International news and events.
Kim Yo-jong Dictator In Waiting With multiple news and government sources now reporting or at least strongly suspecting the young man who has ruled North Korea with an iron fist has died, rumors are swirling about who might take his place. So far strong bets are on his sister, 31 yr old […]
by Richard Cameron Trump’s Blame Shifting And Deflection Of Responsibility Bring More Risk To Americans In the latest installment of the all too reality based, Reality TV presidency of Donald Trump, Trump has withdrawn funding to the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), according to media reports. His decision to do so has been […]
Presidential Approval Polling Continues To Move Away From Trump We recently published a report, arguing that Trump’s bounce in approval on his leadership and handling of the coronavirus, was and would continue to be a blip on the radar screen. That has not only proved to be the case, but public opinion is […]
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Anonymous (erroneously attributed to Mark Twain) Editor’s Note: I happened to notice a colleague’s post on the topic of a particular avenue of dangerous false equivalences that are circulating on social […]
by Tony Wyman Trump Fires Two Men Of Honor (for patently political reasons) At a time when more than 9100 Americans are dead and 321,000 sick by a pandemic made worse because the president of the United States failed to do his job, Donald Trump chose to fire two men of honor […]
by Tony Wyman Trump Was Not Blindsided By COVID-19 On 7 February 2020, the U.S. Department of State issued a press statement from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo boasting of the contribution of critical medical supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) the United States was making to help the Chinese fight the […]
by Tony Wyman Donald J. Trump Basic Test Of Leadership …………………………….. (F) On Saturday, while millions of Americans took a break from panic-buying food and toilet paper to watch the daily coronavirus briefing from the White House, Pres. Trump, after being asked by reporters about chronic shortages of protective equipment still plaguing […]
Crimson Contagion As we know and are frequently reminded by the more racist elements of the GOP as they try to deflect from their mishandling of this emergency – COVID 19 originated in China. It quickly spread around the world through travelers, most of whom had no idea they were even ill. The first […]
“Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.” – Richard Whately Trump Reality Disconnect As Americans, we like predictability in a president. Predictability that is, if it is founded on strength of character and a commitment to serve the nation as a whole, rather […]
Soap And Water Vs Hand Sanitizer – who wins and why? We’ve all been hearing reports about how there is a run on anti-Bacterial soap and hand sanitizer, due to the collective realization that ridding one’s hands of possible biological contaminants, is one of the cardinal points of avoiding contraction of the COVID-19 coronavirus. […]
