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Donald Trump had an absolutely bananas press conference on Wednesday afternoon. Oh, and the President of Finland was there too, watching in abject horror, as the President* had a real time meltdown on live tv.
There were so many completely batsh*t crazy moments, but one of the worst had to be at the end, when Trump snarled and raised his voice at Reuters reporter, Jeff Mason. What got Trumpy so upset? Mason asked him what he wanted Zelensky/Ukraine to do about Hunter Biden. Simple question, right? Well, Trumpy didn’t like it…not one bit.
Here are some other moments from the press conference:
Trump Completely Loses His Mind At Press Conference With Finland’s President | Crooks and Liars
Sinclair Broadcasts News Across America. This Is their Message (ODT)
The federal Reserve, Impeachment, The Democrats Trump blames everything but himself for the crash. He’s gone Twittering Mad (ODT)
via Trump blames ‘impeachment nonsense’ for Wall Street rout
The LNP focus on Unions as the greatest thieves in the country. They busted Craig Thompson for $13 mill to prove it. How can you be so conned Australia? (ODT)
The cost of misconduct for the major banks and AMP just keeps ticking up. It’s not over yet but at this stage of peak remediation provisioning, the number appears to be approaching the magic $10 billion mark on a pre-tax basis.
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I am more convinced than ever it is time for churches, pseudo churches and those claiming to be churches paid taxes. Why should secular Australia bankroll, homophobes, frauds, misogynists, child abusers,main chancers and hypocrites ? Let them pass the plate and pay up.
via What a ‘balls-up’ of a government – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Australians are carrying the 2nd most personal debt burden in the world will they now be paid to increase it? Wages are and have been stagnant for years production is up so who has profited from growth if personal debt has increased so much? Not the average Australian. Immense effort is being made to force fixed savings into the market. The banks dont lose by the way they continue to charge for their services. Debt is a good way to keep a nation’s work force obedient and compliant while income and wealth gaps grow. It’s what appears to be a respectable form of human bondage under the surface but human bondage nevertheless. (ODT)
Denmark’s third largest lender, Jyske Bank, is in effect paying home owners to borrow at the moment, with a standard mortgage of -0.5 per cent; now that’s value.
Jyske can do this by borrowing money from institutional investors at a negative rate — and there’s plenty of negative interest rate paper floating around at the moment, somewhere north of $US15 trillion ($22.37 trillion) in value — and passing it on to their customers, who then can pay back less than they borrow.
The bank clips the ticket with the usual fees and charges, but leaves the customer gruntled and still makes a tidy profit on the loan.
In industries propped up by temporary migrant workers, underpayment of workers is so widespread, it’s said to have become a business model. #TheDrum reporter @rubycornish takes a look at widespread wage theft in Australia
via Coalition’s workplace laws to diminish unions, not wage theft
Why Trump hates FOX it has REAL NEWS as well as TRUMP NEWS and it doesn’t always cover the REAL up. (ODT)
Fox’s newsroom got an incredibly rare scoop undermining Trump. It may be falling apart. | Media Matters for America
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Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing have made over 90 appearances on Fox in 2019
Show your hand Giuliani or fold (ODT)
US President Donald Trump urged Prime Minister Scott Morrison in a phone call to assist an investigation designed to discredit the Mueller probe into Russian election interference.
Details of the phone call were restricted to only a select number of senior officials, mirroring the handling of Trump’s controversial phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, The New York Times reported.
The revelation of the call, confirmed by other US media outlets, comes just over a week since Morrison appeared at a campaign-style rally alongside Trump in Ohio and dined with him at a state dinner at the White House.
Two administration officials said the call between Trump and Morrison had occurred in recent weeks, and was explicitly made to discuss the Russia issue. It is not clear whether Morrison agreed to Trump’s request.
via Trump asked Scott Morrison to help discredit Mueller probe into 2016 election
Whatever, the CO2 Coalition have a nifty website and several of them have degrees in Physics, so that makes them an expert in climate science. Similarly, my degree makes me and expert in brain surgery, so if you need a tumour removed…
via Shut Up, Greta, We Want To Hear From The Experts! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
“Wow,” said another. “Even Fox is starting to see the writing on the wall. This is something worth watching. Stephen Miller comes across as a complete eejit.”
Watch the full “Fox News Sunday” with Miller:
The businessman whose just a honarary President not a REAL one. Is that a FAKE PRESIDENT? (ODT)
Donald Trump’s resort on the west coast of Ireland was paid €100,000 (£89,000) by the Irish state to provide food to police officers protecting the US president during a two-night visit this year, it has emerged.
via Ireland paid Trump resort €100k to host police protecting him | US news | The Guardian
1.3billion people fed in just 70 years and we the West are now complaining they are a Developed Nation holding us back. No in 70 years the West has been going backwards and China fowards. (ODT)
“The country is getting more prosperous and growing stronger. China’s national status is improved.”
He spontaneously quotes Xi: “Stay true to the original intention and march forward.”
via A spectacular view of modern China from the nation’s beating red heart
Two salesman and Morrison has decided to become Trump’s apprentice and not the Nations leader (ODT)
The prime minister has demonstrated a Trumpesque ability to fudge, mislead and obfuscate
Prime Minister Scott Morrison intends a national roll-out of the cashless debit card as part of a self-described “compassionate conservative” welfare agenda.
