Thursday, February 3, 2022

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NYT > U.S. > Politics19 minutes ago
Pfizer to Ask FDA to Authorize Covid-19 Vaccine for Children Under 5
Pfizer and BioNTech in mid-December announced that two doses of the vaccine, given at a tenth of the amount of an adult dosing, did not produce a strong enough immune response in children ages 2 to 4. 
 
A necessary step.
 
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NYT > U.S. > Politics40 minutes ago
Fatal Gang Fight Spurs Nationwide Lockdown of Federal Prison System
The Bureau of Prisons’ unusual step indicated that it was concerned that the violence could have a ripple effect on other facilities. read more
 
The administrators are affraid of the prisoners.
The prisoners are seen as political and organized.
 
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NYT > U.S. > Politics43 minutes ago
Rachel Maddow Is Taking a Hiatus at MSNBC
The anchor is expected to be off until April, leaving MSNBC with a hole in the coveted 9 p.m. weeknight time slot. read more
 
MSNBC upper management has suffered a major failure.

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NYT > U.S. > Politics55 minuraidtes ago
Biden Designates Qatar as a Major Non-NATO Ally
The move clears the way for greater security cooperation and investment at a time when President Biden is seeking help boosting natural gas supplies in Europe. read more
 
Qatar has a best  government money can buy.

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NYT > U.S. > Politics59 minutes ago
U.S. and Allies Close to Reviving Nuclear Deal With Iran, Officials Say
A return to a 2015 accord is on the table, but the next decisions are up to the new government in Tehran, the Biden administration says. read more
 
The Times is taking a hopeful view.
Israel will not be happy.
The Trump partisans are never happy.
 
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Trump Announces He Is Entering 2022 With $122 Million in the Bank
The former president said his overall war chest so far was more than double the cash on hand of the Republican National Committee. read more
 
Trump and his supporters seem to be guilty of treason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason
 
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Trump’s Grip on G.O.P. Faces New Strains
Shifts in polls of Republicans, disagreements on endorsements and jeers over vaccines hint at daylight between the former president and the right-wing movement he spawned. read more
 
Reading tealeaves.
 
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Angry US-Russia Exchange at UN Punctuates Deepening Ukraine Rift
With vitriolic accusations that echoed the Cold War era, the United States and Russia sparred in a bitter debate over the Ukraine crisis in a Security Council meeting watched by the world on Monday. read more
 
This is what the Security Council of the U.N. is for.

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DeSantis and the Media: (Not) a Love Story
The Florida governor and the mainstream press have had a rocky relationship that he has often worked to his advantage. read more
 
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida lives in a fantasy.
 
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Fed Officials Make It Clear on Inflation: This Time Is Different
Central bankers on Monday emphasized that conditions are better than they were the last time they backed off their efforts to prop up the U.S. economy. read more
 
The Federal Reserve Bank will try to follow its charter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve
 
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Fed Officials Make It Clear: This Time Is Different
Central bankers on Monday emphasized that conditions are better than t hey were the last time they backed off their efforts to prop up the U.S. economy. read more
 
The Federal Reserve Bank will try to follow its charter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve

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What a Disconnect From Swift Would Mean for Russia
A Belgian financial messaging service is once again at the center of an international sanctions fight. read more
 
Alan Rappeport is guessing from disinformation.
The diplomats are talking and the troops are not moving,
 
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Georgia Prosecutor Investigating Trump Seeks Safety Assistance From the F.B.I.
The Fulton County district attorney expressed concern about the former president’s comments at a rally in Texas. read more
 
Trump committed treason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason
 
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Inflation and Deficits Don’t Dim the Appeal of U.S. Bonds
Treasury rates remain strikingly low, partly because of the safety government debt offers corporations and retirees. Whether that endures is crucial to federal spending. read more
 
The U.S. financial system remains sound.
The powers of the Republican party are trying to destroy it.
 
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With Breyer’s Exit, a Farewell to Marshmallow Guns and Tomato Children
Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who said last week that he planned to retire, enlivened Supreme Court arguments with questions that could confuse and amuse. read more
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory
 
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Trump Says He Would Consider Pardons for Jan. 6 Defendants if Elected
In a speech in Texas, the former president also urged supporters to stage protests if prosecutors in Atlanta and New York took action against him. read more
 
Trump has committed treason.

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Election Deniers Are Running for Secretary of State Across the Country
Brazenly partisan candidates who insist that Donald Trump won the 2020 election are transforming races for the once-obscure office of secretary of state. read more
 
These are Trump's willing aids.
 
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Ian Welsh1 day ago
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 30, 2022
[image: Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 30, 2022] Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 30, 2022 by Tony Wikrent *Strategic Political Economy* *Yuan overtakes yen in global transaction volume * [Asia Times, via Naked Capitalism 1-26-2022] *China in the Middle East* Chas W. Freeman, Jr. [Naked Capitalism 1-27-2022] *How Supply-Side Reaganomics is linked to the slave holding Confederacy* Heather Cox Richardson, January 27, 2022 [Letters from an American] On January 21, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen explained to the World Economic Forum that the Biden administrat... read more
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
Merz is suspected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merz_(art_style)
There may be information in this word salad. I stopped paying attention. 
The bottom line:  It does not compute.

Minsky moment?

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For Ketanji Brown Jackson, View of Criminal Justice Was Shaped by Family
The story of an uncle’s cocaine conviction formed only part of Judge Jackson’s understanding of the system’s complexities. She is now seen as a contender to be President Biden’s Supreme Court pick. read more
 
Ketanji Brown Jackson has been a respected judge.
 
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Inflation and Deficits Don’t Dim the Appeal of U.S. Bonds
Treasury rates remain strikingly low, partly because of the safety government debt offers corporations and retirees. Whether that endures is crucial to federal spending. read more
 
"The full faith and credit" of the federal government retains value in uncertain times. 
Inflation protected means what it says.
 
 
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