Best us national government books according to redditors
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We found 168 Reddit comments discussing the best us national government books. We ranked the 53 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Well one may mistake you for a terrorist one day... So if you dont give a shit about other people maybe you should give a shit about your self.
Or at the very least read a fucking book: https://www.amazon.de/Senate-Intelligence-Committee-Report-Torture/dp/1612194850
E: You cant even excuse yourself as to poor to buy the book here is a pdf: https://www.amnestyusa.org/pdfs/sscistudy1.pdf
There’s a book about the CIA is Organized Crime.
https://www.amazon.com/CIA-Organized-Crime-Illegal-Operations/dp/0997287012/ref=nodl_
I'm not quite done with it yet, but I was listening to Clinton Cash over the weekend. In addition to this, they raise the question of why all of these foreign entities need to funnel money through the Clinton Foundation at all rather than simply donating the money to local charities.
I'm only on chapter 7 or 8 so far, but they also discuss how much the Clintons' income for speeches increased during Hillary's tenure as SoS and how she used a special rule that had previously been used to employ experts like scientists to allow operatives to work for the State Department and the Clinton Foundation simultaneously.
It's pretty disgusting. It's as nakedly corrupt as you could possibly want without a full-throated admission of guilt. This is the Clintons' stock in trade. I cannot fathom how all of the liberals who bitched about the war crimes of the Bush administration and the foul influence of money in politics (typically vis a vis the Koch brothers) can possibly support this woman. If I had to dream up a character that embodied corruption I would never be able to supply you with a sketch more on the nose than Hillary Clinton.
I think Scott Adams is right. The only thing potentially stopping Trump is the "crazy racist" charge. If he can neutralize that, he wins in a landslide. There's simply no reason to support Hillary Clinton on the merits and a mountain of objective reasons to oppose her every holding any public office ever again.
So, What are the qualifications of the guy in your video? Er, None. So, we're back at the same situation - to throw out what I put forward, you throw out your own evidence for the same reasons.
And he's not the expert. The guy in the video is John Woodman, and the Expert I cited is Jean-Claude Tremblay, a French-canadian graphic designer, instructor on Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe-certified expert.
And yes! Well spotted - John Woodman wrote a book. Specifically, a book on how the birther conspiracy is bullshit, that unlike your arguments, is well sourced, well referenced, and so far, has yet to be proven inaccurate by birthers like yourself, nor has it been criticized by any reputable source. Well, except in your own minds, I guess, but let's face it, some people will believe any stupid old thing.
So basically, the only "Weak" part is your reading comprehension skills.
Speaking of which, all you had this time were two classic Ad hominem attacks, and no further arguments. That reek of desperation you're smelling, I think you may want to check yourself for the stench, before accusing others. Be careful, though, you might faint from the strength of it.
But, Congratulations, you got ONE point correct I had my year wrong. The Birther conspiracy idiocy has been going since 2008, not 2009, mea culpa. The long form birth certificate theories that analyze it are from April 2011, yeah, because before that you'd have been screaming that it doesn't exist, the previous conspiracy theory that proved to be untrue. So, you've had Twelve months to come up with a coherent and well evidenced argument about the long-form certificate. Still not an argument in your favor, even with the shorter time-scale.
However, I grant you - I should have been much more specific, rather than just going "Birthers have been failing for a long time", rather than "Birthers have been failing on this particular point for twelve months." Again, Mea Culpa, I did make a mistake. But not one that really strengthens your birther nonsense, nor that weakens my position, so really a token victory, but in your position, I'd advise you take what petty, token victories you can get.
Unity comes when people within the party know their leader cares for them.
Do you honestly think that Hillary (and Bill) Clinton care about you AT ALL?
Reality check: SHE DOESN'T. (AND HE DOESN'T.)
She'll do whatever to make it SEEM like she cares, but SHE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT US (99% of Americans).
She's in this presidential election to win so her rich donors can get their federal appointments on boards and commissions and their interests lobbied and heard in DC, and implement laws that will ONLY benefit them.
Hillary Clinton is a puppet that's being manipulated by corporate interests.
ie. Clinton Cash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LYRUOd_QoM
https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369296/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469736845&sr=8-1&keywords=clinton+cash
If it comes down to Trump and Hillary, I am NOT voting for the lesser of the two evils that are Trump and Hillary.
Progress will only be made with someone like Jill Stein of the Green Party, who shares the most similar values and beliefs as those of Bernie Sanders.
If you are a true Bernie Sanders supporter, you would vote for Green Party's Jill Stein in 2016.
The only reason Bernie endorsed Hillary is to save his political career.
If Bernie had held out until the very end and refused to endorse Hillary at the Democratic National Convention, then establishment Democratic politicians would not like him, and this would further impede his influence and progress in the Senate, where establishment Democrats make up a good amount of the Senate seats.
