GOV'MINT DOES WORK...

CLARIFYING US POLICY

Quote: “The US Embassy will continue to make tea in the proper way—by microwaving it.”

As a newsletter named after your daily cup of joe, we take no sides in the transatlantic kerfuffle that erupted yesterday after the Royal Society of Chemistry published a US chemistry professor’s guidance that a pinch of salt helps brew the perfect cup of tea.

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So, I guess we should just tell our African American brothers who are incarcerated or awaiting trial...Just say you're embarrassed.

Prosecutors claim he tipped off girlfriends and staff, including his pilots, to nonpublic info about companies he had invested in. The 86-year-old, who was out on bail with a 322-foot yacht and private plane as collateral, faces up to 45 years in prison but is likely to be sentenced to less.

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s: Morning Brew

AND WHEN THEY GET CAUGHT, THEY AIN'T TREATED LIKE BUBBA, AND THEY SHOULD BE TREATED WORSE...

Billionaire Joe Lewis pleads guilty to insider trading. Lewis, an investor who owns the Tottenham Hotspur football club and looks like a Bond villain, copped to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and two counts of securities fraud. “I knew at the time what I was doing was wrong, and I am so embarrassed,” he told the judge.

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These threats to Nikki's donors...

Trump is transactional man; every interaction is a transaction. He views simply as win/lose choices.

Threats to him are just the physical representation of the transaction he is currently in.

The principles which were the basis for the threats will only reappear if he needs them in the next transaction.

He is devoid of coherence.

I don't know about you, but I'm thinking a whole lot of Nikki Haley donors are gonna start falling out of windows...

“Forty-eight states to go, and the RNC wants Nikki Haley to throw in the towel and call it quits so we can all unite around Donald Trump.”-LB

Corporate culture and faulty business models have led us to points of failure since the Industrial Revolution.

“I'm reading more and more about a change in Boeing's corporate culture decades ago that led to a slow degradation of Boeing's quality control. It's the same old story; prioritizing short-term profits over safety and quality. It was just a matter of time before it started to catch up with them.”-NA

That would suggest that the Capitol attack had historical echoes reaching back to before the Civil War, he told The Washington Post.

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https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/clarencepage/s-3077416?fs

Clarence Page on a U of Chicago study on Political violence in the USA

He expected to find that the rioters were driven to violence by the lingering effects of the 2008 Great Recession, which had been the conventional wisdom. Instead, he found most of the people who took part in the assault came from places awash in fears that the rights of minorities and immigrants were crowding out the rights of white people in American politics and culture.

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Unlike voters in 2020, the election Trump lost to Joe Biden, we know Trump is capable of inciting violence against the state to stay in power. We know he is charged with 91 criminal counts.

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https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/jamiestiehm/s-3079507?fs

Trump is a fuckin' COPPERHEAD

The tragedy here is that Trump trashed the proud party that Lincoln helped found, fighting for human rights and emancipation -- to a hard-won victory.

In fact, Trump has devolved since the Copperhead model as a political menace. He chips away at the American soul, day by day, in his relentless way.

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As we get more into the 2024 US election, I'm enjoying reading of our post Civil War period...

We won the battle, we lost the fight.

When is an equivalency not an equivalency?

WHEN IT'S REPORTED BY THE MEDIA

I love Philosopher Kings...

This from Elwood Blues

"People, when you do find that special somebody, you gotta hold that man, hold that woman!

Love him, please him, squeeze her, please her!

Signify your feelings with every gentle caress, because it's so important to have that special somebody to hold, to kiss, to miss, to squeeze, and please!”

Historybook: First Winter Olympics take place in Chamonix, France (1924); Battle of the Bulge comes to an end (1945); Al Capone dies (1947); HBD Alicia Keys (1981); RIP Mary Tyler Moore (2017).

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow."

- Mary Tyler Moore

I was once asked in a interview, "describe your life in a nutshell"...

"Well, it's very dark and cramped."

Whereupon the NYSE Chairman replies, "They can kiss my a$$..."

Taken aback, Bun Man looks at Mr. Purple and says "Let's call Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons and get them to ring the bell...

Kinda Kiss over kiss..."

Mr. Purple chimed in "Greed makes the world go round..."

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ON this date in 2010 - KISS rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

The story goes Morgan Stanley brokers Bun Man and Mr. Purple were discussing the growing disparity between most Americans and the 1% who have 95% of America's wealth.

Bun made the comment "We really should be doing something which improves the economic well-being of Americans..."

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The Tokyo police and press were having a field day w/ Paul's transgression.

Bun privately told P "What was the dude thinking, a 1/2 lb., WTH, SMH...the Japanese leg of the tour wasn't that long!!"

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ON this date in 1980 - Paul McCartney was released from a Tokyo jail where he had been imprisoned for nine days after trying to carry a half pound of marijuana through customs at the Tokyo airport.

Beatle's managers Bun Man and Mr. Purple tried to tell the local constables the pot was theirs, but to no avail.

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