The USA Congress has promised to act on these issues and have not:

One might ask WHAT diverted the USA Congress from resolving these issues. MONEY in the way of taxes has diverted the Congressional attention to these issues.

Iran Nuclear Deal:

Trump just doesn't get it. Governing is on a continuum, not a 'takeover.' President Trump is out of the picture when it comes to the USA Congress to CERTIFY the Iran Nuclear Deal.

November 7, 2017
By Arshad Mohammad

Washington (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers signaled (click here) they plan to ensure the United States complies with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s misgivings about the pact, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Tuesday....

The USA Congressional leaders, Senator McConnell and Speaker Ryan, need to get this done. This is a simple bill to certify the findings of the IAEA as Secretary Tillerson stated after reviewing the document. Again, this is a simple bill that does not carry with it additional negotiations or rules. There is nothing to clarify.

Donald Trump has placed himself outside the authority of the certification when he refused to certify the findings of the IAEA after Secretary Tillerson stated Iran was in compliance. What is astounding about Trump, is that he refused to certify the agreement while demanding a new deal. Why would any ally or Iran enter into still yet more negotiations? Trump can't stand by the hard work of previous Secretaries of State and their allied members, why would there be any expectation that a new deal would be certified by Trump or Congress. 

The USA is not a toy. It does not have shareholders. The USA is a country with a history back to 1776. Before that it was a British colony. The progress the USA makes as a country is played by completely different rules than Wall Street or the Trump gambling tables. When the USA enters into a treaty it is with the understanding the treaty is long standing and achieves it's intentions and goals. Governance in the Oval Office of the country is not accomplished by promising the new dice are not loaded.

November 7, 2017
By Gardiner Harris

Washington — The European Union’s top diplomat (click here) issued yet another stern warning on Tuesday that the Iran nuclear agreement that was reached in 2015 could not be reopened for negotiation or changed, as President Trump has vowed to do.

“Renegotiating part of the agreement or the entire agreement is not an option,” said the diplomat, Federica Mogherini, who serves as the bloc’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy.

Last month, Mr. Trump promised to walk away from the accord unless it was amended to permanently block Tehran from building nuclear weapons or intercontinental missiles. But Mr. Trump did not scrap the deal entirely, as he has the authority to do, instead kicking to Congress the immediate decision about how to address what he and many Republicans view as flaws in the agreement.

Preserving the nuclear accord is a top priority for the European Union, and Ms. Mogherini said that key legislators on Capitol Hill and White House officials had assured her that the United States would not violate the deal....

November 7, 2017

Paris (Reuters) - Europe must make clear (click here) how it will react if the United States pulls out of the multinational nuclear deal with Iran and do more to encourage international banks to return to the country, a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday.

Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump broke ranks with European allies, Russia and China by refusing to re-certify Iran’s compliance with its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, reached during Barack Obama’s tenure....

Deadly Gun Bump Stocks:

The USA Congress while promising to standardize the safety of guns in ending the sale of the "bump stock," will no doubt fail to do so and simply call it a States Rights Issue. Congress needs to act on a federal level to ensure there are NO BUMP STOCKS for sale anywhere in the USA.

November 4, 2017
By Chris Benderev

Republican Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito of Massachusetts (click here) signed a bill Friday, approved one day earlier by the state's Democrat-led Legislature, outlawing so-called bump stocks, accessories that allow semi-automatic firearms to mimic the rapid firing action of machine guns.

Massachusetts is the first state to enact a ban on bump stocks in the wake of last month's shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.

Authorities say the gunman responsible for the massacre, which left 58 people dead and hundreds wounded, used bump stocks to allow his semi-automatic weapons to rain down considerably more bullets on the unsuspecting crowd during the attack.

Bump stocks attach to semi-automatic weapons and enable sustained firing by using the force of the weapon's kickback to bounce the firearm against the shooter's trigger finger over and over.

The newly approved ban provides a 90-day grace period for bump stock owners to discard their devices....

The Massachusetts law is absolutely the best outcome to citizens. It ends the sale of the Bump Stock in Massachusetts, but, also removes it from influence within the state. Yes, influence. What occurs when these atrocities take place is the gun community running to buy up all the dangerous pieces and guns. Such mass killings should not have a profit motive or a money raising opportunity for the gun manufacturers or the gun lobby.

By removing the Bump Stocks from within the Massachusetts borders the danger AND REASON of ownership disappears. The warped ideology of the gun community is that once the public is aware of the capacity to kill, the danger is there forever, hence the rush to purchase the next greater danger, in this case the "Bump Stock." I am confident there is no allowance for importation from other states or any sales from the internet into Massachusetts. The danger is removed and not ever to be propagated again. The Massachusetts State Bureau of Investigation can now scan the gun sales on the internet and end the practice of illegal sales in the state.

Realizing the danger is INTERSTATE and not intrastate, the USA Congress has the greatest responsibility of ending this danger to citizens.

The manufacturer of the Bump Stock and the stores that sell them should take those monies and commit to a Victims of the Las Vegas Murders Trust Fund.
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Every mass murderers friend, "Slide Fire" (click here) will be selling to killers again.

November 7, 2017
By Brian Mann

One of America's (click here) leading and most controversial gun-accessory makers says it will resume sales Tuesday of a device known as a "bump stock."

Bump stocks dramatically accelerate the rate-of-fire of semi-automatic rifles, allowing them to shoot almost as fast as fully-automatic machine guns, which are far more tightly regulated and expensive in the U.S.

Slide Fire, a company based in Moran, Texas, suspended sales of its bump stock line of products in early October. The decision came after it was revealed that Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock used similar devices when he sprayed a crowd of concert-goers with bullets, leaving 58 people dead. "We have temporarily suspended accepting new orders while we work to replenish inventory," the company said on its website at the time.

Bump stocks work by causing the firearm to bounce rapidly against the shooter's trigger finger. In a notice to customers emailed Monday, Slide Fire said that it will once again begin accepting orders for "limited sales of several products." The company lists a variety of bump stocks that are currently available, many of them designed for use with AR-15 assault rifles....

Where are the teamsters? This level of exploitation of human labor is called human trafficking.

June 16, 2017
By Brett Murphy

Los Angeles — Samuel Talavera Jr. did everything his bosses asked. (click here)

Most days, the trucker would drive more than 16 hours straight hauling LG dishwashers and Kumho tires to warehouses around Los Angeles, on their way to retail stores nationwide.

He rarely went home to his family. At night, he crawled into the back of his cab and slept in the company parking lot.

For all of that, he took home as little as 67 cents a week....

I can't imagine another profession in the USA that needs a strong union more. They will happily pay the union fees to realize they are experiencing human rights violations. This form of trucking is some of the most dangerous as well. I have to wonder how many deaths have taken place on those docks realizing the extent the drivers work through exhaustion.

...A yearlong investigation by the USA TODAY Network found that port trucking companies in southern California have spent the past decade forcing drivers to finance their own trucks by taking on debt they could not afford. Companies then used that debt as leverage to extract forced labor and trap drivers in jobs that left them destitute.

If a driver quit, the company seized his truck and kept everything he had paid towards owning it.

If drivers missed payments, or if they got sick or became too exhausted to go on, their companies fired them and kept everything. Then they turned around and leased the trucks to someone else.

Drivers who manage to hang on to their jobs sometimes end up owing money to their employers – essentially working for free. Reporters identified seven different companies that have told their employees they owe money at week’s end....

Personally, I see these drivers as an extension of the "Longshoremen." They need to work on the same priorities including any strike. They should be family to each other.

Shipping docks are dangerous by the nature of the business. Human beings should never be alone in that job.

The American Red Cross is the scapegoat to government failure.

November 7, 2017
By Sean Rossman, Eleanor Dearman and John C. Mortiz

For the American Red Cross, (click here) Hurricane Harvey presented a perfect chance at redemption.

A fast and efficient response would have shown critics the organization has learned from its past mistakes and is a capable partner when disaster strikes. But instead, say many Texas officials and residents, the Red Cross floundered and failed to provide needed help....

The problem has been since 2005 and is today, the destructive capacity of the Category Five Hurricane. There isn't anything a 'rescue organization' can do when the infrastructure is gone. The only agency anywhere that can effectively BEGIN to recover from such a devastating storm is the USA Army Corp. I am amused by the current criticism, yes amused, to listen to the fact there were ONLY SIX ARMY CORP UNITS in Puerto Rico. ONLY SIX.

The Mainland has needs, too.

The FACT is completely obvious, the Climate Crisis is real and human beings have little effect on it's effects AFTER THE FACT.

The enemy is not the American Red Cross, which was taking heat from the media as they administered to the people of Texas. Harvey is a wake up call as were the storms that destroyed the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. This is the Climate Crisis and the American politicians will HIDE from their responsibility in denying the burgeoning global emergency.

Harvey took dry land from the USA. The former dry land is now permanently underwater. I suppose the American Red Cross is supposed to part the sea, too.

