Kendrick Meeks needs resources from the DNC.

What is so difficult to understand here.  Kendrick had a former President and a former Vice President in Florida to join him in promoting a dynamic Democratic platform for his Senate seat. 

It is called RESPECT.  A follow up to the President and Vice President would be a good thing.  Nice actually.

Let's get on this thing.  From what I hear, Rubio has some skeletons in his closet similar to that of O'Donnell.  When are the Democrats going to get tired of losing to Conservatives that are going to take their Social Security away from them.  Yes, the Republicans have full intention of stopping Social Security at first opportunity REGARDLESS of what those 'slick' words say. 

REMEMBER BUSH after the 2004 elections wanting $2 Trillion for privatizing Social Security.  It just rolled off his tongue as if it were everyday language.  "Oh, yeah, you know we all know we can't continue to send those SSI checks, right?  I mean after we sent you all the surplus it is time to give back."

Meek has absolutely no intentions of cutting Social Security regardless of its increased buying power since the 2008 slide. 

Did I say, that old folks are getting more money because everything is dirt cheap now? 

OHHhhhhhhh, really?

Democrats need to read between the lines and start 'getting the word out.' 

Kendrick Meek's Team Goes After Charlie Crist for Flip-Flops  (click title to entry - thank you)



Kevin Derby's blog
Posted: September 20, 2010 1:49 PM


Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is not the only politician attacking Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running without party affiliation in the Senate election, for switching positions on issues. The campaign team of U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the Democratic nominee in the U.S. Senate race, is hitting the governor for backing offshore drilling, which he denounced on Monday in a meeting with the Orlando Sentinel editorial board.
"This is yet another attempt by Charlie Crist to try and hide his conservative intentions as he stakes out positions on both sides of this issue," said Abe Dyk, Meek's campaign manager. "To have supported drilling 5 miles off Florida's beaches puts Charlie Crist on the ultra-conservative fringe of the Republican Party."
Mired in third place in most polls, Meek’s strategy is to win-over Democrats and liberal independent voters who may be backing Crist as the best option to defeat Rubio. Look for Meek and his camp to continue hammering Crist, insisting he is a conservative -- just like Rubio will blast Crist for being a liberal. For the moment, as the television ad he released today shows, Crist is focusing his fire on Rubio....

The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Wind Chime) is sprining.

Octobe 6, 2010
0900 PM UTC or 2100 on a 24 hour military clock
Temperature Satellite

The warmest reporting station:

Vernadsky (Ukranian Station - click here)

Local Time :: 12:35 AM GMT (GMT +00)
Lat/Lon :: 65.2° S 64.3° W
Elevation :: 36 feet
Conditions :: Overcast
Humidity :: 68%
Dew Point :: 34 Fahrenheit
Wind :: 45 mph from the North
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: 29.21 inches (Falling)
Visibility :: 12.0 miles
UV :: 0 out of 16




The coldest reporting station:

Vostok (Russia Station) - I recorded the conditions two weeks ago.  I want to check that for a few minutes.

Local Time: 6:47 AM VOST (GMT +06)
Lat/Lon: 78.4° S 106.9° E
Elevation :: 11220 feet
Temperature :: - 87 Fahrenheit
Conditions :: Clear
Humidity :: 32 %
Dew Point :: - 94 Fahrenheit
Wind :: 9 mph from the SSE
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: in (Rising)
Visibility :: 12.0 miles
 
The entry was on the 24th of September.  Vostok wasn't the coldest station either.  It was -63 Fahrenheit that day.

A lot of wind coming off the equator toward Antarctica.  I am going to take a look at a couple of local newspapers.  Basically, the surface winds have the same pattern as the upper tropospheric winds.  There is also many 'onshore' winds moving from East to West and creating a hot peninsula.  But, the reason Vostok is the coldest today with 24 degrees colder is because of 'elevation' not because of climate.  In other words Vostok is always the coldest when the rest of the ice continent is 'taking on' heat from onshore influences.

Antarctica and surrounding seas
October 6, 2010
2100 utc
Infrared Composite Satellite

continued...

