In the case of Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, there are many aspects of that 'relationship' that needs to be examined before it all can be placed in context.

On December 18th, (click title to entry - thank you) during a rainy afternoon in Santa Cruz, a small group converged at the Town Clock to show support for Bradley Manning and Wikileaks. People spoke with one another while Takashi Yogi peddled a bicycle-powered sound system. Most people at the demonstration stood under a portable shelter with a sign that stated, "Free Bradley Manning! We deserve the truth. Thank you WikiLeaks!"

Another demonstration in support of Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks, with speakers and a march, is in the works for Saturday, January 8th at 1pm at the Town Clock.

In regard to Bradley, there are reports of very poor treatment of the young man.  He is a citizen of the USA and his treatment SHALL NOT be worse than that of any other high security prisoner.  I am very concerned the discussion for political purposes of this incident will play out with adverse consequences to this young man, the ONLY person being detained in prison at this moment regarding the UNAUTHORIZED and PREMATURE release of this information.  In time, it would have all been released anyway as a "Freedom of Information Act" demand. 

I believe Bradley needs an 'independent observer' such as the International Red Cross to visit him and be sure he is not adversely affected.   Also, I believe his attorney needs to insist, pending the findings of the INTERNATIONAL Red Cross and possibly Amnesty International, that he be removed from the custody of the military and placed in a Super-Max or something like that where he can anonymously receive better treatment while this 'episode' in USA military priorities plays out. 

I believe the 'tensions' in the world currently were not a result of Bradley's actions, so much Bush and Cheney and that needs to be put into perspective as well.

The framers of the USA Constitutin were particular about the provisions of treason. There needs to be clear intent.

Article III, Section 3. (click here) Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

And the authority of a King or Queen wasn't the issue as it was in England, but, of the sovereignty of a nation.  Very different.  A nation is not threatened with 'its life' as a human being would be, however, it is threatened when its instutions aren't functioning and become adverse to the citizens.

An Anti-War Protest or act of journalism would never be considered treason, but, the deliberate act of the abuse of power, such as perscribed propaganda that leads to adversity of the nation would definately be treason.

Not just treasonous, but, actual deletarious impacts on the nation.

One might ask if the acts of a person is about 'control' of the nation in an adverse way.  Such as the difference between Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and Rupert Murdoch.  One might focus on THE TRUTH and what effects the 'acts' of all three of these people actually played in deleterious acts against the government.  Either they are all freedom of speech or not.

Propaganda is far more than simply words on a page, statements into a microphone or pictures and images on screens and in print. It is an intent.

...In the summer, one weather system caused oppressive heat in Russia, while farther south it caused flooding in Pakistan that inundated 62,000 square miles, about the size of Wisconsin. That single heat-and-storm system killed almost 17,000 people, more people than all the worldwide airplane crashes in the past 15 years combined....

...The excessive amount of extreme weather that dominated 2010 is a classic sign of man-made global warming that climate scientists have long warned about. They calculate that the killer Russian heat wave — setting a national record of 111 degrees — would happen once every 100,000 years without global warming.

Preliminary data show that 18 countries broke their records for the hottest day ever.

"These (weather) events would not have happened without global warming," said Kevin Trenberth, chief of climate analysis for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.

That's why the people who study disasters for a living say it would be wrong to chalk 2010 up to just another bad year.

"The Earth strikes back in cahoots with bad human decision-making," said a weary Debarati Guha Sapir, director for the World Health Organization's Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters. "It's almost as if the policies, the government policies and development policies, are helping the Earth strike back instead of protecting from it. We've created conditions where the slightest thing the Earth does is really going to have a disproportionate impact."...

...Through Nov. 30, nearly 260,000 people died in natural disasters in 2010, compared to 15,000 in 2009, according to Swiss Re. The World Health Organization, which hasn't updated its figures past Sept. 30, is just shy of 250,000. By comparison, deaths from terrorism from 1968 to 2009 were less than 115,000, according to reports by the U.S. State Department and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The last year in which natural disasters were this deadly was 1983 because of an Ethiopian drought and famine, according to WHO. Swiss Re calls it the deadliest since 1976.

