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turbinetree's Journal'They're on,' Trump says of tariffs set to kick in on Sunday
I swear this orange hair traitor is making a buck off this crap......................
'They're on,' Trump says of tariffs set to kick in on Sunday
Source: Associated Press
By PAUL WISEMAN and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO today
WASHINGTON (AP) — Expect a direct hit on many U.S. consumers from President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs on Chinese imports. He had no intention of pulling back on import taxes set to kick in Sunday.
“They’re on. They’re on,” the president told reporters Friday before departing for a weekend stay at Camp David.
Americans were largely spared from higher prices in his previous rounds of trade penalties. No longer. The 15% tariffs on $112 billion in Chinese imports will apply to items ranging from smartwatches and TVs to shoes, diapers, sporting goods and meat and dairy products.
For the first time since Trump launched his trade war, American households faced price increases. Many U.S. companies said they would be forced to pass on to customers the higher prices they had to pay on Chinese imports.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/758dbf03f541481db7982cfa8de43064
Motorsport mourns after F2 driver Anthoine Hubert dies
By JEROME PUGMIRE an hour ago
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (AP) — Motorsport is mourning the death of Formula Two driver Anthoine Hubert, who was killed following a heavy crash at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday.
The 22-year-old Frenchman died following an estimated 160 mph (257 kph) collision with U.S. driver Juan-Manuel Correa’s car as they exited a corner on Lap 2 at the high-speed Spa-Francorchamps track, which just hours earlier saw qualifying for Sunday’s Formula One race.
Both Hubert’s and Correa’s cars were severed in two following the crash, with Correa’s car flipped upside down. Hubert’s car sustained a huge impact and span around violently, as did Correa’s, as debris from both cars was sprayed all over the track. Medics rushed to reach them on the 7-kilometer (4.3-mile) track located in the Ardennes forest.
As other drivers swerved around the mangled wreckage of both cars, the race was canceled a few minutes later.
https://www.apnews.com/9dcc8bfb8a244ae5a14754977bbc9cfd
Hong Kong police storm subway with batons as protests rage
Source: Associated Press
By KEN MORITSUGU and RAF WOBER 2 hours ago
HONG KONG (AP) — Protesters in Hong Kong threw gasoline bombs at government headquarters and set fires in the streets on Saturday, while police stormed a subway car and hit passengers with batons and pepper spray in scenes that seem certain to inflame tensions further in a city riven by nearly three months of pro-democracy demonstrations.
Police had denied permission for a march to mark the fifth anniversary of a decision by China against fully democratic elections in Hong Kong, but protesters took to the streets anyway, as they have all summer. They provoked and obstructed the police repeatedly but generally retreated once riot officers moved in, avoiding some of the direct clashes that characterized earlier protests.
Late at night, though, video from Hong Kong broadcaster TVB showed police using batons while on the platform of Prince Edward subway station and swinging batons at passengers who backed into one end of a train car behind umbrellas. The video also shows pepper spray being shot through an open door at a group seated on the floor while one man holds up his hands.
It wasn’t clear if all the passengers were protesters. Police said they entered the station to arrest offenders after protesters assaulted others and damaged property inside. The TVB video was widely shared on social media as another example of police brutality during the protests. Angry crowds gathered outside Prince Edward and nearby Mongkok station, where police said they made arrests after protesters vandalized the customer service center and damaged ticket machines.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/7e789a51a2204ce98077ab32889ab263
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The standing committee of China’s legislature ruled on Aug. 31, 2014, that Hong Kong residents could elect their leader directly, but that the candidates would have to be approved by a nominating committee.
The decision failed to satisfy democracy advocates in Hong Kong and led to the 79-day long Occupy Central protests that fall, in which demonstrators camped out on major streets in the financial district and other parts of the city.
The participants in the religious march Saturday were peaceful and mostly older than the younger protesters who have led this summer’s movement and, in some cases, blocked streets and battled police with bricks, sticks and gasoline bombs
Religious meetings do not require police approval, though authorities said late Friday that organizers of a procession with more than 30 people must notify police.
Does anyone see a problem with this communist government saying this BS:
"China’s legislature ruled on Aug. 31, 2014, that Hong Kong residents could elect their leader directly, but that the candidates would have to be approved by a nominating committee."
Sounds like gas-lighting..........................
Thousands protest British PM Johnson's move to suspend parliament
Source: Reuters
World News
August 31, 2019 / 9:13 AM / Updated 4 hours ago
Peter Nicholls, Amanda Ferguson 3 Min Read
LONDON/BELFAST (Reuters) - Thousands of people across Britain and Northern Ireland protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament for about a month before the deadline for the country to leave the European Union.
Johnson has pledged to take Britain out of the EU on Oct. 31 with or without a deal on future relations with the bloc. The move to shut parliament for around a month in the period before that will hinder efforts by his opponents to stop him.
