The Eurasian Plate is moving. It is translating into movement along the Arabian Plate, Australlian Plate and nudged the Pacific plate north against the North American plate.

Wrong the pivot point is Dushanzi, China. The Eurasian Plate is rotating clockwise. The North American Plate is being squeezed against the Pacific Plate. That is why the Alaskan islands are receiving seismic activity. The pressure is coming from the north.

There was a 4.5 in that Chinese province today, but, there was also a 4.7 on June 24, 2013. There are two geological faults that effect the stability of the region. (click here)

The faults are in the Paleozoic (Palaeozic in Chinese). The province is primarily in the Quaternary. The Paleozoic is the primary 'base' of the country. There are some outcrops of older rock, Precambrian.

It makes sense that Dushanzi is a region that would rotate. It has consistent aged rock that would provide a strong adherence to movement of the plate. In other words, the base rock is throughout without reason to distribute the stress into other younger formations.The outcrops of the oldest rock on Earth only provides a deeper view of the Eurasian Plate's stability and moving as one 'piece' of land.

The Chinese have a lot of dangerous earthquakes. There may be a sincere reason beyond simply mountain formation.

The Chinese love their long lived heritage from the beginning of time. It would be an interesting investment into understanding Chinese earthquakes to also find some fascinating prehistoric artifacts.

I did a study of the coastal region and found a very small and distant culture known as Qingliangang. It was a very unappreciated culture. It failed because of sea level rise and the loss of their rice capacity. The flooding fragmented the culture too much to sustain it's longevity.  

A really interesting fact came out about the relationship between China and Japan while I was researching the Qingliangang culture. The same species of rice was found in Japan that this culture existed on. It raised the question that when ice ages occurred was there enough land mass between China and Japan to allow migration. That question is still open.

The rice was found in Neolithic pottery. Really cool stuff. They were a great culture. They appreciated beauty and used artistic technique in their pottery. They were sophisticated. A very brief culture in the history of China. I liked them a great deal. 

But, any investment to understand Chinese earthquakes could also unearth some interesting return on the investment.

I have no interest in the funding or the research. There are very talented Chinese archeologists and anthropologists. I am sure they would love to chase any and all of that down.

By Maria Korologou on September 16, 2013 in News

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (click here) reported that the earthquake whose epicenter was in Amfiklia, a town in the Phthiotis regional unit, had a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter scale.
According to the same source, the focal depth of the quake was 10 kilometers and took place 116 kilometers away from Athens.
The residents of the region, who in the last months have often been feeling the earth moving under their feet, are quite alarmed. Fire Brigade men are already out in the streets in case anyone needs help.
A little earlier, at 17:49 in the afternoon, a 4.6 magnitude tremor jolted the region, too, according to the Athens Institute of Geodynamics. Again the epicenter of the quake was in Amfiklia, 23 kilometers southwest of Atalanti, a town in southeastern Phthiotis, Greece. 

Minor earthquake – Western Turkey on September 17, 2013  
Most important Earthquake Data: (click here)  
Magnitude : 3
Local Time (conversion only below land) : 2013-09-18 02:33:40
GMT/UTC Time : 2013-09-17 23:33:40
Depth (Hypocenter)  : 91 km

Earthquake in Georgia felt in Armenia's Tavush Province (click here)

Georgia, Tbilisi, Sept. 17 / Trend N. Kirtzkhalia /
A strong earthquake occurred in Georgia on Tuesday morning. According to the Seismological Monitoring Centre at the University of Elijah, it was a 5.3 magnitude quake in Kvareli (Kakheti, eastern Georgia).
The epicentre was a few kilometres from Kvareli. The earthquake occurred at 8:08 a.m.
There was no information about any damage or casualties. Tremors were felt in Azerbaijan near the border.

President Obama ordered flags be flown at half-mast following more mass deaths in the USA.

Flags at half-mast honor shooting victims 
Published September 17, 2013 

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (click here) has directed that flags on state government buildings—including those at UB—be flown at half-mast on Sept. 18 in honor of the victims of the Washington Navy Yard. The flags will be flown at half-staff until sunset on Sept. 20.

“I join all Americans in mourning the 12 innocent lives lost during the tragic and senseless attack at the Washington Navy Yard,” Cuomo said. “On behalf of all New Yorkers, I extend my deepest sympathy to the families of the victims."

Homeland Security is going to receive lawsuits and complaints about this measure.

Privacy Impact Assessment Component/ System name
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Abstract Introduction (click here)

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) Resilient Systems Division has funded Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to

perform a face video data collection at the at the Toyota Center in Kennewick, WA. S&T is conducting this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to address privacy concerns raised by the

collection and use of facial recognition data.

There is just something really creepy about collecting face recognition as a permanent record anywhere. It is a privacy issue.

We know that companies (click here) are faced with access management problems. Employees are expected to remember multiple passwords with increasingly stronger password policies. With the new ESPRIMO X Line, Fujitsu is able to offer integrated face and voice technology that provides convenient security utilizing the camera module – all you need is a standard webcam and microphone.

The suspects were caught WITHOUT face recognition.

The images were poor and the databases were limited, explains an expert. But all that's going to change, soon (click here)

By Andrew Leonard
Monday, Apr 22, 2013 04:36 PM EST

...What happened? I called up Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Alessandro Acquisti, an expert in online privacy who has conducted some provocative research involving facial recognition. In a series of experiments, Acqusti and his fellow researchers were able to use “off-the-shelf” facial recognition software to identify individuals by comparing photos from a dating site, or taken offline with camera phones, with photos uploaded to Facebook. The researchers were also able to figure out a startlingly large amount of personal information about the people they managed to identify. But if Acquisti could do it, why couldn’t the FBI?...

This is part of what is going on in the Executive Branch to address conditions in the world.

Privacy Impact Assessent USCIS, Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate

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APPENDIX B

 

Security Checks for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Applicants (click here)

 

Background:

Pursuant to 8 U.S.C.§1254a, the Secretary of Homeland Security may designate a foreign country for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country’s nationals from returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the country is unable to

handle the return of its nationals adequately. USCIS may grant TPS to eligible nationals of certain countries (or parts of countries), who are already in the United States. Eligible individuals without nationality who last resided in the designated country may also be granted TPS.

See DHS/USCIS/PIA - 016 - Benefits Processing of Applicants other than Petitions for Naturalization, Refugee Status, and Asylum (CLAIMS 3) for more information on the processing of benefits at USCIS.

 

The Secretary may designate a country for TPS due to the following temporary conditions in the country:

 

- Ongoing armed conflict (such as civil war);

 

- An environmental disaster (such as earthquake or hurricane) or an epidemic; or

 

- Other extraordinary and temporary conditions...

Obamacare is a great law. It sincerely is.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 17, 2013

Contact: HHS Press Office 202-690-6343

Nearly 6 in 10 uninsured Americans can pay less than $100 per month for coverage in the Health Insurance Marketplace (click here)

A new report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shows that 56 percent, or nearly six in ten of the people who don’t have health insurance today may be able to get coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace for less than $100 per month.
Beginning on October 1, individuals and families will have a new way to shop for coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace.  They’ll be able to compare their options using side-by-side information about price, quality and benefits.  With one application they’ll be able to see if they qualify for premium tax credits or Medicaid that lower the costs of coverage right away.  Coverage through the Marketplace starts as early as January 1, 2014....

Some of the issues surrounding the Affordable Care Act is about specialized options through employers and unions.

This is what is transpiring in the federal government. It is called accommodation while compliance with the law is met. There are three departments working together to make this an easy transition into the Affordable Care Act. 

Application of Market Reform and other Provisions of the Affordable Care Act to HRAs, Health FSAs, and Certain other Employer Healthcare Arrangements (click here)

The Departments of the Treasury (Treasury Department), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Labor (DOL) (collectively, the Departments) are continuing to work together to develop coordinated regulations and other administrative guidance to assist stakeholders with implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The guidance in this Technical Release is being issued in substantially identical form by the Treasury Department, and guidance is being issued by HHS to reflect that HHS concurs in the application of the laws under its jurisdiction as set forth in this Technical Release. 

