October 21, 2016
By Voice of America
The United Nations (click here) was forced to postpone planned medical evacuations
in east Aleppo Friday because security assurances were not given by
groups fighting in the city.
"Medical evacuations of sick and injured could unfortunately not
begin this morning as planned because the necessary conditions were not
in place," said Jens Laerke, spokesman for the United Nations
humanitarian office.
Laerke didn’t specify which groups failed to honor the humanitarian
pause ordered by Russia a day earlier, saying only that the U.N. and the
people of Aleppo were in an “astronomically difficult situation.”
Russia on Thursday ordered that a humanitarian pause in Aleppo be extended for another 24 hours.
Syria and Russia stopped airstrikes on Aleppo Tuesday and the pause
in fighting had been due to end at 7 p.m. local time Thursday....
The issue of humanitarian 'time' in Syria was turned into a nightmare when the UN diplomats and non-profits pushed their presence past the end of the humanitarian time period provided. This humanitarian time element in Syria was maintained. Those are reasonable actions by Russia and Syria. Their cooperation should be respected without placing people's lives in danger in trying to force a permanent ceasefire.
Maximizing the humanitarian time in Syria needs as much pre-planning as possible. Russia and Syria should provide the time period for pre-planning. The time period should remain secured from media and those that not directly involved in the efforts. The non-profits should maintain a readiness to move immediately when the fighting is lifted.
This is the reality of the Syrian Civil War. Protecting life is the goal.
Friday, October 21, 2016
ISIS has raised it's head in Kirkuk. It is called "Wack A Mole." We have been here before and ISIS was called insurgents by Bush.
There is a death of an American soldier that should not have been in battle in the first place and here comes the talking head generals.
Patraeus says the assault on Iraq is coming from the politics as well. Petraeus has come forward to the media on behalf of the USA military machine to invest far more in Iraq and the Middle East.
October 20, 2016
The battle for Mosul (click here) is the most important of the two-year campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq. Judy Woodruff speaks with retired Gen. David Petraeus, former commander of the Multi-National Force Iraq, about the current combat mission, as well as what he says is the greater challenge of governance of the region after ISIS has been dislodged.
We have been here before and even the Russians in Syria is now an enemy. Petraeus must be hard up for money. I don't know about women though.
We don't belong in Iraq.
We never did.
This is a cute twist of fate. Petraeus speaks out of both sides of his mouth. What else is new?
He promotes death in Iraq while he is promoting anti-gun politics in the USA. Does he care about human life? Evidently, only when it is within the USA's borders.
To the Veterans Coalition, the money being paid to Petreaus isn't worth it. Actions speak louder than words. He backs death by the USA military in foreign lands where it doesn't belong.
The Veterans Coalition for Common Sense launched on Friday with the goal of pushing US lawmakers to enact more legislation to prevent gun tragedies
Former CIA director David Petraeus (click here) and retired US army Gen Stanley McChrystal are part of a new veterans initiative to reduce gun violence.
The Veterans Coalition for Common Sense launched on Friday at an event in Washington DC. The group’s goal is to push lawmakers to enact more legislation to prevent gun tragedies while adhering to the gun ownership rights protected by the second amendment.
The coalition’s advisory committee includes 23 veterans from every branch of the military, including Petraeus, McChrystal and former NSA director Michael Hayden.
“This is a group of leaders who support the second amendment and who believe in the rights of responsible people, law-abiding people, to own guns,” said Mark Prentice, communications director of Americans for Responsible Solutions, the parent group of the initiative...
The USA media and it's CEOs thinks it is great to have propaganda rule the day again. More viewers make the sponsors happy.
Boycott Wall Street. There is no other answer. Support the local economy and boycott Wall Street. They don't belong in our economy when they participate with venues of propaganda and killing.
Patraeus says the assault on Iraq is coming from the politics as well. Petraeus has come forward to the media on behalf of the USA military machine to invest far more in Iraq and the Middle East.
October 20, 2016
The battle for Mosul (click here) is the most important of the two-year campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq. Judy Woodruff speaks with retired Gen. David Petraeus, former commander of the Multi-National Force Iraq, about the current combat mission, as well as what he says is the greater challenge of governance of the region after ISIS has been dislodged.
We have been here before and even the Russians in Syria is now an enemy. Petraeus must be hard up for money. I don't know about women though.
We don't belong in Iraq.
We never did.
This is a cute twist of fate. Petraeus speaks out of both sides of his mouth. What else is new?
He promotes death in Iraq while he is promoting anti-gun politics in the USA. Does he care about human life? Evidently, only when it is within the USA's borders.
To the Veterans Coalition, the money being paid to Petreaus isn't worth it. Actions speak louder than words. He backs death by the USA military in foreign lands where it doesn't belong.
