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Border closures. Economic meltdown. Skyrocketing unemployment claims. Every day brings new news of the Covid-19 pandemic’s unprecedented impact on American life. Will the federal government find the political will to enact the kinds of radical measures necessary to help Americans keep their heads above water during this crisis? New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and economist Stephanie Kelton join Mehdi Hasan to discuss what needs to be done.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: We cannot respond to this with a bandaid. We need to respond to this with permanent systems and structures so that we do not find ourselves in this fragile of a position again.
Mehdi Hasan: Welcome to a special episode of Deconstructed, which I hope you’re listening to at home, while social distancing. I’m recording this here in my home, in my closet in fact. Because these are dark times. Here in the United States, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 continues to skyrocket. 200 Americans are dead and the US economy is in meltdown. How many more Americans will suffer and even die not just from the virus itself but from the massive economic fallout: the lost jobs, incomes, homes? As the economy comes to an unprecedented standstill, and some politicians, even top Democrats, don’t quite get it.
AOC: There’s a lot of this 90s wonkery going on but it doesn’t address the core issue which is that people are experiencing a shock right now, we need to get checks into people’s hands.
MH: That’s one of my guests today, yes, the one and only Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who’s making her debut on Deconstructed.
And I’m also joined for the first time by the brilliant lefty economist and former Bernie Sanders adviser Professor Stephanie Kelton.
Stephanie Kelton: When it becomes clear and it will, that a trillion dollars is insufficient, we have to be prepared to go back and do more.
MH: So, how do we save the U.S. economy? How do we save workers in this country?
Newscaster: Fears grow about the economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak.
Newscaster: Sweeping containment measures have disrupted markets around the world, including the U.S.
Newscaster: The Dow falling almost 3,000 points. That is the biggest one day point drop of all time.
Newscaster: This is going to be an economic catastrophe. One of the worst this country may have ever faced.
Newscaster: The unemployment rate, listen to this, could hit 20%.
Newscaster: The last time the number was that high, the country was in the midst of the Great Depression.
MH: While we’re all rightly focused on vaccines and ventilators and the need for social distancing, as the coronavirus pandemic continues and spreads, we can’t afford to take our eyes off the economic crisis also unfolding in front of us, as a direct result of this public health crisis. We are, I am sorry to say, heading into an economic unknown. We don’t know how bad it’s going to get, only that it’s going to be bad beyond anything we’ve seen before in our lifetimes.
Goldman Sachs is predicting a five percent decline in U.S. GDP this quarter alone. So is JP Morgan. You have unemployment claims rocketing upwards, the biggest week to week increase in jobless claims since the 2008 financial crisis. A poll out this week from NPR and PBS found one in five adults saying they’d been laid off or had their work hours cut, already. And as the New York Times pointed out, “what would normally be a few months’ worth of job loss” is happening in the space of days and weeks. In fact, Goldman Sachs is predicting a ten-fold rise next week in jobless claims. Yes, ten-fold, next week!
And look: It’s very hard to sustain any kind of normal economy, or growth, or spending, when you’re not supposed to leave your house. Let alone travel outside of your country. We’ve never been in a situation like this before which means any response to this crisis, the economic side of this crisis, has to be something beyond anything we’ve tried ever or ever done before. We can’t use the same playbook we’ve used before. And whatever we do: it can’t be small bore, it can’t lack ambition, and it can’t screw over ordinary working Americans. Again.
Barry Eichengreen, a professor of economics at Berkeley, who specializes in economic history. He’s an expert on the Great Depression, he told the New Yorker magazine this week that he’s working on the assumption that consumer spending will fall by around 30 percent in the second quarter of 2020. Thirty percent! Which would be unprecedented.
Let’s be clear: what’s happening right now is the economic and financial equivalent of 9/11 and the Financial Crash rolled into one. And what’s fast coming down the track could make even the Great Depression look like a stroll through the park. A total and complete shutdown of vast sections of the economy, indefinitely, with mass unemployment possibly around the corner. Even Trump’s own Treasury Secretary, ex-banker Steve Mnuchin conceded in a private meeting with Republicans senators that unemployment, right now at a record low, could hit 20 percent. Twenty percent!
So I’ll be honest, it was good to hear Mnuchin himself take to the White House podium earlier this week and announce that the U.S. government will be taking direct action to try and help people in this country keep their heads above water:
Steven Mnuchin: We’re looking at sending checks to Americans immediately and what we’ve heard from hardworking Americans many companies have now shut down, whether it’s bars or restaurants, Americans need cash now and the president wants to get cash now.
MH: The idea of cutting checks to Americans has had support from unusual Republican quarters, people like former GOP presidential candidate turned Utah Senator Mitt Romney:
Chris Hayes: Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney endorsed the idea. “Every American adult should immediately receive a one-time check for $1,000.” Note that would not be monthly. Though others are calling for more sustained basic income.
MH: The problem is not only are a bunch of Republican senators like Lindsay Graham and Richard Shelby opposed to direct payments but also that on Thursday the Senate Republican leadership unveiled a big trillion-dollar rescue bill which promised checks of $1,200 to American adults earning up to 75k a year, but only offered $600 to people lower down the income scale. People who don’t earn enough money to pay income tax in the first place. Tens of millions of poorer Americans who need more help than the rest will get smaller checks. And oh, yeah: The GOP bill also offers — yes, you guessed it! — tax cuts for big corporations. So, even in a crisis like this, Congressional Republicans make sure to protect the wealthy while screwing over the poorest.
Now, on the other side of the aisle, almost two dozen Senate Democrats say they support the idea of direct payments, of checks sent out to Americans, but so far, at the time of this recording, not Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer or Speaker Nancy Pelosi, both of whom say they want more targeted payments, that they have their doubts about sending out checks to everybody. They prefer to focus on boosting unemployment insurance. Pelosi even agreed a deal with House Republicans on paid sick leave that doesn’t actually cover four out of five American workers. I mean, seriously, sometimes I just want to give up.
Over in France, they’ve suspended rent, taxes, household bills. In Italy, mortgage payments. In Spain, they’ve nationalized all private hospitals. In Denmark, the government is guaranteeing the vast majority of incomes of any workers threatened with job losses. See, it can be done. Radical measures in radical times.
So let me ask today: what can elected politicians in Washington DC, especially Democratic ones, progressive ones, do here in the face of this unprecedented economic meltdown?
Because this is serious, people are dying, people are losing everything, and it’s only going to get worse. Are our politicians and policymakers up to the challenge? Will they bail out the people this time, and not just big businesses and corporations?
MH: I’m joined on the show to discuss all of this and more with two of the most brilliant, outspoken and progressive women in American public life right now: Stephanie Kelton is an economist and a professor at Stony Brook University, a former adviser to Bernie Sanders and a leading advocate of Modern Monetary Theory or MMT. She’s also the author of the forthcoming book, “The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy.”
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has represented New York’s 14th congressional district since her shock election in 2018 and, with the exception of Bernie Sanders, is probably the most famous socialist in America today. She’s also a member of, right now, the hugely influential House Financial Services Committee.
Thank you both for joining me on the show. Congresswoman, I know you’re short on time, so let me kick off with you and get straight into it. How bad is the economic crisis we’re facing right now? And how big, how radical does the response from Congress need to be?
AOC: I think that, you know, truly, it’s very important and it’s quite difficult to understand the scale and the lack of precedents that the sheer public health and economic shock that we’re experiencing right now. This is unlike 2008. This is unlike almost any other shock that we have seen in how quickly everything has ground to a halt, not just in the stock market but in everyday lives. And I truly do not believe that there is an action we can consider right now that is too small. I certainly have not seen any proposal that I would say is too large for us to be considering right now.
MH: And what kind of calls are you getting from constituents? What are they going through?
AOC: It’s everything and anything. I think what’s very important for us to realize in this moment is that what coronavirus has essentially done at least in the United States and in my district, is that it has taken all of these slow moving crises that we have already been experiencing in the United States and basically pressed fast forward on every single one. So housing insecurities have now been exacerbated. People don’t know if they’re going to be able to afford their rent this month. And even before the virus hit, 40% of Americans had less than $400 saved for an emergency. So my constituents are talking to me about how am I going to afford rent? Will I be evicted? If I go to the hospital, if I get sick, how much, is this going to cost me $10,000? And because we don’t have single payer health care, because we don’t pay a living wage, because we haven’t been investing in our health care infrastructure, because we haven’t been educating people to the level and allowing people to have access to an education, all of these things are coming to a head in this very moment.
MH: Stephanie Kelton, I believe you’ve been in conversation with senior Democrats in the Senate this week. Do you get a sense that they get A, the urgency of responding ASAP, and B, the scale of the response, how big it needs to be?
SK: Ah, well, I definitely get the impression that they understand the urgency, that seems very clear. On the scale, you know, I think that what’s happening is that people are looking back at the last crisis, at the financial crisis, and sort of coming away with this idea that we need to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past which is true, of course, but what I think that I’m a little concerned that the lesson that they appear to be drawing is that it’s really important to get the number right, that we don’t do something that’s too small for the moment, because you only get one chance at this thing. Because last time, you know, we got the 787 billion and then when it became clear that that was insufficient, there was just no appetite to go back and do more when it was urgently needed. And I’m trying to, the advice that I’m giving is, you know, don’t get into that mindset that you get one shot at this. And if you get it wrong, that’s the end of it. You just have to pay the price I’m urging them to, you know, do the legislation, the best piece of legislation they can now but be prepared, be steadfast in your commitment to do whatever it takes. And when it becomes clear and it will that a trillion dollars is insufficient, we have to be prepared to go back and do more.
MH: So, if you’re Chuck Schumer, you’re Nancy Pelosi, what would you be calling for right now from a podium? What would you be saying is top of your wish list?
SK: Yeah, so what I’ve explained is that there are basically two big ways that we can help working people and families. And you know, there are two broad categories. One is to increase cash inflows. We have to make it possible, as we tell people, you know, we want to keep people attached to their jobs, keep them on payroll, as we keep them out of the workforce. And so, to the extent that we can do things to help employers stay committed to paying their employees, keep them on payroll, that’s one really important thing to do. Cash payments, cash assistance is important. That increases cash inflow. It helps people you know, bridge this gap, where their incomes are going to be insufficient to cover bills and the other big category is to decrease cash outflows. So to the extent that you can do things in terms of a moratorium on whether it’s your rent and your mortgage, your tax payment, your student loan payment. So you’ve got those two moving parts, decrease the amount that people are required to pay out each month and increase what’s coming in because that’s the only way people are going to be able to hold it together. Go ahead.
MH: No, I was gonna say, Congresswoman, do you sign on to all of that? And also a follow up. Katie Porter, your fellow freshman Democrat from California came out in the Atlantic yesterday and said she disagrees with Speaker Pelosi is focused on “refundable tax credits” over direct cash payments. She says that’s too slow. Do you agree with Katie Porter? Is the Pelosi/Schumer way just too slow given how fast the economy is going downwards right now?
AOC: Yes, I completely agree. I sit with Katie Porter on the Financial Services Committee and she’s absolutely right. And I agree with Professor Kelton. I think one thing that’s important to underscore when Professor Kelton is talking about well, we want to look, last time we only have one bite at this apple, there won’t be appetite. We have to examine why there wasn’t political appetite to do more in 2008. And the reason for that was because there was a package that was entirely designed to favor corporations, to bail out Wall Street that was more concerned with stock prices than wages and the health of Wall Street than the actual healthcare system. And that’s why there wasn’t political appetite to do more because we passed out billions of dollars and then the CEOs came in flying in on their private jets, asking for more. And so that was the core of why Americans rejected doing more after the first package.
Now is a very different time. If we focus our package on immediate bailouts for everyday people, making sure that we’re issuing things like mortgage and rent and student loan debt moratoriums, making sure that we’re getting cash into people’s hands, ensuring the fact that if they have to go to the hospital, coronavirus related or not because as we know this can trigger a series of other health issues, that you will be financially okay. And that is the number one thing that we need to do right now. We need to be introducing stabilizers to working families. And Katie Porter is absolutely right on the point of tax credits. You know, I think sometimes with all due respect to my colleagues, we get into this, you know, there’s a lot of like this 90s wonkery going on where if we do a backdoor tax credit, oh, that’s a clever way of helping people. But it doesn’t address the core issue, which is that people are experiencing a shock right now. We need to get checks into people’s hands. If you’re concerned about it being means-based, tax it on the other end. Get everyone a check right now. And then if you want to make sure that the millionaire’s don’t get 1,000 bucks, do an extra, you know, tax them on the other end of that and make sure that they can’t wriggle out of that.
MH: It’s so frustrating when you have top Democrats, liberals saying stuff like no we need to target this. When we know that means testing doesn’t work especially in a crisis. And we know that something called progressive taxation which deals with the whole concept of universality. You mentioned, you know, the wonkery and getting behind the different policies. This week, we saw the Republicans do a bit of a bait and switch, where on the one hand, they were claimed to be outflanking the Democrats by proposing big amounts. Mnuchin coming out and saying direct checks, trillion dollars. And then you see the actual bill that Senate Republicans put out on Thursday. It had big tax cuts for corporations, as you mentioned, and some of the poorest Americans, millions of people who don’t earn enough to pay federal tax are going to get much smaller checks than everyone else.
AOC: Mmhmm. I mean, it’s abhorrent. You actually look at this kind of trash pile of legislation that the Republicans have just introduced and it’s phased in. I’ve never seen such a thing in my life of, we’re going to give the neediest people less. And we’re going to give people who are you know, need help but don’t need as much help more. It’s completely on its head. And you know, I think it’s important because, you know, this is an emergency. There is a very strong, compelling feeling to say, let’s put our partisan differences aside, but at the same time when they’re using this opportunity to, you know, essentially be public corporate raiders, it’s just not something that that we should be finding acceptable in this moment.
MH: Stephanie, you mentioned earlier that $1 trillion is too small a figure, you think it’s gonna be way too small, given the shock this economy is experiencing. How big do you think the check should be? And is this a time for a federal jobs guarantee which you’ve worked a lot on?
SK: Yeah, well, the first how big the checks should be is really dependent upon what you’re doing on the other side. So the less you do to reduce cash outflow if you’re not doing a moratorium on mortgages and rents and student loan payment, if you’re not guaranteeing health care payments for everything, the less you do on that side, the bigger I would say you need to go on the cash inflow side. So the bigger the checks were going to need to be. So I think it’s a question of, you know, the entirety of what it is you’re doing legislatively. You’re absolutely right. A trillion dollars is going to come nowhere near helping us get through this crisis. We’re looking at 37 million jobs that are vulnerable right now to short term layoffs. Goldman Sachs has already told us that we should expect next week that unemployment insurance claims could jump from what we saw most recently 281,000 to 2.25 million in a week’s time. This is catastrophic, and it will cascade like a domino through the economy. It will rip through this very, very quickly. So we’re going to be back at this again and again and again.
AOC: I would say that the other thing that’s important for us to realize in this moment is that we’ve been building the economy off of a sugar high for the last you know, who knows how many years? I want to say 10 years. But it’s really, in a lot of ways, structurally, it’s been multiple decades. And so what we’re seeing right now is the fragility of an economy that is built on tax cuts and subsidies instead of actual prosperity and increase in prosperity for working people. You know, this is what happens when wages don’t go up for 30 years in real terms when you account for inflation.
MH: It’s funny, Congresswoman, that you see some of you, we talk about federal jobs guarantee, we’re talking about getting, you know, involved in the economy, the government getting much more involved in the economy. Is it fair to say that just as there are no atheists in a foxhole, there are no capitalists, certainly no libertarians in a pandemic? We now have Republican senators basically endorsing the idea of big government. A Republican president saying this week he’s okay with the federal government taking equity stakes in companies that are bailed out. Are we all socialists now?
AOC: Yeah, I mean, they’ve always been socialist, it’s just about for who.
AOC: And so they’ve never been this kind of hardscrabble bootstrapping capitalists ever. They’ve been that for struggling families, and they’ve been telling this entire time, you have these folks telling working families, oh, you know, poo-poo, if you’re about to get evicted from your apartment or evicted from your home or get foreclosed on, that’s your fault, because you don’t have three months savings. But the moment the airline industry has a bad week, they run through everything and run to the federal government and say you need to bail us out when they just spent 96% of their free cash flow and purchasing their own stock, we’re considering it. And so you know, the hypocrisy and all of it is laid open.
And really what this is about politically in people who are moving is whether you considered people struggling and people dying because they couldn’t afford insulin an emergency before and if you’re considering it an emergency now. And I hope that every single person who considers a lack of health care an emergency right now, ask themselves why wasn’t this an emergency a month ago, six months ago, a year ago? Because Americans have been dying. We have some of the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world. And we’ve just been kind of strolling along as though everything has been fine.
And you know, one of the things about this pandemic, and our response right now is that we cannot respond to this with a bandaid. It cannot be a bailout package and we keep on going the way that we did before. We need to respond to this with permanent systems and structures so that we do not find ourselves in this fragile of a position again.
MH: So I know you have to run Congresswoman, but before you go, I do want to get very bluntly to the point: Nancy Pelosi rings you up tonight and says Congresswoman, what do you want me to do? What’s top of your wish list? What should I be saying? What would you say to her?
AOC: Oh, man, well, it’s hard to prioritize because so many of these issues are interconnected. But one thing that I would say, you know, speaking of Professor Kelton’s talk on outflows and inflows is that we need both debt moratorium and universal basic income right now. If we can get both of those pieces, then we can buy ourselves three to six months of breathing room. And we can enact a whole lot of other longer-term stabilizers. But right now, we need to stop the bleeding. And what that means is getting checks in the hands of working families and making sure that those checks aren’t going right out the door for being you know, for owing long term debts like mortgage and student loan payments.
MH: Should people have faith in the Democratic leadership to pull that off, though, with people like you perhaps pushing them?
AOC: I think that right now, what’s really important is, you know, this isn’t a spectator sport. We shouldn’t be sitting around looking at Congress and saying, I hope Democratic leadership does the right thing. We need to be blowing up their phones right now and telling them what we need, especially if you are a vulnerable worker, a gig worker, hourly, freelance, contracting. Most of these bills tend to be designed for an economy that existed 30 years ago. And that’s why we saw a paid sick leave bill that left out half of the workforce. So we really need to make sure that we’re not taking this like, Oh, do I have faith? I’m not here trying to pray to any person. I’m here to make sure that we put on the heat and the pressure to get demands and make sure that we take care of people.
MH: Congresswoman, I’d love to carry on this conversation with you and Stephanie, but I want to respect your time in this crisis. I know you have to run. I do hope we can get you back on the show soon for a longer period of time. But thanks for joining us. Good luck with your work.
AOC: Of course. Thank you so much. Have a good one.
MH: And Stephanie Kelton is still here with us. Stephanie, I’ve got to ask you the question that every lazy journalist and diehard conservative puts forward, how do you pay for it? How do we all pay for all this stuff? What do you say to that question?
SK: Well, I say that we’re getting a beautiful example of exactly how it works right now. In the span of the last week, Mehdi, Congress has moved first an $8.3 billion piece of legislation, the House and Senate put it through. President signed it. Those are the instructions that are being sent to the Federal Reserve by Congress to say we are ordering up $8.3 billion, go make the payments. A few days later, the House passed the bill that we were just talking about $104 billion. Congress passed it, I’m sorry the House passed it. The Senate passed it off it went. Another set of instructions went to the Federal Reserve. We are ordering up $104 billion go carry out the payments. Now, the White House is negotiating and it looks like we’re going to see a third piece of legislation this one probably for a trillion dollars. Again, Congress is ordering up a trillion dollars, the Fed will carry out all of those payments.
What people mean when they say, you know, oh, Senator Sanders, you want Medicare for All or you want to make public colleges and universities tuition free, you want to cancel student debt, how are you going to pay for it? Where is the money going to come from? What that means in beltway speak is how are you going to offset all of that spending with new revenue from somewhere else, or by spending less in defense or some other category, the budget? In other words, a lot of the time what happens is that Congress writes a piece of legislation ordering up, let’s say $50 billion, but then they pair that legislation with another set of instructions that says to the Fed, while you clear these payments for 50 billion, we also want you to take 50 billion away from people in the form of higher taxes. So you can give two sets of instructions and that’s what Congress usually means when they say how are you going to pay for it? It means how are you going to offset every dollar of new spending with, let’s say, a dollar of new revenue. But what we’ve seen in the last week is that you can send just one set of instructions. You can just tell the Fed, you’re ordering up dollars, but you’re not subtracting any away. And so I know —
MH: That blows a lot people’s minds, they say, “Wait a minute, what about deficits? What about debt? Aren’t we gonna have to pay all this back?
SK: So, here’s the thing, when you do a piece of legislation that’s “paid for,” it means you’re putting the 50 billion in and it goes to some parts of the economy, and you’re taking 50 billion out of some other parts of the economy so that you’re not deficit spending. What Congress has done in the span of the last week, let’s say, is commit to spending dollars into the economy without taking any back out. So it’s doing deficit spending. And we’ve been so badly educated to respond to that sort of financing as something that’s fiscally irresponsible, reckless, dangerous, whatever the case may be. It isn’t. The government is committing to dropping dollars into the economy without ripping them right back out again. It’s exactly what we want them to do right now.
MH: So a lot of people listening to this show who might know about deficit spending, might understand the position, especially in the last financial crash when this was a big debate, they will also hear the phrase MMT, Modern Monetary Theory, which you’re associated with. You have a new book coming out in June “The Deficit Myth” which is all about this, and people associate that with printing money. They talk about Zimbabwe, when things are out of control, the central bank just prints money, and it leads to hyperinflation. Explain to our listeners very briefly, especially in a time of crisis like this, what is MMT? And what role could it play?
SK: Well, in fact, MMT is almost entirely a descriptive project. There is a prescriptive policy piece as well. But MMT is mostly about helping people get a better understanding of the nature of the monetary system we have today. That is we’re not on a gold standard. We have something called a fiat currency, flexible floating exchange rate. So MMT says, let’s talk about the monetary system that we have today. Let’s try to understand it. Let’s understand what that affords a government that issues its own, let’s say sovereign currency, how much policy space is opened up around us? Because we’re no longer on a gold standard. We don’t have fixed exchange rates and how can we best take advantage of the monetary system of the policy space to build a better economy? That’s essentially what MMT is about.
MH: And I’ve gotta ask this question when we talk about kind of the left and economic solutions and Bernie Sanders, you’ve advised Bernie Sanders back when he was running in 2016, back when he was a senior Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee. Is it fair to say that Bernie may not be on course to win the presidential nomination, but his ideas seemed to have won the day. Ironically, paradoxically, at a time when he’s deemed as too extreme to be the presidential candidate, everyone’s dipping into the Sanders/socialist playbook right now.
SK: Well, yeah, and not just right now it started a little bit, the dipping in started a little bit in the 2016 election, right, because we managed to get to a point where the ultimate nominee did embrace things like making public colleges and universities tuition free. There was some means testing but it came closer. Now you have, you know, Medicare for All, student debt cancellation. I mean, these are the things we’re talking about in this crisis moment because as we’ve been saying, this crisis exposes widespread weaknesses and vulnerabilities in our social safety net, in our healthcare system, in our trade policies. So as we look for solutions to help us through this moment, it turns out we’re reaching right into that grab bag where so many of the things that he’s been fighting for happen to reside.
MH: Last question, Stephanie, then I’ll let you go: the president’s approval ratings are at 55%. A majority of Americans saying they approve of his handling of the crisis, according to a poll out astonishingly on Friday morning. Do you think that’s because Democrats haven’t been loud or forceful enough in pointing out both his manifest failures so far? And in providing alternative leadership, especially on the economy?
SK: Yeah, I mean, I think that’s definitely part of it. I think that to the extent that people are tuning in and hearing you know, that there is a response of some kind, it’s reassuring to know that, you know, he’s on TV. He’s communicating with the public. We see some people that are more credible than others, Dr. Fauci and people like that. So yeah, I don’t think the media and I don’t think Democrats have really been hammering at the inadequate to say the least, response in the early months where so much more could have been done to position us to avoid what appears to be where we’re headed in the next week or so with this huge strain being placed on the healthcare system and probably, Mehdi, honestly some of it is probably almost like patriotic post-9/11 coming together.
MH: Rally around the flag and the institution.
MH: Well, I do hope you’re right about you know, things changing in the coming days in a way they haven’t in the last few weeks. We’ve got this big bill next week. The debate’s not going away. Stephanie, thanks so much for joining me on Deconstructed and do stay safe.
SK: Thank you, Mehdi. You too.
MH: That was Stephanie Kelton, economist, academic, and author of the forthcoming book, “The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy.” And I was also joined on this special edition of Deconstructed by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Thanks for listening, I hope at home, if you can afford to stay at home, and I hope we can all put pressure on our elected representatives in Congress to get legislation passed that gets financial help to people in this country who need it fast, that’s of the size and scope to tackle the monumental challenge this country, this economy, is facing right now.
I also hope you’re all washing your hands.
MH: That’s our show! Deconstructed is a production of First Look Media and The Intercept. Our producer is Zach Young. The show was mixed by Bryan Pugh. Our theme music was composed by Bart Warshaw. Betsy Reed is The Intercept’s editor in chief.
And I’m Mehdi Hasan. You can follow me on Twitter @mehdirhasan. If you haven’t already, please do subscribe to the show so you can hear it every week. Go to theintercept.com/deconstructed to subscribe from your podcast platform of choice, iPhone, Android, whatever. If you’re subscribed already, please do leave us a rating or review. It helps people find the show. And if you want to give us feedback, email us at firstname.lastname@example.org. Thanks so much! See you next week.


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Women who consume soy supplements thinking…hoping… that they will help reduce or eliminate menopausal symptoms such as bone loss, insomnia or hot flashes will be very disappointed at the findings of a clinical trial published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
I know this study well as I worked on it for 3 years at the University of Miami—managing and analyzing the data—and co-authored the paper with Dr. Silvina Levis (see our previous Q & A on Vitamin D with Dr. Levis) and colleagues.
The study targeted women ages 45-60 years who had been menopausal for one to five years. We wanted to determine whether daily intake of soy isoflavones (plant compounds that mimic estrogen in the body) in tablet form prevents the rapid bone loss associated with the initial menopausal years.
In this study of 248 women ages 45 to 60, half were were given 200 milligrams of soy isoflavones daily (a much bigger dose than you or I would ever consume) and the other half were given a placebo. At the outset, nearly all complained of the most common menopausal symptoms, including hot flashes, night sweats and insomnia. loss.
After two years, the study participants were tested for changes in bone mineral density and in menopausal symptoms. Despite the large dose of soy isoflavones, researchers found no difference in the rates of bone loss between the two groups. There also was no significant change in other symptoms such as hot flashes. In fact, by the end of the study, more women in the soy group reported hot flashes compared to the placebo group, 48 percent to 32 percent. Moreover, almost all of the participants (those taking the soy tablets as well as the placebo) reported adverse effects such as constipation and bloating.
In the end, the study showed that soy isoflavones are too weak an estrogen to make a difference and can’t be considered a remedy for menopausal symptoms or prevention of bone loss. Women will need to reach out to more traditional modalities to prevent bone loss and hot flashes, including the use of FDA approved drugs and exercise.
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he 1902 Manitoba Hockey Association (MHA) season consisted of a four game series between the Winnipeg HC and Winnipeg Victorias. As the Victorias were the defending Stanley Cup holder, they would play two challenges, against Toronto and Montreal.
As Stanley Cup champion, the Victorias accepted a challenge from Toronto Wellingtons, champions of the Ontario Hockey Association(OHA), played during the regular season. The first game was played under Ontario rules, the second under Manitoba rules. Unusually, in the first game a goal was scored by Rod Flett of Winnipeg, however this goal was into his own net. No Toronto player is credited for the goal, Mr. Flett is. Winnipeg would win the series 5–3, 5–3 (2–0).