The role of the Treasury is to right regulations that will apply to tax penalties to the tax code. The HHS department is obvious. HHS rights the majority of the regulations. The Labor Department consults on the issues facing Labor Unions and Employers as related to Affordable Care Act. That is what this is all about and if IRS has to sit in House Meetings to debate what a 401(c)3, 4 and 6 are and how they are granted, then they won't be available to do the work they have to do to carry out the law. 

A lot of this stuff is political mischief.

This is a no brainer. The FEHB is already an exchange. So, the idea that staffers have to be removed from a federal health exchange is mute.

The Office of Personnel Management made a ruling the staffers don't have to be removed form the FEHB because they would only have to seek to apply again. I am sure there would be a lawsuit that would require staffers to be put back on the federal exchange. There are no State Exchanges needed here. The Federal Government is their employer. The Federal Government can have it's own health care exchange and in fact it meets all requirements thereof. This amendment is politics and has no basis in anything legal.

It is ridiculous to think the Federal Government can't supply a health care exchange to it's own employees based in it's own law.

The Federal Government does NOT have to have every private insurance company as an option. The Federal Government, no different than any other government authority can be self insured as long as it meets regulations. What does Vitter think he is doing? 

This entire objection is crazy. Any entity can self insure. If a company wants to self-insure it's employees it can do that so long as it meets regulations. The Exchanges are there for folks without insurance and to assist folks in choosing the best policies available. Self-insured employers simply become exchanges for their employees to sign on to.

How is this being so misinterpreted? Are private insurance companies supplying the advise to everyone else? Well, hello? 

If I were Bain Capital and decided out of the clear blue the best investment was to enter the frey as a health care exchange I could that. Anyone that can QUALIFY can do that. There is NOTHING that outlaws any local, county, state or federal government from being a health care exchange.

There is nothing that states ONLY PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANIES are the options available. Everyone is fine where they are so long as the companies or government agencies are in compliance of the law. There is no issue here and I can now understand how Vitter didn't submit the text to the public because there is nothing here that matters.

The Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program (click here)

The FEHB Program can help you and your family meet your health care needs. Federal employees, retirees and their survivors enjoy the widest selection of health plans in the country. You can choose from among Consumer-Driven and High Deductible plans that offer catastrophic risk protection with higher deductibles, health savings/reimbursable accounts and lower premiums, or Fee-for-Service (FFS) plans, and their Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO), or Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) if you live (or sometimes if you work) within the area serviced by the plan.

Basic FEHB Eligibility (click here)

As a Federal employee, you are eligible to elect FEHB coverage, unless your position is excluded by law or regulation. Your agency applies these rules and determines your eligibility. However, there are numerous special provisions for people in part-time or intermittent employment, temporary appointments, and specifically named positions. This chapter in the FEHB Handbook explains these provisions.

Ever wonder why House Republicans vote on the Affordable Care Act so often?

According to Representative Tim Huelskamp (Republican-Kansis) this is the reason.

..."None of the other votes (click here) were on must-pass bills. They were on individual bills," he told The Huffington Post, comparing the House's past attempts to sink Obamacare to baseball. "We've had 42 different swings at the bat. Forty-two different exhibition games. But we've never actually had a regular season."...

Not.

Right now on the Senate floor is an energy bill. Vitter submitted an amendment regarding the Affordable Care Act. The amendment was entered to defeat the energy bill. It has nothing to do with THE TRUTH. 

The Republicans are playing drama with the nation and they do it by building a faux dialogue for their repeated votes in the House to benefit the introduction of Senate obstruction of everything.

The amendment takes away THE EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION to the health care insurance premiums by Congressional staff.

Senate Bill S.1392 is the Energy Bill (click here). There are 86 amendments to this bill. 





