So, with all due respect to Karl Marx, who needs religion when the masses have Facebook…? It turns out that your brain on Facebook is like an egg in a frying pan. This, in effect, is what none other than Facebook founding president Sean Parker has confessed: The unintended consequences [is that] it literally changes… Read more.
Archives for November 2017
Islanders know the rich who shelter their money ‘offshore’ couldn’t care less what happens onshore
UPDATE: Trump Congratulates China for Raping US
Here is what Trump said on the campaign trail last year, which thrilled Republican voters as much as it must have angered Chinese leaders: ‘We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country, and that’s what they’re doing.’… Sunday marks the first time in this campaign that Trump has used the term ‘rape’ to… Read more.
China, Next Stop on Trump’s Traveling Circus through Far East
President Trump begins his state visit to China today. He will pay lip service to the threat of trade war with China, but the threat of nuclear war with North Korea will dominate all talks. Except that anyone who knows anything about the nature of this threat knows that these talks will amount to much… Read more.
‘Paradise Papers’ Out Elizabeth II as Tax-Dodging Queen
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and a key ally to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are among the 120 rich and powerful people who are mentioned in the Paradise Papers, a new release of data about offshore tax havens and obscure financial dealings. The Paradise Papers are a massive trove of 13.4… Read more.
Oh Donna – Hillary’s ‘Slave Girl’ Singing Tales of Freedom
I’m not Patsey the slave. Y’all keep whipping me and whipping me and you never give me any money or any way to do my damn job. I am not going to be your whipping girl! This is the dramatic way Donna Brazile claims she chastised Hillary’s campaign “hacks” for trying to feature her in… Read more.
America Attacked: Both Roosevelt and Bush Retaliated; but Trump Is Just Trying to Fake It
The president and first lady Melania Trump participated in a wreath laying ceremony inside the USS Arizona Memorial in honor of the more than 2,400 Americans who died in the attack by Japan. In a somber moment, the two then tossed white flower petals onto the sunken USS Arizona, and stood back to view the… Read more.
‘Haley to UN General Assembly: US Does Not Fear Isolation’
Ambassador Nikki Haley blasted the United Nations Wednesday in a defiant speech to the 193-member General Assembly before it adopted a resolution calling for an end to the US economic embargo on Cuba. … ‘This assembly does not have the power to end the US embargo. … To those who are confused as to where… Read more.
World Series: Houston Wins … as Much for City as for Team
Houston, we have a winner! In the franchise’s 56th season, the Houston Astros are finally champions after closing out the Los Angeles Dodgers with a 5-1 win in Game 7 of what was a thrilling World Series from start to finish. … The Dodgers, who won a Major League-best 104 games this season, eventually got… Read more.