Friday, May 28, 2021

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Biden to Require Pipeline Companies to Report Cyberattacks
David E. Sanger, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 55 minutes ago
The move, which will require companies to report to the government any significant attacks, is a response to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attacks.
 
"Windows" software cannot be hack   resistant. 
There is no other barrier to the world wide web.
Reporting will make that apparent.

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Paul Ryan Critiques Trump’s Grip on the Republican Party
Annie Karni, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
In a speech, the former House speaker called on the Republican Party not to move forward in Donald Trump’s image, though he did not criticize the former president by name.
 
"Mr. Trump responded on Friday morning with a lengthy statement calling Mr. Ryan “a curse to the Republican Party,” adding that “he has no clue as to what needs to be done for our Country, was a weak and ineffective leader." 

Another magic astorisk.

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QAnon Now as Popular in U.S. as Some Major Religions, Poll Suggests
Giovanni Russonello, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
Fifteen percent of Americans believe that “patriots may have to resort to violence” to restore the country’s rightful order, the poll indicated.
 
Witch craft is more popular than I had thought.
 
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Senate Poised to Pass $195 Billion Bill to Bolster Competitiveness With China
Catie Edmondson, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
The legislation, which has bipartisan support, would be the first major industrial policy effort in decades.
 
China competes on the price of labor.
This is money for the rich.
 
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U.S. Is Said to Have Unexamined Intelligence to Pore Over on Coronavirus Origins
Julian E. Barnes and David E. Sanger, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
Intelligence officials have told the White House that computer analysis may shed light on the mystery.
 
The Trump administration seeded the pandemic intentionally.
 
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U.S. Says It Will Not Rejoin Open Skies Treaty With Russia
Michael D. Shear, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago
The 30-year-old agreement was put in place to ensure that Russia and the United States could monitor each other’s military movements.
 
The joint chiefs are frightening Putin.
 
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Biden's Plan: President to Propose $6 Trillion Budget to Boost Middle Class, Infrastructure
Jim Tankersley, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago
The president’s plans to invest in infrastructure, education, health care and more would push federal spending to its highest sustained levels since World War II.
 
At these interest rates "there is nothing to fear but fear itself." 

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Republicans Present $928 Billion Counteroffer to Biden on Infrastructure
Emily Cochrane, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago
The plan’s total price tag came close to what the president has said he would consider, but it included only a fraction of the new spending he has requested. A compromise faces long odds.
 
"A day late and a dollar short"
The loan is called.
 
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Biden’s Budget Sees Low Inflation, Rising Debt and Slow Economic Growth
Alan Rappeport, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago
The proposal sheds new light on President Biden’s economic agenda and underscores the administration’s belief that the country’s fiscal situation is manageable.
 
Alan Rappeport does not understand the reasoning.
 
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How Finance Sharks Destroy Industries: Chicago Tribune Edition
Ian Welsh, Ian Welsh - 6 hours ago
This isn’t going to be a long one. The way private-equity and other takeover artists today work is simple. They buy a company up and then load it up with debt to pay for having bought it. They generally take healthy companies (ToysRUs was running a profit), then once taken over slash and cut.  The […]
 
Republicans have never been rational about business management.
Democrats are marginally better.

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Walter Kissinger, Businessman and Brother of Henry, Dies at 96
Katharine Q. Seelye, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 7 hours ago
Walter shed his Bavarian accent, while Henry notably did not. Asked why he lost his, Walter told interviewers, “Because I am the Kissinger who listens.”
 
The kissingers were never very rational.
Henry is well out of government.
 
12
Biden’s Silence on Abortion Rights at a Key Moment Worries Liberals
Lisa Lerer, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 8 hours ago
As a case before the Supreme Court threatens Roe v. Wade and Democrats’ urgency grows, many activists believe the president needs to be bolder in defending reproductive rights.
 
Biden is not able to defend or attack abortion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States#
Safeguards_of_civil_rights_(Amendments_13,_14,_15,_19,_23,_24,_and_26) 
The Republicans with their justices do not hear the civil government.

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Scientists Don’t Want to Ignore the Wuhan ‘Lab Leak’ Theory, Despite No New Evidence
Carl Zimmer, James Gorman and Benjamin Mueller, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 9 hours ago
Many scientists welcomed President Biden’s call for a more rigorous investigation of a virus lab in Wuhan, China, though they said the so-called lab leak theory was still unlikely.
 
It is easier to quash a slander before it is established. 
Later it may not be possible.
 
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Biden's Plan: President to Propose $6 Trillion Budget to Boost Middle Class, Infrastructure
Jim Tankersley, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 12 hours ago
The president’s plans to invest in infrastructure, education, health care and more would push federal spending to its highest sustained levels since World War II.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Taft
 
 There has been a long fight against FDR and his programs.

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Biden to Propose $6 Trillion Budget to Boost Middle Class and Infrastructure
Jim Tankersley, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 14 hours ago
The president’s plans to invest in infrastructure, education, health care and more would push federal spending to its highest sustained levels since World War II.
 
Much has fallen into disrepair since Truman.

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On Voting Rights, Biden Prefers to Negotiate. This Time, It Might Not Be Possible.
Katie Rogers, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago
The president’s long history of deal making on the issue is crashing into the realities of a more sharply partisan time.
 
The Republicans do not negotiate.
 
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On Voting Rights, Biden Prefers to Negotiate. This Time, It Might Not Be Possible.
Katie Rogers, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago
The president’s long history of deal making on the issue is crashing into the realities of a more sharply partisan time.
 
The Republicans do not negotiate.
 
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Medicare Expansion: Broad Coalition of Democrats Press President Biden on Plan
Luke Broadwater, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 19 hours ago
Over 150 House Democrats are pushing the president to include a plan in his infrastructure package to lower the eligibility age, expand benefits and negotiate drug prices.
 
Biden is supposed to make faster progress.
 
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Broad Coalition of Democrats Presses Biden to Expand Medicare
Luke Broadwater, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 19 hours ago
Over 150 House Democrats are pushing the president to include a plan in his infrastructure package to lower the eligibility age, expand benefits and negotiate drug prices.
 
Biden is supposed to make faster progress.
 
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Biden is said to be planning to nominate Burns and Garcetti for ambassadorships.
Annie Karni, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago
The president has also selected Thomas R. Nides, Rahm Emanuel and Ken Salazar for posts, according to people familiar with the process.
 
Diplomats who agree with their government make faster progress.
 
 
 
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