tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78061365439041121432024-03-13T21:05:12.983-05:00Some Assembly RequiredEverything here is someone's opinion.Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comBlogger2627125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-4399287081132007142016-11-15T07:00:00.000-06:002016-11-15T14:49:34.021-06:00SAR #THE LAST<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-size: large;">"That's all, folks!"</span></i></div>
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Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-75445751803180421422016-11-14T07:26:00.001-06:002016-11-14T07:26:25.087-06:00SAR #16319<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Elections
determine power, not truth.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">First
things first: Donald Pussygrabber Trump will become president in
January. Between now and then the media will be full of frightening
news stories and alarming analysis of what lies ahead -some of them
will even be mostly true. But more won't be and most will overlook
some basic principles that will moderate Trump's rush to ruin. A lot
of his crap was just said to get attention, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-12/trump-adviser-takes-aim-at-conservatives-budgetary-restraint">to
get elected</a>. What he does in office could be quite different.
Not better, just different. Remember when hopey-changey Obama met
the bankers and bondsmen? </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Winning
the election isn't the same as governing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Politicians'
first job is to get re-elected. Thankfully most of the Republicans
in Congress understand this. So there will be fiscal and legislative
brakes on much of what Trump thinks he can do. <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/why-repealing-obamacare-may-not-be-as-easy-as-trump-thinks/">Full
repeal of the Affordable Care A</a>ct would result in <a href="http://time.com/money/4564243/trump-obamacare-repeal-outcome/">at
least 18 million </a>Americans losing health care coverage.
Republican lawmakers from states that have expanded Medicaid coverage
will not vote to take that politically popular program away. Ditto
Medicare and Social Security cannibalization, although <a href="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20161111/NEWS/161119989">there
will be attempts</a> to 'modernize' Medicare and “<a href="http://www.cchfreedom.org/cchf.php/1219">restore
health care freedom to patients and doctors</a>” while turning
Medicaid into a block grant program for politicians to loot at the
state level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">But
Trump's range of options for executive action are sufficient to scare
the sane. He </span><span style="font-size: medium;">remains a
dangerous man, indifferent to facts, unbalanced, inexperienced and
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">deeply</span><span style="font-size: medium;">
racist. <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-editorial-trump-is-a-dangerous-president-a-1120925.html">
60 million Americans </a></span><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-editorial-trump-is-a-dangerous-president-a-1120925.html"><span style="font-size: medium;">have
</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-editorial-trump-is-a-dangerous-president-a-1120925.html">acted
stupidly,</a> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">siding
with xenophobia, racism and nationalism, hoping to end equal rights
for those they do not know or understand, urging a return to an
imagined America unencumbered by treaties and no longer threatened by
climate change. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">He
can, and most likely will, take some <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-11-10/trump-shows-every-sign-of-carrying-out-sweeping-immigration-crackdown">actions
on immigration</a> – but if he becomes too extreme </span><span style="font-size: medium;">(say
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37969112">by
deporting 2 or 3 million</a> people)</span><span style="font-size: medium;">
<a href="http://newsletters.vox.com/t/d-l-dthjet-omihuytu-jh/">the US
economy will suffer</a>. He can stop the current round of trade
agreements – if the rich corporations will let him. Undoing NAFTA
and NATO would take longer and be more complex – and again step on
important industrial and Wall Street toes. And his transition team
is full </span><span style="font-size: medium;">is </span><span style="font-size: medium;">of
</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://foodwaterwatch.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3D8-83%3A9-%3ELCE180%3C7%401-GLCE17.6&RE=MC&RI=5290035&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=28654&Action=Follow+Link">corporate
lobbyists</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">He
will do the most harm – with the joyful support of the Republican
Congress – in the energy/global warming area. (They are
inseparable topics.) Trump will <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/donald-trump-will-be-the-fossil-fuel-industrys-greatest-gift/">encourage
oil and gas extraction</a>, along with <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/trump-to-clear-way-for-oil-pipelines.html">their
pipelines</a>. He will talk a good game about coal, but coal is not
competitive with cheap oil and gas. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">He
will repeal all of Obama's EPA regulations aimed at slowing our rush
to hell on earth, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-climatechange-accord-idUSKBN1370JX?il=0">repudiate
the Paris Accord</a> and welsh on the nation's commitment provide
funds to help poor countries deal with their coming climate based
disasters while w</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ithdrawing
from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Chang</span><span style="font-size: medium;">e
(the organization behind the IPCC reports) and stopping all </span><span style="font-size: medium;">US
fund</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ing</span><span style="font-size: medium;">
for UN global warming programs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Even
if he were do abstain from all the other godawful things he has
promised, denying global warming/climate change will secure his place
in history as the worst leader in <strike>American</strike> history.</span></div>
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Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-59522306402361016652016-11-11T07:00:00.000-06:002016-11-11T07:00:30.641-06:00SAR #16316
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">'Now'
is not permanent, we just think it is.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Last
week's vacation found us in Philadelphia, at Independence Hall, on
the first morning of the transit strike. We had tickets for the
10:40 entry and were disappointed when we arrived at 10:25 and found
the group queuing up had 9:20 tickets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">An
extremely helpful volunteer who was handling the head of the line
recommended a couple of things we could profitably do and suggested
we come back at our scheduled time. We did, amid a sea of middle
schoolers with frantic teachers being assured by our helpful
volunteer that all would be well, that there was enough slack in the
schedule and enough people delayed by the strike that everyone would
get in just fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">So
we stood there, a couple of old white folks among multi-colored,
multi-cultural groups of middle-schoolers all anxious to learn about
our nation's founding and the compromises that made it possible.. At
first I thought 'this looks just like the UN,' and then my partner
corrected me by pointing out that in fact those kids looked just like the real United States
– the one Trump and his supporters do not like.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">No
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I
am no longer amused.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The
blog will remain open for a few days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Relocation
advice would be welcome.</span></div>
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… <span style="font-size: medium;">and thanks for all the
fish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/05/the-big-con-what-is-really-at-stake-on-election-day" target="_blank">T</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/05/the-big-con-what-is-really-at-stake-on-election-day" target="_blank">he
damage shows.</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank
God it's almost over....</span>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Numbers
are just numbers... except when they're not.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders">Faint
Praise:</a> </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> “</span><span style="font-size: medium;">I
do not believe that most of the people who are thinking about voting
for Mr. Trump are racist or sexist.” </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Bernie
Sanders</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2016/11/02/tpp-good-you-and-me-depends-and-heres-why/92002390/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Keeping
Score:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> The
average working-class US resident loses about $1,800 a year because
sweatshops in Bangladesh and China pay so little so our global
masters can make even more money. TPP is set to make this even
worse, with Obama cheering the process on.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/05/melania-trump-was-paid-modeling-before-work-visa-records-show"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Illegal
Alien</b></span></a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/05/melania-trump-was-paid-modeling-before-work-visa-records-show"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Records show that
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Melania Trump was paid
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">over $20,000 </span><span style="font-size: medium;">for
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">working in the US
without a valid work visa – a violation of federal law.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/chris-christie-is-saddened-by-bridgegate-convictions-and-wont-campaign-for-trump-in-nh/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Miraculous
Conception:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
According to Gov. Christie, he is not guilty of anything, he knew
nothing (and continues to know nothing) even though the man who
claims to have masterminded the GW Bridge Backup claims that Christie
laughed when he was told about the plan and participated in the
cover-up that also involved NY Gov. Cuomo. Christie's man at the
Port Authority and a top Christie aid</span><span style="font-size: medium;">e</span><span style="font-size: medium;">
have both been found guilty and face up to 20 years in prison.
Christie faces life without politics.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/nov/03/baltimore-emails/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Freedom
</b></span></a><a href="https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/nov/03/baltimore-emails/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Isn't
Free:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> It costs
$50 to ask the Baltimore PD for information under the Freedom of
Information Act, only to discover that “BPD emailes have a limited
retrieval time frame.” Leon Podestra they ain't gonna be, but if
you are lucky and BPD has trashed the emails, then they will charge
you more. And more and more, until you go away.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/11/04/without-telling-the-public-the-u-s-started-and-ended-a-new-bombing-campaign-in-libya/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Surprise,
Surprise:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Beginning in August the US carried out 367 airstr</span><span style="font-size: medium;">i</span><span style="font-size: medium;">kes
in Libya, with no public notice, no briefings and no public
accountability. Naturally the US is sorry if there were <a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/11/05/the-15-year-u-s-war-in-afghanistan-barely-gets-mentioned-even-when-nato-airstrikes-massacre-30-civilians/">collateral
casualties</a> among civilians, but ISIS recruiting was down, so ...
