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Stevie Wonder - Ngiculela-Es Una Historia-I Am Singing (1976)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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Ngiculela ikusasa
Ngiyacula ngo thando
Ngicula ngelinyi langa
Uthando luyobusa
Jikelele kulomhlaba wethu
Es una historia de maana
Es una historia de amor
Es una historia que amor reinar
Por nuestro mundo
Es una historia de mi corazn
There's songs to make you smile
There's songs to make you sad
But with a happy song to sing
It never seems as bad
To me came this melody
So I've tried to put in words how I feel
Tomorrow will be for you and me
I am singing of tomorrow
I am singing of love
I am singing someday love will reign
Throughout this world of ours
I am singing of love from my heart
Let's all sing someday sweet love will reign
Throughout this world of ours
Let's start singing
Of love from our hearts
Let's start singing
Of love from our hearts
...
Marjorie Taylor Greene interrupts Biden's State of the Union (March 2024)
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... During his third State of the Union address, President Joe Biden addressed the murder of a Georgia student that Republicans have cited during criticism of his border policies.
The president was discussing the bipartisan immigration deal negotiated between the White House and Senate. ...
@#1 ... It feels like the right to privacy is secondary to Google's corporate interests," one reviewer wrote. ...
well, yeah.
Even saying "right to privacy" and "Google" in the same sentence seems quite odd to me.
I mean ...
Google Escapes Its Biggest Privacy Scandal Virtually Unscathed (July 2019)
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... At the same time Facebook is rumored to have settled with the Federal Trade Commission for $5 billion, Bloomberg reported Sunday that Google is poised to get away with a small loss in comparison, $13 million, for what was once called the biggest U.S. wiretap in history. However, a San Francisco judge still needs to agree to the settlement.
Google's Settlement
The settlement is expected to to be shared among the 20 plaintiffs that accused Google of spying on their data. What's left of the $13 million after the administrative costs are paid and lawyers get their 25% commission will be split between the plaintiffs and some consumer privacy groups, according to a court filing.
No one else who may have had their data stolen by Google will receive any money. According to the class-action lawyers, it would be too difficult to prove what data was stolen and when, after so many years.
Google will also commit to deleting any data it may have remaining from what it collected with its Street View cars. It also promised to do more to teach users about privacy online.
Google's Street View Car Wi-Fi Scandal
In 2010, Google was accused of using its Street View cars to collecting unencrypted Wi-Fi data from domestic homes. That data could have included personal web activity, as well as email addresses, passwords, medical records, phone numbers and other sensitive information. ...
@#19 ... Chaos. ...
Yeah, as I have posted a few times in the past ...
Intentional chaos or incompetence.
I seem to be agreeing with the chaos aspect. But, at this point, I have to say, only a 60/40 agreement.
... I used to point out if HP opens at 87, stays at 87, and closes at 87, nobody makes any money. It's the swings where fortunes are made or lost.
The first time around, Trump and his minions manipulated the strong dollar weaker, and (no doubt) bet the markets would move that way.
Now he's realized that's a pittance, compared to futures markets...when you already know the outcome and the timing. ...
Whoa, that's a lot to digest ... :)
Let me take one item at a time ...
... The first time around, Trump and his minions manipulated the strong dollar weaker ...
Hasn't Pres Trump said he wants a weak dollar?
Trump Wants the Dollar to Be Mighty But Weak. It Makes No Sense.
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... President Donald Trump's views on the role and level of the U.S. dollar recall a famous claim by the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. "The test of a first-rate intelligence," Fitzgerald wrote, "is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." Assuming the president's policy hyperactivity is evidence of functioning, we are witnessing a first-rate intelligence in action.
Either that or a devastating disproof of Fitzgerald's claim.
Both Trump and Vice President JD Vance have, for some years, been outspoken in support of a weaker dollar ...
Let's start there ....
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Texas Reports 13 New Measles Cases as CDC Arrives in State
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... Texas reported 13 new cases of measles Tuesday even as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending a team of epidemiologists and doctors to help the state with the growing outbreak.
The state has now reported a total of 159 cases since the outbreak began Jan. 23. That includes the earlier reported death of one child, the first US measles fatality in a decade. Texas officials said 22 people have been hospitalized.
The CDC's team of seven is expected to arrive Tuesday afternoon to assist in investigating cases, tracking hospital exposures and giving health care providers guidance on prevention, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services said. Texas requested help from the federal government on Feb. 28.
Katherine Wells, director of public health in Lubbock County, said she expects to get one CDC infectious disease physician as soon as Thursday to help track the outbreak and support public health communications, including answering calls from local businesses on exposure protocols.
The CDC's team of seven is just the start, Wells said. She expects the agency will send more people once it's clear what's needed. ...
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