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applegrove's JournalCreepy world we live in when the president doesn't want to stop any possible
attack on Democracy in his own country when the information is ambiguous. I can see it now: Trump will say during the GE that Putin is helping democrats (Bernie) and that they never helped him. It is opposite world. Almost like Trump was enraged that his former Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire didn't stop it - the naming of the Trump campaign as a beneficiary of Putin actions during the election this year. Almost like he had assurances Trump would not be obviously targetted by Putin. And then it got back to him by Nunes that the House had been briefed to the contrary of their hoped narrative for the election.
O'Brien Says 'No Intelligence Behind' Meddling Claims
O’Brien Says ‘No Intelligence Behind’ Meddling Claims
February 22, 2020 at 7:40 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 22 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/22/obrien-says-no-intelligence-behind-meddling-claims/
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National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien told CBS News he disputed reports of what was presented during a House Intelligence Committee that Russian are interfering to help President Trump in the presidential election.
Said O’Brien: “I haven’t seen any intelligence to support the reports that were leaked out of the House. But it’s just hard to comment on that because, again, I wasn’t there. And these are leaks that were coming from a House Intel Committee hearing. I haven’t seen any intelligence that would back up what I’m reading in the papers.”
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Interesting that Trump and republicans seem to be out of the loop. I mean Nunes had to tell Trump. Maybe he roars at anyone who gives him intel on russia interference that makes it hard to tell him things. 
Update: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/22/politics/nsa-robert-obrien-intelligence-russia-help-sanders-trump/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
Are the republicans costing medicare for all to include the increased
costs to current medicare that will occur when 68,00 a year don't die young due to bad or no insurance and make it to 65? If they are doing that then they should ad the tax revenue forgone by someone dying young to their internal Republican costing aswell. All in all a single payer like we have in canada keeps costs down by preventive medicine, less admin costs and bargaining power. That doesn't mean that you can't get a second opinion at the MAYO Clinic if you have the extra private insurance or $. Or treatment at specialized research hospitals if your local healthcare providers are stumped. The research doesn't stop just because you have medicare for all. The quality of care is excellent.
I think with the republicans it is really about power and cleaving the country in two while something like an improved healthcare for all would bring the country together. It would also mean more lower middle class or poor to vote. So they can'y have that.
Here is where i get the 68,000 annual deaths number.
https://www.newsweek.com/medicare-all-would-save-450-billion-annually-while-preventing-68000-deaths-new-study-shows-1487862
Like when the Chinese said of the subprime mortgage crisis and why they didn't "
do it themselves: "why would we take our smartest people, people who would otherwise have been engineers, and teach them finance so that they could develop tools to take money from regular people and give it to the rich????" (or something to that effect).
I'm not saying alabama will vote dem in the electoral college. Think of
political votes as a disease. Alabama and the south have herd immunity to democrats. Right now so many are innoculated against democrats. What happens is if bernie is right and he gets through. Alabama would be part of that change and it would result in better electoral college votes for democrats in the north or say Georgia. But if alabama retains its hate of all things democrat then it stops the spread in the north or Georgia a bit as people are talking to each other from anywhere these days. And acting as a group. Trump knows that. Democrats should too.
Do businesses like Wayfair know that inequality is killing their business?
That where Trump is heading only a third of the country will have disposable cash to spend? US economy will soon be like Mexico where Wayfair doesn't sell.
Never Mind the Internet. Here’s What’s Killing Malls.
Yes, the internet has changed the way we shop. But taken together, other factors have caused greater harm to traditional retail stores, an economist says.
By Austan Goolsbee at the NY Times
Published Feb. 13, 2020Updated Feb. 14, 2020
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/business/not-internet-really-killing-malls.amp.html
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It has been a tough decade for brick-and-mortar retailers, and matters seem only to be getting worse.
Despite a strong consumer economy, physical retailers closed more than 9,000 stores in 2019 — more than the total in 2018, which surpassed the record of 2017. Already this year, retailers have announced more than 1,200 more intended closings, including 125 Macy’s stores.
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Income Inequality: Rising income inequality has left less of the nation’s money in the hands of the middle class, and the traditional retail stores that cater to them have suffered. The Pew Research Center estimates that since 1970, the share of the nation’s income earned by families in the middle class has fallen from almost two-thirds to around 40 percent. Small wonder, then, that retailers aiming at the ends of the income distribution — high-income people and lower-income people — have accounted for virtually all the revenue growth in retail while stores aimed at the middle have barely grown at all, according to a report by Deloitte.
As the concentration of income at the top rises, overall retail suffers simply because high-income people save a much larger share of their money. The government reports spending for different income levels in the official Consumer Expenditure Survey. In the latest data, people in the top 10 percent of income saved almost a third of their income after taxes. People in the middle of the income distribution spent 100 percent of their income. So as the middle class has been squeezed and more has gone to the top, it has meant higher saving rates overall.
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Why are we assuming climate change will stop? Why will temperatures
suddenly stop rising?
Sen Sheldon Whitehouse on Mitch McConnells dark money pac that keeps republicans
in line curtesy of Citizens' United:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mcconnell-keeps-gop-in-line-with-dark-money-war-chest-whitehouse-77859397840
Unlimited money from 6 to 10 very rich republican donors, who can give unlimited money on super pac Mitch McConnell controls and holds over the heads of Senators.
This is not democratic. The people are the ones who should hold power over their Senators.
Are white supremacists considered terrorists under Trump? I think not.
I thought at first it was to not increase their numbers but seeing how white power is the glue that holds Trump to his base i think it is political. He wants racism to grow the Republican party so he needs to not attack it lest it grow The Base and other crime groups. Those potential The Base members are Trump's base. And they can't vote in jail or on the run.
Alberta has 94,000 inactive + abandoned oil and gas wells. Why? Industry self
regulation. North Dakota has less than 2000 and they regulate properly. Exploration is not hurting there. The weĺls will take $100,000 to $1/2 million to get rid of. People can't sell their farmland because nobody wants the industrial mess. CBC News Just an fyi. Like with Boeing and the 737 Max, self regulating is dangerous and costly.
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