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Elizabeth Warren Would make a GREAT Secretary of the Treasury... If she doesn't win the 2020 Election, Sanders should appoint her. She has Great Ideas. Kamala Harris for Attorney General. Cory Booker at HUD... Every Democratic Candidate Ought to Get a Cabinet Post. WHAT IF WE ALL WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren/democrat-warren-confronts-2020-electability-question-head-on-in-ohio-idUSKCN1SH0DH


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It may be GREENWASHING but ExxonValdez Might actually discover something worthwhile... GO! https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/10/nrel-exxonmobil-team-up-for-renewable-energy-research/
the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado has teamed up with ExxonMobil to “pursue new breakthroughs in low-emission energy technologies,” according to the Denver Post. By the terms of the agreement, ExxonMobil will invest $100 million over the next decade in the NREL’s research programs.

Trump's EPA Ruling in Favor of Corporate Pollution and Against People's Health...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/climate/epa-asbestos-rule-scientists.html
E.P.A. Leaders Disregarded Agency’s Experts in Issuing Asbestos Rule, Memos Show...

Andrew Wheeler, the E.P.A. administrator, said when the rule was issued that it would significantly strengthen public health protections. But in the memos, dated Aug. 10, more than a dozen of E.P.A.’s own experts urged the agency to ban asbestos outright, as do most other industrialized nations.

A Quote from - Richard Brautigan
“Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.
1.Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.
2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.
3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.
4.” [YES, ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS LEFT BLANK INTENTIONALLY]
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7970.Richard_Brautigan

THE EVIDENCE IS STRONG: AIR POLLUTION SEEMS TO CAUSE DEMENTIA.
https://www.wired.com/story/air-pollution-dementia/
As I reported in Mother Jones, the research implicating air pollution as one factor that can contribute to dementia was alarming, consistent, and, ultimately, “suggestive.” Since then scientists have published a wave of studies that reveal that air pollution is much worse for us than we had previously imagined.

Elie Mystal and Symone Sanders OUGHT TO Form a Rap Music Group... They Could Do Their "Angry Yadda-Yadda" with a Beat and Sell a Gazillion Recordings! Is she Sarah Huckleberry Sander's Sister or Colonel Sander's Daughter?

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/10/epa-air-chief-3238271
A secretive utility industry coalition formerly represented by a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency is dissolving amid investigations into whether its members received special treatment from the Trump administration.

The Utility Air Regulatory Group has been under scrutiny from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which was seeking information on the relationship between power companies, EPA air chief Bill Wehrum and the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth, which represented the group.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE: I Stopped advertising for Amazon on my Blog... They simply did not pay enough to make the Associates Program worth my time and SPACE ON MY BLOG... I always put a Link to buy my favorite books whenever I wrote a Review... I still write Book Reviews because I want The IDEAS written about to be published worldwide... and the Authors benefit from free advertising... and maybe that will encourage them to write more books... C-SPAN has Interviews with authors every weekend and It's interesting... and Pirate TV also has Authors... "HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE" by Andrew Keen sounds GREAT...

In the "Ender's Game" series of Books by Andrew Scott Card, Ender and his sister become BLOGGERS and Debate Ideas in Public... and cause Galactic Peace thru the publication of worthy concepts... I'm inspired by that book... I'm a Blogger Promoting Whirred Peas by Publishing My Own Words of Wisdom... and Finding Wise Words online and Pirating Them... Did you ever read "The Monkeywrench Gang" by Ed Abbey? It's Wonderful... The Hero, George Washington Hayduke is based on TED Danson of the TV Show "Cheers." 

There Will Always Be Another Last Chance Sale... Quotations of Gregory Vanderlaan

My Brother has "High Frequency Rolloff" Deafness. It Make it Difficult to Hear Women and Children Talk. He Says: "What a Blessing!"

WHO COULD POSSIBLY BENEFIT BY MORE HOMELESS AMERICAN CITIZEN CHILDREN? Proposed Rule Could Evict 55,000 Children From Subsidized Housing
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/10/722173775/proposed-rule-could-evict-55-000-children-from-subsidized-housing
Tens of thousands of poor children — all of them American citizens or legal residents — could lose their housing under a new rule proposed Friday by the Trump administration.

