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Trump, the EU, and NATO
by Allison Wheeler (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
This blog post was written for the course "Current Issues in Global and EU Affairs", which took place from February 11-May 9, 2019.
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This year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), celebrated its 70th birthday. Founded in 1949, NATO has bound western Europe and North America since almost immediately following World War II and has created a close defense alliance between what has grown from just 12 countries to now 29 countries. NATO at this moment in history is at the center of a potentially pivotal conflict for the transatlantic partnership between the US and the EU.
The EU, regarded most prominently and historically as a normative and economic power, has heavily relied on the "hard power" the US provides within its contributions to NATO missions. NATO, aided with American military power, has been crucial in defending Ukraine from Russian encroachment and invasion of Crimea, for example.
Pressure has been put on the EU from the US, especially from President Donald Trump, and expressly for member states to step up their spending toward the NATO budget if it is to continue protecting its borders. Trump, within the time of his administration, has pushed NATO members to contribute to the 2% goal for the overall NATO budget; meaning that, ideally, every member state should be contributing 2% of its GDP towards NATO. At this moment in time, only 5 total members contribute 2% or more: Estonia, Greece, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Trump has been hardballing the concept of even "burden-sharing" amongst the member states, which has, in fact, had an effect within the EU. After singling out Germany, for example, the German Defense Minister agreed to action that would increase their spending from 1.2% to 1.5% of its GDP by 2025—it may not now seem like much, but to the appeasement of Trump, it is a start.
The US-EU defense alliance that has formed via NATO has sparked conversations within the European Commission on the viability of becoming a more independent security actor. The Trump administration is still wary to the amount of US defense resources that are pored into protecting the European continent, thus putting strains in the transatlantic partnership. Member states' stances on the EU as its own self-sustaining security and defense actor vary greatly and would encroach upon the several states that have historically had a neutral standing (Austria, Sweden, Ireland, and Finland).
While nothing in terms of a "European Army" has come through in any form of legislation, the Juncker administration has passed the provisional agreements for a European Defense Fund. According to the European Commission, 525million euros have been allocated for this fund, and will be utilized for the defense innovation and research.
With the UK's exit from the European Union on the horizon, the EU must also prepare for one of its largest defense contributors to leave. And with the UK gone, 60% of NATO members will be non-EU states, thus bolstering President Trump's discourse and dissatisfaction with EU member states' contributions. With the EU exploring new territory as a security actor, that relies less on NATO, and de facto the US, the transatlantic partnership may be able to avoid a contentious fallout.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Transatlantic Figure
by Léa Gaudron and Nicolas Dünkelsbühler (KU Leuven)
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Chancellor Christian Kern in 2017.
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Being born in a small town in post-war Austria in 1947 is an unlikely start for anyone to live the American Dream. Arnold Schwarzenegger, however, born as the second son of a poor and conservative family in a rural area near Graz, with a father who had a Nazi past, made it. He also became an important figure in transatlantic relations, showing that it is possible to reach the highest ranks of politics in the US, while having an influence on the political and cultural sphere in Europe. Schwarzenegger's success story started when he moved to the United States. He had been interested in bodybuilding since age 15; at the end of his career he won Mister Universe and Mister Olympia seven times, becoming the most successful bodybuilder of all time. This era was not only a tale of success. Schwarzenegger later admitted to the use of steroids to enhance his sportive performance during his active time as a bodybuilder. While this was common in the bodybuilding environment, this mistake would later still have a negative influence on Schwarzenegger's reputation.
Still, his bodybuilding career caught the attention of Hollywood directors. His movie career started with roles in action movies. His Austrian accent, that would later become his trademark and remind the public of his European background in his career in politics, was still a handicap to getting roles beyond his stereotypical "Arnold Strong" stage name. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1983 and managed to keep his Austrian citizenship. Schwarzenegger became one of the first former bodybuilders to appear in protagonist roles in Hollywood blockbusters that were successful both in Europe and in the US. His signature role as the "Terminator" in the 1984 action thriller was perhaps the most successful and gave him his nickname "The Governator".
During his career in Hollywood, Schwarzenegger started showing interest in politics, and started his political ambitions in some minor roles for the Republicans in California. His Hollywood peers were generally more leaning towards the Democrats; Schwarzenegger's political opinions could be best described as moderate. In the 2003 recall elections, when he ran for office to become the Governor of California, his background as a movie star helped his campaign to get national attention. He won the elections; and during his time in office he already showed some tendencies to integrate bipartisan policies in his agenda, he also appointed a Democrat as his chief of staff. His popularity helped him get re-elected in 2006.
Schwarzenegger remained a public figure after his time as governor. He has taken an interest in election reforms and also launched the University of Southern California Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, whose main focus is to highlight the responsibility of leaders to overcome partisanship in a series of crucial issues, including education, energy, and the environment. Schwarzenegger has gotten particularly involved in the latter since the beginning of his first Governor mandate, California being one of the most vulnerable states to climate change. He co-founded the "Regions of Climate Action" (R20) organization, dedicated to helping sub-governmental entities globally to take action against climate change, to communicate on the importance of low-carbon emissions and to finance climate-resilience projects worldwide. Thanks to this action, he was recognized in 2012 as a Global Advocate by the UN Correspondents Association. He was also rewarded for being the "Renewable Energy Leader of the Decade" by the American Council On Renewable Energy, and received the "National Leadership Award" by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
In his article "The Strange Political Afterlife of Arnold Schwarzenegger" Edward-Isaac Dovere argues that the reason behind Schwarzenegger's current political engagement lies both in his resemblance with and opposition to Donald Trump, comparing them to twins separated at birth. On the one hand, they are both the same age, Republicans coming from the show-business before getting involved into politics. They were both underestimated, mocked as not being serious candidates, one because of his Austrian accent and impressive physique, the other for his bold declarations and overall behavior.
On the other hand, when Trump announced the US' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the Austrian met with a series of high-level politicians, including the French president and the mayor of Paris in order to create a partnership between Paris, the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and the R20. When the President failed to condemn the actions of white supremacists in Charlottesville, he donated to the Simon Wiesenthal Center and accepted, for once, to reflect on his father's Nazi past, in order to remind everyone of the dangers of antisemitism.
Even though his political life is mostly based in the US nowadays, Schwarzenegger remains an important figure for Europe. He started as an embodiment for the American Dream, showing many Europeans that they too can "make it" in the States if they set their minds to it. Today, he is a federating figure, with both the Americans and the Europeans able to identify with him. Furthermore, his implication in the fight against global warming echoes the wave of concern in the old and the new continent, despite climate sceptics.
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NATO and the Transatlantic Relationship
by Jordan Evans-Kaplan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
NATO Military Spending by member state GDP.
