Michael Gurstein on Thu, 2 Feb 2017 19:09:15 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> FW: For those who wanted to "give Trump a chance" |
To be clear, I did not produce the very useful list that I forwarded yesterday (received without attribution via FB). A colleague has now tracked down the origin which is http://leftunity.org/the-daily-trump/ (It seems that they are keeping this mostly up to date... Usefully my colleague also provided a link to a fact check of the original list http://americannewsx.com/hot-off-the-press/fact-checking-we-are-4-days-in-pay-attention/ For those not following too closely in the last several days since the original list came out Mr. Trump added to his list of “achievements” • A phone call with the President of Mexico that included a threat of invasion http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-threatens-send-troops-mexico-stop-bad-hombres-article-1.2961897 • A phone call with the Prime Minister of Australia that ended with Mr. Trump angrily hanging up https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/politics/us-australia-trump-turnbull.html • A tweet from Mr. Trump apparently threatening war with Iran http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-tweet-iran-on-notice-after-ballistic-missile-test-a7559001.html (and for good measure Mr. Trump’s Rasputin—Steve Bannon--was widely quoted as having indicated that war with China over the disputed islands in the South China Sea was inevitable. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/steve-bannon-donald-trump-war-south-china-sea-no-doubt M # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: