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Too Little Too Late 
Britain sacrifices steel industry to curry favour with China
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD / DAILY TELEGRAPH
LONDON, March 31 – Britain’s special relationship with China is becoming more expensive by the day. It now threatens to destroy the British steel industry, a foundation pillar of our manufacturing economy.
Britain is not alone. Most of Europe’s steel foundries are heading for annihilation under the current EU trade regime, with unthinkable consequences through the network of European and British supply chains.
It is hard to pin down the exact moment when George Osborne’s love affair with China turned into a Faustian Pact. Continue Reading →
Defrosting The Fridge 
Fidel Castro lashes out at Obama after Cuba visit
Kejal Vya / Wall Street Journal
Sifting And Winnowing
HIllary Clinton does some quick shpping on State Street, in Madison, Wisconsin. PHOTO: John Hart / Wisconsin State Journal
Hillary Clinton urges voters to think of Supreme Court pick
Molly Beck / Wisconsin State Journal
TECHNOLOGY
Words of warning — not celebration — in Silicon Valley after FBI ends Apple fight
DAVE PARESH / LOS ANGELES TIMES That legal mess between the FBI and Apple over the last two months? The tech world wants to make sure it doesn’t happen again. The FBI’s declaration Monday that it could hack into an iPhone without Apple’s help — a device the agency had insisted carried security measures only the tech giant could defeat — at least temporarily ends the clash between Washington and Silicon Valley.
Though a momentary reprieve for Apple and its peers, the tech industry’s reaction to the FBI’s decision contained more warning than celebration.
Perhaps with good reason: The FBI’s move to dismiss legal actions against Apple in the investigation of the San Bernardino attack does little to settle the heated back-and-forth between law enforcement agencies seeking to expand their crime-fighting toolbox and tech firms fearful of being compelled to work at the behest of the government, executives and experts said. Continue Reading →
BUSINESS 
Beware the toxic rule following co-worker, says Harvard study
Every workplace has them. The colleague who bad-mouths you behind your back at the water cooler. The boss who takes credit for everyone else’s ideas. The sexist jerk people actively avoid by taking circuitous routes to the printer and lying about their happy hour plans.
These employees are the bane of American enterprise and they’re everywhere. Not only are they detrimental to a company’s morale, they are extremely costly to its bottom line and can do far more harm to an organization than outliers at the other extreme — the superstar employees — do good. But who are these people exactly? And how are they different from the rest of us? Continue Reading →
Leadership
President Harry Truman, in 1945. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
U.S.leadership matters today, just as it did after World War II
FRED HIATT / WASHINGTON POST
What would the world look like today if Harry Truman or Dwight Eisenhower had shared the foreign policy inclinations of Barack Obama or, far more dangerous, Donald Trump? Obama has presided over an experiment in withdrawal from the Middle East, a region that the United States had long considered vital. Trump would accelerate the withdrawal, and make it global, because “we’re a poor country now,” as he told The Post’s editorial board last week. Continue Reading →
CONGRESS
Donald Trump’s Success Upends Battle for Control of Congress
ALEXANDER BURNS / NEW YORK TIMES
Donald J. Trump’s dominance in the Republican primary is upending the campaign for control of Congress, as Republican lawmakers seek to distance themselves from him while Democrats seize on the chance to run against a candidate who has offended huge sections of the American electorate.
Nominating Mr. Trump could create a political battlefield of extraordinary breadth and volatility. Polling shows that he would enter the general election trailing badly against Hillary Clinton, and he has become deeply unpopular outside of his white, heavily male political base. Continue Reading →
Tabloid Campaign
Why some Republicans are feeling shame
SEAN SULLIVAN and DAVID WEIGAL / WASHINGTON POST
GREEN BAY, MARCH 27 – Back in the fall, when Donald Trump dubbed Jeb Bush “low-energy,” Carlos Gimenez grew a little concerned. By last month, when Marco Rubio and Trump engaged in childish name-calling, the Republican mayor of Miami-Dade County thought the GOP presidential race had gotten “out of hand.” Now, after a tawdry week that has focused on the wives of Trump and Ted Cruz, Gimenez is certain that the race has moved totally “out of bounds.”
The luridness has weighed not only on Republican elected officials but on voters as well. In a recent CBS News-New York Times poll, 60 percent of Republican primary voters said the campaign has made them mostly embarrassed for the party rather than mostly proud. The survey was conducted before the Cruz-Trump fight involving their spouses erupted. Continue Reading →
Campaign 2016 
How Clinton’s email scandal took root
ROBERT O’HARROW JR / WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON, MARCH 27 – Hilary Clinton’s email problems began in her first days as secretary of state. She insisted on using her personal BlackBerry for all her email communications, but she wasn’t allowed to take the device into her seventh-floor suite of offices, a secure space known as Mahogany Row.
For Clinton, this was frustrating. As a political heavyweight and chief of the nation’s diplomatic corps, she needed to manage a torrent of email to stay connected to colleagues, friends and supporters. She hated having to put her BlackBerry into a lockbox before going into her own office.
Her aides and senior officials pushed to find a way to enable her to use the device in the secure area. But their efforts unsettled the diplomatic security bureau, which was worried that foreign intelligence services could hack her BlackBerry and transform it into a listening device. Continue Reading →
Campaign 2016 
From South Carolina to Southern Illinois, voters weigh in on ‘The Establishment’
Nor can they understand why the U.S. Senate is taking a 17-day break for Easter after spending much of their time last week fuming over the Supreme Court vacancy. Somehow, people all over America are saying loudly and clearly this election year, Washington and its enablers – the media, the political pros and Wall Street – don’t understand us.
