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Trump’s First 100 Days As President
Stephen Lendman
Should a billionaire be entrusted to lead the country? Perhaps his only redeeming quality is he’d likely not start WW III.
Interviewed on April 2, he said he’d govern like he campaigns if elected president, a nontraditional Trumpian approach, he explained.
During the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt’s first 100 days were historic, a unique post-electoral period. More on it below.
Trump barely touched on his first 100 days if elected president. Whoever succeeds Obama enters office during America’s second Great Depression, a Main Street one, affecting tens of millions of unemployed, underemployed struggling people in a nation systematically being thirdworldized.
Unlimited Propagandistic Lying from CNN
Eric Zuesse
On Saturday April 2nd, CNN headlined, “U.S. F-15s Deployed to Iceland,” and Zachary Cohen opened:
Demonstrating its commitment to a ‘free' and ‘secure' Europe, the United States deployed 12 F-15C Eagles and approximately 350 airmen to Iceland and the Netherlands on Friday, the Air Force announced. U.S. aircraft units from the 131st Fighter Squadron at Barnes Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts and the 194th Fighter Squadron at Fresno Air National Guard Base in California will support NATO air surveillance missions in Iceland and conduct flying training in the Netherlands.The F-15s are not the only package of American fighters being sent to Europe in an effort to deter further Russian aggression in the region.
Cruz Most Despised US Senator
Stephen Lendman
Of the original 16 main Republican presidential contenders, Cruz remains the last one challenging Trump.
Party bosses support him by default - even though he’s widely detested. He antagonizes friends and foes, called arrogant, abrasive, mean-spirited, insufferable and obnoxious.
A freshman senator since 2013, he’s disliked for blasting fellow Republicans. He once called party members resigned to Obamacare as national law Nazi appeasers.
Clinton Crashes and Burns, Sanders Will Win (But hold the applause)
By Daniel Patrick Welch
I'm chuckling to myself. Well, now I'm chuckling onscreen, which is almost the same as chuckling out loud. COL? I'm not exactly feeling the Bern, and I am not particularly excited about a Sanders presidency. But man do I love watching the Clinton Machine crash and burn, the ClinThenardiers of modern American political theater, former Secretary of Death and her former Master of the House husband, hypocrite and toady and inebriate. Such an apt metaphor.
But more than all of this, I just love being proved right. It's like heroin isn't it? I mean speaking of hypocrites, who actually believes themselves when they say "I hate to say I told you so.." Bullshit. A college buddy and I used to call the lie on this by saying "I hate to say 'I hate to say I told you so,' because I fucking *love* saying I told you so!"
Has Russia Now Salvaged Europe?
Eric Zuesse
The United States cooked up the idea of using fundamentalist-Sunni, Saudi-led-and-inspired mujahideen, or “Taliban,” as cheap fanatics to fight against the Soviet Union in 1979 in Afghanistan; and, then, after thus draining and ending the USSR by 1991, the royal Sauds and their friends U.S. Presidents — starting with the Bushes but including Clinton(s) and Obama — have continued it as a bad habit, which got out of control and has now ultimately forced millions of Syrians (and Libyans etc.) to leave their jihadist-infested homelands to seek safety in Europe. This influx is too many refugees, too fast for Europe (or anywhere) to absorb, and so has created a crisis that threatens the continued existence of the EU. Has Russia now effectively come to the rescue and saved the EU, and perhaps placed the U.S.-Saudi fundamentalist-Sunni genie back into its bloody destructive bottle? Perhaps so.
Europe’s enemies, the United States and its Sunni fundamentalist allies (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Turkey) almost succeeded in replacing Syria’s non-sectarian and secular Ba’athist government, by a Saudi-inspired fundamentalist-Sunni one; and, in the process, those enemies of Europe produced millions of Syrian and other refugees into Europe and elsewhere. In this ongoing crisis, Europe’s leaders, such as Angela Merkel (who as an East German has hated and feared Russians ever since childhood), are still allied with Europe’s enemies (those Sunni-fundamentalist-ruled nations, which compete against Russia in the oil-and-gas markets), but Russia’s intervention in the Syrian conflict has finally turned the tide against the jihadists, so that Europeans can, at long last, reasonably begin to hope again that this hell has reached its bottom, and that Europe’s future is heading back towards progress, instead of towards ever-increasing conflict and recession and soaring debt.
Why is Lebanon holding Hannibal Gaddafi hostage?
