Today is a strange day having discovered last evening that I am allergic to hemp foods. Who would have thought? Anyway, I do note with interest the following stories: Paranoia seizes Trump’s White House http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-white-house-paranoia-236069 Staffers are leaving their phones at home, using secret apps and monitoring each other’s social media. A culture of paranoia is consuming the Trump administration, with staffers increasingly preoccupied with perceived enemies — inside their own government. In interviews, nearly a dozen White House aides and federal agency staffers described a litany of suspicions: that rival factions in the administration are trying to embarrass them, that civil servants opposed to President Donald Trump are trying to undermine him, and even that a “deep state” of career military and intelligence officials is out to destroy them. President Trump's first budget proposal https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/president-trumps-first-budget-proposal/2179/ The plan, named "America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again," would increase defense spending by $54 billion and then offset that by stripping money from more than 18 other agencies. Fox News Sources Say Obama Used Brits To Spy On Donald Trump http://www.dailywire.com/news/14394/bombshell-fox-news-sources-say-obama-used-brits-john-nolte While the American Intelligence Community (IC) pretends it was "not us" when it comes to claims that the Obama Administration spied on President Trump (when he was both a candidate and President-elect), Fox News has learned that in order to avoid a paper trail, fingerprints, and pesky little details like the Bill of Rights, President Obama circumvented all of that by requesting the British spy on Trump. GreenLeft proves to be big winner in Dutch election https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/15/dutch-elections-greenleft-jesse-klaver The big winner of Wednesday’s election – and now the largest party of the Dutch left for the first time – was GreenLeft, headed by 30-year-old Jesse Klaver, hailed by his enthusiastic supporters as the “Jessiah”. With more than 95% of votes counted, the party – formed 25 years ago by a merger of communists, pacifists, evangelicals and self-styled radicals – boosted its MPs from four to 14 after a storming campaign by Klaver.
Yeah, this whole new presidency takes the word and meaning of "corruption" to a whole new level never seen before. I hope it all implodes in their faces.
