"The Homicide Report" by the LA Times. Wow. They are mostly in their 20s.

But, then there is...

Joshua was shot on the porch of a home while being held by his uncle about 8:30 p.m., LAPD officials said.

Joshua was one year old.

The majority of the killings are gang related.  Have to be.  On a very rare occassion there is a death on the same day between Watts and Carson.  The 'pattern' that a quick glace reveals is death(s) in one of those areas followed by death(s) the next day in the other.  Those are the two largest homicide areas in the city, 68 and 55 respectively.

Showing 41 homicides in Vermont Square since Jan. 1, 2007 (click here)

I'll be reading this map for awhile.  I believe it is a good tool actually. 

I'll tell you something, I worked for about five years at UMDNJ in Newark, NJ.  The stereotypes in the country regarding this violence are completely wrong.  These poeple have lives and they intend to live them, but, they get all confused about the best values of life and they end up dead.  I could tell you stories that would break your heart.  The young men are very implusive.  Add to that guns in their possession and what results are dead friends and otherwise.  They get scared.  They might rob a car and never think they will get caught and pull a gun on each other for no reason at all except they are overloaded with fear.  Then when they realize what they have down will dump a half dead friend in the emergency room doors and hope he lives.

For all the time I worked in Newark, and I loved it there, I have never heard of entire families being killed.  The gangs were young and foolish, but, the familes were traditional with jobs and hopes for their children.  In all the years I worked in Newark I have never, ever, heard of entire familes, even siblings being assassinated or murdered.  Never once.  What the 'HELL' goes on in LA?

Wow.

The Southern California Golden Eagle and its status. False Alarm on endangered status. Very false.

Eagles at risk from wind turbines  (click title to article - thank you)

(Don Kelsen / Los Angeles Times)

This prairie falcon chick was trapped, banded and then placed back in its nest by field biologists studying the effects of the east Bay Area's wind farms on raptors.

Environment: Do we have to choose between clean energy and the animals? (click here)

June 7, 2011

As staff writer Louis Sahagun notes: 

Scores of protected golden eagles have been dying each year after colliding with the blades of about 5,000 wind turbines along the ridgelines of the Bay Area's Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area, raising troubling questions about the state's push for alternative power sources.

It would seem as though the 'Tea Baggerites" are hard at work making lies into truth (ie Sarah Palin and FOX New).

To begin with the cute and ugly little chick in the picture is not a Golden Eagle chick.  So, the LA Times can lose the lousy attitude in trying to suck people into 'the rant' that this chick is endangered.

The LA Times has also NOT done its homework on this topic and is trying to stir up 'anti-environmental sentiment.'  So let's get the facts straight.

The Golden Eagle, species "Aquila chrysaetos," is not endangered or threatened except for a few obsure habitats along the East Coast of the USA. 

The 'concern' in Southern California by some ornathologists is that the number of birds that die due to the Wind Farm is larger than the number of Golden Eagle chicks born each year.  That will be an interesting finding for the study being conducted, but, that does not mean the species has the status of threatened or endangered because there are Golden Eagles that migrate into the habitat in Southern California that increases the genetic diversity of the species.  That being said, the number of "Aquila chrysaetos" never falls to dangerously low numbers in the area because of its health in the primary habitat in the Western USA.

The study is prudent to 'check on' the viability of the species and as an 'early warning' sign that something may be wrong, but, tracking the Golden Eagle is far different than crying it is threatened or endangered as is definately case of the Spotted Owl in the Northwest Old Growth Forests.

Case closed.  The LA Times is trying to be a political instigator to defeat the purpose of environmental laws and they have committed a huge folly in doing so.

Citation from the US Forest Service regarding the Golden Eagle:

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : (click here)  In North America the golden eagle breeds from northern and western Alaska east to Labrador and south to southern Alaska, Baja California, western and central Texas, western Oklahoma, western Kansas, and the
highlands of northern Mexico (south to Durango, Guanauato, and Nuevo Leon) [1,8].  A remnant eastern population of golden eagles extends from Quebec into the Appalachian Mountains [9].  The golden eagle has never been common in the eastern United States.  Fewer than 30 historical breeding territories are documented in the Northeast, primarily in New York, New Hampshire, and Maine [26].

The golden eagle winters from south-central Alaska and the southern portions of the Canadian provinces south throughout the breeding range to Mexico, rarely to coastal South Carolina [8,9].

The Golden Eagle is a raptor and a cornerstone species because it is a predator.  It is a very important species and when exploited for the wrong reason can become endangered and/or threatened in the wrong hands.  Genetic diversity by migrating birds is very, very important and there should be a clear distinction that this species is healthy in Southern California because of that genetic diversity coming in from other areas of the country.  Currently there is no concern for the number of Golden Eagles in Southern California.

