Wednesday, April 22, 2009

This is such a shame. He wasn't responsible for the implosion. WOW.

I can't help believe that he put too much 'stock' to his role at FREDDIE. I can imagine it would have been easy to slip into thinking a career/future would be ruined if the organization failed to turn around.

This financial crisis is torture to these people. Look, there was no leadership in the country. Everything was being deregulated wherever the Republicans could find a reason to do so and there was a lot of impetus coming from the White House to 'turn loose the hounds of hell' in order to buoy an economy.

Who is DIRECTLY responsible? Easy one.


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This undated photo provided by Freddie Mac shows David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer of mortgage giant Freddie Mac. (AP / Freddie Mac)





Let's put this into context. The Republicans had no way of producing an economy. They never have. Even Reagan simply deregulated to provide an 'economic glut' that people would love him for. Bush, Jr. did the same thing, only this time, he was taking the government apart. He was deregulating past any 'reason.' George W. Bush and his administration IS DIRECTLY responsible for the economic ruin of the USA under 8 years of exploitive deregulation.

And this entire AIG thing. It was all handled "W"rong. AIG was victimized and used as insurance to gambling.

The Bush White House drained EVERY reserve of any monetary policy that was ever a part of the USA Treasury or any government operating authority. There was even something about the airlines and their monetary reserve that was exploited to the point of ridiculous. But, I am not going to take the time to get all the 'information' on this entry. The FACTS are true, but, to gather all the information of how every USA reserve within the government was drained is another 'Saturday Night' venue.

As far as 'Freddie Mac' and 'Fannie Mae,' they are government controlled. The rules were different and they were never intended to be entities other than what they were, REGARDLESS, of how Republicans thought they should be 'profitable.' Reagan thought the Space Shuttle should be making money as well with launches every two weeks and as a result we lost astronauts and space ships in a grossly unrealistic and pressured culture within NASA.

So much for having the officers of these particular institutions feeling completely responsible. It is not the case at all.

Just to set the record straight, the 'hate' speech has to stop. The 'business culture' that resulted in this disaster is horribly out of step with decency. That is the problem. Tim Geithner is working on changing all that.

This is the way I see the issue surrounding AIG.

To begin, there is no 'private entity' that can insure major investment banks. The ONLY entity that can do that are governments. There was absolutely no reasonable way AIG could provide the protections to all those banks while insuring them.

AIG was NOT the FDIC. It wasn't conducted like the FDIC and there in lies the problem. In order to attempt to 'handle' all their responsibilities 'at least on the books' they began to 'play' with concepts that would become the focus of the 'blame' for the failure of AIG.

THE FACT of the circumstances is that AIG was viewed by investment banks as 'back up' to disaster. The investment banks simply threw all caution to the wind, with the exception of Morgan, and they rolled the dice. Goldman Sachs was no different. The so called geniuses of the Board Room stopped being wise investment brokers and became gamblers. The reason they thought they could 'go there' was because their 'free wheeling' agendas were backed by AIG.

I still say, Paulson saw this coming and took over the Treasury.

At any rate, AIG should never have paid a dime. There is an understanding in contract law that all terms are binding under REASONABLE circumstances. AIG never 'contracted' with gamblers, they contracted to protect investment banks in REASONABLE conduct of business. The investment banks were NOT conducting themselves reasonably. They were taking 'high stake' gambles on financial tools that were spectulative and untried. AIG never contracted for that, but, with Paulson in Treasury crying that if AIG didn't 'pay up' the entire global economy would collapse, there was no saying, NO.

I'll go so far as to say AIG should file lawsuits against the companies they have 'saved' from risks 'outside' the venue of REASONABLE and get their monies back.

AIG in any 'reasonable' venue should never have been required to pay for such irresponsible 'game playing' by those banks.

AIG was not there to insure irresponsibility.

It was there to protect them should economic conditions IMPACT on them, NOT, if the banks themselves created an economic slide of which they would benefit by being paid off by AIG.

The truth of the matter is that AIG was scammed by the banks they were insuring. It was a fraudulent operation and Paulson 'leaned' on AIG with promises to 'bailout' AIG as it honored its contracts.

Bush and his administration, including what's his name, ... Don Evans... 'produced' an faux economic boom that exploded, not just burst, housing. All the rules to 'reasonable' conduct of business were removed by the Republicans and the games began.

Bush can say Wall Street was 'on a drunk' but HE was the enabler. I am quite confident Bush 'counted on' the banks losing their shirts with the 'idea' that AIG would 'save the day.' After all, Bushes when President, like to 'bailout' financial institutions. Under H.W. it was his son's S&L buddies with government monies from the FDIC. Under "W" is was the entire global economy, with monies that hadn't been printed yet.

By draining all the USA government reserves FIRST, he opened up the NECESSITY to what occurred in October and heated up the printing presses. It was easy for H.W. to ask the FDIC to step in. They were solvent and could easily appropriate funds out of their insurance funds. BUT. To bankrupt an entire global economy Bush had to drain the swamp. And he did. He drained every cash reserve in the USA and then turned on the printing presses.

Couple of gems, aren't they?

Well, at any rate. The dynamics to this mess belongs to ONE man and one man only. George W. Bush. He can hang his hat on it and take credit to nearly annihilating civilization in order to set countries against each other to faciliate war.

Well, Georgie. THE Neocon agenda didn't get off the ground this time and you actually had to leave office even with provisions under The Patriot Act.

I don't want any citizen of this country to ever harm themselves over damn money again. It is hideous. While currency is necessary for a country to 'tend' business, there is nothing valuable about it. Currency faciliates 'the ease' of economies, it is NOT life or economic strength all by itself. For a country to be valuable, it takes more than having Fort Knox full. It takes a populous to drive an economy. If we as a people seek to destroy others for the sake of revenge and political fervor, we aren't much of a people, now are we?

The USA will not regain its prominance and it will not obtain peace by demising its own people.

My sympathies to the family and friends of David Kellermann. Something went "W"rong, but, it sure wasn't anything he should have taken to heart as deeply as this.

The Missing Link ! I did not say the Missing Nut, I said The Missing Link !

I knew there was something more to this torture mess than just the events of September 11th. It didn't make sense. The military never did this before and there was plenty of reasons to conduct such acts during WWII when Hitler was a demon killing millions and millions of people.

Justifying Iraq. That explains it. Yep. We couldn't find Osama or Omar because The Brothers Grim weren't even being sought. Bush and Cheney were attempting to cover their tracks and using every trick in the book and then some.

Why does this not surprise me? Having Bush and Cheney in the Executive Branch was Life Insurance for bin Laden. They attempted to justify their time in Iraq as a defense against al Qaeda. So much for NOT using torture for confessions.

Torture in this instance is cohersion. That is what torture accomplishes when used for securing confessions. It has nothing to do with LOCATING enemies of the USA to protect citizens from further attacks. Torture was used as cohersion even if it was conducted as if there was 'actually' information to obtain. Do you know how completely criminal this is? Our military lost soldiers, we killed in Iraq on the premise the country was actually in danger. It never was. It is criminal.


April 22nd, 2009 10:47 am
Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link (click title to entry - thank you)
By Jonathan S. Landay /
McClatchy
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist.
Such information would've provided a foundation for one of former President George W. Bush's main arguments for invading Iraq in 2003. In fact, no evidence has ever been found of operational ties between Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and Saddam's regime.
The use of abusive interrogation — widely considered torture — as part of Bush's quest for a rationale to invade Iraq came to light as the Senate issued a major report tracing the origin of the abuses and President Barack Obama opened the door to prosecuting former U.S. officials for approving them....






FACTBOX - Birth and death of CIA waterboarding (click here)
Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:02am BST
(Reuters) - Former U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice gave the go-ahead to the CIA for an interrogation program that included the method known as waterboarding in 2002, and Vice President Dick Cheney affirmed White House support a year..."
The report, compiled with Justice Department assistance, comes as pressure is building to investigate and prosecute high-level Bush administration officials who authorized the harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects.
Waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning, has been widely condemned as illegal torture.
Following is a timeline describing the development of the interrogation policy, according to the report....

Can we 'get over' this mess? Miss California, Carrie Prejean, preached. She didn't answer the question.



The question was, "Vermont just became the fourth state to legalize same sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit, why or why not?"

Ms. Prejean went off on a tangent of a 'preplanned' political rant. The statement was rehersed so she would appear to be confident and savvy. She never answered the question. She did not say, "I believe the states that haven't legalized same sex marriage are within their rights in doing so. I think every state will decide for itself if their citizens want to address same sex relationships in that way. It is not up to me to judge anyone or any state as to the decision regarding the legal rights of marriage and the status of gender within those statutes."

A statement like that would have placed her 'preaching' outside the parameters of controversy. It would have more than adequately answered the question with an understanding that the USA is a democracy where people can differ in their views. It would have stated, on the basis of our democracy, it is the collective will of the citizens that are expressed in the laws.

Ms. Prejean sunk her own boat. There isn't anything else to say. She LOST the title because she never answered the question, she simply drew on rehersed answers.

I absolutely find her decision to call the question a challenge to her faith outrageous.

Any Miss America or Miss USA will be confronted by the topic and they have to be able to answer questions without victimizing the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community.

We live in a world that is violent and bigoted. Real people die because of those wrongful priorities. For a Miss USA, who will be competing on an international stage, to openly criticize an entire global community would be reprehensible and nothing short of hate mongering, no different than Palin's campaign rantings that increased the danger to the First Family's lives.

The issue has a depth that goes beyond political volleying to win an electorate. The subject of Same Sex Marriage is being used politically as a wedge issue with all kinds of 'tactics' in the media. It is unfortunate. The subject of LOVE should not be a topic of gender bias, bigotry, racism or religious bigotry, but, due to political priorities it is today.

The entire segment on the Dr. Phil Show clearly demonstrates how very blurred the topic of LOVE has become.



No one can deny same sex couples have the same exact feelings of 'abiding love' toward each other than any heterosexual couple. There are issues of fidelity and infidelity whether a couple is heterosexual or not.

One of the most outrageous analogies I have heard about deciding this topic is comparing it to Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. What do children have to do with adult relationships of love and responsibilties for intimacy and life long contracts of marriage and/or divorce.

The statement by a grown man that was supposed to represent a religious agenda in opposition to Same Sex Marriage absolutely astounded me. I believe the statement was, (paraphrasing) 'We differentiate genders when it comes to Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. Men are simply different than women. Marriage is about a family and children and how can a same sex couple possibly understand the 'special' relationship a child has with two genders as they grow up?"

In regard to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, society recognizes the 'special' nature of gender because of a privacy issue. It has absolutely nothing to do with sequestering genders into different camps because of future 'ideas' of marriage. Comparing the 'play' girls and boys engage both within their own gender and in coed situations has absolutely nothing to do with the solemn adult vows of marriage.

As to men are different than women. Well that is fairly obvious. The sex organs and processes are different and the hormones differentiate secondary sex characteristics. EVERYTHING ELSE, as to the 'differences' between men and women are CULTURAL. Gender and sexual identity is a matter of genetics and nothing else. The statement men are different than women is a sexist statement when it is made to segregate 'gender authority' on a social level. It is simplistic statement made to victimize, ridicule and oppression and nothing else.

Marriage is NOT about children. Having sex 'can' lead to children in heterosexual relationships and it has nothing to do with being married.

The children of the USA are primarily raised in single parent families whereby ONE GENDER of parent influences the outcome to a child's life, education, moral integrity (no matter what definition that takes) and preferences. Any implication that a two gender parent 'standard' is demanded to have mentally and emotionally COMPLETE children that grow into happy, healthy adults that contribute to society in a benevolent and productive way is ludicrous.

The people of the USA need to come to terms with their own bigotry regarding the genderization of marriage and provide civil rights to all citizens.

Leases of coastal waters for energy





Obama Marks Earth Day at Iowa Wind Tower Plant (click title to entry - thank you)
By Michael A. Fletcher
NEWTON, Iowa -- President Obama marked Earth Day by traveling to a wind turbine tower plant here to promote his renewable energy policy, which he said will simultaneously create jobs, increase national security and help the environment.

"The choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy -- it's a choice between prosperity and decline," Obama said. "The nation that leads the world in creating new sources of clean energy will be the nation that leads the 21st century global economy." Speaking at a cavernous plant that formerly housed a Maytag appliance factory, Obama called on Congress to pass legislation that would invest $150 billion in the burgeoning renewable energy sector over the next decade....





Today, celebrate a New Year. Make a resolution to never allow anyone talk an entire populous to believe they are 'all right'...


... when in fact, we still aren't.

So, to get to the facts I found in the generous sharing by a tropical field station in Panama.


In the report, it clearly stated, the rainfall during the 'wet season,' which begins May 1 continuing to Mid-December, received huge rainfall volumes. The Panamanian Wet Season of 2005 was one of the wettest they ever recorded.

Yet, the measurement of 'relative humidity' and 'overland flow' (rain water runoff) was severely less in volume than any previous years.

The entire picture in Panama regarding its rain forest is extremely troubling for 2005. None of the principles of 'conservation of matter' applies. Rain arrived and then disappeared. It was as if the rainforest was extremely thirsty and simply soaked up any and all rain that fell.

In the report there is no overt explanation ventured to explain this vast difference, except to state, there must have been a large error from their devices.

That reality is still bothering Panama and they are receiving this year new measuring devices and while I am confident they will create an accurate picture, I sincerely doubt they will explain 'away' the anomally that occurred in 2005. See, in other prior year reports there were some deficits in measuring, human error if you will, but, there was NOT an annual phenomena that defies logic.

You see, even when Panama has their new devices to measure all their parameters more precisely; it is my guess they will never be able to measure and extrapolate an explanation for their tropical deficit in 2005.

Why?

Because it is my strong contention that the 'missing' water vapor from any of the tropical systems didn't stay in that dynamic as it 'manifested in large enough measure' in 2005. Instead, the water vapor was 'siphoned' off the tropical systems by upper tropospheric vortices and used in hurricanes in an attempt to cool Earth. It means the tropical systems in any place in the world are at danger for drought and as Chris Field has stated, fire.

We may very well regret the day, October 4, 2002; when the vortices manifested in this unique heating event of Earth. I said that, too. I also told that to Aaron Brown in some notes I sent. I said, "You know, Aaron, this society will regret ever allowing carbon dioxide to dominate Earth's troposphere and will regret their negligence of a stewardship they were required to exhibit toward the planet they call home."

So. I went on an 'inspired' pursuit to the issue I have always had regarding Human Induced Global Warming and this new dynamic of water vapor.

A lot played into this 'concern' I developed regarding Earth's new distribution of water vapor. The impact it would have on existing flora and fauna. It worried me more and more that if the troposphere was now shunting a lot of water vapor off the forests, what would happen? Would we lose everything?

Then recently came the statement by Dr. Chris Fields, stating Climate Change would go very fast and the forests, including our tropical systems, would burn to the ground. I found myself looking in the mirror stating, I believed that a long time ago. Now, I know I am correct. Hence, my venture to understand the Tropical Systems as they NOW related to 'vital' water vapor.


Recent research found that “up to 72 percent of bird species in northeastern Australia and more than a third in Europe could go extinct due to global warming.” [Monga Bay] - Click title to entry - thank you.

This is Wilma. The 'water vapor' trail is a bit different.



In 2005, Wilma was nearly an 'upside - down' hurricane with its water vapor trail tracking from the North. Why? Because there existed at the top of the 'densest' water vapor trail of any hurricane that season, a high upper tropospheric vortex that received its water vapor from the Equator BEFORE Wilma was born.

This is Katrina. It is easy to notice the 'vapor trail' in this image as it reaches 'south' to the Equator.


High heat. High water vapor. High velocity.
But, what about this 'Panama thing?'

Total Rainfall from a NASA observatory 'film loop.' The loop (click on title - thank you) is interesting as it shows the migration of Equatorial...

...water vapor and it is noted, the migration is contained in a 'specific' and 'limited' band of tropical climate. So limited in its small migration, that I would boldly state that that 'specific band' of water vapor has never acted as a 'source' of heat and water to tropospheric storms to facilate 'heat transfer' in the oceans as it has since the development of vortices in the Northern Hemisphere.

1998
Turning for a minute to these two images, 11 years and one month apart, the 'stress' the water vapor 'component' to Earth's troposphere is under is easily discerned. If one looks closely and I hesitate to separate the two images too much.

2009
1. The color compliment indicates a far sparser 'density.'

2. From the year, October 2002, when the vortices first appeared, there is a 'separation' of the Equatorial Water Vapor that becomes chronic and can be noted on the left of the image of 2009 (West of the Americas), BUT, also in the extreme right of the image (East of Indonesia). This separation appears intermittently before October 2002, but, not at all in the image of 1998.

3. Noted the 'distribution' of the water vapor across the globe. In the 1998 image, it has an appearance as being 'blotchy.' BUT. In the image of 2009, the 'distribution' takes on a 'streaky' appearance. The water vapor no longer meanders around the planet with jet streams and Coriolis. In the image of 2009, the water vapor is 'dynamically' moved, as if pulled, by vortices that have been at work now for over six years. What does that mean? It means that the very 'dynamic mass' of water that is supposed to float somewhat lazily around Earth, is now suspended in a manner that is a 'force' and acting on the Earth's troposphere with the added 'force' of strong tropospheric vortices. Water is no longer as 'benevolent' as it once was and adds even more chaos to the 'regressive loop' of Climate Change.

4. In the film at the title to the entry, the most profoundly effected continent is Australia. The drought of Australia can be discerned in this film, especially after the time of October 2002.

Water Vapor - It is considered a 'Greenhouse Gas,' however, it has no toxic levels and it is non-polluting. So, in my opinion, it is an ancillary...

...Greenhouse Gas that faciliates the movement of heat and weather. However, as an ancillary Greenhouse Gas it is not a gas that needs regulation, UNLESS, it is manifesting in 'lesser than normal' amounts. As a drought, water vapor is very valuable. In the case of 'less' than is needed, it should be 'recorded' and reported in 'profound seriousness' to the government.


St. John's Fog

The focus is 'water vapor.' For me, it always was a matter of tracking water vapor. On this blog are frequent entries featuring 'Water Vapor Satellites' primarily from the same source at UNISYS.


Water vapor.


Water and its property of 'latent heat' is what facilitates hurricanes and of course it is hurricanes that maintain a reasonable 'biotic temperature' for life to exist on Earth. Between hurricanes storing and exchanging heat with cold ocean temperatures and the Arctic Ocean acting as a thermostat to Earth's oceans; there is a 'livable' climate including temperature.


Atmospheric Water Vapor Image
January 30, 2005
Click here for larger image

Above is the 2005 satellite image from NASA's MODIS/Terris. It reveals a total water fall for the year 2005 as more than sufficient. It was a very good year for rainfall. Kindly remember that. The 'tropics and subtropics,' especially in the Northern Hemisphere had a heavy dousing of rain that year.

Below is a video from 2004 of 'actual hurricanes' as they occurred that year....

...if one examines the video closely it is noted the hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere (one in the Atlantic - Hurricane Frances, a Cat 4, one in the Eastern Pacific - Hurricane Howard, a Cat 4 and one in the Western Pacific - Super Typhoon Songda, a Typhoon 4 :: Three huge enormous storms all occurring at the same time) have 'vapor trails.' They aren't 'neat' and 'singluar' storms that have a 'tight' circumference. They are massive with detectable 'vapor trails' that reach to the Equator. Quite different than the 'neat' and 'tidy' formation of a 1960 Cat 5, Hurricane Donna (click title to entry - thank you and here as well. And click here for an article about Donna from the Florida Sun Sentinel).

