Early in the Week

Politics

From a few days ago ..... The D's could dominate US politics with three platform moves...."Legal Pot", "Medicare for all", and "we give up on Gun Control".  A fourth might be "Never Hillary" or maybe "Never a Clinton Crony" but I really think just the first three would work. How a Pair of Kentucky Pols Are About to Legalize Hemp

Oh, and inexpensive rural broadband wouldn't hurt. How to keep young people from fleeing small towns for big cities

or they could just botch it. more here....

What voters want,

The Democrats must do more than simply oppose Donald Trump

The challenge of tagging Republicans as 'corrupt' in 2018

House Democrats want to reprise their 2006 strategy of painting the GOP as deeply unethical, but the public has been desensitized to outrage.

The problem is "not that we're desensitized to outrage" it's that we realize both parties, along with the system that keeps them in power, are all corrupt as hell. Painting the R's as corrupt just reinforces that everything is corrupt.

Also,... the system is broken.


Tax Cuts

Tell me about that trickle down again? Real Wages Decline Year-Over-Year


Crooks

Is Chris Collins Toast? - Well, he may lose his seat but I doubt he'll do any serious jail time. His crime hits too close to home for the rest of our leaders, who are all doing the same thing but maybe a little less obviously. I'm guessing there are several other congressmen worried they could be next in line and are working hard to get the Collins issue swept under the rug.


The World

The US's "Israeli" Ambassador to the UN: Nikki Haley - No mention of the human rights crisis in Gaza, Yemen, Syria, etc.....

“The UN has failed to adequately address major human rights crises in Iran, North Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and elsewhere, or stop its chronic, disproportionate obsession with Israel. .."

Tech





Fuck Ups

Pushing Iran and Turkey towards Russia and China.

Who Profits From Iran’s Oil Major Exodus?

Thus, one can state the obvious – state-owned Russian and Chinese companies stand to benefit from U.S.-imposed sanctions. But why, one would ask? The underlying reasons differ, of course, yet both countries are on a course of antagonism with the United States and are too big to be pressurized into total compliance. Russian state-owned oil companies are sanctioned, anyway, absolving them of any fear, whilst Chinese companies seem to be ready to throw the gauntlet on the back of President Trump initiating a tariff war. 

Wrecking the world economy.  World stocks hit one-month low as Turkish rout spreads