There is a vast number of connections to John Lennon.

It is interesting to realize how one man was embraced for so long with a consistent theme in his honor.  The link at the title and the video were randomly selected to illustrate the way Lennon is remembered.  The choice could have been a thousand other sites and videos and the message would be the same.  The very same.

The Sixties.

We lost many great leaders during that period of war and peace.  John was one of them.

A simple idea of "Peace" was such a threat to the establishment of the USA. 

What is it about Peace that is so threatening that some political figures don't even say the word?

Happy Birthday, John.  Thank you, Yoko.

So where is all this Big Government the Republicans are complaining about?

Cuts in Government Led U.S. Economy to Lose 95,000 Jobs (click title to entry - thank you) 

By CATHERINE RAMPELL 

Published: October 8, 2010 

The economy shed 95,000 nonfarm jobs in September, the Labor Department reported Friday, with most of the decline the result of the layoffs by local governments and of temporary decennial Census workers.... 

This is part of the slippery slope of neglecting the growth of Small Business in the USA.  Incomes to necessary government through taxes paid by an expanding and growing private sector ARE LOST.  The effectiveness of government will diminish, there will be dirty water, poor quality air, unfunded and underfunded schools and universities, loss of essential services and the list goes on and on. 

Government is NOT the enemy.  The CONTRACTION of the USA economy due to obstuction by Republicans in the Senate is the enemy.  They abused their power to satisfy cronies in attempting to undermine the infrastructure of the state and federal governments and this is the result.  Who are you trusting with your children's future, IF, they are to have one.

The Republican 'idea' of an economy is a 'void' that continues to spin out of control and causes huge problems, not just small ones.  A bridge to nowhere is only an icon to a far greater problem.  

Let's put the blame where it truly belongs in the Sherrod incident. THE BECK EFFECT.

When liars such as the commentators of the Murdoch network are as successful as these are, the entire structure surrounding a heroic President is in reaction to that reality.  Make no doubt about it, the lies of Murdoch that EFFECTIVELY manipulates the electorate are very real.  While the issue surrounding Sherrod were sad, it did not lack immediate resolve to stand with JUSTICE.  There is nothing that happened here that cannot be blamed on Murdoch.  NOTHING.  It is why media research is needed to identify the adverse effects of such dynamics on a democracy that is suppose to protect citizens from it.

USDA emails show rush to judgment in firing Sherrod  (click title to entry - thank you)

October 08, 2010 9:30 AM

The Los Angeles Times and Associated Press both have stories today providing a detailed anatomy of the firing of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, based on hundreds of pages of emails they obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

The emails prove both a rush to judgment on the part of the department and an earnest attempt of the part of Sherrod herself to warn her bosses that a speech she gave at an NAACP event had been misconstrued and taken out of context by conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart....

Despite the lies by BP that only 1000 gallons of oil and natural gas was spewing into the Gulf, President Obama made the right decisions.

As everyone recalls, UNLESS one wants to embrace lies, the information regarding the Deepwater Horizon was under the control of BP at the beginnings of the disaster.  Why?  Because the Bush/Cheney Energy policy has NO regulations in place to regulate the Petroleum Industry.  The USA was completely compromised until the USA military was in place and controlling the outcomes.  The preliminary information coming from the investigation of this incident is being used to blame the administration for underestimating the disaster to control the political backlash.  That is NOT correct.  There were eleven people dead and the Gulf Coast was in harms way, no one was playing politics, it was a matter of getting enough Executive Branch action 'in place' to begin to come to terms with the huge neglect by a multinational company that completely comprised safety. 

