I congratulate all those that marched to defeat racism, bigotry, and discrimination.
Hate is not okay.
Oppression is not okay.
GET OFF THEIR NECKS!
Police endangering the life of another MUST be reported and removed from the ranks. Any resistance to that resolve is CORRUPTION.
There is no discussion. There is no dangerous restraint allowed. Period. If a suspect runs away - run after them. If they get away, swear out an arrest warrant at the prosecutor's office and actively seek to resolve the warrant WITHOUT danger to the police or the suspect and innocent bystanders.
There are too many guns on the street. That is part of the reason for these problems. Every police officer is a swat member in order to be safe on the street. This is ridiculous. Our streets aren't safe and our officers feel they need to have privileges to carry out an assault against citizens.
If a police officer needs special privileges to do their jobs, it is called corruption. Hate is corruption. Arrogance is corruption. Special privileges is corruption. This is the USA. This is not Russia. Some people may be confused about that.
Deadly force is allowed when people are a deadly danger in violation of the law. Stopping a murder or a mass shooting means officers are allowed NOW to end the danger, but, not carry out the justice that is supposed to be rendered by the people and their judges. Honest judges. Honest prosecutors. It is called due process and it is dearly different than Russia's idea of justice.
The USA states, "innocent until proven guilty." It was the basis of our Founders and our Constitution. No police officer is judge and jury. NONE.
Monday, June 08, 2020
This is employee harassment and exploitation. HCA Healthcare needs to give the money back.
Federal monies are not Christmas presents for CEOs. Enough of this. The monies come back into the US Treasury and the American people so they can decide how best to address this level of greed.
June 8, 2020
By Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Jesse Drucker and David Enrich
HCA Healthcare (click here) is one of the world’s wealthiest hospital chains. It earned more than $7 billion in profits over the past two years. It is worth $36 billion. It paid its chief executive $26 million in 2019.
But as the coronavirus swept the country, employees at HCA repeatedly complained that the company was not providing adequate protective gear to nurses, medical technicians and cleaning staff. Last month, HCA executives warned that they would lay off thousands of nurses if they didn’t agree to wage freezes and other concessions.
A few weeks earlier, HCA had received about $1 billion in bailout funds from the federal government, part of an effort to stabilize hospitals during the pandemic....
This is a cover-up for greed. If a CEO's hospital is not doing well financially, they need to make real cuts to CEO's and middle management salaries. I don't want to hear how they will leave and the hospital will lose their best management. Hello? Financial failure is not good management and the professionals in the hospital don't need management. They can get along very well without their CEOs and Middle Management. All the professionals need is a purchasing clerk and stockpile management. The CEO needs to go if a hospital can't "make it" without federal money.
Federal monies are to stabilize the hospital and not indulge management and purchase another home for the CEO.
...Industry officials argue that furloughs and pay reductions allow hospitals to keep providing essential services at a time when the pandemic has gutted their revenue....
June 8, 2020
By Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Jesse Drucker and David Enrich
HCA Healthcare (click here) is one of the world’s wealthiest hospital chains. It earned more than $7 billion in profits over the past two years. It is worth $36 billion. It paid its chief executive $26 million in 2019.
But as the coronavirus swept the country, employees at HCA repeatedly complained that the company was not providing adequate protective gear to nurses, medical technicians and cleaning staff. Last month, HCA executives warned that they would lay off thousands of nurses if they didn’t agree to wage freezes and other concessions.
A few weeks earlier, HCA had received about $1 billion in bailout funds from the federal government, part of an effort to stabilize hospitals during the pandemic....
This is a cover-up for greed. If a CEO's hospital is not doing well financially, they need to make real cuts to CEO's and middle management salaries. I don't want to hear how they will leave and the hospital will lose their best management. Hello? Financial failure is not good management and the professionals in the hospital don't need management. They can get along very well without their CEOs and Middle Management. All the professionals need is a purchasing clerk and stockpile management. The CEO needs to go if a hospital can't "make it" without federal money.
Federal monies are to stabilize the hospital and not indulge management and purchase another home for the CEO.
...Industry officials argue that furloughs and pay reductions allow hospitals to keep providing essential services at a time when the pandemic has gutted their revenue....
I understand the US House has passed police reform bill. Some police forces will find it easier to come on board than others.
...The legislation (click here) would make it easier for victims of abuses to recover damages, create a national registry of police misconduct and ban chokeholds, among other provisions....
June 8, 2020
By Matt Byrne
The Portland Police Department (click here) bars the use of chokeholds, neck restraints and other tactics that might cut off someone’s ability to breathe and classifies such techniques as deadly force, according to the department’s use-of-force policy.
The department released a copy of the policy last week as millions of anti-racism protesters flooded city streets across the country and around the world, demanding that police agencies be defunded and reformed, and that police stop killing people, especially people of color....
...Police departments across the country are re-evaluating their use-of-force policies after Floyd’s death, and some departments have since banned maneuvers designed to cut off oxygen to someone’s brain and render them unconscious. Minneapolis allowed the use of the neck restraints by police until it also banned them on Friday.
Police officers in Minneapolis had used the technique 237 times, and rendered 44 people unconscious with the neck restraint since the beginning of 2015, according to NBC News....
June 8, 2020
By Matt Byrne
The Portland Police Department (click here) bars the use of chokeholds, neck restraints and other tactics that might cut off someone’s ability to breathe and classifies such techniques as deadly force, according to the department’s use-of-force policy.
