• Re: Battle Of The Paper Planes

    From LowRider44M@1:229/2 to Jeremy H. Denisovan on Sunday, April 08, 2018 13:34:46
    From: intraphase@gmail.com

    On Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 2:47:41 PM UTC-4, Jeremy H. Denisovan wrote:
    T Bone Burnett - Palestine, Texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UIlBpVLm54

    Frank who was swank robbed a bank with a tank for a prank
    Sam who was glam ran a scam from Siam to Viet Nam
    Dean who was clean had a scene with the queen for a magazine
    Joe wasn't slow but didn't know how to blow all the dough from the show

    Palestine Texas
    Palestine Texas

    Peter in a two-seater for a heater had a thirty millimeter
    Shecky worked blue for he knew it was true he would not get his due
    Ann knew the plan as she ran from a fan with a man from the Klan
    Phyllis would thrill us then grill us then kill us with bacillus

    Palestine Texas
    Palestine Texas

    Presidents come and presidents go
    They rise like smoke they fall like snow
    Do you believe the things you say
    Your lofty thoughts are filled with hay
    What is this faith that you profess
    That led to this colossal mess
    When you awaken from this coma
    You'll find you were in Oklahoma
    When you come out of this self-delusion
    You're going to need a soul transfusion

    This version of the world will not be here long
    It is already gone
    It is already gone
    This version of the world will not be here long
    It is already gone
    It is already gone

    .

    That's a good find.
    He has a huge wiki entry.
    He was a TV regular at some point; Letterman, SNL?
    The sound on that cut is excellent, excellent word portrait to match.

    He did this bit.

    The Dude Abides Prologue
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C0D4ndt7jg

    The Dude Abides Epilogue
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsKoxi12jbI

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  • From LowRider44M@1:229/2 to All on Sunday, April 08, 2018 14:00:35
    From: intraphase@gmail.com


    This version of the world will not be here long
    It is already gone
    It is already gone
    This version of the world will not be here long
    It is already gone
    It is already gone

    all ready dun see ya

    T-Bone's geetar is pretty impressive. These guys are from down south
    too and not a geetar amongst them:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY

    Dead Love couldn't go no further
    Proud of and disgusted by her
    Push shove, a little bruised and battered
    Oh Lord I ain't coming home with you

    My life's a bit more colder
    Dead wife is what I told her
    Brass knife sinks into my shoulder
    Oh babe don't know what I'm gonna do

    I see my red head, messed bed, tear shed, queen bee
    My squeeze
    The stage it smells, tells, hell's bells, miss-spells
    Knocks me on my knees
    It didn't hurt, flirt, blood squirt, stuffed shirt
    Hang me on a tree
    After I count down, three rounds, in hell I'll be in good company

    Dead Love couldn't go no further
    Proud of and disgusted by her
    Push shove, a little bruised and battered
    Oh Lord I ain't coming home with you

    My life's a bit more colder
    Dead wife is what I told her
    Brass knife sinks into my shoulder
    Oh babe don't know what I'm gonna do

    I see my red head, messed bed, tear shed, queen bee
    My squeeze
    The stage it smells, tells, hell's bells, misspells
    Knocks me on my knees
    It didn't hurt, flirt, blood squirt, stuffed shirt
    Hang me on a tree
    After I count down, three rounds, in hell I'll be in good company

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    53,000,000 views, big time act.
    First exposure but I like them.

    You probably heard this on, very catchy.
    Kongos - Come with Me Now
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz2GVlQkn4Q

    Ozark Mountain Daredevils have some lost classics.
    Jesus is the laser beam and the pagans are the chickens (dinosaur souls) Chicken Train - Ozark Mountain Daredevils https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSkN9m7kh9A

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Monday, April 09, 2018 13:56:28
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    Lowrider:
    "Jesus is the laser beam and the pagans are the chickens (dinosaur souls)"

    I guess this was supposed to be another battle. One might think
    any remaining Jesus people are the real 'dinosaurs', banking on some 2000-year-old myth as they do?

    2017 Pew Survey on American Religion: http://news.gallup.com/poll/224642/2017-update-americans-religion.aspx

    I'll pick out a few interesting details from it.

    21.3% now identify with no traditional religious group and
    fully 33% consider themselves "not religious". I think those
    figures are higher than they've ever been and have been
    rising for many years.

    The most religious group is the Mormons (74% highly religious). :)

    Jesus was one of several candidates for 'Jewish Messiah'. But good
    old Paul turned that whole set of myths in a more 'Gentile' direction.
    These days, 50% of Jews are "not religious".

    Then there's this little gem:
    "Americans who are highly religious are much more likely to
    approve of President Donald Trump's performance in office
    than are those who are moderately or not religious."

    That is simply further evidence that delusional people
    are much more likely to like Trump. :)

    But they're starting to become more "concerned" with their
    lying faker.

    'Concerned' Evangelicals Plan To Meet With Trump As Sex Scandals Swirl http://tinyurl.com/ybug34le

    And they have the nerve to act like they value "leading with
    humility"? LOL. Those buffoons sold their souls to Satan. :)

    "81 percent of self-identified white evangelicals voted for Trump."
    Gag. Gag. Barf. A bizarre parade of the perpetually hoodwinked.

    .

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Monday, April 09, 2018 13:00:26
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    A few more favorites by T Bone Burnett:

    Primitives:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve7Lp8s0pqs

    "Primitives dress in feathers and masks
    To scare away their enemies
    The frightening thing is not dying
    The frightening thing is not living
    Scientists guess which is worse we will ask
    The medicine or the disease
    The frightening thing is not dying
    The frightening thing is not living"

    ***

    Seven Times Hotter Than Fire:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xA6NcnVpSs

    "I never been closer and I never been farther away
    I never been closer and I never been farther away
    I might say something or I might have nothing to say
    Love I feel is seven times hotter than fire
    Love I feel is seven times hotter than fire"

    ***

    The Killer Moon:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKSwriuB1IQ

    "The talking animals say
    When the moon's so big and yellow
    It's called the killer moon
    And if you look over your shoulder
    It seems like we're being followed
    By the killer moon
    But we are not afraid of the killer moon"

    .

    Here's another cool photo of my dad (left front) and his buds
    with all their pinup girls on the wall (WWII, 1945): https://www.dropbox.com/s/elaii5n82xhxp54/Pinups.jpg?dl=0

    .

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 13:51:16
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen http://tinyurl.com/ybz7e5eu

    ...seizing business records, emails and documents related to
    several topics, including a payment to a pornographic film actress.
    ...an investigation into possible bank fraud by Mr. Cohen.
    The documents identified in the warrant date back years...

    Mr. Sessions appointed the United States attorney for the
    Southern District, Geoffrey S. Berman, only in January.
    Mr. Berman is a former law partner of Rudolph W. Giuliani,
    a former New York mayor and a supporter of Mr. Trump.

    The payment to the pornographic film actress, Stephanie Clifford,
    who is known as Stormy Daniels, is only one of many topics being investigated...

    To obtain a search warrant, prosecutors must convince a federal
    judge that agents are likely to discover evidence of criminal activity.

    Trump dismissed Mr. Mueller’s investigation as a “witch hunt,”
    but these warrants were obtained by an unrelated group of
    prosecutors. The searches required prior consultation with
    senior members of Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department.

    [ Ah ha ha ha ha! :) This is one thing that happens if you act
    like an arrogant asshole toward the very people YOU appoint.]

    The search is an aggressive move for the Justice Department,
    which normally relies on grand jury subpoenas to obtain records
    from people who are represented by lawyers and are cooperating
    with authorities. Search warrants are more often used in cases
    in which prosecutors do not trust people to preserve or turn
    over the records themselves.

    [Yeah well, trusting anyone connected with Trump would be a big mistake.]

    ***

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  • From ClutchCargo@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 13:58:37
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    this is total bullshit.
    won't go anywhere, they're
    pulling their pud on this one.
    Geez, so what happened with
    the attorney-client priviledge?
    out of the door this week?
    no way jose, that shit won't fly.

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to ClutchCargo on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 17:02:00
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 1:58:38 PM UTC-7, ClutchCargo wrote:
    this is total bullshit.
    won't go anywhere, they're
    pulling their pud on this one.
    Geez, so what happened with
    the attorney-client priviledge?
    out of the door this week?
    no way jose, that shit won't fly.

    "The searches required prior consultation with
    senior members of Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department."

    "Search warrants are more often used in cases in which prosecutors
    do not trust people to preserve or turn over the records themselves."

    So Chris, do you really think you know more about the law
    than the district's US Attorney and the US Attorney General? :)

    They're dealing with rats, and they KNOW IT.

    .

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  • From ClutchCargo@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 18:32:14
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    So Chris, do you really think you know more about the law
    than the district's US Attorney and the US Attorney General? :)

    More? ha ha, how about less? whatever happened to less.
    Or maybe less is more. Have a headache yet homes?

    They're dealing with rats, and they KNOW IT.

    ok ok, we will watch it play out.

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to ClutchCargo on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 13:41:05
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 6:32:14 PM UTC-7, ClutchCargo wrote:
    So Chris, do you really think you know more about the law
    than the district's US Attorney and the US Attorney General? :)

    More? ha ha, how about less? whatever happened to less.
    Or maybe less is more. Have a headache yet homes?

    They're dealing with rats, and they KNOW IT.

    ok ok, we will watch it play out.

    The Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan is running for his life. :)

    Representative Charlie Dent - a moderate Republican from
    Pennsylvania who is also retiring - noted the difficulty of
    Mr. Ryan’s position.

    “We can all read between the lines,” Mr. Dent said.
    “This is not an easy administration to be dealing with.”

    Mr. Ryan is by far the most prominent figure fleeing Congress in
    a long season of Republican retirements. More than 40 House
    Republicans are leaving the chamber to retire or seek other
    offices, including a number who have voiced concern about the
    2018 elections and intense dissatisfaction with the state of
    Washington under Mr. Trump. Several others have resigned in
    personal scandals.

    The exodus has further endangered Republicans’ already tenuous
    hold on Congress, creating open seats in states like New Jersey
    and California that Republicans will struggle to hold. Republicans
    acknowledged on Wednesday morning that Mr. Ryan’s seat will be
    far more vulnerable without the speaker on the ballot.

    “This is the nightmare scenario,” said former Representative
    Thomas M. Davis, a Virginia Republican. “Everybody figured he’d
    just hang in there till after the election.”

    ***

    I dunno, what do you think about that, Andy? :)

    Paul Ryan Says He Will Retire Once He Has Wrecked Country

    “Once I look around me and see nothing but smoldering ruins,
    I’ll call it a day,” the House Speaker said in an emotional
    press conference.

    "Mission accomplished."

    Furious Koch Brothers Sell Paul Ryan on eBay

    "The Kochs, who reportedly had purchased Ryan for a sum estimated in
    the tens of millions, now seem likely to lose their entire investment."

    "Speaker Paul Ryan's lack of a spine somehow has not prevented him
    from scurrying away from a sinking ship, scientists say."

    .

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, April 14, 2018 11:32:16
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    The Republican Senate just voted to confirm
    former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler as
    2nd in command at the EPA.

    It feels like we're living in an episode of
    The Twilight Zone...

    .

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  • From ClutchCargo@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, April 14, 2018 13:45:07
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    It feels like we're living in an episode of
    The Twilight Zone...

    next thing you know Tales of Power won't
    seem so outlandish lol!

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, May 05, 2018 08:35:42
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    I understand that feeling, but no, they're really not to be pitied,
    since they're doing so much that's downright evil to so many.

    ***

    Vox

    Trump tells 57,000 Hondurans who’ve lived in the US
    for 20 years to get out

    http://tinyurl.com/yc3qw4g6

    It’s yet another move that will turn people
    who are in the US legally into unauthorized immigrants.

    By Dara Linddara@vox.com May 4, 2018

    By January 2020, the Trump administration will have turned 400,000 people who are currently in the US legally into unauthorized immigrants.

    The administration announced Friday that it is going to stop granting Temporary
    Protected Status — a protection given to people in the wake of humanitarian disasters in their home countries — to 57,000 Hondurans who’ve been living in the US for 20
    years. They’ll have one last chance to apply for TPS for 18 months and will lose their protections on January 5, 2020 — making them unable to work in the
    US legally as of that date, and vulnerable to deportation.

    Over the next two years, the Trump administration will strip TPS from immigrants from six different countries — all but strangling the program.

    It’s doing so because it claims that Honduras has recovered enough from a 1998 hurricane to be safe to return to. The fact that, right now, Honduras is a
    place people are trying to flee due to systemic gang violence and civil unrest isn’t an argument
    in TPS holders’ favor, to this administration. If anything, it’s another strike against them.

    Donald Trump is tearing out Temporary Protected Status by the roots
    Temporary Protected Status serves as a form of humanitarian relief, offered to nationals of countries struggling with the aftermath of war, natural disasters,
    or other humanitarian crises where conditions on the ground make it difficult for people to
    return safely. Ten countries — El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen — are currently in the program, which is overseen by the Department of Homeland Security and is granted in six- to 18-month
    intervals that can be renewed as long as DHS deems a designation necessary. Honduras has been granted TPS since 1999, in the wake of a 1998 hurricane.

    Trump’s attacks on humanitarian immigration just became a full-blown war
    Fear itself: Donald Trump's real immigration policy

    To enter the program, nationals of a designated country must clear a number of conditions: They must maintain a relatively clean criminal record and pass a background check, they must pay a $495 processing fee when they first apply for
    the program and
    every time their status is renewed, and they must reside in the United States at the time of their country’s designation. This usually means that TPS beneficiaries are undocumented immigrants who were already in the US, those who
    overstayed a visa, or
    those who hold some other form of temporary immigration status.

    TPS beneficiaries are granted authorization to work in the US (and in some cases the ability to travel internationally) and a reprieve from deportation. But outside of that, TPS doesn’t grant many other benefits; beneficiaries do not have legal
    permanent resident status, and while a small number of beneficiaries may be eligible for green cards through the sponsorship of a US citizen family member,
    the program is not intended to provide a path to citizenship.

    In practice, that means that once a country’s TPS is up for review, presidents have two choices: They could renew TPS for that country, kicking the
    can down the road; or they could terminate it and give thousands of people no way to stay in the US
    legally.

    Unsurprisingly, most presidents have chosen the former. But equally unsurprisingly, the Trump administration is taking the opposite approach.

    The administration has announced that it’s winding down TPS, with one final extension, for six of the 10 countries that currently have it: Sudan, Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Nepal, and now Honduras. Three of those — Haiti, El Salvador, and
    Honduras — make up the vast majority of all TPS recipients.

    The Trump administration has extended TPS for two countries, South Sudan and Syria, though it’s prevented any Syrians who’ve fled to the US since August
    2016 from signing up. (It hasn’t had the opportunity to review the TPS designations of Somalia
    or Yemen yet.)

    The administration’s actions have extended TPS for about 7,600 people. They’ve marked an end to it for about 390,000.

    The Trump administration has stripped TPS from 6 countries — Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan and Nepal — and extended it for only two.

    Hondurans with TPS have lived in the US for 20 years. To Trump, that doesn’t matter.

    Trump’s break with precedent on TPS reflects a philosophical difference. For past presidents — and many, if not most, Americans — an immigrant who’s lived, worked, and raised a family in the US for several years (especially if they’ve done so
    legally) is more sympathetic than a similar immigrant who’s never lived here.
    And to most politicians, it’s important for the US to continue to take in at least some people fleeing humanitarian peril.

    This administration strongly rejects any idea that it bears a humanitarian responsibility toward migrants. To the contrary: Immigrants who come from countries the Trump administration looks down on or distrusts are often judged for that reason. The
    premise of the travel ban is that the US’s assessment of a foreign government
    should control whether or not it accepts its nationals as visitors or immigrants.

    And there are multiple reports suggesting Trump himself thinks people from poor
    and unstable countries — “shithole countries,” if you will — should be treated with prejudice. When senators presented a proposal to Trump that would have allowed TPS
    holders living in the US to apply for green cards, Trump reportedly objected with, “Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out” — as if the Haitians living in the US with TPS counted as “more” for the US to take in.

    Hondurans with TPS have been in the country for 19 years or longer — they’re only eligible if they were here on December 30, 1998 — and 98 percent of them arrived before 1997, according to the Center for Migration Studies estimates. Nearly a
    quarter of Hondurans with TPS were younger than 15 when they came to the US, meaning they’ve spent more of their lives here than there. And an estimated 53,000 US-born kids had at least one parent who benefits from Honduras’s TPS designation.

    The fact that these people have now largely settled here is one of the chief arguments for keeping TPS protections — indeed, that’s the logic that’s led the government to renew TPS for Hondurans 10 times already. But to the Trump administration,
    this is evidence that there’s something fundamentally wrong with the TPS program.

    Trump is trying to send Hondurans back — over the Honduran government’s objections — to a country their compatriots are fleeing
    The administration’s case relies on a straightforward, but narrow, reading of
    the law that created TPS.

    To them, the “conditions” that justified TPS for Honduras were the 1998 hurricane; Honduras has recovered from the 1998 hurricane; therefore TPS needs to end. “The Secretary determined that the disruption of living conditions in
    Honduras from
    Hurricane Mitch that served as the basis for its TPS designation has decreased to a degree that it should no longer be regarded as substantial,” the official statement read.

    But the statute that created TPS also instructs the executive branch to consider whether there are “extraordinary and temporary conditions in the foreign state that prevent aliens who are nationals of the state from returning
    to the state in safety.”
    And human rights groups make the case that it’s hard to argue that Honduras in 2018 is a state that can be returned to in “safety.”

    While the country’s homicide rate has dropped substantially in recent years, to 42.8 homicides per 100,000 people, that’s still among the highest homicide
    rates in the world (by comparison, the US’s rate is about 4 per 100,000). Furthermore, unrest
    in the country after its contested election in November 2017 — in which the incumbent president claimed victory after several suspicious events and irregularities — has led to the deaths of 40 Honduran protesters at the hands
    of police. The unrest is
    one of the main reasons that Hondurans make up a large share of asylum seekers who traveled to the US in the Pueblo sin Fronteras “caravan” that has attracted so much press attention.

    Even the Honduran government doesn’t agree with the Trump administration’s assessment of the country. Honduran officials have been pulling every string they can in the US to lobby the Trump administration to extend TPS, according to Alan Gomez of USA
    Today. The country was one of only a handful of countries to side with the US in a United Nations vote condemning Trump’s decision to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

    “We’ve demonstrated that we’re closely aligned with this country,” the head of the Honduran consulate in Miami told USA Today. “We’ve taken all their advice. The U.S. knows the efforts we’ve made. Now we’re asking for a
    favor, for help,
    for Honduras.”

    Instead, the Trump administration is lashing out at both Honduras and Hondurans.

    The Trump administration is creating more unauthorized immigrants than it can deport

    On November 2, 2018, approximately 1,000 Sudanese will lose TPS and become vulnerable to deportation.

    On January 5, 2019, approximately 5,300 Nicaraguans will lose TPS and become vulnerable.

    On June 24, 2019, approximately 9,000 Nepalis will lose TPS and become vulnerable.

    On March 23, 2019, up to 3,600 Liberians will lose their protections under Deferred Enforced Departure (a similar program to TPS) and become vulnerable.

    On July 22, 2019, approximately 59,000 Haitians will lose TPS and become vulnerable.

    On September 9, 2019, approximately 260,000 Salvadorans will lose TPS and become vulnerable.

    On January 5, 2020, approximately 57,000 Hondurans will lose TPS and become vulnerable.

    That’s nearly 400,000 people who have legal status right now but who, by 2020, will become unauthorized immigrants.

    The Trump administration doesn’t have the resources to deport 400,000 people the minute they lose their protections. Threats about an end to TPS are really an attempt to encourage “self-deportation” — to get TPS holders to stop expecting they’
    ll be allowed to stay in the US forever and start working on a plan to return home.

    It’s a strategy that might make sense if TPS holders were determined to stay in the US as long as it was legal for them to do so but to leave the minute they lost legal protections. But neither of those appears to be the case.

    When Hondurans first qualified for TPS in 1999, more than 100,000 of them were protected, according to an estimate from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. That means that tens of thousands have left on their own (or adjusted to a more
    permanent legal
    status) even while they could have remained in TPS limbo indefinitely. The rest
    — the 57,000 or so who still have TPS, and who will lose it next year — have roots and decades here, and very little to return to.

    ***

    That shit is just plain mean, and weird. It's fuckin' evil, man.

    .

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Sunday, May 06, 2018 01:39:10
    From: slider@anashram.com

    I understand that feeling, but no, they're really not to be pitied,
    since they're doing so much that's downright evil to so many.

    ### - think it's kinda sad is all; they're about as divorced from reality
    as it's possible to get?

    the lowest level of dante's hell for example... (pitiful indeed)

    no one ever comes back from down there ya know...

    they really 'believe' in all that shit down there; is utterly real to 'em!

    no getting through to 'em either! dogs in the street have more hope?

    and were all someone's beautiful, perfect little kids once upon a time...

    lost now of course...

    (they don't know it's "evil" 'coz it's all they know/were ever shown to
    know, so never had a hope, all involved/steeped in playing some crazy mad
    game for keeps, all makes pure sense to 'em too, it all adds-up for 'em
    see? and perforce they're all completely insane...)

    quite a lot of wallyworld actually sucks that way? an amusement theme-park
    out front; a slaughterhouse behind the scenes... not exactly what you'd
    call the best possible of all worlds then huh...

    and, well, i think we know a little song about that don't we folks heh...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rags6a4ayVk

    (s'ok, s'just some mad-hippie cunt singing' his bleedin' heart out heh...)
    :D

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Sunday, April 22, 2018 12:36:43
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    EARTH DAY

    America Before Earth Day: Smog and Disasters
    Spurred the Laws Trump Wants to Undo

    http://tinyurl.com/yalyasys

    By Livia Albeck-Ripka and Kendra Pierre-Louis

    April 21, 2018

    A huge oil spill. A river catching fire. Lakes so polluted they were too dangerous for fishing or swimming. Air so thick with smog it was impossible to see the horizon.

    That was the environmental state of the nation 50 years ago. But pollution and
    disasters prompted action. On April 22, 1970, millions of people throughout the
    country demonstrated on the inaugural Earth Day, calling for air, water and land in the
    country to be cleaned up and protected. And that year, in a bipartisan effort, the Environmental Protection Agency was created and key legislation — the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act — came into
    force.

    Now, the Trump administration has made eliminating federal regulations a priority, and an increasing number of environmental rules are under threat.

    Here’s a look at five environmental disasters that shifted the public conversation and prompted, directly or indirectly, lawmakers to act.

    The Santa Barbara Oil Spill

    The oil spill killed thousands of birds, seals and sea lions.
    On January 28, 1969, an oil rig exploded off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., spewing three million gallons of crude oil into the ocean in one of the
    worst environmental disasters in the history of the United States.

    At the time, there were no federal measures in place to regulate offshore drilling.

    After the spill local officials pleaded with the federal government to end oil exploration off the California coast. But it was not until 1978 that the first federal regulations were passed.

    Just over 40 years after the Santa Barbara rig blowout, on April 20, 2010, an even worse spill, known as the Deepwater Horizon disaster, resulted in the tightening of federal rules.

    But this past January, the Trump administration said it would reopen vast areas
    of United States coastal waters to new offshore oil and gas drilling projects. Shortly thereafter, the administration began the process of rolling back safety
    regulations on
    existing rigs.

    Ryan Zinke, the interior secretary, has also proposed revising a five-year plan
    for offshore oil and gas leasing, which conservationists say would harm marine life and could also pose a danger to humans.

    The Cuyahoga River Fire

    The river burned at least 13 times before the 1969 fire that was covered by Time magazine.

