Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“US President Donald Trump said he would ‘probably’ extend the deadline for the sale for Chinese-owned social video app TikTok if a deal is not reached by April 5. Trump said Thursday there was ‘a lot of interest’ in TikTok and that ‘right now we have at least another month, so we don’t need an extension’ in response to questions at the White House about the app’s status. At the same time, Trump said he was willing to extend the deadline if necessary. ‘If I needed an extension, I’d probably get it extended,’ Trump said.” (03/06/25)
https://archive.is/sXWCX
Source: Washington Monthly
by Mike Lofgren
“[In 1939] Czech president Emil Hacha was summoned to Berlin, where Adolf Hitler and his foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, threatened him in tag team fashion: hand over your country to us, or we will bomb it to rubble. The main difference between Trump’s and Vance’s behavior is that they demanded Zelensky deliver Ukraine to a third country, Vladimir Putin’s Russia. That might appear to be the beginning of the end of Ukraine’s brave resistance against the neo-imperialism of Russia, just as Czechoslovakia, abandoned by Britain and France, disappeared into the darkness. But this is a potential illusion fostered by American parochialism, a self-centered and provincial view of the world that is held, above all, by right-wingers who believe the rest of the world only exists at our sufferance, but to some degree also by many liberals who oppose them.” (03/06/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/06/how-ukraine-can-survive-without-america/
Source: SFGate
“Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years. Researchers know that early people made simple tools from stones as early as 3.3 million years ago. The new discovery, published Wednesday in Nature, reveals that ancient humans ‘had rather more complex tool kits than previously we thought,’ incorporating a variety of materials, said William Harcourt-Smith, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in the research.” (03/05/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/ancient-humans-made-tools-from-animal-bones-1-5-20204160.php
Source: The Daily Economy
by David Hebert
“Imagine that a longtime friend complains that you’ve repeatedly tracked mud into his house and threatens to trash your house in return. You endeavor to wipe your feet, perhaps even taking your shoes off altogether, yet the threats continue. Eventually, you have to question the friendship. This is where the US stands with Canada and Mexico, our closest trade partners, as the threat of tariffs continues to erode generations of economic goodwill. Despite both Canada and Mexico attempting to accede to US demands, they are now faced with renewed saber-rattling. While both countries will likely try to placate, it is becoming clear that both countries have begun questioning the role they want the US to play in their economies.” (03/06/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/tariffs-are-pushing-our-neighbors-and-prosperity-away/
Source: Roll Call
“Protest, retreat, hide? Congressional behavior, 2025-style.” (03/06/25)
https://chrt.fm/track/D3F8DG/traffic.megaphone.fm/FISCAL2464366076.mp3?updated=1741290245
Source: Semafor
“The Trump administration is planning to roll back temporary legal protections for some 240,000 Ukrainian refugees, leaving them vulnerable to fast-track deportation, Reuters reported. The move to revoke the temporary resident status of the Ukrainians who fled to the US following Russia’s full-scale invasion could be expected as soon as April, the outlet reported. It comes amid a broader Trump administration crackdown which could see more than 1.8 million migrants allowed to enter the US on temporary humanitarian parole programs during the Biden administration lose their legal protections.” (03/06/25)
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/06/2025/trump-planning-to-revoke-legal-status-for-240000-ukrainians-who-fled-to-us-report
Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer
“The current version of Coyote’s Law is something like this: Don’t give the government a power that you would not like your worst political enemy to wield. The reason for this should be obvious — unless you intend to be the last one in power, ie your goal is to initiate a totalitarian coup with yourself left in charge — then in the normal course of the political cycle in democratic countries, your group will eventually be out of power and your hated political enemies ensconced in your place. From today’s example below, it appears that this is NOT obvious to many politicians. … The recent chaotic transition to the Trump Administration would, in a rational world, give a lot of opposing politicians second thoughts about setting precedents and creating powers that were then ready for Trump to wield and expand.” (03/06/25)
https://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2025/03/a-great-example-of-coyotes-law-in-action.html
Source: Agorist Nexus
“Agorist Monero Markets with Douglas Tuma.” (03/06/25)
https://www.agoristnexus.com/agorist-monero-markets-with-douglas-tuman-165/
Source: Washington Post
by Eduardo Porter
“Americans will push back against the argument that the United States is just another corrupt country. Sure, they might say, private interests buy political influence. Still, the use of money to sway government action is constrained by rules and laws. It’s different from the opaque, under-the-table dealing that prevails in the kleptocracies of the developing world. That argument is increasingly out of date. America’s good-governance metrics have slipped significantly over the past decade. Last year, its score on the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index fell four points, to 65 out of 100. That is down from a score of 76 in 2015.” (03/06/25)
https://archive.is/WbGGR
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Walgreens Boots Alliance has struck a $10bn deal with private equity group Sycamore Partners that will bring the struggling pharmacy chain’s century-long run as a public company to an end. Sycamore agreed to pay $11.45 a share to take Walgreens private, valuing its stock at a nearly 30 per cent premium to before deal talks were first reported in December and giving it an equity value of about $10bn, the pharmacy chain said on Thursday. Sycamore will hold on to the US retail business and sell or spin off the remainder, which includes the UK pharmacy chain Boots, as part of a three-way split.” (03/06/25)
https://archive.is/SRRlT
