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Home Front: Politix

All US administrations ignore hard science if it hurts corporate interests: Analyst

2019-10-06

[PRESSTV] US President Donald Trump

...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
's views on science are ridiculous, but all administrations ignore hard science if it hurts the corporate bottom line, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.

Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday after an American think-tank warned the treatment of science by the Trump administration has hit a "crisis point," where research findings are manipulated for political gain.

Special interests are given improper influence over federal scientific agencies and scientists are targeted for ideological reasons, according to a report released on Thursday by the National Task Force on Rule of Law and Democracy.

Every US president over the past two decades has, to some degree, undermined research and injected politics into science, according to the task force, formed under the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law.
William Brennan had a liberal agenda that he used the "interpreted law" to pursue. *spit*
However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
the mistreatment of science under recent administrations has reached a dangerous level under Trump. The study calls for stringent new standards to enshrine scientific independence.

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Home Front: Politix

National strike fastest way to end US govt. shutdown: Analyst

2019-01-21

[PRESSTV] A national general strike is the fastest way to end the ongoing government shutdown in the United States, an American political analyst says, as an impasse between Democrats and President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
over his border wall is about to enter the fifth week.

"The highest priority at the moment is opening the government but how to get it done is loaded with very unrealistic solutions," Myles Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate told Press TV Sunday.

"Probably the fastest way to resolve the shutdown is for there to be a general strike in the US. Not just the ~~babus~~ government employees and their state government allies but a real national general strike, something this country is not used to," he added.

Earlier in the day, Republican Representative Lee Zeldin suggested that Trump and all members of Congress should be locked in a room and left unpaid until they reach a deal to end the longest ever US government shutdown.

The bizarre statement came after Democrats rejected an offer by Trump to end the shutdown, which began on December 22 over the president’s plea for $5.7 billion to build his controversial wall on the US-Mexico border.

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Home Front: Politix

Trump morphing into a Mussolini-style autocrat: Analyst

2018-11-09

[PRESSTV] Following the US midterm congressional elections, President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
is morphing into a Mussolini-style autocrat is becoming fixed, according to Myles Hoenig.

The American political analyst and activist said that Trump’s "bluster, megalomania, and racism has come fully to the fore and we’re in very difficult and frightening times heading into the new Congress."

Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday after Americans voted in the 2018 midterm elections that marked the first major voter test of Trump's presidency.

Trump on Wednesday hailed "tremendous success" in the mid-term elections despite losing the House of Representatives to the Democrats in the November 6 vote. The Republicans, however, consolidated their grip on the Senate.

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Home Front: Politix

Trump's buffoonery helps to reduce patriotism in the US: Analyst

2018-07-04

[PRESSTV] How Americans are continuing to tolerate the buffoonery, demagoguery and outright slide into a brutal totalitarianism of the United States is something an American political analyst wonders.

Myles Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday while commenting on a new poll which has revealed that less Americans are identifying themselves as patriots two years into President Donald Trump’s first term in the White House.

The Gallup poll, released on Monday, showed that only 47 percent of Americans were extremely proud to be American, down four points from 2016 and far from the peak of 70 percent in 2003.

The hike in lack of pride was mainly caused by a dip among Democrats whose number dropped from 45 percent in 2016 to 32 percent in 2018, Trump’s second year in office. The number also fell among independents by three points.

Republicans, on the other hand, have moved up six points under the Republican president.

Disillusionment among millennials

“During times of distress in the United States it isn’t surprising to see the sense of pride or patriotism decrease. The opposite is also true as we see when the US is singled out for attack, patriotism not only rises but goes atmospheric. September 11, 2001 was the best example how ‘everyone’ was an American, Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York was America’s mayor, and the whole world identified with America. Today we’re seeing a reverse and in many ways, it’s being led by millennials. Patriotism belonged to their parents’ generation,” Hoenig said.

“Younger people are becoming more and more disillusioned with all that’s going on. Political affiliation with the two main parties is dropping among them, especially for the Democrats. When they see immigrant families fleeing oppression, fear and terror and journey to the north, their hearts open up to them but they see their country not only turning their backs on them, but acting in ways they never knew was possible in the United States,” he stated.

“Democrats’ disillusionment with patriotism is solely party driven. For both parties, and maybe more for Democrats, the attainment of or maintenance of political power is their driving force. Unable to win the most winnable election in decades, it’s no surprise that they feel let down, but let down by America itself, not their own weaknesses and incompetency as a political party,” he stated.

“On the other hand, ‘Making America Great Again’ resonates with the hard core Trump supporters, just as ‘Morning in America’ did for Reagan supporters. What better time to rally around the flag and your president when enemies of the state are at your gate: the media, intellectuals, gays and lesbians, human rights supporters, liberals, anyone with a reasonable moral compass,” the activist said.

“As the noose of judicial investigation tightens ever so much around Trump’s neck, it’s all the more reasonable for more and more people to question how a country such as ours can continue to tolerate the buffoonery, demagoguery and outright slide into a brutal totalitarianism. It gets less and less likely for people to be patriotic when they are in such a tailspin away from the pretense that the United States is even a democracy, a representative government,” the analyst concluded.

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Trump attempting to Make America White Again: Analyst

2018-06-15

[PRESSTV] US President Donald Trump’s targeting of immigrants who allegedly violate immigration and citizenship laws shows the depths of his contempt for people of color and his attempt to Make America White Again, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.

The administration of US President Donald Trump is launching an unprecedented effort to strip US citizenship from thousands of immigrants who may have lied or falsified information on their naturalization forms.

The US government agency that oversees immigration applications is launching an office in Los Angeles, California, that will focus on identifying individuals who are suspected of cheating to get their American citizenship and seek to deport them.

“Although it is not a serious problem, only 305 cases in 28 years, the Trump administration is using all its resources, and more, to target immigrants who abuse citizenship laws,” said Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress.

“No one would truly deny that the federal government has a right, even an obligation, to ferret out those who abuse immigration law and achieve citizenship illegally. However, the message is clear coming from this administration. Immigration is seen as more of a threat to this country than nearly anything else,” Myles said in an interview with Press TV on Thursday.

“We don’t see the IRS hiring lawyers and accountants to target the very wealthy and corporations who hide their money overseas to avoid taxes. The military has admitted that it cannot account for trillions of dollars, or that amount has been improperly accounted for. That’s a big news story but no follow up on the government doing anything about it, likely because nothing would be done about it,” he added.

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China-Japan-Koreas

Failure of Trump-Kim talks will lead to consternation on world stage: Analyst

2018-06-11

[PRESSTV] The failure of the upcoming summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is bound to cause “consternation” on the world stage given the people Trump has surrounded himself with, says an American analyst.

“So many fear that if the negotiations with Kim do fail, Trump’s reaction is immediate war,” Myles Hoenig, a political expert in Baltimore, told Press TV on Sunday.

“Now that he has removed all the adults from his foreign policy team, having psychopaths like [National Security Adviser John] Bolton and [UN envoy Nikki] Haley will cause great consternation on the world stage,” Hoenig said.

The social rights activist made the remarks in reaction to warnings by some experts about the possible failure of the June 12 meeting in Singapore.

Alison Evans, deputy head of Asia Pacific country risk at IHS Markit, told NBC News on Saturday that a failure was likely to revive higher levels of hostility between the two sides than what the world witnessed last year.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Trump truly ranks as one of the most unethical US presidents: Usual Suspect

2018-05-18

[PRESSTV] US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
truly ranks as one of the most unethical presidents Americans have had in a long time, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.

Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday while commenting on a statement by former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who warned that American democracy was threatened by a growing "crisis of ethics and integrity," an apparent swipe at his former boss, President Trump.

"If our leaders seek to conceal the truth or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom," Tillerson said on Wednesday in a graduation address at the Virginia Military Institute.

Tillerson did not mention Trump by name during his address to graduates at the military college in Lexington, Virginia.Tillerson, who was fired by Trump in March after little more than a year on the job, warned that a crisis involving truthfulness and integrity is threatening US democracy.

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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

If Kissinger and Obama could get it, why not the Donald?

2018-05-04

[PRESSTV] If war criminals like Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
could get the Nobel Peace Prize, then Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
could also be awarded it, says an American political analyst and activist.

Myles Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks while commenting to Press TV on Thursday, after President Trump's closest Republican allies in Congress nominated him for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, giving him credit for pressuring

North Korea into accepting a possible denuclearization.

Led by Indiana Representative Luke Messer, 18 of Trump’s most ardent supporters in the House of Representatives wrote a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Wednesday, recommending the Republican head of state for his work to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula.

"It’s not that unusual that his cadre of Republican sycophants would nominate President Trump for a Nobel Prize. To them, Trump is delivering on the undeliverable. Whether he has earned it or not is not relevant. Since Trump is trying to reverse everything that Obama attempted to do, it’s no surprise that they feel if Obama should have received the Nobel, why not the Donald?" Hoenig asked.

"And why not? Look at the Nobel committee’s history. First, they did give it to a war mongering president before he was even a war monger, President Obama. Yet even before his first bombs dropped on innocent villagers or droned individuals, he was already silent about the massive war crimes being committed by Israel during the Siege of Gazoo when he was only President-elect. His argument for his silence was that foreign policy should be left to the sitting president, George Bush. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
he was quick to condemn and verbalize his outrage over the Mumbai massacre during this same time," he stated.

"The Nobel committee sure has had second thoughts now that Obama’s term is over and he had extended Bush’s wars and added a few of his own. You would think they would think twice about making such a blunder," the analyst noted.

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Trump’s first year in office is complete failure: Analyst

2017-12-27

Bless their hearts...

[PRESSTV] US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s first year in the White House has been a complete failure, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.

Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday when asked what Trump has achieved in 2017, and whether he has delivered on his campaign promises.

"With President Trump, we really got a president like no other. No one expected the erudition of a JFK or the appearance of the ’coolness’ of a Barack Obama
teachable moment...
, but did we really expect a cross between Berlusconi of Italia and the cartoon character Peter Griffin of Family Guy?" Hoenig said.

"By nearly all measures, Trump is a failure his first year. Except for his signature welfare for the uber-wealthy tax reform bill, he has no legislative history to date. Much of what he has accomplished has been through presidential fiat, his executive orders," he added.

"He has proven himself to be a lot less than what his publicists (and he) have been proclaiming for decades. The fantastic deal maker failed in nearly every legislative venture he attempted, until the welfare bill for his Mar a Lago patrons," the analyst said.

"He failed at repealing Obamacare

... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
, building a wall and having Mexico pay for it, or improving the economy, except that those with the economic power believe the economy is doing well. He was successful in doing all things negative that he promised. The US no longer abides by the Gay Paree Agreements, he’s terminating US’s agreement with Iran on the nuclear deal and he’s imposed travel bans to the US on Moslems, specifically targeting them," the activist noted.

"What Trump will most be remembered for the first year is his boorish behavior, his intellectual witlessness and promotion of hate. Trump’s idiotic tweets reflect his thinking at the moment, which sometimes had changed to something even more idiotic or contradictory," he continued.

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