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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 3, 2020 20:02:11 GMT -6
Isn’t it amazing that talking heads on TV tell practicing physicians that they don’t know what they are talking about. ......... Yale Dr. Harvey Risch is one of the latest prominent physicians who supports hydroxychloroquine use. On Monday Dr. Risch shut down CNN hack John Berman during their discussion on the now controversial drug. Via FOX News. www.foxnews.com/media/risch-cnn-anchor-berman-hydroxychloroquineYale epidemiology professor Dr. Harvey Risch and CNN host John Berman bickered over hydroxychloroquine on Monday during a heated discussion about the polarizing drug, which the president has hailed as a possible treatment for COVID-19.
Risch recently wrote an op-ed in support of hydroxychloroquine, but Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx and other experts have dismissed the anti-malarial drug being used to combat coronavirus. Risch cited various studies that backed up his pro-hydroxychloroquine stance, but the host of CNN’s “New Day” disagreed.
“None of those studies that you just cited are random placebo-controlled trials, what Dr. Fauci refers to as the gold standard,” Berman said, as the CNN on-screen chyron stated “Growing body of evidence shows hydroxychloroquine is ineffective.”
Risch responded: “That’s not actually correct. The problem with those randomized controlled trials, is they were trials done on the wrong people. They were trials done on low-risk people with low risks of hospitalization and mortality. You don’t do a study of prostate cancer with women… because nobody is gonna get the outcome.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 3, 2020 21:00:39 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/stormy-daniels-takes-another-hit-judge-tosses-libel-suit-against-trumpStormy Daniels Takes Another Hit: Judge Tosses Libel Suit Against Trump By Amanda Prestigiacomo • Aug 3, 2020 DailyWire.com • FacebookTwitterMail LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JANUARY 26: Adult film actress/director Stormy Daniels attends the 2019 Adult Video News Awards at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on January 26, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images Adult film star Stormy Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford, took another hit last week in her string of lawsuits against President Donald Trump, when her libel suit against the president was rejected by a federal appeals court. Daniels filed a libel suit against Trump over a tweet he posted back in 2018 concerning a sketch Daniels helped to create of her alleged intimidator alongside a photo of her ex-husband. Trump captioned the side-by-side photos posted by another Twitter user: “A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!” Daniels argued that Trump smeared her as a liar, hurting her reputation, and denied their alleged 2006 affair via the tweet. However, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled in favor of Trump, whose legal representation said the tweet “amounted to an opinion about another user’s post and not a factual claim,” The Hill reported. A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)! t.co/9Is7mHBFda— Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) April 18, 2018 “Viewed through the eyes of an objectively reasonable reader, the tweet here reflects Mr. Trump’s opinion about the implications of the allegedly similar appearances of Ms. Clifford’s ex-husband and the man in the sketch,” the court said in its ruling, The Hill noted. Trump’s tweet “plainly concerns the similarities between the sketch and the photograph” of Daniels’s ex-husband, the court added. The judges said that “ ecause the tweet juxtaposing the two images was displayed immediately below Mr. Trump’s tweet, the reader was provided with the information underlying the allegedly defamatory statement and was free to draw his or her own conclusions.”
The judges also rejected Daniels’ claim that the tweet denied the two had a tryst back in 2006, while Trump was married to now-First Lady Melania Trump.
Back in December of 2019, Daniels was ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in legal fees after her frivolous defamation suit against the president was thrown out, The Daily Wired reported. And, later in March, “another judge dismissed another lawsuit Daniels filed against Trump, this one asking to be released from the infamous nondisclosure agreement she signed in 2016 promising not to discuss her alleged one-night affair with Trump years ago.”
“In exchange for $130,000, Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) agreed just weeks ahead of the 2016 election that she would not publicly discuss her alleged adulterous tryst with Trump back in 2006,” The Daily Wire outlined. “It is for this nondisclosure agreement, as well as another with former Playmate Karen McDougal, that Trump’s former ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws.”
“Despite having received the money, Daniels quickly sought to violate the agreement, repeatedly appearing on television in 2017 to tease her big reveal of what supposedly happened that night,” the report added. “She eventually aired it all and included some rather specific details in her tell-all book, which enjoyed a bunch of free press due to the massive media coverage Daniels and her celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti received.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 3, 2020 21:06:22 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/03/donald-trump-pursues-low-drug-costs-big-pharma-doesnt-mean-anything-to-me/President Donald Trump on Monday asserted at the White House that he would continue pursuing lower prescription drug costs, despite complaints from the pharmaceutical industry. “Big pharma doesn’t mean anything to me other than we want them to do a great job,” Trump said during a press conference. “We want them to get their vaccines.” The president said that drug costs were cheaper in countries like Canada and Germany and that American consumers should enjoy the same prices. “You will see over a period of – fairly short period, drug prices are going to be tumbling down at numbers that nobody would have ever believed possible,” Trump said. Trump noted that pharmaceutical companies and members of Congress were calling him, begging for him to stop the push for reduced prescription drug prices. “As you probably noticed, big ads have been taken against me by big pharma,” Trump said. “Very big ads. Very massive buy.” The president last month signed four executive orders in an effort to reduce drug costs to seniors, including easing drug importation, discounts on insulin and requiring Medicare to match the prices of drugs to those paid by foreign countries. “How they allowed this to happen, representatives of our country, standing at these podiums or in the Oval Office, how they allowed this to happen is just to me incredible,” Trump said. “We have been working on this for a long time.”
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 4, 2020 11:12:44 GMT -6
Radical Democrat Governor Sisolak and Nevada Democrats called a special session over the weekend with no public present and inside of 24 hours they rammed through mail-in voting and ballot harvesting. Democrats did this during the special legislative session. The new Democrat law allows people not related to or friends with elderly voters to fill out their ballots and turn them in to be counted! President Trump challenged the “Illegal late night coup” and told Nevada Dems he will see them in court! Illegal ballot harvesting destroyed conservative pockets of California during the 2018 midterms. Democrats ‘harvested’ over 250,000 ballots in Orange County and flipped the traditionally conservative Southern California enclave from red to blue in 2018. Democrats in Orange County continued to count ballots weeks after election day in 2018 and unseated FOUR GOP candidates who were declared winners on election night.
Having lived in Nevada for 15 I can tell you that at least at one time the Culinary union ran the show. Not only did they have a large percentage of Strip employees but also many minority members. For elections they would send buses to the hotels to take members to vote. While providing "sample" ballots that somehow on;y had Dems on it.
And, I'll always remember the election where after voting for all GOP the screen would actually show votes for all Dems. And who serviced the machines? The SEIU, of course.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 4, 2020 11:13:35 GMT -6
Why does he goe on shows like Axios?
