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What stupid shit has Biden done today?

This coming the same week as that IPCC report is, uh, interesting timing:
www.cnbc.com

White House calls on OPEC to boost oil production as gasoline prices rise

The White House is calling on OPEC+ to take action as surging gas prices prompt fears that rising inflation will derail the economic recovery.
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White House calls on OPEC to boost oil production as gasoline prices rise​


The White House is calling on OPEC and its oil-producing allies to boost production in an effort to combat climbing gasoline prices, amid concerns that rising inflation could derail the economic recovery from Covid.

Biden administration officials spoke with representatives from OPEC’s de facto leader Saudi Arabia this week, as well as with representatives from the United Arab Emirates and other OPEC+ members.

The White House said the group’s July agreement to boost production by 400,000 barrels per day on a monthly basis beginning in August and stretching into 2022 is “simply not enough” during a “critical moment in the global recovery.”
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Someone look into the SEC role in FTD and naked shorting. The two gg's are doing well but not enough fast enough. I don't want another crash even if it would benefit me financially it would screw others over.
 
If I think of Biden's weird touchyness and the weird labyrinth of shit he talks.

I think, would it be acceptable on a bus stop?

If not, why is he allowed out on his own?
 
Yep, see also:
www.nytimes.com

Haiti Protests Mass U.S. Deportation of Migrants to Country in Crisis (Published 2021)

Haiti migration officials have asked the United States for a “humanitarian moratorium” even as they receive the first returnees from Texas. “Will we have enough to feed these people?”
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The first Haitians deported from a makeshift camp in Texas landed in their home country Sunday amid sweltering heat, anger and confusion, as Haitian officials beseeched the United States to stop the flights because the country is in crisis and cannot handle thousands of homeless deportees.
“We are here to say welcome, they can come back and stay in Haiti — but they are very agitated,” said the head of Haiti’s national migration office, Jean Negot Bonheur Delva. “They don’t accept the forced return.”
Mr. Bonheur Delva said the authorities expected that about 14,000 Haitians will be expelled from the United States over the coming three weeks.
An encampment of about that size has formed in the Texas border town of Del Rio in recent days as Haitian and other migrants crossed over the Rio Grande from Mexico. The Biden administration has said it is moving swiftly to deport them under a Trump-era pandemic order.
On Sunday alone, officials in Haiti were preparing for three flights of migrants to arrive in Port-au-Prince, the capital. After that, they expect six flights a day for three weeks, split between Port-au-Prince and the coastal city of Cap Haitien.
Beyond that, little was certain.
“The Haitian state is not really able to receive these deportees,” Mr. Bonheur Delva said.
The Haitian appeal for a suspension of deportations appeared likely to increase the pressure on the Biden administration, which is grappling with the highest level of border crossings in decades.
President Biden, who pledged a more humanitarian approach to immigration than his predecessor, has been taking tough measures to stop the influx, and the administration said this weekend that the Haitian deportations are consistent with that enforcement policy.
But the migrants are being sent back to a country still reeling from a series of overlapping crises, including the assassination of its president in July and an earthquake in August. Only once since 2014 has the United States deported more than 1,000 people to the country.
As the sun beat down Sunday in Port-au-Prince, more than 300 of the newly returned migrants milled close together around a white tent, looking dazed and exhausted as they waited to be processed — and despondent at finding themselves back at Square 1. Some held babies as toddlers ran around playing. Some of the children were crying.
Many said their only hope was to once again follow the long, arduous road of migration.
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As the Biden administration moves quickly to expel migrants camped under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, its plan depends on a controversial Trump-era policy put in place in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to speed up removals.

Thousands of migrants — many originally from Haiti — have been camped out in squalid conditions since last week. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visited the site Monday and pledged to ramp up removal and expulsion flights of arriving migrants.

"If you come to the U.S. illegally, you will be returned," Mayorkas said at a news conference. "Your journey will not succeed."

That expulsion plan rests on a rarely used public health law known as Title 42. Immigration authorities say a public health order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allows them to expel migrants crossing the border quickly without giving them a chance to apply for asylum.

President Biden came into office promising a more humane immigration system. Yet his administration has continued to use the Title 42 policy — and defend it in court — despite mounting pressure from immigrant advocates.

How did the policy come about, and how is it being challenged in court?​


The Trump administration had long argued that migrants coming across the southern border did not qualify as refugees fleeing persecution and therefore were not protected by U.S. asylum law. As early as 2019, during an outbreak of mumps, well before the coronavirus pandemic, White House adviser Stephen Miller reportedly pushed for using Title 42 to turn back would-be migrants, according to The New York Times.

By March 2020, with coronavirus spreading rapidly in the U.S., the administration decided to invoke Title 42 to clamp down on the border.

The government expelled some 9,000 unaccompanied children who crossed the border before a federal judge in November ordered a preliminary injunction aimed at halting the practice. Judge Emmet Sullivan said Title 42 allows officials to block the entry of noncitizens who carry diseases but does not allow expulsions. He ordered an injunction to stop the rapid expulsions, though the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit later stayed his order.

The Biden administration did carve out exceptions for unaccompanied migrant children. It has allowed the majority of parents and children arriving together to ask for asylum. But it has continued to expel many others, including some families and tens of thousands of single adults crossing the border.

Last week, however, Sullivan ordered a similar halt in the use of Title 42 to turn away families with children, setting a two-week deadline for the administration to comply.

The administration is appealing that decision as well.
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And a bit more:
www.cnbc.com

Biden administration appeals judge's order to stop expelling migrants under Trump-era pandemic policy

The Biden administration Friday appealed a judge's order to stop expelling migrants under a Trump-era pandemic policy that doesn't let them apply for asylum.
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Under the Trump administration, more than 444,000 migrants were sent back across the border using Title 42. And more than 690,000 migrants have been expelled through the policy since Biden took office in January.

The Biden administration’s decision to maintain Title 42 was a blow to many immigration advocates and progressive Democrats who had hoped the federal government would choose to put an end to the policy after Thursday’s ruling.

“We’re upset because the Biden administration is devoting its precious time & energy to fighting tooth and nail to uphold President Trump’s xenophobic immigration policies, exposing thousands of people to harm,” said Noah Gottschalk, the global policy lead for Oxfam America, in a Twitter post Friday.

Oxfam America is among the groups that challenged Title 42 in the lawsuit that resulted in Thursday’s ruling. Other groups include the American Civil Liberties Union, Texas Civil Rights Project, the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, and the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, or RAICES.

RAICES said it is “extremely disappointed” with the decision as well.

“By defending Title 42, the Biden Administration has made it clear that it is willing to deny asylum seeking families their right to a full and fair process to receive protection in the United States,” Tami Goodlette, director of litigation at Texas-based RAICES, said in a statement Friday. “The Biden Administration has a moral obligation to stop using Title 42 to harm families and children and it must stop using Title 42 in its entirety.”

“We urge the White House to rectify this rash decision to appeal and end the suffering for these families once and for all,” Goodlette said.
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Interesting developments. Democrat ‘progressives’ (which I assume means their ‘left’) are digging in to defend the $3.5 trillion infrastructure plan by refusing to pass the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure program unless the second bigger programme is also voted through - the second package is under attack from both the GOP and the right wing of the Democrats.

So the progressives in the House are threatening to block the bipartisan infrastructure bill until they get agreement on something close to the $3.5 trillion from the whole Democratic majority in the Senate.

www.theguardian.com

Pelosi delays vote on Biden’s infrastructure bill in defeat for Democrats

Democrats say holdup is temporary despite stalemate over Biden’s sweeping economic agenda
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Definitely not a new trend, at least in the South.

In 1935 Du Bois published his most influential treatise, Black Reconstruction, a reconsideration of the period immediately following the Civil War. One of the historical quandaries that Du Bois addressed was the successful effort of white plantation owners in the 1870s and ’80s to build a political coalition with poor, often landless, white men to overthrow biracial Reconstruction governments throughout the South.

“The theory of laboring class unity rests upon the assumption that laborers, despite internal jealousies, will unite because of their opposition to the exploitation of the capitalists,” wrote Du Bois, who trained at both the University of Berlin and Harvard, and whose grounding in Marxist political economy taught him to view politics through the lens of different but fixed stages in capitalist development. “This would throw white and black labor into one class,” he continued, “and precipitate a united fight for higher wages and better working conditions.”