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Note that <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-casualty-burial-idUSKBN12Z1V8?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29">US/NATO
forces killed more than 30 civilians in a single airstrike in
Afghanistan last week.</a> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">
Sha-zam!</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1318.php"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> According to Joseph
Stiglitz, Paul Krugman and now some European friends, the future of
the Euro will be – to use Hobbs' term -</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><em><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">nasty</span></span></em><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span><em><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">brutish</span></span></em><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
and </span></span><em><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">short</span></span></em><em><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
</span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
violence of the dissolution will depend on the abundance of unicorns.</span></span></span></em></div>
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<a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Ups
and Downs:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm">
</a> Half a million people stopped standing around on streetcorners
last month, according to the BLS; 161,000 found new jobs and <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-04/people-not-labor-force-surge-425000-94609000">425,000
left the labor force</a>. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">So
alrighty then.</span></div>
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<a href="https://assets.weforum.org/editor/g29CwWNP3njjIbvAITvMGBNcuf0JOL1tTQHszgihsoA.png"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Porn
O'Graph:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> A
dollar here, a dollar there...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
Parting Shot:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>In the silence there is
peace.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>In the silence there is
unspoken joy.</i></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>In the silence there's
release </i></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>from a world full of
chaos & noise.</i></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeHSZHIyaok">Jack
Fowler</a>.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I'm on vacation this week,
away from all the chaos & noise.</span><br />
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Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-85821739496353911382016-10-28T07:58:00.000-05:002016-10-28T07:58:00.730-05:00SAR #16302
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Politics,
like bullying, is a way of forcing conformity on others.</span></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37788882"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Surrender:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
After making it abundantly clear that these giganormous <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/belgian-politicians-keep-eu-waiting-over-ceta-again/a-36166919">sovereignty
renouncing trade deals</a> are but window-dressing for the ISDS
mechanism, the Walloons</span><span style="font-size: medium;">
have reached a consensus in support of the C</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ETA</span><span style="font-size: medium;">
trade deal between the EU and Canada. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Supposedly
the Walloons are happy with a side deal to the Ceta agreement that
would ask the European Court of Justice to clarify the ISDS. The
addendum still needs the approval of Canada and other EU states. The
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">concessions given to
Wallonia may </span><span style="font-size: medium;">prompt</span><span style="font-size: medium;">
<a href="https://euobserver.com/economic/135694">other countries to
</a></span><a href="https://euobserver.com/economic/135694"><span style="font-size: medium;">take
another</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://euobserver.com/economic/135694">
look</a> at the deal, </span><span style="font-size: medium;">then
each of those demands will have to be met and approved <a href="https://corporateeurope.org/international-trade/2016/10/great-ceta-swindle">before
presenting the agreement</a> to Canada. The mix of
pressures,blackmail and bribes involved in the Wallonian deal were
not made public. </span>
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<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/10/27/obamas-right-track-kills-poll-question-jason-sattler/92791354/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
Story Of Us:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Only 25% of Americans think the country is moving in the right
direction, but <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html">52%
approve</a> of the job Obama is doing.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/texas-college-student-takes-topless-selfie-hits-police-car-gets-arrested/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Aggies:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
A </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Texas </span><span style="font-size: medium;">A&M
coed got arrested after running into a cop car while taking a topless
selfie to send her boyfriend.</span></div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/10/25/hillarys-33000-emails-might-not-be-missing-after-all/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Gone
But Not Forgotten:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
N</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ewly released FBI
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">investigative</span><span style="font-size: medium;">
notes </span><span style="font-size: medium;">indicate that
most of </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Clinton’s
33,000 missing emails still exist and could be recovered, if </span><span style="font-size: medium;">an
agent with a grand jury subpoena in hand showed up and asked for
them</span><span style="font-size: medium;">. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Or
just ask the NSA for their copies. </span>
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<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/hacked-memo-offers-an-angry-glimpse-inside-bill-clinton-inc-230364"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Emetic:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
'Bill Clinton Incorporated.' </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-bill-clinton-inc-hacked-memo-reveals-intersection-of-charity-and-personal-income/2016/10/26/3bf84bba-9b92-11e6-b3c9-f662adaa0048_story.html">Do
not read on a full stomach</a>. </span>
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<a href="http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/10/china-bans-mortgage-fraudsters-for-life/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Primitive
Laws:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> China is
banning mortgage fraudsters from the banking industry for life; we
can't even make them give back their bonuses.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/26/why-google-fiber-is-no-longer-rolling-out-to-new-cities/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_switch-google-1040pm:homepage/story"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Bye
Wire Act:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Google is severely cutting its Google Fiber high speed internet
projects in Chicago, Dallas, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Oklahoma
City, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, San Jose, and Tampa, and <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/26/technology/google-fiber-cuts/">laying
off </a>an unspecified number of employees in that endeavor. In
Nashville, where geology forced Google to seek above ground wiring,
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/comcast-sues-nashville-to-halt-rules-that-help-google-fiber/">Comcast
is suing</a> to stop the implementation of a 'one-touch' rule that
would helped Google's project. Analysts suspect Google will abandon
the fiber-networks in favor of a wireless system.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.alternet.org/food/epa-succumbs-monsanto-pressure-delays-glyphosate-cancer-review"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Tail,
Dog:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> The EPA
hastily postponed a scheduled public meeting on the safety, if any,
of glyphosate (Roundup) following “intense lobbying” by Monsanto
and friends. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
Parting Shot:</b></i> </span>
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Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-43179965335548104392016-10-27T06:58:00.004-05:002016-10-27T06:58:39.471-05:00SAR #16301
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<i><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif; font-size: large;">Suspecting
your vote will not count is not the same as suspecting your vote will
not be counted.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/1.749274">Being
Prepared:</a> </b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">As
US Marines are <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/18/politics/marines-norway-russia/index.html">deployed
to Norway</a> and US troops are <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3875394/US-troops-deployed-Poland-stand-guard-Russia-s-borders-biggest-military-build-Cold-War-Putin-s-attack-DNC-mass-nuclear-drill.html">sent
to Poland</a> “to stand guard on Russia's border”, NATO is
calling for even more troops to bolster the largest military
confrontation on Russia's borders since the end (temporary
suspension?) of the Cold War. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Russia,
rather prudently, is <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-defence-baltic-sweden-idUSKCN12Q1HB?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews">upgrading
the Baltic Fleet</a> to counter NATO's unrelenting build-up in the
region. While NATO presses for <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-russia-idUSKCN12P31W">greater
confrontation</a>, Radio Free Europe (yes, that old and creaky US
propaganda outlet still exists) reports that those nasty Russians
think <a href="http://www.interpretermag.com/october-24-2016/">nuclear
war might be a Good Thing</a>. And all this because Russia didn't
</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">like
the US ba</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">c</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">king
the overthrow of th</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ei</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">r
hand-picked guy.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/26/499423683/rodrigo-duterte-says-he-wants-all-foreign-troops-out-of-philippines"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Say
Goodnight, Gracie:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
The Philippines Rodrigo Duterte says he wants “all foreign troops”
out of the country, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/10/26/i-want-them-outduterte-on-us-troops?videoId=370267179&videoChannel=117760">specifically
US troops</a>. </span></span>
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<a href="http://time.com/4545789/australia-vatican-treasurer-cardinal-george-pell-child-sex-abuse/?xid=IFT-Section"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Ecumenicalism:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Vatican’s Treasurer </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is
under investigation by Australian police in connection with child sex
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">buse
allegations. Iran's top </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/26/iran-abuse-allegations-quran-reciter-saeed-toosi">Qur'an
reciter</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is
accused of abusing young children and is 'defending' himself by
threatening “</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/10/24/Iran-s-top-Quran-reciter-to-face-court-over-child-rapes.html">to
leak the names </a>of 100 of Iran’s high profile officials also
implicated in raping and molesting children.” </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISIS
financier </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Abu
Mu’taz Qahtani, who was also in charge of IS female suicide
bombers, <a href="http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/307337">has
taken millions of dollars</a> from the group</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">s
treasury </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and disappeared from Mosul. </span></span>
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<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Pope-Francis-God-promised-the-land-to-the-people-of-Israel-470918"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Legalities:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pope
Francis </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">notes
that </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘God
promised the land to the people of Israel’ </span></span><strike><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
recommends the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians be
referred to binding ISDS arbitration</span></span></strike><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.