The rule is intended to prevent people who are in the country illegally from receiving federal housing aid, which the administration argues should go to help only legal residents or citizens.

But the proposal targets 25,000 families that now receive such aid because they are of "mixed" status, which means that at least one member of the family is undocumented while the others are citizens or legal residents. These families now pay higher rents to account for their mixed status.


Rap Artist Indicted for Obama 2012 Campaign Donations... How Could It Possibly Matter all these Years Later? This is "OLD NEWS" Just like the Jewish Carpenter who Rose from the Dead 2000 years ago... That's REALLY OLD NEWS... Just Like Trump being the #BillionDollarLoser... That's OLD NEWS... Wait! I Understand why old news matters... We Could LEARN FROM HISTORY! We Ought to Investigate ALL FOREIGN CAMPAIGN DONATIONS! Like the NRA/Russia 30 Million to Trump Scandal... Malaysian businessman Jho Low also charged alongside Pras Michel...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-rap-artist-indicted-for-obama-2012-campaign-donations-11557522077
Former Fugees rapper Pras Michel was indicted on charges of funneling millions of dollars in foreign money to then President Obama’s 2012 re-election effort, amid widening fallout of the multibillion-dollar fraud scandal at a Malaysian government fund.

MEME - gvan42 - Elizabeth Warren Would make a GREAT Secretary of the Treasury... If she doesn't win the 2020 Election, Sanders should appoint her. She has Great Ideas.

MEME - gvan42 - Elizabeth Warren Would make a GREAT Secretary of the Treasury... If she doesn't win the 2020 Election, Sanders should appoint her. She has Great Ideas.

LOCK HIM UP! Alexander Acosta (Trump's Labor Secretary) broke the law in 2008... HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT HE IS NOT ARRESTED?

A federal judge has ruled that Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta broke the law in 2008 along with other prosecutors. At the time, Acosta was the U.S. attorney in Miami. He and his team reached a plea deal with hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. The judge ruled that Acosta illegally hid that deal from Epstein's victims.

 https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22/697152922/judge-rules-that-prosecutors-in-jeffrey-epstein-sexual-abuse-case-broke-the-law

"I will hire the BEST People." Said Trump - Promises Made, Promises Broken

TEN (10) TrumpNiks were arrested and Seven (7) went to prison already. Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwann=Guilty, Maria Butina=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, Rodger Stone=NOT Guilty YET. Steven Calk, the banker who wanted to be Secretary of the Army using fraudulent loans to Paul Manafort as Resume Padding was Indicted on Federal Bribery Charges = Plead not Guilty. Maria Butina's Boyfriend, Paul Erickson Arrested, Plead Not Guilty... 


Mueller left Impeachment of Trump up to Congress but provided a roadmap. 

Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich Law is a Total Failure. The Government is simply not receiving enough money in Taxes to pay for what it spends... DUH...

The government has to borrow more and more money to keep operating...  
Treasury Secretary Little Stevie Mnuchin on Wednesday said that the debt ceiling will need to be lifted by “late Summer,” earlier than some analysts had predicted.
“I haven’t been given an exact date, but I would say it’s late summer, and I share your concern and I urge Congress to raise the debt ceiling as soon as possible,” Mnuchin said at a House Financial Services Committee hearing.
The debt ceiling, which limits how much Treasury can borrow to pay off the government’s bills, was technically reached in March, but the Treasury Department has embarked on a series of “extraordinary measures” that allow it to borrow internally to keep paying bills.

#DitchMitch in 2020... Not only do we need to #DumpTrump but we need to Throw All the Republicans OUT of the Senate... and then LOCK 'EM UP!

Republicans are Evil. The US Senate is Packed with Bought Puppets of the Super Rich... Did You Know that Mitch is having a Russian Aluminum Factory built in Kentucky? Treasury Secretary Little Stevie Munchkin REPEALED the Sanctions on Oleg Dreipaska and NOW they have made a Big Deal... WHEE... Russian Bribes Work!

https://www.newsweek.com/company-russian-oligarch-millions-aluminum-plant-mitch-mcconnell-1397061

Rusal, the aluminum company partially owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, announced plans to invest around $200 million to build a new aluminum plant in Kentucky just months after the Trump administration removed it from the U.S. sanctions list.
The new aluminum plant, slated to be built in the home state of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will be the biggest new aluminum plant constructed in the U.S. in decades.

