The police seem to need the support of each other when they decide citizens have no free speech rights.

 

Los Angeles police officers remove a protester who refused order to vacate park outside City Hall.

We have seen this before. Police act together through a support network that spans the country. Maybe #Occupy should just make it easy on them when they show up and move their belongs rather than have confrontation because they don't seem to do well if there isn't hubris involved to support their egos.

The mayors are not interested in any communication and like to victimize the image of the protesters by portraying them as social sludge, so there seems to me to be a real problem with the way government addresses the problems the majority of citizens face in the year 2011.

I still believe the peaceful protest is the best venue. It literally makes fools of the authorities that seek to ignore the problems of the majority rather than face them. It protects lives, although those violent police actions do damage, don't they?  Unarmed people end up in hospitals and emergency rooms. The simple 'police action' speaks eons of the existing oppression of the current government 'mind think.'

The answer is to rid the system of authorities tainted by Wall Street. Is that best done when people are assaultive, so much as true to their values? The message of #Occupy resonates because it is true. Everyone feels the oppression and lack of opportunity within this country. A lack of opportunity that is profound and well founded in the methodology of Wall Street. #Occupy is the truth within this country and for many globally.

Demonstrating is a method to turn life's understanding into a solid moment in time to convey the truth that exists in the firmament. Truth of oppression is noted in overt ways, but, often hidden from the profound definition of The West. The West likes to hide its truth from public view. That is a fact. Protests, marches form a solidified understanding there are profoundly poor conditions for citizens. The poverty rate is up to 15%. That is not a minor topic. The USA places questionable rankings globally in education, health care and particular topics such as infant mortality. That was not our country ten years ago.

#Occupy Movement has very high moral content. The questionable actions of a few is simply normal statistics. There is malady that occurs in behavior when people do not have resources. Alcoholism and crime are a known quality that fluctuate due to economic conditions. President Obama has provided an adequate safety net for many up to now following the exploitation of the USA Treasury in 2008. Bailing out banks did nothing to benefit the citizens. It didn't improve their paychecks, their health care or their opportunity at the American Dream.

Regardless of how derelict the media and government seeks to paint the movement, the reason it is resilient is because we are the truth. We know it, no one else has to. It has a universal message that has defied oppression.

The #Occupy Movement has achieved huge goals. The future belongs to the people that seek the truth and move it forward. I believe President Obama has tried to secure a nation of fairness and prosperity for the citizens of the country, but, we all know the problem. Those that see the world through their own kaleidoscope of images based in
'profits only' at any cost are the problem, not us. A society is its people and not its profits. There are venues to resolve this and they will be realized, but, they are best realized within the movement through collective power, not venues of violence. I sincerely believe that.

There are reasons to believe we are correct and contain the character integrity to sustain the assault of image makers. I believe we can build our own infrastructure as well. That is power. People are inherently afraid of power, especially their own.

Occupy protesters kicked out of camps in Los Angeles, Philadelphia (click title to entry - thank you)

More than 200 are arrested as cops sweep in

BY Christina Boyle
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Wednesday, November 30 2011, 8:54 AM

Cops evicted Occupy demonstrators from their camps in Los Angeles and Philadelphia early Wednesday, moving in under cover of darkness and arresting more than 200 people.

The crackdown began after midnight in both cities, with officers urging the protesters to leave peacefully and then immediately beginning to dismantle their tents.

In Los Angeles, 1,400 officers were mobilized for the operation, some wearing riot gear and wielding batons and rubber bullets....

That is a whole lot of money in overtime.  The city will spend it on police time, but, not employment.  Hello?

A light bulb go on yet?

...Bulbs (click title to entry - thank you) built around light-emitting diodes—semiconductors that produce bright light when zapped with electricity—last 10 times longer than conventional bulbs, meaning fewer ladders blocking frozen-food aisles or unsightly scaffolds towering in hotel lobbies as workers change blown-out bulbs. With energy savings not yet enough in some cases to cover the higher cost of the new bulbs, it's lower maintenance costs that are getting sales across the finish line.

"If you think about a 20- to 40-foot tall parking lot light pole, you need a bucket truck and electrician to replace those lamps every two years. Now these will last us 10 to 12 years," said Charles Zimmerman, Wal-Mart's vice president for international design and construction. "The big payback number is on the maintenance."...

Clinton Arrives in Myanmar to Assess Reforms

By STEVEN LEE MYERS

Published: November 30, 2011

NAY PYI DAW, Myanmar — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived here on Wednesday to measure the depth of the political and economic opening the country’s new government has unexpectedly begun....

...Administration officials said Mrs. Clinton first wanted to see whether Mr. Thein Sein’s government was prepared to take his own steps. Officials remain wary, disappointed that the government has not freed more of the 1,600 political prisoners still being held and that Mr. Thein Sein recently denied the existence of any of them. The senior administration official also noted that the administration’s initial efforts to engage Myanmar’s leaders in 2009 were “abysmal failures.”