The EU has always been and will likely always be the most key strategic partner to the US regarding NATO. However, the future of NATO remains cloudy amid a disruptive US presidency, and critiques of NATO on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite opposition and naysayers, it is quite an achievement of the European project that NATO has managed to exist this long, as it represents a solution to a problem from a bygone era. Created as a bulwark against Soviet aggression, this strategic partnership has stood the test of time since its creation in 1949 and remains the cornerstone of US-EU military cooperation. But what does the future hold for this critical component of transatlantic integration?
NATO's key role has always been European Defense and transatlantic security cooperation, however, modern politics within the US and EU have challenged this role. On the US side, apathy and lethargy regarding NATO have increased after President Trump's critiques of nations not meeting the 2% GDP threshold. However, the number of nations meeting this mark has only increased over time. In 2014, only three nations met the threshold of 2% ofnational GDP, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Greece. In 2019, this is up to seven NATO nations, including Estonia, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania. On the other side of the Atlantic, France has issued their own responses, despite being on the precipice of the 2% target. In response to these spending critiques and threats if non-payment continues, Macron stated that "we must have a Europe that can defend itself on its own without relying only on the United States." This push towards a new European military represents a concern to scholars of transatlantic integration, as these policies are staunchly divergent from NATO and the United States.
It is quite interesting to note that despite the broad cooperation found in NATO, and the importance it holds in Europe, several European nations have opted for neutrality. These countries include Austria, Finland, Ireland, Malta, and Sweden. In many ways, NATO represents a sort of transatlantic barometer, a measure of not only the strength of the transatlantic relationship but as an evaluation of cooperation's value in geopolitics. Following the Cold War and shifts in geopolitical goals, security cooperation took on a different flavor. As the power politics of nation-states took a backseat to addressing terrorism and non-state actors, cooperation became downsized and focused on peacekeeping. Examples of this new role include the missions in Kosovo, and the NATO Training Mission- Iraq in which NATO provided training and assistance to Iraqi security forces in hopes of crafting a sustainable internal security structure capable of fending for itself. As a result, the trend in NATO seems promising as we approach the future, despite resentment and a souring political dialogue. When viewed as a whole, the number of nations meeting spending targets has only increased, and security partnerships have deepened in dealing with insurgent groups and instability. The geopolitics of tomorrow are less clear-cut, less driven by the bold, national power politics of yesterday's era, and more demanding of transatlantic integration. While NATO handled the threat of Communist incursion with relative ease, today it battles a much more formidable opponent: Transatlantic politics.
Labels: EU security, military collaborations, Military Spending, NATO, transatlantic relations, US security
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This thesis in anthropology reports on research in the context of transnational food dynamics. It focuses on the contemporary food practices of Brazilian immigrants in France and those of French immigrants in Brazil. The methodology has consisted of a comparative approach through the realization of two ethnographies on the immigrants' food in 2018 and 2019, the first one among Brazilians in France (Lyon) and the second one among French people in Brazil (Salvador). At the crossroads of the respondents' social situations and their imaginations about the two countries of immigration (France and Brazil), the fieldwork reveals two groups of individuals with very divergent socio-cultural situations but sharing similar representations of the food cultures of France and Brazil. By living in the host territory, the ingredients and ways of eating of the immigrant in his country of origin meet those practiced in the host country, thus positioning the individuals in contact with otherness. This otherness can sometimes give rise to the perception of problems in the food of the country of immigration. As a vector of saudade for Brazilians or loss of control over food for the French, otherness is not perceived in the same way by the two groups. If a common food dynamic appears for both groups of respondents - the search for food from the country of origin - the supply logics vary, not only because of the geographical and cultural configuration of the places, but also because it is a question of responding to divergent food and cultural problems. Therefore, this thesis provides access to the identification of the food models of the two countries being compared and sheds light on the socio-cultural modalities that influence contemporary food dynamics, particularly in situations of immigration.
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How Can It Sleet When It's Still Warm?
The wind gusts that accompanied a cold front in North Texas Friday have calmed, but colder temperatures are on the way for Saturday morning.
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth issued a Freeze Warning for Saturday from 1 a.m. until 9 a.m. for the following counties: Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Delta, Denton, Eastland, Erath, Fannin, Grayson, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Jack, Lamar, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rains, Somervell, Stephens, Wise and Young.
Some sleet was reported across North Texas early Friday afternoon, but any icy precipitation melted upon contact. Reports of sleet were received from Abilene to Denison, more locally in Keller, Denton, Fort Worth and places in between.
With clearing skies, even cooler temperatures are expected early Saturday as we dip into the low to mid 30s.
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As Budget Process Grinds On, Lawmakers Have Three Clear Choices
State lawmakers are in the thick of the frenzy of patching together a spending plan for the 2014-15 fiscal year that begins July 1. Enacting a budget is a formidable task that entails long, tense negotiations and, since it must be balanced, attention to hundreds of details. Complicating matters further, this year the legislature faces a $1.2 billion deficit and General Elections loom in November.
As complex as some policy discussions have become, the choice this June is very clear: cut costs by reforming a run-away public pension system, and reduce government and grow revenues by getting the state out of the liquor business; or create a new tax that will suppress a natural gas drilling industry that is creating thousands of high paying jobs and promises to return Pennsylvania to its former glory as one of the most desirable locations for manufacturing in the world.
For his part, Governor Tom Corbett has asked lawmakers to adhere to a policy of keeping government focused on its core functions. He's asked for long-term reform of the teachers' pension system (PSERS) and the state workers' pension system (SERS) that are underfunded by a combined $50 billion. He has also stated that there are significant revenues to be had by privatizing liquor sales; getting the state at least part of the way out of a business that near every other state has turned over to the private sector since prohibition ended in 1933. Regrettably, what he might get is the serpent on the table - the imposition of a new, additional "severance" tax on natural gas drillers.
The argument lawmakers are hearing for approving the severance tax is the same one that the Democratic candidates for governor used in the recent primary debate – including nominee Tom Wolf. They claim that the drilling industry needs to "pay its fair share" to help fund a "neglected" education system. What is the problem with this statement? Over its short life, the Marcellus industry has paid nearly $3 billion in taxes, and impact fees, which fund local government infrastructure. If paying taxes is fair, then the debate is already over. What's more, state funding for public k-12 education at the highest level in the history of the commonwealth.
Sure, states like Texas, Oklahoma, and even West Virginia have a severance tax. But it's also true that these states do not have anywhere near a 9.99 corporate net income tax, capital stock and franchise tax, limited net operating loss carry-forward, and other burdensome tax structures that seem to be unique to our commonwealth. Most importantly, those "other states" include a long capital recovery period for drillers to earn back their $7 million-per-well costs. If Pennsylvania had a severance tax "like other states", Harrisburg wouldn't collect another dime until the end of this decade, at the earliest.
"Proponents of a severance tax that use other states to compare Pennsylvania to are not comparing apples to apples; it's more like comparing apples and squares – there's simply no relation," said Carl Marrara, Director of Government Affairs for the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association.
