...Starting in 2007, (click here) Mario’s work as an electoral forecaster in four different companies has resulted in 82 correct predictions of democratic processes in Canada and the United States, including the 2008, 2011 and 2019 Canadian federal elections, 18 Canadian provincial elections, the 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite, and the 2012 and 2016 United States presidential elections....
In order for the survey to hold water, it needs to be duplicated.
June 26, 2020
By Mario Canseco
62% of Canadians and 51% of Americans personally believe global warming is a “major crisis.” (click here)
Vancouver, BC [June 26, 2020] – Most Canadians and Americans would consent to providing larger fiscal contributions to their governments in order to combat global warming, a new two-country Research Co. poll has found.
In the online survey of representative national samples, 60% of Canadians and 54% of Americans say they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to adequately deal with climate change.
More than three-in-five Canadians (64%) and a majority of Americans (53%) believe global warming is a fact and is mostly caused by emission from vehicles and industrial facilities.
About one-in-four respondents in the two countries (23% in Canada and 25% in the United States) think climate change is a fact and is mostly caused by natural changes.
Only 7% of Canadians and 14% of Americans believe global warming is a theory that has not yet been proven—including 12% of Conservative Party voters in the 2019 Canadian federal election and 26% of Republican Party supporters in the United States....
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Two steps forward and three steps back.
January 20, 2015
By Nadia Dreid
In 1941, (click here) a lot of things were different. What is now Georgia Southern University was then known as Georgia Teacher’s College (GTC), Martin Luther King Jr. was still in grade school and segregation was alive and well in the south.
Former GTC president Marvin Pittman was fired from his position at the college for, among other charges, allegedly supporting racial integration after he invited George Washington Carver and several other teachers from historically black Tuskegee University to visit the school. Pittman was accused of allowing black teachers to guest lecture in classes and eat in the school cafeteria with white students....
June 24, 2020
By Richard Faussett
Atlanta - For months after the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, (click here) a 25-year-old black man who was pursued by armed white residents of a coastal South Georgia neighborhood, no arrests were made.
But after an article by The New York Times, the release of a video of the February confrontation, and increased attention from lawmakers, celebrities and civil rights activists, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation stepped in.
The police arrested two men, Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael, on Thursday and charged them with murder and aggravated assault in the killing of Mr. Arbery. The state agency said Travis McMichael had fired the fatal shots....
By Nadia Dreid
In 1941, (click here) a lot of things were different. What is now Georgia Southern University was then known as Georgia Teacher’s College (GTC), Martin Luther King Jr. was still in grade school and segregation was alive and well in the south.
Former GTC president Marvin Pittman was fired from his position at the college for, among other charges, allegedly supporting racial integration after he invited George Washington Carver and several other teachers from historically black Tuskegee University to visit the school. Pittman was accused of allowing black teachers to guest lecture in classes and eat in the school cafeteria with white students....
June 24, 2020
By Richard Faussett
Atlanta - For months after the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, (click here) a 25-year-old black man who was pursued by armed white residents of a coastal South Georgia neighborhood, no arrests were made.
But after an article by The New York Times, the release of a video of the February confrontation, and increased attention from lawmakers, celebrities and civil rights activists, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation stepped in.
The police arrested two men, Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael, on Thursday and charged them with murder and aggravated assault in the killing of Mr. Arbery. The state agency said Travis McMichael had fired the fatal shots....
That is an enormous jump in CO2 emissions and that is just CO2.
By Matthew Taylor
Kevin Anderson, (click here) one of the world’s leading climate scientists, had a familiar reaction to the latest report from the government’s climate advisers, which was published this week.
The 196-page document by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) delivered a stinging rebuke of the government’s record and said ministers must urgently up their game if the UK is to avoid a significant rebound in carbon emissions after the coronavirus crisis and meet its 2050 net zero carbon target.
Anderson is a professor of energy and climate change, working across the universities of Manchester, Uppsala in Sweden and Bergen in Norway. He said: “The constructive, meticulous criticism of the government, which is failing abysmally by any measure, is fine. The problem is the framing the CCC has for net zero is already far removed from what is needed to meet our Paris commitments."...
Virginia needs to remove Lee from the US Capital.
Melt them down to return the use of the metal for USA infrastructure projects or jewelry. The stone can be crushed for driveway gravel. It will be very pretty driveway gravel, too.
This effort by Nancy Pelosi is going to require legislation. The entire toxic culture of the Civil War has to be removed and replaced THE REAL HISTORY of the defeat of the Confederate Army and the failure of secession.
June 10, 2020
By Chris Marquette
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (click here) is calling for the removal of 11 Confederate statues from the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection.
In a letter sent on Wednesday, Pelosi asked the Joint Committee on the Library — led by Senate Rules and Administration Chairman Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, and House Administration Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat — to direct the Architect of the Capitol to remove the statues of soldiers and officials who represent the Confederacy.
Pelosi specifically mentioned two prominent Confederates — Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens — who served as president and vice president of the Confederate States of America, respectively, and who were charged with treason against the United States. Stephens’ statue was given by Georgia and Davis’ by Mississippi.
