Do Republicans pay attention to the Obama Administrations policies?

May 20, 2015
Ron Ben-Yishai, Yitzhak Benhorin

State Department, (click here) Pentagon approve massive weapons sale, worth $1.9 billion, to Israel in bid to ward off concerns over Iran nuclear negotiations, Gulf states' military procurements.

The US State Department approved a massive sale of bombs and missiles worth $1.897 billion, pending final congressional authorization. The procurement package includes bunker buster munitions and its timing suggests the Americans are seeking to alleviate Israeli concerns over the developing deal with Iran....

Retired General Petraeus can now apologize to President Obama for his poorly researched his point of new in The Washington Post. 

And President Obama doesn't need anyone to tell him what needs to be said to the American people. The General needs to rethink his criticism. It is all unfounded.

Israeli leaders that actually care about its relationship with the USA have stated all along that this administration has been the most generous to Israel to insure it's security as the Iran talks were carried out. President Obama has been the one president that as comprehensive policies to insure the national security of Israel and the USA.

President Obama doesn't need any help.

North Korea has the worst rated airline in the world for four years running.

August 27, 2015

Koryo Air (click here) has been named the world's worst airline again for the fourth year running by Skytrax, which holds the annual World Airline Awards for best airline in the world. It is the only airline listed by Skytrax to receive a lowly one-star rating out of a possible five, due to its Soviet-era planes, rudimentary safety belts, and questionable safety. Photo: Alamy

The best airline on Earth this year is Qatar Airlines. 

Middle-Eastern carrier Qatar Airways has been named the world's best airline, taking out "Airline of the Year" at the annual World Airline Awards, while Qantas has climbed back into the top 10.
Announced at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday, the World Airline Awards, run by research firm Skytrax, are among the most high-profile awards in the aviation industry.
Qatar climbed back into the No.1 slot in the airline rankings after losing first place to Cathay Pacific last year. It is the third time Qatar has taken out the top spot. It also took out the award for the best business class seat.

They haven't entered the statistics of 'the impoverished' yet.

I have to wonder what this does to the Republican bank rolls pledged to spend on the 2016 elections. Wall Street billionaires are quickly entering 'the walk of shame' now that they nearly lost their shirts.

26 August 2015

HONG KONG: Asia's richest person lost $3.6 billion on Monday, the most among all billionaires worldwide, as China's stock markets had the biggest plunge since 2007 and a wave of selling spread across the globe.

Wang Jianlin saw $2 billion wiped (click here) from his stake in Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties Co., according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after it tumbled 17 percent to its lowest level since it went public in December. Wang also lost nearly $1 billion from his Shenzhen-traded Wanda Cinema Line Co., which fell by the exchange-exposed limit of 10 percent on Monday. The remaining losses stemmed from stakes in private companies, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

China's stocks tumbled on Monday after government stimulus failed to lift investors' confidence in the country's slowing economy. The rout also spread to other regions, seeing fortunes plummet worldwide. About $124 billion was wiped off the collective fortunes of the world's 400 richest people as the global selloff pushed the Standard & Poor's 500 Index into its first correction in nearly four years. China stocks plunged again on Tuesday, spelling more losses for Asia's richest.

"Everyone is probably overly pessimistic about the stock market now," Amy Lin, a Shanghai-based analyst at Capital Securities Corp., said in an interview. "There was a lot of panic selling in the market."...

STRATEGIC PARTNERS: Jordanian King Abdallah, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan at the opening ceremony of the MAKS-2015 in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow. (AP)

26 August 2015
By Acence France Presse

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) hosted the Jordanian king and the crown prince of Abu Dhabi in Moscow Tuesday to discuss the Syrian crisis and take part in a showcase of Russia’s military industry.
Jordanian King Abdullah and the Abu Dhabi heavyweight, Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, visited Moscow. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi is also due in Moscow to attend the Maks-2015 military salon.
Despite foreign interest in the Russian space and defense industries, no international contracts are expected to be signed during the salon, a spokesman for Russia’s state defense import-export company Rosoboronexport, Vyacheslav Davydenko, told AFP last week.
Middle Eastern government delegations have been flooding into Moscow in recent weeks and days, with a Syrian opposition delegation tolerated by the regime of President Bashar Assad arriving on Sunday for talks on the crisis in their war-torn country....

Regardless of the civil war within Syria, Russia has been pursuing agreements and a coalition government.

