referred to in this article to provide some balance. Of course that pales in comparison to what China seems to be up to but it is a sign that the US is involved in the country.
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Raise the taxes particularly on the wealthy. It is ashame the hedge fund managers, raking in billions, aretaxed at 15% carried interest rate. No logic, justgood lobbying and donations. Wealthy folks benefit fromgovernment services. They should pay. Borrowing tofinance deficit is another way to exempt wealthy Americansfrom tax burden. It is fueling inequality that Mr. Krugmanhasn't addressed, It is related to minimizing tax burdenon the rich and well connected and fuel debt financing.. At some point the ponzi scheme( new debt to pay old debt) used by federal government will end. Lenders will catch on.
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markp My little burgh is on the hook for a $10M payout because police chief and others engaged in obstruction around a domestic violence murder-suicide involving a police captain. In a small town that makes a dent in public works, programs for kids, debt payment, etc. because insurance covered only a small fraction of the payout. And the oilice chief will probably go on to get hired as chief in some ither small town.
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In light of the trillions of productive tax dollars that have been stolen and plundered from US Tax Payers that's hiding in tax havens - why cannot the US seize those funds and use those stolen plundered funds to wipe out this debt so more public funds in the present can be utilized to invest in the quality of life of regular working citizens and can be properly invested to bolster US Infrastructure (public transpo, trains, education, health care, climate) and protecting the security of Democracies internationally against the type of low life oligarchs who exploit corporations and nation states to milk as their personal piggy banks to drain and conceal their stolen plunder in tax havens (caymans, Switzerland, etc)...
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At the end of the day, this is why I have never -- never -- voted for a Republican, and why I never will. I should care more about the culture war issues, but I just don't. As a white, late-sixties, male, I do, however, care about food on the table and a roof over the head for millions of Americans. Policy discussions, and economic policy discussions, are complex and always open to challenge. Culturally, the Democratic party has been for some time the party of progressive egalitarianism, which means improved status for a minority which is often perceived loss of position and status for a majority. Though progressive egalitarianism is never a zero-sum game, it's often perceived as such, making it a juicy target for "conservatives," meaning those who see themselves on the losing end. Moreover, progressive egalitarianism, though it has deep roots in evangelical religion (think MLK), it often perceived as "secular," because it pushes against Biblical patriarchy and injunctions, making it a juicy target for "conservatives," meaning those who see themselves in a fight against sin. Economically, progressive egalitarianism is a Robinhood push toward the middle. The rich are not keen on subsidizing the poor. Ultimately, I think you're correct. The right's culture and economic war is a not just a smoke screen for the rich, but a concerted "law and order" push for regression toward "traditional" forms of patriarchal oligarchy that few Americans really want.
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In my opinion economists are using the wrong metrics. They only seem to care about Wall Street and apparently it’s bad for the stock market when consumers have any breathing room. Food prices remain astronomical. A can of beans was 99 cents and it’s now $1.99. A twelve pack of sparkling water used to be $3 and now an 8-pack is $5. Publicly traded food conglomerates brag on earnings calls that consumers are “tolerating” increased pricing above what is needed to cover costs, and they plan further increases in 2023. The Fed and investors lamented when average people had a good amount in their savings accounts but now we are depleting them just to pay for basic living expenses. Here in Southern California I just received our gas utility bill: $459 for January, when the same amount of usage in December was $257 and half the usage in November was $57. The public utility isn’t allowed to make a profit, but buys the gas from their parent company, who is. It’ll now cost $1000 more a month in interest if you want to buy the same $700,000 house.The government (I don’t care which party but I’d be shocked if it was the GOP) needs to start penalizing windfall profits and regulate unjustified price increases in basic needs goods.
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Mr. Bruni nails the joke known as the Academy Awards and the "process" of who gets nominated. For those who want to take a deeper dive into this chaos, I suggest everyone c heck out the new book Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears.In it, the author, Michael Schulman, chronicles the remarkable, sprawling history of the Academy Awards and the personal dramas—some iconic, others never-before-revealed—that have played out on the stage and off camera. Unlike other books on the subject, each chapter takes a deep dive into a particular year, conflict, or even category that tells a larger story of cultural change, from Louis B. Mayer to Moonlight. Schulman examines how the red carpet runs through contested turf, and the victors aren't always as clear as the names drawn from envelopes. Caught in the crossfire are people: their thwarted ambitions, their artistic epiphanies, their messy collaborations, their dreams fulfilled or dashed.As Mr. Bruni correctly points out, the "movie" playing out behind the scenes is more fascinating than what is on the screen.
