Perhaps, Mr. Bullough, would rather barrel bombs.

October 11, 2016
By Oliver Bullough

...Otherwise, (click here) the picture is broadly the same. Mr. Putin knows now, like he knew then, that he and his proxies can’t win on the ground, so they are trying to solve their problem from the air. Where infantry won’t go, he’s dropping explosives....

If there have to be bombs to solve the civil war in Syria, it best is done by Russia which can discern a hospital from other buildings and has a budget for bombs and not chlorine.

No one actually believes this is an unjust war, do they? A civil war sparked by the renegade Deash militia that wanted a caliphate. One might ask Europe what they really believe about Russia's role in Syria. 

There is an entry on this blog; the date I am unsure of; when the American neocons lead by "W" wanted to bomb Syria, too. Damascus then had a population of 2 million people. 

Don't preach what you don't know and there are dearly few Westerners that look at Syria honestly for the outcome of ultimate stability.

Most often The West is smiled on for ending WWII. The war was nearly lost and it wasn't The West that secured the initial final blow.

... Those of us who visited the city afterward were stunned by the destruction. It had become acres of shattered buildings, scrunched factories and shredded fences. Today some suggest — as Russia has done in the last week — that Western states are just as bad. But they aren’t. They can’t be: Any Western government that did what Mr. Putin did to Grozny, or is doing to Aleppo, would fall, and would deserve to....

Baghdad, Iraq still has layer after layer of blast walls. The only difference between Western aggression and Russian aggression are those making the film for the nightly news.

"Dawn" journalist detained. The international community should take note.

If retractions of information is in order than the Dawn should do that, but, if the government is leveraging for the benefit of propaganda, then the Dawn has a real fight on it's hands.

Quite frankly, the entire global community knows Pakistan has ties to militants. The USA lost a helicopter during a raid on the compound of one of them. It is well known bin Laden had close ties to then General Musharraf. It is a known fact the Pakistan ISI is corrupt (click here). Pakistan needs to stop denying they are scared of militants and do something about it.

October 11, 2016

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) (click here) on Tuesday demanded the government immediately withdraw all restrictions on Dawn staffer Cyril Almeida and address grievances "in accordance with the law, due process and universally acknowledged freedoms of opinion and expression."

"Barring Cyril Almeida from travelling abroad and the apparent pressure on his employers, the highly respected Dawn newspaper, will cause distress to all those, at home and abroad, who believe in the freedom of expression and the rights of journalists. This is not the time to turn the international journalist community against Pakistan," the HRCP said.

"It seems that the authorities are overreacting to a story by Cyril, which touches on journalists’ responsibilities in times of trial. HRCP believes that civil-military relations are not a subject beyond the concerns of working journalists or the people at large."

Cyril Almeida, who wrote the news report "Act against militants or face international isolation, civilians tell military", was put on the country's Exit Control List (ECL) after the Prime Minister's Office issued three contradictions to the report....             

October 4, 2016
By Matt Macfarland

Both banks (click here) outlined new liquidity models and frameworks for triggering subsidiary support if the parent companies fail.

The five banks have tried this before and it was not accepted.

April 13, 2016
By Jessie Hamilton and Elizabeth Dexheimer

JPMorgan Chase & Co., (click here) Bank of America Corp. and three other major U.S. banks failed to persuade regulators they could go bankrupt without disrupting the broader financial system and could now face a tighter leash from Washington after government agencies used one of the most significant post-crisis powers bestowed under the Dodd-Frank Act.

The banks -- also including Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and State Street Corp. -- must scrap their resolution plans, or living wills, after the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said versions submitted last year failed to satisfy their requirements. The lenders will have until Oct. 1 to rewrite the plans -- but under the pressure that another failure would give regulators power to subject them to more capital or liquidity constraints on their businesses.

“The FDIC and Federal Reserve are committed to carrying out the statutory mandate that systemically important financial institutions demonstrate a clear path to an orderly failure under bankruptcy at no cost to taxpayers,” FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg said in a statement Wednesday....

My understanding of this strategy is to keep subsidiaries operational should the primary bank fail. It would reduce the impact on the economy. The liquidity of the banks is the question. A good deal of the financial picture for the banks is supported by the Federal reserve. The banks are required to maintain a percentage of their deposits in liquidity. It is a low percentage of about 15 percent, but, that was some time ago. The banks, especially the big banks, like to invest in exotic financial instruments and liquidity does not fit into that picture.

That aside, there is a function of The Federal Reserve little bother to understand. Local economies should investigate the possibility to funding their interests independently rather than through banks that offer a higher interest rate than the current rate from The Fed. 

The community development function (click here) within the Federal Reserve promotes fair and informed access to financial markets for communities and individuals, recognizing the particular needs of underserved populations. It does so by convening stakeholders to collaborate on community and economic development initiatives, conducting and sharing applied research, and identifying emerging issues....

Wow, that is awesome Warren Buffet!

March 21, 2014
By Dan Alexander
  
...Think Warren Buffett (click here) is worried about paying someone $1 billion for a perfect bracket? Think again.

The second-richest man in America had already made $1 billion before the second day of March Madness had even tipped off.

Shares in his investment company Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A +% went up 1.7% from yesterday’s opening whistle at 12:15 p.m. to this morning at 9:36 a.m. That slight change was enough to bump Buffett’s net worth up $1.05 billion to $64 billion.
He wasn’t handed $1 billion in cash, but on paper, he had made 10 figures in less than 24 hours....

It just seems as though Donald Trump is more of a gambler than others. A billion dollar loss is not the experience of everyday Americans. A loss like that is thought of as shameful, but, Mr. Trump considers it good business. I thought businesses were suppose to make profits, with the exception of a bad year here and there.

Thank you, Mr. Buffet. It was very decent of you to participate in the country's facts.

October 10, 2016

By Patricia Cohen

...Acknowledging for the first time that he (Donald Trump) had avoided paying federal income taxes for years by claiming nearly a billion dollars in losses in 1995, Mr. Trump then tried to shift attention to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, accusing some of her wealthy supporters of exploiting tax laws to their own advantage.

“Many of her friends took bigger deductions,” Mr. Trump said. “Warren Buffett took a massive deduction.”

Actually, he did not.

“I have paid federal income tax every year since 1944,” Mr. Buffett wrote in a letter released Monday.

“My 2015 return shows adjusted gross income of $11,563,931,” he revealed. “My deductions totaled $5,477,694.” About two-thirds of those represented charitable contributions, he said. Most of the rest were related to Mr. Buffett’s state income tax payments.

Mr. Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the richest men in the world, went on to say: “My federal income tax for the year was $1,845,557. Returns for previous years are of a similar nature in respect to contributions, deductions and tax rates.”...

October 10, 2016
By Ahmed Elumam

Libyan pro-government forces (click here) are advancing into the last area controlled by Islamic State in the coastal city of Sirte, surrounding the militants after a five-month campaign backed by U.S. air strikes, military officials say.

At least eight pro-government fighters were killed over the weekend as their forces pushed into the 600 block, an area in central Sirte, with snipers and booby traps posing the main obstacles to their advance, the officials said.A Reuters reporter on the ground said forces advanced across two streets on Sunday, but were facing resistance and discovering explosive devices in many buildings.

Islamic State took over Sirte a year ago, exploiting the chaos and violence that have dogged Libya since the overthrow of leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 in order to carve out a new base, far from its main territory in Iraq and Syria.

Losing the city would be a major blow to the group, but officials believe some of its fighters and commanders escaped before Sirte was surrounded, and may continue to wage guerrilla-style attacks even after it falls....

The Libyan military is doing well. It has found a strategy that works. An autonomous fighting force is possible.

October 9, 2016
The first-ever Libyan (click here) to graduate from the US’ prestigious Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama, is due to return to Libya in the next couple of weeks and resume his military duties.

Colonel Nasser Bousnina, previously the post-revolution acting commander of Benghazi’s Benina air force base, graduated from the air college this summer, one of more than 40 air force colonels from all over the world.

Bousnina, who trained at Misrata Air Academy and in Ukraine, was for several years before the revolution an instructor and then commander at Martuba air base and following that assistant commander of helicopters at Benina. In early 2011, he led other air force officers in joining the revolution.

Until he went to the US air college he was in charge of the helicopter forces in the east....

Really?

