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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 16, 2020 7:57:21 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 16, 2020 12:45:51 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 16, 2020 16:44:00 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/were-going-to-make-an-example-out-of-them-liberty-university-sues-new-york-times-over-allegedly-misleading-covid-19-storyWe’re Going To Make An Example Out Of Them’: Liberty University Sues New York Times Over Allegedly Misleading COVID-19 Story 'It's just not right for the mainstream media to lie about and target conservative Christian organizations..." Liberty University hit The New York Times and two of its employees with a $10 million defamation suit on Wednesday after the nation’s paper of record allegedly implied the conservative Christian college caused its students to come down with COVID-19. The university alleges in the 94-page suit filed in Lynchburg Circuit Court that a March 29 NYT story, titled “Liberty University Brings Back Its Students, and Coronavirus Fears, Too” by Elizabeth Williamson, “intentionally misrepresented that ‘Liberty’ had reopened its campus after spring break and suffered a COVID-19 outbreak as a result.” It also lays blame on photographer Julia Rendleman, who took pictures for the story. The story claimed “nearly a dozen” Liberty University students were sick with symptoms “that suggested Covid-19,” after they had been allowed to return to campus after spring break. Their primary source was Dr. Thomas J. Eppes, who they claimed “runs Liberty’s student health service.” Shortly before the story ran, University President Jerry Falwell Jr., who has been a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, took flak from local authorities, who called him “reckless” for allowing students to take their online classes on campus. Contrary to the NYT report, the suit claims, Eppes did not run Liberty’s health service and, in fact, told them that the nearly 12 students exhibited symptoms that were not indicative of COVID-19. “Simply put, defendants’ claim that ‘Liberty Brings Back its Students and Coronavirus, Too’ was made up,” the suit said, later adding that NYT set out “to engineer a specific fictional tale that portrayed Liberty and its President as a caricature the New York Times’ liberal audience would love: backward, irresponsible, anti-science, responsible for getting people sick in a pandemic, and closely tied to and mirroring President Trump.” Falwell said of The New York Times to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night, “Not only are they a bigoted bunch of liars, and also BuzzFeed type click bait publication now, but they’re also stupid, because they came on campus. We had 25, at least, ‘No Trespassing’ signs everywhere, and they were dumb enough to take pictures of the signs and publish them.” Falwell claimed that the journalists were forced to cut a deal with the local prosecutor to avoid jail time.
“They were here for a few days,” Falwell continued. “I think they got their information from a doctor who has a practice ten miles away from Liberty, who had seen a few Liberty kids who had a cold and upper respiratory problem. And none of it was anything like COVID symptoms … he told the reporters to go and talk to our on-campus doctor at our clinic on campus, and they wouldn’t do it. They didn’t talk to us.” Falwell went on to say that the university had no choice but to sue after the NYT refused to retract or correct any part of their reporting.
They picked on the wrong conservative,” Falwell told The Washington Examiner. “It’s just not right for the mainstream media to lie about and target conservative Christian organizations just because of their faith and because of their political beliefs, and we’re going to make an example out of them.”
NYT Senior Vice President of Communications Eileen Murphy said in a statement Wednesday, “We are confident that our story accurately portrayed the reopening of Liberty University and the public health concerns that the reopening raised. We look forward to defending our work in court.”
Earlier this week, former NYT Opinion Editor Bari Weiss resigned from the newspaper, claiming she was openly mocked by her co-workers for failing to toe the line of liberal orthodoxy, and that the publication cares most about catering to clickbait and Twitter. She wrote in her resignation letter, “ new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”
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Post by Dotard is toast on Jul 16, 2020 18:44:07 GMT -6
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Post by redrex on Jul 16, 2020 19:00:49 GMT -6
ICKY----Do you do anything all day but watch twitter ?-------There must be more to life even your pathetic life than that
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Post by bk2x on Jul 17, 2020 11:54:35 GMT -6
Being that hate and racism fill his heart, he just scans the tweets of the most hateful liberals and reposts here hoping to get reaction. It just makes November even more exciting. The libs won't even let Biden function on his own at this point. Biden is an actual puppet.
