Month: March 2017
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Spying On Ordinary Americans
(About 2 minutes) Anyone paying attention knew this was happening. Trump did us a favor by making it front page news. You can read more about it at Wikileaks Unveils ‘Vault 7’: “The Largest Ever Publication Of Confidential CIA Documents”; Another Snowden Emerges And CIA Contractor on #VAULT7 Leak: ‘There is Heavy Shit Coming Down’…
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Massive surveillance by nameless apparatchiks, and the buck stops nowhere!
While these days I generally avoid politics like the plague, I have become more than a little annoyed by the uproar over Trump’s complaint — in a misspelled tweet, mind you — that he was wiretapped. Wiretapped? Of course he was! As anyone who has been following the news in the past decade knows, we have…
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Illiterate Marxists arise! You have nothing to lose but your plague!
Yesterday morning I ate at a local Berkeley breakfast diner. The table tops are covered with copper, and someone went to a lot of trouble using a chemical (probably some sort of mild copper solvent, maybe even lemon juice) to put graffiti on a number of them which would be very difficult to remove, as you’d…
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The Leaks Are Getting Interesting
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017 About 7 1/2 minutes H/T Sparta Report
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Without Comment
We should start an immediate investigation into @SenSchumer and his ties to Russia and Putin. A total hypocrite! pic.twitter.com/Ik3yqjHzsA — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017
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With The Russians Too
A song for our times. Lawyers, Guns, and Money.
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“the right-wing movement that is affiliated with Breitbart News”
As a witness to the recent rioting in Berkeley (and as someone who has known the Berkeley left for years) I was dumbfounded by Robert Reich’s bizarre theory that the rioters in fact may have been secret right wingers affiliated with Breitbart: “There’s rumors that they actually were right-wingers. They were a part of a kind…