Donald Trump, tired of threatening to invade Venezuela, nuke North Vietnam, or appoint Boris Johnson PM of GB, last week launched a new round of brinkmanship with the rulers of Iran.
What is he proposing to do? Can he do it?
US presidential circus episode 4
Two weeks ago in Michigan, a state that used to make America’scars, Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton in the state’s presidential primary -- which should have been huge news. As usual, the TV and print media led with the more hairy news – that Trump won Michigan’s Republican primary.
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Nope – it was already mad.
Americans are angry mad at the fact that the government – and the corporates who run it – have their sticky fingers in everything their citizens do and everything they think, and all the citizens get is another day older and deeper in debt.
And America is batshit crazy mad in that it doesn’t believe in global warming and diplomacy but does believe in angels, insurance agents charging $2,000/month per family to look after their health (not counting the costs of treatments), and it still believes it’s the best country on Earth.
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This article was also published on the Byron Echo as well as in the Sydney Morning Herald
Australia’s first pop music newspaper was a full-colour tabloid weekly calledGo-Set that launched in the first week of February 1966, exactly 50 years ago. At its peak it sold over 60,000 copies a week.
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