It is not realistic to expect an escalation of war in the region. That path is not considered realistic. President Assad is a Shia. His ethnicity is Alawite. President Assad has the loyalty of the Alawite people. (click here) It is not realistic to believe any accord to end the killing will not include leadership of the Alawite people.

Any escalation of war won't serve a purpose.  

MOSCOW, August 17./TASS/. Syrian settlement (click here) can be only peaceful, and only the Syrian people themselves can decide their fate, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks with his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif on Monday.

"We exchanged opinions on the situation in the Middle East and in North Africa," Lavrov said. "Special attention was paid to effort towards contribution to the Syrian settlement, that can be only peaceful and can be achieved only on the basis on negotiations between the Syrian parties without interference from outside," Lavrov said.

Russia rejects any preliminary agreements that say that Syrian President Bashar Assad will have to leave his post, Russian Foreign Minister said.
"Several our partners think that they need to agree beforehand that Assad will leave his post after a transitional period. Russia does not accept this position," Lavrov said.

Moscow and Tehran are also in favor of resolving situations in Iraq and Yemen without foreign intervention, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov added.
"We have similar approaches to events in Iraq and Yemen," Lavrov said. "We support national dialogue to resolve the problems, not imposed scripts from the outside."

The most recent actions from the United Nations was an accounting of the human rights violations in Syria. There are 26 provisions in the UN assessment and I have listed the last five.

23 March 2015

The continuing grave deterioration (click here) in the human rights and humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic

...22. Deplores the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, and urges the international community, including all donors, to provide urgent financial support to enable the host countries to respond to the growing humanitarian needs of Syrian refugees while emphasing the principle of burden-sharing;

23. Welcomes the offer from Kuwait to host the third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria on 31 March 2015, expresses its appreciation to donor States, and calls upon all members of the international community to respond expeditiously to the Syrian humanitarian appeals and to fulfil all previous pledges; 

24.Reiterates that a genuine political transition based on the Geneva communiqué is needed to end the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, and encourages the international community to take appropriate steps to that end;

25.Decides to transmit all reports and oral updates of the Commission of Inquiry to all relevant bodies of the United Nations, recommends that the Commission brief the General Assembly during its sixty-ninth session, also recommends that the Assembly submit the reports to the Security Council for appropriate action expresses its appreciation to the Commission for its briefings to members of the Council, and recommends the continuation of future briefings;

26. Also decides to remain seized of the matter.

The most recent military resolution involved the removal of chemical weapons. I believe that is finished. However, there continues to be issues with chlorine use.

A team of heroes. 

They worked until the end and could have saved lives by reporting who their killer was. 

There is no doubt, they were a team of heroes among a profession that has many heroes.

It probably is an extremist of some kind.

Where better to instill fear than a live television broadcast. Journalists should not have routine places for broadcast. Mix it up. Change locations. Once one location is used for broadcast change to another next time. Choose secure locations where there is limited access from the public whenever possible.

Why do I say this? ie: London Police Officer, the attack is not random

This is a terrible tragedy to these people. My sincerest sympathies. This is completely horrible.  

August 26, 2015
By Staff

Police are looking (click here for video loop) for a suspect who apparently opened fire on WDBJ7 photographer Adam Ward and WDBJ7 reporter Alison Parker.
Adam was 27-years-old. Alison just turned 24.
Both were from the WDBJ7 viewing area.
Adam graduated from Salem High School and Virginia Tech.
Alison grew up in Martinsville and attended Patrick Henry Community College and James Madison University....

Editors, producers and directors should be tasking their teams to safe locations while still delivering the news. No one needs heroes, we need the news. Thank you. Yeah, a disgruntled employee that kills on live television. Right.

Erika picks up where Danny left off.

The image above is from The Weather Channel.

Tropical Storm Erika began here: 

INIT  26/0900Z  16.1N  -56.0W   35 KT  40 MPH

Tropical Depression Danny weakens - 

24A  16.10N  -62.60W 08/24/12Z  - TROPICAL DEPRESSION

Literally, at the same latitude Danny hands off water vapor energy to Ericka. The

longitude is different because Ericka is traveling behind Danny.

August 26, 2015

1230.18a

UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)

There are three active hurricanes in the east Pacific.