So the next best thing we can do is to elect progressive leaders to Congress to impede Trump or Hillary from furthering their top 1% interests and fighting for the 99% (the American people).
No the famine was not planned by Mao, but it was a direct result of his regime. You realise there was food available, but people were only able to purchase it through the black market.
Fascism is no better than communism, however I do need to correct you. Nazism revolves around racism. Not all fascism is Nazism, but all Nazism is fascism.
Capitalism is an economic system not a government system. You would have to pair Capitalism against Maxism not Communism. The argument is that Democracy is better than Communism.
Yeah, the US government sucks a lot, but the conditions of US prisons are much better than the conditions of Gulags. Yes, most of the people sent to the Gulags were guilty, but the question is should the law have been in place to begin with? Should someone be thrown in a concentration camp for speaking out against the government. If you think the Gulags were any better than concentration camps You should read the gulag archipelago. It is written by a survivor of the gulags.
This bill board doesn't even argue against marxism in the form of 1st world left wing politics. It is argueing against traditional communism.
What is your opinion on North Korea, which is the only communist regime left?
As for your last point that capitalism kills far more than communism. I think there is a difference between not saving someone and killing them. The Communism death toll is calculated by totalling the number of people that were killed via direct government action. The capitalism one just counts all the deaths. Again, that isn't even the right argument because capitalism is not a form of government, but an economic theory. (Which no nation in the world embrasses to it's full extent. Most economies are somewhere in between marxism and capitalism.) The real argument is Democracy vs Communism, that's what the cold war was about. Democracy works much better than Communism and does not kill anywhere near as many people. The reason people put capitalism up against Communism is because it's much easier to make an argument that way. Even though it's not logically consistent.
Now I know this is heading in the direction of an internet argument where people just say shit and no one really wins. I'll leave a couple book recommendations below, and I would really appreciate it if you left me some book recommendations that you think would help me learn. I believe that we should always be challenging our personal beliefs, and I have an audible credit so I'm more than willing to listen to one of your suggestions. Let's make something positive come out of this. I don't want it to just be a digital shouting match.
Battlefield America
Gulag Archipelago
For a New Liberty
I hope sharing this doesn't piss you off too much. I know political discord can easily make people, myself included, mad. I hope you have a good day, and I'm serious about leaving me some links. I'll check them out. Thanks for your imput and feel free to challenge me back. If my view is right then it should be able to take criticism, right?
Stellar Wind called for the very Utah data center the NSA is in the process of finishing. Not closing. Not turning into a warehouse for outdated office equipment. Nor is the government re-purposing all the storage and computing power for some serious online gaming.
The Program is now called Ragtime or Ragtime-P. Status is operational. As is X-Keyscore. This may have been a redesign of Stellar Wind to meet metadata provisions put forth by Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.
== Source ==
Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry Details Ragtime-A US-based interception of all foreign-to-foreign, Ragtime-B intercepts from foreign governments that transits through the US, Ragtime-C counterproliferation actvities and Ragtime-P which is all domestic.
Elliot Spitzer's use of prostitutes, General Petraeus or just mundane chit-chat that has not been flagged. Not PRISM alone, it's Ragtime.
>Faulk described the personal nature of many of the calls, and how he and his colleagues would encourage each other to listen into a call where “there’s good phone sex” or “some colonel making pillow talk.”
Charles Ortel is a member of the Coalition of Concerned Citizens, which recently published The Betrayal Papers. From the Amazon page:
>While the Muslim Brotherhood’s goal is a worldwide Islamic State (aka, Caliphate), it has established influence over the highest levels of American government.
Charles Ortel is a foaming whack job.
I only just realised, the Police plot
Madina: "The CIA committed torture!"
CIA/DHS/Police: "do you have evidence?"
Errrm: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Senate-Intelligence-Committee-Report-Torture/dp/1612194850
Here is where all of the "proof" comes from
>She already did stuff - its well documented. In fact, there is a book about it.
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>https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369296
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>Liberals don't care about it.
Because it's plain and simply put not true. There's not a good damn thing about any of those claims that has been verified. At all.
>The biggest threat facing our country is globalism and that is why Trump literally saved our country.
Globalism is what made America rich.
You don't honestly think we did this by ourselves, do you?
yes. read his book "A Nation of Sheep".. it has a lot of examples of how the Bush administration helped erode rights and liberties through things like The Patriot Act. He was on FOX attacking Bush in '07.. and on the radio attacking him for years before that.
The issues he details in his books haven't changed much since Obama took office, and it's interesting to see a Judge spell out clearly how the federal government has overstepped its bounds.
Torture doesn't work.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Senate-Intelligence-Committee-Report-Torture/dp/1612194850/
Gore gave a speech opposing the Iraq War in 2002. He was criticized and ridiculed, predictably—but nothing close to this. (Turned out to be right, as we know.)
He also later wrote a great book, the Assault on Reason, which served as his comprehensive criticism of the Bush Administration and diagnosis of the main ailments of our political system and civil society. It's spot on—and much of it is just or even more applicable to the Trump Regime.
