Herschel Walker Defends Use Of 'honorary' Sheriff's Badge In Georgia Senate Debate | CNN Politics
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Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker defended pulling out a sheriff’s badge during Friday’s closely watched debate in Georgia, telling NBC in an interview that aired on Sunday it was “a legit,” but honorary badge from his hometown sheriff’s department.
Walker had pulled out the badge during a discussion over support for police – in a move that was admonished by the debate moderators and led to widespread mockery from Democrats.
“This is from my hometown. This is from Johnson County from the sheriff from Johnson County, which is a legit badge,” Walker told NBC’s Kristen Welker in a clip from the interview.
A CNN fact check found Walker has never had a job in law enforcement. He has publicized a card showing that he was at some point after 2004 named an “honorary agent” and “special deputy sheriff” in Cobb County, Georgia – titles that do not confer arrest authority.
The contest between Walker and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is one of the most important Senate races in the country, representing a key state Democrats must hold to have any chance to keep control of the Senate next year. The race has recently been rocked by allegations that Walker paid for a woman’s abortion and encouraged her to have another one – allegations the Republican has repeatedly denied and that CNN has not independently confirmed.
A survey released earlier this month, which was conducted after the allegations emerged, found Warnock with 52% support among likely voters to 45% for Walker, about the same as in a mid-September poll.
During Friday’s debate, Walker had accused Warnock of calling officers “names” and caused “morale” to plummet, but the Democrat cited a false claim from Walker that he had previously served in law enforcement.
“One thing that I haven’t done is I haven’t pretended to be a police officer and I’ve never, ever threatened a shootout with police,” Warnock said, alluding to a more than two-decade-old police report in which the Republican discussed exchanging gunfire with police.
“Everyone can make fun,” Walker said in the NBC interview, arguing that the badge means he has “the right to work with the police getting things done.”
Walker, however, later admitted it was an “honorary badge” and pushed back against the idea, which NBC’s Welker read from a National Sheriffs’ Association statement, that such badges should be left in a “trophy case.”
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Monday News: Kyiv Hit By Kamikaze Drones; Rs Silent As Trump Attacks American Jews; Kanye West And Herschel Walker Are Puppets For Trump; Voting In Virginia Is More Accessible Than Ever So Vote!
Monday News: Kyiv Hit By “Kamikaze Drones”; Rs Silent As Trump Attacks American Jews; “Kanye West And Herschel Walker Are Puppets For Trump”; “Voting In Virginia Is More Accessible Than Ever — So Vote!” https://digitalarizonanews.com/monday-news-kyiv-hit-by-kamikaze-drones-rs-silent-as-trump-attacks-american-jews-kanye-west-and-herschel-walker-are-puppets-for-trump-voting-in-virgini/
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Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, October 17.
How climate change is impacting the wine and spirits industries
Official: China mining more coal but increasing wind, solar
Putin’s war on energy is testing solidarity between EU nations
Inside the U.S. Effort to Arm Ukraine (“Since the start of the Russian invasion, the Biden Administration has provided valuable intelligence and increasingly powerful weaponry—a risky choice that has paid off in the battle against Putin.”)
Fiona Hill: ‘Elon Musk Is Transmitting a Message for Putin’
Despite sanctions, Russian fuel is still selling — here’s who’s buying
What are kamikaze drones and why is Russia using them in Ukraine?
Ukrainians’ resilience persists despite new Russian barrage
Ukraine: Explosions rock Kyiv, struck by waves of drones
‘Coffins Are Already Coming’: The Toll of Russia’s Chaotic Draft
How Russian Ships Are Laundering Grain Stolen From Occupied Ukraine
China’s Economy Needs to Double in Size to Meet Xi’s Ambitious Plans
‘Moving Backward’: In Xi Jinping’s China, a ‘New Era’ of Total Control
‘Walled-in’ China under Xi Jinping poses long-term global challenges
Senator raises alarm Saudis could share US defense technology with Russia (“Richard Blumenthal to seek reassurances from Pentagon that ‘they are on top of’ risk of sharing information with Gulf state”)
Biden wants ‘consequences’ for the Saudis? Here’s one, ready-made.
Pound rises and borrowing costs fall as chancellor moves to calm markets
UK Treasury chief scraps nearly all government tax cut plans
‘We’ve messed this up’: Tories plan for life after Liz Truss
Satellite photos show damage at Iran prison amid protests
Iran’s Loyal Security Forces Protect Ruling System From Protesters (“The Revolutionary Guards have become so deeply woven into Iran’s economy and power structure that they have everything to lose if protesters topple them.”)
Lula brands Bolsonaro ‘tiny little dictator’ in Brazil TV debate (“Leftist challenger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva calls incumbent Jair Bolsonaro a ‘shameless liar’ who ‘fooled around’ with Covid causing huge fatalities”)
Leaders of democracies increasingly echo Putin in authoritarian tilt (“Some of the world’s major democracies have embraced far-right leaders. In the U.S., an epidemic of election denialism is drifting the country toward authoritarianism.” Of course, this should say “an epidemic of election denialism AMONG REPUBLICANS.”)
But Her Emails! Behind The New York Times’ Maddening Hillary Clinton Coverage (“In an adaptation from her new memoir, Newsroom Confidential, former Times public editor Margaret Sullivan revisits the ‘many strange chapters’ of the paper’s coverage of the 2016 Democratic nominee.”)
What Republicans Really Thought on January 6 (“The president turned his back on seemingly everyone.”)
Intelligence failures before Jan. 6 warrant even more investigation
Republican Adam Kinzinger: election deniers won’t ‘go away organically’ (“January 6 committee member speaks days after panel voted to subpoena Trump and says ex-president ‘required by law to come in’”)
With renewed finger pointing around January 6, was there a failure of intelligence or a political failure? (Both, obviously.)
Most say voting vital despite dour US outlook: AP-NORC poll
With Just Over Three Weeks Until the Crucial 2022 Midterm Elections and the Fate of Our Democracy on the Line, “We decide. You will decide.” (“It now remains for us to determine whether [Jan. 6] was a tragedy, the beginning of the last act of the American experiment, or something else”)
Opinion/Editorial: Women must vote for abortion rights or accept their loss
GOP keeps lead for House control, Democrats’ momentum stalls amid economy worries — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll
Republicans Gain Edge as Voters Worry About Economy, Times/Siena Poll Finds
Juan Williams: Kanye West and Herschel Walker are puppets for Trump
Kanye West is buying conservative social media platform Parler, company says (This guy is a virulent anti-Semite and all-around extremist nutjob.)
Trump attacks American Jews, posting they must ‘get their act together’ on Israel
Smug Trump Tells U.S. Jews to Be More Thankful—’Before It Is Too Late’
Even Trump Says Kanye West Is Acting Too ‘Crazy’ and Needs ‘Help’
Walker’s empty lectern co-stars in Senate debate with Warnock, Oliver
Senate candidate Herschel Walker say why he flashed a police badge during Friday’s debate
Doug Mastriano Is the Most Frightening Face of Christian Nationalism Today
Mike Lee seems to be getting nervous (“If Evan McMullin somehow manages to win Utah’s Senate seat, it would be a political earthquake.”)
Utah emerges as wildcard in battle for the Senate
Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake won’t commit to honoring election results
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Tim Ryan for U.S. Senate
New Book Reveals Jim Jordan’s Dirty Tricks With Impeachment
How Michael Flynn goes local to spread Christian nationalism
Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims She’s A Jan. 6 ‘Victim’ During Wild Debate (Fascist and nutjob.)
Bob Good calls the Democrats ‘the party of death’ (“Republican incumbent in VA-5 talks to Cardinal News ahead of midterm elections. Coming Tuesday: Democrat Josh Throneburg.”)
Youngkin to Campaign Wednesday in Phoenix, AZ for “loon,” “pathological liar,” “political extremist and manifestly unfit for public trust”
After Virginia legalized pot, majority of defendants are still Black
Editorial: Voting in Virginia is more accessible than ever — so vote!
The Other Shoe Drops: APCo Follows Dominion in Seeking Rate Increase Due to High Fossil Fuel Costs
Amid push for local investment, report offers glimpse of Norfolk development group activities
Suspect arrested for shooting near JMU that wounded 8
D.C.-area forecast: Blast of chilly air arrives Tuesday; warmer by weekend
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Bank Of America Tops Estimates On Better-Than-Expected Bond Trading Higher Interest Rates
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Bank Of America CEO Brian Moynihan is interviewed by Jack Otter during “Barron’s Roundtable” at Fox Business Network Studios on January 09, 2020 in New York City.
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Bank of America said Monday that profit and revenue topped expectations on better-than-expected fixed-income trading and gains in interest income, thanks to choppy markets and rising rates.
Here are the numbers:
Earnings: 81 cents vs. the 77 cents a share estimate of analysts surveyed by Refinitiv.
Revenue: $24.61 billion vs. $23.57 billion estimate
Bank of America said in a release that third-quarter profit fell 8% to $7.1 billion, or 81 cents a share, as the company booked a $898 million provision for credit losses in the quarter. Revenue net of interest expense jumped to $24.61 billion.
Shares of the bank rose 3.1% in premarket trading.
Bank of America, led by CEO Brian Moynihan, was supposed to be one of the main beneficiaries of the Federal Reserve’s rate-boosting campaign. That is playing out, as lenders including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo are producing more revenue as rates rise, allowing them to generate more profit from their core activities of taking in deposits and making loans.
“Our U.S. consumer clients remained resilient with strong, although slower growing, spending levels and still maintained elevated deposit amounts,” Moynihan said in the release. “Across the bank, we grew loans by 12% over the last year as we delivered the financial resources to support our clients.”
Net interest income at the bank jumped 24% to $13.87 billion in the quarter, topping the $13.6 billion StreetAccount estimate, thanks to higher rates in the quarter and an expanding book of loans.
Net interest margin, a key profitability metric for bank investors, widened to 2.06% from 1.86% in the second quarter of this year, edging out analysts’ estimate of 2.00%.
Fixed income trading revenue surged 27% to $2.6 billion, handily exceeding the $2.24 billion estimate. That more than offset equities revenue that dropped 4% to $1.5 billion, below the $1.61 billion estimate.
Like its Wall Street rivals, investment banking revenue posted steep declines, falling about 45% to $1.2 billion, slightly exceeding the $1.13 billion estimate.
Of note, the bank’s evolving provision for credit losses showed the company was beginning to factor in a more harsh economic outlook.
While Bank of America released $1.1 billion in reserves in the year-earlier period, in the third quarter the firm had to build reserves by $378 million. That, in addition to a 12% increase in net charge-offs for bad loans to $520 million in the quarter, accounted for the $898 million provision.
Bank of America shares have fallen 29% this year through Friday, worse than the 26% decline of the KBW Bank Index.
Last week, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo topped expectations for third-quarter profit and revenue by generating better-than-expected interest income. Citigroup also beat analysts’ estimates, and Morgan Stanley missed as choppy markets took a toll on its investment management business.
This story is developing. Please check back for updates.
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Analysis | Can Abortion Flip The Most Competitive House Seat In North Carolina?
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In today’s edition … Trail Mix: Add Walker to the list of GOP candidates softening their stance on abortion … Isaac Arnsdorf on how the ‘Never Trump’ movement became ‘Never Trumpism’ … What we’re watching: Herschel Walker on “The Today Show” … but first, we take a close look at a key House race in North Carolina and the Senate contest …
Can abortion flip the most competitive House seat in North Carolina?
RALEIGH, N.C. — In a classroom at North Carolina State University, eight college students sat in a circle and told Wiley Nickel what issues were important to them this election.
All but one, including three male students, listed abortion access as one of their top issues.
That’s good news for Nickel, the Democrat running in North Carolina’s 13th District, the most competitive House seat in the swing state, and a critical pickup opportunity for Democrats in their uphill effort to maintain control of the House despite disapproval of President Biden and record-level inflation.
Nickel has made abortion access central to his campaign, saying he hopes codifying Roe v. Wade is the first vote he takes in Congress, should he win.
“This is a very important issue,” Wiley, a state senator and criminal defense attorney said during a 30-minute interview in his law office. “And, frankly, it’s an incredibly rare chance to send a message about where we are as a country on this particular issue.”
A young MAGA candidate
Nickel is facing Republican Bo Hines, a 27-year-old political newcomer who’s nonetheless worked for years toward elected office. He graduated from Wake Forest University‘s law school in May and told the Charlotte Observer in 2015 while still an undergrad that he transferred from N.C. State to Yale because it would help his political ambitions, including potentially running for president. He shopped around districts in the state before settling in the 13th.
