Have a good weekend.

Only if it is considered a horse race.

...So nothing inspires (click here) more angst than when that same Obama stumbles, as he has leaving the gate in 2012....

People can try to tell me he didn't mean it, but, they are so very wrong.


I often get the feeling no one really knows yet understands President Obama. What you see is what you get. He isn't the 'average' politician. Compared to Romney, President Obama is a seasoned veteran. I sincerely don't appreciate the insult to one of the most decent men we have had in office in the modern era.


When anyone looks at history and wants to see it reflected in the eyes of honesty and dedication look no further than Barak Obama. All greats didn't worry about the political circus, they worried about the nation. He is on his game, if one wants to call it a game.


He is campaigning not for his own ego. He is campaigning to protect the country from one more time falling into a long held and repeated trap. He loves this country. He loves the people of this country and he is at much at war with his hope for us as he is the slacker Congress that has no hope for most of the people of this nation.


I suppose Politico believes it is inspiring him to greatness, but, he is already there. He is setting the tone for this Presidential race and I believe it is a very clear message. No President in the history of this country has had to face the circumstances Barak Obama did when entering office. I am not just referring to the financial crisis, I am quite sure FDR had the same worries; but; he came to office hated and despised with lies and distortions about his character and priorities by an entire party in this nation. I don't believe FDR had to face that.


President Obama has done remarkably well and if the people of this country listens to the rhetoric rather than the facts and believes a FORMER CEO can do better than they aren't thinking about their country, they are 'believing' the were never held hostage by the ruthless.


Mayor Booker unfortunately looked at the statements made about Romney and changed the dialogue. The President's dialogue was never about anyone but Mitt Romney. The hysteria surrounding the talk about Bain Capital and the money it made at the cost of Middle Class Americans wasn't about equity or equity markets, it was about the CEO, Mitt Romney and how he leveraged the future of a stressed industry into the dust. Maybe everyone missed that part.

Whatever.

But, President Obama has been faced with a changing GOP, a divided camp even the Speaker can't find loyalty from, a country rebounding from a depression and this time it was worse than FDR's, it was global, not just the USA. Not a Dust Bowl. But, a global economic collapse where no loyalty from a bank bailout he counted on stabilizing when he voted for the bailout in the first place. 

He didn't stumble, the press did. The press doesn't understand him, doesn't care to understand him and certainly can't match his character and dedication to this country. He doesn't look to Wall Street as the answer for hope anymore, he has realized a sustainable economy begins with a strong Middle Class and burgeoning small local business. He would have been satisfied to simply have everyone back at work after the bailout and work on things from there, but, he wasn't afforded that comfort. 

I have and I do admire President Obama. There is no other time in this country's history when a President had to deal with a bizarre political environment and worse economic structure with the wealth of the world sequester among so few. I don't know how he did it, but, something tells me his embrace of a very diverse Cabinet and his youthful vigor carried him through these past few years; I only hope he can continue for four more. There should no doubt he is the best President in the modern era, it could have been far worse. FDR entered a war and Obama ended one. Very different and very tough going . I love his devotion to the truth and to a path of peace. He did and does deserve the Nobel Peace Prize and I am grateful he was recognized so early for his strong character and loyalty to those outcomes that would serve the world the best. 

Stumble? I don't see how.

Taking the casualties to al Qaeda sites. Al Qaeda took the lives of innocent people in Iraq and Afganistan, too.

Why shouldn't the people of these countries know the truth. They only know what is propagandized to them.


In the tribal regions of Pakistan are some of the most dangerous criminals in the world. They covet the lives of innocent people to seek control in the name of god. That isn't what I call a free society.


Dr. Afridi was a man dedicated to human life, yet, a tribal council saw him as a danger to the sovereignty of their region and Pakistan. But, these others, the ones that kill are not dangerous to the sovereignty of Pakistan? That is no understanding of a value system the global community recognizes as equitable or even humane. This is pure brutality and while some of Pakistan like to think the tribes are valuing their sovereign nation, they are very mislead.


I realize Pakistan is a dangerous place for people of peace, but, there is a reason why that is so. It astounds me the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was accused wrongly for a murder and blamed for the nuclear power that Kahn later sold to rouge nations. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was just as murdered as the man he was wrongly accused of killing. We still don't know who actually killed the man.


Pakistan has many, many internal struggles over power and to protect the sovereignty of tribal lands that seek power over the freely elected government is wrong. That is treason, so why aren't the criminals in the tribal areas held for trial as well? They aren't. They are allowed to brutalize and demean the lives of the very people of that region with impunity and then export it to Afghanistan and if the potential comes together, the world faces danger. It is hideous.

The Pakistan government/legislature has to ask what they want, a country that is sincerely sovereign the rest of the global community respects for the peace it holds dear including a quality of life for the people, or a tribal region wrongly protected that give comfort to those of al Qaeda. In the case of Osama bin Laden; he was living in a military complex. I mean you have got to be joking. There was a reason he was there and that was to seek power to take over the nuclear capacity of Pakistan even if he had to educate others in the academy to do it. It was no mistake he was there.


Pakistan is still not looking hard enough for the remnants of Osama's plans for that country. If they are worrying about their sovereignty from the USA, then they need to look internally to where the next treasonist is coming from. The tribal regions are not safe. They are not safe for Pakistani citizens that live in them, they have no loyalty to the sovereign government and they are not safe for global security. Sooner or later, the Pakistan legislature has to move to bring about peace in the tribal regions and secure their  citizens from the violence of those trying to overthrow the government. It is not the global community, including the USA, that seeks to end the sovereignty of Pakistan. Follow the violence and Pakistan will find their traitors. Outlawing weapon production in the tribal regions would be a good start.

"Within 48 hours, our team plastered the same sites with altered versions ... that showed the toll al-Qaeda attacks have taken on the Yemeni people" ... Hillary Clinton. Photo: AFP

Ellen Nakashima

May 25, 2012

US cyber experts have hacked into websites being used by al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen and substituted material that bragged about killing Americans with information about civilians killed in terrorist strikes, Hillary Clinton has confirmed.

In a rare public admission of the covert cyber war against extremists, the US Secretary of State says experts based at the US State Department hacked Yemeni tribal websites.

When al-Qaeda recruitment propaganda appeared on tribal sites in Yemen, Mrs Clinton said, ''within 48 hours, our team plastered the same sites with altered versions … that showed the toll al-Qaeda attacks have taken on the Yemeni people''.

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The revelation provided an unusual window into low-level cyber-warfare activities that the US government rarely discusses....

How completely wonderful, Romney is like his Mommy.

Now that it comes up, I don't believe he was born in the USA. I think he is one of those people that was born on a fly over in Utah. I heard he is really Canadian or was it Kenyan and his mother really wasn't in the country when she gave birth. I would like to know if she ever had a legitimate birth certificate for Mitt.


...According (click here) to the magazine, Mitt Romney is the only presidential nominee who has had both his parents run for higher office.

His father, of course, ran for governor and president.
 
His mother was a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. 

Time also says that Mitt Romney may be more like his mom than his dad. 

In extremely rare Time Magazine photos, you can see that Mitt Romney is often at his mother's side....


I think the photo was doctored.

There is controversy brewing over a electro-therpy.

It will eventually stop as did other forms of therapy. This will receive pressure from the public, but, ultimately the profession itself will have to address the therapy. I imagine it is in the DSM-IV somewhere as a treatment for some disorders. There are professionals that claim it works. The picture to the left is one of a 'before' treatment. 


Electricity is a strange capacity to use on the body. In Psychiatry there is ECT, Electro Convulsive Therapy. It has been used for a long time and continues to be available for severe depression.

By Rodrique Ngowi

Associated Press

Posted May 10, 2012 @ 02:08 AM

Last update May 10, 2012 @ 02:26 AM

BOSTON —

A woman who settled a lawsuit (click here) against a Massachusetts school for disabled children that administers shock treatment therapy stepped up efforts to end the practice on Wednesday, delivering a petition signed by more than 223,000 people urging state lawmakers to ban the treatment.

