Sunday, October 26, 2014

This is the gun that shot six young people and killed two of them in Washington State. It is a .40 calipher Beretta. 

Berettas (click here) just like this one are used in military combat. 


They are approved by and used by NATO and yes it is a semi-automatic.

The bullet below is a hollow point .40 caliper bullet. On the left side of the picture is the hollow point after it was fired and hits an object. If this is the type of munitions used by Jaylen this is what went through the heads of at least five of those young people, including himself. 


I am completely embarrassed by the US media. No one is discussing it on any of the Sunday shows. Shame on you all.

There was a school shooting this week in case they didn't notice. A school shooting that has completely shocked the entire community and has one of the most successful Native American Indian tribes quaking.

The survivors are still fighting for their lives, but, at least there are survivors. I think all of them are brain injuries. That is a tough one, but, since President Obama provided funding for the investigation in to the brain to find out what we didn't know, but, need to know the young folks will have a fighting chance at life. President Obama provided that funding because there have been so many returning from over a decade of war with maiming injuries he could look the other way. Quality of life. President Obama believes in quality of life.

This is a turning of the tide incident. The USA is so awash with guns many people fear their homes will be invaded by others that will kill them. The fear of home invasion is feeding itself now. People are seeking to understand their guns without really understanding what the country is going through in dealing with massive amounts of weapons within our borders. They know they believe guns are the answer to their worries, but, they don't stop to realize how unregulated guns are to the point of saturation. 

Saturation means there are guns for everyone, even those that will conduct home invasion. The crisis with drug cartels in Mexico is due to the fact the USA is saturated with guns. The guns in Mexico come from the USA. Saturation of guns in the USA means shipments to those that conduct uprising and violence. Yes, the current tragedy in Syria and Iraq occurred because of USA small arms as well as military equipment and munitions. The USA, when it comes to armaments, has become a global menace. 

Paula Hatch Satiacum and her son Brandon Hatch are overcome with emotion during an interview after several of their relatives were involved in a shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington. "I feel very distraught, like it's a nightmare," says Ms. Satiacum.

October 26, 2014
By Brad Knickerbocker
...“While poverty, (click here) joblessness and other social ills have helped push Native American youth suicide rates to more than double the national average, the Tulalips are among the country’s most financially successful, sophisticated and best-run tribes,” the Seattle Times reports. “The tribes’ casino and retail developments help drive Snohomish County’s economy, and its government has won awards from Harvard University.”
Friends and family say Jaylen Fryberg took part in tribal ceremonies, including drumming. A slim youth, he wore his black hair long and pulled back.
The tribes are officially described as “successors in interest to the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skykomish and other allied tribes and bands signatory to the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott.”...
It's Sunday Night

"Politics" by Korn (click here for official website - latest album Paradigm Shift)


Everyone's corrupt
You should just shut up
Lay down, back off
The demon you disrupted

Don't want to talk about politics
Don't preach or talk about politics
Don't make me talk about politics
Don't give a shit about politics

You want to sleep with him to get to who you need to know
Think that's the way to go don't you?
It's in religion, sex, and everything we do and say
I look the other way won't you?

Everybody's race
Lying to your face
Kick's you in the gut
Slayed you here all messed up

Don't want to talk about politics
Don't preach or talk about politics
Don't make me talk about politics
Don't give a shit about politics

You want to sleep with him to get to who you need to know
Think that's the way to go don't you?
It's in religion, sex, and everything we do and say
I look the other way won't you?

Tiny splinters are in your soul (and they remain there)
Darkest life in the deepest hole (you sit and pray there)
All the deals from the things you've done (you wouldn't ever work for)
What you thought was so much fun (you have to pay for)

Don't want to talk about politics
Don't preach or talk about politics
Don't make me talk about politics
Don't give a shit about politics

You want to sleep with him to get to who you need to know
Think that's the way to go don't you?
It's in religion, sex, and everything we do and say
I look the other way won't you?

Don't want to talk about politics
Don't preach or talk about politics
Don't make me talk about politics
Don't give a shit about politics

Don't want to talk about politics
Don't preach or talk about politics
Don't make me talk about politics
Don't give a shit about politics

Saturday, October 25, 2014

The status of women in Iran is precarious at best. There are strides made, but, extremism continues.

October 25, 2014
By Claudie Puig

...The United Nations, (click here) as well as Amnesty International, and other human rights groups had called for a halt to the execution, which was carried out after the country's Supreme Court upheld the verdict.

"We join our voice with those who call on Iran to respect the fair trial guarantees afforded to its people under Iran's own laws and its international obligations," Psaki added.

The court ruling in her 2009 sentence rejected the claim of attempted rape, saying evidence — including the purchase of a knife two days earlier for protection — proved Jabbari plotted to kill Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security.

"The knife had been inflicted on the back of the deceased, indicating the murder was not self-defense," the court ruling stated. A police investigation found Jabbari sent a text to a friend saying she would kill Sarbandi three days before the incident, according to IRNA.

Amnesty International said Jabbari confessed to the murder immediately after her 2007 arrest, citing self-defense after Sarbandi tried to sexually abuse her. The group called the investigation into Jabbari's claims "deeply flawed."..
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The Revolution caused repeal of many advances women made previously. 

A few examples illustrate the nature of the reversal: (click here)
- Enforcement of compulsory hejab (or veil) or the Islamic code of dress, which deprived women of the right to choose their own attire;

- Repeal of reforms in family laws;

- A ban on appointment of women as judges and expulsion or change of the employment status of female judges;

- Forbidding women employed by the armed forces from receiving military ranks and reducing their employment status to that of office employees;

- Stoppage of the family planning and population control policy;

- Legislation of the Islamic Penal Code according to which women's right to live is not protected as the right of a full human being and in which young girls of nine years of age (but not boys) are considered of age of criminal responsibility, and the decision that testimony of women is not the equivalent of the testimony of men;

- Emphasis on the absolute right of custody for the father or the paternal grandfather in the matter of matrimony of female children to the extent that the father or the grandfather can marry a child of nine years of age to any man he intends....
The sexual status of a woman is overwhelming in the social settings of Iran. In that regard, Iran is not much different than Pakistan. While The West would expect a woman under such circumstances to be honored when stating she was threatened with rape that caused her to act that is not the case in Iran. Ms. Jabbari was realized to be the killer of Mr. Sarbandi, the task that would follow would be to win a reprieve from the deceased's family. That did not occur. Ms. Jabbari's word is far less important than anyone else playing a part in her prosecution. 

Yet, Tehran oversees such inequity such as gang rape while women are attempting to rise out of the mire of gender.

June 15, 2011
Recent reports of gang rapes (click here) in Iran are worrying women and raising questions about social values, reports Mohammad Manzarpour of the BBC Persian Service.
In a religiously conservative town near the city of Isfahan, women at a private party were abducted last month and gang raped at knife point.
One week later, a female university student was attacked and raped by unknown assailants on the heavily-guarded campus in Masshad, a holy city.
In both cases, officials accused the victims of not wearing the hijab or headscarf in the proper fashion and general un-Islamic conduct.
These high-profile cases and the derogatory comments made by Iranian authorities have outraged women's rights groups who have long complained of the increasingly high rate of sexual harassment....
I understand law and justice is different in Iran. But, at some point the Supreme Leader needs to revitalize a better status for women. The revolution was to bring equity to the people from a top down dictatorship indulged in opulence and narcissistic values. I understand all that, but, at the same time the former Shah was so involved with himself he never really paid attention to the people and women gained status and opportunity. They were not the focus of sexual status which reflects the status more of men then women.

Virgin, wife, mother and grandmother are all sexual status, but, best valued by men more than women. The sexual status of a women reflects in turn that of men.

While the global community dearly wanted to participate in elevating the virtues of this woman, Iran simply chugged along without recognizing the focus. I think it is wrong. When such focus exists by those outside of Iran it is an opportunity. An opportunity to bring The West and Iran a step closer together.

Ebola crosses another border.

Okay what is the deal over there already? No medical clinics? People can't afford the medical clinics? They don't understand the disease and it's dangers?

There has to be a way of reaching the average West African to educate them about Ebola.

The USA first made the mistake with HIV by not distributing Spanish leaflets of information and educating about condoms. The Hispanic population in the USA suffered greater infection and death because of it. When Social Workers finally educated the Spanish speaking people in the USA the infections slowed and stopped. 

What is it already in West Africa? Too many languages, then print fliers in all languages. People don't read, then prepare videos in their native language that can be viewed on screens from a mobile trailer. People are too distracted, then their leaders need to instill the fear of god(s) in them and tell them if they don't learn about Ebola and how to detect and prevent it they will ultimately die. 

There has to be some methods of having the civilians in West Africa understand their own mortality with this virus. A symptomatic child was allowed to simply be sick? People don't appreciate their own lives if they can't understand the need for compassion for a child that is symptomatic needing emergency care.

Their lives may seem hard and impossible, but, Ebola will cause hardship they never bargained for.

People entering Mali from Guinea are having their temperature checked

October 25, 2014
The authorities in Mali (click here) have confirmed the death of the country's first Ebola patient, a two-year-old girl.
The World Health Organisation said the toddler had travelled hundreds of kilometres by bus from Guinea through Mali showing symptoms of the disease.
More than 40 people known to have come into contact with her have been quarantined.
The girl was being treated in the western town of Kayes, after arriving at a hospital on Wednesday.
The child had travelled more than 1,000 km (600 miles) from Guinea through the capital, Bamako, to Kayes.
"The child's symptomatic state during the bus journey is especially concerning, as it presented multiple opportunities for exposures, including high-risk exposures, involving many people," the WHO said.
The girl's mother died in Guinea a few weeks ago and the child was then brought by relatives to Mali.
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have seen most of the 4,800 Ebola deaths....

Friday, October 24, 2014

It is time for the USA to work with the WHO and other partners to establish a 21 day quarantine facility(ies) in West Africa for people traveling via jet. The other option is to quarantine those returning after working with Ebola patients in the specialized jet and then deliver them to a hospital to finish a 21 day quarantine.

October 24, 2014

Patient in New York City tests positive for Ebola – (click here) took subway from Manhattan to Brooklyn night before 

A doctor in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea tested positive for the Ebola virus Thursday, becoming the city’s first diagnosed case.

The doctor, Craig Spencer, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday and placed in isolation while health care workers spread out across the city to trace anyone he might have come into contact with in recent days....


There is something wrong in West Africa with Isolation Precautions. For all these professionals to contact the virus while working their for weeks is really strange. They are all contracting it days before leaving West Africa.

None if this makes sense. They have to be dining with colleagues still working there or their is a degree of sabotage of some kind. It isn't fair to have the airlines carry the burden of maybe they have it or maybe not. It isn't a travel ban so much as quarantine for Ebola workers because of current problems. 

It is this particular population of people that have worked with Ebola having the virus when they arrive home. This particular population has to be isolated.

Can we keep it light out there, okay?

With all respect to the artists, no one is 100% of anyone. No one should give over themselves to the identity of another. Everyone needs to know their own mind and find a relationship that honors each other. The best relationship in the world is one where a couple can laugh at their differences and find the love that exists within those differences. 

Everyone is complete when they are born. Love is an enhancement and gift provided by someone that sincerely respects, honors and cherishes you. No relationship should be the end or beginning of anyone. Life is bigger than that.

Jaylen had it wrong.

American Indian children (click here) have the third highest rate of victimization at 11.6 per 1,000 children of the same race or ethnicity. In 2009, 7,335 AI/AN children were victims of child maltreatment (SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010).

Even as adults there is a lot of anger spilling over from young experiences. There are high alcoholism rates and domestic violence. Jaylen may have lived the prefect life and simply lost his perspective on life. But, in the Native American community there are significant numbers of them being abused and growing into abusers.

(Student) Brice - "When he went to reload the gun I was able to get away."

(Student) Austin - "I saw him stand up and heard a loud pop. I thought it was someone breaking an inflated bag, but, then I saw three student fall to the floor as if they were dead. I then dove under the desk. Then I heard the popping stopped, looked up and he was reloading his gun. I then ran in the opposite direction to get away."

"He was always a nice person, played on the football team. Yesterday, there was some kind of racist statement made, but, he seemed okay."

A clean cut kid, probably a good student, plays on the football team, liked by many became a shooter and a mental health wizard is suppose to figure this out and prevent it. Sure. 

I am sure his family is going to be equally as devastated as any family in that town. When are the innocent people in this country going to be saved from the gun lobby?

I take it the School Board never saw the need for metal detectors. Not that they are to blame, but, in this town in Washington State out of blue comes a shooter that is a high school student. Tell me anyone is going to be able to diagnose this and prevent it. If someone believes that is possible they are a liar.

The gun lobby is responsible for this as so many in the past. Don't say the work gun lobby now because it is close to an election. The gun lobby that is part of the political cult of right wing media infotainment. The gun lobby that will congregate in the name of liberty to protect those that break the law owing millions to the USA government and then position themselves not in protect or protest, but, to kill federal employees. They are part of the right wing media cult that advocates for every unworthy and immoral aspect of life that returns a profit. They are responsible today.

Help for Rural Communities.

October 24, 2014
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2014 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (click here) today announced the selection of 43 organizations in 27 states for grants and loans to help create jobs and boost economic development activity in rural areas. The announcement culminates a week in which the department has been highlighting products that are Made In Rural America.
"Many rural businesses and organizations are succeeding but with access to additional resources can create more jobs, promote growth and create an environment where more products can be made in rural America," Vilsack said. "The awards we are announcing today will not only provide funding, but they also will provide the critical training and technical assistance rural cooperatives and non-profit groups need to enhance the work they are doing to strengthen America's Main Street businesses."...

...In North Carolina, the Rural Advancement Foundation International–USA will receive a $200,000 grant to launch a program on agricultural cooperatives. Funding will be used to provide technical assistance to groups in rural North Carolina, South Carolina, northern Florida, and eastern Kentucky. Since fiscal year 2009, USDA has awarded 200 RCDG grants for approximately $38.4 million that have helped more than 2,500 businesses.

USDA's Intermediary Relending Program helps capitalize loan funds to alleviate poverty and increase economic activity and create jobs in rural communities. Loans are provided to local organizations that establish revolving loan funds....

From the time President Obama took office he has worked to improve the circumstances of rural communities to bring about opportunity. Opportunity is a requirement to citizens of the USA.
...Since fiscal year 2009, USDA has awarded 281 IRP loans for approximately $140 million. These loans have helped more than 4,700 businesses.
President Obama's historic investments in rural America have made our rural communities stronger. Under his leadership, these investments in housing, community facilities, businesses and infrastructure have empowered rural America to continue leading the way – strengthening America's economy, small towns and rural communities.

Does the Oklahoma government ever get themselves upset enough to end danger from tornadoes? Nah.

But when it comes to the demands of investors from China they can't seem to be upset enough.

October 24, 2014


OKLAHOMA CITY — A decade ago, (click here) leaders of companies interested in relocating to Oklahoma would ask state officials about available workforce, regulations and other issues.
Today, industry officials still ask about those matters, Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce Larry Parman said. But another concern has made its way onto the list — a ready, dependable supply of water.
Parman spoke Thursday in a panel discussion about water’s role in economic development at the Oklahoma Governor’s Water Conference and Research Symposium in Oklahoma City.


Parman said he recently spoke with officials from a Chinese corporation that was considering several states, including Oklahoma, as sites for possible expansion. The company insisted the state they selected provide them with a guaranteed water supply, he said.
Now who is regretting the climate crisis.