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Garland Appoints Special Counsel to Investigate Handling of Biden Documents The appointment of Robert K. Hur comes two months after the attorney general named a special counsel to investigate former President Donald J. Trump’s mishandling of classified material. WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointed a special counsel on Thursday to investigate how classified documents had ended up in President Biden’s private office and home, opening a new legal threat to the White House and providing ammunition to its Republican opponents. The appointment of Robert K. Hur comes two months after the attorney general named a special counsel to investigate former President Donald J. Trump’s mishandling of classified material.
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Christopher Nobody forced any NATO country to join. When the USSR broke up, almost all the satellite countries rushed to join. The guy who drove them away, Joseph Stalin, was long dead but his terrors, an impoverished economy, open air imprisonment,.. left them all with nightmares. Putin expressed support for Stalin as a "strong leader". Then along comes Bylerus. Putin sends in thugs to bash heads until the protests stopped. Countries like Germany, Poland, Latvia... prefer their fully functioning democracy. Look at the living standard in Russia. The median income is considered the poverty level in the US. This is a country with immense resources that lives like a poor cousin.NATO is defensive. Nobody gets spanked who behaves themselves. Putin's complaint is that he can't resurrect its glorious past and reconstruct the great Russian empire. Well why not. Then resurrect the British too. Any Bonapartes out there? Bring on France! And Austria. Hapsburgian Spain! Good grief.
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The concern with ventilation is resolved by building code in Eastern Europe: every kitchen with a gas stove has to have a permanently unobstructed (wire mesh only) opening to the exterior. End of story.Of course, people complain about the draft and some try to cover the opening (illegal) - but it’s a plain simple solution that has been the law for at least 80 years.
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K You're asssuming that the bottled beer sits around long enough to allow light pollution. Skunked is a beer that's been left open overnight after you passed out at your frat party, and perhaps enhanced by an errant cigarette butt, and used to washed down the cold pizza the next morning.Yep, it's a personal thing.
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By no means particularly well versed in economics, I do understand that over the long term debt is not what it was when incurred. Even with my mortgage lender front-loading the debt portion of the loan, the fixed monthly payments became less of a burden as the economy expanded, inflation was factored in and my wages followed. The home is now fully owned and I get it. I can’t see help but wonder, however, if the simple minded in the make America great crowd do. While I have little argument with government trimming waste and having budgets balance, I also know that “lay away plans,” and fear of planning for the future with sensible investment are “sucker bets!”
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Nothing like sending those 5,000,000 manufacturing jobs to China to make one rich. Going from $25 per hour to $5 (if that) and pocketing that $20 at 100% profit is, welp.... All American. And then of course your long term 'investments' become your short term realty and one gets. welp.... Trump. Who then tosses gasoline on that $1,000,000,000 profit the banks made in the past 10 years. So today, in the celebration of the efficacy of the Political Industry you will give, like it or not $1 of profit to the banks, just like you have every day for the past 3,000 iterations. Nice structured Corruption you have there America.
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Things may feel better, post-pandemic with solid economic conditions, but Joe will still be looking tired. The lackluster response to so many documents seemingly left helter-skelter is not confidence inspiring. Given the Trump saga this mishap should have been avoided. Is Joe back to tripping himself up, as in days of old. How well this is dealt with will go a long way toward either building confidence or dimming his and our prospects. Asa is standing in the wings, looking reasonable and just waiting for an opening.
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clh $2 Million
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Previously I have been critical of the Chinese government for not releasing accurate, or believable data on Covid-19. Now I would like to thank the government of China, and Xi Jinping for being more open. I wish they would accept America's offer of vaccines, and then they could do their own test if they think they need to. I wish the Chinese people well.
