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Donald 🦀 Trump is now talking about having people shot  Bill Palmer | 10:15 pm EDT October 1, 2019 Palmer Report » Analysis A few weeks ago Palmer Report joked that, after Rudy Giuliani had screwed up for the umpteenth time, Donald Trump was going to delusionally order his underlings to feed Rudy to the alligators. We were kidding, of course. But now we’re learning that Trump really has been telling his advisers that he wants to feed people to alligators, and he’s apparently dead serious. In a lengthy new expose from the New York Times that’s somehow not from The Onion, it turns out  Donald Trump is telling his advisers that he wants U.S. law enforcement to shoot would-be immigrants in the leg.  He also keeps pushing the idea of building a border trench full of 🐍 snakes and 🐊 alligators. As proof that he’s not merely joking, he made his advisers go as far as studying what this alligator trench would cost.  Again, this is coming from the New York Times, so it’s real. More to the point, the only possible sources for this expose are Donald Trump’s own advisers, which means they’re so concerned about his deteriorating mindset, they’re sounding the alarm by running to the nation’s most respected newspaper and revealing Trump’s most deranged plans.Again, last month we joked about Donald Trump telling his advisers to start feeding people to the alligators, because we thought it was such an absurdly over the top idea – even by Trump standards – it would be seen as pure sarcasm. Now it turns out Trump really is doing precisely that behind the scenes. It’s time for the 25th Amendment. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/alligators-donald-trump-feed-people/21389/Agelbert NOTE:  See below:
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He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37
That's sad about the American Chestnut trees. 
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He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37
Sanders has heart stent surgery after chest discomfort  Source: Politico Bernie Sanders experienced chest discomfort during a campaign event on Tuesday and had two stents inserted to address a blockage in an artery, his campaign announced. “Sen. Sanders is conversing and in good spirits. He will be resting up over the next few days," senior adviser Jeff Weaver said in a statement. "We are canceling his events and appearances until further notice, and we will continue to provide appropriate updates.” Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/02/sanders-has-heart-stent-surgery-after-chest-discomfort-000164I feared this greatly.  Now the 🐘 Repukians and the pseudo-left Democratic Party Leadership will use this against Senator Sanders to try to destroy his presidential bid.   I'm sure 🦀 Trump and his 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn enablers are all celebrating. 
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A Grifter, is somebody who can influence anybody, anywhere, at anytime, into doing whatever they choose to have them do, that will result in the grifter's personal gain. Usually monetary, but really anything that benefits him or her somehow. A Trump  hotel mystery: Giant reservations followed by empty rooms Source: Politico House investigators are looking into an allegation that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to President Donald Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them. It’s a previously unreported part of a broader examination by the House Oversight Committee, included in the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, into whether Trump broke the law by accepting money from U.S. or foreign governments at his properties. “Now we’re looking at near raw bribery,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), a House Oversight Committee member who chairs the subcommittee with jurisdiction over Trump’s hotel in Washington. “That was the risk from day one — foreign governments and others trying to seek favor because we know Trump  💵 pays attention to this.... It’s an obvious attempt to curry favor with him.” The investigation began after the committee received information that two entities — a trade association and a foreign government — booked a large quantity of rooms but only used a fraction of them, according to a person familiar with the allegation who isn't authorized to speak for the committee. -snip- Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/02/trump-hotel-empty-rooms-016763Read excellent comments at DU:  https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142375456
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He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37
A Grifter, is somebody who can influence anybody, anywhere, at anytime, into doing whatever they choose to have them do, that will result in the grifter's personal gain. Usually monetary, but really anything that benefits him or her somehow. A Trump hotel mystery: Giant reservations followed by empty rooms Source: Politico
House investigators are looking into an allegation that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to President Donald Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them.
It’s a previously unreported part of a broader examination by the House Oversight Committee, included in the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, into whether Trump broke the law by accepting money from U.S. or foreign governments at his properties.
