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August 27, 2018
USA: Vice President Pence Faces Heightened Scrutiny Over His Relationship with Paul Manafort - by Gwendolyn Smith
The "American Nightmare" has become a reality |
The line of succession would call for Mike Pence to replace Donald Trump should he be removed from office. Many have feared what a Pence presidency would look like, given his actions as the Governor of Indiana against the LGBTQ community, women, and others.
Amongst the bad news for Trump last week was the indictment of Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. Manafort was found guilty last week on eight counts of financial crimes in his fraud trial.
It was Paul Manafort who chose Mike Pence as Donald Trump's vice president, with the president reportedly preferring Chris Christie for the role.
The link between Manafort and Pence is leading to additional scrutiny for the vice president, as people ask just what Pence knew about Manafort and his connections.
Many are also curious about Pence's involvements with former adviser Mike Flynn, questioning if he lied to protect the general in January of 2017 when he declared that Flynn had not discussed, "anything having to do with the United States' decision to expel diplomats or impose censure against Russia" with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Read more: Vice President Pence Faces Heightened Scrutiny Over His Relationship with Paul Manafort | Alternet
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August 26, 2018
The Vatican - "Shame and Scandal in the family": Pope Francis knew of abuse scandal says ex-Vatican envoy
The Vatican - "shame and scandal in the family" |
The accusation came as the pope concluded his trip to Ireland where he begged for forgiveness for decades of Catholic abuse.
A former high ranking Vatican official has called on Pope Francis to step down, accusing the pontiff of knowing about sex abuse allegations against a prominent US cardinal for five years before finally accepting his resignation last month.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano laid out his argument in an 11-page letter that was published Sunday in the National Catholic Register and another conservative site, LifeSiteNews.
The 77-year-old Vigano, an arch-conservative with strong anti-homosexual views, said he told the pope in 2013 that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick had faced voluminous allegations of sexually abusing lower-ranking seminarians and priests.
Read more: Pope Francis knew of abuse scandal says ex-Vatican envoy | News | DW | 26.08.2018
USA: Politics in America are Corporate, not Citizen focused - Why are guns a right in the US, meanwhile education and healthcare are not?
USA: Corporate controlled Insurance sucks |
Free education is something that is widely encountered across the globe, although college isn’t always included on the list. Many countries offer a number of free university seats while others subsidize them.
Many argue that this type of education,
just like universal healthcare, isn’t actually free since it is funded
by the government, who in turn gathers the cash by taxing people’s
paychecks and businesses.
Basically
that is an argument used in the US which in reality does not fly,
because the end result in countries which do provide this service is
offering everyone
access to what they need, be it education that will provide them with a
better future without having to spend half of their lives paying back
the student loans or getting the healthcare they need.
Across the globe, there are quite a lot of countries that offer free healthcare,
from the Americas, Asia, although the most are from Europe where this
seems to be the way to go when it comes to this important issue.
Many European (EU) countries regard free education also as an investment to the economy. There is skilled workforce available on the free labor market. The opposite solution could be for example that every industry would educate their own work force starting from day one.
Capitalism or socialism doesn’t define who must pay the education: the society, the industry or the individual.
It’s the same with the healthcare: there isn’t any rule that tells that either the society, the employer or the individual should be the one who pays for the health care. It could be also so that every industry should build their own hospitals and educate their own doctors - or so that the people, the work force, do it together. But it can also be regarded as a state’s investment in the economy so that the free work force remains available and capable on the market.
Many European (EU) countries regard free education also as an investment to the economy. There is skilled workforce available on the free labor market. The opposite solution could be for example that every industry would educate their own work force starting from day one.
Capitalism or socialism doesn’t define who must pay the education: the society, the industry or the individual.
It’s the same with the healthcare: there isn’t any rule that tells that either the society, the employer or the individual should be the one who pays for the health care. It could be also so that every industry should build their own hospitals and educate their own doctors - or so that the people, the work force, do it together. But it can also be regarded as a state’s investment in the economy so that the free work force remains available and capable on the market.
These
investments by the state are comparable with other investments in the
infrastructure and the functionality of the society. The state offers
some base for the free economy to thrive, like roads, security and so
on.
