Same old right wing macho baloney finally caused death.

Tony Stewart has no problems. He didn't kill anyone. Ward got out of his car and looked for Stewart's car coming around the track. Stewart never asked to have a person angry enough at him to put his life in danger for his fans.

August 10, 2014
By Cornne Heller
NASCAR (click here) champion Tony Stewart is under police investigation after hitting and killing a fellow driver, Kevin Ward Jr., during a Sprint dirt-track car race....

The race is open wheels which is inherently dangerous by its nature. The racing association have to make rules to prevent grandstanding. It is necessary for drivers to exit a car in case there is fire, but, to seek attention and revenge on the track is asking for the award of jackass. Ward didn't value his own life enough. In that is permission to put this fans in the same illogical machismo. 

I don't appreciate the grandstanding for ratings with his fans. The racing industry is as much responsible for not ending this poor sportsmanship a long time ago. 

FOX has been stoking the fires to pressing charges. It is nonsense. If anyone needs to have charges pressed against him it is the late Kevin Ward, Jr.

USGS warns earthquakes on the rise in Oklahoma. Everyone coping okay, while the petroleum industry doesn't care? Need any nerve pills, there are plenty of them.

Posted: Aug 12, 2014 2:25 PM EDTUpdated: Aug 12, 2014 2:25 PM EDTPosted by: Jennifer Cope, Producer
The U.S. Geological Survey (click here) is warning that the chances of a damaging earthquake in Oklahoma have increased significantly.Experts have been studying the earthquakes in our state and have found the number of tremors has been growing since 2009.The moderate quakes could mean that a "big one" is possible and it could hit without warning.The U.S.G.S. has pointed to wastewater injection as a contributing factor to the earthquakes.The petroleum industry's answer to devastating the land in the USA is cope. It would be just too bad if this occurred to the foundation of a home.

A 2011 magnitude 5.7 quake near Prague, Okla., apparently triggered by wastewater injection,buckled U.S. Highway 62. (John Leeman)A new study in the journal Geology (click here) is the latest to tie a string of unusual earthquakes, in this case, in central Oklahoma, to the injection of wastewater deep underground. Researchers now say that the magnitude 5.7 earthquake near Prague, Okla., on Nov. 6, 2011, may also be the largest ever linked to wastewater injection. Felt as far away as Milwaukee, more than 800 miles away, the quake—the biggest ever recorded in Oklahoma--destroyed 14 homes, buckled a federal highway and left two people injured. Small earthquakes continue to be recorded in the area....Published Online July 3 2014Science 25 July 2014: Vol. 345 no. 6195 pp. 448-451 DOI: 10.1126/science.1255802

Sharp increase in central Oklahoma seismicity (click here) since 2008 induced by massive wastewater injection

K. M. Keranen, 

M. Weingarten, 

G. A. Abers, 

B. A. Bekins, 

S. Ge

Unconventional oil and gas production provides a rapidly growing energy source; however, high-production states in the United States, such as Oklahoma, face sharply rising numbers of earthquakes. Subsurface pressure data required to unequivocally link earthquakes to wastewater injection are rarely accessible. Here we use seismicity and hydrogeological models to show that fluid migration from high-rate disposal wells in Oklahoma is potentially responsible for the largest swarm. Earthquake hypocenters occur within disposal formations and upper basement, between 2- and 5-kilometer depth. The modeled fluid pressure perturbation propagates throughout the same depth range and tracks earthquakes to distances of 35 kilometers, with a triggering threshold of ~0.07 megapascals. Although thousands of disposal wells operate aseismically, four of the highest-rate wells are capable of inducing 20% of 2008 to 2013 central U.S. seismicity.

August 12, 2014
By Bryan Rupp

In what seems a never ending string of earthquake activity in Oklahoma and now Kansas has been documented during the past 30 days.  The following is a list of earthquakes totalling 86 that have shook the two states with a minimum magnitude of 2.5 in the past 30 days.  This list does not include the smaller quakes with magnitudes of less than 2.5.