“While I believe it is imperative that we never forget our history lest we repeat it, I also believe that there is no room for celebrating the violent bigotry of the men of the Confederacy in the hallowed halls of the United States Capitol or in places of honor across the country,” Pelosi wrote....
President Obama attempted to build an "Infrastructure Bank" but that was defeated by a majority Republican House.
June 28, 2020
By Maria Gallucci
...One of the ideas Congress (click here) considered at the time was launching a national "green bank," a nonprofit institution that would use public money to help cash-strapped businesses invest in solar panels, wind farms, and energy-efficiency building retrofits. Green bank legislation gained traction that year, but it and other climate-related initiatives — most famously a cap-and-trade bill — ultimately never passed.
So green bank advocates turned their efforts to the states. Soon Connecticut, Florida, and Hawaii had launched their own specialized banks, using seed funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to issue loans and bonds to local projects. Together, those programs have spurred billions of dollars' worth of investments and supported tens of thousands of jobs, bank leaders say.
Today, as the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzes another economic meltdown — with an unemployment rate over 13 percent — the green bank concept is making a comeback. With nearly 600,000 clean energy positions lost in recent weeks, environmental advocates are among those again eyeing a recovery that includes significantly decarbonizing the American economy. And they say a federal green bank is a key element.
Sierra Club, for example, recently called for creating a National Climate Bank, as part of its green stimulus plan. The bank would invest $30 billion over its first five years to help boost renewable electricity capacity and add energy storage systems and transmission lines to the U.S. grid. At that scale, the bank could help create about 83,000 jobs per year, according to an estimate by the Political Economy Research Institute....
By Maria Gallucci
...One of the ideas Congress (click here) considered at the time was launching a national "green bank," a nonprofit institution that would use public money to help cash-strapped businesses invest in solar panels, wind farms, and energy-efficiency building retrofits. Green bank legislation gained traction that year, but it and other climate-related initiatives — most famously a cap-and-trade bill — ultimately never passed.
So green bank advocates turned their efforts to the states. Soon Connecticut, Florida, and Hawaii had launched their own specialized banks, using seed funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to issue loans and bonds to local projects. Together, those programs have spurred billions of dollars' worth of investments and supported tens of thousands of jobs, bank leaders say.
Today, as the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzes another economic meltdown — with an unemployment rate over 13 percent — the green bank concept is making a comeback. With nearly 600,000 clean energy positions lost in recent weeks, environmental advocates are among those again eyeing a recovery that includes significantly decarbonizing the American economy. And they say a federal green bank is a key element.
Sierra Club, for example, recently called for creating a National Climate Bank, as part of its green stimulus plan. The bank would invest $30 billion over its first five years to help boost renewable electricity capacity and add energy storage systems and transmission lines to the U.S. grid. At that scale, the bank could help create about 83,000 jobs per year, according to an estimate by the Political Economy Research Institute....
The USA will not repeat the mistakes of the past in engaging a civil war.
The civil war is always painted as a war for the "fiscal" south. In other words, the south's economy could not survive without slavery. But, within that understanding is the reality that Caucasians were not slaves. Hence, the USA Civil War was a war of White Supremacy and why the attachment of the confederate flag to modern-day White Supremacists.
The degree of which southern culture permeates the culture of the USA is rather incredible and isn't going to disappear overnight. It will take at least a generation to dismantle the entrenched memorializing. The civil war ended in 1865. It has been 155 years and this culture is not only wrong but, a problem for modern-day America. It is time to end the intrusion of the Civil War South and return tackle the problems facing southern families in the way of health care and economic viability rather than the reality today of the working poor.
Fall 2011
Reaping What You Sow: Southern Cultures, Black Traditions, and Black Women
By Cynthia Mikell
This is an inquiry into Southern cultures, (click here) Black traditions, and Black women with a focus on the life of one Black woman educator. Drawing upon the works of Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning African American woman, novelist, and master storyteller, Toni Morrison (1970, 1973, 1976, 1987, 1988, 1993, 2003, & 2008); activist and Black feminist protest thinker and writer, bell hooks (1981, 1984, 1995, & 2000); the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, activist, and womanist, Alice Walker (1983); the Black feminist thinker and writer, Patricia Hills Collins (1998, 2000), and the critical race theorist and the first tenured African-American professor of Law at Harvard University, Derrick Bell (1992, 1995); I create a composite (He, 2003) main character, Marie Sincerely Lucky, an ordinary farm girl from a rural Southern community. I utilize Marie as a persona to tell key life events and experiences using fiction (which is not widely accepted in academia as a methodology) and the seasonal metaphor (literal and Biblical) which becomes the titles of chapters and sections throughout my dissertation....
NASA-NOAA Analysis Shara Dust Aerosols (click here)
Often when these events occur and deposit more particles in the air more storms are possible. This is not a benign event. There have been problems with air quality and breathing, but, there are other climate-related issues to this arrival of Sahara dust.
Often when these events occur and deposit more particles in the air more storms are possible. This is not a benign event. There have been problems with air quality and breathing, but, there are other climate-related issues to this arrival of Sahara dust.
Robert E. Lee is treated as if a USA president. He never was, but, his importance is regal.
The trick here is "Does every American care about every other American?"
The answer is, "No." There are all kinds of tee shirts out there defying mask-wearing. Mask wearing has become a POLITICALLY CORRECT issue for the political right. If they are caught wearing a mask they must not be a Trumper.
The scientific facts are in and Americans should be wearing a mask to END transmission of the virus.
The scientific facts are in and Americans should be wearing a mask to END transmission of the virus.
"(I Wish I Was In) Dixie Land" (1859)
Lyrics by: Daniel Decatur Emmett (click here for "Songwriters Hall of Fame")
I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Old times dar am not forgotten,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
In Dixie Land whar’ I was born in,
Early on one frosty mornin’,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
Old Missus marry Will-de-weaber,
Willium was a gay deceaber; Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
But when he put his arm around ‘er
Smiled as fierce as a forty-pounder,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
His face was sharp as a butcher’s cleaver,
But dat did not seem to greab ‘er;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Old Missus acted the foolish part,
And died for a man dat broke her heart,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
Now here’s a health to the next old Missus,
And all the gals dat want to kiss us;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
But if you want to drive ‘way sorrow,
Come and hear dis song to-morrow,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
Dar’s buckwheat cakes an’ Injun batter,
Makes you fat or a little fatter;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den hoe it down and scratch your grabble,
To Dixie’s land I’m bound to trabble, Look away!
Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie
Lyrics by: Daniel Decatur Emmett (click here for "Songwriters Hall of Fame")
I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Old times dar am not forgotten,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
In Dixie Land whar’ I was born in,
Early on one frosty mornin’,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
Old Missus marry Will-de-weaber,
Willium was a gay deceaber; Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
But when he put his arm around ‘er
Smiled as fierce as a forty-pounder,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
His face was sharp as a butcher’s cleaver,
But dat did not seem to greab ‘er;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Old Missus acted the foolish part,
And died for a man dat broke her heart,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
Now here’s a health to the next old Missus,
And all the gals dat want to kiss us;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
But if you want to drive ‘way sorrow,
Come and hear dis song to-morrow,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
Dar’s buckwheat cakes an’ Injun batter,
Makes you fat or a little fatter;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den hoe it down and scratch your grabble,
To Dixie’s land I’m bound to trabble, Look away!
Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie
Keep marching.
It is needless to say that an American civil war would fit nicely into the communist plans of Russia and China. HOWEVER, a peaceful movement to end violence in the USA has a strong place in a strong America.
The "Black Lives Matter" movement has a strong place in the struggle for civil rights in the USA. The blessing of civil rights in the USA has made and will continue to make it a strong nation valued by all it's citizens.
The "Black Lives Matter" movement has a strong place in the struggle for civil rights in the USA. The blessing of civil rights in the USA has made and will continue to make it a strong nation valued by all it's citizens.
The strongman countries are afraid of Joe Biden.
The WWIII alliance of communist powers is taking shape. China and Pakistan are seeking to end India's sovereignty, while Russia is pushing toward the USA. There is no written pact, the countries moving against democracy are doing so to measure each other's ability to carry out successful war fronts.
June 27, 2020
A Russian fighter jet (click here) intercepted two U.S. reconnaissance aircraft and a refueling tanker as they flew in “neutral” airspace over the Black Sea, the Russian defense ministry said in a statement.
The intercept was at least the 12th this year involving U.S. and Russian aircraft worldwide, according to a tally by Stars and Stripes. Most have occurred in the past month....
They are moving now to try to find a way to carry out more than incursions before there is a change in leadership in Washington DC.
Putin has been giving verbal cues to the Russian people to provide the propaganda that a Russian war with the USA is based on internal unrest in the USA. In other words, Putin is stating Russia has a mission to liberate the American people from a tyranny that kills African Americans. Putin has not stated the word "war" to the Russian people, but, Putin's campaign of discrediting the USA to the Russian people has picked up momentum in the past six months. The propaganda is in place now to tell the Russian people that a war with the USA is on the way.
June 27, 2020
U.S. fighter jets intercepted four Russian aircraft (click here) that entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Saturday, the latest in a series of incidents off the Alaskan coast.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said in a statement that F-22 jets intercepted four Russian Tu-142 reconnaissance aircraft entering the ADIZ. The Russian aircraft came within 65 nautical miles of the Alaskan Aleutian Islands and remained in the ADIZ for nearly eight hours, though they did not enter United States or Canadian sovereign airspace.
Saturday’s interception was at least the fourth such incident this month, with the most recent one occurring Wednesday when U.S. F-22 fighter jets intercepted two Russian IL-38 maritime patrol aircraft entering the ADIZ....