Cheryl McCollins of Brooklyn, N.Y., shed tears and hugged an autistic woman who showed up at the Massachusetts State House to support the initiative targeting the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton. McCollins joined a former teacher at the school who authored the online petition, which describes the shock therapy as an “inhumane practice that the United Nations considers torture.”…


The treatment at Judge Rotenberg Center has been issued by judicial order. I would suggest an attorney(s) do some Pro Se work for the disabled in treatment and seek a redress of those orders. Treatment 20 years old is very old and even more current patients will benefit from new therapies and medications, so they all should be reviewed by the court. Perhaps even as as a class.


One of the profound problems with releasing patients from this therapy will have to be a Step-Down from the current regime. These folks have been under this therapy for something like 20 years or more and still wear backpacks to supply shock to the skin. I have no doubt there is brain damage from the electro-shock, as the young man who was subject of the recent lawsuit, was catatonic the same day he started the therapy. He obviously has some brain cells damaged. To some extent this therapy seeks to do damage and inhibit a runaway nervous system from functioning.

The picture to the right is after treatment.


This is the study and it shows concrete and measurable results.

Treatmentof Life-Threatening Vomiting and Rumination with Contingent Electric Shock (click here)
Robert W. Worsham, Matthew L. Israel, Robert E. von Heyn, and Daniel A. Connolly
Behavior Research Institute
This paper describes the treatment of life-threatening ruminating and vomiting in a 12-year-old boy with profound mental retardation and pervasive developmental disorder. Body weight and behavioral data are presented for baseline and behavior modification treatment conditions over a period of two-and-a-half years. Treatment conditions which were held constant throughout included positive reinforcement schedules (DRO, DRA), a functional communication system, and skills training…

The graphs to the left published in the study as evidence of the effectiveness of the therapy.


Electricity is used as treatment in the body elsewhere. Electrolysis, cardioversion and a very sophisticated intervention call Electrophysiology (click here) of the heart to stop nervous system pathways of the cardiac muscle. It is called ablation. The abated pathway stops causing dysrhythmias (click here) that are at the very least troublesome and can be fatal. People also use pacemakers. So the idea of applying electricity to a human condition is not foreign, but, the benefits are definitely dose related.


There is also the issue of Stun Guns in police work. We know there was a young 13 year old, I believe it was Florida, who was unruly and the police applied a stun gun to stop him. He eventually would develop a seizure disorder from what I remember.


There are a lot of things unusual about genetic development and sometimes children are born with what appears to be hopeless conditions. All these doctors are guilty of is trying something that would bring about life and hopefully function beyond what already existed. The study here applied other therapies as well as electro-shock. Doses of electricity that cause catatonia in one day is far too heavy a treatment.


We are entering an age of concern with these therapies as the number of autistic children grows. Researchers believe there is a relationship between a mother's weight and her child's development of autism. I think it needs more research.


The relationship, no doubt, is obvious, BUT, and it is a very big but; the correlation has to do with the development of the nervous system and the interruption of development which may be somewhere in myelin development. The myelin continues development for the first year of a child's life and detection early will, even in utero, be beneficial. Amniocentesis will probably be an option for obese women during pregnancy and/or a nutrition regime that contains excessive weight gain during pregnancy.


The thing is obesity often is a problem at the onset of pregnancy, so is it the obesity itself that is the problem or the food consumption. At the onset, as there is evidence of the connection, it is reasonable to assume both are at play; hence study groups without any danger to the fetus. Not to say there won't be the usual miscarriages of the fetus in a study group, but, it will take data collection and following both the mother and child for a period of time.


There may even be a profound connection between the food consumption of the mother and specific building blocks or amino acids (click here) that construct the nervous system in utero. It might be the amino acids of the DNA aren't in sufficient amounts to connect the nervous tissue sufficiently and some spines (of autistic) may have short circuits as AVAILABLE amino acids are substituted for what sincerely belongs there. I personally believe it is the nutrition supplying the amino acids that is the problem and not so much the obesity. I believe obesity provides a unique character of starvation and/or malnutrition in the USA. If a mason doesn't have sufficient bricks to build the house he will substitute substandard materials to deliver the goods. I think the human body and very sticky genetic material has the same capacity.


