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Buildings Are Empty, Now They Have to Go Green

  
WSJ - 09.02.2023 Original article ›
Shane Shifflett
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New laws place fines on buildings that do not meet carbon emissions standards. Buildings in New York such as 277 Park Avenue face $1.3 million in fines. It is leased by JP Morgan Chase and is now at 25% vacancy. Chase Bank is building its own tower with zero carbon emissions and will move to this tower when completed. Other similar buildings in NY and across the country face similar fines.

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China’s Leader Looks Set to Skip G20 Summit in Snub to India

  
NYTimes.com - 09.04.2023 Original article ›
David Pierson, Sameer Yasir
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China's Xi has chosen to attend summits with a format in which China plays a dominant role such as the recent BRICS meeting in Johannesburg. He has chosen to skip the G20 Summit on September 9 in New Delhi and may even skip the November 12 APEC meeting in San Francisco. This leaves Xi without the opportunity to meet US president Biden on the sidelines of both summits.

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New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education

  
NYTimes.com - 10.23.2023 Original article ›
Claire Cain Miller, Francesca Paris
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Take notice my countrymen. There is a deep division in education where about two thirds of the people of America in the bottom of the income and wealth pyramid are excluded from the opportunities for education and the surroundings that build educational opportunity. As a result their test scores lag behind the upper 30%. About two thirds of American children in grade 4 cannot pass reading comprehension ACT tests.

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House Speaker: Johnson Elected Speaker of the House, Ending Weeks of Chaos

  
NYTimes.com - 10.25.2023 Original article ›
Catie Edmondson
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Electing a conservative member of Congress from Louisiana as the new Speaker of the House is a move that risks the Republican majority, says this report in the WSJ. It is historic and also new as Louisiana, the most southern of the Southern states has never had one of its members of Congress elected as Speaker. This week Mike Johnson was elected as Speaker after many failed attempts to fill this position.

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One Road to Affordable EVs Passes Through This Man’s Turf

  
WSJ - 11.12.2023 Original article ›
River Davis, Yang Jie | Photographs By Ko Sasaki For The Wall Street Journal
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Taiwan computer and iphone maker Foxconn is setting up a new EV business with $600 million investment. GM, Toyota, Stellantis and other auto companies are making their own EV's and accumulating expertise in the manufacture of EV vehicles which have fewer parts and use software. Foxconn has operated as a supplier to Apple. It hopes to become a supplier of EV's with initial progress in Asian countries. 

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Why suffering setbacks could make you more successful

  
BBC News - 08.07.2019 Original article ›
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UK Sport, a British government body for investing in elite sport did 85 interviews with exceptional athletes. It found that exceptional athletic achievers all had some setbacks in life. The setbacks increased their motivation and were used for energizing by these athletes to try again. 

Setbacks were overcome and near miss individuals actually lived longer and won later because they persisted and tried again with enhanced motivation.

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Missing million: hunt for lost army of UK jobless

  
The Times - 08.12.2020 Original article ›
Philip Aldrick, Economics Editor
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Look more carefully at the numbers that the official ONS statistics ignores or does not show, and jobless are at about 2.5 million in Britain, including 1.1 million of "disguised jobless" including people on zero contract hours. The jobless rate in reality is much higher at about 7percent and climbing at midyear 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic. The Bank of England sees the figure going up to 11%.

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The Oppenheimer story that won't win Oscars

  
BBC News - 03.11.2024 Original article ›
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The effects on the residents near the site of the atomic tests in New Mexico are shown here by BBC News with the title that it doesn't win Oscars. Ben Ray Lujan, Senator from New Mexico, was on the Senate floor this week asking for support for the bill to provide help and compensation to survivors and relatives with cancer that is connected to the atomic test.

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Oil Billionaires Bet on Trump’s Energy Agenda

  
WSJ - 07.24.2024 Original article ›
Benoît Morenne, Collin Eaton
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Trump is getting the support of oil billionaires and oil and gas backers as he decides to ignore climate change completely in favor of "Drill, Baby Drill." Costs of not doing anything for climate change action would accumulate in the absence of action and it could cost the US upwards of 1 trillion dollars in 2028 to fix what was breaking and was ignored for 4 years.

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The experts: oncologists on the simple, doable, everyday things they do to try to prevent cancer

  
The Guardian - 07.11.2024 Original article ›
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Two suggestions- first increase the amount of fruit and vegetables you eat. Second pay attention to the four forms of mindfulness, that are described by the Buddha in ancient path languages translated into English. Mindfulness of body, feeling, mind and mind objects. In it one does "body contemplation, feeling contemplation, mind contemplation, and mind object contemplation, ardent, clearly comprehending and mindful, overcoming the grief and covetousness of this world."

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Sunbelt Manufacturing Boom Lures Property Investors

  
WSJ - 09.10.2024 Original article ›
Will Parker
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Sunbelt manufacturing is taking off. TMC of Taiwan is spending $65 billon in Phoenix plant in one project alone. Biden's infrastruture spending is as active in red states, even more in red states than in blue states. Throughout America a "rising tide is lifting all boats," when it comes to manufacturing in America, an expression once used by JFK in then backward Arkansas in the South.

