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The deaf heard from the mute that the blind saw the light.
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Interest in so-called “golden visas” has skyrocketed among US citizens since the election, according to consultants that help the wealthy migrate
Political and social division is driving interest in ‘golden visas’ | CNN Business
Europe could soon be welcoming a wave of well-heeled Americans, as Democratic voters facing the prospect of another Donald Trump presidency eye refuges abroad.
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November 24, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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Train tracks run through the history of acclaimed author Zha Jianying's Chinese family. This is Part I of Zha's memoir of their journeys-www.chinafile.com/re...
Trains: A Chinese Family History of Railway Journeys, Exile, and Survival | ChinaFile
Every morning, I crossed a stretch of railway tracks on the way to my school. The tracks lay less than a hundred meters from the school gate, and a train often appeared in the late afternoon just as we were discharged. Sometimes it was a freight train piled high with lumber or coal. It would be gliding along, clink clank, clink clank, at low speed because it was getting near
www.chinafile.com
November 13, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
November 17, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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It strikes me that the other place increasingly resembles a digital version of what Canetti called The Pack ..:
small hordes of men roaming in a state of excitement, ‘whose fiercest wish is “to be more” but ‘surrounded by emptiness, and there are literally no additional people who could join it.’
November 16, 2024 at 5:34 PM
November 15, 2024 at 7:16 PM