Odd to say the least, but, interesting all the same. The years 2004 and 2005 would see massive storms of Cat 4 and Cat 5 and in multiples. These storms were fueled by super heated air due to Climate Change coming off the Equator. They were receiving high levels of 'heat calories' and finding accelerations to the top end of the Hurricane Scale.

Kindly keep in mind those 'vapor trails.' They are extremely important to the remaining statement.

To begin. This is my theory. It has to be validated and requires some work, but, I am confident I am correct.

This journey, if you will, started about 10 years ago. At first I casually engaged the issue of Human Induced Global Warming. It was before it was christened "Climate Change" as a more 'acceptable' terminology by the 'politically challenged.'

After reading newspapers daily and examining satellite images, while looking in on carbon dioxide readings at Mauna Loa Labs in Hawaii (They were 'online' then before Bush yanked them offline.) I discovered Northern Hemispheric Vortexes on October 4, 2002. I could not believe my eyes.

At the time some scientists, while curious, deemed them an 'Earth Phenomena' that would run its course and be done with it. However, these were NOT the occassional Arctic Oscillation OR North Atlantic Oscillation; they were occurring 'both' at the same time. This 'occurrence' was no 'normal' cycle; this was 'developing' into a tropospheric disaster that only time would reveal.



In a short period of time, approximately six months, the vortices (one is pictured above) went from two; one in the North Atlantic and one in the North Pacific below Alaska, to as many as seven at one time all in a necklace at the Arctic Circle. They all sustained and oscillated in number, but, they never disappeared and they continue until today.

By March of 2003, as the USA entered into the illegal and highly immoral invasion into Iraq, I realized there would be a governmental review of the Clear Air Act coming up in Raleigh, NC. It was time for the 'New Source Review' and I felt someone had to herald the issue of Human Induced Global Warming. I felt as a people, a country; we had gone too far and people weren't paiding attention.

I gathered up a collection of facts, formulated opinions and used 'collective scientific knowledge' and then made testimony at The New Source Review. It was the first time carbon dioxide was included in testimony to the EPA and it rattled the 'Rovian Bushites.' Within my testimony I called CO2 a toxic gas when in higher concentrations in the troposphere of Earth.

I gave verbal testimony in a 5 minute statement where I also protested the use of dolphins by the military on April 2, 2003. I followed it up with a submitted written document (click title to entry) on May 1, 2003. Within two weeks of my final submission on May 1, 2003 to the EPA regarding CO2 to The New Source Review; the President himself made a public statement. A simple statement, "There is no such thing as Global Warming and Carbon Dioxide could never be a toxic gas."

See, the Bush White House didn't appreciate CO2 being included in The New Source Review. It would mean that an 'entity' actually recognized it as a danger to the American Populous and the government might have to regulate carbon dioxide.

That was then.

What I am about to place on this blog today, is NOW.

...in 2005 results of a research group showed some odd findings. The documents remained internal and unpublished...


(The article at the title to article is unrelated)...In May 1997 Reed found the nonprofit Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) after witnessing the devastating effect of slash-and-burn agriculture and destruction of Central American rainforests. The goal of SHI is to help farmers break free of the s&b cycle by instructing them on techniques that will nurture and replenish the soil.
SHI sponsors programs in Honduras, Panama, Belize and Nicaragua....

Wicked weather dominates 2005 headlines

The year...



2005 - the headlines were about weather

It's Earth Day 2009 - Tuesday Morning

"Vacant Planet" by Death

Mysterious object of flight on a voyage

To correct what they have done, what we are doing Perhaps submerged, living in the inner most

Recesses of the planet - no choice but

To adapt to an underground world

Limiting our passages of thought

Are they the examples of regression

A life form's abusive progression

In a realm so vast, we sit among the Vacant Planets



[Solos: Masvidal, Schuldiner]



So many worlds yet to be seen that once have shared

The same effects that come from greed, mass production

Perhaps submerged, living in the inner most

Recesses of the planet - no choice but

To adapt to an underground world

Limiting our passages of thought

Are they the examples of regression

A life form's abusive progression