On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 08:26:05AM -0700, Razer wrote:
If this sounds like the work of conspiracy theorists, that’s because that’s exactly what it is.
LawFare:
The House Judiciary Committee has a unique role to play in times of great national crisis in the functioning of the presidency. As the congressional body with jurisdiction over the initial stages of the impeachment process, it’s the committee’s responsibility to weigh whether the president’s misconduct is sufficiently severe so as to merit what Charles Black refers to as “this most drastic of measures.”
Fortunately, Chairman Bob Goodlatte and the Republican members of his committee are up to the task. Last week, with Russia matters heating up and the White House in full meltdown, they stayed focused on the real danger at hand: Huma Abedin. ... So r/The_Donald rose to the occasion and did it for America. ...
Impressive stuff, in a sense :) Although some "Democrats" may find fault with this approach, reaching out to "the people" has got to be a reasonable foundation for all government process (assuming a government is in place and proclaims itself democratic, and actually strives to be democratic, yadda yadda). "Contributed to by some of the people" may not be fully up to the full democratic "of the people, by the people, for the people" mantra, but at least it's a teeny tiny step on the way -towards- democracy. Now, the bigger story here is the meltdown of the USA congress, and hell - is there a government on Earth that would -not- be in meltdown when it's facing debt to GDP of over 100%, a Military Industrial Spying Banking Complex committed-to-the-death to persisting with a yearly arms budget that outstrips all other countries, --combined--, and an almost unfathomable government debt of $20 trillion? And that's just the on-the-books, and "public" debt - add in private debt, corporate debt, and black government off the books debts and we're talking about half "the world's" entire debt instruments binding those in the USA - looks more like the USA has been milked by Lord Rothschild and his fellow banking oligarch$, than that "The USA Corp." is financially dominating the rest of the world (not that's it's not, but that's another story). And that GDP has very significant multipliers built in, based on the fundamentals of the Military budget circulating a few times - there's quite a few trillion in supposed "GDP" just there! So no matter how successful Trump's infrastructure blitz, wall, $50 million boost to military spending (which the Senate unilaterally raised an additional $30 million) over the previous year's "budget" (again, the on-the-books budget), the fact remains that there is about a 500 year repayment plan required to ultimately balance the books. You know it, I know it, the whole damn world knows it, and the only question is, how long will this ridiculous sharadenfreude last until the first big bank with a big belly full of "USA Corp debt instruments" has a belch - the Chinese wisely chose to not spit the dummy first, rather purchase as much of the West as they are permitted, upcoming collapse be damned - now that was a self evidently wise move! Yes, yes, either 500 years, or that other extraordinarily complicated payment plan used occasionally called "strike out the debt and start again", which unfortunately leads to a bunch of angry oligarchs wanting to bitch slap one another into a nuclear holocaust due to the wipeout of their oligarchical "debt instruments" - hedge fund tsunami, here we come! So again, facing such imminent (even 5 years in historical terms is "imminent") catastrophic financial meltdown and the mind numbing "choice" (collapse now and risk war, or pretend for another year and make for a bigger collapse and greater risk) that has to be made by "the government" each year, it's no wonder the USA congress, capitol hill, the white house, the state department, the treasury, the tax office and every govt department and its dog, are absolutely, unequivocally, going to continue to be in melt down until the economic d-day. Remember, this debt based money expansion system, is a mathematical monetary system designed to have a cyclical chaotic component - otherwise known as massive opportunity for those in the know and with the oligarchical wherewithal to threaten and or go to war based on the ultimately fictional debt created with mathematical certainty arising from the choice of system in the first instance - simple! The obvious corollary money system "unfortunately" provides much less instability, therefore much less opportunity for life and national lessons for humans around the globe, and is also much less attractive to the "I want the world plus 5%" class - so few opportunities to create "my chosen order, from chaos". Oh well, life goes on... but man, what a ride!