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  1. Billionaire #KelcyWarren invests in #pipelines — and #Trump

    The #EnergyTransfer boss’ political strategy can yield big returns.

    By Mike Soraghan | 09/05/2024 06:41 AM EDT

    "Kelcy Warren is good at getting a return on his investments.

    "The #billionaire pipeline mogul goes big and moves fast — even if it sometimes looks bad from the outside.

    "That’s how his company, Energy Transfer, built the #DakotaAccess oil pipeline in spite of bitter #TribalProtests. And that’s how the company made $2.4 billion from buying and selling #NaturalGas during the deadly #TexasBlackouts in 2021.

    "This year, he’s invested $5 million in the campaign to elect former President #DonaldTrump to another term in the White House. The potential return on investment is high."

    eenews.net/articles/billionair

    #NoDAPL #DakotaAccessPipeline #BigOilAndGas #Oligarchy #StandWithStandingRock #OilMoghoul #Elections2024

  2. #Trump tested the limits on using the military at home. If elected again, he plans to go further

    “We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the big — and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen.”

    By STEPHEN GROVES
    Updated 1:01 PM EDT, October 13, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — "During his first term as president, Donald Trump tested the limits of how he could use the military to achieve policy goals. If given a second term, the Republican and his allies are preparing to go much further, reimagining the military as an all-powerful tool to deploy on U.S. soil.

    "He has pledged to recall thousands of American troops from overseas and station them at the U.S. border with Mexico. He has explored using troops for domestic policy priorities such as deportations and confronting civil unrest. He has talked of weeding out military officers who are ideologically opposed to him.

    "Trump’s vision amounts to a potentially dramatic shift in the role of the military in U.S. society, carrying grave implications for both the country’s place in the world and the restraints that have traditionally been placed on domestic use of the military."

    Read more:
    apnews.com/article/trump-milit
    #Election2024 #USElections #Elections2024 #Project2025 #SilencingDissent #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ErikPrince #Blackwater #CriminalizingActivism #ClimateEmergency #ClimateProtestors #Crapitalism

  3. #KamalaHarris #trump #trump2024 #elections2024 #chapellroan

    “ Pop star Chappell Roan announced Wednesday in a post to social media platform TikTok that she plans to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in November, ending days of speculation after she told the Guardian in an interview published Friday that “there’s problems on both sides.” cnn.com/2024/09/25/politics/ch

  4. NEW: As the climate crisis worsens extreme weather events, the rights of voters in disaster-prone regions become threatened. The stakes can't be higher in key battleground Georgia, which saw twice as many severe storms in 2023 than any other recorded year. 🍑

    Part of our #DemocracyDay coverage:

    thexylom.com/post/with-another

    #georgia #environment #climate #weather #elections2024 #vote #news #journalism

  5. Corporate political donations in India hint at widespread rot

    While the BJP received 48% of the $1.5 billon in bonds from 2019 to January 2024, just before the Supreme Court scrapped the program last month, it isn’t alone. Governments in non-BJP-ruled states are also in a position to dispense favors to the private sector — or hold them back. Andy Mukherjee writes.

    #ElectoralBonds #ElectoralBondsData #BJP #SBI #ED #corruption #transparency #SupremeCourt #elections2024 #vedanta #MukeshAmbani #KumarMangalamBirla #vodafone #india

    deccanherald.com/opinion/corpo