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The hope – in the end, the only real hope we have – is that people who do all that will be less susceptible to toxic ideologies. |
Consider that, even lacking a real ideology, toxic or otherwise, Trump has already inflicted damage. It is hardly coincidental that the New York City Anti-Violence Project just reported that 2017 saw an 86 percent spike in hate crime killings of LGBTQ people. Or that the FBI arrested a Michigan man a few days ago after... |
All this and much more has been done to us by someone who is not smart. |
What do you suppose might be done to us by someone who was? |
Suzanne Evans and Paul Nuttall have announced they are to run for the leadership of UKIP, with both promising to unite the troubled party. |
Ms Evans said she would make the party less "toxic" and aim to occupy the "common sense centre" ground. |
Mr Nuttall, like Ms Evans an ex-party chairman, said he was the man to "bring the factions together". |
However, interim leader Nigel Farage, speaking about Ms Evans, said: "I won't be voting for her." |
The party has been in turmoil since the referendum in June, when the UK voted to leave the EU. |
Where did it all go wrong for UKIP? |
Mr Farage stood down as leader at the start of July saying he had achieved his political ambition. His successor Diane James resigned earlier this month after only 18 days in the job - leading to Mr Farage's return as interim leader. |
Last week, Steven Woolfe, who had been one of the front-runners to replace Ms James, quit the party a few days after being involved in an altercation with fellow MEP Mike Hookem. |
Ms Evans told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that she hoped to "pour oil on troubled water" after there had been "a bit too much testosterone" in UKIP. |
She said focusing on the centre ground meant "not the wishy washy Lib Dem centre" but a party capable of taking votes from both left and right. |
She also accused leadership rival Raheem Kassam of seeking to take the party too far to the right and added: "Our 2015 general election manifesto took the best of politics from the left and from the right". |
Paul Nuttall described himself as the "unity candidate". Yet today's skirmishes show how much UKIP is riven by feuding factions. |
This leadership contest is about much more than choosing an individual. |
It's about deciding the future of a party which has been dominated for so long by Nigel Farage and focussed for years on getting - and winning - an EU referendum. |
While the next leader will want to make sure the government delivers the kind of Brexit UKIP wants, there are longer-term existential questions. |
These are: how the party stays relevant, what positions it takes on all sorts of other policy areas, and where it places itself on the political spectrum. |
So far, the signs are the battle for the future could be a bloody one. |
However, Mr Farage, speaking on ITV's Peston on Sunday, said she would not be receiving his vote, adding: "I don't doubt she has ability, it's just a question of political direction and to kick off her campaign decrying one of the declared candidates is not what we needed." |
He also dismissed Ms Evans' views that the party should be in the centre ground, saying: "UKIP is a radical political party that pushes for change and needs to go on being a radical political party." |
Mr Kassam responded to Ms Evans' accusation on Twitter, saying: "It is sad that 60 seconds after she launched her campaign on the BBC, Suzanne Evans attacked me and my thousands of supporters as 'far right'." |
In a fuller email sent to Ms Evans, he added: "I would hereby request that you cease referring to vast swatches of UKIP as 'far right' and embark upon a positive campaign, structured upon not who you are against, but what you are for." |
Speaking to Dermot Murnaghan on Sky News, Mr Kassam also said he wanted to unite the party and added: "I think now, especially after that incident with Steven Woolfe in the European Parliament, we have to say this has gone too far. |
"We are all in the same party and if we wish to remain in the same party let's sit down around a table together." |
Nominations in the current leadership election close on 31 October, with the eventual winner announced on 28 November. |
Mr Nuttall said that he had decided to stand for the leadership after the troubles of the past few months, telling Andrew Neil on the BBC's Sunday Politics: "UKIP needs to come together. At the moment it is looking over the edge of a political cliff and it will either step off or step back. I want to be the candidate w... |
Explaining why, when he didn't stand for the leadership earlier in the year, Mr Nuttall said: "I felt that with Brexit that my job and Nigel's job was done and we could hand over to the next generation. |
"But that doesn't appear to have been the case and maybe it's time for someone who's an older hand in many ways." |
He added: "We need a strong UKIP there in the background to ensure that Brexit means Brexit and I believe that UKIP can become the patriotic face of working people." |
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Enough soggy Nike basketball shoes to outfit every high school team in Alaska are drifting through the Pacific Ocean toward the state after spilling from a container ship off Northern California. |
"Nike forgot to tie the laces, so you have to find mates," said Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer in Washington state who tracks flotsam. "The effort's worth it, because these Nikes have only been adrift a few months. All 33,000 are wearable." |
A beachcomber told Mr. Ebbesmeyer about the shoe spill after finding two new Nikes washed up on Washington's Olympic Peninsula on Jan. 9 and 16. Unfortunately, they were sizes 10 and 8. Both were lefts. |
