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If Donald Trump hopes to win Ben Stein’s vote it won’t be for his economic prognostications. Stein, an economist and political commentator and actor, said Monday on CNN that Trump’s recent prediction of a “very massive recession” coming soon in the United States was “nonsense” and that Trump’s views on the economy are “sheer idiocy.” “It breaks my heart, it makes me want to cry because I’m Republican, I’ve never voted for a Democrat,” Stein said. “And to think the guy who’s our likely standard bearer has such nonsensical ideas of every single aspect of the economy is just breathtakingly horrible.”
A key section of the Keystone pipeline has been shut down due to an oil spill in South Dakota, TransCanada said on Monday. TransCanada, which operates the pipeline, reported a spill of about 187 gallons of crude oil to the Coast Guard’s National Response Center on Saturday afternoon. The company said in a statement it is removing the oil and investigating the source. TransCanada said “no significant impact to the environment has been observed.” The incident along the controversial pipeline is located about four miles away from the Freeman pump station in Hutchinson County, South Dakota. A portion of the Keystone pipeline that transports oil from Alberta, Canada to Cushing, Oklahoma will be shut down until at least Friday. The section that connects Cushing to Texas remains in operation.
In 2008 TransCanada proposed a controversial expansion of the pipeline known as the Keystone XL that would have brought oil down from Canada directly into Nebraska. While TransCanada touted the project’s employment and national security benefits, environmentalists strongly opposed the expansion.
Highlighting his opposition to nuclear power ahead of the New York primary later this month, Bernie Sanders called for the shutdown of a nuclear power plant outside New York City that has leaked radioactive material into groundwater supplies. The Indian Point plant has long been a source of controversy, thanks to numerous leaks and safety concerns, but the plant would be extremely difficult to replace — it produces about a quarter of the electricity used by New York City and neighboring Westchester County. Sanders is the only candidate in either party who wants to end nuclear energy production, which currently accounts for 20% of U.S. electrical generation.
“I am very concerned that the Indian Power nuclear power reactor is more than ever before a catastrophe waiting to happen,” Sanders said Monday.
Hillary Clinton, whose Chappaqua home is about 15 miles from the plant, was one of the most vocal critics of Indian Point while she served in the Senate. “Just about every week we pick up the local newspaper and find some other problem at Indian Point,” Clinton said in 2007 as the plant faced a relicensing battle. But Clinton called for improving operations at the plant rather than shutting it down entirely.
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have agreed to meet for a Democratic debate on CNN and NY1 on April 14, five days before the primary in New York state. The debate will take place in Brooklyn and will be moderated by CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. Both CNN and NY1 will carry the debate live from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern. Sanders especially wanted the debate in Brooklyn, the borough where he was born. It’s also the site of the campaign headquarters for Clinton, a former U.S. senator from the state.
Police in Washington D.C. are investigating several chilling death threat phone calls made to Michelle Fields, the former Breitbart News reporter who filed assault charges against Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Fields, who had to leave her apartment after Fox News and BuzzFeed revealed her home address and phone number, shared audio of a call with The Blaze. “I know where you live. You have got 36 hours to drop the charges,” a man states. “I’m dead serious.”
When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump launched a crusade against Fox News and its star anchor, Megyn Kelly, last summer, many political insiders saw the move as the beginning of the end of Trump’s upstart campaign. Why would anyone seeking the Republican presidential nomination attack a network that reaches huge swaths of the Republican primary electorate? Author and journalist Gabriel Sherman explains how Trump came to possess ultra-insider information about Fox News and its founder, Roger Ailes, that could be damaging if it were ever to be made public. It’s this leverage, Sherman writes, that has so far discouraged Fox News from launching an all-out war on Trump.
