The USA Senate states there is such a thing occurring called Climate Change.

The Governor of Florida bought the election of 2014 with his own money. He is currently using the Florida infrastructure to fire employees, very valuable employees, by running them through the "Employee Assistance" option available to managers. The Employee Assistance Program in the case of most institutions are necessary when employees are considered to be unable to deal with their work.

Currently, Florida Employees are using proper scientific words and facts to record their scientific findings on their jobs. Those scientifically correct words include climate, change and possibly other vernaculars scientists recognize. 

By placing pressure on scientists within the Florida government with their employment, Rick Scott is telling them to commit fraud and fraud by absence of valid scientific words and concepts as well.

No Governor or manager has the right to commit fraud and get away with it. Governor Rick Scott is not a god although I am sure his wayward wealth allows him to feel like one. 

Currently, very important and irreplaceable scientists are being threatened with their state jobs because Rick Scott has personal aspirations to ignore the science of climate. Scott is known to have committed fraud in the past in the health care industry. This is somewhat familiar behavior for him. 

The scientists threatened in such a manner can enter into a "Class" and sue the State of Florida for viciousness and abuse of power within the fraud the Governor seeks to substitute for the truth. 

Florida is one of the most effected by the threat of climate change. There is expected significant sea level rise that will directly effect the very lives of citizens of Florida. The fraud Rick Scott is committing threatens lives in Florida. He is negligent in his administration and is violating the public trust at the very least. There needs to be an investigation to realize whether or not people have already suffered because of his thirst for fraudulent behavior in seats of power from his first administration.

The State of Florida has conducted surveys to understand the danger Floridians will face with rising sea level. This is vital work and the employees within Florida have to be secure in their jobs to protect the people and their land.

"Climate Change and Sea Level Rise in Florida" (click here)

The report below is compliments of the "University of Florida."

Climate Change Basics for the Southeast USA (from AgroClimate) (click here)

"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.

-Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

There is a Fifth Assessment and the Florida Professionals need to review it's findings.

How far is Rick Scott going to be allowed to carry his irresponsible behavior toward the people by changing curriculum at the university and enforce fraudulent documentation of the climate change in Florida in order to have his own facts validated by very competent and necessary scientists.

This behavior is not strange for right wing political extremists. I have witnessed first hand how esteemed and internationally recognized scientists can be harassed by a Dean to change their behavior in reporting facts. 

At UNCW we were successful in effecting change with the Dean and Provost otherwise the same bizarre dynamics as noted with Rick Scott would be dictating curriculum today. Rosemary DePaolo not only encouraged harassment in departments to achieve such an agenda, but, looked the other way to facilitate that end. I know it is possible IF the staff, university professors and students don't act as a united front to preserve THE TRUTH.

Governor Scott has an agenda of fraud and no one should look the other way. He didn't dare bring about the fraud during his first term otherwise he would have had to invest far more of his own wealth to achieve a second term. At least we all know now why he paid all those monies to be re-elected. I am concerned for the people of the State of Florida in all aspects of their state government, including those incarcerated. I don't know what he is capable of, only be found out when it is too late.

I remind. It was Florida that lost citizens to ill health because the Medicaid expansion was refused by the Governor. I can't believe there is nothing to be done with these Governors in allowing their citizens death and those families hardship because there was no Medicare expansion. It is unconscionable. Realizing how much Rick Scott loves money and ideology over moral options for the State of Florida and it's citizens, realizing he is capable of intimidating employees with their job; I am more than worried, I am scared there will be more and more problems for the people of Florida.

There is precedent of the President speaking to the people of the Middle East.

Hydraulic Fracturing otherwise known as "Fracking" is a very dangerous technology.

The petroleum industry will tout this is the best technology for the USA, but, at the same time they cannot prove it is a safe technology. It is not only dangerous, but, the land is being destroyed. If there isn't livable land, there is no country.

One of the chemicals, just one of them is hydrochloric acid. What happens when acid is poured into the ground to melt rock? Thousands of feet below the feet people are standing on there are chemicals destroying rock from this technology. 

In Oklahoma and Texas we know FOR A FACT this technology is causing earthquakes. It is not only causing earthquakes, the earthquakes are increasing in the Richter velocity.

Some wells have been closed and the earthquakes haven't stopped. The earthquakes aren't going to stop simply because the well is closed. Those chemicals are still in the rock. They are still melting the rock and won't stop until the chemical processes are completely used up by the melting process. 

