This is not the same image. They were both from April 30, 2014.

Image to left is at 2300z this evening.










Image to the right is at  0100z this morning.

The image below probably looks confusing. The vortex in the Atlantic east of USA shoreline is moving primarily north northeast.

The vortex over the USA has a circulation center over northeast Iowa. It appears to be over the New Albin Big Lake Wildlife Area. The water vapor fueling this vortex is directly off South America.

U.S. Severe Weather Map (click here)
Updated: 12:41 AM GMT on May 01, 2014

Gratefully there are no tornadoes watch currently. There is flooding in the Mid-Atlantic states, Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle. High wind warnings for southern coastal California. There are also special warning in the northwest which bears notice.

Special Statement (click here)

Statement as of 2:53 PM PDT on April 30, 2014

...Use caution along area rivers as they are deceptively cold and fast moving this time of year... The near record to record warmth through Thursday may cause some individuals to seek relief around area rivers. Every year people are killed in rivers around the Pacific northwest...overestimating their ability to handle the higher river flows and the cold water temperatures. Please exercise caution if recreating along or in any area rivers Thursday.
Neuman

There is a vortex in the Pacific with a circulation center offshore northern California. That primarily took shape in the past 12 hours.

I know this is going to be hard to believe, but, sleep hasn't come easy the past few days. I'm tired. Until tomorrow.

UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of North and West Hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop)
April 30, 2014
2330.19z

WASHINGTON 

May 1, 2014 (AP)

By DEB RIECHMANN 

Associated Press

The International Monetary Fund (click here) board on Wednesday approved a two-year, $17 billion loan package for cash-strapped Ukraine as it seeks to regain stability following Russia's annexation of Crimea.

The IMF assistance pledged in March was hinged on economic reforms in Ukraine, including raising taxes, freezing the minimum wage and raising energy prices — all steps that could hit households hard and strain the interim government's tenuous hold on power.

"Urgent actions were necessary. Urgent decisions were taken by Ukraine and decisions now have just been taken by the IMF," IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told reporters at the monetary fund's headquarters.

Ukraine's interim government finds itself caught between the demands of international creditors and a restive population that has endured decades of economic stagnation, corruption and mismanagement....

There's asylum seekers? Really? I didn't think anyone was clambering to get out of Russia.

Efrem Lukatsky and Nataliya Vasilyeva 
Associated Press
04/30/2014 02:34:41 PM PDT

ZHDANIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow (click here) calls the detention center under construction near the Russian border a "fascist concentration camp." Inside the barbed-wire fences, the reality is less ominous: It's an EU-funded project to hold asylum seekers and illegal immigrants, similar to other such detention centers across Europe. 

The accusation is part of a relentless Kremlin-driven propaganda offensive that uses World War II-era terms and imagery to rail against Ukraine's fledging government. "Nazis," ''fascists" and "Fritzes" are some of the terms that Russia is hurling at Ukrainian authorities who took power after the ouster of the last elected president, a reversal in political fortunes that has led to a pro-Western Ukrainian government in Kiev and a pro-Russian insurgency in the country's east....

Russia is afraid of emigration out of the country. Holy smokes. Who knew?

2014 UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) regional operations profile - Northern, Western, Central and Southern Europe (click here)

The 36 countries in this subregion have long traditions of refugee protection, strong legal frameworks and, for the majority of them, functioning national asylum systems. Nevertheless, different legal traditions and asylum and migration experiences shape the protection landscape of each country. Croatia, which became the 28th member-State of the European Union in July 2013, is the newest participant in the Common European Asylum System (CEAS).

The most significant development in 2013 was the adoption of amended European Union legislation on asylum and the reception of asylum-seekers. The recast statutes, which will require extensive transposition at the national level in 2014, strengthen protection standards in the region. However, discrepancies in implementation persist, leading to protection gaps in some countries and posing challenges to the functioning of the CEAS. These include challenges in the application of the Dublin III Regulation, which determines which Member State is responsible for examining an asylum application....

I want to know the serum level of potassium chlorida in Clayton Lockett when he had a heart attack! There is also the chance a substance was injected directly into his heart.

Corrections Director Robert Patton addresses reporters Tuesday after a failed attempt to execute convicted murderer Clayton Lockett.

