International

Mr Poke Misspoke

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If the GOP elected a president who promised to take on DC, why does he keep poking members of his own administration, his Republican Congressional colleagues, and US allies? If Mr. Poke insists that he misspoke, then he misspoke once again.

Plenty of presidents have created chaos and commotion during their travels abroad, but none as much as POTUS has. Also, wait as Putin most likely recorded their conversation and will probably try to use it against him one day.

USA For Sale?

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Is the USA for sale, or has it already been sold right from under our eyes? As the resistance to POTUS continues to grow in communities across America, hundreds of thousands of people have protested Trump’s cutting the rights of many and more wil most likely continue demonstrating in cities across the nation.

Moreover, the resistance has reached the halls of Congress after Trump uses his jaw Mussolini-style, claiming that a new vision will govern our land called America first, but is it really more like Trump first?

Trump Torches

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In the past 3 months, @POTUS has reportedly managed to antagonize or piss off many international leaders and it appears that his shoot from the hip hits just keeps on coming. During 90 days of nuclear tough talk, Trump has upset friend and foe.

Are the leaders and the people of the following nations scratching their collective heads and wondering how it came to this?

A Rudy Awakening

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Is this @POTUS version for a theater of the absurd? How do you separate facts from fiction and news from views? Are Rudy and The Donald throwing everything out, including the kitchen sink to see if anything sticks? Is this a modern-day version of NO EXIT the 1944 existentialist play?

Lost Generation

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For the first time since the 1950's, when The Castro Brothers launched their Cuban Revolution, the communist island will no longer have a Castro leading it.

The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel and Raul Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of another Cuban dictator named Fulgencio Batista.

The new president is 57-year-old Miguel Diaz-Canel. He is the chosen leader of an unfulfilled generation finally coming to maturity after the Castro era.

Elected vs Selected

An unqualified individual can be elected without the popular vote. We have seen this time and again in our democracy. When someone is selected, it usually signifies they're the very best person available for the job.

Donald John Trump was born June 14, 1946, and 70 years later won the election while losing the popular vote. However, he currently is the 45th and current President of the United States. #POTUS has been in office since January 20, 2017. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and became famous by an NBC TV Show.

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Financial Markets Commentary

It was an event a year ago that presaged the biggest story of 2017’s fourth quarter. In October 2016, Australia’s Brighann Cotton sold 88 bales of cotton from their Texas affiliate to a client in China. It wasn’t carried out in a routine way by obtaining letters of credit from the relevant
banks in each country. That process has become prohibitively complex for all but the largest corporations who have their financing denied more often than not. Recently established international banking regulations require the banks issuing those letters to carry more of the risk

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Washington DC Follies

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You must be delusional if you really believe this is going to be a very happy new year. And it points all the way to King Lear, written by Shakespeare about a descent into madness after bequeathing to his kids based on their flattery of him, and thereby bringing tragic consequences for all. A man who prefers to use fear, but masters something more near and dear... GOLF?

Global Extinction

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Massive extinctions have taken place for millions of years, so long ago that life had time to start again from zero, leaving behind creatures that were lost forever in the transformations suffered by a young, inexpert and changing.

We are the most efficient agent of a phenomenon which is as old as life itself: the extinction of species. But we are becoming so efficient in our role as destroyers that, as we begin to understand the interdependent mechanisms of life on earth, we are realizing that perhaps our own activities could end up leading our species along the road to extinction.