This is no longer an indeterminate outcome, it is the future staring the world in the eye.

World temperatures (click here) hit a record high for the third year in a row in 2016, creeping closer to a ceiling set for global warming, US government agencies said on Wednesday.

2016 is also a global record setter. Everyone needs to realize this is the third year in a row that temperatures have marched higher. 

January 18, 2017

Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures (click here) were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Globally-averaged temperatures in 2016 were 1.78 degrees Fahrenheit (0.99 degrees Celsius) warmer than the mid-20th century mean. This makes 2016 the third year in a row to set a new record for global average surface temperatures....

Angry oil men are not the people anyone needs to hear from. In a warming ocean the "Beaufort Lens" is changing.

The Beaufort Sea Gyre (click here)

January 18, 2017
By Anna Nowogrodzki

Climate change (click here) has affected many things about the ocean—the temperature; sea level; which creatures live where. But it’s also changed something surprising: how the ocean sounds.

Two years ago, acoustic engineer Lee Freitag, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, discovered a stark change in the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Sea: sounds, he found, could now travel about four times farther than they could a decade ago.

The US Navy wanted to know more. Their submarines communicate through underwater sound wave transmissions, making it vital to their operations to understand exactly where their signals are being carried....

Oxfam has an unusally informative assessments of global impacts of the climate crisis.

The IPCC (click here) has assessed the biomes for the continents. We know from Syria the climate crisis can cause civil wars.

Bolivia is a country particularly vulnerable (click here) to the impacts of climate change. In July 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled to three areas of Bolivia (Trinidad in Beni, the Cochabamba valleys and Khapi under Mount Illimani, in La Paz) to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how they are adapting to it....

...Bolivia can expect five main impacts as a result of climate change:

- Less food security
- Glacial retreat affecting water availability
- More frequent and more intense ‘natural’ disasters
- An increase in mosquito-borne diseases
- More forest fires...

There are many hideously unconstitutional laws in the country and NC has more than it's fair share.

In Michigan, if a person receives food stamps (known in the state as "Bridges") purchases a can of soda (known as "pop" in Michigan) then pours it out all over the ground, returns to the store with the empty can for a refund on the deposit, that is considered breaking the law.

In Michigan, it is believed "drunks" use their MI Bridges card to purchase items with deposits on them, empty them and then use the monies received from the deposit to purchase a bottle of wine or a can of beer or more than that some kind of liquor. 

Amazing. By simply owning a "MI Bridges" card whether in use or not for receiving food stamps and one pours out the contents of a "container with a deposit" the police can arrest you. The idiocy in all that is rather remarkable. 

January 17, 2017
By Adam Wagner StarNews Staff

Wilmington -- A Wilmington woman (click here) expressed concern Tuesday about a city ordinance she told council members could be applied selectively to quell dissent.

Anne Russell was questioning Chapter 6, Section 13F of Wilmington City Code, which states members of a picket or similar protest must remain 15 feet apart during a march. Organizers of Saturday's planned Wilmington Women's March, which Russell plans to attend, learned of the ordinance after applying for permits for the event....

In North Carolina there exists a state law about human trafficking that casts such a wide net, anyone,...let's say someone other than Christian..., can be arrested on the slightest indication of SLAVERY. The legal society of North Carolina debated the law for over a year until it was passed in 2013 and still today the majority of lawyers state, "It is a bad law." It has few resemblances to the federal law.

But, true to form, here comes another idiotic law that requires SPECIFIC BEHAVIORS or be arrested.

..."(I) strongly suggest you re-word it because it seems to be an ordinance that can be used very selectively, if you gather what I'm implying," Russell told council....

I think former Governor McCrory gave lessons on how to write laws that ensnare the innocent simply because it can.

Across states with Republican majorities there are may laws passed that ensnare the average citizen if exhibiting or not exhibiting a certain behavior. I thought the Republicans were for less government and not more.

Oh, wait.

Republicans are for less government when profits are behind a regulation regardless of how reckless the profits are, BUT, when it comes to the RIGHTS of citizens that don't act as they should anything goes.

