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Good Morning, it’s Saturday, 3 February 2018,  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift.
Welcome to February (Congrats…you made it through January!)
The Nightshift is moving to a more streamlined format to accommodate a slate of new  Media Bunker  projects.
Dennis Edwards, lead singer for The Temptations has died. He was 74. In the opening video (above) Edwards is to the left of David Ruffin. You need to see Dennis Edwards perform to understand his impact on music and the “Motown Sound”.
The Potomac Drama: The White House declassified the “memo” yesterday, clearing the way for its release to the general public. The Republicans say it proves bias against the President;  the Democrats (and the Justice Department, which did not want the “memo” released) say it’s inaccurate, incomplete, massively flawed, reckless, and out of sync with the timing of events. Expect more “memos”; also expect more damaging “leaks” from/about the Administration.  What a mess.
Super Bowl LII will be played tomorrow. For this weekend and into Monday, America will have something to talk about besides the mess in Washington.
The Daily Grope: The CEO of the Humane Society has resigned after charges of sexual misconduct, prompted by actions by the board of the Society and the Society’s biggest donors.
A large New York/Dubai investment fund, the Abraaj Group, has been accused by investors of misusing investment funding. Both the management of the fund and the investors in it have requested audits to sort the situation out.
Today is National Missing Persons Day. Perhaps you or someone you know has a friend or relative who has gone missing. It’s a bit of an epidemic. Pay attention and help where you can.
What we’re listening to in The Media Bunker: The Valentines 2018 playlist, compiled by our music editor/producer/DJ Tschugge. 
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below.
Please check out the CNN “text news” site, which is much faster than their full multi-media site. It’s below at the end of the links.
A new link to the Boston Globe newspaper has been added. We’ve also added a link to The Local, an English language newspaper in Norway.
Also, we’ve added tech site Ars Technia to The Nightshift. To reflect the growing impact of technology in our life, we will be adding more technology centric sites in the future.
The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below. As always, thanks for dropping by.
The Times (London
Financial Times (UK)
The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
The Wall Street Journal (European edition)
Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
New York Times (New York)
The Boston Globe (Boston)
The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles)
Daily News Egypt (Cairo)
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
The Moscow Times (Moscow)
Le Figaro (Paris)
Bloomberg.com (New York)
The Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem)
The Japanese Times (Tokyo)
The Local (Oslo)
Sputnik (Moscow)
The Buenas Aires Herald (Buenas Aires)
The Sidney Morning Herald (Sidney)
Deadline Hollywood (Hollywood)
FiveThirtyEight (New York City)
Politico (Washington, DC)
Lawfareblog (Washington, DC)
Wired (San Francisco, CA)
The Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
Ars Technica  
The Fine Print: Photo embed courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. Embed of Dennis Edwards singing with the Temps, courtesy of the BBC and YouTube. All rights belong to their respective rights holders. We thank them for sharing. This post is number 1588  for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications The Nightshift is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. It’s rapid iteration. Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.

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Good Morning, it’s Friday, 2 February 2018  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift.
Welcome to February (Congrats…you made it through January!)
The Nightshift is moving to a more streamlined format to accommodate a slate of new  Media Bunker  projects.
It’s Ground Hog Day. Punxsutawney Phil made his traditional appearance and saw his shadow: that means six more weeks of winter. Got sweaters?
The Potomac Drama: President Trump is expected to release the “memo” today. It may have certain redactions or it may not. It may be released or it may not. The standoff between the FBI and the White House has intensified. The drama continues.
Super Bowl LII is this weekend, with the Eagles going up against the best big game team of our era, the New England Patriots. The game is being played indoors, in Minneapolis(thank goodness, the windchill is -18). Stock up on wings, nachos, beer, wine, chips, pizza,  bourbon, vodka, scotch, and tailgate food. Remember: even if the game is a bust, the commercials are terrific (one thirty second spot in the Super Bowl is $5.0 million).
Today is National Groundhog Day. Time to dig out the very excellent movie starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell (and brilliantly directed by Harold Ramis) and spend the day watching it. Again and again and again.
What we’re listening to in The Media Bunker: The Valentines 2018 playlist, compiled by our music editor/producer/DJ Tschugge. 
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below.
Please check out the CNN “text news” site, which is much faster than their full multi-media site. It’s below at the end of the links.
A new link to the Boston Globe newspaper has been added. We’ve also added a link to The Local, an English language newspaper in Norway.
Also, we’ve added tech site Ars Technia to The Nightshift. To reflect the growing impact of technology in our life, we will be adding more technology centric sites in the future.
The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below. As always, thanks for dropping by.