Another issue of particular concern for the United States is Myanmar’s cooperation with North Korea, and American officials have pressed the government to agree to more vigorous inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency....


...The decision to send Mrs. Clinton was debated among the White House, the State Department and members of Congress, many of whom remained critical. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, the Republican chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Mrs. Clinton’s trip sent “the wrong signal.”...


The mistake the Republicans chronically make is their over abundant concern with IMAGE over substance. The "W"rong signal would be to isolate Myanmar until EVERY demand of the USA is met. That is hideous. We live in the world with Myanmar and the more the current leadership is recognized for improving the civil rights of its citizens the better. The real travesty to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen statement is the fact militarized dictatorships are necessary and not a luxury when involved with countries unable to pay successfully secure munitions of any kind otherwise.

Republicans believe they can wave a magic wand and have the changes happen as if there is infrastructure to allow it to happen, but, the leadership is simply belligerent. That is not the case. It is nearly never the case and Myanmar is an excellent example of a country finding the will 'to trust' civil rights while still maintaining the security of its military.

Simpletons. Republicans are breakfast table simpletons.

I question if Great Britain actually WANTS the Iranian police to respond to the crowd.

It would have been possible that Iranians would have died at the hand of their own police in response to the distrubances. 

Seriously. 

Does Britain want people alive or dead?  It doesn't matter if these people are unarmed, they would have died anyway.  Evacuating personnel sounds like a far better option.  Sanctions have consequences.  This is a reaction to something, tensions if nothing else. 

...British Prime Minister David Cameron (click title to entry - thank you) said Tuesday Iran faces "serious consequences" for failing to defend the British compounds from Islamists who barged into them as police looked on. The protesters chanted "Death to Britain" as they smashed windows of the main embassy building, threw documents outside and set fire to a car. Another group of Iranians stormed a British diplomatic complex in northern Tehran.  The assaults followed followed Britain's decision to impose new economic sanctions against Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons program....

It would appear sanctions are working.  I would think this is activity to be expected when sanctions are imposed.  Does Great Britain live in lulla land?  Cause and effect.  And then there are the trees.  That was kinda lousy.  I rather have living disgruntled people than dead citizens and further bloodshed.  I think the world can handle the indignity of its own actions for the sake of saving lives.  Last time there were protesters in the street and Iran sent out the police there was a notable death the young adults hang on to as a symbol of the violence they face when they oppose the government.  That symbol was a young woman killed for no reason except she demonstrated.  I think Great Britain has come away with a clean record at this point.

What is all this fuss about Qolhak Garden in Iran?

...The graveyard is located (click here) at the southern flank of the large semi-park courtyard of the British embassy's summerhouse in Qolhak. The crosses standing on the tombs and the dates recorded on the gravestones show that only the bodies of Britons killed in Iran during the World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945) were buried there. Nonetheless, the graveyard was constructed opposite to the chapel of the embassy church several years before 1914 and the corpses of many Britons had been buried there....

Evidently, this garden/graveyard has been in dispute, including environmental concerns.  It sort of makes sense university students would be activists for whatever reason they are.  Something about 'occupying' the garden to take it back.  If they are mimicking the students around the globe, the violence hasn't really been necessary or has it?  At least not in the USA.

November 1st 2011
Tehran Municipality (click here) has filed a lawsuit against the British Embassy for having cut down and burned 310 trees in a north Tehran garden which is in the possession of the embassy, Press TV reports....

This is fairly recently Iranian are voicing their objection to the activities at this garden.  It would appear they don't believe they are being heard.  I could be wrong, but, I don't think so.  I believe The West is making too much of this, except, for the violence.  My hunch is the students aren't happy with the British and their activity in a section of the city they value as their own.  My guess is the British need to contact the university and a professor and chancellor to determine if the students are indeed upset about a place they value as their heritage.  Perhpas the university can provide insight to how tensions can be resolved.

There are some demands being made by the Iranians, one is a fine be levied against Britian in the sum of $1.25 million US for the trees and they want the Brits to vacate the garden.  It sounds as though they feel fairly strong about this.  Can an Iranian court oversee this? 

The Brits have considered this garden their possession for nearly 100 years, but, I don't believe it is officially part of the embassy.  This is sort of saying that Normandy is not part of France. 

It is an interesting set of circumstances, but, the violence is out of the question.

It's time.

Barney, you'll be missed. Without a doubt.

He lived in New Jersey, moved to Massachusetts and graduated Harvard Law School.  His qualifications are often overlooked for the discrimination surrounding his life.  He was afraid of letting government be government without pandering to Wall Street.  If the people had a need; Barney Frank would find a way.  The 4th Congressional District was proud of the man they kept so very long in the House of Representatives.  Rightfully so.

His legislative efforts were considerable including a great deal of accounting for the country in regard to The Death Penalty.  Rep. Frank saw no reason for any innocent person and wrongfully convicted to die.  He also sought to stop the Death Penalty for some of his studies showed there were indeed flaws in the system.

In 2007, his success was the "Recidivism Reduction Law."  It is to focus on since rehabilitation of inmates and returning them to society without a return to crime.  The law, when successful, will reduce the inmate population and make the streets of the USA safer.

In his legislative capacity he sought to improve the lives of Americans.  He actively sought to provide a venue for Americans to achieve the American Dream.  Many of his efforts involved the idea of comfort, not comfortable, but comfort to the needs and dreams of his constituents.  He believed government had a place to actively achieve higher ground for citizens.

The problem with the argument that condemns Rep. Frank for the sheer existance of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac is proof of the incredible leaning toward Wall Street directives for the country rather than government acting as an autonomous entity with no ties to conflict of interest.  If Wall Street didn't like Fannie and Freddie, they should have not participated.  The money was too tempting and that is the truth of the situation.  They ran themselves over the brink out of the anger they had for profits they could not reach.

All one has to do is listen to Steve Forbes speak and the reality of the mind set of Wall Street is all to clear.  Wall Street exists for Wall Street.  That is in complete conflict of the well being of the citizens of the USA.  If government doesn't tame private industry, then American citizens are slaves to power brokers and wealth merchants with shorter longevity and impoverished lives.

Wall Street is an immoral venue, but, government should never be.  Barney Frank fought the good fight.  He fought the moral fight and on many an occassion he won.  He will be dearly missed, but, a PhD is not an easy task.  I wish him well, look forward to his continued work and hope his personal life is enriched by the time he now will have to spend at home.

Buddy Romer has a good message. I believe he should pursue his "Unity Party"

He has better than average credentials, but, I have complaints.

To begin, it is typical in the history of the country to have qualified people come forward to capture the fervor of the nation's unrest.  Mr. Roemer is not an opportunist, he is typical of an American.

Louisiana has an abysmal environmental record, especially with the petroleum industry.  The problems it faces due to offshore drilling is its own making.  No one in government bothered to realize the extent the petroleum industry was causing poverty among the citizens that call themselves independent contractors.  It is a joke to realize some of these companies advertise how much they pour back into the US economy.  Their pouring is far less than it should be on a per capita basis.

The environmental record of Louisiana and its inability and or unwillingness to address problems such as Carbon Dioxide emissions, opting instead to allow the undermining of the land to cause the sinking of New Orleans is only the beginning.  When the Army Corp was stating the wetlands needed to be restored, everyone ignored it and Katrina killed over 1000 people.  That is not easily erased as a track record.

While I believe the Former Governor and House Representative is a dedicated to making a difference as he says, as decent a man as one can find and wants to sincerely make a difference in the lives of all Americans, there are aspects to his experience that wants.  It would also be wise to set aside the social tug of war the country is experiencing.  The nation needs a leader that isn't interested in settling scores between separatists with a political platform, but, one interested in balancing the scales of income equality and moving the nation forward.

I wish him a great deal of luck and success.  Regardless of his 2012 outcome, he needs to continue seeking the higher ground of "The Unity Party."

Is that one wicked moisture front or what? I listened to the flood warnings all night.

UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)                                   

November 29, 2011             

0330.15z 

It is a little unusal to have all this hot moisture coming up from the equator to form a midlatitude vortex.  Usually there is a mixing of artic air with existing warm air already

over the continent.

November 11, 2011

0330.15z

UNISYS Hemispheric Water Vapor Satellite

The nation was primairly warm as an artic air mass decended over the contient.  The three air masses are easily distinguished in this water vapor image.  The one on the east becoming a vortex, the second in the central part of the country going from south to north and west to east through Canada.  The last of the three is noted to be higher in latitude then the other two.

November 29, 2011                

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US Temperature Map              

The current temperature map looks a little different now.

                          November 29., 2011                          

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 US Temperature Map

  

The colder air is heavier.  The proper name is DENSER.  Air does not always weigh the same, it depends on its content.  Composition and temperature are part of it.  So the colder air is denser and pushes against the hot rising air from the tropics pushing it out to sea, but, while the 'moisture dense' air from the tropics was over the continent there was some snow where the artic air met the moist tropical air.  The snow occurred at a MOISTURE FRONT.

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The website Herman Cain approves of that gives everyone that care to the truth about him the media won't tell.

Herman "Candy" Cain strikes again!

Ginger White alleges long affair with Cain (click title to entry - thank you)

"What is the Executive Compensation List?"