That’s why, all over this slice of middle America, exasperated people got up before dawn on a cold, 37-degree morning recently to spend four hours in a line so long that from its end people couldn’t even see the Peabody Opera House, where they would hear Donald Trump. And it wasn’t just Trump. In the next two days, other folks nearby lined up to hear the outsider talk from Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Bernie Sanders, Ind.-Vt.
They share the same grievance. In 2016 America, the deepest divide is not between Democrats and Republicans. It’s not even between conservatives and liberals. It’s between Us and Them – the people versus “The Establishment.” Continue Reading →
SOURCE: Los Angeles TImes: From South Carolina to Southern Illinois, voters weigh in on ‘The Establishment’
Why so many voters are drawn to Donald Trump
Steve Lopez / Los Angeles Times
The people who spend two bucks for chili at the Courtesy Diner in St. Louis can’t fathom why anyone would pay Hillary Clinton $225,000 to make a speech.
Nor can they understand why the U.S. Senate is taking a 17-day break for Easter after spending much of their time last week fuming over the Supreme Court vacancy. Somehow, people all over America are saying loudly and clearly this election year, Washington and its enablers – the media, the political pros and Wall Street – don’t understand us.
That’s why, all over this slice of middle America, exasperated people got up before dawn on a cold, 37-degree morning recently to spend four hours in a line so long that from its end people couldn’t even see the Peabody Opera House, where they would hear Donald Trump. And it wasn’t just Trump. In the next two days, other folks nearby lined up to hear the outsider talk from Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Bernie Sanders, Ind.-Vt.
They share the same grievance. In 2016 America, the deepest divide is not between Democrats and Republicans. It’s not even between conservatives and liberals. It’s between Us and Them – the people versus “The Establishment.” Continue Reading →
SOURCE: Los Angeles TImes: From South Carolina to Southern Illinois, voters weigh in on ‘The Establishment’
Three ways the unpredictable GOP presidential race could shake out
Mark Z. Barazak / Los Angeles Times
After 39 contests and more than 20 million votes cast, the Republican presidential race has narrowed to three candidates and three possible scenarios.
The first, and most likely, is that Donald Trump wins the delegates he needs to mathematically clinch the GOP nomination ahead of the party’s national convention this summer.
The second, testing Trump’s much-vaunted deal-making skills, has the businessman and reality TV star coming up just shy but bargaining his way to the 1,237 delegates he needs to take the nomination.
The third scenario, and the hope of rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich and other forces arrayed against Trump, is forcing an open convention that picks the nominee on the floor of the convention in downtown Cleveland.
SOURCE: Los Angeles TImes: 3 ways the unpredictable GOP presidential race could shake out
Cartographer’s Nightmare 
MICHAEL WILKINSON / DAILY TELEGRAPH
David Cameron has dismissed Argentina’s claims to the waters surrounding the Falkland Islands as “speculation”, vowing to defend the islander’s rights.
A United Nations commission has recommended that Argentina’s maritime territory should be expanded across the South Atlantic Ocean by 35 per cent, or 0.66 million miles, a move which would encompass the Falkland Islands and beyond.
The government of the Falkland Islands has sought reassurances from the British government.
The decision by the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf could have significant consequences for Buenos Aires’ claim to natural resources in the sea around the disputed island chain. Continue Reading →
China’s Authors 
With Hong Kong booksellers silenced, China now goes after exiled dissidents
SIMON DENYER / WASHINGTON POST
China’s security services are determined to silence critics – even if they live outside the country — especially if they write in Mandarin and take on China’s increasingly autocratic president.
It may also show how sensitive the Party has become to talk of internal rifts.
The wave of detentions also follow last year’s disappearances of five Hong Kong booksellers, including a Swedish citizen apparently abducted from Thailand and a British citizen seemingly kidnapped in Hong Kong: Their apparent “crime” to publish gossipy books critical of senior Party figures, including Xi himself, and – allegedly – to export those banned books into mainland China. Continue Reading →
Ukraine
Pro-Russian separatists have brought poverty and ruin to Donbas 
SOURCE: UA WIRE
Kyiv, MARCH 25 – The former Minister of Defense of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Igor Strelkov (aka Igor Girkin), stated that the separatists have brought ruin to the Donbas, built “simulacrums of republics”, and created “a pigsty and a mess”. Before the separatists came to power, the quality of life in Donetsk was higher, Strelkov stated, as reported by Chetvertaya Vlast.
Strelkov made these comments during an interview with representatives of the NOD (National Liberation Movement), a Russian nationalist organization. His comments were published by State Duma Deputy Yevgeny Fyodorov.
“The patriotism there is at such a level that the people who come see me say one thing: it is a pigsty and a mess! Everything that happens in Donetsk and Lugansk. I have no reason not to believe these people, because they are my comrades. Nobody came and said: Igor Ivanovich, it became better. Everyone says, a pigsty and a mess! That’s what we’ve built in the Donbass, unfortunately,” Strelkov said. Continue Reading →
SOURCE: UA WIRE: Igor Strelkov: Pro-Russian separatists have brought poverty and ruin to the Donbas
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