On Friday evening, in previewing Trump's upcoming "war room" effort in response to the escalating media reports about Russia, the WSJ reported that one of the contemplated changes was a drastic cut to Trump's Twitter privileges, with lawyers allegedly tasked to comb through and preapprove the president's social media outbursts, to wit:
Authored by Matt Taibbi via RollingStone.com,
Democrat Rob Quist was beat by Greg Gianforte in Thursday's special election in Montana
The story of Greg Gianforte, a fiend who just wiped out a Democrat in a congressional race about ten minutes after being charged with assaulting a reporter, is déjà vu all over again.
Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,
States have always thrived on the fear of the taxpayers, and states have always justified their existence in part on the idea that without the state, we'd all be overrun by barbarians, or murdered by our neighbors. Charles Tilly, a historian of the state, frequently noted that the modern state as we know it, was born out of war, and was created to wage war. War and the state are inseparable.
Authored by Darius Shahtahmasebi via TheAntiMedia.org,
While Donald Trump was in Riyadh, raving incessantly about the over-hyped Iran threat, Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif was trolling America’s foreign policy establishment. He advised Trump to discuss with Saudi Arabia how to avoid another 9/11 atrocity rather than making baseless claims against Iran.
Zarif said:
Authored by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com,
Perhaps I should start with a disclaimer of sorts. Yes, I realize that the people working at the Federal Reserve, as well as the other central banks around the world, are just people. Like the rest of us, they have egos, fears, worries, hopes, and dreams. I'm sure pretty much all of them go home each night believing they are basically good and caring individuals, doing important work.