Gore also remained active in the Democratic Party—not just climate change activism. He was a prominent endorser of Howard Dean and President Obama.
He may not have run for office again. But I'd hardly call this "bowing out" of politics.
I eagerly wait their reply. The movie was narrated and based on the book Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. I mean the title sounds like the book has already made up the author's mind, and I guess it has... I have not read the book, but it is on my list now. I'd like to see the counterpoints, but the way it is portrayed in the video, the evidence is pretty damning.
Most of the situations the film covers involve the Clinton Foundation or Bill Clinton getting massive speaking fees from foreign countries or businessmen who have an issue being debated by the State Dept. and soon after a check arrives, they get an agreement approved. It's A LOT of that. As the author states in the film: one or two times...OK, maybe coincidence, but it seems to happen A LOT. Beyond that, the deals she agrees to are part and parcel against the progressive values she spews out of her mouth (i.e. human rights, woman's rights, environment, etc.) ....all things she claims she fights for but then proffers favors for shady characters in exchange for cold hard cash.
Also read http://www.amazon.com/Limits-Power-End-American-Exceptionalism/dp/0805088156
Muslim brotherhood has deep infiltration in our government, as explained extensively in the whistleblower book, See Something, Say Nothing. I believe Pakistan, Saudi, and Iran (Valerie Jarrett for example) agents all unify their mission through the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, MSA, etc.
This is probably why Wasserman-Schultz is also pushing the diversity angle as hard as she is too in the clip. Tommy Robinson did a great job explaining how radicals work hard to infiltrate police and prison positions to further their cause.
We need to wake up. Diversity should not include allowing subversive elements who want to destroy America. I don't care what your race is. McCarthy was right before - the Rosenberg's stole and distributed America's nuclear intellectual property and since then the blueprints for nuclear holocaust have been sold around the world. We are in deep shit if we don't end this now.
America is going to have a hard time doing it again, honestly. It definitely can't do whatever it wants. Those days are over and there's even a book about that.
https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Power-American-Exceptionalism-Project/dp/0805090169
If I was McConnell I'd been very worried.
Read the book Secret Empires, he's just as dirty
Thought I would share the guys book. He knows more about the high tech and the low tech neo-fascist Police State that is America, than anyone else that I know of. I hate what has become of this rotting piece of shit warmongering country. It's tearing me apart. We are the brainwashed Evil Empire. We do more harm and killing and destroying than the rest of the countries in the world combined.
Even the fucking Nazis didn’t make women remove their clothes in public after a traffic stop so they could stick their fingers into their vaginas while they check for drugs. The United States is fucking insane, and Donny Trump is leading the charge.
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Battlefield America: The War On The American People
“This follow-up to Whitehead’s award-winning A Government of Wolves, is a brutal critique of an America on the verge of destroying the very freedoms that define it. Hands up!—the police state has arrived.”
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590793099/counterpunchmaga
Here's the opinion from a few experts who have written books on it.
Kurt Eichenwald
500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D1G86BU/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8
http://vanityfair.com/online/eichenwald/2013/06/prism-isnt-data-mining-NSA-scandal
>Now, anyone who discusses this process without also mentioning minimization procedures is also either very uninformed or intentionally hyping the story. Minimization is a term of art in the world of NSA intercepts which essentially means “stay out of American citizen’s business.” If information about specific Americans (or even foreigners inside the United States) is captured, those details must be removed from all records and cannot be shared with any other entity in the government unless it is necessary to understand and interpret related foreign intelligence or to protect lives from criminal threats. But passing intelligence information to criminal investigators requires several layers of review and is not easily approved; minimization procedures are meant to insure that information collected by the NSA isn’t used in routine criminal investigations.
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/347888405981569025
>Sigh. These last 2 stories have been little more than boilerplate recitation of Sec 702. I doubt ill persuade u, but so be it... are anonymized, meaning the info has been run through an algorithm that spits out an anonymous designator, such as XDSVC...
Marc Anbinder
Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1118146689/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8
https://twitter.com/marcambinder/status/348144189378281472
>as I said, I think the programs are good. Transparency by/ trust in USG lacking
Joshua Foust
http://prospect.org/article/three-guiding-principles-nsa-reform
>Yet, to even begin the discussion of reform, we have to grapple with why things got to where they are. One document published in the Guardian shows a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court order for Verizon, the telecommunications giant, to hand over phone metadata (telephone numbers, call length, and location). The Supreme Court ruled in 1979 that the Fourth Amendment does not protect such metadata. Similarly, the PRISM data-mining program, which automates access to Internet company databases, was, misreporting aside, publicly discussed as a software platform used by the military and intelligence community for many years
http://joshuafoust.com/can-the-nsa-search-for-americans-who-knows
>The Committee report says the IC and DOJ requested additional queries authorities, which the Committee considered then rejected while studies of existing capabilities were finished. While Marcy is correct that this passage shows the Intelligence Community requested the ability to search on this data, the text of the report also shows that the Committee rejected that request and made the Intelligence Community and Department of Justice reaffirm that any queries adhere to the letter of the law and not circumvent “the general requirement to obtain a court order.
