more I learn about Vance, more I realize he would not have been able to get a top secret security clearance. To get one DOJ investigators ask questions, visit neighbors and relatives. A mother who was ODing and in prison after stealing opiods on her job, and with his drunken uncles, plus Vance’s psychological imbalance from a broken home life, changing his name often- he would not have gotten a high enough clearance to look at the kinds of documents he’ll see as VP if he gets in. Some of us remember shouting back in 2016 that Donald Trump also could not have gotten a top secret clearance with all his bankruptcies and rape accusations and settlements. Maybe that's why Trump et al liked Vance above other applicants for the VP job. Now they both can be compromised, which is how Vladimir Putin likes his tools. To me it's an interesting coincidence.
Monday, July 29, 2024
A Pres and VP who both cannot pass top security clearance is what we get if Republicans win. Hmm
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Friday, July 26, 2024
UN launches Climate Call to Action yesterday at Olympics, Sec'y Gen Guterres transcript here
(Another installment of the Transcript Project at CofA Blog, documenting our strange times in AI Generated print)
"This past Sunday Monday and Tuesday were the three hottest days on record. Extreme temperatures are no longer a one day one week or one month phenomenon. Extreme heat is the new abnormal."
"Today we are launching a Global Call To Action"
"Extreme Heat: UN Secretary-General's Call to Action" Streamed live on Jul 25, 2024 (link below)
António
Guterres: It's summertime but the living is no longer easy. This has been a
week of unprecedented heat. First the European Union's Copernicus climate
change service declared Sunday July 21st as the hottest day on record. Then on
Monday July 22nd the Mercury climbed even higher. And now we have just received
preliminary data indicating that Tuesday July 23rd was in the same range. In other
words this past Sunday Monday and Tuesday were the three hottest days on record.
But let's
face facts.
 |
| Guterres |
Extreme temperatures are no longer a one day one week or one month's phenomenon. If there is one thing that unites our divided world, it is that we are all increasingly feeling the fact that Earth is becoming hotter and more dangerous for everyone. Everywhere billions of people are facing an extreme heat epidemic, wilting under increasingly deadly Heat.
Heat waves with temperatures topping °50C around the world, that's 122° Fahrenheit and halfway to Boiling. This year we have seen a deadly Heatwave hit the Cil with spiking hospitalizations and death and broken temperature records across the United States reportedly displacing 120 million people and heat advisory Warnings.
Scorching
conditions have killed 1300 pilgrims during Hajj, shut down tourist attractions
in Europe sweet box cities, and closed schools across Asia and Africa,
impacting more than 80 million children.
Of course
summer heat is as old as the hills. But the world meteorological organization,
the intergovernmental panel on climate change, and others have documented a
rapid rise in the scale intensity frequency and duration of extreme heat events.
And it
comes against the background of ever Rising temperatures with June officially
the 13th consecutive months to break Global temperature records. Extreme heat
is increasingly tearing through economies, widening inequalities, undermining
the sustainable development goals, and killing people, in fact heat is
estimated to kill almost half a million people a year, and that's about 30
times more than tropical Cyclones.
We know
what is driving it: fossil fuel charged human induced climate change. And we
know it's going to get worse. Extreme heat is the new abnormal.
But the
good news news is that there are solutions. The good news is that we can save
lives and we can limit its impact.
And so
today we are launching a Global Call To Action with four areas of focus: first
caring for the most vulnerable.
Crippling
heat is everywhere but it doesn't affect everyone equally. Those most at risk
when the Mercury soars include the urban poor, pregnant women, people with disabilities,
older people, the very young, the sick, the displaced, and the impoverished who
often live in substandard housing without access to cooling.
For
example heat related deaths for people over 65 years of age increased around 85%
in 20 Years….
So we
must respond by massively increasing access to low carbon cooling, expanding
passive cooling such as natural solutions and Urban Design, and cleaning up
cooling Technologies while boosting their efficiency… slashing emissions and saving consumers trillions
US dollars a year.