“Now we’re looking at near raw bribery,”[/size] said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), a House Oversight Committee member who chairs the subcommittee with jurisdiction over Trump’s hotel in Washington. “That was the risk from day one — foreign governments and others trying to seek favor because we know
This is a story that deserves a whole lot more play than it's getting. there is no news budget left to bring it to the surface. trump sees to that.
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qz.com - Detractors have dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg—a Nobel Prize nominee—as mentally ill, hysterical and a millennial weirdo after she pleaded with world officials last week to address…
www.commondreams.org - On Wednesday morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, conducted a preemptive autopsy on the presidency* of El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago. They he…
nymag.com - Vice-President Mike Pence is knee-deep in the Ukraine scandal. He is floating the absurd defense that, while he did participate in Trump’s plan to extort Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, he was …
www.washingtonpost.com - By Greg Miller , Greg Miller national security, intelligence, terrorism Email Bio Follow Greg Jaffe and Greg Jaffe National security reporter Email Bio Follow Ashley Parker Ashley Parker White House …
splinternews.com - The United Automobile Workers union continues to negotiate with General Motors for improved work conditions. More than 48,000 workers have been on strike in the U.S. since Sept. 16 over wages, health…
nymag.com - If one wants to dabble in some extra-judicial behavior in Ukraine, it would make sense to contact former Trump campaign chairman and current FCI Loretto inmate Paul Manafort. One of Manafort’s deputi…
newrepublic.com - The Republican Party is speechless. A week after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced the beginning of an impeachment investigation, Trump’s usual allies in the administration, in Congress, in…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Damian Paletta Damian Paletta Reporter covering economic policy Email Bio Follow October 2 at 5:34 PM The federal government has dramatically expanded its exposure to risky mortgages, as federal o…
www.propublica.org - Who Wins When a Crucial Agency Is Defunded ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your…
splinternews.com - Even before Texas Rep. Will Hurd announced he wasn’t running for re-election, Gina Ortiz Jones, who had narrowly lost to Hurd in 2018, had thrown her hat back into the ring. Her campaign for one of t…
www.motherjones.com - For more than a century the official narrative of the first presidential impeachment has been butchered and distorted, reduced to a historical curiosity, a showdown between two irresponsible factions…
gizmodo.com - In addition to killing as many as 125 million people, a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would unleash mass starvation around the world due to the ensuing climate impacts, according to a d…
www.theguardian.com - A huge floating device designed by Dutch scientists to clean up an island of rubbish in the Pacific ocean that is three times the size of France has successfully picked up plastic from the high-seas …
www.the-trouble.com - For years, political will to address environmental concerns has struggled against public apathy. This apathy has entrenched widespread denial of the most pressing threat to society, the climate crisi…
www.climatechangenews.com - The world’s fourth largest emitter, Russia, has formally adopted the Paris Agreement, drawing an end to months of national tensions on the subject. “The Russian Federation has accepted the Paris Agre…
phys.org - Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem—turns out, it just might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters. That is one of many new findings, re…
www.mnn.com - What a tangled web we weave when we celebrate Halloween. For birds, there may be no greater plague than those fake spider webs strewn willy-nilly outside homes. Those spooky gooky strands
www.theguardian.com - When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79 it destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, their inhabitants and their prized possessions – among them a fine library of scrolls that were carbonised by th…
qz.com - Melinda Gates announced that she will be committing $1 billion over the next decade to expanding women’s power and influence in the United States. In an op-ed for Time magazine, the philanthropist an…
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www.washingtonpost.com - President Trump speaks to journalists on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Philip Rucker , Philip Rucker White House Bureau Chief Email Bio Follow…