Bob Cesca
http://bobcesca.thedailybanter.com/blog-archives/2013/06/greenwalds-latest-snowden-leak.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=greenwalds-latest-snowden-leak
>But here’s the most revealing part of Greenwald’s article: the program was stopped by the Obama administration in 2011. As Charles Johnson tweeted yesterday, the article’s headline could actually be “Obama discontinued NSA email program started under Bush.”
>Furthermore, Greenwald wrote: “It did not include the content of emails.” The NSA only collected metadata, authorized by bulk FISA court warrants. The program, like everything else, sought overseas communications, and those communications might have inadvertently included some data from US persons connected with the overseas emails. And, again, reminder: any data from US persons that’s inadvertently collected is anonymized, encrypted and destroyed. It’s only decrypted with an individual warrant.
And from the comments of the last:
>Just before that article went up, Glenn and Ackermann had another one go up, "How the NSA is still harvesting your online data". Now when you read that you instantly think any email we send here in the U.S. is going to the NSA. Well there's nothing but speculation in that article about that, but the kicker they are focusing on is that the NSA bragged about processing their "trillionth" piece of metadata in 2012. In 2009 it was estimated the 294 billion emails were sent globally every single day, so that trillion is hardly anything, when you consider that 294 billion per day translates to about 90 trillion PER YEAR.
Another Edit:
Just found a great AMA!
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1h6r3v/iama_former_nsa_agent_turned_educatorauthor_amaa/
Also FYI I have posted this comment multiple times because I think there is a lot of misinformation out there.
Disclosure I also work on the helpdesk for a gov agency that is no way affiliated with anything military etc....
https://www.amazon.de/Senate-Intelligence-Committee-Report-Torture/dp/1612194850
You can buy it on amazon
I have no idea how you managed to get that from that presentation.
Quote: "“Instead of targeting terrorists engaged in true threats, the government has turned ordinary citizens into potential terrorists, so that if we dare say the wrong thing in a phone call, letter, email or on the internet, especially social media, we end up investigated, charged and possibly jailed,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “This criminalization of free speech, which is exactly what the government’s prosecution of those who say the ‘wrong’ thing using an electronic medium amounts to, is at the heart of every case that wrestles with where the government can draw the line when it comes to expressive speech that is protected as opposed to speech that could be interpreted as connoting a criminal intent.”"
It's a bit comforting to see a sane voice of reason amidst the insanity of the current anti-terrorism climate. The governments of the world dont need world war anymore. They can directly turn on common citizens, strip them of rights, torture and brainwash them, and deport them to a warzone where they will be hunted and killed by drones.
Mad Max has nothing on this plot.
There was.
http://www.amazon.com/Senate-Intelligence-Committee-Report-Torture/dp/1612194850
Follow the money. The Clintons have hundreds of millions from Russia but they just seem to get a pass.
If you really want to know about our role in torture you could read the complete Senate report on it
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1612194850/ref=oh_aui_i_sh_in_o0_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Don't worry, ex-Sheriff Joe "I Already Run a Concentration Camp" Arpaio did a totally legit, top to bottom investigation, and found all the proof they needed to show Soetoro was indeed born in Africa. And for $8.99 you can purchase the results yourself. Warning, they're so underwhelming even birthers didn't buy it, and their findings of this "new" investigation were basically a transcript of a 2-hour press conference that attention whore Arpaio had on the subject.
Are you serious? His first book, the one that got him into journalism was a screed against the excesses of the Bush presidency.
Thanks for the comment, very interesting stuff. Like all these other comments it's making me really look forward to reading the rest of Against the Day.
In general I am the same in that I don't generally feel the need to discuss it, and forums like these are incredibly restrictive for such things. My thinking with this post and the other I did was to give people who haven't read his stuff much a bit of a starting point and save them some time -- it took me five reads of Gravity's Rainbow before I felt I really had a decent understanding of what's going on, let alone the surrounding material/psychoanalysis/science/history, and I'm very aware that most people don't have anything like the time to do that.
It's the political/historical importance of some of his work that makes me feel most obliged to make these posts (hence my username) because I think too many people, especially somewhat complacent critics who write the reviews, are far too quick to say "conspiracy theory" without delving fully into some of the really nasty and real history it refers too. Of course his use of things like Hollow Earth/UFOs/Atlantis is a little different, but I do think it's crucially important for people to read and spread proper history books like The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government or The CIA as Organized Crime not only to help them understand Pynchon's work better, but also actually do their bit in doing something about the bad stuff going on in the world.
After all that term "conspiracy theory" was heavily promoted by the CIA to begin with, it's the definition of a weaponised term, and I think the more we can get away from phrases like that the better (not saying we should accept ridiculous lizard people stuff or anything of course).
Along with the Byron the Bulb stuff in GR, there's some little bit in Bleeding Edge about "secret anarchist code messages" and later on, the Global Consciousness Project. And I think people are generally becoming more conscious of all this hidden history. Though perhaps this is just a way for me to rationalise spending so much time reading him, by convincing myself that it's politically useful.
I've rambled as well. Here are the rest of the letters in that set, since you liked that one. It was a collection someone posted on 4chan a while ago as I recall.
https://imgur.com/r/ThomasPynchon/P1Cwr
FWIW my post was mostly a synopsis of this book:
The Limits of Power
I read it in 2008 before the "Financial Crisis". It probably had a lot more impact back then because it predicted the mess we're in now before it was common knowledge - I'm always impressed by books that predict the immediate future.
It's still worth reading IMO.
One of the most interesting aspects of this book is that the author is a self-proclaimed conservative who vilifies Reagan as a "Fraud Conservative".
He makes a very convincing case that so many of the problems we have today are due to the fact that Republicans talk like fiscal conservatives but spend like drunken sailors.
In other words, fiscal conservatism is scientifically and historically the most defensible aspect of conservative ideology.
And it is precisely this aspect of conservatism that modern "conservatives" militantly ignore.
The FBI was tipped off by a (NYT bestselling) book?
Ok. That explains a lot
If you have not read it yet and is interested, The Senate Intelligence Commitee Report on Torture is worth reading.
You can read all about it here
Here's a good book to start with.
Edit: The only thing people can say is "hur dur right wing" because facts and morals do not matter to these scumbags.
Al Gore's book on the topic is quite good.
http://www.amazon.com/Assault-Reason-Al-Gore/dp/1594201226
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/us/politics/hillary-clinton-told-fbi-colin-powell-advised-her-to-use-private-email.html?_r=0
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-25/clinton-silsby-trafficking-scandal-and-how-media-attempted-ignorecover-it
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/hillary-clinton-emails-bleachbit-227425
https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses-ebook/dp/B01GZS3A02/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493865180&sr=8-1&keywords=clinton+cash
Andrew Bacevich The Limits of Power. A blunt, concise, and brilliant look at American imperialism from the mid-20th century until now. I would vote for this guy as a presidential candidate regardless of party.
>How could changing the outcome of an election not lead to impeachment?
Putin probably cannot be impeached
>Hillary Clinton would have won 2016 had the Russians not intervened.
and asked Hillary to sell them the uranium which was exposed in
Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich
which helped Trump win
Well, we found bin Laden so I'd say that it wasn't a failure.
There's a whole report on it:
https://www.amazon.com/Senate-Intelligence-Committee-Report-Torture/dp/1612194850
Pretty dry reading tho.
Have fun with that.
Yeah.. I can kind of see that so I sort of lean more towards war breaking out between other countries (with maybe a little covert help from the US to get things kicked off).
I've heard that the people of the US are more heavily armed than any military in the world (including the US military) if you're just going by the number of small arms. If true (and I don't doubt it much) then that's something to consider.
Britain is too well armed. No country would be crazy enough to go to war against Britain - especially a small number of little rag tag colonies (and many of the people in those colonies support Britain).
Also, we're to believe that despite the US being so heavily armed that nobody messes with us...... a tiny number of thugs hiding in caves half way around the world is such a threat to the US that we need to shred our Constitution and spend trillions trying to blow them up.
The Assault on Reason, Al Gore, 2007.
That's sure what it looks like, and this new book, See Something, Say Nothing I think, explains at least partially why...I heard his interview the other day on the radio but have yet to order it.
Here's one and the other is all the shit Comey said.
The amount spent on lobbying each year is 5 billion, if you estimate the undisclosed lobbying (current disclosure laws are pretty weak) as being about equal to disclosed expenses. (Which is a good estimate according to "The Business of America is Lobbying".) EVERY YEAR. And it's worth every penny.
Let’s get this out of the way first. Obama’s birth certificate is not fake. Fox News and the National Review spoke to experts who confirmed that the “layers” and “but the kerning” theories are not supported by the facts.
Once we get that settled we can discuss the difference between how BB guns are treated under the law and whether they present a threat of injury when you’re standing entirely behind a wood fence, the significance or lack thereof of the cop saying “I think he’s got a cap gun,” and other questions, including when citizens should be killed without due process.
The thing is this is a somewhat new thing https://www.amazon.com/Business-America-Lobbying-Corporations-Politicized/dp/0190215518
Against?
While I'm here: For an evidence-based (though still critical) look at lobbying in America, I recommend The Business of America is Lobbying, by Lee Drutman.