END OF TRANSCRIPT
More from UN channel: Earth is becoming hotter and more dangerous for everyone, everywhere. Billions of people around the world are wilting under increasingly severe heatwaves driven largely by a fossil-fuel charged, human-induced climate crisis. Extreme heat is tearing through economies, widening inequalities, undermining the Sustainable Development Goals, and killing people.
The Call for Action calls for an urgent and concerted effort to enhance international cooperation to address extreme heat in four critical areas: Caring for the vulnerable - Protecting workers - Boosting resilience of economies and societies using data and science - Limiting temperature rise to 1.5°C by phasing out fossil fuels and scaling up investment in renewable energy.
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(Watch the entire Guterres speech on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?V=utcp_fomgfw )
Weblogged by Kay Ebeling
Former professional transcriber
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Thursday, July 25, 2024
Vance graduated Yale Law in 2013. In 2016 Hillbilly Elegy was published. Somewhere in between he connected with someone who connected him with Harper Collins publishers and Ron Howard movie director.
How did JD Vance get a book and movie deal out of nowhere? Who took his "Elegy" manuscript to Harper Collins and Ron Howard? That is Not Easy for a first time writer. Who wanted that book published in 2016 and made into a movie for 2020 release, and got the book publicized before anyone even knew who JD was? If anyone knows, please tell me.
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Vance is Dangerous; so is his book. Politico 2022 interview re Hillbilly Elegy
'Silas House: It’s a dangerous book because it’s a treatise in disguise. Lots of times when I would voice my opposition to the book, well-intentioned people, often liberal people, would say, “But it’s a memoir, it’s his family story — how can you negate his own story?” My response to that is I don’t negate the family story, and I think that if it had just been a memoir, it would be a powerful piece of writing and it would be his own proof. But the problem is it is woven through with dog whistles about class and race, gender. And if your ears are attuned to those dog whistles, you know exactly what he’s saying. If you’re not, then it can read like a heartwarming rags-to-riches story. And everything that we’ve learned since the book came out sort of proves that it was just laying the groundwork for this political career.'
Read the 2022 interview with Silas House, chair of Appalachian Studies at Berea College, Kentucky at Politico Magazine here
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/06/jd-vance-book-dangerous-00030374
As I wrote earlier, his book appealed to people who already were full of hate, in fact it was targeted at them. Like Fox News... another quote from House:
'he talks about his uncles, who are these drunks who fight everybody and they beat their wives, and then he calls them the embodiment of the Appalachian man. Well, as an Appalachian man, that’s deeply troubling to me, because that doesn’t embody Appalachian masculinity as I know it. It does embody the stereotypes of Appalachian masculinity over the last 150 years of media. And that’s sort of what I mean. It just sort of presses the buttons that are already there and made people feel really satisfied, in that it’s sort of like, “Oh, well, I knew this all along, and now somebody is solidifying it for me.” '
"It just sort of presses the buttons"
Information warfare. One more quote:
House: It’s dangerous because there’s such a lack of complexity in the book in a time when the national conversation lacks more and more nuance. There’s no nuance in the book. There’s a lot that’s false and intentionally misleading, and I always think that’s really dangerous when there’s intentional misinformation being shared. And I think he’s dangerous because he embodies all of that. And it seems to me that he’s willing to do whatever it takes to rise. And I can think of nothing more dangerous in a politician than that.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Does anyone know how JD Vance got his book published?
It's almost impossible to get a first manuscript to an agent or publisher, how did JD do that?
I think JD Vance is secretly Peter Thiel’s lover. Oops What? Did I say that, how awful of me. It's the PTSD, no impulse control.
Seriously Even Peter Thiel can't get through the blockades between first time authors and agents and publishers, I think. Vance's hillbilly book appeals to the ignorant who hate. And someone gets it published by Harper Collins when he's a nobody. I'm saying he might be a useful fool for Saudi/ Russia or even useful tool.
Vance was a corporal in a PAO unit in Iraq. Enemies often find spies in PAOs; as journalists make good tools for spies, and Vance's job was, not as an officer but enlisted so powerless, escorting int'l writers around Iraq war zones to help them with their articles. I think that's where he was recruited; he's a tool, for whom I don't know. But his rise to the top is Too Convenient and Unearned (take that, objectivists).
