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The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing United Airlines placed an initial order for 100 787 aircraft from Boeing, with an additional 100 aircraft available for acquisition. The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing According to the Xinhua news agency, this agreement represents the largest 787 Dreamliner order in…

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The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing United Airlines placed an initial order for 100 787 aircraft from Boeing, with an additional 100 aircraft available for acquisition. The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing According to the Xinhua news agency, this agreement represents the largest 787 Dreamliner order in…

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The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing United Airlines placed an initial order for 100 787 aircraft from Boeing, with an additional 100 aircraft available for acquisition. The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing According to the Xinhua news agency, this agreement represents the largest 787 Dreamliner order in…

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The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing United Airlines placed an initial order for 100 787 aircraft from Boeing, with an additional 100 aircraft available for acquisition. The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing According to the Xinhua news agency, this agreement represents the largest 787 Dreamliner order in…

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The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing United Airlines placed an initial order for 100 787 aircraft from Boeing, with an additional 100 aircraft available for acquisition. The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing According to the Xinhua news agency, this agreement represents the largest 787 Dreamliner order in…

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The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing United Airlines placed an initial order for 100 787 aircraft from Boeing, with an additional 100 aircraft available for acquisition. The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing According to the Xinhua news agency, this agreement represents the largest 787 Dreamliner order in…

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The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing

The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing United Airlines placed an initial order for 100 787 aircraft from Boeing, with an additional 100 aircraft available for acquisition. The Largest 787 Dreamliner Order Ever Placed By United Airlines Is With Boeing According to the Xinhua news agency, this agreement represents the largest 787 Dreamliner order in…

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“We must recognize today’s debt crisis will be tomorrow’s debt apocalypse if we do not cut the federal budget now—regardless of the pain involved—in order to save America from ruin, and we dare not shirk this responsibility.”

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Now can you pass it?

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Circle Opens a Door

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Government Shutdown: How it Works and Its Real-world Impact

https://headlinehorizon.com/Politics/Executive/697

Learn about the mechanics of government shutdowns and their effects on day-to-day life. Find out why shutdowns reflect bloated government and failure to budget, and discover potential solutions for a smoother process.

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Fact Check & Recap (Oct. 8, 2024):

Mike Johnson, a Republican in the House of Representatives [Legislative Branch, the branch of US Government that has several powers assigned exclusively to it, including the power to initiate revenue bills, impeach federal officials, and elect the President in the case of an Electoral College tie] is hesitant to reconvene the House to provide disaster relief funding until after United States Presidential election, which will occur on November 5th, 2024.

Joe Biden, the current United States President, wrote a letter urging Congress [Congress is comprised of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Senate takes action on bills, resolutions, amendments, motions, nominations, and treaties by voting] to provide funding to the Small Business Administration's disaster relief loan program to help the effected communities rebuild and cover financial losses due to natural disaster.

Mike Johnson is refusing on the grounds that the individual states which were effected "need some time to [calculate the actual damages]."

Donald Trump and the Republican party are claiming that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is allocating funds toward aiding migrants who are entering the country illegally. This information is false. FEMA and Border Control are two different divisions with two different avenues of funding [FEMA is funded through the Disaster Relief Fund, and the funds cannot be reappropriated for another division. Source: Congressional Budget Office; FEMA Hurrican Helene Fact Check Rumor Response]

Mike Johnson is using this lie to divide the American people and to foster a sense of distrust in FEMA, one of the agency's Donald Trump plans to gut and disable through state-by-state privatization once he enacts his harrowing Project 2025 plan.

Johnson has said, "The American people are disgusted by [the Biden Administration allegedly using FEMA money for migrant relocation], up with it, and so are Republicans in Congress. And it will stop after Nov. 5, because we’re going to have unified government with Republicans in charge and we will bring sanity back to this situation.”

Source (NBC News):

Mike Johnson won't commit to bringing House back before the election for more hurricane relief.

In a letter to congressional leaders, Biden urged Congress to restore funding to the Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program as it faces potential funding shortfalls.

By Summer Concepcion

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday did not commit to calling Congress back into session before the election after President Joe Biden pressed congressional leaders about potential funding shortfalls in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Johnson was asked about Biden’s letter to congressional leaders on Friday requesting more money for federal disaster recovery efforts and after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned that the department doesn’t have enough money to get through the rest of hurricane season.

In his letter, the president urged Congress to restore funding to the Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program, which was facing potential funding shortfalls even before Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the Southeast. The president noted that the White House requested more funding for the program as Congress prepared a short-term funding bill that passed last month to avert a government shutdown.

Pressed on whether he would call Congress back into session before the election, Johnson replied, “We’ll be back in session immediately after the election.”

“That’s 30 days from now. The thing about these hurricanes and disasters of this magnitude is it takes a while to calculate the actual damages, and the states are going to need some time to do that,” Johnson said, adding that determining “specific needs and requests based upon the actual damages” from natural disasters takes time.

Johnson noted that before Congress went on recess, the day before Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, Congress appropriated $20 billion additional dollars to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to address immediate needs.

“Then after that, Congress always takes its the due approach of providing what is necessary,” he said. “Congress will provide. We will help people in these disaster-prone areas. It’s an appropriate role for the federal government, and you’ll have bipartisan support for that, and it’ll all happen in due time, and we’ll get that job done. There shouldn’t be any concern about that.”