At a time when President Obama has ended the use of private federal prisons, it would seem the states with Republican majorities are finding more and more reason to arrest, jail and imprison citizens. Of course, the citizen be they guilty or not, pays the bills associated with their misdirection of behavior, etc., so why not add law after law that brings dysfunction to a life while the government profits?

Of course, this law in Wilmington is to intimidate participants so the idea of protesting is no longer a practical one.

The oppressive law works, too. The unconstitutional aspect of the law falls under the First Amendment which allows flag burning; FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION!

January 17, 2017
By Hunter Ingram

...Although it retains the name of the Women’s March, (click here) the event will -- for logistical and permit reasons -- largely remain stationary on the four corners of Third and Princess streets. Some participants may march around the block if they choose.

Norton said the idea is for participants to bring signs and peacefully share their messages of solidarity and equal rights, while also communicating with their like-minded neighbors.

She said she has received messages from locals who said they planned to attend the D.C. march, but scrapped the plans in favor of the Wilmington event....

Oh, one other thing about the dumping of a container's contents to retrieve the deposit; if the owner of the legally purchased container wants the deposit back without being arrested, JUST DRINK THE CONTENTS!!!!!!!!!!

That is good sound advise that will work and it is free!

With a 60 percent approval rating President Obama continues his end of presidential career list.

I wish Ms. Manning, her family and friends well as they will continue to find a path forward.

January 17, 2017

By Charlie Savage

Washington — President Obama on Tuesday (click here) commuted all but four months of the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the Army intelligence analyst convicted of a 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted Mr. Obama’s administration and brought global prominence to WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures.

The decision by Mr. Obama rescued Ms. Manning, who twice tried to kill herself last year, from an uncertain future as a transgender woman incarcerated at the men’s military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. She has been jailed for nearly seven years, and her 35-year sentence was by far the longest punishment ever imposed in the United States for a leak conviction.

At the same time that Mr. Obama commuted the sentence of Ms. Manning, a low-ranking enlisted soldier at the time of her leaks, he also pardoned James E. Cartwright, the retired Marine general and former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who pleaded guilty to lying about his conversations with reporters to F.B.I. agents investigating a leak of classified information about cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear program.... 

...Mr. Obama also granted 63 other pardons and 207 other commutations, mostly for drug offenders.

Under the terms of the commutation announced by the White House on Tuesday, Ms. Manning is set to be freed on May 17 of this year rather than in 2045. A senior administration official said the 120-day delay was part of a standard transition period for commutations to time served, and was designed to allow for such steps as finding a place for Ms. Manning to live after her release.

The commutation also relieved the Defense Department of the difficult responsibility of Ms. Manning’s incarceration as she pushes for treatment for her gender dysphoria, including sex reassignment surgery, that the military has no experience providing....

Some Republicans have come forward to criticize the commutation of sentences, but, get this I DON'T CARE BECAUSE IT IS ALL POLITICS BASED IN RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY!

Ms. Manning has every right as an American to live a happy life and I look forward to her doing so.

While experiencing severe rain storms, there are also extreme fires in New Zealand.

New Zealand is a far small country than the USA and such events are felt more deeply by the people.

January 18, 2017

By Jamie Morton and Belinda Feek

They described it as explosive, (click here) extreme and rampant; and tonight the wildfire that cost residents of an idyllic Whitianga peninsula their homes is burning on.

The blaze broke out in a rural area south of the Coromandel township early yesterday evening, and soon engulfed whole hillsides, tearing through four homes at deadly speed.

"There's no way any man was ever going to run as fast as that fire was moving," said principal rural fire officer Paul Shaw, who commanded several ground crews that tried to battle the fire across steep terrain.

"The wind wasn't our friend: it stayed up, blew through and made conditions quite extreme."...

This has been a very hot and rough summer for Australia.

18 January 2017
By Australian Associated Press

Reports of property lost amid deteriorating conditions near Tarago and in the Hunter region (click here)

...The RFS (click here) has received unconfirmed reports from the public and firefighters of properties being destroyed by the 650 hectare fire, which was formed when two serious blazes merged on Wednesday.

