Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2975

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Dow falls 300 points after Gary Cohn resigns
Gary Cohn's exit from the White House is setting off alarm bells on Wall Street.
The Dow opened down more than 300 points on Wednesday before recovering some of those losses. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were down about 0.5% each.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/investin...cohn/index.html

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https://bazonline.ch/leben/gesellschaft/.../story/11198335

«Das ganze Volk ist zu Recht beunruhigt über die grosse Zahl illegaler Einwanderer, die in unser Land strömen. Sie besetzen Jobs, die normalerweise von einheimischen Bürgern oder legalen Migranten ausgeübt werden; sie benützen die öffentlichen Dienste und bürden so unseren Steuerzahlern zusätzliche Lasten auf. Unsere Regierung will daher dazu übergehen, unsere Grenzen aggressiver zu sichern.

Eine Rekordzahl Grenzwächter wird abkommandiert werden, doppelt so viele kriminelle Ausländer als je zuvor ausgeschafft, hart gegen die Beschäftigung Illegaler durchgegriffen, Wohlfahrtsunterstützung für illegale Ausländer gestoppt werden. Und wir werden versuchen, das Tempo der Deportation illegaler, krimineller Ausländer noch mehr zu beschleunigen und die Identifikation illegaler ausländischer Angestellter effizienter zu machen. Wir sind eine Nation von Einwanderern, aber wir sind auch eine Nation des Gesetzes. Es ist für eine Nation von Einwanderern falsch und letztlich selbstzerstörerisch, einen Missbrauch der Migrationsgesetze zu erlauben, wie wir ihn in den letzten Jahren erlebt haben. Wir müssen mehr tun, um dies zu stoppen.»

Und von wem stammen diese Worte?

Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2976

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2975

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Dow falls 300 points after Gary Cohn resigns
Gary Cohn's exit from the White House is setting off alarm bells on Wall Street.
The Dow opened down more than 300 points on Wednesday before recovering some of those losses. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were down about 0.5% each.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/investin...cohn/index.html

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Cohn war gestern, heute ist Tillerson"

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“TRUMP WANTS THEM OUT OF THERE”: AFTER SWINGING THE AXE AT TILLERSON, TRUMP MULLS WHAT TO DO WITH MCMASTER, SESSIONS, JARED, AND IVANKA
With tariffs done, Trump’s sights are now on the Iran deal—and, possibly, the Russia investigation. “The president is finally realizing he is the president,” a former White House official told me. “He’s just making these decisions on his own.”

Speaking to reporters shortly after tweeting that he had replaced Tillerson at Foggy Bottom with hardline C.I.A. Director Mike Pompeo, Trump indicated he would soon move against his remaining antagonists, many of whom he appointed with glee, in the executive branch. “I’m really at a point where we’re getting very close to having the Cabinet and other things that I want,” he said.

Some of what’s driving Trump is a desire to surround himself with loyalists. But there are also high-stakes policy implications to Trump’s uninhibited management style. Sources said Trump fired Tillerson partly because Tillerson opposed Trump’s oft-stated desire to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal—Trump even mentioned their disagreement when speaking to the press. And three sources told me that the next official likely to go is National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, who, like Tillerson, had advocated for remaining in the deal.

Last Tuesday, Trump met with ultra-hawkish former U.N. ambassador John Bolton in the Oval Office to discuss a potential job offer. Bolton has for years argued that the United States should pre-emptively attack Tehran. In 2015, he wrote a New York Times op-ed headlined, “To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran,” and last month, he wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed outlining the legal case for a pre-emptive strike against North Korea. ...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/...ared-and-ivanka

Is Donald Trump a cult leader? Expert says he “fits the stereotypical profile”
Mind control expert Steven Hassan says a cult leader “wants everyone to merge into their definition of reality”

https://www.salon.com/2018/03/06/is-dona...4si2Gu0.twitter

Ein hervorragender Artikel von Eliot Cohen. Mit einer wunderbaren Analogie zu MacBeth. Aufhebenswert als Anleitung fuer die kommenden Vorgaenge

Team of Sycophants
Tillerson’s dismissal leaves the White House more than ever the conniving and dishonest court of an erratic, ill-informed, and willful monarch.

... The upshot of such an environment in the White House is that—again, with the honorable and quite possibly heroic exception of Mattis—it will become more than ever the conniving and dishonest court of an unpredictable, ill-informed, and willful monarch. The president will hear no forceful disagreements; he will not be contradicted; he will believe that his instincts and whims are invariably correct. Those around him may not be quite as honest in admitting their lack of integrity as Peter Navarro, the economic adviser who recently described his job as finding the data to support Trump’s instincts. To stay in favor, however, they will have to do as he does—and hope that the president will forget his really stupid or dangerous decisions while they undo the damage. The dangers of an executive branch run this way, with public groveling and private deceit the order of the day, are evident.

