While operating as a Russian intelligence asset, the Trump campaign also became a kidnapping for hire crime cell. Those involved found their way into the West Wing as President Trump's closest advisors.
Sherm - per your last sentence. Putin obviously has something very damaging on Donald J. Trump or someone close to him sufficient for our President to defer to Vladimir Putin without exception?
Trump allowed his campaign for President to become a full-blown Russian intelligence asset with freelanced skullduggery for sale even when forewarned of compromise, officially.
Donald Trump has now made himself and his followers unwitting de facto agents of Russia.
Worthy of note: Previous Presidents have gotten on the 'wrong side' of the "intelligence community," none benefited.
Trump and a lot of folks on the far-right are being played by Putin, IN FACT -
Russian hackers operate from DALLAS, TEXAS! Not Moscow or St. Petersburg.
XBT Holding, with operations in Dallas, was instrumental in the hack of leaked Democratic Party emails that embarrassed Hillary Clinton and fellow Democrats.
XBT is remotely-run by a successful Russian tech startup expert, Aleksej Gubarev.
So, Putin is correct in parsing his words "it was not a Russian State player" but it was private Russian enterprise which duped some dumb••• Texans into doing their dirty work for them.
william - good point about obvious limitations displayed within leadership bloodlines.
Another insightful Texas lady, Molly Ivins warned of the W. Bush ability limits in her 2000 nicknaming book "Shrub." Richards and Ivins were close friends.
As long as the wealthiest get WHAT THEY PAID FOR from the Republicans in Congress and the White House, the real consequences of these horrendous "tax plans" on a MAJORITY of our citizens and our nation means absolutely nothing to Republicans.
Both the House and Senate Tax Plans are flat-out WELFARE FOR THE 1% and BETRAYAL for anyone else.
Steve Bannon openly advocates the fall of our government as it stands. He has NEVER been elected to anything. His Breitbart HATE SITE and Bannon himself were bought and paid for by billionaire(s) Robert and Rebekah Mercer. The Breitbart/Bannon stain has caused Robert Mercer to step-down from CEO of a $50B hedge fund group yet Mercer and off-spring continue to fund h8, misdirection and disinformation spewed by the Breitbart site.
Since "scriptures" are a collection of MYTHOLOGY and supertstitions, the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary, which is believed de fide , states that Mary was a virgin before, during and after giving birth for all her life.
Roy Moore is a gun brandishing, hard-core Dominionist, noisy racist suffering from the early on-set of dementia. The legal age of consent in Alabama has been 16 years since 1920. Moore is a career lawman. He has NO excuse.
Until some up-coming climate-driven catastrophe DIRECTLY effects those planetary traitors carrying water for the fossil-fuel industry, NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
This just in - Stephen Hawking has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to destroy civilization and could be the worst thing that has ever happened to humanity.
Quoting anan - . . . ."successful people are in no way responsible for the economic challenges of poor and lower middle class people. Period. In fact it is the complete opposite. The more successful people earn, the more poor people and lower middle class people benefit. Globalization, free trade, free capital. free labor, free cross border product development collaboration, and capitalism also helps lower middle class and poor westerners."
To be very completely clear, tacit racism is a problem, worldwide.
Could all of this recent hostility by Saudi Arabia be a ruse to draw the U.S. into being a pro-Saudi proxy warfare state against some of their enemies?
Since oil is involved likely Trump and Tillerson would fall for it?
“According to a popular saying, 'a gourd is better than a head without a ruse in it.” ― René R. Khawam, The Subtle Ruse: The Book Of Arabic Wisdom And Guile.
Why does someone who makes more money than they could possibly spend need a tax cut? Do WE owe the 1% ANYTHING?
Much the other way around. Our military of common folk defends their "vital interests" yet their kind develops bone spurs and NEVER serve.
The mean-spirited and vicious current Republican Congress and maladministration have only one "base" and that "base" is not the one which has been duped into voting for them.
Apparently, voting contrary to self-interest has been programmed into Trumpsters with great success.
Ike was the last true Republican President, any following were imposters praying on naive' loyalty, patriotism and tacit racism. Each one of poorer quality than the previous. We thought Bush was bad. He was but the current is unacceptable.
Returning to the Eisenhower era tax rates would fix a lot of problems especially with our national infrastructure which is being neglected in favor of preparing for WAR.
Rich individuals and their families have as much as $32T of hidden financial assets in offshore tax havens, representing up to $280B in lost income tax revenues, according to research published on Sunday.
Definition of greed: a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (such as money) than is needed.
• motivated by naked avarice and graspingness
• behavior held to be psychological sequelae of aggressive toilet training
What else could anyone expect from the current Republican Congress and administration placed into power, trust and authority by CUBIC BUCKS and unAmerican foreign influences?
AUMFs of 2001 and 2002 have devolved into slush funds for a dangerous President to use to wage any war he pleases as long as that war is some kind of a "War on Terror."
AUMFs empower Trump to kill and make homeless brown-skinned Muslims at will. Or nuke someone.
super - ". . . . . . the Evangelical Far Right has spent its modern history integrated with seemingly separate movements for “limited government”, “property rights,” “States’ Rights”, and White Supremacy." yep.
What you are describing is DOMINIONISM or the "INC Christian" cult pursuing God's perfect society by installing “kingdom-minded people” into leadership positions at the top of all important sectors of society. Dominionist/INC Christian leaders have labeled these sectors as the "Seven Mountains of Culture."
