#Occupy is an incredible movement by this generation of Americans.

A sign is seen posted between tents at the Occupy Oakland encampment Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland is bracing for Wednesday's citywide general strike, a hastily planned and ambitious...   (Associated Press)

It is some of the worst police work I have ever witnessed.  The police are confrontational and hostile.  The demonstrators have never given them a reason to act.  This is a peaceful and nonviolent movement.  The demonstrators are joined by vast numbers of people in support of their positon.  They do nothing but assert their RIGHTS under the US Constitution.

The police appear out of nowhere with ORDERS from headquarters, announce their demands and don't even give people a chance to process what is going on before they become aggressive and out of control themselves.  It is police brutality, plain and simple.  It needs to stop.

The only acts of violence by the demonstrators are in reaction to the aggression they are faced with.  If police want to incite violence then they are successful in doing so.  Any person when confronted will seek to defend themselves.

The 'style' of reporting in The Guardian, a British newsprint, is punitive to demonstrators.  The Brits have very violent confrontations by their demonstrators due to aggressive police tactics.  This is the same style reporting that landed three journalists at the World Court on charges of genocide.  It is hostile to human life and attempts to deny Americans their rights under the law, while demonizing them. 

Occupy Oakland general strike – live updates (click title to entry - thank you)

...At least one protester was carried away with an injury to his leg. Another who had been arrested, his hands bound behind him, lay on the ground with blood streaming down his face.
Police estimated around 60 protesters had been arrested. Dozens of them were lined up seated along a street curb in plastic wrist restraints as they waited to be taken away.
One of them, Adam Konner, 29, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, said he heard a police announcement ordering "campers to move back to your tents," before police advanced again.
"I was trying to figure what they were saying. I was trying to figure out if I could go back into the plaza," he told Reuters. He said he was suddenly confronted by police who knocked him to the ground and placed him under arrest....

There is a very real reason why this generation is as successful as they are; they are only the 'representative' number of people who know the ? new normal ? for the American citizen.  This generation is carrying 'the shame' of this nation into the streets, but, they are joined by everyone else in their focus.  So, when the demonstrators are confronted by authority that results in harming them the people that turn out after the fact have been there the entire time.  I like to think of the people in support of this movement as "Ghost Riders."  They are always there, but, just not present at the time, but, trying to keep the nation afloat while being vigilant of 'the truth.'  "# Occupy" will never be alone or abandoned by the Ghost Riders.

There are many Americans that work in this industry all over this country.

I would urge the National Restaurant Association to honor the Americans that work for them and release any binding agreement regarding sexual harassment claims in regard to the Cain for President campaign. He is running for the highest office in the land. The NRA should be doing what is best for the country and for its association members and employees.

Oops, coal ash in Lake Michigan, Who knew? Fishing anyone? A little recreational boating maybe?

The site of a bluff collapse at the We Energies Oak Creek Power Plant in Oak Creek, Wis. is shown Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. A section of cliff the size of a football field gave way Monday at the southeastern Wisconsin power plant, creating a mudslide that sent a pickup truck and other equipment tumbling into Lake Michigan and swept several construction trailers toward the beach. (AP Photo/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Mark Hoffman)

From the "Charleston Gazette"

Did the Republicans say DEREGULATION? 

How about regulations at all?

Wisconsin coal-ash spill renews calls for federal rules (click title to entry - thank you)

And leave our farmland in hands of whom exactly? 

The Energy Sector? 

I don't think so.


November 1, 2011 by Ken Ward Jr.

A super-saturated type of ash – used to help fill in a ravine more than 50 years ago at a We Energies power plant – may have triggered a massive landslide there Monday, sending that hazardous material and others funneling into Lake Michigan.

From "Dredging Today.com"

That appears (click here) to be the cause of the mudslide at the coal-fired power plant, said Frank Schultz, waste and materials management supervisor for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’s southeast region.

