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Millions in Forest ‘Enhancement’ Funds May Be Spurring More Logging
BC gives money to truck logs far distances. Some worry it leads to cutting down remote, rare forests.
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Politics - CBSNews.com
Company owned by Trump donor won $1.7 million no-bid Reflecting Pool contract
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The federal government awarded a company owned by a Trump donor $1.7 million to install a new water cleaning system for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, records show.
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Please Advise! Why Did a BC Mining Company Hire Kristi Noem?
Well, we know she’s at home in a gravel pit and handy with a shovel.
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The Gateway Pundit
THE RIGHT THING: Trump Ally Abelardo De La Espriella Elected New President of Colombia – Incumbent Gustavo Petro Contests Results
The Western Hemisphere is turning right. The post THE RIGHT THING: Trump Ally Abelardo De La Espriella Elected New President of Colombia – Incumbent Gustavo Petro Contests Results appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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Colombia Announces Election Results in One Day… While California Marxists Won’t Report Election Results for 2 More Weeks – Five Weeks After Election Day!
Colombia, a country rife with cartel violence, drug kingpins, and political assassinations picked their new leader on Sunday. The post Colombia Announces Election Results in One Day… While California Marxists Won’t Report Election Results for 2 More Weeks – Five Weeks After Election Day! appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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Trump’s Retreat
So now the Strait of Hormuz is closed again, this time because Iran blames Israel for defending itself from attacks...
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US news | The Guardian
Trump news at a glance: President threatens to restart attacks on Iran even as Vance cites progress in talks
Trump warning that Iran ‘won’t have a country’ if it closes strait of Hormuz contrasts with vice-president’s tone seeking to turn over ‘new leaf’ with Tehran – key US politics stories from Sunday 21 JuneDonald Trump threatened to resume war with Iran even as his vice-president JD Vance met Iranian officials to begin peace talks in Switzerland.Also overshadowing negotiations in Bürgenstock was Tehran’s announcement it had again closed the strait of Hormuz, a threat made because of ongoing Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon. Continue reading...
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Raw Story
'Slowly, then very quickly': Economist shares striking warning as Trump's war deal falters
President Donald Trump's war with Iran put the global economy on the brink of collapse, and one economist warns that it could get worse if one sector of the economy begins to show signs of weakness. Liaquat Ahamed, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former World Bank investment chief, said during a recent episode of "The Court of History" podcast on the Legal AF Network that Trump's unilateral decision to impose tariffs on America's trading partners had already weakened the global economy before his war with Iran began. After the Iranian regime closed the Strait of Hormuz, the economy came exceedingly close to the brink, Ahamed argued. The only thing that saved Trump from collapsing the global economy was the enormous amounts of money tech companies are spending to build data centers around the world, Ahamed added. Without that, the economy would be in a "dark place," he continued. "The tech companies are spending trillions of dollars to build these data centers, and that is essentially sustaining the global economy," Ahamed said. Ahamed compared the state of the global economy to recent historical crashes, borrowing the old adage attributed to Ernest Hemingway that economic crises often unfold "slowly, then very quickly." He noted that the current value of the U.S. stock market is more than double the country's GDP, which he described as similar to the valuations seen during the dot-com bubble. That is happening at a time when more stress is being injected into the economy. Tensions between the U.S. and Iran appear to be ramping up again after Vice President JD Vance traveled to Switzerland to negotiate a deal with the Iranian regime to end the conflict. The Iranians announced they are closing the Strait of Hormuz once again in response to Israel's continued fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon, which the regime has described as a "red line" in the negotiations. "Calling an end to this whole thing is very hard," Ahamed said. "On the other hand, I can assure you there will be an end."
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Axios
Reflecting Pool repairs become personal for Trump
President Trump on Sunday ordered immediate repairs to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after alleging vandalism had damaged the recently renovated landmark.Why it matters: Trump's direct intervention elevates a maintenance dispute at a national landmark into a public test of a high-profile renovation project. Screenshot: President Trump/Truth SocialThe president said on Truth Social Sunday he had personally inspected the damage. A day earlier, he wrote he had met with contractors because much of the pool will probably have to be drained for "necessary repairs."By the numbers: Initial work at the site cost an estimated $14 million.The New York Times reported last week that a no-bid $1.7 million contract was awarded in the spring to a firm tied to a contractor named John "JJ" Cafaro to install a water-purification system.Cafaro is an Ohio businessman and longtime Trump donor, who was convicted in 2002 in a conspiracy-to-bribe case involving a U.S. congressman, and again in 2010 for making a false statement.State of play: Trump announced last November plans to "fix" the 2,000-foot-long pool, including painting it "American flag blue" ahead of the nation's 250th anniversary celebrations on July 4.Workers refilled the pool and completed renovations by June 5, but days later algae turned the water green — a recurring problem at the landmark.Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday that multiple people had been arrested in connection with alleged vandalism of the pool.Olympian David Hearn told the Washington Post he was among those arrested, but the 67-year-old said he didn't vandalize, "destroy or break or peel anything." He said he just wanted to touch part of the new blue liner that had detached from the bottom of the pool.Zoom in: Trump alleged vandals had used "form of knife or blade, and put a 250 foot long gash" into its facade."They also poured corrosive and destructive chemicals into the Pool," he alleged, without providing evidence of either allegation.The National Park Service has poured hydrogen peroxide into the pool to treat the algae, which the Wall Street Journal notes can be used as a paint remover.What they're saying: U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said on Fox News Sunday that anyone found vandalizing the pool would be prosecuted."If there are more serious products that are put into the Reflecting Pool to create more algae or a bigger problem, then we'll consider more serious charges," Pirro told "The Sunday Briefing" host Peter Doocy."But make no mistake, making D.C. beautiful is a priority. And if you damage, vandalize or do anything to impact something like the reflective pool, you can be prosecuted."Representatives for the White House did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.
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