tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75574155194301611232024-02-06T23:02:47.609-05:00Blue Republic / the republic under corporate occupationAlways beware of <i>conventional wisdom</i>. *
Speech and assembly for protest are not free, if permits are required.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger575125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-14737916997133018452019-07-05T16:59:00.000-04:002019-07-05T16:59:06.133-04:00DO NOT Use UPS - You Cannot Talk With a Live Human If Your Package Is Lost<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Do not use the United Parcel Service. You cannot talk with a live person. There is a telephone number, but when you ask to speak to an agent you are disconnected if you:<br />
say Agent<br />
say Live Agent<br />
say Customer Service<br />
say lost package <br />
don't say anything and wait <br />
<br />
If you say track a package you are disconnected unless you give a tracking number. If you give a tracking number you are disconnected even if the response the automated machine gives you does not resolve your problem.<br />
<br />
This telephone number is what United Parcel Service (UPS) provides, but as stated above, it is just a tool for the company to dodge speaking with you:<br />
800-742-5877.<br />
<br />
These pages are similarly ineffective. They yield you know way to communicate with a live human. The email tabs do not lead to actual email addresses. They lead to interface pages that ultimately do not lead to actual communication with UPS about lost packages.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.ups.com/us/en/services/customer-solutions.page">https://www.ups.com/us/en/services/customer-solutions.page</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.ups.com/upsemail/completeInfo">https://www.ups.com/upsemail/completeInfo</a><br />
<br />
Do not use UPS. You are gambling with whatever you are sending. They lose packages. <br />
If you visit a UPS location they refer you to the website. But the website is useless and has no way for you to actually get responses.<br />
And if there is now way to speak to representatives of the company to speak about the issues there is no accountability system. <br />
<br />
This page will not come down until UPS reforms its practices and creates a system whereby clients can speak with the company.<br />
<br />
Consumer Reports acknowledges that the UPS system is beset with inability to get packages back: <a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/if-your-ups-package-falls-through-the-cracks-its-up-to-you-to-notice/">https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/if-your-ups-package-falls-through-the-cracks-its-up-to-you-to-notice/</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-57111463352358304612019-07-02T19:41:00.001-04:002019-07-02T19:52:43.395-04:00West Coast #CloseTheCamps Protests vs. Trump's camps - Tue., July 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Protest Trump's camps! - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 afternoon update - From <a href="http://closethecampsnow.org/">Closethecampsnow.org</a>:</span></b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>All times Pacific Savings Time</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
We've seen the images and heard the stories coming out of child detention centers. <b>Horrifically,
these conditions aren't an accident. They are the byproduct of an
intentional strategy by the Trump administration to terrorize immigrant
communities and criminalize immigration</b>—from imprisoning
children in inhumane conditions to threatening widespread raids to break
up families to covering up reports of immigrants dying in U.S. custody
and abuses by ICE and CBP agents.<br />
<br />
<b>It’s going to take all of us to close the camps. <br /><br />This Tuesday, July 2, while members of Congress are home for the Fourth of July holiday,</b><b> we will gather at their local offices in protest. Our demands:</b><br />
<ol>
<li><span style="background-color: #00ccff;"> Close the Camps</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #00ccff;"> Not One Dollar for Family Detention and Deportation</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #00ccff;"> Bear Witness and Reunite Families</span></li>
</ol>
<br />
<b>California:</b><br />
<b>5:30 pm:</b><br />
<div class="col-md-8 pl-0">
<div class="mb-2">
Corner of Ygnacio Valley Road and N. Civic Dr. | Walnut Creek</div>
<div class="mb-4">
<span class="event-address1">Ygnacio Valley Rd. & N. Civic Drive</span><br />
<span class="event-city-etc">Walnut Creek, CA 94597</span>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<b>5:30 pm:</b><br />
<div class="col-md-8 pl-0">
<div class="mb-2">
580 freeway overpass at Ardley Ave</div>
<div class="mb-4">
<span class="event-address1">overpass near: 1615 MacArthur Blvd</span><br />
<span class="event-city-etc"><b>Oakland</b>, CA 94602</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 pl-0">
<b>4:30 pm:</b></div>
<div class="col-md-8 pl-0">
<div class="col-md-8 pl-0">
<div class="mb-2">
Corner of Vermont and Wilshire Ave.</div>
<div class="mb-4">
<span class="event-address1">3200 Wilshire Blvd</span><br />
<span class="event-city-etc"><b>Los Angeles</b>, CA 90010</span><br />
<span class="event-city-etc"> </span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 pl-0">
<b>In Oregon:</b><br />
<b>6:00 pm:</b><br />
<div class="col-md-8 pl-0">
<div class="mb-2">
Lincoln City City Hall</div>
<div class="mb-4">
<span class="event-address1">801 SW Hwy 101</span><br />
<span class="event-city-etc">Lincoln City, OR 97367</span>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<b>6:30 pm - SW Portland suburbs:</b><br />
<div class="col-md-8 pl-0">
<div class="mb-2">
Snyder Park - (Sunset Blvd entrance) - Sherwood</div>
<div class="mb-4">
<span class="event-address1">15198 SW Sunset Blvd</span><br />
<span class="event-city-etc">Sherwood, OR 97140</span>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<b> </b> </div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-37478400009734327292019-07-02T17:48:00.002-04:002019-07-02T20:07:55.983-04:00SE USA protests July 2 evening against Trump's detention camps!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Protest Trump's camps! - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 afternoon update - From <a href="http://closethecampsnow.org/">Closethecampsnow.org</a>:</span></b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<a href="https://www.closethecampsnow.org/event/close-camps-now/search/" target="_blank"><b>Click this link to find protests near you.</b></a><br />
<b><br /></b>
We've seen the images and heard the stories coming out of child detention centers. <b>Horrifically,
these conditions aren't an accident. They are the byproduct of an
intentional strategy by the Trump administration to terrorize immigrant
communities and criminalize immigration</b>—from imprisoning
children in inhumane conditions to threatening widespread raids to break
up families to covering up reports of immigrants dying in U.S. custody
and abuses by ICE and CBP agents.<br />
<br />
<b>It’s going to take all of us to close the camps. <br /><br />This Tuesday, July 2, while members of Congress are home for the Fourth of July holiday,</b><b> we will gather at their local offices in protest. Our demands:</b><br />
<ol>
<li><span style="background-color: #00ccff;"> Close the Camps</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #00ccff;"> Not One Dollar for Family Detention and Deportation</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #00ccff;"> Bear Witness and Reunite Families</span></li>
</ol>
<b>In North Carolina:</b><br />
<b>6:30 pm:</b><br />
<div class="col-md-8 pl-0">
<div class="mb-2">
<a href="https://www.closethecampsnow.org/event/close-camps-now/125345/signup/?source=&akid=&zip=&s=" target="_blank">Office of Senator Richard Burr</a></div>
<div class="mb-4">
<span class="event-address1">2000 W 1st St</span><span class="event-city-etc">, Winston Salem, NC 27104</span></div>
<div class="mb-4">
<br /></div>
<div class="mb-4">
<b><span class="event-city-etc">In Florida, near Daytona Beach:</span></b></div>
<div class="mb-4">
<b><span class="event-city-etc">5:30 pm:</span></b> </div>
<div class="col-md-8 pl-0">
<div class="mb-2">
<a href="https://www.closethecampsnow.org/event/close-camps-now/125339/signup/?source=&akid=&zip=&s=" target="_blank">Granada Bridge and Beach Street</a></div>
<div class="mb-4">
<span class="event-address1">22 S Beach St</span><span class="event-city-etc">, Ormond Beach, FL 32174</span><br />
<br />
<b><span class="event-city-etc">In north Texas:</span></b><br />
<span class="event-city-etc"><b>5:30 pm: </b></span><br />
<div class="col-md-8 pl-0">
<div class="mb-2">
<a href="https://www.closethecampsnow.org/event/close-camps-now/125318/signup/?source=&akid=&zip=&s=" target="_blank">Grayson County Courthouse</a></div>
<div class="mb-4">
<span class="event-address1">100 W Houston St</span><br />
<span class="event-city-etc">Sherman, TX 75090</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-30008061182618538312019-07-02T10:46:00.000-04:002019-07-02T17:34:55.920-04:00Updated: Protest Against Trump's Camps -Jul. 2! - link to protests across US -NYC area sites listed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Protest Trump's camps! - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 afternoon update</span></b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<a href="https://www.closethecampsnow.org/event/close-camps-now/search/" target="_blank"><b>Click this link to find protests near you.</b></a><br />
<b><br /></b>
We've seen the images and heard the stories coming out of child detention centers. <b>Horrifically,
these conditions aren't an accident. They are the byproduct of an
intentional strategy by the Trump administration to terrorize immigrant
communities and criminalize immigration</b>—from imprisoning
children in inhumane conditions to threatening widespread raids to break
up families to covering up reports of immigrants dying in U.S. custody
and abuses by ICE and CBP agents.<br />
<br />
<b>It’s going to take all of us to close the camps. <br /><br />This Tuesday, July 2, while members of Congress are home for the Fourth of July holiday,</b><b> we will gather at their local offices in protest. Our demands:</b><br />
<ol>
<li><span style="background-color: #00ccff;"> Close the Camps</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #00ccff;"> Not One Dollar for Family Detention and Deportation</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #00ccff;"> Bear Witness and Reunite Families</span></li>
</ol>
<b> </b><br />
<a href="https://www.closethecampsnow.org/event/close-camps-now/search/" target="_blank"><b>Click this link to find protests near you.</b></a><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>In the New York City area -all events, Tuesday, July 2, 2019:</b><br />
<br />
<b>Brooklyn:</b><br />
4:00 pm<br />
Reo. Max Rose's Brooklyn office<br />
8203 3rd Avenue (Bay Ridge)<br />
<br />
<b>Westchester County:</b><br />
6:00 pm<br />
Patriot's Park<br />
Broadway at College, Tarrytown<br />
<br />
<b>Suffolk County:</b><br />
5:00 pm<br />
Resistance Corner of Route 112 & Route 347<br />
Port Jefferson Station<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.closethecampsnow.org/event/close-camps-now/search/" target="_blank"><b>Click this link to find protests near you.</b></a> <br />
<br />
<b>In New Jersey: Elizabeth Detention Center</b>7:00 pm <br />
625 Evans Street, Elizabeth 07201<br />
4 blocks southeast of North Avenue and Dowd Avenue, directly south of the Newark Liberty Airport.<br />
From downtown Elizabeth take Trumbull Street east, under I-95, then left on Dowd Avenue.<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>In New England: </b><b>Central Falls, RI </b><b>Detention Center</b><br />
<b>6:00 pm </b><br />
<b>Wyatt Detention Center</b><br />
<b>950 High Street</b><br />
<b>Central Falls, RI 02863 - off Exit 30 of I-95.</b><br />
<br />
<b>Maryland:</b><br />
<b>5:30 pm: </b><br />
<b>Congressman Andy Harris' office</b><br />
15 E Churchville Rd Ste 102B, Bel Air, MD<br />
<br />
5:30 pm:<br />
<div class="col-md-8 pl-0">
<div class="mb-2">
<b>CASA of Maryland Press Conference</b> at Southeast Anchor Libary</div>
<div class="mb-4">
<span class="event-address1">3601 Eastern Ave</span>, <span class="event-city-etc">Baltimore, MD 21224</span><br />
<br />
<b><span class="event-city-etc">Washington DC:</span></b><br />
<b>7:00 pm</b><br />
<div class="col-md-8 pl-0">
<div class="mb-2">
White House</div>
<div class="mb-4">
<span class="event-address1">1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW</span><span class="event-city-etc">, Washington, DC 20500</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-58712370915642167592018-11-18T18:32:00.000-05:002018-11-18T18:32:22.117-05:00Yes, You Can Cut the Cord on Cable AND Internet TVWonder if you can over the air analog channels? Well, those are very few and far between.<br />
Wonder if you can get free digital channels where you are? You can see where there are channels, to the tenth of a mile from your location. This first tool definitely factors in the impact of elevation, as reception results will vary greatly as you move from plain to valley to spot nestled in mountains.<br />
<br />
First, take a look at <a href="http://www.overtheairdigitaltv.com/tv-station-locator-tool/">TV Station Locator Tool</a>.<br />
Enter in your full address or your zip code. This will tell you how close the stations are and whether a mere indoor antenna will do.<br />
<br />
Another tool, not a precise is <a href="https://www.antennasdirect.com/transmitter-locator.html">Antennas Direct</a>. You can surmise from the name that this site is marketing antennas right on the site.<br />
This site is handy for presenting the stations in your receiving range, in ranges below 35 miles, and between 35 and 49 miles, and 50 to 59 miles. <br />
<br />
An interesting article on why an antenna should be part of cord-cutting strategy:<br />
<br />
<a href="https://antennaweb.org/News/Content/FiveReasonsWhyAnAntenna" target="_blank">5 Reasons Why an Antenna Should Be a Part of Your Cord Cutting Setup</a>.<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-16783579363769709512018-08-08T04:37:00.000-04:002018-08-09T13:26:41.341-04:00The Next Ocasio-Cortezes & Other Takeaways From Tuesday's primaries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There were several winners and losers in Tuesday's primaries in Michigan, Kansas, Missouri and Washington.<br />
<br />
The progressive winners :<br />
An Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-like shoe-in for the final election:<br />
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<b>Rashida Tlaib </b>(at left), winning Michigan's 13th congressional district Democratic primary in Detroit and some western suburbs. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/07/us/elections/results-michigan-primary-elections.html" target="_blank">Tlaib is leading Brenda Jones by 33.2 percent to 29.2 percent</a>. This race had later returns than other contests in Michigan, but the win looks assured with 96 percent of precincts reporting.<br />
Tlaib was endorsed by the Justice Democrats and Our Revolution.<br />
<br />
<b>Andy Levin</b> appears to be winning the 9th district contest, 52.2 percent to Ellen Lipton's 42.6 percent. Votes are not complete, with 84 percent of precincts reporting as of 4 am.<br />
<b>UPDATE:</b><br />
Final returns show that Andy Levin won the primary with 52.5 percent.<br />
<br />
In Kansas, <b>Brent Welder</b> appears likely to be the Democratic party nominee from the 3rd congressional district. Results were slow coming in. At last report (4 am)<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/07/us/elections/results-kansas-primary-elections.html" target="_blank"> he was leading with 36.6 percent to Sharice Davids at second place with 35.1.</a> However, as only 51 percent of the precincts were reporting, the race is fluid and different results could be reported by the end of Wednesday.<br />
<br />
As in the Ocasio-Cortez vs. Joe Crowley match-up in New York, cash did not translate into victory; albeit, Welder was not outspent 10 to 1. <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2018&id=KS03" target="_blank">The last report, July 18, in OpenSecrets.org</a> had Tom Niermann leading wit $723,192 raised to Welder's $677,990. Davids was third in receipts of $344,704 raised. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9uaJV36LmarKYGIp-spXrpb-SD77l3qfj9z-5mR6D-pH2_MTNQwjWSYs6ydNF-_9gl6AYPUUTcrZRd36xkOhrMDI2WB4KHV51CbA_eJfH-8Qpo9JGytguWIoZW-OikFzpZlxZsbAdpYM/s1600/JamesThompson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9uaJV36LmarKYGIp-spXrpb-SD77l3qfj9z-5mR6D-pH2_MTNQwjWSYs6ydNF-_9gl6AYPUUTcrZRd36xkOhrMDI2WB4KHV51CbA_eJfH-8Qpo9JGytguWIoZW-OikFzpZlxZsbAdpYM/s1600/JamesThompson.jpg" /></a></div>
In Kansas' 4th congressional district (Topeka and environs) <b>James Thompson</b> (at left) enjoyed a landslide victory over Laura Lombard, 65.3 percent to 34.7 percent. Welder and Thompson also had the endorsements of Justice Democrats and Our Revolution. Welder enjoyed the endorsement of Demand Universal Healthcare.<br />
<br />
Also receiving endorsements by some of the above mentioned progressive organizations, David Benac, Steve Friday, Chris Smith and Fayrouz Saad did not win the 6th, 7th, 8th and 11th district primary contests.<br />
<br />
<b>UNFAIR REPORTING ALERT:</b><br />
Much of the U.S. press is projecting Rashida Tlaib as a candidate who would be <i>the</i> first Muslim congresswoman. However, authors of these stories are not taking into consideration <b>Ilhan Omar</b>, also<b>.</b> The latter is a rising star in Minnesota politics. She has been endorsed by the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, by the <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/07/17/justice-democrats-primary-endorsements/" target="_blank">Justice Democrats</a> and by Our Revolution to succeed Keith Ellison in the state's 5th congressional district. Minnesota's primary is next week, August 14, however, that state allows early voting. <br />
<br />
Washington state:<br />
Both Justice Democrat candidates were unsuccessful in their quests for designation as the Democratic nominees for congress.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-85314292954243915952018-07-29T01:09:00.001-04:002018-07-29T01:09:47.250-04:00Firenado (video) & grim new trends in Cal. wildfires<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
FIRENADO - the new weather phenomenon. California firestorms plus sudden spinning of air, carrying ground elements high in the air.<br />
<br />
CBS News explained it:<br />
"<span style="background-color: white; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;">The ambient air temperature in the area was close to 110 degrees, "so that air is super fast rising into the atmosphere," Quinn said. </span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
"You need to think of this as the air being a solid, and if you're taking a chunk of that air, superheating it and rising into the air, it's leaving a void below it," he said.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
As more and more air gets pulled in, it begins to rotate. The more air that gets pulled in, the faster the air swirls and the taller it gets.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
"Firenados" also pick up burning embers, ash and flammable debris and extend hundreds or thousands of feet in the air. Those embers can then spread out, jumping fire lines and creating new fires away from the center." </div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
KTVB presented video capture from a police cruise dashcam.</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1GRcTLSjv0" target="_blank">Video of firenado from police dashcam</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-12124802495692579802018-07-05T21:35:00.000-04:002018-09-06T21:34:52.843-04:00Remaining primaries in 2018 -- More Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez type victories?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Congratulations to the progressives winning this year, from Pennsylvania to Virginia to New York!<br />
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<b>Reminder: the general election for the midterms is November 6, 2018.</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<a href="https://brandnewcongress.org/candidates/" target="_blank"><b>Brand New Congress candidates --the site has endorsees for several of the states below.</b></a><br />
<b><br /></b>
<a href="https://now.justicedemocrats.com/candidates" target="_blank"><b>Justice Democrats --primaries remain for their Florida, Hawaii and Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin endorsees.</b></a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/" target="_blank"><b>Our Revolution --primaries remain for Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Washington.</b></a><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Here's where and when primaries are remaining:</b><br />
<br />
<b>July 17:</b> Alabama (run-off) (no BNC or JD endorsees)<br />
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<b>July 24:</b> Georgia (run-off) -Justice Democrat <b>Lisa Ring</b> (1st District - Savannah and elsewhere in eastern Georgia) is going directly to the final election as the nominee. Stacey Abrams, likewise, is the Democratic nominee for governor.<br />
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<b>August 2</b> (a Thursday): Tennessee <b>Danielle Mitchell</b>, a Brand New Congress-endorsee for the 3rd Congressional District, is uncontested for the Democratic nomination. --<b>Marc Whitmire</b>, is BNC-endorsed but is a candidate running independent of party line for the 2nd Congressional District. Both of these seats are longshots in Republican strongholds.<br />
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<b>August 7:</b> Kansas; Michigan; Missouri; Washington<br />
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<b>August 11</b> (a Saturday): Hawaii --<b>Kaniela Ing</b> (endorsed by the Justice Democrats)<br />
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<b>August 14:</b> Connecticut (no BNC or JD endorsees);<br />
Minnesota --<b>Ilhan Omar </b>(endorsed by the Justice Democrats and Our Revolution)<br />
South Dakota (no BNC or JD endorsees); Vermont (no BNC or JD endorsees);<br />
Wisconsin --<b>Randy Bryce</b>, Justice Democrat-endorsed, seeking to take the seat of retiring Paul Ryan.<br />
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<b>August 21:</b> Alaska (no BNC or JD endorsees) <b>Dmitri Shein </b>is endorsed by Our Revolution, Wyoming (no BNC or JD endorsees).<br />
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<b>August 28:</b> Arizona (regular primary); Florida (regular primary); Oklahoma (run-off; no BNC or JD endorsees).<br />
