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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

daniel June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Some Numbers that Explain the Rage on America’s Streets, the Rage on America’s Streets

Some Numbers that Explain the Rage on America’s Streets

46 million, Business Insider’s estimate for the number of Americans who had filed for unemployment in the 13 weeks ending on 18 June 2020.

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daniel June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Empathy for Blacks, Empathy for Blacks and Communism, How Empathy for Blacks became a Political Weapon in America, Hypocritical Corporate and Republican Empathy for African Americans, Is it a Race War or a Class War?, The Corporate Weaponization of Empathy will Fail, Turning Americans Against Each Other

How Empathy for Blacks became a Political Weapon in America

Bizarrely, corporate America has adopted the Communist Party’s old tactic of using empathy for blacks to distract people from its crimes and moral failings.

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daniel June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 America’s False Media Narrative, America’s False Media Narrative about the Riots, Is the American Media Trying to Spark a Race War?, The Cause of the Riots is Economic, The False Media Narrative, Will the Violence Lead to a New American Constitution?

America’s False Media Narrative about the Riots

The media coverage of the coast-to-coast riots reveals how craven and deceitful America’s media has become.

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daniel May 24, 2020May 24, 2020 America’s Partisan Press, Government Enforced Impartiality, Rebels against Impartiality, Rush Limbaugh’s America, The Age of the Podcast, The Myth of an Impartial Press, The New Old Media, The Origins of Impartial Journalism, The Political Roots of the American Press

The Myth of an Impartial Press

History, however, shows America’s has never been politically impartial.

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daniel May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 America’s Dysfunctional Leadership Classes, America’s Leadership Crisis, America’s Toxic and Dysfunctional Leadership Culture, Dysfunctional America, Kroger (NYSE: KR), the sick priorities of America’s so-called leaders, Welcome to Dysfunctional America, Why Bezos is an Effective Leader and Politicians are Not

Welcome to Dysfunctional America

This news story shows the sick priorities of America’s so-called leaders. Our leaders demonstrate that politics are now more important to our leaders than the health, security, and safety of ordinary Americans.

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daniel May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 Conservative Technology Denial, Denial of Job-Killing Tech, How Technological Denial Threatens our Future, Nostalgia Driven Denial, Nostalgic technology denial, Peter Thiel’s Self-Serving Fallacy, Technological Denial, Technological Denial in the Media, Technology Denial in Silicon Valley, The Dangers of Technology, The Motivations for Technology Denial, The politics of Nostalgic Denial of Technology, The Varieties of Technological Denial, Willful Ignorance

How Technological Denial Threatens our Future

Nostalgic technology denial is popular because it serves the interests of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The assumption nothing has changed since 1950 or 1970 gives people no reason to question Amazon, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), or their products.

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daniel April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 Big Banks Survive Coronavirus, Can the Banking System Survive the Coronavirus?, Can the Big Banks Survive Coronavirus?, Is Coronavirus Hurting JPMorgan Chase?, Is JPMorgan Chase a Good Investment?, JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Prepare for 18 Months of Coronavirus, Will Coronavirus get worse?

Can the Big Banks Survive Coronavirus?

Given that history, it is a good time to ask how safe and healthy are the banks? A good way to answer that question is to look at the finances of America’s largest bank; JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM).