Counties Seeking Economic Recovery

10/17/2024

Trump White House blocked the FBI from Investigating Kavanaugh
Free Speech For People has repeatedly called on the US House of Representatives to begin hearings on whether to impeach Justice Kavanaugh on multiple counts of sexual assault, perjury, and bringing the judiciary into disrepute. We renew that call today. Senator Whitehouse’s report confirms all the more why we must have an impeachment investigation against Justice Kavanaugh.

10/11/2024

Florida was once thought to be the future. The weather’s balmy in winter, the beaches are divine and there’s no personal income tax. All that and a lower cost of living had set off a sizeable migration of companies from New York, Chicago and California. Between 2021 and 2023, Florida was the fastest-growing state.
Now as a second monster hurricane in two weeks smashes the western coast, many Floridians have been turned into serial refugees. Florida is no stranger to the occasional big “blow,” but climate change may have completely rewritten the meteorological future, and it’s not sunny.
We can’t say no one expected this. Nor is the western coast the only area under threat. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projects that by 2100, more than 30% of Southeast Florida could be underwater, including much of Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Other more extreme scenarios put that figure closer to 70%.
Yet the extent of the threat has been kept under wraps by politicians unwilling to do the hard work.
Former Florida Gov. Rick Scott was said to have banned the use of “climate change” by the state’s government agencies. He denies doing that, but employees report being pressured not to use the term, especially in documents related to environmental and coastal policies.
Donald Trump issued a tweet in 2016 that called climate change a “hoax” created by China.
Project 2025, the blueprint for another Trump term, criticizes Joe Biden’s climate initiatives as “radical” and “extreme.” (Trump called it “the green new scam.”). The Project says, “The Biden Administration’s climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding.”
The document totally lost it over the Biden administration’s promotion of “international partnerships” to address the crisis. The transition to a low-carbon economy must be worldwide.
Project 2025 went so histrionic over Biden’s climate law that even big oil has been urging Trump not to gut it. The likes of Exxon Mobil, Occidental Petroleum and Phillips 66 oppose the Project’s call “to fully repeal recently passed subsidies in the tax code, including the dozens of credits and tax breaks for green energy companies.”
Major oil companies have themselves become part green-energy enterprises. They’re using the Inflation Reduction Act tax credits to invest in renewable fuel, carbon capture and hydrogen. These are expensive ventures that need government support to get off the ground.
Back in Florida, fierce weather has raised insurance premiums by as much as 400% over five years. As a result, Floridians are having an extra hard time selling their properties. And those rebuilding homes smashed up by storms are finding that the policies have become a lot tougher, with higher deductibles and stricter limits on what’s covered. Few cover flood damage. (Few homeowners have separate flood insurance issued by FEMA.)
Personal wealth goes only so far in protecting people from dislocation. Dynasty Financial Partners was one of the companies that left New York City in 2019 for St. Petersburg, Florida. Its chief executive lost his home in Hurricane Helene. The family moved into a cramped condo downtown. As Hurricane Milton barreled their way, they had to evacuate again.
First Street foundation reports that 3 million Americans became climate migrants between 2000 and 2020 — many of whom lived far from coastlines. Texas Hill Country, for one, is known as Flash Flood Alley. Entire blocks have been hollowed out of residents. Meanwhile, Progressive says it will join others no longer writing home insurance policies in Texas.
And the world saw how Hurricane Helene visited devastation on lovely Asheville, North Carolina, up there in the mountains, far from landfall in Florida’s Big Bend area.
Climate change is coming for Florida and elsewhere. Americans can confront the crisis or not. The weather doesn’t care.
— Froma Harrop is a syndicated columnist with Creators.

10/01/2024

Americans in the southeastern part of the country are struggling with the wreckage caused by Hurricane Helene. At least 119 people have died and hundreds more are missing after the huge hurricane pummeled Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, destroying many homes and devastating communities. The death toll could surpass 600, and more than 2 million people remain without power which will take weeks to restore. Such storms could be avoided if the DOE would willingly work with new concept technologies by supporting validation demonstrations. The small firm at www.AAECorp.com has had technology that could slow and then stop induced climate change since 1990 but DOE policy seems to be focused on large firms that can pay the way for their children to attend college. See www.aaecorp.com for more.

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09/25/2024

Dear Friend of The Nation,

On October 3, Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) and co-sponsors will host an online national teach-in, “MAGA and Project 2025: Historical Perspectives and Present Dangers.”Our goal is to educate the public, and students in particular, about the origins of the U.S. radical right, the MAGA movement, and the Project 2025 policy plan prepared by the Heritage Foundation for a second Trump administration.

09/25/2024

Kamala Harris' Promises 'Bold Action' on Climate After Home Targeted by Protesters
Story by Jesus Mesa
Kamala Harris' Promises 'Bold Action' on Climate After Home Targeted by Protesters
Story by Jesus Mesa
Vice President Kamala Harris has vowed to take significant action on climate change following a demonstration outside her Los Angeles home.
On Monday, shortly after youth activists from the Sunrise Movement staged a protest outside Harris' Brentwood residence—bringing a burnt couch and ash from nearby wildfires to symbolize the devastation caused by climate change—Harris responded on Twitter.
"Our young leaders have grown up knowing only the climate crisis. They understand what's at stake for their future. As president, I will confront the climate crisis with bold action, building a clean energy economy, advancing environmental justice, and increasing resilience to climate disasters," Harris posted on X.
The protest, made up of a group of 25 people, aimed to push the vice president to present a climate plan addressing the ongoing wildfire crisis and broader impacts of climate change, particularly in Southern California.
One of the protesters, Corina McDonald, 24, whose home was nearly destroyed in the Bridge Fire, urged Harris to meet directly with residents and commit to a concrete plan.
"Kamala Harris must visit our neighborhoods to convince us that she cares," McDonald said. "She needs to meet us face-to-face and announce a clear plan to prevent climate destruction while creating good jobs and transitioning the country to 100% renewable energy."

