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Thursday, November 1, 2018

Help Me FIGHT to SAVE My VOTE

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Dallas county Republicans have south a court junction to suspend 300 ballots that were mailed in absentee, these are mostly by disabled people (mine is one of them). The rational is that people who need help filling out ballots can't be sure that those helping them  are not stealing their ballots and using them fraudulently or changing their vote. Which is total hogwash Ineffect they are saying disabled people who  need help can't vote.

I will not accept this, I ask you to help me, Do not let the fascists steal this  election!
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Thursday, October 18, 2018

new study says 40,000 die from lack health care



Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002.
The study, conducted at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.

“The uninsured have a higher risk of death when compared to the privately insured, even after taking into account socioeconomics, health behaviors, and baseline health,” said lead author Andrew Wilper, M.D., who currently teaches at the University of Washington School of Medicine. “We doctors have many new ways to prevent deaths from hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease — but only if patients can get into our offices and afford their medications.”


Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Stop Voter Supppression

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We all want free and fair elections.
Election Protection makes sure that every American can make their voices heard even when anti-voter rules try to get in the way.  Every election year, Common Cause mobilizes thousands of Election Protection volunteers to help our fellow Americans navigate the voting process and cast their votes without obstruction, confusion, or intimidation.

The right to vote and have our voices heard is fundamental to our democracy.
At a time when far too many eligible voters are discouraged from voting or wrongly turned away from the polls, we need to rededicate ourselves to increasing participation among eligible voters.

But over the past several years, we have seen a disturbing increase in the number and scope of attempts to suppress the votes of tens of thousands of American citizens – sometimes by illegal, intimidating practices.

You can use the voting tools above to verify your voter registration, find out if you are eligible to vote, register to vote, get election reminders and more.

You can help protect our right to vote! Become an Election Protection Volunteer
What we do…
We will place thousands of volunteers on the ground, and recruit a team of legal experts to staff the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline. Common Cause is a crucial line of defense for voters against suppression tactics, confusing laws, outdated infrastructure, and other impediments to making themselves heard. Above all, we inform voters of their rights, help elections officials handle problems in real time, and notify legal teams when the courts’ interference is needed.
State-by-state, we place trained poll monitors at polling places, especially in communities with a history of voting problems, where hotly-contested races exacerbate the chance of long lines, confusion, and other complications. We’ll also be in states where there may be confusion about voter ID requirements. Poll monitors will provide information, troubleshoot problems, and report bad practices to our teams to resolve them with election officials.
It’s this effort that facilitates our year-round work to advance strong voting reform: we note patterns or practices during the election, bring problems to the attention of elections officials and administrators, and work with them to arrive at commonsense solutions together. With this “all hands on deck” approach, we advance improved elections systems.


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Thursday, October 11, 2018

Thus says the LORD, ‘For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke its punishment, because they sell the righteous for money and the needy for a pair of sandals. These who pant after the very dust of the earth on the head of the helpless also turn aside the way of the humble, and a man and his father resort to the same girl in order to profane My holy name. On garments taken as pledges they stretch out beside every altar and in the house of their God they drink wine of those who have been fined.’” [NASB]



"One of the great accomplishments of Trump’s presidency has of course been to make America a place of even more unequal justice. The IRS budget for enforcement of tax cheating by the rich is collapsing. Trump is making the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency tasked with cracking down on fraudulent credit cards and banking, almost helpless. It has taken sundry other steps to protect corporations that rip off consumers from facing any consequences.
"Trump’s presidency will enable more Trumps. His career as a white-collar criminal who ran for president as an alleged business genius is a metaphor for the exact thing he is doing as president. He is the crook who got away with it."


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"One of the great accomplishments of Trump’s presidency has of course been to make America a place of even more unequal justice. The IRS budget for enforcement of tax cheating by the rich is collapsing. Trump is making the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency tasked with cracking down on fraudulent credit cards and banking, almost helpless. It has taken sundry other steps to protect corporations that rip off consumers from facing any consequences.
"Trump’s presidency will enable more Trumps. His career as a white-collar criminal who ran for president as an alleged business genius is a metaphor for the exact thing he is doing as president. He is the crook who got away with it."
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Friday, October 5, 2018

The Trump Knowledge Crisis

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When we first began to see Trump's appointments to his new cabinet and the federal bureaucracy it seemed obvious to  my friends and I that he was trying to destroy the workings of government, This is because he appointed so many unqualified people,such as Rick Perry for energy, and people  who had a history of seeking the destruction of the department they were placed over (such as Perry) it was clear he didn't want government to work. We never dreamed, however, that this was only the tip of the  ice berg. Not only does he not want government to work but, having no idea of government';s real function Trump has actually destroyed the most impressive information  apparatus in human history. I am not talking about the information Nixon collected on his enemies but scientific  information  on things like how to tell if a country has nuclear weapons or the nature of global warming. Michel Lewis, described as a "finance professional" (he worked for major stock brokers and now writes best sellers about money and statistics) [1] haws checked back in to see how it;s working and it is alarming. 

First, there is always a transition team that goes to work as soon as a candidate wins the Presidency. Trump's team was  put together on the spur of the moment, they never really went to work. All administrations prepare the transition team of their successors in transitioning  because it's their one chance to influence the next administration. The Obama team put together one of the most impressive arrays of knowledge and briefing in the history of presidential transistor teams. The alarming fact is not one of the Trump people showed up for any of the briefings. [2] "One way to think about the US government, Lewis realized, was as a manager of big risks – from military conflict, to financial collapse, to natural disaster. As risk-manager-in-chief, Trump now had the frightening ability to boost the odds of catastrophe from, say, one in a million to one in ten thousand 'over a vast portfolio of risks.'[3] 

The Trump administration, however, is not merely ignorant but committed to removing critical data we need to make civilization work: 


The worry has escalated to a near-panic among some environmental and transparency advocates following the disclosure last week that Trump transition officials at the Energy Department issued a questionnaire demanding the names of employees who took part in climate negotiations, as well as controversial efforts to estimate the social costs of carbon emissions. The Trump aides also sought details of how the agency calculates the costs of alternative energy and asked for a list of all websites where scientists at national laboratories post information "during work hours."[4]
Scientists and other tech savvy Liberals have been working over time feverishly trying to save and hide as much data on global warming, air pollution,  and other red letter needs as possible. [5] Those were fears expressed at the  outset right after the  election. "Almost immediately after Trump’s win on November 8, 2016, and up until the day of his inauguration on January 20, 2017, a vast network of volunteers worked tirelessly to back up as much scientific data on government websites as possible."[6] As it turns out the ware not merely alarmist precautions.As early as that following Spring scientists began seeing their data vanish. Victoria Herrmann us an arctic researcher, In the Sprig of 2017 she wrote that she had begun to see data disappearing from the net. These were documents that logged the progress made in documenting global warming and discussion of strategists for dealing with it, "Since January, the surge has transformed into a slow, incessant march of deleting data sets, web pages and policies about the Arctic. ...Each defunct page is an effort by the Trump administration to deliberately undermine our ability to make good policy decisions by limiting access to scientific evidence."[7]

Environmental policy as a whole is is being sabotaged by the removal of data and changing of government's data availability.  Overt reference to Green house gases as the cause of global warming are gone, "Vital information that state officials and experts could use to respond to flooding, hurricanes, and other natural disasters is no longer easily accessible on the web, EDGI says. For example, plans the EPA drew up for "climate change adaptation" — including advice about how to prepare for flooding and get protection from toxic chemical exposure —are much harder to find now."[8] Remember the response the hurricane Puerto Rico? That might also explain cock ups like not preparing a way to re-unite the kids with the parents  at the boarder, The Obama administration had to deal with that at one time on a lesser scale, but if the Trumpies didn't go to the briefing they would  not have known.

The US energy Information administration no loner contains any information that  coal emissions "adversely affect the environment and human health." [9] Information on federal websites are being altered to remove any informational on global warming or the green house effect.[10]For example the US Geological Survey “Science Explorer” website is supposed to guide someone to more information but  seek something about global warming or Green house effect, click on link for Green house effect it says "no result found"[11]

There is more to the problem than just the propaganda value of changing websites. This policy is interfering with actual scientific research.
Now, more than a year into the Trump presidency, it’s become clear that concerns about a coming assault on science were well founded. From deleting references to climate change on government sites to undermining and misrepresenting scientific research, the administration’s attack is so widespread, it’s almost impossible to adequately monitor. ...says Kim Knowlton, deputy director of NRDC’s Science Center. “Without information, we can’t help society, which is what we’re here to do as scientists. It’s so frustrating.”She notes that by making it more difficult—and in some cases impossible—to access data, the Trump administration is multiplying scientists’ research time, cutting down on their efficiency, and ultimately putting public health at risk. Indeed, the consequences of suppressing information and stifling research are dire. Most immediately, for example, it could prevent scientists from identifying potential disease outbreaks. In the longer term, by manufacturing gaps in data collection, it jeopardizes the richness and integrity of 250 years of American scientific inquiry...[12]
The problem is not just limited to environmental issues or even to scientific research, the full range of information is in jeopardy.
If you wanted to know who visited the White House, how much the president’s secretary is paid, or which state has the most federally funded teaching positions, the information was just a few clicks away. With a bit more technical knowledge, you could explore public data sets to analyze the president’s budget, or look for trends in government spending.No more.Dozens of data sets disappeared last week from open.whitehouse.gov, a website the Obama administration created to promote government transparency.[13]
The old data that has been changed is not just deleted, there is a law against that. Rather it is made much less accessible. It's  archived and in non user friendly ways so that one must be a tech wizard to find it.[14] White house visitor logs may seem like just a matter of tourism but in fact they tell government watchdogs who is doing the lobbying and who getting the attention., Those data are now closed. [15]

Since the 1980s the Republican party has cultivated the concept of big government as a threat to freedom and private Enterprise. We have forgotten,  and the Republicans themselves habitually avoid thinking of government as the necessary arm of progress that it is and must be, Not only do we need federal  bureaucracy and centrality and power to cope with natural disaster, disease,and war, but it's also a vast clearing house of data and information,scientific knowledge and research and make research  possible in all fields. The Trump administration does note even comprehend this aspect of  government. Not only do they have no interest i using it and providing these fictions  but their only interest in using the knowledge apparatus of government is to use it as a tool for their propaganda.

Not only use it for propaganda but they don;t even care that the federal apparatus has the information to disprove their views, they do not care about truth. They have the data to show that global warming is real and that it is man made, they can easily see it's not a hoax. But they make it into a hoax  by hiding the data that proves them wrong. They merely want to enrich  themselves,s that is their only interest in government data. Toward that end they are willing to lie, to  subvert and destroy humanities's quest for knowledge at the highest level but they do so with absolutely no concern for what that means for humans in the future.

If we had a congress made up of statesmen  and lawmakers congress could write legislation compelling   the executive to restore Obama era openness and availability in data. But  the congress we have is a sea of invertebrates who crave Trump's favor. In one month we could have a responsible congress which will watchdog the executive branch but we have to elect them. We have to go to the polls and vote them in,Here's a tip,vote Democrat! Talk your friends into this it is crucially important,







Sources

[1] Liars Poker; Money Ball; The Undoing Project; and others.

[2] Alex Blasedel, "Interview: Michael Lewis The Big Short Author on How trump Is Gamblin Wioth Nuclear Disaster," The Guardian, (sept 22,2018)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/22/michael-lewis-trump-gambling-america (accessed 10/2/18)

[3] Ibid.

[4] Josh Gerstein "Fears Rise of Trump Era Memory Hole in Federal Data" Politico  (Dec.13,2016)
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-federal-data-fears-232591  (accessed 10/3/18)


[5] Zoe Schandler, "Rouge Climate Scientists Race to save Data from Trump," Wired (Jan,19,17)
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/rogue-scientists-race-save-climate-data-trump/ (accessed 10/3/18)

[6] Nicole Greenfield,  "Saving Science in The Age of Trump," NRDC (April 17,2018)
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/saving-science-age-trump  (accessed 10/3/18)

FROM Wikipedia:
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a United States-based, non-profit international environmental advocacy group, with its headquarters in New York City and offices in Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; Los Angeles; New Delhi, India; Chicago; Bozeman, Montana; and Beijing, China.

