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Intrepid Report Newsletter We cannot keep publishing without your help. We have no paywalls or ads. Nor do we receive corporate or foundation funding. All we have is you to keep us publishing.  We  rely on you to help us  pay our monthly expenses. So please Donate   Monday Hizbullah: ‘You don’t see them . . . they see you!’ By Brett Redmayne-Titley “This is not good!” cautions a new Lebanese friend in a stern tone of warning, clutching this reporters arm for emphasis. “This, where you are going. . it is their neighbourhood . . . Hizbullah’s neighbourhood. They control this completely!” A common culture makes the nation By Linh Dinh In Saigon, the foreign tourists stay mostly downtown, where they can patronize American bars, and restaurants serving Indian, Thai, Korean, Italian, Mexican and Middle Eastern food, not to mention McDonald’s, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Popeyes, Starbucks and Lotteria, the last a Japanese chain. Wit...

02/13/2018 07:17 AM EDT By Lauren Dezenski  ( ldezenski@politico.com ; @LaurenDezenski) with Brent D. Griffiths ( bgriffiths@politico.com ; @BrentGriffiths) GOOD MORNING MASSACHUSETTS. INFRASTRUCTURE BILL A BUST FOR SOME DEMS -  President  Donald Trump 's $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan, rolled out yesterday, was once seen by Democrats in Massachusetts as one of the few areas where common ground and compromise was thought possible with then-nascent administration. Now, members of the state's congressional delegation are panning the proposal  -  zeroing in on the impact on local cities and towns of shifting costs from the federal government to municipalities, and the funding priorities overall. The plan proposes $200 million in actual federal investment, and a quarter of that $200 billion will go toward rural areas - seen as a hit to densely populated (and  coincidentally blue   ) urban areas already competing for badly needed infrastructur...

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