Now, that isn't the end of it. The melting of rock has caused a change in the weight distribution of the rock about the drilled shaft. Even after the chemical processes completely play out, the land above the drill shaft and below it has to stop moving around in order for the earthquakes to end. There is no guarantee the earthquakes will stop as the land and rock continue to shift. 

If the land doesn't stop experiencing earthquakes the land will result in a dangerous rock formation called liquefaction. Liquefaction thousands of feet deep.

Liquefaction is a phenomenon in which the strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced by earthquake shaking or other rapid loading. Liquefaction and related phenomena have been responsible for tremendous amounts of damage in historical earthquakes around the world. 

How much weight in land and rock is above the horizontally drilled shaft? Why would a hole drilled in rock, even without the chemicals, be stable? What kind of process in drilling and stabilizing the shaft is going to stop the land and rock from destabilizing? 

Oh, I'm not finished.  

Vertical wells don't have layers upon layers of rock and land above it to collapse the well and it's casings. Vertical drilling only seeks to put a few holes into a vat of oil. It has no forces acting on it to collapse the well. 

And then there is the issue of failed well casings. The petroleum industry states the well casings failures are rare. We know that is not the case and why this technology is dangerous to aquifers. The question is why do the well casings fail?

The well casing fail in this instance because the rock melting chemicals effect the well all the way down. From top to bottom the rock is exposed to the rock melting chemicals. Those chemicals are introduced before the well is established and cement casings are poured. Where are the chemicals when the petroleum industry pours their cement/concrete? 

When the wells are so called stabilized the chemicals in the rock are still present. Why would cement or metal for that matter exposed to chemicals be stable enough to allow the well casings to be intact under extraordinary intense forces of rock and land? 

The entire technology is dangerous and the industry has no interest or desire to provide a technology that is safe. The purpose of the petroleum industry is to drill, not to care about the well being of people or their country's lands. We have witnessed nothing but greed with exploding rail cars, over drilling that has crashed the price of oil and an industry with so much hubris they throw drug parties for US government workers and have no idea whether they will be able to continue the employ of Americans as they flood the market with oil and gas. 

All that before I even discuss The Clean Air and Water Acts.

As previously noted, (click here) chemicals perform many functions in a hydraulic fracturing job.  Although there are dozens to hundreds of chemicals which could be used as additives, there are a limited number which are routinely used in hydraulic fracturing.  The following is a list of the chemicals used most often.  This chart is sorted alphabetically by the Product Function to make it easier for you to compare to the fracturing records.

This is suppose to be a list of the chemicals the industry has to choose from in order to frack land. No standardization of the process, just anything they can find that is on the market. 

There should never be trust placed in the hands of this industry as they completely ignore the public trust and it's ability to cope with their own reality when it hits. 

And the industry has the nerve to challenge a President interested in the well being of the people he serves.

March 20, 2015
By Joby Warrick
 
The Obama administration (click here) imposed tougher restrictions Friday on tens of thousands of fossil-fuel wells on public lands that use fracking technology to extract oil and gas, saying the measures would help safeguard the nation’s water supply.
The regulations represent the administration’s most significant effort to tighten standards for hydraulic fracturing, the controversial practice that pumps liquid into rock seams at high pressure to access pockets of oil and gas that would be difficult to recover using more conventional methods. The measures affect only wells on federally owned lands, or roughly a quarter of the gas and oil operations in the country.
But industry groups immediately attacked the rules as needlessly burdensome and a threat to the country’s surging oil and gas industry. Some environmental groups also complained, saying the regulations were not strict enough....

Thank you, Ms. Blackburn.

This is a picture of Ms. Blackburn. Her right hand forefinger gets a workout continually. She is dangerous to the American people. These people are seeking to end the federal government to the detriment of the country and it's people. They don't care, they want to end the federal government of the USA with the exception of their war department.

The 2016 Budget Plan includes raiding Social Security Trust Fund.

Marsha Blackburn and a few others are holding up Immigration Reform because they want to raid the Social Security fund, FIRST. They want to remove the monies in the Social Security Fund placed there by the Undocumented. It is not stated what will happen with these funds, but, it is fully evident the House Republicans have linked Social Security with Immigration Reform in order to defeat both. 

Blackburn complains there are phones not answered at the US Immigration Offices and she is unable to resolve problems for her immigrating Kurds. She refuses to understand this is one of the problems that occurs with negligence of immigration reform. 

