Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant leads a protest demanding more taxes from Amazon. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)
Seeking to keep up pressure on Trump and the Republicans, Pelosi said the House would begin passing individual bills this week to reopen some federal agencies, starting with the Treasury Department to ensure Americans receive their tax refunds. The administration says it will act on its own to ensure the refunds.
Sergey Lukanin, director of the Institute of Far East Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said the violence has endangered the safety and stability of Hong Kong. "We can see some of the riots have funding support from overseas," he said.
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Service Outsourcing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for Chinese College Students holds opening ceremony in Beijing, on Oct 30. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Seattle has an obvious location which more than meets Amazon’s requirements. A visitor to Seattle or even many residents would be excused for not knowing this since they would likely hear people say things like “Seattle has run out of places to grow.” Anyone looking out a south-facing window of a relatively tall office building can see where the growth must happen. The reality is that within walking distance from downtown is the SODO area. It is already served by mass transit in the form of light rail with stations at 4th and Lander and 5th and Royal Brougham, with more stations coming as the ST3 mass transit system is built. Voldemort placed a taboo curse on anyone saying his name in Harry Potter and certain vested interests have done the same thing with any mention of downtown being extended to SODO.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, said she was considering introducing a bill that would require "key safety equipment" be included in "basic plane sale costs... I feel very strongly that key safety equipment should be included in the basic sale price of a plane."
Seven of the 12 defendants were not satisfied with the ruling and appealed to a higher court with Du. But their appeals and sentences were all rejected and upheld by the high people’s court on Friday.