ANOTHER Corrupt Republican: Trump's Labor Secretary BROKE THE LAW when he let Convicted Child Molester Have a Sweetheart Plea Deal...

HEADLINE: JEFFREY EPSTEIN SEX TRAFFICKED UNDERAGE GIRLS AND TRUMP’S SECRETARY OF LABOR ILLEGALLY KEPT PLEA DEAL FROM VICTIMS, FEDERAL JUDGE SAYS...

https://www.newsweek.com/jeffrey-epstein-alexander-acosta-trump-sex-trafficking-underage-minor-1339974

Donald Trump’s Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta, then a federal prosecutor in Miami, illegally kept details of Epstein's plea deal from victims, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

In a 33-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra of Palm Beach County, described how evidence showed that Epstein—a multimillionaire hedge fund manager known for his friendships with influential political figures, including former President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew—paid employees to “obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification but also for the sexual gratification of others.”

In a series of explosive stories, the Miami Herald documented how, in 2017, federal prosecutors worked with Epstein’s lawyers to put together a plea deal that required the financier to plead guilty to two prostitution charges and serve 13 months in prison, despite overwhelming evidence of a widespread pattern of sex trafficking and sexual assault, and 103 “Jane Doe” victims.
  The deal ensured Epstein—and his unidentified co-conspirators—immunity from federal prosecution.



President Trump’s current Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta—broke the law when they signed a secret plea agreement with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a Palm Beach judge ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra ruled that the decision to keep more than 30 of Epstein’s accusers in the dark about the non-prosecution deal that allowed Epstein, a prominent financier with political connections, to avoid federal prosecution was unconstitutional.

Read More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/alexander-acosta-trumps-labor-secretary-broke-the-law-in-jeffrey-epstein-case-judge?source=articles&via=rss

Another Republican Swamp Monster: Secretary of Agriculture Perdue...

Trump originally promised a 12 Billion Dollar Bailout for Farmers, now it's 6 Billion for Soybeans only... Promises Made, Promises Broken...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/politics/usda-agriculture-department-emails-food-industry-lobbyists/index.html The USDA, under the Trump administration, has moved to roll back a series of regulations opposed by industry, to the chagrin of health and food safety advocates.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has formed a 14-person committee to study how much salt and potassium is safe for Americans to eat. The study is known as the review of the Dietary Reference Intakes for sodium and potassium. The USDA is one of six sponsors for the committee and its study.

Emails from late January show that USDA official and former industry lobbyist Tkacz, other top USDA appointees and a team from Food Directions, which has lobbied for the National Restaurant Association and Grocery Manufacturers Association, got together for an in-person meeting. Following that meeting, the group's senior director of food policy writes to USDA'S Tkacz, "As promised, attached to this email is the list of potential names and bios, all of whom, we feel, would bring more balanced perspectives to the DRI committee in order to ensure robust debate of all of the science. This updated list includes the two additional names I mentioned in the meeting."

http://www.grubstreet.com/2017/01/5-reasons-experts-worry-about-trumps-agriculture-secretary.html

 Harm to the environment. Perdue has been called a climate-change skeptic, and the Environmental Working Group released a statement Wednesday night saying, “It’s certainly hard to imagine that a former fertilizer salesman will tackle the unregulated farm pollution that poisons our drinking water, turns Lake Erie green, and fouls the Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.” He fought the EPA’s attempts under George W. Bush to enforce the Clean Air Act, and once wrote this in National Review: “Liberals have lost all credibility when it comes to climate science because their arguments have become so ridiculous and so obviously disconnected from reality.” When Georgia was hit by an epic drought in 2007, his response was partly to summon lawmakers to a prayer vigil on the Capitol’s steps.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Lives in Backwards World: Opens more Wildlife Refuges to Hunting. But, The GOAL of a REFUGE is to PREVENT Hunting... DUH...

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/405616-zinke-opens-more-wildlife-refuges-to-hunting
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Friday allowed for new or expanded hunting or fishing at 30 wildlife refuges. The move opens 251,000 new acres to hunting or fishing across the Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) refuge system, FWS said.


Schools are free to buy Guns instead of BOOKS with Federal Funds... Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Says...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/betsy-devos-guns-schools-education-department-secretary/index.html DeVos: I won't take action over schools buying guns with federal funds.

Putting MORE GUNS in Schools will increase the danger of Students Taking the Guns Away from Teachers and firing the GUNS... Often Teachers are women and not as strong as an Angry Teenage Boy. More GUNS also increases the chances of More Gun Accidents...

and... This plan would do NOTHING AT ALL about shootings at Shopping Malls, Office Buildings or Country Music Concerts. Recently we have seen mass murder at all three locations. 

Sign the Petition. LeBron James For Secretary of Education! He is doing a lot to fund schools, educate children. Throw OUT Betsy DeVos.

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/927/539/091/lebron-james-for-secretary-of-education/ 

Click on above link to sign the petition. 

Pretend there are two candidates for U.S. Secretary of Education — the federal cabinet position responsible for the education future of over 74 million children in the country — and YOU get to hire them. 

The first candidate is famed athlete LeBron James, a highly respected and extremely influential community advocate and activist who recently opened a state-of-the-art public school for at-risk children in Akron, Ohio — with community services on-site like job placement for parents, guaranteed college tuition for every student who graduates, and a score of other student services like a FREE bicycle and helmet.

The second candidate is Betsy DeVos, a scandal-ridden Republican donor who shows an inexcusable dislike for public education, wants to gut protections for women and minorities, and has advocated for teachers to be armed in schools. 

It would be an easy choice, wouldn't it? Unfortunately, Trump and his cronies chose Betsy DeVos for us and we are stuck with an uncaring Education Chief who has fought against teachers and has even expressed disdain for the very department she heads. ... at least until now. 

Sign my petition calling for DeVos to be fired and LeBron James to be named as U.S. Secretary of Education! 

Another Republicrime Scandal: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross CAUGHT in an "Alleged" $120 Million Dollar Crime Spree.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2018/08/06/new-details-about-wilbur-rosss-businesses-point-to-pattern-of-grifting/

multimillion-dollar lawsuit has been quietly making its way through the New York State court system over the last three years, pitting a private equity manager named David Storper against his former boss: Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. The pair worked side by side for more than a decade, eventually at the firm, WL Ross & Co.—where, Storper later alleged, Ross stole his interests in a private equity fund, transferred them to himself, then tried to cover it up with bogus paperwork. Two weeks ago, just before the start of a trial with $4 million on the line, Ross and Storper agreed to a confidential settlement, whose existence has never been reported and whose terms remain secret.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wilbur-ross-alleged-to-have-siphoned-more-than-120-million-from-associates-forbes-report-2018-08-07  

Wilbur Ross alleged to have siphoned more than $120 million from associates, Forbes reports...



Let's close all Coal Fired Power Plants and all Coal Mines. Burning Coal Causes Air Pollution and Global Warming... Even when we sell the Coal to Foreign Countries.

Attention Stock Market Investors: Sell All your Stock in Fossil Fuel Corporations and Buy Solar/ Wind Power. All of us can see the end of Oil, Gas and Coal... Get Out NOW!

Wildfires in the American West are Caused by Global Warming... Global Warming is Caused by Burning Oil, Gas and Coal... 

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/12/19/16789560/rick-perry-fake-energy-grid-crisis Energy Secretary Rick Perry wants to bail out coal and nuclear plants. He says the US energy grid is experiencing an urgent crisis — that its reliability and resilience are in immediate danger unless those power plants are saved.

There is no evidence to support this position, though Perry and his allies in the coal and nuclear industries repeat it like a mantra.

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Interior Secretaru Ryan Zinke CAUGHT in a Scandal with Halliburton and a Real Estate Deal. Including a Microbrewery that Ryan has been trying to build for years.

Zinke is the head of the Government Agency that regulates FRACKING LAWS... and Halliburton is in the FRACKING BUSINESS... and now... Zinke is ruling FAVORABLY... and getting what can only be seen as a BRIBE,

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/19/ryan-zinke-halliburton-park-whitefish-montana-647731

Exclusive: Zinke linked to real estate deal with Halliburton chairman. In the interior secretary’s hometown, a development brings together the head of the nation’s largest oil-services company and a foundation created by the man who regulates it.