Originally published October 02, 2010

Obama Moves Gulf Recovery Plan Forward  (click title to entry - thank you)
 
by AFRO Staff
 
The Obama administration unveiled plans Sept. 28 for a large-scale Gulf Coast recovery effort, aimed at providing long-term financial assistance, to improve the regions environment, economy and health.
Work by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are at the heart of the plan of the administration to bring relief to Gulf coast residents.
The plan, unveiled by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus includes a restoration plan and a call for dedicating to the Gulf Coast Recovery Fund “significant” amounts from civil penalties gathered from those responsible for the crisis.
“I am honored to have been asked by the president to put together this plan, and am pleased to present him a plan which meets the goals he set in June,” Mabus said in a statement. “The plan is the result of listening to the people of the gulf coast. It balances the needs of the people, the environment and the economic livelihood of the region.”
Obama also named EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to head the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force. The task force was commissioned to help create and maintain gulf coast ecosystems while providing economic support and addressing possible long-term health issues of residents.
“President Obama has said many times that our commitment to the families and environment in the gulf extends far beyond capping the well,” said Jackson in a statement. We’re sending that message loud and clear today: our work is not complete until the people and the environment they rely on are on the path to restoration and recovery.”
There’s also been a help line launched by HHS and one of its smaller agencies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The helpline will provide information, support, and counseling for families affected by the spill. The toll-free line will route callers to the nearest Gulf Coast crisis center where staff will provide assistance. The program is expected to expand its support to text messages later this fall....

 
It is always a shock to realize how ruthless and negligent Wall Street is to people that find all that occurred unconscionable.  The Gulf Diaster has been a real awakening to the 'will' of Wall Street to put profits 'at any cost' before the decency of protecting even human life from harm. 
 
I am confident until the final investigation is completed 'the process' will 'be gamed' to cast dought on the Obama Administration.  I was knee deep in this disaster.  The administration has acted in the only ways availabe to them.  As far as measuring the discharge from the BP well accurately.  The robots and cameras had to be put in place with a 'constant' in the way of streaming sea water to measure what the well was doing.  That didn't happen overnight so what haters of President Obama will state is his administration was negligent or manipulative to information coming to the public.  NOT.  Operating a rescue operation of the Gulf Coast from one mile below sea level was no easy task, but, the USA military did it admirably.  The cap they created was nothing short of genius. 

Kindly remember...

...the longer Small Businesses are postponed from growth due to insufficient funding, the longer the recovery will take and the more contraction of the economy will occur.

We can't keep putting draconian Republicans into office.  Controlling the USA deficit and debt is important, but, growing the economy will handle that better than any FURTHER CONTRACTURE of government size.

Government is NOT the enemy unless one is living off the dividends of Wall Street. 

The greater the income of the treasuries of State and Federal government the less debt there is. 

It is immoral to conduct the USA economy to allow exploitation of our Brain Trust without returning that investment to the people.

Michigan's HandyLab is a Case Study in the draconian nature of the Wall Street Bush Republicans' Economy.

Why would a Wall Street firm such as BD want HandyLab to succeed?  Small business is where the USA Job growth is going to occur.  We all know that.  The Republicans are running on that.  It is the method to growing Small Business that is in debate.  We know for a fact that providing good health care options to Small Businesses helps grow their firms so they can compete with large Wall Street frims.  Okay?  Now, about why the anticipated job numbers are 'ARTIFICALLY' low.

We have witnessed with Michigan's HandLaby their largest hurdle was marketing.  It isn't that big of a deal.  When contracts are made, the funding is forthcoming, BUT, the banks have to be WILLING to lend to a company like HandyLab with solid contracts 'On the Table.'

The Investment Banks are out of the business of lending to Small Business in the USA.  We know that for a fact. They took their bailout funds and outsourced their interests without regret or without the loyalty to the people that had the ability to create a Bailout for them.

If anyone believes the job rate is artifically low going into the 2010 elections, then you are about hte most naive person in the country.  The Republicans have been obstructing any movement forward of the legislation necessary to 'further' the development of Small Businesses such as HandyLab.  It was only recently the legislation was passed to fund Small Business lending.  THAT, my friends was solidly Pre-Meditated by the Republican Party's "No Initiatiove." 

So, why did 'expanding' HandyLab becotme so difficult that it had to sell out to Wall Street?  You know this answer.

There is actually two reason why HandyLab sold to Wall Street to be absorbed into the Plutocracy so HandyLab would case BD problems. 

1.  There was a conflict of interest being 'managed' by the CEO of the company and its financing source.  Snyder was playing the 'growth' of HandyLab very close to the vest.  He knew he had a Gold Mine and wanted to manage it for SHORT TERM returns for his own wealth.  The people of Michigan was not on his Short List of "Important To Do" and the genius of the women that perfected the PRODUCTS of HandyLab were not important to Snyder because as far as he was concerned, they had delivered his fortune, so further R&D of HandyLab was completely absent on his agenda.