Hines, a former college football player, is a darling of the MAGA movement. He was endorsed by and appeared at a North Carolina rally with former president Donald Trump; the House Freedom Fund, the campaign arm of the far-right House Freedom Caucus; and the conservative Club for Growth in the primary over the objections of the local Republican Party.
Hines and Nickels are running for the seat currently held by Rep. Ted Budd, the Republican nominee for North Carolina’s open Senate seat and Trump’s handpicked candidate.
Democrats are comparing Hines to a fellow North Carolinian: disgraced, far-right Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who is also 27 and who lost his primary in May after a series of scandals and missteps. Nickel says Hines is too close to Trump and too extreme for the swing district.
“In our race, we have, you know, a far right extremist, someone who said he wanted to be the most conservative member of Congress in North Carolina, which is saying a lot with Madison Cawthorn as part of the delegation,” Nickel said.
Hines was not made available for an interview despite repeated requests.
Hines has said the 2020 election was not legitimate and calls for a complete halt of all immigration for 10 years. He has shifted his position on abortion over the past several months, saying last spring that abortion is murder. This summer he said he was open to abortion to protect the life of the mother and now says he would consider exceptions for rape and incest as well.
The National Republican Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of House Republicans, is painting Nickel as a soulless attorney who represents those accused of the worst crimes. “If you’re a criminal, Wiley Nickel has your back,” one ad says. Another calls him a “defund the police Democrat.”
Nickel said he is a “strong backer of law enforcement” and points to an endorsement by the North Carolina Police Benevolent Association.
He vows to be a moderate and work across the aisle, he used the word “bipartisan” eight times in an interview with the Early 202. If elected, he would join the conservative Democrats’ Blue Dog Coalition and the more fiscally moderate New Democrats. He said he is “running as a different kind of Democrat. You know, and I disagree with the, you know, extreme left to say they want to defund the police.”
It’s a contrast to Hines’ hard-right positioning, and it could help convince moderates to turn Nickel’s way.
But his down-the-middle positioning could be uninspiring for Democratic base voters, leading them to stay home — a challenge the party in power often has in midterm elections.
Who can motivate their base?
Turnout is going to decide this race, both local Republican and Democratic political strategists say. Nickel needs to drive up turnout in the city and Hines needs to drive up turnout in the rural part of the district. Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) will travel to the district to boost Nickel among black voters this week.
Shirley Hicks, who has lived in southeast Raleigh, a predominantly Black part of the district, much of her life and is now retired and volunteering for the Democratic Party, said the overturning of Roe v. Wade has motivated Democratic voters.
“Because I believe in God, that he doesn’t give me the choice because he does give me the choice. If he gives me the choice, why should the United States government take these choices away from me?” Hicks said.
Abortion is legal in North Carolina up to 20 weeks, but it’s still a major issue in campaigns up and down the ballot.
North Carolina Democrats are also focused on the state General Assembly and working to elect enough Democrats to ensure the Republican majority cannot override a veto by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, especially on the issue of abortion.
The district, which includes urban Raleigh, suburban Holly Springs and rural Johnston County, was redistricted to be evenly split among Republicans and Democrats. It’s considered a toss up by Cook Political Report and strategists on both sides of the aisle who have seen internal polling say that it is dead even.
Both parties are aggressively competing but Republicans are working overtime to ensure they hold Budd’s seat. Republicans have reserved more than $12.8 million in television advertisements compared to Democrats $4.8 million through Election Day, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact.
National Republicans have spent heavily to also make up for Hines fundraising challenges. He raised $864,000 in the third quarter, according to a campaign finance report filed over the weekend, which nearly matches the $925,000 personal loan he has used to fund much of his campaign. Nickel has raised $3 million for his campaign, including $1.1 million in the third quarter.
It’s probably still the economy
Vernon McLendon, 79, said he’s a registered Democrat but voted for Trump. He said he’s undecided on who he will vote in the congressional race and that abortion is a personal choice that won’t factor into his vote. Inflation, he said, is his top concern “because this affecting my IRA and my investments.”
Republicans and Democratic strategists in the state say that the economy is the most prevalent issue.
They will make the election about the economy of Joe Biden or it’s gonna be an election about potential changes” to abortion in North Carolina. Republican political strategist Paul Shumaker said. “Whereas those same voters are walking into the grocery store every day, and they’re saying ‘oh my god, the sky is falling.’”
Nickel said he supports the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act, the climate change, health care and deficit reduction bill and said Democrats need to do more to address inflation, including addressing the high cost of housing through tax credits and incentivizing housing near transit.
Hines, in an interview on NewsNation at CPAC, the annual Conservative Political Action Coalition conference, he said the key to stopping inflation is “to stop the government spending,” but he doesn’t mention inflation on his website.
Democrats accused of underfunding a fight to be N.C.’s first Black senator
Also in North Carolina is the extremely close Senate race between former state Supreme Court justice Cheri Beasley — who could become the state’s first Black senator — and Rep. Ted Budd, who is backed by former president Donald Trump. It has received a lot less attention than races in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada, but it could determine control of the Senate. Here’s an excerpt from our colleague Cleve R. Wootson Jr. who followed Beasley on her stump through western North Carolina:
“Beasley had spent a day last week pinballing around western North Carolina, stumping for the state’s soon-to-be-open Senate seat. At her last event, a brewery in this liberal mountain stronghold, the Democratic candidate eased onto a stool as a moderator asked if anyone had a question.”
“When the microphone came to Ann Baxter, she unloaded her concerns. She’d seen an avalanche of ominous ads from Budd’s camp, tearing into Beasley’s record and painting what Baxter believes is an untrue and unflattering picture. But she had only seen two pro-Beasley ads. When, she asked, was Beasley going to fight back?”
“The paucity of ads — and money from deep-pocketed political action committees and donors that would fund them — has been an enduring worry for Beasley’s supporters days before voters begin to head to the polls to determine who will replace Sen. Richard Burr (R), and which party controls the U.S. Senate.”
“Since August, Beasley, a former N.C. Supreme Court chief justice, has been in a statistical tie with Budd, a three-term congressman endorsed by former president Donald Trump. North Carolina Democrats have been raising the al...
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This combination of photos shows former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden, right. This year’s midterm elections are playing out as a strange continuation of the last presidential race — and a potential preview of the next one.
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They Are Going To Convict Very Quickly: Glenn Kirschner On The Trial Of Donald J. Trump
“They Are Going To Convict Very Quickly”: Glenn Kirschner On The Trial Of Donald J. Trump https://digitalarizonanews.com/they-are-going-to-convict-very-quickly-glenn-kirschner-on-the-trial-of-donald-j-trump/
Over the course of nine public hearings the House Jan. 6 committee has conclusively shown that Donald Trump tried to end American democracy by nullifying the results of the 2020 election. In an exclamation mark to that conclusion, the House committee has now subpoenaed Trump. It’s unlikely, of course, that Trump will supply the evidence the committee demands or appear to testify.
Trump’s coup plot was complex and multifaceted. Its tentacles included numerous Republican officials, right-wing paramilitaries, media propagandists, private funders, interest groups, think tanks, and other agents. As was confirmed during last Thursday’s committee hearing (presumably its last), the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the Secret Service and other law enforcement and national security agencies were aware that some of Trump’s followers were armed and were coming to Washington with violent intentions on Jan. 6. Even worse, the evidence suggests that some individuals at the highest levels of the federal government either actively aided Trump’s coup attempt or did nothing to prevent it.
Jan. 6 was not the climax of Trump and the Republican fascists’ campaign to subvert the Constitution, demolish the rule of law and overthrow democracy. That day was just one more chapter in Trump’s lawlessness and contempt for democracy. Trump’s presidency was itself an extension of a much larger pattern: Throughout his decades of public life, he has behaved like a crime boss with no respect for anything or anyone beyond his own narrow self-interest and his bottomless hunger for power and wealth.
Ultimately, the Jan. 6 insurrection was just the beginning. Donald Trump and the Republicans’ assault on democracy is only escalating as the midterms approach and the future of the country hangs on the precipice. What happens next? What are Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice waiting for? What does justice look like? Will Donald Trump and the other coup plotters ever be prosecuted and punished?
Glenn Kirschner is a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC who teaches criminal law at George Washington University. For most of his 30-year career in law enforcement, Kirschner was an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., often prosecuting serious crimes in federal court, and before that was a prosecutor and appellate attorney in the U.S. Army.
In this conversation, Kirschner describes Donald Trump as a “ruling-class criminal” who serves as living proof of how the rich and the powerful often evade justice in America. Trump’s contempt for the rule of law is understandable, since he has never been held properly accountable for his lawbreaking. This time, Kirschner says, Trump may finally gone too far.
The House Jan. 6 committee hearings, Kirschner suggests, have provided a roadmap for prosecuting Donald Trump for such serious crimes as seditious conspiracy and attempting to defraud the United States. Kirshner believes the evidence is overwhelming and clear, and that it will not be difficult to convince a jury to convict Donald Trump. That does not mean, Kirshner cautions, that Trump is likely to serve time in prison.
The Department of Justice may approach Trump’s prosecution, Kirschner says, as a series of overlapping conspiracies rather than as the kind of comprehensive RICO case used against organized crime and other complex criminal organizations.
Toward the end of this conversation, Kirschner warns that it’s likely Trump’s followers will follow through on his commands to commit acts of violence if he is prosecuted or convicted — but says that most of Trump’s MAGA followers are cowards and that any potential violence will be limited in scope.
How are you feeling? As a human being, how are you managing this democracy crisis and the troubled state of our country?
I feel schizophrenic, because one moment I am extremely frustrated and then the next moment I find some reason for hope and optimism. But as a whole I have been trying to balance the need for patience in any large-scale criminal investigation with the frustration that I feel.
Part of my daily work when I was a prosecutor involved assessing whether there was probable cause to support the application for an arrest warrant or an indictment. We had many long-term investigations that started out covert, they were proactive. By comparison, a reactive investigation is when an arrest is made, and we begin presenting evidence and information and seek an indictment. That is the stock in trade of state, local and county prosecutors as opposed to federal prosecutors.
Federal prosecutors mostly do proactive investigations where there is adequate predication and then we start in a very leisurely way. We want the case to be perfect. That’s always the goal of the federal prosecutor. When federal prosecutors decide to return an indictment, they have likely already negotiated a pre-indictment plea, so it’s already wrapped up in a pretty little bow and dropped on the court docket such that the Department of Justice is never operating under deadlines. We didn’t have a sense of urgency. I often found that problematic. Every day, particularly when I was chief of homicide, we were investigating murders, conspiracies and obstruction cases.
Once we had probable cause to make an arrest, to indict somebody, I had to assess whether the right thing to do was to continue to investigate proactively, meaning covertly, without making an arrest, or to move forward to an arrest, a takedown and an indictment. The biggest factor in that decision was public safety.
The fact that Donald Trump is not being held accountable doesn’t make sense. But it can be explained by the phenomenon of the ruling-class criminal. America has never been willing to hold them accountable.
How does that translate to the investigation of a former president? They’re very different investigations in very different circumstances, of course. But I maintain that public safety writ large — for example, the viability of our democracy — should be an enormous factor in when the Department of Justice chooses to move toward an indictment of Donald Trump. Public safety is at risk. Our democracy hangs in the balance.
We are prosecuting Donald Trump’s foot soldiers who he unleashed upon the Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop the certification. They are going to trial; they’re going to prison. The man who gave the criminal order to attack is playing golf, holding rallies and attending dinner parties. That is a deep injustice at play in America every minute of every day, until Donald Trump is held accountable.
As a working-class black man in America, I know that if I did one-millionth of what Trump is alleged to have done, never mind what is obvious, I would be in prison long ago. The fact that Trump is not in jail facilitates and nurtures this democracy crisis, and feeds the anger that there is one set of rules for the rich and powerful and another one for everybody else. What are Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice and the others investigating Trump waiting for?
Don’t ask me to explain the inexplicable, because I can’t. Every single jury I spoke with, I warned them that they should not try to make sense of murder or other crimes. Because if you’re waiting for it to make sense, or you require it to make sense in order to vote guilty, nobody would ever be convicted. The fact that Donald Trump is not being held accountable doesn’t make sense. But it can be explained by the phenomenon of the ruling-class criminal. America has never been willing to hold the ruling-class criminals accountable, whether they are in politics, business, entertainment, the tech business or what have you.
