CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION THROUGH NEW AMENDMENT IN CONGRESS

As early as today, a bold proposal could come before Congress, and there's still time for you to have a huge impact. Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) introduced an amendment that would require the Department of Energy to only back energy projects that address and mitigate climate change. The amendment passed out of a House Committee late last night and it is moving fast through Congress. Your representative needs to hear from you TODAY. What would this amendment do? Energy companies would have to demonstrate how proposed projects would meet heightened standards. One affected project is the proposed massive petrochemical build-out in Appalachia. This enormous network of infrastructure is intended to store and process dirty fossil fuels in order to churn out more plastic.1 This amendment would effectively hold back the Department of Energy from quickly deciding to financially back the project. Send a message today to get your representative on board. Send a Message TODAY We know this will not be a long-term solution to the climate crisis. We need bold, progressive legislation that would move us to 100% clean, renewable energy on a swift timeline — so we should stop terrible projects from being proposed in the first place. Officially, this amendment is called Amendment 105 to Rule 2 on HR 2740, the Omar-Jayapal Amendment. Here at Food & Water Watch, we're calling it what it is — a really big deal and the result of hard work by activists around the country. We got this far, but now we have a small window of time to urge Rep. Jerry Nadler and the rest of the House to stand in support. Our allies and activists fighting back against projects like the Appalachia petrochemical hub need your support at this critical moment. Tell your representative to support the amendment and stand against a fossil fuel future. Onward together, Wenonah Hauter Executive Director Food & Water Watch

TRUMP SUPREMACY FALLOUT

FROM CNN: RELIABLE SOURCES, AUG. 17th, 2017 Dozens of GOP lawmakers are declining interview requests

"Let’s be honest. Republicans don’t mind coming on Fox News Channel." But "we couldn’t get anyone to come and defend him here," Shep Smith said at 3pm Wednesday. Chuck Todd reported the same result on "MTP Daily" at 5pm: "We invited every single Republican senator on this program tonight, all 52." Plus a dozen House GOPers. "None of them agreed to discuss this issue with us today." Wolf Blitzer said something similar at 5:30: “We did reach out to Republican leaders throughout the day. They all, at least for now, refused to join us..." And Kate Bolduan, filling in for Erin Burnett at 7pm, said bookers called 55 Republicans and only one said yes... I CANNOT IMPROVE ON THESE COMMENTS, DONALD J. TRUMP NEEDS TO READ THEM  ! EDWARD L. NICE

YOU CANT JUST MAKE UP THE ALT-LEFT

Donald J. Trump yesterday tried to start a new group called the 

"ALT-LEFT" 

Oh my, oh my !

Overall, far-right extremist plots have been far more deadly than far-left plots (and Islamist plots eclipsed both) in the past 25 years, according to a breakdown of two terrorism databases by Alex Nowrasteh, an analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute.

"White nationalists; militia movements; anti-Muslim attackers; I.R.S. building and abortion clinic bombers; and other right-wing groups were responsible for 12 times as many fatalities and 36 times as many injuries as communists; socialists; animal rights and environmental activists; anti-white- and Black Lives Matter-inspired attackers; and other left-wing groups." This is part of an article by LINDA QIU, NEW YORK TIMES.

Facts matter, science matters !

EDWARD L. NICE

Email Congress: Protect Patients' Access to Quality Care!

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AMERICA'S SHADOW GOVERNMENT

There is now a shadow Islamaphobic government in the White House ! Led by Stephen K. Bannon, Stephen Miller and Sebastian Gorka, this shadow government is exercising great influence over the puppet president, Donald J. Trump. They are attempting, so far successfully, to create a New America isolated through religion. The Muslim ban and the attack on this nations journalists should be cause for great alarm. The attacks on the LBGT community have already started. The destruction of public schools has already started. The deportation of illegal immigrants has already started. The environment is already being threatened. I could go on and on about the dismantling of our government by these thugs. I call them thugs because they are strongarming their way through our lives.
EDWARD L. NICE

I WILL DO MANY THINGS, BUT THESE THINGS.....NO

This statement is all over the internet now and I don't know who to attribute it to !

•I will not forget how badly Donald J. Trump and so many others treated former President Barack Obama for 8 years...
•I will not "work together" to privatize Medicare, cut Social Security and Medicaid.
•I will not "work together" to build a wall.
•I will not "work together" to persecute Muslims.
•I will not "work together" to shut out refugees from other countries.
•I will not "work together" to lower taxes on the 1% and increase taxes on the middle class and poor.
•I will not "work together" to help Trump use the Presidency to line his pockets and those of his family and cronies.
•I will not "work together" to weaken and demolish environmental protection.
•I will not "work together" to sell American lands, especially National Parks, to companies which then despoil those lands.
•I will not "work together" to enable the killing of whole species of animals just because they are predators, or inconvenient for a few, or because some people want to get their thrills killing them.
•I will not "work together" to remove civil rights from anyone.
•I will not "work together" to alienate countries that have been our allies for as long as I have been alive.
•I will not "work together" to slash funding for education.
•I will not "work together" to take basic assistance from people who are at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
•I will not "work together" to get rid of common sense regulations on guns.
•I will not "work together" to eliminate the minimum wage.
•I will not "work together" to support so-called "Right To Work" laws, or undermine, weaken or destroy Unions in any way.
•I will not "work together" to suppress scientific research, be it on climate change, fracking, or any other issue where a majority of scientists agree that Trump and his supporters are wrong on the facts.
•I will not "work together" to criminalize abortion or restrict health care for women.
•I will not "work together" to increase the number of nations that have nuclear weapons.
•I will not "work together" to put even more "big money" into politics.
•I will not "work together" to violate the Geneva Convention.
•I will not "work together" to give the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazi Party and white supremacists a seat at the table, or to normalize their hatred.
•I will not "work together" to deny health care to people who need it.
•I will not "work together" to deny medical coverage to people on the basis of a "pre-existing condition."
•I will not "work together" to increase voter suppression.
•I will not "work together" to normalize tyranny.
•I will not “work together” to eliminate or reduce ethical oversite at any level of government.
•I will not "work together" with anyone who is, or admires tyrants and dictators.
•I will not support anyone that thinks its OK to put a pipeline to transport oil on Sacred Ground for Native Americans, running under the Missouri River, which provides drinking water for millions of people.

This is my "line in the sand"

STEVE BANNON, RIGHT HAND DEVIL TO THE PRESIDENT

I include this missive about Steve Bannon as I feel it is of great importance to understand what is happening in the White House under cover of darkness.

"A long read but extremely important regarding Bannon's seizure of power at highest levels.
What is unfolding inside Washington right now is, for all intents and purposes, a step-by-step coup e'tat against constitutional government. Steve Bannon has played, and will continue to play, the leading role in this usurpation -- his positions effectively shield him from any government oversight or accountability. That Bannon has largely succeeded in shielding from public view his neo-Nazi associations and contempt for the American constitution should be cause for still greater alarm. What much we do know is gravely worrisome in itself.
This post concerns Donald Trump's elevation of Bannon to leading roles within the National Security Council. To review: the National Security Council (NSC) comprises important high-level government officials including the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Director of National Intelligence. Its main job is to use this broad expertise to advise the President on national security matters and assist in carrying out security directives.
Yesterday, the President removed the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence from the NSC. He replaced them with Steve Bannon. Bannon has no government, intelligence, or high-level military experience; his experience is leading a propaganda outlet (Breitbart News) that promotes nationalist and white nationalist viewpoints.
This would be deeply concerning in and of itself. But one of the jobs of the NSC is to oversee a secret panel that authorizes the assassination of “enemies of the United States Government” – including American citizens. These targeted killings are fully authorized by law under the Congressional military authorization act following 9/11. There is no trial, no due process, and no public record of the decision or the assassination itself.
Just to recap the absurdity: the President of the United States has appointed a known propagandist, nationalist, and white supremacist to replace the highest military adviser in the country on a council that authorizes secret, legal, targeted killings of American citizens (and others) without due process.
What You Can Do:
- Call your Senators and Congressperson this week and demand that they publicly and legislatively oppose Trump’s appointment of Steven Bannon to the NSC. 
- Spread the word about this news to your networks, since this is not getting a lot of coverage right now.
Lisa Delgrosso, Blue Dot Project

