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'I'm not plotting with Dutton': Abbott
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'I'm not plotting with Dutton': Abbott

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Former prime minister Tony Abbott says he isn't plotting anything along with Peter Dutton. Source: AAP

Former prime minister Tony Abbott says he's not working with Liberal colleague Peter Dutton against Malcolm Turnbull, after his 30th losing Newspoll.

Tony Abbott has denied he's in cahoots with Peter Dutton to bring down Malcolm Turnbull.

The former prime minister was quizzed on his relationship with the home affairs minister after a week of debate over migration levels.

"I admire (Peter) as a bloke and I respect him as a politician so I guess we would naturally be inclined to think along similar lines," Mr Abbott told 2GB radio on Sunday.

"So it doesn't surprise me that Peter has been pushing for a reduction in the migration intake."

Further prompted on whether there are any quiet evening meetings between the pair, working their cards, Mr Abbott said: "No that's not how it works in this business."

"Peter is an honourable man and the last thing that he would do is sit down with a colleague and plot stuff," he said.

Mr Abbott, who is wrapping up his annual charity bike ride on Sunday, was again spruiking his push for a reduction in Australia's migration intake until housing and infrastructure can catch up.

He also reiterated his call for the construction of new coal-fired power stations to help drive down energy prices.

Mr Abbott predicts the next election could be around next May.

"Whenever it is, it is important that people know that this has been a good government and is working for them not against them," he said.

Earlier, Liberal frontbencher Steven Ciobo rejected suggestions the federal government was in shambles despite clocking up 30 negative Newspolls, which sparked another round of infighting over its leadership, energy and immigration policy.

Mr Ciobo said people were not interested in these internal discussions but are concerned about job security and who is helping to lower the cost of living pressures.

"We have delivered in spades, we have record job creation ... that's not the consequence of a shambles, that is the consequence of disciplined economic policy," the trade minister told Sky News on Sunday.

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" Andri Elyus Luntungan Mengatakan Seharusnya Rusia Malu Bahwa Serangan Mereka Ke Ukraiina Tidak Mendapat Dukungan Dunia.!?""

 International-Berbagai cara dan Alibi Putin ingin mencaplok Ukraiina, namun tidak mendapat dukungan dunia, oleh sebab Hukum International tidak membenarkan negara yang telah merdeka murni jika dirampas dengan cara -cara melanggar aturan hukum international. Ukraiina yang asli sudah menjadi bagian Pasukan dari Nato Dan Negara Itu asli Merdeka, setidaknya perlu mendapat bantuan dari pasukan Nato juga, Amerika, Ingris Francis Dan Canada Dan Itali, setidaknya hal itu wajar, sementara Rusia yang belum masuk bagian dari Nato Dia punya malu ngapain menyerang Ukraiina  dan menantang Nato Juga Amerika dan Ingris,Francis juga kanada. atau blog barat hal ini setidaknya bukan lagi bercanda, oleh sebab Nato juga Amerika dan Ingris ditambah  Francis Dan Canada Juga Itali. seandainya asli sudah ditanttang  Rusia. Jika hanya diam bagaikan tidak punya harga diri.!?. Meskipun dengan jelas -jelas sekali Putin menantang  Nato Juga Blog Barat tetapi mengapa Nato , Amerika Juga Ingris dan Francis Ditambah Canada Dan Itali diam saja!. "Apakah mereka takut kepada Putin ataukah bagaimana. Sebagai Bukti ini apa yang dilontarkan Rusia --Presiden Vladimir Putinmengatakan pada hari Minggu bahwa Kementerian Pertahanan Rusia sedang mengupayakan berbagai cara untuk menanggapi jika Amerika Serikat dan sekutu NATO-nya membantu Ukraina untuk menyerang jauh ke wilayah Rusia dengan rudal jarak jauh Barat.



