Americans hate the Federal Government more than ever

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Could be a hot time in the old town this week in Philly.

The chaos and mayhem that the MSM was drooling over to happen to the Republican convention in Cleveland may end up happening to the Democrats in Philly

[Nanker]

Yes, on both counts. It was palpable at the end of the Republican Trump Convention that they totally were pizzed that bloodshed didn't occur. They had to work extra hard overtime (poor little dears) putting the left-handed spin on whatever they could grasp ahold of. I live near enough to Philly that a lot of the "local" news is from there. I'll be tuned in to see how even-handed the coverage will be. :lol: I'm funny.

[unbillievable]

I'm curious to see how they will blame Trump for the Bernie supporters who get arrested at the DNC.

[Nanker]

Oh, they'll find a way. No doubt about it. I'm too stewed at the moment to roll the kind of joint they'll all be smokin' next week. But have no doubt, it'll be Trump's fault. [/fargin'racist/xenophobe/tarrif-lovin'/motha-fuggin/DonaldJTrumpisresponsibleforeverythingHiLIARYwantsneedshimtobe]

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Every day through the convention WikiLeaks will be releasing more emails. Just FYI.

 

These emails will soon be forgotten. What Hiliary should be sweating on the other hand, is if WikiLeaks is holding email from her bathroom server. Imagine releasing those right in the middle of debate season

[Deranged Rhino]

These emails will soon be forgotten. What Hiliary should be sweating on the other hand, is if WikiLeaks is holding email from her bathroom server. Imagine releasing those right in the middle of debate season

The interesting thing to me is that most people assume WikiLeaks = FSB. If that's the case, then it's pretty apparent who Putin is pulling for.

[drinkTHEkoolaid]

The interesting thing to me is that most people assume WikiLeaks = FSB. If that's the case, then it's pretty apparent who Putin is pulling for.

If that's the case, then the intercepted Hillary server emails get released nice and convienently in october.

 

Come on ol' Vlad save us.

[B-Man]

DEMOCRATS TO FLORIDA: DROP DEAD. As Zika Spreads in US, Obama Holds Back on Available Funding.

 

As mosquitoes seem to be spreading Zika inside the United States, the Obama administration has been sitting on some of the resources intended to fight the virus.

The administration has spent or obligated less than half of the $589 million that it has available

,

Congressional Quarterly reported, citing numbers from the Office of Management and Budget. In April, the administration reallocated money originally designated to fight Ebola.

Despite its failure to spend the money it has available,

the White House continues to demand Congress approve $1.9 billion to fight Zika. Senate Democrats, meanwhile, are filibustering a bill that would provide $1.1 billion in funding.

 

 

 

 

Holding funding hostage.............because they want more

 

Shameful.

[Deranged Rhino]

Pentagon’s Sloppy Bookkeeping Means $6.5 Trillion Can’t Pass an Audit

 

A Department of Defense inspector general’s report released last week offered a jaw-dropping insight into just how bad the military’s auditing system is.

The Defense Finance and Accounting Service, the behemoth Indianapolis-based agency that provides finance and accounting services for the Pentagon’s civilian and military members, could not provide adequate documentation for $6.5 trillion worth of year-end adjustments to Army general fund transactions and data.

The DFAS has the sole responsibility for paying all DOD military and personnel, retirees and annuitants, along with Pentagon contractors and vendors. The agency is also in charge of electronic government initiatives, including within the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Energy and the Departing of Veterans Affairs.

There’s nothing in the new IG’s report to suggest that anyone has misplaced or absconded with large sums of money. Rather, the agency has done an incompetent job of providing written authorization for every one of their transactions – so-called “journal vouchers” that provide serial numbers, transaction dates and the amount of the expenditure.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/07/31/Pentagon-s-Sloppy-Bookkeeping-Means-65-Trillion-Can-t-Pass-Audit

 

Sloppy? Or intentionally done to hide classified R&D projects from oversight... coin flip.

[Chef Jim]

DEMOCRATS TO FLORIDA: DROP DEAD. As Zika Spreads in US, Obama Holds Back on Available Funding.

 

 

 

 

Holding funding hostage.............because they want more

 

Shameful.

 

$2billion to kill a few mosquitoes? That's a lot of Raid.

[DC Tom]

 

$2billion to kill a few mosquitoes? That's a lot of Raid.

 

A clue to that is in this statement:

 

 

 

On Wednesday, Obama got an update from Amy Pope, his deputy homeland security adviser, on cases of nontravel-related Zika cases in Florida.

 

Homeland Security? They're responsible for mosquito control? You'd think it would be HHS. Or Interior. Or even Agriculture. And then there's DOD - the US Army maintains a public health command that does a lot of work on mosquito control (and if I don't mention it, EII will certainly jump in and mention USACE has programs, too.)

 

Of course, in the case of a mosquito-borne disease outbreak, all of the above are involved. But you know who has the primary responsibility? The friggin' EPA.

 

$2B won't even pay for the meetings.

[Nanker]

Yet alone the bonuses.

[keepthefaith]

Obama is probably very conflicted on the Zika funding. Killing mosquitoes will get the PETA people fired up. Pesticide bad for the environment and the funding probably doesn't help minorities and illegal immigrants enough. That and any problem that is solved means once less thing with which to attack Republicans.

[B-Man]

SOMETHING THAT CAN’T GO ON FOREVER, WON’T:

 

California’s Six Figure Pension Club Has More Than 20,000 Members.

 

 

Of course, California isn’t the only state with runaway public pensions. As Betsy Newmark writes, “One day, citizens will wake up to learn that their community or state can’t fund basic programs and expenses because too much of their budget is tied up with paying pensions for retired public employees.

 

And they’ll learn that the blame lies with politicians who traded long-term concerns for short-term political gains from union workers.”

 

 

Curious that the left is obsessed with the word “sustainable,” when so many of their fiscal policies aren’t.

[ExiledInIllinois]

SOMETHING THAT CANT GO ON FOREVER, WONT:

 

Californias Six Figure Pension Club Has More Than 20,000 Members.

 

 

Of course, California isnt the only state with runaway public pensions. As Betsy Newmark writes, One day, citizens will wake up to learn that their community or state cant fund basic programs and expenses because too much of their budget is tied up with paying pensions for retired public employees.

 

And theyll learn that the blame lies with politicians who traded long-term concerns for short-term political gains from union workers.

 

 

Curious that the left is obsessed with the word sustainable, when so many of their fiscal policies arent.

I agree! Renege on the fat cats... They will get old and die soon enough.

[Deranged Rhino]

Classified TPP Investment Chapter:

 

(From WikiLeaks cover page, Assange's take: https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/press.html)

"The TPP has developed in secret an unaccountable supranational court for multinationals to sue states. This system is a challenge to parliamentary and judicial sovereignty. Similar tribunals have already been shown to chill the adoption of sane environmental protection, public health and public transport policies."

Current TPP negotiation member states are the United States, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei. The TPP is the largest economic treaty in history, including countries that represent more than 40 per cent of the world´s GDP.

The Investment Chapter highlights the intent of the TPP negotiating parties, led by the United States, to increase the power of global corporations by creating a supra-national court, or tribunal, where foreign firms can "sue" states and obtain taxpayer compensation for "expected future profits". These investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) tribunals are designed to overrule the national court systems. ISDS tribunals introduce a mechanism by which multinational corporations can force governments to pay compensation if the tribunal states that a country's laws or policies affect the company's claimed future profits. In return, states hope that multinationals will invest more. Similar mechanisms have already been used. For example, US tobacco company Phillip Morris used one such tribunal to sue Australia (June 2011 – ongoing) for mandating plain packaging of tobacco products on public health grounds; and by the oil giant Chevron against Ecuador in an attempt to evade a multi-billion-dollar compensation ruling for polluting the environment. The threat of future lawsuits chilled environmental and other legislation in Canada after it was sued by pesticide companies in 2008/9. ISDS tribunals are often held in secret, have no appeal mechanism, do not subordinate themselves to human rights laws or the public interest, and have few means by which other affected parties can make representations.

Full document here:https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/WikiLeaks-TPP-Investment-Chapter/page-1.html

[B-Man]

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE NATIONAL MEDIA, when Louisiana’s devastating floods barely register as a story?

 

 

 

Well for one thing, there’s no political angle to beat up Republicans, when the state’s governor is a Democrat, and so is the president.

 

 

 

.

[TH3]

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE NATIONAL MEDIA, when Louisiana’s devastating floods barely register as a story?

 

 

 

Well for one thing, there’s no political angle to beat up Republicans, when the state’s governor is a Democrat, and so is the president.

 

 

 

.

 

NPR had extensive coverage

[GG]

Classified TPP Investment Chapter:

 

(From WikiLeaks cover page, Assange's take: https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/press.html)

"The TPP has developed in secret an unaccountable supranational court for multinationals to sue states. This system is a challenge to parliamentary and judicial sovereignty. Similar tribunals have already been shown to chill the adoption of sane environmental protection, public health and public transport policies."

Current TPP negotiation member states are the United States, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei. The TPP is the largest economic treaty in history, including countries that represent more than 40 per cent of the world´s GDP.

The Investment Chapter highlights the intent of the TPP negotiating parties, led by the United States, to increase the power of global corporations by creating a supra-national court, or tribunal, where foreign firms can "sue" states and obtain taxpayer compensation for "expected future profits". These investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) tribunals are designed to overrule the national court systems. ISDS tribunals introduce a mechanism by which multinational corporations can force governments to pay compensation if the tribunal states that a country's laws or policies affect the company's claimed future profits. In return, states hope that multinationals will invest more. Similar mechanisms have already been used. For example, US tobacco company Phillip Morris used one such tribunal to sue Australia (June 2011 – ongoing) for mandating plain packaging of tobacco products on public health grounds; and by the oil giant Chevron against Ecuador in an attempt to evade a multi-billion-dollar compensation ruling for polluting the environment. The threat of future lawsuits chilled environmental and other legislation in Canada after it was sued by pesticide companies in 2008/9. ISDS tribunals are often held in secret, have no appeal mechanism, do not subordinate themselves to human rights laws or the public interest, and have few means by which other affected parties can make representations.

Full document here:https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/WikiLeaks-TPP-Investment-Chapter/page-1.html

 

Maybe you should tie this in with LA's media bias post.

 

Before I go on, maybe you can share the details of this particular case and how the evil oil company polluted an impoverished nation, since you take Wiki's account at face value?

 

and by the oil giant Chevron against Ecuador in an attempt to evade a multi-billion-dollar compensation ruling for polluting the environment

 

NPR had extensive coverage

 

Are you being intentionally ironic?

[Deranged Rhino]

Maybe you should tie this in with LA's media bias post.

 

Before I go on, maybe you can share the details of this particular case and how the evil oil company polluted an impoverished nation, since you take Wiki's account at face value?

Who said I take them at face value? I know it's hard, but try to stop infecting your own assumptions on me before commenting and the conversations will go much smoother.