No kidding, we had a state-level investigation here in Arizona called AzScam (they got the idea from the ABSCAM investigation). Busting people was so incredibly easy, and so many people seemed willing to take bribes, that the undercover rat (who wrote a book on it) only focused on people he thought would be the easiest. He casually mentions at one point that he thought it would be pretty simple to bust Jan Brewer, who ended up being our governor, but he was already in so deep with so many other legislators.

Man, the publisher, and author asked not to share this online or pirate it. They are going to have massive legal fees fighting that poes Zuma and his cronnies about this book. Please for the love of ending corruption in SA, go and buy a digital copy.

That is from Peter Douche and his unpaid intern Pat

He makes fun of peter daou who was a consultant to HRC and attacked Bernie in 2016
https://www.amazon.com/Inconvenient-Douche-Parody/dp/1790986923

Jimmy Doore did a show on him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwPV1WaXVtk
Twitter Bans Progressive Parody Account @PeterDouche

He had an AMA right here at WOTB and I was so really enjoying it but I thought it was a reformed peter daou lol


:)

It seems to be on Amazon as well, if you're into Kindle reading like I am.

https://www.amazon.com/Presidents-Keepers-Those-keeping-prison-ebook/dp/B076YBL1WS

While Royko is very readable, it's his columns that really have the meat there. The columns get at the love/hate relationship, the real mixture of pride and disgust. He's also not a historian (for that, see American Pharaoh ). I'd recommend Rakove's We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent over it for understanding the Machine in general.

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I was just there last weekend; while there, a demonstration broke out in a Shi'a neighborhood during a funeral procession that resulted in the police moving in to crack skulls. I saw what looked like a Cobra attack helicopter (not sure whose, Saudi or Bahrani) circling the neighborhood for most of the afternoon while police and army units sealed it with barricades, barb wire, and armored police vehicles. My Bahraini taxi driver (Bahrain has a high proportion of taxi drivers that are nationals and many are Shi'a) said they were trying to bring down the prime minister.

In a bar, a man, quite drunk, came up to me and said "Saudi military here, everything ok" before stumbling off for the bathroom.

With the exception of the traffic around the conflict zones, Bahrain has settled into a weird tit-for-tat cycle of protest, arrest, protest, arrest with hardly any political movement. The government has given up trying to stop demonstrations entirely and tolerates a few, but keeps strict control of where they can and can't go, never allowing them into Manama. I saw Bahrani police in the city center carrying assault rifles with noise suppressors during a trip in February 2013, though this time they just carried shotguns in the touristy old city.

Bahrani media reports these demonstrations, but slag them off as violent terrorists. (http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/ is a local rag)

Internet remains heavily censored; anything about news in Bahrain is subject to restrictions, so when I did an Internet search about demonstrations I got blocked.

U.S. Embassy has frequent updates about demonstrations at: http://bahrain.usembassy.gov/demonstration.html

According to the most recent one, a "violent opposition group has called for countrywide demonstrations on March 8th." Bahrain is not big; it took me two hours to explore the place by car. These clashes will be intense and crowded.

Additionally, on Monday, a bomb went off killing three police, including an Emirati officer. Bombs are becoming more frequent; a week prior, another police officer was killed in a similar incident. (http://www.thenational.ae/uae/government/bahraini-delegation-visits-family-of-uae-martyr)

In Saudi Arabia, in the Shi'a village of Qatif, a smoldering uprising has been occurring since 2012. Qatif and Bahrain are not far from one another. Here's some video of protests there, but this is from 2011. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soEOxKxeux4). Chants of "Death to King Abdullah" are not uncommon in these protests. Saudi Arabia is terrified a Shi'a revolution in Bahrain would spread to their Eastern Province, where a majority of their oil is produced and exported.

As a long time resident of the Persian Gulf, I can attest to how much these governments are trying to keep a lid on Bahrain for fear a revolution there would lead to an explosion across the Gulf. Repression is more frequent; torture, more common, even in relatively 'liberal' places like Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

There are two great books on the region that document what's happening here (and what might happen), both written by long-time residents of the Gulf.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Sheikhs-Coming-Collapse-Monarchies/dp/184904189X

http://www.amazon.com/Sectarian-Gulf-Bahrain-Arabia-Stanford/dp/0804785732

Here is a link to the Kindle version of the book on Amazon.

>So, maybe it’s not just those pesky Russian Robots infiltrating our brains that are destroying our Democracy. It’s Corporate money – born and bred in the good ole USA. Sorry, baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie, but nothing is more American than big money shrinking great minds to small. I’d certainly recommend looking through Beth Lynchs’ masterful series on how this transformation occurred at MSNBC.

>The Democratic Party has now descended from a marketplace of ideas into a cult-of-personality. It’s not about ideas. These churn regularly. Democrats are passionate about people. The vision of Hillary Clinton as a divine infallible savior has taken over the party of small minds – long after her embarrassing loss to an asshole. This has broken down people I once respected, admired, and cared for- broken my heart. This lifelong Democrat is mourning the loss of intellect from Democratic Party circles:

>The moneyed interests know: While you can’t fix stupid, you can sure buy their votes!

