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Critique of US economic (& military) policy from Jake Ma, China

Submitted by Sunspots on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 9:19pm

Ma is the founder of Alibaba, which is similar to eBay, I believe.

"It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys," Ma said. "It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way."

According to Ma, the US wasted over $14 trillion in fighting wars over the past 30 years rather than investing in infrastructure at home. Ma named this as the main reason that the US economy is weakening.

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Trump Takes Big Step towards Impeachment

Submitted by hungeski on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 9:12pm

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By taking the office of U.S. president Friday, Donald Trump has also taken a big step towards impeachment. That fact has crossed the mind of at least one member of the House. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who is a constitutional law professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and the director of the university’s Program on Law and Government Leadership, said:

"Right now (January 18) it looks pretty obvious that [Trump]'s on a collision course with the Emoluments Clause" ... "He has refused to divest himself of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of business interests he has around the world doing business with foreign governments."

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"[The Emoluments Clause] says that no elected official, either member of Congress or the president of the United States, can accept a gift, an emolument or any payment at all from a foreign government." ... "He [Trump] just simply refuses to accept that reality. So if he goes into office and he refuses to divest himself, the moment that the first conflict comes up, that's going to look like an impeachable offense."

Ground For A Peoples' Party? Speak Out

Submitted by Heathen3B on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 12:38pm

The reaction to the Trump inauguration and yesterday’s multiple protest rallies has been swift and plentiful. The most obvious conclusion for me was that the energy seen across this country can't be simply a "protest" against the POTUS. It obligates us to organize toward a Peoples' Party outside the two-party stranglehold.

A couple of comments on my experience of the weekend before part four of the discussion of the Trump Presidency.

“Block Traffic and You Die”

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 12:26pm

The state legislature passed a bill on Wednesday authorizing police officers to stop highway protesting “by any means necessary.”
You might be under the mistaken impression that this was North Dakota. This was Indiana.

The bill then authorizes the responding officers to clear roads “by any means necessary.”

I am now officially "Steven V" per the DNC Survey I Just Received

Submitted by Steven D on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 10:12am

My name has changed.

Well, at least according to the Democratic National Committee, who did me the great honor of sending me their "OFFICIAL 2017 DEMOCRATIC PARTY SURVEY" for which I am eternally grateful. They actually want my opinion about what their priorities should be. I even have a DNC Membership number. Funny, I don't remember joining the DNC, but it is nice to know they want me so badly.

Democrats and ActBlue Cashing In On Standing Rock Sioux #NoDAPL

Submitted by Oldest Son Of A... on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 9:59am

ActBlue Scamming Standing Rock Sioux Water Protectors And Veterans NoDAPL For Donations

On Friday Jan 20th I was quickly slammed with 5 E-Mails from ActBlue attempting to fraudulently cash in on the Standing Rock Sioux and the Fight Against the Dakota Access Pipeline...
The Crooked Democrats are trying to fund raise off the problem they made and did nothing to solve...

Moving On.

Submitted by LaFeminista on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 5:50am

Democrats should not be fist pumping about the events of yesterday the marches were about something more fundamental than political parties, it was about rights hard won over a century or more. Democrats have helped feed the current system where income inequality has damaged our very democracy and as always women are on the front line to be kicked first and hardest.

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