How Kamala Harris cut migration from Guatemala and other Central American states

07/31/2024

Katie Tobin deputy assistant to the president shows how Kamal Harris cut migration from Guatemala with her action to stabilize Guatemala after the destabilizing of the region by Reagan and Bush through wars started in the region. The achievements to get Guatemalans and Central Americans to stay home compares favorably with the wars and weapons sent to the region under Reagan-Bush that led to gangs taking over San Salvador and young people leaving. Consider $300 million in humanitarian assistance during COVID years, $5 billion in foreign investment lined up to create 250,000 jobs, pulling US AID and IDFC agencies for loans, and arranging for anti-corruption candidate to take over government in Guatemala following elections. It is an exceptional record achieved in a few months trying to undo decades of destabilizing Central America by Republicans Reagan and Bush. Reagan-Bush also destabilized the US with wars in the Persian Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan, because infrastructure in US was neglected, and manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas under failures of Reagan-Friedman economic theories destroying communities across the US over three decades.

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Opinion | Kamala Harris Made Progress on the Border Crisis

WSJ 07/29/2024

Katie Tobin

NYTimes.com 07/31/2024

Zolan Kanno Youngs, Jazmine Ulloa

How the Russian invasion of a neighboring country has not worked in line with European history

04/07/2023

Scholz of Germany says Putin started this war for absurd reasons. NATO he says was never a threat to Russia. Russia invaded a neighboring country with the idea of conquering it. Scholz says Putin was taking a felt tip pen across the European landscape and drawing this is yours, this mine. And he says Germany would never accept that. Brendan Simms in his History of Europe- The struggle for Supremacy 1452 to the Present, is on German chancellor Scholz's reading list since 2021. It shows that for 500 years no dominant European power was able to do act with impunity without the rest of Europe joining together to prevent it. This war is not an exception. The European Union countries stuck together to make it possible for Ukraine to carry on even with generators to keep the lights on and supermarket shelves well stocked. In this sense the outcome of this war is already known. It has followed what Brendan Simms has pointed out already.

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Germany's Scholz says Putin started war for 'completely absurd' reasons | DW | 21.08.2022

DW.COM 08/23/2022

SPIEGEL ONLINE 04/07/2023

Michael Kröger, Benjamin Bidder, Der Spiegel

Years of hyper growth followed by slight or shrinking growth in China

07/31/2022

For years China pushed hyper growth without correctly understanding the sources of that hyper growth and its consequences in the long run. Communities in the US and the EU simply could not cope with the hyper shift of factories from local regions to China that created the hyper growth in China. Local governments in China and self interested investment banks in the US and Eu pushed for this growth and the central government failed to act with restraining action. The result is alienated public in the US and EU, intense trade and competitive frictions and permanent damage to friendly US China, US EU relations. The domestic side of this hyper growth was the overdependence on the property sector which was asked to carry a bigger burden for development leading to the crisis today with local governments strained for financing by $900 billion as reported in WSJ today July 31. 2022. This did not need to happen. China entered this experiment with capitalism without restraining action with very little knowledge of the market economy and how it operates correctly only with restraining and corrective action in the interests of the whole people of the country. Too much has gone wrong for peoples on either side, the unintended effects and consequences in the simple unbridled pursuit of self-interest alone.

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China’s Economy Tested by Strained City Finances

WSJ 07/31/2022

Wall Street Journal Staff

WSJ 07/31/2022

Deforestation- is the pledge at COP26 Glasgow a bit too late for Indonesian rainforest?

11/02/2021

This is one of the amazing links in Lyrarc because it shows WSJ article from 2007 noted by Lyrarc that year, showing UN maps on deforestation in Borneo island in Indonesia for 2000, 2005, 2020. By 2020 most of the rainforest is shown as gone. Deforestation and climate ecologist Clare Rewcastle Brown, sister in law of former British prime minister Gordon Brown, from Britain, recalls colonial days in Sarawak, north Borneo Island, where her father was a police officer. And how much of the canopy of forest from that part of Malaysia was disappearing. She continued her protests from outside Malaysia in 2013 as reported by NYT and noted in Lyrarc that year. This is an amazing story of how deforestation of some of the last rain forests in the world took place at a time when awareness of climate change was sorely lacking in 2007-2013, and how by 2020 the rain forests in Borneo may have already disappeared from planet earth to combat climate change. One woman's fight and a fight that is still on after world leaders took a pledge to end deforestation on the planet by 2030 including Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, China, and the US, and a UN report that had the foresight to show a rainforest disappearing in 2007 in Tom Wright's WSJ report from Surabaya, Indonesia the same year.

