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Koch network concealing transactions

mardi 16 août 2022 à 00:03

*Koch Network Uses National Philanthropic Trust to Conceal Transactions.*

Some Louisiana Christians hate same-sex couples

mardi 16 août 2022 à 00:03

Some Louisiana Christians hate same-sex couples, but interestingly many other do not.

I think it is unfortunate when children are taught a religion. but I still appreciate the good news that some Christian schools reject the usual Christian hatreds.

Nixon urged South Vietnamese generals to obstruct President Johnson's peace negotiations

mardi 16 août 2022 à 00:03

Nixon talked with the South Vietnamese generals in 1968, urging them to obstruct President Johnson's peace negotiations. Both parties expected progress towards peace would help the prospects of Nixon's Democratic opponent.

Nixon even discussed this with the bankers that backed him.

Nixon's actions may have been a violation of the Logan Act, so having the FBI investigate was proper. Even supposing they were not illegal, they were treacherous in spirit.

Ultimately, Johnson decided to keep the secret reports that proved Nixon's treachery, so as to avoid stimulating distrust of the US government when Nixon was at its head. That was well meant, though we would today consider it naive and foolish.

Johnson also had one of his officials take those secret documents away rather than leaving them in the White House. The article says nothing about the motivation for this, but perhaps it was to make sure that Nixon's treachery would be revealed some day — decades in the future. He may have been afraid Nixon would destroy them.

Medicare and Medicaid still under threat on 57th anniversary

mardi 16 août 2022 à 00:03

*On Their 57th Anniversary, Medicare and Medicaid Remain Under Threat.*

Obstacles to having discussion about future human population

mardi 16 août 2022 à 00:03

On the obstacles to having a serious political discussion about future human population.

Just as discussion of reducing the human population is insufficient without discussing reducing per-capita consumption, so discussion of reducing per-capita consumption is insufficient without discussing reducing the human population.

Climate disaster will eventually reduce the human population with millions of deaths, but if we want to do it by reducing births instead, we need to plan it.