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Where the <a href="https://now.justicedemocrats.com/candidates" target="_blank">Justice Democrats</a> in Arizona are:<br />
<b>Mary Matiella</b> (2nd District, SE part of state), <b>Raul Grijalva</b> (3rd District--SW part of state), an incumbent.<br />
<b>Deedra Abboud</b> is running for the U.S. Senate nomination.<br />
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Where the <a href="https://now.justicedemocrats.com/candidates" target="_blank">Justice Democrat endorsees</a> in Florida are (*also <a href="https://brandnewcongress.org/candidates/" target="_blank">endorsed by the Brand New Congress</a>):<br />
<b>Chardo Richardson*</b>, primarying first termer Stephanie Murphy in the 7th District (northern Orlando metro area, including much of downtown Orlando - <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/stephanie-n-murphy/" target="_blank">Murphy has not really been opposing Donald Trump</a>) He is is endorsed by Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats; <b>Sanjay Patel,</b> if the nominee,would be challenging Republican incumbent Republican Bill Posey in the 8th District (the Space Coast -<a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/bill-posey/" target="_blank">Posey has supported the Trump agenda in Congress 90% of the time)</a> Paatel is endorsed by the Justice Democrats,<br />
<b>Pam Keith</b>, if the nominee, would be challenging incumbent Republican Brian Mast in the 18th District (Treasure Coast: Ft. Pierce to Palm Beach -<a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/brian-j-mast/" target="_blank">Mast has supported Trump 93% of the time</a> --<a href="http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2017/12/05/handicapping-the-2018-congressional-races-in-florida/" target="_blank">The <i>Tampa Bay Times</i> called Mast's seat "Potentially Vulnerable"</a>); <b>Michael Hepburn*</b>, in the 27th District (southern Miami metro area -The Republican is retiring) -- that contest is in a highly crowded Democratic field. <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2017/12/05/handicapping-the-2018-congressional-races-in-florida/" target="_blank">The <i>Tampa Bay Times </i>called the seat "Highly Vulnerable".</a><br />
Hepburn is endorsed by Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats.<br />
<b>September 4: </b>Massachusetts --<b>Ayanna Presley</b><br />
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<b>September 6</b> (a Thursday)<b>:</b> Delaware --running for U.S. Senate: <b>Kerri Harris</b><br />
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<b>September 11:</b> New Hampshire<br />
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<b>September 12</b> (a Wednesday): Rhode Island<br />
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<b>September 13</b> (a Thursday): New York (state offices)<br />
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<b>Justice Democrats who <u>have already won</u> (*endorsed by Brand New Congress)</b><br />
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<b>Nebraska:</b> Kara Eastman, for U.S. House, District 2<br />
<b>New York:</b> Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez*, for U.S. House, District 14<br />
<b>Pennsylvania:</b> Jess King, for U.S. House, District 11, uncontested<br />
<b>Texas:</b> Lorie Burch, for U.S. House, District 3<br />
Vanessa Adia*, for U.S. House, District 12, uncontested<br />
Adrienne Bell*, for U.S. House, District 14<br />
Lindsey Fagan*, for U.S. House, District 26</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-75329799417897738182018-01-04T16:19:00.003-05:002018-01-04T18:20:05.134-05:00The Real Reason Why Trump's in Full Meltdown Over Bannon's Comments<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">President Donald Trump is in full meltdown mode over former aide and strategist Steve Bannon's comments:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bannon's exposed how Donald Trump called his daughter Ivanka "as dumb as a brick"!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "fira sans" , "helvetica" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ivanka-trump-dumb-as-brick-steve-bannon-comments-book-michael-wolff-a8140701.html" target="_blank">Ivanka Trump is 'as dumb as a brick' according to Steve Bannon, new book claims</a></span></span></span></h1>
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comments were detailed in a new book, <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/fireandfury/michaelwolff/9781250158079/" target="_blank">'Fire and Fury: Inside theTrump White House', by Michael Wolff</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, Trump is playing a risky game of getting his personal lawyers to issue cease and desist orders to Bannon, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/04/trump-lawyer-demands-a-retraction-over-michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book.html" target="_blank">demanding a retraction and full appology, as reported by CNBC.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ironically, the book was written with the cooperation of the Trump </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, Sarah Huckabee Sanders went at lengths today in her press briefing to rationalize Trump's positions on the book. And <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/president-trump-finally-made-briefing-room-appearance-sort-n834736" target="_blank">Trump gave a curious appearance by video in the conference. </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Incidentally, the book officially goes to commercial release tomorrow --according to cable news reports, in text, e-book and audiobook formats. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-michael-wolff-20180104-story.html" target="_blank">According to the Los Angeles Times</a>, Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' gets its formal release next Tuesday, January 9.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Read this <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html" target="_blank">long excerpt from Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' book</a>, in New York Magazine today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> * * * </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/just-fact-trump-nuclear-button-kim-sanders-769913" target="_blank">yesterday emphatically declared that IT'S 'JUST A FACT' THAT TRUMP HAS BIGGER NUCLEAR BUTTON THAN KIM JONG UN.</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>(Times might be an hour earlier in the Central Time zone)</i></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Saturday,
December 9, 2017</b></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">8
pm "Rudolph" (CBS)</span></span></span></div>
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pm "Frosty the Snow" (CBS)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">9:30
pm "Frosty Returns" (CBS)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b><i>Sunday, December 10, 2017</i></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">12 pm "Holiday Affair" 1949 (TCM)</span></span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday, December 12, 2017</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6:40 pm "The Polar Express," 2004 (Freeform)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Wednesday,
December 13, 2017</b></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">6:40 pm "The Santa Clause" Freeform</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">8
pm "Johnny Cash Christmas" Get TV, Fios 495</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Saturday,
December 16, 2017</b></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">12:15
pm "A Christmas Carol" 1938, TCM</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">8:00, 10:15 pm "Miracle on 34th Street,"1947 AMC</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">8:00 pm "I Want a Dog for Christmas," 2003 ABC</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Thursday,
December 21, 2017</b></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">10:55
pm "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" ABC Freeform, (DirecTV: Channel
311)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>Friday, December 22, 2017</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">8:00 pm "I Love Lucy Christmas Special" --two back to back colorized episodes of the classic sitcom, CBS</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">8"00 pm "Christmas in Connecticut" 1945 TCM </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Sunday,
December 24, 2017</b></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2:00
am "A Christmas Carol" 1938, TCM</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">11:05
am "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" ABC Freeform, Channel
311</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">8:00 pm "It's a Wonderful Life" 1946 NBC</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Monday,
December 25, 2017</b></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">All
day, "Christmas Story Marathon" TBS -Turner Broadcasting
System, Channel 247</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Time, TBA "Doctor Who Christmas Special" BBC America, DirecTV 264</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Tuesday,
December 26, 2017</b></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">8:00
pm "Happy New Year Charlie Brown" ABC </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">9:00
pm "Rudolph's Shiny New Year" ABC </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Thursday,
December 30, 2017</b></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">8
pm "Charlie Brown Christmas" ABC </span></span></span></div>
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pm "Andy Williams Christmas Show" Get TV, Fios Channel 495</span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-40664735784361359192017-05-21T11:12:00.001-04:002017-05-22T06:02:15.845-04:00WATCH: Very Explosive Documentary Exposes Trump's Russian Connections<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Dutch Zembla TV outfit has published a powerful, credible case that Donald Trump has ties with Russian figures practicing racketeering.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "youtube noto" , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bEdMuKq30I" target="_blank">ZEMBLA - The dubious friends of Donald Trump: the Russians</a></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bEdMuKq30I">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bEdMuKq30I</a></div>
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After Trump's colossul 1990s bankruptcies, Trump turned to lenders of last resort: Russian mob figures. The key figures from Kazakhstan are named. The main hinge with the Trump Organization is the Bayrock Group. </div>
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We see the essential details: that Trump's business doings of the last 20 years are intertwined with organized crime figures with Bayrock. We see his deposition with a dubious disavowal of familiarity with Bayrock managing director Felix Sater, followed by the revelation that Trump soon after bestowed Trump Organization legitimacy on Sater, with a Trump Organization business card and email address.</div>