The monies in SSI were put there lawfully and taking the Undocumented as hostages to insure the GOP has enough time to destroy SSI is not reasonable, nor humanitarian. 

The Blackburn Cabal on the Budget Committee wants the entire world to respect the word of law and practice economics as the USA practices it. These folks are crazy and don't give one damn about the Americans in this country and only interested in their ideological goals. To think Marsha Blackburn EVEN WENT THERE to a fund Americans rely on in their older years is to speak to the lack of morality of this Republican Congress. 

Any bill, even if attached to any budget bill will be vetoed and rightfully so.

Nigerian soldiers needed in freed town.

Chadian soldiers in Damasak on Wednesday, only days after the town was liberated from Boko Haram militants. Credit Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

March 30, 2015

...Rather than a display of important regional cooperation (click here)  in the battle against Boko Haram, the visit instead pointed out some of the confusion and resentment that are creating tension among neighbors. The soldiers from Chad and Niger had succeeded here, but there was not a single Nigerian soldier to be found. The force members were bewildered to find themselves as foreign liberators without any help from the Nigerians.

Even as the Nigerian government, with a national election looming, insists that its forces have chased Boko Haram fighters out of much of their northern territory, the deserted streets and all-foreign force here paint a different picture. Hundreds of thousands of Nigerians still cannot return home to towns that have been, nominally at least, freed from Boko Haram.

But the foreign soldiers here said they do not want to occupy somebody else’s country, and worry that the Islamist fighters will simply return if they leave and the Nigerians have not arrived to take over....

The legislature cannot legislation themselves Executive Powers no matter how much "Joe the Plumber" threatens a veto at the ballot box.

Stop wasting the country's money. 

Today it is 132 days Attorney General Nominee is waiting for a vote in the Senate.

Just because Congress passes a bill for political purposes doesn't mean it is constitutional. Does Congress realize they need the President to sign it to bring it into law?

March 20, 2015
By Patricia Zengerie

WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats and Republicans (click here) agreed on Thursday to delay until April 14 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's vote on legislation that would force President Barack Obama to submit any nuclear agreement with Iran for Congress' approval.

The announcement, which came after an intense lobbying push by Obama and administration officials, gives international negotiators more breathing room as they attempt to meet a late-March deadline for a framework agreement....

From previous article:

The Obama administration's proposed fiscal year 2016 budget includes the increase in the IMF financial commitment. 

Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers doesn't work for the government!

The US Congress are not caring out their responsibilities.

March 18, 2015

...“Critically, (click here) we are seeking Congressional approval of the IMF quota and governance reforms,” Lew told a hearing of the House of Representatives financial services committee, according to the prepared text. “Our international credibility and influence are being threatened.”...

Even where the Congress is suppose to make decision, they don't do it. The USA is the only country in the IMF that hasn't approved reforms. The lack of action at the IMF is causing other countries to wonder if the USA is able to act on anything anymore.

...“Our continued failure to approve the IMF quota and governance reforms is causing other countries, including some of our allies, to question our commitment to the IMF and other multilateral institutions that we worked to create and that advance important US and global economic and security interests.”

Lew noted that the reform delay was pushing emerging-market powers to create their own parallel multilateral financial institutions. The BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- announced their own development bank in 2014, and China recently led the launch of a separate institution, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank....

Recently, the UK joined the Chinese Infrastructure Bank. It is understandable now. Other countries will follow suit if the USA's Congress continues to wallow in incompetence. 

The international venues show the incompetence of the USA Congress. In the USA the Congress consults with "Joe the Plumber" while allies and friends are looking to new venues to satisfy their need for responsible leadership. 

The USA's Congress is worried about the cheating China carries out, albeit less than before Obama's administration, but if the USA continues to be disabled in it's international ROUTINE responsibilities the USA won't be regarded as important. 

It is one heck of a Congress. The only importance they seek is leveraging power over the Executive Branch and to wage war, while the Executive Branch waits patiently for their actions on existing responsibilities. The problem here is CONGRESS, not the administration. When the administration is held unimportant there will be inconsistencies in enforcement of policy making existing policy impossible to enforce. 

CONGRESS needs to bring bills to the floor that matter, rather than continual votes over the ACA and other domestic interests that will meet a veto. The Congress need to end it's domestic politics on the floor of the House and Senate. There is a reason why politics on the floor of the legislature is at the very least an ethical violation. This is exactly what occurs when the majority party has a continual campaign of politics from one election to the next.

