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President Donald Trump is a habitual liar who may also suffer from serious mental illness, a seasoned journalist argued on Monday — but the mainstream media is too cowardly to call it out. “For a while now, I’ve been imploring the leaders of our top news organizations to call out Donald Trump’s derangement,” wrote Dan Froomkin, editor of Press Watch and former journalist at The Huffington Post and The Intercept . “My argument is simple: It is the central, underlying explanation for everything else they’re covering.” Yet, as Froomkin pointed out, “They won’t do it. Their arguments: It would appear partisan; We don’t want to take sides; And (more reasonably) we prohibit the use of language associated with mental illness unless a person has been diagnosed as mentally ill. (I wrestle with a variation of this last one myself: How do you call him insane without stigmatizing insane people?)” Even though Froomkin can understand journalists being reluctant to discuss mental illness, Froomk...
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War-gamer exposes Trump's fatal miscalculation in Iran

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President Donald Trump’s surprise war against Iran did not factor in the implications of an important consideration, and a foreign policy expert who “war gamed” this conflict is calling it out. “Kasie, I've war-gamed the Iran war plan a number of times across multiple administrations,” Brett McGurk, the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant under both President Barack Obama and Trump himself, told CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Monday . “And I think what the administration said earlier — a 4-to-6-week military campaign — was about right. If you're going to degrade Iran's defense industrial base, the missiles, the drones, everything, it takes 4 to 6 weeks.” Yet there is one variable that did not happen in those war games, and it makes a big difference. “The one thing that usually did not happen in those war games was that on Day One of the campaign, you took out the entire Iranian leadership,” McGurk told Hunt. “Tha...
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News24 | Faith and kindness carry Mossel Bay mother across 1 400km to witness son’s graduation

What began as a simple WhatsApp message among a handful of Bible study women in Mossel Bay has turned into a milestone journey stretching from the shores of Cape Town to the heart of Johannesburg. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/CHxwWYJ via sinceretalk
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News24 | IDC accused of funding bias as black entrepreneur claims rejection while white rival gets R69m

Green Scooters founder Fezile Dlamini alleges the Industrial Development Corporation unfairly rejected his electric vehicle company’s funding applications over eight years while approving R69 million for a white-owned competitor. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/kVaUdKQ via sinceretalk
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The genuine reason Trump is trapped — and why Americans are up a creek

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This week, Trump said that he’d do whatever is necessary to ease the oil crisis. He also assured America that the crisis “will be over soon.” Bull----. The problem isn’t just that Iran has blocked the Strait of Hormuz . It’s also that Iran, Israel, and the United States have all inflicted — and continue to inflict — serious damage to the oil and gas infrastructure of the Middle East. This damage will take months if not years to repair. At one point on Thursday oil prices jumped to $119 a barrel before falling back to around $111 a barrel — all but guaranteeing that the price of gas at the pump will continue to rise, as will the prices of many other products and services indirectly affected by oil prices. What we are now witnessing is one of the grossest military and political blunders in modern history. It’s not hard to understand why Trump is trapped in Iran. He doesn’t listen to anyone outside his small circle of sycophants who tell him what he wants to hear. But there’s some...
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News24 | What’s in City Press: ANC recovering, DA getting stronger, EFF and MKP decline | Gayton lied about for Joshlin Smith search

Everything from this week’s edition of City Press in one convenient place. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/b9msfJz via sinceretalk
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'Unacceptable': Judge chastises Trump for rushing to sue Don Lemon — then dragging feet

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President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice wasted no time filing charges against podcaster and former CNN anchor Don Lemon and other people for daring to interview a pastor at an anti-ICE protest inside a Minnesota church. A mere two days after a Jan. 18 protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, the DOJ filed a criminal complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, on Jan. 20. Those charges targeted eight protestors (later expanded to 30 defendants) with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and conspiracy to violate rights. On March 18, the court sought to delay the trial, designating it “complex within the meaning” of the law, and excluding the Speedy Trial Act to give the parties adequate time to prepare. But now Trump’s perpetually understaffed attorneys are seeking to delay information submission deadlines an additional 90 days. This, said Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko, is surprising. “… [The] Court is troubled...
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