There is no reason to allay fears regarding other condos.

July 3, 2021
By Eileen AJ Connelly

After reading an engineer’s report (click here) on the Miami condo tower next door to his own, Bob Ross is worried.

Ross lives in Miami Bay Towers, across the marina from Palm Bay Towers, where the report, prepared in December, found “structural deficiencies” in the 26-story, 68-unit building, one of the only ones in the city built over the water.

It was the underwater portion that the engineering firm, The Falcon Group, pointed to as having several areas with concrete cracking and chipping, and rust spots. “Concrete deficiencies at the support columns, if not addressed in the near future, may affect the structural integrity of the building,” the report on Palm Bay Towers said.

Following the June 24 collapse of Champlain Towers South, a 12-story condo in the town of Surfside north of Miami, the concerns of the residents of Miami Bay Towers grew.

“Everybody is petrified, because as we’re looking at this monolith across the marina and if it came down, it would come down on us,” Ross said....

The residents of any seaside community have a real concern before them, was their condominium built with SUBSTANDARD construction? Every high-rise owner needs to be asking, "How sound are the buildings for human residence?" 

This building may or may not have received substandard construction for the time it has been built in. If there was substandard construction there are most likely substandard building materials. That is all about liability and the law as to negligent homicide. The idea every high rise owner has to be afraid is not the case.

By James Glanz, Mike Baker and Anjali Singhvi

Engineers (click here) who have visited or examined photos of the wreckage of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex have been struck by a possible flaw in its construction: Critical places near the base of the building appeared to use less steel reinforcement than called for in the project’s original design drawings.

The observation is the first detail to emerge pointing to a potential problem in the quality of construction of the 13-story condo tower in Surfside, Fla., that collapsed last month, killing at least 24 and leaving up to 121 still unaccounted for.

Reached by phone, Allyn E. Kilsheimer, a forensic engineering expert hired by the town of Surfside to investigate the collapse, said the investigation was still in its early stages. But he confirmed there were signs that the amount of steel used to connect concrete slabs below a parking deck to the building’s vertical columns might be less than what the project’s initial plans specified.

“The bars might not be arranged like the original drawings call for,” Mr. Kilsheimer said in an interview. He said he would need to inspect the rubble more closely to determine whether in fact the slab-to-column connections contained less steel than expected....

The owners of this particular condo had warnings about the building and years passed from the report of the engineers that initially found the building to be unsafe. So, the idea that this is going to happen to others is not founded in fact. The USA has become a society of fear and this is the reaction to one tragedy. All high-rise buildings are not in question.

There is a report by a couple that was eyewitnesses. The video is conclusive to the events of that day. The water from the pool rushed into the garage. That is not alone a reason for a building to collapse, but, the event was enough to cause a DETERIORATING foundation to give way to water weight and water pressure.

High-rise buildings need to be inspected regularly, especially now that the climate is severe and extremes of heat and cold are mostly unpredictable from season to season. But, with regular inspections demanded by regulation and reporting there can be problems resolved before they become this terribly bad. The idea every condo along this waterway is in question is not accurate. However, the idea of sea-level rise is real and seaside residents need to be aware of the reality and the potential to cause problems.

July 1, 2021

By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Rebekah Riess

Sara Nir and her two children (click here) were in their ground-floor condo at Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, moments before it partially collapsed. She was checking emails when they heard knocking sounds, she said.

The knocking grew louder before she heard a "smash," as if a wall had collapsed in the unit above hers. She thought it was construction, she said. It didn't make sense, not at 1:10 in the morning.

Nir eventually found the building's security guard, and as she complained about the noise, she said, they heard a boom. She ran toward the sound and witnessed the building's underground garage collapse. It was like something out of a movie, she said.

The mother's account is the latest to suggest last week's deadly collapse began in the lower reaches of the building. Several engineers have told CNN that video of the collapse suggests the failure began near the structure's foundation, and a 2018 survey prepared ahead of the building's mandated 40-year certification cited problems in the pool area and the garage beneath it....

...A pool contractor who was at the tower the Tuesday before the collapse said that while the pool deck area looked fine from the surface, he observed standing water in the garage and cracks in the pool maintenance room, the Herald reported....

...A 2018 photo,shared with CNN by Tom Henz, shows the earlier stages of the crack engineers and experts consulted by CNN say appears to be the same crack visible in 2021, although the more recent photo appears to show it has worsened. The cause of the apparent deterioration is not clear.