The strongest quake was a 4.3 magnitude that was felt across a wide and vast expanse of Oklahoma and Kansas.  It's epicenter was 24 km WSW of Medford, OK....

For complete list click here.

How many times do the geologists of Oklahoma have to conduct studies to prove the danger in this technology?

August 11, 2014
By Janelle Stecklein

OKLA. CITY — Within the next few months (click here) the state’s top earth scientists plan to add 20 new seismic-monitoring stations to better track temblors in Oklahoma.

Austin Holland, a research seismologist with Oklahoma Geological Survey, said eight permanent and 12 temporary stations will enhance the agency’s existing network.

“The more stations we have, the better information we can get about the earthquakes,” Holland said. “We want to be consistent in monitoring so that we can say we can see everything above magnitude 2 across the state.”

When Holland first started working at the Geological Survey in 2009, he estimates the state averaged about 1.5 earthquakes per year. Now, he said, it’s more like 1.5 per day....

I want to know if Robin Williams was started recently on new medication. I was fairly obvious he was determined. The question is why and were there any other signs.

Livor mortis helps determine time of death. It is physics. Telltale signs of the progression of post death/post mortum deterioration.

Lividity (click here) is also useful for this purpose. Lividity is the process through which the body's blood supply will stop moving after the heart has stopped pumping it around the inside of the deceased. What normally happens at this point is that the blood supply - or at least any blood that remains within the corpse depending on the nature of their death - will settle in direct response to gravity....

Who said this?

Politically policies of the United States (click here) and the region over very long period of time have created either anger or suffering or skepticism among many in the Arab world who felt that support of sometimes despotic regimes, the favoring of Israel in efforts to reach a peace between the Arab countries and Israel. And the -- as one Arab writer has put it, the inconsistent application or implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions where the United States has gone to war and/or other kinds of intense pressures to implement Security Council resolutions on the occupation of Kuwait, on Lebanon and on Iraq, but resolutions that go back to 1967 on the occupation of Arab lands by Israel have virtually been ignored. So that has just created an atmosphere. 

It was Queen Noor on Larry King Live on April 13, 2007. But, that is not all she said.

KING: And your late husband spoke that wonderful day. 
Toronto, Canada, for Queen Noor. Hello. 

CALLER: Hello, good evening. As most of your life has been spent in the Middle East, though American born, Queen Noor of Jordan, are you dismayed with how relations are between the United States and many Arab counties in the Middle East? 

NOOR: Yes, extremely. And it's been struggle for me over 26 years to try to contribute a voice that, I hope understands both sides, feels a conviction, absolute conviction that there's far more that Americans and Arabs and Muslims share than divides them. Politically policies of the United States and the region over very long period of time have created either anger or suffering or skepticism among many in the Arab world who felt that support of sometimes despotic regimes, the favoring of Israel in efforts to reach a peace between the Arab countries and Israel. And the -- as one Arab writer has put it, the inconsistent application or implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions where the United States has gone to war and/or other kinds of intense pressures to implement Security Council resolutions on the occupation of Kuwait, on Lebanon and on Iraq, but resolutions that go back to 1967 on the occupation of Arab lands by Israel have virtually been ignored. So that has just created an atmosphere. 

KING: So you're saying they have a reason. They were against the war in Iraq, right. 

NOOR: I think what's terribly important, we've seen a lot of -- we've seen this in recent conversations -- recent discussions have been held in Washington, is that the people of the Arab world, especially of Palestinians, look at what has been consistent, steady encroachment on their territory of Israeli settlements and settlers over four decades, and continuing expansion of settlements. And that erodes their confidence in whether the Israeli government is truly committed to peace. And it also affects the American image in the region because it seems that the United States is turning a blind eye to what is contrary to U.N. security Council Resolutions....

The interest in the Queen by the American Public continued.

...Caller: I have two quick questions. For the sake of time I'll only ask about one subject. Queen Noor, I'd like to know what you think about the war in Iraq, and do you think we'll ever have peace in the Middle East? 