Matt Trotter Public Radio Tulsa

For the average sized person it takes about 8 grams of serum potassium chloride to stop the heart from beating. I want to know if Mr. Lockett was murdered when his execution failed.


OKLAHOMA CITY 
April 30, 2014
By BAILEY ELISE McBRIDE and SEAN MURPHY 
Associated Press

Clayton Lockett, (click here) who had an apparent heart attack 43 minutes after the start of an execution in which the state was using a new drug combination for the first time, had his day in court....

The FBI needs to get on it. None of the medications administered to Mr. Lockett during his FAILED execution would have caused a heart attack. There is a lot wrong here. It starts with the intimidation of a State Supreme Court and ends with a lot of questions to the cause of death of Mr. Lockett.

Discrimination based on economic status.

It is a foregone conclusion raising the minimum wage would alleviate the strain on the government to INSURE the well being of Americans. Had the Minimum Wage Bill passed the Senate it would have been the beginning of reducing the federal deficit and national debt. 

The ideology the Republicans adheres to victimizing the majority of Americans while directly benefiting the wealthy and their campaign donors. It is corruption based in the hopes media corruption will follow carrying false facts and claims to the electorate while instilling fear.

The Republicans ideology invokes fear of an oppressed electorate to maintain their hold on power in the House and Senate. This is a stark example of that. 

Susan Davis
USA TODAY 4:03 p.m. EDT 
April 30, 2014

WASHINGTON — A Democratic bill (click here) to raise the federal minimum wage failed in a key procedural vote in the Senate on Wednesday. The defeat was expected, but that did not deter President Obama and Senate Democrats who have pledged to make it an issue in the 2014 elections.

Hours after the vote, President Obama lashed out against Republican lawmakers for blocking the legislation, citing polling that shows a majority of Americans support a hike in the minimum wage.

In remarks at the White House, he said Americans shouldn't be deterred by the vote, and urged voters to pressure GOP lawmakers to embrace raising the minimum wage, which was increased to $7.25 in 2008."

"If your member of Congress doesn't support raising the minimum wage, you got to let them know they are out of step, and if they keep putting politics ahead of working Americans, you'll put them out of office," Obama said....

Republicans know nothing about economics. They have cast the American people into poverty to attempt to compete with China's wage labor. 

Below is the Australian Debt to GDP ratio. The USA should be so lucky to have a well paid population to facilitate economic growth and a sustainable tax base. Australia has one of the highest minimum wages in the world. It doesn't get more obvious than that. 

China is a communist nation where private property is not within reach of the average citizens. That is exactly where America is heading under decades of Republican ideology.

 

This is coersion.

By SEAN MURPHY

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two death row inmates (click here) who want to know the source of drugs that will be used to execute them have placed Oklahoma’s two highest courts at odds and prompted calls for impeaching justices on the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

The state’s high court delayed the inmates’ execution Monday even though the judges are restricted to ruling on civil matters. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, which handles cases from inmates, said it wasn’t authorized to weigh in on the request for a stay because the inmates challenged the execution procedures in civil court, not criminal....

The decision the Oklahoma Supreme Court judges made to reverse their earlier decision is not valid. In that reality is the fact Fallin has broken the law, both at the state level and federal.

Fallin can't identify coersion? She didn't stop the legislature from imperiling the justice system in Oklahoma? The legislature was carrying out a coup. Where was she when the people of Oklahoma was assaulted by extremism in her state. She is liable in many ways. 

Understand, regardless of what she states the cases were not brought before the Oklahoma Supreme Court for hearing to new facts, it was not appealed, the Oklahoma legislature intimidated the state's highest court. There is no valid legal proceedings that validates the change of decision. 

Fallin signed the death sentences and set the date in the face of a legislative coup. What is there to understand? The people of Oklahoma are compromised by radical governing bodies.

It is human traffiking

Culture and religion doesn't rule the day. In the USA there are limits to the power adverse culture and religion. The most popular example is Jehovah Witness limiting medical treatment of children.

This a traumatic incident to these girls. This is criminal. 

An unidentified mother cries out during a demonstration to raise awareness of kidnapped school girls at a government school on Tuesday April 29, 2014, in Abuja, Nigeria.  (AP Photo/ Gbemiga Olamikan)

Samson Dawah was nervous. (click here) For two weeks, he had waited for any bit of information regarding his niece, who was among the 234 Nigerian school girls likely kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram. This week, he gathered his extended family. He had news but also an unusual request. He asked that the elderly not attend. He wasn’t sure they could bear what he had to say.

