:^))
Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
Puerto Rico Gets Coal, Diesel, and Debris for Christmas
Instead of colorful lights, this holiday season in Puerto Rico will be marked by darkness and pollution. Is the EPA doing enough?
https://newrepublic.com/article/146361/puerto-rico-gets-coal-diesel-debris-christmas
The Tax Bill’s Gift to Big Coal
The legislation is a boon to fossil fuel companies not only because of what it includes, but what it doesn't.
“Despite rhetoric about a supposed war on coal, federal and state governments spent on average more than $4 billion annually incentivizing coal production in 2015 and 2016,” that report reads. The incentives preserved in the tax package include a nearly $1 billion annual subsidy for coal leasing in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, which accounts for nearly 40 percent of the country’s coal production, and $100 million annually for the production of so-called “clean coal,” which does not exist. A combined $730 million in annual expenditures to cover shortfalls in coal miners’ pensions and black lung disability coverage. “This support for workers is critical,” Oil Change’s report reads, “but industry should pay for it.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/146388/tax-bills-gift-big-coal
2017 Was a Big Year for Scrubbing Science from Government Websites. Here’s the List.
Are the changes routine, rebranding, or censorship?
Whenever a new administration takes charge, government websites are often revised. But during the Trump administration’s first year in office, a striking number of references to science, climate, energy, and the environment have all but disappeared from various governmental websites.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/12/2017-was-a-big-year-for-scrubbing-science-from-government-websites-heres-the-list/
16 major environmental protections cut in 2017
Climate change initiatives were the most targeted by the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump has spent the past year steadily undoing Obama-era environmental protections, especially rules designed to fight climate change. By law, agencies must go through a lengthy process to rescind or rewrite many rules, but executive orders and other policies are easier to erase. Some of the rollbacks have major implications for the West and public lands.
Here we take a look at some of the most important rollbacks of the past year:
http://www.hcn.org/articles/energy-and-industry-16-environmental-protections-the-trump-administration-cut-in-2017
Trump's progress report: his impact so far and what to watch for next year
What may be America’s strangest presidency ever has been a radical departure – in tone if not in substance – not least over race, the media and the environment.
"Trump has taken a buzzsaw to Barack Obama’s environmental legacy, most obviously by announcing that America would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement; with Nicaragua and Syria recently signing up, the US is now the only country to stand outside it. The president has also declared an end to the so-called “war on coal”, lifted the ban on mining companies dumping waste in rivers and streams, approved the Keystone XL pipeline, cancelled a rule that would have helped prevent endangered whales and sea turtles from becoming entangled in fishing nets and drastically shrunk two national monuments in Utah".
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/29/trumps-america-his-impact-so-far-and-what-to-watch-for-in-2018
Alaska’s Arctic national wildlife refuge now has a $1bn price tag on it.
‘Alaskans have been trying to drill here for decades, using one crazy rationale after another.’ Photograph: Scott Dickerson/Getty Images/Design Pics RF
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/20/alaskas-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-1bn-price-tag
E.P.A. Officials, Disheartened by Agency’s Direction, Are Leaving in Droves
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/climate/epa-buyouts-pruitt.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fclimate&action=click&contentCollection=climate®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront
New drive to privatize Indian reservations has much in common with past efforts to steal Native land.
A fresh effort to pry more land from the indigenous people of the United States is on the Trump regime’s agenda. Behind the idea is yet another of the centuries-long rip-offs of Indian land and destruction of tribes. The real benefits of the privatization would accrue to non-Indian businesses, including the extractive industries.