Coal ash – which is the byproduct of burned coal and includes the tiny particles called “fly ash,” which used to vent out of smokestacks into the atmosphere – was used in the 1950s and 1960s to fill in a ravine that existed on the property, Schultz said. It was an unlicensed landfill then, he explained, and Monday morning’s mudslide began over that ravine.

“When (fly ash) gets too much water on it, the weight of the water helps it to flow down. (But) how did water get in there?” Schultz asked Tuesday. “The cap on the material was in place. Apparently, that capping wasn’t enough in this case.”...

The Keystone Pipeline is the worst pipe dream of the petroleum industry to date.

There are three distinctive reasons why the Keystone Pipeline is NOT a viable project.

1.  The extraction of oil from oil sands results in a NEGATIVE energy return.  The process uses an intense amount of energy to extract oil from sand and the process leaves a large carbon footprint.  When the process is finished the oil produces less energy than the process that extracted it.

2,  Besides the aquifers involved in the USA, there is senstive farmland facing drought that could be damaged if an accident occurs.  With fisheries threatened by deep water oil drilling and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana losing its fisheries to gross imbalance of toxins in the water; the primary source of grain that frequently feeds the world is the USA Midwest.  It is grossly unwise to allow ANY RISK of these lands, yet alone the water supply to them and the people that live there.  These agricultural lands have to be maintained in pristine condition without ANY THREAT to adverse outcomes including oil spills and gas explosions. 

3.  The environmental damage in Canada cannot be ignored by the USA in the processing of the oil sands.  If Canadians beieve destroying valuable lands where wildlife flourishes is okay then they can use the oil they extract in Canada without a pipeline across the most valuable agricutlural lands in the world.  Canada imports oil and needs these extractions more than the USA for the sincere energy cost they require and the environmental damage they cause.

Has the petroleum industry no conscience at all?  I think not.

If actions speak louder than words, then the petroleum industry is more immoral everyday. 

Desperate and immoral.  We don't want it and for God sakes leave the USA some decency and productive farm land.

While it is a good idea to track the debris from the tsunami that hit Japan after the earthquake...

...there is a chance it is not only a floating junk yard, but, also a radioactive floating junk yard.

NOAA (click title to entry - thank you) has predicted possible trajectories for the debris field using OSCURS (Ocean Surface Current Simulator) Year 1 = red; Year 2 = orange; Year 3 = yellow; Year 4 = light blue; Year 5 = violet Photo: Courtesy of J. Churnside, NOAA; created using Google

While I applaud Senator Daniel Inouye for his reaction to the information of the floating debris, it would be better if the UN Maritime Law Group asked the nations in the region, including Australia and Indonesia to act together to remove the debris and stop its journey.  If it is found to be radioactive, the entire ocean could be in peril along with fisheries and human beings.  I do believe there is a basis in Maritime Law that would allow for such international cooperation beyond sovereign borders.  If not the UN Security Council could take up the issue for a resolution.

Inouye Steps Up With Money for Tsunami Debris Cleanup (click here)

By Sophie Cocke 11/01/2011

Scientists worried about tons of debris from the March tsunami in Japan approaching U.S. shores unchecked have gotten some help from U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye.
Hawaii's senior senator was able to insert $1 million into an appropriations bill passed by the Senate on Tuesday, according to a press release from Inouye's office.
Scientists and government officials estimate as much as 25 million tons of debris from the tsunami are headed toward Hawaii and the West Coast, and could begin washing up on coastlines as early as next year....

The difference between the way the GOP pays for infrastructure projects is the polar opposite of the way President Obama pays for them.

The Wall Street Journal is attempting to create the image that the Republican Governors elected in 2012 are "Obamaesque" but without the tax liability of the President's "American Job Act."

That is true, the Republican Governors are more than happy to use the Presidents proposals but to fund them on the backs of the Middle Class and Poor.  That is the difference.  The President wants to close loopholes to pay for the American Jobs Act, while the Republican Governors have absolutely problem further burdening the majority of taxpayers making less than $200,000 per year. 

I have a question.  For the amount of fuss the GOP raises over taxing those above $200,000 because there are many small businesses in that bracket, aren't their actually MORE sincerely small businesses in the tax bracket under $200,000?  So, why tax them more?  Taxing the lower income people will only sink them further in debt away from prospering and increasing their need for employees?  It is ridiculous what the GOP Governors are doing to their states.  They aren't giving the lower tax brackets a fighting chance at buying homes or improving their businesses to increase their wealth. 

The GOP is not a good party to benefit the American people.  They are draconian and ideological and corrupt.  The only resemblance the GOP Governors have to President Obama is the fact they have copied his priorities; proving once and for all, the Republicans have no ideas and the President is 100% correct on the economy.  The GOP causes more contracture in the USA economy and do not help the country recover.

...Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (click title to entry - thank you) has cut business taxes, signed a balanced budget and squeezed the state bureaucracy, achievements his fellow Michigan Republicans hope to use to help defeat President Obama here in 2012.

Mr. Snyder also has proposed spending billions of dollars on roads, bridges, broadband service and mass transit—the kind of programs advocated by Mr. Obama and scorned by many Republicans as a waste of money....

Speaker Boner's House took time to reaffirm the nation's motto? Really?

Was it that they didn't know it? 

If the USA House is looking for divine intervention with the economy, they have to look no further than #Occupy, because the movement is working hard and suffering adversity to remove the money changers from the country.

No need for a thank you, either.  Great patriots would have done it anyway.

…Senator Tom Harkin, (click here) an Iowa Democrat, and Representative Peter DeFazio, an Oregon Democrat, will introduce the bills tomorrow in their respective chambers. The bills will give the United States an increased role in the international debate over a transaction tax, which is likely to be discussed at the Group of 20 summit this week in Cannes, France.

“It’s a significant way to raise some needed revenue,” Harkin said in an interview today in Washington. “Quite frankly, I bet nobody would even feel it.”

The European Union in September proposed a financial- transaction tax that would take effect in 2014 and raise about $57 billion euros ($78 billion) a year. Germany and France have led a push for global implementation….

And in regard to the Visitor Center that is actually a fallout shelter for Congress, I like "E Pluribus Unum" better.  "In God We Trust" is alienating to people that are of a different understanding.  A visitor center should be inclusive and not exclusive.  All the great patriotic movements in the USA, including the civil rights movement, found strength and influence in a common understanding, common ground if you will.  Of many comes one.  That is the USA, to every person within its borders.

The transaction tax is most appropriate given the times we are facing.  To realize a transaction tax as a global revenue is to realize JUSTICE to the dynamics at play within the markets and the exorbitant profits of corporations.

If corporations are to be considered persons as the Roberts' court would see it, then they are among the wealthy in the USA and need to be taxed to their income levels as any citizen would be.  The Super Committee needs to use the Simpson-Bowles Tax Restructuring Model to effect sincere changes in the revenues of the USA. 

Deepest sympathies to the Rodham family. I am sure Hillary feels the lose of her mother.

It is wonderful she was at the wedding. 

Secretary of State (click title to entry - thank you) Hillary Clinton’s mother, Dorothy Howell Rodham, died Tuesday morning, shortly after midnight. She was 92....

...Rodham, who has lived with Bill and Hillary Clinton outside  Washington since 2006, fell ill Monday night. She died at Georgetown University Hospital, surrounded by family, according to the Clinton family’s statement.

I can't help but wonder if the family has a charity in mind for donations.  I understand they are a private family and this is a difficult time, but, I am confident there are many in the USA and around the globe that would like to express their support of the family in a small way.

An old fort, an amazing history and the economy. The fort was shuttered in 2005, but, now stands as a victory during the Civil War.

Fort Monroe the stategic headquarters of Robert E. Lee.  It has played a significant role in the nation's history from its beginnings.

