Trump Belittles Harry Reid’s Injury, Gets Deserved Response
Trump quipped Reid should go back to doing the exercise that
blinded one eye, and won a sizzling broadside from the
pugnacious Democrat.
Trump rips off working people with scams like Trump University. And while the people he ripped off suffer, Trump sits at the posh resort he bought with his daddy’s money, with no understanding of the misery he caused.
Now, Trump’s business interests in foreign countries and his Ponzi-scheme fraud of a ‘charity’ make clear that Trump intends to scam all of America just like he rips off hard-working people.Trump can insult me all he wants but the American people deserve answers to these questions:Why did Trump appear to use his charity to enrich himself and bribe elected officials who were investigating his scams?Why does Trump refuse to cut ties with business interests that would allow him to exploit American foreign policy to enrich himself?What is Trump hiding in his tax returns?If Trump wants to be president, he should be properly vetted. If Senator McConnell and Speaker Ryan had the public’s interest at heart, they would lead the Republican Congress to investigate these and other questions with a fraction of the energy and taxpayer money Congressional Republicans used to pursue Huma Abedin’s maternity leave records. But Senator McConnell and Speaker Ryan want to leave town for another two months, just a few weeks after returning from the longest summer recess in more than half a century. And the Republican Congress has shown nothing but blind obedience to Trump, going so far as to hold a Supreme Court seat open for six months in the hopes that Trump can fill it.If the Republican Congress refuses to do its job, the media has an even greater responsibility to get answers to these questions.We know how to spot a con artist in Las Vegas.And Donald Trump is a con-artist.
PILGRIM NUCLEAR!
This week, Fire Chief Ed Bradley said, Entergy Corp., which owns and operates The Pilgrim Station Nuclear Power Plant, not only didn't notify the Fire Department of a hydrogen release at the plant as it is required to do, but the company filed a false report on the matter.
PLYMOUTH – There’s not telling someone what’s going on when you’re supposed to, and then there’s claiming you did something when you didn’t.
This week, Fire Chief Ed Bradley said Entergy Corp., which owns and operates the Pilgrim Station Nuclear Power Plant, not only didn’t notify the Fire Department of a hydrogen release at the plant as it is required to do, but the company filed a false report on the matter.
Entergy’s report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission states, “At 1739 (EDT) on Friday, September 9, 2016 the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the Plymouth Massachusetts Fire Department were notified of a hydrogen release in accordance with plant procedures and 310CMR 40.300.”
But Bradley said this is false. Not only was his department not notified of the event Friday, Sept. 9, as the report states, he only learned of the incident when a reporter from the Cape Cod Times contacted him about it Monday, Sept. 12, three days later.
Bradley said he had to call Entergy to find out what was going on.
“I will get calls from media asking if I know about something going on at the plant, then I have to call down to Pilgrim to find out what’s going on,” Bradley said. “These are issues that I’m supposed to be notified of by agreement and by procedure. We’ve had three instances of this in the last couple of months.”
Entergy released this statement in response:
"Pilgrim Station reported a hydrogen release above our allowable limits on September 9 to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the NRC. Our practice of also making a notification to the Plymouth Fire Department did not occur, due to an internal misunderstanding. As a result, a Pilgrim station report to the NRC incorrectly stated that the Plymouth Fire Department had been informed on September 9. This error was not discovered until September 12. The station discussed the matter with the Plymouth Fire Department on September 12 and then corrected its report to the NRC to reflect the appropriate date.
"We have entered the error into our corrective action program and are working to revise procedures to ensure prompt notification of Plymouth Fire is made in the future.”
Ranked by the NRC as one of the three worst performing nuclear power plants in the country, the plant has had to be shut down repeatedly in the last few weeks.
The latest shutdown occurred Tuesday, after the plant was powered up to 9 percent power. This time, a problem with the plant’s turbine turning gear was to blame.