The department released a copy of the policy last week as millions of anti-racism protesters flooded city streets across the country and around the world, demanding that police agencies be defunded and reformed, and that police stop killing people, especially people of color....
...Police departments across the country are re-evaluating their use-of-force policies after Floyd’s death, and some departments have since banned maneuvers designed to cut off oxygen to someone’s brain and render them unconscious. Minneapolis allowed the use of the neck restraints by police until it also banned them on Friday.
Police officers in Minneapolis had used the technique 237 times, and rendered 44 people unconscious with the neck restraint since the beginning of 2015, according to NBC News....
The southern USA is always on vacation from the reality of the global pandemic.
The understanding of SARS-CoV-2 in the northern part of the country east of the Mississippi and the south is night and day. Either they don't understand it or they don't want to understand it. There must be a profound idea in the south that being slap-happy every day is the culture they desire because they completely reject the idea they are in danger.
The people in the south watched New York go through hell and they were simply watching during that time and never made the connection this could happen to every one of them.
While I was traveling I witnessed complete ignorance of the danger of the virus. Complete ignorance. People weren't even entertaining the idea they have to take the virus seriously. It wasn't until I got to mid-Virginia did I see people wearing masks in a profound understanding it was best to protect others while others protecting you.
It just doesn't matter to them.
You know, when people are oppressed, their lives are so weary that understanding and protecting from ONE MORE THING is just too much and it seems like a bad joke to an already sorrowful life. I think that exists in the south. The white people/Caucasians were the worst. Walking into fast-food restaurants without masks and laughing and talking to others while the staff was wearing their gear.
It was bizarre to watch people carry on like nothing was wrong. Florida on Spring Break. Nothing is wrong because nothing will get in the way of their relief from their day to day lives. Relieving their burden was far more important than the damage any virus could cause. I mean they are unconscious when they die, right?
Central Virginia and north is what I call normal. They wore masks, practiced social distancing, and don't' lean into a conversation because they will move back from closer contact. They get it. They love their lives so much they don't dare put themselves in jeopardy.
It was completely two opposite ends of the American culture. I found I pitied the right extremists and their hubris. Their ego structure was completely absent. To quote Freud, they were primarily ID with no Superego and no governing ego.
I was viewed as stupid and silly to be wearing a mask at all. No lie. In some ways it is true. The idea a mask protects others and others wearing masks protect you is meaningless if everyone isn't wearing them.
The word self-righteousness describes much of what I observed. They don't accept leadership unless it indulges their hubris and outlandish behavior in the face of danger.
The infection rates in these states are not falling at all. They are still increasing.
When I reached far north, they probably have the least worry of all Americans and they are vigilant to the danger of SARS-CoV-2. It was the first time I saw a McDonald's restaurant dining section open. I peeked in to see how it was going. People were primarily wearing masks except to eat. That was interesting. They order the food and wait for it with masks on but then sit down and eat without it, but, by that time the people are dining they know the others and their health that are sharing their same space.
I strongly believe there is a profound difference in the way people in different areas of the USA value life. The south is more juvenile and hates the idea of imposition of rules that take away their happiness from day to day. It is worrisome. We are not all valuing our lives in the same way and are passing that difference onto our children. It is unfortunate. I am not imagining it. I was astounded at the difference. I am speaking in generalities of the majority of my observations.
The traffic patterns are still different. The north had sparser passenger cars on the road, but, more than my initial trip south. The south never changed. There were many passenger cars on the road.
Interestingly, where the government was involved, the rules were sane. The high schoolers were carrying out their graduation in lines of cars to receive their diplomas. Post Offices demanded patrons to wear their masks and observe social distancing to the point of plastic sheets at the desk and marks on the floor to maintain the distance. People didn't have to guess where to stand when they were in line.
I found I was disappointed. I thought for sure as time went on people would modify their behaviors. That is only happening where people value information and respect it as the truth. It happens when social venues are closed. If the social venues are open it can mean to indulgence in all the feel-good feelings they can muster. There is the idea of "light switch" within that. In other words, if social venues were open it all must be okay, but, mostly because that is the way they wanted to understand the openings of society. It is unfortunate because I know there are dangers waiting for the opportunity and according to increasing number of cases the virus is finding that opportunity.
It is cultural. It is about permissiveness.
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While I was traveling I witnessed complete ignorance of the danger of the virus. Complete ignorance. People weren't even entertaining the idea they have to take the virus seriously. It wasn't until I got to mid-Virginia did I see people wearing masks in a profound understanding it was best to protect others while others protecting you.
It just doesn't matter to them.
You know, when people are oppressed, their lives are so weary that understanding and protecting from ONE MORE THING is just too much and it seems like a bad joke to an already sorrowful life. I think that exists in the south. The white people/Caucasians were the worst. Walking into fast-food restaurants without masks and laughing and talking to others while the staff was wearing their gear.
It was bizarre to watch people carry on like nothing was wrong. Florida on Spring Break. Nothing is wrong because nothing will get in the way of their relief from their day to day lives. Relieving their burden was far more important than the damage any virus could cause. I mean they are unconscious when they die, right?
Central Virginia and north is what I call normal. They wore masks, practiced social distancing, and don't' lean into a conversation because they will move back from closer contact. They get it. They love their lives so much they don't dare put themselves in jeopardy.
It was completely two opposite ends of the American culture. I found I pitied the right extremists and their hubris. Their ego structure was completely absent. To quote Freud, they were primarily ID with no Superego and no governing ego.
I was viewed as stupid and silly to be wearing a mask at all. No lie. In some ways it is true. The idea a mask protects others and others wearing masks protect you is meaningless if everyone isn't wearing them.
The word self-righteousness describes much of what I observed. They don't accept leadership unless it indulges their hubris and outlandish behavior in the face of danger.
The infection rates in these states are not falling at all. They are still increasing.
When I reached far north, they probably have the least worry of all Americans and they are vigilant to the danger of SARS-CoV-2. It was the first time I saw a McDonald's restaurant dining section open. I peeked in to see how it was going. People were primarily wearing masks except to eat. That was interesting. They order the food and wait for it with masks on but then sit down and eat without it, but, by that time the people are dining they know the others and their health that are sharing their same space.
I strongly believe there is a profound difference in the way people in different areas of the USA value life. The south is more juvenile and hates the idea of imposition of rules that take away their happiness from day to day. It is worrisome. We are not all valuing our lives in the same way and are passing that difference onto our children. It is unfortunate. I am not imagining it. I was astounded at the difference. I am speaking in generalities of the majority of my observations.
The traffic patterns are still different. The north had sparser passenger cars on the road, but, more than my initial trip south. The south never changed. There were many passenger cars on the road.
Interestingly, where the government was involved, the rules were sane. The high schoolers were carrying out their graduation in lines of cars to receive their diplomas. Post Offices demanded patrons to wear their masks and observe social distancing to the point of plastic sheets at the desk and marks on the floor to maintain the distance. People didn't have to guess where to stand when they were in line.
I found I was disappointed. I thought for sure as time went on people would modify their behaviors. That is only happening where people value information and respect it as the truth. It happens when social venues are closed. If the social venues are open it can mean to indulgence in all the feel-good feelings they can muster. There is the idea of "light switch" within that. In other words, if social venues were open it all must be okay, but, mostly because that is the way they wanted to understand the openings of society. It is unfortunate because I know there are dangers waiting for the opportunity and according to increasing number of cases the virus is finding that opportunity.
It is cultural. It is about permissiveness.
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Sunday, June 07, 2020
In discussing the serious effects of COVID-19 with someone...
...I began to wonder about therapeutics. What is the chance of administering Coumadin/ warfarin as a prophylactic to prevent complications. Now, the reason for Coumadin is because it is easily reversed as a prophylactic should. But, we know when some cancer patients are placed on Coumadin that they still form clots and other therapeutics such as heparin shots help. Sometimes if the cancer is end stage it still might not be an answer.
I thought blood thinners for the course of the virus until a patient tests negative would be prudent. I am sure there are physicians that have ordered this, ie: heart attacks. What is their experience? Which brings me to me last question.
For patients that were already on blood thinners of one kind or another for a variety of reasons, did they have better outcomes with the viral infection? I am sure there are enough records to read to find these trends if they exist. It is just that so many of the adverse effects are from blood cloths, with the exception of the brain.
Just a thought.
I thought blood thinners for the course of the virus until a patient tests negative would be prudent. I am sure there are physicians that have ordered this, ie: heart attacks. What is their experience? Which brings me to me last question.
For patients that were already on blood thinners of one kind or another for a variety of reasons, did they have better outcomes with the viral infection? I am sure there are enough records to read to find these trends if they exist. It is just that so many of the adverse effects are from blood cloths, with the exception of the brain.
Just a thought.
Saturday, June 06, 2020
Warning Storm Cristobal
The central Midwest including Michigan needs to pay attention to the storm named Cristobal in the Gulf of Mexico. The states inundated with rain a week or so ago will be facing another soaking in the coming days.
Ask the National Weather Service for anticipated rainfall as it moved north. Low lying areas may have to be sandbagged to prevent more flooding. Evacuations May be necessary.
Ask the National Weather Service for anticipated rainfall as it moved north. Low lying areas may have to be sandbagged to prevent more flooding. Evacuations May be necessary.
Covid 19 global pandemic 6.6.20 (click here)
6,663,304 Confired Cases
392,802 Deaths
The Americas still have the highest of all statistics and Africa the lowest.
In United States of America, from Jan 20 to 4:43pm CEST, 6 June 2020, there have been 1,857,872 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 107,911 deaths.
The Americas are carrying 47 percent of all cases in the world. Nearly half of the COVID-19 cases are in North and South America.
Of the confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Americas the USA is responsible for 59 percent of those cases. Nearly 60 percent.
The United States of America currently has 28 percent of all COVID-19 cases and 27 percent of the deaths globally.
THIS IS A BREAK FROM PAST TRENDS.
The USA was always had a far lower number of deaths compared to confirmed cases than the global numbers of deaths, but, this changes it. The USA now has over a quarter of the global deaths from infections from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
This new level of deaths means that 6 percent of those that contract the virus will die from it. This means out of every 100,000 cases in the USA 6000 will die.
Below are the statistics (click here) from the Flu Season of 2019-2020 in the USA per the CDC. The number of illnesses is far higher than COVID-19. However, the deaths are lower. In using the lower numbers of cases and deaths the percent of deaths from the flu is 0.06 percent. That is 24,000 deaths out of 39,000,000 illnesses.
COVID-19 deaths in the USA is 100 times worse than the flu.
There were 22 deaths from COVID-19 in New Zealand. The country is now free of the virus.
June 7, 2020
By Jenny Ruth
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has developed a strong global reputation.
New Zealand (click here) should be capitalising on our Covid-free status and the global reputation of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ...
6,663,304 Confired Cases
392,802 Deaths
The Americas still have the highest of all statistics and Africa the lowest.
