To support Devos' insane intention of Federal financing of gun sales to schools, the stupid billionaire lies about school shootings
The School Shootings That Weren't
How many times per year does a gun go off in an American school?
We should know. But we don't.
This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." The number is far higher than most other estimates.
But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened.
Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government's Civil Rights Data Collection.
We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.
In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn't confirm one.
In at least four cases, we found, something did happen, but it didn't meet the government's parameters for a shooting.
About a quarter of schools didn't respond to our inquiries.
"When we're talking about such an important and rare event, [this] amount of data error could be very meaningful," says Deborah Temkin, a researcher and program director at Child Trends.
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018...t-werent?sc=tw
U.S. deaths from self-injury surpass those from diabetes
More people in the U.S. are dying from self-inflicted harm, including suicide and drug overdose, than from diabetes
Until 2015, diabetes was the seventh most common killer of people in the U.S.,
“There is a huge ripple effect to not treating the problems of individuals who died by suicide or what may be classified as accidental drug intoxication,” Rockett said. “They are members of families; they have friends and work colleagues. The ripple effects of their deaths can lead to all sorts of mental and physical problems among those who know them and care about them.”
The surge in self-injury deaths was largely driven by increases among men, whose rates of self-inflicted death had already outstripped diabetes deaths by 2002,
Combining all self-injury deaths, whether intentional, unintentional or undetermined, into one number may help spotlight a growing problem and lead to more effective prevention,
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-selfinjury-mortality/u-s-deaths-from-self-injury-surpass-those-from-diabetes-idUSKCN1LE25W?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&utm _source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Fe ed%3A+reuters%2FhealthNews+%28Reuters+Health+News% 29
billionaire Devos protecting rapists, abusers, implementing Repug/Christian misogyny
Betsy DeVos preparing new sexual misconduct rules to protect accused rapists and sexual harassers
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is preparing new rules that will expand protections for students and staff accused of sexual misconduct, including assault, harassment, and rape, while protecting the schools and colleges they attend.
“The proposed rules,” The New York Times reports, “narrow the definition of sexual harassment, holding schools accountable only for formal complaints filed through proper authorities and for conduct said to have occurred on their campuses. They would also establish a higher legal standard to determine whether schools improperly addressed complaints.”
The Education Secretary’s new rules would literally allow an accused rapist to cross examine his or her alleged victim.
The Obama administration also strongly discouraged parties from personally questioning each other during hearings, believing it would be “traumatic or intimidating, thereby possibly escalating or perpetuating a hostile environment.”
These new rules would also allow “victims and their accused perpetrators to request evidence from each other,” The Times adds.
“The rules also allow the complainant and the accused to have access to any evidence obtained during the investigation,
even if there are no plans to use it to prove the conduct occurred.”
That could lead to very personal information or belongings – say, text messages, photographs, or underwear –
being shared with someone accused of sexual misconduct, harassment, or assault.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/bet...e+Raw+Story%29
The Repug Rape Caucus must be thrilled.
Rubio’s New Paid Leave Bill Threatens The Very Idea Of Social Security, Report Finds
His proposal would cut lifetime benefits between 3 and 10 percent and cost $10 billion a year.
The paid maternity and paternity leave bill proposed by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) would offer meaningful benefits for new parents but only at a grave cost to Americans’ retirement savings and the core idea of Social Security,
ubio’s Economic Security For New Parents Act taps Social Security funds. The bill provides new parents anywhere from 55 to 80 percent of their regular pre-tax pay for two or three months, but it “borrows” from their future retirement accounts to do so.
The bill’s supporters say the only cost to parents is a slight delay in retirement ― which is fine, they say, since
Americans want to work longer anyway.
Rubio has also touted the bill as “budget neutral.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...gEmail__083018
Another Pootin dictate
Trump threatens to withdraw US from World Trade Organization
Trash threatened in an interview with Bloomberg News on Thursday to withdraw from the World Trade Organization if “they don’t shape up,” in his latest criticism of the ins ution.
Such a move could undermine one of the foundations of the modern global trading system, which the United States was instrumental in creating.
