#BREAKING: Brazil rejecting $20 million G-7 offer to fight Amazon fires https://t.co/n0r1lgI09C pic.twitter.com/tnyNbEwerP
— The Hill (@thehill) August 27, 2019
I don’t know what’s more offensive – that Brazil is snarkily rejecting any help or that the G7 could only come up with a measly $22m. Worrying times. https://t.co/IvSKtltyqy
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 27, 2019
Brazil's President Bolsonaro rejected $20M in aid from the G7 to fight Amazon fires, calling their involvement "imperialist."
Climate skeptic Bolsonaro supports development of the Amazon and activists say his policies encouraged a spike in illegal fire clearings. pic.twitter.com/SxauU1UAGa
— AJ+ (@ajplus) August 27, 2019
Bolsonaro has now rejected the paltry $20m of G7 aid, citing "colonialism" in an implicit defense of Brazil's sovereignty against climate interventions from abroad. How much hardball is the G7 willing to play? Now we will see. https://t.co/HC630R1w3X
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) August 27, 2019
Aerial footage shows the world's largest rainforest in flames. Brazil's Amazon is known as "the planet's lungs" for producing about 20 percent of the world's oxygen. This inferno threatens the rainforest ecosystem and also affects the entire globe. https://t.co/FVzlRGZLVn pic.twitter.com/cfshjtaId1
— CNN (@CNN) August 27, 2019
As U.S. farmers' soybeans go unsold, Brazilian farmers and corporations rush to grow more crops to sell to the Chinese. https://t.co/D4wMkaxXhD via @HuffPostPol
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) August 27, 2019
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WORLD
JUST IN: Iran's president rules out talks with Trump until US sanctions are lifted https://t.co/XmPtk1mtiu pic.twitter.com/wdSBNvPasX
— The Hill (@thehill) August 27, 2019
Iran's President Rouhani says the U.S. must lift "illegal, oppressive and wrong" sanctions if it wants to hold talks pic.twitter.com/82HIuRY1Xn
— Bloomberg TicToc (@tictoc) August 27, 2019
'Make #Iran rich again!' – #Trump at #G7 pic.twitter.com/3SbW6rOnI9
— RT (@RT_com) August 27, 2019
Iran hands 10-year jail sentence to two, including UK dual national, for spying for Israel https://t.co/5JmUxKP6OR pic.twitter.com/WTw2QZVeDA
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 27, 2019
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TODAY IN DERANGED TRUMPWORLD
Just returned to Washington from France and the very successful G-7, only to find that the Fake News is still trying to perpetuate the phony story that I wanted to use Nuclear weapons to blow up hurricanes before they reach shore. This is so ridiculous, never happened!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2019
Sources inside the meeting said “Trump’s presence was tantamount to having Putin himself in the room.”https://t.co/nOfpQestVM
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) August 27, 2019
President Trump: "The United States has tremendous wealth. The wealth is under its feet… I'm not going to lose that wealth. I'm not going to lose it on dreams, on windmills." #G7 pic.twitter.com/6Y5kAlG7Q8
— The Hill (@thehill) August 27, 2019
Trump has claimed for years that tariffs will help “make our country richer than ever before.” But this isn't true.
US consumers end up swallowing increased costs because tariffs cause the price of the taxed goods to go up.https://t.co/LvKSyOpb7B pic.twitter.com/A77qYBOX0S
— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 27, 2019
#BREAKING: Trump administration asks Supreme Court to lift order blocking asylum rule https://t.co/PyRZBeNOO0 pic.twitter.com/mWdXK17NEO
— The Hill (@thehill) August 27, 2019
See the Emoluments Clause, Art. I, Section 9, "no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust…shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument." If Trump wants to have the G7 at his resort, Congress must approve, otherwise it's unconstitutional. https://t.co/xO3piuhlnF
— Richard Stengel (@stengel) August 27, 2019
"By holding the G7 at the Doral, the President would be forcing foreign leaders to spend their taxpayers dollars at his resort."
In today's #RealityCheck, @JohnAvlon shows how President Trump might say it's not about the money, but it really is.https://t.co/zJrVnnXxbj pic.twitter.com/bYbDA4OhAD— New Day (@NewDay) August 27, 2019
Steve Doocy dismisses criticism that Trump is violating the emoluments clause: "I'm sure the president has asked the lawyers, 'hey, how can I donate this, how can we possibly work around it?'" pic.twitter.com/DfeT3gjh6P
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) August 27, 2019
and…
Judge orders Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million in landmark case on the opioid crisis https://t.co/tUNKlzaGmQ pic.twitter.com/BJBoOkSmbd
— The Hill (@thehill) August 27, 2019
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BREXITSHAMBLES BRITAIN
The Dutch government is in talks with 325 British-based companies that are considering relocating.
Included in talks are Sony, Panasonic, Bloomberg and the the Discovery television.
41% of financial services companies are undertaking plans to move.https://t.co/3pEd2i4r54
— Stuart Budd 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 #UniteToRemain (@StuartBudd1) August 26, 2019
"He is, as ever, his own tragic Churchill tribute act. There was, to his great regret, no darkest hour waiting for him, so he switched off the lights himself."@TomPeck has been scorching recently. So, so good.https://t.co/ekBFGltAYb
— Bex L Coates (@bexin2d) August 27, 2019
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage says there is a "better than 50% chance of a general election in the autumn" and "a clean-break #Brexit on 31 October is now by far the most popular option" https://t.co/6cohdGg5AC pic.twitter.com/wqEqpnu74i
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) August 27, 2019
Is there anyone following me who is a member of the Brexit Party *Club* paying £100 a month?
I’d love to know what you’re getting for it.
As @chambersi57 pointed out, that’s 30x what you’re paying for EU membership.
So, like, what do you get for it? Thanks.
— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) August 27, 2019
Boris Johnson's intentions are clear: suspending Parliament, a crash out Brexit and blaming MPs for the chaos
We will not be bullied. We will not surrender parliamentary sovereignty to the right wing cabal in Number 10
MPs must unite to stop this abuse of executive power
— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) August 27, 2019
The #backstop is a British creation, it was insisted upon by the British Government based on their #brexit red lines. It is an insurance policy. https://t.co/CYWi1lzxMQ
— Sen. Neale Richmond (@nealerichmond) August 27, 2019
They’re still here. Brexit Party still at between 10-15%, despite the fact that the govt has almost absorbed completely their rhetoric and policy. If I were in Downing St and mulling an election, I’d be very worried about that. Farage people aren’t necessarily Johnson people. pic.twitter.com/k5OIHecKtC
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 27, 2019
James O'Brien tells caller to stop using the word 'Brexiteer': "It makes them sound like D'Artagnan when they're the Chuckle Brothers."@mrjamesob | #Brexit pic.twitter.com/fhD3CyZXPv
— LBC (@LBC) August 27, 2019
It’s actually quite unusual to meet a banker who supports Brexit. Even more so one that supports no deal.
Politics, man. https://t.co/seJfa67IAJ
— Sam Lowe (@SamuelMarcLowe) August 27, 2019
Live scenes as leaders of the Lib Dems, Labour, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Green Party and Change UK meet to discuss stopping no-deal brexit: pic.twitter.com/ciox7tziYf
— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) August 27, 2019
Here’s a helpful guide for anyone struggling to work out where the new, swashbuckling Prime Minister of “Global Brexit Britain” is in this picture of world leaders…#BorisJohnson #BrexitReality pic.twitter.com/qEOQrPo7zr
— Jim Cognito (@JimCognito2016) August 27, 2019