Juggling Dynamite

The jury eagerly awaits the evidence on Trump’s change promises.  The American people know what he said on the campaign trail and where needed, a catalogue of every detail floats at the ready on the internet. In the meantime, initial steps, so far at least, suggest Trump is continuing the long-established bipartisan tradition of gifting unfair advantage, access and above-the-law concessions to the banksters. We saw the same with Obama in 2008.

Bankers celebrate dawn of Trump era https://t.co/rzHOMUwRB9

— Danielle Park (@kdaniellepark) November 17, 2016

The only positive indication so far, is news that team Trump is considering non-compete-restrictions on the revolving door between his administration and working as a paid lobbyists for private corporations.

Step in the right direction: Donald reveals anti-lobbying plan designed to help drain the swamp https://t.co/dtn0dtdwr7 via @MailOnline

— Danielle Park (@kdaniellepark) November 17, 2016

Bernie Sanders, and the millions who wanted Sanders on the ballot, are watching too.
Here is a direct video to his latest interview on Charlie Rose.

Rapidly falling prices for solar and wind, coupled with strong job growth in these industries, are allowing renewable power to gain a toehold even in conservative, rural America. Although the new Federal government has foolishly vowed to quash the green energy revolution, it will continue to be driven at the municipal and state level by households and businesses focused on their mutual best interests: more jobs and income,  lower expenses, self-sufficiency and better health.   See This small town shows how green energy can win in the most conservative areas:

Dixson said the town wanted to save money and achieve energy independence. Consume less. Generate your own electricity. Avoid the ups and downs in the price of fossil fuels. Thanks to their efforts, the people of Greensburg save hundreds of thousands of dollars each year on energy costs, a huge sum for a town of 800…

“Our pioneering ancestors were kind of the original green people. They lived within the resources they had available out here on the plains,” said Dixson. “We were raised as kids that if you take care of the land, it will take care of you.”

Also see another success story in Burlington:  America’s first all renewable energy city.

At COP22, Anthony Hobley, CEO of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, explains that President-elect Trump is powerless to stop the global transition to renewable energy.  Here is a direct video link.

As Democracy Now! broadcasts from the United Nations climate summit in Marrakech, Morocco, the U.S. special envoy on climate change, Jonathan Pershing, says no one from President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has reached out to him to discuss U.S. climate policy. This all comes as the World Meteorological Organization is projecting 2016 to be the warmest year on record, and Trump has vowed to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. “Legally he can’t, and politically it would be a disaster,” says economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. “If Donald Trump goes in the way that his rhetoric … has portrayed, we’re going to have a brawl in the United States.” Here is a direct video link.