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turbinetree's JournalPro-Trump Troll Says Hes Doing Performance Art As Gateway Pundits White House Correspondent
Source: National Memo
Reprinted with permission from MediaMatters.
The Gateway Pundit’s Lucian Wintrich said he’s doing “performance art” as a White House correspondent in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette profile, reinforcing that his role is less of a journalist and more of a sycophantic troll.
Wintrich, who was behind the “Twinks4Trump” photography exhibit, was hired by the far-right fringe (and often wrong) political blog The Gateway Pundit as its White House correspondent in February. Since then, Wintrich has adopted the Trump administration’s playbook for delegitimizing the media, including referring to anything critical reported about the administration as fake news and attacking media organizations like CNN. This coincided with the propaganda effort by the Trump administration to rely on pro-Trump shills to spread its message. Additionally, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Wintrich admitted that “Half of what I do — well, on social media specifically — is f—ing with people.”
Read more: http://www.nationalmemo.com/pro-trump-troll-says-hes-performance-art-gateway-pundits-white-house-correspondent/
This is how the Kochs anti-renewable agenda becomes White House policy
Source: Think Progress
President-elect Donald Trump raised eyebrows late last year when he named the head of an obscure right-wing think tank, with close ties to petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch, to lead his energy transition team. Since then, officials from the Institute for Energy Research (IER) have been appointed to high-level positions at the Department of Energy where they are playing major roles in implementing pro-fossil fuel, anti-renewable energy policies.
Thomas Pyle, who serves as president of IER and its advocacy arm, the American Energy Alliance (AEA), set the tone by drafting a priority list for the new administration; at the top of the list was withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.
Soon after Trump took office, newly appointed officials across the federal government started a push to prop up the fossil fuel sector, particularly the coal industry. In the spring, Energy Secretary Rick Perry directed his staff to conduct a study of the U.S. electric grid to determine if renewables were harming traditional baseload generation sources, like coal and nuclear. A former IER official, Travis Fisher, was selected to oversee the study.
A draft of the study leaked last week concluded that renewables pose no threat to the grid. The leaked draft was completed by DOE career staff, and thus is subject to change by Perry and his team of Trump appointees. A DOE spokeswoman told Bloomberg that “those statements as written are not in the current draft.” The report clarifies that the spokeswoman “wouldn’t say they are incorrect, just the draft is ‘constantly evolving.’”
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/obscure-think-tank-gains-influence-1644feb0b813
This is why we need to get "money" out of politics, just for this subject matter alone, these people are killing the planet
What Will They Do Now? Ocare Repeal Bill Gives Moderates Nowhere To Hide
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published JULY 17, 2017 6:00 AM
Just one week ago, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) came out swinging against the Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Actsaying its deep cuts to Medicaid would devastate her low-income constituents, emphasizing that more funding for opioid addiction alone would not be enough to win her over, and vowing to stick her neck out to be the vote that kills the bill if necessary.
I only see it through the lens of a vulnerable population who needs help, who I care about very deeply, said Capito, whose states uninsured rate would spike more than any other if the bill becomes law. That gives me strength. If I have to be that one person, I will be it.
A few days later, a revised bill hit her desk. It included an extra $45 billion dedicated to treating the opioid epidemic that has wracked her state and many others, but the hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts that so concerned her remained unchanged.
Yet Capito, and a handful of other moderate Republican lawmakers who quite recently cited the Medicaid cuts as a deal-breaker, were oddly tight-lipped last week after the updated bills release, and went out of their way to avoid speaking to reporters.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/senate-moderates-mcconnell-obamacare-medicaid
I wish I had a fish emoji or a pair of flip flops, because this right wing hypocrite really has no business being in the senate, you either stand for your principles or you don't, and getting bribe money from a slush fund, is just like standing on a street corner, or in some parking garage
People get sick Capito, and always have, don't you think that with all of the billions that can be thrown around for defense, or your pay check, that medicare for all would be cheaper in the long run.....................you really have no scruples, medicare for all is the best and cheaper health care provider
Social Security Projects Biggest Payment Increase In Years
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Published JULY 14, 2017 10:08 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Good news for seniors: Millions of Americans who rely on Social Security are projected to receive their biggest payment increase in years this January.