-ke
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Trump wanted to destroy the Republican Party from the start, looks like he succeeded in that one thing
By Kay Ebeling
The goal was to destroy the Republican party back in 2015 when Trump first came down the elevator. If I remember right, a LOT of pundits were saying that, even quoting anonymous sources. Donald Trump’s real purpose running for President to start with was to destroy the Republican Party, wonder if anyone else remembers that.
Now that Hulk Hogan headlined the Repub convention and their VP pick
is a con artist who conned the biggest con artist, I’d say Trump’s original goal was met. He's destroyed
the Republican Party.
Which bothers me, because I'm mostly a centrist, like to walk
the fine line as an Independent in the middle and have even voted now and then
for Republicans. HW Bush, I liked him, don’t remember why now but back then I liked
him.
Anyway. I'm glad the Romney and Bush and Arnold S side of the
party has stayed away from Trump. I'm enjoying the story now from my perch on
top of a mountain where I watch in a low rent room on three laptops while
gazing out the window at the glorious Tahoe sky.
I got to live through one of the most amazing periods in world history, born 1948 riding the planet all the way to this amazing final act. Hope it's the final act. I don't need anymore drama, just pass laws and stay out of the news, please, Congress. I want to just goof off for the rest of my life.
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Monday, July 22, 2024
Vance opiod nonprofit was a scam; More JD Vance facts from Ben Meiselas; Read transcript
[Funny just this AM I was thinking about JD Vance, it takes a con artist* to con a con artist, then I watched what Meidas Touch said about the VP nom in video: "WOW! Trump Campaign In HUGE PANIC over KAMALA ENERGY" The more one looks at JD Vance, the more dirt appears. -ke]
TRANSCRIPT starts at 6:40 on video
Ben Meiselas: Also if you look at JD Vance's background, he claims he's from Appalachia. he's really from the suburbs of Ohio [Middleton]. His whole life story, the Hillbilly Elegy it's like a total fraud and a total scam. and he worked in Silicon Valley after going to law school. he worked for Peter Thiel, made a lot of money doing that.
Then came back to Ohio,
started a sham charity that claimed to address the opioid epidemic in the state
but actually just exploited people, took money didn't give it to the community,
funded a researcher who actually works with Purdue Pharma, to put opioids back
into the community. And basically he used it as a sham to hire political
consultants and to launch his political career.
I mean just an utterly pathetic human being. And so I suppose a perfect pick for Donald Trump. also he previously called Donald Trump America's Hitler.
Watch video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-DvXmqfFX8&t=320s
[moretranscripts to come as we document conversations during this critical time of U.S. history in the making. ]
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Sunday, July 21, 2024
Kamala Harris accomplishments as VP
For persons wonderinig
THERE'S MORE
Get a better view of list on Twitter where I found it https://twitter.com/Kaylan_TX_/status/1815113269075685708
-ke
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'Trump is not subtle about his corruption' Dean Obeidallah today, linked here
Oligarchy on parade: Trump vows to make "life good" for Musk in exchange for massive campaign donation by Dean Obeidallah
'Trump has broadcasted to the oligarch class that if you make a huge donation to help him win in 2024, he will deliver the policies you want. Trump was referring to a report in the Wall Street Journal last Monday that Musk was planning to donate around $45 million a month to a pro-Trump super political-action committee called America PAC. Trump lavished praise on Musk, noting, “We have to make life good for our smart people, and he’s as smart as you get.”
'Thanks to some great reporting in May by The Washington Post. the paper reported that Trump had gathered “some of the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago Club” and there he told them point blank, if you make mass donations to my campaign, I will ensure that as President I will enact policies that make you even more money.'
Read more at Dean Obeidallah's Substack https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/oligarchy-on-parade-trump-vows-to?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share
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Peter Thiel created JD Vance the candidate; here are links to several sources
To me, the VP nominee being the creation of a German-American Libertarian in Silicon Valley is alarming. Read about it:
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