Basically, more research needs to be done.


But, considering what we are finding in our society about disorders in children, including dietary disorders has to be handled with a goal of 'quality of life' at the end of the rainbow. This electro-shock therapy will disappear, it is already illegal in Massachusetts for new cases. We need to be a better society to find what works and not one that simply asks for excuses to say 'we have accomplished a cure' when in fact the cure is inhumane. We have to determine if this treatment is sincerely effective, but, should the patient be conscious at all when and if this is the only path of hope.

Could it be Conservatives are actually the true Un-Americans?

I simply can't believe the Political Right Wing is not as appalled as everyone else that a person given opportunity by the culture and governance of the USA doesn't have loyalty to it.


I don't know what party or political philosophy Edwardo Severin hails as his own, but, I do know he likes money and the opportunity to obtain it. The USA provided him that opportunity and now he wants to seek an advantage over that opportunity and forget about everyone else that seeks support for their government for that reason.


By Shawn Hess · May 16, 2012 
...You might recall last Friday (click here) when we reported on Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. Eduardo attended Harvard with Mark Zuckerberg and helped Facebook arrange for much of the financing that got it to where it is today. Before the social network site really took off, Eduardo was forced out of the loop, but some years later he filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg and others involved in the creation of the site and won a sizable settlement along with a 4% share of the company....


Everyone can state this is all about politics, but, I sincerely think it is about $67 million US. Besides that Liberals have been called Un-American for as long as I can remember even though I don't recall any one of them making off with $67 million US.


Where this gets really, really ludicrous is to realize Severin would not even have his share of Facebook if he didn't access the USA Judicial System. Severin's ownership cost the USA Taxpayer plenty and we want what we are entitled to. 


As a man of an ethnic decent he is proud of, he might want to return to his homeland and seek to improve things there, but, that is best done by a foundation in his name or his parents name or something protected by US laws to provide that opportunity. So, if he thinks his personal wealth is more important than paying the government, he is sadly mistake. Perhaps, all the new millionaires at Facebook sincerely need some council to achieve their goals, personal or otherwise. I would not be so hasty to leave the country if I were Severins, but, then again he might be finished with fame and fortune.


Perhaps the argument that the TRUE Un-Americans reside in the Conservative Philosophy would be best understood by an article that believes Liberals are not Un-American, but, Punitive-Liberals. This one is a real eye opener. I explains itself quite well.

POSTED ON MAY 17, 2012 BY STEVEN HAYWARD IN LIBERALS

It was James Piereson, (click here) author of the splendid book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism, who I think first came up with the phrase “punitive liberalism.”  It’s a perfect description for the post-sixties liberalism that abandoned growth for limits, opportunity for entitlement, the rule of law for retribution, and whose egalitarianism—reasonable within limits—has degenerated into pure envy and resentment.

Nothing makes this more clear than the reaction of Democrats today to the news about Eduardo Severin, the Facebook co-founder who renounced his U.S. citizenship last fall in favor of low-tax Singapore.  Sen. Chuck Schumer, who, it should be noted, is the chief protector of the 15 percent tax rate for “carried interest” beloved of New York hedge fund managers, is outraged that he won’t be able to pick all of Severin’s pockets.  He’s proposing a law to make it difficult to renounce citizenship without paying maximum taxes to the U.S. and adds the twist that if someone does escape out tax net, he or she can be barred from ever returning to the United States, even as a visitor.  How’s that for punitive liberalism?...


All I have to say is; when conservatives need a bailout they are really happy Liberals have been punitive!

Romney, "80% of Bain investments made revenue."

No one doubts that, but, private sector equity revenue is very different than revenue achieved in government.