“We have heard from members of the forest community where they took the girls,” he told them. ”They said there had been mass marriages and the girls are being shared out as wives among the Boko Haram militants.”

The girl’s father fainted, the Guardian reported, and has since been hospitalized. But the news got worse. Village elder Pogo Bitrus told Agence France Presse locals had consulted with “various sources” in the nation’s forested northeast. “From the information we received yesterday from Cameroonian border towns our abducted girls were taken… into Chad and Cameroon,” he said, adding that each girl was sold as a bride to Islamist militants for 2,000 naira — $12....

In the USA PURCHASING women for sexual purpose is prostitution. Dowry arrangements occur in many cultures and countries. Dowry is a method of improving a husband's grasp of his responsibility. Dowries are when a father provides monies, good and services to the new husband. Purchasing girls for sex while calling them a wife is human trafficking.

Human trafficking is the acquisition of people (click here) by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them.

Smuggling migrants involves the procurement for financial or other material benefit of illegal entry of a person into a State of which that person is not a national or resident.

Virtually every country in the world is affected by these crimes. The challenge for all countries, rich and poor, is to target the criminals who exploit desperate people and to protect and assist victims of trafficking and smuggled migrants, many of whom endure unimaginable hardships in their bid for a better life....

Did anyone hear about this? The man died from a simple fall. He hit his head.

April 24, 2014

NEW YORK (AP) — The Prince of Wales and his wife, Camilla, (click here) are "utterly devastated" by the death of her brother, who fell outside a hotel bar and suffered a head injury, British royal officials said.

Mark Shand, chairman of an elephant conservation charity, was in New York for a charity auction at Sotheby's...

"Bad Words," it's a fun movie. Nothing profound, just fun.

You think English is easy?

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture..

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert..

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear..

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

In the USA "Net Neutrality" is still alive, but, challenged. The fight goes on. Lobbyists.

April 23, 2014

It’s become apparent (click here) this week that the Federal Communications Commission plans on proposing a set of rules which would affect the way we access the internet. While in the past, "Net Neutrality" bills have suggested there be no blocking or preferential treatment of or for companies with webpages and web provider networks. This week the FCC is proposing that these companies can have their cake and eat it too.

Rules proposed this week would do two relatively simple things. The first is along the same lines as previous Net Neutrality bills - preventing internet service providers from blocking or discriminating against specific websites and brands. The second is new, and is essentially against the Net Neutrality cause....


...Groups - or individuals - who wish to host their own content and do so without cost are not said to be getting the boot, in this situation, but they’re certainly not getting the long end of the stick.

Putin is continuing his "War of Control."

By Ilya Khrennikov and Anastasia Ustinova  
Apr 30, 2014 6:42 AM ET

Google Inc. (GOOG) (click here) Chairman Eric Schmidt warned last year that Russia was “on the path” toward China’s model of Internet censorship. Vladimir Putin is proving him right. 

With Russia locked in the worst standoff with the U.S. since the Cold War, the Russian president last week said his government needs to impose greater control over information flows through the World Wide Web, which the former KGB colonel called a creation of U.S. spy agencies....

The Communists need to 'give it up.' They need to stop their "Cold War" strategies. Putin knows this isn't going to work. This is the politics of Russia. Regressive, controlling and expansive. 

MOSCOW April 30, 2014 (AP)

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA 

Associated Press 

The International Monetary Fund (click here) estimates that Russia's economy has already entered recession as fears of broad economic sanctions weigh on the economy.

Russia's economy shrank 0.5 percent in the first quarter of the year compared with the previous three-month period and is expected to continue struggling, said the head of the IMF mission in Russia, Antonio Spilimbergo.

"If you understand by recession two quarters of negative economic growth then Russia is experiencing recession now," Spilimbergo told reporters.

Investors are worried that the U.S. and Europe will step up sanctions against Russia because of its policies in Ukraine. Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula last month and has been blamed for fomenting unrest in the country's Russian-speaking east.

As a result, investors pulled about $60 billion from Russia in the first quarter of the year — more than in all of 2013. The IMF expects the capital outflows at around $100 billion this year, Spilimbergo said....