KING: Two light subjects. NOOR: Well, I can answer both in perhaps one direction. I believe, as my husband did, that the way to achieve peace in any community in the world, and certainly in the Middle East, is by focusing on human beings, on human needs and human rights and on soft power ways of bringing parties together to try to solve problems peacefully and nonviolently. Dialogue was something that my husband emphasized and was very effective at shortcutting problems that were developing in the region. 

And I think if the United States in particular, given its active involvement in the region, shifts to increasing emphasis on soft power and on development and support for the different areas that it feels are critical to peace, issues such as governments, but also tackling poverty and unemployment and the importance of education and cross- cultural understanding, which an article recently in this country described as having not been given any greater attention since even 9/11 in universities and schools in this country -- these are the areas where the United States once excelled. Bringing people together, promoting exchange. This is where the United States needs to focus again, and it will have a phenomenal impact. 

KING: Do you think Iraq was a mistake? 

NOOR: The war in Iraq? 

KING: Yes. 

NOOR: I tend not to focus in on political decisions like that, but that having occurred, on, where can we work now? And I think prior, to the war, I would have hoped for a little more dialogue and a little more coordination and emphasis on the U.N. and the weapons experts to really take that fully to the end before resorting -- that war should be the total last resort. That's what my husband believed and I believe that's the way to peace....

The United States has had its chance to bring about regime change and has failed. It along with it's allies broke down the peace process of the United Nations. It is time to end the violence in the Middle East. The regional nations knew what was best in the past and I am confident they do today.

We don't belong in Iraq.

We never did.

It is about time Palestinian lives are important.

August 12, 2014
By Haaretz

Latest updates [Tuesday]: (click here)

8:43 P.M. The British government has announced that if "significant hostilities" resume in Gaza, it will suspend 12 arms export licenses to Israel. Licenses that might be suspended include radar systems, combat aircraft and tanks used by the IDF in Gaza. The Iron Dome is not included. Business Secretary Vince Cable said: “No new licences of military equipment have been issued for use by the Israeli Defence Force during the review period and as a precautionary measure this approach will continue until hostilities cease.” (Barak Ravid) 

TripAdvisor has listed the top ten zoos in the USA as destination places (click title to entry - thank you).

If anyone has postponed a vacation, there is still time to relax for at least a day and enjoy some distraction from stress. The zoos are great.

Zoo camp for children with challenges.

Mack Livesay, 16, second from right, tries to decide where to put a paper mache balloon full of food in the wolverine enclosure at The Minnesota Zoo during Zoo Crew Camp, for children with autism, on Friday August 8, 2014. Zookeeper Janis Liukonen, left/foreground, told them to put it somewhere that is a challenge for the wolverines, yet to avoid the stream and high branches because it could fall. Livesay is standing by Micah Grubb, center, and Tyler Skrove, right. (Pioneer Press: Jean Pieri)

August 10, 2014

By Christopher Magan

...He wasn't disappointed. (click here)

Mack was attending a summer camp last week for teens with autism that is new to the Apple Valley zoo.

For a week, campers get a behind-the-scenes look at the zoo while learning about the environment and the different jobs at the state-funded facility.

"You never know who will be the next Jane Goodall," said Tyler Ahnemann, community programs supervisor. "We want to give everyone an opportunity."

Each summer, the zoo opens its doors to as many as 4,000 camp participants who spend anywhere from an hour to a week learning about plants, animals and the environment. The zoo offers 87 different camps throughout the summer.

Students at the new autism camp also got some valuable time to practice social skills in a public setting, said Dawn Brasch, education and training specialist for the Autism Society of Minnesota....

One hundred year old carousel. The maintenance department at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium should be celebrating it's anniversary. 

August 11, 2014
By Thomas Gallick

At the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, (click here) a $1 ticket buys a trip spanning 100 years of central Ohio history.

The zoo currently is celebrating the centennial of its Mangels-Illions Grand Carousel -- an attraction that has thrilled generations of children at multiple locations since 1914.