After inspecting the building in 2018, engineer Frank Morabito wrote in a report that "failed waterproofing" below the pool deck was "causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slab below these areas," and warned that failure to replace it in the near future would cause "concrete deterioration to expand exponentially."...

Will they consider "infortainment" a fraud?

July 2, 2021
By Ariane de Vogue

Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch (click here) on Friday said the Supreme Court should revisit the breadth of the landmark First Amendment decision in New York Times v. Sullivan and explore how it applies to social media and technology companies.

That 1964 ruling created a higher bar for public figures to claim libel and has been a bedrock of US media law, but the two conservative justices said it's time to take another look.

"Since 1964," Gorsuch wrote Friday, "our Nation's media landscape has shifted in ways few could have forseen."

He added that "thanks to the revolutions in technology, today virtually anyone in this county can publish virtually anything for immediate consumption virtually anywhere in the world."...

..."Sullivan provides crucial protection of the independence of news outlets, whose reporting might otherwise be chilled, even for accurate stories, if it were easier to sue them for defamation," Vladeck said. "The more justices who look poised to potentially revisit that precedent in the coming years, the more alarming Justice Thomas's previously idiosyncratic critiques become."...

FOX News is recruiting the USA military past and present for a treasonist run at the USA Consitution or otherwise said, "Trump's reelection."

Everyone in Flint shoiuld have their pipes replaced or condemn the property.

A view into Flint drinking water pipes, showing various types of iron corrosion and rust.  (click here)

June 29, 2021
By Christina Tuser

Flint, Michigan's, (click here) lead water pipe removal program has entered its final stages, according to city officials.

As of June 18, 2021, Flint has checked the service lines at 27,092 homes and replaced 10,041 lead and/or galvanized steel pipes, according to the city’s website. The remaining 17,051 homes did not need replacement.

City officials set a final deadline of July 23, 2021 for residents to consent to get their lead water pipes replaced for free.

Residents can give the city consent to do the work through a form available here.

Completing the work will likely extend through the end of this year, according to city officials.

On June 28, 2021 the U.S. EPA hosted the community roundtable with organizers representing Michigan cities of Flint and Detroit in order to highlight the experience of these two cities with lead in drinking water.

“The impacts of the water crisis on residents, on children, and on the community are long-lasting, said Elizabeth Cisar, senior advisor for EPA’s Office of Water, reported ABC 12. “It is essential that EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule is informed by the experience of Flint and other cities across the midwest that are dealing with the legacy of lead pipes."

Even if residents previously declined service line replacement, they can still get their water pipes checked....

Spending infrastructure dollars on climate is badly needed.

Canada was completely unprepared for the heat. Hard to believe this heat map actually is a relief to some.

June 30, 2021
By the AP

Today's USA heat map.

...Oregon health officials (click here) said more than 60 deaths have been tied to the heat, with the state's largest county, Multnomah, blaming the weather for 45 deaths since the heat wave began Friday.

In Vancouver, British Columbia, police said they had responded to more than 65 sudden deaths since Friday. Washington state authorities had linked more than half-dozen deaths to the heat, but that number was likely to rise.

"Vancouver has never experienced heat like this, and sadly dozens of people are dying because of it,” Vancouver police Sgt. Steve Addison said in a statement....

What the heck is there to fight about?

Over the past nearly two decades, (click here) the presence of a variety of state and nonstate military and security forces has transformed the Syrian border district of Bukamal and the neighboring Iraqi district of Qa’im. Following the end of the self-proclaimed Islamic State’s caliphate, Iranian-backed militias began to play a major role in the area, turning it into a flashpoint between Iran and its allies on the one side and the United States and Israel on the other. The strain of tensions and the threat of instability are liable to ensure that this heavily securitized part of the border will remain a magnet for conflict for years to come.

Demilitarize the border. You would think that after Daesh was defeated, the region would have learned something, but, evidently not. Don't argue with Iran, just start a process to demilitarize the border. Iranian militias are viewed as the peacekeepers since Daesh cannot reorganize and begin again. But, the peacekeepers have religious differences that spark conflict. The only way this is going to resolve is to prevent the opportunity for violence.

...The militarization of the border and the presence of state and nonstate actors have blurred the lines between formal and informal institutions and obscured who ultimately holds authority and governs the area—state institutions or nonstate militias....