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The video has strong credibility with powerful quotes by author and former CIA agent <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Books-Malcolm-Nance/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AMalcolm%20Nance" target="_blank">Malcolm Nance</a>, attorney Frederick Oberlander and unofficial Trump biographer <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Trump-Michael-DAntonio/dp/1250116953">Michael D'Antonio</a>.</div>
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After you watch the video you will come to the same conclusion that Oberlander, that charges can be brought against Trump, and after that it will be "all over."<br />
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US publications in the last week addressing the explosive revelations:<br />
Fortune:<br />
<a href="http://fortune.com/2017/05/17/donald-trump-russia-2/">Here’s A Closer Look At Donald Trump’s Disturbingly Deep Ties To Russia</a><br />
The Oregonian: </div>
<a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2017/05/donald_trump_closely_tied_to_r.html">Donald Trump closely tied to Russian mob, could face racketeering charges, Dutch TV doc claims</a>
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And earlier: The Financial Times of London: </div>
<a href="https://ig.ft.com/sites/trumps-russian-connections/">Trump’s Russian connections: Donald Trump’s ties to Russia are back under the spotlight after the CIA concluded that Moscow had interfered in November’s presidential election to help the Republican candidate </a>
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And a Forbes writer appearing at the DC Report blog: </div>
<a href="https://www.dcreport.org/2017/05/12/the-kazakhstan-connection-trump-bayrock-and-plenty-of-questions/">The Kazakhstan Connection: Trump, Bayrock And Plenty Of </a>
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Raw Story: </div>
<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/heres-why-comey-may-have-stayed-silent-on-the-russia-probe-before-we-voted-and-it-should-terrify-trump/">Here’s why Comey may have stayed silent on the Russia probe before we voted — and it should terrify Trump</a>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-43501147433349519072017-02-11T18:00:00.000-05:002017-02-11T18:46:37.075-05:00All the Town Halls You Need to Protest At -- A Directory, with Dates, Times, Places, Street Addresses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
*Directory of Congressional Town Halls <br />
The new rage among the
people is to appear at town halls of members of Congress, and maybe
senators also, and let them know that you don't want medical care access
shredded or that you would like a Trump presidential cabinet that
wasn't filled with ill-experienced self-serving cronies masquerading as
department secretaries.<br />
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Here it is: all the town halls (currently known):<br />
<span class="name">Town Hall Project 2018 : Upcoming Events: </span> <br />
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yq1NT9DZ2z3B8ixhid894e77u9rN5XIgOwWtTW72IYA/htmlview?sle=true">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yq1NT9DZ2z3B8ixhid894e77u9rN5XIgOwWtTW72IYA/htmlview?sle=true </a><br />
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</th><td class="s11" dir="ltr"><br /></td><td class="s12" dir="ltr"><br /></td><td class="s13" colspan="7" dir="ltr">**Compiled by volunteers from each Congress member's official website, Twitter, or Facebook.<br />
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<b>Glossary: </b><br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Town Hall</span> - A forum where members of Congress give updates on the current affairs of Congress and answer questions from constituents<br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Office Hours</span> - Serves the same purpose as a Town Hall, however Elected Officials are not always expected to attend<br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Ticketed Event</span> - Oftentimes county party events, local fundraisers, or campaign functions. There may be a fee for admission.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Tele-Town Hall </span>- A town hall conducted by conference call.<br />
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And
here, THE new playbook that progressive grassroots are using to
challenge the Trump administration, Trump allies, or even Democrats that
are more concerned with their own coziness with powers that be than
actually serving the people: The Indivisible Guide.<br />
<br />
Here's the link to the book on a web page: <a href="https://www.indivisibleguide.com/web">https://www.indivisibleguide.com/web</a><br />
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And also links for downloading the book in PDF, in English or Spanish: <a href="https://www.indivisibleguide.com/download-the-guide">https://www.indivisibleguide.com/download-the-guide</a><br />
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<b>IT'S COFFEE PARTY TIME, FOLKS!</b> </td><td class="s13" colspan="7" dir="ltr"><br /></td><td class="s13" colspan="7" dir="ltr"><br /></td><td class="s13" colspan="7" dir="ltr"><br /></td><td class="s13" colspan="7" dir="ltr"><br /></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-75569885528643925492017-01-13T16:00:00.000-05:002017-01-14T18:15:10.150-05:00Less Than 7 Days to Download Climate Data From Government Sites -Some of These Pages Have Vitally Information You Should Save<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Many scientists, in and outside of the United States government, are actively downloading climate data from U.S. government websites. They are fearing that the incoming Donald J. Trump presidential administration will strike out climate data that climate change skeptics do not appreciate.<br />
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You might say that to suspect such an action is jumping to conclusions. Yet, it is better to err on the side of caution. It is entirely plausible that the information would be purged. Trump has a highly politicized view of science and scientific agencies. It is quite conceivable that under his new appointees agencies will remove climate data, particularly that data which indicates how temperatures have risen remarkably and how current trends indicate that temperatures will rise further.<br />
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Additionally, temperature increase is not the only matter of concern. The impacts of climate change have ripple effects. Icebergs, ice sheets, glaciers and snow cover are melting. When those materials melt or fall into the oceans sea levels will rise.<br />
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Thus, some of the coastal areas will flood, particularly low elevation areas. Because of certain factors, not all coastal areas will feel the same impact. For instance, the Southeast of the United States along the Atlantic Ocean coast will "sink" while the coasts of southern California will not feel anything near the same impact.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NYC 2050s inundation levels from Level 3 Hurricane -Trump would preserve this NASA.gov page?</td></tr>
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Be sure to download the images of anticipated sea level rise at the <a href="https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/slr" target="_blank">Sea Level Rise Viewer page</a>. This page has topics which the Trump administration leaders probably will not want to remain online: <a href="https://coast.noaa.gov/data/digitalcoast/pdf/slr-inundation-methods.pdf" target="_blank">Sea Level Rise Inundation</a>, Inundation Uncertainty (which leads to an external, i.e., non-governmental site --smart, Obama administration scientists) <a href="http://www.jcronline.org/doi/abs/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-13-00118.1?code=cerf-site" target="_blank">Mapping and Portraying Inundation Uncertainty</a>, <a href="https://coast.noaa.gov/data/digitalcoast/pdf/slr-marsh-migration-methods.pdf" target="_blank">Marsh Migration Due to Sea Level Rise</a>, Social Vulnerability Index (also leading to <a href="http://webra.cas.sc.edu/hvri/products/sovi.aspx" target="_blank">an non-governmental site</a>), the social impacts --in case people have not considered the wide ranging impact of the changes-- Bureau of Labor Statistics <a href="https://coast.noaa.gov/data/digitalcoast/pdf/slr-bls-methods.pdf" target="_blank">Employment Data by Census Block Group</a> and <a href="https://coast.noaa.gov/data/digitalcoast/pdf/slr-bls-methods.pdf" target="_blank">Coastal Flood Frequency</a>. Some of this is dynamic: visuals of sea level rise with maps and photo simulations showing disastrous results. Other pages are less immediately striking: pdf texts from four years ago. Here are more visual presentations: <a href="https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/sea-level-rise-map-viewer">Sea Level Rise - Map Viewer - Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts</a> This has state by state map zoom-ins to access depictions of sea level rise for gradation increases of one to six feet.<br />
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Take a look: will Virginia or will Florida first experience more flooding of communities? See the changes in the encroachment of water with a 3 feet increase in sea level.<br />
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The above chart shows the projected sea level rises in various points in the metro New York City area over the 21st century. This points to a big impact. A 30 cm rise is the equivalent of one-foot. This is projected to impact greater New York in the next fifteen years, based on several agency studies in Canada and the United Kingdom. And note that two to three foot increases in sea level are predicted to happen within this century. When you cross-reference this with maps presently found at National Air and Space Administration (NASA) sites you will see that significant sections of New York City will be submerged. The same goes for the metropoli of Miami, Charleston, Norfolk and Boston.<br />
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<br />
The beginning of the text <a href="https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_05/">"Rising Seas: A View From New York City"</a> by Vivien Gornitz, 2000, at the NASA.gov site reads:<br />
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<i>Rising oceans will eat away at the nearly 2400 km of shoreline encircling the greater New York City metropolitan region — presently home to 19.6 million people. Sea level has already climbed around 27 cm in New York City and 38.5 cm along the New Jersey coast during the 20th century. These local rates exceed the global average of 10-25 cm/century because the East Coast is slowly sinking, as the earth's crust continues to readjust to the removal of the ice from the last glaciation, around 15,000 year ago. But present rates of sea level rise could accelerate severalfold, as mountain and polar glaciers melt and upper ocean layers heat up and expand, due to global warming.</i></blockquote>
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Clearly, these are ominous projections. So, can we expect the incoming Trump administration to retain this data? NASA might be even more directly under the presidential thumb, as the agency administrator reports directly to the president. In contrast to the NOAA, there is no parent department above NASA.<br />
<br />