On the other hand, the Alternative Energy Industry, should take these studies seriously and seek answers to the problem.  No one wants dead birds, especailly me.  So, the Alternative Energy Industry needs to examine the species involved, their habitat, flight patterns and altitude where they live and thrive.  They need to identify food sources, which in the Golden Eagle case are mice, rats, voles and the like.  There is a lot that can be done to scare the birds onto a better flight path and or providee 'flyways' through the wind farms to avert tragedy.  Seriously.  "Flyways" could be where abundant amounts of food sources are found.  There is a way with dealing with all these concerns.  The birds don't have to die.

Golden Eagle Status according to The US Forest Service:

OTHER STATUS :  (same link as above.
The gold eagle is federally protected under the Bald Eagle Protection Act of 1962 [31].

Declines in golden eagle populations have been pronounced in coastal southern California.  The golden eagle is listed as a species of special concern in Washington and Montana.  Golden eagles are common and
populations are presumably stable in other western states [13].  Golden eagles are recognized as an endangered species by Maine, New Hampshire, and New York.  Other states in the Northeast either designate the golden eagle as a former resident, an occasional transient visitor, or extirpated [26].

Protected species means they CANNOT be hunted. 

United States Code Annotated Currentness. Title 16. Conservation. Chapter 5A. Protection and Conservation of Wildlife. Subchapter II. Protection of Bald and Golden Eagles. (click here)

Being prudent in 'tracking' these raptors is a lawful and good study for any ornathologist that seeks to help PROTECT the bird and from illegal activity.

...The BGEPA prohibits any form of possession or taking of both bald and golden eagles....

From the same law above, the eagles can't be pets, either.  The law provides dignity and 'special status' for these birds and rightfully so.  We are a compassionate and proud people and this is proof of that.  Cornerstone species that are raptors should be tracked to make sure they are not dwindling due to pollution of other factors.

Protection and 'status' laws are complicated topics and those that use them glibly are doing so negligently and ignorantly.  This type of inappropriate dialogue causes lawsuits. 

I am quite sure The Alternative Energy Industry will address this concern for reasons of supporting the public without being sued.  After all, they are 'the green energies' now aren't they.

Hurricane Adrian is the first hurricane of the season in the East Pacific. (click title to entry for 12 hour loop - thank you)

June 9, 2011
1230:14z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite

The current movement of Adrian is westward into the Pacific, but, it is connected to a vortex in the North Atlantic.  In 2009 Hurricane, which was a Cat 5 at its highest wind speed, had a similar dynamic and came on shore Mexico after first traveling northwest parallel to the North American coast line.

I don't believe we will be seeing Cat 5 hurricanes this early in the season as the strongest storms occur when Sol makes a return trip south in its traverse of Earth, but, the potential cannot be dismissed for any of these East Pacific storms.

Hurricane Adrian will probably make land fall at Porto Vallarta as possibly a Cat 2 or a weak Cat 3.  That is my best guess and most prudent one.

I can't stay silent with a child in the balance.

It is not surprising the newlyweds of Anthony and Huma Weiner are expecting their first child.

If Breitbart thinks he is doing the nation a favor by exposing skin to insult a new marriage and a new baby he is sadly mistaken.  I find Breitbart's priorities disgusting and he should be sued along with women involved who do not care what occurrs in the marriage or with a pregnancy. 

There is an ethics investigation to be conducted to determine if there are violations the House has to deal with and that is where the photos and testimonies of the women should have gone in the first place.  They could have been placed into the public rhelm at any time if the House proved it was not going to handle the issue. 

But, for Breitbart (I always think of Homer Simpson when I hear that name) thinks he is exempt from causing harm and being sued he has a nothing thing coming.  If I were Representative Weiner and my wife were expecting I would not be taking this lying down.  He made his statement to the public and that's the end of it.  He and his wife should enjoy their pregnancy and hope the child is born healthy.  I think Breitbart should be handed a summons for harassment and imperiling the health of a woman.

Bight - Bart

Just one of those strange analogies that crop up for me when I hear the name.

Go figure.

President should summit with OPEC and allow them to build their own refineries in the USA.

The Repuboicans are always crying there isn't enough 'oil and gas' infrastructure and that the USA is at the mercy of other, but, they believe in the free market system.  Well, then the people with the most oil can build refineries and hire USA labor to run them to bring their oil to the USA for processing and completely eliminate the 'middle man' and provide an honest price for energy to consumers. 

President Obama should have a State Dinner for Saudi Arabia and others that can bring products Americans can make within their own borders and provide jobs to Americans for the products they purchase from other countries.  There is no way the USA could ever have enough oil to fill the demand for Wall Street's commodity market. 

Why didin't Bush and Cheney offer to allow the Saudis a refinery to sell their product directly to the American people?  Perhaps the speculation of oil was more rewarding to the former President and Vice President than anyone is willing to admit.  After all, if the Saudis could bring their oil directly to a refinery in the USA who would need Halliburton in Iraq?

OPEC should not allow manipulation by speculators and only determine production by amounts currently in reserve.

Determining production for OPEC should be easy.  The global reserves will state how much oil there is and how much should be extracted.

In recent months, OPEC has been played for fools by Wall Street while they insisted the unrest in the Middle East was justification for increasing prices.  That simply isn't true. 

The oil ministers of the MIddle East have a conscience and they know what the global market consumption is and they should be able to 'set policy' based in that history and the trend by the USA to reduce the need for oil and gas by pursuing alternative fuels, especially at the tailpipe.

OPEC should not be easily manipulated by speculators that could not care less how much of their profits actually go to the countries that OWN the oil fields.  It is ridiculous.

Understanding the global consumption and where it is going, hopefully down in demand, should guide the OPEC countries in their production.

Wall Street Speculators should be irrelevant to the production of these countries.  They are not reaping the profits Wall Street speculators are because they are not charging that high a price for the oil they produce.  The outrageous speculation by Wall Street will never stop.  They care less about people and the need so much as the money that lines their pockets.  Their is an argument that oil producers should sell their oil not to the commodity markets, but, with CONTRACTS to refineries that will guarantee a price at the pump for consumers all over the world.  There is absolutely no reason for OPEC to engage in commodity markets.  They can open contract negotiations directly to refineries guaranteeing they receive the lion share of the cost of the oil while reasonable profits are made by refineries to the consumer.  OPEC has the ability through contract negotiations with refineries to control the cost of oil directly from the oil fields and address production accordingly.

OPEC can set prices to consumers if they want to, they simply have to want to and take control of this entire mess.  There seems to be little anyone else can do.  If there is no cooperation at the refineries than institute an embargo until others deal reasonably with OPEC.  I believe OPEC can control the quality of life to a globe of citizens seeing unreasonable 'goods' prices, including food, they just have to find the will to do it.

Was there chloroform in the body of Caylee Anthony? If not, why not?

I have a theory.  Remember propofol intoxication of Michael Jackson?  And there was that medication for children in the fifties that worked to put them to sleep.  What heck was it?

Paregoric.  Parents would give their children paregoric for stomach aches and set them off to sleep.  Paregoric was  camphorated tincture of opium.  People in Afghanistan probably use it as a benevolent agent for sleep and don't understand why The West is so opposed to it.

At rate, chhoroform (CHCl3) is used as an anesthetic, no different than propofol.  Where the heck did Anthony come by chloroform?  If she used it on Caylee, she used it as a sleeping agent while she partied with her friends.  I doubt she expected Caylee to die. 

The prosecutor and the defense need to put this into perspective.  If there is any chloroform within Caylee's body and Anthony was using it for sedative purposes then the investigation isn't over.  I don't think it is first degree murder.  I believe the bizarre social behavior of Anthony when Caylee died is very explainable considering that was her goal and she simply didn't know what to do about her circumstances otherwise.  A Borderline Personality Disordered female would consider partying as a 'normal' behavior even though her daughter never work from her coma. 

It really don't believe this was premeditated.  I think it was dysfunctional and stupid and Anthony was never meant to be a mother, but, I don't believe she is a killer necessarily.  Somebody needs to get this right. 

Sad, but, true.  When a society makes the citizen an authority above all else people begin they can control their world and the world around them.  Anthony thought she was being smarter than the average young mother.  It even could have happened with a nanny involved.

Casey Anthony Trial: Was Caylee drugged with Chloroform so Casey could party?  (click title to entry - thank you)

9:24 AM, Jun 8, 2011

...It's no secret the young mother loved to party.

Pictures are posted all over the internet of Casey wearing short, tight, form-fitting skirts and dresses.
She is seen in nightclubs dancing provocatively with other women and posing in photos for "hot body" contests at an Orlando club called Fusion...

Guaranteed, it wasn't premediated and the 'story telling' has 'evolved' as she tries to save her own life with the HELP of her family.  There is a larger investigation that needs to begin and should have been on going if Caylee died of chloroform overdose.  Where did Anthony get it and why?  Did the nanny play a roll in this and did the family at any venue know about it?  Certainly they weren't ignorant to her party schedule.  I really believe this case is bigger than anyone wants to admit and the family has bargained in order to exonerate themselves from the knowledge of her activities.  Something is not correct here.  There are others involved.  That is my estimation.  No one optains chloroform without help.  No different than propofol.

If the jurors are worth their salt this is going to end up in a hung jury for the inabiltity of the prosecution to bring to scope the entire case.  Caylee is not getting justice here.  I sincerely the prosecution is playing with stereotypes rather than presenting the evidence in its correct context. 

Why the uprising in the Middle East? Nation building for the sake of oil. That's why.

There is an article in the Washington Post regarding a report stating without the USA miltitary and USA money Afghanistan's 'nation building' is unsustainable.  The reason the Middle East is going through these difficult times is because they don't want the military dictatorships that have ruled their lives for decades. 

The current stategy according to the USA military will have to be maintained in Afghanistan for at least ten more years in order to accomplish its goals.  The theory behind those statements is not really such a mystery.  Americans always believe that once given 'a chance' to achieve 'democracy' and 'capitalism' as we know it the people of Afghanistan will reach for it and it will take hold.  Supposedly the only 'element' preventing all that is the Taliban.

Perhaps.  But, when one looks to the Middle East to find a reason to believe in ten years a benevolent government will 'control' Afghanistan 'without' further worries, that is a flat out lie.  The nation building that occurred throughout the Middle East and sustained for decades is being removed today.  Will benevolent democraies replace them?  The honest answer is no one knows, except, the sincerely god fearing people of Egypt want peace.  Their answer currently is they don't appreciate Israel and Israel is in the way of peace.  That view is giving validity to the extremists that have caused the violence throughout the Middle East for the same amount of time there existed national building dominated by civilization rather than wars.

The topic in the Washington Post is about Afghanistan and withdrawing troops and sustainability of nation building.  But, in all sincerity the topic is much bigger than that and actually includes the triangulation of Pakistan with China.  The countries that accepted USA money seeking to 'create' a nation that is civilized and able to trade and exist in peace with global powers learn quickly if they are 'big and bad' like the USA, Russia and China they can have arsenals of weapons, carry clout in the world and build nukes. 

So, if the USA is entering a country in defense of its own people when the extremists of the Middle East cause tragedy, they have to ask why.  That why should never include nation building and providing the venue that Iraq has today in its ability to become a power in an unstable region of the world where the next elections can turn over incredibly destructive power to extremist.

What is occurring across the Middle East today is a religious rebellion and the Shi'ites are at the center of it. 

One of the pictures in The Washington Post article is a boy climbing a tree.  That seems great in that children can actually have a childhood in Afghaistan.  But, that isn't the truth about that picture.  The boy is climbing a tree in Afghanistan in the middle of a grave yard.  It is the only place where he can find a tree that is safe enough to climb.  In a sanctuary of dead people a tree grows nad a child finds a playground.  That is demented beyond any definition of nation buliding I am willing to participate in.

...The report describes (click title to article - thank you)  the use of aid money to stabilize areas the military has cleared of Taliban fighters — a key component of the administration’s counterinsurgency strategy — as a short-term fix that provides politically pleasing results. But it says that the enormous cash flows can overwhelm and distort local culture and economies, and that there is little evidence the positive results are sustainable....

If the Sunnis and the Shi'ites want to destroy each other that is their call, but, Israel has a right to its sovereignty and it is NOT the problem of the unrest and hatred.  The problem in the Middle East is about tolerance of each other and seeking peace as a method to that tolerance.  Until that is realized among all the nations of the region there is dearly little reason to continue a war started a decade ago to root out and find international terrorists.  We are finished in Afghanistan, they can get their nukes from Pakistan and Iran.  The USA can protect India and seek stabilization through them.

Pakistan reduces US military trainers  (click here)
A senior Pakistan military official said late Tuesday that 90 of an estimated 135 US trainers have left the country, the latest setback in the deeply troubled relationship between the United States and Pakistan’s military following the May 2 US raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin laden.
The 90 Americans had been training the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force made up mostly of tribesmen from the frontier areas, according to the military official, who asked not to be named in accordance with military practice.
The Frontier Corps is Pakistan’s front line force against militants in the tribal regions. The US military personnel were teaching members of the force to become trainers.
The US has confirmed it is reducing the number of its military personnel in Pakistan but has not given an exact figure....


8 June 2011 Last updated at 07:28 ET

Pakistan: US drone strike 'kills 15' people  (click here)

...Officials say the drone fired five missiles, destroying a fortress-like militant compound in Zoi village....

Get this one.  The editorial actually believes it is possible to change the stripes on a zebra.

Stabilize Afghanistan to prop up Pakistan  (click here)

President Obama has pledged to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan next month, with a goal of pulling all combat troops out by the end of 2014.
He hasn’t yet decided how many troops to pull this year. But since the killing of Osama bin Laden, domestic pressures have grown for him to front-load the drawdown.
If the point was to squash al-Qaida, people ask, why are we keeping thousands of troops in Afghanistan? After all, bin Laden was found in Pakistan. So was top al-Qaida military leader Ilyas Kashmiri, reportedly killed by a drone strike on Friday.
Having just returned from two weeks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where I talked to U.S., Afghan and Pakistani leaders, I’ve come to a different conclusion: The drawdown should proceed slowly, at least for this year....

That's right just long enough to put a facsimile George Bush back in office.

