Monday, March 6, 2017

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U.S.

An Unfounded Claim’s Journey From Talk Radio to Trump’s Twitter

President Trump’s allegation that the Obama administration wiretapped his phones began as a rant on conservative talk radio and then spread to Breitbart News.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson
"The search for the real killer"

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Opinion

When One President Smears Another

Mr. Trump has tweeted himself into a corner.

Do any of the officials of this administration have integrity?

Go to a commercial!

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Business Day

Former Deputy at the Justice Dept. Joins Linklaters Law Firm

Matthew S. Axelrod, the deputy to the acting attorney general, Sally Q. Yates, before she was fired by President Trump, will join the British firm’s white-collar defense practice.

There is a story in the changing of the politics of the justice department.
This one is not that story.

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U.S.

What Can Be Gleaned From Trump’s Allegations of Wiretapping

An accusation for which the president again offered no evidence sets off another spasm surrounding his young administration.

Reality is intruding into the Trump alt-right bubble.
Policy failures must be the result of plots by the Obama administration may be their assumption. 

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Technology

Uber Said to Consider Changes to Employee Stock Compensation

Uber is considering ways to make its stock compensation policies more friendly to its workers, said people with knowledge of a meeting where the issue was discussed.

Mr. Kalanick is not a nice man.
Stock options in a privately held company are illiquid  compensation.
The practice is near to fraud.

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Opinion

Trump and Big Coal

The National Mining Association takes issue with an editorial criticizing an executive action by the president.

The National Mining Association is trying to save its existence.


https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/coal-is-a-state-of-mind/
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Credit
But here’s the question: why are people so fixated on coal jobs?" 

State and local regulation was not enough.
Mining will continue to slow.  The mining communities will shrink toward extinction.

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Books

How to Read Proust in the Original

A remembrance of reading Proust.

I have no desire to relive my past.
Time is the price paid for existence.

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

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

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Technology

How Uber Used Secret Greyball Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide

A program uses data Uber collected to evade law enforcement in cities that resist the ride-hailing service, some current and former Uber employees said.

Uber has confessed to ducking code enforcement.
Law enforcement objects to being frustrated.
I expect a quick collapse of Uber.


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Opinion

Tax Credits Are No Substitute for Obamacare

Republican plans to replace Affordable Care Act subsidies with tax credits would shortchange millions of working class Americans.

If the proposed program is realized the Republicans will be out in 2018.
Insufficient help is worse than no help. 
It is teasing, a torture.

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Opinion

Public Lands in Private Hands?

If Ryan Zinke, the new interior secretary, believes in conservation, let him prove it.

A forest with roads is not wild.

"Great Outdoors Man" is not a compliment.
They get a campfire with a chainsaw.

Almost all of the public lands were not desired by the states.
Let them remain with the federal government and be mostly undeveloped.

There is no right to profit. 

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