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The Energy Department finalized Friday more than $4.7 billion in loan guarantees for four solar projects, bringing an embattled stimulus-law program aimed at financing renewable energy projects to a close.
The approvals come amid objections from House Republicans, who have alleged that the department was rushing to finalize the loan guarantees before the program expired Friday.
[Iran Press TV] A San Antonio federal judge Thursday blocked Texas from implementing new GOP-friendly redistricting maps for the state Legislature and U.S. Congress, quickly setting off a new wave of partisan finger-pointing over the politically charged issue.
The court order signed by U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia, one of three federal judges hearing legal challenges to how parts of the redistricting process, prevents the new maps from being implemented until the court decides otherwise.
The order notes that the maps have not been approved as yet under a section of the U.S. Voting Rights Act by the U.S. Department of Justice, as required. A separate lawsuit over that approval is pending in a Washington, D.C. federal court.
"According to the Texas Election Code, any changes that must be made in the county election precinct boundaries 'to give effect to a redistricting plan' must be finalized by October 1, 2011," the judges wrote. "Because the redistricting plans have not been precleared ... all persons or entities that would otherwise have a duty under Section 42.032 of the Texas Election Code are relieved of those duties until further order of the Court."
The orders similarly relieved county election officials of their duty to issue voter-registration certificates because "county election precinct boundaries will not be finalized."
Texas sued the Obama administration in July seeking so-called pre-clearance for the state's new maps under the Voting Rights Act, a step required of all states with a history of voting-rights violations. Perry, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, signed the bill with the election map created in June by Texas lawmakers.
The majority-Republican Legislature redrew electoral maps after the state grew enough to gain four seats in Congress, adding almost 4.3 million residents since 2000, according to the 2010 census.
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It's coming soon to New Mexico as well as the Trunks challenge a Donk-friendly redistricting map. SOP. The real news worthy note would be someplace where they're not challenged other than a domain where either party was overwhelmingly in control.
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Judge Garcia is a democrat and a Clinton appointment.
The court order signed by U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia, one of three federal judges hearing legal challenges to how parts of the redistricting process, prevents the new maps from being implemented until the court decides otherwise.
Judge Garcia, exactly when will a decision be forthcoming--after the 2012 election?
The order notes that the maps have not been approved as yet under a section of the U.S. Voting Rights Act by the U.S. Department of Justice, as required.
If previous responses by the DOJ are indicative, approval will be a long time coming.
[Iran Press TV] On a South Florida radio station on Friday, Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... admitted that the 2012 election would be a "referendum" on their performance on the economy.
"Right now, understandably, totally legitimate, this is a referendum on Obama and Biden, and the nature of the state of the economy. It's soon going to be a choice."
Biden said Americans have "good reason to be upset" because they lost jobs because of the recession, "something they didn't have a thing to do with creating."
Biden said he understood Americans are unhappy about high unemployment and the sluggish economy nearly three years after Barack B.O. Obama was elected president in the midst of the worst recession since the 1930s.
"Even though 50-some percent of the American people think the economy tanked because of the last administration, that's not relevant," said the vice president. "What's relevant is we're in charge."
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Stupid Joe you're the gift that keeps on giving.
"something they didn't have a thing to do with creating."
Bullshit. I'm only a drunk half wit but I'm pretty certain I could do a better job of running things passed out on the bathroom floor than you and the narcissist in chief.
(Who am I to talk?, I used as "I" in that last sentence enough to make Barry jealous).
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"Right now, understandably, totally legitimate, this is a referendum on Obama and Biden, and the nature of the state of the economy. It's soon going to be a choice."
Bless you Joe. You are, inadvertently, the smartest egg in the administration.
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DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > "ITS GOING TO GET A LOT WORSE": ECRI'S ACHUTHAN SAYS NEW RECESSION [for USA] UNAVOIDABLE.
and
* TELEGRAPH.UK > WORLD HEADING TOWARD "GREAT STAGNATION [from Great Recession], SAYS GOLDMAN [Goldman-Sachs].
versus
* CNBC TV AM > [Analysts] THE "GREAT GREAT-ER" DEPRESSION" IS STARTING.
May possibly last as long as 15-25 years; at least 10 years for EuroBanks-Funds + US-World markets to work out probs + get used to Eurodollar, Amero, etc. post-National "Global Currencies/Denominations"???
of course they withheld much more. These do show extensive back-and-forth. Holder must be fired and charged
Late Friday, the White House turned over new documents in the Congressional investigation into the ATF "Fast and Furious" gunwalking scandal.
The documents show extensive communications between then-ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office Bill Newell - who led Fast and Furious - and then-White House National Security Staffer Kevin O'Reilly. Emails indicate the two also spoke on the phone. Such detailed, direct communications between a local ATF manager in Phoenix and a White House national security staffer has raised interest among Congressional investigators looking into Fast and Furious. Newell has said he and O'Reilly are long time friends. Issa and Grassley are not gonna let this go CBS makes it sound as if Newell and O'Reilly, being 'long time friends', were just catching up on family. In point of fact they were discussing F&F rather extensively. But you wouldn't know that from the CBS report.
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Sharyl Attkisson has been on this story from the beginning; she has done a good job of dogging this operation and its effects.
None of the emails really spoke to the nature of F & F and some emails were not included: The emails to and from O'Reilly indicate more than just a passing interest in the Phoenix office's gun trafficking cases. They do not mention specific tactics such as "letting guns walk.":
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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A San Antonio federal judge Thursday blocked Texas from implementing new GOP-friendly redistricting maps for the state Legislature and U.S. Congress, quickly setting off a new wave of partisan finger-pointing over the politically charged issue.
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