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    1. Oh, great. Another rabbit hole. There are more rabbit holes in one week of news these days than all the gopher holes in Caddyshack. Bill Murphy, where are you?

  2. Catherine –
    It’s amazing how the CIA continues to tarnish whatever credibility it had left with the silly Russian hacking story, on which Trump is fully calling it out.
    But I can’t help but think the breadcrumbs of the REAL story will eventually lead Trump to his Zionist/bankster buddies with whom he is already in bed. In other words, Trump is loudly calling out one part of the Deep State (i.e., the CIA) while becoming entangled with other parts (his Goldman advisers, Israel, etc.).
    Maybe I’m missing something here, but it seems like Trump is engineering his own train wreck.
    Would love some input on this, or directional assistance if you’ve already covered it somewhere on your site.

    1. Read the Productivity Backlash, Listen to the Trump Transition, then listen to Can We Make America Great Again and explore links. Trump must work within the ecosystem. He is only one person. Question is whether he and his backers will agree to switching negative ROI to postive ROI. Or will his backers just pig out. Planning on writing more after the annual Wrap up and considering doing 1st Quarter Wrap Up on policies and positions.

      A POTUS can only do what the population and backers will support. So the more we criticize, the less he can do. The more we help go in the right direction, the more he can do.

      We are facing a country and a Washington establishment that is so divorced from economic reality that it is becoming a very dangerous. We need the inauguration behind us.

  3. “I genuinely do not mean to single out these individual journalists for scorn. They are just illustrative of a very common dynamic: Any story that bolsters the prevailing D.C. orthodoxy on the Russia Threat, no matter how dubious, is spread far and wide. And then, as has happened so often, when the story turns out to be false or misleading, little or nothing is done to correct the deceitful effects. And, most amazingly of all, these are the same people constantly decrying the threat posed by Fake News.”

    ‘WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived’ by Glenn Greenwald
    https://theintercept.com/2017/01/04/washpost-is-richly-rewarded-for-false-news-about-russia-threat-while-public-is-deceived/

    1. Thanks, John. Will post. So far the DC establishment is in a very noisy death spiral. Very unpleasant, expensive and time consuming. More waste of our precious resources.

    1. Clif’s on a role. I enjoy reading his work because it helps expand my mind in terms of imagining possible futures. I worry that he is trying to give people certainty where it can not be found. We used to have a rolling debate. He said collapse. I said slow burn. Went on for quite a while. Now that we are coming into a controlled demolition will be interesting to see how our expectations compare.

    1. ABSOLUTELY! He may have a problem as that significantly lowers profit margins for some of his constituents.

    1. Yes. Ally Albert Bates has made a compelling case for years about the benefits of biochar.

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