And then, there will be the ordinary news that we can well suspect may no longer be accessible after the Trump appointees make their imprint on vital agencies. So expect stories such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's <a href="http://www.noaa.gov/media-release/us-winter-outlook-predicts-warmer-drier-south-and-cooler-wetter-north">"U.S. Winter Outlook predicts warmer, drier South and cooler, wetter North"</a> to vanish. Yep, anticipate reaching the frustrating 404 message after you do your Google searches.<br />
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There are some sites which might fall lower on the risk scale. That is, they might survive the Trump administration. For example, consider the already very short-term oriented <a href="http://www.nws.noaa.gov/predictions.php">Climate Prediction page</a> of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with a 6 to 14 day horizon. Actually, for the record, already the <a href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/threats.html">U.S. Hazards Assessment</a> page leads to a 404 page. The non-controversy igniting <a href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions//multi_season/13_seasonal_outlooks/color/churchill.php">Monthly and Seasonal Outlook page showing temperature and precipitation</a> is still available.<br />
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Yet, consider that the structure of the agencies might imperil them. The NOAA is under the supervision of the Department of Commerce (soon to be under the direction of Secretary Wilbur Ross). Consider the interests of businessmen. You can imagine that the DoC under Trump would have so much more impetus to press an anti-climate change position than a mere environmental supervising department. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-19554387551073915532016-12-30T18:58:00.000-05:002016-12-30T20:56:17.661-05:002016, the Horror Movie That We're Living Through<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Prince, David Bowie, Merle Haggard, Muhammad Ali, Leonard Cohen, Gwen Ifill, George Michael, Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds dying.<br />
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And the Trump election.<br />
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An excellent video on 2016 as a horror film.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z04M6NhkIKk" target="_blank">2016: The Movie (Trailer) -- the horror movie we're living through</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-43051961382352960672016-11-21T20:10:00.000-05:002016-11-21T20:10:12.799-05:00Blue Over Healthcare and Trump Nightmares? --- Canada's Invasion Plans vs. the US -- If You'd Believe the Post<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Canadian Invasion can't come soon enough! Liberate us from outrageously expensive private healthcare, liberate us from Donald Trump.<br />
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The New York Post posted a review of sorts a year ago of a book on Canadian and U.S. plans to invade each other during different parts of the Nineteenth Century.<br />
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<a class="postid-9691714" href="http://nypost.com/2015/05/24/the-secret-canadian-plan-to-invade-the-us/">The secret Canadian plan to invade the US</a></h1>
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The Post's story draws mainly from <a href="https://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616893521">Kevin Lippert's "entertaining new history" “War Plan Red.”</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-28117952856108161052016-10-13T16:00:00.000-04:002016-10-13T16:00:17.785-04:00Pictures That Trump Would Rather Keep Secret<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Donald Trump was embarrassed by these photos and unsuccessfully tried to suppress them.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-65698439779148515852016-10-12T20:40:00.000-04:002016-10-12T20:40:12.518-04:00Case of Trump Rape of Child Progressing Forward --'The Independent' of UK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Independent of the UK reported in <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-accused-underage-rape-lawsuit-a7352976.html">"Donald Trump underage rape accusation: Judge sets date for hearing of lawsuit"</a> that the child rape case is moving forward. Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump has been accused of raping a 13 year old girl at a party hosted by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.<br />
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The International Business Times reported this morning,<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/donald-trump-accused-raping-13-year-old-girl-lawsuit-casey-anthony-attorney-allowed-2430441"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Donald Trump Accused Of Raping 13-Year-Old Girl: Lawsuit From Casey Anthony Attorney Allowed In Federal Court</span></a></span></h1>
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A federal judge in New York has set an initial date on which the two sides must appear in court, December, a month after Trump faces the presidential election.<br />
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<blockquote>
Federal Judge Ronnie Abrams has ordered that the status conference hearing for 16 December in a New York court.</blockquote>
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The British newspaper also reported,
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<blockquote>
A federal judge has ordered a status conference hearing after a woman filed a lawsuit claiming Donald Trump raped her when she was 13-years-old in 1994.
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In the lawsuit a witness, identified by the pseudonym Tiffany Doe, alleges she saw Mr Trump and billionaire-paedophile Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly rape the plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe.
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The complaint claims Epstein hired an unidentified woman to pick up teenage girls to bring to his parties. </blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The court order for December 16, 2016 </td></tr>
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The IBT reported more on the story this morning, <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/donald-trump-accused-raping-13-year-old-girl-lawsuit-casey-anthony-attorney-allowed-2430441">"Donald Trump Accused Of Raping 13-Year-Old Girl: Lawsuit From Casey Anthony Attorney Allowed In Federal Court." </a><br />
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The <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/316341058/Donald-Trump-Jeffrey-Epstein-Rape-Lawsuit-and-Affidavits#fullscreen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lawsuit</a>,
filed in the U.S. District Court of New York, alleges that Trump and
financier Jeffrey Epstein raped two underage girls at several parties at
Epstein’s apartment in Manhattan. The girls, identified in court
documents as “Tiffany Doe” and “Jane Doe,” were allegedly promised money
and modeling careers if they attended the parties.<br />
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The details
described in the document are graphic. At one party, Trump is accused of
tying one of the young girls to the bed before raping her while the
victim repeatedly plead with him to stop. </blockquote>
Here is <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/316341058/Donald-Trump-Jeffrey-Epstein-Rape-Lawsuit-and-Affidavits#fullscreen">the full link for the lawsuit case brief submitted to the federal court, refiled last week in New York</a>.<br />
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The Huffington Post also published this summer on the case of Trump's alleged rape:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-76909608018254489382016-10-12T19:11:00.000-04:002016-10-12T19:11:01.525-04:00Gloria Allred Says More Women Are Contacting Her About Trump Misconduct<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Gothamist reports:<br />
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The lawyer, who has represented victims in high profile sex offender cases, that she is seeking more women who have been victimized by Republican Party nominee Donald Trump.<br />
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Gloria Allred, the civil rights lawyer who takes on high-profile targets, like <a href="http://www.phillyvoice.com/allred-v-cosby-clash-philly-titans/" target="_blank">Bill Cosby</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/fashion/20ALLRED.html" target="_blank">Roman Polanski</a> and, yes, <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/12/when-trump-confronted-a-transgender-beauty/" target="_blank">Trump</a>, confirmed to us that since the <i>Access Hollywood</i> tape's release, she has been "contacted by women who allege inappropriate contact by Mr. Trump."<br />
From <a href="http://gothamist.com/2016/10/10/gloria_allred_trump.php">the Gothamist</a>, yesterday, October 10, 2016:
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More to the point, Allred discussed how Trump's words suggest
criminal behavior. "If there is an unwanted or unconsented to touching
of a person’s intimate parts such as the genital areas or a woman’s
breasts, that could constitute a sexual assault or a sexual battery,"
she explained yesterday. She added that "when Rudy Giuliani was asked" <a href="http://gothamist.com/2016/10/09/someones_doing_the_rape_defending.php">on Sunday's political programs</a>
"if Donald Trump was describing a sexual assault on the recently
released 2005 video, he responded, 'That’s what he was talking about.'"
Allred said, "I am disgusted by what Donald Trump said and admitted that
he had done on that video. An apology is not enough." <br />
The <i>Access Hollywood</i> tape was discovered after the <a href="http://gothamist.com/2016/10/03/pervy_trump_sexist_pig.php">AP's report</a> featuring former crew members on Trump's reality show, <i>The Apprentice</i>,
describing his demeaning behavior towards women; in one example, he
allegedly judges female contestants' breast sizes and discusses which
women he'd want to have sex with. <a href="http://www.gloriaallred.com/Gloria-s-Videos-and-Statements/#Expando182" target="_blank">Allred released a statement</a> last week, citing the numerous <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/10/09/trumps-lawsuits-include-20-involving-allegations-mistreating-women-president-republican/91832012/" target="_blank">sexual harassment lawsuits</a>
and his lecherous behavior: "If Mr. Trump were to be elected president
he would be the employer of the largest workforce in the country,
federal government employees. Mr. Trump in that role would be sending a
message through his past words and actions that sexual harassment of
women in the workplace is acceptable and this could lead to other
employers believing that they can follow Mr. Trump’s lead and openly
sexually harass their female employees, thereby creating and condoning a
hostile workplace for working women."<br />
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We need a
President who respects the rights of women in the workplace not someone
who creates a hostile and sexist environment for women who work and not
someone like Mr. Trump who believes pregnancy is an inconvenience for
employers; and who enables sexism.
