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turbinetree's JournalAP FACT CHECK: Trump's bluster on hurricanes, guns, economy
By HOPE YEN, SETH BORENSTEIN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE today
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing another deadly mass shooting, President Donald Trump is deflecting on gun control.
Over the weekend, he pointed to mental illness as a likely culprit behind recent shootings in Odessa, Texas, and elsewhere, even though criminologists routinely point to gun ownership as a far better predictor of public mass shootings than indicators of mental illness. There were no immediate indications Sunday that mental illness contributed to the shootings that killed 7 and injured 22 others in Texas, a state with one of the most lenient gun control laws.
Trump also repeatedly marveled over Hurricane Dorian’s size, incorrectly telling the public about its potential path and suggesting he’s never heard of a “category 5” storm before. Dorian, in fact, is the fourth category 5 storm to happen under his watch.
The claims capped a week of distortion by Trump on various fronts, from the economy to Iran and North Korea.
A review:
https://www.apnews.com/216c399b112c48008846071cff823be5
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough..........................
Tens of thousands in Hong Kong boycott first day of school
By NADIA LAM and VINCENT YU today
HONG KONG (AP) — Clad in gas masks along with their formal white school uniforms, tens of thousands of students in Hong Kong boycotted the first day of classes Monday as part of a citywide strike following a violent weekend of demonstrations.
High school students added gas masks, goggles and hard hats to their traditional uniforms, while university pupils crowded into a square at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Workers also participated in their own rally at a public park, braving strong winds and storm clouds as a typhoon threatened.
Nearly three months of youth-dominated protests — calling for democracy and an independent inquiry into police conduct — will be tested as classes resume with the end of the summer break in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.
The young protesters strove to demonstrate their continued determination with Monday’s school boycott, the first of a planned two-day strike.
https://www.apnews.com/30be5a9da41245b2b8738d6ce5243395
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Hong Kong Education Secretary Kevin Yeung said he hoped students would stay in class.
“Schools should not be used as places for political demands or exercising pressure,” he said at a government briefing.
Hey Kevin Yeung........................did you by some strange chance look at what they (communists) are doing over from the border from Hong Kong and the re-education camps they have set up in the communist state programs..................
Amazon's Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos And Carnage To America's Streets -- But The
World’s Biggest Retailer Has A System To Escape The Blame
Deaths and devastating injuries. A litany of labor violations. Drivers forced to urinate in their vans. Here is how Amazon’s gigantic, decentralized, next-day delivery network brought chaos, exploitation, and danger to communities across America.
Picture of Caroline O'Donovan Caroline O'Donovan BuzzFeed News Reporter
Picture of Ken Bensinger Ken Bensinger BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on August 31, 2019, at 4:31 a.m. ET
Valdimar Gray was delivering packages for Amazon at the height of the pre-Christmas rush when his three-ton van barreled into an 84-year-old grandmother, crushing her diaphragm, shattering several ribs, and fracturing her skull.
“Oh my God!” screamed Gray as he leaped out of his van. It was a bright, clear afternoon on December 22, 2016, and the 29-year-old had been at the wheel of the white Nissan since early that morning, racing to drop Amazon packages on doorsteps throughout Chicago. He stood in anguish next to Telesfora Escamilla as she lay dying, her blood pooling on the pavement just three blocks from her home. After the police arrived, Gray submitted to drug and alcohol tests, which came up clean. He would later be charged with reckless homicide.
The officers who investigated the crash didn’t ask Gray about the constant pressure for speed he faced as a driver for Inpax Shipping Solutions — one of hundreds of small companies that make up Amazon’s gigantic delivery network across America. If they had, they would have discovered that the company’s drivers worked under relentless demands to deliver hundreds of packages each shift — for a flat rate of around $160 a day — at the direction of dispatchers who often compel them to skip meals, bathroom breaks, and any other form of rest, discouraging them from going home until the very last box is delivered.