President Obama has never waivered on his outlook for the USA economy.  He stated from the beginning the recovery would find victory in small attempts to restore jobs.  While the car companies have been a victory for his administration, the fact that he seeks every opportunity of his Presidency to return the American economy to function is exampled by Fort Monroe.  I don't know why the military was removed from the fort in 2005, the history is far too important.  Fort Monroe stands as a symbol of our human rights commitment, the freedom of all people and the longing for the USA to have all people created equal.  It is a valuable historic site and should have been preserved as such long ago.

...Using his authority (click title to entry - thank you) under a century-old law, Obama signed a proclamation designating Fort Monroe a national monument. That saves it from major development and preserves its history for generations.

At a signing ceremony in the Oval Office, Obama said the fort had played a "remarkable role in the history of our nation." He said he looked forward to visiting and taking daughters Malia and Sasha along to "get a sense of their history."

The fort and the land it sits on are historically significant because it was where Dutch traders first brought enslaved Africans in 1619. It remained in Union possession during the Civil War and became a place where escaped slaves could find refuge. Confederate President Jefferson Davis also was imprisoned there after the Civil War.

Obama said the fort also helped create the environment that led President Abraham Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation....

...Beyond the historical issues, Obama noted the economic value of Fort Monroe's designation as a national monument. He said local officials have estimated that a plan for reusing the site would help create nearly 3,000 jobs in next-door Virginia. Obama won the commonwealth in 2008 and it may prove crucial to his re-election bid....

There is an increasing death toll due to the recent east coast storm.

Previous to the storm the eastern USA sincerely didn't need the moisture.  There are still large areas of the south and the middle of the country suffering from drought.

US Drought Monitor 10/25/11

Why states do not demand electric grid wires delivering electricity to homes and businesses to be buried underground has always been a quandary to me.  The number of climate scientists that line the hallway of understanding are not numbering in the millions, quite the contrary, they are doing the best they can with the capacity available to them in the way of brain trusts throughout the world.  Their focus on huge rain events will bring the best use of the talent as these events effect larger numbers of people on a global basis.  To realize a snow storm is a huge frozen storm will help put it into context currently being studied.  The sincerely cold event which have claimed the lives of at least 13 Americans to date disappeared within 24 hours of its arrival.  That is not normal and it is not a winter weather pattern.  This was a 'chance' storm due to the mixing of the frigid air displaced over the Artic Ocean to lower latitudes meeting up with a heat transfer system which is the mechanism of the cold air displacement.  The storm was not an early arrival of winter, but, a Climate Crisis storm which occurred due to the global physics of Earth.

Within in days of the storm the temperatures across the country are above freezing except for higher elevations.  Noted in drought areas, the temperature does not have to be extremely high to suffer drought.

13 dead, millions without power after rare storm (click here)

...Theo Brinkerhoff, 4, who planned to dress as a ghost on Monday but was forced to wear a heavy sweater and snow boots under his costume to keep warm, refused to believe it was the bewitching autumn holiday.
"It's not Halloween, because it's still winter," he said while visiting grandparents in Amherst, Massachusetts, a town still mostly in the dark.
Many roads were still barricaded to steer traffic away from downed trees and power lines. Utility officials said the storm caused more tree damage than most winter storms because leaves had not yet fallen so trees caught far more snow than usual.
"It was like wet cement that just adhered to trees, branches, leaves and power lines," said David Graves, spokesman for utility National Grid.
"That's what really caused the damage, the weight of that snow," he said....

In this Oct. 31, 2011 file photo, Thai residents carry their belongings along floods as they move to higher ground at Bangkok's Don Muang district, Thailand. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

(AP) 

WASHINGTON - Freakish weather disasters (click title to entry - thank you) — from the sudden October snowstorm in the Northeast U.S. to the record floods in Thailand — are striking more often. And global warming is likely to spawn more similar weather extremes at a huge cost, says a draft summary of an international climate report obtained by The Associated Press.

