Wednesday, September 18, 2019

The greatest service Mr. O'Brien can give the USA is to end the naivety of Americans travel abroad.

September 18, 2019
By Peter Baker

President Trump named Robert C. O’Brien as his next national security adviser.

Los Angeles -

President Trump (click here) on Wednesday selected Robert C. O’Brien, the State Department’s chief hostage negotiator, to become his national security adviser, moving to reconstitute his foreign policy staff even as he faces rising tension with Iran.

In choosing Mr. O’Brien to replace John R. Bolton, who left the White House last week, the president chose a Los Angeles lawyer who had impressed him with his work to extricate Americans detained by countries like North Korea and Turkey. But it is not clear how different his advice will be from his predecessor given that Mr. O’Brien previously worked for Mr. Bolton and has cited his hawkish views in the past....

Speaker Pelosi is impugning the USA Constitution.

Chairman Jerry Nadler has competently proved "Obstruction of Congress."

Lewandowski is the SECOND Trump associate that has Obstructed Congress. Hope Hicks is the first. How many times does Obstruction of Congress have to be demonstrated to move forward with impeachment? The country is ready for it.

Trump and his associates conduct themselves criminally. They have no respect or use for the law, hence, the USA Constitution. The USA Constitution has been insulted enough including an Attorney General that only acts as the President's Defense Attorney. 

WHY WOULD A PRESIDENT IN GOOD STANDING NEED DEFENSE ATTORNEY, ESPECIALLY THAT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL?

The Americans lost to Trump's culture is lost to the country. They are no longer valid opinion holders. They are sequestered in a portion of the country that no longer is connected to reality. That is a fact.

The rest of the country is ready to remove Trump from office and those associated with him should have fines leveraged against them.

"Duck and Cover"

The active shooter drills are meaningless.

I didn't know the halls of every school was first lined by Kevlar (click here) before the bricks are laid.

The only thing active shooter drills do is pile the bodies in one corner.

Active shooter drills have never proven to save lives.

Below is a cider block wall when it meets wtih a weapon of war. The ONLY real defense of anyone against an active shooter is the police. Their response time is a good as it gets.



This semi-automatic AK-47 (click here) has been chosen to target a cinderblock wall from a good distance. At 230 yards, the 7.62X39 bullets are hitting low due to a rainbow-like trajectory. The wall has 2 liter bottles and spray paint cans inside it to keep things interesting.

The article and video are compliments of wideopenspaces.com.

The Houthis are allies of Iran.

Iran selling and/or providing munitions to allies is no different than Trump supplying immense weapon sales to Saudi Arabia. This response by Iran to the Houthis is in response to the USA escalation of tensions in the region. Saudi Arabia is guilty of seeking munitions that clearly changes the balance of power. Iran in selling and/or supplying munitions to the Houthis is in response to the aggressive stance of Saudi Arabia's "killing prince."

14 September 2019

Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a drone attack (click here) on the world’s largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia which is vital to global energy supplies.

The attacks on the processor and a major oilfield, operated by Saudi Aramco, on early Saturday sparked a huge fire, the kingdom’s interior ministry said.

According to Reuters, threes sources claimed the assault had disrupted output and exports, with one source claiming 5 million barrels per day of crude production had been impacted – nearly half the kingdom’s output.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi Arabia is shutting down about half of its oil output because of the incident. Authorities have not confirmed whether oil production or exports were affected.

A military spokesman for Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the strikes, saying 10 drones had been deployed in the attack....

Human beings don't matter, dollars do. Sound familiar?

Andrew Young is addressing the rental crisis in his $1000 allowance per month.

June 4, 2019
By Benjamin Oreskes and Doug Smith 

In a hard reality check (click here) for Los Angeles County’s multibillion-dollar hope of ending homelessness, officials reported Tuesday that the number of people living on the streets, in vehicles and in shelters increased by about 12% over last year.

The annual point-in-time count, delivered to the Board of Supervisors, put the number of homeless people just shy of 59,000 countywide. Within the city of Los Angeles, the number soared to more than 36,000, a 16% increase....

If a society deprives people good wages and forces them to make a choice between to "worst scenarios" it is the responsibility of the government to PROVIDE FOR THE SAFETY of the people that includes housing.

September 17, 2019
By Matt Stiles

...On Tuesday, (click here) the supervisors voted to direct lawyers for Los Angeles County to draft an amicus brief, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a challenge to Martin vs. City of Boise. The case, decided by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last September, found that arresting or otherwise punishing homeless people for sleeping on the sidewalk when there are not enough shelter beds or housing was unconstitutional.

Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who authored the county’s motion, said the ruling had “tied our hands” and made serving homeless people more difficult.

“We are grappling with a problem of unprecedented scale,” she said of the nearly 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles County, many of them living outdoors. “Now, more than ever, it is critical that we have access to every tool at our disposal to combat homelessness.”...

The increase in homelessness is a return to the Reagan Administration and their idea that people are OBJECTS for profit. That means rentals go higher REGARDLESS of AMERICANS ability to pay.

It appears Trump has to face the reality that he has an aspect to his population's strife similar to those "shi-ole" countries.

Trump doesn't believe in capitalism that works for the people, he believes in greed.

By Scripps National

Renters (click here) are really struggling to save anything after paying their monthly rent costs, which are up 1.5 percent across the United States. A two-bedroom rental is averaging $1,180 per month.

Apartment List's Rent Report shows the rental cost increase is lagging from the 2017-18 and 2016-17 increases, but the rate in 2016-17 had soared 2.5 percent. The national median has essentially stayed flat from last June until March 2019, Apartment List says.

The biggest metros experiencing rent growth are Las Vegas and Phoenix. Other fastest-growing rent areas include Austin, Texas; Raleigh, North Carolina; Aurora, Colorado and San Jose, California....

The American Dream is disappearing. It is a general housing crisis that manifests in higher degrees of homelessness. It has nothing to do with availability. The Trump report by his economic advisors is a political document.

February 14, 2019
By Emmie Martin


Although both home prices and rental prices (click here) are on the rise, in every single U.S. state, homeowners with a mortgage spend more money per month than renters on housing. That’s according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2013-2017 American Community Survey five-year estimates, which tracks median housing costs across the country.

Exactly how much more money owners pay varies by state. In New Jersey, the discrepancy between the median monthly cost for renters and those with a mortgage is more than $1,100. In Arkansas, the disparity is just over $300.

Though the Census Bureau doesn’t offer a reason why, other analyses have shown that owning is more expensive than renting because owners need to cover related costs such as maintenance, property taxes, repairs and insurance, in addition to handling their monthly mortgage payments, and those keep rising....

There needs to be legislation exposing who CASH BUYERS are and what justies it. "Zillow" is a cash buyer. If Zillow purchases enough real estate they can DICTATE how much buyers pay for it. Cash purchasers are taking the value out of real estate and replacing it with manipulation for profit.

September 10, 2019
By Patrick Sisson

For Michael Pickens, a 31-year-old working in tech sales in the Bay Area, (click here) buying a home for his family isn’t an option. He lives with his wife and two kids in Campbell, California, the same town where he grew up, in an apartment across the street from the middle school he attended. He’s seen all the signs of an affordability crisis: Friends can’t afford to live in their hometown and have scattered to Texas and Arizona. He’s put in offers on $700,000 condos only to lose out to wealthy buyers making all-cash bids. The 1,100-square-foot house he grew up in, built in 1952 and barely renovated, now costs $1.2 million. Campbell is simply a “different town.” Even if Pickens could afford to buy a single-family home, he isn’t sure it’s worth the financial risk, especially in a downturn....

June 17, 2019
By Rey Mashayekhi

At this point, (click here) it’s well-documented that the Trump White House has seen a level of turnover unlike any other administration in modern times. At this point, no less than 50 top officials—from West Wing staffers to cabinet secretaries—have left Trumpworld in the two-and-a-half years since the President took the oath of office. Some departed on their own volition; others, for one reason or another, were unceremoniously forced out.

This week saw yet another high-profile appointee walk out the doors of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Kevin Hassett, the chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. As the administration’s top economist, Hassett—a career tax policy wonk and former director at the American Enterprise Institute, a leading conservative think tank—advocated for the corporate tax cuts that comprised the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, arguably Trump’s most significant legislative achievement to date.

Yet unlike the President, Hassett also holds more orthodox, free-market views on trade—a position that put him at odds with the Trump administration’s protectionist, tariff-heavy trade stance toward China and, more recently, Mexico. Despite that, Hassett told The New York Times that his departure has “nothing to do with any policy disagreements” within the administration....

Andrew Yang is in a different financial space than those effected by racism. (click here for article below - thank you)

Andrew Young is bringing up issues that other candidates should have better answers for such as statistics, the one percent and 0.1 percent. We know wealth is flowing to the top and the Middle Class is disappearing. The best example of the shrinking Middle Class is auto workers.



I think Andrew Yang was correct in forgiving racial epithets, however, he needs to address these issues. Andrew Yang has the luxury of wealth to forgive racial slurs. Wealth creates distance and comfort. In other circumstances, slurs affect people and their feelings about life. The rate of depression and other mental health tragedies are higher among CLUSTER groups in Asian Americans.



The article below uses statistics from 2007. But, it does reflect some issues that should be updated and explored.

Fact: Asian-American college students, had a higher rate of suicidal thoughts than White college students but there is no national data about their rate of suicide deaths.

Fact: American-Indian/Alaskan Native women aged 15-24 have the highest suicide rate compared to all racial/ethnic groups.

The Congress needs to bring in US Military intelligence to testify about more than the monies Trump cut out of their budget.

Iran did not attack the Saudi oil fields. This is one of those "pretend" moments by Trump. There is no reason for gas prices to go up in the USA either, but, they will. Car pool.

Saudi Arabia needs to present any evidence regarding Iran to the United Nations Security Council, NOT only the USA!

The USA is untrustworthy in any assessment regarding at the very least the Middle East. Trump has done nothing but inflame tensions in the region. I would expect more of the same from him.

September 18, 2019

Saudi Arabia said the weekend attack on Saudi Aramco (click here) had no impact on government revenues and authorities were gearing up to list the state oil giant.

"In terms of revenues there's zero impact," Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan told Reuters news agency in an interview on the sidelines of an investor conference in Riyadh.


"Aramco continued to supply the markets without interruption and therefore revenues should continue as they are."


Netanyahu has canceled his appearance at the United Nations next week. This should help calm the rhetoric about tensions and escalating dialogue about war.

Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan is ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party, according to official election results released on Wednesday after 91 percent of the vote was counted.
Trump and anyone associated with him are criminals. Lying goes along with that. Stop expecting the truth. They have no USE for the law. It gets in their way of grabbing money when they shouldn’t. Their pretend use of the law is for the victimization of an opponent to that of an entire nation when considering the invasion by Russia of our election system. 

Lewandowski is not about to assist THE TRUTH from being told. He wants money and his television appearances is another USE of power to promote his own interests. They all do the same thing, including the family who is very familiar with fanfare and how it equates to profits.

Trump and any of his associates are propagandists. Being friends with communists has taught them well.