There are also the long-term effects to consider. What would an additional, industry-specific tax do to jobs that sustain the state's revenue base?
"We're attracting new industry interested in not just affordable energy, but the feed stocks that are the building blocks for hundreds of products," said PMA Executive Director, David N. Taylor. "While there is never a good time to impose a new tax, nothing cooked up during the budget frenzy could possibly work to Pennsylvania's long-term benefit."
In a letter to the legislative leaders, representatives of the drilling industry recently wrote: "The economic reality is that there is a direct correlation between a severance tax, fees and regulatory environment and the investment decisions of our members. Many of those calling for a severance tax do not understand the complexity of the industry, market forces and the opportunity for investment around the U.S. and the globe against which Pennsylvania must compete."
Pension reform and privatizing liquor sales face ever stronger resistance from opposition that has an inordinate influence over public policy - the public sector unions. The same public sector unions that have now publicly and financially backed Tom Wolf and his extraction tax plan. So again, the choice is clear: reform or retreat; restore government to core functions or expand the over burdensome bureaucracy; cultivate and grow or tax and spend. The early summer budget process is one that tests the patience, courage, and nerves of lawmakers and staff. But at least concerning these three issues, lawmakers can breathe easy by doing the right thing.
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The Opposite of Falling Apart by Micah Good
by Melissa Montovani on April 17, 2020 in Realistic Teen Fiction • 0 Comments
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Reviewer: Melissa on April 17, 2020
Told in the dual POVs of Brennan, a teen who has an anxiety disorder that she doesn't want to admit to, and Jonas, a teen who lost part of his left leg in a car accident one year earlier, The Opposite of Falling Apart by Micah Good took me some time to read, but not because it isn't a worthy YA title in which the characters spend the majority of the novel in their first year of college, rather than high school.
Jonas hasn't driven since before the accident he had a year ago while his brother, Rhys, was driving. Rhys didn't do anything wrong. It was a snowy day, and there was black ice on the road, which prohibited a trucker from stopping. He hit the passenger side of the car where Jonas was sitting, and since his left leg was crossed, it endured the bulk of the injury. After the accident, Jonas will get into a car when he has to go to a doctor's appointment or some other mandatory activity, like school, but he doesn't drive. Not until his sister forgot her permission slip for a field trip and his mom asks him to drop it off for his sister as a favour. Everything is going fine until he sees a tractor trailer, which causes him to pay less attention to what else was in front of him. Namely the bumper of Brennan's car.
Brennan was on the way to work at the supermarket deli when the accident happens. Her anxiety causes her to freak out a little, unsure of what steps she should take. Should she get out and take his name and insurance, just in case? She knows that people should admit fault in an accident, but what else?
In this anxiety-inducing moment, two teens meet, exchange contact information, and so begins a series of text messages that lead to a series of in-person meet ups, walks to the library, the knowledge that while they're both going to different colleges in the fall, they will be very close to one another at SIUE and Wash U respectively, and an argument that might very well jeopardize their friendship…or something more…before it ever really begins. But doesn't quite do so.
While I can't speak with any authority on whether or not the depiction of Jonas' experience with losing half of left leg would be considered positive to someone with that disability, I can say with a lot more certainty, even before I read the acknowledgements, that Micah Good understands anxiety. In Brennan and Jonas, she offers characters who deal with anxiety in bigger and smaller ways respectively. For Jonas, even getting into the driver's seat for even 15 minutes causes many symptoms of an anxiety attack. He sweats, finds that he can't help but white knuckle the steering wheel, and is generally in a panic unless he's in a situation where him driving might be the only way to help his sister or Brennan.
For Brennan, who has a diagnosed anxiety disorder and medication that she's supposed to take, the majority of her life is affected and controlled by her anxiety. Sometimes something as seemingly small as the possibility of not being able to sit on the aisle seat in her lecture halls will make her skip day after day of her classes. She finds every little thing about living in a new place with unfamiliar smells and a roommate who will probably hate her or at least think she's weird to be panic inducing before she even gets to SIUE. She worries about spending time with her roommate and her roommate's friends, thinking that they're only giving her pity invites. And more than anything, she needs a lot of reassurance from Jonas once they start becoming friends and something more because her anxiety is always telling her some really damaging things. And yes, Good writes Brennen's anxiety as almost another character – someone that Brennen sees as being outside of who she really is – and anyone who has dealt with anxiety to such a degree that they can't cope will understand why. If you don't read this book for any other reason, I recommend checking it out for what I've already told you about the characterization of her characters' nervousness and anxiety to get a better understanding of what it's like for those who are struggling in a certain aspect of their lives or with this mental illness.
Beyond the romance and mental health angle of this book, a big part of it is about Brennen's writing. She has a novel that she's planning to share with a writing community called allfixx, which I suspect is much like Wattpad, where Good first wrote and shared this novel with an audience. So again, writers of original stories who might want to take it to the online publishing world, might be very interested in the way this part of the story is laid out. Then again, those seeking a more traditional publishing route may also get a lot out of her process and the issues of writer's block that she has along the way for various reasons.
Overall, I enjoyed this book, though I didn't notice a few scenes in which weird errors made it to the final version, such as when on their first date, Jonas tells the bus driver to leave, but then by the end of the page him and Brennen get on, presumably the same bus. Also, after taking a writing workshop with Sandhya Menon, the author of When Dimple Met Rishi, I found that there were parts that probably could be trimmed down for length and to make the story flow better, especially for how long it takes these two characters to admit to themselves that they are falling in love with their friend and freak out about it. Still neither of these issues took away my enjoyment of the novel.
If you're looking for a great book about anxiety, disability, falling in love, and coming to terms with the other parental, sibling, and friend relationships in one's life, then I recommend you check out The Opposite of Falling Apart.
Buy The Opposite of Falling Apart today and find out what over 2.3 million people saw in it on Wattpad!
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Because the local hospital doesn't have a birthing suite, the challenge all mothers-to-be in Roxby Downs face is the need to travel to a town that has one when their child is due.
"The painting is about life; it's about giving life and new beginnings" Jodie explained.
"We have the tree of life," Sandy added, "and the sun being the giver of life, and that journey that women make to give life,"
This project was the first time Sandy and Jodie had tried their hand at painting a mural, but it wasn't the only first for both artists.
"We've done our own artwork, and entered them into exhibitions and things, but never done a painting together," Jodie explained.
"It was an awesome experience working with Jodie on that painting!" said Sandy, "I spent a lot of time at her house doing that painting, became part of her family, but we just loved doing that painting so much. A lot of our heart and soul went into that, so we're really happy with how it turned out!"
"With a few tears as well!" joked Jodie.
The painting is important to Jodie and Sandy in more ways than one, as Sandy explained.
"As an Aboriginal woman, if I see some Aboriginal art or things like that in a space then I automatically feel safe in that space.