The four corner region of the USA emits 10% of all methane emissions globally.

Halliburton and Conductivity Endurance

Case History 4: New Mexico (click here)
Coalbed Methane Production
Increases Almost Four-Fold
Even though they had already been fractu...

Photo by Mary Shinn/The Durango Herald. A spiderweb of roads connects mostly natural-gas wells in the San Juan Basin south of Farmington. Advocates argue better planning could prevent hodgepodge development in southern areas of the basin where gas and oil companies are starting to use hydraulic fracturing to extract oil.


October 17, 2014

Chaco Culture National Historical Park (click here) is already surrounded by land leased for natural gas extraction, nearly 90 percent of the land in the San Juan Basin is leased for that purpose. A new network of oil wells developed by hydraulic fracturing along U.S. Highway 550 is being planned with companies planning to expand even more.  Three companies plan to invest $600 million in the next year to year and a half, with a single one, Encana, planning 45-50 new exploratory wells.  Environmental, archaeological and tribal groups worry about the lack of planning to continue to preserve the ancient ruins and pristine environment. One of the environmental concerns is flaring of wells, where the excess methane is burnt off,  leading to air pollution and smog. There is also concern about the possible contamination of drinking water. For archaeologists and tribal members there is concern about damage to these scared ancient sites that literally dot the landscape....


Ancient people left an impressive network of roads and ruins in Chaco Canyon.

Further north at Mesa Verde National Park there have been deaths of wild horses. The park service stated it was due to hydration but remained unsure the cause. 

The USA government should note the demonstrators never showed up with guns!

September 21, 2014


On July 29, (click here) protesters began demonstrating against the park’s policy of not aiding the horses. Some had heard rumors that the National Park Service had actually fenced off springs and seeps that the horses relied on for water, a charge denied by the agency.
The horses were found on Wetherill Mesa in June and July and were not discovered in time to do a necropsy, according to Mesa Verde Public Information Officer Betty Lieurance.
“If we find other dead horses in time to meet the short time-window required for a necropsy to be performed, we will definitely do that to determine the cause of death.”
Bonnie Loving, who lives near Mesa Verde, owns two adopted BLM mustangs, one from Wyoming and one from Nevada. She rode her horse Ringo to the protest, which took place in front of the visitors center just off Highway 160 at the park entrance, but she had to stop before entering the parking lot because horses are not allowed.
“Mesa Verde provides a designated First Amendment area at the Visitors and Research Center for public speaking,” Lieurance explained in a telephone interview with the Free Press on July 30. “The people can gather there, but the horses cannot come in the park.”
Loving said her two adopted mustangs are amazing....

Aqueous Methane will convert to cyanide if ammonia is present. The horses if found in time need to be tested for poisoning. In the meantime, the water sources have to be tested for poisoning either natural or man-made pollution.

CH4

Methane (click here) combines with ammonia in wastewater to produce hydrocyanic acid (aqueous hydrogen cyanide, HCN, also known as prussic acid, the Nazi poison Zyklon B). Commercially, this is known as the BMA process. All cyanide species are considered to be acute hazardous materials and have therefore been designated as P-Class hazardous wastes. The remediation target for cyanide in wastewater is 1:g/L (one part per billion), which is unattainable with presently known treatment technologies, even ultrafiltration, which at best can get to 10 :g/L and are prohibitively expensive.

While the water sources for the wildlife at Mesa Verde are not waste water, high concentrations of methane in the air can become suspended in water to form a methane aqueous solution. In that state it can easily mix with other chemicals in the water to form poisons. I think everyone would remember the skull and cross bone signs next to a pond in western movie pictures. Poisons will occur under the right conditions. The water sources in Mesa Verde National Park has to be tested in the face of the deaths of the wild horses. If the Park Service and Department of Interior would do that there would be many happy people in the area.

EPA has to check the methane concentration is the entire region where this accumulation as resulted. I guarantee you the air quality is not good.

Conductivity Endurance as a method of extraction of methane is now suspect for air quality problems. The procedure needs to be reviewed and decided about the safety of the technology. The Four Corners is enough proof there is something grossly wrong with it. It may also be responsible for water quality problems.

When the Department of Interior writes leases it needs to remember these are public lands and regardless of the drilling should be safe for citizens to visit and enjoy. This mess is appalling. I can't believe the federal government allowed this to happen for nothing but profiting off our land. This is an outrage. There is every reason to believe Interior never demanded "Best Practices."

Methane pollution is so bad at the four corners it is showing up on satellite visualization.

That is free release of methane from natural gas extraction.


...The team at NASA (click here) was finally able to take a closer look, and have now concluded that there is in fact a 2,500-square-mile cloud of methane—roughly the size of Delaware—floating over the Four Corners region, where the borders of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah all intersect.

A report published by the NASA researchers in the journal Geophysical Research Letters concludes that “the source is likely from established gas, coal, and coalbed methane mining and processing.” Indeed, the hot spot happens to be above New Mexico's San Juan Basin, the most productive coalbed methane basin in North America.
Methane is 20-times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2, and has been the focus of an increasing amount of attention, especially in regards to methane leaks from fracking for oil and natural gas. Pockets of natural gas, which is 95-98% methane, are often found along with oil and simply burned off in a very visible process called “flaring.” But scientists are starting to realize that far more methane is being released by the fracking boom than previously thought....

These are not natural emissions. This speaks to the density of production in that region of the country and the fact established practices in this industry are emitting large amounts of methane. The industry is not self-regulating to emissions of any kind.

Methane in its gas form is an asphyxiant, (click here) which in high concentrations may displace the oxygen supply you need for breathing, especially in confined spaces. Decreased oxygen can cause suffocation and loss of consciousness. It can also cause headache, dizziness, weakness, nausea, vomiting, and loss of coordination. Skin contact with liquid methane can cause frostbite.

If you think your health has been affected by exposure to methane, contact your health care professional.

For poisoning emergencies or questions about possible poisons, please contact your local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222.

An asphyxiant is a chemical that displaces oxygen in the blood. OSHA needs to examine health records of the companies in this region of the country producing natural gas for any and all exposures of employees. Natural gas is heavier than air and can cause breathing problems and ultimately unconsciousness. If an employee were ever in an unconscious state for very long there would be death of that employee. This is not simply an issue of methane emissions. With emissions this dense that allow for satellite data to register it's prolonged presence that is a good chance the employees have been effected which would be reflected by personnel records in the health office, if one exists. Possibly even citizens in the area and those records would be at the local hospital.


This level of emission into the atmosphere cannot be tolerated. 


Thursday, October 23, 2014

Dr. Spenser is an American with an American passport. He has a right to come home to his family.

I might add, a travel ban would not have prevented this case from coming into the country. It is still better to be aware and be prepared than to count on a travel ban.

October 23, 2014
Yamiche Alcindor

...Officials said a doctor (click here) who recently returned from West Africa was positive in preliminary tests for the Ebola virus Thursday night, Associated Press reported.

He was identified by the New York Times as Craig Spencer, 33, an emergency physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

He underwent tests for the Ebola virus at Bellevue Hospital after developing a fever and other symptoms earlier in the day. The organization Doctors Without Borders said the doctor had worked with it in treating patients in West Africa.

Health officials are re-tracing his steps to determine who he may have come in contact with before and after showing symptoms....

It is amazing how quickly an American can lose their constitutional rights when Republicans rather be isolated from reality.

Magnificent. The Latin American Community was included in the announcements and included in the reassurance by the Mayor. 

Loss of those employed by the Coal Industry has declined because of mechanization, not alternative energy.

The electorate is being lied to regarding the loss of coal industry jobs.

The link below is from the West Virginia office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training.

In the lists speaks for the facts regarding coal production. The production has increased while the employment has decreased. Coal production has basically leveled off since 1990 which was the highest production rate in West Virginia.