October 10, 2016
By Jane Onyanga-Omar

Two missiles fired from rebel-held territory in Yemen (click here) landed near a U.S. warship in the Red Sea, the U.S. Navy said Monday.

Ian McConnaughey, a spokesman for U.S. Navy Forces Central Command, said it was unclear if the USS Mason — a guided missile destroyer — was specifically targeted, but the missiles were fired in its direction in the space of an hour from 7 p.m. local time Sunday....

Someone has a death wish.

The US Navy has a right to defend itself, especially in international waters. 

I have a suggestion. Give the Houthi rebels a massive supply of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7. The rest will take care of itself. 

Mike Pence states he believes in second chances. How many?

The only change needed in the USA economy is an increase in the minimum wage.

She must be accommodated. The American culture does not shame women.

Being concerned for her safety, there should be a remote location where judges can monitor her participation. I believe it is too dangerous for an American woman to enter Iran. A remote location can provide participation without hate of a woman qualified to win the championship. 

October 7, 2016
By Katie Rogers 

Nazi Paikidze-Barnes, (click here) a United States women’s chess champion, has said that she will boycott next year’s world championship in Iran because religious law would require her to wear a hijab.

In a series of posts on social media, Ms. Paikidze-Barnes, a Russian-born Georgian-American, has said that requiring women to wear a hijab is a human rights issue.

“I think it’s unacceptable to host a Women’s World Championship in a place where women do not have basic fundamental rights and are treated as second-class citizens,” she wrote in a post on Instagram.

Ms. Paikidze-Barnes, 22, also organized a petition calling for the competition’s governing body, the Fédération Internationale des Échecs, or World Chess Federation, to either move the competition from Iran or persuade Iranian officials to make wearing a hijab an option instead of a requirement....

Changing USA energy to clean energy will be winning small revolutions.

Clean energy in the USA may never have any stockholders, except, those of a local economy.

Waves crashing on the beach and rivers (click here) rushing through a sloping valley are forces of nature. The power of moving water is obvious to anyone who has stood amidst breaking waves or struggled to swim against a river’s current. New technologies can enable us to harness the might of moving water to help light our homes and keep our ice cream cold in the freezer without building new dams that can have major impacts on wildlife and water quality.

The use of water power dates back thousands of years to the water wheels of Ancient Greece, which used the energy in falling water to generate power to grind wheat. We now are presented with an opportunity to develop a new generation of water power, one that will harness the abundant energy of our oceans and rivers.

Hydrokinetic technologies produce renewable electricity by harnessing the kinetic energy of a body of water, the energy that results from its motion. Since water is 832 times denser than air, our tides, waves, ocean currents, and free-flowing rivers represent an untapped, powerful, highly-concentrated and clean energy resource–...

The real reason solar is a threat to Wall Street. (click here)

Wall Street cannot control individuals and the production of 'street energy' and it's sale back to the grid. 

ROOFTOP SOLAR DOES NOT PAY STOCKHOLDERS! 

It didn't seem like 93 minutes to me. The clock doesn't lie. 

Energy in the USA is FINALLY taking it's place among the most aggressive countries to defeat the climate crisis.

Want to talk about "Matthew?"

There is no such thing as clean coal.

Interpretation of "I will bring back our energy companies," is, "I have no clue as to how to create jobs unless it is exploiting the USA's natural resources."

This is what Assad and Russia have to defeat in Aleppo.

Russia does not want help. Assad is the ONLY leadership that is predictable. That is the problem. There is no rebel force that is predictable.

October 9. 2016
...Western governments and Russia (click here) have clashed at the UN Security Council even while the Syrian government presses ahead with its military offensive against rebel-held areas of Aleppo.
The UN Security Council voted on Saturday on two rival resolutions on the fighting - one drafted by France calling for an end to air strikes and a second by Russia that urged a ceasefire but made no mention of halting the bombings.
Russia vetoed the French-drafted resolution that would have demanded an immediate end to air strikes and military flights over Syria's second largest city, and for a truce along with humanitarian aid access throughout the country.
It is the fifth time Russia has vetoed a UN resolution on Syria during the more than five-year conflict....

Unfortunately, refugees is the real salvation of Syrians. 

Yossi Antebi and David Ginzi (click here) are amongst the Jews of Aleppo who immigrated to Israel; one has fond memories of his hometown, but the other remembers being ambushed on the way to school; regardless, both are saddened by the city's violence today....