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Type 1 and Type 2 are totally different conditions, and the article should be way more explicit about that. Insufficient reporting, to put it nicely. I will over-simplify. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease which people are born with through nobody's fault. Type 2 is, let's say, different. Diet choices, etc. are relevant. Look it up. Yet only Type 2 gets the $35 limit described in the article. Why? Boomers at it again. They live a certain lifestyle and we need to mop up the overflow. And the pre-Boomer President signs the law and takes a bow, without realizing or not caring, or not having the political strength to address, that the innocent Type 1 patients are not taken care of. Don't get me started!
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Paul Bernish 'Japan, ... investing in upgrading and expanding its military capabilities.' - at the urging of Joe Biden.No one was pushing Japan to remilitarize, nor any one was pushing for German tanks rolling across Europe, until Joe Biden.'But WWII is long ago and far away', so is slavery, the inquisition, the trail of tears and the comfort women in Asia. Should we just forget about all that 'cos so long ago?
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Sadly it seems that most of the large scale infrastructure projects in NY area follow are years late and well over budget. Wish the NYT did more stories like the one that they did on this debacle back in 2017.The estimated cost on this project tripled, so we set $8bln on fire. That's $8bln that could have been spent on other needed infrastructure.Some comments on here have no problem with this, saying any dollar spent on infrastructure is a dollar well spent. Or they say need more taxes to create more revenues for these projects.Why are we so accepting of spending $3 to get $1 of benefit?
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Wow. Continue to portray this war as hegemon Russia against tiny neighboring Ukraine (with little help from NATO), and you criminally prolong the bloodshed. Fewer people believe that false narrative every day.More people every day understand that it is a clash of empires, the USA against Russia, using Ukraine as the battleground and Zelenskyy as the puppet. (Remember, he gained power with the admitted help of the CIA.)After WWII, direct clashes between superpowers became tabo--nukes made real war too risky. They were replaced with undeclared proxy wars, the better to avoid Geneva Convention rules, more profitable to American arms manufacturers, and the risk of nuclear bombs fell to hungry third-world peasants, not fat Americans. We were just lending a hand to poor little old South Korea against the evil communists to the north. Same deal in Viet Nam. The Middle East was more complicated and confusing, the better to pass it off on a passive US electorate--but still very profitable to US "interests." When Ukraine is milked dry, there is always Taiwan. South America is subdued now, ruled by extractive American corporations. Africa's internal conflicts, fueled by colonialism and fanned by Western governments, is making that continent ripe for exploitation again. Superpowers are "super" only in their fearsome military power, and not very super for 99% of humanity. But hey, let's drive downtown in the pickup and eat at a fancy restaurant, and forget all that stuff.
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eyesopen I share your sentiment about President Biden, especially given where the country was heading with the nightmarish Trump madness. However, I do hope that in what's left of his first term, Biden's engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean is much better "calibrated"--with the special kind of calibration Mr. Brooks talked about. The Western Hemisphere, especially regarding the impact it's having on the southern border, cannot be ignored. If we ignore it at the expense of our focus almost exclusively on Europe (Ukraine/Russia) and Asia (China), it will be at our own peril.
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George Santos is a buffoon. But he's illustrating the utter insanity of a political system built around secrecy of the flow of money. We laugh at him for being a cartoon, and because he's not smart enough to break the law the 'right' way, but as long as the unfettered access to unlimited secret campaign cash with hobbled ethics and federal elections oversight is a red line platform plank for Republicans, the joke is on us.
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For just so long as the church focuses on issues NOT rooted in the unique (meaning: ONLY) priority of the church, it will suffer continued, dramatic losses in membership. Pell was not interested in that priority, his interest is in consolidation of doctrine and political power within the church. So are all the people fixated with labeling this papacy as a disaster. I don't know the other guy, but I can tell you one thing: when the unique (meaning ONLY) defining characteristic of every Christian, which is also the very definition of God's essence in John's gospel, takes a back seat to the latin mass and gay people, the church will exist in its current stymied state of everlost. If you have to ask what the secret 4 letter word is that we were COMMANDED to embrace as our defining essence (literally, the way we are known), sorry. But there is no question that Francis, who is imperfect, has refocused the church to that essential purpose. Benedict and his aging fans have a single passion: doctrine. The church has to choose its dance partner.
