Thursday, August 31, 2017

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[VIDEO] Sen. Harris announces she will co-sponsor 'Medicare for All' bill

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/sen-harris-announces-she-will-co-sponsor-medicare-for-all-bill/2017/08/31/390400fe-8e65-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953_video.html

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) told a town hall audience in Oakland on Aug. 30, that she plans to co-sponsor the “Medicare for All” bill that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is introducing in the Senate this fall...
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What Labor Day means to my South Side and black union family

http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/what-labor-day-means-to-my-south-side-and-black-union-family/

Growing up on Chicago’s South Side, I learned at an early age the power of unions to dramatically improve the opportunities of black families in America.

My grandparents were janitors in Chicago, the children of sharecroppers who fled the racist violence and oppression of the South for new opportunities in the North. They began their working lives in the 1940s when jobs did not have benefits like pensions and health care. They lived in public housing because black people could not move wherever they wanted...
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Join us on #LaborDay to demand an end to our rigged economy & democracy & protect our #union rights. Learn more: http://laborday.seiu.org .

http://laborday.seiu.org/
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How do unions make a difference? SEIU member Frankie says we can "get through to management" on our issues. #LaborDay #union

https://twitter.com/SEIU/status/903330137126645760
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NEW Gallup poll shows that America Needs Unions. #FightFor15 and #union rights on Labor Day

http://fightfor15.org/s-petition/national-labor-day-2017-petition/

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Chicago Workers Strike Back · Hosted by Women's March - Illinois

https://www.facebook.com/events/504825486516854/

Monday, September 4 at 9 AM - 12 PM CDT
James R. Thompson Center
100 W Randolph St, Chicago, Illinois 60601
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Stand with Illinois workers! Join us on #LaborDay to #FightFor15 and a #Union in Chicago

https://twitter.com/womensmarchIL/status/903265337562595329
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Crisis. - Rampant racism. Wage cuts. Attacks on unions. - It’s time to fight back.

http://fightfor15.org/s-petition/national-labor-day-2017-petition/

The number one job of politicians is to raise the standard of living for workers. But in states across the country, Republican governors are doing the opposite – using their power to do everything they can to help corporations and billionaires at the expense of the rest of us.

But they’re weaker than they think...
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A #union lowers the wage gap for Latinas by 25% and increases pay. RSVP for the Labor Day of action! http://bit.ly/LaborDay17  #FightFor15

https://twitter.com/fightfor15/status/903410828061417473
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SEIU member Drucilla says that if it wasn't for the #union, they wouldn't have health care, vacation, retirement and sick leave. #LaborDay

https://twitter.com/SEIU/status/903286623022014464
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How St. Louis Workers Won and Then Lost a Minimum-Wage Hike

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/08/st-louis-minimum-wage-preemption/538182/

After a Missouri law took effect on Monday, the wage floor in the city was reduced to $7.70 per hour after three months at $10 per hour—the latest case of a state cracking down on a city that had enacted a progressive policy.

Bettie Douglas has worked at a McDonald's in St. Louis for 10 years. For the last three months, she's made $10 per hour. On Monday, when she got to work, she was working for $7.90 per hour...
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Hundreds of St. Louis businesses didn't lower wages yesterday. McDonald's couldn't wait. http://theatln.tc/2xL0TSg  #FightFor15 #union

https://twitter.com/Show_Me15/status/902995626698444800

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Top French union calls strike after 'Centrist' Macron unveils crunch labour reform

https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-french-union-calls-strike-121834823.html

Emmanuel Macron faces a union showdown after he unveiled ambitious labour reforms and asked the "impatient" French not to judge him after only 100 days in office.

France's major hardline union, CGT, blasted the reform as a "declaration of war" that spelled "the end of the work contract". It called for massive street action on September 12 from "workers, pensioners and the young", along with the smaller CFE-CGC union. Other protests could follow...

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'Centrist' Macron heads for autumn showdown with unions in push to transform labour laws

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/26/emmanuel-macron-reform-france-labour-laws-challenge-unions

With threats of strikes and street protests the stakes could hardly be higher for a president under pressure

The unions are threatening national strikes and blockades. A growing number of critics are warning that France is a “powder keg” waiting to blow. After an unconvincing summer, in which his popularity has plummeted, crunch time for Emmanuel Macron has arrived. The new French president is facing the prospect of a September standoff in the streets over his controversial plans to revamp the labour laws...