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Post by redrex on Jul 17, 2020 13:08:24 GMT -6
Being that hate and racism fill his heart, he just scans the tweets of the most hateful liberals and reposts here hoping to get reaction. It just makes November even more exciting. The libs won't even let Biden function on his own at this point. Biden is an actual puppet. Its a bitter sad envious existence
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Post by Fuck trump on Jul 17, 2020 21:05:51 GMT -6
Look at this fucking slimeball and you degenerates support this piece of shit ?
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 17, 2020 21:21:43 GMT -6
Look at this fucking slimeball and you degenerates support this piece of shit ? Says the one who is supporting the credibly accused rapist in Biden who loves to sniff little girls hear and swim in the nude around female agents. Enjoy four more years of President Trump.
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3 more months to justice
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Post by 3 more months to justice on Jul 18, 2020 1:05:52 GMT -6
When he loses in 3 months in a landslide, if he refuses to leave millions of us will march on the white house and drag his pathetic, racist soulless ass out of there !
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 18, 2020 2:31:56 GMT -6
When he loses in 3 months in a landslide, if he refuses to leave millions of us will march on the white house and drag his pathetic, racist soulless ass out of there ! Heard this in 2016 as well, & yet who are the ones who have yet to accept the past election results & will refuse to accept them again, when President Trump wins reelection?
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Post by bk2x on Jul 18, 2020 7:20:51 GMT -6
When he loses in 3 months in a landslide, if he refuses to leave millions of us will march on the white house and drag his pathetic, racist soulless ass out of there ! When he wins by a landslide, will you stupid fucks get out of the country? Fucking cry babies that contribute nothing to society and constantly show the world how pathetic the progressive left is.
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Post by Dotard out soon on Jul 18, 2020 7:37:54 GMT -6
When Trump loses in a landslide I'm going to come on here and rub your fat, stupid, racist rube faces in it. You get the fuck out of the country you backwards ass, gun loving, ignorant piece of shit! Trump epitomizes what's wrong with this country; greed, arrogance, stupidity, materialism and destruction of the environment. Fuck you
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 18, 2020 9:53:02 GMT -6
When Trump loses in a landslide I'm going to come on here and rub your fat, stupid, racist rube faces in it. You get the fuck out of the country you backwards ass, gun loving, ignorant piece of shit! Trump epitomizes what's wrong with this country; greed, arrogance, stupidity, materialism and destruction of the environment. Fuck you
You won't be anywhere to be found. You'll be curled up in a ball in the basement screaming for mommy to take the trick's dick out of her ass and come give you a juice box.
Thanks for posting though. It reminded me to clean the litter box.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 18, 2020 10:52:39 GMT -6
When Trump loses in a landslide I'm going to come on here and rub your fat, stupid, racist rube faces in it. You get the fuck out of the country you backwards ass, gun loving, ignorant piece of shit! Trump epitomizes what's wrong with this country; greed, arrogance, stupidity, materialism and destruction of the environment. Fuck you And you still wonder why Trump won, will get re-elected & Brexit happened.
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Post by redrex on Jul 18, 2020 11:26:59 GMT -6
When he loses in 3 months in a landslide, if he refuses to leave millions of us will march on the white house and drag his pathetic, racist soulless ass out of there ! You are an idiot
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 18, 2020 20:30:58 GMT -6
Humorous how the MSM are overlooking this:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 20, 2020 0:01:17 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2020 20:14:37 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2020 20:17:02 GMT -6
And the mayor responds this way:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 23, 2020 6:30:48 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/07/22/exclusive-hud-terminate-obama-era-housing-rule/The Trump administration will end the Obama administration’s 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule Thursday morning, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and senior HUD officials explained Wednesday to the Daily Caller. “At the request of the President, HUD will be tearing down the Obama Administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule,” Carson told the Daily Caller. “In nearly every case, it is a fact that local governments are more adequately equipped to deal with their community’s unique needs than any unelected bureaucrat in Washington.” “President Trump made a promise to preserve America’s neighborhoods, I am pleased to report that promise has been kept.” (EXCLUSIVE: White House’s Deregulation Effort Specifically Boosts Black America’s COVID Recovery, Ben Carson Says) WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 