May 22, 2012, 03:05AM ET
By STEVE PEOPLES

The core (click here) of his presidential candidacy under attack, Mitt Romney has yet to shape a playbook to defend a quarter-century in the business world that created great riches for himself and great hardship, at times, for some American workers.

Romney and his aides have struggled to respond consistently to intensifying criticism about his tenure at Bain Capital and how it would be reflected in his presidency. The lack of a cohesive message stems, in part, from Romney's fundamental belief that any debate that puts the economy front and center is a win for Republicans. Public polling shows most Americans are not satisfied with the pace of the recovery under Obama's watch....


Let's see, government has income tax, sales tax, property tax, leases of public land, but, is not a profit driven machine that destroys jobs and reaps profits. If anything government at any level is the complete polar opposite.


Raising taxes is NOT like raising prices on a product, everyone will pay it or pay the price of not paying. Either way, the only real way government raises REVENUES is to create more taxes or lease property. There are import taxes that take the burden off the citizen and place it on companies which also protects American made goods. But, basically taxes is the largest revenue source for government. So. unless Romney opens concessions in the White House Oval Office, I don't know what he is going to do differently, because, he won't raise taxes, if anything he'll cut them on the wealthy. 


For Romney to tout he was a successful CEO of what is basically a salvage operation of corporate America doesn't qualify him for President of the USA, if anything it disqualifies him and why this country fell into the pitfalls of bailing out banks that were TOO BIG TO FAIL.

Gabby Giffords Honored With Medal Of Valor

May 23, 2012 9:47 PM

Former Congresswoman (click here) Gabrielle Giffords was among a group of heroes honored Wednesday evening at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Beverly Hills.

Giffords stepped down from her congressional seat to concentrate on her physical rehabilitation. She and eighteen other people were shot during a public meeting held January 8, 2011  in a supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona. Six of the wounded died, including Arizona District Court Chief Judge John Roll; one of Rep. Giffords’ staffers; and Christina-Taylor Green, 9.

This evening, an audience applauded Giffords as she accepted a medal of valor award, for her resilience.

Hand in hand with her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, Giffords stood in front of a capacity crowd. As the honor was bestowed around her neck, she was told “It is a special honor.”...

Social Security a focus of debate in Arizona seat (click here)

Posted: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:57 pm | Updated: 6:11 am, Thu May 24, 2012.

Associated Press

Republican Jesse Kelly and Democrat Ron Barber clashed on Social Security, the health care overhaul and taxes during a Wednesday evening debate in the race for a U.S. House seat formerly held by Democrat Gabrielle Giffords.

The major party nominees and Green Party nominee Charlie Manolakis, who also participated in the debate sponsored by The Arizona Daily Star, are running in a June 12 special election....

"...no net new job in ten years..." and Romney states 6% unemployment in four years.

Six percent is going to happen even without Romney in the White House. All the rhetoric in his speech is simply Republican mind speak, there is nothing new here.


President Obama is pro-business, too. The difference between President Obama and Romney is; President Obama doesn't only count on Wall Street and Big Box Supply Chain stores to participate in the American economy. President Obama believes in "Made in America" and that has been the slogan of unions for decades.

By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times

May 24, 2012

New home sales are up. (click here) The unemployment rate is falling. Companies are buying one another, signaling confidence in the economy.
But investors are turning their back on positive economic signs, looking nervously at Europe's seemingly never-ending debt troubles and Facebook's flat IPO, wondering whether the global economy is beginning yet another deep dive....

Wall Street is leaving the American job market. They aren't interested and haven't been interested in investments where a labor force is necessary. They are playing with commodities, currency and futures; they don't make rock solid investments anymore. They like the adrenalin rush of 'money now' too much. They are even laying new Trans-Atlantic cable to play that game. Romney can't do anything here, his methodologies are old and out dated. President Obama is on the ground with people that have been stalled in the economic platform for so long their trades were picked up by China. Romney's ideas won't work and he is not willing to move the needle for new business opportunities that come with paradigm shifts. 

