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Well given that Volvo is a Chinese company and trump has given the green light that China is now good. Good to take advantage of the US market. Good to manipulate its currency vr world currencies. I'd have expected more advertising on the whole Fox-Breitebart, group of companies.

Its the Christian right in Alabama. Why should anyone be surprised.

Warren Buffett and Larry Fink criticize Trump's tax plan "We have a lot of businesses... I don't think any of them are non-competitive in the world because of the corporate tax rate," Buffett, thechairmanand CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, told CNBC. Fink said a corporate rate as high as 27 percent could satisfy U.S. businesses' need for tax relief, while avoiding an increase in the federal deficit. "What is being proposed is a pretty large expansion of our deficits," Fink told Bloomberg TV. Larry Fink with $5.7 trillion under management and Warren Buffet with $620 Billion. But what do they know?

The Lineman Got $63 an Hour. The Utility Was Billed $319 an Hour. SAN JUAN — The small energy outfit from Montana that won a $300 million contract to help rebuild Puerto Rico’s tattered power grid had few employees of its own, so it did what the Puerto Rican authorities could have done: It turned to Florida for workers. For their trouble, the six electrical workers from Kissimmee are earning $42 an hour, plus overtime. The senior power linemen from Lakeland are earning $63 an hour working in Puerto Rico, the Florida utility said. Their 40 co-workers from Jacksonville, also linemen, are making up to $100 earning double time, public records show... But the Montana company that hired the workers, Whitefish Energy Holdings, had a contract that allowed it to bill the Puerto Rican public power company, known as Prepa, $319 an hour for linemen, a rate that industry experts said was far above the norm even for emergency work — and almost 17 times the average salary of their counterparts in Puerto Rico... The Army Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing power restoration in Puerto Rico, did not hire Whitefish because its prices were more than double what the agency considered reasonable, according to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.... Prepa agreed to pay Whitefish three times the going rate for aviation fuel, and about double what a helicopter specially equipped for transmission line construction should cost, according to industry insiders and people with knowledge of the Whitefish contract. The company is also billing about $4,000 an hour to rent a helicopter; companies that specialize in transmission line construction said that price is more than double what they charge... Jacksonville Electric Authority said it had billed Whitefish for additional overhead to cover things like administrative costs and insurance, bringing the bill to about half what Whitefish was charging Prepa. A spokeswoman for Jacksonville Electric said she was not concerned about the markup because Whitefish was also handling food and lodging. (However, Whitefish is also charging Prepa another $412 a day per worker for food and lodging.).. In Puerto Rico, the reaction was more harsh and skeptical. Mr. Rodríguez, the former utility worker, says out loud what many critics say privately: that markups like those have been used in the past to pay kickbacks to corrupt officials... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/whitefish-energy-holdings-prepa-hurricane-recovery-corruption-hurricane-recovery-in-puerto-rico.html

Correct. trump wishes he could have a country where be could order LE to kill. Philippines' Duterte sings love song for Trump: 'You are the light' ...“Ladies and gentlemen, I sang uninvited, upon the orders of the commander-in-chief of the United States,” Duterte said later, according to the ABS-CBN news channel.... More than 3,900 Filipinos have been killed in a war on drugs that Duterte declared when he took office last year. His government says the police act in self-defence, but critics say executions are taking place with no accountability. Duterte said last week he would tell the US president to “lay off” if he raised the issue of human rights when they met.... Trump, who has been criticised at home for neglecting rights issues in dealings abroad, praised Duterte in May for doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem”. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/13/you-are-the-light-philippines-duterte-sings-love-song-for-trump Duterte and Putin have both received regular praise from trump specifically for their leadership. Both have killed journalists and critics. "At a press conference in mid-February, Arturo Lascanas, a retired senior Davao police officer, detailed the existence of the “Davao Death Squad,” a vigilante group Duterte put together to get rid of political rivals and criminals, and admitted his own involvement as a ringleader. He said that Duterte personally paid him $20,000 for killing a broadcast journalist and commentator who openly criticized Duterte on his radio show. “Here ends my blind obedience and loyalty to one person, Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte who is now president of our country,” Lascanas said, at one point breaking down when he confessed that he had ordered the killing of his two own brothers, who were involved in the illegal drug trade. The report corroborated the earlier testimony of Edgar Matobato, a 57-year-old self-confessed triggerman, who told a Senate panel last September that he was a member of the Davao Death Squad. Several senators are now calling for a new probe based on Lascanas’s confession — a turnaround from his earlier testimony last October where he denied the existence of the gun-for-hire group and called it all “media hype.” https://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/28/14727614/rodrigo-duterte-philippines-drug-dealer-obama-trump-catholic-church

