The Kurds and Shia now have acknowledgement by the US Pentagon the borders of the Former Iraq are fluid.

August 21, 2014
By Dan Lamothe and Karen DeYoung
...Islamic State (click here) cannot be defeated without addressing “both sides of what is essentially at this point a nonexistent border” between Iraq and Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday...

General Dempsey went on to clarify from a journalist's question that ISIL (ISIS) can be defeated without crossing into Syria.

The autonomous regions of the former Iraq need to move before the United Nations to recognize their status as independent. I am sure they already have provincial authority that can easily move into being President and a cabinet.

General Dempsey points to the fact ISIS has ambitions to dominate the entire region and in that are allies to the USA. As of today, the countries in the region of ISIS activity are stable with secure borders.

It is obvious, isn't it? The Pentagon wants to invade the former Iraq. Right? Yeah. Very obvious.

I want to know why the Pentagon believes they can end hostilities in this region? Do they intend to kill everyone and start over? Is that the idea, because, we know FOR A FACT that when a militant group is destroyed it sprouts offspring. So, besides killing everyone and repopulating the areas with USA FRIENDLIES AND WALL STREET, what are their plans? 

We have been here before, why is the Pentagon so very interested in killing with boots on the ground? It accomplishes NOTHING! It OBVIOUSLY accomplishes nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Kurds and Shea need to make their case for an independent nation and in the mean time they need allies that will help maintain their borders. When a USA Chairman of the Joint Chiefs sees moving borders and plans to execute strikes with that in mind, it is legitimate, legally binding and should be a priority of the people and other nations in the region.

There is no more Iraq. Get over it. It collapsed and isn't coming back.

The Kurds and Shea need to make their case before the United Nations.

It is just unfortunate the collapse of Iraq doesn't fit the Republican political dialogue in the USA. 

When the Shia and Kurds make their arguments to the status of their nation and sovereign borders they need to call up the adversity they have suffered in the past decades under leadership other than their own people.

Workers Safely Tear Down Towers at Manhattan Project Site (click here)

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – After decades dominating the Los Alamos National Laboratoryskyline, two water towers were safely demolished by workers in a matter of hours recently, bringing EM’s Environmental Projects Office at Los Alamos a step closer to transferring the land for future commercial or industrial use.

   The towers were located in Technical Area 21 (TA-21), an early site of the Manhattan Project work at the laboratory, which is part of DOE's network of national laboratories. It was the location of the world’s first plutonium processing facility and where groundbreaking tritium research took place.

   The demolition is a continuation of a large-scale environmental cleanup at TA-21 that began in 2009 when cleanup was funded by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Demolishing the 175-foot and 160-foot towers was one of several projects to remove remaining structures at TA-21.

   “By bringing down these towers, we are making a noticeable difference in the skyline at Los Alamos,” Los Alamos Field Office Environmental Programs Assistant Manager Pete Maggiore said. “This is another positive step towards eventual transfer of this property to Los Alamos County.”...

August 20, 2014

A federal judge’s (click here) own experience with defendant P(edro). Leonardo Mascheroni, a former Los Alamos lab scientist accused of trying to sell nuclear secrets to Venezuela, factored into the sentencing Wednesday of Mascheroni’s wife.

Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, 71, got a year and a day in federal prison, well under the mandatory 14-year minimum she could have faced had she been convicted at trial. In part that was because of a plea agreement negotiated with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which set her potential sentence at one to two years....

In a completely different case, scientists are pleading for the return of an employee. He worked in the non-proliferation wrote an article abolishing nuclear weapons, had his article cleared, it was published and then he was fired for having written the article.

August 22, 2014
AP

SANTA FE - A group of scientists (click here) who work to limit the spread of nuclear weapons is urging the U.S. Energy Secretary to intervene on behalf of a fired worker at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Santa Fe political scientist James Doyle says he was fired after 17 years on the job in July after writing an article for a nonprofit web site in support of abolishing nuclear weapons. Doyle worked on the lab's non-proliferation team.

Federation of American Scientists President Charles Ferguson urged Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to ensure that that Doyle isn't penalized for participating in the national dialogue over nuclear policy.

