The USA fails to stem SARS-CoV-2 within the population of the country.

There are now 2 strains that are known. The "G" strain is more contagious and is the strain that entered New York. The changes revolve around a "U" nucleotide. I think the "G" is a popular reference and not scientific.

This is a unique strain to the USA, in that, it came from a Seattle student with flu symptoms. This strain contains five mutations that cannot be traced to any other part of the world. Uracil is the scientific name of ONE OF FOUR nucleotides bases. Yes, the human genome is built on 4 bases linked together to form 20 nucleotides of "3 base chains."

uracil (U) (click here)

Five weeks later, (click here) a high school student in Snohomish County, Wash., developed flu-like symptoms. A nose swab revealed he had Covid-19. Scientists sequenced the genome of his coronavirus sample and found it shared the same distinctive mutations found in the first case in Washington, but also bore three additional mutations....

The confirmed cases of COVID-19:

Globally - 10,321,689

USA - 2,573,393

The USA now accounts for more than 24 percent of all confirmed cases.

The Americas have 5,218,590 confirmed cases. The Americas are more than 50 percent of confirmed cases. Of the Americas, the USA is more than 49 percent of the confirmed cases. The USA leads in the number of confirmed cases.

Deaths caused by COVID-19:

Globally - 507,435

USA - 126,573

The USA now accounts for nearly 25 percent of the deaths. The USA leads in the number of deaths.

The USA has FAILED to protect it's people, hence, it's economy. Now, the strategy by the White House is to return the economy regardless of leading the world in cases and deaths, ALLOWING more and more danger to the people and increasing the chances of infection and/or death.

The CDC has been issuing guidelines to stem "at risk" behavior.

Guidelines including for funerals (click here)

These are a few of the guidelines for riding in elevators when unable to take the stairs, which has it's own "Passing Distance" problems.

The recommended measures will include: (click here) 

- requiring all riders to wear masks;
- limiting the number of riders;
- marking paths on the floor to direct people in and out;
- and posting signs to remind people to "not talk unless you have to,"

Nancy Clark Burton, a senior industrial hygienist at the CDC, told the Times.

Senator Harris is the only qualified Democrat with an extensive history of police reform. Critics will always exist.

I think some of the resistance to Senator Harris during her presidential run was her laughter. She tends to smile and laugh at times when perhaps is best expressed with a more serious tone. I know she finds challenges to her ideas amusing because they are well thought out, but, a response that incurs a smile should be curtailed to a serious attitude that takes on the challengers rather than dismissing them.

I wish her great luck in pursuing the VP post. I think she is great and will be greater as Vice President.

June 29, 2020
By Jeffery Taylor

Kamala Harris’s push (click here) for police reform in the Senate is shaping up as an audition for the job of Joe Biden’s vice president, as she makes herself a highly public voice for change after years as a no-nonsense prosecutor.

By promoting a bill to ban police chokeholds and make other changes -- and by publicly clashing with a senior Senate Republican over the legislation -- Harris has put herself front and center in the debate over congressional efforts to change police behavior.

The reform debate burnishes the former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general as a social-justice activist. It also protects the Biden campaign from potential criticism of her efforts while in those jobs to slow innocence bids and punish parents whose children were truants, among other contentious actions....

Peace lost to heavily armed anarchists.

June 30, 2020

New video shows (click here) the chaotic aftermath (click here) of Monday’s deadly shooting in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest area — which one volunteer medic described as a “war zone.”

Footage posted on Facebook by Converge Media shows the frenzy inside the cop-free CHOP zone after gunfire erupted there around 3 a.m. on Monday, leaving a 16-year-old boy dead and a younger teen critically wounded.

The nearly 40-minute clip also shows the bullet-ridden white Jeep Cherokee SUV that the teens were believed to have been riding in.

Witnesses said they had spotted the vehicle near one of the makeshift barriers around the protest zone just before the shooting, Seattle Police said....

The only "carrot and stick" Trump has with Putin to stem any war is the G8.