CIA Contradicts Trump On Russian Meddling https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nhl/cia-contradicts-trump-on-russian-meddling/vp-BBERa4P Which leads Russian coverage of this whole matter to: Donald Trump has branded the ‘Russian election meddling’ rhetoric a “Democratic hit job,” saying, that both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton just “didn't have the chemistry” to build good relations with Vladimir Putin, because, you know, “there is a talent to that.” Following three brief encounters between the Russian and US presidents on the grounds of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vietnam, Trump shared his insights with reporters aboard Air Force One Saturday. President Putin appears to be “very insulted” by the allegations of Russian involvement in the 2016 US presidential election, according to Trump, which “is not a good thing for our country,” he added. https://www.rt.com/usa/409575-trump-putin-chemistry-meddling/ So after Russia attacked American independence and the American electoral process. trump takes on the job of supporting a dictator, a kleptomaniac and a murderer of dissidents. President Putin. Meanwhile a real American hero, on Veterans day: McCain slams Trump over siding with Putin on Russia meddling "President Trump today stated that he believed Vladimir Putin is being sincere when he denies Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and reiterated that he hopes to cooperate with Russia in Syria," McCain, a strong critic of the President, said in a statement. "There's nothing 'America First' about taking the word of a KGB colonel over that of the American intelligence community. There's no 'principled realism' in cooperating with Russia to prop up the murderous Assad regime, which remains the greatest obstacle to a political solution that would bring an end to the bloodshed in Syria. Vladimir Putin does not have America's interests at heart. To believe otherwise is not only naive but also places our national security at risk." http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/11/politics/john-mccain-donald-trump-russia/index.html John McCain on Veterans day, has to make a statement like that. About an American president, from his own party. All while battling cancer, shameful. Which brings up the old Russian proverb: "“There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.” Don't worry there is good faith in Mueller when it concerns trump and Russia with regards to "finding out".

