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turbinetree's JournalLooming debt limit fight rattles Wall Street
Source: The Hill
Wall Street is nervous that political deadlock in Washington and a looming debt ceiling fight could lead to the unthinkable this year: a US debt default.
“Washington has not been able to get a single thing of substance thing done since this Congress was established, so given that, there are a lot of reasons to be nervous that they won’t get it done,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s.
“I think it’s important to be on high alert. I don’t think I’m on DEFCON 1 yet, but I’m on the scale,” he added.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has told Congress that if it doesn’t take action on the debt ceiling by September 29, the government will not be able to pay its bills. While most analysts believe Congress will act in time, the uncertainty weighs on the market.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/finance/346262-looming-debt-limit-fight-rattles-wall-street
If cuts to Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid get into this legislation, its time for shut down
John Oliver - White Supremacist Rally
Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site
Source: The Hill
The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post published on Monday.
Dreamhost, a web hosting provider, said that it has been working with the Department of Justice for several months on the request, which believes goes too far under the Constitution.
DreamHost claimed that the complying with the request from the Justice Department would amount to handing over roughly 1.3 million visitor IP addresses to the government, in addition to contact information, email content and photos of thousands of visitors to the website, which was involved in organizing protests against Trump on Inauguration Day.
“That information could be used to identify any individuals who used this site to exercise and express political speech protected under the Constitution’s First Amendment,” DreamHost wrote in the blog post on Monday. “That should be enough to set alarm bells off in anyone’s mind.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/346544-dreamhost-claims-doj-requesting-info-on-visitors-to-anti-trump-website
Pence and Sessions go to extreme lengths to defend Trumps failure to denounce white supremacists
Source: Think Progress
On Saturday, President Trump reacted to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville that resulted in the murder of an innocent counterprotester by pinning blame “for this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence” on “many sides.” His failure to specifically denounce white supremacist violence was roundly condemned, including by Republican members of Congress and a former Trump administration staffer.
But Trump’s statement won praise from white supremacist groups. Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, called Trump’s remarks “really good,” noting he “didn’t attack us.” The site commended Trump for ignoring questions from reporters about whether he’ll disavow the support of right-wing extremist groups.
On Sunday, Vanity Fair reporter Gabriel Sherman asked an unnamed senior White House official why Trump didn’t specifically condemn the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who flooded the streets of Charlottesville. The official responded by asserting that “the leftist mob” was “just as violent if not more so.”
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/pence-and-sessions-go-to-extreme-lengths-to-defend-trumps-many-sides-statement-2f724a1cc522/
And then when racist supporters are backed into a corner like these two ass****
"Alexander again pushed back.
“With respect, only one group [on Saturday] killed an American,” he said."
Ivanka Trump Condemns Neo-Nazis After Clashes At White Nationalist Rally
Source: Talking Points Memo
First daughter Ivanka Trump on Sunday condemned “racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis” a day after violent clashes at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, left three dead and dozens injured.
“There should be no place in society for racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis,” she tweeted. “We must all come together as Americans.”
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ivanka-trump-condemns-violence-a-day-after-clashes-charlottesville
I am not a fan of this woman, her father or anyone else that goes around a trumpets the virtues of this BS of making it sound like it really is some kind of heartfelt moment of BS, it's still BS and needs to be called what it is.
Her father has at his feet the birther issue, second this woman uses economic racism to make a buck, just like her family and any other corporation in the country and the world, that is a reality of fact.
It started here in this land when explorers laid their greedy feet on this soil and other soils
All racism is based on economics, always has been and always will be, from India to the US, England, Ireland, South America, and any other place, no matter what century you lived in
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/economic-racism
Texas Set To Restrict Insurance Coverage For Abortion
Source: Talking Points Memo
By WILL WEISSERT and DAVID CRARY Published AUGUST 12, 2017 7:17 PM
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature is poised to restrict insurance coverage for abortions over the objections of opponents who say doing so could force some women to make heart-wrenching choices because no exceptions will be made in cases of rape and incest.
A bill requiring women to purchase extra insurance to cover abortions except amid medical emergencies already cleared the state House after hours of emotional debate. The Texas Senate could approve it Saturday night, sending the restrictions to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to be signed into law.
State lawmakers debated other bills limiting insurance coverage for abortion during Texas’ regular legislative session that ended in May, but Abbott called a special session and revived the issue.
Ten states already have laws restricting insurance coverage of abortion in all private insurance plans: Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Utah. All make exceptions if the mother’s life is endangered; only Indiana and Utah also make exceptions for rape and incest.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-restrict-abortion-insurance-coverage
This is just remarkable, that these ass**** can just pass legislation to violate the principles of privacy
NRA TV host apologizes for suggesting North Korea should nuke California
Source: The Hill
A host on the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) online “NRA TV” has apologized for suggesting North Korea should launch a nuclear attack on California.
“Let's send a note to North Korea that Sacramento changed its name to Guam!," NRA TV host Grant Stinchfield said in a since-deleted tweet.
Stinchfield was referencing North Korea’s threats earlier this week in which the country said it was considering launching ballistic missiles toward the island of Guam.
Stinchfield told the New York Daily News on Friday that the tweet was “meant as a joke.”
“It was meant as a joke and I regret it,” he told the Daily News. “What’s going on with North Korea is no laughing matter.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/346237-nra-tv-host-apologizes-for-saying-north-korea-should-nuke
FUCK YOU AND Your "JOKE"
The perfect Alabama candidate': Republicans warm to Vladimir Putin video
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Vladimir Putin’s favorability ratings have tripled among Americans in recent years – and the polls say he’s most popular among Republicans. To find out why, Paul Lewis travelled to deeply conservative Alabama, before next week’s Republican Senate primary to choose a replacement for Jeff Sessions. Could Putin’s rising popularity be explained through the Christian evangelicals backing Roy Moore, the famed ‘Ten Commandments Judge’ turned Senate frontrunner
Top utilities are spending a lot of money to elect Republican governors
Source: Think Progress
The nation’s leading electric utility and their affiliated companies, along with top utility executives, contributed more than four times as much money to the Republican Governors Association in the first six months of 2017 than to the Democratic Governors Association, according to a new report.
Governors can have a significant impact on the activities of utility companies in their states, whether it is appointing members to state regulators commissions or developing energy policy. Most recently, Republican governors in Maine and Indiana played important roles in impeding the growth of clean energy in their states, UtilitySecrets.org, a joint project of the Energy and Policy Institute and the Center for Media and Democracy, stated in the report.
In Indiana, Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) signed a bill that shreds incentives for rooftop solar, delivering a blow to solar installers and their customers. In Maine, lawmakers failed to override Gov. Paul LePage’s (R) veto of a solar bill aimed at boosting rooftop solar growth. The actions by the Republican governors were supported by the electric utilities in the state.
There are two gubernatorial elections in 2017 and 36 in 2018. Twenty-six of these seats are currently held by Republicans. With West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s recent switch to the Republican Party, t.he GOP now holds 34 governorships, an all-time high for the party.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/utilities-donate-big-to-republican-groups-1aa082ce1e52/
There are no words to describe how this fossil fuel business model is a failure, and these so called governors are driving this country into a third rate country while everyone else in the world gets it, and goes forward and we go backward................amazing
Where is a John Kennedy?.
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