Only 20 per cent of the benefit will be accessible as cash with 80 per cent quarantined, preventing expenditure on alcohol, gambling or drugs.
His assumptions about those in need of welfare assistance reflect those of nearly 200 years ago in Britain.
via The poor worse off while companies profit from cashless welfare card
Trade with Australia has been boosted by the recent global boom. But how much of this record export wealth is staying in Australia? Alan Austin reports.
Every war we went to in the past 60 years we lost and the LNP took us there. They are equiping us for more as the LNP promised to follow America anywhere and they already have 800 bases ready to go. We even have more overseas bases than China outside our borders and are proud of it. 24 mill people expected to play deputy in a global world telling people to jump at our will. Hardly makes us a friendly nation in the eyes of the world. Cuba sends its forces around the world to assist in disaster zones we heard our conservatives demanding we do nothing when the Ebola emergency hit. Wake up Australia Oi Oi Oi (ODT)
Blackwater’s Erik Prince: Iraq, privatising wars and Trump
Mehdi Hasan challenges the Blackwater founder on his firm’s role in Iraq and his new plan to privatise the Afghan war.
“You’ve heard President Trump talk. That’s President Trump,” said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. Richard Nixon, who resigned in the midst of the Watergate impeachment inquiry because his party began to abandon him.
“The big difference between this and Watergate is “It was a bipartisan effort and you certainly don’t have that here.”
Trump’s hold on the Republican Party makes it nearly impossible to foresee a scenario in which the GOP-controlled Senate convicts Trump if he were impeached by the Democratic-run House.
The president is acutely well aware that it’s his party alone that can protect him. In the midst of the past week’s firestorm, he tweeted to Republicans: “Stick together, play their game and fight hard Republicans.”
He later deleted the tweet.
For Trump, A High-Velocity Threat Like None He’s Ever Faced | HuffPost
A president should not brazenly lie and make shit up.
At the Maguire hearing, the acting DNI was asked about the whistleblower—whose identity remained a secret. Is the whistleblower a “political hack,” Rep. Adam Schiff followed up: “You don’t have any reason to accuse them of disloyalty to our country?” Maguire provided an unequivocal response: “Absolutely not…I think the whistleblower did the right thing.”
In other words, there was no basis for Trump’s denunciations of the whistleblower.
Later, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) returned to this subject. She asked Maguire, “Do you believe the whistleblower was spying…on the president?” Maguire answered, “I believe the whistleblower complied with the law and did everything they thought, he or she thought was responsible under the Intelligence Community Whistleblowers Protection Act.”
Speier then asked Maguire if Trump had asked him to share the identity of the whistleblower. “I can tell you emphatically no,” he said. And had anyone else in the White House or Justice Department done so? “No,” he said.
So if Trump and the White House did not know the whistleblower’s identity, how could Trump question this person’s loyalty, blast him or her as a partisan plotter, and accuse the whistleblower of spying?
via Trump’s Intelligence Chief Offers a Timely Reminder: Trump Is a Liar – Mother Jones
Still, when Joe Biden went to Ukraine, he was not trying to protect his son — quite the reverse.
The then-vice president issued his demands for greater anti-corruption measures by the Ukrainian government despite the possibility that those demands would actually increase – not lessen — the chances that Hunter Biden and Burisma would face legal trouble in Ukraine.Giuliani, Trump, and their lackeys began spreading the false accusation that Biden had traveled to Ukraine to blackmail the government and force officials to fire the country’s chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, to derail an investigation into Burisma.
Shokin had been forced from office at Biden’s urging because he had failed to thoroughly investigate corruption and stifled efforts to expose embezzlement and misconduct by public officials. Biden did threaten to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees unless Shokin was ousted. But that was because Shokin had blocked serious anti-corruption investigations, not because he was investigating Burisma.
In 2001 the U.S. threatened the end of military and foreign aid if nations did not conclude bilateral agreements granting immunity to U.S. troops before the International Criminal Court.
More recently, the U.S. used its muscle against Ecuador, including dangling a $10 billion IMF loan, in exchange for the expulsion of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from its London embassy.
This is how the U.S. conducts “diplomacy.”
While posing as a humanitarian body on Twitter, the bureaucratic arm of Israel’s military occupation is waging war on Palestinian football.
COGAT – as that arm of the occupation is called – has denied a football team in Gaza permission to travel to the West Bank for a Palestine Cup rematch. The FIFA-recognized competition determines which team will represent Palestine in the Asian Champions League.
An Israeli court rejected a petition challenging the ban on the players’ travel.
The team has been prevented from traveling to the West Bank due to unspecified “security concerns,” according to Gisha, a human rights group that petitioned the court.
A Palestine Cup match between Khadamat Rafah club and Markaz Balata was held in Gaza on 30 June, ending in a draw.
via Israel wrecks Palestine Cup final | The Electronic Intifada
Country GNI per capita 2017 ($US) Malaysia $9,650 Russia $9,230 Grenada $9,180 St Lucia $8,830 China $8,690 China is still fundamentally a rural nation but the “American owned West” keep moving the goal posts
Source: World Bank and OECD National Accounts data filesThe World Bank, however, defines a high-income country — or “developed” country — by setting the threshold for gross national income (GNI) per capita at $US12,055 ($16,900).
Since China’s GNI per capita — at $US8,690 in 2017 — falls below the threshold, it could possibly argue that it is eligible for the status under this framework.
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