A majority of Americans have opposed fracking for quite some time now.

November 13, 2014
By Jeff Spross

...According to Pew, (click here) support for fracking stood at 48 percent in March of 2013, versus 38 percent opposition. But as of November 2014, Americans have flipped their position: 41 percent now favor the process while 47 percent oppose it. And while support fell across all demographic groups, the biggest drops — all 10 percentage points or more — occurred among women, voters under age 49, those with some college education, Midwesterners, and independent voters. Women already opposed the fossil fuel extraction process by one percentage point in March of 2013, but for every other one of those groups, the change flipped them from decisive approval to decisive opposition....

American politicians have lied about the dangers of fracking. They have lied to people in their foreign policy as well. Fracking not only poison's water it develops seismic activity. The American politicians have lied for one reason only, funding for politics.

What I find interesting is the fact the USA can now export oil and gas when no one needs it because of the American fracking policy abroad. Odd. Where is the market stability when exporting American petroleum assets leads to a crash in it's stock value. See, when American policy conflicts like this there is a real danger in economic implosion. Greed is a terrible thing.

Another egotistical moron in the US Congress.

Perhaps Daesh should purchase it.

April 26, 2016
By Julian Hattem

A Republican senator (click here) is trying to block the Obama administration from buying nuclear materials from Iran.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) this week filed an amendment to an energy and water appropriations bill that would bar the government from using federal funds to buy Iran's heavy water, which can be used in nuclear reactors.

“It seems the president will go to any lengths to protect his nuclear deal,” Cotton said in a statement. “We’ve given the terror-sponsoring Iranian regime enough concessions at the risk of our security; we should not further subsidize its enrichment activity by making repeated purchases of this material."

The measure is not scheduled to come up for a vote, and it is unclear whether it will hit the Senate floor before lawmakers take up the underlying appropriations bill on Wednesday.

Yet the move by Cotton underscores the lingering anger over the Obama administration’s dealings with Iran following President Obama's nuclear pact with the country....

Pure, unadulterated hatred of President Obama's administration is the ONLY reason the amendment was written. 

How much of a moron is Tom Cotton?

...If ever there was a win-win program, (click here) this was it. “This is the only time in history when disarmament was actually profitable,” Anton Khlopkov, director of the Moscow-based Center for Energy and Security Studies, told NPR. The 1993 HEU purchase agreement between the United States and Russian governments, known informally as Megatons to Megawatts, not only eliminated 500 metric tons of surplus weapons-grade uranium from Russian stockpiles, but also generated nearly 10 percent of all the electricity consumed in the United States (about half of all US nuclear power) during the past 15 years—a whopping total of around 7 trillion kilowatt-hours of energy.

Under the program, conceived and championed by MIT physicist Thomas L. Neff, the Russians “downblended” highly enriched uranium by diluting it with lower-grade uranium, and sold this mixture to the United States for $17 billion—a bargain for US ratepayers, even though Russia estimated earnings of $12 billion from the deal. Rosatom, the Russian Federation’s national nuclear corporation, plans to continue selling uranium to the United States beyond 2013, but at a much higher market price. In the meantime, US uranium concentrate production rose sharply in 2013, reaching its highest level since 1997, in part to offset the winding-down of Megatons to Megawatts....

A really big moron. Tom Cotton outshines any other moron in Congress that uses OUR GOVERNMENT to play politics.

The USA has always been in a place to purchase nuclear material and remove it from the landscape. It is called national security. The nuclear material purchases have operated in complete transparency to insure Americans and other governments were assured none of the nuclear material had fallen in the hands of those that can cause deaths, injury and long term effects of any exposure.

REALLY BIG MORON! It is amazing the level of hate of President Obama that exists with morons.

War mongering is not necessary for every discussion of the USA military when the spending is in the trillions and the American people are suppose to pay for it.

Richard Haas is typical to those with a war mongering stance. "America has war fatigue after Iraq and Afghanistan."

There is something more to do? Seriously.