Natural Resources Defense Council - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Resources_Defense_Council

[7] Victoria Herrmann, "I am an Arctic Researcher. Donald Trump Is Deleting My Citations," The Guardian (March 28,2017) 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations
 (accessed 10/2/18)

[8] Hilary Brueck, "The Trump Administration Has Been Quietly Removing" Content From Rederal WEbwotes...  Business Insider, (Jan. 11, 2018),1.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-climate-change-references-scrubbed-from-websites-2018-1   (accessed 10/2/18)

[9] Ibid.

[10] Joe Romm, "Trump Administration Removes Links to Taxpayer Funded Climate Data On  USGS Webbsite" Think Progress, (Sept 18,2017)
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-officials-erase-climate-data-2a4e4fe81f96/  (accessed 10/3/18)

[11] Ibid.

[12] Greenfield, op. cit.

[13] Traice Mauriello, gt Goverment Technology, originally in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Feb 22,2017)
http://www.govtech.com/data/Government-Watchdogs-Criticize-Trumps-Removal-of-Open-Data-Sets.html  (accessed 10/3/18)

[14] Ibid.

[15] Ibid.







Thursday, September 13, 2018

Obama Economy vs Trump by The Numbers





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Obama’s Final Numbers

Statistical indicators of President Obama's eight years in office.

https://www.factcheck.org/2017/09/obamas-final-numbers/


Obama’s Final Numbers

Statistical indicators of President Obama's eight years in office.

Summary

The numbers are nearly all in now. What they show about what really happened during the eight years that Barack Obama was president is sometimes different from what politicians claimed.
  • The economy gained a net 11.6 million jobs. The unemployment rate dropped to below the historical norm.
  • Average weekly earnings for all workers were up 4.0 percent after inflation. The gain was 3.7 percent for just production and nonsupervisory employees.
  • After-tax corporate profits also set records, as did stock prices. The S&P 500 index rose 166 percent.
  • The number of people lacking health insurance dropped by 15 million. Premiums rose, but more slowly than before.
  • The federal debt owed to the public rose 128 percent. Deficits were rising as Obama departed.
  • Home prices rose 20 percent. But the home ownership rate hit the lowest point in half a century.
  • Illegal immigration declined: The Border Patrol caught 35 percent fewer people trying to get into the U.S. from Mexico.
  • Wind and solar power increased 369 percent. Coal production declined 38 percent. Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuel dropped 11 percent.
  • Production of handguns rose 192 percent, to a record level.
  • The murder rate dropped to the lowest on record in 2014, then rose and finished at about the same rate as when Obama took office.
Gathering statistics is a painstaking and time-consuming job. Figures on crime, household incomes and poverty in 2016 weren’t released until September 2017, for example.
But now we have a reasonably complete statistical picture of the Obama years, which began in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, and ended with the highest level of household income ever recorded.
These facts often turn out to be at odds with the impressions created by candidates who, for example, claimed wages and incomes were stagnant when in fact they were rising. The facts also can conflict with impressions created by news media reporting dramatic but untypical events. Despite nonstop coverage of several mass shootings, for example, the murder rate was going down for most of the Obama years, hitting the lowest ever recorded in 2014.
Some of these figures remain subject to tweaks and revisions. Figures on handgun production in 2016 are still “preliminary,” for example, and others will remain subject to slight revisions for years to come, as statisticians routinely refine their methods and assumptions. We will keep this update current as necessary in the months and years to come. For now, it’s as “final” as possible.
Update, Feb. 14, 2018: We updated this article and its graphics to reflect that the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual “benchmarking” revisions added more than 150,000 jobs to its previously reported figure for January 2017, bringing the total added under Obama to more than 11.6 million (up from 11.5 million), an 8.7 percent increase (up from 8.6 percent).We also updated a graphic in the “Immigration” section to reflect that the U.S. Border Patrol revised its figures on people caught while illegally trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border upward by four for calendar year 2016.