President Obama is doing a great job. He is even covering the hole left where one was not believed to exist when the final numbers were in on the global economic collapse from 2008. He is incredible for what he preserved of our culture and where it is headed. I honestly believe there isn't anyone else with the 'city kid' diligence that would have reached as far and took the risks to keep the USA stable and growing. I might have the 'city kid' philosophy wrong, but, I've never seen him on a horse or milking a cow, so I think I am right about that.

The President needs to talk about his record, too.

I remember this moment. How could anyone forget? Dignity and grace all in one moment and a testament to American exceptionalism.


I sincerely believe President Obama is one of the most genuine and qualified Presidents of our time. He is correct to seek to define the To Be Candidate of the Republican Party, Mitt Romney, in the light portraying him as qualified for the job. I sincerely believe Mitt Romney is not. 


People like to portray President Obama, even with all the successes he has enjoyed while in office, as unqualified. I would like people to be confident of their President as I am confident of him. He and Biden make a great team. Joe doesn't let anyone forget what the Middle Class is all about and he is exactly where he needs to be at this time in our history.


The First Lady has taken on what I consider the most difficult topic next to healthcare and that is insuring our nation's children are healthier than their parents and able to meet the challenge of tomorrow. She along with Second Lady Jill Biden have moved opportunity for our returning military forward while protecting and supporting their families at home. I was sincerely touched by the effort they put forward on Mother's Day. That was more than compassionate, that was pure dedication to some of our most brave women.


I am proud of the people of the Executive Branch. The cabinet has been consistently working hard to improve the nation's recovery and there are no slackers.


I want them to talk about their record. I want them to prove to the people of this country they are admirable, steadfast, trustworthy and doing the absolute best of any to return sustainable prosperity to the USA. I don't know that I have ever witnessed a team as committed to the best outcomes to this country in a nearly impossible fiscal and financial environment.


The nation wants to address the deficit. The President had a resolution by Simpson-Bowles, but, it wasn't ready to hear it and there was no sense to push it when all other venues of expenditures by the federal government hadn't been exhausted. The entitlements are important to protect and support, the tax structure needs to have the reset button pushed and our children need to have a secure future, both in their health, their dreams and their fiscal viability on a global scale. The nation is ready to do some of the tough stuff and we need to begin the conversation, too. President Obama is capable of leading that conversation and he should. I am quite confident he sees the way forward, but, he needs to share it along with defining his unqualified opponent.

Sex parties with gangster at the Vatican? WHAT!

Italian teenager Emanuela Orlandi is believe to have been kidnapped after a music lesson in Rome on June 22, 1983 when she was 15 (AP)


Thursday, 24 May 2012

A Catholic priest has claimed a missing schoolgirl was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties and has implicated diplomatic staff and members of the Holy See.

Italian priest Gabriel Amorth, 85, said girls were recruited for parties at the Vatican and said the death of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi, last seen alive in 1983, “was a crime with a sexual motive”.

The priest spoke out last week as investigators broke into the grave of a known gang boss in Rome following an anonymous tip that the key to Emanuala’s disappearance would be “found there”.

But so far bones which do not belong to mobster Enrico De Pedis, have not be positively identified as the girl’s....

It is more than interesting how New York has started an amazing trend. Police Commissioner Kelly deserves a lot praise for his focus and efforts. This is not only important, but, these cases give police insight to such criminals.

Etan Patz case: NYPD says New Jersey man implicated self in 6-year-old’s ‘disappearance and death’ (click here)

Commissioner Kelly says ‘further details’ to come later today

Published: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 6:55 AM

Updated: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 7:12 AM

The NYPD may have solved the heartrending mystery of little Etan Patz’ disappearance 33 years ago, police brass said Thursday morning.

"An individual now in custody has made statements to NYPD detectives implicating himself in the disappearance and death of Etan Patz 33 years ago,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a statement. “We expect to provide further details later today."

The man is from New Jersey and was picked up Wednesday, a source told the Daily News....

Second day of extradition hearing for Assange.

