Monthly Archives: March 2017

UCI’s Jim Randerson’s Climate Projections to the Year 2300

UCI’s Jim Randerson’s Climate Projections to the Year 2300 Prof. James Randerson’s of UCI’s Earth System Science department spoke to our OLLI class on climate science projections out to the year 2300, and the current Trump administration effects on halting … Continue reading

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Slashing the Internet Privacy Rules Opens All Americans to Blackmail

Slashing the Internet Privacy Rules Opens All Americans to Blackmail The Senate and then the House have voted to remove the Obama Internet Privacy Rules that forbade Internet Service Providers from packaging and selling our internet data.  This included our … Continue reading

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Can the Local Nature of Energy Save Us?

Can the Local Nature of Energy Save Us? A lot of energy production and use decisions are local. While Trump canceled progressive regulations, some of which were being blocked in the courts anyway, energy users can often make lower pollution … Continue reading

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Trump Headlines I Would Like to See

Trump Headlines I Would Like to See Trump Uses Devin Nunes as a Smoke Screen to Hide Cancellation of Clean Energy Plan (“Do not look behind the screen”, from the Wizard of Oz.) X on Mo Bull (Exxon Mobil as … Continue reading

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Is This Really Trump’s First and Last Offer on Health Care?

Is This Really Trump’s First and Last Offer on Health Care? Ever been to a used car lot and been told that their great discount price would end the second you stepped off the lot? Especially by a salesman who … Continue reading

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Trump Now Owns the AHCA Healthcare Plan

Trump Now Owns the AHCA Healthcare Plan In President Trump’s 2020 Campaign Speech in Kentucky last night, he took ownership of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) by fully backing its passing in the House two days from now, on … Continue reading

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Let’s Hope the Leak Investigation Does Not Dig Too Deep

Let’s Hope the Leak Investigation Does Not Dig Too Deep First there is Mick Mulvaney, Director of OMB, leaking that he wrote the budget, from Trump’s vague and overhyped campaign statements. Then, there was Kellyanne leaking the existence of the … Continue reading

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OMB’s Mick Mulvaney Created Trump’s Budget

Mick Mulvaney Created Trump’s Budget I was going to avoid the loud press coverage of the day on Trump’s “tapping, tapping at my chamber door” (sorry, Edgar Allan Poe), and the real DNC tapping. But I was going to focus … Continue reading

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Trump on NIH: Not Making Americans Safe Again

Trump on NIH:  Not Making Americans Safe Again Trump is gutting the domestic budget by 10.5% to boost the military budget by 9%, or $54 billion.  But strangely, besides attacking climate science and clean energy, he has focused on the … Continue reading

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Trump on Health: Not Americans First

Trump on Health:  Not Americans First The steep cuts to the National Institute of Health, and the hordes of Americans that will lose their healthcare by the Republican’s American Health Care Act, show that President Trump is really attacking American’s … Continue reading

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