Trump has complained the United States is treated unfairly in global trade and has blamed the WTO for allowing that to happen. He has also warned he could take action against the global body, although he has not specified what form that could take.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/trump-threatens-withdraw-us-world-trade-organization-bloomberg/
Liz Crokin Blames Her Surfing Injury On A Spell Cast By Hillary Clinton
it may have been the
result of a curse that had been placed on her by Hillary Clinton
or artist Marina Abramović or some other
“witch” that is targeting her due to her efforts to expose
the secret satanic cannibalistic pedophile cult that supposedly runs the world.
“These people that I expose engage in witchcraft,” Crokin said.
“You know, the people like Marina Abramović,
the people like Hillary Clinton,
[the people] from the deep state articles that are getting ready to write a hit piece on me right now.
Well, look it up. Look it up.
Do research on Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton and their trip to Haiti
and how—I think it was on their honeymoon—they admitted to doing voodoo there together.
Research Marina Abramović; she talks about the rituals she does, she’s an occultist.”
“All these people dabble in witchcraft and spirit cooking,”
she added. “So,
do these people do witchcraft against me? Of course they do.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if they were casting spells on me the night before.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/l...ampaign=bestof
Liz Crokin speaks on Q, Mass Arrests, and Moving Forward in a Post-Pedo Apocalypse World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEXGDWIDbjo
Repug / evangelical misogyny, esp for poor women (all skin tints)
Trump Administration Dramatically Shortens Funding Period for Family Planning Grants
Providers say the Trump administration is undermining much-needed care for the people who need it most.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
shortened the funding period for the latest round of le X family planning grants to just seven months,
rather than the usual three-year cycle.
The move has concerned reproductive health advocates,
who said it could indicate that the Trump administration is rushing to implement its proposed anti-choice domestic gag rule.
This time, however, grants have only been awarded to fund providers from September 1 of this year until the end of March 2019.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, called
the move “a gimmick, plain and simple” in a statement.
“It’s all about moving as quickly as possible to undermine health care access for millions of people and to gag providers from discussing the full range of reproductive care options with patients.”
https://rewire.news/article/2018/08/...ality+Check%29
Sky People news, from a newsletter
"In Congress, allies of the oil and gas industry just proposed
a bill to gut core provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA),
an important ocean conservation law that seeks to restore and maintain healthy populations of all marine mammals in U.S. waters.
If passed, the bill would make it easier for oil interests
to begin seismic airgun blasting and new drilling
by allowing the harming and killing of whales and other marine mammals."
Trump’s EPA reconsidering power plant rule preventing 11,000 premature deaths per year
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to reconsider the Obama-era Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS),
a rule that restricts some of the most toxic air emissions from power plants.
The EPA, under the leadership
Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist,
has issued a draft proposal that questions whether it was “appropriate and necessary” for the agency to set standards in 2012 for mercury and other toxic air pollution emitted by power plants.
Environmental groups and lawmakers are concerned that the Trump administration is seeking to weaken one of the most important and effective clean air rules for power plants.
Prior to the rule, fossil-fueled power plants were the largest source of mercury in the country.
“The only people who want to turn back the clock on this life-saving policy are the coal executives who employed Andrew Wheeler and gave big to Donald Trump’s campaigns,”
https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-epa...-ca30e8af90bc/
Voluntary manslaughter, for profit
btw, renewables recently matched the output of the nuclear industry.
Trump Administration prepares to roll back federal restrictions on hunting bears, wolves
the state of the Republican-led, Ryan Zinke-implemented assault on the American wilderness, and specifically on the obsession with making sure a certain brand of thrill-seekers can go around murdering bears and wolves with impunity because screw it, that's why.Zinke is fairly obsessed with making sure America's "nature lovers" get to kill nature's most wall-worthy predators.
“Some component of the population here derives great ego gratification out of killing wolves and bears,” says Rick Steiner, a retired University of Alaska professor and board member at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an advocacy group. “There is this strong undercurrent of an anti-predator cult—almost a pathology—here in Alaska.”
The Republican approach appears to be "well, we're pretty sure we're going to be the last American generation anyway, so might as well do all the killing and mining and looting now."
After he refused to engage in a single meeting with the scientists and ex-lawmakers on his National Park System Advisory Board, 10 of 12 members resigned.
