Assassination drones.

"Go big or go home," in Texas.

There is no assembly bigger every year than New Years' Eve in New York City. Upto September 11, 2001 there were never any such incidents in Times Square. But, after September 11, 2001, New York City sought a method to protect the public while ending any attempts at terrorism. The New York Authorities came up with cages that people enter in order to remain safe and secure to bring in the new year.

Perhaps when Texas allows large crowds that don't respect human life and crowd the stage and cause asphixiation and now death, it is time to control the crowds. Travis Scott concerts are known for this level of danger. Evidently, most of the concerts cause crushing incidents whereby fans at the concerts are lifted onto stage to save their lives. Even then, there are issues with asphixiation.

Why are concert halls tolerating this level of inhumane activity in their venues? Sure the families are suing the concert after the fact, but, after the fact is a bit too late.

How did concerts become this deadly in the USA? This is unthinkable that even once incidence of asphixiation caused by crushing crowds is tolerated. This level of inhumane behavior is tolerated to reach this level of assault against innocent people.

This is the only concert I know of where the seats furtherest from the stage are more valuable than those in the front row.

November 6, 2021

Mourners began building a memorial (click here) to those lost at a Texas concert as authorities said they would watch video, interview witnesses and review concert protocols to determine how eight people died when fans suddenly surged toward the stage to watch rapper Travis Scott. Flowers and votive candles surrounded NRG Park in Houston Sunday as city officials said they were just starting to investigate how pandemonium started Friday evening at Astroworld, a sold-out, two-day event headlined by Scott. An estimated 50,000 people were in attendance. The dead ranged in age from 14 to 27, and 13 people were still hospitalized....

What next? Coded hatred.

A lot of troubling news this past week.

November 6, 2021

Such a powerful image (click here) - the Minister from Tuvalu in the South Pacific delivered his speech to #COP26  from the sea to illustrate the crisis they face with rising sea levels

It is not just small islands that are facing this devastating reality, it is a problem in the USA as well. Little Havana is the perfect place for Florida Dems to make their case known about the climate crisis and infrastructure dollars.

December 21, 2018
By Johnathan Hahn

...Those roots, (click here) according to him, are in jeopardy as communities like Little Haiti (the English for Ti Ayiti) wither amid Miami's gentrification crisis and lack of infrastructure investment and affordable housing, all of which are getting worse because of climate change.

"We're sitting here at the cultural center right next to the Mache Ayisyen," he says. "We have concentrated our entire energy to make sure that we are here every day, that other people are here every day, because we are being erased."

"Every aspect of our lives today is affected by climate change," Clarkson says. "I don't care what the problem is. It traces back to it. That's what people don't understand. They see it as something that is separate, but it is not."

South Florida faces an existential crisis from global warming unlike that of almost any other place in the United States. Its geology is uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise, which is poised to inundate low-lying neighborhoods across the region. At the same time, climate change will dramatically amplify the social inequities—income disparity, lack of public transportation, and limited affordable housing—that have long plagued communities here.

The waters are rising in South Florida, and simply building a seawall isn't going to solve the climate crisis that's coming, or the socioeconomic one that's already here.

June 1, 2021
By Nialli Patrick Walsh

The City of Miami has published a draft of its Stormwater Master Plan; (click here) a $3.8 billion plan to be enacted over the next 40 years, seeking to mitigate the impact of rising sea levels on the city. The plan sets out a wide portfolio of measures, from stormwater pumps and sea walls to more novel approaches such as floating neighborhoods and streets converted into canals.

The report sets out both short and long-term strategies for the city’s defense from rising sea levels. Near-term resiliency measures, with a 20-to-50-year planning horizon, include both structural and non-structural actions, encompassing everything from infrastructure construction to reformed insurance models. The plan proposes an upgrade to building code strategies, including minimum structure finish-floor levels informed by predicted water surface levels, and a requirement for piled or stilted structures, both buildings and roadways, to consider future sea level rise....

Every Republican Governorship…

 …equates to control of elections through the Secretary of State and more voter suppression.

Wall Street always has been…

 …and will continue to be the obstruction to Zero Greenhouse Gas emissions. Wall Street and the Petroleum Industry have a symbiotic relationship. Wall Street uses petroleum money for liquidity. Petroleum on the global market provides CASH everyday. Petroleum should be removed from stock exchanges. It is not an investment. It is cash liquidity for investment banks, private equity and all those off shoring nightmares. It isn’t a stock. It doesn’t even act like a stock.

The wealth component of petroleum needs to end. It will rob every human being of their newly obtained wealth and return them to lower Middle Class or Poor. Wall Street has no use for any people that live subsistence lives. They will take back the progress made possible by Democrats. Wall Street has to be taxed to keep monies in the pipeline to sustain the new wealth of Americans. The new wealth in our economy needs to be protected. Americans need to resist buying anything, including housing and cars, that are falsely inflated. They will lose everything if they continue to throw good money at greed. It is greed driving prices, not real inflation.

Let me make this plain.

Youngkin is cutting taxes and replacing those taxes with Greehouse Gases. 

Just that simple. 

Youngkin is not cutting taxes because there is a surplus in the Virginia treasury. He is playing with the futures of all Americans and global community.

Youngkin is Carlyle?

He bought the Governorship. The voters may as well put the Saudi Crowned Prince in Virginia’s Executive Branch. Where were all the negative ads about Carlyle?

The Democrats never showed up. They never ran the campaign they should have.

https://www.carlyle.com/fund/carlyle-international-energy-partners

Youngkin is never going to put offshore wind turbines first, he will put offshore oil first. The environmental folks better get their act together and end exploration off Virginia’s coast.

The Democrats need to take climate to the polls. If McAuliffe made alternative energy the focus of his campaign, he would have won. You can shoot holes through Youngkin’s resume when comes to climate. All anyone had to do was disclose Youngkin’s interest in Big Oil and Gas and it would have been over. Say good-bye to clean and beautiful Virginia beaches.

Start making plans to Youngkin’s hidden agenda. 

The oil industry is going to lie, cheat and steal the future from young Americans. They will use every trick in the book. End this Governorship before it gets started.

Methane

It is right and best to end methane leaks globally. It is a potent greenhouse gas that is too dangerous to remove ignore.

Joe Manchin must go.

He uses old outdated rhetoric to prevent votes on climate to seemingly protect his wealthy cronies while the people complain about him. Now he is crying “hostile work environment.” Being a hypocrite that peers recognize and are angry with is not litigable. Give him a crying towel and tell him to resign.

Mayor de Blasio did want no one could…

 …he came to agreement regarding mandatory vaccines with unions representing 88,000 of 160,000 city workers.

Europe may need him to convince people there to mandatorily take the vaccine as there is a strong resurgence of Delta that medical scientists claim may cause a half million deaths.

Critical Race Theory is not taught in classrooms. This is a governance issue that addresses policy.

There is nothing here that should be taught in schools. Diversity is the implimentation to discourage and eventually eliminate CRT. Diversity is being okay with difference without eliminating one's own identity. Diversity is about inclusion not replacement.

Critical Race Theory, (click here) or CRT, is an academic and legal framework that denotes that systemic racism is part of American society — from education and housing to employment and healthcare. Critical Race Theory recognizes that racism is more than the result of individual bias and prejudice. It is embedded in laws, policies and institutions that uphold and reproduce racial inequalities. According to CRT, societal issues like Black Americans’ higher mortality rate, outsized exposure to police violence, the school-to-prison pipeline, denial of affordable housing, and the rates of the death of Black women in childbirth are not unrelated anomalies.

Assimilation is about eliminting diversity. Assimilation is far different than CRT and/or Diversity. Assimilation tells people they are not good enough the way they are and require massive changes such as changing one''s practices at holidays. Assimllation is when cultural differences are not tolerated to the point of violence. That is why racism is so dangerous and White Supremacists/Nationalists are wrong in every aspect of their culture. They use god as a method to justify aggression toward other races and religions. Elimination of culture is simply wrong.

One way of saying CRT is "I'm okay, your okay." It's pretty simple really. Applying CRT to policy is the right thing to do. Policy will provide diversity and not impose hardship on anyone. CRT is benevolent and not violent.

No pointing fingers, the USA is the biggest polluter on the planet.

The USA's Climate Crisis is real and must have clear and measureable goals to end and reverse the climate crisis.

President Biden won in 2020 it was to get rid of Trump. The voters got rid of Trump. They don't know or understand anything other than the fact they need to vote and choose the candidate they believe loves their country and matches there lifestyle with improvements in the way of taxes ended. 

Trump's shadow across the USA is fading. He claims victory with Youngkin, but, he never was present in word or appearance during the campaign. Trump is gone.

Now, the Republicans are returning to old rhetoric and it worked for them. Machin is running his next campaign against Biden. There is no cooperation and why? Because he is screaming deficit. Yet, Youngkin wants to cut taxes. Does the American voter actually have time to think about their vote or are they running on pure emotion? Thinking belongs to Democrats, emotion belongs to Republicans and they are using ever trick in the book.

Lower taxes regardless of deficits due to the pandemic.

Better eduction regardless of the USA being first in the world.

Where is health care? Women's rights? Children and the child credit? All these really great issues are part of the Democratic platform and they were nowhere in the campaigns. If Republicans continue to win, the average American will lose everything from health care to child care to their child tax credit. The Democrats are not touting their own accomplishments. 