A blast from the past! How'd he do on that promise? ============================ Carrier lays off first 300 employees on 6-month anniversary of Trump's presidency Tony Cook and James Briggs, IndyStar July 19, 2017 Carrier Corp. plans to eliminate 338 jobs at its Indianapolis furnace factory Thursday — and the timing is likely to raise some eyebrows. The previously announced layoffs coincide, to the day, with the six-month anniversary of Donald Trump's presidency. They are part of a deal Trump struck with the company in December to prevent deeper job cuts at the plant. The terminations are the first wave of about 630 planned before the end of the year as the company shifts work to Mexico. Carrier's parent company, United Technologies Corp., also plans to lay off another 700 workers at a factory in Huntington near Fort Wayne. ============================= Final round of layoffs planned at Carrier plant Trump promised to save Gregg Re By Gregg Re Fox News Nov 10 2017 Carrier Corp., the HVAC manufacturer that had planned to move its operations to Mexico before President Trump staged a much-heralded intervention, is gearing up for a final round of layoffs. Less than four months after it laid off nearly 340 employees at its Indianapolis factory, Carrier said Tuesday that 215 employees will be terminated on Jan. 11. The company originally had planned those layoffs for late December, but delayed the move until January. The number of layoffs is slightly lower than the 275 employees who initially would have been impacted – the company said fewer workers were affected because of voluntary attrition. . . . . “Trump came in there to the factory last December and blew smoke up our a---s,” Brenda Darlene Battle, a longtime Carrier employee, told The New Yorker. “He wasn’t gonna save those jobs.” =================================== I wonder if the newly unemployed are sick of all the winning yet? Trump used to blame China(and Mexico) for America’s trade problems. Now he blames America. “I don't blame China. After all, who can blame a country for taking advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens?” Trump said, adding that previous US administrations are responsible "for allowing this trade deficit to take place and to grow." https://www.vox.com/world/2017/11/9/16628008/trump-china-trade-fair-asia-trip-xi-jinping trump has been in power for almost a year now. He hasn't named China a currency manipulator. HAS NOT instituted a bill with congress to get America a path to upstream manufacturing. With the exception of one small $200 million bill for apprenticeship training. What about all the wins in coal country? Bankruptcies / November 3, 2017 / John Whitefoot Armstrong Energy, First Coal Company to File for Bankruptcy Under President Trump https://americaclosed.com/armstrong-energy-first-coal-company-file-bankruptcy-president-trump/ "Coal production has since fallen below 2016 levels. If Trump’s presidency has had “any impact at all” on U.S. coal, it may have created a “little positive spin for financial folks” to add companies including Peabody Energy Corp. and Arch Coal Inc. -- both of which emerged from bankruptcy since last fall -- to their portfolios, Preston said.... Building and operating a utility-scale wind farm costs as little as $30 a megawatt-hour over its lifetime -- as little as $14 if you count subsidies. Keeping an existing coal plant running costs $26 to $39 a megawatt-hour, according to Lazard Ltd. And solar is on its way to becoming the cheapest power source on Earth. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-08/a-year-after-trump-s-election-coal-s-still-losing-to-renewables

Former Moore colleague: 'Common knowledge' that he dated high school girls http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/359939-former-moore-colleague-common-knowledge-that-he-dated-teen "It was common knowledge that Roy Moore dated high school girls, everyone we knew thought it was weird," Jones told CNN. "We wondered why someone his age would hang out at high school football games and the mall ... but you really wouldn't say anything to someone like that." Yet according to Moore's pastor unless he confesses. He is innocent "because I know him".

Count me in as well. Derek V OH! so for you guys women shouldn't have a vote on the issue. Explaining Democratic victories: It’s gun violence, stupid[Thats the title of the editorial, I'm not calling you guys stupid] ... The election in Virginia, especially, represents an early indication of the growing importance among key voters of a critical issue: gun violence, and our elected leaders’ unwillingness to do anything about it. ... This is significant. For years, the NRA has spent big in competitive races, investing in candidates who will vote in lock-step with their agenda. And many times, candidates fell in line — fearing the outsized voice and activism of the NRA’s most ardent supporters. The NRA tried to do the same thing in its home state of Virginia this year, spending several million dollars on Republican statewide races. But this time, they failed.... What is clear is that in the face of multiple mass shootings and the ongoing scourge of day-to-day gun violence unseen in any other developed country, http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/359864-explaining-democratic-victories-its-gun-violence-stupid "Northam’s victory was propelled by white, college-educated women; voters who are concerned about health care; the robust showing among Democrats; and voters who strongly disapprove of Trump, exit polls indicated. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/polls-close-anticipation-builds-as-virginia-governors-race-results-trickle-in/2017/11/07/68d6941e-c3d4-11e7-84bc-5e285c7f4512_story.html?utm_term=.2d4693c397ad So it looks as if white college educated women are going to take away the guns from uneducated white males who love guns. Better stock up on those high capacity mags and Walmart AR-15's. Because trump is going to hand the senate, the house and eventually the presidency to ...no...not...HRC!!..LOL just kidding.

