| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
It's been a difficult week for Donald Trump. No one on Capitol Hill seems to want to stand up for him after he decided to criticize a Muslim family whose son was killed in Iraq. No one seems to appreciate the sacrifices Trump has made for his country. Even fellow rich white guys -- Warren Buffett, the Koch Brothers -- are saying unkind things about him. He fired his adviser responsible for his relationship to the Republican Party. And it looks like his poll numbers are dropping. Sad! 
Digits of the Day: 3.9 percentage points That's the RealClearPolitics average lead that Hillary Clinton has over Trump. In three polls taken over the weekend following the Democratic convention, Clinton's lead was between 5 and 9 percentage points. How much of that is a convention bump and how much of it will stay with Clinton remains to be seen. In the battleground state of Pennsylvania, Clinton has a 4-point lead, according to Public Policy Polling. The data in the other swing states – Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida – are pretty old.
A helicopter dropped containers of toxic gas on a Syrian town close to where a Russian military helicopter was shot down hours earlier, according to a Syrian rescue service operating in rebel held territory.  Men inspect the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that had been shot down in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah
The surrender of Uber China to its larger rival Didi Chuxing offers a window into how Uber's rivals can gain market share in Southeast Asia and India.
Around the world - A new Cold War, this time in cyberspace: The White House has tough choices to make in response to Moscow's alleged involvement in the hacking of Democratic Party organizations. If the U.S. retaliates in cyberspace, it runs the risk of a rapid escalation in which, under a worst-case scenario, Moscow's sophisticated cyber warriors could attack power grids, financial systems and other critical infrastructure. There's also the tiny issue that the U.S. needs Russia to help end the civil war in Syria, sustain the Iran nuclear deal and not make matters worse in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
- In the outskirts of the southern city of Guangzhou, China, Zhiyong Xi releases 3 million weekly bacteria-laden mosquitoes as part of an effort to fight dengue, yellow fever and Zika. His staff at Sun Yat-sen University Center of Vector Control for Tropical Diseases injects mosquito eggs with wolbachia bacteria and then releases them. The bacteria cause infected males to sterilize the females they mate with.
- The Rio Olympics could become a platform for social action by U.S. athletes, reflecting racial tensions at home. Some WNBA players have already publicly supported Black Lives Matter on the court after shootings of black men in Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights, Minnesota. And the mood in the United States is drawing comparisons to the mood in 1968 when two American track medalists, Tommie Smith and John Carolos, raised their black-gloved fists in support of Black Power at the Mexico City Olympics.
Around the country - The Movement for Black Lives, a civil rights organization endorsed by Black Lives Matter, called for criminal justice reforms and reparations for slavery in the United States in its first policy platform, likely informed by The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander and "The Case for Reparations" by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
- Gun control advocates want to take a page out of the LGBT same-sex marriage civil rights strategy book: grass roots street-level activism. And after the Orlando gay nightclub massacre, LGBT activists are ready to help.
- A FBI electronics technician pleaded guilty to acting as an agent of China, admitting that he on several occasions passed sensitive information to a Chinese official. That information included the identity and travel plans of an FBI agent; an internal organizational chart; and photos he took of documents in a restricted area related to surveillance technology.
Around Wall Street - Carlyle Group could make a pair of acquisitions in Japan worth $2 billion apiece, a strategic departure from a previous focus on smaller deals as big Japanese firms are gearing up for spinoffs of larger assets.
- Officials from the Bangladesh central bank are visiting Manila this week to pressure Philippines authorities to find ways to return the $63 million that is still missing out of the funds stolen from Bangladesh's account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York earlier this year. Hackers managed to transfer $81 million to four accounts at Rizal Commercial Banking Corp in Manila. Only about $18 million has been recovered. The Bangladeshi officials believe the money was laundered through the casino industry in the Philippines.
- Poor overall governance at Mitsubishi Motors was a root cause of the automaker's mileage cheating scandal, not just errant engineers, according to a probe by three former public prosecutors and an ex-Toyota director. The group was hired by Mitsubishi to investigate after the company admitted to overstating the fuel economy on some of its vehicles.
Today's reason to live Leadbelly – The Bourgeois Blues |
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