The Times (London
Financial Times (UK)
The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
The Wall Street Journal (European edition)
Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
New York Times (New York)
The Boston Globe (Boston)
The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles)
Daily News Egypt (Cairo)
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
The Moscow Times (Moscow)
Le Figaro (Paris)
Bloomberg.com (New York)
The Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem)
The Japanese Times (Tokyo)
The Local (Oslo)
Sputnik (Moscow)
The Buenas Aires Herald (Buenas Aires)
The Sidney Morning Herald (Sidney)
Deadline Hollywood (Hollywood)
FiveThirtyEight (New York City)
Politico (Washington, DC)
Lawfareblog (Washington, DC)
Wired (San Francisco, CA)
The Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
Ars Technica  
The Fine Print: Photo embed courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. The Nightshift is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. This post is number 1586  for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications. It’s rapid iteration. Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.

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Good Morning, it’s Thursday, 1 February 2018  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift.
Welcome to February (Congrats…you made it through January!)
The Nightshift is moving to a more streamlined format to accommodate a slate of new  Media Bunker  projects.
The Potomac Drama: The highly contentions “memo” produced by Congressman Devin Nunes could be released as early as today. The FBI says the “memo” contains classified information and its release would be reckless.
Xerox is done. The company that became a verb for it’s copier machines and a technological powerhouse (they invented the graphic-based computer user interface that is used in modern computer operating systems for Apple and Microsoft) has “combined operations” with Fuji holdings of Japan.
A train carrying Republican congressmen to a retreat crashed into a truck while en route yesterday, killing one person in the truck.
The entire board of the U.S. Gymnastics program has resigned, more fallout from the scandal surrounding team doctor Larry Nasser.
The Daily Grope: Model Kate Upton has accused Paul Marciano, the creative director and founder of the Guess fashion line, of sexually harassing women.
Today is National Get Up Day, a day to remind us of how important perseverance is in life and sport.  And, if you live in Texas, it’s National Texas Day. Celebrate with your boots on.
What we’re listening to in The Media Bunker: The Valentines 2018 playlist, compiled by our music editor/producer/DJ Tschugge. 
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below.
Please check out the CNN “text news” site, which is much faster than their full multi-media site. It’s below at the end of the links.
A new link to the Boston Globe newspaper has been added. We’ve also added a link to The Local, an English language newspaper in Norway.
Also, we’ve added tech site Ars Technia to The Nightshift. To reflect the growing impact of technology in our life, we will be adding more technology centric sites in the future.
The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below. As always, thanks for dropping by.
The Times (London
Financial Times (UK)
The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
The Wall Street Journal (European edition)
Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
New York Times (New York)
The Boston Globe (Boston)
The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles)
Daily News Egypt (Cairo)
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
The Moscow Times (Moscow)
Le Figaro (Paris)
Bloomberg.com (New York)
The Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem)
The Japanese Times (Tokyo)
The Local (Oslo)
Sputnik (Moscow)
The Buenas Aires Herald (Buenas Aires)
The Sidney Morning Herald (Sidney)
Deadline Hollywood (Hollywood)
FiveThirtyEight (New York City)
Politico (Washington, DC)
Lawfareblog (Washington, DC)
Wired (San Francisco, CA)
The Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
Ars Technica  
The Fine Print: Photo embed courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. The Nightshift is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. This post is number 1584  for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications. It’s rapid iteration. Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.

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Good Morning, it’s Wednesday, 31 January 2018  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift.
Welcome to 2018.
The Nightshift is moving to a more streamlined format to accommodate a slate of new  Media Bunker  projects.
A “Super-blue-blood- moon”, an event that has occurred once in the last 125 years, was seen around the world last night and very early this morning. Hope you got a chance to see it; it won’t come again in our lifetime.
President Trump delivered his first State of the Union Address to Congress last night. You can read the full text of the address–the longest SOTU speech ever–here. 
Political correctness is not just an American issue. The Norwegian Olympic Team is being called out for having a symbol on their sweaters that could–possibly–be associated with Neo-Nazis. If you ever read the fascinating book “Three Eggs on My Plate”, you know the Norwegians were stridently anti-Nazi.
Today is National Backward Day. Or, if we were celebrating it in the spirit, Day Backward National.
What we’re listening to in the Media Bunker: The First Day compilation on Spotify, curated by our music editor/producer/consultant DJ Tschugge. This is the last day for “First Day”. A new playlist will be posted tomorrow.
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below.
Please check out the CNN “text news” site, which is much faster than their full multi-media site. It’s below at the end of the links.
A new link to the Boston Globe newspaper has been added. We’ve also added a link to The Local, an English language newspaper in Norway.
Also, we’ve added tech site Ars Technia to The Nightshift. To reflect the growing impact of technology in our life, we will be adding more technology centric sites in the future.
The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below. As always, thanks for dropping by.
The Times (London
Financial Times (UK)
The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
The Wall Street Journal (European edition)
Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
New York Times (New York)
The Boston Globe (Boston)
The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles)
Daily News Egypt (Cairo)
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
The Moscow Times (Moscow)
Le Figaro (Paris)
Bloomberg.com (New York)
The Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem)
The Japanese Times (Tokyo)
The Local (Oslo)
Sputnik (Moscow)
The Buenas Aires Herald (Buenas Aires)
The Sidney Morning Herald (Sidney)
Deadline Hollywood (Hollywood)
FiveThirtyEight (New York City)
Politico (Washington, DC)
Lawfareblog (Washington, DC)
Wired (San Francisco, CA)
The Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
Ars Technica  
The Fine Print: Photo embed courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. The Nightshift is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. This post is number 1583  for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications. It’s rapid iteration. Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.

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Good Morning, it’s Tuesday, 30 January 2018  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift.
Welcome to 2018.
The Nightshift is moving to a more streamlined format to accommodate a slate of new  Media Bunker  projects.
JP Morgan Chase (Jaime Dimon), Amazon (Jeff Bezos), and Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett) have said they will combine forces to create a new health care company to provide benefits for their employees. The impact of the announcement was enough to send health care stocks down. Warren Buffet has said that health care costs are a “tapeworm feeding on the economy”; the new company will focus on dropping the costs of health care by taking out the profit motive, among other things.  It will not focus on lowering insurance rates, which is what Congress has been using as their “health care solution”, because these guys are smart enough to know that the underlying economics of modern American medicine must be fixed. Period.  Fix the cost side, and the insurance rates will drop rapidly (it’s economics).  Somewhere, Steve Brill is happy to see some action in this direction. As for Congress–they remain clueless on healthcare (among other things).
Blake Griffin, the oft-injured  star forward for the Los Angeles Clippers was traded–unexpectedly–to Detroit yesterday. Griffin now gets to trade t-shirts for overcoats, as he moves from warm winter nights in L.A. to frigid arctic evenings in Detroit. The Clippers have now traded away two of their best players in the last year–Chris Paul and Blake Griffin. In the background is the ultimate basketball talent judge–Jerry West–helping rebuild the team. The last team Jerry West helped rebuild is the Golden State Warriors and that worked out pretty well.
There is speculation in the financial and technical press that Apple is in a spot of trouble with iPhone X sales; the phone is not selling as expected (could it be the $1000 price) and the stock is down, but Apple is still on track to become the first trillion dollar company.
Chris Christie has a new job; the bombastic former New Jersey governor and sometime presidential hopeful will be on-the-air for ABC news. Widescreen TV is the perfect medium for Christie.
Warren Miller, the man who helped turn skiing into a major national sport and pastime through his highly individualistic films on the sport,  has died at the age of 93. 
Today is National Croissant Day. You know how to celebrate (A hot croissant with butter & jam? Yum.).
What we’re listening to in the Media Bunker: The First Day compilation on Spotify, curated by our music editor/producer/consultant DJ Tschugge. 
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below.
Please check out the CNN “text news” site, which is much faster than their full multi-media site. It’s below at the end of the links.
A new link to the Boston Globe newspaper has been added.
Also, we’ve added tech site Ars Technia to The Nightshift. To reflect the growing impact of technology in our life, we will be adding more technology centric sites in the future.
The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below. As always, thanks for dropping by.
The Times (London
Financial Times (UK)
The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
The Wall Street Journal (European edition)
Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
New York Times (New York)
The Boston Globe (Boston)
The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles)
Daily News Egypt (Cairo)
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
The Moscow Times (Moscow)
Le Figaro (Paris)
Bloomberg.com (New York)
The Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem)
The Japanese Times (Tokyo)
Sputnik (Moscow)
The Buenas Aires Herald (Buenas Aires)
The Sidney Morning Herald (Sidney)
Deadline Hollywood (Hollywood)
FiveThirtyEight (New York City)
Politico (Washington, DC)
Lawfareblog (Washington, DC)
Wired (San Francisco, CA)
The Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
Ars Technica  
The Fine Print: Photo embed courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. The Nightshift is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. This post is number 1582  for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications. It’s rapid iteration. Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.

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Good afternoon, it’s Monday 29 January 2018  and this is the mid-day Edition of The Nightshift.
Welcome to 2018.
The Nightshift is moving to a more streamlined format to accommodate a slate of new  Media Bunker  projects.
The Deputy Director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, has stepped down from his job; he will be on administrative leave until he formally retires in the spring. McCabe had been the subject of blistering criticism from President Donald Trump. Who’s next ?
