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Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found
NYTimes | David Barstow | 10/01/16

Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, records obtained by The New York Times show. The 1995 tax records, never before disclosed, reveal the extraordinary tax benefits that Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, derived from the financial wreckage he left behind in the early 1990s through mismanagement of three Atlantic City casinos, his ill-fated foray into the airline business and his ill-timed purchase of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.

Tax experts hired by The Times to analyze Mr. Trump's 1995 records said that tax rules especially advantageous to wealthy filers would have allowed Mr. Trump to use his $916 million loss to cancel out an equivalent amount of taxable income over an 18-year period. ... Read more
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Oil, Power and Money: The main driver of the conflict in the World and who has toppled more than 50 sovereign governments since the end of World War 2, is the United States.

Julian Assange Disappoints, Fails To Reveal Material Information At Wikileaks Press Conference
ZeroHedge | author | 10/04/16

In what was a disappointment for anyone hoping for "devastating" disclosures, Julian Assange today held off releasing information about the US elections or Hillary Clinton, despite widespread expectation that he was poised to make a major release. The WikiLeaks founder said the organization would publish around one million documents related to the U.S. election and three governments, but denied the release was aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton.

While Assange said the documents would be released before the end of the year, starting with an initial batch in the coming week, this came as a surprise to many following an unprecedented build up within the media that Wikileaks would release dramatic disclosures on its 10th anniversary. ... Read more
Assange speaks at WikiLeaks' 10th anniversary in Berlin (10/04/16) [1:55:35]

*Oil, Power and Money: "Assad Must Go"
GlobalResearch.ca | Mike Whitney | 10/01/16

Secret cables and reports by the U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving the shared objective of completing the Qatar/Turkey gas link. In 2009, according to WikiLeaks, soon after Bashar Assad rejected the Qatar pipeline, the CIA began funding opposition groups in Syria. -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Why the Arabs don't want us in Syria, Politico

The conflict in Syria is not a war in the conventional sense of the word. It is a regime change operation, just like Libya and Iraq were regime change operations. The main driver of the conflict is the country that's toppled more than 50 sovereign governments since the end of World War 2. (See: Bill Blum here.) We're talking about the United States of course. ... Read more

Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
  • China 1949 to early 1960s
  • Albania 1949-53
  • East Germany 1950s
  • Iran 1953 *
  • Guatemala 1954 *
  • Costa Rica mid-1950s
  • Syria 1956-7
  • Egypt 1957
  • Indonesia 1957-8
  • British Guiana 1953-64 *
  • Iraq 1963 *
  • North Vietnam 1945-73
  • Cambodia 1955-70 *
  • Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
  • Ecuador 1960-63 *
  • Congo 1960 *
  • France 1965
  • Brazil 1962-64 *
  • Dominican Republic 1963 *
  • Cuba 1959 to present
  • Bolivia 1964 *
  • Indonesia 1965 *
  • Ghana 1966 *
  • Chile 1964-73 *
  • Greece 1967 *
  • Costa Rica 1970-71
  • Bolivia 1971 *
  • Australia 1973-75 *
  • Angola 1975, 1980s
  • Zaire 1975
  • Portugal 1974-76 *
  • Jamaica 1976-80 *
  • Seychelles 1979-81
  • Chad 1981-82 *
  • Grenada 1983 *
  • South Yemen 1982-84
  • Suriname 1982-84
  • Fiji 1987 *
  • Libya 1980s
  • Nicaragua 1981-90 *
  • Panama 1989 *
  • Bulgaria 1990 *
  • Albania 1991 *
  • Iraq 1991
  • Afghanistan 1980s *
  • Somalia 1993
  • Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
  • Ecuador 2000 *
  • Afghanistan 2001 *
  • Venezuela 2002 *
  • Iraq 2003 *
  • Haiti 2004 *
  • Somalia 2007 to present
  • Honduras 2009
  • Libya 2011 *
  • Syria 2012
  • Ukraine 2014 *
  • *Why the Arabs don't want us in Syria
    Politico | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | 09/16/16

    In part because my father was murdered by an Arab, I've made an effort to understand the impact of U.S. policy in the Mideast and particularly the factors that sometimes motivate bloodthirsty responses from the Islamic world against our country. As we focus on the rise of the Islamic State and search for the source of the savagery that took so many innocent lives in Paris and San Bernardino, we might want to look beyond the convenient explanations of religion and ideology. Instead we should examine the more complex rationales of history and oil -- and how they often point the finger of blame back at our own shores.