In particular, such a scheme would favor fossil fuel corporations. Perhaps 20 percent of the nation’s oil and gas reserves as well as vast coal deposits are found on reservations, even though these only make up 2 percent of the U.S. land base. Privatizing reservations meshes nicely with the Trump team’s moves to deregulate energy development.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/1725310
EPA Considers Allowing Bee-Killing Pesticide to Be Sprayed on 165 Million Acres of U.S. Farmland.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/20/1726138/-EPA-Considers-Allowing-Bee-Killing-Pesticide-to-Be-Sprayed-on-165-Million-Acres-of-U-S-Farmland
Trump Vows to Kill 50 Years of Federal Health and Safety Protections
President Trump wants to set the regulatory clock back to 1960.
https://www.alternet.org/environment/trump-vows-kill-50-years-federal-health-and-safety-protections
To round out a year of rollbacks, the Trump administration just repealed key regulations on fracking.
A Halliburton wellhead is visible at a fracking site in Midland, Tex. (Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle/AP)
On the last business day of the year, the Interior Department rescinded a 2015 Obama administration rule that would have set new environmental limitations on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on public lands.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/12/29/to-round-out-a-year-of-rollbacks-the-trump-administration-just-repealed-key-regulations-on-fracking/?utm_term=.e81a4ef122e0
Lolol If it wasn't so dire it would be hilarious, it's a full court press justifying anything that is for the destruction/reduction and elimination of government regulations in every facet of influence it has.
Used to think it was an elimination of anything Obama era connected/related, but it goes way beyond that starting point.
We're talking about the continuation of the GWB aerial attack and sidelining of the Nixonian generated "Clean Air and Water Acts"
Pendulum swing is happening in a big way.
US EPA To Review Clean Air Act & Clean Water Act In Search Of “Regulatory Burdens”
“The Interior Department submitted what it called an ‘energy burdens’ report to the president, which outlines some Obama-era regulations it has started to reverse or reform, or has plans to. This includes lifting the moratorium on coal leases on federal land, reviewing regulations on fracking on federal and tribal land, developing a five-year plan for offshore drilling and streamlining the federal leasing program and permitting process.”
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/10/31/us-epa-review-clean-air-act-clean-water-act-search-regulatory-burdens/
How Scott Pruitt turned the EPA into one of Trump’s most powerful tools
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/under-scott-pruitt-a-year-of-tumult-and-transformation-at-epa/2017/12/26/f93d1262-e017-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-national%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.89acc0fd8936
Bottom line is just like the GWB administration was beholden to big oil [IE: the 50+ meetings in the white house with executive privilege that gave us Fracking, bypassing the clean water act with regards to fracking fluids] The Trump Administration is all that and a bag of fries on turbo steroids, attacking any regulations that inhibit any industry in all sectors with regards to profit margins, all in the name of $Making America Great Again$.
It's all about $Money$, $Power$ and $Control$, everything else is window dressing.
Check out the bolies, they are all underneath the current candle wrapped up tight spring loaded and ready for takeoff.
1st gap fill @ .003
2nd gap fill @ .0051 [Huge Gap] to .0072
3rd gap fill just under .01
Blue Sky Breakout @ .014
A/D is off the hook Parabolic along with the OBV.
This chart is ready to rock and roll into 2018!
Happy New Years folks!
M-
https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/PDXP/technical-chart?plot=CANDLE&volume=total&data=DO&density=ML&pricesOn=1&asPctChange=0&logscale=0&indicators=OBV;PTP(50);ACCUM;CHKMF(20);MFI(14,100);RSI(14,100);BBANDS(20,2);EXPMA(9);HLMA(10,8);BOLLW(20,2);SMA(20)&sym=PDXP&grid=1&height=500&studyheight=100
California set for New Year's buzz with recreational marijuana sales
http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN1EN0VZ
California pot shops roll out hoopla as sales set to start
http://www.vcstar.com/story/money/business/2017/12/29/california-pot-shops-roll-out-hoopla-sales-set-start/989125001/
Will Legal Cannabis Thrive Or Get Shutdown? 2018 Will Tell
https://www.forbes.com/sites/julieweed/2017/12/26/will-legal-cannabis-thrive-or-get-shutdown-2018-may-tell-us/#586f364071b4
These States Are Likely To Legalize Marijuana In 2018
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomangell/2017/12/26/these-states-are-likely-to-legalize-marijuana-in-2018/#4e666801032c
2018 is likely to be one of the most active years to date for marijuana legislation, and lawmakers in a number of states have already gotten a head start and begun prefiling bills for new sessions that begin in January.
