Category: General Corruption

1st posted 04-07-2012 – updated 2022-12-26 “Based on talks with actual engineers that work at Ford and GM, these two companies have actively discouraged any improvements in fuel efficiencies. Engineers would be threatened if they were caught tinkering with the computer systems or searching for ways to make the car engines run more efficiently.” … “CAFE standards were implemented in 1978 to force automakers to produce cars that get better. . . CONTINUE

Apr 30, 2019 Russia sets up confrontations hoping for violence Women’s Health & Reproductive Rights (WHARR), [showed up for] an event they’d seen posted online, co-sponsored by the local Women’s March Alliance and an organization called the Resisters, which touted itself as being dedicated to “feminist activism against fascism.” It seemed like a good opportunity for WHARR at the time: Here was an event to promote women’s reproductive rights, held. . . CONTINUE

Trump does not care that Putin put a bounty on our soldiers heads! Trump is the #1 biggest, most dangerous, informant to the Communists. Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russia’s Foreign Minister. The disclosure to the Russians by the President, prompted intelligence officials to renew earlier discussions about the potential risk of exposure. According to CNN’s sources, the spy had access to Putin and could even provide images of. . . CONTINUE

JULY 28, 2020: GOP slips an attack on Social Security into its coronavirus relief bill. The GOP’s HEALS Act would fast-track Social Security and Medicare CUTS … using secret, closed-door panels to dramatically undo these earned benefits. May 13, 2020: Trump campaigned in 2016 that he would never cut soc.sec. and he would make health care universal. But even before he became president, his aides assured anyone who would listen. . . CONTINUE

updated 2020-08-12 President Donald Trump once again openly admitted that increasing access to the ballot poses a dire threat to the Republican Party’s ability to win elections. “Trump and his Republican administration is sabotaging the election through his continued politicization of the postal service.” Stopping funds for USPS and mail-in voting, Trump said, “means you can’t have universal mail-in voting because they’re not equipped to have it.” “Trump again brags. . . CONTINUE

updated 5-12-2020 FEMA seized 400,000 N95 masks from Delaware medical supplier; now he’s out millions of dollars George Gianforcaro, owner of the small, Newark, Delaware-based Indutex USA, said the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] did not pay him when it took possession of two imported shipments of masks bound for customers across the United States. Those customers included Delaware nursing facilities and the state of Michigan. …amid FEMA denials, Gianforcaro. . . CONTINUE

updated 06-12-2020 NASA scientist says “we’re close” to huge revelation about life on Mars – and humanity “isn’t prepared” for it. November 20, 2019 NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Unexplained Oxygen on Mars Fluctuating levels of the atmospheric gas, a potential tracer of alien life, have left researchers mystified Curiosity’s instruments also registered atmospheric oxygen rising and falling at similar times but in amounts that defy easy explanation. There was far. . . CONTINUE

updated 2022-01-12 . . . and all Republicans in congress! Trump’s former secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, described him as a “fucking moron,” a fact that has been reported previously. Chief of Staff John Kelly has called Trump an idiot and also crazy: “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in crazytown,” After security officials tried fruitlessly to explain. . . CONTINUE

updated 05-23-2020 The excuse the Republicans need to cut all services and support to everyone but the rich: healthcare, medicare, social security, and more. The GOP’s debt concerns were pure fraud. The full cost of the law is now estimated at $1.9 trillion by the Congressional Budget Office – above the legal 1.5 limit. and it actually encourages offshoring of American jobs. Republican leaders plan to tackle the increasing deficit. . . CONTINUE

updated 07-23-2019 “Let me make something 100% clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election.” – Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub Trump says he would listen if foreigners offered dirt on opponents FBI Director Christopher Wray: told lawmakers “the FBI would want. . . CONTINUE