...The tensions between some official Iraqi and Syrian military, security, and civilian institutions and Iranian-backed militias hinder Baghdad and Damascus from restoring the sovereignty and governance capacity they previously had over the area. For better or worse, the lingering presence of Iranian-backed proxies leaves Iraq and Syria with no choice but to accommodate Iran’s interests to some degree....

It is nearly impossible to remove Iran from either Iraq or Syria. Iran currently manages a small town in northwest Syria called Latakia (click here). Basically, Syria, Iraq, and Iran are Shia strongholds. So, when the USA exerts it's authority, there is political backlash in Iraq as well. The Iraqis like Iran and are more likely to start an offensive against the USA than ask Iran to mind it's own business. Iraq and Iran are Shia homelands and all the ruling Alawites want in Syria is civil war reduction and threats. The Alawites are Shia as well.

Now, why I brought up the fact that a town in Syria is occupied by Iran for security purposes is because what exists in that city is a viable drug trade.

In the summer of 2015 a businessman (click here) in the Syrian province of Latakia was approached by a powerful security chief, seeking a favour. The official wanted the merchant, an importer of medical supplies, to source large amounts of a drug called fenethylline from abroad. The regime, he said, would readily buy the lot.

After an internet search, the merchant made a decision. He left his home that same week, first sending his wife and children to exile, then following after, scrounging what he could from his businesses for a new start. “I know what they were asking me to do,” he said from his new home in Paris. “They wanted the main ingredient for Captagon. And that drug is a dirty business.”

Other businessmen in Syria’s north have not shared his reservations. The manufacture of Captagon in the regime heartland has become one of Syria’s only recent business success stories; a growth industry so big and sophisticated that it is starting to rival the GDP of the flatlining economy itself....

No different than Afghanistan, Syria after Deash, is a failed state and what is the one economic structure that sustains in a failed state? Yep, some kind of drug trade. In Afghanistan, it is the poppies and in Syria it is Captagon.

...Captagon (click here) is one of several brand names for the drug compound fenethylline hydrochloride. Captagon is not a new drug. The Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Encyclopedia places its debut in 1961, when it was manufactured by Chemiewerk Homburg, a subsidiary of specialty chemicals company Degussa. The patent for its production dates to 1962, according to the Merck Index....

This morning FOX News was propagating a wedge issue about how the politics of the extreme left effects the USA military and it's preparedness. Simply put, it doesn't. I don't know if FOX has a hotline to Netanyahu, but, they are obviously attempting to create an issue for the elections of 2022.

While it is correct to retaliate when American troops are threatened or attacked, one has to wonder, "why bother?"

A border war between Syria and Iraq will not break out. What is occurring, including this escalation with the USA, is nothing more than gang warfare, Here again, no different than when the USA military was in Iraq, the Americans are just viewed as another gang. So, the only logical question to be asked is, "What the heck are we doing there?"

What kind of shape is Lebanon in these days, too?

But, the issue with the Iraq and Syrian border is not our business. So, what the heck are we doing there?

These operations in the Middle East have been primarily run by the President's enormous OCO Funds (click here). When American soldiers are attacked it is only correct to end the attack today and in the coming weeks and months ahead. I have absolutely no problem with the USA military defending itself and if it can also end a toxic element in the area with GOOD INTELLIGENCE than do it.

The problem with this latest missile strike with Syria is not that it happened, defending the soldiers is vital. But, the real problem is why are we there at all? If we weren't there the USA military would not have to retaliate for escalations of fighting with American soldiers. Get the picture?

There is no Western answer for the Middle East without killing a whole lot of people and destroying cities' infrastructure. Or in the case of Syria, whatever is left of it's infrastructure. I realize that the USA in the region also limits Israel's idea of heaven in expanding it's borders in the name of peace. How a war brings about peace is anyone's guess. But, that is what goes on with Israel. Isreal doesn't believe in peace, not really. They believe in expansionism AS a tool for their definition of peace.

The USA military in the Middle East usually ends up in trouble of one kind or another. It is not that we lack the sophistication to carry out a mission, it is that we carry out a mission to make it the one and only mission they have to do and it ends up being so very different than any other military power in the region, it attracts attention.

It may be that ending the assault of Iranian militias against the USA could create instability at the border and otherwise. Follow? I mean the buildings that were destroyed in this attack were sort of a part of the infrastructure in the area. See all the trucks parked across the street. This area was somewhat busy and it is my guess the militias in that building were more or less carrying out attacks against DEATH SQUADS like Daesh. In that is the understanding they have purpose and the Shia Crescent has no problem with the skirmishes carried out by these militias.