Antarctica
October 6, 2010
1800 gmt
Vortex winds - high troposphere satellite

Basically, the onshore winds are significant.

Antarctica
October 7, 2010
1200 AM
Surface winds satellite

The 'onshore pattern' is chillingly similar.  That means the high tropospheric winds are transending all elevations. 

Newspapers.

There is still drought in Australia.  Whales in the harbor in Sydney.  Winds, temperature 23 C or 73.4 Fahrenheit.  Some really cool articles about the folks there.

Severe weather warning as storms march across Victoria Robyn Grace  (click here)



October 6, 2010
 
New warnings for severe thunderstorms have been issued as the Bureau of Meteorology braces for damaging winds, flash flooding and large hailstones almost statewide.
Storms today grounded flights at Melbourne Airport and delayed trains on the Frankston line but failed to cause any major damage....

 
Feud among whaling activists Andrew Darby (click here)



October 6, 2010
 
HOBART: The war against the whalers has descended into an ugly internal feud before the new Antarctic season.
Sea Shepherd's leader, Paul Watson, and the Ady Gil skipper, Pete Bethune, are locked in an angry dispute over fallout from the New Zealand skipper's Japanese trial, according to emails seen by the Herald.
Mr Bethune has demanded to join the coming Antarctic campaign in apparent defiance of an undertaking by the anti-whaling group to Japanese authorities....


Oh, yeah, strong surface winds.  Everywhere.  Quite a mess, huh?  Hot air lands on the ice from the Equator and all sorts of havoc ensues.  Aye?


Whale of a time in the harbour Georgina Robinson (click here)



October 7, 2010 - 12:13PM
 
A week of dreary weather may have kept most of Sydney indoors but the whales sure didn't mind.
A humpback whale and her calf were spotted frolicking just 100 metres off the shore at Manly Beach this morning....

See, at one time on Earth, high tropospheric winds were in the upper troposphere and NOT transending to all levels of the surface.  The VORTEXES that domninate all areas of Earth have been at work since October 4, 2002.  A very long time for ionic storms to dominate the troposphere.  Unending.  Unyielding.  And now.  Homogenous throughout the entire air column. 

Yep.

God's world/creation in reaction to those left in charge of EDEN.  I mean it isn't the people of conscience stating 'Drill, Babe, Drill' now is it?

Snowy blast on the way again (click here)



By Philip Duncan 4:52 PM
Wednesday Oct 6, 2010


It looks as though the warm weather will come to an end this weekend in the South Island as a southerly change moves through.
Forecasters are predicting snow to low levels in Southland and a risk of snow on higher altitude parts of Canterbury and Otago....

Damn, I'm good.  Got it nailed, boys and girls, we got it nailed.  You have to understand, this is the beginning of SPRING in the Southern Hemisphere. 

Hello?

There was a big winter storm on September 19th.  End of Winter.  Severe storm.  Wow.  I'll post it.  Pictures primarily.


Free electric car trial (click here)
October 7, 2010



.UP TO 150 Victorian households stand to get a free electric car for three months as part of a $5 million, five-year trial.
The state government yesterday announced details of the trial, which will swap a pool of about 60 electric vehicles - including cars, trade vans and motorcycles - between households and another 50 state-based organisations.
The battery-powered vehicles will be assessed in real-life conditions to give car makers and electricity suppliers an idea of the demands that future owners will place on the state's power grid....

Huge storm hits NZ  (click here)

5:08 PM Friday Sep 17, 2010

Not just a speech. A real effort to launch a new economy for the USA.

MVCC excited about President's community college push (click title to entry - thank you)



By PAT BAILEY
Story Created: Oct 5, 2010 at 5:15 PM EDT
(Story Updated: Oct 5, 2010 at 7:19 PM EDT

...On Tuesday, President Obama joined Dr. Jill Biden, a community college teacher and wife of the Vice President, for the first-ever White House Summit on the role that community colleges will play in educating workers.
Obama said he's counting on community colleges to help produce an additional eight million college graduates over the next ten years
"I've set a goal," said Obama. "By 2020, America will once again lead the world in producing college graduates, and I believe community colleges will play a huge part in meeting this goal."
To achieve that goal, $2 billion will go to community colleges over the next four years. John Bullis, Executive Director of Organizational Development in the President's Office, says MVCC welcomes that money....


