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mr.drs.Bou:

Beste Wildebeest,
Dat gedoe met die heksen is volgens mij humor, maar je hebt gelijk: als Trump verdwijnt, komt Pence er voor in de plaats. En in de VS lopen nogal wat reli-gekken rond waar Pence dan een puntje aan kan zuigen. Zij hopen op Armageddon, de Rapture en de “wederkomst van Christus”. Zij geloven dat het Laatste Oordeel nabij is. Levensgevaarlijk!
Abby Martin had laatst een goed gesprek met Chris Hedges, die waarschuwt voor die geschifte “Christenen”. Ik wilde deze video niet in het artikel plaatsen, want er gebeurt toch al veel te veel, maar bij deze:

Empire Files: Chris Hedges & Abby Martin – Trump, Fascism & the Christian Right duurt 25 minuten.
Gepubliceerd op 27 feb. 2017

For the first time in modern history, a fringe wing of Christian extremists have obtained the highest seats of power in the US government—from Mike Pence to Betsy DeVos.

This new development is coupled with the emergence of the Alt Right, the Trump movement, and the rise of fascist movements abroad.

Renowned journalist and author Chris Hedges has embedded himself in what he calls “Christianized Fascism” and warns that this is the biggest danger we face under Trump.

mr.drs.Bou:

Op Information Clearing House vandaag een reeks van artikelen over de Trump-politiek. Eerst maar de economie, want sinds het aantreden van Trump zijn de aandelenbeurzen sterk gestegen. En er zat toch al zoveel lucht in:

Trump Flip-Flops on Bubblemaking

By Mike Whitney

March 03, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – “Counterpunch” –

It’s funny how an election can change the way a man sees the world. Before the election, Donald Trump thought that stocks were dangerously inflated. In an interview on CNBC, he said “I hope I’m wrong, but I think we’re in a big, fat, juicy bubble.”

That was Candidate Trump. President Trump sees things differently. Here’s what he tweeted on Tuesday:

“Since November 8th, Election Day, the Stock Market has posted $3.2 trillion in GAINS and consumer confidence is at a 15 year high.”

See the difference? So when Trump was running for office, stocks were headed for another thundering crash. But now that he’s president, Happy Days Are Here Again. The question is: Which Trump do we believe? Are stocks in a bubble or not?

Stocks aren’t just in a bubble, they’ve completely detached from reality. According to the Wall Street Journal:

En dan de problematiek van de illegale vreemdelingen, meestal uit Mexico of Zuid Amerika:

What to Do with Latinos?: Get Used to Them

By Fred Reed

March 03, 2017 “Information Clearing House” –

Following Mr. Trump’s kaleidosopically shifting policies isn’t easy. He was going to declare China a currency manipulator on day one, but didn’t, going to impose a forty-five percent tariff on Chinese goods but apparently won’t, was going to shift the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem but isn’t, going to tear up the Iran treaty but hasn’t, going to end the wars but isn’t, and going to rid the country of illegal aliens within two years. Now it seems he has backed off this too, and there is in the air the merest whiff of…amnesty?

Oh well. Mass deportation was a loony idea to begin with. Consider:

For years there have been said to be 11 million illegals, a number having a suspicious stability. Foes of immigration have put it at thirteen or fourteen. Call it at least 12 million. To deport them in two years, Trump would have to deport 500,000 a month. For twenty-four months. To deport a tenth as many, he would need to expel 50,000 a month.

Is the man crazy? Does he just shoot from the lip on crucial policies without thinking? Can’t do arithmetic? Or lies in the normal manner of politicians?

His promised expulsion would rank among history’s most awful humanitarian disasters. Mexico could not possibly absorb such a huge tsunami of returnees. They would have nowhere to stay, nothing to eat, no jobs.

Het is ook nog maar de vraag of een president een dergelijke exodus mag verordenen. Dit artikel gaat over de Amerikaanse vreemdelingenwet:

U.S. Mass Deportation System is Rooted in Racism

By Kelly Lytle Hernandez

March 03, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – “The Conversation” –

A rowdy segment of the American electorate is hell-bent on banning a specific group of immigrants from entering the United States. Thousands upon thousands of other people – citizens and immigrants, alike – oppose them, choosing to go to court rather than fulfill the electorate’s narrow vision of what America should look like: white, middle-class and Christian.

