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Trump demonstrates new point-of-care test

Coronavirus live updates: US coronavirus death toll higher than 9/11 attacks, airlines to consolidate routes

Virginia shut until June ...

CNN debates: No live pandemic pressers for bad orange man

Governor: New Jersey gin stores will be allowed to reopen

Goldman sees 15% jobless rate, 34% GDP decline, followed by fastest recovery in History

Whole Foods employees plan nationwide ‘sick out’ ...

Seattle: 3 homeless shelters closed due to outbreak

Pandemic threatens monster turnout in November

Consumer confidence tumbles in March as coronavirus cases surge

Hertz: China isolated deadly bat viruses at unsecured lab near Wuhan wild food market ...

Union: 2,000 U.S. postal worker in quarantine across U.S..

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Why some lesbians don’t want Pete Buttigieg to be president

A recession in 2020 would hurt Trump, but wouldn’t necessarily sink his re-election

Storm Watch: Dorian growing more organized as it heads for Puerto Rico ...

African migrants protest not being allowed passage through Mexico

Trump denies his Doral resort is infested with bedbugs

Key yield curve inverts to worst level since 2007, 30-year rate under 2%

Pew: 109 countries have become majority nonwhite since 2000 ...

Native American critics hesitant to accept Warren’s apologies

Iranian President says he’ll only meet Trump after U.S. drops sanctions

Amazon appears to be cutting prices at Whole Foods again

Footage from camera outside Epstein’s cell deemed ‘unusable’ ...

Woman gets NFL offer

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'It's open season on the president': Anonymous op-ed unleashes fresh West Wing meltdown

Whole Foods employees try to unionize under Amazon ownership

Booker releases 'confidential' Kavanaugh documents ...

Poll: Nike favorability  plunges 34% with Kaepernick  ad campaign ...

Kavanaugh stumbles on whether he discussed Mueller probe

A decade after the housing crash, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are still Uncle Sam's cash cows

GREAT: Jobless claims 49-year low ...

China insists loans to Africa not 'free money'

Presslety upsets incumbent Dem Capuano in Massachusetts primary

The 'deep web' may be 50 times bigger than the normal web. Its use goes well beyond buying drugs.

India Supreme Court legalizes gay sex in landmark ruling ...

Deep State official: There are dozens and dozens of us

Brave New World

While searching for my previous blog's pic on highways, I came across the above image. What? Not only is there a reserved lane on this highway for electric cars, but I'll bet the recharging stations are freebies. I do know that in Whole Foods parking lots and many municipal parking lots offer free electric car recharging.

What better way to hug a tree than to give people who buy a car for $100,000 (plus a generous tax break) free recharging.  Do I get free gasoline in equivalent circumstances? Of course not! I am not a member of the privileged class. But I do have to pay for the electricity for the privileged class pajama boys.

And I have very little hair left I am willing to pull out.

Headlines

All from Internet news sit s. Guess which from Politico?

Judge dismisses Palin defamation lawsuit against New York Times

Busted: Berkeley PD arrest 13 protesters connected to ANTIFA

[Houston] Burglars may face life in jail ...

Flash: Harvey could delay border wall funding ...

Texas Republican vows to fight for flood insurance overhaul

Laura Ingraham recommends designating ANTIFA a terrorist organization

FBI: Lack of public interest in Hillary's emails justifies withholding docs ...

Amazon selling Echo speakers at Whole Foods stores following takeover

Harvey is what climate change looks like

Dems face primary bloodbath in 2018

FOXNEWS gets pulled off air in Britain ...

Critics sneer at Melania for wearing heels on plane

Headlines

All these headlines were found on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Supremes lift lower courts' block of Trump travel ban

Ivanka Trump: I try to stay out of politics

I want out says Harry the reluctant Prince ...

Kellyanne Conway: Trumpcare does not cur Medicaid funding

Sheriff Joe heads to trial over immigration enforcement ...

Asylum seekers in Canada who fled Trump now in legal limbo

Bankers warn global crash could come 'with a  vengeance'

Bernie, Jane  Sanders lawyer up as FBI probes financial scandal

Trump eager for one-to-one meeting with Purim; some advisers wary

Second Dem made 'queasy' about Lynch interference in Clinton email investigation

Bezos bots to run Whole Foods ...

Panicked Democrats to party leaders: Americans care about economy, not Russia

Prof calls for wealthy white frats to be banned

Headlines

All these headlines were found on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Trump reports assets of at least $1.4 billion in financial disclosure

AmazonWholeFoods rivals lose $40B [in stock market value] ...

Trumpists disrupt play depicting Trump assassination

Report: Dem staffers boo Trump at Unity baseball game

Schumer asks for all 100 senators to meet on healthcare

Report: Not even the black jurors thought the officer in the Philando Castile case was guilty

[Dennis] Rodman returns from NKorea without meeting 'friend for life' Kim

Six pregnant Texas women test positive for Zika

Indian lawmakers demand that Trump reverse H-1B crackdown

DACA still under review, Trump administration says

Canada criminalizes wrong use of gender pronoun ...

Swimming superstar Michael Phelps to race great white shark

A Cybersecurity Security

Full disclosure: I recently bought some Cisco Systems common stock.

Cybersecurity is becoming a very important national defense issue ... and I believe that the attempts to defeat these attacks on end-user and infrastructure sites (such as utilities) are a suboptimal solution. Cyber criminals seem always to be able to circumvent the latest end-user firewall or other security methods with, viruses, spear phishing, etc. ... because of one glaring weakness ... the sheer number of end-user sites and the logistics problems of keeping them all up to date security-wise.

Here is, I think, a better strategy. Companies like Cisco Systems who manufactures many routers, or the nodes in Internet communications, now could and should, because of much faster electronic technology and advances in AI, identify, intercept and destroy many of these malicious bit streams before they ever reach end users. Certainly "denial of service" attacks should be easy to spot and stop. And all sorts of other viruses, malware, and even ransomware might be quickly identified and squelched at these communications nodes through pattern recognition techniques.

Thwarting all this evil software from ever entering end-user computers would be an enormous revenue generating engine for the likes of Cisco Systems and its Internet brethren.

Please don't sue me if I am wrong ... I will have lost also.

Another Wall St. thought: Amazon's just announced its intended purchase of Whole Foods. IMHO this merger has a good chance of attracting an anti-trust reaction ... particularly since CEO Jeff Bezos' personal ownership of Trump's nemesis, the Washington Post.

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These headlines have all been found on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico.

Senate likely to miss Obamacare repeal deadline

Trump world trains its sights on Mueller

Pentagon to send almost 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan

Trump approval hits 50%

Swedish Islamophobia expert joins ISIS, calls for attack on Sweden

Russia claims it has killed Islamic State leader al Bagdadi

ESPN host says NFL is playing politics 'by playing national anthem'

Shopping: Amazon buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion

Feinstein wants Comey back on the Hill, and will back a subpoena if necessary

Truce over: Pelosi attacks grieving Republicans

London's Muslim mayor Khan slammed for not banning anti-Jew march

Shots fired at truck flying 'Make America Great Again' flag