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Sunday, March 7, 2021

The ‘not yet’ completed Canadian Keystone Pipeline

POLITIFACT

Fact-check: Is Biden 'destroying 11,000 jobs' by revoking Keystone pipeline?

By Daniel Funke, PolitiFact.com

January 22nd 2021

Fact check: How many jobs lost on Keystone pipeline after Biden order? (statesman.com)

1st thing to remember my friends and followers is the fact that the pipeline is not completed so everything stated is 'only a guess'!

I, with my 40 years under my belt, in the Oil &Gas Business as a service technician, have been reporting on this disgusting pipeline from the beginning!

2nd; The Canadian Pipeline would be worked, for the most part, by Canadians!

3rd; when I first reported on this years ago, the crude, caustic sludge oil was to be shipped to the Arab countries to be refined and shipped back to the USA and sold to you!


A Facebook post: Says that "By revoking the Keystone pipeline permit, Biden is destroying 11,000 jobs.”

PolitiFact's ruling: Half True

Here's why: President Joe Biden spent his first day in the White House signing a spate of executive orders aimed at undoing the policies of the Trump administration. One of them sparked outrage on Facebook over its effect on American jobs.

On Jan. 20, Biden signed an order that revoked the permit for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. In a Facebook post published the same day, one user said the move would cost thousands of jobs.

"By revoking the Keystone pipeline permit, Biden is destroying 11,000 jobs and roughly $2 billion in wages," the post says. "Democrats couldn’t even get through Day 1 without killing jobs for middle class Americans."

The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. 

We’ve seen several similar posts offer other figures for how many jobs were lost as a result of Biden’s executive order, ranging from 12,000 to 83,000. So we wanted to take a closer look.

TC Energy Corp., the Canadian company that owns the Keystone XL pipeline with the Alberta government, has said more than 1,000 people are out of work because of Biden’s executive order. The 11,000 and $2 billion figures cited in the Facebook post are estimates published by the company, but most of the jobs would be temporary.

We reached out to the user 

who published the post

 for their evidence, 

but we didn’t hear back.

What Biden’s order does

The Keystone XL pipeline is an international project years in the making. Without support from the U.S. government, it’s effectively halted.

The 875-mile pipeline would carry a heavy crude oil mixture from Western Canada to Steele City, Neb., where it would connect with another leg stretching to Gulf Coast refineries.

Biden’s order revokes the permit that was granted March 29, 2019, by then-President Donald Trump on the grounds that it is harmful to the environment.

While an 11-volume State Department report on the Keystone XL pipeline found in 2014 that it would not significantly contribute to carbon pollution, critics say the project threatens Alberta’s rivers and forests. And the project has become a symbol for the political debate over fossil fuels. 


The Obama-era State Department had denied TC Energy’s request for a permit in 2015. Trump revived hopes for the project once he took office, ultimately approving it with an executive order. Construction began in April 2020, but that same month, a federal court said that the project had to go through a full endangered species review. TC Energy appealed the ruling, but the Supreme Court upheld it in July.

Before Biden signed his executive order,

only a 1.2-mile section of the pipeline

had been completed in Montana

 near the U.S.-Canada border.


Fact-check:Will the Paris accord 'cost the U.S. economy 6.5 million jobs and $3 trillion'?

‘Thousands’ of lost jobs, but most are temporary.

Over the past several years, we’ve fact-checked many claims 

that the Keystone XL pipeline would create thousands of American jobs.

 Several of them lack context about the duration and nature of these positions, and this Facebook post is similar.

In a Jan. 20 statement, TC Energy said Biden’s order "would directly lead to the layoff of thousands of union workers." It did not specify exactly how many jobs would be lost. 

President Richard Prior told the Associated Press that the layoffs would number more than 1,000. We reached out to TC Energy for more information, but we haven’t heard back.

The 11,000 figure in the Facebook post appears to stem from an Oct. 28 press release on the pipeline’s website.

In October, TC Energy awarded contracts to six American union contractors to build the Keystone XL pipeline in three states in 2021. Those contractors were "responsible for hiring 7,000 union workers."

"When combined with additional 2021 contracts to be announced later, the total number of American union workers constructing Keystone XL in 2021 will exceed 8,000 and $900 million in gross wages," the release said. "In total, Keystone XL is expected to employ more than 11,000 Americans in 2021, creating more than $1.6 billion in gross wages."

That’s close to what the State Department found in its 2014 report.

In the report, the agency wrote that 10,400 estimated positions would be for seasonal construction work lasting four to eight-month periods. Since the State Department defines "job" as "one position that is filled for 1 year," that would equate to approximately 3,900 jobs over a two-year period. 

In short: Most of the estimated jobs were temporary.

The State Department forecasted that no more than 50 jobs, some of which could be located in Canada, would be required to maintain the pipeline. Thirty-five of them would be permanent, while 15 would be temporary contractors.

 


Burn the Books in the town square!

 

Burn the Books in the town square!

 

 Looks and Sounds like a perfect time for Teaching?


#1 – It’s a Cartoon People!

#2 – Allow your students to reverse the (Caricature) and allow them to teach themselves and their peers?

Similarly, the reverse-caricature effect demonstrates the potential of using caricatures for training in applied face recognition settings.

To me history is the time for teaching?

Why are Rebel Flags in some movies?

Teachers – TEACH!

Because my ancestors taught about (Creator), half of my mother’s side ancestors are (Catholic), half of my father’s side ancestors are (Protestant), and my interest in reading about all (Supreme Being Beliefs).

I would, If I was still teaching, gather all of the books like the Dr. Seuss Books, all of the movies in a raciest question and anything else horrible to today’s critic and teach about the 

(when, where, why and how), of those times and days?

After all what is 

(Teaching)?

Synonyms for teaching Synonyms: Noun educationinstructionschoolingtrainingtuitiontutelagetutoring

Remember; my faith is in the belief of Creator so I have been trying to read about other beliefs in their Supreme Being or Beings?

I found a, to me, traffic study guide by someone interested in me and teaching, not someone just trying to push their belief, still looking for this with your beliefs?


“Six Dr. Seuss books containing caricatures of Asian and Black people that incorporate stereotypes that have been deemed racist will no longer be published. (Reuters) Similar problems make other Seuss titles problematic for parents, teachers and librarians concerned about exposing children to racist images and attitudes without any critical context”.


Looks and Sounds like a perfect time for Teaching?


#1 – It’s a Cartoon People!

#2 – Allow your students to reverse the (Caricature) and allow them to teach themselves and their peers?

NOUN

Caricatures (plural noun)

A picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.

VERB

Caricatures (third person present)

make or give a comically or grotesquely exaggerated representation of (someone or something).

 

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Although it looks bad for Governor Cuomo; remember when?

 

He said She said or" In this country you are innocent until proven guilty"!

We must examine trump, (our past fake president), and see if the governor can use any of his 'republican control tricks'?

 


Kathy Hochul

Kathleen Courtney Hochul is  Lieutenant Governor of New York since 2015. She previously served as the U.S. Representative for New York's 26th congressional district from June 1, 2011, to January 3, 2013. She prevailed in the four-candidate special election of May 24, 2011, to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of Republican Chris Lee,[1][2] and was the first Democrat to represent the district in 40 years.

Hochul served as the County Clerk of Erie County, New York, from 2007 until 2011, when she assumed her seat in Congress. Previously, she was a deputy county clerk, a member of the Hamburg Town Board, a practicing attorney, and a legislative aide. Hochul was defeated for reelection to Congress by former Erie County Executive Chris Collins after the boundaries and demographics of her district were changed following the decennial reapportionment process. She has also worked as a government relations specialist with Buffalo-based M&T Bank.[3]

I think that New York will be O.K. with or without their, might I add. Hard working governor!

 


A Cuomo departure would set up Kathy Hochul to be New York’s first female governor

A second former aide has come forward with accusations of sexual harassment against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday he was not considering resigning, though he is facing pressure to do so from Republicans and some Democrats amid two separate scandals, including a sexual harassment investigation overseen by the state’s attorney general.

If Cuomo (D) did leave office, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) would become New York’s governor — and she would be the first woman to hold that position.

“If she were to come into the governor’s office in this way, she’d come in with some reservoir of goodwill, some reservoir of trust,” said Julie Novkov, professor of political science and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at the University at Albany, part of the State University of New York system. “New York perceives itself as being a progressive state, and we’ve never had a woman governor.”

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul would replace Gov. Cuomo if he leaves office. Here's what to know about her. - The Washington Post

A second former aide has come forward with accusations of sexual harassment against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Charlotte Bennett, a health policy adviser to Mr. Cuomo until November, told The New York Times that he had harassed her last year.

Mr. Cuomo has denied any inappropriate behavior and ordered an independent inquiry into the allegations.

Another former aide, Lindsey Boylan, has previously accused the governor of sexually harassing her.

Mr. Cuomo, 63, who has been governor for more than a decade, has found himself under pressure on several fronts in recent weeks.

·         Harassment allegations pile pressure on Cuomo

·         NY governor: My ‘mistake’ hiding care home deaths

·         Longing for the return of the New York moment

He is under scrutiny from the Democratic Party - of which he is a member - for allegedly hiding the true number of Covid-related deaths in New York care homes.

Mr. Cuomo has also faced allegations of bullying, including from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasé.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Is this how the republicans plan to unite your country?

 

Republican leader Representative Kevin McCarthy said;

 “If we don't oppose everything the Democrats want we will remain a minority party”!

Please explain to me a novice, how will your country every come together for the betterment of

 (YOU THE PEOPLE), when one of the political party leaders only wants to be in-charge of you the people and your country?

The Republican Party has been in charge of your federal congress or had the votes to filibuster votes for far too many years (1991 until 2021), something has to change, wouldn’t you agree?

I mean even after 30 years there has to be something or someone better in almost everything?

I believe that we should at the very least give President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris a fair chance to prove themselves to you the people?



Saturday, February 13, 2021

Will you count with me to 10?

 

 

1-2-3-4-5 6-7-8-9-10 Thank-you

See this is why I have been spending so much time on my knees in front of the TV so much begging for witnesses!

What Joe Biden wants to accomplish

 in his first 100 days as president

President-Elect Biden’s priorities for his first 100 day in the White House - Deseret News

O.K. in just over two weeks (25days), the real president of the United States has accomplished or at least set in place many of his wish list!

The most important this on the mind of

 ‘Everyone’ 

not a trump republican 

should be making sure this

‘complete maniac is out of the political arena forever'!

If the trump senator republicans 

could close the hearing without witnesses, 

and the still might, 

this ‘Craved Maniac’ 

could come back to 

haunt you once again!

 

COVID-19 Board

Biden’s campaign called for a

 “modern

 infrastructure and an equitable, clean energy future

His campaign said this was necessary to meet the

 “climate crisis”

 and build a clean energy economy,

 as well as to address “environmental injustice” 

and create what the Democratic nominee called 

millions of good-paying union jobs.

“Bidencare.” The idea  essentially is to build on Obamacare, officially known as 

the Affordable Care Act

by adding a public option.

Biden said he would push for passage of the 

Equality Act 

And much more!

 


Monday, February 8, 2021

Hillary Clinton had officially won the popular vote in 2016

 

However; 

did she or her Democratic Followers

 trash the 

Capital of the 

United States of America

 in 2016?

Hell No!



Well the Bernie sanders democrats and trump followers did just that in 2021!

https://youtu.be/fhYluv7oGuY

Hillary Clinton won – Bernie Sanders stabbed her in the back! trump stole the election!

The impact of Bernie Sanders votes was significant.

Many of Bernie Sanders 

changes their votes to trump 

and in each of the three states that 

ultimately voted for 

swung the election 

for Trump

Michigan –----- 16 votes

Wisconsin ------ 10

Pennsylvania – 20 votes

 Hawaii ---------- 1

Washington --- 12

______________

 ------------------59

245 for trump!

286 for Clinton!

trump's margin of victory over Clinton was smaller than the number of Sanders voters who gave him their vote!

Hillary Clinton Officially Wins Popular Vote by Nearly 2.9 Million

However the Republican Controlled Congress 

voted along party lines 

against the wishes 

of the American Voters!

Hillary Clinton Officially Wins Popular Vote by Nearly 2.9 Million - ABC News (go.com)

2016 Presidential Election Results - AUG. 9, 20179:00 AM ET

In 2016, Donald J. Trump won the Electoral College 

with 304 votes compared to 227 votes for Hillary Clinton.

Seven electors voted for someone other than their party’s candidate.

Visit our 2020 election results pages for the latest updates.

2016 Presidential Election Results – Election Results 2016 – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

However the Republican Controlled Congress 

voted along party lines 

against the wishes 

of the American Voters!

From Bernie Sanders Supporters,

Death Threats Over Delegates (Published 2016)

The senator’s supporters

were incensed at a state convention

they believe epitomized a rigged political system,

with some threatening officials online.

nytimes.com 

May 17, 2016

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/732672062284832769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E732672062284832769%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fthis-is-the-ugly-side-of-_b_10054568

Bernie Sanders goes on the attack, reviving memories of 2016


First Read is your briefing from

 "Meet the Press" 

and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/bernie-sanders-goes-attack-reviving-memories-2016-n1114341

Republican Controlled Congress 

voted along party lines 

against the wishes 

of the American Voters!