25: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson (2L) speaks before U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a White House Council on eliminating regulatory barriers to affordable housing, in the Oval Office at the White House on June 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. DC. The council, which will be made up of members of eight federal agencies, will reportedly be tasked with easing local barriers to the private sector of creating housing, according to published reports. Also picture are Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) (L) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 25: (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) The AFFH rule was added to the decades-old Fair Housing Act by the Obama administration in an effort to hold local HUD grantees accountable to the idea of furthering affordable housing by producing and maintaining assessments of fair housing practices. Those assessments saddled HUD’s payroll with an estimated 64 additional employees, whose salaries cost American taxpayers up to $15 million a year. Furthermore, the Trump administration argues the rule hurt low income Americans by forcing federal funds into wealthy areas, as numerous local jurisdictions opted out of the program due to the cost of producing reports, delivering them to HUD, and in many cases, forcing through zoning changes to maintain compliance. Carson and senior HUD officials stated that the decision to roll back AFFH dated back to President Donald Trump’s first days in office. Carson originally suspended AFFH tools in 2018, and Trump further instructed Carson in January of 2020 to go as far as the law allows to terminate and replace the rule, without requiring Congressional action, senior HUD officials said. The president has recently voiced his opinion on the subject, tweeting he was considering ending the rule in June. The rule change still allows jurisdictions to receive grants, and the policing mechanism boils down the roughly 270 page guidance document produced by the Obama administration into four key pillars: Fair housing must be safe, decent, free of unlawful discrimination, and accessible under civil rights laws. In order to be eligible to receive housing grants, the jurisdictions must certify they will advance at least one of the aforementioned statutes. HUD officials, when asked by the Daily Caller how the administration plans on enforcing grantees advance fair housing, explained that while they won’t be launching a new enforcement body, they still plan to enforce rule violations in the same manner under which AFFH currently operates, namely public reporting. HUD officials maintained that the rule change does not mean the administration is “abandoning” the principles outlined in the Fair Housing Act. Instead, they said that Trump and Carson are seeking to streamline the process in which local jurisdictions can quickly provide safe and affordable housing to people who need it most. Since being tapped to lead HUD, Carson has taken significant steps to ensure fair housing aid be made available to those who truly need it. He and HUD accused and sued Facebook of violating the Fair Housing Act in 2019 by restricting housing-based ads by race and other factors. Carson has also cleared a significant backlog of Fair Housing complaints rolled over from the previous administration. Data provided to Daily Caller indicate that under Carson’s leadership, HUD has investigated and resolved 22,933 Fair Housing cases since January 2017. White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought celebrated Carson’s action. “President Trump’s roll back of the Obama Administration’s ‘war on the suburbs’ is a major win for the American people,” Vought told the Daily Caller Wednesday evening. “Washington should not have the power to social engineer our communities by leveraging federal resources. Thankfully, President Trump has stepped in to protect our neighborhoods, communities and families from the heavy hand of government.” Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar and Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee offered similar praise to the Daily Caller of Carson and the Trump administration on the issue. “Secretary Carson and President Trump have rightfully recognized the importance of rolling back Obama’s AFFH rule, which sought to extort localities for utopian demographic design. For years I have fought this effort by Democrats to socially engineer local neighborhoods for political power,” Gosar stated. “I fully support this Trump Administration rule that empowers local communities.” “Every American should be free to choose where to live, and every community should be free to compete for new residents as they see fit,” Lee added. “What our communities do not need is another costly government mandate that makes it harder for local communities to govern. This reversal of President Obama’s burdensome housing rule is a strong step towards more affordable housing.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 23, 2020 18:33:08 GMT -6