So, now that the USA has rightfully defended itself, what next? None of the governments of those three countries want the USA there. Our military is attempting to end violence and create it's own understanding of stability, but, one missile strike is not going to do that. The criticism the USA has received in protecting it's own troops is to let all the other militias in the region know this isn't going to happen to them.

To my way of thinking there is only one reason for the USA to be in the region and that is to protect shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.

So, while the USA is there it figures it can do some good by attempting to rid the region of militias. Nice idea. A little on the heroic side, but, is it really necessary? Probably not. I really think the USA military needs to rethink it's purpose in this part of the world and perhaps downgrade our presence. And for god sake bring the B52s back where they belong.

"Good Night, Moon"

The waning gibbous

18.5 days old

85.3 percent lit

June 10, 2021

As NASA continues (click here) plans for multiple commercial deliveries to the Moon’s surface per year, the agency has selected three new scientific investigation payload suites to advance understanding of Earth’s nearest neighbor. Two of the payload suites will land on the far side of the Moon, a first for NASA. All three investigations will receive rides to the lunar surface as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative, part of the agency’s Artemis approach.

The payloads mark the agency’s first selections from its Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) call for proposals.

“These selections add to our robust pipeline of science payloads and investigations to be delivered to the Moon through CLPS,” said Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for exploration in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “With each new PRISM selection, we will build on our capabilities to enable bigger and better science and prove technology which will help pave the way for returning astronauts to the Moon through Artemis.”

The Delta Variant is dangerous because it spreads so rapidly. Don't hesitate to get attention to symptoms.

June 22, 2021

By Daren Whitehead

...Nationally, (click here) the Delta variant makes up about 10% of cases, which is much lower than the variant's prevalence in Colorado, Herlihy said.

Missouri is the only state that has more cases of the Delta variant than Colorado, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....

 

Love him or not, Dr. Fauci has the best guidance for a path that ends the virus danger.

June 22, 2021
By Rob Stein

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned on Tuesday of the danger from the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Among those not yet vaccinated, Delta may trigger serious illness in more people than other variants do.

The dangerous Delta variant (click here for audio - thank you) of the coronavirus is spreading so quickly in the United States that it's likely the mutant strain will become predominant in the nation within weeks, according to federal health officials and a new analysis.

At a White House briefing on COVID-19 on Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health said 20.6% of new cases in the U.S. are due to the Delta variant. And other scientists tracking the variant say it is on track to become the dominant virus variant in the U.S.

"The Delta variant is currently the greatest threat in the U.S. to our attempt to eliminate COVID-19," Fauci said. He noted that the proportion of infections being caused by the variant is doubling every two weeks.

The variant, first identified in India, is the most contagious yet and, among those not yet vaccinated, may trigger serious illness in more people than other variants do, he said....

Masks work.

Social distancing works.

Hand hygiene works, especially before touching one's face.

This is very serious heat and drought.

 Drought Monitor, June 24, 2021 (click here)

The only reason there is not drought conditions across the entire USA is because of a water vapor transfer that occurs from West Texas to the east coast.

Climate Emergency. This is not some kind of left wing attack on Big Oil. This is real.

On the eastern border of California is the mountain range called the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It can be seen in this picture to the left and is the white color. The "key" describing the picture states the white areas are above 14,000 feet. And that is correct. The Sierra Nevada Mountains in California reach 14,505 feet.

The highest elevation of the Rocky Mountains is Mount Elbert in the Sawatch Range, which at 14,433 feet (4,399 metres) is the highest point in the Rockies.

That is 14,433 feet which is lower than the highest point of the California Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Understand? If the Rocky Mountains becomes dry and as hot as the land and air is not in California, the heat and drought will move east no different than it is doing in California.

THIS IS A CLIMATE EMERGENCY. 

The local, state and federal government needs to work together to prevent heat exhaution and heat stroke.

June 26, 2021
By Page Cornwell

Heat records (click here) are likely to be broken throughout the Puget Sound over the weekend, with temperatures predicted to reach beyond 100 degrees.

Meteorologists have called the weekend forecast an “unprecedented event.” The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for most of Western Washington, effective through Monday evening.

The so-called heat dome — a heat wave that sits over one region — has stretched across the western United States for nearly two weeks, setting record temperatures from Omaha to Death Valley.

