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Archive for March 24th, 2022
Texas GOP expands its war against LGBQT kids
Texas AG Ken Paxton, a Republican homophobe, has ordered an Austin school district to stop observing Pride Week. Pride Week, he says, is “sex education” and therefore violates Texas law. That’s nonsense. It’s like saying observing the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is “[...]
Trump’s secret plan to end the war
Back in 1968, Nixon had a “secret plan” to end the Vietnam War: More war. He increased bombing and sent U.S. troops into Cambodia. Trump, too, has a secret plan to end the Ukraine war. Actually, two plans: Secret Plan #1 “Put Chinese flags on our F-22 fighter jets [and] bomb the sh[...]
BlackRock declares globalization dead
Globalization, the vast offshoring of manufacturing that shuttered American factories and destroyed blue-collar jobs, was already faltering before Trump came along with his trade wars and tariffs, followed by pandemic disruptions of supply chains that turned out to be more fragile than anyone suspec[...]
Has Putin seen this art lover?
If not personally, his agents may know where he is. John Ruffo (old photo, left; profile here), now 67, is a Brooklyn-born Italian-American con artist who disappeared in 1998 after being sentenced to prison for swindling U.S. banks out of $350 million. Why might he be hiding in Russia? Ruffo is a co[...]