It has been quite a week as the President has continued to travel around the World and Political Fires continues onward. As our team chose a selection from the "Grid", it culminated in the determination by the Justice Department to investigate the Clinton's despite the President's declarations to the Contrary as the Mueller investigations gather steam. As we went to Press, there was this from the Washington Post: 1628 False or Misleading claims over 298 Days by President Trump. Tikuum's Summer 2017 cover was quite telling as the World reflected upon President Trump:
US pulls out of TPP; deal goes ahead without US.#AmericaFirst— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 11, 2017
Top human rights tweets this week are on snow jobs: Trump feigns ignorance about mass shootings, Kenyatta pretends his "election" was clean, Assad laughs off his slaughter of civilians, Australia denies its cruel treatment of asylum seekers. https://t.co/14VSFZwReq pic.twitter.com/FItaykhwv1— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) November 11, 2017
This is as this very compelling statement was made by the head of the UN in Iran:The GOP tax plan essentially ends 100 years of homeownership as an American policy goal. Amazing how little attention this is getting. Here's background. https://t.co/NVbQKIoh93— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) November 11, 2017
#climatechange is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century.— Gary Lewis (@GaryLewisUN) November 12, 2017
We are already at 406 PPM and 1 degree celsius above average global pre-industrial temperatures.
Mother Nature is already joining the debate with storms, floods, drought.
Answer: very little time left. https://t.co/D2LGFzbeIi
The political fires are raging especially as the Tax Bill works its' way through Congress with all the proposed changes. This featured on the Nooner underscored what the 5 vunerable GOP congressmen have to deal with as the deliberations ensure:
WILL THEY BUDGE? The LAT's Seema Mehta reports that a coalition of liberal and labor groups have launched an television ad campaign against five Southerrn California GOP congress members. "The ads, which urge constituents to order their representatives in Congress to oppose the plan, are airing on cable and network stations in districts represented by Darrell Issa of Vista, Steve Knight of Palmdale, Dana Rohrabacher of Costa Mesa, Ed Royce of Fullerton and Mimi Walters of Irvine."
President Trump believing Russians was also of concern that prompted this from John McCain--something that he later backed away from:
President Trump believing Russians was also of concern that prompted this from John McCain--something that he later backed away from:
John McCain: Trump 'taking the word of a KGB colonel' over US intelligence“President Trump today stated that he believed Vladimir Putin is being sincere when he denies Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election," McCain, R-Ariz., who is also chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement. |
Almost 21 million people are now in need of humanitarian aid in #Yemen because of conflict.— UN Refugee Agency (@Refugees) November 10, 2017
Disruption of aid will mean
-- More people will suffer
-- More people will go hungry
-- Lives will be lost
The latest: https://t.co/Smd20lCPF5 pic.twitter.com/c8z8L3coCF
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