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/state-lawmakers-already-filing-marijuana-bills-2018/
Chart hitting resistance levels, pop & drop double bottom coming from profit takers again, buying opp in mid trip z's for reloads.
https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/WOFA/technical-chart?plot=HLWCDL&volume=total&data=DO&density=M&pricesOn=1&asPctChange=0&logscale=0&indicators=SMA(20);SMA(50);SMA(100);SMA(200);CHKMF(20);SRSI(14,20);TRIX(15);BBANDS(20,2);MACD(12,26,9);OI;PTP(50);ST&sym=WOFA
If E-Trade has FTD's or Naked Shorts, then they are trying to cover them, if other brokers have already issued dividends to their members, then why hasn't E-Trade? If they are attempting to cover before the end of the fiscal year, then you're going to see volume increasing expeditiously after Christmas and after New Years.
#msg-137154223
"Yep! finally someone that knows how it works with brokers MM's air shares and naked shorts. Some say it's just MM's making a market. Ever since stocks started trading electronically there has been a whole lot of skirting of the rules. I heard these new Cryptocurrencies could soon start tracking all shares instantly and fix these market problem, of course the ones that have been benefiting don't want this to happen. Look at this months UNGS naked shorts. Almost 100% this month.
Yesterdays numbers have not shown up yet UNGS had some nice volume yesterday. I'm interested in seeing if they covered".
http://otcshortreport.com/company/UNGS
"One thing is for sure Shorts hate dividends and that may be the very reason E-trade is trying to hold up the divvies.
Good Luck and Happy Trading"!
UNGS - US NATURAL GAS CORP KY Status $$ACTIVE$$
http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=USNATURALGASKY%20P100000114691&aggregateId=domp-p10000011469-b631772e-9cab-4b67-af47-cbc66bf1b03a&searchTerm=%20US%20Natural%20Gas%20Corp%20KY&listNameOrder=USNATURALGASKY%20P100000114691
http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/GetDocument?aggregateId=domp-p10000011469-b631772e-9cab-4b67-af47-cbc66bf1b03a&transactionId=p10000011469-re-c16757cf-e7e7-4daa-95ab-213af3bc0890&formatType=PDF
"Spinoff on Jan 5 for Shareholders of Record" 1 share of KY for 500 owned of UNGS. Filings are going to be updated along with registration.
"The Company has elected to have KY $Merge With$ or to be $Acquired$ as a wholly owned subsidiary by a company currently trading and listed on the OTC Markets-Pinksheets".
https://www.otcmarkets.com/financialReportViewer?symbol=UNGS&id=184588
If E-Trade has FTD's or Naked Shorts, then they are trying to cover them, if other brokers have already issued dividends to their members, then why hasn't E-Trade? If they are attempting to cover before the end of the fiscal year, then you're going to see volume increasing expeditiously after Christmas and after New Years.
#msg-137154223
"Yep! finally someone that knows how it works with brokers MM's air shares and naked shorts. Some say it's just MM's making a market. Ever since stocks started trading electronically there has been a whole lot of skirting of the rules. I heard these new Cryptocurrencies could soon start tracking all shares instantly and fix these market problem, of course the ones that have been benefiting don't want this to happen. Look at this months UNGS naked shorts. Almost 100% this month.
Yesterdays numbers have not shown up yet UNGS had some nice volume yesterday. I'm interested in seeing if they covered".
http://otcshortreport.com/company/UNGS
"One thing is for sure Shorts hate dividends and that may be the very reason E-trade is trying to hold up the divvies.
Good Luck and Happy Trading"!
UNGS - US NATURAL GAS CORP KY Status $$ACTIVE$$
http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=USNATURALGASKY%20P100000114691&aggregateId=domp-p10000011469-b631772e-9cab-4b67-af47-cbc66bf1b03a&searchTerm=%20US%20Natural%20Gas%20Corp%20KY&listNameOrder=USNATURALGASKY%20P100000114691
http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/GetDocument?aggregateId=domp-p10000011469-b631772e-9cab-4b67-af47-cbc66bf1b03a&transactionId=p10000011469-re-c16757cf-e7e7-4daa-95ab-213af3bc0890&formatType=PDF
"Spinoff on Jan 5 for Shareholders of Record" 1 share of KY for 500 owned of UNGS. Filings are going to be updated along with registration.
"The Company has elected to have KY $Merge With$ or to be $Acquired$ as a wholly owned subsidiary by a company currently trading and listed on the OTC Markets-Pinksheets".
https://www.otcmarkets.com/financialReportViewer?symbol=UNGS&id=184588
If E-Trade has FTD's or Naked Shorts, then they are trying to cover them, if other brokers have already issued dividends to their members, then why hasn't E-Trade? If they are attempting to cover before the end of the fiscal year, then you're going to see volume increasing expeditiously after Christmas and after New Years.
"Yep! finally someone that knows how it works with brokers MM's air shares and naked shorts. Some say it's just MM's making a market. Every sense stocks started trading electronically there has been a whole lot of skirting of the rules. I heard these new Cryptocurrencies could soon start tracking all shares instantly and fix these market problem, of course the ones that have been benefiting don't want this to happen. Look at this months UNGS naked shorts. Almost 100% this month.
Yesterdays numbers have not shown up yet UNGS had some nice volume yesterday. I'm interested in seeing if they covered".
http://otcshortreport.com/company/UNGS
"One thing is for sure Shorts hate dividends and that may be the very reason E-trade is trying to hold up the divvies.
Good Luck and Happy Trading"!
UNGS - US NATURAL GAS CORP KY Status "ACTIVE"
http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=USNATURALGASKY%20P100000114691&aggregateId=domp-p10000011469-b631772e-9cab-4b67-af47-cbc66bf1b03a&searchTerm=%20US%20Natural%20Gas%20Corp%20KY&listNameOrder=USNATURALGASKY%20P100000114691
http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/GetDocument?aggregateId=domp-p10000011469-b631772e-9cab-4b67-af47-cbc66bf1b03a&transactionId=p10000011469-re-c16757cf-e7e7-4daa-95ab-213af3bc0890&formatType=PDF
Ok so, "Spinoff on Jan 5 for Shareholders of Record" 1 share of KY for 500 owned of UNGS? And filings are going to be updated along with registration.
"The Company has identified several publicly traded entities for its proposed transaction".
What does this mean? Possible Reverse Merger?
https://www.otcmarkets.com/financialReportViewer?symbol=UNGS&id=184588
Climate Disruption Rings in the ''New Arctic''
"A group of polar scientists recently met in New Orleans to share information and provide an update on the status of the Arctic.
Their prognosis was dire. The Arctic is often seen as the world's archetypal freezer, but that is now a thing of the past. The entire region is now on a trajectory toward an ice-free state.
In releasing its annual report on the Arctic, Arctic Report Card 2017, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) made several very clear assessments".
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42984-climate-disruption-rings-in-the-new-arctic
Arctic's Temperature Continues To Run Hot, Latest 'Report Card' Shows
"They say the North Pole continues to warm at an alarming pace — twice the rate as the rest of the planet, on average. This year was the Arctic's second-warmest in at least 1,500 years, after 2016.
Researchers say there was less winter ice in the Arctic Ocean than ever observed. And ocean water in parts of the polar Barents and Chukchi seas was a whopping 7 degrees Fahrenheit higher than just a few decades ago".
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/12/570119468/arctics-temperature-continues-to-run-hot-latest-report-card-shows?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2041
Pesticides Linked to Declining Bee Populations Also Threaten Birds and Small Mammals.
