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U.S.
Democrats Seek to Pre-empt Trump’s Defense in Impeachment Trial
The House impeachment managers sought to undercut the central elements of President Trump’s defense, wading into a detailed defense of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.The Managers appear to have been successful.
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U.S.
In Impeachment Case, Schiff Accuses Trump of Trying ‘to Cheat’ in Election
The House impeachment managers began presenting their oral arguments against President Trump in the Senate trial, arguing that his conduct warranted his removal.I agree with Representative Adam B. Schiff of California.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/books/review-very-stable-genius-donald-trump-philip-rucker-carol-leonnig.html
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Magazine
My Grandmother Kept Telling Us About the Nazis. Now I Know Why.
Marianne Goldstein spent her life recounting her family’s escape to America in 1939. Only recently did I realize she wanted to do more than remember what happened.Antisemitism has never disappeared.
The public memory of the camps and the exclusion has faded under pressure
from the Christian Right and Organized Capitalism.
The I.L.G.W.U. has not been forgiven.
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Business
It May Be the Biggest Tax Heist Ever. And Europe Wants Justice.
Stock traders are accused of siphoning $60 billion from state coffers, in a scheme that one called “the devil’s machine.” Germany is the first country to try to get its money back.Good luck to the European authorities.
There are always cheaters that read the rule book first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gpFpueTFW4&list=PLtFxVpWmPmSk1VU_-qu1dTRSlpd2O4B_t
I buy and hold.
It takes lots of time and some thought first.
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U.S.
Now Testifying for the Prosecution: President Trump
Barred so far from presenting witnesses, the House managers prosecuting the president have focused on turning his own words against him.Trump is not good at silence.
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Style
Love in the Time of Low Expectations
“Never count on a man,” her father had told her. “They will always let you down.” So she didn’t, and they still did.Porn is made by the gay for the strait.
They forget.
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Opinion
How to Convince a White Realtor You’re Middle Class
Black people expend daily energy to counteract racial stereotypes and get fair treatment.I regret the necessity.
I expect it cuts both ways.
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Science
The Freshwater Giants Are Dying
Overharvesting and habitat loss endanger most of the world’s freshwater “megafauna.” But many species may yet be saved.Trump has been incredibly foolish.
All water is ultimately one.
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Climate
Trump and the Teenager: A Climate Showdown at Davos
President Trump and Greta Thunberg dominated the first full day of the annual gathering of the rich and powerful in the Swiss Alps.Greta Thunberg is correct.
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Opinion
The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?" In his 1955 mission statement for National Review, William F. Buckley Jr. famously wrote that the magazine “stands athwart history, yelling Stop.”"
That is a succinct statement of the problem.
Doing nothing new is the darkness.
We must give up fossil carbon.
That will in half a century stop the heating from getting worse.
Some of the population will survive.
The ecology will survive if people work at it.
Culture will survive the new dark age if knowledge survives.
There will be riots if we are lucky.
If not there will be wars.
Libraries must survive. Computers may not survive.
The future must remember all of the past.
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U.S.
Democrats Seek to Pre-empt Trump’s Defense in Impeachment Trial
Trump is defending ineffectively.
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U.S.
In Impeachment Case, Schiff Accuses Trump of Trying ‘to Cheat’ in Election
The quid pro quo is established.
The defense claims it is trivial and common practice.
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Magazine
My Grandmother Kept Telling Us About the Nazis. Now I Know Why.
Dogma does not change easily.
"American laws at the time posed a tremendous obstacle to the Nellhaus family’s attempts to resettle in the United States. The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924 imposed a strict quota for each country, greatly reducing the number of people that could enter the United States from Germany, Poland and other countries that were home to large Jewish populations."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma
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U.S.
Now Testifying for the Prosecution: President Trump
Trump Twitters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/books/review-very-stable-genius-donald-trump-philip-rucker-carol-leonnig.html
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Style
Love in the Time of Low Expectations
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
Steam Punk is amusing fiction.
"Women hold up half the sky"
The daylight half.
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Science
The Freshwater Giants Are Dying
Overharvesting and habitat loss endanger most of the world’s freshwater “megafauna.” But many species may yet be saved.People must work at it.
Trump is foolish.
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Climate
Trump and the Teenager: A Climate Showdown at Davos
President Trump and Greta Thunberg dominated the first full day of the annual gathering of the rich and powerful in the Swiss Alps.Greta Thunberg wins.
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Opinion
The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?Doing nothing new is the darkness.
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Business
It May Be the Biggest Tax Heist Ever. And Europe Wants Justice.
Small change as things go.
"The best government money can buy"
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Opinion
How to Convince a White Realtor You’re Middle Class
How to convince a realtor, black or white.
The long green.
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World
Scale of China’s Wuhan Shutdown Is Believed to Be Without Precedent
In sealing off a city of 11 million people, China is trying to halt a coronavirus outbreak using a tactic with a complicated history of ethical concerns.New York metro area = twenty two million.
It has not worked.
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U.S.
Architect of C.I.A. Interrogation Program Testifies at Guantánamo Bay
Appearing for the first time at the military war court, James Mitchell was defiant, saying he was there for the benefit of the victims of the 9/11 attacks and their families.Any just prosecution blew up.
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The Upshot
Childhood Obesity Is a Major Problem. Research Isn’t Helping.
Something is missing with many study methods.Sugar; the bitter truth
Fructose is toxic.
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World
China’s Omnivorous Markets Are in the Eye of a Lethal Outbreak Once Again
The coronavirus that has spread from Wuhan has been linked to the sale of live wildlife at a market that experts describe as a perfect incubator for novel pathogens.Now what? The virus is spreading through human contact.
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U.S.
Ousted From Washington, Ex-Spy Valerie Plame Asks Voters to Send Her Back
Ms. Plame is celebrating her C.I.A. past in a race for a congressional seat. But as she finds herself cast as an outsider, she’s running into trouble.Send her. She thinks.
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World
34 Troops Have Brain Injuries From Iranian Missile Strike, Pentagon Says
A Pentagon spokesman said that eight of the affected service members returned to the United States from an American military hospital in Germany.Trump does not get things right.
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