09/06/2024

Project 2025 is anti-American and anti-environment and should not be passed. But living in Red State Kansas I doubt this is of any real concern to most of my elected officials. Republicans are only out to protect the super-rich and not the environment and many Dems are DINOS, Democrats in name only. Les Blevins, Lawrence Kansas

08/24/2024

Hi, I'm Les Blevins,

Big really difficult problems need fixing.
Simplicity is good but often overlooked.
Disruption is needed on the power grid.
I am a mechanic and very good at fixing.
I can enable fixing the climate problems.
I trained for this task, since before 1980.
I've developed special tools for this task.
They are special devices no one else has.
We can stop climate change - if we want.
We must first want to fix climate change.
And we must save money in doing so too.
Otherwise, we really can’t afford to do it.

See my most recent R&D prototype at www.aaecorp.com

As the need to decarbonize clashes with soaring energy demands, the world faces an unprecedented energy challenge requiring disruption and a vast amount of capital.

And private investors are poised to play a pivotal role in supplying the required money resources amounting to around $4.3Trillion.

In the UK, this energy conundrum is particularly acute for the newly seated Labor government, which intends to bolster the nation’s energy security while fulfilling its own climate-policy pledges, all the while facing a yawning £22 billion (about $28 billion) hole in its budget.
Even before new finance minister Rachel Reeves recently acknowledged that the UK’s finances were “worse than expected,” she made it clear that the government would lean on private investors to reach its development goals. The UK alone is estimated to need about £900 billion in capital outlays to hit its net-zero target by 2050.
The UK is almost a microcosm of a worldwide energy transition quandary—where the amount of investment needed, globally, is closer to $125 trillion. While each market faces its unique set of unique challenges, circumstances and advantages, the same structural trends and questions remain: Where do we get the money?
Answer: we get it by no longer spending our money for fossil fuels and fixing the damages they cause.
That dilemma can be seen in two ways. First, there’s the question of how to fund new sources of renewable energy and build the accompanying storage infrastructure to support those new sources.
Second, the world must modernize power grids to handle more demand stemming from things like the proliferation of electric vehicle charging networks and power-hungry data centers fueling digitalization and AI adoption. This can only be done through modernizing the power grid at the grid edge.

Regards

Les Blevins
I’m the Founder of Advanced Alternative Energy,
PLANET DOCTORS, and Global 21st Century Society
You can ask question by email to [email protected] when you place “QUESTIONS” in the subject line. Or you can ask question by email to [email protected] when you place “QUESTIONS” in the subject line. Or if you wish to help you may call me at
785-842-1943 or my cell at 785-393-8811-- and leave a message if/when I’m out.

08/24/2024

See this little girl?

I predict she will defeat Donald Trump and put this nation on the right track by making it Great Again.

08/15/2024

More opposition to Local Renewable Energy Projects is now ‘widespread and growing’ says Columbia University report. Some apparently seem to realize that wind and solar are not as beneficial as once thought. This may be due to rapidly growing global temperature rises that are increasing more rapidly after we’ve started to deploy more wind and solar farms.

08/08/2024

Shock poll shows who is taking the lead in the Trump-Harris race
Kamala Harris has opened up an eight-point lead over Donald Trump, according to a stunning new poll. Among likely voters, Harris is on 50 percent and Trump 42 percent, the Marquette Law School Poll published on Wednesday found.

07/27/2024

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Donald Trump's new party line is, "I have nothing to do with Project 2025." But someone should have told his running mate J.D.Vance.

A new book about Project 2025 by the plan's architect, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts, is about to be released, and guess who wrote the foreword? J.D. Vance

In the book, Vance touts the Project 2025 plan as a "a genuinely new future for conservatism," and he writes, "We are now all realizing that it's time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon."3

This is the man Trump chose to be second in command for the White House, and it is clear—from Vance to Stephen Miller to 140 other Trump administration officials in charge of the plan—all Project 2025 roads lead to Trump.4

We not only need to warn voters about Project 2025 but to ensure they understand that this is Trump's plan. We're showing voters the difference between a future under Trump's Project 2025 and a future of progress under President Kamala Harris.

07/21/2024

Today utility companies and monopoly corporations utilize the wealth they extracted from the public to purchase high level political favors and influence legislators to act against the public’s interests! Please take action now to stop this criminal use of your money>>
Instead of focusing on their constituents needs and preventing pollution and climate change, utility companies and monopolies are pouring MILLIONS of the public’s dollars into lobbying and campaign efforts to pressure legislators to prioritize the monopoly PROFITS they are taking from the public over the urgent and real needs of the people they are supposed to be serving.
We the people need the US government to ban utility companies and other monopolies from making political influencing contributions that are keeping us dependent on them for energy.