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(16 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 26, 2015 BREAKING: WikiLeaks Leaks TPP Draft!!!
This is an advanced January 2015 version of the confidential draft treaty chapter from the Investment group of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks between the United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei Darussalam. The treaty is being negotiated in secret by delegations from each of these 12 countries, who together account for 40% of global GDP.
SHARE Saturday, August 18, 2018 John Dean to White House staffers: 'Get out!'
John Dean knows a little something about awful, criminal, paranoid presidents with berserk rage boners for the popular Democratic presidents who preceded them.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 27, 2014 A Decent nation Would Have Impeached Bush and Obama
The administration of George W. Bush committed a number of actions, some of which are likely criminal, some of which expand the powers of the executive beyond credible fidelity to the constitution and some of which are just plain offensive regardless of their legality. Pres. Obama, who followed Bush into office, made some show of reversing some of the policies of his predecessor But kept others creating a culture of impuni
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 16, 2017 Republican voters turn against book learning as the party's enstupiding accelerates
A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (58%) now say that colleges and universities have a negative effect on the country, up from 45% last year. By contrast, most Democrats and Democratic leaners (72%) say colleges and universities have a positive effect, which is little changed
(30 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 28, 2014 "Americans Are Sick to Death of Both Parties: Why Our Politics Is in Worse Shape Than We Thought"
If nothing else, I hope this post makes Democrats (at least) think real hard about what the hell they're doing; meanwhile, many (again, no links; no need to call out anyone) have already opted to become stenographers for the Democratic Party status quo's "inevitability meme," at least when it comes to our country's 2016 presidential politics.
(44 comments) SHARE Monday, October 19, 2015 Why I no longer support Candidate Sanders
...when your blind loyalties to one candidate over another can affect the quality of life and well-being of not just this nation's citizens, but also people all over the world, it starts to become a frightening spectacle of word wrangling and rationalizing that's so insane, it's surreal at times.
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 20, 2017 Preet Bharara's Russian Money Laundering Case Abruptly Settled, Raising Eyebrows
This is the case that Preet Bharara as the Manhattan US Attorney was working on when he was abruptly fired by Donald Trump back in March.
The trial was supposed to start tomorrow and witness testimony was expected to shed light on how Russian dirty money gets laundered. Through real estate. Expensive Manhattan real estate. Now that avenue of information gathering has been shut down.
Two lawyers also died.
(11 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 3, 2015 NYTimes: Conservative Economics and Income Inequality Are Literally Killing Us.
What's most shocking about these statistics is not how unhealthy they show Americans to be, compared with citizens of countries that spend much less on health care and have much less sophisticated medical technology. What is most perplexing is how stunningly fast the United States has lost ground.
Government support for Americans in the bottom half turned out to be too meager to hold society together.
(11 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 26, 2015 Four Reasons to Anticipate PostCapitalism
You know, postcapitalism -- the coming period of existence after the capitalist system has run its course, after Bernie Sanders' "political revolution" has outstripped Sanders' current promises, and brought us to a world in which we can actually do something about our situation without dragging around the profits system like a giant millstone?
(19 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 30, 2015 The Thundering Failure of the Democrats
I'm a Tom Joad democrat, a prison reform democrat, an anti-poverty democrat and a pro-justice democrat - so the party left me a long time ago...and they never looked back as they went chasing after the fat checkbook crowd.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 26, 2015 What happens when you tax the rich and raise the minimum wage? Meet one of USA's best economies
When Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton took office in 2011, Minnesota had more than a $6 billion dollar deficit and an unemployment rate of 7%. Today, Minnesota's unemployment rate isnow below 4% and they have a budget surplus of over $1.2 billion dollars. How did Mark Dayton do this?
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, August 24, 2015 Now that Bernie Sanders is taken seriously, supporters must get real
A recent article at OpEdNews titled Loving Bernie, But Getting Real is a must-read for all Bernie Sanders supporters. In the many posts I've written on Sanders, at one time or another I have alluded to the issues James Quandy brings up in his article.
The article will make the most ardent supporters of Bernie Sanders really upset.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 5, 2015 25 Unfounded Myths Being Spread About Bernie
As the political revolution continues to build steam, increasingly some Clintonites are really getting aggressive and deliberately spreading myths that need to be debunked. We have hit stage 3 of Gandhi's progression: First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win. Here are the most common myths and why they are wrong.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, March 16, 2015 Opposing GMOs is not automatically antiscientific
I no longer oppose all GMOs. I would rather see that each proposed genetically modified organism be properly assessed for its impact on our health and the environment. That said, I still oppose almost every GMO in food production or forestry.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 12, 2017 Don't look now, but Democrats just flipped two more seats from red to blue Tuesday night
Tuesday night Democrats flipped two historically Republican legislative districts in Oklahoma -- House District 75 and Senate District 44. Both seats had been in GOP hands since before they were both redrawn in the last round of redistricting in a state that Trump won last fall with 65 percent of the vote
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, December 19, 2014 It Wasn't Just Torture, It Was Experimentation on Human Beings
The American people have become blase about the idea of torture. But how do they feel about the fact that the CIA did human experimentation on the helpless prisoners held in their dungeons?
SHARE Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Trump's 'new trade deal' with Mexico isn't new: It's NAFTA wedded to the TPP
Though there's no deal. Negotiations actually appear to be only a bit further along than Trump's "deal" for North Korea to denuclearlize, and most of what's in the proposal is a thin coat of paint over the NAFTA agreement that Trump has railed about for years.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, November 30, 2015 In wake of terrorism in Colorado Springs, Carly Fiorina proves herself a psychopath
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is a psychopath. This isn't new or surprising information; she has been a psychopath for apparently her entire professional life, and she is running for president behind numerous other psychopaths who would be hard-pressed to collectively summon enough basic human decency to fill a coffee tin. But it is something that needs again to be said
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 10, 2017 Australia's ABC Excoriating Reporting on Trump & the G20
We've learned that Donald Trump has pressed fast forward on the decline of the United States as a Global Leader
He managed to isolate his nation, to confuse and alienate his allies and to diminish America
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 30, 2013 The grace of atheists saved me, followers of Republican Jesus turned their back on me
Who are the ones with morals and who are the ones who lack them? My experience is the atheists are the ones who cared about me, the progressive Christians are the ones who serve their fellow man and community. I don't know what moral coda the social conservatives follow, but it bears little resemblance to anything Jesus taught, it bears little resemblance to the basic human decency amply demonstrated by my godless amoral peers
SHARE Saturday, January 2, 2021 Manhattan district attorney escalates Trump financial probe
The Washington Post cites "people familiar with the matter" to report that the Manhattan District Attorney's Office has now hired a forensic accounting firm to help in its long-running investigation of Donald Trump's past and present business dealings....