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I don't make shit up. I read more than just reddit headlines. Here are several things you should read:
Selling tainted blood
Uranium One was Clinton turning over control of most of USA uranium deposits to the Russians. It's akin to Obama selling control of our ports to the Chinese. While not illegal, it's a bit fucked.
Haiti Under Clinton: $1,300,000,000 in aid. 0.6% went to Haitian Organizations. 9.6% to the government. During this time Hilary's brother tried to open a gold mine using funds from The Clinton Foundation. Instead of rebuilding, they spent millions on a fee based system where you can use cell phone credits to pay for goods.
Would you like to know more?
There's no end to their corruption.
FBI’s top lawyer believed Hillary Clinton should face charges, but was talked out of it.
Did you forget about Whitewater?
^(The link "this" points to http://www.amazon.com/Political-Behavior-American-Electorate-Michael/dp/1452240442/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412215609&sr=8-1&keywords=political+behavior+of+the+american+electorate)
Read this.
Now you will understand everything. Why it works the way it does. Why most people have no idea what they are talking about. You'll know why Karl Rove is considered a genius. Politics will make sense. If you want to learn though you can learn it the right way. Or you can watch Jon Stewart and learn it the cheap BS stupid way. I'm serious too. Don't learn through videos.
We are a Nation of Sheep
The linked tweet was tweeted by @ggreenwald on Mar 20, 2018 11:26:53 UTC
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Many Democrats have been led to believe this term was invented and popularized last year by Sean Hannity to help Trump. It's actually been something that serious foreign policy and government secrecy experts have discussed and analyzed for many years https://www.amazon.com/Deep-State-Government-Secrecy-Industry/dp/1118146689 https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/976045546946232320
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The term originated in Turkey, actually, and has been used a lot by academics. I'm not sure when it first worked its way into US political discourse -- at least by 2013 when this book came out.
Actually the videos on the bottom of the snopes page from John Woodman do address the issues brought up such as the kerning accusations. Also, his book, http://www.amazon.com/Barack-Obamas-Birth-Certificate-Fraud/dp/0983759251 does the same.
And about John Woodman, from the amazon page:
"In Is Barack Obama's Birth Certificate A Fraud? John Woodman, a computer professional and registered Republican, closely examines the evidence to find out which -- if any -- of these claims "hold water." From "layers" to "kerning" to the out-of-sequence birth certificate number and beyond, he honestly investigates more than 30 different theories concerning the certificate. He contests ideas, explains why we see the things we see -- and reveals new information about the certificate not previously revealed anywhere else."
> Did I say whether I doubt Obama is American?
Why is the birth certificate worthy of our attention unless we're entertaining the possibility Obama is not a US citizen?
> This only exists bc of 1991 book published by Obama that says he was born in Kenya
An erroneous promotional leaflet does not overrule a birth certificate. The author of that text confirms it was an error.
You said Obama is different because his father isn't American, and I'm refuted that. Exhibit A: Chester Arthur. You have no response to this. Okay.
> which is proven false when the 5 year investigation was meant to prove it real
If you're talking about Mike Zullo, he was convinced the birth certificate was a forgery 3 years ago. Oh, and 5 years ago he co-wrote a book claiming the birth certificate was a forgery. The earliest reference to Zullo I can find is from September 2011, when this investigation appears to have started. No one was saying at the outset, or any point inbetween I can find, that the investigation was intended to prove the birth certificate was real. It would be strange for that to be the goal of an investigation run out of the office a vocal opponent of the president and with longtime birther Jerome Corsi on the team, who has claimed Obama's birth certificate was a forgery since at least going back to 2009.
> This is fact, you cant debate fact.
Over the past 6+ years there's been several rounds of excited revelations that a birth certificate was forged, and they were debunked each time. Give this a few days and I'm sure it'll get tossed on the trash heap too.
You apparently missed the whole Unitary Executive thing.
No problem, here's your chance to redeem.
http://www.amazon.com/Patriot-Defending-American-Values-President/dp/097794400X
> "Deep State" is Russian talk. Kremlin talk. It didn't exist before it besides on Infowars
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-State-Government-Secrecy-Industry/dp/1118146689
https://web.archive.org/web/20140102073615/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/opinion/sunday/a-wordnado-of-words-in-2013.html
Actually it came from discussions of Egyptian politics and was used by people on the left for years. I must be a Russian shill collecting paycheques from Putin by pointing this out though. Or is the shill joke only funny when liberals are making fun of paranoid morons and not leftists?
>Oh. Like the republicans never did when they controlled everything for 2 years?
Please, don't misunderstand me. Both parties are corrupt.
>Why didn't he get his own FBI to do it?
Wut... You mean the same FBI that's entrapped his friends and investigated him for 3yrs?! You mean the same FBI that knowingly used a fake Steele Dossier to get an illegal obtained FISA warrant because they loathe him?!
Are you being serious?
I really need to know if you're that dumb or if you're just kidding.
>Or have the Republican controlled House and Senate conduct investigations?