The ride, which features 52 carved horses, two chariots and a Wurlitzer organ, originally was installed at Olentangy Park, an amusement park located just off North High Street between West Dodridge Street and West Tulane Road in Clintonville.

Mary Rodgers, president of the Clintonville Historical Society, said Olentangy Park sometimes was referred to as the biggest amusement park in the United States -- and even the world -- during its years of operation from the turn of the century to 1938.

Rodgers said Olentangy Park, along with other other attractions in the Clintonville area at the time, was largely built as a catalyst to increase streetcar traffic in the Columbus area during the weekends. Although the park was one of the world's largest, Rodgers said its clientele was mostly local....

Chairwoman Janet Yellen assumed office February 4, 2014.

Everyone knows Carlyle. They are the home of Edward Snowden.

This is a one year graph of the stock prices for the company. It is noted it's stock met an all time high on February 25, 2014 at a price of $37.85. This was a remarkable improvement in the stock price of Carlyle. The highest the stock had been before was February 15, 2013 at a price of $35.51. Shortly after that maximum in 2013 the stock tumbled to low of $25.13 in September. The downward spiral was consistent during that time. Why is any of this notable? This is the first time in a while that the stock price has not only recovered but SUSTAINED.

On 30 JULY The Carlyle Group LP (NASDAQ:CG) (click here) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday. The company reported $0.73 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.74 by $0.01. The company had revenue of $900.10 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $792.35 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.39 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 77.2% on a year-over-year basis. The Carlyle Group LP (NASDAQ:CG) shares increased 2.38% in last trading session and ended the day on $32.20. CG Gross Margin is 71.80% and its return on assets is 0.30%. The Carlyle Group LP (NASDAQ:CG) quarterly performance is 3.77%.

Chairwoman Yellen has a very long track record of consistency in decision making. Her academic knowledge and application of those standards are consistent. When the stock market looks at Yellen it sees stability and NOT "Bubble and Bust." President Obama in his 2008 campaign stated there would be no more Bubble and Bust USA economy. He lived up to his word and the USA economy is better off for it. Can we now concentrate on the economic future and not the immediate emergency to create STABLE labor conditions without giveaway cross border trade agreements?

Just to note, Carlyle was one of the heroes to the Chinese people when they entered the baby formula market. It didn't take a cross border trade agreement to have that occur either. And that is the way it should be. A country needs to correct the insults against it's Middle Class and return function to it's consumers. The Chinese government needed to stabilize the baby formula market to the burgeoning Chinese Middle Class. There were death sentences to the men that ran the baby formula companies using melamine. But, the idea cross border trade is going to solve problems within countries like China is wayward thinking. These trade agreements are being used to skirt USA policy. That should never exist.

The Chinese Middle Class is growing and China has every reason to be proud of it's long term goals. But, it is the growth in the Middle Class in any country that will bring about global economic stability. THAT is what the goals of the USA should be, not harnessing cheap labor to impoverish the world. The working conditions of laborers in products the USA imports should be paramount to any trade relation.

...To address the melamine issue directly, (click here) the company made a major strategic decision to procure 100 percent of its raw milk powder from high-quality overseas dairy producers. It also established product testing collaborations with top-tier international laboratories to strengthen product quality and safety control.

The Carlyle-Yashili partnership also set an example for the industry to transform itself and elevate its product quality to international standards. With Carlyle’s assistance, Yashili established the Food Quality and Safety Advisory Committee (FQSAC), the first of its kind in the Chinese dairy industry. This served as a catalyst to further enhance its product quality control protocols, via checks by certified auditors from an American auditing company and product testing in certified labs in the U.S., New Zealand and Hong Kong....

This was a good decision for the companies as well as the consumers. I might point to the fact this was baby formula, not bombs. Now, the Chinese government needs to instill high quality standards to continue to grown it's domestic milk products and continue to improve it's GDP.

