Brazil's president is corrupt. China is equally as corrupt when it comes to their commitment to the Paris Accords. Both countries belong to the G20 which has recently met.
For some reason these two countries have the opinion growing crops for China is going to be better for Brazil than protecting the rainforest. There are people suffering now because of the fires. Does anyone realize how many species of plants and animals are being lost at this very moment from the agricultural purposing of the Amazon Rainforest?
There is only one reason why the Brazilian president washed his hands of fighting the fires and it is because he has other plans for the land. He was corruptly elected after an excellent President, freely elected was removed from office. She fought for a reason and it was the Amazon.
August 16, 2019
State, private buyers bought 25-30 cargoes in Brazil this week (click here)
China suspended U.S. purchases as the trade war drags on.
China is stepping up its soybean buying in Brazil as growers in Argentina continue to hoard and the Asian nation avoids American oilseed after an escalation in trade tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Private and state-owned companies bought 25 to 30 cargoes of soy from Brazil this week through Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the deals are private. That’s equivalent to about 1.5 million to 2 million metric tons and is helping push up the premiums buyers need to pay for soy at Brazilian ports....
11 July 2019
The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, (click here) has invited his son Eduardo to become ambassador to the United States, underscoring his family’s influential role in the country’s diplomacy and domestic politics.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, currently a federal congressman, told reporters he would accept the role if nominated. His father said earlier that the appointment would hinge on his son’s acceptance.
“If it is a mission given by the president, I would accept,” Eduardo told reporters, adding he was prepared to resign from Congress if the president appointed him.
He added that the ultimate nomination still depended on conversations with his father and the foreign minister Ernesto Araujo.
The appointment would need to be approved by the Senate foreign relations committee before passing to the full upper house for confirmation....
Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was railroaded out of her office. She fought back, but, she was not going to be allowed to remain in the way of deforestation and agriculture exploitation.
25 May 2012
By Jonathan Watts
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff (click here) has partially vetoed a bill that would have weakened her country's efforts to protect the Amazon and other forests. Environmentalists cautiously welcomed the last-minute decision, which came after the most closely watched political debate of the year in Brazil. But they warned that the battle was not yet over because large parts of the bill will still go through. Last month, legislators in both houses passed a set of revisions to the Forest Code that threatened permanent preservation areas – a key provision in Brazilian environmental legislation – that obliged farmers to keep a proportion of their land as protected forests, particularly on the fringes of rivers and hillsides. This requirement has long been opposed by Brazil's powerful agricultural lobby.,,,
Friday, August 23, 2019
Flint needs far better management.
I don't know what to say, except, when does this end?
It took a week for the city to report it to the people. This is unforgivable. The map below is the Flint River watershed. There is water that runs into the Flint River from the land and then the Flint River runs into the Shiawassee River and that runs through Saginaw and Bay City and into Saginaw Bay.
That's enough. There are problems the residents have that have to be settled. They need a strong advocate that also can manage the city's services so they aren't traumatized every other week.
The people need to hold meetings to organize and RECRUIT competent person(s) to take care of their interests. There needs to be a referendum in the next ballot to begin the process of hiring a competent city manager that has knowledge and experience of bringing problems under control. The people are capable of it and need to get started. Don't take no for an answer. The city manager should answer to a committee of responsible and strong advocates for the residents. There need to be regular meetings with the city manager so the people know exactly what is improving. The people need to have a full voice in regard to the management of Flint until it is fixed. This is ridiculous.
I really don't get it. Perhaps others do, but, there are repeated incidents and that is because whoever is calling the shots aren't capable of doing their jobs. The Governor needs to be called and asked to step in to at the very least manage this emergency of the Flint River that could effect many.
The committee can be a non-profit and can have the entire city for members. The non-profit can apply for funding and run fundraisers. A 501(c)3 or 4 or separate committees each with a different designation. (c)3 can organize for city projects. The modern governments across the country use (c)3 for exactly that, city projects that have dedicated funds. (c)4 is a political non-profit for screening candidates, etc.
August 22, 2019
By Jay Connor
The city dumped an estimated 2 million gallons (lick here) of untreated sewage into the Flint River Sunday, Aug. 18, just months after officials warned wastewater infrastructure was fast approaching a “critical point.”
It took a week for the city to report it to the people. This is unforgivable. The map below is the Flint River watershed. There is water that runs into the Flint River from the land and then the Flint River runs into the Shiawassee River and that runs through Saginaw and Bay City and into Saginaw Bay.
That's enough. There are problems the residents have that have to be settled. They need a strong advocate that also can manage the city's services so they aren't traumatized every other week.
