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turbinetree's JournalVoters in one English town warn London: 'Do not betray our Brexit'
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS JANUARY 24, 2019 / 1:21 AM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
Alex Fraser
CHESTERFIELD, England (Reuters) - As Britain grapples with whether to leave the European Union, some voters in an ancient English town have a message for the politicians in London: Do not betray Brexit.
The United Kingdom’s labyrinthine crisis over EU membership is approaching its finale with an extraordinary array of options including no-deal Brexit, a last-minute deal, a snap election, or a delay and new referendum.
In Chesterfield, a leave-supporting northern town which could take an economic hit if Britain dropped out of the EU, some voters were clear they would prefer to leave without a deal and would turn away from politics if Brexit was thwarted.
“It’s got to be no deal - and we are not all going to die and crumble. We are Great Britain remember!” said Valerie Quigley, 70, a leave supporter who traditionally votes for the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Theresa May.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-voters/voters-in-one-english-town-warn-london-do-not-betray-our-brexit-idUSKCN1PI0GL
amazing....................
To everyone in the Aviation industry, Pilots, Flight Attendants, Mechanics, Technicians
do you think it is time to have a "National Strike"....................to support the FAA, Custom Agents, FBI, TSA, ATC, USDA, etc......................they are all tied to your industry........................are you safe, is the public safe..................is your company safe ....................if something were to happen......................think about it.................do you think that you can maintain this stupid dangerous status quo...................?
As a former flight line mechanic working on a lot of commercial airplanes in my life..................do you want to be held responsible if something should happen, because of one orange temper tantrum baby in the white house, and one senate majority leader with 43 republicans senators thinking that it is just fine to screw with security at the terminals, eliminate and overload ATC , eliminate overload FAA inspectors for both check rides, and ground maintenance, eliminate and overload the TSA for passenger screening, have no custom inspections for baggage or people coming to and fro on international flights, lack of inspections of food such as produce by the USDA, or medical items, lack inspection on flight operations for cargo ................do you think that if something happens that if it was your Airline that has this problem, that you could survive.................go back to 9/11, two major carriers had to file for bankruptcy and merge to survive.................and the economy crashed.......................for over 5 days........................do you think that this situation of putting the public in danger because two individuals don't give a shit except for some wall and some political gamesmanship to a party is worth that.....................to the flying public...................
Do you think that this can last, and think nothing can happen, the odds are working working against this ..................are you safe....................?
Anti-Vaxxers Spread A Plague Of Ignorance
January 23, 2019 4:24 am / 0 Comments / Far Right, Featured Post, Government, Health, Medicine
Reprinted with permission from Creators.
An outbreak of measles four years ago at Disneyland focused attention on a growing health menace — the refusal of parents to vaccinate their children. The threat has gone international. The World Health Organization has just named the anti-vaccination movement among the 10 biggest global health crises.
Italy is ground zero, thanks to a law pushed by the far-right 5-Star Movement that ended compulsory vaccinations for children in public schools. Matteo Salvini, leader of its coalition partner, the League party, called mandatory vaccinations “useless and in many cases dangerous.”
The anti-vaxxer crusade has a diverse membership. In addition to traditional right-wingers and radical libertarians who say the decision to not immunize their children should be a matter of personal liberty, it includes rich progressives who view vaccinations as unhealthy. (Far more students in California’s well-to-do Capistrano Unified School District were found to be unvaccinated than in Santa Ana, its poorer neighbor.)
The “vaccine-hesitant” — the WHO’s politer term — often wave ignorant junk-science claims that vaccines can cause autism. This dangerous lie gained traction in a 1998 article published in the prestigious British journal The Lancet. It turned out that lawyers suing vaccine-makers were funding the author, Andrew Wakefield. Britain subsequently stripped Wakefield of the right to practice medicine.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/anti-vaxxers-spread-a-plague-of-ignorance/
Michigan does a legal about-face on climate change under new attorney general
Source: Think Progress
"Under my watch, Michigan will not be a party to lawsuits that challenge the reasonable regulations aimed at curbing climate change."
E.A. CRUNDEN
JAN 23, 2019, 11:15 AM
In a dramatic shift, Michigan is withdrawing from four lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as the state’s new Democratic leadership moves to make good on climate action.
Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) announced Tuesday that Michigan will drop the EPA lawsuits targeting federal air regulations which the the state joined under the previous Republican leadership. Those lawsuits include challenges to Obama-era rules curbing power plant emissions like mercury, methane emissions from oil fields, and limitations on greenhouse gases imposed by the Clean Power Plan (CPP) — all targets of the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks.