More than 250 firefighters continue to battle the northwest-moving fire, which is burning near Hart Road, McLeod Road, and the Hunter Expressway.

The crews, including extra hands from Sydney and the Central Coast, have been assisted by waterbombing aircraft.

The Hunter Expressway remained closed between Buchanan and Branxton on Wednesday afternoon.

The ABC was reporting the nearby Weston Aluminium recycling plant had been shut down to limit the threat of an explosion.

Residents were evacuating and moving stock on Wednesday as firefighters battled worsening conditions and an out-of-control blaze near Canberra.

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service had earlier said those in the Mount Fairy and Boro areas, near Tarago north-west of Canberra, should implement their bushfire survival plan....

The Trump presidency is throwing out all precedent, all history and operating a 'take over' of the USA government.

It is a coupe. There is no respect for our country by this administration and it is being viewed as an asset and nothing more.

I am confident every ally the USA has sought to build a relationship will be evaluated for it's assets, rather than it's loyalty and like minded values that prevent danger to our peoples. This form of relationship is standard operating practice of dehumanization that allows an emotional distance from sincere alliances.

I am confident the allies of the USA will find diplomatic measures to handle the inevitable insults to change direction in USA foreign policy. What is important are the relationships of the USA with it's allies that shall remain strong and strategic.

"W" threw out a vitally important missile treaty and in it's place a three page document that was to reduce the burden of reading and definitions and of course 'the fine print.' If we can get through an attack on the financial centers of the USA, an illegal and immoral war into Iraq and treaties treated as bothersome, I am confident the global community interested in peace and prosperity will weather this storm as well, albeit, somewhat more crude and inhumane.

January 18, 2017

By Nicola Lamb

...On Tuesday, (click here) German Chancellor Angela Merkel said: "We Europeans have our fate in our hands".

She was reacting to Trump's comments about Nato ("obsolete" but also "important"), the EU (prepare for Brexit sequels) and herself (made a "catastrophic mistake" about refugees).

In the same interview with the Times and Bild, Trump put Merkel on the same level as Russia's President Vladimir Putin, even though Berlin is a key US ally and Moscow is a difficult rival power, usually dealt with at arms length. "I start off trusting both but let's see how long that lasts," he said. "It may not last long at all."

Statements that were once seen as part of the tumble of campaign politics take on a different light when uttered by a man days away from being the leader of the free world. Former US ambassador to Nato Ivo Daalder tweeted: "Trump is more critical of Nato, EU, & Germany--all close allies--than he's ever been of Putin & Russia.

We're entering an upside down world." But Robin Niblett, the director of Chatham House, told the New York Times: "I take all of this with a pinch of salt. I think Trump is trying to keep his options open and not be cornered by simply standing up for existing policy positions."...            

Trump will probably exonerate Bill Cosby before long.

I am sure women sexually assaulted by Donald Trump did not know the scope of his habit. I am still waiting for the charges of voyeurism by groups of women and young girls to come forward. It is difficult for women to come forward as a single voice because they are the victims regardless of their dedication to the truth.

January 18, 2017

A former contestant of reality show The Apprentice, who last year accused Donald Trump of sexual assault, is suing the President-elect for defamation.

Just two days before Trump will be sworn in the 45th president of the United States, Summer Zervos has filed the claim, stemming from an accusation Trump made about her and other women who accused him of sexual assault before November's election....

...The Hollywood Reporter (click here) said she would not be able to directly sue for sexual assault because of a statute of limitations.

Instead, she's echoing the legal strategy by many of Bill Cosby's accusers by suing over comments that allegedly branded her a liar.

Zervos' lawyer, Gloria Allred, told Australian news programme Sunrise this morning she expected Trump to seek to have the case thrown out.

"It would not surprise me at all if President Trump sought to either delay this case or to have this case dismissed," she said....

"Statues of Limitations for Sexual Assault; A State by State Comparison" (click here) Opens a PDF. Protections for minor may have no statute of limitations.