www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/trump-announces-federal-surge-against-violent-crime-wave/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=firstPresident Trump Announces a Federal ‘Surge’ against Violent-Crime Wave in Cities By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY July 22, 2020 9:32 PM ‘Operation Legend,’ named after a four-year-old shot to death in his sleep, relies on longstanding cooperation between federal, state, and local authorities. President Trump announced this afternoon a “surge” in the federal effort to quell the violent crime that is spiking in major American cities. The effort is along the lines of what Rich Lowry and I discussed on The McCarthy Report podcast last week, and in a column I wrote earlier this month about potential federal approaches to violent crime. As we’ve noted, there was no need to re-create the wheel here. There is abundant law that gives federal agencies jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute violent crime. Just as significantly, the federal government (the U.S. attorneys’ offices, the FBI, DEA, other federal agencies, and the U.S. courts) not only has a longstanding presence in our nation’s biggest cities. For decades, we’ve also had federal-state task forces, which are joint investigative efforts involving the police and prosecution agencies of the federal, state, and municipal governments to combat gang crime and its staples — street-level narcotics trafficking and gun crimes. The president, with elaboration from Attorney General Bill Barr, explained that the new effort is called “Operation Legend,” in honor of LeGend Taliferro, a four-year-old boy who was senselessly shot to death in his sleep last month when a still-unidentified gunman opened fire on his family’s apartment in Kansas City. Barr detailed that Operation Legend had already commenced with a ramp-up of federal agents in Kansas City. The initiative is now being expanded to two other cities with soaring crime, Chicago and Albuquerque. Amid a litany of bloody statistics, Trump noted that 23 people were shot in Chicago just yesterday — 15 of them at a funeral home, where respects were being paid to a man who’d been killed in an earlier drive-by shooting. Given the demagogic media commentary portraying federal law-enforcement agents in Portland as “stormtroopers” and “militia,” administration officials are understandably stressing that the new initiative is simply an augmentation of existing federal-state collaborations. As Barr put it, these are “standard anti-crime activities we have been carrying on for decades.” NOW WATCH: 'Trump Wants Social Media To Take Action Against 'Violent Protestors'' WATCH: 0:34 Trump Wants Social Media To Take Action Against 'Violent Protestors' The additional federal agents sent to high-crime cities will be drawn from the FBI, DEA, ATF, the U.S. Marshals Service, and HSI (i.e., the Homeland Security Investigations division, a component of DHS that concentrates on criminal organizations that exploit the immigration system, as well as U.S. financial and travel facilities). These are agencies that regularly coordinate with state and local police. A vital part of the federal effort will be financial support for states and municipalities so that, like the feds, they will be able to contribute more police personnel to the task forces. A big part of what is envisioned appears to be along the lines of what I described as “Federal Day,” in the aforementioned column. The feds and the state police will work with the local U.S. attorney’s office as well as the state district attorneys. Because there is a broad array of federal and state criminal law that can be applied to violent criminal activity, from isolated assaults to coordinated gang violence, the collaboration will enable law enforcement to bring those arrested to either the federal or state system — whichever makes sense under the circumstances, in terms of efficient processing and an appropriately severe sentence. Barr recalled that the Justice Department had spearheaded a similar effort several months back, which it called “Relentless Pursuit,” but that it was aborted as governments turned their attention to the COVID-19 pandemic. Critics will be quick to note that there was a political edge to the White House announcement. The president asserted that “lawlessness” was being “pushed by the radical Left,” that the “far Left” is pushing to “break up” and “defund” police departments, and that city governments almost uniformly run by Democrats had adopted policies that contributed to the rise in crime. These, Trump said, included sanctuary city practices, which impede the federal enforcement of the immigration laws and have resulted in aliens, who have committed serious crimes, being released back onto the streets rather than being deported. Trump bemoaned “deadly policies and deadly politicians.” For his part, Barr observed that crime had begun to creep back up toward the end of the Obama administration, and that initiatives such as Relentless Pursuit aimed to push it back down. To be sure, violent crime has edged up in some areas over the past five years (homicide rates, in particular, increased in 2015 and 2016); but even so, it was not nearly at the levels of the early 1990s. While stressing that the federal government intended to what it could to reverse the alarming rise in crime that followed George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis and the subsequent demonization of police, Trump and Barr emphasized that local elected political leadership is primarily responsible for keeping law and order. The president repeated his ongoing theme that cities in need of federal help “should call” to ask for it. But he also made clear that the federal government is obliged to act to protect citizens, whether asked to do so or not.