LEADS

The Real Meaning of Trade (by P.J. O'Rourke)
https://americanconsequences.com/the-real-meaning-of-trade/

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/

3 Money Tips From a Founder Who Raised $425 Million for an Automated Pizza Business That Delivers In 5 Minutes
https://www.inc.com/anna-meyer/how-this-female-founder-raised-425-million-for-an-automated-pizza-business-that-delivers-to-silicon-valley-in-5-minutes.html

Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Cutting Full-Time Jobs to Maintain the Low Cost of Its Cars
http://fortune.com/2019/01/18/elon-musk-tesla-job-cuts-model-3-price/

Elwood, Illinois (Pop. 2,200), Has Become a Vital Hub of America’s Consumer Economy. And It’s Hell.
https://newrepublic.com/article/152836/elwood-illinois-pop-2200-become-vital-hub-americas-consumer-economy-its-hell

How tech-infused retail could save Main Street
https://www.axios.com/main-street-digitalization-stores-china-kroger-94800609-766d-45b3-9e9c-61bedabb89ac.html

‘Digital can’t save anyone’: What went wrong at Pier 1 Imports
https://digiday.com/marketing/digital-cant-save-anyone-went-wrong-pier-1-imports/

6 Tech Leaders on What They Fear the Most
http://time.com/5505456/6-things-tech-world-leaders-fear/

Zimbabwe in ‘total internet shutdown’ amid violent crackdown
https://www.apnews.com/7cf7713da14c46909800f74fd8f08cb2

Where Are Privacy Boundaries in an Age of Government Interception?
https://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/security-and-risk-strategy/where-are-privacy-boundaries-in-an-age-of-government-interception/a/d-id/1333672

How the Feds Failed to Track Thousands of Separated Children
https://www.wired.com/story/oig-report-trump-separated-children-border/

$11 toothpaste: Immigrants pay big for basics at private ICE lock-ups
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-detention/11-toothpaste-immigrants-pay-big-for-basics-at-private-ice-lock-ups-idUSKCN1PC0DJ

Border walls are big business–and not just in Trump’s America
https://www.fastcompany.com/90293157/border-walls-are-big-business-and-not-just-in-trumps-america

Trump unveils his ’Ric Flair doctrine’ — after another border wall pitch
https://www.rollcall.com/news/whitehouse/trump-unveils-his-ric-flair-doctrine-after-another-border-wall-pitch

Trump spreads claim from anonymous 'border rancher' who says she found Muslim 'prayer rugs' in the New Mexico desert and claims GERMANS sneak across illegally from Mexico
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6607237/Trump-spreads-claim-anonymous-rancher-says-Muslim-prayer-rugs-desert.html

President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/trump-russia-cohen-moscow-tower-mueller-investigation

BuzzfeedNews Bombshell Reporter: No We Have Not Seen the Evidence Supporting Our Report
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/buzzfeednews-bombshell-reporter-no-we-have-not-seen-the-evidence-supporting-our-report/

Democrats bring up impeachment after BuzzFeed's new Trump report
https://www.axios.com/trump-mueller-investigation-impeachment-cohen-bdf64b54-c102-4c66-86b4-fe91ea5585f2.html

Trump-Deutsche Bank links in sights of U.S. House investigators
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-deutsche-bank/trump-deutsche-bank-links-in-sights-of-u-s-house-investigators-idUSKCN1PC123

Republican Senators Overseeing NRA-Russia Probes Are Top NRA Allies
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/nra-russia-senate-investigations-trump-burr-grassley/

Former Senator Vitter among foreign agents paid to ease sanctions on Russian oligarch’s firm
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/01/senator-david-vitter-among-foreign-agents-sanctions-on-russian-oligarch/

Ukrainian Oligarch Scrutinized by Robert Mueller Was a Giuliani Client
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/ukrainian-oligarch-pavel-fuks-scrutinized-by-robert-mueller-was-rudy-giuliani-client/

Trump startled by cozy Barr-Mueller relationship
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/17/politics/donald-trump-william-barr-robert-mueller/

Bill Barr’s CIA Resume: Cover-Ups, Covert Operations, and Pardons
http://deepstateblog.org/2019/01/15/bill-barrs-cia-resume-cover-ups-covert-operations-and-pardons/

The Vice President’s Men
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n02/seymour-m-hersh/the-vice-presidents-men

POLITICS and FLEAS

On This Episode of The Real White Housewives, President Petty Cancels Nancy Pelosi's Foreign Travel
https://www.theroot.com/on-this-episode-of-the-real-white-housewives-president-1831848652

Trump Is Unifying Democrats Instead of Consolidating His Base
https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/trump-unifying-democrats-instead-consolidating-his-base

21 Ways the Devil Is Using the Democratic Party to Destroy America
https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/heres-the-deal/74772-21-ways-the-devil-is-using-the-democratic-party-to-destroy-america

The Antichrist Trap: Trump Isn’t the Whole Story
https://rewire.news/religion-dispatches/2019/01/16/the-antichrist-trap-trump-isnt-the-whole-story/

FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

Once a Year, Over 27,000 Elvis Fans Flood This Small Australian Town
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/elvis-festival-lets-attendees-shake-rattle-and-roll-180971271/

Funk on Da Table: The band bringing New Orleans funk to Japan
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/01/17/music/funk-da-table-band-bringing-new-orleans-funk-japan/

Young Russian Musicians Struggle Under Government Scrutiny
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/685973630/young-russian-musicians-struggle-under-government-scrutiny

Pakistan’s volatility turns musicians political
http://www.atimes.com/article/pakistans-volatility-turns-musicians-political/

Falz: The Nigerian rapper rebelling through music
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/falz-nigerian-rapper-rebelling-music-190117055246033.html

Blackstars
https://longreads.com/2019/01/10/blackstars/

PANDORA'S BOXCUTTER

How Singapore’s World-Famous Street Food Could Disappear
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/singapore-hawker-centres

The Unhealthiest Item in Every Fast-Food Chain in the US
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2019/01/15/the-unhealthiest-item-in-every-fast-food-chain-in-the-u-s/

The USDA Has a 1.39 Billion Pound Stockpile of Excess Cheese
https://modernfarmer.com/2019/01/the-usda-has-a-1-39-billion-pound-stockpile-of-excess-cheese/

Food system failures in our age of abundance
https://europeansting.com/2019/01/14/food-system-failures-in-our-age-of-abundance/

THE MEDIA SCRUM

BBC America's new animal documentary Dynasties is more gripping than Game of Thrones
https://theweek.com/articles/818021/bbc-americas-new-animal-documentary-dynasties-more-gripping-than-game-thrones

M. Night Shyamalan's Glass is better than you've heard
https://theweek.com/articles/817996/m-night-shyamalans-glass-better-than-youve-heard

Whatever Happened to the "Seinfeld of Saudi Arabia"?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/happened-seinfeld-saudi-arabia-1176137

ODDS, ENDS

A Century Later, the Versailles Treaty Still Haunts Our World
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-century-later-the-versailles-treaty-still-haunts-our-world/

The Horror of Trump’s Wounded Knee Tweet
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/17/the-horror-of-trumps-wounded-knee-tweet-224024

The Forgotten Lessons of Nagasaki
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-forgotten-lessons-of-nagasaki/

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