I briefly looked at an article stating inauguration week was stated to be one of boycotting the festivities. Okay, but, that doesn't sound like much fun. Where are all the Hillary and Bernie parties? I  think supporters should be having fun, too. New year with new challenges. Pouting is not allowed. No one surrended. It is time to be heard loud and clear. "The truth needs a defender, it has been abandoned by the incoming administration. It has been replaced by oppression. That cannot stand. 

I haven't been keeping close watch on the troposphere in the Pacific, but, this looks wicked to me.

250-850 hPa layer (click here for animation)

hPa is  hectopascal. It is roughly 1 millibar of pressure. This particular satellite measures wind speed in knots/per second. Don't get hung up on the hectopascal thing. That is where these winds are taking place. 250-850 hectopascal of pressure occurs about one quarter to less than a mile up in the troposphere.

These upper winds are sailing at over 100 knots per second. That means the upper winds are traveling at over 31 miles per second.

Is this translating to high winds at ground level? California has been knocked around for the last couple of weeks.

January 17, 2017
2330,19z
UNISYS Water Vapor satellite of the north and west hemisphere (click here for 12 horu loop - thank you)

173 MPH wind gusts? It looks like there is more to come. When is the acceleration of the upper troposphere going to stop?

250 to 850 hPa at these longitude and latitudes should be evaluated for excluding air traffic. I haven't heard of any falling out of the sky, but, I haven't looked either.

July 10, 2017
By Patrick May

As long as you’ve not been (a) stuck (click here) in a mudslide-jammed morning commute or (b) had a tree branch bite off part of your roof or (c) had torrential rains wash away half of your backyard, this week’s storms have served up an entertaining, continual and wide range of jaw-dropping weather moments.

They may not be historic per se, because with 150 years of meteorological record-keeping out there it can be difficult to break a weather record. Think about it: while it may seem like it’s been raining in the Bay Area for weeks now, it’s only been since Jan. 1, a mere 10-day stretch that pales compared to the nearly-three-week-long stretch of wet stuff that once hit San Francisco.

“San Francisco’s record for all-time wet spells,” says meteorologist Jan Null with Golden Gate Weather Services, “is 19 consecutive days back in 1938, from Jan. 27 until Feb. 14. So we’ve still got a long way to go to beat that. And since we’re not expecting rain at all this coming Friday, we won’t beat it this time around.”...

This is more than a wet spell. I am glad California is getting rain, but, this is worrisome. 

OK, so this pales by comparison with the domestic record-setting 231 miles-per-hour gust atop Mt. Washington in New Hampshire on April 12, 1934, or the world-record-breaking 253-mph blast that hit Barrow Island, Australia Oct. 4, 1996. But 173 is still a remarkable velocity to behold. And as Null points out, it’s tough to compete with Mt. Washington when it comes to whacked-out weather: “Mt. Washington is a sort of Mecca for meteorologists,” he says. “There’s a weather observatory there where they get these high winds and wind chills of minus 100 all the time.”

This is NOT Barrow Island or Mt. Washington where unusual weather is the norm. This is mid-latitudes California. I'll look toward Valentine's Day as the day the winds stopped in California. I am keeping my fingers crossed.

Pacific Northwest and Canada

January 17, 2017
4:15 PM
Accuweather radar (click here for loop - thank you)

Counties, cities and people need to be made aware of the extended period of time this will continue. They have to prepare for flooding and wind. People have to know what they are up against.

In sharp contrast, the north Atlantic and Europe are not seeing this disturbance at the same altitudes.


Mean sea level pressure, (click here) wind speed at 850 hPa and geopotential 500 hPa, temperature at 850 hPa.

Tuesday, 17 January 2017
1200 utc

Not even close to the turbulence over the east Pacific.

These magnificent American women were empowered by Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr.

On May 17, 1954 (click here) the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The Court’s unanimous decision overturned provisions of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which had allowed for “separate but equal” public facilities, including public schools in the United States. Declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” the Brown v. Board decision helped break the back of state-sponsored segregation, and provided a spark to the American civil rights movement....

Every American life makes this country stronger, better and a leader.

-“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous (click here) than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

Today, Americans are living that stupidity.

