noting that such a transaction had helped republican businessman perry johnson, which is a literal definition of pay to play. but ethics does not seem to be a stumbling block for this crop of republican candidates. in order to meet the rnc s requirement that candidates get at least 40,000 individual donors, billionaire north dakota doug burgham offered to anyone who donated $1 to his campaign, $20 in return. now, that very questionable financial arrangement allowed biden supporters to donate a dollar to mr. burgham s campaign and then donate their $20 proceeds directly to president biden. by helping democrats launder doug burgham s donations directly into his opponent s pocket, doug burgham made the republican debate stage. this is the mad, mad world of republican debate. and yes, it is hard to see any legitimacy in this process, and that is before you even get to
he told that crowd, he is going to defy it. i will talk. and this goes back to also repeatedly yesterday donald trump continued to propagate the election fraud claims that got him into trouble in the first place and led him to these charges that came down last week from the special counsel s office. he called it a disgusting stolen election, repeated over and over, he called it bs, the crowd started chanting bs in return. for donald trump, so much of this is about essentially echoing the arguments that his legal defense says they re going to make in the court, that he genuinely believed the election was taken from him. now, despite 2022 election losses for so many election denial candidates for donald trump, it is just as important the 2024 election for him as this is convincing the american electorate that he is he won the 2020 election. and, you know, then you have to see what the reaction was in the hall. this so far has been working for the former president with those
on, and then he and his far-right coalition get to just ram it through anyway. number two, at whate1 cost was this pause achieved? netanyahu seems to have persuaded his far-right wing nationalfáe1 security minister, man once convictedñi for incitement of racism and suppora back the pause byq giving him a private police force, his own q militia, in return, one that the fascistic ben could usexd to crk down on future anti-government protests inside of israel butt( also to terrorize palestinians in the occupiede1q territories. number three, what about the palestinians? where do they feature in all$ this? israelis have beenq admirably ad bravely protesting in the streets to save their democracy, a democracy that has never existed for millions of palestinians who live under direct israeli controlçó in the west where are the israeli protests
Senator Joseph Victor " JV " Ejercito(File photo) MANILA-Senator Joseph Victor Ejercito on Tuesday said he will file a bill that aims to build houses that will serve as temporary homes for informal settlers and workers based in urban areas nationwide. Ejercito made the statement during the joint hearing of the Senate Committees on Urban Planning, Housing and Resettlement, Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development; and Finance, saying Metro Manila and Cebu will be the pilot project areas for his planned bill. The project, according to Ejercito, will also serve as shelter to those displaced by natural and man-made disasters and will also solve the housing problems and at the same time support the government's housing program. "I will file a bill, Rental housing bill for employees in Metro Manila and other urban centers, kasi pag retiro nila uuwi din sa probinsya, so iba naman ang mag rerenta ng unit" (They will return to the province, upon retirement, so other
does that leave us ? and that s the problem. s usthis act leaves us , the und states , with no option but n there s no there is no off ramp now. there is no way out.t mean we are all in no matter what its that means.. are you shock by this? was there a vote no matter where it goes.n this wadis therd e a vote on this to someone? enin ask your opinion. no, but it s been happening fori months. on. in slow motion.e near it s been hidden from public view by the near total blackout imposed by america. media media outlet s. she probably didn t know any of the details. for example, in marcn march,h, the turkish government tried tod broker a peace in ukraine , very close,ly. wasn t reported widely. ukraine was prepared to guarantee neutrality, meaning you would not join nato . that s what the russians, wht wanted. n return and in return for that,e russ the russian government would withdraw its forces from ukraine. and that might have been a neat solution. certainly for the rest of us .c