Year: 2016

Bad News – UPDATE

(This won’t be much of a diary and am only using this forum feature because I think it’s important and it’s not been given any attention here.  I’ve been relying on Glenn Greenwald’s tweets...

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A Contrary View on Trump’s Big Day

I seem to have a contrary and somewhat alarmist reaction to Donald Trump’s Big Day, yesterday. Taken by itself, independent of the press coverage and the substance, and the political fallout in the Latino community, I...

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US Finance Can Thank EC for Apple Tax U-turn

Apple boss expects to repatriate billions to the US next year | The Guardian | Apple boss Tim Cook expects the iPhone maker to repatriate huge offshore profits to America next year, paying billions of dollars in deferred taxes...

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On Bill Kristol’s Critique of Cartoonism

I guess I’d ask the always wrong William Kristol if “cartoonism” is, like pornography, something that is devilishly hard to define but easy to spot? Because I get that Donald Trump is somehow a facsimile of an...

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