Monday, July 15, 2019
Congratulations to "The Squad."
I agree it is not a priority to answer every act of hatred from every Congresswoman or Congressman. Unfortunately, there is a constituency of the president that secludes from mainstream media services. That opens the country to danger and violence. Please care for yourselves and be sure your movements are secure. It is important to be mindful of that.
There is so much good work to do, that is what needs to be discussed.
I am quite sure "The Squad's" constituencies are proud of them and look forward to every meeting they hold to discuss problems and solutions.
Peace.
I agree it is not a priority to answer every act of hatred from every Congresswoman or Congressman. Unfortunately, there is a constituency of the president that secludes from mainstream media services. That opens the country to danger and violence. Please care for yourselves and be sure your movements are secure. It is important to be mindful of that.
There is so much good work to do, that is what needs to be discussed.
I am quite sure "The Squad's" constituencies are proud of them and look forward to every meeting they hold to discuss problems and solutions.
Peace.
By Carmen Reinicke
Investors (click here) are more worried than ever that market volatility means a downturn is on the horizon, and are looking for ways to protect their money, according to Allianz Life's most recent quarterly market perceptions survey.
Nearly half of those surveyed said they fear a major recession, marking a troublesome uptick in worried responses from both the first quarter of 2019 and last year. Investors also said they are less comfortable with current market conditions as volatility has risen, and are looking for ways to hedge against risk.
The survey was conducted online in May, and recorded responses from 1,006 individuals over the age of 18....
6.2 percent is more than good growth, however, the trend provides the picture of a slow slide. That is most likely a managed slide than the actual decline.
July 15, 2019
By Yusuf Khan
China's economy (click here) has grown at its slowest pace in the past 27 years after the effects of President Donald Trump's trade war outweighed the Chinese government's efforts to stimulate the economy.
The economy grew by 6.2% in the second quarter, a drop from 6.4% in the first quarter and 6.6% in all of 2018, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics.
"There's no doubt in anyone's minds that the trade war is a major contributing factor here, especially coming at a time when the economy was already in the midst of a slowdown," the online foreign-exchange broker Oanda said....
I haven't heard it for nearly sixty years.
"America, love it or leave it", an American pro-war slogan during the Vietnam War
MS 13 is not being deported by the tens of thousands. I doubt there are that many MS 13 members. There were arrests, not deportations. DUE PROCESS does not allow immediate deportation.
From ICE:
...U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (click here) has committed significant resources to this fight. In doing so, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) combined their unique authorities to target criminal activity and administrative immigration violations of known or suspected gang members, making more than 10,000 gang arrests in fiscal year (FY) 2018 – including more than 2,000 Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members. This figure includes both criminal and administrative immigration arrests....
A gang assessment was completed in 2009 under President Obama.
According to the 2009 National Gang Threat Assessment, "The gang (MS-13) is estimated to have 30,000 to 50,000 members and associate members worldwide, 8,000 to 10,000 of whom reside in the United States.
There are not tens of thousands of MS 13 members in the USA. There is no place for any gang to exist in the USA, but, they do exist because of cultural and language barriers and lack of education and OPPORTUNITY.
The following key findings (click here) were developed by analysis of available federal, state, and local law enforcement information; 2008 National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) National Drug Threat Survey (NDTS) data; and verified open source information:
Approximately 1 million gang members belonging to more than 20,000 gangs were criminally active within all 50 states and the District of Columbia as of September 2008.
Local street gangs, or neighborhood-based street gangs, remain a significant threat because they continue to account for the largest number of gangs nationwide. Most engage in violence in conjunction with a variety of crimes, including retail-level drug distribution.
According to NDTS data, 58 percent of state and local law enforcement agencies reported that criminal gangs were active in their jurisdictions in 2008 compared with 45 percent of state and local agencies in 2004.
Gang members are migrating from urban areas to suburban and rural communities, expanding the gangs’ influence in most regions; they are doing so for a variety of reasons, including expanding drug distribution territories, increasing illicit revenue, recruiting new members, hiding from law enforcement, and escaping other gangs. Many suburban and rural communities are experiencing increasing gang-related crime and violence because of expanding gang influence.
