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turbinetree's JournalTrump claims Pelosi is 'no longer speaker' because he's mad about impeachment
By Dan Desai Martin -
September 25, 2019
She is.
Nancy Pelosi is House speaker and she isn't going anywhere, despite Donald Trump's claim during a Wednesday meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"Nancy Pelosi, as far as I'm concerned, unfortunately, she's no longer speaker of the House," Trump said after a minutelong rant accusing the Democratic Party of being taken over by "the radical left."
"She may be radical left herself, but she really has lost her way," he said.
Trump also falsely accused Democrats, who have begun pressing forward on a formal impeachment inquiry, of not addressing major issues such as gun safety legislation and being too focused on forcing him out.
https://shareblue.com/donald-trump-impeachment-nancy-pelosi-ukraine-whistleblower-congress/
Please note..........................this is not from the Onion.............................
Not how it works: GOP lawmaker hopes to prevent Trump's impeachment by toppling Nadler
By Lisa Needham -
September 25, 2019
Lance Gooden, a freshman House Republican from Texas, introduced a nonsensical measure to oust Rep. Jerry Nadler from the House Judiciary Committee.
Freshman GOP House member Lance Gooden (R-TX) decided Tuesday would be a great time to try to remove the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). It's the latest in a series of increasingly desperate moves from House Republicans who now realize they're staring down the barrel of an impeachment vote.
Gooden issued a short statement saying that Nadler had said he was "impeaching the president — right now" and was therefore violating the law because the House didn't authorize the action back in July.
"In recent days Democrats have sanctimoniously declared their allegiance to the rule of law. I encourage them to follow those rules and hold Chairman Nadler accountable for breaking them," he said.
Gooden called Nadler's comments an "attempted coup against a duly-elected, sitting president."
https://shareblue.com/donald-trump-impeachment-lance-gooden-kansas-republican-jerry-nadler-congress/
So Texas, did this jerk not read any civic class course work on how he is suppose to represent you...................you do realize that he is a national disgrace, and has no clue, and he is the now the face of stupid, and if, and this is a big if, if I lived in the state I would vote this jerk out of office.......................he is enabling POS to extortion and blackmail, that is now presently sitting in the white house, who has been committing extortion and blackmail.....................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.........................
GOP senator says holding Trump accountable for crimes is 'a total distraction'
By Dan Desai Martin -
September 25, 2019
Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) attacked the House of Representatives for performing their oversight role and looking into Trump's criminal activity.
After Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump's alleged criminal activities, Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) decided to attack her fellow members of Congress.
"It's a total distraction," McSally said about the inquiry. "People can make their voices heard at the ballot box, right?"
McSally seems to be dismissing the latest major scandal Trump is facing, which prompted many additional Democrats to demand an impeachment inquiry.
On June 25, Trump pressured the president of Ukraine to find dirt on a potential political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. Trump, working with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was interested in false allegations that Biden pressured the Ukrainian government in 2016 to fire a prosecutor who was investigating an energy company because Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was on the board of said energy company.
https://shareblue.com/martha-mcsally-donald-trump-impeachment-arizona-republican-congress/
Hey, McSally, let see if everyone fully understands your BS..................When you were in the Air Force taking a paycheck from the taxpayers, did you or did you not swear that you would Defend and Protect the Constitution......................now 18 months after you were "appointed"..........................did you or did you not swear again that you would Defend and Protect the Constitution..............................or did you cross your fingers behind your back and basically lie to everyone in Arizona.....................................
November 3, 2020 cannot , and I mean cannot get here fast enough.........................
Climate striker Greta Thunberg wins Swedish rights prize
Published 2 hours ago on September 25, 2019
By Agence France-Presse
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday won the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the “alternative Nobel Prize”, the jury for the Swedish human rights prize said.
Thunberg was honoured “for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts,” the Right Livelihood Foundation said in a statement.
“Her resolve to not put up with the looming climate disaster has inspired millions of peers to also raise their voices and demand immediate climate action,” it added.
Thunberg’s global climate movement “Fridays for Future” began in August 2018 when she started sitting alone outside Sweden’s parliament with her now iconic sign reading “school strike for the climate”.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/climate-striker-greta-thunberg-wins-swedish-rights-prize/
I would still like to know why the Nobel Peace Prize committee gave the prize in Economics to one James McGill Buchanan the prize..............................because that libertarian ass**** attack on democracies, and basically wanting to create selfdoms.....................Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean
Health Insurance That Doesn't Cover the Bills Has Flooded the Market Under Trump
The administration’s moves to weaken the Affordable Care Act have taken hold, and companies are cashing in.
Early one Friday morning two years ago, David Diaz woke up his wife, Marisia, and told her he didn’t feel right. He asked her to pray with him. Their son called 911, and within minutes, Marisia was tailing an ambulance down the dirt road away from the couple’s house on the outskirts of Phoenix to a hospital in the city. David had had a massive heart attack.
Before being wheeled into surgery, he whispered the PIN for his bank card to Marisia, just in case. But the double-bypass operation was successful, and two weeks later he was discharged.
On her way out, Marisia gave the billing clerk David’s health insurance card. It looked like any other, listing a copay of $30 for doctor visits and $50 for “wellness.” She’d bought the plan a year earlier from a company called Health Insurance Innovations Inc., with the understanding that it would be comprehensive. She hadn’t noticed a phrase near the top of the card, though: “Short-Term Medical Insurance.”
The Diazes’ plan was nothing like the ones consumers have come to expect under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which bars insurers from capping coverage, canceling it retroactively, or turning away people with preexisting conditions. But the law includes an exemption for short-term plans that serve as a stopgap for people between jobs. The Trump administration, thwarted in its attempts to overturn the ACA, has widened that loophole by stretching the definition of “short-term” from three months to a year, with the option of renewing for as long as three years.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-17/under-trump-health-insurance-with-less-coverage-floods-market?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Bait and Switch scam............................
