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<\/p>\nYesterday, the radio opera was “La Boh\u00e8me,” quite possibly the most popular opera ever composed. Of course, that comes with disadvantages – an opera lover of my age has probably heard\/seen it over a hundred times (particularly since it was the first opera I ever owned a complete recording of … 55 years ago.) But it still charms. Almost every line and every note tug at the heartstrings, because every character is sympathetic in one way or another, and every character has at least one moment in which you see (and\/or hear) their pain. And, after that, I put away my grocery delivery. What a comedoen!<\/p>\n
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\nQuote – A direct line runs from public anger over the bailout of Wall Street to the Occupy movement and the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, on the left; and to the Tea Party movement and the election of Donald Trump, on the right…. [I]n early 2016 in Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ohio, and Iowa… I heard references to the bailout of Wall Street as proof that the economy was \u201crigged\u201d against ordinary Americans, and that America needed a president who would champion average working people.
\nClick through for more,<\/a> including the podcast, if you would rather listen than read. If he mentions that part of the problem is that product entrepreneurs, when successful, become paper entrepreneurs, I missed it.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – If Ingka can keep the forests healthy and alive, in 40 years they will pull carbon out of the air equal to a certain percentage of the carbon placed into the atmosphere by IKEA\u2019s operations, while providing valuable habitat to vulnerable species like the red-cockaded woodpecker, gopher tortoise, pine snakes, and dusky gopher frogs.
\nClick through for details and<\/a> a couple of other tidbits (if you read between the paragraphs). I grant this is somewhat self-serving, but it beats the heck out of no good news at all.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – \u201cVirginia Thomas has direct access to Thomas\u2019s clerks,\u201d [Artemus] Ward said. Clarence Thomas is now the Court\u2019s senior member, having served for thirty years, and Ward estimates that there are \u201csomething like a hundred and twenty people on that Listserv [of his current and former clerks].\u201d In Ward\u2019s view, they comprise \u201can \u00e9lite right-wing commando movement.\u201d Justice Thomas, he says, doesn\u2019t post on the Listserv, but his wife \u201cis advocating for things directly.\u201d Ward added, \u201cIt\u2019s unprecedented. I have never seen a Justice\u2019s wife as involved.\u201d
\nClick through for full story<\/a>. Jane Mayer is an actual investigative reporter, so this information should be solid.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/reich-scaled.jpg\")
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