Diaries
Trillion-dollar-valued Amazon pays $0 in income taxes for 2018, gets multi-million refund
Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 1:19pmDamn. So many homeless, poor, sick, and hungry and Dr Blasio wanted to give Amazon the keys to the city. What a punk.
Trillion-dollar-valued Amazon pays $0 in income taxes for 2018, gets multi-million refund
Trillion-dollar-company Amazon skated through 2018's tax filings without paying a cent for the second year in a row. The e-commerce behemoth, which made $11 billion last year, will pay no taxes at all, thanks to 2017's tax reform.
Nuclear Nightmare
Submitted by Linda Wood on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 12:36pmNuclear nightmare is more immanent now as low-yield weapons roll off the assembly line, as James Carroll writes at Tom Dispatch, and the as the Nuclear Clock ticks closer to Midnight, as Scott Ritter writes at Truthdig. I am alarmed to learn from RT that Putin believes the Russian people will die as martyrs while the aggressors will simply die. But I am glad to see all this writing.
the US Bomb Iran for Peace Conference in Warsaw
Submitted by wendy davis on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 12:36pm
The Trump administration had originally called the conference to bring Washington in from its isolation for having shredded its participation in the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ‘allies’ of Amerika have found detrimental, as well as the increasing sanctions on Iran for which they’re creating alternatives for doing business with ‘the Pariah Terrorist Nation’ (NSTEX, for Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges”.
JtC. Is that Vlad on the like button?
Submitted by EdMass on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 12:27pmYou devil you.
Crucified on a Cross of Benjamins
Submitted by arendt on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 11:31amOne can only be gobsmacked by the Orwellian tactic of claiming that a quotidian phrase, uttered by millions for decades, has suddenly become an anti-Semitic insult. ("Its all about the Benjamin's, baby.") This is weaponized sophistry, aka casuistry. If we go down this road, saying "I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole." is going to be construed as anti-Polish. The metaphor of the boiling frog will be taken as an insult to French mentality.
The obvious (to me) response to the fabricated and orchestrated outrage about Representative Ilhan Omar's remark is to send her a $100 bill. If she is going to be crucified on a cross of Benjamins, she might as well have some of them.
Jimmy Dore: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is the ‘new Alex Jones
Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 9:23amRT interview of someone stating a simple fact:
Jimmy Dore: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is the ‘new Alex Jones
He’s calling out all these supposed msm media journalists.
Open Thread - Friday, February 15, 2019
Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 3:20am
Raise hell - big time. I want y'all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything. My word, there's a world out there that needs fixing.
Get out there and get after it.
- Molly Ivins -
Are you ready to raise some hell? I am.
Way of the Bern: A Kremlin Asset?
Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 1:03amSomething appears fishy with conservative columnist running smears on behalf of a "Russian troll hunter" about an open pro-Bernie subreddit before the man even announces he's running.
Someone REALLY wants Trump to get a second term! (Thread) https://t.co/MFo6N7zuWe
Trump Declaring National Emergency to Build the Wall
Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 02/14/2019 - 9:15pm.@LindseyGrahamSC, 2014: “This overreach by Pres Obama is breathtaking, and every American shld be unnerved by the implications of this decision. The executive action is unprecedented and tramples on the concept of constitutional checks and balances.” https://t.co/J5DerypJDM