</span></span>
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<a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/10/24/13394258/obamacare-premiums-hike-explained"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Free
Ride:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Obamacare premiums are rising dramatically because too many sick
people signed up for health insurance and then went and got actual
health care. Because 83% of Obamacare enrollees receive government
help in paying their premiums, the US taxpayer will pay the majority
of these increases. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Which
is why the insurance companies can confidently jack up the costs. </span></span></span>
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<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161022/06423335856/corporate-sovereignty-helps-to-bring-eu-canada-trade-deal-to-brink-collapse.shtml"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>New
and Improved:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161022/06423335856/corporate-sovereignty-helps-to-bring-eu-canada-trade-deal-to-brink-collapse.shtml">
</a> In place of sovereigns and national sovereignty, now we
have”<a href="http://diepresse.com/mediadb/pdf/cetazusatztext.pdf">Corporate
Sovereignty</a>.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-cancer-iarc-exclusive-idUSKCN12P2FW">Metastasizing:</a>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on
Cancer has instructed academic experts on a panel reviewing the
effects of glyphosate (Roundup) not to release documents that show
the chemical to be “probably carcinogenic."</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-coalition-civilian-casualties-syria-military-air-strikes-aleppo-amnesty-international-a7380581.html"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Surgically:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">US-led
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">air
strikes have killed “at least” </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">300
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Syrian
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">civilians
in </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
latest round of carefully targeted pin-point attacks. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
Parting Shot:</b></i> </span></span>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">'Better'
does not mean 'good'.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I
voted yesterday. Against. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Have
felt vaguely sick an depressed ever since. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I'll
be back at the fruit stand tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://www.theautomaticearth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/baml_emissions_3528725b.jpg">Porn
O'Graph:</a></b> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">We're
making history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
Parting Shot:</b></i> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://grist.org/science/the-scientist-who-first-warned-of-climate-change-says-its-much-worse-than-we-thought/">Things are worse than you think</a>. </span></i></b></span></span></div>
<br />
<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/10/18/vote-all-you-want-the-secret-government-won-change/jVSkXrENQlu8vNcBfMn9sL/story.html"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
Sausage Factory:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Presidents do ma</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">k</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">e
a difference, but not near</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ly</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
as much as you, or they, expect. There is an unelected government
that does most of the governing, and the President is pretty much
powerless to over-rule it. Sure, bankers and big business, but
moreso the military and the national security apparatus. The
Pentagon controls congress through immense military programs which
let contracts for part of the system to every state and nearly every
congressional district – an</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">d</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
congressrcritters w</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">h</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">o
don't play along don't get the jobs. The Intelligence and
Surveillance squads control the information flow and use it to
intimidate the elected government. And then there are those dossiers
that they have had since Hoover's day. You think voting makes a
difference? Well it does, but not near so much as it should –
remember Barack Obama </span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
all the stuff he sincerely hoped to change</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">?</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2015/11/11/environment-and-development-challenges-the-imperative-of-a-carbon-fee-and-dividend/"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Priorities:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Why are we talking about<a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/10/24/13285324/soda-tax-philadelphia-jim-kenney">
soda taxes</a> and not <a href="http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/10/24/13356486/clinton-campaign-carbon-tax">carbon
taxes</a>?</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.vox.com/conversations/2016/10/24/13357298/michael-bess-biotechnology-bioengineering-technology-revolution-science"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>If
You Come, They Will Build It:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
You can count the number of scientific discoveries and technological
advances that have not been used on a broken abacus. So don't be all
that surprised when genetically engineered humans begin showing up in
the neighborhood. They're possible and they're coming and we're not
ready.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-23/spain-aiming-for-100pc-renewable-energy-company-director-says/7957738"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Half
a Loaf:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Spain aiming for 100 per cent renewable energy: "Enough wind
energy is being generated in Spain to power more than 29 million
homes every day, according to one of the country's biggest renewable
energy companies." Now to address petroleum...</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ceta-trade-canada-belgium-wallonia-1.3815639"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Le</b></span></span></a><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ceta-trade-canada-belgium-wallonia-1.3815639"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>ssons
in Democracy:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Citizens in the Belgian region of Wallonia believe that they have to
right to make laws to govern themselves. They also believe that
foreign corporations should not be able to effectively repeal those
laws. So, being a democracy within the republic of Belgium, they
refused to go along with a plan to take the power of self-government
away from them. That killed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade
Agreement between the EU and Canada, which provides for
Investor-State Dispute Settlement arbitration, in which corporations
get to overrule national and local laws. Without Belgium's assent,
the EU cannot proceed. Let's hope the Wallo</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">o</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ns
feel the same way about the TTIP and <a href="http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-trade#ixzz4O1U00HEM">TiSA</a>.
</span></span>
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<a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176201/"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>American
Roulette:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Every day, on average, seven kids and teens are shot dead in
America. Only places like Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and cities under
ISIS control are children more regularly slaughtered. If this is a
'gang related' problem, then we are all part of the gang.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://theweek.com/articles/655826/why-wont-anyone-admit-that-america-fighting-5-wars">Noted:</a>
The United States is currently engaged in losing five wars –
including Iraq and Afghanistan, where <a href="http://www.vox.com/world/2016/10/21/13359502/obama-clinton-trump-dying-afghanistan-isis-and-alqaeda-taliban-iraq-syria">Americans
are still dying</a>. <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hillary-the-hawk-closing-in-on-the-white-house/article/2605193">Don't
expect it to get any better</a> under Hillary; </span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">it'll
probably get worse</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
Parting Shot:</b></i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif; font-size: large;">Unlike
Christians, Muslim seem believe what they say they believe.</span></i></div>
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<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/feds-nsa-contractor-stole-at-least-50tb-worth-of-highly-classified-data/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Out-Snowdening
Snowden:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
A</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">n</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
NSA contractor employed by the same firm that once employed Edward
Snowden has stolen at least 50 terabytes of ultra secret </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">material</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
from the agency. A terabyte is a million million. Maybe the NSA
ought to start contracting some </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">security</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
experts.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-nyfed-idUSKCN12L21C"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Growth
Sputter:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
The NY Fed pr</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">e</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">dicts
that the US GDP will grow, if that's the word for it, a slender 1.4%
in the fourth quarter. </span></span>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="article-text"></a><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-voting-observers-exclusi-idUSKCN0ZX0QR"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Open
Season:</b></span></span></a><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-voting-observers-exclusi-idUSKCN0ZX0QR"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Federal
election observers </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">will
monitor </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">only</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
the polls in five states in November. Because, the Supremes say,
there's no racially based intimidation or </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">harassment</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
anywhere else anymore. Racially based districts, of course, but
that's all legal. And the lack of reports because of the lack of
monitors elsewh</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">e</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">re
will be used as proof that voter discrimination didn't happen.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/10/mark-ames-why-finance-is-too-important-to-leave-to-larry-summers-3.html"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Noted:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
“Finance is too important to leave to Larry Summers.”</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://theantimedia.org/nsa-whistleblower-dnc-russia/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>17
To 1:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
William Binney, high-ranking NSA spook turned </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">w</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">histleblower,
says that it is far more likely that a disgruntled NSA employee
leaked the DNC files, not Russia. I've never understood why Congress
and the FBI didn't just ask the NSA for Hillary's emails; they've got
'em all.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/21/south-africa-to-quit-international-criminal-court-document-shows"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Feral
Loathing:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">South
Africa says it is pulling out of the international criminal court
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">because
they are afraid that they, too, may have to face the consequences of
their actions. Henry Kissinger votes aye. </span></span>
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<a href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/banker_wahlroos_basic_income_only_viable_solution_in_face_of_massive_job_losses/9246444"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
Future Is Now:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Finnish banker Björn Wahlroos says that as workers are replaced by
robots the workers face the choice of poorly paid service jobs or
living on the dole. He sees a basic universal income as the only
viable solution. The <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-sharing-economy-is-creating-a-dickensian-world-2016-10-20">so-called
'Sharing Economy'</a> is not a solution; it is based on exploiting
inefficiencies in various industries and finding ways around
regulations so that the unemployed can be called contractors and
exploited by working for low wages without benefits. </span></span>
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<a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/10/19/13342250/presidential-debates-climate-change"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Once
Around:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
When's the last time you heard a politician talk about global
warming/climate change? </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sure
it's the most pressing problem we have, but no one knows how to save
us, so why talk about it?</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2016/10/21/erdogan-appoints-imam-to-hagia-sophia-prayers-will-be-heard-5-times-per-day/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Another
Brick In The Wall:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Turkey's supreme leader and would be sultan </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Recep
Tayyip</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><em><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Erdoğa</span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">n
is converting the stunning Hagia Sophia (built as an Orthodox
Christian church in 537, converted to a mosque in 1453 when the
Ottoman Turks came to town, and made into a revered museum in 1931
under Mustafa Atatürk) back into a mosque with prayers 5 times a
day. Because he can. There's no need to use the building as a mosque
</span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">because
</span></span></span></em><em><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
beautiful Blue Mosque is only a 100 paces away. </span></span></span></em>
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<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/police-drones-armed-with-stun-guns-taser-2016-10"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Trigger
Treat:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Police departments around the country would like to have stun-gun
equipped drones. Because they've been good and you haven't. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
Parting Shot:</b></i> </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;">Caution
enriches passion.</span></i></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-senate-oks-bill-that-allows-police-to-deny-requests-for-video-20161019-story.html"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Protecting
The Serving:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
The PA Senate has passed a bill that would let cops prevent the
public from seeing body cam video without a court order.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-19/no-u-s-manufacturing-isn-t-really-booming"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Manufactured
Manufacturing:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Yes, US manufacturing is in the tank, except for computer and
electronics stuff. Cars, trucks, appliances... not so much. But the