2.   The Republcians were 'playing the strategy' in DC to obstruct any movement forward of legilation that would grown Small Businesses.  Literally the CRONIES of the Republicans and Tea Party (same thing by 75% of known statistics) BENEFIT from depriving Small Businesses of GROWTH.  We know that by the example of HandyLab alone.  If Small Business is the place where Wall Street gets 'booted' out of the majority GDP of the USA then the CEOs don't get their bonuees.  Small Businesses in the USA is where all the innovation and job creation is occurring.  So while the American Innocation Genius is at work, BUT, constrained from GROWTH, eventually critical 'fiscal' mass will enter into the picture with a company such as HandyLab and the Wall Street wealth will take over the dynamics of THAT GROWTH. 

So, the Small Business Administration has needs a great deal of vigilance in order to understand where the 'deficit' is for Small Business GROWTH.  And the definiton of Small Business has to be really clarified with the Small Business Administration so our fiscal investments are sincerely going into job growth for the people of the USA and not multinational companies that will CONTINUE to deprive the USA of that job growth while outsourcing 'our genius' AFTER THE FACT.

Snyder is typical of the Republican running for office.  They are business people that care little about 'the citizen' AFTER the 'genius' has delivered from the brain trust.  He will go into office and remove any and all constraints on exploitation of Small Businesses to facilitate Wall Street buyouts.  And Natural Resources, such as forests, are simply a 'BONUS' to the 'idea' of creating wealth. 

To the public Repubicans look great because 'on paper' it looks as though things are improving, however, 'on the street' the circumstances are completely different.  It is why the USA has no job growth since the Stimulus.  All the Small Businesses are in limbo while Wall Street is harvesting the genius of USA innovation.

DO NOT VOTE REPUBLICANS INTO OFFICE.  They won't deliver a SUSTAINABLE economy, but, only more hardship for the citizens. 

The Wall Street exploitation of the USA is real.  Don't deny it.  HandyLab is a prime example of it.  The CORRUPTION of the USA economy is highly visible when looking at the HandyLab INCIDENT.

Good luck.

When are Republican Candidates for Office going to be asked about their positiion on the Crime by the Bush/Cheney energy policy that allows the contamination of the USA by Natrual Gas Companies?

Not an alien probe—a wellhead for hydraulic fracturing, with injection pipes.

When is Hydraulic Fracturing going to be prosecuted by State Attorney Generals for the deceptive practices that exist in the LACK of education of the public and potential lease holders to the dangers of these practices by the industry that propagates the damage?  Once Hydraulic Fracturing occurrs the land is virtually worthless.  Once has to wonder if that is what the 2008 Housing Bubble was all about?  Wall Street knew the 2005 Bush/Cheney Energy Bill was catatrophic to land values by these practices and decided to get what they could and get out.  Why invest in a wasteland?

Black shale is an interesting topic.  It isn't all methane, sometimes it is uranium.  But, methane beds cannot exist without it.  Believe me the natural gas industry is fully prepared to have a very condesending discussion with those whom's lives they will destroy.  Isn't agricultural produce and crops important to people?  No one minds eating food contaminaed with methane?  See, if all this land is contaminated and there is food that is needed to be produce, what choice is left, but, to eat it.

...However, the “gas rush” (click title to entry - thank you) in the Marcellus Shale formation in upstate New York and Pennsylvania has caused hydraulic fracturing to bubble to the surface of public consciousness: it may now come into widespread use in a densely populated region unaccustomed to fossil fuel resource extraction. Since the process—like most large-scale industrial processes—can have negative consequences, the near-certainty of its widespread adoption in this region has resulted in public controversy, as people weigh the benefits of economic gain against health and environmental risks.
And the debate has been loud, as would be expected when enough natural gas to satisfy US demand for at least a decade is set against possible harm to the water supply for almost 10 million people in one of the world capitals of media,
finance, and law. It’s not natural gas per se that’s sparked a firestorm of controversy, it’s the technique—hydraulic fracturing—used to extract it....