I call on Donald Trump to release all of his employees and former
employees from their non-disclosure clauses so that they can tell the
public what they suffered when they had the unfortunate experience of
working for Donald Trump, and I urge him to promise not to retaliate
against them if they tell the truth.<br />
Donald Trump once <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/03/donald-trump-no-apology-transgender-miss-universe/" target="_blank">made a remark to TMZ </a>about
me. He said "Gloria would be very very impressed" which TMZ suggested
in the context of the interview with him meant that I would be impressed
with his penis.<br />
No Donald, I wouldn’t. What would impress me would be having Hillary
Rodham Clinton in the White House, not a man who blatantly denigrates
women in the workplace.</blockquote>
Allred, a Clinton supporter, was a delegate at the Democratic National Convention.</blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-1741437916410527652016-10-11T05:00:00.000-04:002016-10-11T05:00:28.372-04:00In 1998 Trump said that Bill Clinton was the Victim of the Women that Charged him with Sexual Assault<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Disgraced Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump on Sunday paraded out the women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault in the 1990s.<br />
First, he did this at his press conference and then he did this at the town hall debate in St. Louis, attempting to seat them in the front row. As we see below, about 20 years ago, he cast Clinton as the victim of the women.<br />
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Now, it is horrendous if Bill Clinton committed sexual assault against the women. However, it seems just gratuitous and self-serving if Trump only brings up the issue in the eleventh hour of his campaign when his numbers are sliding.<br />
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Read what Trump said in 1998 about his accusers. He only seems to be concerned for the women's rights and dignity now that he is opposing Bill Clinton's wife in an election. As reported at <a href="http://www.fmtalk1005.com/syndicated-article/?id=240771">WSGW, FM Talk 100.5 of Carrollton, Michigan</a>, <b>"<span style="font-size: small;">Flashback: Donald Trump Called Bill Clinton’s Accusers ‘Terrible’ and ‘Unattractive’ and Former President ‘Terrific’"</span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;">:</span><br />
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But if you rewind to 1998, the Republican presidential nominee had a
very different view of the 42nd president, defending him as the real
“victim” in the wake of the fallout of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and
blasting the accusers as “terrible” and “unattractive.” </blockquote>
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He also suggested that Clinton should have kept the scandal — which he said “should have been nothing — to himself.” </blockquote>
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Days after President Clinton admitted to having an inappropriate
relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Trump said
Clinton was a “victim” and critiqued the physical appearances of various
women with whom Clinton had been accused of having extramarital
relations at different times. </blockquote>
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“It’s like it’s from hell, it’s a terrible group of people,” Trump
said in an interview with FOX News’ Neil Cavuto on Aug. 19, 1998. </blockquote>
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Asked by Cavuto if Clinton’s image as a “quasi-sex symbol” stood to
somehow benefit from the alleged extramarital relations, Trump took
issue with the characterization. </blockquote>
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“I don’t necessarily agree with his victims, his victims are
terrible,” Trump said. “He is really a victim himself. But he put
himself in that position.” </blockquote>
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“The whole group, Paula Jones, Lewinsky, it’s just a really unattractive group. I’m not just talking about physical,” he said. </blockquote>
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“Would it be any different if it were a supermodel crowd?” Cavuto then asked. </blockquote>
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“I think at least it would be more pleasant to watch,” Trump replied.</blockquote>
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Then, we have Donald Trump's newest charge, his claim that Hillary Clinton as a lawyer laughed at a rape victim. This is a false charge. <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/AP-FACT-CHECK-Trump-says-Clinton-laughed-a-rape-9958619.php">What she laughed at were procedural errors, and this laugh was not in the presence of the purported victim.</a>
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This only goes to show the depths of the Trump campaign desperation.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-78689308205471831002016-10-09T04:11:00.000-04:002016-10-12T18:16:31.928-04:00Woman Who Charged Trump with Attempted Rape; Plus Trump's Multiple Appearances on Howard Stern Objectifying Women; It's Time We Give Serious Attention to the Child Rape Allegations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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More damning links on Trump's offensive sexual objectification: Jill Harth -who reports being raped by Trump / 'The Apprentice producer warns that worse material is coming / Trump's years of vulgar statements on the Howard Stern show / Trump barging in on Miss Universe dressing rooms / Creepy Trump statements about daughter Ivanka<br />
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The woman who Republican Party nominee Donald Trump said tried to rape her was speaking out yesterday, October 8. For details of the assault, read <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/10/07/the_1997_lawsuit_alleging_donald_trump_groped_a_woman.html">this Slate article from Friday</a>, "The 1997 Lawsuit Alleging Trump Groped a Woman Just as He Bragged About on Video." (Of course, for legal reasons we should say "alleged," but can we doubt the claim, especially after all that we have heard this year about Trump's groping and sexually verbal abuse of women?)<br />
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In 1997, a makeup artist and former business associate named
Jill Harth alleged that Trump had groped her on multiple occasions. In
her suit, which you can read <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/300193678/1997-Jill-Harth-Lawsuit" target="_blank">here</a>, Harth described one of these advances as “attempted rape.” As the <i>Guardian</i> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/20/donald-trump-sexual-assault-allegations-jill-harth-interview?CMP=share_btn_tw" target="_blank">reported</a> in July, that suit was dropped after Trump settled a separate business lawsuit with Harth’s partner George Houraney.</div>
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Harth, Houraney, and Trump were working on a pin-up
competition together when Trump allegedly began making sexual advances.
The project began in December 1992. According to Harth, in January 1993,
Trump's behavior escalated. In her 1997 deposition, written about
recently in the <i>New York Times, </i>Harth <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html?_r=0" target="_blank">testified</a>
that at a business dinner Trump “name-dropped throughout that [meal],
when he wasn’t groping me under the table.” Here’s how the lawsuit
described the incident:<br />
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Then, the lawsuit alleges, Trump tried to get Harth into his daughter’s bedroom alone. When he was with Harth in Ivanka Trump’s bedroom, Trump allegedly groped her again.<br />
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Given all the sickening things that we have heard that Trump has said and done, is it not time that we give serious attention and weight to the allegations that Trump raped a 13 year old child?<br />
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Here is the Huffington Post report just a few months ago on the allegations:<br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Why The New Child Rape Case Filed Against Donald Trump Should Not Be Ignored</span></a></h1>
Just consider these points about the witness in the case. It is rare that there are witnesses in such cases willing to come forward. The earlier dismissals of the case demonstrate the power Trump has to get such suits dismissed. Notice how she is afraid of consequences from Trump. This fear would be well founded when you see how glibly Trump threatened to have one of his "friends" deal with Rosie O'Donnell's girlfriend. (See <a href="http://bluesunited.blogspot.com/2016/10/rosie-odonnells-awesome-donald-trump.html">yesterday's post at this page</a>.) Trump is alleged to have raped 13 year old girl in 1994, while Trump was at a party held by Jeffrey Epstein, a now convicted sex offender of underage girls.<br />
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Tiffany Doe
says that she recruited Jane Doe at the Port Authority in New York,
persuaded her to attend Mr. Epstein’s parties, <i>and actually witnessed the sexual assaults on Jane Doe:</i></div>
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<i>I
personally witnessed the Plaintiff being forced to perform various
sexual acts with Donald J. Trump and Mr. Epstein. Both Mr. Trump and
Mr. Epstein were advised that she was 13 years old.</i></div>
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It is exceedingly rare for a sexual assault victim to have a witness. But Tiffany Doe says:</div>
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personally witnessed four sexual encounters that the Plaintiff was
forced to have with Mr. Trump during this period, including the fourth
of these encounters where Mr. Trump forcibly raped her despite her
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Tiffany Doe
corroborates, based on her own personal observations, just about
everything in Jane Doe’s complaint: that twelve year old Maria was
involved in a sex act with Mr. Trump, that Mr. Trump threatened the
life of Jane Doe if she ever revealed what happened, and that she would
“disappear” like Maria if she did.</div>
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Tiffany Doe herself says that she is in mortal fear of Mr. Trump to this day:<br />
<i>I am coming forward to swear to the truthfulness of the physical
and sexual abuse that I personally witnessed of minor females at the
hands of Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein . . . I swear to these facts under
the penalty for perjury even though I fully understand that the life of
myself and my family is now in grave danger.</i></div>
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Given all this,
and based on the record thus far, Jane Doe’s claims appear credible.
Mr. Epstein’s own sexual crimes and parties with underage girls are
well documented, as is Mr. Trump’s relationship with him two decades
ago in New York City. Mr. Trump <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":18,"plid":"http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/index3.html"}}" href="http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/index3.html">told a reporter</a>
a few years ago: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a
lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as
much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about
it, Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”</div>
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Powerfully, Jane Doe appears to have an <i>eyewitness</i>
to all aspects of her claim, a witness who appears to have put herself
in substantial danger by coming forward, because at a minimum Mr.
Epstein knows her true identity.</div>
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The New York Daily News reported in <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/pedophile-billionaire-jeffrey-epstein-braces-book-release-article-1.2819009">"Pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein told to be 'out of the country' ahead of book release"</a> a few days ago that a book is due out tomorrow on the sordid life of Epstein. Unsurprisingly, Trump appears in the book, in an unflattering manner. Naturally, this will be a giant public relations disaster for the campaign and the Republican Party. Defiantly, Trump will not leave the race, so elected officials with the party have no choice other than to abandon him.<br />
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The blockbuster book is also expected to further embarrass celebs who
once partied with Epstein. Among the allegations that popped up when the
suits first started piling up against Epstein is a claim by an aspiring
model that Trump raped her in 1994, when she was 13. The bloviating
billionaire has <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-rejects-categorically-false-charges-raping-teen-girl-article-1.2618137">vehemently denied the charge</a>, which was voluntarily dismissed in September, but filed again earlier this week. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/rape-lawsuit-donald-trump-resurfaces-new-york-court-article-1.2681196">A previous lawsuit</a> by the same plaintiff was dismissed by a California federal court judge earlier this year.<br />
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“It’s no coincidence that this book is coming out just before the election,” says our source.<br />
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Saturday, Bill Pruitt, the producer for the first two seasons of 'The Apprentice,' said that what has come out is just the tip of the iceberg, and that more is coming this month. <a href="http://ijr.com/wildfire/2016/10/710360-the-apprentice-producer-just-left-an-ominous-warning-about-october-surprise-coming-next-for-trump/">'The Independent Journal Review' ran this story, "'The Apprentice' Producer Just Left an Ominous Warning About 'October Surprise' Coming Next for Trump."</a><br />
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Pruitt posted this on Twitter Saturday night, "As a producer on seasons 1 & 2 of #theapprentice I assure you: when
it comes to the #trumptapes there are far worse. #justthebegininng"<br />
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While some have speculated that Pruitt has a non-disclosure agreement, it is unclear whether or not this would apply to Pruitt or if a violation could be legally defended in the interest of the "public good."
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Buzzfeed, among others, has swooped in to <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/apprentice-pressure?utm_term=.xb9Y3qv81l#.djQ3kA4xlg">get the goods</a> from Pruitt, if such goods actually exist. And judging by the footage with Access Hollywood's Billy Bush, it's no stretch of the imagination that another smoking gun video exists.
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And before <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html">Friday's bombshell hot mike recordings</a> of Trump's and Billy Bush's extremely lewd conversation and the widely disclosed <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ap-how-trumps-apprentice-moved-from-capitalism-to-sexism/2016/10/03/5f1d32f0-893a-11e6-8cdc-4fbb1973b506_story.html">vulgar actions towards women on 'Apprentice,'</a> there were revelations of Trump's crude remarks earlier this year. For example, see this clip from Inside Edition, uploaded by the show on February 25, 2016, regarding Trump's late 1990s appearances:<br />
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Donald Trump's crass musings on women are now being unearthed. Buzzfeed
has published a rundown of the billionaire's comments from his
appearances on Howard Stern beginning in the late 1990s. "A person who
is very flat-chested is very hard to be a 10," Trump told Stern. He also
said he found Angelina Jolie unattractive because of her lips. He spoke
often of Princess Diana, saying he could have bedded her. Trump also
said he wanted children with Melania, but he wouldn't spend time with
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And see also this clip by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khHzansOy2E">Huffington Post, uploaded to YouTube, on May 23, 2016</a>. He has said very terrible things. --Including from appearances on the show this year.<br />
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Just to remind you, several times, it has been reported that several times Trump has made statements that he views his daughter in sexual terms. Including making these statements with her on the TV stage sitting right next to him. See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkvG3g7hEJE">this clip, "Donald Trump Obsessed with Daughter's Body, Would Have Sex With Her," last September on the David Pakman Show</a>.<br />
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<b>TRUMP'S INNUMERABLE & GROSS APPEARANCES ON HOWARD STERN'S SHOW: </b><br />
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<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-ivanka-piece-of-ass-howard-stern-229376"><span style="font-size: small;">Trump told Howard Stern it's OK to call Ivanka a 'piece of a--'</span></a></h1>
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Washington Post, reporting Saturday, October 8, on how he spoke of how voluptuous his daughter Ivanka was, how 35 year old women were over the hill, how he was OK with having sex with 24 year old women.<br />
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And the paper linked this with its article, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/more-trump-tapes-surface-with-crude-sex-remarks/2016/10/08/7129cea2-8d92-11e6-bff0-d53f592f176e_story.html">"More Trump tapes surface with crude sex remarks"</a>:<br />
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ADDITION:<br />
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/08/us/nancy-odell-bio/index.html">New CNN article on Nancy O'Dell</a>, the woman who fought off the sexual advance in Ivanka's bedroom, which Trump referred to in t<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html">he Access Hollywood video</a>. <br />
Also from CNN: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/08/politics/trump-on-howard-stern/index.html">"Donald Trump to Howard Stern: It's okay to call my daughter a 'piece of ass.'"</a><br />
Washington Post: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/more-trump-tapes-surface-with-crude-sex-remarks/2016/10/08/7129cea2-8d92-11e6-bff0-d53f592f176e_story.html">Trump says women need to check-out at age 35; Trump owes up to barging in on dressing rooms of Miss Universe contestants</a>. Including sexual banter on daughter Ivanka's attractiveness.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-71834435936904915472016-10-08T19:00:00.000-04:002016-10-08T19:13:16.352-04:00Rosie O'Donnell's Awesome 2006 Donald Trump Imitation & Her Revelation of His Bankrutpcies -- He Responded By Threatening Her Girlfriend<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yeah! to Rosie O'Donnell. <b>Click on links for the great Rosies video on Donald Trump.</b><br />
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Just to spare you the research trouble, this all dates back to Rosie's 2006 appearance on ABC TV's 'The View.' But first a recent gem.<br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/Lupa6iBDZas">Rosie earlier this year on 'Entertainment Tonight:'</a><br />
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ET Interviewer, referring to Donald Trump, Republican nominee: "What will you do if he becomes president? Is it time to leave the country?"<br />
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Rosie, looking directly at the camera,<br />
"He will never be president!"</blockquote>
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Maybe the real reason that Donald Trump doesn't like Rosie O'Donnell is that she did <b>the best imitation of Trump</b> during her on 'The View' - <a href="https://youtu.be/wLLA19iUwyA">click here for the link to the 2006 video</a>, and that was 10 years before Alec Baldwin did his on Saturday Night Live last week. She also criticized Trump for forgiving the party crazed coking (as in cocaine, not the soft drink) episode of beauty pageant crown winner, Tara Conner, Miss USA.<br />
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You can skip past the self-centered candidate's pronouncements, and get to <a href="https://youtu.be/wLLA19iUwyA?t=1m30s">Rosie gems, beginning at 1:30</a>.<br />
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She lists out Trump's marital infidelities and then says mockingly, "And he's the moral compass for 20 year olds! Sit and spin, my friend."<br />
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Listen to how forward seeing she was, that she points out that he got off, scot-free for his multiple bankruptcies. And this was years before the rest of us and the media had caught wind of the fact that he's an incompetent in financial matters. <br />
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Further driving the dagger is that she pointed out that the inheritance from Daddy Fred (who died in 1999) is a main resource that got him on good financial footing after his 1990s business failures. "You know what saved him the second [bankruptcy] time, after his father died he paid off all his bankruptcy. This is not a self-made man." <br />
"This guy is like one of those snake oil salesmen on 'Little House on the Prairie.'"<br />
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(<a href="https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/how-does-trump-repeatedly-file-for-bankruptcy-and-still-stay-on-top">This is what was known about Trump's immunity through his multiple bankruptcies</a> in the spring of the previous year, 2005, from Legal Zoom.)<br />
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The videos linked here include a clip where Donald Trump clearly threatened Rosie O'Donnell's girlfriend at the time. <br />
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Watch <a href="https://youtu.be/wLLA19iUwyA?t=4m50s">the video at 4:50 in which Trump responds by clearly threatening her girlfriend</a>, "She ought to be careful. 'Cause I'll have one of my friends to pick up her girlfriend. And I think that it will be easy to do."<br />
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But Rosie was tough. See <a href="https://youtu.be/wLLA19iUwyA?t=6m6s">the clip of her at 6:06</a>, the next day on 'The View.'<br />
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Trump, just like he's doing in 2016 to Alicia Machado, he kept up the attack, and went on 'Anderson360' to attack. He lied when Anderson Cooper asked for him to address his multiple bankruptcies.<br />
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See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyJQSk3mOxA">this other video, on 'Anderson Live,'</a> with a guest host filling in for Cooper. In this 2012, O'Donnell reported that the Trump Steakhouse in Las Vegas got a C health rating.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-20367222534635952262016-10-07T05:05:00.000-04:002016-10-07T05:05:05.714-04:00The Republicans dawdled - Now Hurricane Matthew could spread ZIka problem up the Atlantic coast<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><a href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a49346/hurricane-matthew-zika/">How Hurricane Matthew Could Make the Zika Virus Exponentially Worse
The virus is likely to spread from Florida in the aftermath.</a></b>
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The largest concentration of Zika cases in the United States <a class="body-el-link standard-body-el-link" href="https://www.cdc.gov/zika/intheus/florida-update.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a3da; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">is in and around Dade County</a>, which may be spared the direct impact of the storm, but a huge rain event like Matthew quite obviously would leave massive amounts of standing water within which <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Aedes aegypti, </em>the mosquito that carried the virus, could breed and thrive.</div>
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(A large part of the hot zone is at an elevation of nine feet above sea level. Some predictions have the area being inundated by a 12-foot storm surge.)</div>
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And it is not just puddles, either. Think about how water can pool in piles of debris, and in scattered wreckage. Think about endless heaps of worthless household junk. Think about thousands of evacuees leaving the current hot zones in and around Miami. Now think about all the crews coming from all over the country to help with the recovery effort over the next several months, walking amid the debris, turning it over in the heat that always follows a hurricane. Now think about all those crews going back to Iowa or Maine.</div>
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The most direct precedent probably is the experience of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. <a class="body-el-link standard-body-el-link" href="http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/5/07-1066_article" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a3da; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">A 2008 report</a> from the Centers for Disease Control demonstrated how the mosquito-borne West Nile virus spiked in the immediate aftermath of the storm.</div>
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The immediate increase in cases may be attributed to increased human exposure to mosquitoes. Tens of thousands of persons in the hurricane-affected region were living in damaged housing or were waiting outside for days to be evacuated. The sudden decrease in WNND cases in the hurricane-affected areas 3 weeks after landfall could be attributed to reduced human exposure caused by eventual evacuation and aerial application of insecticides. The increase in WNND incidence in 2006 might also be due to increased human-mosquito exposure as a result of mosquito larval habitat creation (root ball voids from fallen trees, and flooded abandoned swimming pools), continued substandard living conditions, and increased outdoor reconstruction activities.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-40828853748623841722016-10-07T03:01:00.000-04:002016-10-07T03:58:05.577-04:00Yes, Hurricane Matthew IS Stronger Because of Global Waming<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/global-warming-hurricanes-1c3a1ddca521#.1r64g5ybx">HURRICANE MATTHEW IS STRONGER, AND IT'S PART OF A PATTERN IN THE CURRENT ERA OF INTENSIFYING STORMS</a>
Matthew set a new record as the longest lived Category 4 (or higher) Atlantic hurricane in October — 84 hours.
