BLAST FROM THE PAST, 2/14/2017: SELLING AMERICAS SOUL- "PRESIDENT" DONALD TRUMPS LATEST ADVERTORIAL.

The DEMOCRATIC PARTY, AND THE MEDIA, FREQUENTLY COMMENT ON DONALD TRUMPS BUSINESS ARRANGEMENTS, AS HE ASSUMES THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF POTUS. THIS IS DONE REGARDING POSSIBLE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, AND THE ROLE THE PRESIDENT MUST ASSUME AS THIS COUNTRIES LEADER, WITH ANY OUTSIDE INTERESTS BEING TURNED OVER TO OTHER INDIVIDUALS. EVEN HIS RECENT COMMENTS REGARDING HIS DAUGHTERS PRODUCT LINE BEING DISCONTINUED, COULD BE CONSIDERED A CONFLICT OF INTEREST, SOMETHING THAT CANNOT BE ALLOWED FOR THE PERSON OCCUPYING THE OVAL OFFICE.

WITH ALL THAT, CAN YOU TELL ME WHY THIS IS 
STILL GOING ON?

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES USING HIS OFFICE TO BRING IN MORE BUSINESS.

WHILE THE CLIENT MAY CHANGE, YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS IS, BASICALLY, THE SAME SALES PITCH THAT HAS BEEN USED IN THE PAST. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING DISCLAIMER LOCATED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE;

These statements have not been evaluated or endorsed by Donald Trump or the Trump companies.

The use of CNN, CNN.com and any and all trademarks belonging to or relating to CNN are used for entertainment purposes only. This information was not written, reviewed or approved by any employee or representative of CNN or any of its affiliates. CNN does not endorse or approve any of the comments made in this advertorial.

Internet Profit is not affiliated with Donald Trump, or any of the Trump companies. Any and all quotations attributed to President Trump in the above advertorial do not represent the opinions of President Trump in any way. These products and services not affiliated with Donald Trump or any of the Trump companies. This piece is purely for entertainment purposes only.

(APPARENTLY CNN AND DONALD TRUMP ARE NOT FEUDING ANYMORE.)

I HAVE ALREADY PUBLISHED PREVIOUS EXAMPLES 
OF DONALD TRUMP "ADVERTORIALS," WHICH ARE 
ALL BASICALLY "GET RICH QUICK" PROGRAMS BEING RUN ON THE INTERNET.

THE BIG DIFFERENCE- IT IS NOW "PRESIDENT" DONALD TRUMP.

I HAVE NOT REPRINTED THE ENTIRE AD, SO AS NOT TO GIVE FREE SPACE TO THE CLIENT. BELOW IS THE FIRST PART. YOU CAN COMPARE THIS TO PREVIOUS ADS.

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President Trump releases his new Program to help Americans earn wealth!

HE HAS EARNED MILLIONS - HE WANTS YOU TO DO THE SAME!

By Michael Pearson, Faith Karimi and Joe Sutton, CNN

Trump's Program is Designed to Help Americans DOUBLE or even TRIPLE their income this year alone!

Trump Speaks to a packed audience detailing his program Internet Profits

(CNN) Speaking before a packed auditorium Donald Trump revealed the secret economic plan behind his "Make America Great Again" initiative. "It's no secret that the Average American is earning less today than they were before the 2008 recession." Stated President Trump. "The reason is simple. There are people who know how to make money very easily, and they've rigged the system for themselves without sharing their secrets with people who really need it."

"I'm going to change all that" Mr. Trump added.

"It's time that people realized the amazing potential the American people have to create income for themselves and their families. The truth is, the average American can double or even triple their income today without making any changes to their current lifestyle." President Trump went on.

The secret, he says, is in taking advantage of the leverage available on the internet.

"It's no secret that I made my fortune in real estate and television, because those were the best opportunities available at the time. But times have changed. Right now, an average American with no special skills and no investment can go out and start earning income online today."

Mr, Trump says the best opportunity available is a new program called Internet Profits which teaches regular people to take advantage of this massive internet opportunity quickly and easily, and even places them with real online companies that pay them for their time comlpeting simple tasks.

