By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s Executive Order deregulating dangerous gas emissions is being signed today …
Source: The simple Number that will Defeat Trump’s attempt to Roll back Obama Energy Policies
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Team Trump begins to roll out its plan to kill climate action, making up facts and ruining your children’s future.
Source: Four-and-a-half false statements EPA head Scott Pruitt made in just one interview
With the Dow down 250 yesterday, it may be over for the Tax Cut addicts on Wall Street, and Donald Trump.
Source: Wall Street Journal Rips Into Trump – Is The Honeymoon Over? | Crooks and Liars
Bill Gates tops Forbes’ billionaires list again, President Donald Trump slips 220 spots and Gina Rinehart has the best year of all female billionaires listed.
Sean Spicer’s latest defense of the evidence-free assertion that Barack Obama had the Trump campaign placed under surveillance risks shattering an allegiance dear to both Washington and London
President Donald Trump’s proposal to gut funding for public broadcasting in his new budget released Thursday would mostly harm residents of small rural towns, many of who are Republican voters, according to public TV and radio executives.The 2018 budget plan from the White House would eliminate all federal subsidies for the
Source: Public Media Executives: Trump’s “Foolish” Public Broadcasting Cuts Will Hurt “Small-Town America”
Pulling no punches, the Vermont senator says Trump’s lies are a “very serious political problem in this country”
Source: Bernie Sanders slams Donald Trump: “What should we do if the president is a liar?” – Salon.com
WASHINGTON – The Washington Post is reporting that after meetings with then Senator Jeff Sessions last summer, Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak showered the Trump surrogate with expensive gifts in an apparent attempt to curry favor with the Trump Campaign and potential 45th President of the United States.
According to the article in the Post, the gifts included but were not limited to an expensive top-of-the-line tricycle, a large jungle gym playset, an extra small Confederate uniform with a miniature battle flag, and a Shetland pony.
The article claims that Sessions did not report the gifts and should never have accepted them in the first place.
“If this is true Attorney General Sessions is in violation of senate rules,” said Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee. “This is very serious.”
When reached for comment about the allegations, Attorney General Sessions denied that he had received any gifts from any Russian official, and had in fact never spoken to the Russian ambassador in his life.
“I wouldn’t recognize the Russian ambassador if I looked up at him from a foot away,” said the diminutive racist from Alabama.
“In fact, I’ve never spoken to anyone from Russia at all. I can’t even tell you where Russia is. I know Sarah Palin knows where it is; why don’t you go ask her about the Russian ambassador.”
Despite his denials, the Post is standing by its story, and released photographs of Sessions riding his new pony on a farm belonging to a Republican state senator from Maryland. There were also photos of the attorney general playing on his jungle gym with friends and riding his tricycle on the sidewalk outside a bar in Georgetown.
At a hurriedly called press conference this morning, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for Sessions to resign.
“I don’t care how much fun the Attorney General is having with his new toys,” said a visibly irritated Schumer, “it’s his duty as an American citizen to resign and return those gifts.”
So far there has been no response from the Trump Administration to the disturbing new revelations.
White House Press Secretary Sean Sphincter told reporters that the President was far too busy finalizing plans to nuke Pyongyang to worry about any fucking Shetland ponies.
George W Bush defends the role of a free press in the wake of Donald Trump’s attacks on the media.
David Meech reports all the real news – not fake news – about President Trumpet, some of which involves Prime Minister Trombone.
Donald Trump is escalating his war on the media and on one of the government agencies that has provided sensational leaks on his presidency – the FBI.
Source: As tempo of Trump’s media war rises, the unthinkable becomes possible
Trump’s appreciation of the environment extends only as far as the manicured grass of his golf courses.
He doesn’t even try to hide it.
By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Trump the businessman is at war with Trump the …
Trump repeatedly attacked the media as “fake news” in several tweets in recent days. One Fox anchor has hit back.
Source: Fox News anchor Chris Wallace turns on Donald Trump claim after latest attack on media
President Donald Trump has put the brakes on a regulation blocking coal mining debris from being dumped into nearby streams. Trump called the stream protection regulation a “job-killing rule” before he signed a measure to overturn it.
Following a bombshell report that National Security Adviser Michael Flynn may have violated the Logan Act, President Donald Trump called on reporters only from outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch at a February 10 U.S.-Japan joint press conference, favoring news sources that have been major supporters and receiving no questions about the Flynn report.
Source: Day After Flynn Bombshell, Trump Calls On Only Murdoch Outlets At Press Conference
His ideological proximity to the new U.S. president will allow Netanyahu to advance plans for the de facto annexation of the West Bank. Now all he needs is Trump’s approval. By Menachem Klein A slip of the tongue from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month is worthy of attention. In an unprepared response to a Likud Knesset member, Netanyahu said: “What I’m willing to give to the Palestinians is not exactly a state with full authority, but rather a state-minus, which is why the Palestinians don’t agree [to it].” [tmwinpost] This almost never happens to Netanyahu. He is calculated, in contrast to…
Source: Trump is just what Netanyahu needs to annex the West Bank | +972 Magazine
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“A new radical Islamic terrorist has just attacked in Louvre Museum in Paris. Tourists were locked down. France on edge again. GET SMART U.S.”
Six people died at the Quebec City mosque, and one person was slightly injured in the Paris attack.
Source: Donald Trump Stays Silent On Mosque Shooting While Raging Over Louvre Knife Attack
World Leaders Receive Crank Calls from Someone Claiming to Be President of United States
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a spate of annoying telephone pranks that has lasted nearly two weeks, heads of state from around the world have been receiving crank calls from someone claiming to be the President of the United States, the United Nations reported on Thursday.
According to the U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, who has fielded complaints about the crank calls, the caller has tormented leaders from Mexico, Australia, and many other countries.
