Donald Trump cannot act as a dictator and throw the power of the presidency around. It doesn't work that way.
Senator Bernie Sanders does not have a problem with the idea of limiting military contracts to preserve American jobs, but, to simply end treaties takes Congress and quite frankly American jobs at the expense of the Ozone Layer will not be effective. If Earth's ozone layer is not protected, the USA could have $100,000 per year jobs but the people won't benefit from them long enough to make it a moral decision.
People on Earth cannot live without an ozone layer. That is not negotiable.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Mr. Crutcher was unarmed and there was no one else on the scene that could have killed him.
No one in the USA wants a police officer to be guilty of killing an unarmed citizen. But, it happens and it happens in particular to young African American men. The phenomena cannot be denied. No one is making false accusations.
September 22, 2016
September 22, 2016
Tulsa, Oklahoma - A prosecutor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, (click here) says arrangements are being made for the surrender of a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man on a city street.
Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler filed a first-degree manslaughter charge Thursday against officer Betty Shelby, who shot and killed 40-year-old Terence Crutcher on Sept. 16. Dashcam and aerial footage of the shooting and its aftermath showed Crutcher walking away from Shelby with his arms in the air.
The footage does not offer a clear view of when Shelby fired the single shot that killed Crutcher. Her attorney has said Crutcher was not following police commands and that Shelby opened fire when the man began to reach into his SUV window.
Tulsa police say Crutcher did not have a gun on him or in his vehicle.
Flag burning is decided law.
Gregory Lee Johnson burned an American flag outside of the convention center where the 1984 Republican National Convention was being held in Dallas, Texas. Johnson burned the flag to protest the policies of President Ronald Reagan. He was arrested and charged with violating a Texas statute that prevented the desecration of a venerated object, including the American flag, if such action were likely to incite anger in others. A Texas court tried and convicted Johnson. He appealed, arguing that his actions were "symbolic speech" protected by the First Amendment. The Supreme Court agreed to hear his case.
This is the real twist. The liberals split the decision regarding flag burning. The decision came down from Justice William Brennan that it was "symbolic speech" and was protected by the First Amendment.
The Justice that dissented is now retired. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the dissenting opinion stating the flag had special status and the First Amendment did not apply.
So, while the right wing extremists are having a rip roaring good time with the standards of our government so the hubris of the GOP is intact, it wasn't a conservative judge that dissented.
What did the Late Justice Scalia say?
Ready?
This is the real twist. The liberals split the decision regarding flag burning. The decision came down from Justice William Brennan that it was "symbolic speech" and was protected by the First Amendment.
The Justice that dissented is now retired. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the dissenting opinion stating the flag had special status and the First Amendment did not apply.
So, while the right wing extremists are having a rip roaring good time with the standards of our government so the hubris of the GOP is intact, it wasn't a conservative judge that dissented.
What did the Late Justice Scalia say?
Ready?
The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (click here) stressed that flag burning is protected by the Constitution — even if he doesn't think it should be.
In 1989, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Texas v. Johnson, which found a man named Gregory Lee Johnson had a Constitutional right to burn the American flag during the Republican National Convention.
Scalia sided with the majority in that case, which found the First Amendment protects political expression like setting the stars and stripes on fire. That doesn't mean the 78-year-old justice likes flag desecration, but it's the justices' job to interpret the Constitution, not to pass moral judgment, Scalia has said repeatedly....
As the country goes through the next four years, remember, the bills the US Congress passes are suppose to be read three times and the bills are stated to have been read three times, but, the truth is the bills aren't read even once in the Congress.
The Republican Hubris exists in a vacuum. They have no idea what they are talking about and this is a prime example.
As the country goes through the next four years, remember, the bills the US Congress passes are suppose to be read three times and the bills are stated to have been read three times, but, the truth is the bills aren't read even once in the Congress.
The Republican Hubris exists in a vacuum. They have no idea what they are talking about and this is a prime example.
Now people can begin to be terrorized by Donald Trump. These jobs cannot reverse the use of CFCs.
November 29, 2016
By Stephen Singer
President-elect Donald Trump (click here) may have considerable leverage in negotiations with United Technologies Corp. as he tries to force the conglomerate to reverse its decision to move 1,400 Carrier jobs to Mexico from Indiana.
Trump can renegotiate UTC's aerospace contracts with the Pentagon and seek revised federal environmental regulations and performance standards governing air conditioning and cooling equipment made by Carrier. He also could propose new federal tax policy affecting billions of dollars in cash that UTC and other conglomerates hold overseas....
The USA and the world is in real trouble. There is a mad man in the White House.
The Montreal Protocol (click here) on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer(a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer) is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.
If dismantling entire international agreements is what Donald Trump plans to keep jobs in the USA there have to be sanctions placed on the country. The Republican majority has already stated they will simply rubber stamp all the plans of Donald Trump. Donald Trump is planning on the support of the Red State voters to enforce his demented ambitions.
November 24, 2011
By David Doniger
...The good news: (click here) Support continued to grow in Bali for taking steps to avoid disastrous increases in production of HFCs. 108 countries – more than half the world’s nations – have now backed moving forward on HFC phase-down proposals from Micronesia and from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. That’s up from 91 supporters last year and 41 two years ago. (The countries are listed below.)...
If the previous Goldman Sachs run down didn't do it for you. There is this.
“These banks have literally millions of email flying around a day. If you don’t have a system that can find the 0.001% instead of the 0.1%, the sheer number of alerts you have to deal with is overwhelming,” says Estes. “It required a quantum leap in cognitive review so you don’t have to spend 100-times the money in manual review,” he adds. Estes began pushing Digital Reasoning into finance in 2012 and now counts firms such as Goldman Sachs, UBS and billionaire Steven A. Cohen’s family office, Point72 Asset Management, as customers.
