One good thing about being a slug, as I like to refer to myself of late, is that I don’t have to hear or read anything about the hoople-headed flake squatting in the White House – unless it’s by accident or that I am simply more interested in ANYTHING/ANYONE else. Case in point . . .
Read moreZeroHedge: US Trade Deficit Crashes To Smallest Since Trump Elected
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/us-trade-deficit-crashes-smallest-trump-elected
The answer to the question, Is Trump winning again?” is yes.
Remember that trade deficits measure the amount of money that flows out of the country. There simply is no possible way to improve a nation’s wealth by exporting its currency. This would be obvious if money were made of gold, as it once was, but the effect is the same no matter what money is made of.
FPM: NY Times Embarrasses Itself Again – On Iran-9/11 Ties
I am sharing this link because we seem to get a lot of NYT posts in the Forum. I would encourage people to be more skeptical of NYT as a source of reliable factual reporting and, for that reason, especially skeptical of it’s analytical reporting. NYT doesn’t really deserve the veneration it seems to enjoy.
For the oh-well-mistakes-are-made-and-usually-corrected crowd, I point to the last sentence.
Silly with everything else that is going on…
I just wonder how New York State will feel about appropriating the Interstate number that is used for the NY Thruway. Or will they eventually connect the two?
Interstate 87 begins in Suffern, NY and ends at the US-Canadian border between Champlain, NY and Blackpool, Canada. Isn’t the numbering system established to avoid that?
The Ratf-ker Returns
Realizing he can’t win the race for Senate, he’s baaaack. Dirty Tricks Taylor running for his old seat. Watch out Ben Loyola – as a Trump acolyte, I imagine Taylor will take a page from Trump’s primary campaign and accuse your father of working with Fidel Castro to assassinate JFK.
Taylor will likely have the backing of Eddie Gallagher, fellow SEAL and war criminal, as well as the SEAL platoon kicked out of Iraq for drunk conduct, the druggies from SEAL team 10, and SEALs Adam Matthews (murderer) and Kyle Seerden (pederast) will probably be supporting him from their jail cells.
It will be interesting to see who Rocky Holcomb, Tina Mapes and Ken Stolle back this time. After all, they participated in Taylor’s dirty tricks back in 2018, signing the bogus petitions for Shaun Brown and allowing them to be passed around the sheriff’s office, apparently conducting political activities on the taxpayer’s dime. By the way – will we ever get the full story on this? Will the independent prosecutor ever issue a full report, or just cover it up with the fig leaf of indicting Lauren Creekmore? Apparently the Virginian-Pilot can’t find the time to follow up and do its job on this story.
Stop the War. Stop US Empire.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/donald-trump-war-iran-us-empire
Since the imperial propaganda machine will be turned up to 11 in the days and weeks ahead, I think it’s important that we truly evaluate how we’ve been dragged here by the ruling class, who profit off death and destruction, and remember that the United States is, and almost always has been, the bad guy. Solidarity with working class Iranians; no war but the class war.
Nancy Pelosi: Dear Colleague on Introduction of War Powers Resolution
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/1520-0
It would be fair to call Speaker Pelosi’s letter seditious, both technically and symbolically. A bit of an exageration, perhaps, but fair.
Continue reading “Nancy Pelosi: Dear Colleague on Introduction of War Powers Resolution”U.S. BORDER AGENCY SAYS IT’S NOT SINGLING OUT IRANIANS. THIS FAMILY WAITED 11 HOURS AND WAS ASKED ABOUT IRANIAN HERITAGE.
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/06/border-iranian-american-iran/
Perhaps the vampires running the child concentration camps will offer some sort of two-for-one deal on internment camps for citizens of Iranian background. Anything to cut overhead, right? At least this way there will finally be adults present to care for all the separated children. The Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave.
Works for me…
Friedman has a good analysis of Iran’s role in Middle East.
Although he doesn’t have much good to say about Iranian strategies as planned and carried out by Soleimani, we have to take credit for the ultimate “blowback”.
Continue reading “Friedman has a good analysis of Iran’s role in Middle East.”
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