Go ahead, make all the racist stereotype complaints there are to make, but, when one is a Candy Man, one is a Candy Man.  The truth never changes.  Are all the accusers accounted for yet?

Mistaken identity. Why not? It's plausible.

In Pakistan anything is plausible.  On Monday Chinese, on Tuesday Kashmirian, on Wednesday American, on Thursday al Qaeda, on Friday Taliban, on Saturday nuclear wizards and they rest on Sunday.

Seriously.  Who knows what is on the border with Pakistan.

Fatal NATO raid in Pakistan likely a case of mistaken ID by US, Afghan forces (click title to entry - thank you)
By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, November 29, 2:21 AMWASHINGTON — NATO forces may have been lured into attacking friendly Pakistani border posts in a calculated maneuver by the Taliban, according to preliminary U.S. military reports on the deadliest friendly fire incident with Pakistan since the Afghanistan war began.
The NATO airstrike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers over the weekend in an apparent case of mistaken identity, The Associated Press has learned.

If Pakistan was serious about peace, really serious, they would not be boycotting anything, but, seeing the cross border attack a MORE of a reason to continue dialogue and settle differences.  That isn't what is happening.  War and militancy is a currency in Pakistan. 


Pakistan to boycott Bonn conference over Nato attack (click here)

The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting in Lahore, just days after Islamabad confirmed it was mulling its attendance in the German city of Bonn, where Pakistan’s participation was considered vital.

“The cabinet has decided not to attend the Bonn meeting,” a government official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The prime minister’s office said the cabinet agreed that “unilateral action” such as Saturday’s strike in the tribal district of Mohmand and the May 2 US killing of Osama bin Laden near the capital was “unacceptable”.

US-led investigators have been given until December 23 to probe the attacks, threatening to prolong significantly Pakistan’s blockade on Nato supplies into Afghanistan implemented in retaliation for the killings.

The US military appointed Brigadier General Stephen Clark, a one-star air force general based in Florida, to lead the investigation into the attack....

Paksitan gets lots and lots of money from many sources for its instability.  Divided loyalists abound.  China pays well for covert information, they sell munnitions to Pakistan to continue the conflict with India and the Taliban are more than helpful to maintain the USA presence in Afghanistan so there is more covert information all time.  Life could not be better for Pakistan.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 29 (APP): Pakistan accords (click here) a high importance to the role of the youth in democratic and decision-making process and is also taking a series of steps to enable them to contribute more vitally to socio-economic progress of the country, Chairman Senate Farooq H Naek said. He was addressng a Parliamentary Hearing at UN Headquarters on the theme of “Youth Participation in the Democratic Process.” Naek said efforts are underway to increase and diversify avenues for youth to discuss national issues, engage with national leaders, and participate in discussion on what is important for Pakistan…

And then there is the 'pitiful' reality of the people and the monies received for charitable works.  Not that the Pakistani government has to dedicate any funds of its own to the plight of its people so much as the nuclear capacity of its military.  Amazing. 

I want to boycott Pakistan's aid of ANY KIND.  When the Pakistani government actually has to spend its treasury on its people, it will required to disarm from nuclear weapons it could not afford IN THE FIRST PLACE !

The Human Rights record Pakistan is amoung the worst on the planet.  It enslaves its people in debt and allows international criminals a haven because its definition of sovereignty doesn't exist.  Pakistan is not a sovereign nation.  The nuclear capacity of a country melted down to multiple factions of extremists should NEVER be allowed to exist!

Are the "#Occupy" arrests the only successful arrests the LA Police make?

I guess the police departments get a lot of volunteer overtime to arrest protesters armed with palm fronds.

An unidentified (click title to entry -thank you) Occupy LA protestor sweeps the steps of Los Angeles City Hall with a palm frond as another speaks using a bull horn in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stated Friday that it is time for the campsite to be dismantled, beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday. (AP Photo/Phil McCarten)...

Los Angeles has two major gang districts with a fairly good circumference so those in the middle of the action of little to nothing to fear from the police.  They are mostly 'no go' zones and the violence spills out into the city from the drugs, prostitution and otherwise.  Not to diminish the danger to the LAPD there is a memorial to the officers that have died while in the line of duty.

Jejuan Rumph, 39 (click here for the LA Homicide report)

Died Nov. 9, 2011
Jejuan Rumph, a 39-year-old black man, died Wednesday, Nov. 9, 10 days after he was shot near Figueroa Street and Redondo Beach Boulevard in West Compton, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.
Rumph was shot several times in the upper torso on Oct. 30, sheriff’s officials said....

Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters, (click here) 1st Street. The wall consists of brass plates and weights approximately 11,000 pounds. The Memorial wall was built with private funding from the Los Angeles Police Foundation. Architecture firm Gensler donated their services to design the sculpture. As of late 2009, there were 202 names of LAPD officers killed in the line of duty inscribed on the tablets.