The realities of geologic formations aren't really discussed much by the public.  Most folks purchase a home on a small piece of land and that is all they know about it.  /But, the fact of the matter is, there is a whole lot more to know and most states should mandate complete geological information at the time a person purchases a home.

Environmental & Economic Interests Clash Over Marcellus Shale (click here)

The problem with the exploitation of the public in relation to Hydraulic Fracturing is that when they sign on the dotted line, they haven't got a clue what they are signing on for. 

There is also a difference in the 'content' of Devonian Black Shale.  (Devonian is a period of Earth's history.  Prehistoric. The reason there is Devonian Black Shale in Jordan and the USA at probably the same surface depth, is becuase of Plate Techtonics.)  It si widely known in the Middle East, oddly enough.  Interesting isn't it?

Campanian-Maastrichtian oil shales of Jordan Al Lajun Oil Shale (click here)
31°12'50'' N / 35°52'06'' E
(section OS in Lüning et al. in prep.)
The Campanian Maastrichtian is organic-rich in several parts of North Africa and Arabia. As in this example from Jordan, such "black shales" are often asociated with phosphorites.

Spectro-gamma-ray measurements. Note that both organic-rich and phosphoritic strata tend to enrich uranium which complicates the use of U as a proxy for either TOC or phosphorite concentration.


You know.  It is really unfortunate Columbus discovered America before Wall Street had a chance to exploit it.  Huh?

The Dangers of Hydraulic Fracturing is already known. It robs quality of life of more than half the nation of the USA.

I demand the SEC investigate the blatently negligent and dangerous practices of ExxonMobile.

BOYCOTT!!!!

Natural Gas Fracking Risk Assessment  (click title to entry - thank you)

May 30, 2010

...To make up for the complete absence of SEC filings from ExxonMobil covering environmental or regulatory risk, shareholders took the unusual step of filing their own assessment of these risks with the SEC.



New social proposals usually only receive between 5-7% of the vote. But, demonstrating that mainstream investors are already aware of and concerned about the risks that hydraulic fracturing poses to the nation’s water supplies, it received over 26% support.
Two concepts are essential to investor confidence: disclosure and the mitigation of risks. But two thirds of the 31 states have no regulations covering hydraulic fracturing, none require an accounting of the fracking fluid remaining, and only ten even want to know what chemicals were injected.
The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico teaches us that there is a risk with no oversight. Drowning government in a bathtub risks taking all of us down the drain along with it....

Say good-bye to Michigan jobs complements of Rick Snyder. Why would anyone want him for Governor.

 Ardesta CEO Rick Snyder

HandyLab chairman Rick Snyder, CEO of Ardesta, funded HandyLab

THIS HAS CONFLICT OF INTEREST WRITTEN ALL OVER IT.  Typical.  Wall Street finds a couple of brilliant minds from University of Michigan and robs them blind.  Typical.  He is a corporate raider.  He helped himself to a nice profit from this and didn't give a damn about the people of Michigan.  What a louse.


Wait a minute.  Something smells rotten in Denmark.  Rick Snyder is an adventure capitalist?  He's Wall Street.  And he used innovation out of Michigan University to rob the State of a very promising company?

What a minute here.  There is something not quite kosher.

Snyder was Chairman of Ardestra the financing company that took HandyLab out of Michigan by selling it to a multinational company?

This is the Rick Snyder that is running as a Republican for Governor of Michigan?  What makes any Michigander believe he won't act to destroy Michigan all over again after it is being brought back from the brink by Governor Granholm.  Snyder is a Bush Republican.  He is Wall Street.  He hates Michigan.  No different "W" did.  He's anti-union.

What a mistake this is.  Oh, boy what a mistake this is.

Look, Rich Snyder is NOT an inventor here.  HandyLab was founded by two women, founded by U-M grads Kalyan Handique, known as "Handy," and Sundaresh Brahmasandra, 

HandyLab was Michigan born and bred.  Snyder is the manipulator.  He was the one that moved HandyLab to some prominence and then sold the Michigan based company to Becton, Dickinson and Company.. BD is huge.  They don't need this company.  They are cannibalizing.  They bought it to stop the competition.  HandyLab is a brilliant concept, no different than the electric car.  BD bought the company to stop it from becoming bigger than BD is.

That is all this is.

Snyder is a; venture capitalist.  If Michigan thinks they have problems now, wait until he is done.  Dear God is killed a burgeoning company that could have grown in leaps and bounds and provided many, many more jobs to Michigan citizens in the future.

Holy smokes.  What a horrible guy.  Stop him.  He'll destroy the place.  He is out to use up resources and won't give a damn about any Michiganders quality of life.

The viral potential of HandyLab's "Jaguar" device, which helps doctors quickly identify infections, could eventually lead to additional manufacturing, technology and sales jobs in Ann Arbor.  (click title to entry - thank you)

CUTTING EDGE.  HandyLab had cutting edge equipment to diagnosis and isolate virus.  Do you how difficult that is?


In the spring of 2009, (click here) a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus (swine origin influenza virus [S-OIV]) emerged and began causing a large outbreak of illness in Milwaukee, WI. Our group at the Midwest Respiratory Virus Program laboratory developed a semiautomated real-time multiplex reverse transcription-PCR assay (Seasonal), employing the NucliSENS easyMAG system (bioMérieux, Durham, NC) and a Raider thermocycler (HandyLab Inc., Ann Arbor, MI), that typed influenza A virus, influenza B virus, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and subtyped influenza A virus into the currently circulating H1 and H3 subtypes, as well as a similar assay that identified H1 of S-OIV.,,,

When is every citizen going to realize they are being lied to and it is darn hard to regrown and economy.  It is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to regrown an economy with OPPORTUNISTS like Synder.  Oh, he'll produce an income for Michigan alright, by selling every asset and everything that comes out of its brain trust to some multinational company somewhere.  INCLUDING the Wind Energy Factories Granholm worked so hard to build.

WHEN are people going to learn who to trust?

This company could have marketed this with some help and increased sales to global markets.  Whoever made the Board at HandyLab believe they had to divest of their interests in order to sell their product globally?  They just weren't talking to the right people and Snyder played them like a fine fiddle.  What a bastard.

GM tried it too with Opel.  But, it didn't work.

...GM’s European branch Opel (click here) has developed a hybrid-electric van concept based on the Voltec engineering underpinning the Chevy Volt. Called the Vivaro e-Concept, it is definitely designed for European tastes. So could it come to America?...

Anti-GM crop petition tops million signatures  (click here)

(AFP) – 1 day ago

BRUSSELS — More than one million signatures have been gathered in a legal bid to "freeze" GM crop cultivation in the European Union, but a Brussels official said Wednesday the complaint would be passed to "political" advisers.

Environmental campaigners Greenpeace and Avaaz announced that the online petition target had been crossed, seeking to use a new citizen charter created under the European Union's Lisbon Treaty to put authorisations on hold.

However, the leading expert on the European parliament committee handling questions surrounding GM farming, German Green lawmaker Gerald Hafner said there could be a legal challenge.

Under Lisbon, if a million citizens from a broad base of EU countries lend their names to moves to change the law, the European Commission, the bloc's day-to-day executive, is obliged to consider the grievance....

General Motors to close Belgian Opel factory

Posted on: October 5th, 2010 

by Taylor Smith

Opel is set to close one of its factories in Belgium.

General Motors Europe, the company that owns Opel, has announce that it is set to close its Opel assembly line in the Beligian city of Antwerp, with a total loss of around 1,200 jobs. The manufacturer planned to shut the factory earlier in the year, then held back with the hope that it would find a buyer by the last week of September.

As the search for investors failed however, the plant will now shut down at the end 2010. Along with the 1,200 jobs that will be cut by the closure, 1,400 jobs were already lost at the troubled Antwerp this year.

The car plant, which was established in 1924 and employed over 7,000 staff at the height of its powers, is the first of its kind in Europe to become a victim of a global slump in consumer demand since the recession in 2008....

STOP Snyder, he'll destroy Michigan.  The road back from 2008's Republican Carpetbagging doesn't happen overnight.  Americans have to get their minds around it or they will end up back there AGAIN !!