Throughout Saturday, on this page, we’ll post updates about rising temperatures in Seattle and throughout the Pacific Northwest, how residents are coping, and resources provided for those trying to beat the heat.

California's severe drought is going to cross into the USA and move east.

 I have not posted a US Temperature Map in a very long time. When I saw this map I knew I had to write about what I saw.

Everyone knows what a tidal wave is and how dangerous they are. What is occurring on the West Coast is a heat tidal wave and it is headed for the east coast. Kindly note the pink and white areas on the West Coast. They are not anywhere else. Now notice that extreme heat as it also exists along the Rio Grande Valley and the western region of Mexico. 

The only thing preventing the movement of that heat bubble east is now the Rocky Mountains. It is right up against those mountains. Once that heat makes it to the highest parts of the Rocky Mountains the descent into the Midwest will be rapid. The Rockies are high enough at this point it can defend the country eat of them, but, it won't last forever.

I found the heat along the Rio Grande extremely significant. There are no mountainous areas that prevent the migration of that heat north and east. What does the Rio Grande River look like at this point. I know Lake Mead is severely affected.

This spreading of drought and heat is a climate emergency.

The Five Justices are WRONG as WRONG can be.

The Fair Credit Reporting Act DOES NOT DEAL WITH CONCRETENESS. Credit reporting is a matter of communication, not some kind of construction machine that had it's backup warning signal turned off by the last mechanic, hence, causing death upon backing up with a construction worker unaware of the danger.

This IS NOT THAT!

Credit reporting is nothing but communication. All entities involved with consumer credit communicate and cooperate to deliver a PRODUCT called a Credit Report. There is nothing CONCRETENESS about a Credit Report unless someone gets a paper cut.

This OPINION of the five justices involved is pie in the sky political pandering to the Federalist Society and their wealthy members as well as Wall Street companies that are traded every day. Ah, if they only came up with Bitcoin first.

Let me make this clear, this OPINION by the five justices is completely WRONG. There is no allowance for such malicious malpractice of justices with such a profound impact on any American at any time in their lives.

We have recently come to a contracting pandemic; although (I will look at this.) the CDC is stating clearly using masks is necessary with the Delta variant emerging as a real threat to Americans, and people had no paycheck for a year or more. How does anyone think that looks on a credit report? This entire OPINION by the five justices is so very, very wrong there are no words in the English language to express such malicious malpractice.

The five justices, including the chief justice, simply turned their backs on the American people.

Fair Credit Reporting Act (click here)

Below is the section that specifically states, "adverse action." The law also refers to the "Equal Credit Opportunity Act." So, the Supreme Court decision not only attacks the American people but, dismantles a law that has stood for decades that protects consumers.

This is about Transunion. It is a credit reporting service and the actions were started by Transunion against a human being. I remind this is about the "money is a citizen" bullshit as well.

This section of the law, clearly states, "adverse action." In (ii) it states an adverse action includes denial of employment or any other decision for employment purposes...any current or prospective employee;

Hm. The five justices simply turned their backs on the law that has stood between employment and a consumer's credit and made up a new direction. So much for stare decisis.

Foreign influence on Americans.

Back in 2003, there was a play in New York called "Anna in the Tropic." It played out at the "Royal Theater" with Jimmy Snits leading the cast. It went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. The play was about hope and longing. It was basically a thinly veiled production about Russia. The Anna in the play is Anna Karenina. 

It was a play steeped in emotions. Within those emotions without be explicit was sexual chemistry. It was quite a play to see. But, the reason it achieved a Pulitzer is because when boiled down, was about the emotions of Russians that were either absent or never could be thought about in any social circle.

People that know something about Russian literature picked up hints of Checkov and Tolstoy. The point is that foreign influence does exist and it can be as invisible as a brilliant play that makes it to a New York stage and the acclaim of others in the way of a Pulitzer Prize.

All these cultural issues cannot be magically erased from any influence in the USA, but, Americans need to know who they are in this country and presently, Anna Karenina could possibly win an election in a Republican primary without proper documents. After all, those documents must have been sabotaged by the State Department or DOJ at the very least. 

Foreign influence in the USA.

There is an awful lot of backing of Russia by the right-wing in the Republican Party. What is so telling is that while Moscow Mitch welcomes oligarchs (wealthy Russians) with open arms he hates the so-called Super-Wealthy in the USA.

It is a FOX News thing to try to make a new hysteria of wealthy Americans to distract from the corporations that now receive free rides on taxes. FOX doesn't expose the corporations that are not paying a dime of tax, only wealthy Americans. 