A little research by Mr. Ebbesmeyer confirmed that a ship lost cargo Dec. 15 during a storm, including three 40-foot containers carrying an estimated 5,500 pairs of shoes each. |
"Nikes will be soon in your neck of the sea," Mr. Ebbesmeyer said in an e-mail to the Anchorage Daily News last week. |
During the past decade, Mr. Ebbesmeyer has tracked 29,000 duckies, turtles and other bathtub toys; 3 million Legos; 34,000 hockey gloves; and 50,000 Nike cross-trainers that went overboard in the Pacific in 1999. |
He and government oceanographer Jim Ingraham have published their results in academic journals, as well as Mr. Ebbesmeyer's newsletter, Beachcombers' Alert. |
This time, Mr. Ebbesmeyer took the serial numbers off the shoes to trace the shipment. Nike told him the shoes were being shipped from Los Angeles to Tacoma, Wash. |
After the two shoes washed ashore on the Olympic Peninsula in January, Mr. Ebbesmeyer calculated that they had moved more than 450 miles in a month, as much as 18 miles a day. |
He calculated that the Nikes could bob and weave an additional 1,600 miles by the time the current eases in mid-April. |
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London has had a dedicated contactless payment travelcard, called Oyster, for over a decade — offering a smarter alternative to paper ticketing that can hold a balance and cap daily and weekly travel costs. But change is coming. From September, London’s public transport network will be accepting contactless bank cards ... |
It will also be possible to pay to travel around London using select mobile devices that contain an NFC chip and a compatible mobile payment app that’s been linked to your bank account. This means mobile users will finally be able to tap in and out of the public transport network using just their handset — more than si... |
Those wanting to be able to ditch their Oyster and use a mobile handset for travel payments will need a device with an NFC chip, which currently excludes any iOS devices. They will also need a compatible Visa, MasterCard or Amex mobile payment app. Carrier EE has been touting its compatible Cash on Tap app, although th... |
Currently contactless bank cards are already accepted by TfL as an alternative to its Oyster cards on London buses, replacing cash as a payment option earlier this month. But from September 16 the whole TfL network will accept them, along with compatible mobiles. |
The expanded contactless rollout will bring the same daily and weekly price capping features offered by the Oyster system to other payment methods, so users paying with bank cards or mobile apps won’t pay more than they should. TfL says it will bill users’ bank or credit card accounts once per day to ensure the capping... |
Taking the Oyster card out of the loop and linking payments directly to travelers’ bank accounts is a clear way for TfL to cut queues for tickets and tops ups. Which it really needs to do, given the Mayor of London has committed to closing almost all ticket offices on the Tube network by 2015 — although the sweetener f... |
One visible and rather unfortunate aspect of the technology transition from contactless travelcards to contactless bank cards is the need for TfL to warn Tube users of the risk of so-called “card clash”. Aka when a user has multiple contactless cards in the wallet they touch on the ticket reader — meaning the system is... |
Also looming on London’s horizon: a rollout of 5G mobile technology. A commitment to rolling out the next generation of cellular tech in the UK capital by 2020 will be included in a Mayor of London infrastructure investment plan, being published on Wednesday. |
The Telegraph reports that the network rollout will be in collaboration with the University of Surrey where the UK has a 5G research center. The center was established back in 2012, backed by £35 million in financial backing — £11.6 million of which came from government. |
-- Kenny Perry came to Harding Park without much sparkle to his game, for fully understandable reasons. |
Perry pocketed his first Champions Tour victory Oct. 2 in Cary, N.C. It was a difficult and emotional win, because his sister, Kay, died of breast cancer the night before the final round. Perry contemplated withdrawing before ultimately finishing the tournament. |
Then he put his clubs away, not at all concerned with preparing for the Schwab Cup Championship. |
"I didn't play any golf at all for two weeks," Perry said after shooting 70 in Thursday's opening round. "I spent a lot of time with my family. I haven't practiced, so I'm stiff. I'm physically out of it." |
Perry does bring some familiarity with Harding Park, from the American Express Championship in 2005 (tie for 32nd) and the Presidents Cup in '09 (he went 1-3). |
Couples on Stricker: Before he seized a share of the lead, Fred Couples made a phone call - to Steve Stricker, whose lingering neck/arm injury has cast doubt on his readiness for the upcoming Presidents Cup in Australia. |
"Steve said he feels fine," said Couples, the U.S. captain. "He said, 'Does my arm feel 100 percent? No. But I'm going to play unless it falls off.' " |
Briefly: Tom Lehman, leading the season points race, shot 70 in the opening round. His closest pursuer, Mark Calcavecchia, shot 71. ... Tom Watson (74) struggled, as did two-time defending champion John Cook (73). ... None of the 30 players made birdie at No. 12 (a 450-yard par-4) or No. 14 (a 467-yard par-4). No. 12 i... |
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Trump creates the greatest economy ever and what does he get? Higher interest rates! |
Donald Trump feels sorry for himself. The big beautiful economy and the booming stock market that he created all by himself are threatened by that mean man at the Federal Reserve who’s raising interest rates too fast. |
