February 18, 2019
CNN's Sara Murray (click here) reports that longtime President Donald Trump associate Roger Stone has apologized to the court after he shared a controversial Instagram post of the federal judge who is presiding over his case.
Monday, February 18, 2019
The Democrats should revitalize President Obama's clean energy savings.
There may be funding still available or can be reopened and continued. While I applaud "The New Green Deal," President Obama was laying the groundwork for it. There is absolutely no reason for the TVA to continue poor policies for producing energy.
July 19, 2016
President Obama is committed (click here) to ensuring that every American family can choose to go solar and to cut their energy bills – and that every American community has the tools they need to tackle local air pollution and global climate change.
Since President Obama took office, solar electricity generation has increased 30 fold and solar jobs are growing 12 times faster than the rest of the economy. Last year, we announced a set of actions to increase access to solar and create a more inclusive workforce, but there is still more work to do. That is why, today, the Obama Administration is announcing a new cross government partnership – the Clean Energy Savings For All Initiative – between the Departments of Energy (DOE), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Agriculture (USDA), Health and Human Services (HHS), Veteran’s Affairs (VA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase access to solar energy and promote energy efficiency across the United States and, in particular in low- and moderate- income communities....
July 19, 2016
President Obama is committed (click here) to ensuring that every American family can choose to go solar and to cut their energy bills – and that every American community has the tools they need to tackle local air pollution and global climate change.
Since President Obama took office, solar electricity generation has increased 30 fold and solar jobs are growing 12 times faster than the rest of the economy. Last year, we announced a set of actions to increase access to solar and create a more inclusive workforce, but there is still more work to do. That is why, today, the Obama Administration is announcing a new cross government partnership – the Clean Energy Savings For All Initiative – between the Departments of Energy (DOE), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Agriculture (USDA), Health and Human Services (HHS), Veteran’s Affairs (VA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase access to solar energy and promote energy efficiency across the United States and, in particular in low- and moderate- income communities....
There is always a reason McConnell does something. This is why he wanted to force a vote on "The Green New Deal."
The facts regarding these findings of the TVA need to be made part of the federal record through a US House request.
These plants are known to be outdated. They need to come offline. There should be no further funding for the continuance of the operation of these plants. The plants are too expensive to repair.
We know for a fact 35 percent of CO2 emissions from the USA are from coal-fired plants, including these.
February 13, 2019
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Paradise Fossil Plant in Muhlenberg County. The town of Paradise, which no longer exists, was made famous in 1971 by John Prine’s eponymous anti-strip mining song.
...Despite the opposition (click here) from Trump, McConnell and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, TVA released final environmental assessments on the evening of Feb. 11 concluding that both plants should be shut down by 2023 because of the projected expense of maintenance and complying with environmental laws, as well as a high forced-outage rate and stagnating or declining power demand in the seven-state region it serves, Dave Flessner reports for the Times Free Press in Chattanooga. The assessment also noted that gas is cheaper than coal and likely to remain so, and that more customers are using energy-efficient appliances and furnaces as well as generating their own power with renewable sources such as solar panels and windmills....
These plants are known to be outdated. They need to come offline. There should be no further funding for the continuance of the operation of these plants. The plants are too expensive to repair.
We know for a fact 35 percent of CO2 emissions from the USA are from coal-fired plants, including these.
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Paradise Fossil Plant in Muhlenberg County. The town of Paradise, which no longer exists, was made famous in 1971 by John Prine’s eponymous anti-strip mining song.
...Despite the opposition (click here) from Trump, McConnell and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, TVA released final environmental assessments on the evening of Feb. 11 concluding that both plants should be shut down by 2023 because of the projected expense of maintenance and complying with environmental laws, as well as a high forced-outage rate and stagnating or declining power demand in the seven-state region it serves, Dave Flessner reports for the Times Free Press in Chattanooga. The assessment also noted that gas is cheaper than coal and likely to remain so, and that more customers are using energy-efficient appliances and furnaces as well as generating their own power with renewable sources such as solar panels and windmills....
The only federal agency of the federal government that builds stuff is the US Army Corp.
Trump may be in violation of the NEA by signing contracts to build a wall. Presidential spending is not what this is about. This is about providing authority to AGENCIES of the federal government to act in an emergency. There is no additional infrastructure provided by the NEA. The NEA acts with current federal government infrastructure.
The NEA does not provide any specific emergency authority on its own, but relies on emergency authorities provided in other statutes. A national emergency declaration allows for the activation of these other statutory authorities. Emergency statutory provisions are not activated automatically, however; they must be specifically identified in the president’s declaration before these authorities may be given effect.
The NEA does not provide any specific emergency authority on its own, but relies on emergency authorities provided in other statutes. A national emergency declaration allows for the activation of these other statutory authorities. Emergency statutory provisions are not activated automatically, however; they must be specifically identified in the president’s declaration before these authorities may be given effect.
