NEW YORK – Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly confirmed to WND that six board members of her group Eagle Forum have called a special meeting Monday that she believes is an attempt to remove her as CEO and board chairman because of her support for Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House.
“The six board members calling today’s telephone meeting won’t tell me what the meeting is about, but I think it’s an attempt to vote me out,” Schlafly said. “It’s disloyal and it’s terribly shocking, and I’m completely depressed about it.
“I may be one vote short to win today,” she conceded.
The meeting is scheduled for 2 p.m. Central Time.
Asked for reaction to the development, Trump gave a brief statement to WND through his campaign staff.
A video of a woman asserting that gun owners are terrorists during a round table meeting in New York yesterday shows Hillary Clinton nodding along in agreement.
“Citizens are the terrorists, right?” the woman states as Hillary nods multiple times.
“We’re so worried about terrorism but we have terrorism on our own soil,” the woman continues.
When she claims that “gun manufacturers, our ammunition manufacturers are making terrorists out of our citizens,” Hillary’s agreement seems even more vehement.
Does Hillary actually believe that Americans who exercise their Second Amendment right to own guns are jihadists on a par with ISIS?
Are gun manufacturers on a par with terrorists who build bombs to slaughter innocent people?
Clinton’s grasp of constitutional rights over recent months has been somewhat weak.
During a town hall meeting in October last year, the former Secretary of State also said that a nationwide gun confiscation program based on a similar model to Australia was “worth considering”.
In this Feb 10 file photo, a worker, wearing protective suits and masks, takes notes in front of storage tanks for radioactive water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.Toru Hanai/Pool Photo via AP
TOKYO —
To dump or not to dump a little-discussed substance is the question brewing in Japan as it grapples with the aftermath of the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima five years ago. The substance is tritium.
The radioactive material is nearly impossible to remove from the huge quantities of water used to cool melted-down reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, which was wrecked by the massive tsunami in northeastern Japan in March 2011.
The water is still accumulating since 300 tons are needed every day to keep the reactors chilled. Some is leaking into the ocean.
Huge tanks lined up around the plant, at last count 1,000 of them, each hold hundreds of tons of water that have been cleansed of radioactive cesium and strontium but not of tritium.
Ridding water of tritium has been carried out in laboratories. But it’s an effort that would be extremely costly at the scale required for the Fukushima plant, which sits on the Pacific coast. Many scientists argue it isn’t worth it and say the risks of dumping the tritium-laced water into the sea are minimal.
Their calls to simply release the water into the Pacific Ocean are alarming many in Japan and elsewhere.
Rosa Yang, a nuclear expert at the Electric Power Research Institute, based in Palo Alto, California, who advises Japan on decommissioning reactors, believes the public angst is uncalled for. She says a Japanese government official should simply get up in public and drink water from one of the tanks to convince people it’s safe.
But the line between safe and unsafe radiation is murky, and children are more susceptible to radiation-linked illness. Tritium goes directly into soft tissues and organs of the human body, potentially increasing the risks of cancer and other sicknesses.
“Any exposure to tritium radiation could pose some health risk. This risk increases with prolonged exposure, and health risks include increased occurrence of cancer,” said Robert Daguillard, a spokesman for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The agency is trying to minimize the tritium from U.S. nuclear facilities that escapes into drinking water.
Right after the March 2011 disaster, many in Japan panicked, some even moving overseas although they lived hundreds of miles (kilometers) away from the Fukushima no-go zone. By now, concern has settled to the extent that some worry the lessons from the disaster are being forgotten.
Tritium may be the least of Japan’s worries. Much hazardous work remains to keep the plant stabilized, and new technology is needed for decommissioning the plant’s reactors and containing massive radioactive contamination.
The ranks of Japan’s anti-nuclear activists have been growing since the March 2011 accident, and many oppose releasing water with tritium into the sea. They argue that even if tritium’s radiation is weaker than strontium or cesium, it should be removed, and that good methods should be devised to do that.