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[VIDEO] 'Centrist' Macron Vows Millionaire Minister Will Cut Worker Protection

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-03/macron-vows-millionaire-minister-will-cut-french-workers-rights

Executives and investors look to Macron to deliver on promises

...As a human resources director at Danone in the 1990s, Penicaud made 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million) from stock options while cutting 900 jobs, according to a French newspaper. That’s on top of 4.8 million euros in cash remuneration over three years...
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Rightwing alliance plots assault to 'defund and defang' America's unions

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/30/rightwing-alliance-unions-defund-defang

Rightwing activists across the US have launched a nationwide campaign to undermine progressive politicians by depriving them of a major source of support and funding – public sector unions.

A network of conservative thinktanks with outposts in all 50 states has embarked on a “breakthrough” campaign designed to strike a “mortal blow” against the American left. The aim is to “defund and defang” unions representing government employees as the first step towards ensuring the permanent collapse of progressive politics...
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Midwest hospital workers to join fight for $15 hourly wage

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/08/31/midwest-hospital-workers-join-fight-15-hourly-wage/617395001/

Last year, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pulled off an upset victory by targeting laid-off and disgruntled factory workers in the traditionally Democratic Midwest.

Now, the nation’s largest service-worker union is mobilizing Midwest hospital employees — who have largely replaced the region’s factory workers as its predominant labor force — in a bid to shape the 2018 mid-term elections...
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Total embargo!

http://kurdishquestion.com/article/3975-total-embargo

Self-managed, mostly Kurdish northern Syria—known as Rojava—stands more than ever under embargo, from all sides...

They creep stealthily down the hillside around the military post. The group moves slowly because everyone is carrying a load on their backs. After they lose visual contact, they stop to take a breath. Then they fling themselves to the ground, because two cars are driving down the little-used road in the opposite direction…. Gone. Now let’s get down to the river, hurry...
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25th Huseyin Celebi Literature and Poetry Festival in London

http://kurdishquestion.com/article/3974-25th-huseyin-celebi-literature-and-poetry-festival-in-london

The Huseyin Celebi Literature and Poetry Festival organised by the Kurdistan Students’ Union (YekĂ®tiya XwendekarĂŞn Kurdistan - YXK) since 1993 is now accepting submissions for its 2017 event, taking place on 21st October 2017 in central London.

Participants are invited to submit works of poetry and short stories by Friday 22nd September 2017 in the different languages of Kurdish, English, Turkish and German...
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[VIDEO] About 1,000 turn out in Marshfield to listen to Warren

http://marshfield.wickedlocal.com/news/20170824/about-1000-turn-out-in-marshfield-to-listen-to-warren

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s “town hall tour” made its first stop on the South Shore Thursday evening.

At Marshfield’s Furnace Brook Middle School, Warren took the stage in a room packed with more than 600 people. There were about 400 more in an overflow room...
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Wells Fargo finds 1.4 million more fake accounts than originally discovered

http://www.businessinsider.com/wells-fargo-more-fake-accounts-2017-8

Wells Fargo & Co will refund more customers for charges they should not have incurred after expanding its review of improper sales practices, the third-largest U.S. bank said on Thursday.

Wells will return $2.8 million to 1.4 million additional customers who appear to have had consumer and small business accounts opened without permission. It will return $910,000 to about 528,000 people who may have been enrolled in online billpay services without permission, a newly disclosed problem...
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RACISM' SHAMEShocking moment US cop is caught telling white driver ‘we only kill black people’ after traffic stop

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4361963/shocking-moment-us-cop-is-caught-telling-white-driver-we-only-kill-black-people-after-traffic-stop/

A lieutenant from Georgia is under investigation after a dash-cam video was revealed apparently to showing the officer making the comment to a female driver

THIS is the moment a US cop was caught on camera telling a woman during a traffic stop that they "only killed black people"...
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Federal Judge Blocks Texas’ Tough ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Law

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-texas-sanctuary-cities-law

A federal judge late Wednesday temporarily blocked most of Texas’ tough new “sanctuary cities” law that would have let police officers ask people during routine stops whether they’re in the U.S. legally and threatened sheriffs with jail time for not cooperating with federal immigration authorities.