The Veterans Coalition for Common Sense launched on Friday with the goal of pushing US lawmakers to enact more legislation to prevent gun tragedies
Former CIA director David Petraeus (click here) and retired US army Gen Stanley McChrystal are part of a new veterans initiative to reduce gun violence.
The Veterans Coalition for Common Sense launched on Friday at an event in Washington DC. The group’s goal is to push lawmakers to enact more legislation to prevent gun tragedies while adhering to the gun ownership rights protected by the second amendment.
The coalition’s advisory committee includes 23 veterans from every branch of the military, including Petraeus, McChrystal and former NSA director Michael Hayden.
“This is a group of leaders who support the second amendment and who believe in the rights of responsible people, law-abiding people, to own guns,” said Mark Prentice, communications director of Americans for Responsible Solutions, the parent group of the initiative...
The USA media and it's CEOs thinks it is great to have propaganda rule the day again. More viewers make the sponsors happy.
Boycott Wall Street. There is no other answer. Support the local economy and boycott Wall Street. They don't belong in our economy when they participate with venues of propaganda and killing.
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Another monster looks to be brewing in the Atlantic off Florida.
2130.19z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
The next six hours will tell. The next name begins with an "O." I think OMG is a good name, too.
Close. The next name is "Otto."
There is also water vapor west of Africa that is menacing as well.
The only reason I brought it to the attention of the community is because the energy is consolidating close to the USA coast.
I thought Hillary Clinton was masterful. Her poise, smile and the voice of authority made her preparedness for President obvious.
By the LA Times
Debate scorecard
We divided the 90-minute debate into six rounds. Check the scoreboard to see what our judges thought of the candidates' performances.
View previous scorecards: (click here)
There are accusations against Donald Trump regarding sexual assault and harassment still outstanding. I found the statements of accomplished women (beauty queens are accomplished women) alarming. I also found the fact he would tour back stage while women were changing into their clothing even more alarming. There is no decency in that. He could have accomplished as much or more success for his pageants if he respected the women and their attendants and waited to speak to them after their preparations were complete and ready for the stage.
I realize morale is as much a part of any beauty pageant as contestants, but, there is no reason to violate a woman's sense of privacy. I think it is alarming.
October 19, 2016
By Melanie Mason
Donald Trump, (click here) asked in the debate on Wednesday about the multiple women who have accused him in the last week of unwanted sexual advances and inappropriate touching, dismissed such allegations as “all fiction” and said their stories have “largely been debunked.”
But while the Trump campaign has offered some rebuttals to a few of the allegations, the allegations — some of which center on events that occurred decades ago — have hardly been settled.
The women’s stories came in the wake of a leaked recording from 2005 in which Trump, then starring on NBC’s “The Apprentice,” boasted about groping women. He apologized for those comments, labeling them “locker-room talk,” but said in the second presidential debate he never acted in such a manner....
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
The final Presidential debate of 2016.
Hillary Clinton is really amazing. She looks wonderful and people said she would be rattled by Donald Trump on the debate stage; she is masterful.
Donald Trump is able to be a populous candidate because he dummy downs expertise. His dialogue with the people will never survive the office of the President of the United States of America. He has no substance to his statements. He relies on gossip and not policy.
The idea the USA economy's GDP is comparable to emerging countries such as India and China is hideous.
An emerging market economy is a nation's economy that is progressing toward becoming advanced, as shown by some liquidity in local debt and equity markets and the existence of some form of market exchange and regulatory body. Emerging markets are not as advanced as developed countries but maintain economies and infrastructures that are more advanced than frontier market countries.
The USA did not go into Mosul. The military methodologies of the Muslim countries in the Middle East is very different than that of the USA. But, to comparing other economies to the USA economy; if people have no shoes and there comes a company to manufacturer shoes, as employees to the company monies are put in the hands of new consumers, the GDP is going to soar when those new consumers buy shoes. The idea an advanced country such as the USA can be compared in it's GDP to emerging countries such as India and China is ridiculous and Donald Trump is gossiping about India and China and not discussing policy or FACT.
The instability in the Middle East began with the Bush invasion into Iraq in 2003. There isn't anything else to say. The USA completely destabilized the entire region with "Mission Accomplished." Thirteen years later and the war rages on.
DONALD! Put your eyeglasses on! I can't make the chart any bigger on the blog.
The Affordable Care Act is wildly successful.
April 21, 2016
By Michael Cohen
...But new studies out this week (click here) indicate that Obamacare is making a life-changing difference for actual Americans. According to an analysis by The New York Times, the first full year of the ACA “brought historic increases in coverage for low-wage workers.” Immigrants saw the sharpest rise in coverage. In particular, a third of those who gained insurance are Hispanic — and two-thirds are minorities. The numbers would be higher but or the fact that blacks disproportionately live in red states that have rejected Medicaid expansion....