"Heather Smith is absolutely changing the world with her Internet Profits program" he said. "Normally, rich people keep the secrets to their wealth to themselves. But Sara, she has found an amazing opportunity, and she is sharing it with everyone. That's incredible."

Trump has not hidden his affection for Ms. Smith. He has recently been praising her on social media for her efforts to teach regular people how to create amazing wealth in their spare time.

We investigated the claims made by President Trump and Ms. Smith, and what we found is nothing short of amazing. This LIMITED TIME PROGRAM is only available through this SPECIAL PROGRAM - Trump is sharing his secets for a DRASTICALLY REDUCED sign up fee.

TRUMP WANTS THIS PROGRAM TO BE AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE so its being offered for a REDUCED FEE for a LIMITED TIME ONLY:

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re: strategy meeting 8/15 @ 12PM. DGA.

DAVID –  My job is to ensure Democrats have the support they need to flip red states blue and deliver historic Democratic victories in key states nationwide.

We have a lot of work ahead of us this year. Fourteen states are on the line in 2019 and 2020, and we’re already making big decisions on how to allocate our resources to win all over the map.

Tomorrow at noon, we have a strategy meeting to set our priorities, but first we need to know what voters like you are thinking. If you’re ready to elect Democrats who will stand up to Trump’s agenda, will you take a short survey to help us set our strategy?

So much is on the line in 2019 and 2020:

If Democrats lose: Health care access will be slashed, Republicans won’t take action on climate change, LGBTQ protections will be rolled back and efforts to stop gun violence will grind to a halt. We won’t be able to stop Trump’s hateful agenda.

If Democrats win: Democrats can expand health care access, take action on climate change, protect LGBTQ rights and get to work on long overdue common-sense gun safety measures.

With so much on the line, we need to know which issues are most important to you. DAVID, will you take a short survey to help set our strategy to elect Democrats and stand up to Trump's agenda?

Take the Survey

Thanks for your support, Laura

NPR: Dow Tumbles 800 Points As Bond Markets Signal Recession.

August 14, 201912:53 PM ET

Heard on All Things Considered

CHRIS ARNOLD

Twitter

URI BERLINER

Stocks are falling sharply Wednesday on deepening worries over a slowdown in the global economy.

The Dow has dropped 800 points, or about 2.5%. Investors have been whipsawed in recent days from mixed signals emerging from the Trump administration about tariffs and the escalating trade war with China.

The jitters were exacerbated amid worrisome economic data from two big countries was announced. Germany posted negative growth in the latest quarter, and China's industrial output fell to a 17-year low.

An even bigger worry: The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell below 2-year Treasuries for the first time since 2007. In other words, you would get a higher interest rate for government debt that matures in two years than in 10 years.

Such an inversion in yields has a strong track record of predicting a recession, especially the longer it continues. Each of the last seven recessions, dating back to 1969, were preceded by the 10-year falling below the 2-year.

Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer for Independent Advisor Alliance, commented on today's bond market turmoil: "The periods when the yield curve inverts are when markets believe we are headed into a recession and either inflation will be lower and/or the Federal Reserve will be forced to lower short term interest rates."

On Tuesday, the Trump administration said it was postponing some of its new tariffs on Chinese imports. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced that 10% tariffs on certain popular consumer items — including cellphones, laptop computers, video game consoles, computer monitors and some toys, shoes and clothing — will be postponed until Dec. 15.

"What we've done is we've delayed it, so that they won't be relevant to the Christmas shopping season," President Trump told reporters.

The delays affect about $160 billion worth of imports, according to calculations by the advocacy group Tariffs Hurt the Heartland. Tariffs on another $112 billion worth of Chinese imports are still set to take effect on Sept. 1 as scheduled.

THE MEDIA. BERNIE SANDERS.

Take our short survey: tell us how you feel the corporate media is covering this campaign, and how you feel they cover the issues facing this country. This is an issue that needs to be discussed.

TAKE OUR SURVEY

David -

Let's discuss an issue that gets far too little attention — for obvious reasons.

In our campaign we are taking on Wall Street, the insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, the fossil fuel companies, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex and the 1 percent. In other words, we are taking on the corporate elite and the billionaire class who exercise enormous power over the economic and political life of the country.