Declaration
NEA Section 201 authorizes the president to declare a national emergency. The proclamation of a national emergency must be immediately transmitted to Congress and published in the Federal Register. (click here) Under NEA Section 301, statutory emergency authorities enabled by the national emergency declaration cannot be exercised until the president specifies the provisions of law under which the president or other officials will act. Such specification may be made either in the declaration or in subsequent Executive Orders published in theFederal Register and transmitted to Congress.
I don't see anything published in the Federal Register. He has been writing all sorts of national emergency declarations about Venezuela, but, nothing about the southern border.
How many Executive Orders has Trump written?
I don't see anything published in the Federal Register. He has been writing all sorts of national emergency declarations about Venezuela, but, nothing about the southern border.
How many Executive Orders has Trump written?
Termination
A national emergency can be terminated if the president issues a proclamation or if Congress enacts a joint resolution terminating the emergency. A national emergency will terminate automatically upon the anniversary of the proclamation unless the president renews the proclamation by transmitting notice to Congress within a 90-day period prior to the anniversary date and publishing it in the Federal Register.
Immunity and Liability Issues
The national emergency provisions of the NEA do not address liability issues or provide any immunity. The act could be used to activate emergency authorities in other federal statutes that provide immunity during emergency events.
What is the most corrupt party in the USA?
The Republican Party and now we know that for a fact.
The polls before the 2018 election for 9th Congressional District in NC was a dead heat. One week there was a small margin in favor of Dan McCready and the next week that same margin was in favor of Mark Harris. When realizing the public polls are completely unclear to the outcome of that race, it needs to be reinstated as an open seat and the candidates should continue to raise election monies in anticipation of the new election.
February 18, 2019
By Brian Murphy
Raleigh - The stepdaughter of a Bladen County political operativen(click here) detailed how she said his ballot harvesting operation worked on the first day of a hearing Monday into voting irregularities in the unresolved 2018 election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District.
Lisa Britt, whose mother was married to Leslie McCrae Dowless in the early 1990s, testified that Dowless paid workers to collect absentee ballot request forms and mail-in absentee ballots and drop them off at his office and his home.
She said Dowless and others made copies of request forms and had specific criteria for matching pen colors, where to mail ballots from, how many to mail at a time and even how to place stamps to avoid setting off alarms.
“He fussed at me for putting on stamps upside down,” Britt testified before the N.C. Board of Elections. “We didn’t want to throw up a red flag.”...
Keeping with the strange and unlawful out of North Carolina is the loss of watches shipped via FedEx.
February 18, 2019
By Simone Jasper
A repair shop in Southern Pines, North Carolina (click here) has filed a lawsuit against FedEx, say the company delivered a package that was missing watches worth almost $50,000, according to court records.
A repair shop in North Carolina says it shipped watches worth almost $50,000 through FedEx. But the retailer instead got just a padded envelope, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
Cote Timeworks, which is based in Southern Pines, says FedEx was negligent and “didn’t take responsibility, forcing it to pay out-of-pocket to compensate its watch-less clients,” the Triangle Business Journal wrote.
The watch business in a lawsuit filed Tuesday said it paid to ship five watches to New Hampshire and back so that work could be done on them. The items included an 18-karat gold Rolex worth almost $20,000, according to a court document.
A Cote worker in July 2017 signed for the North Carolina-bound package, which was missing all five watches, the lawsuit said....
North Carolina forensics can't determine a wolf from a dog? Here is a reality check for North Carolina; I betcha is was a domesticated wolf. Domesticated wolves are not all that unusual in "the woods" of NC. Ah, "The Dire Wolf."
What do these issues prove about lawlessness in North Carolina?
February 18, 2019
Beaufort County - A North Carolina teacher has died, (click here) three days after she was attacked by an unknown animal.
Brenda Hamilton, 77, had been in critical condition at Vidant Medical Center since Friday morning's attack outside of Pantego. Members of the woman's family confirm that she passed away this morning at the hospital.
Hamilton was an English teacher at Pungo Christian Academy, having taught at the school since 1968.
Biologists with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission performed preliminary DNA tests over the weekend.
Originally, authorities said the woman was killed by a domesticated animal. But now deputies say test results from DNA evidence found on her clothing do not differentiate between wild K9s, such as wolves or coyotes, and domesticated dogs.
Deputies are now collecting DNA from dogs in the area for additional testing.
Wildlife officers say this morning they turned all their evidence over to the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.
The polls before the 2018 election for 9th Congressional District in NC was a dead heat. One week there was a small margin in favor of Dan McCready and the next week that same margin was in favor of Mark Harris. When realizing the public polls are completely unclear to the outcome of that race, it needs to be reinstated as an open seat and the candidates should continue to raise election monies in anticipation of the new election.
