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Thursday, 26 November 2020

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Commentary: Fake jobs, fake news: Fake Foxconn comes further into focus

Finger Lakes Times 27 Nov 2020

Did Foxconn ever plan to profitably operate its Generation 10.5 LCD manufacturing facility there? Regardless of the answer, the political gambit has become the posterchild for everything wrong with economic development subsidies ... The eventual selection of the site indeed seems primed to curry the most political favor possible....

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers: How Political Science and Neoclassical Economics Zombifies the Yankee Population

Dissident Voice 27 Nov 2020

Why do political science and neoclassical economics go in one ear and out the other? ... Politics is about steering ... POLITICAL SCIENCE PROPAGANDA FOR DEMOCRACY ... This political ideology operates with the following postulates ... Real world democracies operate on the basis of high participation by elites with their superior political knowledge....

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Gas shortages

Dawn 27 Nov 2020

What steps have been taken to balance supply and demand? He didn’t reveal any, except to say that the two RLNG terminals in Karachi will be operated at their full capacity of 1,200mmcfd during the winter ... capacity of 150mmcfd available with one of the two terminal operators....

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Croatia to shut restaurants amid COVID-19 spike

China Daily 27 Nov 2020

The new measures which will be effective on Saturday and last at least until Dec. 21 include the closure of cafes, bars, and restaurants ... "Complete lockdown is not realistic, neither economically nor politically," Plenkovic noted. Churches, stores, and cultural and entertainment institutions can continue operating with special restrictions ... Since Feb ... ....

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Herald Mail 27 Nov 2020

... California stands to lose some political power ... Did Foxconn ever plan to profitably operate its Generation 10.5 LCD manufacturing facility there? Regardless of the answer, the political gambit has become the posterchild for everything wrong with economic development subsidies....

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Bhutan plays paramount role in India-China tensions, says EFSAS

Beijing News 26 Nov 2020

Shared cultural-religious ties, which operate as a decisive variable informing political decision-making in Bhutan, are, despite the heritage shared with Tibet, less pronounced between Bhutan and the Han-dominated China, especially following Tibet's integration into China," the EFSAS said....

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Israel is no monarchy, and Netanyahu is no king

The Jerusalem Post 26 Nov 2020

Nevertheless, and despite being political rivals, Olmert had briefed Netanyahu on the reactor months earlier – both its discovery and the Israeli plans to destroy it ... “I was a partner to the operation from the beginning,” Netanyahu said about the bombing that Israel wasn’t even confirming had taken place....

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Pentagon Shakeup Aimed at Paving Path to Trump Coup?

GlobalResearch 26 Nov 2020

They are counting on this extralegal operation ending up in the US Supreme Court, where fully one-third of the justices are Trump appointees, and a precedent has already been established by the 2000 decision in Bush v ... Such an outcome would make the military the arbiter of American politics....

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Operation Warp Speed leader says he may step down soon

Democratic Underground 26 Nov 2020

Operation Warp Speed head Moncef Slaoui may step down from the government's ... https.//www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/operation-warp-speed-leader-says-he-may-step-down-soon/ar-BB1bmlOc?li=BBnb7Kz....

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Can We Build a Progressive Future If We Dismiss a Large Part of the Working Class?

CounterPunch 26 Nov 2020

That is the daily interaction with working people from different communities, with social and political backgrounds and outlooks often very different from my own ... We can laugh at “rednecks” on TV and react with self-satisfied disgust when religious people fall prey to huckster preachers or cynical rightwing political operatives....

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Biden offered his hand; the GOP slapped it away

Reflector 26 Nov 2020

President-elect Joe Biden’s victory offered the cheerful prospect that we might begin to detoxify our politics ... Anyone advising Biden and members his party to turn the other cheek and reach out to Republican congressional leaders as if none of this has happened is urging them down the path of political suicide....

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I am grateful for life, family, liberty and the sunrise

Kingsport Times-News 26 Nov 2020

The word almost got worn out and used up during the recent political campaign, but there’s still some left, at least enough to start a fight with. Socialism is the ownership and operation of some activity of society by the people as a whole, the government, rather than ownership by an individual or group of individuals....

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Sri Lanka Cabinet Backs Handing Over Strategic Port Terminal to Indian Firm

The Tennessee Tribune 26 Nov 2020

However, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, India’s largest private multi-port operator, along with its local partner, is considered the front-runner ... Members of the opposition and other political parties are against handing over the port operation because they fear it would severely reduce the port authority’s revenue....