Donald Trump is publicly admitting, for all intents and purposes, that he violated the Espionage Act and committed other high crimes. He is trying to extort the DOJ and Garland with threats of violence. He brags about financially supporting his followers who attacked the Capitol. He shows no fear of being prosecuted or being punished in any way for his obvious crimes. Does he want to go to jail? Or does he simply believe that he is above the law?
Donald Trump believes that he is above the law. And he holds that belief for good reason. It appears that Trump has lived a life of crime and has never been held accountable. That is a dramatic failing of our criminal justice system, our law enforcement agencies and most certainly our nation’s prosecutors. Trump, in my opinion, has also come to believe, with good reason, that if he admits his crimes out loud people will take a step back and scratch their heads and say, “Geez, I thought it was criminal what he did, but he is saying he did it. So I’m uncomfortable, because that’s not the way we go about investigating and prosecuting crimes in America. Something is wrong here. I don’t know what it is, but we have to figure it out.” In reality, what we as a society need to do is to focus on why Trump and other such people are not being prosecuted.
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I would take that 14-page statement that he issued last week in response to the House Jan. 6 committee subpoena and slap a government exhibit sticker on it. I would then hand it to the jury as sharply self-incriminating evidence of Donald Trump’s admission of guilt. This is what has me so unbelievably frustrated and angry. The prosecutors, on both the state and federal level, have all been reluctant, hesitant and maybe even afraid to be the first to charge Donald Trump with committing crimes. No prosecutor wants to be the first to charge a former president who committed crimes. However, everybody will want to be the second to d...
Which Ohio Candidates Have Denied Or Questioned 2020 Presidential Election Results
Which Ohio Candidates Have Denied Or Questioned 2020 Presidential Election Results https://digitalarizonanews.com/which-ohio-candidates-have-denied-or-questioned-2020-presidential-election-results/
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A number of candidates seeking elected seats in Ohio on Nov. 8 have challenged or cast doubt on the 2020 presidential election results.
Election deniers — as opponents and some neutral observers have called them — are mainly Republicans who have denied or questioned the integrity of President Joe Biden’s win over Donald Trump, despite no proven evidence that fraud took place on a scale wide enough to have changed the outcome of the vote.
“Threats to democracy” have voters concerned
Regardless of their position, many Republicans are campaigning on the premise of restoring integrity in elections. It comes as “threats to democracy” is a concern among a growing portion of voters. In a recent poll by NBC4, The Hill, and Emerson College, it ranked second as a key issue among Ohioans surveyed.
Ohio Democratic Party spokesperson Matt Keyes said that for politicians like U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance or Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who is Ohio’s chief elections officer and running for reelection, to call the integrity into question will ultimately hurt voters and their trust in the way elections are conducted.
“It’s nothing short of despicable to see Republican politicians attacking the foundation of our democracy just so they can score political points and further their own ambitions,” Keyes said.
How strongly a candidate has questioned the results has been a source of study. Several media outlets and nonprofit research organizations have sought to categorize comments surrounding debunked election fraud claims.
A combination of information from polling aggregation and political analysis site FiveThirtyEight, as well as analysis of social media posts and other documented public comments, show that at least three candidates on the ballot in central Ohio have previously rejected the 2020 results.
Senate, congressional seats
As recently as January, Vance told Ohio media outlets, including The Vindicator newspaper of Youngstown and Spectrum News, that he believed massive fraud drove former Trump’s loss.
Vance highlights “election integrity” as a campaign priority on his website, in part pushing for “an end to mass mail-in voting” — even though he voted via absentee himself in 2020 and 2021, according to records from the Hamilton County Board of Elections.
Rep. Jim Jordan — who has represented Ohio’s 4th District in Congress since 2007 and is running in a newly redrawn district that includes parts of Delaware County — was one of 147 federal lawmakers who raised objections to the Electoral College results that were certified around the Capitol riots of Jan. 6, 2021.
“We got all these irregularities around the country and in key states,” Jordan told Newsmax a week after Election Day 2020 in an interview he shared on his Twitter account. “All we’re saying is, let’s check it out.”
A number of Jordan’s tweets feature comments casting doubt on the presidential election.
Vance and Jordan have a “fully denied rating” from FiveThirtyEight.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup, running for another term in Ohio’s 2nd District, is listed as “accepted with reservations.” In December 2020, he signed an amicus brief alongside Jordan asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn results in certain swing states.
Statewide offices
Terpsehore Maras, an independent running for Ohio Secretary of State, was late to the campaign trail — LaRose originally blocked her name from the ballot — but she has reentered the race through an Ohio Supreme Court ruling.
Maras is a podcaster who has embraced claims that the election was rigged against Trump. Election integrity is one of her top campaign priorities, according to her website.
Her platform calls for the return to paper ballots, eliminating voting machines, and restoring “faith in voting Ohioans by bringing free and fair elections built on a model of transparency and rigid honesty,” according to her website.
The FiveThirtyEight analysis lists a number of other Republican statewide officials running for re-election, including LaRose and Gov. Mike DeWine, as having “accepted with reservation.”
DeWine was among the first prominent Republicans to recognize Biden’s win in November 2020, a move that drew a swift rebuke from Trump even though he has recently endorsed DeWine’s reelection campaign.
LaRose has consistently defended the integrity of Ohio’s elections, but he tweeted in February that the threat to election integrity is “an even bigger problem in other states where laws and leaders are weak.”
Even as LaRose called voter fraud in Ohio rare, he recently created a public integrity division to consolidate election investigative functions — such as campaign finance reporting and election law violations — and expand on others.
The Ohio Republican Party did not comment on the varying positions its endorsed candidates have taken on the previous election. Instead, chairman Bob Paduchik outlined why he believes Ohio voters are concerned about threats to democracy.
“Many people are rightly concerned with an unchecked bureaucracy and FBI who falsified FISA [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act], offered a $1 million bounty for campaign dirt, and undermined and spied on a presidential campaign,” Paduchik said.
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Banta Fueled By Discredited Conspiracies Eyes Pa. House 4th District Seat
Banta, Fueled By Discredited Conspiracies, Eyes Pa. House 4th District Seat https://digitalarizonanews.com/banta-fueled-by-discredited-conspiracies-eyes-pa-house-4th-district-seat/
Jake Banta, the Republican candidate running to replace state Rep. Curt Sonney in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, says he wants to protect constitutional rights, restore confidence in elections, address record inflation and get people back to work.
He says he’s a “common sense” candidate.
On social media, Banta embraces conspiracy theories about politics and the pandemic.
In the same way he’s used a microphone and amplifier as the lead singer and guitarist of local band Jake’s Blues, Banta has used platforms like Facebook, Gab and former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social to amplify false, misleading and questionable claims and conspiracies to an audience of thousands. Banta claims his outspoken rhetoric prompted the FBI to visit his home in early 2021 when he was out of town — a claim the Erie Times-News was unable to verify with the FBI.
Banta has indicated he believes the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was planned by Democrats and carried out by Capitol police and others.
He’s adamant Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden.
He has written that he believes COVID-19 was created by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as part of a broader plan by “globalists” — which he says includes Democrats, the World Health Organization and World Economic Forum — to depopulate the planet.
And he claims that 99% of the COVID-19 vaccine is made from graphene oxide, which can have severe side effects in high doses, and that it has killed more people than the virus itself.
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‘Concern for his fellow citizens’
If history and demographics are any guide, the race for the 4th Legislative District seat is Banta’s to lose.
He’s running against Democrat Chelsea Oliver, a former Corry city councilwoman, to fill the seat won nine times by Sonney, who is not running for re-election.
All state House and Senate districts have been redrawn as part of redistricting. The partisan breakdown among voters in the new 4th District will change little when maps take effect next year. As of March, 49.57% of registered voters were Republicans; 36.5% were Democrats and 13.94% were independents or affiliated with a third party.
Banta, a Waterford-area resident, won 42% of the primary vote, fending off five other Republican challengers on May 17.
Sonney said Banta would make a good successor because he’s “more of a citizen legislator.”
“It’s his concern about people in general,” he said. “He does have an underlying concern for his fellow citizens. And he absolutely is very open to listening to everyone.”
Sonney said he was not familiar with Banta’s online remarks and declined to comment on them.
Tom Eddy, chairman of the Erie County Republican Party, also said he’s not aware of the comments. He called Banta “level-headed” and added that the candidate has not discussed some of the claims he’s made online at fundraisers and other campaign events Eddy has attended.
Though Banta agreed to be interviewed on April 25 ahead of the GOP primary, he declined several times to be interviewed for this article, most recently on Sept. 30.
Grew up on a LeBoeuf Township farm, a ‘cold-beer guy’
Banta, 57, is most recognizable as the frontman and dynamic guitarist for his band, Jake’s Blues, which formed more than three decades ago. Banta and his band were regulars at the now-demolished Beer Mug, 1108 Liberty St., in the early days before becoming a regional act and then flirting with the national scene. Banta even recorded with the blues-rock duo Double Trouble, the rhythm section that played with Banta’s idol, Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Banta grew up on and later inherited the family farm in LeBoeuf Township.
“I love it; it’s kind of a passion,” Banta said about the family farm in a 2010 Erie Times-News article. “I grew up doing a small amount of farming. I like the environment out there. I live in the country, and things haven’t changed much out there in my lifetime. So, I’m hoping to keep it that way for my kids.”
Banta enlisted in the U.S. Navy and qualified as a SEAL after graduating from Fort LeBoeuf High School.
He worked for a time in the oil and gas industry and then said he became a private security contractor for the federal government. He’d spend monthslong stints in Afghanistan, Iraq and other areas of the Middle East before taking on maritime assignments.
“My job was to provide security in helping diplomats and agents start and or rebuild democracy and free nations that could exist in harmony and prosper in their resources,” he said in a recent guest column for the Erie Times-News.
Banta claims he lost his contract over his refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19. He told the Times-News he now regrets getting other vaccines required of him when he joined the military.
Banta, a self-described “guitar slinger,” “proud patriot,” and “cold-beer guy,” said he never imagined he’d one day assume a new stage presence, reciting lines from the U.S. Constitution instead of Stevie Ray Vaughn lyrics.
“I’ve checked so many boxes in my life and I think it’s really important that we fix this,” Banta — a married father of three adult sons — said in an April 25 interview. “It’s important to me. Whether we’re talking about the economy, education or the lockdown and COVID and mandates — all those things played into it. I was looking at it more and more and I said, my gosh, we can do better than this.”
Banta’s political and musical worlds have collided in recent years when he’s performed the national anthem at Trump rallies.
Banta hasn’t always aligned with the Republican Party, though. He was a registered Democrat starting in 2004, but changed his party affiliation to Republican in June 2009, according to the Erie County Voter Registration Office.
“Parties do shift,” he said earlier this year. “And what I’ve seen in the last few years out of the left has not been my choice.”
Banta on the issues
A campaign video describes Banta as “passionate about preserving constitutional rights, ensuring voter integrity and getting the economy back on track.”
Banta is a strong defender of Second Amendment rights. He was recently endorsed by the Gun Owners of America, which gave him a 100% rating.
He would also work to eliminate burdensome regulations and taxes that prevent business growth in the state.
He will oppose “the overreach” of the government’s emergency powers, like those that were invoked during the pandemic to mandate masks and close businesses, and “radical” curriculum. He also wants to lower taxes and provide grants to small businesses, and lower property taxes for homeowners and elderly, according to his guest column.
Abortion rights
On abortion, Banta in his Erie Times-News interview earlier this year said he is “pro-life” and would do anything in his power to talk an expectant mother out of having an abortion. However, he would not support an abortion ban.
Asked if a ban on abortion should be enacted, though, Banta replied: “You can’t force a woman into keeping a baby,” he said. “That’s not going to (work). But what you can do is talk her into it. (The baby) could be the next Einstein.”
However, Erie News Now reported in September that Banta “called for debate on the issue” and suggested he might consider an abortion ban if exceptions are made for rape, incest and the life of the mother.
Was the 2020 election stolen?
Banta denies the outcome of the 2020 presidential election and has also claimed without evidence that it wasn’t just the presidency that was stolen. He has said on social media that even incumbent Democrat state Rep. Ryan Bizzarro’s victory over Republican Greg Hayes in the 3rd Legislative District race that year was the result of fraud. There is no evidence to support the claim.
