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US March 2026 Jobs report 178000 jobs created unemployment at 4.3%. The economy is holding up better than expected.

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The failure of a 2 year Cannabis partial legalization experiment in Germany in 2026. Health Minister Warke calls the legalization a mistake saying-"Early interventions designed to dissuade children and young people from consumption are falling sharply in numbers." She also said there was now a "blurry boundary between cannabis for recreational consumption and cannabis for purely medicinal purposes,"  aggravating the situation for children. Now the CDU which opposes legalization cannot get agreement of the SPD its coalition partner, resulting in no action. The partial legalization happened under the SPD Greens coalition of Schulz.

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Lufthansa 100th anniversary in 2026. It was relaunched in 1955 by post-war Germany.

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Starmer in Britain, Macron in France and Merz in Germany all have low poll ratings in 2026.

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Nutrition critical for health is only now in 2026 being made part of Medical School curriculum with efforts of RFK Jr.  It took so long and in the meantime several generations of Americans have suffered from obesity and poor nutrition, higher incidence of diseases stemming from poor nutrition, and the overuse of pharmaceuticals. This also made medical care more costly, increasing the medical cost burden for families.

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US DJT Tariffs impact 1 year later- global trade has held up well with US unemployment at 4.4% and economic growth at 2.1%. China imports down from 20% in 2016 to 10% ten years later in 2026. For DJT that was a promise kept leading to a sharp decoupling of the US economy from the Chinese economy that was leading to huge trade deficits of 1 trillion dollars. Too much of the world's supply chain was tied up with manufacturing in China. It got so bad under Reagan, the two Bushes, Clinton/Obama that the US and EU were facing deindustrialization with huge risks to the future of the US and Europe as industrial powers. 150 years of industrialization and scientific advancement, the great achievements of Europe and the United States since 1860's was going up in smoke over reckless policies of Republican and Democratic elites who gave little thought and barely understood the long run effects of their policies and textbook theories of the economy. Most economists from ivy league universities got it completely wrong. ...

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The SCOTUS views in questioning on the Birthright Citizenship Case April 2026- Roberts, Gorsuch, Thomas and Alito. Roberts seemed to agree with the 1898 Wong decision by the Court that children of people not allowed to legally reside in the US are not citizens of the US when it was presented at the Court by Solicitor General Sauer.

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See who qualified and how for World Cup 2026 in the US in this detailed report in The Guardian.

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Making friends with Trees-  these are ways to Emotional Wellbeing. One Brooklyn neighorhood Boerum Hill has a play area park called Sixteen Sycamores right in the middle of a busy urban setting showing how trees are a treasured part of our urban landscapes. 

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This Washington Post Editorial Board Opinion asks Europe to get serious about its energy needs and finding alternate supplies than Hormuz, that the US president DJT is sending the right message "Go get your own oil." And this is true also for China, Japan, South Korea and India. What there is no need for is the posturing of these countries when it is China and Japan that are dependent on Hormuz strait and that region for 90% of their imports, not the US which is zero dependent and self sufficient. Germany has shown the way with only 6% of its imports from that region, Italy and Britain have not acted to find other alternate supplies.