Saturday, December 7, 2019

@22:30, , 12/6/19, REC

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Opinion

I Was Once a Socialist. Then I Saw How It Worked.

Two cheers for capitalism, now and forever.

David Brooks is a puritan.

Natural monopolies require regulation.

"What the traffic will bear." cannot be the rule if there is to be change.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Railways/Economics_and_Legislation

2
U.S.

Mocked Abroad and Assailed at Home, Trump Returns to Face Impeachment

Two days in London on the world stage provided him no respite.

"No rest for the wicked."

Desperate workers kept the price of metals down.
Desperate workers are immigrants.

3
U.S.

When Pete Buttigieg Was One of McKinsey’s ‘Whiz Kids’

The candidate, citing a nondisclosure agreement, has been largely mum about his stint at “the firm.” Former McKinsey employees helped fill in the blanks.

Advertising works.

4
World

Trump Abruptly Exits NATO Gathering After Embarrassing Video Emerges

President Trump had planned to tout his foreign policy accomplishments at the meeting, but his visit was overshadowed by a gossipy video.

Donald Trump is a clown.
He is also in charge.

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

5
Opinion

Inconvenient Murders

The global surge in Jew-hatred barely registers in the West.

Two thousand years of practice is not wiped out in two generations.
Islam is charitable but it is not forgiving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Bell
Lawrence and Bell earned Britain a deal of slack.

The Palestinians are not forgiving of Zionists.

6
Opinion

Buttigieg’s Untenable Vow of Silence

He needs to give voters more information about his work for the consulting firm McKinsey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/world/asia/mckinsey-china-russia.html

There are reasons for silence.

7
World

For Trump and Europe, a Surprising Role Reversal

Where the president once kept European leaders off balance, Europe’s shifting landscape now has the Great Disrupter scrambling to recalibrate his approach.

Donald Trump is a clown.
Clowns please the crowd.

8
U.S.

Hundreds of Thousands Are Losing Access to Food Stamps

The Agriculture Department gave its final approval to the first of three rules that are ultimately expected to cut more than three million from the food stamp rolls.

People will starve in the streets.
The farmers will go broke.

9
U.S.

What Happened When Pete Buttigieg Toured the South to Meet Black Voters

The trip was engineered to introduce him to voters who have received far less attention from his campaign than a largely white cohort of donors and Iowa caucusgoers.

Not this man.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/world/asia/mckinsey-china-russia.html

Put him in a cabinet.

10
U.S.

Kamala Harris Says She’s Still ‘in This Fight,’ but Out of the 2020 Race

The California senator broke barriers but ran out of money as she struggled in polls. Her abrupt announcement is perhaps the most surprising development to date in the 2020 race.

The Senate or the cabinet.

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