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Fred Small businesses can be valued at 10-20 million yet make just 200,000 - 300,000 a year in profits. Those are upper middle class families affected by estate taxes. farmland costs about 15,000-20,000 an acre and hence a 1000 acre farm will be subject to a large inheritance tax. For example, per acre profits in US is about 400 dollars for corn. So, a family earning about 400,000 a year will be hit with a 2- 3 million dollar inheritance tax bill.
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In a new eye opening documentary "The Grab", one of the stories is how Arizona is one of the only states that doesn't have regulations on how much ground water can be pumped. One of the leaders of the United Arab Emirates has led an effort to buy up vast tracts of Arizona land and installed powerful deep pumps to grow cattle fed for their animals abroad. And the locals living there now have dry wells.
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"...founded in March and operated out of the same Bahamian compound where Mr. Bankman-Fried lived..."Pretty funny. I mean funny not funny, as "Let's launder $400 million to me before this flushes down the toilet where it was designed to go."
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I can’t and don’t deny the writer’s lived experience, but from what I see in NYC and around the country, a lot of this simply doesn’t appear to be true. I’m not saying that it isn’t tough or that it doesn’t require hard work - it does. But there is no lack of money out there or a dearth of people who want to spend it on a great night out. You can feel however you want about that and we can discuss the depredations of capitalism, but it’s true. Off the top of my head I can think easily of a dozen chef/restaurateurs who lead restaurants that are packed every night and making money, even with entrees at $30+ and lots of bottles over $100. Maybe because of that?But these places also have bottles in the $60 range and less pricey entrees. They are making money and opening new restaurants. The food has to be good and you need to serve what people want to eat and drink. And also give them opportunities to spend big money if they want to. Sorry, but they have $$$, you know. If you want them to spend it, then you have to be good, fresh, and in fashion. Very hard business. But there are thousands and thousands of restaurants doing just fine, servers taking home $800 on Saturday nights, people building stuff. It can work. And if you build it, we’ll be there. NYC isn’t going to cook at home every night, ever.
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Mike T. I've looked up medicine costs, Europe vs USA. USA -- 10X more expensive across the board.The thing that gets me is you, the taxpayer, funded Covid Vaccs, and the companies take the profit. GSK sold it at cost and made not a lot.
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Netflix Brings the Intensity of Elena Ferrante’s Naples to the Screen A new adaptation of the novel “The Lying Life of Adults” features formidable female central characters and an Italy with distinct social classes. Like the novel by Elena Ferrante on which it is based, the opening line of Netflix’s “The Lying Life of Adults” is spoken by the precocious teenage protagonist, Giovanna, who is listening at the door while her parents talk about her. A new adaptation of the novel “The Lying Life of Adults” features formidable female central characters and an Italy with distinct social classes.
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SBF did indeed have the equivalent of a money printing machine. One source of all that money billions in stolen customer funds. Another source was the VC community, which put hundreds of millions into FTX with almost no due diligence. And finally FTX was able to issue their own FTT token, which was basically an unregistered security backed by nothing more than air.Reports indicate that SBF spent his ill-gotten gains on exclusive real estate in the Bahamas, luxury hotel stays, lavish parties, and jetting around the world... So much for living a life of an "effective altruist" -- it was all just part of the con.
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Visited Mexico City a few years ago and accidentally wandered into a Houston sports bar off one of the main streets. Had an emotional reaction that has stayed with me. I want the Dreamers who were deported to be able to quickly come home if that’s what they want to do.Doesn’t mean I don’t want to bring manufacturing jobs back to America because I do, and I want many of those jobs to go to parts of the country that were hollowed out by trade policy during the last several decades.Also doesn’t mean I don’t want sensible immigration reform because I do. EB-1 visas and guest worker visas Yes, while hoping that their proponents can be trusted. The sort of visas that have had some American workers training their replacements who will work for less No.As to the speaker votes, I don’t want house rules reformed in a way that makes it easy for a small band of extremists to hold the country for ransom. But Congress does need to figure out how to find its way back to the way it operated before Gingrich. Limit bills to a single subject. Have public committee hearings on important bills and amend them in open committee meetings. Figure out how to allow debate and amendments on the house floor without letting obstructionists just hijack the process. Start now.
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This opinion piece broke my heart and opened my eyes. Even as a father of two kids under 10, and a husband of an RN who works in labor/delivery, I had no clue. Thanks for presenting this compelling call to action!