The truth is the current state of affairs of Afghanistan and Pakistan is that they are corrupt.  The Pakistani ISI is one of the most corrupt intelligence services in the world.  What makes anyone believe without rolling into Pakistan and taking over the country while killing millions of people that this will change?  Look at Iraq.  The reason there appears to be a similarity between Iraq and The West is because hundreds of thousands of people have died.  Why is the mean age of the men in the Middle East so young?  I said it before and I'll say it again, the REAL war after September 11, 2001 was with Afghanistan and AFTER we marched through Pakistan.  Bush and Rumsfeld blew it and they knew they did, so they went to Iraq after WMD to save face and but Cheney's indebtness to Halliburton at rest.

Now, between Afghanistan and Iraq we have put over 5000 USA military soldiers to rest. 

Enough of this charade.  Bring the troops home.

Their is a tropical wave in the eastern Pacific that has spawned two tropical storms in two days.

June 6, 2011
0330:15z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the north and west hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop)

#	Name	Date	Wind	Pres	Cat
1	Tropical Depression ONE_E	07-07 JUN	30	1005	-	Active
2	Tropical Storm ADRIAN	08-08 JUN	40	1001	-	Active

Tropical Depression Develops In Eastern Pacific  (click here)

By Mark Dunphy - Tue Jun 07, 9:23 am

A low pressure system off the coast of Mexico looks set to develop into the Eastern Pacific’s first tropical depression of the season.

Located about 425 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico, System 91E is in a good spot for development: warm sea surface temperatures and low wind shear. Those are two factors needed to help a tropical cyclone develop....

But, that isn't all.

Infrared imagery on June 5 at 19:47 UTC (3:47 p.m. EDT/12:47 PDT) from the AIRS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite showed strong convection (purple) and thunderstorms in System 91E, about 425 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. Credit: NASA/JPL, Ed Olsen

Tropical Storm Brews In The Caribbean  (click title to entry - thank you)

By Mark Dunphy - Mon Jun 06, 8:32 pm

Some of those thunderstorm cloud tops that stretch from Jamaica east to the area south of Puerto Rico are very high and very cold. The strongest cloud top temperatures are as cold as or colder than -63 Fahrenheit / -52 Celsius, which is an indicator of a lot of energy building those high thunderstorms.

The AIRS imagery is about 1700 kilometres (1,056 miles) wide, and the showers and thunderstorms associated with System 94L fill up that track from west to east, making this a huge area of low pressure. Interestingly enough, the National Hurricane Center noted that today, June 6, the area of lowest pressure is located about 130 miles south of Grand Cayman, and separate from the strongest thunderstorms.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) noted that this system has a Medium chance of becoming the Atlantic Ocean season’s first tropical storm before the upper level winds start battering it. NHC is planning to send a hurricane hunter into the storm on Tuesday, June 7 to investigate....

 As these storms develop and it looks as though it is frequently, the temperatures over the terrestrial USA will come down a bit.  That does not thwart the threat of severe weather to continue, such as tornadoes and hail, but, it will not occur with as much ferocity.  Hopefully.  It is a very severe troposphere globally.  Currently there is a severe drought in China and water is a delicate commmodity.  Texas is also experiencing a sustained drought. 

Temperature Map
June 8, 2011
0345 gmt

Arizona fires: Evacuations in parts of Eagar  (click here)

by Connor Radnovich, Ofelia Madrid, William Hermann and Lindsey Collom - Jun. 7, 2011 08:16 PM
The Arizona Republic

Authorities moved to evacuate a major part of Eagar Tuesday afternoon, as winds fanned the mammoth Wallow Fire and threatened the eastern Arizona town.

By 7 p.m., residents in Eagar and nearby Springerville were experiencing rolling power outages and a few gas stations were out of fuel….

Cities along Missouri River prepare for flooding  (click here)

By TONY RIZZO

The Kansas City Star

Just west of Yankton, S.D., about 350 miles from Kansas City, a swirling muddy problem is being unleashed our way at 130,000 cubic feet per second.

The practical result of that problem manifested itself Tuesday in Parkville, where hundreds of volunteers toiled in the steamy heat to fill thousands of sandbags. They hope to shield the community’s downtown area from the expected rise of the Missouri River.

Like residents of towns up and down the river, the workers in Parkville had their eyes on the menacing brown water nearby while their memories went back to 1993 and the record flood levels that in some places soon could be equaled or surpassed….

This is the Climate Crisis.  Deaths are occuring in astronomial numbers.  Last year alone, 50,000 people died from the Moscow fires.  China's population along the Yangtze River.  Some rains are predicted for that area, but, they are severe downpours that are expected.  That may create mudslides rather than relief from the drought.