Soon a series of U.S. Supreme Court rulings could grant unrestrained power to Congress and the president over immigration control. More than 50 million people could be deported. Countless others might be barred from entering. Most of them would be poor, nonwhite and non-Christian.

This may sound like wild speculation about what is to come in President Donald Trump’s America. It is not. It is the history of U.S. immigration control, which is the focus of my work in the books “Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol” and “City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles.”

Historically speaking, immigration control is one of the least constitutional and most racist realms of governance in U.S. law and life.

Paul Craig Roberts wilde Trump eerst nog een kans geven, maar de bezwaren tegen deze president komen van alle kanten!

What Is To Be Done?

By Paul Craig Roberts

March 03, 2017 “Information Clearing House” –

The question in the title is V.I. Lenin’s question. His answer was to create a revolutionary “vanguard” to spread revolutionary ideas among the workers, the economic class that Karl Marx had declared to be the class rising to the ascendency of political power. Finally, democracy, frustrated by upper class interests in its earlier manifestations, would become reality. The workers would rule.

Given the presence of evil and human failing, it did not work out in that way. But Lenin’s question remains a valid one. Americans whose economic life and prospects for their children have been destroyed by the offshoring of American manufacturing and tradable professional skills jobs, such as software engineering, answered the question by electing Donald Trump.

The Americans, dispossessed by the offshoring corporations, elected Trump, because Trump was the only American running for a political office who called attention to the problem and declared his intention to fix it.

By standing up for Americans, Trump alienated the global corporations, their executives and shareholders, all of whom benefit from stealing the economic life of Americans and producing abroad where labor and regulatory costs are lower. Neoliberal junk economists describe this labor arbitrage, which reduces the real incomes of the American labor force, as the beneficial working of free trade.

The working class is out of favor with the elite liberal/progressive/left which abhors the working class as racist, misogynist, homophobic, gun nuts who oppose transgendered toilet facilities. Thus, the working class, and their chosen representative, Donald Trump, are under full assault by the presstitutes. “Trump Must Go” is their slogan.

And well he might. Trump, in a fit of stupidity, dismissed his National Security Advisor, Gen. Flynn, because Flynn did what he should have done and spoke with the Russian ambassador in order to avoid a Russian response to Obama’s provocation of expelling Russian diplomats at Christmas.

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Once Trump put Flynn’s blood in the water, he set the situation for the sacrifice of other of his appointees, ending with himself. At the present time, “the Russian connection” black mark is operating against Trump’s Attorney General, Jeff Sessions. If Sessions falls, Trump is next.

Obama Ordered Abuse Of Intelligence To Sabotage Trump Policies

By Moon Of Aalabama

March 03, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – “Moon Of Alabama” –

In its last months the Obama administration ordered the intelligence agencies to collect and distribute information of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia. This to prevent any change by the Trump administration of the hostile policy towards Russia that the Obama administration instituted. The intent was also gives the intelligence services blackmail material to prevent any changes in their undue, freewheeling independence.

The above is reported in a rather short New York Times piece published yesterday. The reporting angle captured in the headline is biased to set the Obama efforts into a positive light. But the Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election Hacking.

But make no mistake. Not single shred of evidence has been provided that “Russia hacked the election” or had anything to do with various leaks of Clinton related emails. A lot of fluff and chaff was thrown around but not even one tiny bit of evidence.

The effort was clearly to sabotage the announced policy of the incoming administration of seeking better relations with Russia. Obama intended to undermine the will of the voters by abusing instruments of the state.

Excerpts from the piece:

mr.drs.Bou:

The Deep State War on Trump
Paul Joseph Watson

mr.drs.Bou:

CrossTalk Bullhorns: Politocide? duurt 25 minuten.

Gepubliceerd op 6 mrt. 2017

If Joe McCarthy were alive today, he would easily recognize the witch hunt hysteria consuming Washington. Blaming Russia is targeting Donald Trump. The outcome of this is dangerously unclear. CrossTalking with Dmitry Babich, Edward Lozansky, and Alex Christoforou.