So, it sounds interesting doesn't it? Right? Think "Super Spy."
November 7, 2016
By Antoine
When Tim Estes, 37, created Digital Reasoning as a twenty-one year old with a philosophy degree from the University of Virginia, his startup aimed to use software to bridge mathematics with language and understand human behavior. Sixteen years on, Estes’ language-learning technology is used by a who’s who roster of Wall Street’s most scrutinized firms as they rein in employees and avoid the multi-billion dollar regulatory fines that have plagued the industry since the crisis.
Nashville-based Digital Reasoning, a new member of Forbes’ Fintech 50, was created with the premise that people build recognizable behavioral patterns using language and quantitative technology can be used to define these habits to understand corresponding action. Over time, the firm’s quantitative software teaches itself about patterns thus developing ever more-sophisticated models of individuals’ behavior, which can be used for surveillance ranging from counterintelligence to the combatting of fraud.
Estes’ bet has paid off. A few years after its founding in 2000, Digital Reasoning became an important cog utilized by the Department of Defense during the war in Afghanistan for communications surveillance aimed at gaining intelligence and protecting troops. Digital Reasoning was one of the successful startups that helped the Army comb through a haystack of digital information to spotlight counter terrorism intelligence, or uncover threats to troops on the battlefield.
Supposedly this really works to end the war in Afghanistan. Really?
In 2012, Estes decided to ply this surveillance to Wall Street amid the industry’s litany of billion-dollar fines for actions ranging from insider trading, to client fraud, and market manipulation. In a short period of time, Digital Reasoning’s Army-grade technology has become a staple inside the biggest banks and hedge funds in the world as they use big data and analytics to track employee communications and prevent against the next front-page scandal....
I guess Wells Fargo didn't buy it or use it enough to know the scams that was occurring.
So, there you have it. The frosting on the Edward Snowden cake.
So, it sounds interesting doesn't it? Right? Think "Super Spy."
November 7, 2016
By Antoine
When Tim Estes, 37, created Digital Reasoning as a twenty-one year old with a philosophy degree from the University of Virginia, his startup aimed to use software to bridge mathematics with language and understand human behavior. Sixteen years on, Estes’ language-learning technology is used by a who’s who roster of Wall Street’s most scrutinized firms as they rein in employees and avoid the multi-billion dollar regulatory fines that have plagued the industry since the crisis.
Nashville-based Digital Reasoning, a new member of Forbes’ Fintech 50, was created with the premise that people build recognizable behavioral patterns using language and quantitative technology can be used to define these habits to understand corresponding action. Over time, the firm’s quantitative software teaches itself about patterns thus developing ever more-sophisticated models of individuals’ behavior, which can be used for surveillance ranging from counterintelligence to the combatting of fraud.
Estes’ bet has paid off. A few years after its founding in 2000, Digital Reasoning became an important cog utilized by the Department of Defense during the war in Afghanistan for communications surveillance aimed at gaining intelligence and protecting troops. Digital Reasoning was one of the successful startups that helped the Army comb through a haystack of digital information to spotlight counter terrorism intelligence, or uncover threats to troops on the battlefield.
Supposedly this really works to end the war in Afghanistan. Really?
In 2012, Estes decided to ply this surveillance to Wall Street amid the industry’s litany of billion-dollar fines for actions ranging from insider trading, to client fraud, and market manipulation. In a short period of time, Digital Reasoning’s Army-grade technology has become a staple inside the biggest banks and hedge funds in the world as they use big data and analytics to track employee communications and prevent against the next front-page scandal....
I guess Wells Fargo didn't buy it or use it enough to know the scams that was occurring.
So, there you have it. The frosting on the Edward Snowden cake.
Goldman Sachs is back in the Treasury.
Don't worry about it, last time Goldman Sachs was in the US Treasury he spent most of his time in China. Mr. Mnuchin can visit with his former peer at Goldman, Hank Paulson (click here).
Mnuchin joined Trump’s whirlwind campaign in May as finance chairman, despite the fact that he has never worked in politics and that he donated to Democrats in the past. He quickly earned Trump’s trust as he worked closely with the Republican National Committee to raise substantial amounts of money in a short period of time. On the policy front, he was instrumental in crafting the details of Trump’s proposal to overhaul the tax code....
By the way, there are five positions opening at the Federal Reserve during the next four years.
November 18, 2016
By Dan Burns and Jennifer Ablan (see link above at Paulson)
With President-elect Donald Trump promising to spend as much as half a trillion dollars on infrastructure and slash taxes – initiatives that could add dramatically to the U.S. debt and balloon the budget deficit - Wall Street is far more focused on who will next head the U.S. Treasury than it was in the previous selection process under President Barack Obama.
Unlike current Secretary Jacob Lew, who assumed the role in early 2013 with little fanfare and has operated largely in the background, the next Treasury chief is expected to be a featured player in articulating and executing the Trump administration's economic policies and initiatives.
"You need somebody who has the experience and the knowledge and understands the gravity of the position," said Richard Bernstein, chief executive of Richard Bernstein Advisors LLC, an asset management firm. "It's a huge position. It has implications not only for the U.S. economy but also the global economy."...
There is a volunteer from Goldman Sachs to serve as Secretary of State.
November 15, 2016
By Jennifer J. Jacobs
...Bolton would likely face a tough confirmation (click here) fight in the Senate, particularly after Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Tuesday that he would strongly oppose Bolton. Two other contenders have emerged in addition to Giuliani: former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who served under Colin Powell, and Henry Paulson, who was Treasury secretary under Bush, according to one person familiar with the transition....