Fudging the process and bundling mortgages is how we got into this disaster in fhe first place.

...Critics, particularly consumer groups, (click title to entry - thank you) said the measure for interstate notarizations would have made it even easier for banks and other lenders to rush the foreclosure process.  JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and GMAC Mortgage have stopped foreclosures in nearly half the states, pending investigations into the process.... 

On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. suggested that the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, which Mr. Obama createdto examine any type of financial fraud, might examine the reports of foreclosure fraud.

The president’s decision against signing the measure was his first veto intended to kill a bill; he has pocket-vetoed a measure once before, but only because it was duplicative of other legislation.... 

It would seem as though major lending institutions are taking at least as seriously as the President and his Cabinet.  I don't know why Republicans won't it?  After all the wealthy seem to believe it is prudent to review and investigate the problems affiliated with this mess.

Banking And Lending Law (click here)

Certainly the US Chamber of Commerce believes the investment banks are in error.  Then again they oppose some of the most hideous provisions.  The problem with 'institutions' of the Plutocracy is that they have too much money to throw around.  They should be held responsible for 'government costs' when they are proven to be simply obstructing law rather than having sincere reasons for litigation.  There should be some kind of penalty for 'frivolous' legal proceedings like this.

Contact: 888-249-NEWS

U.S. Chamber Joins Business Roundtable in Lawsuit Challenging Securities and Exchange Commission  (click here)

Rule Imposes Unjustified Costs, Empowering Special Interest Shareholders and Disrupting Fragile Economic Recovery

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable today filed a  legal challenge to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) final rules requiring a corporation to include in its proxy materials director nominees put forward by a shareholder (or group of shareholders) who have owned three percent or more of company stock for at least three years. Eugene Scalia and Amy Goodman of Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher LLP will be counsel to the Chamber and Business Roundtable on this litigation...

You believe this one?  The US Chamber of Commerce is too lazy to send out 1099 forms.  How is the government suppose to know what is being transacted for tax purposes if there is no reporting?  Boy Scouts Honor?  Dig the words OPPRESSIVE REGULATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I have my way, Small Businesses, SINCERELY SMALL BUSINESSES will be the bulk of the GDP in the USA.  They can purchase electronic bookkeeping systems for very little monies that can automatically print the forms to be mailed with little to no cost except for the paper and the postage.

GET OVER IT !  Small businesses are going to dominate the USA and they will be important in reporting income to the treasury.  Honestly.  Where do these institutions get these ideas from?  According to the US Chamber of Commerce every Small Business is TOO POOR AND TOO OPPRESSED AND TOO BURDENED to process paperwork properly.  Well, then I guess the US Chamber of Commerce isn't doing a good job if Small Business Owners are empowered to pay the USA Treasury.  Give me a break.  They are such bastards.

Release Date: Sep 14, 2010 
Contact: 888-249-NEWS

U.S. Chamber Condemns Senate’s Failure to Repeal 1099 Reporting Requirement (click here)

‘In this economy, there is little defense for supporting oppressive regulations on small businesses,’ Says Josten

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President for Government Affairs, R. Bruce Josten, issued the following statement today on the Senate’s failure to pass Senator Johanns’ amendment to repeal the burdensome 1099 reporting requirement included in the health care law:

“Today the Senate obstructed a measure that would’ve prevented an avalanche of new paperwork for small business owners. Their refusal to recognize that small businesses will now be forced to spend precious time and resources reporting to the federal government rather than producing, growing, and creating jobs for Americans demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding about the challenges facing this economy. In this economy, there is little defense for supporting oppressive regulations on small businesses that will hamper their ability to put people back to work.”

The Chamber led 2,434 businesses, chambers, and associations from all 50 states in sending a letter to the Senate highlighting the business community’s commitment to repealing the 1099 reporting mandate included in the health care law. Tomorrow dozens of Chamber small business members will come to Washington to let their Members of Congress know that this provision must be repealed.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest business federation representing the interests of more than 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions, as well as state and local chambers and industry associations.

 Well, Murdoch is just being a good Boy Scout I suppose.