February 18, 2019
By Brian Murphy
Raleigh - The stepdaughter of a Bladen County political operativen(click here) detailed how she said his ballot harvesting operation worked on the first day of a hearing Monday into voting irregularities in the unresolved 2018 election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District.
Lisa Britt, whose mother was married to Leslie McCrae Dowless in the early 1990s, testified that Dowless paid workers to collect absentee ballot request forms and mail-in absentee ballots and drop them off at his office and his home.
She said Dowless and others made copies of request forms and had specific criteria for matching pen colors, where to mail ballots from, how many to mail at a time and even how to place stamps to avoid setting off alarms.
“He fussed at me for putting on stamps upside down,” Britt testified before the N.C. Board of Elections. “We didn’t want to throw up a red flag.”...
Keeping with the strange and unlawful out of North Carolina is the loss of watches shipped via FedEx.
By Simone Jasper
A repair shop in Southern Pines, North Carolina (click here) has filed a lawsuit against FedEx, say the company delivered a package that was missing watches worth almost $50,000, according to court records.
A repair shop in North Carolina says it shipped watches worth almost $50,000 through FedEx. But the retailer instead got just a padded envelope, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
Cote Timeworks, which is based in Southern Pines, says FedEx was negligent and “didn’t take responsibility, forcing it to pay out-of-pocket to compensate its watch-less clients,” the Triangle Business Journal wrote.
The watch business in a lawsuit filed Tuesday said it paid to ship five watches to New Hampshire and back so that work could be done on them. The items included an 18-karat gold Rolex worth almost $20,000, according to a court document.
A Cote worker in July 2017 signed for the North Carolina-bound package, which was missing all five watches, the lawsuit said....
North Carolina forensics can't determine a wolf from a dog? Here is a reality check for North Carolina; I betcha is was a domesticated wolf. Domesticated wolves are not all that unusual in "the woods" of NC. Ah, "The Dire Wolf."
What do these issues prove about lawlessness in North Carolina?
February 18, 2019
Beaufort County - A North Carolina teacher has died, (click here) three days after she was attacked by an unknown animal.
Brenda Hamilton, 77, had been in critical condition at Vidant Medical Center since Friday morning's attack outside of Pantego. Members of the woman's family confirm that she passed away this morning at the hospital.
Hamilton was an English teacher at Pungo Christian Academy, having taught at the school since 1968.
Biologists with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission performed preliminary DNA tests over the weekend.
Originally, authorities said the woman was killed by a domesticated animal. But now deputies say test results from DNA evidence found on her clothing do not differentiate between wild K9s, such as wolves or coyotes, and domesticated dogs.
Deputies are now collecting DNA from dogs in the area for additional testing.
Wildlife officers say this morning they turned all their evidence over to the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.
I think most Americans know "Trump" is the petroleum industry last best chance. Americans need to move past the oil era.
All the issues with Trump records are all very interesting, but, the "Green New Deal" is sound in its fundamental purpose to avert complete disaster due to the Climate Crisis.
(3) global warming (click here) at or above 2 degrees Celsius beyond preindustrialized levels will cause—
(A) mass migration from the regions most affected by climate change;
(B) more than $500,000,000,000 in lost annual economic output in the United States by the year 2100;
(C) wildfires that, by 2050, will annually burn at least twice as much forest area in the western United States than was typically burned by wildfires in the years preceding 2019;
(D) a loss of more than 99 percent of all coral reefs on Earth;
(E) more than 350,000,000 more people to be exposed globally to deadly heat stress by 2050; and
(F) a risk of damage to $1,000,000,000,000 of public infrastructure and coastal real estate in the United States; and
(3) global warming (click here) at or above 2 degrees Celsius beyond preindustrialized levels will cause—
(A) mass migration from the regions most affected by climate change;
(B) more than $500,000,000,000 in lost annual economic output in the United States by the year 2100;
(C) wildfires that, by 2050, will annually burn at least twice as much forest area in the western United States than was typically burned by wildfires in the years preceding 2019;
(D) a loss of more than 99 percent of all coral reefs on Earth;
(E) more than 350,000,000 more people to be exposed globally to deadly heat stress by 2050; and
(F) a risk of damage to $1,000,000,000,000 of public infrastructure and coastal real estate in the United States; and
To be clear...
This meeting occurred at the very same time Trump was trying to rope a chaotic USA FBI in a conspiracy against the American people. End of discussion.
THAT IS CALLED TREASON.
...President Trump told Russian officials (click here) highly classified information when he met with them in the Oval Office last week....
...the information that Trump shared with the Russians is what’s called “Code Word” classified. That’s higher than the classification known as Top Secret....
The facts were already known by the FBI that Russia hacked the Clinton campaign and the DCCC before Trump took office.