In addition to  police officers that die are citizens that fall victim to the violence from these areas of the city.

The point is, there has never, not once, been a show of force anywhere near the size of the operation against #Occupy in the sincerely dangerous districts of Los Angeles.  I find it completely hideous that the Los Angeles Police Department is called in for 'a sanitation problem' and/or a 'political embarrassment' issue.

The instability in the ISI is permanent. Pakistan is China's agent.

China supports Pakistan in row over Nato border attack

China says it is 'deeply shocked' by Pakistani soldiers' deaths, while Afghan and Nato officials insist they came under fire first

Saeed Shah in Karachi and Jon Boone in Kabul

guardian.co.uk, Monday 28 November 2011 07.02 EST

China has lent powerful diplomatic support to Pakistan, saying it is "deeply shocked" over the deaths of the Pakistani soldiers bombarded by Nato helicopters, while Afghan officials have again claimed the air strikes were called in after they were first targeted from the Pakistani side of the border.

Warning of "serious consequences", the Pakistan military said the "unprovoked" attack on a border check post in the Mohmand part of the tribal area on Saturday continued even after it contacted Nato to plead for the firing to stop. The military has not accepted Nato's tentative explanation for what the coalition has called a "tragic incident". Afghan and Nato officials have insisted that they came under fire first.
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The incident, which left 24 Pakistani soldiers dead, has thrown the coalition strategy in Afghanistan into crisis, with Pakistani co-operation considered vital in stabilising the country and bringing the Taliban insurgents into talks. Pakistan keeps more than 100,000 soldiers stationed at the Afghan border, supposedly in support of the coalition mission...

There is far too much power brokering within Pakistan to ever believe the country will be stable enough to goverrn.  China has its interest, the USA has its interest and that spells disaster for the people of Pakistan.  They don't have a sovereign country, they have a chronic 'bidding war.' 

We are best OUT OF IT !

When the USA withdraws the only strategic partner left is China and Pakistan will have to live with that reality.  It was the Pakistanis choice, from the terrorist haven it became to the unstable central government it has.  Pakistan cannot plot a course for its country, it can only defend from chaos.  That is not sovereignty, that is a tragedy.

"Morning Papers" - Its Origins

The Rooster
"Okeydoke"

Good Night Moon

The Moon for Nov 27, 2011

Northern Hemisphere

3.0 days since new moon
The waxing crescent, 3.2 day old moon, 11.2% lit:

An unexpected advocate of the irresponsible Wall Street.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

...Tutu says (click title to entry - thank you) just as the world fought against apartheid. We need to unite and fight global warming. He says climate change will turn planet earth into a desert. A number of rich nations have refused to the adopt Kyoto Protocol an international agreement aimed at reducing some greenhouse gases. The United States is among the world's biggest polluters. Tutu said: “ For your own sake, you the rich people, we are inviting you to come on the side of right. we are inviting you to come and join us.”...

This is just more of the same indulgence of Wall Street rather than advancing the energy sector and the culture of humanity.  Earth has its limits.  It is unfortunate so many have already experienced them.

What is wrong with this picture?

Occupy London ( click title to entry - thank you) protestors look out from the roof of an unused building owned by UBS bank Photo: GETTY

...The building they have taken over at Crown Place belongs to, but is not occupied by, UBS and no business transactions take place there.

The activists plan to set up a "bank of ideas" there tomorrow and open the disused offices and meeting rooms to "those who have lost their nurseries, community centres and youth clubs due to savage Government spending cuts".

A programme of events has been drawn up, including talks from Palestinian activists and comedy by Josie Long, they said.

There are two separate worlds that are completely unrelated to each other facilitated by wrongful government that no longer serves the people, but, the interests of Wall Street.  Completely separate worlds.  Unrelated.  Where is the governance that serves the people?

UBS Investing $506 Million in Sura After ING Asset Purchase (click here)

November 24, 2011, 2:47 AM EST

By Blake Schmidt and Andrea Jaramillo

(Updates closing price in third paragraph.)

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- UBS AG, Switzerland’s biggest bank, invested $506 million in Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana SA, helping the Medellin-based company raise funds to pay for its purchase of Latin American assets from ING Groep NV.

UBS bought 30 million shares for an average 32,500 pesos each, part of a sale of 120 million shares that raised 3.5 trillion pesos ($1.8 billion) in the biggest Colombian share offering in four years. The parent company of Colombia’s biggest lender said earlier this year it would raise as much as 3.9 trillion pesos in a share sale to help pay for the 2.7 billion euro ($3.6 billion) purchase of ING assets....

"The American School Board Journal," Volume 20-21, Page 140, "For the Perfect Regulation of Light."

It is a journal written and compiled by the National School Board Association.

This archive is from Google Books at the title above.  The space for the link was not sufficient.  It is a long link. 