The charity Oxfam says 21,000 of this year's disaster deaths are weather related....

...The year may go down as the hottest on record worldwide or at the very least in the top three, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The average global temperature through the end of October was 58.53 degrees, a shade over the previous record of 2005, according to the National Climatic Data Center.

Los Angeles had its hottest day in recorded history on Sept. 27: 113 degrees. In May, 129 set a record for Pakistan and may have been the hottest temperature recorded in an inhabited location....

...Disasters caused $222 billion in economic losses in 2010 — more than Hong Kong's economy — according to Swiss Re. That's more than usual, but not a record, Schraft said. That's because this year's disasters often struck poor areas without heavy insurance, such as Haiti....

...
A nearly 2-pound hailstone that was 8 inches in diameter fell in South Dakota in July to set a U.S. record. The storm that produced it was one of seven declared disasters for that state this year.

There was not much snow to start the Winter Olympics in a relatively balmy Vancouver, British Columbia, while the U.S. East Coast was snowbound....

...
For example, even though it sounds counterintuitive, global warming likely played a bit of a role in "Snowmageddon" earlier this year, Holland said. That's because with a warmer climate, there's more moisture in the air, which makes storms including blizzards, more intense, he said.

White House science adviser John Holdren said we should get used to climate disasters or do something about global warming: "The science is clear that we can expect more and more of these kinds of damaging events unless and until society's emissions of heat-trapping gases and particles are sharply reduced."...

The article appeared in Bloomberg.  A finanicial newprint.  It would seem when it comes to 'realizing' the catatrophic cost of the Climate Crisis, some Wall Streeters rather take aim at it rather than deny it.  THEREFORE, whom is actually using the DENIAL of the Climate Crisis as a 'wedge issue' and placing human life and commerce at risk?

Whom is committing manslaughter and government instability at the hand of nature?

It's Sunday Night

Sepultura - Refuse/Resist

Chaos A.D.
Tanks on the streets
Confronting police
Bleeding the plebs
Raging crowd
Burning cars
Bloodshed stars
Who'll be alive?!

Chaos A.D.
Army in siege
Total alarm
I'm sick of this
Inside the state
War is created
No man's land
What's this shit?!

Refuse/resist
Refuse

Chaos A.D.
Disorder unleashed
Starting to burn
Starting to lynch
Silence means death
Stand on your feet
Inner fear
Your worst enemy

Refuse/resist
Refuse/resist

One might want to know...

...how accurate the facts are before refusing and resisting.

Sepultura - Propaganda (Live 1996)

Why Don't You Get A Life And Grow Up
Why Don't You Realize That You're Fucked Up
Why Criticize What You Don't Understand
Why Change My Words, You're So Afraid

You Think You Have The Right To
Put Me Down
Propaganda Hides Your Scum
Face To Face You Don't Have A Word To Say
You Got In My Way, Now You'll Have To Pay

Don't, Don't Believe What You
See
Don't, Don't Believe What You Read
No!!!

I Know My Ways, I'm Here To Stay
I Didn't Start All This Yesterday
I'll Prove You Wrong All The Way
Life Teaches Me You're Always Alone

Don't, Don't Believe What You
See
Don't, Don't Believe What You Read
No!!!

The Republicans have no conscience. The only reason McCain is reelected is because his opposition is worse he is. That isn't saying much.

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 14: U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) moves quickly past reporters before going into the Senate Democratic Caucus luncheon in the U.S. Captiol December 14, 2010 in Washington, DC. Heavy negotiations are swirling around the Capitol as the Senate hopes to pass the tax-cut compromise bill worked out by Congressional Republicans and President Brarck Obama before the end of this week.