government numbers show improvement because they count “vast
improvements in quality” </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">as
a manufacturing gain, </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">regardless
of how few workers those improvements require. </span></span>
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<a href="https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/the-case-the-tpp-responding-the-critics"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Not
Really, But:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
The US Chamber of Commerce says that the scare headlines about TPP
undermining national, state and local laws and regulations simply are
not true. Nothing in the TPP agreement gives the ISDS arbitrators
the power to overturn laws or regulations. They can, however, make
government</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">s</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
pay huge settlements, billions and billions. But </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">law</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(s)</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
will </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">not
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">be
overturne</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">d
by the ISDS process.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/does-america-really-need-overseas-bases-18072"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Food
For Thought:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Does the US really need all those oversas bases? Yes, if it is to
retain its empire. </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Are
they cost effective? Probably not,but boy do </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">they</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
swell the prideful chests of the unemployed. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://theintercept.com/liveblogs/thirddebate/what-obamas-record-deportations-look-like/">Damn
Democrats:</a> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Illegal immigration is harder than it looks. In 2014 about 200,000
Central Americans tried to sneak in to the US; hardly a flood, but
significant. But Obama, since 2009, has deported more than 2.5
million people, nearly 25% more than Bush. Another case where the
facts have Democrat bias. </span></span>
</div>
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<a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/10/20/13341526/donald-trump-concede-violence"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>His
Master's Voice: </b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Trump's dog whistle refusal to commit to accepting the will of the
electorate was pure red meat for that half </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of
his</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
vote</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">rs</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
whose grip on reality is slight and whose anger is barely under
control. Has Trump tried to stoke fear among his more loosely wrapped
followers? Yes, but to what end? Never mind what he says, pay
attention to what his followers are hearing. </span></span>
</div>
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<a href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/10/19/1019-voting-rights-restored.html"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
Third Branch: </b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">n
John Kische's Ohio a judge has restored the right to vote to
thousands who were targeted by Kasich's administration on the
suspicion they would vote Democrat.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="https://promarket.org/white-collar-eugene-soltes-interview/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Look
Carefully: </b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
White collar crime is not necessaril</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">y</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
different </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">other
forms of criminality </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">except</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1)
The </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">perpetraors</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
tend to wear suits, thus the white collars, 2) While they are often
“caught” by the press, they are relatively immune to actual
arrest and trial. 3) Very rarely does a white collar offender –
say the head of Wells Fargo or any number of senior Goldman Sachs
officer</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">s</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
– stand trial. 4) They </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">rarely
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">serve
actual jail time.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://thetab.com/us/2016/10/19/txst-students-professor-says-descended-africa-53476"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
Downward Spira</b></span></span></a><a href="http://thetab.com/us/2016/10/19/txst-students-professor-says-descended-africa-53476"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>l:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Spoiled and ignorant white students at Texas State University in San
M</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">rcos
walked out of their anthropology class when the professor told them
that we are all of African descent. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/world/africa/african-roots-dna/">Which
we are</a>. A teacher in a Norman, OK high school pointed out to his
class that <a href="http://kfor.com/2016/10/14/to-be-white-is-to-be-racist-norman-student-offended-by-teachers-lecture/">being
born white conferred immense privileges</a> that are part of the
birthright racism of being white in America. The students were
deeply offended to learn the truth. At the University of Florida the
school is <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/university-of-florida-counseling-students-offended-by-halloween-costumes/?">offering
counseling</a> for over-protected brats who claim to be offended by
Halloween costumes. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-philippines-idUSKCN12K12Z?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Feed:+Reuters/worldNews+(Reuters+World+News)">Family
Stress:</a> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Spokesmen
for </span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ph</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ilippine
President Duterte </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">have
announced that the Philippines and the US are undergoing a trial
“sep</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ration”.
Until this matter is resolved the family would like be allowed to
quietly work out their problems.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>A
</b></span></span></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Parting
Shot:</b></span></span></a></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2016/10/the-democracy-problem.html">Ca</a><a href="http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2016/10/the-democracy-problem.html">n
we reconcile democracy with good government</a>?</span></i>
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<a href="http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-trade#ixzz4NYAWrcup"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>For
Want Of A Nail:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
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 Wallon</span><span style="font-size: medium;">i</span><span style="font-size: medium;">a,
no Belgium. No </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Belgium</span><span style="font-size: medium;">,
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?</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-man-called-police-to-help-his-distressed-wife-they-wound-up-killing-her/ar-AAj3NZ6?li=BBnb7Kz"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Clip
& Post:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">A
man called police </span><span style="font-size: medium;">seeking
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">help </span><span style="font-size: medium;">for
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">his distressed wife.
The </span><span style="font-size: medium;">cops promptly
showed up and killed her.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.army.mil/article/176761/department_of_the_army_announces_1st_infantry_division_deployment"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Boys
& Their Toys:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
At least 500 US soldiers are taking part in the assault on Mosul.
The Marines are sending a 300-man unit <a href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/10/14/marines-base-300-man-rotational-force-norway.html">to
Norway</a>, mostly to annoy the Russians. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Of
late the US is <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2016/10/houthis-yemen-openly.html">taking
direct pot-shots</a> at the Houthis in Yemen while <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/13/houthi-deny-missiles-us-yemen-war-iran-rebels-pentagon-saudi-arabia">denying
it wants to get involved</a> there. The US is <a href="http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/us-led-coalition-provides-iraq-anti-aircraft-system/">providing
Iraq with anti-aircraft systems</a> to counter ISIS drones(/). Watch
this go bad quickly, come back to bite us. <a href="http://www.defenseone.com/business/2016/10/us-allows-qatar-buy-f-15s-and-seals-19b-sale-jetliners/132249/">Qatar
is buying F-15s</a> 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. </span>
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<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161014/09071935797/tobacco-carve-out-isds-starts-to-spread-another-nail-coffin-corporate-sovereignty.shtml"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Comes
The Dawn:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
“P</span><span style="font-size: medium;">utting companies
above national laws, and letting them sue governments in
supranational tribunals, makes no sense at all” - </span><span style="font-size: medium;">well,
except for the corporations.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/democratic-governor-health-law-no-165700194.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Noted:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
T</span><span style="font-size: medium;">he Affordable Care
Act is ‘no longer affordable’.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/10/police_arrest_more_people_for.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Beware:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
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 <a href="http://www.citylab.com/crime/2016/10/racial-disparities-in-police-stingray-surveillance-mapped/502715/">warrantless
Stingray surveillance</a> and the nearly <a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/10/cops-database-117m-faces-youre-probably/">ubiquitous
facial recognition databases</a>. </span>
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<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-18/summers-urges-u-s-to-spend-1-of-gdp-annually-on-infrastructure"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who
Is This Masked Man?</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Larry </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Summers </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/19/larry-sanders-on-brother-bernie-and-why-tony-blair-was-destructive">completes his transition</a>, now urges that the US spend at least 1% of its GDP on
infrastructure annually.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.register-herald.com/news/federal-judge-rules-in-favor-of-coal-companies-in-epa/article_1b1c333c-4680-59bd-9997-4e43cbc4adbb.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Cash
& Carry:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> 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 We</span><span style="font-size: medium;">s</span><span style="font-size: medium;">t
Virginia coal miners and the profits of Murray Energy.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-pharma-s-manufactured-epidemic-the-misdiagnosis-of-adhd/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Odds:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
The American Psychiatric Association says that about 5% of American
children suffer from ADHD. Why, then, do 15% of our kids take ADHD
drugs? </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Not just Big
Pharma profits; a lot of parents aren't up to being parents and
embrace pharmacological excuses. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
Parting Shot: </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6632.html"><i><b>These
are frightening times</b></i></a><a href="http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6632.html"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/us-social-security-benefits-to-rise-0-3-percent-in-2017/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Grovel,
Peasants</b></span></span></a><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/us-social-security-benefits-to-rise-0-3-percent-in-2017/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>!</b></span></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
After several years of no increases, Social Security payments will
be going up an average of $3.98 a month, which will pay for </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">a
small </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">part
of the increase on one RX for most of us.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-17/deutsche-bank-pays-38-million-settle-silver-manipulation-lawsuit"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Stoolies:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Deutsche Bank is paying the US $38 million for its part in stealing
billions from the gullible by illegally conspiring to manipulate and
fix the price of silver. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">They
got off with the token fine because they have agreed to rat out the
other banks in the conspiracy. Certainly no honor among these
theives. </span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.carlbeijer.com/2016/10/perhaps-trump-is-good-opportunity-to.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Good
Point:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">this would be a good
time to re-think the executive presidency and look for a little more
popular control via Congress.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.in/september-2016-was-hottest-record-nasa-700080"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Game,
Set...</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
September was the hottest September on record, making 11 out of the
last 12 months that have been record setters and guaranteeing that
2016 will be the hottest year on record, <a href="http://mashable.com/2016/10/17/september-warmest-month-hottest-year/#xVhSEAS.naqZ">until
next year</a>. </span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/philippines-president-rodrigo-duterte-doesnt-give-a-s-about-human-rights-war-on-drugs-civilians-a7365156.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><b>Obvious,
Clarified:</b></u></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Philippines President </span><strike><span style="font-size: medium;">Donald
Trump</span></strike><span style="font-size: medium;"> Rodrigo
Duterte says he 'doesn't give a s*** about human rights'.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/central-bank-tools-are-losing-their-edge-1474501934"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Day
Late Department:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Wall Street pundits are waking up to the fact that the tools
central banks have tried to use to ameliorate the mess that Wall
Street made of our economy haven't worked very well. Maybe several
</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>givens</i></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
should be examined a bit more closely.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/10/18/people-magazine-corroborates-natasha-stoynoffs-allegations-that-donald-trump-sexually-assaulted-her-with-six-witnesses/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Trumped:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
At least 18 women have come forth with allegations of sexual
harassment/assault by Mr. Trump, several with credible witnesses.