The EPA released preliminary scientific assessments of four chemicals from the neonicotinoid or "neonic" class of insecticides on Friday as part of an ongoing review that environmentalists and farmers are watching closely. Previous EPA assessments echoed research showing that neonics can harm the bees we rely on to pollinate crops when sprayed on cotton and certain fruits and vegetables.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42959-pesticides-linked-to-declining-bee-populations-also-threaten-birds-and-small-mammals
Federal Court Hears Oral Arguments in Climate Change Lawsuit From Young People
Twenty-one people between the ages of 10 and 21 are suing the federal government for violating their rights by contributing to climate change.
https://www.seeker.com/earth/federal-court-hears-oral-arguments-in-climate-change-lawsuit-from-young-people
Trump officials quash litigation rule for farms
The interim final rule prevented farmers from having to prove in court the company’s actions not only harmed them individually, but also harmed competition throughout the entire industry.
Mark Dopp, senior vice president for regulatory and scientific affairs and general counsel for the North American Meat Institute, said the rule would have been “extremely detrimental” for the meat industry.
Dopp noted the rule contradicted the rulings of eight federal appellate courts, which all said an injury to competition was necessary to bring a claim under the Packers and Stockyards Act. Fear of litigation from lowering the burden of proof, he said, would have kept companies from entering into individualized contracts with farmers.
But advocates say the interim final rule marked the first step in creating a culture of accountability, particularly in the poultry industry, where they say farmers are forced to compete against each other in what’s often a rigged system.
Sally Lee, a director of the contract agriculture reform program at the farm advocacy group RAFI-USA, said big companies provide farmers with the chicks, feed and veterinary services to raise birds to slaughter weight — about six pounds for broiler chickens.
Under the tournament system currently in place, farmers are then pooled together and ranked by who raised the biggest birds for the least amount of cost to the company.
Lee said those who cost the company the least make more than the average base pay promised in their contract, while those who cost the company more make less. She said the weight of the birds largely depends on how much feed the farmer is given and if the chicks were healthy to begin with.
Rudy Howell, who raises chickens for Perdue on a farm named after his “daddy-in-law,” in Rockingham, N.C., said his pay can fluctuate by about $10,000 per flock, which he says is equivalent to about 110,000 chicks. RAFI-USA put Howell and another farmer, Reid Phifer, in contact with The Hill.
Howell believes he’s been getting less feed than the company is ticketing him for.
But Perdue countered Howell’s accusation, telling The Hill that farmers can put scales on their feed bins and that pay is determined using a standard chick, feed and fuel cost.
The Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyard Administration said it has decided not to take any action “at this time” on another rule proposed in December, which mapped out what criteria the Agriculture secretary can consider when determining whether the tournament system for poultry growers is fair.
“We continue to review the comments received and analyze current business practices to determine whether specific regulation is necessary to ensure that these systems are not unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive,” a USDA spokesperson said in an statement to The Hill.
Perdue says its poultry contracts are designed to insulate farmers from most of the financial risks associated with raising chickens, such as volatile grain and poultry markets, while providing a stable income and rewarding top performers.
“Under the contract growing relationship, Perdue delivers day-old chicks to the farms and provides feed, veterinary care and advice,” Andrea Staub, a company spokeswoman, said in a statement.
“Farmers in turn, are responsible for providing housing that meets Perdue’s standards and for caring for the birds on a daily basis,” she continued.
But Lee, of RAFI-USA, said chicken houses cost about $250,000 each and are often debt-financed. The loans payments, she said, are usually based on the base pay promised in the farmer’s contract.
Farmers argue they are then forced to make expensive upgrades to their facilities on a company’s whim, driving them further into debt, or risk losing their contracts.
Perdue said its contract poultry operation is like any other business, in that farmers need to reinvest in their operations to remain competitive.
“In addition, standards related to food safety, bird health and welfare and environmental stewardship change over time as a result of, among other things, advances in animal husbandry, changing consumer and customer expectations and new laws and regulations,” Staub said.
“However, Perdue often provides no-interest financing and other incentives to assist our farmers with necessary upgrades,” she said.
The National Chicken Council, a trade group for the industry, defended the tournament system.
