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The Perils of President Biden’s Ironclad Buddies

President Joe Biden is increasing in political peril because of his ironclad buddies whom he has supported almost oblivious to their great ensuing moral and integrity threats to him: Hunter Biden has placed his father in danger of being enmeshed in an impeachment query which the truculent GOP House havethreatened tit-for-tat for Just the two …

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Havoc Excused by Eradicating Hamas Vermin

Reading on Nov 19th 2023 in AlJazeera, BBC, NYTimes, and Washington Post a new level of savagery and brutality by Israel’s IDF and Bibi Netanyahu is hard to white-wash and ignore. Its as if ancient Mid-Eastern tales of barbarous human sacrifice had come to brutal life. Moloch was the Ammonite deity to whom child sacrifices …

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Haaretz Headlines From Israel

AlJazeera, Haaretz, and IsraelTimes are 3 local print resources thatprovide some insights into what is Happeingin the broader Israel – Palestine war and the State of the 2 State Solution. See Poison in the Cabinet for the latest attempts at sense -making in the MidEast – And you thought the Republican House of Representatives was …

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Mideast Stick in the Craw

Random House Dictionary defines Stick in the Craw as faithlessness, treachery. stick in one’s craw, to cause considerable or abiding resentment; rankle, and ill-will..And this describes  2400 years of the  three Mid Eastern theocracies as they spread throughout the World.It also describes  the current state of the Hamas – Israel conflict. – deep-seated virulent vengeance. …

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A Broken Record Screeching in the Middle East

In our reports Why Back Bibi Netanyahu? and Why Did Hamas Assassinate Itself on October 7 2023? there is a throbbing litany of vengeance and conflict as every sector of the Mideast wails aloud with pogroms,  riots,  massacres, coups, and conflicts amassing over 6,000,000 deaths from the End of the 2nd World War in 1946 …

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Why Did Hamas Assasinate Itself on October 7 2023?

The simple question is why did Hamas commit  its 2million Gaza citizens  to the consequences of such a bestial terror attack on Israel on October 7 2023 and thus assassinate itself ? The Washington Post reports that it was an accident. Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the attack co-ordinators, were astonished by the unexpected success of …

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Why Back Bibi Netanyahu?

In October 2023  a query on the character of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is way past overdue. Not just in Washington, Europe, and Muslim capitals throughout the world but also at home in Israel there is a dawning fear – can Netanyahu pull off a triple political coup – elude several judicial prosecutions …

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Damning January 6th Emails

CNN has been carying the torch on the January 6th Commision Investigation. Here is the most chilling installment. Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large (CNN)Buried in a court filing late Wednesday from the January 6 committee is an explosive email exchange between Greg Jacob, a top lawyer for then-Vice President Mike Pence, and John Eastman, a lawyer who …

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Incoming – Salon.com Political Coverage

For the past decade, my politics and science websites of choice beyond the big influencers [NY Times, Washington Post The Guardian, BBC  and CNN] have been an eclectic and  everchanging mix. Incoming has been Wired,  MIT Technology Review, NPR, and RottenTomatoes. Constants are Politico, TheHill, ChristianScience Monitor, Pixlr/e, TheWeek.com/Cartoons. Outgoing/infrequently visited sites are TheDailyBeast, TheHuffingtonPost and …

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Views on January 6th Insurrection

I have traditionally used RealClearpolitics polling for a reasonable “Pulse of the Nation”  update. But of late I have switched and am trying two new sources for Popular Political Pulse taking. First, I am following leading Republican media commentators that have a modest moderate  bent. Think David Brooks, Anna Navarro, David Frum, and George Will. …

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How Much Value Has Jeff Bezos Added?

In a Medium essay Tim O’Reilly asks the question “how much value has Jeff Bezos added through his company Amazon?”. Now Tim is a successful publisher through O’Reilly Press of books and tools used in ITdevelopment. So Tim will be very familiar with Jeff’s two major business undertaking – the eCommerce goliath Amazon.com and the …

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147 GOP Members of Congress Hunkering Down Under The Trump Big Lie

Here are the 147 Republicans who have been Complicit Conspirators in the Capital Insurrection. Just after the Capitol Riots, they ignored overwhelming evidence that Joe Biden won the election fairly and instead  voted  twice for the Big Lie that the Presidential Election  was Stolen. The preceding  Riots threatened the lives and welfare of fellow Members …

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5 Peoples Questions for the Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barret

Amy Coney Barret  is Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee 40 days before the 2020 Presidential Election  and despite the fact that in 2016 President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland,was refused even a hearing before the Senate because in the words of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell  “The American people should have a voice in the selection …

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NYTimes: Meet the Democratic Candidates

NYTimes has taken the initiative and has recently presented defining profiles of 21 of 22 Democratic candidates for President. The profiles come from each cadidate’s answers to the same 18 questions about the upcoming Presidential contest and their reason for participating in it. Despite many requests by the NYTimes, Joe Biden declined to participate given that …

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Payback on the Front Burner

Worldwide Inequality Becomes More Pronounced Both Wealth and Income continue to skew in favor of privileged 1% as seen in these reports and charts: First there is the trend of income inequlity shows three disturbing trends: First, the top 10% of the population continues to increase its disproportionate percentage of  National Income giving substance to …

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North Korea: China’s Protected Pitbull Terror

This Truthdig cartoon by Dutch illustrator Tom Janssen  encapsulates the true position of China as economic and political protector of the rabid rogue state of North Korea. Despite Chinese many protestations to the contrary, the aspiring new Responsible Nation in Asia  is using North Korea as a military suzerain or puppet state to keep its …

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Its The Economy By The Stupidly Greedy

Make America Great Again has a half-life of about 1-2 years at most. Then disastrous economic decision making will have the  Political Fiddler on the Roof calling the End Tune. And nowhere has this become more obvious in the cobbled together, greed and revenge ridden “GOP Tax Plan”. The “Plan” is in quotes because  it …

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North Korea: Trumps First Big Success?

After a disastrous last 2 weeks domestically, President Trump may be securing an improbable success in foreign policy with his changes in strategy for dealing with China over North Korea. In the past year with its nuclear detonations and ballistic missile trials, North Korea has become an ever more dangerous player in East Asia.The chances of a …

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GOP Vindictive Obstruction – 4 More Years

How the Republican Party staves off Disintegration The Republican party has become petty and vindictive as it clings to a fracturing voter Base It is a two-faced union of  the Business Establishment  attached to self-identified victim groups like Evangelicals, National Debtors [where were they when George Bush rang up a massive $5trillion in debt with unpaid …

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