The service industry that Clinton built out of thin air no longer is the focus of most Lower Middle Class or Poor. The unemployment served to elevate their education and/or training. They are not service economy people anymore and that is what the Democrats wanted for them. The Democrats have accomplished incredible feats for the Poor and Middle Class. The country is wealthier and stronger. The Clinton service economy is diminished. Americans are where they should be again and it is the Democrats that accomplished that. Why aren't they running on it, TO PROTECT IT?

By the way, the wealth of the USA Economy is the reason the USA is still number one in greenhouse gas pollution, both, currently and historicially. The USA MUST carry the climate crisis forward to end it and reverse it. Manchin is talking old climate rhertic, the USA has decreased it's pollution of greenhouse gases. The greatest economy in the world is the reason there is a climate crisis. President Biden is leading to change that, make it happen at the ballot box. Machin's rhetoric is the problem not the solution. He is on defense over nearly everything and that is where he and Sinema (some kindof athlete) is staying because the Republican rhetoric that wins helps them. 

Trump is dead, get on with it.

"My campaign started with a walk..."

"...and now millions of Virginians are walking together." (unity) Physical fitness while looking physically fit is an "attractive," some would call it sexy, characteristic of the Virginia voter. Physical fitness is a quality and not a luxury of a candidate.

To here Youngkin talk this morning, the Democrats never showed up. They allowed the Republicans to run on age old rhetoric, education as if there is something to fear from Democrats, money give away to the average voters in tax reduction and not a word about women's rights or climate. The Democrats did not show up to run in their own campaigns.

Youngkin ran without a Trump endorsement and/or appearance.

While he and Trump spoke during the campaign, Youngkin declined to identify with Trump. Trump has a shadow that is cast across the country when it comes to those that don't know the truth. That shadow is shade for those that are willing to bask in it. The voters that have alternative beliefs satisfied by alternative media, will never know the truth about anything. It is why door to door is important. The voters on the right are sequestered from truth-telling media. The right wing candidates are actors on a stage. The Democrats have to be the party of truth tellers. They need to say, education in the USA is not an issue. The USA competes globally. 

See that basketball. The one he is CARRYING. That is the white man vote.

November 1, 2021
By Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey

Democrats (click here) went all-in on Donald Trump in Virginia this year — but the far more nuanced game played by the former president and his Republican allies appeared to be on track to carry the day late Tuesday in the commonwealth’s race for governor.

Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin and Trump repeatedly spoke by phone over the course of the campaign, according to people familiar with the conversations who were not authorized to speak publicly, allowing the two men to go the length of the contest without saying negative things about each other or clashing on strategy.

Trump, who is known for his public demands of fealty, allowed Youngkin to cast himself as his own man, declining to invite Trump to campaign with him and deflecting questions about his support for Trump’s more polarizing views in an effort to make inroads in the well-heeled Northern Virginia suburbs....

See that coach? That is the white man vote. Tuberville is no more a qualified US Senator than the "Man in the Moon."

Popularity matters to attaining the white man vote. Sports are the MOST popular aspect of white men. Tuberville won as a populus candidate. In the 2016 election, before Trump was a failed president, it was the WWF. The white man's vote is shallow without a lot of depth. Why? Because they are working two jobs along with a wife working at least one. Recreation for the populous voter, is the fire pit in the backyard or at the park, local or camping. And sports. Sports is what they know because "the game" is picked up while working, either on television or the radio. Sports is the language of friendship.

Get with it. 

Our democracy is in the balance and the right wing is sequestered in it's belief system because of exclusive media coverage by SPECIALTY NETWORKS.

Door to door and while Democrats are handing out masks as they canvas, talk intelligent conversations to those that think about politics and what it means to their lives and their children's lives. But, work in populous concerns for those that are misinformed and admire populous image makers resulting in unqualified candidates like Tuberville. Don't keep conversations high minded if the people can't follow.

The Democrats are not elevating the voters to take on the issues of the day, they expect they know the issues. They don't. Talk to them and don't expect rallies to win elections. HEAR and LISTEN to the concerns and criticism. Make in roads by accepting the concerns and criticism and promise to act on them in the way the voters expect to have them handled. Don't wave to Wall Street while attempting to solve problems. Wall Street is just fine.

Tommy Tuberville (click here) led Auburn to an undefeated season in 2004. Now that he’s running for a Senate seat, will Alabama fans forgive him?

Education is not an issue and the Democrats need to enforce the real issues of climate, abortion and equity.

There is absolutely no mention of climate or abortion during any of the major campaigns. That is a mistake. The Democrats let the Republicans run on standard issues of their party and not the issues of the country or the Democrats. Education is irrelivant. The USA still has problems, but, is now ranked 1st globally according to many reports.

Politics is local. Trump is no more. And every person in the country if not already concerned about the climate crisis and abortion, should be.

Run on the issues that are most urgent like climate and abortion. Education is not an issue, unless, one wants to discuss the huge dispartiy in diversity between public and private schools. Diversity that is not only ethnic, but, also those that are disabled. Private schools do not admit disabled students and/or students of ethnic diversity, except on a rate occassion. The public schools have the most burden and the private schools are skating along without a care in the world. If private schools continue in this manner, segregation and racism will sustain for at least another generation.

Candidates have to get out from behind desks and in offices and make contact. Rallies have far less effect on voters and their issues than door to door. Wear masks and bring extra for those that want to talk and feel compromised to do so in the age of COVID.

The Supreme Court is dismantling precedent in plain sight.

November 2, 2021
By Josh Blackman

An Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court (click here) heard oral arguments in two challenges to S.B. 8, Texas' new abortion law. The "fetal heartbeat" statute allows private citizens to sue those who perform, aid or abet abortions. The government itself is expressly barred from enforcing the law. Texas cleverly made it difficult, if not impossible, for abortion providers to block the enforcement of S.B. 8.

Yet, two members of the Court seem prepared to creatively jettison long-standing precedent to stop the law nonetheless. Regrettably, Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett have succumbed to judicial supremacy. A defeat here for Texas will be short-lived. But the long-term impact of this judicial descent will endure for a generation.

In our republic, the Constitution and other federal law are the "supreme law of the land." And Supreme Court justices take an oath to support and defend the Constitution and federal laws. But the decisions of the Supreme Court are not the "supreme law of the land." And Supreme Court justices do not take an oath to defend the decisions of the Supreme Court. For much of American history, these principles were self-evident. But in Cooper v. Aaron (1958), the Supreme Court purported to elevate its own decisions to the status of "supreme law of the land." In doing so, the justices arrogated to themselves the power to resolve any constitutional dispute, notwithstanding the traditional rules of adjudication....

The issue of maintaining precedent in the USA is on the ballot without it being written on the ballot. The Climate Crisis is on the ballot. Abortion is on the ballot. The Republicans are having an easy campaign season because the candidates are being branded as a threat and why? Because of "critical race theory." Did I hear the word "race," yet again? This is not an issue. AT ALL.

Throngs of young people are telling the world, greenhouse gas pollution is not acceptable anymore!

October 31, 2021
By Karla Adam

Glasgow, Scotland - Greta Thunberg (click here) may not have been officially invited to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, but on the first day of the conference, she was making her presence felt.

The Swedish teenager, who is something of a rock star for climate campaigners worldwide, is among thousands of activists descending on Glasgow for the 12-day U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, which kicked off Sunday. They are calling on world leaders to take bold action to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 Celsius above preindustrial levels....

Throngs of people have come to Glasgow to see and hear Greta Thurnberg. She was escorted by police so she wasn't crushed by the crowd.

She is the one true and innocent voice that spells out the purpose to this meeting called COP 26. She is the generation that will suffer the most from the ills of capitalism and political corruption.

Greta Thurnberg (click here)

Decades of facts and records in journals and government agencies spell out the one reason Greta Thurnberg sat down outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018 when she 15 years old. That is the age when most young people are looking to the future and their place in it. What she saw was dispair and hopelessness because the future had her trapped with greenhouse gases chaing Earth on a merciless path. 

For decades, the world's governments have spents billions if not a trillion by now on learning the secrets of Earth and how to protect from natural disasters. This is not a natural disaster. If one wants to look at it that way, then realize this natural disaster is aided by human activity that produces and pollutes greenhouse gases.

She is not alone. The throngs of people that have gathered with her are in Glasgow to tell the world this is the last best chance of protecting the generations today and to come from deadly physics of excess greenhouse gases in the atmospheres of Earth.

Malala (click here)

This is the generation that has more right to be the policy makers at Glasgow than any other. They are correct and need to be heeded. This is the end of the fossil fuel use for energy. We can do better and we will do better.

Ms. Thurnberg is 18 years old and will be 19 on January 3, 2022. She needs to be a policy maker and should run for office to the Swedish Parliament. She and many other young adults need to take the power of government away from those that allowed the corruption in the belief that fossil fuels are necessary. They are not. Fossil fuels creat cash flow for Wall Street. 

The world can do better. The world has to do better. The USA has a heavy lift as it has the largest amont of historical greenhouse gases in the world. It is time to sanction countries that fail to live up to the promises they made. The fossil fuels imported by the USA should be cut year after year to end the assault on Earth's climate.

Everyone should be proud of these young women. They are accomplished and correct. We need not know anything else.

Failure is not an option.

Love life, enjoy each deay. I hope everyone has the "Happiest of Halloweens"