Swammerdami
Squadron Leader
I've avoided her for months but I just clicked on a Rachel Maddow show. (I clicked in part because my kids had mentioned Kazakhstan as an up-and-coming holiday destination.)
(After several minutes I noticed that the YouTube is many years old -- but I hadn't seen it -- and in any event tells us what we already knew: Donald Trump is a crook who has extensive dealings with other crooks -- mostly the crooks who stole the remnants of the Soviet Union, but also Italian mafia etc. I didn't know that Wendi Deng, ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch, is "basically a Chinese spy", though Maddow tried to tell me that 7 years ago. Who could remember all the crime and corruption anyway? Sometimes it all feels like an alternate reality that's gone berserk.)
She presents details about how the mineral wealth of Kazakhstan was absconded by a shell company based in the Virgin Islands. Separately the CEO of the largest bank in Kazakhstan absconded with most of the bank's assets. This is how billionaires are made.
I suppose such stories are "a dime a dozen" out in the real world, but Maddow shows that both these stories connect to Donald Trump! He wasn't getting a large share of the stolen billions, just million dollar fees here and there to help out. For example he was paid a million dollars to fly to Kazakhstan and pretend to be planning a big hotel; this was how the banker justified his fake loans of real money to fake companies.
I do NOT understand your "hard-on" against Alternet. Is it just another symptom of your derangement syndrome that anyone unhappy that Gaza's children are denied food and medicine must be an anti-Semitic sympathizer of Jihadism? Does their editorial bias favor The Left Wing™? Obviously. Do their stories contain hyperbolic adjectives? You betcha! Welcome to post-rational American discourse.
Do they represent actual lies as Truth? I dunno -- You've made that charge repeatedly, but never backed it up with an actual example.
Are they a good source for "objective" news -- whatever that means? It's hard to find objective news in the U.S. With Reuters now paywalled I find Aljazeera to be among the best options. Yes, I know metaphorical spittle will cascade out of Mr. Pechtel's mouth when he reads that claim!
I clicked to Alternet.org just now and saw 74 different headlines. Seventy-four! If nothing else, the Alternet home page presents a concise overview of recent events in the on-going GOP-Trump corruption and misgovernance. I didn't even read all the headlines, but skimmed enough to know they mostly linked to anti-Trump pieces. I suppose you could find fault with some. One prominent headline was "'Gasps across court room' as judge grills Trump’s DOJ." Perhaps the "gasps" were more like "muttering." Did an "unvetted" reporter exaggerate "mutters" to be "gasps"? If so, I suppose that anti-Trump exaggeration should dwarf news about the on-going destruction of SNAP, ACA, the White House, etc.
I didn't click any of the Alternet stories -- watching the Maddow show fulfilled my quota of recreational outrage for the day -- but maybe YOU should @Loren Pechtel . Let me politely suggest that you do so, and present a list of the "errors" you find ... or just ... stifle.
(After several minutes I noticed that the YouTube is many years old -- but I hadn't seen it -- and in any event tells us what we already knew: Donald Trump is a crook who has extensive dealings with other crooks -- mostly the crooks who stole the remnants of the Soviet Union, but also Italian mafia etc. I didn't know that Wendi Deng, ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch, is "basically a Chinese spy", though Maddow tried to tell me that 7 years ago. Who could remember all the crime and corruption anyway? Sometimes it all feels like an alternate reality that's gone berserk.)
She presents details about how the mineral wealth of Kazakhstan was absconded by a shell company based in the Virgin Islands. Separately the CEO of the largest bank in Kazakhstan absconded with most of the bank's assets. This is how billionaires are made.
I suppose such stories are "a dime a dozen" out in the real world, but Maddow shows that both these stories connect to Donald Trump! He wasn't getting a large share of the stolen billions, just million dollar fees here and there to help out. For example he was paid a million dollars to fly to Kazakhstan and pretend to be planning a big hotel; this was how the banker justified his fake loans of real money to fake companies.
I do NOT understand your "hard-on" against Alternet. Is it just another symptom of your derangement syndrome that anyone unhappy that Gaza's children are denied food and medicine must be an anti-Semitic sympathizer of Jihadism? Does their editorial bias favor The Left Wing™? Obviously. Do their stories contain hyperbolic adjectives? You betcha! Welcome to post-rational American discourse.
Do they represent actual lies as Truth? I dunno -- You've made that charge repeatedly, but never backed it up with an actual example.
Are they a good source for "objective" news -- whatever that means? It's hard to find objective news in the U.S. With Reuters now paywalled I find Aljazeera to be among the best options. Yes, I know metaphorical spittle will cascade out of Mr. Pechtel's mouth when he reads that claim!
I clicked to Alternet.org just now and saw 74 different headlines. Seventy-four! If nothing else, the Alternet home page presents a concise overview of recent events in the on-going GOP-Trump corruption and misgovernance. I didn't even read all the headlines, but skimmed enough to know they mostly linked to anti-Trump pieces. I suppose you could find fault with some. One prominent headline was "'Gasps across court room' as judge grills Trump’s DOJ." Perhaps the "gasps" were more like "muttering." Did an "unvetted" reporter exaggerate "mutters" to be "gasps"? If so, I suppose that anti-Trump exaggeration should dwarf news about the on-going destruction of SNAP, ACA, the White House, etc.
I didn't click any of the Alternet stories -- watching the Maddow show fulfilled my quota of recreational outrage for the day -- but maybe YOU should @Loren Pechtel . Let me politely suggest that you do so, and present a list of the "errors" you find ... or just ... stifle.
I have been stifeling my comments.