www.theguardian.com - US diplomats told Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, that a prestigious White House visit to meet Donald Trump was
www.cnn.com - Trump's documentary record differs dramatically from his predecessors. A worrisome thread runs through each conversation. Trump appears laser-focused on his own fortunes to the exclusion of the natio…
www.motherjones.com - The House Intelligence Committee has obtained a series of text messages that went back and forth this summer between the acting ambassador to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, and two of Donald Trump’s roving tr…
www.theatlantic.com - The question of whether Trump can serve as a national fiduciary turns more on his narcissistic tendencies than his sociopathic ones, but Trump’s sociopathic characteristics sufficiently intertwine wi…
www.commondreams.org - Ellen Weintraub, the chair of the Federal Election Commission, took to Twitter Thursday afternoon to muse over whether or not President Donald Trump understands that soliciting or accepting foreign a…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Karoun Demirjian , Karoun Demirjian Congressional reporter focusing on national security Email Bio Follow Rachael Bade , Rachael Bade Congressional reporter Email Bio Follow Josh Dawsey and Josh D…
thehill.com - President TrumpDonald John TrumpSessions says he still supports Trump despite ouster as AG House Republicans voice concerns about White House's impeachment messaging Giuliani consulted with Manafort …
www.commondreams.org - The U.S. and other nuclear powers should rapidly stop nuclear proliferation, researchers at Rutgers University said Wednesday as they released a study showing that a nuclear war between India and Pak…
www.vox.com - A central tenet of Trumpism is never to pass up an opportunity to attack your political foes, but if there’s one situation the president’s children really should stay out of it’s the one unfurling ov…
www.theguardian.com - Wilbur Ross, the Trump administration’s new commerce secretary, presided over a deal with a Russian businessman with ties to Vladimir Putin while serving in his previous role as vice-chairman of the …
www.commondreams.org - As human rights advocates marked the one-year anniversary Wednesday of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S.-based law firm revealed that it filed in July a petition at the International C…
qz.com - If you’re trying to contribute as little as possible to the two global calamities of climate change and the swirling gyres of forever-materials slowly filling our oceans, there’s a useful formula to …
www.vox.com - President Donald Trump is going after French wine and European cheese. But this time, it actually makes some sense. The United States is imposing $7.5 billion in tariffs on imports from the European …
www.mnn.com - By Ted Cannis, Global Director, Electrification, Ford Motor Company As the head of electrification for Ford, the questions I get from family, friends and colleagues about electric vehicles run the ga…
qz.com - In terms of job creation, if nothing else, Donald Trump seems quite similar to his predecessor. In Barack Obama’s last 16 months in office, the number of jobs in the US increased by 2.4%. In the firs…
www.mnn.com - Gifted acrobats, they trampoline from tree to tree, always a step ahead of danger. They've even been known to gather old rattlesnake skins and rub the scent on their fur to create a kind of predator …
reason.com - Music City can continue its crackdown on home music studios thanks to a new ruling from the Davidson County Chancery Court in Tennessee upholding a Nashville law that prohibits home business owners f…
splinternews.com - Who would have guessed that Nickelback would save the day. Less than a day after President Donald Trump tweeted a very dumb Nickelback meme using the band’s music video for their 2005 hit “Photograph…
www.commondreams.org - Though a recent poll suggests the majority of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s “overall performance,” they support his “handling of the economy” more than other issues surveyed. "The prosper…