Atlantic Cape Community College launches ad campaign aimed at boosting funds, enrollment, pride  (click here)
By DIANE D'AMICO Education Writer

Posted: Tuesday, October 5, 2010

,,,Armed with a new red and blue logo and an "Opportunity Starts Here" marketing campaign featuring successful college alumni, Mora and staff on Tuesday introduced a new college "branding" plan to increase enrollment and raise private money to help keep the college affordable...


Community colleges fill graduation gaps  (click here)



Latinos turn to Ivy Tech for many reasons


Updated: Thursday, 02 Sep 2010, 10:43 AM EDT


Published : Wednesday, 01 Sep 2010, 7:17 PM EDT
Alexandra Deiro
 
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Ivy Tech boasts a high number of Latino graduates from its Lafayette campus.
As News Channel 18 reported earlier in the week, Purdue University has large gaps in graduating Latino and Hispanic students....


Purdue has gap in Hispanics graduating  (click here)



Study shows Hispanics less likely to finish Purdue


Updated: Tuesday, 31 Aug 2010, 9:42 AM EDT


Published : Monday, 30 Aug 2010, 6:14 PM EDT


Alexandra Deiro


WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - The Education Trust released a study this month that showed Purdue University to have one of the largest White vs. Hispanic graduation gaps.
The study stated that among public universities Purdue did not show good numbers for graduation rates of Hispanic and Latino students....

Just a thought.

On balance.  I can see fire insurance doing more than simply covering the losses of the insured.

In other words, when there is a car accident there are insurance provisions that allow for towing and medical costs in addition to the collision costs of the car.

I can see a 'rider,' if you will, that could be mandated by State insurance agencies to be paid for along with the cost of the house insurance which would reimburse fire companies for their expenses when responding to a house / building fire, etc.

But, to simply allow homes to burn while leaving citizens homeless when a fire department could have prevented that, is the most inhumane idea I have ever heard.

If I am not mistaken I remember that dogs, cats and horses were killed due to a fire which was not responded to due to the owner being absent from 'the list.'  I believe that is cruelty to animals and those that did not respond should be held responsible.  Butning to death is NOT a humane end of an animals life.

Homeland Security - I believe residents have the right to sue their Town Councils for securing 'Plutocratic' entities that supply Emergency Services.

There is a federal mandate for every town and city in the USA to provide Homeland Security Emergency Services to citizens.  As a matter of fact, the 'general' populous of the USA was benefitting from Homeland Security MONIES while depriving New York City funding.

I believe Town Council members can be held personally responsible, as well as the town itself, for NEGLECTING the needs of a community.  It is called NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE, should people actually die. 




These are the very real consequences of Plutocratic domination of a community.  Every town service has a 'charge' for protection.  That is outrageous.  IT IS ALSO CORRUPTION !!!!!!!!!!

There needs to be an investigation to these incidents and find out why buildings are burning to the ground, including, the EFFECTIVE delivery of water to an emergency site. 

Bush's America.  Fend for yourself.  It is Anti-American.  I defy anyone to say otherwise. 

I lived in a town that grew from 5000 to 10,000 people during the 12 years I grew up and attended school there.  I recieved a free polio 'sugar cube' when I was a child in that town.  I graduated from the public High School.  Never once did we have paid fire departments.  We had many of them.  We had some of the best equipment in the county.  Each section of this small town, of which there were about five, had their own fire department.  Each department had at least two trucks. 

The firefighters were great people.  They ran their own fund raisers and where they might be running short the City Council appropriated assistance to them.  They were completely volunteer firefighters and I don't believe I ever remember in those twelve years of hearing of a death due to a fire in a home.  As a matter of fact the only home that completely burned to the ground was an abandoned structure that was determined to be empty and the police thought it would serve the community to allow it to burn in completion.  It was dilapitated and was condemned.  A lot of people turned out to see it burn while the fire departments protected the grounds and supervised the burn.  Odd, I suppose.  But, that sort of 'town knowledge' was common among people that were a sincere community.

Home burns to the ground in Pawnee County  (click here)

Posted: 10/03/2010

Late Sunday afternoon firefighters responded to a house fire in rural Pawnee County near Cleveland.
It happened off of Old Keystone Road around 4 p.m.
A family of six live in the home.
No one was home at the time, and no one was hurt.
The house is a total loss and burned to the ground. There were no fire hydrants nearby. Three fire stations responded and assisted by bringing in water.
The family is staying with relatives.

Both these incidents are an outrage.  They are dangerous examples of what a Plutocratic society holds for its citizens.  We have spent billions, upon billions for a Homeland Security initiative that was 'coined' as a patriotic measure and THIS is the result.  I don't think so.

I want investigations into both these incidents and I want justice for those victimized by PROFITEERS of Emergency Services.  It is sort of like having an ambulance service that arrives on the scene of an accident after called by the Police only to have them demand payment before services.

IF  WALL  STREET can declare bankruptcy only to BEG for a 'bailout' than every other citizen that has their lives and livelihoods saved 'by the system' has a right to NOT be able to afford those services, especially IN AN ECONOMY abandoned by the banks that WE bailed out !!!!!!!!!

It do believe there is an element of danger and possibly criminal in both these cases.

PLUTOCRATS, laughing in the face of complete disaster.  Jerks.  Is there a better word?  Feel free to use it.

The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is warm:

October 4, 2010 - 1630.13z

October 5, 2010

0330.15 z

Water Vapor Satellites of the North and West Hemisphere.  (click title to entry - thank you)

I find it odd that the water vapor air mass is the shape of the terrestrial USA.  12 hour span of time and the air mass hasn't changed all that much.

Hm.

October 5, 2010
0400.13 z

The vortex east of the Eastern seaboard of the USA is maintaining the 'air mass' in its place over North America.  The reason the vortex is stationary, is because the interior of the vortex is moving in a clockwise direction.  HOWEVER.  The outer circulating air mass is moving in a counter clockwise direction.  That is the strangest set of vortexes I have ever witnessed.  Spinning in place.  That spells trouble to me.  (clck here for 12 hour loop).

Local Time: 8:32 PM AKDT on October 04, 2010 (GMT -08)

Lat/Lon: 58.8° N 137.0° W

Elevation :: 33 feet
Updated: 8:16 PM AKDT on October 04, 2010
Temperature :: 48 Fahrenheit
Condition :: Overcast
Humidity :: 58%
Dew Point :: 34 Fahrenheit
Wind :: 21 mph from the Southeast

Wind Gust :: 32 mph

Pressure :: 29.94 inches (Falling)

Visibility :: 10.0 miles

UV :: 0 out of 16

Clouds :: Few 4000 ft

Mostly Cloudy 5000 ft

Overcast 6500 ft

(Above Ground Level)

"Morning Papers" - It's Origins

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

"Good Night NASA"

I would think at some point in time, as private contractors are setting their goals for the Moon, they would be interested in picking up some real talent and begin the 'enterprise' of developing advanced technologies.  It really  isn't up to the USA government to supply the technologies if it isn't going to be a government program any longer. 

I would think the National Security venue of NASA would pick up the slack to some extent.  But, if private industry is going to 'be serious' they need to promote their own advances as well.

The USA has just been through a huge economic collapse.  Can you tell?

...Also, the company that makes rocket boosters for the soon-to-be-retired space shuttle (click title to entry - thank you) said it laid off hundreds of employees Thursday because of uncertainty over the future of the U.S. space program. ATK Aerospace Systems dismissed 414 engineers, factory workers and other employees at three northern Utah locations, company spokesman George Torres told The Associated Press.
Separately, budget cuts are forcing NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California to lay off 45 people for the next fiscal year.
JPL spokesperson Veronical McGregor told the Pasadena Star-News the layoffs will affect less than two percent of the total work force of about 5,000 employees. JPL is a federally funded research and development center in the San Gabriel Valley.