    On June 22, 1969, the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland caught fire — both literally and in the public imagination. A few months later the conflagration became a big story in Time magazine, which described the Cuyahoga as a river that “oozes rather than
    flows.”

    The story prompted outrage throughout the country, where many rivers, after decades of industrial pollution, were too dangerous for swimming, fishing or drinking. (The main photo in Time was actually of the Cuyahoga when it caught fire 17 years earlier,
    in 1952. The river had burned at least 13 times.)

    The fire, fueled by an oil slick on river’s surface, and resulting media coverage galvanized the outrage into broader public action.

    It culminated in the passage of the 1972 Clean Water Act. That measure, like the Clean Air Act, was an extension of earlier laws. But the piecemeal nature of the earlier rules had resulted in a lack of oversight and regulatory control. The 1972 act
    coordinated the rules and gave regulatory authority to the nascent E.P.A.

    Since the law’s creation, waterways across the United States are markedly cleaner, though half still fall short of national goals. Recent decisions, though, could lead to backsliding.

    The E.P.A. has suspended the Obama-era Waters of the United States rules, which
    sought to clarify which waterways are considered part of the national water system. Smaller bodies of water, like intermittent streams and wetlands, have been in a legal gray
    area since the 1972 act despite having significant impact on water quality.

    Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A. administrator, also removed Clean Water Act decision-making authority from regional offices, leaving him the sole arbiter.

    The Love Canal Disaster

    In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y., began complaining of odd smells, rashes and liquid leaching into the basements of their homes. Decades earlier, the Hooker Chemical Company had dumped toxic waste in the canal and buried
    it. Outraged, the residents of Love Canal organized and were eventually relocated from their town.

    While the residents of Love Canal were not the first or only community to confront the toxic legacy of industry, their plight caught the attention of national media, and ultimately, helped prompt the creation of the Comprehensive
    Environmental Response,
    Compensation, and Liability Act, commonly known as the Superfund. Passed by Congress in 1980, the law meant that chemical and petroleum companies would be taxed to create a cleanup trust fund.

    Over time, however, the trust fund has dwindled, with taxpayers increasingly footing cleanup bills. In the E.P.A.’s 2019 budget, staff cuts have been made, while some people nominated for key positions have direct links to polluting industries. In
    December, the administration also rejected a proposed rule that mining companies prove they have the money to clean up pollution left behind at their sites.

    The Smog-Filled Skies

    Pittsburghers used to say that if you wore a white shirt to work in the morning, that the shirt would be as gray as the air by lunchtime. In cities and
    towns throughout the country, Americans didn’t just breathe the air, they could all but touch it. In
    the nation’s National Parks, air pollution clouded the views.

    This was the United States before the 1970s Clean Air Act.

    There was no single smog event that led to the act. In the years leading up to its passage, though, “You had growing awareness in the scientific community about problems like smog,” said Eric Schaeffer, the executive director of the
    Environmental
    Integrity Project. “You had the beginnings of an understanding that it was bigger than any state agency could manage.”

    The act was an overhaul and extension of the 1963 Clean Air Act. It enabled the
    newly created E.P.A. to set standards related to six key pollutants that were known to harm human health.

    In recent months the Trump administration has signaled its desire to undo some of parts of the act. Mr. Pruitt, the E.P.A. administrator, has said that Obama-era car emissions standards designed to reduce greenhouse gasses and other pollutants linked to
    respiratory diseases and heart disease are set “too high.”

    The Near-Extinction of the Gray Wolf

    In the early 1970s, the gray wolf was teetering on the edge of extinction in the lower 48 states. Throughout the earlier part of the century, the wolf was largely considered a trophy and was hunted and skinned for its fur to within an
    inch of the species
    life.

    In its company were dozens of other species at risk of dying out, with few laws
    to protect them.

    In 1973, shortly after the first Earth Day, with the American public increasingly aware of the importance of biodiversity, the Endangered Species Act was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon. The act was designed to prohibit the killing or
    harassing of protected species or damaging the habitats necessary for their survival.

    Shortly thereafter, the gray wolf was listed as “endangered” under the act and — alongside the bald eagle, American alligator and dozens of other species — began to slowly recover in some areas. Scientists estimate that the
    act has directly
    prevented the extinction of more than 200 species.

    The act has long been a point of contention between industry and conservationists, and has come under criticism from previous administrations. But under the Trump administration, at least 63 separate legislative efforts to
    weaken the act have been
    undertaken since January 2017, according to the Centre for Biological Diversity.

    Among them were the delisting of various species that conservationists argue are not fully recovered, like grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park. The attempts to water down the act are “among the worst” by any administration,
    said Bruce Stein,
    the chief scientist of the National Wildlife Federation.

    Livia Albeck-Ripka is a reporting fellow at The New York Times. @livia_ar

    Kendra Pierre-Louis is a reporter on the climate team. Before joining The Times
    in 2017, she covered science and the environment for Popular Science. @kendrawrites

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Sunday, April 22, 2018 12:54:56
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    I have been interested in 'vertical farming' for years now.
    These people look like they have learned how to do it right.
    They plan to create better food sold at lower prices while
    using minimal resources and lowering labor.

    This company wants to build a giant indoor farm next to
    every major city in the world...

    http://tinyurl.com/y84quo9u

    Excerpts:

    Relative to conventional agriculture, Plenty says that it can get as much as 350 times the produce out of a given acre of land, using 1 percent as much water. “It is the most efficient [form of agriculture] in terms of the amount
    of productive capacity
    per dollar spent,” Barnard has said. “Period.”

    It’s worth reading those claims again, as they are pretty eye-popping. The next grandest claim in the industry is AeroFarms, a Newark, New Jersey company with nine indoor farms, which says it can get to 130 times the amount of produce per acre.

    What’s more, Plenty says its products taste better than most of what customers now have access to. Around 35 percent of fruits and vegetables eaten in the US today are imported. Leafy greens travel an average of 2,000 miles to reach your plate. Some
    produce has been on ships and trucks for two weeks before it reaches the table — having lost, by some estimates, 45 percent of its nutritional value along the way. Produce is bred to survive that long journey with its aesthetics, but not necessarily
    its flavor, intact.

    Plenty plans to build warehouses not inside major cities, but just outside them, next to distribution centers, to minimize the time its food spends in transit — it wants produce to go from harvest to table in hours, rather than days. If it can do that,
    the company will be able to grow and sell a wide variety of rare and heirloom breeds, which are more tender and flavorful than what’s available at the supermarket, but less resilient to long journeys.

    In fact, Barnard says he will save more money on trucks and fuel than he spends
    on facilities and power.

    The company’s goal is to build an indoor farm outside of every city in the world of more than 1 million residents — around 500 in all. It claims it can build a farm in 30 days and pay investors back in three to five years (versus 20 to 40 for
    traditional farms). With scale, it says, it can get costs down to competitive with traditional produce (for a presumably more desirable product that could command a price premium).

    If it can back up those claims in practice, Plenty might not revolutionize global agriculture, but it will sure as hell establish vertical farming as a real thing.

    To compete with industrial ag, vertical farming will have to be even better at reducing the need for human planters and harvesters. In other words, to compete, it’s going to have to create as few jobs as possible.

    Mexican agricultural workers cultivate romaine lettuce on a farm on October 8,
    2013 in Holtville, California.
    Fewer ... of these. John Moore/Getty Images
    That’s basically the history of technology — getting more value out of less
    labor.

    The great promise of Plenty is that through automation and optimization, it can
    make clean, low-input food cost competitive with (morally and chemically) unclean, resource-intensive food. That could potentially save an enormous amount of water and (
    insofar as it is electrified and powered by renewable energy) radically reduce the carbon emissions of the agricultural sector. Plus it could give millions of
    people access to fresher, more flavorful, more nutritious fruits and vegetables, making
    Michelle Obama (and the public health community) happy.

    But to do any of that, it has to minimize labor.

    Barnard is well aware of that, as is everyone in the industry. “Small-scale growing in 2017 is not a profitable enterprise, and there are a lot of systemic
    reasons for that that aren’t going to change,” he told Fast Company. “Growing at a small
    scale, you can’t get to the labor efficiencies that you need. It requires, in
    essence, too many people.”

    “Too many people” is not a great message to communities who might host a farm, though, so Barnard is quick to say that a full-size warehouse like the one planned for Washington will employ as many as several hundred people at skilled, full-time jobs.
    “While robots can handle some of the harvesting, planting, and logistics,” writes Selina Wang at Bloomberg, “experts will oversee the crop development and grocer relationships on-site.”

    Barnard also emphasizes that he’s not competing with traditional agriculture or small-scale urban farming, just adding to the portfolio, seeking to keep up with demand.

    But if vertical farming scales as fast as Barnard expects, competing purely on price and efficiency, it will represent a familiar pattern in the US economy — a relatively smaller number of high-skill jobs replacing a relatively larger number of low-
    skill jobs. In the bigger picture, it is a good thing, to get more and better food for fewer labor and material inputs...

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Thursday, May 03, 2018 11:24:49
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    Twitter Loses It Over Rudy Giuliani’s Bonkers Fox News Interview About Trump

    Rudy Giuliani, now part of President Donald Trump’s legal team, gave a wild interview to Sean Hannity on Fox News Wednesday night that set Twitter on fire.

    The former mayor of New York City admitted that the president repaid attorney Michael Cohen the $130,000 sent to porn star Stormy Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement. In addition, Giuliani claimed former FBI director James Comey was fired for
    refusing to say Trump wasn’t under investigation. Giuliani also said former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should be in jail and that Comey should be prosecuted.

    Twitter had some thoughts:

    Andy Richter @AndyRichter
    One thing I think we’re going to find out is that, if you’re going to hire
    a horrific living skull-headed monster to represent you legally, Rudy Giuliani is not the horrific living skull-headed monster to hire.

    Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel
    (Rudy Giuliani plows his limo through the wall back into Fox News, rolls down his window)
    “The President did the piss thing! GO GO GO!”
    (His chauffeur peels off.)

    David Corn @DavidCornDC
    It's really clever how the Deep State got Rudy Giuliani to show the world that Trump and Cohen lied about the payment to Stormy Daniels. And it used @seanhannity for this operation. Fiendishly smart!

    Jess Dweck @TheDweck
    Congrats to Rudy Giuliani on accidentally setting his desk on fire on the first
    day of work

    Eugene Gu, MD @eugenegu
    Never would I have guessed that the President’s mortal enemies would be Rudy Giuliani, Sean Hannity, Fox News, his own personal physicians, and himself.

    Edan Clay @EdanClay
    With friends like Rudy Giuliani and Sean Hannity, who needs special prosecutors?

    Jon Cooper @joncoopertweets
    OK, fine. I admit it. Rudy Giuliani is secretly working on behalf of #TheResistance. His retainer fee was paid by the Deep State. Sure, Rudy’s not
    the sharpest tool in the shed, but he’s not THAT dumb. Clearly, everything he
    said on Fox News was
    INTENDED to hurt @realDonaldTrump.

    popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” @pixelatedboat
    Giuliani: Boy it’s hot in here, I’m gonna take my shirt off
    Hannity: Rudy, you don’t have to do that...
    *Giuliani removes shirt, revealing a t-shirt printed with the words “Trump Sold Heath Ledger The Drugs That Killed Him”*

    R. Chase Brindisi @RBrindisi12
    Michael Cohen: “I’m arguably the dumbest lawyer in America.”
    Rudy Giuliani: “Hold my beer.”

    ***

    Trevor Noah - The World's Easiest Open Book Test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fzppEqL_34

    And many people suspect that someone in the Trump administration
    "leaked" these questions... :)

    ***

    I dunno, what do you think about all this, Andy?

    Millions of Americans Demand $130,000 for Not Having Sex with Trump
    Trump's announcement that he had paid $130,000 to someone he had
    never had sex with inspired millions of others to seek their paydays. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy for Stormy Daniels,”
    one Californian said. “I just want my check, too.”

    Mueller Says That Until Yesterday He Had Almost Forgotten
    to Investigate Giuliani
    “Like most Americans, I had totally forgotten about
    Rudy Giuliani’s existence,” the special counsel said.

    Trump Deletes Nine Tweets While Attempting to Spell “Subpoena”
    “I’ve never seen him so enraged,” a source said. “He hates the word ‘subpoena’ more than the E.P.A. hates the words ‘climate’ and ‘change.’ ”

    Giuliani Trying to Decide the Right Time
    for Him to Release Trump's Taxes

    Mueller Receives Giuliani's Conditions for Interview with Trump https://www.dropbox.com/s/houscn9er9nji7h/Mueller.jpg?dl=0

    ***

    I am simply astounded by these people. It's beyond... beyond. :)

    .

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  • From Jeremy H. Donovan@1:229/2 to All on Thursday, April 26, 2018 22:10:57
    From: jeremyhdonovan@gmail.com

    Wanna see something bizarre? :)

    Trevor Noah presents...
    Trump calling in to Fox and Friends:

    https://youtu.be/QtE0acRimSw

    .

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  • From ClutchCargo@1:229/2 to All on Friday, April 27, 2018 05:07:18
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    Wanna see something bizarre? :)

    Trevor Noah presents...
    Trump calling in to Fox and Friends:

    https://youtu.be/QtE0acRimSw

    holy shit, and he's running the country.
    that was some bizarre stuff, and it was real.
    no fake news here folks.

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Friday, May 04, 2018 17:57:41
    From: slider@anashram.com

    I am simply astounded by these people. It's beyond... beyond.

    ### - imho (and observation heh) they're to be pitied really...

    i mean, just imagine having to live like THAT all the time??

    what a boring fuckin' world they have to live in!?

    (i wouldn't wish it on even my worst enemy hah!)

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to All on Monday, May 07, 2018 07:42:25
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Sun, 06 May 2018 01:39:10 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:


    I understand that feeling, but no, they're really not to be pitied,
    since they're doing so much that's downright evil to so many.

    ### - think it's kinda sad is all; they're about as divorced from reality
    as it's possible to get?

    the lowest level of dante's hell for example... (pitiful indeed)

    There is no hell, don't you know that Slider?


    no one ever comes back from down there ya know...

    they really 'believe' in all that shit down there; is utterly real to 'em!

    You really believe all that shit about hell, is that utterly real to
    you?


    no getting through to 'em either! dogs in the street have more hope?

    and were all someone's beautiful, perfect little kids once upon a time...

    How do you know they were perfect? Genetic predisposition to whatever
    you're complaining about, perhaps? Isn't that an imperfection?

    There is no such thing as perfection Slider, just learn a bit of
    cosmology, if the biggest picture you can imagine was perfect, there
    would be no left over asteroids, comets, detritus etc from planetary
    formation would there? Nothing is in balance, all is chaos, get used
    to it.


    lost now of course...

    What morose bullshit you talk.


    (they don't know it's "evil" 'coz it's all they know/were ever shown to
    know, so never had a hope, all involved/steeped in playing some crazy mad >game for keeps, all makes pure sense to 'em too, it all adds-up for 'em
    see? and perforce they're all completely insane...)

    Jeez...


    quite a lot of wallyworld actually sucks that way? an amusement theme-park >out front; a slaughterhouse behind the scenes... not exactly what you'd
    call the best possible of all worlds then huh...


    Well it's better than the secluded make-believe world you inhabit, cut
    off from reality and living on the charity of other folk instead of
    your own efforts.


    and, well, i think we know a little song about that don't we folks heh...

    We? You don't speak for me Slider, never have, never will.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rags6a4ayVk

    (s'ok, s'just some mad-hippie cunt singing' his bleedin' heart out heh...)
    :D

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to All on Monday, May 07, 2018 07:36:09
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Fri, 04 May 2018 17:57:41 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:


    I am simply astounded by these people. It's beyond... beyond.

    ### - imho (and observation heh) they're to be pitied really...

    i mean, just imagine having to live like THAT all the time??

    what a boring fuckin' world they have to live in!?

    (i wouldn't wish it on even my worst enemy hah!)

    You including Giuliani in that moronic comment? If you are, then your
    brain needs to be rewired.

    Boring? Giuliani? Try this:

    Born into organised crime. However, during his term as Attorney
    General, he ran the Mafia Commission Trials and indicted 11 OC figures including the heads of NY's 5 mafia families. There were numerous hit contracts put on his head.

    Ran the Boesky and Millken trials and indictments.

    Democrat, then independent, then republican. He ultimately considered
    the democrats to be "naive" in their policies.

    Mayor of NYC, esp: during September 2001. Lauded for the way he
    handled this major terrorist attack.

    Cleaned the fuck up NYC. I know, I was in NYC in 1998 and all the
    yellow cabs had little stickers on them giving a police number to be
    called if the cab driver gave any trouble. Every. Single. Cab. And
    the streets were safer than the city I live in now, Perth.

    TIME Magazine "Person of the Year" in 2001.

    Knighted by Queen Elizabeth on 13 February 2002 for his leadership
    during 9/11 aftermath.

    There is more, much, much more...

    And you call this person "boring" Slider? He's lived more in 10
    fucking minutes than you will, or have, in your entire life time. Good
    God, you never fail to amaze me with your nonsense.

    You need to get out of the house/unit/flat/apartment more often mate
    :)




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  • From slider@1:229/2 to thangolossus@gmail.com on Monday, May 07, 2018 01:44:41
    From: slider@anashram.com

    On Mon, 07 May 2018 00:42:25 +0100, thang ornerythinchus <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 06 May 2018 01:39:10 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:


    I understand that feeling, but no, they're really not to be pitied,
    since they're doing so much that's downright evil to so many.

    ### - think it's kinda sad is all; they're about as divorced from
    reality
    as it's possible to get?

    the lowest level of dante's hell for example... (pitiful indeed)

    There is no hell, don't you know that Slider?

    ### - oh there's a hell alright thang; a living one! ;)





    no one ever comes back from down there ya know...

    they really 'believe' in all that shit down there; is utterly real to
    'em!

    You really believe all that shit about hell, is that utterly real to
    you?

    ### - it's not at ALL real to me... it's THEM it's utterly real to!

    and hence the problem!





    no getting through to 'em either! dogs in the street have more hope?

    and were all someone's beautiful, perfect little kids once upon a
    time...

    How do you know they were perfect? Genetic predisposition to whatever
    you're complaining about, perhaps? Isn't that an imperfection?

    ### - they're as-perfect as children are perfect, no more no less...




    There is no such thing as perfection Slider, just learn a bit of
    cosmology, if the biggest picture you can imagine was perfect, there
    would be no left over asteroids, comets, detritus etc from planetary formation would there? Nothing is in balance, all is chaos, get used
    to it.

    ### - sigh, think of the way children are still perfect as compared to
    almost the completely corrupted adults that raise them, and then you'll be
    able to approximate the context/metaphor in which all the above was
    actually + originally said? duh! (if the penny's finally dropped, heh,
    then you'll likely feel a little embarrassed by now for being such an
    obvious blind twit all the time? hehehe that baldy bonce of yours getting
    a bit red now around the gills is it?? lol gud! his ears are going all...
    pink! :)))




    lost now of course...

    What morose bullshit you talk.

    ### - you really think the likes of old trumpy could ever return to 'his' youthful + lost innocence by now?? riiiiight... he's lost alright! well
    fucked!

    not a chance in... hell! (heh)





    (they don't know it's "evil" 'coz it's all they know/were ever shown to
    know, so never had a hope, all involved/steeped in playing some crazy
    mad
    game for keeps, all makes pure sense to 'em too, it all adds-up for 'em
    see? and perforce they're all completely insane...)

    Jeez...

    ### - well you're almost as badly off AS them!? (fortunately for you
    though, you've been chatting/hob-knobbing with yours truly for the last
    few years heh and thus i've been able to gradually drag your lazy fat arse
    up a couple or 3 levels in the meantime till you're now 'almost' (but
    still not quite heh) nearly... sane?!

    you may or may not yet get out! but currently you're still 'in' the hell whereof i speak! ;)




    quite a lot of wallyworld actually sucks that way? an amusement
    theme-park
    out front; a slaughterhouse behind the scenes... not exactly what you'd
    call the best possible of all worlds then huh...


    Well it's better than the secluded make-believe world you inhabit, cut
    off from reality and living on the charity of other folk instead of
    your own efforts.

    ### - you're the one's who's "cut-off" from reality thang (the 'real'
    reality i mean, not some delusional + grandiose pipe-dream of material 'success' you indulge in + elevate yourself in your own eyes via; you vain fuck! hah!)




    and, well, i think we know a little song about that don't we folks
    heh...

    We? You don't speak for me Slider, never have, never will.

    ### - smile; it's a common enough joke-saying from childhood you pedantic ninny! :)

    you really should try to cease being such a 'seri-arse' all the time? and
    then lol ya might even be able to tune into the occasional 'jokes' people make?? :)

    (hehehe you're very slooow to catch-on sometimes ya know? and then you
    jump in like you know what's going on and make an utter twat of yourself
    in the process?? hehehe it's a good job i like ya sport or i'd be kicking
    your bollocks up your dirtbox by now lol:)

    lighten up dudearoo! :D

    + try looking before ya leap sometimes innit!

    hehehehehe...

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to thangolossus@gmail.com on Monday, May 07, 2018 02:01:02
    From: slider@anashram.com

    On Mon, 07 May 2018 00:36:09 +0100, thang ornerythinchus <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 04 May 2018 17:57:41 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:


    I am simply astounded by these people. It's beyond... beyond.

    ### - imho (and observation heh) they're to be pitied really...

    i mean, just imagine having to live like THAT all the time??

    what a boring fuckin' world they have to live in!?

    (i wouldn't wish it on even my worst enemy hah!)

    You including Giuliani in that moronic comment? If you are, then your
    brain needs to be rewired.

    Boring? Giuliani? Try this:

    Born into organised crime. However, during his term as Attorney
    General, he ran the Mafia Commission Trials and indicted 11 OC figures including the heads of NY's 5 mafia families. There were numerous hit contracts put on his head.

    Ran the Boesky and Millken trials and indictments.

    Democrat, then independent, then republican. He ultimately considered
    the democrats to be "naive" in their policies.

    Mayor of NYC, esp: during September 2001. Lauded for the way he
    handled this major terrorist attack.

    Cleaned the fuck up NYC. I know, I was in NYC in 1998 and all the
    yellow cabs had little stickers on them giving a police number to be
    called if the cab driver gave any trouble. Every. Single. Cab. And
    the streets were safer than the city I live in now, Perth.

    TIME Magazine "Person of the Year" in 2001.

    Knighted by Queen Elizabeth on 13 February 2002 for his leadership
    during 9/11 aftermath.

    There is more, much, much more...

    And you call this person "boring" Slider? He's lived more in 10
    fucking minutes than you will, or have, in your entire life time. Good
    God, you never fail to amaze me with your nonsense.

    You need to get out of the house/unit/flat/apartment more often mate
    :)

    ### - i'd be bored to tears living his empty life as some kinda living
    sewer worker??

    probably as much as he'd be bored/confused by mine!

    chalk & cheese mate! day & night!

    heaven & hell ;)

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to All on Wednesday, May 09, 2018 19:10:13
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Mon, 07 May 2018 02:01:02 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon, 07 May 2018 00:36:09 +0100, thang ornerythinchus ><thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 04 May 2018 17:57:41 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:


    I am simply astounded by these people. It's beyond... beyond.

    ### - imho (and observation heh) they're to be pitied really...

    i mean, just imagine having to live like THAT all the time??

    what a boring fuckin' world they have to live in!?

    (i wouldn't wish it on even my worst enemy hah!)

    You including Giuliani in that moronic comment? If you are, then your
    brain needs to be rewired.