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 23, 2020 20:18:40 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/feds-sending-elite-tactical-unit-to-seattle-after-democrat-controlled-city-fails-to-stop-violenceFeds Sending Elite Tactical Unit To Seattle After Democrat-Controlled City Fails To Stop Violence The Trump administration is having to send an elite tactical team to Seattle to serve as backup for the law enforcement officials that are already there after the Democrat-controlled city has failed to stop violent riots in recent days. “The Special Response Team being deployed is similar to the tactical teams currently operating in Portland,” The New York Times reported. “Agents from the Special Response Team, operated under U.S. Customs and Border Protection, are typically deployed for intense law enforcement operations, similar to the agency’s BORTAC group that has operated in Portland.” The agents will be backing up the Federal Protective Service, which said in a statement: “The C.B.P. team will be on standby in the area, should they be required.” Violent rioters injured at least a dozen Seattle police officers over the weekend and caused significant damage to numerous businesses and attacked multiple police stations. SPD highlighted the following from the attacks: The group headed south to the Seattle Police Headquarters and Seattle Municipal Court where they broke windows and spray painted both buildings. The demonstration then marched northbound on Third Avenue, where some businesses were targeted by individuals with more smashed windows, looting, and graffiti on the walls. The group eventually made it to the West Precinct and some individuals attempted to break into the building. Protesters threw rocks and bottles at the officers who were outside defending the precinct. An unknown person or persons threw multiple large mortar-type fireworks at officers from a close range. Multiple officers were injured by the fireworks thrown at them. Two of the officers suffered lacerations and abrasion injuries while a third officer sustained burns to his neck area and needed to be treated by the Seattle Fire Department. He was later transported to the hospital. A total of twelve officers were injured. The march then made its way up to Capitol Hill, where individuals in the group committed more property damage and looting. A small fire was set inside one of the businesses after the windows were broken out. Eventually the group went to the East Precinct where several individuals smashed out the front windows. A large, mortar-type firework was thrown inside the lobby of the precinct, causing a small fire. The fire was extinguished quickly. Officers located another unlit large mortar-type firework nearby.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 23, 2020 22:29:42 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/23/trump-doi-announces-approval-alaska-gas-pipeline-project/Trump’s DOI Announces Approval of Alaska Gas Pipeline Project The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced Thursday that it has approved the logistics for the Alaska Liquified Natural Gas Pipeline Project. The announcement from the agency made sure to address how the project is both good for the U.S. economy and safe for the environment. “With this approval, the Trump Administration is keeping its commitment to work with local governments and partners,” Casey Hammond, principal deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management, said in the DOI announcement. “This project will enable more Alaska-produced energy to enter the market through modern, efficient technology and create opportunities for Americans.” “The project includes the potential to supply Denali National Park and Preserve and nearby communities with natural gas,” Robert Wallace, assistant secretary for fish and wildlife and Parks, said. “Careful environmental management will ensure park resources, including wildlife, wetlands, vegetation, and noise/soundscapes, will be protected during and after construction.” “The NPS (National Parks Service) is issuing a right-of-way for the approximately six-mile portion of pipeline within a non-wilderness area of the Denali National Park and Preserve (DNPP),” the announcement said. “The route selected through the park is near the existing transportation corridor (the Parks Highway and Alaska Railroad extend across this area of the park), which limits impacts to park viewsheds and overall acreage of wetlands, and reduces the need for additional roads and their associated impacts.” The announcement said that nine federal agencies collaborated in the project, including the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the NPS, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Marine Fisheries Service. Environmentalists have opposed the project, as Courthouse News Service reported last month: The Chickaloon Traditional Village Council and environmental organizations filed a formal request with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday, asking the agency to rehear the application for the LNG Alaska project. If built, the project will send natural gas from the northern part of the state to the south, where it can be shipped to customers in Asia. The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club said the commission failed to consider climate change and endangered species, including polar bears, Cook Inlet beluga whales and North Pacific right whales. “It makes no sense to fuel climate change to export American fuel to Asia,” said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “This risky project would be a disaster for Alaska, our climate and its endangered wildlife.” Courthouse News Service reported the project comes with a $43 billion price tag.