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This is a serious issue for every developed country. Environment or good climatic science will decide good business. in different countries also we have found environmental regulation kills thousands of jobs. Therefore we can estimate that climatic condition is also simultaneously equivalent with business structure in a different country. Thanks for highlighting such an important topic over here.
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I put the medical marijuana deniers right up there with the climate change deniers. If you are not sick, and you have not experienced any severe weather events.......You might be a denier.
Amen, brotha.
Meryl Streep deserves an award for giving that speech. What a beautiful, wholesome, healthy woman!! I don't know anyone who does not respect and admire her talent, and her character which was on full display that night:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NxyGmyEby40
Ms. Streep reminded us that theatre (and film - the arts) is about empathy ... about perceiving essential truths and sharing them in a way that other people can experience them more deeply.
Her speech was insightful and profound. - not to mention, heartfelt. Mr. Trump may have lashed out at her with his tweets because his 6 - year old self was feeling the pain ... clearly, he had not donned his presidential hat for the day - or his ((invisible)) cloak of empathy.
If Meryl Streep, had insulted Mr. Trump in the same vile, despising tone that he shows towards her (( and other women, including 'that disgusting' Hillary Clinton )) don't you think he would sue her?
Here's a thought. The Donald is fishing for a class action suit from all the people who are unified in their chagrin toward him (( though they might disagree in other things )) ... and it won't matter to him who wins, because he'll be orchestrating the reality tv show of the century ((( and uniting the country to boot - or, is it booty? ))).
That ought to show Meryl Streep who's boss.
By the way, Thom - you said the contact page for the White House is closed? Here's a link I found that says you can leave a message directly for Barack, and Michele, Obama, and VP Biden, or get help with a federal agency too:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
America is barking mad
Yep! Hypocracy is the element here in their thinking.......(well benefit of doubt here the claim/statement of thinking....) . That's why they call the South the "Bible (belt)". Take a "belt" after a good Saturday night and go to Church on the mornin'. Praise the Lord and not see no brown people withn the walls !!!! What a situation the uneducated have rendered us to.
Yup ... How many alky hypocrites ya think would "follow the law" if prohibition laws were reinstated? Didn't we find that out once?
Its amazing there are no other comments. Everybody done scared to comment? The sound of silence is deafening on this subject for this forum. Perhaps "Legend" is correct. Worried about the feds? However; I never saw a fight in school when people were smoking reefer but you go to a Keg party and all hell would usually take place. They don't want anyone using an enlightining substance, only a dumbing down visceral and dangerous drug, that being alcohol.
Notwithstanding his token Uncle Tom pick for HUD, Big Daddy Pervy is surrounding himself with some of the whitest racist bigots he can dig out of the manure pile. People are gonna need to smoke a helluva lot of ganja and put on their darkest sunglasses even to squint in the glare of all that brilliant whiteness.
Its very simple. Follow the law and you won't get arrested, convicted, or jailed. What is so confusibg about this?
I see Federal troops in the 9 states that have legalized pot for recreational use. Even if it has proven no problem and a tax revenue for the states.
Hillary was out of touch but not by enough to cause this!
I think it was a perfect storm.Budwieser renaming its flagship beer America,the British Exit, cable channels running the 13 hours Benghazi movie and Wikileaks doing the rest.
I am a believer in free speech so I will pass on Mr.Assange's work.
The rest will go down as a mistaken chapter in our history.Next we have the voter suppression by Mr.Kobach and the Republican Governors and the poison pill the Senate put into the ACA.My premiums have gone up drastically.
Waiting until October to sign up for Medicare ,if it still here.
Hi Peter,
Sorry, the Greens (here in the US) are all about Political Rectitude. On Health Care their issue is that transgender people should be able to get gender reassignment surgery paid for by taxpayers. This is the kind of nonsense that loses us the basic benefits of the New Deal, and reinstating the New Deal and strengthening it are what we need most. Likewise the whiney Neo-Lib sour grapes just immunize Combover from criticism when he does do something unspeakable. At large voting is a good idea and effectively thwarts Santorumandering; but Americans are not smart enough for it.
Roland
This may be hard to accept, but we need never ask WHY Trump says or does any of the outrageous things he does. We might study PATHOLOGICAL NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER to understand his behavior. Having an intimate relationship with these disordered, deeply troubled human beings causes cognitive dissonance and emotional traumatic injury. We get his public face (which is confusing enough).
I just caught this piece by Nafeez Ahmed on Alternet - I think it important analysis and reminder that Peak Oil never went away!
http://www.alternet.org/environment/economic-oil-crash-around-corner
What are the possibilities that someone can sue those responsible for cross-checking?
