Ralph Nader: call him "Cheating Donald" since he has cheated so many.

I like "Treacherous Trump" better, because of the alliteration.

The US International Trade Commission predicts that the economic "benefits" of the TPP will be so small as not to matter.

Even if these "benefits" were larger, they would not be significant for US workers, since they would mostly be for the rich.

China and several other states (including Vietnam and the Philippines, which are US allies) dispute control of the sea between them. Part of what makes the dispute hot is that the area contains lots of oil. In other words, lots of opportunities to risk local disasters (oil spills) in order to contribute to global heating disaster.

If these countries sign a treaty to leave that oil in the sea bottom, perhaps it will become easier for them to agree on how to divide up the sovereignty.

Robot milkers are much more comfortable for cows, but the result of advancing farm automation (not limited to dairy farms) will be to eliminate most of the jobs that remain there.

There will indeed be a need for people to repair robots, but I'd expect to see only one repair job for dozens of today's milker jobs. And jobs reprogramming robots will be fewer still.

Add this to the automation of other kinds of work, and it leads to economic disaster.

Eventually most of the automated farms will cease to be needed, because the people who still have an income won't need a lot of farm products.

Specific subsidies for corporations in the US amount to $250 billion since 2010, and that doesn't include the general loopholes that they all use.

Plutocratist politicians are helping companies pay so little that the workers need public assistance, then bashing them for receiving it. We need to recognize that they have chosen the side of the enemies of our country.