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 26, 2020 20:43:22 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/26/alaska-gold-copper-mine-project-moves-forward-despite-environmentalist-objections/Alaska Gold and Copper Mine Project Moves Forward, Despite Environmentalist Objections The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its final environmental impact statement on Friday which found gold and copper mining in Alaska “would not be expected to have a measurable effect on fish numbers.” That clears the final hurdle for the Corps to issue a permit this year to Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd., the Canadian company that has proposed the mining operation in the state. Environmentalists oppose the project and the Obama administration did what it could to keep the Alaskan wilderness off limits to energy production. “In a scientific review conducted under the Obama administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that the mine could result in ‘significant and unacceptable adverse effects’ on fishery areas and ecologically important streams, wetlands, lakes, and ponds,” the Los Angeles Times reported. Tom Collier, chief executive of Pebble Limited Partnership, the U.S. subsidiary of Northern Dynasty, said in the Times report that the Corps’ process was “extensive, rigorous and transparent,” and not in fact rushed, taking more than two years, about average for environmental reviews in Alaska. “Unequivocally, repeatedly, the document concludes, as the draft did, that we’re not going to do any damage to this fishery, period,” Collier said. “We changed the project to address environmentalists’ concerns, and the project we took into permitting had been ‘de-risked.’” The Times reported on opposition to the project: The new report is a setback for the project’s opponents, who accuse the Trump administration of politicizing a review process as part of a broader national campaign to roll back decades of environmental protections. “The Army Corps’ conclusion that all of this will have ‘no measurable effect’ on Bristol Bay’s salmon fishery would be laughable if it weren’t so disturbing,” said Taryn Kiekow Heimer, a Natural Resources Defense Council senior advocate. “The Trump administration just ran roughshod over the input it received from its own agencies, independent scientists, Bristol Bay tribes, and commercial fishermen.” “For the Army Corps to rubber-stamp a massive, toxic open-pit mine in the headwaters of a national food source just doesn’t make sense,” said Andy Wink, executive director of the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Assn. “What the Pebble Partnership has proposed is essentially one big experiment with no real science or data to back it up.” Despite the report’s finding, the Times reported that the mine “would destroy” 2,000 acres of wetlands and 100 miles of streams but would also generate up to $1 billion a year in sales of gold, copper, molybdenum, and other commodities. The Times also noted the production of natural gas at the mine site, which would benefit residents of the state, according to a June article published in Petroleum News: Pebble Mine, as currently proposed, will draw 50 million standard cubic feet per day of natural gas through a 12-inch subsea and overland pipeline from the lower Kenai Peninsula to its site in southwest Alaska for power generation, Pebble spokesman Mike Heatwole told Petroleum News in a June 4 interview. Heatwole said mine developer Pebble Partnership designed the pipeline and the powerplant to deliver more power than the proposed copper-gold-molybdenum-silver mine needs, in part to make power available to local residents. The communities in the region near the mine site currently rely largely on fuel oil or gasoline — which must be barged or flown in — for power generation. “We’ve long said that our view is, one of the big opportunities that comes with a project such as Pebble is the infrastructure that of course comes with it, and we use the example of the hydroelectric power facilities down in Juneau where the mines put them in and eventually turned them over to the city for their electrical power,” Heatwole said. The Petroleum News story said logistics for gas distribution would have to be arranged by local utilities.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 26, 2020 20:45:13 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/26/ny-times-trumps-halting-j-1-visa-drives-up-wages-benefits-au-pairs/NY Times: Trump’s Halting of J-1 Visa Drives Up Wages, Benefits for Au Pairs President Trump’s halt of the J-1 visa program — where upper-middle-class and wealthy households are able to import cheap, foreign au pairs — is driving up wages and benefits for au pairs already in the United States, a report reveals. Last month, Trump expanded an existing executive order to halt the H-1B, H-4, H-2B, L-1, and J-1 visa programs — reducing foreign competition against roughly 35 million unemployed and underemployed Americans. According to the New York Times, the halting of the program has meant higher wages and better benefits for au pairs already in the U.S. At current rates, households