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GOP Bill Will Cut Medicare and Social Security

Updated: So we knew the $$$ Trillion+ in Tax Giveaways to the rich had to be paid for 'somehow'. Now Repubs tell us how they plan to do it. Most smart people knew this was coming anyway, but now the first cannon balls have been fired against the ramparts, so this is no longer just a bad dream.

The Trump influence paradigm Speech.

First, you need to know that a teacher in my past explained a comfortable bike seat was a "paradigm".

Now, I have just subjected myself to the Trumpers speech in Montana.

1. Too long.

2. He hits the bells.

New York's Best Pinballer Shows Us His Pinball Arcade

This is why we don't have nice things.

From Germany with Love (or Hate) - Putin in Luck - Trump's Dollar Baton

This my own translation of an article of the weekly news smagazin "Der Spiegel". All mistakes or comprehension twists are mine. I do not excerpt to not introduce bias by being selective.
Merkel-Besuch in Sotschi Putin im Glück = Merkel visit in Sochi - Putin in Luck
by Christiane Hoffmann - Friday, 05/18/2018 10:02 pm

Nothing proves anything

That's the title of a fairly philosophical essay at Counterpunch about why rational people are increasingly frustrated by the current forms of "argumentation". Because facts just don't matter any more, as we have seen repeatedly: DNC cheating, Hillary's emails, Syrian gas attacks, Skripal poisoning, Iran agreement withdrawl, accusations of unprovoked Iranian attacks (in the face of 100 self-admitted Israeli attacks on Iranian forces). The facts just don't matter.

Germany and Russia must coordinate on Israel/Iran crisis

Brilliant article by Daniel Lazare at Consortium News. The few parts I have not included are also worth reading.

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/05/11/trumps-iran-debacle-what-will-germ...

Trump’s Iran Debacle: What Will Germany and Russia Do?
May 11, 2018

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