From Sherman’s article:
An odd bit of coincidence had given him a card to play against Fox founder Roger Ailes. In 2014, I published a biography of Ailes, which upset the famously paranoid executive. Several months before it landed in stores, Ailes fired his longtime PR adviser Brian Lewis, accusing him of being a source. During Lewis’s severance negotiations, Lewis hired Judd Burstein, a powerhouse litigator, and claimed he had “bombs” that would destroy Ailes and Fox News. That’s when Trump got involved.
“When Roger was having problems, he didn’t call 97 people, he called me,” Trump said. Burstein, it turned out, had worked for Trump briefly in the ’90s, and Ailes asked Trump to mediate. Trump ran the negotiations out of his office at Trump Tower. “Roger had lawyers, very expensive lawyers, and they couldn’t do anything. I solved the problem.” Fox paid Lewis millions to go away quietly, and Trump, I’m told, learned everything Lewis had planned to leak. If Ailes ever truly went to war against Trump, Trump would have the arsenal to launch a retaliatory strike.
In a move that will cost the city hundreds of jobs, PayPal on Tuesday scrapped plans for a new Charlotte operations center in the most dramatic corporate response yet to a new North Carolina law that limits the legal protections of LGBT individuals. The payment processor’s decision led to renewed calls for Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and the state legislature to overturn a law that has drawn criticism from big companies such as Bank of America and American Airlines as well as sports organizations such as the NBA.
A ten-year-old girl who paints well and can churn out formulaic “poetry” that earns her praise from such luminaries as Oprah.
Dance of the Mind , age 9
An internationally recognized 11-year-old prodigy, considered the only known child binary genius, in both realist painting and poetry.
Clematis Dream , age 8
Selected as 1 of 20 most accomplished visual artists in the world by Tribute Entertainment (London) and ABI (United States).
Kids Hall of Fame inductee.
Found, age 9
A featured television and radio guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, the Lou Dobbs Show/CNN, Fox News, Fox Magazine, Late Late Show, KING TV/ CBS, Fox News Rising, Time Warner cable News, KREM NEWS/ CBS, KETV/ ABC,WBTV. NEWS 3, KONG TV/ ABC, SEATTLE LIVE, Northwest Afternoon/ ABC, The Hour of Power, Reflections/ Crystal Cathedral, J.C. and Friends, John Hancock radio show, Bob and Sherri Radio Show and a co-host on the Wayne Brady TV Show, Life Line, Miracle Channel (Canada), Life Today.
The Hourglass, age 10
A featured celebrity in Time Magazine, Today’s Christian, Sun, The Scotland’s Weekly News, Yen Akuel/Turkey, The Weekly Reader, Spokesman’ Review, The Southeast Outlook, The Press, The Daily Bee, Idaho Magazine, Business Journal, The Omaha World Herald, Missouri Valley Times, The Daily Nonpareil, The Heartland Gatekeeper, The Grit, Yahbooks, Life Site News, The Winner, The Trojan News, The Evening Magazine, Charlotte Women, Charlotte Weekly and numerous other publications around the world.
Jesus the Missing Years, age 10
Solo art exhibitions at the age of 9 and 10 in Idaho, North Carolina, Iowa, California, Washington and Virginia.
Forbidden Fruit, age 10
Solo art exhibition at age 10 and 11 at the Museum of Religious Art, Iowa.
The Butterfly Passion, age 10
Akiane donates a substantial portion from the sales of her paintings to select charities. The reproductions, prints on canvas, are available in limited editions on all images
Freedom Horse , age 9
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•Live auction at Christies, New York, July 30th, 2006
•Feature article in Saturday Evening Post
•Art Exhibit at THE KIDS HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY, Huntington Townhouse, Long Island, NY, October 30, 9AM-1:00PM, www.thekidshalloffame.com Phone: 631-242-9105
•Naomi Judd New Morning Show
•The Book: Akiane, Her Visions and the Messages to Mankind, 2006
•The Book: Akiane: Her Art, Her Poetry, Her Life, March 2006.
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1st Person is a magazine devoted to giving accounts, opinion and artwork from the perspectives of people who have had mental health conditions, rather than from the professional point of view.
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