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U.S.

Trump’s War Against ‘the Deep State’ Enters a New Stage

By Peter Baker | Feb 12th 2020

The suggestion that Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman should now face punishment by the Pentagon was one sign of how determined the president is to even the scales after his impeachment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot

The Deep State of the paranoid right is the federal civil service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_civil_service

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U.S.

Centrist Democrats Want to Stop Sanders. They’re Not Sure Who Can.

By Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin | Feb 12th 2020

Unless a moderate favorite soon emerges, party leaders may increasingly look to Michael R. Bloomberg as a potential savior.

There is no reason to stop Bernie Sanders if he can win.

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Opinion

Paging Michael Bloomberg

By Thomas L. Friedman | Feb 12th 2020

Democrats need to nominate the right person to prevent Trump from winning a second term.

Bloomberg will have to win.
He has not done that yet.

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U.S.

Bernie Sanders Scores Narrow Victory in New Hampshire Primary

By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns | Feb 12th 2020

The Vermont senator tightened his grip on the Democratic Party’s liberal wing, benefiting from a field that has divided moderate voters.

He was opposed by the party machine.
I will vote for Elizabeth Warren if I can.

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World

A Pedophile Writer Is on Trial. So Are the French Elites.

By Norimitsu Onishi | Feb 11th 2020

For decades, Gabriel Matzneff wrote openly of his pedophilia, protected by powerful people in publishing, journalism, politics and business. Now cast out, he attacks their “cowardice” in a rare interview.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quills

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_philosophy

A refutation:    Reality exists.

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Health

Coronavirus Cases Seemed to Be Leveling Off. Not Anymore.

By Roni Caryn Rabin | Feb 13th 2020

On Thursday, health officials in China reported more than 14,000 new cases in Hubei Province alone. A change in diagnostic criteria may be the reason.

Denial is not constructive.

Civilization is learning the facts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html

Knowledge is dynamic.  It constantly changes. 

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U.S.

After Stone Case, Prosecutors Say They Fear Pressure From Trump

By Katie Benner, Charlie Savage, Sharon LaFraniere and Ben Protess | Feb 13th 2020

The episode also brought to a head tensions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington.

There is an absolute monarch in the U.S. for the first time.
It will take another revolution to end the monarchy.
I hope it is bloodless.

A Democratic supermajority in the congress is the start.


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U.S.

Prosecutors Quit Roger Stone Case After Justice Dept. Intervenes on Sentencing

By Katie Benner, Sharon LaFraniere and Adam Goldman | Feb 11th 2020

President Trump had complained that the recommendation of seven to nine years in prison for his former adviser and longtime friend was a “miscarriage of justice.”

There is no argument against royal decree.

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U.S.

How Amy Klobuchar Pulled Off the Big Surprise of the New Hampshire Primary

By Nick Corasaniti | Feb 12th 2020

After a disappointing fifth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, the Minnesota senator made a series of bets in the Granite State.

She had the help of conservative Democrats.

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U.S.

Who Won in New Hampshire? Not the Establishment

By Matt Flegenheimer and Katie Glueck | Feb 12th 2020

Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg emerge at the top of the field as two former front-runners fade.

The left wing won.

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