A couple of things.
California: The earthquake magnitude increased and that is somewhat unusual. I want to remind the Pacific Plate isn't necessarily as normal as in the past. There has been an enormous amount of movement at the Hawaiian Hot Spot this year. That will change the dynamics of any fault field or fault line.
Florida: The methane explosion is just another reason why there is little necessity for this type of energy in the USA. Whenever I see these explosions the first thing that comes to mind is OLD, OBSOLETE INFRASTRUCTURE which the petroleum industry ALLOWS to deteriorate, leak and explode. They have no respect for human life.
How did this occur? If it is in fact negligence of infrastructure then it requires indictments, trials and sentences. No more excuses for corporate America. Fire departments have investigators, too.
July 6, 2019
By Elan Cranley
Multiple injuries (click here) have been reported after a gas explosion wiped out a huge chunk of a shopping center in Florida, according to authorities.
Pictures and videos posted on social media show a significant portion of The Fountains shopping center in Plantation blown to shattered glass and wood beams that litter the surrounding parking lot....
Also, there was an explosion in Massachusettes not long ago. The company involved was using very faulty methods in maintaining their gas lines. Is this in any way related to the Massachusetts explosion in regard to the company, CEO or other management relationship?
Ever since the 1 percent showed up in the conscience of the USA, there have been massive mergers of companies. Those mergers can be facilitated by companies that CHEAT when it comes to regulatory oversight. In other words, the one percent that has acquired large amounts of money/credit may be the very bottom of the barrel morally. They may have come to power through accumulation of wealth because they DID NOT follow the rules that the companies they devour have followed.
In that reality of WHOM is actually the one percent, how they came by their wealth power and how they use it is a profoundly different paradigm for mergers than is currently in place.
Example:
Company A is a rogue entity that has had run-ins with the IRS and regulatory agencies while paying fines. The fines are large and historic but bearly touch the assets of the company.
Company B is a play by the rules company with employees that belong to a union and have significant well-funded pensions. This company follows regulations and makes profits but modest in comparison to Company A.
Company A now has the assets to merge with Company B. The law allows it and the management of Company B is discharged, replaced with corruption and the management paradigm of Company A. Ultimately, the pension program is tossed to the federal government and Company A devours as much of the pension as possible along with a well managed and endowed treasury.
Company A has been refunded by the treasuries and pension of Company B and will again seek to devour more companies and sets it's sights on Company C.
This is the problem with capitalism as it is permitted by the laws of the USA. There is moral deprivation in the corporate structure and those managing some of the most wealthy companies are not dedicated to the Rule of Law or the importance of a strong Middle Class.
That is a focus on the one percent that demands a moral corporate structure, regulations protecting people and markets that recognize labor as essential to their existence and rewards that labor with unions that carry the best interest of the people they represent WITHOUT corruption.
I think the paradigm that brought the USA the one percent and the one-tenth of one percent has endangered the economic strength of the USA and is a danger to national security. Unmitigated capitalism actually destroys itself. The way companies devour other companies is wrong, exploitive and very dangerous to a democracy.
The Citizen Question: The census is a profound sovereign function. The only way to change that is a constitutional amendment. I also believe NAFTA governed the migration of the Undocumented to the USA. Those that have been deported, especially those residing in the USA most of their lives, do have recourse against their deportation no matter when it has occurred because they can prove their value through SSI deposits. They have a right to be in the USA through the relief of laws under NAFTA, past or the CAMUSA (USAMCA) to today. Bring them back!
In the past questions added to the USA Census never challenged it's constitutionality. This question confronts the USA Constitution. I think Americans need to look at the history of this part of the USA Constitution and realize the morality that existed in a new and growing country. Immigration, legal or otherwise, has been an intricate part of the USA history and culture. Americans need to ask what will happen to our democracy if that changes this dramatically.
This is not about lawfulness. This administration has been able to change the definition of the Undocumented as being unlawful. They come to this country and work. There is proof of that. It is a strong majority of the Undocumented that obey USA laws after they have come here.
What cannot be ignored with this group of people coming to the USA southern border is their RIGHTFUL need for ASYLUM. There is no doubt. We know for a fact these people are facing incredible poverty and violence. Their treatment is inhumane and laced with unlawfulness by this president.
