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- whatthefunk10
- Huckster has no soul. Her lie tell is when she starts swaying her head like stevie wonderBonSeff
- perfectinv
- lololololben_
- Hehe love it!!robotron3k
- nbq0
When even FoxNews talks about this:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics…
Sarah Sanders accused of circulating 'doctored' video of Jim Acosta’s interaction with White House intern
- When Obama revoked FOX their credentials, all the other channels send petitions to change this back. FOX is doing noting now. Even this article. Its very vague.tank02
- I'm just surprised they even mentionned it!nbq
- Obama didn't revoke anyone's white house access, he kicked them off his campaign plane during the election.zarkonite
- BonSeff0
How is the stock market looking today, robo? Got any hot tips?
- I hear the posterboards and sharpies are going to be selling big in 2019. Invest in Michael's and Hobby Lobby!!!robotron3k
- why won't you admit that you know nothing about markets?monospaced
- "S&P 500 and Dow surge in best rally after midterm elections since 1982" the Trump Effect in full swing...robotron3k
- immediately after a blue wave took the house and the almost the senate in a single daymonospaced
- The "Trump Effect" even includes instances where Trump's party gets face fucked at the polls? TILmathinc
- and also after a mini crash, which means it's either, a) a result of a democratic win, b) a trump loss, or c) market correction. It's not a trump effect, idiotmonospaced
- hint: the answer is c)
because politics don't affect the market like thismonospaced - Oh yes mono you Dems are really on a roll, stand back everybody Trumps about to go down. This time it's fo realz!!! Lolrobotron3k
- Robo, what are you going to do to pay back the trillions of new debt? Let it all ride on red? In 8 years he'll turn the country into one of his casinos.ben_
- what the fuck are you talking about robo? I never said anything about trump going down. But to claim the dems didn't absolutely kill it this week is insane.monospaced
- Based on how triggered you are over how influential women are, I'd say they did a damn good job.monospaced
- That Republican debt is going to be with America for a century. That will do that party in one day.zarkonite
- Personally I'd never invest in stock markets. Unless id have real faith like a christian. Far too many ppl betting on the sucker. Yes can make money with********
- timing. but if you look at value. you see everything is inflated like a playstation on ebay at launch. It's only a false value, or timed value********
- of course if i wanted to make a quick buck i'd bet the gun stocks. always proves a win when douches attempt to break basic rule of law********
- You’re missing out. The stock market is a great way to make money. Without it I would probably not be buying a house or be confident in a comfy retirement.monospaced
- The way you describe that scenario only exposes your gross misunderstanding of how it works in the first place. Just admit you don’t know anything about it.monospaced
- zarkonite1
A basic analysis of the video proves it was re-edited. It was slowed down and then accelerated to make it look like a chopping motion.
- fake news!nbq
- https://twitter.com/…BonSeff
- he didn't assault her but he behaved like a dick and got banned. not news.Fax_Benson
- I watched the live video and at no point did he seem to be a dick, just being a journalist. But dealing with unprecedented levels of toddler-dictator behaviour.fadein11
- his job is to ask tough questions, which is what he was doing. no respectable leader would ever respond the way trump didmonospaced
- sorry Fax but I think this is big news cause you know they keep shouting "fake news" and then this comes in...********
- typically dictatorial from my point of view and it follows a pattern.********
- Faux Newsutopian
- Jim Accosted just set the example, look how Trump's treated in interviews now... https://youtu.be/tzJ…robotron3k
- Hugo Chávez used to this shit as well, denigrate the reporter and its TV network, proceed to not answer the question and spend 15 minutes in diatribe about...ernexbcn
- Trump's attack on the press is dangerous. Acosta getting banned for grandstanding and taking over other journalists isn't.Fax_Benson
- ...imperialismernexbcn
- the apex of stupidity and insecureness when u start a fight with the press.neverscared
- Well all of it is ridiculous, but at least you don't have to hear Jim Accosted voice for a while...robotron3k
- lol, robo, he's a senior correspondent ... his voice is heard regularly by many people regardless of trump's bitch-ass hissy fitmonospaced
- how can you even call yourself an American and support this kind of suppression of the press? you're a disgrace, to say the leastmonospaced
- Trump moved forward and Acosta got rid of the mic straight away. Alpha v Beta right their. Are you not entertained. enjoy the showDillinger
- If Trump had the spine to say he doesn't like the way Acosta talks to him and banned him then at least he'd have some integrity.zarkonite
- Trump is a total pussy.monospaced
- there's no suppression of the press. acosta can use all the words he wants to, whenever he wants too. he got spanked by a monkey is allGnash
- For trump it was definitely his was of suppressing cnn from White House coverage. Obviously Acosta still has a job. But the point I made stands. Strong.monospaced
- allthethings1
- cube is angry :)renderedred
- Pedestrian: https://www.youtube.…BonSeff
- But still, that was big of cube to voice his take. But you can't fuck with pedestrian and a big daddy kane styleBonSeff
- gonna have to find handcuffs that small first.neverscared
- robotron3k-10
- lowimpakt1
fucking LOL at trump's europe trip
Trump didn't visit the American cemetery at Belleau to pay respects to the war dead because it was raining.
