America

VP Cheney castrated US environmental and wildlife services.

That evil man, Dick Cheney, when he was VP of USA, castrated the environmental and wildlife services of the US government so that his Republican friends could make money by exploiting America’s natural resources despite heavy external or social costs. Now this practice has been taken up by the Chenified US Navy, another American institution that has lost its integrity.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35954-exclusive-emails-reveal-navy-s-intent-to-break-law-threatening-endangered-wildlife

Filipinos are casting their votes on Monday for a new president, with a tough-talking straight-shooting Donald Trump type of candidate poised as favorite to win. Voice of America reports: Rodrigo Duterte, the long-serving mayor of the southern city of Davao, is leading in public opinion polls by as much as 10 percentage points over his nearest rivals, Senator Grace Poe and Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas, the preferred candidate of outgoing President Benigno Aquino.

Everybody’s talking about the Gizmodo piece quoting anonymous people who used to work for Facebook, who … well, this:

Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via FirstRebuttal.com,

I’ve been recently tracking the Presidential odds on PaddyPower, an Ireland domiciled online gambling site.  Here are the current odds:

Submitted by Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,

For years, it was easy to see the political storm clouds gather over Europe with its fractious coalitions and its ancient babble of conflicts. Marine Le Pen’s Daddy, severe old Jean-Marie, was on the scene in France decades before Donald Trump ascended to glory on the noxious clouds of America’s crapified culture, attended by heavenly hosts of Kardashian angels and the cherub Honey BooBoo.