So I guess there are downsides after all to letting Russia handle our Foreign Policy. Who knew?
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
So I guess there are downsides after all to letting Russia handle our Foreign Policy. Who knew?
Well, no, NYtimes was one of the first in line to sling shit at Hillary, including cut-and-paste of the "Clinton Cash" hit job.
Following Drudge is part of their game - they know what sells. Women try too hard, men are naturals.
#TakeAKneeToTheGroin redux. All good fun till someone puts an eye out - or maybe that was the point? But according to the police, they own these streets. And there I thought it was the troops.
I was oddly thinking about this earlier today - by economic theory, competition should drive margins down to 0, so there's likely little money to pay good salaries either. The only profits are from monosopies, companies able to rig the system, and there aren't so many.
LAST MONTH, A white Georgia Republican state representative — in the heat of a Facebook argument with a black former colleague — warned her that she may face a violent backlash if she continues her crusade to remove monuments to the Confederacy.
It's not just that the crisis will make it harder for the island to rebuild. In addition the austerity imposed on the island 1) by virtue of its debts to Wall Street and 2) in 2016's bipartisan recovery bill - Promesa - increased the island's vulnerability to catastrophic storms like Irma and Maria.
By Max Greenwood @ TheHill.com, Sept. 26
The Department of Homeland Security has moved to collect social media information on all immigrants, including permanent residents and naturalized citizens.
A new rule published in the Federal Register last week calls to include "social media handles and aliases, associated identifiable information and search results" in the department's immigrant files.
BuzzFeed News first reported the new rule on Monday. It is set to go into effect on Oct. 18 after a public comment period [....]
By Patrick Strictland @ AlJazeera.com, 9 hrs. ago.
Swedish anti-racist politicians, watchdog groups and Jewish organisations have expressed anger as self-professed National Socialists prepare for a rally slated to take place on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur in the country's second-largest city.
The Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), which anti-racist organisations describe as neo-Nazis, is holding a demonstration on September 30 in Gothenburg, which is located on Sweden's western coast.
They have dubbed the event "Revolt against the traitors". The event will be a rally against "the politicians in the Swedish parliament as well as the European Parliament" who "have flung our nation's borders wide open to an unprecedented invasion", the NRM said in a statement, referring to the country's acceptance of refugees and migrants fleeing war and economic devastation in recent years. The statement added, "Today's politicians and journalists are nothing short of robbers and traitors!" [.....]
Turkey's president has said Iraqi Kurds could go hungry as a result of the punitive measures he is considering after Monday's independence referendum.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the head of the Kurdistan Regional Government of "treachery" for pressing ahead with the vote despite international opposition. Massoud Barzani should now "give up on this adventure", he said.
Iraq's prime minister meanwhile gave the KRG three days to hand over control of its airports or face an air embargo.Haider al-Abadi also demanded that all border posts with Turkey, Syria and Iran be placed under Baghdad's supervision, according to state television [.....]
By Marc Tracey & Victor Mather @ NYTimes.com, Sept. 26
Ten people involved at the highest levels of college basketball, including four assistant coaches and a senior executive at Adidas, are facing federal bribery, fraud and other corruption charges, prosecutors in Manhattan announced on Tuesday.
The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York said in a statement that since 2015 the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors have been investigating “the criminal influence of money on coaches and student-athletes who participate in intercollegiate basketball governed by the N.C.A.A.”
The investigation has revealed “numerous instances” of bribes paid by athlete advisers, and others, to assistant coaches and sometimes directly to student-athletes at N.C.A.A. Division I universities, the complaint said. The bribes were designed to get commitments from college stars to work with specific agents and companies after they turned professional, or to convince coveted high schoolers to attend specific universities.
“The picture painted by the charges is not a pretty one,” Joon H. Kim , the acting United States attorney for the Southern District, said [....]
By Ben Hubbard @ NYTimes.com, 5 min. ago
Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it would allow women to drive, ending a longstanding policy that has become a global symbol of the repression of women in the ultraconservative kingdom.
The change, which will take effect in June of next year, was announced on state television and in a simultaneous media event in Washington. The decision highlights the damage that the no-driving policy has done to the kingdom’s international reputation and its hopes for a public relations benefit from the reform [....]
The rush to assign responsibility for Trumpcare’s failure is taking place before it even occurs.
By Lachlan Markay, Asawin Sebsaeng, Gideon Resnick & Sam Stein @ thedailybeast.com, 7:45 pm
The Trump White House is gearing up to lay blame for a series of likely failures this week squarely at the feet of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), according to sources in and outside of the administration.
On Tuesday, Republican primary voters in Alabama are poised to reject Trump and McConnell’s preferred pick for the seat, Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL). The next day, a Republican-authored last-ditch attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare is almost certain to go down to defeat, if it comes to a vote at all.
The dual setbacks could have profound ramifications throughout the party, forcing it to reckon with a Republican electorate deeply upset with its inability to move an agenda and its own inability to get that agenda moved [....]
By Associated Press via Washington Post, Sept. 25
OTTAWA, Ontario — Chelsea Manning said Monday she was denied entry into Canada because of her criminal record in the United States.
The transgender woman was known as Bradley Manning when she was convicted in 2013 of leaking a trove of classified documents. She was released after serving seven years of a 35-year sentence, which was commuted by President Barack Obama in his final days in office.
On Monday, she posted a letter from Canadian immigration officials to her Twitter account that said she was not admitted because she was convicted of offenses deemed equivalent to treason in Canada. She had tried to cross at the official border office at Lacolle, Quebec, on Friday.
Manning said she would challenge the decision [....]
By Alex Johnson @ NBC News, Sept. 25, 7:31 pm
Twitter said Monday that President Donald Trump's weekend tweet warning that North Korea "won't be around much longer!" didn't violate its terms of service, which it said it would clarify publicly at a later date.
Trump tweeted Sunday that if North Korea's foreign minister "echoed thoughts of Little Rocket Man [Trump's nickname for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un] they won't be around much longer!" [....}
In a thread on its Public Policy page, the company said it had been asked why it didn't take down Trump's tweet in light of its rule reading: "You may not make threats of violence or promote violence, including threatening or promoting terrorism."
"We hold all accounts to the same rules, and consider a number of factors when assessing whether Tweets violate our Rules," the company said. "Among the considerations is 'newsworthiness' and whether a Tweet is of public interest."
It acknowledged, however, that those guidelines were internal and that "we need to do better" on being transparent about its rules.
"We'll soon update our public-facing rules to reflect it," Twitter said [....]
Has copies of all Twitter's tweets on this, should be interesting....
To me, John McCain epitomizes the complexity in most of us. Neither all bad nor all good, he appears to be a fundamentally decent man. We on the left need to remember that those who disagree with us are not invariably corrupt amoral souls or unregenerate racists and sexists. Yes some are. But assuming the worst in individuals with different political views is not only unfair but also likely makes it tougher for us to achieve laudable goals. http://www.salon.com/2017/09/25/john-mccain-says-his-cancer-prognosis-is...
My grandpa is a 97 year-old WWII vet & Missouri farmer who wanted to join w/ those who #TakeaKnee "those kids have every right to protest."...He’s an amazing man always on the side of justice...And his thoughts on Trump? Well, he’s “garbage-mouthed.”
Current headline story @ Politico.com, by Josh Dawsey, 3:34 pm
The senior adviser set up the account after the election. Other West Wing officials have also used private email accounts for official business.
Lock 'im up?