10/6 News Roundup – Sanders to Trump: End Insulting Tweets and Start Rebuilding Puerto Rico & More
Happy Friday friends!
Starting the day off with Sanders to Trump: End Insulting Tweets and Start Rebuilding Puerto Rico:
In an op-ed directed at President Donald Trump on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders called on the president to quit with the insulting tweets and start doing a better job to help rebuild the storm-ravaged and economically-devastated island of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory that’s home to millions of American citizens.
In the guest column for the local El Nueva Dia newspaper—titled “Trump: Less Tweets, More Help”—Sanders declares that the people of Puerto Rico “are entitled to the same kind of response as the people of Texas, Florida, Vermont and other regions of the country that have been hit hard by natural disasters. President Donald Trump should be focusing his energies on helping to rebuild Puerto Rico, not attacking San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz.”
Sanders excoriates the president—who during his visit to the island earlier this week said the disaster was throwing the federal “budget out of whack” and “costing a lot of money”—for being so grossly insensitive to the dire situation in Puerto Rico while at home pushing a budget that adds tens of billions of dollars to already bloated Pentagon spending and proposing massive giveaways in tax cuts to the nation’s wealthiest individuals and corporations.
“When Congress just passed an almost $700 billion defense bill and is now debating a Republican proposal to give up to $5 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthy and large corporations,” writes Sanders, “we have the resources to provide the help to Puerto Rico that we always do when states and communities are hard hit by hurricanes.”
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As a growing chorus of renewable energy experts and climate advocates are urging, Sanders also called for the island to be built back with a strict focus on green technologies that make more sense for the island’s long-term economic health and resilience.
“As an island with extraordinary solar and wind capabilities, a new distributed energy system must be built which is based on sustainable energy, not expensive fossil fuel,” Sanders argues. “Not only will this provide less expensive electricity, but it will enable Puerto Rico to better withstand future natural disasters.”
More news, videos, etc. in the comments, including:
*Sanders blasts proposed Medicare cuts: These ‘will kill people’
*‘We’re walking down a dark path’: Biden hammers Trump in scathing speech
*House GOP Passes Budget That ‘Should Not Be Allowed in a Humane Society’
*What I Saw in Puerto Rico by Tom Perez
*Barred From Testifying for ‘Valve Turners,’ Renowned Climate Scientist Speaks Out
*New wave of protest leaders emerged after Ferguson
+ Water Protector news, pipeline updates, candidate news and more!
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I have noticed that some of the videos that you post begin without ads. I generally click on the youtube icon so that the individuals will get some kind of monetary reward. That extra step is important. When I post videos I try to use the youtube link.
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Good tip Humphrey!
Did you see LD’s relatively recentpost about marketing & such?
If I’ve got it right, he said that if we watch the entire ad (as opposed to just til the ‘skip (rest of) ad’ the youtuber gets more revenue.
Also, I believe he said that if we watch the entire video there might be more revenue for our youtube friends.
pb suggested watching the ad without sound if it helps watch the whole thing.
And he asked that we vote up his candidate diaries to boost their importance to, well, I’m not sure 😛 , so I’ve taken to making sure to vote all of those up just in case.
well when it comes to candidate diaries votes help get more views but just clicking the diary to open into a new page is the most helpful. any link clicks help tell search engined we are alive .
Thanks!
im not sure why thst is i generally use the share video link. wonder if its videos demonetixed already or perhaps an adblock issue? generally i use my phone for tubing and theres certainly no lack of ads!
I thought about the adblock issue. So when I started to view the videos I clicked on the youtube icon an the ad began. I do not use the share method but rather copy the url.
Sanders blasts proposed Medicare cuts: These ‘will kill people’
As a senior citizen and a cancer survivor, I depend much on Medicare. I use Kaiser plan where I pay extra to Kaiser over and above Medicare and it is an excellent solution for my healthcare. Cuts to SS medicare are cruel mainly because elders and disabled are less able to work.
soo true. hi, california pat!
Did Berniecrats just score their first major victory in Los Angeles?
Still hate their logo. Hi LD!! T and R to the usual suspects!! 🙂
fake news on the internet is a thing and it has always been a thing. Normally fair and balanced news networks have even been known to put out misinformation. Unfortunately people will do stupid things, and stupid things will get spread. But we do not need corporations, the government, etc.. choosing what is ‘real’. Instead we just need better ‘real news’.
YouTube alters search algorithm over fake Las Vegas conspiracy videos
Part of the witch hunt against Russia. Russia Today, RT, is a major program in many parts of the world, including USA and UK. I subscribe to Dish NW which has Free Speech TV and RT and some others. They are also on Dish TV satellite service. Right now Democracy Now is playing on Free Speech TV and Thom Hartmann is on for 3 hours per day on weekdays.
The article on youtube is part of a larger effort to marginalize them.
‘Unacceptable!’ RT pulled from YouTube prime ad list in US without notice
Thom Hartmann, Larry King & many others have shows at RT specifically because of the lack of alternatives available in the states. I doubt MSNBC would ever let give Hartmann on as a guest, let alone a host. Same for the Tim Blacks, Secular Talks, etc…. and now that these programs are beating back the Corporate TV (who refuse to adapt to the new model as I mention they never put their Bernie clips on their official channels), they have to go after the content creators revenue, and when that didn’t succeed, going all in on the creators themselves.
‘We’re walking down a dark path’: Biden hammers Trump in scathing speech
“receiving the Zbigniew Brzezinski” prize, eh? Why? What did Biden do to earn that?
I ask again, what exactly did Biden do to earn that award? Curious minds want to know.