The reason amendments are suppose to be allowed to any bill by the Senate and House is to bring 'special circumstances' of the states these Senators represent. It is NOT to rewrite the bill after it has left committee, otherwise why have a committee, OR to attach superfluous 'riders' to what otherwise the committee has decided is good law. Vitter is acting unethically. That is only to begin with.

Evidently the Amendment was a Bill and this is the current text. Evidently, Vitter hasn't bothered to carry out the submission of text to the public. He has 48 hours to submit THE BILL as an AMENDMENT for the public to consider. I have no way of reading this amendment now. The current Senators probably have the text, but, the public doesn't.

S.1497 - A bill to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to apply the provisions of the Act to certain Congressional staff and members of the executive branch.113th Congress (2013-2014)

Text: S.1497 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) (click here)

As of 09/17/2013 text has not been received for S.1497 - A bill to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to apply the provisions of the Act to certain Congressional staff and members of the executive branch.

Bills are generally sent to the Library of Congress from GPO, the Government Printing Office, a day or two after they are introduced on the floor of the House or Senate. Delays can occur when there are a large number of bills to prepare or when a very large bill has to be printed.

This tardiness by Vitter regarding the submission of this amendment is exactly my point. The House vote on the Affordable Care Act was immediately before Vitter pulled this rabbit trick out of his hat.

The Vitter Amendment is more of the political propaganda of The Right Wing. See, they want to convince Americans that Congressional staff have special privileges and status in the country. It is a lie

The Vitter bill is to remove the employee contribution to the staffers supplied by the federal government.  If the Vitter amendment goes forward it may become an opportunity to erase employee contributions across the country. It might become precedent.

The amendment needs to be defeated, the grandstanding ended by Orin Hatch and the rest and the Energy Bill needs to go forward.

Are you ready for the new mint set? Have you got one for the grandkids?

Sales Open September 24 for United States Mint Annual Uncirculated Dollar Coin Set

Register today (click here) for this subscription program and you will receive the 2013 United States Mint Annual Uncirculated Dollar Coin Set and all future sets.

The 2013 Annual Uncirculated Dollar Coin Set contains four (4) uncirculated Presidential $1 Coins – William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson - from the United States Mint at Philadelphia, one (1) uncirculated Native American $1 Coin from the United States Mint at Denver and one (1) uncirculated American Eagle Silver Coin from the United States Mint at West Point.

This week is National Health IT Week. It celebrates the technology saving lives in the USA.

2013 National Health IT (NHIT) Week: (click here) 10 Ways to Celebrate NHIT Week in Your Hometown

With partners across the U.S., National Health Information Technology Week is a virtual event with various activities in communities from Maine to California. As a partner-driven event, we encourage participants to leverage the opportunity to raise awareness and help the collective cause by recognizing the Week in local communities. To this end, we’ve put together 10 ways you can celebrate NHIT Week in your hometown. Feel free to use one or more of our ideas, or come up with ideas your own!...

Ask local hospitals and health care facilities where and when they are celebrating National Health IT Week. If they are not, then ask why not. If the state doesn't have manufacturing to support this industry, why not? It is all about the local economies we seek to nurture. Health care is part of that along with the education of those that work in the industry, the inventions that serve us and the places the technology manufacturers the products we need.

It is all about localizing manufacturing, transportation and production. Where is best, how do we generate jobs and how do we reduce the transportation footprint?

Hospitals are systems these days. They already have their own client demand and known markets. It is a matter of where best to manufacture the products our local economies use and how best to transport them for timely and efficient use.

USDA is partnering with HHS and the Department of Veterans Affairs to leverage funds to support advanced health care technology in rural hospitals. This partnership is an extension of a successful pilot launched in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi and Texas to identify rural critical access hospitals in persistent poverty areas in need of advanced health care technology.

...USDA Rural Development Iowa State Office, (click here) the Iowa Regional Health IT Extension Center (REC) and the Iowa State Office of Rural Health convened the first Iowa Rural Health IT Forum to launch a pilot project designed to expand funding for rural health IT infrastructure to support Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) and rural hospitals in Iowa... 