But prior to this latest shutdown, a leak of 2,680 cubic feet of hydrogen gas occurred last Friday, Sept. 9, in the turbine room, while the plant was shut down. The release meets the requirements for notification of state and local entities. Entergy issued this statement on the release:
“Hydrogen releases are a normal part of thermal-electrical power plants, including nuclear plants. The daily release limit for Pilgrim Station, according to state regulation, is 1,900 cubic feet. On Friday, September 9th, with the plant still offline, Pilgrim notified the state that the hydrogen release for the day was 2,600 cubic feet, which is above the state limit. At no time was the safety of the plant or public challenged. While this is an infrequent occurrence, it does not meet our standards and a prompt investigation is underway to determine the cause and to preclude recurrence.”
Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Neil Sheehan noted that this type of hydrogen venting is not uncommon when a plant is in a shutdown condition.
“We’ve said before that the concentrations were sufficiently low that there was no risk of explosion or harm to workers or the public,” Sheehan said.
He had this to add regarding Entergy’s failure to notify the Fire Department: “In terms of notifications of offsite emergency responders, it’s an important matter.”
Important seems like an understatement for Bradley, who said the situation has gone beyond just miscommunication.
“You do that on an official report as a police officer and firefighter and you could lose your job for that,” Bradley said of the false report. “It’s disturbing to me if it’s an accident and someone missed something. That’s one thing. But when you’re not getting told, it worries you because you’re wondering why. You don’t want to say the word ‘coverup.’ But not calling when they should be and making out faulty reports – that erodes your confidence.”
Entergy’s report to the NRC was amended with an update Sept. 14 stating “The Plymouth Massachusetts Fire Department was notified on Monday, September 12, 2016 at 1411 EDT. This clarifies information applicable to the local notification as identified in the original notification.”
But according to Bradley, Entergy didn’t notify him of the incident Monday as the amendment in the report states. Bradley said it was he who had to contact Entergy Monday at 2:11 p.m. about the hydrogen release after learning about it from a reporter. Entergy merely confirmed that what he had heard was true.
So what happens now? Will Entergy face fines or penalties for the false report? Sheehan said the NRC is looking into it.
“Enforcement action is always a possibility,” Sheehan said. “We’ve made it clear in recent years that Entergy needs to do a better job of communicating with the community what is going on at the plant.”
For decades, the Fire Department has been notified of events at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, such as hydrogen releases, malfunctions and mechanical failures, according to Bradley.
But things have changed.
“I don’t know why information isn’t coming over right away,” Bradley said. “I get a call from a reporter from the Cape Cod Times and they say, ‘I have this information’ and I say, ‘Wait a minute I have to get back to you.’ Then I find out it’s true.”
Pilgrim Station Nuclear Power Plant was shut down for four days in August due to a malfunctioning steam isolations valve, which prevents radioactive leaks during a nuclear accident. It’s the same problem the plant had with the valve system in August of 2015.
Then, 10 days ago, the plant was shut down again when water levels in the reactor pressure vessel fluctuated unexpectedly. The source of the problem appeared to be a malfunction in the feedwater regulating valve that pumps water into the vessel to be converted to steam, according to the NRC, which stressed that the issue did not jeopardize the health and safety of the public, or plant employees.
The current shutdown, after the brief power-up Tuesday, is the latest. And, once again, the NRC is reassuring the public that there is no danger or threat to the public.
But it’s a communication shutdown that has the fire chief concerned.
New mechanical issue keeps Pilgrim nuclear plant offline
PLYMOUTH — Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station was slowly powering up Tuesday and reached 9 percent of its full capacity when yet another mechanical malfunction forced operators to shut the reactor back down, marking the eighth day the plant has been offline.
A turning gear that helps spin the turbine and maintain it in proper balance was not functioning properly, according to Neil Sheehan, spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Sheehan said it will have to be repaired before the reactor can be restarted.
Since the problem is on the turbine side, rather than on the nuclear reactor side of the operation, public safety is not a big concern, according to the NRC and Entergy, the plant's owner-operator.
Entergy spokesman Patrick O’Brien said the plant will return to full power when repairs are completed. “Information on when we expect to return to 100 percent power is business sensitive and proprietary, and we are therefore not at liberty to make it public.”
Operators shut down the reactor on Sept. 6 because a faulty regulator valve was allowing too much water into the reactor building. That valve, and a second one, have been repaired, Sheehan said Monday.