The final draft of the report from a panel of the world's top climate scientists paints a wild future for a world already weary of weather catastrophes costing billions of dollars. The report says costs will rise and perhaps some locations will become "increasingly marginal as places to live."

The report from the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be issued in a few weeks, after a meeting in Uganda. It says there is at least a 2-in-3 probability that climate extremes have already worsened because of man-made greenhouse gases.\

This marks a change in climate science from focusing on subtle changes in daily average temperatures to concentrating on the harder-to-analyze freak events that grab headlines, cause economic damage and kill people. The most recent bizarre weather extreme, the pre-Halloween snowstorm in the U.S., is typical of the damage climate scientists warn will occur — but it's not typical of the events they tie to global warming....

I congratulate President Obama on his latest Executive Order, it was long overdue.

Washington, DC
Monday, October 31, 2011

President Obama (click title to entry - thank you) signed an executive order aimed at preventing shortages of prescription drugs.
The order broadens reporting of potential shortages of certain prescription drugs; speeds reviews of applications to begin or alter production of these drugs; and provides more information to the Justice Department about possible instances of collusion or price gouging.

Updated: Monday at 1:19pm (ET)

There were Congressional hearings leading to the President's decision of this Executive Order.  This order will begin to bring down the cost of health care and VASTLY improve the drug supply in the USA of vital drugs needed for treatment of diseases such as cancer.  In the hearings it was noted that cancer studies had to be put on hold imperiling hope for the participants and ultimately changing the treatment regime for the trials.  It isn't right.  The pharmaceutical industry should not be dictating the path of medicine to citizens, it should be the other way around.  The demand by the physicians needs to be responded to by the industry.  The system previous to this order was not allowing for 'the best path' of treatment and compromising doctors and their patients.

In testimony regarding the treatment of chronic disease this statement was made:

...The passage of the Affordable Care Act (click here) and with it the creation of the Prevention and Public Health Fund represents one of the most important actions by Congress and the Federal government to promote prevention to improve the overall health and well-being of the American people. It manifests an unprecedented commitment to ensuring that all Americans are able to achieve their potential by realizing the highest standard of health....

Besides the drugs the President mentioned, there is a very distrubing reality in that a chemoctheraputic agent, known as 5-FU has noted to be in very short supply.  5-FU has been around for decades and has a long track record of treatment with success.  It was one of the drugs that had to be abandoned in a 'treatment regime' under study in a trial for advanced treatement.  It is an outrage and I could not believe my ears when I heard it.

5-FU Added to Drug Shortage List (click here)

Posted by Kate Murphy on August 17th, 2011

This morning the FDA added fluorouracil to its drug shortage list. The American Society of Healthcare Pharmacists (ASHP) has also reported a shortage of fluorouracil (5-FU), a common backbone drug for colorectal cancer chemotherapy.

Two manufacturers have some doses of the drug on intermittent back order and are shipping it as it becomes available.  A third has all dose vials on back order and estimates shipping sometime in the fourth quarter of 2011.

A day after the Russians successful launch to the ISS, the Chinese matched the attempt preparing for the capacity to meet at ISS. (click title to entry - thank you)

China's achievements are somewhat marred by a confrontation of markets with the USA.  Noted are lawsuits pending about unfair practices by China that impact the solar industry.  The solar industry is the latest industry and probably the most dramatic example of how the Chinese can easily dominate the markets with cheaper products from cheap labor.  While it is understandable that China uses its labor force to its advantage, it is problem for global economic recovery.

Nevertheless, (click here) Washington is getting serious about trade distortions between the U.S. and China. The U.S. trade deficit with China is at an all time high, hitting $189 billion in the months ending Aug. 31, 2011.

Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department said it had found Chinese companies to be dumping steel wheels and setting duties ranging from 110.58 to 193.54% on U.S. imports. Also in recent days, a group of U.S. solar cell and solar panel makers filed a trade complaint against China, accusing the country of illegally dumping silicon solar cells and panels through massive subsidies. The sector is one of China’s crown jewels in its green technology portfolio. Solar cell panel production is dominated by the Chinese. Last Wednesday, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis said the U.S. had investigated over 200 Chinese domestic subsidy programs and is “going to keep pushing China and use all the tools,” China Daily reported.

And whom exactly is opposing the legislation to maintain China's trade distortions that are sapping the income from the USA Middle Class?  The House Republicans that state they will oppose the legislation that will begin to return the balance of trade between the USA and China.

President Hu Jintao and his Austrian counterpart Heinz Fischer attend a news conference after talks at the Hofburg palace in Vienna on Monday. [Photo by Ronald Zak/Associated Press]

Continent has ability to overcome present difficulties, president says (click here)

VIENNA / BEIJING - China has confidence in Europe overcoming its present difficulties, President Hu Jintao said on Monday ahead of a key global summit which will focus on the eurozone debt crisis.
"China looks positively at EU development and is following the economic development under the current difficulties with attention," Hu told reporters after meeting his Austrian counterpart Heinz Fischer in Vienna....

A successful launch today by the Russians to the ISS indicates manned flights will begin again.

If one recalls there was an unsuccessful launch not long ago.  That is highly irregular for Russian spacecrafts.  I am confident it was a one time occurrrence that will not repeat itself anytime soon.

"...It was a perfect launch," (click title to entry - thank you) Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin said, according to reports. The Progress M-13M spacecraft atop a Soyuz rocket blasted off on schedule at 6:11 a.m. ET on Sunday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and has now reached its designated orbit....

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(UNESCO) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is probably the least offensive strategic membership for Palestine.

The global community should maintain caution in isolating the USA and Israel from successful international relationships to back an independent Palestinian state without a succesful peace pact with Israel.
The fact that President Obama is upholding the law of the USA that states if Palestine were to be a member of any UN organization the USA would end funding provides solid ground for him to defeat any notion that he was not sympathetic to Israel's status.  More than that, Israel is a vitalo strategic partner for the USA.  That will never change.  For that reason alone the 'idea' that Palestine can independently declare its national status through imposed standings with the UN and international organizations before concluding a peace treaty with Israel sets the world stage for confrontation that will provide for 'dangerous' territory rather than a gathering influence to global nuclear disarmament and peace.

If the Palestinian state were to continue this trend, it would cause the USA to posture itself differently within the global community and set the stage for a new cold war.  That said, it has been over four decades and at least two generations the Palestinians have been without a defined homeland.  Their borders have been toyed with for all the time and now they have developed a strategy to derail Israel is 'the enemy' among all peaceful people.  It is the worst idea a country could purport as the truth that should dictate international dialogue and policy.  The Palestinians are attempting to demonize Israel in a manner that would set the entire globe in opposition to the USA and Israel.  It is a stretegy based in a lie and a dangerous lie at that.

The Palestinians need to resume peace negotitations with Israel and lobbing new rockets into Israel is not a good beginning.  The Palestinians want the war Iran has promised and they will stop at nothing to achieve it.  It is a dangerous stretegy for the international community to entertain.  As things stand today with this vote, the USA and Israel are now examining their alliance as a matter of defense of their nations if the 'global chemistry' goes wrong.


...While UNESCO membership (click title to entry - thank you) will take the Palestinians only a short way toward their goal of enhanced international standing, it embarrassed the Obama administration by highlighting its relative isolation on the issue.

Administration officials criticized the UNESCO move as a blow to U.S. efforts to bring Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table to reach a deal that would end Israel's occupation of the West Bank and create a Palestinian state.

The vote, said Nuland, was "regrettable, premature and undermines our shared vision of a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East."...

He is not drunk. He is cajoling the audience into finding common ground between them.

The degree Governor Perry needs to cajole his audience is extreme and one has to ask why. If a candidate has to try this hard to be accepted in a primary, what kind of chance does he have in a general election?