The president’s men (and few women) will also know that what happened to Tillerson could happen to them. That includes Mattis. That in turn means that when the time comes they will be all too happy to betray each other and the president himself. When the clouds finally gather around Macbeth, one of the discontented nobles observes: “Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach; Those he commands move only in command, nothing in love.” Such a moment awaits Trump, though unlike Shakespeare’s Scottish king, who is at least self-aware, he is incapable of understanding that. No band of brothers this: rather a mixture of wary scoundrels, opportunists, and very rare patriots who know that there can be no trust amongst each other or towards their leader. This too is a danger for when some serious test comes.

As one looks at those in and out of government who have either excused or attempted to ignore the president’s conduct, one notes only one figure who has not merely stood up to the president but in some measure thwarted him. It is someone who, like them, has pleased the president but unlike them has failed to be intimidated or even, in large measure, silenced by him. Indeed, it is someone who, unlike Sean Spicer or Michael Flynn or even Stephen Bannon, has successfully monetized an intimate association with the president.

That is, of course, the pornographic actress and director Stormy Daniels. She has demonstrated a sense of humor, shrewd judgment, and toughness. She has used the president’s own formidable skills at playing the lowest end of the television market against him. She has not been steamrollered by Trump’s flunkies.

It is a sad day for the country, however, when that sorry array of Republican elders, senior officials, hypocritical preachers, and compromised intellectuals demonstrate that they lack the gumption, or indeed the self-respect, of a trollop.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...tration/555617/

(Eliot Asher Cohen is an American political scientist. He was a counselor in the United States Department of State under Condoleezza Rice from 2007 to 2009.)

Riesen Skandal!!!

Per Verfassung findet alle 10 Jahre eine Volkszählung statt.
Diese ist unter anderem notwendig, um die Verteilung der Abgeordneten-mandate festzstellen.
Und nun?
Die Administration hatte die Chutzpe gehabt, die Frage nach der Staatsbürgerschaft wieder einzuführen, nachdem die frühere Regierung diese abgeschafft hatte.
Und jetzt laufen die Kalifornischen Demokraten Sturm.
Wer glaubt so ein Unsinn, dass man bei einer Volkszählung die für die Allocation von Mandaten maßgeblich, die Frage nach der Staatsbürgeschaft zulässig sein soll?

While Trump Deals With A Porn Star, Congress Passes Barack Obama's Budget.

While everyone else was gearing up for the Stormy Daniels fiasco, Barack Obama passed (for the most part) his budget last Friday.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/...etail=emaildkre

Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #2982

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Riesen Skandal!!!

Per Verfassung findet alle 10 Jahre eine Volkszählung statt.
Diese ist unter anderem notwendig, um die Verteilung der Abgeordneten-mandate festzstellen.
Und nun?
Die Administration hatte die Chutzpe gehabt, die Frage nach der Staatsbürgerschaft wieder einzuführen, nachdem die frühere Regierung diese abgeschafft hatte.
Und jetzt laufen die Kalifornischen Demokraten Sturm.
Wer glaubt so ein Unsinn, dass man bei einer Volkszählung die für die Allocation von Mandaten maßgeblich, die Frage nach der Staatsbürgeschaft zulässig sein soll?

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2983

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While Trump Deals With A Porn Star, Congress Passes Barack Obama's Budget.

While everyone else was gearing up for the Stormy Daniels fiasco, Barack Obama passed (for the most part) his budget last Friday.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/...etail=emaildkre

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https://bazonline.ch/ausland/amerika/ist.../story/18270946

Ist Trump das Opfer einer Verschwörung?
Die Russen-Untersuchung ist bloss die Spitze des Eisbergs in einem Komplott, glaubt Anwalt Joseph diGenova.

Stocks' Second-Quarter Start Is the Worst Since the Great Depression
If you feel like the second quarter began badly, you’d be right.

U.S. stocks had their worst April start since 1929, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The S&P 500 index slumped 2.2 percent, a rout exceeded only by its 2.5 percent decline 89 years ago, a prelude to the devastating crash later that year that brought on the Great Depression.

China’s retaliatory trade tariffs combined with President Donald Trump’s criticism of Amazon.com Inc. to send equities into a tailspin Monday. Shares in the online retailer tumbled, encouraging a sell-off in consumer discretionary and technology stocks. The S&P 500 closed below its 200-day moving average -- a key technical support -- and volatility climbed.