The ACA was developed out of the patriot commitment of the American people to end the suffering of those that were not and/or insufficiently covered by health insurance. The success is beyond expectations in THOSE STATES THAT ADOPTED the ACA in it's entirety.
From the Washington Post (click here):
Jared Bernstein, a former chief economist to Vice President Biden, is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and author of the new book 'The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity.'
You have to believe someone.
MSNBC (click here):
End of Discussion.
Donald Trump is able to be a populous candidate because he dummy downs expertise. His dialogue with the people will never survive the office of the President of the United States of America. He has no substance to his statements. He relies on gossip and not policy.
The idea the USA economy's GDP is comparable to emerging countries such as India and China is hideous.
An emerging market economy is a nation's economy that is progressing toward becoming advanced, as shown by some liquidity in local debt and equity markets and the existence of some form of market exchange and regulatory body. Emerging markets are not as advanced as developed countries but maintain economies and infrastructures that are more advanced than frontier market countries.
The USA did not go into Mosul. The military methodologies of the Muslim countries in the Middle East is very different than that of the USA. But, to comparing other economies to the USA economy; if people have no shoes and there comes a company to manufacturer shoes, as employees to the company monies are put in the hands of new consumers, the GDP is going to soar when those new consumers buy shoes. The idea an advanced country such as the USA can be compared in it's GDP to emerging countries such as India and China is ridiculous and Donald Trump is gossiping about India and China and not discussing policy or FACT.
The instability in the Middle East began with the Bush invasion into Iraq in 2003. There isn't anything else to say. The USA completely destabilized the entire region with "Mission Accomplished." Thirteen years later and the war rages on.
DONALD! Put your eyeglasses on! I can't make the chart any bigger on the blog.
The Affordable Care Act is wildly successful.
April 21, 2016
By Michael Cohen
...But new studies out this week (click here) indicate that Obamacare is making a life-changing difference for actual Americans. According to an analysis by The New York Times, the first full year of the ACA “brought historic increases in coverage for low-wage workers.” Immigrants saw the sharpest rise in coverage. In particular, a third of those who gained insurance are Hispanic — and two-thirds are minorities. The numbers would be higher but or the fact that blacks disproportionately live in red states that have rejected Medicaid expansion....
The ACA was developed out of the patriot commitment of the American people to end the suffering of those that were not and/or insufficiently covered by health insurance. The success is beyond expectations in THOSE STATES THAT ADOPTED the ACA in it's entirety.
From the Washington Post (click here):
You have to believe someone.
MSNBC (click here):
End of Discussion.
I don't see the resemblance in any way. President Obama is not running for President again.
How much did the campaign pay the guy? Is he homeless or something?
October 18, 2016
By Richard Johnson
...Malik — an American citizen who lives in Washington, DC, when he’s not in Kenya — says he will be a guest of Trump, the Republican nominee he supports for president.
“I’m excited to be at the debate. Trump can make America great again,” Malik told The Post.
“I look very much forward to meeting and being with Malik,” Trump said. “He gets it far better than his brother.”
Malik agrees with Trump that the mainstream media is biased, and he dismisses the women who claim Trump kissed or groped them without their permission....
So, Malik agrees the groping and kissing occurred, just with permission. Sexism, too.
...The Barack H. Obama Foundation — Malik named it after his and the president’s father — would be better able to help the family’s village of Kogelo, Kenya, “if I had gotten the support I should have gotten from my brother,” Malik said....
He is nothing more than a panhandler. He named a foundation after President Obama and then expected all kinds of hand outs. I don't think so. If President Obama provided funding and/or funding opportunities it would be highly unethical and/or possibly criminal.
...Malik, who is three years older than Barack, said he last saw his sibling in August 2015 after the president had visited Kenya.
“I went to the White House to say hello. I paid a courtesy call,” he said. But it wasn’t a very warm and loving reception....
Define very warm and loving. Was it warm and loving and just not very warm and loving? Stayed for lunch, maybe?
“As usual, it was a hands-off kind of thing, very businesslike, very formal,” Malik said....
Where is Bob? Creating.
October 19, 2016
Five days (click here) after Bob Dylan was named the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, no one knows how he feels about the prestigious award - not even the Nobel judges.
The Swedish Academy, which bestows the annual honor, says it hasn't been able to reach Dylan since the award was announced last Thursday.
"We haven't established direct contact with Bob Dylan yet, but I have spoken to one of his closest associates," the academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, said.
The academy hopes he will accept the invitation to collect his award at the annual Nobel ceremony in Stockholm on December 10.
"It would be delightful if Dylan wanted to come to Stockholm in December, but if he doesn't want to, he doesn't want to," Danius said....
This is Albert B. Grossman. He was the talent agent for Bob Dylan. He passed away some time ago. If there are family or friends of Mr. Grossman, they might have stayed in touch with Bob Dylan.
The legendary maestro remembers a soul-rattling moment with his musical—and religious—guru. (click here)
Bob Dylan contact information (click here)
Contact any celebrity (click here)
October 19, 2016
Michael Moore (click here) has just announced that he would be debuting a secret Donald Trump movie in New York.
The movie is called, Michael Moore in TrumpLand, and it's a film version of his one-man show, which he has been performing in Ohio.
Apparently Ohio Republicans "tried to shut down." And in the movie, "Moore dives right into hostile territory with his daring and hilarious one-man show, deep in the heart of TrumpLand in the weeks before the 2016 election."
Moore shared the film project in a tweet on Monday night....
Trump's Kellyanne Conway states she believes in a woman as president, but, not this woman....why isn't see receiving 65 percent of the woman vote. And she says it with a straight face.
Why not 75 percent or 85 percent or 100 percent of the woman's vote?
Amazing.
A political argument based in unrealistic goals is doomed for failure. That statement is pathetic and grossly unrealistic.
Why not 75 percent or 85 percent or 100 percent of the woman's vote?
Amazing.
A political argument based in unrealistic goals is doomed for failure. That statement is pathetic and grossly unrealistic.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Richard Burr is not a proponent to end the sexual assault against women.
A brave women came forward in the US Senate to take a position to protect military personnel against sexual assault. That brave Senator was Kristen Gillibrand. She worked hard to hold hearings and take testimony from personnel in the military. There is a problem with sexual assault that has permanent scares on the lives of those assaulted.
Over the last three years, (click here) there has been a stream of national headlines and new investigative reports exposing the military’s failure to combat sexual assault in the ranks and/or provide a military justice system that holds assailants accountable in order to maintain good order and discipline. Despite incremental reforms passed in the last two National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAA), and a sharp focus on the issue of military sexual assault in Congress, the most recent Pentagon survey found that 62 percent of women who reported being sexually assaulted experienced retaliation. The amount of retaliation remains unchanged from 2012, while the estimated number of unwanted sexual contacts remains at 2010 levels – an average of 52 new cases every day....
The name of the legislation was "The Military Justice Improvement Act." Richard Burr voted against protecting military personnel from sexual assault.
The cold-hearted Richard Burrrrr.... is no friend to our military personnel. To distract from this reality he sponsored a bill that would label sexual predators in the military, once convicted under the Military Code of Justice, to be listed with NSOR (National Sex Offender Registry). A sexual predator is not the same as rampant sexual assault in our military.
IntroductionMilitary justice attorneys (click here) regularly face the question of whether an accused charged with a sexual crime under the UCMJ will have to register as a sex offender under federal or state law if convicted at court-martial. These questions are complicated by the various sexual offense distinctions under the new UCMJ Article 120, the lack of detail in the DOD reporting instructions, and the various state laws and interpretations by agencies implementing their respective state statutes. Neither the federal criminal justice system, nor the military justice system, govern the registration of sex offenders. The individual states decide and monitor sex offender registration requirements. Separate sections in this guide introduce the reader to the Federal, Military, and State laws applicable to sexual offender registration. An overview of the Federal and DOD authority precedes a summary of each individual state’s statutory requirements, including citations to the statutes, covered offenses, registration rules, and duration of the registration requirements. This guide is designed as a resource for military law practitioners researching these questions in order to advise their respective clients, colleagues, victims, and convening authorities. It is not offered as legal advice or a final answer to registration questions and it should not be relied upon for those purposes. The statutes themselves, interpreted by a qualified attorney, should be the only resource for individual cases....
This is from 2010. It needed updating. The question is "How effective is the new provision in the military courts?"
It has nothing to do with sexual assault of our military personnel. They aren't all women.
Over the last three years, (click here) there has been a stream of national headlines and new investigative reports exposing the military’s failure to combat sexual assault in the ranks and/or provide a military justice system that holds assailants accountable in order to maintain good order and discipline. Despite incremental reforms passed in the last two National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAA), and a sharp focus on the issue of military sexual assault in Congress, the most recent Pentagon survey found that 62 percent of women who reported being sexually assaulted experienced retaliation. The amount of retaliation remains unchanged from 2012, while the estimated number of unwanted sexual contacts remains at 2010 levels – an average of 52 new cases every day....
The name of the legislation was "The Military Justice Improvement Act." Richard Burr voted against protecting military personnel from sexual assault.
The cold-hearted Richard Burrrrr.... is no friend to our military personnel. To distract from this reality he sponsored a bill that would label sexual predators in the military, once convicted under the Military Code of Justice, to be listed with NSOR (National Sex Offender Registry). A sexual predator is not the same as rampant sexual assault in our military.
IntroductionMilitary justice attorneys (click here) regularly face the question of whether an accused charged with a sexual crime under the UCMJ will have to register as a sex offender under federal or state law if convicted at court-martial. These questions are complicated by the various sexual offense distinctions under the new UCMJ Article 120, the lack of detail in the DOD reporting instructions, and the various state laws and interpretations by agencies implementing their respective state statutes. Neither the federal criminal justice system, nor the military justice system, govern the registration of sex offenders. The individual states decide and monitor sex offender registration requirements. Separate sections in this guide introduce the reader to the Federal, Military, and State laws applicable to sexual offender registration. An overview of the Federal and DOD authority precedes a summary of each individual state’s statutory requirements, including citations to the statutes, covered offenses, registration rules, and duration of the registration requirements. This guide is designed as a resource for military law practitioners researching these questions in order to advise their respective clients, colleagues, victims, and convening authorities. It is not offered as legal advice or a final answer to registration questions and it should not be relied upon for those purposes. The statutes themselves, interpreted by a qualified attorney, should be the only resource for individual cases....
This is from 2010. It needed updating. The question is "How effective is the new provision in the military courts?"
It has nothing to do with sexual assault of our military personnel. They aren't all women.
US oil and gas production is down, why are we exporting?
October 17, 2016
...Permian output from West Texas (click here) and eastern New Mexico was set to rise by 30,000 bpd to a record high over 2 million bpd, its third monthly increase in a row, according to EIA data going back to 2007.
...Permian output from West Texas (click here) and eastern New Mexico was set to rise by 30,000 bpd to a record high over 2 million bpd, its third monthly increase in a row, according to EIA data going back to 2007.
Total natural gas production, meanwhile, was forecast to decline for a seventh consecutive month in November to 46.0 billion cubic feet per day (fyi definiton bcfd), the lowest level since July 2015, the EIA said.
That would be down almost 0.2 bcfd from October, making it the smallest monthly decline since July, it noted.
The biggest regional decline was expected to be in the Eagle Ford, down almost 0.2 bcfd from October to 5.6 bcfd in November, the lowest level of output in the basin since November 2013, the EIA said.
Output in the Marcellus formation, the biggest U.S. shale gas field, meanwhile, was expected to rise by almost 0.1 bcfd from October to 18.2 bcfd in November. That would be its first increase since July....
The bankruptcies have some effect on this reduction. I don't mind at all there is a drop in production. The energy market is moving away from fossil fuels as it should. Where the US energy market is not moving away from fossil fuels, it needs to. Alternative energy is the future and we need to invest now.
March 9, 2016
The bankruptcies have some effect on this reduction. I don't mind at all there is a drop in production. The energy market is moving away from fossil fuels as it should. Where the US energy market is not moving away from fossil fuels, it needs to. Alternative energy is the future and we need to invest now.
March 9, 2016
The pace of oil patch bankruptcies is picking up. (click here) According to a new count from Houston law firm Haynes & Boone, April saw 11 bankruptcy filings, the most of any month in the past two years. The headline failures that month were Ultra Petroleum UPL +%, which buckled under $3.9 billion in debt, and Energy XXI, which carried debt of $2.9 billion.
All told, 69 oil and gas producers with $34.3 billion in cumulative secured and unsecured debt have gone under. Since share prices peaked in 2014, the oil bust has wiped out about $1 trillion in equity, with the Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas Index off 40%.
There’s more to come. “Despite the modest recovery in energy prices, all indications suggest many more producer bankruptcy filings will occur during 2016,” writes Haynes & Boone. According to Deloitte , about a third of global oil and gas companies, or about 175 of them, are at risk of insolvency. Bernstein Research estimates that by 2019 we’ll see more than $70 billion in defaults amid more than $400 billion in high-yield energy debt — that would indicate that we’re only halfway through the bankruptcies....
Regulators need to take a good look at this activity in the bond market.
It is not at all surprising bonds would be doing better in a financial market scared of it's own shadow when anticipating a recession, but, this is surprising. I hope all this is correct and not manipulated, but, there is reason to at least run an analysis on it.
October 18, 2016
By Dakin Campbell
By Dakin Campbell
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., (click here) the Wall Street firm most reliant on trading, reported a 47 percent increase in third-quarter profit as its performance in bond trading beat analysts’ estimates.
