It's Friday

Revolution

• Spain Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy forced to step down

"Spain's parliament ousted Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Friday in a no-confidence vote sparked by fury over his party's corruption woes, paving the way for a takeover by opposition leader Pedro Sanchez"

Global money eventually corrupts every government. Of course here in the US we blame the corruption on "The Government" and never see the root cause. 

• Italy  You people can have any government you want as long as we approve of the people you elect.

Get Your War On

• Trade Wars

• Insult-Apology Wars - Roseanne and Samantha Bee

• Tech and War

• Energy Wars. -  Currencies, Oil, Natural gas, trade, Russian Pipelines and Iran all come together. The US seems close to becoming the hated-dictator in the world economy.

"The EU – at least rhetorically – now wants to pay for Iranian oil in euros. Add to it the Trump administration’s ultimatum to Chancellor Merkel: give up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline from Russia or we will slap you with extra tariffs on steel and aluminum – to gauge the incandescence of current US-EU relations."

 and 

"Oblivious to facts, Capitol Hill, through the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), is getting ready to slap Russian defense and energy sectors with devastating secondary sanctions applied to nations doing business with Moscow."

Morally Bankrupt

• Nikki Haley to the UN on a UN resolution to ensure international protection to Palestinian civilians.

"It is a grossly one-sided approach that is morally bankrupt and would only serve to undermine ongoing efforts toward peace between the Israelis and Palestinians," 

No Nikki, I'd say this is a better definition of "morally bankrupt" and "undermining the peace process".

"Forty Palestinians have been killed and 5,511 were wounded in the mass protests along the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel since March 30, the United Nations .. reported."

and 

"Of the injured, 2,596 people were hospitalized in government hospitals, 773 in nongovernment hospitals and the rest were treated in the field. Of those in government hospitals, 1,499 were hit by live ammunition, 107 by sponge-tipped bullets, 408 suffered gas inhalation and 582 suffered other injuries; 2,142 were adults and 454 were minors."

Rs and Ds

• Democrats are From Hell; Republicans are From Hell’s Lowest Circle, and Trump is From Somewhere Else Altogether

"There is no politically significant left in the United States today; there are only remnants and individuals, vast numbers of them, yearning for left alternatives.  What is called a left is actually, to use Tariq Ali’s apt expression, an “extreme center.”

Police State

• Badge of Impunity

• A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on. U.S. Customs took it without charging him with a crime.

Misc

• The Onion gets it - ‘Coffee Cultivation Merely Extends The System Of Colonial Oppression,’ Recite Nation’s 180,000 Radicalized Starbucks Employees After 3-Hour Anti-Bias Training

• The power of Data Science

Media

• THE MEDIA’S UNDENIABLE PRO-TRUMP BIAS 

"Trump has declared the media the enemy of the people, and the media has responded with no fresh tactics. He is fighting a war that uses the media’s own rules against it, and he is winning in a landslide."

The R's and their wingnuts have been fighting the war by different rules for a long time, Trump's just mastered it. The D's and the media don't realize the rules have changed and have been getting pounded. It may get ugly when they finally fight back.