See, Hank Paulson made this huge investment in China and opened a financial firm after leaving his Secretary of the Treasury post. I guess things in China didn't pan out as he expected, so a post as Secretary of State would provide him the seat of power to turn things around to benefit his Chinese financial firm.
Noooooo, this folks are corrupt. Not at all. They are simply incompetent financial wealthy men that have no foresight. That's all.
Get this right. This is a perfect time to do so.
The men that head up the most abusive financial firms in the world, simply game the system. They don't care if the game is at the Treasury post of then USA, it is just the next seat to secure to improve their game.
Got that?
But, before Goldman Sachs could take over the US federal government they had to clean up those pesky fines.
November 6, 2016
By Karen Freifeld
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (click here) has settled a 2011 lawsuit claiming the investment bank fraudulently induced a bond insurer to guarantee payments on the doomed Abacus collateralized debt obligation ahead of the financial crisis.
ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. claimed Goldman and the hedge fund headed by John Paulson tricked it into insuring the CDO, which was tied to subprime mortgage securities....
Oh, interesting. Goldman Sachs Group was actually going to double dip insurers along with AIG. Well, that is somewhat clever. Did they actually think they wouldn't get caught?
Recently, Goldman Sachs have executives leaving the firm.
November 7, 2016
By Sam Shead
In 2014, Rahul Parekh (click here) left his job as a derivatives trader at Goldman Sachs in order to launch his own food company.
That company, EatFirst, is now shipping ready made meals to people's homes and offices across London and is considering expanding to other UK cities from next spring....
October 17, 2016
By Michael J. de la Merced
San Francisco — One of Goldman Sachs’s top bankers in Asia (click here) is planning on retiring after nearly three decades at the firm.
16 Mark Schwartz, who is chairman of Goldman’s Asia Pacific region and a vice chairman of the firm, will retire at the end of the year, the firm said in an internal memorandum on Monday.
His departure comes as Goldman faces challenges in Asia, particularly a slowdown in investment banking in the region for all Western firms. Goldman is expected to lay off a significant number of its bankers in Asia. (Mr. Schwartz’s plans were unrelated to those issues.)...
I have to start this now because by the time the mischief shows up there will be no time to work up the background noise.
21 November 2016
By Jill Treanor
One of the City’s most influential and highest-paid bankers, (click here) Michael Sherwood, is leaving Goldman Sachs after a 30-year career, including becoming embroiled in controversy over the collapsed retailer BHS.
There is a volunteer from Goldman Sachs to serve as Secretary of State.
November 15, 2016
By Jennifer J. Jacobs
...Bolton would likely face a tough confirmation (click here) fight in the Senate, particularly after Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Tuesday that he would strongly oppose Bolton. Two other contenders have emerged in addition to Giuliani: former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who served under Colin Powell, and Henry Paulson, who was Treasury secretary under Bush, according to one person familiar with the transition....
See, Hank Paulson made this huge investment in China and opened a financial firm after leaving his Secretary of the Treasury post. I guess things in China didn't pan out as he expected, so a post as Secretary of State would provide him the seat of power to turn things around to benefit his Chinese financial firm.
Noooooo, this folks are corrupt. Not at all. They are simply incompetent financial wealthy men that have no foresight. That's all.
Get this right. This is a perfect time to do so.
The men that head up the most abusive financial firms in the world, simply game the system. They don't care if the game is at the Treasury post of then USA, it is just the next seat to secure to improve their game.
Got that?
But, before Goldman Sachs could take over the US federal government they had to clean up those pesky fines.
November 6, 2016
By Karen Freifeld
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (click here) has settled a 2011 lawsuit claiming the investment bank fraudulently induced a bond insurer to guarantee payments on the doomed Abacus collateralized debt obligation ahead of the financial crisis.
ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. claimed Goldman and the hedge fund headed by John Paulson tricked it into insuring the CDO, which was tied to subprime mortgage securities....
Oh, interesting. Goldman Sachs Group was actually going to double dip insurers along with AIG. Well, that is somewhat clever. Did they actually think they wouldn't get caught?
Recently, Goldman Sachs have executives leaving the firm.
November 7, 2016
By Sam Shead
In 2014, Rahul Parekh (click here) left his job as a derivatives trader at Goldman Sachs in order to launch his own food company.
That company, EatFirst, is now shipping ready made meals to people's homes and offices across London and is considering expanding to other UK cities from next spring....
October 17, 2016
By Michael J. de la Merced
San Francisco — One of Goldman Sachs’s top bankers in Asia (click here) is planning on retiring after nearly three decades at the firm.
16 Mark Schwartz, who is chairman of Goldman’s Asia Pacific region and a vice chairman of the firm, will retire at the end of the year, the firm said in an internal memorandum on Monday.
His departure comes as Goldman faces challenges in Asia, particularly a slowdown in investment banking in the region for all Western firms. Goldman is expected to lay off a significant number of its bankers in Asia. (Mr. Schwartz’s plans were unrelated to those issues.)...
I have to start this now because by the time the mischief shows up there will be no time to work up the background noise.
21 November 2016
By Jill Treanor
One of the City’s most influential and highest-paid bankers, (click here) Michael Sherwood, is leaving Goldman Sachs after a 30-year career, including becoming embroiled in controversy over the collapsed retailer BHS.
Sherwood, a Londoner who joined Goldman after graduating from Manchester University, plans to focus on charitable activities when he leaves the US bank in about six months.
A former bond trader who was paid $21m (£16.8m) last year, Sherwood usually keeps a low public profile. But this year he appeared before MPs investigating the collapse of BHS, which put 11,000 jobs at risk and left a £571m pension deficit. It was a public appearance that Goldman bankers would usually prefer to avoid. The bank is proud of its work behind the scenes in securing deals and offering advice to governments and big businesses.