Storm 14, Tropical Storm - Kilo

Storm 15, Hurricane Loki 1 

Storm 16 - Tropical Storm Ignacio

 So far, there have been sixteen storms in the east Pacific, while

 there are only five storm in the Atlantic. In 2005, it was the complete opposite with 

 31 storm in the Atlantic and seventeen in the east Pacific. The change in the location

of the majority of storms to the Pacific is due to the lack of power within the jet stream. 

Where the jet stream left off Earth's Coriolis picked up. 

What the heck? Perhaps some folks haven't noticed the New Syrian Army recruitment is not a dazzling force.

August 25, 2015
By Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s inspector general (click here) is investigating allegations that military officials have skewed intelligence assessments about the United States-led campaign in Iraq against the Islamic State to provide a more optimistic account of progress, according to several officials familiar with the inquiry.

The investigation began after at least one civilian Defense Intelligence Agency analyst told the authorities that he had evidence that officials at United States Central Command — the military headquarters overseeing the American bombing campaign and other efforts against the Islamic State — were improperly reworking the conclusions of intelligence assessments prepared for policy makers, including President Obama, the government officials said.

Fuller details of the claims were not available, including when the assessments were said to have been altered and who at Central Command, or Centcom, the analyst said was responsible. The officials, speaking only on the condition of anonymity about classified matters, said that the recently opened investigation focused on whether military officials had changed the conclusions of draft intelligence assessments during a review process and then passed them on....

One complaint from an undisclosed source does not a failed strategy make. That civilian intelligence agency doesn't raise questions for me, except, who is this and why no one else came to the same conclusion.

There are more civilian intelligence agencies in the USA than sheep over a cliff and one of them came to different conclusions from every other assessment. Really?

The region is too fractured to have a cohesive plan. This is from The Jerusalem Post.

BEIRUT - Syrian President Bashar Assad (click here) said he was open to the idea of a coalition against Islamic State but indicated there was little chance of it happening with his enemies, casting further doubt on a Russian plan to forge an alliance against the militant group.

The initiative proposed by Russia, a vital ally of Assad, would involve the Syrian government joining regional states that have backed Syrian rebels in a shared fight against the Islamic State group that controls wide areas of Syria and Iraq....

There is no one strategy to end the war in the Middle East. Every country is a sovereign entity and has to solve their own problems when it comes to the influence of Daesh. Recenlty, Kuwait broke up a terror plot and arrested members of Hezbollah. Every country in the Middle East has to take control of their sovereignty and protect from destabilization.

August 14, 2015

Kuwait: Kuwait authorities (click here) seized a huge arms cache smuggled from Iraq and hidden beneath houses near the border, arresting three suspected members of a militant cell that was plotting to destabilise the country, local media said.
Majority-Sunni Muslim Kuwait has been on alert since an Daesh suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shi'ite mosque in the capital Kuwait city in late June, killing 27 people.
A total of 19,000 kg (42,000 lb) of ammunition, 144 kg of explosives, 68 weapons and 204 grenades were seized from three properties in the al-Abdali area, state news agency KUNA said.
The three men arrested were the owners of the houses, it said....

There is too much potential for instability if the USA entered the fray. Recently, Turkey took an old world posture that cost Kurds lives and land. The dynamics are too complex to have one strategy. Only a month ago everyone was holding the Kurds as a real hope for the stability in their region, now it is all up in the air because Turkey has taken a far different approach. 

It is vitally important every sovereign country have control of their borders. Jordan has been an incredible example of a country resolved to end any danger from Daesh. Recently, Jordan closed one of their borders because of the chaos on the other side.

Russia has entered the fight for a stable Middle East. That should work to bring Syria to a better footing. The region is not conducive to a single military strategy, there are ongoing tensions between ethnicities and that needs to be settled. Russia can be an asset to that end. Having the USA military enter the region again is a gross error.

Russia is more than capable of bringing militarizes together to end the threat of Daesh. The USA - Arab Coalition is as equally important as Russia can be. This is not a new posture for Russia, it has been involved since Egypt attacked Daesh forces in Libya. 

The idea the US military manipulated information to paint a pretty picture to the outcomes of the coalition is nonsense. The USA military is as interested today in protecting the people of the USA as at any other time in history.

President Obama knows exactly the potential and dangers of an unstable Middle East. He knows how tensions exist between coalition members, but, it is working. Old ideas of allies is falling away and countries in the Middle East are taking on the challenge of internal stability and peace. Daesh is no winning in sovereign countries. 