Putin needs to revisit his history and encourage his communist buddies to do the same. 

Remember the Hungarian Uprising of 1956? It was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. Any resemblance to Eastern Ukraine? Big difference in the year 2014 though, isn't there? There is no Soviet Union and the post soviet states have viable opportunities to grow their economies and be members of NATO.

Putin needs to begin to advise the communists their propaganda isn't working and it's going to work. They need to join the real world and seek to roll back sanctions. 

Nobody wants a war and expansionism is over. Not bragging, just the truth. Putin should have seen this for what it is and moved off aggressions before it completely assaulted the Russian economy. It's still not too late.

The Russian people don't want it anymore Vladimir! 

Putin thought he could bully his way through this. Well, he should have known. Ukraine is not Hungary. 

The world is not turning their backs, Vladimir. The plans for expansionism and oppression isn't going to be tolerated. 

The threat is not leaving. The east coast system is connecting to an equatorial supply of water vapor.

UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click here)
April 30, 2014
13.30.20z

The flooding is enormous under the current southern end of the east coast system. Something like 12 inches in the past 24 hours. Infrastructure doesn't hold up to this. In lower elevations there is going to be isolation of communities and emergency routes will be cut off. It's dangerous.

The departure from low temperatures along this east coast system is higher than yesterday. It's the tropical air from the equator. The majority of the country is experiencing double digit lower than normal temperatures because of the arctic air. The east and west coasts are experiencing higher than normal temperatures. The coastal temperatures reveal what the country would look like once the arctic air mass resolves. 

The offshore vortex is moving easterly, but, the movement is still slow. There is no ocean system taking shape at this point. 

Complete and breaking coverage of the destructive weather hammering states from Iowa to the Carolinas, decimating homes, towns and families. (click here)

This is more than weather. At this point states and emergency services have to anticipate infrastructure failure and consider evacuations. People have to realize they can become isolated in areas flooding with continuing storms.

Tornado alerts were issued for parts of Georgia, Alabama, Florida and North Carolina early Wednesday as the deadly slow-moving storm system brought more extreme weather to the Deep South.

The Weather Channel's Kevin Roth said the risk of tornadoes Wednesday appeared higher than on Tuesday with the threat appearing highest from South Carolina into central Virginia, south of Washington, D.C....

15 inches of water in 12 hours. 
 

There are still threats of tornadoes. This is nothing short of a nightmare. The coastal areas of the Gulf and East Coast are still under threat. To add to the disaster is flooding. And now that the system has returned some of it's water vapor to the center of the country there is hail in Ohio.

Looking at the water vapor satellites it appears to me the Florida system will travel due north along the East Coast.

Fallin needs to be brought up on charges.

A full investigation by federal authorities needs to be conducted. This is cruel and inhumane treatment. I reviewed the effectiveness of these drugs in regard to causing death and sedation and they are completely ineffective. There are other accounts in other states that have witnesses detailing the inhumane treatment of these inmates.

Matt Pearce

April 29, 2014, 5:58 p.m.

Oklahoma (click here) called off a high-profile double execution with an experimental drug combination Tuesday evening after the first execution was apparently botched and the inmate died of a heart attack about 40 minutes after the drugs were administered, according to local news reports.

Clayton Lockett was slated to be the first to die after a legal battle over Oklahoma's lethal-injection methods, which have come under fire from death penalty opponents for the secrecy surrounding the process.

But his vein apparently burst while officials were trying to administer the drugs beginning at 6:23 p.m. He began to convulse and officials tried to resuscitate him, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.

According to the AP, Lockett had received a new lethal-injection formula that included the sedative midazolam as the first in a three-drug combination. He died of a heart attack at 7:06 p.m. The second execution was called off....

These deaths are in violation of USA law and are torture of an American citizen.

Wednesday 22 January 2014 13.51 EST
Lawrence Hummer
 
...I've seen people die many times before: (click here) in nursing homes, families I've known, my own mother. In most settings I've found death to be a very peaceful experience. But this was something else. By my count it took 26 minutes for McGuire to be pronounced dead.

We sat down in the death house – McGuire's children and daughter-in-law in the front row and me in the row behind them. At about 10.15am he was brought in and strapped to the gurney. With his arms spread and, not to put too fine a point on it, I whispered to his daughter that he looked as though he were on the cross....