Last Friday, while the plant was still in shutdown, there was a leak of 2,680 cubic feet of hydrogen gas in the turbine room which then went into the atmosphere, forcing plant operators to file reports with state and federal regulators.
Pilgrim was also shut down for four days last month due to a malfunctioning steam isolation valve designed to prevent radioactivity from leaking into the environment during a nuclear accident. Problems in that same valve system had caused a shutdown in August 2015.
Pilgrim, ranked by the NRC as one of the three worst performers in the country’s fleet of 100 reactors, is slated to close on May 31, 2019.
Meanwhile Entergy spokesman Joseph Lynch told a group of Plymouth officials Tuesday that the company has notified federal regulators that Pilgrim is ready for a full inspection, the final one in a series of three special inspections required because of the plant's poor performance.
Lynch said a team of NRC inspectors will arrive Nov. 28 for a two-week scrutiny of Pilgrim. Inspectors then return in January to wrap up, Lynch said.
There is only one truth and one solution KEEP PILGRIM SHUT DOWN NOW. NEVER EVER EVER NEVER OPEN IT AGAIN. CLOSE ALL NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW.
Lies lies and more lies by Entergy and NRC. They lie to the Fire Dept about what is going on at Pilgrim and then lie about their lie. Nothing new here . Does every one feel safe now?
"This week, Fire Chief Ed Bradley said, Entergy Corp., which owns and operates The Pilgrim Station Nuclear Power Plant, not only didn't notify the Fire Department of a hydrogen release at the plant as it is required to do, but the company filed a false report on the matter."…..The current shutdown, after the brief power-up Tuesday, is the latest. And, once again, the NRC is reassuring the public that there is no danger or threat to the public" Via Erica Gray
Can Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ Convince the World That Its Subject Is Not a Traitor?
—Is Edward Snowden a traitor or a hero? That depends on whom you ask. But there’s no question how Oliver Stone feels about it.
—Is Edward Snowden a traitor or a hero? That depends on whom you ask. But there’s no question how Oliver Stone feels about it.
By Stephanie Merry | Washington Post | 9/15/2016 - via WaPo Newsletter
In his biopic “Snowden,” which opens Friday, the whistleblower is a tough kid who wants so badly to be in the Army Special Forces that he fractures both legs during training. He’s brilliant, acing a CIA entrance exam in record time, but so earnest that he’s nicknamed Snow White. He has a sense of moral duty, though not in an insufferable self-righteous way, and — just to drive the point home — he’s played by one of Hollywood’s most universally appealing actors, Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
In short, “Ed” is a likable patriot, even after leaking a trove of classified documents that exposed, among other things, a pervasive government surveillance program that monitored Americans’ emails and listened in on phone calls.
Not everyone would call what Snowden did patriotism. The Justice Department, for example, calls it theft and a violation of the Espionage Act. On Thursday, a House Intelligence Committee report condemned his actions and said that he damaged national security.
Millennials love him, according to a 2015 survey from the American Civil Liberties Union, especially abroad — perhaps because he revealed how his country was spying on other governments. Of course, none of that won over those concerned about foreign policy, especially when the United States had to put out fires in places such as Brazil and Germany, where leaders were publicly condemning U.S. spying.
But Snowden hopes to return to this country unshackled. This week, coinciding with the movie’s release, he and his attorney are launching a campaign to get him pardoned (which the House Intelligence Committee has urged President Obama not to do). Stone has a history of making viewers sympathize, despite themselves, with the likes of George W. Bush and Richard M. Nixon.
The timing makes you wonder: What role might a movie play in exonerating Snowden in the eyes of the justice system — and the public?
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This ends up as a spiral of conformity, malcontent, and environmental/ecological degradation. Its particularly bad, because the landscaping and architectural spaces that we create, and live in, define and reinforce old ideas of order, and shut out the needed natural values.
Judge Rules Government Can Ban Vegetable Gardens Because They’re ‘Ugly’
Miami, FL — Last week, a Miami-Dade judge became the focus of much-deserved anger when she ruled on an ordinance banning front yard vegetable gardens. The village of Miami Shores, according to the ruling, has every right to take legal action against residents who dare to grow food in their own yards because they are “ugly.”
