Was reading The NYT this morning, one story after another, was thinking, what an extraordinary intellectual journey this is. So many fascinating pieces, all just published, on so many topics with such insight and variety. Here is what I read. nytimes.com/2020/12/14/sci…
With a new adaptation of “The Stand” arriving Thursday on CBS All Access, the best-selling author looked back at the best and worst adaptations of his stories for television. nytimes.com/2020/12/14/art…
And then I had to help my kids brush their teeth and get going on the day...Sorry to be selling my own company's product. But that fruit fly story alone was worth the price of admission. A Drosophila collection? What is that?
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An icon in the West (and a symbol of the accelerating death of coal in the US as a electric power source) is slated to come down Friday. As the former Navajo Generating Station implodes its smoke stacks. Once largest coal plant in the West. lakepowelllife.com/the-three-ngs-… via @KXAZfm
Here is a story we did on the death of this plant--and the failed promise by President Trump to save the coal industry. I was at the plant early this year after it shutdown. Those are the smoke stacks that will be blown up Friday. nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/…
A few photos I took (and one of me in the protective gear) during my tour of the plant. Was very weird being inside such a giant energy machine, gone dead.
America First Action--the pro Trump SuperPAC--is PRO Trump in more than the standard way. It supports him politically. It also pays him and his family personally---in a way. Look at this. (Stick with me, a lot of payments here)
MORE>>>The spending is effectively going into the pockets of Donald Trump and Eric and Don Jr and Ivanka (the kids own stakes in the hotel operating company too)
MORE>>What's exceptional here is it's not just big $$$ events America First Action holding at Trump HotelDC, which have to presume are fundraising events. (You got to spend money to make money?) It's small dollar spending too on hotel rooms, meals at BLT Prime steak, bar tabs etc
"There will continue to be scattered litigation brush fires around the nation from Mr. Trump’s allies, but as a practical matter the Supreme Court’s action puts an end to any prospect that Mr. Trump will win in court what he lost at the polls."
Imagine if one day, a president-elect of the USA decided to nominate as the Sec of Defense a member of the board of directors of one of the world's largest defense contractors, a company that makes and sells to the Pentagon all these things. That day is today.
NEW: Raytheon makes missiles, jet engines, weapons defense systems & electron surveillance equipment, etc. It sells billions of $$$s a year to the Pentagon. Now a member of Raytheon board is slated to take over as Secretary of Defense in Biden era nyti.ms/36Z8y3U
The formal announcement of Gen. Austin's pending nomination comes later today. Missing from this bio is his role as advisor to defense contractors.
Filling in here a missing few bits of information re the biography of Biden's nominee. From Raytheon, one of the world's largest military contractors
Lloyd Austin, Biden's apparent pick for DOD chief, is part of this same investor group we reported on last week, Pine Island Capital, which has been investing in defense contractors he will now oversee. nyti.ms/2VaGHqC
From Pine Island Capital's website. Guessing this will disappear soon. So here it is.
And here are some of Pine Island Capital's investments, small defense contractors that would now be coming to the Pentagon and a potential new SecDef, who until recently had been an investor, for new businesses.