Trump doesn't read. He has repeatedly refused national security meetings while he was a candidate. It isn't that Trump didn't have the information about the assassination of American troops, it was that he didn't bother to know it.

September 2019
By Shannon Bugos

Less than one year (click here) after President Donald Trump informally announced that the United States would withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the State Department announced on Aug. 2 that the move was officially complete. The treaty’s death leaves just the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) in place to limit U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons deployments, and that pact is due to expire in February 2021.

For several years, the United States has alleged that Russia was in violation of the INF Treaty by testing and deploying a banned missile system, and Washington pinned its treaty withdrawal squarely on Russia. “Russia is solely responsible for the treaty’s demise,” said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in announcing the U.S. move. “Over the past six months, the United States provided Russia a final opportunity to correct its noncompliance. As it has for many years, Russia chose to keep its noncompliant missile rather than going back into compliance with its treaty obligations.”...

Trump is not a competent leader.

June 29, 2020
By Carl Bernstein

In hundreds of highly classified phone calls (click here) with foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and so abusive to leaders of America's principal allies, that the calls helped convince some senior US officials -- including his former secretaries of state and defense, two national security advisers and his longest-serving chief of staff -- that the President himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States, according to White House and intelligence officials intimately familiar with the contents of the conversations....

All this is happening because Trump is an absentee president. It isn't as though he even cares about these developments. He just has no will to confront major powers unless it is to defame and demean allies. They are easy to pick on without worrying about real confrontation.

Besides, I think Trump believes if he can only get the strongmen of the world to understand how much better life would be if they were all capitalists along with him, the world would have peace. 

June 29, 2020
By Eva Dou and Shibani Mahtani

China on Tuesday (click here) adopted a contentious national security law that will allow Beijing to override Hong Kong’s judicial system and target political opponents in the city, stripping the territory of autonomy promised under the handover agreement with Britain and raising the prospect of further retaliation from Washington.

The move has strained China’s relations with the United States and other Western nations, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying on Friday that Washington would place visa restrictions on Chinese officials responsible for curtailing freedoms in Hong Kong. On Monday, China said it would impose reciprocal measures on unspecified American officials, while the U.S. Commerce Department suspended some of Hong Kong’s preferential trade treatment under U.S. law....

Now is the time for Democrats to shine.

June 29, 2020

Democrats hoping to flip the Senate (click here) seized on a major Supreme Court ruling on Monday striking down a Louisiana law that would've restricted abortion access, attacking Republican candidates in crucial races across the country for supporting conservative justices who dissented in the case.

Nowhere was that more evident than in Maine, where state House Speaker Sara Gideon sharply criticized Sen. Susan Collins for voting to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh, even though Collins supported the court's decision.

Gideon touted her endorsements from groups supporting abortion rights like NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood Action and publicly questioned whether Collins still believed that Kavanaugh viewed Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision in which the court ruled that the Constitution protects a pregnant woman's right to choose to have an abortion, as "settled law."...

Abortion must be safe and available.

June 7, 2019
By Domenico Montanaro

Three-quarters of Americans (click here) say they want to keep in place the landmark Supreme Court ruling, Roe v. Wade, that made abortion legal in the United States, but a strong majority would like to see restrictions on abortion rights, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll.

What the survey found is a great deal of complexity — and sometimes contradiction among Americans — that goes well beyond the talking points of the loudest voices in the debate. In fact, there's a high level of dissatisfaction with abortion policy overall. Almost two-thirds of people said they were either somewhat or very dissatisfied, including 66% of those who self-identify as "pro-life" and 62% of those who self-identify as "pro-choice."

"What it speaks to is the fact that the debate is dominated by the extreme positions on both sides," said Barbara Carvalho, director of the Marist Poll, which conducted the survey. "People do see the issue as very complicated, very complex. Their positions don't fall along one side or the other. ... The debate is about the extremes, and that's not where the public is."...

Susan Rice (click here) is not qualified to be Vice President. She had interesting foreign policy credentials, lacks sincere domestic experience and economic credentials, and is another Clinton when it comes to the right-wing press.

Trump knew about the Taliban and his response was to withdraw them from Afghanistan. 

Putin has leverage over Trump. He has done nothing but walk all over him and spit in his face and Trump smiles and asks for more. Trump is compromised. The USA is not safe with him in the White House.

May 26, 2020
By Barbara Starr

Washington - Senior US military commanders (click here) have been discussing options for significantly reducing the US troop presence in Afghanistan earlier than planned, according to several defense officials.

The closely held discussions were sparked in part by worries that President Donald Trump may want to withdraw troops before voters go to the polls in order to fulfill his 2016 campaign promise to bring troops home, the officials said.

Trump has said he would like to pull American soldiers out of Afghanistan ahead of the timeline set out in a February agreement with the Taliban -- a prospect that raises concerns within the Pentagon about troop safety and the possibility it could spark renewed violence in the country.

The New York Times first reported the Pentagon plans.

It is not clear if Trump has asked for a full withdrawal or would agree to let some number of troops stay, but military leaders could present Trump with options for a decision within days....

Well done former Vice President Cheney.

Thank you.

PS: Good looking hat.

I want to briefly point to reports of adult inflammatory disease during and/or having COVID-19. I am not surprised and this is exactly why no American should be staring down this virus figuring it won’t harm them. This inflammatory syndrome first showed up in children about two months into this pandemic. There are reports in several countries including the USA that adults are showing prolonged symptoms of COVID-19, including chronic low grade fevers that abate only with rest. These adults can be testing negative or positive for the virus.

My understanding of this after reading about it is that is a chronic reaction to cell, tissue and organ damage, This is a very dangerous virus. It is not the flu. This is a larger virus in size and it lysis cells to release replicated RNA. It is more than likely the cell, tissue or organ damage continues even after the patient is testing negative for the virus. 

This new syndrome is chronic and cannot be cured so much as treated. Everyone will not have that same symptoms because different cells, tissues or organs were affected. We know there have been brain injury as well as heart attacks from this virus. Why would any medical doctor expect the same exclusive symptoms to this new chronic disease? The only qualifier is exposure and illness from the virus before the onset of symptoms. 

I am wondering if asymptotic patients testing positive for COVZiD-19 are experiencing any of these inflammatory reactions. I also encourage long term tracking of symptomatic patients. I do not believe the viral inflammation is not finished with them. ANY inflammation of any human body cell, tissue or organ is damage and can effect longevity. 

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication may relieve the inflammation, hence the symptoms but regular doctor visits should be mandatory to insure the medication isn’t a problem,

"Good Night, Moon"

Waxing gibbous

8.2 days old

59.1 percent lit

June 27, 2020
By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr.

For sky gazers, (click here) this warm July provides plenty of planets.
As July opens its evening sky, cosmic companions Jupiter and Saturn rise in the southeast around 9:30 p.m. By midnight, the planetary chums hang out high in the south.

Jupiter is magnificent at -2.7 magnitude, while the ringed planet Saturn is substantially more dim at 0.2 magnitude, brightening only slightly, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory.

The gibbous moon begins to approach the two gaseous giant planets July 3 near the star-spangled Sagittarius constellation, which you can spot above the southeastern horizon. On July 5, the moon officially becomes full at 12:44 a.m. Eastern time. (For the Central and western time zones, the moon becomes officially full July 4.)

The bright moon scoots by the teapot handle asterism in Sagittarius on the evening of July 5 to form a trio with Jupiter and Saturn. By the next night, the gibbous lunar companion moves along....

Change this extensive can create a danger.

Change has to come to the way our police carry out their jobs. The USA is also a society with a lot of weapons. There is some understanding that police are on guard in doing their jobs primarily because there are far too many weapons on the streets of the USA. That, however, does not permit them to carry out SWAT tactics against unarmed Black Men or Women.

The type of change that is necessary to ensure the future is vastly different than the present will be a paradigm shift that dismantles a violent subculture of the USA. That subculture has always been a danger to national security and always had the potential to result in anarchy and opportunities for USA enemies to exploit. White Supremacists are among the first people that would be rounded up by communists as they are not tolerated in communist countries now. Realizing that and the fact this change is not victimless in it's potential, there needs to be a focus on the potential danger going forward. 

The vast change that needs to occur also requires governors and state legislators to bring about a change in the display of Confederate icons, including the Confederate flag.

Let me make this very clear. While there may not have been an agenda of White Supremacy by Confederate leaders for declaring the war, it is implied in all the facts of the times of the USA Civil War.

One of the best examples of racism in the Confederate culture of the Civil War was Lincoln's assassination. 

...On the evening of April 11, (click here) the president stood on the White House balcony and delivered a speech to a small group gathered on the lawn. Two days earlier, Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, and after four long years of struggle it had become clear that the Union cause would emerge from the war victorious. Lincoln’s speech that evening outlined some of his ideas about reconstructing the nation and bringing the defeated Confederate states back into the Union. Lincoln also indicated a wish to extend the franchise to some African-Americans—at the very least, those who had fought in the Union ranks during the war—and expressed a desire that the southern states would extend the vote to literate blacks, as well. Booth stood in the audience for the speech, and this notion seems to have amplified his rage at Lincoln....

Booth became determined to assassinate Lincoln, the first president ever to be assassinated AFTER President Lincoln stated African Americans should have the right to vote. It was Lincoln's determination to make African Americans full citizens that caused his death at the hand of Booth.

The fight for civil rights has never been easy, but, is always worth it. The fact that every citizen of the USA is considered empowered by THE VOTE brings a unique ability for "the people" to change the face of American democracy and bring about a more peaceful country and the envy of the world.

We are engaged in dangerous times with Donald John Trump in the presidency. He is unhelpful to maintaining peace within the USA. That is one of his duties, to maintain tranquility within the borders of the USA. That hasn't been the case since he was inaugurated. Trump has pitted race against race with the first detention of those crossing the southern border.

Oh, by the way, the children in detention that were supposed to have been returned to their country of origin, never were returned. A federal judge recently ordered the children to be released from detention. (click here) The primary concern by the judge was the spread of COVID-19 among those detained. That somehow escaped the concerns of the USA president.

The point is there is a lot of danger in the physical presence of marches for civil rights. That has been the history as well. But, we are living in unprecedented times of a dangerous pandemic and increasing numbers of victims to the virus in the USA. It is prudent for leadership to call upon the people to slow the occurrences of the protests and increase the focus on first defeating the virus before the protests continue with vigor. The increasing number and younger age of the victims to the virus would dictate that initiative.

Softening the approach of protests does not mean there isn't a hardening of the resolve, but, only a change in the methods. There need to be organizations to lobby, raise money, and oversee this enormous paradigm change. These changes must go forward. There is on doubt White Supremacy was never far from the priorities of the Confederacy. It all has to end and the icons of the era removed from the ideology they now support.

Does anyone have any idea the extent of the name of Robert E. Lee? There is even a restaurant in New Jersey of all places that bears his name. There are innumerable statutes and name tributes to him and that is only one Confederate leader. The task at removing these icons from our civilized culture is enormous and will require more than protests to bring an end to them.

Additionally, there are people full of hate such as Steven Nelson that believe so deeply in the identity of a Confederate White Supremacy they are willing to kill for it. Knowing that brings a great responsibility of civil rights leaders to be sure such hate is not allowed to spark greater danger. The methods going forward, while peaceful, also have to be safe. The many that want this change need to remain firm in their resolve and move forward with methods that are more conducive to ending the virus as well as protecting the innocent.

Thank you for your consideration.

June 28, 2020
By Natalia Martinez

Steven Nelson Lopez has been in police custody since the shooting occurred Saturday, charged with one count of murder and one count of wanton endangerment first degree.

Louisville, Ky. - The man accused of fatally shooting (click here) a local photographer at Jefferson Square Saturday night had been arrested twice before for rioting related charges.

WAVE 3 News has learned the suspect’s name is Steven Nelson Lopez. He’s been in police custody since the shooting occurred Saturday around 9 p.m. He’s been charged with one count of murder and one count of wanton endangerment first degree.

Lopez, who had been camping at Jefferson Square had been asked to leave earlier in the day by other protesters for his "disruptive behavior" Mayor Greg Fischer said during a press conference Sunday afternoon.

According to an arrest report, LMPD officers notified MetroSafe of multiple gunshots fired in Jefferson Square Park around 8:59 p.m. Officers responded on scene at this time to find a victim suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.

The victim was found unresponsive lying in the middle of the park near a concrete wall.

Lopez, according to the report, was seen shooting a firearm into a large crowd of people at the park. The gunfire struck the victim, later revealed by the coroner as Tyler Gerth.

Gerth was shot in the head and pronounced dead on scene by officers.

Typical lax government at every excuse.

This is typical of what is occurring in the Executive Branch of the USA government. No one is saying they will allow contamination in water, but, the monitoring has been suspended to allow for errors during a pandemic. Basically, no one cares one way or the other in Washington, DC.

So, let me see if I get this right. The people responsible for clean and SAFE water in local water treatment plants don't have to report their own monitoring that will go on anyway. The change in regulation by the EPA Secretary openly states no one should be cheating on water quality in the USA during the pandemic, but, the federal authority that enforces the "Clean Water Act" isn't bothering to worry about it.

??????

So, EPA Secretary Andrew Wheeler and former lobbyist is stating local water authorities need to maintain their water supplies according to the law, but, due to the COVID-19 national emergency, they don't have to report the monitoring results. See, quality water has to be monitored. Every water treatment facility runs tests on water quality all the time. It is the way water is maintained. Those records that Wheeler is no longer interested in enforcing or even receiving into the US EPA are being conducted anyway. 

Local water authorities need to be sure the water quality is as good as it gets because the hospitals caring for an enormous number of patients need the water to be high quality so there is no other illnesses that manifest during the global pandemic of SARS-CoV-2.

What Secretary Wheeler should have done is offer help to local authorities that might be overwhelmed by additional steps to keep employees safe during a global pandemic. I would expect the EPA to more closely monitor water quality during a global pandemic and be able to find changes in water quality early to prevent other diseases.

I guess at this point the responsibility for maintaining a close watch over water quality falls to the mayors and possibly the governors so there is no conflict of interest.

I JUST CAN'T GET OVER THE BLATANT DISREGARD TO HUMAN LIFE BY TRUMP'S WHITE HOUSE. The federal government is supposed to provide more help to the states and not simply allow opportunistic deregulation to cause greater problems. But, then how would Trump know if there are greater problems, he isn't interested in reporting or enforcing. 

03/26/2020

Contact Information: 

Press Office (press@epa.gov)

The nation’s largest (clilck here) Native American tribe and several environmental groups are waging a legal challenge to a revised federal rule that lifts protections for many streams, creeks and wetlands across the U.S.

Washington - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (click here) is mindful of the health and safety of the public, as well as our staff, and those of Federal Agencies, State and Local Governments, Tribes, Regulated Entities, Contractors, and Non-governmental Organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The agency is taking these important considerations into account as we all continue our work to protect human health and the environment. Accordingly, EPA is announcing a temporary policy regarding EPA enforcement of environmental legal obligations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

EPA's temporary enforcement discretion policy applies to civil violations during the COVID-19 outbreak. The policy addresses different categories of noncompliance differently. For example, under the policy EPA does not expect to seek penalties for noncompliance with routine monitoring and reporting obligations that are the result of the COVID-19 pandemic but does expect operators of public water systems to continue to ensure the safety of our drinking water supplies. The policy also describes the steps that regulated facilities should take to qualify for enforcement discretion.

"EPA is committed to protecting human health and the environment, but recognizes challenges resulting from efforts to protect workers and the public from COVID-19 may directly impact the ability of regulated facilities to meet all federal regulatory requirements," said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. "This temporary policy is designed to provide enforcement discretion under the current, extraordinary conditions, while ensuring facility operations continue to protect human health and the environment."...