Oh, I dunno. Honestly. I mean he's been under attack the first 3yrs of his presidency from all sides, including his own. Wouldn't you think that'd have something to do with it?
>Why was there a quid pro quo (admitted by Mulvaney)?
Well, I think a better question is whether or not a quid pro quo is really the worst thing in the world? It happens all the time.
>Why now, instead of when Trump actually got in the White house?
We've been over this.
>Why did it have to wait until Biden was a political opponent?
It's a coincidence that Biden decided to run. It's no coincidence that Biden and co. personally profited in the newest form of corruption. It's so new, in fact, that there are no laws to keep him and others from doing what they've done and are still doing. That is, enriching family and personal friends via the power of the positions of government that they hold...
>It's entirely consequential that Biden was a political opponent.
Coincidental. Of little import. So little, in fact, that once you realize just how crooked Joe and Barack and Hillary are you'll be thanking Trump and wondering why those crooks didn't have their feet held to the proverbial fire sooner.
>And that should be Ukraine's investigation, why?
Because it happened in Ukraine. Honestly, it should be an international investigation spanning the globe, which is exactly what Trump was trying to do before Schitty Schifty Schiff stepped in to stop it with a coup attempt from the American intelligence community itself...
>What evidence? There's no more evidence Hunter did anything wrong than any of Trump kids (sans Barron) have done wrong.
False. There's a lot of evidence against Obama, Biden, the Clintons, McConnell, and practically all of the old establishment types that have sold access or committed smash-n-grab corporate takeovers and insider trading... Ever heard of Secret Empires?
If not, ya might wanna crack it open and educate yourself. Crooked corrupt politicians no longer hide $90,000 bribes in their freezer. That's old school. No, now they openly enrich their family and friends by selling access to government funds by the billions... And there's technically no law against it. But considering that the government is concerned with campaign contributions as low as $500 you can bet $50,000mth is wrong and should be against the law.
>Lastly, none of this excuses Trump's decision to tamper with the witnesses.
I think he's just so nonchalant because it's just such an obviously huge diversionary last ditch effort hoax by the Democrat deep state apparatchik to stop Trump in a pathetic attempt to regain the power of the policy enforcers before he wins again so as to avoid any more investigations that might turn up actual corruption within the US federal government.
>He has lied, telling us "he never meet this people" or "never respected them" when there's pictures of the two together or tweets from only a few months ago praising them.
Yeah, Trump is a liar. Schiff has lied too. Vindman has lied too. Hillary has lied too. Obama has lied too. They all lie. Is lying to the American people against the law? No. So, get over it. I don't agree with it, but there's nothing anyone can do about that. The questions should be gave they broken the law and to what degree?
>Witness tampering itself should be impeachable.
I don't think he intimidated any actual witnesses though. They all admitted they'd not witnessed anything. All of them. Including Sondland today. The only thing Sondland did witness was Trump saying he wanted nothing, no quid pro quo. So, drop that one. It's your weakest argument yet.
Clinton Cash is a better choice.
https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369296
Yes, Al Gore in 2000 was pathetic. And despite his visionary leadership, and his continuing insight into American politics, the fact that he didn't join the 2008 race confirms he doesn't have what it takes.
And I quite agree with you about the Dems' ideas. Their incompetent, spineless, and unprincipled leadership may lose them the upcoming elections. Perhaps running a Hillary and losing would be the best thing that could happen to them. If that wouldn't disrupt the DLC powerbase, I don't know what will.
Yet, there seems to be something else at work -- whose fault is it that we have these two dreadful parties to choose from? Why do those particular people have sway? Is it "the Democrats" fault, the media's fault, the Republican's fault, retarded primary voters, the demented American public, or avaricious power brokers? That is American politics, a frighteningly self-reinforcing system, where something rots in the heart of every institution which plays a role.
Ask yourself - could a coherent principled left-wing message (like Kucinich's) actually make it in today's media environment? Or would it only be ridiculed? Why is it that there are not more principled leaders like him? Why is it that a visionary like Gore won't run for election? Why is it that when he ran he was spineless? Why do Kucinich's personal foibles make him seem unelectable, why was Al Gore portrayed as a fibber, whereas Bush's folksy idiocy was touted as a selling point (and his failures and substance abuse problems ignored)? These all point at deeper structural problems in American politics, and perhaps the American psyche. The ideas are there - but can they be voiced? Would they be recognized? Or are we all collectively too corrupt, too lost to see a way?
Ah... Charles Ortel: welcome back to /r/politics! Still waiting on those 40 bombshell reports that prove charity fraud - it's been quite some time since you announced that, eh?
Also, love the Fox News balance: the Clinton Foundation was removed from Charity Navigator because it could not be accurately scored.
From Charity Navigator:
>Our removal of The Clinton Foundation from our site is neither a condemnation nor an endorsement of this charity. We reserve the right to reinstate a rating for The Clinton Foundation as soon as we identify a rating methodology that appropriately captures its business model.
