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Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy of Amazon- the growth story of cloud computing and online retail
02/04/2021
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Andy Jassy’s Climb to Amazon CEO Shows the Cloud’s Rising Power
WSJ 02/03/2021
Jeff Bezos Exits as CEO, but His Role at Amazon Will Likely Little Change
WSJ 02/04/2021
Jeff Bezos to stand down as Amazon chief executive
The Times 02/04/2021
Profile: Andy Jassy, the new Amazon boss taking over from Jeff Bezos
The Times 02/04/2021
Amazon: End of an era but also the dawn of a new day
The Times 02/04/2021
The Meeting between Jupiter and Saturn visible in the night skies in December 2020, first since 1623
12/22/2020
Pictures from Kansas and southern Spain to Antalya, Turkey in the night skies as shown in The Guardian and DW.com. An interview by DW.com with Giles Sparrow who tells us about 21 stars out of 200 billion in The Milky Way and beyond. Man and earth a small piece, very small, in this vast planetary system about which we know so little. These pictures and words have more meaning during the pandemic.
Grouped Articles
What 21 stars tell us about the Universe | DW | 22.12.2020
DW.COM 12/22/2020
The great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn | DW | 21.12.2020
DW.COM 12/21/2020
Jupiter and Saturn's great conjunction – in pictures
The Guardian 12/22/2020
A Christmas Star? Jupiter and Saturn Alignment Sparks Comparisons
WSJ 12/20/2020
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Enters Jupiter’s Orbit
The New York Times 07/05/2016
Pope Francis and the call "not to return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the pandemic."
11/27/2020
Two crises back to back in 2010 and 2020 which set back the working class, the middle class and the poor, and the neglect of capital allocation to healthcare, education, infrastructure. Pope Francis calls for a culture that feels others pain, that "gives access to all to the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life: to land, lodging, and labor." See "Misallocation of Capital" in Top Stories for more coverage.
Grouped Articles
Battleground states in the 2020 U.S. election
11/02/2020
Grouped Articles
Coronavirus Deaths, Job Losses Hit Pennsylvania Hardest of 2020 Battlegrounds
WSJ 10/23/2020
The Battlegrounds Within Battlegrounds
NYTimes.com 10/31/2020
Arizona: Could shifting demographics turn a solid red state blue? - American Views
France 24 11/01/2015
Wisconsin voters see the future of US farming as a key issue - American Views
France 24 11/01/2020
Fracking: The Unexpected Issue That Could Determine the 2020 Election
WSJ 10/30/2020
World War II- the Forgotten Men and Women of India, America and Mexico
09/09/2020
Indian pilots and army numbering 2.5 million who fought aginst Japanese in Imphal, and Germans in Italy. The black women who performed postal duties in Europe for 17 million pieces of mail in the war in England to be delivered to soldiers in Europe, and later at Rouen, France. The Mexican pilots of the 201st squadron attached to the Fifth U.S. Air Force.
Grouped Articles
California scorching heat and wildfires 2020
08/27/2020
Grouped Articles
200,000 flee as gales fan California fire
The Times 10/29/2019
California 2020 Utopia in Dystopia- Extremes of wealth, sky high housing prices, wildfires and the pandemic
08/27/2020
The California in the early postwar years during the presidency of Truman and Eisenhower when different values prevailed, when Jerry Brown says his mother studied "basically for free", and the California of 2020. A struggle for the lost soul of America- its lost values for what Carl Sandburg called "The People, Yes." The ideas that led to the shipping overseas of America's manufacturing industry with disastrous results were created in some pockets of California such as San Jose and San Francisco.
Grouped Articles
Heat, Smoke and Covid Are Battering the Workers Who Feed America
NYTimes.com 08/28/2020
A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America
The Guardian 12/15/2017
Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/17/2015
Wildfires around San Francisco Bay Area grow to larger than Rhode Island – live
The Guardian 08/24/2020
California ‘never should have re-opened’ as Covid-19 cases surge to record high
France 24 07/17/2020
How Success Against the Coronavirus Turned to Crisis in California
WSJ 07/01/2020
U.S. Perseverance Rover on a mission to Mars launched on 300 million mile journey to land Feb 18, 2021
07/31/2020
Grouped Articles
Mars Launch: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sent To Find Signs of Life
WSJ 07/30/2020
Signs of V shape U.S. recovery
06/13/2020
Grouped Articles
Signs of a V-Shaped Early-Stage Economic Recovery Emerge
WSJ 06/13/2020
Germany- low tech coronavirus contact tracing that works for reopening the country
05/27/2020
Grouped Articles
Human contact tracing provides valuable clues to COVID-19 infections | DW | 27.05.2020
DW.COM 05/27/2020
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdown
The Times 05/26/2020
Huawei and British 5G networks
05/25/2020
Grouped Articles
New inquiry into security risk posed by Huawei technology
The Times 05/25/2020
Dr. Redfield, head of the U.S. Centre for Disease Control
05/20/2020
Grouped Articles
C.D.C.’s Dr. Robert Redfield Confronts Coronavirus, and Anger
NYTimes.com 03/13/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) and cuts in U.S. funding
05/16/2020
Cuts in U.S. funding over the WHO's handling of coronavirus. Questions are being raised about the transparency, and the competence of the WHO in its handling of coronavirus including its early warning and preparation capabilities that members including Europe and the U.S. relied on in the crisis to their regret.
Grouped Articles
Trump Says U.S. Is Considering Restoring Some WHO Funding
WSJ 05/16/2020
China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
The Guardian 06/02/2020
Why Trump Is Taking On the World Health Organization - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 05/23/2020
Harsh Vardhan takes over as WHO executive board chief
Hindustan Times 05/24/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
How "Made in America" was lost in making the chips that power smartphones, laptops and devices in cloud computing
12/22/2020
The story of how America went from making 75% of the world's chips in 1990 for electronic devices to 12% in 2020. And of China's rise from zero or negligible to becoming the largest maker of chips in the same period. The failure to protect American technology is the major lesson from this period as America looks at regaining the advantage and becoming once more the leader in technology and manufacturing.
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Intel Not Inside: How Mobile Chips Overtook the Semiconductor Giant
WSJ 12/22/20
How Nvidia’s CEO Cooked Up America’s Biggest Semiconductor Company
WSJ 12/22/20
Why Fewer Chips Say ‘Made in the U.S.A.’
WSJ 12/22/20
Renewal America- America's National Parks
12/04/2020
Grouped Articles
This Land is Your Land – about this series
The Guardian 12/04/20
Europe in the second wave of the coronavirus and lockdowns in France, Germany and Britain
11/02/2020
Grouped Articles
Lockdown 2? The PM’s friends in the north have lived it for months
The Times 11/01/20
New lockdown: ‘Boris Johnson had no option. He could not ignore the facts any longer’
The Times 11/01/20
French buy up toilet paper and pasta ahead of second lockdown
France 24 10/31/20
As French hunker down for second Covid-19 lockdown, the new rules explained
France 24 10/31/20
Covid-19 Live Updates: European Hospitals Are Filling at an Alarming Pace
NYTimes.com 10/29/20
Coronavirus: France announces second lockdown | DW | 28.10.2020
DW.COM 10/28/20
Rising prices for homes and cars during the pandemic
09/09/2020
With a limited supply of homes and lost car production, the remaining supply is being sold at higher prices to people who have not lost jobs during the pandemic. The cars are more upscale and the homes are further away from the core parts of cities.