There's a new video out that shows Trump bragging that the sexual
assault allegations simply <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/watch-secret-video-reveals-trump-boasting-sex-assault-allegations-will-help-him-win-white-house/">make
him more attractive</a> to his base,being the manly man and all. And
Melania (the current Mrs. Trump) is <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/trump-accuser-tells-melania-youre-doing-exactly-what-your-husband-accuses-hillary-of/">doing
a Hillary</a> and standing by her man. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ethiopia-state-of-emergency-facebook-social-media-internet-blackout-rules-oromo-protests-latest-a7366956.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Rules
Is Rules:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> In
Ethiopia, under new “state of emergency” laws, posting anything
on Facebook is a crime punishable by 5 years in jail.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span>
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<a href="http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/301393-wikileaks-ecuador-cut-off-julian-assanges-internet"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Motivation:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange lost his access to the Internet in his
sanctuary in the Ecuadorian embassy in London when Ecuador caved to
<a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wikileaks-kerry-appealed-to-ecuador-to-stop-assange/article/2604840">appeals
by the Obama regim</a>e, well known for detesting public access to
the process of government. Define “appeals” and explain how it
differs from “pressure” or “blackmail” in this instance.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/C5ZnXN5--ayGttVd_HfHIlkF7kI=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7277211/states-by-co2-emissions.jpg">Porn
O'Graph:</a> </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Home
On The Range.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
Parting Shot:</b></i> </span>
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<i><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif; font-size: large;">Need
outweighs love every time.</span></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/yellen20161014a.htm"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Surrender:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Janet Yellen on contemporary economic theory and practice: “</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a
disaggregated approach seems needed to understand some key aspects of
the Great Recession.” </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'Disaggregated
approach... as in take a bit from here and a bit from there and
pretend you know what's going on. </span></span>
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<a href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Us
vs Them:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
C</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ities
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">take
up about 4% of the US by area, </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">but
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hold
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">62%
percent of the population; </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/poll-41-percent-of-voters-say-the-election-could-be-stolen-from-trump-229871">the
rest are for Trump</a>.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/14/posting-new-secret-trade-docs-wikileaks-further-exposes-corporate-plot"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Softly,
Softly:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Despite its innocuous name, the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA)
is the big one. Bigger than TPP and the rest, it covers services
that make up 75% of the EU economy and at least 80% of the US economy
(remember the <a href="http://www.epi.org/publication/the-wal-mart-effect/">US
doesn't manufacture stuff anymore</a>, it </span></span><strike><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">pimps</span></span></strike><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
sells financial services).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/15/breaking_nd_prosecutor_seeks_riot_charges"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Freedom
From The Press:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In
ND, a</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
prosecutor </span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">has
filed riot charges against a reporter (Amy Goodman) </span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">for
filming an attack on Native American-led anti-pipeline protesters </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by
out-of-control private security thugs employed by the pipeline</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.
Th</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">charge
comes after the prosecutor </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">had
to drop </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">criminal
trespassing charges </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">because
the reporter hadn't trespassed. Ditto for the inciting to riot.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.phillyvoice.com/pennsylvania-bill-would-protect-identity-officers-police-involved-shootings/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Protecting
The Serving:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
There's an effort underway in Pennsylvania to keep secret the
identity of police who shoot people. Sort of an open-season bill.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/10/15/the-surveillance-state-goes-local-area-police-departments-may-be-using-stingray-technology-to-spy-on-you-without-a-warrant-and-the-feds-dont-want-you-to-know/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Safety
First:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
DOJ is blocking requests for information on Stingray </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">operations</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">,
which </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
police and FBI use to </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">spy
on you </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">through
your cell phone, in order to protect... well, mostly themselves. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/ana-navarro-rips-trumps-rigged-whine-its-rigged-when-a-billionaire-pays-no-taxes-and-gets-away-with-it/">Rigged?</a>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
The supposed billionaire who claims he paid no taxes for 18 years
complains about something being rigged? An electoral system that has
had exactly<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/08/07/31-in-a-billion-election-experts-report-shatter/200359">
31 instances of voter fraud in over a billion votes</a>. T</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">he
specific type of fraud that voter ID </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">requirements
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">can
prevent -- voter impersonation – </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">actually
never happens – well, okay, 0.000031% of the time.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/subsidizing-disaster/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Cost
Savings:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
If government policymakers stopped subsidizing construction on
seacoasts, beaches and barrier islands and – most essentially –
rebuilding after a storm destroy</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">s</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
the poorly placed buildings, we'd be saved lots of money and lots of
rescue efforts. </span></span>
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<a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/science-policymaking/news/commission-faces-eu-court-battle-over-secret-ttip-documents/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Because
Business:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
European Commission </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is
fighting in an EU court to keep secret what it knows about the effect
of the controversial investor-state-dispute (ISDS) clause in draft
trade deals with the USA and Canada and the basic illegality of same.
That's<a href="http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-trade#ixzz4NMqrnFEp">
not keeping the Commission</a> from plowing ahead with planning to
finalize the TiSA before Obama loses his chance to kiss Wall Street
one more time.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/trump-fantasized-about-sex-with-lindsey-lohan-deeply-troubled-teens-are-always-the-best-in-bed/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Guidance
Counseling:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
In a 2004 interview, Donld Trump said he thought Lindsay Lohan would
be “great in bed” because she was “deepl</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">y</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
troubled.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
</b></i><i><b>Parting Shot:</b></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">'Free
markets' are like unicorns; no one has ever seen one but it doesn't
stop the credulous from believing.</span></i> </span></span>
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/37665529"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Big
Whoop:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
The Nairobi agreement on hydrofluorocarbon emissions is garnering a
lot of self-congratulatory praise by those involved. It's a joke.
An </span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">unenforceable</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
joke. Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are widely used in fridges, air
conditioning and aerosol sprays. They make up about 1% of greenhouse
gases. But like CO2 they have an atmospheric lifetime of 100 years or
more <a href="http://www.c2es.org/facts-figures/main-ghgs">and are
10,000 to 20,000 times worse </a>than CO2. The agreement calls on the
richer countries (US, Canada, Europe) to “cut back within a few
years” and redu</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">c</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">e
their emission of HFCs by 10% from the level reached in 2019. [See
the problem? Add like crazy now so there's a high mark to cut from.]
Developing countries are </span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ir</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">supposed
to build like cra</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">z</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">y
now and freeze there use at 2024 levels. India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq
and the Gulf states will not freeze their use until 2028. China, the
world's largest producer of HFCs, will not actually start to cut
their production or use until 2029. A spokesman explained that the
agreement followed the Pattern set in Paris and that “by agreeing
to an early HFC phase down schedule, we've bought ourselves a bit
more time </span></span><strike><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to
put off doing anything about global warming</span></span></strike><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
to shift to a global low carbon economy.” Actually cutting HFC</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">s
now and outlawing them within a decade would be worth all the hoopla.
Freezing them for a decade or two and then cutting them by 10% is a
PR gimmick. Letting China and India kill the rest of us is
inexcusable. </span></span>
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<a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/10/13/fox-business-host-lou-dobbs-tweets-phone-number-and-address-of-donald-trump-sexual-assault-accuser/"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Crass
Act:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Fox's Lou Dobbs, showing his usual good sense, tweeted the pone
number and address of one of those accusing Trump of sexual assault.
Makes you wonder <a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/10/13/13274972/donald-trump-is-giving-us-a-master-class-in-why-womendontreport">why
more women don't step forward</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/b230ef29-1737-3249-a6a9-3a3b24912ff6/ss_nasa:-megadrought-lasting.html">The
Important Stuff:</a> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
A study by scientists from Cornell and Columbia Universities and
NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies [</span></span><a href="http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2016/10/04/young-peoples-burden/"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jim</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2016/10/04/young-peoples-burden/">
Hansen's old home</a>] published in <a href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/10/e1600873.full" target="_blank">Science
Advances</a> says that a megadrought lasting decades is 99% certain
to hit California and the American Southwest this century.
Historically, such megadroughts have occurred about once in a
thousand years; <a href="http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/10/17/13190036/global-climate-change-facts-effects-cartoon"> now the</a></span></span><a href="http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/10/17/13190036/global-climate-change-facts-effects-cartoon"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">y</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/10/17/13190036/global-climate-change-facts-effects-cartoon">are expected to become “commonplace</a>.” How sure are they this is
going to happen? If you put “Major California Earthquake in next
decade” at one end of the scale and “The Sun will rise tomorrow”
at the other, the megadrought would be right up there next to the sun
coming up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-14/the-cashless-society-is-a-creepy-fantasy">Spot
On:</a> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The
Cashless Society Is a Creepy Fantasy”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cia-prepping-possible-cyber-strike-against-russia-n666636">Clandestinely:</a>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
The CIA put out a press release saying the Obama administration was
“contemplating” “an all-out cyber war with Russia.” Not the
NSA, whose field of expertise this is, but the CIA. Its aim will be
to “embarrass the Kremlin leadership” <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-15/russia-slams-unprecedented-insolent-us-cyber-threats-vows-retaliation">more
than it does ours</a>. </span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Anything,
of course, <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-15/clinton-camp-escalates-attacks-against-wikileaks-and-russia-over-email-leaks">to
protect </a><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-15/clinton-camp-escalates-attacks-against-wikileaks-and-russia-over-email-leaks">Hillary</a>.