Has Richard Haas ever participated in a body count from Iraq? Because people were burying their dead in their yards. PLURAL. People were buried in yards in Iraq after the USA invasion. There has never been a complete and accurate body count in Iraq after a completely unnecessary war.

I would love to hear Richard Haas state, the United Nations' personnel hadn't completed their work and if they did, there would be no reason for invasion into Iraq.

I want an apology from Richard Haas for Daesh. Just apologize for it and then realize the number of people dead for no reason at all, except of course, Ba'athification. I want to hear Richard Haas say, "Not only was the Iraq war immoral and illegal, it had a completely inept strategy in Ba'athificaiton". Not only should Richard Haas apologize for the Iraq invasion he should go on further to state there was complete incompetency in Rumsfeld's cabal without an exit strategy. 

Richard Haas should do all that without writing a book for profit. If he is compelled to write about the war and the body count he can donate the profits from the book to the orphans in Iraq.

The children of Iraq (click here) are the nation’s future but today, they are in crisis.  An estimated 800,000 were orphaned over ten years of war.  More than 1 million have been displaced by ISIS.  Thousands work on the streets or in other unsafe places.  Too many children are vulnerable to recruitment and exploitation by criminals or terrorists, as well as physical abuse and human trafficking.  They face illiteracy, poverty, malnutrition, and the profound effects of trauma and loss.  The need is urgent, but with your help, ICF is devoted to making a difference for Iraq’s most vulnerable children...

Believe me when I say it is not fatigue that the American people are tired of.

Wait, wait, let me guess. "But, Daesh is far more deadly than the American military by the sheer fact they reached a million orphans when the USA invasion never did and they achieved one million in a far shorter timeline." 

COMPLETE AND UTTER INCOMPETENCE and the USA should go back to do it all over again? I don't think so.

The killing of Eric Harris, shown right posing with his brother Andre, has raised questions about the use of volunteer officers to supplement full-time law enforcement.

27 April 2016
By Reuters

The Oklahoma volunteer reserve deputy(click here) who fatally shot an unarmed suspect being subdued by regular deputies last year was found guilty of manslaughter on Wednesday by a jury that recommended he serve the maximum of four years in prison.
Prosecutors told jurors that Robert Bates, 74, an insurance executive who volunteered as a reserve sheriff’s deputy, deserved to be sent to prison for thrusting himself into the situation when there were several qualified deputies on the scene who could subdue the man....

It was not an exercise, there was no danger because Eric Harris was already subdued. Eric Harris posed no danger to anyone.

...Prosecutor Kevin Gray told jurors in closing arguments that Bates made the decision to leave his car, join the deputies and draw a weapon on Harris, who was on the ground.
“People make mistakes all the time, but to equate the shooting of Eric Harris with that is absurd,” he said....

I don't know how anyone can state the death of a man is a mistake. Hunting accidents (click here) occur, but, accidental deaths by police officers isn't really a possibility. 

I might point out the USA has 30,000 deaths per year due to the loose gun laws. That 30 thousand deaths does not include gun injuries either.

Hail Mary is actually a prayer within the rosary.

Hail Mary, full of grace.
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

The Rosary, including Hail Mary, has been the focus of several Popes over the millennium. I want to say it was Pope Paul VI that wrote a paper elevating the Rosary.

The Rosary (click here) is a Scripture-based prayer. It begins with the Apostles' Creed, which summarizes the great mysteries of the Catholic faith. The Our Father, which introduces each mystery, is from the Gospels. The first part of the Hail Mary is the angel's words announcing Christ's birth and Elizabeth's greeting to Mary. St. Pius V officially added the second part of the Hail Mary. The Mysteries of the Rosary center on the events of Christ's life. There are four sets of Mysteries: Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious and––added by Pope John Paul II in 2002––the Luminous.

The repetition in the Rosary is meant to lead one into restful and contemplative prayer related to each Mystery. The gentle repetition of the words helps us to enter into the silence of our hearts, where Christ's spirit dwells. The Rosary can be said privately or with a group....

