Showing posts with label Climate Change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Climate Change. Show all posts

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Communicating with purpose

 

    Thoughtful and clear communications are the foundation of modern social structures. 

In the coming decade of the 2020s the whole economy of the American continent, and the world as whole, will have to be restructured. 

For the better I hope. And for the highest altruistic and egalitarian purposes.

    Effective communication, to convey ideas or other important information for businesses or pleasure, make reaching goals much easier.

    In the coming years the importance of clearly communicating about the environment, commerce, about social problems and remedies are of utmost importance. 

    Developing and implementing new, or more sustainable and regenerative forms of economy and production are urgent.

     Learning from the best of past types of historical systems that were environmentally sound, while adapting and improving these, for our times and current dilemmas.

    The restructuring of society, either because of the corona virus disaster, economy, or the oncoming changes of climate and environmental collapse, make effective communication much more important.

    We invite all people of good faith to have the willingness to share remedies, to the solutions of our global and national dilemmas. 

       Please feel free to join us in this quest to recreate a regenerative and resilient future.

This little planet was the garden of Eden, and it can be again.

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Why the polls were right for the 2020 election. A landslide for Democracy.

 

If the Republican party really wanted to keep control of the White House they should have stolen more votes and disenfranchised more people.

Ever since the HAVA, the HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT, exit polls have been more and more off. Not because they are wrong, but they are a reflection of corruption of the voting systems in America.

Exit polling was always right! People remember how they voted five minuets ago! They were often within a few tenths of a point.

Will Congress and New President Joe reauthorize, update and enforce the Voting Rights act? Reverse the Right Wing attack in Shelby v. Holder.

Interstate Cross Check has removed millions of legitimately registered voters from the voter rolls in many states across the US. A fundamentally flawed system with many security flaws. Interstate cross check was recently suspended indefinitely in a federal civil rights lawsuit. Why would elected or appointed officials have made it harder for people to vote?

Why would a local increase in drop off locations be stopped by the Governor?

What reason would a Republican governor and an all Republican Texas Supreme Court have for a limited number of drops for ballots in Texas?

Why limiting numbers of polling stations? Waiting for hours in a line in Georgia to vote during a pandemic.

 In spite of all limitations, people came out by the thousands. Democratic areas and areas with larger populations of non-white voters spent much longer in lines. The long lines are by design. Still Voters stood up to defend our system of government.

How many people had to use a provisional ballot that thought they were still on the list of registered voters

Why would so many people think that they are registered that are not?

Greg Palast and Stacy Abrams the former state legislator and candidate for Governor are addressing the problems of voter disenfranchisement head on in Georgia. What about the under vote in this years election.

One runoff for two seats are left in the US Senate and will be secured January 5th.  BlueGeorgiaSenate.Com

Democrats must challenge the Republicans and call their Bluff about Voting Fraud, and Mail in ballots being rigged. Re-institute the Voting Rights Act.

Why are Paper ballots, and fully audit-able voting systems are essential,  to secure future elections

No more electronic systems with no paper trail, and definitely no privately owned and proprietary systems for voting. Call your Representatives, state and federal

Why during the middle of a pandemic and economic disaster, an attack on the US mail system? The wholesale destruction of hundreds of of high speed mail sorting machines and removal of mail boxes ordered by Louis DeJoy.

 Delaying the mail during the biggest mail in vote election in American history. Delaying the delivery of medicine by mail, and damaging commerce and the economy further. Endangering hundreds of thousand of elderly or unhealthy people, and Veterans.

The failed attempt to dis-enfranchise the most populace county in Michigan.

The President #45 going so far as to call elected officials from Michigan and Pennsylvania to DC in an attempt to overturn the legitimate results from the state. Filing dozens of frivolous law suits to challenge the results of the elections. Done mostly in areas of democratic or mostly voters of color.

In spite of this all, the people of America removed Trump from the White House. Time to take Senate seats in the runoff January Fifth. Help secure the continuation of our democracy. Anything you can do to help.

Saturday, November 9, 2019

On the issues. Citizens United and the problem of money in the American political system. #MoneyoutofPolitics.

The problem of money in the American political system has brought us the current corrupted situation in Washington D.C. and the problems in our State Legislatures. The Federal Constitution never granted the authority of the Supreme Court to redefine the meaning of words.

    Santa Clara V. Pacific Railroad was a fraud that held that railroad corporations are persons, has been taken to extremes today. Used as a cover for bribery and criminal  actions by Corporations. Buying and selling politicians and laws.
 Corporations are artificial entities created by licence from the state, not persons. It is the responsibility of the state to control the creations of the state.

    Buckley v. Valeo which removed limits on campaign donations from corporations and equated money to speech, began the mud slide that ended with Citizen United in 2010.
Money is money, speech is speech.
If a corporation is a person (Which it is not ) and it can spend as much as it like to influence a particular political race, then it is above the equal protection clause as it relates to real persons. That is "We The People" who are limited to how much we are allowed to spend by the campaign laws. This is just a total royal perversion of the original intent of the founders of our Constitutional Republic.


    Political office and elected or appointed officials are bought and sold, or beholden today to those that have donated to their champaign or their particular political parties. The usury banking and financial, insurance scam, including big pharma were the largest doners in the 2016 election cycle. Much of the political process has become a giant money laundering and bribery system to keep the same corrupted profits going to the same crooked political systems that created this mess we are in. 

     Money is not speech. Corporations are not persons. The Supreme Court has become the enemy of the state and the people.  The Republic invisioned by the founders is at a turning point in the history of the United States. Choose well which side of history to stand on. History has judged other failed republics harshly. 

     Our  republic  and people  are not  artificial entities. Democracy is not a spectator sport, tag your it.  The Representatives in Congress can not read your mind. The future of our families, and the people are depending on what happens in the next few days and weeks. movetoamend.org   #MoneyoutofPolitics


Monday, April 3, 2017

The Audacity of Hypocrisy.



So you desire the support of the Berners, Claire McCaskill, do this and we can talk. First there must be an admission that the primary was stolen from the Berners and from Senator Sanders in 2016 by the DNC and their agents.  California primary and the Nevada caucus among others  and outright removal of whole precincts from the voting rolls  , were vast disasters to our republic, C-span would be a good place to start since the regular media will not want to talk about this. Real Honesty and moral principles. Maybe the fixing of the primary was not such a good Idea.
Second you must come out in front of congress and start the discussion about the Voter disenfranchisement disaster that stole the general election ...the  Kris W. Kobach Interstate Crosscheck program that removed millions of legally registered voters from the rolls, under the guise of voter fraud. Anyone who voted on a provisional ballot almost certainly had their vote stolen or what is called spoiled by  the county clerks or Secretary of states.
Then we can talk about BIG dirty money in elections, both Dem and Republicans. Then we can talk about the support you would like from the Greenie progressives and the Berners for Progress​.
Hillary was just as much of a crook along with much of the DNC in the theft of the 2016 primary election, as the RNC and the Republican insiders are of the theft of the General Election 2016. It is still unlikely that the fraud that Trump says is real will be found. VP Mike Pence was investigated for voter suppression in Indiana.
While the DNC likes to play itself off as for the working people, they still are mostly corporate Dems who are beholden to big money. The DNC considered Bernie unelectable while the people and the progressive movements loved him.

Now the most dangerous team of Republican crooks in recent history along with President Lying Donald are running (DC) the district of criminals. And they are one of the Richest, and most beholden to Wall street and banking interests.

