MOVING THE GOALPOSTS

Yesterday Chris Christie -- today, Giuliani and other GOPers: Collusion is not a crime https://politicalwire.com/2018/07/30/quote-of-the-day...

All Time Fav Albums

Since I have nothing bullish or non-depressing to post, I shall post about my all time fav albums. When we were...

DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT

Sunday and Trump is at his golf course without adult supervision: must be time for another unhinged tweetstorm, full of threats, grievances,...

OVERSIGHT, OR OVERSIGHT?

One of the biggest threats to our nation today is election interference. Trump chairs a meeting at which people summarize what they're a...

Destination Guide - Ipoh by The Edge team

This weekend’s The Edge has a special destination guide to almost all n sundry in Ipoh. The lavish and ambitious 112 pager was read with muc...

WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE HELSINKI

Was Trump's shameful performance with Putin the last straw for borderline Trump defenders? It seems as if the deluge of bad news and cri...

SELF-FULFILLING

Stop me if you've heard this before. Trump announces a crisis that isn't really a crisis -- except the crisis created by his announc...

Wanted: A One-Armed Economist

One of the funnier stories I heard was a politician who was asked what was the first thing he would do if elected. The politician replied, ...

TALE OF THE TAPE

What the Trump-Cohen recording tells us https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1783368 The Trump–Cohen tape: Advanced knowledge, dirty cash, and a...

THE TROLL-IN-CHIEF

After months of calling Russian election meddling a hoax, Trump suddenly announces he thinks it is very real and he is "very concerned...

LIES UPON LIES

Let's just review the stupid, widely disproven lies that Trump (and his proxies) keep peddling about the Carter Page FISA warrant. It wa...

POISON

Trump and his toadies believe that if they can discredit the original Carter Page FISA warrant, then everything else in the Mueller investig...

Top Glove's Troubled Acquisition

This has been well documented. The RM1.37bn purchase by Top Glove was completed only on April 4th this year. Secondly, the purchase was comp...

OR ELSE

I continue to believe that Michael Cohen doesn't really WANT to flip against Trump -- he wants Trump to pay his legal bills. But little ...

LET ME EXPLAIN

Trump is still trying to undo the damage of his ill-considered comments and commitments to Putin  http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/am...

NO TRUMP

A hell of a way of doing business https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/russia-brags-verbal-agreements-trump-us-unsure Russia’s ambassador ...

NO TAKEBACKS!

NO ONE believes Trump's half-hearted and completely implausible "clarification" of his Putin press conference comments. Saying...

That's Not The Way Share Market Works

Encik Shahril of Sapura Energy had to defend his total take-home package of around RM70m a year for the past few years. Specifically since ...

NO LONGER HYPOTHETICAL

Rachel Maddow makes the case: there is only one explanation that ties together all of Trump's bizarre campaign and post-campaign comment...

Asset Class Returns In The USA

The brilliant snapshot of asset class returns compiled by Blackrock makes for interesting analysis. See if you can deduce any pointers from...

PUTIN WINS

Let me put this in terms people will understand. In the World Cup of diplomacy, Putin just demolished the U.S. following an astonishing seri...

APPROACHING THE SUMMIT

A lot of people in the U.S. and around the world want the Trump-Putin summit to fail https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/...

HE KNEW

What we know he knew  https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1780367 Rosenstein dropped another astonishing revelation into his press conference: ...

BIG BABY

It's well-rehearsed territory, but Trump is overly influenced by flattery and pomp, he relishes the wild, unquestioning adoration of his...

Catch These Movies: THE LEAKERS & BROTHER OF THE YEAR

The Leakers - Helmed by the often brilliant Herman Yau Nai Hoi (whom I believe was from Malaysia who became a great success in HK films). 70...

REFORMS TO CURB POLITICISATION OF BUREAUCRACY - A Few Good Reads

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS IN INDIA: NEED FOR SYSTEMS APPROACH TO PROBLEM-SOLVING Punit Arora ABSTRACT In review of Indian administrative struct...