March 20, 2015

...SLOWLY but surely, (click here) Iran’s talks with the international community about its nuclear programme are approaching the make-or-break point. But, more important, the outcome could mark a turning point for the wider, and increasingly volatile, Middle East.

The rapprochement between Iran and its negotiating partners on the core nuclear issue is obvious. No one at this point seriously believes that Iran is maintaining an active programme to develop nuclear weapons, though not long ago it was almost conventional wisdom that the country was close to having them.

Now the focus is on ensuring that Iran would need a year or so to assemble a nuclear device if it ever decided to do so. But the concept of “breakout time” is dubious. If trust were to collapse, and the Iranian regime decided to abrogate all of the relevant international agreements, it is highly likely that it would get its weapon, even if the country itself was bombed repeatedly. The strategic emphasis on “breakout time” is thus misplaced.

The key to progress is to help turn Iran from a cause into a country, to paraphrase Henry Kissinger. Iran needs to focus on developing all of its human and material resources to become part of a region moving from confrontation to co-operation. The deal on the core nuclear issues is central to this approach, but so is a credible process for developing the trade and investment links that will facilitate Iran’s move from isolation to integration....

How was a man held in prison for two years as a witness?

There is video testimony allowed with the decision of the court. The prosecution and defense could have filmed the testimony with an understanding he was not to flee. What gives a judge authority to hold a man, documented or not, for two years in prison to insure he will testify. This is outrageous.

If video is unreliable, but, testimony can occur in transcript as well. There needs to be an investigation to this judge kidnapping and jailing a man for two years.

March 21, 2015

HILLSBORO, Oregon (AP) " A man who was jailed for 2 years (click here) so he couldn't avoid taking the witness stand in his son's murder trial was freed Thursday after providing two hours of often-combative testimony.
 
Benito Vasquez-Hernandez committed no crime, but a judge ordered the 60-year-old Mexico native held because of fears he would flee rather testify against his son, who is accused of killing in 2012 in the West Coast state of Oregon.

Federal and state material witness laws allow for the detainment of anyone who might have information about a criminal investigation. Though the use of such laws is not uncommon, it is extremely rare for someone to be held as long as Vasquez-Hernandez was.

"I don't like to be in jail. I want to get out," Vasquez-Hernandez said shortly after taking the stand Thursday. He and his son, Eloy Vasquez-Santiago, both wore orange jail clothes.

Prosecutors allege the son killed Maria Bolanos-Rivera, a mother of six who disappeared in 2012....

I'd be afraid of police, too. Isolation from a free and independent life can be considered torture. If Benito Vasquez-Hernandez is easily intimidated by others he is not a reliable witness. 

How widespread is this practice?

...Defense attorney Tim Bowman elicited testimony that the father cannot read or write. Vasquez-Hernandez said he feels confused when more educated people speak and that he's scared of police.

The Senate Budget Committee is split along party lines, 12 - 10

Social Security is entering into the discussions. The last amendment states the monies paid into Social Security by the Undocumented will be paid into the general fund. There is a significant amount of monies in the Social Security Insurance Fund paid by Undocumented Workers. This is nothing more than plunder of the Social Security Fund.

Many of the amendments passing into the Budget has the words attached to them as "Deficit Neutral." There is an article that does not recommend Deficit Neutral verbiage in any bill. (click here) 

Senator Johnson's amendment stated the federal government would not bailout any city or state pensions where their is a deficit. Senator Sanders asked Johnson to join with him in adding an amendment stating the federal government would no bailout banks or any other Wall Street crooks and bad managers. I would think with bad managers would be the petroleum industry. Senator Johnson said he didn't know if he could back those words, his amendment was to prohibit any bailout of cities and states pensions.

Senator Sessions is a piece of work. Senator Wyden wanted to maintain long term Medicaid's integrity. Sessions objection is that this is about the poor and not the elderly. Sessions stated the wording of the amendment lacks. What bothers me is that Sessions discriminates between the elderly and poor. 

...In fact, (click here) Sessions isn't just against illegal immigration. He's against more legal immigration, too - even immigration supported by those he'd otherwise call "job creators."
 
Want to build an oil pipeline across the border? He's for it. Want to bring highly skilled foreigners to Silicon Valley? Why do we have borders at all?...

I don't know if Sessions hates anyone other white men or simply anyone outside his family. That may be the same thing.