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I have been toying with the idea of a date and nut cake for a while now. and i frequently get requests from friends for baked goodie recipes that also cater to the vegetarian way of life. Since this blog is all about experimenting, helping out, making new friends and promoting a healthier lifestyle by (very, very) slowly but surely cutting down on the sugar and even gluten (but in no way compromising on the taste, if that is possible), this loaf is something towards that purpose.
and then, Poof!!! that was reality hitting me with a heavy thud: i have a jar of beautiful homemade caramel sauce sitting on my counter top. and the little voice in my head was going something like this: how brilliant would it be drizzled over the precious loaf and toasted hazelnuts?! i know!!
Yep, you guessed right, i succumbed.
P.S: If you are made of stronger stuff than me, by all means leave out the caramel sauce. The loaf really does not need it. The cake by itself is so moist you wouldn't believe the slippery fingers of butter or eggs were not involved. It is so easy, you would want to keep baking versions of it (walnuts? almonds?) It is so healthy, you wouldn't mind tucking in a few extra slices. The caramel sauce only enhances the taste for a sucker for caramel, me.
Recipe adapted with changes from here
-2 cups AP Flour
-2 teaspoons baking soda
-1/2 cup vegetable oil
-1 cup pitted dates
-1 teaspoon salt
-1/4 cup regular white sugar
-3/4 cup light brown sugar
-2 cups water
-1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
-1/4 cup toasted hazelnuts (halved) for garnishing the loaf - Optional
-1/4 cup caramel sauce for drizzling over the loaf - Optional
-Preheat oven to 175 C.
-Mix together the water, oil, salt, dates, cinnamon and sugars in a saucepan. Let it come to a boil, and then switch off the flame and let it rest for 20 minutes or till it cools.
-Sift together the flour and baking soda and mix it into the cooled mix by quarters. Stir to make sure there are no lumps. Pour into the baking pan, scatter the hazelnuts over the top if using them.
-Bake for 30 minutes or till done. Let it cool before slicing up.
On another note, we will be celebrating the festival of Onam this week, and as is customary, i will be making another traditional payasam to celebrate and to beat the blues of not being at home with folks during this week. Stay tuned!

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Write 3 page essay on the topic Samples, Power Analysis, and Design Sensitivity. A research that lacks either form of validity communicates possible deviations from actual properties of the research subjects and can therefore not be relied upon. Both external and internal validities are also susceptible to threats that must be monitored for a desired level of accuracy.
The two forms of validities are therefore important in developing confidence in drawn conclusions and made inferences from a research initiative. They are however different in their specific scopes of applicability, and their threats. Internal validity for instance defines a research process’ independence from confounds that may influence observations contrary to the treatment’s causal effects while external validity defines the degree of confidence in inferring research results to a population.
Another difference between internal and external validity is their sets of threats. Threats to internal validity such as “maturation,” “selection,” “instrumentation,” “statistical regression,” and “attrition” induces bias on the causal effect relationship to impair accuracy of observation on treatment effect. Threats to external validity however include “reactive effects of testing,” “interactive effect of selection,” “reactive effect of innovation” and “multiple program interface” and induces barriers between properties of the used sample and other population segments (Fink, 2004, 78, 79).
Research questions to which external validity is of primary concern are those questions that seek to establish relationships that are generally applicable to an entire population. Example is a research question to establish the relationship between gender and students performance in sciences that is psychologically hypothesized to be uniform across populations. Internal validity, however, is primary to research questions that seek to establish existence of a relationship between two…

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Doppelherz Magnesium + Potassium Tablets 30 tab
Each of the Doppelherz Magnesium + Potassium tablet provides 400 mg of magnesium and 300 mg of potassium contribute to normal muscle function
- Magnesium contributes to normal energy metabolism and electrolyte balance
Magnesium as a contribution to muscle function and electrolyte balance
An optimal supply of minerals and vitamins is an important prerequisite for health and performance.
Magnesium and potassium work together in numerous metabolic processes in the body. For a good potassium utilization of the cells also a sufficient supply of magnesium is necessary.
Magnesium contributes to the normal energy metabolism as well as the function of the nervous system and the muscles. In addition, it contributes to the electrolyte balance.
Like magnesium, potassium plays a role in the normal functioning of the nervous system and muscles and contributes to the maintenance of normal blood pressure.
Iron plays a role in the normal formation of red blood cells, which are important for oxygen transport in the blood. It also contributes to the normal energy metabolism and the normal function of the immune system.
As the body can not produce iron on its own, it should be ingested regularly and adequately through the diet.
In certain situations, iron needs are increased and adequate care is not always available. A markedly vegetable or unbalanced diet may be low in iron or contain ingredients (eg, black tea, coffee) that interfere with iron absorption.
Zinc contributes to the normal functioning of the immune system, which can be particularly challenged by physical activity and exercise.
Chromium plays a role in the normal metabolism of macronutrients and in maintaining normal blood sugar levels.
Vitamin B6 contributes to the normal formation of red blood cells and the normal functioning of the immune system. In addition, it plays a role in normal protein metabolism.
Vitamin B12 contributes to the normal function of the nerves and, like iron, plays a role in the normal formation of red blood cells.
In an unbalanced diet in conjunction with an increased need for nutrients, eg. B. by physical exertion, the diet can be supplemented with the double heart magnesium + potassium tablets targeted.
Drink 1 tablet daily in a glass of water (200 ml).
The recommended daily allowance may not be exceeded.
Store cool (6-25 ° C) and protected from light. Keep out of reach of children.
acidifier citric acid, magnesium carbonate, potassium bicarbonate, acidity regulators sodium hydrogen carbonate and sodium carbonate, starch, anti-caking agent tricalcium phosphate, sweetener sodium cyclamate and sodium saccharin, aroma, pyridoxine hydrochloride, color riboflavin-5'-phosphate, cyanocobalamin
composition per daily portion (= 1 effervescent tablet) % NRV * magnesium 300 mg 80% potassium 300 mg 15% Vitamin B6 4.2 mg 300% Vitamin B12 5.0 µg 200%