The 'seven mountains' include ALL business, government, media, arts and entertainment, education, family and religion. In a heavenly form of wishful “trickle-down Christianity,” they believe if Christians rise to the top of all seven “mountains,” society will be completely transformed into the white Christian equivalent of the Taliban.
Citing Secretary Rick Perry's obvious inadequacies is low-hanging fruit. As three-term governor of Texas, he shamelessly pandered to fossil-fuel interests, the religious far-right and the 2nd Amendment inadequates. He has publicly demonstrated his lack of mental bandwidth on several occasions and is not a good dancer.
Stu in UW - The last sentence, you may have it backwards? Many Conservatives were a lot more reasonable before FAUXNews launched in 1996. Today it is delivered to ≤95M basic cable subscribers, free.
Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh and FAUXNews are all concurrent anomalies gaining media traction during the 90s era with great effect.
The effect? A continuous barrage of h8, irrelevance and arrogance. Conditioning worthy of study.
Can you see a shred of an education in Trump's actual behavior? It has always been very easy for the wealthy and connected to buy credentials from leading schools in the U.S., all the "student" has to do is be there.
Trump behaves and communicates like a NY crime boss he does business with rather than a college graduate. He may have a degree but UPenn should be ashamed of the sad result.
Neither Trump or Hannity have an actual education, neither are qualified for their jobs, both are charismatic narcissists and egomaniacs as clearly demonstrated in their recent lovefest interview.
Trumpism has diminished "White Christian men' to a huddled mass of frightened man-children holding onto their withered manliness and keys to the gun locker with all their might.
It is doubtful our Founding Fathers would at all be comfortable with the post-9/11 loss of privacy and the ability of certain proliferating government factions to track the movements and activities of individuals without their knowledge.
The Climate Science Special Report, serves as Vol. 1 of the National Climate Assessment, a federally mandated report that's prepared by the nation's top scientists every four years for the president, the Congress and the public.
The report directly contradicts claims by President Trump and his team, who deny the human contribution to climate change and the ability of scientists to predict its effects.
The primary reason FAUXNews is so popular is that it's FREE and is set on waiting area TVs across the Red States.
It is useful to see what the 1% PROPAGANDA Orifice is excreting and then duck back into reality once more. Bear in mind our President loves FAUXNews and is often driven to tweet about FAUXNews topics.
Since FAUXNews is NOT news but entertainment for those with diminished capacity. Freedom of the Press is not an appropriate protection for FAUXNews no matter who likes it.
Quoting Professor Cole - "We should look into whether young Trump was exposed to it or something similar in the late 1940s." Yep, it's called fetal alcohol syndrome aka FAS and is a nasty national hidden secret about many U.S. children conceived and born during the post-WWII era when per capita hard alcohol consumption peaked.
Peter - Reading your well-written piece asking ". . . . Niger. What on Earth Are We Doing There?" was a bit like having bees in the head. You hit many valid points but missed answering the basic fundamental question.
Niger. What on Earth Are We Doing There?
The U.S. is there to protect "vital interests in the region," namely an upsurge in OIL AND GAS production. Niger oil sources are planned to connect to the Chad-Cameroon pipeline, a EXXONMOBIL/China project.
Elon Musk found Trump's withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change untenable and resigned from the two White House advisory councils he sat on.
According to EPA's Scott Pruitt harvesting fossil-fuels is God's way. Quoting Reverend Pruitt ‘True environmentalism is using the natural resources that God has blessed us with’
• First paragraph - Then there are poor White slaves. Available at any corporate-owned and operated prison, now.
• Second paragraph - Or the current plan, suppress and drive out color. Import only when needed. U.S. voting will/has become a sick mockery and will morph into Russian-style. No minority will rise. If any attempt is made, expect white boots-on-the-ground with red hats.
• Third paragraph - Poorly-educated Whites are previously lured into racism and h8 by culture, history and intense poor-group pressure, so that's a done deal. Secession of Texas, particularly, would be a good thing. That way a wall could be erected that will do some actual good.
• Trump supporters are NOT stupid. They just want their tax breaks no matter who gets damaged and know in their hearts that Trump and his minions are just as racist as they already have been for generations.
Thanks for the good work put into responses. Much appreciated.
A gaggle of super-wealthy faux-Christian extreme-right racists want to break up our country into bits so they can sweep-up anything of worth for themselves.
So, a nativist armed rebellion would work out great for them by cutting down on the excess population as waves of Trumpists fully exercising their Second Amendment rights cleansed non-white, unChristian filth from America to Make It Great, Again.
Further - The current B-52Hs have an combat range in excess of 8,800 miles without refueling. They hold 46,600 gallons of JP-8 and synthetic fuel blend @>$62/gallon. Doha to Pyongyang is 4423 mi. as a B-52 flies, one-way.
Does Lindsay Graham know about this Billion $$ fossil-fuel boondoggle?
The Trump has ordered the US Air Force to place its fleet of B-52 bombers armed with thermonuclear weapons on 24-hour alert for the first time since 1991 amid escalating tensions with North Korea.
Trump has ordered the US Air Force to place its entire fleet of B-52H bombers armed with thermonuclear weapons on 24-hour alert for the first time since 1991.
General John Kelly behaves more like an enlisted troop in basic training who is bound to take orders without question, than the General's rank he holds.
Trump picked him because he must have detected General Kelly was malleable by those with great wealth of racist intent.
Their combined sniveling behavior towards Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson while she buried her husband and father of their children is appalling.