By Monday, it had already “generated the most accumulated cyclone energy” of any Atlantic hurricane ever recorded in the eastern Caribbean.
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As a result, the 2016 hurricane season has “already generated the most accumulated cyclone energy in the Atlantic in October since 2005” (the year of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma).
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Hurricane Matthew is super strong — because of climate change
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“Category 4 and 5 hurricanes could double or triple in the coming decades,” expert warns.
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Hurricane Matthew is slowly approaching the East Coast where it is expected to wreak havoc with storm surge, wind, and rain. Matthew has already set a number of records — and global warming is giving it a boost.<br />
Hurricanes “extract heat energy from the ocean to convert it to the power of wind, and the warmer the ocean is, the stronger a hurricane can get if all other conditions that it needs to exist are present,” meteorologist and former hurricane hunter Jeff Masters explained last month on Living on Earth. “So, scientists are confident that as we continue to heat up the oceans, we’re going to see more of these high-end perfect storms.”<br />
<a href="http://www.valleynewslive.com/content/news/Uninhabitable-Hurricane-Matthew-Could-Be-Catastrophic-for-Florida-396261551.html">LATEST FROM SE FLORIDA: parts could be uninhabitable for months</a> -- Melbourne office of National Weather Service, as of early Friday morning --As of 2 AM storm bypassed SE coast, but it could hit Central coast of the state<br />
Let’s look at some of the latest climate science. One 2013 paper found that “since 1975 there has been a substantial and observable regional and global increase in the proportion of Category 4–5 hurricanes of 25–30 percent per °C of anthropogenic global warming.” Another 2013 paper concluded that “dramatic changes in the frequency distribution of lifetime maximum intensity (LMI) have occurred in the North Atlantic,” and the stronger hurricanes “have become more intense.”<br />
In other words, warming oceans create stronger hurricanes, like the one we’re seeing now.
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Matthew spun up from a tropical storm to a Category 5 superstorm in an alarming 36 hours. The latest research says this is also a result of global warming. “Storms are intensifying at a much more rapid pace than they used to 25 years back,” explained the author of a 2012 study. “They are getting stronger more quickly and also [to a] higher category. The intensity as well as the rate of intensity is increasing.”<br />
A 2015 study, “A climatological study of the effect of sea-surface temperature on North Atlantic hurricane intensification,” found a statistically significant relationship between higher intensification values and higher sea surface temperature [SST] values. “On average, mean intensification increases by 16 percent for every 1°C increase in mean SST.”<br />
This warming-driven trend toward more rapid intensification [RI] is very worrisome. “The vast majority (79 percent) of major storms are RI storms,” and “the most intense storms are those that undergo RI,” according to a 2016 study.
The latest storm tracks for superstorm Matthew have it threatening the southeast coast.
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See the conclusion of <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/global-warming-hurricanes-1c3a1ddca521#.1r64g5ybx">the article at Think Progress.</a>
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<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/6/amid_media_blackout_over_climate_change">Scientist Speaks out, amidst media blackout</a>"Amid Media Blackout over Climate Change Links to Hurricane Matthew, Top Scientist Speaks Out" -- Democracy Now
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-52534658436890345072016-06-18T21:31:00.001-04:002016-10-07T03:02:19.516-04:00Oil Spills? -How About Fracking Spills? One Company Shuts Down Drilling in PA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
NOW FRACKING CHEMICAL SPILLS; ACADEMICIANS POINT OUT: NATURAL GAS IS DIRTIER IN SOME WAYS THAN COAL<br />
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Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, British Petroleum ("BP") spill in the Gulf of Mexico ... They have been pretty rough. And now these are the poster cases for what is very risky with traditional petroleum fuel.<br />
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Now we have an out-of-country chemical spill in Pennsylvania that has prompted the hydrofracking (hyrdraulic fracturing or fracking) company to shut down its fracking operations in Pennsylvania.<br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/21/fracking-spill-prompts-ch_n_852063.html">Huffington Post tells us (April 21, 2011) that Chesapeake Energy Corporation will suspend its operations in the state</a> because chemical-ridden water is flowing out of a well near Canton in Bradford county:<br />
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"Fracking Spill In Pennsylvania Prompts Chesapeake Energy To Suspend Gas Drilling Across State."<br />
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A natural gas company has suspended "fracking" at all of its wells throughout Pennsylvania until it figures out the cause of a spill in the northern part of the state.<br />
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Chesapeake Energy Corp. said Thursday that crews have significantly reduced the flow of chemical-laced water from its out-of-control well near Canton in Bradford County.<br />
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Spokesman Brian Grove says that the exact cause of Tuesday night's breach is unknown, but that it's located in a wellhead connection.<br />
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Thousands of gallons of drilling fluids were spilled. They escaped containment, crossed over farm fields and went into a stream.<br />
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Grove says initial testing of area waterways has shown "minimal impact, if any."<br />
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Fracking is short for hydraulic fracturing and involves injecting chemicals into the ground to release natural gas.</blockquote>
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And earlier this month (April 11) the New York Times reported that the very process of extracting any natural gas leaks methane gas into the environment (albeit, this gas dissipates into the air faster than other chemicals or compounds).<br />
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In Tom Zeller's "Studies Say Natural Gas Has Its Own Environmental Problems" scientists explain how the much promoted natural gas option is not the clean fuel that its promoters claim. Zeller's article quotes Cornell University ecology and environmental biology professor Robert Howarth on how there are methane losses from 3.6 to 7.9 percent.<br />
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The upshot?: "When all is factored together, Mr. Howarth and his colleagues conclude that the greenhouse gas footprint of shale gas can be as much as 20 percent greater than, and perhaps twice as high as, coal per unit of energy."<br />
Read more at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/business/energy-environment/12gas.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=methane%20natural%20gas%20louisiana%20colorado%20&st=cse">page one</a> and at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/business/energy-environment/12gas.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=methane%20natural%20gas%20louisiana%20colorado%20&st=cse&scp=1">page two</a> of Zeller's article.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557415519430161123.post-35154141189295077422016-06-07T16:47:00.003-04:002016-06-07T16:49:52.190-04:00Clinton's Reasons for Her Dismissive Laughter - Why Should We Put Up with It?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nothing exemplifies airy righteous
privilege like Hillary Clinton's brushing off questions by the use of
her dismissive laugh. The laugh, or derisive cackle, sends the
message, “It is preposterous that I am even being challenged or
questioned. Therefore, I don't need to answer your questions. I don't
need to give your questions the dignity of an answer.”</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXiRfNB5TzM">Take a look at this video</a>, to see Clinton at her dismissive worst.</div>
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Aside from dismissing the interviewer's
questions, there are other reasons why she could be laughing. She is
deflecting questions that she would rather avoid answering. By
laughing at the questions she is changing the subject. Whereas her
husband could slip into difficult situations, and he would end up
giving awkward answers, and George H.W. Bush would deflect
insinuations of infidelity by formally refusing to answer the
question, Hillary Clinton is more adept at managing uncomfortable
questions. She just rejects those questions she does not want to
answer. Her laugh evades the awkwardness of a formal refusal or a
response that it is none of the questioner's business.<br />
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Perhaps Clinton is trying a maneuver
similar to neurolinguistic programming. In NLP speakers try to
manipulate voters' thinking. Her laughing at questions could succeed
in getting journalists or the general public to fall into line with
her dismissal. This worked particularly well with the reportage of
the Benghazi hearing. She laughed in response to a congresswoman's
question. And much of the media response was accompanied by headlines
adopting the idea that the congresswoman was inappropriate in asking
her questions, not that Clinton was inappropriate for her laugh.</div>
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But her laughing response to serious
questions is an insult on many levels. It is an insult to members of
Congress, to the press and to the electorate. Remember this as you
vote today.</div>
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