#emergency declaration

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Ok, hear me out … a series or movie similar to Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express but the characters are…..

What do you guys think ? Anyone else should be added ? Let me know, he he 😏😏

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Today in Tottenham (North London)

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

March 12, 2025

Heather Cox Richardson

Mar 13, 2025

Trump’s 25% tariffs on all aluminum and steel imported into the U.S. went into effect today, prompting retaliatory tariffs from the European Union and Canada. The E.U. announced tariffs on about $28 billion worth of products, including beef and whiskey, mostly produced by Republican-dominated states. “We deeply regret this measure,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. “Tariffs are taxes. They are bad for business, and even worse for consumers. These tariffs are disrupting supply chains. They bring uncertainty for the economy.”

Canada also announced new tariffs on Wednesday on about $21 billion worth of U.S. products, in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs. François-Philippe Champagne, Canada's minister of innovation, science, and industry, said: “The U.S. administration is once again inserting disruption and disorder into an incredibly successful trading partnership and raising the costs of everyday goods for Canadians and American households alike.”

With the stock market falling and business leaders begging Trump to stop the trade machinations that are creating the volatility that is wrenching the economy downward, Trump said yesterday to reporters: “[L]ong-term, what I’m doing is making our country strong again.”

In an interview on the CBS Evening News last night, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, a billionaire financial executive, was asked whether Trump’s economic policies were “worth it” even if they cause a recession.

“These policies are the most important thing America has ever had,” Lutnick answered. “It is worth it.”

Former representative Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) reposted Lutnick’s assertion and said: “In my graduate thesis, I quoted a hardline communist official from Poland in the 1950s who was asked about terrible shortages of food and housing. He said people had to sacrifice and “if that’s what it takes to prove the superiority of socialism, it’s worth it.”

The days when the Republican Party were conservatives are long gone. Edmund Burke, the Anglo-Irish politician and political thinker who began the process of articulating a conservative political philosophy, did so most famously in response to the French Revolution. In 1790, a year after the storming of the Bastille prison symbolized the rebellion of the people against the monarchy, Burke wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Burke had supported the American Revolution that had ended less than a decade before largely because he believed that the American colonists were trying to restore their traditional rights. But the French Revolution, he thought, was an entirely different proposition. As revolutionaries in France replaced their country’s traditions with laws and systems based on their theory of an ideal government, Burke drew back.

He took a stand against radical change driven by people trying to make the government enforce a specific political ideology. Ideologically driven government was radical and dangerous, he thought: quickly, the ideology became more important than the complex reality of the way society—and people—actually worked.

In 1790, Burke argued that the role of government was not to impose a worldview, but rather to promote stability, and that lawmakers could achieve that stability most effectively by supporting the structures that had proven themselves effective in the past; in his time, that meant social hierarchies, the church, property, and the family. “Conservative” meant, literally, conserving what was already there, without reference to an ideology. Those in charge of government should make changes slowly, according to facts on the ground, in order to keep the country stable, he thought. If it behaved this way, the government, which in his time was usually seen as a negative force in society, could be a positive one.

In 2025 the Republicans in charge of the United States of America are not the conservatives they call themselves; they are the dangerous ideological radicals Burke feared. They are abruptly dismantling a government that has kept the United States relatively prosperous, secure, and healthy for the past 80 years. In its place, they are trying to impose a government based in the idea that a few men should rule.

The Trump administration’s hits to the economy have monopolized the news this week, but its swing away from Europe and toward Russia, antagonizing allies and partners while fawning over authoritarians like Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, is also a radical stand, and one that seems likely to destabilize American security. Former allies have expressed concern over sharing intelligence with the U.S. in the future, and yesterday, 34 army leaders from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the European Union, Japan, and Australia met in Paris without inviting the United States.

The wholesale destruction of the U.S.A.’s advanced medical research, especially cancer research, by firing scientists, canceling grants, banning communications and collaboration, and stopping travel is also radical and seems unlikely to leave Americans healthier than before.

Yesterday, news broke that the administration canceled $800 million worth of grants to Johns Hopkins University, one of the nation’s top research universities in science and medicine. Meanwhile, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has cast doubt on the safe, effective measles vaccine as the disease continues to spread across the Southwest.

Today, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin boasted that the administration is taking 31 actions to roll back environmental protections. Those include regulations about electric vehicles and pollution from coal-fired plants. The administration intends to rescind the EPA’s 2009 finding that the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change endanger public health. That finding is the legal argument for regulations governing car and truck emissions and power plants.

Also today, the United States Department of Agriculture, which oversees supplemental food programs, announced it was cutting about $1 billion in funding that enables schools and food banks to buy directly from local farms and ranches. This will hit farmers and producers as well as children and food-insecure families.

In place of the system that has created relative stability for almost a century, Republicans under President Donald Trump and his sidekick billionaire Elon Musk are imposing a government that is based in the idea that a government that works to make people safe, prosperous, and healthy is simply ripping off wealthy people. Asked if he felt sorry for those losing their jobs in the government purges, Trump told NBC News, without evidence: “Sure I do. I feel very badly...but many of them don’t work at all. Many of them never showed up to work.”

The administration promises that it is eliminating “waste, fraud, and corruption,” but Judd Legum of Popular Information today launched the “Musk Watch DOGE Tracker,” which shows that Musk has overstated the savings he claims by at least 92%, with the warning that since these identified cuts are illegal and unconstitutional—Congress appropriates money and writes the laws for how it’s spent, and courts have agreed that the executive branch has to execute the laws as they are written—the contracts might not be canceled at all.

That the administration knows it is not operating on the up-and-up seems clear from its attempts to hide what it is doing. It has taken weeks for courts to get the administration to say who is running the “Department of Government Efficiency” and what the body actually is. The White House has tried to characterize Musk as a senior advisor to the president to shield him from questioning.

But today, in response to a lawsuit by 14 attorneys general from Democratic-dominated states arguing that Musk is acting unconstitutionally, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered Musk and DOGE to turn over their records and answer questions, giving them three weeks to comply.

On Tuesday, remaining staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) received an email under the name of acting executive secretary Erica Carr at USAID telling them to shred or burn agency records, despite strict laws about the preservation of federal documents. “Haphazardly shredding and burning USAID documents and personnel files seems like a great way to get rid of evidence of wrongdoing when you’re illegally dismantling the agency,” said Representative Gregory Meeks (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Two lawsuits are already challenging the order.

And the corruption in the administration was out in the open yesterday. After Trump advertised Elon Musk’s cars at the White House, Theodore Schleifer and Maggie Haberman of the New York Times reported that Musk “has signaled to President Trump’s advisers in recent days that he wants to put $100 million into groups controlled by the Trump political operation.” This is separate from Musk’s own political action committee, which dropped almost $300 million into the 2024 election and which is now pouring money into next month’s election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

The government that Trump and Musk are destroying, with the complicity of their party, is popular, and Republican members of Congress are apparently unwilling to have to vote on the policies that are putting their radical ideology into place. In an extraordinary move yesterday, House Republicans made it impossible for Congress to challenge Trump’s tariffs.

The Constitution gives to Congress, not the president, the power to impose tariffs. But the International Emergency Economic Powers Act allows the president to impose tariffs if he declares a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act, which Trump did on February 1. That same law allows Congress to end such a declaration of emergency, but if such a termination is introduced—as Democrats have recently done—it has to be taken up in a matter of days.

But this would force Republicans to go on record as either supporting or opposing the unpopular economic ideology Trump and Musk are imposing. So Republicans just passed a measure saying that for the rest of this congressional session, “each day…shall not constitute a calendar day” for the purposes of terminating Trump’s emergency declaration.