Who hacked the files at the National Restaurant Association ?

"...Mr. Cain’s shifting explanations and the gaps in the story made it hard to determine the impact of the revelations on his long-term prospects in states like Iowa, whose crucial caucuses are just two months away...."

Cain has never been a serious contender from the beginning and everyone knows it.  He has smoozed a campaign slogan of 9-9-9 as if a well researched economic strategy.  There are underlying agendas that Cain is volunteering to be a target for, namely "How does the RNC win over the "Black Vote" and "How do we get the American public serious about "The Flat Tax" that is already a bill in the House of Representatives.

Cain is a sympathetic figure in that every shot fired at him only increases his popularity as if 'the target on his back' is insurmountable without a strong grassroots willing to absorb the shots better than he can.

The real subject is not the 'sex scandals' although Republicans could not care less about sex scandals, ie: David Vitter.  The real subject is the funding and the law breaking of desperate people.  This is the second money scandal to arise with these candidates, the first was with Romney and now this one.  There is a third which is the sequestered monies of Rick Perry.  He is not a candidate funded by many grassroots organizations or volunteers or contributors, but, by the religious right of Texas which eyes the presidency as their right of passage to carry out their holy directives.

The entire RNC field is bizarre.  The Tea-Evangelicals are trying desperately to find the perfect candidate while the remaining RNC party simply holds on to the one candidate that may be electable.  Regardless, of the scandalous monies involved in funding the RNC and their success is deceiving the electorate, they sincerely are not a sincere party anymore, as demonstrated by ignoring the one candidate in the field that could actually win the election on credentials, Jon Huntsman.  The RNC is old world and this is just more of it.

An interesting question graces the pages of the Washington Post today.

...Now it appears (click title to entry - thank you) to be dragging its feet on helping even those Venezuelans who come to the United States to seek physical protection from the regime. In recent years Venezuela has been one of the largest sources of asylum applicants: It ranked eighth in the world on a DHS list in March. So far in 2011 there have been 670 applications, which can cover families as well as individuals. DHS officials told me that the overall rate of approval for Venezuelan cases has remained constant in recent years. But 135 of 467 cases in 2010 remained open at the end of the year.

Mezerhane says he would like to use his time in the United States to work for change in Venezuela, which has grown steadily more violent and chaotic. For now, however, he and many like him are paralyzed. “It is hard for them to bring their families over,” said Grossman. “They can’t work. They can’t travel. We are effectively silencing them and denying them a platform to voice their opinions.”

Is this really the right way to counter Hugo Chavez?

Actually it isn't.  It is however interesting to realize that Nelson Mezerhanem, a Venezuelan business man is treated to exceptional coverage of his circumstances while "#Occupy Wall Street" is villianized at The Washington Post and other media sources.

Quite frankly, Mr. Mezerhanem is NOT being deported, his application is being taken seriously and the reason it is taking so long is because while he wants to promote freedom in Venezuela that is described without the leadership of Hugo; he will not be able to run a revolution in the USA against Venezuela.  Arming a militia and seeking to overthrow a government from USA soil is contraindicated to USA sovereignty and the safety of its citizens.  Homeland Security is doing its job, something The Washington Post ought to consider more seriously when seeking the truth regarding the movement of USA citizens to resolve the crisis of an entire generation.

Hot meets Cold

The snow is about a month early: The first snow typically occurs in Boston around Nov. 28. The snowiest October day on record in Boston was 1.1 inches on Oct. 29, 2005, and in Worcester, 7.5 inches. on Oct. 10, 1979.

October 28, 2011
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UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East satellite image

An arctic front met with a heat transfer system resulting in high winds and perscipitation throughout the northeast of the USA and into Canada.  Heat transfer systems are dangerous and have been chronic since October 2, 2002.  They are an unnatural occurrence and are caused by the high carbon dioxide levels of Earth emitted by human activity.

