Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.” ? Hunter S. Thompson
Politics today is not about Republicans and Democrats.
Authored by Brett Redmayne-Titley via ActivistPost.com,
“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” – Aristotle
Following the weakness in global PMIs, and yesterday's Chicago PMI collapse, US Markit Manufacturing PMI dropped to cycle lows at 51.3 from 52.5 (very slightly better than expectations of 51.2) with job growth at 5-month lows, production at slowest in 28 months, and work backlogs tumbling to the lowest since Sept 2009.
It's one thing for the republican establishment to throw up all over the candidacy of Donald Trump: frankly, the GOP has not been relevant as a political power ever since Boehner started folding like a lawn chair to Obama's every demand just around the time of the first US downgrade, and as such what the Republican party - torn apart and very much irrelevant as the best of the "establishment" GOP candidates demonstrate - thinks is largely irrelevant.
Authored by Robert Epstein, originally posted at Aeon.co,
The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do