An energy cooperative is helping to build American infrastructure. Local communities are solving their own problems. Seek the solutions everyone needs.

Access Energy Cooperative – $300,000 Rural Economic Development grant and $495,000 Rural Economic Development loan. Funds will be used to create a revolving loan fund that will provide a pass-through loan for the Henry County Health Center to purchase equipment for the surgical and outpatient departments. The project will create three jobs and help retain 300 existing jobs. 

What is Access Energy Cooperative doing to meet it's obligations to the local economy? 

“Iowa Renewable Energy Jobs 2020” (click here) will create jobs, save consumers money, grow Iowa businesses, and meet our obligations to future generations.

Iowa has been a leader in renewable energy and energy efficiency. We need to do much more to achieve the full benefits of renewable energy and energy efficiency for our state. This is important for our economy, energy security, public health, the environment, and long-term prosperity.

Where are the wind turbines produced? In Michigan? Why isn't Michigan using their turbines to promote more use of them all over the USA?

Keep it local.

Keep it real. 

Keep it growing. 

I think the guy is special even if the USA miltiary industrial complex leans on him.

The Global Connections for Women Foundation (click here) will create a path to success for women in under served communities around the world, who seeks it regardless of their background, nationality or societal status.

He has the right idea, the wrong media though. If "Democracy Now" had the media penetration of the corporate networks, the USA would be engaged in effective dialogue, not one of surrender to Wall Street.

The D.C. Navy Yard (click here) shooting comes just after a major report on gun ownership in the United States confirmed the link between firearm homicide rates and the number of people who own guns. According to the study in the American Journal of Public Health, for each 1 percent increase in gun ownership, the rate of people murdered by firearms increased by point 9 percent. The researchers found "states with higher rates of gun ownership had disproportionately large numbers of deaths from firearm-related homicides." 

Yes, guns are a public health issue, not a Wall Street profit issue. 

This is a near shore storm no one is likely to forget soon.

Published: August 30, 2013
 
ST. PETERSBURG — Winds from a waterspout (click here) caused damage to boats and docks at South St. Petersburg’s Maximo Marina this afternoon.

The waterspout was spotted at 12:04 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.
As the storm moved through, winds picked up speed and hit 80 or 90 mph, said Joe Burgess, the dock master at the marina, located at 4801 37th St. S. — a little north of the Sunshine Skyway

Winds toppled several metal shelters, which collapsed on top of at least four boats and docks were also damaged.

The damage was limited to one section of the marina, but extensive at the five or six slips affected, Burgess said. A few boats have 1,000 pounds of steel sheets and beams on them, he said.

“It’s pretty bad on one end of the dock,” Burgess said.

“Everything collapsed on top of the other boats.”

No injuries were reported.

"...two years on: we're still the 99%." EXACTLY.

If all a nation does is focus on death and destruction why would anyone annoyed with the lack of progress to return function to our society be a priority? At least yesterday, President Obama tried and now the media wants to demonize him for it.

And why do they want to demonize him?

To return to politics that sells Wall Street guns. Hello? 

Where exactly did we lose this thing? I think we lost it with the name of the movement.

Occupy Wall Street, two years on: we're still the 99% (click here)

The wave of Occupy protests in 2011 was forcibly suppressed. But it changed public debate, inspiring a generation of activists 

Justin Wedes 
theguardian.com, Tuesday 17 September 2013 07.00 EDT 

This week marks two years since I joined a ragtag crew of outraged young Americans in the streets of lower Manhattan.

We had exhausted the list of available political remedies as we watched our stalemated Congress spiral into deeper indecision. We refused to be silent in the face of a teetering economy and captured political system. We occupied Wall Street, and were soon joined in solidarity by thousands across the country and around the world...  

I can't stress enough the need to put LABOR FIRST. We need a society full of diversity and opportunity and that will only happen when we are all valued for our talents and finally find economy in that.

LABOR FIRST!