-“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

-“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”

-“World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.”

-“I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, love is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and religion enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil, and this can only be done through love.”...

The truth is vital to a democracy. We are facing the greatest liar in American history on January 20th.

Martin Luther King was not afraid of making example of Adolph Hitler.

-“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

Respect the man and the movement.

This is a three day holiday due to the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Perhaps I'll blog tomorrow instead of tonight.

US Representative John Lewis is a man of dignity, the truth and has paid dues Mr. Pence never had to even face.

US Rep. John Lewis is absolutely correct.

Pence criticism of Rep. Lewis is laughable. I never saw him on a march for civil rights or linking arms with President Obama and the First Lady in remembering some of the ugliest history in the south next to the civil war.

January 15, 2017
By Sally Bronston

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), (click here) said he would not invite President-elect Donald Trump to visit Selma, Alabama, with him, though he also would not "do anything to prevent him from coming."

On Bloody Sunday in 1965, Lewis was badly beaten by Alabama state troopers on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge during a march for voting rights.

Politicians and leaders from both parties - including Vice President-elect Mike Pence - have visited Selma with Lewis over the years. In 2015, Presidents Obama and Bush, went to Selma with Lewis and others to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday....

Pence speaks out of both sides of his mouth, but, the devil is in the details.

Civil rights must be balanced with religious freedom (click here)

Should full civil rights protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity be extended? No one should be harassed or mistreated because of who they are, who they love, or what they believe. But Hoosiers also cherish faith and the freedom to live out their faith and I will not support any bill that diminishes the religious freedom of Hoosiers or that interferes with the Constitutional rights of our citizens to live out their beliefs in worship, service or work.

Source: 2016 State of the State speech to Indiana legislature , Jan 12, 2016

This is the age old duality of the Republican Ultra White. They chronically place religion in the State House before the truth about civil rights. In that statement about the LGBT community in the USA Mr. Pence clearly mimics the words of President Obama "...because of who they are, who they love or what they believe...." BUT, if those that identify as 'who they are, who they love or what they believe' think they are going to change my message of hatred over religious partisanship they are sadly mistaken.

Within the statement is hatred. It is not the place of government to state religion is under attack. The First Amendment is the First Amendment. I am curious though, will the Ultra White Pence return the USA to 1776 BEFORE the "Bill of Rights" (click here) was included?

It isn't just religious bigotry that Pence values, it is any Republican dogma that the "Ultra White" support.

July 16, 2012
By Jeff Harris

Indianapolis – Indiana AFL-CIO President Nancy Guyott (click here) issued the following statement in reaction to a procedural vote Congressman Mike Pence cast last week that blocked consideration of the Bring Jobs Home Act.

The legislation sought to eliminate tax loopholes that reward American corporations that ship jobs overseas, replacing them with incentives for U.S. companies that move jobs and business operations to America from another country.

Last Tuesday, Pence voted on a motion (H.R. 5542) that shut off debate and prevented an amendment from being offered that would have called for a vote on the Bring Jobs Home Act. Instead Pence supported a measure to take another irrelevant vote on repealing the Affordable Care Act, the 33rd such vote.

“When it comes to job creation, Congressman Mike Pence’s record doesn’t match his rhetoric. While campaigning for governor he claims that “jobs” are his top priority yet when given the chance to bring legislation to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives that would help create thousands of jobs for working men and women, Mike Pence voted the wrong way.

Congressman’s Pence’s vote was a vote to preserve the outrageous practice of giving corporations our tax dollars to help them ship American jobs overseas. It was a vote to block millions of American jobs from coming back home. And, it was a vote that put a higher priority on partisan politics than on creating jobs....

When it comes right down to it, Pence is a liar and rhetorical bully.

Clearly understand when the Trump administration wants to return the country to 1776, it was before the "Bill of Rights" was ratified.

Original Ten Amendments: The Bill of Rights

Passed by Congress September 25, 1789
Ratified December 15, 1791

This is what is curious about Trump's rise to power.

And make no doubt about it, it is power he and his cabinet is after. They have no interest in the American people.

His approval and disapproval numbers have never made sense.

January 13, 2017
By Allegra Kickland

...Trump’s numbers (click here) have dipped since Gallup’s December survey, when the public split 48 percent to 48 percent on approval versus disapproval. They have also remained steadily and starkly split by political party, with 87 percent of Republican approving of Trump’s transition in the January poll compared to 86 percent last month. The percentage of Democrats who approve fell to 13 percent in January from 17 percent in December.

Part of the President-elect’s historically low numbers seems to be the public’s lackluster view of his Cabinet picks. Trump’s nominees were rated “below average/poor” by 44 percent of respondents, compared to only 10 percent of Obama’s and 13 percent of Bush’s nominees....

This is what I was concerned about from the beginning. He is an outlier. It is a place where an extremist agenda can hide and then use media to drive voters into believing they are going to benefit from their extremist views.

Trump has proven he can sell anything, even a return to government that hates Americans. But, he cannot govern. The cabinet is a stark reality of his lack of ABILITY to lead and make decisions that move a country forward. These cabinet picks will return the USA to 1776 and an alliance with an old ally, Russia, at a time when Putin is losing his standing among those that once believed in him.

September 8, 2016

In a rare move, (click here) Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed away from his support for unpopular new anti-terrorism laws dubbed the "Spring Package." Putin said during a meeting Tuesday night with his party, United Russia, that the laws may need to be "adjusted to not put people in a difficult position." Putin's concession comes as his control over his traditionally consolidated government is increasingly uncertain and the country is in the midst of a two-year election cycle.

The Spring Package had been proposed in June, just weeks before Putin signed it into law, by a group of hawkish lawmakers known for such draconian measures as the "foreign agent" laws restricting funding for nongovernmental organizations and legislation criminalizing homosexuality. The new security laws vastly expand the definition of terrorism and the government's ability to monitor potential terrorist activity. They categorize any public incitement of unrest or armed rebellion as terrorism. Even discussions of such activity in either mass or social media, or the failure of parties with knowledge of such discussions to disclose who partook in them, could be considered a criminal offense. Russian telecommunications companies are required to store all Russian users' data (texts, calls and online activity) for three years for the government to monitor, and the Federal Security Service (FSB) will have access to all encrypted data....

Putin's party is becoming more extreme and more desperate. They are moving farther right and placing all hopes that religious bigotry (ie: Donald Trump) will bring them power and happiness.

This is NOT the time for the USA to be extending it's hand in reconciliation to drill for oil and increase the wealth of Russia. Trump's cabinet is the last of the attempts to have the petroleum industry profit. It is counter productive because it will increase the already existing glut.

In the petroleum circles this week the conversations are about pushing the price per barrel of oil to $60.00. They state it will provide the basis to increased drilling again. Increased drilling will only repeat the cycle of failure we have witnessed in the past two years.

Donald Trump has the wrong idea about everything. Measuring his values by his cabinet picks he wants to destroy the public school system. In some states where the "Ulta White" already exist such as the North Carolina Republican State Congress, parents are already being encouraged to consider 'Computer School" rather than actual socialized school classrooms.

Republicans accept an agenda of education that dummy's down the public including reading skills. When an adult does not read well they accept verbal information as the authority for decisions in their lives. Need I state more to realize a 'dummied down' public is one lead around by it's nose to the direction of their lives. Such a social paradigm fits perfectly into Republican Party values and tactics.

The Clinton White House called for Americans to be "Lifetime Learners." He was correct. Americans have to educate themselves frequently if not daily to current events and THE TRUTH.

The Democrats need to return to their natural state of educating the public and bringing them accurate and important information. They will get no help from FOX. FOX has an insider track to power and will alienate Americans from their democracy. The greatest chance of turning that around is for the Democrats to find an information channel for the FORMER WOMEN OF FOX. 

...NPR points out that the “death panel” discussions (click here) definitely had the dumb impact we all feared it did, with only 18 percent of respondents realizing that the ACA didn’t put limits on end-of-life care. Of course, Republicans knew the least about the ACA and healthcare questions when asked, but you can’t expect much from a group of people that have Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan as their leaders. If you would like to look at a visualization of this healthcare ignorance, you can check out Chris Reeves recent diary on the matter.