If President Obama says the sky is blue, the Republicans say it is green.  If President Obama states the country cannot afford tax cuts for the wealthy, the Republicans will say the country can't afford not to provide tax cuts for the wealthy.  If President Obama states it is possible to make peace with the Russians, the Republicans will state they are never going to make peace anywhere in the world.  If President Obama states the 911 Heroes need to taken care of as evidence points to their need and the needs of their family, the Republicans will say it is all in the line of work, too bad.

The Republicans are ruthless, don't care about the American people, consider them hapless slaves to the Plutocary and scoff at the needs of the nation.  They are immoral.  There is no other word. 

I congratulate President Obama and repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."  It is still yet another historic moment in the country.  It only took the entire Joint Chiefs and the Secretary of Defense to have it happen, but, it was done the right way.  Well done.

Now, if we could only help the Republicans find their moral compass on everything else, we might actually have a wonderful New Year.

Schumer slams McCain over Zadroga bill remark  (click title to entry - thank you)

Originally published: December 17, 2010 9:56 PM
Updated: December 17, 2010 10:27 PM
By DEBORAH S. MORRIS  deborah.morris@newsday.com

In a late afternoon Senate floor verbal dustup Friday, Sen. Charles Schumer lambasted Sen. John McCain for characterizing time spent debating the Zadroga 9/11 health bill as "fooling around."

Congressional Democrats were working to secure Senate ratification of a new arms control treaty before the holiday break when Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) asked if there could be a "time agreement" on the debate, as it was getting late.

McCain (R-Ariz.) dismissed the idea, saying that, "after all the fooling around that we've been doing on the DREAM act, on New York City, on all of these other issues that [have] taken up our time, we will not have a time agreement . . . until all members on this [the Republican] side have had an opportunity to express their views."…

Secretary Jackson and Secretary Solis need to pick up the pieces where the Bush/Cheney Administration completely failed.

As death toll of 9/11 responders nears 1,000, pols want autopsy standards to pinpoint causes  (click title to entry - thank you)

BY Michael Mcauliff DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

Thursday, November 11th 2010, 4:00 AM

WASHINGTON - The staggering death toll for Ground Zero responders has soared past 916 - and still no one knows what really killed them.
Now, nine years after the terror attacks, doctors and some New York lawmakers are urging the federal Department of Health and Human Services to draft autopsy protocols to pinpoint 9/11-related fatalities, the Daily News has learned.
Astonishingly, there are no written standards to help doctors diagnose post-9/11 deaths, leaving a void that's wreaked enormous emotional pain and conflict on survivors....

The USA Senate is incapable of providing important health care for the responders of September 11, 2001.  The problem is that nine year later the death toll  to those events are still climbing.  I don't see ANY difference between the people that died on 'the day' of violence or the people that died years later 'in response' to the violence.

The death toll to the responders are a full third of the deaths of the victims that occurred on September 11, 2010.  The suvivors to this tragedy were provided with vast support.  There may still be lawsuits by some of the surviving families, but, for the most part the survivors received compensation for their loss.

The Obama Administration needs to consider a dual approach to the lingering 'death toll' from September 11th.  They should tackle the problem of performing forensics to determine the exact pollutants that are causing the deaths of persons nine years later.  For this many people to die of expose to a collapsed sky-scraper complex is alarming. 

The rubble from the collapsed World Trade Towers burned for a very, very long time after the collapse.  In that is the reality there was literally a burning landfill at the site which exposed workers to airborne pollutants that were also 'hot.'  The 'particulates' in the air must have been as much gaseous as well as microscopic as the smoltering continued.

It is up to the current Labor Secretary and EPA Secretary to come to the aid of these people.  It is also up to the Obama Justice Department and possibly the President himself to determine how the survivors to the responders can receive compensation no different than the victimx families.

I have a great deal of confidence the Obama Administration and his cabinet can obtain the best resolve to this American tragedy and perhaps next year, all the victims, including the responders, will have some resolve to their losses.

From a grateful nation, Mr. President.