Photo taken on June 5, 2011 shows rainwater permeating the fragmentary riverbed land after a heavy rainfall in Poyang Lake in Duchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province. The water level of Poyang Lake here had risen by 0.14 meters to 10.01 meters by 8 a.m. Sunday thanks to a heavy rainfall from 10 a.m. Saturday, but the level is still at the historical low and seven meters lower than the past year. (Xinhua/Fu Jianbin)

China adds 1.2 bln yuan to drought-hit regions (click here)

BEIJING, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Ministry of Finance (MOF) on Tuesday said it had added 1.2 billion yuan (about 182.65 million U.S. dollars) to help five regions along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River make a success of disaster relief work.
"The emergency allocation is primarily meant to aid drought-stricken Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan provinces in restoring agricultural production and fishing," said the MOF in a statement posted at its website.
The additional funding came after the MOF had previously injected nearly 1.14 billion yuan to the five provinces for efforts to combat drought there....

Histopathology Colon --Hemorrhagic infarct

The lecturer's seeminly glib manner is due to trying to make the educational environment more acceptable to a serious condition. It could probably be done without, but, I am not the student necessarily or the professor teaching.


The important aspect of this video is that serious 'cell membrane' degradation is taking place. This is often noted in hemorrhagic colitis. It is called an infarct because the tissue is disrupted, the cell membranes are destroyed.


If these infarcts are occuring one week after infection that is what is causing higher mortality rates. With this current strain of bacteria these 'infarct' could be happening in the other organ's tissues due to the same process here. It is a complex picture both for the patient and for the investigators.

One full week of bacteria replication within the body before symptoms are known is a lot replication, that is why it is so difficult to beat this lousy bug out of existence in a treatment regime.  In addition, after a week laters it is a multi-organ involvement.  Kidneys.  There goes your filtration and increased blood pressure.  The patients are compromised severely.  Increased blood pressure CAUSES 'system degradation' and ultimately shock.  It is bad bacteria. 

The hemorrhagic eschericia coli outbreak in Germany is causing the farmers illegitimate harm due to fear.

This strain of E. coli has similar symptoms to that of "Hemorrhagic Colitis" bacteria.  The hemorrhagic E. Coli that causes Hemorrhagic Colitis is called e.coli 0157:H7.    E.coli 0157:H7 is a healthy intestinal bacteria in cattle, but, when humans are exposed to it in their intestine it becomes very dangerous.  The image above is of e.coli 0157:H7.

...European Union agriculture ministers (click title to entry - thank you) held emergency talks in Luxembourg yesterday to discuss aid for farmers who are unable to sell their vegetables due to growing consumer fears over the outbreak.

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The EU health commissioner, John Dalli, said they were also due to review food safety alert systems to ensure warnings had ''scientific basis and proof'' before becoming public. That was requested by Spain, whose farmers were hit hard by the inaccurate warnings. Madrid has said it will demand full compensation from Germany for the losses, estimated at €225 million ($306 million) a week since the crisis began....

The financial stability of farmers that may or may not have problems is definately an effect of decisions to protect the public.  As noted in the article from The Sydney Morning Herald it is difficult to find the lousy little bacteria as it takes an entire week for the first symptoms to manifest and then back tracking to actually find the source is extremely difficult. The farmers cooperating in concern of the public should have the sympathies of the public to insure they are providing openness to that investigation.  Currently, all the tests of the suspected produce are coming up negative, but, the public remains fearful of these foods.

The quest to find this bacteria's source is important.  Intimidating the investigators or the potential sources isn't going solve anything. 

E. Coli confirmed in SWVA child that died, possible "outbreak" in NETN under investigation (click title to entry - thank you)

DRYDEN, Va. --

UPDATE:  5:16 pm
Lab results confirm the presence of E. coli in the child that died this weekend and the presence of the bacteria in a close contact of the child, Virginia Department of Health Public Information Officer Robert Parker said.
"The lab results confirm the presence of E. coli 0157:H7," Parker said. "That's a strain of E. coli that causes severe illness."...

E. coli outbreak strain seems unusually deadly

...According to China's BGI Shenzen, (click here) one of the world's largest gene sequencing labs, the outbreak bug is 93% identical genetically to an E. coli strain that has caused illness in AIDS patients in the Central African Republic. But the new bug appears to now sport genes that lead to both bloody diarrhea and kidney failure, as well as resistance to 14 kinds of antibiotics, instead of just one, tetracycline, like before. What's more, the bugs now lacks an "adhesin" gene (as in "adhesion") usually linked to the germ sticking to things. That may mean it has replaced that gene with an even nastier way to stick to your gut. Ain't evolution grand?

"This is a very bizarre bug, a fascinating organism," says Lutwick, who teaches at the SUNY-Downstate College of Medicine in Brooklyn and is a moderator on the widely-followed ProMed outbreak aler network, an emailed update service where doctors post new outbreak developments for each other. "But these things can happen. In biology they will happen"...

Attack of the Australian vineyards, who see this wine as a threat to their product price.