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Elon Musk Leaves Pentagon After Discussions About China and Tech

  
WSJ - 03.21.2025 Original article ›
Alexander Ward, Nancy A. Youssef
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Two stories in the NYT and this one in the WSJ on Musk attending a high security briefing on China by the War Department. DJT says on Truth Social site that Musk would not be allowed in any China briefing. DJT says  of plans for defense against China - "I don't want to show it to anybody." Musk has manufacturing plants in China for his EV company Tesla.

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Biden’s Office Says He Was Last Screened for Prostate Cancer in 2014

  
WSJ - 05.20.2025 Original article ›
Annie Linskey, Brianna Abbott
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Biden had his PSA test for prostate cancer about 11 years back in 2014, an astounding fact given that he ran for the presidency in 2019. The nation did not know that all this time this cancer was developing and would affect the manner in which the nation's affairs would be conducted. Putting an unelected Vice President into the White House also has its own serious drawbacks. 

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The Promises vs. Realities of Trump’s First Months in Office

  
WSJ - 04.29.2025 Original article ›
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DJT First 100 Days. The Promises Kept and some of the hurdles along the way- on transgender, stopping flow of migrants and the border, getting a level playing field by reshaping world trade, attracting investment in manufacturing and making America a manufacturing nation. All this from Day One as there was no time to lose because of midterms being only 24 months away and Year One being the target for delivery.

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WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Warns Iraq It Risks Losing Access to Key Bank Account if Troops Told to Leave

  
WSJ - 01.11.2020 Original article ›
Ian Talley In Washington, Isabel Coles In Beirut
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Iraq has $3 billion at the New York Federal reserve Bank in overnight deposits, needed for the Iraqi economy's smooth operation. Loss of access to this account would hurt the Iraqi dinar currency with sharp devaluation. It would also hurt workers, spending and the Iraqi economy.

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Isles of Scilly Travel | The Times & The Sunday Times

  
The Times & The Sunday Times - 03.11.2021 Original article ›
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Travel closer to home that has much of what the Maldives or Mauritius offer. In this case on the coastline of Cornwall, England. This is true for other countries with long coastlines- travel closer to home has a lot to offer at this time of the pandemic.

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Coronavirus: Belgium hit hard by second pandemic wave | DW | 20.10.2020

  
DW.COM - 10.20.2020 Original article ›
Barbara Wesel (Brussels)
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Belgians are being asked to restrict contacts to only one person outside their immediate family and wear masks in shops and public transport. Daily cases average 7900 for the week of October 9-15.  Shops, museums and schools remain open. Many restaurants are closed with restrictions on restaurants.

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Canadian Banks, Led by TD and RBC, Get Boost From Stimulus

  
WSJ - 12.03.2020 Original article ›
Vipal Monga
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The large stimulus effort in Canada is about $382 Canadian dollars or $300 billion U.S. dollars for help to families, workers and businesses. It is about one fifth of Canada's total economic output. This has helped Canadian banks RBC and TD avoid major loan losses. 

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‘Multiple red flags’ failed to rouse watchdog

  
The Times - 12.18.2020 Original article ›
Ben Martin, Senior City Correspondent
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The Times reports that multiple red flags were ignored at the Financial Conduct Authority as the 237 million pound London Capital and FInance scandal developed. Mr. Andrew Bailey headed the FCA during the period of the scandal. He is now the Governor of the Bank of England. 

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Hack Suggests New Scope, Sophistication for Cyberattacks

  
WSJ - 12.18.2020 Original article ›
Dustin Volz, Robert Mc Millan
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The scale and sophistication of a recent cyberattack on U.S. government agencies surprised even experienced security experts. The strategy was zeroing in on a weak link in the software supply chain U.S. businesses and government institutions rely on, the use of a network management software called Orion.

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Never back down: Bumrah-Shami fight fire with fire to lead India’s spirited fightback at Lord’s

  
The Indian Express - 08.17.2021 Original article ›
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The Indian Express looks at the 89 run partnership from Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami for the 9th wicket that changed the game at Lord's cricket ground yesterday. India won by 151 runs after starting Day 5 poorly with loss of the wicket of Rishabh Pant.

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German election 2021: Meet the parties' top candidates | DW | 25.05.2021

  
DW.COM - 09.13.2021 Original article ›
Rina Goldenberg
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A look at the top candidates of the SPD, Greens and CDU parties in Germany in the upcoming elections for the German parliament. This election is likely to bring in a government that sets a new direction for Germany after the pandemic and the social, economic crises.

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Deal or no deal, we’re going back to the 1970s

  
The Times - 12.22.2018 Original article ›
Matthew Parris
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This article in The Times says Britain is now on the path to slow decline similar to the situation in the 1970's with the Brexit situation- with a deal or without a deal. Of the options now open he favors a second referendum and supports Remain. 

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The Value in Trying to Do Things Your Own Way

  
NYTimes.com - 07.08.2019 Original article ›
Carl Richards
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There is a unique value in being creative and coming up with one's own way of doing things. New possibilities come into view with creative efforts and not taking the time worn path without thinking. In all activities and particularly new endeavors this becomes important.

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Egan Bernal set for Tour de France title after retaining yellow for ride to Paris

  
The Guardian - 07.27.2019 Original article ›
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Egan Bernal, 22 year old from Colombia is the expected winner of the Tour de France. He and last years winner Geraint Thomas are from the same team. Colombians have consistently done well at the high altitudes in the Alps where part of the race is run.

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