Japan’s fisheries organization has repeatedly expressed concerns over the issue. News of a release of the water could devastate local fisheries just as communities in northeastern Japan struggle to recover from the 2011 disasters.
An isotope of hydrogen, or radioactive hydrogen, tritium exists in water form, and so like water can evaporate, although it is not known how much tritium escaped into the atmosphere from Fukushima as gas from explosions.
The amount of tritium in the contaminated water stored at Fukushima Dai-ichi is estimated at 3.4 peta becquerels, or 34 with a mind-boggling 14 zeros after it.
But theoretically collected in one place, it would amount to just 57 milliliters, or about the amount of liquid in a couple of espresso cups - a minuscule quantity in the overall masses of water.
To illustrate that point, Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, showed reporters a small bottle half-filled with blue water that was the equivalent of 57 milliliters.
Public distrust is running so high after the Fukushima accident that Tokyo Electric Power Co, or TEPCO, the utility that operates the Fukushima plant and oversees its decommissioning, has mostly kept quiet about the tritium, pending a political decision on releasing the water.
Privately, they say it will have to be released, but they can’t say that outright.
What will be released from Fukushima will be well below the global standard allowed for tritium in the water, say Tanaka and others favoring its release, which is likely to come gradually later this year, not all at once.
Proponents of releasing the tritium water argue that tritium already is in the natural environment, coming from the sun and from water containing tritium that is routinely released at nuclear plants around the world.
“Tritium is so weak in its radioactivity it won’t penetrate plastic wrapping,” said Tanaka.
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“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” 9th Commandment
“Thou shalt not steal” 8th Commandment
“The Cruz people love the Bible- perhaps they should remember what it says, ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal'” —Roger Stone
Cruz Actions Belie His Christianity
Ted Cruz calls himself a Christian, but he has broken the above commandments over and over again, and the latest example of this is what has happened in Colorado. “Thou shalt not steal” obviously means nothing to Cruz. It is theft, and a slap in the face to the voters of Colorado.
What a travesty of justice. I can’t understand why there aren’t outcries against such draconian actions. This should be a warning to what a Cruz Presidency will accept.
Ted blew what could have been a great PR opportunity for his campaign. If he had made a public statement saying, “It is against my principles of justice to be the recipient of delegates that have not been awarded to me honestly through the process of caucus and elections,” those words would have given him Christian standing.
However, the egocentric basturd (yes, I spelled it that way on purpose) is blinded by his incompetence to assess opportunity. He didn’t say a word. He just chalked up one more victory covertly awarded to him by his venomous campaign shenanigans, the GOP elitists, and his filthy manager, Jeff Roe.
The only people who have the right to decide to whom their delegates are awarded, are the voters from the great State of Colorado.
Ted Cruz can’t win enough delegates at the voting box to win the Republican nomination. So his campaign, led by Jeff Roe, is pushing supporters to steal delegates from states Donald Trump won.
Larry Wayne Lindsey from Douglas County had his name removed from the ballot in Colorado Springs. He was a Republican delegate for Donald Trump. He was removed from his position because he voted for Donald Trump. Not having a primary, no caucus, no public vote, and Ted Cruz gets all the delegates. That is disenfranchising the voters . . . and you don’t think there will be a price to pay?
Lindsey said, “I’ve been a Republican all of my life. And this corrupt bunch of thieves is not even worth fighting for. I’ll find another party that believes more like I do. I’ve had it with them. But Jan Morgan you’re not going to get away with this. I’ll find somebody to listen to me. I’ll find some way to hold you accountable for this.”
Never Trump Twitter Backlash
And from ClashDaily.com Greenwood Village, CO. – The Colorado GOP is getting some backlash after someone with access to the party’s Twitter account posted, and quickly deleted, the following message: “We did it. #NeverTrump.”