We expect more from our national leadership than pettiness, open divisiveness, tacit racism and flat-out STUPIDITY!
per (B) EMP output of any thermonuclear detonation is enormous. A U.S. Test in 1962 over Johnson Island where a 1.4 megaton warhead was detonated 240 miles up and 'significant damage was done to both civilian and military electrical systems throughout the Hawaiian Islands, over 800 miles away from the blast.' as reported to Congress.
Use of a weapon of this yield, today, over the West Coast of the U.S. will produce unimaginable effects.
Fortunately/unfortunately North Korea H-bomb test yields are 250 kilotons at best which could still turn every i-Thing within pulse radius into chunks of stone and metal suitable for cracking nuts.
General John Kelly has shown by his canine-like loyalty he is definitely "ONE OF MY GENERALS" as designated by Presidential ego.
A U.S. military officer takes a succinctly different oath than enlisted military, ". . . . . . do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God."
General Kelly and the other "MY GENERALS" must now "bear true faith and allegiance to the same." Donald J. Trump is NOT our Constitution. But far from it.
The Bush/Cheney administration started two UNNECESSARY wars which continue to this day and have killed hundreds of thousands of primarily brown-skinned Muslims including women and children.
Trump will endeavor to exceed the former administration body-counts to "Make America Great, Again."
The current maladministration policies has made Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Israel, North Korea, Iran and Pakistan more powerful at the expense of our personal safety and piece of mind.
Now, let's get rid of these Trumpist f•••ers before a lot of US get killed or irradiated by fall-out?!
Criticizing the Congesswoman as "Wacky" due to her garb. So, what is the difference between her hat and the Presidential Hairpiece?
Donald J. Trump Verified account @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago
"I hope the Fake News Media keeps talking about Wacky Congresswoman Wilson in that she, as a representative, is killing the Democrat Party!"
We do know what's going on. President Trump employs a blog registered to the Russian Federation as a source for talking points! Eagle pundit>@RealEagleBites is registered in the Russian Federation according to Twitter.
Also, to further decay our country, Trump got a once-respected 4-Star General to LIE! and disgrace himself in media to salve Trump's EGO!
Any boots-on-the-ground war with Iran comes at great risk to our troops.
So as a reminder - When the Iraq/Iran War ended many of the fallen on the battlefield were far too contaminated to be safely retrieved and were left to ROT.
While the rich historical perspective cited is interesting to ponder. The salient facts show enforcement of crimes without specific victims are pure profit in fines and private-prison incarceration fees to States and Counties and easy pickins' for local law enforcement to fake. Pot smokers are generally passive, so it's a safer bust to make.
Legal weed: NOT in Texas, Y'ALL! Have to keep former U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson's for-profit prisons full of those who commit "crimes" for which there was no victim.
Much to do about OIL! At near seven decades of production, Kirkuk Field still produces up to 1 million barrels per day, a large portion of all Iraqi oil exports. Output from the Kirkuk oilfield is now delivered via the Kirkuk-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline, which flows to the multi-pipeline terminal at Ceyhan on the Turkish Mediterranean coast. The same BP-run (aka BTC) terminal which also handles the output from oil fields in Central Asia.
Under the Nazi Lebensborn Program approx. 8,000 children were born in Germany and near 12,000 in Viking Norway as part of the selective breeding effort formed by Heinrich Himmler to encourage women of "pure blood" to only bear blonde, blue-eyed offspring.
Imagine the miles deep "The Grand Canyon of Oklahoma" extending from Oklahoma City north into Kansas following the basic contour of the Vamoosa Ada bedrock aquifer which rampant FRACKING has contaminated.
To the Trumpest-minded wealthy, someone who is not of their economic status is seen as someone who is taking something away from them, like an unwanted dependent.
Now that hateful wealth has infiltrated and taken over all three Branches of Government.
Expect some impromptu culling to begin.
The elderly and non-white persons must be especially wary.
Trump maladministration "foreign policy" is under the influence of Netanyahu and the Saudi as filtered by Kirchner, Putin by blackmail and the pure hatred emanating from his well-heeled "base" and their plentiful dupes, the mean-spirited Christian Nationalists.
This aging President sees the U.S. as a "Corporate Nation" according to his press secretary. WRONG! The U.S. is a Constitutional Federal Republic and always has been, even before Obama.
POTUS also sees the police and uniformed military as one, all under his command.
Donald J.Trump is clearly hallucinating and MUST BE REMOVED! The onset of an aging disease of the mind is a scary thing especially when our President is the one afflicted.
Donald J. Trump desperately NEEDS fame, constant adulation and attention. Trump wants to be more famous and historical than Jesus or Hitler.
Trump is living proof that to be a "knowing madman" knowing a lot is optional.
Rex Tillerson was on his way out at EXXON when he grabbed the brass ring offered by Trump. His actual job as Secretary of Trump is to maintain and expand control over fossil-fuel sources and distribution systems OUTSIDE of the U.S.
The Trump/Tillerson tiff is merely Punch and Judy for the media 2017. Trump is Judy with his dainty hands and thin skin. Tillerson is Mr. Punch and Jeff Sessions is The Baby.
The paranoid Russian intelligence asset Donald J. Trump is beyond schizophrenic. He actually has two separate brains - one in his bald head that makes angry 3AM tweets and picks fights with random persons. The other brain is being carried around by the constantly disambiguating Wayne LaPierre disciple, Stephen Miller.
FACT - Combining two(2) half-wits does not make a full wit.
Senator Corker has it right. WE ARE ALL IN GREAT DANGER! Trump is far too bat•••• crazy to be our President.
Voronezh?
Worthy of mention - Savonarola came to an extremely bad end.
50% of World’s Wealth Is Controlled by Wealthy 1%!!