This is a charade by China. It is amassing aggressive forces along the Indian border while marching in a parade in Moscow to pretend all is well and peace has a great potential than war. It is a lie. India needs to prepare it's war infrastructure now. A Chinese peace is not likely with all the muscle-flexing it has exhibited over the past half-decade. China is currently engaged in border expansion. The attack on the people of Hong Kong is to ensure it has no internal strife when going up against The West. Taiwan is the same way. The "One China Policy" suits it's ambitions, not its governance.
June 25, 2020
Moscow - Indian and Chinese troops (click here) participated in Russia's Victory Day military parade in Moscow on Wednesday, a rare display at a time of rising tensions between the two Asian neighbors over a decades-old border dispute.
With Russian President Vladimir Putin watching from just outside the Kremlin walls, a Tri-Service contingent of the Indian Armed Forces marched through Red Square. Minutes later, a unit of the Chinese People Liberation Army's honor guard paraded by.
The sight of Indian and Chinese soldiers marching in the same parade together came just over a week after a deadly border clash between the two countries in the Himalayan region of Ladakh....
Trump has exposed the USA and it's allies to the ambitions of communists and they are moving on it. The legitimate president of Venezuela is up for debate according to Russia. At any rate the divided nation has both leaders arguing over gold.
8 February 2020
Russia (click here) has pledged to boost military and economic co-operation with Venezuela to help the South American nation deal with growing US pressure.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's comments came after his meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.
Mr Lavrov said any attempts to remove Mr Maduro's government by force were unacceptable.
The US accuses Mr Maduro of leading a corrupt and brutal regime....
And let's not forget the nuclear capacity Russian jets in Venezuela.
July 21, 2019
By Devan Cole and Ryan Browne
Washington, DC - A Venezuelan fighter aircraft (click here) recently made an "unsafe approach" to a US Navy aircraft flying in international airspace, "endangering the safety of the crew and jeopardizing" the aircraft's mission, the US military said Sunday.
The incident, which occurred on Friday, involved a "Russian-made" SU-30 Flanker Venezuelan fighter aircraft and a US Navy EP-3 Aries II aircraft conducting a "detection and monitoring" mission, US Southern Command said in a statement. In a Sunday tweet, the Southern Command said the incident happened in international airspace over the Caribbean Sea.
"After reviewing video documentation, we have determined the Russian-made fighter aggressively shadowed the EP-3 at an unsafe distance in international airspace for a prolonged period of time, endangering the safety of the crew and jeopardizing the EP-3 mission," the statement read....
June 27, 2020
A Russian fighter jet (click here) intercepted two U.S. reconnaissance aircraft and a refueling tanker as they flew in “neutral” airspace over the Black Sea, the Russian defense ministry said in a statement.
The intercept was at least the 12th this year involving U.S. and Russian aircraft worldwide, according to a tally by Stars and Stripes. Most have occurred in the past month....
They are moving now to try to find a way to carry out more than incursions before there is a change in leadership in Washington DC.
Putin has been giving verbal cues to the Russian people to provide the propaganda that a Russian war with the USA is based on internal unrest in the USA. In other words, Putin is stating Russia has a mission to liberate the American people from a tyranny that kills African Americans. Putin has not stated the word "war" to the Russian people, but, Putin's campaign of discrediting the USA to the Russian people has picked up momentum in the past six months. The propaganda is in place now to tell the Russian people that a war with the USA is on the way.
June 27, 2020
U.S. fighter jets intercepted four Russian aircraft (click here) that entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Saturday, the latest in a series of incidents off the Alaskan coast.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said in a statement that F-22 jets intercepted four Russian Tu-142 reconnaissance aircraft entering the ADIZ. The Russian aircraft came within 65 nautical miles of the Alaskan Aleutian Islands and remained in the ADIZ for nearly eight hours, though they did not enter United States or Canadian sovereign airspace.
Saturday’s interception was at least the fourth such incident this month, with the most recent one occurring Wednesday when U.S. F-22 fighter jets intercepted two Russian IL-38 maritime patrol aircraft entering the ADIZ....
This is a charade by China. It is amassing aggressive forces along the Indian border while marching in a parade in Moscow to pretend all is well and peace has a great potential than war. It is a lie. India needs to prepare it's war infrastructure now. A Chinese peace is not likely with all the muscle-flexing it has exhibited over the past half-decade. China is currently engaged in border expansion. The attack on the people of Hong Kong is to ensure it has no internal strife when going up against The West. Taiwan is the same way. The "One China Policy" suits it's ambitions, not its governance.
June 25, 2020
Moscow - Indian and Chinese troops (click here) participated in Russia's Victory Day military parade in Moscow on Wednesday, a rare display at a time of rising tensions between the two Asian neighbors over a decades-old border dispute.
With Russian President Vladimir Putin watching from just outside the Kremlin walls, a Tri-Service contingent of the Indian Armed Forces marched through Red Square. Minutes later, a unit of the Chinese People Liberation Army's honor guard paraded by.
The sight of Indian and Chinese soldiers marching in the same parade together came just over a week after a deadly border clash between the two countries in the Himalayan region of Ladakh....
