Politics

Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein joined Twitter 6 years ago, in June 2011, and throughout that time he tweeted exactly zero times. He changed that today, when for the first time he took to twitter to slam Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate change agreement, which he called “a setback for the environment and for the U.S.'s leadership position in the world.”

Today's decision is a setback for the environment and for the U.S.'s leadership position in the world. #ParisAgreement

The Military/Security Complex Is Bankrupting America

Corrupt politicians and neoliberal economists tell the lie that America cannot afford Medicare and Social Security. How then can America afford the $1.1 trillion annual military/secrity budget?

http://news.antiwar.com/2017/05/30/us-eyes-1-1-trillion-national-security-budget-for-2018/

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Will he, or won't he?

Update: Bloomberg reports that person familiar with the decision have confirmed The White House plans to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.

The withdrawal will take three years and Trump will rework the Paris terms in the meantime.

We already know the topic, and now we know the time and place: according to just released statement by the Senate Intel Committee, former FBI Director James Comey will testify in an open session next Thursday, June 8, starting at 10:00 am, which will be followed by a closed session testimony at 1pm.

Recall, that as CNN reported yesterday, the former FBI director plans to testify publicly that President Donald Trump "did push Comey to end his investigation into a top Trump aide's ties to Russia."

In a blow to the anti-Russia narrative being spewed by any and everyone in the western establishment (most recently Hillary again), the head of the French National Agency of Information Systems Security (ANSSI) told AP that France has found no traces of Russian hackers in a cyberattack on President Emmanuel Macron's campaign (we wonder if the result would have been the same if he, like Hillary, had lost).