Election reform
Banta supports stricter voter ID laws, and also overturning Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting laws, he told the Times-News in April. He also believes that ballots should have serial numbers, as he wrote recently in the guest column for the Erie Times-News.
Jake Banta:A pledge to oppose agendas, restore sovereignty, reduce taxes
Recreational marijuana
Banta believes the legalization of recreational marijuana is inevitable in Pennsylvania, but he said in the same April interview that there needs to be more debate on the issue first. He would oppose any law that takes away other rights, like carrying a concealed weapon.
The pandemic and the presidential election
Banta’s political rise began online, where he’s riffed about what he calls the “plandemic,” accused Democrats of being “tyrants” and “globalists,” and circulated a range of unfounded claims from far-right and anti-vaccination websites. When some of his comments have been removed from Facebook, leading to his account being suspended, Banta has taken refuge on sites such as Gab and Truth Social.
Banta’s biggest audience, though, is on Facebook. Not only does he have both campaign and personal Facebook pages, he created and now administers the private “I Am America” page, which has surpassed 5,300 members.
Banta uses “I am America” as a common sign-off on many of his posts. It’s also a group he formed that gathers in person to talk about politics.
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OPEC Members Endorse Output Cut After U.S. Coercion Accusation
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U.S. says more than one OPEC country coerced into cut
Iraq, Kuwait and other OPEC+ members stand by decision
Saudi defence minister says decision was purely economic
CAIRO Oct 16 (Reuters) – OPEC+ member states lined up on Sunday to endorse the steep cut to its output target agreed this month after the White House, stepping up a war of words with Saudi Arabia, accused Riyadh of coercing some other nations into supporting the move.
The United States last week said the cut would boost Russia’s foreign earnings and suggested it had been engineered for political reasons by Saudi Arabia, which on Sunday denied it was supporting Moscow in its invasion of Ukraine.
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz said the kingdom was working hard to support stability and balance in oil markets, including establishing and maintaining agreement of the OPEC+ alliance that comprises the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other major producers including Russia.
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The kingdom’s defence minister and King Salman’s son, Prince Khalid bin Salman, also said the Oct. 5 decision to reduce output by 2 million barrels per day (bpd) – taken despite oil markets being tight – was unanimous and based on economic factors.
His comments were backed by ministers of several OPEC+ member states including the United Arab Emirates.
The Gulf state’s energy minister, Suhail al-Mazrouei, wrote on Twitter: “I would like to clarify that the latest OPEC+ decision, which was unanimously approved, was a pure technical decision, with NO political intentions whatsoever.”
His comment followed a statement from Iraq‘s state oil marketer SOMO.
“There is complete consensus among OPEC+ countries that the best approach in dealing with the oil market conditions during the current period of uncertainty and lack of clarity is a pre-emptive approach that supports market stability and provides the guidance needed for the future,” a SOMO statement said.
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation Chief Executive Nawaf Saud al-Sabah also welcomed the decision by OPEC+ and said the country was keen to maintain a balanced oil markets, state news agency KUNA reported.
Oman and Bahrain said in separate statements that OPEC had agreed unanimously on the reduction.
Algerian energy minister Mohamed Arkab, meanwhile, called the decision “historic” and said that he and OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais expressed full confidence in it, Algeria’s Ennahar TV reported.
Ghais later told a news conference that the organisation targeted a balance between supply and demand rather than a specific price.
In a statement to Reuters on Monday, Arkab said the OPEC+ decision, was “a purely technical response based on purely economic considerations”, adding that it was adopted unanimously.
Oil inventories in major economies are lower than when OPEC has cut output in the past.
Some analysts have said that recent volatility in crude markets could be remedied by a cut that would help to attract investors to an underperforming market.
U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Thursday said that “more than one” OPEC member had felt coerced by Saudi Arabia into the vote, adding that the cut would also increase Russia’s revenue and blunt the effectiveness of sanctions imposed over its February invasion of Ukraine.
King Salman said in an address to the kingdom’s advisory Shura Council that the country was a mediator of peace and highlighted the crown prince’s initiative to release prisoners of war from Russia last month, state news agency SPA reported.
Khalid bin Salman on Sunday said he was “astonished” by claims his country was “standing with Russia in its war with Ukraine”.
“It is telling that these false accusations did not come from the Ukrainian government,” he wrote on Twitter.
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Europe’s markets gain as UK moves help sterling, gilts
Nikkei down 1.2%, S&P 500 edges up after slide
Dollar near 149 yen, market wary of intervention
China’s yuan falls after Xi congress speech
LONDON/SYDNEY, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Europe’s share, bond and currency markets moved tentatively higher on Monday, helped by relief that’s Britain new finance minister had quickly ripped into the unfunded tax cuts that triggered turmoil in UK assets this month.
Asia’s main markets had struggled overnight but Europe’s STOXX 600 (.STOXX) made a 0.5% early gain as both the pound and UK government bonds rallied in London. /GB/FRX
Britain’s new finance minister Jeremy Hunt is due to make a statement at around 1000 GMT. He spent much of the weekend holding meetings and doing media interviews signalling that many of the spending plans of Prime Minister Liz Truss and his predecessor, would now be scrapped.
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Bank of England Governor Bailey gave Hunt a vote of confidence on Saturday, saying they had an “immediate meeting of minds” on the need to fix the public finances, where there are estimates of a 70 billion pound ($78.72 billion) black hole.
Invesco’s director of macro research Ben Jones said the UK’s volatility would remain a key focus for global markets.
“The hope is that Jeremy Hunt is a more stable set of hands,” he said, pointing to the “relief rally” for the pound which was up 0.75% at $1.1257, and in the UK gilt markets.
“But we still need to see some follow through… and we still don’t know whether Liz Truss will still be there at lunchtime or the end of the month”.
Yields in British 10-year gilts fell 27 bps to 4.06% in morning trading, while the 2-year dropped 12 bps to 3.75%. .
Other European markets benefited too. The German 10-year Bund yield was down 9 basis points (bps) to 2.27% having hit 2.423% last week, its highest since August 2011.
That was also despite two key ECB policymakers making the case over the weekend for cutting the bank’s balance sheet and after U.S. inflation data on Friday had bolstered bets on another aggressive rate hike from the Federal Reserve.
ROTATING
Overnight, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) eased 0.6% and back toward last week’s 2-1/2 year low.
Japan’s Nikkei (.N225) shed 1.2% although Chinese blue chips (.CSI300) rose 0.4% ahead of GDP data due on Tuesday.
S&P 500 futures edged up 0.4% after Friday’s sharp retreat, while Nasdaq futures added 0.3%.
While the S&P is an eye-watering 25% off its peak, BofA economist Jared Woodard warned the slide was not over given the world was transitioning from two decades of 2% inflation to a time of something more like 5% inflation.
“$70 trillion of ‘new’ tech, growth, and government bond assets priced for a 2% world are vulnerable to these secular shifts as ‘old’ industries like energy and materials surge, reversing decades of under-investment,” he wrote in a note.
“Rotating out of 60/40 proxies and buying what is scarce – power, food, energy – is the best way for investors to diversify.”
INTERVENTION WATCH
A red-hot U.S. consumer price report and rising inflation expectations have markets fully expecting the Federal Reserve to hike rates by 75 basis points next month, and likely by the same again in December.
A host of Fed policymakers are speaking this week, so there will be plenty of opportunity for hawkish headlines. The earnings season also continues with Tesla (TSLA.O), Netflix (NFLX.O) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) reporting, among others.
Goldman Sachs (GS.N) also reports this week and the Wall Street Journal reported the investment bank plans to restructure its biggest businesses into three divisions.
In China, the Communist Party Congress is expected to grant a third term to President Xi Jinping, while there could be a reshuffle of top economic roles as incumbents are near retirement age or term-limits.
“Investors haven’t fully digested that China isn’t going to be a high growth economy any more,” said Janus Henderson Emerging Markets Portfolio Manager Ales Koutny who also expects the yuan to keep falling. “It is not going to be 5%-6% growth a year, it’s going to be 2%-3%.”
In currency markets, the dollar remains king as investors price in U.S. rates peaking around 5%.
The yen has been particularly hard hit as the Bank of Japan sticks to its super-easy policy, while authorities refrained from intervention last week even as the dollar sped past the 148.00 level to 32-year peaks.
Early on Monday, the dollar was up at 148.73 yen and heading for the next target at 150.00.
The euro was holding at $0.9733 , having put in a steadier performance last week, while the U.S. dollar index eased a fraction to 113.20 .
The rise of the dollar and global bond yields have been a drag for gold, which was stuck at $1,648 an ounce .
Oil prices were trying to bounce, after sinking more than 6% last week as fears of a demand slowdown outweighed OPEC’s plans to cut output.
Brent firmed 90 cents to $92.55 a barrel, while U.S. crude rose 84 cents to $86.45 per barrel.
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Kanye Says 'Jewish Zionists' Control The Media Jews Own The Black Voice
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Rapper Kanye West once again made antisemitic statements on Sunday – this time blaming “Jewish Zionists” for news stories about his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her then-boyfriend Pete Davidson having sex in front of a fireplace in his latest antisemitic rant.
“It’s Jewish Zionists that’s about that life. That’s telling this Christian woman that has four black children to put that out as a message in the media,” he said.
Kanye doubling down and blaming Jewish Zionists for it being public that Kim had sex by a fireplace with Pete.“It’s Jewish Zionists that’s about that life. That’s telling this Christian women that has four black children to put that out as a message.”pic.twitter.com/5m1F5wVpsO
— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) October 16, 2022
West, who also goes by “Ye,” made these statements on the “Drink Champs” podcast, where he also echoes a conspiracy theory that Jewish people control all forms of media and entertainment. Drink Champs is a popular hip-hop podcast, hosting some of the biggest names in the industry, including Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg and more.
“It’s Jewish Zionists that’s about that life. That’s telling this Christian woman that has four black children to put that out as a message in the media.”
Kanye West
The rapper then mentions Dov Charney, the founder of the Los Angeles apparel manufacturing company and American Apparel, who is also Jewish. According to West, he refused to release the rapper’s controversial “White Lives Matter” shirt shortly after West published his “Death con 3 on Jewish people” tweet.
“It’s cause he’s Jewish, and this is my exact point that I’m making,” West said following Charney’s decision.
Echoing the antisemitic conspiracy theory
“Jewish people have owned the Black voice,” West said. “Whether it’s through us wearing the Ralph Lauren shirt, or it’s all of us being signed to a record label, or having a Jewish manager, or being signed to a Jewish basketball team, or doing a movie on a Jewish platform like Disney.”
In the podcast can be watched below, Kanye makes these remarks at the 4:30 mark.
West said that Jewish people “came into money through the lawyers.” He then makes claims that Catholics refused to divorce people, “so the Jewish lawyers came in and were willing to divorce people. That’s how they came into the money.”
The rapper goes on to say that Jewish people in the entertainment industry “will take one of us that could really feed a whole village, take us and milk us till we die.”
West then claims that Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner “is an example of how the Jewish people have their hand on every single business that controls the world.”
Denies request to visit Holocaust museum
The rapper seemed to deny a request when he was asked to visit the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles, to which West said on the podcast: “I want you to visit Planned Parenthood, that’s our Holocaust Museum,” in what seems to be a comparison between abortions and the Nazi genocide of Jews.
West recently claimed that Planned Parenthood was created with the help of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in order to “control” the Jewish population. These claims were taken from unaired clips from his recent Fox News interview that was obtained by Vice.
“I want you to visit Planned Parenthood, that’s our Holocaust Museum.”
Kanye West
“Jewish media”
“You get used to paparazzi taking a picture of you, and you don’t get money off it. You just get used to being screwed by the Jewish media.
“The Jewish media blocked me out. This shit lit right?” Kanye continued. He goes on to say that he’s getting canceled by “the left, the Jewish media and the Chinese.”
On all of these claims that he makes, Kanye West says that he cannot be antisemitic because of another argument he makes that “Black people are actually Jewish.”
Even Trump says Kanye needs help
Before West’s interview on the Drink Champs podcast, former president Donald Trump said that the rapper “is acting too crazy” and “needs some professional help,” according to a report by Rolling Stone citing two sources with knowledge of the situation.
Trump had said in the past that the rapper was a friend of his for a long time.
This came shortly after the former president said on his social media app Truth Social that US Jews “have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel.”