And they want it ALL!!
With Republican help.
List of U.S. federal politicians convicted of crimes -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_convicted_of_crimes#Executive_branch
Warning - it's a large list and will take some time to read.
While operating as a Russian intelligence asset, the Trump campaign also became a kidnapping for hire crime cell. Those involved found their way into the West Wing as President Trump's closest advisors.
Sherm - per your last sentence. Putin obviously has something very damaging on Donald J. Trump or someone close to him sufficient for our President to defer to Vladimir Putin without exception?
Trump allowed his campaign for President to become a full-blown Russian intelligence asset with freelanced skullduggery for sale even when forewarned of compromise, officially.
Donald Trump has now made himself and his followers unwitting de facto agents of Russia.
Worthy of note: Previous Presidents have gotten on the 'wrong side' of the "intelligence community," none benefited.
Trump and a lot of folks on the far-right are being played by Putin, IN FACT -
Russian hackers operate from DALLAS, TEXAS! Not Moscow or St. Petersburg.
XBT Holding, with operations in Dallas, was instrumental in the hack of leaked Democratic Party emails that embarrassed Hillary Clinton and fellow Democrats.
XBT is remotely-run by a successful Russian tech startup expert, Aleksej Gubarev.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2017/01/11/tech-firm-named-russian-hacking-report-operations-dallas
So, Putin is correct in parsing his words "it was not a Russian State player" but it was private Russian enterprise which duped some dumb••• Texans into doing their dirty work for them.
william - good point about obvious limitations displayed within leadership bloodlines.
Another insightful Texas lady, Molly Ivins warned of the W. Bush ability limits in her 2000 nicknaming book "Shrub." Richards and Ivins were close friends.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/washington/01ivins.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/obit/2006/09/ann_richards.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/washington/01ivins.html
So, a patriarch with obvious deficiencies can't be good?
Trump, the current leader of what used to be the Republican Party, has no problem with going bankrupt.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/31/news/companies/donald-trump-bankruptcy/
As long as the wealthiest get WHAT THEY PAID FOR from the Republicans in Congress and the White House, the real consequences of these horrendous "tax plans" on a MAJORITY of our citizens and our nation means absolutely nothing to Republicans.
Both the House and Senate Tax Plans are flat-out WELFARE FOR THE 1% and BETRAYAL for anyone else.
An AMBER ALERT needs to issued on behalf of all postpubescent girls in Alabama if Roy Moore is elected.
Steve Bannon openly advocates the fall of our government as it stands. He has NEVER been elected to anything. His Breitbart HATE SITE and Bannon himself were bought and paid for by billionaire(s) Robert and Rebekah Mercer. The Breitbart/Bannon stain has caused Robert Mercer to step-down from CEO of a $50B hedge fund group yet Mercer and off-spring continue to fund h8, misdirection and disinformation spewed by the Breitbart site.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/bannons-billionaire-hedge-fund-sponsor-drops-ceo-job-gives-up-breitbart-stock-robert-mercer-rennaissance-technologies-rebekah-milo-milo-yiannopoulos-magerman-david-20171102.html
The point - without massive patronage and the CCM constant spotlight the likes of Steve Bannon would cease to be of any interest at all.
poof
Since "scriptures" are a collection of MYTHOLOGY and supertstitions, the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary, which is believed de fide , states that Mary was a virgin before, during and after giving birth for all her life.
I don't make this stuff up. The church does.
Moore's popularity in Alabama is due to his espoused lifelong "Biblical life style."
Mary was a virgin teen according to scriptures, Joseph was adult. "Biblical life style," Trumpsters/Christian Nationalists in Alabama?
REPENT!
Roy Moore is a gun brandishing, hard-core Dominionist, noisy racist suffering from the early on-set of dementia. The legal age of consent in Alabama has been 16 years since 1920. Moore is a career lawman. He has NO excuse.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/case-studies/230?section=primarysources&source=24
And to those like Moore who consider a 14 year-old girl a prize rather than a crime, he'll get their votes for sure.
If Moore wins, the State of Alabama will be exposed for what it is and has been - unsafe for young girls.
Until some up-coming climate-driven catastrophe DIRECTLY effects those planetary traitors carrying water for the fossil-fuel industry, NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
". . . Trump is not loudly trying to take personal credit for ending the threat . . . '
Putin won't let him. He's in charge. Trump is NOT.
Nick - How's everything in St.Pete this fall?
This just in - Stephen Hawking has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to destroy civilization and could be the worst thing that has ever happened to humanity.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2017/11/06/stephen-hawking-issues-stern-warning-on-ai-could-be-worst-thing-for-humanity/#788953c53a7c
Especially for the now further demoted Saudi women.
Quoting anan - . . . ."successful people are in no way responsible for the economic challenges of poor and lower middle class people. Period. In fact it is the complete opposite. The more successful people earn, the more poor people and lower middle class people benefit. Globalization, free trade, free capital. free labor, free cross border product development collaboration, and capitalism also helps lower middle class and poor westerners."
To be very completely clear, tacit racism is a problem, worldwide.
Thanks for the update.
"SA is itching for a war with Iran" - only if the U.S. fights it for them.
• Saudi avail military = 251,000
• Iran avail military = 563,000
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.TOTL.P1
Could all of this recent hostility by Saudi Arabia be a ruse to draw the U.S. into being a pro-Saudi proxy warfare state against some of their enemies?
Since oil is involved likely Trump and Tillerson would fall for it?
