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chocolatpi's JournalBetfair suspends betting on US presidential election
(original found on marketwatch.com)
https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/betfair-suspends-betting-on-us-presidential-election-after-trump-gets-covid-19-20201002?mod=home-page&adobe_mc=MCMID%3D88452399536408729230830923357829145247%7CMCAID%3D%7CMCORGID%3DCB68E4BA55144CAA0A4C98A5%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1601654126
By Bérengère Sim
October 2, 2020 10:44 am
Betfair suspends betting on US presidential election after Trump gets Covid-19
Betting odds on the online gambling site predicted Democratic challenger Joe Biden's probability of winning at 60% on 30 September
Online gambling platform Betfair has suspended betting on the US presidential election after US President Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19, according to its website.
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Why Republicans Still Don't Care About Climate Change
This is a few days old. I've been out of touch, recovering from a heart attack. I'm under orders to stay calm and stay away from any mention on the foul smelling odor in our White House. I will hold off on surgery until that fool is rejected in November and escorted off the premises.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-republicans-still-dont-care-about-climate-change/ar-BB199a3c
The Atlantic
Why Republicans Still Dont Care About Climate Change
Ronald Brownstein
5 days ago
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Detailed results provided to me by Kaiser underscore an astonishing gap between the parties. Among people who agree that their communities are experiencing either more hot days, more floods, or more droughts, at least three-fourths of Democrats say climate change is a major factor in those events; but at least seven in 10 Republicans in each case say it is only a minor factor, or does not contribute at all. Slightly more than seven in 10 Democrats living in places experiencing more wildfires consider climate change a major factor in causing them; three-fourths of Republicans see climate as little or none of the cause. Even after this summers searing events, an Economist/YouGov poll released yesterday found that although three-fourths of Biden supporters said the severity of recent hurricanes and Western wildfires is most likely the result of global climate change, fewer than one in five Trump voters agreed.
Those contrasts offer very little reason for optimism that even if Biden wins, any meaningful numbers of congressional or state-level Republicans will feel pressure to support measures to reduce carbon emissions. Among other reasons for pessimism: In both presidential and Senate elections, Republicans are more and more reliant on the states that produce the most fossil fuels, which tend to be the same states with large populations of non-college-educated, Christian, and rural white voters drawn to Trumps message of racial and cultural backlash.
Across the 20 states that emit the most carbon per dollar of economic outputa good proxy for states integration into the fossil-fuel economyRepublicans now hold 35 of their 40 Senate seats. Thats nearly enough senators to sustain a GOP filibuster against climate action on its own. The final brick in the wall of GOP opposition is that fossil-fuel producers, once an important source of campaign funding for southern Democrats such as Lyndon B. Johnson, are all-in on bolstering Republican power. Over the past 30 years, oil and gas producers have directed more than 80 percent of their massive $711 million in total federal campaign contributions toward Republicans, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
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Mr. and Mrs. Mineral Man
I have not seen a post in a while. Are they OK and busy supporting Mr. Biden?
Trump looks "silly" in OK rally
Thank you Tulsa for the hope from the "heartland". When you are bleeding support in the "sooner" state it's over for hopes of Republicans holding the Senate.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fox-news-host-chris-wallace-trump-campaign-looks-silly-for-not-owning-up-to-tulsa-rallys-crowd-size-2020-06-21?mod=home-page
Wearing face coverings should not be a political football.
Wearing face coverings should not be a political football. It's about survival for ALL.
I am doing my best to continue a self-quarantine, started at the end of February, to avoid becoming a statistic before my time is due. I venture out, wearing a face covering and avoiding public gatherings, order groceries delivered, sanitize, wash my hands (verging on an excessive compulsion). This is not normal, plays like a broken record in my mind.
Spring weather is but a memory giving rise to the extreme heat of the desert. Worse than the heat is the thought that this is our new normal. The rude awaking came yesterday.
I needed to have a document notarized. In days past, I would call my bank, confirm they could handle the task, end of story. Not to bore you with the saga, I found someone willing to make a house call. An educator earning money during a tough summer without other income.
When the doorbell rang, I promptly answered, waved at her through the glass in the door and pointed to my mask before opening. She was not wearing a mask. She was not pleased is an understatement. She huffed back to her vehicle and entered with a frown.
I discovered she had a long day, was a teacher trying to earn money during the summer and had parents my age. She frowned again when presented my voter ID, Democrat, as proof of identity.
Long story short, I used my professional social skills. She wore a face covering and we limited the spread of the virus.
When will Republicans stand up or are they all bought and sold on the Russian money market? Sorry, Ms. Buchwald, that goon is attempting to destroy the fabric of civil society for personal gain.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-do-so-many-americans-refuse-to-wear-face-masks-it-may-have-nothing-to-do-with-politics-2020-06-16?mod=home-page
Why do so many Americans refuse to wear face masks? It may have nothing to do with politics
Published: June 16, 2020 at 11:24 a.m. ET
By Elisabeth Buchwald
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Nationwide, higher percentages of respondents from urban areas reported use of cloth face coverings than did rural area respondents, the report states. Because outbreaks have been reported in rural communities and among certain populations since March 2020 these data suggest a need for additional and culturally effective messaging around the benefits of cloth face coverings targeting these areas.