“It’s a performance-based system,” the group’s spokesman, Tom Super, said via email.
“It makes no sense for a company to do anything that would jeopardize the success of the farmer. The company’s ultimate success is directly tied to the success of the farmer in raising healthy chickens.”
Super claims most farmers are happy and prosper raising chickens in partnership with companies.
“Business under the current contract structure has given thousands and thousands of farm families the opportunity to live in rural America and operate profitable businesses that allowed them to build nice homes, expand other aspects of their farm enterprises and put their children through college,” he said.
“We have thousands of people on waiting lists to be contract broiler farmers,” he added.
But Phifer, a poultry farmer who raises chickens in North Carolina for Pilgrim’s Pride, said most farmers don’t know what they are getting themselves into.
“Folks are so uneducated in growing poultry for large integrators. Everyone wants to be their own boss, but they don’t realize they are going to be told every move to make and when to make it,” he said.
Now, thanks to the Trump administration, he said farmers have no recourse.
This quote from your article tells me the problems existed before Trump became President.
Trump’s administration made sure to do away with important Obama-era protections for small farmers.
You may want to take a look at the embedded article links that back up the statements in the article before you pass judgement on what you think the article tells you.
Straight up embedded link, that apparently you didn't read.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Turkey farmers facing squeeze after Trump kills agriculture rules
"A USDA decision is giving significant power to the multibillion-dollar meat industry, potentially crushing the smaller turkey farmers".
"Ike Horst raises 22,000 turkeys a year on his farm in the rolling hills of south-central Pennsylvania, selling them to a processing company that was providing him with enough of a nest egg that he hoped he could sell the farm and retire.
But a Trump administration decision to block proposed agriculture regulations may blow up those plans, preserving the multibillion-dollar meat industry’s power over the smaller turkey farmers whose birds will grace the tables in millions of American homes this Thanksgiving.
Ok, but what about the farmers which is what the article was all about, did you actually read it before you lamb basted me for posting from one of your links for flagged websites of a liberal persuasion?
It was all about multigenerational family farms going under as a direct result of this administrations policies or actually the removal of them that are having a direct affect on their viability.
But of course we don't want to talk about anything that sheds a bad or negative light on the Trump Administration do we?
Just please read the article and the embedded links and tell me just what is not factual in them.
What could be more "American" than a family farm?
Of course the direct effect of their going under would be the accumulation of more acreage by the huge corporate mega farms which is the under the table motivation.
Small family farms....bad.
Mega corporate farms...good.
Small Farmers Voted for Trump in 2016—Now They're Taking Him to Court
A new lawsuit aims to preserve an Obama-era protection from predatory tariffs.
By Walter Einenkel / DailyKos
December 15, 2017, 7:42 AM GMT
"For decades now, the Republican Party and people speaking into microphones for the Republican Party have relied on the onerous mythology that somehow conservative politicians believe in farmers and small business more than the liberal “cultural elites” and “city slickers.” Like all Republican Party platforms, this is just a lie to dress their true worship of the golden calf of big business in a populist and racially charged American flag. On the campaign trail Trump promised to protect small farmers from predatory tariffs and general big business overreach, and since becoming president, Trump has staffed the USDA with the same incompetence that he’s staffed the rest of our government departments with. To add insult to injury, Trump’s administration made sure to do away with important Obama-era protections for small farmers.
Obama-era rules that had yet to take effect would have given smaller farmers more power to set the terms of their deals with massive meat companies, empowering the growers to sue and better define abusive practices by processors and distributors under federal law. Trump’s Agriculture Department killed two of the proposed rules, one of which would have taken effect in October.
Major agribusinesses like Cargill and Butterball fought the rules, saying they would lead to endless litigation between farmers and global food companies.
Trump’s deregulatory strike — lauded by big business — has consequences, even for the mom-and-pop turkey farmers who raise free-range, antibiotic-free turkeys that have seen increasing demand as Americans become more socially conscious about the production of their foods.