“According to a popular saying, 'a gourd is better than a head without a ruse in it.” ― René R. Khawam, The Subtle Ruse: The Book Of Arabic Wisdom And Guile.
Why does someone who makes more money than they could possibly spend need a tax cut? Do WE owe the 1% ANYTHING?
Much the other way around. Our military of common folk defends their "vital interests" yet their kind develops bone spurs and NEVER serve.
The mean-spirited and vicious current Republican Congress and maladministration have only one "base" and that "base" is not the one which has been duped into voting for them.
Apparently, voting contrary to self-interest has been programmed into Trumpsters with great success.
Who would do that?
Ike was the last true Republican President, any following were imposters praying on naive' loyalty, patriotism and tacit racism. Each one of poorer quality than the previous. We thought Bush was bad. He was but the current is unacceptable.
Returning to the Eisenhower era tax rates would fix a lot of problems especially with our national infrastructure which is being neglected in favor of preparing for WAR.
Rich individuals and their families have as much as $32T of hidden financial assets in offshore tax havens, representing up to $280B in lost income tax revenues, according to research published on Sunday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-offshore-wealth/super-rich-hold-32-trillion-in-offshore-havens-idUSBRE86L03U20120722
Definition of greed: a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (such as money) than is needed.
• motivated by naked avarice and graspingness
• behavior held to be psychological sequelae of aggressive toilet training
Now, Asia will witness first-hand why the ROW will eventually designate the U.S. as a rogue nation, led by a dangerous fool.
What else could anyone expect from the current Republican Congress and administration placed into power, trust and authority by CUBIC BUCKS and unAmerican foreign influences?
AUMFs of 2001 and 2002 have devolved into slush funds for a dangerous President to use to wage any war he pleases as long as that war is some kind of a "War on Terror."
AUMFs empower Trump to kill and make homeless brown-skinned Muslims at will. Or nuke someone.
SHUT THEM DOWN!!
Setting an example?
super - ". . . . . . the Evangelical Far Right has spent its modern history integrated with seemingly separate movements for “limited government”, “property rights,” “States’ Rights”, and White Supremacy." yep.
What you are describing is DOMINIONISM or the "INC Christian" cult pursuing God's perfect society by installing “kingdom-minded people” into leadership positions at the top of all important sectors of society. Dominionist/INC Christian leaders have labeled these sectors as the "Seven Mountains of Culture."
https://religionnews.com/2017/03/18/how-a-christian-movement-is-growing-rapidly-in-the-midst-of-religious-decline/
The 'seven mountains' include ALL business, government, media, arts and entertainment, education, family and religion. In a heavenly form of wishful “trickle-down Christianity,” they believe if Christians rise to the top of all seven “mountains,” society will be completely transformed into the white Christian equivalent of the Taliban.
http://www.politicalresearch.org/2016/08/18/dominionism-rising-a-theocratic-movement-hiding-in-plain-sight/#sthash.rBAFyXZn.V4i321Wt.dpbs
Those interpreting Scripture(s) for their own purposes cause violence.
Citing Secretary Rick Perry's obvious inadequacies is low-hanging fruit. As three-term governor of Texas, he shamelessly pandered to fossil-fuel interests, the religious far-right and the 2nd Amendment inadequates. He has publicly demonstrated his lack of mental bandwidth on several occasions and is not a good dancer.
The unnecessarily officious revelation of a procedural squabble within the DNC doesn't mean anything.
Except to FAUXNews and their herd of "lock her, up" Clinton gynophobes.
anan - "Intelligence and hard work are also needed." And can be acquired on campus for a price if needed.
How many "typical Trump voters' . . do you know?
Stu in UW - The last sentence, you may have it backwards? Many Conservatives were a lot more reasonable before FAUXNews launched in 1996. Today it is delivered to ≤95M basic cable subscribers, free.
Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh and FAUXNews are all concurrent anomalies gaining media traction during the 90s era with great effect.
The effect? A continuous barrage of h8, irrelevance and arrogance. Conditioning worthy of study.
"There is no qualification for being the president of the USA" - other than being LEGALLY ELECTED.
There is a definite problem with that qualification of late.
Can you see a shred of an education in Trump's actual behavior? It has always been very easy for the wealthy and connected to buy credentials from leading schools in the U.S., all the "student" has to do is be there.
Trump behaves and communicates like a NY crime boss he does business with rather than a college graduate. He may have a degree but UPenn should be ashamed of the sad result.
The unrequited man-love lavished onto Donald Trump by Sean Hannity is disturbing to see but not without reason$$.
Sean Hannity has a religious education from a now defunct Catholic seminary. He dropped out of college.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Pius_X_Preparatory_Seminary
Neither Trump or Hannity have an actual education, neither are qualified for their jobs, both are charismatic narcissists and egomaniacs as clearly demonstrated in their recent lovefest interview.
https://www.salon.com/2017/10/12/trumps-interview-with-sean-hannity-reveals-he-doesnt-know-how-any-of-this-works/
Trump or Hannity are living proof that open BIGOTRY from high places in the U.S. is rewarded handsomely.
Jim - Please back away from the monitor set to FAUXNews, slowly.
Trumpism has diminished "White Christian men' to a huddled mass of frightened man-children holding onto their withered manliness and keys to the gun locker with all their might.
For tacit RACISTS like Trump and Kelly ownership of other human beings is a tantalizing concept.
Christians are so easy to dupe.
It is doubtful our Founding Fathers would at all be comfortable with the post-9/11 loss of privacy and the ability of certain proliferating government factions to track the movements and activities of individuals without their knowledge.