and Le Monde newspaper also reported that in April trump met with the leaders of the Baltic states Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia and started talking about their supposed role in the Balkan war.
he's fucking married to someone from the Balkans and still doesn't know shit.
- Trump dodged being cannon fodder because he's a shagger. War is for tramps in his eyes. he'd probably put a helmet on and do that weird...PhanLo
- ...'Im a truck driver/soldier/pilot... who actually works for living' arm movement he does.PhanLo
- if obama had skipped Aisne-Marne memorial that's all fox would be talking about for the next few monthsGnash
- If we learned anything from the first world war it's that France can get very muddy in the rain. Best to stay indoors.Fax_Benson
- bainbridge-1
So is the caravan still a thing? Or is Fox News just going to move on now that the midterms are over?
- Still a thing.monospaced
- very much still a thing...
https://www.nytimes.…PonyBoy - ....it just can't be used to scare you into voting a particular way now that the midterms are over.see_thru
- ********1
- inv2
- pablo282
Trump+Putin=❤
- "He wants Putin to approve of him so badly, it's like a child seeking a parent's love.
...Bluejam - " ... Trump's body language is unmistakable after Putin gives him the thumbs up: Pure validation and satisfaction."Bluejam
- https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- Look at Macron's face, lolOBBTKN
- It's one mind numbing thing after another. I pray losing the House can take him out of the news a little...just a little, pleaseformed
- why was Macron skipped for the handshake?Krassy
- looks like the two thoughies are pretty hillarious to merkel.neverscared
- putinb the master politician walks in last ;)renderedred
- "He wants Putin to approve of him so badly, it's like a child seeking a parent's love.
- ********-4
- If You're Reading This It's Too Late********
- it was on my ballot last week, so dunno about thatttttttt********
- Did you say "last week"?********
- lolmonospaced
- this is going fwd... keeping the dream alive********
- i wouldnt expect you fucktards to understand********
- If You're Reading This It's Too Late
- BonSeff0
This is an interesting listen
- lowimpakt0
so what's up?
after a late night visit by Rupert Murdoch to Mitch McConnell at the Senate on November 8th
this tweet from Sandy Green @MamaGr3
Wow. Today:
- @FoxNews not tweeted 4 days after 200+ times/day
- @wikileaks not tweeted 4 days
- @DRUDGE deleted every tweet
- @MichaelCohen212 arrived in DC w/lawyer
- 8 of Mueller’s lawyers worked on fed holiday
- #orangeturd holed up in WH, no visit to Arlington Cem
What up?- fox say they are protesting against twitter because of tucker carlson but is that really it?lowimpakt
- isnt Fox on blackout in response to Tucker & family being harrassed?Bluejam
- ignore my question, fucking slow connection :-/Bluejam
- Felony Friday coming?BonSeff
- Don't ask me, I'm just waiting for Hillary 4.0robotron3k
- STOP: Mueller time.BusterBoy
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http://deepcitychronicles.com/20…
The Trade Dealer
By Raul DiegoNov 13, 2018Morbid Curiosity
P.T. Barnum could not have imagined a more salacious character to feature on his marquee posters. Donald Trump doesn’t even need make up; the orange skin, discoloration around the eyes and the bright yellow hair already give him a naturally clownish appearance. The act itself is grotesque. The elephant man, himself, would struggle to cause such revulsion. But, any apprehension by circus-goers, would fail to overcome the irresistible urge to see, once and for all, if the lion will eat the lion tamer.The 45th President of the United States is the greatest show on earth, and the mainstream media are cashing in day-in and day-out. The Don Lemons, the Rachel Maddows, the Sean Hannities and the Tucker Calrsons climb on their fiber-optic high horses nightly to deliver their inflammatory monologues and preside over faux-opposition panels while behind the big top, animals are whipped and starved in their cages. The business of empire continues unabated while the people are transfixed by the loudmouth on the pulpit. The real actions and persistent policies of the American government are completely ignored.
MAGA hats and border walls make for riveting campaign rallies in the poorly educatednooks and crannies of this nation. Promises to “bring back jobs” and restore America to shining beauty are nothing but empty rhetoric designed to maintain the pretense of a popular base; to keep the illusion of democracy alive and give the voices of political analysts that flavor of sincerity. Underneath the pomposity and vulgarity of the Piñata Don extravaganza, hides an increasingly worried contingent of powerful corporate interests trying to salvage a global investment trade regime, which has been slipping away over the last decade.
The Best Laid Plans
When the Berlin Wall came down in the late eighties, Western investment bankers, lawyers and assorted capitalist enterprises went to work on the world with a blowtorch and a pair of pliers. Decades of slogging through the slow, and – in their eyes – ineffective protocols of the Bern Convention and WIPO, spurred corporate American giants like Pfizer, IBM, Dupont among others to change the focus of world trade from goods and services to intellectual property rights, setting their sights on the ongoing GATT negotiations.They attacked the Uruguay round of talks, led by Pfizer CEO, Edmund Pratt, and managed to introduce IP into proceedings with the Basic Framework document. Though only a modest gain, it marked a significant victory for American multinationals, most of which relied heavily on investment in research and development to drive growth.
Out of the ashes of GATT, that drew to a close after Uruguay, emerged the WTO. What followed was a deluge of bilateral and multilateral trade deals largely benefiting Western corporations, and a tiny clique of lawyers, who cornered the market on writing, executing and arbitrating any disputes arising from these deals.
Hundreds of trade deals would be signed over the following ten to fifteen years. Riding the post-cold war propaganda wave of MTV, blue jeans and Michael Jordan, the U.S. hooked country after country on onerous agreements, which stipulated private companies could sue sovereign governments over internal legislations or other national developments, which might infringe on their investments and patent protection rackets. According to a study published in 2012 co-authored by Corporate Europe Observatory and the Transnational Institute, the number of investment arbitration cases ballooned from 38 to 450 between 1996 and 2011.
Over the last several years, many countries have either reneged on existing deals or have simply refused to renew their relationship with Western corporate entities. African nations extricated themselves from these agreements altogether, terminating existing ones and issuing a moratorium on signing new ones. Meanwhile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela withdrew from the World Banks’ body, that administers trade disputes, the ICSID. Even Australia, a fellow Western nation, decided it would no longer include investor-state dispute provisions in its trade agreements.
The legal fees and the punitive judgments arising from the lawsuits pursued by corporations against sovereign countries can threaten the vital social services of many developing countries. Cases like Plama Consortium vs Bulgaria and Fraport vs The Philippines highlight the risk these legal fights pose to the sued nations’ populations. In the first lawsuit, although Bulgaria was awarded US$7m in legal fees, it remained on the hook for US$6.25m – which could have covered the salaries of over 1,700 nurses during a healthcare crisis, which was affecting the country at the time. The Philippines, was forced to spend US$58m to defend against two cases involving the same plaintiff.
UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) found that legal and arbitration costs average US$8m. Adding insult to injury, “tribunals most frequently [require] parties to share tribunal and administrative costs equally and absorb their own legal fees”, which means that sovereign nations lose even when they win.
Coliseum Politics
This secret tug of war between profit-driven behemoths and foreign national interests, which has been unfolding over the last few years never makes it to the nightly news in America. As usual, people are only fed narratives which will serve to sway public opinion, that will justify the necessary measures – whether the soft stick of economic sanctions or the outright use of Apaches and Cruise missiles.The story lines are always simple and geared towards the common denominator. Even if Americans were so frivolous as to get behind the bombing of Brazil for better prices on tin for General Electric, it’s probably easier to make up a narrative of evil doers and bad hombres.
Lurking behind the “free trade” infrastructure is the other arm of the hegemonic beast, expressed alternatively as the drug war in Latin America or Western-funded terrorism in oil-rich Middle East. These are points of entry for the muscle when Western diplomats and arbitration lawyers fail to get their point across.
