9.20-22 Open Threads
Well, things are starting to get active storm-wise. Hurricane Fiona has already torn up Puerto Rico, parts of the Dominican Republic, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It is now heading north and eastern Canada is going to get clobbered. There’s another front heading for the western Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. Well, I knew this was coming, and am prepared. Hope all is well with my fellow Nesters. 🙂 Our Nest is Open for action.
I’ll kick off the comments with a few toons as it were;
You’re a mess, wi64!😂😂☮️ Ready for the GB-TB match in Tampa this weekend?🏈
Very tenative, we got a shot if our D line gets to Brady, Tampa’s D is very good and will give Rodgers fits. What’s with Brady saw a pix of him, very thin in the face?
Word has it that wife Giselle is not a happy camper. Don’t blame her. She has built a beauty empire that makes more $Ms than he ever did. He really needs to retire–period. GB will be favored as Bucs’ offense is racked w/injuries and Brady’s mind is elsewhere.
U.S. Senator Manchin to unveil energy permitting measure on Wednesday
I sure and sick of this yahoo and his ilk. He’s real close to being as bad as Sick Rott.
Latest DeSantis migrant flight was to land in Biden’s home state, Delaware. It never left Texas.
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Sure would like to see the end of this showboatin’ waste of humanity. However, Charlie Crist? I’m holding my nose big-time and voting for him, but this is an excellent example of how bad it is down here politically. 🙁
Good luck with that one!
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/manchin-rails-revenge-politics-permit-plan-90219406
https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/09-21-2022/progs-look-for-separation/
Duckworth must have a bee in her bonnet-either a lot of her donors are also concerned about climate change, or her potential voters may not favor the Manchin bill. I haven’t decided if I will vote for her because she’s too close to the DoD, and she will win anyway.
+540
Seconded.
Let’s see if this really happens, folks. Color me skeptical.
Burns needs to go au naturel with his hair color–seriously. Hubster has been watching that one. I’m already familiar with it as I’m a history buff. Depressing and the pattern keeps repeating.
The last part of the series is the most relevant and I didn’t expect it to conclude in the way it did.
South Korean president overheard insulting U.S. Congress as ‘idiots’
Usual pay wall https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/22/yoon-biden-congress-idiots/
He’s not wrong:
Exhibit A: MTG
Exhibit B: Boebert
Exhibit C: Gaetz
Exhibit D: Johnson
And on and on…..
so Im not offended as an American.
I am. We sat back and watched as public education was defunded and derailed in this country, since Reagan.
The crooks at the Fed are hell bent on creating a recession any by god their going to get it…
Fed in ‘Full Recession-Creating Mode’ Comes Under Fire for Another Interest Rate Hike
“Raising interest rates puts the burden of fighting inflation on low-wage workers,” notes former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. “For once, let’s take aim at an actual driver of inflation: corporate profits.”
JESSICA CORBETT
September 21, 2022
Progressive economists and other critics on Wednesday called out the U.S. Federal Reserve for officially announcing its widely expected third 75-basis-point interest rate hike this year.
“Corporate profits must be the target, not workers.”
While addressing the decision during an afternoon press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell also said that “we anticipate that ongoing increases will be appropriate” to meet the central bank’s goal of returning inflation to 2%.
With each rate hike—and other central banks following suit—warnings of a global recession have mounted, and opponents of the Fed’s approach have stressed that low-income workers and other marginalized people are bound to bear the brunt of the negative impacts.
“It’s a central bank in full recession-creating mode,” Crooked Media editor in chief Brian Beutler said Wednesday after the Federal Reserve rose its rate up to a range of 3%-3.25%.
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U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a vocal critic of previous hikes, was among those who focused on the expected effects for those who can least afford another rate increase.
“Chair Powell just announced another extreme interest rate hike while forecasting higher unemployment,” she said Wednesday. “I’ve been warning that Chair Powell’s Fed would throw millions of Americans out of work—and I fear he’s already on the path to doing so.”