It is very surprising for such an uneducated, rude and slavish person to reach the rank of General in our military.
malpotus chose General Kelly for his weaknesses not his abilities, if any, other than loafer-licking which General Kelly has near-perfected.
What an embarrassment for our U.S. Marine Corps!
quoting Thomas - . . . " looking at the massive corruption in the GOP, what would stop Putin from exporting his criminal enterprise to the US?"
Nothing, it's here, right now. The Trump administration fits that description, precisely.
Congress and the maladministration are doing absolutely NOTHING to prevent Russian votes-tweaking from happening right NOW and forever.
Obviously, the GOP Congress and U.S. law enforcement policing our voting activities are COMPLICIT with the Russian interference.
This just in!!
The Climate Science Special Report, serves as Vol. 1 of the National Climate Assessment, a federally mandated report that's prepared by the nation's top scientists every four years for the president, the Congress and the public.
The report directly contradicts claims by President Trump and his team, who deny the human contribution to climate change and the ability of scientists to predict its effects.
https://science2017.globalchange.gov/
Get it before Trump takes it down!
Climate change is God's will according to the religious right.
If "God" is a CO2 breathing deity who hates water and the color green.
The primary reason FAUXNews is so popular is that it's FREE and is set on waiting area TVs across the Red States.
It is useful to see what the 1% PROPAGANDA Orifice is excreting and then duck back into reality once more. Bear in mind our President loves FAUXNews and is often driven to tweet about FAUXNews topics.
Since FAUXNews is NOT news but entertainment for those with diminished capacity. Freedom of the Press is not an appropriate protection for FAUXNews no matter who likes it.
Quoting Professor Cole - "We should look into whether young Trump was exposed to it or something similar in the late 1940s." Yep, it's called fetal alcohol syndrome aka FAS and is a nasty national hidden secret about many U.S. children conceived and born during the post-WWII era when per capita hard alcohol consumption peaked.
https://www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/timeline/World-War-II-and-the-Cold-War.html#_edn20
Peter - Reading your well-written piece asking ". . . . Niger. What on Earth Are We Doing There?" was a bit like having bees in the head. You hit many valid points but missed answering the basic fundamental question.
Niger. What on Earth Are We Doing There?
The U.S. is there to protect "vital interests in the region," namely an upsurge in OIL AND GAS production. Niger oil sources are planned to connect to the Chad-Cameroon pipeline, a EXXONMOBIL/China project.
https://www.reuters.com/article/ozabs-niger-chad-oil-20120630-idAFJOE85T01I20120630
http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/company/worldwide-operations/locations/chad/operations/production-and-operations
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/niger-govt-creates-department-oil-gas/
http://www.savannah-petroleum.com/en/index.php
https://www.naija.ng/1035675-goodbye-niger-delta-niger-republic-supply-crude-oil-kaduna-refinery.html
The current Secretary of State is the recent former CEO of EXXONMOBIL.
The primary reason our troops are sent off to die in these nasty places.
To add insult to injury, Saudi Arabia, which denies women equal rights, makes a humanoid robot called Sophia, a Saudi citizen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/10/29/saudi-arabia-which-denies-women-equal-rights-makes-a-robot-a-citizen/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-technology%3Ahomepage%2Fcard
President Trump can't wait to nuke someone.
Simple as that.
As long as the U.S. is DOMINATED by fossil-fuels politically, economically and militarily any alternative energy sources will be diminished.
Worthy of note: 2016 was a record year for atmospheric CO2.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41778089
Elon Musk found Trump's withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change untenable and resigned from the two White House advisory councils he sat on.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/trump-climate-change-elon-musk/528906/
Trump holds grudges. Look for U.S. solar development to be virtually blocked and soon.
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/08/29/trump-demand-tariffs-bad-news-us-solar-industry/
According to EPA's Scott Pruitt harvesting fossil-fuels is God's way. Quoting Reverend Pruitt ‘True environmentalism is using the natural resources that God has blessed us with’
https://thinkprogress.org/epa-silences-more-scientists-25a5af44a0d4/
Ungodly solar will die. Count on it.
• First paragraph - Then there are poor White slaves. Available at any corporate-owned and operated prison, now.
• Second paragraph - Or the current plan, suppress and drive out color. Import only when needed. U.S. voting will/has become a sick mockery and will morph into Russian-style. No minority will rise. If any attempt is made, expect white boots-on-the-ground with red hats.
• Third paragraph - Poorly-educated Whites are previously lured into racism and h8 by culture, history and intense poor-group pressure, so that's a done deal. Secession of Texas, particularly, would be a good thing. That way a wall could be erected that will do some actual good.
• Trump supporters are NOT stupid. They just want their tax breaks no matter who gets damaged and know in their hearts that Trump and his minions are just as racist as they already have been for generations.
Thanks for the good work put into responses. Much appreciated.
A gaggle of super-wealthy faux-Christian extreme-right racists want to break up our country into bits so they can sweep-up anything of worth for themselves.
So, a nativist armed rebellion would work out great for them by cutting down on the excess population as waves of Trumpists fully exercising their Second Amendment rights cleansed non-white, unChristian filth from America to Make It Great, Again.
Full stop.
At this point in Puerto Rican future it would be useful to review Naomi Kline's work on disaster politics and economics in Shock Doctrine.
President Donald J. Trump is taking full credit for ISIS "giving up."
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/17/trump-isis-giving-up-243870
Stupid math error alert! B-52H fuel capacity . . . . .
S/B ≥2 MILLION gallons @>$62/gallon JP-8/synthetic Fischer-Tropsch fuel blend. Whoops!