Meanwhile the republican party has stopped fundraising for the choice of the Christian right. "The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Senate GOP’s campaign arm, will no longer help fundraise for Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore, according to paperwork filed with the Federal Election Commission." http://thehill.com/...draise-for-roy-moore Confusing God and country: Meet Roy Moore, Alabama’s next senator Alabama’s likely senator isn’t just a “Christian conservative.” He wants a theocratic state under “Biblical law” https://www.salon.com/2017/10/01/confusing-god-and-country-meet-roy-moore-alabamas-next-senator/ ^^^^^^^^^^^ This story should be required reading to understand the hypocrisy of the "Christian conservative".

Or let tempers get the better of them. Had the anesthesiologist been packing. The dispute over fallen leaves may have left poor old Rand Paul six feet under. Instead of musing with his legal council how many $100k they can divvy up. All well teaching a democrat how to control his temper.

I've heard that there are several things that are absolutely useless in flying. Altitude above you, runway behind you, gas on the ground, and a minute ago. He had lots of runway all around (if it was calm enough). Don't know about the gas. But he had too much altitude above and not enough below. Almost all crashes happen at ground level. Or at least in the air, at sea level, or below sea level.

Democrats have been throwing sexual transgressors under the bus on a daily basis for the last month. Mainly Hollywood insiders. Republicans, well there is Alex Jones, Breitbart, etc. to defend the molester in chief-trump. Together with any other republican who thinks women, female kids, etc. are all fair game. It will be interesting where the Alabama voter sits in this equation.

Are Saudi Arabia And Iran About To Go To War? http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-iran-conflict-ballistic-missile-yemen-war-702913 32-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman wants to consolidate power first. The wave of arrests within the Saudi kingdom have been seen internally as a consolidation of his power base. With US support. Instead of US neutrality. Saudi purge demonstrates ruthlessness of crown prince http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41905942 Most likely is the use of proxy forces supported by the Saudi-Sunni alliance. To attack the Hezbollah puppet government of Hassan Nasrallah who owe allegiance to Iran. Leading to a Sunni(Saudi) vr. Iran(Shia) conflict in Lebanon. The largest part of the equation which has yet to speak is Egypt. Which has been dealing with a IS & Al Qaeda insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt is the powerhouse of the Sunni alliance in that part of the middle east. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned other countries Friday against using Lebanon for "proxy conflicts" following a crisis triggered by Prime Minister Saad Hariri's resignation. Tillerson also described Hariri, who announced his resignation November 4 from Saudi Arabia, as a "strong partner" of the United States. "The United States cautions against any party, within or outside Lebanon, using Lebanon as a venue for proxy conflicts or in any manner contributing to instability in that country," Tillerson said in a statement. Hariri's resignation came as a shock. He accused Iran-backed Hizbullah of controlling Lebanon. Many observers saw his stepping down as being directed by Saudi Arabia, Iran's big rival in the region. Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday accused Saudi Arabia of "detaining" Hariri and of asking Israel to launch strikes on Lebanon. http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/238061-tillerson-says-hariri-strong-partner-warns-against-using-lebanon-for-proxy-conflicts Is war between Saudi Arabia and Hezbollah an impossible scenario? The proxy war between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran threatens to spill over from Yemen into Lebanon as Riyadh rattles sabers at Lebanese terrorist group.. Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS. He is the most powerful man in the kingdom and possibly the most important and far-reaching reformer in Saudi Arabia this decade, who is currently leading several parallel moves. MBS no longer hides the war going on between the Sunni and Shia factions in the Middle East. He has done more than a little to emphasize it and demonstrate it. It is no longer games and diplomatic statements in the name of “Muslim brotherhood.” MBS understood this week the great danger that Iran has created on Saudi Arabia’s doorstep, after the missile was fired at the airport. Saudi Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman in Moscow’s Kremlin, Russia, May 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, pool, File) For bin Salman this was a provocation to war, a casus belli... It is possible that these are three parallel paths which will not converge quickly. In other words, (and not specifically in this order) bin Salman may be first working to reform the inner processes of Saudi Arabia, for example the status of women in the kingdom, by fighting corruption and purging pockets of resistance within the royal court. Second, he is working actively against Iran and Hezbollah which we may soon witness. And third, giving backing to negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in order to show the Western world and the Arab nations that he still wants to help the Palestinians. https://www.timesofisrael.com/is-war-between-saudi-arabia-and-hezbollah-an-impossible-scenario/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_status_by_country https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html The emphasis on fundraising for elites in the "church" makes it a pyramid scam IMO. I will concede that US based Christian TV evangelical ministers who fly around in private jets, living in mansions, degrades this argument.