In United States of America, from Jan 20 to 4:43pm CEST, 6 June 2020, there have been 1,857,872 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 107,911 deaths.
The Americas are carrying 47 percent of all cases in the world. Nearly half of the COVID-19 cases are in North and South America.
Of the confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Americas the USA is responsible for 59 percent of those cases. Nearly 60 percent.
The United States of America currently has 28 percent of all COVID-19 cases and 27 percent of the deaths globally.
THIS IS A BREAK FROM PAST TRENDS.
The USA was always had a far lower number of deaths compared to confirmed cases than the global numbers of deaths, but, this changes it. The USA now has over a quarter of the global deaths from infections from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
This new level of deaths means that 6 percent of those that contract the virus will die from it. This means out of every 100,000 cases in the USA 6000 will die.
Below are the statistics (click here) from the Flu Season of 2019-2020 in the USA per the CDC. The number of illnesses is far higher than COVID-19. However, the deaths are lower. In using the lower numbers of cases and deaths the percent of deaths from the flu is 0.06 percent. That is 24,000 deaths out of 39,000,000 illnesses.
COVID-19 deaths in the USA is 100 times worse than the flu.
There were 22 deaths from COVID-19 in New Zealand. The country is now free of the virus.
June 7, 2020By Jenny Ruth
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has developed a strong global reputation.
New Zealand (click here) should be capitalising on our Covid-free status and the global reputation of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ...
Friday, June 05, 2020
Today is Friday, isn't it?
Hm...
Well. This is interesting. It is impressive. Flint still has a problem with violence. I am sure the police would like to see the end of it.
Suggestion: There are too many guns on the street.
June 4, 2020
By Georgea Kovanis
Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson marches with demonstrators in Flint. (Photo via Genesee County Sheriff's Office Facebook page)
Chris Swanson, (click here) the sheriff in Genesee County, made national headlines for throwing down his riot gear last week and joining people protesting police brutality in the death of George Floyd, a black man killed by a white Minneapolis cop who pinned him down by the neck during an arrest.
The Flint Township protest took place on May 30, which Swanson said is the day "this office changed the way we do policing and George Floyd changed American policing because of what he sacrificed."
He said he is organizing meetings with members of the Black Lives Matter movement and with pastors throughout the community. "We're not going to just be an office of words, we're going to be an office of action."
So who is Swanson, besides a 27-year veteran of the Genesee County Sheriff's Office?...
June 2, 2020
By Dale Dowden
It is no secret (click here) to anyone that the United States is currently dealing with a few things.
Many people are pointing fingers at this and that when it appears to be a group of things needing to be fixed.
Mark Ingram II, current running back for the Baltimore Ravens shared a video on twitter. The video is of a friend of his, Officer Deon Smith of Flint, Michigan who states, "I am am a product of Flint, Michigan!"
Before Officer Smith gets to that statement he delivers a heartfelt message to the community of Flint but the message is universal....
Well. This is interesting. It is impressive. Flint still has a problem with violence. I am sure the police would like to see the end of it.
Suggestion: There are too many guns on the street.
By Georgea Kovanis
Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson marches with demonstrators in Flint. (Photo via Genesee County Sheriff's Office Facebook page)
Chris Swanson, (click here) the sheriff in Genesee County, made national headlines for throwing down his riot gear last week and joining people protesting police brutality in the death of George Floyd, a black man killed by a white Minneapolis cop who pinned him down by the neck during an arrest.
The Flint Township protest took place on May 30, which Swanson said is the day "this office changed the way we do policing and George Floyd changed American policing because of what he sacrificed."
He said he is organizing meetings with members of the Black Lives Matter movement and with pastors throughout the community. "We're not going to just be an office of words, we're going to be an office of action."
So who is Swanson, besides a 27-year veteran of the Genesee County Sheriff's Office?...
January 15, 2020
Genesee county - Scam victims (click here) will not get their money or the big prize, Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson said.
Genesee county - Scam victims (click here) will not get their money or the big prize, Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson said.
He laid $120,000 on a table, which he said came from one of these scams.
Swanson said an 83-year-old man of sound mind had been caught up in this scam for the last three years. The scammers had him convinced he'd win big money and a Mercedes if he played along.
After the man sent nearly $250,000 to the scammers, the elder abuse team at the Genesee County Sheriff's Office stepped in to save him from losing any more of his hard-earned money....
June 2, 2020
Flint post commander F/Lieutenant Brantley (click here) & her career were highlighted as a class project for Black History Month at Baker College. The college has always celebrated Black History Month however, this is the first time a class has requested to honor anyone local.
Flint - “I'm not a sellout. (click here) I'm trying to help.This is the way I want to help,” First Lieutenant Yvonne Brantley said.
Flint post commander F/Lieutenant Brantley (click here) & her career were highlighted as a class project for Black History Month at Baker College. The college has always celebrated Black History Month however, this is the first time a class has requested to honor anyone local.
Flint - “I'm not a sellout. (click here) I'm trying to help.This is the way I want to help,” First Lieutenant Yvonne Brantley said.
She’s been a Michigan State Trooper for 25 years, serving multiple communities across our state.
F/Lt. Brantley rose through the ranks at MSP and now heads the Flint Post.
She is the highest-ranking African American woman currently serving with the Michigan State Police.
The long-standing divide between police and the African American community is something she understands from both sides.
But, she's dedicated her career to putting an end to it....
By Dale Dowden
It is no secret (click here) to anyone that the United States is currently dealing with a few things.
Many people are pointing fingers at this and that when it appears to be a group of things needing to be fixed.
Mark Ingram II, current running back for the Baltimore Ravens shared a video on twitter. The video is of a friend of his, Officer Deon Smith of Flint, Michigan who states, "I am am a product of Flint, Michigan!"
Before Officer Smith gets to that statement he delivers a heartfelt message to the community of Flint but the message is universal....
Stop growing this independent federal force that is larger than any other agency of the government outside the military.
I want budget cuts and it starts here!
The FBI has fewer personnel than the Secret Police of the Justice Department.
FBI Washington Field Office : With more than 830 special agents (click here) and more than 850 professional staff, the Washington Field Office remains at the forefront of the FBI’s efforts to protect the people and defend the nation.
June 5, 2020
By Garrett M. Graff
...To understand the police forces (click here) ringing Trump and the White House it helps to understand the dense and not-entirely-sensical thicket of agencies that make up the nation’s civilian federal law enforcement. With little public attention, notice and amid historically lax oversight, those ranks have surged since 9/11—growing by roughly 2,500 officers annually every year since 2000. To put it another way: Every year since the 2001 terrorist attacks, the federal government has added to its policing ranks a force larger than the entire Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives....
2500 agents X 20 years is 50,000 special police in Washington, DC. Where is the arsenal that supplies 50,000 police officers?
The FBI in total have only 35,000 agents. This is ridiculous. The Special Police have to be downsized and assessed for racial equality.
The Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Force is only 3800 officers for slightly more than 700.000 residents. The municipal government of Washington, DC should be outraged that their own police force is so minuscule compared to the Secret Police of the Justice Department.
This is ridiculous. There needs to be a severe reassessment of this DOJ force, it's duties and it's numbers.
The FBI has fewer personnel than the Secret Police of the Justice Department.
FBI Washington Field Office : With more than 830 special agents (click here) and more than 850 professional staff, the Washington Field Office remains at the forefront of the FBI’s efforts to protect the people and defend the nation.
By Garrett M. Graff
...To understand the police forces (click here) ringing Trump and the White House it helps to understand the dense and not-entirely-sensical thicket of agencies that make up the nation’s civilian federal law enforcement. With little public attention, notice and amid historically lax oversight, those ranks have surged since 9/11—growing by roughly 2,500 officers annually every year since 2000. To put it another way: Every year since the 2001 terrorist attacks, the federal government has added to its policing ranks a force larger than the entire Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives....
2500 agents X 20 years is 50,000 special police in Washington, DC. Where is the arsenal that supplies 50,000 police officers?
The FBI in total have only 35,000 agents. This is ridiculous. The Special Police have to be downsized and assessed for racial equality.
The Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Force is only 3800 officers for slightly more than 700.000 residents. The municipal government of Washington, DC should be outraged that their own police force is so minuscule compared to the Secret Police of the Justice Department.
This is ridiculous. There needs to be a severe reassessment of this DOJ force, it's duties and it's numbers.
Rather than allowing Trump to bludgeon "The Green New Deal" as a political weapon...
...send it to the CBO (click here) for monetary cost and benefits. When realizing The Green New Deal will end the next tipping point and begin the reversal of the Climate Crisis, the CBO analysis should be interesting.
We do still have a Congressional Budget Office, don't we?
Looks like we do:
June 1, 2020
By Jeff Cox
The coronavirus (click here) likely will sap about $7.9 trillion of economic activity over the next decade-plus even with all of the rescue funding being poured in to offset the pandemic’s impact, according to a government estimate Monday.
Through fiscal 2030, the virus will reduce real economic output — nominal GDP adjusted for inflation — by 3% from initial economic estimates in January before the pandemic hit, the Congressional Budget Office said.
“Business closures and social distancing measures are expected to curtail consumer spending, while the recent drop in energy prices is projected to severely reduce U.S. investment in the energy sector,” CBO Director Phillip L. Swagel said in a written response to an inquiry from Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “Recent legislation will, in CBO’s assessment, partially mitigate the deterioration in economic conditions.”...
Trump really screwed up the response to this threat to the USA and national security.
The first reversal will begin with the oceans and the end of acidification. The land and oceans are currently warehousing CO2. Those saturations will reverse before atmospheric saturation reversed in any noticeable and measurable ways.
We do still have a Congressional Budget Office, don't we?
Looks like we do:
June 1, 2020
By Jeff Cox
The coronavirus (click here) likely will sap about $7.9 trillion of economic activity over the next decade-plus even with all of the rescue funding being poured in to offset the pandemic’s impact, according to a government estimate Monday.
Through fiscal 2030, the virus will reduce real economic output — nominal GDP adjusted for inflation — by 3% from initial economic estimates in January before the pandemic hit, the Congressional Budget Office said.
“Business closures and social distancing measures are expected to curtail consumer spending, while the recent drop in energy prices is projected to severely reduce U.S. investment in the energy sector,” CBO Director Phillip L. Swagel said in a written response to an inquiry from Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “Recent legislation will, in CBO’s assessment, partially mitigate the deterioration in economic conditions.”...
Trump really screwed up the response to this threat to the USA and national security.
The first reversal will begin with the oceans and the end of acidification. The land and oceans are currently warehousing CO2. Those saturations will reverse before atmospheric saturation reversed in any noticeable and measurable ways.
Lindsay Graham's boogeyman doesn't exist. Nice try though.