There are many problems in the world and they can be solved if Wall Street tries. It doesn't take a genius to realize a company's reputation is best when all consumers and stockholders have good quality of life and the esteem of it's Middle Class with upward mobility. Chairwoman Yellen knows what she is doing, it is up to Wall Street to pay attention.

Another great liberal closes the curtain.

Benjamin Crump is highly qualified to speak for the community.

I saw this essay about his verbal characteristics. I find that offensive. I thought it was notable to realize this man not only represents those that are victims of American violence, but, attacked himself. Racism.

April 12, 2012

Over the course (click here) of the past few weeks, significant shade has been thrown at Ben Crump, the attorney for Trayvon Martin's family. Attorney Crump is not a natural orator and his Southern seeps into every single (and sometimes extra) syllable. Many have assumed that because his speech is so very "Urban Floridian" that this somehow reflects his legal prowess and/or brain power. It's both an insult and a mistake to assume this. 

I don't know how many of you heard Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith, Magic Johnson or Deion Sanders (countless others) back in the day before the professional speech coaches got hold of them. Not. Pretty. I mention this to say that Mr. Crump requires a speech coach or a smoother spokesperson and nothing more. I'll admit when I first heard Mr. Crump, I longed for the silver-tongued effervescence of Johnnie Cochran. And then I went and looked up brother Crump's bio.

He has quite the track record of impressive wins and tackling improbable causes and coming out on top. He has worked hand in hand with Rev Al, Rev Jesse and other activists to shine light on racial injustice. He is considered a bright and talented legal mind with a shimmering future ahead. And he wears a navy suit rather well. (Sorry, just a sidebar. Moving on...)...

Here is the latest about safety from Thailand.

August 12, 2014

At least three workers died and 17 others were injured when a six-storey building under construction collapsed just outside Bangkok, police say.

Rescuers are now searching for an unknown number of missing people.

The planned student accommodation block crashed down at around 4.30pm local time on Monday (9.30pm Monday NZT) in Pathum Thani province, north of the capital, a police officer told AFP on condition of anonymity....

The picture is the rubble. What company did this?

...Labour groups have warned about lax safety standards and low wages at Thai construction sites, especially for migrant workers from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, who are often paid below the country's minimum daily wage....

From Wiki:

The industrial parks are listed as in Nonthaburi. 

Software Park Thailand (in Nonthaburi, southwest of Pathum Thani), Nava Nakorn Industrial Promotion Zone (1376 acres / 5.6 km²), Bangkadi Industrial Park (470 acres / 1.9 km²), Techno Thani (a "Technology City" administrated by Ministry of Science and Technology), and a number of industrial parks in neighboring Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi provinces

Here the latest about Mayor Rob Ford?

Police are investigating the alleged email threat, the mayor says. Doug Ford held up a copy of the message for the media.

Aug. 11, 2014

Toronto police (click here) are investigating an alleged bomb threat against the Ford brothers at City Hall.

Police spokesperson Mark Pugash confirmed police were at City Hall Monday afternoon looking into the alleged threat, but there has been no evacuation order.

City councillor Doug Ford and Mayor Rob Ford disclosed the alleged emailed threat to media at City Hall and showed a copy of the message.

“Since you guys have been back, it’s been chaos,” the message reads, then switches to all capital letters to warn the Fords to “vacatge (sic) city hall” within 24 hours....

A threat? Really? I don't know. It sounds more like a Pink Slip to me.

Excuse me? Israel is calling for aid. Oh. That makes it all better now.

A Palestinian boy rides a donkey past a destroyed residential neighborhood in the Gaza Strip. Photo / AP










August 12, 2014

Israel calls for conditional aid for Gaza (click here)

Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid has called on the international community to pull together a massive aid package for Gaza conditioned on the Palestinian Authority returning to power in place of the Islamic militant group Hamas.

Lapid said that the Western-leaning Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is the legitimate authority in Gaza, which was been blockaded since Hamas seized control there in 2007.

This so called aid by Israel is self serving. How is that? You know this. What do the people of Gaza and their President want? Access to trade. Now, why is Israel providing aid? Compassion or plans for more control and further violence against the Palestinians?

If Israel brags about the aid they are providing to the Palestinians, then they don't need to remove the blockade. Yes? 

Israel OWES Palestine war reparations, not aid.

Ever notice how the GOP is more concerned with war than guns and violence in the USA? 

There is absolutely no mention of the killer police on FOX.

I'd like the USA to solve it's own problems before taking on war in every corner of the world. Don't get that from the GOP. Ya know?

It is a DISGRACE how much attention war receives without the same time spent on American violence and the dead innocent people of our own society.

The USA can't go on holding every hand in the Middle East. We have our own problems. The nations of the people in the world have to stand on their own. The USA can talk about genocide and identify it, but, the fact of the matter is by the time the USA finds it and provides relief for it, it is too late for many people. The people of this world have to protect their land and sovereign country. It isn't humanly possible to be a care taker of the entire world. Won't happen.

The Kurds and their efforts should be admired by Turkey and the two peoples need to form an alliance that works to protect all of them.

Police have issued an arrest warrant for Khaled Sharrouf. Photo: Supplied

August 11, 2014
By Rachel Olding

Politicians and Muslim (click here) community leaders have labelled it sickening, deplorable and shockingly evil.

But Khaled Sharrouf's brother believes Australia should simply "forget" about a photo of his young nephew holding the severed head of a Syrian soldier.

As the shocking image of Sharrouf's son travelled around the world on Monday, Mostafa Sharrouf, a stonemason from Sydney's western suburbs, said: "He's gone, forget about it. He's forgotten about youse. I'm sure you've seen much worse than that."...

If a country wants to stop the recruitment of it's own citizens into wars by extremists than stop allowing it into the boundaries via internet or otherwise. When a country can't protect it's citizens from extremism it is relinquishing it's sovereign authority to those that kill and destroy lives.

There is no such thing as absolute freedom. Why allow this recruitment in the first place? The NSA can spy all they want, but, somehow the freedom extremists in Western governments have even more rights to endanger lives. It's ridiculous.

Australia complains about this horrible reality, but, guess who is putting this front page? 

This is from the Gulf News. They got it from "The Australian." Do you know who The Australian is? Murdoch. Who is the real terrorist? Those that commit the act or those that provide the ground for the recruitment in the first place? This man and his son are now in danger from all corners of the world. Well done, Murdoch. I've always said The West simply doesn't have enough liberties, wouldn't you agree? 

August 11, 2014
AFP

Sydney: A shocking image (click here) of what is believed to be the young son of an Australian man holding a decapitated head in Syria shows how barbaric the Isil “terrorist army” is, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Monday.

The picture, taken in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, was posted on the Twitter account of Khaled Sharrouf, an Australian man who fled to Syria last year and is now an Isil fighter, The Australian newspaper said....

Noontime Propaganda Update

Did you know that the military of the former country of Iraq failed because so many of it's members retired? Well, dah, where was the USA military when they never realized so many were near retirement when they road their tanks out of Iraq into Kuwait.

That enlightening report was from talking head retired general Spider Marks who had just flown back from Iraq in consultation with the community behind the blast walls in Baghdad.

And FOX talking heads seem to think President Obama handed over the USA Air Force to Maliki because the President responded to the call by ? Iraq ? to bomb the northern region where the McCain inspired ISIS/ISIL was advancing. Confused to say the least.

Now, to make up for the confusion about the retirement of so many soldiers in the former Iraqi military the nation of Western Iran has instilled a new Prime Minister. Anything to save face.

Now to the USA where police are still killing innocent civilians. 

..."Several other stores (click here) along a main road near the shooting scene were broken into, including a check-cashing store, a boutique and a small grocery store. People also took items from a sporting goods store and a cellphone retailer, and carted rims away from a tire store.

"TV footage showed streams of people walking out of a liquor store carrying bottles of alcohol, and in some cases protesters were standing atop police cars or taunting officers who stood stoic, often in riot gear."...

