Is the US losing it own claim to be a democracy? Our current ruling party will renominate Donald Trump this year without ever holding a popular election. The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khameini, is the head of a council, more or less like the Pope and his cardinals. Why disparage one and not [...]
Archive for January, 2020
January 12th, 2020 - 2:29 pm § in Misc.
Iran: Government Takes Responsibility!
In an unprecedented move, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered an investigation into the hitherto untouchable Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose base outside Tehran launched the missile that downed flight 752. A senior IRGC commander, Gen Amir Ali Hajizadeh, confessed publicly t[...]
January 12th, 2020 - 5:01 am § in Misc.
Boris Johnson says Donald Trump ‘betrays a stupefying ignorance that makes him unfit to be US President’
Back when BOJO was mayor of London and Trump had just been elected President of America, the man who is now the Brit. PM called the Donald too stupid to be a President. Has anything changed?[...]
January 12th, 2020 - 4:46 am § in Misc.
Happy Birth Day Jeff
The Billionaire founder of Amazon.com was born in 1964 on this day. Born to a teenage mother, Bezos was later adopted by his stepfather Miguel Bezos. He married novelist MacKenzie Bezos in 1993. The couple has four children. Recently his has become divorced and, while it not known is then Bezos̵[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Trump’s Halo
Trump’s ego knows no bounds. He has complained about not getting a Nobel Prize and, now, is angry that his assassination of the Iranian General, Solemeini, is being described as an act of war rather than elimination of a terrorist. Perhaps the worst example was Trump’s self pity after [...]
Who Controls Hollywood?
Joel Stein, LA Times: 2008 I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe “the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews,” down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these n[...]
January 8th, 2020 - 9:13 am § in America, Israel/Palestine
WHO IS LYING? .. I remember the body counts in Vietnam
TEHRAN (Farsi News Agency )- Some 80 US army personnel have been killed and nearly 200 more wounded in Iran’s Wednesday missile attacks carried out in reprisal for the assassination of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani. “Early estima[...]
An Impressive Argument for Single Payer
This is very worth reading. The authors, while coming from a well-known supporter of the Sanders and Warren Medicare for All plans, have now published an objective analysis that is convincing. It is not a full study. Himmelstein deals only with administrative overhead. I can also fault it for [...]
Why Royalty?
Even if one thinks there is some vestigial value in the symbolism of palaces and crowns, contaminating patriotism with loyalty to royalty is just dumb. Moshe ben Ravii[...]