Business news is
trumped today by the Trump riot in Washington, District of Crooks. Well covered
in mainstream media.
Less well covered,
the USA lurching hard left, as the Democrats get control of all three branches
of US government. I suspect that will have more impact on the world than a futile
riot in Washington.
Warnock, Ossoff win in Georgia,
handing Dems Senate control
By
STEVE PEOPLES, BILL BARROW and RUSS BYNUMyesterday
ATLANTA (AP) — Democrats won both Georgia Senate
seats — and with them, the U.S. Senate majority — as final votes were counted
Wednesday, serving President Donald Trump a stunning defeat in his turbulent
final days in office while dramatically improving the fate of President-elect
Joe Biden’s progressive agenda.
Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, Democratic
challengers who represented the diversity of their party’s evolving coalition,
defeated Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler two months after Biden
became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since
1992.
Warnock, who served as pastor for the same
Atlanta church where civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
preached, becomes the first African American from Georgia elected to the
Senate. And Ossoff becomes the state’s first Jewish senator and, at 33 years
old, the Senate’s youngest member.
This week’s elections were expected to mark the
formal finale to the tempestuous 2020 election season, although the Democrats’
resounding success was overshadowed by chaos and violence in Washington, where
angry Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from
certifying Biden’s victory.
Wednesday’s unprecedented siege drew fierce
criticism of Trump’s leadership from within his own party, and combined with
the bad day in Georgia, marked one of the darkest days of his divisive
presidency.
Still, the Democrats’ twin victories in Georgia
represented a striking shift in the state’s politics as the swelling number of
diverse, college-educated voters flex their power in the heart of the Deep
South. They also cemented the transformation of Georgia, once a solidly
Republican state, into one of the nation’s premier battlegrounds for the
foreseeable future.
In an emotional address early Wednesday, Warnock
vowed to work for all Georgians whether they voted for him or not, citing his
personal experience with the American dream. His mother, he said, used to pick
“somebody else’s cotton” as a teenager.
Guns out, windows smashed: Trump
crowd turns Congress into battlefield
Wed, January 6, 2021, 9:33 PM GMT
Tense officers pointing guns,
lawmakers with gas masks, camouflaged protesters smashing windows -- this was
the day that President Donald Trump's bid to overturn the US election went
"wild."
Inside the great domed US Capitol
building, initially out of view of the cameras, images emerged of a scene that
resembled something from a coup d'etat.
Trump supporters, waving his blue
flags and wearing his red campaign hats, stormed through the building, making
it right into the debating chamber.
A viral photo on Twitter showed
plainclothes security men aiming pistols point blank through the smashed window
of a door to stop anyone else getting in.
Legislators were given gas masks to
protect themselves against tear gas as they rushed to safety.
For those fleeing, it was a race
against time: Protestors were getting in as quickly as members of Congress
could get out. Some protestors even occupied the office of House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, sitting mockingly at a desk.
"I've not seen anything like
this since I deployed to Iraq," Mike Gallagher, a Republican lawmaker and
military veteran, told CNN.
Trump had said all along he wanted
to stop Congress from officially certifying Democrat Joe Biden's election
victory on Wednesday.
There was no way he could do it
legally.
Trump tried. He threatened his vice
president, Mike Pence, who was meant to preside over the ceremony.
But Pence retorted that he had no
constitutional leeway: The rules were clear.
So Trump's supporters intervened, at
least temporarily derailing the proceedings -- literally bringing democracy to
a halt.
The mobs went on their mission after
a final pep talk from their leader.
Trump addressed them for more than
an hour on the National Mall, delivering a torrent of false claims and
conspiracy theories about why he should remain president despite losing the
November election.
Following the markets on both sides of the Atlantic since 1968. A dinosaur, who evolved with the financial system as it was perverted from capitalism to banksterism after the great Nixonian error of abandoning the dollar's link to gold instead of simply revaluing gold. Our money is too important to be left to probity challenged central banksters and crooked politicians.
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