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 4, 2020 17:15:52 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/trump-campaign-has-signed-up-thousands-more-new-voters-than-democrats-in-key-statesTrump Campaign Has Signed Up Thousands More New Voters Than Democrats In Key States The Trump campaign and Republican Party’s drive to register new voters is chipping away at a voter deficit to Democrats in key swing states. The Trump campaign has registered 100,000 new voters ahead of the 2020 election, more than doubling its 2016 number, according to campaign data first reported by Axios. The effort has helped Republicans cut voter deficits in states such as Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Florida by tens of thousands of voters, though Democrats still have the edge in those states overall. “As enthusiasm for President Trump continues to grow, so does the Republican Party. Over 100,000 new voters are ready to cast their ballot for four more years of President Trump’s ‘Promises Made, Promises Kept’ agenda, and elect Republicans up and down the ballot on November 3rd,” Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told Axios in a statement. Trump is trailing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Florida in polling, according to averages calculated by FiveThirtyEight. In Pennsylvania, former Vice President Biden leads Trump 49.5% to 43.1%. Polls in North Carolina show the race much closer but with Trump still trailing Biden just over 2 points, 46% to 48.1%. In Florida, Biden is beating Trump by nearly 6 points, 49.8% to 44%. Republicans have added hundreds of thousands of new voters to their rolls in those states over Democrats, however. Since the 2016 election, Republicans have gained 133,000 more registered voters than Democrats in Pennsylvania, 216,410 more voters than Democrats in North Carolina, and 87,000 more voters than Democrats in Florida, according to state data reviewed by Axios. The voter registration numbers are a sliver of good news for the Trump campaign amid a slew of poor polling that has left the president trailing his Democratic challenger by more than 7 points nationally, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. A series of media appearances seems to have done little to bolster Trump’s numbers as Biden stays noticeably absent from the public, staying isolated and largely avoiding direct confrontations with the media while Trump suffers fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and the economic tailspin that heavy-handed lockdowns have put the United States in. In his latest interview, Trump warned of future instability the pandemic may cause to the election in November because of a flood of mail-in ballots from voters who do not want to risk getting infected with COVID-19 at polling places. “Now, because of the China virus, we’re supposed to stay home, send millions of ballots all over the country. Millions and millions,” Trump said in an interview with Axios. “You know, you could have a case where this election won’t be decided on the evening of Nov. 3. This election could be decided two months later.” “Lots of things will happen during that period of time, especially when you have tight margins. Lots of things can happen. There’s never been anything like this,” Trump continued, adding that his campaign is looking at legal options to end mail-in voting because, unlike absentee voting, people do not “go through a process.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 4, 2020 17:18:21 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-trump-supporters-march-through-los-angelesWATCH: Black Trump Supporters March Through Los Angeles Over the weekend, some members of the black community, willing to risk being vilified for their support for President Trump and law enforcement, marched through the streets of Los Angeles carrying outsized flags emblazoned with Trump 2020. One leader in the effort tweeted, “Amidst the scorn, and despite being called c**ns and Uncle Tom’s, a few of us black Trump supporters took to the front to head a collective march thru the streets of Los Angeles, as we all showed support for America, Trump, and our police.” He also added the hashtag #BLACKLIVESMAGA. One of the leaders of the group slammed the media for not covering serious problems within the black community itself. “No cover on O Magazine. Not what? No good? No cover on O Magazine?” he said. “The 10-month old that died over on Monday? No cover on O Magazine. You’ve got an eleven-year-old, a five-year-old in his own crib, no cover on O Magazine?” The march engendered some support online. “I’m so proud. I need to find the courage to do this in Los Angeles. Honestly. I’m scared to rock the maga gear , for fear of being attacked . As a single female,” one supporter tweeted. “These people are free. BLM is a method of control,” wrote another. “Might be the best video of the year,” another tweeted. In early July, noted black conservative radio host Larry Elder released his documentary “Uncle Tom,” of which he stated,“The ‘Uncle Tom’ movie simply asks a very simple question: Why can’t we have an intelligent, healthy discussion within the Black community without a whole cadre of well-educated, bright, thoughtful Black people being maligned and discarded as sellouts? What’s prompting this?” Elder added, “The so-called war on poverty was launched in the 1960s … And what the welfare state has done, in my opinion, is incentivize Black women to marry the government, and allow men to abandon their financial and moral responsibilities to their families. We’ve gone from 25 percent of Black kids born outside wedlock in 1965 to nearly 70 percent now. You cannot attribute that to Jim Crow and racism. It has to do with bad government policy.” “I have long since gotten over the idea that I should react emotionally when someone calls me a name,” Elder said. “I now feel sorry that you have been so corrupted, by Hollywood, media [and] academia, that I, Larry Elder, am your villain? Not the welfare state? Not bad economic policies? Not porous borders putting downward pressure on wages for Black and brown people, but I’m the bad guy? What’s wrong with you, what’s wrong with your thinking? Who has indoctrinated you like that? That’s my reaction.” In mid-June, justthenews.com reported: UCLA data collected just prior to the protests about the death of African-American George Floyd show younger black Americans have been holding more favorable views of President Trump than their parents and grandparents. The data collected from April 2-May 13 by the Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape project, an initiative that conducted weekly surveys of thousands of potential voters for nearly a year, found that 29% of percent of black voters ages 30-44 and 21% ages 18-29 have a “very favorable” or “somewhat favorable” view of President Trump. This compares to just 14% of black voters 45-64 and 9% of those 65 and older.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 5, 2020 18:14:59 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/environment/2020/08/05/court-reverses-order-to-shut-down-dakota-access-pipeline/BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed a judge’s order that shut down the Dakota Access pipeline pending a full environmental review. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with pipeline owner Energy Transfer to keep the oil flowing, saying a lower-court judge “did not make the findings necessary for injunctive relief.” But the appellate court declined to grant Energy Transfer’s motion to block the review, saying the company had “failed to make a strong showing of likely success.” On July 6, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the pipeline closed within 30 days while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers fulfills his demand to conduct a more extensive environmental review than the one that allowed the pipeline to start moving oil near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation three years ago. This process could take more than a year. Boasberg cited the “potential harm” that the pipeline could cause before the Corps finishes its survey. He rejected the company’s request to halt the order, sending the case to the three-judge appeals panel. The appellate court paused Boasberg’s order in mid-July to give it time to consider the case. Jan Hasselman, the EarthJustice attorney representing Standing Rock and other tribes who have signed onto the lawsuit, said the appeals court ruling Thursday was not a setback. “There is more to like than dislike in this ruling,” he said. “There will be a review and a new permit during the next administration.” Energy Transfer did not immediately return messages for comment Wednesday. In arguing against the closure, Energy Transfer said the line couldn’t be shut off by the judge’s Aug. 5 deadline. The company said it would take three months to empty the pipe of oil and perform the time-consuming and expensive steps to keep the line from corroding without the flow of oil. Texas-based Energy Transfer estimated it would cost $24 million to empty the oil and take steps to preserve the pipe. The company said it would have to spend another $67.5 million each year to maintain the line while it’s inoperable. The pipeline holds about 5 million barrels of oil when full. It was the subject of months of protests in 2016 and 2017, sometimes violent, during its construction near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation that straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border. The tribe took legal action against the pipeline even after it began carrying oil from North Dakota across South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois in June 2017. The $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile (1,886-kilometer) pipeline crosses beneath the Missouri River, just north of the reservation. The tribe draws its water from the river and has concerns about pollution. The company maintains the line is safe. Permits for the project were originally rejected by the Obama administration, and the Army Corps of Engineers prepared to conduct a full environmental review. In February 2017, after President Donald Trump took office, the Corps scrapped the review and granted permits, concluding that running the pipeline under the Missouri River posed no significant environmental issues. The Corps said that opinion was validated after an additional year of review, as ordered by Boasberg, an Obama appointee, in 2017. Boasberg ruled then that the Corps had “largely complied” with environmental law when permitting the pipeline but ordered more review because he said the agency did not adequately consider how an oil spill under the Missouri River might affect the Standing Rock Sioux’s fishing and hunting rights, or whether it might disproportionately affect the tribal community.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 5, 2020 18:16:13 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/environment/2020/08/05/4-unions-defy-joe-biden-reach-deal-to-build-keystone-xl-pipeline/TC Energy, the Canadian company responsible for the Keystone XL pipeline, announced a deal with four unions on Wednesday for the project’s construction — defying former Vice President Joe Biden’s promise to cancel it. The Keystone XL pipeline would run from Canada’s oil sands in Alberta across the border and into Nebraska. From there, the oil would be pumped through existing pipelines to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. The project passed environmental reviews under the Obama administration, but was stalled due to opposition from environmental groups concerned about climate. (Supporters of the pipeline noted the oil would be extracted, regardless: the alternative was export to China.) President Donald Trump issued an executive order on his third full day in office effectively giving the green light to Keystone XL, inviting it to re-apply for permits and instructing federal agencies to move the project along rapidly. Biden, who is the presumptive Democratic Party nominee, promised in May that he would stop the Keystone XL pipeline “for good” if he was elected president. Joe Biden would rescind President Donald Trump’s permit allowing the Keystone XL oil pipeline to cross the border into the U.S., a move that would effectively kill the controversial project, his campaign told POLITICO t.co/fDut0PuMBx— POLITICO (@politico) May 18, 2020 That promise was bolstered by Biden’s support for a version of the “Green New Deal” that would eliminate carbon emissions — hence fossil fuels — from U.S. energy production by 2035. A year ago, at the second Democratic presidential debate, Biden promised to “eliminate” all fossil fuels, including the use of fracking. (He has since tried to walk that back because of the importance of fracking to the battleground state of Pennsylvania.) But TC Energy is going ahead — along with four unions: the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the International Union of Operating Engineers, the Laborers International Union of North America (LiUNA), and the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters. In a press statement, TC Energy announced that the four unions had reached a project labor agreement (PLA) with the company “that will inject hundreds of millions of dollars in middle-class wages into the American economy, while ensuring this pipeline will be built by the highest-skilled and highest-trained workforce.” The statement added: Project construction will support the creation of 42,000 family-sustaining jobs in the U.S, including more than 10,000 high-paying construction jobs that will be filled primarily by union workers. Keystone XL pipeline construction will generate $2 billion in earnings for U.S. workers, according to the 2014 Final Environmental Impact Statement done by the U.S. State Department. … Keystone XL will create jobs and energy security in North America, by ensuring a reliable source of crude oil to the United States. Construction of Keystone XL will inject approximately $3.4 billion into the U.S. GDP. Once complete, Keystone XL will continue to contribute to the local economy, adding approximately $55 million in property taxes to local communities in Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska during the first year of operation. The announcement signaled that Biden would, if elected, struggle to fulfill a crucial campaign promise to his supporters on the left — and catches Democrats between radical environmentalists on the one hand, and labor unions on the other. It also indicates that Biden’s positions on climate change and fossil fuels are far to the left of the organized labor union constituency that he promised Democrats he would bring to the polls, especially in the Midwest. Biden’s opposition to Keystone XL could also frustrate his ambition to “turn Texas blue,” as the oil pipeline would serve Texas refineries.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 5, 2020 21:38:40 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/08/05/poll-americans-distrust-blame-biased-media-for-political-division/Poll: Americans Distrust, Blame Biased Media for Political Division A study released by Gallup and Knight Foundation on Tuesday suggests that Americans are more fed up with the news media than ever. The released poll shows that the American people are deeply divided — and blame media bias for the problem. 36% of surveyed Americans lay a “moderate amount” of today’s partisan hostility at the feet of the media, and 48% of them believe news outlets have contributed “a great deal” to the problem. That same overall percentage of Americans believe that the press is “critical” or “very important” to democracy but are unimpressed by the job they have been doing. 37% say they have witnessed a “fair amount” of bias in reporting, while 49% say there is “a great deal” of bias, and a combined 56% even admitted to seeing some level of bias in their primary news source. But as you might expect, U.S. citizens are even divided on the division: Democrats and Republicans differ greatly in their ratings of the media on every aspect of performance, including providing objective news reports, holding political and business leaders accountable for their actions and helping Americans stay informed about current affairs. Sixty-nine percent of Americans, including 61% of Democrats, say the increasing number of news sources reporting from a particular point of view is “a major problem.” In contrast, 77% of Republicans say the same. We do, however, seem to agree on one thing: 78% of Americans feel that the spread of fake news is “a major problem” that exceeds all others in the mainstream media environment. 54% say they believe news outlets are deliberately “misrepresenting the facts,” while 28% think they are “making them up entirely.” 80% of respondents believe the media is currently under attack, but disagree on whether those attacks are warranted. While 70% of Democrats see the attacks as unjustified, 61% of Republicans believe the media is getting its just desserts. John Sands, director of learning and impact at the Knight Foundation, worries about the negative effect this turmoil has on the fabric of the country itself. “That’s a bad thing for democracy,” he said. “Our concern is that when half of Americans have some sort of doubt about the veracity of the news they consume, it’s going to be impossible for our democracy to function.” “We’re starting to see more retrenchment among those who have already expressed deep concerns,” he said. “Moving the dial on these attitudes becomes more and more difficult for media organizations.” Knight and Gallup surveyed 20,046 American adults for the study between November 8, 2019, and February 16, 2020 — with an estimated margin of error at about 1%.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 5, 2020 21:48:27 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/05/81-of-black-americans-want-to-maintain-or-increase-police-presence-in-their-neighborhood/The majority of black Americans support police maintaining their current presence in their communities, a Gallup poll released Wednesday revealed. The Gallup panel, conducted June 23 – July 6, asked respondents, “Would you rather the police spend more time, the same amount of time or less time as they currently spend in your area?” Despite the narrative touted by proponents of the Black Lives Matter movement, which contends that minority communities desire to see less policing in their communities, 61 percent of black Americans indicated that they want police presence to remain the same. Another 20 percent said they want to see police officers spend “more” time in their communities, and 19 percent said “less.” Similarly, 59 percent of Hispanic Americans said they want police presence to remain the same, as do 63 percent of Asian Americans. Seventy-one percent of white Americans concurred. Notably, 24 percent of Hispanic Americans said they want to see officers spend “more time” in their area, versus 17 percent who said “less time.” More per Gallup: The survey also asked Americans to estimate how often they see police in their neighborhood. Black Americans’ reported exposure to local police is slightly above the national average, with 32% saying they see the police often or very often in their neighborhood. This compares with 22% of White Americans and 21% of Asian Americans. Hispanic Americans’ experience is similar to that of Black Americans, with 28% often seeing police where they live. … The slightly elevated frequency with which Black Americans see police in their neighborhood has limited impact on their preferences for changing the local police presence. About a third of Black Americans who say they often see the police in their neighborhood think the police should spend less time there (34%); however, the majority of adults in this group think they should spend the same amount of time (56%) or more time (10%). The survey also found that 61 percent of black Americans remain either “very” or “somewhat” confident that police would treat them with courtesy and respect, compared to 91 percent of white Americans, 77 percent of Hispanic Americans, and 78 percent of Asian Americans who feel the same way. “Most Black Americans want the police to spend at least as much time in their area as they currently do, indicating that they value the need for the service that police provide,” Gallup reported. The survey’s findings come as Democrat leaders nationwide make broad moves to defund the police, as demanded by many Black Lives Matter activists. Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, a self-described trained Marxist, has called on the Democrat Party to adopt radical reforms in its party agenda, including defunding the police and dismantling the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She, while addressing Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) party platform, said in part: Until and unless our leaders become signatory to the BREATHE Act — to legislation that eliminates the federal government’s ability to give multi-million dollar grants to militarize police forces; dismantles punitive like ICE, Border Patrol, and the DEA; ends the use of surveillance systems being used to target protesters; and bans the use of police agencies to suppress political dissent — the Democratic Party of today will be remembered as the party of complicity. The party that refuses to sacrifice its own creature comforts and material securities to ensure it walked the walk. So before you leave today, I want you to answer this question for yourselves: Which side of history is my party actually on? The Trump administration, however, has vowed to continue to back law enforcement. “We’re not going to defund the police. We’re going to fund law enforcement,” Vice President Mike Pence said during a Tuesday appearance on Breitbart News Daily. Listen: Breitbart · Breitbart News Daily – Vice President Mike Pence – August 4, 2020 “We’re going to back the blue, even while we work to improve public safety and improve the lives of all of the families in our cities, all of the minority families, African American, Hispanic American, and every family impacted by the scourge of violence that’s frankly gone on for too long in too many American cities,” the vice president added.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 5, 2020 21:49:19 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/05/donald-trump-exploring-executive-action-on-payroll-tax-cut-evictions/Donald Trump Exploring Executive Action on Payroll Tax Cut, Evictions President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he was exploring executive action to offer Americans some level of relief from the coronavirus pandemic. “If Democrats put partisan demands aside, we would reach an agreement very quickly,” Trump said at the White House during a press conference on Wednesday evening. Trump noted that Republicans were ready to negotiate “in good faith,” but Democrats were demanding a trillion-dollar bailout for “poorly run” Democrat cities. “We can’t go along with the bailout money, we’re not going to go along with that, especially since it is not Covid-related,” Trump said. The president floated the idea of a “term-limited suspension of the payroll tax” using his executive power and also previewed an executive order to stop home evictions. Economist Steven Moore illustrated in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Sunday how Trump could order the Treasury Department to refrain from withholding payroll taxes from a worker’s paycheck – temporarily suspending the payroll tax with executive action. Trump spoke after White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on CNN that it was unlikely that Democrats would budge on a deal to provide more coronavirus relief. “The president is prepared to take executive action,” Meadows said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 7, 2020 12:24:19 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/recovery-continues-employment-up-1-8-million-unemployment-falls-to-10-2RECOVERY CONTINUES: Employment Up 1.8 Million, Unemployment Falls To 10.2% On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the economy took another step toward recovery, as the total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 1.8 million in July and the unemployment rate fell to 10.2 percent. “In July, notable job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality, government, retail trade, professional and business services, other services, and ]health care,” the Labor Department reported. Employment in leisure and hospitality increased by 592,000; government employment rose by 301,000; retail trade added 258,000 jobs; professional and business services increased by 170,000; other services industry added 149,000 jobs, and health care added 126,000 jobs. Manufacturing employment increased by 26,000; employment in transportation and warehousing rose by 38,000 The unemployment numbers dropped for many groups: the unemployment rates declined in July for adult men (9.4%), adult women (10.5%), teenagers (19.3%), Whites (9.2%), Asians (12.0%), and Hispanics (12.9%). Another piece of good news: the number of unemployed persons who were on temporary layoff decreased by 1.3 million in July to 9.2 million, roughly half of what it was in April. The number of unemployed persons who were jobless 5 to 14 weeks fell by 6.3 million to 5.2 million,” BLS added. “Total employment, as measured by the household survey, rose by 1.4 million in July to 143.5 million.” BLS noted, “The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for May was revised up by 26,000, from +2,699,000 to +2,725,000, and the change for June was revised down by 9,000, from +4,800,000 to +4,791,000. With these revisions, employment in May and June combined was 17,000 higher than previously reported.” In mid- April, President Trump announced he was reopening the economy. He stated: As I have said for some time now, a national shutdown is not a sustainable long-term solution. To preserve the health of our citizens, we must also preserve the health and functioning of our economy. Over the long haul, you can’t do one without the other. It cannot be done. To keep vital supply chains running, these chains have to be taken care of so delicately. They’re delicate. The balance is delicate … A prolonged lockdown combined with a forced economic depression would inflict an immense and wide-ranging toll on public health … Our approach outlines three phases in restoring our economic life. We are not opening all at once, but one careful step at a time. And some states will be able to open up sooner than others. Some states are not in the kind of trouble that others are in. Now that we have passed the peak in new cases, we’re starting our life again, we’re starting rejuvenation of our economy again, in a safe and structured and very responsible fashion … This is a gradual process. As the caseload in a state continues to go down, restrictions can continue to be eased and come off. Throughout the process, citizens will continue to be called upon to use all of their weapons in this war: vigorous hygiene, teleworking when possible, staying at home if you feel sick, maintaining social distance, sanitizing commonly used surfaces, and being highly conscious of their surroundings. Those are our weapons, and they’re very powerful weapons indeed … The sacrifices our citizens have made in this time of crisis will be remembered, studied, honored, and praised for generations to come. We’re really all working together. Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal — we’re all working together. This is not about parties; this is about our country … Now the American people are ready to rise to the occasion once again. They are ready to show the world once more that Americans can defeat any challenger. Together, we will rebuild this land that we love, we will reclaim the magnificent destiny that we share, and we will carry our nation forward to new heights of greatness and glory.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 7, 2020 12:32:51 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 7, 2020 13:56:34 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 7, 2020 19:11:13 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/08/07/trump-preexisting-conditions-obamacare-order/he Trump administration is drafting an executive order that would require health care insurers to provide coverage for preexisting conditions, President Donald Trump announced Friday night. Coverage for preexisting conditions is a major part of the Affordable Care Act, which the Trump administration is currently asking the Supreme Court to invalidate. Trump has long vowed that, though he seeks to remove Obamacare, he would ensure the replacement also provided coverage for preexisting conditions. “Over the next two weeks I’ll be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover all preexisting conditions for all customers,” Trump said at the briefing. “This has never been done before, but it’s time the people of our country are properly represented and properly taken care of.” Trump’s announcement came one day after laying out six other campaign promises in Ohio. The promises related to the economy, and he said he would keep manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and bring them back from overseas. He was also heavily critical of China, saying he would make consequences for companies that do business there. (EXCLUSIVE REPORT: The Inside Story Of How The Trump Team Is Rebuilding Our Supply Chain Preparedness) Trump has been heavily critical of China since gaining office in 2017, but has ramped up his rhetoric after the coronavirus spread from China across the globe. He has taken to calling COVID-19 the “China virus” and has suggested the U.S. is investigating ways to hold China accountable for its role in allowing the virus to become a global pandemic.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 7, 2020 19:14:05 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-we-are-going-a-different-way-as-coronavirus-relief-deal-fails-to-materializeTrump Says ‘We Are Going A Different Way’ As Coronavirus Relief Deal Fails To Materialize Democratic leadership and Republican leaders failed to reach an agreement on coronavirus legislation Friday, which has prompted President Donald Trump to say he plans to go “a different way.” “Pelosi and Schumer only interested in Bailout Money for poorly run Democrat cities and states. Nothing to do with China Virus! Want one trillion dollars. No interest. We are going a different way,” said Trump. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have been leading talks for the Democratic side, which passed a $3 trillion coronavirus relief package in the House back in May to serve as a negotiating starting point. Republicans, on the other hand, capped spending in a relief proposal outlined by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) last month at $1 trillion — and even then, not everyone in the Senate was on board with it. The spending gap between the two proposals has made negotiations over the past two weeks difficult, and ultimately has steered Republican and Democratic negotiators toward an impasse. Seemingly in preparation for this possibility, an unnamed White House official told Fox News on Monday that “the administration is considering a number of options that might be available without congressional legislative action.” It now seems that this is the direction the White House is headed. According to The Wall Street Journal, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that he and Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, will now encourage the president to pursue executive orders, “based upon our lack of activity today.” While the exact nature of these potential executive orders remains unclear, White House adviser Larry Kudlow told Fox Business on Friday that the Trump administration was looking at using executive orders if the deal-making process fails. “He is intent on using all of the federal power levers at his disposal,” said Kudlow, who later acknowledged that there are still funds that remain unspent, reports WSJ. After the meeting, Senator Schumer said that Mnuchin and Meadows weren’t willing to increase spending by $1 trillion in order to meet the Democrats halfway between the two proposals, reports Politico. “There were only two choices for them. Negotiate with Democrats and meet us in the middle, don’t say it’s your way or no way, and if we do that, we can accomplish a whole lot of things,” he said. “The other choice is for them to do executive orders, which by their own admission, they said it to us repeatedly, is not close to as good.” Pelosi also told reporters on Friday that “I’ve told them, come back when you are ready to give us a higher number,” reports the news agency.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 7, 2020 19:17:32 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/trump-trolls-media-for-complaining-about-packed-room-with-covid-guidelines-its-a-peaceful-protestTrump Trolls Media For Complaining About Packed Room With COVID Guidelines: ‘It’s A Peaceful Protest’ President Donald Trump mocked the media during a news conference on Friday evening for complaining about a room packed full of people that they claimed violated New Jersey’s COVID-19 guidelines, saying that it was a “peaceful protest.” “Just in this room, you have dozens of people who are not following the guidelines in New Jersey which say you should not have more than 25–,” the reporter stated before being loudly booed by everyone in the room. “You’re wrong on that,” Trump shot back, “because it’s a political activity. They have exceptions, political activity, and it’s also a peaceful protest.” The room erupted in laughter and cheers. “To me, they look like they all, pretty much all have masks on,” Trump continued. “You have an exclusion in the law, it says ‘peaceful protest, or political activity,’ right?” Trump looked down a sheet and said, “In fact, it specifically, yeah, it says exactly, ‘political activity or peaceful protest,’ and you can call it political activity but I’d call it ‘peaceful protest’ because they heard you were coming up and they know the news is fake, they understand it better than anybody.” The room again erupted in cheers. “They asked whether or not they could be here, like the question about Russia,” Trump continued as he pointed at the reporter. “He doesn’t mention Iran was in the report, he doesn’t mention, or he mentions very late that China was in the report, because that’s the way they are.” “If the press in this country were honest—it wasn’t corrupt, if it wasn’t fake—our country would be so much further ahead, but we’re doing really great,” the president said as he ended the news conference. Trump’s remarks appeared to take a jab at the fact that the media largely gave leftists a pass when they have gone protesting over the last couple of months, which have often spiraled into violent riots. WATCH: Left-wing reporters attacked Trump for the comment online, or suggested they did not understand what he was saying. “Country club members booed because a reporter asked Pres Trump why they were not wearing masks as they watched Trump’s press conference,” PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor tweeted. “Trump said the club members were engaged in a ‘peaceful protest.’ Crowd cheered. Note: More than 160K Americans have died from COVID.” “Wow. A reporter points out many club members in the room aren’t wearing mask, violating guidelines,” CBS News blogger Kathryn Watson wrote on Twitter. “The crowd boos the reporter. ‘Because it’s a political activity they have exceptions” and it’s “also a peaceful protest,’ Trump said. The crowd, full of wealthy members, cheers.” “Trump says members of his NJ club who are gathered maskless are complying with law bc it’s a ‘political activity’ and ‘peaceful protest.’ It’s unclear what they are protesting. Trump in recent days has said that wearing a mask is patriotic, but seems to be endorsing no masks now,” CNN reporter Manu Raju tweeted. “Trump claimed they were protesting the media, though they were there just to watch the presser and cheered when he said that. He also said it was a ‘political activity’ even though it was an official WH event.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 7, 2020 19:27:47 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/07/donald-trump-to-suspend-payroll-tax-until-end-of-2020/Donald Trump to Suspend Payroll Tax Until End of 2020 President Trump said Friday he would defer the payroll tax until the end of the year, using an executive order. The tax would continue to be deferred until the end of 2020, the president said, and would likely be retroactive from July 1. He said that by the end of 2020 the payroll tax break could be extended. “Hopefully I’ll be here to do the job,” Trump said, hinting at the results of Election Day. The president also said he would extend unemployment benefits, defer student loan payments and interest, and extend the eviction moratorium as well as an order requiring health insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions. “If Democrats continue to hold this critical relief hostage, I will act under my authority as president to get Americans the relief they need,” he said. The president said that the lawyers were drawing up the executive orders and that they could be signed by the end of the week. Asked whether he was concerned about the legality of his executive order, Trump replied, “No, not at all. You always get sued, everything you do you get sued … we’ll see.” The president also declined to specify whether or not he would extend federal unemployment benefit checks at the full $600 a week. But Trump said he was determined to help Americans still struggling with the virus and the cost of the economic shutdowns despite unprecedented obstruction from Congressional Democrats. “Tragically Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer continue to insist on radical leftwing policies that have nothing to do with the China virus,” Trump said. Pelosi and Schumer are demanding a $2.5 trillion package that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows described as a “blank check.” Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin continued negotiations with Democrats throughout the week but ended Friday recommending that Trump act unilaterally. “The Chief and I will recommend to the President, based upon our lack of activity today, that he move forward with some executive orders,” Mnuchin said to reporters on Capitol Hill before leaving for the evening. The enhanced federal unemployment checks of $600 a week ran out on Friday.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 7, 2020 19:29:26 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/07/cbp-chief-morgan-wall-construction-continues-helping-fight-illegal-immigration-coronavirus/CBP Chief Morgan: Wall Construction Continues, Helping Fight Illegal Immigration, Coronavirus Mark Morgan, Acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), told reporters on Thursday that construction of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues on a daily basis, with hundreds of miles projected to be completed by year’s end. “The United States Army Corps of Engineers and CBP are actually moving faster than ever,” Morgan said. “The last few months … we’re putting more wall system in place every single day than we have before.” He went on to say: We’re now up to 265 miles — I’ve probably got to check right now, we probably added a mile or two since I put this down in my talking points. And we remain confident by the end of this year, we’ve been saying for a very long time, even though we’ve had a lot of naysayers out there, by end of this year, we’re going to have 450 miles of new border wall system in the ground, and America will be safer because of it. Morgan said that in addition to keeping people from entering the United States illegally, the wall is protecting Americans from further spread of the coronavirus. Moreover, Morgan said, a directive from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under Title 42 allows border agents who apprehend illegal crossers to turn them back within hours rather than bring them into United States detention centers— logistics that would be “catastrophic” to both migrants and CBP personnel during a pandemic. “Oganizations like CBP need the tools like title 42, during an infectious disease pandemic, to effectively do our jobs to protect the American people,” Morgan said, adding that the CDC directive does not fall under immigration enforcement but public health policy designed to protect the American people. Morgan said the wall has reduced the number of people being admitted into the U.S. by more than 90 percent. Reporters at the press conference, including Breitbart News, asked about claims that the new public health policy is preventing people with legitimate asylum claims from getting into the United States. “We’re still absolutely meeting and maintaining our refoulement (not forcibly returning migrants to their country where they could face lethal retribution),” obligation Morgan said. “If someone proactively states that they have fear of torture [if] returned to their country, we are absolutely meeting that obligation.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 7, 2020 19:55:28 GMT -6
www.foxbusiness.com/economy/july-jobs-report-coronavirus-pandemic-2020US employers hire 1.8M despite new COVID-19 shutdowns Economists surveyed by Refinitiv expected the report to show that unemployment dropped to 10.5% The U.S. economy added 1.8 million jobs in July even as a wave of new coronavirus cases forced most states to pause or reverse their reopenings. The payroll increase reported Friday by the Labor Department was nonetheless well below the 4.8 million jobs created in June, the highest ever recorded. The unemployment rate fell to 10.2%, down from 11.1% in June. NEARLY HALF OF US JOBS LOST TO CORONAVIRUS COULD BE GONE PERMANENTLY, POLL FINDS Economists surveyed by Refinitiv expected the report to show that unemployment dropped to 10.5% and the economy added 1.6 million jobs. “We have seen a very troubling increase in COVID-19 cases in many states that had reopened for business, but we continue to be cautiously optimistic that the overall U.S. economy has turned a corner, and that the solid job gains announced today will be sustained," said Tony Bedikian, managing director of Citizens Bank. Ticker Security Last Change Change % I:DJI DOW JONES AVERAGES 27433.48 +46.50 +0.17% SPS500 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. I:COMP NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX 11010.982553 -97.09 -0.87% Estimates before the report varied widely amid escalating fears that a flare-up in COVID-19 cases across the country and a fresh round of business closures would derail the job market's early recovery from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Over the past three months, the economy has added back less than half -- about 42 percent -- of the 22 million jobs it lost during the pandemic, data show. There are still 10.6 million more out-of-work Americans than in February. The unemployment level, at its highest in decades, is expected to remain elevated as social distancing guidelines are kept in place while states fight a resurgence in COVID-19 cases. FED UNDERSCORES SUPPORT FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY THREATENED BY VIRUS RESURGENCE Last week, the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to 1.18 million, the lowest level since the pandemic started in mid-March. The figure indicates there's still some driving power behind the job market's turnaround. Leisure and hospitality once again accounted for the bulk of jobs created last month, with 592,000 new positions added. About 504,800 of those were in food and drinking establishments — one of the industries hit hardest by the pandemic as states ordered restaurants and bars to close and directed Americans to stay at home. GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE Government jobs grew by 301,000, retail saw a gain of 258,300 and manufacturing payrolls increased by 26,000. Education and health services added 215,000 workers. The numbers reflect the economy's struggle to recover from the virus-induced crisis, which sent the nation's GDP -- the broadest measure of goods and services produced by a country -- plunging a record-shattering 32.9% annual rate in the April-June quarter. The report comes as Democratic leaders and White House officials try to negotiate another round of emergency aid for families, businesses and the economy. But talks over the deal are at an impasse, putting at risk possibly trillions of dollars in relief. .................................................................. www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/jobs-report-july-2020.htmlPayrolls increase by nearly 1.8 million, topping expectations despite coronavirus resurgence Nonfarm payrolls increased by 1.763 million in July and the unemployment rate fell to 10.2%. Both numbers were better than respective Wall Street forecasts of 1.48 million and 10.6%. Even with a three-month gain of 9.3 million workers either newly hired or back to their old jobs, the total employment level remained 12.9 million below its February level. “We still have a lot of wood to chop here, but we’re moving in the right direction,” said Michael Arone at State Street Global Advisors. Two months of record-setting payroll growth slowed in July but was still better than Wall Street estimates even as a rise in coronavirus cases put a damper on the struggling U.S. economy. Nonfarm payrolls increased 1.763 million for the month, the Labor Department reported Friday. The unemployment rate fell to 10.2% from its previous 11.1%, also better than the estimates from economists surveyed by Dow Jones. An alternative measure that includes discouraged workers and the underemployed holding part-time jobs for economic reasons fell from 18% to 16.5%. Chart showing change in nonfarm payrolls, compared to the prior month, through July 2020. The consensus was for growth of 1.48 million jobs and an unemployment rate of 10.6%. However, there were wide variations around the estimates as the pandemic’s resurgence dented plans to get the shuttered U.S. economy completely back online. Forecasts ranged from a decline of half a million jobs to a rise of 3 million, with a report Wednesday from ADP showing a gain of just 167,000 in private payrolls fueling downside expectations. May and June saw a combined increase of more than 7.5 million, the fastest two-month rise in U.S. history. The reason for those big gains, though, primarily was the return of displaced workers who were laid off as the nation sought to flatten the rise in the Covid-19 pandemic. July’s report “confirms that the resurgence in new virus cases caused the economic recovery to slow, but also underlines that it has not yet gone into reverse,” said Andrew Hunter, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics. “With new infections now trending clearly lower again and high-frequency activity indicators showing tentative signs of a renewed upturn, employment should continue to rebound over the coming months.” Even with a three-month gain of 9.3 million workers either newly hired or back to their old jobs, the total employment level remained 12.9 million below its February level. The May and June counts were revised up by a total 17,000. The total unemployment level is at 16.3 million Americans, a decline of more than 1.4 million, according to the survey of households. That compares with a peak of nearly 23.1 million in April. “What the data continues to tell me is that we’re making progress from the pain that was most acute back in March and April. So we continue to have this recovery, but it’s uneven,” said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist for the U.S. SPDR business at State Street Global Advisors. “We still have a lot of wood to chop here, but we’re moving in the right direction.” Chart showing the U.S. unemployment rate through July 2020. Markets reacted little to the news, with stock market futures pointing to a slightly lower open on Wall Street and government bond yields mostly flat. “The numbers may be good relative to expectations, but you’re still looking at an unemployment rate over 10% and labor force participation slipping a little bit,” said Kathy Jones, head of fixed income at Charles Schwab. “It’s still a pretty weak economy.” Though bars and restaurants have struggled to cope with restrictions brought on by the pandemic, leisure and hospitality led the month with a growth of 592,000 jobs, with 502,000 of those coming in eating and drinking establishments. Government jobs increased by 301,000 while retail added 258,000. Other gains came from professional and business services (170,000), other services (149,000) and health care (126,000). Social assistance rose by 66,000, transportation and warehousing was up 38,000 and manufacturing increased by 26,000. Average hourly earnings rose by 4.8% from a year ago, though the wage data has been distorted by compositional effects. Higher-wage workers were the first to return to their jobs after the initial pandemic shutdown. The trend had been hovering around a 3% wage gain prior to the shift in March. The average work week edged lower to 34.5 hours though it jumped by 0.7 hours to 39.7 hours for manufacturing. Unemployment fell across demographics, with the rate for Whites going from 10.1% to 9.2%, Blacks falling from 15.4% to 14.65 and the rate for Hispanics moving from 14.5% to 12.9%.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 7, 2020 19:56:06 GMT -6
www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/hispanic-unemployment-rate-declines-third-straight-month-julyHispanic Unemployment Rate Declines for Third Straight Month in July The employment picture for Hispanics and Latinos improved for the third consecutive month in July as the nation’s businesses continued reopening from the coronavirus-prompted shutdown. The 12.9% national, seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate for Hispanics and Latinos in July fell by 1.6 percentage points from June’s 14.5% level and 6.0 points from the record-high of 18.9% set in April, but remained well above March’s 6.0% mark. In July, 174,000 more Hispanics had jobs and 520,000 fewer were unemployed, compared to the previous month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday. BLS began tracking Hispanic-Latino employment data in 1973. Mediavine In July, 347,000 fewer Hispanics participated in the workforce. Hispanic-Latino employment statistics for July 2020: Unemployment rate: ---- 12.9%, down from 14.5% in June Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population (16+ years old): --- 44,212,000, up from 44,132,000 in June Number Participating in Labor Force: --- 28,560,000, down from 28,907,000 in June Labor Force Participation Rate: --- 64.6%, down from 65.5% in June Number Employed: 24,885,000 up from 24,711,000 in June Number Unemployed: --- 3,675,000, down from 4,195,000 in June
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 6:53:54 GMT -6
President Trump announced on Saturday he will sign executive orders on China Coronavirus talks. President Trump RIPPED Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats for holding the stimulus talks hostage. Advertisement - story continues below Trump attacked Democrats for eliminating election safeguards in their proposals. Democrats also wanted stimulus checks for illegal aliens. Trump added, “The only way they can win is to cheat… They want to steal the election.” Video: President Trump then said this, “Frankly, I don’t believe they love their country.” Trump then bashed Democrats for eliminating election safeguards in their proposals. Democrats also wanted stimulus checks for illegal aliens. Following his announcement in Bedminster, New Jersey the president took a few questions from the reporters. White House reporter Paula Reid attacked the president for going around the Democrats who stalled funds to the American public. President Trump answered her questions then moved out But Paula Reid was not done, ignored the president’s requests and continued to pepper him with questions. President Trump told her, “No, no… You’re finished.” The gallery crowd roared! But hack reporter Reid was not finished, and continued to bark questions at the President of the United States. So President Trump ended the presser. The pro-Trump crowd roared again! And the cherry on top, testimony from a Democrat Councilman in NYC about how the drug touted by President Trump, (HCQ), & that the media villified saved his life: nypost.com/2020/08/08/nyc-councilman-credits-hydroxychloroquine-for-covid-19-recovery/A Democratic New York City Councilman says hydroxychloroquine saved his life after a near-fatal run-in with COVID-19 in March.
Paul Vallone, who represents northeast Queens, took the drug along with a standard Z-pack — given for bacterial infections — and came back from the brink almost immediately.
“I couldn’t breathe, very weak, couldn’t get out of bed. My doctor prescribed it. My pharmacy had it. Took it that day and within two to three days I was able to breathe,” Vallone told The Post. “Within a week I was back on my feet.”
Though Vallone went public with his coronavirus diagnosis in an April 1 Twitter post, saying he was experiencing “mild symptoms,” his actual condition was considerably more severe. Vallone’s initial prognosis was particularly grim, as he also suffers from sarcoidosis, an auto-immune disease that attacks his lungs.
“We were in panic mode when I went down because I didn’t have a lot of immune response,” he said. “I needed something to stay alive.”