Production of Coal and Coke in West Virginia 1863 - 2012 (click here)

I am sure that holds true for Kentucky as well. So, if generations of coal miners can't keep their children and grandchildren in jobs don't blame the government. It is the wealthy wanting more wealth that destroyed coal jobs.

The highest number of coal industry jobs was in 1949 with over 125,000. Ever since the jobs have diminished. Employees in the industry are pretty much divided 50/50 between industry employees and outside contractors; about 20,000 in each category. Forty thousand from 125,000 is a loss of about 68% of jobs from the coal industry over a period of time sixty-five years. It is all natural attrition because of the mechanization of the industry. 

The people of West Virginia and Kentucky need someone to find new jobs for this generation going forward because the coal industry is basically unavailable to them for employment. Converting these states to alternative energy sources would provide more jobs in the energy sector, but, there has to be more than just alternative energy jobs to grow the jobs in these states. There has to be a vision of future to transition the people of West Virginia and Kentucky into a sustainable economy that would abandon good paying jobs to mechanization.

This may sound insensitive, but, I understand the value of a good paying job with benefits. If the USA is to bring down it's greenhouse gas emissions now is the time to do it. Coal doesn't really serve the economy of any state or the country, except, it's GDP. But, as for jobs, the industry is closed to that. The Coal Industry now causes more unemployment than employment. Why train for a job that will disappear?

When I state the other day about Kuwait investing in alternative energy companies in the USA, I meant it. Alternatives are the future and employment in the country will be enhanced by it's build up.

It is over for coal, everywhere. China recently stated they are not interested in coal for it's economy. Why would they want coal? It chokes the people of cities, causes all kinds of pollution and increases China's greenhouse gas emissions. The Chinese people and their government want their monies spent on infrastructure to be good investments. They don't want to admit they made huge investments in an energy source that poorly serves the country. China has many wealthy members of it's country that want to spend their monies wisely and coal is not among those on the list for their investment. This is not all about the control by the Chinese government, China is moving into a modern day strategy that has global status.

July 9, 2014
...China (click here) -- which consumes almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined -- is accelerating a planned switch to cleaner fuels, including a possible cap on carbon emissions and limits on new coal-fired plants.
Even if such changes don’t occur as fast as environmentalists might hope, Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to scrap the economic strategy that spawned coal-eating steel plants in every province. Mounting anti-coal sentiment in China and the U.S. imperils the ambitions of companies like Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) andArch Coal Inc. (ACI) in the world’s fastest-growing region....

What are the demonstrations in Hong Kong all about? Food? Water? Heck no, it is representation of the people in their government. That is a sophisticated society, folks.


"Occupy Wall Street" was never like this. It is impressive.

The article doesn't name names, but, at UNC their curriculum is signed off by the Office of the Provost.

The Provost has to sign off on the curriculum that the Registrar records as a university student proceeds through their degree. The Registrar has to review the academic record to issue a graduated diploma in the major and minor of the student's focus. Having African Americans registered under the major that has the same name also would fend off investigation by the Registrar's office in any trend by athletic students. The administration generally would not want to offend any student by being suspicious of their major, especially with minority students. The university's culture is highly suspect, too.

It is my understanding that every course registered for matriculation into a degree has to have a syllabus which lists instructor, instructor open hours to students, room, meeting time of day and days of the week, textbook/electronic alternative and course content. There are some online classes, but, they still have to have a qualified instructor, text and syllabus. The Provost in order to sign off on the course as part of the university's catalog leading to degree requirements would have to have reviewed the syllabus and it's content in relation to degree achievement.

This means the athletes at the university were targeted for fraud before they were even recruited. It is also racist. The classes were in the department of African American studies assuming those recruited were going to be young black men.

October 23, 2014
...The UNC case (click here) stands out among academic scandals at Harvard, Duke and the Naval Academy, said Howard Gardner, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education who studies cheating.
“I think the existence of fake classes and automatic grades — you might say an athlete track, where essentially you might as well not have the university at all — I think that’s pretty extreme. I hope it’s pretty extreme,” he said....