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Today I posted my answer to the infamous Powell Memo, the crony capitalist road map to U.S. Government by Fascist Oligarchs. I posted it at Daily Kos. I doubt it will get any traction, but I put it out there anyway. I am the eternally hopeful optimist.  Oct 04, 2019 at 02:58:24 PM Our republic is Fascist TOAST if we do not rid American politics of the influence of oligarch money. You can call the following 📢 BRING REAL DEMOCRACY TO AMERICA marching orders memo for the Democratic Party the “Pelosi Memo” if she adopts it. Until she does, I’m labelling it the “Gelbert Memo”. 🧐 🦅 GELBERT MEMO: 1. IMPEACH TRUMP (and Barr, Pompeo, etc.) NOW. Expose the corrupt bastards in the Senate that support Trump Fascism by forcing them to vote to “acquit” 🦀 Trump and his criminal cronies. 2. After we get control of the Senate and the White House, PACK THE SUPREME COURT. Go scorched earth on the right wing crooks there with Congressional Investigations, impeachment inquiries and lawsuits. Drive them into a corner and expose all their corruption and crimes. Tighten up all the campaign finance laws and eliminate corporate personhood. Make bribery illegal again! Get money out of politics PERMANENTLY. Eliminate “limited liability” from corporate law and charters. Severely limit bankruptcy protection for corporations and return personal bankruptcy protection to where it was before the banksters bribed Congress to shaft Americans that fall on hard economic times while greedy corporations stiff creditors with impunity. 3. Imprison everyone previously impeached. Arrest, Try and Convict Giuliani and the rest of Trump’s wrecking crew for crimes committed on orders from Trump. 4. Launch investigations into Fox News, Right Wing Hate Radio, Right wing funded “think” tanks and the Internet Troll farms pushing hate and fascism. 5. MASSIVELY strengthen Social Security and make Medicare for all and free University Eduction the LAW OF THE LAND. Do all the above and the Democratic Party will dominate elections for DECADES! ✨If Pelosi does not have the intestinal fortitude to methodically do the above, GET SOMEONE WHO DOES! OR, let FASCISM DESTROY this country. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/4/1890103/-Frustrated-IRS-whistleblower-Democrats-speak-Treasury-tried-to-interfere-in-Trump-or-Pence-audits#comment_75130701
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www.nbcnews.com - WASHINGTON — Weeks before the whistleblower's complaint became public, the CIA's top lawyer made what she considered to be a criminal referral to the Justice Department about the whistleblower's alle…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Greg Miller , Greg Miller national security, intelligence, terrorism Email Bio Follow Paul Sonne , Paul Sonne National security reporter focusing on the U.S. military Email Bio Follow Greg Jaffe a…
theintercept.com - Newly released text messages between State Department officials provide the clearest evidence yet that President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was not …
www.washingtonpost.com - By Toluse Olorunnipa Toluse Olorunnipa White House reporter Email Bio Follow October 4 at 8:23 PM President Trump conceded Friday that Democrats had enough votes to impeach him, but he suggested that…
www.motherjones.com - On Wednesday, Donald Trump Jr. joined his father’s ongoing effort to smear Joe Biden and his son Hunter over the younger Biden’s role as a board member of a Ukrainian energy company. In a tweet, Trum…
www.vox.com - President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Friday night barring immigrants who do not have health insurance and cannot afford to pay medical care costs from getting visas of almost any kind to ente…
qz.com - It’s well known that being bilingual has cognitive benefits: switching between two languages has been compared to mental gymnastics. But now, research suggests that mastering two languages can fundam…
shareblue.com - A woman who suggested people 'eat babies' to save the planet was in fact a conservative plant. A pro-Trump group's attempt to infiltrate a town hall held by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was e…
www.oftwominds.com - Democracy is the coat of paint applied for PR purposes to the Imperial State. If we step back from the histrionics of impeachment and indeed, the past four years of political circus, we have to wonde…
thehill.com - An Iowa teacher has been placed on leave after remarking on Facebook that he did not have his "sniper rifle" for a visit by teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg. A spokeswoman for Waterloo Communi…
qz.com - The US Supreme Court today announced that it will hear a Louisiana abortion-rights case. Now, as the 2020 presidential campaign heats up, the court will hear decide its first case on the controversia…
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www.ecowatch.com - The study, which was commissioned by Turkey's Ministry of Health, found dangerous levels of pesticides and heavy metals in various food and water samples from several provinces in western Turkey. Wat…
