Wednesday, August 19, 2020
The legacy this legislation has established in the reputation of the USA, it needs to be permanent law needing no renewal.
By Emily S. Rueb and Niraj Chokshi
...The act (click here) has established the National Domestic Violence Hotline, the Office on Violence Against Women within the Department of Justice, and myriad programs to train victim advocates, police officers, prosecutors and judges on gender-based violence. Since it was created, more than $7 billion in federal grants has been given to programs that prevent domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking. It has also funded shelters, community programs and studies tracking violence against women....
...The act (click here) has established the National Domestic Violence Hotline, the Office on Violence Against Women within the Department of Justice, and myriad programs to train victim advocates, police officers, prosecutors and judges on gender-based violence. Since it was created, more than $7 billion in federal grants has been given to programs that prevent domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking. It has also funded shelters, community programs and studies tracking violence against women....
"The Act" never stopped at the USA borders.
...In July 2010, (click here) the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, to address such challenges....
The "Mayo Clinic" identifies violence against woman an adult health concern.
...Domestic violence (click here) — also called intimate partner violence — occurs between people in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence can take many forms, including emotional, sexual and physical abuse and threats of abuse. Domestic violence can happen in heterosexual or same-sex relationships.
Abusive relationships always involve an imbalance of power and control. An abuser uses intimidating, hurtful words and behaviors to control his or her partner.
It might not be easy to identify domestic violence at first. While some relationships are clearly abusive from the outset, abuse often starts subtly and gets worse over time....
She never stops being that international citizen.
By Stephen Schaefer
Berlin - Is Hillary Rodham Clinton (click here) breaking another barrier by being the first-ever former first lady and secretary of state to show up at the Berlin International Film Festival to promote a series?
Clinton is the intimate focus of “Hillary,” Nanette Burstein’s four-hour, four-part documentary profile. The premise, Burstein said, acknowledges that Clinton is a divisive figure and tries to answer the question, Who is the real person?
But Monday’s press conference began with questions not about “Hillary” but the Harvey Weinstein guilty verdicts — the disgraced producer was a major donor to her 2016 Presidential campaign.
“I think the jury verdict speaks for itself,” Clinton said. “It is obviously something people have followed because it was time for an accounting.”...
Her message tonight was spot on. She is still "Hillary" and the Clintons are still "Hill and Bill." They always will be. Their dedication to this country was for a lifetime. We will never know the brilliant policies she would have successfully carried out as President of the USA. The country would have been safe from SARS-CoV-2. I am confident of that.
There is a US Senate report published. She was leveraged against by Russia. That cannot occur again. There is no current legislation to ensure the voting in 2020 is absolutely safe. Reports are always interesting, but, action is more important.
Ten more years. The tipping point is EVIDENCED in the ice fields.
July of any year is the one month when crops, trees, and lawns are exhibiting the most chlorophyll. That means in the Northern Hemisphere there is a maximum amount of CO2 absorption. Got it? No? It means the global CO2 level is at it's lowest.
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Everyone understands the word evidence?
August 12, 2020
By Mindy Weisberger
On July 30 and July 31, the northern part of the Arctic ice shelf began to break off. A mass of ice measuring about 31 square miles (81 square kilometers) — bigger than Manhattan — then detached from the ice shelf and began drifting north, representatives of the Water and Ice Research Laboratory (WIRL) at Carleton University in Ontario, Canada, said in a statement....
SCIENTISTS cannot be ignored. The year of the tipping point we will all regret is 2030, not 2050. 2060 is convenient for politics. Al Gore never found politics convenient. He is correct.
New science (findings) sheds more light on recent controversy over how much the large carnivores are being impacted by melting sea ice.
February 1, 2018
By Stephen Leahy
...Because of melting sea ice, (click here for video) it is likely that more polar bears will soon starve, warns a new study that discovered the large carnivores need to eat 60 percent more than anyone had realized. Turns out they are high-energy beasts, burning through 12,325 calories a day—despite sitting around most of the time, according to a unique metabolic analysis of wild bears published sThursday in Science.
“Our study reveals polar bears’ utter dependence on seals,” said lead author Anthony Pagano, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)....
The year 2030 is not about Polar Bears. It is about the planet. Hurricanes are not the highest wind anymore, it is the tornadoes with it.
August 19, 2020
By Kalea Hall
Detroit — General Motors Co. (click here) is dialing up its aggressive electric-vehicle plans at home and abroad — even though it's yet to see the fruits of its multibillion dollar investments in its share price.
During Tech Day in China Wednesday, the equivalent of GM's EV Day hosted in March at the Warren Technical Center Campus in Michigan, the Detroit automaker showed off the technologies it will use to drive into the future, including the new Ultium battery system. It also showed next-generation electric vehicles to be launched in China.
GM plans to spend $20 billion on electric and autonomous vehicle development through 2025, deliver 20 electric vehicles globally by 2023 and sell 1 million of them globally by mid-decade. Meanwhile, analysts are pushing GM to spin off its electric-vehicle and battery business to reap the valuations of such electric start-up companies as Tesla Inc. The Silicon Valley EV maker is valued at $350 billion compared with GM's $42 billion....
The real path forward is not absent of jobs and truth.
A clean energy future is vital.
Gun rights have gone too far.
These two days of violence in the USA shook me to my roots. I do believe in responsible gun ownership, so, I so stand against the radically permissive gun laws. I was secure in that morality. These two days rattled my rock-solid beliefs of what was right and what was wrong. It was a horrible week. I struggled with the idea that responsible gun ownership might not exist in the USA anymore.
Two mass shootings (click here) within 24 hours, leaving 31 people dead, has once again brought the spotlight on gun ownership in the United States.
An attack on a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas on Saturday left 20 dead, while nine died in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio on Sunday.
But where does America stand on the right to bear arms and gun control?...
Our young adults are moving toward a future that means radical gun ownership is not to be allowed anymore. The NRA was backed by Russian money. They are not the people to carry any message to the people of the USA.
"When we vote things get better."
Republicans for Joe Biden was a real hope that we can be one nation again. Joe is the real deal. He sees America from "the street." He knows us. He can bring the fabric of our flag back to health.
The US Intelligence Committee has finally submitted their findings.
There is much to be said about this report. I think to appreciate the findings it has to be read. But, Former Director Robert Mueller's report should be read to completion first. There was wrongdoing and those in power don't seem to be able to allow justice to stand so much as create a ruse for the political motivation of lies.
By Mark Mazzetti
Washington - Republican-controlled Senate panel (click here) that spent three years investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election laid out an extensive web of contacts between Trump campaign advisers and Kremlin officials and other Russians, including at least one intelligence officer and others tied to the country’s spy services.
The report by the Senate Intelligence Committee, totaling nearly 1,000 pages, drew to a close one of the highest-profile congressional investigations in recent memory and could be the last word from an official government inquiry about the expansive Russian campaign to sabotage the 2016 election.
It provided a bipartisan Senate imprimatur for an extraordinary set of facts: The Russian government disrupted an American election to help Mr. Trump become president, Russian intelligence services viewed members of the Trump campaign as easily manipulated, and some of Mr. Trump’s advisers were eager for the help from an American adversary....
It was a mistake to begin the semester in person.
By Hayley Fowler and Simone Jasper
Students at the University of North Carolina started to move out of their dorms Tuesday, August 18, 2020, after the university announced, because of COVID, it would make all classes virtual and asked most students living on campus to return home.
We’re tracking (click here) the most up-to-date information about the coronavirus in North Carolina. Check back for updates.
REPORTED DEATHS REACH NEW DAILY RECORD
At least 146,779 people in North Carolina have tested positive for the coronavirus and 2,396 have died, according to state health officials....
Besides the dignity of protecting human life, protecting the nation's brain trust is paramount to protecting the future of the USA. Notre Dame and Michigan State have suspended in-person learning (click here) as the virus proves it is more dangerous than the flu.
The community won for now. One year and counting.
It is an important site and absolutely should be protected from demolition. That permanent protection was not afforded the Mendenhall-Blair homestead last night, but, a year to secure it's future was granted. If the community can negotiate a selling price with the owners, the homestead will stand for generations to represent the significance of land, a home, and the potential it has with the commitment to moral and higher values of citizens.
This is an important homestead and it should be preserved. It was a wonderful meeting to learn the dedication current citizens have to protect the past and its lessons.
By Olivia Steen
High Point - It is a home (click here) that has been a staple in High Point for hundreds of years.
Tuesday night, the community fought to keep the Mendenhall-Blair homestead on Skeet Club Road standing.
The Guilford County Preservation Commission held a public meeting to discuss the area.
The homestead is one of the few historical sites left in Guilford County occupied by Quakers back in the 1800s.
The owners of the property submitted an application for demolition last month.
On Tuesday night, the commission voted to halt demolition for 365 days.
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