</span></span>
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<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/a-majority-of-americans-think-the-economy-is-rigged-2016-10"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Win,
Place and Show:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">,
Most Americans (62%) think the economy is rigged in favor of the
already rich, their bankers and their Wall Street lackeys. Trump
supporters (by definition not “most Americans”) say it is rigged
in favor of the poor who get government assistance. Go figure. </span></span>
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<a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/10/15/donald-trumps-no-concession-stand-he-and-his-hate-filled-followers-will-not-accept-a-clinton-victory-and-thats-when-things-get-truly-chilling/"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Boy
Scout:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/10/15/donald-trumps-no-concession-stand-he-and-his-hate-filled-followers-will-not-accept-a-clinton-victory-and-thats-when-things-get-truly-chilling/">
</a> Donald, preparing for the inevitable, says the election will be
stolen from him, that he will not concede, and will never accept a
Clinton victory. Neither Trump nor his supporters are going to go
quietly – his advance troops are already garrisoning </span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">at
</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Democrat
offices. <a href="https://medium.com/@Chris_arnade/it-aint-over-9d76cf7c7f39#.c0eq2u2sl">About
25%</a> of the nation's electorate will have immense amounts of anger
towards the elected government in particular and society in general.
Big Fun.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/german-government-has-ruled-out-state-help-for-deutsche-bank-1476459873"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Food
For Thought:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
The German government has ruled out state support for Deutsche Bank.
How do you say “</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">not
</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">too
big to fail” in German? </span></span>
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<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/mike-pence-i-dont-understand-why-michelle-obama-denounced-trumps-sexually-predatory-behavior/"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Two
Pence Worth:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
The loyal Mike Pence says “I don’t understand” why Michelle
Obama denounced Trump’s “sexually predatory behavior”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>A
Parting Shot: </b> </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>They
say poetry is truth; no wonder people hate poetry.</b></i></span></div>
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<a href="http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2016/10/oopsa-world-war.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And
the Last Shall Be First:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Dmitri Orlov explains that there won't be a US/Russia nuclear war
because “there isn't much reason to start one, assuming the US
behaves rationally.” <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/10/german-foreign-minister-former-mi6-boss-us-russian-tensions-dangerous-cold-war.html">Assuming</a>.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-conflict-yemen-civil-war-aleppo-russia-assad-bombings-obama-saudi-arabia-arms-sales-a7357171.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>It's
Just Different:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
A US State Department spokesperson was unable to explain the
difference between Russia</span><span style="font-size: medium;">n</span><span style="font-size: medium;">
bombing in Syria, Saudi bombing in Yemen, and the <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-launches-strikes-yemen-after-missiles-aimed-american-ships-n665506">US
raining death</a> randomly from the sky here and there as caprice
dictates. </span>
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<a href="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2016/10/what-is-the-new-normal-for-us-growth.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+%28Economist%27s+View%29"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Assumptions:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2016/10/what-is-the-new-normal-for-us-growth.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+%28Economist%27s+View%29">
</a> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">W</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hen
economists talk about what the “new normal” growth for the US
economy might be, do they ever consider that it might not grow?</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-songwriter-bob-dylan-wins-nobel-literature-prize-111411379.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Times
Change:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> The
Nobel Prize for Literature is going to Bob Dylan, as the Committee
catches up with the grace, beauty and emotion expressed in lyrics,
the current world's version of the poetry of the people. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">This
was not an endorsement of his vocals.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article107925907.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Definition:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Someone should explain to Donald just what “margin of error”
means in the polls.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/13/13243810/donald-trump-republican-party-polls"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Too
Little, Too Late:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Reminder: the vast majority of Republican politicians are still on
the Trump train. Republican voters, not so much</span><span style="font-size: medium;">.
“Every Republican candidate should be walloped with the deranged
nominee, every minute of every day.” </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Many
Republicans seeking reelection are delighted with the sex scandals
for giving them an honorable way out of their foolish commitments.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.vancourier.com/news/joyce-to-the-world-skateboard-community-celebrates-grandmother-of-hastings-1.2306125"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Cheers:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
A group of skateboarders in Vancouver held a birthday party for the
woman who has gathered up their bottles and cans for 14 years. She
brought the food.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/education-less-valuable-than-believed-by-adair-turner-2016-10"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Just
Asking:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> What
if better education and improved skills don't lead to increased
productivity and higher living standards? What if it all just leads
to unpayable debts?</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/10/11/rnc-spokesman-sean-spicer-denies-saying-the-exact-thing-he-said-while-defending-donald-trumps-sexual-assault-boast/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Run/Hide:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">RNC spokesman Sean
Spicer denies saying the exact thing</span><span style="font-size: medium;">s</span><span style="font-size: medium;">
he said while defending Donald Trump’s sexual assault boast.
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Across the aisle,
(temporary)<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/donna-brazile-denies-sharing-town-hall-question-with-clinton.html">
DNC chair Donna Brazile</a>, faced with an email that described a
debate question for Hillary <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/12/politico-donna-braziles-email-clinton-campaign-exact-wording-roland-martin-email-debate/">word
for word,</a> said that she never had access to the questions,that if
she had had access to them she wouldn't have told Hillary, and
besides, if she had had them and shared them she certainly would have
had to deny the whole thing. Which she did.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/10/13/donald-trump-accusations-groping-new-york-times/91988390/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>They're
All Lying:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><strike><span style="font-size: medium;">Dick Gregory</span></strike><span style="font-size: medium;">
Donald Trump insists that all of the allegations of his decades of
sexual misconduct are a </span><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Total
Fabrication’.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/subsidizing-disaster/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Common
Sense: </b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> Facing
decades of rising sea levels, why is </span><span style="font-size: medium;">t</span><span style="font-size: medium;">he
government promoting and insuring coastal development? W</span><span style="font-size: medium;">h</span><span style="font-size: medium;">y
did it ever?</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/our-chicken-doesnt-have-maggots-kfc-explains/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Nice
To Know:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/our-chicken-doesnt-have-maggots-kfc-explains/">
</a> “</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Our chicken
doesn't have maggots,” KFC explains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
Parting Shot:</b></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">On
a thousand-year time scale... </span></i>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Yet
another day when real life got in the way of watching the parade.
See y'all tomorrow; but to prevent the kvetching here's today's
parting shot:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif; font-size: large;">Hillary
is either lying to us, lied to them, or simply lies.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/09/bank-of-americas-recession-warning-this-market-is-scary.html"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>What
He Said:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>
</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">“We
are seven years into a full-fledged, all out, central bankers doing
everything they can to stimulate demand. We looked at all of these
indicators that have been pretty good at forecasting recessions and
we extrapolated that if they follow the current trends... we’re
going to hit a recession sometime in the second half of next year.”
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">BofA's
chief strategy honc</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">h</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">o.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37613273"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Slip
Sliding Away:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Under
Erdogan, NATO ally Turkey is growing closer and closer to NATO's
prime enemy, Russia. Worse, Turkey has agreed to p</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">u</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">rsue
a pipeline deal with Russia – and that's a deal breaker.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2016/10/09/savings-study/91083712/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Polling
Places:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Nearly 70% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings -not enough
to pay the dentist bill, much less any Obamacare copays. Surprising
Trump's not doing better. </span></span>
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<a href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/10/05/army-chief-issues-stark-warning-to-potential-enemies.html"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>S</b></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><a href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/10/05/army-chief-issues-stark-warning-to-potential-enemies.html">trangely
Loved, Too:</a> </b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The
strategic resolve of our nation, the United States, is being
challenged and our alliances tested in ways that we haven’t faced
in many, many decades.” </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So
says General Mark Milley, US Army Chief of Staff doing his General
Buck Turgidson imitation. He left out the part about the conspiracy
to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><em><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">fluids</span></span></span></em><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.”
