Blackwater ‘Prince Of Darkness’ Employing Spies To Infiltrate Liberal Groups. Somebody must have read a J. Edgar Hoover biography or two:
Erik Prince, the security contractor with close ties to the Trump administration, has in recent years helped recruit former American and British spies for secretive intelligence-gathering operations that included infiltrating Democratic congressional campaigns, labor organizations and other groups considered hostile to the Trump agenda, according to interviews and documents.
Both Project Veritas and Mr. Prince have ties to President Trump’s aides and family. Whether any Trump administration officials or advisers to the president were involved in the operations, even tacitly, is unclear. But the effort is a glimpse of a vigorous private campaign to try to undermine political groups or individuals perceived to be in opposition to Mr. Trump’s agenda.
BTW, Erik Prince’s sister is, wait for it, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. This administration is a criminal conspiracy, as is the Rethuglican Party that enables it. An absolute must-read.
How The Trump Administration Screwed Up The Coronavirus So Disastrously. Featuring Chris Coons’ college pal and hopeless incompetent Alex Azar. This had to happen in our Potrumpkin Village administration. There’s no ‘there’ there.
White House Overruled CDC On Urging Seniors Not To Fly. When everything is managed as a political PR exercise, even the most reasonable public policy initiatives must be quashed.
Speaking Of The CDC, The New Director Is A Quack. Cue The Parrot From Aladdin:
Is The Stock Market Just Another Bubble–About To Burst? Inspirational comment:
That’s not to say that great news for the stock market never matters for regular Americans. But when it does, it can be bad for most of us. The economic journalist Doug Henwood explains it straightforwardly: “The reason the stock market has done so well for all these years is precisely because the working class hasn’t.”
In the 36 years from the end of World War II to Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in January 1981, the median compensation for American workers almost doubled; it went up about 100 percent. Meanwhile, the return on the S&P 500 over that period (with dividends reinvested) was 700 percent.
In the 39 years since, the median compensation of workers has inched upwards perhaps 30 percent. But during this time the S&P has gone up over 2,100 percent — that is, three times what it did in the decades after World War II.
Guess I’ll just have to keep working…
Judge: Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Christiana Care Must Continue. I’m sure that Christiana would prefer for allegations that ‘the hospital system defrauded taxpayers by funneling Medicaid payments to independent doctors as kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals‘ would just go away. Not me, though.
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