Janelle Jones, chief economist at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), similarly said that “today the Fed decided to risk mass joblessness in its fight against inflation. Raising interest rates, and pushing the economy toward a recession, will result in millions of workers being unemployed or taking pay cuts.”
“And we know who those workers will be,” she continued. “The workers most likely to face an economic crisis are workers of color, women, and low-wage workers. The same groups who already face worse economic outcomes in the labor market.”
In addition to also emphasizing that “raising interest rates puts the burden of fighting inflation on low-wage workers,” former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich suggested that “for once, let’s take aim at an actual driver of inflation: corporate profits.”
Specifically, Reich—now a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley—advocated for a windfall profits tax, price controls, higher taxes on corporations and the rich, and reining in monopoly power.
Noting another tweet from Reich with those same messages, Groundwork Collaborative argued Wednesday that he is “exactly right” that the Fed’s recent moves largely burden lower-wage people and “corporate profits must be the target, not workers.”
“You can’t fix the economy by hurting people—but that’s exactly what the Fed chose today,” Groundwork Collaborative added. “Throwing millions out of work won’t address the root causes of inflation and we implore policymakers to remember that #WeAreTheEconomy—not Wall Street and wealthy corporations.”
Reich and Rakeen Mabud, chief economist and managing director of policy and research at Groundwork Collaborative, are among the experts scheduled to testify Thursday morning before a panel of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
The Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy hearing—titled, “Power and Profiteering: How Certain Industries Hiked Prices, Fleeced Consumers, and Drove Inflation”—is set to highlight that while input costs have begun to fall, some companies and sectors “are keeping prices higher anyway, prolonging inflationary pressures that have harmed American consumers.”
The real life game of monopoly rolls on for the rich and powerful…
Create layoffs, rehires at lower rates. That way they have very little money to spend and “inflation” goes down.
Ron Johnson mocked for slip saying he ‘condones’ white supremacism
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ron-johnson-fox-news-white-supremcy-b2171520.html?amp
He’s sure he meant to say condemned but when the 2 functioning brain cells in his head collided by acident like a minuscule matter anti matter collision the truth came out.
A Kremlin ally died falling down the stairs, report says — the latest in a series of unexplained deaths among prominent Russians
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kremlin-ally-died-falling-down-102720242.html
The is the 10th Russian oligarch that bit the dust, A Putin purge is underway.
When are a few American oligarchs going to bite the dust?
Kinda funny;
Pranksters called the son of one of Putin’s closest allies and told him he is being enlisted in the army — but he refused.
Putin announced plans for a partial mobilization that immediately drafts 300,000 reservists.
Pranksters called up the son of a top Kremlin official and said he had been enlisted in the army.
Dmitry Peskov’s son said he did not intend to go and will resolve the issue “on a different level.”
Pranksters called the son of a senior Kremlin official and told him that he was being enlisted in the army and must fight in Ukraine, and he responded by trying to get out of being drafted.
The hosts of the Russian YouTube channel Popular Politics called the 32-year-old son of Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.
The pranksters, who pretended to be recruitment officers, told the 32-year-old Nikolay Peskov that he has been drafted into the army and needed to attend a medical examination the following day.
“Obviously not!” the younger Peskov told the pranksters, according to a video shared by independent Russian news website The Insider. “You must understand it is not right for me to be there. I have to resolve this on a different level.”
“If I have to defend my motherland I will step up, no problem but you need to understand the political implications and nuances of my situation,” he added.
The call comes after Putin announced a partial military mobilization as part of the next phase of his ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Russian officials said that meant 300,000 people being drafted immediately.
His announcement sparked panic among Russians as some attempted to flee the country and others took to the streets to protest.
Surely he can find a Russian Dr. that will diagnose “Bone spurs” that works in the USA..
Scant details of at least a couple thousand arrested mostly women and the men were sent to “Training Camps” IE the old russian front routine from WWII. I wonder if thiers a Russian version of “Fortunate Son”…
Meanwhile, the MICC pigs feed at the trough and waste billions of $$ to prop up Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
This appeared in my FB feed today.
https://fb.watch/fIPcBElRH4/
Bernie’s favorite labor songs.