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The Lake Roosevelt Raiders tennis season ended in Omak last week at the district tournament where top tennis players from the Central Washington 1B/2B League faced off against the best players from the A-schools of the Caribou Trail League.
The Raider tennis players didn't fare so well, with the two Raider boys and three Raider girls each being eliminated in only two sets.
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Tracie Ching is an illustrator and graphic designer living and working in Washington, DC. A self-taught digital artist, Tracie specializes in portraiture featuring complex, graphic line work with a limited palette – a tendency-turned-style after years of working in the medium of silkscreen prints.
I means being part of a cooperative, in every sense of the word. Contributing to as well as benefitting from a support system comprised of artistic professionals based within the pop culture community.
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25th April, 2018 - 26th April, 2018
The GI Hub has delivered a regional PPP workshop in Rome, Italy, from 25 to 26 April, 2018. The workshop focused primarily on effective management of PPP contracts and effective risk allocation in PPPs. The workshop also provided detailed introductions to the GI Hub’s PPP Contract Management and PPP Risk Allocation Tools.
The workshop was delivered by the GI Hub in collaboration with the European PPP Excellence Centre, the European Investment Bank, Turner & Townsend and Norton Rose Fulbright. Key PPP practitioners were in attendance from several governments in the region from Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, France, Israel, Kosovo, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey and the UK (including Wales).
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Speeding enforcement not in danger areas
Speeding tickets are given in wrong area
The thing that upsets me and my neighbors is not that there are traffic laws. We understand that traffic laws serve a purpose. What is infuriating is police officers who pick one spot because they know that people let their speed get a little beyond the posted limit in a 300-foot stretch due to a steep downgrade, regardless of the fact that the area has no history of property damage or personal injury from careless drivers.
The area around the intersection of North Mountain Avenue and Hersey Street has more foot traffic than any other area in Ashland away from downtown and the college because of the baseball fields and North Mountain Park. That is where we live. Our children play here. We see it every day. Responsible drivers come down those hills, pick up a little speed, and then stop a few hundred feet later. There is no history of injury or accident in this area.
The police department wrote 52 tickets June 30 in an area that has never had a history of accident or injury, yet places in the town where pedestrians have been struck and killed by automobiles went unpatrolled. Police Chief Terry Holderness' statement, "We write tickets because it saves lives and reduces injuries and property damage," is an insult to our intelligence. If that were the goal, this patrol would have taken place along Siskiyou Boulevard or in the Lithia Park Plaza — you know, places where there have actually been recorded incidences of injuries and property damage.
If the Ashland Police Department wants to publicly claim that they set up a speed trap at the intersection of North Mountain and Hersey to "reduce injuries and property damage," they need to produce numbers and show people why that spot was more important to patrol than other areas that have had multiple pedestrian deaths in automobile accidents.
Until that happens, I implore the Ashland Police Department stop insulting our intelligence and admit that they wanted to play with their new toys and are trying to figure out how to pay for them at the expense of those of us who are already paying their salary. Ashland police officers: We all know that you are bored. You live in a slow community where not much of anything happens. You knew that when you accepted the job, so please stop making the citizens of Ashland pay for your entertainment as well as your payroll.
"To protect and serve" — that should be more than rhetoric.

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Children are only fully registered when payment is made. Entering your child(ren)’s data in the on-line registration system without payment does NOT “register” the child.
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Fear of dog bites might be an occupational hazard for mail carriers, but a mall Santa?
A mall Santa and his elf turned away a seven-year-old autistic girl and her service dog, Pup-Cake, claiming they were afraid of the 5-year-old dog. Abcde Santos and Pup-Cake stood in line for 30 minutes so that she could tell Santa what she wanted for Christmas, only to be told that Santa would not see her because "those dogs eat people."
Her family offered to take Pup-Cake outside, but the Santa working at The Shops at Mission Viejo in California turned into a Scrooge and refused to see the little girl, with or without her dog.
A viral campaign, #savePupcakesChristmas, immediately sprang into action and put pressure on the Simon Property Group, which runs the mall.
The Simon Property Group released a statement that said, "We share in your concerns regarding the situation today involving a Santa at The Shops at Mission Viejo. We do not condone the behavior displayed by Santa and have worked with our partners at Noerr, the company that hires our Santas, to replace this Santa with one that is more compassionate to our guests' needs."
A statement posted Pup-Cake's Facebook page said, "The Santos family and Pup-Cake the service dog would like to publicly commend Simon Property Group and the management team at The Shops at Mission Viejo mall for swiftly responding to our concerns. Along with Noerr who supplies the Santa and Elf who have handled the errant employee matters. The Santos family's goal is always equality education and their offer to provide American with disabilities act training still stands.
"Santa and the Elf have subsequently been fired. We are thankful that they reached out to us as soon as they learned of the incident and this was handled in a swift and appropriate manner."

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Well - I didn't realise it had been this long - but I haven't updated my blog since September. It's not that I haven't had anything to say or beads to share - but it just doesn't seem to have happend.
I did promise myself to blog more regularly as a New Year Resolution - but it's taken me a month to get started.
Well I have been making beads - lampwork, but took a break when it got just too damned cold in December.
I invested in a big hole mandrel - 5mm and made some big hole beads as christmas gifts. They take a fair bit of patience to make. The glass melting capabilities of my hot head torch are challenged - but we got there with a few mistakes along the way. Some are a bit wobbly - but I think I shall call this an intrinsic quirkyness.
I have taken part in a bead swap on the Frit Happens Forum and got a lovely little lampwork bear clutching a bunch of flowers. As it was my mum's birthday a couple of weeks ago and she loves bears I made it into a Fibula for her. Using a couple of tibetan silver beads, a length of 1.2mm sterling silver wire - and hey presto! The little bear was made by Pam at www.mapleglass.co.uk
This is the first fibula I have made that I have not scrapped, and have become so inspired that I made another with some of my own beads. These are Effetre Ink Blue trailed with fine silver wire. Not keeping it though. I have offered up as a prize in a PIF competition on the Frit Happens Forum. Next one will be a keeper though.
Have loads of plans for new beads - lampwork and clay - so will be back soon.


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Kia’s brand-new Optima — sorry, K5 — was, but the svelte new sedan is already finding its way to dealers. Pricing for the full K5 lineup was announced on Monday, and despite a number of big upgrades over the 2020 Optima, the new K5 isn’t much more expensive.
A base K5 LX will run you $24,445, including $965 for destination, which is just $100 more than a 2020 Optima. (Note: All subsequent prices include this destination charge.) But even this most basic trim is really nicely equipped.