Murdoch: 'Just being a good member' of U.S. Chamber (click here)

Speaking of News Corp., Keach Hagey buttonholed Rupert Murdoch this evening and asked him about his company's contributions to the RGA and to the Chamber of Commerce:

“It doesn’t reflect on Fox News,” he said. “It had nothing to do with Fox News. The RGA [gift] was actually [a result of] my friendship with John Kasich.”
...This gift, together with another $1 million News Corp. gift to the GOP-friendly U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has given Fox’s critics their strongest ammunition to date for arguing that the channel is not an objective observer, as it claims, but a player in the political process.
Because of this, some have speculated that News Corp. never intended the gifts to become public.
Murdoch told POLITICO that this was half right.
“The RGA we did,” expect to become public, he said. “We didn’t expect the other one.”
...“We are members of the Chamber of Commerce, and I just thought I was being a good member,” Murdoch said.

Joe Miller states Lisa Murkowski is the Alaskan aristrocacy. Perhaps. But, Miller is a hypocrit.

There seems as though Alaskans have one clear choice that speaks to the real issues, not the extremist issues.



Miller states he abhores Murkowski and her loyality to Wall Street, but, on his website Joe Miller clearly states he endorses: "The Contract From America,"  The Contract form America clearly states, "Stop the Tax Hikes."  (click here)  The only people receiving tax hikes are those making over $250,000 Adjusted Gross Income.  Therefore, Joe Miller endorses tax cuts for the wealthy.  You know, the aristocracy he claims Lisa Murkowski belongs to.



John A. Farrell



Tea Party Candidate Joe Miller's Government Spending Hypocrisy  (click here)


By John Aloysius Farrell


Posted: September 21, 2010


Share ThisAnother day, another Tea Party hypocrisy.

It seems that U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller of Alaska--the anti-socialist, constitutional purist who professes to believe in minimalist government--did not spurn the federal handout when it came to his own wallet. He pocketed $7,000 of our money in the form of federal farm subsidies.
According to his spokesman, Miller took the money back in the 1990s, when Democrat Bill Clinton's administration was presiding over a roaring economy and, working with a Republican Congress, paying off the debts of the Reagan-Bush years. When Miller was on the receiving end of our money, his attitude toward government was apparently different than it is now, when he's deploring institutions like Social Security and unemployment insurance.
[See an Opinion slide show of the 2010 elections’ bad candidates.]
Given the state of the economy, it's natural for voters to be angry. Given that voters are angry, it's natural that hypocrites, know-nothings, and con men and women will enter politics, and attempt to capitalize


It's up to Democrats, sound-minded Republicans, and independent voters to weed the frauds out.


REALISTIC OPTION.  It is nothing but the truth!  Substance and character matters over 'populous fervor' created for the purpose of manipulating the electorate.  Time to wake up to reality, not history.

Story last updated at 6:48 PM on Wednesday, October 6, 2010
McAdams offers realistic option  (click here)

I am so tired of the divisiveness in our community and the war of words in our papers. Finally this season, a person has emerged who I believe is a viable choice for "moderates" in the right/left divide. I attended both events here in Homer for U.S. Senate candidate Scott McAdams and was very pleasantly surprised.
The heated rhetoric and inflexibility coming from the Alaska's right makes it clear neither Republican Party candidate should be elected. Intelligent, articulate, McAdams offers a sensible, realistic alternative to the wackiness of Joe Miller who believes unemployment benefits are unconstitutional and who would do away with Medicare, Social Security and other federal programs.
McAdams also is far superior to "write-in" candidate Lisa Murkowski who abandoned Alaska during her time in the Senate to march "lock-step" with the party of "No." Now she's making a desperate attempt to match Miller's appeal with the Tea Party fringe.
Mr. McAdams knows Alaska. He won't turn his back on federal aid desperately needed for schools, roads, water and other vital infrastructure. McAdams supports responsibly developing ANWR and has ideas for making Alaska a "Silicon Valley" of renewable energy. He is the mayor of Sitka, a teacher, a husband, a father, a fisherman and I believe McAdams is the only rational choice to represent Alaska in the U.S. Senate.
Judith Nester

I am sure everyone has seen this waste of real estate. The Airplane Boneyard.

