Thursday, March 08, 2018

Covert military ops with Eric Prince would fit well into plans for the region. Maybe.

We know Kushner wants access to USA intelligence. Why? Because of Israel. Kushner would not mind the President using OCO funds to run covert ops that divide land to the Palestinians. We know Jerod Kushner is an extremist for Israel. 

Israel has been experiencing aggressive individuals from Palestine that carry out or try to carry out knife attacks. There is every reason to believe Israel wants a solution to these issues. Here again, covert ops with OCO funds to Eric Prince would satisfy that desire by Israel to end such attacks.

IRENA (click here)

December 1, 2015

...SECOND, (click here) AN open relationship with Israel may not be of such paramount importance to the Gulf States. Unlike Israel, they chose to work with Washington throughout the process of negotiations with Iran. There is still every reason to believe they view their alliance with the United States as the lynchpin of any strategy to deter Iranian aggression. To that end, why should the Gulf States take such a risk if Israel is planning a long-term policy of occupation and settlement? Public opinion in the region, despite the recent rise of the Iranian threat, is still strongly anti-Israel. The unacknowledged channels these states maintain with Israel are more than sufficient in dealing with the threat from Iran, and unlike open channels, they don’t pose domestic challenges...

It also gets interesting when one reflects on the rather strange change in government in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (click here) is boasting to associates that Trump backs his dramatic 'anti-corruption' crackdown in Saudi Arabia 

Others see his roundup of 11 princes, some of the billionaires, and businessmen as a palace coup to secure his position as kingdom's de facto leader 

Source tells DailyMail.com the prince known as MBS has said Trump backs seizing their assets as long as those in the U.S. do not leave the country

Michael Wolff's explosive book 'Fire and Fury' revealed that when MBS became crown prince Trump boasted he and Jared Kushner had 'their man on top'

MBS and Kushner have met repeatedly and stayed up until 4:00 a.m. talking just days before the November 4 roundup 

Highest-profile detainee is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, investor in Twitter, Snap, Lyft and Citigroup who had been a critic of Donald Trump 

Why Russia? Because Russia would not appreciate covert ops by an American private military unit in the region.

Basically, this is Jahred's private war to liberate the borders of Israel. And while they are 'at it' Hillary has to be handled in order to insure the goals will be met after Trump is elected.

So, the UAE, Israel and the leaders in the region have a mutual goal in relation to Iran. Would the understanding that Trump would take Iran's agreement apart when taking office be an incentive for the Arab countries to 'Settle with Israel?" My guess is yes.

Just sayin'.
March 8 is International Women's Day — dedicated to celebrating the achievements of women in all areas: social, economic, cultural, political and personal as well.

Socially in the USA  

One in five women and one in 71 men will be raped at some point in their lives.  (click here)

46.4% lesbians, 74.9% bisexual women and 43.3% heterosexual women reported sexual violence other than rape during their lifetimes, while 40.2% gay men, 47.4% bisexual men and 20.8% heterosexual men reported sexual violence other than rape during their lifetimes. 

Nearly one in 10 women has been raped by an intimate partner in her lifetime, including completed forced penetration, attempted forced penetration or alcohol/drug-facilitated completed penetration. Approximately one in 45 men has been made to penetrate an intimate partner during his lifetime. 

91% of the victims of rape and sexual assault are female, and 9% are male (o) y In eight out of 10 cases of rape, the victim knew the person who sexually assaulted them 

(8% of rapes occur while the victim is at work.

Cost and Impact

Each rape costs approximately $151,423 

Annually, rape costs the U.S. more than any other crime ($127 billion), followed by assault ($93 billion), murder ($71 billion), and drunk driving ($61 billion) 

81% of women and 35% of men report significant short-term or long-term impacts such as PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) 

Health care is 16% higher for women who were sexually abused as children

6,172 out of 203,000 women were assaulted in one year. Three percent of military women can count on being sexually assaulted every year.

The national rate is five percent. There are 157 million women in the USA. That is 7.85 MILLION women are sexually assaulted every year in the country.

The U.S. military (click here) received a record number of sexual assault reports in 2016, the Pentagon said on Monday, calling it a sign of service members' trust in the system.

Sexual assault and harassment in the U.S. military has come under scrutiny after a scandal involving some Marines sharing nude photos of women online came to light. The U.S. military has opened an inquiry and senior lawmakers on Capitol Hill have denounced the violations.

Service members reported 6,172 cases of sexual assault in 2016 compared to 6,082 last year, an annual military report showed. This was a sharp jump from 2012 when 3,604 cases were reported.

Total numbers: (click here) -- About 203,000 in 2011, or 14.5% of the active-duty force of nearly 1.4 million.

74,000 in the Army
53,000 in the Navy
62,000 in the Air Force
14,000 in the Marine Corps.

The vast majority of the Coast Guard (click here) is comprised of men, both on the officer and enlisted sides of the house. We’re looking at a force that is only about 10-15% female. The Academy has mostly male cadets, as women make up about 35-40% of the corps....Less than 10% of Coast Guard pilots are female...

Economic inequality in the USA for women

Equality in pay has improved in the US (click here) since 1979 when women earned about 62 percent as much as men. In 2010, American women on average earned 81 percent of what their male counterparts earned (BLS 2010; DOL 2011).

Women’s participation in the U.S. labor force climbed during the 1970s and 1980s, reaching 60 percent in 2000. However, in 2010 this figure has declined to 46.7 percent and is not expected to increase by 2018 (DOL 2011).

The Great Recession of 2007-2010 affected men and women differently. Men lost more jobs than women in the recession but also experienced a steadier recovery. One in five women are working part time because they cannot find full time work while at the start of the recession less than one in ten women were doing so. Despite these developments, the overall unemployment rate for women is lower than men’s and they are also less likely to be among the long-term unemployed.

Women are 50 percent more likely to work in the public sector. Women surpass men on education attainment among those employed aged 25 and over: 37.1 percent of women hold at least a bachelor’s degree compared to 34.9 percent for men (DOL 2011).

Women are 51 percent of the USA population, (click here) yet their place in government is far below that reality. There has yet to be a woman elected to the Presidency and until that occurs women will continue to be second class citizenns in the USA..

Statewide the percentages are not much better.

US has sunk from 52nd in the world (click here) for women’s representation to 104th today, according to data compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union. In the past year alone, the US has dropped nine places — from 95th to 104th — among more than 190 countries.




Happiness is a fairly good indicator of personal equally in marriage and family. Thirty-three percent of American women are reported to be happy. That was a poll conducted by "Harris" in 2016.

There is no longer deniability of involvement by Trump.

The Press Secretary, Huckabee stated "...There is a restraining order of Daniels.... Or something similar. Now, that is 'out there,' Trump will deny involvement at all. He will pin it on his attorney and his paranoia.


March 7, 2018

President Trump’s lawyer (click here) secretly obtained a temporary restraining order last week to prevent a pornographic film star from speaking out about her alleged affair with Mr. Trump, according to legal documents and interviews....

Additionally, that is why there is a lawsuit. There are conflicting stories and the outcomes are still undetermined. If Trump settles with Ms. Clifford, it might end there. 

I really expected Trump to be more slippery than this. Nearly too good to be true. He is trying to get the public to believe there is no basis to Ms. Clifford's statements by painting her as a criminal in need of a restraining order. That treatment of a woman only adds to his liability.

...Although Ms. Clifford said their relationship was consensual, the issue is particularly sensitive to Mr. Trump, whose campaign was dogged by allegations of groping and his boast of grabbing women’s crotches.

Ms. Clifford filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday asserting that the nondisclosure agreement that accompanied the $130,000 payment was void because Mr. Trump never signed it....

Poor, poor, Donald, he is always the victim and never the victimizer.

Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1997), (click here) was a landmark United States Supreme Court case establishing that a sitting President of the United States has no immunity from civil law litigation against him or her, for acts done before taking office and unrelated to the office.

I am certain Ms. Allred and others are aware of such precedent. That is why the restraining order was sought. The women; I think it is 17 or so; have rights and can seek damages from Trump.

There are real reasons, Justice Ginsburg won't retire and women should be grateful for that.

Stevens, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, and Ginsburg, JJ., joined. Breyer, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, post, p. 710.

Robert S. Bennett argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Carl S. Rauh, Alan Kriegel, Amy R. Sabrin, and David A. Strauss.

Acting Solicitor General Dellinger argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal. With him on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Hunger, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, Malcolm L. Stewart, and Douglas N. Letter.

Gilbert K. Davis argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Joseph Cammarata....

In regard to Hillary Clinton; she was a victim, too. She has been villainized by Trump for the sake of politics, but, she was a victim of her husband's problems with women. She was told, no different than the American people, that Bill Clinton did not have a sexual affair with Ms. Lewinsky. So, the villain that is Hillary is not true.

Hillary is a Christian and values her soul. That's legal in the USA. She reflected on her own priorities in regard to her marriage and I am sure Bill is grateful for it.

Hillary also believes her beliefs to be personal. She can easily look across the spectrum of political dogma that traps the LGBTQ community in precarious ways and knows it is wrong for her to continue that victimization as well.

Hillary, no different than other Democratic legislators, believe their spirituality is personal and should remain that way for all Americans. There is nothing uniquely Christian, including Catholic, about marriage. Marriage, while spiritually recognized is a legal issue. Even when carried out in a religious ceremony, it carries very dense legal and moral rights.

Democrats don't play God, they believe in theirs. I think a clear conscience is capable in absence of malice when serving in government. The government at no time should be void of religious people, nor occupied by only religious people. In the USA, it is supposed to be representative of the people. All people.

Why is PAYGO bragging about their wash of wealth resulting in all kinds of bonuses and upticks to their employees?

Some of the most desperate uses of "Pay Day Loans" are senior citizens on fixed income. The goal of Republicans for decades has been to break the back of the "so called entitlements." I don't know an American that doesn't pay into the Social Security/Medicare programs, but, somehow they are called entitlements.

October 18, 2017

By Richard Kogan

As the Senate (click here) continues debating a budget plan that paves the way for a $1.5 trillion tax cut over ten years, the pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) law remains on the books, with potentially big implications for key budget programs.  Under PAYGO, which policymakers first enacted in 1990 and, after it expired, restored in 2010, the President and Congress must offset a tax cut or entitlement expansion with a compensating tax increase or entitlement cut.  A failure to do so triggers automatic spending cuts.

Under the law, were policymakers to enact a $1.5 trillion tax cut this year, as the Republican majority hopes, it would trigger automatic spending cuts to Medicare and a host of other programs by no later than January 15.  While policymakers will likely waive the PAYGO requirement and prevent such automatic cuts from taking effect, PAYGO is a timely reminder that tax cuts aren’t free....


It promotes corruption. Every one of these companies could have increased their payrolls and pay to their employees before the tax cut. They are Wall Street companies and have been experiencing record profits. When the accountants to the CEOs worked through the immediate tax cuts they didn't know what to do with their bankrolls, so they wanted to appear to be the way forward for the USA economy. The PTT was their best friend, even with their enormous profits already on their books.


January 16, 2018


One hundred sixty-four companies (click here) have gone on record stating they gave bonuses and pay raises to employees because of the new tax reform law, according to Americans for Tax Reform.

The list has been continually updated and jumped from 40 companies to 164 in 10 days, the Washington Examiner reports.


The businesses include American Airlines, AT&T, prominent banks and savings and loans, Boeing, Comcast, Pacific Power, and Visa.


The list shows what each company paid in bonuses and includes attached statements or press releases, saying tax reform was the catalyst for each company’s decision.


AT&T showed direct support for President Donald Trump in its statement and said it expects the changes to produce more jobs and “economic growth."...


It is the return of truthiness. The Trump Administration can't exist without truthiness. It is present in every meeting of the White House Press Briefing. If I hear Sarah "what's her name?" say one more time "there is no collusion" I know it will make me more ill than the flu.


Trump wants to be the first USA Royal Family and be a figure head forever. I suppose he will appear to guide policy when the legislature actually does something, but, this is getting to be ridiculous.


The reason the Wall Street companies gave out bonuses to their employees and upticks to customers, was to cover up the CEO's far bigger take after the Trump Tax Cuts. He can proudly wear the name because it is as corrupt as it comes.


The reason the pay increases and bonuses didn't happen before the tax cuts are because the CEOs didn't want to give their's up in the first place.


So, as the next ten years pass and the tax cuts amount to the $1.5 trillion mark and Americans' tax rates increase in the Middle Class and Poor; they will realize the pay increase they received was to help pay the increased profits of their employers. The real question is not about the pay increases, they will remain, but, what happens next year and the year after that when Middle Class tax rates increase and their pay stays the same? And what does the Middle Class make of their pay increases due to tax cuts and the liability the Trump White House and Congress placed on their children and grandchildren?


The increased tax burden of the Middle Class will return the Working Poor and their children will never question their poverty so much as their ability to purchase food.


The social safety net will be gone.

December 22, 2017


President Donald Trump (click here) signed the Republican tax-overhaul bill to little fanfare on Friday, delivering a major tax cut to U.S. corporations along with a package of temporary cuts for other businesses and most individuals.


“We are cutting taxes,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office before signing the legislation. “We are taking care of people.”


Trump’s signature caps a seven-week sprint that began when the House unveiled its tax bill last month, and it gives the GOP its first major legislative victory since January. The private setting was unusual given the significance of the legislation, but the process had been delayed until Congress passed a stopgap spending bill late Thursday.

The Florida Governor needs to sign the legislation.

"The Sun Sentinel" (click here)

There are a few articles speculating the substance was VX liquid.

March 8, 2018
By Lizzie Dearden and Samuel Osborne

A police officer (click here) who was poisoned by a nerve agent in the attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter is talking in hospital as the hunt continues for the culprits.

Security sources told The Independent several people are believed to be behind the assassination attempt in Salisbury, and are likely to be “either present or past state-sponsored actors”.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia remain in intensive care in hospital and authorities have not said whether they can recover....

...Ms Rudd said the nerve agent used was “very rare” but declined to name the precise chemical and emphasised that the risk to the public was low....

If I may?

VX degrades quickly in the presence of carbon. I think the length of exposure and the readily available emergency response may be the difference between the officer and the Russian expats. Hopefully, they will recover, but, any prolonged lack of oxygen due to failure of the nervous system could provide an adverse scenario.

The reports of VX, but, in trials by the USA military published in professional journals proved VX liquid as a highly volatile nerve agent which degrades quickly when exposed to carbon based surfaces. The impact on the human body is significant.

Perhaps the UK's law enforcement will provide more information, without speculation, when all their information is finalized.               

This is a really excellent article from "The New Zealand Herald" about melanoma. Pay attention, the diagnosis is intricate requiring high competency.

New Zealand (click here) has the worst skin cancer rates in the world and you never know who's affected until you get a skin check.

New Zealand is in summertime in the southern hemisphere. After a blistering summer, there is a reminder by their media of the dangers of sunbathing without protection. I was impressed by this article and the intricate diagnosis of melanoma. There is no current cure for it. A forty year old with undiagnosed melanoma will die and at an early age. It is better to prevent it and the New Zealanders now know it. The exam removes cancer at an early stage and phases out pre-cancerous lesions that most folks don't even notice.

Pay attention to physicians that absolutely do care about the health and longevity of Americans.

By Harold DeMonaco

If you watched (click here) or read the news this week, you probably heard a story about former President Jimmy Carter’s ongoing battle with metastatic melanoma. He was diagnosed this summer with lesions in his brain and liver. Since his announcement, he has undergone surgery to remove the lesion in his liver, brain irradiation, and treatment with a newly approved immunologic drug called Keytruda. On Sunday morning, he told his bible class, “My most recent MRI brain scan did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots nor any new ones.”  For Mr. Carter and his family, this is wonderful news. His cancer was caught early with the detection of a single lesion in his liver that was operable and several small brain lesions. Technically, Mr. Carter is in remission. We can all hope that his continued treatment with Keytruda will prevent additional lesions from appearing. Importantly, Mr. Carter did not use the word “cure.”..

Looking for leaders in all the wrong ways.

The global reality of the TPP is that elected officials simply lie about their willingness to bring it to the shores of their country. If anyone sincerely wonders how Donald Trump is President of the USA; he didn't lie about his willingness to be part of a trade association that treats human beings as objects of wealth gathering.

NAFTA (click here) affected U.S. workers in four principal ways. First, it caused the loss of some 700,000 jobs as production moved to Mexico. Most of these losses came in California, Texas, Michigan, and other states where manufacturing is concentrated. To be sure, there were some job gains along the border in service and retail sectors resulting from increased trucking activity, but these gains are small in relation to the loses, and are in lower paying occupations. The vast majority of workers who lost jobs from NAFTA suffered a permanent loss of income...

Second, NAFTA strengthened the ability of U.S. employers to force workers to accept lower wages and benefits....

Third, the destructive effect of NAFTA on the Mexican agricultural and small business sectors dislocated several million Mexican workers and their families, and was a major cause in the dramatic increase in undocumented workers flowing into the U.S. labor market....

Fourth, and ultimately most important, NAFTA was the template for rules of the emerging global economy, in which the benefits would flow to capital and the costs to labor. The U.S. governing class—in alliance with the financial elites of its trading partners—applied NAFTA’s principles to the World Trade Organization, to the policies of the World Bank and IMF, and to the deal under which employers of China’s huge supply of low-wage workers were allowed access to U.S. markets in exchange for allowing American multinational corporations the right to invest there....

After NAFTA the loss of good paying jobs in the USA was palpable. That level of impact is not soon forgotten and the dialogue is still alive today. Who listened? Who listened to the people? Why is Donald Trump President of the USA, because, NO ONE gave a damn except to manipulate their votes. The American people are damn tired of it and the TPP is a very strong reminder.

The Dreamers are an unrealistic focus of the problem. The job markets in the USA are already closing in ways that would offer them a real place in the USA. The Dreamers are Americans and innocent victims of inappropriate anger and racism.

The fact of the matter is Donald Trump was a successful power player that gave the people what they wanted, but, has provided corruption in different ways including the new tax law. The Wall Street anger in the USA was used once again to gain power by a billionaire that further corrupted the American landscape and dumped trillions of corruption on the heads of generations to come. Additionally, the Trump White House is a failure and has been unable to harness real talent so much as angry Republican hacks.

Now, the TPP is an amended version of the original and the USA is not a part of it. Make no mistake, the people wanted it exactly this way. When the TPP goes into effect, the American people will breath a sigh of relief they are not a part of it. Americans wish everyone within the borders of the TPP well. When the oppressed peoples lose their economies to others without one, there will be better jobs waiting empty for them in the USA. Perhaps the TPP will result in the revitalization of Ellis Island.

8 March 2018

Oliver Hailes led an 80 person strong protest today (click here) against the new agreement, which is due to be signed in Chile tomorrow.

He also presented Green MP Golriz Ghahraman with a petition signed by 5000 people, calling for the government to pull out of the agreement.

Both Labour and New Zealand First had backtracked on their pre-election stance, Mr Hailes said.

"They are laying the foundations for exactly the same deal they said was so terrible for New Zealand; they said was so anti-democratic," he said.

"It's funny how now they're in government they've changed their tune."

Trade minister David Parker had "bamboozled" voters by failing to honestly discuss what the TPP would mean for New Zealand, Mr Hailes said.

"He has made such a big deal about the 22 [items suspended from the original agreement] as if they're absolute carve-outs, whereas they're not....