Sessions has asked for a report of the USA's history with climate change. He thinks the droughts and storms may align with the country's history at some point, hence there is no problem with funding emergency monies. What Senator Sessions has to fund is the fact the history of the USA also includes a far small population. Therefore, his question about prior storms or droughts is MUTE. The storms and droughts today are effecting vastly more people and the sixth largest economy in the world, namely California. Senator Sessions attempts to dismiss the current climate crisis by the history of the USA is hideous and ridiculous. TODAY MATTERS. 

Senator Toomey seems to think voters can discern their choice during any election regardless of the dollars spent on advertising. That was in response to Senator Sanders who asked an end to Citizen's United. Given the passionate statement by Senator Toomey I would expect any of his donations for election to be passed on to charity other than his own.

This is the front page to the US Senate Budget Committee (click here)

I had to do a double take because I thought I was Enzi's Senator page. I have never witnessed such a divisive page to a Congressional committee before. The members are listed as either Democrat or Republican on separate e-pages. The worst it usually gets is a column on the same page with Democrats in one column and Republicans in another column, but this takes it to a new low. 

This year the Senator Budget Committee is first their party and secondly a functional person that cares about Americans. 

Sessions is all about ending any government emergency spending in the US Budget. Amazing. Those seeking these funds are radicals for believing there is such a thing as the climate crisis. Sessions needs to retire. He isn't even up to date with scientific information by the USA's own scientists. 

According to Senator Sanders, the Graham Amendment will provide for another unfunded war. Senator Sanders states the past two Bush cost $3 to $4 TRILLION and it was added directly to the national debt. The Graham Amendment would cost $38 million without even beginning another war.

Senator Wyden - sixty percent of all long term care patients in facilities receive Medicaid. He states the reduction in CHIP will result in danger to that population of senior citizens (elderly). Senator Wyden states with the cuts in the budget he does not know any other way to fund long term Medicaid. 

The amendment process is completely coming down on a partisan basis.

Senator Crappo is interested in defunding DOJ to pursue gun fraud purchases. It passed. 13-9. 

Cutting Fema monies by Senator Whitehouse. Sessions is stating all storms of any kind including tornadoes are down and there is no significant drought in the country. Someone want to tell California that? It was passed. Anything hostile to the well being of Americans will pass, but, where a single American is served by their federal government is cut in the budget. 

Senator Ayotte asked for a fund for heroine addiction. It passed. Republicans have to have at least one item in the budget to make them look good. The Democrats were already on board.

They are playing with Medicare. 

Senator Sanders - There is an $600 million on defense but the DOD has yet to submit an audit. $2.3 trillion was never accounted for under Rumsfield. This amendment is to realize the fraud and the necessity to contractor overruns. Fraud and misconduct has existed in the past ten years with the defense budget. Passes.

Senator Enzi states there is an ongoing audit currently. There are many Republicans signing on to the Sander's Amendment and it passed.

Senator Murray wants clean up of nuclear problems in the USA. The funding is going to be cut at nine of the sixteen sites in this budget. Nuclear waste clean up sites are important and should not have funding cuts. Passes on voice vote.

Sequester across the board cuts are bad policy and they have to be fixed. Bipartisan Budget Act is being offered by her this year. She stated this budget can be updated with current budget caps and revenue projects. The revenues are high enough to fund the higher budget caps this year. She believes another crisis has to be averted and the cuts due to Sequester has to end. Senator Murray states the new caps are all paid for in revenue. Her amendment replaces Sequestration. Enzi is resistant to the amendment insisting there are needed taxes to meet her plan. Graham states it all sounds good but is skeptical.

Senator Stabenow states there is no petroleum liability fund for TAR SANDS OIL. The spill in Michigan is stated to be tar sands oil. She wants an amendment that will bring a tax on tar sands oil that will provide a deficit neutral fund. It would eliminate the tax right offs to the industry. Senator Murray and Baldwin wants to be added in support of the amendment. 

Senator Baldwin for NIH passes with voice vote. She also wants to create a fund for work force training and research and development. Her amendment wants to create a fund for this purpose through established practices already at work in the country. Passes on a voice vote.

That is the basic understanding in what is occurring with the budget. 

HR 9 is crony capitalism.

