Sunday, November 10, 2019

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World

Germany Has Been Unified for 30 Years. Its Identity Still Is Not.

East Germans, bio-Germans, passport Germans: In an increasingly diverse country, the legacy of a divided history has left many feeling like strangers in their own land.

A next Reich is possible.

2
U.S.

Why Pete Buttigieg Annoys His Democratic Rivals

His success, especially in Iowa, has grated on rival campaigns that say his record in government is not commensurate with the attention he’s receiving.

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

https://www.amazon.com/Parkinsons-Law-Other-Studies-Administration/dp/0395080681/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=C.+Northcote+Parkinson&qid=1573354484&s=books&sr=1-6

The Democratic convention will decide.

3

Opinion

Elizabeth Warren Is Asking the Most Important Question on Health Care

How can we move from a broken system to one that covers everyone, restrains prices and improves outcomes?

The present system is not broken. 
It is badly crippled by the Republican party.
Its replacement is not desperate.

4
Climate

Trump Serves Notice to Quit Paris Climate Agreement

The United States notified the United Nations on Monday that it would leave the Paris climate agreement, starting the clock on a yearlong withdrawal process.

This is not news.

5
Opinion

Liberalism’s Latinx Problem

Why is Elizabeth Warren describing Latinos with a term that few would use themselves?

There are many dialects of Spanish.  
None should dominate in the U.S.

6
World

9 Members of Mormon Family in Mexico Are Killed in Ambush

By Azam Ahmed, Elisabeth Malkin and Daniel Victor | Nov 5th

Other than the deaths much remains unknown.

The Trump administration finds the deaths convenient.

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U.S.

‘We’re Self-Interested’: The Growing Identity Debate in Black America

Why a movement that claims to support the American descendants of slavery is being promoted by conservatives and attacked on the left.

White racism is the cause that government is trying to correct.

The suffering that leads to the blues cannot be fixed after the fact.

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U.S.

Inside Ukraine’s Push to Cultivate Trump From the Start

Former President Petro Poroshenko alternately flattered President Trump, signed deals with U.S. firms and met with Rudolph Giuliani.

Trump has a long and dishonorable history.

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Opinion

On Ukraine, Trump Is a Con Man, but He’s Also a Mark

Corrupt forces find it easy to manipulate this president.

Trump is at home with the Ukraine.

10
World

Teenage Rescuer, Now 92, Meets Family She Saved From Nazis

Melpomeni Dina was reunited with the two surviving members and 40 descendants of the Jewish family she and her sisters helped escape occupied Greece during World War II.

Paper does not forget.

The world is running out of Nazis.

11
New York

For Third Time, Mayor Passes Over a Black Chief to Run the N.Y.P.D.

Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his choice of a white police commissioner, saying the job was a “special calling.”

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

The Irish do not forget or forgive.

12
Opinion

What Trump Didn’t Say About the Massacre in Mexico

If the president wants to fight the cartels behind killings like Monday’s attack on a Mormon family, he can start with gun control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqyGoE2Q4Y

Take the money out of the trade.

13
Opinion

The Presidency Is Not Enough

And without reform, neither is a Democratic Senate.

I know it.
The stalemate will continue.
Only the words will change.

14
U.S.

Farm Country Feeds America. But Just Try Buying Groceries There.

An exodus of grocery stores is turning rural towns into food deserts. But some are fighting back by opening their own local markets.

I do not want to do retail.
The service is necessary.
The Dollar General lot is mostly empty.
I can drive to the hyper markets in the neighboring towns.
Many cannot.
Harvest is in here.

15
U.S.

Kansas City Voters Remove Martin Luther King’s Name From Boulevard

After contentious debate, the Missouri city christened a street after the civil rights leader this year. Residents decided to revert it to Paseo Boulevard.

The South lost the Civil War.
Andrew Johnson won the peace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson

16
Style

When a Dad’s Secret Changes Everything

My father’s midlife transition taught me that if life is about change, love is about constancy.

My love is not with me. 
I must deal with that.

Sooner is better.   As soon as you can is best.

17
U.S.

White Supremacist Plotted to Bomb Colorado Synagogue, F.B.I. Says

The man, identified as Richard Holzer, 27, used several Facebook accounts to promote violence and show support for the Holocaust, the authorities said.

Hospitalization as a danger to himself and to others is my choice.
Criminal conviction should not be possible with the available evidence.

18
New York

N.Y. Election Results: Voters Approve All 5 Ballot Measures

Ballot questions took center stage in New York City, where ranked-choice voting was approved, and in Jersey City, where Airbnb suffered a defeat.

I voted early.  I will register locally.

19
Business

Why $4.5 Billion From Big Tech Won’t End California Housing Crisis

Efforts by Apple, Facebook and Google to address the California housing crunch must contend with the forces that created it.

There are unhoused inCalifornia because there is paid work.
The supply of labor can grow without bound.

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U.S.

Bloomberg Takes Steps Into 2020 Race and Signals an Unconventional Campaign Strategy

The former New York City mayor submitted paperwork on Friday to enter the 2020 presidential primary in Alabama, the first state with a filing deadline, indicating he would pursue a risky strategy of skipping all four traditional early-state contests.

Bloomberg is buying a place at the Democratic National Convention.

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