https://nypost.com/author/miranda-devine/ The NBA is ‘woke’ in many respects but not when it comes to cutting off ties with the lucrative Chinese market which comprises a growing revenue stream for the association.  The recent controversy,  fueled by comments by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, points out the delicate dance between defending democratic ideals of freedom …

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https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Brand-Marketing-Automation-Learning/dp/1260441253   When broadcasting and mass circulation newspapers were king, we all received the same news, advertising and messages.  In the earliest days of digital technology, we, the consumer, have been king.  The competition between on line and on the ground retailers has given us choice and competitive pricing.  As marketing becomes totally individualized through …

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https://www.abi.org/newsroom : While total bankruptcy petitions nationwide by consumers and businesses are well below Great Recession levels, most analysts agree that there is a trend upward.  We dig into the numbers and the reasons with Samuel Gerdano, executive director of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the nation’s largest association of bankruptcy professionals.  In many ways, this …

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https://www.brookings.edu/ One headline reads ‘these pensions plans are at risk of going broke’.  Another exclaims ‘pension plans for millions of Americans on the brink of collapse’.  Clearly, many older Americans are worried about the solvency of pensions earned many years back.  Companies go belly up in the meantime.  Not enough money is set aside.  Or …

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https://creakyjoints.org/seth/ As opioids lose favor, more chronic pain sufferers are turning to medical marijuana and CBD supplement products to combat their pain.  And given the fact that the federal government still considers marijuana a Schedule 1 drug, the benefits, side effects and impacts of medical marijuana have not been rigorously studied by the Food and …

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https://quonline.quinnipiac.edu/blog/cybersecurity-changing-roles.php There are stories aplenty about the cyber crime of our era: ransomware hackers making demands of cities and towns throughout America.  In exchange for cryptocurrency, the hackers will unencrypted data needed to run your municipality.  You’re the mayor: what do you do?  Taxes can’t be collected, bills can’t be paid, payrolls can’t be met …

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https://www.amazon.com/Long-Southern-Strategy-American-Politics-ebook/dp/B07RWP3D3V       In the new book, ‘The Long Southern Strategy’, professors Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields brilliantly unpack what was generally considered a 1960’s strategy by the Republican Party in the Nixon era to win over disaffected white voters in the previously Democratic stronghold of the American South.  To usher in this profound …

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https://www.amazon.com/Shadowlands-American-Reckonings-Oregon-Standoff/dp/1635571200   In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired libertarian protesters led by Amman Bundy occupied the Malheur(translated: Bad Luck) National Wildlife Refuge in the high desert of eastern Oregon.  Encamped in the shadowlands of the republic, they insisted that the Federal government had no right to own public land.  Were they heroes or …

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https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Domain-Defending-Companies-Ourselves/dp/052556196X   ‘The Fifth Domain’ is a term the Pentagon uses for cyberspace, following the progression of locations for battle–land, sea, air and space.  The key issue in cyberspace, like all of warfare, relates to the calculations about offensive and defensive capabilities among the actors and the readiness to deploy a country’s take down capabilities …

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https://www.itsuptous.org/   Honesty requires that I admit to what a bloody mess mess my generation, the baby boomers, is leaving the many generations that follow.  As if a despoiled and roiling planet isn’t enough, add to their burdens a swelling, and unsustainable, level of national debt.  And, yet, mum’s the word.  Nobody talks about the …

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