The law, known as Senate Bill 4, had been cheered by President Donald Trump’s administration and was set to take effect Friday. It was widely viewed as the toughest immigration measure in the nation since Arizona passed what critics called a “Show Me Your Papers” law in 2010, which was later partially struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court...
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Donald Trump to end 'Dreamers' immigration program, report says

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/31/donald-trump-ending-daca-dreamers-program

Decison expected as early as Friday on ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program protecting nearly 800,000 immigrants

Donald Trump has not made a final decision on the fate of nearly 800,000 young undocumented migrants, the White House said Thursday, after reports said the president was poised to end protections for so-called “Dreamers” as early as Friday...
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Hurricane Irma forms over eastern Atlantic

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-irma-nhc-idUSKCN1BB25M

Irma has strengthened over the eastern Atlantic to become the fourth hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory on Thursday...
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[VIDEO] Railroad commissioner: There's no fuel crisis in Texas

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-commissioner-dont-panic-about-gas/469658632

As gas prices spike across Texas and fuel runs short at some gas stations, officials say there's no shortage of fuel in the state because of Harvey.

Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton said consumers are putting undue demand on fuel and that's making it difficult to resupply gas stations in a timely fashion. He called the problem simply one of demand and logistics...
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Ending #DACA & deporting ppl Pres.Trump called "incredible kids" & Gen. Kelly called "model citizens" is simply wrong. #DefendDACA

https://twitter.com/SenatorMenendez/status/903319130421506048

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

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Lawmakers OK new legislative maps as court deadline looms

http://www.wcti12.com/news/state/lawmakers-ok-new-legislative-maps-as-court-deadline-looms/614757691

The Republican-led General Assembly voted on Wednesday to approve new legislative maps ahead of a looming court deadline.

Sticking to mostly partisan lines, the House and Senate gave the final pass to the other chamber's plans after voting on their own maps earlier this week. Republicans asserted the newly-drawn maps, which were ordered by a federal court, are not based on race...
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Gerrymandered? Hold placed on redrawing of congressional district lines

https://haysfreepress.com/2017/08/30/gerrymandered-hold-placed-on-redrawing-of-congressional-district-lines/

Changes to congressional district boundaries in Hays County may be coming after a federal court ruled they were gerrymandered in 2013 using “unconstitutional discrimination.”

That decision came after a three-judge panel ruled Congressional District 35, represented by Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), along with Congressional District 27, represented by U.S. Rep. Blake Farenhold (R-Corpus Christi), violated the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act, according to a Texas Tribune report...

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[VIDEO] How Republicans Are Trying to Rig Elections in Trump's America

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-republicans-maps-votes-power-race-districts-election-rigging-657072

A battle arriving on the Supreme Court’s doorstep in six weeks is already being waged in North Carolina’s Republican-held General Assembly.

The state was accused of using race as a critical component in drawing its legislative districting maps, and was forced to begin creating new ones in June after the Supreme Court agreed with a lower court ruling in 2011. But just before the Assembly's Friday deadline to submit new maps that don’t marginalize minority communities further, thus making their votes less essential in state elections, it's now being accused of using new tricks to essentially do the exact same thing...
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The Truth Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Separating Facts from Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-truth-matters-bruce-bartlett/1126270882#

A lucid, practical, and concise guide for citizens who want to cut through the lies in this era of "fake news" and "alternative facts."

As recent national events have proven, the floodgates have opened and the political terrain is shifting rapidly with the dangerous concept of "alternative facts" supplanting actual facts at the highest levels of our government and in new media sources that are intentionally designed to spread obfuscation and lies. This brief, accessible citizen's guide helps you fight this deeply troubling trend and ensure that truth is not a permanent casualty. Written by Capitol Hill veteran and longtime journalist Bruce Bartlett, The Truth Matters reveals how to drive through a media environment...
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The Republican Tax Cut Myth

http://ritholtz.com/2017/04/republican-tax-cut-myth/

Bruce Bartlett helped draft the 1981 tax cut while on the staff of Rep. Jack Kemp of New York. The Kemp-Roth tax bill was the basis for this legislation. He is the author of Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action, published in 1981...
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Houston floods: Sandra Bullock, Kevin Hart and more dig deep

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41093604

Bullock has donated $1m (£774,000) to the American Red Cross in the wake of the flooding in Houston and beyond.

Hart has called on his famous friends to dig deep, while his own fundraising campaign is near $1m...
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Sandra Bullock donates $1 million to Harvey relief efforts

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-august-sandra-bullock-donates-1-million-to-1504120758-htmlstory.html

With the Gulf Coast still battling the aftereffects of Tropical Storm Harvey, celebrities continue to come forward to help with relief efforts for the humanitarian crisis.

Sandra Bullock, who has a home in Texas, donated $1 million to the American Red Cross' emergency efforts, the organization confirmed to The Times on Wednesday...
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Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders

http://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/

In June 2016, a class action lawsuit was filed against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz for violating the DNC Charter by rigging the Democratic presidential primaries for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders. Even former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid admitted in July 2016, “I knew—everybody knew—that this was not a fair deal.” He added that Debbie Wasserman Schultz should have resigned much sooner than she did. The lawsuit was filed to push the DNC to admit their wrongdoing and provide Bernie Sanders supporters, who supported him financially with millions of dollars in campaign contributions, with restitution for being cheated.

On August 25, 2017, Federal Judge William Zloch, dismissed the lawsuit after several months of litigation during which DNC attorneys argued that the DNC would be well within their rights to select their own candidate. “In evaluating Plaintiffs’ claims at this stage, the Court assumes their allegations are true—that the DNC and Wasserman Schultz held a palpable bias in favor Clinton and sought to propel her ahead of her Democratic opponent,” the court order dismissing the lawsuit stated. This assumption of a plaintiff’s allegation is the general legal standard in the motion to dismiss stage of any lawsuit. The allegations contained in the complaint must be taken as true unless they are merely conclusory allegations or are invalid on their face...
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Judge Rules DNC Within Their Rights To Cheat Bernie Sanders Presidential Bid

https://www.waynedupree.com/bernie-sanders-dnc-court-decision/

This court ruling allowing political parties to cheat a candidate is going to change voters relationship with these entities going forward.

Most of us knew this already but now this makes it official. The Democratic Party was well within their rights to cheat candidate Bernie Sanders...
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The New York Times invites degenerate defense/security grifter Erik Prince to advocate for privatizing the Afghanistan war

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/30/the-new-york-times-invites-erik-prince-to-advocate-for-privatizing-the-afghanistan-war/

The founder of Blackwater continues to advocate for his plan to use mercenaries in America's longest war

On Wednesday, The New York Times allowed Blackwater (now known as Academi) founder Erik Prince to write an op-ed in which he continued to argue that the Pentagon should hire private paramilitary services in order to end — and somehow win — the war in Afghanistan...
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War profiteer/security grifter calls for military contractors in Afghanistan

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/348560-blackwater-founder-calls-for-military-contractors-in-afghanistan

The founder of the private military company Blackwater is urging President Trump to reconsider his new Afghanistan strategy and instead use contractors in place of U.S. soldiers.

“In promising to add more dollars to the more than $800 billion already spent, not to mention more American troops to the thousands already dead or wounded, President Trump’s strategy is sadly more old than new,” Erik Prince argues in an op-ed published Wednesday in The New York Times...
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New York Times Slammed for Running 'Advertorial' by Notorious War Profiteer/Defense And Security Grifter

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/08/30/new-york-times-slammed-running-advertorial-notorious-war-profiteer

"Why is the New York Times op-ed page publishing Erik Prince's sales pitch for more mercenaries?"

The New York Times came under fire on Wednesday for running what critics characterized as "uncontested propaganda" in the form of an op-ed by notorious war profiteer and Blackwater founder Erik Prince...
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The internet roasts the New York Times Opinion section with memes

http://mashable.com/2017/08/30/new-york-times-opinion-section-memes/#oMF6WYdQFsqW

The opinion section of a newspaper is expected to ruffle a few feathers, but two recent New York Times opinion pieces are being criticized so much that the internet is busting out the memes.

The Times published a piece from Amway Heir and Defense/Security Grifter Erik Prince on Wednesday titled "Contractors, Not Troops, Will Save Afghanistan." The problem? Prince, who happens to be Amway Heiress and Education Grifter Betsy DeVos' brother, is the founder of Blackwater, now renamed Academi...
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LABOR DAY: Bernie Sanders Fights for $15

http://fightfor15.org/labor-day-bernie-sanders-video-splash-page/

Bernie Sanders and the #FightFor15 are coming together on Labor Day to take on the Republican lawmakers obsessed with slashing wages and attacking unions.