UNC's athletic department needs to be scrutinized and possibly suspended from it's conferences. They are a bunch of racists who decided to victimize young black men. They treated potentially recruits as if they were incapable of academic achievement as  a group. In other words, the recruits were considered 'a class of citizen' with merits as athletes but incapable of learning anything else. That is racism in a very big way. One could say it continues to be an extension of the slave culture of the south, capable of physical labor but unable to have cognitive ability.

In regard to Monica...

To begin with I don't really read the Wall Street Journal anymore and I won't today. It has become a right wing propaganda rag.

But, that said, I didn't noticed Hillary was in bed with Monica and Bill, right? You know I would not be surprised if Hillary was upset and angry enough to say something off color about Monica and let's face it the walk across the White House lawn to a waiting helicopter with Chelsea between them was fairly obvious as to what Bill was getting behind closed doors. Some people do believe in marriage vows and they are married something like 38 years. Those thirty-eight years speaks to the strength of the marriage and Bill's need for attention is his problem.

Monica? The only reason Monica was badly abused was because it she chose the President of the USA. But, get real. Ambitious women line the halls of government. The other most popular affair in recent history was Garry Condit and that unfortunate fate of another beautiful woman.

Monica is a bright woman and if her life is burdened because of bad judgement while interning with the President of the United States then it is up to her to change the path of her future. She has been trying, but, the wolves continue to gnaw at her success. I think running a campaign against cyber-bullying is a good path, but, she also needs an endorsement by another woman who can elevate that ambition beyond the reputation of 23 years old. I am quite confident there is a woman concerned about this topic who can join her in turning the corner on this.

But, women that are ambitious have their own ideas about their romantic side. I suppose many people still carry a grudge about the then 23 year old woman, but, I don't. I felt badly her from the beginning. Linda Tripp is the scoundrel that insisted the USA be given information that Monica did not want to leak out. Monica had an affair and she sincerely loved the man she focused her attention. Why should a 23 year old be dragged through the mud and ruin her career for the sake of politics. If anyone is responsible for Monica's reputation, even today, it was Linda Tripp.

Monica made a horrible choice and she has been harassed by media and the political right wing ever since. She has talent. The country may be missing a vital link in it's political sphere due to it's vicious need for gossip and attacks that should aspire to reducing Hillary to being nobody. There is no way in the world Hillary Clinton is nobody. 

When the political right wing, such as this nonsense by the WSJ, comes out of the closet it is completely obvious there is a war on women . The political right wing has no room to speak, their history is very colorful for the affairs and sexual antics of their members. But, this men are always forgiven. In fact then, the attacks against Mrs. Clinton are political ambitions themselves.

That said, Hillary is an incredible person. She came from a political family and she hit the ground running. She has done her family proud and it is my guess that won't stop. She is a great mother and no doubt a superb grandmother. She loves children and some of her earliest ambitions was the Children's Defense League, yes? Her ambitions to change the course of children in the world has not wavered when looking at her time as Secretary of State. In nearly every country she visited she spoke the words that "Women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights." So, her profound dedication to elevating women and children spans her entire life and that has been the case from her earliest professional years. Given those facts, Hillary is quite honestly desperately needed in the White House because women still lack important status in the USA.

If the right wing continues these vicious personal attacks against Monica Lewinsky it will become more and more evident the DOUBLE STANDARD is a political party plank.

See, it isn't okay for Monica to have made a mistake and seek forgiveness for it publicly so she can find a purpose in her life. But. It is okay for David Vitter to pay for sex and get away with it. Or the last House member, I think he is called the Kissing Congressman. It is perfectly fine that Republican men can have their cake and eat it to, but, not Democratic men or a former 23 year old intern.

To Monica, I wish her well. I sincerely hope she finds a footing that will propel her career that was destroyed so long ago. Best to her always. I think Hillary is more than adept to take care of herself and doesn't need my permission to finish the career she started.