Trump also said that “no president has done more for Israel than I have” and claimed that American Jews are ungrateful for the Trump administration’s relationship with the Jewish state – stating that “evangelicals are far more appreciative of this.”
Trump also claims he could be the Prime Minister of Israel because Israelis are allegedly more appreciative of his work.
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The Sleeper State Republicans Are Targeting To Win The Senate
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DENVER — For months, top party operatives have mused that Joe O’Dea is the best Republican candidate running for Senate this year.
While other GOP nominees are countering reports that they have encouraged abortions, killed puppies or waffled on the 2020 election being legitimate, O’Dea has been talking non-stop about soaring inflation.
The moderate Colorado Republican Senate nominee has never led a public poll in the race, and polling averages show O’Dea continues to trail his opponent, Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, by 8 percentage points. But Bennet’s approval ratings are in line with President Joe Biden’s, in the low 40s, and both parties see the potential for a surprise.
So, in the final weeks of the 2022 midterm campaign, with the GOP’s pickup prospects fading in states like Arizona and Georgia, national Republicans are looking for backup opportunities and holding out hope that O’Dea can eke out an upset in a state that’s on the bluer side of purple.
With the Senate locked in at 50-50, Republicans need to gain just one seat to tip the chamber’s balance in their favor. But neither party currently has the upper hand as Election Day nears, and key races in Pennsylvania, Nevada and Georgia remain too close to call.
Now, both sides are putting irons in the fire in Colorado, where mail-in voting begins this week.
Senate Republicans’ top super PAC moved $1.25 million into the state just over a week ago, as outside Democratic groups in the last month have steered more than $9 million to the Colorado race.
It’s one sign they aren’t willing to take any chances on Bennet’s ability to hold the seat for Democrats. Another was that President Joe Biden traveled to Colorado last week to tout a Bennet project.
To pull off a victory in Colorado, Republicans will not only have to turn out their waning base, but win over unaffiliated voters who have heavily favored Democrats in the years since former President Donald Trump took office. And even though O’Dea has maintained that the 2020 election was legitimate, he’s working to prevent Democrats from linking him to the GOP’s more extreme wing.
“Colorado is a tough state, Bennet has been outspending Joe O’Dea, and frankly, there’s this lingering stench of stolen election conspiracy crap that has pulled the party down overall,” said Dick Wadhams, former chair of the Colorado Republican Party.
“Bennet has not put this away,” Wadhams continued. “He’s had this huge spending edge, and yet he has to beg and plead for the president to come out here to do something that Bennet could not get done in the Senate.”
During his visit, Biden used his executive powers to designate a World War II military training camp as a national monument, a project Bennet has pursued through legislation since taking office in 2011.
Steven Law, president of the GOP’s Senate Leadership Fund super PAC, recently placed Colorado in the same category as two of Republicans’ other tough-but-possible pickup opportunities this year.
“There’s some potential in places like New Hampshire, Colorado, maybe Arizona,” Law said on an Oct. 4 episode of the conservative political podcast “Ruthless.” Three days after the episode aired, SLF put $1.25 million into the Colorado race. The amount is far less than the super PAC is spending in other states, though a spokesman said the group is continuing to watch Colorado.
The recent SLF funds, which the group contributed to a pro-O’Dea super PAC in Colorado rather than creating its own ads, have gone toward a new $1.6 million, two-week ad buy in Denver starting Tuesday.
On the day last week when Bennet appeared with Biden at an event south of Vail, O’Dea attended a Denver Chamber of Commerce candidate forum. The split-screen of activities that day was emblematic of the candidates’ strategies.
The two-term senator is campaigning on Democratic accomplishments and the party’s ability to pass major legislation since taking control of Washington. It’s a tactic that differs from other endangered Democrats, who are avoiding the president and have declared in ads that they aren’t beholden to the party.
Bennet can come across as cerebral: At the business forum, he opened his pre-recorded remarks with thoughts on democracy. By contrast, O’Dea appeared in person and emphasized the practical. He noted that he has run his own construction company for 35 years; “It’s called business acumen,” he said.
O’Dea takes pains to signal that he will be independent of his party, describing himself as a “Republican Joe Manchin.”
“They’re not going to know where Joe O’Dea’s at,” O’Dea told the Chamber crowd. “I’ll buck the party. If McConnell wants my vote, we’re going to get good things done for Colorado. I’ll sit there and I’ll just wait him out. I don’t care.”
As examples of his willingness to go against GOP policies, O’Dea noted he supports abortion access beyond what most elected Republicans have called for, wants citizenship for childhood Dreamers and an easier path to legal immigration for workers, and opposes the repeal of Obamacare, citing the need to protect those with preexisting conditions.
O’Dea made a similar pitch to a room full of donors the night before, while acknowledging he needs all the support he can get if he is going to catch up with Bennet. Mail-in ballots, which are provided to every voter in the state, begin distribution this week.
“Some of the polling you guys have seen, it’s kind of a crapshoot,” O’Dea said to 50 supporters at the fundraiser in Golden last week, referencing public surveys about the race.
Former Sen. Gary Hart, a Democrat, is supporting Bennet and said he believes he’ll win, but credited O’Dea for the strategy he’s taking in the race.
“Speaking objectively, I think he’s presenting himself about the way he should,” Hart said. “He’s punching all the right buttons in terms of his TV ads — riding horses and having his daughter campaign for him on TV, all those fundamental, smart politics.
“The candidates are two decent, two honest people, not attention-getting. So it’s awfully hard to dislike either one of them.”
Josh Holmes, a political consultant who advises Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, recalls meeting O’Dea before his primary victory and sensing something “special” about his pitch: “I think pretty quickly, Democrats came on to the same idea we did, which is likely why they spent money in the primary trying to defeat him.”
Democratic groups spent millions of dollars trying to sink O’Dea’s primary bid, hoping to propel a much more conservative Republican to the nomination.
In an interview at Spanky’s Roadhouse in Denver, sipping a Michelob Ultra he poured into a glass of ice, O’Dea elaborated on the kind of Republican senator he would be. He praised GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski for trying to codify abortion rights up to roughly 24 weeks of pregnancy, a bill O’Dea said he is eager to help get passed if he’s elected. Sen. Mitt Romney “steps out every once in a while” to do what’s right, O’Dea said, adding that Sen. John Cornyn should be lauded for leading bipartisan talks on a gun control bill this year.
O’Dea said he would have been a no on convicting former President Donald Trump of impeachment — as he would be on any future GOP effort to impeach Biden. As for who he’d like to see win the White House in 2024, O’Dea rattled off several names for a future party leader: Tim Scott, Mike Pompeo, Tom Cotton or Nikki Haley, before adding that Ron DeSantis has done a good job as Florida governor.
Democrats have zeroed in on abortion as O’Dea’s largest vulnerability. Despite wanting protections for abortion rights, O’Dea said he doesn’t regret signing a petition in 2020 in support of a 22-week abortion ban, which failed on the ballot that year and did not include exceptions for rape and incest.
“I don’t believe in late-term abortion on command,” O’Dea said in the interview. “I just don’t.”
O’Dea maintains he is in favor of abortion access up to five months of pregnancy, with exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the woman.
Floyd Ciruli, a longtime Colorado pollster who now directs the University of Denver’s polling program, said political observers in the state entered the election believing there was a chance the Senate seat could flip.
Ciruli said there’s no question inflation is voters’ No. 1 concern, and that Biden isn’t particularly popular there. And he doesn’t doubt that polling this year — Colorado no exception — is missing the full extent of the populist vote. All the same, disenchantment with national Democrats doesn’t seem to be ushering in a red wave in Colorado, he said.
“We could be surprised on the 8th, but at the moment with where the polls are, there’s this sense that (independent voters) just may not be available to the Republicans” this year in Colorado, Ciruli said.
Republicans last won a Senate seat in Colorado in 2014, when Cory Gardner — propelled by voter dissatisfaction with Barack Obama — ousted Democratic Sen. Mark Udall by 2 percentage points. Udall’s loss was also attributed to his heavy focus on abortion rights over other issues during in the campaign.
But public polling that fall showed a tight race, with Gardner and Udall trading off the lead and remaining within a few points of each other. The neck-and-neck 2014 contest appeared much more competitive in the months leading up to the November election than polling in the current Colorado Senate race.
Gardner lost reelection in 2020, defeated by former Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper. O’Dea argues that a similar referendum on the party in power will help him this time.
“Senator Gardner — who I really like and have a lot of respect for — John Hickenlooper was able to tag him with voting with President Trump 100 percent of the...
Susan J. Demas: Tudor Dixon Trashes All The Single Ladies Michigan Advance
Susan J. Demas: Tudor Dixon Trashes All The Single Ladies ⋆ Michigan Advance https://digitalarizonanews.com/susan-j-demas-tudor-dixon-trashes-all-the-single-ladies-%e2%8b%86-michigan-advance/
In Michigan, the GOP nominee for a critical congressional seat is on record blasting women being in the workplace and having the right to vote.
John Gibbs, who won his 3rd District primary thanks to an endorsement from former President Donald Trump and is facing Democrat Hillary Scholten on Nov. 8, got exactly zero backlash from his party when his retrograde views as the leader of an anti-feminist “think tank” made the news last month.
Republican nominee for Michigan’s Third Congressional District John Gibbs campaigns in Lansing on Aug. 27, 2022. (Andrew Roth | Michigan Advance)
That’s pretty amazing since the Michigan GOP, for the first time, has nominated a woman for governor, Tudor Dixon. You’d think it would be untenable for the party to support Gibbs, who apparently doesn’t think their top-of-the-ticket nominee should be able to vote for herself this fall.
But Dixon’s girlboss gubernatorial campaign has been its own dizzying mess of contradictions. Although she’s facing Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan’s second female governor in history, Dixon bizarrely declared after winning the GOP primary: “It’s time to elect a real woman to lead Michigan.”
While the Republican stresses that she’s a mom, she doesn’t seem to believe Whitmer is, sneering that she’s merely a “far-left birthing parent.”
Some pundits have been content to let that weird misogyny slide, as well as the fact that Dixon doesn’t believe in basic human rights for women and wants to ban abortion, determined to portray the race as a feminist triumph just because two women happen to be running.
Voters haven’t been fooled, however, as Whitmer is winning women by a 2 to 1 margin in polling. It would be hard to imagine a male Republican nominee performing worse.
Maybe that’s why Dixon decided to turn her fire Friday on women who have the audacity to *checks notes* be single. Yes, in the year 2022.
Dixon’s meandering diatribe — her signature style, despite having hosted a far-right talk show with guests pushing everything from QAnon to the Proud Boys — started with an interesting assessment of families.
“Families look all different ways. They’re the ones telling me that on a regular basis, but apparently, they’re refusing to see one dynamic here. A lot of people want to have families. This state, we don’t have support from the governor for families unless they look exactly the way she wants,” Dixon said at the St. Clair Shores event.
Then she veered off in a pretty unexpected direction.
“And you know what that looks like these days? Looks like single moms — no, not single moms. Single women working. That’s like, her [Whitmer’s] dream for women. Single women working. Last time I checked, that was a pretty lonely life,” Dixon declared, her voice dripping with pity.
Yikes.
It’s wild in the 21st century that Dixon feels she has the right to judge women based on their marital status. Who — and I cannot stress this enough — cares?
– Susan J. Demas
Most people expect candidates running for high office to talk about what they’re going to do about the economy or health care costs, not to sound like their great-aunt haranguing them at the family reunion for not getting their MRS Degree.
It’s wild in the 21st century that Dixon feels she has the right to judge women based on their marital status. Who — and I cannot stress this enough — cares?
If you want to get married, that’s your choice. If you don’t, that’s also your choice. It literally isn’t the business of anyone running to run this state.
Interestingly, even though Dixon has taken it upon herself to lecture women that bagging a husband and having kids is the ultimate prize in life, her family has been absent from almost all of her campaign events.
It’s also unclear if she was going to vilify single mothers and thought better of it — perhaps because GOP Secretary of State nominee Kristina Karamo is one — or if Dixon just flubbed another line.
But we do know that Dixon has shown little use for any women who dare disagree with her, like those who don’t want books banned in their kids’ schools or back abortion rights, which she condescendingly claims isn’t an important issue. In fact, when she later tried to mop up her single women slight, her excuse was that she was really blasting Whitmer for vetoing funding for anti-abortion centers, which, of course, makes no sense.
