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'Go to hell!' A divided America struggles to heal after ugly election

A woman passes burning garbage during a demonstration in Oakland following the election of Donald Trump.  “He lies,” huffed Janet Foster. “And he’s a dirty old man,” chimed in her sister Jean as they discussed Donald Trump's flaws a few days before he was elected the new president of the United States. “Well, I am with him,” their brother Paul, 60, interjected, raising his voice over snacks of cheese, muffins and crackers in the family’s living room. “Hillary Clinton is like a puppet - you know it’s all scripted.” The 2016 U.S. election was unprecedented in the way it turned Americans against each other, according to dozens of interviews in rural United States and across some of the most politically charged battleground states. It divided families like the Fosters in rural Ellsworth, Maine, broke up friendships and turned neighbor against neighbor. In a recent Reuters/Ipsos survey, 15 percent of respondents said they had stopped talking to a family member or ...

Delusion of Grandeur - beyond the facade - Stefan Molyneux @StefanMolyneux with a Pinch of youtube and Donald Trump

WTF pardon my french,if you've read the comments in the You tube section , where  " lies" a cacophony of closet  Grand David Duke followers. The youtube video title Truth About America's Survival where the thing called Stefan Molyneux perpetuates hate speech in a hermetically sealed media bubble located in Berlin September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945. thoughAugust 13, 1961 to November 9th 1989 , is discreetly favored by the thing called D Trump. This has everything to do with Saudi Arabia as one SS guard sorry commentator pointed out to me,  the video post incites racial hatred that ethnic minorities, suffer from some sort of  medieval plague. Dr Sanjay Gupta CNN , Barack Obama president and commander in chief , Michelle of Obama Martin Luther King, Lionel Sosa ,etc the list goes on , many  black Asian and Latinos have served in military, emergency and political office , having helped build the great nation of USA ,having also given the...

UK pound falls after British Theresa May PM's Brexit speech

The British pound fell around 1 percent against the euro and the dollar in Monday morning trading following prime minister Theresa May's announcement that she would launch the EU exit procedure in March 2017 at the latest, and suggested the UK could completely leave the single market. The pound has been waning on the currency markets, now dropping to a three-year low against the euro amid concerns that Mrs May will opt for a "hard Brexit" and leave the single market. The announcement that Britain would begin the formal process of leaving the EU by triggering Article 50 in March 2017 also caused sterling to hit a three-month low against the US dollar. Across Europe, Germany's Dax was up 1% and the Cac 40 in France rose 0.3%. In UK stocks, oil majors were in the ascendency after the price of oil broke above the 50 US dollars a barrel mark after the Opec cartel said it had reached a deal last week to stabilise the market by slashing output. Royal Dutch...

Economic Research on Donald Trump’s trade proposals could plunge US economy into Recession

Republican can didate Donald J. Trump’s sweeping proposals on international trade, if implemented, could unleash a trade war that would plunge the US economy into recession and cost more than 4 million private sector American jobs, according to an empirical analysis of the two candidates’ trade agendas by the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Trump has proclaimed that he would “rip up” existing trade agreements, renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and impose a 35 percent tariff on imports from Mexico and a 45 percent tariff on imports from China. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate, has expressed skepticism about trade but in effect represents stasis. Both candidates have come out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between the United States and 11 Pacific Rim countries, which President Barack Obama signed earlier in 2016. The authors of the empirical assessment, Marcus Noland, Tyler Moran, and Sherman Robinson, extend a ma...

Clinton says half of Trump supporters belong in basket of deplorables

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said half the supporters of Republican rival Donald Trump belonged in a "basket of deplorables" of people who were racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or Islamophobic. Speaking at a fundraiser on Friday night in New York, Clinton said Trump had given voice to hateful rhetoric through his behavior as a candidate for the White House in the Nov. 8 election. "To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the 'basket of deplorables,'" Clinton said. "Unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up." Some of those people were irredeemable, she said, but they did not represent America. The other basket of Trump's supporters constituted individuals desperate for change who felt let down by the government and the economy, Clinton added. "They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their live...

U.S., Russia clinch Syria deal, aim for truce from Monday

The United States and Russia hailed a breakthrough deal on Saturday to put Syria's peace process back on track, including a nationwide truce effective from sundown on Monday, improved humanitarian aid access and joint military targeting of banned Islamist groups. "Today, Sergei Lavrov and I, on behalf of our presidents and our countries, call on every Syrian stakeholder to support the plan that the United States and Russia have reached, to ... bring this catastrophic conflict to the quickest possible end through a political process," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told a news conference after marathon talks in the Swiss city. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that despite continuing mistrust, the two sides had developed five documents that would revive a failed truce agreed in February and enable military coordination between the U.S. and Russia against militant groups in Syria. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei L...

Earthquake detected as North Korea conducts 'fifth and biggest nuclear test'

U.S., European and Chinese agencies reported that the tremor was recorded at 0030 GMT. The U.S. Geological Survey and European agencies measured the tremor at a magnitude of 5.3. A South Korea government official and the meteorological agency said it was a suspected nuclear test, and Seoul called an emergency meeting of its National Security Council. "Today at around 9:30 a.m., we detected an artificial earthquake wave at magnitude 5.0 in the area of North Korea's Punggye-ri and we are analyzing whether it is a nuclear test," South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement, referring to the North's nuclear test site. The China Earthquake Networks Center also said the tremor was a suspected explosion. China's environment ministry began emergency radiation monitoring along its borders with North Korea in northeast China, state television reported. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said such a nuclear test could not be tolerated. Japan...