...They began to put lines into him. That was unsettling, as from what I could observe they seemed to find it hard to get insert the IV and there seemed to be blood coming from his right arm. 

At 10.27am, the syringe containing the untested concoction of midazolam and hydromorphone was injected into him. At 10.30am, three minutes into the execution, he lifted his head off the gurney, and said to the family who he could see through the window: "I love you, I love you." Then he lay back down.

At about 10.31am, his stomach swelled up in an unusual way, as though he had a hernia or something like that. Between 10.33am and 10.44am – I could see a clock on the wall of the death house – he struggled and gasped audibly for air.

I was aghast. Over those 11 minutes or more he was fighting for breath, and I could see both of his fists were clenched the entire time. His gasps could be heard through the glass wall that separated us. Towards the end, the gasping faded into small puffs of his mouth. It was much like a fish lying along the shore puffing for that one gasp of air that would allow it to breathe. Time dragged on and I was helpless to do anything, sitting helplessly by as he struggled for breath. I desperately wanted out of that room. 

For the next four minutes or so a medical tech listened for a heart beat on both sides of his chest. That seemed to drag on too, like some final cruel ritual, preventing us from leaving. Then, at 10.53am, the warden called the time of death, they closed the curtains, and that was it.

 I came out of that room feeling that I had witnessed something ghastly. I was relieved to be out in the fresh air. There is no question in my mind that Dennis McGuire suffered greatly over many minutes. I'd been told that a "normal" execution lasted five minutes – this experimental two-drug concoction had taken 26 minutes. I consider that inhumane....

This is really straight forward. These Governors are directly responsible for violating the Eight Amendment of the USA Constitution.

The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads:

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791, has three provisions. 

The cruel and unusual punishments clause restricts the severity of punishments that state and federal governments may impose upon persons who have been convicted of a criminal offense. The Excessive Fines Clause limits the amount that state and federal governments may fine a person for a particular crime. The Excessive Bail Clause restricts judicial discretion in setting bail for the release of persons accused of a criminal activity during the period following their arrest but preceding their trial.

The application/practice of the Eighth Amendment has served to protect the dignity of human life as a reflection of the greater society.

Example: In 1995, a federal court in Massachusetts found that inmates' constitutional rights were violated when they were held in a 150-year-old prison that was infested with vermin, fire hazards, and a lack of toilets.

Substandard treatment of human life is not to be toyed with and the Governors of Oklahoma and Ohio need to be held responsible for violating the rights of Americans held within a prison.

Charging these Governors with violations of USA law may not end the executions, but, it will begin to hold elected officials for violations they personally conducted against Americans. The Governors are ultimately responsible and the only authority other than the courts that can stop such cruelty. They failed their obligations to the people.

If we as a people fail our own laws than what example can we provide when criticizing the human rights violations of other nations and their inhumane treatment of prisoners and wrongful deaths of their prisoners. This has to stop.

As a nation we cannot allow such recklessness and substandard values stand as precedent. This is a deterioration of our values and it cannot stand. 

Example: In 1995, a federal court in Massachusetts found that inmates' constitutional rights were violated when they were held in a 150-year-old prison that was infested with vermin, fire hazards, and a lack of toilets. - See more at: http://civilrights.findlaw.com/other-constitutional-rights/rights-of-inmates.html#sthash.V9nIlvy3.dpuf

The Late George Steinbrenner's ban from baseball was about politics and money. 

Donald Sterling's ban from basketball is about racism. 

There is a big difference.

While Steinbrenner's return after three years seems more a violation because it effected the elections of a nation, the racism is about depersonalizing human beings into categories. 

I don't think Steinbrenner should have been let back into baseball, but, it was a different day. Mr. Sterling won't be back. He was admonished by an entire industry and a USA President.

This hearing is worth listening to if one wants to understand the 'political' Republican. Their questions reveal people that do not believe in the strength of the USA. They are always worried the USA is behind the eight ball. Never once do they recognize the immense size of the USA military and it's huge presence in the world.

April 29, 2014 

U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Negotiations, Part 2 (click here)

There is no reason for any oversight to drop it's guard, however, that is different than members of a subcommittee actually believing their own fear as valid regardless the facts presented. 