These countries need more than the USA fighting their wars for them. They need common ground with a sole purpose to defeat the charismatic invasions of Daesh. The stability of these countries is paramount to the defeat of Daesh. 

Saudi Arabia has a very long and effective ability to maintain stability while weeding out those that would see the country's leadership toppled.

I don't care what anyone thinks of a monarchy, it has worked to benefit the people within it's borders. Saudi Arabia has Shia living within the country. There is no hatred that exists within these countries that would move to war. The shadow of peace and diversity is important to defeat a common enemy and the leaders know this. The USA can no longer plow across borders to 'take over.' Such actions would cause a great deal of instability and death on all sides of the war.

One civilian intelligence agent does not make a new strategy. Any new assessment is always helpful, but, simply because one intelligent agency sees things differently, that is more political than practical. Differences are allowed to exist.

She died at the age of 42.

August 26, 2015
By Jane Onyanga-Omara

The dust-covered 9/11 survivor (click here) whose photograph became one of the defining images of the terror attacks has died after a battle with stomach cancer at the age of 42.

Marcy Borders, then 28, became known as the 'Dust Lady," when Agence France-Presse photographer Stan Honda took her picture after a bystander pulled her to safety as the second of the Twin Towers began to fall.

Borders was running late for work as a legal assistant at the Bank of America on the 81st floor of 1 World Trade Center when al-Qaeda-linked terrorists slammed two of four hijacked planes into the Twin Towers. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks....

Cancer. I am surprised. 14 years after the World Trade Towers collapsed a survivor dies of cancer. If cancer is an issue with a human life due to environmental exposure of carcinogens it shows up about a generation later or 20 years. Stomach cancer while she was trying to breath.

She is outside most statistics of people that contract stomach cancer. Stomach Cancer is the USA is very rare. It is normally found more often in men and in people between the ages of 60 and 80.

China needs a renaissance.

August 26, 2015
By Marc Jones

World shares (click here) sagged on Wednesday as investors feared fresh rate cuts in China may not be enough to stabilize its slowing economy or halt a stocks collapse that is wreaking havoc in global markets.

Europe's main stock markets, which had surged on Tuesday after China's moves, reopened 2 percent down as the jittery mood returned and sent investors back into safe-haven German and U.S. government bonds. China's key share indexes had attempted to move higher several times during Asian trading only to be slapped back by waves of selling, reflecting investors' views that much more support was needed from the government and the central bank....

I cannot believe China's economy was built without a conscience. As of 2014 Wall Street was stating China was expected to surpass the USA's GDP and today Wall Street is trying to isolate the failure. That was nothing but a money grab since 1992 and now China has eyes wide open. It has to be the biggest fraud in history. 

No Wall Street firm even bothered to assess the growth of China and it's real world failed decisions. This says more about Wall Street than it does China. China had the will to be gigantic and move from an emerging market to a contender easily competing with the USA. China has been a shell economy with absolutely no substance to it's establishment and growth. How did fraud get so out of control. 

The banks are too big and are not even assessing 'on the ground' information in investment.

We have witnessed the "London Whale" and now a failed Chinese economy. The banks are a problem. A problem no one ever expected. China has to be placed back on it's feet and that means the World Bank and IMF will have to assess the behemoth economy and find where the failures occurred and advice to bring about stability. China can't simply be isolated by Wall Street after it ravaged an entire country. The IMF has to act to bring China stability. 

I cannot believe China may have to be saved by the IMF because Wall Street used the country as a feeding frenzy. The Chinese government has planned to bring China a middle class and an improved quality of life. This is tragic. Seriously tragic. It goes to prove the ruthlessness of Wall Street and it's overwhelming wealth that can overshadow nations.

Life without parole. No death penalty because the jury was not unanimous on sentence.

August 26, 2015

The mother (click here) of Colorado theatre shooter James Holmes gave an impromptu public apology Wednesday, telling a judge during his sentencing hearing that her son feels remorse but his mental illness and medications made it hard for him to express it.
Arlene Holmes took the stand after more than 100 victims and survivors of the 2012 attack testified about the searing physical and emotional scars the shooting has left.
"We cannot feel the depths of your pain. We can only listen. ... And we pray for you," she said through tears. "We are very sorry this tragedy happened and sorry everyone has suffered so much."
Standing at a lectern with her husband, Robert, by her side, she told Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. that she has been researching mental illness and ways to prevent mass violence.
"I am not proud I didn't know more about mental illness. We should have known our family history better and realised that the signs of mental illness can appear at a very early age," said Holmes, who previously testified that she didn't know her son suffered schizophrenia until after he killed 12 people and injured scores more in the attack....

