[Daily Caller] Thousands of coal miners gathered in force to protest energy policies and rally for benefits lost to recent bankruptcies in front of the Capitol Building Thursday, demanding Congress act before the year is out.
"The reason why these union coal miners have their healthcare and pensions in jeopardy today is because of senseless and heartless policies from the Obama Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency," Rep. Andy Barr, a Republican from Kentucky who spoke at the rally, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "He declared a war on coal when he was a candidate and he delivered and 10,000 of my fellow Kentuckians no longer have paychecks. These men and woman worked their tails off for decades underground in a tough environment and what they did was heroic work."
Members of United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) are pushing representatives in the Senate to pass a bill to guarantee healthcare and retirement benefits for roughly 23,000 coal miners and their families, and nearly 120,000 current coal workers. Roughly 94 percent of coal worker pensions were funded before the 2008 recession, however many companies have since gone bankrupt due to market conditions and the increasingly harsh regulations from the EPA and Congress on the industry.
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Knuckle dragging "socialist" media is the propaganda machine for the liberal gangster government. Get a clue, they ain't gonna listen to your protests.
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Some MSM pundit criticized Trump for saying that in a poll that 82% of the Russian people support Putin. This pundit also dismissed such polls because the media and polls are all controlled by Putin. Hah, what the hell did this guy think is going on in the U.S?--All fake news and news suppression. The rest is just dribble falling off their chins and lies. If the MSM pundits stray off the Dem talking points in the least, they risk heavy criticism, censure, or dismissal--that is if in the least, they begin to sound like a real journalist.
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday slammed her Republican rival Donald Trump for talking about things he learned in classified intelligence briefings and for praising Russia's Vladimir Putin as a better leader than President Barack Obama.
Speaking to reporters and quoted by Reuters, Clinton also criticized Trump for saying U.S. generals had been "reduced to rubble" by Obama's policies.
Trump’s comments came at the Commander-in-Chief forum, which aired on NBC and in which Clinton participated as well.
At the televised forum, Trump said he was "shocked" by information he got during the briefing. "What I did learn is that our leadership, Barack Obama, did not follow what our experts ... said to do," Trump said.
Clinton fired back on Thursday, saying Trump's comments on the briefing were "totally inappropriate and undisciplined." Talk about arrogance
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I don't recall him facilitating Russian purchase of 20% of America's uranium. Must've missed that
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When your country and allegiance is to the Clinton Foundation, I can detect her perspective. She just got it mixed up with America.
...for praising Russia's Vladimir Putin as a better leader than President Barack Obama.
I believe it a job evaluation not a judgement call on morality*. And, yes, Putin is far more a leader dedicated to his country and its position in the world than Obama is to the US.
* given the only morality for Hillary is power by any means, as someone else uttered - what difference does it make.
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If you really want to toss up your cookies this a.m. you can read flowery tributes by Hildabeest's toadies and sychophant supporters. The Hill. A sampling of the drek: “Everybody that knows her, loves her. They know her heart is full,” she added. “That’s what she ought to do, just take the shield away from the heart.” Maybe people are just becoming aware of who this woman really is and not the one the Party and Dem media present.
[THEHILL] Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson on Thursday shocked the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" by seeming to not know what the Syrian city of Aleppo is.
"What would you do if you were elected about Aleppo?" MSNBC political commentator Mike Barnicle asked Johnson minutes into an interview with the former New Mexico governor.
"And what is Aleppo?" Johnson asked.
"You're kidding," Barnicle responded.
"No," Johnson said.
"Aleppo is in Syria," Barnicle said. "It's the epicenter of the refugee crisis."
"OK, got it, got it," Johnson said.
He then attempted to flex his foreign policy knowledge.
"With regard to Syria, I do think that it's a mess. I think that the only way we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russia to diplomatically bring that at an end," Johnson said.
"But when we've aligned ourselves, when we've supported the opposition of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... , the Free Syrian Army is also coupled with the Islamists, and then the fact that we're also supporting the Kurds, and it's just a mess," he added.
"Aleppo is the center of a lot of people's concerns across the planet about the terrible humanitarian crisis that is unfolding," MSNBC host Joe Scarborough told Johnson.
"You asked, 'What is Aleppo?' Do you really think that foreign policy is so insignificant that somebody running for president of the United States shouldn't even know what Aleppo is, where Aleppo is, why Aleppo is so important?" he asked.