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www.fastcompany.com - The year is 2050 or 2060, and as climate change progresses, extreme weather is getting worse. If you live in the U.S., you might be tempted to move to another city or state—but where should you go? a…
www.commondreams.org - It was announced this week that two fossil fuel activists face nine charges each in federal court for their actions to stop the controversial Dakota Access pipeline—actions they said they undertook "…
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splinternews.com - On Thursday, Washington Post columnist and CNN analyst Josh Rogin posed an interesting hypothetical and followed it up with three of the dumbest answers imaginable: John McCain? Christopher Hitchens?…
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www.motherjones.com - Rudy Giuliani at Fox Business Network studios on September 23, 2019.Roy Rochlin/Getty Images President Donald Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, insist that their bid to pressure Ukraine to investi…
qz.com - Hong Kong’s summer of discontent, which began with protests over a Chinese extradition bill, has turned into a violent autumn. Months of demonstrations prompted the city leader Carrie Lam to use the …
www.vox.com - President Donald Trump unleashed a load of venom on Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) over the course of several hours on Saturday, deeming him a “a pompous ‘ass’” and even calling for him to be impeached on T…
www.motherjones.com - President Donald Trump and former National Security Adviser John Bolton.Johann Groder/APA Picturedesk via ZUMA Press In the wake of the whistleblower complaint at the heart of the biggest threat to h…
www.commondreams.org - During a conference call with House Republicans on Friday, President Donald Trump reportedly blamed Energy Secretary Rick Perry for the July 25 call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky that is a…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Mike DeBonis and Mike DeBonis Congressional reporter covering the House of Representatives Email Bio Follow Amber Phillips Amber Phillips Reporter for The Fix covering Congress, statehouses Email …
www.motherjones.com - Gordon Sondland, center, the American ambassador to the European Union, walks with President Donald Trump.AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais As the extent of President Donald Trump’s campaign to press…
theweeklylist.org - With impeachment looming, Trump started this week by attacking the credibility of House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff and the whistleblower, both of whom he also endangered with his rhetor…
www.vox.com - A second whistleblower is now considering filing a complaint about President Donald Trump’s conduct regarding Ukraine, the New York Times reported Friday. This whistleblower has “more direct informat…
www.salon.com - Watch out, older Americans and people with disabilities! President Trump just announced a plan to give corporate health insurers more control over your health care. His new executive order calls for …
www.businessinsider.com - When Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States, he promised to launch an economic experiment. Ignoring the past few decades of economic liberalization, multilateralism, and openness…
qz.com - As China seeks ever more control over its population, it’s turning to one tool of particular note: people’s faces. On Sept. 27, the nation’s information-technology ministry announced that telecom car…
www.mintpressnews.com - Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire who now sits in jail on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors, has continued to draw media scrutiny in the weeks after his arrest on July 6. Part of the r…
www.mnn.com - It's a common childhood fantasy: What if you dug a hole to the other side of the world, where would you end up? Parents in America are in the habit of telling their kids that they'd end up in China, …
blogs.scientificamerican.com - Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes are rare. Only 7% of the 243 hurricanes observed since accurate satellite measurements began in 1983 have reached that catastrophic intensity. And it is truly exception…
theintercept.com - A chora chora is a resourceful man, a clever man, a man who can get things done. He wears no uniform, but he has an easy way with soldiers. He’s no diplomat, but he knows something about internationa…
www.commondreams.org - President Trump’s Ukraine scandal has resulted in growing support for impeachment—as it should. But as Congress begins to get serious about holding Trump accountable, it must not lose sight of the ki…
qz.com - Dog lovers will find it baffling that cats are the world’s most popular pet. After all, they’re passive-aggressive, emotionally unavailable, and known for their chilly independence—traits that at mos…
