For
Want Of A Nail:
Wallonia, one of Belgium's three regions (and having one of its five
regional parliaments – don't ask) will not support the landmark
EU-Canadian trade deal. No Wallonia,
no Belgium. No Belgium,
no EU deal – unanimous consent is required. Interesting times. If
the EU can seal a deal with Canada, what chance do TiSA and TTIP
have?
Clip
& Post: A
man called police seeking
help for
his distressed wife.
The cops promptly
showed up and killed her.
Boys
& Their Toys:
At least 500 US soldiers are taking part in the assault on Mosul.
The Marines are sending a 300-man unit to
Norway, mostly to annoy the Russians. Of
late the US is taking
direct pot-shots at the Houthis in Yemen while denying
it wants to get involved there. The US is providing
Iraq with anti-aircraft systems to counter ISIS drones(/). Watch
this go bad quickly, come back to bite us. Qatar
is buying F-15s from the US as part of a deal that lets them buy
$19 billion worth of jetliners. No, Qatar doesn't have sufficient
airspace to actually fly a F-15. The Pentagon warns that Russia is
preparing for war while America sleeps.
Comes
The Dawn:
“Putting companies
above national laws, and letting them sue governments in
supranational tribunals, makes no sense at all” - well,
except for the corporations.
Beware:
US police arrest more people for marijuana use than for all violent
crimes combined. That they are disproportionately black adds to the
disgrace. And then there's the racially lopsided use of warrantless
Stingray surveillance and the nearly ubiquitous
facial recognition databases.
Who
Is This Masked Man?
Larry Summers completes his transition, now urges that the US spend at least 1% of its GDP on
infrastructure annually.
Cash
& Carry: A
Federal judge has ruled that saving hundreds of thousands if not
millions of lives through cleaner air and slowing global warming is
not as important as jobs for a handful of West
Virginia coal miners and the profits of Murray Energy.
Odds:
The American Psychiatric Association says that about 5% of American
children suffer from ADHD. Why, then, do 15% of our kids take ADHD
drugs? Not just Big
Pharma profits; a lot of parents aren't up to being parents and
embrace pharmacological excuses.
A
Parting Shot:
3 comments:
re the sheeple get the government they deserve. Then again, our elected leaders are no great shakes either...
re ADHD. It's not just the parents who are blameworthy here - parents are struggling to manage themselves and their jobs and finances, let alone be parents - however, the schools have a role as well. The schools have an incentive to pathologize the challenging kids, and if they can get the kids sedated, mores the better.
In the end, there's the drug industry. Always the drug industry; taking a relatively limited straightforward issue, and hyping it up, blowing it up, and getting everyone in a panic, leading to misuse and overuse, ad eventually doing more harm than good. Gee where have I heard this plot before?
Ideally we'd ALL be doped, not unconscious but just enough so they could continue to rape us and we'd be too confused to complain [wait a minute, isn't that happening already? [What are they feeding Trump/Hillary supporters?]
Got an e-mail from Bernie in my spamfolder asking me to donate to a 'democratic congress'...
Um, I've never heard of half of these people and what, precisely do they stand for? If it's the same thing Hillary is pedaling, I want no part in it because 'the Democrats' [Like the conservo-whacko Republicans] DON'T REPRESENT MY INTERESTS!
If you want a government that represents YOU, join me in going on strike Nov. 9th!
Profits over People. the True American way. Greed is God/Good is the American Way. How to destroy everything in the short term. with the Temperature rising continually, this really will be Hell. of our own making.
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