But Goldman was forced to talk about its relationship with Sir Philip Green when he was selling BHS. Green said he was “1,000,000%” would not have sold the department store chain to Dominic Chappell had the buyer not passed an informal vetting by the bank....
Tea Party nominations. They are the extremists.
This administration will cause a lot of work for everyone who cares about the country, but, it needs to be done.
Lawsuits following the institution of the regulations must follow to halt the installation of the regulations, even it eliminates it. The challenges may very well be met with obstruction by the judiciary because the extremists will all go too far and the public will be in peril.
It is important citizens participate during the comment period. I am wondering right now why I have a AARP membership.
Monday, November 28, 2016
The Standing Rock community in North Dakota face deadly conditions.
The North Dakota Governor has issued an evacuation order for the encampment. The Governor is not issuing orders for police to enforce the order. The order was issued to protect lives. The storm may become so deadly there will be no access for food and water. The encampment needs to move to a safe location for the moment.
November 28, 2016
By Chris Dolce, Brian Donegan, Jonathan Erdman and Linda Lam
Winter Storm Blanche (click here) will continue to bring snow and strong winds to the northern Plains during the first half of this week, leading to poor visibility and dangerous travel conditions at times. Blanche will also spread wintry weather to interior portions of New England, beginning Tuesday....
This evacuation order is no different than one issued for hurricane evacuation. There won't be police to enforce the order. The Standing Rock community needs to be sure they are secure with food and water as well as fuel for some type of warmth or leave the encampment for the time access to emergency services remain in question.
28 November 2016
By Julia Carrie Wong and Sam Levin
November 28, 2016
By Chris Dolce, Brian Donegan, Jonathan Erdman and Linda Lam
Winter Storm Blanche (click here) will continue to bring snow and strong winds to the northern Plains during the first half of this week, leading to poor visibility and dangerous travel conditions at times. Blanche will also spread wintry weather to interior portions of New England, beginning Tuesday....
This evacuation order is no different than one issued for hurricane evacuation. There won't be police to enforce the order. The Standing Rock community needs to be sure they are secure with food and water as well as fuel for some type of warmth or leave the encampment for the time access to emergency services remain in question.
By Julia Carrie Wong and Sam Levin
Citing concerns about “harsh winter conditions” (click here) and the North Dakota Disaster Act of 1985, Dalrymple said on Monday that all persons at the camp are “ordered to leave the evacuation area immediately, and are further ordered not to return to the evacuation area”.
But Cecily Fong, spokeswoman for the North Dakota department of emergency services said, “We will not be using law enforcement or national guard to enforce the order.”
The 1985 law allows the governor to “direct and compel” evacuations “from any stricken or threatened area” in the event of natural or manmade disasters.
Thousands of Native American and environmental activists have gathered at the encampment, which is on Army Corps land just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and close to the site where the Dakota Access pipeline is slated to cross under the Missouri river....
This is probably the definitive example of foreign relations benefiting Wall Street.
November 28, 2016
By Adam Shell
The nearly 11% jump Monday of closed-end fund Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund (CUBA) comes despite tough talk from president-elect Donald Trump that suggests a continuation of the chilly relationship between the two countries.
The rally signals hope that Fidel Castro’s death will pave the way for better U.S. - Cuba relations and create opportunity for U.S. companies....
This is what occurs when a single military is successful in securing LAND. People flee to the liberated area.
War is about stability. Iraq is proof that nation building doesn't work. Assad and Russia, regardless of their status with The West, are able to take land and secure it to allow people to find a safe haven.
For humanitarian groups that want every single innocent life saved, it is sometimes inconvenient for the war and the end of deaths by the enemy, in this case, Daesh.
Those decisions sometimes have to be made. It isn't exactly about human rights, it is about numbers. The numbers of people that will live after the battle. If conducting a battle will liberate land for the people to live rather than die under enemy rule, that has to be the best choice of all very bad options.
28 November 2016
By Zouher Al-Shimale
Sakhur, Aleppo, Syria - The sound of bombs and gunfire (click here) is close and unrelenting as the refugees pick their way through the rubble littering the streets. Laden with suitcases, they arrive in the Sakhur district of Aleppo from areas to the north now engulfed in fighting, only to find yet more violence.
For humanitarian groups that want every single innocent life saved, it is sometimes inconvenient for the war and the end of deaths by the enemy, in this case, Daesh.
Those decisions sometimes have to be made. It isn't exactly about human rights, it is about numbers. The numbers of people that will live after the battle. If conducting a battle will liberate land for the people to live rather than die under enemy rule, that has to be the best choice of all very bad options.
28 November 2016
By Zouher Al-Shimale
Sakhur, Aleppo, Syria - The sound of bombs and gunfire (click here) is close and unrelenting as the refugees pick their way through the rubble littering the streets. Laden with suitcases, they arrive in the Sakhur district of Aleppo from areas to the north now engulfed in fighting, only to find yet more violence.
Others have already decided this district of eastern Aleppo is a place where they can no longer hide - amid the chaos on the streets, long-time residents are moving out as others move in, trying to beat the rapid advance of pro-government forces as they inflict defeat after defeat on the rebels who have held this area since 2012.
Civilians have begun to flee the onslaught in their thousands - 10,000 are said to have crossed into either government or Kurdish held areas over the weekend. The tide of humanity shows no sign of relenting. But no one knows where or when this will end - they are simply running...
Wack-A-Mole
While the Syrian government marched to a victory in northeast Syria, Israel faced Deash at it's border in Golan Heights.