Trump has exposed the USA and it's allies to the ambitions of communists and they are moving on it. The legitimate president of Venezuela is up for debate according to Russia. At any rate the divided nation has both leaders arguing over gold.
Russia (click here) has pledged to boost military and economic co-operation with Venezuela to help the South American nation deal with growing US pressure.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's comments came after his meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.
Mr Lavrov said any attempts to remove Mr Maduro's government by force were unacceptable.
The US accuses Mr Maduro of leading a corrupt and brutal regime....
And let's not forget the nuclear capacity Russian jets in Venezuela.
By Devan Cole and Ryan Browne
Washington, DC - A Venezuelan fighter aircraft (click here) recently made an "unsafe approach" to a US Navy aircraft flying in international airspace, "endangering the safety of the crew and jeopardizing" the aircraft's mission, the US military said Sunday.
The incident, which occurred on Friday, involved a "Russian-made" SU-30 Flanker Venezuelan fighter aircraft and a US Navy EP-3 Aries II aircraft conducting a "detection and monitoring" mission, US Southern Command said in a statement. In a Sunday tweet, the Southern Command said the incident happened in international airspace over the Caribbean Sea.
"After reviewing video documentation, we have determined the Russian-made fighter aggressively shadowed the EP-3 at an unsafe distance in international airspace for a prolonged period of time, endangering the safety of the crew and jeopardizing the EP-3 mission," the statement read....
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Donald J. Trump has plotted against the American people in achieving "Herd Immunity."
Measles, mumps, polio, and chickenpox (click here) are examples of infectious diseases that were once very common but are now rare in the U.S. because vaccines helped to establish herd immunity. We sometimes see outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in communities with lower vaccine coverage because they don’t have herd protection.
Herd Immunity is a goal, not a methodology. That is especially true with SARS-CoV-2. The infection from that virus kills, maims and is unknown to its effect on the future of those who suffered from it.
Recently, in a talk with a friend she stated her husband's uncle contracted the disease. He is the first in their family to contract it and suffer from it. It has been weeks since he was supposed to have recovered from COVID-19, but, he continues to complain about unexpected bleeding. The bloods ability to coagulate is effected by SARS-CoV-2. He will have to go on being treated for what seems to be an anti-coagulation disorder after surviving the virus. First time I heard of it.
If that is herd immunity then I don't want it.
Twice this past week I read that if there are 6 percent of Americans that have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 that the CDC knows of then there are ten others already exposed and recovered. That statement, whether accurate or not can only be stated as true if the testing backs it up.
But, for the sake of understanding Trump's delusional world where "The Truth" is imagined and made to be fact; then Trump has achieved HERD EXPOSURE, but, not necessarily herd immunity.
66 percent of a population could easily be declared herd immunity if the science proves it to be true. For the life of me I don't know why anyone would make such a broad sweeping statement, UNLESS, a re-election was important and the testing was proving to cause a fall in popularity polls.
From the MAYO Clinic:
There are two paths (click here) to herd immunity for COVID-19 — vaccines and infection.
Vaccines
A vaccine for the virus that causes COVID-19 would be an ideal approach to achieving herd immunity. Vaccines create immunity without causing illness or resulting complications. Herd immunity makes it possible to protect the population from a disease, including those who can't be vaccinated, such as newborns or those who have compromised immune systems. Using the concept of herd immunity, vaccines have successfully controlled deadly contagious diseases such as smallpox, polio, diphtheria, rubella and many others.
Natural infection
Herd immunity can also be reached when a sufficient number of people in the population have recovered from a disease and have developed antibodies against future infection. For example, those who survived the 1918 flu (influenza) pandemic were later immune to infection with the H1N1 flu, a subtype of influenza A. During the 2009-10 flu season, H1N1 caused the respiratory infection in humans that was commonly referred to as swine flu.
However, there are some major problems with relying on community infection to create herd immunity to the virus that causes COVID-19. First, it isn't yet clear if infection with the COVID-19 virus makes a person immune to future infection....
Additionally, exposing large numbers of Americans to SARS-CoV-2 in HOPES of achieving herd immunity is reckless and feckless. We already know this virus is a larger virus and it causes cell lysis (cell destruction) once the virus has used the cells DNA to replicate. That cell lysis causes the immune and clotting cascades to initiate causing blood clots and inflammation. Inflammation of cells is a very damaging symptom that results to some degree in organ damage. In the long view that organ damage there can ultimately be organ failure.
Realizing all this can occur in feckless leadership, the country is nothing more than guinea pigs to realize the the effect of a deadly virus on a population. Excuse me, but, there are computer models for that and not live unsuspecting American citizens.
So, we all know President Trump has been destroying the message of Dr. Fauci and the CDC in regard to precautions to insure Americans can eradicate the disease and never have the horrible effects of it. In that lies "the truth" about the motives of President Trump. It is obvious Trump decided long ago that herd immunity was the only path forward for a Western economic engine like the USA and enough people would survive herd immunity to continue to grow the USA's economy. I believe it is obvious and for UNSUBSTANTIATED statements to be stated and restated that "for every one confirmed case in the USA there are ten others unconfirmed" only lends itself to Trump's agenda and why he wants no more testing.