    America's unsavory record of violent interventions in Syria -- little-known to the American people yet well-known to Syrians -- sowed fertile ground for the violent Islamic jihadism that now complicates any effective response by our government to address the challenge of ISIL. ... Read more

    Trumped! A Nation on the Brink of Ruin... And How to Bring It Back by David A. Stockman

    In TRUMPED! A Nation on the Brink of Ruin... And How to Bring It Back, David Stockman brings us an insider-turned-iconoclast's report on how 30 years of financial and political misrule by the Washington/Wall Street elites have brought the U.S. to the brink of ruin.

    He shows that the Fed's destructive ZIRP and QE policies have buried Flyover America in debt while clobbering it with shrinking real wages and vanishing job opportunities. At the same time, the bicoastal elites have prospered mightily from the massive inflation of financial assets in the Wall Street casino and the debt-fueled expansion of Imperial Washington's domestic rackets and global interventions.

    Stockman argues that Donald Trump's improbable candidacy happened because Flyover America has had enough of a rigged system that benefits the few but has failed to delivery economic recovery and real prosperity at home and a safer and more stable world abroad.

    Stockman's book is no testimonial on behalf of Trump's candidacy, and contends that much of what he advocates is wrong-headed or downright reprehensible. But it does salute him as the rallying force for Main Street political insurrection because the existing regime of Bubble Finance on Wall Street and statist aggrandizement in Washington threatens incalculable harm.

    Stockman also argues that there remains a way forward. He suggests the "political outlaw" who considers himself to be the world's greatest dealmaker would need to "make ten great deals" to bring American back from the brink. These include a Peace Deal, a Jobs Deal, a Sound Money Deal, a Super Glass-Steagall Deal, A Liberty Deal and five more.
    DN | How ALEC & the Kochs Publicly Back Criminal Justice Reform & Privately Expand Mass Incarceration (10/03/16) [7:18]
    Jimmy Kimmel Show
    Jimmy Kimmel Breaks Down Donald Trump's Rant (10/04/16) [2:08]
    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
    Stephen Colbert | It Takes A Genius Like Donald Trump To Lose A Billion Dollars (10/04/16) [9:17] TRNN | David Cay Johnston: Trump Has Engaged in Lifelong Illegal Conduct (10/04/16) [12:13]
    TYT | Republicans: Trump Is A GENIUS For Not Paying Taxes (10/03/16) [5:04]
    TYT | Trump Lost So Much Money He Doesn't Have To Pay Taxes (10/03/16) [13:24]
    TYT | Giuliani: Hey Everybody Cheats! Anyway About Monica Lewinsky... (10/03/16) [9:49]
    TYT | Trump Foundation Hit With Cease And Desist (10/03/16) [10:42]
    *RT | Keiser Report: Stealing is Legal in America (E975) (10/04/16) [23:34]
    Max and Stacy discuss how finance is ruining America. In the second half, Max interviews Ronald Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, author of 'Trumped: A Nation on the Brink of Ruin'... And How to Bring It Back.
    Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
    *ThomHartmann | The terrifying thing about the TPP is that it would be just as devastating to the environment as the economy - maybe even more. (10/04/16) [7:53]
    ThomHartmann | Is It Time To Start Talking About Doomsday Scenarios? (10/04/16) [4:07]
    Note: sometimes I have to post my News Page before all the links are available. This happens most noteably for the Diane Rehm Show. If the pop-up links don't work, just go to The Diane Show website and click the links there.
    *DR | The Ongoing Vacancy At The Supreme Court And What It Means For High Profile Cases This Term (10/04/16) [1hr]
    The Supreme Court begins a new term this week with still, only eight justices on the bench. Last March President Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. But the Senate has, so far, declined to schedule a vote on Garland's nomination. The justices have chosen to hear fewer cases this term, and, some say, seem to pushing off some of the more controversial issues. Yesterday the Court decided not to reconsider President Obama's immigration ruling that would spare millions from deportation: Join us to talk about what's ahead for the Supreme Court and how the stakes will change after the election.
    NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
    PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
    MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/

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