Ready for this? The wacko "Ultra White" moralists are on the loose.

January 14, 2017
By the AP

Washington — Two Republicans in Congress (click here) have introduced a resolution that would stop the District of Columbia from allowing terminally ill patients to end their own lives with the help of a doctor.

Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the “Death with Dignity” law last month after it was approved by the liberal D.C. Council.

Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Rep. Brad Westrup of Ohio introduced companion resolutions on Thursday that would invalidate the law.

Congress has various ways to block local laws in the District, and it’s extremely rare for a disapproval resolution to pass both the House and Senate. The last was in 1991.

Bowser says in a statement that Lankford and Westrup are “attempting to sidestep the democratic process in order to impose their personal beliefs” on the city....

The "Ultra White" are cowards. They are afraid of becoming a minority in the USA. Their so called "peaceful ethnic cleansing" is not working and powers the drive for the USA's southern wall.

I can't believe the Democrats can't return to politics that bring people the message of peace and prosperity from an administration that is AGAIN all talk with no results.

EDUCATE THE PUBLIC!

The Alt Right lead by Donald Trump is wrongly named, it should be "The Ultra White," and they are communists.

The Alternative Right, (click here) commonly known as the Alt-Right, is a set of far-right ideologies, groups and individuals whose core belief is that “white identity” is under attack by multicultural forces using “political correctness” and “social justice” to undermine white people and “their” civilization. Characterized by heavy use of social media and online memes, Alt-Righters eschew “establishment” conservatism, skew young, and embrace white ethno-nationalism as a fundamental value....

The Ultra White are scared people. Every culture is allowed to exist in the USA, within reason, and the Ultra White are no different, however, there is a difference in their ideology. They see ethnic cleansing as a tool to their final goals.

No POWER HUNGRY movement will be peaceful for long and become impatient with any means to oppress their full intentions and goals. We are already seeing aggressive trending toward ethnic minorities and religious minorities in the USA. This movement is very dangerous and aligns nicely with communism.

I have to laugh at Republicans. They use the words socialism and communism to identify the enemy that is the "Lefties." Socialism. Communism. All are suppose to be affection extremes of the Democratic Party. NOT. The Axis Powers of WWII were lead by National Socialist Party and was the deadliest in history. Sure, sure there was fascism in Italy. What does any American stop to reflect on about Japan? 

See, history has few paths in all reality, except, for the addition of a space frontier. There are waxing and waning powers in the world and each have their own ability to rise to power, it is up to the people to bring about a tenacious need for peace and prosperity. It is the people that need to have a vision and not political parties. It is the people that need to realize the path forward for their children. Over and over again dictatorships and emperors have been brought down by the people through government sabotage and overthrow.

Richard Bertrand Spencer (click here)) advocates for an Aryan homeland for the supposedly dispossessed white race and calls for “peaceful ethnic cleansing” to halt the “deconstruction” of European culture. But even some of the Europeans he lionizes have rejected him; in October 2014, his attempt to hold an NPI conference in Budapest, Hungary, resulted in his arrest and expulsion....

Following Donald Trump into hell is not the future of the USA, nor did most of his followers bargain for it.

Trump's National Security Adviser is untrustworthy, therefore, unqualified.

January 14, 2017
By AP

In this Dec. 12, 2016 file photo, (click here) National Security Adviser-designate Michael T. Flynn waits for an elevator in the lobby at Trump Tower in New York. The Obama administration is aware of frequent contacts between President-elect Donald Trump’s top national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russia’s ambassador to the United States, including on the day President Barack Obama hit Moscow with sanctions in retaliation for election-related hacking, a senior U.S. official said Friday, Jan. 13, 2017....

November 17. 2016
By Matthew Rosenberg and Maggie Haberman

They also both exhibit a loose relationship with facts: (click here) General Flynn, for instance, has said that Shariah, or Islamic law, is spreading in the United States (it is not). His dubious assertions are so common that when he ran the Defense Intelligence Agency, subordinates came up with a name for the phenomenon: They called them “Flynn facts.”