www.globalresearch.ca - Russian-Iranian relations were unexpectedly shaken Friday afternoon following reports that the IRGC arrested Russian anti-government journalist Yulia Yuzik on suspicion of spying for “Israel” during …
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qz.com - America’s unemployment rate is brushing historical lows once again, as the United States’ closely-watched jobs data report revealed on Friday. Hiring continues to steam ahead. Given all that, you’d e…
www.newyorker.com - President Trump and his allies nearly succeeded in consigning the Mueller report to oblivion. William Barr, Trump’s compliant Attorney General, got a jump on the process when he preëmpted the public …
www.theguardian.com - The White House has given the green light to a Turkish offensive into northern Syria, moving US forces out of the area in an abrupt foreign policy change that will in effect abandon Washington’s long…
www.washingtonpost.com - U.S. troops walk past a Turkish military vehicle during a joint patrol in the Syrian village of al-Hashisha along the border on Sept. 8. (Delil Souleiman/Afp Via Getty Images) By Missy Ryan , Missy R…
www.vanityfair.com - On the day that Sony basically scrapped the movie, I got this email from Jeff Shell: Subject: Fwd: It’s Official: Sony Scraps ‘The Interview’ To: Richard Stengel Subject: Fwd: It’s Official: Sony Scr…
nymag.com - President Trump has repeatedly insisted he did nothing wrong when he pressured Ukraine in a phone call to investigate a political rival, an act which prompted a member of the U.S. intelligence commun…
www.commondreams.org - Attorneys representing the intelligence official who filed the formal complaint about President Donald Trump's call with Ukraine's leader confirmed Sunday that they now represent "multiple whistleblo…
theconversation.com - Whether China is a “developing” or a “developed” country for the purposes of the World Trade Organisation matters a lot to the US president. President Donald Trump ignited a new front in the US-China…
crooksandliars.com - For a group of people who are constantly proclaiming that Dear Leader did nothing wrong, they sure are working hard to keep what he did from ever seeing the light of day. Here's Trump booster Jeanine…
www.justsecurity.org - A number of commentators and critics have labeled President Trump an Agent of the Russian Federation. It is often not clear if they mean that he is unwittingly adopting Russian propaganda, knowingly …
www.mnn.com - Do you find yourself aimlessly surfing the internet with no goal in mind, or compulsively checking your phone knowing there really isn’t anything to see? That’s because our brains crave knowledge and…
theconversation.com - Health care is Americans’ number-one priority, based on recent polls, so it’s no wonder it’s been a hot topic in the Democratic primary. Every candidate is offering a plan, ranging from Joe Biden’s A…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Washington Post Staff October 7 at 5:39 AM William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza were recognized for their work that revealed the molecular mechanisms that underlie how cells adapt to …
www.insider.com - Not unlike the movie "Okja," where a company breeds massive pigs to maximize profits, some Chinese farmers are growing larger and larger hogs to keep up with pork shortages. In Nanning, the capital o…
cosmosmagazine.com - A glimpse into the sustainability of global groundwater extraction for rivers, streams and lakes in the next few decades has revealed a worrying picture. The hydrological model, published in the jour…
www.nytimes.com - “It’s a quite a significant development,” Mr. Cagaptay said. Many Syria experts criticized the White House decision and cautioned that American abandonment of its Kurdish allies could widen the eight…
qz.com - Happiness isn’t a country. You don’t get there and stay. It’s a fleeting space, a feeling that comes and goes, so focusing on being happy is just a distraction, according to some psychologists. Bette…
www.counterpunch.org - Photograph Source: Technical Sergeant Adrian Cadiz – Public Domain Iraq is poised at a turning point in its modern history as its people wait to see if the government curfew and close down of the int…
www.zerohedge.com - As the violence in Hong Kong escalates with every passing week, culminating on Friday with what was effectively the passage of martial law when the local government banned the wearing of masks at pub…
www.businessinsider.com - An excerpt from a book by the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower reveals what the firm did that swayed the 2016 elections. Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee, is known for leakin…