The 'floor price' for wine also disincentives alcoholism.  The alcohoic dollar won't go as far and begin to bring down dependency.

...The interim chief executive (click title to entry - thank you) of the agency, Rhonda Galbally, confirmed that the strategic plan included the concept of a uniform alcohol floor price.

Forbidding retailers from selling alcohol below a certain price per standard drink would allow them and manufacturers to share any extra profit.

The prices of most drinks, including beer, would be unaffected as they are already above the likely floor price. But cleanskin wines would be affected....


 

A moral ban on the sale of cattle to Indonesia by Australia due to inhumane treatment.

...The ban is the first such move since the the Howard government suspended sending live sheep to Egypt in February 2006 following television footage showing mistreatment of the animals.

The outcry leading to the suspension of cattle exports to Indonesia began on Monday last week when the ABC's Four Corners broadcast footage showing brutal slaughtering methods and mistreatment inside Indonesian abattoirs....

Weiner was set up. It is obvious he was set up.

There is no doubt he acted as a 'single man' rather than a newlywed, but, the other parites obviously asked him to continue with 'disclosure' of his person in relation to compromising content. His ? admirer ? not only asked to see skin and preformance, but, also insisted he provide identity of who it was to validate the compromise of his identity she was seeking.

There are a lot of questions here and I want a full investigation to the 'priority of intimidation' in regard to seeking power over a USA Congressman. Weiner was not solisticing this, he was being solicited from what I can see. The tactic is as old as the USA Constitution itself.

There really are more important aspects of life than the obsession the media is showing over all this. I won't comment again on something that needs clarification.

While President Obama is enjoying an increase in polls with rare exception, the 18 - 29 year olds are very disillusioned.

Brittney
Like many "millennials," Brittney, a 20-year-old student from Northridge, CA, dreams of a financially-stable future, "a house with a kitchen and lots of books," but she doesn't see a clear path toward achieving it. After having already moved 10 times during her life, Brittney is determined to "do it better than her parents." She skateboards between two jobs while juggling full time college classes and is forced to deal with short-term economic realities instead of focusing on her dream of becoming a book editor. Brittney wonders: will she be able to pay back debts and student loans? And should she stay in college as her debt rises?

The "Allstate / National Journal Heartland Monitor finds a decrease of 10% for the President since 2008.  There is a great deal of dispair in this age group and he sincerely needs to reach out to them and CONNECT to bring reason, direction and hope to their lives.  At the title to this entry worth watching and to click here is a graph of the President's Approval Rating its change from 2008 to 2010 to present.  It is an interesting poll that includes more depth than found in most polls where only numbers matter.

It is sad to realize our young people see themselves as floudering and without a clear path to a promising future. 

And, to start with, do you feel that THE COUNTRY, in general, is headed in the right direction, or do you think things are seriously off on the wrong track? (click here)


A full 31% of the people polled didn't know how to answer that question or refused to answer it. 

31%. 

The President needs to connect with the nation without the interference of the Right Wing Media that never tells the truth.  If their propaganda lies aren't obvious in their 'star performer' in Palin, than I don't know what is. 

The country is confused more than it is not and that is due to confused signals and understandings of the return of the American Dream.

Jounalists unable to find civilian casualties in NATO airstrikes of Libya.

There is the issue of Gadaffi's son and two grandchildren.  If nothing else the grandchildren are definately civilians.  The USA under Reagan did the same thing.  I don't know if that is the price a tyrant pays for keeping his family within a military intelligence complex, though.

...“This is a case of road traffic accident,” it said in English.   “This is the trouth [sic].” (TRUTH) (click title to entry - thank you)

Nearly three months into NATO’s bombing campaign, Moammar Gaddafi’s government churns out daily propaganda about the alliance supposedly inflicting civilian casualties. Last week, it said that 718 people had died from mid-March to late May and that 4,067 had suffered significant injuries.

But it has failed to show foreign journalists more than a handful of dead or wounded people. Indeed, when reporters are taken on official trips, what they see suggests that NATO is being accurate and careful.

In the past week alone, up to a dozen loud explosions have been heard in Tripoli every night, but reporters are allowed to see only a fraction of the bombed sites.
On Sunday, journalists were taken to look at some broken windows in a church but were not allowed to visit a nearby military site that had been destroyed. Then they were taken to a farm and shown a dead dog and dead chickens.
A man there said no humans had been injured, but that story changed by the time the journalists reached the Sharia al-Zawiyah hospital.
As the baby slept, a man arrived at the bedside and was introduced first as a Health Ministry spokesman, and then as a neighbor of the family.
“Killing our children, this is what NATO does,” he said, giving his name as Imad Gheith. Prompted by an official at his side, he repeated the regime’s slogan. “God, Moammar, Libya, that’s all we need.”...