"No, I do understand Aleppo and I understand the crisis that is going on," Johnson responded.
The "Morning Joe" hosts were disturbed about Johnson's confusion about Aleppo.
"My god, can you believe it?" Scarborough asked co-host Mika Brzezinski after a commercial break. "It would be like asking, 'What is Sarajevo?' in 1991. It is stunning."
He called Johnson "so ignorant on foreign policy to ask, 'What is Aleppo?' on national television."
Bloomberg's Mark Halperin interviewed Johnson minutes after the interview, and MSNBC broadcast smartphone footage of Johnson saying, "I'm incredibly frustrated with myself."
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When Mike Barnicle runs through you like crap through a goose, you should know you're a loser.
[DAWN] US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Quincy Adams ... says that if elected she would work with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make sure Israel's strategic military edge is preserved.
"Shortly after being inaugurated I would invite the prime minister to Washington for meetings, I would send my joint chiefs and intelligence experts to Israel to meet with their counterparts," she said in an interview with Israeli Channel Two television aired on Thursday.
"What we need to do first and foremost (is) to be sure that qualitative military edge is unmatched," she said.
The US and Israeli governments have for several months been negotiating the terms of a new 10-year defence aid pact to replace the current one, which expires in 2018 and is worth more than $3 billion per year.
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"Protecting the edge" by wiping it with a dust cloth.
Clinton newspeak - the wording is everything
"to be sure that qualitative military edge is unmatched" could be the 'Clinton Word Gymnastics' meaning that you can drive military capabilities into the ground and therefore not being the same, or 'unmatched', as the adversaries around you.
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[Gateway] Herds of African immigrants are being housed in shelters in the Mexican border town of Tijuana while they await entry into the United States under what appears to be a secret accord between the Obama administration, Mexico and the Central American countries the Africans transited on their journey north. A backlog of African migrants is overwhelming limited shelter space in Tijuana and Mexican officials blame the slow pace of U.S. immigration authorities in the San Isidro port of entry for granting only 50 asylum solicitations daily.
Details about this disturbing program come from Mexico's immigration agency, Instituto Nacional de Migracion (INM), and appear this week in an article published by the country's largest newspaper. "Mexico is living through a wave of undocumented Africans, due to a humanitarian crisis on that continent, that has saturated shelters in Tapachula, Chiapas, and generated pressure on shelters in Tijuana, Baja California," the news article states. The African migrants journey begins in Brazil under a South American policy that allows the "free transit" of immigrants throughout the continent. Ecuador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama facilitate the process by transferring the concentration of foreigners towards Mexico based on an agreement that Mexico will help them gain entry into the U.S. so they can solicit asylum.
The Africans are mostly entering Mexico through the southern state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala. This week alone 424 Africans arrived at the Chiapas immigration station, which is situated in Tapachula. Shelters in Tijuana currently have 154 migrants from African countries waiting on their U.S. asylum solicitations, according to figures provided by the INM. "The undocumented don't want to stay in Mexico," the news article clarifies. "They want to make it to U.S. territory to solicit asylum based on the life conditions that prevail in the continent." Authorities in Tijuana are offering support to migrants from El Congo, Somalia, Ghana and Pakistan to facilitate entering the U.S. through the San Isidro crossing, according to the news story. San Isidro is the largest land border crossing between San Diego, California and Tijuana.
The Obama administration has done a great job of promoting its various back-door amnesty programs, which include perpetually extending a humanitarian measure designed to temporarily shield illegal immigrants from deportation during emergencies. It's known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and in the last few years migrants from several African countries have received it so the new influx is not all surprising. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone got TPS back in 2014 over the lingering effects of the Ebola Virus and earlier this year Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson extended it. The administration cited the "continued recovery challenges" the African countries face for the extension.
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Last night on the radio, I heard the Hispanic population growth had dwindled from 5% growth in 2007 to only 3% last year. Not so attractive to Hispanics, with the booming economy and all that.
So O & H have to compensate for that by importing Africans.
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It seems impossible. You can't immigrate under a false story. And any secret program would see the light of day a week after Trump took office.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[THEHILL] Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson on Thursday shocked the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" by seeming to not know what the Syrian city of Aleppo is.
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