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People of America reflect on what has the most promise for our future?  Critics have focused so much on delivery on one night to forget what was actually said. The president's message to Congress and the American People of last week is all there for everyone to read. It states what was said in the State of the Union in January 2024 on the floor of Congress with vigor not seen since the days of FDR in 1932. Critics could read the actual text of what Biden said in the debate, and they did nothing of that acting in ways that only the uneducated would do and manipulating information about the president's health in dishonorable ways. Polling is an uncertain business and may be all wrong depending onthe sample and what questions are asked. This was proven true in last week's results of the French election. Where are the people relying on polls who predicted RN National Rally on top when it ended up in third place. The pundits have not reflected on the meaning of the French election and the British election where parties that made cost of living action, fighting for working families, and infrastructure investment coming out on top. Who is going to fight for and take climate change action and going delinquent on climate change is that an answer the American people will make? Who has done the most for climate change action, health care and education? How does the US compete with China without investing at home a fight which president has fought with economic theory from the Reagan/Friedman era that let American industry wither while China took the lead in industry after industry?  ...

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The devastation from Hurricane Helene in the Tampa Bay Area that includes St Petersburg. WSJ shows the flooding in low lying coastal areas such as Shore Acres.The price of real estate went up in the Tampa Bay Area as population increased to 3 million. After the hurricane supply of housing on the market is up 58% with demand up 10%.

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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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Nancy Pelosi's decision in the House of Representatives to send a second impeachment notice of Mr.Trump to the Senate of the US may have the unintended effect of setting back the work of the Biden administration in tackling the economic effects of the pandemic and on other fronts. Experts say a power struggle is likely to take place in the Senate that would slow legislation. Archaic and old rules in the Senate of the U.S. may not help in this situation leading to new legislation getting stymied in the Senate.

The delay to dealing with the impeachment trial to February 9 in the Senate also makes it likely that old party attitudes and partisan behavior will cause distractions to the essential parts of the Biden agenda.

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Sam Dagher of the WSJ provides this exceptional account of mothers on both sides of the civil war in Syria and their sons who are missing, in the war around Damascus.

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U.S. will no longer allow Chinese flights to the U.S. if U.S. airlines are not given permission for flights to China. Chinese airlines continued flights to the U.S. after U.S. airlines stopped flying in February and March. Air China, China Southern, Xiamen, and China Eastern operate reduced flights to the U.S. President Trump's order could bar flights starting June 16, or earlier.

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England are bowled out in the first innings for 112 on the first day of the third Test match with India in Ahmedabad. India are 99 for 3 wickets at the end of the day. Indian spin bowlers Axar Patel with 6 wickets for 38 runs and Ravichandran Ashwin with 3 wickets for 26 runs made it difficult for the English batsmen.

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Cuts in fuel and other subsidies and the economic changes in Iran in 2011.