Cleveland,
where elephants go to die.
Entrails:
After the stock market hit all-time highs in October 2007, the
economy entered recession two months later. The market hit a new
all-time highs last week...
Rush
To Judgment:
The attacker in Nice, like the one in Orlando, was an alienated,
troubled man. What he did was a crime and a tragedy. Orlando was
not an act of terrorism, and there seems little evidence so far that
the tragedy in Nice was either. The knee-jerk reaction of
politicians to seek a military resolution is neither
helpful nor appropriate.
Willful
Suspension of Belief:
The UK's reality-challenged new PM has appointed a climate-change
denier as her Climate Secretary. She is also intent on giving the
Secret Police
Home Secretary the power to ban
email encryption.
The
Italian Job:
Italy's banks hold about 360 billion euros in “non-performing
loans” constituting 17% of all Italian bank loans and equal to
about 20% of the nation's annual GDP. Further north in Europe this
would be viewed as a problem.
Patience:
Experts say that in two or three years – about the time the
politicians stop posturing and authorize some money to fight the
problem – the Zika outbreak will have infected so many of us that
it will die off for lack of new victims.
Universal
Solvent:
While
our corporate overlords and their owners have raked in the spoils of
globalization, 70%
of the people
in developed countries have seen incomes stagnate.
The
American Way:
Newt I-wanna-be-important-again Gingrich wants all 3.3 million
American Muslims to swear on a stack of Qurans
that they reject the
idea of Sharia Law, or be deported. More than that, really, for Newt
said “of Muslim background” without defining how much Muslim
blood despoils a true American.
Out
Of Town Tryouts:
A drone
that resembles a bird has crashed in Somalia. No claim to ownership
has been made by
the US military.
Don't
Hold Your Breath:
Candidate Clinton, banking on the essential ignorance of the
electorate, has pledged to pass a constitutional amendment to
overturn the Citizens United ruling. She cannot keep this promise.
An amendment requires a two-thirds vote in both Houses of Congress
before it goes to the several states for their consideration and
requires approval by three-quarters of the states.
Stary
Stary Night:
Exactly 48,741 out of 1,200,000 of 'em, sir. Galaxies that is. Or
perhaps
that should be 150,000,00.
Your
Point Would Be?
British MPs are claiming that previous PM David Cameron's Government
had failed to curb international money launderers. This assumes that
an attempt had been made.
Seems
Like Old Times:
South Korean President
Park Geun-hye is squelching protests, suing journalists, and jailing
opposition politicians. Not
that any of this is unheard of in that bastion of well manipulated
democracy.
A
Parting Shot:
2 comments:
I think her plan is to 'introduce' not 'pass' the amendment. But go ahead and take a swipe....I may be wrong. I often am.
The facts are often manipulated to fit the purpose, up to and including have you seen the latest? There's a new video making the rounds that informs us that the media can now legally 'propagandize' the public without recourse.
As you well know this means they can 'lie' with impunity and intentionally 'mislead' the public using false information.
The surprising part of this is the legislation is supposedly only 2 years old!
You can probably bet it 'grandfathers' all the lies that went before. again we don't know because locating this new legislation would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Re: Universal solvent, NOBODY is surprised by what amounts to 'the consolidation of market share' that has only benefitted the owner class (and putting them in their own 'class' is generous indeed as there aren't enough of them to fill a very small thumb drive.
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