Hydroxychloroquine “worked for me.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 7:05:54 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/08/08/trump-executive-order-coronavirus-relief/Trump Signs Four Executive Orders To Provide Coronavirus Relief President Donald Trump signed four orders aimed at providing coronavirus relief through executive action on Saturday as Congress is currently gridlocked on the issue. Trump’s first order seeks to establish a payroll tax cut holiday from August 1, 2020 through the end of the year. The second directs the Department of Housing and Urban Development and other federal agencies to prohibit evictions. The third order establishes a $400-per-week addition to the paycheck protection program for workers. The fourth will provide relief for Americans’ student loans. “It will be rapidly distributed,” Trump said. Trump made the announcement one day after announcing other executive orders mandating that health insurers provide coverage for preexisting conditions. Coverage for preexisting conditions is a major part of the Affordable Care Act, which the Trump administration is currently asking the Supreme Court to invalidate. Trump has long vowed that, though he seeks to remove Obamacare, he would ensure the replacement also provided coverage for preexisting conditions. “Over the next two weeks I’ll be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover all preexisting conditions for all customers,” Trump said Friday evening. “This has never been done before, but it’s time the people of our country are properly represented and properly taken care of.” Trump’s announced six other campaign promises on Thursday in Ohio. He said he would keep manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and bring more back from overseas. He was also heavily critical of China, saying he would make consequences for companies that do business there. (EXCLUSIVE REPORT: The Inside Story Of How The Trump Team Is Rebuilding Our Supply Chain Preparedness) Trump has been heavily critical of China since entering office in 2017, but has ramped up his rhetoric after the coronavirus spread from China across the globe. He has taken to calling COVID-19 the “China virus” and has suggested the U.S. is investigating ways to hold China accountable for its role in allowing the virus to become a global pandemic.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 7:08:57 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/trump-extends-weekly-unemployment-boost-at-400-after-relief-negotiations-fail-takes-three-other-actionsTrump Extends Weekly Unemployment Boost At $400 After Relief Negotiations Fail, Takes Three Other Actions President Donald Trump took four executive actions — one executive order and three memoranda — on Saturday addressing the pandemic after Republican negotiators and Democratic leaders failed for nearly two weeks to negotiate a coronavirus relief package that could pass through both chambers of the legislature. During a press conference on Saturday, Trump said he was taking several executive actions, including establishing a payroll tax holiday for workers who earn less than $100,000 per year, protecting renters from evictions, and expanding unemployment benefits by $400 per week — 25% which would be covered by states. The president said that he could make the the payroll tax holiday permanent after the election, meaning that those taxes would not simply be deferred but eliminated, and contrasted this decision with Biden, who the president argued would not be able to do so because the Democrats are in favor of adding “three trillion dollars in taxes.” According to The Wall Street Journal, the Disaster Relief Fund will provide the money for the weekly benefits, which will be available until early December “or until the disaster fund’s balance drops to $25 billion, according to the executive action. To pay for the benefits, the action sets aside $44 billion from the fund, which currently has a balance of about $70 billion.” The Democrat-endorsed HEROES Act was in favor of extending the unemployment benefits boost at $600 per week into the next year, while Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had advocated for a 70% wage replacement cap. “We’re doing that without the Democrats,” Trump said of the $400 weekly unemployment boost. “We should have been able to do it very easily with them, but they want all of these additional things that have nothing to do with helping people.” The president also said that he was extending relief to student loan borrowers by keeping student loan interest payments temporarily at 0% to the end of the year, and suspended student loan payments until December. Trump blamed Democrats on Saturday for pushing unrelated measures in the House-passed HEROES Act back in May, saying one-third of the multi-trillion dollar bill was for stuff “completely unrelated” to the pandemic. “They have things in there that nobody has even had the time to look at or read,” said Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the duo negotiating on behalf of the Democratic side, said in a statement Saturday that Trump’s executive actions show the he “still does not comprehend the seriousness or the urgency of the health and economic crises facing working families.” “These policy announcements provide little real help to families. For instance, not only does the President’s announcement not actually extend the eviction moratorium, it provides no assistance to help pay the rent, which will only leave desperate families to watch their debt pile higher. Instead of passing a bill, now President Trump is cutting families’ unemployment benefits and pushing states further into budget crises, forcing them to make devastating cuts to life-or-death services,” said the Democratic leaders. Pelosi and Schumer also called on Republican negotiators to return to the table to make a deal, saying “meet us halfway and work together to deliver immediate relief to the American people. Lives are being lost, and time is of the essence.” [Editor’s Note: This article has been corrected. It previously stated that President Trump took “three executive actions.” The president actually took four executive actions, as noted in the corrected first line of the piece].
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 7:15:42 GMT -6
So, the Democrats are going to attempt to legally challenge President Trump's EO's which are going to help the voting public? This should play well come election time...... www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-actions-to-provide-relief-to-americans-expected-to-face-legal-challenges-from-democrats-report-saysTrump’s Actions To Provide Relief To Americans ‘Expected To Face Legal Challenges From Democrats,’ Report Says President Donald Trump signed four executive actions on Saturday to provide relief to Americans amid continued fallout from the coronavirus pandemic as talks with Democrats continued to stall, and now Democrats are reportedly expected to challenge Trump’s actions. According to Axios, the four actions that Trump signed did the following:
www.axios.com/trump-executive-order-coronavirus-aid-c0f59817-b95c-440f-86d0-db1e46f4ab64.html
Defer payroll taxes for Americans earning less than $100,000 a year. Implement a moratorium on evictions and give financial assistance to renters. Add $400 per week in extra unemployment benefits through the end of 2020, requiring states to cover 25% of the additional benefits. Postpone student loan interest and payments through the end of 2020.Presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden attacked Trump for taking unilateral action to help the American people during the pandemic, saying, “This is not presidential leadership. These orders are not real solutions.” The Los Angeles Times reported that Trump’s actions “are expected to face legal challenges from Democrats that could blunt their impact.” www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-08/trump-executive-orders-bypassing-congress-coronavirus-reliefA reporter asked Trump during a press conference about expecting to face legal challenges from Democrats to his executive actions, to which Trump responded, “I guess maybe they will bring legal actions or maybe they won’t but they won’t win.” www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-abruptly-leaves-coronavirus-eo-signing-after-facing-onslaught-of-questions-is-this-political-theater/House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy responded to the news by writing on Twitter, “Pelosi & Schumer held up relief for the American people because they wanted a liberal wishlist that talks more about ‘cannabis’ than a ‘job.’ Today President Trump took action to make up for Democrats’ failures. He stepped up to deliver targeted relief to the American people.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell responded to the news by writing in a statement: www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/mcconnell-on-president-trumps-announcement-struggling-americans-need-help-nowStruggling Americans need action now. Since Democrats have sabotaged backroom talks with absurd demands that would not help working people, I support President Trump exploring his options to get unemployment benefits and other relief to the people who need them the most.
Before the jobless benefits expired, Senate Republicans tried several times to extend them while talks continued. But Leader Schumer declared that nobody could get help unless all of Democrats’ demands were met.
Then the President’s team worked hard to bridge differences on many of the policies that would rapidly help American families — money to safely re-open schools, money for testing, more direct payments for households, another round of the PPP, legal protections, and more. But Democrats have continued to block all of it while holding out for non-COVID-related liberal demands like a huge tax cut for rich people in blue states and a massive slush fund for state and local governments that is many times the size of the actual coronavirus shortfall they are projected to face.
Weeks ago, some predicted that Speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader Schumer might actually prefer if the American people received no further bipartisan aid before the election. Sadly, they have done nothing to suggest otherwise.
I am glad that President Trump is proving that while Democrats use laid-off workers as political pawns, Republicans will actually look out for them.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer responded to the news by writing in a statement: www.speaker.gov/newsroom/8820Today’s meager announcements by the President show President Trump still does not comprehend the seriousness or the urgency of the health and economic crises facing working families. We’re disappointed that instead of putting in the work to solve Americans’ problems, the President instead chose to stay on his luxury golf course to announce unworkable, weak and narrow policy announcements to slash the unemployment benefits that millions desperately need and endanger seniors’ Social Security and Medicare.
These policy announcements provide little real help to families. For instance, not only does the President’s announcement not actually extend the eviction moratorium, it provides no assistance to help pay the rent, which will only leave desperate families to watch their debt pile higher. Instead of passing a bill, now President Trump is cutting families’ unemployment benefits and pushing states further into budget crises, forcing them to make devastating cuts to life-or-death services.
Furthermore, these announcements do nothing to increase testing, nothing to reopen schools, nothing to put food on the table for hungry families, nothing to prevent heroes being laid off across state and local government, nothing to protect the Postal Service or the integrity of our elections, nothing on many critical needs of the American people.
