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NYT > U.S. > Politics38 minutes ago
Judge Will Review Lawyer’s Emails Sought by Jan. 6 Panel
A federal judge said he would decide whether emails to and from John Eastman should be released to the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol. read more
 
Delay is all treason can do after the fact.
 
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Uncertainty for Biden’s Covid Plan After Aid Is Dropped From Spending Bill
The $15.6 billion emergency aid package was stripped amid disputes over how to pay for it, injecting uncertainty into the president’s pandemic response plan. read more
 
Conservative economics is hard money.
 
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Democrats Strip Covid Aid From $1.5 Trillion Spending Package
Facing disputes over how to cover the cost of the pandemic response effort, Democrats dropped it rather than jeopardize legislation that includes aid for Ukraine and other top priorities. read more
 
One point five trillion is what Mansion has allowed of the five trillion progressive program.
 
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Biden Takes Step Toward Regulating Cryptocurrencies
The president signed an executive order that will coordinate efforts among financial regulators to better understand the risks and opportunities presented by digital assets. read more
 
Cryptocurrencies are only deflationary.
Initally they are a Ponzi scheme.
 
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House Poised to Approve $13.6 Billion in Emergency Aid for Ukraine
Bipartisan backing for the assistance provided momentum for a broader, $1.5 trillion measure to fund the government through September. read more
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics#Fiscal_remedies 

Keynes was getting old.
He died shortly after the Bretton Woods agreement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

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Democrats Find Their Inflation Villains: Vladimir Putin and Big Oil
With the U.S. battling high oil prices and facing a dangerous confrontation with Russia, the Democratic Party is coalescing around a new message for the midterms. read more
 
Americans must pay their taxes.
 
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County Clerk Tina Peters Indicted in Colorado Voting Investigation
The Mesa County clerk, Tina Peters, is charged with 10 counts related to tampering with voting equipment. A Republican running for secretary of state, she has promoted false claims of fraud in the 
2020 election. read more
 
"Tina Peters, a county clerk running as a Republican for secretary of state of Colorado, was indicted Tuesday evening on 10 criminal counts related to allegations that she tampered with election equipment after the 2020 election."
 
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Poland’s Fraught Offer: Fighter Jets for Ukraine, but Only Through U.S. Hands
Neither Poland nor the United States wants to make itself — or NATO — a target of Russia. And providing MIG fighters might cross over Putin’s invisible line. read more
 
The U.S. will not willingly trigger a nuclear attack.
 
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Roselyn Tso Is Nominated to Run Indian Health Service
The president had made a campaign promise to address the longstanding issues plaguing the agency, which has lacked consistent leadership. read more
 
The Native American wars are over.
Let the hostilities end.
 
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Cluster Munitions and ‘Vacuum Bombs’: Russian Invasion Revives an Old Debate
Diplomats and talking heads have repeated longstanding fictions about battlefield weapons that critics argue are too cruel or too indiscriminate for use in warfare. read more
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Is_Fair_in_Love_and_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyly
 
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Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices
They have pointed to the Biden administration’s policies on the Keystone XL pipeline and certain oil and gas leases, which have had little impact on prices. read more
 
Republicans refuse to understand causality.
 
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House Panel Calls for Criminal Investigation Into Amazon
Members of the Judiciary Committee accused Amazon of obstructing its inquiry into how the company treats third-party sellers. read more
 
Amazon is guilty of contempt of congress.
They should be prosecuted.
 
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Mark Meadows Spread Trump’s Voter Fraud Claims. Now His Voting Record Is Under Scrutiny.
The former Trump aide listed a mobile home in rural North Carolina as his residence at the same time that he was running operations at the White House. read more
 
It looks like voter fraud.
 
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Ian Welsh13 hours ago
Ukraine Through the Lens of Honor Or A Mafia Society
[image: Ukraine Through the Lens of Honor Or A Mafia Society] There’s a good thread here, on how Russian prison works. Go read it, come back. That's the single most suicidal logic in the world. It may be unclear on the international level, but it's obvious on individual one. Let me tell you about social structure and dynamics of Russian prison. The lowest position in the hierarchy is reserved for pariahs, the "cocks" pic.twitter.com/M8uGl5qWXZ — Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) March 1, 2022 Now, I’ve never in been in prison, but I grew up in boarding school and I was near the bottom ... read more
 
Ian Welsh gets credit for theory.  
He does not get credit for practice.
The U.S. is composed of individually sovereign cooperating persons.
It changes with elections.
Only documents approved by cooperative power can bind it. 

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Republicans, Once Harsh Ukraine Critics, Pivot to Strong Support
In a matter of weeks, the center of gravity on Ukraine has sharply shifted among Republicans, muffling doubts about U.S. involvement and dismissing questions about the recent past. read more
 
The  Republican party has found war useful to shield other immoral acts.

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Pressing for Evidence, Jan. 6 Panel Argues That Trump Committed Fraud
The argument was a response to a lawsuit f
 
The 1/6/21 subcomittee cannot act on the evidence it gathers.
 
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Biden Bans Oil Imports From Russia, Warning Gas Prices Will Rise
Officials said President Biden had struggled for days over the move amid deep concerns about accelerating the already rapid rise in the price of gasoline. read more
 
"The future is electric"
Getting beyond the Tom Swift franchise is expensive.
 
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Much of Smartmatic Case Against Fox News Can Proceed, Judge Rules
The judge did dismiss some defamation claims, against Rudolph W. Giuliani, Jeanine Pirro and Sidney Powell. read more
 
Rupert Murdoch prefers fantasy.
 
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Much of Smartmatic Case Against Fox News Can Proceed, Judge Rules
The judge did dismiss some defamation claims, against Rudolph W. Giuliani, Jeanine Pirro and Sidney Powell. read more
 
Rupert Murdoch prefers fantasy.
 
 
 
 
 
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