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Biden seems to fall into a mode of not being open with the American people, and he is helped by his enablers the Democratic Party and the American “main stream press”. Rather than just say like Trump “I have them but there mine as an exPresident because I made them mine when I was President”, Biden doesn’t say anything and just adopts his “I’m better than Trump” because I’m a nice guy but just confused, cmon man”. Personally I’m not sure who I dislike more.
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ST Why? This man was behind the start of the “Crossfire Hurricane" FBI investigation .... when he was working for ad paid by Russia, not Trump. "FBI Deputy Assistant Director Jonathan Moffa told Senate Judiciary Committee staffers in 2020 that he got a July 2016 email from McGonigal which “contained essentially that reporting, which then served as the basis for the opening of the case.”"
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We have the same problem in the US. But it's much worse here, first because age discrimination is now something Wall Street expects from corporate executives as a routine practice that "unlocks shareholder value." And second because our social safety net is far thinner. The Great Recession provided a ready excuse for corporate executives to purge their payrolls of costly older workers, creating a large group of "discarded" workers who are officially too young to retire but too old to hire. Our elected officials have chosen to ignore the "discarded," possibly in the hope that, like the homeless people purged from a gentrifying neighborhood, they'll quietly disappear. And also because the employers who discarded those workers are important campaign donors. Of course Republicans, in their cruel contempt for non-wealthy people justified by their zeal for a balanced budget, want to raise the age for Social Security and Medicare eligibility on the way to demolishing it. That will presumably encourage old people to quietly disappear.I would call an economy that routinely ejects older workers from the workforce in the name of "shareholder value," and that treats a worker's knowledge and experience as a liability if not an outright disqualification, dysfunctional, unsustainable, and doomed to failure. But as our economy does such a great job of increasing the wealth of the wealthiest persons (individual and corporate), constructive change is unlikely.
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We were warned about the potential for droughts long ago.The following is from a 1981 paper by James Hansen that at the time hit the front page of the NY Times, all the predictions in it have either come to pass or are well underway. "Potential effects on climate in the 21st century include the creation of drought-prone regions in North America and central Asia as part of a shifting of climatic zones, erosion of the West Antarctic ice sheet with a consequent worldwide rise in sea level, and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage.”<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/22/us/study-finds-warming-trend-that-could-raise-sea-levels.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/22/us/study-finds-warming-trend-that-could-raise-sea-levels.html</a>But many don’t realize how bad they could get. From a 2012 paper, see the graph of western North America precipitation from 1900-2100 on p 555 of the paper, it makes the recent western drought look like a rainforest by comparison with what is projected to come.<a href="https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2128&context=usdaarsfacpub" target="_blank">https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2128&context=usdaarsfacpub</a>
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Far, the fact is we do not have enough choices. The FTC has narrowed its focus unnecessarily and in my view recklessly, since the Reagan years. The result has been one monopolistic industry after another.When the federal government allowed without question mergers, acquisitions, and LBOs— all under the Republican sacramental umbrella of “regulation bad”— it opened the door to the current situation. Poor quality, understaffed outlets, price gouging, collusion on employee benefits and pay, harm or elimination of unions, gross overpayment to the C-suite, a focus on share price at the expense of consumers and workers, boards of directors full of cronies. This is across every industry: industrial farming, all types of retailers, rental cars, airlines and hotels, food production and distribution, gasoline sellers and producers, cable tv and internet, and even in some areas public utilities. We are sunk.
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Davebarnes yup.Here in Madrid, a glass of house wine - which in some places is literally the owner's family's vineyard, but in most is the local equivalent of "mass produced" - is the same as a pint of beer (more than a caña). Usually around €3, sometimes as much as €6, and that is in the national capitol, which is far more expensive than much of the country.In the US, a glass of wine is usually twice to three times the price of a beer or cider - $8-12 - for low-quality wines.No wonder younger imbibers - I'm 39, by the way - have had trouble gaining a taste! There is also the whole "mystique" thing, grape varietals, wine snobbery, even association with "femininity". That is pretty much absent from general culture here. 99% of the time you just order a Vino Tinto and get what you get, or at nicer places have ~10 options rather than the 100 or so at many "nice places" in the US...
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