What are they doing there?  Leaking oil?  Put people back to work reclaiming land, cleaning up these Wall Street messes and recycling materials.

Some take religious journeys to sacred places, (click title to entry - thank you) others gather at the home fields of beloved sports teams. But my pilgrimage? One day it will be here, to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group outside of Tucson. Better known as the "Boneyard," it's the place where nearly 5,000 aerospace vehicles have gone to die....

Industry doesn't need to cut down more forests, they need to work with what they already have and have ruined in the way of land quality.

The Danube River and its tributaries run from France to the Black Sea.

No one is doing anything to stop the poisons from entering the general water quality of the entire region?  You've got to be joking?  Europe is looking at generations of contaminated water on a planet that is drying up?  Really?

Hungary toxic sludge reaches Danube branch (click title to entry - thank you)

Caustic red mud spill that killed four people has reached Mosoni-Danube, branch of Europe's second longest river 

Mark Tran and agencies 

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 7 October 2010 11.03 BST 

A toxic red mud spill that killed four people in western Hungary has reached the Mosoni-Danube, a southern branch of the Danube, Hungarian disaster officials said today.
Tibor Dobson of Hungary's national disaster unit told Reuters the spill reached the branch of Europe's second-longest river near Hungary's border with Slovakia and Austria this morning.
But Dobson said the highly caustic slurry has been reduced to the point where it is unlikely to cause further damage to the environment. The pH level of the sludge, originally above 12, is now under 10, he said. However, a harmless level is between 6 and 8.
There are fears that the toxic torrent will cause serious ecological damage to the Danube after being carried downstream by tributaries. The sludge is expected to reach the river by the weekend or early next week.
Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, who visited one of three villages inundated by red sludge, today declared one area a write-off....

This should be a wake call for every government on Earth.  If they think they have problems with clean water now, imagine not having local waters supplies at all.

Is that Alcoa smelting plant still in Iceland?  We have more aluminum cans in recycle than Carter has little liver pills, what do we need an aluminum smelting plant for?

Saturday, August 14, 2004

Sunday, Aug. 08, 2004  (click here) In the remote and barren highlands of eastern Iceland, the herds of reindeer and flocks of pink-footed geese suddenly have some company. Hundreds of workmen have moved into the unspoiled valleys northeast of the Vatnajökull icecap, where glacial rivers flow through magnificent canyons in a starkly beautiful volcanic landscape. The men are working on the Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric Project: a vast network of dams, reservoirs, tunnels, power stations and high-tension lines to support a new aluminum-smelting plant for the U.S. multinational Alcoa on a fjord some 70 km to the east. At a total projected cost of $2.2 billion for the smelter and its hydropower system, it's the biggest construction project in Iceland's history — and it's taking shape in one of Europe's last remaining large wilderness areas. Little wonder that it has sparked a furious debate over whether economic growth can co-exist with environmental care in this place that few people ever visit.

Alcoa primary aluminum smelters  (click here)

Alcoa has 25 smelting plants globally.  If the global community continues to allow this mess to continue to be propagated we'll never use recycled aluminum.  Is anyone thinking about this?  We don't need any more and some of these can be shut down.  Put people to work recycling the aluminum we already have.  It's sort of like sunshine, you only need so much before it causes cancer.

...The first was the so-called "hidden people"--(click here) or, to put it more plainly, elves--in whom some large number of Icelanders, steeped long and thoroughly in their rich folkloric culture, sincerely believe. Before Alcoa could build its smelter it had to defer to a government expert to scour the enclosed plant site and certify that no elves were on or under it. It was a delicate corporate situation, an Alcoa spokesman told me, because they had to pay hard cash to declare the site elf-free but, as he put it, "we couldn't as a company be in a position of acknowledging the existence of hidden people." The other, more serious problem was the Icelandic male: he took more safety risks than aluminum workers in other nations did. "In manufacturing," says the spokesman, "you want people who follow the rules and fall in line. You don't want them to be heroes. You don't want them to try to fix something it's not their job to fix, because they might blow up the place." The Icelandic male had a propensity to try to fix something it wasn't his job to fix....

I just love the fascination with anthropology by Wall Street, don't you?

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