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Health/Education / Re: WHO calls for world pandemic treaty to prepare for deadly ‘Disease X’
« Last post by berdie on Today at 09:07:34 pm »Why do I suspect they're just making it up as they go along?
It is a little suspicious, isn't it?
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It is a little suspicious, isn't it?
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Elections 2024 / Re: Cut the check: Trump asks for 5% from down-ballot candidates who use his image
« Last post by libertybele on Today at 09:02:49 pm »We’ll be extremely lucky if 2024 doesn’t turn to a blue wave
I agree. We're going to see a blue tsunami.
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Elections 2024 / Re: Cut the check: Trump asks for 5% from down-ballot candidates who use his image
« Last post by roamer_1 on Today at 09:01:42 pm »Double edged extortion.
Pay up the grift, or incur the wrath of the orange menace by not seeking his endorsement.
Is this 5% of the entire campaign budget, or specific ads? Trump's a sleaze.
You've got to pay the vig if you want to expect any help from the RNC
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National/Breaking News / Re: Person sets themselves on fire outside Trump trial courthouse: reports
« Last post by mountaineer on Today at 09:01:40 pm »This guy was not a liberal but from the far right. He tried to sue the Clintons, Zuckerbuerg etc and was ranting about the deep state.But he seems to have called himself a Communist.
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Politics/Government / Re: Political Graphics 2024
« Last post by Smokin Joe on Today at 09:01:38 pm »Little Johnny nails it!
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Politics/Government / House Republicans demand answers on Biden’s potentially illegal student loan consolidation scheme
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 08:54:22 pm »House Republicans demand answers on Biden’s potentially illegal student loan consolidation scheme
By
Breccan F. Thies
April 19, 2024 4:13 pm
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EXCLUSIVE — A group of House Education and Workforce Committee Republicans, led by Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), raised concerns on Friday about whether the Biden administration’s student loan consolidation scheme is illegal.
In a letter obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner, Foxx and 12 Republicans demanded answers from Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about the legality of consolidating Federal Family Education Loans into the Direct Loan program “in order to further its ‘free’ college agenda.”
“The Biden administration has relentlessly pursued shifting the burden of repaying federal student
loans onto taxpayers with complete disregard to its legal authority,” the letter said, adding that other matters, such as the bungled Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, rollout, have “demonstrated the Department’s serious need for increased oversight and accountability.”
The letter comes as the Biden administration continues to find ways to “cancel” student loan debt, which critics say is forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for elite college degrees.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2972460/republicans-demand-answers-biden-potentially-illegal-student-loan-scheme/
By
Breccan F. Thies
April 19, 2024 4:13 pm
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EXCLUSIVE — A group of House Education and Workforce Committee Republicans, led by Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), raised concerns on Friday about whether the Biden administration’s student loan consolidation scheme is illegal.
In a letter obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner, Foxx and 12 Republicans demanded answers from Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about the legality of consolidating Federal Family Education Loans into the Direct Loan program “in order to further its ‘free’ college agenda.”
“The Biden administration has relentlessly pursued shifting the burden of repaying federal student
loans onto taxpayers with complete disregard to its legal authority,” the letter said, adding that other matters, such as the bungled Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, rollout, have “demonstrated the Department’s serious need for increased oversight and accountability.”
The letter comes as the Biden administration continues to find ways to “cancel” student loan debt, which critics say is forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for elite college degrees.
more
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2972460/republicans-demand-answers-biden-potentially-illegal-student-loan-scheme/
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Elections 2024 / ‘Never lifted a finger’: Biden knocks Trump in speech to IBEW labor conference
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 08:52:55 pm »‘Never lifted a finger’: Biden knocks Trump in speech to IBEW labor conference
By
Christian Datoc
April 19, 2024 1:06 pm
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President Joe Biden took a number of shots at his opponent in the 2024 general election, former President Donald Trump, during his Friday speech at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ Construction and Maintenance Conference.
Biden and Trump are chasing union endorsements ahead of the general election in 2024, with both men relying on support from blue-collar workers in battlegrounds to secure their respective presidential victories. IBEW endorsed Biden in 2020 and again in 2023, just after he announced his reelection bid.
On Friday, the president said he added “tens of thousands” of good-paying union jobs to the economy over the past four years while simultaneously claiming Trump “never lifted a finger” to help labor groups while in office.
“Matter of fact, he lifted a finger to put a thumb on it,” he said. “Not only that, he put union busters on the National Labor Relations Board. The people I’ve appointed to the National Labor Relations Board actually care about American workers.”
Biden continued to attack Trump and Republicans for opposing his efforts to extend student loan debt relief to millions of people and rewrite the Trump-era tax cuts before closing with a summary of his and Trump’s differing views on the economy.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2972217/never-lifted-a-finger-biden-knocks-trump-ibew-conference/
By
Christian Datoc
April 19, 2024 1:06 pm
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President Joe Biden took a number of shots at his opponent in the 2024 general election, former President Donald Trump, during his Friday speech at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ Construction and Maintenance Conference.