Rank (and ranking) nonsense, but the terrifying thing is a lot of
people in Washington believe this guff. </span></span></span>
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<a href="http://larrysummers.com/2016/10/09/voters-sour-on-traditional-economic-policy/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Correction:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Larry
Summers</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">complains
that voters have soured on traditional economic policy. Yes and no,
Larry; the voters have soured on being jerked around by traditional
economists. Like you.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2016/10/when-to-distrust-elites.html"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Asked
& Answered:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
When should we distrust elites? Always.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://original.antiwar.com/David_Stockman/2016/10/10/truth-war-aleppo/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Precisely</b></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://original.antiwar.com/David_Stockman/2016/10/10/truth-war-aleppo/">:</a>
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What
is happening in Aleppo is a raging sectarian civil war and a proxy
battleground for the regional political maneuvers of Turkey, Saudi
Arabia and Iran. </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Neither
struggle is any of America's business.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://ritholtz.com/2016/10/tax-facts-donald-trump/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheBigPicture+(The+Big+Picture)"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Playing
With The Big Boys: </b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Warren Buffet says he has paid federal taxes every year since 1944,
when he was 13, and that despite Donald's claim, he has not ever
taken a carry-forward loss. He also donated $2,858,057,970 to
charity but only took $3,469,179 in deductions and paid $1,845,557 in
federal taxes. </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Finally,
I have been audited by the IRS multiple times and am currently being
audited. I have no problem in releasing my tax information while
under audit. Neither would Mr. Trump – at least he would have no
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>legal</i></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
problem.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
Parting Shot:</b></i> </span></span>
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<i><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif; font-size: large;">Seriously.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I've
had all of Trump I can handle for a while, even as entertainment. So
today's screed is on a more serious subject than who gets to loot
America and the world for the next four years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On
October 7th, The Telegraph wrote a particularly misleading article
on the continuing retreat of Arctic Ice cover, with a seriously
misleading headline - </span></span><tt class="western"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/10/07/experts-said-arctic-sea-ice-would-melt-entirely-by-september-201/">Experts
said Arctic sea ice would melt entirely by Sept '16...</a> It was
picked up and bandied about by Drudge, among others, as a supposed
refutation of global warming.</span></span></tt></div>
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<tt class="western"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
“experts' were actually just Peter Wadhams, an Arctic Ice expert at
Cambridge University who had given interviews on the September 1st
publication of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/21/farewell-to-ice-peter-wadhams-review-climate-change">A
Farewell to Ice</a> - his detailed but highly readable account of the
science involved in the demise of Arctic ice and the rather nasty
things that will follow. After discussing the science and the trend
of Arctic Ice cover, he did not say that the ice would be gone by
2016 but that “a Blue Ocean Event may well happen earlier than the
trend, e.g. in September 2017. But more likely at 2022 and certainly
by 2027.”</span></span></tt></div>
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<tt class="western"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Was
the Arctic ice-free this September? No, it was tied for the<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2016/09/15/arctic-sea-ice-near-record-low/90424882/">
second lowest extent</a> in recorded history at 4.7 million square
kilometers – just 54% of the <a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/">September
average in the 1980's</a>. And the ice is now just 1.9 meters thick
instead of the 3.64 meters back in 1980. So there's less of less.</span></span></tt></div>
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<tt class="western"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
<a href="http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/">National Snow and Ice
Data Center</a>'s graph of the average monthly sea ice for September,
from 1978 to 2016, projects there to be no ice by about 2038. But to
climate scientists, 'no Arctic ice” means less than 1 million
square kilometers, and that date will <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/29/arctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-low-mark-for-wintertime/">certainly
show up by 2030</a>. </span></span></tt>
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<tt class="western"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Third U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Climate_Assessment">National
Climate Assessment</a> reports that the Arctic Ocean is expected to
be ice free in summer before mid-century. Models that best match
historical trends project a nearly ice-free Arctic in the summer by
the 2030s.</span></span></tt></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<tt class="western"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Note
that the remaining ice is thin and getting thinner and will melt
faster and faster and the open water is exposed longer and longer to
the sun's rays, getting warmer and warmer, so an earlier date is
likely.</span></span></tt></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<tt class="western"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Why
have I taken the time to investigate this and then bother you with
it? </span></span></tt>
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<tt class="western"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Because
the 2014 </span></span></tt><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change</span></span><tt class="western"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
<a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/">Fifth Assessment Report</a>
did not. The IPCC does not factor in any warming from the decreased
albedo – ice and snow reflect back into space about 90% of the
sun's incoming radiation, dark open ocean water reflects back only
abut 20%. That change in albedo has the same effect as “<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19496674">adding
20 years of CO2 emissions.</a>” </span></span></tt>
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<tt class="western"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nor
does their latest report address t<a href="http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/threat.html">he
methane release that a warming Arctic guarantees</a>. </span></span></tt>
</div>
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<tt class="western"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Another
feedback is<a href="https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14680620_10157425240695161_2353353444690506321_n.jpg?oh=fb611a4fb004be61eac102f1699060db&oe=5864F3CD">
water vapor</a>. A warmer atmosphere carries more water vapor. Since
water vapor is a potent greenhouse gas, this further accelerates
warming over the Arctic. </span></span></tt>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<tt class="western"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These
feedback loops will greatly increase the warming of not just the
Arctic, but of the world. Quite possibly to unlivable levels,
possibly long before 2100. </span></span></tt>
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<tt class="western"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BpSI9rXwq7Y/UrLCtQqdRgI/AAAAAAAAMNM/q4JR66JdP6A/s1600/ThreekindsofwarmingintheArctic.jpg">Sleep
well</a>.</span></span></tt></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Voting
for the lesser evil would be easier if we could figure out which one
that is.</span></i></div>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/07/syria-russia-war-crimes-inquiry-john-kerry"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Pot/Kettle:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
John Kerry, waving a sheaf of delivery bills from US arms shipments
to Saudi Arabia f<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413">or
use on Yemeni weddings and funerals</a> , along with the collected
targeting worksheets of the Obama Administration as well as the US
plans for the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, said the Russia and
Syria must face war crimes tribunals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/hope-and-change-is-dead/503180/">Mix
& Match:</a> </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
Assign the following to either Trump or Clinton (no doubling up):
Angry, bigot, bully, corrupt, evil, liar, misogynist, shady,
untrustworthy. </span>
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<a href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/12-Senators-Renegotiate-TPP.pdf"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Sticking
Point:</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Twelve Senators are calling for 'renegotiation' of any trade deal
[think TPP, TTIP, TiSA] that includes “a special court for
corporations to challenge legitimate, democratically developed public
policies.” Works for me, as a first step.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/trump-perfectly-embodies-our-cultures-celebration-of-greed-narcissism-and-sociopathy/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Perfection:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Donald Trump perfectly embodies our culture’s celebration of
greed, narcissism and sociopathic self aggrandizement.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://english.aawsat.com/2016/10/article55359813/pentagon-considers-launching-limited-military-action-assad"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>More!</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Not satisfied with two or three unfinished wars and two or three
undeclared wars, the Pentagon is hoping to launch a “limited
military action against Assad”. If it leads to a bigger war against
Russia, that'd be a bonus.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/10/02/facing-income-inequality/BoJKUyGHZQh6G5yeNUGwiL/story.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>As
I was Saying:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
The inflation-adjusted earnings of poorer households have stagnated
for 40 years. That's a political choice, not a law of nature.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="https://www.rt.com/news/362019-saudi-un-children-stoning-death/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Grownups
Only:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> The UN
has called on Saudi Arabia to stop torturing and executing minors.
Torturing and executing adults is still okay, as is flogging and
lopping off hands and such.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/06/green-groups-warn-deal-lower-aviation-pollution-weak-shell-game"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Days
Late:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> The
international deal to lower airlines carbon emissions at 2020 levels
come 2027 tells you everything you need to know about why your
children and grandchildren have very bleak futures.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/hell-likely-lose---but-trump-is-the-final-warning-to-elites/article32278545/">Last
Exit:</a> </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Donald
Trump will likely lose in November and fade gently away. Donald
trump's constituents will not. Yes, he is crude. Yes, he is a
buffoon. But his political support comes from those who understand
the game is rigged against them, and they are not going to stand
politely hat in hand much longer. You really, really don't want to
see what the next iteration of The Donald is like.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://blog.press.princeton.edu/2016/06/24/ethicist-jason-brennan-brexit-democracy-and-epistocracy/">Just
So:</a> </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">“Most
voters are ignorant of both basic political facts and the background
social scientific theories needed to evaluate the facts.” Jason
Brennan.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="https://mic.com/articles/156038/tech-billionaires-are-trying-to-develop-a-way-to-break-us-out-of-the-matrix#.CF8UZMgmQ"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Too
Much Popcorn:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> A
lot of the people who pass as tech leaders in Silicon Valley not only
suspect we are living in a computer simulation, they are spending a
lot of money trying to find a way for us to break out of the Matrix.
These folks obviously have too much time and too much money to
fritter away, which may explain talking refrigerators. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/bombshell-trump-told-howard-stern-its-okay-to-call-ivanka-a-piece-of-ass/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Shortcomings:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
I've apparently failed as a father. My daughter is a beautiful
woman, but I've never tried to pimp her out.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
Parting Shot: </b></i></span>
</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Waiting
to see what happens is not the same as having a plan.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/04/pf/atm-record-fees/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Do
The Math:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> ATM
fees are now $4.50 a transaction and climbing. If you are taking out
$100, that's the same as paying them $4.50 to hold on your money for
a while. Negative interest writ large. Why would you pay that? And
don't even think about taking out just $20 to pay the babysitter –
that's a 22.5% fee.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/5/13176638/yahoo-email-wiretap-nsa-fbi-order-surveillance"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Asked
& Answered:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Was Yahoo’s mass
wiretap legal? </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Legal?