"...the way race and gender shape our subconscious preferences...

When are subconscious preferences going to return our democracy to good standing for all citizens?

 

I had never heard of this poll before, but, it looks interesting for more than one reason.

...Starting in 2007, (click here) Mario’s work as an electoral forecaster in four different companies has resulted in 82 correct predictions of democratic processes in Canada and the United States, including the 2008, 2011 and 2019 Canadian federal elections, 18 Canadian provincial elections, the 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite, and the 2012 and 2016 United States presidential elections....

In order for the survey to hold water, it needs to be duplicated.

June 26, 2020
By Mario Canseco

62% of Canadians and 51% of Americans personally believe global warming is a “major crisis.” (click here)

Vancouver, BC [June 26, 2020] – Most Canadians and Americans would consent to providing larger fiscal contributions to their governments in order to combat global warming, a new two-country Research Co. poll has found.

In the online survey of representative national samples, 60% of Canadians and 54% of Americans say they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to adequately deal with climate change.

More than three-in-five Canadians (64%) and a majority of Americans (53%) believe global warming is a fact and is mostly caused by emission from vehicles and industrial facilities.

About one-in-four respondents in the two countries (23% in Canada and 25% in the United States) think climate change is a fact and is mostly caused by natural changes.

Only 7% of Canadians and 14% of Americans believe global warming is a theory that has not yet been proven—including 12% of Conservative Party voters in the 2019 Canadian federal election and 26% of Republican Party supporters in the United States....

Two steps forward and three steps back.

January 20, 2015
By Nadia Dreid

In 1941, (click here) a lot of things were different. What is now Georgia Southern University was then known as Georgia Teacher’s College (GTC), Martin Luther King Jr. was still in grade school and segregation was alive and well in the south.

Former GTC president Marvin Pittman was fired from his position at the college for, among other charges, allegedly supporting racial integration after he invited George Washington Carver and several other teachers from historically black Tuskegee University to visit the school. Pittman was accused of allowing black teachers to guest lecture in classes and eat in the school cafeteria with white students....

June 24, 2020
By Richard Faussett

Atlanta - For months after the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, (click here) a 25-year-old black man who was pursued by armed white residents of a coastal South Georgia neighborhood, no arrests were made.

But after an article by The New York Times, the release of a video of the February confrontation, and increased attention from lawmakers, celebrities and civil rights activists, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation stepped in.

The police arrested two men, Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael, on Thursday and charged them with murder and aggravated assault in the killing of Mr. Arbery. The state agency said Travis McMichael had fired the fatal shots....

That is an enormous jump in CO2 emissions and that is just CO2.

June 26, 2020
By Matthew Taylor

Kevin Anderson, (click here) one of the world’s leading climate scientists, had a familiar reaction to the latest report from the government’s climate advisers, which was published this week.

The 196-page document by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) delivered a stinging rebuke of the government’s record and said ministers must urgently up their game if the UK is to avoid a significant rebound in carbon emissions after the coronavirus crisis and meet its 2050 net zero carbon target.

Anderson is a professor of energy and climate change, working across the universities of Manchester, Uppsala in Sweden and Bergen in Norway. He said: “The constructive, meticulous criticism of the government, which is failing abysmally by any measure, is fine. The problem is the framing the CCC has for net zero is already far removed from what is needed to meet our Paris commitments."...

Virginia needs to remove Lee from the US Capital.

The statue of Robert E. Lee (click here) was given to the National Statuary Collection by Virginia in 1909. Lee served as commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Melt them down to return the use of the metal for USA infrastructure projects or jewelry. The stone can be crushed for driveway gravel. It will be very pretty driveway gravel, too.

This effort by Nancy Pelosi is going to require legislation. The entire toxic culture of the Civil War has to be removed and replaced THE REAL HISTORY of the defeat of the Confederate Army and the failure of secession.

June 10, 2020
By Chris Marquette

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (click here) is calling for the removal of 11 Confederate statues from the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection.

