Monthly Archives: July 2018

U.S. President sits down for talk with Russian President. Newsfakers go crazy. That is the boiled-down headline for July 17, 2018. At the Helsinki summit President Donald Trump “questioned claims by US intelligence agencies that the Russian government ‘meddled’ in … Continue reading →

The see-saw goes up (Trump imposes tariffs); the see-saw goes down (Clinton pushes “free trade”). But the Tariff See-Saw has been going on longer than this. (Background: The Tariff See-Saw, Ersjdamoo’s Blog, July 15, 2018.) Previous to 1839 the “Free … Continue reading →

Results are piling up several months into the Trump administration’s aggressive rollout of tariffs on imported products, reports NPR. “And not all of them are negative.” [1] In the 1990s, the Clinton administration was proclaiming the glories of free trade … Continue reading →

The release of an indictment against a dozen Russians, alleged officers in the GRU, came as US President Donald Trump was meeting with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle. [1] It was the New Moon at Windsor Castle, foreseen in the … Continue reading →

It is the calm before the storm today, 7/11, one day before the New Moon of July 12th, which arrives at 2:48 UTC (9:48 pm central time). Going by UTC time the New Moon arrives July 13th (Friday the 13th), … Continue reading →

“… no I never heard them singing, before there was Q.” Before there was Q, there was B. B first appeared in Harper’s Weekly in 1860. Thereafter, in 1862, he felt called upon to reveal all, he says, due to … Continue reading →

The “hireling scribblers of the English press said little, and knew less,” wrote Thomas Jefferson to the Marquis de Lafayette on February 14, 1815. Long before President Donald Trump discovered fake news, Jefferson was already alluding to it. (Background: Impose … Continue reading →