Not only that, but Brzezinski, for all the good he did, also promoted some pretty bad stuff, iirc. I think he was one of the ones encouraging “bringing down” Russia by letting the oligarchs ruin it, among other things. Could be wrong.
I lump him in with Kissinger. Bah!
Biden is MSNBCs Joe/Mika’s choice at the moment, that’s pretty much all he had to do to ‘earn’ it.
But I thought Bernie was supposedly too old to run again? Biden is only one year younger than Bernie. And I thought it was time for a woman? And/or a person of color?
If the party goes all in for Biden it’ll be the height of hypocrisy.
When Trump tweets or opens his mouth I am sure that more “New Lows” are on the horizon.
And another new “low” for a US president.
A few years ago Biden spoke at Netroots Nation conference. I couldn’t stand to to into the large hall and spent time outside. I wandered by a TV feed that Kos and a few others were watching.
His speech was a fluff ball. Nothing burger.
Recall that Biden from Delaware and got the legislation that one cannot use bankruptcy path to deal with Student Loans.
Biden scares me, cuz he fits into the celebrity mode, and you know how we loves our celebs. Cuddly, handsome uncle with a folksy way of speaking. Bet he doesn’t sound that folksy when he’s at a table with the financial industry.
He scares me too.
If we can’t have Bernie then I want someone a lot younger than Biden. I don’t trust Biden. I think he’d surround himself with neocons and Wall St people. But he’d make a good show of representing women and POC that many people might fall for.
Xactly.
https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/916102159300567040?s=03
House GOP Passes Budget That ‘Should Not Be Allowed in a Humane Society’
It obviously proves the inhumanity of the Republican party and its donors.
Going to be interesting to see what the Senate Repukes do. There is a lot of infighting going on. Wish they would eat each other alive!
What I Saw in Puerto Rico by Tom Perez
Trump spent most of Puerto Rico visit in wealthy suburb
We’re Failing the US Citizens of Puerto Rico
Sadly I mentally block out anything that Tom Perez has to say after the hatchet job that was done to Keith Ellison.
Trump’s Insulting Visit to Puerto Rico Did Nothing to Help Puerto Ricans Heal
I’ve discovered a great blog called latinorebels.com, the commentary is well-written, passionate and timely.
Geebus.
This pretty well sums it up.
Not my idea of stars… but its definitely the establishment.
Democratic stars to come out for N.J. governor candidate Murphy
Last I heard Murphy was ahead of his Republican opponent. Murphy’s win will make Goldman Sachs happy.
But voters don’t seem to care. We’ve become so used to Wall Street candidates nowadays.
WTFrack???? I thought people were fed up with Wall St.’s evil deeds.
The establishment had their thumb on the scale to ensure that Murphy would win the primary. The people really didn’t really have much choice in the matter.
I would argue that the people did have a choice, but no question that Murphy had the entire weight of the party on his side after he bought off every local office in NJ with contributions.
I saw the second debate between the NJ Dem primary candidates and by the time that happened all Murphy really needed to do was grin his fake smile through it because by then the contest was his unless he made some kind of really bad flub.
The thing that made me growl the most was when Wisniewski challenged Murphy on when he spoke glowingly about the benefits of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, comments he’d made in Germany in 2013 (Murphy somehow got the endorsements of the environmental groups during the primary) and Murphy’s response was about as disingenuous as you can get when he claimed that he made his comments as a “geopolitical step to push back on the Russians”. Ugh!
The exchange begins at the 44:24 mark of the video.
“got the endorsements of the environmental groups during the primary’ what a shame.
Please listen to the Eddie Enos music video I posted.
You might feel better afterwards. Thank the music gods for the healing power of music!!
i will. as soon as i finish reading new comments. thanks.
‘Calm before the storm’: Donald Trump set to abandon Iran nuclear deal
Here’s All You Need to Know About Trump’s Decision to Decertify the Iran Nuke Deal
(said twitter thread available at the article
Donald Trump’s demonisation of Iran is dishonest and dangerous
F__k Trump with his ominous words. I should send him a bill for therapy for the stress he’s giving me with his threats of warmongering. What’s a presidency without new wars?
Good for you for staying in the fight, though, mags. I’m shutting down around this stuff. I don’t have the emotional energy for what I can’t affect (at least that’s how I’m finally seeing this #@!#.
I don’t blame you sista!
I’m not sure what the healthiest way to deal with saber-rattling is, but I was rudely reminded how little that we the people matter, when it comes to war plans, way back in 2002. So I cannot disagree with you about us not being able to “affect” the course, unfortunately.
Any recommendations on ways to deal with all that are most welcome! So far my best antidote is to sit out on my deck with a glass of wine in the evening quieting my mind by listening to the night insects while counting my blessings.
I just make peace with my self thinking that the MIC will not let Trumpcorp push the Nuclear button as i hope the pentagon put a child proof cap on it. I can only hope China has done the same to the I’il fat man in NK. Nuclear war is bad for profits for the MIC. They want conventional wars which I’ve had more than enough of.
Sounds like a great plan. Taking care of little Bear (10.5 mo.)–new job—had it about a month so i guess i can say something–part time–really helps my attitude. He’s such a happy little dude. And you know that baby endorphins or whatever it is. :O) And here and a few friends and family. That’s what i count on for now.
Glad to hear that you have a new job.
Thanks. Sweet family–have me over to dinner every Tuesday evening and then I watch Bear for a while. This one seems like a keeper. :O)
Barred From Testifying for ‘Valve Turners,’ Renowned Climate Scientist Speaks Out
Judges should not have that much power. If there’s evidence that goes to a plausible defense, it should be allowed. I wonder if they can appeal.
Are those my words coming of out Steve Bannon’s mouth? by Thomas Frank
‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia