Water started flowing over the emergency spillway, … . This Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 image from video provided by the office of Assemblyman Brian Dahle shows water flowing over an emergency spillway of the Oroville Dam in Oroville, Calif., during a he… .
Day: February 13, 2017
Two Views: Grading Trump – Keeping promises, growing the economy
President Trump has hit the ground running since he was sworn in Jan. 20, and many have been shocked by the aggressive pace the new president has taken to deliver quickly on the promises he made during the campaign. And that’s primarily how our political leaders should be graded: whether they fulfill the promises they make to voters or not.
Turkmenistan’s leader wins presidential election
Berdymukhamedov has been the overwhelmingly dom… . A Turkmen woman dressed in traditional costume casts her ballot at a polling station in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017.
Two Views: Grading Trump – Not an honor roll record
During the primaries, he proved that GOP voters could care less about the party’s usual pro-business bromides. He smeared free-trade agreements as bad for workers, lamented that Wall Street traders were “getting away with murder” on their taxes, and won doing it.
Mexico’s Lopez Obrador blasts Trump’s immigration policies at LA rally
A man wears a T-shirt with a picture of Mexican politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, leader of the National Regeneration Movement party during a meeting at Plaza Olivera in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 12, 2017. Mexican politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, center, leader of the National Regeneration Movement party greets supporters as he arrives for a meeting at Plaza Olivera in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 12, 2017.
The new civics course in schools: How to avoid fake news
This Feb. 6, 2017, screen shot shows a website that falsely implies that it is from ABC News. The site is actually an imposter pedaling stories that aren’t true and is an example North Carolina teacher Bill Ferriter gives to his students when teaching them to question whether a story could possibly be true and to look at web addresses and authors for hints that stories might be bogus.
Judge to hear arguments on Dakota Access pipeline work
Razor wire and concrete barriers protect access to the Dakota Access pipeline drilling site Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. The developer says construction of the Dakota Access pipeline under a North … .
Celebs slam Trump at Grammys 2017
Los Angeles, Feb 13 – Celebrities including James Corden, Jennifer Lopez and Katy Perry mocked at US President Donald Trump at the Grammy Awards through speeches, performances and even dressing styles. The annual award show, which honours the best in the music industry, got political right before it started.
Will Trump’s cabinet challenge Trump?
Because we don’t think we’ve done so before, let us use the words “quiet” and “successful” in a sentence that references the Trump White House: Two of President Donald Trump’s cabinet picks got off to — here it is — quiet, successful starts in their positions, reinforcing the notion that business-as-has-been-customary just might be a viable expectation for elements of this peripatetic administration. Stay with us here: Do you recall all the Obama Cabinet members who pushed back at the president when he overstepped his role? Neither do we.
[Kara Alaimo] When the fake news is about your company
Fake news on social media stymied the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Now, businesses are wondering what they should do if they’re targeted next.
The 2017 Grammys Have No Answers
Nearly every critic and music-industry professional I know routinely decries the Grammys as trifling, an arbiter of nothing: they are too white, too docile, too choked by genre, too long, too loyal to outmoded tropes. Yet everyone still watches the show intensely and carefully notes its prophecies .
John Oliver returns, endorses RuPaul for president
It is with an uncomfortable sense of relief that John Oliver is back on there air – we’re going to need him now more than ever to hold his ever-so-articulate mirror up to reality. So it’s also appropriate that he would take a moment out of the season four premiere of Last Week Tonight to make a political prediction we can really get behind.
Boxing Day
House lawmakers are poised to debate legislation that aims to limit the interchange fees that credit-card companies exact on transactions at retail stores, reported The Hill . The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on the bill on Thursday, it said.
Could Trump’s War of Words with China turn Hot?
Forget those ” bad hombres down there” in Mexico that U.S. troops might take out. Ignore the way National Security Adviser Michael Flynn put Iran ” on notice ” and the new president insisted , that, when it comes to that country, “nothing is off the table.”
Is the answer to Alt-NeoNazism Bernie’s Democratic Socialism?
Maria Svart of DSA speaks to teleSUR about how her organization is using Sanders’ vision to fight Trump and neoliberalism within the Democratic party. While the U.S. has lost its chance at having arguably its first ever progressive president, Bernie Sanders, one group wants to capitalize on his political revolution and even nourish and support more people like him to infiltrate the Democratic party and fix the Democratic party.
Why Designating Muslim Brotherhood ‘Terrorists’ will harm Democracy at home and Abroad
A US government designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, which the Trump administration is reportedly considering, would threaten the rights to association of Muslim groups in the United States. Such a designation would also undermine the ability of the Muslim Brotherhood’s members and supporters to participate in democratic politics abroad.
Turkey’s Long Nightmare: Remembering the Night of the Coup
CA1 4neyt A-zdemir is a columnist and investigative journalist with 28 years experience reporting from Turkey and the Middle East. An icon of Turkish media, he is host of the weekly current events program 5N1K, the author of thirteen books on politics and popular culture and is currently preparing to release a documentary on the coup attempt of July 2016 entitled Defiance: The Night of the Failed Coup.
The Immigration Threat Hollywood Just Doesn’t Get
On Jan. 26, 2017, in Hollywood, California, actor David Harbour had the stage, with microphone in hand, at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. His science-fiction television series ” Stranger Things ” just received the Best Ensemble Drama award.
Zenith: In the White House with George H. W. Bush book signing
It seems likely that few men have spent more time observing the actions of former President George H. W. Bush than former ambassador Chase Untermeyer.