There are demonstrations today in the USA protesting the killing of so many dead citizens at the hand of police departments inspired by the 23 or more dead homeless citizens in Albuquerque.

James Boyd was murdered on March 24, 2014. That was four and a half months ago and there are still no charges filed against the assassin police swat team. Since then the city and their police department are peddling as fast as they can to make example of the teens that followed the police example by killing more homeless people. Teens.

While the teens need to be dealt with, the police are still without charges and James Boyd is still very, very dead.

Since the death of James Boyd there have been killing of many innocent people including many African Americans. There are few states in the nation that can claim their are free of killer cops. 

What is being done to end this problem? It would seem nothing and the police are more and more convinced it is Americans with the problem. Yet, armed camps of right wing extremists still walk this country and kill others. What is wrong with this country?

It is back to school time in a few weeks in most southern states. The northern states usually go back to school after Labor Day. A nice gesture that is more than practical considering once school is begun there is actually uninterrupted until Columbus Day and then followed by Veteran's Day. There may be an occasional holy day here and there for some folks though. But, the really exciting news is there are many new students in some schools this year. They are the children sent to the USA by heart broken and/or dead family to save their lives. They are going to get their first taste of school American style and for many this may be their first understanding of education at all. It is an exciting time for these magnificent and brave children. I hope it all goes well.

Today in Palestine, the cold hard fact that there are 10 to 1 wounded over dead in the Gaza community. Can you imagine being a surviving Palestinian and thinking, "Let's see 10 to 1 everyone else is in the hospitals, let's start there." 

In Israel they are taking polls. Seriously.

...In three different polls, (click here) sizable majorities – ranging from 59 percent to 78 percent – termed the war at best a draw, and perhaps even an Israeli defeat; only 21% to 41% deemed it an Israeli victory. Thus, one would expect Israelis to be angry at the prime minister who presided over this fiasco. Instead, Binyamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war was approved by 59% of respondents in one poll and a whopping 77% in another.

Analysts as diverse as the centrist Shmuel Rosner and the left-wing Haaretz’s Yossi Verter explained this anomaly as reflecting a recognition that defeating Hamas isn't possible, so a tie was the best that could be achieved. Yet that explanation doesn't jibe with another poll finding: A majority of Israelis wanted to continue the operation rather than ending it. That makes no sense if they actually thought the operation had achieved the maximum possible; who in Israel would want IDF soldiers to continue dying in Gaza for nothing? Indeed, respondents even told pollsters which additional goals they wanted achieved: eliminating Hamas’s rocket capabilities, topping Gaza’s Hamas government, targeting Hamas leaders....

So feeling very secure in Israel, there is a populous that want Hamas dead. See, the Israeli government has played politics with Palestinian lives and never bothered to explain the assault of Gaza was like shooting fish in a barrel. Minor point that might even give Israel's citizens a moment of pause to realize they approved of mass killing of innocent people including children. 

It would seem Israel lacks the ability to move past it's 'business as usual' mind set that allows the belief they can actually invade an independent nation of people that have suffered to the point where death means nothing. 

More later.

Today's Editorial

How many Democrats noticed the change in posture of our President pre and post inauguration?

Okay, okay, put your hands down. 

Next question, how many Democrats said under their breath, "The military got to him?" 

Right? Like, too obvious, right? 

Poor BaraK Hussein Obama was barraged with military fear of an impending and complete withdrawal like that crazy Michigander Gerry Ford. Right? So, Obama is then convinced the only 'globally' safe way to end the two wars is to follow Bush's plans. The DNC said, you know some of us voted for the lousy war and we could be hung out to dry and following Bush's plans makes a lot of sense. NOT ONE DEMOCRAT, except maybe for Bernie Sanders, said GET THE HELL OUT BECAUSE NATION BUILDING DOESN'T WORK!