The tweet came minutes after Ted Cruz swept through all 34 delegates during the GOP assembly in Colorado Springs on Saturday. The party deleted the tweet within minutes, saying the message was posted by someone “with unauthorized access to our account.”
Trump’s Reaction
Donald Trump spoke on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning after a weekend that saw Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, sweep all of Colorado’s 34 delegates without any votes being cast by citizens in a traditional primary process.
“I’ve gotten millions … of more votes than [Sen. Ted] Cruz, and I’ve gotten hundreds of delegates more, and we keep fighting, fighting, fighting, and then you have a Colorado where they just get all of these delegates, and it’s not [even] a system,” Trump said, during the Fox News broadcast. “There was no voting. I didn’t go out there to make a speech or anything. There’s no voting.”
His comments came after Cruz ‘won’ the remaining 13 delegates at the weekend’s convention, bringing his total for the state to 34, an outcome Trump described as unfair and just shy of illegal.
“They offer them trips — they offer them all sorts of things, and you’re allowed to do that,” Trump said of the method by which some woo delegates. “I mean, you’re allowed to offer trips, and you can buy all these votes. What kind of a system is this? Now, I’m an outsider, and I came into the system and I’m winning the votes by millions of votes. But the system is rigged. It’s crooked.”
Watch the video of Trump’s appearance on “Fox and Friends where Donald Trump, slams ‘crooked system’ after Cruz wins Colorado. [Link]
Here’s the reality, the Nazi Bushites/Soros Rigging caucuses give the win to Cruz.
GOPe Corruption
The corruption of the DNC and MSM are quite obvious, but now it should also be obvious to all Republicans that their party is a false friend, and false friends are more dangerous than open enemies. The voters of Colorado have been denied, and they know it. The GOPe is destroying itself because they’d rather have another globalist in our White House than a Constitutional Conservative who wants to Make America Great Again. Their goal isn’t Ted Cruz, he’s just being used; their goal is to keep Trump from gaining the 1237 delegates he needs for the nomination. They want a brokered convention. They’ll run someone like Paul Ryan, John Kasich, or Jeb Bush against Hillary Clinton, knowing that Clinton’s corruption, murder, and lies mean nothing to the American left. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the desired next POTUS by both the left and the right. Only the American electorate can stop it.
Conclusion
Donald Trump is a brilliant experienced businessman, but he is a novice when it comes to understanding the corruption and deception of the GOPe. As a pragmatist, he spoke to the people, saw them rally to his stated positions, and in a Constitutional Republic, this would easily result in his winning the nomination. Unfortunately, he did not realize the hypocrisy of the Republican party, or the criminal element willing to destroy the party to keep Trump from the nomination.
In 1964, Barry Goldwater battled the underhanded tactics of his own party, including George Romney, and his Democratic opponent was Lyndon Johnson. We have a parallel situation today. Trump is battling his own party and the underhanded tactics of establishment insider, Ted Cruz.
Fortunately, Trump has now hired Paul Manafort, the finest veteran Republican political strategist and consultant, to lead his delegate gathering efforts. Manafort has experience with these conventions and nomination fights. Manafort said this about Ted Cruz, “He’s threatening; you go to these county conventions, and you see the tactics, Gestapo tactics, the scorched-earth tactics … We are going to be filing several protests because the reality is they have not been playing by the rules. But frankly, that’s the side game. Because the only game I’m focusing on right now is getting delegates. And the games that have happened, even this past weekend, you know, are not important to the long-term game of how do we get to 1,237.”
For the first time in 53 years we actually have a candidate who loves our country and is not part of the globalist cabal, neither is he beholden to any interest, corporate or otherwise.
We are at war people, and it is time to fight your state GOP establishment and legislators who want to deprive the American voters of the candidate we’ve chosen. Get out of your easy chair and get to work. It’s up to us to save our country.
He needs over 50% and needs to shove it in Cruz’s face, God but I’m sick of that lying establishment insider, he’s so filthy….makes you wonder what the heck is wrong with Christians who support that jerk,