The stock slide also looked pretty bad when compared to the beginning of other quarters. Equities lost more than on any other quarterly first day since October 2011, when stocks plummeted 2.8 percent, Bloomberg data show.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...reat-depression

Trump’s trade war with China is unwinnable
China just slapped some fresh tariffs on U.S. goods in response to Trump levying ones on their steel and aluminum exports. But where is this going?

In response to President Donald Trump’s approval of higher duties on Chinese steel and aluminum last month, Beijing on Sunday raised import duties on some U.S. goods by $3 billion. And by midday Monday, the Washington Post reported that the markets had taken a hit: The Dow Jones industrial average had dropped 2.4 percent (580 points), The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index slid 2.6 percent, and the Nasdaq was down 2.9 percent.

Although China’s move is unlikely to do significant damage to its $150 billion in annual U.S. imports, it will likely affect agricultural states in the United States (whose products represent $20 billion of those imported by China and are viewed as Trump’s base), as the targeted goods include pork, apples, and sparkling wine, reports the Associated Press.
https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-tariff-...a-705d3093c78a/

"If you think all of that happened by accident, then you are the idiot, not Trump."

http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opin...north-korea-and

Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #2989

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"If you think all of that happened by accident, then you are the idiot, not Trump."

http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opin...north-korea-and

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California Crops Rot as Immigration Crackdown Creates Farmworker Shortage
Vegetable prices may be going up soon, as a shortage of migrant workers is resulting in lost crops in California.

Farmers say they’re having trouble hiring enough people to work during harvest season, causing some crops to rot before they can be picked. Already, the situation has triggered losses of more than $13 million in two California counties alone, according to NBC News.

The ongoing battle about U.S. immigration policies is blamed for the shortage. The vast majority of California’s farm workers are foreign born, with many coming from Mexico. However, the PEW Research Center reports more Mexicans are leaving the U.S. than coming here.
http://fortune.com/2017/08/08/immigratio...-rotting-crops/

The Conspiracy Theory That Says Trump Is a Genius
Last week Roseanne Barr — who, with the hit reboot of her show, has become one of the most prominent Donald Trump supporters in the country — tweeted that the president has freed hundreds of children a month from sexual bondage. “He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere,” she wrote. (The tweet has since been deleted.)

Barr’s tweet, puzzling to the casual observer, was a reference to QAnon, an expansive, complicated pro-Trump conspiracy theory. The theory is fascinating as an artifact of our current political derangement, but more than that, it’s profoundly revealing about the lengths to which some Trump supporters will go to convince themselves that his presidency is going well. ...

... From these clues, a sprawling community on message boards, YouTube videos and Twitter accounts has elaborated an enormous, ever-mutating fantasy narrative about the Trump presidency. In the QAnon reality, Trump only pretended to collude with Russia in order to create a pretext for the hiring of Robert Mueller, the special counsel, who is actually working with Trump to take down an inconceivably evil and powerful network of coup-plotters and child sex traffickers that includes Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and George Soros....

... You don’t create a wild fantasy about your leader being a covert genius unless you understand that to most people, he looks like something quite different. You don’t need an occult story about how your side is secretly winning if it’s actually winning. Publicly, many right-wing politicians and pundits disdain the Mueller investigation and pretend to believe that Trump’s ties to Russia are negligible. But among part of the Trump base, the effort to explain them away appears to be creating psychic strain. ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opini...acy-theory.html

Das ist Fuehrer Wahnsinn -all over again.

Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #2985

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2983

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While Trump Deals With A Porn Star, Congress Passes Barack Obama's Budget.

While everyone else was gearing up for the Stormy Daniels fiasco, Barack Obama passed (for the most part) his budget last Friday.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/...etail=emaildkre

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Die Boulevard-Presse (CNN) kümmert sich tatsächlich um one night stands.

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2993

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wie die bigotte US-Rechte.

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2994

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2993

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wie die bigotte US-Rechte.

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Die Linke ist nicht minder bigott.

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Eine prinzipienlose Bande:
Pompeo asks Clinton for advice as he preps for confirmation battle
The secretary of state nominee, who trashed his Democratic predecessor over Benghazi, isn’t taking any Senate votes for granted.

As a sharply partisan Republican member of Congress, CIA Director Mike Pompeo tormented former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her response to the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, which Pompeo called “morally reprehensible.” He also once liked a tweet that branded her successor, John Kerry, a “traitor.”

