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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

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A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

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A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

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More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

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A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

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More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

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DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

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Huge disruption to the day.

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Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[barton]

  KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — The Latest on the U.N. climate conference being held in Poland (all times local):

3:00 p.m.

Actor and climate campaigner Arnold Schwarzenegger says the United States is “still in” the Paris accord to curb global warming despite the federal government’s decision to walk away from the agreement.

The former California governor told leaders gathered for the start of U.N. climate talks in Poland on Monday that “America is more than just Washington or one leader.”

Calling President Donald Trump “meshugge” - Yiddish for “crazy” - for deciding to withdraw from the Paris accord, Schwarzenegger insisted the 2015 agreement has widespread support at the local and state level in the U.S.

He told delegates that for next year’s annual climate meeting, “Let’s have those local leaders come here and be part of a big conference like this where they can talk to you directly. And if you do that, I promise you: I’ll be back.”

 

[oilcan]

Yes, absolutely no enigmas in NC.  3400 absentee ballots intercepted and thrown away?  Margin is 900 votes?  Nah, what could be wrong there? 

Meanwhile, David Leonhardt questions the current version of capitalism in America, comparing things now with the 1940s.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/opinion/elizabeth-warren-2020-accountable-capitalism.html

The October 1944 edition of Fortune magazine carried an article by a corporate executive that makes for amazing reading today. It was written by William B. Benton — a co-founder of the Benton & Bowles ad agency — and an editor’s note explained that Benton was speaking not just for himself but on behalf of a major corporate lobbying group. The article then laid out a vision for American prosperity after World War II.

At the time, almost nobody took postwar prosperity for granted. The world had just endured 15 years of depression and war. Many Americans were worried that the end of wartime production, combined with the return of job-seeking soldiers, would plunge the economy into a new slump.

“Today victory is our purpose,” Benton wrote. “Tomorrow our goal will be jobs, peacetime production, high living standards and opportunity.” That goal, he wrote, depended on American businesses accepting “necessary and appropriate government regulation,” as well as labor unions. It depended on companies not earning their profits “at the expense of the welfare of the community.” It depended on rising wages.

These leftist-sounding ideas weren’t based on altruism. The Great Depression and the rise of European fascism had scared American executives. Many had come to believe that unrestrained capitalism was dangerous — to everyone. The headline on Benton’s article was, “The Economics of a Free Society.”

In the years that followed, corporate America largely followed this prescription. Not every executive did, of course, and management and labor still had bitter disputes. But most executives behaved as if they cared about their workers and communities. C.E.O.s accepted pay packages that today look like a pittance. Middle-class incomes rose faster in the 1950s and 1960s than incomes at the top. Imagine that: declining income inequality.

And the economy — and American business — boomed during this period, just as Benton and his fellow chieftains had predicted.

Things began to change in the 1970s. Facing more global competition and higher energy prices, and with Great Depression memories fading, executives became more aggressive. They decided that their sole mission was maximizing shareholder value. They fought for deregulation, reduced taxes, union-free workplaces, lower wages and much, much higher pay for themselves. They justified it all with promises of a wonderful new economic boom. That boom never arrived....   

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https://twitter.com/AtomicAnalyst/status/1068991704437571584

After less than two years in office, Donald Trump has spent an astonishing 23 percent of his days playing golf, almost always on a course that he personally owns. The estimated cost to taxpayers of his leisure activity now stands at $83,000,000 and rising.

So glad Trump passed on the POTUS salary.

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https://twitter.com/AtomicAnalyst/status/1068991704437571584

After less than two years in office, Donald Trump has spent an astonishing 23 percent of his days playing golf, almost always on a course that he personally owns. The estimated cost to taxpayers of his leisure activity now stands at $83,000,000 and rising.

So glad Trump passed on the POTUS salary.

Of course, his misuse of taxpayer money to treat his time as "President" as a leisure tour of his various golf properties seems kind of quaint now, next to his using his twitter feed this morning to openly tamper with witnesses and obstruct justice.

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/03/opinions/china-us-trade-intl/index.html

The president missstates the China trade situation.

What else is new?

Stocks soaring today after Trump agreement with China.

They blinked.

Trump creates a crisis so that he can claim victory when the situation reverts back to the status quo.

As with North Korea...same play, over and over.

And the same people buy into it every time.

As I said:

The Chinese have yet to confirm the accuracy of Trump’s tweet on auto tariffs, but trade experts say the most likely scenario is that China will revert to 15 percent tariffs for American cars. If that is the case, Trump secured the same deal for U.S. automakers that they would have gotten in May — before Trump ramped up the trade war by hitting China with additional tariffs in July and September.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/03/trump-has-won-little-china-so-far-there-isnt-an-incredible-deal-yet/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3393008d301d

[FlyingVProd]

Here is a post for those who are homeless, out in the cold, this holiday season, and who cannot speak for themselves...