EPA UNDER POLITICAL LOCKDOWN

This from a staff member at the EPA:
"So I work at the EPA and yeah it's as bad as you are hearing:
The entire agency is under lockdown, the website, facebook, twitter, you
name it is static and can't be updated.
All reports, findings, permits and studies are frozen and not to be
released. No presentations or meetings with outside groups are to be
scheduled.
Any Press contacting us are to be directed to the Press Office which is
also silenced and will give no response.
All grants and contracts are frozen from the contractors working on
Superfund sites to grad school students working on their thesis.
We are still doing our work, writing reports, doing cancer modeling for
pesticides hoping that this is temporary and we will be able to serve
the public soon.
But many of us are worried about an ideologically-fueled purging and if
you use any federal data I advise you gather what you can now.
We have been told the website is being reworked to reflect the new
administration's policy.
Feel free to copy and paste, you all pay for the government and you
should know what's going on. I am posting this as a fellow citizen and
not in any sort of official capacity."

This statement was sent to a friend of mine from an acquaintance currently working at the EPA.

My friend is a highly trusted source and fellow Climate Change follower.

I did not make this up, I didn't need to,

ED

WATERBOARDING FOR TRUMP AND HANNITY

A number of times on this blog I have presented the case against Waterboarding. I have given the facts regarding efficacy of its use, (all negative), failure to extract useable information, and the reasons most torture does not work.

Now I present to you the reason it is called torture and the reason it is prohibited by the Geneva Convention and the US Army Field Manual.

From Wikipedia :

Waterboarding is a form of water torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning. Waterboarding can cause extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints, lasting psychological damage, and death. Adverse physical consequences can manifest themselves months after the event, while psychological effects can last for years.

Dear Mr. Trump, if you still believe that it is okay to treat another human being that way, you should try it yourself sometime. Oh, and ask Sean Hannity to fulfill his promise to be waterboarded !

ED

TRUMP SCIENCE ADVISOR NOT

MYRON EBELL

Competitive Enterprise Institute

One of Trumps Science Advisors

No surprise, he's not a scientist.

A self-described “policy wonk,” Ebell has no scientific experience. He graduated from Colorado College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and later studied political theory in the London School of Economics.

I simply cannot make these things up, they just are facts that fall out of the sky one after another !

ED

THE RAPING OF OUR ENVIRONMENT

From the NEW YORK TIMES Nov. 23, 2016 Global warming news.

Exxon Mobil, under fire over its past efforts to undercut climate science, is accusing the Rockefeller family of masterminding a conspiracy against it. The descendants of John D. Rockefeller, who founded the company that became Exxon Mobil, have long backed environmental causes.

Separately, the ecology of the Arctic is being altered on a vast scale because warmer air and less ice has caused algae that form the base of the oceanic food chain to wildly proliferate, according to new research.

The changes are likely to have a profound impact on birds, seals, polar bears and whales. My take : The rape of our environment takes place daily, sometimes very covertly, sometimes very open, but it always, always involves greed ! ED

ACTUAL TRUTH STUMPS TRUMP

From CNNs RELIABLE SOURCES

Words v. actions

What David Frum said on "AC360" Tuesday night should be said over... and over... and over again: "Anything he says must be independently verified." This is true for all presidents, but doubly (triply?) true for Trump. Frum: "Trump has a bad habit of saying things that aren't true..." Many people are saying this ! Maybe millions of people have told me this ! ED

WELL SAID AARON BURR

Vice President-elect Pence,

We welcome you and we truly thank you for joining us here at “Hamilton: An American Musical,” we really do.

We, sir — we — are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us. All of us.

We truly thank you for sharing this show, this wonderful American story told by a diverse group of men, women of different colors, creeds and orientations.

BRANDON VICTOR DIXON

On behalf of the cast of " Hamilton "

Nov. 18th, 2016

ALISON ARMSTRONG

My friend of close to 55 years.

Alison Armstrong is the author of numerous articles and reviews of literature and art, a founding editor (1979) of James Joyce Broadsheet (UK), and contributing editor (since 1982) to Irish Literary Supplement (USA). Her two books are: The Herne’s Egg: The Manuscript Materials (Cornell Univ. Press, 1992) and The Joyce of Cooking: Food & Drink of James Joyce’s Dublin (Station Hill Press, 1986). She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (NYU), an M.Litt.(Oxford Univ., UK), and an M.A. in English (Ohio State Univ.) and currently teaches at The New School and at School of Visual Arts in New York City.