The Cleveland Indians will retire their famed “Chief Wahoo” logo by 2019. The move comes after pressure from the commissioner of baseball’s office. Political correctness intrudes again……
Bruno Mars took home three Grammys last night, in a major show of commercial viability.  The show had the lowest ratings of any telecast in recent memory and many critics noted that the show honored music’s past instead of its’ future.
Today is National Puzzle Day. Get those puzzles out and start solving them–just don’t do it at work.
What we’re listening to in the Media Bunker: The First Day compilation on Spotify, curated by our music editor/producer/consultant DJ Tschugge. 
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below.
Please check out the CNN “text news” site, which is much faster than their full multi-media site. It’s below at the end of the links.
A new link to the Boston Globe newspaper has been added.
The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below.
The Times (London
Financial Times (UK)
The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
The Wall Street Journal (European edition)
Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
New York Times (New York)
The Boston Globe (Boston)
The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles)
Daily News Egypt (Cairo)
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
The Moscow Times (Moscow)
Le Figaro (Paris)
Bloomberg.com (New York)
The Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem)
The Japanese Times (Tokyo)
Sputnik (Moscow)
The Buenas Aires Herald (Buenas Aires)
The Sidney Morning Herald (Sidney)
Deadline Hollywood (Hollywood)
FiveThirtyEight (New York City)
Politico (Washington, DC)
Lawfareblog (Washington, DC)
Wired (San Francisco, CA)
The Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
The Fine Print: Photo embed courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. The Nightshift is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. This post is number 1581  for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications. It’s rapid iteration. Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.

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Good morning, it’s Sunday, 28 January 2018  and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift.
Welcome to 2018.
The Nightshift is moving to a more streamlined format to accommodate a slate of new  Media Bunker  projects.
A legend. Roger Federer won the Australian Open, besting Marin Cilic 6-2, 6-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in a five set match that gave Federer his 20th Grand Slam title. Combined with 40 year old Tom Brady heading back to the Super Bowl, are we living in the age of longevity for our top athletes? The answer is an unqualified “yes”.
Saudi Prince Alaweed bin Talal, has been released from detention  (he was being held in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Riyadh) after two months. Prince Alaweed was rounded up in a corruption sweep orchestrated by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; the billionaire Prince Alaweed is considered Saudi Arabia’s most successful investor and an international businessman who is widely regarded throughout the world. Does his release signal a return to internal moderation for Saudi Arabia? Who knows, but the Kingdom is facing a turbulent future as its’ single-source economy, based on oil, starts to fade while other countries oil output–specifically that of the United States and Russia–continue to rise.
The Daily Grope: American actor Jeremy Piven has been accused by three women of inappropriate behavior.
The Grammy Awards are tonight. Expect politically charged speeches.
Ingvar Kamprad, the billionaire (and justifiably so) founder of Swedish furniture chain IKEA has died at the age of 91. No word yet on whether his family will have to assemble his coffin.
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We also lost legendary cartoonist Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey. Mort Walker was 94.
Today is National Fun at Work Day. Notice that it’s on a Sunday, when most of us are not at work (except for the Media Bunker team). Does that tell you something?
The Detroit Auto Show has unveiled a host of new vehicles–most of them SUVs–in a show that has been heralded as one of the last celebrations of the automobile culture as we know it. 
What we’re listening to in the Media Bunker: The First Day compilation on Spotify, curated by our music editor/producer/consultant DJ Tschugge. 
The front pages (and sometimes more) of the world’s great English language newspapers are linked below.
Please check out the CNN “text news” site, which is much faster than their full multi-media site. It’s below at the end of the links.
A new link to the Boston Globe newspaper has been added.
The International Headlines are all at your fingertips, below.
The Times (London
Financial Times (UK)
The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
The Wall Street Journal (European edition)
Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
New York Times (New York)
The Boston Globe (Boston)
The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles)
Daily News Egypt (Cairo)
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
The Moscow Times (Moscow)
Le Figaro (Paris)
Bloomberg.com (New York)
The Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem)
The Japanese Times (Tokyo)
Sputnik (Moscow)
The Buenas Aires Herald (Buenas Aires)
The Sidney Morning Herald (Sidney)
Deadline Hollywood (Hollywood)
FiveThirtyEight (New York City)
Politico (Washington, DC)
Lawfareblog (Washington, DC)
Wired (San Francisco, CA)
The Weather Channel
CNN News Text Site
The Fine Print: Photo embed courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing. The Nightshift is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. This post is number 1579  for this site. The Nightshift is a continually evolving experiment in news communications. It’s rapid iteration. Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world.