There is nothing Strzok or Comey did that was so wrong it could have prevented an investigation into the relationship between the Trump campaign and Russia had PAPERWORK been completed differently. The Russia investigation was begun because RUSSIA HACKED THE DCCC AND CLINTON CAMPAIGN TO PUT TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND RUSSIA SUCCEEDED. The investigation went forward as it should and the Special Counsel Report is damning of the Russians and the perjury of Trump.
FBI protocols are rules, not law. Sometimes protecting a democracy requires bravery beyond the rules.
Graham, Trump and Barr have nothing but disciplinary procedures on their hands. If Comey and Strok decide to testify beyond their 5th amendment rights we might find out why any breach in protocol was NECESSARY.
If Graham, Durham, or Barr seek to exonerate Russia from EVIDENCE of hacking that is treason. They should be very careful about their purpose.
FBI protocols are rules, not law. Sometimes protecting a democracy requires bravery beyond the rules.
Graham, Trump and Barr have nothing but disciplinary procedures on their hands. If Comey and Strok decide to testify beyond their 5th amendment rights we might find out why any breach in protocol was NECESSARY.
If Graham, Durham, or Barr seek to exonerate Russia from EVIDENCE of hacking that is treason. They should be very careful about their purpose.
The May unemployment figures should be no surprise.
The reason the Democrats wrote the PPP and enhanced unemployment laws was to bring about exactly what occurred in May. Americans with a stable income through unemployment actually started to spend money once the essentials of housing and food were accomplished.
May would be the point where past due housing and food needs were finally coming under control and Americans were feeling better about their home budgets. The spending in May was no longer sustenance spending.
May would be the point where past due housing and food needs were finally coming under control and Americans were feeling better about their home budgets. The spending in May was no longer sustenance spending.
Thursday, June 04, 2020
There is a much bigger problem on the horizon.
A few weeks ago there was a 6.5 earthquake in Nevada (click here). It was kind of rare for Nevada and usually, the North American Craton normally has quakes, but, they are primarily minor but deep in the Earth. However, this was unusual.
Naturally, the first thing that came to mind was the Yellowstone Caldera. I examined maps of major fissures and fault lines in the USA and didn't really think it would go beyond some aftershocks and dismissed the idea. In the back of my mind is the reality of the movement of the Hawaiian hotspot and the high level of activity in the ring of fire in the Pacific. It has been very active. But, that is the Pacific Plate and the North American plate is huge and really isn't affected that much by the Pacific Plate.
Then this happened.
June 4, 2020
By Jens Skapski
Earthquake swarms, geyser eruptions and ground uplift: (click here) Large volcanic areas like the Yellowstone caldera in US-state Wyoming are showing their dynamic processes in different ways. However, sometimes this normal background activity is said to be more dramatic.
You are probably here and reading this text because you think something unusual is going with the world's most famous apocalypse volcano. Maybe because you have seen some activity that you can't explain immediately. But more likely because you came across a newspaper article or a YouTube video that tells you some strange things are happening and you decided to google for further information. If this is the case, please take 3 or 4 minutes to read the following article.
Right at the beginning: I am "sorry" to disappoint you but this article won't tell you that the world is going to end. I would like to talk about news agencies, bloggers, YouTubers and other parts of the internet community who earn money with other people's fear.
And apologizes to everyone for the irritating headline but this is the only way to get the attention of people who are addressed here....
Now, for the most part, when Yellowstone rumbles it is normal and benign. What bothers me this time is that three weeks ago there was a major earthquake in Nevada. I think the park should be closed until this activity settles down and we know this is nothing more than benign activity. Give it a month or so and then let the Park Rangers and scientists decide about what is going on with Yellowstone.
I think this time it is important to be prudent. Besides, there is the virus and parks should be closed for a little while longer anyway. I think media services should want to pay attention to this even if just for fun. I wouldn't ignore it as nothing.
Naturally, the first thing that came to mind was the Yellowstone Caldera. I examined maps of major fissures and fault lines in the USA and didn't really think it would go beyond some aftershocks and dismissed the idea. In the back of my mind is the reality of the movement of the Hawaiian hotspot and the high level of activity in the ring of fire in the Pacific. It has been very active. But, that is the Pacific Plate and the North American plate is huge and really isn't affected that much by the Pacific Plate.
Then this happened.
June 4, 2020
By Jens Skapski
Earthquake swarms, geyser eruptions and ground uplift: (click here) Large volcanic areas like the Yellowstone caldera in US-state Wyoming are showing their dynamic processes in different ways. However, sometimes this normal background activity is said to be more dramatic.
You are probably here and reading this text because you think something unusual is going with the world's most famous apocalypse volcano. Maybe because you have seen some activity that you can't explain immediately. But more likely because you came across a newspaper article or a YouTube video that tells you some strange things are happening and you decided to google for further information. If this is the case, please take 3 or 4 minutes to read the following article.
Right at the beginning: I am "sorry" to disappoint you but this article won't tell you that the world is going to end. I would like to talk about news agencies, bloggers, YouTubers and other parts of the internet community who earn money with other people's fear.
And apologizes to everyone for the irritating headline but this is the only way to get the attention of people who are addressed here....
Now, for the most part, when Yellowstone rumbles it is normal and benign. What bothers me this time is that three weeks ago there was a major earthquake in Nevada. I think the park should be closed until this activity settles down and we know this is nothing more than benign activity. Give it a month or so and then let the Park Rangers and scientists decide about what is going on with Yellowstone.
I think this time it is important to be prudent. Besides, there is the virus and parks should be closed for a little while longer anyway. I think media services should want to pay attention to this even if just for fun. I wouldn't ignore it as nothing.
