CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION THROUGH NEW AMENDMENT IN CONGRESS

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

TRUMP SUPREMACY FALLOUT

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

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

YOU CANT JUST MAKE UP THE ALT-LEFT

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

"ALT-LEFT" 

Oh my, oh my !

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

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

Facts matter, science matters !

EDWARD L. NICE

Email Congress: Protect Patients' Access to Quality Care!

https://www.votervoice.net/Shares/B916TAoYACnXMAkAUCR7FBA

AMERICA'S SHADOW GOVERNMENT

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

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

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

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

This is my "line in the sand"

STEVE BANNON, RIGHT HAND DEVIL TO THE PRESIDENT

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

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