Bannon screwed Trump:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a...on-an-nsc-seatAccording to the Times, which confirmed the account after interviewing numerous government officials, aides, and former staff members, Trump grew frustrated when he realized after signing the order that it gave Bannon more power than he initially thought. Trump was apparently more upset about that than he was with the public uproar surrounding his controversial immigration ban.
The White House chief-of-staff, Reince Priebus, has since decided to loop the president in earlier in the drafting process—which usually isn't necessary—and has had to create a ten-step checklist for the administration to follow before Trump signs off on another executive order.
Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, allegedly told his allies that he and White House policy director, Stephen Miller, had to move quickly to solidify their vision of Trump's "economic nationalism" before losing influence in the administration.
The order—reportedly crafted by Bannon and Miller—gave the chief strategist a spot on the National Security Council and lowers the influence of the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The move gives Bannon, who previously had no designated national security role, a say in decisions regarding the nation's diplomacy, counterterrorism efforts, nuclear power, and cybersecurity.
Trash had to call Flynn yesterday to ask whether a strong or weak dollar should be preferred. Nutcase Flynn, knowing nothing about international economies, bailed.
So Trash intends to manipulate like the USD just like he says the Chinese manipulate their currency?
FAKE NEWS
smh. Trump as useful idiot.
DEVOS COMES IN CONTACT WITH BOOK FOR VERY FIRST TIME
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—On her inaugural day as the Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos came into contact with a book for the first time in her life.
Cameras were present to capture the historic moment, as
DeVos extended her left hand tentatively and eventually touched the foreign object.
After touching the book for approximately one minute, DeVos quickly withdrew her hand and appeared drained by the experience.
“It was not as bad as I thought it would be, to tell you the truth,” DeVos said. “After all these years, it turns out it was nothing to be scared of.”
DeVos said that she “might touch another book” in the future but gave no specific indication of when that might occur.
Across the nation, millions of Americans reacted to DeVos’s confirmation by requesting vouchers that would enable to them to select an Education Secretary of their own choosing.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/devos-comes-in-contact-with-book-for-very-first-time
You tried to find that 3rd rat and could not do it. She went in.DEVOS COMES IN CONTACT WITH BOOK FOR VERY FIRST TIME
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—On her inaugural day as the Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos came into contact with a book for the first time in her life.
Cameras were present to capture the historic moment, as
DeVos extended her left hand tentatively and eventually touched the foreign object.
After touching the book for approximately one minute, DeVos quickly withdrew her hand and appeared drained by the experience.
“It was not as bad as I thought it would be, to tell you the truth,” DeVos said. “After all these years, it turns out it was nothing to be scared of.”
DeVos said that she “might touch another book” in the future but gave no specific indication of when that might occur.
Across the nation, millions of Americans reacted to DeVos’s confirmation by requesting vouchers that would enable to them to select an Education Secretary of their own choosing.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/devos-comes-in-contact-with-book-for-very-first-time
Sessions is going in tonite.
Five Reasons Parents Should Be Very, Very Scared of Betsy DeVos
1. DeVos has no idea about IDEA. The disability community has a strong ally in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act(“IDEA”).
2. She may allow federal student loan money to go to fake colleges.
3. She’ll also might help create and fund sham K-12 schools.
4. She might ensure that poor kids get lousy educations.
5. She’ll make the handling college sexual assaults a lot worse for everyone.
http://lawnewz.com/uncategorized/fiv...f-betsy-devos/
She's in, Bouts, and she's going after public schools. They are an unmitigated disaster.
Academia in general has not been kind to public education. That being said, at least a passing knowledge of educational pedagogy would be helpful. This pick is a swing and a miss.
TRUMP VOWS TO GET ENDORSEMENT FOR JEFF SESSIONS FROM FREDERICK DOUGLASS
WASHINGTON — Infuriated after Senator Elizabeth Warren read a scathing letter from 1986 about Jeff Sessions by Coretta Scott King, Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday to secure an endorsement for Sessions from Frederick Douglass.
“I know Frederick Douglass will write a great letter, much better than that bad letter Coretta Scott King wrote,”
Trump said. “I said really nice things about Frederick Douglass last week, so I’m sure he will do this for me.”
Visibly angered by the King letter, Trump contrasted
the “great job Douglass has done” with the “terrible, very bad job that Coretta Scott King has done.”
“I don’t know who this Coretta King person is, but she should stay away from writing letters because she has zero talent for it,”
Trump said.