Israel recognizes Russia as a friend. I believe there is trade between the two countries.
Today, whether intended or not Israel assisted the Syrian government to contain the Daesh members. The attack at Israel's border provided a reason to go further to end the potential to a larger threat.
This is the problem in trying to eliminate Daesh. There is no real central command. There is no real strategy. There are only brutal soldiers with permission to kill at any cost to protect the Caliph al Baghdadi. In that diffuse structure is a great deal of cowardly priorities that puts escaping the war to live to fight another day as a high priority.
The Syrian government needs to realize what Israel did today to protect it's border and the unintended consequence was to limit the place where Daesh can move to continue the civil war in Syria. Israel did that today. Israel deserves respect for it's moral content and the stability it brings to the region. The Syrian government has to appreciate it's neighbor. Through mutual respect a deeper understanding can begin to end the chronic tensions with the Palestinians. Peace has to be a priority and today was a good example why the countries of the Middle East have to have mutual respect for the purpose of stability for it's people.
November 28, 2016
By Israel Today Staff
Israeli soldiers operating along the border (click here) between Israel and Syria on Sunday came under attack from terrorists affiliated with ISIS.
The soldiers were conducting a mission in the buffer zone between the two countries, but still inside Israeli territory, when they came under small arms and mortar fire.
Israel Air Force aircraft quickly responded, destroying a pick-up truck with a mounted machine gun and its four passengers.
“It was a short exchange, but it was productive,” said IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner.
Later that night, Israeli aircraft bombed a facility in Syria that had been used as a base of operations by ISIS....
Wack-A-Mole
While the Syrian government marched to a victory in northeast Syria, Israel faced Deash at it's border in Golan Heights.
Israel recognizes Russia as a friend. I believe there is trade between the two countries.
Today, whether intended or not Israel assisted the Syrian government to contain the Daesh members. The attack at Israel's border provided a reason to go further to end the potential to a larger threat.
This is the problem in trying to eliminate Daesh. There is no real central command. There is no real strategy. There are only brutal soldiers with permission to kill at any cost to protect the Caliph al Baghdadi. In that diffuse structure is a great deal of cowardly priorities that puts escaping the war to live to fight another day as a high priority.
The Syrian government needs to realize what Israel did today to protect it's border and the unintended consequence was to limit the place where Daesh can move to continue the civil war in Syria. Israel did that today. Israel deserves respect for it's moral content and the stability it brings to the region. The Syrian government has to appreciate it's neighbor. Through mutual respect a deeper understanding can begin to end the chronic tensions with the Palestinians. Peace has to be a priority and today was a good example why the countries of the Middle East have to have mutual respect for the purpose of stability for it's people.
November 28, 2016
By Israel Today Staff
Israeli soldiers operating along the border (click here) between Israel and Syria on Sunday came under attack from terrorists affiliated with ISIS.
The soldiers were conducting a mission in the buffer zone between the two countries, but still inside Israeli territory, when they came under small arms and mortar fire.
Israel Air Force aircraft quickly responded, destroying a pick-up truck with a mounted machine gun and its four passengers.
“It was a short exchange, but it was productive,” said IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner.
Later that night, Israeli aircraft bombed a facility in Syria that had been used as a base of operations by ISIS....
Romney won't break ethics as a cabinet officer, but, Guiliani would.
It is completely obvious why Trump would choose a corruptible politician in Guiliani, rather than asking a former Massachusetts governor.
Romney never stepped over the line and passed the infamous health plan. Romney doesn't have ethical issues while serving in government. But as a hedge fund manager, only held garage sales, absconded with pension funds and put Americans in unemployment lines.
Come to think of it, Romney would be a better Secretary of State for Trump. Romney holds some of Trump's sincerest love of money before any other aspects of his life. Everyone knows Trump expects any cabinet officer to conduct business when his blind trust family member seeks help from any American embassy. So, given Romney's expertise in greed and Trump's desire for more business, it could be workable. Guiliani doesn't know anything about offshoring like Romney does.
November 25, 2016
By Kathleen Parker
More than anything else, (click here) Trump is a pragmatist and a businessman. Operative question: What works? As he begins to organize his board of directors, otherwise known as the Cabinet, he’s surely aware that Romney, of those rumored to be under consideration, would be most effective on the world stage.
The pragmatist, by definition, is unemotional about such decisions. That Romney may not be Trump’s cup of tea on any number of fronts, including the impossibility of the two settling in for some “locker room talk,” the presidency confers a broader view of the world, not to mention the burden of all that follows.
What would not work is Rudy Giuliani. Not only does the man formerly known as “America’s mayor” act like he may have plunged his finger into a live socket but his outspokenness in defense of Trump has often seemed like the mad ranting of a man angry at the moon.
We still love 9/11 Rudy, but that Rudy seems to be missing. Even if he were present, the fellow who performs best in a crisis isn’t necessarily the one who performs best in preventing a crisis.
By stark contrast, Romney would help relax tensions abroad as well as at home. He has international credibility and a sophisticated understanding of complex global relationships. Remember, it was Romney who, during his final debate with President Obama in 2012, pointed to Russia as our greatest geopolitical foe....
Hm. Russia may be a deal breaker for Romney.
It is a tough choice for Trump.
November 28, 2016
By Tasha Moro
Cannon Ball, ND —Today, (click here) the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC-formerly Red Owl), an initiative of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), filed suit in US District Court against Morton County, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirschmeier, and other law enforcement agencies for using excessive force against peaceful Water Protectors on the night of November 20, 2016.
The class action suit, filed on behalf of persons who were injured on the night of November 20 and early morning of November 21, seeks an immediate injunction preventing the Morton County Sheriff’s Department and other law enforcement from using impact munitions such as rubber bullets and lead-filled “beanbags,” water cannons and hoses, explosive teargas grenades and other chemical agents against protesters.
