The Charles Koch funded video of Martha Boneta
Oops wrong one above:
http://dcs.megaphone.fm/PPY2961836272.mp3?key=0da86c8b78f8709f8599b487ea350b20
including a discussion of congressional debates.
Martha will be back on the Show this Saturday discussing healthcare.
‘Austerity chancellor’ George Osborne accepts 6th job as economics professor — RT U
We are all getting stuffed, by these “PIGS”
Good to hear from you Mr. Irish!
FYI on Whistleblowers:
https://youtu.be/V6EVKpN8JHU
Off Topic: Global Warming?
I wonder about Trump and his advisers.
He needs the help of China over North Korea, so what was he thinking.
China is furious with the USA over the sale of $1.4 billion in weapons to Taiwan.
Could Trump not have delayed the sale until the North Korea problem was solved, or has he given up on China’s help?
Seems to me someone was not thinking!
Makes you wonder………indeed……..or bad info from his advisers ….
Al,
Thanks for bringing this. It’s an object lesson for any and all land owners. Much appreciated.
DITTO
Nationalism?
What part of Broke does Congress not understand?
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The summer air is sizzling as the Fourth of July approaches, yet 86-year-old Richard Perkins already worries about how he’s going to stay warm this winter.
President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating heating aid for low-income Americans, claiming it’s no longer necessary and rife with fraud. People needn’t worry about being left in the cold, he says, because utilities cannot cut off customers in the dead of winter.
The heating program provides a critical lifeline for people like Perkins, and officials close to the program don’t see any widespread fraud. Guidelines for winter shutoffs by utilities vary from state to state and don’t apply to heating oil, a key energy source in the brittle New England winter.
“It’s beyond my thinking that anyone could be that cruel,” said Perkins, a retired restaurateur who relies on the program to keep warm in Ogunquit, Maine.
The proposal to kill the program, which has distributed $3.4 billion to about 6 million households this fiscal year, will face strong opposition in Congress.
Forty-three senators from mostly cold-weather states already signed a letter urging the Republican chairman and ranking Democrat on an appropriations subcommittee to ensure funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, known in many states by its acronym, LIHEAP (pronounced LY’-heep).
In Maine, the poorest state in New England, the program helped about 77,000 people over the past winter, and those numbers represented less than a quarter of eligible households, said Deborah Turcotte of MaineHousing, which helps to run the program.
But then Congress never can find a program to cut…..No matter how abused.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making a weekend push to get a Republican Senate bill to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law “across the finish line,” Trump’s top legislative aide said Sunday, maintaining that a repeal-only option also remained in play if Republicans can’t reach agreement.
Marc Short, the White House’s legislative director, said Trump was making calls to wavering senators and insisted they were “getting close” on passing a bill.
But Short said Trump continues to believe that repeal-only legislation should also be considered after raising the possibility last Friday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has dismissed that suggestion and said he intended to proceed with legislation being negotiated over the July 4 recess.
“We hope when we come back, the week after recess, we’ll have a vote,” Short said. But he added: “If the replacement part is too difficult for Republicans to get together, then let’s go back and take care of the first step of repeal.”
Trump on Friday tweeted the suggestion of repealing the Obama-era law right away and then replacing it later, an approach that GOP leaders and the president himself considered but dismissed months ago as impractical and politically unwise. But the tweet came amid continuing signs of GOP disagreement among moderates and conservatives over the bill. Republicans hold a 52-48 majority in the Senate. Just three GOP defections would doom the legislation, because Democrats are united in opposition.
Republicans returned to their home districts late last week, bracing for a flood of phone calls, emails and television advertising from both conservative and liberal groups aimed at pressuring senators. Sen. Bill Cassidy held a town hall meeting last Friday to talk about flood recovery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s capital city, but audience members angry over the GOP health care bill at times chanted over Cassidy’s answers and criticized the secretive legislative process.
“I wish we weren’t doing it one party,” Cassidy said Sunday, adding he remains undecided on how he will vote.
Trump’s suggestion had the potential to harden divisions within the GOP as conservatives complain that McConnell’s bill does not go far enough in repealing Obama’s health care law while moderates criticize it as overly harsh in kicking people off insurance rolls, shrinking the Medicaid safety net and increasing premiums for older Americans.
“It’s not easy making America great again, is it?” McConnell said late Friday. He has previously indicated that if Republicans fail to reach agreement, he will have to negotiate with Democrats, who want to fix Obama’s health care law without repealing it.
Short said the White House remained hopeful after Senate Republicans submitted two versions of the bill to the Congressional Budget Office for scoring over the weeklong recess. Texas’ Sen. Ted Cruz is pushing a conservative version that aims to aggressively reduce costs by giving states greater flexibility to create separate higher-risk pools. The other seeks to bolster health care subsidies for lower-income people, perhaps by preserving a tax boost on high earners.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said negotiations over the Senate bill were focusing on ways to address the issue of Medicaid coverage so that “nobody falls through the cracks,” combating the opioid crisis, as well as giving families more choice in selecting their insurance plan.