As a populous dialogue LABOR FIRST. The first thing off anyone's lips is better pay and better quality of life. Wall Street can easily afford it. Ask Larry Summers. He knows these things. Doesn't he? I mean he is a guy after all. Testosterone rules!

    

Colorado is not alone.

View (click here) of the flooded area in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico, after heavy rains hit the area on September 16, 2013. (AFP Photo/Pedro Pardo)

Two devastating storms converged over the Pacific Ccean to ravage Mexico, killing at least 42 people and stranding approximately 40,000 tourists in resorts in Acapulco in some of the worst flooding in decades.

What is left of Tropical Storm Manuel battered the Pacific coast as Tropical Depression Ingrid forced the closure of Mexican oil operations. Both storms weakened but not before at least 42 died in the states of Veracruz, Guerrero, Puebla, Hidalgo, Michoachan, and Oaxaca, according to the US National Hurricane Center....

This area of Mexico has been hit repeatedly by strong storms all season. Here again they are mostly near shore storms because of the lack of tropospheric water vapor.

It started out with Tropical Storm Barry and Frenand, Tropical Depression Eight and Tropical Storm Ingrid on the Atlantic side of the nation.

On the Pacific side there has been Hurricane Barbara and Erick, which hit Cat 1 status; followed by Tropical Storms Ivo, Juliette, Kiko, Lorena and currently Manuel. 

All this water and wind have created a battered and saturated Mexican infrastructure that is leading to more danger and deaths, injury and displacement to it's citizens. 

The difference between Colorado and Mexico are the fires. Colorado's land was first decimated by fire before the rains which caused the rock and land slides and enormous flooding. But, they are all Climate Change events. Drought and flooding of monumental proportions are out of the norm and definitely related to the Climate Crisis. The Climate Crisis is complex and not simply a linear problem with a linear solution. The troposphere of Earth is very dangerous due to Greenhouse Gases. These are the results.

Guns ain't lipstick.

Given the level of gun violence in the USA, the most controversial issue in the media should be the most popular lipstick color. Instead they talk about pink guns and those available to children.

It is a slippery slope of disaster. See, lipstick doesn't kill, but, guns do and the more guns where people are, the more people die. It is consumerism and populous politics gone bad.

Politics is suppose to drive voters to the polls, but, not to their deaths. In the case of the Republicans, the politics is based in populous voter opinion. Populous anything is marketable. The more popular the product the higher the numbers purchased. The Republicans pride themselves on 'common sense' solutions, hence, consumerism is the basis of Republican politics. "The decision" is something American consumers are hooked on. "The Decision" is a democratic process. If there was only one choice to make when purchasing products, the question would be "What happened to our democracy?"

Policy is not populous. Policy is a STANDARD. Standards do not breed populism. Therefore, Republicans are not interested in policy, they are interested in controversy because it provides a place for "The Decision."

As long as this hideous paradigm takes place in the USA, the gun violence and gun deaths will be realized in higher frequency and numbers. 

The politics, policy and consumerism of DANGER is out of control. Danger is a fact and not a choice. Government is suppose to mitigate danger and eliminate it from citizen lives as a matter of good governance. To accept danger as a COMMODITY in the nation's politics is to provide venues for it to happen.

Those that seek gun control as a matter of policy are correct. It is just that simple. But, now because 'talking about gun control' is creating the danger government wants to avoid, they can't even talk about it. I ask, what has happened to our democracy when we have lost the right to talk about danger and eliminating it while Wall Street profits as citizens die if we do?

There is more than one way to kill a constitution.

Why is the American media talking about all the possibilities for the gun deaths in DC?

Because it drives gun sales. If the shooter is made to be a monster in the eyes of the public and the public sees only a gun between them and death the American consumer will purchase more Wall Street guns.

Just that simple. 

9/16/13
...But with calls for increased gun control on the decline, (click here) is the demand for guns receding as well? That is the conclusion many are jumping to as gun sales plateau and gun stocks level off....

