Month: January 2017

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ben Carson, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead U.S. housing policy, won approval on Tuesday from the Senate committee reviewing the qualifications of the retired neurosurgeon and former Republican presidential candidate.

The endorsement by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, by a voice vote shown on its website, cleared the way for a full Senate vote on Carson’s appointment as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).   Continue reading “U.S. Senate panel approves Carson for housing secretary post”

USA Today

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed five more executive actions Tuesday in a blitz of executive power meant to speed approvals of high-profile energy projects like the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.

In reversing the Obama administration policy to disapprove the Keystone pipeline, Trump emphasized that the construction isn’t a done deal. “It’s something that subject to a renegotiation of terms by us,” he said. “We’ll see if we can get the pipeline built. A lot of jobs, 28,000 jobs.”   Continue reading “Trump signs five more orders on pipelines, steel and environment”

USA Today

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed three high-level presidential directives on Monday, but they weren’t executive orders.

Instead, they were styled as presidential memoranda,  an increasingly common but lesser known expression of presidential power that came to replace many executive orders under President Obama.   Continue reading “Trump signed presidential memoranda, not executive orders: Here’s the difference”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will focus immigration enforcement efforts first on criminal immigrants in the country illegally, his administration said on Monday, offering hope to more than three-quarters of a million young immigrants protected from deportation under the Obama administration.

Those protected from deportation under former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program have been worried that Trump would follow through on a campaign pledge to immediately end the “illegal amnesty.”   Continue reading “Trump admin backs off pledge of immediate immigration change”

Sent to us by Tax Revolution Institute.

Tax Revolution Institute – by Chloe Anagnos

The federal tax code is 187 times longer than it was a century ago, according to the accounting firm Wolters Kluwer, CCH, which has analyzed it since 1913.

Since 1984, when the tax code was 26,300 pages, it has nearly tripled to the length it is today.   Continue reading “The 3 Most Confusing IRS Tax Penalties”

CBC News

Researchers have found that there may be a way to vaccinate people against climate change misinformation. The key? Telling them lies.

A team of psychologists from the University of Cambridge, Yale University and George Mason University studied the effect of “fake news” about climate change and how it can shift people’s opinions.   Continue reading “Psychologists say they can inoculate people against fake news”

Jon Rappoport

During my 34 years of working as a reporter, I’ve had many informal conversations with mainstream journalists. They were illuminating.

Here, from my notes (1982-2011), taken after the conversations, are what these guardians on the watchtower revealed:   Continue reading “Reporters tell me the truth off the record: the fake news business”

Reuters

U.S. refiner Phillips 66 on Monday said it would buy crude from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) after submitting a winning bid in an auction held earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Energy.

It was not immediately known which other companies submitted winning bids for the up to 8 million barrels of sweet crude being sold from the strategic reserves.   Continue reading “Phillips 66 to buy crude from U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve”

Reuters

A pipeline in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan has leaked 200,000 liters (52,834 gallons) of oil in an aboriginal community, the provincial government said on Monday.

The government was notified late in the afternoon on Friday, and 170,000 liters have since been recovered, said Doug McKnight, assistant deputy minister in the Ministry of the Economy, which regulates pipelines in Saskatchewan.   Continue reading “Canada oil pipeline spills 200,000 liters on aboriginal land”

Argus Media

Washington, 23 January (Argus) — President Donald Trump’s administration moved to block pending regulations that have not yet taken effect, such as a pipeline leak reporting rule and tax guidelines for master limited partnerships.

A memo issued today freezes publication of last-minute regulations from President Barack Obama’s administration that have been completed but not yet published in the Federal Register. It also imposes a 60-day delay on published regulations that have not yet taken effect, a change that might apply to new refinery safety regulations issued last month.  Continue reading “Trump freezes last-minute energy regulations”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking.

A State Department official and several congressional aides said the outgoing administration formally notified Congress it would spend the money Friday morning. The official said former Secretary of State John Kerry had informed some lawmakers of the move shortly before he left the State Department for the last time Thursday. The aides said written notification dated Jan. 20 was sent to Congress just hours before Donald Trump took the oath of office.   Continue reading “US sent $221 million to Palestinians in Obama’s last hours”

RT

Beijing has deployed advanced Dongfeng-41 ICBMs in Heilongjiang Province, which borders Russia, according to reports based on images, possibly leaked to coincide with Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president.

“Pictures of China’s Dongfeng-41 ballistic missile were exposed on Chinese mainland websites,” the Global Times said citing reports in “some Hong Kong and Taiwan media.” Russian news agencies identified one of them as the Apple Daily, a Hong Kong-based tabloid-style resource.   Continue reading “China reportedly deploys ICBMs near Russia’s border”

Mail.com

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Despite a threat from cable giant Comcast to take legal action, Philadelphia has banned employers from asking potential hires to provide their salary history, a move supporters say is a step toward closing the wage gap between men and women.

Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney signed the measure on Monday, and said he’s confident the bill can withstand legal challenges. “I know that Comcast and the business community are committed to ending wage discrimination, and I’m hopeful that moving forward we can have a better partnership on this and other issues of concern to business owners and their employees,” he said. “This doesn’t need to be an either/or argument — what is good for the people of Philadelphia is good for business, too.”   Continue reading “Philadelphia bars employers from requesting salary history”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as President Donald Trump starts reaching out to lawmakers and business and union leaders to sell his policies, he’s still making false claims about election fraud. During a bipartisan reception with lawmakers at the White House Monday evening, Trump claimed the reason he’d lost the popular vote to his Democratic rival was that 3 million to 5 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally had voted. That’s according to a Democratic aide familiar with the exchange who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting.   Continue reading “Trump undercuts bipartisan effort with voter fraud claim”

Mail.com

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government must get parliamentary approval before starting the process of leaving the European Union, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, potentially delaying Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to trigger negotiations by the end of March.

The 8-3 ruling forces the government to put a bill before Parliament, giving pro-EU politicians a chance to soften the terms of Brexit — Britain’s exit from the EU. “Leave” campaigners had objected, saying Parliament shouldn’t have the power to overrule the electorate, which voted to leave the bloc in a June 23 referendum.   Continue reading “UK government loses Brexit case, must consult Parliament”

NY1 News

The city has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed the NYPD issued hundreds of thousands of unjustified criminal summonses.

The city’s Law Department says judges threw out 900,000 of them from 2007 to 2015 because they were deemed legally insufficient.   Continue reading “City Agrees to Pay $75M to Settle Lawsuit Accusing NYPD of Issuing Unjustified Criminal Summonses”

White House Petitions

Created by K.W. on January 23, 2017

This petition being accepted by the Trump administration is a necessary component to draining the swamp and establishing an honest and ethical government and press. The people who are responsible for the events of 911 did not perish in the plane crashes. Quite the contrary, they are still alive and many of them occupy positions of extreme power and influence right here in the US. Continue reading “Open a new investigation into the events of 911 and incorporate the forensic evidence offered by ae911truth.org.”