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American Arrogance is Based on Exceptional Ignorance

Working from the base of the brain stem, the tribal chant of we're number one is all it takes to convince most citizens the US is GREAT. A misleading and profit serving corporate media does its share to maintain the illusion. But what is so great about us? We certainly create great violence and mayhem around the world. We work hard to destroy nature in order to extract and pollute...and woe be unto the country that opposes our corporate misuse of people and planet...because we worship the God of profit.

Don't worry, this article will not be filled with wonderful mathematic formulas, but is to be inferred in a perhaps allegorical way.

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After viewing its performance at the MAKS 2017 Moscow Air Show the generals took note that the latest Russian fighter jet appears to be incapable of straight forward flight unlike the Lockheed Martin F-35. One general stated, "At 1/3rd the cost of the F-35, I suppose you get what you pay for. The Russians are obviously now so far behind they will never catch up to our advanced technological expertise."

Parts One and Two: https://caucus99percent.com/content/who-will-own-lack-good-national-heal... and https://caucus99percent.com/content/who-will-own-lack-good-national-heal...

With the US House acting like the Texas Senate and the Texas Senate moving like they can't punish transgender people fast enough for daring to exist, I just had to go looking for something a bit more positive.

The DNC brand is damaged.
While the RNC raised a record $13.4 million in June, bringing its total 2017 fundraising to $75.3 million, the DNC actually went further into debt.

Most of the left, not to mention the right, are falling again for the false narratives, lies and propaganda coming from our government, the Trump regime, and the oligarchy owned and controlled media regarding the supposed ceasefire in Syria, agreements with Russia and Trump's decisions and actions in "fighting terrorism".

No wonder the antiwar movement is almost dead during a period of unprecedented war.

In response to the brutal and inexplicable police shooting of Justine Damond, Shaun King wrote Police brutality jumped a racial fence with Minneapolis cop shooting of Justine Damond.

A week ago I shared the news that two dozen republican members of the house refused to participate in the public transphobia of amending the Defense budget to remove medical treatment of transgender military troops.

Remember back in 2001, when we first invaded Afghanistan our enemy was just one terrorist group - al-Qaeda? Those were the good old days, because now there are 20 terrorist groups in Afghanistan. Twenty!

I'd like to ask you to stick up for transgender people. I know that's too much for some of you, but it is truly needed. The House is trying to evict transgender people from citizenship.

Introduction:

Contrary to all the tendentious happy-talk pumped out by the corporate media, the U.S. has regressed economically to the level of Britain in the 1850s; i.e., to the functional equivalent of a Third World country. This heavily-suppressed fact smacked me in the face as I was reading a history book written in 1975 - before the elitist looting and government wrecking got started. All quotes below are from that book: Eric Hobsbawm, "The Age of Capital 1848-1875" (1975).

If Americans are again left without any comprehensive national health plan* at all (or an imploding one), Republicans say Democrats will own that. However, Democrats say the opposite. ("I'm rubber; you're glue.") Essay spoiler alert: "There's plenty of blame to go around." For just one thing, no comprehensive national health plan at all was operational until very recently, an oddity among industrialized nations.

A few weeks ago, John McCain seemed to be having a bit of word-finding problems (dysnomia) and was a bit confused as evidenced on some broadcast senate hearings. 3 days ago he underwent surgery for a blood clot (hematoma) in the left frontal lobe. At age 80, this isn't so surprising, as due to brain shrinkage (atrophy) blood clots can often form after minor trauma. Most clots are benign, in the sense that they are unassociated by other brain abnormalities.

Most people don't like Republicans or their policies.
However, Democrats still haven't given people reason to vote.

Air Force General Paul Selva was required to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday for his reappointment as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

He was asked about the delay in enlisting transgender troops.

The finger-pointing has begun, and naturally Trump is excelling at it.

Those who pay attention to what is going on – as opposed to passively consuming the obsessions of MSM – know that the Clinton-related material published by Wikileaks emerged from leaks, not hacks.

It's not a secret that NATO ally Turkey has been unhappy with our aiding and arming the Syrian Kurds.
Speaking of "not a secret", our troop locations are no longer secrets either.

US troops have been stationed in Ukraine since 2015 apparently. And now 200 NY Guard troops are scheduled to be deployed to Ukraine as "trainers" beginning in October.

I think it is important to tie together a number of threads joe shikspack included in his

Clinton Romney campaign chiefs team up to protect elections from cyberattacks

Robby Mook, Clinton's 2016 campaign manager, and Matt Rhoades, Romney's 2012 campaign chief, will co-lead the Defending Digital Democracy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Harvard Kennedy School announced on Tuesday.

Thirty days ago today the USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) was rammed by the Japanese-flagged container ship ACX Crystal causing significant damage. This is the third essay about this unmitigated disaster. Unmitigated because no matter how it happened NOTHING GOOD can emerge from this for the USN and USA.

Last month I posted a large article on American School Economist Henry C. Carey, The only economists who ever created a national economy.