General Lies and Corruption
updated 04-08-2025 “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” – Calvin and Hobbes A 2012 survey by National Geographic found that 77 percent of Americans think that aliens have visited Earth. “A Vatican astronomer has made this comment that it is compatible to be a Christian and believe in life on. . . CONTINUE
updated 2022-01-12 . . . and all Republicans in congress! Trump’s former secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, described him as a “fucking moron,” a fact that has been reported previously. Chief of Staff John Kelly has called Trump an idiot and also crazy: “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in crazytown,” After security officials tried fruitlessly to explain. . . CONTINUE
updated 05-23-2020 The excuse the Republicans need to cut all services and support to everyone but the rich: healthcare, medicare, social security, and more. The GOP’s debt concerns were pure fraud. The full cost of the law is now estimated at $1.9 trillion by the Congressional Budget Office – above the legal 1.5 limit. and it actually encourages offshoring of American jobs. Republican leaders plan to tackle the increasing deficit. . . CONTINUE
updated 11/06/2019 Remember “the good Samaritan”. Jesus said “Go and do likewise.” – and Jesus parable of the Day of Judgement: “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these my brethren, you did for me.” “…countless stories of the rape, torture and murder that forced them to flee their home countries.” “the effects of detention are uniquely traumatizing for children and can cause irreparable,. . . CONTINUE
updated 2020-05-22 Republicans in Trump’s White House: “no justification in continuing the subsidies.” The cuts in subsidies may actually hit the middle class the most. there are around 3 million people who are uninsured because they don’t live in states that didn’t expand Medicaid, President Trump has called the subsidies a “bailout” for the insurance industry. The number of Americans without health insurance increased again in 2018, the second consecutive. . . CONTINUE
SAT, MAY 11 2019: Soaring drug prices from both branded and generic manufacturers have sparked outrage and investigations in the United States. 44 U.S. states filed a lawsuit against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA for orchestrating a sweeping scheme with 19 other drug companies to inflate drug prices — sometimes by more than 1,000% — and stifle competition for generic drugs, state prosecutors said on Saturday. Republicans protecting the guilty! House Republicans. . . CONTINUE
Dec 5, 2018 Aides and advisers have tried convincing him how important managing the debt is, but those words have allegedly fallen on deaf ears. … Sources close to Trump say he has repeatedly shrugged it off, … because he won’t be around to shoulder the blame when it becomes even more untenable. … in early 2017 … “Yeah, but I won’t be here,” the president bluntly said, according to. . . CONTINUE
updated 07-23-2019 “Let me make something 100% clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election.” – Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub Trump says he would listen if foreigners offered dirt on opponents FBI Director Christopher Wray: told lawmakers “the FBI would want. . . CONTINUE
It is unanimous: “the press is not the enemy of the people.” No matter how many times Trump yells profanities and lies because he dislikes the truth or because people don’t like his violence and racism and laugh at his ignorance or because he encouraged Russian interference. The Republican party has spoken, every Republican(!) senator has rejected Trumps deliberate distortions of the truth about the news. …”the free press serves. . . CONTINUE
Our Hidden History of Corporations in the United States How our early colonists tried to control corporations and slowly-finally, unavoidably, failed. When American colonists declared independence from England in 1776, they also freed themselves from control by English corporations that extracted their wealth and dominated trade. After fighting a revolution to end this exploitation, our country’s founders retained a healthy fear of corporate power and wisely limited corporations exclusively to. . . CONTINUE
February 26, 2016 Apple motion to deny FBI to be backed by Google and Microsoft The FBI argues that public safety hangs in the balance if they cannot command tech companies to help with its investigations. The FBI orders that Apple create new software to allow the FBI (and hackers of course) to break into the iPhone 5C. Apple said that assisting the government to crack into the phones is. . . CONTINUE
Wednesday, April 15, 2015; By David Henkin On March 31, a federal judge ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service broke the law when it approved the U.S. Navy’s five-year Pacific weapons testing and training plan. The agency had concluded that the Navy’s [reckless] use of sonar, explosives and vessel strikes would threaten thousands of ocean dwellers with permanent hearing loss, lung damage and death – but approved it anyway.. . . CONTINUE
updated 01-27-2014 The police cannot spy on anyone without a court order but the NSA has become a new Gestapo spying on everyone, breaking the law and lying about it. Update: Polls Continue to Show Majority of Americans Against NSA Spying January 22, 2014 | By Mark Jaycox Update, January 2014: Polls continue to confirm the trend. In a poll conducted in December 2013 by the Washington Post, 66% of. . . CONTINUE