The Republicans’ legislation that a day is not a day seems to prove the truth of Burke’s observation that by trying to force reality to fit their ideology, radical ideologues will end up imposing tyranny in the name of liberty.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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[feelingsofaithless]

I can no longer keep this plane in the air. Please open a runway for us. Emergency Declaration (2021)

[andaniellight]

something something i'd know you blind, i'd know you in death, at the end of the world something something

okay sorry I'm back again with my bullshit again with these two because I just noticed (from another watching session, again) this tiny little detail at the beginning where Hyunsoo first noticed Jaehyuk at the airport

Hyunsoo actually was checking his phone THE WHOLE. FUCKING TIME. HE'S WALKING ACROSS JAEHYUK.

He had his head down probably checking the weather, his schedule and other things on his phone !!!

He shouldn't be able to notice he's passing Jaehyuk with his daughter then, right??? Look at it. He kept looking down at his phone as Jaehyuk walked straight ahead, even as they're about to pass each other-

EVEN WHEN THEY'RE FINALLY PARALLELED..... side by side as they headed to different directions, Hyunsoo would NOT be able to KNOW it's Jaehyuk... the man should've only been a blur on the corner of his eye.......... and yet...................

HMMM................................................

HMMMMMMMMMMMM OKAY YEAH SURE.

Either way! There's no way in Hell Jaehyuk wasn't someone who's always been part of Hyunsoo's intense routine, someone SO important to Hyunsoo before he lost his wife, if he could recognize Jaehyuk by the blurry side profile alone in the crowd on his way to the one job that connected him to Jaehyuk, his dead wife, and everything in between

[workersolidarity]

🇺🇲 Saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico into the Mississippi river Delta threatens drinking water in the New Orleans, Louisiana area.

Louisiana Gov. John Bell Edwards said today the State is days away from requesting a Federal Emergency Declaration from the Biden Administration.

"I can tell you in the next couple of days, we will be requesting a Federal Emergency Declaration related to the seawater intrusion of the Mississippi River that threatens drinking water," Governor John Bell Edwards said in an update.

"But also, authorizing us to take emergency protective measures with some level of reimbursement available from the Federal Government should that Federal Emergency Declaration be granted."

Governor John Bell Edwards has already declared a State of Emergency earlier this month, and the State of Louisiana has received some Federal assistance.

"Unfortunately, we just haven't had the relief from dry conditions... so that intrusion is worsening, in the sense that it's moving further up the river," Edwards said.

"Most of the state has been experiencing prolonged drought and and above-average heat, and has presented a number of challenges including wildfires, drought, heat-related deaths, injuries and so forth and now saltwater intrusion."

Extreme, prolonged drought in the Southern Mississippi RIver Valley has led to historically low water levels in the Mississippi River, allowing saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico to creep its way upriver.

Edwards added that the State was being "proactive", including expanding an underwater levee recently built to slow the flow of saltwater upriver that was topped by the saltwater flow last week, and bringing in over 15 million gallons of fresh drinking water for effected residents.

Federal officials also said they would be barging water into the Mississippi to help slow the upriver flow of saltwater.

Despite Mississippi river water levels already sitting at historic lows, water levels are expected to continue to drop as forecasts show little rainfall is expected in the coming days.

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Emergency Declaration (2021)

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Welcome new Yim Siwan fans, I maintain this thought 2 years later

Yim Siwan is like, “I will play the most heinous asshole you’ve ever seen or the softest green flag man in existence” there is literally no in between

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Tech magnates are writing emergency executive orders for Trump so corporations can seize public utilities and create privatized territories (company towns). 

The Nerd Reich - Startup seeks Trump AI emergency for California tech city The Network State comes to Alameda County. Why is an unknown tech company drafting an executive order to declare a national security emergency? Gil Duran 15 Jun 2025 What makes Frontier Valley particularly shocking is not just its scale or ambition, but its timing and tactics. By publishing a ready-made executive order during Trump's early months in office — at a moment when the administration is already abusing emergency powers in California — the company is betting that the current political moment offers a unique opportunity to fundamentally alter how the U.S. governs itself. Frontier Valley would establish a precedent that any corporation with sufficient resources and political connections can write its own laws, seize public resources, and create quasi-sovereign territories. The draft executive order even includes provisions for replicating the model elsewhere. It envisions “technology-specific zones” across the country that could operate outside normal democratic oversight.

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⚠️ Trump’s 25% Canadian tariffs spark a Senate showdown! ⚠️ Will they defy Trump or ignite a trade war? ⚠️ Uncover why this vote could reshape America’s economy and Trump’s agenda 👇

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The Importance of FEMA Emergency Declarations in Disaster Response

FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) plays a crucial role in the United States' disaster response and recovery efforts. When a disaster strikes, timely action is essential, and FEMA’s emergency declarations serve as a vital mechanism to mobilize resources and aid affected communities. This article explores the purpose, types, and implications of FEMA emergency declarations.

What is an Emergency Declaration?

An emergency declaration is a formal statement made by the President of the United States or a state governor that allows for the provision of federal assistance in response to a disaster. These declarations enable the federal government to provide resources, support, and funding to state and local authorities that are overwhelmed by a disaster's impact.

The Need for Declarations

When a disaster occurs—be it a natural calamity like a hurricane, earthquake, or flood, or a man-made incident like a terrorist attack—local and state resources may quickly become insufficient. An emergency declaration facilitates immediate federal assistance, enabling a more coordinated response to ensure public safety and expedite recovery efforts.

Types of FEMA Emergency Declarations

FEMA recognizes two primary types of declarations: Emergency Declarations and Major Disaster Declarations. Each serves distinct purposes and offers varying levels of assistance.

Emergency Declarations

Emergency declarations are typically issued for incidents that require immediate federal assistance but do not warrant a full-scale major disaster response. This may include situations like severe storms or localized flooding that disrupt public health and safety but do not result in extensive damage. Emergency declarations allow for:

Access to Federal Resources: States can receive assistance in the form of equipment, personnel, and financial support.

Temporary Housing and Assistance: Aid can be provided for emergency shelter and basic needs for affected individuals.

Major Disaster Declarations

Major disaster declarations are more comprehensive and are utilized for significant disasters that cause substantial damage and require extensive federal assistance. The criteria for a major disaster declaration include:

Severity and Magnitude: The disaster must cause severe damage, overwhelming state and local resources.

Involvement of Multiple Jurisdictions: If the disaster impacts several areas, a major declaration is likely needed.

Major disaster declarations enable a broader range of assistance, including:

Individual Assistance Programs: Financial help for individuals and households affected by the disaster.

Public Assistance Programs: Funds for local governments and certain non-profit organizations to aid in the repair and restoration of public infrastructure.

Implications of FEMA Emergency Declarations

FEMA emergency declarations have significant implications for communities, state governments, and the federal response to disasters.

Accelerated Aid and Support

Once a declaration is made, FEMA can quickly mobilize resources to affected areas. This expedited response can be crucial for saving lives, protecting property, and reducing further damage.

Funding and Resource Allocation

Emergency declarations unlock federal funding, enabling state and local governments to access resources that would otherwise be unavailable. This funding is vital for recovery efforts and rebuilding infrastructure, ensuring that affected communities can return to normalcy.

Long-term Recovery Efforts

While the immediate response is critical, the long-term recovery process is equally important. FEMA’s declarations help set the stage for rebuilding efforts, allowing communities to receive federal assistance for months or even years following a disaster.

Summary

FEMA emergency declarations are a lifeline during times of crisis, providing essential support and resources to communities in need. Understanding the types and implications of these declarations helps underscore their importance in disaster response and recovery efforts. As climate change and other factors contribute to an increase in disaster frequency and severity, the role of FEMA and its emergency declarations will continue to be vital in safeguarding lives and supporting communities across the nation.

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Activating all the beacons connected to Oracle, i need everyone's status of themselves and their surroundings after the earthquake 15 minutes ago

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