Perhaps this will allow insight to the USA cities that can't get their minds around the Climate Crisis.

Predicted flooding in Brisbane's eastern suburbs if the sea level rises by 1.1 metres.
Photo: Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information.

How about that?  The Plutocracy has destroyed real estate values at the very time they are expecting them to go underwater.

Hm.

Do any of the CEOs stop to realize BOTH demoralizing events could have been avoided?

...Maps released this week (click title to entry - thank you)  show low-lying Brisbane suburbs, including Hemmant, Northgate, Strathpine, Bald Hills and Tingalpa, are most likely to be affected by sea level rises by the year 2100.

Suburbs along the Brisbane River, including Bulimba, New Farm and Woolloongabba, are also at risk of being flooded more frequently....

"We have had a lot of people move to Brisbane and they have chosen to live near this beautiful, idyllic little creek in suburbia. I'm afraid they don't know that it could turn into a raging torrent " 


Predicted flooding in Brisbane's southern suburbs if the sea level rises by 1.1 metres.

 Photo: Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information.

Search continues in rough seas, toll at 30 (click here)

11:30 AM Friday Dec 17, 2010

...Navy and customs officers plucked 42 survivors - including nine children - from the raging surf off the island in the Indian Ocean soon after their boat broke apart and sank.
Australia's Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor said the bodies of a man and a boy aged about 11 had been found in the water by divers early today, raising the death toll to 30.
The boat, carrying up to 100 asylum seekers of Iraqi, Iranian and Kurdish origin, smashed into the jagged, limestone cliffs of Christmas Island, plunging the passengers into massive waves that battered them against the rocks.
Twelve men, nine women and seven children - including four infants - were among the dead, the Customs and Border Protection Service said....

Economic Liberty

Dylan Ratigan has a real passion for returning work to the American people. (click title to entry - thank you)

He is adopting the Liberty Bell for the purpose.

I have never seen the Liberty Bell.  I wanted to this past summer, but, I was called home due to my Father's illness.

Nice sentitment.  I hope Dylan is successful.

Commentary about liberals and liberalism doesn't get more demented than this.

Something tells me the morons actually miss "W."  How convenient to have a 'father figure' to make 'every thing okay.'

This Palinesque Blase Attitude about anything othter than extremism is some of the worst 'mind speak' I have ever witnessed.

Where does anyone in their right mind even begin to state this is a 'DRAMATIC FALL.' 

Hello?

I think Patrick's father died and the chronic LOSSES suffered by the Kennedy family has to take a toll as some point. 

My god. 

By ABBY GOODNOUGH

Published: December 16, 2010

...“This is a family that once had the presidency and two Senate seats, and they’re now down to the mayor of Santa Monica,” said Darrell M. West, a Brookings Institute scholar. “It’s a pretty dramatic fall, and it’s symbolic of the decline of liberalism.”...

The Kennedy family has been a backbone to the changes this country instituted on so many fronts, especially Civil Rights.  Where does any American  from the gall to begin to see this magnifident American family in some kind of defeat as if packing up with their tail  between their legs.

Ludicrous only begins to describe it.

The Right Wing Morons are so hungry for their money they are chomping at the bit for any kind of demise of some of the most magnificient Americans that lived.

I could begin with Joe Kennedy, a war hero that died with a return to service after having the ability to complete his service and return home.  The family lineage goes on from there and the toll 'service to country' took on them is more than any family should be asked to bear.

Normally, an assassinated President and Brother would have discouraged any other member of the family, but, both surviving Kennedy brothers went on to carry out the work of the nation without so much as a blink at their potential demise, which was realized with Bobby.

The Kennedy family has added to the landscape of Amerikana for decades of time that cannot and will not be erased.  My gratitude for their service to the country will always exist without a doubt.  They have inspired leaders that followed them, besides their family members such as Patrick, the Clintons were more than a disciple to the guardianship of sincere liberty to all Americans. 