Bernie Sanders goes on the attack, reviving memories of 2016 (nbcnews.com)

 

Friday, February 5, 2021

The 230 to 199 vote?

Take trumps S A G Card!

A SAG card

 demonstrates membership of the union,

 which helps to establish status as a performer and provides workers’ rights

 Only Eleven GOP members voted to remove Greene from committee assignments!

 

The 230 to 199 vote?

 

Can you still hear me screaming?

(REMOVE HIM – PLEASE)?

REMEMBER YOUR WORLD HISTORY CLASSES?????????????

Hitler eliminated all sources of opposition, 

both within the Nazi Party 

and

 in Germany.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zsvhk7h/revision/1

This is one of the many reasons why trump must be removed as a threat to you, your country and your world!

Do you believe that your ‘buddy – pal – trump’ will include you in his plans for this country?

Read and weep!

A vote to convict trump will effectively remove him from the political circus and his creation of a dictatorship!

In 1933 Hitler became chancellor of Germany and by 1934 he had declared himself Führer - the leader of Germany.

 Hitler eliminated all sources of opposition, both within the Nazi Party and in Germany.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zsvhk7h/revision/1

 Only Eleven GOP House members have joined Democrats in voting to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments over past comments supporting QAnon conspiracy theories.

Illinois representative Adam Kinzinger was among the first to cross the aisle to turn on his colleague in the 230 to 199 vote.

He was followed by Brian Fitzpatrick, of Pennsylvania, Fred Upton, of Michigan, Young Kim, of California, and Chris Smith, of New Jersey.

They were joined by three New York Republicans, Nicole Malliotakis, John Katko, and Chris Jacobs. Three Florida GOP members also voted with Democrats, including Carlos Gimenez, Maria Salazar, and Mario Diaz-Balert.

The 230 to 199 vote? | Shechaim's News of the Day (wordpress.com)

Hitler became Chancellor of Germany but his real aim was to become a dictator.


 Before he could realise his ambition,


 he needed to gain enough seats 


to be in a position 


strong enough


 to allow him to make the changes that would lead to his goal.

The creation of a dictatorship, 1933-34 - Nazi control and ...

 

 

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Your Media People are at it again!

 

Why are we faced with this ‘Massive Relief Package’?

Well!

This is exactly why we now need the ‘Massive Relief Package’!

Your Media in this your country no longer cares about this country!

For decades, editors have said that

“If it Bleeds, It leads,” meaning that the most traumatic story would lead the newscast 

(even if it wasn’t the most relevant to viewers).

That is all the more true in this age of round-the-clock reporting on TV, online, and social media and how we in this your country got into this pickle the past four years and many years before that while McConnell’s Republican Senate controlled your congress!

Biden unveils $1.9 trillion plan to revive pandemic-hit US economy | News | DW | 15.01.2021

The media spent 100 hours talking about trumps bad attitude, lack of knowledge and lack of caring and

 Hillary Clintons Emails or better yet, lack thereof

to one hour talking

about the Great Plans that she has for your country.

So your country ended up with 

this bad attitude, lack of knowledge and lack of caring bully 

for the past four years!

Your Media People are at it again! | Shechaim's News of the Day (wordpress.com)

Monday, February 1, 2021

By 2025 your ‘Constitution and President Lincolns address’ can be realized (finely)!

 

The U.S. Constitution We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The Preamble to the United States Constitution, beginning with the words We the People, is a brief introductory statement of the Constitution's fundamental purposes and guiding principles. Courts have referred to it as reliable evidence of the Founding Fathers' intentions regarding the Constitution's meaning and what they hoped the Constitution would achieve.



Text of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

 

2024 United States Senate elections

The 2024 United States Senate elections will be held on November 5, 2024, with 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested in regular elections, the winners of which will serve six-year terms in the United States Congress from January 3, 2025, to January 3, 2031. Senators are divided into three groups, or classes, whose terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every two years. Class 1 senators were last elected in 2018, and will be up for election again in 2024.

Elections to the U.S. Senate will be held on November 5, 2024, and 33 of the 100 seats are up for regular election. Special elections may be held to fill vacancies that occur in the 118th Congress.

Of the 33 regularly scheduled elections in 2024, 21 seats were held by Democrats and 10 seats were held by Republicans as of July 2020.

Those elected to the U.S. Senate in the 33 regular elections on November 5, 2024, will begin their six-year terms on January 3, 2025.

United States Senate elections, 2024 - Ballotpedia

 

 

United States House of Representatives elections, 2024

Elections to the U.S. House will be held on November 5, 2024. All 435 seats will be up for election

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