Rand Paul, unlike the Democratic opposition lacks real insight to the responsibility of government.

In his rant, Rand Paul has no answers, simply rhetoric about discretionary spending.  He is typical of every other conservative running for office.

The real answer to the National Deficit is to increase the country's tax base by expanding the Middle Class and allowing small businesses their fair share of the market place. 

The reality is that profound sacrifice by any age group is not necessary.  We simply have to bring back the vibrant Middle Class to balance the federal budget.  It is possible and it is necessary.  But, relyng on Wall Street to do that is the worst folly of all.  Wall Street was bailed and they left the country.  There isn't anything else to say.  The fiscal conservatives have no real answers, but, only rhetoric and empty promises. 

I just can't believe how much they lie.  No conscience.  Just using 'carrot and stick' to win elections.  The American people aren't puppets, but, maybe extremists haven't figured that out yet.  It might be why they are extremists.

...Actual fiscal conservatives acknowledge (click title to entry - thank you) that these steps do not come anywhere close to solving the long-term deficit. By 2035, the deficit (even without counting interest payments on the federal debt) is on course to reach $1.9 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. If you reduced domestic discretionary spending to its share of the economy under Ronald Reagan and then eviscerated it an additional 20 percent, you would shrink the deficit by all of $100 billion. The bulk of the deficit problem instead comes from three popular programs, Medicare, Social Security and the military, and they happen to be the ones the Republican pledge exempts from cuts. But it’s impossible to fix the deficit without making cuts to these programs or raising taxes. To suggest otherwise is to claim that 10 minus 1 equals 5....

The Attorney General was correct when he answered to the scope of the perscription drug abuse in Kentucky.

So, Dr. Rand Paul isn't interested in 'the truth.'  Just like his buddies at Murdoch's NewsCorp he is only interested in bashing the Democrats while insulting the electorate with rhetoric to mislead them.

Lynn and Sam Kissick discuss the tragic death of their daughter as a result of a prescription drug overdose.

By Mark Potter


Correspondent
NBC News NBC News


updated 7/6/2009 8:17:58 AM ET

MOREHEAD, Ky. — Late in the morning last New Year's Day, (click title to entry - thank you) Sam and Lynn Kissick received a devastating phone call that would tear their lives apart. The caller informed them their 22-year-old daughter, Savannah, was being rushed by ambulance to the St. Claire Regional Medical Center in Morehead, Ky. She had long battled drug addiction, but it looked like this time, Savannah had overdosed on a combination of painkillers and sedatives while celebrating New Year's Eve.
After racing to the emergency room to be by Savannah's side, her parents were met by a physician with grim news. "I'm sorry, Mr. And Mrs. Kissick, but she didn't make it," he said.
Savannah had just become the latest fatality linked to prescription drug abuse, a fast-growing problem that killed more than 8,500 Americans in 2005, according to the latest available statistics from the Office of National Drug Control Policy....

...A regional ‘epidemic’



While the problem exists in every state in the country, Kentucky led the nation in the use of prescription drugs for non-medical purposes during the last year, according to the state's Office of Drug Control Policy. Officials said prescription drug abuse is particularly acute in the cities and rural areas of Eastern Kentucky.


Last year alone, at least 485 people died in Kentucky from prescription drug overdoses, according to the state's Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Medical Examiners' records indicate the drugs most commonly found in those death cases were methadone, the painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone, alprazolam (Xanax), morphine, diazepam (Valium) and fentanyl.
"It's an epidemic and I'm afraid we're losing a whole generation," said Beth Lewis Maze, the Chief Circuit Judge for the 21st Judicial Circuit in Kentucky. "These pain medications are so highly addictive that these young people are digging themselves a very deep hole."
In the region's newly formed drug court, Maze sees the ravages of prescription drug abuse at all levels of society. "I see good kids from good families, doctors, lawyers, teachers," she said....

Dr. Rand Paul states the Kentucky State Police aren't do a good job.