Perang Ukraina yang telah berlangsung selama 2,5 tahun telah memicu konfrontasi terbesar antara Rusia dan Barat sejak Perang Dingin, dan pejabat Rusia mengatakan perang tersebut kini memasuki fase paling berbahaya.
Rusia telah memberi isyarat kepada Amerika Serikat dan sekutunya selama berminggu-minggu bahwa jika mereka memberi izin kepada Ukraina untuk menyerang jauh ke wilayah Rusia dengan rudal yang dipasok Barat, maka Moskow akan menganggapnya sebagai eskalasi besar.
Putin mengatakan pada tanggal 12 September bahwa persetujuan Barat untuk langkah tersebut akan berarti "keterlibatan langsung negara-negara NATO, Amerika Serikat, dan negara-negara Eropa dalam perang di Ukraina" karena infrastruktur dan personel militer NATO harus dilibatkan dalam penargetan dan penembakan rudal.
Putin mengatakan bahwa masih terlalu dini untuk mengatakan dengan tepat bagaimana Rusia akan bereaksi terhadap langkah tersebut, tetapi Moskow harus menanggapinya dengan tepat dan berbagai pilihan sedang dipertimbangkan.
"(Kementerian Pertahanan Rusia) sedang memikirkan cara menanggapi kemungkinan serangan jarak jauh di wilayah Rusia, mereka akan menawarkan berbagai tanggapan," kata Putin kepada reporter utama Kremlin di TV pemerintah Rusia, Pavel Zarubin.
Dengan kemajuan Rusia yang tercepat di Ukraina timur sejak bulan-bulan pertama invasi, Presiden Ukraina Volodymyr Zelenskiy telah memohon kepada Barat untuk mengizinkan Kyiv menembak jauh ke Rusia dengan rudal Barat.
MENYERANG RUSIA
Amerika Serikat belum mengatakan secara terbuka apakah mereka akan mengizinkan Ukraina menyerang Rusia, tetapi beberapa pejabat AS sangat skeptis bahwa tindakan itu akan membuat perbedaan yang signifikan dalam perang.
Pasukan Ukraina telah menyerang jauh ke Rusia secara teratur dengan pesawat nirawak jarak jauh.
Pasukan Rusia telah menguasai kota pertambangan batu bara Selydove di wilayah Donetsk Ukraina hanya lebih dari seminggu setelah pertama kali menyerbu kota itu, menurut para blogger perang pro-Rusia.
Putin, yang memerintahkan ribuan tentara ke Ukraina pada tahun 2022 setelah delapan tahun bertempur di Ukraina timur, menggambarkan perang tersebut sebagai pertempuran antara Rusia dan Barat yang sedang merosot, yang menurutnya mengabaikan kepentingan Rusia setelah runtuhnya Soviet pada tahun 1991.
Ukraina dan sekutu Baratnya mengatakan Putin melancarkan perang bergaya kekaisaran terhadap tetangganya yang lebih kecil dan telah berulang kali mengatakan bahwa jika Rusia memenangkan perang tersebut, maka negara-negara otokratis di seluruh dunia akan semakin berani.
Hanya beberapa minggu sebelum pemilihan presiden AS, Putin mengubah doktrin nuklir Rusia dalam apa yang dikatakan Kremlin sebagai upaya untuk mengisyaratkan kekhawatiran Rusia atas diskusi Barat tentang serangan rudal dari Ukraina.
Ketika ditanya apakah Barat telah mendengar peringatan Rusia, Putin mengatakan kepada Zarubin: "Saya harap mereka telah mendengar. Karena, tentu saja, kami juga harus membuat beberapa keputusan untuk diri kami sendiri." Putin mengatakan bahwa hanya perwira NATO yang dapat menembakkan senjata semacam itu ke Rusia dan bahwa mereka perlu menggunakan data satelit Barat untuk menargetkan senjata tersebut, jadi pertanyaannya adalah "apakah mereka akan membiarkan diri mereka menyerang jauh ke wilayah Rusia atau tidak. Itulah pertanyaannya."
Para pejabat AS mengatakan bahwa Amerika Serikat tidak berusaha untuk meningkatkan konflik.
Bagaimana seorang presiden AS yang baru akan mendekati perang tersebut masih belum jelas: mantan presiden AS Donald Trump mengatakan bahwa ia akan mengakhiri perang Ukraina sementara Wakil Presiden Demokrat Kamala Harris mengatakan bahwa ia akan terus mendukung Ukraina. Ini yang saya dengar. Cetus Andri Elyus Luntungan Pengamat International saat dimintai tanggapannya kepada Online Melalui HP.
Andri juga menambahkan persoalannya sekarang, Bukan masalah memihak Ukraiina atau tidak, namun yang jelas Putin dengan terbuka telah menantang Nato, Amerika, Francis, Ingris, dan Canada juga Itali. Atau dengan nyata - nyata bahwa putin asli tidak punya rasa takut, apa yang pernah terjadi pada masa lalu Soviet. bagaimana keadaan Presiden Soviet harus kocar - Kacir itu. Pengamatan saya sejauh ini belum ada perlawan bagi mereka yang ditantang oleh putin itu. Apa dia Nato. Amerika. Francis, Ingris, Juga Canada. Dan Itali. Artinya sebut saja Blog Barat dan Nato belum terlihat ada sedikitpun melakukan perlawanan kepada Putin. ini yang saya perhatikan. yang jelas Blog barat dan Nato juga Ingris, juga Itali, Francis dan Canada sepertinya takut buat melawan Rusia. Terbukti meskipun telah ditantang mana ada perlawanan, akhirnya yang menjadi korbanya Ukraiina. Demikian andri Elyus Luntungan Mengahiri Perkataannya.( Khardovecho Rusia)