The homeland has betrayed the refugees. In time the refugees will have the right to return, but, not now. It is far to dangerous to leave people in Aleppo and attempts to send in humanitarian aid can be used by killers and those that imprison the innocent people of Syria.

The United Nations Security Council has to consider Russia's war plan as the only workable solution to end the violence against Syrians. Once stabilized there can be changes proposed for a power sharing government. But, the stabilization of Syria will require time and intense scrutiny as to what defines stabilization. I think the UN Security Council has a difficult job to determine abuses of war in contrast to a war plan that will defeat the jihadist military in Syria. I think it is possible to understand Russia and Assad's war plan. 

Russia needs to stop asking for cease fires that it does not sincerely want and the USA needs to stop it's proxy war. There should be no goal other than ending the violent jihadist military and rescuing innocent people wherever possible. 

The Russians don't want the USA's help in Syria. I would think that is evident by now.

I think people in public can have personal opinions that are not part of their public domain. The one problem that comes to mind is the stance on abortion by Secretary Kerry when it was running for President. 

Secretary Kerry is Roman Catholic and practices those values in his personal life, but, recognized his responsibility in the public rhelm would be different. He is correct and Hillary Clinton today is correct. Most of those that work in government separate their personal beliefs from that of their jobs. 

The Iraq War:

...There is no evidence (click here) that we could find, however, that he spoke against the war before it started, although we did find he expressed early concerns about the cost and direction of the war a few months after it started....

Post mortem of a war is not insight.

This is what hate of Muslims acheived in the USA.

June 20, 2016
By Sara Rathod

...A study comes (click here) after a Republican primary season that repeatedly featured anti-Muslim rhetoric. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly called for a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslim migration to the United States. Sen. Ted Cruz spoke at summits hosted by the Center for Security Policy, a group which has been declared an extremist anti-Muslim group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Ben Carson told Meet the Press that he believed Islam was inconsistent with the Constitution and said he wouldn't vote for a Muslim to be president. Two-thirds of Republican primary voters in New Hampshire favored banning Muslims from entering the United States, and last September, a survey of Republican voters in Iowa found that almost a third think Islam should be illegal....

Most of the fear promoting policies by Donald Trump is very dangerous.

The Co-ops allowed under the ACA is what is strained in some states.

Created by the Affordable Care Act, the CO-OP program was designed to help create nonprofit, member-controlled health insurance plans that would offer ACA-compliant policies in the individual and small business markets. A 15-member advisory board made recommendations to HHS regarding grants and loans for CO-OPs.
Twenty-four states had CO-OP plans available in their exchanges starting in October 2014, but a large number of them have been forced to close.

The entire ACA is not in question.

November 3, 2015
More than half of the nonprofit health insurance co-ops (click here) formed through the Affordable Care Act are now off the market for the coming year, with the last-minute departure of a plan in Michigan.
On Tuesday, two days after the start of the new enrollment season in insurance exchanges created under the health-care law, the Web site of Michigan’s Consumers Mutual Insurance posted notice that it will not sell coverage for 2016.
That co-op becomes the 12th plan to fail in the past year — and the ninth this fall — out of the 23 that opened at the start of 2014. The plans have offered an alternative, consumer-oriented type of coverage that the ACA envisioned as competition for traditional health insurers

Locker room talk is a poor excuse for victimizing women. I have trouble with his locker room talk. We still have many women that do not report the dangers in their lives by others. Women need empowerment, their children need protection.

Women need to be esteemed as honest and longing for happiness. Happiness does not live in homes where abuse resides.

Secretary Clinton makes the valid point that verbal abuse of Americans other than Caucasian (my words, not her's) has been coming from Donald Trump. This is more of the same. It is completely inappropriate. The lesson a country absorbs into it's moral fabric matters.

There are issues with illegal immigrants, but, that is all about immigration reform. How are any of the problems, including illegals that kill, going to be handled without immigration reform? The courts that handle these problems have enormous backlogs. Immigration reform has to take place, the current system is completely incompetent to handle the problems.

Paul Jones and Bill Clinton have nothing to do with this election.

Donald Trump has made his campaign successful by catering to the extreme right wing of the Republican party. 