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Car Sales Are Down Almost 20%, but Prices Are Setting Records
WSJ 09/04/20
Shift of American manufacturing overseas and the disastrous results for jobs, pandemic
08/27/2020
Grouped Articles
How China Built ‘iPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner
The New York Times 12/29/16
California Nears Deal to Adopt a $15 State Minimum Wage
New York Times 03/27/16
Opinion | Bringing the Factories Home
WSJ 07/19/20
Donald Trump Presides Over GOP Remade in His Image
WSJ 08/26/20
China’s Faux Comparative Advantage
WSJ 04/15/18
Opinion | Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers
The New York Times 02/28/18
California coronavirus
08/27/2020
Grouped Articles
California ‘never should have re-opened’ as Covid-19 cases surge to record high
France 24 07/17/20
How Success Against the Coronavirus Turned to Crisis in California
WSJ 07/01/20
Irresponsible behaviour of youth and young people that fueled the surge in the pandemic in July 2020
07/31/2020
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Coronavirus cluster in western France pits youth against authorities preaching caution
France 24 07/30/20
California ‘never should have re-opened’ as Covid-19 cases surge to record high
France 24 07/17/20
Loan funds fending off distressed debt investors in 2020- signs of the changes underway after coronavirus
06/30/2020
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Lenders to Ailing Companies Circle Wagons to Fend Off Distressed-Debt Investors
WSJ 06/26/20
The World Health Organization in the crucial early weeks in January and February 2020- failure of the early warning system for coronavirus
06/03/2020
Grouped Articles
China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
The Guardian 06/02/20
Why Trump Is Taking On the World Health Organization - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 05/23/20
Harsh Vardhan takes over as WHO executive board chief
Hindustan Times 05/24/20
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/20
"Total" contact tracing's key role in controlling the coronavirus pandemic
05/26/2020
The case of Germany, South Korea, Kerala state in India, Taiwan, show it works to limit spread and helps reopening. Britain after some errors is back to contact tracing as the No. 1 mission, India depends on contact tracing to limit clusters and close them off. France and the U.S. are fumbling with the use of apps and discussions on privacy, where Germany moved ahead with only the phone and no app, low tech as in Kerala, but good health systems which the state has invested in. Britain and France, and the U.S. suffered from neglect of their health systems during the years when tech was "cool" and money got misallocated away from essential public services.
Grouped Articles
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdown
The Times 05/26/20
Human contact tracing provides valuable clues to COVID-19 infections | DW | 27.05.2020
DW.COM 05/27/20
Who is Dr. Harlem Brundtland? Compared to her does the WHO today flunk, and even Dr Fauci, Dr Redfield fall short
05/20/2020
Dr. Harlem Brundtland was head of the WHo during the SARS crisis which originated in China in 2003. Her swift action included questioning China's suppression of the openness of its scientific and medical community at the time, alerting the world to take action to control the epidemic. The U.S. clearly brings up Dr. Brundtland as the model that was not followed in its letter to the WHO of May 18, 2020. Dr. Redfield, head U.S. CDC was alerted by Dr. Gao Fu head of China's CDC and its medical scientific community on Dec. 31, 2019, and through Dr. Redfield the American medical scientific community including Dr. Fauci, in an early warning of what was to happen. Dr Brundtland is a three time prime minister of Norway starting with the first term in 1981 and ending with the third term in 1996. She was head of the Labor Party and had a distinguished record including her work in climate change, sustainable development and other issues. The WHO earned much respect under her leadership of the organization.
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‘The only way forward for WHO is...’: Full text of Trump’s letter to WHO chief
Hindustan Times 05/19/20
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/20
Trump gives WHO ultimatum over virus handling
BBC News 05/19/20
French and British preparation for pandemics after SARS and H1N1 and letting austerity policy ditch the preparations by 2019
05/16/2020
France abandoned its effort first ramped up by the SARS pandemic, and utilized in H1N1 pandemic, and ditched this after H1N1 never happened. Britain's effort first ramped up SARS pandemic, continued through H1N1 right into the Cygnus exercize as a rehearsal preparation for a pandemic right into 2016, and lost interest after 2016 with the Brexit struggles in the country. By 2019 both countries were woefully short, China's underreporting, the lack of transparency, added to lack of enough awareness of danger in cruc1al weeks of January and February 2020.
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Pandemic disarmament: Why France was ready for Covid-19 a decade too soon
France 24 05/17/20
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