In a letter sent on Wednesday, Pelosi asked the Joint Committee on the Library — led by Senate Rules and Administration Chairman Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, and House Administration Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat — to direct the Architect of the Capitol to remove the statues of soldiers and officials who represent the Confederacy.

Pelosi specifically mentioned two prominent Confederates — Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens — who served as president and vice president of the Confederate States of America, respectively, and who were charged with treason against the United States. Stephens’ statue was given by Georgia and Davis’ by Mississippi.

“While I believe it is imperative that we never forget our history lest we repeat it, I also believe that there is no room for celebrating the violent bigotry of the men of the Confederacy in the hallowed halls of the United States Capitol or in places of honor across the country,” Pelosi wrote....

Seccession (click here)

President Obama attempted to build an "Infrastructure Bank" but that was defeated by a majority Republican House.

June 28, 2020
By Maria Gallucci

...One of the ideas Congress (click here) considered at the time was launching a national "green bank," a nonprofit institution that would use public money to help cash-strapped businesses invest in solar panels, wind farms, and energy-efficiency building retrofits. Green bank legislation gained traction that year, but it and other climate-related initiatives — most famously a cap-and-trade bill — ultimately never passed.

So green bank advocates turned their efforts to the states. Soon Connecticut, Florida, and Hawaii had launched their own specialized banks, using seed funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to issue loans and bonds to local projects. Together, those programs have spurred billions of dollars' worth of investments and supported tens of thousands of jobs, bank leaders say.

Today, as the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzes another economic meltdown — with an unemployment rate over 13 percent — the green bank concept is making a comeback. With nearly 600,000 clean energy positions lost in recent weeks, environmental advocates are among those again eyeing a recovery that includes significantly decarbonizing the American economy. And they say a federal green bank is a key element.

Sierra Club, for example, recently called for creating a National Climate Bank, as part of its green stimulus plan. The bank would invest $30 billion over its first five years to help boost renewable electricity capacity and add energy storage systems and transmission lines to the U.S. grid. At that scale, the bank could help create about 83,000 jobs per year, according to an estimate by the Political Economy Research Institute....

The USA will not repeat the mistakes of the past in engaging a civil war.

Robert E. Lee, around age 38, and his son William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, around age 8, c.1845

The civil war is always painted as a war for the "fiscal" south. In other words, the south's economy could not survive without slavery. But, within that understanding is the reality that Caucasians were not slaves. Hence, the USA Civil War was a war of White Supremacy and why the attachment of the confederate flag to modern-day White Supremacists.

The degree of which southern culture permeates the culture of the USA is rather incredible and isn't going to disappear overnight. It will take at least a generation to dismantle the entrenched memorializing. The civil war ended in 1865. It has been 155 years and this culture is not only wrong but, a problem for modern-day America. It is time to end the intrusion of the Civil War South and return tackle the problems facing southern families in the way of health care and economic viability rather than the reality today of the working poor.

Fall 2011 
Reaping What You Sow: Southern Cultures, Black Traditions, and Black Women 
By Cynthia Mikell 

This is an inquiry into Southern cultures, (click here) Black traditions, and Black women with a focus on the life of one Black woman educator. Drawing upon the works of Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning African American woman, novelist, and master storyteller, Toni Morrison (1970, 1973, 1976, 1987, 1988, 1993, 2003, & 2008); activist and Black feminist protest thinker and writer, bell hooks (1981, 1984, 1995, & 2000); the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, activist, and womanist, Alice Walker (1983); the Black feminist thinker and writer, Patricia Hills Collins (1998, 2000), and the critical race theorist and the first tenured African-American professor of Law at Harvard University, Derrick Bell (1992, 1995); I create a composite (He, 2003) main character, Marie Sincerely Lucky, an ordinary farm girl from a rural Southern community. I utilize Marie as a persona to tell key life events and experiences using fiction (which is not widely accepted in academia as a methodology) and the seasonal metaphor (literal and Biblical) which becomes the titles of chapters and sections throughout my dissertation....