The last time “little green men” showed in the world that it made global news it was when Russia invaded Crimea and Victor left the country. I demand a thorough investigation to whom these military men were.
One other thing, if police budgets are cut take the meter readers off the payroll and put the cops back on the local tasks of the city. There simply aren’t that many terrorists in average neighborhoods.
The only responsible legislators in DC is the US House. I would expect it to take up both investigations as soon as is possible.
Forget about any responsible activity from the US Senate, they are far too busy using the federal government to look for the boogie man in the Russia investigation.
The plot by the Republicans is to create a deep state scenario, declare the government invalid, declare a Police State, and cancel the elections in November as they don't know how deep the deep state actually exists. The USA will then have its first king. That is exactly what is going on between Barr, Trump, and Graham. They will hold power as it is now with very little help in the structure of the federal government to run the country and the USA will fall into chaos and third world economics no different than the two-class systems of countries where strong men are at the top of the government. Trump accepts this advice and institutes it from people like Putin that want to destroy the United States of America.
One other thing, if police budgets are cut take the meter readers off the payroll and put the cops back on the local tasks of the city. There simply aren’t that many terrorists in average neighborhoods.
The only responsible legislators in DC is the US House. I would expect it to take up both investigations as soon as is possible.
Forget about any responsible activity from the US Senate, they are far too busy using the federal government to look for the boogie man in the Russia investigation.
The plot by the Republicans is to create a deep state scenario, declare the government invalid, declare a Police State, and cancel the elections in November as they don't know how deep the deep state actually exists. The USA will then have its first king. That is exactly what is going on between Barr, Trump, and Graham. They will hold power as it is now with very little help in the structure of the federal government to run the country and the USA will fall into chaos and third world economics no different than the two-class systems of countries where strong men are at the top of the government. Trump accepts this advice and institutes it from people like Putin that want to destroy the United States of America.
The current Ukraine’s prosecutor found NO evidence of Hunter Biden wrongdoing. That is amazing considering how Giuliani did his level best to create the opposite scenario even after removing the ambassador.
The Bidens are innocent of wrongdoing!
END OF DISCUSSION!
That is an amazing reality. Joe Biden has been serving people in government for decades. Never was he ever interested in self- serving corruption. I have followed Joe Biden casually over the years because he believes in the Middle Class and the unions that make it possible. He is a really cool guy. He really loves the people. It shows. I don’t know if anyone noticed but his speech was made without notes or a teleprompter. It was all Joe.
The Bidens are innocent of wrongdoing!
END OF DISCUSSION!
That is an amazing reality. Joe Biden has been serving people in government for decades. Never was he ever interested in self- serving corruption. I have followed Joe Biden casually over the years because he believes in the Middle Class and the unions that make it possible. He is a really cool guy. He really loves the people. It shows. I don’t know if anyone noticed but his speech was made without notes or a teleprompter. It was all Joe.
General Allen stated the USA was sliding into liberalism? Fighting racism and police brutality is liberalism? You have got to be joking. What next?
The virus was thrust onto the country without warning. Countering the spread of the virus is not liberalism it is however survival. The virus has killed more Americans than any war the Pentagon carried out. Amazing how some people will use any aspect of an emergency for politics.
Perhaps General Allen might take notice of the number of emergencies in the country and realize how inept Trump is. Simply keeping the USA sovereign within its borders and true to the USA Constitution is enough to keep most if not all Americans busy these days. I suppose the tenacity of every American in response to every emergency is liberalism too.
General Allen needs to put the responsibility for a country full of despair and mayhem where it belongs, in the White House bunker! I am sure it’s warehouses of national stockpile are full.
The virus was thrust onto the country without warning. Countering the spread of the virus is not liberalism it is however survival. The virus has killed more Americans than any war the Pentagon carried out. Amazing how some people will use any aspect of an emergency for politics.
Perhaps General Allen might take notice of the number of emergencies in the country and realize how inept Trump is. Simply keeping the USA sovereign within its borders and true to the USA Constitution is enough to keep most if not all Americans busy these days. I suppose the tenacity of every American in response to every emergency is liberalism too.
General Allen needs to put the responsibility for a country full of despair and mayhem where it belongs, in the White House bunker! I am sure it’s warehouses of national stockpile are full.
George Floyd will have two more services to accommodate his exceptional family.
My mother and father grew up in poverty in a coal mining town. When my mother married, my father went to work in a factory after serving four years in the US Air Force, they were entering the Middle Class of the USA. Between the two of them, they moved into the Middle Class and educated their children. Poverty ended in my Father and Mother's life by the ages of 20. They would purchase a home about ten years later. Our family has never returned to those hard times. The Floyd family was still struggling with poverty and they are younger than me. My mother is 85 years old now. She remembers those hard days as a girl and a young woman, but, she hasn't experienced that for 65 years of her life.
Racism still continues and it has to stop. Bigotry, racism and prejudice needs to stop now.
Police no longer have to be trained in Erik Prince Training Camps. (click here) It is time to end the escalation of the militarization of our homeland police. What was witnessed with the police that killed George Floyd, was training in the arts of suppressing the suspect. They are not normal techniques and methods for American homeland police. That knowledge of putting pressure on the neck in the right amounts to kill is LEARNED. Knowledge of anatomy was never part of the average police training, but, it is today.
If any police union is going to justify enormous force in day to day policing then they are as much the problem. I remember when Eric Garner was killed by police, the police union was identified as part of the problem and not the solution.
