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US petrol prices have risen after a key network of pipelines was shut in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, sparking fears of a squeeze on fuel supplies to major US cities.
The hurricane has already forced the closure of nearly a quarter of US oil refining capacity.
Colonial Pipeline said it was closing its pipelines delivering diesel, petrol and aviation fuel along the East Coast.
European traders are scrambling to provide additional supplies.

And he says he's not a Fascist.

And he isn't. He just really dislikes the Democrat Party

Conservatives, even Trump supporters, who adhere to the basic principles of democracy are fine .

Well, that's big of you.

Fascists and Neo-Nazis are not.

True, but really who is arguing they are?

Pardon, not the suit, the uniform.
With a starched brown shirt.

fbaezer wrote:

Pardon, not the suit, the uniform.
With a starched brown shirt.

As you know "Brown Shirt" is synonymous with violent political activism.

On A2K, the closest thing to violence is mud-slinging.

Look at the exchanges between oralloy and his critics and tell me who is the more violent.

Sure, not a fascist, just likes to propose things that are indistinguishable from Fascism, all in the name of achieving permanent supremacy for his preferred political party.

Good news is that he's an utter nutjob and practically nothing he proposes will ever become law. It's instructive for the rest of us, though, in that he's the kind of person who will never believe anything negative about Trump and is likely to attempt some sort of half-assed revolt when Trump is eventually booted from office.

Cycloptichorn

On A2K, the closest thing to violence is mud-slinging.

Look at the exchanges between oralloy and his critics and tell me who is the more violent.

Oh, Oralloy is. He merely directs his mud-slinging toward a third party, all whilst constantly retreating into totally unproven and frankly ridiculous assertions when challenged on the things he says.

Cycloptichorn

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Oh, Oralloy is. He merely directs his mud-slinging toward a third party, all whilst constantly retreating into totally unproven and frankly ridiculous assertions when challenged on the things he says.

Cycloptichorn

An unsupported assertion, but you're entitled to pile on if you like.

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

On A2K, the closest thing to violence is mud-slinging.

Look at the exchanges between oralloy and his critics and tell me who is the more violent.

As conservatives like to point out when this kind of comparisons come from the left, speech is not violence.

A US federal judge has halted a new Texan immigration law on "sanctuary cities" just two days before it is scheduled to go into effect.
The bill aimed to force local law enforcement to obey requests from immigration officers to hold illegal immigrants for deportation.
"Sanctuary cities" came under fire from Donald Trump in an executive order during his first week as president.
The Texan law was due to come into effect on Friday.
But on Wednesday, a federal judge ruled it was unlikely to withstand constitutional tests, and prevented implementation of key parts of the bill, called SB4.
In a 94-page decision, US District Judge Orlando Garcia commented: "There is overwhelming evidence by local officials, including local law enforcement, that SB4 will erode public trust and make many communities and neighborhoods less safe."
"There is also ample evidence that localities will suffer adverse economic consequences which, in turn, harm the State of Texas."
He said the court could not "second guess the legislature" but the state could not violate the constitution.

The US state of Texas has accepted an offer of flood aid from Mexico despite tension over President Donald Trump's proposed border wall and his threats to scrap a free-trade deal.
On Sunday Mexico offered vehicles, boats, supplies and food, reports said.
Mexican Red Cross volunteers have also travelled to the flooded city of Houston.
President Trump has not yet commented but Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has thanked the Mexicans.
"It's very generous of the government of Mexico to offer their help at this very, very challenging time for our citizens down in Texas and now moving towards the border of Louisiana as well," Mr Tillerson said.

Moscow (CNN) — Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Wednesday he got an email from Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's lawyer, asking for help moving a Moscow real estate deal forward, but said he did not respond and did not pass it to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Peskov was responding to a question from CNN on a conference call with reporters.

Cohen -- who was executive vice president of the Trump Organization at the time he sent the email -- said Monday that he had contacted the Kremlin for assistance in mid-January 2016 about building a Trump Tower in Moscow when the mogul was running for president, but denied that the project was related to Trump's campaign. But the revelation appears to contradict Trump's vehement denials of any such business connections to Russia in the past.


Cohen told CNN on Monday his message to Peskov was "an email that went unanswered that was solely regarding a real estate deal and nothing more."

Peskov confirmed that his office had located a copy of the email, which said the development deal wasn't moving forward and requested support.

He said the email was sent to the public "Press Office of the Kremlin" address -- which receives thousands of queries, relevant or otherwise -- and denied knowing Cohen personally.

While the Kremlin seeks to quickly answer queries related to the activities of the Russian president, Peskov said, those related to business are not normally responded to or passed up to Putin.

"This email said that a certain Russian company together with certain individuals is pursuing the goal of building a skyscraper in the 'Moscow City' district, but things aren't going well and they asked for help with some advice on moving this project forward," Peskov said. "But, since, I repeat again, we do not react to such business topics -- this is not our work -- we left it unanswered."

He added: "We cannot discuss with President Putin hundreds and thousands of different requests, which, by the way, come from a variety of countries."

Cohen revealed Monday that he had made the overture to Moscow at a point well into Trump's presidential campaign.

"In late January 2016, I abandoned the Moscow proposal because I lost confidence that the prospective licensee would be able to obtain the real estate, financing and government approvals necessary to bring the proposal to fruition," he added. "It was a building proposal that did not succeed and nothing more."

Cohen's own attorney provided documents to the House intelligence committee that included a reference to the Moscow project.

Cohen has been a central focus for investigators on the House intelligence committee who are digging into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. He is one of only two people to have been subpoenaed by the committee so far; the other is former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Trump's involvement and awareness of the negotiations remains unclear and there is no public record that Trump has ever spoken about the effort to build a Trump Tower in Moscow in 2015 and 2016. Trump denied having any business interests in Russia in July 2016, tweeting, "for the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia."

Russia has been ordered to close its San Francisco consulate and two other annexes in response to "unwarranted" Russian action, the US has said.
The consulate, and annexes in New York and Washington, must close by Saturday.
The US state department's move follows Moscow's reduction of US diplomatic staff in Russia last month.