California has lost over five hundred thousand jobs to China alone, California has been hurt by a bad trade deal with China more than any other state, we need to completely renegotiate our trade deal with China. We need to be strong on the issue of China, and we need an entire new trade deal with China. 

We have record numbers of homeless people, as all of the jobs have been going to China, I do not know about you, but I would rather fight than be out there on the streets homeless and starving in the cold. A new trade deal with China is worth fighting for. We must be strong as we renegotiate our trade deal with China. As we try to pick our battles wisely, renegotiating our trade deal with China is a battle worth fighting. 

Salute,

Tony V.

[bambu-wisdom]

Here is a post for those who are homeless, out in the cold, this holiday season, and who cannot speak for themselves...

California has lost over five hundred thousand jobs to China alone, California has been hurt by a bad trade deal with China more than any other state, we need to completely renegotiate our trade deal with China. We need to be strong on the issue of China, and we need an entire new trade deal with China.

We have record numbers of homeless people, as all of the jobs have been going to China, I do not know about you, but I would rather fight than be out there on the streets homeless and starving in the cold. A new trade deal with China is worth fighting for. We must be strong as we renegotiate our trade deal with China. As we try to pick our battles wisely, renegotiating our trade deal with China is a battle worth fighting.

Salute,

Tony V.

People in America are homeless and starving...while American spaceships are landing on Mars.
Priorities are all wrong, seems to me.

[bambu-wisdom]

People don't appreciate you?  playing golf is certainly more pleasant that putting up with them.

[facilitatorn]

On your on fucking dime, if you have one Bambu.

Tony,
We could also put together a ton of jobs doing the securing and modernization of our infrastructure so it can endure the next generation’s expected strains at roughly twice the population. That will take at least a million Californians if they are really on their shit. Even as we take parts from China and Mexico and points south the implementation will be here.

Good safe batteries from more easily obtainable raw material is the whole ball of wax. It’s a hurdle being approached from many angles that, at least in municipal and commercial applications, will soon be cleared. It will be good to be the folks who nail that first.

National policy is currently all headwinds and a road to hell, but if we’re smart we can keep the trump slump East of the Rockies.

[bambu-wisdom]

Ah yes...climate change.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/this-is-just-the-beginning-sydney-students-protest-climate-change/video/d3546cb62447595b52fb859bc0664bc4

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/queensland-students-protest-climate-change-at-political-office/video/a7ba237c8efb5670be002fcf0a25c29d

Why weren't these students at school?

Trump is wise...he tossed the Paris agreement in the bin!   as have many other countries that signed it, reportedly.

CO2...carbon dioxide...is the source of all plant life on earth.
No CO2...all the trees and plants die.

CO2 makes up 0.04% of the atmosphere.
97% of the CO2 in the atmosphere occurs naturally.

98% of the atmosphere is Oxygen and Nitrogen.

"Climate change/global warming is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind" - no1 radio host.

[facilitatorn]

If nothing changes we have drought, fire, earthquakes, and occasional flooding. Troubles enough to address. If in the process we cut ties with Putin, MbS, the Murdoch Empire, which includes your little convict or lepper colony or whatever it is,  and other funders of the republican party while becoming leaders in an emerging global industry again, the more the better.

I forgot. Australians have never been global leaders in anything but noxious bullshit so you don’t really have context for that last part.

[facilitatorn]

 

Why weren't these students at school?

Because they want to have children who don’t all go extinct when they are getting ready to have children of their own.

Have you found a willing pumpkin yet?

[bambu-wisdom]

https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/11/political-climate-change-paris-burns-with-riots-over-rising-fuel-taxes/

Political Climate Change: Paris Burns With Riots Over Rising Fuel Taxes

If you have looked at Twitter or the news over the last two days, you may have seen the chaos unfolding on the streets of Paris. People are rioting over a tax increase on fuel which the Macron government claims it is imposing to reduce the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels.

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Looks like the folk in France have discovered just how much the 'climate change' drivel is going to cost them.

[kiiidcarter8]

https://twitter.com/AtomicAnalyst/status/1068991704437571584

After less than two years in office, Donald Trump has spent an astonishing 23 percent of his days playing golf, almost always on a course that he personally owns. The estimated cost to taxpayers of his leisure activity now stands at $83,000,000 and rising.

So glad Trump passed on the POTUS salary.

Wow

About 600k per round

Heh.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Australians have never been global leaders in anything but noxious bullshit.

Not true. They lead the world in DLPSM*, edging out the UK in a very close race.











*Drunken Louts per square mile.