    Boring? Giuliani? Try this:

    Born into organised crime. However, during his term as Attorney
    General, he ran the Mafia Commission Trials and indicted 11 OC figures
    including the heads of NY's 5 mafia families. There were numerous hit
    contracts put on his head.

    Ran the Boesky and Millken trials and indictments.

    Democrat, then independent, then republican. He ultimately considered
    the democrats to be "naive" in their policies.

    Mayor of NYC, esp: during September 2001. Lauded for the way he
    handled this major terrorist attack.

    Cleaned the fuck up NYC. I know, I was in NYC in 1998 and all the
    yellow cabs had little stickers on them giving a police number to be
    called if the cab driver gave any trouble. Every. Single. Cab. And
    the streets were safer than the city I live in now, Perth.

    TIME Magazine "Person of the Year" in 2001.

    Knighted by Queen Elizabeth on 13 February 2002 for his leadership
    during 9/11 aftermath.

    There is more, much, much more...

    And you call this person "boring" Slider? He's lived more in 10
    fucking minutes than you will, or have, in your entire life time. Good
    God, you never fail to amaze me with your nonsense.

    You need to get out of the house/unit/flat/apartment more often mate
    :)

    ### - i'd be bored to tears living his empty life as some kinda living
    sewer worker??

    probably as much as he'd be bored/confused by mine!

    chalk & cheese mate! day & night!

    heaven & hell ;)

    I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. However, Giuliani
    is a living part of history and will be remembered as the mayor of NYC
    when the towers came down for at least the next several thousand
    years. How long do you think you'll be remembered?


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  • From whitetrashhillbilly@1:229/2 to All on Wednesday, May 09, 2018 08:29:52
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to All on Wednesday, May 09, 2018 19:08:42
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Mon, 07 May 2018 01:44:41 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon, 07 May 2018 00:42:25 +0100, thang ornerythinchus ><thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 06 May 2018 01:39:10 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:


    I understand that feeling, but no, they're really not to be pitied,
    since they're doing so much that's downright evil to so many.

    ### - think it's kinda sad is all; they're about as divorced from
    reality
    as it's possible to get?

    the lowest level of dante's hell for example... (pitiful indeed)

    There is no hell, don't you know that Slider?

    ### - oh there's a hell alright thang; a living one! ;)

    Yep, and generally for those who make it so. You could be a lot more
    cheerful Slider, more positive, more optimistic. *That* attitude in
    the face of adversity is admirable. To let life get you down is not
    admirable. You seem to me, and I could be wrong, to have let life
    generally smite you almost in the biblical manner. You seem negative, pessimistic and without hope. That doesn't take courage and if that's
    your hell, it's purely of your own making.






    no one ever comes back from down there ya know...

    they really 'believe' in all that shit down there; is utterly real to
    'em!

    You really believe all that shit about hell, is that utterly real to
    you?

    ### - it's not at ALL real to me... it's THEM it's utterly real to!

    and hence the problem!

    No idea what the fuck you're talking about. Who is "them"? Can you
    be for once specific? Name names, groups, tribes, cultures, peoples,
    nations, races. Give me some fucking FACTS instead of your insane
    nonsense.

    Very few people really believe in hell slider. Surely you know that?
    If they really believed in hell, I mean *really* believed, there would
    be very little greed, corruption, sloth, envy, murder and the
    remainder of the 10 deadlies. Therefore, anyone who talks about hell
    is generally only giving lip service to the outdated, fictional
    notion.






    no getting through to 'em either! dogs in the street have more hope?

    and were all someone's beautiful, perfect little kids once upon a
    time...

    How do you know they were perfect? Genetic predisposition to whatever
    you're complaining about, perhaps? Isn't that an imperfection?

    ### - they're as-perfect as children are perfect, no more no less...

    So, let's look at an anancephalic child. Born without most of the
    brain. Is that perfect? A Downs Syndrome child. A child born with
    one of the many thousands of possible significant genetic mis-codings.
    A child born with a personality defect, say schizoid personality
    disorder.

    As perfect as they are perfect, slider? Do you see what nonsense you
    spout? Will you ever learn?




    There is no such thing as perfection Slider, just learn a bit of
    cosmology, if the biggest picture you can imagine was perfect, there
    would be no left over asteroids, comets, detritus etc from planetary
    formation would there? Nothing is in balance, all is chaos, get used
    to it.

    ### - sigh, think of the way children are still perfect as compared to
    almost the completely corrupted adults that raise them, and then you'll be >able to approximate the context/metaphor in which all the above was
    actually + originally said? duh! (if the penny's finally dropped, heh,
    then you'll likely feel a little embarrassed by now for being such an
    obvious blind twit all the time? hehehe that baldy bonce of yours getting
    a bit red now around the gills is it?? lol gud! his ears are going all... >pink! :)))

    So you are comparing children with brains which do not grow into
    mature human brains until they are in late teens with adults who have
    mature brains and who have become corrupted by greed for money or
    power? *That* sort of corruption?

    You are comparing apples with oranges. You can't possible think that
    it is possible to rationally compare a child, with it's half formed
    brain, with an adult? Really?

    And speaking of those "completely corrupted adults that raise them",
    are ^you^ one of those? Whether or not you have had children, are you
    one of those completely corrupted adults? If not, slider, please tell
    me how you escaped what you describe as the almost universal
    corruption of adults? Or are you also completely corrupted?

    If we and everyone else are all "completely corrupted adults", then
    people like you who are not so corrupted must be rarer than hens'
    teeth. Rarer than unicorn shit.




    lost now of course...

    What morose bullshit you talk.

    ### - you really think the likes of old trumpy could ever return to 'his' >youthful + lost innocence by now?? riiiiight... he's lost alright! well >fucked!

    not a chance in... hell! (heh)


    What innocence? Who's innocent? We're predators evolved from a long
    line of predators and at the moment we're the apex predator. All
    things bow before us as a species. Doesn't sound like innocence to me
    :)

    Try this. Open that bottle of reality and take a half teaspoon. Swill
    around your mouth. Drink slowly with eyes half closed. Wait for the
    hit...




    (they don't know it's "evil" 'coz it's all they know/were ever shown to
    know, so never had a hope, all involved/steeped in playing some crazy
    mad
    game for keeps, all makes pure sense to 'em too, it all adds-up for 'em
    see? and perforce they're all completely insane...)

    Jeez...

    ### - well you're almost as badly off AS them!? (fortunately for you
    though, you've been chatting/hob-knobbing with yours truly for the last
    few years heh and thus i've been able to gradually drag your lazy fat arse
    up a couple or 3 levels in the meantime till you're now 'almost' (but
    still not quite heh) nearly... sane?!

    you may or may not yet get out! but currently you're still 'in' the hell >whereof i speak! ;)

    You don't know me or anything about me but for what I write here. Pots shouldn't call kettles black either. You basically don't know the
    fuck what you're prattling on about. I can't believe you've ever had
    a long term relationship or children in your life because there is no
    way, no way at all, any woman outside of a kept woman or woman of the
    night, would put up with the shit you come out with or your
    self-delusions. Nor would children allow you to get away with this
    crap. They would say to you that you're full of shit and an
    embarrassment to them and please, please - don't be the crazy man when
    our friends are over. Please shave, cut your hair, wash your clothes,
    and don't talk crazy...:)




    quite a lot of wallyworld actually sucks that way? an amusement
    theme-park
    out front; a slaughterhouse behind the scenes... not exactly what you'd
    call the best possible of all worlds then huh...


    Well it's better than the secluded make-believe world you inhabit, cut
    off from reality and living on the charity of other folk instead of
    your own efforts.

    ### - you're the one's who's "cut-off" from reality thang (the 'real'
    reality i mean, not some delusional + grandiose pipe-dream of material >'success' you indulge in + elevate yourself in your own eyes via; you vain >fuck! hah!)

    You sound envious. Chris has the idea when he says, and more than
    once, that "blessed is the child who has no debt". That's my major accomplishment pal, I owe nobody. Period. Zilch. Everything I own
    is owned fully. No bank can foreclose my house, or take my cars, and
    my money is ...my money. I can live independently for as long as I
    like. What's vain about that? I did it the hard way, as a kid from a
    broken home and working class background who self-taught, paid my way
    through uni, worked to the top of my profession in this city, did it
    all with my own hands. Never borrowed one fucking cent off my father
    or anyone else except for the banks and they've been off my back now
    since the late 1990's.

    It's all cold hard fact. No delusion, no illusion, no grandiosity, no
    pipe dreams, no alcoholic stupor, no drugs (except dope), just cold
    hard fact.

    And you, sucker living in a state of parasitic welfare, pretend to
    laugh at me? Lol. Wakey wakey...




    and, well, i think we know a little song about that don't we folks
    heh...

    We? You don't speak for me Slider, never have, never will.

    ### - smile; it's a common enough joke-saying from childhood you pedantic >ninny! :)

    you really should try to cease being such a 'seri-arse' all the time? and >then lol ya might even be able to tune into the occasional 'jokes' people >make?? :)

    You don't have a sense of humour. You're too thin skinned. You're
    almost as bad as David Jerome and he is definitely thin skinned. My
    serious attitude is necessary in this world as you will soon see when
    the Iranians stop their oil flow and the price of living starts to
    rise in cities such as London.

    I know people like you. Your type are all "hail fellow well met" on
    the surface but underneath your type is a seething mass of hatred and
    jealousy. It doesn't take a lot to sting you and when stung, you
    react accordingly, all superficialities dropped and the real person
    revealed. The slider exposed. Otherwise, mate, I wouldn't talk to
    you like this. I would treat you with more respect and probably be
    friendlier to you but that won't happen because underneath it all,
    you're really not a very nice person.

    Probably the best representation of our species here is Chris, who I
    believe *is* a genuinely nice bloke who proverbially wouldn't hurt a
    fly and does his best, often, to try to level out people such as me.
    I'm not a very nice person either slider but the difference between
    you and I is that I know I'm not a very nice person, but you go on as
    if you are. You're not.

    (hehehe you're very slooow to catch-on sometimes ya know? and then you
    jump in like you know what's going on and make an utter twat of yourself
    in the process?? hehehe it's a good job i like ya sport or i'd be kicking >your bollocks up your dirtbox by now lol:)

    lighten up dudearoo! :D

    + try looking before ya leap sometimes innit!

    hehehehehe...

    You only want me to agree with you. I won't and can't until you start
    taking a good look at yourself and the reality of your situation. I'm
    so fucking sick if people being self deluded, it's prevalent in real
    life and now it's all over usenet as well. You go from hot to cold
    and back to hot again. You need to steer a steady course, make your
    mind up and don't change it. Keep to the rudder mate.

    I don't like flattery either, I don't need it and it's a waste of
    time. Let's call a spade a shovel.


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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Wednesday, May 09, 2018 18:13:08
    From: slider@anashram.com

    twats r us our new newsgroup

    ### - twats r U's more like... 'coz i'm doin' alright! (hehehe :)))

    (j/k 'coz we're all cunts really hah... well, jeremy's more of a cunt than thang is, and you're less of a cunt than the both of 'em put together, but
    then still more of a cunt than i am so round & round it all goes
    ahahaha...)

    plus didn't buddha say/suggest it's better to get 'OFF' the wheel??

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAU6VBxJL6M

    "people say am crazy
    but i just had to let it go..."

    ;)

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to allreadydun@gmail.com on Monday, May 14, 2018 11:52:26
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Wed, 9 May 2018 08:29:52 -0700 (PDT), whitetrashhillbilly <allreadydun@gmail.com> wrote:

    twats r us our new newsgroup

    alt.dreams.cataneda.cunts


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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Monday, May 14, 2018 20:57:53
    From: slider@anashram.com

    Oh shit, now we have to refer to you as "a buck sixty plus".
    son of a bitch, it's always something new here. lol!

    ### - hey buddy, can ya let me have $1000 for a cuppa tea?

    :D hahaha

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  • From waltkowaski@1:229/2 to All on Monday, May 14, 2018 12:38:43
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    ### - anything but, actually heh... very poor people i was born into,
    simple peeps, hard working, and who's lives never actually amounted to
    more than a hill of beans for all that struggling... they had 4 kids and
    i, apparently, was the smart one with an iq of +160 (wont reveal to ya the actual figure above that as i don't wanna scare ya's hah! but it was a
    quite a lot more!) ;)

    Oh shit, now we have to refer to you as "a buck sixty plus".
    son of a bitch, it's always something new here. lol!

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  • From waltkowaski@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 17:08:54
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    no co-pays here boss.
    drugs? no charge for most
    of the generic stuff.
    medicare= the only way to fly.
    $131 a month. and most shit is free.

    but everybody else is for sure getting
    the big uncle sam dick. Big Pharmie
    hoses 'em good.

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 12:48:24
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    Just Saying Yes to Drug Companies
    Paul Krugman

    http://tinyurl.com/yb28acae

    May 14, 2018

    America pays far more for drugs than any other major nation.

    Last week we learned that Novartis, the Swiss drug company, had paid Michael Cohen — Donald Trump’s personal lawyer — $1.2 million for what ended up being a single meeting. Then, on Friday, Trump announced a “plan” to reduce
    drug prices.

    Why the scare quotes? Because the “plan” was mostly free of substance, controlled or otherwise. (O.K., there were a few ideas that experts found interesting, but they were fairly marginal.) During the 2016 campaign Trump promised to use the
    government’s power, including Medicare’s role in paying for prescription drugs, to bring drug prices down. But none of that was in his speech on Friday.

    And if someone tries to convince you that Trump really is getting tough on drug
    companies, there’s a simple response: If he were, his speech wouldn’t have sent drug stocks soaring.

    None of this should come as a surprise. At this point, “Trump Breaks Another of His Populist Promises” is very much a dog-bites-man headline. But there are two substantive questions here. First, should the U.S. government actually do what Trump said
    he would do, but didn’t? And if so, why haven’t we taken action on drug prices?

    The answer to the first question is a definite yes. America pays far more for drugs than any other major nation, and there’s no good reason we should. Basically, when it comes to drugs, we’re Big Pharma’s sucker of last resort.

    Bear in mind that the way the drug business works can’t and doesn’t bear any resemblance to the Econ 101, supply-and-demand stories beloved by free-market enthusiasts. What we have, instead, is a patent system in which the
    company that develops a
    drug is granted a temporary legal monopoly over sales of that drug. That system
    is O.K., or at least defensible, as a way to reward innovation; but nothing about the logic of the patent system says that patent owners should be free to exploit their
    monopolies to the max.

    There is, in fact, a very strong case for government action to limit the prices
    drug companies can charge, just as there is a strong case for limiting monopoly
    power in general. And the fact that taxpayers pay a large share of drug costs both reinforces
    the case for limiting drug prices and gives the government a lot of leverage it
    could use to achieve that goal.

    Of course, draconian controls on drug prices could discourage innovation. But that’s not what anyone is talking about, and the benefits of moderate action would almost surely exceed the costs, for a variety of reasons: Drug companies would make less
    per unit but sell more, they would spend less developing drugs that largely duplicate existing medication, and more. Oh, and America, with its unique unwillingness to bargain over drug prices, is basically subsidizing the rest of
    the world. Wasn’t
    Trump supposed to hate that sort of thing?

    So why aren’t we doing something about drug prices?

    It’s true that simply granting Medicare the right to negotiate prices wouldn’t do much by itself. We’d also have to give Medicare some bargaining
    power, probably including the right to refuse to cover drugs whose prices are exorbitant. And before
    you denounce this as “rationing,” remember that before 2003, Medicare didn’t pay for drugs at all.

    Still, saying no might anger some Medicare recipients; polls show overwhelming public support (92 percent!) for allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prices, but that support might erode once people realized what effective negotiation requires.

    But questions about the details aren’t what’s stopping action on drug prices, since we haven’t even gotten to the point of letting Medicare try to bring prices down. And the reason we haven’t gotten to that point is, sadly, both simple and crude:
    Pharma has bought itself enough politicians to block policies that might reduce
    its profits.

    I’m not just talking about campaign contributions, either. I’m talking about the personal enrichment of politicians who serve pharma’s agenda.

    After all, who put together the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, which put taxpayers on the hook for seniors’ prescription drug costs but specifically prohibited Medicare from negotiating prices? The answer is that it was largely devised by then-
    Representative Billy Tauzin, Republican of Louisiana — who shortly thereafter
    left Congress to become the highly paid president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association, the industry’s main lobbying group. If that sounds
    remarkably raw, that’s because it is.

    And Trump, far from draining this swamp, invited it in to the executive branch.
    Tom Price, his first secretary of health and human services, was forced out because of his lavish travel spending — but his pharma-related conflicts of interest were
    actually a much bigger deal. And his successor, Alex Azar, is … a former drug
    company executive whose stated views on drug pricing are completely at odds with everything Trump said in the campaign.

    The bottom line is that American exceptionalism has prevailed again: We’re still the only major nation that lets the drug companies charge whatever they like.

    ***

    Trump breaks yet another campaign promise in further support of
    the super-rich, which is pretty much all he ever does. Dog bites man.
    Drug stocks go up. News at eleven. The rural schmoes who voted this
    guy in are not being helped by any of his policies. He just lied
    to them over and over in his campaign, and he still is.

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to allreadydun@gmail.com on Monday, May 21, 2018 10:33:21
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Mon, 14 May 2018 12:38:43 -0700 (PDT), waltkowaski
    <allreadydun@gmail.com> wrote:



    ### - anything but, actually heh... very poor people i was born into,
    simple peeps, hard working, and who's lives never actually amounted to
    more than a hill of beans for all that struggling... they had 4 kids and
    i, apparently, was the smart one with an iq of +160 (wont reveal to ya the >> actual figure above that as i don't wanna scare ya's hah! but it was a
    quite a lot more!) ;)

    Oh shit, now we have to refer to you as "a buck sixty plus".
    son of a bitch, it's always something new here. lol!

    Try pathological liar. Fits better.

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to allreadydun@gmail.com on Monday, May 21, 2018 10:41:10
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Tue, 15 May 2018 17:08:54 -0700 (PDT), waltkowaski
    <allreadydun@gmail.com> wrote:

    no co-pays here boss.
    drugs? no charge for most
    of the generic stuff.
    medicare= the only way to fly.
    $131 a month. and most shit is free.

    but everybody else is for sure getting
    the big uncle sam dick. Big Pharmie
    hoses 'em good.

    What's medicare? Public or do you have to pay a premium for it? Here
    in Australia health care is free and most medicines cost only $8.

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to david.j.worrell@gmail.com on Monday, May 21, 2018 10:40:08
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Tue, 15 May 2018 12:48:24 -0700 (PDT), "Jeremy H. Denisovan" <david.j.worrell@gmail.com> wrote:

    Just Saying Yes to Drug Companies
    Paul Krugman

    http://tinyurl.com/yb28acae

    May 14, 2018

    America pays far more for drugs than any other major nation.

    Last week we learned that Novartis, the Swiss drug company, had paid Michael Cohen — Donald Trump’s personal lawyer — $1.2 million for what ended up being a single meeting. Then, on Friday, Trump announced a “plan” to reduce
    drug prices.

    Why the scare quotes? Because the “plan” was mostly free of substance, controlled or otherwise. (O.K., there were a few ideas that experts found interesting, but they were fairly marginal.) During the 2016 campaign Trump promised to use the
    government’s power, including Medicare’s role in paying for prescription drugs, to bring
    drug prices down. But none of that was in his speech on Friday.

    And if someone tries to convince you that Trump really is getting tough on drug companies, there’s a simple response: If he were, his speech wouldn’t have sent drug stocks soaring.

    None of this should come as a surprise. At this point, “Trump Breaks Another
    of His Populist Promises” is very much a dog-bites-man headline. But there are two substantive questions here. First, should the U.S. government actually do what Trump said
    he would do, but didn’t? And if so, why haven’t we taken action on drug prices?

    The answer to the first question is a definite yes. America pays far more for drugs than any other major nation, and there’s no good reason we should. Basically, when it comes to drugs, we’re Big Pharma’s sucker of last resort.

    Bear in mind that the way the drug business works can’t and doesn’t bear any resemblance to the Econ 101, supply-and-demand stories beloved by free-market enthusiasts. What we have, instead, is a patent system in which the
    company that develops a
    drug is granted a temporary legal monopoly over sales of that drug. That system
    is
    O.K., or at least defensible, as a way to reward innovation; but nothing about the logic of the patent system says that patent owners should be free to exploit their monopolies to the max.

    There is, in fact, a very strong case for government action to limit the prices drug companies can charge, just as there is a strong case for limiting monopoly power in general. And the fact that taxpayers pay a large share of drug costs both reinforces
    the case for limiting drug prices and gives the government a lot of leverage
    it could use to achieve that goal.

    Of course, draconian controls on drug prices could discourage innovation. But that’s not what anyone is talking about, and the benefits of moderate action would almost surely exceed the costs, for a variety of reasons: Drug companies would make less
    per unit but sell more, they would spend less developing drugs that largely duplicate existing medication, and more. Oh, and America, with its unique unwillingness to bargain over drug prices, is basically subsidizing the rest of
    the world. Wasn’t Trump supposed to hate that sort of thing?

    So why aren’t we doing something about drug prices?

    It’s true that simply granting Medicare the right to negotiate prices wouldn’t do much by itself. We’d also have to give Medicare some bargaining
    power, probably including the right to refuse to cover drugs whose prices are exorbitant. And before
    you denounce this as “rationing,” remember that before 2003, Medicare didn’t pay for
    drugs at all.

    Still, saying no might anger some Medicare recipients; polls show overwhelming
    public support (92 percent!) for allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prices, but that support might erode once people realized what effective negotiation requires.

    But questions about the details aren’t what’s stopping action on drug prices, since we haven’t even gotten to the point of letting Medicare try to bring prices down. And the reason we haven’t gotten to that point is, sadly, both simple and crude:
    Pharma has bought itself enough politicians to block policies that might reduce its
    profits.

    I’m not just talking about campaign contributions, either. I’m talking about the personal enrichment of politicians who serve pharma’s agenda.

    After all, who put together the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, which put taxpayers on the hook for seniors’ prescription drug costs but specifically prohibited Medicare from negotiating prices? The answer is that it was largely devised by then-
    Representative Billy Tauzin, Republican of Louisiana — who shortly thereafter
    left
    Congress to become the highly paid president of the Pharmaceutical Research and
    Manufacturers Association, the industry’s main lobbying group. If that sounds
    remarkably raw, that’s because it is.

    And Trump, far from draining this swamp, invited it in to the executive branch. Tom Price, his first secretary of health and human services, was forced
    out because of his lavish travel spending — but his pharma-related conflicts of interest were
    actually a much bigger deal. And his successor, Alex Azar, is … a former drug
    company
    executive whose stated views on drug pricing are completely at odds with everything Trump said in the campaign.

    The bottom line is that American exceptionalism has prevailed again: We’re still the only major nation that lets the drug companies charge whatever they like.

    ***

    Trump breaks yet another campaign promise in further support of
    the super-rich, which is pretty much all he ever does. Dog bites man.
    Drug stocks go up. News at eleven. The rural schmoes who voted this
    guy in are not being helped by any of his policies. He just lied
    to them over and over in his campaign, and he still is.

    You don't get it, just like they don't get it. He doesn't give a fuck
    about you or them or anyone but those who integrate with his
    worldview, which is a view based on the theory that only those with
    money and power matter in the destiny of mankind.

    He used them, and probably laughed all the way to the Presidency. Many
    people like you, who thought that HRC was a shoo in, didn't even
    bother voting - Trump is still laughing at that.

    He won't be impeached and if he pulls off the Korea thing along with
    avoiding a trade war with China, he will probably be back as POTUS in
    2 years.


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  • From slider@1:229/2 to thangolossus@gmail.com on Friday, June 01, 2018 14:22:08
    From: slider@anashram.com

    On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:17:55 +0100, thang ornerythinchus <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    Why don't you go out into Trafalgar
    Square and stand on a fucking SOAP BOX and tell people all about how
    they are all deluded, all contaminating this world and so on and so
    on. Don't have the guts? Could that be it?

    ### - did better than that old sport and published it in a book selling globally (sold another 9 copies just last month for instance, one of 'em
    to india!) albeit stated indirectly, but it's basically all there for the 'discerning' eye to see/find...

    "the revolution will not be televised!" ;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJFhuOWgXg

    but then being a blind baldy old cunt perforce ya can't/didn't see it
    hehehe...



    worse! you defend it!

    At least I DO something instead of talking crap about dreams and wally
    world. Talk about fucking fantasy world. Jesus.

    ### - you don't DO anything thang + the only thing you've ever really DONE
    was to rob the world blind and get fat while others literally starved to
    death all around you; 'crims' have no honour even amongst themselves apparently... but then i guess you can't help it really, after all it's in
    your blood and was handed down to ya from a long line of such crims
    dumped/shat there by the brits having a long day out hahaha... and now
    there you's all are: shit imitating the very shits you came from and all thinkin' you're so great lol - shit kings, who don't even realise just how
    bad they smell! :)))




    I don't give a rat's arse whether you care or not. It's irrelevant to
    me. Me, on the other hand, I bother you - a lot.

    ### - only in your dreams mate lol :)




    You think about me
    a lot, I know this.

    ### - ahahaha ya think?? :D




    You wonder if I tell the truth about my position
    in life or whether it's dust. You wonder what it would be like to see something you want, and there are things you want, and then just go
    and fucking buy it.

    ### - you don't even 'know' your own/true position lol...

    you think just coz you got a few bucks you gots everything huh?

    verily verily, it would be easier for a blind thang to shit through the
    eye of a pack of camels than for him to ever 'buy' his way into heaven??
    LOL :)))





    I can go tomorrow and cash down on a new Jeep 4WD, or a mid-range BMW,
    and have plenty left over, plenty, without borrowing, or mortgaging my
    house etc. I choose not to, being of the cautious fraternity who
    keeps it in a box in a bank in a safety deposit vault somewhere in
    some city just. in. case.

    That's freedom. And I read philosophy, all the time, read poetry,
    smoke dope, don't drink alcohol, don't smoke tobacco, I self educate,
    I plumb the depths of the darknet, I can hit a plane tomorrow and fly
    to Butan or Burma, or London, wherever I want.

    ### - heh you think you're free, when all ya really did was to lock
    yourself (and your riches) in a box and put them in safety storage
    probably never to be seen/used again, while you spend what left of the
    rest of your life standing guard over it hehehe...

    idiot! :)))



    Shit, slider, you might be the only cunt here who has a decent head of follicles :)

    ### - fyi (and major irritation hah) have still gots hair down to just
    above my waist lol, admittedly s'getting a bit thin on top these days and
    even startin' to see bit's a scalp peeping through, but then i haven't
    gone grey yet either... so must be doin' something right huh ;)





    ### - see? you 'defend' that whole lifestyle when that 'same' lifestyle
    is
    undeniably destroying not only the human race but the rest of the world
    too??

    Oh fuck off. Asteroids destroy, but even then they don't take out all
    life. Climate change destroys (proper, historic, geologic climate
    change) but doesn't eliminate life. How can bacteria, insects,
    spiders, virii, rats and cockroaches and so on be destroyed by humans?
    We can't even keep the cunts out of our houses and kitchens...

    Perhaps a massive gamma ray burst from a near supernova, but even that
    would only fry the part of the earth facing the beam.

    ### - denial denial, all is denial :)

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/27/world-on-track-to-lose-two-thirds-of-wild-animals-by-2020-major-report-warns



    if only you'd allow yourself to be a little more objective you'd decry
    the
    shit that's all around us too! the shit humanity's drowning in! but then
    you 'refuse' to even examine that stance don't you?

    I'm more open to evidence and the interpretation of evidence than
    anyone and I'm far better read and educated than you. But I will not
    agree with your bullshit until you put evidence in front of me - not "wallyworld" nonsense but proper evidence. Facts. So far, you are "factophobic" - change that, and I'll have some decent respect for
    you.

    ### - but we've ALREADY destroyed 2 fucking THIRDS of the flora & fauna
    ON
    this planet???

    2/3s!!! just... gone!?

    gone forever!

    so sooner rather than later me old chum! (and we haven't even 'included'
    war yet LOL)

    Nonsense. Just the larger animals and they die off every million or
    so years in any case. Most of the biomass is foliage and most of that
    is still around. You can still fly over the Brazilian jungle for a
    couple of days without seeing any habitation whatsoever. What about
    the biomass in bacteria? Or in the oceans, of which we still know
    less than the dark side of the moon?

    Some animals will go, and that's to make way for us. Eventually,
    we'll leave this planet and that will be the epitome of evolution on
    Gaia - the chicks will have been kicked out of the nest. Perhaps that
    is what happens when life evolves on other planets in this enormous
    cosmos of trillions of galaxies each with billions of stars/suns and
    perhaps infinite extent.

    Open that mind of yours before it's too late.

    ### - you read the above? first open your eyes! then weep!



    ### - and how many YEARS of your LIFE did you give-over to that??

    well ya didn't need to lol, so you effectively 'wasted' ALL that time!

    not very smart then huh! :)))

    Shit I enjoyed it. Corner office on the 30th floor, young attractive
    women working for me, power and reputation, plenty of money, expense accounts, travel all over the place business class minimum, bank
    priveliges, etc etc. What's NOT to like?

    ### - said the fat pig wallowing in its own shite LOL :))))





    Ever heard of a safe deposit box? I don't believe in keeping
    everything electronic. I like keeping at least half in negotiables.

    ### - and those deposit boxes are gonna remain open when all the banks
    are
    shut huh?

    riiiight...

    plus defo NOT very smart! not smart at all lol :)

    You've never had one. You don't know the procedure. They are
    physical boxes behind the biggest vaults you have ever seen, bars and generally in bank basements, bomb proof and open only to photo ID and
    a dupllicate key. No one knows whats in them, except for the key
    owner. Hi denom cash and gold, wills, papers, land titles - that sort
    of thing. Oh yeah, never keep one of these in your own name. Find
    someone you trust with your life (that's that hardest part).

    What's not smart about that?

    ### - having to maybe break into a hugely protected vault such as you
    describe when it (and every other bank/vault the world over) has been permanently closed overnight in say the scenario of an economic
    collapse/run on the bank? - and you call yourself an intelligent
    survivalist who thinks ahead?? lol you really haven't thought this fully through have ya :)

    thang knows what he's doing! - riiiight... :)

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Sunday, June 03, 2018 18:36:09
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    Bill Maher, "Abhorrent, bordering on presidential." :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ONnXi94EI

    Trevor Noah, The "Spygate" Gambit
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5zvsnlyBeU

    Bernie Sanders, "we have a president who is a pathological liar" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-oMU-iZRFY

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Monday, June 04, 2018 23:08:16
    From: slider@anashram.com

    ### - being 'politically aware' is one thing...

    politically 'obsessed' another?

    stick to the dreams maan, 'coz in many ways they're actually 'more real'
    than all that corrupt political rubbish and its whole host of jokers &
    clowns put together!

    there's just no fixing that shit ya know, best thus anyone can do is to 'understand' it, and then endure it knowing what a pile of unadulterated corrupted crap it really all is...

    oh and defo don't relate to it so much ya end up becoming one of 'em...

    that's a real no no :)

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Monday, June 04, 2018 16:45:08
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    Watch the videos dumb ass. :)

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to david.j.worrell@gmail.com on Tuesday, June 05, 2018 02:53:55
    From: slider@anashram.com

    On Tue, 05 Jun 2018 00:45:08 +0100, Jeremy H. Denisovan <david.j.worrell@gmail.com> wrote:

    Watch the videos dumb ass. :)

    ### - no thanks, always prefer to keep 'some' spaces in my head when it
    comes to dealing with toxic shit, especially whenever i notice someone
    else getting into 'terrible' trouble with it heh...

    afaic trump & Co can kiss my arse! lol :)))

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Monday, June 04, 2018 19:13:14
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    Unprecedented, bizarre things are happening in our country.
    These videos are by some of the people who are documenting them.

    For example, just to list another one, it is now official
    Trump administration policy to “highlight uncertainties in
    climate science” and “ignore, and not seek to characterize
    or question, the science being conducted by Federal agencies
    and outside entities.”

    That’s right. The official policy of the White House is to
    undermine climate scientists and ignore scientific findings
    about climate change from its own federal agencies.
    That is unconscionable, and most US allies find it bizarre.

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, June 05, 2018 11:33:46
    From: slider@anashram.com

    lives to hate wrote...

    trump this and trump that, and then trump that again followed by endless trump...

    ### - because you've run out of absolutely 'anything' else interesting to
    say, what ever again??

    even to the point of *pretending* (yes folks: pretending! duh!) to have interesting lucid dreams; perforce which you CAN'T reveal because you
    DIDN'T actually have any! LOL LOL :D

    i mean, just HOW NUTS is that???

    completely! :)

    e.g., first it's the man with burning eyes? and then burning trees??

    when in-truth it's all just been a pack of... flamin' lies! :D

    the fuckin' fucker's fucked folks!

    and is apparently a pathological liar to boot!

    lol what a 'team' you & trumpy would have made eh?

    just like 2 peas in a pod lol :)

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to slider on Tuesday, June 05, 2018 14:06:17
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    On Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at 3:33:49 AM UTC-7, slider wrote:

    lives to hate wrote...

    ...all the hateful shit under the name 'slider' directly below:

    trump this and trump that, and then trump that again followed by endless trump...

    ### - because you've run out of absolutely 'anything' else interesting to say, what ever again??

    even to the point of *pretending* (yes folks: pretending! duh!) to have interesting lucid dreams; perforce which you CAN'T reveal because you DIDN'T actually have any! LOL LOL :D

    i mean, just HOW NUTS is that???

    completely! :)

    e.g., first it's the man with burning eyes? and then burning trees??

    when in-truth it's all just been a pack of... flamin' lies! :D

    the fuckin' fucker's fucked folks!

    and is apparently a pathological liar to boot!

    lol what a 'team' you & trumpy would have made eh?

    just like 2 peas in a pod lol :)

    LA Times

    50 years later, the RFK busboy still waits on someone
    to follow in Kennedy's footsteps:
    http://tinyurl.com/4kcmbx7

    Famous photo:
    http://tinyurl.com/y7r29cbf

    Excerpts:

    Juan Romero has spent half a century trying to move on.

    He gets up before sunrise, goes to work and paves another road or driveway in the San Jose area, strong as ever at 67.

    He likes to have a cold beer or two with his work crew when they punch out at the end of the day, caked in dirt and sweat. He enjoys time with family and friends and doesn’t look too far down the road.

    But what happened at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just past midnight on June 5, 1968, is always there, a shadow at the edge of his consciousness, and sometimes he retreats into it.

    Romero is 17, working as a busboy. He hears that Bobby Kennedy has won the California Democratic primary in a bid for the presidency of the United States.
    Romero rushes to the food service area Kennedy is passing through and reaches out to congratulate
    the man he had met the night before while delivering room service.

    And then the shots, the screams, the commotion.

    Kennedy goes down, flat on his back, a ghostly look in his eyes. Romero crouches to help, and the black-and-white photographs freeze forever the image of a young immigrant laborer at the side of fallen American aristocracy.

    Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the murder of Robert F. Kennedy, which followed by two months the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and
    by five years the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

    “There was a time I thought hope was dead. It was right there, lying on the floor,” Romero told me several days ago in the downtown San Jose park where Kennedy delivered a campaign speech three months before his death.

    “I’m not trying to be poetic,” Romero said. But he wonders if there is a reason his image is burned into the pages of history, and whether his duty is to speak up about the man whose ideals he still honors.

    “Maybe I don’t have the tools to become a politician and change the laws,” Romero said. “But maybe I can help everyone understand there were people who tried to correct injustice.”

    To him, compassion, tolerance, equal opportunity and social justice are worth fighting for, and he lives with the hope that a new leader — inspired, perhaps, by someone from the past — will step forward.

    He’d grown up in Mexico, moved to the U.S. at 10, began getting into trouble while going to Hollenbeck Middle School and then Roosevelt High in Boyle Heights. His unfailingly strict stepfather worked at the Ambassador and helped Romero get a job as a
    busboy to keep him off the street. Romero lifted a pair of rosary beads from the glove compartment of his mother’s car and carried them in his pocket to ward off the temptation to miss school or be late for work.

    Bobby Kennedy, candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, checked into the hotel at the end of the California primary. Romero, who recalled homes in Mexico with photos of the pope and of John F. Kennedy, badly wanted to
    meet a Kennedy. He told other busboys he’d do anything for them if they let him take a room service call from the candidate.

    Romero and a waiter knocked at the door, then pushed two food carts into the room. Several people were present. Kennedy stood at a bay window, finished up a
    phone call and turned to the visitors.

    “He said, ‘Come on in, boys,’” Romero recalls, the memory bringing a smile to his face.

    “I remember staring at him with my mouth open, and I see him shaking the hand
    of a waiter and then reaching out to me. I remember him grabbing my hand and he
    gave me a two-handed shake,” said Romero.

    “He had piercing blue eyes, and he looked right at you. You knew he was looking at you and not through you … I remember walking out of that room … feeling 10 feet tall, feeling like an American.… I didn’t feel like I was Mexican, and I didn’t
    feel like I was a busboy, and I didn’t feel like I was 17 years old. I felt like I was right there with him.”

    The next night, when Kennedy won the primary and made his victory speech at the
    Ambassador, Romero pushed through the crowd, eager to congratulate him, and to shake his hand once more.

    He reached out, and the bullets tore into Kennedy. Romero took out his rosary beads and tried to press them into Kennedy’s hand.

    ---

    In 2010, I went with Romero to RFK’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery. Kennedy lies near a wall that bears the words he delivered the night Martin Luther King Jr. was killed:

    “What we need in the United States is not division … not hatred … not violence or unlawfulness, but love and wisdom and compassion toward one another.”

    Romero said he wanted to apologize to Kennedy and tell him he had tried his best to live a life of tolerance and humility. I told him he should trust friends who told him he had nothing to apologize for. But as he knelt at Kennedy’s grave, bowed his
    head and wept, Romero wasn’t yet ready to unburden himself.

    ---

    On our most recent visit in downtown San Jose, Romero was running late after a 10-hour paving job, and I waited for him in St. James Park. On March 23, 1968, an estimated 10,000 people had gathered in the park to hear Kennedy speak.

    The park’s RFK memorial is little more than a drab concrete landing base for pigeons, with an oxidized pla
  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to david.j.worrell@gmail.com on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 08:06:36
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 19:13:14 -0700 (PDT), "Jeremy H. Denisovan" <david.j.worrell@gmail.com> wrote:

    Unprecedented, bizarre things are happening in our country.
    These videos are by some of the people who are documenting them.

    For example, just to list another one, it is now official
    Trump administration policy to “highlight uncertainties in
    climate science” and “ignore, and not seek to characterize
    or question, the science being conducted by Federal agencies
    and outside entities.”

    That’s right. The official policy of the White House is to
    undermine climate scientists and ignore scientific findings
    about climate change from its own federal agencies.
    That is unconscionable, and most US allies find it bizarre.


    Trump has just pulled off the deal of this century - a face to face
    with DPRK's bad boy, who is no slouch himself in the IQ stakes.

    As far as I'm concerned, nuclear war is a more clear and present
    danger than anthropic climate change - one was due to happen as a very
    real prospect in Australia's backyard, the other is still unproven
    (but stochastically probable) and if true, the advent of non-fossil
    fuel sources and tech is whittling away at the long term issues as we
    speak (for instance, Europe will have phased out fossil fueled cars
    within 20 years).

    I watched Trump speak to the press just after his coup with Kim - he
    was self effacing, quick witted and relatively charming. The
    difference between him and every other fucking POTUS you guys have
    ever fielded since the 1950's is that Trump has actually done it,
    opened globally televised discussions and heads of memoranda with the
    despot of DPRK. No more war. No more war "games".

    Now, he can concentrate on the real threat in Asia and the Pacific
    (the "peaceful ocean") - China and it's fucking weaponised islands.

    So stop whinging. If Hillary had been elected, we would be at war
    with DPRK right now, and probably Russia as well.

    I'm for peace and commerce, just like Trump.
    .

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, June 12, 2018 17:46:43
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    Jeff Sessions just all but slammed the door on survivors
    of domestic violence and gang violence

    His big new asylum ruling is extremely bad news for parents
    separated from their children at the border too.
    By Dara Linddara

    Jun 11, 2018

    http://tinyurl.com/y9fvners

    Tens of thousands of people who are currently waiting for their asylum cases in
    the US to be resolved — or waiting for their chance to apply — just got the
    door all but slammed on them.

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a ruling Monday in an immigration case, Matter of A- B-, that will make it hard or even impossible for Central Americans fleeing gang violence in their home countries, and women fleeing domestic violence, to get
    asylum in the US — or even be allowed to stay in the US to seek asylum instead of being summarily deported.

    “Generally, claims by aliens pertaining to domestic violence or gang violence
    perpetrated by non-governmental actors will not qualify for asylum,” Sessions
    declared. Immigration judges and asylum officers need to tighten the standards of qualifying
    for asylum — or even being allowed to stay to present a case — accordingly.

    Sessions referred the case to himself from the Board of Immigration Appeals, the quasi-appellate body of immigration courts run out of the Department of Justice, which means Sessions’s word is now law.

    The ruling doesn’t flat-out say that an immigrant can’t be granted asylum on the basis of having faced domestic violence or gang violence in her home country. But it makes it clear that to the federal government, suffering either
    of those things —
    or having a credible fear that you might suffer them if returned — isn’t enough to count as persecution and allow you to stay in the United States.

    Sessions is using his traditional, but rarely used, powers of self-referral to reshape the way immigration courts work. The new ruling will have an immediate impact on tens of thousands of cases currently in the pipeline.

    It could even trap some of the families separated in the past few weeks by the Trump administration’s new “zero-tolerance” border policy — depriving the parents of any way to stay in the country, and drastically reducing their chances of
    relocating their children before they’re deported.

    It is going to get a lot easier to deport Central American
    asylum seekers — including families — without a full hearing.

    But Sessions isn’t just raising the standard for who can ultimately get asylum. He’s raising the standard for who can pass the initial screening at the border to apply for asylum, as opposed to simply being deported as an unauthorized immigrant. In
    other words, any Central American migrants who are currently en route to the US
    are going to be met with a higher bar to entry than the one they thought was in
    place when they left. Thousands of people who already arrived in the US but have been sent to
    criminal court to be convicted of illegal entry before they can make an asylum claim may now find themselves unable to pass a screening they would have passed
    when they arrived. That includes hundreds if not thousands of parents whose children have been
    separated from them.

    Parents may now have very little time at all to locate their children and be reunified with them before getting deported. And even if they can figure out where their children are, they may have to make a choice between being deported
    as a family and
    allowing the children to attempt to stay — with a lower chance that they will
    succeed than they might have had before, but a chance nonetheless — while the
    parent returns home, deprived of any chance at all.

    ***

    Just one more really shitty deed in a 'brave new world'.

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to slider on Thursday, June 14, 2018 12:45:35
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 6:22:14 AM UTC-7, slider wrote:
    On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:17:55 +0100, thang ornerythinchus <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    Why don't you go out into Trafalgar
    Square and stand on a fucking SOAP BOX and tell people all about how
    they are all deluded, all contaminating this world and so on and so
    on. Don't have the guts? Could that be it?

    ### - did better than that old sport and published it in a book selling globally (sold another 9 copies just last month for instance, one of 'em
    to india!) albeit stated indirectly, but it's basically all there for the 'discerning' eye to see/find...

    "the revolution will not be televised!" ;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJFhuOWgXg

    You need to update that shit. :)

    Jeff Beck - The Revolution Will Be Televised https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBiKQa2Lyp0

    The revolution will be televised
    You can watch it in HD
    And talk like a weekend warrior
    From the safety of your settee
    The graphics won't be as realistic
    As grand theft auto three
    Guess that makes the wheel unwheelable
    But this shit is real baby
    Guess you better turn the volume down
    So you can't hear their plea
    Suppose you better change the channel
    Might put the children off their tea

    The revolution will be televised
    You can choose to watch or not
    But if we all just talk from the safety of our sofas
    And there won't be much revolution to watch

    I guess you better turn the volume down
    So you can't hear their plea
    Suppose you better change the channel
    Might put the children off their tea

    The revolution, it will be televised
    You can choose to watch or not
    But if you all just talk from the safety of your sofas
    There won't be much revolution to watch

    There won't be much of a revolution to watch
    Ahhhh, there won't be much of a revolution to watch
    Ahhhh yeah, there won't be much of a revolution to watch


    There. That's your 'revolution', and thang's too. LOL. :)


    but then being a blind baldy old cunt perforce ya can't/didn't see it hehehe...



    worse! you defend it!

    At least I DO something instead of talking crap about dreams and wally world. Talk about fucking fantasy world. Jesus.

    ### - you don't DO anything thang + the only thing you've ever really DONE was to rob the world blind and get fat while others literally starved to death all around you; 'crims' have no honour even amongst themselves apparently... but then i guess you can't help it really, after all it's in your blood and was handed down to ya from a long line of such crims dumped/shat there by the brits having a long day out hahaha... and now
    there you's all are: shit imitating the very shits you came from and all thinkin' you're so great lol - shit kings, who don't even realise just how bad they smell! :)))




    I don't give a rat's arse whether you care or not. It's irrelevant to
    me. Me, on the other hand, I bother you - a lot.

    ### - only in your dreams mate lol :)




    You think about me
    a lot, I know this.

    ### - ahahaha ya think?? :D




    You wonder if I tell the truth about my position
    in life or whether it's dust. You wonder what it would be like to see something you want, and there are things you want, and then just go
    and fucking buy it.

    ### - you don't even 'know' your own/true position lol...

    you think just coz you got a few bucks you gots everything huh?

    verily verily, it would be easier for a blind thang to shit through the
    eye of a pack of camels than for him to ever 'buy' his way into heaven??
    LOL :)))





    I can go tomorrow and cash down on a new Jeep 4WD, or a mid-range BMW,
    and have plenty left over, plenty, without borrowing, or mortgaging my house etc. I choose not to, being of the cautious fraternity who
    keeps it in a box in a bank in a safety deposit vault somewhere in
    some city just. in. case.

    That's freedom. And I read philosophy, all the time, read poetry,
    smoke dope, don't drink alcohol, don't smoke tobacco, I self educate,
    I plumb the depths of the darknet, I can hit a plane tomorrow and fly
    to Butan or Burma, or London, wherever I want.

    ### - heh you think you're free, when all ya really did was to lock
    yourself (and your riches) in a box and put them in safety storage
    probably never to be seen/used again, while you spend what left of the
    rest of your life standing guard over it hehehe...

    idiot! :)))



    Shit, slider, you might be the only cunt here who has a decent head of follicles :)

    ### - fyi (and major irritation hah) have still gots hair down to just
    above my waist lol, admittedly s'getting a bit thin on top these days and even startin' to see bit's a scalp peeping through, but then i haven't
    gone grey yet either... so must be doin' something right huh ;)





    ### - see? you 'defend' that whole lifestyle when that 'same' lifestyle
    is
    undeniably destroying not only the human race but the rest of the world
    too??

