The Evangelical Christian influence within the USA miltary has proven a folly.

Years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq (click here) have brought post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD ) among military personnel to the attention of the American people as never before. But PTSD is also found among survivors of natural disasters, victims of crime, and many others who have experienced traumatic events....

This only begins to define the harsh environment the USA military personnel has sustained. The complete picture includes drone pilots with recidivism problems and soldiers that kill innocent civilians with drones and otherwise.

By Eric M. Johnson

TACOMA, Washington 
Fri Aug 23, 2013 6:49pm EDT
 

...Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, (click here) a veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, has admitted to slaughtering the villagers in attacks on their family compounds in Kandahar province in March 2012.
He pleaded guilty to the killings in June in a deal that spared him the death penalty, and a sentencing jury of six military personnel deliberated less than two hours on Friday before deciding he should spend the rest of his life in prison.
Bales, who appeared in a military court in Washington state in blue military dress, showed no emotion as the verdict was handed down, but his mother cried and rocked back and forth....

I suppose a steely military man is one profile for any military, but, not if they are to be emotional and a thinking man on the battlefield. Killing can go on forever unless a weakened enemy can be detected to direct the end of killing. 

This is going to sound really silly, but, my favorite war movie is not about a human being. It is a War Horse and my favorite scene is where his life is saved by two men who thought about their plight and saved each other from insane destruction of an animal vulnerable as they. 

The last thing a military general wants to hear is how his military personal will break down as if actually human beings. The American military personnel model is wrong. There are many reasons the USA military sees an advantage to automated warrior preference.

I would expect a memorial to remember those taken to early in their lives and the lives they lived. I would expect a memorial to end hatred and not propagate it. The photo is iconic and we have those moments in our collective memories, but, there is a difference between protecting the country through war and waging war out of hate or faux aspirations. War is not about aspirations, but, of sovereignty.

There is nothing in the USA Constitution that places religion at the center of our sovereignty. Religion is allowed to exist, but, it is not the reason for our existence.

Where Bush was inappropriate was bringing that personal account between two leaders to the nation. It was one thing to find an icebreaker between those in the room, but, it was quite another thing to bring that forward as a focus to their meeting. It was irrelevant to the business between the two nations.

What concerns me are the global Christian organizations attaching themselves to power nations and their leaders. How convenient it must be for these organizations to feel the pain of losing the scapegoating dialogue in the USA while unleashing it in Russia. 

These folks like war because it provides in roads for their Evangelical purposes. That is problem. 

Be cautious in the true meaning of problem. While Evangelical Christians are a problem for the LGBT community in any country, it also brings with it a very structured person with a cause that has a global reach. In other words, if these christian organizations can be tapped for self-righteous soldiers that create a war fervor, what could be better for any military? Why not allow the character strength of a Christian Evangelical dominate any military culture? It may actually be viewed by some leaders as a 'preferred culture' within it's military providing status among officers and otherwise. 

I could go on and on about how that translates globally, but, it is best examined on a country by country basis in a way that is benevolent to it's people. All I can say is that I have known personally Catholic missionaries. They are incredibly intelligent people based in benevolence and love of those they care for which is more than their congregation. The Catholics go where they believe they are needed, without fear of retribution. They go dedicated to helping. They love the idea of god and bringing people to god, but, they don't seek war to do it. That is not the case of the Evangelical global community. War  is an option for them. They don't reject it and in that is the realization of their true humanity.

It is a problem and the LGBT community is one of their most frequent scapegoats. But, it is a problem some countries tolerate for their own purposes. This in many instances is not just a social cultural problem, it is a larger problem. It is why I worry about the LGBT communities in other nations believing they can make equality happen through demonstrations. That is not necessarily the case and I believe may be the basis of the concern of the Russian government.

"W" mitigated his Evangelical problems by promoting HIV awareness, testing and treatment in Africa and he mitigated the hate of Muslims by scapegoating the idea of Fascism among 'particular' Islamists, but, he also mitigated the hatred of the evil empire of Russia through seeing the soul in President Putin's eyes. It is a problem, a very big problem and Secretary Clinton was very wise to make statements about the LGBT community a common practice.