The Republicans scream about States rights,The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) stating that the federal government possesses only those powers delegated to it by the United States Constitution. All remaining powers are reserved for the states or the people. But the republicans are working on forcing there agenda on the states. Immigration is Federal under article 1 section 8 clause 4 of the US Constitution. It is up to the Feds and congress to regulate immigration. Not up to the states to enforce, and definitely not the Cities to do this. There is no authority for the federal judiciary to redefine the meaning of words, like in the Citizens United  case; when money was defined as a form of free speech! There is no authority in the constitution for the federal government to force the cities or the states to do the jobs that are the responsibility of Congress to regulate. Nor is there authority to coerce local governments with threats, or by withholding funding.
Similar problems of so called states rights on issues like minimum wages, pollution control, coal mining or toxic waste, and Clean water or air.  

The Republicans Refused to have a vote on Merrick Garland , but now insist that Neil Gorsuch as Supreme Court justice must be voted on as soon as possible.
His past decision are terrible. Mostly against workers and regular people and in favor of corporations and banks. See his decision about the Hobby Lobby case for example.

The Republicans cry foul about being spied on for their corruption during the election or even before, but now they have passed legislation to sell your whole internet history.  No respect for the Fourth amendment. No respect for privacy unless it is theirs.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Tom Price is an American physician and Republican politician who is currently the newest  United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. A privatization advocate who says he thinks the for profit health industry can do health care for the people best. It is obvious that it is best for the profits of  Tom Price.

Scott Pruitt is now head of the EPA, who only a couple months ago said carbon emissions are not "a primary contributor" to global warming. Why would this guy be put in charge of the EPA after he sued the EPA 14 times. Maybe to protect his big money donors that do the polluting?

Audacity
noun, plural audacities.
1.
boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.
2.
effrontery or insolence; shameless boldness:
His questioner's audacity shocked the lecturer.
3.
Usually, audacities. audacious or particularly bold or daring acts or statements.







Thursday, December 31, 2015

New year floods in Missouri, Illinois, and Congress still has no clue. Happy new year, Love and light and insight to all.

Elected and appointed officials are not likely to come up with a coherent or common sense long range plan to deal with the worsening issues of water on this continent. Some for lack of a real life perspective of the problem. Some influenced by large amounts of money from those that stand to profit from water, and the continuation of the political insanity in America.
 Any way we look at it, it is a giant problem. In 2015 terrible drought from Arkansas to the west coast, Massive floods from Texas to the east coast. 


Giant dams and water systems are not the answer, but a vast continent wide system of local and regional, small and medium water control systems to store, control, move, clean, and use this water, as well as produce electricity to move this water.


Using Hydrodynamic systems, Siphon systems, ram pumps, archimedes pumps,
Also we must refill our water tables. Agricultural systems like permaculture will help slow flooding, along with infiltration ponds and water storage and control systems to move water to the driest places at the time of great rains and floods. 

Micro-hydro Electric systems for pumping water and electricity.
Ram pumps, for moving water up hill. Refilling the water table of the whole continent is of paramount importance.


First to deal with the water problem we must end the destruction of our water, Fracking, tar sand extraction and so on. Agriculture in the style of war, glyphosate herbicide  also called roundup has many problems,  including binding minerals in the body making them unavailable in the process of turning good fats into hormones.   2,4-D which is half of the agent orange defoliant used in the Vietnam war and known to cause cancer.   Atrazine which is know to cause frogs to spontaneously change sex and to cause breast, uterine and testicular cancer, etc. Many are Biocides and, or  cause endocrine disruption, that are destroying our ocean and the health of our people and biosphere generally.  Industrial pollution and plastic going into the oceans. 

We must have
Many vast constructed wetlands on rivers and streams to remove nitrogen, phosphorus and other chemicals and things like plastic, etc, before this water gets to the oceans.

We must come up with a plan to capture as much of the Methane coming out of the permafrost and arctic ocean areas.


Reforestation of the continent from the west to the east. Prevailing wind is mostly from the west in North America in summer.  Trees are a great way to get water in the air and are an excellent way to suck carbon out of the atmosphere.

Regenerative and restorative agriculture systems. Not just sustainable agriculture.

For a great look at water issues world wide see the WaterWired blog.

Methane and the Climate Change Problem. Can We Capture and Use it, Moving Away from Fossil Fuels?

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