'Give Trump the money' for the wall, Democrat says with Senate vote scheduled for this week

'I'd give him the whole thing'

Some Congressional Democrats are coming around to the idea of funding a southern border wall as the partial government shutdown drags on, with Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) saying Tuesday that Democrats should vote to "Give Trump the money," according to The Hill.

"I'd give him the whole thing … and put strings on it so you make sure he puts the wall where it needs to be," Peterson told KFGO-TV. "Why are we fighting over this? We're going to build that wall anyway, at some time."

Peterson expressed concerns about giving President Donald Trump a "blank check," but said he didn't want to keep the money from him "if he's going to use the money correctly." He also said Democrats "look at me cross-eyed" when he brings up the idea.

Where are we now?

There is some hope for an end to the shutdown this week, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has agreed to hold a vote on two competing funding bills.

One bill represents Trump's offer over the weekend to provide temporary legal protections to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status immigrants in exchange for $5.7 million in wall funding.

The other bill is a backup plan, a three-week continuing resolution that would fund the government at current levels and reopen it while border security negotiations continue.

"For the first time, we will get a vote on whether to open the government without any decision one way or the other on border security," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).

What's the outlook?

It's possible that neither of the bills will pass. Many Democrats view wall funding as a non-starter, putting the passage of Trump's proposal in jeopardy. And a Senate-approved continuing resolution in December died after Trump said he wouldn't support a bill that didn't include wall funding. The votes could be a good indicator of which side has gained the most ground through this extended shutdown.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/give-trump-the-money-for-the-wall

Arizona Legislator Proposes Securing State Reserves with Gold and Silver

Phoenix, Arizona (January 22, 2019) – An Arizona legislator has put forward a bill to de-risk the state’s financial holdings with a modest allocation to physical gold and silver in the state’s reserve fund.

Introduced by Representative Mark Finchem (R-Tucson), the Arizona Sound Money Stabilization Act (HB 2500) requires that at least 10% of Arizona’s Budget Stabilization Fund be held in the monetary metals in a secure depository.

Arizona’s Budget Stabilization Fund has almost $500 million in assets but is currently invested in debt instruments and the stock market. The state owns no gold or silver.

Finchem’s past sound money initiatives have been successful. In 2017, Rep. Finchem passed the ground-breaking House Bill 2014, a measure which removed all income taxation of gold and silver at the state level.

Gold and silver do not have the default or inflation risks that bonds and other “fixed income” investments carry. Most importantly, physical gold and silver held in a depository carry no counterparty risk – or risk of failure or default – unlike stocks, bonds, and other financial assets.

In support of the measure, Rep. Finchem said, “it’s high time to safeguard the state’s assets and taxpayers against the volatile dollar.”

Furthermore, an allocation to precious metals is proven to increase overall returns over time, reduce volatility, and reduce drawdowns.

Backed by the Sound Money Defense League, this measure protects Arizona’s rainy day fund by including the only money proven to protect against the Federal Reserve Note’s ongoing devaluation.

Arizona’s Sound Money Stabilization Act comes on the heels of three sound money bills introduced in Wyoming last week.

Concerned that state investments have no protection against a stock market crash, credit crisis, or other existential financial risks, Wyoming legislators want a small portion of Wyoming’s pension fund, reserve fund, and mineral trust fund allocated to physical gold and silver held in a depository within (or near) the Cowboy State.

https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2019/01/22/arizona-silver-gold-reserve-fund-001701

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BuzzFeed Throws Hail Mary: Publishes New Trump Tower Moscow Docs

After last week's embarrassing debacle in which special counsel Robert Mueller issued a rare statement calling bullshit on BuzzFeed over their Trump Tower Moscow report that Trump ordered his attorney Michael Cohen to lie about the timeline, the beleaguered news outlet has taken a second bite at the apple with a new report (oddly written by a completely different journalist) refuting comments by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani that "no plans were ever made" for the project.

Not so fast Rudy…

In their new report, BuzzFeed claims that the Trump Tower Moscow idea was "led by Trump's then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, and his associate Felix Sater" despite writing in November that Sater both thought of and spearheaded the idea, turning to Cohen to "get it off the ground" while overpromising that he could seal the deal through his Russian connections that never panned out.

Sater, a brash real estate promoter who pleaded guilty to racketeering in 1998 and became a longtime asset to US law enforcement and intelligence agencies, had worked with the Trump Organization on deals in the past and said he came up with the idea. Cohen, Sater recalled, said, “Great idea.” -BuzzFeed

Today's "gotcha," however is that the project had progressed much further than Giuliani claimed on Monday when he told the New Yorker "no plans were ever made. There were no drafts. Nothing in the file."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-22/buzzfeed-throws-hail-mary-publishes-new-trump-tower-moscow-docs

'Strategic Threat' To Israel - Progressives Lose Fear Of Speaking Out On Palestine

Two weeks ago the Zionist lobby targeted civil rights activist Angela Davis for her support of the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement (BDS). Following lobby pressure the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama canceled its annual gala at which Davis was to receive a prestigious human rights award. This created a huge backlash. The city council of Birmingham unanimously adopted a resolution "recognizing the life work of Angela Davis". The Institute's chair, vice-chair and secretary had to resign from the board.

Following that scandal the gates of hell opened and, on Sunday, the New York Times published a column that criticized the Apartheid policy of the Zionist entity in the Middle East.

Time to Break the Silence on Palestine

Martin Luther King Jr. courageously spoke out about the Vietnam War. We must do the same when it comes to this grave injustice of our time.

Written by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights lawyer, author of The New Jim Crow, and now a regular NYT columnist, the piece reaches back to Martin Luther King. It compares MLK's courageous early opposition to the Vietnam War to today's reluctance of people who are 'progressives except for Palestine' to oppose the policies of the so called Jewish State:

It was a lonely, moral stance. And it cost him. But it set an example of what is required of us if we are to honor our deepest values in times of crisis, even when silence would better serve our personal interests or the communities and causes we hold most dear. It’s what I think about when I go over the excuses and rationalizations that have kept me largely silent on one of the great moral challenges of our time: the crisis in Israel-Palestine.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/01/strategic-threat-to-israel-progressives-lose-fear-of-speaking-out-on-palestine-.html#more

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