are allowed to pay their imported au pairs just $4.35 an hour for a maximum 45 hours a week. That is all changing thanks to Trump’s order, the Times reported: On the other end, while au pairs entering the program might speak with only two or three families in the initial interview process, in-country candidates are now hearing from 10, 20, sometimes closer to 50 prospective families. Even male au pairs, who often find it harder to match, are having an easy time. “Because they know they don’t have options, they are accepting males for their families too,” said an au pair from Brazil. “It’s not a big deal anymore.” “Now we feel powerful,” the Colombian au pair said. “For once, we have a choice.” … Host families have taken note of the new dynamic, too: Perusing some Facebook groups in mid-June, I found posts announcing benefits like unlimited public transportation passes, new cars, access to beach houses and skydiving trips, and double the pay. “We’re offering a 2000 USD sign-on bonus,” one parent wrote. The results have underscored the case many reformers have argued for years — that immigration plays a major role in depressing U.S. wages and benefits. As the Times noted, there has been widely reported abuse in the J-1 visa program. For years, participants in the program have chronicled labor abuse that they have endured, often working overtime without pay and receiving subpar living conditions. Most recently, the Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, claiming the J-1 visa program is “critical” to the American economy even as tens of millions are out of work. In 2018, the J-1 visa program delivered more than 20,600 young people to upper-middle-class and wealthy households in the U.S. Nearly 60 percent of all foreign au pairs go to households in California, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Illinois, where there is a concentration of wealth.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 27, 2020 2:24:18 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/mnuchin-explains-decision-to-scale-back-federal-unemployment-were-not-going-to-use-taxpayer-money-to-pay-people-to-stay-homeMnuchin Explains Decision To Scale Back Federal Unemployment: We’re Not Going To Use Taxpayer Money To Pay People To Stay Home Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin appeared on the Sunday morning talk shows to explain the White House’s decision to press Republican legislators to lower the amount of Federal unemployment assistance outlined in a fourth coronavirus relief package, set to be released this week. In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Mnuchin “took a hard line” against continuing the $600-per-week federal unemployment benefit, per The Hill, suggesting that the administration wants Americans to get back to work, even if that means seeking out employment because they can’t return to their former jobs. “It just wouldn’t be fair to use taxpayer dollars to pay more people to sit home than they would working and get a job,” Mnuchin told host Chris Wallace. “I think workers and Americans understand the concept that you shouldn’t be paid more to stay home than to work,” he added. Instead, Mnuchin said, the Trump White House is pressing for a second round of $1200 stimulus payments to individual Americans — a plan, Mnuchin said, would get money into pockets faster than an unemployment hike or a payroll tax, which the White House pressed for initially but has now abandoned — and has asked Congress to add 2 million additional recipients who were excluded from the last round of handouts to the list of individuals receiving payments. “The direct payments are a much quicker way of effectively giving everyone a tax cut — much quicker than the payroll tax cut,” he said. “June retail sales were 1 percent higher than June of last year, so all that money we pumped into the economy, it worked. People went out and spent.” The payroll tax, Mnuchin added, was unlikely to pass the House, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had expressed hardline opposition to the measure. Senate Republicans are optimistic that the latest round of coronavirus relief will pass early this week, even though, at meetings last week — including a private lunch with only GOP leadership — certain key Republican legislators expressed concerns about a $1 trillion relief package passing so soon after the $4 trillion CARES Act. Many, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), encouraged Senate leadership to wait on the bill until there is more evidence that the American economy can withstand another major federal spending package. Mnuchin, though, seemed unfazed by Republican opposition, telling Wallace that even this $1 trillion package might not be the final round of coronavirus relief spending. “This will be the fifth set of legislation, so there’s no reason why we can’t have number five, six, and seven as we need to deal with issues, and obviously anything we do, we need bipartisan support,” Mnuchin said. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) does want to move quickly on the measure, regardless of outstanding votes, as some key elements of the CARES Act are set to expire at the end of July. Fox News reports that the “Paycheck Protection Program that provides small businesses with forgivable loans, is set to end in early August, and the enhanced unemployment insurance benefits will expire on July 31. A federal eviction ban already ended on July 25.”