But now that Pompeo faces a tough confirmation process to become secretary of state himself, he has reached out to Clinton and Kerry, as well as every other living occupant of the office, to ask for guidance. Clinton, for one, has been willing to help.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/1...-clinton-512155

Eine korrupte Bande:
An Internal Email Contradicts Scott Pruitt's Account of Controversial Raises
The EPA administrator has said he “didn’t know” about unusual salary bumps given to a pair of trusted aides, but a message from one of those staffers claims otherwise.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...-raises/557561/

Diktatoriale Mob Methoden:
Trump’s company is now threatening the president of Panama
The Trump Organization demanded that he intervene in a private business dispute — or pay the consequences.

Trump Organization lawyers wrote a letter to Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela requesting his “influence” in a private business dispute in Panama and implied that his government could pay consequences if he didn’t intervene.

The February letter serves as a vivid reminder of how President Trump’s global business holdings are a natural breeding ground for potential corruption — and of how Trump could theoretically work to enrich himself or his family by exploiting his power as president.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/4/9/17216...nflict-interest

Feds Are Treating Michael Cohen Like a Mob Lawyer, Trump Allies Say
Lawyers don’t usually get their offices raided—unless they’re (allegedly) in on the crime, too.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are treating Michael Cohen like he’s a lawyer for the mob. That’s how seasoned white collar defense attorneys describe the raid on Cohen’s office, home, and hotel room conducted on April 9.

Cohen is President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney. The news that FBI agents raided his office appeared to leave the president shaken, and he told a pool spray of reporters a few hours after it broke that he was now considering firing special counsel Bob Mueller. The raid was handled by the Southern District of New York, not Mueller’s office.

Lawyers told The Daily Beast that raiding lawyers’ offices isn’t unheard of—but is generally used for lawyers who work with alleged members of organized crime, or for lawyers who are involved themselves in elaborate criminal schemes.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-are-t...rump-allies-say

Ein Anwalt bei CNN oder MSNBC fuehrte gestern Abend aus, dass er in seiner langjaehrigen Beruferfahrung nur eine handvoll Faelle erlebt habe, wo Anwaelte selbst in die Untersuchung gerieten. Und ausnahmslos in allen Faellen landete der besagte Anwalt im Gefaengnis.
Das verheisst nichts gutes fuer Cohen. Im Klartext: Die haben ihn am Arsch -big time.

Und womoeglich faengt der nun auch noch an zu singen wie eine Lerche, um die Konsequenzen fuer sich zu minimieren. Das wiederum verheisst nicht gutes fuer Baron von Trumpfhausen.und seine Sippe.

Der Kommentar von Rick Wilson is lesenswert. Er haelt mit nichts zurueck:
FBI Raid on Michael Cohen Is the Most Dangerous Day of Donald Trump’s Life
The president’s low-rent Ray Donovan can bully porn stars, but not Robert Mueller. The shtick is up.

Monday’s FBI raids on Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, his hotel room, and his home all provided a proper dose of comeuppance to a man more accustomed to screaming threats, shit-tier legal theorizing, and putting his strip-mall law degree to work in service of Donald Trump.
Cohen, far from being the superlawyer to a billionaire real-estate tycoon, really only has one important job: covering up Trump’s alleged dalliances. It was Cohen batting cleanup, dealing with an army of models, escorts, Mistresses (large “M” and small “m”), actresses, porn stars, models, Real Dolls, fangirls, groupies, and random topiary at Mar-a-Delicto with a wall of nondisclosure agreements. Master of the NDA, Cohen thought attorney-client privilege would protect him.
He forgot he had a fool for a client. Trump couldn’t shut his mouth on Air Force One last week. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-raid-o...life?ref=scroll

Ein Excerpt:
"...Suddenly, Michael Cohen, the bag-walking, dick-swinging swagger-monkey wannabe thug attorney and consigliere for Donald Trump’s far-flung penile enterprises is scared. If Cohen had a lump of coal in his ass the moment those search warrants arrived, he could have popped out a diamond. He realizes how deep this hole can become if he doesn’t roll over. He doesn’t have the resources to defend himself, and Trump isn’t exactly known for paying his bills in the first place. Cohen is scared, and he’s not alone.

What has to strike absolute terror into Trump at this moment is the fact that the Southern District of New York, acting on a referral from Robert Mueller, was able to obtain extraordinarily broad authority and was granted search warrants that may even penetrate attorney-client privilege.
Trump must know this may be one of the most dangerous moments in his entire life, not just his presidency. The likelihood is that Mueller and the FBI are now in possession of the Black Books of Trump, NDAs from enough of Trump’s various affairs that you can staff a 12-pole strip club with plenty of girls left for the Champagne rooms. ..."

Rick Wilson is a Republican political strategist and media consultant.