Watch Bernie Sanders explain why this moment really matters...
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America Needs Unions!

https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/60995-america-needs-unions

“BREAKING: This #LaborDay, demand $15, #union rights, and take aim at politicians holding us back! #FightFor15 http://thndr.me/SUTyXn”
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Aaron Rodgers comes to the defense of Colin Kaepernick

https://twitter.com/i/moments/902937389772845056

In an ESPN profile by @MinaKimes, the MVP quarterback says the only reason Kaepernick isn't on an NFL team is because of his anthem protests and that it would be "ignorant" to think otherwise...
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TURKEY PURGE IN PAST 30 DAYS: 922 dismissed, 1711 detained, 998 jailed over coup charges

https://turkeypurge.com/turkey-purge-in-past-30-days-922-dismissed-1711-detained-998-jailed-over-coup-charges

A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody.

At least 1711 people were detained, with 998 of them put in pre-trial detention in operations targeting Turkey’s Kurdish minority, and the GĂĽlen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, throughout July, according to data compiled by Turkeypurge.com...
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Corporations already pay far less than the statutory tax rate. They don't need a tax cut.

http://www.epi.org/publication/corporations-pay-between-13-and-19-percent-in-federal-taxes-far-less-than-the-35-percent-statutory-tax-rate/

Corporations pay between 13 and 19 percent in federal taxes—far less than the 35 percent statutory tax rate

As the GOP push to pass “tax reform” starts to heat up, policymakers will debate whether the corporate tax rate is too high or too low. A standard but misleading talking point for those wishing to give more tax breaks to corporations is that the United States has one of the highest statutory rates in the world at 35 percent. This is misleading because what corporations actually pay (their effective rate) is far lower. The corporate tax code is riddled with loopholes, most notably the deferral loophole which allows large multinational corporations to avoid paying their taxes indefinitely on profits they make offshore. And despite some recent claims to the contrary, a recent CBO report doesn’t overturn, but rather bolsters the research showing that corporations pay less than a 35 percent tax rate...
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Catastrophic Flooding Swamps Houston As Harvey Stalls Over Texas

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/catastrophic-flooding-swamps-houston-area.html

• The Houston area has experienced one of the worst flooding disasters in U.S. history. Tropical Storm Harvey is still hovering over southeast Texas, where it continues to inundate the region. The rainfall has led to catastrophic flooding in Harris County, which includes Houston, and other nearby parts of the state. The Houston metro area is home to some 6.6 million people, and is particularly vulnerable to flooding. Roughly one quarter of Texas residents live in the 18 counties that have now been declared federal disaster areas.

• The rainfall totals over the past 72 hours are astounding. Harris County has recorded more than 32 inches of rainfall; Galveston County has registered just shy of three feet, at 34 inches...
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'We're at God's mercy': Texas coast doused with new assault from Tropical Storm Harvey

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-tropical-storm-harvey-20170830-story.html

The biggest rainstorm in U.S. mainland history made a second landfall on the Gulf Coast on Wednesday, cutting a devastating path across southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana — even as the sun began to emerge in Houston and some residents returned to their waterlogged homes.

A string of coastal Texas cities were engulfed in water as Harvey came ashore once again at 5 a.m. Wednesday just west of Cameron, La...
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Harvey floods southeast Texas as governor warns: ‘The worst is not yet over’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/30/harvey-again-makes-landfall-this-time-as-a-tropical-storm-near-cameron-la/

The devastating storm once known as Hurricane Harvey, already the biggest rainstorm in the history of the continental United States, delivered another punishing wave of rain Wednesday to Texas and Louisiana.

Five days after roaring ashore in Texas — leaving behind more than 24 trillion gallons of water, disastrous flooding across the Houston region and a mounting death toll that had grown to at least 37 people — Harvey made landfall before dawn Wednesday near tiny Cameron, La., and began grinding its way northeast...
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Syrian North: 1st spot in the world adopting co-presidency

http://en.hawarnews.com/syrian-north-1st-spot-in-the-world-adopting-co-presidency/

The North Syria Democratic Federalism adopted the co-presidency system in all its administrative bodies, starting from the commune and ending with the Conference of Democratic Peoples after the establishment of the system in the social contract. This step is the first of its kind implemented in the whole world.

The co-chair of the Constituent Assembly of the North-Syria Democratic Federation, Hadiya Yousef, during a meeting of the Democratic Movement for Democratic Community Relations Committees in the CizĂ®re region to discuss the latest political developments in the region and the democratic federal elections scheduled for 22 September. I explained that their application of the model of the co-presidency in all democratic federalism’s apparatuses is to prevent the hegemony of one gender in making decisions...