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That Syria move by Trumpy is not going to go as Trumpy and his Wrecking Crew hope ( i.e. distract from the Impeachment while strengthening Trump's election chances). Sure, the  Fox News Spin Machine will try to celebrate "our troops coming home". That is, of course, a lie. The troops are emphatically NOT coming home, but most people won't even think of questioning that lie. Those U.S. troops, positioned in the Middle East for future war crimes against Iran, will just stay out of the way while Turkey tries to wipe out the Kurds. Again, nobody in the press will even bring up the issue of real world Pentagon military logistics planning. The "Trump loves peace" trope is useful to the  Trolls polluting Truthdig and other progressive news outlets, who will endlessly argue about how Trump is "against war". It's all BULLSHIT, but that's the way Trumpy, his Wrecking Crew and his enablers operate. Remember when Palloy was hysterically screaming about "WWIII" back when Russia was preventing the U.S. (see: CIA bought and paid for ISIS "terrorists") from overthowing the Syria Government? I said it was all bullshit and Russia was going to be successful in preventing the USA (AND ISRAEL, of course) from taking down Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-Assad. Obama's CIA funded ISIS murderers got their asses handed to them, as I humbly 😉 predicted. So what happens now? It's a bit complicated but the end result of Turkey's (rather desperate, by the way) bellicose action is that the Kurds will actually gain more terrain, popularity and strength while Turkey's Trump clone legitimacy will be simultaneously severely eroded. Erdogan might even be replaced, but while that may happen within a year, I don't think it will happen during this latest Turkish attempt to engage in the genocide of the Kurds. The reason Turkey will fail is that the Kurds in Iraq, though 🙊 U.S. media will never utter a peep about them, because this Turkish (and U. S. betrayal) action is correctly perceived by all Kurds as an existential threat, are now united with the Syrian and Turkish Kurds. The Kurds will ALL physically fight Turkey's troops. The result of this unified Kurdish campaign (with Russia helping them through high tech troop movement surveillance, hand fired missiles and other weapons hardware) will be MORE territory governed by the Kurds in Syria AND Iraq. Yes, the Kurds want their part of Turkey back too, but that is a bridge too far at this time. So, though they won't officially have a country called Kurdistan, which is their ultimate goal, for all practical purposes, they will have one 👍. Russia is doing exactly the same thing the U.S. did during the Cold War. That is, they fund and arm a group with a claim to territory that was taken from them in order to prevent, in the is case, expansion of U.S. influence while simultaneously increasing Russian influence. The difference in technique is that the U.S., in Russia's place, would probably want Kurdistan to be called "South Turkey", right after we dreamed up "North Turkey" (see: Korea and Viet Nam). The Kurds have had a legal, totally justified, gripe against Iraq and Turkish boundaries ever since the Imperialist Powers carved up the Middle East after WWI. The Kurds KNOW that Russia isn't exactly their friend. Russia, however, will support the Kurds if they agree to be a vassal state. The U.S. (and ISRAEL) will never promote the creation of Kurdistan. Israel has only one goal when it comes to their territorial boundaries: MORE from Syria, Jordan AND Iraq. The Kurds know the score. It's realpolitic ALL THE WAY. Here in Trumpland, the neocons (all 100% loyal to the United States of Israel) will go berserk when Turkish troops are defeated by the Kurds. Many of these neocons, like Colin Powell (see: "Get a Grip" message to fellow Republicans on their refusal to admit Trump is engaged in Impeachable High Crimes and Misdemeanors), are Republicans, as you know... I am torn between putting up my "eating popcorn" graphic or that other one. I must admit all these Trumpian actions, faithfully following his 👹 mentor Roy Cohn's 🦍 bellicosity Mens rea Modus operandi, work quite well when you are dealing with a totally corrupted U.S. Judiciary. Unfortunately for him, thank God, that method is doomed to total failure when applied to geopolitics. I think the appropriate graphic here is the other one. 
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He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37
RIP Daisy Mae Miller February 18, 2011 – October 6, 2019Agelbert NOTE: So true. That applies to a having a cat friend as well.
