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8:17 AM - 30 Oct 2017

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Predators come to believe their own fictions, writes Mike Brearley (cartoon by @mortenmorland) http://thetim.es/2A0R9W5

Tony Schwartz: The Truth About Trump | Oxford Union Q&A

 

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Announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination back in June
2015, Donald Trump stated "We need a leader that wrote 'The Art of the
Deal' ". 

Tony Schwartz was the ghostwriter of the book Trump calls 'his
proudest achievement'. 

Schwartz has been vocal about his regrets in
working on the piece, but, having worked intimately with Trump, provides
a fascinating perspective into the personality and idiosyncrasies of
the Republican nominee 

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The Hollow Men: What the end of the world looks like...

   

 

 

Bomb imagery is common in North Korea—shops sell commemorative intercontinental ballistic missile stamps http://on.wsj.com/2fvCTPL

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The Hollow Men: What the end of the world looks like...

What the end of the world looks like...

The Hollow Men

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
  Not with a bang but a whimper.

by T. S. Eliot Written 1925

 

David Cay Johnston, "The Making of Donald Trump"

http://www.politics-prose.com/book/97...

 

In his detailed account of Donald Trump’s astonishing political success,
Johnston, an award-winning New York Times investigative journalist and
currently a columnist for USA Today, looks closely at Trump’s business
practices, his associates, and his family background. Johnston sheds
light on many of Trump’s beliefs, delving into his father’s Ku Klux Klan
involvement and into Trump’s own ties with organized crime, as well as
laying out how Trump has actually managed real estate, run casinos, and
experienced numerous bankruptcies even while amassing huge wealth. 

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Lawrence: 'Stunned' By John Kelly's Attack On Rep. Frederica Wilson | Th...

 

While defending President Donald Trump's "brave" condolence call to a Gold Star family, Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly attacked Rep. Frederica Wilson, calling her an "empty barrel." Lawrence O'Donnell explains why Kelly was noble and cruel all at once.
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How Government Corruption is a Precursor to Extremism | Sarah Chayes

  

A former reporter, she covered the fall of the Taliban for NPR, then left journalism to remain in Kandahar in order to contribute to the reconstruction of the country, living there almost continuously since December 2001.



Deeply embedded in the life of the city and fluent in Pashtu, Chayes gained a unique perspective on the unfolding war.



 An expert on the dynamics of severe corruption, Sarah Chayes lived for most of a decade in Kandahar, Afghanistan, before serving as special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.



She now researches the role of corruption in driving security crises.



Chayes is a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program and the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment.



She is an expert in South Asia policy, kleptocracy and anticorruption, and civil-military relations.



 She is working on correlations between acute public corruption and the rise of militant extremism.



After running a nongovernmental organization founded by President Karzai’s brother Qayum, Chayes launched a manufacturing cooperative that produces skin-care products for export from licit local agriculture.



The goals were to help revive the region’s historic role in exporting fruit and its derivatives, promote sustainable development, and expand alternatives to the opium economy.

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Take a Knee

 

Trumpy Golfs while California Burns

 


Today, @realDonaldTrump is playing golf while 91% of Puerto Rico is still without power and 36% still don’t have running water.

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Observing @realDonaldTrump's all consuming jealousy of Obama must be fascinating for mental health pros, but it's killing the rest of us! 

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Once-secret C.I.A. memos displayed at a Santiago museum help “rewrite Chile’s contemporary history”

Patriotism means to stand by the country

 

" Patriotism means to stand by the country . It does not mean to stand by the President . "
--Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.

  

Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton on Duty to Warn: Trump’s “Relation to Rea...

https://democracynow.org - As Vanity Fair reports some of President Trump’s closest aides and advisers say he is “unstable” and “unraveling,” and that the White House is increasingly consumed by chaos, we speak with Robert Jay Lifton, a leading American psychiatrist and author of more than 20 books about the effects of nuclear war, terrorism and genocide.

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Donald Trump thinks he met the 'president of the Virgin Islands'. But th...

  

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trump unraveling

The Future Of The World Is Held In The Balance.

 

War is the death of workers for the safeguarding of the profits of the rich.

 

“Well done is better than well said.” –Benjamin Franklin

Trump is a negative indicator making this a good guy to follow:

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Throwing paper towels at Hurricane survivors is Trump's LET THEM EAT CAKE moment.

  

Throwing paper towels at Hurricane survivors is Trump's LET THEM EAT CAKE moment.
  

 
“I keep thinking we should put something in the constitution in case people elect a fucking moron” #nostradumbass

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Language Expert: Donald Trump's Way Of Speaking Is 'Oddly Adolescent'

 

 

Columbia University professor of linguistics John McWhorter joins to discuss the unique way Donald Trump speaks which is unlike any president America's had before.

 

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Patient Predaters (Opportunistic)

 

Vulture 

Zebra on the menu

Water Monitor 

Territorial hippo joins brawl between wildebeest and crocodile

Hyena carrying the severed head of a lioness

Trump Lies

Bye Bye Price

Trump busies himself spreading hatred

 

 

Hatred is blind, as well as love. -Oscar Wilde

To prioritise debt over emergency disaster relief is a sign of cruelty beyond bounds.

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A hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico in 1899, soon after it became a U.S. territory. Has the mainland’s rhetoric changed? https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-puerto-rico-needs-after-hurricane-maria …

Arianna Huffington‏Verified account @ariannahuff Sep 27

.@jelani9 on President Trump: