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Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles
I think the puppet just saw his strings for the first time
I think the puppet just saw his strings for the first time
Most of us stopped paying by-the-minute for phone calls years ago; a luxury that’s not available to the men and women in prison, where the few providers of phone service https://consumerist.com/2014/12/18/long-after-serial-season-is-over-global-tel-link-will-keep-charging-inmates-outrageous-phone-fees/. The FCC’s efforts to cap these rates are currently being https://consumerist.com/2016/03/07/court-delays-some-fcc-efforts-to-lower-costs-for-prisoners-phone-calls/, and with a new business-friendly Chairman at the helm, the FCC has opted to not defend the very rules it came up with only 15 months ago.
In 2015, the FCC https://consumerist.com/2015/10/22/fcc-puts-caps-on-the-sky-high-rates-prisoners-pay-to-call-home/ to put caps on inmate calling services (ICS) rates.
That rule reduced the limit for ICS calls of 15 minutes or less to no more than $1.65 and set the per-minute rate limits for prepaid calls to $0.11-$0.22 per minute depending on the kind and size of facility the call comes from. The rule also banned “flat-rate calling,” which charges all inmates for at 15 minutes of use, no matter how long or short the actual call is. And it set limits on the “ancillary service charges” ICS providers charge inmates for the very act of being billed and paying that bill.
As you can imagine, the entities that reap revenue from charging high ICS rates — which includes the states and the private companies that run prisons — want to keep raking in as much money as they can. And so the state of Oklahoma, the Sheriff of Oklahoma County, and ICS provider Global Tel-Link filed a lawsuit to block enforcement of the restrictions.
Betsy DeVos’ Code Words Raise Red Flag About ‘Junk Science’
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/devos_code_words_creationism_offshoot_raise_concerns_junk_science_20170205
At a confirmation hearing [last] month, Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s pick for education secretary, responded to a question about whether she would promote “junk science” by saying she supports science teaching that “allows students to exercise critical thinking.”
This seemingly innocuous statement has raised alarms among science education advocates, and buoyed the hopes of conservative Christian groups that, if confirmed, DeVos may use her bully pulpit atop the U.S. Department of Education to undermine the teaching of evolution in public schools.
DeVos and her family have poured millions of dollars into groups that champion intelligent design, the doctrine that the complexity of biological life can best be explained by the existence of a creator rather than by Darwinian evolution. Within this movement, “critical thinking” has become a code phrase to justify teaching of intelligent design.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/devos_code_words_creationism_offshoot_raise_concerns_junk_science_20170205
At a confirmation hearing [last] month, Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s pick for education secretary, responded to a question about whether she would promote “junk science” by saying she supports science teaching that “allows students to exercise critical thinking.”
This seemingly innocuous statement has raised alarms among science education advocates, and buoyed the hopes of conservative Christian groups that, if confirmed, DeVos may use her bully pulpit atop the U.S. Department of Education to undermine the teaching of evolution in public schools.
DeVos and her family have poured millions of dollars into groups that champion intelligent design, the doctrine that the complexity of biological life can best be explained by the existence of a creator rather than by Darwinian evolution. Within this movement, “critical thinking” has become a code phrase to justify teaching of intelligent design.
Opinion Trump Needs a Holy War
Donald Trump wants a war, but not just any war
It's an inconceivably scary thought that the Trump administration is simply winging it, breakneck, disrupting and detonating and taking America apart - and all of it without a plan.
But here's the even scarier possibility - that there is, in fact, a plan.
A plan which would dramatically concentrate and expand Donald Trump's power, inflame and mobilize his base, whip up and and leverage racism, Islamophobia and, at a later stage, if needed, anti-Semitism, in order to slough all shortcomings onto scapegoats.
He needs a war.
He needs a war to reconcile the contradictions of a populist and extravagantly self-contradictory election campaign, in which he vowed to rebuild the military to historic levels while also slashing government spending. He needs the kind of war that could make good his vows to revive heavy industrial manufacturing and the mining of "beautiful coal."
A war would free him to green-light mammoth corporate monopolies, and to provide the ultimate pretext, the emergency imperative, for abrogating on a massive scale the most basic of constitutional guarantees to individual freedoms - gun ownership excepted.
Donald Trump wants a war, but not just any war
It's an inconceivably scary thought that the Trump administration is simply winging it, breakneck, disrupting and detonating and taking America apart - and all of it without a plan.
But here's the even scarier possibility - that there is, in fact, a plan.
A plan which would dramatically concentrate and expand Donald Trump's power, inflame and mobilize his base, whip up and and leverage racism, Islamophobia and, at a later stage, if needed, anti-Semitism, in order to slough all shortcomings onto scapegoats.
He needs a war.
He needs a war to reconcile the contradictions of a populist and extravagantly self-contradictory election campaign, in which he vowed to rebuild the military to historic levels while also slashing government spending. He needs the kind of war that could make good his vows to revive heavy industrial manufacturing and the mining of "beautiful coal."
A war would free him to green-light mammoth corporate monopolies, and to provide the ultimate pretext, the emergency imperative, for abrogating on a massive scale the most basic of constitutional guarantees to individual freedoms - gun ownership excepted.
What We Can Learn From Oklahoma City Bombing in Age of Trump
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/what-we-can-learn-from-oklahoma-city-bombing-in-age-of-trump-w464625
The morning after President Trump stood in the rain to take his oath of office, Barak Goodman debuted his documentary Oklahoma City at the Sundance Film Festival. On the surface, one had little to do with the other – in 1995, when Timothy McVeigh set off a bomb in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building that killed 168 people, Trump was just a run-of-the-mill New York City real estate mogul. Yet 22 years later, his position is a lot more relevant.
In the documentary, which premieres at select theaters Friday and will air on PBS February 7th, Goodman dives deep into the events leading up to McVeigh's brutal assault against the federal government. WGBH American Experience . Oklahoma City
The film explores the formation of the Aryan Nations, the violent sieges of Ruby Ridge and Waco – government raids on fringe groups that fueled a backlash from far-right militias – and McVeigh's interest in them, as well as his own complicated relationship with guns and the government. Goodman, a longtime PBS documentarian, says that he and his team intentionally "avoided making any connection" between the rise of white supremacy in the 1980s and 1990s and the version seen in our news today.
But given how the far right has become increasingly emboldened since Trump's election, it seems eerily relevant. Goodman tells Rolling Stone that in spite of Trump's ascendance over the 18 months it took to research, film and edit the documentary, "We didn't want to make facile comparisons with what's happening now. That said, we hope people will take away from this film a deeper understanding of this movement and of the historical roots of the white supremacist movement and the radical right in general."
Here, four takeaways from Oklahoma City to keep in mind at Trump continues his presidency.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/what-we-can-learn-from-oklahoma-city-bombing-in-age-of-trump-w464625
The morning after President Trump stood in the rain to take his oath of office, Barak Goodman debuted his documentary Oklahoma City at the Sundance Film Festival. On the surface, one had little to do with the other – in 1995, when Timothy McVeigh set off a bomb in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building that killed 168 people, Trump was just a run-of-the-mill New York City real estate mogul. Yet 22 years later, his position is a lot more relevant.
In the documentary, which premieres at select theaters Friday and will air on PBS February 7th, Goodman dives deep into the events leading up to McVeigh's brutal assault against the federal government. WGBH American Experience . Oklahoma City
The film explores the formation of the Aryan Nations, the violent sieges of Ruby Ridge and Waco – government raids on fringe groups that fueled a backlash from far-right militias – and McVeigh's interest in them, as well as his own complicated relationship with guns and the government. Goodman, a longtime PBS documentarian, says that he and his team intentionally "avoided making any connection" between the rise of white supremacy in the 1980s and 1990s and the version seen in our news today.
But given how the far right has become increasingly emboldened since Trump's election, it seems eerily relevant. Goodman tells Rolling Stone that in spite of Trump's ascendance over the 18 months it took to research, film and edit the documentary, "We didn't want to make facile comparisons with what's happening now. That said, we hope people will take away from this film a deeper understanding of this movement and of the historical roots of the white supremacist movement and the radical right in general."
Here, four takeaways from Oklahoma City to keep in mind at Trump continues his presidency.
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