A tidy sum per each B-52H on flying alert.
Further - The current B-52Hs have an combat range in excess of 8,800 miles without refueling. They hold 46,600 gallons of JP-8 and synthetic fuel blend @>$62/gallon. Doha to Pyongyang is 4423 mi. as a B-52 flies, one-way.
http://www.boeing.com/defense/b-52-bomber/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-military-biofuels/u-s-air-force-tests-biofuel-at-59-per-gallon-idUSBRE86E01N20120715
Does Lindsay Graham know about this Billion $$ fossil-fuel boondoggle?
The Trump has ordered the US Air Force to place its fleet of B-52 bombers armed with thermonuclear weapons on 24-hour alert for the first time since 1991 amid escalating tensions with North Korea.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/usa/2017/usa-171023-presstv01.htm
Being able to accurately identify a MORON does not qualify Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State.
How many would sell their self-respect, pride and patriotism for $51M?
FACT: Trump's "adults" want WAR.
We are now at DEFCON4!
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/840962/North-Korea-news-defcon-warning-system-level-4-Donald-Trump-nuclear-war-threat
Trump has ordered the US Air Force to place its entire fleet of B-52H bombers armed with thermonuclear weapons on 24-hour alert for the first time since 1991.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/usa/2017/usa-171023-presstv01.htm
Trump recalls 1,000 retired combat pilots.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/21/trump-executive-order-lets-air-force-recall-up-to-1000-retired-pilots.html
Japanese Are Preparing for a North Korean Nuclear Attack.
http://time.com/4949262/north-korea-japan-nuclear-missiles-drills/
And Trump can't wait to nuke someone.
NOT these Generals.
General John Kelly behaves more like an enlisted troop in basic training who is bound to take orders without question, than the General's rank he holds.
Trump picked him because he must have detected General Kelly was malleable by those with great wealth of racist intent.
Their combined sniveling behavior towards Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson while she buried her husband and father of their children is appalling.
We expect more from our national leadership than pettiness, open divisiveness, tacit racism and flat-out STUPIDITY!
Torture memos drafters John Yoo and current Trump nominee Steven G. Bradbury must accompany them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/us/politics/trump-nominee-steven-bradbury-bush-era-torture-memos.html
Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld all deserve lengthy Guantanamo vacations rather than accolades.
Hopefully, your undocumented theory is not President Two-Scoops fantasy.
But you are correct about FAUXNews and addicted, toxic-radio loser personalities.
FACTS regarding the human trashing of our oceans can be found here -
https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/how-big-great-pacific-garbage-patch-science-vs-myth.html
per (B) EMP output of any thermonuclear detonation is enormous. A U.S. Test in 1962 over Johnson Island where a 1.4 megaton warhead was detonated 240 miles up and 'significant damage was done to both civilian and military electrical systems throughout the Hawaiian Islands, over 800 miles away from the blast.' as reported to Congress.
http://www.businessinsider.com/first-us-test-emp-weapon-2016-11
Use of a weapon of this yield, today, over the West Coast of the U.S. will produce unimaginable effects.
Fortunately/unfortunately North Korea H-bomb test yields are 250 kilotons at best which could still turn every i-Thing within pulse radius into chunks of stone and metal suitable for cracking nuts.
Someone told malpotus about the AUMF of 2001! And the first thing he does is recall 1,000 retired USAF pilots.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/10/21/Trumps-order-allows-Air-Force-to-recall-1000-retired-pilots/6851508593278/?spt=slh&or=3
General John Kelly has shown by his canine-like loyalty he is definitely "ONE OF MY GENERALS" as designated by Presidential ego.
A U.S. military officer takes a succinctly different oath than enlisted military, ". . . . . . do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God."
General Kelly and the other "MY GENERALS" must now "bear true faith and allegiance to the same." Donald J. Trump is NOT our Constitution. But far from it.
http://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/swearing-in-for-military-service.html
The Shrub lacks any standing, whatsoever.
The Bush/Cheney administration started two UNNECESSARY wars which continue to this day and have killed hundreds of thousands of primarily brown-skinned Muslims including women and children.
Trump will endeavor to exceed the former administration body-counts to "Make America Great, Again."
The current maladministration policies has made Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Israel, North Korea, Iran and Pakistan more powerful at the expense of our personal safety and piece of mind.
Now, let's get rid of these Trumpist f•••ers before a lot of US get killed or irradiated by fall-out?!
Do Puerto Ricans pay into FICA?
A reclusive, exclusive computer-aided stock market trader who in 10 years has dumped ≤$35M into extreme right ring candidates at the Federal level.
Bob Mercer was originally a Ted Cruz feeder but Cruz was not extreme enough on immigration and his heritage was a problem for Mercer.
Professor Cole is correct about Mercer being "some form of Nazism."
These racist super-wealthy far right egomaniacs want to BREAK OUR COUNTRY and sweep up the pieces for themselves.
http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/g10011926/robert-mercer-facts/
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/10/18/robert-mercer-seems-really-racist/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/no-one-knows-what-the-powerful-mercers-really-want/514529/
Criticizing the Congesswoman as "Wacky" due to her garb. So, what is the difference between her hat and the Presidential Hairpiece?
Donald J. Trump Verified account @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago
"I hope the Fake News Media keeps talking about Wacky Congresswoman Wilson in that she, as a representative, is killing the Democrat Party!"
We do know what's going on. President Trump employs a blog registered to the Russian Federation as a source for talking points! Eagle pundit>@RealEagleBites is registered in the Russian Federation according to Twitter.
Also, to further decay our country, Trump got a once-respected 4-Star General to LIE! and disgrace himself in media to salve Trump's EGO!
Good luck with that! This sold-out far-right Congress has already got on their Trump kneepads.
Congress has the combined courage of a flock of chickens.
malpotus flatly denies this! Says he has proof.
The delay in producing proof is from General Kelly still being sore from the last time two-scoops used him for a sock puppet.
No SCOTUS mistake! Racists fear anyone who doesn't look like them in a mirror.
The primary reason the U.S and Russia prevailed during WWII was their unlimited supply of fuels and vital resources for their war machines.
A historical fact not lost on the fossil-fuel industry and their minions.
Who loses most if the U.S. suddenly declared peace?
Any boots-on-the-ground war with Iran comes at great risk to our troops.
So as a reminder - When the Iraq/Iran War ended many of the fallen on the battlefield were far too contaminated to be safely retrieved and were left to ROT.
While the rich historical perspective cited is interesting to ponder. The salient facts show enforcement of crimes without specific victims are pure profit in fines and private-prison incarceration fees to States and Counties and easy pickins' for local law enforcement to fake. Pot smokers are generally passive, so it's a safer bust to make.
Legal weed: NOT in Texas, Y'ALL! Have to keep former U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson's for-profit prisons full of those who commit "crimes" for which there was no victim.
It's jus' bidness, y'all.
http://statelaws.findlaw.com/texas-law/texas-marijuana-laws.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/stepdaughter-doctor-accused-overdose-deaths-found-dead-article-1.3338101
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2015/04/26/prescription-drug-deaths-in-texas-vastly-undercounted
Much to do about OIL! At near seven decades of production, Kirkuk Field still produces up to 1 million barrels per day, a large portion of all Iraqi oil exports. Output from the Kirkuk oilfield is now delivered via the Kirkuk-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline, which flows to the multi-pipeline terminal at Ceyhan on the Turkish Mediterranean coast. The same BP-run (aka BTC) terminal which also handles the output from oil fields in Central Asia.
https://www.bp.com/en_az/caspian/
Now, who on Earth would go after a funeral, a wedding, an ambulance. hospital or school as a target for destruction?
Germany, Italy and Japan were once "Rogue States."
Keep it open for the Trump entourage and his grafting cabinet and spouses.
American WHITE SUPREMACY circa 1939 at Madison Square Garden. 20,000 Nazi's in attendence. Make America Great, Again. Trump style.
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/542499/marshall-curry-nazi-rally-madison-square-garden-1939/
Under the Nazi Lebensborn Program approx. 8,000 children were born in Germany and near 12,000 in Viking Norway as part of the selective breeding effort formed by Heinrich Himmler to encourage women of "pure blood" to only bear blonde, blue-eyed offspring.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/nazi-program-to-breed-master-race-lebensborn-children-break-silence-a-446978.html
Here is where white-supremacists get their bull•••• myth.
"Whiteness" in the U.S. is a mild form of in-breeding.
Imagine the miles deep "The Grand Canyon of Oklahoma" extending from Oklahoma City north into Kansas following the basic contour of the Vamoosa Ada bedrock aquifer which rampant FRACKING has contaminated.
http://www.owrb.ok.gov/maps/pdf_map/GW%20Major%20Aquifers.pdf
To the Trumpest-minded wealthy, someone who is not of their economic status is seen as someone who is taking something away from them, like an unwanted dependent.
Now that hateful wealth has infiltrated and taken over all three Branches of Government.
Expect some impromptu culling to begin.
The elderly and non-white persons must be especially wary.
Trump maladministration "foreign policy" is under the influence of Netanyahu and the Saudi as filtered by Kirchner, Putin by blackmail and the pure hatred emanating from his well-heeled "base" and their plentiful dupes, the mean-spirited Christian Nationalists.
Puerto Rico, Las Vegas and California are living reminders not to mess with Trump and his people.
'We Don't Worship Government, We Worship God'
Trump means to separate Constitution and our laws from the Bible with that statement.
This aging President sees the U.S. as a "Corporate Nation" according to his press secretary. WRONG! The U.S. is a Constitutional Federal Republic and always has been, even before Obama.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/politics/sarah-sanders-trump-taxes/index.html
POTUS also sees the police and uniformed military as one, all under his command.
Donald J.Trump is clearly hallucinating and MUST BE REMOVED! The onset of an aging disease of the mind is a scary thing especially when our President is the one afflicted.
EVERY SYMPTOM IS THERE!
Donald J. Trump desperately NEEDS fame, constant adulation and attention. Trump wants to be more famous and historical than Jesus or Hitler.
Trump is living proof that to be a "knowing madman" knowing a lot is optional.
Rex Tillerson was on his way out at EXXON when he grabbed the brass ring offered by Trump. His actual job as Secretary of Trump is to maintain and expand control over fossil-fuel sources and distribution systems OUTSIDE of the U.S.
The Trump/Tillerson tiff is merely Punch and Judy for the media 2017. Trump is Judy with his dainty hands and thin skin. Tillerson is Mr. Punch and Jeff Sessions is The Baby.
The paranoid Russian intelligence asset Donald J. Trump is beyond schizophrenic. He actually has two separate brains - one in his bald head that makes angry 3AM tweets and picks fights with random persons. The other brain is being carried around by the constantly disambiguating Wayne LaPierre disciple, Stephen Miller.
FACT - Combining two(2) half-wits does not make a full wit.
Senator Corker has it right. WE ARE ALL IN GREAT DANGER! Trump is far too bat•••• crazy to be our President.