WHITEFISH, Mont. — A foundation established by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and headed by his wife is playing a key role in a real-estate deal backed by the chairman of Halliburton, the oil-services giant that stands to benefit from any of the Interior Department’s decisions to open public lands for oil exploration or change standards for drilling.


A group funded by David Lesar, the Halliburton chairman, is planning a large commercial development on a former industrial site near the center of the Zinkes’ hometown of Whitefish, a resort area that has grown increasingly popular with wealthy tourists. The development would include a hotel and retail shops. There also would be a microbrewery — a business first proposed in 2012 by Ryan Zinke and for which he lobbied town officials for half a decade.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/02/zinke-interior-making-beer-montana-719358 

Interior IG to scrutinize Zinke’s beer-making plans...

A development backed by Halliburton’s chairman includes a microbrewery similar to one the Interior secretary has long sought.

Republican governance—“Stupid or Evil?” - an age old question... In Interior Secretary's Ryan Zinke, It's "BOTH"... #DumpTrump

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22530044/interior-department-leak-emails/

The thousands of pages of email correspondence chart how Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his aides tailored their survey of protected sites to emphasize the value of logging, ranching and energy development that would be unlocked  if they were not designated national monuments. Comments the department’s Freedom of Information Act officers made in the documents show that they sought to keep some of the references out of the public eye because they were “revealing [the] strategy” behind the review. 

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/07/these-emails-show-exactly-how-science-was-wiped-out-at-the-department-of-the-interior/

These Emails Show Exactly How Science Was Wiped Out at the Department of the Interior

Clearing the way for drones, jet skis, and luxury developments in our national parks.

Correct answer: BOTH!

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross under investigation for Stock Market Fraud, Secret Russian Investments... Drain the Swamp of Evil Trumper Creatures...

Wilbur Ross Says He Will Sell Stock After Watchdog Warns of Potential for Criminal Violation

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/us/politics/wilbur-ross-stocks.html 

Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, said he would sell all of his remaining stock holdings after the Office of Government Ethics faulted him for continuing to maintain investments that he was required to divest and entering into new ones.

Mr. Ross retained a financial stake in the shipping firm Navigator Holdings, which has a partnership with a Russian energy company owned by oligarchs with close ties to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

Swamp Creature Wilbur Ross

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/06/wilbur-ross-russia-sibur-navigator-relationship-244592

“In concealing his interest in these shipping companies — and his ongoing financial relationship with Russian oligarchs — Secretary Ross misled me, the Senate Commerce Committee, and the American people," Sen. Richard Blumethal (D-Conn.) said in a statement on Sunday

I kinda wish we had a Secretary of State but... does there need to be a State Department at all? What do they REALLY DO?

I remember Henry Kissinger had peace talks with North Vietnam... That was useful.

Since then, the State Department has had no actual TASKS or VALUE. Trump has laid off 300 senior employees without any problem... Trump Fired Rex Tillerson... So we DO NOT HAVE ANYONE as Secretary of State at this time... and SO WHAT!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-dept-layoffs-under-rex-tillerson-being-carried-out/

Great Book: "The Common Good" by Robert Reich

From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics.

With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important public voices, Robert B. Reich makes the case for a generous, inclusive understanding of the American project, centering on the moral obligations of citizenship. Rooting his argument in everyday reality and common sense, Reich demonstrates the existence of a common good, and argues that it is this that defines a society or a nation. Societies and nations undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce and build the common good, as well as vicious cycles that undermine it. Over the course of the past five decades, Reich contends, America has been in a slowly accelerating vicious cycle--one that can and must be reversed. But first we need to weigh what really matters, and how we as a country should relate to honor, shame, patriotism, truth, and the meaning of leadership.
Powerful, urgent, and utterly vital, this is a heartfelt missive from one of our foremost political thinkers: a fundamental statement about the purpose of society and a cri de coeur to save America's soul.

https://www.amazon.com/Common-Good-Robert-B-Reich/dp/052552049X

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