Jeff Sessions was active in Boy Scouts and youth activities at the Camden Methodist Church.
The Mobile Area Jewish Federation presented Jeff Sessions with its first "Yedid L'Yisrael" (friend of Israel) award.
Bill Pryor was the Attorney General of the State of Alabama from 1997 to 2004.
"Roger Shuler, founder of the website Legal Schnauzer, alleges that a photo on BadPuppy.com in 1997 depicted future U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William H. Pryor, Jr.
"The photo portrayed a young man stark naked and in a state of sexual arousal...
Rob Riley is the son of former Alabama governor Bob Riley (2002-2010).
"The prominent Alabama Republican Rob Riley has filed a lawsuit against Shuler and his wife ... over Legal Schnauzer reports that Riley had an extramarital affair with lobbyist Liberty Duke."
Troy King was Alabama's attorney general from 2004-2011.
In 2008, a spokesperson for Alabama Governor Bob Riley denied that Attorney General Troy King was preparing to resign in the wake of certain rumours.
According to multiple sources in Montgomery and elsewhere, King was caught by his wife in a gay affair with a male aide.
Jeff Sessions.
Lawrence 'Larry' King was the leader of the Black Republican Council and in the 1980's, was one of the fastest rising stars in the Republican party.
"Trump's choice of Mike Pence as vice presidential running mate should crush all hope for those who believe that a Trump White House would be free of the Bush poison.
"Pence is a super conservative neocon, who has supported all things Bush.
"He supported the Patriot Act, the Iraq War, is pro-torture (opposes the closing of Guantanamo Bay), and supports war in the Middle East."
"Mike Pence supported the toppling of Libya, and thanked Hillary Clinton for doing it.
"He supports globalization and free trade agreements, supported NAFTA and CAFTA.
"He is a corporatist who opposes banking and campaign finance reforms, who praised the Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United case that made “corporations people”. (i.e. corporate personhood)."
Donald Trump "confused the Kurds with the Iranian Al-Quds Force, couldn't tell the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas, and couldn’t recognize the name of the leader of ISIS."
"Our findings imply that as technology races ahead, low-skilled workers will move to tasks that are not susceptible to computerisation - i.e., tasks that required creative and social intelligence."
"For workers to win the race, however, they will have to acquire creative and social skills."
The US education system should turn out more entertainers, artists, news reporters, lawyers...
As the US population ages, it does not need lots of immigrants to do the jobs that robots can do.
Trump seems to have no clear answer to the problem of robots.
Both Clinton and Trump have to face the fact that one of the USA's main economic problems is the neglect of transport and other infrastructure, particularly in the poorer parts of the nation.
Six of the ten richest counties in America are in Virginia and Maryland, clustered around the Washington, D.C., metro area.
Six of the ten poorest counties in America are in Mississippi or Kentucky.
North Carolina will not prosper unless it has brilliant road and rail links to Washington and elsewhere.
Vermont lacks a major international airport.
70% of roads in some states are in poor or mediocre condition.
Poor states such Mississippi and Kentucky need big spending on roads, rail, schools and other infrastructure.
Trump's Republicans are opposed to higher taxes, so how is infrastructure to be improved?
Both Clinton and Trump have to face the fact that one of the USA's main economic problems is inequality.
Warren Buffett says: "I was born in 1930. There's now six times as much real output per capita in the United States than there was, in real terms - six times."
"If you'd told my parents that under these circumstances, there would be millions and millions of people living in poverty, they would have said it was impossible."
Military Spending.
Both Clinton and Trump have to face the fact that one of the USA's main economic problems is spending too much money on the military.
Oxford Economics has found that if fully implemented, Trump's economic, tax and immigration policies would cost 4 million U.S. jobs, weigh down global growth and U.S. consumer spending, and could spark a trade war with other nations.
David Stevenson writes that "Trump will be an utter disaster for investors...
"After talking to strategists and macro hedge fund types my guesstimate is that a 15 to 20 per cent correction for US and UK stock markets could be on the cards following a Trump victory."
"Nigel Farage was overheard telling friends at the party's conference in Bournemouth last week: 'I would say at worst Trump is a boor,' before adding with a grin, 'actually he's a boor at best too!'"
3. Donald Trump told voters in Indiana that the US could not continue "to allow China to rape our country". According to former UK cabinet minister John Redwood, Donald Trump is in favour of free trade.
4. Trump wants free trade agreements that allow US companies to take over the world.
Trump likes the fact that the United States records trade surpluses with, for example, Hong Kong, Netherlands and Australia.
Trump does not like the fact that the USA has a trade deficit with China.
5. A trade deficit can mean that a nation's wealthy citizens are so wealthy that they can afford to buy whatever good things that other nations have to offer.
Trump can buy whisky from the UK, perfumes from France, gems from India and toys from China.
The United States exports more than any country in the world, except China.
The USA's trade deficit is relatively small by world standards.
6. What about the The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement, and the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement?
These will help certain big US businesses. But, some people will get hurt.
7. Trump says he wants more jobs for Americans.
Many jobs that have been lost "because of decreasing consumer demand in the U.S. and elsewhere, largely as a result of economic downturns like the 2008 crisis.
(The right wing elite have grabbed most of the money)
"That demand loss particularly impacted areas like cars, white goods, machine tools, and lots of other things that U.S. businesses and consumers alike tend to buy at home.
"Americans make 73% of what they buy here at home."
