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Category Archives: Crime
What the UN Red Hand Day is All About
There were all kinds of stories told about the war that made it sound as if it was happening in a faraway and different land. It wasn’t until refugees started passing through our town that we began to see that … Continue reading
Posted in Child Abuse, War
Tagged A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah, Red Hand Day, United Nations, What the UN Red Hand Day is All About
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Trump’s total commitment to whole cloth
By ann summers Trump continues to claim that the media covered protests of his Pittsburgh visit as riots. Nobody covered the protests as riots. The reality is that Trump deliberately tried to incite violence in Pittsburgh on Tuesday by forcing … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Free Speech, History, Hypocrisy, Judaism, Media, Murder, News, Pennsylvania, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Society, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged antisemitism, Domestic Terrorists, Donald Trump, Journalism, Politics, Religion
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“…one of the worst cover-ups in the history of cover-ups” This is a job for Sideshow Ed Whelan!
By ann summers Trump knows from cover-ups. Because “fudged” interviews, “enemies of the state”, and SCOTUS nominees, Sideshow Ed should have run this assassination. “They had a very bad original concept. It was carried out poorly and the cover-up … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Government, History, Media, Murder, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, Journalism, khashoggi, Politics
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J’Accuse Chinese food – an hour later you want to chokehold someone again
By ann summers Disinformation is getting a bad name these days, but then again isn’t bad naming what it’s about? Saudi Arabia’s cascade of excuses for killing Jamal Khashoggi hinge on not making it seem like an official act, but … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrity, Crime, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Media, Murder, News, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Saudi Arabia, Society, Turkey, Uncategorized
Tagged jamal Khashoggi, Journalism, News Media, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Turkey
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“Let’s hope to God we don’t have a crisis” … too late
By ann summers High Holy Days, Batman. 9/11 is the release day for Bob Woodward’s book, Fear and the Trump regime is scrambling. It now seems more obvious the anonymous Op-Ed in the NY Times was designed to offset Woodward’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Celebrity, Government, History, Media, Political Science, Politics, SCOTUS, Society, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Bob Woodward, Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, Journalism, Media
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Insane Clown posse comitatus and #MOAR Trump gathering nothing
By ann summers This headline should read: “Americans who dress up as clowns outnumber clowns who dress up as Americans” https://t.co/OkS4nopaHM â Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) September 17, 2017 Martha Stewart is cute when she plays the ex-con gangsta meme, but … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Crime, Fascism, FBI, Free Speech, Government, History, Media, Music, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Society
Tagged Donald Trump, Media, Music, Politics
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Today in Heightened Contradictions … McMaster bait
By ann summers The national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, has removed three NSC aides loyal to Trump aide Steve Bannon in the last three weeks. Bannon allies inside and outside the administration have fired back, starting rumors that McMaster is … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Celebrity, Congress, Conspiracy, Countries, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Government, Government Propaganda, Holocaust, Immigrants, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Propaganda, Russia, Society, Treason, Uncategorized, United States, War on "Terror"
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, Media, Politics, stephen miller, trumprussia
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Hacking the Vote: Part II
I recently wrote about how voting machines could be hacked. There is a second way the vote can be hacked with no one finding out, if cleverly done. Today, the web site Mother Jones published an article that someone is … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Crime, information Technology
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President Bait and Vice President Switch
By ann summers we may be seeing the rise of a particular strategy on the right—sometimes gripping part of the GOP, and sometimes all of it—that can be traced back to that noted conservative Vladimir Lenin. I speak of “heightening … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Congress, Conspiracy, Constitutional Law, Corruption, Courts, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Jurisprudence, Media, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Russia, Society, Treason, United States
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, coup d'etat, Donald Trump, elections, History, Media, Politics, trumprussia
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Day 31 of Trump’s war against ISIS … Twenty-Twenty … Fore!
By ann summers Trump surviving Kremlingate until 2020 remains a possibility, even as he obstructs justice, lies, and demonstrates either incompetence or malevolence. And then there’s all that golfing against ISIS. If he sacrifices enough underlings (and the American Experiment … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, CIA, Congress, Countries, Crime, DHS, DOJ, Foreign Policy, Government, History, Jurisprudence, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Russia, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, golf, Politics, Religion, trumprussia
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