People like Goodnough want anxiously to PLANT as sign stating "Liberalism is Dead," long live Sarah and the Momma Gizzlies.  I guess being a 'real American' has gone out of style in some ways being replaced by ME, ME AND ONLY ME.

If anything, the tombstone should read, "The USA is Dead, Long Live the Plutocracy and Greed."

Senator Ted Kennedy's death marks an end of an era. (click here)  The larger than life Kennedy family played an important role in American politics for decades. John F. Kennedy served in Congress from 1947 through 1960 and became President of the United States in 1960 before his assassination in 1963. Robert F. Kennedy was the United States Attorney General and a U.S. Senator from New York until his assassination in 1968....

'Gratefully, the American people aren't as dim as their press."

Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history  (click here)

May 1st, 2008

02:30 PM ET

..."No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland....

If this was actually about rape it would be ludicrous. I do worry about the two women in the middle of all this, too.

...A British judged decided Thursday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be freed on bail with conditions, rejecting the Crown's appeal to an earlier court's decision to grant bail to the public face of the secret-spilling website.

Mr. Assange is to return to court Jan. 11 for an extradition hearing. The judge said if he absconded, Mr. Assange would make supporters, including director Michael Moore, look "naive, foolish and deceitful."...

The Huffington Post's Naomi Wolf is publishing some interesting articles regarding the rape charges, too.

...I started working (click here) as a counselor in a UK center for victims of sexual assault in my mid-twenties. I also worked as a counselor in a battered women's shelter in the US, where sexual violence was often part of the pattern of abuse. I have since spent two decades traveling the world reporting on and interviewing survivors of sexual assault, and their advocates, in countries as diverse as Sierra Leone and Morocco, Norway and Holland, Israel and Jordan and the Occupied Territories, Bosnia and Croatia, Britain, Ireland and the united States....

I worry the women's lives have been completely disrupted at some level and their safety is a concern.

...The fantasy is that somehow this treatment (click here) -- a global manhunt, solitary confinement in the Victorian cell that drove Oscar Wilde to suicidal despair within a matter of days, and now a bracelet tracking his movements -- is not atypical, because somehow Sweden must be a progressively hot-blooded but still progressively post-feminist paradise for sexual norms in which any woman in any context can bring the full force of the law against any man who oversteps any sexual boundary.
Well, I was in Norway in March of this year at a global gathering for women leaders on International Women's Day, and heard extensively from specialists in sex crime and victims' rights in Sweden. So I knew this position taken by the male-dominated US, British and Swedish media was, basically, horsesh-t....

Troops out now.

...Taliban momentum (click title to entry - thank you)  has been "arrested in much of the country and reversed in some key areas, although these gains remain fragile and reversible", the five-page summary said.
The review indicated that the administration was "setting conditions" to begin the "responsible reduction" of troops in July.

The overview of the long-awaited report contained little evidence to back up its conclusions and is considerably more upbeat than a separate, gloomier report carried out by the US National Intelligence Estimates. This report, which represents the collective view of 16 US agencies including the CIA, said the chance of success was limited unless Pakistan tackled safe havens for the Taliban along its side of the border....

I honestly don't know where to begin the insults anymore. I have listened to decades of stupidity and it doesn't get any better.

Complain to the website regarding the graphic nature of the definition.  I don't want to hear it.  It is  by far the best description of a Republican and Tea Party idiot that I can find.

dolt (click here) - A mental retard who is clueless not only about current events, but also has the IQ level of a rock. "Dolt" may be the most sophisticated insult in the English language. Dolts commonly populate such stereotypes as jocks, nerds, fruits, bookworms, and dorks.

You're a dolt.

Last night while I slept, Paul Rivere came riding through my dreams crying, "The Plutocrats are coming.  The Plutocrats are coming."  Woke me out of a dead sleep.