During the transition, General Flynn has been present when Mr. Trump has received his daily intelligence briefing. As national security adviser, he would have the last word on how the president should respond to crises such as a showdown with China over the South China Sea or an international health crisis like the Ebola epidemic.

But, like Mr. Trump, he would enter the White House with significant baggage. The Flynn Intel Group, a consulting firm he founded after he was fired by President Obama as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has hazy business ties to Middle Eastern countries and has appeared to lobby for the Turkish government. General Flynn also took a paid speaking engagement last year with Russia Today, a television network funded by the Kremlin, and attended the network’s lavish anniversary party in Moscow, where he sat at Mr. Putin’s elbow....

This is not about American jobs, this is about wealth and the ruthlessness that throws international relations to the wind.

Donald Trump is not working for Exxon-Mobile. He is putting American lives and Ukraine lives in danger.

Any man that believes better relations will secure the USA has serious issues with balancing his books. This puts Donald Trump and his cabinet in the powers of impeachment.

Russia's Putin wants to reconstitute the USSR. This is interesting because it was George H. W. Bush that claims his measures internationally caused the fall of the USSR. Now, Donald Trump wants to look the other way and provide a world with Exxon Mobile profiting from Russian wealth. So it thinks.

Start the preparations for impeachment, this is a national security issue and is providing even more drastic wealth to Wall Street. Russia will enjoy the reconstitution of the USSR and it will set USA foreign policy back 27 years.

January 14, 2017
Doug Stanglin and David Jackson 

President-elect Donald Trump (click here) says he will keep the latest sanctions on Russia in place "for a period of time" but is open to lifting them if Moscow cooperates on issues of mutual interest. Trump also says he is not committed to a longstanding agreement with China over Taiwan.

His remarks came in an hour-long interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday.

While several sanctions on Russia were imposed in 2014 over its annexation of Crimea, the latest measures, as well as the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats, were imposed by the Obama administration last month in response to evidence Russia hacked Democratic Party officials during the presidential election....

I am not surprised Russia is begging for a change election in 2016. When Russia invaded Ukraine taking Crimea and eastern Ukraine it fell under international sanctions. Those sanctions caused Putin to pull in it's borders and institute nationalism and isolationism. It would not surprise me if the states within Russia were preparing for the final blow to Russian sovereignty and not just the fall of the USSR.


There are 14 major republics within the Russian borders. Those republics could absorb the 46 smaller oblasts. Oblasts are administrative districts. Russia is communist, it has assets it distributes throughout the country, so it can conduct itself without concern for economic viability of smaller oblasts. 

The removal of sanctions on Russia is a direct threat to the USA and it's sovereignty and safety. With Russia increasing it's wealth it will no doubt seek a stronger and more aggressive military and spread it's presence far beyond that exists today. That means in it's "...Friendship Pact" of 2001 (click here) with China should China launch aggression into the Pacific, Russia would be a full partner. That brings three of the major powers of the world into a conflict that will ultimately cause enormous numbers of deaths and potentially destroy any and all capacity of allies to survive afterward.

Russia has offered nothing in the way of reassurances and without sanctions the war against Ukraine will escalate and NATO will be drawn into a larger conflict.

Once Europe is engaged in conflict, it will weaken the military of the USA to defend itself as the military will be engaged elsewhere. The USA is still involved in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria (the undeclared war). Once the USA military is involved in Europe that will leave a far weaker resolve in the Pacific and China along with Russia will open still yet another war front. It will be World War Three and the result will be incredibly devastating for all peoples and all governments.

The White Supremacists of Europe are currently measuring their might should Europe fall into war.

World War Three will be the do all and end all war. There is no reason to engage peace. Russia and China will have their communist governments at stake. As far as Communists being some of the most hungry capitalists in the world, that is false. Motherland comes first and if that means swallowing the profits of Wall Street than all the better. 

World War Three will be the end of either democracy or communism and many, many innocent lives on all continents.