The people need to hold meetings to organize and RECRUIT competent person(s) to take care of their interests. There needs to be a referendum in the next ballot to begin the process of hiring a competent city manager that has knowledge and experience of bringing problems under control. The people are capable of it and need to get started. Don't take no for an answer. The city manager should answer to a committee of responsible and strong advocates for the residents. There need to be regular meetings with the city manager so the people know exactly what is improving. The people need to have a full voice in regard to the management of Flint until it is fixed. This is ridiculous.
I really don't get it. Perhaps others do, but, there are repeated incidents and that is because whoever is calling the shots aren't capable of doing their jobs. The Governor needs to be called and asked to step in to at the very least manage this emergency of the Flint River that could effect many.
The committee can be a non-profit and can have the entire city for members. The non-profit can apply for funding and run fundraisers. A 501(c)3 or 4 or separate committees each with a different designation. (c)3 can organize for city projects. The modern governments across the country use (c)3 for exactly that, city projects that have dedicated funds. (c)4 is a political non-profit for screening candidates, etc.
By Jay Connor
The city dumped an estimated 2 million gallons (lick here) of untreated sewage into the Flint River Sunday, Aug. 18, just months after officials warned wastewater infrastructure was fast approaching a “critical point.”
A partial report filed by the city with the state Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy on Tuesday, Aug. 20, says a “flash flood event” overflowed primary settling tanks at the city’s wastewater treatment plant on Beecher Road, sending raw waste onto the ground and into a storm sewer drain that discharges directly to the river....
When the global economic collapse occurred in 2008 it was bearly noticed by Ford Motor company. Ford, when the interest rates were zero borrowed in order to protect the future and be ready for growth. If one takes a ride on I-75 north near Monroe, Michigan there will be two huge smokestacks reaching into the sky. That is the Ford Raisin River Warehouse. There are acres and acres at that warehouse lined with rolls of steel ready for use by Ford assembly plants.
The point is, there are large amounts of steel stored in factories all over the USA. I am sure US Steel is aware of that. It may be US Steel believes that if these large steel inventories are used and the demand picks up they will need their workers back again. If that doesn't occur, the layoffs will probably be more permanent.
Before 2018 the steel exports from the USA picked up but then fell off again. It appears the steel exports and steel production are on a roller coaster as well.
Steel Exports Report - September 2018 (click here)
August 22, 2019
The point is, there are large amounts of steel stored in factories all over the USA. I am sure US Steel is aware of that. It may be US Steel believes that if these large steel inventories are used and the demand picks up they will need their workers back again. If that doesn't occur, the layoffs will probably be more permanent.
Before 2018 the steel exports from the USA picked up but then fell off again. It appears the steel exports and steel production are on a roller coaster as well.
Steel Exports Report - September 2018 (click here)
August 22, 2019
Any death is regrettable. I never agreed with David Koch and his brother. They attempted and continue to attempt through innumerable non-profit organizations to turn the USA into a theocracy. They ignore the dangers of the climate crisis and seek old world jobs in mining and on oil fields as a legitimate reason for their multi-national company to remain vital. The fact is the Kochs, including David, have no conscience they only have greed as a motivating force and use some sort of moral definition to justify it. David Koch's heirs need to do better.
Taylor Swift is taking a strong stand for women's health again for 2020.
No Fear. It is the way Americans and their freedom should be.
By Taryn Ryder
"We’re a democracy — at least, we’re supposed to be — where you’re allowed to disagree, dissent, debate," she said. "I really think that [Trump] thinks this is an autocracy."
Swift described the atmosphere in the U.S. as "gaslighting the American public into being like, 'If you hate the president, you hate America.'"...
Justice Ginsburg knows how important her work is and it keeps her going.
Her life of work and her life has been so important there are movies made about her and it. She has battled pancreatic cancer before.
...This isn't Ginsburg's first brush with cancer. (click here) In September 1999, she was diagnosed with colon cancer. It was found incidentally when she had gone to the doctor for an abdominal infection. She underwent a sigmoid colectomy followed by "precautionary" chemotherapy and radiation treatments which began in October and finished in June 2000. According to Ginsburg, "Following the treatments, it is anticipated that I will require only routine examinations to assure my continuing good health."
It was during one of those routine examinations, 10 years later, when her screening CT scan found a single lesion, measuring about 1 centimeter across, in the center of Ginsburg's pancreas. She underwent surgery to remove the body and tail of the pancreas along with her spleen....
I also believe Justice Ginsburg sets an excellent example for older Americans. I also believe her tenacity with cancer occurrences is not unusual for any cancer sufferer.
As people age, there can have a diminished immunity that may allow cancers a chance to erupt. I also believe quality of life for 80 year olds and older is not studied enough. I think an 80 year old immune system needs to be understood better. I think the failure of the body at that age is somewhat related to the elder immune system.
