Tuesday

Mummified Banana?

Cops

A former vice detective is at the center of one of the New York Police Department’s worst scandals in recent years. Here is his story, as uncovered by a team of Times reporters


War

Gaza children killed by Israeli snipers, air attack


Politics

Line of the day.

Yup, nothing says “serious candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination” like “an extremely wealthy white guy whose target audience is people who supported Joe Lieberman in 2004 but wish he had run further to the right.”

from America’s Most Useless Pundit Makes America’s Most Useless Argument 

Buy American, ... politicians that is. Shelden Adelson owns the R's.

 They [the Adelsons] have given $55 million in the last few months to groups dedicated to making sure it stays that way. That makes them not only the largest donors to national Republican electoral efforts in this election cycle, but the biggest spenders on federal elections in all of American politics, according to publicly available campaign finance data.

Big Tech

Amazon's #1 Foe - Scott Galloway - Always fun to listen to




Trump

Trump's policies are isolating the US.  Five world powers and Iran agree to set up legal entity to circumvent US sanctions after Trump pullout from 2015 deal. Oh, and why did we cancel the Iran deal? One big reason was Sheldon Adelson wanted it. See Buy American above.