Criminal gangs commit as much as 80 percent of the crime in many communities, according to law enforcement officials throughout the nation. Typical gang-related crimes include alien smuggling, armed robbery, assault, auto theft, drug trafficking, extortion, fraud, home invasions, identity theft, murder, and weapons trafficking.
Gang members are the primary retail-level distributors of most illicit drugs. They also are increasingly distributing wholesale-level quantities of marijuana and cocaine in most urban and suburban communities.
Some gangs traffic illicit drugs at the regional and national levels; several are capable of competing with U.S.-based Mexican DTOs.
U.S.-based gang members illegally cross the U.S.–Mexico border for the express purpose of smuggling illicit drugs and illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States.
Many gangs actively use the Internet to recruit new members and to communicate with members in other areas of the United States and in foreign countries.
Street gangs and outlaw motorcycle gangs pose a growing threat to law enforcement along the U.S.– Canada border. They frequently associate with Canada-based gangs and criminal organizations to facilitate various criminal activities, including drug smuggling into the United States.
MS 13 is not being deported by the tens of thousands. I doubt there are that many MS 13 members. There were arrests, not deportations. DUE PROCESS does not allow immediate deportation.
From ICE:
...U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (click here) has committed significant resources to this fight. In doing so, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) combined their unique authorities to target criminal activity and administrative immigration violations of known or suspected gang members, making more than 10,000 gang arrests in fiscal year (FY) 2018 – including more than 2,000 Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members. This figure includes both criminal and administrative immigration arrests....
A gang assessment was completed in 2009 under President Obama.
According to the 2009 National Gang Threat Assessment, "The gang (MS-13) is estimated to have 30,000 to 50,000 members and associate members worldwide, 8,000 to 10,000 of whom reside in the United States.
There are not tens of thousands of MS 13 members in the USA. There is no place for any gang to exist in the USA, but, they do exist because of cultural and language barriers and lack of education and OPPORTUNITY.
The following key findings (click here) were developed by analysis of available federal, state, and local law enforcement information; 2008 National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) National Drug Threat Survey (NDTS) data; and verified open source information:
Approximately 1 million gang members belonging to more than 20,000 gangs were criminally active within all 50 states and the District of Columbia as of September 2008.
Local street gangs, or neighborhood-based street gangs, remain a significant threat because they continue to account for the largest number of gangs nationwide. Most engage in violence in conjunction with a variety of crimes, including retail-level drug distribution.
According to NDTS data, 58 percent of state and local law enforcement agencies reported that criminal gangs were active in their jurisdictions in 2008 compared with 45 percent of state and local agencies in 2004.
Gang members are migrating from urban areas to suburban and rural communities, expanding the gangs’ influence in most regions; they are doing so for a variety of reasons, including expanding drug distribution territories, increasing illicit revenue, recruiting new members, hiding from law enforcement, and escaping other gangs. Many suburban and rural communities are experiencing increasing gang-related crime and violence because of expanding gang influence.
Criminal gangs commit as much as 80 percent of the crime in many communities, according to law enforcement officials throughout the nation. Typical gang-related crimes include alien smuggling, armed robbery, assault, auto theft, drug trafficking, extortion, fraud, home invasions, identity theft, murder, and weapons trafficking.
Gang members are the primary retail-level distributors of most illicit drugs. They also are increasingly distributing wholesale-level quantities of marijuana and cocaine in most urban and suburban communities.
Some gangs traffic illicit drugs at the regional and national levels; several are capable of competing with U.S.-based Mexican DTOs.
U.S.-based gang members illegally cross the U.S.–Mexico border for the express purpose of smuggling illicit drugs and illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States.
Many gangs actively use the Internet to recruit new members and to communicate with members in other areas of the United States and in foreign countries.
Street gangs and outlaw motorcycle gangs pose a growing threat to law enforcement along the U.S.– Canada border. They frequently associate with Canada-based gangs and criminal organizations to facilitate various criminal activities, including drug smuggling into the United States.