Also, 80 year olds on blood thinners can die when accidents occur. They need a better answer. There is documentation in journals regarding the high incidence of deaths of 80 year olds on blood thinners. The accident isn't what kills them.
People that are diagnosed with cancer, receive treatment and have the right to continue to fight the disease. I know many people that receive regular check-ups to stay on top of the disease. I think Justice Ginsburg progress through these episodes is very standard for those that receive such diagnosis.
I wish her well and look forward to more lectures on her schedules. She has been a busy person giving lectures to those that love to hear her speak. She is quite the celebrity.
August 23, 2019
By Nina Totenberg
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (click here) has just completed three weeks of radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the U.S. Supreme Court disclosed Friday.
The radiation therapy, conducted on an outpatient basis, began Aug. 5, shortly after a localized cancerous tumor was discovered on Ginsburg's pancreas. The treatment included the insertion of a stent in Ginsburg's bile duct, according to a statement issued by the court.
Doctors at Sloan Kettering said further tests showed no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. The treatment comes just months after Ginsburg was operated on for lung cancer last December. The 86-year-old justice has battled cancer in various forms over the last 20 years....
...This isn't Ginsburg's first brush with cancer. (click here) In September 1999, she was diagnosed with colon cancer. It was found incidentally when she had gone to the doctor for an abdominal infection. She underwent a sigmoid colectomy followed by "precautionary" chemotherapy and radiation treatments which began in October and finished in June 2000. According to Ginsburg, "Following the treatments, it is anticipated that I will require only routine examinations to assure my continuing good health."
It was during one of those routine examinations, 10 years later, when her screening CT scan found a single lesion, measuring about 1 centimeter across, in the center of Ginsburg's pancreas. She underwent surgery to remove the body and tail of the pancreas along with her spleen....
I also believe Justice Ginsburg sets an excellent example for older Americans. I also believe her tenacity with cancer occurrences is not unusual for any cancer sufferer.
As people age, there can have a diminished immunity that may allow cancers a chance to erupt. I also believe quality of life for 80 year olds and older is not studied enough. I think an 80 year old immune system needs to be understood better. I think the failure of the body at that age is somewhat related to the elder immune system.
Also, 80 year olds on blood thinners can die when accidents occur. They need a better answer. There is documentation in journals regarding the high incidence of deaths of 80 year olds on blood thinners. The accident isn't what kills them.
People that are diagnosed with cancer, receive treatment and have the right to continue to fight the disease. I know many people that receive regular check-ups to stay on top of the disease. I think Justice Ginsburg progress through these episodes is very standard for those that receive such diagnosis.
I wish her well and look forward to more lectures on her schedules. She has been a busy person giving lectures to those that love to hear her speak. She is quite the celebrity.
August 23, 2019
By Nina Totenberg
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (click here) has just completed three weeks of radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the U.S. Supreme Court disclosed Friday.
The radiation therapy, conducted on an outpatient basis, began Aug. 5, shortly after a localized cancerous tumor was discovered on Ginsburg's pancreas. The treatment included the insertion of a stent in Ginsburg's bile duct, according to a statement issued by the court.
Doctors at Sloan Kettering said further tests showed no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. The treatment comes just months after Ginsburg was operated on for lung cancer last December. The 86-year-old justice has battled cancer in various forms over the last 20 years....
Recruiting American youth into White Supremacy/Nationalism/Alt Right is an act of creating child soldiers.
Anonymously written
When my son Sam,* (click here) who was then 14, asked me to take him to the Mother of All Rallies on the Mall in September 2017, I said no. The pro-Trump event was billed as a demonstration to preserve “traditional American culture,” and white supremacists were expected to show up in force. Not only was this not how I wanted to spend a Saturday—like almost everyone I knew, I’d been devastated by the 2016 election results—but I had serious concerns about safety. At Charlottesville’s Unite the Right rally only a month earlier, a neo-Nazi had killed counterprotester Heather Heyer. I couldn’t shake off the shock of her violent murder, or of watching men with tiki torches shout racist slogans across the University of Virginia grounds. Police there were unable to protect citizens; I couldn’t reasonably expect this gathering in DC to be any different...
From "Fortune," USA manufacturing took a downturn in August.
August 22, 2019
By Alex Tanzi
U.S. factory activity contracted in August (click here) for the first time since September 2009 as new orders shrank, consistent with an ongoing global manufacturing slump.
The IHS Markit manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index slipped to 49.9 from a final July reading of 50.4, according to a preliminary August report Thursday that trailed all estimates in Bloomberg’s survey of economists. Factory employment stagnated on the heels of weaker orders and subdued output.
A reading of 50 is the threshold between expansion and contraction, and the August figure adds to growing evidence that the American industrial sector is losing momentum amid tepid global economies and uncertainty about trade policy. Both domestic demand and orders from abroad shrank this month by the most in a decade...
