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Trump And Republicans Expect You To Die, Joe Public

Are you Joe Public? One of America’s more than 94 million permanently unemployed? A doctor, truck driver, or other worker at risk of technological unemployment? Then you, Joe, had best learn a new word: Democide.

What’s “democide?” It’s the killing of people by a government most often based on their socioeconomic status. (more…)

Trump’s Sixth-Sense Moment with the Seventh Estate

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Trump continues to prosecute his war with the media, the so-called “fourth estate”calling them an “enemy of the people,” but it is the “seventh” estate, the bureaucracy, that will be his real undoing.

The fourth estate is the media. The fifth estate are the bloggers. The sixth estate are the political-social critics of places like Twitter. So what’s the “seventh” estate?

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Trump Politicizes National Security Council: Join Chief Chair Out, Bannon In

The White House is now tinkering with national security in a way that will almost insure an invitation of Jidhadist guerilla warfare’s acceleration.

Trump is tuning out the sources of rational information from the Pentagon and  to listen to the Breitbart noise machine’s Stephen Bannon, a political consultant. Senior Advisors that are part of the NSC BY LAW are now only allowed “by invitation.”

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Health Care: The Real “Right to Life” the Right Wants Dead

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There is a real “right to life” that has nothing to do with abortion. Universal access, not just to “affordable,” but the best free healthcare for all American citizens is a fundamental human right, protected by the Constitution.

The Declaration of Independence spells it out: (more…)

Troubling ‘Tells’ the Media’s Missing: Trump Isn’t All That Smart

The American political media needs to develop more critical listening skills with President Trump. True, he is a softball headline generating machine. His first speech at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) served up controversy about the size of his inauguration that became the narrative of the Saturday cycle, but something much more important, and much more troubling was overlooked:

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Trump’s Job Promise: Can He Build A Wall Around Automation?

Moving through the 21st Century, automation, not aliens, has been the driving force in unemployment. Trump waived his magic “wall” wand over his rust-belt Cinderellas that eked out an electoral win with fears of minorities and foreigners, but can he build a wall around job automation? Will jobs be the measure of human worth in this century and beyond when machines will do more, faster, and…

America’s Most Infamous ‘Club’ Makes Trump Pick Larry Kudlow A Dangerous Man

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CNBC pundit Laurence “Larry” Kudlow is rumored to be on president-elect Donald Trump’s short list to chair the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), the most influential economic council in the world, the Washington Postand other outlets are reporting. While Forbes and the Wall Street Journal cheer the pick, and the Washington Post questions his credentials for the job, few…

FBI Letter Could Taint Bureau’s Clinton Email Server Investigation

Brian Ross

  Did the FBI fail in its allegedly exhaustive investigation of the Hillary Clinton email server?

Apparently.

Director James Comey’s “bombshell” leaked memoto Congress that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had found additional emails of interest on the shared laptop of Congressman Anthony Weiner and his wife, longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin, begs the question: Why didn’t the FBI…

Last night, millions of Americans came at the American political system with a sledgehammer, from the Right and Left. Through their circular firing squad of outrage emerged President Donald J. Trump.

There will be a ton of post-mortems as to how the pollsters, the media, and the nation’s top political operatives all missed the fusion of outrage from the Leave-It-to-Beaverists who want a white,…

Lügenpresse: The Bridge Too Far in Trusting Trump

Scranton, PA. Thousands of people in a hall hear Trump’s call: “The lying media…” and then it begins. The chant rises: “Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse!” My 16 year old said: “Did I just hear that? Did that just happen?” Yes, it did. Lügenpresse is German for lying media. It’s a classic Nazi dog whistle, straight out of Hitler rallies of the early 1930s. It has been a feature of so many of…

Tale of Two Trumps: Will the Real @RealDonaldTrump Please Stand Up?

The narrative that the media, and many Americans are pumping, is that Donald J. Trump the reviled candidate will not be Donald J. Trump, President and Commander-In-Chief. People ‘in the know’ are saying that the campaign was all an act. Trump will be sober, sensible, and lead all of the people. Trump’s Twitter account bears the evidence that his handlers are still having a tough time with the…

The Russian Candidate: Trump Must Go

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s narrow electoral win of the American presidency is a sham, a fraud.  The Washington Post, and then the New York Times revealed today that the CIA had made a clear assessment that agents of the Russian government had hacked both the Democratic and Republican party, and then sat on the Republican data, while feeding the Dems emails to Julian Assange’s Wikileaks.

Wh…

The Betsy DeVos You Don’t Know: Trump’s Education Pick Just Plain Stupid

Hucksters of a feather stick together. President-elect Trump’s pick of Betsy DeVos, charter school queen, for Secretary of Education, is as politically seismic an event as Stephen Bannon, the fascist cheerleader of Breitbart, finding a place in the Trump White House. DeVos is the leading edge of billionaire appointees that was last seen during the rise of the Industrial era of the 19th century.…

Trump & The Death Throes of White Power

Donald Trump is a threat to American democracy.  He’s also a symptom. The 10.7M Americans who voted for him in the fractional, factional primaries, are part of the death throes of European, male-dominant white power struggling to hold onto control of an America, and a globe, that is coming out from under their long, tight grasp, in spite of the billions they spend on political power.  (more…)

Talking NATO, Trump Finds Black Lives Don’t Matter

Brian Ross (Appeared originally at The Huffington Post)

The “bombshell” headline of the New York Times’ David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman interview with Donald Trump was supposed to be his willingness to pull out of NATO, but, in the full transcript, we learned, not surprisingly that, to Trump, black lives don’t matter.   (more…)

Send John Boehner Back to Ohio and Free America from Far Right Tyranny

  A miscalculation in Speaker Boehner’s “invulnerable” OH-8 district: The majority of registered voters are independents.

If 30 million Americans who want to end gridlock gave $1 to his Democratic challenger, we would change the math in Washington forever.

Republicans fear the Tea Party running to the right of them. If DEM and GOP politicians have to worry about Independents taking out the 3rd…