Since the House passed The Heroes Act twelve weeks ago, more than 3.5 million Americans have become infected and 70,000 have tragically died. The coronavirus is moving through our country like a runaway freight train and the economy is quickly running out of steam. The only solution to crush the virus and protect working families is to pass a comprehensive bill that is equal to the historic health and economic catastrophe facing our country.
Democrats repeat our call to Republicans to return to the table, meet us halfway and work together to deliver immediate relief to the American people. Lives are being lost, and time is of the essence.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 7:18:39 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/markets/watch-live-trump-make-announcement-major-news-conferenceTrump Signs Executive Orders On Coronavirus Relief, Payroll Tax With the 'swamp' fighting over pork as unemployed Americans die on the vine, President Trump on Saturday announced sweeping executive actions aimed at coronavirus relief - after stimulus Congressional stimulus talks broke down once again last week. The new orders will:
Eliminate the payroll tax Extend unemployment benefits by $400 per week, down from $600 Defer student loan repayments through the end of the year Extend protections against evictions
The administration is also looking at cuts to income taxes for lower and middle-income individuals, as well as cuts capital gains taxes.Update (1640ET): As anticipated, President Trump has announced that he will be signing executive orders to eliminate the payroll tax, extend a block on evictions, and continue to provide supplemental unemployment benefits. Earlier: President Trump will be making a major announcement on Saturday which many believe to be linked to rumors of an executive order covering pandemic stimulus funds and other measures. On Friday evening, Trump said that if a bipartisan agreement isn't reached on stimulus legislation, he's prepared to sign executive orders.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 7:20:55 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/08/donald-trump-signs-executive-order-payroll-tax-holiday-enhanced-unemployment-checks/President Donald Trump signed an executive order for a payroll tax holiday at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Saturday. “The very important thing is that people want it, and the people need it, actually,” Trump said, noting that Republicans and Democrats in Congress could not reach a deal. The president said that the payroll tax holiday would apply to Americans earning less than $100,000 a year. “If I am victorious on November 3, I plan to forgive these taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax,” he said. Trump added that he might even “terminate” the tax or make permanent changes. A group of supporters joined the president at his press conference announcing the news and cheered as the president signed the orders. “Biden probably won’t be doing that. You’ll have to ask him. I don’t think he knows what he’s doing,” he said, as his supporters chuckled. The president also said he would provide a federal unemployment enhancement of $400 per week but that states would pay for 25 percent of the cost. He also signed an extension of the moratorium on evictions and deferred student loan payments. Trump said he had to act on his own after negotiations with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ground to a halt. “The Democrats have obstructed people from getting desperately needed help,” Trump said. The president said he would find ways to use existing funds already passed by Congress for coronavirus relief to help Americans fight the virus and the economic struggles from the lockdowns. “We have the money to do a lot of things, money that was unspent, and we would do a lot of things with the money that was unspent,” he said.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 9:30:31 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/watch-trump-rips-aocs-green-new-deal-its-for-children-its-not-for-adultsWATCH: Trump Rips AOC’s ‘Green New Deal’: ‘It’s For Children. It’s Not For Adults.’ Speaking at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey on Saturday, President Trump took a shot at the hard-left’s “Green New Deal” which was sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). He stated, “I actually say the Green New Deal is childish. It’s for children; it’s not for adults.” Trump said, “You look at what they want to do; they want to raise everybody’s taxes, everybody, and they want to do the Green New Deal, which will decimate our country and decimate – it’s ridiculous; it’s childish. I actually say the Green New Deal is childish. It’s for children; it’s not for adults. Anybody that believes in that is —I don’t know, maybe it’s politics. I don’t even think it’s good politics; they seem to think so. We’ll see how they do. But I don’t think it’s good politics and it’ll decimate our economy.” On Thursday, speaking at the Whirlpool Corporation Manufacturing Plant in Clyde, Ohio, Trump blasted Democrat leaders for “inflicting a socialist takeover of the U.S. economy known as the horrendous Green New Deal.” He stated: To fully restore American prosperity, we must stop the radical left-wing movement that would destroy our country. They want to impose $3 trillion of new taxes on American families. They want to ban fracking, which will demolish your state. It will demolish Ohio oil and gas jobs. They want to rejoin the disastrous Paris Climate Accord, where you’ll pay billions and billions of dollars for the privilege of getting ripped off by other countries; and inflict a socialist takeover of the U.S. economy, known as the horrendous Green New Deal. It was conceived by a young woman, AOC — AOC plus three, I say.
AOC — that’s a real beauty isn’t it? She knows as much about the environment — do we have any young children here? — as that young child over there. I think he knows more. (Laughter.) And she certainly knows nothing about the economy. And if they ever had their chance, you would find that out, and it wouldn’t take very long.
You know, Venezuela was a very wealthy country 20 years ago — one of the wealthiest — per capita, one of the wealthiest. Tremendous oil reserves, everything. Now they don’t have food. They don’t have water. They don’t have medicine, they don’t have anything. Same thing could happen, same or similar ideology.
They also want to throw open American borders, give free taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal aliens, defund police, abolish ICE, abolish borders — no more borders — and abolish basically the American Dream. This is Joe Biden. And does anybody really think he’s strong enough to stand up to these ruthless, vicious people? You look at — you look at Portland, you look at what’s going on in Seattle, these are the people that you’re dealing with. If I didn’t send in the troops, if I didn’t send in the great people from Homeland Security, you’d have courthouses and post offices and everything else burned down, blown up.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 9:31:27 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-torches-hong-kong-chief-exec-carrie-lam-presses-sanctionsWhite House Torches Hong Kong Chief Exec Carrie Lam, Presses Sanctions President Donald Trump took his strongest action yet against Chinese government forces looking to stifle freedom in Hong Kong, instituting dedicated sanctions against Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, and at least ten other officials over their decision to follow China’s lead and press strict, anti-free speech controls on Hong Kong citizens. The Chinese government, last month, passed a series of laws “reclaiming” Hong Kong and implementing a series of oppressive restrictions designed to quell protests and subject Hong Kong citizens, long considered freer than their Chinese counterparts, to draconian Chinese rules. The “sweeping national security law,” CNBC says, bans literature “critical of the Chinese government” and allows China to conduct surveillance and arrests within the island nation, likely in violation of an agreement, inked with the island city-state’s former controlling government, the United Kingdom, when the UK transfered control over Hong Kong to China in the 1990s. Lam has also postponed the island’s parlimentary elections, set to take place in September, indefinitely. The Treasury Department announced the sanctions Friday, targeting Lam by name for “implementing Beijing’s policies of suppression of freedom and democratic processes.” “The United States stands with the people of Hong Kong and we will use our tools and authorities to target those undermining their autonomy,” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said in a statement. “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has described the new law as an ‘Orwellian move’ and an assault ‘on the rights and freedoms of the people of Hong Kong,'” CNBC added. The Chinese Communist Party has made clear that Hong Kong will never again enjoy the high degree of autonomy that Beijing itself promised to the Hong Kong people and the United Kingdom for 50 years,” Pompeo added. “President Trump has made clear that the United States will therefore treat Hong Kong as ‘one country, one system,’ and take action against individuals who have crushed the Hong Kong people’s freedoms.” The sanctions prevent Lam and ten others — including the head of Hong Kong’s police force — from accessing foreign accounts, “property and interests in property” that are located in the United States or its territories. Lam told international media that she is not bothered by the crackdown. “I have no assets in the U.S., and I don’t particularly like going to the U.S,” she said. “If they won’t grant me a visa, then I will just not go there.” China called the measures “clowning actions.” “The unscrupulous intentions of the U.S. politicians to support the anti-China chaos in Hong Kong have been revealed, and their clowning actions are really ridiculous,” the government’s official communication office said in its own statement. “Intimidation and threats cannot frighten the Chinese people.” Economic sanctions, though, could, and the Trump administration is already pursuing additional measures, including sanctions on Chinese companies that trade in American markets and appear on the NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange.
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