Donald Trump’s job is to signal to the world, on behalf of Western corporate interests, that the trade regime is not going as they wish and that all bets are off until the world gets back in line. In the meantime, the military-industrial complex is sharpening its knives and waiting for the go-ahead. The trade-dealer in Chief already has his marching orders.
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http://deepcitychronicles.com/20…
Water Is Victory
By Raul DiegoDec 05, 2016“When they drill upon the earth, let them eat their corn, their purchased corn; let them drink their water, their purchased water. The clouds and the mountains they will climb in the time of their defeat; in the time of mutinies and rebellions. ”
– The Prophecy of Oxlahun Tiku | Katun 13 Ahau
The Book of Books of Chilam BalamOn the banks of the Potomac River, the monuments of empire remain intact. But just a few hundred yards away, descendants of those who first settled along her creeks and basins are marching to protect the only clean water source they have left.
The crowd that came to support the Standing Rock Sioux and all native people in Washington D.C. today is modest compared to the thousands that have camped out 1,500 miles away in North Dakota. Representatives of over one hundred tribal nations – unprecedented in history – have gathered to defend the integrity of the Missouri River and an entire ecosystem that will be put at risk by the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Water has been at the center of the war against the First Nations for centuries. Ethnic cleansing, broken treaties and legal chicanery have all been used to dispossess the original people of North America. No enemy, however, has proven as destructive as the Army Corps of Engineers.
Since 1944, the federal agency has built dozens of dams along the “Big Muddy”. The Missouri River, once a thriving source of game and fresh water for Native Americans, has been harnessed to provide power to urban centers like Kansas City. Among the consequences has been the flooding of hundreds of thousands of acres of reservation land, as well as the decimation of wildlife.
The artificial lakes created by the dams have themselves been contaminated with toxic waste and pesticides from industrial agriculture operations, causing an epidemic of cancer diagnosis and other illnesses among Native populations in the area.
While they have been fighting this war for more than 500 years, the fact that it has reached this point should be a warning to the entire world.
Those who benefit and profit from an obsolete energy paradigm will do everything in their power to maintain it. Wether it’s our government protecting the interests of big oil with rubber bullets, mace, tasers and attack dogs or your neighbor running over your bicycle with his S.U.V., the reality is that all of it will seem trivial compared to what happens to us if we don’t move on from the destructive nature of fossil fuels.
Water is life.
Choosing to dispute this fact, makes us fools. Continuing to choose oil and gas over our rivers and lakes makes us fossil fools.
- pablo280
- Look at those little baby hands on captain spray tan.ben_
- What a sullen imp.mg33
- the hustle of a babycagerneverscared
- lowimpakt1
brown people with vaginas strike fear into fox viewers
- aren't those four points good things?inteliboy
- Best to keep people stupid and sick. It's been working so far.PhanLo
- Ideas are dangerous. Much safer with diktats.Fax_Benson
- they're afraid of communists, with or without coloured vaginasGnash
- Who would want to be educated or healthy? what a stupid fucking idea, no other country on earth...ben_
- those complaining about it are already healthy and wealthyGnash
- Not true, but what point are you trying to make?ben_
- There's plenty poor people that want to stay uneducated and ill.PhanLo
- the point isn't cloaked. that in general, those already healthy and wealthy don't care to pay for those that aren't.Gnash
- The good ones do.monospaced
- Gnash, see what you mean now. I thought you meant they were the ones complaining that you don't have it.ben_
- As in it's only "elites" who are making it an issue.ben_
- oh, I see. I guess it wasn't that clear.Gnash
- I think 'affordable' college is good enough (a la canada). It's nuts how expensive school is in the statesGnash
- R_Kercz0
"The commission argued that despite a $716 billion American defense budget this year, which is four times the size of China’s and more than 10 times that of Russia, the effort to reshape the U.S. defense establishment to counter current threats is under-resourced. It recommended that Congress lift budget caps on defense spending in the next two years that in the past have hobbled the military’s ability to plan for the long term."
- War industry lobbyists gotta make that scratch.mg33
- Lol.PhanLo
- The army itself has asked to stop building tanks, but it's a jobs programs for the red states so nothing is ever going away.zarkonite
- All that money is spent inside the US, so it's a big economic boon and an easy way to buy votes.zarkonite
- from weaponry to livingry not so much.neverscared