The Republicans actually believe their own rhetoric. And they believe it in the face of facts. 

The U.S. Department of Defense is requesting $495.6 billion in authority for the base budget in FY 2015 in line with the Budget Control Act, or BCA, caps as revised by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. 

That is a half a trillion with a T dollars. 

According to a report in Jane’s Defence Weekly, (click here) the Russian Federal Treasury announced late last month that “Expenditure on National Defense” will rise from 2,101.4 billion rubles ($58.2 billion) in 2013 to 2,488.1 billion rubles in 2014. This is projected to be about 3.4 percent of Russia’s GDP but over 20 percent of government spending. Another 16.5 percent of the government budget will go to national security and law enforcement.

Granted the Ruble is disappearing into oblivion, but, the Russian military budget in 2013 wasn't even a tenth of a trillion. It was at the very best it is one-twentieth of a trillion. 

The USA has allies like the UK and France who are both permanent members of the UN Security Council and nuclear powers. The Soviet Union doesn't exist and most all Russian allies are NEEDY. 

The nuclear treaties are just as important, if not more so to Russia. Granted the treaties have to be validated and respected, but, the overall view of the USA vs Russia is hugely leveraged in the favor of The West. 

I understand the politics of military contracts and bring federal dollars into states that supply jobs, but, when it comes to making decisions regarding foreign policy in regard to military engagement the committees need to get real. 

The USA and Russia have enormous nuclear capacity and they can easily disarm without even denting either's capacity. 

The USA is not a weak nation on the cusp of falling apart. Russia, on the other hand, is somewhat less sturdy. Quite frankly, I am more than surprised the political dialogue in Russia even tolerates the current regime. 

It is just as important other political party leaders have a vision of Russia that is hopeful, open and a stronger economy, but, if the USA is going to seek war at every turn, those leaders don't have a chance to bring a new vision to the Russian people. Fear works. If the USA is a consenting partner in war mongering, the Communists will reign over those people forever. The politics in Russia is in complete disrepair compared to the times we live in. Russian political leaders have to present a far more peaceful world to the people if they are to be successful. I completely hate the idea, Vladimir Putin has modeled his domestic politics after that of Bush/Cheney. That should tell every American all they need to know about what works and what doesn't to any people. We need to move past that.

I wish Ted Cruz would use his Senate seat for something other than a paid advertisement for the Koch Brothers from the US Senate Floor.

When Ted Cruz talks about the Koch Brothers he is definitely making a paid advertisement from the Senate Floor. He received $2000.00 in the 2014 Cycle. (click here) Majority Speaker Reid did not receive a single penny from Koch Industries. Senator Cruz is in violation of ethical standards of the Senate.

Let's take a look at what occurs with Ryan's budget plans and the Aggregate Demand.

Aggregate Demand (AD) = C + I + G + (X-M) 

C = Consumers' expenditures on goods and services. 
I = Investment spending by companies on capital goods. 
G = Government expenditures on publicly provided goods and services. 
X = Exports of goods and services. 
M = Imports of goods and services. 

Instead of focusing on (C)onsumer expenditures for goods and services, Rep. Paul Ryan wants to reduce (G)overnment expenditures on publicly provided goods and services.

The Ryan Budget cuts $4.3 billion from the food stamp program. Just for example let's say the (G)overnment expenditure on publicly provided goods and services is cut in half.

Aggregate Demand (AD) = C + I + (1/2)G + (X-M)

What is going to happen to the Aggregate Demand?

The AG will fall. If the AG falls will there be loss of jobs. You betcha. If the Aggregate Demand falls will there be job growth? Absolutely not. If the Aggregate Demand falls IS THERE AN INCENTIVE for employers to increase their investment in the market place? Never.

The Ryan Budget will decrease demand in our market place, it will cost jobs and will add to a lack lust economy. The Republicans have it "W"rong.

When the Republicans talk about unemployment rates, they are CAUSING it and not stimulating growth. 

Will wages for Americans increase if there is a fall in demand? No. Will there be job losses and increases in unemployment if there is a fall in demand? Absolutely. So, there it is. The Republicans are causing the USA economy to languish in "mediocre" rather than return "vibrancy" and "robust" as adjectives.

Republicans like Cruz are deceiving the American people and their constituents. They treat them as mindless sheep that will follow him over the cliff and never regret it.

