NOTES
i American writer, William S Burroughs once worked as a pest controller, an experience he recounted in his novel Exterminator.
ii Property magnate Fred Trump was once arrested at a Klu Klux Klan (KKK) rally and was sued, in 1973, by the Justice Department for refusing to rent his flats to black people. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/all-the-evidence-we-could-find-about-fred-trumps-alleged-involvement-with-the-kkk
iii Nick Penzenstadler, and Susan Page, ‘Trump’s 3,500 lawsuits unprecedented for a presidential nominee’, USA TODAY, 2 June, 2016
iv Trump accused of ‘savage sexual attack’ on a 13-year-old girl, http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/donald-trump-accused-of-savage-sexual-attack-on-a-13yearold-girl/news-story/6585a49357159ff2fdc3ff3933370500 July 5, 2016. Lisa Bloom, Attorney and legal analyst for NBC News and Avvo, ‘Why The New Child Rape Case Filed Against Donald Trump Should Not Be Ignored’ Huffington Post, 29th June, 2016; updated, July 1st, 2016
v Brad Hoff, ‘Hillary Emails Reveal True Motive for Libya Intervention: Newly disclosed emails show that Libya’s plan to create a gold-backed currency to compete with the euro and dollar was a motive for NATO’s intervention.’ Foreign Policy Journal, January 6, 2016
vi The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (also referred to as ISIL and Daesh) an Islamist entity directly descended from al-Qaeda — itself, arguably, the result of the West’s interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
vii http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/16/just-5-7-percent-of-clinton-foundation-budget-actually-went-to-charity/
viii CNBC, 26 Sep 2016
x Nick Paumgarten, The Death and Life of Atlantic City, The New Yorker, September 7, 2015
xi Tom McCarthy, ‘Donald Trump reverses position on torture’, The Guardian, 4 March 2016
xii In June 2017 Trump took the US out of the Paris Accord on climate Change.
xiii To Trump: "the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
xiv CNBC is an American cable television broadcaster, part of NBC Universal news group
xv http://www.salon.com/2017/03/11/how-the-us-military-is-using-violent-chaotic-beautiful-video-games-to-train-soldier/
xvi Author of You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again.
xvii Born Bradley Edward Manning, Chelsea is a trans woman who was sentenced in 2013 to 35 years in prison for providing Wikileaks with three-quarters of a million military and diplomatic documents in 2010. The leaked material, particularly the diplomatic cables, was seen by some commentators as a catalyst for the Arab Spring. Manning also exposed a video which showed two American helicopters firing on a group of ten men in Baghdad, two of whom were Reuters employees. The US Pilots mistook their cameras for weapons, and expressed notable glee at their shooting. This leaked footage caused a sea-change in public opinion about the war.
xviii Steven Evans
xx ‘US begins $1 trillion upgrade of Nuclear Weapons Arsenal.’ International Business Times, November, 15, 2014
xxi All quotes are from actual tweets.