When Ronald Reagan was in office, it was that the Homeless have a right to be homeless in the USA.  That was the most amazing statement I thought I would ever hear from a United States President.  The man that stood at the Berlin Wall yelling to Mr. Gorbachev was now PROUD of the fact in the USA citizens have a right to sleep over a heating vent in the street.

Amazing.  How ludicrous does it get?  At least in some countries the HAVES take their responsibility of 'BROTHERHOOD' seriously.

Now after the greatest and most ludicrous economic collapse that would have been worse then the Great Depression if President Obama didn't come riding to the rescue of the country, the people of the USA have the right to not only be frisked by Wall Street, lose their homes to foreclosure, be homeless and jobless due to out sourcing for profit, but, they can also have the right to die for their country in the street so the HAVES can pocket the profits.

I have never heard anything as ludicrous as the decisions made in Virginia and the political fodder afterward in my entire life. 

When are the Plutocrats, including Reaganites, ever going to 'get it?' 

NEVER?

I can't wait until the USA Senate is AGAIN a majority by 51 votes. 

Every person in the USA is allowed to define and have their own culture.  They are allowed to share it and have it grow.  The Right Wing Dolts of the country seem to believe the ONLY aspect of life that is important is CULTURE.

They have it hugely "W"rong.

They have had it hugely "W"rong for decades of time and they just don't 'get it.' 

Dying in the streets of the USA from Plutocratic decisions in the private sector is NOT LIBERTY.

Pursing life, liberty and happiness REQUIRES one is breathing.

The mandate received by President Obama in the 2008 elections is completely obvious.  He was to save this country right Right Wing idiots that only learned to count money in school.

Liberty is NOT about money.  It is about the personal freedoms generations of Americans have died to protect.

It is about every American being able to reach beyond their current 'status' in life and achieve it.  It is not about bailing out banks that push an entire global economy over the edge while working people lose their homes to collapsing economies.

It is about enjoying the advancements of society as each generation is promised a more fulfilling life than the one before and fulfilling does not mean a person has reached millionaire or billionaire status at the cost of others suffering.

Foreclosure, homelessness and death by CEO Health Care Industry decision is NOT a right in the USA.  It is an unfortunate state of affairs NO ONE, including the Right Wing anybody should be proud of.  Being proud of THOSE values is political ambition and NOT morality.  Being at chronic war is not a STATUS symbol we should all be proud of either.  It is why the people of Russia seem to be taking pride in their President signing the S.T.A.R.T. agreement.  I like Russians.  They like us.  They want peace and so do I.  They want to save endangered species and host all kinds of world class games. 

Being communist is NOT a precursor to being as ludicrous and stupid as the American Plutocrats are.  I especially like the Russian people for all the compassion they show in this world toward each other and the world in general.  The Presidents and Prime Ministers of that country have helped move their country to a place where productive dialogue can happen.  That is an achievement that the Plutocrats in the USA can't seem to get their minds around.

Why is that?  Why is it that a Russian President signed a treaty to return nuclear sanity to the world?  Why is it that a Russia Prime Minister is more interested in saving endangered species on a warming planet than a Republican USA President? 

I have to put up with Freedom of Speech at any cost, but, I sure as hell don't have to put up with idiocy and immorality at any cost. 

No different than a Republican that can't get their minds around the threat to arctic Polar Bears due to the Climate Crisis, we now have dead Americans due to the Climate Crisis.  Why does it make sense to SAVE THE POLAR BEAR?  I wonder.

Republicans rather pocket the cash, run up American debt to the peril of the fiscal stability of the country and have Americans die in the street because of misfortunte brought on by the Plutocratic priorities of Wall Street than EVER believe in sincere morality.  Somehow, yelling out patriotism at every rally has this 'wholesomeness' that citizrens want to believe is actually virtuous while people die in the streets of the USA by the same idiot decision makers.

(CBS)  When President Obama (click here) spoke of "the winter of our hardship" in his inaugural address, no one in America understood that better than the folks 60 Minutes met in Wilmington, Ohio. They're people in the grip of a brutal series of layoffs at DHL, the shipping company. Their experience was part of the news this past week that new claims for unemployment benefits are the highest in 26 years.