Libya: Gaddafi’s son, three grandchildren killed in NATO air strike (click here)

Sunday 01 May 2011

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO air strike on a Tripoli house that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren, a government spokesman said on Sunday.
Libyan officials took journalists to the house, which had been hit by at least three missiles. The roof had completely caved in inplaces, leaving mangled rods of reinforcing steel hanging down among splintered chunks of concrete....

Five American Soldiers are dead in East Baghdad at Camp Loyalty. Bring them home.

In Iraq, the USA never knows who their enemy is and who their ally is as they leave Iraq to take care of itself. 

The 'jihad' culture of the Middle East is a problem for their governments, but, that does mean the USA is going to be picking up the bill for policing the country while our soldiers die.  That is something the Iraqi government is going to have to do for itself from now on. 

When I read the article and it sickened me, it also made me wonder whom exactly was behind these attacks.  See, the current Iraqi government wants the USA to stay and a reasonable person has to wonder if there is a faux impetus at work to make that happen.  Regardless, this IS the Middle East and there are all sorts of issues similar to this everywhere, so the idea the USA is going to quell this is hideous.

Take for instance, the recent rocket launch into Israel.  Very similar sort of thing, but, without the soldier casualities, but, a young man, a civilian instead.  It just never seems to stop regardless of the OLD USA regime of Bush and Cheney that stated it was necessary to make that happen in Iraq.  I don't thinK so.  The picture above is from "Anti-War.com" where the link is at the title to the entry.  Thank you.


...Attacks on American (click here) troops have risen dramatically in recent months. Monday's deaths brought to 18 the number of Americans killed by hostile fire so far this year, nearly as many as the 22 who died from enemy fire in all of last year, according to the iCasualties website, which tracks casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.

That pace, however, is still far below the rate of 2007, when 767 Americans were killed in combat, the peak year for U.S. fatalities in Iraq, or 2009, when 75 American troops died as a result of enemy fire.

The last time so many U.S. soldiers died from hostile fire in a single day in Iraq was April 10, 2009, when five were killed when a suicide truck bomb exploded in Mosul, in Nineveh province, according to iCasualties....

When the USA House Ethics Committee discusses the so called "Sex Scandal" of Rep. Anthony Weiner, they also...

...need to find out how long Breitbart had the 'leaker' of the personal exchange of photos ON STAFF and what he paid her to extort and coerce a United States Congressman.

Britbart is desperately trying to be the next great tabloid capable of destroying anything in his path. 

Ex-girlfriends do vindictive things when they 'don't get their man.'  The woman is as much the issue as anyone, considering she has been lying as well.

I don't like to 'blame the victim' either, but, in this case she sincerely doesn't appear to be a victim so much as a conversationalist interested in a "booty call." 

Weiner lied about the photo? Why did he believe he needed a 'Sarah Palin" attention getting moment?

Everyone should do the math.  This is a non-issue and the House ethics committee will probably see it that way.  I don't know how he defines inappropriate, but, that picture is tame in 'Single-ville' compared to others.  Unless there was some kind of campaign promise attached to this mess, I don't really see anything that is strange or worrisome. 

Representative Weiner and his wife need to continue to bring Democratic values forward to the people. 

I believe his wife did the best thing.  This wasn't adultery and quite frankly the 'stand by your man' scenario is 'old hat.'  A Wife have a right to be hurt and disapproving of any 'roaming.'  Those moments should not have to be public.

Case closed.

New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, 46, (click title to entry - thank you) held a press conference confirming that he had inappropriate conversations with six women over the past three years through social networking, and also sent a photo of himself in his underwear to a young woman in Seattle. Weiner married Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's aide Huma Abedin last year. She was not at the press conference. Weiner tearfully apologized to his wife and said they did not plan to split up. "We will weather this," he said. "I love her very much and she loves me." He said he will not resign from Congress. (Dimitrios Kambouris/VF11/Getty Images)

I believe he was worried about losing his new bride. You know people do strange things when they are single. I hope all his wild ideas of 'getting a date' are over now that he has a stable and happy relationship. I suppose his constituents will have to decide about all this later, but, it probably sounds more normal than not. Unfortunate he lied, but, with a pretty wife like that it is understandable.

I'll end it here. There is no anticipation in looking at a moon several hours old.

My family have been union folks and company people.  We enjoyed the life each provided, though different, no doubt.  If it weren't for strong unions of which we belonged there would not be great management jobs to step into.

Unions are vital to the life of the USA and they have taken a beating in recent years.  It is not good for the USA and its citizens to be proved a weak position for union bargaining.  It is victimization of the Middle Class and the family in the USA to attack and destroy unions. 

Unions can help a company.  The one I belonged to was important to the company it held dear to its existance.  We helped qualify workers for longevity.  We helped expertise and loyalty.  None of that is bad, but, it is certainly under appreciated.

I love my country and I where a UNION label on my life.

Good night.