Tuesday, March 5, 2019

@23:30, 3/4/19

|

0
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/nsa-phone-records-program-shut-down.html

Edward Snowden: Hero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

1
U.S.

SALT Limit Is Hitting 11 Million Tax Returns, Audit Finds

The Treasury report also shows the level of attention that high-ranking administration officials paid to a controversial regulation from the new tax law.

Trump is a sadist.

At the moment I have no income beyond social security and a five thousand
distribution from T.I.A.A.

2
Opinion

The Life of a Comment Moderator for a Right-Wing Website

Six years in the trenches on troll patrol.

The trolls are in charge. 

3
Arts

New York Has a Public Housing Problem. Does London Have an Answer?

After listening to residents, Hackney upgraded its council estates with sleek new apartments, mixing subsidized and market-rate tenants.

4
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/04/eu-must-learn-from-brexit-and-reform-says-emmanuel-macron

The May deal will fail again
There will be a no-deal Brexit

5
Business

Michael Jackson Documentary Revives Lurid Claims, Imperiling His Thriving Estate

Mr. Jackson died deep in debt. Now his estate is worth billions. Will the new film, “Leaving Neverland,” focused on two men’s accounts of sexual abuse, damage his posthumous career?

 Michael Jackson is dead.
His fascination with small boys should have died with him.
It lives on as his recordings live on.

The two are not the same.

They are dead but they are not gone while people remember.

His estate must pay his debts.

6
World

He Took Down the Elite at Davos. Then He Came for Fox News.

To the extent that economic historians can rampage, Rutger Bregman is on one — speaking truth to power in Switzerland and enraging Tucker Carlson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes

The unreformed Ebenezer Scrooge has taken over the wealthy.

Rutger Bergman has managed to be heard.

||

No comments:

Post a Comment