The media in the USA has a lot to do with these events.

In his weekly radio and Internet speech, (click here) Obama also repeated a message he put forth on Friday, just hours after one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history, on the need to set aside politics and "take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this."

But Obama went no further than that, and again stopped short of specifically calling for tighter gun-control laws....

What does a journalist think "take meaningful action to prevent" means? It means there needs to be less accessibility to guns. But, yet they'll try to steer the dialogue of the nation into issues with mental health all the time. They target the 'actor' and not the weapon. They do that in support of gun lobbyists. There is a segment I listened to about how this was schizophrenia mixed with bi-polar disorder that pulled the trigger when the journalist knew absolutely nothing about the 'personality disordered' young man.

KTLA's Rick Chambers allows fantasy to exist about a shooter (click here). It is an amazing segment. Chambers wants to make basket cases of parents in targeting the mother for the problem with the shooter.

By MATTHEW KAUFFMAN, mkauffman@courant.comThe Hartford Courant

11:18 p.m. EST, December 14, 2012

...The shootings took place in two first-grade classrooms around 9:30 a.m., sources said, and one witness said she believed as many as 100 rounds had been fired. All of the adults and 18 of the children were pronounced dead at the school. Two more students died at a hospital. A single victim was injured but not killed....

The undermining of decency in the USA occurs over our media and it is a parent's worst nightmare. The mother owned guns legally under the laws of the USA as they exist. The fact of the matter is the young man had access to weapons that were legally within our society. If the availability were not there, twenty children and the adults that loved them would still be alive today. It is access that is the problem and nothing less. 

The culture of violence that exists in the USA is horrible. It was spawned about a decade ago and it is among the worst civilized cultures on Earth. Whatever happened to Lassie?

The culture is violent, the media supports that culture even by introducing fantastical imagineering into the dialogue of the country among adult viewers. That is what is so amazing about Chamber's trip into the unknown. It was to build a fantasy of explanation around the shooter as if it is he we can all control. That is nonsense and to feed that garbage to an adult audience to attempt to steer the course of the country in limiting access to guns is not only an ethics issue, but, it has to be some sort of tort in the law.

Propaganda is a lie. Chambers manufactured a lie for his viewing audience and then stands on it to state, "The nation needs to focus on mental health." He might be right, but, it is the sick media that needs the most help.

Why? Why? Why?

Why? Because the guy had a guns, that's why!

Last night was nearly laughable on Anderson Cooper 360 if the tragedy wasn't so heinous. He stated, "We are not going to talk about the gunman...blah, blah, blah." And then he goes on talking about the gunman. During the time he was talking about the gunman he was stating "We are not going to talk about the gunman." He ranks right up there with Chambers with the issue of propaganda and misdirecting the focus of violence in the USA to continue to justify it. Cooper should be asking those parents, the parents of Columbine and all the shootings since Columbine how they see violence and the free flow of guns in the USA. That would be an improvement!

There are a lot of gunmen in the USA. There are a lot of deaths EVERYDAY in the USA. Try talking about that and then just maybe the propaganda will stop and the killing will, too.

Some school systems around the country are reassuring parents they are increasing police presence. That is probably a good idea.

Evil did not visit the community today.

A gunman with very powerful weapons went into an American elementary school and shot 28 people of which 20 were very young children.

There are no background checks that work, 40% of the guns sold in the USA are in the hands of people without background checks.

There is no 'crazy person' statute which prevents the killing of innocent people. 

An increasing number of gunmen with very powerful weapons have never been involved in a crime.

This is pure unadulterated violence that is a cultural component of the USA.

What was that about it being impossible to have a peaceful neighborhood without gun violence?

The culturally elite haven't made it into the USA yet. I suppose Mexico's drug cartel would be starved for weapons if Japan was their northern neighbor.

Explain to those parents why the NRA is more important than safe neighborhoods. Explain to them how the culture of violence of the USA can no longer be tolerated. Explain to those parents how much everyone, every legislator in this country is concerned for their happiness. Go, ahead, explain that to them now.

In part by forbidding almost all forms of firearm ownership, Japan has as few as two gun-related homicides a year.

JUL 23 2012, 1:45 PM ET

...But what about the country (click here) at the other end of the spectrum? What is the role of guns in Japan, the developed world's least firearm-filled nation and perhaps its strictest controller? In 2008, the U.S. had over 12 thousand firearm-related homicides. All of Japan experienced only 11, fewer than were killed at the Aurora shooting alone. And that was a big year: 2006 saw an astounding two, and when that number jumped to 22 in 2007, it became a national scandal. By comparison, also in 2008, 587 Americans were killed just by guns that had discharged accidentally. 

Almost no one in Japan owns a gun. Most kinds are illegal, with onerous restrictions on buying and maintaining the few that are allowed. Even the country's infamous, mafia-like Yakuza tend to forgoguns; the few exceptions tend to become big national news stories....

It is a good start, Mr. Speaker, but, only a start.

It is a good start to saving lives of children, school children, teachers, holiday shoppers, temple worshipers and movie goers in the USA.

But, only a start!

So far there is only one bill in the US Senate about children. What is taking so long to pass this bill?

S.645 - Child Protection Improvements Act of 2012 (click here)

A bill to amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to establish a permanent background check system.

What is holding this up, some kind of lousy filibuster? This bill doesn't even begin to address the tragedy our young people are facing in a culture of violence.

Communities traumatized by gun violence don't adequately recover. They are not soldiers, they are not suppose to be on a battlefield. Their homes are suppose to be places of security, peace and happiness. It is time for the United States federal government to look into the lasting effect of gun violence on communities and how best to stop it. These are the children and citizens that are the future of this country, there is no room for this level of violence within our borders.

More gun violence? 20 dead? 26 dead. 20 babies are dead. An entire classroom. Six adults couldn't stop it. Two hand guns and an assault rifle. Dressed in black. The Dark Knight Returns, huh?

What a country, huh? What a country we live in! Oh, yeah, makin' dreams come true everyday.

It doesn't matter if there is a gunman with a reason. There is no reason to shot children unable to deserve it. The people in the USA are suppose to be safe from murder and wounds.

NEWTOWN—

Multiple people, including children, (click here) have been killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The number of dead is unclear, but there are at least 20 shooting victims. Many of the shootings took place in a kindergarten classroom, sources said....

Don't over react? Really? Huh? Leading with our heads over our hearts is exactly the problem here. We allow too much tolerance for guns on our streets.

Don't tell me for one minute this is not cultural. It is a culture of violence in the USA. Young people are killed everyday in the USA. This just happens to be 20 at a time.

December 12, 2012 7:29 PM

...Police said Komperda (click here) was not the intended target, but the gunman might have been targeting a family member.

The shooter allegedly approached Thompson for help and he agreed because “he wanted to be popular and have status in the neighborhood and with the shooter,” according to court records.

Thompson had no criminal background....

This might be a mimic to what happened in the mall, too. One mass attack gives permission of another and so on and so forth. We don't need heroes, we need safe people. I don't doubt there are people who are heroes in all these circumstances, that is not the point.

Little children are dead and the US House of Representatives are enjoying a long weekend having only worked three days this week. The USA Senate resumes their schedule on Monday, December 17, 2012 at 2 PM.

I am looking for legislation about the violence within our social culture, but, so far the only one I found was this.

HR 2

An act to repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
S. 192 
Mr. DeMint A bill to repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 

There are many bills to reinstate provisions of the Patriot Act. Tell me something, how is it the Patriot Act doesn't stop the flow of guns into the population of the USA? Wouldn't those promoting the Patriot Act seek to undermine the availability of guns to terrorists? Hm. I guess not, considering there is all that export by pick-up truck load to Mexico.


S. 1050 Senator Paul - A bill to modify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and to require judicial review of National Security Letters and Suspicious Activity Reports to prevent unreasonable searches and for other purposes.


S.J. Res. 13 Mr. Paul - Joint resolution declaring that a state of war exists between the Government of Libya and the Government and the people of 
the United States, and making provision to prosecute the same.

Senator Whitehouse is trying to limit some military counterfeit goods. Don't know what that is all about. It would be nice if assault weapons were banned, too. Assault weapons are military, counterfeit or not doesn't really matter, does it?


S. 1228 Mr. Whitehouse and others - A bill to prohibit trafficking in 
counterfeit military goods or services.

This one has merit. It all depends what the definition of corruption is.


S. 401 Mr. Leahy and others - A bill to help Federal prosecutors and investigators combat public corruption by strengthening and clarifying the law. 

When legislators are this stupid and defy federal law, the country knows there are some states just not trustworthy.

This isn't surprising, North Carolina doesn't even value human life and have exonerated any Emergency Room Physicians from liability with deaths of human beings that occur there. It is corruption through and through in that state.

Why should they be trusted with States Rights when they do nothing but use them for unworthy purposes. Those that seek to threaten habitat of endangered species need to be prosecuted and imprisoned.

When hunting is allowed within protected habitat of an endangered species it is illegal. It needs to stay illegal and no state law should ever be tolerated when it loosens those prohibitions.

...Since 1987, (click here) 66 have died as the result of gunshots, with more than half the deaths occurring in the past six years, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That number does not include suspected gunshot deaths, including the three most recent ones.

Today, biologists estimate that between 115 and 130 red wolves exist in the wild - all of them in a five-county area on the Albemarle Peninsula of North Carolina.

The Fish and Wildlife Service, which oversees a red-wolf recovery program, is investigating the latest deaths. Anyone convicted of killing a red wolf - protected under the federal Endangered Species Act - faces up to a year in prison and $100,000 in fines....

This is there natural habitat, but, last time I looked into the number of US Fish and Wildlife Agents there were THREE. Only three agents in the entire state. Basically, this is poaching. If North Carolina can't be trusted to stop this degradation of the number of an endangered species then US Fish and Wildlife should beef up their personnel and/or seek a safer haven for them until their numbers increase. 

Maybe a protected preserve further west along the same latitude. Some place without drought. Start two populations, but, genetic test the transplants to insure they won't be deeply inbred.

Most states have their own threatened and endangered lists as well as the federal lists. The only protected species in North Carolina are the ones important to hunting. If a species can't be hunted for food or profit they don't belong alive on any state threatened or endangered list. No lie. There are absolutely no state lists for threatened and endangered plants. None. And there are plenty that should be protected. There are some conservatories in the state that do protect plants, but, there numbers are few.

There is extremely little moral content to the state of North Carolina. The only morality any elected official recognizes is 'church affiliated morality.' What ever it might be. Maybe the churches need to take up the future of all creatures great and small if their children are to value life at all; Lord knows even children's lives are valued in emergency rooms there.

I am quite confident the entire Souuuuth has the same dynamic. They hate the federal government. Sometimes the way they want to war all the time, they actually hate life.

The emergency room physician law is a human rights violation. There are plenty in North Carolina. Plenty. The way people are treated by employers and their susceptibility to homelessness and poverty. Human Rights violators. Why would the federal government ever, ever expect them to respect federal law in relation to Red Wolf habitat?

Rove was counting on purchasing the elections so the IRS rules could be changed to allow his non-profit status.

I am sure in his demented thinking the idea his political activities is somehow a public service. If the GOP could purchase elections with enough monies, they could change the federal rules to suit them. No surprise here. Rove can proceed as a non-profit as long as his application is pending. However, I thought there was a sundown provision of six months to a year for that, too.

by Kim Barker 

ProPublica

Dec. 14, 2012, 10:19 a.m.

In a confidential 2010 filing, Crossroads GPS (click here)-- the dark money group that spent more than $70 million from anonymous donors on the 2012 election -- told the Internal Revenue Service that its efforts would focus on public education, research and shaping legislation and policy.

The group's application for recognition as a social welfare nonprofit acknowledged that it would spend money to influence elections, but said "any such activity will be limited in amount, and will not constitute the organization's primary purpose."

Political insiders and campaign-finance watchdogs have long questioned how Crossroads, the brainchild of GOP strategist Karl Rove, had characterized its intentions to the IRS.

Now, for the first time, ProPublica has obtained the group's application for recognition of tax-exempt status, filed in September 2010. The IRS has not yet recognized Crossroads GPS as exempt, causing some tax experts to speculate that the agency is giving the application extra scrutiny. If Crossroads GPS is ultimately not recognized, it could be forced to reveal the identities of its donors....

This is going above and beyond. I suppose they want their classrooms rebuilt and they'll do it themselves.

What is there to say? Maybe the words, I am relieved the teachers had the monies to invest in their students or dedication takes on a new character or I trust them rather than anyone else to do the right thing for our children.




Dec 13, 2012 
Mike Hall
In The States

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, (click here) the New York City Teachers Retirement System today pledged $1 billion in new investments for infrastructure projects, including improvements to transportation, power, water, communications and housing in New York City and throughout the state that was hit hard by the massive November storm....

Clinton. 

There is going to be other funds to match that from the private sector, too. I was wondering why the unions had to shoulder the burden themselves. Very nice. As it should be.

...As part of the commitment, (click here) the AFL-CIO will work with business and government to promote infrastructure investment with a goal of at least $10 billion in new funding over the next five years.

Union movement-affiliated funds also will invest at least $20 million in the next year in energy-efficient retrofits of commercial, industrial and public buildings. Taking a first step, the AFL-CIO is immediately soliciting bids to conduct an energy-efficient retrofit of its headquarters in Washington, D.C....

The Walmart Twinkie? From China with love?

It will survive the trip across the Pacific Ocean and through the Panama Canal, but, I will never buy it. It will never be Hostess ever again. No, thanks.

I've never had the observation that President Obama used people/personnel as political pawns.

When a President takes possession of a nominee for political purposes it is a form of depersonalization. Yes? It alters the trajectory of a career. It brands a person's career which might limit their ability to actually serve the country in the future.

I find President Obama far more complex a person than a political pawn himself.

The President lets adults decide what they want to do within his administration. I've never really noticed President Obama seeking to use his personnel as pawns in some kind of political game. If Ambassador Rice decided to move out of the fray with the Republicans gaming her, that was her decision. I am sure President Obama gave her every reason to stay; he and Secretary Clinton already had made their position known in regard to their support for Ambassador Rice. It was her decision and to quote the President, "I don't play that game."

By REID J. EPSTEIN

12/14/12 4:39 AM EST

President Barack Obama (click here) was prepared to battle for Susan Rice, but her withdrawal from consideration to be the next secretary of state means he won’t get a fight — over this.

Rice’s decision pre-empts what was expected to be an intense confirmation battle that could have swallowed key first months of the president’s second term – and perhaps big-ticket agenda items along with it....

I actually think if she becomes the director of the National Security Council it will be an advantage given her UN background. Ambassador Rice will then become a Special Council to the President. It seems like a good transition for the President.

The current director of the NSC, Gayle Smith, has extremely versatile credentials including the World Bank. So, the President's new administration may be more than interesting after many members have been exposed to work in the Executive Branch for four years.

There is plenty of room for budget cuts in the F-35 program to pay for Hurricane Superstorm Sandy Relief for 500,000 people currently in distress.

Exclusive: U.S. sees lifetime cost of F-35 fighter at $1.45 trillion (click here)

An F-35 Lightning II over Florida's Eglin Air Force Base.

...In that one-page summary, (click here) GAO states the F-35 program now projects “costs of $395.7 billion, an increase of $117.2 billion (42 percent) from the prior 2007 baseline.”  The much more complete story is in this table from the report:...

If Republicans are having a difficult time finding cuts in budgets to pay for Sandy Relief Aid, they can look to the overruns of the F-35 for cuts. The costs of the F-35 are never ending. It is time to get real about this plane. The F-35 is one of those Black Hole military projects that need severe review at this point. The production plant for the F-35 is in Fort Worth, Texas.

...The White House has requested $60 billion in federal disaster relief (click here) to repair the damage caused by Sandy, but Republicans have balked. Rep. Scott Garrett of New Jersey  called disaster relief “wasteful spending.” And four other right-wing Republicans told The Hill that they would demand cuts in other programs to offset the expense.

Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho said “We have these emergencies every year and we should prepare for that in our budget.” That’s reasonable, but rich. In Sept. 2011, Senate Democrats approved $6.9 billion to refill the disaster emergency fund and House Republicans cut that amount by nearly half. Not yet satisfied, they demanded $1 billion in offsetting cuts from a loan program to develop energy-efficient automobiles.

Only in the labyrinth of the right would it make sense to cut a long-term program to deal with the fact of climate change and its impact on the environment to pay for storm-related devastation that is one of the effects of global warming....

Oh, Canada, Oh, Canada...

By Rob Gillies - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Dec 12, 2012 18:20:07 EST

TORONTO — Canada is considering buying fighter jets other than U.S.-made F-35s (click here) because of escalating costs associated with Lockheed Martin’s troubled Joint Strike Fighter program, the country’s defense minister said Wednesday.

Defense Minister Peter MacKay said the government needs to ensure a balance between military and taxpayer interests.

MacKay said Canada needs to have all viable options on the table to replace the current fleet of 1980s-vintage CF-18s, which the government says will reach the end of their projected service life around 2020....

Crossroads GPS: "Over" (click title to entry - thank you)

The racism is real. It is very, very real. As long as racism has power it will never stop.

MONDAY, DEC 10, 2012 11:21 AM EST

The disgusting racial codes in his (Karl Rove) super PAC's new ad suggest the GOP will never stop pitting us against each other

BY DAVID SIROTA

...“You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger,’” (click here) he said. “By 1968 you can’t say ‘nigger’ — that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.”

Though Atwater made those comments and those ads a generation ago, they are — sadly — not outdated tactics merely for debate among historians. They are particularly relevant this week thanks to a new television ad campaign launched by Atwater’s friend and protégé Karl Rove.

Constructed by Rove’s Crossroads GPS, the spot is airing on cable throughout the nation and focuses on what Atwater would call “totally economy things.” View the ad and make sure to closely watch the visual presentation:...

Ambassador Rice will never be left alone now.

She had the endorsement of President Obama. She should have gone forward with her potential nomination. 

She should never, never, never step back into the shadows because of racists. What makes her think their harassment is going to stop? They aren't going to stop.They will ruin a career at the first perception of weakness right into the ground. 

I do believe she was very hurt when she called for the meeting of her detractors and they continued to stab her in the back. Don't bother ever again. Racists are never, ever interested in the truth, they are interested in weakness and opportunities to cut people to pieces. I am a bit surprised. I am hurt now. It's unfortunate.

She needs to sue.

It is an equality issue based in ethnic realities, physical realities at times and the right to be fashionable. When men cut their hair or shave their heads it isn't even a question. The bias that a woman has to have hair longer than what Ms. Lee is wearing as her fashion statement is ridiculous. Her hair style is not at all a political statement designed to inspire comment. The viewer obviously wasn't exposed to her reality of idea of appropriate fashion flair and it was not his place to exhibit any hate toward her for being polite and correct. I can't the station actually fired this woman for this reason. This is ridiculous.

Jamil Smith, @JamilSmith

5:34 pm on 12/12/2012

KTBS meteorologist (click here) Rhonda Lee was fired last month from her job at ABC’s Shreveport, Louisiana affiliate–a position she had held for almost a year. It was not for anything she said on-air, or in the newsroom. It was for responding to viewer comments online regarding her hair, comments such as these from a viewer identified as Emmitt Vascocu, written on the station’s Facebook page on Oct. 1:...

Excuse me? This is as much a gender issue, fashion freedom as it is an ethnic issue. That is the famous Al Roker. We don't mind he has short or absent hair. Why should anyone be offended by a woman with the same fashion statement. Women have hair loss, too. So, what's the problem!

This is Naomi Sims. This photo appeared on a "Time Magazine" cover with the title "Black Models Take the Center Stage." (click here)

The model to the right is Chanel Iman. Man, talk about chic.

And then there is the gorgeous Grace Jones.

Get out of my life with this baloney about long hair for women. The eyes have it !!!!!!

Every country in the world is going to do their darnest to undermine USA's quality of life.

...Bracing for planned tariffs on their products, (click here) Chinese makers of solar-power have cut back production at home and in the United States.

The moves are in response to the Nov 8 ruling by the Commerce Department's International Trade Commission that US solar-panel makers have been hurt by Chinese competitors that, according to Washington, engaged in illegal dumping and received illegal government subsidies.

The ruling, which clears the way for implementing tariffs of as much as 36 percent, capped an ITC investigation that was prompted by an October 2011 complaint from the US unit of Germany's SolarWorld AG. Other US-based solar companies have supported SolarWorld's case....

The Nebraska Governor Heineman speaks about trade in the way it is suppose to exist. Goods from all nations are suppose to compete and give their people a quality of life. The problems comes when cheap labor undermines the healthy balance of trade. President Obama has been pushing back against that unfair competition to return the USA economy to where it is suppose to be. Every legislator of every federal, state and local authority should be doing the same thing. This is not protectionism, but, it is safe guarding a vital American economy necessary for so many reasons, including, 'Balance of Power.'

Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman (click here) led a trade mission to China in July to enhance the state's economic relationship with China. Governor Heineman recently sat down with China Daily in Tampa Florida while attending the Republican National Convention and shared his views on how expanding Nebraska-China relations will benefit both countries.

And that was balance of power, not a destructive force that can march into any country on Earth to exploit their natural resources. The countries themselves do a heck of a job exploiting their natural resources already without our help. Do I understand the North Korean satellite is out of control? Well, I wouldn't laugh, they did it, they'll fix it eventually.

"But, that isn't the way the world works."

Those words are my all time favorite Republican rhetoric. My reply is always, "No, I suppose not, especially when Republicans set policy or should I say don't set policy and ignore their responsibilities to the citizens of the USA." 

Any fiscal cliff will be irrelevant once wage labor is back where it belongs.

Long term changes are unrealistic at this point in the USA recovery. No doubt there are going to be budget cuts, but, there is a difference between budget cuts in the next fiscal year as opposed to long term changes that are unrelated to current problems.

Long term changes do not address the changes in government spending as of New Years Eve. They are unrelated and that is the sincere problem in having Republicans move to preserve the Middle Class tax rates while letting the Bush Tax Cuts expire.

The New Years Eve deadline is more than interesting realizing the revenues to the USA Treasury automatically go up and the national debt automatically start to be paid. But, it impacts the Middle Class. The Middle Class is adjusting to the reality the Republicans don't value their wage and spending priorities.

Getting Republicans to actually address the fiscal issues of the USA is the challenge. The entitlements are not related AT ALL to the anticipated end of the Bush Tax Cuts on New Years Eve.

Rather than empowering Republican arguments to cut entitlements, Americans need to discuss whether accepting the end of the Bush Tax Cuts need to be balanced with increased wages, benefits and stabilizing the American economy. We need to stop the 'cheap labor' effects of outsourcing. We need to make the American economy our own again. It doesn't necessarily mean ending Wall Street, but, it does mean making Wall Street respect our Middle Class.

If Wall Street doesn't want to respect the Middle Class and our STANDARD OF LIVING to protect the sovereignty of the USA, then we need to take it away from them. When Nixon went into China it wasn't to empower the impoverishment of the American people. He opened China to improve the standard of living and quality of life of the Chinese people. China, India, Iraq, Brazil and Russia weren't suppose to be draconian to the USA economy. They were suppose to take example of the American economy and emulate it for their own people.

Outsourcing happened because CEOs found 'easy bonus' money while destroying their own product base when Americans increasingly entered poverty.

When CEOs finally learn they can't push the American people into an impoverished dynamic that is impossible to recover from, they'll find welcome in the economy in the USA. The problem for Wall Street includes "The Bain Effect" and quick paths to wealth. Those days have to be over. The Middle Class of the USA has to be empowered to protect their own country from loss of its constitutional meaning.

Our constitution is not about wealth of the few, it is about the empowerment of the majority.

The only relationship CEOs should have with the American people and their government is to pay taxes and seek assistance through the State Department for in roads to facilitate a better economy for other nations. Russia is a great example. Russia has incredible bureaucracy. If Russia wants to increase the quality of life of their people through welcoming investment from Wall Street firms there is a lot to be done. For the most part, Russia has worked very hard to facilitate those changes. It is a cultural change and an infrastructure change, but, it is coming along. There is no reason why every large nation cannot do the same thing the USA does. No nation should rely on export and import to have a satisfying economy.

There is a progression of facilitating nations to move their economies forward without destroying the quality of life of the Middle Class of the USA. Tourism and cultural exchanges are the beginnings of such a dynamic. But, to remove manufacturing from the USA is not the answer for any Wall Street company. Removing manufacturing to another country in the hopes less costs will result in higher profits only reduces their product base. When cheap labor is available in Mexico or other nations where does Wall Street think this is all going? Their own labor in any nation won't be able to afford their products and produce real profits rather than 'profits of deterioration.'

That is what is so "W"rong about the Republican ideology. Reducing taxes on corporations has not and will not spawn economic growth in the modern era. When the wealthy were paying 98% income tax in the time of FDR that might be true, but, in the year 2012 there is plenty of monies left over after they pay taxes for their growth and comfort. The tax cutting has gotten far out of control while proving it accomplishes nothing anymore. There is no job growth or economic expansion when taxes are cut on the wealthy.

Wages are far more important to economic growth than tax cuts for the wealthy. The expansion of any economy is accomplished by empowering the Middle Class and not destroying it. The Republican rhetoric is draconian to the USA.

Politically, the DNC has to believe in their mission and provide a strong opposition to the propaganda of the Right Wing Media. They are assaulting our economy and our sovereignty for the sole purpose of existing rather than serving a purpose to the country. No Right Wing Media broadcast can be credited for improving the jobs number of the USA, quite the contrary, they seek to destroy it to turn citizens against their best interest.

Posted on Thu, Dec. 13, 2012 07:20 AM

BY DON KUSLER

...On the fiscal front, House Republicans must drop their intransigent resistance to higher tax rates on our most fortunate households as part of an overall response to our national debt problem.

In deals struck last year, President Obama has already agreed to over a trillion dollars in spending cuts over the next decade. Now, the spirit of compromise requires that House Speaker John Boehner put a realistic revenue increase on the table (click here) ....

It is time to move forward. It is time for the people of the USA to stop their sacrifice of wrongful wars and put their lives back into order by increased wages and the return of The Union. It is time to rebuild the USA.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/13/3963757/gop-should-bow-to-voters-wishes.html#storylink=cp

Federal judge orders Healthbridge to reinstate employees, restore wages and benefits, and bargain with union (click here)

A federal judge has ordered a Connecticut nursing home chain to offer reinstatement to approximately 600-700 workers, to rescind changes made to employee wages and benefits, and to bargain in good faith with the union that has long represented its employees...

To the right are the members of the NLRB; Mark Gas, Brian Hayes, Sharon Block and Richard F. Griffin, Jr.

When Republicans say they want less government they seek to victimize the Middle Class and not empower it.

Drastic proof of the seismic dangers of hydraulic fracturing.

do-it-yourself earthquake liquification (click here)

Liquefaction produces deterioration more rapidly depending on the soils. There is no soil or rock that completely withstands the dynamic. Every place seismic activity occurs there is the danger for liquefaction.

Scientists can be corrupt as well. For decade after decade scientists receiving funding from the petroleum industry attempted to say the only problem with increased global temperatures due to human induction would be ice melt and a mild rise in the sea level. They continued to say that even after 90% of the world's scientists state otherwise. Today, the same phenomena holds true with hydraulic fracturing. But, where there is one scientists willing to side with the petroleum industry, there are numerous others that state otherwise. I don't know about you, but, 90% is a strong majority in my opinion. Scientists aren't virginal. There are good ones and bad ones, just like politicians. But 90% majority opinion should be enough proof for any government.

...The editorial points to one seismologist, (click here) Oklahoma Geological Survey's Austin Holland, who said, "until you can prove that it's not a natural earthquake, you should assume it's a natural earthquake." However, experts believe that the November 2011 earthquake and other events in Oklahoma -- such as the drastic increase from six earthquakes between 2000 and 2008 to 850 earthquakes between January 2010 and March 2011 in Oklahoma County -- point to a link between fracking-related activites, specifically wastewater injection, and seismic activity. Similar links have also been made in Dallas, Texas , Ohio, and Arkansas. Scientists from the United States Geological Survey also presented a report in April that found that "seismicity rate changes" in Arkansas and Oklahoma "are almost certainly manmade," although it remains unclear if the changes were related specifically to fracking or to the rate of oil and gas production....