Missouri Sends A Valentine To US Senate - Campaign Updates & Conference News |
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A Strong Democrat Is Running for U.S. Senate In Missouri |
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Trudy Busch Valentine is a mother, nurse, supporter of children’s causes, and a fourth-generation Missourian running for the U.S. Senate to put people first — with honesty and integrity. Trudy has dedicated her life to giving back, helping, and caring for people — Now she is running to be Missouri’s next U.S. Senator. Now is the time for Missouri to elect a Democrat to the U.S. Senate, to create a strong united front for the United States to take the lead, rebuild the economy, restore the environment & human health, create millions of jobs, and stop climate change — Trudy Busch Valentine for U.S. Senate |
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Missouri Senate race: Get to know Trudy Busch Valentine | Fox4KC.com Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Trudy Busch Valentine speaks at an election-night gathering at Sheet Metal Workers Hall on August 02, 2022 in St Louis, Missouri. Busch Valentine won the Democratic primary to replace Republican Sen. Roy Blunt, who decided not to run for a third term. - Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Trudy Busch Valentine, The Clear Choice for Senate | StLAmerican.com Missouri Senate Race: Get to know Trudy Busch Valentine | Fox4KC.com Opinion: Eric Schmitt Should Never Set Foot in the U.S. Senate but Trudy Busch Valentine Must | TheMissouriTimes.com Schmitt has become a one man wrecking ball, undermining our democratic system of self government Schmitt abused his position as state Attorney General, filing a baseless challenge to overturn the presidential election results. He perpetuated the fiction that Joe Biden was not the legitimately elected president. His case was promptly dismissed by the U.S. Supreme Court. AG Schmitt sacrificed the health and safety of Missouri’s children on the altar of ambition. At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, AG Schmitt sued local governments and 47 school boards over mask requirements. How many of Missouri’s 1.68 million COVID illnesses and almost 22,000 deaths were due to AG Schmitt’s attacks on statewide efforts to keep Missourians safe, we will never know. Schmitt opposes all abortions. No exceptions. Schmitt’s involvement in the Jan.6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol Also as Missouri Attorney General, as Vice Chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), Schmitt oversaw funding for robocalls encouraging Republicans to come to the January 6 insurrection in Washington, falsely alleging the presidential election had been stolen. RAGA’s leading role in providing support to the violent mob that stormed the Capitol resulted in loss of life and injuring 150 police officers. Schmitt criticized the Dept. of Justice for enforcing the Espionage Act The Department of Justice secured a search warrant from a federal judge to search former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Largo residence. It turned up 20 boxes of government documents—many with Top Secret markings—that Trump had illegally taken when he left office. Missouri Attorney General Schmitt immediately, without knowing the facts, criticized the FBI search. AG Schmitt has declared that as U.S. Senator he would “take a wrecking ball to this overtly political DOJ” So much for being the “law and order” candidate. Opinion: Eric Schmitt Should Never Set Foot in the U.S. Senate but Trudy Busch Valentine Must (themissouritimes.com) What’s in store for Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, Independence, & Columbia, if Eric Schmitt becomes Missouri’s next U.S. senator? | TheBeacon.media Upon filing her candidacy, two men stepped out of the race to express their confidence in Valentine's outstanding abilities - - Former State Senator Scott Sifton, saying, "Trudy Busch Valentine gives us the best chance to win in November. I have seen her in action working on issues in the community and know she will do right by Missourians." Trudy Busch Valentine, heiress to Anheuser Busch beer giant, running for Senate as Democrat; Sifton drops out | yahoo.com - Former Florissant Mayor Thomas P. Schneider, who says in his Commentary in the Missouri Times : "Nobody cares more about Missouri's future than Republican Senator Dave Schatz, and Democrat Trudy Busch Valentine." Donald Trump Endorses Eric Schmitt |
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Trump puts out video in support of Eric Schmitt, says he has total endorsement | MSN.com Schmitt has consistently associated himself with the former president and earlier this month he held a fundraiser at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. He signed on to a legal brief supporting Trump in his legal dispute with the Department of Justice, which approved an FBI search of Trump’s resort in August. Schmitt also signed on to a lawsuit that attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. While Democrats and Republicans are battling for control of the U.S. Senate, Schmitt is heavily favored to win the U.S. Senate race in Missouri. Now in the homestretch to the November 8th election, many Americans are struggling to put food on the table, which means the ECONOMY will be decisive in the election outcome - where Republicans are currently holding the INFLATION wild card, albeit due to their complicity in keeping prices high. Making them the sure winners if the facts do not get out before Election Day. All the latest polls show US Senate Candidates Trudy Busch Valentine losing ground - largely due to Inflation - which Republicans refuse to take any corrective actions to bring down. The GOP's role in pumping up inflation ahead of the midterm election are somehow not in the headlines, telling us what our elected lawmakers are doing for Americans. |
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Man-made emissions are still rising, pumping over 40 billion tons per year of greenhouse gases and toxic chemicals into earth’s atmosphere. All these gases are trapped in our narrow 60 miles high of breathing space, essential for life on earth. So thin it is barely visible from space! 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - James Webb Space Telescope | NASA The Vast Potential of Solar Power: The sun's nuclear fusion energy output is gigantic. Compared to the annual energy needs of the world; The annual supply from renewable sources provides an inexhaustible reserve of clean, low cost energy: |
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Solar Power Generation in the US: Too Expensive, Or A Bargain? In contrast, the known planetary reserves of fossil and nuclear fuels are decreasing both in quality and quantity, increasingly more expensive — and toxic to life on earth. 1 Terawatt (Tw) is the same as a 1,000 billion watts, equivalent to 1,000 large power plants - each with a generating capacity of 1,000 megawatts (MW). It is estimated that total global energy consumption in 2050 will reach 28 Terawatt years. At that rate the world will run entirely out of finite energy supplies - coal, oil, natural gas, & uranium - by 2080. SOLAR UNDER SIEGE Republicans plan legislative assault to push corporations and the financial sector away from pro-climate policies and back to outdated fossil fuels | E&E News Supreme Court Hears West Virginia Case Challenging EPA Authority Over Power Plants | WVPB Utilities tap ratepayers to fill lobbying war chests | U.S. Energy News Even as the world stands at the threshold of a renaissance of ecosystem restoration and spectacular, walkable, smart cities of the future, energized by the vast potential of renewable resources, the outlook for further development is dimming. For decades, utilities have stifled renewable development in the U.S., depriving themselves along with the public health and environment, refusing to transition from their outdated burning burning of fossil fuels, to all the new technologies using the abundant free clean energy of the sun and wind! States like Texas, Minnesota, and Iowa have passed new laws giving utilities the right to block solar and wind projects that would lower rates in their state-regulated monopoly areas. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) proposal to revamp its transmission planning rules would kill competition in energy transmission. INFLATION & THE ECONOMY Coronavirus and the economy: How the Fed is 'printing' dollars - USA Today.com The Fed Has Pumped $9 Trillion into Wall Street Over the Past Six Months, But Mnuchin Says “This Isn’t Like the Financial Crisis” - WallStreetOnParade.com These Top 5 Oil Companies Just Raked In $35 Billion While Americans Pay More at the Pump - Center for American Progress |
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Missouri River Country Dan Burkhardt, founder of the Katy Land Trust and author of of "Missouri River Country", features 230 photos and reflections from Governor Nixon, Senators McCaskill and Blunt, author William Least Heat-Moon, Missouri Botanical Garden President Peter Wyse Jackson, conservationist Dr. Peter Raven, civic leader Dr. William Danforth, environmentalist Adolphus Busch IV, chef Gerard Craft, preservationist Jim Dierberg and many more. Dan Burkhardt "Missouri River Country" | MissouriBotanicalGarden.org Growing up on the legendary Ulysses S. Grant's 420 acre Farm in South St. Louis, Trudy Busch began her lifetime of public service at the age of 13, volunteering as a Candy Striper nurses aide at the hospital. Her family has a legacy of public service that began with opening the doors to their home, Grant's Farm, and their business, Anheuser-Busch, to the public. Busch beer heiress Valentine launches her campaign for U.S. Senate | Politics | St. Louis Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Democratic Party's last chance to recruit a strong Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, was slipping away as the last few days of candidate filing wound down. When Trudy Busch Valentine, a nurse and an heiress with a huge and caring heart, looking for any way she could help make a difference, arrived in the State Capital's Secretary of State's Office, and filed her candidacy for U.S. Senate. ‘More acts of kindness’: Busch Valentine sees Senate race as a chance to heal divisions • Missouri Independent - Focus On The Issues - Why Are Food Prices So High? Restoring the Health of the Rural Economy - Cut Away On the Chopping Block for Decades |
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Lobbyists at Missouri Capitol Providing Pork for Legislators Is Missouri's agricultural law being rewritten in Hong Kong? | Local Business | St. Louis Post-Dispatch Recent Data Show Dominant Meat Processing Companies Are Taking Advantage of Market Power to Raise Prices and Grow Profit Margins | The White House Why Food Prices Are So High The corporations that control our food system are raking in record profits. Consumers are paying record high prices, inflation is raging, family farmers are struggling to stay in business, and our economies - urban and rural - are becoming more and more impoverished. From COMMENTARY By Missouri Farmer, Darvin Bentlage: I love farming and have been doing it all my life, but I told my kids not to come back to the farm, because there’s no future in it. That’s the sad truth. For the last three decades, roughly 40 U.S. family cattle operations have gone out of business every day. We are here because many of our elected members of Congress and state governments don’t represent their constituents, or the vast majority of Americans. Our democratic process is controlled by billion dollar multinational corporations. They are planning and implementing our demise. It’s their business model. Without competition, they can push everyone else out of the market, then they win and take all the wealth - and land. Here are a few glaring results of corporate agriculture’s stranglehold on farmers, consumers, our food system, economies and democratic process. In 2021: - JBS, a Brazilian corporation and the world’s biggest meatpacker, net revenue was $71 billion and their U.S. beef division reported a net revenue of $27.18 billion; - Tyson had a net profit of $3.05 billion, up $1 billion from 2020; - Cargill reported its biggest profit in its 156-year history, netting almost $5 billion; - WH Group, the Chinese corporation that owns Smithfield Foods, reported $27.29 billion in revenue, up 6.7%. The fact is, during these challenging and unprecedented times, the corporations that control our food system are raking in record profits. Consumers are paying record high prices, inflation is raging, family farmers are struggling to stay in business, while both rural and urban economies are becoming increasingly impoverished. We are in this position because the laws, policies and regulations - have been written, lobbied, and paid for by corporations - and passed by the Congress and Legislature - WE VOTED INTO OFFICE. Today’s corporate controlled system is bad for farmers, bad for consumers, bad for rural and urban communities, our environment and climate, and bad for democracy. Bad Farm Bills and bad trade agreements are the main drivers of our farm and food system. WE NEED TO VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE WHILE WE STILL CAN. - The elephant in the room is destroying family farms, rural communities and our democracy | Opinion • Missouri Independent Inflation or "corporate greed"? Meat prices increased by double digits during pandemic - CBS News What can we do? We need to elect leaders who represent Americans and not corporate special interests. It’s time to end the BS and actually fix the problem. Democratic members of the Senate and House are working to pass the Price Gouging Prevention Act of 2022. This bill will tackle the inflation and rising prices consumers are facing by prohibiting the practice of price gouging during all abnormal market disruptions – including the current pandemic. Rural America needs to keep jobs and income in rural America via a ‘circular economy,’ rather than give them to corporations, says Vilsack | Successful Farming | Agriculture.com Speaking at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took on the steep, widespread decline in the health of the small town and rural economies across America in the last half century. Vilsack said the money made on farms needs to be kept in rural American communities. The current 'Extraction Economy' takes the crops and livestock from the farmers and the farmland used to raise it, moves the agricultural produce to distant locations, where the agricultural business transactions are conducted, and the income is received. USDA’s goal is to transition to a 'Circular Economy' in which agricultural production, buying and selling, and income all take place, and remain in the rural communities - creating good paying jobs and wealth. "Rural America needs a Circular Economy," said Vilsack. USDA Invests $1.4 Billion to Support Local Businesses, Create Good-Paying Jobs and Strengthen the Economy in Rural America | USDA The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing in climate-smart infrastructure that will strengthen the health and livelihoods of people across rural America. They include funding for projects to expand access to clean water, high-speed broadband, and low cost renewable energy, for people living in disadvantaged communities. The President’s Building a Better Rural America - Justice 40 Percent Initiative commits to delivering at least 40 percent of federal climate and clean energy investments to disadvantaged rural communities. USDA to combat climate change across rural America | Successful Farming The Federal Reserve Has Already Pumped $9-Trillion into Wall Street in the Past Six Months, and Now Is Offering Banks Another $1.5-Trillion | Need To Know News March 2020 UN climate report: It’s ‘now or never’ to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees |
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April 4, 2022 — A new flagship UN report on climate change that harmful carbon emissions from 2010-2019 have never been higher in human history, means the world is on a “fast track” to disaster. Scientists say that it’s ‘now or never’ to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. We are on a pathway to global warming of more than double the 1.5-degree (Celsius, or 2.7-degrees Fahreinheit) limit” that was agreed in Paris in 2015.“ UN Secretary General Antonio Guterrez warns that the world is losing the race to stop global temperature rise. “If we don’t see significant and sustained emissions reductions this decade, the window of opportunity to keep 1.5 alive will be closed – forever." The UN chief added: “This is not fiction or exaggeration. It is what science tells us will result from our current energy policies. Governments everywhere must reassess their energy policies or the world will be uninhabitable. His comments reflected the IPCC’s findings, that all countries must reduce their fossil fuel use substantially, transition to renewable energy, improve energy efficiency and conservation. Unless action is taken soon, some major cities will be under water, Mr. Guterres said in a video message, which also forecast “unprecedented heatwaves, wildfires, terrifying storms, widespread water shortages and the extinction of a million species of plants and animals”. At COP26 last year, the Secretary-General flagged the need for the highest standards of environmental integrity and transparency. To avert a climate catastrophe, we need bold pledges – matched by concrete, verifiable action.” . . . Read More: UN climate report: It’s ‘now or never’ to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees |
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"WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR COMMON HOME?" " . . . The continued acceleration of changes affecting humanity and the planet is coupled today with a more intensified pace of life and work which might be called “rapidification”. Change is part of the working of complex systems, however, the speed with which human activity is taking place contrasts with the naturally slow pace of biological evolution. Moreover, the goals of this rapid and constant change are not necessarily geared to the common good or to integral and sustainable human development. Change for the better is desirable, yet it cannot be allowed to become a source of existential threats to the world, and to the quality of life of much of humanity. . . " Pope Francis - Laudato si' |
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"YOUNG PEOPLE ARE CRYING OUT FOR CHANGE!" " . . . I urgently appeal for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet. We need a conversation which includes everyone, since the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all. We require a new and universal solidarity. Everyone’s talents and involvement are needed to redress the damage caused by human abuse of God’s creation”. All of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creation, each according to his or her own culture, experience, involvements and talents. Young people are crying out change! They cannot understand how anyone can claim to be building a better future, without thinking of the environmental crisis, and the sufferings of the excluded. . . " Pope Francis Laudato si' Saint Louis Climate Summit April 2018 |
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Climate Summit Video Archive | NinePBS.org One of the most respected Jesuit educational institutions in the world, Saint Louis University, hosted the St. Louis Climate Summit from April 22-24, 2018. Led by Peter Raven, one of the world's leading botanists and advocates of biodiversity and head of Missouri Botanical Garden, hosted by Trudy Busch Valentine, it took place in the Channel 9 studios with dramatic settings of the beauty and threats to the earth caused by climate change. The St. Louis Climate Summit brought together leading experts from around the world who discussed the ecological challenges facing our planet today. Summary | Saint Louis Climate Summit - YouTube Kehkashan Basu Children As Change Makers |
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Planet With A Plan: Given the Stakes, Failure Is Not An Option | ShowMeSolar.org Kehkashan Basu is a natural changemaker from the United Arab Emirates. Born on June 5, World Environment Day, she has always been passionate about protecting the planet. By 8 years old she was convincing those around her of the importance of environmental action. As an environmental and child rights activist, Kehkashan serves as a Youth Ambassador for the World Future Council, winner of the 2016 International Children's Peace Prize, and Founder of the Green Hope Foundation. Spreading the message of peace, happiness and sustainability, she has worked tirelessly to enlist the support of children and youth across geographical boundaries. Green Hope provides a networking platform to children and youth in the region to carry forward the Rio legacy through environmental workshops and ground level projects on climate justice, biodiversity conservation, waste segregation and reversing land degradation. 2016 - Kehkashan Basu (16), UAE - KidsRights Foundation Midwest Climate Summit Washington University - St. Louis February 2023 |
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Midwest Climate Summit | Midwest Climate Collaborative | Washington University in St. Louis The Midwest Climate Summit is the premiere regional gathering of climate leaders, researchers, and practitioners to expand knowledge and accelerate action. The summit is hosted by the Midwest Climate Collaborative, a cross-sector collaboration connecting organizations in 12 states to respond collectively to the climate crisis. The Midwest Climate Summit expands climate knowledge, accelerates climate action, and catalyzes new partnerships that deepen expertise and develop a Midwestern response to the climate crisis. Our vision of a carbon neutral, climate resilient, interconnected Midwest region cannot be achieved without centering equity and justice in our planning and implementation. We are seeking workshop proposals that further these goals in a variety of topic areas. Midwest Climate Summit | Midwest Climate Collaborative | Washington University in St. Louis (wustl.edu) COP 27 Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt November 6-18, 2022 |
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COP27 - Home COP27: Delivering for people and the planet | United Nations The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Egypt from 6 to 18 November 2022, seeks renewed solidarity between countries to deliver on the landmark Paris Agreement, for people and the planet. Delivering for people and the planet From 6 to 18 November, Heads of State, ministers and negotiators, along with climate activists, mayors, civil society representatives and CEOs will meet in the Egyptian coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh for the largest annual gathering on climate action. The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – COP27 – will build on the outcomes of COP26 to deliver action on an array of issues critical to tackling the climate emergency – from urgently reducing greenhouse gas emissions, building resilience and adapting to the inevitable impacts of climate change, to delivering on the commitments to finance climate action in developing countries. Faced with a growing energy crisis, record greenhouse gas concentrations, and increasing extreme weather events, COP27 seeks renewed solidarity between countries, to deliver on the landmark Paris Agreement, for people and the planet. COP27: Delivering for people and the planet | United Nations Egypt Arrests Hundreds in Crackdown Before COP27 Climate Summit | Democracy Now! |
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