Net income rose to $2.09 billion, or $4.88 a share, from $1.43 billion, or $2.90, a year earlier, the New York-based company said in a statement Tuesday. That surpassed the $3.88 average estimate of 20 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein has cut jobs, given responsibility to more junior employees and lowered compensation to prepare the firm for when activity rebounded. This quarter shows the benefit of the strategy, which attracted some skepticism among analysts as competitors such as Morgan Stanley decided to retreat instead.
“We saw solid performance across the franchise that helped counter typical seasonal weakness,” Blankfein, 62, said in the statement.
Goldman Sachs’s stock rose 1.6 percent to $171.75 in early trading at 8:15 a.m. in New York. The stock had dropped 6.2 percent this year through Monday, trailing the 3.8 percent advance for the Dow Jones Industrial Average....
Gossip within th State Department and nothing more.
October 8, 2016
By Tal Kopan
...The FBI is denying (click here) that any "quid pro quo" was offered in the fight between the bureau and State Department over the classification level of the email, though one interview described it as such.
By Tal Kopan
...The FBI is denying (click here) that any "quid pro quo" was offered in the fight between the bureau and State Department over the classification level of the email, though one interview described it as such.
"Not only is there no proof. It's absolutely not true, a completely false allegation. It just didn't happen that way," John Kirby, State Department spokesman told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day" Tuesday. "There was no bargain sought by the FBI. There was no bargain rendered. This was simply an inner agency conversation about the classification over one particular email. So there was no wrongdoing here."
At issue are somewhat contradictory interview notes contained in the crop of newly released FBI documents. In one, an FBI official recounted hearing second-hand that the State Department had offered a "quid pro quo" in exchange for declassifying an email. In another, a different FBI official said he told State Department he'd look into the email, if State Department looked into his request for personnel in Iraq....
Who was that person working for the Solicitor General of the State Department? At one point it was known there was politics infused into the State Department by an employee of the Solicitor General of the State Department? That is who is gossiping with a purpose.
Who was that person working for the Solicitor General of the State Department? At one point it was known there was politics infused into the State Department by an employee of the Solicitor General of the State Department? That is who is gossiping with a purpose.
Monday, October 17, 2016
RIGGED !
October 27, 1964
By Ronald Reagan:
...You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down...
Indeed.
...Reagan was applauded for continuing to eliminate the Nixon-era price controls. These were blamed for constraining the free-market equilibrium that would have prevented inflation. Reagan further removed controls on oil and gas, cable television and long-distance phone service, as well as interstate bus service and ocean shipping.
Bank regulations were eased. In 1982, the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act was passed, which removed restrictions on loan-to-value ratios for Savings and Loan banks. Reagan's budget cut also reduced regulatory staff at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. As a result, banks invested in risky real estate ventures (sound familiar?). Reagan's deregulation and budget cutting contributed to the Savings and Loan Crisis of 1989.
Import barriers were actually increased, as Reagan doubled the number of items that were subject to trade restraint from 12% in 1980 to 23% in 1988. Little was done in other regulations affecting health, safety, and the environment. In fact, although Reagan reduced regulations, it was at a slower pace than under Carter. (Source: William A. Niskanen, Reaganomics, The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics)....
1982 Ronald Reagan deregulated the Savings and Loan Industry.
...The Reckoning (click here)
By Ronald Reagan:
...You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down...
Indeed.
...Reagan was applauded for continuing to eliminate the Nixon-era price controls. These were blamed for constraining the free-market equilibrium that would have prevented inflation. Reagan further removed controls on oil and gas, cable television and long-distance phone service, as well as interstate bus service and ocean shipping.
Bank regulations were eased. In 1982, the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act was passed, which removed restrictions on loan-to-value ratios for Savings and Loan banks. Reagan's budget cut also reduced regulatory staff at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. As a result, banks invested in risky real estate ventures (sound familiar?). Reagan's deregulation and budget cutting contributed to the Savings and Loan Crisis of 1989.
Import barriers were actually increased, as Reagan doubled the number of items that were subject to trade restraint from 12% in 1980 to 23% in 1988. Little was done in other regulations affecting health, safety, and the environment. In fact, although Reagan reduced regulations, it was at a slower pace than under Carter. (Source: William A. Niskanen, Reaganomics, The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics)....
1982 Ronald Reagan deregulated the Savings and Loan Industry.
...The Reckoning (click here)
As a result of these regulatory and legislative changes, the S&L industry experienced rapid growth. From 1982 to 1985, thrift industry assets grew 56 percent, more than twice the 24 percent rate observed at banks. This growth was fueled by an influx of deposits as zombie thrifts began paying higher and higher rates to attract funds. These zombies were engaging in a “go for broke” strategy of investing in riskier and riskier projects, hoping they would pay off in higher returns. If these returns didn’t materialize, then it was taxpayers who would ultimately foot the bill, since the zombies were already insolvent and the FSLIC’s resources were insufficient to cover losses.
Texas was the epicenter of the thrift industry meltdown. In 1988, the peak year for FSLIC-insured institutions’ failures, more than 40 percent of thrift failures (including assisted transactions) nationwide had occurred in Texas, although they soon spread to other parts of the nation. Emblematic of the excesses that took place, in 1987 the FSLIC decided it was cheaper to actually burn some unfinished condos that a bankrupt Texas S&L had financed rather than try to sell them (see Image 2)....
You want me to get into details? Corruption? OBVIOUS plans for sequestering wealth from the people of the USA? I'd be happy to if no one else wants to set the record straight about "Reaganomics."
Rigged?
Donald Trump has issues that are no one else's but his own. The Democrats bent over backward to be sure the nomination of Hillary Clinton was achieved without the super delegates. Senator Bernie Sanders has campaigned for her. I doubt Donald Trump can say the same.
I don't want to hear the 'Little Goody - Two Shoes," flag waving, holier than thou, virginal USA election process. The corruption in the election is built in by Republican majorities. It is a lot of work to defeat the corruption of the Republican election machine.
Donald Trump makes his own problems and hiding behind the idea an interviewer was responsible for his disgusting remarks about sexual assault of women by privilege alone shows he is not willing to accept RESPONSIBILITY for his own behavior or actions.
I will say this, this is THE Tea Party. When Hillary Clinton made a speech to the white man coalition outside the Democratic Party Platform and campaigns, she didn't realize they admire Donald Trump for 'getting away with it."
I said before, this election is steeped in sexism. Donald Trump can get away with everything and Hillary Clinton has to be pure and perfect. America needs to wake up and reject the values that compromise women and girls.
For God Sake, white men in their fifties are dying before their time. HELLO? The political values of the Republican party and electorate are disgusting. Smoking, drinking, eating red meats that carry toxins. The FDA provided incentives to stop the behavior that destroys the lives of Americans a long time ago, including American White Men. Making these very adverse facts into a political party to win and change the very decency of this country is completely wrong. Donald Trump knows it is wrong and does nothing to increase the self-respect of these men that follow him without question.
Honestly.
Try this on for size. The bad health habits of the white man in the USA is directly subsidy to Wall Street. White men in their determination to create a political power machine while sacrificing their lives is very far away from the decency of the USA.
Donald Trump makes his own problems and hiding behind the idea an interviewer was responsible for his disgusting remarks about sexual assault of women by privilege alone shows he is not willing to accept RESPONSIBILITY for his own behavior or actions.
I will say this, this is THE Tea Party. When Hillary Clinton made a speech to the white man coalition outside the Democratic Party Platform and campaigns, she didn't realize they admire Donald Trump for 'getting away with it."
I said before, this election is steeped in sexism. Donald Trump can get away with everything and Hillary Clinton has to be pure and perfect. America needs to wake up and reject the values that compromise women and girls.
For God Sake, white men in their fifties are dying before their time. HELLO? The political values of the Republican party and electorate are disgusting. Smoking, drinking, eating red meats that carry toxins. The FDA provided incentives to stop the behavior that destroys the lives of Americans a long time ago, including American White Men. Making these very adverse facts into a political party to win and change the very decency of this country is completely wrong. Donald Trump knows it is wrong and does nothing to increase the self-respect of these men that follow him without question.
Honestly.
Try this on for size. The bad health habits of the white man in the USA is directly subsidy to Wall Street. White men in their determination to create a political power machine while sacrificing their lives is very far away from the decency of the USA.
Sunday, October 16, 2016
I am traveling with my son on this Sunday night.
I've left incredible pictures of American birds. The American people value their lives and they add strong cultural values to our country and a heritage to pass to our children.
An additional note is the east coast flooding after Hurricane Matthew. The river are still rising because of the flow of flood waters down stream. Dead people are still being found as the water recedes.
Bermuda was hit by Hurricane Nicole on it's way northern Atlantic Ocean. (click here) Nicole's water vapor system is the length of the entire east coast of North America.
Thank you for your interest.
Until later.
A very particular bird, (click here) white-faced ibises change their nesting place from year to year based on local water levels. Throughout the west, white-faced ibises wander up the western states, taking advantage of temporary foraging grounds like flooded pastures and fresh marshes. Feeding on insects and worms, they pick through water and wet soil with their long, curved beaks. Their glossy coloration -- feathers of purple, crimson, teal and gold -- help them blend into dark waters. Despite their regal appearance, their rough calls are strange, grunting croaks. Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming is a good place to observe them in the summer.
The horned owl is a haunting bird. Their feather colors perfectly blend with it's habitat. It has vision that affords it an intense visual picture.
