The Working Life Podcast With Jonathan Tasini: EPISODE 77: THE MAN WHO WILL BEAT TED CRUZ; A TEACHER CAN’T PAY FOR FOOD; GOP TAX FRAUD

Beto. He’s the guy who will send Ted Cruz into retirement.  I talk with Beto O’Rourke while he’s out driving on the campaign trail in Texas. Have you tried to live on a teacher’s salary? In Oklahoma, it means counting on visiting a food pantry to survive, as I learn in my in-depth talk with veteran teacher Jennifer Thorton. And …

Leid Stories—Muller Goes Off the Rails, Possibly Botching Several Federal Corruption Probes; The Trump-Clinton Ukrainian Connection–04.10.18

Special Counsel Robert Muller’s hardball legal tactics in sanctioning an FBI raid yesterday on the office of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, has set off a legal bomb that could blow several federal probes apart. Muller, using broad authority as special counsel investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and related matters, made a referral …

The Conspiracy Guy – 10.25.17

Conspiracy Guy #48: A bonanza for conspiracy realists: Hillary outed for taking bribes from Russia to approve the sale of 20% of US uranium via Uranium One, where calls for a Special Prosecutor are already being made; evidence the Hillary and the DNC paid for the “Russian dossier” that was used to raise questions about Donald Trump’s conduct in Moscow; …

It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown – Paying for Catastrophe – 10.18.17

Paying for Catastrophe Whether a flood, fire, hurricanes or a failed financial system, the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury have the means to address big financial challenges in a variety of ways – if they want to.  Recent devastations challenge our understanding of how to pay for recovery, but when we look back to our not-so-distant past, answers emerge in …

Glenn Greenwald – Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence

THE WASHINGTON POST late Friday night published an explosive story that, in many ways, is classic American journalism of the worst sort: The key claims are based exclusively on the unverified assertions of anonymous officials, who in turn are disseminating their own claims about what the CIA purportedly believes, all based on evidence that remains completely secret. These unnamed sources told the Post that …

Lauren McCauley – Ugly and Unprepared, ‘Knife Fight’ Breaks Out in Trump Transition

While Republicans have been outwardly celebrating their victories, President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to power is reportedly mired in chaos and infighting as competing factions duke it out to see whose version of “Make America Great Again” will dominate under the new world order. A “knife fight” is how one source described the backroom disagreements over “key cabinet appointments and direction, …

John Hartung – How Brain Shutdown Explains Core Support for Trump and Clinton

What a choice! More than 150 million natural-born citizens old enough to be President of the United States and we winnowed it down to these two extraordinary candidates—extraordinary in so many important ways. Donald Peaches Trump vs. Hillary Cream Clinton … how did we get so lucky? Do we owe this master stroke to the intricacies of the primary process—the …

The Infectious Myth -Master Manipulators at the CDC – 10.11.16

In episode 118, David interviews James Ottar Grundvig, author of “Master Manipulator”. The subject of his book is Poul Thorsen, both a critical player in the CDC’s whitewashing of the nercury-containing thimerosal preservative in vaccines, and a fugitive from justice. Yet, despite stealing research funds from the CDC, and despite FBI charges, nobody seems to want to find Thorsen, who is still working at a hospital in Denmark. It is not just him, Grundvig also identifies other Master Manipulators involved with the CDC’s frauds.

Robin Scher – GOP Operatives Are Starting to Freak Out as Much as the Rest of Us About the Idea of President Donald Trump

In the past 24 hours, Donald Trump has left many wondering whether he even still wants to be president. Judging by what has come out of his mouth in just one day, it’s becoming harder to tell. Of course, you could argue this has been Trump’s strategy from the start. His stream-of-garbage/consciousness style has gotten him this far, so why …

Ray McGovern – Clinton’s Imperious Brush-off of Email Rules

State Department functionaries faced a hopeless task as they tried to spin their own Inspector General’s matter-of-fact critique of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s imperial attitude toward basic security measures everyone else is required by law to follow. It turns out that she deliberately chose to use a hacker-friendly, unprotected email server, and not so much for convenience – …