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Wage growth well short of what was promised from tax reform | TheHill

Wage growth well short of what was promised from tax reform

The latest Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows weekly employee earnings have grown $75 since tax reform passed, well short of the $4,000 to $9,000 annual increases projected by President TrumpDonald John TrumpRobert De Niro, Ben Stiller play Mueller and Cohen in 'SNL' parody of 'Meet the Parents' Trump order targets wide swath of public assistance programs Comey says Trump reacted to news of Russian meddling by asking if it changed election results MORE and House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanTrump order targets wide swath of public assistance programs Sunday shows preview: White House officials talk Syria strike Wage growth well short of what was promised from tax reform MORE (R-Wis.).  

During the three months following passage of the tax bill, the average American saw a $6.21 increase in average weekly earnings. Assuming 12 weeks of work during the three months following passage of the corporate tax cuts, this equates to a $75 increase.

Assuming a full 52 weeks of work, the $6.21 increase in weekly earnings would result in a $323 annual increase, nowhere near the minimum $4,000 promised and $9,000 potential annual increases projected by President Trump and Speaker Ryan if significant cuts were made to corporate tax rates.

Unless something drastically changes, it seems that Americans are going to have to settle for much less than the $4,000 to $9,000 projected wage increases. An extra $322 a year isn’t going to do much to pay down the $1 trillion in additional debt they are projected to take on as a result of the tax cuts.

Yet, a key part of the argument for the recently passed corporate tax cuts and more than a trillion dollars in debt was the substantial wage hike promised by the president’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

From a document titled, “Corporate Tax Reform and Wages: Theory and Evidence,” on the White House’s website:

“Reducing the statutory federal corporate tax rate from 35 to 20 percent would, the analysis below suggests, increase average household income in the United States by, very conservatively, $4,000 annually.”

The document goes on to say:

“When we use the more optimistic estimates from the literature, wage boosts are over $9,000 for the average U.S. household.”

No less than Speaker Ryan’s website trumpeted the Council of Economic Advisers report claiming that on average, the proposed corporate tax cuts would result in at least a $4,000 annual increase in wages.

Now, some supporters of the tax bill may say this analysis is unfair because it is too early for the effects of the tax bill to show up in wages. By that logic, they also shouldn’t take credit for reported employment growth increases.  

Still others may point to the $1,000 bonuses announced by some companies shortly after passage of the tax bill. First, that is significantly less than the promised $4,000 to $9,000. Second, these are not wage increases; these are one-time bonuses.

Will companies pay them again, and if so when? Third, the $1,000 represents a fraction of the estimated potential company tax savings.

Using 2016 net income, 2016 effective tax rates, the new 21-percent corporate tax rate and company bonuses, we estimated company bonuses as a percentage of a number of company’s potential tax savings. The results: In many cases, the bonuses represent a mere pittance of the possible tax savings.

Navient announced that it would be giving $1,000 bonuses to 98 percent of its 6,7000 employees, paying out nearly $7 million in bonuses. While that may seem generous, it pales in comparison to Navient’s potential tax savings.

Using Navient’s 2016 net income, its 2016 effective tax rate, estimated annual tax savings of nearly $200 million and its announced bonuses, we calculated that the announced bonuses represent less than 4 percent of Navient’s potential tax savings.

Turning to the airline industry, JetBlue’s employees might be feeling blue if they realized that their $1,000 bonuses are estimated to be less than 10 percent of JetBlue’s potential tax savings, while American Airlines’ bonuses are estimated to represent less than 15 percent of its estimated potential annual tax savings

Not to be outdone, Comcast’s bonuses represent less than 8 percent of its estimated potential annual tax savings, while Walmart appears downright generous, giving an estimated $0.16 of every dollar of its estimated potential annual tax savings to employees in the form of bonuses.

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Source: Solutionomics

What happened to the minimum $4,000 promised? I guess like many promises by politicians, they were empty. Instead, they seem to have gone to share buybacks. For the period December 2017 through February 2018, share buybacks more than doubled to $200 million.

Is a $323 wage increase and a one-time bonus of $1,000 that represents a fraction of estimated potential company tax savings worth the more than $1 trillion in additional debt placed on Americans? Is this the best Congress could do? No.

Instead, Congress could have simply made each company’s tax cut contingent on each company increasing wages. The problem is that some companies receiving tax cuts didn’t raise wages.

If Congress had made each company’s tax cut contingent on each company’s wage increases, the American people would have gotten more bang for their tax cut bucks. Additionally, this would have created a real incentive for companies to raise wages: Increase wages, get a tax cut; don’t and you won’t.

