Timothy Leary once said...

Enlightenment moves from east to west.... when the pope travels to America , it's counter - revelation-ary.

Here are the links..,

The TPP is a part of a larger transnational study of global attitudes relating to America . So you might have to dig deep. Here is the full report:

http://www.pewglobal.org/files/2015/06/Balance-of-Power-Report-FINAL-June-23-20151.pdf

Here is the report summary :

http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/06/23/global-publics-back-u-s-on-fighting-isis-but-are-critical-of-post-911-torture/

Down at the bottom are links to the full report and suplimentary material.

As I said, this was a wide ranging study, the summary that focuses on TPP is here:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/23/americans-favor-tpp-but-less-than-other-countries-do/

Finally , here is a summary of American attitudes to "free" trade agreements in general:

http://www.people-press.org/2015/05/27/free-trade-agreements-seen-as-good-for-u-s-but-concerns-persist/

For you, Boehner: cry, cry, cry baby

Showdown - How the South’s Public Enemy No. 1 climbed onto the Supreme Court

Showdown by Wil Haygood, How the South’s Public Enemy No. 1 climbed onto the Supreme Court

http://wapo.st/1iVmu32

Amazing Pluto Fly By

ROAR

Clinton leads Dems but support drops

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Hard Core Liberal . ....

Yep, it's the objective truth based on scientific evidence and beyond any doubt ! Here is the graph to prove it:



Details here:http://www.ontheissues.org/VoteMatch/candidate_map.asp?a1=1&a2=1&a3=1&a4=4&a9=1&a16=5&a10=5&a5=5&a7=4&a8=5&a14=1&a15=2&a17=2&a19=4&a18=4&a6=1&a20=4&a11=1&a12=4&a13=1&i1=1&i2=1&i3=1&i4=1&p=80&e=10&t=21

For comparison , here is Bernie's assesment:



http://www.ontheissues.org/VoteMatch/candidate_map.asp?a1=1&a2=1&a3=1&a4=5&a9=1&a16=5&a10=5&a5=5&a7=5&a8=3&a14=1&a15=2&a17=5&a19=5&a18=5&a6=1&a20=1&a11=1&a12=5&a13=1&i1=1&i2=1&i3=1&i4=1&p=98&e=5&t=21

Granted, also a hard core liberal - but what's that shift away from populism and towards libertarianism all about?

The Strategic Victory over Kim Davis....

Putting Kim Davis in jail for her defiance of the court and the rule of law could have been a mistake. She could have become a "martyr for the cause". And simply fining her would not have been a deterrent - she would have still been able to carry on her defiance .

But the judge made a strategic move. By rounding up the other clerks and letting them know they would face the same, by ensuring that there was a significant number that would issue licenses, he nutered her effort.

Since the licenses are being issued the drama of conflict has been eliminated and people will simply lose interest in her and her disposition. The end. Victory!

Operation Chico: I Survived!

Somehow the conversation devolved to civil defense - high/low sirens, fallout shelters, emergency broadcasts and, of course, duck and cover. I related my very vague memories of participating in an early 60s population dispersal excersize. We jumped in the car and drove to improve don't know where, and stayed in a strange home for the night with I don't know who. The landscape , in my memory was barren and desert like. All in all it's had a very low key, benign twilight zone feel to it.

So, my curiosity piqued by my vague memory , I did a little inner webz sluthing and found out that I had been part of Operation Chico:

Birthers, ‘Trumpists’ and a crisis for the GOP

Birthers, ‘Trumpists’ and a crisis for the GOP (DU Get a mention)

http://wapo.st/1KQDqCA