Wednesday, April 19, 2017

GET HIM OUTTA HERE! Wildest Donald Trump Rally Moments






Three people, Kashiya Nwanguma, Molly Shah, and Henry Brousseau, have filed lawsuits against Trump supporters who they claim assaulted them at a rally and against Donald Trump, who they claim incited the attack. They claim they were assaulted at a Trump campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky, where Mr Trump directed the crowd to “get them the hell out.” They are the first to take legal action. Now you can see in this short compilation above how Trump reacted to protestors at several of his rallies while campaigning for President. It isn't pretty, in fact it's absolutely unbelievable that someone who has behaved like this, in public, is now President of the United States. What is wrong with people, how is this possible? He apparently brings out the worst in his supporters
and now even his supporters are admitting it! Matthew Heimbach, leader of the white nationalist Traditional Youth Network,  has accused Donald Trump of inciting violence at his campaign rallies, saying he was encouraged to angrily remove protesters from a rally by the New York tycoon!
He has claimed in a federal court filing that he acted under Mr Trump’s authority to remove protestors from a March 2016 rally in Louisville, Kentucky.
Any of the alleged actions, he states, were taken "pursuant to the directives and requests of Donald J Trump and Donald J Trump for President lnc.”
President Trump’s lawyers have submitted their own filing, in which they claim he cannot be subject to civil suits because he is president of the United States. They also claim that his words were not  directed to his crowds. Who was he yelling at?? The rally, being as that it took place before Trump was elected, is not considered an official presidential act and although he is not be liable for damages in civil suits over his actions as President, he is not immune from federal litigation concerning non-official acts. 
So this should be interesting, thugs calling the kettle black.

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Trump and the War on Coal

A crucial EU standing committee vote to clean up Europe's toxic air is coming up on April 28th. If the new pollution limits are passed than even bigtime polluters (coal) Germany and Poland, would be forced to clean up their act. If the regulations are implemented the dirty coal industry will be forced to adopt the best available techniques to clean up the air pollution caused by burning coal. Every day in Europe, air pollution caused by coal causes the deaths of 63 people through pollution related diseases. By applying clean air technologies thousands of lives could be saved, deaths caused by dirty air could be reduced by 85%. So you would think this is pretty cut and dry but, the coal industry isn't pleased that legislation could be passed which would force them to clean up or shut down, so lobbyists are fighting this and once again we are faced with a possible outcome of profit over people.
So Europeans are fighting for clean air regulations here and on the other side of the pond, Trump's newest executive order begins the process of reversing the climate change policies put into effect by the Obama administration. He is putting an end to the war on coal and stepping up his gameplan on the war on breathable air. He has already proposed cutting E.P.A. funding by 2,6 billion dollars and laying off about a fifth of it's workforce. The Obama Clean Power Plan places limits on carbon emitted from existing power plants and would have forced hundreds to close. This plan was the product of years of debate and negotiation between industry and environmental groups, economists, and policymakers. Many activists felt that the end result was too weak. Trump’s executive order, is simply ignorant and arrogant. If the U.S. is to meet its commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement, part of the world’s eleventh-hour efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change, the Clean Power Plan cannot be revoked. Repealing the C.P.P. will do little or nothing to help out-of-work coal miners. Robert Murray, the C.E.O. of Murray Energy, the country’s biggest private coal company, recently said that coal jobs weren’t going to come back in the numbers that Trump has promised. According to estimates of the E.P.A. the C.P.P. would help prevent as many as thirty-six hundred premature deaths, seventeen hundred heart attacks, ninety thousand asthma attacks among children, and three hundred thousand missed workdays and school days every year. So much cannot be said for Trump's plan, in fact the only people who would seem to benefit are actually who? Not miners, really, because the coal industry has become so obsolete that jobs won't really be created in any large number  so I'm guessing the only people who really benefit from this craziness are a few people at the top of the industry, right? So if we win the battle here in Europe we can only hope that the battle still rages in the U.S. and that Trump will be foiled once again.