9. Donald Trump promises to force Apple Inc. to manufacture in the United States.
If Apple makes its stuff in the USA, then either it pays wages as low as those in China, or it finds it cannot compete with Samsung and other rivals.
If US firms are going to pay lower wages, that does not help the retail industry.
An Apple video iPod assembled in China sells for roughly $300 in the United States.
Very little of that $300 goes to the Chinese firms. "The Chinese get only about six bucksworth of value from the item’s assembly and shipment. Meanwhile, the U.S.-based Apple and its affiliates get hundreds of dollars from an iPhone’s final U.S. sale (for things like design, marketing, and even some manufacturing)."
10. Modern manufactured goods, such as Boeing 787s, are usually made from components from different parts of the world.
Boeing's 787, has a fuselage made in Italy, engines made in the United Kingdom, passenger doors made in France, cargo doors made in Sweden, landing gear doors made in Canada and wing tips made in South Korea.
Trump could force Boeing to have all the parts made in the USA.
11. But such a policy of 'Protectionism' has its risks.
In 1930, the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act raised U.S. tariffs on imported goods to record levels.[2]
Most economists see the Act, and the retaliatory tariffs by America's trading partners, as responsible for reducing American exports and imports by more than half.[4]
So, Trump has to be careful that he does not bring about a Great Depression.
12. Yes, too many jobs have been offshored, but Trump may not realise how complicated matters are.
There are good reasons why Coca Cola has bottling plants all around the world.
170 top economists have endorsed Bernie Sanders' platform regarding Wall Street, signing a letter stating:
"The Senator is correct that the biggest banks must be broken up and that a new 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act, separating investment from commercial banking, must be enacted."
16. "Thomas Piketty, perhaps the most influential economic thinker of the left in the Western world, is impressed by the rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders...
"Piketty ... sees Sanders ....leading the United States toward a possible return to the nation's pioneering 20th century experiments with extremely progressive taxation and social spending...
"Piketty points to the fact that, prior to Reagan, 20th century fiscal policy in the U.S. was aggressive in taxing the wealthy - much more so than the European counterparts...
"From 1930 to 1980 ... the rate for the highest U.S. income (over $1 million per year) was on average 82%...
"Those rates ... played a tremendous role in creating social equality and helped provide crucial government revenue for robust social programs..."
"Reagan ... lowered the rate for the highest incomes to 28%...
"'Sanders' success today shows that much of America is tired of rising inequality and these so-called political changes, and intends to revive both a progressive agenda and the American tradition of egalitarianism,' Piketty wrote.
"In the USA, the majority of those who receive some form of public assistance (medicaid or foodstamps) have jobs ... but they earn so little that they cannot make ends meet."
Donald Trump wants to keep wages down, while reducing taxes on the rich, and spending more on the military.
Trump has a home in in Manhattan "designed to evoke the Palace of Versailles ...
"It boasts a cavernous hall of mirrors, acres of marble set off by ‘24-carat gold and diamond accents’, and ceilings hand-painted with cherubs and scenes from Greek myths."
Jesus loves rich guys?
"Trump also owns Seven Springs, a huge mansion outside New York in the upmarket hamlet of Bedford, which boasts 60 rooms, two servants’ wings, 15 bedrooms, three swimming pools and 230 acres of land.
"There’s another mansion in rural Virginia, a huge house on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and a vast waterside pile at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida."
"Numerous reports released during the first two months of 2016 document the staggering dimensions of the social crisis facing working people in the United States.
"A majority of Americans have too little savings to pay for an emergency expense of $1,000. One in four US adults is burdened by debts caused by medical expenses.
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are wealthy members of The Establishment.
Donald trump is "like every other corporate tyrant in that his solution to most things follows the logic of Stalin: no person, no problem. You're fired!
"Except as president he'd have other people-removing options, all of which he likes: torture, mass deportations, the banning of 23 percent of the Earth's population from entering the United States, etc.
"Donald Trump is no ordinary con man. He's way above average."
Mike Pence, Trump's running mate. Mike Pence is a long-time supporter of immigration.
Trump and Pence make for Republican odd couple- Financial Times
"Pence has spent his political career decrying anti-immigrant rhetoric and pushing to make comprehensive immigration reform politically workable,"
Mike Pence voted YES on authorizing military force in Iraq. (Oct 2002)
Mike Pence voted YES on $78B for war in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Apr 2003) Mike Pence voted YES on implementing CAFTA, Central America Free Trade. (Jul 2005)
Mike Pence voted YES on extending the PATRIOT Act's roving wiretaps. (Feb 2011)
Mike Pence supports solidarity with Israel in its fight against terrorism. (Apr 2002)
Mike Pence is a pro-Israel, homophobe who supported the Iraq War.
"Pence is a strong supporter of torture, of rendition programs, of drone killings and doing whatever Israel says without question..
"Pence is a creationist and has led Indiana into a black hole of race hatred, discrimination and pushed public education into the dark ages..
"Conservative politics has given the MidWest huge police departments, starvation wages, a massive outflow of skilled labor jobs, filthy or poisoned water ..."
"Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio have become the home for scams of every kind, mortgage, investment, inferior products, public graft, crooked courts, with a total failure of state governments to support consumer rights or defend the public from corporate monstrosity ... a region of 24 hour robocalls, watered gasoline, poisoned meat, produce watered with sewage and toxic everything.
"This is the agenda Trump is working to bring to the entire nation, the style he has brought to his casinos and other “enterprises” that are now being underwritten by gambling boss Sheldon Adelson, who bought Trump “lock stock and barrel.” "
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