Patrick ChovanecWise words from @SykesCharlie:
Two years of accommodating deception, cruelty and corruption, can be a temporary bargain.
In four years, it becomes a habit.
In eight years, it becomes a culture.
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American officials in China, Cuba and Russia say U.S. agencies are concealing the true extent of the episodes, leaving colleagues vulnerable to hostile actions abroad.
Chinese government officials are warning their American counterparts they may detain U.S. nationals in China in response to the Justice Department’s prosecution of Chinese military-affiliated scholars, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Patrick ChovanecChina warns it may detain Americans if US doesn't drop its prosecutions of Chinese scholars with military ties
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CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed more than two dozen ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, an official said Monday. The sarcophagi have remained unopened...
The top spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services issued an extraordinary broadside on Sunday against career government scientists, accusing them of "sedition" in their response to coronavirus and claiming without evidence that a...
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Patrick ChovanecThe top HHS spokesman, who used to work for Putin (no joke) and recently tried to politically censor CDC guidance to doctors and hospitals, has accused CDC career government scientists of "sedition" against President Trump.
There is no bottom.
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The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic.
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Patrick ChovanecTrump said Americans who died in war are “losers” and “suckers”, wanted wounded veterans kept out of military parades.
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Show KCRW's Left, Right & Center, Ep Biden / Harris - Aug 14, 2020
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Patrick ChovanecI was on @jbarro show with @asymmetricinfo and @dorianwarren yesterday, talking about US intel reports that China favors Biden over Trump, and the prospects for US China policy in a Biden Administration. You can listen here
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The US Department of Energy released a proposal to roll back water efficiency standards for showerheads following President Donald Trump's comments that he was unable to wash his "beautiful hair properly." CNN's Bill Weir has more.
A new warning from the Postal Service cast fresh doubt on Pennsylvania’s ability to conduct much of the 2020 election by mail, as President Donald Trump escalates his false attacks on mail voting.
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Patrick ChovanecUSPS says ballots from Pennsylvania may not be delivered in time to be counted. Seems like a big priority to fix before November.
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There are significant questions surrounding Kamala Harris' constitutional eligibility for the second-highest office in the land.
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Patrick Chovanec"Serious" person tries to argue that Kamala Harris, who was born in Oakland, California, is not a US citizen because her parents were both non-citizen residents at the time.
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China wants to swallow up Hong Kong’s remaining freedoms. But it can’t be allowed to arrest, on American soil, a U.S. citizen.
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Patrick ChovanecOne of the six activists charged with violating Hong Kong's new National Security law is a US citizen (for 25 years) who lives in the US. Apparently the law's claims to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction were neither an oversight nor just theoretical.
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The good news is that President Donald Trump is aiming to help Americans hurt by the coronavirus pandemic, signing executive actions to extend expanded unemployment benefits and a moratorium on evictions.
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Patrick Chovanec"Trump brushed off the technicality that it hasn't actually been passed into law by arguing that 'everybody wants it'"
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Pieces of China is an online series that tells the story of China, one object at a time. What does a yellowing 1911 Hukuang Railway Bond—a foreign loan that sparked the revolution that toppled more than 1000 years of imperial rule—tell us about...
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Patrick ChovanecI will be participating in the China institute's "Pieces of China" series, which looks at China through a series of objects. My object will be a 1911 Hukuang Railway Bond. You can register here, for July 30
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A Plantation family says they are living in a nightmare after a recent coronavirus diagnosis has split the family apart. Michelle Zymet says she can’t be by the side of her husband who is currently battling the virus in an intensive care unit. Her...