Every American needs to be tested and the real casualties of this virus MUST be known. As a matter of fact an extensive record should be presented to the American people as to the virus, it's damaging effects, how the future may be effected by the virus and full accountability of the monies the AMERICAN PEOPLE SPENT to stem the economic effects while fighting the existence of the virus.
I demand a full and comprehensive report from every government agency dealing with this virus and it's economic impacts, including the US Treasury Secretary and a full accounting of the monies AMERICANS authorized through their elected representative.
This is not about politics, it is about NEVER MAKING ALL THESE MISTAKES AGAIN!
Herd Immunity at the cost of American lives, wellness and unimpaired future is a huge human rights violation. Trump not only was feckless, his EXAMPLE of an unmasked man destroyed and is destroying lives. The latest nonsensical statements I am hearing is that "cloth masks don't stop the virus." No clue Sherlock. BUT, masks do stop the SPREAD OF THE VIRUS because it prevents droplet transmission in coughing and talking.
EVERY HEALTH OFFICIAL NOT HANGING THEIR HATS ON POLITICS, KNOWS THE MASKS WORK TO PREVENT SPREAD OF COVID-19.
Hand washing, social distancing, testing, contract tracing, meeting only in small groups of five and wearing masks to prevent the spread of the virus is all part of a strategy to end this virus. It must end. It must be eradicated. Follow the directions of Dr. Fauci and end the spread of COVID-19.
It is not safe to forget about the potential for spreading the infection.
June 27, 2020
All it took was one packed bar. An infected patron. And a wild party afterward. (click here)
This is the toxic combination that has led to a new wave of COVID-19 cases in the Grosse Pointe community, where at least 30 new cases in recent days have been tied to an outbreak at a popular East Lansing bar almost 100 miles away.
Harper's Restaurant & Brew Pub saw shoulder-to-shoulder crowds after reopening earlier this month, including some college students from the affluent Grosse Pointes who unknowingly got infected and brought the virus back home. According to multiple families that are now in quarantine, one of those students who visited Harper's came into contact with a friend who held a huge house party in Grosse Pointe Woods, where dozens of friends partied without masks and social distancing, they said....
Herd Immunity is a goal, not a methodology. That is especially true with SARS-CoV-2. The infection from that virus kills, maims and is unknown to its effect on the future of those who suffered from it.
Recently, in a talk with a friend she stated her husband's uncle contracted the disease. He is the first in their family to contract it and suffer from it. It has been weeks since he was supposed to have recovered from COVID-19, but, he continues to complain about unexpected bleeding. The bloods ability to coagulate is effected by SARS-CoV-2. He will have to go on being treated for what seems to be an anti-coagulation disorder after surviving the virus. First time I heard of it.
If that is herd immunity then I don't want it.
Twice this past week I read that if there are 6 percent of Americans that have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 that the CDC knows of then there are ten others already exposed and recovered. That statement, whether accurate or not can only be stated as true if the testing backs it up.
But, for the sake of understanding Trump's delusional world where "The Truth" is imagined and made to be fact; then Trump has achieved HERD EXPOSURE, but, not necessarily herd immunity.
66 percent of a population could easily be declared herd immunity if the science proves it to be true. For the life of me I don't know why anyone would make such a broad sweeping statement, UNLESS, a re-election was important and the testing was proving to cause a fall in popularity polls.
From the MAYO Clinic:
There are two paths (click here) to herd immunity for COVID-19 — vaccines and infection.
Vaccines
A vaccine for the virus that causes COVID-19 would be an ideal approach to achieving herd immunity. Vaccines create immunity without causing illness or resulting complications. Herd immunity makes it possible to protect the population from a disease, including those who can't be vaccinated, such as newborns or those who have compromised immune systems. Using the concept of herd immunity, vaccines have successfully controlled deadly contagious diseases such as smallpox, polio, diphtheria, rubella and many others.
Natural infection
Herd immunity can also be reached when a sufficient number of people in the population have recovered from a disease and have developed antibodies against future infection. For example, those who survived the 1918 flu (influenza) pandemic were later immune to infection with the H1N1 flu, a subtype of influenza A. During the 2009-10 flu season, H1N1 caused the respiratory infection in humans that was commonly referred to as swine flu.
However, there are some major problems with relying on community infection to create herd immunity to the virus that causes COVID-19. First, it isn't yet clear if infection with the COVID-19 virus makes a person immune to future infection....
Additionally, exposing large numbers of Americans to SARS-CoV-2 in HOPES of achieving herd immunity is reckless and feckless. We already know this virus is a larger virus and it causes cell lysis (cell destruction) once the virus has used the cells DNA to replicate. That cell lysis causes the immune and clotting cascades to initiate causing blood clots and inflammation. Inflammation of cells is a very damaging symptom that results to some degree in organ damage. In the long view that organ damage there can ultimately be organ failure.