Who would be in a position to sue? The US attorney General, the DNC, a private
citizen, Democratic losers in indiviual states ?? Who? and why doesn't someone?
The fact that Trump appointed as key advisor his son-in-law makes people doubt he will stick to a resolution he gave during election campaign. With this how citizens can trust their president. Here is not Russia and democracy is above all.
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Fooling some of the people all the time is what wins elections. Forget the money. Get the BS out of politics.
Who's to blame;
Regarding who's to blame; there is plenty of blame to go around. But people certainly are one factor at play; too many are uninvolved, uninformed, have short attention spans, short memory spans, apathetic, not doing critical thinking... And Manchurian Candidate doesn't just apply to Trump; there are too many of the masses who turn a blind eye and deaf ear to facts and reality, and regurgitate nonsense talking points in a way reminiscent of a cult-like conditioned reflex. The deluge of propaganda out there clearly has an effect.
@ #9:
The "nanny state" is one of the favorite red herrings of the Koch-head Tea Bagger faction of the far right.
You see, the Federal "guvmunt" is an overbearing force of darkness populated by self-serving bureaucrats who "eat our lunches" (mostly liberals), who seek to brainwash the masses at their evil indoctrination centers, i.e., public schools. Those worthless teachers with their damn unions are the worst. They could care less about the kids, as they cash in on the freebies and line their fat pensions with taxpayers' hard-earned paychecks.
The people (everyone but the enlightened, condescending wing-nuts, that is) are basically lazy and stupid, lacking critical thinking, free will, and any sense of self reliance -- easy targets for mind control. They will be made dependent for life, herded around like sheep, bent to the will of the big bad guvmunt in Washington DC.
No federal resources should be spent on helping little people, because they need to be taught harsh lessons and learn to fend for themselves. Sink or swim, you lazy bastards! This is "free" market capitalism, son!
Privatize and profitize absolutely everything, including the schools. Turn it all over to the tender mercies of millionaires and billionaires, so that they can feed off everyone else's taxes, while they order their pet politicians to cut their own taxes as much as possible.
With well over two hundred, mostly unregistered, corporate lobbyists for every one politician in the U.S. Congress -- and God only knows how many flooding the state legislatures -- most of society's wealth is guaranteed to flow to the top one percent.
When the People's "commons" are privatized, it's called socialism for the rich and capitalism for everyone else. When corporate interests are wedded to government power, it's called fascism. When white supremacists are running the reality show, it's called Amerikkka.
In the back and forth here, I know whose butt I'd love to kick!
Those who voted for President Obama and didn't vote Democrat in this past election are as much to blame for Mr. Trump being elected as those who chose whole-heartedly to support him. Hillary was not nearly as corrupt as everyone thought. She isn't perfect. None of us are. But a lot of the things being said about her are just as much B.S. as the things Mr. Trump is telling you about himself! If MI6 is correct in their report today, Mr. Trump may be impeached after his inauguration as the 2nd Order of Business for the 20th. And if not, then why not? We don't need a Manchurian Candidate as Leader of the presently Free World. It looks like Putin has him by the short hairs, and when Putin says "dance," then dance he will. Not a very good choice for America.
There is already a party as described - The Greens.
But until you Americans demand a major overhaul of the way elections are run you are stuck with Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dumber.
To get representative democracy:
Step 1. Electoral College delegates are allocated in proportion to the votes in each state.
Step 2. Senators and Congressmen are elected by state wide ranked choice voting (Called STV everywhere else on the planet) across the whole state. (e.g. vote for 10 of the following candidates). Abolish individual districts. This givies smaller parties a better chance of representation.
Until then your Counrty will continue to be run by big money for big money. PLEASE do not call what you have a democracy.
We changed our system in New Zealand. It can be done but only by mobilising support and a lot of hard work and determination. Check out Maine.
I love the back and forth here. But Deander has it right, elections have consequences. We are the USA, we will survive, and if we don't it won't be from Putin or any other despot. We, the people are accountable and responsible. We teach our children by sending them to bad schools, with poorly paid union teachers who are more concerned with pensions and freebies. Pay them more, put local charter schools in place. Attach the the dollars to the child and make parents get training on bringing up kids in a global ever changing ecomonmy. by the time I die, if things continue, the USA will have more dummy, cupcake, soft, worthless kids running amok. We are what we teach. Beware of the Federal Nanny State. It will eat our lunches.
Volunteer, get active locally, get smart and kick but on the nanny state.
cappy - the government owns the judiciary