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Wall Street Journal editorial board issues economic warning to Trump over his new China tariffs
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Next week should be very interesting. The  Plunge Protection Team will have their market rigging hands full doing their Orwellian thing to the Stock Market.


Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson, the actor that gave us so many great laughs, died recently.

Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson (January 20, 1929 – July 3, 2019) was an American comic actor .... Johnson died on July 3, 2019, after being ill for three years with bladder and prostate cancer; he was 90. His ashes were scattered off Hawaii.

How Mosquitoes Changed Everything
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And, now that the 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn have really changed everything, the coming mosquito friendly climate all over the globe will enable mosquitoes to be more effective vectors of disease than ever before in human history. I'm not looking forward to that.

The media amplifies Trump’s racism. Should it stop?
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Does a wild bear poop in the woods?


In other news, more evidence comes to light that fascists stick together, whether it is about the Trump Administration defense of criminal bank activity or obtaining a get-out-of-jail-free card for a serial .

Lefkowitz represented Epstein along with other titans of the defense bar, such as Roy Black, Gerald Lefcourt, Alan Dershowitz and his Kirkland colleague Kenneth Starr, who had previously helped recruit Acosta to Kirkland in the 1990s. Starr was a partner at Kirkland from 1993 until 2004 and remained counsel to the firm until at least 2010. Lefkowitz, who joined Kirkland in 1993, continued to represent Epstein as recently as 2011 in a New York state court proceeding regarding his sex-offender status, court records show.



JESSE EISINGER, PROPUBLICA

Since Donald Trump's election, federal white-collar enforcement has taken a big hit. Fines and settlements against corporations have plummeted. Prosecutions of individuals are falling to record lows. Two settlements with giant banks over financial crisis-era misdeeds provide a window into how the Trump administration has eased up on corporate wrongdoers.

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