The Republican Congress has yet to write a new AUMF. There isn't anything else to say.
Ask President Obama about his decisions after Congress answers for it's actions.
I wish Presidential candidates wouldn't lie. Russia has been an ally of Syria for a very long time.
Ask President Obama about his decisions after Congress answers for it's actions.
I wish Presidential candidates wouldn't lie. Russia has been an ally of Syria for a very long time.
...The First Syria-Soviet Ties
In the aftermath of World War II, (click here) the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two strongest world powers that competed covertly and overtly for influence around the globe. The Middle East, a vital source of oil, was of strategic importance to both camps.
In 1955, Moscow invited Syria, along with Egypt, to join a pro-Soviet pact. Turkey, a U.S. ally, mobilized troops along its southern border in an attempt to dissuade Syria from joining this pact. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov threatened Turkey not to use force against Syria, prompting Ankara to back down. The Syria-Soviet relationship was soon cemented. From 1955 to 1960, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev provided Syria with more than $200 million in military aid to solidify the alliance and to counter U.S. influence in the region.
Soviet support to Syria was part of a greater regional strategic battle playing out in the Middle East. The Kremlin supported likeminded Arab nationalist and socialist governments including Egypt, Libya, and Iraq. The pro-Western governments of Israel, Iran (prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution), Jordan, and Saudi Arabia comprised the U.S. bloc.
In May 1967, Syrian and Egyptian provocations against Israel brought the Middle East to the brink of war. However, the Soviets never came to the aid of their clients when Israel launched a two-pronged, blitzkrieg pre-emptive strike. In just six days in June 1967, Israel defeated the armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. In the aftermath of the Arab's military debacle, the Soviet Union pledged $2.5 billion in military aid to Syria from July 1967 until December 1968, and severed ties with Israel to defy the West.
Assad's Alliance
In 1971, when Air Force Commander Hafez al-Assad became President of Syria by way of a coup, he elected to maintain a strategic policy of close cooperation with the Soviet Union. In February 1972, Syria signed a peace and security pact with the Soviet Union as a means to strengthen its defense capability. During that year, Moscow delivered more than $135 million in Soviet arms to Damascus....
President Obama has a brain initiative.
On April 2nd in the East Room of the White House, (click here) President Obama announced the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. He began his remarks by emphasizing the importance of scientific research and innovation and how the resulting technology and knowledge have contributed to our country’s economic growth and changed our lives. Computer chips, GPS, the Internet and the human genome were a few of the examples that he gave. The BRAIN initiative, and President Obama’s concept of this as “one of the Administration’s Grand Challenges of the 21st century,” presents an extraordinary opportunity for the neuroscience community and for patients with brain disorders. There is no accurate accounting for the toll that brain diseases exact but estimates are that more than 1000 brain disorders affect 100 million Americans and that the cost exceeds $5 billion....
CASA (click here)
Where does CASAColumbia stand? (click here)
CASAColumbia believes that health policy should be based on scientific evidence, not public opinion. Barriers, including marijuana’s DEA classification as a Schedule I drug, make it difficult to conduct needed research. These limitations have created a blind spot in truly understanding the utility of marijuana for medical purposes. Regardless, forgoing FDA review and allowing state legislators or voters to make health policy decisions without this centralized review of the evidence poses an unnecessary and unwarranted risk to our public’s health and welfare.
We fully support the use of marijuana-based medications that have undergone the FDA’s comprehensive drug approval process. We also encourage more research on the value of marijuana for medical purposes. But we remain wary of state legalization of medical marijuana, especially in forms that are not medically appropriate and are not properly regulated....
Which Civil Service would be reformed? (click here)
Civil Service reform is not about Civil Service reform.
Fighting for Federal Employees Since 1917 (click here)
President Obama has a brain initiative.
On April 2nd in the East Room of the White House, (click here) President Obama announced the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. He began his remarks by emphasizing the importance of scientific research and innovation and how the resulting technology and knowledge have contributed to our country’s economic growth and changed our lives. Computer chips, GPS, the Internet and the human genome were a few of the examples that he gave. The BRAIN initiative, and President Obama’s concept of this as “one of the Administration’s Grand Challenges of the 21st century,” presents an extraordinary opportunity for the neuroscience community and for patients with brain disorders. There is no accurate accounting for the toll that brain diseases exact but estimates are that more than 1000 brain disorders affect 100 million Americans and that the cost exceeds $5 billion....
CASA (click here)
Where does CASAColumbia stand? (click here)
CASAColumbia believes that health policy should be based on scientific evidence, not public opinion. Barriers, including marijuana’s DEA classification as a Schedule I drug, make it difficult to conduct needed research. These limitations have created a blind spot in truly understanding the utility of marijuana for medical purposes. Regardless, forgoing FDA review and allowing state legislators or voters to make health policy decisions without this centralized review of the evidence poses an unnecessary and unwarranted risk to our public’s health and welfare.
We fully support the use of marijuana-based medications that have undergone the FDA’s comprehensive drug approval process. We also encourage more research on the value of marijuana for medical purposes. But we remain wary of state legalization of medical marijuana, especially in forms that are not medically appropriate and are not properly regulated....
Civil Service reform is not about Civil Service reform.
Fighting for Federal Employees Since 1917 (click here)
The National Federation of Federal Employees was proud to celebrate its 95th anniversary on September 17, 2012. This organization has a long history of supporting working-class federal employees and their families. NFFE was founded in 1917 and was headed by H.M. McLarin, NFFE's first president. It was the first union in the United States to represent civil service federal employees (postal workers unions have been around longer). Today, NFFE is affiliated with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and with them, represents 110,000 federal workers....
In 2016 Civil Service Workers at the basement levels were increased one percent. Kindly note, Grade 1 entry levels are begun at $18,343 annually.
The American people get a bargain, but, they have good retention rates, because they are good jobs and reliable employment. The pay rates increase as an American works their way through the ranks of the different grades.
Politicians like to deceive the public about the monies saved when the civil service ranks are drained and pay rates cut. It is a soft target that amounts to problems in real American lives that have families, house to pay for and hopes for the future. Cutting people out of good paying jobs vital to the government in Civil Service is done because Republicans always promise to balance budgets and do so on the backs of the middle class. Civil Service is a middle class job from lower middle class to upper middle class; but they are all middle class jobs. SOFT TARGET.
Democrats should never shy away from defending unions and vital persons working in our Civil Service.
Table below: (click here)
In 2016 Civil Service Workers at the basement levels were increased one percent. Kindly note, Grade 1 entry levels are begun at $18,343 annually.
The American people get a bargain, but, they have good retention rates, because they are good jobs and reliable employment. The pay rates increase as an American works their way through the ranks of the different grades.
Politicians like to deceive the public about the monies saved when the civil service ranks are drained and pay rates cut. It is a soft target that amounts to problems in real American lives that have families, house to pay for and hopes for the future. Cutting people out of good paying jobs vital to the government in Civil Service is done because Republicans always promise to balance budgets and do so on the backs of the middle class. Civil Service is a middle class job from lower middle class to upper middle class; but they are all middle class jobs. SOFT TARGET.
Democrats should never shy away from defending unions and vital persons working in our Civil Service.
Table below: (click here)