In 1927, (click here) Philo Farnsworth was the first inventor to transmit a television image comprised of 60 horizontal lines. The image transmitted was a dollar sign. Farnsworth developed the dissector tube, the basis of all current electronic televisions. He filed for his first television patent in 1927 (pat#1,773,980.) Although he won an early patent for his image dissection tube, he lost later patent battles to RCA. Philo Farnsworth went on to invent over 165 different devices including equipment for converting an optical image into an electrical signal, amplifier, cathode-ray, vacuum tubes, electrical scanners, electron multipliers and photoelectric materials. 

H.R. 9: Innovation Act (click here)

Rep. Rohrabacher brought opposition to the House floor to stop HR 9 that will be introduced in the next week or so.

To amend title 35, (click here) United States Code, and the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to make improvements and technical corrections, and for other purposes.

The bill is to follow this section. Section 281 is very simple. It proves civil action on infringement. The entire sections states:

35 U.S. Code § 281 - Remedy for infringement of patent

A patentee shall have remedy by civil action for infringement of his patent. 

Rep. Rohrabacher wants HR 9 defeated to protect the US patent process. Instead, he would like to see Senator Christopher Coons' Senate bill 632 passed.

March 2, 2015

By Jeff John Roberts

“Be careful about changing patent law (click here) — it could harm innovation,” is a favorite talking point for those who oppose plans to reform to America’s troubled patent system. But what if the opposite is true? What if it’s the status quo, in which patent trolls sock productive companies with abusive lawsuits, that is hurting innovation?

That’s the position of more than 50 law professors and economists, who submitted a letter to Congress, encouraging elected officials to do something about the current mess. In one striking passage, the academics suggest patent trolls (also known as PAE’s) are wreaking havoc on both R&D and venture capital investing:

“An econometric analysis finds that the more R&D a firm performs, the more likely it is to be hit with a patent lawsuit, all else equal. Another study associates lawsuits from PAEs with a decline of billions of dollars of venture capital investment; another found that extensive lawsuits caused small firms to sharply reduce R&D spending; and yet another found that costly lawsuits caused publicly listed defendant firms to substantially curtail R&D spending,” said the letter (the cited studies can be found in the letter below)....

S.632 - STRONG Patents Act of 2015 (click here)

132 Days

Thank you, Senator Paul.

That is really nice. We are all pulling for Harry and in this case we are all pulling in the right direction.

March 18, 2015
By Ashley Killough

As Rand Paul (click here) presided over the Senate floor Wednesday morning, Democratic Leader Harry Reid took a few moments to thank the Kentucky Republican and ophthalmologist for helping him with an eye injury.
 

Reid, who now wears special dark glasses, said Paul has "has been so kind and thoughtful and considerate and visiting with me, giving me encouragement and some expert advice as to what he's seen in the past and giving me hope for better sight out of my right eye."

Reid suffered a concussion and broke several ribs and bones in his face during an exercising accident on New Year's Day, resulting in severe limitation of sight out of his right eye....

Is there DNA on the letter?

 I seriously doubt there will be a conviction without precise evidence.

March 19, 2015
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Joel Rubin and Richard Winton

...About the time Berman was killed, (click here) Beverly Hills police had received a mysterious letter. On the envelope, the writer had misspelled "Beverly." The letter contained only Berman's Benedict Canyon address and the word "cadaver." As best as investigators could tell, the letter had been postmarked on the same day, or the day after, Berman was killed.
The hand that wrote the letter, they surmised, was probably the same hand that pulled the trigger.
A search warrant released Wednesday from Houston offers a detailed narrative of how police over the last 14 years tried to identify the author of the letter....

There will be incredmental changes in the gravity of Earth during this event.

19 March 2015 

Last updated at 10:58 GMT 

Parts of northern Europe (click here) will experience a rare solar eclipse on the morning of Friday 20 March.
The far north will experience a total eclipse of the Sun, as the Moon casts a shadow onto the surface of the Earth.
But a lot of places further south will also get a taste of the rare spectacle.
Here, BBC News explains this celestial event happens and how to observe it safely - in 90 seconds.
Video by John Galliver and Victoria Gill

Zionist Union party co-leaders Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni arrive to deliver a statement in the party's election headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 18, 2015.

March 19, 2015
VOA News 


Isaac Herzog, (click here) whose Zionist Union finished second in Israel's parliamentary elections, said Thursday the party will not join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's next coalition government.

Netanyahu's Likud party won 30 seats in the 120-member body, beating out the Zionist Union's 24 and putting the prime minister in position to cobble together a government and serve a fourth term.

