I listen to Texas news on the radio. The news about the wall say Trump is going to use eminent domain to take American's property to build the wal, so it will be built on IS proper... moreI listen to Texas news on the radio. The news about the wall say Trump is going to use eminent domain to take American's property to build the wal, so it will be built on IS property. Of course, the government has to pay property owners for the land. However, I see photos of Americans using the river for canoeing and fishing. If there is a wall there, it will be difficult to take your canoe over the wall. In some cases, like in the Big Bend National Park, it will be impossible. This wall seems like a "loser" for the US. Besides, sometimes, the river changes course. less
In a narrow result that divided along party lines, the Senate voted 49 to 48 to eliminate the regulation called the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule. Finalized in August and block... moreIn a narrow result that divided along party lines, the Senate voted 49 to 48 to eliminate the regulation called the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule. Finalized in August and blocked by a court order in October, the rule would limit the ability of companies with recent safety problems to complete for government contracts unless they agreed to remedies.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/republicans-poised-to-roll-back-worker-safety-regulations/2017/03/06/87a6c266-fd27-11e6-8f41-ea6ed597e4ca_story.html?utm_term=.ab867c9b2f3e less
Republican lawmakers in the US Senate approved a measure on Thursday designed to kill federal broadband privacy protections and allow internet service providers like AT&T... moreRepublican lawmakers in the US Senate approved a measure on Thursday designed to kill federal broadband privacy protections and allow internet service providers like AT&T and Verizon to sell your sensitive private information to the highest bidder. 50-48 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/senate-republicans-vote-to-allow-isps-to-sell-your-private-data
https://secure.politico.com/story/2017/03/donald-trump-obama-climate-change-policies-236570Today Trump signs an executive order directing federal agencies to stop reducing the carb... morehttps://secure.politico.com/story/2017/03/donald-trump-obama-climate-change-policies-236570Today Trump signs an executive order directing federal agencies to stop reducing the carbon pollution of electric utilities, oil and gas drillers, and coal miners. It instructs:
1. The EPA to rewrite tough rules that now make it impossible to build a new coal-fired power plant.
2. The Interior Department to end Obama’s moratorium on new coal mines on federal lands, among other steps. Trump’s order will resume federal coal leasing.
3. All federal regulators to stop using the “social cost of carbon,” which attempts to quantify the effects of climate change, in economic analyses of future rules.
But hardliners and moderates in the White House couldn't agree on some things:
1. Trump won’t tell the EPA to reconsider the underlying policy that lets it regulate carbon emissions — the 2009 “endangerment finding” in which the EPA declared that greenhouse gas pollution threatens human... less
Most countries have two parties which dominate government. Sometimes there's a minor party, like the Greens, or a number of splinter parties with their own axe to grind.If a ... moreMost countries have two parties which dominate government. Sometimes there's a minor party, like the Greens, or a number of splinter parties with their own axe to grind.If a person is dissatisfied with the two major parties is there any point voting for a candidate who has no chance of winning? Is the protest vote worthwhile?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jf76l Interesting debate as I say... and covered exactly what I was talkin about the other day... that it can be very hard to even talk abou... morehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jf76l Interesting debate as I say... and covered exactly what I was talkin about the other day... that it can be very hard to even talk about immigration and the various problems associated with it - without being called racist, hateful, negative or, as happened to me, being compared to Trump or Farage. And this is interesting because it highlights exactly the problem, there seems little opportunity for reasoned debate, in a climate where when one attempts to do that, one is shouted down or accused of really quite unpleasant things.. and that is something that is happening on a wide-scale, here - I had no idea, of course about elsewhere, just knew that here, it's increasingly acknowledged that people are afraid to talk about it..., I won't dwell on my own experience on here, in many ways that's irrelevant but that it highlighted exactly the point made in the radio prog - that it seems we cannot have even a reasoned debate without being accused of things. ... less