    Oh fuck off. Asteroids destroy, but even then they don't take out all life. Climate change destroys (proper, historic, geologic climate
    change) but doesn't eliminate life. How can bacteria, insects,
    spiders, virii, rats and cockroaches and so on be destroyed by humans?
    We can't even keep the cunts out of our houses and kitchens...

    Perhaps a massive gamma ray burst from a near supernova, but even that would only fry the part of the earth facing the beam.

    ### - denial denial, all is denial :)

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/27/world-on-track-to-lose-two-thirds-of-wild-animals-by-2020-major-report-warns



    if only you'd allow yourself to be a little more objective you'd decry
    the
    shit that's all around us too! the shit humanity's drowning in! but then >> you 'refuse' to even examine that stance don't you?

    I'm more open to evidence and the interpretation of evidence than
    anyone and I'm far better read and educated than you. But I will not
    agree with your bullshit until you put evidence in front of me - not "wallyworld" nonsense but proper evidence. Facts. So far, you are "factophobic" - change that, and I'll have some decent respect for
    you.

    ### - but we've ALREADY destroyed 2 fucking THIRDS of the flora & fauna
    ON
    this planet???

    2/3s!!! just... gone!?

    gone forever!

    so sooner rather than later me old chum! (and we haven't even 'included' >> war yet LOL)

    Nonsense. Just the larger animals and they die off every million or
    so years in any case. Most of the biomass is foliage and most of that
    is still around. You can still fly over the Brazilian jungle for a
    couple of days without seeing any habitation whatsoever. What about
    the biomass in bacteria? Or in the oceans, of which we still know
    less than the dark side of the moon?

    Some animals will go, and that's to make way for us. Eventually,
    we'll leave this planet and that will be the epitome of evolution on
    Gaia - the chicks will have been kicked out of the nest. Perhaps that
    is what happens when life evolves on other planets in this enormous
    cosmos of trillions of galaxies each with billions of stars/suns and perhaps infinite extent.

    Open that mind of yours before it's too late.

    ### - you read the above? first open your eyes! then weep!



    ### - and how many YEARS of your LIFE did you give-over to that??

    well ya didn't need to lol, so you effectively 'wasted' ALL that time!

    not very smart then huh! :)))

    Shit I enjoyed it. Corner office on the 30th floor, young attractive
    women working for me, power and reputation, plenty of money, expense accounts, travel all over the place business class minimum, bank priveliges, etc etc. What's NOT to like?

    ### - said the fat pig wallowing in its own shite LOL :))))





    Ever heard of a safe deposit box? I don't believe in keeping
    everything electronic. I like keeping at least half in negotiables.

    ### - and those deposit boxes are gonna remain open when all the banks
    are
    shut huh?

    riiiight...

    plus defo NOT very smart! not smart at all lol :)

    You've never had one. You don't know the procedure. They are
    physical boxes behind the biggest vaults you have ever seen, bars and generally in bank basements, bomb proof and open only to photo ID and
    a dupllicate key. No one knows whats in them, except for the key
    owner. Hi denom cash and gold, wills, papers, land titles - that sort
    of thing. Oh yeah, never keep one of these in your own name. Find
    someone you trust with your life (that's that hardest part).

    What's not smart about that?

    ### - having to maybe break into a hugely protected vault such as you describe when it (and every other bank/vault the world over) has been permanently closed overnight in say the scenario of an economic
    collapse/run on the bank? - and you call yourself an intelligent
    survivalist who thinks ahead?? lol you really haven't thought this fully through have ya :)

    thang knows what he's doing! - riiiight... :)

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Friday, June 15, 2018 13:48:40
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    The Atlantic

    Trump’s Remarkable Admission About Dishonesty

    The president is open in his affection for oppressive rulers and in saying it’s acceptable to lie to the public. Why does anyone still doubt he means it?

    DAVID A. GRAHAM
    6-15-2018

    http://tinyurl.com/y9xz9wa5

    For some reason, there remains a public debate about whether the president of the United States is honest or inclined toward autocracy. There’s a certain logic to this: Voters don’t want to believe they elected a chronic liar or a skeptic of
    democracy and rule of law, and the traditional conventions of press coverage prevent mainstream media from stating otherwise plainly.

    Yet on a regular basis, Donald Trump speaks publicly and makes clear both his dishonesty and autocratic impulses. Friday was an especially clear demonstration.

    The president strode out from the White House in the morning, first appearing on Fox and Friends alongside Steve Doocy, and then taking some questions from reporters on the lawn of the executive mansion. While he covered a range of topics, and went
    through many of his greatest hits, the most notable elements were his praise for the totalitarian rule of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, his own declarations of criminal behavior by political opponents, and a series of easily disprovable
    statements about
    immigration law and a Justice Department inspector general’s report released Thursday.

    While Trump has shown surprising deference and affection for autocratic rulers in the past, including effusive praise for Kim after the summit earlier this week, Friday’s comments were still unusual.

    “He is the head of a country and I mean he is the strong head,” Trump said.
    “Don't let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”

    I want my people to do the same. It ought to go without saying that the reason that North Koreans react that way to Kim is that he is a brutal dictator who runs enormous prison camps and a repressive state. Lest anyone believe that Trump is simply naive
    and unaware of this, the president made clear that he understands how Kim maintains power, smirking through a reference to North Korean executions of top
    aides.

    “Just before you met with him, he cleaned house. Three of his top hardliners he fired,” Doocy began.

    “When you say he fired ... fired may be a nice word,” Trump replied. The president later claimed he was being “sarcastic,” a move he and aides have often employed to walk back egregious statements, even when there is no indication of humor at the
    moment, and even though his latest statement about Kim matches his earlier praise for him.

    Trump also misrepresented the agreement he signed with Kim, saying that it contained detailed steps for denuclearization of North Korea—it doesn’t.

    The other most notable moment came during the gaggle, when reporters asked Trump about a statement to The New York Times concerning a June 2016 meeting at
    Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and campaign chairman Paul
    Manafort, along
    with a Russian lawyer. The president dictated the statement, as his lawyers acknowledged in a letter to special counsel Robert Mueller. That statement was false and quickly debunked.

    “That's irrelevant,” Trump said Friday. “It's a statement to The New York
    Times, the phony, failing New York Times. That's not a statement to a high tribunal of judges. That's a statement to the phony New York Times.”

    In short, the president is saying that it’s totally acceptable to lie to the press, and by extension the public, as long as he is not under oath in the justice system. (As I’ve reported, Trump is far more honest under oath.) As a
    matter of law, this
    is true, but as a matter of character and leadership, it is not. The president is freely telling the public that he has no compunctions about lying through his teeth. Why does anyone still debate whether he means it?

    There were other dishonest statements peppered throughout his remarks. He said that the inspector general’s report found “total bias” in the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails; in fact, it found the reverse, saying political bias did not
    affect decisions. He said that the report “totally exonerated” his statements; in fact, it rejected the entire thrust of his statements about Comey. Trump said that Comey acted criminally; the IG report does not say that.
    He said Mueller’s team has
    no Republicans; Mueller is a lifelong Republican who has served under GOP presidents as well as Democrats.

    Trump also continues to misrepresent the reasons why children of unauthorized immigrants are currently being separated from their parents at the border, creating a political firestorm. That decision, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions has acknowledged, is
    the direct result of a policy change that Sessions implemented in May. Nonetheless, the president has falsely blamed it on a law passed by Democrats, ignoring that Democrats do not control Congress and have not passed any new laws about separations, yet
    the change began only last month.

    “That is a Democrat bill. That is Democrats wanting to do that,” Trump said. “And they could solve it very easily by getting together but they think
    it's a good election point.”

    There’s a long list of these lies, both in what Trump said today and running back for months. It becomes tiresome to fact-check them, trying to prove that Trump is not telling the truth about them. But there’s no need to take reporters’ word for it:
    The president makes no secret that he thinks it’s OK to lie to the public. After all, he said so himself.

    ***

    Sleaze king. Anti-reason. Anti-truth. Anti-rule-of-law.
    Autocratic friend of autocrats. Dictator material.

    .

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to david.j.worrell@gmail.com on Thursday, June 21, 2018 14:41:39
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 13:48:40 -0700 (PDT), "Jeremy H. Denisovan" <david.j.worrell@gmail.com> wrote:

    The Atlantic

    Trump’s Remarkable Admission About Dishonesty

    The president is open in his affection for oppressive rulers and in saying it’s acceptable to lie to the public. Why does anyone still doubt he means it?

    DAVID A. GRAHAM
    6-15-2018

    http://tinyurl.com/y9xz9wa5

    For some reason, there remains a public debate about whether the president of the United States is honest or inclined toward autocracy. There’s a certain logic to this: Voters don’t want to believe they elected a chronic liar or a skeptic of
    democracy and rule of law, and the traditional conventions of press coverage prevent
    mainstream media from stating otherwise plainly.

    Yet on a regular basis, Donald Trump speaks publicly and makes clear both his dishonesty and autocratic impulses. Friday was an especially clear demonstration.

    The president strode out from the White House in the morning, first appearing on Fox and Friends alongside Steve Doocy, and then taking some questions from reporters on the lawn of the executive mansion. While he covered a range of topics, and went
    through many of his greatest hits, the most notable elements were his praise for
    the totalitarian rule of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, his own declarations of criminal behavior by political opponents, and a series of easily disprovable statements about immigration law and a Justice Department inspector general’s
    report released
    Thursday.

    While Trump has shown surprising deference and affection for autocratic rulers
    in the past, including effusive praise for Kim after the summit earlier this week, Friday’s comments were still unusual.

    “He is the head of a country and I mean he is the strong head,” Trump said. “Don't let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”

    I want my people to do the same. It ought to go without saying that the reason
    that North Koreans react that way to Kim is that he is a brutal dictator who runs enormous prison camps and a repressive state. Lest anyone believe that Trump is simply naive
    and unaware of this, the president made clear that he understands how Kim maintains power, smirking through a reference to North Korean executions of top
    aides.

    “Just before you met with him, he cleaned house. Three of his top hardliners
    he fired,” Doocy began.

    “When you say he fired ... fired may be a nice word,” Trump replied. The president later claimed he was being “sarcastic,” a move he and aides have often employed to walk back egregious statements, even when there is no indication of humor at
    the moment, and even though his latest statement about Kim matches his earlier praise for
    him.

    Trump also misrepresented the agreement he signed with Kim, saying that it contained detailed steps for denuclearization of North Korea—it doesn’t.

    The other most notable moment came during the gaggle, when reporters asked Trump about a statement to The New York Times concerning a June 2016 meeting at
    Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and campaign chairman Paul
    Manafort, along
    with a Russian lawyer. The president dictated the statement, as his lawyers acknowledged in a letter to special counsel Robert Mueller. That statement was false and quickly debunked.

    “That's irrelevant,” Trump said Friday. “It's a statement to The New York Times, the phony, failing New York Times. That's not a statement to a high
    tribunal of judges. That's a statement to the phony New York Times.”

    In short, the president is saying that it’s totally acceptable to lie to the
    press, and by extension the public, as long as he is not under oath in the justice system. (As I’ve reported, Trump is far more honest under oath.) As a
    matter of law, this
    is true, but as a matter of character and leadership, it is not. The president is
    freely telling the public that he has no compunctions about lying through his teeth. Why does anyone still debate whether he means it?

    There were other dishonest statements peppered throughout his remarks. He said
    that the inspector general’s report found “total bias” in the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails; in fact, it found the reverse, saying political bias did
    not affect decisions. He said that the report “totally exonerated” his statements; in
    fact, it rejected the entire thrust of his statements about Comey. Trump said that Comey acted criminally; the IG report does not say that. He said Mueller’s team has no Republicans; Mueller is a lifelong Republican who has served under GOP presidents
    as well as Democrats.

    Trump also continues to misrepresent the reasons why children of unauthorized immigrants are currently being separated from their parents at the border, creating a political firestorm. That decision, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions has acknowledged,
    is the direct result of a policy change that Sessions implemented in May. Nonetheless, the president has falsely blamed it on a law passed by Democrats, ignoring that Democrats do not control Congress and have not passed any new laws about separations, yet the change began only last month.

    “That is a Democrat bill. That is Democrats wanting to do that,” Trump said. “And they could solve it very easily by getting together but they think
    it's a good election point.”

    There’s a long list of these lies, both in what Trump said today and running
    back for months. It becomes tiresome to fact-check them, trying to prove that Trump is not telling the truth about them. But there’s no need to take reporters’ word for
    it: The president makes no secret that he thinks it’s OK to lie to the public. After
    all, he said so himself.

    ***

    Sleaze king. Anti-reason. Anti-truth. Anti-rule-of-law.
    Autocratic friend of autocrats. Dictator material.

    And...

    President of the United States of America.

    You've had worse. Nixon was a criminal disgrace. Lincoln arranged
    the killing of his own countrymen. That pig Cliinton fucked his
    intern, told lies about it and attacked the capital of Serbia.

    JFK brought the world to the brink of annihilation.

    Obama got a Nobel for just giving a meaningless speech to Muslims in
    Cairo and in 2 terms, achieved practically nothing except that half
    arsed attempt at publicly funded free health care.

    Grow up Dave. Get a grip and get some perspective. This guy is
    popular amongst the patriots in your country and there are a fucking
    lot of patriots. Don't just listen to the "news".

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to slider on Saturday, June 23, 2018 12:07:40
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    On Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 11:11:03 AM UTC-7, slider wrote:
    Trump does not do what
    the majority of Americans want. It's
    important to realize that.

    ### - what's important to realise, is that he's doing it all quite deliberately.

    deliberately going against the grain!

    the only really interesting question is what is he actually achieving by doing so?

    chaos! that's what's he's cultivating pure & simple: chaos both at home & abroad!

    and i really don't think he's doing it at all by accident either!

    look deeper...

    It definitely isn't 'by accident'. But you didn't say why you think
    he's doing it. So... maybe you look 'deeper'. :)

    I think he probably has some twisted ideological beliefs along the
    lines of Steve Bannon's. But mainly it's just that this man is
    100% ego driven, and about ALL he really wants is an environment
    so de-regulated and chaotic that he (and anyone like him) can make
    any and every corrupt business deal he's ever wanted deep in his
    greedy little heart, and nobody, not even the FBI can stop him.
    Oligarchs, dictators and sultans are all just FINE for getting away
    with murder in Trump's greedy, sleezy infomercial world of super- predatory-capitalism. The rest of the 'why' is probably simply his
    decades of delusional beliefs about this and that and... you name it.
    He shoots from the hip about all of his own *personal* beliefs,
    and about 80% of those are non-fact-based and/or full-blown crazy,
    hence... it makes for massive amounts of chaos. He doesn't even
    adequately prep his own administration before doing things that
    create more chaos.

    Latest example: Trump created absolute chaos within his own
    administration and within several agencies of the US government
    over his latest "zero tolerance" immigration policy, first by
    separating thousands of children from their parents and then by
    trying to reverse that while STILL maintaining "zero tolerance".
    It's all turned into yet another major cluster fuck.

    Because everything is all about HIM. He's THAT demented and shallow.
    "I'm the president so I can do anything I want". I really think that's
    as deep as the guy goes - that and a bunch of antiquated 'John Wayne
    and Ayn Rand and salute the flag' kinda horseshit personal beliefs.
    I also think it's a bunch of crybaby bullshit about the semi-downfall
    of 'white privilege' in the U.S.

    But at this point, I barely fucking care WHY he's doing all the
    completely stupid and destabilizing shit he's doing. It just needs
    to be stopped, ASAP. And he needs to be ridden out of Washington
    on a rail.

    .

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  • From Jeremy H. Donovan@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, June 23, 2018 09:10:40
    From: jeremyhdonovan@gmail.com

    Trump, his administration, and his
    supporters, are themselves the largest
    purveyors and spreaders of 'fake news'.
    And that has been true all along.

    Latest example. Another major poll.

    75 Percent of Americans Say Immigration
    Is Good for Country, Poll Finds

    June 23, 2018

    Most Americans oppose the separation of immigrant families at the border, and a
    larger share of people than at any point since 2001 say immigration is good for
    the nation.

    Those were just some of the findings of polls published in the past week that shed new light on attitudes toward immigration, a subject that many Americans view as a top concern ahead of this fall’s midterm elections.

    While most oppose President Trump’s policy of separating children from their parents at the border, fellow Republicans were more likely to support it than not, the polls found. Since the polls were conducted, however, the president caved to public
    pressure and agreed to stop the separation policy by detaining families at the border together for an indefinite period.

    And despite the president’s anti-immigration message, three in four Americans
    say immigration is generally good for the nation, according to Gallup, the polling organization.

    Despite the contentious political
    climate, 75 percent of Americans think
    immigration, in general, is good for
    the nation, according to Gallup, which
    surveyed more than 1,500 adults during
    the first two weeks of June.

    Among Democrats and those who lean toward
    the party, 85 percent viewed immigration
    positively, compared with 65 percent of
    Republicans and those who lean
    Republican.

    When asked their thoughts about “legal
    immigration” specifically, even more
    Americans, about 84 percent, said it was
    good for the country.

    Support for reining in immigration is at
    its lowest level in more than half a
    century: Just 29 percent of Americans
    believe it should be decreased, the
    smallest share recorded by Gallup since
    at least 1965.

    ***

    So, multiple recent major polls show
    record support for immigrants, especially
    legal immigrants. Trump does not do what
    the majority of Americans want. It's
    important to realize that.

    .

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, June 23, 2018 19:10:59
    From: slider@anashram.com

    Trump does not do what
    the majority of Americans want. It's
    important to realize that.

    ### - what's important to realise, is that he's doing it all quite deliberately.

    deliberately going against the grain!

    the only really interesting question is what is he actually achieving by
    doing so?

    chaos! that's what's he's cultivating pure & simple: chaos both at home & abroad!

    and i really don't think he's doing it at all by accident either!

    look deeper...

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, June 23, 2018 12:31:14
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    The article below describes the latest "chaos wave" he's created.
    They're actually holding migrant children in about 100 different
    facilities in 17 states now. It will be hellishly hard to get all
    those kids back to their parents.

    ***

    In Tense Meeting, Trump Officials Debate How to Process
    Migrant Families

    The House delayed a vote on an immigration proposal, punting the bill to next week.

    By Michael D. Shear, Ron Nixon and Katie Benner
    June 22, 2018

    WASHINGTON — Tense arguments broke out at the White House over the past two days as top government officials clashed over how to carry out President Trump’s executive order on keeping together immigrant families at the Mexican
    border, according to
    four people familiar with the meetings.

    The disputes started Thursday night. They continued Friday as Kevin K. McAleenan, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, returned to the White House to question how his agency was supposed to detain parents and children together when the law
    requires that children not be held indefinitely in jail.

    The bureaucratic battles threatened to undermine Mr. Trump as his administration tries to counter a political crisis driven by heartbreaking images and recordings of crying migrant children separated from their parents and sent off to shelters.

    On Friday, the president was defiant. “We cannot allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief,” Mr. Trump said on Twitter.

    But inside the White House, the arguments echoed the chaos at American airports
    after Mr. Trump’s ban on travel from predominantly Muslim countries. The ban,
    issued days after he took office, surprised Border Patrol agents and State Department consular
    officials.

    Officials at the southwestern border are struggling to obey Mr. Trump’s demand to prosecute people who illegally enter the United States — ending what the president has reviled as a “catch and release” policy — while also following an executive
    order he issued Wednesday to keep migrant families together as they are processed in courts.

    But as with the case of the travel ban, the reality of a vastly complicated bureaucratic system is colliding head-on with Mr. Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip use of executive power.

    The president’s whiplash-inducing order caught several people by surprise. Just a day before Mr. Trump signed it, one person close to the president said that he told advisers that separating families at the border was the best deterrent to illegal
    immigration and that he said that “my people love it.”

    Even on Wednesday, Mr. Trump repeatedly changed his mind about precisely what he wanted to do, and how, until shortly before he signed the order.

    Thursday night’s meeting was held in the White House Situation Room and lasted at least 90 minutes, according to four officials briefed on the discussion who described it on the condition of anonymity.

    They said Customs and Border Protection officials forcefully argued that agents
    who are apprehending migrant families at the border cannot refer all of the adults for prosecution because the Justice Department and other law enforcement
    agencies do not
    have the resources to process each case.

    In particular, the border officials expressed concern about the number of prosecutors and judges needed to handle the proceedings, and the lack of space available to detain families while the cases go forward.

    As a result, the officials from Customs and Border Protection told White House and Justice Department officials that they have had to issue fewer prosecution referrals of adults with children despite the president’s “zero tolerance” policy on
    illegal immigration.

    Justice Department officials shot back, maintaining that the department has made no changes to its hard-line stance on illegal border crossings as it continues to receive referrals for prosecutions from Customs and Border Protection agents.

    Government lawyers will “prosecute adults who cross our border illegally instead of claiming asylum at any port of entry,” Sarah Isgur Flores, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said Thursday in a statement.

    The Justice Department has been combating reports about its ability or willingness to enact the zero-tolerance policy, denying that prosecutors have dismissed immigration violation cases in South Texas. Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent 35
    prosecutors to the southwestern border to help handle the surge in cases created by the zero-tolerance policy; the Defense Department deployed an additional 21 lawyers to handle immigration prosecutions.

    Federal immigration courts faced a backlog of more than 700,000 cases in May, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, at Syracuse University. In some courts, the average wait for an immigration hearing was over 1,400 days;
    some hearings are being scheduled beyond 2021 before an available slot on the docket is found.

    Lt. Col. Jamie Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said the military is preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 migrant children on four bases: Little Rock Air Force
    Base in Arkansas; Fort Bliss in El Paso; Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Tex.; and
    Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, Tex. It was not immediately clear on Friday if the parents could also be housed there.

    Customs and Border Protection officials said Friday that nearly 500 children who were separated since May have been reunited or will be reunited with their families by Sunday. These children were in the agency’s custody, never having
    been sent to
    facilities run by the Health and Human Services Department.

    It is unclear when the other 2,300 children will be reunited with their families. They have been separated from their parents since the zero-tolerance policy was announced. The children have been placed in facilities run by the Health and Human Services
    Department, some of them thousands of miles from where their parents are being detained.

    Administration officials said they have finalized a process to let parents know
    where their children are and to have regular communication with them after separation. Parents who are deported will be reunited with their children before being removed from
    the country, officials said.

    For the past week, Mr. Trump has demanded changes in the United States’ immigration laws and encouraged Congress to act with urgency. But on Friday morning, he appeared to give up hope that the Republican-controlled Congress could succeed in passing an
    immigration bill this year, urging lawmakers in a tweet to stop “wasting their time.”

    The president said a vote on immigration legislation should be postponed until after the midterm elections in November, when he expects Republicans to pick up
    more seats and create a stronger majority — a prediction that is far from guaranteed.

    But House Republicans are moving forward as planned with efforts to pass immigration legislation, said Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the majority whip.

    “I think the president’s expressing his frustration that Democrats don’t want to solve the problem while we do,” Mr. Scalise said. “We’re going to
    keep working to try to get it done.”

    He acknowledged that passing the bill would be an “uphill fight.”

    On Thursday, the House voted against a hard-line immigration measure, and Republican leaders delayed a vote on a more moderate proposal, punting a decision on the bill to next week to give themselves more time to pick up support.

    The proposal, the product of weeks of negotiations between House Republican moderates and conservatives, would provide a citizenship path for the young unauthorized immigrants known as Dreamers and would keep migrant families together when they are
    stopped at the border.

    But Mr. Trump’s message swiftly undercut party leaders as they try to build enough support to pass the bill.

    Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin had no immediate comment on Friday about the president’s change of course.

    ***

    "Phony stories of sadness and grief"? Oh, most are real enough.
    "Democrats don't want to solve the problem"? Hey, the Democrats
    are completely horrified by all this shit.