That, of course, is not what happened. In most Southern states, poor whites and wealthy whites forged a coalition that overthrew biracial Reconstruction governments and passed a raft of laws that greatly benefited plantation and emerging industrial elites at the expense of small landowners, tenant farmers and factory workers ... Du Bois famously posited that “the white group of laborers, while they received a low wage, were compensated in part by a sort of public and psychological wage. They were given public deference and titles of courtesy because they were white.”

www.politico.com

Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests?

Trump’s first year in office revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system.
www.politico.com www.politico.com
 
Yossarian said:
Definitely not a new trend, at least in the South.

In 1935 Du Bois published his most influential treatise, Black Reconstruction, a reconsideration of the period immediately following the Civil War. One of the historical quandaries that Du Bois addressed was the successful effort of white plantation owners in the 1870s and ’80s to build a political coalition with poor, often landless, white men to overthrow biracial Reconstruction governments throughout the South.

“The theory of laboring class unity rests upon the assumption that laborers, despite internal jealousies, will unite because of their opposition to the exploitation of the capitalists,” wrote Du Bois, who trained at both the University of Berlin and Harvard, and whose grounding in Marxist political economy taught him to view politics through the lens of different but fixed stages in capitalist development. “This would throw white and black labor into one class,” he continued, “and precipitate a united fight for higher wages and better working conditions.”

That, of course, is not what happened. In most Southern states, poor whites and wealthy whites forged a coalition that overthrew biracial Reconstruction governments and passed a raft of laws that greatly benefited plantation and emerging industrial elites at the expense of small landowners, tenant farmers and factory workers ... Du Bois famously posited that “the white group of laborers, while they received a low wage, were compensated in part by a sort of public and psychological wage. They were given public deference and titles of courtesy because they were white.”

www.politico.com

Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests?

Trump’s first year in office revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system.
www.politico.com www.politico.com
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Indeed. The history of the racial alliance between wealthy Democrats and poor white workers in the south is an important one to understand. But the bifurcation here is trans-racial and the ‘culture war’ alone surely isn’t an adequate explanation for the stark de-alignment. Why are the very wealthiest Biden supporters? Why are the poorest communities voting Republicans, even those among the most marginalised by their agenda like Hispanics?
 
Smokeandsteam said:
Indeed. The history of the racial alliance between wealthy Democrats and poor white workers in the south is an important one to understand. But the bifurcation here is trans-racial and the ‘culture war’ alone surely isn’t an adequate explanation for the stark de-alignment. Why are the very wealthiest Biden supporters? Why are the poorest communities voting Republicans, even those among the most marginalised by their agenda like Hispanics?
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One mistake the Democrats seem to keep making is treating Hispanics like a single block of voters when it includes everybody from fiercely anti-Communist Cuban and Venezuelan-Americans in Florida, Black New Yorkers, and Tejano voters in Texas, who leaned towards Trump just like other white, conservative Texans.
 
ska invita said:
the answer is in the article
??
did you read to the end?
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basically says culture war works- and once people come into the fold of right wing culture war they slip into the economic orthodoxy
on the flip side people who have the comfort of wealth allows room to be more moral in their politics
<thats the articles take
 
Thought there was a thread about the US and the environment, but my non0existant search skills could not find it.

The text is a c&p from a facebook person, did not read the article (paywall)

GOOD NEWS - toxic cleanups are coming
wondering what capitalism can look like? toxic waste cleanup is expensive. hits the bottom line. and after companies rake in profits and are faced with the huge expenses of their own irresponsibility, and cleanup, they declare bankruptcy and dissolve as companies, leaving the public to deal with these messes.
You know attention to these toxic waste sites would never hit donald trump's ( or many politicians' ) radars.

"The laboratories and other buildings that once housed a chemical manufacturer here in New Jersey’s most populous city have been demolished. More than 10,000 leaky drums and other containers once illegally stored here have long been removed. Its owner finished serving his time in prison three decades ago.
Yet the groundwater beneath the 4.4-acre expanse once occupied by White Chemical Corp. in Newark remains contaminated, given a lack of federal funding.
“It wasn’t supposed to be like this,” Douglas Freeman, who runs youth sports programs in nearby Weequahic Park, said on a recent gray autumn afternoon, gesturing to the crumbling brick buildings and junk cars that show how the Superfund site has stunted the city’s revitalization efforts.
But three decades after federal officials declared it one of America’s most toxic spots, it is about to get a jolt."
 
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