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Crispy Garlic Potato Wedges that are baked until golden brown on the outside and tender on the inside, perfect for serving with you favorite dips!
I don’t know about you, but this time of the year, it seems like it’s all about those pre-playoff games with my family. The guys in my family are all big basketball fans and it’s always fun getting together and watching our favorite teams. And of course, they would agree that sports and tasty food go hand in hand. My brother in law is always the one who reliably stocks up on chips, buffalo wings, and ice cream, but this time, I want to contribute to our game time eats. That’s where this recipe for Crispy Garlic Potato Wedges comes in!
Potato wedges that are nice and crunchy on the outside and tender on the inside? Yup, except that these are baked and not fried. And trust me, you won’t even be able to tell the difference! If you or anyone in your family loves fries, you will win them over with this foolproof recipe.
To make these crispy garlic potato wedges, you’ll start off by soaking the potatoes in ice water for about 30 minutes. This process removes any excess starch in the potatoes making them extra crispy. Next, make sure you blot the potatoes with a paper towel before tossing them in a mixture of oil and seasonings. Bake until they’re golden brown and crispy, and while they’re still hot, you can toss them with some fresh parsley and Parmesan cheese.
The end result is these perfect garlicky potato wedges that are crispy on the outside and nice and tender on the inside. If you like them spicy, you can even add a pinch of cayenne pepper to your seasoning mixture.
I made mine around dinner time and they were unintentionally my dinner. I couldn’t stop eating them until half of the batch was all gone! While these potato wedges can honestly go with anything, they’re perfect for entertaining, especially when served with a creamy dip like Dean’s French Onion Dip. Dean’s Dip is a refrigerated dip that delivers a dairy-fresh taste, and the cool, creamy taste and texture just pair so well with these crispy garlic potato wedges. I also love that it’s convenient and easy to use.
I can’t wait to make another batch and serve them with the New Dean’s Cheddar Bacon Dip and Dean’s Bacon Ranch Dip, because you know everything tastes better with bacon! I know if I serve this when watching the playoffs, the guys would just finish the entire batch in no time. These are so simple to make but so addicting!
- 4 russet potatoes, cut into wedges
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp paprika
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 tbsps fresh parsley, chopped
- ¼ grated parmesan cheese
- Add potato wedges to a bowl of ice water. Allow the potatoes to soak for 30 minutes. Drain potatoes and blot dry with paper towel.
- Preheat oven to 450F. Coat baking sheet with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together oil, garlic powder and paprika, and salt. Add potatoes and toss until evenly coated. Arrange potatoes on prepared baking sheet.
- Roast for 30 minutes or until the wedges are crispy and golden brown on the outside, and fork tender on the inside, flipping the wedges halfway through cooking.
- Allow to cool slightly and sprinkle with fresh parsley and parmesan before serving.
You can find a variety of Dean’s Dips in the refrigerated section of Walmart. Be sure to grab these offers to get $1 off one Dean’s Bacon Ranch or Cheddar Bacon Dip or $0.75 off any one Dean’s Dip! You can also find other delicious #DeanDreamBig inspiration here!


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The Wrecking Crew
March 13, 2015 @ 12:00 PM - 9:50 PM
These superhero studio musicians built Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound,” backed the Beach Boys, and appeared on myriad recordings in the ’60s. Learn about the unsung players in a documentary about one of the coolest chapters in L.A. music history.

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The versatile benefits of this unique sound pillow can be seen in dementia, mental illness, stress, rehabilitation or dental phobia. The award-winning design has been developed to fit every hand and body. The handling is simple and intuitive for children, caring relatives, or seniors. Especially weak and mentally disabled users benefit from the easy handling of the comprehensive tool.
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The variety of potential embodiments include wave energy conversion arrays that can be scaled to any level of power demand for a given wave climate, or any rate of flow for desalinated water supply for metropolitan areas through municipalities.
SeaDog Wave Pump configurations can vary from single pump to full 24-pump carousel configurations. This allows for application concepts which can range from grid-scale multi-gigawatt power plants, supplying the US Eastern Seaboard via network of square-mile arrays, joined by a coast-wise liquid grid pipeline system, to stand alone megawatt arrays supplying island states/nations with both hydropower and desalinated water, to off-the-grid systems supplying kilowatts.
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Video artist Charles Atlas has collaborated with the brand.
Following on from their sext-centric Calvin Klein Jeans campaign, Calvin Klein has taken a decidedly more high-brow route for their Fall 2015 women’s collection, tapping video artist Charles Atlas to create a psychedelic short film.
Atlas has shown at MoMA, the Whitney, The Pomidou and London Institute of Contemporary Arts, but this is the first time he’s worked in fashion.
The collaboration with Calvin Klein women’s creative director, Francisco Costa, sees models Grace Hertzel, Maartje Verhoef and Tami Williams perform their best hippie moves to a Nico soundtrack: the perfect Warholian complement to the leather minis, cropped flares and heeled loafers on show.
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Demo: Walks through key features and use of the planner to create boards. (v.2, Sept. 2013)
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By Nature and by Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620-1660
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In a major interdisciplinary reinterpretation of first-generation New England cultural formation, Phillip H. Round demonstrates that Puritanism was only one ingredient in the creation of a new American civil society. Examining five discourses at work in the early modern era -- civic order, truth-telling, gender difference, authorship, and ethnicity -- he provides fresh readings of early American writers like William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet, and historical figures like Anne Hutchinson and Thomas Morton, that reveal the true transatlantic and civil dimensions of our nation's earliest literature.
Though the struggle over social authority took place within a Reformed Protestant context, it was actually far more eclectic, heterogeneous, and secular than contemporary published Puritan discourses -- and their latter day interpreters -- would admit. Round steps outside the official Puritan discourse to emphasize several other modes of rhetorical expression: transatlantic letters, urban revolutionary discourses and performances, town records, and pamphlets and tracts that engaged questions of racial and gender difference. The result is a version of the "New England Mind" and public culture which is far more complicated and interesting than prevailing theories suggest.
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Radical anti-American Marxists Barack Obama and Lisa Jackson enjoying a laugh as they conspire to destroy America as we know it.
By Gary P Jackson
At this point, anyone who thinks all of this corruption didn’t originate from the Oval Office in crazy, plain and simple.
Yesterday Andy at Ace of Spades HQ reported on yet another case of an agency staffed by Obama radicals attacking Conservatives. It seems the EPA, under the direction of Communist radical Lisa Jackson [no relation] was in the habit of waving certain fees for “friendlies” like the con artists in the so-called “green” sector, while assessing fees on Conservative groups for the same services.
The EPA has long been the enemy of the American people, with it’s war on energy, and prosperity, and this is yet another assault Liberty and Freedom.
I’ve written about Lisa Jackson and the EPA before, noting the agency had set up gruesome human experimentation, using the very tactics the Nazis used to exterminate the Jews in the death camps. The EPA was literally putting elderly human beings in closed rooms, and pumping the exhaust from diesel engines into those rooms.
It takes an evil, sick, and twisted mind to do that to one’s fellow man.
It should be noted, that after more than four years of attacking the American people, and pushing her radical anti-American agenda, Lisa Jackson recently stepped down. All of the attacks on Conservatives reported here occurred on her watch.
This is what you get when allow radicals to take hold in government, and few are more radical than Jackson, or for that matter, Obama himself.
As Predicted, A New Obama Adminstration Scandal Before Noon
Me, 6:55am: “New Obama administration scandal by noon? I’ll take the under.”
A mere 24 minutes later, this story was published: EPA waives fee requests for friendly groups, denies conservative groups
Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
I have no idea where these low-level employees could have gotten the idea that it’s okay to treat people differently based on their political leanings.
Andy goes to quote Speaker John Boehner, responding to Barack Obama’s referring to the American people as his enemies:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a president in the White House who referred to Americans who disagree with him as ‘our enemies.’ Think about that. He actually used that word.
When Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush used the word ‘enemy,’ they reserved it for global terrorists and foreign dictators — enemies of the United States. Enemies of freedom. Enemies of our country.
Today, sadly, we have president who uses the word ‘enemy‘ for fellow Americans — fellow citizens. He uses it for people who disagree with his agenda of bigger government — people speaking out for a smaller, more accountable government that respects freedom and allows small businesses to create jobs.
Mr. President, there’s a word for people who have the audacity to speak up in defense of freedom, the Constitution, and the values of limited government that made our country great. We don’t call them ‘enemies.’ We call them ‘patriots.‘
I don’t know what else to add, except that justice must prevail here. Yes, Obama is at the bottom of all of this. He has set the example for his minions to follow.
America simply cannot survive with the poor quality of individuals that currently occupy power in Washington. And yes, I am talking about members of both political parties. Obama and his henchmen have only been able to get away with their treachery for so long because what passes for “leadership” in the GOP, is impotent and useless.


