AZ Green Party cost Sinema 2.4 Percent of vote at polls.

Damn, this was disappointing news, especially in a race yet to be decided. According to the Arizona Republic, at least 500,000 mail in ballots are yet to be counted.

I mentioned before the election that I was concerned about youth enthusiasm. I was mistaken. My grandson and several of his friends either voted at the polls or dropped off ballots, straight Democratic tickets. Our young voters over performed as was covered by MSNBC.

AZ Green Party cost Sinema 2.4 Percent of vote at polls.

Damn, this was disappointing news, especially in a race yet to be decided. According to the Arizona Republic, at least 500,000 mail in ballots are yet to be counted.

I mentioned before the election that I was concerned about youth enthusiasm. I was mistaken. My grandson and several of his friends either voted at the polls or dropped off ballots, straight Democratic tickets. Our young voters over performed as was covered by MSNBC.

Polling Issues in Phoenix Area

The polls opened at 6am with reports of "issues"

ABC reported trouble at locations in Chandler, Mesa, Ahwatukee and 32nd St. in Phoenix. Voters, some on their way to work, were sent to other polling locations. I have provided a link if you are interested in the excuses from SOS and local coverage.


https://www.abc15.com/

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Early morning polling issues

ABC reported trouble at locations in Chandler, Mesa, Ahwatukee and 32nd St. in Phoenix. Voters, some on their way to work, were sent to other polling locations. I have provided a link if you are interested in the excuses from SOS and local coverage.


https://www.abc15.com/

Beware Election False Flags

I am up early this morning, election insomnia disorder. Mike Allen was on “First Look” and he was either concern trolling or giving US a warning. There is not enough information available to me to accept his concerns as facts or speculation.

He claims there is a possibility that Russians or their puppets may try to interfere with election results if they are not what President Trump wants. If they cannot do it with direct hacking, they will launch a media campaign to discredit the election results.

As Ms. Maddow has said in the past, “Talk me down”. Is Allen a credible source?

https://www.axios.com/mail-bomb-attacks-political-climate-polarization-7653e6fd-14e9-454a-a288-c71a9de7321e.html

Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei

Oct 25

Playing with fire

The big picture: With President Trump fanning fear ahead of the midterms a dozen days from now, the nation's political discourse is on track to be even hotter and more volatile during the 2020 campaign than it was when he ran the first time. We are playing with fire — and there are piles of dry kindling stacked throughout America and American politics right now.
Right wingers, led by radio hosts, quickly claimed (without evidence) a conspiracy against them.

"On the pro-Trump Internet, ... the once-fringe idea of politically motivated 'false flag' attacks [was pushed] into the mainstream," per the WashPost.

Extreme language can inspire extreme deeds.

When Trump calls the media the "enemy of the people," some are bound to take that literally.

Why it matters: "The discovery of pipe bombs targeting prominent Democratic politicians and CNN is raising the threat of election-season violence largely unknown in the U.S. — and prompting uncomfortable questions about the consequences of leaders' increasingly vitriolic rhetoric," AP's Steve Peoples and Ken Thomas write.
more at link

Monday's fading stock-market rally is evidence that the worst is far from over for Wall Street

Monday's fading stock-market rally is evidence that the worst is far from over for Wall Street

Source: Dow Jones Market Watch

DJIA -0.99% SPX -0.69% COMP -1.75%

The stock market could suffer a ‘brutal dislocation’ if this level is breached

Stocks could rally 20% after this bruising rout, says Guggenheim’s Minerd — after that, watch out

Why finding the bottom of this stock rout ‘is going to feel awful, like it always does’

Martin Feldstein: Why falling stock prices could lead to a long, deep recession

Stock market turns negative amid report that U.S. set to impose tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/

Monday's fading stock-market rally is evidence that the worst is far from over for Wall Street

Monday's fading stock-market rally is evidence that the worst is far from over for Wall Street

Source: Dow Jones Market Watch

DJIA -0.99% SPX -0.69% COMP -1.75%

The stock market could suffer a ‘brutal dislocation’ if this level is breached

Stocks could rally 20% after this bruising rout, says Guggenheim’s Minerd — after that, watch out