Bad news for seniors: It’s just a 2.2 percent increase, or about $28 a month for the average recipient.
The trustees who oversee Social Security and Medicare released their 2018 projections Thursday, along with their annual warning about the long-term financial problems of the federal government’s two bedrock retirement programs.
Social Security recipients have gone years with tiny increases in benefits because inflation has been low or non-existent. This year they received an increase of 0.3 percent, after getting nothing last year. The last time they got a bigger increase was in 2012, when the hike was 3.6 percent.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/social-security-payment-increase?utm_content=buffer228f1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Trump's tax proposal would push US below Greece on inequality index
Source: The Guardian
Donald Trump’s tax reform plans would, if enacted, increase the gap between rich and poor Americans and see the US slip below Greece on a new global index of inequality.
According to the Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) index, developed by researchers at Oxfam and Development Finance International, the US already distinguishes itself among wealthy countries by doing “very badly” at addressing inequality.
How can a child die of toothache in the US?
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But it would fall a further six places from its ranking of 23rd overall if Trump’s tax reform effort is successful, with the US’s specific rating on tax policies plummeting 33 places from 26th to 59th – just below Peru, Chile and Sri Lanka.
“When you already have countries like Portugal and Slovenia ranking higher than the United States on the overall index, we think that’s a concern considering the wealth of the US,” Paul O’Brien, Oxfam America’s vice-president for policy and campaigns, told the Guardian.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/jul/17/trump-united-states-tax-reform-plan-greece-commitment-to-reducing-inequality-cri-index
Lets not forget he has three individuals that use to work for the blood sucking octopus called Goldman Sach's and what they did in Greece.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405
ttps://www.theguardian.com/business/andrew-clark-on-america/2009/jul/14/goldmansachs-banks
WSJ: On election day Nov 8, 2016, 150K Attempted HACKS in the SC Voter registration
https://www.follownews.com/wsj-on-election-day-there-were-150k-attempted-hacks-into-sc-voter-registration-39qrs
So the question needs to be asked what did Halley, what did the two senators in the state say, what did the Sec of the State say?
Not one word, one is now at the UN
Battle of Brooklyn grave site at heart of new conflict over development plans
On 27 August 1776, a month and a half after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, troops from the Continental Army fought the British at the Battle of Brooklyn.
The Americans’ defeat in what is also known as the Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the Revolutionary War, would likely have been far worse were it not for a detachment of soldiers from Maryland who prevented encirclement and allowed the US forces to retreat. Most of the Marylanders – known as the Maryland 400, although they were fewer – were killed.
Now, a new battle is being fought over a vacant lot in Gowanus that some believe sits over a mass grave containing the remains of those Maryland soldiers. If it does, preservationists say, the site should be accorded the kind of reverence shown in Lexington, Concord and elsewhere, and preserved from redevelopment.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/16/gowanus-battle-of-brooklyn-new-york-history-maryland
Did Trumps lawyer accidentally make a huge confession about the meeting with the Russian lawyer?
Jay Sekulow suggested the Secret Service vetted the meeting, but Donald Trump Jr. was not being protected at that time.
If this is what happened I will be calling my senator and demanding some fucking answers
Lead culprits: Profiting from poison
Almost a century ago, at a Main Street service station in Dayton Ohio, the world’s first gallons of leaded gasoline were pumped into the cars of customers who filled their tanks at the Refiners Oil Co. The company prominently announced its new Ethyl gasoline as a “product of the General Motors Research Corporation.” It was February 1923.
Engineer Thomas Midgley and his associates at the General Motors Research Laboratory discovered in 1921 that tetraethyl lead, a compound of metallic lead, could make internal combustion engines run more smoothly and reduce engine knock.
But in the fall of 1922, the U.S. Public Health Service’s William Mansfield Clark, then the division chief of the agency’s hygienic laboratory, wrote a letter warning the agency’s assistant surgeon general that tetraethyl lead was a “serious menace to the public health.”
The U.S. Public Health Service then requested that its Division of Chemistry and Pharmacology investigate, but the division director suggested that the agency should instead obtain the data from the industry itself.
https://thinkprogress.org/lead-villains-profiting-from-poison-dec14d75bfc0
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