The Dangerous Chinese Fork Manufacturing Gap

It's a matter of national security! CNBC: "How a tiny flatware manufacturer in upstate New York could win big from $738 billion defense bill": “Manufacturing in general is a strategic asset for our country,” Roberts said. “If you can’t make things, you rely on other countries who may or may not be your friends in the future. You don’t have control over your destiny.” What if there was a war and China cut us off from new forks and spoons?! We would all STARVE! Thank God Congress is here to provide corporate welfare to selected companies in order to provide security from such a catastrophe...

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American Police State

Laurie Laughlin, the lady from Full House, and her husband, clothing designer Something Mossimo, are being prosecuted by the feds for bribing their kid's way into USC. She now says the feds are hiding exculpatory evidence showing she thought the half-million was the same kind of "donation" to colleges that rich people give to get their kids in all the time. We should believe her and presume that the FBI and DoJ are guilty premeditated criminals unfairly persecuting her and her husband. Just a few weeks ago the feds announced that they were adding decades worth of charges to this couple for...

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Disposable Heroes

When I was a boy Metallica was actually still a great band. I know that must sound unbelievable. Was there ever such a time? Yes. This was back in junior high, long before the Black Album and Metallica's dissent into the place of worst band in the history of the human race. This one was a heavy influence on me then. First song on the second side of Master of Puppets. For the 2,440-or so Americans killed in the Afghanistan war so far: "Disposable Heroes." Rock out with your troops out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsH1g5ZESk

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Only American to lead FBI and CIA says Trump presents ‘dire threat’ to country

Of course he does. He's a president of the U.S. government after all. But man, either the National Security State has the dumbest PR department in history or Trump has the most brilliant one. But he probably couldn't really afford to pay them what it would cost for boosts like these. Instead, they just don't get it. We hate them because of all of those things that they did. That's how he won in the first place, over their dead bodies. So what do they do? They run on Status Quo Ante 2020! At this rate they'll lose to the president they impeached. What a bunch of losers.

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12/13/19 Sheldon Richman on Trump’s Loyalty to Israel

Sheldon Richman discusses America's relationship to Israel in the wake of President Trump's speech to Sheldon Adelson's Israeli-American Council. Trump has received criticism as being anti-semitic for saying that American Jews, particularly democrats, do not "love Israel enough." This is odd, says Richman, since usually allegations of anti-semitism are based on people claiming that American Jews might have a special loyalty to Israel. He laments the fact that nobody cares about consistent principle anymore, happy instead to resort to sophistry and persecution if they think it will be...

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12/13/19 Nasser Arrabyee on the War in Yemen

Scott interviews Nasser Arrabyee about Yemen, where the U.S. continues to back Suadi Arabia in waging a war of starvation against the people of Yemen. Scott calls this the very worst thing our government is doing, and yet by and large the American people don't much care about it. Arrabyee says that Houthi leaders are beginning to talk with the Saudis through backchannels, which could be the first step toward a deescalation of the bombing and a reopening of airports, which would allow desperately needed foreign aid to get to the Yemenis. Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana’a,...

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