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 27, 2020 20:51:29 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/07/22/exclusive-hud-terminate-obama-era-housing-rule/The Trump administration will end the Obama administration’s 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule Thursday morning, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and senior HUD officials explained Wednesday to the Daily Caller. “At the request of the President, HUD will be tearing down the Obama Administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule,” Carson told the Daily Caller. “In nearly every case, it is a fact that local governments are more adequately equipped to deal with their community’s unique needs than any unelected bureaucrat in Washington.” “President Trump made a promise to preserve America’s neighborhoods, I am pleased to report that promise has been kept.” (EXCLUSIVE: White House’s Deregulation Effort Specifically Boosts Black America’s COVID Recovery, Ben Carson Says) WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 25: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson (2L) speaks before U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a White House Council on eliminating regulatory barriers to affordable housing, in the Oval Office at the White House on June 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. DC. The council, which will be made up of members of eight federal agencies, will reportedly be tasked with easing local barriers to the private sector of creating housing, according to published reports. Also picture are Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) (L) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 25: (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) The AFFH rule was added to the decades-old Fair Housing Act by the Obama administration in an effort to hold local HUD grantees accountable to the idea of furthering affordable housing by producing and maintaining assessments of fair housing practices. Those assessments saddled HUD’s payroll with an estimated 64 additional employees, whose salaries cost American taxpayers up to $15 million a year. Furthermore, the Trump administration argues the rule hurt low income Americans by forcing federal funds into wealthy areas, as numerous local jurisdictions opted out of the program due to the cost of producing reports, delivering them to HUD, and in many cases, forcing through zoning changes to maintain compliance. Carson and senior HUD officials stated that the decision to roll back AFFH dated back to President Donald Trump’s first days in office. Carson originally suspended AFFH tools in 2018, and Trump further instructed Carson in January of 2020 to go as far as the law allows to terminate and replace the rule, without requiring Congressional action, senior HUD officials said. The president has recently voiced his opinion on the subject, tweeting he was considering ending the rule in June. The rule change still allows jurisdictions to receive grants, and the policing mechanism boils down the roughly 270 page guidance document produced by the Obama administration into four key pillars: Fair housing must be safe, decent, free of unlawful discrimination, and accessible under civil rights laws. In order to be eligible to receive housing grants, the jurisdictions must certify they will advance at least one of the aforementioned statutes. HUD officials, when asked by the Daily Caller how the administration plans on enforcing grantees advance fair housing, explained that while they won’t be launching a new enforcement body, they still plan to enforce rule violations in the same manner under which AFFH currently operates, namely public reporting. HUD officials maintained that the rule change does not mean the administration is “abandoning” the principles outlined in the Fair Housing Act. Instead, they said that Trump and Carson are seeking to streamline the process in which local jurisdictions can quickly provide safe and affordable housing to people who need it most. Since being tapped to lead HUD, Carson has taken significant steps to ensure fair housing aid be made available to those who truly need it. He and HUD accused and sued Facebook of violating the Fair Housing Act in 2019 by restricting housing-based ads by race and other factors. Carson has also cleared a significant backlog of Fair Housing complaints rolled over from the previous administration. Data provided to Daily Caller indicate that under Carson’s leadership, HUD has investigated and resolved 22,933 Fair Housing cases since January 2017. White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought celebrated Carson’s action. “President Trump’s roll back of the Obama Administration’s ‘war on the suburbs’ is a major win for the American people,” Vought told the Daily Caller Wednesday evening. “Washington should not have the power to social engineer our communities by leveraging federal resources. Thankfully, President Trump has stepped in to protect our neighborhoods, communities and families from the heavy hand of government.” Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar and Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee offered similar praise to the Daily Caller of Carson and the Trump administration on the issue. “Secretary Carson and President Trump have rightfully recognized the importance of rolling back Obama’s AFFH rule, which sought to extort localities for utopian demographic design. For years I have fought this effort by Democrats to socially engineer local neighborhoods for political power,” Gosar stated. “I fully support this Trump Administration rule that empowers local communities.” “Every American should be free to choose where to live, and every community should be free to compete for new residents as they see fit,” Lee added. “What our communities do not need is another costly government mandate that makes it harder for local communities to govern. This reversal of President Obama’s burdensome housing rule is a strong step towards more affordable housing.”
Sunday's Life, Liberty, & Levin addressed this very subject Sunday night.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 27, 2020 20:54:03 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 28, 2020 8:09:30 GMT -6
Dr. Stella Immanuel talks about her experience treating COVID-19 patients with Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, and Zithromax.
“You want a double blinded study where people are dying? It’s unethical.” pic.twitter.com/TYQjn7EKMH
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) July 27, 2020
Since the President was right on this drug, the MSM & tech companies can’t allow that to happen:
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