Nope, it was Pope John Paul II:

1. The Rosary of the Virgin Mary, (click here) which gradually took form in the second millennium under the guidance of the Spirit of God, is a prayer loved by countless Saints and encouraged by the Magisterium. Simple yet profound, it still remains, at the dawn of this third millennium, a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness. It blends easily into the spiritual journey of the Christian life, which, after two thousand years, has lost none of the freshness of its beginnings and feels drawn by the Spirit of God to “set out into the deep” (duc in altum!) in order once more to proclaim, and even cry out, before the world that Jesus Christ is Lord and Saviour, “the way, and the truth and the life” (Jn 14:6), “the goal of human history and the point on which the desires of history and civilization turn”.⁽1)...

"The Hail Mary" is one of the earliest prayers a child learns in the Roman Catholic faith. But, the rosary is well engaged by the age of 7, when most children receive their "First Holy Communion." That ceremony is a very big deal for young Catholic people.

But, the Rosary, containing "The Hail Mary," is not at all a prayer of desperation. It is a prayer of sustaining peace for the soul. The expression "Hail Mary" really has evolved into a far different definition than it's purposeful meaning in the Roman Catholic Faith.

"The First Holy Communion" is the first autonomous act by a young person regarding their soul in the Catholic faith. Up to that point Baptism protected the soul. At the age of 7, girls and boys are introduced to the idea of having control over their behavior and decisions that will bring diminishing character of their soul. They are also introduced to the idea of penance to bring back the standing of their soul with God. Roman Catholic children are asked from an early age to conduct themselves in the graces of God.

I am tired of hearing Donald Trump's comments about the beauty of his daughters. I think every father has those moments. They have raised their daughters with great joy and love. All of a sudden this strange young man shows up for dinner. I think most fathers take a step back to realize what other men see in their daughters. I don't find that a declaration of incest. 

He served one term in the presidency.

It was 1992 when I wrote the White House and George H. W. Bush to take no more than $100 donations from Americans for his re-election. He ignored it all.

After a short time, Gerry Brown stated he would take no more than $100 donations for his election. He raised the most money he ever did that month. He received matching funds as well. 

That was twenty-four years ago. It is interesting how Americans have a hero today carrying their message with the degree of comfort in knowing Wall Street doesn't own their candidate. Americans haven't changed in that 24 years. We still want the elections to be OUR choice.

Dennis Hastert's sentence is scary. He wasn't the only one in Congress. There was that Congressman that was chasing his male aides around his office, too. The difference is the young interns were over 18 years old. Mark Foley. The list of either homosexual or bisexual Republican legislators is very long. The ONLY thing wrong with that was the closet. In the case of Hastert, he was a pedophile.

Fifteen months. Amazing. He'll be out before Christmas.

Republicans don't react to their own sex scandals, with bare chests on social sites or prostitutes, because they would lose their majority and that is far more important than the truth from pedophiles. 

April 27, 2016
By Brian Ross, Megan Christie and Rhonda Schwartz

Describing Dennis Hastert (click here) as a “child molester” who lied to the FBI, a federal judge in Chicago today sentenced the former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert to 15 months in prison, a sentence far harsher than what even prosecutors had requested.
Federal Judge Thomas Durkin also ordered Hastert to a treatment program for sexual offenders saying if it wasn’t for Hastert’s advanced age and health, he would have sentenced him even longer, saying he was “sad for the country and sad for the victims."
During the emotionally charged hearing, a Chicago area businessman Scott Cross spoke publicly for the first time of the abuse he suffered as a 17-year-old high school student.
“It was my darkest secret as he became more powerful,” Cross said....

If Senator Sanders needs donations he should ask the people. Not just his email requests, but, he should let all his supports the campaign needs some funding. They will send it to him. I have no doubt they would respond.

Secretary Clinton should do the same thing. I don't recall ever hearing her ask for help with funding the campaign. I firmly believe any word from the candidate is a powerful thing. Some would wonder why Secretary Clinton continues to rely on big money donors rather than asking her supports to work on funding. Being left out of the loop except for the ballot box won't win friends and funders.

His policies are no different than George H.W. Bush when he stated, "....families of countries..."

