{"id":2417,"date":"2016-11-19T08:11:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T16:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2016-11-19T09:06:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T17:06:28","slug":"more-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2417","title":{"rendered":"More Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Expect an Economic Crash<\/h2>\n<p>Trump wants to deregulate. He also talks out of both sides of his mouth; he&#8217;s made noises about reinstating the Glass Steagall Act. Expect the deregulation to dominate. That means a debt-and-speculation-fueled economic bubble. Such things inevitably collapse.<\/p>\n<h2>Watch North Korea and Russia<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s highly likely Kim Jong-Un will want to test the new administration, particularly in light of Trump being on the record as thinking the US\/South Korea alliance is a bad deal for the USA. I&#8217;ve already mentioned Russia as one to watch. The avoidable war could start due to unwise behavior on Trump&#8217;s part in either place.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to not fall for Trump&#8217;s own bigotry against Muslims and to assume that the only significant threats come from the Middle East.<\/p>\n<h2>Libel Standards are Not Likely to Change<\/h2>\n<p>Reason is that these depend on both common law and case law (at the Supreme Court level). It&#8217;s highly unlikely Trump will manage to replace a <em>majority<\/em> of Supreme Court justices. Given that even the existing conservatives on the Court have a history of taking a broad view First Amendment rights, plus the tradition of <em>stare decisis,<\/em> makes it highly unlikely the Court will reverse itself.<\/p>\n<h2>The Odds of Another 9\/11 Scale Attack are Remote\u2026 Unless<\/h2>\n<p>That is, they are remote without at least some degree of collusion, either active (an orchestrated false flag) or passive (deliberately ignoring a threat in hopes of getting a good pretext for war and repression) on the part of the Trump regime. Unlike in 2001, the 9\/11 attacks are now part of history; there is simply no valid excuse (such as Bush&#8217;s incompetence) for any subsequent administration to not be vigilant against the possibility of repeat attacks on a similar scale.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, if something similar happens again, the odds of it being a <em>total<\/em> surprise to those in power are remote. Some degree of collusion will be pretty much a given. Remember, the likely target will be an urban area that didn&#8217;t vote for Trump, anyhow. Yes, I believe he is that Machiavellian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expect an Economic Crash Trump wants to deregulate. He also talks out of both sides of his mouth; he&#8217;s made noises about reinstating the Glass Steagall Act. Expect the deregulation to dominate. That means a debt-and-speculation-fueled economic bubble. Such things inevitably collapse. Watch North Korea and Russia It&#8217;s highly likely Kim Jong-Un will want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}