IN TRUMPS OWN WORDS, IRREVERSIBLE, CLEAR, NO DOUBT

" For those here today illegally who are seeking legal status, they will have one route and only one route: to return home and apply for re-entry under the rules of the new legal immigration system that I have outlined above. Those who have left to seek entry under this new system will not be awarded surplus visas, but will have to enter under the immigration caps or limits that will be established. "

DONALD J. TRUMP in his advertised IMMIGRATION POLICY speech on August 31, 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona.

Now if you think maybe I fiddled with his words I direct you to his official website :

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-address-on-immigration

So let's put the pertinent part in caps : 

" FOR THOSE HERE TODAY ILLEGALLY WHO ARE SEEKING LEGAL STATUS, THEY WILL HAVE ONE ROUTE AND ONLY ONE ROUTE : TO RETURN HOME AND APPLY FOR RE-ENTRY -----------

That is 11,000,000 men, women and children, many of the children being citizens !

I did not make this up. I used Donald J. Trumps own words. They are on his website. I saw and heard him say those precise words on National TV. 

Now all of his top surrogates are falling all over themselves trying to say that he did not mean what he said and that the media is trying to distort his words. 

I really am at a loss on this one, they think the entire country is stupid or just cannot read, or cannot understand what they just read or heard or saw ! 

ED

HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO INVESTIGATE CLIMATE INVESTIGATORS

HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO INVESTIGATE CLIMATE INVESTIGATORS - But who will investigate the investigation investigators? Who, we ask you?!? Kate Sheppard: “House Science Committee Chair Lamar Smith (R-Texas) wants to exert congressional authority over state attorneys general who are trying to investigate ExxonMobil’s climate record. The committee announced plans to hold an oversight hearing on Sept. 14 to ‘examine Congress’ investigative authority as it relates to the committee’s oversight of the impact of investigations undertaken by the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts at the behest of several environmental organizations.’ The hearing will feature three conservative legal scholars,according to The Hill. The hearing title, ‘Affirming Congress’ Constitutional Oversight Responsibilities: Subpoena Authority and Recourse for Failure to Comply with Lawfully Issued Subpoenas,’ is a mouthful. But it basically seeks to lend credence to the committee’s efforts to investigate the state attorneys general who are investigating ExxonMobil.” [HuffPost]

The republicans just can't get enough of investigating and no, I did not make this up !

ED

GUILIANI AND KING WANT A POLICEMAN IN EVERY MOSQUE

If former New York mayor Rudy Guiliani and New York Rep. Peter King think we should put a policeman in each Mosque to listen to what is said why wouldn't we need a policeman in every Christian church to hear what is said ?

It just seems to me that all kinds of violations occur if such were to happen. Such as pertaining to separation of Church and State, Right of Assembly, Privacy Acts, Freedom of Religion, etc.

These silly things cannot be made up, they just occur naturally,

ED

EXACTLY HOW SMART ARE THE REPUBLICANS ? FOX NEWS ? DONALD J. TRUMP ?

Many Republican pundits appearing on all of the cable news shows are all questioning why the $400 million dollar cash transfer to Iran to repay Iran for a 1979 failed transaction ( and that was announced back in January by the President ) was conducted in the dead of night, on an unmarked plane, in secret ! 

Really, really ?

The Republicans seriously think the United States should announce the transfer, do it in daylight, in a marked plane ! $400 MILLION IN CASH ! HELLO, CALLING BUTCH CASSIDY ! SUNDANCE KID HERE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TOMORROW ABOUT NOON ?

Seriously, I can't make these things up,

ED

PS :

I can't pass up the chance to remind you of Donald J. Trumps announcement yesterday as he accepted a veterans Purple Heart. 

" I have always wanted one of these, but this is easier "

So Donald J. Trump has always wanted to be shot or blown up in combat !

Oh my, oh my, oh my

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

WHERE DONALD J. TRUMP COULD HAVE MADE HIS STUFF

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/made-in-america-a-buyers-guide-for-donald-trump/

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