The ruling was a whopping ten pages long as it was filled with legal analysis and definitions of what constitutes a vegetable. Even though she ruled in favor of the ban, Judge Monica Gordo acknowledged that she wasn’t quite sure how a vegetable garden can ruin the aesthetics of one’s property.
However, she stated that the democratically elected government has every right to dictate what constitutes an ugly front yard, and gardens are apparently a contributing factor.
“Given the high degree of deference that must be given to a democratically elected governmental body … Miami Shores’ ban on vegetable gardens outside of the backyard passes constitutional scrutiny,” Gordo wrote.
The court’s decision was based on a three-year long legal battle of Tom Carroll and Hermine Ricketts. They were facing a fine of $50 a day, not for robbing banks, or trafficking humans, or running some other criminal enterprise — but for growing their own food.
For 17 years, the couple grew their own food in their front yard until one day, the state came knocking.
No one was harmed by the couple’s garden, it was entirely organic, and in nearly two decades, not one of their neighbors ever complained. The only injured party in this ridiculous act was the state.
In modern day American cities, growing your own food has now become a revolutionary act:
According to the legislation, all homeowners are subject to the same constraints. Their yards must be covered in grass — that is the law.
“There certainly is not a fundamental right to grow vegetables in your front yard,” Richard Sarafan, attorney forMiami Shores, said at the start of the case. “Aesthetics and uniformity are legitimate government purposes. Not every property can lawfully be used for every purpose.”
The hubris that it takes to claim that no one has a right to grow vegetables in their front yard is mind blowing. Carroll and Ricketts’ yard is not publicly owned and is not subject to the government’s ‘uniformity’ code — especially when all they are doing is growing food.
This case is different than many of the other gardening cases that arise across the country as the majority of front yard gardens are opposed by Home Owner Associations — not the government. When an HOA tells someone they cannot grow a garden it’s because that person voluntarily agreed to the rules.
Unlike members of HOAs, however, Carroll and Ricketts never agreed to these arbitrary constraints on their private property, which happened to be imposed on them nearly two decades after they’d been growing their own food.
While Ricketts and Carroll are upset over the ruling, the do not plan on backing down anytime soon.
“I am disappointed by today’s ruling,” Ricketts said in a statement to the Miami Herald. “My garden not only provided us with food, but it was also beautiful and added character to the community. I look forward to continuing this fight and ultimately winning so I can once again use my property productively instead of being forced to have a useless lawn.”
According to the report in the Miami Herald:
The upscale village in Northeast Miami-Dade has long insisted it had every right to regulate the look of the community. At a hearing in June, the village’s attorney said vegetable gardens are fine in Miami Shores, as long as they remain out of sight in the backyard.
“There is no vegetable ban in Miami Shores,” Sarafan told the judge. “It’s a farce. A ruse.” However, it’s not a farce. People cannot grow food in their front yards because the government thinks they are unsightly.
“They can petition the Village Council to change the ordinance. They can also support candidates for the Council who agree with their view that the ordinance should be repealed,” Gordo wrote.
However, that is what this couple has been doing for years. Changing the system from within has had zero effect.
The irony here is that had Carroll and Ricketts been growing their garden in the backyard, spraying gallons of glyphosate and permethrin into the air, the city would have been entirely fine with it. Only when this innocent couple dares to grow food in their front yard, violating the “aesthetics and uniformity” of their control freak government, do they ever hear a word.
“If Hermine and Tom wanted to grow fruit or flowers or display pink flamingos, Miami Shores would have been completely fine with it,” said their lawyer, Ari Bargil with the Institute of Justice. “They should be equally free to grow food for their own consumption, which they did for 17 years before the village forced them to uproot the very source of their sustenance.”
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government overreach. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter and now on Steemit
Insert from the editor: Miami Florida as we all know has a beautiful, moist, tropical climate in which everything will grow. Many people move to Florida with excitement at the understanding that they can grow the garden of their dreams if they so desire. When you drive around Miami, a little to the south toward Homestead, farms are plentiful, and roadside produce is available for sale.