A Nobel for Sweden's Greta Thunberg? A tough decision for prize committee
World News
September 25, 2019 / 7:07 AM / Updated 8 minutes ago
Gwladys Fouche 7 Min Read
OSLO (Reuters) - Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg’s shaming of world leaders and air travelers over climate change has won her millions of admirers and attracted many new followers to her cause.
But it just might cost her the Nobel Peace Prize.
Thunberg, one of few people whose nomination has become known before the awards ceremony, is the bookmakers’ favorite to win the prize next month.
At 16, she would be the youngest recipient of the $930,000 award won by the likes of Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter and Mikhail Gorbachev. She would be the first to win the prize for environmental work since former U.S. vice president Al Gore shared it in 2007 for raising awareness of climate change.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-peace/a-nobel-for-swedens-greta-thunberg-a-tough-decision-for-prize-committee-idUSKBN1WA18Z?il=0
You know what when a world is has fucked up as this world, that has made some pretty empty promises and this young lady has called out that economic message by shaming the hypocrites........................I stand with Greta Thunberg and I have her back........................
Exclusive: Boeing bid for Embraer unit faces EU antitrust probe - sources
Business News
September 23, 2019 / 7:00 AM / Updated 2 hours ago
Foo Yun Chee 2 Min Read
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Boeing is set to face an EU antitrust investigation of up to five months into its bid for a controlling stake in the commercial aircraft arm of Brazil’s Embraer, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
The deal, marking the biggest shift in commercial aerospace in decades, would reshape a global passenger jet duopoly and reinforce Western planemakers against newcomers from China, Russia and Japan.
It would give Boeing a foothold in the lower end of the market, enabling it to better compete with the CSeries jets designed by Canada’s Bombardier Inc and backed by European rival Airbus SE.
The deal values the Embraer unit at $4.75 billion.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-embraer-m-a-boeing-eu-exclusive/exclusive-boeing-bid-for-embraer-unit-faces-eu-antitrust-probe-sources-idUSKBN1W8127
At shuttered Ohio plant, workers still hope for new GM vehicle
Business News
September 23, 2019 / 6:12 AM / Updated 3 hours ago
Nick Carey 6 Min Read
LORDSTOWN, Ohio (Reuters) - When asked about reports General Motors Co (GM.N) may turn its shuttered Lordstown, Ohio, plant into a battery factory, “Buffalo” Joe Nero snorts and points at the vast complex that until six months ago made the Chevrolet Cruze.
“You can’t support a plant like this making batteries. We need a new vehicle allocated to us,” said Nero, 62, who has worked at five plants over 42 years with the No. 1 U.S. automaker.
“It wouldn’t even cover 10% of the facility or hire 10% of the people, and they wouldn’t pay enough to support yourself, let alone a family,” he said.
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union, which went on strike last week, agrees.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-autos-labor-lordstown-feature/at-shuttered-ohio-plant-workers-still-hope-for-new-gm-vehicle-idUSKBN1W80XZ
U.S. court deals setback to FCC push to revamp media ownership rules
Source: Reuters
Business News
September 23, 2019 / 12:37 PM / Updated 9 minutes ago
David Shepardson 3 Min Read
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission suffered a setback on Monday in a long-running legal battle when a federal appeals court struck down its latest effort to loosen U.S. media ownership rules.
The Republican-led FCC in 2017 voted 3-2 to eliminate the 42-year-old ban on cross-ownership of a newspaper and TV station in a major market. It also voted to make it easier for media companies to buy additional TV stations in the same market, and for local stations to jointly sell advertising time and for companies to buy additional radio stations in some markets.
The court told the FCC to take up the issue again, saying the regulator “did not adequately consider the effect its sweeping rule changes will have on ownership of broadcast media by women and racial minorities.”
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement that despite instructions from Congress to review media ownership regulations a majority of federal appeals court judges for 15 years “has taken that authority for themselves, blocking any attempt to modernize these regulations to match the obvious realities of the modern media marketplace.”
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-media/u-s-court-deals-setback-to-fcc-push-to-revamp-media-ownership-rules-idUSKBN1W81YU?il=0
Global postal union meets amid Trump threat to pull US out
Source: Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) — The effects of President Donald Trump’s standoff with China could soon be coming to a post office near you — and higher shipping rates for some types of mail are the likely outcome.
The Trump administration is threatening to pull the United States out of the 145-year-old Universal Postal Union, complaining that some postal carriers like China’s aren’t paying enough to have foreign shipments delivered to U.S. recipients.
A showdown looms at a special UPU congress that is being held Tuesday to Thursday in Geneva.
The complaint centers on the reimbursement that the U.S. Postal Service receives for providing final deliveries of bulky letters and small parcels sent from abroad — usually ones not weighing more than 2 kilograms (about 4½ pounds). Such mail can include high-value items like mobile phones, memory sticks or pharmaceuticals.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/43412684069a466b988e73bcb6f55689
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The State Department last year formally indicated that the United States would quit the UPU, an organization it helped create, on Oct. 17 if reforms can’t be agreed. The administration says the United States will start setting its own rates for reimbursement — so-called “self-declared rates” — whether or not it stays in.
Some have dubbed the withdrawal prospect “Pexit,” short for “Postal Exit” — a cheeky allusion to Brexit, Britain’s impending departure from the European Union, which likewise carries great uncertainties.
It’s unclear what exactly would happen if the U.S. pulls out of the postal group. Some influencing factors include whether non-postal operators can fill the void or how soon bilateral deals between the United States and postal partners could be enacted. One thing many fear from the move: mail backlogs that start piling up.
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