Johnson’s comments come after Biden said in remarks at the White House last week he expects to ask Congress for a supplemental funding request for areas affected by Hurricane Helene.

Asked at the time whether he would ask Congress to return from recess for a special session for a supplemental request, the president left the possibility open, saying, “That is something I may have to request, but no decision’s been made yet.”

Congress has taken swift action on funding natural disaster relief efforts in the past even when it was on recess, a Biden administration official noted when reached for comment.

Johnson’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Johnson was also pressed about false claims by some Republicans that FEMA was using funds on migrants who have illegally entered the country instead of on the disaster response, which White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called “categorically false” on Friday.

The speaker acknowledged that the streams of funding for the border and hurricane response are different at FEMA before going on to insist that FEMA’s mission is to help people affected by natural disasters, and not engage in funding that helps migrants who crossed the southern border.

Johnson claimed, without evidence, that the Biden administration, Vice President Kamala Harris and Mayorkas “have been engaged in this program,” saying they used taxpayer dollars to assist migrants with resettlement by reimbursing nongovernmental organizations transporting migrants into the country.

“The American people are disgusted by this, up with it, and so are Republicans in Congress,” he said. “And it will stop after Nov. 5, because we’re going to have unified government with Republicans in charge and we will bring sanity back to this situation.”

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I spoke with experts in transgender care and dozens of transgender individuals to identify steps the community can take now to prepare for a Trump presidency. Trump has pledged numerous actions against transgender people, from investigating educators to banning gender-affirming care for youth and ending legal recognition for transgender individuals. While some of these measures may take time to implement, others could happen swiftly. For instance, the upcoming December budget negotiations are likely to include anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ amendments, which Democrats may accept to avoid a government shutdown. For transgender people and their supporters, being prepared is essential. Here are practical steps the community should consider in the coming weeks to safeguard themselves against these anticipated challenges.

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An interesting political preprint

Introduction

In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia was the envy of the world. While other countries were overwhelmed by widespread transmission, staggering mortality rates and overrun health systems, Australia remained largely COVID-free. Dubbed the “hermit kingdom”, Australia quickly closed international borders in March 2020 and implemented a nationwide “shutdown” – the first of multiple lockdowns – to flatten the curve of transmission. Though initially slow to act, former Prime Minister Scott Morrison begrudgingly abandoned his neoliberal commitment to balancing budgets and small government for a Keynesian approach to ensure Australians could weather the storm. Public health measures started to ease in April as case numbers drastically decreased and Australia was globally hailed a COVID success. Australians emerged from 2020 with a newfound sense of camaraderie and hope for positive change after such a circuit-breaking catastrophe. Two years later, however, Australia faced widespread infection, mass disability and a 13 percent excess mortality rate for the first eight months of 2022. How did Australia transition so suddenly from zero-COVID to COVID-central?

This chapter will explore the ideology underpinning the federal government’s decision to “let rip”. I will begin my analysis by tracing the different approaches undertaken by the Morrison government, from the beginning of the pandemic to the Omicron wave. I will then identify three pillars of thought underpinning his “let it rip” policy – neoliberalism, prosperity gospel and social Darwinism – that I argue are one and the same. Lastly, I will examine the Albanese government’s response to COVID and the apparent acceptance of “living with COVID” by the Australian people, using a Gramscian analysis to explain this attitudinal shift.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/22/us-braces-calamitous-costly-government-shutdown-eight-days/

Hey, just a heads up--

A (US) government shutdown is pretty imminent right now. They have until September 30 to pass any sort of budget to keep funding the government, but congress has been unable to come to any decisions or compromises. Typically what happens each year on Sept 30 is Congress will pass a continuing resolution (a temporary budget) to buy a month or two to keep arguing about it. This year, they haven't been able to pass even that. McCarthy has sent the House members home for the weekend already, which means they will have even less time next week to figure something out.

So, what happens during a government shutdown? Some parts of the government--deemed essential--will keep operating. Please be nice to these employees, because they will be working without pay. Fortunately a bill passed in 2019 means they are guaranteed to be paid at the end of the shutdown, but still. Thousands of other federal employees will be furloughed and not allowed to work. For hundreds of thousands of employees, they will struggle to pay bills.

What about everybody else, the public being served? Broadly speaking, tons of grants and projects and research and environmental reviews and loans and services will be halted and delayed. Most significantly though:

SSA will continue to issue retirement and disability checks, as well as Medicaid/Medicare benefits. There might be delays, especially in new signups.

FEMA will continue to offer disaster relief and aid, but may run out of funds if the shutdown continues.

Thousands of low income parents will lose access to Head Start programs and childcare programs.

FDA food safety inspections, as well as other safety inspections (including worker safety), may be delayed

Mail delivery continues, as the US Postal Service is independently funded.

Food stamps, housing vouchers, and college financial aid may lapse if the shutdown lasts beyond October. The longest shutdown in US history was in 2018, for 35 days. This one is probably unlikely to be that long, but if it is, people may lose access to these programs.

WIC will only be able to operate for a few days after the shutdown, leaving millions of pregnant people, infants, and children at risk of going hungry.

Weather forcasting, air traffic control, TSA, etc will continue (though the employees won't be paid)

Hopefully a shutdown will be averted, but it's far more likely this year than other years. If you are in a position to be affected by a lapse in government services, I would recommend keeping up with the news so that it doesn't hit you as a surprise. Ultimately I can make no real predictions for how it will turn out or which things will be affected, but I hope this helps.