Friday, July 2, 2021

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The Times seems to have changed their subscription rates without notification.

 

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Is Biden Declaring ‘Independence From the Virus’ Too Soon?
Less than half the country is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and the contagious Delta variant is spreading. Still, the White House is putting together an “America’s Back Together” celebration for July 4. read more
 
"When the president says jump, the only question is how high."

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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Recall Election Set for Sept. 14.
The date, just 75 days away, is the soonest that county officials said they could manage to pull together a special election. read more
 
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The California Recall, Untangled

The 12 questions that help explain the historical, political and logistical forces behind the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom of California." 
 
Read the explainer, the Times has done a good job.
 
This is a grudge fight.
 
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Military and V.A. Struggle With Vaccination Rates in Their Ranks
President Biden could legally require members of the military to get vaccinated, but so far he has declined to do so. read more
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax_vaccine_adsorbed
 
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After Biden Meets Putin, U.S. Exposes Details of Russian Hacking Campaign
The revelations, which dealt with a Russian espionage campaign, came after President Biden demanded that President Vladimir V. Putin rein in more destructive ransomware attacks. read more
 BSD
A solution is to use no Microsoft code.  Linux or mor BSD (Apple) will work.
The Antivirus is more vulnerable than the operating system as written.
 
Legal Threats Hover Over Trump as He Hints at a 2024 Bid
As the former president weighs another run for the White House, he’s confronting various investigations and lawsuits. Here’s a rundown. read more
 
Immunity and statutes of limitation are Trump's shelter from his history.
 
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Biden Meets With Florida Families as Rescue Pauses
The president said chances were fading that anyone else would be found alive under the mass of concrete and steel left by a collapsed condominium. read more
 
Chrystianity believes in Miracles by definition.
Maney battery objects speak.
 
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Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Voting Restrictions
The decision, a test of what remains of the Voting Rights Act, suggests that challenges to many new measures making it harder to vote may not be successful. read more
 
No surprise. 
 
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Justice Dept. Pauses Federal Executions, Reversing Trump Policy
As a candidate, President Biden said that he would work to abolish federal executions and incentivize states to follow suit. read more
 
Doing as promised.
 
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Trump Was Not Indicted. But the Charges Still Threaten Him.
The criminal case against the former president’s business could deliver a blow to his finances, and he remains the focus of a broader investigation in New York. read more
 
One step at a time.
Make it work this time.
 
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Cheney to Join Jan. 6 Inquiry, Drawing Threats of G.O.P. Retribution
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to offer a slot to the Wyoming Republican was an effort to bring a veneer of bipartisanship to an investigation the G.O.P. has denounced as one-sided. read more
 
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is admirable.
 
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The Author of 'Hillbilly Elegy' Is Running for Senate in Ohio
The author and venture capitalist will vie for the Republican nomination in one of the most wide-open 2022 Senate races. read more
 
If the Republicans fail to win most of them are going to jail.
 
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U.S. Deficit Expected to Hit $3 Trillion in 2021, Budget Office Says
Stimulus spending will help fuel economic growth and erase pandemic job losses, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office. read more
 
The deficit does not matter.
The bondholders are getting paid. 

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Britney Spears’s Case Leads Senators to Question Conservatorships
The move could signal the beginning of a legislative effort to overhaul the system. read more
 
She is abused by her father.
 
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Here’s How Biden Aims to Increase Electric Car Sales
The president wants to use pollution rules to rapidly lift sales, but there are hurdles ahead. read more
 
Ford will go bankrupt as Tesla triumphs.
 
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Pandemic Lockdowns Aided Predators Worldwide, Especially Online, U.S. Says
The number of cases of online sex exploitation, including of children, appeared to skyrocket last year as people spent more time on computers. read more
 
Sex is what people do.
 
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Democrats Brace for a Narrower Path to Challenge New Voting Laws
The Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday involving Arizona voting laws appeared to limit the options for voting rights groups to mount legal challenges to restrictive new measures being passed in Republican-controlled states. read more
 
Reconstruction must be resurected.
 
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Homeland Security Watchdog Delayed Inquiry, Complaint Says
The department’s inspector general delayed looking into a retaliation complaint by a former intelligence chief until after the 2020 election, according to officials and a whistle-blower. read more
 
Homeland Security is a Republican creation.
 
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House Passes Infrastructure Bill
House Democrats loaded their infrastructure measure with climate change spending, staking out a contrast with the Senate’s bipartisan bill that President Biden has embraced. read more
 
That was expected.
The senate is the problem.
 
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Stress and Burnout Still Plague Front-Line Health Care Workers as Pandemic Eases
Doctors and nurses are reeling from new Covid cases, staff burnout and the prolonged stress of dealing with the pandemic. read more 

Healthcare is not getting rich as was promised.

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Ian Welsh1 day ago
Canada Day, Canada’s Shame
[image: Story 448824361] It’s a muted Canada day this year because of the discovery of dead children at residential schools for natives. The residential schools were boarding schools for native children. The children were taken from their parents by force (some parents were killed for resisting). Once there they were treated badly, not allowed to speak their native language and inculcated in Christianity, which is why they were run by the Catholic Church. The reasoning was that the only way to “civilize” the natives was to make them Christians, and to remove them from their cultur... read more
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57592243 

Never a good idea.
 
 
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