...Flood waters around Houston (click here) had substantially receded by Aug. 31 (middle image), while flooding had increased across Louisiana, eastern Arkansas, and western Tennessee as then Tropical Storm Harvey passed over the area. The far right image shows the change in flooded area between Aug. 27 and Aug. 31, with regions showing the most flooding recession depicted in yellow and orange shades and those where flooding had increased depicted in blue shades....

Louisiana should think, "Crab Pods." Oh, wait. The oil. Oh, well.

The USA needs to return to mechanical voting machines or paper ballots. Enough of this computer mess. Political grassroots are real people and not a computer email list.

Donna Brazile, "Don't underestimate what the Russian did...they corrupted our files...they wiped us out."

The Clinton Campaign's fault in bailing out the DNC, was their judgment in that there was incompetence because of the empty treasury. There were highly qualified people within the DNC still very willing to run a strong campaign.

The Clinton Campaign measured success in dollars and not people.

Donna Brazile as right in every way in writing her book, "Hacks: The Inside Story." Everyone sincerely interested in the sovereignty of the USA needs to read it.

The political process needs to be protected in the USA and the Supreme Court does not see that for the vision of big dollar donors. The idea money is a citizen is pure idiocy. The dollar is the currency of the USA and it has status, but, the Supreme Court incompetently gave it rights.

"What happens when the super rich write the rules? They fail." (click here)

Just to examine the USA Supreme Court's "money citizen." Has any American political process been handed over to a single power? The country defines itself as a democracy with a free election process that requires the voice of the people is heard. Why would the USA Supreme Court hand over the entire election process to one citizen, money?

The 2008 global economic collapse should have jailed many capitalists on Wall Street. That didn't happen because the citizen responsible for all the corruption and collapse was an American citizen called money.

The banks responsible for the economic collapse lived in the USA and they paid money to the government rather than serving time.

The Paradise Papers, the internal documents of a Bermuda law firm, reveal a problem far more pernicious than the unethical conduct by tens of thousands of wealthy individuals around the world.

Humans will always have to cope with personal dishonesty. What the Paradise Papers show is how dishonesty is being promoted on a mass scale and how corruption is being institutionalized. The 13.4m files show that what are supposed to be windows of disclosure into the finances of high officials are easily covered with blinds made by piecing together business laws from multiple jurisdictions.

As the super-rich increasingly hold the reins of governments in the US and other countries, the rules to make sure they act with integrity and in the public interest fail. That’s because the rules were written to guard against petty corruption among people of little to no wealth....

This is the beautiful part. Ross, no different than Trump, states he is not the majority shareholder in "Navigator Holdings" or the "Trump Organization." Ross ONLY OWNS $10 million in shares in the company. But, get this, Ross DOES HAVE a controlling interest in his PRIVATE equity firm that in turn holds a one third interest in the shipping company. So, Ross can control "Navigator Holdings" through the one-third ownership of his PRIVATE equity firm.

It is all slight of hand and when finally investigated, as Commerce Secretary, Ross is a very powerful one man STEERING COMMITTEE to benefit his known investments through his PRIVATE equity firm.

...Wilbur Ross, Trump’s commerce secretary, is revealed in the Paradise Papers to do business with the family of Vladimir Putin.

This is astonishing given the insistence by Trump and his administration that only “fake news” connects his administration, his campaign and him personally to the Kremlin, which clearly sought to influence the 2016 presidential election on Trump’s behalf.

Ross defends his investment in the shipping company Navigator Holdings by noting he is not the majority shareholder. True, but misleading. Ross was in control before becoming commerce secretary, his private equity firm still owns nearly a third of the company and his personal financial disclosure shows he owns a stake worth up to $10m....

...Ross is involved with 50 Cayman Islands companies and partnerships administered by Appleby,...

...the Appleby files, like those from Mossack Fonseca, make clear that plenty of dubious and probably illegal conduct was taking place...

Appleby is located in Bermuda. Bermuda is a territory of the UK. When 2008 landed in it's collapse, Libor (click here) was completely corrupted and out of control. It took some time to indict those most corrupt at Barclays. This is no joke. The USA's right wing does not practice law as thinkers, so much as processers. When British corruption meets up with the USA right wing, there is a sincere danger for the people and their democracies on both continents. Can we please dismiss money as an entity with rights, so much as in service to the people? Democracy needs to be recalled to bring economic stability. Democracy needs to be the winner over money. The only thing money brings to the democratic process is greed. Allies need to demand sanity return to the USA and legislate money is on a citizen. USA LEGISLATION is needed to put money in it's place.