Now, as NPR reports, those small farmers are getting together and launching a lawsuit to protect themselves from extinction in the new Republican utopia.
The suit, filed on behalf of OCM by the Capitol Hill legal watchdog Democracy Forward, charges U.S. Department of Agriculture SecretarySonny Perdue and his agency with "arbitrary and capricious" behavior in rolling back those two rules. One of them would have made it easier for individual farmers to sue for anti-competitive behavior.
Many of the farmers affected by the rollback supported Donald Trump for president, who promised to look after their interests. Now, the disillusionment is setting in.
Agreed and Agreed. A decision by a higher court ruling on the subject will only effect future elections indeed, which is why the rulings should be adjudicated to a higher court.
I don't understand your point here ONEBGG.
Are you stating that if a site reports news that is agreeable to you [all the conservative sites] and the ones that don't, are all "Fake News" and should not be allowed on the board?
I can certainly understand your bias personally, but is this the stated goal of the board not to allow any postings from these sites at all on the board?
Or did you just want to flag these sites as "Ultra Liberal" and not to be considered, but allowed to post on the board?
It would be nice to have a public answer to these questions in regards to your post, to avoid any future entanglements.
Appreciate it ONEBGG,
Mariner*
I totally agree ONEBGG, but we're talking about a deep red state where a democrat hasn't won jack squat since the early 90"s.
The lower court ruling would have preserved the voting machine screen images for a possible recount, after the election.
The higher court ruling reversed the lower court ruling, making it OK to automatically delete the video record, making a verifiable recount, slim to none.
Now I'll agree with you that it's not fair and possibly illegal. But do you think for one minute that the higher court ruling thought that a democrat would be winning the election, and that their decision would be actually hurting the republican candidate?
I'm almost certain that this decision will be appealed to a higher court.
https://www.justice.gov/crt/about-section-5-voting-rights-act
Team Internet Is Far From Done: What’s Next For Net Neutrality and How You Can Help
"FCC may be abdicating its role in protecting the open Internet, but we will not. In the courts, in the halls of Congress, in our local communities, online and in the streets, Team Internet will fight for net neutrality – and we’ll be counting on you to join us".
"It’s Not Over. Call Congress Now.
FCC may be abdicating its role in protecting the open Internet, but we will not. In the courts, in the halls of Congress, in our local communities, online and in the streets, Team Internet will fight for net neutrality – and we’ll be counting on you to join us.
You can start today: call your members of Congress and urge them to use the Congressional Review Act to save the Open Internet Order".
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/12/17/team-internet-far-done-whats-next-net-neutrality-and-how-you-can-help
Net Neutrality Fight 'Not Over': Groups Launch Internet-Wide Campaign Pushing Congress to Overrule FCC Vote
"The internet has given ordinary people more power than ever before. We're going to fight tooth and nail to make sure no one takes that power away."
"Just hours after the FCC's vote, the coalition of activist groups behind Team Internet and https://BattlefortheNet.com announced the launch of "a massive internet-wide campaign" calling on members of Congress to overturn the FCC's move by passing a Resolution of Disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which only requires a simple majority in the House and Senate".
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/14/net-neutrality-fight-not-over-groups-launch-internet-wide-campaign-pushing-congress?utm_term=Net%20Neutrality%20Fight%20%27Not%20Over%27%3A%20Groups%20Launch%20Internet-Wide%20Campaign%20Pushing%20Congress%20to%20Overrule%20FCC%20Vote&utm_campaign=The%20Morally%20%2526%20Ethically%20Obscene%20Republican%20Party%20%7C%20Your%20Week%20In%20Review%20&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email&cm_mmc=Act-On%20Software-_-email-_-The%20Morally%20%2526%20Ethically%20Obscene%20Republican%20Party%20%7C%20Your%20Week%20In%20Review%20-_-Net%20Neutrality%20Fight%20%27Not%20Over%27%3A%20Groups%20Launch%20Internet-Wide%20Campaign%20Pushing%20Congress%20to%20Overrule%20FCC%20Vote