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The World According To Trump

The World According To Trump

The following map, from BofaML's Transforming World Atlas, shows the world mapped proportionally by country according to the number of times mentioned  by President Trump in his tweets and speeches (campaign and presidency)...

Source: BofAML

The Top 8 are: USA, China, Syria, Russia, Iraq, Mexico, Iran, and United Kingdom

Is The US Prepared For A Nuclear EMP To Shut-Down New York City?

Authored by Peter Pry, chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission, op-ed via The Hill,

Since Sept. 11, 2001, analysts have been increasingly concerned terrorists might steal, buy, build, or be given a nuclear weapon — and the War on Terrorism would become a nuclear war. The Department of Homeland Security’s National Planning Scenario #1 is detonation of a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon, as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb, in a location such as New York City or Washington, D.C. 

The 'Soft Coup' Of Russia-Gate

The 'Soft Coup' Of Russia-Gate

Authored by Robert Parry via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

Where is Stanley Kubrick when we need him? If he hadn’t died in 1999, he would be the perfect director to transform today’s hysteria over Russia into a theater-of-the-absurd movie reprising his Cold War classic, “Dr. Strangelove,” which savagely satirized the madness of nuclear brinksmanship and the crazed ideology behind it. 

Rand Paul Fears His Conversations May Have Been "Unmasked" By Obama Administration

Rand Paul Fears His Conversations May Have Been "Unmasked" By Obama Administration

Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Before we get into the meat of this post, it’s important to refresh our memories on what the unmasking scandal is and why it’s important. In order to do that, let’s revisit excerpts from last month’s post, If What Susan Rice Did Wasn’t Illegal, It Should Be:

U.S. citizens who are caught up incidentally in foreign intelligence surveillance are typically subject to minimization rules to conceal their identities, though there are some exceptions.

 

ACLU Sues DOJ/FBI For "All Records Related To Trump's Dismissal Of FBI Director Comey"

As he so often does, Trump took an already controversial decision last week and turned it into an absolute firestorm with one simple tweet.  With Democrats already working themselves into a tizzy over the 'suspicious' timing of James Comey's abrupt dismissal, the cries of "witness intimidation" and comparisons to the Nixon administration quickly reached a fevered pitch from the Left with Trump's release of the following tweet:

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