Dr. Rand Paul is lying in order to attack the current Attoney General running for the US Senate.

KY Dwellings Involving Active Methamphetamine Labs  (click title to entry - thank you)
Although not required by state law, this page is a public service of the Kentucky State Police and includes a listing, by county, of all dwellings in which an active methamphetamine lab was dismantled. This list dates back to June 2007. Only affected counties are listed....

In his ? debate ? on Murdoch's station, he stated there has been an increase in the number of Methamphetamine labs in Kentucky.  What the Attorney General is stating is that the reporting of these labs have increased because their intelligence regarding their location and prevalence has increased.  Therefore, the Kentucky State Police are actually doing a better job and exposing more criminal activity which leads to many more prosecutions.

As a matter of fact, the laws of Kentucky have focused on children in stopping Meth Lab Offenders from returning to 'the street.'

The meth law states that anyone who uses meth while a child is around, will be taken as a form of child abuse.

So, the Rand Paul Campaign is not only misinforming the electorate of Kentucky regarding the record of the Attorney General, they are simply and rhetorically ranting words to seek influence where there should not be.  That is integrity by an opthomologist?  A licensed opthomologist? 

This would be Dr. Paul's idea of adequate health insurance for his speciality of opthomology.

To begin with Rand Paul is simply a liar and a poitical hack.  He refers to "The Affordable Care Act" as Obamacare.  That was coined ages ago by Murdoch's tribe and the Tea Party and Republicans view it as a means to leverage their 'attitude' regarding this incredibly important legislative victory for the American people.  So, to realize a optomologist can't bring himself to call the legislation what it is, speaks to his lack of integrity.  Just that simple.

Now as to his 'approach' to the issue?  What approach?  He never speaks to effective change to any entitlements and refuses to be 'pinned down' as to what he views as necessary shifts in SSI, Medicare and Medicaid.  He goes on to 'insult' the American people and their Affordable Care Act by saying illegal immigrants are eligible for care under this legislation simply if they don't admit they are illegal immigrants.

He never makes a truthful statement about anything.  Where will illegal aliens get coverge if they can't prove they are here legally?  That is the most hideous statement I have ever heard in my life.  The Affordable Care Act is very specific about QUALIFYING as a legal citizen of the USA.  Rhetoric from a licensed opthomologist.

Okay, then he goes on to say that there are a lot of people that could qualify for Medicaid but simply don't bother.  He sees government assistance as are real potential for covering the uninsured. 

The issue of increases in cost of current policies has been addressed by Secretary Sebelius at every turn when it presents itself.  We know the 'Free Market' system that is at work now allows the insurance companies to ruthlessly raise rates in anticipation of the new laws coming into practice. 

The increased costs currently is more about CEO bonuses than any real reason for them to increase. 

Rand Paul is a conman. It is just that simple.. Conway would make a well informed Senator with a clear vision for what Kentucky needs.

October 3, 2010

Kentucky Senate Showdown on 'FNS'  (click title to entry - thank you)

Republican Rand Paul and Democrat Jack Conway square off in their only national debate.

Rand Paul speaks only rhetoric.  No different than most of the Tea Party candidates, they are rehearsed

Paul doesn't believe in the Constitutionality of the Executive Branch.  Defames the Cabinet to the President because it suits his political ambtions.  He is Anti-American and Anti-Constitutionalist.

...and China makes $4.00 US on a retail price of $299.00? Really?

Well, that was more than an interesting statement by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.  It implies many things, but, the primary issue is the exploitation of a global economy.

With the cost of an iPOD being $4.00 US the populous of China should be able to afford them and the Chinese government should consider wholesale of these items to their people.

Secondly, that statement only goes to prove how much Capitalists 'scaple' the American people of their income.  And that is CLASSIC Wall Street.  It is even considered 'good practice' in most Board Rooms.

Reality check !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I refuse to spend that kind of money on electronic technology.  I was never traumatized by the iPhone and its need for bumpers either. 

Don't need it, don't want it.

I have far better use of my money than that.

This is an excellant example of why LOCAL ECONOMIES must replace 'The Big Box Stores,' and China won't like that at all.  But, look.  If China develops its domestic market, it would not be so hypervigilant of the USA and its currency rate.  I mean that.  China's people, over one billion strong could increase the treasury of the Chinese government with taxes paid no different than most other First World economies.  Isn't that what China really wants?  I know it is.  The Chinese government is not simply looking for domination of the global economy to prevent nuclear confrontation, it wants to 'be among' the major nations that have high quality of life standards for their citizens.

I think it is time, China and India begin to build their domestic markets to provide their own economic stability.  Practicing 'cheap labor' and 'robbing jobs' from the USA has destroyed the market place in the USA.  It wasn't good thinking.  It was pure greed and nothing more by Wall Street CEOs.

I heard today that JP Morgan is working with homeowners to prevent foreclosure.  That is a good thing.  Admirable and makes consumers want to value them.  But, what Morgan still may not understand is that "keeping jobs in the USA economy" rather than outsourcing will increase the likelihood foreclosures aren't necesssary.

And there is that whole 'danger' of the USA appointing the President of the World Bank.

What is the sense in 'getting the stability of the global economy' right if the Neocons can come along and appoint a war monger to the World Bank?

FIX IT !!!!!!

More democratic with a nomination process and a voting body.

Humiltiy is bullshit.  Reputation matters.  The World Bank saves lives depending on it's policies.  This can't be taken lightly.  How many African wars did Wolfowitz stop while he was the President.  I already know.  None.

Geithner get out of the way !

...He knew they had doubts about him, (click title to entry - than you) Wolfowitz said, not least because of his role in designing the Iraq war. But he told them he was committed to the bank's goal of reducing world poverty, that he would learn from them and rely on their guidance.
According to several attendees, they were won over by his humility. "I went back and reported to my staff that I didn't see any horns," one senior official recalled. "He was personable, charming, intelligent and said all the right things. None of which he lived up to."
Thursday, two years later, Wolfowitz resigned from the World Bank, effective June 30. He had become a virtual pariah, forced out by the bank's executive board for ethics violations and reviled by much of the staff as an arrogant intellectual who cared more about his ideas and image than about the institution or its customers....

With active engagement of a strategy to sincerely stabilize a global economy, the WTO may prove to be invaluable.

BUT, there are huge shifts that need to take place.  While China may be a member, Russia still hasn't achieved that status along with many other countries, including Iran I believe.

So, when trying to 'invoke' the WTO to seek policies that actually stabilize a global economy and remove 'RISK' from populous a greater involvement by many counties has to take place.

That does not preclude the WTO from moving in that direction and using the currency issues with China and the USA as a springboard to that resolve.

I mean if China is sincere about national security is needs to be built on better human rights records and a stable economy while raising citizen wages and improving the quality of lfie of the Chinese people, otherwise, that simply states China has a government of capitalists that profit off the blood, sweat and tears of its people.  That is enslavement, not a government.

China needs to control its capitalists in balance with the well being of its people.  To state China has a bigger economy than Japan is simplistic in definition. 

ON BALANCE. 

That is not true.  Japan is able to support a generous minimum wage while China's primary wage payments are below most other minimum wages in the First World and does not support any Middle Class.

China might be seeing a lot of 'cash flow' through it's treasury, but, to compare it to Japan isn't even reasonable.

I believe China is more interested in 'filling in the gap' of decency and loyality to its' citizens than simply being the 'biggest economy' on Earth.  By the way, this is not simply a Chinese issue, India is right on China's heels in regard to its citizens quality of life and wage status.

So, with the reality of China's posturing in regard to currency and economy, there needs to be a resolve within the WTO.

China's response to the USA's tariff was to try to undercut the tarrif.  That is a very aggressive move that dictates only one motive and that is China is using it's fiscal policy to dominate global stability. 

Now, given the collapse of 2008 I can understand it's movtives, but, the USA has a new administration that isn't interested in 'sinking' it's economy, but, trying to work in harmony even if that is a unilateral effort.