About 2,000 people gathered outside his office in Downing Street, chanting: “Liar Johnson, shame on you!”
A sign read: “#StopTheCoup. Defend our Democracy. Save our future.”
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-protests/thousands-protest-british-pm-johnsons-move-to-suspend-parliament-idUSKCN1VL0F2?il=0
The Federalist Society Says It's Not an Advocacy Organization. We Found Documents Showing Otherwise.
By AMANDA HOLLIS-BRUSKY and CALVIN TERBEEK
August 31, 2019
Amanda Hollis-Brusky is an associate professor of politics at Pomona College and author of Ideas With Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution.
Calvin TerBeek is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Chicago.
This past March, when the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies held its 37th annual national gathering for conservative law students, the lineup of speakers and panelists included an impressive number of Republican Party and conservative movement stars.
All four of the conference’s main panels were chaired by active Republican-appointed federal appeals court judges. Amul Thapar—a protégé of Senator Mitch McConnell who “nearly wouldn’t speak” to his own father upon finding out he had voted for Barack Obama, his father said—directed one panel. Edith Jones, a long-time 5th Circuit judge considered too conservative for the Supreme Court by the George H.W. Bush administration, moderated another. Elizabeth Branch, a recent appointee of President Donald Trump to the 11th Circuit and former senior official in the George W. Bush administration, moderated the third panel, while fellow Trump appointee to the 6th Circuit John B. Nalbandian moderated the fourth. And the “keynote” was a “fireside chat” between former GOP Senator Jon Kyl and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, a fellow Republican.
Despite what appears to be an obvious political valence, the Federalist Society and its high-profile members have long insisted the nonprofit organization does not endorse any political party “or engage in other forms of political advocacy,” as its website says. The society does not deny an ideology—it calls itself a “group of conservatives and libertarians”—but it maintains that it is simply “about ideas,” not legislation, politicians or policy positions.
Federalist Society documents that one of us recently unearthed, however, make this position untenable going forward. The documents, made public here for the first time, show that the society not only has held explicit ideological goals since its infancy in the early 1980s, but sought to apply those ideological goals to legal policy and political issues through the group’s roundtables, symposia and conferences.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/31/federalist-society-advocacy-group-227991
Let's add also the book Democracy in Chains
The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
By Nancy MacLean
She explains on how this "Society" came into being and how the Koch's helped fund this Federalist Society Bullshit
FULL All In With Chris Hayes 8/30/19 Chris Hayes MSNBC News Aug 30, 2019
Its about the land...................
Watch Chris Hayes' epic takedown of GOP congressman fighting to maintain minority rule in America
Published 2 hours ago on August 30, 2019
By Bob Brigham
MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes demolished a Republican congressman from Texas for fighting against the concept of one person, one vote.
“So the Republicans this week were attacking … Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and in their defense, they do that every week. I don’t know why. She drives them nuts for some reason,” Hayes explained to the live studio audience and TV viewers.
“This week they were attacking her because she went after an institution that has become kind of sacred, I think, to Republicans, and that’s the Electoral College,” he explained.
“AOC’s argument was basically that the Electoral College unfairly diminishes the voting power of some Americans and therefore is incompatible with our basic democratic commitments. That was the argument,” Hayes explained. “Republicans flipped out, all right. They went after her very hard.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/watch-chris-hayes-epic-takedown-of-gop-congressman-fighting-to-maintain-minority-rule-in-america/
Dior's fragrance ad draws criticism for featuring Native American tropes
The Sauvage video has been called ‘deeply offensive and racist’ and the fashion brand has removed it from social media
Dior is facing backlash for promoting its perfume line Sauvage with an advertisement featuring Native American imagery.
The fashion brand teased the ad, which stars actor Johnny Depp, on Twitter on Friday as “an authentic journey deep into the Native American soul in a sacred, founding and secular territory”. It has since deleted the tweet and all references to the campaign on social media.
An extended video promoting the $150 fragrance shows Depp walking amid the red rocks of south-western Utah, stacking rocks to mark his path, as a Native American fancy war dancer Canku One Star, a Rosebud Sioux member, performs on cliff and a young woman, portrayed by Canadian actor of First Nations descent Tanaya Beatty, follows Depp from a distance.
Depp also whips out a guitar and plays a famous riff by Shawnee guitarist Link Wray.
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/aug/30/diors-fragrance-ad-draws-criticism-for-featuring-native-american-tropes
Chris Mathews is really a condescending jerk...................
He puts down Elizabeth Warren for not answering his question on who is going to pay for Medicare for All, when he had his panel tonight and she can't defend herself.....................Hey Mathews here is clue...............................read the article..........................jerk................
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/26/18760646/2020-democratic-debate-elizabeth-warren-medicare-for-all
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