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Erdogan Can Celebrate the Turkish Referendum - For Now

The United States has for decades provided unconditional support for Turkish authoritarianism.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Declaring victory in the recent plebiscite granting him extraordinary powers, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan consolidated his authoritarian rule.

A new constitutional amendment abolishes the country’s parliamentary system and gives the once-weak executive almost unlimited authority.

The Aging Systems of America

Now Wall Street wants to get involved with buying and selling water rights

(SALEM, Ore.) - Our major infrastructures in this country are failing! We have systems in place to keep us safe and yet we are not caring for them the way we should and creating systems that are a danger to us all.

Let’s look at those major systems and what we need to do to make them safer for us.

Danger Where You Live

We are all breathing in a lot of air, but what is in that air? Is it helping or hindering your health?

(SALEM, Ore.) - If you listen to the EPA, you will have heard that the environment we have indoors is up to five times as toxic as that outdoors. In fact, in some instances, the measurements of air inside buildings has been as much as 100 times as polluted as outside air.

Now, consider that most of our time is spent inside, be it in our homes, offices, or schools. That means that most of the toxins we inhale are inside.

Untied Airlines-- the Real Story

Untied [sic] Airlines is one more step in America's drift to fascism. It's not too late to stop it.

(Pender Island, British Columbia) - There is a deeper aspect that has been completely overlooked. You’ve got the complete story here first.

The flight was NOT overbooked as everyone is reporting. This is the first mistake. All the paying passengers had seats. United wanted to put crew members on the flight who had to be in Louisville to work the next day. This was the result of complete mismanagement on the part of UAL.

TV May Actually Die Soon - Stay Tuned!

The question is when this shift will make a difference, not if.

(NEW YORK, New York) - FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google/YouTube) is about to take a huge bite out of traditional network TV (ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox), and the media business will never be the same.

To understand how profound the implications of the recently announced NFL on Amazon Prime or YouTube TV are, it may help to understand the economic engine that drives traditional commercial television.

The Attack on Syria in 4 Basic Facts

War is immoral, illogical, and criminal and has no “good side” or “bad side”.

(OCCUPIED PALESTINE) - The attack on Syria by the United States while illegal per international law (not sanctioned by the UN Security Council and opposed by Russia and China) comes to remind as all of five basic facts of geopolitics:

1: US Presidents no matter how “unconventional” must always obey the rules set for them. Trump came to office opposing intervention in Syria and is now directly siding with the “rebels” and has accepted the 1990s neocon strategy of regime changes across Western Asia that are supposed to benefit "Israel".

Trump, You Cannot Fool All the People All of the Time

Like it or not, his ardent supporters just don’t seem to care if this POTUS is truthful.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Trump lies for the pure pleasure of it; he just can't help himself. Often his lies are difficult to fight, destructive in their effects, and almost impossible to correct if they resonate strongly enough with his true believers, which Trump’s mostly do.

His political incorrectness is what appeals to many of his supporters.

Internet Privacy 2017 | What You Need to Know

There has never been a reasonable expectation of online privacy, and there never will be.

(NEW YORK, New York) - Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have always had the right to use your data as they see fit, within a few Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) parameters. This has not changed.

And you have given FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) the right to use your data as they see fit (with a few privacy policy exceptions and within the few aforementioned FTC and FCC parameters). So regarding online privacy, for all practical purposes, absolutely nothing has changed.

Now You See It, Soon You Won`t.

Ten countries that could disappear in the next twenty years...

(PENDER ISLAND, British Columbia) - Thomas Edsel writes in the NYT that Trump is so ignorant, he is not even aware of his own ignorance. Edsel concludes his column with:

Given the magnitude of the problems that lie ahead and the embedded contradictions that make them difficult to solve, we face precisely the kind of world President Trump is least equipped for, mentally and morally.

Budget Cuts Could Signal New Direction Regulating HUD`s Tenant Screening

A $9 billion or 13 percent reduction in funding could disrupt housing for "the less fortunate".

(WALTHAM, MA (PRWEB)) - Rapid change continues to move throughout the Federal Government and with recent leaks of budget cuts to key departments, such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development, change will certainly accelerate.

Adam Almeida, President and CEO of TenantScreeningUSA.com opines: “Potential budget cuts inside HUD could signal a key change in direction and, perhaps, enforcement of key Guidance’s such as those released last year regarding the fair, legal, and lawful use of criminal background records as part of tenant screening.”