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America’s Worst President Ever says it’s time to move on from the outrage over the murder and dismemberment of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi by a squad of Saudi hatchetmen.
Donald Trump, who is hosting Prince Mohammed’s LIV Golf tournament at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ, said the controversy over the butchering of Khashoggi “has totally died down.”
AWPE also gave his blessing to Saudi Arabia sportswashing its image via golf.
“I think LIV has been a great thing for Saudi Arabia for the image of Saudi Arabia,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal.
He said the publicity generated by LIV Golf is worth billions of dollars. “It’s one of the hottest things to have happened in sports, and sports is a big part of life."
Trump can’t figure out why the 9/11 families are outraged over a golf tournament staged in Bedminster, which is 50 miles from Ground Zero.
Does he know that 15 out of the 19 9/11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia? It really wouldn’t matter one way or the other.
Attorney general Merrick Garland should set aside the Justice Department’s probe into the Jan 6 Capitol Hill riot for a moment and decide whether Trump is required to register as a foreign agent of Saudi Arabia.
He sure sounds like one.
Rocky road for S4 Capital’s Martin Sorrell. The share price of S4 Capital is down 86 percent to 120P on the London Stock Exchange since September 2021.
Nearly half of that value was lost following S4’s July 21 statement warning that it was not going to meet full-year earnings targets due to “hiring and staff costs that have continued to increase ahead of gross profit/net revenue growth rate.”
Significant cost reduction measures have been put into place, including a break on hiring, and discretionary cost controls have been introduced already to better balance growth in revenues and profit, according to the statement.
Sorrell, who is S4’s biggest stockholder, expects to release first-half results in September.
Hillary, who? Hunter Biden has topped Hillary Clinton as the right-wing media’s No. 1 target. Fox News “reported” 9,000 stories about Joe Biden’s son during the past two years, according to the July 17 Financial Times. That was about double the mentions earned by the former First Lady.
A search of the New York Post shows 626 stories about Hunter during the past year—55 of them ran in the last month.
Hillary chalked up 513 and 43, respectively.
The Post ran a story July 26 about Sen Chuck Grassley’s “official” Senate letter to FBI director Christopher Wray and attorney general Merrick Garland accusing them of “burying Hunter Biden dirt.”
Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy also ran a July 21 exclusive breathlessly headlined “Hunter Biden’s marriage to Melissa Cohen is on the rocks.”
The couple is apparently stressed because the Secret Service team “that lives in a much larger mansion next door to them, watches over Hunter like hawks.”
Melissa apparently didn’t know what she was in for when she married Hunter.
The Post reported: “He whisked her off her feet. She thought she was marrying a prince from a great American family and she’d live a charmed life with him. But the reality is he’s a train wreck and life with him is very hard behind closed doors.”
Hillary is just fine about losing her crown to Hunter.
The hijacking of COP28 by the oil and gas crowd may spell the end of UN climate conferences... Demise of COVID emergency payments may be why people are down in the dumps about the economy... Guess who? Silicon Valley satelitte communications company slates merger with an unnamed SPAC.
There will always be a place for big ideas and sweeping changes, but don't underestimate the value of smaller steps and incremental advances.
The UAE may regret its decision to host the COP28 UN climate conference as activists plan to use the high-profile platform to highlight UAE's poor human rights record... Walter Kissinger learned how to speak like an American. His one-year older brother, Henry, did not. They both fled Nazi Germany in 1938... ESG makeover puts the emphasis on S for security.
The news announcing the death of Henry Kissinger, the last of the prevaricating politicians and so-called statesmen who stole my future and that of thousands of other young Americans, got me thinking about Walter Cronkite.
Joe Biden’s decision to skip the COP28 climate summit shows that he is tone-deaf to the fears of young Americans who consider tackling global warming a No. 1 priority... Americans are skeptical about the reasons why wealthy people donate to charity... Fox News sinks to a new low.
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Aug. 2, 2022, by Joe Honick
The idea that Hunter Biden has swept Hillary Clinton from the headlines reminds me more of the alleged quote by Yogi Berra: "when you reach the fork in the road, take it!" The fascistic right wing has learned well the lessons of "debate diversion." That technique has been around for as long as the art of negotiation has been taught.
In this case, however, it is a reflection of how the late disbarred lawyer and Joe McCarthy "ear whisperer" coached Donald Trump to respond to even modestly challenging questions: attack the questioner.
Omitted from the Hillary discussion is that eventual Attorney General Jeff Sessions publicly stated there was insufficient evidence to charge her with anything after 17 hours of harsh grilling under oath...."under oath" being a region strongly resisted by the former president.
So, having lost the Hillary "drill", the right wing, with professional PR help has pursued Hunter Biden, using all the same techniques Goebbels and Roy Cohn counseled and perfected, using constant "alleged", "may have", etc., all "spiced up" with implied smears of the Hunter Biden marriage. Except that it might interfere with business development, it might be useful for some of the industry leaders right here would speak to these concerns.