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Category Archives: Corruption
Ghosts of GOP scandals past … and the inevitable misdirections
By ann summers They want us to believe LTG Flynn is the whole story. He’s surely not. Hearings are needed. â Jason Kander (@JasonKander) February 14, 2017 For weeks, POTUS allowed total access to American intel for a man he … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Canada, Celebrity, Corruption, Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, Government Propaganda, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidents, Propaganda, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, United States, Venezuela, War on "Terror", War on Drugs, Women's Rights
Tagged Canada, Conspiracy Theories, disinformation, Donald Trump, flynn, Ivanka, Media, Politics, Russia, strategy of tension, Venezuela, Women's Rights
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Vive l’impeachment… Steve Bannon is Batman villain Lobster Thermidor
By ann summers “Another perspective of Danton emerges from the work of Lamartine, who called Danton a man “devoid of honor, principles, and morality” who found only excitement and a chance for distinction during the French Revolution. He was merely … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, alternative facts, Celebrity, Congress, Corruption, Government, History, Immigrants, Immigration, Jurisprudence, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Racism, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, United States, War on "Terror", Women's Rights
Tagged bannon, Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, impeachment, Media, Politics
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Lifting FSB sanction isn’t extortion if you pay up … in Russia, Rose Mary Woods you for 18 minutes
By ann summers Sanctions against FSB lifted …why? And why did the audio recording get shut off. YouTube Video Note to WH janitors: don’t touch sock I was holding during phone call w/ #Putin#PutinsPuppet #MakeRussiaGreatAgain#westandunited â TinyHandsPOTUS (@jestDonaldTrump) January … Continue reading
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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a Nixon for the Milennials … when will TrUmp resign to focus on his business interests
By ann summers Miss Arizona in 2001, said she was subjected to Trump’s voyeurism.www.google.com/… One doesn’t need Bebe Rebozo or Berlusconi’s Bunga-Bunga parties to believe that TrUmp is, among many things, an archetypal opto-phallocrat — voyeurism and power gets him … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Celebrity, Corruption, Media, Political Science, Politics, Richard Nixon, Russia, Terrorism, Treason, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, United States, War on "Terror"
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, Journalism, nixon, Politics
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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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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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Goodbye Person of Interest, gone but forever prescient
Despite appearances, I am not that avid a Person of Interest fan, I just like the strength/flaws of Shaw/Root…a symphony. The program was basically the problem of machine intelligence and the role of human ethics in its construction with a … Continue reading
Posted in 9-11, Big Brother, Capitalism, Celebrity, CIA, Civil Liberties, Communism, Conspiracy, Corruption, Crime, Democracy, Equal Rights, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Free Speech, Genocide, Government, Government Propaganda, Heroism, Imperialism, information Technology, Internet, Justice, Law Enforcement, Libertarians, Media, Nanotechnology, Neoliberals, New York, NSA, Oligarchy, Police, Political Science, Politics, Progressives, Propaganda, Science, Socialism, Society, Technology, Television, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, US Military
Tagged CBS, jonathan Nolan, Media, person of interest, television, television series
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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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