Realizing all this can occur in feckless leadership, the country is nothing more than guinea pigs to realize the the effect of a deadly virus on a population. Excuse me, but, there are computer models for that and not live unsuspecting American citizens.
So, we all know President Trump has been destroying the message of Dr. Fauci and the CDC in regard to precautions to insure Americans can eradicate the disease and never have the horrible effects of it. In that lies "the truth" about the motives of President Trump. It is obvious Trump decided long ago that herd immunity was the only path forward for a Western economic engine like the USA and enough people would survive herd immunity to continue to grow the USA's economy. I believe it is obvious and for UNSUBSTANTIATED statements to be stated and restated that "for every one confirmed case in the USA there are ten others unconfirmed" only lends itself to Trump's agenda and why he wants no more testing.
Every American needs to be tested and the real casualties of this virus MUST be known. As a matter of fact an extensive record should be presented to the American people as to the virus, it's damaging effects, how the future may be effected by the virus and full accountability of the monies the AMERICAN PEOPLE SPENT to stem the economic effects while fighting the existence of the virus.
I demand a full and comprehensive report from every government agency dealing with this virus and it's economic impacts, including the US Treasury Secretary and a full accounting of the monies AMERICANS authorized through their elected representative.
This is not about politics, it is about NEVER MAKING ALL THESE MISTAKES AGAIN!
Herd Immunity at the cost of American lives, wellness and unimpaired future is a huge human rights violation. Trump not only was feckless, his EXAMPLE of an unmasked man destroyed and is destroying lives. The latest nonsensical statements I am hearing is that "cloth masks don't stop the virus." No clue Sherlock. BUT, masks do stop the SPREAD OF THE VIRUS because it prevents droplet transmission in coughing and talking.
EVERY HEALTH OFFICIAL NOT HANGING THEIR HATS ON POLITICS, KNOWS THE MASKS WORK TO PREVENT SPREAD OF COVID-19.
Hand washing, social distancing, testing, contract tracing, meeting only in small groups of five and wearing masks to prevent the spread of the virus is all part of a strategy to end this virus. It must end. It must be eradicated. Follow the directions of Dr. Fauci and end the spread of COVID-19.
It is not safe to forget about the potential for spreading the infection.
June 27, 2020
All it took was one packed bar. An infected patron. And a wild party afterward. (click here)
This is the toxic combination that has led to a new wave of COVID-19 cases in the Grosse Pointe community, where at least 30 new cases in recent days have been tied to an outbreak at a popular East Lansing bar almost 100 miles away.
Harper's Restaurant & Brew Pub saw shoulder-to-shoulder crowds after reopening earlier this month, including some college students from the affluent Grosse Pointes who unknowingly got infected and brought the virus back home. According to multiple families that are now in quarantine, one of those students who visited Harper's came into contact with a friend who held a huge house party in Grosse Pointe Woods, where dozens of friends partied without masks and social distancing, they said....
Friday, June 26, 2020
In case there are Americans that defend Trump, he is protecting the image of slavers.
History didn’t make up a story of slavery and the civil war. Juneteenth celebrated the end of slavery. The war is over and defending statues of human rights abusers and those that fought to continue slavery is racism. Robert E. Lee was a slaver, sent thousands of men to their deaths to maintain the slave trade. Robert E. Lee was a racist. His statue comes down.
Trump’s executive order to stop the removal of racist statues must be met with an injunction due to racism because of what they mean to the African American community and the danger they present because of White Supremacists; ie: Charlottesville. Additionally, that executive order does not have power over private property or states rights. This definitely brands Trump as a racist that admires men who want to kill Black people like the three in Wilmington.
Trump’s executive order to stop the removal of racist statues must be met with an injunction due to racism because of what they mean to the African American community and the danger they present because of White Supremacists; ie: Charlottesville. Additionally, that executive order does not have power over private property or states rights. This definitely brands Trump as a racist that admires men who want to kill Black people like the three in Wilmington.
China has expansionist plans into India.
India needs to stop hoping this is simply poor judgment of a Chinese general. China is preparing for strong actions along the border. India needs to build their war infrastructure. Now, not when the invasion actually begins. The first Chinese salvo already took place with the death of two high ranking India commanders and 18 other soldiers. The Chinese skirmish was the first actionable assault on India.
Pakistan could take advantage of China's new priority and bring a two-front war to India.
China (click here) has built new structures near the site of a Himalayan border clash that left 20 Indian troops dead earlier this month, fresh satellite images suggest.
Bunkers, tents and storage units for military hardware are visible in an area where last month there were none.
Fighting between the nuclear-armed powers over their disputed frontier has prompted alarm. Chinese casualties were also reported but not confirmed.
The latest images were published as the sides hold talks to defuse tensions.
The fresh satellite images, dated 22 June, are from space technology company Maxar. The structures which appear to have been built by China overlooking the Galwan River were not visible in aerial photographs earlier in June, Reuters reported.
Neither India nor China has commented....