Biden and Trump are chasing union endorsements ahead of the general election in 2024, with both men relying on support from blue-collar workers in battlegrounds to secure their respective presidential victories. IBEW endorsed Biden in 2020 and again in 2023, just after he announced his reelection bid.
On Friday, the president said he added “tens of thousands” of good-paying union jobs to the economy over the past four years while simultaneously claiming Trump “never lifted a finger” to help labor groups while in office.
“Matter of fact, he lifted a finger to put a thumb on it,” he said. “Not only that, he put union busters on the National Labor Relations Board. The people I’ve appointed to the National Labor Relations Board actually care about American workers.”
Biden continued to attack Trump and Republicans for opposing his efforts to extend student loan debt relief to millions of people and rewrite the Trump-era tax cuts before closing with a summary of his and Trump’s differing views on the economy.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2972217/never-lifted-a-finger-biden-knocks-trump-ibew-conference/
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Politics/Government / Re: Democrats Seize Control of House: For First Time in Recorded History, Speaker Mike Johnson Relie
« Last post by libertybele on Today at 08:52:53 pm »Byron Donalds: Matt Gaetz’s Ouster of Kevin McCarthy Brought House to ‘Lord of the Flies’-Type Environment
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) on Friday said that Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) move to oust then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has turned the House into a “Lord of the Flies”-type situation.
“Matt’s vacating Kevin McCarthy has brought us to Lord of the Flies on Capitol Hill. Not a good situation,” Donalds said.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/19/byron-donalds-matt-gaetzs-ouster-of-kevin-mccarthy-brought-house-to-lord-of-the-flies-type-environment/
Well, I really like Donalds and believe that he would have been a great Speaker. His analogy is correct, it is just conservatives are in a real quagmire and one I don't think that they are going to get out of.
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Politics/Government / Re: Democrats Seize Control of House: For First Time in Recorded History, Speaker Mike Johnson Relie
« Last post by libertybele on Today at 08:51:09 pm »It's not that I disagree with you it's the timing of all this especially in a election year...btw I had high hopes for Johnson believing he was a conservative...
I certainly had higher hopes for Johnson as well, and I should have known that him getting a unanimous vote was a red flag.
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Politics/Government / State Department employees urged ‘more to punish Israel’ in private meetings: Report
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 08:50:21 pm »State Department employees urged ‘more to punish Israel’ in private meetings: Report
By
Gabe Kaminsky
April 19, 2024 11:20 am
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Employees at the State Department privately called for “more to punish Israel” in meetings at Foggy Bottom, according to a new report.
The listening session meetings started in February and have been hosted by Kurt Campbell, deputy secretary of state and former Indo-Pacific coordinator for the White House National Security Council, Jewish Insider reported. News of the meetings comes after various reports on State Department employees expressing dissenting views from the Biden administration’s position on supporting Israel, a key ally of the United States, after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack last year on the Jewish state.
“It was overwhelmingly calls, including from people I respect, [that] we need to do more to sanction Israel, we need to do more to punish Israel, we need to be more seriously considering ways in which we can sanction them, condition aid, cut off aid, reduce weapons flows,” a foreign service officer said of the meetings, according to the report. “There were people whose issues don’t have anything to do with the conflict … who were making the case for why we need to do more to bash Israel.”
Tensions at the State Department have boiled over into public view after Oct. 7, as staffers resigned over their issues with U.S. policy on aiding Israel against its war with Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist faction. The conflict in the Middle East has escalated this week on the heels of Iran attacking Israel directly, an unprecedented event — leading to Israel striking back on Friday.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign-policy/2971834/state-department-employees-more-to-punish-israel-private-meetings/
By
Gabe Kaminsky
April 19, 2024 11:20 am
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Employees at the State Department privately called for “more to punish Israel” in meetings at Foggy Bottom, according to a new report.
The listening session meetings started in February and have been hosted by Kurt Campbell, deputy secretary of state and former Indo-Pacific coordinator for the White House National Security Council, Jewish Insider reported. News of the meetings comes after various reports on State Department employees expressing dissenting views from the Biden administration’s position on supporting Israel, a key ally of the United States, after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack last year on the Jewish state.
“It was overwhelmingly calls, including from people I respect, [that] we need to do more to sanction Israel, we need to do more to punish Israel, we need to be more seriously considering ways in which we can sanction them, condition aid, cut off aid, reduce weapons flows,” a foreign service officer said of the meetings, according to the report. “There were people whose issues don’t have anything to do with the conflict … who were making the case for why we need to do more to bash Israel.”
Tensions at the State Department have boiled over into public view after Oct. 7, as staffers resigned over their issues with U.S. policy on aiding Israel against its war with Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist faction. The conflict in the Middle East has escalated this week on the heels of Iran attacking Israel directly, an unprecedented event — leading to Israel striking back on Friday.
more
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign-policy/2971834/state-department-employees-more-to-punish-israel-private-meetings/
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