THE "CHAOS THEORY" OF TRUMPONOMICS

by Colin Liddell

Breitbart is running a story praising Trump and attacking the media. The headline reads "The Stock Market Keeps Breaking New Records While Mainstream Media Focuses on ‘Chaos’."

"According to the analysis, [ABC, CBS, and NBC] mentioned the stock market, Wall Street, and the Dow Jones 33 times since President Trump’s inauguration, but rarely on the days in which historical milestones were achieved. The analysis revealed that the networks failed to report 25 of the financial milestones on the day on which they took place. During that period, the broadcast news programs only aired 19 positive stories about the stock market."

The point of the article is that the mainstream media is downplaying positives and hyping negatives in an attempt to cause chaos and sabotage the economy, but that despite this the Trump-led economy is advancing by leaps and bounds.

TEN WARS WE NEVER BOTHERED WITH

With Neocons apparently calling the shots in the White House, and a President looking for "foreign adventures" to compensate for domestic frustrations, a "Trump war" somewhere/ anywhere now seems a real possibility. But war is never inevitable. Here are ten examples of times when America pulled back from the brink. 

by Gilbert Cavanaugh

(1) Ever heard the phrase, "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" and wonder what on earth it means? Find a map and go to where the fifty-fourth latitude line hits the New World's west coast and then go forty minutes north. In the 1840s, that was where many wanted the border between the Oregon Territory and British Canada to be - and they really wanted it. In the end Polk decided that a war with Mexico would be easier than one with the enormous British Empire.