Thursday, June 25, 2020
The USA needs federal legislation requiring face masks in public otherwise there will be fines. Additionally, there needs to be mandatory testing of all Americans for a proper understanding of the extent of the infection of the virus. Contact tracing can follow a positive COVID-19 result and the USA can finally end this hideous virus from destroying lives and our democracy.
Governor Abbot from Texas stated the current methods being used don't work and strongly believe masks in public is mandatory with fines for not wearing them. If every American wore masks in public and practiced social distancing the virus would end by the simple fact there are no available victims.
The federal legislation must be veto-proof. The governors could say if any funding would be necessary. I might not need a great deal of funding. Most Americans can afford masks.
This virus, no different SARS, has to end. It has to be eradicated. There can be no more casual approach to this and certainly NO DENIAL OF THE SERIOUS OF COVID-19.
May 5, 2020
Disposable masks should be disposed of in separate contains, no different than recycle has it's own disposal.
To slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (click here) that causes COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public places where social distancing is difficult to maintain, such as grocery stores. And on June 23, Gov. Jay Inslee made face coverings mandatory statewide for most people in public....
Governor Abbot from Texas stated the current methods being used don't work and strongly believe masks in public is mandatory with fines for not wearing them. If every American wore masks in public and practiced social distancing the virus would end by the simple fact there are no available victims.
The federal legislation must be veto-proof. The governors could say if any funding would be necessary. I might not need a great deal of funding. Most Americans can afford masks.
This virus, no different SARS, has to end. It has to be eradicated. There can be no more casual approach to this and certainly NO DENIAL OF THE SERIOUS OF COVID-19.
May 5, 2020
Disposable masks should be disposed of in separate contains, no different than recycle has it's own disposal.
To slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (click here) that causes COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public places where social distancing is difficult to maintain, such as grocery stores. And on June 23, Gov. Jay Inslee made face coverings mandatory statewide for most people in public....
COVID-2 serves the purpose of government spending on business.
Glenn Hubbard (click here) wrote trump tax change. The longer Trump prolongs exposure of the American people to SARS-CoV-2, the longer the money will flow from the Trump White House.
The original plan by Dr. Faucie was to close the USA down for three weeks to shut down the virus. That was met with Trump's lies and deceptions about the virus and expanded and continues to expand the spread of the virus. The only reason to contradict Dr. Fauci is to spend a great deal of money to support the American economy of trillion of dollars.
I am concerned there is a side effect of Trump's "herd immunity" goal other than profound illness, handicapped outcomes to the virus of survivors and deaths. The side effect is enormous spending on Wall Street. Trump is scaling back on funding to defeat the virus making facial masks the latest bubble and bust item.
Glenn Hubbard is an advisor the president and is recommending $1.5 to $2 trillion spendings on business to so call "recover" from the ongoing tragedy in the USA. I know this is not a popular thought, but, Trump has no clue what is good for the economy AND the protections of enough debt for future generations of Americans. I think future spending has to be realistic and prioritizing the END OF THIS VIRUS, not the propagation of it.
I am worried about the very vicious priorities of Trump and the spread of the virus. The latest Trump staff infections included two Secret Service members. The longer this tragedy plays out in the USA the more and more money being spent on business. PPP was supposed to end the collapse of the economy FOR A BRIEF PERIOD OF USA HISTORY, not be a model for the future which would bring about tremendous debt for generations to come.
The plans Trump has for THE ECONOMY TO DEFEAT THE VIRUS doesn't make sense. He is taking advice from economists like Hubbard that may be expecting to be the next Fed Chair. Everyone in the circle of advisers to Trump has their own agendas. (REWARD FRIENDS AND PENALIZE ENEMIES!) At no point in time does Hubbard speak to the highest priority of the American people, FUNDING TO END THE VIRUS, not propagate new spending for Wall Street.
Trump is asking for advice without a clear long term goal and costs. This is all electioneering for 2020. Trump has no real plans to end the spending so much as continue his chances to stay in office.
HUBBARD NEEDS TO WORK WITH DR. FAUCI TO END THE VIRUS AND NOT BE FAUCI'S OPPOSITION TO RESOLVING TO END THE VIRUS. Trump's plans are dangerous and need to be tempered with THE FINAL END OF THE VIRUS in a FEW WEEKS, not years into the future. The casualties from Trump's COVID-2 approach are adding up and it is a very sad outcome.
I WANT TO SEE SPENDING TO END THE VIRUS, NOT BUILD A WALL STREET THAT HAS NO REAL PURPOSE BUT TO SPEND MONEY AND WIN ALLIES.
Hubbard was Bush's economic advisor. He is a supply-side economist. His advice builds warehouses without end to store goods that, in this case, has no real demand. Supply-side economics is exploitive of the Federal Treasury in a time when people should be sheltering at home. The USA doesn't need more warehouses that only stand empty in the long view.
END THE VIRUS, WITHOUT BLOWING UP THE USA TREASURY AND THE USA DEBT.
Herd Immunity should not be a goal. This is a very dangerous virus that has COSTS beyond an economic recovering. Trump has no economy except spending the USA Treasury.
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