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the president says he isn’t happy with Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Fed who Trump appointed last year. Now Trump thinks maybe he backed the wrong guy, because Powell was supposed to be a low-interest-rate guy. |
Should Powell take that as a threat, the Journal asks? That he’ll be fired if he raises rates again? |
But, Mr. President, some corporations are saying that the tariffs with China and all the uncertainty about trade hurt their business. Even Caterpillar CAT, +0.50% (which Trump loves like no other) says its profits will be reduced because it has to pay more for aluminum and steel. Is the trade war a threat to the econom... |
No matter what else happens, Trump has to be seen as being a better president than Obama was. |
Barack Obama got low interest rates when he was president, which is why Obama’s numbers were as good as they were (not much!). Just think how great the economy would be doing now under Trump (and it’s the best economy ever, by far) if only the Fed wouldn’t raise interest rates so much. |
Obama was a lucky duck, because the economy was falling like a rock when he came in. The economy declined 8.4% and 2 million workers lost their jobs the quarter before he took office. That gave an Obama an advantage because it could only go up from there, says Trump, who inherited an economy that was growing about 2%, ... |
As for the Fed, it had already raised rates twice, to a range of 0.50% to 0.75%, before Trump took the oath. |
Even though the economy is the best ever, it can’t handle higher interest rates right now, Trump says. Higher rates will make it harder to buy a house, or a car (or a casino). All that money going to pay higher interest rates could be used to pay down the debt instead, which is totally what Trump would be doing now, be... |
It’s just not fair. Obama has an economy that’s in the crapper, and he gets low interest rates. But Trump has the greatest economy ever, the best jobs numbers you ever saw, and what’s his reward? Boom! Higher interest rates! |
Shareholders of the Swedish car maker Volvo A.B. approved a link with Renault S.A. of France. The alliance of the companies' car, truck and bus operations through cross-ownership deals calls for cooperation on research and development, component purchases and investment. |
Volvo's stockholders approved a sale of shares worth 11.2 billion crowns, or $1.82 billion, in Volvo's car, truck and bus operations to state-owned Renault. Under the deal, announced in February, Renault will acquire 10 percent of Volvo in the open market. Volvo will spend 23.2 billion crowns, or $3.77 billion, for a n... |
Even in death, John McCain retained the dignity and character that our country so desperately needs today. |
The late Sen. John McCain was captured because he was serving on the front lines during war. He was held as a prisoner of war for over 5 years, refusing to accept an early release while his fellow prisoners remained in captivity. When he was finally returned to the United States, he embarked on a career of continued se... |
While I didn’t always agree with his views, I respected the way that he demonstrated willingness to discuss issues. His open minded approach was much different than we see in most politicians today. Sometimes, he broke with his Republican Party in order to try to do what he perceived to be best for his country. |
McCain didn’t lower himself to childish arguments in which he belittled others. Perhaps that is why our current president said that McCain was not a hero. Donald Trump perceived McCain as weak because he would not engage in petty arguments. Nothing could be farther from the truth. McCain was extremely strong because he... |
I will mourn for our country’s loss of a great statesman because of his deeds and not his words. Even in death, John McCain retained the dignity and character that our country so desperately needs today. |
President Donald Trump’s response to Sen. John McCain’s death shows what a small-minded, petty hypocrite person he is. While McCain served bravely in the military and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war, refusing to be released early because he fellow prisoners would not be released, Trump was receiving a draft defe... |
Sen. John McCain was a great leader. He represented all people, and he was a great navel officer whose unbelievable sacrifices in the name of this great country will always and must be remembered. Thank you, sir. |
What kind of man is President Donald Trump? Who leaves the flag at half-staff for Sen. John McCain for only a few minutes? |
Former Secretary of State Kris Kobach used state funds to pay for continuing law education ordered by a federal court judge for his performance in a voter rights trial last year. |
Kobach notified the court last week he had completed a six-hour course on civil trial basics through the National Business Institute. |
Katie Koupal, spokeswoman for the secretary of state's office, confirmed Kobach made the $359 payment for the audio version of the class through the office. |
Previously, Kobach paid a $1,000 fine for misleading the federal court with a state-issued card left behind by an employee who was deployed to Ukraine with the Oklahoma Army National Guard. |
Both instances stem from litigation over a state law that required new voters to show a birth certificate or other proof of citizenship when registering to vote. The American Civil Liberties Union challenged the law, which was argued at trial last year, and Judge Julie Robinson ruled the requirement unconstitutional. |
Robinson also said Kobach's late efforts to introduce new evidence showed a pattern of "flaunting disclosure and discovery rules that are designed to prevent prejudice and surprise at trial." She ordered coursework as a sanction. |
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