“We think that Leader McConnell and his senators within the Senate are working to try to get this piece of legislation on track,” Price said.
But conservative Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he didn’t think a repeal-and-replace bill could win 50 votes. Both he and Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., have been urging McConnell to consider a repeal-only bill first.
“I don’t think we’re getting anywhere with the bill we have. We’re at an impasse,” Paul said. He criticized Senate leaders, saying they were seeking to win over moderates with multibillion dollar proposals to combat the opioid epidemic and boost tax subsidies to help lower-income people get coverage.
“The bill is just being lit up like a Christmas tree full of billion-dollar ornaments, and it’s not repeal,” Paul said. “I think you can get 52 Republicans for clean repeal.”
One of Trump’s agenda items was to do away with these rogue “government” (not) agencies that have no oversight but act as legislative bodies with impunity (read that, bought and paid for by whomever has the money to fund their self-serving agenda). I certainly hope he manages to do it at some point.
It struck me when he first took office that his refusal to immediately fill all those “vacancies” in the White House was part of that plan. Had those positions been necessary and helpful to him, he would have done. But I think he saw the bloat and this is one way of finding out just how necessary or unnecessary a position is. If it’s bloat, then he can leave it vacant or dissolve the post altogether. Get rid of it, as it would just be another drain on taxpayer money funding the overly paid salary of yet another hack.
Anti-Islam backlash begins in France:
A shootout erupted this Sunday night, at about 10:30 pm in the rue de la Grange d’Orel in Avignon. The events took place in front of the Arrahma mosque and a snack bar located just in front of the religious building.
According to initial evidence gathered on the spot and confirmed by the police, two hooded men would have arrived aboard a Renault Clio. One was carrying a handgun, the second with a rifle. The crowd was massed in the street. People were leaving the mosque when the two men, one of whom had come down from the vehicle, opened fire. The crowd then dispersed.
At least four people were injured at the time, two of them slightly. About fifty meters away, a family of four who was in her apartment on the second floor of a building also received shrapnel. A 7-year-old girl was slightly injured.
Meanwhile in Illinois the Governor does not understand any part of broke.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP)
8:15 p.m.
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says he will veto an income-tax increase that the House has approved.
The House voted 72-45 Sunday to increase the personal income tax rate by 32 percent. It’s designed to start repairing the fiscal calamity caused by the nation’s longest budget stalemate since the Great Depression.
But in New Jersey, the Governor got to enjoy some beachtime in private:
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie spent part of Sunday lounging with his family on a beach at a state park he ordered closed to the public amid a government shutdown that showed little sign of ending.
The unpopular Republican governor, whose family was using the state residence at Island Beach State Park for the weekend, said later Sunday at a news conference in Trenton that he flew on a state helicopter to the residence.
Because he thinks he is entitled……Election time for this SOB, might tell something else.
Meanwhile in Maine:
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Latest on the Maine state budget shutdown (all times local):
10:15 p.m.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage is granting administrative leave to workers on Monday, treating it liked an extended holiday.
The Republican said Sunday evening he was exercising the same authority he does when closing state offices the day before or after holidays including Christmas and Thanksgiving. He says the move will ensure workers get paid when the state government shutdown ends.
Showing politicians just don’t get it. Either that or they’re all right Jack. As long as the sheep pay the bill.
At least Canadians are fairing well:
SGTreport on Pedogate:
Facebook Drone Could One Day Provide Global Internet Access
Associated Press – Sun Jul 2, 3:52PM CDT
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — A solar-powered drone backed by Facebook that could one day provide worldwide internet access has quietly completed a test flight in Arizona after an earlier attempt ended with a crash landing.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s long-term plan for the drone, called Aquila, is to have it and others provide internet access to 4 billion people around the world who are currently in the dark.
“When Aquila is ready, it will be a fleet of solar-powered planes that will beam internet connectivity across the world,” he wrote Thursday on Facebook.
couple this with crypto currency……..and the world is connected without the riggers(CENTRAL BANKS)
But, then do we have ONE WORLD ORDER?????????
Yep. Civil Society is breaking down!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/video/trump-tweets-mock-video-escalating-002138542.html
We could see silver at $15.99 again ……..12 cents away……..
Bo Polny comes out again:
Goldman sees BITCOIN soaring to $3915 on next break out…………zerohedge
While BTC had first mover advantage, it is slower than to be highly used in future.
There are now over 800 cryptocurrencies of which many are much faster and more usable.
e.g. ETH, VERI, PAY, LTC, PAYP, BTCS,…..
Fortunes will not be made in BTC in future, but check out some of the others that have good platforms and uses. Many are up over 100% in the last week and still growing quickly.
Off Topic:
A recent 22 minute discussion sponsored by the Heritage Foundation of the Healthcare Bill in the Senate:
https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/330210623/download?client_id=cUa40O3Jg3Emvp6Tv4U6ymYYO50NUGpJ