See, Barak Obama was a pure unadulterated Democrat with his belief systems mired completely in tried and true values dating back decades. But, they taken from him. By politics. See, the military was convinced the best outcome to any "W"rongful invasion was to create a nation that was like the USA. We, as Democrats know, that Nation Building is nonsense. We know it, it's in our blood, it is in our religion and it is in our politics. Nation Building fails. 

But, see Bush decided early on Saddam was going to hang for the slurs to his father and the Brits decided the Ba'ath Party was the problem. So, Iraq, when it was still Iraq, was eliminated of it's Parliament and it's military as well as it's dictator. So, "W" said, "I am the genius of all genius and I can make this happen the right way." He instituted nation building and ordered the USA military to MAKE IT SO.

Heady stuff, ya know? A military that could conquer a disarmed dictator and create a democracy. The people of the USA were too traumatized by 911 and Cheney took advantage of all of it and made fear the cultural norm in the USA. 

If Iraq is this much of a mess, what do you think you think Afghanistan is going to look like? 

What did we always know?

National Building doesn't work.

Troops Out Now.

The last thing the world needs right now are journalists that spout philosophy and ideology.

The last voice that falls into that category is Kooky Roberts. She said today the American public has to be given lessons in military in action.

I think Americans know exactly what military inaction is and does not like the fact the USA is always the country to provide 'the action.' So, if other nations want to be involved in their own military inaction that is their peril.

She is war monger. Kooky Roberts is a war monger. She thinks she is slick, but, not so much. Let's just review a few realities this morning. 

The 'idea' of a Mars O2 Fart Machine is actually a $2 billion ad for commercial aerospace. Not government aerospace, but, commercial aerospace. It is not expected to produce anything except speculation.

Mars atmosphere is primarily CO2. It produces no gases and is not alive like Earth. Earth is dynamic and produces CO2 as well as oxygen. So, the chemical composition of Mars is finite, unless of course, human endeavor proves otherwise and that is what commercial aerospace wants everyone to buy into. 

The molecular weight of CO2 is 44.01 grams per mol (don't understand mol/mole than read it - click here).

The molecular weight of Oxygen is 15.9994 grams per mole making O2 31.9988 grams per mol. 

The O2 the Mars Fart Machine will emit will be lighter than any of the atmosphere surrounding it. Where is it going to go? Is it going to hang around the machine and call it home so that human beings can make a new atmosphere? Of course not. The O2 in a relationship with CO2 as something like Helium and Hydrogen. They are both gases, but, one is lighter and floats higher than the other. O2 from the Mars Fart Machine will rise to the top of the CO2 air column. O2 at that place in any atmosphere will burn off when hit by solar radiation as it will excite the molecules. Why do you think Mars is dense with CO2? Because at even it's highest altitude it is stable and difficult to excite into changing conformation as a molecule.

Now on to the former Iraq. The West's political propaganda machine is scapegoating Maliki. The folks in the Green Zone, you know the Baghdad Gated Community behind the concrete barriers are not fighting the wars; the soldiers are. There are no more Iraqi soldiers. They quit. So, fighting about the administration in Baghdad isn't going to result in soldiers willing to fight. 

THERE IS NO MORE IRAQ. Please tell me people aren't this stupid.

I will say this about the new Islamic militants fighting notable wars in Kenya and the former Iraq. They have developed a genocidal methodology as their primary focus in executing their wars. Now, in Kenya, the genetic mix is probably not genocidal, except, for tribes with distinct language and culture. So, in the greater African composition, the Boko Hiram military model is genocidal considering it will homogenize peoples. In the former Iraq and Syria the same holds true. There are tribes of people, even living in cities, that carry certain cultural and ethnic differences. 

How does it work? You know this.

USA Humvees roll into town with a bunch of goons with USA munitions. Then they assassinate any soldier in the area and all the men they can find, except perhaps older men not into procreation.

What's next? If all the sperm are gone, what happens next?

The women are captured or kidnapped and sold into human slavery as baby machines. What occurs? Complete dilution of the genetic content of any ethnicity and the installation by force of a new culture. 

Genocide.

So, there is the propaganda update. Later.