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Wedged, a book that a friend of mine just wrote, which I think folks who are fans of both the Principle of Charity and making US political discourse less of a noisy mess.



In deciding to recommend it here, I did account for my bias in favor of friend.

Ah, got it. What's in it for me by Joseph Stedino. Looks like I was wrong it wasn't written recently.

I can recommend this book as worth reading for an answer to that question.

Original copy doesn't matter, remember? It's a 'living' document insomuch as it says what whatever a politician or judge wants it to say, ie
Hologram of Liberty

That's a really good question. Most of Chomsky's political books are on US foreign policy, not inequality. (Use caution when reading Chomsky.)

On inequality and politics, I think of there being two separate tracks: books by economic observers which talk about the rise of inequality since the 1970s, and books by political observers which talk about the breakdown of the American political system since the 1970s, including the dismantling of the social safety net.

Some suggestions:

George Packer, The Unwinding (2013). Review.

Roger L. Martin, Fixing the Game (2011). Interview. Martin traces sky-high CEO compensation back to the idea of maximizing "shareholder value" (i.e. the stock price), and in particular an influential 1979 paper on stock-based compensation. Also looks at similar winner-take-all ideas in other fields, like entertainment (Star Wars), sports, and hedge funds.

Anthony King, Running Scared: Why America's Politicians Campaign Too Much and Govern Too Little (1997). Essay that the book is based on. In the US, politicians have to spend a huge amount of time fund-raising instead of governing.

Rick Perlstein, Nixonland.

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Auditing-Other-Assurance-Services/dp/1259916987/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393624854/

https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Maribeth-Assistant-Professor-Geology/dp/1259929655/

https://www.amazon.com/Lone-Star-Politics-Tradition-Transformation-ebook/dp/B07C6JG56L

https://www.amazon.com/Lone-Star-Tarnished-Critical-Politics/dp/1138562696/

https://www.amazon.com/Examples-Explanations-Criminal-Richard-Singer-ebook/dp/B07CLGPC88

https://www.amazon.com/Basics-Public-Budgeting-Financial-Management/dp/0761869751/

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This is called the Zoo hypothesis. Here's a book about it. https://www.amazon.com/Exopolitics-Politics-Government-Law-Universe/dp/0973766301/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=exopolitics&qid=1555529665&s=gateway&sr=8-3

alright lets start with "Fragile States" http://www.amazon.com/Fragile-States-Lothar-Brock/dp/0745649424/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377563972&sr=1-1&keywords=fragile+states


Nice and early page 14, "A Failed or fragile state is characterized by "weak" governments, Civil unrest, socio economic breakdown, and general dysfunction of civil services."

The thing about negative ads is, sometimes you take flak for running them and they work anyway. Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella made this the central thesis of his book, Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics.

Martin was actually doing pretty badly at the point in 2004 when he ran that ad. Afterwards, things turned around and he pulled out the minority.

It didn't work out so well in 2006, mostly because of the anti-military ad. Anti-military ads with black text. In our cities. In Canada. I'm not making this up.

http://www.amazon.com/American-Government-Popular-Discontent-Stability/dp/0415893305 read this to know why trump has seen the success he has so far but also read political analysis on sites like 538 to find out just how unlikely a trump candidacy is, let alone a trump presidency.

Best seller on amazon already lol

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Presidents-Keepers-Those-keeping-prison-ebook/dp/B076YBL1WS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1509738955&sr=8-1&keywords=The+President%27s+Keepers

This book, recently published includes the history of Compulsory Voting in Australia.

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Ballot-Democracy-Sausage-Compulsory-ebook/dp/B07HP8VH1F/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Judith+Brett&qid=1554879015&s=books&sr=1-1

TLDR: we think it is great.

It’s funny how sometimes something that is wrong in principle or theory, works well in practice.

When that happens, there is something wrong with the principle or theory.

Right Send Our Reps to Rehab!

The truth is coming out soon.

Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G2T7359/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_kIvXBbEMPX8MD

SpyGate is the name given to the attempted coup of President Trump that is becoming public more and more each day. It's a very, very complicated topic but also probably more fascinating than any spy novel because it's not even believable how stupid, wreckless, and emotional the people involved were throughout.

I would suggest picking up a copy of Dan Bongino's book on the subject. It's pretty much the definitive book on the subject for anyone who is new to it, and even those who are well versed. Bongino is a former Secret Service agent who served under several Presidents as well as being a former NYPD officer. He so far has yet to be wrong about anything on this subject and he is about to publish his second book on it which I can't wait to read.

https://www.amazon.com/Spygate-Attempted-Sabotage-Donald-Trump/dp/B07HXKL3V3/

I'm more than happy to provide more information and sources if you're actually interested. This is going to go down in history as the biggest political scandal in America's entire history, by far.

Good thing downvoting won’t change reality. You folks are in for a rude awakening.

> you just made me feel really good about the apocalypse. I'm stealing your supplies first

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Just remember, We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent

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He doesn't have shit, if he had he would've released it BEFORE the midterms. He's hoping for a blue wave which is not coming because the figureheads of the left are all either incompetent, corrupt, or both. Meanwhile on the trump side of the court we have this. Also don't forget the real collusion.