Tree falls on home, kills 84 year old Pennsylvania man (click here)
 By Josh Simeone

October 30, 2011

An 84-year-old man died instantly when a tree fell on his home Saturday afternoon in Temple, Pennsylvania.
The report is the man was napping on his recliner when the tree, which was covered in snow, fell onto the home.
Saturday's storm moved through the area, dropping several inches of snow in parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Thousands of people in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are without power.

Does the media report the storm accurately?  No.  They call it a 'Nor'easter' rather than the human induced warming storm is rightfully is.  It is a storm induced by a chronic warming phenomena called 'heat transfer systems.'  That is what the people in the northeast USA are contending with this time.

There was a storm similar to the one that struck the northeast this past weekend.  It occurred in February, however, and not October.  It happened in 2004 closing schools, businesses and taking electric power away from residents in North Carolina for a week in many places.  It caused deaths and injuries.  This is not the first time a severe storm has caused such damage since October 4, 2002.  The storm this time was magnified in its impact by sogging ground and swollen rivers and creeks.  Nothing like water saturated ground to cause more problems when it becomes frozen and then thawed to allow melted snow to again do more damage and more damage.

An unusual storm (click here) blanketed North Carolina with record snowfall on February 26 and 27, 2004, stranding travelers and closing schools and businesses. As much as 1.5 feet (0.45 meters) of snow fell in parts of the state.

More than three million are left without electric power with the northeast storm.  That was far more than the North Carolina storm.  People should be taking whatever action they need to and insure their well being.  I am confident the states have emergency shelters until electricity is restored.

Fall Storm: October Nor'easter Blamed for at Least Three Deaths (click here)

By BEN FORER, LEEZEL TANGLAO and DEAN SCHABNER

Oct. 29, 2011

A strong storm system moving up the East Coast has already dumped more than two feet of snow in some parts of New England today, leaving more than 2 million homes and businesses without power and causing at least three deaths.
The storm dumped record amounts of snow from New Jersey through New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The governors of New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts all declared states of emergency.
An 84-year-old man in Pennsylvania died this afternoon when a tree weighed down by snow fell on his home. ...

#Occupy is non-violent movement. This is police brutality and government over reach.

Image is not the issue as this college editorial would have all believe.  The issue is the oppression of the Middle Class and how the 1 percent has marginalized the constitutional rights of the people to carry out a protest.

There are all sorts of ways to oppress people.  If every inch of a public area is owned and operated to standards that do not allow protests (The EXPRESSION) of First Amendment Rights then that is a very overt oppression of those rights.

If every public space is operated with a corporation's name on it and to specifications that reflect the values of that corporation which excludes venues of protest then the very naming of a public space is oppression.

Governments have to provide for Freedom of Speech (Exprssion).  When there are no venues for the expression of discontent that is oppression.  Where is freedom when it is inconvenient of 'image brokers?'  The #Occupy Wall Street movement has a solid reason for its presence around the country and around the world.  So long as the oppression of free people continues by their government and the corporations that feed on them there will be discontinuance of demonstration.

Occupy Denver protest fights with police goes against Constitution: Our View

By Collegian Editorial Board

RMSMC

Updated: 7 hours ago
...We’re all about a little bit of civil disobedience, since battles with the police have been defining moments of successful protests in the past, but getting in fights with cops is not suddenly going to give Occupy Wall Street legitimacy, something that probably motivated some of the protesters to cause trouble in the first place.
We understand that protesters feel wronged by the 1 percent and want to act out (or whatever Occupy’s about), but they’ve got to have a purpose behind it, something that, given the information we have, the protesters lacked, aside from simply the presence of police at the protests.

By the same token, Denver Police needs to stop over-reacting to the protesters who, when members of the Editorial Board visited Denver and saw Occupy firsthand, seemed more like homeless people playing music in a park than a genuine threat to public safety.

It doesn’t look like Occupy’s going anywhere anytime soon, and to avoid future altercations between police and protesters, both parties need to chill out....

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