"The painting is so colourful; people go to hospital because they're sick, and I think if they see something so colourful and vibrant it might just make them happy for that little period of time"


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Information appeal after pedestrian seriously injured in Horsham collision
Police are appealing for information after a pedestrian was seriously injured in a collision with an unknown vehicle in Horsham on Sunday (October 16).
Emergency services were called to Rusper Road shortly after 9.30pm to reports of a pedestrian lying in the road with serious injuries.
Investigating officers believe he may have been involved in a collision with a vehicle which then failed to stop.
The man, 29, from Horsham, was taken to hospital by the ambulance service with serious injuries.
Police would like to speak to anyone who has information which could help with the investigation, particularly people who were around the area of Littlehaven Railway Station between 9.20pm and 9.45pm.
Contact [email protected], quoting Operation Grimsby.


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Randall Erben of Austin is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law and Of Counsel with the law firm of Erben & Yarbrough. Erben's extensive career began with the San Antonio law firm of Foster, Lewis, Langley, Gardner & Banack, Incorporated, where he practiced commercial litigation and public law. After this, he engaged in an impressive public service career which included serving as Texas' Assistant Secretary of State, as well as Director, State of Texas Office of State-Federal Relations for the Governor, and Acting Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for Community Planning and Development. Most recently, Erben served as Legislative Director in the Office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law.


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Where are the Wild Bits…?
I was out fishing on my local river the other night, this is for private river members only – no footpath no public access – and I felt pretty much at one with nature.
Beautiful river, mature trees, native shrubs and flora and fauna of the highest order.
Orchids ramble down towards the water's edge whilst otters have been spotted frolicking on the waters side.
There were mayfly and all sorts of flying insects, there were swallows swooping to catch the fly's trapped on the water and there were trout sucking these insect in, lazily feeding and making the most of nature's bounty.
I was casting toward a lovely trout when my eye was caught by some debris in the bottom of the river – just a coke can, bobbing downstream. As I looked closer at the river bed I began to see all sorts of detritus – an old tyre, bottles, tin lid etc. etc. It just made me stop and think about how 'natural' the river was – and what is actually 'wild' – versus what is just left over after man has used up all the local resources?
I had been fishing quite happily in a beautiful part of the countryside – which i am lucky enough to call home. It is a stunning little village right off a picture postcard – roses climbing over door frames, orchards full of fruit and walkers almost queuing to wander along the public rights of way.
What I tend to forget though is that this is actually an old lead mining village. If you ever get chance to see the old lithographs of what Alport used to look like…. you would be amazed. Smoke, grime, polluted river – basically a heavy industry being ripped out of the bowels of the ground. Mine shafts sinking into the side of the hills, drains built that divert the water away from the river – and wagon loads of lead being slowly dragged around by knackered looking horses on their last legs.
Not the idyllic looking place that it is now.
It makes you realise how clever 'nature' is – 'rewilding' areas that you would never have considered possible and making new habitats out of poisoned and polluted areas.
There are still mounds down by the river which I'm pretty sure if they were excavated would contain toxic levels of lead and probably arsenic. Yet covering these same mounds are plants which are native and rare – thriving on ground which nothing else will grow….
We need to have a re-think about where our wild and natural areas will survive as we go forward. It's not going to be the obvious areas that we might immediately think of. As the world gets busier it will be the areas that humans cannot easily get to that will begin to fill with the more interesting vegetation, animals and insects.
Motorway verges, railway lines, powers stations, river corridors with limited access, hedgerows – these will be our wild life havens….provided of course that we don't let them fill with invasive non-native species.


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Ramón Alfredo Dus (ur. 22 maja 1956 w San Lorenzo) – argentyński duchowny katolicki, arcybiskup Resistencia od 2013.

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Święcenia kapłańskie otrzymał 8 grudnia 1980 i został inkardynowany do archidiecezji Paraná. Po święceniach został wikariuszem bazyliki w Nogoyá, a następnie przeszedł do parafii katedralnej. W 1989 został wykładowcą archidiecezjalnego seminarium, natomiast w 2000 objął funkcję jego rektora.

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5 sierpnia 2005 papież Benedykt XVI mianował go biskupem pomocniczym diecezji Reconquista, ze stolicą tytularną Thibica. Sakry biskupiej udzielił mu 17 września 2005 ówczesny arcybiskup Parany - Mario Maulión.

26 marca 2008 papież mianował go biskupem diecezji Reconquista.

21 lutego 2013 został mianowany arcybiskupem metropolitą Resistencia. Ingres odbył się 3 maja 2013.

Paliusz otrzymał z rąk papieża Franciszka w dniu 29 czerwca 2013.

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Bernie Sanders Encourages Progressive Candidates At Training Conference
April 17, 2018 — Ron Chusid
Bernie Sanders was the keynote speaker last week at a four day conference for the training of progressive candidates. ABC News reported:
Sanders' legacy political organization, Our Revolution, partnered with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) to host the conference and the organizers were excited by the number of signups. According to event representatives, 70 percent of the conference attendees were actively running in 2018 — 64 percent of them in districts President Donald Trump won in 2016. The group was noticeably diverse too: 55 percent women, 40 percent people of color and 82 percent who have never held political office…
Like Sanders' team, the PCCC is known in Washington and political circles for talking openly about — and fundraising on — divisions in the Democratic Party between Progressives focused on economic populism and more centrists. Even in the era of Trump, when Democrats have largely unified in their opposition to this White House, a major theme of the conference was that Democratic candidates should not shy away from campaigning hard to the left, even if that means bucking advice from some Democratic Party officials.
"Any old blue just won't do," Nina Turner, the president of Sanders' legacy political organization, Our Revolution, said introducing Sanders. "I am talking about 'Bernie blue.'"
Several of the attendees lamented that Democratic Party officials had, they thought, handpicked more mainstream candidates around the country or advised folks to temper progressive platforms. At one point, PCCC co-founder Adam Green asked the crowd if any of them had been encouraged to run more to the center and half the hands in the room seemed to go up.
Mark Gruenberg had more on Sanders's speech for Mint Press News:
Sanders was greeted with a roar, repeated chants of "Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!" and interrupted frequently by applause and cheers—and occasional laughter for his jibes at the GOP, centrist Democrats, and political consultants. He also stated money is useful and needed, but that it's no substitute for shoe leather.
"Watch out for consultants," he warned. "There's a large group of people, particularly here in Washington, who make zillions of dollars and often their advice is conservative, and wrong. Trust your heart.
When I was first elected as mayor of Burlington [Vermont], I defeated a five-term mayor because I literally knocked on thousands and thousands of doors. The most important thing is face-to-face contact," he said.
"Do not spend your entire lives raising money, as some here would have you do."