It was much understood in the World War II era that home-based gardens are an insulation against catastrophe. Florida is under legislation to construct buildings to be hurricane resistant, but if the "big one" does come through, long lived power outages and retail shortages in the high-population city will put tens of thousands of lives in jeopardy. Preppers know, that it is for the safety and health of the family that such a garden should be right next to the home, and a family has their own built-in backup supply of food. It makes more sense to require people to have a vegetable garden than it does to ban one. It is possible that city decisions to spray for Zika virus are detrimental and dangerous to those who might consume foods that have been sprayed, and such a concealed rationale might be known only to city managers, but any such concern should be public knowledge #1.
Jails, guns, and badges are to be used for crimes against humanity. Not to enforce traffic signals, pet rules, gardening rules,etc. Such trivial persuits must be removed from the category of law enforcement and moved over into a "community planning" category where jail, guns, and badges are never an option, and agressive action would be basic collections. ~local resident David Webster
cate, his claims that he was sending researchers to Hawaii to investigate Obama's records and his continued refusal -- until Friday -- to recognize Obama's American birth, Trump also promised in 2012 $5 million in charitable giving in exchange for various documents that would prove to Trump's "satisfaction" that Obama was not born abroad."
Hahahahahahaha ROFL
If I were a Hillary Clinton communications guru, I'd have a Trump birther ad up *yesterday*, and it would include this little nugget toward the end, and end with the words, "well, where's the $5 million, Donald?"
Key reason: Troll him like that and he will explode. Trump does not do well when trolled, and hates when his money is put on the line. It would literally drive him mental, and he would not react well.
And it would continue the birther story for at least a week, exposing Trump for the bigot that he is, both pushing the Obama coalition to action and softening those people the Clintons traditional love - the vaunted (if statically fairly small) middle, and those on the right who just can't stomach his racism (but will need periodic reminders of it to vote for Hillary or depress them enough to stay home/lodge a protest vote).
Johnny Scazzero The 2008 Clinton campaign included the entire campaign staff whether they got paid or volunteered, everyone who worked to register Democratic Voters for Hillary, everyone who donated to the campaign, and of course Bubba himself, who had the following to say about Barack Hussein Obama:
"Bill Clinton helped sink his wife's chances for an endorsement from Ted Kennedy by belittling Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.
'A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee,' the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts. . .
. . . Kennedy was deeply offended and recounted the conversation to friends with fury.
After Kennedy sided with Obama, Clinton reportedly griped, 'the only reason you are endorsing him is because he's black. Let's just be clear'."
Birtherism or racism . . . "What difference does it make?!"
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"Bill Clinton helped sink his wife's chances for an endorsement from Ted Kennedy by belittling Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.
'A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee,' the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts. . .
. . . Kennedy was deeply offended and recounted the conversation to friends with fury.
After Kennedy sided with Obama, Clinton reportedly griped, 'the only reason you are endorsing him is because he's black. Let's just be clear'."
Birtherism or racism . . . "What difference does it make?!"
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This Photo was First Released by the 2008 Clinton Campaign
Donald Trump: The Least Charitable Billionaire In The World
Trump philanthropy? Cheap bastard uses other people's money...
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Evelyn Latre Great find here by the Internet hive mind:
You may recall that back in 2010, an Army Lieutenant Colonel named Terrence Lakin refused to be deployed to Afghanistan because he believed that President Obama wasn't born in the United States, and his deployment orders were therefore illegal. Lakin was court-martialed, convicted, sentence to six months in prison, and dismissed from the Army.
When Lakin was court-martialed, a retired Air Force Lieutenant General named Thomas McInerney submitted an affidavit on Lakin's behalf, arguing that Lakin was justified in refusing to obey the deployment order because of the "widespread and legitimate concerns" that President Obama was not a natural-born U.S. citizen.
So who spoke before and introduced Trump at today's event? Air Force Lieutenant General (ret.) Thomas McInerney.
Yep. At an event where Donald Trump purported to disavow birtherism, he had himself introduced by a birther.
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