FROM THE WEEK:
Iran: The proxy network (Article)
Ukraine: War related shortages (Articles)
U.S. Election Security: An uncomfortable view of reality (Article) (Recommended)
Science: Discovery that life persists under earth’s driest deserts (Article)
The Economy: Holding trade together will need a global hegemon larger than the U.S? (Article)
Donald Trump: New York has its trial; now, all that is needed is a crime (Article)
The U.S. Federal Reserve: Doing one thing while preaching another (Article)
America: Becoming a Ghetto? (Article)
U.S. Banks spied on Trump supporters for Biden (Report)
Science: New study demonstrates carbon emissions cannot cause warming (Report)
AI misused to frame Baltimore school principal with racism (Report)
Ukraine: Russian status update (Article)
Sudan: Over 6 million refugees as two generals compete for power (Report)
United States: Over 59 tornados hit multiple states, more likely (Report) (More)
California: Advancing legislation to replace private healthcare with state services (Report)
Pakistan: Corrupt, broke and losing erstwhile supportive friends (Article)
Chicago: 8 dead, 40 wounded in (prior) weekend shootings (Report) (NB: Search did not provide recent weekend information)
No one arrested nked was found in a search of the week …
EDITORIAL: The Politicization of the “News”
Some of us remember receiving fifteen minutes of rather dry but proudly factual news from our radios at intervals daily. And in those days, news was written with all the salient facts included in the first paragraph so that readers could glean all the salient facts from a minimum of reading. Stories relying upon celebrities names for interest were relegated to gossip columns, unless they included a murder. And governments were thought best ept small and unobtrusive. Of course, that was then.
Paradoxically, after defeating the Fascists in a world war, we have today evolved into their patterns with Godvernment replacing God and ordering every detail of human life at the direction of politicians. A small, weak government and attendant influential Christian church have been relegated to history. And with them of course, the attendant personal freedom they engendered. We prefer not to dwell upon the reality that, once dependent upon government, we have bartered our previous independence for a mess of pottage.
The recent COVID restrictions were probably our introduction to the new era of the sort of governance that we have made for ourselves, using our previous enemies as our model.
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