Gov. Gretchen Whimter at an East Lansing campaign event, Oct. 13, 2022 | Andrew Roth
And let’s not forget Dixon scoffing about the fact that “families look all different ways” these days, while somehow trying to paint Whitmer as intolerant of traditional families (despite having a husband and two kids).
We’ve all gotten the message loud and clear. If you’re single, pro-choice, LGBTQ+ or all of the above, there’s no place for you in a Dixon-fied Michigan. Get that ring, give birth, deny who you love — or get out.
She’s not running to represent the 10 million residents of Michigan, only those who agree with her and conform to her far-right rigidity.
What a strange election year it’s been in Michigan. From Gibbs slamming women’s suffrage to Dixon droning on about spinsters, turning back the clock on women’s rights is all the Republican rage. It’s not too late for someone to start campaigning on taking away women’s property rights.
Come to think of it, that would be a big incentive for women to get married. Maybe that’ll be Tudor Dixon’s pitch this week. You never know.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims She's A Jan. 6 'Victim' During Wild Debate
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday claimed she’s one of the victims of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol carried out by supporters of Donald Trump attempting to overturn the election results.
Greene, a conspiracy theorist who has spoken at a white nationalist event, has sympathized with the rioters. She’s called those arrested “political prisoners,” and visited some in what she called the “patriots wing” of the District of Columbia Jail.
But on Sunday, she took offense when Democratic challenger Marcus Flowers accused her of “participation” in the events of Jan. 6.
“You cannot accuse me of insurrection,” she said. “I was a victim of the January 6 riot just as much as any other member of Congress, that was the third day I had on the job, I had nothing to do with what happened there that day, and I will not have you accuse me of that.”
Flowers returned to that later in the debate.
“You spent your time providing aid and comfort to the Jan. 6 insurrectionists,” he said, and then asked why Greene cared more for “those criminals in jail” than her own constituents.
Greene once again called herself a “victim” and went on a rant about antifa and Black Lives Matter, among other things.
Greene also accused Flowers of being part of the “defund the police” party.
Flowers fired back ― accurately ― that Greene is selling “Defund the FBI” merchandise on her website.
Despite the fireworks at the debate, Greene is considered a safe bet for reelection by all major poll-watchers.
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Former DOJ Official Says Trump's Reaction To The January 6 Panel Is Starting To Look Like The Makings Of An Insanity Defense
Former DOJ Official Says Trump's Reaction To The January 6 Panel Is Starting To Look Like The Makings Of An Insanity Defense https://digitalarizonanews.com/former-doj-official-says-trumps-reaction-to-the-january-6-panel-is-starting-to-look-like-the-makings-of-an-insanity-defense/
Former DOJ official Neal Katyal commented on Donald Trump’s 14-page response to the DOJ.
Katyal said he did not think the response would help Trump unless he was trying to plead insanity.
He said Trump’s response was “evidence” of an insanity plea.
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Neal Katyal, a former Justice Department official, thinks former President Donald Trump’s written response to the House panel’s intention to subpoena him looks like an insanity defense.
Katyal — a law professor and an Obama-era acting solicitor general — made an appearance on NBC on Sunday, three days after the House panel investigating the Capitol riot unanimously voted to subpoena Trump. The subpoena will compel the former president to cooperate with the committee or be held in contempt of Congress and referred to the DOJ for prosecution — much like Trump allies Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.
In response to the decision, Trump sent a document to the panel that started off with the sentence, “THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!” and contained multiple baseless claims of election fraud. It also included four photos of the crowd near the Washington Monument on January 6, 2021.
“Yeah, so, this is a 14-page screed, Jonathan, that’s very hard to follow. But it does seem to dig the hole in deeper for Donald Trump,” Katyal told MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart.
“I can’t see it in any legal way helping him unless he is trying to go for the insanity defense, of which this paper seems, you know, to be some evidence of,” Katyal added.
Katyal added that he thought it was a “pretty fanciful” idea that Trump would just give in and testify to the panel because of the congressional subpoena.
“I mean, this is a man who took the Fifth Amendment more than 400 times the last time he was questioned under oath. And I doubt he’s suddenly become eager to testify,” Katyal said.
Katyal was referencing Trump’s deposition in New York in August during New York Attorney General Leticia James’ probe of the Trump Organization’s business practices, during which he pleaded the Fifth more than 440 times and only answered a question about what his name was.
Katyal also added that he thinks Attorney General Merrick Garland will indict Trump, seeing as there is overwhelming evidence to do so and “no contrition whatsoever” on Trump’s part.
A representative at Trump’s post-presidential press office did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
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GOP Hopefuls Turn To Pence To Broaden Appeal Before Election
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NEW YORK (AP) — In Donald Trump’s assessment, Mike Pence “committed political suicide” on Jan. 6, 2021.
By refusing to go along with the former president’s unconstitutional push to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Pence became a leading target of Trump’s wrath and a pariah in many Republican circles.
But the final weeks of the intensely competitive 2022 election suggest the former vice president’s fortunes have shifted as he lays the groundwork for his own potential campaign for the White House in 2024.
The man who was booed last year at a conservative conference is now an in-demand surrogate for Republican candidates, including some who spent their primaries obsessively courting Trump’s endorsement, in part by parroting Trump’s election lies.
Pence has been traveling the country, holding events and raising millions for candidates and Republican groups, including signing fundraising solicitations for party committees.
For some campaigns in tight races, Pence is seen as something of a neutralizing agent who can help broaden their appeal beyond Trump’s core base of support. That includes Arizona, with a key Senate race on Nov. 8 and what is expected to be a hotly contested stop in the 2024 presidential campaign.
Last week, Pence endorsed Senate nominee Blake Masters, who has struggled to pivot from the primary to win over moderates in a state where one-third of voters are registered independents.
“He takes a little bit of the edge off Masters with a lot of voters,” veteran GOP strategist Scott Reed said. “You know Masters is new to this, first time candidate, said some silly things he probably regrets during the campaign.”
Yet the endorsements can seem jarring given that Pence has spent much of the past year pushing back on Trump’s election lies, which spurred the violent mob that descended on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while Pence was trying to preside over the formal congressional certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory. Pence and members of his family had to be rushed to safety and held for hours in an underground loading dock as the marauders roamed the hallways, some chanting, “Hang Mike Pence!” and erected a makeshift gallows outside.
Masters, during the primary, baselessly denied the 2020 results, recording a video in which he said he thought Trump had won. Masters claimed on his website that, “if we had had a free and fair election, President Trump would be sitting in the Oval Office today.”
Trump said when he endorsed Masters in June: “Blake knows that the “Crime of the Century” took place, he will expose it and also, never let it happen again.”
Pence made no mention of that in Phoenix on Tuesday.
“What I came here to Arizona to say is not only is Blake Masters the right choice for the United States Senate, the people of Arizona deserve to know Blake Masters may be the difference between a Democrat majority in the Senate and a Republican majority in the Senate,” Pence said.
Pence, along with Masters and Gov. Doug Ducey, took just three questions, two of them from conservative websites. When a television reporter noted that Masters has questioned the 2020 election, a spokesman for Masters cut him off before he could finish his question.
Masters is not the only election denier Pence has endorsed or assisted.
Two days after the Masters event, Pence was in Georgia headlining a fundraiser for Burt Jones, the nominee for lieutenant governor. Jones not only embraced Trump’s claims of widespread election fraud and called for a statewide investigation into the 2020 race, but also signed on to be one of his state’s fake alternate electors — a scheme that is now under criminal investigation.
Last month, Pence campaigned in New Hampshire for Senate nominee Don Bolduc, a retired Army general who also spent his primary campaign telling voters the 2020 race was stolen from Trump.
Marc Short, a longtime Pence adviser, declined to set a red line for candidates Pence would and would not endorse.
“It’s more about making sure that he’s being a team player where he needs to be,” he said. “I think as a lot of these candidates look to solidify the party behind them, Pence can be helpful.”
There is no evidence of any widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines in the 2020 election, underscored by repeated audits, court cases and the conclusions of Trump’s own Department of Justice. Still, support of false election claims run deep among GOP candidates this year.
Short said Pence was happy to support candidates who had moved past 2020, as he has urged the party to do.
“If people sort of acknowledged a mistaken position before, he certainly wants to reward that,” said Short. “I think he wants to help conservatives first and foremost, but if people who were elected are now adopting new position about the events of Jan. 6,” he said, “then that’s a positive.”
Reed, the Republican strategist, said he wasn’t surprised by the candidates Pence had chosen to back.
“He’s a big picture party guy. And it doesn’t surprised me that he’s hustling as hard as he is for people who may not be 100% Pencers,” Reed said. “By doing these kinds of events,” he added, “they’re going to take another look at him if he decides to run.”
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Russian Drones Attack Ukraine's Kyiv; Intense Fighting In East
Russian Drones Attack Ukraine's Kyiv; Intense Fighting In East https://digitalarizonanews.com/russian-drones-attack-ukraines-kyiv-intense-fighting-in-east/
Kyiv hit by Russian drones
Key hot spots in Donbas are Soledar and Bakhmut – Zelenskiy
Russia says it repelled Ukrainian advances in several regions
KYIV, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Russian forces attacked Ukraine’s capital on Monday for the second time in a week while Russian and Ukrainian forces battled it out in heavy fighting around two towns in the Donbas region in the east, officials said.
Fighting was particularly intense this weekend in Donetsk and Luhansk, which make up the industrial Donbas, and the Kherson province in the south. They constitute three of the four regions Russia said it had annexed last month after holding what it called referendums – votes that were denounced by Kyiv and Western governments as illegal and coercive.
“The key hot spots in Donbas are Soledar and Bakhmut,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly address on Sunday. “Very heavy fighting is going on there.”
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Bakhmut has been a target of Russian forces in their slow move through the region since taking the twin industrial towns of Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk in June and July.
Soledar is just north of Bakhmut.
Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday its forces had repelled efforts by Ukrainian troops to advance in the Donetsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. Russia also said it was continuing air strikes on military and energy targets in Ukraine.
Reuters was not able to independently verify the reports on the fighting.
Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24 in what it called a “special operation” to root out what it calls dangerous nationalists. Ukrainian forces have mounted stiff resistance, with the help of arms supplied by the United States and its allies, who have also imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia in an effort to force it to withdraw.
Away from the front line, Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv was attacked on Monday by so-called kamikaze drones, Andriy Yermak, head of the president’s staff, wrote on the Telegram messaging service. “Russians think it will help them,” Yermak said.
Kyiv’s Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said on Telegram that several blasts had rocked the central Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv, with a Reuters witness reporting three explosions. Several residential buildings had been damaged, he said.
“Rescuers are on the site,” Klitschko said, adding that a fire had broken out in a non-residential building. There was no immediate word on casualties. read more
The same district was hit by explosions a week ago, as Russia ordered the biggest aerial offensive against Ukrainian cities in retaliation for a blast on a bridge linking mainland Russia to Crimea – the peninsula Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
The head of the Russian-backed administration in the Donetsk region said on Sunday Ukrainian shelling had damaged the administration building in the regional capital.
“It was a direct hit, the building is seriously damaged. It is a miracle nobody was killed,” said Alexei Kulemzin, surveying the wreckage, adding that all city services were still working.
A view shows a street after a Russian drone strike, which local authorities consider to be Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Shahed-136, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 17, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
There was no immediate reaction from Ukraine to the attack on Donetsk city, which was annexed by Russian-backed separatists in 2014 along with swathes of the Donbas.
Rybar, a pro-Russian military channel on Telegram, said Ukrainian forces again shelled the southwestern Russian town of Belgorod, near Ukraine.
Anti-aircraft units intercepted most of the attacks, but there were two explosions near the airport. Three people were injured, it said.
GUNMEN OPEN FIRE
Russian authorities said on Sunday, a criminal investigation had been opened after gunmen shot dead 11 people and wounded 15 at a military training ground in the Belgorod region.
Russia’s RIA news agency, citing the defence ministry, said two gunmen opened fire with small arms during a training exercise on Saturday, targeting personnel who had volunteered to fight in Ukraine. RIA said the gunmen, who it referred to as “terrorists”, were shot dead.
Russia’s defence ministry said the attackers were from a former Soviet republic, without elaborating. A senior Ukrainian official, Oleksiy Arestovych, said the two men were from the mainly Muslim Central Asian republic of Tajikistan and had opened fire after an argument over religion.
Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the comments by Arestovych, a prominent commentator on the war, or independently verify casualty numbers and other details.