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Indonesia's Logging Fight

WSJ 07/03/2007

Tom Wright

New York Times 08/16/2013

Gerry Mullany, Gerry, Mullany

America's self-reliant economy - Biden with Trumpian undertones

01/21/2021

The Biden administration is seen as continuing the efforts of president Trump to pursue American interests in trade, technology, American workers and business to restore America's leadership role in the free world to what it was in the 1950's. Biden from Delaware is in the same tradition as president Harry Truman from Missouri in that period. Because of Biden's age this could be a one term presidency, and strange as it may sound it could be a presidency of Trump in foreign affairs and trade, technological leadership, without the rhetoric, and a socially cohesive presidency of Democrats in the tradition of Harry Truman. What then to make of all the fights of the Trump presidency? Much of this can be seen as an effort to break the status quo which did not benefit American workers.

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Biden’s Economic Team Charts a New Course for Globalization, With Trumpian Undertones

WSJ 12/01/2020

Jon Hilsenrath, Nick Timiraos

France 24 01/21/2021

France and Germany - the struggle to get young people to adopt responsible behaviours during the pandemic

08/04/2020

Three police officers hospitalized after a protest against coronavirus restrictions in Berlin and an outbreak in the Quiberon peninsula with 72 cases after beach parties, show the persistent problem in both Germany and France to get young people to adopt responsible behaviors.

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Coronavirus cluster in western France pits youth against authorities preaching caution

France 24 07/30/2020

DW.COM 08/02/2020

Chile's economic, political and health crisis in 2019-2020

07/23/2020

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Chile: Sebastian Pinera's government teeters towards collapse | DW | 22.07.2020

DW.COM 07/22/2020

Diego Zuniga

WSJ 12/19/2019

Ryan Dube

Donald Trump Jr, Donald Trump, and the investigation by Special Counsel Mueller in 2017- the Republican Party position in WSJ and the Trump response

07/20/2017

Linked Articles

The Trumps and the Truth

WSJ 07/18/2017

The Editorial Board

The New York Times 07/19/2017

Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, Maggie Haberman

The Trump 2017 Budget with $2.1 trillion counted twice and rosy estimates- accounting error, shifting priorities and economic-political risks

05/23/2017

Linked Articles

Donald Trump’s Balanced Budget Goal Rests on Questionable Math

WSJ 05/23/2017

Nick Timiraos

WSJ 05/23/2017

Peter Nicholas, Kate Davidson, Nick Timiraos

The lifting of the mood in Mexico as a moderate position emerges on NAFTA, trade with Mexico, and sets the goal of mutually beneficial relations

04/14/2017

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Mexico is growing less pessimistic about Donald Trump

The Economist 04/14/2017

WSJ 03/30/2017

William Mauldin In Washington, Paul Vieira In Ottawa, Juan Montes In Mexico City

Sharp contrast between the Trump and Clinton economic plans- Trump's negative in the long run, Clinton's positive in the long run

10/18/2016

Economic experts look at the Trump and Clinton economic plans, Trump's based on extreme borrowing and Clinton's careful about deficits. Trump's plan aggravates the wide disparities in income in America after the tech booms and Clinton's reduces these disparities. Clinton's preserves global trading system while addressing the problems, Trump's moves in the direction of protectionism and high tariffs with potential unintended consequences for the global economy.

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Donald Trump’s Economic Plan, Up Close, Doesn’t Add Up

WSJ 10/18/2016

Greg Ip

WSJ 10/17/2016

Richard Rubin

Speaker Paul Ryan's House seat in Janesville, Wisconsin- improving economy in a U.S. midwestern factory town and the debate on trade, help for working class families

08/10/2016

The unemployment rate in Janesville, Wisconsin drops to 4.4% in May 2016, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was over 9% following the closing of the GM plant and the recession from the 2008 financial crisis. A working class town Janesville was hit hard by the closing of the GM plant in 2008. Amy Goldstein of the Washington Post describes the impact of losing about 5000 jobs at the GM plant, and the problems typical of most manufacturing dependent towns. Throughout the period since being first elected to Congress in 1998 Ryan has continued to be able to get elected on the basis of faith, family and public service, even though some of his policies may not have helped the poor and elderly or laid off workers. Ryan voted for rescuing the auto industry and worked hard to keep the GM plant, and listens to his constituents, and as the economy recovered by 2016 won easily in this old industrial midwestern town. His influence in national politics gives Janesville an opportunity to be heard, as it tackles problems common to many midwestern towns in the U.S.

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Could Paul Ryan’s ideas help his struggling home town? - The Washington Post

Washington Post 08/19/2012

Amy Goldstein, Amy, Goldstein

The Guardian 08/10/2016

David Smith