I believe China presents an interesting challenge to the global community and also brings about a very healthy discussion about 'How do we prevent the Plutocrats of the USA when 'occupying' power within the USA government from destroying a stable global economy for their own purposes?" 

It is a conversation that is not only as necessary at tackling the Climate Crisis, but, paramount to nuclear disarmament and securing a PEACE that will last generations while propagating a real strategy to defeat poverty.

The relations with North Korea and China cannot be ignored in the Six Party Talks.

...After years of speculation, Kim's youngest son, Kim Jong-un, (click title to entry - thank you) was rolled out to North Koreans this week and appointed to senior political and military posts in the isolated state....


What has this got to do in ANY way with China's monetary policy and economic global domination?  You really don't know?  Could be you live in Wascilla, Alaska then.

But, at any rate, there is a lot of security for China in 'overseeing' the Brinkmanship of North Korea.  China and to a less role, Russia, are important voices both for the USA and for North Korea.  China leverages power for North Korea and considers itself an ally to North Korea.

In the interview with the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao it seems all to clear to me there was a naivety on China's part as to 'the DEVELOPMENT' of their own 'domestic' marketplace.  In other words, while China wanted to be a strong economic power in the world, which it is all too clear it is, it has not addressed the domestic growth of its own markets for its own products produced in its own manufacturing sector.  It also seems very clear to me the reason for that was the advice China was receiving in order to grow its domestic markets was grossly missing.  Why?  BECAUSE 'cheap labor' controlled by a communist government was a Capitalists dream come true. 

Basically, why would all the Western and European companies that came to China to exploit dirt cheap labor actually encourage the Chinese to improve the quaity of life of their citizens when it served their CEO bonuses so well. 

There is also a postive feedback for the communist government in China to continue cheap labor and domiante global markets.  It is a lack of being able to ENVISION their sovereign authority as 'secure' in the absense of nuclear war or the threat of same.  What occurred with permission of Western and European Captialists was a substitution of global economic domination for 'real' possibility of nuclear war.

That 'economic brinkmanship' by China is very dysfunctional and lacks 'real world' meaning.  After all, why would a country like China that continually 'pulls the plug' on its own currency actually believe that is not as much a threat to global stability as nuclear confrontation?  Would such fiscal policies perhaps lead to a confrontation war?  I believe there is an element of that which would track with any reality, simply because if hte economic base of the USA was dictating it was facing a National Security Problem, the obvious 'action' in the face of intractible international cooperation in currency markets and export markets would dictate a certain path.

The China response to tarrifs by the USA. China is attempting to remain the dominant economy force globally. I think the WTO needs to convene.

US and China developing dangerous trade war  (click title to entry - thank you)



Beijing News.Net


Saturday 2nd October, 2010

A potential trade war between China and the United States would be economically catastrophic, according to Fareed Zakaria, who is Editor-At-Large of Time Magazine and the host of CNN's “Fareed Zakaria GPS”, his comments came following a rare interview with the Chinese prime minister.
The economic and international relations analyst has said that the two largest economies in the world are mutually dependant on one another for continued growth and stability.
“The consequences of a significant trade war between China and the United States would be very dramatic,” Zakaria said. “We need the Chinese to still have enormous faith in the U.S. economy, not just to buy Treasury bills, but to maintain all the links they have with the U.S. economy.”
His comments came on back of growing tension between the US and China over what the US government perceives as significant undervaluing of the Chinese currency in order to make Chinese exports more competitive than American exports....

The "GPS" interview is here.  There are many interesting things said and I'll cover what I believe needs to be covered, but, basically it is time to take on the bull-oney.

Added On October 3, 2010



Fareed Zakaria sits for a rare and exclusive interview with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. (click here)

There are dealy few songs about 'Fiscal Policy' and it is there I want to focus tonight.

Of course, I sincerely believe the Tea Party gets completely confused between PHYSICAL policy and FISCAL policy.  Somehow, 'fiscal policy' escapes them, but, the idea of violence in their 'physical policy' doesn't.

So, to start, I think China and Rand Paul is a good place.  One oppressive and the other 'without a clue.'