$4.3 billion will be saved in federal budget. How?

By raising the minimum wage.

The CEOs of the Fortune 500 received a 21% raise in wages since 2009.

The average current salary of those same 500 CEOs is $11.7 million per year. 

Those that work for minimum wage have not received an increase in their salary in those years. 

The average minimum wage worker last year earned $15,000. Each of those CEOs earned $15,000 on their first day of work this year by 11:30 AM. On January 2, 2014, their first day of work they earned a minimum wage earner's annual salary by 11:30 AM.  

Rep. Paul Ryan from Janesville, Wisconsin wants to save the American taxpayer save $4.3 billion to the federal budget too. But, he wants to cut food stamps while refusing to raise the minimum wage. 

Raising the minimum wage will not cost jobs to the USA economy. Why? Something called Aggregate Demand.

Aggregate demand is the demand for the gross domestic product (GDP) of a country, and is represented by this formula:

Aggregate Demand (AD) = C + I + G + (X-M) 

C = Consumers' expenditures on goods and services. 
I = Investment spending by companies on capital goods. 
G = Government expenditures on publicly provided goods and services. 
X = Exports of goods and services. 
M = Imports of goods and services. 

Just in theory to explain how it all works; let's say the minimum wage raises the consumer expenditures by twice what it is now.

(AD) = (2)C + I + G + (X-M)

What do you think? If the minimum wage increased the Aggregate Demand by two times for the expenditure of consumer goods and services would that increase demand? 

Of course it would. If demand is increased would that cost jobs?

Of course it wouldn't. If demand is increased would that increase the number of jobs to keep up with demand? 

Of course it would.

It is time to increase the minimum wage and that is not the minimum wage of CEOs either. CEOs should not earn a minimum wage, they should earn in accordance with the demand of their product. When a CEO is paid according to the demand of their product in the market, would there be earners making $15,000 per year anymore. Heck no!

Currently, 36 dead in the southeast.

I am impressed (click here) by the heroic dedication of The Weather Channel. They are cancelling previous scheduled programs to bring information to everyone. Not only that, but, they are getting feedback from viewers. The viewers are sending back pictures of the tornadoes as they touch down. I am very impressed.

The Weather Channel is asking people to take shelter and be careful about viewing these storms. But, obviously there are people that are outside the shadow of the predicted tornadoes and have taken digital pictures of them on the horizon. 

The forecasters have stated the storms are moving slower than yesterday, but, that does not mean there is less threat. Sustained presence of these tornadoes does not decrease danger. Additionally, it all adds up. The offshore vortex is stalling the system over the USA, so the advancing front will be moving slower as it makes that turn back inland.

From the Sydney Morning Herald:

Constance Lambert embraces her dog after finding it alive on returning to her destroyed home in Tupelo. Photo: AP

April 30, 2014 - 3:22AM

Tupelo, Mississippi: (click here for video) After leaving a trail of death and destruction across at least six states, a series of violent storms that spawned dozens of tornadoes continued to move through the South on Tuesday morning.
It was the third day of deadly weather to rip from the Midwest through the eastern portion of the nation, bringing severe thunderstorms, fierce winds and large hail.
In all, at least 30 deaths have been reported since Sunday in a swath from Oklahoma and Iowa to Alabama and including Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee....

Evidence based assessment.

April 30, 2014 - 5:06AM

...It said (click here) it had found elements on the ocean floor consistent with material from a plane, Channel 7 reported.

"We identified chemical elements and materials that make up a Boeing 777 ... these are aluminium, titanium, copper, steel alloys and other materials," company representative Pavel Kursa said.

Images from the same area taken on March 5, three days before the plane disappeared, showed no indication of the aircraft, David Pope, another company representative, said.

GeoResonance started its search on March 10 and sent an initial report to search authorities when the missing plane's black box still had two weeks of battery power, Channel 7 said....

This is chilling. Where is the memorial to those that were wrongfully executed. And don't me they don't exist.

Statistical study estimates that some 4% of US death-row prisoners are innocent. (click here)

Sara Reardon

28 April 2014

At least one in 25 people on death row in the United States would be exonerated if given enough time, researchers have found. The study, which used statistical methods to extrapolate from available data, is one of the first to try to quantify the rate of false convictions....

And enough resources.