Since the economic crash of 2008, taxpayers have committed to more than $1 trillion in various bailouts of Wall Street. But not much of that is reaching families in crisis. On kitchen tables, headlines from Washington and New York lie beside unpaid tuition bills and foreclosure notices. After all the speeches and parties of Inauguration Day, what were the families in Wilmington asking?...

..."We could tell you what we did on a daily basis, but you wouldn't believe it. You know, boxes in a big container, and it'll weigh 800 pounds, you push it out the door through eight inches of snow, and push it up on a barge, and we were idiots enough that we did it by ourselves. We worked as a team, and we had a good friend right along side of us," Keith Rider tells correspondent Scott Pelley....

...The mayor told 60 Minutes one out of three households has a family member working at the air park.

Angela and John Pica are raising four children on two air park salaries. Angela started at Airborne Express when she was 19. Now, as a supervisor, she walks laid off workers to the company gate and takes their ID badges away.

"Today, I escorted five individuals out today. Last week, I think I escorted three," she tells Pelley.

Asked what the last thing is she says to them, Pica says, "I tell them that I wish them the best. And it has been a pleasure, working with every one of them, because they're a great bunch of people. And they deserve so much better than this."

Think LOCAL ECONOMY.  Think 'truly' Small Business.  Save your lives and your children's lives from the Plutocracy. 

 Do it TODAY !

...On 13 December 2010 the investor (click here) and trader community that has recently calmed down was simply dumbfounded by the announcement made by one of the world’s most trustworthy rating agencies, Moody’s. It forecasted that it might decrease US investment rating in 2012. According to Moody’s analysts, the economic situation in the US is getting worse and ‘is suffering’ because of an extension of tax benefits adopted as a compromise by US Congress upon agreement reached between Republicans and Democrats. What forecasts about the US are behind such rather strange wording of Moody’s?...

Now why doesn't everyone tell us who EXACTLY is fiscally responsible?  The President or the Right Wing Plutocrats and their defunct economic ideologies?

Since the Bush/Cheney adminstration parked missiles at Russian borders, the Russians have been serious about new capacity.

The new Russian ICBM is smaller, can be more easily carried in larger numbers and is as accurate as it reaches within 1000 feet of a targeted site.  Launch failures will be overcome in a matter of time. 

The new missiles may look a bit unreliable at this time, but, the Topols are still active.  The new ICBMs from Russia are designed to overcome "Star Wars."  They can be launched in multiples with deployment of multiple warheads.  The "Star Wars" 'response' would have to be huge in order to overcome the Russian nuclear capacity.  In other words, there would be some ICBMs destroyed by a successful 'Star Wars' program, but, there would be many that would find their targets.  It makes "Star Wars" mute.

The new Russian subs are impressive.  I remember the launch of one a few years ago.  A START Treaty is more than a good idea.

It is time to 'start' START.

...Repeating failures (click here) have drawn much scrutiny and attention to the Bulava, but the Russian Navy insists there is no alternative to the missile. The missile started engine flight tests from ground launch pads in 2004. The first two sea launches in September and December 2005 were successful....

...Bulava was scheduled to equip the new Project 955 Borei class submarines, which will replace the older Typhoon class nuclear powered missile subs currently in service. The lead submarine Yury Dolgoruky was scheduled to receive its complement of 12 Bulava missiles around 2008, while two sister ships Alexander Nevsky and Vladimir Monomakh will be completed in 2008 and 2010. Delays in the completion of the SSBM will undoubtedly push back the commissioning of the new submarines.

Bulava -Nuclear, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile - Misil balístico in...

Bulava, Topol, Sineva: successful launches

How is all that Climate Crisis denial working for you folks?

Collapsed Plutocratic icon domes, freezing produce, record highs in the summer, record lows in the winter.

