Monday

Trump

StoneKettle Station with a good walk through of Trump's recent tweets. StoneKettle Station: Quick and Easy.

There's a lot of good stuff in this but he mentions one thing I repeat on a regular basis.

China and Mexico didn't take American jobs. America's rich business owners sent the jobs over there to increase American business profits. 

or.... from StoneKettle.

Those jobs are in Mexico, and in China, etc, because that’s how rich people like Trump want it.

That’s how the wealthy business owners got rich in the first place. They don't want to pay a living wage. They don't want to pay for healthcare. They don't want to give baby leave or benefits or build safe factories that don't pollute. They don't want to hire Americans because it costs them money.

Those factories, those jobs, they weren't moved to Mexico for Mexico’s advantage, but to make rich Americans even richer.

That’s who benefits.

That's who is taking advantage, right there. The rich. Not Mexico. 

Repeat after me.... Rich Americans sent the jobs to China!

Media - The Liberal Media Isn't

The New York Times Is Destroying Democracy



Iran

The American Conservative

Despite more than a year of U.S. violations and unjustified sanctions, Iran is still complying with the nuclear deal. This is the fifteenth consecutive report from the IAEA that confirms Iranian compliance:

Trump, Bolton, Pompeo, and Netanyahu are lying.

Israel - Palestine - Tump - Kushner

Pompeo: Jared Kushner’s Palestine plan “unexecutable;’ Kushner: Palestinians unready for Self-Rule

The main problem at issue in Palestine is Occupation and statelessness. A state has control of the land, water and air of a target. Palestinians do not have one

A state gives its citizens secure human and property rights. Palestinians lack them.

Kushner is essentially an Israeli squatter on Palestinian land working on behalf of other squatters. He headed a foundation aimed at helping Israeli squatters in illegal settlements.

The only thing the Trump administration is actually capable of doing is making things worse.

The US

Two Contrasting Commencement Addresses a Half Century Apart

.. We have zero diplomacy, only threats. Indeed threats are America’s hallmark. Threats of war. Threats of sanctions. The President of the United States gives away other countries’ territories and decides who is to be the president of Venezuela. Today’s America is scared to death of peaceful competition and imposes tariffs on everyone from Mexico to China.

When John Kennedy was president, America was a proud country. Today it is a shameful place in freefall, a grave danger to its own citizens and to the rest of the world.

The Economy

Trumps Trade war is the biggest tax hike in 30 years 

Dispatches from the retailpocalypse  Sell you shopping mall REIT.

Healthcare CEOs again lead the way in pay

"The highest pay packages go to CEOs at healthcare companies. For the third time in four years, chief executives in the healthcare field led the S&P 500 in terms of total compensation. The typical CEO in the industry made $16.1 million last year, which means half earned more than that, and half made less."

Foreign Influence

Texas picks Israel over Texan's fredom of speech.

"After the bill’s passage, state contracts added a clause that required contractors to pledge to abstain from boycotting Israel. The measure also required the Texas comptroller’s office to compile a blacklist of companies supporting the boycott of Israel. In April, Texas divested $72 million of stock from DNB ASA, a financial services group that put a handful of Israeli companies on a list of companies it wouldn’t invest in because of involvement in human rights violations."

Florida is not far behind.


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