Google gives Huawei the Old Heave-Ho, and I can't stop myself writing a poem about it, which the New York Times just can't helping posting

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Is China Taking Over Australia? (Hint: Rupert Murdoch eats a lot of rice.)

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Banks, Like Onions, Should be Peeled in Layers to Find the Smudge

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Hope is an important part of the gospel plan.

". . . hope is an important part of the gospel plan."

Ulisses Soares

Hope in God

does not make

the sun rise.

But it gives

each sunrise

more meaning.

My Haiku on Facial Recognition in the New York Times

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that a child may write them.

. . . that a child may write them . . . 

2 Nephi 20:19

Simple, a child's love;

encompassing as the Lord's --

written on the heart

Colombian Soldiers on a Killing Spree. I respond with Haiku, in the New York Times.

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Death Rays from Mars? No, Cuba! My Response in the New York Times.

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and babes shall rule over them.

. . .  and babes shall rule over them . . .

2 Nephi. 13:4

A mature ruler

is pleasing to God and man;

wealth to the nation

The Tariff That Came to Dinner, as Posted in the New York Times

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