Socialism
is so abused and so
polymorphic concept that it’s hard to define simply. But in the basic
concept of socialism is about how the economic power is divided
between the capital and the labor.
It certainly has nothing to do with communism, which unfortunately many right-wing conservatives like to call socialism.
It certainly has nothing to do with communism, which unfortunately many right-wing conservatives like to call socialism.
.
The ultimate goal is a society that has stopped the domination of capital over the labor and where the labor has taken the domination on the production. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the state should own everything.
The ultimate goal is a society that has stopped the domination of capital over the labor and where the labor has taken the domination on the production. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the state should own everything.
Both of these functions can also be shared in different ways as long as it benefits the citizens and the country as a whole.
In
America the concept has become totally lopsided over the years. Today
about 3 % of the US population controls all the wealth in the country,
with corporations basically influencing all the decision making
processes of the political establishment.
August 24, 2018
USA: The 25th Amendment Could Doom Trump — And Mike Pence Would Play A Crucial Role - Seth Millstein
Yes indeed. Mike Pence could safe the Republican party from possible, if not certain defeat, in the
mid-term elections, and also "rehabilitate" the tarnished image of the
US Right-Wing Evangelical movement, by invoking the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution.
This is only feasible, if Pence is able to work a deal with his Republican party members in Congress and some Democrats to get 2/3 of the House in favor, to invoke this somewhat obscure 25th Amendment, whereby Trump would be declared mentally unfit to remain President and Pence would become President.
Read more: The 25th Amendment Could Doom Trump — And Mike Pence Would Play A Crucial Role
This is only feasible, if Pence is able to work a deal with his Republican party members in Congress and some Democrats to get 2/3 of the House in favor, to invoke this somewhat obscure 25th Amendment, whereby Trump would be declared mentally unfit to remain President and Pence would become President.
Read more: The 25th Amendment Could Doom Trump — And Mike Pence Would Play A Crucial Role
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USA: More dark clouds are gathering over Donald Trump's credibility as the President of the USA
Even though the US President is not openly showing much anguish over the
troubles surrounding his Presidency, it is becoming very apparent that
his credibility to govern the US is more and more in doubt.
Specially in light of the recent court verdicts against many of his close associates, and damaging daily press reports, including :
David Pecker, CEO of National Enquirer Publisher, Granted Immunity in Michael Cohen Case
Sessions hits back at Trump: DOJ won't be 'improperly influenced'
The only reason that Trump hasn’t been indicted is that he’s the president
Embattled Trump Startles Israel by Demanding 'Higher Price' for His Delusional Achievements on Jerusalem
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Specially in light of the recent court verdicts against many of his close associates, and damaging daily press reports, including :
David Pecker, CEO of National Enquirer Publisher, Granted Immunity in Michael Cohen Case
Sessions hits back at Trump: DOJ won't be 'improperly influenced'
The only reason that Trump hasn’t been indicted is that he’s the president
Embattled Trump Startles Israel by Demanding 'Higher Price' for His Delusional Achievements on Jerusalem
Bottom-line, this is not a pleasant time
in the history for the United States. Who would have thought that
after the Republican President Nixon was impeached, that another
Republican President possibly faces the same fate as Richard Nixon did and, as a consequence, had to resign on August 9, 1974.
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August 22, 2018
EU Parliament: Guy Verhofstadt calls Donald Trump ‘head alligator’ of the swamp – by Paul Dallison
Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the liberal ALDE group in the European
Parliament and a former Belgian prime minister, said on Twitter
Wednesday that Trump had promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington,
“but instead he created his own one and is acting as its head
alligator.”
He added that Trump’s presidency, “one in which values and integrity do not seem to count, is detrimental to people’s faith in democracy.”
Read more: Guy Verhofstadt calls Donald Trump ‘head alligator’ of the swamp – POLITICO
He added that Trump’s presidency, “one in which values and integrity do not seem to count, is detrimental to people’s faith in democracy.”
Read more: Guy Verhofstadt calls Donald Trump ‘head alligator’ of the swamp – POLITICO
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EU Commission,
EU Parliament,
Guy Verhofstadt,
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