“Under my watch, Michigan will not be a party to lawsuits that challenge the reasonable regulations aimed at curbing climate change and protecting against exposure to mercury and other toxic substances,” said Nessel in a statement.
Nessel’s predecessor, Republican Bill Schuette, notably endorsed former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, who initiated the mass rollback of Obama-era environmental regulations. Schuette ran for governor in 2018 but lost to Democrat Gretchen Whitmer last November. Both Whitmer and Nessel touted environmental issues in their campaigns, highlighting access to clean water and efforts to address climate change in a state plagued by pollution and reeling from several water crises.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/michigan-lawsuits-climate-epa-attorney-general-495e517933b3/
Denver teachers vote to go on strike for first time in over two decades
Source: Think Progress
Teachers want a better compensation system.
CASEY QUINLAN
JAN 23, 2019, 10:20 AM
Only a few weeks into the new year, teachers in another major U.S. city are getting ready to take to the streets.
Denver Public School teachers voted late Tuesday to authorize a strike, after more than a year of negotiations failed to bring the union and school district together on issues of compensation. The teachers union, Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA), said 93 percent of its members approved the strike.
The earliest that teachers could strike is January 28. If teachers go on strike, it would be the first in 25 years and it would affect 71,000 students in the district.
The issues teachers are striking over are fairly unique to Denver, which uses a merit-based compensation system called “ProComp,” dating back to 2005. It gives one-time incentives for teachers beyond their case salary to work in hard-to-staff positions or teach in schools where students perform well on state tests. But the union said it wants a more traditional approach to salary structure so that pay is more likely to be under teachers’ control and based on expectations they understand.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/denver-teachers-strike-education-salaries-f01bd9403891/
Planet crash that made moon left key elements for life on Earth, scientists say
Most of carbon and nitrogen that makes up our bodies probably came from passing planet, researchers believe
The cosmic collision that made the moon left a host of elements behind on Earth that were crucial for life to emerge, US scientists have claimed.
The impact 4.4bn years ago is thought to have occurred when an itinerant planet the size of Mars slammed into the fledgling Earth, scattering a shower of rocks into space. The debris later coalesced into the moon.
Beyond an act that shaped the sky, the smash-up transferred essential elements to the Earth’s surface, meaning that most of the carbon and nitrogen that makes up our bodies probably came from the passing planet, the researchers believe.
Petrologists at Rice University in Texas reached their conclusions after running experiments on geochemical reactions under the high temperatures and pressures found deep inside a planet. They wanted to understand whether Earth acquired key elements from meteorites that slammed into Earth or through some other ancient route.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/23/planet-crash-that-made-moon-left-key-elements-for-life-on-earth-scientists-say
Saints fans file lawsuit to replay NFC championship game after missed call
Hearing is set for Monday over end to Saints’ loss to Rams
New Orleans businessman rents billboards critical of NFL
In the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary pass, two New Orleans Saints season ticket holders have asked a judge to reverse the result of the NFC championship game that sent the Los Angeles Rams to the Super Bowl, or order a replay.
Tuesday’s state court filing says the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, should implement a league rule governing “extraordinarily unfair acts.”
Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1, of the NFL guidelines state that the commissioner has the “sole authority to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary and/or corrective measures if any club action, non-participant interference, or calamity occurs in an NFL game which the Commissioner deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game.”
Remedies include reversal of a game’s result or the rescheduling of a game in its entirety or from the point when the act occurred. However, Saints fans may be disappointed by Article 2, which states that, “The Commissioner will not apply authority in cases of complaints by clubs concerning judgmental errors or routine errors of omission by game officials. Games involving such complaints will continue to stand as completed.”
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/22/new-orleans-saints-fans-lawsuit-nfl
Far right may exploit Brexit tensions, says UK counter-terror chief
Source: The Guardian
Britain’s counter-terrorism chief has said he fears the far right will exploit Brexit tensions with their propaganda triggering rises in hate crime and creating an atmosphere that terrorists can exploit.
The Metropolitan police assistant commissioner Neil Basu, head of counter-terrorism policing, told the Guardian he was concerned that far rightwing rhetoric from those lawfully allowed to operate will fuel tensions that spill over, in the same way Islamist propaganda incites terrorism.