“The pattern is always the same,” Gutteres said. “The caller is identified as the President of the United States, so naturally he is put right through. Once he is connected with the head of state, he begins to speak in a threatening and harassing manner.”
“Then, as his threats reach a crescendo, he hangs up,” Gutteres said. “Clearly, it’s someone’s idea of a sick joke.”
The Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, became a victim of the crank caller over the weekend, an experience that he called “highly irritating.”
“I’m a very busy man, and I don’t have time to be the butt of some deranged person’s joke,” Turnbull said. “I’ve blocked the phone number, and I understand other heads of state have done the same.”
Original Analysis by +972 Magazine’s bloggers and op-ed contributors
Netanyahu’s silence on Trump and anti-Semitism
The eight-year-old daughter of US-born Yemeni preacher and al- Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki reportedly died in the raid.
Source: US raid on al-Qaeda compound in Yemen Donald Trump’s first military engagement as president
American airports overnight became settings for heartbreak, frustration and panic as the Muslim ban kicked in. But the countries left off the list were telling.
Source: Donald Trump’s Muslim ban excludes countries in which he has business ties
Surely she didn’t believe Trump’s commitment to NATO. Nonetheless, it would have been useful for her to get him on the record – sort-of.
Source: Nice media conference but the Trump-Putin agenda dwarfs Theresa May’s to-do list
By IPS News Desk | – – ROME (IPS) – “Alarmed” by the new administration’s “repeated attacks on the media …
Source: Trump sees Press and Public Enemy No. 1 – Reporters w/out Borders
Donald Trump’s repeated claim that millions of illegal votes were cast in the recent presidential election appear to be true, with reports that one man – an unregistered voter from Moscow – may have voted 3 million times.
The man – pictured above – is believed to have cast the votes, despite not being a US citizen.
“I’ve heard of people voting in multiple polling stations in the one city. But this guy appears to have voted in North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, all in the one morning,” an electoral expert said.
Mr Trump said it was ‘not what I meant’ when referring to illegal voting.
In the past there have frequently been discussions on the left about what was called a crisis of legitimacy within the countries of democratic capitalism. Most of these discussions have been misleading or exaggerated. In the case of the new US president this is not the case; the legitimacy wolf is finally at the door. Concerning the illegitimacy of the new US president it is, however, important to be precise. The presidency of Donald Trump is not illegitimate because he received three million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton.
Having set a combative tone in his inauguration address last week, President Trump has wasted no time tackling his biggest bugbears. First up, Obamacare, diminished by executive order on Friday afternoon; then, over the weekend, an astonishing stepping-up of his war against the established media, with any hope of a ceasefire lost in a volley of falsehoods from the Trump press team.
Yesterday’s press conference laid bare President-elect Donald Trump’s strategy for dealing with the press as president: He will seek to delegitimize news outlets that provide critical coverage, try to turn them against one another, reward sycophantic coverage from openly pro-Trump sources, and encourage others to follow in their lead. The c
Source: In One Day, 17 Signs Of How Bad Press Treatment Will Be Under Trump
Rumors that a political cartoon featuring Donald Trump was banned from the social media sites were likely started in an attempt to spread the image to a wider audience.
Source: Was a Norwegian Cartoon Banned from Twitter and Facebook? : snopes.com
A perfect storm of domestic Israeli politics combined with the changing of the guard in Washington could create an opportunity for those advocating annexation to finally make their move. Senior Israeli government minister Naftali Bennett announced on Sunday that he will introduce legislation to effectively annex Israel’s third-largest settlement in the West Bank, Ma’ale Adumim, by the end of January. It is safe to assume, that when Bennett says “by the end of January,” he means after the January 21 inauguration of Donald Trump. [tmwinpost] Bennett’s desire to incrementally annex parts of the West Bank are neither new nor secret.…
Source: The annexation of Palestine could be closer than you think | +972 Magazine
Remind us again how Donald Trump’s campaign didn’t cater to racists.
China expressed “serious concern” on Monday after US president-elect Donald Trump said the United States did not necessarily have to stick to its long-held stance that Taiwan is part of “one China”.
Source: China expresses ‘serious concern’ over Trump’s ‘one China’ Taiwan remark
It’s now been confirmed.
Source: BOMBSHELL: CIA Just Confirmed Russia Helped Trump Win The Election – US Uncut
Donald Trump’s well known for his “make America great again” slogan, but did you know Hitler was the one to get there first? Trump’s Hitler mimicry was discovered after the following article was found. It was part of a series on Modern Leaders of Men, and was syndicated in newspapers across the United States in 1934. According […]
Source: Archived Article Shows That Donald Trump’s Slogan Is Straight From Adolf Hitler
Peter Dutton is proof that Donald J Trump has a half-brother living in Australia, says Tess Lawrence.
Source: Peter Dutton: Donald Trump’s Australian half brother
A growing movement of Presidential Electors calling themselves the ‘Hamilton Electors’ has promised to stop Trump from becoming President at the Electoral College, which meets at every …
Source: Donald Trump Will NOT Be President, Electoral College Will Stop Him (BREAKING) – US Uncut
It’s beginning to look like making money for himself is a serious part of President Trump’s plan for America.
Source: Caught Red Handed: Trump Uses New Power To Rush Permits For His Private Businesses Abroad – US Uncut
Optimists are hoping for a Trump makeover. They cling to his brief victory remarks suggesting that he wants to be the “president of all the people.” In his 60 Minutes interview following the electi…
Throughout the presidential campaign season, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has spoken out against Donald Trump and his divisive, bigoted rhetoric. Calling him a “pathological liar” wit…
Source: Trump Is NOT Going To Like What Bernie Sanders Just Said; SLAMS Him HARD (VIDEO) – US Uncut
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