My, what a quaint concept. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/ten-countries-host-world-refugees-report-161004042014076.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Perspective:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
According to the UN there are 68.5 million refugees in the world
today. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Jordan has
taken in more than 2.7 million people, Turkey, over 2.5 million;
Pakistan, 1.6 million; and Lebanon, more than 1.5 million. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/05/refugee-crisis-italy-more-than-10000-rescued-off-coast-sicily">More
than 10,000 refugees </a> were rescued from the Mediterranean in the
last two days. Last year the US took in about<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-welcomed-record-number-muslim-refugees-2016-n660231">
85,000 </a> refugees, but only 18,000 from Asia/Me (12.5 thousand from
Syria) and 22,000 from Africa, mostly the DRC.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://247wallst.com/economy/2016/10/06/are-there-really-55-million-freelancers-in-america/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
Gig Economy:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Nearly 55 million Americans are, in one way or another, freelancers –
self employed, contract, and so on – with no benefits. That's
<a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/10/06/the-state-of-american-jobs/">nearly
35% of the workforce</a>. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/fischer20161005a.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Wonderment:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
What if super-low, zero and negative interest rates are not some sort
of sick joke and turn out to be an accurate predictor? What if there is <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-fischer-idUSKCN1252RU">
little or no growth in the economy for the next decade</a> or two?
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/heres-how-america-should-play-its-winning-hand-for-long-run-economic-growth/2016/10/05/3676df9e-8a7b-11e6-b24f-a7f89eb68887_story.html?utm_term=.363af8f7d657">Did
you plan accordingly</a>? The Big Money boys haven't, and come the
day they have to mark all those 'investments' to actual market values
will certainly be one for the record books. It would (will?) be a
massive economic disaster. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">And
certainly <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-05/trader-if-you-take-away-qes-greater-fools-youll-get-market-resembling-pit-scene-trad">not
</a></span><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-05/trader-if-you-take-away-qes-greater-fools-youll-get-market-resembling-pit-scene-trad"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
future </span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">they – and
we - have</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> prepared for.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-06/what-bridgewaters-ray-dalio-told-new-york-fed"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Days
Of Whine & Ruses:</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
Are the members of the Fed simply fools who think they know what
they're doing, or charlatans who know they don't?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
Parting Shot:</b></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;">Fraud
doesn't just happen, it needs a little help.</span></span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/magazine/why-are-politicians-so-obsessed-with-manufacturing.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And
Then There Were None:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Politicians can – and do – promise to bring back American
manufacturing jobs. Not going to happen; the jobs are gone and
America makes more stuff now (in terms of dollar value) than ever
before. It's just done with a lot fewer employees. The jobs that
made the middle class possible are gone, period. We are now
caregivers, retail workers, barristas, waiters and customer-service
representatives. And those jobs are <a href="http://qz.com/799816/dutch-bank-ing-is-replacing-5800-people-with-machines-at-a-cost-of-2-billion/">starting
to melt away,</a> too. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/05/norway-prime-minister-caught-playing-pokemon-go-parliament-erna-solberg">The
People's Business:</a> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Norway's
PM </span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">was
</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">caught
playing Pokémon Go in parliament.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/tech/american-companies-enable-nsa-surveillance-204000283.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Reminder:</b></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Before
you ditch Yahoo email in favor of something else, remember that that
something else will have to give NSA/FBI whatever they ask for, and
undoubtedly already have.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-turkey-idUSKCN1250H9?il=0"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Belaboring
the Obvious:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Baghdad
</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is
warning anyone who cares that Turkey's presence in Iraq/Syria raises
the specter of a “re</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">gional
war'. </span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sure
wouldn't want a regional war in that region.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<b><a href="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/all_the_ways_you_can_comply_and_still_die_during_an_encounter_with_police_s"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Progression:</b></span></span></a></b><b><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
We've gone from a nation of laws to a nation of lawyers to, now, a
nation of law enforcers. Cops have become <a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/39518-focus-civil-forfeiture-legalized-government-robbery">revenue
collectors with weapons</a> who treat us all like suspects. Talk
about sovereign immunity, <a href="http://www.gazettenet.com/MarijuanaRaid-HG-100116-5074664">they're
our sovereigns</a> and they've got immunity. And guns. </span></span></span></b>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.press/propaganda-war-russia/"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Multiple
Choice:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
“Do we really want a nuclear war with Russia?” a) No, </span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">b</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">)
Nonono, </span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">c</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">)
They aren't going to ask us.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/thane-500-call-centre-employees-detained-for-duping-us-citizens-3066247/"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Contagion:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
In Mumbai, 500 call-center employees have been arrested and charged
with duping US citizens via phone scams. Note that just like the
CEO's of big international banks and every shop on Wall Street, it
was a handful of rog</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">u</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">e
employees who were doing all the bad, not their bosses.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/03/fbi-agreed-to-destroy-immunized-clinton-aides-laptops-sources-say.html"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Poof!</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
The </span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FBI
agreed to destroy laptops of </span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Clinton aides </span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">as
part of their immunity deals. Didn't want no confusing evidence
'round here.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/05/world-debt-has-hit-record-high-of-152tn-says-imf"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Up,
Up, And Away!</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
The IMF notes that global debts have reached $152 trillion –
that's more than the value of all the goods and services in the whole
world for more than two years. If you think even most of it will
ever be paid back, raise you</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">r</span></span><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
hand. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/britain-to-opt-out-of-human-rights-law-during-wartime/"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Nuremberg:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Great Britain says it will no longer even pretend to pay any
attention to the concept of human rights during warfare, invasions,
incursions, or other violent applications of force.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ffcea09afbbd6b76f0a47b1e367dd589448e6ada/0_0_6016_4016/master/6016.jpg?w=1300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=ba45a1ab1f32842ad9b5c21b76715573"><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Porn
O'Graphic:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
What did you do in the war, daddy?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<span style="font-family: "dejavu" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A
Parting Shot:</b></i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/10/04/republican-national-committee-mike-pence-debate-winner/91576394/">Mike
Pence won the debate, before it started</a>.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/jones-facts040.pdf"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Quoted:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
“</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Governments
do not simply throw the tax revenue that they collect into the ocean.
Instead, this revenue — at least to some extent — is used to fund
the good purposes that governments serve: providing a stable rule of
law, a judicial system, education, public health, highways, basic
research, and so on. ..”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="https://medium.com/@AndrewWinston/the-failed-philosophy-behind-the-nj-train-crash-2566a6e437f1#.silmor16n"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Here's
What You Get For The Money:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">he
GOP's fixation on cutting government spending is the root cause of
the NJ train crash. And a lot more infrastructure disasters, past,
present and future.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37544280"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Word
Power:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
The BBC reports that British troops will be “protected from
vexatious claims.” Henry Kissinger wants in on that. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc161003.htm"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And
This:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
“</span></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">“In
the ruin of all collapsed booms is to be found the work of men who
bought property at prices they knew perfectly well were fictitious,
but who were willing to pay such prices simply because they knew that
some still greater fool could be depended on to take the property off
their hands and leave them with a profit.” – Chicago Tribune,
April 1890</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.12in;">
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2016/09/26/wannabe-global-dominatrix-hillary-clinton-never-met-a-war-she-didnt-want-other-americans-to-fight/#40b775a56aa9"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Mantra:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
“</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hillary
Clinton </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">never
met a war she didn't w</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ant
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">other
Americans to fight.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/04/priest-jailed-for-18-years-for-sexually-abusing-12-victorian-children">Too
Little, Far Too Late:</a> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A
Priest has been “jailed for 18 years for sexually abusing 12
Victorian children.” No, not that's not back in the 1880's, just
back in Australia.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://mnhealthplan.org/excerpts-from-healing-health-care/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Oh,
My:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
“</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If
twenty-first-century progressives had been leading the nineteenth-
century abolition movement, we would still have slavery, but we would
have limited slavery to a 40-hour work week, and we would be
congratulating each other on the progress we had made.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/10/03/obama-worries-future-presidents-will-wage-perpetual-covert-drone-war/">Can't
Make This Up:</a> “</b></span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Obama
Worries Future Presidents Will Wage Perpetual, Covert Drone War.”
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
“</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.crossroadstoday.com/story/33303651/the-latest-clinton-says-trump-always-puts-himself-first">Clinton
says Trump ‘always puts himself first</a>’.”</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/10/04/report-per-nsa-request-yahoo-built-custom-software-to-surveil-hundreds-of-millions-of-email-accounts/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Working
For The Man:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
At the NSA's request (?), Yahoo </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">used</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
custom screening software </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">sift
through </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hundreds
of millions of email accounts for “an unknown set of characters.”
Which pretty much sounds like NSA wrote the software and forced Yahoo
to use it. Privacy, expectation of: quaint.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/03/bp-platform-leaks-95-tonnes-oil-into-north-sea"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
Arctic Awaits: </b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">BP,
</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">which
has done this in bigger ways, has a platform in the North Sea that
has leaked nearly 100 tons of crude. That's less than a thousand
barrels, but it's a start.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://robertscribbler.com/2016/09/16/approaching-the-first-climate-tipping-point-on-track-to-hit-1-5-c-before-2035/antarctic-heat/"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Porn
O'Graph:</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Warm </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">enough</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
for you? Check out Antarctica, </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">at
the end of its winter.</span></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: DejaVu Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A
Parting Shot:</span></span></b></i></div>
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