Sanders, even more than the other speakers, pointed out that on issues, the country is increasingly with the progressives, including the issues he raised in his 2016 Democratic presidential primary campaign. Those ideas, such as Medicare for All, $1 trillion in infrastructure spending, free tuition at public colleges and universities, and the wipeout of college debt, were considered radical then.
Many in the Democratic Party, he claimed, waved them aside, or worse. But now, for example, his Medicare for All bill has 16 Senate Democratic co-sponsors and the $15 minimum wage—the Dems at the time were stuck on $10.10—now has 30 U.S. House sponsors. And he said the latest opinion poll shows 59 percent support for Medicare for All.
By contrast, a wide range of attendees reported consultants advising them not to run on progressive planks, not to campaign for the minimum wage increase or Medicare for All or gun control measures and—in some cases—not to even put a (D) on their signs. The attendees rejected that advice.
But it's not just the GOP standing in the way of the progressives. In some cases, it's the Democratic establishment. Just as in the close Lipinski-Newman congressional primary on Chicago's Southwest Side and suburbs, Nevada 4th District hopeful Amy Vilela is taking on the state's Democratic machine constructed by retired U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid…
"The establishment wants, #1, to push tax cuts for millionaires and a war agenda. And #2 is to tell you 'politics are too complicated for you, so don't get involved.'" And Republicans' "idea of a good election is nobody votes and big money dominates."
"But if you look at what my colleagues are doing, you realize anybody can run for anything. Just look at the president of the United States and know that you know more than he does on his best day," the senator drolly said, to laughter from the crowd.
That prompted him to set a goal for the group: A vast increase in turnout this fall.
"Four years ago," in the important 2014 off-year election, "we had the lowest turnout since World War II, 37 percent" and the GOP won big, he explained. "If we can go out and increase turnout of young people, people of color, and working people, by giving them hope, and get that up to 50 percent, virtually every single one of you will win your election," he predicted.
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Democratic Pundit Disputes Myth That Progressives Are Less Electable Than More Conservative Democrats
March 10, 2018 — Ron Chusid
Democrats suffered serious losses in Congressional and state races in 2010 and 2014 after running as a Republican-lite party. Despite trying to shift the blame to Russia and others, Democrats lost the 2016 election to a candidate as terrible as Donald Trump by nominating a corrupt conservative warmonger who has spent her career undermining liberal values. Finally we are seeing people question the conventional wisdom that nominating more conservative candidates will increase the chances for Democrats to win. I looked at this issue yesterday, and found that Bud Budowsky, a Democratic columnist at The Hill, has written a column on the same topic.
Budowsky wrote that A Sanders-Warren ticket could win big in 2020. Besides this ticket, Budowsky discussed two other hypothetical Democratic tickets, Joe Biden-Amy Klobuchar and Joe Kennedy III with either California Attorney General Xavier Becerra or Senator Kamala Harris. He wrote the following in favor of a more progressive ticket:
Behind the scenes of the national Democratic Party, it is commonly accepted wisdom, though not proven by facts, that the most progressive candidates are not the most electable candidates. In some states and districts this might be true.
But, in terms of winning the national popular vote and an electoral vote majority, there is a credible case that the most clearly progressive and politically aggressive Democrats can indeed win, and potentially win big.
The most important and powerfully persuasive data in modern American politics is that virtually every poll in 2016 showed Sanders defeating Donald Trump by 10 percent or more. In the Real Clear Politics summary of 2016 polling, Sanders ran ahead of Trump by an average margin of more than 10 percent and often by much larger margins.
Whether one supports Sanders or any other potential candidate in 2020, the case is clear that a strong progressive program and message would give Democrats a decided advantage in any campaign against the scandal-ridden and crony-capitalist-dominated presidency of Trump and his GOP allies in Congress…
While I could support Sanders, Warren or any of the progressive Democratic change candidates who could run on the ticket in 2020, it is important to disabuse the false notion, which is contrary to the facts demonstrated by national polling throughout 2016 and beyond, that progressive candidates are less electable.
Americans want a clear message of progressive change and would enthusiastically support a Sanders-Warren ticket, or any other ticket running on a similar program in 2020.
I agree with nominating candidates who have a clear message and stand for change. My one nitpick is that I would not limit this to progressive economic ideas. While Bernie Sanders did concentrate on this message in 2016, there were other factors which led many to support him over Hillary Clinton. It was partially over character, but there were other issues too. One study argues that Clinton lost because of being a warmonger. While I question if this was the main factor, foreign policy is important. Democrats attracted new voters when they opposed neoconservatives while George Bush was in office. They lost votes when they nominated a neocon interventionist such as Hillary Clinton, whose policies have caused considerable death and suffering around the world.
Sanders' views on social and cultural issues were also far more attractive to voters than than Clinton's socially conservative views. Many voters, especially young voters, are more socially libertarian. Democrats might be preferable to Republicans on reproductive rights, but fail to consistently support policies to reduce the role of government in the private lives of individuals. In addition to Clinton's support for military interventionism, and the toleration of this by establishment Democrats, there is their support for the drug war. Clinton did not change her views on same-sex marriage until it became politically inexpedient to continue to oppose it. While it is still a government program, support for single payer healthcare, which Clinton campaigned against and the DCCC continues to oppose, is far more acceptable than government mandates pushed by Clinton to purchase private insurance plans with outrageous deductibles.
It is a good sign that more Democrats are paying attention to Bernie Sanders' criticism of corporate Democrats, along with his support for Medicare-for-All. If Democrats are to rebuild a winning majority, they should more consistently challenge establishment views in other areas too.
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Democrats Have A Plan For 2018–Avoid Standing For Anything
March 1, 2018 — Ron Chusid
First Read looked at the Democrats' strategy for the 2018 election, which comes down to continuing to avoid standing for anything. They noted the chaos in the Trump administration, and showed how the Democrats plan to respond:
Given that chaos, Democrats believe they've discovered the kind of candidates that could be appealing to voters, especially those in red and purple areas, one year-plus into Trump's presidency: candidates who project stability.
Think of Ralph Northam (military background, doctor, lieutenant governor) who won Virginia's gubernatorial contest last November. Or think of Doug Jones (a former prosecutor who promised he could "work with Republicans better than Roy Moore can work with anyone") in December's Alabama contest. Or think of Conor Lamb (military background, former prosecutor) who's running in this month's special congressional election in a Pennsylvania district Trump won by 20 points in 2016.
It's chaos vs. stability. It's reality-show background vs. military/prosecutor backgrounds. And it's excitement vs., well, a little boring.
Yes, it is boring. To just run on a platform of not being as chaotic as the Trump administration again fails to provide voters with positive reasons to vote Democratic. Republicans have won over the years by taking stands, even if they take the wrong positions, and sell voters on their beliefs.
This is hardly anything new. Democrats avoided standing for anything in the 2010 and 2014 midterms, and were beaten badly. In 2016, when voters wanted a change candidate, the nominated the most establishment, status-quo candidate possible, and couldn't even beat Donald Trump.