Doyle tells the Santa Fe New Mexican (http://bit.ly/1rpTbbs) he was fired after lab officials claimed his article raised classification concerns. He says the article had been cleared for publication.

Will the three autopsies of Michael Brown, Jr. all reach the same conclusion?

The private autopsy of the family was not allowed to look at other forensic evidence that is available to state and federal investigators.

The State and Federal investigations should concur, unless, there is a bubble of secrecy and protection surrounding Wilson by the city and state.

Vladimir Putin prefers an invading force rather than regional peace.

President Putin never accessed the many options the people of Eastern Ukraine have in regard to humanitarian aid. Putin didn't go to the United Nations, we all know this is propaganda driven and there is a reason why NGOs exist to bring aid to people in need. Putin is completely inappropriate and reflects Russian preference for isolation and aggression.

August 22, 2014
By Karoun Demirjian

MOSCOW — After a nearly 10-day standoff, (click here) at least 145 trucks of a Russian humanitarian convoy crossed into Ukraine on Friday without the permission of Ukrainian authorities or the accompaniment of the International Committee of the Red Cross — a step that Ukraine’s top security official called an “invasion.”...

Europe, NATO, Black Sea countries and the United Nations have to consider what this aggression means and how it is going to react to it?

Ukraine has every right to intercept the trucks and dispose of the humanitarian aid as it wishes. That means arresting Russian convoy drivers. They are in Ukraine without proper documents, therefore, they are illegal immigrants and perhaps even recruits for more hostilities.

Bullshit! Can he walk and talk at the same time?

Lupica: Obama's return to the links shows lack of leadership in face of ISIS threat

The ONLY country the USA is engaged in war is Afghanistan.

Baghdad requested air support.

End of discussion.

So let me get this right; the USA has to go to war because it has no confidence in it's own rules? Is that right? Then why the rules at all?

Post 9 11 there were safe guards put in place; one was the "No Fly List." 

The West's media is all a flutter about the fact their citizens are leaving to join the jihadist movement originating in Syria. Either the safe guards work or they don't. 

Currently, airline passengers are complaining about the process of the "No Fly List." Do the governments believe they can make flying more convenient or more difficult in the face of their new concerns?

Unlikely Terrorists on "No Fly List" (click here)

August 20, 2014
Changes planned on how travelers can protest placement on no-fly list (click here)

The Obama administration is promising to change the way travelers can ask to be removed from its no-fly list of suspected terrorists banned from air travel.

The decision comes after a federal judge's ruling that there was no meaningful way to challenge the designation, a situation deemed unconstitutional. In response, the Justice Department said the U.S. will change the process during the next six months. As of late last summer, about 48,000 people were on the no-fly list.

The government's policy is never to confirm or deny that a person actually is on the no-fly list, citing national security concerns. In many of these cases, travelers assume they are on the list because they are instructed to go through additional screening at airports or because they are told they can't board their flights to, from or within the United States....

Customs and Border Protection officers must admit U.S. citizens, even if they visited such 'restricted' countries as Cuba or North Korea (click here)

March 14, 2012

Q: I am a U.S. citizen. On return from a recent vacation in Yemen, a Customs and Border Protection officer asked me about why I was abroad for so long. Since I am a U.S. citizen, can't I stay abroad as long as I wish?

Khalil Mohamed Alkaifi, Staten Island

A. You are correct. As a U.S. citizen, you can stay abroad for as long as you wish and always have the right to return. CBP officers must admit a U.S. citizen. That’s true even if you were to visit a country where U.S. law restricts travel, such as North Korea or Cuba.

Unlike permanent residents, U.S. citizens need not maintain a residence in the United States.

At one time a naturalized U.S. citizen had to maintain U.S. residence for a certain period after naturalizing. No longer. Congress repealed those laws. You could stay abroad for the rest of your life and remain a U.S. citizen....

Syria is Russia's ally. Assad has plenty of military clout if he wants it to defeat ISIS.