Herzog told Israel's Army Radio that the Zionist Union will be an opposition force to "challenge a narrow right-wing government."...

The obstruction of nomination of Loretta Lynch is based in race.

In any lawsuit regarding a decision of racism with all circumstances being equal the only difference is race, that is the reason for the problem.

This is 2015 and there are other nominations that have sailed through the Senate within the past two weeks. The problem with Loretta Lynch's nomination is race. Just that simple.

The USA does not recognize the racial tones in life. Our minorities are ethnically different from the majority of our population. They have every right any American has under the law. When they are held in a different process status from any majority American and all else is equal, there is racism. This is not rocket science. 

The question is very simple, is there a racial difference between other nominations being passed into their employ and Loretta Lynch. The answer is, yes. Why her nomination as opposed to other nominations that have recently received a vote? The difference is her race. 

Politics doesn't enter the picture. Why? Because she is a minority and the reason why she is obstructed from a very important job is her race. The politics is an excuse. It is no different than poll taxes and voting obstruction, it is based in race. There are plenty of reasons to find to effect the lives of minorities in the USA. The Senate should be bending over backward to pass Ms. Lynch's nomination through. Why? Because we all should be proud of the presence of our minorities in this country in positions of power.

Just that simple. 

The Republicans are horrible in stating equal opportunity is over in the USA. That is not the case, there are still disparities and it has to end! There are tones in this country that are racist, ask any parent of a young black man. How does anyone think the tensions between the majority and other ethnicities are going to end? By playing politics with human beings? No, the differences will be dispelled when we realize how much exposure our minorities need and held in appreciation and esteem to every American in this country. When our minorities are above any obstruction and are highly regarded, then and only then will racism not be an issue.

Every day that Ms. Lynch's nomination is held in abeyance of normal process status it tells the USA there is a difference between the majority and the minority. It is translated as the privilege to do as one feels necessary where race enters the picture. 

March 19, 2015
43 minutes ago

State police (click here) have launched an investigation after footage showing the violent arrest of a University of Virginia student sparked protests and prompted concern among top officials.

Images of bloodied Martese Johnson being held down by an officer were shared widely online on Wednesday, along with footage of the black 20-year-old calling the cops handcuffing him "racists."

Johnson, a junior at the university, was arrested at 12:45 a.m. Wednesday near The Corner, a popular off-camp....

There is no intellectualizing any of this, it is very simple. 

Young black men are scared to death for their lives every day they live and breath. There is no racism in the USA, huh? 

Ms. Lynch's nomination has been held to a different standard from the beginning of her nomination. No racism, huh? 

Monsanto punishes Oregon State University for finding GMO wheat.

March 18, 2015
By Eric Mortenson 

The company (click here) will distribute money to agricultural colleges in seven states – but not in the state where the GE wheat was found.

Monsanto Company will pay $50,000 each to agricultural colleges in seven states as part of a settlement of class action lawsuits filed after the May 2013 discovery of genetically-engineered in Eastern Oregon.

The settlement contains no money for Oregon State University, however. It was OSU weed scientist Carol Mallory-Smith who confirmed the wheat found growing in the Eastern Oregon was “Roundup Ready,” meaning it could withstand Monsanto’s trademark herbicide. No GMO wheat has been approved for commercial use....

...Oregon, Washington and Idaho growers were not participants in the suit, and are not parties to the settlement. Their claims were covered in a previous $2.357 million settlement

Oregon State University, a land grant university, did not receive compensation.

I found the agility of the Tunisian police very impressive. They did a great job. Where did they learn that?

March 18, 2015
By Tarek Amara and Mohamed Argoubi

..."All Tunisians (click here) should be united after this attack which was aimed at destroying the Tunisian economy," Prime Minister Essid declared in a national address....

The Tunisian government is a newly minted government. The new constitution was recently passed and the Prime Minister only took office in February. The attack which was suppose to be carried on in a heavily guarded government building near the museum is more in reaction to the new government than anything else.

The new constitution and elected government took some time to bring it together. The party the Prime Minister represents is actually a consolidation of about six other pre-existing parties. By the coalition that formed there are many voices now heard as the result of that path forward. So, any analysis other than that is somewhat incorrect. 

The criminals that killed so many innocent people weren't really a part of an invading force so much as a disgruntled one.

The police that responded were more than likely not far away at the parliament building or the government building.

The response of solidarity within the populous after the attacks is proof of the confidence and benevolence they find in their new government. It was impressive as well.