Donald Trump expected Andrew McCabe and Ron Rosenstein to value a paycheck before the country, hence, Comey’s firing. When the leadership of the FBI could not be corrupted Trump continued his rant and firings. When Comey was fired with a tweet I am quite confident the FBI began to circle the wagons.
Trump carries out outrageous and audacious actions “in plain sight” to numb the country and rob it’s reality to create something different out of his lies. He thinks Americans are stupid. “W”rong!
Russia is an enemy to the United States of America and our allies. Trump goes out of his way to provide aid and comfort to Russia. Enough.
Trump is tweeting? He is feeling insecure. He finds security at the expense of others integrity.
Trump tweets to feel in control. He is sitting in the Oval Office right now in Executive Time while his daughter sits in a European security conference aggrieved the headset for translation will mess up her hairdo. That is a president of the USA? I don’t think so.
The president of the USA is more than occupying a space at a desk of integrity. President of the USA actually cares about the people and the world. Being an American is about having the freedom to experience the world and being an instrument of that freedom and democracy. Being an American is having a president that cares about the world Americans live in and the legacy a life can mean to generations to come.
My hero has always been a first generation American that came with his parents from Galway Ireland. Who at the age of 17 accepted the responsibility of raising his five siblings after the bird flu took the lives of his parents. A man that worked the Pennsylvania anthracite coal mines to see every one of his children graduate high school and every one of his 40 grandchildren graduate college. That man was never a millionaire. That man had problems with alcoholism because he self medicated. That man died of Black Lung Disease. That man was a Roman Catholic and a member of the Knights of Columbus who believed he never deserved Knight of the Year. He humbled himself before God and pledged his love to a woman that never worried about a roof over her head or bread on the table. She never worked a day in her life while revering every granddaughter that choose a profession along with a loving family to call her own. That man never tweeted a word. He died with throngs of people at his funeral. That man was a great American hero and he was my grandfather. That is the America I know and love. Trump can’t hold a candle to him.
Trump tweets to feel in control. He is sitting in the Oval Office right now in Executive Time while his daughter sits in a European security conference aggrieved the headset for translation will mess up her hairdo. That is a president of the USA? I don’t think so.
The president of the USA is more than occupying a space at a desk of integrity. President of the USA actually cares about the people and the world. Being an American is about having the freedom to experience the world and being an instrument of that freedom and democracy. Being an American is having a president that cares about the world Americans live in and the legacy a life can mean to generations to come.
My hero has always been a first generation American that came with his parents from Galway Ireland. Who at the age of 17 accepted the responsibility of raising his five siblings after the bird flu took the lives of his parents. A man that worked the Pennsylvania anthracite coal mines to see every one of his children graduate high school and every one of his 40 grandchildren graduate college. That man was never a millionaire. That man had problems with alcoholism because he self medicated. That man died of Black Lung Disease. That man was a Roman Catholic and a member of the Knights of Columbus who believed he never deserved Knight of the Year. He humbled himself before God and pledged his love to a woman that never worried about a roof over her head or bread on the table. She never worked a day in her life while revering every granddaughter that choose a profession along with a loving family to call her own. That man never tweeted a word. He died with throngs of people at his funeral. That man was a great American hero and he was my grandfather. That is the America I know and love. Trump can’t hold a candle to him.
“I believe Putin.”
Of course, Trump submitted all the Russian proof on North Korea to USA intelligence for forensics and assessment to complete the reason why he believes Putin that North Korea has no long range missiles. No? That is because Trump is afraid of Putin. Trump remembers Putin stating during the election for president if Hillary Clinton is elected there will be nuclear war with the USA. Trump is afraid of Russian Novichok. He is submissive to Putin because it is easier than standing up to him.
After all Putin won Trump a real seat of power. Why not believe him?
Does Trump believe Putin is killing people in Ukraine? Does Trump believe Putin broke a long standing international treaty to invade Crimea and Ukraine? Does Trump believe Russia is directly responsible for the war at the Russian border with Ukraine? Does Trump believe Russians were responsible for the downing of a commercial airliner killing hundreds of people? If not, what is all that Fake News? Is that what Trump believes of USA intelligence? Is USA intelligence Fake News?
There are millions of Americans living in NATO countries; Trump should not take their security so lightly.
After all Putin won Trump a real seat of power. Why not believe him?
Does Trump believe Putin is killing people in Ukraine? Does Trump believe Putin broke a long standing international treaty to invade Crimea and Ukraine? Does Trump believe Russia is directly responsible for the war at the Russian border with Ukraine? Does Trump believe Russians were responsible for the downing of a commercial airliner killing hundreds of people? If not, what is all that Fake News? Is that what Trump believes of USA intelligence? Is USA intelligence Fake News?
There are millions of Americans living in NATO countries; Trump should not take their security so lightly.
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