Amazon issued Inpax hand scanners that could monitor the progress of its drivers as they delivered their packages and dictated the routes they drove. It had sent Gray’s bosses at Inpax a memo just days before the accident, criticizing lackluster delivery rates in the area and instituting a “no package left behind” policy during the critical holiday week. The number of deliveries drivers were expected to make each day was way up, and dispatchers were urged to keep as many of their vans on the road for as long as possible — even if it meant driving long into the bitter winter night.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/amazon-next-day-delivery-deaths?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Bottom line in this piece is that Jeff Bezo's and Amazon are basically POS and nothing more than predatory capitalist...........who basically exploits rules...............and deflect responsibility to safety.................
OKay Todd is back............................with his BS again....................
Chuck Todd blames mass shooting epidemic on ‘political gridlock’ from both sides
Published 1 min ago on September 1, 2019
By David Edwards
NBC host Chuck Todd on Sunday suggested that mass shootings are continuing to plague the U.S. because both Republicans and Democrats are responsible for “gridlock” in Washington, D.C.
Todd opened his Meet the Press program on Sunday by speaking to NBC reporter Garrett Haake about the mass shooting near Odessa, Texas.
“Garrett, in the state of Texas, and I know you’re a native Texan,” Todd said, “Governor Abbott, the Republican governor there, a big gun rights advocate in general. This is now becoming a familiar scene for him. Are he and other Texas lawmakers at all having second thoughts about some of their policies?”
Haake noted that as of Sept. 1 Texans will have expanded access to guns due to laws passed by the Republican-controlled state government.
“It’s a very Republican area,” Haake said of Odessa. “We’re left where we always are after these conversations wondering what, if anything, will come from this other than further discussion.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/chuck-todd-blames-mass-shooting-epidemic-on-political-gridlock-from-both-sides/
Hey Todd, now that you were going for your rating BS again.........................maybe you should spend one hour on a Sunday and break down how the fucking right wing governor and the Texas legislature don't give fuck about sanity and the laws they are passing........................but that would take to much time right Toodles...................you really are a pissant.........................
Into the storm: the horror of the second world war
Eighty years ago the worst conflict in history began, killing up to 85 million people. It also shaped modern Britain and its relationship with Europe
by Neal Ascherson
The Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg once wrote that war comes very early to the theatre. He stands around for a long time in the wings, waiting for his performance to begin.
Nearly a century later, it’s generally assumed that the second world war was inevitable. Was it? In contrast to all the intriguing arguments about the origins of the first “Great War”, most people accept that this war was long foreseen and that its cause can be reduced to a single word: Hitler. That consensus is too comfortable not to be challenged.
The historian Eric Hobsbawm wrote that “we who lived through those times knew that there would be a war, even as we sketched out unconvincing scenarios for avoiding it”. Many have blamed the Versailles peace treaties of 1919 for designing a Europe of unsatisfied nationalisms to which Hitler merely put the torch. Will Dyson’s 1919 drawing “Peace and Future Cannon Fodder” is the most dreadfully prophetic of all political cartoons. The Big Four world statesmen are emerging from Versailles, past a naked toddler labelled “1940 Class”, and French prime minister Georges Clémenceau is saying: “Curious! I seem to hear a child weeping.”
But the Versailles settlement might not have ended in catastrophe, even though it made some sort of resentful German revival inevitable. Fascism was the trouble – fascism in a time when the liberal democracies were too weak to resist it or to defend the Versailles status quo. France and Britain were never, until the very end, quite able to grasp that the dictators were not rational, that deterrents did not deter them and that a diplomacy which offered concessions seemed to them an admission of weakness.
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2019/sep/01/ascherson-into-the-storm-second-world-war-outbreak
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September 1, 1939...........................
Death toll in Texas shooting rises to seven as O'Rourke condemns inaction
Source: The Guardian
As the death toll in a mass shooting in Texas on Saturday rose to seven, Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic presidential candidate, used an appearance on live television to denounce America’s epidemic of gun violence as “fucked up”.
The former congressman from El Paso broke with convention when he told CNN’s State of the Union the polite rhetoric deployed by most politicians, of “thoughts and prayers”, was no longer adequate.
