Stephan: When I learned that Trump had picked Stephen Moore for the Federal Reserve Board I had only one question: Is it possible for Trump to appoint someone who is not a grifter, scumbag, and incompetent? If Stephen Moore has ever said anything intelligent and competent about finances it must have been while looking at himself in his bathroom mirror because it wasn't where anyone could hear. As for his ethics, as this report spells out, aren't they obvious?
One appointment at a time Donald Trump is destroying America. And yet his approval rating according to fivethirtyeight is 42.2%. So, once again, I have to say that the problem with America is a bit less than half of Americans.
Stephen Moore
One of President Donald Trump’s new picks to serve on the Federal Reserve Board, Trumponomics author Stephen Moore, was found to be in contempt of court in 2012 for failing to pay more than $300,000 in alimony and child support.
Court filings recently unearthed by The Guardian’s Jon Swain and David Smith show Moore repeatedly failed to make payments that were part of a 2011 divorce settlement with his ex-wife, Allison Moore. Not only was Moore found in contempt of court, but his failure to comply with the terms of his settlement even prompted a judge to order the sale of his house to satisfy his debts.
According to court records, several police officers accompanied relators and a locksmith to to Moore’s home in May 2013 to change the locks and prepare the property for buyers. Only after the court-sanctioned break-in did Moore pay roughly two-thirds of what he owed his ex-wife, court filings show. Allison Moore told the court the $217,000 payment was enough, and stepped in to halt the house re-sale.
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Stephan: The christofascists and the uber-rich have found a way to weaponize electronic media, and they are manipulating the 42.2% and others to create a Neo-feudal society. Here's the story.
The image shows Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) cooly adjusting his tie, as a hysterical looking woman in the background screams while being restrained by an officer. It was posted online following Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court despite allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in high school.
“I hate to brag. I just took the most thug life @LindseyGrahamSC photos of the entire Kavanaugh saga. [Story soon]” tweeted right-wing provocateur Benny Johnson. The pic took on a life of its own, as other online users superimposed more messaging on it, like a picture of Joe Biden inappropriately touching the woman.
Welcome to the meme wars. An investigation by Mother Jones has found that conservatives have learned to weaponize memes — images occasionally superimposed with text that are designed to go viral — while liberals have largely ignored them. And they’re planning to use them to sway the outcome of the 2020 election, likely in favor of Donald Trump.
Although memes typically emerge organically, Mother Jonesdiscovered that well-funded conservative activists and organizations have started training tech-savvy young conservatives on how […]
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Saturday, April 6th, 2019
Steve Baragona, - Voice of America
Stephan: I found this article very interesting for several reasons. First, it is on the Voice of America site, so it is an official presentation of the U.S.. I found that odd given that Trump and his administration don't seem to even believe in climate change. I suspect it didn't get passed up the line, and so represents the thinking of people in the United States Information Agency who are smart enough to think about this issue without being blinded by greed and self-interest.
Second, I found it interesting because it confirms what I have been predicting here on SR for years: given the failure of the federal government to proactively protect Americans from the catastrophe that is rapidly reshaping the world, states and localities, where elected officials really have to govern, are taking up the slack. I see this as part of a shift in political power, and a datapoint in the growing states rights trend. Blue states are rapidly losing patience with the moronic Republican governance of Red value states. Republicans cannot govern to produce wellbeing because they are all in the christofascist neoliberal economics trance.
Third, I want you to look at the chart, and get clear in your own mind that humanity as a whole is not doing nearly enough to avoid the catastrophe of climate change, so it is going to sweep over us like a tsunami.
WASHINGTON — When Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey introduced their Green New Deal resolution, Markey said it would be “the greatest blue-collar job creation program in a generation.”
President Donald Trump, on the other hand, said it would “put millions of Americans out of work.”
Battle lines have been drawn with the first major U.S. proposal to tackle climate change in nearly a decade: Does stopping global warming mean wrecking the economy? Or is failing to act worse?
In the coming months, Voice of America will explore the prospects for salvaging the environment without killing off jobs.
We will meet winners and losers in the energy transition. Our first stop will be in Markey’s home state of Massachusetts, where an energy transition is well underway. We will visit a town where one of the state’s last coal-fired power plants closed, shedding coal jobs but gaining a cutting-edge solar farm. We will see how Massachusetts’ investments in the green economy are paying dividends in jobs and economic growth.
Though the Senate has voted down Markey and Ocasio-Cortez’s nonbinding Green New Deal […]
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Saturday, April 6th, 2019
DAVE DEGRAW , - DeGraw Media
Stephan: We have spent trillions of dollars on the military-intelligence-industrial complex. The money is so vast and unaccounted for that no one really knows where it all went. And it has bought us endless war. Does that sound like good policy? You can't say Dwight Eisenhower didn't warn us.
OVERVIEW
According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, in fiscal years 2013 – 2018, the Department of Defense Inspector General (DOD IG) received 95,613 whistleblower complaints. As trillions of tax dollars in military spending have gone unaccounted for, the DOD IG has been receiving an average of 15,936 complaints per year.
The overwhelming majority of those complaints are not investigated, and there is presently a record number of whistleblowers who have been retaliated against and silenced.
In the first three sections of this report, we will take an in-depth look into critical systemic breakdowns throughout the whistleblowing process. In the last section, we will update you on the latest Pentagon audit findings and highlight their long track record of unaccountability concerning taxpayer money and assets.
In summation, as you will read throughout this report, the evidence is clear; the Pentagon systemically silences and retaliates against thousands of whistleblowers, while losing billions in weapons and trillions in tax dollars.
Corruption throughout military spending has significantly weakened combat readiness, while diverting trillions of tax dollars away from infrastructure and burying our nation in record-breaking debt. As a top National Security priority, Congress must fulfill their Constitutional duty to begin wide-scale investigations into the epidemic of […]
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Saturday, April 6th, 2019
Stephan: Eat crap, die young. "So which countries do best when it comes to diet? Israel, France, Spain and Japan were among the countries with the lowest rates of diet-related disease. The U.S ranked 43rd, and China ranked 140th," the latest research reveals. What are you eating?
Poor diet is the leading risk factor for deaths from lifestyle-related diseases in the majority of the world, according to new research.
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About 11 million deaths a year are linked to poor diets around the globe.
And what’s driving this? As a planet we don’t eat enough healthy foods including whole grains, nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables. At the same time, we consume too many sugary drinks, too much salt and too much processed meat.
As part of a new study published in The Lancet, researchers analyzed the diets of people in 195 countries using survey data, as well as sales data and household expenditure data. Then they estimated the impact of poor diets on the risk of death from diseases including heart disease, certain cancers and diabetes. (They also calculated the number of deaths related to other risk factors, such as smoking and drug use, at the global level.)
“This study shows that poor diet is the leading risk factor for deaths in the majority of the countries of the world,” […]
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