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Christmas Bread Recipes
Christmas Toast Bread
Christmas toast bread is a delicious, mixed peel bread that is best served for breakfast during the winter holidays.
Christmas Tea Buns
Christmas tea buns can be served at breakfast or at after-dinner tea.
Orange Citron Yule Bread
Here is a beautiful gift bread to make this Christmas season.
Cranberry Mini Loaf Gift Breads
These beautiful mini loaf gift breads are perfect for the holiday season.
Christmas Cranberry Bread
Here’s an easy quick bread you can make for the Christmas season.
Carrot Walnut Bread
This delicious quick bread is a beautiful gift to give friends and family during the holiday seasons.
Cranberry Walnut Muffins
This recipe calls for fresh, chopped cranberries to make a delicious breakfast or holiday muffin.
Festive Banana Nut Bread
A colorful, fruity banana bread for the Christmas season.
Cinnamon Tea Rings
This recipe for cinnamon tea rings makes 6 delicious tea rings that can be given as gifts and eaten during tea and coffee time.
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It doesn’t matter if you call them pull buns or pluckets, monkey bread is always a fun and delicious dessert.
Cherry Pecan Coffee Bread
Served with coffee, cherry pecan coffee bread is an impossible treat to resist.
Top 10 Greatest Orange Breads
Many of us cannot get enough of the delicious flavor of oranges. We guzzle down orange juice by the gallon, munch on orange flavored snacks, and even cook and bake with oranges. Here are ten of the greatest orange bread recipes that are sure to please a crowd.
Ten Great Coffee Bread Recipes
Getting together with friends and family? Check out these great coffee bread recipes that'll please any crowd.
Great Banana Bread Recipes
Get these great tips and recipes for baking up delicious loaves of banana breads!
Orange Tube Pan Bread
Orange tube pan bread is an easy yeast batter bread recipe you can make for dessert.
Pocono Christmas Fruit Bread
This beautiful fruit bread can be served during the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Citrus Christmas Bread
Citrus Christmas bread is an easy, braided yeast bread you can make for your dinner guests.
Ten Traditional Christmas Breads
Christmas is a fabulous time to show off your baking skills and make gift breads for friends and family. Here are 10 delicious traditional Christmas breads you and your family can make, gift, and enjoy.
This easy Christmas stollen recipe is perfect for the holidays and gift giving.
Chocolate Cranberry Stollen
Cocoa powder and chocolate chips makes this the perfect Christmas gift bread.
Christmas Raisin Bread
The ground anise seed makes this a special raisin bread to serve on Christmas.
Chocolate Yule Bread
Chocolate, coconut, walnuts, and currants makes this a delicious dessert bread that no one will want to pass up.
Swedish Yule Bread
This delicious dried fruit bread tastes great for breakfast and as an after dinner dessert bread.
Cinnamon Christmas Buns
Sweet, cinnamon spiral buns that are great for the Christmas dessert table.
Top 10 Breads for Christmas Breakfast
Ten fabulous bread recipes you can make for Christmas morning breakfast.
Cinnamon Pecan Rolls
Make Christmas dessert extra special with these cinnamon pecan rolls.
Cranberry Walnut Scones
These are the perfect sweet scones to serve with tea after your Christmas dinner.
Best 10 Breads for Gifts
Need a last minute gift for someone on your list? Not looking to spend a lot of money? These ten delicious gift breads are inexpensive to make and they make fantastic presents for family and friends.
Czech Christmas Bread
This Czech Christmas bread is a delicious raisin bread flavored with aniseeds and lemon zest. A great bread for beginners!
No Knead Yeast Christmas Bread
This easy Christmas yeast bread requires no kneading.
Ten Best Christmas Dinner Rolls
These 10 delicious dinner rolls are perfect for serving at Christmas Dinner.
Easy Christmas Stollen
A very basic and easy German stollen Christmas bread recipe.
This easy gingerbread recipe is a delicious dessert bread.


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In Tom W. Bell's address ahead of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, he presumed that eventually, internet gambling will soon be legalized. You will find ongoing debates on the advantages and disadvantages of the legalization. It can also be studied perhaps the claim of creating business opportunity in internet gambling is true. But experts claim that, ultimately, other states will even demand exactly the same leeway that's given to Las Vegas with regards to gambling legality.
But although you will find designated gambling sites in the country, the development of technology makes it easier for people to get into gambling sites online. In fact, people responded in recent studies that they will not fly to Las Vegas just to play in a legal casino. This is probably the key reason why illegal gambling sites and fly-by-night gambling areas in the suburbs are created.
Well-meaning people who wish to prevent gambling from being legalized have other interests to protect. Because the net is readily accessible to even the youth, they fear that legalizing internet gambling might expose the young to early gambling activity. But currently, you will find indeed minors who do play in online gambling sites. Slot Poker 88 And there is almost no that the us government could do as the World Wide Web is too immense a sea of information to be monitored constantly to avoid minors from accessing it.
Another good thing about the company opportunity in internet gambling is that competition will beef up among gambling site operators. Each site will invest in its website and gambling games, which makes it as close to the physical gambling games as possible. The recreation of the ability in an actual casino will end up being the ideal. And despite claims that gambling in one's home is addicting and dangerous, it is not true. Going to an actual casino poses real danger because that place is just a controlled, carefully studied layout of making people spend everything that they brought there. Everywhere people go, there exists a slot machine waiting to get played. But if people would rather gamble online, people are still susceptible to external hindrances such as a crying baby or perhaps a spouse warning they've to prevent after they've reached their 8th hour in gambling online.
Legalizing internet gambling is the better solution to regulate these businesses. There's nothing much that laws can perform to be able to curtail gambling online. So as opposed to inhibiting online gambling, the us government must legalize it and regulate it once it's been legalized. For now, they are able to simply focus their efforts on studying how to legalize the activity to be able to generate more tax for developing social services. Once it's been legalized, online gamblers can be sure this move will encourage more companies to join the web gambling industry.
With enough competition in the field and with regulation from the us government, there can actually be a lucrative business opportunity in internet gambling. Besides taxes that may help the us government earn more, the creation of more gambling sites online will even create business opportunities for a lot of people.


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In 1999 Hayes International became part of the Bradbury Group, a union of manufacturing companies dedicated to producing high-quality, productivity-enhancing metal processing equipment for customers around the world. The Bradbury Group includes The Bradbury Co., Inc., American Machine & Rollform Tech, Inc., Hayes International, Marion Die & Fixture, and Beck Automation. The Group also includes Bradbury International UK Ltd., and Bradbury Machinery (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
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This type of dog diarrhea is often watery and can be caused by food intolerance, sudden changes in diet, or bacterial overgrowth.
This type of dog diarrhea is typically more frequent and may be accompanied by mucus or blood. Causes include inflammatory bowel disease or parasites.
Sometimes, dogs may experience a bout of diarrhea that resolves quickly. This is known as acute diarrhea. Your pet will usually recover with a little TLC from you. However, if your dog’s diarrhea persists for more than 48 hours, it’s time to schedule a vet visit.
Chronic diarrhea in dogs may lead to weight loss, an unhealthy coat, and low energy levels. Also, your pet’s diet can contribute to chronic diarrhea. So watch out for marketed “healthy” dog foods with high fat and protein content or low fiber. If unsure, consult with your vet for guidance.
– Loss of appetite – Nausea – Drooling secondary to nausea – Vomiting – Watery to soft stool consistency
– Inappropriate or sudden changes in your dog’s diet whether it’s getting into “people” food or a change in dog food – Intestinal parasites (i.e., hookworms, tapeworms, giardia, etc.) – Bacterial infections (i.e., Salmonella, Clostridium overgrowth)
As for breeds, Greyhounds are notorious for their delicate stomachs. You might have noticed that even the slightest diet change or a bit of stress can lead to loose stools. But hey, we still love them for their speedy sprints, right?
If your dog’s diarrhea is acute and goes away with a temporary prescription high-fiber diet, you may be all set! But if it re-develops and your dog gets sicker, your vet may need to do a thorough blood work to rule out medical problems. This typically includes:
Your veterinarian will likely recommend a few medications and diet plans based on their diagnosis or presumed diagnosis.
Warts have a variety of appearances but are typically small and abnormally shaped. They can be pink or darker in color and often look like small brains or cauliflowers.