At the daily White House press briefing, Trump’s press secretary, Sean er, said that, while Trump is confident that Sessions will be confirmed as Attorney General,
“a strong endorsement from Frederick Douglass will clearly seal the deal.”
After the press corps reacted with blank stares, er snapped, “Do you people even know who Frederick Douglass is?”
Warren, who ignited the controversy by reading King’s letter on the Senate floor, was
rebuked by Republican senators for exploiting a little-known provision of the Cons ution called the First Amendment.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-vows-to-get-endorsement-for-jeff-sessions-from-frederick-douglass
Sessions is still going in tonite, Bouts.
ha, ha.
Andrew Puzder’s House of Debit Cards
Chambers said his store issues paychecks only in the form of a prepaid Visa debit card, and it comes with fees.
“In order to get the money out the card, you have to go to the ATM, and the one I have to go to, they charge $3.95 for every transaction
he’s also charged different fees for using the card in stores and for paying his bills, and there’s no option to get his full paycheck at any particular bank or store without being charged.
“Including food and gas and everything, in a week, total, I’m outta $80 [just on transaction fees]. And I’m only gettin’ paid roughly $250 a week,”
2014 Department of Labor investigation found that the company’s use of debit cards violated minimum wage laws. The agency ordered CKE to pay $2,071.98 to an undisclosed number of employees, again at a Hardee’s in Alabama, for similarly issuing cards that incurred fees.
7.4 million American workers received their payroll via debit card in 2015, and that number is expected to rise to 12.2 million by 2019. The cards are popular with some employees and very popular with payroll companies, who see huge savings by going paperless. The ROC United report found, for instance, that Darden Restaurants, the parent chain of Olive Garden, Yard House and LongHorn Steak House restaurants, saved $2.75 per check per pay period by going to plastic, saving the company $5 million a year.
Some workers could not access their full pay without paying some kind of fee; workers also said they were coerced or pressured by management into taking the card even if there were other options like direct deposit or a paper check.
shows just how many times the card company is touching a worker’s money:
- ATM fee, typically anywhere from $1 to $3.95
- Point of Sale (swipe) fee (the merchant also pays an interchange fee on this)
- ATM balance inquiry fee
- Optional paper statement fee
- Point of Sale decline fee
- Overdraft fee
- Card-to-card transfer fee
- Fee to talk to customer service if there is a problem (such as the payroll not loading on payday, which is a common occurrence)
- Monthly maintenance fee
- Card replacement fee
- Inactivity fee if the card isn’t used often enough
But in 2013, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ... issued a stern warning that federal law prohibits employers from mandating that workers take their pay on plastic. They must also be offered a choice of a paper check or a direct deposit.
http://capitalandmain.com/andrew-puzders-house-of-debit-cards-0208
A Puzder DoL will certainly not do anything about labor getting screwed, and pro-business/labor-hating Repugs will destroy the CFPB ASAP
Jeff Sessions just went in.
Victory!!!!!!!!!
The kicker:::If Dems hadn't fought him tooth & nail he'd a been confirmed weeks ago and they'd a been able to take out DeVos.
Just like that!!!
Lawsuit: Carl’s Jr. Blocked Managers From Accepting Jobs With Other Franchisees
Do Carl’s Jr. restaurants prevent managers from moving between locations owned by different franchisees to keep wages artificially low and to prevent restaurants from competing against each other for the best employees? That’s what one current and one former employee allege in a lawsuit against the fast food chain, calling the policy unfair to those managers.
“There’s no pro-compe ive justification that we can identify that would support having a restraint like this,” an attorney for the plaintiffs told the Los Angeles Times. “The only reason we can identify is to actively reduce labor costs to save them money.”
https://consumerist.com/2017/02/09/l...r-franchisees/
... echoes of Jimmy John's, IIRC, forcing employees to sign NDAs.
Nine People Say Mike Flynn Lied About His Phone Calls With the Russian Ambassador
Flynn on Wednesday denied that he had discussed sanctions with [Sergey] Kislyak. Asked in an interview whether he had ever done so, he twice said, “No.”
On Thursday, Flynn, through his spokesman, backed away from the denial.
The spokesman said Flynn “indicated that while he had no recollection of discussing sanctions, he couldn’t be certain that the topic never came up.”
....The emerging details contradict public statements by incoming senior administration officials including Mike Pence...Nine current and former officials, who were in senior positions at multiple agencies at the time of the calls, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
All of those officials said *Flynn’s references to the election-related sanctions were explicit.
Two of those officials went further, saying that Flynn urged Russia not to overreact to the penalties being imposed by President Barack Obama, making clear that the two sides would be in position to review the matter after Trump was sworn in as president. “Kislyak was left with the impression that the sanctions would be revisited at a later time,” said a former official.
A third official put it more bluntly, saying that either Flynn had misled Pence or that Pence misspoke. A spokesman for Pence did not respond to a request for comment. The sanctions in question have so far remained in place.
Nine officials! And every one of them says Flynn explicitly talked about the sanctions that Obama levied on Russia as retaliation for their cyber-hacking during the campaign.
The message: don't worry about it. (dearest Vlad) We've got your back.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-dru...ian-ambassador
Another big win for the BIG ORANGE TURD
Potential solicitor general pick withdraws name
A lawyer believed to be on the shortlist for President Trump’s solicitor general has removed himself from the running,
His withdrawal could open a window for George Conway, top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway’s husband,who is also believed to be under consideration.
Cooper said that he doesn’t want to undergo the grueling Senate confirmation process, which he helped Sessions through on his way to attorney general.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/318870-potential-solicitor-general-pick-withdraws-name
Cooper a friend of life-long racist Sessions? GTFO
Senator wants a piece of Pai: FCC boss blasted for ripping up schools, libraries internet report
Ajit gets a Florida-style full Nelson after study scrapped
US FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is facing criticism for his decision to axe a study on improving internet connections at public schools and libraries.
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) said in a letter to Pai on Wednesday that the decision to rescind the "E‑Rate Modernization Report" was "deeply disturbing."
"Your unilateral decision last week to quash a staff report providing an analysis and progress report of the agency's E‑Rate modernization efforts shows a troubling disinterest in the facts," Nelson wrote.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0...ants_some_pai/
Will Pai improve the E-Rate? no.
Of Course Trump's Health Secretary Is a Friend of Big Tobacco
Tom Price has taken tobacco money and voted against rules on cigarettes
The man Donald Trump has chosen to direct health policy for the federal government has close ties to the tobacco industry he will soon be charged with regulating.
has repeatedly voted against bills that could harm big tobacco.
At the same time, he's received thousands of dollars in political contributions from the industry and held investments in tobacco companies — investments he says he didn't know about.
lawmakers raised cigarette taxes by 62 cents per pack and cigar taxes by 40 cents per cigar. Price blasted the new fees.
"Today's tax hike serves as a useful reminder that the president is comfortable raising taxes on hard-working Americans to feed his reckless agenda,"
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...ce-hhs-tobacco
The Confederacy still ING UP America with these ty, corrupt assholes.
There will NEVER be enough knitters in jail to satisfy Sessions
Jeff Sessions vows to 'end lawlessness'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38925671
Of course, the lawlessness of (black) voter suppression is actually The Law by The Man.
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Just more " YOU" by Repug FCC, to enrich the PIC
FCC made a case for limiting cost of prison phone calls. Not anymore.
Federal regulators no longer are pressing to cut the costs of most prison phone calls, backing away from a years-long effort to limit charges imposed by a handful of private companies on inmates and their families.
The shift by the Federal Communications Commission comes as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Monday considers whether commissioners went too far when they capped prices for
inmate calls that had reached more than a $1 per minute.
To make phone calls from most federal and state prisons,
inmates generally must set up accounts with a private company to hold money deposited by family members.
The companies typically have a contract with the prisons, which receive a portion of the call revenue.
Federal regulators had pushed since 2013 to lower the costs, saying the prices made it too hard for relatives to stay in touch.
But a week after President Trump tapped a new leader for the FCC, the commission’s attorneys changed course and told the court that the FCC no longer would defend one of its own key provisions that limited fees for prisoners’ intrastate calls.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.59cd6333f1bf
WH is leaking like a sieve; seems to be the only way they can get their boss's attention.
FAKE NEWS
everything that fails to flatter your guy is fake. got it.
I ain't doin' "sources" - I ain't doin' ad hoc reports - I ain't doin' "on condition of anonymity"
No, it's horse . Media has no checks & balances. That's nice and expedient for them. Cheaper too in their times of financial crisis. But, this cat ain't buyin' any of it.
of course not, you don't honor any coin that doesn't bear your own image
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