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Steve Jobs Tim Cook and shipping out of America' industrial base and with it America's leadership of the Free World

05/26/2025

America's industrial strength, it's industrial base, is one of the four pillars of America's leadership of the Free World. Without it the Free World will fall apart. The other pillars are it's education and it's health care. Underfunding of education with declining enrolment of men in college and lack of factory jobs comes with loss of the industrial base for taxes, taxes avoided by Apple and other companies. All these problems are becoming clear in 2025 as DJT calls for reindustrializing the Nation.

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Trump, Apple relationship devolves with threats 

The Hill 05/26/2025

Tech’s Trump Whisperer, Tim Cook, Goes Quiet as His Influence Fades

NYTimes.com 05/26/2025

Tim Cook’s Bad Year Keeps Getting Worse

WSJ 05/24/2025

The US Cost of Living Crisis 2023-2025

02/24/2025

Cost of Living Crisis and huge gaps in income and wealth between the top 20 percent and the bottom 80 percent aggravate standards of living in America in a way not seen since the Second World War. About 45% increase in prices on cars, used cars, car repairs, housing rentals and groceries, in many household expenses, since 2019. Incomes of workers not having kept up with this kind of spiralling inflation. This is upending the social compact and leading to loss of faith in governments in the US and Europe. Change in governments in UK, France, Germany, and the US and a sense of unease among people.

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Even Disney Is Worried About the High Cost of a Disney Vacation

WSJ 02/09/2025

Income and Wealth Gaps US 2025- Top 10 percent support 50 percent of consumer spending in 2024

02/24/2025

Top 20 percent in the US have $1.2 trillion in excess income savings and increased Net Worth to $35 trillion from 2019 to 2025. Bottom 80 percent have about $300 billion in excess income savings and increased Net Worth to $14 trillion in that period.

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The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People

WSJ 02/24/2025

The week Kamala Harris became the 2024 Democratic nominee in 48 hours

07/25/2024

The two tumultuous weeks in July 2024 started with a sniper shooting at the former president, followed by the Republican Convention within days. The president's address calling for calm, Trump's 90 RNC address which rambled to veer off course. Second thoughts about Trump and Biden's age and calls by Democrats for Biden to withdraw after the faltering delivery in the debate. Biden has Covid and isolates for a few days. On July 22 around 1.45 pm Biden puts out a letter on X (Twitter) that he is withdrawing and giving his full support to Kamala. Within hours Harris has overwhelming support. The next day morning Harris has secured the delegates needed. By the 24th in 48 hours she has raised $250 million for the campaign and about 100,000 volunteers. A dizzying pace for 48 hours that riveted the attention of the American people and the world.

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With Speech to Teachers, Harris Waded into a Fiery Education Debate

NYTimes.com 07/25/2024

Kamala Harris: A woman of firsts – DW – 07/23/2024

dw.com 07/25/2024

‘Capable’ Harris and Biden’s legacy: key takeaways from the president’s address

The Guardian 07/25/2024

Biden Says He Will ‘Pass the Torch’ to Harris in Oval Office Address After Ending Campaign

WSJ 07/24/2024

Opinion | Kamala Harris Confounds the Republicans

WSJ 07/24/2024

President Biden Addresses the Nation

YouTube 07/25/2024

China and the World Face a Double Blow from decades of housing construction enabled hyper growth- creating problems of climate change for the World and a slump in growth in 2023

10/16/2023

Decades of growth at 12-14% have left China and the World worse off. As Greg Ip pointed out in WSJ America could not cope with this hyper growth in a country many times the size of Japan after absorbing the growth of Japan in the sixties. The result was the closing down of factories and ever increasing imports from China until America had transferred its manufacturing prowess to China. This led to the societal breakdown in the US with communities dependent on factories across the US feeling the brunt. The other effects were an unprecedented in scale use of coal and fossil fuels to fuel hyper growth rates in China that created the problems of World Climate Change by 2023 and contamination of water, land and air inside China. By 2030 China will be aging rapidly similar to Japan today and the slowing economy in 2024 onwards could mean China will be stuck in the Middle Income category. All this poses lessons for America, for Europe, India and the World on what kind of growth is healthy and what kind is not, what is sustainable growth and what is not,what works well for the planet and what does not.