The country has become occupied by a police force that focuses on suppression of will and life as part of their training. We witnessed that this time as well, especially in the brutality of Washington, DC.
There are no terrorists that run in the park every morning or walk their dog every evening or conduct bird watching. There is no need nor has there been any need for a militarized police force in the USA. September 11, 2001 occurred once on USA soil. The police being trained to handle terrorists at every turn is the wrong approach for the police that patrol our neighborhoods and Main Street. The people need to take back their country from fear and the imposition of wrongful deaths justified by police work.
Any technique that uses the neck by police to capture a suspect must be ended. No police union should stand in the way of ending those police methods, policies, and practices that involve restraint with a person's neck. Those days are over.
May George Floyd rest in peace and his family find solace in these difficult days.
Wednesday, June 03, 2020
There are many minorities be they African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans in the ranks of the USA military.
Listing four ethnic groups in the title to this entry I am sure I left out a dozen others such as Pacific Islanders.
Secretary Esper is a very intelligent man. No one goes to work for Raytheon Corporation without meeting trough standards. It would be quite an accomplishment if Secretary Esper would put his intelligence to work for the USA Military and conduct strong race training while seeking out any injustices within the ranks of the USA military, intentional and unintentional.
There must be some disparities such as do minorities gravitate to any particular arm of the USA military? Are the military universities turning out officers of all race, creeds, and color? Are the pay grades equitable to all soldiers, be they Marines or Air Force pilots? Are women treated equally? Are minorities and women provided advancement at the same standard and rate as their peers? If not, why not and can it be changed? Military career paths are important and seniority matters, so how are the ratios of minorities and women measuring up in relation to seniority, advancement and pay? And what is the equity today for the LGBTQ community members of the USA military? Diversity means everyone.
The USA military MUST reflect equality for all and invite every diversity in the USA to voluntarily enlist and find a career path if they so desire.
I think Secretary Esper is up to the challenge. He should make it his personal project and guide its success.
June 3, 2020
By Zachery Cohen
Washington - Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (click here) said Wednesday that he does not support using active duty troops to quell the large-scale protests across the United States triggered by the death of George Floyd and those forces should only be used in a law enforcement role as a last resort after President Donald Trump recently threatened to deploy the military to enforce order.
"The option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act," he said during a briefing at the Pentagon.
Esper also attempted to explain his use of the word "battlespace" when discussing quelling violence on the streets amid civil unrest.
"It's something we use day in and day out ... it's part of our military lexicon that I grew up with...it's not a phrase focused on people," he said. "In retrospect I would have used different wording."...
Secretary Esper is a very intelligent man. No one goes to work for Raytheon Corporation without meeting trough standards. It would be quite an accomplishment if Secretary Esper would put his intelligence to work for the USA Military and conduct strong race training while seeking out any injustices within the ranks of the USA military, intentional and unintentional.
There must be some disparities such as do minorities gravitate to any particular arm of the USA military? Are the military universities turning out officers of all race, creeds, and color? Are the pay grades equitable to all soldiers, be they Marines or Air Force pilots? Are women treated equally? Are minorities and women provided advancement at the same standard and rate as their peers? If not, why not and can it be changed? Military career paths are important and seniority matters, so how are the ratios of minorities and women measuring up in relation to seniority, advancement and pay? And what is the equity today for the LGBTQ community members of the USA military? Diversity means everyone.
The USA military MUST reflect equality for all and invite every diversity in the USA to voluntarily enlist and find a career path if they so desire.
I think Secretary Esper is up to the challenge. He should make it his personal project and guide its success.
June 3, 2020
By Zachery Cohen
Washington - Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (click here) said Wednesday that he does not support using active duty troops to quell the large-scale protests across the United States triggered by the death of George Floyd and those forces should only be used in a law enforcement role as a last resort after President Donald Trump recently threatened to deploy the military to enforce order.
"The option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act," he said during a briefing at the Pentagon.
Esper also attempted to explain his use of the word "battlespace" when discussing quelling violence on the streets amid civil unrest.
"It's something we use day in and day out ... it's part of our military lexicon that I grew up with...it's not a phrase focused on people," he said. "In retrospect I would have used different wording."...
Vice President Biden gave a really wonderful speech yesterday. I heard the entire speech and it was incredible.
There was a time in the USA when social change was very hard, too. There were magnificent leaders that sought to move the country to a better place. No one quite states it like the Late Attorney General Robert F. Kenndy.
RFK was at the center of the civil rights movement as was his brother, the Late President John F. Kennedy. The 1960s saw the loss of some of the greatest leaders of our time. We lost them through gun violence and assassination. Losing them may have been the greatest loss to equal rights in the United States of America.
We have been here before. We have witnessed the brutality of National Guardsmen shooting and killing on a university campus. We know it is possible and we know until yesterday it never happened again. That return of hate and desperation cannot return at the time when the country is demanding change.
C-Span also has a tape about this speech worthwhile to listen to (click here).
RFK was at the center of the civil rights movement as was his brother, the Late President John F. Kennedy. The 1960s saw the loss of some of the greatest leaders of our time. We lost them through gun violence and assassination. Losing them may have been the greatest loss to equal rights in the United States of America.
We have been here before. We have witnessed the brutality of National Guardsmen shooting and killing on a university campus. We know it is possible and we know until yesterday it never happened again. That return of hate and desperation cannot return at the time when the country is demanding change.
C-Span also has a tape about this speech worthwhile to listen to (click here).
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