Well, it would seem as though things are GETTING worse, wouldn't you say?

MIAMI — Parts of Florida (click title to entry - thank you)  woke up to freezing temperatures on Tuesday, with some cities setting records for a Dec. 7 and others expecting to break records on Wednesday.

Fort Lauderdale at 40 degrees (42), and Vero Beach at 31 degrees (38), the National Weather Service reported.....

Sadly, the GOP is about as corrupt as it comes.

Cuccinelli, (click title to entry - thank you) who was elected to his current post in 2009, had brought the suit -- insisting that requiring people to purchase insurance violated a Virginia statute.
The case, which now seems almost certainly headed for the Supreme Court, will cast Cuccinelli -- already a conservative darling -- as the face of the attempts to repeal the president's signature policy achievement of his first two years in office....

Attorney General Cucinnelli took office in January of 2011 and already his ambitions are taking him for a Governor's race in 2013.

Ken Cuccinelli for Governor 2013 (Facebook - click here)

Now I realize simply being an Attorney General and having political ambtions does not indict wrong doing, but, MORALLY this guy is more about his own ambition than he is about the people.

The Cuccinelli EXTREMISM is even too much for the Virginai Governor.

By From staff and wire reports
Published: March 11, 2010

RICHMOND — Gov. Bob McDonnell directed state agencies not to discriminate against gay people in employment practices Wednesday, essentially overriding the Virginia attorney general’s advice to public colleges....

I believe Cucinnelle is seeing his strength as a Tea Bagger and not a Republican, actually.

Cuccinelli looks like presidential timber; but is Christie dead wood? (click here)

Published: Monday, December 13, 2010, 9:12 PM     Updated: Monday, December 13, 2010, 11:24 PM

The decision by a federal appeals court in Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's effort to reverse the individual health-care mandate has a lot of peopletouting Cucinellie for president in 2012.
That's not good news for Chris Christie. Our governor has been famously noncommittal on the mandate, which is perhaps the greatest expansion of the federal government's power since the New Deal.
All conservatives reacted reflexively in opposition to the mandate. The federal government has never before required all American citizens to contract with a private company to buy a product we may or may not want.
The mainstream Republican Party was a bit slow to get the point. The Beltway Republicans backed Mitt Romney in 2008, despite the fact that the health-care plan he initiated as governor of Massachusetts was the forerunner of Obamacare....

So, at this point, there are serious concerns to the focus of the Attorney General of Virginia.  It would seem as though his ambition was in place before his run for AG and that office is meerly a stepping stone.  To say his focus is dangerous is an understatement.  At this point if his extremism continues and is followed up by leagal action against civil rights, etc., impeachment should be a focus.  Cucinelli and his ambitious, activist Judge are excercing abuse of power with little concern for the citizens of Virginia or otherwise.

Obamacare victory launches Cuccinelli to national stage  (click here)

By: Stephen Groves 12/13/10 8:05 PM
OpEd Contributor

"What you see with Cuccinelli is what you get," say fans, foes and observers of Virginia General Attorney Ken Cuccinelli, R, who scored a victory in round one of his lawsuit against the health insurance mandate on Monday. In the 4th District Court in Richmond, Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled the insurance mandate, a part of Obamacare that hasn't yet gone into effect, is unconstitutional.
"This case is not about health insurance. It is not about health care. It's about liberty," Cuccinelli said at a press conference on Monday. "We've won the first round of this particular fight, but we know there are others to come."
This is the first serious case against the health insurance mandate that a judge has ruled in favor of those challenging its constitutionality. And conservatives say there isn't a better person to carry the banner.
"He's bold," said Richard Viguerie, the conservative direct mailer who runs ConservativeHQ.com and mentors Cuccinelli. "He doesn't wait for others to take action."...

Wouldn't it be nice to be the ONLY Judge to rule against the Federal government, have the AG plaintiff become president and then receive a nomination into the Supreme Court when Scalia retires.

My, my.  What ambition we actually have.