I was scanning through it and realized there was a time in the USA when childern were actually important in a way that lead to learning.

The light in the classroom, the size of the desk and chair, the comfort of the teacher and supplies for her to adequately teach children.

Attention to detail is what that appears to be to me.

Editor: (click here) Your Nov. 15 headline article “Teachers paying for supplies” showed what great commitment our teachers have for our kids by spending money out of their own pockets to complete their classrooms. I have great admiration and respect for them and the parents, non profits, business partners and others that contribute unselfishly to our schools. What peaked my attention was the lack of support from the teachers’ unions at the classroom level....
I can't believe the financing of 'the classroom' has become this ludicrous.  It is now the responsiblity of the teacher to supply her students with paper and pencils.  A teacher has to supply their own art supplies.  That is amazing.

The American people have really cowarded to Wall Street in every way.  I suppose a School Board purchasing in bulk is more expensive than a teacher seeking supplies at a "Teacher Fair" where donated supplies are available. 

Parents have given control of the classroom to Wall Street.  Wow.  How did this happen?  How is it there is no attention to detail anymore?  How it is that each classroom is not equally supplied with everything a student needs?  Does a parent actually hope their child will get in the classroom of a teacher because the supplies are better in that room?

There needs to be a sincere rethink about the way education is happening in the USA.  I sincerely doubt the failure of school systems comes down to the teacher, so much as the lack of interest in consistent achievement and the details that turn a room into a classroom.
continued...

Two months of oppression and all the government has to say is RELOCATION? Joking. I've heard it all now.

Occupy protesters (click title to entry - thank you) in Los Angeles and Philadelphia faced eviction from their encampments Sunday as frustrated city officials complained that two months of squatting posed public-safety issues and interfered with city business....

Relocation is NOT allowed.  Sorry.  This is a protest and is not to be conveniently located so they aren't noticed.  If businesses in the area of the protests are upset about their presence and the impact on their businesses, then I suggest the business owners take the argument to the state and federal government. 

Relocation of protesters to other convenient areas of the city is not an acceptable response to the message of the #Occupy Movement.  Businesses effected by the protests need to contact their state and federal representatives to demand changes in the way citizens are addressed in their concerns regarding an entire generation of unemployed in the USA.

By Matt Sarnecki
Some businesses (click here) around the current Occupy SF location are none too happy about the Embarcadero encampment. Now, a proposed Occupy SF relocation could bring the protesters, tents and all, to the Mission District. Local business owners held mixed opinions about the move, and most were skeptical about the idea.

“I don’t like the idea,” said Sharon Drummond, owner of Hotel Mirabelle at Mission and 15th streets. “We have enough problems around here already.” Drummond added that she thinks the encampment is in too obscure a locale to make its point and would only serve to deter business in the community.

Representatives of Occupy SF are in talks with Mayor Ed Lee’s office about relocating the tent encampment from Justin Herman Plaza to a lot on the site of a former high school on Mission Street between 15th and 16th streets, the Chronicle reported Wednesday.

The proposed site takes up one-third of the block and is separated from the sidewalk by a chain link fence.  The area around the 16th Street BART also has a high concentration of Single Room Occupancy hotels and a high crime rate, according to police reports....

I suppose placing distraught citizens in a high crime district might even take care of the problem in ways government can't.  Why is government so willing to victimize the victims?

The number of demonstrators arrested continues to rise. This is ridiculous.

These protests are spread across the entire country and the answer to their message is arrest them?  Has government lost its purpose or what?  If government has become this closed to the needs and problems of a nation of people there is no sense to send by those elected that remain unresponsive. 

The movement has to find satisfaction somewhere.  These are all peaceful rallies of people seeking to be heard and have their circumstances addressed and dearly nothing happens except more victimization.  It has to come to an end and if changing those in government in elections is the venue open to all of us then priorities of the movement have to be made clear to the electorate and at the very least new representatives have to respond to citizens when their lives are in turmoil. 

This is ridiculous.  What doesn't government understand already?

AUGUSTA, Maine—Eight people were arrested (click title to entry - thank you) following an Occupy Maine demonstration Sunday that spilled from the sidewalk over a waist-high, wooden fence to the Maine governor's mansion grounds, state police said.

Spokesman Steve McCausland of the state Public Safety Department said protesters were charged with criminal trespass and criminal mischief. No names were immediately available and at least six people had made bail by Sunday evening, McCausland said.

The arrests came the same day protesters in the Occupy Augusta encampment in Capitol Park took down their tents and packed their camping gear after being told to get a permit or move their shelters.

McCausland said the eight were arrested after jumping the fence to the Blaine House lawn and some climbed a portico to the building and unfurled an Occupy banner. As many as 50 protesters, some holding signs and beating a drum, gathered near the Blaine House gates....