Beginning on the evening of November 20, officers from the Morton County Sheriff’s Department and assisting agencies confronted peaceful Water Protectors at a bridge near the Standing Rock protest camp and within the boundaries of Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires, or Great Sioux Nation) treaty lands. Without giving any warnings or opportunity to disperse, officers fired on them with highly dangerous munitions, chemical agents, a water cannon and hoses in freezing weather. More than 200 Water Protectors were injured.
“The Morton County Sheriff’s office not only violates the constitutional rights of peaceful protesters, but their actions highlight the long history of abuse against Indigenous peoples,” said Brandy Toelupe, WPLC lawyer. “From the beginning, governments have used their latest technologies to take land and resources from Native nations and oppress Indigenous peoples. Sheriff Kirchmeier’s actions make it clear that nothing has changed,” she added....
...The complaint describes the excessive force with which the nine class representatives were met while peacefully protesting. Five are Native, including two members of the Lakota Nation.
Vanessa Dundon of the Navajo Nation was hit in the eye with a tear gas canister that was shot by police directly at the crowd of Water Protectors.
Jade Kalikolehuaokakalani Wool had two grenades blow up near her head, knocking her down, burning her face and sending shrapnel into it, and causing her to be hospitalized.
Crystal Wilson was shot with a water cannon, tear gassed and shot with a munition.
David Demo was filming police when, without warning, they shot him with a water cannon and then in the hand with a munition. He was hospitalized with broken bones and was told he would need reconstructive surgery.
Gary Dullknife III saw a Water Protector knocked to the ground by a water cannon. As police sprayed her on the ground, he tried to move her away. He was shot in the chest, stomach and leg by impact munitions.
Mariah Marie Bruce was peacefully protesting when police sprayed her with water cannons. She was then hit in the genitals with a grenade, and was hospitalized.
Frank Finan was taking pictures when he was shot in the abdomen and knocked to the ground by a rubber bullet.
Israel Hoagland–Lynn tried to help two people who had been shot with water cannons and rubber bullets and was shot in the back of his head by an impact munition. He lost consciousness, was hospitalized, and needed 17 staples for a head wound.
Noah Michael Treanor, while praying, was shot by the water hoses or cannon. Once on the ground, he was shot in the head by an impact munition. Bleeding badly, he was hospitalized....
...The complaint describes the excessive force with which the nine class representatives were met while peacefully protesting. Five are Native, including two members of the Lakota Nation.
Vanessa Dundon of the Navajo Nation was hit in the eye with a tear gas canister that was shot by police directly at the crowd of Water Protectors.
Jade Kalikolehuaokakalani Wool had two grenades blow up near her head, knocking her down, burning her face and sending shrapnel into it, and causing her to be hospitalized.
Crystal Wilson was shot with a water cannon, tear gassed and shot with a munition.
David Demo was filming police when, without warning, they shot him with a water cannon and then in the hand with a munition. He was hospitalized with broken bones and was told he would need reconstructive surgery.
Gary Dullknife III saw a Water Protector knocked to the ground by a water cannon. As police sprayed her on the ground, he tried to move her away. He was shot in the chest, stomach and leg by impact munitions.
Mariah Marie Bruce was peacefully protesting when police sprayed her with water cannons. She was then hit in the genitals with a grenade, and was hospitalized.
Frank Finan was taking pictures when he was shot in the abdomen and knocked to the ground by a rubber bullet.
Israel Hoagland–Lynn tried to help two people who had been shot with water cannons and rubber bullets and was shot in the back of his head by an impact munition. He lost consciousness, was hospitalized, and needed 17 staples for a head wound.
Noah Michael Treanor, while praying, was shot by the water hoses or cannon. Once on the ground, he was shot in the head by an impact munition. Bleeding badly, he was hospitalized....
The long forgotten scandals of the Giuliani administration. Guiliani does play self-serving games with power.
24 May 2002
By Bill Vann
By Bill Vann
...In further cyber conversation (click here)) (by Guiliani) with the man from the Midwest, Harding confided that he would like to “move to a conservative, all-white state like Idaho,” and referred to African-American college students as “stupid monkeys.”
The HDC, the agency that Harding led, was supposed to provide low-interest loans for the building of affordable housing for New York’s predominantly black and Hispanic low-income population.
Harding, 38, was a college dropout with no experience in either housing or finance when Giuliani tapped him for the post in 1998. He was, however, the son of Ray Harding, the politically influential head of the Liberal Party, who had helped elect the Republican mayor twice by placing him on the Liberal ticket.
“Russell Harding has done an excellent job for this administration,” Giuliani declared when asked about the blatant patronage appointment. “This new job is something that he will do, I’m sure, with exceptional skill and ability. I don’t hire people because of their father, and I don’t hold anybody’s father against them either.”
A second Harding son, Robert, was picked as the city’s budget director and was later promoted to deputy mayor.
Details of Russell Harding’s spending spree first appeared in an article by Village Voice columnist Tom Robbins, who obtained expense records after filing freedom of information requests. The records showed that the bulk of the quarter-of-a-million in city money went to pay for trips taken by Harding and Luke Cusack, a close friend whom he hired as the agency’s senior vice president.
"Thunderstorm Asthma," but, this number of people experiencing it is unheard of.
By Paul Douglas
The southern hemisphere is currently moving into the summer season as of December 1st.
Anyone with lung disease, which is what asthma is, should ask the physician for any type of protection from such attacks. I am dead serious. They do it in China for dense pollution.