The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
Very sorry to hear "The Squad" is blaming Democratic leadership for the weight of racism they feel due to Donald J. Trump.
The problems we face in the USA today is because of the president and his appeasing Congress. The Democrats are standing the line between this racist president and the USA Constitution. If Trump could destroy that document today, he would.
Every day, without fail, Donald J. Trump expresses the sincere hatred he has for other races and ethnicities in the USA beside that of Caucasian. He is a racist and a bigot. Those values play out in the Muslim Ban, the USA border policies, the inhumane regard for the profound definition of family that the USA values above all else. In order for the country to feel his devotion to racism and bigotry, he plays to fears of minority rule in ways that will bring about the deaths of Caucasians when Muslims rule the country. He plays on those fears that still linger after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Those fears are propagated by the FOX News network. They use fear to drive their ratings and their profound devotion to money above family as a reward of success. The Democratic Party has higher values than money, they value human life and the aesthetics of living. They value the health of all people in this country, the education of all children and the advanced education of those that can achieve, they value liberty and freedom and they value the Rule of Law. That is absent in the Republican paradigm in this Congress and it shows. There was one member to date to leave the Republican Party because of the lack of leadership, the deterioration of patriotism, the missing value of the USA Consitution and the simple value of decency.
"The Squad" are very, very important people to this country. They are expressions of success in a way that Democrats have valued as the basis for their party for decades. One of the most profound figures in Democratic history was President Kennedy. He demanded equality and justice for minorities in this country and he is admired today and every day in this country. His demand for equality of minorities has never dimmed in the Democratic Party and never will.
Speaker Pelosi is leading the Democratic Party in the US House during a very difficult time in the USA. She is well versed on the political impacts of racism, bigotry, and anti-Americanism. I suppose she is an easy target for the frustration many Americans feel today with a president that leads with fear, hatred, and anger. Speaker Pelosi balances all her responsibilities with the heavyweight of a country divided. She loves this country and its people and if she believed for one minute she was doing it harm she would relinquish her Speakership. She is a very decent person that is very strong and values all that is good about life. She is a woman leading a seat of power in this country and she is doing her job. She is passing legislation that values the American people and their quality of life.
The Americans that feel the weight of this president in their lives are among the strongest of patriots to the USA and it's Constitution. In that realize the Constitution is a strong document and when it is threatened people feel it. There are many that feel that threat and it is real. It is real because of Donald J. Trump and an appeasement Congress of Republicans. Those are the people that deserve the wrath they alone breed in this country.
I agree it is a time of change in the USA, but, please direct it where it belongs and it is the sincere threat of a president that values communism over democracy and prefers doing business in a way that compromises his own power in the White House. Donald J. Trump is not a competent president and he certainly is not a good person. He does not hold dear the values of all Americans and seeks to diminish the importance of citizenship and human rights. He does not lead the USA from a position of esteem. He doesn't lead at all, quite frankly. He portrays a Republican in profound hatred of the government he pretends to be important. The Executive Branch has never been in such poor condition in all of the history of the USA.
The Democrats must remain on that line to protect the USA Constitution and they must do so in a way that maintains the party's integrity. These are very difficult times and it is easy to blame others, but, kindly remember there is only one man responsible and his name is Donald J. Trump.
"Good Night, Moon"
13.1 days old
96.8 percent lit
July 12, 2019
By Gordon Johnston
The Next Full Moon (click here) is the Buck Moon, the Thunder Moon, and the Guru Moon.
The next full Moon will be on Tuesday afternoon, July 16, 2019, appearing "opposite" the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 5:38 PM EDT. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Monday night through Thursday morning.
The Maine Farmer's Almanac first published "Indian" names for the full Moons in the 1930's. According to this almanac, as the full Moon in July and the first full Moon of Summer, the Algonquin tribes in what is now the Eastern USA called this full Moon the Buck Moon. Early Summer is normally when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. They also called this the Thunder Moon because of early Summer's frequent thunderstorms.
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