Several reports have emerged as to why the round of elections went the way they did. It appears as though URBAN WOMEN turned out in huge numbers. Evidently uneducated misogynist white men who think like trump have been a huge motivating force. A wave of politically active women from the suburbs have racism, sexism, anti LGBT, proNRA, white men in their sights. Will American women end gun violence by putting US guns in the blast furnaces of Ohio mini-mills?

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a key conservative and House Freedom Caucus member, said Thursday that special counsel Robert Mueller is in a "precarious position" over the Uranium One deal, given his lack of action on the issue. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/359732-key-conservative-mueller-in-a-precarious-position-over-uranium-one Politics over country by another trump panderer.

trump thinks Scientology should lose its tax-exempt status President Trump has thrown his support behind removing the Church of Scientology's tax-exempt status, according to a HuffPost report. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/359730-trump-thinks-scientology-should-lose-its-tax-exempt-status Racket, scam, call it what you may. It is not a religion. Only in America could a money making cult-racket get tax exempt status.

Like WTF.

Republicans are in a state of PANIC!!! If the new tax bill isn't passed then the gravy train will DRY UP!!! Graham: 'Financial contributions will stop' if GOP doesn't pass tax reform http://thehill.com/policy/finance/359606-graham-financial-contributions-will-stop-if-gop-doesnt-pass-tax-reform Somehow I doubt its the "little guy living paycheck to paycheck"..er... suckers... that voted for trump that are making these $100k donations to the party. To pay for a big tax relief party! Only in the US can a couple hundred grand donation result in $1.75 trillion in benefits for the rich and big corporations. Research group says GOP tax bill costs $1.75 trillion http://thehill.com/policy/finance/359030-research-group-says-gop-tax-bill-costs-175-trillion

The Christian right must be having a _____________! Transgender Democrat Danica Roem Makes History, Defeats Notorious Anti-LGBTQ Incumbent http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/11/07/transgender_democrat_danica_roem_defeats_bob_marshall.html http://time.com/5016081/danica-roem-2017-elections-virginia-delegate-transgender/ Perhaps the Christian right needs to change with the times? and to add humor to the equation: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/359563-colbert-gop-losses-show-trump-the-downside-of-narcissism

Good advice. Only in America are drugs deemed to be the best response to a medical issue. Having said that severe depression may need medications. Your suggestions cover the bases, employment, combined with support and exercise may offer a complete solution. While she is unemployed volunteering somewhere may help. Anything to get out, get active and get the mind thinking. To help her keep a level perspective on her situation.

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Purchaser's agreement controversy In April 2016 the ICON A5 purchaser's agreement was made public and was noted by the aviation media as containing many controversial elements not usually found in aircraft purchase agreements. These include contractually required pilot training, maintenance, agreements not to sue, the requirement for factory airframe overhauls every 2,000 hours or ten years (whichever comes first), and a limit on the aircraft's life of 6,000 hours, or thirty years. Furthermore, each aircraft would be equipped with a camera and recorder to monitor pilot behavior, that is owned by the manufacturer but must be maintained by the owner. Owners would have to agree to be "supportive" of the company. Future owners were required to sign the same agreement or face penalties.[50][51] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICON_A5

Bashing prayer proves how little secular elites understand faith http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/359200-bashing-prayer-proves-how-little-secular-elites-understand-faithful Well... maybe... As long as politicians like Ryan don't use the "prayer" to pander to the Christian right, to their base. Which because of my inherent skepticism of politicians. Is a given.