If the justification for saddling the American people with at least $1 trillion in additional debt was greater wage growth, tax cuts should have been tied to each company’s wage growth; that’s just logical. That’s getting a better deal for the American people, and that’s getting a better return on investment.

Chris Macke is the founder of Solutionomics, a think tank focused on developing solutions for a more efficient, merit-based corporate tax code. He has advised the U.S. Federal Reserve by providing market updates and implications of monetary policy changes on asset valuations and market distortions, and he's a contributor to the Fed Beige Book. Find him on Twitter: @solutionomics.

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France issues report detailing evidence of Assad role in chemical attacks

France issues report detailing evidence of Assad role in chemical attacks

France declassified a report on Saturday laying out evidence that officials said proves that a chemical attack in Syria last week was carried out by the government of President Bashar Assad.

The report claims that several chemical strikes were carried out in the Damascus suburb of Douma on April 7, and that symptoms experienced by the victims — skin burns, suffocation and other breathing difficulties, among other markers — were consistent with the effects of chlorine gas.

"Reliable intelligence indicates that Syrian military officials have coordinated what appears to be the use of chemical weapons containing chlorine on Douma, on April 7," the report, released by the French Foreign Ministry, reads.

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The report also states that the Syrian government has carried out a number of chemical weapons strikes since April 4, 2017 — the same day a chemical attack in Syria's northern Idlib province left more than 80 civilians dead.

The U.S. issued an assessment on Friday night pointing to the Syrian government's role in the alleged chemical attacks in Douma.

That report cites "multiple media sources, the reported symptoms experienced by victims, videos and images showing two assessed barrel bombs from the attack, and reliable information indicating coordination between Syrian military officials before the attack."

The assessment also suggests that the Syrian government not only used chlorine in the attack on Douma, but that reported symptoms were also consistent with exposure to sarin, a deadly nerve agent.

The French and U.S. assessments came hours after leaders in Washington, Paris and London authorized "precision strikes" on targets in Syria believed to be associated with the country's chemical weapons arsenal.

Syria and its allies, Russia and Iran, have denied that Assad's government used chemical weapons, and have sought to blame both foreign actors and militant groups for staging the attacks in Douma.

Russia has accused the U.S. and its allies of failing to produce adequate evidence of the Syrian government's role in the chemical attack.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international chemical weapons watchdog, launched an investigation into the alleged chemical strikes on Douma on Saturday.

The allied strikes on Friday were cast by U.S. officials, not as a punishment for Assad's government, but as a means to eradicate Syria's chemical stockpile and production capabilities.

Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the director of the Joint Staff, said Saturday that while the allied attacks dealt a blow to Syria's chemical weapons program, Damascus likely retained "residual" elements of its chemical arsenal.

President TrumpDonald John TrumpInfowars' Alex Jones blasts Trump over airstrikes: 'He's crapping all over us' McCain to Trump: Airstrikes alone won't achieve objectives in Syria Top general: US did not notify Russia on Syria targets MORE and other U.S. officials have said that they are prepared to take further action in Syria, unless Assad's government ceases its alleged use of chemical weapons.

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Mueller can prove Cohen made secret trip to Prague before the election: report

Special counsel Robert MuellerRobert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE’s team has proof that President TrumpDonald John TrumpRobert De Niro, Ben Stiller play Mueller and Cohen in 'SNL' parody of 'Meet the Parents' Trump order targets wide swath of public assistance programs Comey says Trump reacted to news of Russian meddling by asking if it changed election results MORE’s personal lawyer made a secret trip to Prague during the 2016 campaign despite his denial that he'd ever been there, McClatchy reported Friday.

It is not clear why Michael Cohen was in Prague. The claim he visited was originally made in a dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.

Cohen denied that he'd ever been to Prague "in my life" after the dossier's publication, tweeting a photo of his passport.

McClatchy reported that Cohen entered the country through Germany in August or early September 2016, which does not require a passport stamp.

The dossier claimed that, in Prague, Cohen met with a prominent ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Konstantin Kosachev, but it is not clear whether Mueller has evidence of such a meeting.

Koschahev was one of 24 Russian oligarchs slapped with U.S. sanctions earlier this month.

If such a meeting happened, it would be further evidence of ties between Trump associates and Putin. The dossier also claims that Cohen, among others, was deeply involved in a “cover up and damage limitation operation in the attempt to prevent the full details of Trump’s relationship with Russia being exposed.”

Neither Cohen nor Mueller commented on the story to McClatchy.

The report comes on the same day that U.S attorneys confirmed that they are investigating Cohen for criminal activity.

The FBI raided Cohen's office and home on Monday, in part on a referral from Mueller's office. 

 
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