Austin needs to waive fees for the protests.

Charging people monies for executing their rights to free speech is oppression.  Has the governments of the USA become so tainted with demands for money from citizens they can't see the folly in the request of fees for a movement seeking to impact the understanding of their plight of joblessness?  How ludicrous can it get?

Citizens are actually expected to vote people into office that victimize their right to Free Speech?  Getting rid of elected officials that see the world through 'Wall Street' eyes should be the first priority of demonstrators that cannot be given the dignity of their message to be heard.

Rage and grief grips Pakistan over NATO attack

November 27, 2011

Afghan Officials: Pakistan Fired First in NATO Attack (click title to entry - thank you)

Afghan officials say NATO and Afghan forces patrolling near the Pakistan border came under fire before they called in the NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on Saturday.

Sunday's account by unnamed officials contradicts Islamabad's claims that the attack on two Pakistani army bases was unprovoked....

Are the tensions within Pakistan so terrible it considers deployed Afghan and NATO troops a profound theat to its sovereignty?  Why the over reaction?  I would expect the Pakistan military to welcome mutual interest in the border area. 

It is not enough to lay blame, it is about the orders the Pakistan troops were operating under.  They should not  be protecting the Taliban or any other extremist element that would see the death of NATO or Afghan troops. 

This is the problem with Pakistan.  There is no cooperation in mutual border security.  That theme is not a mistake.  The theme of Pakistan aggression is evident in Kashmir and its policies with India.  I would like to think the truth would resolve any tensions that exist, but, that is not the history of the country.  Pakistan has its interest spread throughout the region to include any an all power brokers, including China, it can find. 

Pakistan cannot continually blame other nations for its own problems.  The people of Pakistan need relief from their suffering as well.  Their best interests are not served with a government that keeps them under an oppressive goverance while it pursues global supremacy at any cost.  Pakistan is wayward.  It needs reform.

The Arab League needs to examine the criticism of the new governments.

Ali Tarhouni, (click title to entry - thank you) interim oil and finance minister in the National Transitional Council, who refused an offer to form part of the new transitional Cabinet of Libya, expressed disappointment and criticised the cabinet named by prime minister Abdurrahim el-Keeb, as an unrepresentative "elite" supported by outside powers

Tarhouni was on the forefront of the NTC during the eight-month long conflict before the new appointments. Now he is the first person from the NTC to openly question the new cabinet's legitimacy and in an apparent reference to Qatar, further suggested in a press conference late Thursday, that at least one of foreign powers is trying to meddle excessively in Libya's internal affairs..

He explained his refusal to join the Cabinet that was named last Tuesday, by saying he believed that those now in power are not representative. He accused them of being "supported from the outside by money, arms and PR."...
There is probably a far amount of brevity to Ali Tarhouni's claims.  An Oil Minister would know these things. 

We are witnessing a continued complaint by the people of Egypt.  They believe they were not oriented well to the elections, the candidates or the selection process for these candidates.  Confusion only adds to the chance this will never be settled and power to change their circumstances will remain outside their rhelm of control.  I am confident there is an answer. 

In a region of the world, where enormous numbers of people come for pilgramages there is always a way to organize them to carry out elections.  I have witnessed the vast numbers of Iraqis able to assemble in an understanding of common purpose by their Aytollah.  That form of education should be a solice to the people and a place where coming to terms with their responsibilities within their country to form a functioning and benevolent government without corruption is an everyday occurrence and not a traumatic upheaval to their daily lives.

There is a common thread binding them all together. And no it is not a Caliphate

Al Baghdadi Al Mahmoudi

Tunis: A Tunisian appeals court has upheld the extradition of Libya's prime minister during the last years of Muammar Gaddafi's regime, the final step in the appeals process.

The decision, late on Friday, in the Tunis court means Al Baghdadi Al Mahmoudi has run out of appeals and can now be sent back to Libya, pending the approval of Tunisia's government and president.

It was unclear whether Tunisia's incoming president, who is a former head of the country's best-known human rights group, would sign the order. Al Mahmoudi's lawyers have also appealed to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, asking them to grant him a status of political refuge....

There is common interest among the new governments.  The need for justice.  There is no rift between the differences of the ethnicities.  I find that extraordinary.

A real failure of these liberation movements would be if they separated themselves into nations that hate each other and would be willing to go to war over it.  That is not the reality and seems to be homogenous throughout the spectrum so far.

It is amazing to realize the Arab League is as significant as it is today.  It has been in existance for a long time.  Evidently, they took themselves very seriously when others thought they were insignificant.  The peace and cooperation spreading between the new governments is simply amazing. 

Without a UN resolution, the Libyan rebels find kinship with their Syrian counterparts.

Divided ... (click title to entry - thank you) a demonstration for Bashar al-Assad. Photo: AP

MISRATA, Libya: Syrian rebels have held secret talks with Libya's new authorities, aiming to secure weapons and money for their insurgency against Bashar al-Assad's regime, it has been revealed.

At the meeting, which was held in Istanbul and included Turkish officials, the Syrians requested assistance from the Libyan representatives and were offered arms and, potentially, volunteers.

''There is something being planned to send weapons and even Libyan fighters to Syria,'' a Libyan source said, on condition of anonymity. ''There is a military intervention on the way. Within a few weeks you will see.''...

It is getting interesting in the Middle East.  The Arab League finds the mantle of humanity an important one.  They are remarkably able to bring opinion to the actions of the people suffering for their right to a life different and better than they have now.  That is more than admirable.  The UN and the global community should endorse their direction.  The people of all these nations have and are paying dearly for their future and that of their children.  When has the world ever witnessed civil rights demands by the people of these nations?  It is remarkable.  Absolutely remarkable. 

No space for freedom in Syria.

By Hani Hazaimeh and AFP

CAIRO - Arab foreign ministers (click title to entry - thank you) and Turkey agreed to a list of sweeping sanctions Sunday designed to cripple the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad who has defied pressure to halt a bloody crackdown on protests, Agence France-Presse reported.

As another 23 civilians were reported dead in Syria, the 22-member Arab League announced an immediate ban on transactions with the Syrian government and central bank and a freeze on Syrian government assets in Arab countries. Further measures, including a ban on Syrian officials visiting any Arab country and the suspension of flights, are to be implemented at a date fixed at a meeting next week.

Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh explained at a press conference following a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo that a technical committee had been formed to look into the impact the sanctions may have on Syria’s neighbours in order to ensure that they do not cause harm to these countries’ economies....

Across the board, the Arab nations are struggling with leadership and their new founded governments.  Egypt is in disarray over its elections.  There are many, many parties in Egypt with no clear direction for the country. 

It is not accurate to believe there are extremists intended to take over each Arab nation and will turn their weapons on Israel or otherwise.  I sincerely do not believe that capacity exists.  There is too much uncertainty to believe there is any form of actual goals of war at the end of the victory through peaceful protests. 

...British Foreign Secretary William Hague’s (click here) warning to Syria’s disparate opposition groups to “put aside their differences” was the diplomatic equivalent of a clip around the ear to squabbling children. Hague’s meeting this week with opposition representatives may have, in the words of the government, “intensified the U.K.’s engagement with the opposition.” In reality, it has given London a rude awakening about the caliber of Assad’s opponents.

In contrast to its approach to opponents of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime in Libya, Hague insisted the U.K. would not recognize the Syrian opposition while it remains so fractured and poorly coordinated. When you consider that the Libyan opposition was no paragon of unity, you get a good idea of how highly the British government rates the Syrian opposition....

There needs to be a dispatch of some kind to Jordan as its border with Syria is becoming porous. 

Gunfire erupts on border with Syria’ (click here)

By Taylor Luck

AMMAN - Shots rang out at the Jordanian-Syrian border late Sunday as Syrian forces attempted to prevent civilians from entering the Kingdom, hours after an Arab League decision to impose sanctions on Damascus.

Syrian soldiers opened fire on a married couple and their young child as they attempted to enter the Kingdom late yesterday near the Jaber border crossing, some 90 kilometres north of the capital, according to Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications and Government Spokesperson Rakan Majali.

Initial reports from civilians living near the border region identified the gunfire as clashes between Syrian and Jordanian forces, a claim the spokesperson denied.

The Syrian family arrived in the Kingdom and received emergency medical attention, Majali indicated....

Perhaps the Russians need to ride with the USA to Mars. (click title for video - thank you)

This is a dune on Mars.  It shifts over time.  The dunes of Earth do as well.  The Sahara is an example.  The waves in the dune show a constant pattern of air movement.  The dynamic screams of atmosphere.

...If the new sky crane system does succeed in lowering Curiosity into Gale crater, the rover will begin its mission: to seek clues for habitability in the ancient, watery environments of Mars. Mike Malin, the planet's favourite camerama, or at least its most dedicated, will be watching it all unfold....

Odd looking rocket, but, better than the Shuttle.  It is similar to the Apollo program rockets.  Morally, there are always many questions surrounding all this.  But, one thing is sure, the rest of the world stood in silence the day Neil Armstrong took his first step on the moon.  If there is to be a manned space program to Mars it needs to be an international effort and not just the USA.  These massive accomplishments do not belong to one peoples, they belong to all.  There is a question about the state of humanity to leave Earth.  It should be a dynamic all countries have an interest in for its success.  We do not discuss the morality of space travel nearly enough and we should.  Somehow this is all viewed as a dream come true, Buck Rogers and all that imagineering.  It is more than that.