He also said a no-deal Brexit leading to a loss of intelligence and data-sharing with Europe would leave its 27 nations and Britain less safe and was of “deep concern”.
Basu, who briefs the prime minister and home secretary regularly, said police were working to minimise the damage but operations would be slower and more cumbersome if Britain left without a deal – and ministers knew this.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/23/no-deal-brexit-incredibly-damaging-security-says-uk-counter-terror-head-neil-basu
Gee..............and in this country we have the FBI setting up food drops in offices, and no funds to protect the country because of the right wing .............amazing
Saints fans file lawsuit to replay NFC championship game after missed call
Source: The Guardian
Hearing is set for Monday over end to Saints’ loss to Rams
New Orleans businessman rents billboards critical of NFL
In the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary pass, two New Orleans Saints season ticket holders have asked a judge to reverse the result of the NFC championship game that sent the Los Angeles Rams to the Super Bowl, or order a replay.
Tuesday’s state court filing says the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, should implement a league rule governing “extraordinarily unfair acts.”
Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1, of the NFL guidelines state that the commissioner has the “sole authority to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary and/or corrective measures if any club action, non-participant interference, or calamity occurs in an NFL game which the Commissioner deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game.”
Remedies include reversal of a game’s result or the rescheduling of a game in its entirety or from the point when the act occurred. However, Saints fans may be disappointed by Article 2, which states that, “The Commissioner will not apply authority in cases of complaints by clubs concerning judgmental errors or routine errors of omission by game officials. Games involving such complaints will continue to stand as completed.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/22/new-orleans-saints-fans-lawsuit-nfl
Wealthy Brexiteers like James Dyson are jumping ship. Why might that be?
Jonathan Freedland
Dyson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nigel Lawson – the leave elite appears to want Brexit for everyone else but themselves
Let’s give James Dyson the benefit of the doubt. Let’s take at face value the assurances issued by his multibillion pound company – whose products involve the generation of hot air – as to why it is relocating its headquarters from Wiltshire to Singapore.
Apparently, it has “nothing to do with Brexit”. What’s more, it’s barely a move at all, since it will see only two people, both top executives, actually moving to Singapore. Dyson will continue to employ 4,000 people in the UK, many of them in research and development, and the relocation is really just about wanting to keep a closer eye on the firm’s investments in Asia. That it chose to do that in Singapore, where companies pay a mere 17% in tax – rather than, say, India or South Korea – is surely pure coincidence.
Let’s accept all that and agree that the Dyson decision is merely symbolic. What’s it symbolic of? First, it’s worth remembering the special place in Britain’s mythology that the company acquired early in its life. Before Dyson, so the story went, we were terrific at inventing bright ideas but rubbish at turning those ideas into profitable businesses. Brits would have the lightbulb moment, but when it came to manufacturing the actual bulbs, that work – and profit – would be shipped far away.
Then along came James Dyson, hailed by successive governments, who proved it didn’t have to be that way. A British idea produced a British business. Well, that story has now come full circle. With its headquarters in Singapore, Dyson will no longer be a British firm. Indeed, the CEO, Jim Rowan, has asked that from now on it be referred to as a “global technology company”.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/23/james-dyson-brexiteer-elite-brexit-rees-mogg
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Recall the gap between Jacob Rees-Mogg’s position as leader of the European Research Group and his stance as co-founder of, part-time worker for and 15% stakeholder in Somerset Capital Management – which has warned its investors of the dangers of a hard Brexit and which has now set up not one but two funds in Dublin. Recall too the advice from fellow arch-Brexiteer John Redwood, who has a sideline as chief global strategist for the Charles Stanley investment bank, suggesting a year after the Brexit referendum that those with money pull it out of Britain and “look further afield.”
Whether it’s Nigel Farage taking care to ensure two of his children can live, work and travel freely across the EU by having German passports, or Nigel Lawson, who lives in France, taking the precaution of applying for French residency, the pattern is familiar. It suggests a Brexiteer elite who believe that the pain of Brexit is for the little people. They are rich or powerful or connected enough to be insulated from the damage it will cause, making them free to sound off about its supposed benefits in the abstract – sovereignty! control! – while everyone else deals with the grim reality.
So Dyson and his base will be safe in Singapore, leaving Britain to deal with the consequences of the disastrous decision he demanded. With every day the mess of Brexit is becoming clearer, and it will take more than a high-priced vacuum cleaner to clear it up – no matter how much it sucks.
• Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist
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