By Brooke Singman

Exclusive: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (click here) and Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Mike Crapo are demanding the Justice Department and the FBI investigate the disclosure of confidential tax information of some of the country’s wealthiest taxpayers.

They're insisting those responsible be prosecuted and "punished to the furthest extent the law permits."

Fox News obtained the letter McConnell, Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Crapo, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, after a ProPublica report revealed what it called the low "true tax rate" in the U.S. paid by the world's wealthiest people, such as Warren Buffett (0.1%), Jeff Bezos (0.98%), and Elon Musk (3.27%)....

These folks are mostly known to be Democrats to the public. Of course, there are no Republicans that are wealthy enough to be scrutinized by Moscow Mitch and his minions.

I think the fact the Democrats still appear to be a bit spineless to the country, they need to stop abandoning the democracy.

If there is anything true about Republicans it is they are very vengeful. We still hear about the nomination of Bork. It is ridiculous and a clear sign they do not care about the people of the USA.

February 17, 2021

By John T. Bennett

The White House (click here) is defending President Barack Obama’s vote as a senator to filibuster the nomination of Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court by saying, unlike Senate Republican leaders now, he had “substantive” concerns. But the president acknowledged that Democrats didn’t do a good enough job making the case for those concerns, a spokesman said.

Only two dozen (24) members of the Republican Senate Caucus joined Moscow Mitch 

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., backed by about two dozen members of his caucus, wants to wait for the next president to select a replacement for the late Antonin Scalia, the conservative justice found dead on Feb. 13. Much has been made in the past few days about Obama’s 2006 vote to block Alito’s ascension to the high court. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest on Wednesday called then-Sen. Obama’s vote a “symbolic” one, intended to register his opposition rather than block the appointment. That vote on a specific nominee, Earnest said, is far different from the Republican leaders’ suggestion that they will not consider any nomination in an election year....

One of these days the country's justices will be less alarming and I can actually write about the heat wave.

I might do it tonight anyway because if there is anything alarming it is the heatwave.

Believe me, this is about the plutocrats. At least one of the gentlemen is not with CNN anymore.

Before this decision I never heard the word, "concreteness." I was like, "...is that a real word?" Evidently.

 Transunion LLC vs. Ramirez (click here) 

Concreteness is an aspect of communication that means being specific, definite, and vivid rather than vague and general. A concrete communication uses specific facts and figures. Concreteness is often taught in college communication courses as one of the aspects of effective communication.

This is about the plutocratic movement that has been in this country since Wall Street began. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

This decision or rather the OPINION of the five justices is based on defining liability. It will remove everything that is great about this country. We stand as a democracy concerned about THE LITTLE GUY. The little guy is very often the Middle Class. You know the folks that work every day for a living and try to achieve the "American Dream," if it can still be resuscitated.

The Middle Class and the Poor lost in court and the five justices are probably laughing their asses off. Yes, I mean it. At some time in the progress of making this OPINION, there were justices chumming it up with friends, wealthy friends, the kind that are hurt when their products injure Americans. This OPINION came from somewhere and it sure wasn't the halls of justice. 

People will suffer and die because of this OPINION.

Florida Building Collapse

Just a word about the Florida Building Collapse. My deepest sympathies for the families and friends that lost people. This is a prime example of the government not doing it's job.

This building should have been condemned by the people that inspected it in 2018. Those inspectors that wrote up that report should have been empowered to condemn that building until further notice.

Yes, there would be a lot of families displaced and homeless, but, they would still be alive today, and if all those families were displaced the community would respond. If the community could not respond then the state would have to. This is a complete failure of the government. There need to be laws that empower building inspectors to shut it down.

If a building were shut down there would be repairs and/or a complete demolition to building a new one. But, this is not the way people should be living. The entire issue is more than dead citizens it is the complete failure of the government to protect the innocent from the powerful.

There was more than one building involved. Once the first building tumbled, it fell into the one right next to it, like Dominos. There is a whole lot wrong with this incident and it needs to be addressed. The parking garage at the basement of the building was falling apart and succumbing to the unstable ground under it. There is nothing here that was deterioration due to age alone, it was the ground under the building that was shifting and causing cracks in the very foundation that the building sat on.

I guarantee you this isn't the only one in the same condition. What happened to the authority of the people that are educated to know when a building is unsound to act on what they know. This is a crime. Plan and simple. 

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