The reason this can be an issue as in Melbourne is because plants have heavier pollen counts with dense CO2 content of the troposphere.
The public needs to be educated to this potential to empower them to talk to their doctors and their children's pediatrician. I doubt if most physicians in the USA have ever heard of "Thunderstorm Asthma."
The journal article below is from March 2002. That is how long and even longer investigative scientists have known the adverse outcomes of the climate crisis. The knowledge started at the time of Henry Ford's invention of the car and became an activist issue in the 1960s. POLITICS of the petroleum industry has caused greed to outweigh facts.
Production of allergenic pollen (click here) by ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifloria L.) is increased in CO2 enriched atmospheres
Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; Volume 88, March 2002, pp: 79-82
Authors: Peter Wayne, PhD.; Susannah Foster, BS; John Connolly, PhD.; Fakhri Bazzaz, PhD.; Paul Epstein, MD
...Results
A doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration stimulated ragweed-pollen production by 61% (P= 0.005)
Conclusions
These results suggest that there may be significant increases in exposure to allergenic pollen under the present scenarios of global warming. Further studies may enable public health groups to more accurately evaluate the future risks of hay fever and respiratory diseases (eg, asthma) exacerbated by allergenic pollen, and to develop strategies to mitigate them.
6 people are dead, thousands temporarily hospitalized when moisture within a thunderstorm hitting Melbourne, Australia combined with pollen to trigger severe asthma attacks. A third of patients who suffered these attacks reported never having asthma before. The storm broke up grass pollen into tinier fragments, penetrating deep inside people's lungs. These events are rare, but similar cases of thunderstorm asthma have been reported in Britain, Italy, Canada and the USA.
Natural and man-made pollutants lead to twice as many premature deaths in the USA as auto accidents; over 70,000/year. People suffering from COPD and asthma are most at risk. Some of the most severe cases of air pollution strike in late fall, when warm air aloft can trap bad air near the ground....
The southern hemisphere is currently moving into the summer season as of December 1st.Anyone with lung disease, which is what asthma is, should ask the physician for any type of protection from such attacks. I am dead serious. They do it in China for dense pollution.
The reason this can be an issue as in Melbourne is because plants have heavier pollen counts with dense CO2 content of the troposphere.
The public needs to be educated to this potential to empower them to talk to their doctors and their children's pediatrician. I doubt if most physicians in the USA have ever heard of "Thunderstorm Asthma."
The journal article below is from March 2002. That is how long and even longer investigative scientists have known the adverse outcomes of the climate crisis. The knowledge started at the time of Henry Ford's invention of the car and became an activist issue in the 1960s. POLITICS of the petroleum industry has caused greed to outweigh facts.
Production of allergenic pollen (click here) by ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifloria L.) is increased in CO2 enriched atmospheres
Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; Volume 88, March 2002, pp: 79-82
Authors: Peter Wayne, PhD.; Susannah Foster, BS; John Connolly, PhD.; Fakhri Bazzaz, PhD.; Paul Epstein, MD
...Results
A doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration stimulated ragweed-pollen production by 61% (P= 0.005)
Conclusions
These results suggest that there may be significant increases in exposure to allergenic pollen under the present scenarios of global warming. Further studies may enable public health groups to more accurately evaluate the future risks of hay fever and respiratory diseases (eg, asthma) exacerbated by allergenic pollen, and to develop strategies to mitigate them.
It is somewhat comforting to know Donald Trump will not get away with lies.
The problem is the electorate does not necessary agree with the truth. That has been the case with right wing voters. They have their own allegiance and it isn't necessarily within the definition of the truth. So, when Trump is lying, it is with purpose. That is scary. Is the purpose of the presidency to validate the truth with the American people or is it to keep false allegiances and propagate lies for political gain?
Between the welfare to work program that places people in a horrible place in the USA and unable to even reach for their birthright of upward mobility and the plutocratic values taking over the USA; our country is in real trouble. Donald Trump will not improve the circumstances of Americans as evidenced by his so called stimulus plan. It seems to me every corrupt individual in the right wing is latching on to him to run game on the country. I count on the esteem of journalists such as Christiane Amanpour to protect the values of the American people, truth telling and finding sincere justice.
Christiane Amanpour is an Iranian American and has been dedicated to serving the American viewer with educated content. She has been wildly successful in her career. It is very refreshing to know there are leaders in the journalist community that can enforce the moral ethics of the profession.
I especially appreciated her comment about "Post Values World." Part of what I strongly believe and is the reason I demand the opportunity for "The American Dream" and a living wage is because there is obvious oppression of Americans within the plutocratic domination of our federal system, including the Supreme Court and "Citizen's United."
November 26, 2016
By News Corpse
This week CNN's chief international correspondent, (click here) Christiane Amanpour, received the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. It is awarded at the International Press Freedom Awards for "extraordinary and sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom. Her acceptance speech was an inspiring appeal to "recommit to robust, fact-based reporting" in the Age of Trump.
Right from the start Amanpour addressed the serious challenge posed by Donald Trump's rancid rhetoric. She recognized the risks created by a candidate whose words literally incited violence toward reporters:
"I never thought in a million years that I'd be standing up here, after all the times I've participated in this ceremony, appealing, really, for the freedom and safety of American journalists at home."
That is indeed a sobering realization on the current state of media relations as practiced by Trump and his campaign. Even so, Amanpour expressed optimism that after the election Trump would moderate his hostility toward the press. Unfortunately, he did no such thing:...
Is the North Carolina vote on the up and up?
The complaint is taken serious enough to delay the seating of the county board of commissioners.
November 28, 2016
By Tim Buckland
...Anderson's protest alleges voter fraud, (click here) claiming that absentee ballots may have been cast by a third party group.
November 28, 2016
By Tim Buckland
...Anderson's protest alleges voter fraud, (click here) claiming that absentee ballots may have been cast by a third party group.
In his protest, Anderson claims the group, called the Bladen County Improvement Association PAC, "appears to have directly paid individuals to witness dozens of absentee ballots and even to fill in those ballots, including by handwriting the name of a write-in candidate for local office."
He also alleges to have witnessed a person entering the New Hanover County Senior Center, which was one of the county's five one-stop early voting sites, between the hours of 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. on "multiple nights."
He further claimed that his requests to personally inspect absentee ballots was denied and that he believed the fraud he is alleging "would cast doubt on the outcome of any number of elections up and down the ballot, including the historically close race for Governor....
Did I hear that the perpetrator was Somali?
November 28, 2016
By The Columbus Dispatch
...OSU President Michael Drake (click here) said training by university personnel kept things from being worse.
By The Columbus Dispatch
...OSU President Michael Drake (click here) said training by university personnel kept things from being worse.
"We live in an unstable world unfortunately," he said.
Drake and others spoke outside Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center.
Wexner Medical Center treated five patients: two were stabbed, two were hit by the car and one who hid after the attack and just arrived. The last victim's injuries were being assessed.
Two victims with lacerations were taken to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center. Two victims who were struck by the car were taken to OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital....
This may or may not mean anything, but, in the UK a year or more ago a police officer had his legs crushed and then killed by stabbing. I find the coincidence odd.
Sorry to hear such sorrow considering the students were returning from a holiday.
I know this won't go over well, but, in this incident there weren't multiples dead from a military style weapon. The causalities were far less in the face of such violence.
Sorry to hear such sorrow considering the students were returning from a holiday.
I know this won't go over well, but, in this incident there weren't multiples dead from a military style weapon. The causalities were far less in the face of such violence.
I think Judge Gergel is wise in ordering a standby counsel to maintain the integrity of the trial.
If Dylan Roof decides half way through the trial he is unable to represent himself, the trial is still intact and will move forward. There will be no returning to a new trial. At the point Dylan Roof decides he can no longer represent himself, the standby lawyer can take over and even recall witnesses and dispute evidence.
November 28, 2016
By Sam Tyson
Charleston, S.C. (WCIV) — Wearing his prison uniform, (click here) Dylann Roof spoke to Judge Gergel Monday morning and filed a motion to represent himself.
Judge Richard Gergel stated the crimes Dylann Roof is charged with and his potential punishment, going through process of making sure Roof understands he's giving up his rights by defending himself.
Roof told the court he is capable of filing objections, motions, and handling witness questioning. He said he's ready to go with jury selection.
After conceding that a standby counsel be present, Gergel said Roof has made a clear waiver of his rights and has the ability to self-represent....
November 28, 2016
By Sam Tyson
Charleston, S.C. (WCIV) — Wearing his prison uniform, (click here) Dylann Roof spoke to Judge Gergel Monday morning and filed a motion to represent himself.
Judge Richard Gergel stated the crimes Dylann Roof is charged with and his potential punishment, going through process of making sure Roof understands he's giving up his rights by defending himself.
Roof told the court he is capable of filing objections, motions, and handling witness questioning. He said he's ready to go with jury selection.
After conceding that a standby counsel be present, Gergel said Roof has made a clear waiver of his rights and has the ability to self-represent....
The voting is over, yet Trump continues to act as a real jerk.
Dignity has been removed from Trump's dictionary.
November 28, 2016
US President-elect Donald Trump (click here) has asserted he won the popular vote on 8 November "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally".
The Republican, who won the all-important electoral college count, offered no evidence to back his claim.
It comes after the camp of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton said it would support a vote recount in Wisconsin initiated by a Green Party candidate.
Mrs Clinton won about two million votes more than Mr Trump in the popular vote....
...Is there any evidence of illegal votes?
Donald Trump offered no evidence himself.
Self-styled is a good description of the Trump regime. It seems to be the motto for any support of Trump.
Claim was started by self-styled conservative voter fraud specialist Greg Phillips who tweeted "Number of non-citizen votes exceeds 3 million"
Mr Phillips declined to release any evidence
His tweets were picked up by right-wing websites like Infowars.com, which has made false claims in the past
Fact-checking website Snopes.com says there is "zero evidence" that "illegal aliens" voted in election....
The deeper the elections of 2016 are examined the more curious the presidential vote becomes. Why wasn't there overwhelming numbers of popular vote for Mr. Trump?
October 19, 2016
By Shane Goldmacher
...Tom Bonier, CEO of TargetSmart, (click here) said national registration now stands at 200,081,377 voters.
The figure means more than 50 million new people have registered to vote in the past eight years. Only 146.3 million were registered as recently as 2008, when then-Sen. Barack Obama first won the White House — a remarkable 33 percent surge in the electorate during a single presidency....
Fifty million new registered (click here) voters, yet the turnout is lower?
There are pressures at work with the electorate that is artifically suppressing the vote, including the monkey business with Voter ID and limiting times voters can vote.
I think this is important. The outcome to the elections is being tampered with and that reality is an important reality.
The overall vote count is not in so it is difficult to state where the vote was suppressed and where it was not. I believe when the final statistics are recorded the American will be surprised at the results and it's analysis.
There are pressures at work with the electorate that is artifically suppressing the vote, including the monkey business with Voter ID and limiting times voters can vote.
I think this is important. The outcome to the elections is being tampered with and that reality is an important reality.
The overall vote count is not in so it is difficult to state where the vote was suppressed and where it was not. I believe when the final statistics are recorded the American will be surprised at the results and it's analysis.
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