Entertain for a moment as fact an international affiliation of hyper-plutocrats who have swum in billions for generations and utilize the principals of capitalism to sustain their wealth and apply influence over the planet. Human life to them is not sacred and has no value at all, while human death most certainly is. You see billions of people grinding through hideous poverty, millions forced to survive in or be displaced from uninhabitable bloodsoaked hellholes in the Middle East and Africa; nations deliberately crushed (Palestine, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Greece and Venezuela for example); extraordinary statements by the President of the United States, an expert grifter who is an idiot in every other respect, regarding The Civil War, the 1st Amendment, the U.S. Constitution, the federal judiciary, who congratulated Erdogan and al Sisi, who praised Duterte and Kim Jong Un, who renames ‘May Day’ ‘Loyalty Day’. Add to this 67 of 98 Republican-ruled state legislatures and 33 Republican governorships with the trifecta of power in 23 states, most stolen via voter suppression, gerrymandering and similar chicanery, while Mitch McConnell subverts the United States Senate. Who or what is his true constituency? Isn’t the economy of the United States the ultimate plum? The actors in this affiliation, if it exists, would certainly be sociopaths with a smattering of psychopaths. And that makes the current president a perfect apparatchik for their endeavors. He will not be removed.
DATELINE NORTH KOREA : As I hope you are aware, conventional artillery is the real practical threat to Seoul , only 35 miles away, and can be fired at any time. The purpose of THAAD is to compromise Chinese defense systems and thereby possess the groundwork for a first strike capability as needed. So tell the assholes to stop squawking about KKP aggression. It’s beneath the integrity of serious foreign policy commentators. And tell them to set aside the Iran , Crimea, and Syria flavored Kool-Ade too.