On the other hand, Bernie Sanders, who has not been afraid to take a stand on the issues, has led polls of the most popular politician in the country.
We have seen other examples of the cowardice of Democrats recently. Huffington Post reports:
The morning after the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas, a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's press staff warned House candidates and their staffs not to "politicize" the shooting that day. Politicization, according to the DCCC official, included talking about gun violence prevention policy.
Instead they also advised, "any message today should be on offering thoughts/prayers for victims and their families." Thoughts and prayers–exactly what many of us have mocked the Republicans for saying.
They took a similar position on health care with The Intercept reporting that the DCCC advised Democrats against supporting single payer healthcare.
Democrats also have avoided taking positions against neocon interventionism and perpetual warfare, the drug war, or mass surveillance. Instead they have largely adopted the foreign policy of George W. Bush, and the anti-Russia hysteria of Joe McCarthy. Democrats might do well in 2018 in reaction to Donald Trump, but the party which stands for nothing does not give people any reason to stick with it once Trump is gone.
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Bernie Sanders' Response To The State Of The Union Address (Including Full Transcript)
January 31, 2018 — Ron Chusid
Last night Bernie Sanders was one of five Democratic responses to the State of the Union Address, including Joe Kennedy III's official response. Sanders criticized Trump for promising to provide "health insurance for everybody," with "much lower deductibles," but instead supporting legislation that "would thrown up to 32 million people off of the health care they had while, at the same time, substantially raising premiums for older Americans."
Sanders noted that Trump had promised "promised not to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid." Instead, "he supported a Republican Budget Resolution that proposed slashing Medicaid by $1 trillion and cutting Medicare by $500 billion. Further, President Trump's own budget called for cutting Social Security Disability Insurance by $64 billion."
In addition to calling out Trump for breaking his campaign promises, Sanders noted many things which Trump failed to talk about, including climate change and voter suppression.
While overall a good speech, there were things which I wish Sanders had said, and one thing statement which was misleading. As has generally been the case with Democrats, there was nothing said about restrictions of civil liberties–passed with the cooperation of many Democrats. Nor were there protests over the never-ending war which Democrats are now accepting as the status quo. Nothing was said about the drug war, while Joe Kennedy III , among other Democrats, has been on the wrong side of this issue. This is what I want to see from a true resistance.
Sanders also stated that the Russians "interfered in our election in 2016, is interfering in democratic elections all over the world." While technically true, this plays into the hysteria being spread by Democrats, often based upon misinformation. While true that Russia meddled in our election, this must be kept in context that Russia has meddled in elections for decades–just as the United States has frequently meddled in foreign elections. Russian meddling has also been highly exaggerated. There is also no evidence that Russia had any effect on the election results. The information obtained through the Congressional hearings has shown that claims about Russian tampering with the election have been have been of little consequence. Similarly, multiple media reports of Russian hacking were subsequently retracted as false. I would hope that Sanders would know better to play into the misleading claims of Democrats who are distorting the facts to deny the blame they deserve for losing to Donald Trump due to choosing a candidate as terrible as Hillary Clinton, along with playing into the hands of neocons who are distorting Russian electoral interference as they used false claims of WMD in Iraq to promote their goal of regime change in Russia.
The video can be seen here and the full text of Sanders' speech is below:
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Donald Trump On Women Working For Him, Foreign Policy, and Medicare For All
At the moment we are waiting in limbo for a couple of big stories to break. We don't know yet if there will be a government shutdown. (If there is a shutdown, will drone attacks and NSA surveillance be halted? Unfortunately no.) One way to avert a government shutdown would be to tell Trump that McDonald's will shut down if the government does.
The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee meets tomorrow to vote on the recommendations of the Unity Reform Commission–which are very limited and do not do enough. If the DNC rejects these recommendations the Democratic Party will be demonstrating a contempt for democracy which would make Thomas Jefferson, along with FDR, roll over in their graves. It could also be said that they already demonstrated this in 2016.
While waiting for the answers, I decided to go back and quote interesting passages from Michael Wolff's recent book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. I previously noted some selections from the book here. There were further quotations regarding Wolff's view that the Russia scandal is about money laundering, and not about collusion to affect the election 2016 election results, here. The question of Trump's state of mind was reviewed here. Here are some additional items of interest.
It isn't as crude as grabbing them by the pussy, but this aspect of Trump's views is rather demeaning to the women working for him:
While Trump was in most ways a conventional misogynist, in the workplace he was much closer to women than to men. The former he confided in, the latter he held at arm's length. He liked and needed his office wives, and he trusted them with his most important personal issues. Women, according to Trump, were simply more loyal and trustworthy than men. Men might be more forceful and competent, but they were also more likely to have their own agendas. Women, by their nature, or Trump's version of their nature, were more likely to focus their purpose on a man. A man like Trump.
Prior to the election I often compared the foreign policy views of Clinton and Trump. I noted that while Trump was not interested in neocon foreign interventionism like Clinton, his views on foreign policy were too incoherent to provide a better alternative. Wolff's description of Trump's foreign policy views goes along with my characterization of them as incoherent:
If the Trump White House was as unsettling as any in American history, the president's views of foreign policy and the world at large were among its most random, uninformed, and seemingly capricious aspects. His advisers didn't know whether he was an isolationist or a militarist, or whether he could distinguish between the two. He was enamored with generals and determined that people with military command experience take the lead in foreign policy, but he hated to be told what to do. He was against nation building, but he believed there were few situations that he couldn't personally make better. He had little to no experience in foreign policy, but he had no respect for the experts, either.
While Hillary Clinton campaigned against Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All proposal, there was a surprising supporter of the plan in Washington–Donald Trump:
All things considered, he probably preferred the notion of more people having health insurance than fewer people having it. He was even, when push came to shove, rather more for Obamacare than for repealing Obamacare. As well, he had made a set of rash Obama-like promises, going so far as to say that under a forthcoming Trumpcare plan (he had to be strongly discouraged from using this kind of rebranding — political wise men told him that this was one instance where he might not want to claim ownership with his name), no one would lose their health insurance, and that preexisting conditions would continue to be covered. In fact, he probably favored government-funded health care more than any other Republican. "Why can't Medicare simply cover everybody?" he had impatiently wondered aloud during one discussion with aides, all of whom were careful not to react to this heresy.
Of course this has no practical value, with Trump having no understanding of the details of health care legislation and no interest in really doing the work to promote a plan, allowing Congressional Republicans to push their agenda.
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Donald Trump Meets With The President Of The Virgin Islands & Other Briefs
October 13, 2017 — Ron Chusid
Donald Trump is talking about having met with the President of the Virgin Islands (who technically would be himself). He says that tomorrow he will meet with the Commander-in-Chief of the US armed forces. He has also suggested that Mike Pence schedule a meeting with the President of the Senate. This is the guy who was boasting about his IQ earlier in the week.