By Alex Tanzi
U.S. factory activity contracted in August (click here) for the first time since September 2009 as new orders shrank, consistent with an ongoing global manufacturing slump.
The IHS Markit manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index slipped to 49.9 from a final July reading of 50.4, according to a preliminary August report Thursday that trailed all estimates in Bloomberg’s survey of economists. Factory employment stagnated on the heels of weaker orders and subdued output.
A reading of 50 is the threshold between expansion and contraction, and the August figure adds to growing evidence that the American industrial sector is losing momentum amid tepid global economies and uncertainty about trade policy. Both domestic demand and orders from abroad shrank this month by the most in a decade...
As is Israel's form of national defense, there is never a dialogue with regional countries in regard to their concerns.
When Israel would bomb weapons transports to Hezbollah the region was used to the fact this was a national defense act by Israel. But, if Israel is expanding its attacks into sovereign countries, there needs to be a dialogue in regard to these aggressions. There is no excuse for random and surprise attacks into Iraq. It is not preceded by an understanding as to why it is occurring. Israel is using the wrong approach to perceived threats. Suprise bombings in the region will not result in exoneration of Israel. There is no clear understanding of these acts. It is highly inflammatory if other methods of understanding are not pursued first.
Israel is not above reproach. Israel needs to be a partner in ending danger in the region otherwise it is likely to raise tensions and there is no prediction to the outcome.
August 23, 2019
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (click here) is warning of a "strong response" if it is proven that Israel was behind recent airstrikes in Iraq.
In statements issued by his office on Friday, he also said that if Israel continues to target Iraq, the country "will transform into a battle arena that drags in multiple countries, including Iran."
The comments by al-Maliki, who was Iraqi prime minister for eight years and now heads a Shiite bloc in parliament, came hours after U.S. officials confirmed that Israel was responsible for the bombing of an Iranian weapons depot in Iraq last month, an attack that would mark a significant escalation in Israel's years-long campaign against Iranian military entrenchment across the region....
Israel is not above reproach. Israel needs to be a partner in ending danger in the region otherwise it is likely to raise tensions and there is no prediction to the outcome.
August 23, 2019
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (click here) is warning of a "strong response" if it is proven that Israel was behind recent airstrikes in Iraq.
In statements issued by his office on Friday, he also said that if Israel continues to target Iraq, the country "will transform into a battle arena that drags in multiple countries, including Iran."
The comments by al-Maliki, who was Iraqi prime minister for eight years and now heads a Shiite bloc in parliament, came hours after U.S. officials confirmed that Israel was responsible for the bombing of an Iranian weapons depot in Iraq last month, an attack that would mark a significant escalation in Israel's years-long campaign against Iranian military entrenchment across the region....
The FBI and police are not waiting for the next mass killing.
By Steve Alsamy, Dave Alsup and Madeline Holcombe
Director Christopher Wray came to the leadership of the FBI at a difficult and dangerous time in the USA. After back to back mass killings in the USA a priority erupted.
Some are teenagers (click here) accused of threatening to gun down classmates. Others allegedly issued social media warnings of attacks on store customers or coworkers. Still others are said to have vowed to unleash small arsenals against victims based on their race or religion.
More than two dozen people have been arrested over threats to commit mass shootings in the weeks since 31 people were killed in one August weekend in shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio,
The raft of cases follows a directive by the FBI director immediately after those two massacres for agency offices nationwide to conduct a new threat assessment in an effort to thwart more mass attacks....
Boys within the influence of ISIS become child soldiers.
July 29, 2019
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) – The head of the United Nations (click here) special probe into Islamic State crimes has called for trials like those at Nuremberg of Nazi leaders to ensure the jihadists’ victims are heard and their ideology “debunked.”
For a year, British lawyer Karim Khan has traveled around Iraq with a team of almost 80 people to gather evidence and witness testimony for the U.N. body known as UNITAD.
“It’s a mountain to climb”, the human rights specialist told AFP, as the investigative team works to analyze up to 12,000 bodies from more than 200 mass graves, 600,000 videos of ISIS crimes and 15,000 pages from the group’s bureaucracy....
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) – The head of the United Nations (click here) special probe into Islamic State crimes has called for trials like those at Nuremberg of Nazi leaders to ensure the jihadists’ victims are heard and their ideology “debunked.”
For a year, British lawyer Karim Khan has traveled around Iraq with a team of almost 80 people to gather evidence and witness testimony for the U.N. body known as UNITAD.
“It’s a mountain to climb”, the human rights specialist told AFP, as the investigative team works to analyze up to 12,000 bodies from more than 200 mass graves, 600,000 videos of ISIS crimes and 15,000 pages from the group’s bureaucracy....
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