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In iPhoto '11 Essential Training, Derrick Story offers an in-depth tour of the popular photo management software from Apple, demonstrating its various features for organizing, editing, and sharing images. The course covers techniques to categorize and combine images into custom collections using iPhoto's geotagging, face detection, and Smart Album features, and offers insight on how to perform key image corrections and enhancements. Also covered are tutorials on building customized slideshows and outputting collections to calendars, books, and greeting cards. Exercise files accompany the course.
Well, after we've created some terrific slideshows, such as our Kauai Vacation, and I am trusting that you are going to create some great stuff too. And if you want to share it in a different way by putting it on a DVD, that's not too bad because iDVD is part of iLife, which includes iPhoto and iMovie, and they are all connected together and it works pretty well. The great thing about burning a DVD is that you can share it with Aunt Jane and she doesn't even need a computer.
She can just play it in her DVD player that's connected to her TV and it's very easy which just makes it even better. So let's do that right now. So you just select your project, your little project that you've created here, and then you go up to Share and you see iDVD right there. We are going to share this and I love this here where Send single image. No, we don't want to burn a DVD with just one picture on it. We want to send the whole slideshow. You will get this every time, just go to whole slideshow. (Music playing) All right! So, I just let you hear a little bit of that fabulous theme music.
You have a number of themes here that you can pick. iPhoto will pick one that fits the photos or the slideshow that you are sending over, but you have different ones you can play with. Some are at different resolutions and you might get a warning around that, but you can play with all these themes and there is a whole bunch of them. We are going to stick with this one for a moment, and you really don't have to do very much at this point. You have some text here and you can just leave it. It'll pick up the text from your project and you can see that down here.
So we will leave that at the moment. You probably want to change this text right here and we are just going to call it Derrick's Travels. Just click outside of the box, all right, and look at this. I am in lights here. Now the last thing is you notice we have a little drop zone here, and what iDVD wants is a photo from our travels and you can do that.
You just go over here to Media and your iPhoto Library will show up and you go, ok what photo do I want from the Kauai vacation? And so we'll go through here. First, we have to find our vacation. Here we go. So how about, well, how about something? It just feels like, doesn't this feel like it? So, let's just drag this over here. All right! Look at that. Wow! Isn't that pretty? Now you can test this out by just clicking on the Play button, right here.
So I'm going to turn up the volume, and we'll play it for a second just so we can see what we have. (Music Playing) And that's what Aunt Jane will see on her set top TV when she plays your DVD, because from this point on all you have to do is click the Burn button and insert a recordable DVD and you're off to the races.
I am not going to do that right now. We will just cancel. Now if you want to do more with this, you can and we actually have a good title in our library right now, iDVD '09 Essential Training, and if you wanted to add more content to this DVD before you burn it or you wanted to learn all the ins and outs of this application, I encourage you to take a look at that and you can get better at it. But if you just want to do something quickly, what we've done here will produce a very nice DVD from the work that you created in iPhoto.
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Crashlytics vs TestFlight: What are the differences?
Developers describe Crashlytics as "The world's most powerful, yet lightest weight crash reporting solution. Free for everybody". Instead of just showing you the stack trace, Crashlytics performs deep analysis of each and every thread. We de-prioritize lines that don't matter while highlighting the interesting ones. This makes reading stack traces easier, faster, and far more useful! Crashlytics' intelligent grouping can take 50,000 crashes, distill them down to 20 unique issues, and then tell you which 3 are the most important to fix. On the other hand, TestFlight is detailed as "iOS beta testing on the fly". With TestFlight, developers simply upload a build, and the testers can install it directly from their device, over the air.
Crashlytics and TestFlight are primarily classified as "Mobile Error Monitoring" and "Beta Testing / Mobile App Distribution" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Crashlytics are:
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- Crashlytics' intelligent grouping can take 50,000 crashes, distill them down to 20 unique issues, and then tell you which 3 are the most important to fix.
- Now you'll get precise information on the performance of the devices that your apps run on. We'll let you know if the crash only happens on a specific model or generation of a device. We'll even tell you other information, like whether your app only crashes in landscape mode, or whether the proximity sensor is always on.
On the other hand, TestFlight provides the following key features:
- Sessions- Discover how testers are using your application. Watch as they progress and take unexpected turns.
- Crash Reports- Reported in realtime, with environment snapshots and full session activity.
- In-App Questions- The most effective way to get tester feedback. Get the answers you need by asking questions the moment a checkpoint is passed.
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Used to be our go-to deployment platform but immediately after Apple bought and integrated it they dropped a handful of features, including the ability to deploy Enterprise IPA's. Not sure what the situation is now, but we since migrated to TestFairy and have had no problems.
been a few years since i've used test flight. we used it at my startup over 5 years ago when they were first starting out. help alleviate many of the issues related with app distribution back then.
When it comes to beta testing on iOS, there's really no other solid option. TestFlight is reliable, easy to use and has a set of great API's (albeit somewhat hidden).
We previously used TestFlight to deploy test apps, but since Apple purchased them we've been using HockeyApp so that we can test both iOS as well as Android.
Crashlytics is intended to track issues and crashes sent from the test and the distribution application builds.
We use Testflight for Alha & Beta testing of mostly corporate apps we create for our customers


As fall clean-ups continue throughout the community, Kelowna city hall says more residents are dropping off recycling, waste and yard waste at the Glenmore landfill.
However, it says, some vehicles are arriving without covered loads, which can not only result in debris falling off vehicles it can also create a safety hazard for other vehicles driving behind, as well as pedestrians and cyclists on the road.
The city is reminding residents that loads to the landfill have to be tied or strapped down and covered by a tarp.
“It’s important that residents remember to cover and secure their loads regardless of how far they’re travelling,” said Scott Hoekstra, landfill supervisor.
“Bylaw enforcement staff have been monitoring and handing out fines to those who neglect to cover and secure their load.”
He said there are also cameras located at the landfill to catch unsecured loads and those responsible could be fined.
The fine for an uncovered or unsecured load is $150 under the city’s Solid Waste Management Bylaw. Provincial penalties may also apply.
The Glenmore Landfill is located at 1595 Glenmore Road North.
It is open seven days a week from 7:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
Residents planning to put their gardens to bed for the fall can also purchase OgoGrow or GlenGrow compost at the landfill from 7:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. daily.
For more information about the Glenmore Landfill, visit kelowna.ca/waste.


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Julia Barretto replaces Bea Alonzo in upcoming film with Alden Richards
Bea Alonzo’s loss is Julia Barretto’s gain once again after the latter agreed to take the Kapuso actress’ place in the upcoming film “Special Memory,” which also topbills Alden Richards.
Alonzo had begged off from the project due to her “full schedule.”
Barretto’s decision to join the cast of “Special Memory” has been confirmed by Viva president and CEO Vincent del Rosario III last Thursday, June 2, per Inquirer Bandera.
“Dating Alden-Bea, tapos nag-issue na naman kami ng statement (VIVA) and GMA na magpapahinga ata muna si Bea. So, si Julia na,” del Rosario said. “Ito ‘yung remake ng isang hit Korean movie ‘A Moment To Remember’ local version.”
(The film used to star Alden Richards and Bea Alonzo, then Viva and GMA announced in a statement that Bea stepped back from the project to rest. So, Julia will take over. This will be a local remake of the film, “A Moment to Remember.”)
Del Rosario was further quoted as saying that Barretto is excited to start working with Richards, who has already co-starred with several other Kapamilya in some movies.
Barretto is also set to start working on another project with Aga Muhlach initially labeled “Forgetting.”
“Well excited siya, hindi lang dito pati ‘yung movie nila with Aga Muhlach ‘yung ‘Forgetting.’ Siyempre isa si Julia sa mga importanteng artista ng Viva so binibigyan siya ng magaganda and malalaking projects,” he said.
In May 2023, Alonzo’s management confirmed in a statement released to “Fast Talk with Boy Abunda” that the actress had “respectfully beg[ged] off from the movie” due to her “full schedule.” Talks of the project started as early as December 2020, and contracts for the film were signed in March 2021.
The original movie stars South Korean actors Son Ye-jin and Jung Woo-sung, as it revolves around the hardships of a couple, where the former’s character Su-jin suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. EDV


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This week we look at Asset #36, Peaceful Conflict Resolution. According to the Search Institute, “Youth are more likely to grow up healthy when they seek to resolve conflict non-violently.” Forty-five percent of youth nationwide are reported to have this Asset.
Several years ago, several sites in the Los Alamos Public Schools District took part in training called, “Restorative Justice.” These teachers, counselors, instructional assistants, bus drivers, coaches and other staff members were taught the principles of Restorative Justice.
This skill set is utilized at sites from playgrounds to classrooms and address issues of all varieties to allow youth to develop the skills to handle problems on their own. The biggest skill set that has to be developed is one that applies to us all, the art of listening.
Why would listening be called an art? We’ve become a society that is preparing the answer before the question is even finished being asked. Think of the student in the classroom who is shouting “oh, oh, oh,” because they know the answer.
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Snowmobiling at Pymatuning State Park
Fries Road Trail by Tuttle Point and the abandoned railroad grade by the spillway provide five miles of trails for snowmobiles.
In the Jamestown area, there are additional trails and open fields.
Snow and Ice Conditions
The Winter Report provides ice and snow depth information for state parks.

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