The American media has to create the 'drive to purchase.' When they do that the advertising monies will increase. IF THERE IS A FALL IN THE CALL FOR GUN REGULATION and there will be no fight to control guns, then they have to create the monster in a different way.

...Even as many market watchdogs are saying that the gun bubble is about to burst, Smith & Wesson is still going strong.

“Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation delivered a profit and beat Wall Street’s expectations, and beat the revenue expectation,” reads the Wall Street Cheat Sheet. “The revenue beat is a positive sign to shareholders seeking high growth out of the company. Shares are down 4.27%.”

Gun shares have been taking some hits as investors pull out expecting a drop in the market.

Manufacturers like Smith & Wesson and Ruger have other logistical limitations that companies in other industries simply don’t have. All gun companies are facing limited supply of everything from common components to base materials. Many gun companies are working around the clock, literally, and seven days a week to manufacture product....

So, if the controversy surrounding the deaths of Americans can be put in a can to sell product, the American media will do it and profit themselves along the way.

Their favorite propaganda line today: "President Obama was inappropriate in his news conference and completely insensitive." Why? Because they want the President to come to the microphone again and again to drive gun sales. That's why.

Thirteen dead in Washington, DC. A victory for Wayne LePierre.

Rampage at Navy Yard: A gunman killed at least a dozen people and wounded others after opening fire at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, police said. He died in a gunfight with police.

Nearly 9000 dead at the hand of guns since Sandy Hook. A victory for Wayne LePierre.

One of the biggest complaints by gun owners is there should be no restriction on guns passed on between family members. Well, guess where most of those incarcerated for gun violence get the weapons they killed with? 

National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund (click here)

 
There has been a decrease in police deaths over the past few years.

2007 - 191
2008 - 142
2009 - 124
2010 - 161
2011 - 169
2012 - 120

But, basically, there is very little statistical improvement that remains significant. To say there is a sustained decrease is an error. The decreases don't maintain their status over a prolonged period of time. The fluctuations are too different to find a trend line. A simple trend line. It relates to numbers of officers in service, their conditions of employment and the conditions on the street they face.

Guns are a consistent condition for the death of police officers. It dispels the idea that if a person is well armed they can defeat anyone attempting to cause their death. It is a ridiculous idea attached to the gun industry profits. 

Those killed in domestic violence are the better proof of the lethality of gun ownership. There was the Facebook episode to prove the point. Guns are objects of personal power. It depends on the person to the degree of criminality attached to that personal power. 

Sure, guns are for sport and for self-defense, but, they are strongly attached to wrongful deaths and suicide. It cannot be ignored as an 'outlier' of a society because of the finality of it's outcome. 

Military style weapons have absolutely no place in the American society. They are an expression of personal power that is a hideous identity that escalates the image of killing as a soldier in a peaceful and orderly society.

The more people, the more guns equates to more deaths. The only way to eliminate these statistics is control the guns. In a democracy people are uncontrollable in a way that would mitigate this reality.
The availability of guns in high population areas has to be taken seriously. These incidence are ridiculous.

Just as a point of order. Republicans relate well to those things.

The Pacific Theater 'thing' of the USA military was initiated in 2007 as one of the last actions of "W" before he left office. It is about oil and methane and border disputes and strong arming the regions for the best outcomes of the American petroleum industry. You never know if a strong arming and muscle flexing might actually spark a war or any multiple of them. Of course, Bush would say there are real threats from Russia and China that needs to be addressed. Not.

China owns the USA economy. They already won their fight. Russia has a lot of oil. There is no reason they want war. Russia currently is at peace talks.

Let's take a vote. I hope you have your ID.

According to the American Media it is one or any combination of the following:

l.  The Thai Culture

2. PTSD

3. Mental health other than PTSD

4. Anger Management

6. The US Navy

7. Independent Contractors

8. The lack of megaphones so the most astute can be heard over the gun violence

9. The lack of more Good Guy Guns

10. Violent Video Games

11. None of the above is not an option.

And remember, ONLY YOU CAN DECIDE. This is important, probably the most important issue of the day, because your life depends on it.

