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Category Archives: Financial
#TrumpRussia … President Outliar … Watergate wasn’t performed by the KGB
By ann summers There is so much there, there … so much still not known, but what is known are money-laundering, data-laundering, and more recently verification of intention to disrupt the 2016 election with a preference for Trump. And then … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Congress, Crime, DOJ, FBI, Financial, Government, History, Media, NSA, Organized Crime, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Russia, Society, Treason, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, Mainstream Media, Media, News Media, Politics, Russia, trumprussia, Ukraine
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#TrumpRussia … Ron Wyden drops a hold, Treasury gives up documents, and Why was money connected to Putin pouring into Trump projects?
By ann summers Trump-Soho financial documents will now become available to the Senate Intelligence committee, as a Tim O’Brien article in Bloomberg News describes the increased attention of the Special Counsel…following the money. Robert Mueller is examining whether President Donald Trump obstructed … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Conspiracy, Corruption, Courts, Crime, Criminal Law, DOJ, FBI, Financial, Fraud, Government, History, Jurisprudence, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Russia, Society, United States
Tagged Congress, Donald Trump, Media, Politics, Senate, Special Counsel, Treasury, trumprussia
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The RNC has new #TrumpRussia talking points for a developing obstruction investigation
By ann summers New GOP talking points have emerged to address news of obstruction in the continuing saga of #TrumpRussia’s sub-drama of executive branch corruption. Like the GOP health plan being drafted in secret, Trump never expected to win, much … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Congress, Courts, Crime, DOJ, FBI, Financial, Foreign Policy, Government, History, Jurisprudence, Media, NSA, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Russia, Society, United States
Tagged cyberattacks, Donald Trump, hacking, Media, NSA, phishing, Politics, sanctions, spearphishing, trumprussia
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All about the Trump lawyering up, even as disinformation continues
“The collapse of this administration may or may not be swift. But it is inevitable.” (Douglas Blackmon at Bill Moyers.com:) By ann summers Q: How does every Russian joke start? A: By looking over your shoulder… The biggest scandal in … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Congress, Conspiracy, Corruption, Courts, Crime, DOJ, FBI, Federal Courts, Financial, Government, Jurisprudence, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Propaganda, Russia, Society, United States
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, Media, Politics, trumprussia, White House
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#TrumpRussia … Trump now hoisted by his own Braggadocio … “Watch them start to choke like dogs”
By ann summers The Führereid loyalty oath redux: First Trump’s staff, then government officials, then the military… 1930s pump priming Like the urban legend of the choking dog with the thief’s fingers lodged in his throat, God-Emperor Trump has … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Celebrity, CIA, Congress, Conspiracy, Constitutional Law, Corruption, Crime, DNC, DOJ, FBI, Financial, Government, History, Jurisprudence, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Propaganda, RNC, Russia, Society, United States
Tagged comey, Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, FBI, James Comey, Media, Politics, trump, trumprussia, White House
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Trump devolves the US into profit-taking chaos, putting the “la(t)te” into late capitalism
By ann summers Whether it’s the amusing “deconstruction of the administrative state” or “reinstating Glass-Steagall” the realities of late capitalism are represented in Trump’s self-dealing using some time-honored tools of usury and the manipulations of money, value and data emblematic … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Austerity, Capitalism, Conspiracy, Economic Policy, Economics, Financial, Government, History, Investing, Media, Political Science, Politics, Stock Market, United States, Wall Street
Tagged Banksters, Congress, coup d'etat, Donald Trump, Glass-Steagall, GOP, late capitalism, Media, Politics, trumprussia
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Trump’s new clothes … Larry Kudlow: “Wealthy folks have no need to steal or engage in corruption.”
“…Better than smoothly. Confidently. More than confidently. Transcendently” By ann summers If we ate the rich we’d soon become vegetarians … because Malthus. Donald Trump’s government has not yet taken power, but its epitaph may have already been … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Capitalism, Celebrity, Economic Policy, Economics, Financial, George H.W. Bush, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Internet, Media, Neoliberals, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Propaganda, Ronald Reagan, Sociology, Uncategorized, United States, Wall Street
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Crony Capitalism, Donald Trump, hayek, Journalism, kleptocracy, kudlow, Media, neoliberalism, Politics, Trickle Down Economics
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Tin-Pot Chrome: Trump’s tweets as insider trading under 2012 STOCK act … SAD!
By ann summers PEOTUS Trump is now no better than CNBC/FBN/Bloomberg stock touts, whose ranks have given us the ‘bagger party as well as Cramer-clones. High-frequency Trading or just high. Darn that asymmetric information. How many crony millionaires could be created … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Capitalism, Celebrity, Corruption, Economic Policy, Economics, Financial, Government, History, information Technology, Investing, Jurisprudence, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Propaganda, SEC, Society, Stock Market, Uncategorized, United States, Wall Street
Tagged 2012 STOCK Act, Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, insider trading, Jim Cramer, Journalism, Media, tweets
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Orange Gasbag’s soft despotism: Emoluments Clause & Mrs. Claus
By ann summers Trump on his businesses/conflict q’s: “The law’s totally on my side, the president can’t have a conflict of interest.” â Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016 So apparently Executive Privilege is simply a version of Absolute … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Capitalism, Celebrity, Constitutional Law, Corruption, Financial, Government, History, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Society, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, Journalism, Politics, soft despotism, spoils system, U.S. Constitution
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A historic moment revealing a Pyhrric defeat for Trump
By ann summers Even as Trump tried to make canceling a Sanders-Trump debate this week in Caifornia into a positive meme (“I don’t debate second-place candidates”), he lost because his ditching a debate in the Iowa GOP primary using the … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Campaign Finance, Capitalism, Celebrity, CIA, Conservatives, Corruption, Economics, England, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Financial, Foreign Policy, Fraud, Government Propaganda, History, Imperialism, Islam, Law Enforcement, Libertarians, Media, Movies, Murder, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Oligarchy, Organized Crime, Political Science, Politics, Progressives, Racism, Society, Television, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, BBC, Bernie Sanders, California, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, primary election, Republicans
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