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disalitervisum's JournalEvery small town (and big town) local media outlet and newspaper across the country
today is leading with a "fake news" story about the republican healthcare bill. Every one. Sad.
Subverting the rule of law with social policy
Congress no longer makes law, it makes social policy disguised as law, gradually forcing a realignment of free people and society into ideological paths chosen by it's masters.
Thank you so much for that concise explanation, I wish
more people understood that, and how the process was radically accelerated under the Reagan administration.
Currently reading "Sorrows Of Empire"
by Chalmers Johnson, published 2004. Provides an excellent history of how we got to where we are, especially vis-a-vis the military.
I think there are currently 804 American military installations worldwide. Pretty much speaks for itself.
Just Google "Reagan releases mental patients" if you want
some insight into the root causes of increasing crime, violence, and homelessness over the last forty years. There are many excellent articles from which to choose, but the best by far is this one:
"Ronald Reagan and the Commitment of the Mentally Ill: Capital, Interest Groups, and the Eclipse of Social Policy."
www.sociology.org/content/vol003.004/thomas.html|
DOES. NOT. CARE.
As he has never cared when destroying the lives and businesses of other people for the past thirty-five plus years.
This is the salient point. HE DOES NOT CARE, NOR WILL HE EVER CARE.
The NOAA budget cuts to the satellite data division
amount to 22% of their total funding, or $513 million. Just in case anyone missed the connection, these satellites provide valuable intelligence data on places like Russia in the course of their normal tasking.
The Department of Commerce, now headed by Wilbur Ross, another long-time trump associate who also has a spider-web of ties to Russia, (prominently, The Bank of Cyprus) is the federal agency in charge of administering the NOAA budget.
This is not just a coincidence.
Republicans Don't Think A Free Press Is Important
In a new poll, only 49% of Republicans and people who lean Republican said it was very important for American democracy that "news organizations are free to criticize political leaders."
The poll, which was published Thursday by the Pew Research Center, found that 76% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning respondents said the free press was an important part of maintaining a strong democracy.
See complete poll here:
[link:http://www.ibtimes.com/trumps-war-media-republicans-dont-think-free-press-important-new-poll-says-2501496|
Let's hope that if Sessions goes, he will
take his wonderfully light-hearted and fun-loving long-time principal aide, Stephen Miller, with him.
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