Sarah Huckabee Sanders demands reports to be thankful before questioning on LaVar Ball, Roy Moore (click here)...
The press only goes after easy pickin's, not the danger to many. Being paid damages or alimony is not an excuse for endangering the sovereignty of the USA. He can't hurt anyone from behind bars. The judge can make it so.
When the press is faced with veiled threats and censorship, forget "The Exclusive" and 'in mass' attack the problem. The FCC has ruled to limit the exposure to content over the internet. I am confident most tech companies will be seeking lawsuits, but, where is that in the headlines? It should be front page of every newspaper in the country. "Trump censors the internet" What is so terrible that the American people can't be allowed to know the truth?
6 November 2017
By David Kay Johnson
...Humans (click here) will always have to cope with personal dishonesty. What the Paradise Papers show is how dishonesty is being promoted on a mass scale and how corruption is being institutionalized. The 13.4m files show that what are supposed to be windows of disclosure into the finances of high officials are easily covered with blinds made by piecing together business laws from multiple jurisdictions.
As the super-rich increasingly hold the reins of governments in the US and other countries, the rules to make sure they act with integrity and in the public interest fail. That’s because the rules were written to guard against petty corruption among people of little to no wealth.
None other than Donald Trump told us this. In July 2015, a few weeks after launching his presidential campaign, Trump filed his first financial disclosure statement and then denigrated the requirements. “This report was not designed for a man of Mr. Trump’s massive wealth,” he wrote in a statement.
Conflict of interest, ethics and financial disclosure rules conceived in earlier times to reveal bribes and favors are of little use when the elected or appointed officials are already rich – especially should they seek to evade disclosure of their holdings, hide their unsavory associations and avoid taxes, whether through dubious business structures or outright fraud.
Wilbur Ross, Trump’s commerce secretary, is revealed in the Paradise Papers to do business with the family of Vladimir Putin....
So, with such an appalling revelation as that has President Donald Trump changed the disclosure requirements and if he did, does he live up to them?
November 21, 2017
By Brian Fung
The Federal Communications Commission (click here) took aim at a signature Obama-era regulation Tuesday, unveiling a plan that would give Internet providers broad powers to determine what websites and online services their customers see and use.
Under the agency’s proposal, providers of high-speed Internet services, such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T, would be able to block websites they do not like and charge Web companies for speedier delivery of their content.
The FCC’s effort would roll back its net neutrality regulation which was passed by the agency’s Democrats in 2015 and attempted to make sure all Web content, whether from big or small companies, would be treated equally by Internet providers....
Good-bye Net Neutrality. Bye. Everyone say bye, bye.