Zinke convened an “International Wildlife Conservation Council,” composed of gun industry representatives, a former beauty queen, and a safari hunting enthusiast who hosts a reality-TV show.Zinke's Park Service is expected to formalize the rollback of Obama-era hunting restrictions on another 20 million acres of federal lands next month
as Trump's band of avid Republican ideologues do their level best to support the animal extraction industry as robustly as they support the timber and fossil fuel extraction industries.https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1791675
Zinke and Trash's spawn out out to love this story
Nearly 90 Elephants Found Dead Near Botswana Sanctuary, Killed By Poachers
The carcasses of 87 elephants have been discovered near a Botswana protected sanctuary, killed and stripped for their tusks.
The elephants were discovered by Elephants Without Borders, a conservation nonprofit. The organization said they "discovered the alarming rate while flying the Botswana government aerial [elephant] census."
"I'm shocked, I'm completely astounded," Mike Chase of Elephants Without Borders told the BBC.
"The scale of elephant poaching is by far the largest I've seen or read about anywhere in Africa to date."
Many of the elephants were killed within the last few weeks and three white rhinos in the same area were poached and killed within the last three months,
"All carcasses [were] presumed to be poached, because all of them had their skulls chopped to remove their tusks,"
Elephant populations in Africa declined by 30 percent — around 144,000 elephants — from 2007 to 2014.
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/03/64434...ed-by-poachers
So who's buying the ivory? My guess is India, East and S/E Asia.
Capital's rich is really trying to screw the student loan victims
After Scaling Back Student Loan Regulations, Administration Tries to Stop State Efforts
six states and the District of Columbia sped up their own efforts to crack down on abusive lending practices by companies that administer federal loan programs.
Now Ms. DeVos is trying to stop them.
Trump administration lawyers filed a “statement of interest” last month supporting a lawsuit from the Student Loan Servicing Alliance, an industry trade group, against the District of Columbia for creating a student loan ombudsman office.
Under a new city law, the companies would be required to apply for licenses and could lose their right to operate if officials determine that they have engaged in fraudulent or irresponsible practices.
Administration lawyers accused the District of Columbia of trying “to second-guess” department officials in the selection of loan servicers,
violating the supremacy clause in the Cons ution in a case that could determine the future role of states in consumer protection.
“Federal loans are federal assets and therefore must be controlled and regulated by the federal government,”
said Elizabeth Hill, a spokeswoman for Ms. DeVos.
She described the actions of the states as an illegal veto of federal authority.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/u...er=rss&emc=rss
So loan servicers are now deputized by DoE to be Federal agents immune to state laws.
"states rights" applies only to knitters, not to Capital
Trump administration picks student loan industry over protecting students in court battle
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos weakened federal protections for student borrowers last year,
but that’s apparently not enough.
The Trump administration is diving into a lawsuit by a student lending industry group against Washington, D.C.,
over its efforts to protect people with student debt.
Sketchy student loan companies could be barred from operating in the District of Columbia
if they’re found to have fraudulent or irresponsible practices, the New York Times reports—and
the Trump administration is not happy about that.
Administration lawyers are arguing essentially that the federal government should get to set the ceiling on protecting students from fraudulent lending practices.
“When Secretary DeVos took office, we went on red alert,” said Karl A. Racine, the District of Columbia’s attorney general,
whose residents have the highest debt burden, $40,000 per student borrower, in the country.
“We have a responsibility, in the state attorney general’s offices, to protect our consumers. We are trying to fill the gap because
the secretary is stepping away from protecting students.”
the Trump administration is stepping in to protect lenders.
“As state law enforcement officials and legislators across the political spectrum stand up for student loan borrowers who have been ripped off at every turn,
Donald Trump and Betsy Devos have instead chosen to protect companies engaged in rampant illegal practices,”
he added.
“At stake is the financial future of millions of Americans and a trillion dollar black hole in our financial markets.”
the man who ended up paying $25 million to settle lawsuits over his own fraudulent “university”
does not care about the financial future of the kind of Americans who have to borrow money to attend college.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1794043
Obama improved, Trash MUST break it
Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier to Release Methane Into Air
preparing to make it significantly easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere.
Methane, which is among the most powerful greenhouse gases, routinely leaks from oil and gas wells, and energy companies have long said that the rules requiring them to test for emissions were costly and burdensome.
to make public a proposal to weaken an Obama-era requirement that companies monitor and repair methane leaks,
essentially repeals a restriction on the intentional venting and “flaring,” or burning, of methane from drilling operations.
The new rules follow two regulatory rollbacks this year that, taken together, represent the foundation of the United States’ effort to rein in global warming.
In July, the E.P.A. proposed weakening a rule on carbon dioxide pollution from vehicle tailpipes.
And in August, the agency proposed replacing the rule on carbon dioxide pollution from coal-fired power plants with a weaker one that would allow far more global-warming emissions to flow unchecked from the nation’s smokestacks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/c...gtype=Homepage
TB
Robert Reich Exposes One of the Right's Favorite Cons
Trump and his appointees are on a binge of deregulation that masks
another kind of trickle-down economics, in which the gains go to the top and the rest of us bear the risks and losses.
They say getting rid of regulations frees up businesses to be more profitable. Maybe. But
regulations also protect you and me—from being harmed, fleeced, shafted, injured or sickened by corporate products and services.
After heavy lobbying by the chemical industry, for example, the Environmental Protection Agency has
scaled back the way the government decides whether some of the most dangerous chemicals on the market pose health and safety risks.
This may increase the profits of the chemical industry but will leave the rest of us less protected from toxins that can make their way into dry-cleaning solvents, paint strippers, shampoos and cosmetics.
Trump’s Education Department under Betsy
DeVos has stopped investigating for-profit colleges.
This may result in more profits for the for-profits, but leaves many young people and their parents more vulnerable to fraud.
Trump’s Labor Department is
reducing the number of workers who are eligible for overtime pay, and it’s
proposing to allow teenagers to work long hours in dangerous jobs that child labor laws used to protect them from.
Again, more profits for business, more cost and risk for the rest of us.
Trump is weakening banking regulations
put in place after the financial crisis of 2008, even rolling back the so-called Volcker Rule that prevented banks from gambling with commercial deposits. The result: More profits for the banks, and more risk on you and me.
Trump’s gang of industry lobbyists and executives who are busy deregulating the same industries they once represented will no doubt do very well when they head back into the private sector.
But the rest of us won’t do well.
We may not know for years the extent we’re unprotected—
until the next financial collapse,
next public health crisis,
next upsurge in fraud, or
next floods or droughts because the EPA failed to do what it could to slow and reverse climate change.
Don’t fall for it.
Trump’s binge of deregulation is just another form of trickle-down economics—
in which the gains go to the top, and nothing trickles down except risks and losses.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ro...s-oldest-cons/
Never surprised at corruption or greed or politicians destroying the planet.
Cynicism aside, this thread is actually a public service. Unfortunately, people do not give a about these things and it is no surprise that a con man was placed into power and is doing exactly the things you are posting here often.
If this is happening in the country that is the best on the planet - Imagine the ery that goes on in other less regulated parts of the world. SMH.
Capitalists hire politicians and judges, who are just cheap s to Capital.
Capitalism is a huge, mortal failure, and it's not done yet with much more failure to come.
Corporate Sponsors for NASA? Agency to Study Making Space for Brands
In an era of flat budgets for the agency, Jim Bridenstine has started talking about corporate sponsorships for NASA missions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/s...er=rss&emc=rss
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Trump’s next NASA administrator is a Republican congressman with no background in science
Jim Bridenstine’s confirmation has been controversial — even among members of his own party.
https://www.vox.com/2018/4/18/172535...e-confirmation
The oligarchy's strategy is to destroy public ins utions and
privatize everything for their ac ulation of Capital.
Grassley in the Senate, King in the House, hole Iowa s on USA
Republican Rep. Steve King Retweets A Known White Supremacist On Twitter... Again
Which isn’t surprising, since King is a white supremacist too.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...gEmail__091318
here's some real fun capitalism for all y'all kickers
Pharma chief says 400% increase in cost of essential medicine ‘is a moral requirement to make money’
Just ask Nostrum Laboratories’ Nirmal Mulye.
In an interview published in the Financial Times,
he had this to say about everyone making Martin Shkreli out to be a bad guy for raising the cost of one of his own company’s drugs through the roof.
“I agree with Martin Shkreli
that when he raised the price of his drug
he was within his rights because he had to reward his shareholders [...]
If he’s the only one selling it then he can make as much money as he can,” said Mr Mulye.
“This is a capitalist economy and if you can’t make money you can’t stay in business.”his “Missouri-based” company, Nostrum Laboratories, just
jacked up the price of their drug nitrofurantoin from $474.75 to $2,392.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre
morality, ethics, fair play in Capitalism?
here's one for all y'all racist gun-fellatin Trash-fellatin Repug rightwingnutjobs
NRA’s Dana Loesch Rants About ‘Thomas & Friends’ Characters, Puts Tanks In KKK Hoods
The gun advocate slammed the children’s show, saying there was no need to bring in ethnic diversity.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/13/enter...rnd/index.html
Trash's AmeriKKKa
Here's why oligarchy is polluting the Federal judiciary with young extreme right wing political hacks
Betsy DeVos loses student loan lawsuit brought by 19 states
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos lost a lawsuit brought by 19 states and the District of Columbia,
accusing her department of wrongly delaying implementation of
Obama-era regulations meant to protect student loan borrowers from predatory practices.
A Washington federal court judge ruled Wednesday that the department’s postponement of the so-called Borrower Defense rule was procedurally improper.
The Obama administration created the rule in the wake of revelations that some for-profit colleges enticed students with promises of an education and diplomas that would enable them to get jobs in their chosen fields.
In reality, many of those certifications weren’t recognized by prospective employers, leaving graduates saddled with student loans they couldn’t repay.
The Borrower Defense regulations changed the rules for forgiving student loans
in cases of school misconduct and required "financially risky ins utions" to be prepared to cover government losses in those instances,
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...13-story.html#
Just like Kavanaugh, another bag political rat er nomimated to Federal judgeship, as the autocratic, fascist oligarchy continues its destruction of even nominal democracy
Top Trump Judicial Nominee Worked as GOP Mega Donor’s Attack Dog Against the Press
Since 2009, Nelson — whose nomination was advanced by Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday — has worked as general counsel for Melaleuca, a health and wellness company owned by VanderSloot.
During his time with Melaleuca,
Nelson issued legal threats against reporters and news outlets at the behest of VanderSloot, who sources said uses legal intimidation to mitigate negative press coverage.
Nelson’s ascension to a top judicial position as “a terrifying threat to reporters and the First Amendment.”
His job for VanderSloot, they said, was to “threaten and bully journalists trying to cover” the Idaho billionaire.
The most notable of the Nelson-led lawsuits against the media was VanderSloot’s battle against liberal magazine Mother Jones, which lasted from February 2013 to October 2015.
a 1999 effort to cancel an Idaho Public Television do entary — by taking out ads against it —
because it covered how teachers handle LGBTQ issues among young students.
Despite the controversy surrounding the case and claims of anti-First Amendment legal action, when responding to a questionnaire from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Nelson listed the Vandesloot vs. Mother Jones lawsuit as one of the top ten “most significant” cases that he has handled personally.
“This nomination certainly seems consistent with the White House’s hostility toward a free, independent, and fearless press,
“Mr. Nelson is a conservative ideologue who has advanced a right-wing policy and litigation agenda throughout his career,”
the civil rights group disapproves of Nelson’s work against environmental protection and disabled people’s rights, as well as his lengthy history as a member of the Federalist Society — a conservative legal group that has aided in the Trump administration’s judicial nominations — and his role in the Bush administration.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/top-...nst-the-press/
It takes no imagination to see how the rat ing Nelsons, Kavanaughs, etc will Americans and America hard and long.
"President Donald Trump's top economic adviser and former television personality Larry Kudlow confirmed on Monday that
the White House will push for cuts to life-saving safety net programs like Medicare and Social Security
if the GOP retains control of Congress in November.
"We have to be tougher on spending,"
Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, declared in remarks to the Economic Club of New York.
Asked when Social Security and Medicare will be targeted for "reforms"
—which, as one advocacy group noted, is "code for massive cuts"—Kudlow said,
"Everyone will look at that—probably next year."
"Believe them when they say they are coming after Medicare and Social Security,"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...?cd-origin=rss
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