Meanwhile it's a top-rated for governance and transparency and rated with an 'A' by Charity Watch, with 88% going to its programs - not the bogus 10% figure that floats around in right-wing media, which ignores in-house work and only takes into account grants to other charities.
Anyway, bogus story pushed by a crackpot birther, did the rounds already, moving on...
edit: a bonus - here's some other work by this renowned financial analyst. He's a co-author in The Betrayal Papers!!, detailing "the incredible influence that the Muslim Brotherhood exerts over the Obama administration and on American policy foreign and domestic". Shit's too good...
https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369296
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0CQK1sKv8Y
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/09/21/former-haitian-senate-president-world-trusted-clintons-help-haitian-people-deceived/
(you should read this) https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369296/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474489652&sr=8-1&keywords=clinton+cash
(you should watch this) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmMe-2qaSss
Now I feel that it bears mentioning that I did say IIRC because I was on my phone and didn't feel like finding sources. As a result my statement wasn't completely accurate. They didn't STEAL 14.2 billion, they siphoned it. They lined their pockets with it while supplying "aid". So I guess in that sense, you're right. Congrats. Worth stalking me for a couple days?
But you know what? Even if you can prove definitively that they didn't directly steal 14.2 billion from the Haitian relief fund, there is simply too much blood on their hands and too much mud in the water for me to possibly concede that they aren't evil. The child trafficking, the e-mails, Bill's countless rape allegations, Project Veritas, voting fraud, her seizures, her shady af past, Lolita express, her ties to Saudi Arabia AND Russia (uranium deal), her collusion with MSM during the election, her collusion with the DNC to steal the election from Bernie, her ties to pedophiles and suspected pedophiles.
So yeah good job bud, you won an argument based on a technicality.
We done here?
As far as sources go, this book is replete with them. https://www(dot)amazon(dot)com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369296
Then read this
https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369296
I would recommend reading Andrew J. Bacevich's book, “The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism,” or at least a review. One of the striking things about his 2008 book is that he refers to the "imperial president" which now seems prescient.
All I see are Uncle Sam's Yanqui-Doodle Martyrs Brigade.
Kinda funny how these "protesters" are shooting people with arrows, beaning people with bricks, setting shit on fire and attacking anyone who disagrees with them, even after obtaining their stated goals of stopping the extradition bill.
It's almost as if the Yanqui Doodle Regime Change You Can Believe In Machine decided to double-down, having zero fucks to give about its "shina" pawns.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1510703365
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0997287012
It's not a grand conspiracy that capitalist nations and their ruling classes and rich people seek to demonize socialism with all means available, including convincing everyone of what should normally seem to be absurd lies -- it's what you'd expect, and they of course own all of these news media. That the the state department, CIA, and other foreign policy organs of imperialism promotes false information expecting it to get uncritically reported by the mass media is plainly visible once you understand how it works and it's also completely unsurprising.
>No, what I'm saying is the means are totally justified, and the ends will be what they are.
Wow. This is some truly terrifying, Nazi level rhetoric.
>I think Donald Trump is in hock to the Russians.
So much for innocent until proven guilty.
>After what Trump did in the 1990s, no American bank wanted to work with him and he had to go to Russia to get cash.
You mean while he was a democrat?
>If he's capable of separating that from his duties as Commander in Chief, god bless him
He literally just outlined out his plans for doing this.
>And, frankly, his views on Russia are extreme in the American political landscape, so my expectations for him in the investigations aren't so high right now.
Oh, so now the democrats are the hawks? Interesting.
> I care far more about good results than I do about good process.
Glad to hear you are for stop and frisk! Worked in NY!
>Hasn't always been that way, but then I got into international business at the executive management level, and I got a family. In short, I grew up.
Please. You're middle management material...
>This is me being a patriot and wanting to make sure that my government isn't, in fact, a puppet to a foreign power.
Ever stop to think that YOUR reaction is actually the one the Russians want to invoke?
Go read a book from one of the foremost experts on the subject - the highest ranking Soviet Intelligence Officer ever to defect to the US:
https://www.amazon.com/Disinformation-Strategies-Undermining-Attacking-Promoting-ebook/dp/B00D99V2RY
A patriot, you are not. Soldiers who defend the president/country, regardless of political persuasion are patriots. Are you nothing close to the person you imagine yourself to be.
Besides, Clinton is already in Russia's pocket. The UraniumOne deal proved that.
https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369296
She already did stuff - its well documented. In fact, there is a book about it.
https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369296
Liberals don't care about it.
Why would I care about a Trump surrogate trying to make money?
The biggest threat facing our country is globalism and that is why Trump literally saved our country.
https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369296/
https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369296?tag=nypost-20
There's even a book about various tracked and checked governments and countries that have done what every proper government would do, and in which the US are true masters.
Here's one to start with Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich