Congratulations to Governor Asa Hutchinson fir vetoing the anti-transgender health care bill. He was absolutely right to fit it. The bill was a human rights violation. I was extremely surprised to realize Arkansas legislature was so biased and discriminatory in their laws. My goodness. It is a lot to be concerned about.
Monday, April 05, 2021
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is a genius.
Secretary Yellen is proposing a minimum tax globally on corporations. Companies play with countries’ borders a lot. Allies literally compete for businesses no different than states have to compete for PPE. The entire corporate structure is disincentivized to promote sovereign stability.
One of the places Secretary Yellen will meet with agreement is Wall Street transaction taxes. It is a minuscule tax who’s time has come. But, promoting sovereign economic stability also means corporate stability follows.
I think the United Nations has a place in a convention that stabilizes countries with companies that employ, pay good wages and provide for a consistent treasury income.
It is time the global community take on this challenge.
The Trump Tax Cut to Wall Street slowed job creation.
This was before COVID-19. After Wall Street received huge amounts of tax cuts and even refunds for taxes paid in 2017, they downsized. The cash provided for change, not new jobs.
Give me a break. How many CEOs looked at the Trump Tax Cuts and said, "Oh, joy, there is going to be more jobs created with the expansion of the business." WRONG! Wall Street always CUTS costs. Labor is costs and one that Wall Street doesn't like.
The Trump Tax Cuts hurt this country as companies downsized their labor force and instituted more computer and mechanized production of their products.
A seven percent tax increase on corporations in the USA will mean they will actually pay into the US Treasury and not have a ZERO TAX RATE. Honestly!
In 2017, (click here) total nonfarm payroll employment as measured by the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey rose by 2.2 million, or 1.5 percent, slightly slowing its advance from 2016. Job growth accelerated in goods-producing industries, while growth in most service-providing industries decelerated.
The employment gains in 2017 occurred while many economic indicators of the U.S. economy signaled strength. However, there were still some headwinds resulting from a tight labor market and two major hurricanes. The slight easing of job growth also occurred in the fourth year of the current employment expansion, which is now longer than the expansion from January 2005 to January 2008. This article provides an overview of these labor market developments....
Moscow Mitch always talks about the coal industry. Yes? It is his big claim that Republicans protect those coal companies. WRONG! Moscow Mitch is not a protection for any industry. His vote for the Trump Tax Cuts increased mechanization of industry, not jobs.
Stop the political rhetoric by Moscow Mitch and know the facts. Tell a friend, they are not the friends of the American people.
January 25, 2017
By Dayashree Saha and Sifan Liu
President Trump has made empty promises (click here) to make the coal industry great again, vowing to reverse decades of the industry’s downward employment trajectory. In previous blog posts, we have shown how his promises to put coal miners back to work will be a tall order. Here, we introduce another reason why coal will face an uphill battle: automation.
The problem facing the coal industry is not unique: Automation is rapidly reducing employment in mining and manufacturing. Across a wide range of industries, from car manufacturing to computing, robots or artificial intelligence are increasingly taking over roles traditionally performed by humans. The same is true for coal mining....
President Biden said we need jobs now. Well. Guess what?
April 2, 2021
By Jeff Cox
By Jeff Cox
Job growth boomed in March (click here) at the fastest pace since last summer, as stronger economic growth and an aggressive vaccination effort contributed to a surge in hospitality and construction jobs, the Labor Department reported Friday.
Nonfarm payrolls increased by 916,000 for the month while the unemployment rate fell to 6%.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for an increase of 675,000 and an unemployment rate of 6%. The total was the highest since the 1.58 million added in August 2020.
“It shows that the economy is healing, that those who lost their jobs are coming back into the workforce as the recovery continues and restrictions are lifted,” said Quincy Krosby, chief market strategist at Prudential Financial. “The only concern here is if we have another wave of Covid that leads to another round of closures.”...
Get vaccinated. End the health emergency. The Biden Presidency has put forward incredible numbers of vaccines and we need to continue to be safe from the virus and it's variants.
Masks work.
Social distancing works.
Hand hygiene works and no face touching until after hand hygiene.
GET VACCINATED.
The Big Biden Bill is necesssary.
The past two decades, yes decades, have been nothing but a rollback of maintenance and modernizing the USA infrastructure. This spending now is to CATCH UP over the lack of modernization of the USA infrastructure under Republican governance. They cut taxes and turn their back on the people and the future of this planet.
April 4, 2021
By Emily Czachor
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (click here) on Sunday defended the breadth of President Joe Biden's American Jobs Plan, a $2.2 trillion bill that aims to improve U.S. infrastructure and revitalize the economy as it works to recover from COVID-19.
The proposal, which Biden unveiled last week, was met with criticism from Republican and some Democratic lawmakers over its size. While conservatives, such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, argued against the plan because of its spending goals, progressives, such as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, suggested that additional funds are necessary to truly realize the bill's intended impacts.
Speaking to ABC News host George Stephanopoulos during an appearance on the network's This Week program, Buttigieg acknowledged the emerging partisan divide. A Democrat and former presidential candidate, Buttigieg served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, for eight years before assuming his leadership role at the Department of Transportation under Biden's administration....
And, I think US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is absolutely correct in the amount of money the USA needs to move the country to vastly lower GHG emissions. We are the leader of the Free World and we must set the standard. In obtaining a high standard of GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emission reduction we can then ask for other countries to meet the same standard. We must do this and the time is now.
2030 is less than nine years away. We cannot afford to miss that target. We must continue past 2030 to be carbon neutral by 2050. This is REALITY. This is not some weird political game that brings money to cronies. This is real and the danger is real. The stratosphere must remain intact without increased mixing as we have seen. The mixing between the troposphere and the stratosphere is record-setting. Enough of gambling with our planet to protect the petroleum industry. There are better ways.
By Emily Czachor
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (click here) on Sunday defended the breadth of President Joe Biden's American Jobs Plan, a $2.2 trillion bill that aims to improve U.S. infrastructure and revitalize the economy as it works to recover from COVID-19.
The proposal, which Biden unveiled last week, was met with criticism from Republican and some Democratic lawmakers over its size. While conservatives, such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, argued against the plan because of its spending goals, progressives, such as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, suggested that additional funds are necessary to truly realize the bill's intended impacts.
Speaking to ABC News host George Stephanopoulos during an appearance on the network's This Week program, Buttigieg acknowledged the emerging partisan divide. A Democrat and former presidential candidate, Buttigieg served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, for eight years before assuming his leadership role at the Department of Transportation under Biden's administration....
US Senator Joe Manchin believes he can find 10 Republicans to vote for this bill that will change the USA forever leading into the future. I hope he is right and if he is successful, the partisan divide is a myth. I would love to see that as a myth sooner than later. If Senator Machin hopes for bipartisan support is not realized, then the Democrats must do what is best for the country as a leader and for the generation of Americans growing up now. Our time is now.
This is Donald John Trump's best friend and he wants to kill us.
April 5, 2021
By Nick Paton Walsh
By Nick Paton Walsh
Russia is amassing unprecedented military might (click here) in the Arctic and testing its newest weapons in a region freshly ice-free due to the climate emergency, in a bid to secure its northern coast and open up a key shipping route from Asia to Europe.
Weapons experts and Western officials have expressed particular concern about one Russian 'super-weapon,' the Poseidon 2M39 torpedo. Development of the torpedo is moving fast with Russian President Vladimir Putin requesting an update on a "key stage" of the tests in February from his defense minister Sergei Shoigu, with further tests planned this year, according to multiple reports in state media....
This is a first-strike weapon and it is stealth, probably our technology, too. If this is our technology military research should be able to decode it and detect it, but, we don't know that for sure.
Look, Putin wins elections but he is not the choice of the Russian people. I doubt anyone but the hardline communists are in favor of escalating the nuclear war with The West.
Last summer there was a nuclear accident in Russia that killed 5 or 6 of their nuclear scientists. Now we know why. Russia wants war and this is one of the weapons they are intending to use. There is no doubt with parking nuclear capacity jets in Venezuela, Putin is outlining his strategy. This is serious and it won't go away. Why? Because Putin is on a timeline to regime change in Russia. The Russian people and in coveted satellites like Belarus, the people want a different government. They want free and open and fair elections that are not corrupt. They want representation in the Duma and other bodies in other countries to represent the values of the people and not a strong man that insists on being in power forever.
June 29, 2020
By Kyle Mizkoami
Radiation detectors (click here) across northern Europe have picked up a short-lived, non-dangerous release of radioactivity experts believe came from Russia. Authorities believe the leak, which was first detected in early June, is coming from western Russia. One possibility is that the test is in some way related to a new nuclear-powered cruise missile, which caused an accident in 2019 and several deaths.
The Associated Press reports that officials in Finland, Norway, and Sweden detected man-made radionuclides—that is, radionuclides that do not naturally occur in nature. According to the Barents Observer, Iodine 131 was detected by air monitoring stations at Svanhovd and Viksjøfjell, Norway, as well as a nuclear weapons monitoring facility at Svalbard. Analysis by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health indicates the source of the radiation is western Russia.
Iodine 131 is a radioisotope created as a result of nuclear fission, which is why scientists believe the radiation release is the result of an accident at a nuclear facility. According to the CDC, exposure to large amounts of Iodine 131 can cause burns to the eyes and skin. Iodine 131 ingested into the human body accumulates in the thyroid gland, causing thyroid cancer. Iodine 131 has a half-life of eight days, meaning it can disappear from the environment relatively quickly....
The Russian submarine fleet has always been it's "go to" capacity with nuclear bombs ready for launch off the shore of the USA and allies. But, it would seem as though Putin has opted for smaller ships more laden with bombs. I believe this is a European strategy more so than North America. I have to wonder if these ships are capable in the Black Sea.
April 1, 2021
By Benjamine Brimelow
It's stepping up operations in the Arctic, expanding its presence in Africa and the Middle East, and keeping a close eye on NATO around Europe.
It's also making progress on a number of high-profile shipbuilding projects. It plans to commission or receive six new submarines — three of them nuclear-powered — by the end of this year and expects to receive a fully modernized Kirov-class nuclear battlecruiser and to begin sea trials for its only aircraft carrier by the end of 2022.
These are impressive advances for a force that largely fell into disrepair after the Cold War. While the Russian Navy isn't as big as its Soviet forebear, the work shows that the Kremlin is committing to its modernization....
I never once believed the Russian military was incapacitated, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The hope for the world was always with new leadership with a vision to be part of greater global peace. Within that peace was economic prosperity, then came the Russian invasion into Ukraine. Yes, Crimea, regardless of Putin's rantings is part of Ukraine and the border war is still an issue. If one recalls Donald John Trump was going to withhold the necessary munitions from the USA that would hopefully end the conflict with Russia taking over the country. That was the Trump strategy, with a yellow streak up his back, he would hand over anything to Russia, including top secret information so long as he could be king.
But, these two new weapons are definitely a part of a global strategy for nuclear war. Putin has a problem though. If he deploys all this explosion in the world, there won't be a postage size stamp of land capable of occupying.
THIS ARMS RACE is old and dangerous and it has to stop. The Non-Proliferation Agreements must take precedent and end this madness. Putin as king is nothing the Russian people wanted. They probably don't like the arms race either, IF THEY KNEW ABOUT IT.
End this mess and get serious about the GLOBAL CLIMATE CRISIS that is now assaulting the mixing between the troposphere and stratosphere. That mixing is deadly and it has to come to an end. That is the real challenge of the world and this esclation in any arms race is stupid.
The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
Okay everyone we need to get vaccinated. Time to kick this virus to the curb. We are over with this mess. Still yet another variant, this time out of India. It is time the world is vaccinated, but, the worst-case numbers has been the USA. We MUST be vaccinated to end the OPPORTUNITY for these variants to develop.
April 4, 2021By Kelli Dugan
Santa Clara County - A new variant (click here) of the coronavirus, first detected in India, has been diagnosed in the San Francisco Bay Area and is believed to be the first of its kind discovered in the United States.
The variant, believed to be responsible for a recent surge in India’s COVID-19 cases, is classified as a double mutation, KNTV reported.
To date, Stanford University experts have confirmed only one case involving the new variant countywide, but more are expected, the TV station reported....
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