Sunday, March 12, 2017

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U.S.

Trump Adviser Had Twitter Contact With Figure Tied to Russians

Roger J. Stone Jr., an off-and-on adviser to President Trump, confirmed the contact with Guccifer 2.0, believed to be a front for Russian intelligence.

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

I would not be surprised to learn Stone is employed by Pence.

I do not read minds.

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World

Struggling With Japan’s Nuclear Waste, Six Years After Disaster

Japanese officials wrestle with what to do with the ever-growing pile of radioactive waste at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, six years after the accident there.

The fuel will go to France for recycling.
The water will go into deep water to spend a few thousand years drifting to Peru.
The lowlevel waste will be incinerated and the ash landfilled with the contaminated soil.

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Opinion

Bernie Sanders: Trump Should Avoid a Bad Zika Deal

The government might give a French company monopoly rights to a potential Zika vaccine. Taxpayers, who helped fund the research, will lose out.

License the patents and keep control.
Do the manufacturing in India and Brazil. 
Go to generic versions as soon as possible. 
Governments are not required to make a profit.

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Opinion

Are Your Sperm in Trouble?

Toxic chemicals in products all around us may threaten our future.

Evolution is merciless.

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Opinion

The Law’s Emotion Problem

Judges and juries can’t accurately detect remorse.

The system should lean far toward correction rather than punishment.

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Business Day

Snapchat Pornography to Test Advertisers’ Tolerance for Risk

GroupM, which oversees billions of digital-advertising dollars, sent its clients a memo warning that ads may run before or after explicit content on Snapchat.

Use Google search.
See what you want to see.

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Opinion

Misogyny and Women in Politics

Are the harsh attacks on Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to the president, sexist?

Probably not.
I suspect they are lazy.

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World

Uprooted by War, Threatened by Boko Haram and Desperate to Go Home

Nigeria says the war with Boko Haram is over, but new arrivals still pour into camps for displaced people as the terrorists continue their deadly attacks.

Warlords if they must.
Feudalism has worked in other places.

9
Opinion

The Moral Failing of Obamacare Repeal

The logical conclusion of the Republicans’ efforts is to cut off people who need care.

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/smart-republicans/

The whole system will stand or fall.

Effective medicine is a product of the second world war.
If government returns to 1916 we will be without it.

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Technology

Farhad’s and Cecilia’s Week in Tech: Tech Policy, Too, Is Undergoing a Sea Change

While immigration, health care and Russia are hogging the media oxygen, big reversals are happening in Obama-era tech policy.

https://slashdot.org/

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