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   David Cay Johnston is starting a news site called DCReport, which is meant to do more than write about tweets.  He plans to have a staff of writers, lawyers and significant others to write about the administration and congress in regard to what they...
by ljm
Comment Count 17 comments on Mon Dec 26, 2016 at 10:28 AM PST with 23 Recommends
   This lengthy but enlightening article with a forward by David Cay Johnston and written by James Henry, shows just how important the Panama Papers were, if people had wanted to delve into the links between Russian oligarchs and Trump.  Too bad people...
by ljm
Comment Count 6 comments on Mon Dec 19, 2016 at 12:36 PM PST with 17 Recommends
We never got the taxes, but now Mother Jones has identified the debt PEOTUS owes various banks and the numbers are Uuuuge.  Not counted in this story is the nearly $1 billion in various deals with China.  No wonder he wants to provoke a war with them. ...
by ljm
Comment Count 196 comments on Mon Dec 12, 2016 at 11:34 AM PST with 308 Recommends
What to call our president-elect, seriously, we can’t use his name.  It’s trademarked.  To use his name with the name reserved for the highest office in America automatically advertises his brand with his government job.  From now on, I will call him...
by ljm
Comment Count 34 comments on Sun Nov 27, 2016 at 04:06 PM PST with 18 Recommends
    Julia Louis Dreyfus did a wonderful bit on SNL when she asked the character in a debate played by Larry David how he’d get something done.  The response was a typical Trump type of answer like his usual, “It will be beautiful, trust me.”  He never...
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Comment Count 5 comments on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 12:57 PM PDT with 3 Recommends
    It’s been years since I’ve written a diary.  David Cay Johnston has been writing about tax havens and tax evasion for decades.  He’s written about the Panama Papers, which he says is basically a tale of “money porn” that puts names to the people...
by ljm
Comment Count 5 comments on Tue Apr 05, 2016 at 01:49 PM PDT with 3 Recommends