Be careful how one thinks and how one seeks to leverage power with that thinking. It is not as simple as it seems.

Like I said, what are we remembering exactly.

Document (click here)

Bush focused on the religious side of his life to conduct the nation's business. I don't think so.

Regarding September 11th, he stated, "My role became clarified." Really? He needed clarification of about his role as President. War was the best possible outcome for Bush. Why do anything else? And 12 years later we are still killing the enemy. A half a generation later, we are still killing the enemy. Will the USA ever learn?

I hear people speak about babies being born after 911 and what they need to remember. The babies born after 911 in the homes of those that oppose us are now old enough to be child soldiers. What exactly are we remembering?

Hug a tree, your life depends on it.

The natural life of a tree is not to go up in flames or be managed. The natural life of a tree is to grow in sunlight, be fed by rain and soil nutrients, grow to provide habitat and then to die with dignity and be consumed in the natural food web of life and return to the ground it was once a seedling. The natural life of a tree is to end it's life as SOIL, life giving soil and not return to the troposphere as accelerated CO2 emissions.

The American media always blames it on forest management. That is completly wrong.

When a media service in the USA blames fire on forest management they are stating the forests have to be logged for commercial interests. That won't help anything, it will make it worse, look at the Colorado floods. It is not the overabundance of trees and vegetation that caused this, it is the lack of it.

When is the American media going to finally state people don't belong living in wilderness areas AND take responsibility for Human Induced Global Warming? The forest fires at Yosemite and the Colorado floods are related, they are caused by a Climate Crisis induced by human activity, primarily the activity of American consumerism.

In order to reverse the trend of high greenhouse gas emissions and current greenhouse gas atmospheric content, the forests are desperately needed. There is no commercial operation that will respect the integrity and the beauty of them. They are more important to the 'livable economy' of the planet than any consumerism, including housing and impingement upon natural wilderness. 

The American media needs to look for a different scapegoat this time. This time try looking at the man in the mirror. If the Sacramento Bee wants to promote clean water and air they need to start with reforming their view of the world, promote self-awareness, the damage of human consumerism on the climate and realize their citizens and those of the nation are destroying their own environment.

September 15, 2013
Yosemite is one of our nation’s most treasured gems, (click here) and it sits in our very own backyard. However, when it comes to defending our rural neighbor from catastrophic wildfire, California’s ability to protect this international tourist destination has proven to be limited.

The Rim fire – now the largest fire in recorded Sierra Nevada history – has shown that there are multifaceted impacts associated with rural wildfire, and that those impacts are felt in rural and urban areas alike. Federally managed land covers more than 40 percent of the state, and three out of four acres burned in California are federally owned. To make a real impact in protecting not only natural resources such as a clean water supply, good air quality and healthy wildlife habitat, but also protecting our local economies and public health, we must look at changes to policies and programs at the federal level....

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/15/5733563/viewpoints-rim-fire-shows-we-need.html#storylink=cpy

The missing are being reported as somewhere between 250 and 500.

Further rain expected as rescue workers use boats and helicopters to reach residents (click here)

September 14, 2013

Relentless rains pounded flood-ravaged eastern Colorado for another day, triggering more evacuations and warnings as rescuers tried to reach thousands of people displaced or stranded by the deluge that has been blamed for at least four deaths.

Flooding from days of unprecedented rainfall in the semi-arid region has destroyed homes and closed or washed out bridges and roads from mountain canyons from metropolitan Denver to the eastern plains.

A surge from swollen rivers and creeks has flooded downstream farming counties in northeastern Colorado, prompting the evacuation yesterday of several towns along the South Platte River...

Separation of Church and State

When it was known Russia was passing a discriminatory law regarding the LGBT community, it sounded too much like the spread of Christian Evangelical dogma through political systems. Rachel Maddow found a link between the Russian movement and a religious organization called, "World Congress of Families." (click here) It all started to come together. But, I took further.

The Evangelicals aren't conspirators, they are a movement, albeit, a movement of hate, but a movement just the same.

"The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine" (click here)

In the USA there is suppose to be separation of church and state. It has been watered down by the Robert's Court. But, when one looks at the way Americans were indoctrinated into a Culture of Fear, I had to ask myself why. There was the obvious Wall Street reasons of greed as with Vietnam; but; was it the only reason if I am to believe there is a religious political movement to tie government to the promotion of religious dogma.

In the USA there was an organization known only as "The Family" that provided special treatment to Republicans in Congress. 

"The Family Foundation" (click here) is located in Virginia and provides substantial fellowships to those that seek it. Abraham Vereide founded the organization in 1935 as well as "The National Prayer Breakfast." He was well known to people such as Billy Graham and rubbed elbows with political leaders on a regular basis. He founded Goodwill Industries. He died in 1969 and would not consent to the "The Family" as it exists today.

In 2008, the year it was fairly obvious the Republicans were going to lose their grip on the USA, there was a book published. It was written by Jeff Sharlet. 

Jeff Sharlet told NBC News that when he was an intern with the Fellowship "we were being taught the leadership lessons of Hitler, Lenin and Mao" and that Hitler's genocide "wasn't an issue for them, it was the strength that he emulated."

"The Family; The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" (click here)

The troubling realization of the growing discrimination in Russia and the link to extremists Christians is too spooky. Let me propose a 'dynamic' that could be instilled in a culture strong enough to drive the politics of a nation. It was not long ago NGOs were being regarded as trouble by the Russian government.

Iraq was a war of choice. What if an NGO went into a First World Communist nation with the idea that fear of the USA, as demonstrated in reality, by parking missiles at Russian borders, causing nuclear escalation with North Korea and Iran, ignoring the tragedies and deaths by the Polish government and the new nations backed by the Russian government, could actually bring about war; would the naive believe that was possible unless they converted to a Christian god that pleased the USA?

Now, to be fair to the then President Bush, he stated openly that Muslims were not the problems, but, the Islamic Fascists were. So, in a back handed way that only Bush could state, he was attempting to mitigate hatred. But, for a nation, the only Superpower to be angry all the time and seek war and conflict all the time is a strange posture for the USA.

What allows NGOs into a sovereign nation? I am not talking United Nations. Either an invitation or war.

...The NGO Coordination Committee for Iraq, (click here) or NCCI, is an independent initiative that was launched by a group of NGOs present in Baghdad in April 2003. At the time of inception, the 14 original members focused on establishing a base for objective aid coordination, highlighting intervention priorities and optimizing aid responses in Iraq. NCCI’s activities eventually evolved in accordance with the changing situation in Iraq, and in turn the organization developed into a comprehensive forum where NGOs can exchange information regarding humanitarian activities and policy decisions in Iraq....

For an organization of NGOs to thrive immediately after the March invasion by the USA is astounding and is not a mistake or coincidence.

Senator Reid and Minority Leader Pelosi need to do something abourt the poor leadership in the House.

...Who is the tea party? (click here) Well, understand, when I was in school I studied government, among other things. And prior to World War I and after World War I we had the anarchists. Now, they were violent. Some say that's what started World War One, the anarchy movement. But they were violent. They did damage to property and they did physical damage to people. The modern anarchists, don't do that. That's the tea party. But they have the same philosophy as the early anarchists. They do not believe in government. Any time anything bad happens to government, that's a victory for them....

Senator Reid needs to pass a bill in the Senate stating no paychecks for anyone for the same length of time the government is unfunded after the funding is passed. In other words, if the government is not funded for a week, then the Congress receives no pay for the week of deadlock and an additional week as a tax to make up for the damage that occurred during that week of disruption.

Call it "The Tardy Tax." For everyday the Congress is tardy at doing the work assigned them they are doubly taxed as a penalty. 

And no one saw this coming? Well, congratulations, living in bliss is killing people.

"...Right at the edge of the foothills. A half a year's rain, in hours...."

172 people unaccounted for? I am assuming some are children. What river is this?

St. Vrain, Poudre ,and Big Thompson rivers
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20130914_Flood-stranded_residents_reached.html#TtzqTiJUPdGuLrui.99

St. Vrain, Poudre ,and Big Thompson rivers
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20130914_Flood-stranded_residents_reached.html#TtzqTiJUPdGuLrui.99

St. Vrain, Poudre and Big Thompson Rivers. Three rivers. People literally drove to their deaths.

Stay off the roads? What roads? There is complete undermining of the entire infrastructure. The area needs to be evacuated, never mind about roads. Those people should be nowhere near this water.

Elevation. About fifty feet of elevation made the difference between life and death.

It is because of drought. There have been major fires in the area. The vegetation was damaged. Nearby areas have reported rock and mudslides since July because of devastating fires followed by rain.

The elevations change rapidly in the area. The mountains are over 13,000 feet and Denver, Colorado is the Mile High City at an elevation of just over 5,000 feet. That means the rain in the mountains had nothing stopping it, caused erosion at high elevations and washed down stream at a high rate of speed because it was falling 7000 feet. 
 
US Drought Monitor 
July 2, 2013

Colorado was dry and the areas north of Denver are no longer under a drought threat.

Denver and the areas north are the areas effected today. It is the yellow and white areas on the Colorado Drought Map. It has been getting significant rain since the wildfires. That is what did this.

The drought thoughout the USA is historic. The trend from 'baseline' began in 2011 and began to spike summer of 2012. Drought is the same type of disaster as any tornado or hurricane, but, has a long timeline. The loss of vegetation opens the land to excoriating heat that will result in huge erosion and soil loss once the rains start. Governors across the nation, especially where there has been sustained drought, need to assess their exposure to DROUGHT IN RELATION TO ELEVATION and lower lying cities and towns.

Emergency warnings need to be ongoing and early, but, the people of these cities and towns need to understand the danger that might be involved where they live. 172 people had no idea what was coming!

A rubber ducky floats down Ninth Street alongside North Boulder Park in Boulder, Colorado, on September 12.  
Governors need to pay attention and UNDERSTAND the threat the Climate Crisis is bringing. It wasn't like this should be a surprise. This is what happens when legislators decide they know more than the science and the scientists. This is what happens. I don't feel sorry for anyone, except, the citizens that were lied to and mislead by their leaders and their propagandized political media.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE DON'T LIVE WITH THE TRUTH !

Larry Summers solicited Senator Warren to stop saying he wanted to deregulate banks. Amazing.

"Please Elizabeth, this is my next great ambition and you must not get in the way." The man that believes women can't do math actually solicited a US woman Senator on the Senate Banking Committee. What a creep he is.

By Ylan Q. Mui

Friday, September 13, 6:16 PM

 Lawrence H. Summers (click here) recently reached out to a key Democrat on the Senate banking committee as the controversy intensified over his potential nomination to lead the Federal Reserve, people familiar with the matter said.
Summers requested a meeting with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) when both were in Massachusetts this summer, the people said. Warren has been a vocal critic of Summers’ s effort to deregulate the financial sector when he was Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton. As a member of the committee that will vote first on the White House’s pick for Fed chairman, she could be a roadblock in advancing a possible Summers nomination....

 

Could you imagine having to put up with that? Poor, Elizabeth. He is out to destroy her career. There is absolutely no other reason for Larry Summers to want to see Senator Warren. Her focus is consistent and obvious and it is not in alignment with his. 

Maybe Larry Summers doesn't believe Yellen can do math.  Larry Summers just has an ichy character issue. Like. Who really wants to stand next to him? He is just a jerk.

Mark Karlin
Editor of Buzzfeed at Truthout
08 August 2013

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - Massachusetts) (click here) is publicly supporting Janet Yellen, current vice chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, to head the agency.  This puts her at odds with those within the White House, including allegedly President Obama, who back Larry Summers to chair the Fed, although she has not officially opposed Summers.
Thus far, there has been no nomination, just mainstream media rumors of the White House tilting in favor of Summers.
According to an article in the Boston Globe on August 8, Warren openly mocked Summers in 2009 at Reagan National Airport:...

Oxfam International has something to say, 'Peace is the only way.'

Sign the Petition (click here) 

Chemical weapons and the killing of civilians (click here)

Oxfam condemns any use of chemical weapons in Syria, along with the continued indiscriminate killing of civilians in the country.  All parties to the conflict in Syria should respect international humanitarian law and at all times facilitate the work of UN teams investigating alleged chemical weapons attacks.
Ultimately, there needs to be a political solution to this crisis. The humanitarian suffering caused by the crisis is already staggering. More than 100,000 lives have been lost and nearly two million people have fled to neighboring countries. There is a clear risk that Western governments ratcheting up the rhetoric and preparing for military intervention will make the situation worse.
Instead of focusing on military options and arming parties to the conflict, President Obama, President Putin and other world leaders should put aside their differences and intensify peaceful efforts to stop the bloodshed, before Syria is destroyed and the region further destabilized.

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The Shi'ites have a very impressive leader.

6 August 2013 

Last updated at 17:25 BST 

  
Iran's new president Hassan Rouhani (click here) has called for "serious and substantive" negotiations with the international community about its nuclear programme.
At the first news conference since his inauguration on Sunday, Mr Rouhani said he was confident both sides' concerns could be resolved in a short time.
But a solution could be reached solely through "talks, not threats", he added.

Prime Minister Lavrov is a very powerful man, don't underestimate him. He can make or break a peace process. He deserves The West's respect. He smiled widely when Secretary Clinton put forward a Reset Button. He has a vision of peace.

New Iran president on first foreign trip (click here) 
43 minutes ago  
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has made his first foreign trip since taking office.
He joined leaders from Russia, China and Central Asian states in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek. 
James Reynolds reports.

You see, how terrible the world was under extremists. It takes two to tango. The Axis of Evil speech was the worst thing that ever happened to the USA's reputation. It pegged the USA as an extremist and one that other nations had to protect from. 

This is huge. I think President Rouhani will move the Shi'tie nation eons toward peace and progress for their children to compete in the real world. I have great hope for his presidency.

And yes, I am willing to believe in this change in leadership. How can on reciprocate good will unless it is first extended in great anticipation of peace.

By Carol J. Williams

September 13, 2013, 11:46 a.m.

Iran has recently converted more than 40% (click here) of its stockpile of enriched uranium to fuel rods for use in a civilian reactor and is in the process of converting the rest, the country's nuclear chief has announced on state television.
The claim aired by Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, was the latest signal from newly inaugurated President Hassan Rouhani's government that Tehran is working to allay Western fears about its nuclear programs.
Rouhani last week moved to transfer authority from Iran's religious hierarchy to his elected government for nuclear programs and international negotiations on their scope and transparency. The move was hailed by both the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and the six world powers that have been at work for the last two years trying to ensure that Iran isn't preparing to build nuclear weapons.
“Although we know the nuclear case against us is fabricated, we are ready to relieve the other side’s concern,” Salehi said in the televised Thursday night interview, reported by the semiofficial Fars News Agency on Friday....

The First Lady is a winner. Don't underestimate her. It started with a garden.

By Associated Press

CREATED Sep. 12, 2013

UPDATED: Sep. 12, 2013

WATERTOWN - It was all about water in Watertown on Thursday. (click here) The first lady paid a special visit to the high school to launch her new Drink Up campaign.
Michelle Obama is trying to sell a generation hooked on soda or energy drinks that water is not only cool - it's the original energy drink.

"I just want us to make a little toast," said Mrs.Obama as she addressed a huge crowd of students. "I know you guys have been practicing this. We've got our Drink Up water bottles." 
The first lady was the toast of the town as she kicked off her nationwide Drink Up campaign to get kids and everyone else to drink more water. 
"You can choose anything in the world to drink, but when you choose water, you truly are choosing the best thing you can for yourself," said Mrs. Obama. 
Mrs. Obama picked Watertown, also home to a couple of companies that produce soft drinks, to promote the healthier H-2-O choice....

Coca-cola is missing the boat on water preference. There are flavor options without artificial sweetening or sugar. 

There is no reason why Coca-Cola can't market their 'alternative' choices in the form pocket sized flavors.

The First Lady gets incredible results. The obesity epidemic is starting to be reversed and she is directly responsible for that. If I were a beverage marketer I would not miss out on "The Healthy Water Craze" in the country.



By Monica Matheny

Say goodbye to soda, juice, and bottled water (click here) with these refreshing, healthy flavors! I'm keeping 2-3 flavors of this "spa water" in my fridge now, so I have a variety to motivate me to drink more water....

...Subtle flavor without sweetness
These aren't sweet waters, so they'll be disappointing if that's what you're expecting. This is water with subtle flavors infused into it. Water with a little something extra. A touch of flavor--not an explosion of flavor--with little or no sweetness. You've probably had pitchers of ice water with lemon served at restaurants. This is the same idea, but with more variety. Many spas serve fancy waters like these, and it turns out that they couldn't be simpler to make. And, they are oh-so-refreshing....

Coca-Cola is a good partner with Americans, but, they have to move up in morality and bring along a good, healthy flavor for water that comes along in a lunch box. For the investment Coca-Cola makes in the people of the USA I would think they would put their 'full moral game' on and not just go halfway.

In this June 7, 2012 file photo, Steve Cahillane, president of Coca-Cola Americas, makes a point during an interview with the Associated Press while attending the Clinton Global Initiative America gathering in Chicago. Cahillane is scheduled to be at at the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Wilmington, Ill., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, to sign a five-year partnership with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to restore watersheds that have been damaged or altered by development, wildfires and agriculture. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, September 13, 3:20 PM
 

CHICAGO — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (click here) and Coca-Cola signed a five-year agreement Friday to restore watersheds that have been damaged or altered by development, wildfires and agriculture as part of an initiative to slow runoff and replenish groundwater on federal lands.Such efforts are increasingly important to corporations and farmers who rely on water and to tens of millions of people whose drinking water originates in the national forest system, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. But federal budget cuts and the wide scope of the problem have the USDA turning to partnerships with nonprofit groups and corporations for help....

What Judd Gregg does not understand is that actions speak far louder than words

Paulson left with the goods. He took his wad of cash and went to China. And like a cursed idol he then saw devaluing economic trends in China. Now he wants to make Goldman Sachs 2 - China an American liability when he does the same stupid stuff he did before, but, without Chinese regulation. Then China will have to bail him out, but, what he forgets is that the Chinese sentenced the "Baby Formula" and "Dog Chow" manufacturers to death.

If he is relying on the same compassion from the Chinese as from Americans he is barking up the wrong tree. He won't be met with anything, but, distain; unless George "W"'s brother has influence, then he might receive an exist visa and be grateful for it.

Quantitative Easing was to put 'liquid capital' in the hands of a recovering financial systems since it was believed the banks had no residual cash to lend Americans.

There was a cap on QE1 and QE2. There is still no cap on QE3 since it was designed to meet stubborn unemployment figures. The banks are simply feeding at the trough and have no intention of doing anything else with an infinite timeline. 

It has to end and stop the ideologies being toyed with by the financial sector. Americans need to build their OWN local economies, enjoy and make it their future and that of their children. 

"Wrap you mind around the idea that a well educated society rich with diversity and value of all that is possible is a great America. Economic growth comes out of ideas and not population. The greatest sin in pursing that path is the desire to be full of goodness and possibility. That is never a bad thing. Economies can be what a society makes it and not just based on fulfilling a need. Does the carnival ride fulfill a need? No, but, it sure is fun. AND SAFE." 

America's greatest need is disposable income. It builds rainy day funds, a down payment on a home and QUALITY OF LIFE. Where do Americans find disposable income? Unions and vibrant local economies. What happens with disposable income? Spending, a larger economy, more opportunity and a larger tax base leading to more police, firefighters, teachers and better educational opportunity infrastructure.

Judd Gregg is actually stating TARP was the savior of the Middle Class and the American economy?

Let's start with this. This is a joke. The Global Economic COLLAPSE was actually a collapse. I reality Paulson never felt it, but, it did destroy the global economy. It just didn't destroy the FEW banks left standing. And the truth is, the ONLY major bank still standing that should be still standing is JP Morgan.

By Michael O'Brien - 04/26/10 10:47 AM ET

Republicans went "too far" (click here) when they spearheaded the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, a top GOP lawmaker said Monday. 

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said that many of his current colleagues erred when they voted to repeal the 1932 act that mandated, among other things, the separation of commercial and investment banking.

"There's no question that, in 1999, when they 'deregulated' by getting rid of Glass-Steagall — something that was done with a Republican Congress and a Democratic president — I think we really went too far in saying there are banks and there are non-banks and they can own each other," Issa said Monday during an appearance on "Imus in the Morning" on the Fox Business Network....

This bears the DEMAND that banks are not only best regulated, but, small enough to actually manage.

The reason Paulson is screaming there is going to be another collapse is because he is a Wealth Junkie and he has spent all the liquidity he gained with Quantitative Easing. The 'start up' in China was not cheap and I guarantee his creature comforts were and are plenty.

That is the huge folly and "Good Ole Boy's Club" of Bernanke. He kept padding the pockets of the wealthy because, "Well, we just aren't there yet, Ben." And of course, Gentle Ben wanted to create a more bearish economy that was stable and unshakable.  

What Bernanke created instead was so much liquidity it INHERITED disaster along with it. Why? Because all the same old players are in place STILL and no one learned anything, except, how to capitalize on failure. 

All the regulations have to go back in place, "Bank Fitness Tests" have to be chronic and Quantitative Easing has to stop, it is destroying the monetary systems of countries.

Paulson is a parasite, he needs to take his whining elsewhere. "It is for the record." Like hell, it is for the propaganda.

Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Judd Gregg, CEO at Securities Industry & Financial Market Association, recalls his personal experience in meetings with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson about the TARP program and the public perception of the program. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance."

No more cheap construction along the Jersey Shore.

Slate roofs and fire walls with sprinkler systems. Redundancy is a good thing. The reason construction is never that expensive is because of the possibility of hurricanes. The fire danger has to be mitigated to build better structures. The other possibility are concrete block walls. Whatever.

I can't believe how lame this is.

There are no 'gotcha questions' in diplomacy. It is about RELIABLE partners. A Top Secret mission to move munitions to undermine the diplomatic process and 'go to guns' is pure stupidity. People on the ground on both sides of the negotiations will be pulling all kinds of nonsense in order to undermine the diplomatic process. Some can be mitigated and some can't. But, this is similar to the end of a war. It is where the national leaders have signed the peace treaty, but, there are 'DEAD ENDERS' that just don't get it yet.

Evidently, The West's press 'just don't get it.' The media dead enders are everywhere.

Those are outrageous demands by the rebels. They aren't interested in keeping people alive so much as prosecute Assad.

These levels of resistance to progress of peace are unhelpful. They don't want to save their own people's lives? I doubt the top level movement of Syria's weapons are the Assad forces, so much as WHOM is moving what. 

Do I think the Wall Street journal has top secret attachments that the United Nations don't? No. Murdoch's empire is known to be liars and propagandists. Just because the USA is stuck with the Wall Street journal on this issue, it has to be validated in duplicity outside of the USA. There is too much political baggage in the USA to consider the media honest and forthright, especially when it comes to Murdoch.

Where is the OFFICIAL assessment? 

Murdoch is not a reliable source of anything. His media outlets only seek to inflame the circumstances. His organizations are Wall Street and support that point of view. In my opinion, their corporate model is so tainted it is completely invaluable. The only reason they are still in business is because Murdoch has created a local media monopoly. Most, if not all other news agencies in the USA are dependent on the local information and cover FOX provides. If 'citizen journalists' really want 'a place in it,' they need to provide the local coverage now provided by the national fleet of FOX media wagons.

CBS News/ September 12, 2013, 5:04 AM

...Late Wednesday, Gen. Salim Idriss, (click here) the head of the SNC's military council, said in a video posted online that he and his fellow rebel commanders "announce our definitive rejection of the Russian initiative to place chemical weapons under international custody."

"We ask that the international community not be content with withdrawing chemical weapons, which are a criminal instrument, but to hold the perpetrator accountable and prosecute him at the International Criminal Court," Idriss said, blaming Assad for an Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburbs which the Obama administration says left at least 1,400 people dead....