Meanwhile, British military intelligence said Russia was facing more acute logistical problems in the south after the damage to the road-and-rail bridge linking mainland Russia to Crimea caused by the Oct. 8 blast.
A spokeswoman for Ukraine’s Southern Military Command said Russian forces were suffering severe shortages of equipment because of the damage to the bridge.
Almost 75% of Russian military supplies in southern Ukraine come across the bridge, the spokeswoman said.
Russian officials said the explosion on the bridge was caused by a truck bomb. Putin has branded the blast a “terrorist attack” orchestrated by Ukrainian security services.
Ukraine did not claim responsibility for the blast but celebrated it.
European Union foreign ministers are expected to agree on Monday on a mission to train 15,000 Ukrainian troops and an extra 500 million euros ($487 million) in funding for arms for Kyiv.
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Thousands Evacuated In Washington State As 66 Large Fires Burn In U.S.
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Firefighters in Ramsey Crossing, California, tackling the Mosquito Fire on Sept. 15. The biggest fire in California this year has burned nearly 76,800 acres and has been active for 39 days, but it’s now 95% contained. Photo: Eric Thayer/Getty Images
Authorities in southwest Washington ordered evacuations for thousands of homes as a wind-driven wildfire rapidly grew on Sunday.
The big picture: There’s an unusually high number of wildfires burning in the Pacific Northwest, Intermountain West and Canada, as much of the Western United States faces “above normal temperatures and minimum relative humidity,” per the National Inter Agency Fire Center.
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There are “record high temperatures, dry weather, wildfire concerns and air quality issues across the Pacific Northwest continues,” according to the National Weather Service.
By the numbers: Washington’s Nakia Creek Fire, near Camas, east of Vancouver, which prompted Sunday’s evacuation orders is one of 66 large fires in the U.S., according to the NIFC.
The Clark Emergency Services Agency expanded evacuation zones in response to the fire Sunday, affecting 35,000-40,000 homes, KGW reports.
Zoom in: Smoke from that Washington wildfire in eastern Clark County that’s razed some 2,000 acres was “visible throughout the metropolitan area that Vancouver shares with Portland, Oregon,” AP notes.
An air quality advisory remained in place for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in southwestern British Columbia due to wildfires in Washington and Canada, per a Metro Vancouver tweet Sunday evening.
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Zoom out: 24 large fires were burning in Idaho, 22 in Montana, 13 in Washington and five in Oregon on Sunday, per NIFC data.
California and South Dakota each reported one large fire.
Context: Scientific research shows climate change is a key factor in wildfire risk.
Much of the U.S. West is in the grip of a climate change-driven drought, which has exacerbated fire risk, per Axios’ Andrew Freedman.
What we’re watching: “An upper ridge indicative of anomalous warmth will move across the Northwest over the next several days, in stark contrast to the cold in the eastern two-thirds of the country,” per a National Weather Service outlook update on Sunday night.
“Highs in the 70s and 80s in the Pacific Northwest will be 15-25 degrees above average, and potentially record setting through midweek,” the NWS added.
Editor’s note: This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.
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Oil Climbs On China's Fuel Demand Recovery Hopes https://digitalarizonanews.com/oil-climbs-on-chinas-fuel-demand-recovery-hopes/
Oct 17 (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Monday after China rolled over liquidity measures to help its pandemic-hit economy, igniting hopes for a better fuel demand outlook from the world’s top crude importer.
Brent crude futures rose 81 cents, or 0.88%, to $92.44 a barrel by 0642 GMT, recovering from a 6.4% fall last week. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $86.33 a barrel, up 72 cents, or 0.84%, after a 7.6% decline last week.
China’s central bank rolled over maturing medium-term policy loans while keeping the interest rate unchanged for a second month on Monday.
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Analysts said the full rollover is a signal that the central bank would continue to maintain loose monetary policy. read more
The country also vowed to greatly increase domestic energy supply capacity and step up risk controls in key commodities including coal, oil and gas, and electricity, a senior National Energy Administration official said on Monday.
China will further increase reserve capacities for key commodities, another state official told a news conference in Beijing. read more
Oil found support from a combination of factors, including Chinese President Xi Jinping’s comments at the Party Congress that reassured accommodative policies for the economy, a positive sign for demand outlook, CMC Markets analyst Tina Teng said. read more
China is expected to release trade and economic data this week. Although its third-quarter GDP growth could rebound from the previous quarter, President Xi’s stringent COVID-19 policy has the world’s No. 2 economy facing what will most likely be its worst performing year in almost half a century. read more
Looking ahead, oil prices are expected to remain volatile as production cuts by OPEC+ will tighten supplies ahead of the European Union embargo on Russian oil, while a strong U.S. dollar and further interest rate increases from the U.S. Federal Reserve limit price gains.
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said on Friday inflation had become “pernicious” and difficult to arrest, and warranted continued “frontloading” through larger increases of three-quarters of a percentage point. read more
Member states of the Organization of the Production Exporting Countries and their allies, including Russia, lined up on Sunday to endorse the steep production cut agreed to this month after the White House, stepping up a war of words with Saudi Arabia, accused Riyadh of coercing other nations into supporting the move. read more
OPEC+ pledged on Oct. 5 to cut output by 2 million barrels per day, which will lead to an actual drop of about 1 million bpd as some members are already producing below their targets.
Despite this, top exporter Saudi Arabia will keep exports to key Asia markets steady in November.
“Tighter inventories for oil and oil products along with looming supply risks should keep prices volatile,” analysts at ANZ Research said in a note.
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Phoenix Realtor Shares Tips For Sellers To Capitalize On Sizzling Housing Market
Phoenix Realtor Shares Tips For Sellers To Capitalize On Sizzling Housing Market https://digitalarizonanews.com/phoenix-realtor-shares-tips-for-sellers-to-capitalize-on-sizzling-housing-market/
Back in the spring, Jennie Richau from Brokers Hub Realty said they only had 4,300 listings. Now that number has increased to over 21,000.
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Trump Posts Anti-Semitic Warning That US Jews Have To Get Their Act Together
Trump Posts Anti-Semitic Warning That “US Jews Have To Get Their Act Together” https://digitalarizonanews.com/trump-posts-anti-semitic-warning-that-us-jews-have-to-get-their-act-together/
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On Sunday morning, former President Donald Trump criticized “US Jews” for not being more “appreciative” of his support for Israel.
In the post on his platform Truth Social, he warned: “US Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel – Before it is too late!”
While Trump did not elaborate on his threat, world famous pianist Igor Levit, himself the target of anti-Semitic death threats, retweeted an image of Trump’s post with the caption, “Before it is too late.”
“No President has done more for Israel than I have,” Trump declared. “Somewhat surprisingly, however, our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the US.”
Trump has consistently polled poorly with American Jews, especially among the working class and younger sections who do not share his affinity for Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people or his fascistic politics.
Trump boasted, “Those living in Israel, though, are a different story–Highest approval rating in the World.” He claimed he could “easily be P.M.!”
Yaakov Katz, editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, responded to Trump’s attack on Twitter, writing, “Nothing to see here. Just a former US president using threatening language about American Jews at a time when antisemitism is on a global rise.”
Last week in Bondi, Australia, neo-Nazi fliers were distributed throughout the Jewish neighborhood, with a QR code and instructions for only “white” people to scan it. If scanned, the code takes users to the National Socialist Network, an Australian fascist group.
The Australian Jewish News reported that in the nearby suburb of Rose Bay during the same week the fliers were distributed, “parents were confronted with a Nazi swastika found drawn on a wall outside a Jewish-run daycare.”
Responding to Trump’s threat on Sunday, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said in statement, “We don’t need the former president, who curries favor with extremists and anti-Semites, to lecture us about the US-Israel relationship.”
In September, the ADL released a report titled “Hate in the Sunshine State: Extremism & Antisemitism in Florida, 2020-2022.” The report noted that from January 2020 to August 2022, the ADL Center on Extremism “recorded over 400 instances of white supremacist propaganda distribution in Florida.” It added that “Ninety-five of these incidents” featured “antisemitic language or symbols, targeted Jewish institutions, or both.”
The study also reported that in Florida, “antisemitic hate crimes have risen 300 percent since 2012.”
This shocking rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes has taken place in part under fascistic Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who took office in January of 2019 and has sought to position himself as a more polished 2024 presidential alternative to Trump. DeSantis has refused to denounce neo-Nazi elements operating in his state.
Trump’s threat against “US Jews” is the latest in a series of openly anti-Semitic statements by Republican politicians and operatives in recent weeks.
In September, Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano attacked his Jewish Democratic opponent, Josh Shapiro, for sending his children to Jewish parochial schools, which he called “elite” and “privileged.”
Less than three weeks later, prior to bringing Mastriano onstage at an October 1 rally, Jack Posobiec, a Republican operative, January 6 conspirator and acolyte of Roger Stone, told the audience, “Just like Josh Shapiro, its all about power. Power for them. At the end of the day, it’s money and power… these scumbags.”
Invoking fascist conspiracy theories that Jewish people control the world, Posobiec spoke of a “dark alliance” between “Josh Shapiro and politicians like him.” He claimed that Shapiro and others want to “take minors… from the foster system” and put them in a “program for gender transition therapy.”
A week later at a “Save America” rally in Mesa, Arizona, self-identified Christian nationalist and QAnon adherent Marjorie Taylor Greene incited political violence and invoked the neo-Nazi “Replacement Theory.” This fascist doctrine, repeated frequently on right-wing talk radio and Fox News’ Tucker Carlson show, argues that politicians or activists who defend immigrants are part of a Jewish-communist plot to “replace” White Christians with “inferior stock” from Africa, South America and Asia.
In her speech, Greene said that “Joe Biden’s five million illegals are on the verge of replacing you… your jobs, and replacing your kids in school… they are also replacing your culture.”
Another Trump acolyte, Ye (formerly Kanye West) has taken to spewing anti-Semitic filth on a regular basis. The pro-Trump rapper sat down with Tucker Carlson for a multi-hour interview earlier this month, during which he said, “I prefer my kids knew Hanukkah than Kwanzaa. At least it will come with some financial engineering.”
That Trump and the “Make America Great Again” movement are increasingly promoting overt anti Semitism is a significant expression of the transformation of the Republican Party into a fascist organization.
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Oct 16, 2022
Oct 16, 2022 Updated 3 min ago
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FILE – Former President Donald Trump makes his entrance at a rally at the Minden Tahoe Airport in Minden, Nev., Oct. 8, 2022.
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Russia-Ukraine War Live: Several Blasts Hit Central Kyiv; Conflict Has Pushed Four Million Children Into Poverty Says UN
Russia-Ukraine War Live: Several Blasts Hit Central Kyiv; Conflict Has Pushed Four Million Children Into Poverty, Says UN https://digitalarizonanews.com/russia-ukraine-war-live-several-blasts-hit-central-kyiv-conflict-has-pushed-four-million-children-into-poverty-says-un/
Explosions heard in Kyiv
The Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins is in Kyiv, where she has heard at least three explosions this morning.
On Telegram, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote:
“The explosion in the Shevchenkiv district – in the center of the capital. All services follow in place. Details later. The air alert continues. Stay in shelters!”
The Shevchenkivskiy district is the same area that was hit by several explosions a week ago, on 10 October. At least 19 people were killed in last week’s attacks on Kyiv and more than 100 were injured.
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So far there are no known casualties from the strikes near the station, though residential buildings were also damaged in the attacks.
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Shelling near #Kyiv central station. No casualties. Passengers safe. #KeepRunning.
— Alexander Kamyshin (@AKamyshin) October 17, 2022
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Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says that “several residential buildings” have been damaged in the strikes on Kyiv this morning, and that medics are on site.
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In a post on Telegram, Kitschko wrote:
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As a result of the drone attack, a fire broke out in a non-residential building in the Shevchenkiv district of Kyiv. Fire departments are working. Several residential buildings were damaged. Medics are on the spot. We are clarifying the information about the victims.
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Citing Andriy Yermak, the head of the President’s Office, the Kyiv post confirms that Kyiv was hit by kamikaze drones.
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One more explosion reported in Kyiv.
Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko confirmed one more explosion in the city’s Shevchenkivskyi district.
According to Andriy Yermak, the head of the President’s Office, Kyiv was attacked with kamikaze drones.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 17, 2022
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According to Ukrainian military officials, “kamikaze drones” are cheaper and less sophisticated than missiles but have proved effective at causing damage to targets on the ground. The Shahed-136 drones are able to remain airborne for several hours and circle over potential targets before being flown into enemy troops, armour or buildings and exploding on impact.
