Diaries

The Trump Administration: Theft on a massive scale

The Russiagate scandal is a hilariously, fact-less conspiracy theory. But it serves a purpose of distracting people away from outright government stealing on a scale comparable to feudal robber barons.
Civil asset forfeiture was always an idea open to abuse, and abuse it they have done.

The Power of Power

This essay is not about political power, although inevitably it dovetails into such. This is about another meaning of power.

From Webster's New 20th Century Dictionary Unabridged, Second Edition:

power, n. [old French pooir, from an old infinitive podia, from LL. n potter, to be able, used for posse, to able, from potis, able and esse, to be]
...5. physical force or energy; as in electric power.

The U.N. report on extreme poverty in the U.S.

It recently occurred to me that whenever someone talks about the economy in America, whether it is a politician or a media pundit, they always talk about the "middle class" and how it's shrinking.
They rarely if ever say "working class" or "working poor", and they never ever mention "extreme poverty". Why not? Because it doesn't exist here?

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