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From Naked Capitalism. After covering the weakness in consumer spending, the Republican threat to the health care Industry, silicon valley, energy and fracking Jim Chanos summarizes:

It could all just be a soft spot in an ongoing expansion — time will tell. But the narrative we were told is that animal spirits would take us to the next level of economic activity. That clearly is not happening in mid-2017.

There is a new NRA Facebook video out that I can't quite figure out. Is it stirrring the shite to turn people against each other. Is it a cynical ploy to sell more guns for its primary sponsors? Or is it something worse, as Bill Moyers' says. Here's the vid:

Earlier today a jihadi rebel group in southern Syria accused the Damascus government of a chemical weapons attack.

A day after she introduced and then withdrew an amendment to the military budget intended to deny transgender Americans from serving in the military, Rep Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) was on the radio with Tony Perkins of the hate group Family Research Council

Trans servicemembers, she warned, are a “threat” to the country — a threat rivaling our biggest international foes.

I've long ago concluded that the American public is subjected to the most sophisticated system of mass propaganda the world has ever known (or suffered), bar none. And, I've concluded that ALL social dysfunction can be traced back to the effects corporate-owned media propaganda has on the population.

The families of two Yemeni men killed in a drone strike in 2012, an imam and a police officer, sued the federal government.
They didn't seek any money. Their objective was simple: they wanted a court declaration that the strike violated international and US law.
They didn't win.

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More below:

From "Health Insurance Coverage and Health — What the Recent Evidence Tells Us,"
Benjamin D. Sommers, M.D., Ph.D., Atul A. Gawande, M.D., M.P.H., and Katherine Baicker, Ph.D.
June 21, 2017

These people amongst so many others played with the truth over the years in the name of ratings. They helped create the monsters that rule us, they have helped divide America for their own hubris and greed. So many of these media fakes have made their fortunes by spreading falsehoods, they are no better than Alex Jones and his ilk; just a little less obvious.

Damn!

Ava Le'Ray Barrin of Athens, Georgia has been called "a brave young woman who feared nothing; nobody, and especially not being herself. She had dreams of making a career for herself on stage.