...Marriages ended. Friendships shattered. Toni Billapando, who was shot and whose friend, Alex Sullivan, was killed, wondered about the effects of the shooting on her son, now 3. He was born just two weeks after the attack, as Billapando was recovering from her wounds. She was married at the time. Now, she's divorced.
"Imagine telling your child that monsters are real and not to be afraid of the dark when you're scared of the dark yourself," said another survivor, Stephanie Davies, who also has an 8-month-old son. She went to the theatre with her best friend, cradling her when she was shot. Now, the two no longer speak. "It was easier to heal ourselves in our own messed-up ways," Davies said in a statement read aloud by a prosecutor.
- AP

Univision

Making a bad decision after another bad decision is not the way to effect an election.

Univision's attack today on a Trump meeting was a really bad decision.

I'll tell you where this is going. "Univision" is trying to influence the election by throwing it's weight around. Somehow standing in a room where other press was sitting and refusing to sit down while rambling adverse comments is not making friends. People are going to see a media outlet that backs illegal immigration. They aren't going to see the much needed immigration reform in the USA, they are going to see people that give permission and encourage illegal immigration.

The entire focus of immigration reform is headed in the direction of criminal content. FOX News regularly now carries reports of murders caused by illegal immigrants. The next image people will see is Univision attacking a presidential candidate.

Attacking Donald Trump is not going to succeed. That is what Univision has to realize. Univision wants immigration reform as does the majority of Americans. Attacking Donald Trump is not going to bring about immigration reform and will begin to turn Americans away from those we want as US residents. Currently, other than the young people born in the USA, immigration reform will never include citizenship. That isn't because I said so, but, because Republicans are terrified of Hispanic voters.

Univision has a lot of work to do and attacking presidential candidates isn't going to get them what they want. FACT. It hasn't worked yet. What makes anyone think it will work in the future? 

Univision needs to put forward the NEED for immigration reform and the injustice of postponing it. Get people to listen to the valid reasons for immigration reform and why postponing it is adverse to the USA. WIN over the people and WIN the election that will pass immigration reform.

July 16, 2015
By Antonia Blumberg

..."This humanitarian emergency (click here) requires, as a first urgent measure, these children be welcomed and protected. These measures, however, will not be sufficient, unless they are accompanied by policies that inform people about the dangers of such a journey and, above all, that promote development in their countries of origin."...

Those are words by Pope Francis. He would never encourage a policy that would break up families and put people in danger of any kind.

"Alpha Males"

Wow, I didn't know the Republican primary is a real dog fight.

Donald Trump went from having a personality disorder to be one of many Alpha Males. 

Amazing. 

An alpha male has certain unmistakable characteristics. A natural leader, he is a pack-builder. He leads, provides for and protects his pack (his significant other, his buddies, his teammates, and so on).

The reason the attack by Megyn Kelly is more important than Donald Trump's reply is because it was egregious. The 'pack' at FOX would love for the fact Kelly attacked Donald Trump to be overshadowed by screams of sexism, which Donald Trump denies.

One more time now, Megyn Kelly had INTENT. She specifically asked if anyone would run as an independent if denied the Republican nomination. There was only one person on that stage able and willing to carry out an election as an independent candidate. THE INTENT of the question was to cause national polls to turn against Donald Trump. That's a debate, huh? That isn't what I call it. I call it interfering with free and open elections in the USA.

I and many, many other Americans are tired of the interference by American media with elections.

Alpha Males. What are the women called Alpha Bitches?  

Why were the trend in Wall Street so volatile on Monday? 

Because it was Monday.

Brokers had the weekend to plot their course. That is why Monday was a real roller coaster ride. The brokers are isolating China. So, while they were at it the soft stocks with sincere problems were abandoned as well.

August 25, 2015
By Samuel Shen and Nathaniel Taplin

Chinese stocks tumbled again (click here) on Tuesday, despite a rebound in markets elsewhere in Asia, as investors despaired at the lack of policy action from Beijing in response to recent data suggesting the downturn in the world's second-largest economy is deepening.
Major Chinese stock indexes nosedived more than 7 percent, hitting their lowest levels since December, following their more than 8 percent plunge on Monday that sent shockwaves through global financial markets. [MKTS/GLOB]
China, one of the main engines of the world economy, has overtaken Greece at the top of the worry list of global investors, who fret its economy is growing at a much slower pace than the official 7 percent target for 2015....

China does not have a history of bailing out poor performance companies, they litigate it and level criminal charges, prison time and/or death sentences.

The hurricanes of 2005 are extinct.

By Barbara Hollingsworth
August 24, 2015

(CNSNews.com) – As of today, (click here) it has been a record 118 months since the last major hurricane struck the continental United States, according to records kept by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Hurricane Research Division, which list all hurricanes to strike the U.S. mainland going back to 1851.

A major hurricane is Category 3 or higher hurrucine. The last one to strike the continental U.S. was Hurricane Wilma, which made landfall in Florida on Oct. 24, 2005.

President Obama is the first president in 122 years, since Benjamin Harrison was in office, who has not seen a major hurricane strike the U.S. during his time in office. In a statement on its website, NOAA expressed concern that Americans might suffer from “hurricane amnesia.”

The second longest stretch between major hurricanes hitting the continenatla U.S. was the eight years between 1860 and 1869, NOAA records show.
“It has been 10 years since Hurricanes Katrina (Aug. 29), Rita (Sept. 23/24) and Wilma (Oct. 24) made landfall along the Gulf Coast during one of the most active hurricane seasons in recorded history,” NOAA said in a statement marking the 10-year anniversary of the 2005 hurricane season....

FOX News doesn't want Trump for a candidate. Just that simple and there will be ill feelings for a long time to come.

I have to comment on all the excitement over the Trump-Kelly perpetual conflict. It is not going away. 

I don't know exactly when it happened, but people got the idea that a simple apology was necessary to settle any disagreement. In other words, the parties have decided to disagree but all social niceties will be resolved for the sake of function. It is rather strange when one reflects on the idea people smile and get on with the day while under the surface mutual distrust exists. 

Donald Trump is not going to apologize and the family feud will continue within plain site of those interested. Donald Trump made up his mind about Megan Kelly the night he was assaulted. There isn't going back because niceties have to reign supreme. 

I find it interesting to hear how the so called necessary apology has become political fodder. There won't be any apology, the facts are what they are. And from time to time the issue will present itself because IT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

He was attacked and Roger Ailes is defending that attack in what is very bad relations between FOX News and Donald Trump. Quite frankly, I am rather pleased someone is standing up to FOX. The first question in the first Republican debate was intended to disgrace Donald Trump as anything other than a true Republican. The attack was specifically to defame and disgrace and embarrass along with any other descriptor that Donald Trump was not a loyal Republican because in his judgement he is not being treated fairly.

That question proves FOX News is not a media organization interested in FAIR AND BALANCED, but, indeed is a propaganda network that uses it's media power to control the politics practiced within it's reach. It has been widely known FOX is a power broker and not a media organization. It is about time someone took them on.

Does every moment in life have to be calculated for a specific media moment?

The video below is a window to the 'terror' FOX News journalists live within to carry out the proper message to control any outcome. It is ridiculous. Standing in line to greet the President and First Lady turned into a nightmare. It's ridiculous. Did Megyn Kelly accept the invitation to garner a gossip point about the Obamas? 

Donald Trump was attacked with the first question of the first Republican debate for a very specific reason to move national polling against him. That is control, it is not journalism. Donald Trump knows he was attacked and called FOX on it. Megyn Kelly happened to be the chosen messenger. She could have thought differently as a professional and posed a question to all the candidates, but, she didn't. She carried the message Roger Ailes would approve of. Donald Trump has every reason to continue to confront this very public attack and not forgive Megyn Kelly for carrying it out. There isn't going to be a happy family between Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly.  

This is the real world and not FOX World. In the real world there are consequences for attacks on a person. Welcome to the real world.

The rent it too damn high. Mayor Deblassio needs to explore the possibility of rent control.

Here again capitalism and greed has produced a dysfunctional paradigm that have forced good people to the street. The days of Ronald Reagan resulted in the exact same paradigm of power and greed.

What is the minimum wage in NYC? See, the more expensive the cost of living goes through the roof, the more homeless that will exist.

$8.75 per hour minimum wage will not result in the homeless taking up an apartment or otherwise with escalating rent. There is usually a good reason for an increase in homelessness. It is usually based in greed.

Greed has to be curtailed otherwise the homeless population will become demoralized to the point where looking for a job is for others and not the individual that can't seem to succeed. Homelessness provides an oppression of people that then become permanently homeless. 

The USA is suppose to be about the people, not corporations. This is what occurs when corporations actually have more power than the people. Mayor de Blasio needs to govern NYC as an example to good governance and return dignity to the homeless and function to the city. Rent control and programs to bring people back to the work place is definitely needed in New York City. The day women with painted bodies can actually make more money at a job with dignity is the day NYC can state it is a functional.

July 8, 2015
By John Podhertz

If you’ve been out (click here) and about in Manhattan over the past six weeks and you have eyes and ears, you know something’s happening — something worrisome.
The urban streetscape is ­degrading.
Take a walk down Broadway on the Upper West Side from the 100s to the 70s, as I did Sunday, and you’ll see it everywhere. It seems every barren storefront with a rental sign in the window has ­become impromptu outdoor housing for a homeless person.
There are many such storefronts — ironic signs of prosperity, not recession. Rents have risen so high that small businesses often can’t afford to continue and landlords will keep a storefront unoccupied for a very long time to secure a wealthy customer willing to take a very lengthy lease (i.e., a bank).
The number of people living on the street in the neighborhood, or at least taking up daytime residence to beg for change, has skyrocketed from a mere handful to several dozen or more....

Members currently to the TPP is Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.

The countries in red italics are also members of the Trans-Pacific Parternship (TPP) and Asian Infrastructure Infrastructure Bank. The losses these countries experience from their investment into the AIIB will impact the USA economy. That is also true for the countries in the TIIP and AIIB such as Great Britain. 

The impact of China on the global economy is not clearly defined. It would be a gross error to embark on trading partnerships that are unkowns to their future growth or failure including the countries of NATO. The USA needs to avoid expose to burgeoning bank failures. The global economy needs stability not further speculations.

The TPP and AIIB are not good treaties, especially now. The treaties are built out of faux expectations. 

China's approach to it's economics based in regional dynamics is wrong. China is creating an infrastructure based in duplicity or worse. Rather than creating a cohesive and strong infrastructure it is creating competitive states/provinces with their own identical infrastructure. It is too much investment in infrastructure. It isn't needed.

Infrastructure should be build out of NEED and not simply because it seems like a good idea. Infrastructure is the last investment to an economic outcome. The MARKET is built first. That means China has to have people with good paying jobs and a strong economy. Just building infrastructure doesn't create a market for goods. The economy has to exist first and then infrastructure is built to accommodate growth.  

A growth economy is built from a central place outward. Let's say Beijing has a strong economy for baby formula. That means profits are easy to come by quarter after quarter. When there is enough profits in the Baby Formula Company's treasury it can develop a plan to expand into the neighboring province. 

The Baby Formula Company approaches the Beijing Bank and obtains a loan that can be serviced out of current revenues. The Baby Formula Company then builds a satellite in a neighboring province. That satellite begins marketing of it's product within the neighboring province and finds a strong market for that product. 

The satellite investment then begins to add profits to the main company and stock prices go up. The Baby Formula Company then has a strong reputation for it's product. 

The expansion beyond the primary Baby Formula Company plant and it's satellite can then take place because the product is a good product, parents are happy because market research proves that. Then new satellites can be built and services to the good people throughout China can prove growth in jobs and profits. At that point if the Chinese Baby Formula Company has a superior product compared with those on the global market place, the banks of China may finance a global approach to supply this Chinese product on a worldwide basis. 

Economies grow because there is DEMAND of a good product.  

China has not managed it's growth, it simplly let it happen..

Capitalism in China is not a pretty picture. Turning toward a "new China" was to simplistic. I am curious about the new China Infrastructure Bank though. President Obama had warned against the investment by Great Britain.

August 25, 2015

..."The Northeast (click here) still thinks of itself as the big brother, because they were the first to get rich after the new China was founded. They are sitting on their glories and not advancing with time. Their mindset is still the old planned economy stuff. They don't see that small businesses can do big things."
Nevertheless, it would be wrong to write China's economy off, or to conclude that the Northeast has no hope of recovery.

Shenyang Machine Tool Group (SYMG) company chairman Xiyou Guan talks enthusiastically about joining the next global revolution in smart machines. SYMG rose from being the 36th largest machine tool company in the world in 2002 to the largest in 2011.

Times are much tougher now - revenues have since dropped sharply and the company is projecting a net loss in the first half of this year, while it has fallen back to third place globally. Nevertheless, Guan, who is also a senior Communist Party official, remains upbeat - about his company and for the region as a whole.

"In my opinion, the fact that we are in an economic downturn is not a bad thing: when something old dies, something new will be born," he said, turning to his colleagues to cite a line from Russian writer Maxim Gorky. "'Let the tempest come strike harder!' - because this will give birth to new things much faster."...

Another failed Chinese bank. How many does that make? Three or four, right?

August 18, 2015
By Cathy Kit Ching Chan

Don’t be surprised (click here) to see a few empty corner offices at global investment banks in Asia these days.
Tougher regulation and the rise of Chinese competitors have reduced the initial public offerings and other large China deals being won by U.S. and European banks, a business which yielded $7 billion in fees last year and has supported a legion of well-heeled bankers in Hong Kong.
As the business has changed, the investment banks are increasingly willing to leave top executive roles vacant and dispense with the services of so-called relationship bankers, who brought in lucrative deals by dint of their extensive networks with China’s corporate titans. At the same time, stricter rules have made the roles less appealing for ambitious bankers.
 “The regulatory environment is more rigid and each firm is going through a strategic adjustment in different ways, so senior people have become less eager to work at the investment banks” in Asia, said David Chin, 47, who stepped down as UBS Group AG’s Hong Kong (click here)-based head of Asian investment-banking in June.
Chin spent 21 years at UBS and worked on deals such as the $4 billion Hong Kong share sale of China Minsheng Banking Corp. in 2009 and the $11.2 billion IPO of Bank of China Ltd. in 2006. He plans to take up a position as a visiting scholar at Cambridge University in the U.K. in September.
UBS hasn’t announced a replacement for China....

Goldman Sachs invested heavily in China after 2008. They lost a years growth yesterday.

Goldman has never fully recovered to it's pre-2008 highs. Quantitative Easing was a give away to Wall Street that in turn dumped it into China. Wall Street had too much money and acted like a kid in a candy shop. The privatization of China wasn't about real growth, it was about over investment. QE 1 through 3 did nothing but provided liquid assets to throw in a black hole while keeping fingers crossed behind investor's back to China's outcome.

THE BANKS ARE TOO BIG.  The US Congress needs to hold hearings as soon as possible. Wall Street is headed for more than an adjustment. Adjustments correct projections of income to stockholders, this isn't an adjustment, this is a failure. 

China's leadership created a vision of growth based in capitalism based in a dreamscape. The leaders believed the dream presented by Wall Street investors who created the Chinese oligarchy. The monies put into the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) simply was swallowed up in attempts to create stability. The investors into the AIIB have lost the money they put into it and now have to ride the tide of time in hope to regain those monies. The investors lost their entire investment as soon as it was deposited. Rather than living with failed banks the Chinese simply built another one and put out a prospectus on dreams and not reality. 

Currently, Wall Street is attempting to come home to mommy. Seriously. They are unwinding from speculative investing during the QE Era.  

June 29, 2015
By Duncan Hewitt
 
SHANGHAI -- Representatives from 57 countries (click here) have attended a signing ceremony in Beijing for the founding of the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The institution, designed to promote regional development, has been seen as a significant foreign policy success for China, which proposed the idea. It has also become something of an embarrassment for the U.S., which announced early on that it would not be joining, only to discover that many of its allies had no such qualms.
Australia was the first country to sign the agreement at a ceremony in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. The other 49 countries that signed up -- seven others are still waiting for approval from their domestic legislatures -- included Germany, the U.K. and South Korea.
China has said the bank, which will be based in Beijing and is expected to start work by the end of this year, will play a major role in speeding up development, in a region where some $8 trillion in investment is expected to be required in the next five years alone. It is seen as providing an alternative to U.S.-dominated institutions such as the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, which some in Asia consider slow to respond to the needs of the region -- and as imposing too many conditions on development....

The investors are gambling the region of China will be capable of exceeding an investment of $8 Trillion. You've got to be joking.