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He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37
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www.commondreams.org - As President Donald Trump was being denounced from all political sides—both domestically and on the international stage—for his decision to rapidly withdraw troops from northeast Syria, reporting on …
www.newsweek.com - Donald Trump got "rolled" by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a National Security Council source with direct knowledge of the discussions told Newsweek. In a scheduled phone call on Sunday aft…
www.washingtonpost.com - A view of Qamishli, the base of the Kurdish administration in northeast Syria. (Alice Martins/For The Washington Post) By Liz Sly , Liz Sly Beirut bureau chief, covering Lebanon, Syria and the wider …
www.vox.com - The war in Syria is about to enter an uncertain phase after the White House announced late Sunday that it was withdrawing from northeastern Syria in advance of Turkey’s military operations across the…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Dan Balz and Dan Balz Chief correspondent covering national politics, the presidency and Congress Email Bio Follow Scott Clement Scott Clement Polling director Email Bio Follow October 8 at 6:00 A…
theintercept.com - “Overnight the administration did confirm, following a phone call with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, that Turkey will soon attack Kurdish forces in Syria,” Yingst continued. “President Trump has …
splinternews.com - No one, except for the scientists who hopefully get to study his cottage cheese brain, can really say with any certainty what’s going on in Donald Trump’s head. So all we can really go off is what ac…
www.theguardian.com - You can read James Forsyth’s Spectator blog, in which he publishes, apparently more or less in full, a message he got yesterday from a “contact in No 10” setting out Downing Street’s thinking on the …
www.motherjones.com - President Donald Trump greets Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in June at the G20 summit in Japan.Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Donald Trump upended US military policy in the Middle East Sunday…
www.nbcnews.com - WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney for President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that he personally gave Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a file of documents with unproven allegations again…
www.motherjones.com - Democratic Presidential hopeful Julián Castro escorts a group of migrants to the Brownsville Port of Entry Monday morning. He asked port officials to allow the migrants to petition for asylum in the …
qz.com - Why did the busiest person in the world, former president Barack Obama, read an hour a day while in office? Why has the best investor in history, Warren Buffett, invested 80% of his time in reading a…
www.memeorandum.com - New York Times: President Endorses Turkish Military Operation in Syria, Shifting U.S. Policy — WASHINGTON — In a major shift in United States military policy in Syria, the White House said on Sunday …
www.theguardian.com - Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, has said he has moved his government from the capital in Quito to the coastal city of Guayaquil amid violent protests over the end of fuel subsidies. Images from Qu…
qz.com - In a recent update to iOS 13.1, Apple’s iPhone operating system, Apple reportedly removed the Taiwanese flag emoji from its keyboard for users in Hong Kong and Macau, China’s two special administrati…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Dan Balz and Dan Balz Chief correspondent covering national politics, the presidency and Congress Email Bio Follow Scott Clement Scott Clement Polling director Email Bio Follow October 8 at 6:00 A…
www.mintpressnews.com - WASHINGTON – In a leaked military manual on “unconventional warfare” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, the U.S. Army states that major global financial institutions — such as the World Bank, Interna…
www.startribune.com - Tensions between Minneapolis city leaders and President Donald Trump’s campaign escalated Monday when the campaign threatened to sue the city for trying to force it to pay $530,000 for security durin…
www.commondreams.org - For the first time in U.S. history, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid less in taxes last year than people in any other income group, thanks to decades of tax cuts and loopholes benefiting the rich. A…
www.vox.com - President Donald Trump has made his distaste for a government-run single-payer health care system official, signing an executive order decrying Medicare-for-all and promoting private insurance’s role…
www.commondreams.org - The Department of Homeland Security's acting secretary Kevin McAlneenan was shouted offstage Monday at Georgetown University by pro-immigrant demonstrators who said "Trump henchmen" shouldn't be "giv…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Sally Jenkins Sally Jenkins Sports columnist Email Bio Columnist October 7 at 1:10 PM Get off the NBA’s back, all you people who want sports to be the children’s literature of your lost youth. Som…
www.theguardian.com - Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, has said he has moved his government from the capital in Quito to the coastal city of Guayaquil amid violent protests over the end of fuel subsidies. Images from Qu…
nymag.com - When autocratic leaders attack “corruption,” they are usually using it as a pretext to clear out the competition and establish their own racket. President Trump’s campaign to pressure Ukraine to inve…
bigthink.com - Learning how to reliably grow plants in space is necessary if NASA or other space agencies want to launch long-term missions. "Simply packing some multi-vitamins will not be enough to keep astronauts…
grist.org - This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the Amazon burns, North American birds disappear, and scientists anticipate that by 2…
cassandralegacy.blogspot.com - So, what's happening? Let's see if we can learn something from my wrong prediction. First of all, I based my prediction on the data from Google Trends that showed a constant and robust decline of the…
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