Donald Trump's foreign policy speech is no surprise. He has been saying this all along. His interpretation into a government foreign policy is based in his years as a business man.

Basically, he is interested in peace first that promotes USA strength but also invites prosperity with any country willing to be a business ally. He sees America's strength in the world through prosperity of our partners. 

He wants to update our conventional weapons. That is a very big expense. I agree the USA military needs new conventional weapons, but, with such an expense there needs to be additional taxes.

It was a good speech and I am sure the world was listening. The world has been listening the entire time, why stop now. These are his views and the international community should rely on this speech as his legitimate and long lived views.

Mr. Trump along with every other USA leader is going to have to decide about Israel's aggression. I have said for years Israel was never going to stay within it's borders. Guess what?

Indulging Israel's aggressive means of a buffer zone is not Syria's problem. No other country in the region seeks buffer zones with Israel. No different than the Palestinian territories, this land belongs to Syria.

26 April 2016
The UN Security Council (click here) has expressed deep concern, dismissing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim earlier this month that the annexed Syrian Golan Heights would “forever” remain under Israel’s control.

Amid fears that Israel could fall under pressure to return the Golan as part of a possible peace settlement in Syria, Netanyahu said earlier that Tel Aviv will never withdraw from the Golan Heights, a strategic area captured from Syria in 1967.

“It is time that the international community recognized reality,” Netanyahu was quoted as saying on April 17. “Whatever happens on the other side of the [Syrian] border, the border itself will not move.”

“And secondly,” Netanyahu added, “the time has come after 40 years for the international community to finally recognize that the Golan Heights will remain under Israeli sovereignty forever.”...

This is aggression by Israel that is nothing more than the same aggression witnessed against Palestine for decades. Israel is also moving into Syria which has enough problems without starting additional conflict over land. Israel must be made to live within it's borders and roll back from the borders that are Palestinian.

The USA should never entertain the idea of defending Israel across borders that challenge the sovereignty of other countries in the region. This level of aggression raises Israel's ambitions for Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Things are looking very bleak for Israel's aggression.

To right is the Sea of Galilee and southern Golan Heights, Jordan. Tourism is as safe with Jordan as it has been with Israel.

OMG, the pills are engineered. I thought the tablets on the street were people selling presciption drugs.

April 27, 2016
By Sudhin Thanawala

San Francisco — Fourteen people in the Sacramento, California, (click here) area have fatally overdosed on a pill disguised as a popular painkiller, and now the drug has turned up in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bay Area hospitals have treated seven patients who ingested what they thought was the painkiller Norco in recent weeks, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The patients all survived, though at least some experienced nausea, vomiting and difficulty breathing.
The pills were adulterated with fentanyl, the powerful opioid....

Fentanyl is a very powerful drug. How powerful?

Fentanyl is an opioid medication. An opioid is sometimes called a narcotic.

Fentanyl is used as part of anesthesia to help prevent pain after surgery or other medical procedure.

People with intractable pain use Fentanyl safely IN A TRANSDERMAL PATCH. The injectable variety is used ONLY in anesthesia.

Below are dosage strength.

Applies to the following strength(s) (click here) : 50 mcg/mL ; 1200 mcg ; 200 mcg ; 400 mcg ; 600 mcg ; 800 mcg ; 100 mcg ; 300 mcg ; 1600 mcg             

For a in hospital drip:  25 mcg/hr ; 50 mcg/hr ; 75 mcg/hr ; 100 mcg/hr

2 mcg/mL-0.9% (normal saline) ; 5 mcg/mL-0.9% ; 10 mcg/mL

0.9% (0.9 percent is the FORMULA abbreviation for normal saline FLUID); 20 mcg/mL-0.9% ; 12 mcg/hr ; 37.5 mcg/hr ; 62.5 mcg/hr ; 87.5 mcg/hr

1.5 mg/mL ; 2.5 mg/mL (these are mixing ratios)  ; 100 mcg/inh ; 400 mcg/inh ; 5 mcg/mL-D5% ; 25 mcg/mL-0.9% ; 4 mcg/mL-D5%

1000 mcg/250 mL-NaCl 0.9% ; 40 mcg/mL (1000 micrograms per 250 milliliters of Normal Saline at a concentration of 40 micrograms per milliliter)

NaCl 0.9% ; 40 mcg/dose ; 150 mcg/30 mL-D5% ; 100 mcg/10 mL-D5% ; 300 mcg/30 mL-D5%

1250 mcg (microgram)/50 mL (milliliter)-D5%

2500 mcg/250 mL-D5%

Kindly notice the strength of Fentanyl is in mcg (micrograms) not mg (milligrams).

The amount of Fentanyl needed to achieve sedation is extremely small.

1 milligram = 1 milliliter

Fentanyl can be mixed with natural body fluids like one liter (1000 milliliter) or one half liter (500 milliter) or one-fourth liter (250 milliliter) of normal saline or 5% dextrose for a drip used in the hospital in managing pain.

The dosages are extremely important in administering the drug without harming the patient.

Fentanyl should never be considered an enhancement to any street drugs. Fentanyl is deadly when not respected for it's intense property of pain relief. There is NO SAFE dosage for oral consumption.

Chyna will participate in the discovery of concussions.

By Jonathan Lloyd

The brain of former WWE star Chyna (Joan Marie Laurer), (click here) who was found dead last week in her Southern California home, will be donated for research involving the effects of concussions, her manager said Tuesday.Chyna, whose real name is Joan Marie Laurer, was found dead Wednesday in her Redondo Beach apartment. Police were responding to a 911 call from a friend who said the former 46-year-old World Wrestling Entertainment performer failed to answer her phone for a few days....

The female brain is yet to have significant information yield secrets about concussion. Chyna's participation in the study is invaluable.

France wants answers.

"We're in a democracy ... we're not in a totalitarian state," Berton said, stated the attorney for Abdelslam. That is a profound statement. It is far easier for the terrorists in Europe compared to their residence with Daesh.

These men would have been killed by a genocidal group of Ba'athists somewhere in Syria if they failed. Abdeslam faces justice according to the standards of a French democracy. A democracy written to protect the innocent. European democracies are targets for Daesh. And while they are placing designs of death on societies, they are comfortable and treated with respect. These horrible men take advantage of democracy to end it. This is more than a group of killers, they are banking on fear within democracies to end them.

The killer Abdeslam is being processed. That is all that is happening here. He is being processed. It doesn't mean he deserves respect or has a valid alibi. He is being processed to protect all others wrongfully accused. It is important France maintains it's high standards of democracy. Abdeslam will receive justice through a valuable form of governance. I congratulate France for the strength in seeking the truth and bringing it's brevity to the justice it's democracy demands.

The contrast of France to the bloody regime of Daesh is a government of strength and not a regime of fear and death too afraid to realize it's own truth.

..."That  means be judged (click here) for facts and acts that he committed but not for what he did not commit simply because he is the only survivor of the attacks," Berton said.

Abdeslam, whose brother blew himself up in the attacks, is charged with attempted murder over a March 15 shootout with police in Brussels. He was arrested three days later.

Belgian police questioned Abdeslam about potential links to the three suicide bombers who attacked the Brussels Airport and subway on March 22, killing 32 — just days after Abdeslam's arrest.

Mystery continues to hang over Abdeslam's role in the Paris attacks. He returned from France to Belgium after his brother blew himself up, calling cohorts in Brussels to fetch him. However, a suicide belt bearing his fingerprints was found south of Paris and a car he had been driving was found in a northern Paris district.

Berton, who has taken on tough cases in the past, said in the iTele interview that Abdeslam "has the right to be defended."

"We're in a democracy ... we're not in a totalitarian state," Berton said.                

Congratulations to the winners of the primaries tonight. I hope there will be a couple of days of well deserved rest will follow.

April 26, 2016
By Jonathan Adams

After five primaries on April 26, (click here) the Republican candidates only have the Indiana primary next week. The primary takes place Tuesday, May 3 and has 57 delegates at stake.
According to FiveThirtyEight, 30 delegates are awarded in winner-take-all fashion to the candidate with the most votes statewide. The remaining 27 delegates are split among nine congressional districts with each district getting three delegates. A candidate will be awarded three delegates for each congressional district he wins.
Ted Cruz will continue to try to cut into Donald Trump’s lead. Early polling data shows Trump with a narrow lead on Cruz.
Here’s a look at the latest Indiana GOP polls....

Moral leadership realizes where it's strength and success began.

As Chobani, the Greek-yogurt maker, grows astronomically, so does its workforce. Today, the company has 1,630 employees; in 2008, it had just 50. Here's how.

Christian Murray (click here) loads Chobani yogurt containers into a sleeving machine to be shrink wrapped at a Chobani manufacturing facility in New York.

Have hiring problems? Who doesn't?

Take a cue from those who have done it--a lot: Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya and his head of HR, Craig Gomez, who together have led Chobani to No. 7 on the inaugural Hire Power list of America's biggest job creators. 

Here's what they've learned along the way....

April 26, 2016
By Stephanie Strom

New Berlin, N.Y. — The 2,000 full-time employees (click here) of the yogurt company Chobani were handed quite the surprise on Tuesday: an ownership stake that could make some of them millionaires.

Hamdi Ulukaya, the Turkish immigrant who founded Chobani in 2005, told workers at the company’s plant here in upstate New York that he would be giving them shares worth up to 10 percent of the company when it goes public or is sold.

The goal, he said, is to pass along the wealth they have helped build in the decade since the company started. Chobani is now widely considered to be worth several billion dollars.

“I’ve built something I never thought would be such a success, but I cannot think of Chobani being built without all these people,” Mr. Ulukaya said in an interview in his Manhattan office that was granted on the condition that no details of the program would be disclosed before the announcement.
“Now they’ll be working to build the company even more and building their future at the same time,” he said....         

The Japanese does not want nuclear energy.

18 April 2016

By Julian Ryall

Citizens’ groups, (click here) local residents and prominent anti-nuclear activists are calling on the operator of the Sendai nuclear power plant, which is less than 150km from the epicentre of Saturday’s massive earthquake, to suspend operations at the facility.

In a letter sent to the headquarters of Kyushu Electric Power Co on Sunday, the protestors said events at the Fukushima nuclear plant after the March 2011 earthquake show the danger that faces the Sendai facility.

The two reactors at Sendai, in Kagoshima Prefecture, are the only two that have been granted permission by the Nuclear Regulation Authority to restart operations. The first reactor was restarted on August 11, with Naoto Kan, the former prime minister, among he protestors demonstrating outside the main gates of the plant.

“Based on the experience at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, it is clear to everyone that it would be too late if you waited for some abnormality to occur,” the message sent to Kyushu Electric read.

Among those who have signed the letter are writers Keiko Ochiai, Takashi Hirose and Hisae Sawachi, as well as Nodoka Yamada, a university student who is a member of the Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy...

Some countries know the importance of changing to alternative energies.

21 April 2016

by Hirokazu Ina, Kaoru Umino and Naoko Tokumoto

Japan's Cabinet (click here) recently approved a series of amendments (the "Amendments") to the Act on Special Measures Concerning the Procurement of Renewable Energy by Operators of Electric Utilities (the "Act"),¹which, when approved and implemented, are likely to have a significant effect on the feasibility and profitability of current and future renewable energy projects. The impacts on developers will include: (i)increasing pressure to conclude interconnection agreements with utility companies as quickly as possible to obtain facility certification by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry ("METI") and to secure a favorable purchase price; (ii)requiring detailed and comprehensive plans for project development at the time of facility certification, with disincentives for amending such plans after a project has been certified; and (iii)requiring developers of ongoing projects to review existing agreements with utility companies to ensure compliance with the Amendments....