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China Bet It All on Real Estate. Now Its Economy Is Paying the Price.

NYTimes.com 10/16/2023

An Even Bigger Housing Crisis Threatens China’s Economy

WSJ 09/18/2023

Is China’s Economic Predicament as Bad as Japan’s? It Could Be Worse

WSJ 09/19/2023

China’s Economy Remains Shaky After Challenging Summer

WSJ 10/13/2023

A parting of ways with Mr. Trump- first Attorney General Michael Barr, then VP Mike Pence, now Jt Chiefs chairman Milley

09/30/2023

Three of the most senior members of the Trump administration part ways with Mr. Trump. Their loyalty they say is to the Constitution of the United States of America not to any individual. Milley says not to kings or queens, not to tribes or factions, not to tyrants or "wannabe dictators," but to the idea of America enshrined in the words of the framers of the Constitution "We the People..."

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Pence Delivers Strong Rebuke to Trump in Campaign Announcement

NYTimes.com 06/07/2023

Opinion | General Milley and the ‘Wannabe Dictator’

WSJ 09/29/2023

Mike Pence: History will never forget Trump’s disgrace

The Times 03/13/2023

From Right-Hand Man to Critical Witness: Pence at Heart of Trump Prosecution

NYTimes.com 08/02/2023

Opinion | Bill Barr’s Warning on Trump

WSJ 05/07/2023

Watch: Barr Says Trump Was ‘Detached From Reality’ on 2020 Election Claims

WSJ 06/15/2022

Isaacson story of Musk and skepticism about it as a role model for business leadership

09/13/2023

The wild swings and temperamental nature of such leadership. The lack of worklife balance, health and mental wellbeing consciousness which are the true drivers for productivity. A comparison between the old Italian driven Sergio Marchionne and new worklife balance respecting Portuguese CEO's of carmaker Stellantis Carlos Tavares Dias shows the opposite role models. The old CEO of Fiat Chrysler Marchionne and Musk have similarities. Marchionne was a heavy smoker who worked very long hours and neglected healthy living and worklife balance leading to having to resign because of ill health. It shows that lack of attention to healthy lifestyle and worklife balance has consequences. Tavares Dias has learned a lot from this and respects worklife balance and healthy living.

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Essay | The Real Story of Musk’s Twitter Takeover

WSJ 08/31/2023

How 65% of students failing reading comprehension and 75% failing civics and history is holding back America.

05/19/2023

The scores on National Assessment of Education Progress NAEP show two thirds of students failing reading proficiency, similar math scores, and over 75% failing civics and history. This has a serious effect on everything in society- the ability to get good jobs, to increase incomes, to teach their own children to create a better future, for the overwhelming majority of Americans. This has not changed for about two decades and is only getting worse. Nothing that Silicon Valley or capital markets have done, or successive governments have done so far for 2 decades is changing this situation. What Biden calls the struggle for the Soul of the Nation has this as the probable cause because lack of reading comprehension affects everything and leads to serious deterioration and breakdown in society. What is sometimes called technology is not really technology, computers yes, but not social media which damages the capacity for clear thinking and in the young of mental health also or what passes for technology that takes everything to the lowest common denominator including Google Search as shown in Lyrarc's Movement for Global Literacy.

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History and civics scores drop for U.S. eighth-graders on national test

NPR 05/03/2023

National math and reading scores remain constant, but disparities emerge

Washington Post 04/11/2018

U.S. student performance slips on national test - The Washington Post

Washington Post 10/28/2015

Eighth-Graders’ History, Civics Test Scores Hit Record Low

WSJ 05/03/2023

Test Scores Show Students Made Little Progress in National Exam

WSJ 04/10/2018

The Great Stagnation in American Education

New York Times 09/07/2013


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