Franklin Lamb
Beirut
As of this week, following his arrest on December 15, 2015, Hannibal Gaddafi, one of seven children of Moammar Gaddafi and his Widow Safia Farkash, has spent, without a scintilla of evidence that he violated any Lebanese law, nearly 16 weeks wrongly incarcerated in a Beirut jail.
Hannibal Gaddafi the fifth son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
Mr. Gaddafi is being held for one reason only. A botched attempt by certain politicians here to exact a $ 200,000,000 ransom before releasing Hannibal Gaddafi was made between Lebanese politician Nabih Berri and the illegal Tripoli government ( الانقاذ الوطني) , which is not recognized by the UN and which has been recently replaced.
Something that the U.S. Press Hide about 9/11
Eric Zuesse
The U.S. government’s hiding the fact that the Saudi royal family and their friends had financed the 9/11 attacks is hidden from the American public by the American news-media, as will be documented in the links to this news-report:
On March 28th, I had issued a news-report, "U.S. Still Demands Assad’s Removal in Syria”, and one of the reader-comments (from “guest”) responded there with:
For the life of me I can't understand why the U.S. government is utterly obsessed with getting rid of Assad. Do the Saudis and those other little feudal sharia law fiefdoms in the Persian Gulf have that much control over this government?
I answered:
cettel guest
Yes. After all, despite their having funded Al Qaeda (for which see this evidence
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/al-qaedas-bookkeeper-spills-beans.html
and this http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/02/terrorists-arent-hitting-u-s-now.html, which latter shows that even Secretary of State Clinton knew in 2009 that they still were), the 28 pages in the U.S. Senate report are still prohibited from being released to the public; and, moreover, the U.S. government has now officially blamed and fined Iran -- the Saud family's arch-enemy -- as having caused 9/11:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/03/u-s-government-blames-911-iran-fines-iran-10-5b-iran-refuses-pay.html, and so how can there be any doubt about it?
Congressional Members Want Israel Investigated for Human Rights Abuses?
Stephen Lendman
A Politico report reads like an April Fools Day stunt, the story published three days in advance on March 29.
It said Senator Patrick Leahy (D. VT) and 10 House members want the State Department to “investigate claims that the Israeli and Egyptian security forces have committed ‘gross violations of human rights’ - allegations (sic) that if proven true could affect US military aid to the countries.”
A February 17 letter to John Kerry “inquir(ed) about specific allegations (sic) of gross human rights violations by the security forces of both countries.”
It highlighted “alleged” Israeli extrajudicial executions and Egypt’s 2013 Rab’aa Square massacre, killing around 1,000 peaceful protesters, along with numerous reports of forced disappearances.
The letter cited the 2001 law bearing Senator Leahy’s name. It prohibits funding foreign security forces involved in committing human rights abuses. The 1961 Foreign Assistance Act prohibits providing aid to governments engaging in a “consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, including torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, causing the disappearance of persons by the abduction and clandestine detention of those persons, or other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, and the security of person, unless such assistance will directly benefit the needy people in such country.”
Obama’s War on Yemen Harms Children Most
Stephen Lendman
Obama’s war on Yemen began long before partnering with Riyadh, orchestrating its terror-bombing, choosing targets to strike, supporting its ground forces and terrorist fighters.
US planned and implemented genocide affects millions of Yemenis, Obama’s latest atrocity, another country being raped and destroyed. War in its second year harms civilians most, young children most vulnerable.
Thousands are dying from violence, preventable diseases, starvation and overall deprivation. Official numbers way undercount reality on the ground.
What’s ongoing is largely unreported - 24 million people at risk ignored. US drone war has been ongoing for years, rules of engagement authorizing indiscriminate murder, noncombatants comprising the vast majority of casualties.
Trump-Bashing Battery Charge Against His Campaign Manager
Stephen Lendman
The underlying theme of this year’s US presidential campaign is stop Trump, no trick too dirty considered out-of-bounds.
Expect lots more ahead as July nominating conventions draw nearer, the dirtiest perhaps while Republicans meet in Cleveland from July 18 - 21 - anything to choose someone else as party standard bearer.
For now, Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery on Tuesday - allegedly for grabbing and bruising Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields’ arm, at a March 8 campaign event when she approached Trump to ask a question.
He denies it, calling the accusation false, saying “(s)he shouldn’t have been touching me. She had a pen in her hand. It could have been a knife. It might have been dangerous.”
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