By now you've probably heard that Turkey is having a financial crisis, and Trump appears to be pouring gasoline on it.
But you may not understand what is happening, or you may not know why it's important.
So let's do a quick recap.
Before states began legalizing marijuana we were all told by official sources that legal weed would trigger the End Of Days.
Pot smokers, OTOH, said cops would spend their time catching real crooks instead of arrested peaceful pot smokers.
Guess who was right?
A couple weeks ago a Koch Brothers study accidentally showed that Medicare For All would save the country $2 Trillion over 10 years, while covering everyone.
Strike One!
Politics in America, whether Democrat or Republican, basically involves politicians coming out once every two years, asking for your money and promising things they have no intention of actually doing. No wonder people are sick of it.
That's party politics, but it's NOT a political movement.
Recently I saw a film and read a book, one of which couldn’t have been more disturbing, and the other uncommonly comforting.
The disturbing documentary film is titled, Three Identical Strangers. The beautifully written and comforting book is titled, A Gentleman in Moscow, and was recommended by a friend.
"you're either with us or against us"
Well I'm fucking against us
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/13/heres-video-schoolchildren-...
In Friday's Evening Blues, Joe posted an article warning consumers about faulty insulin pumps and pacemakers. This article struck home, and I wanted to alert you to the dangers of other implants.
The meme of fake news is very effective. There are so many lies told again and again and again that they are accepted as truth. You now select your own truth. Examples that come to mind: the DNC HACK (not leak), recently elected Maduro is a dictator, Russia is hacking our election and they poisoned a spy in Britain, Assange is a Russian agent, Assad gases his people so we MUST bomb him, Iran the aggressor put their country in the middle of OUR military bases and on top of OUR oil, Israel is our ally and is for peace and stability in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia must battle the evil Houthis who are working with Iran to overthrown the crown prince, and on and on...
A unanimous jury in San Francisco awarded Mr. Dwayne Johnson $USM289. in damages, including $US250. in punitive damages from the Monsanto Corporation for causing his terminal cancer. The best reporting I have found so far is from the BBC, naturally. Our own esteemed Lame Stream Media only just barely mentioned this trial, and only towards the last few days when it was becoming apparent that Big M was in trouble.
The right-wing media has been pushing this narrative for years that crazy college liberals/SJW's are victimizing helpless conservatives by censoring them.
The reality is very different.