...An owl's eyes (click here) are large in order to improve their efficiency, especially under low light conditions. In fact, the eyes are so well developed, that they are not eye balls as such, but elongated tubes. They are held in place by bony structures in the skull called Sclerotic rings. For this reason, an owl cannot "roll" or move its eyes - that is, it can only look straight ahead!
The owl more than makes up for this by being able to turn its head up to 270 degrees left or right from the forward facing position, and almost upside down....
Widespread across North America, you never know when an owl might be watching you. Difficult to spot during the day, great horned owls blend into their environment, given away only by their bright yellow eyes and deep hooting calls. Like most owls, great horned owls hunt at night, using good eyesight and excellent hearing. Once their prey has been located, they will silently swoop down, using their sharp talons to quickly grasp and kill it. Their diet consists of mammals such as mice, voles, weasels, rabbits, squirrels and rats, but they will often take larger prey including skunks and other owls.
An additional note is the east coast flooding after Hurricane Matthew. The river are still rising because of the flow of flood waters down stream. Dead people are still being found as the water recedes.
Thank you for your interest.
Until later.
A very particular bird, (click here) white-faced ibises change their nesting place from year to year based on local water levels. Throughout the west, white-faced ibises wander up the western states, taking advantage of temporary foraging grounds like flooded pastures and fresh marshes. Feeding on insects and worms, they pick through water and wet soil with their long, curved beaks. Their glossy coloration -- feathers of purple, crimson, teal and gold -- help them blend into dark waters. Despite their regal appearance, their rough calls are strange, grunting croaks. Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming is a good place to observe them in the summer.The horned owl is a haunting bird. Their feather colors perfectly blend with it's habitat. It has vision that affords it an intense visual picture.
...An owl's eyes (click here) are large in order to improve their efficiency, especially under low light conditions. In fact, the eyes are so well developed, that they are not eye balls as such, but elongated tubes. They are held in place by bony structures in the skull called Sclerotic rings. For this reason, an owl cannot "roll" or move its eyes - that is, it can only look straight ahead!
The owl more than makes up for this by being able to turn its head up to 270 degrees left or right from the forward facing position, and almost upside down....
Widespread across North America, you never know when an owl might be watching you. Difficult to spot during the day, great horned owls blend into their environment, given away only by their bright yellow eyes and deep hooting calls. Like most owls, great horned owls hunt at night, using good eyesight and excellent hearing. Once their prey has been located, they will silently swoop down, using their sharp talons to quickly grasp and kill it. Their diet consists of mammals such as mice, voles, weasels, rabbits, squirrels and rats, but they will often take larger prey including skunks and other owls.
October 15, 2016
By Bassen Moure
Beirut (AP) — Syrian opposition fighters (click here) backed by Turkish airstrikes launched an offensive Saturday to try to capture Dabiq from the Islamic State group, which assigns special status to the northern Syrian town in its ideology and propaganda.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack was preceded by intense shelling. It said that Turkey-backed opposition fighters captured three nearby villages, encircling Dabiq and cutting off all supply routes.
Turkey sent troops and tanks into northern Syria in August to help opposition forces recapture IS strongholds and curb the advance of a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia, which Ankara views as an extension of Turkey's outlawed Kurdish separatists.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking in Rize on the Black Sea coast, said "we entered Jarablus, and then al-Rai, and now we are moving where? To Dabiq. We will declare a terror-free safe zone of 5,000 (square) kilometers." He was referring to areas in Syria already captured by Turkish troops and Turkey-backed opposition forces....
Saturday, October 15, 2016
Imperfect? Sexism. Women always have to be perfect. Where do eating disorders come from?
October 15, 2016
By Amy Choziick
In the past week, (click here) as a swirl of sexual assault accusations against Donald J. Trump has prompted a loud national discussion about male power and women’s rights, the first woman to be a major party’s presidential nominee was barely heard from.
By Amy Choziick
In the past week, (click here) as a swirl of sexual assault accusations against Donald J. Trump has prompted a loud national discussion about male power and women’s rights, the first woman to be a major party’s presidential nominee was barely heard from.
Though Hillary Clinton has stood at the center of feminist debates for more than two decades, she has at times been an imperfect messenger for the cause. That has never been more apparent than now, as her old missteps and her husband’s history have effectively paralyzed her during a moment of widespread outrage.
The most impassioned speeches on the topic have come not from her, but from the first lady, Michelle Obama, who said Mr. Trump’s words had “shaken me to my core,” and from President Obama and others. When Mrs. Clinton herself spoke, she quickly changed the subject to other groups of people Mr. Trump had insulted, and she tried to lighten the mood with a joke about watching cat videos....
She is imperfect alright.
She is imperfect alright.
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