Columbia is talking about hiring Hillary Clinton to be a professor. Can they afford her speaking fees? Do university's have any form of ethics agreements before hiring someone? If so, they should know that she totally ignored the ethics agreement she entered into before taking her last job as Secretary of State.
Question of the Day: Which organization is more wracked in scandal and chaos: The Weinstein Co. or the Trump White House?
It makes perfect sense that Bernie Sanders was picked instead of Hillary Clinton to speak at the Women's Convention. Unlike Clinton, Sanders has not promoted bombing of women around the world, has not defended the use of cluster bombs where women live, and has not backed taking welfare benefits away from women.
Eighteen states are suing the Trump administration over stopping the ObamaCare subsidies. The Pottery Barn Rule should now take effect with regards to Donald Trump and the Affordable Care Act–You Break It, You Own It.
I've been saying all along that the real Russia story is about the money, not altering the 2016 election results. NBC News is reporting that Paul Manafort had a $60 million relationship with a Russian oligarch.
Quote of the Day: "For the last 24 hours, Donald Trump has been the president of busy town. This morning, he signed an executive order to get rid of some key provisions of Obamacare. For instance, the care part." –Stephen Colbert
Posted in Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Humor and Satire, Scandals. Tags: Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Health Care Reform, Hillary Clinton, Russia, Scandals, Stephen Colbert. 8 Comments »
Trump Called Schumer To Work On Health Care
October 7, 2017 — Ron Chusid
Donald Trump lacks long term ties to the Republican Party, and has started to figure out that his best shot of passing legislation might be to work with the Democrats. If he can bring along part of the Republican Party he might have a better chance of passing legislation by working with the Democrats than by trying to pass legislation with Republican votes alone. With the inability of Republicans to repeal Obamacare, Trump has upset many Republicans by calling Chuck Schumer to seek a path forward on healthcare.
Trump previously worked with the Democratic leadership on three-month government funding measure, debt limit hike, and hurricane aid. He has also spoken with them about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), with no agreement reached yet.
I called Chuck Schumer yesterday to see if the Dems want to do a great HealthCare Bill. ObamaCare is badly broken, big premiums. Who knows!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2017
Trump has verified that he called Schumer on Twitter but so far Schumer has not seen a path for the two to work together. The Hill reports:
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Saturday he told President Trump that Democrats would be open to stabilizing the health-care system, but that another push to repeal and replace ObamaCare was "off the table."
"The president wanted to make another run at repeal and replace and I told the president that's off the table," Schumer said in a statement on his call with Trump on Friday, news of which the president confirmed in a tweet.
"If he wants to work together to improve the existing health care system, we Democrats are open to his suggestions. A good place to start might be the Alexander-Murray negotiations that would stabilize the system and lower costs," Schumer added.
This could be just the opening round as there is reason for Democrats to work with Trump if Trump is willing to agree to a satisfactory plan to stabilize Obamacare, as opposed to continuing to undermine the markets. Even without having the votes to repeal Obamacare, Trump can do considerable harm to the success of the Affordable Care Act. So far Trump has greatly cut funding for outreach to promote signing up for the plan and his actions are causing an increase in health insurance premiums. This week his administration has also acted to cut back on the mandate to cover birth control.
If Democrats do work with Trump, they will have to make sure that they are not just enabling him to further reduce health care coverage. On the other hand, if Trump is really willing to diverge from Republican orthodoxy, rather than demanding preservation of the Affordable Care Act the better course would be to promote a single payer plan as proposed by Bernie Sanders. While unlikely to happen, Donald Trump just might go for the idea of going down in history for delivering such a great accomplishment while president.
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Republicans Surrender On Graham-Cassidy
September 26, 2017 — Ron Chusid
It was already obvious by Saturday when I last wrote about it that the votes were not going to be there for Republicans to pass Graham-Cassidy. It became official today. Mitch McConnell announced that the Republicans will not be holding a vote on the bill, disappointing Donald Trump.
Republicans still might attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act beyond the current September 30 deadline to do this under budget reconciliation. Vox explained in considerable detail how this might be done. However, this would make changing the tax law more complicated, making many Republicans reluctant to go this route. There are already aspects of Trump's plan which could cause serious headaches for many Republicans.
Last week Bill Cassidy faced the wrath of Jimmy Kimmel on health care. Last night, prior to the decision to cancel the vote on Graham-Cassidy, CNN held a debate on the law. Alternet reports that Bernie Sanders stole the show with quotes such as:
"These are wonderful gentlemen, and I know nobody up here wants to see anybody die. But you tell me what happens when somebody who has cancer, somebody who has a serious heart condition, somebody who has a life- threatening disease suddenly loses the health insurance that they have."
"This [current] system is designed to make billions of dollars in profits for the insurance industry. We spend 12 percent to 18 percent to administer the incredibly complex hundreds of plans that we currently have. And with these guys, if they got their way, there would even be more plans, more bureaucracy, more complexity, more money going to the insurance companies."
"So if we are serious about moving to a cost-effective universal health care, yeah, we do have to take on the insurance companies. They do not play a role in providing health care. Our money should be going to doctors, to nurses, to hospitals, not to the insurance industry or, in fact, the drug industry, which is charging us by far the highest prices in the world."
While we do not know what the Republicans might do next to try to strip people of their health care coverage, it is a safe bet that the insurance and pharmaceutical industries will not be supporting Bernie Sanders if he runs for president in 2020.
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Today's Good News–Graham-Cassidy Will Not Become Law And The World Is Not Going To End
A week ago we were faced with predictions both that the Republicans might be able to repeal the Affordable Care Act with their new plan and that the world was going to come to an end. Today it is looking like neither will occur.
It does not look like the Republicans have the votes to pass Graham-Cassidy. Rand Paul quickly announced he will vote against it because it does not go far enough in taking away everyone's health care coverage. Hopefully he remains as forceful in standing up to Donald Trump on issues where he has more sensible positions such as non-interventionism and civil liberties.
The real killer was when John McCain announced he would vote against this bill for the same reasons he voted against the previous Republican attempt to repeal Obamacare While his opposition is appreciated, before he is made out to be too much of a hero we must not forget that in 2008 he ran on a terrible health care plan which would have led to millions who had health care even before Obamacare losing their coverage.
Graham-Cassidy would lead to such terrible outcomes that other Republicans also remain undecided, making it very unlikely to pass. It becomes more difficult for Republicans to repeal Obamacare after the end of September, leading to pressure from conservative donors to make one more attempt.