    "Federal immigration courts faced a backlog of more than 700,000 cases..."

    Wow. Trump's people recently threw another 50 or so judges at this
    giant pile, thinking that'll put a dent in it, which it will barely do. Unbelievable clusterfuck. The hits just keep on coming...

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to david.j.worrell@gmail.com on Saturday, June 23, 2018 20:46:30
    From: slider@anashram.com

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 20:07:40 +0100, Jeremy H. Denisovan <david.j.worrell@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 11:11:03 AM UTC-7, slider wrote:
    Trump does not do what
    the majority of Americans want. It's
    important to realize that.

    ### - what's important to realise, is that he's doing it all quite
    deliberately.

    deliberately going against the grain!

    the only really interesting question is what is he actually achieving by
    doing so?

    chaos! that's what's he's cultivating pure & simple: chaos both at home
    &
    abroad!

    and i really don't think he's doing it at all by accident either!

    look deeper...

    It definitely isn't 'by accident'. But you didn't say why you think
    he's doing it. So... maybe you look 'deeper'. :)

    ### - heh just didn't wanna tell ya what to think kinda thing, but if
    you'd like an opinion i'd prolly suggest it's all because he isn't really
    even a proper politician! in reality he's just some high-flyer
    empty-headed businessman-shit, shipped-in expressly to expertly cook the
    books, again! just a glorified accountant!

    that if ya don't really 'have' a policy per se, then it can easily be covered-over/up with a temporary/stop-gap policy of out & out controversy! shoving everyone around until they's started shoving back, and just
    getting everyone at-it! pressing ALL the buttons his 'team' of advisors
    can possibly come up with to press! the world's going down the drain and i really don't think even gives a damn! he's havin' the time of his life!

    personally, am not at all impressed with him even a little bit! 5 minutes
    in the same room as he and i'd prolly have to jump straight out the
    nearest window just to get away from it lol :)

    an utterly boring man with whom i have utterly nothing in common! nor
    likely to!

    he might as well be an alien afaic, although am sure i'd find one of those ultimately more interesting than having to sit around listening to say him banging-on about facts & figures all day long as am sure he does... (ewww shudder...)

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to All on Monday, June 25, 2018 11:06:18
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 19:10:59 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:


    Trump does not do what
    the majority of Americans want. It's
    important to realize that.

    ### - what's important to realise, is that he's doing it all quite >deliberately.

    deliberately going against the grain!

    the only really interesting question is what is he actually achieving by >doing so?

    chaos! that's what's he's cultivating pure & simple: chaos both at home & >abroad!

    and i really don't think he's doing it at all by accident either!

    look deeper...

    For once I completely agree. A superficial look at what is happening, facilitated by the left leaning "progressive" liberal (but not
    libertarian) "news" networks, will only lead to confusion. Trump is
    maybe the first POTUS in a long while who is not controlled by the
    puppeteers. No invisible hand here, just Trump, doing it his way.

    I have revised my original opinion. I now believe that beyond
    everything else, Trump is a patriot.


    It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become
    the enemy of the rest of mankind.

    voltaire

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to All on Monday, June 25, 2018 11:12:32
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 20:46:30 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 20:07:40 +0100, Jeremy H. Denisovan ><david.j.worrell@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 11:11:03 AM UTC-7, slider wrote:
    Trump does not do what
    the majority of Americans want. It's
    important to realize that.

    ### - what's important to realise, is that he's doing it all quite
    deliberately.

    deliberately going against the grain!

    the only really interesting question is what is he actually achieving by >>> doing so?

    chaos! that's what's he's cultivating pure & simple: chaos both at home
    &
    abroad!

    and i really don't think he's doing it at all by accident either!

    look deeper...

    It definitely isn't 'by accident'. But you didn't say why you think
    he's doing it. So... maybe you look 'deeper'. :)

    ### - heh just didn't wanna tell ya what to think kinda thing, but if
    you'd like an opinion i'd prolly suggest it's all because he isn't really >even a proper politician! in reality he's just some high-flyer
    empty-headed businessman-shit, shipped-in expressly to expertly cook the >books, again! just a glorified accountant!

    that if ya don't really 'have' a policy per se, then it can easily be >covered-over/up with a temporary/stop-gap policy of out & out controversy! >shoving everyone around until they's started shoving back, and just
    getting everyone at-it! pressing ALL the buttons his 'team' of advisors
    can possibly come up with to press! the world's going down the drain and i >really don't think even gives a damn! he's havin' the time of his life!

    personally, am not at all impressed with him even a little bit! 5 minutes
    in the same room as he and i'd prolly have to jump straight out the
    nearest window just to get away from it lol :)

    an utterly boring man with whom i have utterly nothing in common! nor
    likely to!

    he might as well be an alien afaic, although am sure i'd find one of those >ultimately more interesting than having to sit around listening to say him >banging-on about facts & figures all day long as am sure he does... (ewww >shudder...)

    Slider, I thought you were on to something earlier in this thread, but
    now you've shown that was just an accident and you're back to your
    empty headed ways.

    And, Brian, who gives a flying fuck whether Trump "impresses" you? Are
    you kidding? I'd be surprised if you even vote and you certainly have
    no power. Come to think of it, nor does Dave. He can rant and rave
    all he wants and it won't change the politacal tableu there one iota. California dreaming indeed.

    Trump is playing the long game, I'm convinced of it. He is far from
    empty headed. Just immensely frustrated. He wants America back for
    Americans and building a wall, getting rid of the illegals, trying to
    bring manufacturing and services (like call centres etc) back to
    Americans (opposing big profits for the benefit of the little guy,
    like you and I) and so on - all done as the first real patriot for a
    long time in that country.

    And here I was thinking you had a handle on it.

    Every Night and every Morn
    Some to Misery are Born.
    Every Morn and every Night
    Some are Born to sweet delight.
    Some are Born to sweet delight,
    Some are Born to Endless Night.

    William Blake

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to thangolossus@gmail.com on Monday, June 25, 2018 12:32:16
    From: slider@anashram.com

    On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:12:32 +0100, thang ornerythinchus <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 20:46:30 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 20:07:40 +0100, Jeremy H. Denisovan
    <david.j.worrell@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 11:11:03 AM UTC-7, slider wrote:
    Trump does not do what
    the majority of Americans want. It's
    important to realize that.

    ### - what's important to realise, is that he's doing it all quite
    deliberately.

    deliberately going against the grain!

    the only really interesting question is what is he actually achieving
    by
    doing so?

    chaos! that's what's he's cultivating pure & simple: chaos both at
    home
    &
    abroad!

    and i really don't think he's doing it at all by accident either!

    look deeper...

    It definitely isn't 'by accident'. But you didn't say why you think
    he's doing it. So... maybe you look 'deeper'. :)

    ### - heh just didn't wanna tell ya what to think kinda thing, but if
    you'd like an opinion i'd prolly suggest it's all because he isn't
    really
    even a proper politician! in reality he's just some high-flyer
    empty-headed businessman-shit, shipped-in expressly to expertly cook the
    books, again! just a glorified accountant!

    that if ya don't really 'have' a policy per se, then it can easily be
    covered-over/up with a temporary/stop-gap policy of out & out
    controversy!
    shoving everyone around until they's started shoving back, and just
    getting everyone at-it! pressing ALL the buttons his 'team' of advisors
    can possibly come up with to press! the world's going down the drain
    and i
    really don't think even gives a damn! he's havin' the time of his life!

    personally, am not at all impressed with him even a little bit! 5
    minutes
    in the same room as he and i'd prolly have to jump straight out the
    nearest window just to get away from it lol :)

    an utterly boring man with whom i have utterly nothing in common! nor
    likely to!

    he might as well be an alien afaic, although am sure i'd find one of
    those
    ultimately more interesting than having to sit around listening to say
    him
    banging-on about facts & figures all day long as am sure he does...
    (ewww
    shudder...)

    Slider, I thought you were on to something earlier in this thread, but
    now you've shown that was just an accident and you're back to your
    empty headed ways.

    And, Brian, who gives a flying fuck whether Trump "impresses" you? Are
    you kidding? I'd be surprised if you even vote and you certainly have
    no power. Come to think of it, nor does Dave. He can rant and rave
    all he wants and it won't change the politacal tableu there one iota. California dreaming indeed.

    Trump is playing the long game, I'm convinced of it. He is far from
    empty headed. Just immensely frustrated. He wants America back for Americans and building a wall, getting rid of the illegals, trying to
    bring manufacturing and services (like call centres etc) back to
    Americans (opposing big profits for the benefit of the little guy,
    like you and I) and so on - all done as the first real patriot for a
    long time in that country.

    And here I was thinking you had a handle on it.

    ### - i do actually, but it's a completely different handle to the one
    you've got hold of (i can see yours no problem, is fairly standard
    actually, is even quite a widely held view perforce which i don't agree
    with because it's right-wing... but can you even 'see' mine??

    not yet :)

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to thangolossus@gmail.com on Monday, June 25, 2018 12:41:32
    From: slider@anashram.com

    On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:06:18 +0100, thang ornerythinchus <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 19:10:59 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:


    Trump does not do what
    the majority of Americans want. It's
    important to realize that.

    ### - what's important to realise, is that he's doing it all quite
    deliberately.

    deliberately going against the grain!

    the only really interesting question is what is he actually achieving by
    doing so?

    chaos! that's what's he's cultivating pure & simple: chaos both at home
    &
    abroad!

    and i really don't think he's doing it at all by accident either!

    look deeper...

    For once I completely agree. A superficial look at what is happening, facilitated by the left leaning "progressive" liberal (but not
    libertarian) "news" networks, will only lead to confusion. Trump is
    maybe the first POTUS in a long while who is not controlled by the puppeteers. No invisible hand here, just Trump, doing it his way.

    I have revised my original opinion. I now believe that beyond
    everything else, Trump is a patriot.

    ### - don't be ridiculous hah, he's just another fat-cat stuffed pig!

    who doesn't give a damn about anything except his own little fucked up
    business world thang...

    make no mistake my friend, he does not have yours or mine best interests
    at heart whatsoever!

    and perforce all the fucking right-wing are eventually gonna rally around
    the bum because THAT'S the only interests at heart he has and believes in! right is right! the rule of fist! peace through strength (riiiight...)

    do you really think he'd even hesitate to burn oz (or anywhere come to
    that!) if there was a profit in it as long as it's not right on his own doorstep??

    he's militarising the world!

    and that's a good thing, right?

    riiiiight....

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  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to thang ornerythinchus on Monday, June 25, 2018 10:05:31
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    On Sunday, June 24, 2018 at 8:12:36 PM UTC-7, thang ornerythinchus wrote:

    California dreaming indeed.

    California has long been and still is the herald of the future.
    We are in many ways where the world really needs to be heading,
    not where it is currently retreating to in a disgusting,
    cowardly attempt to Crawl Up Its Own Asshole Again. :)

    California has ~40 million people (Australia has ~25 million).
    If it was a country, CA would be the world's 5th largest economy.
    Indeed, California's economy recently surpassed the entire UK.

    Australia has a high GDP per capita at ~50K, but California's overall
    GDP is ~58K and the GDP per capita of the San Francisco Bay area
    is ~94K (Perth's in comparison is ~72K and Sydney's is ~80K).

    California has long been a global trendsetter in popular culture.
    It was the origin of the film industry, the hippie counterculture,
    the internet, and the personal computer, among others.

    We are doing many of the things the rest of the world needs
    to do if it wants to survive and prosper long into the future.

    For example, we have some of the most aggressive renewable energy
    goals in the United States, with a target for California to obtain
    a third of its electricity from renewables by 2020 (and a goal of
    50% by 2050). We are fighting the Trump administration legally on
    multiple fronts to stop it from poisoning the rest of the planet.

    Anyone who defends Trump is trapped in lame regressive patterns.

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to All on Thursday, July 05, 2018 07:57:13
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:41:32 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:06:18 +0100, thang ornerythinchus ><thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 19:10:59 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:


    Trump does not do what
    the majority of Americans want. It's
    important to realize that.

    ### - what's important to realise, is that he's doing it all quite
    deliberately.

    deliberately going against the grain!

    the only really interesting question is what is he actually achieving by >>> doing so?

    chaos! that's what's he's cultivating pure & simple: chaos both at home
    &
    abroad!

    and i really don't think he's doing it at all by accident either!

    look deeper...

    For once I completely agree. A superficial look at what is happening,
    facilitated by the left leaning "progressive" liberal (but not
    libertarian) "news" networks, will only lead to confusion. Trump is
    maybe the first POTUS in a long while who is not controlled by the
    puppeteers. No invisible hand here, just Trump, doing it his way.

    I have revised my original opinion. I now believe that beyond
    everything else, Trump is a patriot.

    ### - don't be ridiculous hah, he's just another fat-cat stuffed pig!

    Well at least you left the fucking thread in, unlike David Jerome.
    Thanks for the continuity.


    who doesn't give a damn about anything except his own little fucked up >business world thang...

    You presume that. There is no evidence. He can be both you know - a
    canny and tough businessman *and* a patriot. JFK was - he was worth
    close to a billion, Washington was a patriot and was the wealthiest
    POTUS until Trump. The Clintons are not impoverished. Hoover was
    worth uncountable millions - all mining related. Many have had major businesses and been POTUS and of course been patriots. Trump is
    definitely a patriot and you are letting your dogma and predispositions/cant/biases get in the way of clear thought.


    make no mistake my friend, he does not have yours or mine best interests
    at heart whatsoever!

    No he doesn't. He has the USA's best interests at heart.


    and perforce all the fucking right-wing are eventually gonna rally around
    the bum because THAT'S the only interests at heart he has and believes in! >right is right! the rule of fist! peace through strength (riiiight...)

    Wrong. There are shades of right and shades of left - Stalin and Mao
    were left, and look at what they did to their own peoples. Tens of
    millions murdered, starved, disposessed. They both forged despotic
    armies which enslaved vast parts of the world. Again, you throw
    cheap, thoughtless slogans instead of using that vaunted 160 IQ to
    clearly, incisively think.


    do you really think he'd even hesitate to burn oz (or anywhere come to
    that!) if there was a profit in it as long as it's not right on his own >doorstep??

    Absolutely. We are a great strategic partner to the US, always have
    been. Presidents come and go - our friendship with the US will last
    forever and goes both ways.


    he's militarising the world!

    What nonsense. I expect better from you, ok? The fucking world is
    already militarised, always has been, may always be so (I don't know,
    it's a reasonable extrapolation but I don't have a crystal ball,
    unlike you).

    and that's a good thing, right?

    No, it's an incorrect, deluded thing. Read history for fucks sake
    Slider.


    riiiiight....

    wroooong...

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to david.j.worrell@gmail.com on Thursday, July 05, 2018 07:41:44
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:05:31 -0700 (PDT), "Jeremy H. Denisovan" <david.j.worrell@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Sunday, June 24, 2018 at 8:12:36 PM UTC-7, thang ornerythinchus wrote:

    Listen, can you please NOT snip the thread when you respond? To avoid repetition or worse errors, I then need to open another tab in my
    newsreader to read the fucking thread and my post to which you
    respond. Just leave the damn thing in, there's a good fellow :)

    Also, it's good etiquette.


    California dreaming indeed.

    California has long been and still is the herald of the future.
    We are in many ways where the world really needs to be heading,
    not where it is currently retreating to in a disgusting,
    cowardly attempt to Crawl Up Its Own Asshole Again. :)

    California has ~40 million people (Australia has ~25 million).
    If it was a country, CA would be the world's 5th largest economy.
    Indeed, California's economy recently surpassed the entire UK.

    Australia has a high GDP per capita at ~50K, but California's overall
    GDP is ~58K and the GDP per capita of the San Francisco Bay area
    is ~94K (Perth's in comparison is ~72K and Sydney's is ~80K).

    California has long been a global trendsetter in popular culture.
    It was the origin of the film industry, the hippie counterculture,
    the internet, and the personal computer, among others.

    We are doing many of the things the rest of the world needs
    to do if it wants to survive and prosper long into the future.

    For example, we have some of the most aggressive renewable energy
    goals in the United States, with a target for California to obtain
    a third of its electricity from renewables by 2020 (and a goal of
    50% by 2050). We are fighting the Trump administration legally on
    multiple fronts to stop it from poisoning the rest of the planet.

    Anyone who defends Trump is trapped in lame regressive patterns.

    Oh I don't think Trump needs anyone to defend him. He seems quite
    capable of self defence from what I've seen.

    I enjoyed California when I was there 20 years ago. It was very
    progressive and has some eucalypt forests which rival the size and
    extent of those here in Australia, from where they were imported many
    years ago (side note - my wife's cousin told me they were imported as
    quick growing sources of railroad ties, but now they are quite the
    fire hazard due to their exploding and inflammable sap).

    SF was great, LA not so great (dangerous to the extent that at the
    time we were told by our Hollywood Inn hosts not to wear anything red
    or blue at night in case we might be killed). We were also told not
    to drive, but I did, and still remember the faux pas.

    But it was, and is, full of nut cases. The powerful dynamics of NY
    (been there too) seemed absent and there are many aspects of the
    liberal way of life in Cali I don't agree with and many others do not
    as well. But, it does have legal dope. That's a plus.

    And bikers, some of the worst serial killers the world has known and a
    tech enclave which boosts the average salaries, GDP etc you refer to
    above. And it pretends to be libertarian but it really isn't - it's
    just liberal.



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  • From slider@1:229/2 to thangolossus@gmail.com on Thursday, July 05, 2018 13:30:18
    From: slider@anashram.com

    On Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:57:13 +0100, thang ornerythinchus <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:41:32 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:06:18 +0100, thang ornerythinchus
    <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 19:10:59 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:


    Trump does not do what
    the majority of Americans want. It's
    important to realize that.

    ### - what's important to realise, is that he's doing it all quite
    deliberately.

    deliberately going against the grain!

    the only really interesting question is what is he actually achieving
    by
    doing so?

    chaos! that's what's he's cultivating pure & simple: chaos both at
    home
    &
    abroad!

    and i really don't think he's doing it at all by accident either!

    look deeper...

    For once I completely agree. A superficial look at what is happening,
    facilitated by the left leaning "progressive" liberal (but not
    libertarian) "news" networks, will only lead to confusion. Trump is
    maybe the first POTUS in a long while who is not controlled by the
    puppeteers. No invisible hand here, just Trump, doing it his way.

    I have revised my original opinion. I now believe that beyond
    everything else, Trump is a patriot.

    ### - don't be ridiculous hah, he's just another fat-cat stuffed pig!

    Well at least you left the fucking thread in, unlike David Jerome.
    Thanks for the continuity.

    ### - i do it because i realise the difficulty you have with all this, but
    you still have to know that it's an otherwise common + accepted practice
    to snip remarks and/or to highlight things/quotes in such a manner and
    it's NOT necessarily an affront? (e.g., out of a whole rambling discourse someone might only pick up on a single, possibly even completely outta
    context, remark, and 'go' on that alone! and it's valid to do so! that's
    how the majority operate! to then demand them to start tip-toeing around
    you because you've gots a bit of a limp in that direction or whatever in
    that dept., is actually asking a bit much as you're asking 'them' to
    change rather than you having to go to some extra lengths yourself... it's
    your problem really not theirs, and can't justifiably be pushed-off onto others?)



    who doesn't give a damn about anything except his own little fucked up
    business world thang...

    You presume that. There is no evidence. He can be both you know - a
    canny and tough businessman *and* a patriot. JFK was - he was worth
    close to a billion, Washington was a patriot and was the wealthiest
    POTUS until Trump. The Clintons are not impoverished. Hoover was
    worth uncountable millions - all mining related. Many have had major businesses and been POTUS and of course been patriots. Trump is
    definitely a patriot and you are letting your dogma and predispositions/cant/biases get in the way of clear thought.

    ### - he ONLY knows his OWN lifestyle thang! and typically fights/aims to perpetuate only that which he knows! lol if he came to brixton and lived
    here with me for a while (perish the thought! shudder...) he's be
    completely outta his depth! lost! floundering even! and lol prolly
    wouldn't even last a minute before begging to be able to get back to his
    comfy little... world!

    iow: there's a LOT of 'Reality' right here where am living that he doesn't
    know fuck-all about! is completely unaware of! is terrified of actually
    hah! and perforce avoids like the proverbial plague!

    i.e., at least obama 'could' walk into a bar and at least 'pretend' to be having a pint with his fellow man? (true it was ultimately only a pr
    exercise heh, but silly-bollocks couldn't even 'conceive' of ever doing
    such a thing?? it wouldn't even occur to him!)



    make no mistake my friend, he does not have yours or mine best interests
    at heart whatsoever!

    No he doesn't. He has the USA's best interests at heart.

    ### - i doubt he even has 'that' sport hah!

    he's JUST a businessman! (think/imagine de-nero in that movie 'Limitless'
    for a more complete view of the fucker heh... corrupt as they come! geez)



    and perforce all the fucking right-wing are eventually gonna rally
    around
    the bum because THAT'S the only interests at heart he has and believes
    in!
    right is right! the rule of fist! peace through strength (riiiight...)

    Wrong. There are shades of right and shades of left - Stalin and Mao
    were left, and look at what they did to their own peoples. Tens of
    millions murdered, starved, disposessed. They both forged despotic
    armies which enslaved vast parts of the world. Again, you throw
    cheap, thoughtless slogans instead of using that vaunted 160 IQ to
    clearly, incisively think.

    ### - 'too far' left & 'too far' right and it all starts getting cloudy...

    ya have to walk in the middle (or rather: between thus avoiding) those 2 mountains, not climb them ;)



    do you really think he'd even hesitate to burn oz (or anywhere come to
    that!) if there was a profit in it as long as it's not right on his own
    doorstep??

    Absolutely. We are a great strategic partner to the US, always have
    been. Presidents come and go - our friendship with the US will last
    forever and goes both ways.

    ### - lol i reckon he'd prolly sell his own mother if there was a profit
    in it hah!

    (band called 10cc: "betcha sell your mother, you could buy another..."
    hehehe)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foT1ITubs1A - great lyrics heh ;)



    he's militarising the world!

    What nonsense. I expect better from you, ok? The fucking world is
    already militarised, always has been, may always be so (I don't know,
    it's a reasonable extrapolation but I don't have a crystal ball,
    unlike you).

    ### - all those billions of dollars of arms to saudi? south korea? japan?
    and more??

    he's certainly doin' HIS bit for world peace then innit lol (riiiight...)



    and that's a good thing, right?

    No, it's an incorrect, deluded thing. Read history for fucks sake
    Slider.

    ### - 110 billion in arms to saudi alone 'since' he took office!?

    AND all the rest?? ya don't need fucking a crystal ball to see all that
    going on lol :)

    peace through strength??? (iow: via war of necessary! easily!)

    so why doesn't he help the 'poor' peeps IF he's such a nice chap??

    NO! he's tightening the fucking purse strings even tighter on them instead!

    LESS health care instead of more? (only poor people need help with health
    care in a system where only the wealthy can get decent treatment ffs!)

    THEY (the poor and dispossessed) are having to pay for the errors the
    wealthy made???

    where's the justice in that??

    he's currently running the poor over en-mass with a fucking steamroller
    thang!

    oh he's a humanitarian alright! a real man of the people!

    riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight......

    :P

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  • From thang ornerythinchus@1:229/2 to All on Monday, July 16, 2018 14:38:37
    From: thangolossus@gmail.com

    On Thu, 05 Jul 2018 13:30:18 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:57:13 +0100, thang ornerythinchus ><thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:41:32 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:06:18 +0100, thang ornerythinchus
    <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 19:10:59 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:


    Trump does not do what
    the majority of Americans want. It's
    important to realize that.

    ### - what's important to realise, is that he's doing it all quite
    deliberately.

    deliberately going against the grain!

    the only really interesting question is what is he actually achieving >>>>> by
    doing so?

    chaos! that's what's he's cultivating pure & simple: chaos both at
    home
    &
    abroad!

    and i really don't think he's doing it at all by accident either!

    look deeper...

    For once I completely agree. A superficial look at what is happening, >>>> facilitated by the left leaning "progressive" liberal (but not
    libertarian) "news" networks, will only lead to confusion. Trump is
    maybe the first POTUS in a long while who is not controlled by the
    puppeteers. No invisible hand here, just Trump, doing it his way.

    I have revised my original opinion. I now believe that beyond
    everything else, Trump is a patriot.

    ### - don't be ridiculous hah, he's just another fat-cat stuffed pig!

    Well at least you left the fucking thread in, unlike David Jerome.
    Thanks for the continuity.

    ### - i do it because i realise the difficulty you have with all this, but >you still have to know that it's an otherwise common + accepted practice
    to snip remarks and/or to highlight things/quotes in such a manner and
    it's NOT necessarily an affront? (e.g., out of a whole rambling discourse >someone might only pick up on a single, possibly even completely outta >context, remark, and 'go' on that alone! and it's valid to do so! that's
    how the majority operate! to then demand them to start tip-toeing around
    you because you've gots a bit of a limp in that direction or whatever in
    that dept., is actually asking a bit much as you're asking 'them' to
    change rather than you having to go to some extra lengths yourself... it's >your problem really not theirs, and can't justifiably be pushed-off onto >others?)

    You've completely missed the point. I KNOW all this, I've been using NGs/usenet since the late 80's, I know usenetiquette (and I use paid
    servers, unlike you lot of text-only parasites lol).

    What David Jerome does, and Chris too, is ignorantly snip *everything*
    which on a modern newsreader like Agent 7 doesn't attribute a response
    to any particular poster's reply. It's guesswork due to lack of
    manners. You with me now?




    who doesn't give a damn about anything except his own little fucked up
    business world thang...

    You presume that. There is no evidence. He can be both you know - a
    canny and tough businessman *and* a patriot. JFK was - he was worth
    close to a billion, Washington was a patriot and was the wealthiest
    POTUS until Trump. The Clintons are not impoverished. Hoover was
    worth uncountable millions - all mining related. Many have had major
    businesses and been POTUS and of course been patriots. Trump is
    definitely a patriot and you are letting your dogma and
    predispositions/cant/biases get in the way of clear thought.

    ### - he ONLY knows his OWN lifestyle thang! and typically fights/aims to >perpetuate only that which he knows! lol if he came to brixton and lived
    here with me for a while (perish the thought! shudder...) he's be
    completely outta his depth! lost! floundering even! and lol prolly
    wouldn't even last a minute before begging to be able to get back to his >comfy little... world!

    iow: there's a LOT of 'Reality' right here where am living that he doesn't >know fuck-all about! is completely unaware of! is terrified of actually
    hah! and perforce avoids like the proverbial plague!

    i.e., at least obama 'could' walk into a bar and at least 'pretend' to be >having a pint with his fellow man? (true it was ultimately only a pr
    exercise heh, but silly-bollocks couldn't even 'conceive' of ever doing
    such a thing?? it wouldn't even occur to him!)



    make no mistake my friend, he does not have yours or mine best interests >>> at heart whatsoever!

    No he doesn't. He has the USA's best interests at heart.

    ### - i doubt he even has 'that' sport hah!

    Yeah he has. He's a patriot after all, now I see that.


    he's JUST a businessman! (think/imagine de-nero in that movie 'Limitless'
    for a more complete view of the fucker heh... corrupt as they come! geez)

    *just*? Like practically every POTUS has had business interests?
    Don't you have any superannuation Slider? That's a business interest, depending on the market for your returns.

    Shades of grey pal. You cannot reduce the irreducible.




    and perforce all the fucking right-wing are eventually gonna rally
    around
    the bum because THAT'S the only interests at heart he has and believes
    in!
    right is right! the rule of fist! peace through strength (riiiight...)

    Wrong. There are shades of right and shades of left - Stalin and Mao
    were left, and look at what they did to their own peoples. Tens of
    millions murdered, starved, disposessed. They both forged despotic
    armies which enslaved vast parts of the world. Again, you throw
    cheap, thoughtless slogans instead of using that vaunted 160 IQ to
    clearly, incisively think.

    ### - 'too far' left & 'too far' right and it all starts getting cloudy...

    ya have to walk in the middle (or rather: between thus avoiding) those 2 >mountains, not climb them ;)

    Those mountains are illusions. People can have a conservative bent
    while being assiduous liberatarians who grow their own pot. You
    cannot put a human mind into a round or square hole, far too complex a
    thing.





    do you really think he'd even hesitate to burn oz (or anywhere come to
    that!) if there was a profit in it as long as it's not right on his own
    doorstep??

    Absolutely. We are a great strategic partner to the US, always have
    been. Presidents come and go - our friendship with the US will last
    forever and goes both ways.

    ### - lol i reckon he'd prolly sell his own mother if there was a profit
    in it hah!

    (band called 10cc: "betcha sell your mother, you could buy another..." >hehehe)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foT1ITubs1A - great lyrics heh ;)



    he's militarising the world!

    What nonsense. I expect better from you, ok? The fucking world is
    already militarised, always has been, may always be so (I don't know,
    it's a reasonable extrapolation but I don't have a crystal ball,
    unlike you).

    ### - all those billions of dollars of arms to saudi? south korea? japan?
    and more??

    he's certainly doin' HIS bit for world peace then innit lol (riiiight...)

    He's stopped war with DPRK for the time being. If Hillary had been
    elected we would probably be at war with both Russia and DPRK/China by
    now.





    and that's a good thing, right?

    No, it's an incorrect, deluded thing. Read history for fucks sake
    Slider.

    ### - 110 billion in arms to saudi alone 'since' he took office!?

    AND all the rest?? ya don't need fucking a crystal ball to see all that
    going on lol :)

    peace through strength??? (iow: via war of necessary! easily!)

    so why doesn't he help the 'poor' peeps IF he's such a nice chap??

    Listen mate, peep is the sound a fucking chook (chicken) makes. The
    word is "people". Don't be cute, you're too old. Also, look up the
    word "affectation".



    NO! he's tightening the fucking purse strings even tighter on them instead!

    LESS health care instead of more? (only poor people need help with health >care in a system where only the wealthy can get decent treatment ffs!)

    THEY (the poor and dispossessed) are having to pay for the errors the
    wealthy made???

    where's the justice in that??

    he's currently running the poor over en-mass with a fucking steamroller >thang!

    Well when you consider the "poor" includes a good many who are POOR
    due to laziness, parasitism, dirty personal habits, stupidity and
    criminality, why shouldn't he? :)

    I mean, look at you. You're poor. Why are you bleeding the state
    Slider? You seem of moderate intellect, why didn't you go to night
    school like me, get a decent education, work long weeks and stuff some
    money under the pillow for a FUCKING RAINY DAY???

    Why shouldn't he, or May, or Putin, steamroller YOU? You're poor due
    to personal choice, not the vagaries of fate. Give me a break you
    lazy cunt :)


    oh he's a humanitarian alright! a real man of the people!

    riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight......

    :P

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to thangolossus@gmail.com on Monday, July 16, 2018 08:40:29
    From: slider@anashram.com

    On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 07:38:37 +0100, thang ornerythinchus <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 05 Jul 2018 13:30:18 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:57:13 +0100, thang ornerythinchus
    <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:41:32 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:06:18 +0100, thang ornerythinchus
    <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 19:10:59 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:


    Trump does not do what
    the majority of Americans want. It's
    important to realize that.

    ### - what's important to realise, is that he's doing it all quite >>>>>> deliberately.

    deliberately going against the grain!

    the only really interesting question is what is he actually
    achieving
    by
    doing so?

    chaos! that's what's he's cultivating pure & simple: chaos both at >>>>>> home
    &
    abroad!

    and i really don't think he's doing it at all by accident either!

    look deeper...

    For once I completely agree. A superficial look at what is
    happening,
    facilitated by the left leaning "progressive" liberal (but not
    libertarian) "news" networks, will only lead to confusion. Trump is >>>>> maybe the first POTUS in a long while who is not controlled by the
    puppeteers. No invisible hand here, just Trump, doing it his way.

    I have revised my original opinion. I now believe that beyond
    everything else, Trump is a patriot.

    ### - don't be ridiculous hah, he's just another fat-cat stuffed pig!

    Well at least you left the fucking thread in, unlike David Jerome.
    Thanks for the continuity.

    ### - i do it because i realise the difficulty you have with all this,
    but
    you still have to know that it's an otherwise common + accepted practice
    to snip remarks and/or to highlight things/quotes in such a manner and
    it's NOT necessarily an affront? (e.g., out of a whole rambling
    discourse
    someone might only pick up on a single, possibly even completely outta
    context, remark, and 'go' on that alone! and it's valid to do so! that's
    how the majority operate! to then demand them to start tip-toeing around
    you because you've gots a bit of a limp in that direction or whatever in
    that dept., is actually asking a bit much as you're asking 'them' to
    change rather than you having to go to some extra lengths yourself...
    it's
    your problem really not theirs, and can't justifiably be pushed-off onto
    others?)

    You've completely missed the point. I KNOW all this, I've been using NGs/usenet since the late 80's, I know usenetiquette (and I use paid
    servers, unlike you lot of text-only parasites lol).

    What David Jerome does, and Chris too, is ignorantly snip *everything*
    which on a modern newsreader like Agent 7 doesn't attribute a response
    to any particular poster's reply. It's guesswork due to lack of
    manners. You with me now?

    ### - have 'been' with you (on this) all along matey! i totally understand
    your dilemma and how it affects you! what you don't understand, however,
    is that it's easy for us so-called 'normal' people to do exactly what you
    say you have difficulty with? that it's actually only "ignorant" from
    'your' pov alone because you can't make those leaps (of unspoken
    intellect) that seems to come so easy to the likes of us! (i even spelled
    it out for ya above and you still didn't get it?) but which is not through
    any fault of yours other than you were born a bit different to all these
    others is all...

    i.e., when presented with a single line that's been say snipped from a far longer post and is now isolated, you're supposed to see what the they
    'mean' (and/or imply) by doing that with it... and it can be many things;
    a change of subject or a tangent thereof albeit still loosely related to
    the original context, and/or may be them highlighting what they consider
    to be the perhaps more salient point which they either agree with or the reverse! there's no rules to shit like that? thus one has to try and see/understand what they're saying & why + respond accordingly, it can
    even be a joke or a criticism, and in some instances both! can even be rhetorical! so it's no good shouting at us because there's something we
    can do but you can't? (besides which, it's no biggie anyway so you
    shouldn't really make such a fuss? if there's something ya don't
    understand then simply just ask ffs?) :)





    who doesn't give a damn about anything except his own little fucked up >>>> business world thang...

    You presume that. There is no evidence. He can be both you know - a
    canny and tough businessman *and* a patriot. JFK was - he was worth
    close to a billion, Washington was a patriot and was the wealthiest
    POTUS until Trump. The Clintons are not impoverished. Hoover was
    worth uncountable millions - all mining related. Many have had major
    businesses and been POTUS and of course been patriots. Trump is
    definitely a patriot and you are letting your dogma and
    predispositions/cant/biases get in the way of clear thought.

    ### - he ONLY knows his OWN lifestyle thang! and typically fights/aims
    to
    perpetuate only that which he knows! lol if he came to brixton and lived
    here with me for a while (perish the thought! shudder...) he's be
    completely outta his depth! lost! floundering even! and lol prolly
    wouldn't even last a minute before begging to be able to get back to his
    comfy little... world!

    iow: there's a LOT of 'Reality' right here where am living that he
    doesn't
    know fuck-all about! is completely unaware of! is terrified of actually
    hah! and perforce avoids like the proverbial plague!

    i.e., at least obama 'could' walk into a bar and at least 'pretend' to
    be
    having a pint with his fellow man? (true it was ultimately only a pr
    exercise heh, but silly-bollocks couldn't even 'conceive' of ever doing
    such a thing?? it wouldn't even occur to him!)



    make no mistake my friend, he does not have yours or mine best
    interests
    at heart whatsoever!

    No he doesn't. He has the USA's best interests at heart.

    ### - i doubt he even has 'that' sport hah!

    Yeah he has. He's a patriot after all, now I see that.

    ### - "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel..." --oscar wilde haha
    :)




    he's JUST a businessman! (think/imagine de-nero in that movie
    'Limitless'
    for a more complete view of the fucker heh... corrupt as they come!
    geez)

    *just*? Like practically every POTUS has had business interests?
    Don't you have any superannuation Slider? That's a business interest, depending on the market for your returns.

    Shades of grey pal. You cannot reduce the irreducible.

    ### - he's a businessman NOT a humanitarian!

    big difference! ("bet you'd sell your mother, you can buy another!"
    --10-cc, in ref. to trumpy-boy!)




    and perforce all the fucking right-wing are eventually gonna rally
    around
    the bum because THAT'S the only interests at heart he has and believes >>>> in!
    right is right! the rule of fist! peace through strength (riiiight...)

    Wrong. There are shades of right and shades of left - Stalin and Mao
    were left, and look at what they did to their own peoples. Tens of
    millions murdered, starved, disposessed. They both forged despotic
    armies which enslaved vast parts of the world. Again, you throw
    cheap, thoughtless slogans instead of using that vaunted 160 IQ to
    clearly, incisively think.

    ### - 'too far' left & 'too far' right and it all starts getting
    cloudy...

    ya have to walk in the middle (or rather: between thus avoiding) those 2
    mountains, not climb them ;)

    Those mountains are illusions. People can have a conservative bent
    while being assiduous liberatarians who grow their own pot. You
    cannot put a human mind into a round or square hole, far too complex a
    thing.

    ### - don't deflect/prevaricate! you stated categorically that both left & right were guilty of atrocities! (Sic. hahaha) and i replied; that it's
    only at the 'extremes' that ya get all that shit!

    old trumpy-boy is far-right! (not extreme far right, at least not yet,
    hah!) so all the attributes of the right-wing are accentuated/exaggerated
    in him!

    for 'sanity to prevail, however, ya have to choose the most 'intelligent'
    spot available!

    which, as it turns out, is only 'just' left of centre ;)





    do you really think he'd even hesitate to burn oz (or anywhere come to >>>> that!) if there was a profit in it as long as it's not right on his
    own
    doorstep??

    Absolutely. We are a great strategic partner to the US, always have
    been. Presidents come and go - our friendship with the US will last
    forever and goes both ways.

    ### - lol i reckon he'd prolly sell his own mother if there was a profit
    in it hah!

    (band called 10cc: "betcha sell your mother, you could buy another..."
    hehehe)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foT1ITubs1A - great lyrics heh ;)



    he's militarising the world!

    What nonsense. I expect better from you, ok? The fucking world is
    already militarised, always has been, may always be so (I don't know,
    it's a reasonable extrapolation but I don't have a crystal ball,
    unlike you).

    ### - all those billions of dollars of arms to saudi? south korea?
    japan?
    and more??

    he's certainly doin' HIS bit for world peace then innit lol
    (riiiight...)

    He's stopped war with DPRK for the time being. If Hillary had been
    elected we would probably be at war with both Russia and DPRK/China by
    now.

    ### - nonsense! the left don't start wars by confronting things! the left
    wants to talk & negotiate, come to some amicable deal, whereas the rights' peace through: 'we'll punch yer fuckin' lights out mate if you don't
    comply' isn't ABOUT negotiation; it's about coercion and force!

    like he sent all those nuclear warships up there to... 'negotiate???

    riiiiight... :)




    and that's a good thing, right?

    No, it's an incorrect, deluded thing. Read history for fucks sake
    Slider.

    ### - 110 billion in arms to saudi alone 'since' he took office!?

    AND all the rest?? ya don't need fucking a crystal ball to see all that
    going on lol :)

    peace through strength??? (iow: via war of necessary! easily!)

    so why doesn't he help the 'poor' peeps IF he's such a nice chap??

    Listen mate, peep is the sound a fucking chook (chicken) makes. The
    word is "people". Don't be cute, you're too old. Also, look up the
    word "affectation".

    ### - so, 'ducking' the above searching question in-favour of changing the subject and pulling me up on some silly term have been using for simply
    ages now? really?? (where ya going? come back!)




    NO! he's tightening the fucking purse strings even tighter on them
    instead!

    LESS health care instead of more? (only poor people need help with
    health
    care in a system where only the wealthy can get decent treatment ffs!)

    THEY (the poor and dispossessed) are having to pay for the errors the
    wealthy made???

    where's the justice in that??

    he's currently running the poor over en-mass with a fucking steamroller
    thang!

    Well when you consider the "poor" includes a good many who are POOR
    due to laziness, parasitism, dirty personal habits, stupidity and criminality, why shouldn't he? :)

    ### - so fuck-me it's a 'crime' now to be poor is it? lol...

    in a world where 80% ARE poor by default??

    only wealthy right-wing cunts ever talk like that haha ;)

    (do ya know that nixon was involved in a plan to 'sterilise' the children
    of the poor so they wouldn't breed so much? actually true! plus didn't you ozzies do something very similar to your own aborigines?? ya's did ya
    know!)

    damn, the fucking wealthy 'created' the condition of poverty for the
    majority, and then wanna punish them for not being wealthy?? fuck that mixed-signals bs! :)




    I mean, look at you. You're poor. Why are you bleeding the state
    Slider? You seem of moderate intellect, why didn't you go to night
    school like me, get a decent education, work long weeks and stuff some
    money under the pillow for a FUCKING RAINY DAY???

    ### - am poor by choice 'coz i just can't bring myself to 'support' such a monstrous society/state?

    wont play the game see? ain't playin'! ain't gonna play either! deal with
    that society!

    and perforce they dunno wtf to do with people like me hehehe ;)




    Why shouldn't he, or May, or Putin, steamroller YOU? You're poor due
    to personal choice, not the vagaries of fate. Give me a break you
    lazy cunt :)

    ### - ya see all that 'time & energy' you so-easily donated to society?
    (as most people do and are encouraged to do), well i had ALL that time for myself see? i realised quite early-on that the whole fucking thing is
    'rigged' right up to the eyeballs! it's all fixed! (e.g., did you know
    that during ww1 not one single soldier from the ranks ever rose higher
    than sergeant? that not 'one' single of of them ever became an... officer?

    all rigged see? all weighted totally in-favour of the rich owners!

    (am not saying it's impossible in modern society, but you might well have
    to compromise upon your own humanity in order to do so! a huge price to
    pay!)

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to thangolossus@gmail.com on Thursday, July 19, 2018 00:55:21
    From: slider@anashram.com

    On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 01:14:41 +0100, thang ornerythinchus <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:40:29 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 07:38:37 +0100, thang ornerythinchus
    <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 05 Jul 2018 13:30:18 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:57:13 +0100, thang ornerythinchus
    <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:41:32 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:06:18 +0100, thang ornerythinchus
    <thangolossus@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 19:10:59 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com> >>>>>>> wrote:


    Trump does not do what
    the majority of Americans want. It's
    important to realize that.

    ### - what's important to realise, is that he's doing it all quite >>>>>>>> deliberately.

    deliberately going against the grain!

    the only really interesting question is what is he actually
    achieving
    by
    doing so?

    chaos! that's what's he's cultivating pure & simple: chaos both at >>>>>>>> home
    &
    abroad!

    and i really don't think he's doing it at all by accident either! >>>>>>>>
    look deeper...

    For once I completely agree. A superficial look at what is
    happening,
    facilitated by the left leaning "progressive" liberal (but not
    libertarian) "news" networks, will only lead to confusion. Trump >>>>>>> is
    maybe the first POTUS in a long while who is not controlled by the >>>>>>> puppeteers. No invisible hand here, just Trump, doing it his way. >>>>>>>
    I have revised my original opinion. I now believe that beyond
    everything else, Trump is a patriot.

    ### - don't be ridiculous hah, he's just another fat-cat stuffed
    pig!

    Well at least you left the fucking thread in, unlike David Jerome.
    Thanks for the continuity.

    ### - i do it because i realise the difficulty you have with all this, >>>> but
    you still have to know that it's an otherwise common + accepted
    practice
    to snip remarks and/or to highlight things/quotes in such a manner and >>>> it's NOT necessarily an affront? (e.g., out of a whole rambling
    discourse
    someone might only pick up on a single, possibly even completely outta >>>> context, remark, and 'go' on that alone! and it's valid to do so!
    that's
    how the majority operate! to then demand them to start tip-toeing
    around
    you because you've gots a bit of a limp in that direction or whatever
    in
    that dept., is actually asking a bit much as you're asking 'them' to
    change rather than you having to go to some extra lengths yourself...
    it's
    your problem really not theirs, and can't justifiably be pushed-off
    onto
    others?)

    You've completely missed the point. I KNOW all this, I've been using
    NGs/usenet since the late 80's, I know usenetiquette (and I use paid
    servers, unlike you lot of text-only parasites lol).

    What David Jerome does, and Chris too, is ignorantly snip *everything*
    which on a modern newsreader like Agent 7 doesn't attribute a response
    to any particular poster's reply. It's guesswork due to lack of
    manners. You with me now?

    ### - have 'been' with you (on this) all along matey! i totally
    understand
    your dilemma and how it affects you! what you don't understand, however,
    is that it's easy for us so-called 'normal' people to do exactly what
    you
    say you have difficulty with? that it's actually only "ignorant" from
    'your' pov alone because you can't make those leaps (of unspoken
    intellect) that seems to come so easy to the likes of us! (i even
    spelled
    it out for ya above and you still didn't get it?) but which is not
    through
    any fault of yours other than you were born a bit different to all these
    others is all...

    No you're not interpositioning what I've left unspoken. That is, that
    I don't, like you, stay glued to this NG as though my very life
    depends on it. I come and go intermittently, and rather infrequently.
    To do so, I leave my reader (Forte Agent) in stasis from when I read
    the messages to the next time I visit which might be up to a week
    away. I have a life, which apparently, you do not.

    When I reappear, I update my reader (Agent) which consigns all of my
    old messaged to "read". I then update my message window to "unread"
    which displays on those new messages appearing over the time since I
    last updated/posted. This means that I need at least *some* vestige
    of a thread to reconnect the new unread messages to my last postings
    and the responses, if any, since I last updated my reader (Agent).
    Because, Slider, I can't be fucked digging around in the cesspool of
    old, read messages trying to do what any reasonably thoughtful cunt
    should have done in the first place - which is left in some part of
    the message thread so posters can find their place and ensure they are responding to the latest posts etc etc.

    You fucking presumptuous dill.

    ### - look, i got my problems, and you gots yours!

    so stop complaining and just fuckin' deal with it! :)

    things are harder for some & easier for others!

    and none of that even matters a tinkers-cuss, except to maybe proud cunts
    heh :)




    i.e., when presented with a single line that's been say snipped from a
    far
    longer post and is now isolated, you're supposed to see what the they
    'mean' (and/or imply) by doing that with it... and it can be many
    things;
    a change of subject or a tangent thereof albeit still loosely related to
    the original context, and/or may be them highlighting what they consider
    to be the perhaps more salient point which they either agree with or the
    reverse! there's no rules to shit like that? thus one has to try and
    see/understand what they're saying & why + respond accordingly, it can
    even be a joke or a criticism, and in some instances both! can even be
    rhetorical! so it's no good shouting at us because there's something we
    can do but you can't? (besides which, it's no biggie anyway so you
    shouldn't really make such a fuss? if there's something ya don't
    understand then simply just ask ffs?) :)

    What a steaming pile of bollocks. Of course there are rules to
    usenet. But you wouldn't know, you use free text only services or
    fucking Spoogle, which fucked up Deja News when it bought it out and
    then left it to ferment and rot. You don't have the dollar or two to
    spend on a decent server with great retention and authenticated
    posting and rules and TOS and so on. You just fester in your cosmic ingnorance, as per usual. Oh, here's the smiley ... :)

    ### - correction: there USED to be rules to the usnet but not anymore!

    i.e., bandwidth is longer a concern!

    but hey let's all be 'free' by making another bunch of... rules???

    riiiight... :)



    By the way, shouting in usenet is UPPER CASE. I *never* use upper
    case. Therefore, I do not SHOUT.

    You complete, moronic dolt.

    ### - HEEEY! RULES-BOY! - I CAN SHOUT IF I FUCKIN' WANT! :)

    but then so can you so stfu! (lol:))))



    old trumpy-boy is far-right! (not extreme far right, at least not yet,
    hah!) so all the attributes of the right-wing are
    accentuated/exaggerated
    in him!

    for 'sanity to prevail, however, ya have to choose the most
    'intelligent'
    spot available!

    which, as it turns out, is only 'just' left of centre ;)

    There are no "spots". The human mind and brain (yep, they are two
    separate things) are the most complex and intricate objects and things
    known to man, and we can see to the edge of a radius of around 45
    billion light years.

    And you want to reduce that to a "spot"? I thought you had an IQ of
    160+?

    ### - you can be so annoyingly slooow on the uptake sometimes hahaha :)))

    rewind ok? (laffing...)

    if... too far left or right turns out to be a problem (which it surely
    is!) then surely there must also be a kinda sweet-spot where it's perhaps
    a more intelligent place to stand (politically) between those extremes,
    right?

    and am simply suggesting that, accordingly; 'just' left-of-center 'is'
    that spot!

    not too-far left see... and defo NOT going right! :)

    that of ALL the places it's *possible* to stand, both mentally and
    politically, 'just-left' of that center-line is where it's all at! maan...
    :)








    do you really think he'd even hesitate to burn oz (or anywhere come >>>>>> to
    that!) if there was a profit in it as long as it's not right on his >>>>>> own
    doorstep??

    Absolutely. We are a great strategic partner to the US, always have >>>>> been. Presidents come and go - our friendship with the US will last >>>>> forever and goes both ways.

    ### - lol i reckon he'd prolly sell his own mother if there was a
    profit
    in it hah!

    (band called 10cc: "betcha sell your mother, you could buy another..." >>>> hehehe)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foT1ITubs1A - great lyrics heh ;)



    he's militarising the world!

    What nonsense. I expect better from you, ok? The fucking world is
    already militarised, always has been, may always be so (I don't know, >>>>> it's a reasonable extrapolation but I don't have a crystal ball,
    unlike you).

    ### - all those billions of dollars of arms to saudi? south korea?
    japan?
    and more??

    he's certainly doin' HIS bit for world peace then innit lol
    (riiiight...)

    He's stopped war with DPRK for the time being. If Hillary had been
    elected we would probably be at war with both Russia and DPRK/China by
    now.

    ### - nonsense! the left don't start wars by confronting things! the
    left
    wants to talk & negotiate, come to some amicable deal, whereas the
    rights'
    peace through: 'we'll punch yer fuckin' lights out mate if you don't
    comply' isn't ABOUT negotiation; it's about coercion and force!

    Oh yeah, just like Joe Stalin when he did his deal with Hitler to
    invade and partition the eastern portion of Poland when Hitler invaded
    and occupied the western portion of Poland. And later, Joe took those
    17,000 Polish officers out to the Katyn forest and executed them - he
    didn't like intelligentsia hanging around.

    Joe ran the Soviet Union by the way, the CCCP (Union of Soviet
    Socialist Republics). The CCCP was a little bit to the left, wouldn't
    you say?

    ### - we've already 'dispensed' with the extremes because their positions aren't tenable!

    so both stalin AND hitler (and any 'other' extremes) are out! completely
    out!

    don't go back there again when we've just ruled them out?

    we cannot even consider them because they're both equally insane options!

    so what remains after that then eh?

    the 'less extreme' left & right remain ok?

    now refine that even farther and we're getting nearer & nearer towards the middle ain't we?

    but smack bang right in the middle is actually neither fish nor fowl?

    so 'where' to stand then... certainly not 'right' of that center-line
    where you currently stand (too much oppressive law and violence there see?
    too much of the 'peace through strength' shit for peace to ever really
    prevail of its own accord! right of center isn't as-open to reason that
    the 'intelligent' approach requires!) and defo not too-far left either!
    but still need 'some' of that or there wouldn't be any debate, just
    dogma...)

    so then, and upon balance; only 'just' left of center qualifies as being
    'the' more intelligent option :)




    You don't know the fuck what you're talking about. I'm wasting my
    time with you. You're a fucking idiot with zero knowledge about
    practically everything of any importance. Why don't you spend your
    remaining years on this spinning rock getting some KNOWLEDGE under
    your fucking belt?

    ### - that was your pat-answer to nicotine too wasn't it, until you
    realised you were fucking insane about it, that is heh...

    heh slider was the nut until 'you' turned into the nut hah! :)

    ***


    snip the rest because you became repetitively + boringly belligerent like
    the record got stuck or summat :)

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)
  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Sunday, July 22, 2018 15:54:36
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    Do-It-Yourself Legislative Redistricting

    A Michigan ballot initiative points the way to reforming gerrymandering,
    one of the most anti-democratic practices in American politics.

    By The New York Times Editorial Board

    July 21, 2018

    http://tinyurl.com/y9k3fjhx

    One of this year’s most significant citizen-led ballot initiatives was sparked by a Michigan woman’s dread at having to sit through a postelection Thanksgiving dinner.

    It was early November 2016. Donald Trump had just defied the odds and captured the White House. Millions of Americans were gloating; millions more were cursing. Katie Fahey, then a 27-year-old recycling program coordinator from Grand Rapids, was
    anticipating a six-hour argument with her family, whose politics she does not share. “I was kind of fearing going home,” said Ms. Fahey. Then she had a thought. “If I have to go to Thanksgiving, maybe I could get my family to talk about an actual
    issue, one we can all agree on that’s basic and fair.”

    She chose redistricting reform. An eye-glazing term, for sure, but it addresses
    a noxious anti-democratic practice, known as partisan gerrymandering, that is very real. It’s also as easy to understand as the fox and the henhouse: Politicians who
    benefit the most from how legislative district lines are drawn shouldn’t be entrusted with drawing them.

    Yet, in 37 states, the legislatures hold the power to design maps that lock their party in power, regardless of what voters want. This increases political polarization, decreases competition, makes policy compromises difficult if not impossible and
    drives down voter turnout. Both parties do it when they get the chance, although Republicans have had many more chances in the last decade, thanks to the wave that swept them into power in 2010, just before the latest redistricting cycle.

    This self-serving entrenchment was at the heart of two cases involving extreme partisan gerrymanders before the United States Supreme Court this past term. The court had previously agreed that the practice is “incompatible with democratic principles,”
    and that at its most extreme it amounts to “rigging elections.” But the court has refused to step in, even as the nation’s politics have polarized and technologies have made it easier for politicians across the country to carve up their districts
    with surgical precision.

    Michigan’s district maps, redrawn by a then-new Republican majority in 2011, are among the most skewed in the country. In a state that Donald Trump won by fewer than 11,000 votes out of 4.8 million cast — a victory margin of 0.3 percentage points —
    Republicans hold a 9-5 edge in congressional seats and a 27-11 advantage in the
    State Senate. In the State House, Republicans maintain a 63-47 advantage, even though a majority of voters picked Democrats in 2016. Republicans deny that they purposefully
    drew themselves these extreme majorities. But in a 2011 email, a lawyer helping
    to shape the new maps wrote to a Republican legislative aide, “We’ve spent a lot of time providing options to ensure we have a solid 9-5 delegation in 2012 and beyond.”

    As the 2020 redistricting cycle approaches, voters across the country are left to figure out for themselves how to ensure fairness in a representative democracy. It’s an issue that has been bothering Ms. Fahey since she first learned about it in her
    fourth-grade classroom.

    “I remember asking the teacher, ‘Why don’t we fix it if we know politicians cheat?’ The teacher said, ‘That’s the way it’s always been done,’” Ms. Fahey said. “And that was just not the answer I wanted to hear. There’s this basic
    building block in your democracy that you know is corrupt, and we’re not going to do anything about it.”

    In 2016, Ms. Fahey decided to do something about it. On Nov. 10, two days after
    the election, she posted a short, unremarkable message on Facebook. “I’d like to take on gerrymandering in Michigan,” Ms. Fahey wrote. “If you’re interested in
    doing this as well, please let me know.”

    She’d written the same post two years earlier and hadn’t gotten a single reply. But 2016 was different: People everywhere were newly engaged in politics, debating one another and demanding fundamental changes in their government. Voters in Michigan’
    s primaries that year had chosen the anti-establishment candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. “These two candidates are talking about taking down
    the system, this extreme overhaul,” Ms. Fahey said. “It seems like people are really hungry for
    that.”

    Her Facebook post went viral. A nonprofit group, Voters Not Politicians, was born. Its goal: getting a constitutional amendment on the 2018 ballot that would take map-drawing power from lawmakers — who would never relinquish it themselves — and give
    it to a commission made up of regular citizens who would consult with data analysts and present their progress in regular public hearings. Independent redistricting commissions, which are already functioning in California, Arizona, and four other states,
    can go a long way toward reducing the influence of partisan politics in mapmaking.

    The Michigan proposal would establish a 13-member commission made up of four Republican voters, four Democratic voters and five independents.

    The group initially scheduled eight town halls to make its case to the public. They ended up holding 33 in 33 days. “A bunch of us with day jobs, speeding to northern Michigan after work, trying to find a public library to host the town hall in,
    because we don’t have any money,” Ms. Fahey said, recalling the hectic early days of the movement. “We basically crowdsourced the campaign. Because I’m a millennial, I figured this is how things work.”

    She was right. Less than two years after her Facebook post, Ms. Fahey leads a volunteer army of 10,000 Michiganders representing every county in the state. Five thousand of the volunteers work daily, knocking on doors, educating voters
    and gaining
    support for the initiative. Michigan requires citizen ballot measures to get 315,000 signatures; in December, Ms. Fahey’s group submitted more than 425,000. In June, the state approved the measure and added it to the ballot.

    Even Ms. Fahey’s family is on board. Her mother, who had no idea what redistricting was, personally gathered 700 signatures. So far, the group has raised about $1.25 million, far less than most citizen-led initiatives, and yet
    it has 14 times more
    individual donors than any other Michigan initiative this year.

    The initiative looks like a prime example of regular citizens rising up and making their voices heard when lawmakers are ignoring them. But the tight web of money and politics that has entrenched Michigan Republicans in power isn’t
    tearing easily. The
    state Republican Party and its top politicians, including Bill Schuette, the attorney general now running for governor, are working hard to have the initiative struck from the November ballot. They’ve taken their fight to the Michigan Supreme Court,
    which heard oral arguments last week. The court is expected to rule by the end of July.

    The opponents say a citizens’ commission would impose such sweeping changes to the Michigan constitution that it can be adopted only through a constitutional convention. An appeals court rejected that argument unanimously in June, but the outcome in
    the state’s Supreme Court is uncertain. Five of the seven justices were nominated or appointed by Republicans, and two of those have received financial
    backing from the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, which also happens to be one of the main funders of
    the opposition campaign. Both justices have refused to recuse themselves from the case.

    It’s easy to see why, even though the public broadly opposes partisan gerrymandering, few people have the stomach, or the resources, to get into a fight of this sort with entrenched money and power. It didn’t help when the United States Supreme Court
    dodged the issue again in June. Following the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, who was seen as the crucial fifth vote to curb gerrymandering, the court is unlikely to revisit the issue for a long time, if ever. So is reform a
    lost cause? In last
    month’s case, Justice Elena Kagan reiterated what many consider to be the central problem: “Only the courts can do anything to remedy the problem, because gerrymanders benefit those who control the political branches,” she wrote.

    The good news is that Katie Fahey and others like her are proving Justice Kagan
    wrong. Michigan is one of several states, red and blue, where regular citizens,
    tired of being the pawns of power-hungry lawmakers, are fighting to take back the mapmaking
    process. Initiatives will also be on the ballot in Utah, almost certainly in Missouri, and possibly in Arkansas and Oklahoma. And lawmakers in Colorado and Ohio have agreed, in the face of public pressure, to allow ballot measures on whether to adopt
    independent commissions in those states.

    A truly fair process must be transparent as well as nonpartisan. Redistricting today is a sophisticated, data-driven enterprise, and that data should be available to everyone — the general public as well as journalists, analysts and advocates.

    There are other ways to stop the worst excesses of partisan gerrymandering. When a state’s governor is of a different party than its legislative majority, the governor — who doesn’t depend on cleverly drawn lines to get elected — can veto unfair
    maps. In today’s political landscape, where Republicans hold total control of
    the government in 26 states, this means electing more Democratic governors. The
    Democratic Governors Association is pouring money into governors’ races in eight closely
    divided states — Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Colorado, Maine and Nevada. But the principle also works in Maryland, where the popular Republican governor, Larry Hogan, serves as a buffer against the state’s Democratic Legislature,
    which created an extreme partisan gerrymander with the eager help of Mr. Hogan’s Democratic predecessor.

    Finally, litigation can still be effective in some states. Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down Republican-drawn district maps for violating the state constitution and appointed a nonpartisan mapmaker to draw new ones. The
    Republican maps, drawn in 2011, were so skewed that when Democrats won a majority of the popular vote in 2012, they got just five of the state’s 18 congressional seats. How did Republican lawmakers deal with losing their power?
    First they defied the
    court’s ruling and then they tried to impeach the justices who voted in favor
    of it.

    The Pennsylvania high court did the right thing in this case, but voters can’t count on state courts to step in and solve all redistricting disputes. In other words, the fox will never willingly abandon his post, so it’s up to the Katie Faheys of
    America to help move the henhouse.

    ***

    I think this is super-important. Perhaps the only thing I would
    consider more important would be a chance to get rid of the
    truly horrible "Citizen's United" ruling that unleashed massive
    amounts of *money* on every political race. But THIS - this needs
    to happen everywhere.

    It's impossible to even have a genuinely representative democracy
    when each party that wins keeps diabolically rigging the system
    to be perpetually in its own favor. That has got to be stopped.

    .

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)
  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to Jeremy H. Denisovan on Monday, July 23, 2018 12:12:27
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    On Sunday, July 22, 2018 at 3:54:37 PM UTC-7, Jeremy H. Denisovan wrote:
    Perhaps the only thing I would consider more important would be
    a chance to get rid of the truly horrible "Citizen's United" ruling
    that unleashed massive amounts of *money* on every political race.
    But THIS - this needs to happen everywhere.

    It's impossible to even have a genuinely representative democracy
    when each party that wins keeps diabolically rigging the system
    to be perpetually in its own favor. That has got to be stopped.

    I.R.S. Will No Longer Force Kochs and Other Groups to Disclose Donors

    By Patricia Cohen, Kenneth P. Vogel and Jim Tankersley
    July 17, 2018
    New York Times

    The Trump administration will end a longstanding requirement that certain nonprofit organizations disclose the names of large donors to the Internal Revenue Service, a move that will allow some political groups to shield their sources of funding from
    government scrutiny.

    The change, which has long been sought by conservatives and Republicans in Congress, will affect thousands of labor unions, social clubs and political groups as varied as arms of the AARP, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Rifle
    Association and Americans for Prosperity, which is funded partly by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.

    Such groups have played an increasingly prominent role in American politics in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in a case brought by the nonprofit group Citizens United, which empowered them to spend unlimited money on campaign ads.

    Treasury officials said the reporting change — which affects contributions known as dark money because their source is hidden — would protect privacy and reduce compliance costs for nonprofit organizations. The I.R.S. could still
    request donor
    information from groups in the rare event that it was needed for tax scrutiny.

    “Americans shouldn’t be required to send the I.R.S. information that it doesn’t need to effectively enforce our tax laws, and the I.R.S. simply does not need tax returns with donor names and addresses to do its job in this area,” Steven Mnuchin,
    the Treasury secretary, said in a statement on Monday evening.

    But critics denounced the measure, saying it would encourage political donations from both domestic and foreign contributors who want to skirt the law
    or keep their influence secret.

    “It’s a clear signal that the I.R.S. and now the Treasury Department are not interested in any significant oversight of nonprofits,” said Marcus S. Owens, a Washington lawyer and former director of the I.R.S. division for tax-exempt organizations.
    What they’re doing is excusing them from filing information that is of material importance for determining whether organizations are operating appropriately and within the boundaries of the rules.”

    Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a law professor at Notre Dame Law School, said it would further diminish reporting requirements for the groups. “This will make so-called dark money a bit darker,” he said.

    Previously, nonprofit organizations like unions and organizations registered under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code were required to report to the government the names of donors who contributed more than $5,000 in the span of a year. That information
    was redacted on the publicly viewable forms the groups file annually, though amounts of donations remain visible.

    Nonprofit groups that exist primarily to influence political campaigns, including so-called 527 organizations, will still be required to report the names of large donors, as will charities that accept tax-deductible contributions.

    Conservative groups and donors had been lobbying the Trump administration to make the change, partly by arguing that the reporting requirement made their funders vulnerable to exposure by the I.R.S. and state regulators.

    “Transparency is meant for the government, not for private individuals,” said Philip Ellender, the head lobbyist for Koch Industries, the international conglomerate owned by the Koch brothers. Koch Industries began lobbying the White House on the
    issue after President Trump’s election, according to lobbying filings.

    Additionally, Americans for Prosperity and other 501(c)(4) organizations in the
    Koch brothers’ network of advocacy groups were among dozens of such nonprofit
    groups to sign onto a letter sent in May to Mr. Trump and Mr. Mnuchin declaring
    a policy
    change “an issue of utmost importance.” The letter accused the I.R.S. of “targeting of nonprofit organizations on the basis of ideology.”

    Officials with the Treasury Department largely echoed that reasoning, explaining that the move was driven in part by the I.R.S.’s inappropriate targeting of political groups during the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The
    I.R.S. inspector general found that both conservative and progressive groups were targeted and that I.R.S. officials inappropriately sought information on donors to Tea Party groups as well as to liberal groups.

    In guidance issued by the I.R.S. late on Monday, administration officials said that the agency did not need personally identifiable donor information “in order for it to carry out its responsibilities.”

    “The requirement to report such information increases compliance costs for some private parties, consumes I.R.S. resources in connection with the redaction of such information, and poses a risk of inadvertent disclosure of information that is not open
    to public inspection,” the guidance said.

    There are many examples of inadvertent disclosure of donor information from federal forms in recent years. In 2013, the I.R.S. posted a list of donors to an arm of the Republican Governors Association. In 2016, a federal judge cited a pattern of such
    disclosures when ruling against the State of California’s request for donor information from Americans for Prosperity.

    The ruling noted that the state had posted more than 1,700 confidential donor lists on the internet, including the names and addresses of hundreds of donors to Planned Parenthood.

    The I.R.S. will now be able to see those groups’ lists of big donors only if it specifically requests them. Those lists are not open to the public under existing rules.

    Steven M. Rosenthal of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center said the change effectively ends the agency’s oversight. “The I.R.S. audits tax-exempt organizations once in a blue moon and only after many years,” said Mr. Rosenthal, noting that the agency
    has been starved for resources and has had to cut back enforcement. “It’s an impossible challenge” to follow the money trail at that point.

    Republicans hailed the move, with Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, on Tuesday calling the decision “particularly welcome news to those of us who
    intently are focused on defending the First Amendment, for those of us who over
    the years have
    raised concerns during the last administration about activist regulators punishing free speech and free association. It’s a straightforward, common sense policy decision.”

    Democrats shot back, with Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat and the ranking
    member on the Finance Committee, saying the decision would allow “anonymous foreign donors to funnel dark money into nonprofits.”

    ***

    Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator for Vermont, comments:

    "It’s bad enough that the Koch brothers, their network and other dark money groups are able to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections as a result of
    the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision. Now, Trump’s administration is allowing
    them to hide the sources of their money not just from the public, but from oversight by the federal government—a move that would encourage even more political donations from people, both domestic and foreign, who want to skirt our campaign finance laws
    or keep their influence secret.

    As we slide further away from democracy and toward oligarchy every day, the last thing we should do is hand more power over our political system to billionaires like the Kochs whose agenda is the opposite of what the American people want. Democracy is
    about one person, one vote. Not billionaires using money from secret sources to
    buy our elections."

    Exactly. Now there will be *even more* "dark money" everywhere,
    throughout politics. No one will be able to tell wtf is going on.
    Just fucking great.

    These videos are brilliant and nail these assholes perfectly:

    Sacha Baron Cohen ft. Bernie Sanders
    'Move the 99% into the 1%' | Ep.1 | Who Is America? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-gjf4WnkiI

    First Look:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkXeMoBPSDk

    "May he rest in peace. He died doing what I love."
    "They call it the terrible twos for a reason."
    Ah ha ha!! Unfrickenbelievable... :)

    How to Identify A Terrorist Under a Burkha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k4pMTsa1Kw

    "...completely ruining your birthday party..."
    "Trousers down!... America!!!"

    Do not miss this show. It's amazing. :)

    .

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)
  • From Jeremy H. Denisovan@1:229/2 to All on Monday, August 20, 2018 12:23:44
    From: david.j.worrell@gmail.com

    Doonesbury - 'This Isn't So Bad'
    http://tinyurl.com/ybf9g5e5

    ***

    Tom the Dancing Bug - 'Pigs In Space'
    http://tinyurl.com/ycax79zj

    ***

    This Modern World - 'Life in the Stupidverse'
    http://tinyurl.com/y7vpdltd

    ***

    Giuliani: 'Truth Isn't Truth'

    By The Associated Press
    Aug. 19, 2018

    http://tinyurl.com/ycjwtud4

    WASHINGTON — "Truth isn't truth," says President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, explaining why he's wary about pushing the president into an interview that he says could be a perjury trap.

    Giuliani's statement is reminiscent of a comment from another Trump aide last year about "alternative facts."

    Giuliani used the line "truth isn't truth" Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd. He was trying to make the case that having Trump sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller's team wouldn't accomplish much because of the he-
    said-she-said nature of witnesses' recollections.



    "I am not going to be rushed into having him testify so that he gets trapped into perjury," Giuliani said. "And when you tell me that, you know, he should testify because he's going to tell the truth and he shouldn't worry, well, that's so silly because
    it's somebody's version of the truth. Not the truth."

    When Todd replied: "Truth is truth," Giuliani responded: "No, it isn't truth. Truth isn't truth. Donald Trump says, 'I didn't talk about Flynn with Comey.' Comey says, 'You did talk about it,' so tell me what the truth is."

    The comments left Todd flummoxed, but not Comey. The former FBI chief tweeted: "Truth exists and truth matters. Truth has always been the touchstone of our country's justice system and political life. People who lie are held accountable. If we are
    untethered to truth, our justice system cannot function and a society based on the rule of law dissolves."

    Trump and his aides have been accused of spreading lies and disinformation. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway famously referred to such claims early last year as "alternative facts."

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    Giuliani: "Truth isn't truth. Donald Trump says, 'I didn't talk about
    Flynn with Comey.' Comey says, 'You did talk about it,' so tell me
    what the truth is."

    The 'truth', you bloated bag of shit, is what REALLY HAPPENED.
    And it isn't a mystery in this case, either. It's obvious. :)

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