It is no shock to me that the big networks and news organizations, which are owned and controlled by a handful of large corporations, either barely discuss our campaign or write us off when they do.

When we trail in a poll, it gets endless coverage.

When a poll is great for us, it barely gets a mention.

When someone out-raises us in fundraising, it’s non-stop news.

When we have the most donations by far, of any other candidate, here comes the coverage about who has the most “crossover donors,” whatever that means.

We’ve said from the start that we will have to take on virtually the entire media establishment in this campaign, and so far that has proven to be true.

Ok. Fine. We are ready.

But even more important than much of the corporate media’s dislike of our campaign is the fact that much of the coverage in this country portrays politics as entertainment, and largely ignores the major crises facing our communities.

In fact, what I have learned from experience is that, as a general rule of thumb, the more important the issue is to large numbers of working people, the less interesting it is to the corporate media.

Sadly, for the corporate media, the real issues facing the American people — poverty, the decline of the middle class, income and wealth inequality, trade, health care, climate change, education etc. — are fairly irrelevant.

And sadly, when they do cover issues like Medicare for All, it is almost always about the polling or if the issue makes someone more or less electable. Very rarely is there discussion about why we spend twice as much per capita as other industrialized nations for worse outcomes while the health care industry made $100 billion in profits last year.

Or if the conversation does happen with any depth, it is almost always framed in conservative terms and talking points — or the ostensibly Democratic viewpoint shared by moderates from the party.

The discussion is very rarely about what it will do for people’s lives or why 30,000 people a year die in America because they can’t afford to go to a doctor when they should.

And what we have to ask ourselves is why.

Why is it that the corporate media sees politics as entertainment and largely ignores the major crises facing our country and how candidates are addressing those crises?

And the answer lies, in fact, with something that is very rarely discussed, and certainly not in the media: and that is that the corporate media is owned by a small number of large media conglomerates.

In 1983 the largest fifty corporations controlled 90 percent of the media. That’s a high level of concentration.

Today, as a result of massive mergers and takeovers, only a few large corporations like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, Fox, Disney, Viacom, and CBS control the vast majority of what we see, hear, and read. And there is news that Viacom and CBS want to merge next.

This is outrageous, and a real threat to our democracy.

Because in case you haven’t heard, these corporations have an agenda that serves their bottom line.

Take, for example, Disney:

Disney, the owner of ABC, makes its products in Chinese factories where workers are paid only a few dollars per day under "nightmare conditions." And in the United States, they have utilized guest worker programs to fire Americans and replace them with lower wage foreign workers.

Further, despite making huge profits, many of the people at their parks make low wages.

I was proud to have worked with employees at Disneyland to raise their minimum wage to $15 an hour, but more has got to be done.

Now I could be wrong, but I don’t expect that you will see programming tonight on ABC discussing the plight of low-wage workers here in the United States or, for that matter, in China.

But if you do watch TV tonight, check out how many ads come from drug companies, insurance companies, the fossil fuel industry, Wall Street, and the rest of corporate America. They even ran ads targeting Medicare for All during the CNN presidential debate.

These powerful corporations also have an agenda, and you can be sure it isn’t our agenda.

Now, Donald Trump thinks that media in America is the “Enemy of the people.”

To me, that is an outrageous remark from a president which has the purpose of undermining American democracy.

Because the truth is, a knowledgeable and informed electorate is essential to a working democracy, and the work of journalists in this country and abroad is absolutely critical to our communities and to maintaining a free society.

So it is my sincere hope that the coverage of this campaign generally, and our campaign specifically, changes in the weeks and months ahead.

It is my sincere hope that we can spend more time talking in-depth about the issues facing the working people of this country and less time covering the latest scandal or political gossip.

It is my sincere hope that we have a more serious discussion about the real pain working people, the elderly, the sick, and the poor are facing.

These are not people with well-paid lobbyists who know how to manipulate the system. These are people who struggle every single day but are almost always ignored by the government.

You follow the news more closely than most, so before I sign-off on this letter, I want to hear from you:

Take our short survey: tell us how you feel the corporate media is covering this campaign, and how you feel they cover the issues facing this country. This is an issue that needs to be discussed.

Thank you for sounding off and making your voice heard.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

TAKE OUR SURVEY