Why finding the bottom of this stock rout ‘is going to feel awful, like it always does’

Martin Feldstein: Why falling stock prices could lead to a long, deep recession

Stock market turns negative amid report that U.S. set to impose tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/

Monday's fading stock-market rally is evidence that the worst is far from over for Wall Street

Source: Dow Jones Market Watch

DJIA -0.99% SPX -0.69% COMP -1.75%

The stock market could suffer a ‘brutal dislocation’ if this level is breached

Stocks could rally 20% after this bruising rout, says Guggenheim’s Minerd — after that, watch out

Why finding the bottom of this stock rout ‘is going to feel awful, like it always does’

Martin Feldstein: Why falling stock prices could lead to a long, deep recession

Stock market turns negative amid report that U.S. set to impose tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/

The Rose

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George Soros: When Hate Surges

Because this piece is behind a firewall, and the Author is Mr. Soros, not a NYT journalist, I am posting the entire article and do not expect NYT or Mr. Soros to object.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/opinion/george-soros-when-hate-surges.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

George Soros: When Hate Surges
By George Soros
March 16, 2017

President Trump has wasted no time in cracking down on immigration. He pledged to build a wall, hire 15,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents and speedily deport millions of undocumented immigrants. He justified these actions by claiming that immigrants regularly flout the “rule of law and pose a threat.” In his first speech to Congress, he directed the Department of Homeland Security to create a new office — Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement, or Voice — dedicated to helping victims of crimes perpetrated by “removable aliens.”

I am an immigrant and an American citizen, and, as a philanthropist, have supported migrants all over the world for more than 30 years. Based on my experience and the facts, the president’s approach to immigrants is just wrong — and a new round of court injunctions against Mr. Trump’s latest proposed travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries suggests many in the federal judiciary agree. It does nothing to make America safer, while whipping up emotions against immigrants that have translated into an alarming surge in hate incidents all across our nation. My heart goes out to the victims of violence, whatever the source. But in the name of protecting the population from a relatively minor source of concern, he is branding all immigrants as criminals.

Contrary to Mr. Trump’s claims, immigrants commit significantly less crime than native-born citizens. This has been borne out in study after study, using a wide range of methodologies, dating back decades. According to the nonpartisan American Immigration Council, the percentage of the population that is foreign-born grew to 13.1 percent from 7.9 percent between 1990 and 2013. F.B.I. data shows that the violent crime rate dropped 48 percent during that time and today remains near historic lows. A recent study by the Journal on Ethnicity in Criminal Justice shows that immigrants actually drive down crime rates in the neighborhoods where they live.

But targeting immigrants and minorities with false and prejudicial rhetoric, as Mr. Trump has done during the campaign and in the early weeks of his presidency, has spurred a surge in hate acts against them. The Southern Poverty Law Center found that hate incidents reported in the first few weeks following Mr. Trump’s victory were at levels normally seen over a six-month period. No community appears safe from this rash of hate — with reports like school bullying against Muslim children, stories of Latinos being harassed on the street and told to “go back to your country,” attacks on blacks and gays, and the desecration of Jewish cemeteries. This is a country that prides itself on neighbors looking out for one another. In Donald Trump’s America, we are increasingly at one another’s throats.

As hate incidents surged after the election last fall, I announced a $10 million investment to provide legal and social services to victims of hate crimes, to encourage local organizations across the country to do the same and to propose improvements and new ideas. This week we opened our Hate Incident Database to monitor the scope and depth of hate incidents across the country.

Having survived the Nazi persecution of Jews in Hungary, I escaped from Soviet occupation at age 17 and made my way first to Britain and then to America. This is not the America that attracted me. I have seen the damage done when societies succumb to the fear of the “other.” And I will do all I can to help preserve the openness, inclusiveness and diversity that represent our greatest strength.

Demonizing immigrants weakens our country. Fighting against hate crimes makes us grow stronger together.