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

5 (45.5%)

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

5 (45.5%)

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

0 (0%)

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

0 (0%)

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

1 (9.1%)

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

0 (0%)

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

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

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

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/01/politics/north-korea-nuclear-freeze-trump-administration/index.html

"fire and the fury like the world has never seen"

Bluster and bloviating like the world has never seen.

From late 2016:

A “Freeze”
For some, “freezing” or “capping” the North Korean nuclear program and trying to eliminate it over time through dialogue should be the goal.

It is important to recall that a freeze leading to denuclearization was the central premise of both the October 1994 Agreed Framework and the September 2005 six-party agreement. Both efforts failed. Importantly, a credible freeze or cap is only as good as our ability to verify it, and North Korea has made clear it will not accept international verification. U.S. inability to verify a freeze would leave North Korea’s uranium enrichment facilities in operation. Pyongyang would also be free to improve its warheads, manufacture larger warheads, and make other refinements to its nuclear weapons during a so-called freeze. A freeze that does not halt the testing and deployment of ballistic missiles also would allow Pyongyang to continue to improve its delivery systems.

If the goal of a freeze is to prevent the North from making additional nuclear weapons, it will not work. It would leave the United States and its allies dangerously vulnerable. Unless a temporary freeze on nuclear testing and plutonium production is part of a firm agreement that leads quickly to complete and verifiable denuclearization, it runs the risk of creating the illusion of security and progress where none exists.

[LarryBnDC]

"Expansions don't grow old and die. Something kills an expansion," Robert Frick, chief economist at the Navy Federal Credit Union, told CBS MoneyWatch recently.
That killer could very well be the U.S. trade wars. While President Donald Trump reached an agreement to restart talks with his top trade rival, China, at this week's G20 summit, Mexico and now India remain potential sore spots. The Federal Reserve has essentially promised to drop interest rates if the tariffs imposed so far have a noticeable impact on growth. But with rates already historically low, that many not be enough. The Fed's current target rate, between 2.25% and 2.5%, is the lowest it has been at the peak of an economic expansion.“


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-economic-expansion-just-hit-a-record-for-the-longest-ever/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6j&linkId=69772416

[facilitatorn]

http://www.salon.com/2019/07/01/the-hidden-consensus-a-winning-democratic-platform-began-to-emerge-in-miami-debates/

[josh]

https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-store-ebooks-will-no-longer-be-available-to-read-this-month/

Got a Microsoft ebook?

Say goodbye to it.

drm for the win, right?!

[LarryBnDC]

This. Is. America.



https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes#

[josh]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/01/precipitous-fall-in-antarctic-sea-ice-revealed?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0qsgPWGwcrGWzvvnO7Oa0vzbwBnxT-cQUyrDtg9y2pdubKE8L2E7ywvZw#Echobox=1562008538

Sea ice by the Antarctic is melting faster than the Arctic sea ice currently. But it's not that the Arctic ice's melting has slowed.

[josh]

[josh]

[oilcan]

This. Is. America.



https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes#

Yet another law enforcement agency which ran out of functional adults to hire.  ProPub is a great news agency, it's filling some of the gaps in in-depth journalism created by dying newspapers. 

[facilitatorn]

http://www-m.cnn.com/2019/06/29/politics/democratic-debates-2020-kamala-harris-joe-biden/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-m.cnn.com%2F2019%2F07%2F01%2Fpolitics%2F2020-democratic-candidates-poll%2Findex.html%3Fr%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F

“Biden receives support from 22% of registered voters who are Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents, with 17% backing Harris, 15% supporting Warren, and Sen. Bernie Sanders with the support of 14%. No one else in the 23-person field tested hits 5%”

[facilitatorn]

Mitch McConnell and donald trump are starting to look more and more alike.

It must be the treason.

[REDSTATEWARD]

In the last few hours we saw in Korea a good example of the culture of encounter. I salute the protagonists, with a prayer that such a significant gesture will be a further step on the road to peace, not only on that peninsula, but for the good of the entire world," he told thousands of people in St. Peter's Square for his weekly address and blessing.

Pope Francis on the meeting in North Korea between Kim and Trump

[josh]

http://www-m.cnn.com/2019/06/29/politics/democratic-debates-2020-kamala-harris-joe-biden/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-m.cnn.com%2F2019%2F07%2F01%2Fpolitics%2F2020-democratic-candidates-poll%2Findex.html%3Fr%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F

“Biden receives support from 22% of registered voters who are Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents, with 17% backing Harris, 15% supporting Warren, and Sen. Bernie Sanders with the support of 14%. No one else in the 23-person field tested hits 5%”

We are very much in a flavor of the day period.

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/01/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-clint-texas-facility/index.html


"In the last facility, I was not safe from the officers," she told CNN's Natasha Chen on her way into the Clint facility. Ocasio-Cortez grew frustrated during the tours. She screamed at Border Patrol agents for trying to take selfies with her before she toured one facility, according to her spokesman Corbin Trent.


heh

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/10/politics/washington-dc-july-fourth-4th-celebration-trump/index.html