The best part of the American media is it's ability to create scapegoats and justify flaws in society.

It is such a perfect direction for the New York Times to direct their emphasis because the USA military is adding the focus of The Pacific to it's focus in the Middle East. Absolutely, perfect. The USA never really cleared up southeast Asia after all, right?

Suspect in Shooting Had Interest in Thai Culture, and Problems With the Law (click here)
By MANNY FERNANDEZ 
Published: September 16, 2013
HOUSTON — Aaron Alexis, 34, the man killed by police officers and identified as the gunman in the deadly rampage at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, served his country as a Navy reservist, had an abiding interest in Buddhism and Thai culture, and had problems with the law, records and interviews show... 

The best part of the DC evening news conference was to know everything is back to normal. The traffic pattern is back to normal and it will be about only 48 hours before the building will reopen. 

So, let's pick on President Obama for picking up the tatters of a day and focus on American labor and the need for jobs and economic growth. That sounds like a plan. Somehow, President Obama failed in his 'stage presence' in the news conference. 

I mean you have got to be joking. The NORMAL nation that wants these guns to actually end their presence among the populous have business to do and if the President of the United States of America were to stop his agenda for every 'drama' the American media decides is important enough to cover and create defense for the indefensible gun lobby, he would never get anything done.

There are over 30,000 deaths by gun violence in the USA every year. Do I have to refer to Slate and their gun death count page? Do I? 

There ya go, and the most recent slaughter in the USA is in yellow.


Matched Deaths: 8,238 or more since Newtown (click here)

Besides those in Washington, DC now dead in the USA because of gun violence were deaths in Detroit and Austrell, Georgia and I betcha they were conducted by other than the rash of "Thai Culture" assassinations in the USA.

The American Media IS A JOKE. A complete and utter joke. Somehow Thai people are the problem and there culture. I am sure Wayne LaPierre is grateful for the SCAPEGOATING.

There is only ONE REASON, ONLY ONE why these deaths happen in this country and that is because THERE ARE TOO MANY GUNS ON THE STREET! And do tell, the American media is suppose to distract from that fact. The Great New York Times doesn't know there are too many guns on the street. Right? The Great New York Times, "The Assholes of Wall Street."

Oh, there ya go, Anger Management is the problem and PTSD. 

Do you know how many people in the USA practice the Thai Culture, attend Anger Management classes and have PTSD that don't own a gun, won't own a gun and don't kill. How many, but, yet it is the Thai Culture, PTSD and Anger Management problems that ARE THE PROBLEM.

NOT!

The problem is there are too many guns on the street. 

How did he get the security clearance? I'm tellin' ya the American news media has more EXCUSES for the deaths across this nation. Let's all just break it down to the IMPERFECTIONS of the system and the IMPERFECTIONS of the personality and the IMPERFECTIONS of the US Navy to assign responsibility for deaths yesterday. Let's do that. Let's not deal with the real reason and simply assign UNIQUE characteristics to THIS killing to make it go away while the killing across the USA continues and continues and continues. 

And, of course, the violent video games. The violent video games pulled the trigger yesterday. Right. So, the violent video games are the problem, but, the USA still has violent video games. And let's look to the actions nine years ago when he shoot out tires on a car as THE SIGN why he should not be at work in Washington, DC. 

This is complete moronity and this is the American media and their EXPERTISE.

And there goes Independent Contractors. If there were no independent contractors there will be no problems anymore. Has to be the answer. Waiting to hear from Wayne LaPierre. I am sure he has the best tilt on all this. 

Now, we are back to mental health. Talk to Sebelius, she is among the most mentally challenged in the country. 

There is the problem, the Good Guy with the Gun should have talked the GUNMEN with the semi-automatic weapons down from their rampage. Has to be the problem. Now, police and guards simply need a megaphone. 

Now we have patterns, anger, being alone and there it is, it is mental health as it relates to gun violence in the country, but, yet WE KNOW there are going to be more conversations 'to get this right.' Sure, let's just let the killing continue and have conversations.