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The Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins is in Kyiv, where she has heard at least three explosions this morning.
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On Telegram, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote:
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“The explosion in the Shevchenkiv district – in the center of the capital. All services follow in place. Details later. The air alert continues. Stay in shelters!”
The Shevchenkivskiy district is the same area that was hit by several explosions a week ago, on 10 October. At least 19 people were killed in last week’s attacks on Kyiv and more than 100 were injured.
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Mayor of #Kyiv @Vitaliy_Klychko reports an explosion in the Shevchenkivskyi district of the city. pic.twitter.com/roEtCpmMup
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) October 17, 2022
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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. My name is Helen Sullivan and I’ll be taking you through the latest for the next few hours.
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The Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins is in Kyiv, where she has heard at least three explosions this morning.
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Meanwhile, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting economic fallout have thrown four million children into poverty across eastern Europe and Central Asia, Unicef said Monday.
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“Children are bearing the heaviest burden of the economic crisis caused by the war in Ukraine,” Unicef said.
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The conflict “and rising inflation have driven an additional four million children across eastern Europe and Central Asia into poverty, a 19 percent increase since 2021”, it said.
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Unicef drew its conclusions from a study of data from 22 countries.
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More on these developments shortly. In the meantime, here is a summary of key recent news:
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Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said a “very severe” situation persists in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, with the “most difficult” fighting near the town of Bakhmut. The attacks came as Russia’s war in Ukraine nears the eight-month mark.
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Pro-Kremlin officials on Sunday blamed Ukraine for a rocket attack that struck the mayor’s office in Donetsk, a city controlled by the separatists, while Ukrainian officials said Russian rocket strikes hit a town near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, among other targets.
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More than 30 settlements across Ukraine have been hit by Russian strikes in the last day, according to the Ukrainian military. Two ...
Stock Futures Rise After A Rollercoaster Week Investors Await Earnings Reports Ahead
Stock Futures Rise After A Rollercoaster Week, Investors Await Earnings Reports Ahead https://digitalarizonanews.com/stock-futures-rise-after-a-rollercoaster-week-investors-await-earnings-reports-ahead/
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, Aug. 4, 2022.
Source: NYSE
Stock futures traded higher early on Monday as investors awaited big earnings reports to roll in.
Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 111 points or 0.37%. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures inched 0.37% and 0.33% higher, respectively.
The S&P 500 just came off its fourth negative week in five with a 1.6% loss last week. A hotter-than-expected inflation reading stoked wild price swings in the markets as investors readjusted their expectations for the Federal Reserve’s coming rate hikes.
“As inflation remains elevated for longer and the Fed hikes further, the risk increases that the cumulative effect of policy tightening pushes the U.S. economy into recession, undermining the outlook for corporate earnings,” Mark Haefele, CIO at UBS Global Wealth Management, said in a note.
Meanwhile, the third-quarter earnings season has kicked off. Investors are monitoring if corporate America will have any significant downward revisions to their outlooks in the face of stubbornly high inflation and the economic slowdown.
Bank of America is slated to report Monday before the bell, while Goldman Sachs will release numbers Tuesday morning. JPMorgan and Wells Fargo reported solid results last week, while Morgan Stanley’s equity trading revenue disappointed.
Many notable technology names are also reporting this week, including Netflix, Tesla and IBM. Johnson & Johnson, United Airlines, AT&T, Verizon and Procter & Gamble are other big companies on investors’ radar.
British pound strengthens after policy reversals
Sterling rose on Monday morning in Asia following more policy reversals by the U.K. government late last week. The pound was last 0.56% higher at $1.1233.
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A relief rally could be close?
Last Thursday, the market pulled off a historic intraday reversal that saw the S&P 500 end the day up 2.6% after losing more than 2% earlier. It marked the fifth largest intraday reversal from a low in the history of the S&P 500, and it was the fourth largest for the Nasdaq Composite, according to SentimenTrader.
The dramatic rebound gave some investors confidence that a more lasting comeback could be on the horizon.
“Markets have attempted a rally several times in recent weeks with no success, though the impressive reversal on Thursday is an indication that a relief rally may be near given the excess degree of pessimism priced into markets,” said Mark Hackett, Nationwide’s chief of investment research.
Hackett noted that institutional investors have remained on the sidelines, while retail investors continued to be in buy-the-dip mode, with positive fund flows in seven-consecutive weeks.
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Classes Canceled In 2 Mass. Cities With Teachers Strikes Expected
Classes Canceled In 2 Mass. Cities With Teachers Strikes Expected https://digitalarizonanews.com/classes-canceled-in-2-mass-cities-with-teachers-strikes-expected/
School officials in Haverhill and Malden have canceled classes on Monday with teachers strikes expected to start in both Massachusetts cities.The president of the Malden Education Association, Deb Gesualdo, said that teachers will be on strike Monday after spending nearly 11 hours at the negotiating table with the Malden School Committee on Sunday alone.Gesualdo said both sides went back and forth on salary and that the union came down on their demands and felt close to a deal before the School Committee’s negotiating subcommittee called for a mediator and walked out for the night.Because of the threat of a teachers strike, Malden Public Schools officials canceled Monday’s classes. Although there is no school for students, the school district said all union and non-union employees will be required to report to work on Monday in schools and central offices.”The School Committee’s negotiating team and the MEA had an incredibly productive day of bargaining that ended in the committee making a significant number of agreements and a very competitive and unprecedented salary and benefits offer,” Malden Public School Superintendent Ligia Noriega-Murphy said in a statement. “Considering how much movement was made today, we would have hoped the bargaining could have continued at our next regularly scheduled meeting, and that no avoidable disruption to the education of our students and routine of our families would occur.”The news out of Malden came just hours after the Haverhill School Committee announced Monday’s classes are canceled after it was not able to reach an agreement on a new contract with the Haverhill Education Association, paving the way for a teachers strike.The School Committee said it spent hours at the negotiating table with the teachers union over the weekend in the hopes of avoiding a strike after HEA members overwhelmingly voted in favor of authorizing a strike on Friday. Malden educators also overwhelmingly approved an authorization to strike in a vote held Friday afternoon.In their contract negotiations, Haverhill and Malden educators have said they are seeking higher pay, smaller class sizes and safer school environments.While the school will be closed to students on Monday, the School Committee said buildings will be open and all employees are expected to report to work.Teacher strikes are illegal in Massachusetts since state law prohibits strikes by public employees, which makes them exceptionally rare in the commonwealth.”If they come to the table with a good deal, our team will sign it. I hope it’s tonight,” said Barry Davis, 1st vice president of the Haverhill Education Association. “But if we have to be on the (picket) line tomorrow, we will be.”Members of the Haverhill School Committee said they have offered teachers the biggest raise city educators have had in 20 years, but added that the Massachusetts Teachers Association wants the teachers to go on strike.”While some progress was made over the last few days, we are extremely disappointed that union leadership and the Massachusetts Teachers Association has encouraged our teachers to take this illegal action,” reads a statement from the Haverhill Negotiations Subcommittee.The school committee said that it, along with the Massachusetts Labor Relations Board, is asking a Salem Superior Court judge to issue a junction against the Haverhill Education Association for its strike.Negotiations will pick up at 8 a.m. Monday, according to the Haverhill School Committee.Haverhill students who have access to a free school lunch on Monday and free breakfast on Tuesday can get food at the following locations from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.:The Haverhill YMCA, 81 Winter St.The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Haverhill, 55 Emerson St.Swasey Field Park, 59 Blaisdell St.Haverhill Stadium, Lincoln and NettletonHaverhill Public Works Department – Parking Lot, 500 Primrose St.Winnekenni Castle – Tennis courts – 347 Kenoza Ave.Bradford CommonsCashman’s Park on Hilldale Ave.In addition, the Haverhill YMCA and the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Haverhill will be open Monday for children who are presently enrolled in their programs.Parents of children who are registered for before-school or after-school programs at the YMCA will receive an email directly from the YMCA regarding childcare operations, including a full-day program from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.Parents of children who are not registered for YMCA programs but are enrolled in grades K-4 can sign up for a drop-in program at the Plaistow Community YMCA in New Hampshire from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Preregistration is required in advance.Haverhill students who are members of the local Boys and Girls Club are welcome to drop in at any time Monday between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.Malden Public Schools officials said all before- and after-school programs, athletic practices and games, and other extracurricular activities scheduled for Monday have been canceled. There will also be no school bus transportation, except for a small number of Malden students who attend special education programs in schools outside the district.
HAVERHILL, Mass. —
School officials in Haverhill and Malden have canceled classes on Monday with teachers strikes expected to start in both Massachusetts cities.
The president of the Malden Education Association, Deb Gesualdo, said that teachers will be on strike Monday after spending nearly 11 hours at the negotiating table with the Malden School Committee on Sunday alone.
Gesualdo said both sides went back and forth on salary and that the union came down on their demands and felt close to a deal before the School Committee’s negotiating subcommittee called for a mediator and walked out for the night.
Because of the threat of a teachers strike, Malden Public Schools officials canceled Monday’s classes. Although there is no school for students, the school district said all union and non-union employees will be required to report to work on Monday in schools and central offices.
“The School Committee’s negotiating team and the MEA had an incredibly productive day of bargaining that ended in the committee making a significant number of agreements and a very competitive and unprecedented salary and benefits offer,” Malden Public School Superintendent Ligia Noriega-Murphy said in a statement. “Considering how much movement was made today, we would have hoped the bargaining could have continued at our next regularly scheduled meeting, and that no avoidable disruption to the education of our students and routine of our families would occur.”
The news out of Malden came just hours after the Haverhill School Committee announced Monday’s classes are canceled after it was not able to reach an agreement on a new contract with the Haverhill Education Association, paving the way for a teachers strike.
The School Committee said it spent hours at the negotiating table with the teachers union over the weekend in the hopes of avoiding a strike after HEA members overwhelmingly voted in favor of authorizing a strike on Friday. Malden educators also overwhelmingly approved an authorization to strike in a vote held Friday afternoon.
In their contract negotiations, Haverhill and Malden educators have said they are seeking higher pay, smaller class sizes and safer school environments.
While the school will be closed to students on Monday, the School Committee said buildings will be open and all employees are expected to report to work.
Teacher strikes are illegal in Massachusetts since state law prohibits strikes by public employees, which makes them exceptionally rare in the commonwealth.
“If they come to the table with a good deal, our team will sign it. I hope it’s tonight,” said Barry Davis, 1st vice president of the Haverhill Education Association. “But if we have to be on the (picket) line tomorrow, we will be.”
Members of the Haverhill School Committee said they have offered teachers the biggest raise city educators have had in 20 years, but added that the Massachusetts Teachers Association wants the teachers to go on strike.
“While some progress was made over the last few days, we are extremely disappointed that union leadership and the Massachusetts Teachers Association has encouraged our teachers to take this illegal action,” reads a statement from the Haverhill Negotiations Subcommittee.
The school committee said that it, along with the Massachusetts Labor Relations Board, is asking a Salem Superior Court judge to issue a junction against the Haverhill Education Association for its strike.
Negotiations will pick up at 8 a.m. Monday, according to the Haverhill School Committee.
Haverhill students who have access to a free school lunch on Monday and free breakfast on Tuesday can get food at the following locations from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.:
The Haverhill YMCA, 81 Winter St.
The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Haverhill, 55 Emerson St.
Swasey Field Park, 59 Blaisdell St.
Haverhill Stadium, Lincoln and Nettleton
Haverhill Public Works Department – Parking Lot, 500 Primrose St.
Winnekenni Castle – Tennis courts – 347 Kenoza Ave.
Bradford Commons
Cashman’s Park on Hilldale Ave.
In addition, the Haverhill YMCA and the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Haverhill will be open Monday for children who are presently enrolled in their programs.
Parents of children who are registered for before-school or after-school programs at the YMCA will receive an email directly from the YMCA regarding childcare operations, including a full-day program from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Parents of children who are not registered for YMCA programs but are enrolled in grades K-4 can sign up for a drop-in program at the Plaistow Community YMCA in New Hampshire from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Preregistration is required in advance.
Haverhill students who are members of the loca...
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Oct 16, 2022
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PHOENIX (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening’s drawing of the Arizona Lottery’s “Triple Twist” game were:
05-14-15-17-37-42
(five, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, thirty-seven, forty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $620,000
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