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Category Archives: Economics
Caterpillar Busted on Taxes
Forbes is reporting: Caterpillar Inc. is about as American as you can get, except that these days it’s not, having been partially shuffled off to Switzerland. But it still must deal with the IRS, and the IRS isn’t happy with the heavy … Continue reading
Posted in Breaking News, FBI, Illinois, IRS, Stock Market, United States
5 Comments
Moron unwinding the administrative state (of travel, among other things)
By ann summers “During the first week of the Muslim-ban, foreign business travel dropped by an astounding 185 million dollars. European flight searches for the United States have dropped by 11.6%, “ @powellnyt “I did not have sex with that wo…, communication … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, alternative facts, American History, Celebrity, Conspiracy, Economics, Fascists/Corporatists, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Immigrants, Libertarians, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Propaganda, Society, Terrorism, Uncategorized, United States, War on "Terror", War on Drugs
Tagged Media
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Bannonism is not quite the “deconstruction of the administrative state”
CPAC attendees trolled into waving Russia flags during Trump’s speech “I have so much power just in my voice. I keep saying the word and they’ll be bankrupt.” POTUS explaining his revenge against news outlets. — Rogue POTUS Staff … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Economics, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Government, Government Propaganda, Immigrants, Media, Organized Crime, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Propaganda, Society, United States
Tagged bannon, deconstruction, Donald Trump, Media, Politics
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Continuing Making Friends
Kathryns’ Report, an aviation web site, reported today that Emirates says flight was delayed after Delta Airlines refused them a spare part. As Faux News says, “We report, you decide.” DUBAI, Feb 9 Emirates has accused Delta Air Lines of … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation, Breaking News, Economics, Politics
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Ivanka’s Loser Dad, Lord Dampnut, will fail at most trade negotiations
By ann summers Not exactly “self-improving global culturalism” because nativist claptrap… and stealing migrant underpants Retweet and tell your friends to join the resistance. pic.twitter.com/m1qZG0Wceh â Rogue POTUS Staff (@RoguePOTUSStaff) February 8, 2017 GREEDO ALWAYS DRAWS FIRST because Lord … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Economic Policy, Economics, European Union, History, Immigrants, Immigration, inequality, Media, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, Society, Terrorism, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, United States, War on "Terror", World History
Tagged Brexit, Donald Trump, economy, Foreign Policy, international, Ivanka, Media, Politics, regulation, tariffs, trade, TTP
5 Comments
Soon … Lord Dampnut will be “…ensuring that Iran ‘crosses over the line’ “
By ann summers “Trump’s ban is, accordingly, a gift to them. It gives them (Iranian hardliners) an enemy once more. They can call Rouhani out as naive and point to America’s perfidiousness. Détente, they can crow, is a mistake. Indeed, … Continue reading
POTUS45* a useful idiot … полезные дураки (polezniye duraki)
By ann summers In political jargon, a useful idiot is a In the Russian language, the equivalent term “useful fools” (Russian: полезные дураки, tr. polezniye duraki) was already in use in 1941. It was mockingly used against Russian “nihilists” of … Continue reading
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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Twitter capitalism: a waterfall of cockroaches
By ann summers Wall of zombies in World War Z (2013) … The film stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who must travel the world to find a way to stop a zombie pandemic. … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Art, Economics, information Technology, Media, Philosophy, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Science, Silicon Valley, Society, Television, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, Journalism, Media, Politics, Ronald Reagan
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The present you don’t want to unwrap in front of your nuclear family because Trump is Vlad’s Stepford Wife
By ann summers Trump as Russian dupe… It’s not 1987, and state-sponsored terrorist is not an epitaph or an Xmas wish… This is how kleptocracy works and the GOP is complicit, even at the level of TV (b)romance. … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Conspiracy, Economics, Fascists/Corporatists, Government, History, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Russia, Society, Uncategorized, United States, US Military, War, World History
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, dugin, Journalism, Media, putin
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