LLorenzoadded this to What's Up With The USA?Liberal View The Intellectual Origins of the Trump Presidency and the Construction of Contemporary American Politicscounterpunch.org - David Schultz It is foolish to think that Trumpism and Trumpistas are merely a product of personality. To believe that is to assume that Donald Trump is sui …
LLorenzoadded this to Trump Is NutsLiterature Fact check: Trump's Orlando rally featured more than 15 false claims over 76 minutesCNN - By Daniel Dale, CNNWashington (CNN) — President Donald Trump kicked off his formal reelection campaign Tuesday night with a rally in Orlando. His 76-minute speech featured more than 15 false statements, many of them ones
LLorenzoadded this to Trump Is NutsPlay buttonDonald Trump Jr Trump sets stage for 2020 fight with false claims and recycled attacksGuardian US - David Smith in OrlandoVoters heard nothing new tonight. It’s been the same thing for the past two and a half years. One broken promise after another Daniel Wessel Donald Trump has set the stage for the nastiest US presidential
LLorenzoadded this to Our WorldMiddle East Khashoggi killing: 'Credible evidence' linking MBS to murder - UNAl JazeeraSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated over killing of journalist Khashoggi, UN expert concludes. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated over the killing dissident
LLorenzoadded this to Trump Is NutsTrump Tower The Shadow Cabinet: How a Group of Powerful Business Leaders Drove Trump’s AgendaRolling Stone - Andy Kroll It could have been an episode of The Apprentice. On a summer day in 2016, a group of businessmen and women descended on Trump Tower in Manhattan. They …
LLorenzoadded this to Fascist AmericaLiberal View American Inequality Creates the Fascism We Fight Againsttruthdig.com - Lee Camp See if you can answer the following if / then statement without the help of a calculator, tape measure or quaaludes: I assume everybody remembers “if …
LLorenzoadded this to Trump Is NutsU.S. House of Representatives Critics Lament as 126 House Democrats Join Forces With GOP to Handcommondreams.org Privacy advocates and civil liberties defenders are expressing outrage after the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday night …
LLorenzoadded this to Our WorldCanadian News Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predictedThe Guardian - ReutersPermafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than
LLorenzoadded this to What's Up With The USA?Donald Trump Jr Trump Wasn’t the Only Candidate to Test Our Campaign Lawstruthdig.com - Bill Blum By now, anyone who pays the slightest attention to politics knows that Donald Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an Oval Office interview last …
LLorenzoadded this to Trump Is NutsIran'If This Is True, They Are Even Bigger Lunatics Than We Realized': UN Officials Reportedly Believe Trump Planning 'Massive'commondreams.org As the Trump administration prepares to deploy 1,000 additional troops to the Middle East in a move critics warned will heighten the possibility of …
LLorenzoadded this to Psychedelic SalonNews Beijing says US legalization of marijuana is a 'threat to China'CNN - By Yong Xiong and Ben Westcott, CNNBeijing (CNN) — Beijing's leading drug enforcement body has blamed the legalization of marijuana in Canada and parts of the United States for a spike in the amount of drugs smuggled into the country, it
LLorenzoadded this to Human MadnessFlorida Florida passes law protecting Israel from criticismelectronicintifada.net - Nora Barrows-Friedman Democratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker states his support of far-right Republican bill to crush BDS activism in US states.