He was speaking hours after a chaotic shooting spree in Odessa and Midland left seven people including the gunman dead and a 17-month-old child shot in the face among more than 20 wounded.
Odessa police spokesman Steve LeSueur announced the rise in deaths from five to seven and said at least one person remained in a “life-threatening” condition.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/01/odessa-texas-shooting-latest-news
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and to the wing nut legislature and the asshole governor in Texas.......................hows those gun laws working for you.....................................and your NRA assholes.....................you just up the ante...............now in your state you can bring them every fucking where..................................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough......................
Boiling point: in Tucson, not everyone is equal in the face of heat Environment As summers get mor
As summers get more intense, people who work outdoors, those on a low income and the elderly face imminent peril
To live in Tucson is to be exposed. The Arizona city unfolds beneath four mountain ranges and a gaping sky, welcoming relentless sunlight. Anything here can be sun-bleached – billboards, garden hoses, family photos near windows, laundry left out to dry. Most of the year it’s a dry heat, and sweat evaporates off skin faster than it’s produced.
Summertime is different. In monsoon season, heat and humidity steadily increase until a storm breaks. There is no other release. Heat cannot exit from the body, creating a claustrophobic feeling inside the skin. Sweat becomes a vital sign – its absence indicates heatstroke.
Not all Tucsonans stand equal in the face of heat. If you’re lucky enough to have an office job and a robust air conditioning system, your discomfort will be limited to the walk through a parking lot. But as summers get more intense, people who work outdoors, those on a low income and the elderly face imminent peril.
John Soland, a salesman at a cooler parts store, sees people come in for parts and for shelter. “We had a guy that passed away under a tree in front of Walgreens from the heat just a couple weeks ago,” he says. “I saw him every day. I’d hand him cups of water. He just laid down and passed away.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/31/tucson-heat-inequality-summer
At least 5 dead in West Texas shooting after traffic stop
Source: Associated Press
22 minutes ago
ODESSA, Texas (AP) — At least five people were dead in West Texas after a man who was stopped by state troopers when his vehicle failed to signal a left turn opened fire and fled, shooting more than 20 people before he was killed by officers outside a movie theater, authorities said Saturday. Three law enforcement officers were among the injured.
The shooting began with an interstate traffic stop in the heart of Texas oil country where gunfire was exchanged with police, setting off a chaotic afternoon during which the suspect hijacked a U.S. Postal Service vehicle and began firing at random in the area of Odessa and Midland, hitting multiple people. Cell phone video showed people running out of a movie theater, and as Odessa television station KOSA aired breaking developments on live TV, their broadcast was interrupted by police telling them they had to clear the area.
Police initially reported that there could be more than one shooter, but Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke later said there was only one.
“Once this individual was taken out of the picture, there have been no more victims,” Gerke said.
Gerke described the suspect as a white male in his 30s. He did not name him or a motive but said he has some idea who the gunman is.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/8d8ea557211f4b8db01598bdfa743dd9
Ammon Bundy vows to obtain an assault rifle -- after failing federal background check
Published 3 hours ago on August 31, 2019
By Bob Brigham
Far-right provocateur Ammon Bundy on Saturday posted a video to Facebook where he vowed to obtain an assault rifle after failing a federal background check to purchase a firearm.
“I call a buddy, he says, ‘Yeah, I got a guy who can get some lowers for an AR-15 or an AR-10’ and then I tell him that I was just denied and he’s like, ‘Oh, that guy can’t help you, you know.’ And basically what that does is it forces me to go on the street and find a gun.”
“And I will do that, I’ll find one. It will be a good weapon,” he said.
“I’ll get a gun, I’ll build a gun. I’ll go mine the ore if I have to — I don’t think I’ll have to go that far, but I’ll have a gun,” he vowed. “I’ll have many guns.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/ammon-bundy-vows-to-obtain-an-assault-rifle-after-failing-federal-background-check/
FU ....................so you admit that you are going to break the law because of your failing to pass a check....................Lock his ass up, ever hear of criminal intent.....................
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