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Category Archives: DHS
Darn them ‘vituperative’ critics of Lord Dampnut, The 4th Estate is ‘shocked’ at the incivility
By ann summers The contagion of incivility: President Trump says undocumented immigrants want to “infest” the United States. His critics respond with vituperative words of their own. https://t.co/S6CgmiuhdQ — NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) June 21, 2018 Mr. Trump’s coarse discourse … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Democracy, DHS, DOJ, Government, History, Law Enforcement, Media, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Society, Uncategorized
Tagged Journalism, language, Media, NY Times, Politics
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Stephen Miller: demography sans democracy
By ann summers Stephen “dont call me Space Cowboy Maurice” Miller has shrewdly used his time to feather his own WH nest by controlling immigration policy while his noisier counterpart Steve Bannon was fighting with everybody else. One can … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Anti-Semitism, Celebrity, Civil Rights, DHS, DOJ, Germany, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Holocaust, Immigrants, Immigration, Media, Nazis, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, Society, Uncategorized, United States, World War II
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Holocaust, Media, Nazis, Politics, stephen miller, Steve Bannon
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What self-respecting Liberal talks about “zesty Internet memes”
By ann summers Coordination of a resistance must include being aware of how counter-resistance forces can manipulate and divide us, particularly in social media. America’s Number One Russophile, Lord Dampnut, has made us acutely aware of how clumsy such misdirection … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Big Brother, Celebrity, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Conspiracy, DHS, Fascism, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Police, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Progressives, Propaganda, Racism, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, War on "Terror"
Tagged Charlottesville, Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, KKK, Maryland, Media, Politics, trump
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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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Customs and Border Patrol Warrantless Searches
Dating back to at least 2009, Customs and Border Patrol has detained pilots of general aviation aircraft and have conducted warrantless searches. In a typical scenario, after a routine flight, you land at your destination, taxi to the ramp—and then … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation, Big Brother, Constitutional Law, DHS, Nazis, Terrorism, United States, War on "Terror", War on Drugs
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Police infiltrated by RWNJs … It’s worse when we discover the paranoids are really after us
By ann summers What has long been accused and now manifest in a variety of agencies, incidents, and even specific actions comes to light in a classified FBI study obtained by The Intercept. President Trump has inherited a vast … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Conspiracy, Corruption, Crime, DHS, Fascism, FBI, Government, Immigrants, Immigration, Jurisprudence, Law Enforcement, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Police, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Prison, Propaganda, Racism, Society, State Government, States, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, United States, War on "Terror"
Tagged bannon, Conspiracy Theories, FBI, Media, Politics, Terrorism, Terrorists, trump, White Supremacists
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Full Circle
A brief history of all the strange, sometimes absurd and often contradictory comments Donald Trump has made about the most controversial hacker attack in recent memory: June 15, 2016: A day after the Washington Post breaks the news that the … Continue reading
Posted in CIA, Denialism, DHS, FBI, Homeland Security, Russia, United States
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Trump’s unpresidented overreaction after a next terrorist attack
Trump says he doesn’t need daily intelligence briefing because he’s “smart” https://t.co/x6EsLJeElR pic.twitter.com/xiFymeNJRu — HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) December 18, 2016 By ann summers Lacking any precedent for appreciating intelligence and relying on negotiating based on posture and force, Trump will for … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, China, CIA, DHS, FBI, Foreign Policy, Government, History, Homeland Security, Iran, Iraq, Law Enforcement, Media, Police, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Russia, Syria, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, United States, War on "Terror"
Tagged Donald Trump, game theory, intelligence, Media, MI6, Terrorism
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Public Safety in the post-Pulse era
By ann summers Orlando’s horrific domestic extremist attack demonstrates that with the constant, cyclical negation of private and public rights there cannot be win-win solutions in a modern democracy that has foundationally resisted the notion of a theocratic state. An … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, 9-11, Afghanistan, Civil Liberties, Crime, DHS, Equal Rights, FBI, Florida, Government, Heroism, Homeland Security, Homosexual Rights, Immigrants, Jurisprudence, Law Enforcement, Media, Murder, News, Police, Racism, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized
Tagged Cliven Bundy, Guns, Law Enforcement, Malheur Wildlife Refuge, police, Terrorism
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