Extradition showdown: UK Supreme Court to rule on Assange (click here)

Published: 23 May, 2012, 18:08

Julian Assange’s legal battle in the UK may be close to its end. Next week the country’s Supreme Court will decide whether the scandal-stirring whistleblower is to be extradited to Sweden, where he faces several sex crime allegations.

A panel of seven Supreme Court judges will make their decision next Wednesday, May 30. 

Assange’s lawyers are calling on judges to block the extradition. They say that the initial European warrant that put Assange under house arrest in Britain over 500 days ago was “invalid and unenforceable” and that Swedish prosecutor had no authority to issue it....

A Los Angles Class Submarine is destroyed?

This is the Wiki (click here).

US nuclear sub ablaze in Portsmouth shipyard (click here)

Published: 24 May, 2012, 10:52
Edited: 24 May, 2012, 14:46

...Crews from at least three states worked for six hours at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, but only just managed to stop the fire from spreading.

Workers from the dry docks where the submarine was maintained, had to be evacuated when its living quarters turned into a scorching inferno on Wednesday evening.

Four of the six firefighters injured have received treatment, shipyard officials reported.

The fire broke out in the forward compartment of the submarine, where the ship’s living quarters and command and control center are located....

Who do these arrogant idiots think they are?

This very brief article appeared in Reuters today and when I looked up the name on the net I found the resume below. Evidently, the real power in Pakistan is influenced heavily by USA investment and wealth. 


If this is correct, then the Taliban have control over an entire Plutocratic network in that country. The CIA would know, I would hope they would know if this is accurate, because, having one person control this much wealth in Pakistan is dangerous to the country's sovereignty and to the security of the international security.


The article by Reuters was very odd to me and I didn't take it for face value. It was short and the person in the article wasn't identified, except, for the name. If this person holds this much power in Pakistan then it is easy to control the country.

U.S. should respect decision to imprison doctor who helped CIA find bin Laden: Pakistan (click here)

ISLAMABAD | Thu May 24, 2012 5:39am EDT

(Reuters) - The United States should respect a Pakistan court's decision to imprison a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden, the Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

"I think as far as the case of Mr. Afridi is concerned, it was in accordance with Pakistani laws and by the Pakistani courts, and we need to respect each other's legal processes," Moazzam Ali Khan told reporters.

(Reporting by Rebecca Conway; Writing by Qasim Nauman)

The picture above came compliments of "Linked in". This is the resume (click here). The resume states Kahn is a power broker. By every estimate, Kahn is a very powerful man and pulls many strings in Pakistan. I am sure Kahn receives many perks in life for the role played in that country.

This is the logo for Unilever Pakistan. 

Below is an article explaining how networking works well in Pakistan for the supply chain.

...Using a systematic approach (click here)  to networking – a social activity where the implicit objective is to form professional relationships that may increase one’s future business and employment prospects – each participant was made to interact with at least five supply chain professionals he or she did not know before.

“I ran out of my business cards today during the networking session,” a chemical engineer working in the supply chain of ICI Pakistan toldThe Express Tribune. “That was the most orderly and useful networking opportunity I’ve ever had.”...


This is a link to a Supply Chain Conference (click here). It is on Facebook. Somehow having Facebook become an IPO makes sense if one wants to control the viability of connectedness. I am sure that is what Morgan Stanley was thinking when underwriting it.

Regardless, this level of connectedness in the supply system of Pakistan has to dictate, the Taliban are involved. They have expanded their reach to major cities of commerce in Pakistan. If USA intelligence is expecting to find drug trades and monies as the only source of income to these criminal networks, they aren't looking hard enough. If what I am looking at is correct; then the Taliban not only have the potential to intimidate a government, but, control its wealth as well.

So, let me get this right, Occupy Wall Street is a covert organization for Left Wing Violence. Is that Right Bill?

Let's look at the facts, because Murdoch's Boy has got any.


