It is hard to believe that anyone could see anything going wrong when our government makes common cause with large corporations. Both the corporations and the government have along history of only acting in all of our best interests

The very large governmental expenditures to increase chip production was unwise.

A number of states have programs like Minnesota's MNlink. These state funded programs allow access to materials from almost all of the public libraries and also include access to materials at number of colleges and universities both public and private. You request material and it is delivered to your local library. In Minnesota anyone with a library card has access to millions of books cds movies and other materials even at smaller rural libraries. This program was created and funded by both parties.

These companies will still be able to recruit the talent that they need. They tend to make a lot of money and have many means to find new talent. A job with good pay and a future is very attractive and graduates will seek them out

Looks like an economy moving towards the use of money from a foreign country either China or US or the EU

financial not finial

We have sent 10's of billions of dollars to Ukraine. We do not help Ukraine if we allow or even encourage inappropriate finial allocation of resources with in Ukraine. The unanswered allegations of Ukrainian corruption are the most important potential threat to continued US support. We must investigate to ensure the future of support.

Why not investigate both? Just because we do not adequately investigate the military budget does not mean we should not investigate alleged Ukrainian improprieties that have serious implications for the operation of our government.

I think it might have already been done. Check the scientific literature. I think I remember seeing something on it. I found this on Google Can you crossbreed tomatoes and tobacco? Baur grafted a tomato plant onto tobacco roots, and voilà, he had a real, live tomacco plant. The two plants can successfully become one because they come from the same plant family, which also includes eggplant and the deadly nightshade. There seems to be a scientific basis for the possibility for the Simpsons story

The suppression of free speech is not a bug of current policy it is a feature. The US government does nor want anyone else to do what Assange did. Assange did a service to the US population and the world but the powers that be are committed acting in secret to do things that shock the conscience. As a practical matter some secrets need to be kept. Far too many things are secret and many of the secrets threaten the vary concept of democracy. Where the line is should be drawn is a difficult problem. No matter what happens to Assange I thank him for his effort

My very limited experience with addicts is if one opiate is blocked another one will be used. Addiction can be very hard to beat.

In the past when the US government spies on the American people it has been fully operational for several years before they admit what their doing. The FBI has no need to to tell the truth. A number of other comments suggest various negative things. Some or all of them may be true. If the FBI is doing anything wrong Congress will retroactively make it legal.

Both Russia and Ukraine had to cooperate to get this plant safely shut down. With the plant shut down there will not be a meltdown. It is my hope that this plant can be preserved and be returned to full function after combat operations are over in this area. I read the comments and there is so much hate. We should be glad that a potentiate catastrophe has been averted for the moment.

I strongly agree we should stop burning food as soon as possible. There is not a shortage of Uranium there is enough Uranium. There are also a large supply of spent rods that could be reprocessed to provide nuclear fuel. That is a very dangerous and dirty en devour. There is type of reactor that creates more fuel than it burns. It is called a breeder reactor and the fuel it produces must be reprocessed to be used. Breeder reactors are considered to be unsafe and there are to my knowledge no such commercial reactors. They are unsafe in two ways both of which involve the reactor being hot. It needs to have a very high level of high energy neutrons to do the breeding. This makes the reactor dangerous to work with. This reactor also runs at a very high temperature. One of the dangers of a nuclear reactor is that the fuel will melt down. The high temperature of the breeder means there is much less of a safety factor in it's operation. Thorium reactors are promising and two countries are now researching them. These two countries have the largest reserves of recoverable thorium. And the countries are India and Russia. Given the current situation giving Russia more control over western energy is unwise. The biggest problem with Uranium reactors is the lead time for getting one going. Typically plants are bid for a 5 year construction but often take two or tree times as long to be completed.

Someone has already figured out how to do this with cell phones. the peoples Republic of China is the winner. They use facial recognition and cell phones and ubiquitous surveillance cameras. When the authorities focus on someone the information from a data base is displayed. It is certainly good that in the US we live in a country where the leader does not declare slightly less than 50% to be semi fascists. Maybe a little paranoia is in order.