The 2014 elections did not give the political right wing a mandate a new social contract. There is also the issue of discrimination of the LGBT community. Their perception is palpable.
Conservatives have figured-out (click here) a way which allows them to promote discrimination against LGBT people without actually saying the words. They aren’t anti-gay, they’re anti-religious discrimination. This way, bigots are allowed to introduce bills granting people the legal right to discriminate against LGBT people without ever even having to hint at the word “gay.” Clever, huh?
Hatred and intolerance is real. There is that expression "Zero tolerance" and unless I am mistaken, in the USA it refers to police work.
l. the policy of applying laws or penalties to even minor infringements of a code in order to reinforce its overall importance
An isometric drawing of Pentonville prison, from an 1844 report by Joshua Jebb, Royal Engineers.
Those are two remarkable graphs. As the spending slows in USA military spending, so goes the rest of the world. Basically, if the USA wants war, the USA gets war.
Conservatives have figured-out (click here) a way which allows them to promote discrimination against LGBT people without actually saying the words. They aren’t anti-gay, they’re anti-religious discrimination. This way, bigots are allowed to introduce bills granting people the legal right to discriminate against LGBT people without ever even having to hint at the word “gay.” Clever, huh?
Hatred and intolerance is real. There is that expression "Zero tolerance" and unless I am mistaken, in the USA it refers to police work.
l. the policy of applying laws or penalties to even minor infringements of a code in order to reinforce its overall importance
2. (as modifier): a zero-tolerance policy on drugs
An isometric drawing of Pentonville prison, from an 1844 report by Joshua Jebb, Royal Engineers.
The United States of America is the most powerful country in the world. I don't believe it is the most moral country because it is laced with corruption and leverages political power. The Republicans do not have policies that work to improve education, provide upward movement of citizens or a Middle Class economy whereby the least of the wages are a living wage.
Do anyone ever stop to realize how very far the USA is away from socialism?
The taxes paid in the USA to any level of government is used for salaries for people and infrastructure such as firehouses that is a valued asset to everyone. The treasuries are suppose to be a method to pay for the needs of the public and not the subsidies of multi-national corporations. The private sector is suppose to do their part as well.
The Republicans are writing the budget for 2016 and have added $35 billion to OCO. This is the fund the President uses to carry out overseas operations. The Republicans believe this fund should be well supplied with money in order to supplement military operations by the USA without including it in the published military budget.
By Dinah Walker
Those are two remarkable graphs. As the spending slows in USA military spending, so goes the rest of the world. Basically, if the USA wants war, the USA gets war.
The volume of US exports of major weapons rose by 23 per cent between
2005–2009 and 2010–14. The USA’s share of the volume of international
arms exports was 31 per cent in 2010–14, compared with 27 per cent for
Russia. Russian exports of major weapons increased by 37 per cent
between 2005–2009 and 2010–14. During the same period, Chinese exports
of major arms increased by 143 per cent, making it the third largest
supplier in 2010–14, however still significantly behind the USA and
Russia.
‘The USA has long seen arms exports as a major foreign policy and
security tool, but in recent years exports are increasingly needed to
help the US arms industry maintain production levels at a time of
decreasing US military expenditure’, said Dr Aude Fleurant, Director of
the SIPRI Arms and Military Expenditure Programme....
OCO is taking monies from the US Budget that would be spent on poverty and bringing quality of life in the way of food and medicine into the WELFARE program of the 'off balance sheet' military.
What is there to say beyond that? There is the US military budget and now there is the SUPPLEMENT program of OCO which was never designed for this purpose and high money amounts.
I have a suggestion to President Obama. He should consider the 'proflie' of the USA on an international basis and give no reason for other countries to point to the problems of the poor and working poor in the USA. I think the new funding for OCO would create a great opportunity to help raise that international profile and expenditures should be made to the people of the USA to the most needy and impoverished.
There should be no other military style or actual weapons given or sold to US police departments.
If the USA is to lead, it first has to prove what it states as important as reflected in it's domestic policies.
Oh, yeah. The sketch of the prison. That is a place called "Her Majesty's Prison Pentonville. It is a prison facility in the UK. The sketch is very old. I found it interesting from the stand point of safety. There are pens in the yards. The pens could be used for dangerous gang members while still being a part of a larger population. It would cut down on physical maiming injuries among some populations.
The Yemenis now have two more enemies besides the USA. Imagine that. Al Qaeda and Daesh are on the list of puppeteers for the holy man in Yemen.
March 23, 2015
..."Al-Qaeda and Daesh (click here) must not be allowed to find refuge in any region" in Yemen, he said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for bombings of Huthi mosques on Friday that killed more than 140 people.
"All political forces which support Al-Qaeda will be in the firing line," he added, stressing at the same time that residents of southern Yemen were not targets.
His speech came as Huthi fighters and their allies seized the airport in Taez, a city just 180 kilometres (110 miles) north of Aden.
Huthi also condemned President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who has fled to the southern port city of Aden, as "a puppet in the hands of forces of evil, led by the United States" in carrying out a plot financed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar....
OCO is taking monies from the US Budget that would be spent on poverty and bringing quality of life in the way of food and medicine into the WELFARE program of the 'off balance sheet' military.
What is there to say beyond that? There is the US military budget and now there is the SUPPLEMENT program of OCO which was never designed for this purpose and high money amounts.
I have a suggestion to President Obama. He should consider the 'proflie' of the USA on an international basis and give no reason for other countries to point to the problems of the poor and working poor in the USA. I think the new funding for OCO would create a great opportunity to help raise that international profile and expenditures should be made to the people of the USA to the most needy and impoverished.
There should be no other military style or actual weapons given or sold to US police departments.
If the USA is to lead, it first has to prove what it states as important as reflected in it's domestic policies.
Oh, yeah. The sketch of the prison. That is a place called "Her Majesty's Prison Pentonville. It is a prison facility in the UK. The sketch is very old. I found it interesting from the stand point of safety. There are pens in the yards. The pens could be used for dangerous gang members while still being a part of a larger population. It would cut down on physical maiming injuries among some populations.
The Yemenis now have two more enemies besides the USA. Imagine that. Al Qaeda and Daesh are on the list of puppeteers for the holy man in Yemen.
March 23, 2015
..."Al-Qaeda and Daesh (click here) must not be allowed to find refuge in any region" in Yemen, he said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for bombings of Huthi mosques on Friday that killed more than 140 people.
"All political forces which support Al-Qaeda will be in the firing line," he added, stressing at the same time that residents of southern Yemen were not targets.
His speech came as Huthi fighters and their allies seized the airport in Taez, a city just 180 kilometres (110 miles) north of Aden.
Huthi also condemned President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who has fled to the southern port city of Aden, as "a puppet in the hands of forces of evil, led by the United States" in carrying out a plot financed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar....
So, let me see if I get this right. Heretics and infidels are out and the moral of Islam is in. No more drones. Right?
I think I agree.
Would it mean anything to you if the USA threw about a half a billion your way along with a few arms shipments?