LLorenzoadded this to Psychedelic Salon Microgram, the DEA’s Deleted Newsletter & Journal – AltGov 2altgov2.org - by Russ Kick · Published · Updated November 27, 2018 Short version: During the summer, the Drug Enforcement Administration pulled down all issues of Microgram Bulletin, its monthly periodical aimed at …
LLorenzoadded this to Our WorldPorpoises Canada passes bill outlawing captivity of dolphins, whales, porpoisesorcasissues.com - Lin McNulty — from Washington Post — Canada has banned the practice of keeping dolphins, whales and porpoises in captivity after a long-fought-for piece of …
LLorenzoadded this to Trump Is NutsPolitics The 31 most stunning lines from Donald Trump's impromptu press conferenceCNN - Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large(CNN) — Before heading to Iowa on Tuesday, President Donald Trump stopped to take questions -- LOTS of them -- from the press corps outside the White House. In his now-characteristic fashion, Trump prowled
LLorenzoadded this to What's Up With The USA?Liberal View 'This Is Sick': Horror as Trump Administration Plans to Detain Migrant Children at Former Japanese Internment Campcommondreams.org Lending even greater significance to the parallels commentators and historians have drawn between U.S. migrant detention centers and concentration …
LLorenzoadded this to What's Up With The USA?Business The for-profit prison boom has followed the war on drugs in lockstep over the last 40 yearsAxios - Michael Sykes For-profit prison companies boomed alongside the war on drugs, which led to a 171% increase in drug arrests between 1980 and 2016. By the numbers: …
LLorenzoadded this to What's Up With The USA?U.S. Politics Private companies are making money off the prison system in every way imaginableAxios - Stef W. Kight, A handful of American businesses have their fingers in almost every aspect of prison life, raking in billions of dollars every year for products and …
LLorenzoadded this to What's Up With The USA?Business Private prisons have ballooned into a $5 billion industry and have thrived under TrumpAxios - Erica Pandey Since the first private prison opened in 1984 in Tennessee, for-profit incarceration has ballooned into a $5 billion industry. In 2017, 121,420 …
LLorenzoadded this to What's Up With The USA?John KellyWarren and Jayapal Launch Probe into 'Rapid, Cynical, and Unethical' Profiteering Off Trump Child Detention Policy by Formercommondreams.org Two Democratic lawmakers on Thursday morning launched an investigation into a former top Trump administration official who is profiting off the White …
LLorenzoadded this to What's Up With The USA?U.S. Politics Trump's empty Cabinet positions have exceeded any recent president, and it's not even closeAxios - Andrew Witherspoon No president in recent history has started their tenure with as many extended Cabinet vacancies as President Trump. Why it matters: Trump has been …
LLorenzoadded this to Our WorldAlberta Huge fires in Alberta force evacuations, turn the sky an eerie orangeAxios - Andrew Freedman It's only the end of May, yet already about 1 million acres of forest have gone up in flames across Alberta, Canada. Why it matters: The wildfires …
LLorenzoadded this to What's Up With The USA?Measles Chart: Measles outbreak this year has been worst of the centuryAxios As of June 13, the U.S. has recorded 1,044 cases in 28 states this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday — the highest …
LLorenzoadded this to Our WorldNews (U.S.) Earth's carbon dioxide has jumped to the highest level in human historyAxios - Andrew Freedman The monthly peak amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere in 2019 jumped by a near-record amount to reach 414.8 parts per million (ppm) in …
LLorenzoadded this to Trump Is NutsHope Hicks White House blocks Hope Hicks, Annie Donaldson from complying with House subpoenasAxios - Zachary Basu The White House has instructed former communications director Hope Hicks and former deputy counsel Annie Donaldson not to turn over documents related …
LLorenzoadded this to What's Up With The USA?Liberal View Chomsky and Herman's Propaganda Model Foretells a Weaponized...truthout.org - Merula Furtado The personal is now public. Consider Facebook. As the global leader in platforming interpersonal interactions with public discourse across …
LLorenzoadded this to Our WorldLiberal View Arctic Is Thawing So Fast Scientists Are Losing Their Measuring...truthout.org - Merula Furtado We’ve never experienced anything like this: We are living with the full knowledge of our collapsing biosphere and watching huge portions of it …
LLorenzoadded this to Trump Is Nuts Trump concedes border wall construction is replacement and 'pure renovation'POLITICO - By CAITLIN OPRYSKOPresident Donald Trump pushed back Wednesday against “haters” who say he is making little headway on his signature campaign promise of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, though he admitted much
LLorenzoadded this to Trump Is Nuts The President* Has Done Too Many Things, and Too Many People Know About ThemEsquire - By Charles P. Pierce"They did too many things. Too many people know about it. There is no way to keep it quiet. The time is going to come when impeachment is going to hit this Congress and we better be ready for it." —House
LLorenzoadded this to What's Up With The USA?Oysters Chefs Are Revealing Their Red Flags You Should Look Out For In Restaurants And It's Mildly HorrifyingBuzzFeed - Stephen LaConte "If a restaurant has a HUGE menu...it's all frozen."