"Acid Washing" now. He is making a fool of himself. The FBI was able to recover several thousand of the deleted emails. Secretary didn't handle the emails alone, she had lawyers making those decisions.


July 18, 2016
By Katie Bo Williams
 
The FBI on Friday (click here) will begin sending the “several thousand” deleted work-related emails sent through Hillary Clinton’s private sever that it uncovered during its investigation to the State Department, government lawyers said Monday....

Women need empowerment in reporting abuse of any kind.

I appreciate Republicans stating Donald Trump's actions is sexual assault of Secretary Clinton.

I don't think it rises to that level.

There is verbal assault which is usually reserved for threats of physical harm.

Donald Trump's actions and words are however verbal abuse. Should a President be verbally abusive? I don't think so. There are real consequences to verbal abuse of anyone.

Secretary Clinton is a strong woman. She is not likely to be effected by verbal abuse, but, in the instance of women generally, verbal abuse is emotional abuse.

You may feel (click here) like if you're not being hurt physically, you are not being abused. But attempts to scare, isolate, or control you also are abuse. They can affect your physical and emotional well-being. And they often are a sign that physical abuse will follow....

Donald Trump is setting a dangerous tone for women. He needs to stop. 

The women appearing on behalf of Donald Trump had their complaints decades ago. There is no further actions that can or should be taken. They are also setting other women up to fail. Any type of abuse should be stopped at it's beginning and not allowed to exist for periods of time. Women need to report and take responsibility for their well being. This display by Donald Trump is not empowering, it is victimizing of these women all over again.

There are laws that stand between women and abuse by others. One of the prime reasons these issues are never reported is because the abuser has power over the woman.

Bragging about sexual conquests does damage of the woman. She has to burden the descriptions and it's impact on her reputation and ability to move through life.

This is not about Bill Clinton, this is about Donald Trump and his sexual abuse of women.

Juanita Broaddrick, the Arkansas nursing home administrator who accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her nearly four decades ago during his 1978 gubernatorial campaign, has been receiving widespread attention on Twitter for defending Donald Trump after the release of a videotape in which the GOP presidential candidate made lewd and candid comments.

NONE of this defendable. 

NONE OF IT.

Hillary Clinton did not rape anyone.

Donald Trump is trying to displace his guilt with a former President as if it was all okay and simply male antics. That is not the case. Every woman has a right to her body, name, image and reputation without impositions of men, in this instance, that victimize them. 

Donald Trump is guilty regardless of his politicizing of women. His politicizing of women is assault and some sick idea of vengeance for the sack of saving his campaign from ruin.

If this was his plan all along to defame Secretary Clinton it won't work. She is not guilty of any antics by men.

Secretary Clinton made her choices long ago. Donald Trump is verbally abusing the former Secretary.

Donald Trump did not run across a little known aspect of the Republican Party.

He candidly talks about when you're famous you can do anything with women and is caught saying at one point "Grab her by the pussy".

This is sexual assault. The woman involved needs to press charges. Just that simple. If she hasn't been empowered before, then this is discovery for her and the statutes of limitations have only begun running.

Sexual assault is any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient. Falling under the definition of sexual assault are sexual activities as forced sexual intercourse, forcible sodomy, child molestation, incest, fondling, and attempted rape.

Sexual assault may also involve sexual contact that is inflicted by someone who is trusted by or has authority over the victim.

Being famous does not bring with it "you can do anything with women." Famous is having power over women. But, that power does not entitle any person to seek and/or TAKE sexual gratification. "Grab her by the pussy" is taking power to the degree of criminal.

Sexual battery refers to contact with an intimate body part of another person that is unwantedby the victim and is done in order for the perpetrator to achieve sexual arousal, gratification, or abuse.

This is why military sexual assault is real.

If Donald Trump enters the oval office, he will diminish the importance of the work and dedication of women in the military.

Donald Trump has the backing of old, while men. Women have their place. In the home being barefoot, pregnant and serving her husband without question.

New vocabulary word:

contrite - feeling or showing regret for bad behavior

Really?

Is it an egalitarian word? Or is it exclusive to Donald Trump?

The people chose the candidates at the debate tonight. The integrity of electing a President is not up to parties at the last minute as the character of the election is distasteful.