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Larry Kudlow: CEA chair or Batman villain
By ann summers Trump ‘Mulling’ Larry Kudlow for CEA Chair https://t.co/Kahv2aWJsy â The Weekly Standard (@weeklystandard) December 16, 2016 It seems normalizing that someone unfit for POTUS would float the name of someone equally unqualified for chair of the … Continue reading
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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The story of 2017: first as tragedy, second as farce
By ann summers Narrativity gets to take it in the neck next year as the electoral shock wears off, only to continue the strategy of tension necessary for the current state of nonlinear political warfare. Donald Trump’s presidency is shaping … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, China, Countries, Economics, Fascists/Corporatists, Government, Investing, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Russia, Stock Market, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, United States, Wall Street, World History
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Journalism, Media, Politics
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Your home heating prices will go up because Giant Yam won’t bring back coal jobs
By ann summers Clueless natural Gasbag’s “post-truth” promises to cull votes with more coal jobs will now make your home heating prices go up with little effect on returning coal jobs to the US coal belt. But that was … Continue reading
Neoliberalism’s death rattle cult … it still moves, come and grab … its truth
By ann summers “We can’t be sure how many people really support Trump, Edsall reports, since there’s considerable evidence that they aren’t telling pollsters the truth. Voting for Trump, it appears, is something white people do in the shadows. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Austerity, Capitalism, Celebrity, Corruption, Economic Policy, Economics, History, Media, Neoliberals, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Donald Trump, Journalism, Media, neoliberalism, Politics
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raw Turkey and martial law’s disasters, natural & cultural
By ann summers Shock Doctrines in 2016 are at work in the current historical context and its appeals for “law and order” are more about shock and awe in their discourse, however constructed. Emergencies caused by natural or cultural events … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, 9-11, Austerity, Capitalism, Civil Liberties, Economics, Government, History, Jurisprudence, Media, Police, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Terrorism, Uncategorized
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Cliven Bundy, martial law, Officer Involved Shootings, Turkey
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all Trump has left is Islamophobia and Sinophobia in the swing-states
By ann summers tehDumpster fire that is the Trump campaign is now trolling the LIVs in swing states with the usual xenophobia and GOP talking points. Trump’s disinformation campaign could even favor TPP because HRC is against it. Recall … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Capitalism, China, Conservatives, Countries, Economic Policy, Economics, Foreign Policy, History, Investing, Labor Movement, Media, Neoliberals, News, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, States, Stock Market, Uncategorized
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, TPP
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Being on the right side of neoliberal Water
“Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb … Continue reading
Posted in Countries, Economics, Energy Policy, environment, European Union, France, Government, Immigrants, Immigration, Media, Neoliberals, Political Science, Politics, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, United States
Tagged Brexit, commoditfication, commodities, commons, EU, European Union, Public Policy, Water
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EU Disintegration and BREXIT: sanctimony & pseudoscience
“The EU’s disintegration is now running at full speed.” By ann summers Like Wile E. Coyote going off the Dover Cliffs, anti-immigrant discourse fervor and the MOE made the destruction of the UK Tory party inevitable but can Labour and … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Austerity, Countries, Democracy, Economic Policy, Economics, England, European Union, Foreign Policy, History, Immigrants, Media, Neoliberals, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Racism, Scotland, Society, Stock Market, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Brexit, Donald Trump, EU, European Union, Racism, Terrorism
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BREXIT: not that bad despite Trumpian resemblance
Brexit will take many years to complete and some legal experts are even suggesting that it cannot even be completed considering other matters like NATO. That it seems like a reaction against cheap labor migration amidst austerity makes it seem … Continue reading
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