#Occupy Wall Street is not funded by the Institute of Policy Studies. If anything I would expect the Institute of Policy Studies to be seeking funding from #Occupy. If one recalls there funding was given to them as donations within the first month of their organizing. A total of $500,00.00 as a matter of fact. I doubt seriously the #Occupy Movement is going to be impressed with the grant from the Tides Foundation to the Institute of Policy Studies in the amount of $162,000.00.  In case one cannot read the numbers accurately the Tides Foundation gave the Institute for Policy Studies a total of One hundred-sixty-two thousand dollars in 2011 (click here). Page 20 on that PDF.


Jay Carney is probably not the best person to ask about #Occupy, but, Vice President Joe 
Biden would probably say they are not affiliated with any movement in the USA, they are affiliated with the DNC. But, Vice President Biden would more than likely go on to say that after the global economic collapse Wall Street bailed on the citizens of most major countries. 


See, Bill, it goes like this, when the bailout for $800 Billion came down most everyone believed the 'status quo' of the USA and the Free World would remain STATIC (the same). We thought all the banks needed was their cash flow back again. Boy, were we "W"ronged! 


So, when Wall Street left with the USA Treasury we were left in the breech. Now, someone like Bill O'Reilly, whom sells books to a right wing conservative audience would not understand that. He would not have felt the pinch of the Wall Street abandonment, but, for those that did; they quickly realized an entire generation of Americans were now abandoned and could not find work. Wall Street banks left without an apology, but, only the money. The job market hasn't been the same since and only lately the housing market is actually picking up steam. Bill, MIGHT remember; poor man at his age still cranking it out for Murdoch, no rest for the weary I am sure; the housing market in October 2008 had a glut of housing and business property and the VALUE of land and homes fell drastically causing huge problems for many, many people. I think about 1 in every 5 affected homeowners is still underwater. So the recovery is very slow. I mean we are not printing money fast enough to hand it out to everyone. But, then there is such as a thing as the VALUE of the USA Dollar.


Now, I don't know about Bill O'Reilly, but when I was younger and faced with seeking employment I was ready. Dressed for success and everything. So, was this generation of Americans and the hopes and dreams of that readiness was destroyed when Wall Street decided to gamble with their bailout monies instead of providing stability to an economy that was fairly good to them all these decades.


The #Occupy Wall Street movement makes strong statements about their insight to their lives. Lives I might add that no one outside that generation can even begin to understand. So, for anyone like Bill O'Reilly to presume to speak for them is outrageous and for him to scandalize a single incident of a movement anchored in peaceful protest is even more exploitative than outrageous.


Bill O'Reilly was frustrated with not being noticed after last night's program at the You Tube video posted above; so I thought I'd accommodate him so he wouldn't feel as abandoned in his point of view and passion as the #Occupy movement often feels. This is the United States of America, Bill and everyone is supposed to count, so since you "...have a powerful program..." that wasn't being very powerful I didn't want you to be frustrated. One American to another.


Police have dangerous work and no doubt Chicago Police have some of the most dangerous work in the country along with a number of other large cities. Having NATO in Chicago was going to INVITE controversy on the street. It just was. I am confident there were also globalists among the #Occupy people as well. So, the globalists tend to be more overt about their anger and I think it went very well, all considering.


I apologize to the Chicago Police Officer that was injured. It is not condoned by #Occupy and if it were one of their members, perhaps, they were afraid of the police. It was not long ago when a very talented and wonderful young USA Veteran was smoke bombed and nearly died. He recovered, thank goodness, but that certainly sent a chill down the spine of the people in #Occupy.


I like those kids, Bill. They are young, full of passion with the will their American heritage left to them. I am sorry you want to demonize them and worried about their demonstrations getting out of control. I don't them hurt. I don't want them shot. I don't want them beaten. I want their dream back and the American Dream returned to the citizens of this country. Maligning people like George Soros is not becoming. He is a hugely generous man that have improved the lives of people globally. He is a decent man, seems rather humble to me and his generosity at a time when countries like the USA can't provide all the help others need, certainly is welcome.


The Tides Foundation has existed for 35 years. I doubt they would allow any of their grantees to promote violence. I find Bill O'Reilly's critique wrong and offensive of people not able to change their circumstances. 


I hope Bill O'Reilly has a better week rather than a propagandized one.