In the second week of April, a week after the CDC recommended all Americans wear face coverings in public, the divide between Democrats and Republicans who said they wear masks at all times when leaving home was fairly narrow, according to an Ipsos/Axios poll.
Trump had not made a point of not wearing a mask. Once he very clearly did not wear mask in public that transmitted a signal. Chris Jackson, senior vice president for Ipsos Public Affairs
Some 38% of Democrats and 24% of Republicans at that time said that they wear masks at all times. By the second week of June, some 60% of Democrats and nearly 34% of Republicans responded they wear masks at all times.
That is the largest difference in mask wearing across all demographics including household income, age, race and gender, said pollster Chris Jackson, senior vice president for Ipsos Public Affairs.
In early April, Trump had not made a point of not wearing a mask, Jackson said. Once he very clearly did not wear mask in public that transmitted a signal that if youre a good supporter of the President you dont wear a mask.
Trump slams Fed as Dow dives 1,500 points
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-slams-fed-as-dow-dives-1500-points-2020-06-11?mod=home-pageTrump slams Fed as Dow dives 1,500 points
Published: June 11, 2020 at 2:35 p.m. ET
By Robert Schroeder
President Donald Trump criticized the Federal Reserve over Twitter on Thursday, one day after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell offered a grim outlook on the economy, saying there was a long road ahead.
I see the numbers also, and do MUCH better than they do, Trump said of the Fed, without mentioning Powell by name. We will have a very good Third Quarter, a great Fourth Quarter, and one of our best ever years in 2021, the president said.
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Trumps tweet came as the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -6.50% fell more than 1,500 points after the Wednesday Fed statement and as cases of COVID-19 were resurging in some 20 states in the U.S.
Read ow plunges 1,500 points as U.S. coronavirus cases rise, amid Feds grim economic outlook.
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Please remove rumpie from the front page.
He is not news worthy, imo. He wants attention.
"we've got to get out of this place."
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/5/1950535/-Morning-Digest-Arizona-Senate-race-moves-toward-Mark-Kelly-after-string-of-polls-finds-him-favored#read-moresnip
LEADING OFF
● AZ-Sen: The Democratic pollster Beacon Research and the Republican firm Shaw & Company Research are out with a survey for Fox News that finds Democrat Mark Kelly leading GOP Sen. Martha McSally by a huge 50-37 margin. The poll also shows Joe Biden carrying Arizona 46-42, which is a big shift from Donald Trump's 48-45 victory four years ago.
After losing the 2018 Senate race to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema 50-48, the appointed incumbent looks to be in far worse shape this cycle. Every single poll we've seen in 2020, with the exception of a single McSally internal from January, has shown her trailing Kelly.
"Corrupt Cop Linked to Trump Tower....Russian Ops"
https://news.yahoo.com/corrupt-cop-linked-trump-tower-152837174.htmlCorrupt Cop Linked to Trump Tower Lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya Exposes Russian Ops
The Daily Beast
Nico Hines
June 5, 2020
LONDONA corrupt former police officer who was caught working with Trump Tower lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya has revealed in a Swiss court how Russias complex foreign influence campaign targets justice systems in Western countries.
The former consultant to the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office was sacked and convicted after his entanglement with Veselnitskaya and the Russian prosecutor generals office was exposed. He reportedly told a court in Switzerland this week that he discussed a high-profile corruption case against Russia with Russian officials during an all-expenses-paid hunting trip to Siberia.
On the visit to the spectacular Kamchatka Peninsula and Lake Baikal, the official, who is identified only as Victor K., reportedly admitted that he spent a week fishing, enjoying the rugged countryside, and hunting for bear, including from a helicopter, with officials from the Russian prosecutor generals office.
Victor K. told the appeals court Tuesday that he had conferred with the Russian officials on the trip about the high-profile Magnitsky case, which he was supposed to be investigating. The $230 million fraud against the Russian people was uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky, who was subsequently detained and beaten by Russian officials, who left him to die in a prison cell.
The case led to American sanctions against Russia, which were signed into law by President Obama in 2012, after a campaign by U.S.-born financier Bill Browder. While the Swiss authorities originally froze millions connected to the Magnitsky case that flowed through Switzerland nine years ago, the case has stalled.
The appeals court ruled Friday that Victor K. was guilty of improperly accepting the hunting trip, but it dismissed the fine that had been imposed by a lower court.
The decision holds; he received undue benefit from the Russians, but its just a slap on the wrist for a serious crime, Browder told The Daily Beast. The fact that the Swiss discovered a Russian mole and he bears effectively no consequence is pretty alarming, and makes Switzerland look like a banana republic.
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