Earlier in the week I posted two monologues from Jimmy Kimmel which did an excellent job in describing the failings of the Republican plan, including failure to guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions and allowing insurance companies to reinstate lifetime caps. The Daily Beast has described how Kimmel did his homework. Faced with Republican attacks, Kimmel returned to healthcare a third night on Thursday. Video of round three below:
Comments from Kimmel included:
For Donald Trump, this isn't about the Graham-Cassidy bill. It's about Obamacare, which he hates, because Obama's name is on it. He likes to have his name on things: buildings, vodka, you name it. At this point he would sign anything if it meant getting rid of Obamacare. He'd sign copies of the Quran at the Barnes and Noble in Fallujah if it meant he could get rid of Obamacare…I guarantee he doesn't know anything about this Graham-Cassidy bill. He doesn't know the difference between Medicare and Medicaid; he barely knows the difference between Melania and Ivanka.
As for the other prediction, David Meade has backed away from his earlier prediction and says that the world will not come to an end today:
David Meade, who claimed the world is ending Saturday when a mysterious planet collides with Earth, is now backtracking on the calamitous claim.
Meade said the world won't end on Sept. 23 after all, but instead Saturday will only mark the beginning of a series of catastrophic events to occur over several weeks.
"The world is not ending, but the world as we know it is ending," he told the Washington Post. "A major part of the world will not be the same the beginning of October."
Meade said his prediction is based on verses and numerical codes found in the Bible, specifically in the apocalyptic Book of Revelation. He said recent events, such as the solar eclipse and Hurricanes Irma and Harvey, are omens of the approaching apocalypse.
The significant number is 33, according to Meade.
Others made similar predictions about the beginning of a series of catastrophic events before November 8 and January 20, saying the significant number is 45.
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Jimmy Kimmel Again Becoming Major Defender Of Preserving Obamacare
If the latest Republican effort to strip people of their healthcare coverage fails, I Jimmy Kimmel just might become the front runner for the 2020 Democratic nomination. Jimmy Kimmel has once again been speaking out against the Republican efforts. First he had this monologue two nights ago:
Kimmel showed how Bill Cassedy was lying about his health care bill passing the "Jimmy Kimmel Test" with problems including failing to guarantee coverage of pre-existing conditions and failure to have a life time cap as are present under Obamacare. See the full monologe in the video above, with transcript here. Kimmel concluded:
But don't take my word for it. Here are just some of the organizations that oppose this Graham Cassidy Bill: the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association, the Arthritis Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis, the ALS Association, the March of Dimes, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Children's Hospital of LA. Basically, any group you've ever given money to thinks this is a bad idea. Do you trust them, or do you trust him? OK?
So if this bill isn't good enough for you, call your congressperson. That's the number, go to your congressperson — whoever he or she is — (202) 224-3121. You have to do this; you can't just click like on this video. Tell him this bill doesn't pass your test.
And Senator Cassidy, you were on my show, you seemed like you were a decent guy. But here's the thing. Nobody outside of your buddies in Congress wants this bill. Only 12% of Americans supported the last one, and this one is worse. Right now there's a bipartisan group of senators working to approve the healthcare system we have. We want quality, affordable healthcare. Dozens of other countries figured it out. So instead of jamming this horrible bill down our throats, go pitch in and be a part of that. I'm sure they could use a guy with your medical background. And if not, stop using my name. Because I don't want my name on it. There's a new Jimmy Kimmel test for you. It's called the lie detector test. You're welcome to stop by the studio and take it any time.
When Republicans attacked, including their mouthpieces at Fox, Kimmel responded last night:
While other late night comedians are frequently making jokes about Donald Trump and the Republicans, it is unusual for a late night talk show host to get into the details of policy to the degree that Kimmel has with health care. Dean Obeidallah says he is also doing a better job than the Democrats:
Jimmy Kimmel has done again what Congressional Democratic leaders cannot: thrust the debate over how disastrous the GOP's proposed healthcare plan would be for Americans with pre-existing conditions back into the national headlines. Sure, Democrats in Congress are objecting to the GOP proposal via press releases and on Twitter, but Kimmel has been clearly more effective at attracting media coverage on this issue…
Maybe if the Democrats had done as good a job selling the Affordable Care Act in the beginning, instead of going on the defensive, they wouldn't be in this position. Fortunately Bernie Sanders is speaking out forcibly about an even more comprehensive alternative, Medicare for All.
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"Beloved sons, today you adore and call upon the Holy Spirit, descended at Pentecost upon the Apostles and the disciples, gathered together with me in the Cenacle of Jerusalem. You are calling upon Him again in these times of yours, with confidence and perseverance, gathered together with me in cenacles of prayer, which are now spread in every part of the earth.
With my Marian Movement of Priests, I am today inviting all the children of the Church to gather together in a continuous cenacle of prayer with me, your heavenly Mother. I am inviting all the bishops, the priests, the religious and the faithful.
My Immaculate Heart is the place of this new, spiritual and universal cenacle. You must enter into it through your act of consecration, which commits you to me forever, so that I may unite my voice to yours in calling down upon the Church and upon all humanity the gift of a second Pentecost.
Only the Spirit of the Lord can bring back humanity to the perfect glorification of God. Only the Spirit of the Lord can renew the Church with the splendor of its unity and its sanctity.
Only the Spirit of the Lord can overcome the power and the victorious force of the huge Red Dragon, which, in this century of yours, has broken loose everywhere, in a formidable way, to seduce and ensnare all humanity.
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The huge Red Dragon has the diabolical task of taking all humanity away from the dominion of God, from the glorification of the Most Holy Trinity, from the full actualization of the plan of the Father who, by means of the Son, has created it for his glory.
Thus again today, from the mouths of infants and sucklings, the Lord receives his perfect praise."
"To everyone who consecrates himself to me I again promise salvation: safety from error in this world and eternal salvation"
On the 8th of May, 1972, Father Stefano Gobbi, a priest from Milan, Italy, was taking part in a pilgrimage to Fatima. While praying in the Chapel of the Apparitions for some priests who, besides having given up their own vocations, were attempting to form an association in rebellion against the authority of the Roman Catholic Church, an interior voice urged Fr. Gobbi to have confidence in the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
What Fr. Gobbi had just experienced was an interior locution. It is not an apparition or other communication perceived by the human senses, but a spiritual phenomenon present in the life of the Church and described in manuals of Catholic theology. The messages (interior locutions) are the gift by which God wishes to make something known to humanity, in Fr. Gobbi's particular case by means of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
In July 1973, Fr. Gobbi began to write down these interior locutions which he was receiving. The messages, dating from July 1973 to December 1997, are published in the book, "To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons."


Eating a late dinner may contribute to cardiometabolic risk in American Hispanics and Latinos. In a population-based study, people who consumed at least 30% of their energy after 6 pm had 23% higher odds of hypertension (OR 1.23, 95% CI 1.05-1.44) and 19% higher odds of prediabetes (OR 1.19, 95% CI 1.03-1.37) compared with those who ate less in the evening (American Heart Association's Scientific Session 2018, Chicago).
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