18 April 2016

By Danielle Demetriou

Japan’s atomic regulator (click here) will not shut down the nation’s only operating nuclear plant on earthquake-hit Kyushu island, despite concerns of a repeat of the Fukushima crisis.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority’s (NRA) decision came to light as the race to rescue survivors of the deadly earthquakes in southern Japan continued, with 10 still missing and the death toll rising to 42.
The Kumamoto region of Kyushu island was first hit last Thursday by a major tremor claiming nine lives which proved to be a foreshock to a bigger 7.3 magnitude earthquake striking early Saturday, killing a further 33....

The banking industry is preparing for USA regulations, including Bitcoin.

April 21, 2016
By Austin Mercer

Blockchain technology, (click here) popularized by the virtual currency, Bitcoin, is being hailed by many as a ground-breaking innovation that will increase efficiencies in the global economy. Its applications could be far reaching, but presently its impact is most evident in the banking sector. Banks view blockchain as a tool to decrease transaction costs, processing times, and fraud. To illustrate the fervor behind blockchain, in September 2015, a consortium of nine banks established R3, a company focused on the research and development of blockchain. Within three months, the number of banks involved with R3 ballooned to 43.

Although, as discussed below, blockchain is praised for its self-regulatory mechanisms, issues with Bitcoin theft, market manipulation, and its use in illegal transactions have forced governments around the world to consider oversight. U.S. federal and state regulatory boards have expressed interest in policing the use of blockchains in financial transactions, and some have already taken action. Most of the current and proposed regulation deals with virtual currency, but these regulations provide insight into how governments will handle all types of blockchain activity....

Increased efficiency translates into lower taxation of "Financial Transaction Tax." The USA has no real alternative, it needs additional tax income. The Financial Transaction Tax has been discussed for some time, however, the Republicans stands in it's way.

CRONIES before citizens.

The fourth drill between the USA and Canada. Video at the website below. Thank you.

The 2016 CAUSE IV experiment (click here) between the United States and Canada will be held April 26-28, 2016, at the Blue Water Bridge, the second busiest crossing between the U.S. and Canada, along the border of Michigan and Ontario.

Following the successes of CAUSE III, which occurred in fall 2014, the CAUSE IV experiment aims to act as a catalyst for building relationships in support of the U.S.-Canadian Beyond the Border Action Plan. The objectives of the CAUSE series are to explore how to build a binational communications interoperability capability and to connect, test and demonstrate emerging operational technologies available between the two countries.

Fox is stating age 15 Christopher was threatened on Facebook. He was the youngest family member.

If this works out to be a Facebook threat, families need to reconsider it's place in the family dynamics. This has been a growing issue. It has been hazing to cause suicides and now this is a threat that wiped out a family. I think there needs to be an assessment to the ability of Facebook and social media to cause dangers to Americans.

We have rating systems for movies and video games. The assessment about social media has to be given 'SAFETY RATINGS." Seriously. This is nonsense. There is no way a social media site should have that degree of danger in this country.

How many times are Americans going to be killed because of revenge or some kind of religious ritual before this stops?

April 26, 2016
By Chris Graves

On the Pike/Adams County Line  — Tears well (click here) in Leonard Manley’s eyes with nearly every mention of his slain daughter and her three murdered children.

But they never spill onto his cheek.

Manley, a man who doesn’t have much but his family, is too proud for that.

In all the talk around town following the acts of violence that decimated his family, Manley sees a guilt by association forming in speculation about the case. He is fierce in his defense of his daughter, Dana Rhoden, who was 37, and wants to clear the air.

“They are trying to drag my daughter through the mud and I don’t appreciate that,’’ Manley, 64, said Monday surrounded by family members and stacks of photo albums outside the trailer he shares with his wife Judy....

Hillary Clinton has been reaching out to Bernie Sanders' supporters for some time now. Bernie needs to realize his supports have an invitation to her campaign. Will he bring his supporters to the DNC party?

There is this idea among the Sanders' supporters they will migrate to Donald Trump if Bernie is not the nominee. That is not a threat. There is a clear character to their campaigns Sanders and Trump share if they like it or not.

Donald Trump is not accepting SuperPac money or big money donors. Hillary Clinton's campaign needs to realize there is a strong drive to have a candidate not attached to Wall Street and Sanders' supporters are nearly pledged to that alone.