Trump’s gift to America and the military

ProPublica's explosive exposé of US Tax Code (un?)Fairness

ProPublica has received a trove of files from the Internal Revenue Service of many of the wealthiest Americans. Read and judge for yourself the 'fairness' of the United States Tax Code. Understand the US taxes income, not wealth. Understand that taxing wealth is not straight forward. The value of assets change. Some assets are more easily taxed than others. Also: what are the implications of private citizens tax records being made public? ProPublica cames these records were provided to them anonymously.

Chernobyl, the HBO Miniseries

I'm a bookworm. Always have been. When I was a kid you'd often find my nose stuck in some adventure paperback or thriller. In March of 1979, the year I graduated high school, I saw the almost nuclear meltdown thriller The China Syndrome directed by James Bridges and starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, and Michael Douglas. Totally captivated I followed my natural pattern of going to the library to check out one fiction and one non-fiction book on the subject of nuclear catastrophe. The closest thing I could find to a novelization of the movie was The Prometheus Crisis by Thomas N. Scortia & Frank M. Robinson. Scortia and Robinson had previously co-written "The Glass Inferno," one of the two books that Irwin Allen's production of "The Towering Inferno" was based on. The other non-fiction book I checked out was We Almost Lost Detroit by John G. Fuller. This is an account of an incident that occurred at Detroit Edison's (Enrico) Fermi-1 n...

The Daily Beast's Conchita Sarnoff and the Jeffrey Epstein saga

Many people are crediting Julie K Brown of the Miami Herald for reviving and keeping the Epstein story visible in the media, and there’s a lot of truth to that. However, if you want to understand the full scope of the Epstein saga, you have to look at the work of child victim advocate Conchita Sarnoff of the Daily Beast . I hope Conchita has personal protection. She is scaring a lot of very powerful people. The best place to start is the latest edition of the outstanding Skullduggery Podcast: Investigating Jeffrey Epstein . After listening to the podcast it appears that Palm Beach DA Barry Krischer is one of many prosecutors who are more culpable than Acosta. In 2011 Sarnoff and colleague Lee Aitken confronted Acosta with an internal email, which led Acosta to detail his side of his story to the The Daily Beast at that time. The story was updated in 2017 after Acosta became Secretary of Labor. How Epstein “ got off easy " "Epstein had assembl...

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