There is absolutely no reason for the USA to enter Syria and if it did it would be opening up Pandora's box. I don't think the President is that stupid, is he?

It would require a UN resolution and Russia would veto such a measure. What is Obama becoming "W", Jr.? Sure looks like it. Wiping ISIL off the map, no different than killing Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, won't make a bit of difference. It would be a TROPHY. It would settle nothing.

August 21, 2014
By Michael R. Gordon and Helene Cooper 

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (click here) cannot be defeated unless the United States or its partners take on the Sunni militants in Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday.

“This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated,” said the chairman, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, in his most expansive public remarks on the crisis since American airstrikes began in Iraq. “Can they be defeated without addressing that part of the organization that resides in Syria? The answer is no.”

But General Dempsey and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who both spoke at a Pentagon news conference, gave no indication that President Obama was about to approve airstrikes in Syria....  

Michael Brown, Jr. is and never was the problem.

The point of contention that is suppose to indict Michael Brown, Jr. in resisting arrest and therefore justifying his death, is nonsense.

I don't care if he was struggling for his freedom in a police car. What was he doing in a police car in the first place? The offense he was being accused of before Wilson escalated it into a life and death confrontation for Michael Brown, Jr. was jaywalking. Wilson was in over his head and had absolutely no authority to turn a jaywalking offense into a death sentence.

Why don't we all just jaywalk right now and have it turned into a death sentence? Why not? Seems reasonable to me that cops are suppose to enforce the law to the nth degree, right? Even if it means a beloved son doesn't show up for college the next day. What the hell who cares?

The only threat Michael Brown, Jr. posed was to himself. He was young, full of himself after finishing high school and beginning at college, what young man would not have been full of himself? He was pulling boners. That is not a death sentence, that is a good lecture by his parents about the seriousness of the education he was about to begin. 

Michael Brown, Jr. was a threat to no one. He was not a threat to Wilson or anyone else. Wilson is a lousy cop full of hate for anyone that doesn't live up to the letter of the law. Wilson is the problem and he is the only problem with the exception of his bosses and the government that legislates death when filming an officer at work.

Who is advising the Ferguson police department to be obstructive, the Prosecutor?

It is quiet in Ferguson because everyone else is in jail.

August 14, 2014

...In the first lawsuit, (click here) the ACLU of Missouri urged the St. Louis County Police Department to release a copy of the incident report for Brown’s shooting under the Missouri Sunshine Law.

The law, according to the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, aims to represent the “embodiment of Missouri’s commitment to openness in government.”

Under the law, matters of public record are considered, with few exceptions, to be transparent and open to the public.

The ACLU said that its request for the incident report “is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operation or activities” of the St. Louis County Police Department....

This second lawsuit begins to reveal the suppression of evidence and the facts surrounding the brandishing of assault weapons by the police. The officer from another city that pointed the gun at the press/protesters seems to have been informed there was to be no recording of the police. He may have been acting on a specific local law and within his assigned authority. This aspect of the reality of the protests in Ferguson is especially of concern. If the national media hadn't been focused on the protesters, their message and their right to march there might have been a real blood bath.

...The suit asks a judge to end the police policy of “demanding and ordering members of the media and public to stop recording the police acting in their official duty on public streets and sidewalks” and declare such a policy a violation of constitutional rights.

That lawsuit names the city of Ferguson, St. Louis County and the Missouri State Highway Patrol as defendants....

The longer this goes on in Missouri and the more revealed about this county and local authority the scary the reality of the citizens of Ferguson. This isn't just a grievance with police, this is a grievance against the law and the minority Caucasian government and administration. This city and country is becoming extremely worrisome. There needs to be an investigation beyond Michael Brown, Jr. but also into the deaths of African Americans in the past.

The mere existence of the law to suppress activities of Ferguson police officers is not only corrupt, but, unconstitutional and PROVES a hostile government. 

Yes, this is a picture of the Ferguson police in riot gear moving down West Florissant.

The realization these governments invoked laws to empower police to suppress freedom of speech including deadly force is still yet another reason to investigate the history of tensions between the community and police. There is more here than meets the eye. The Ferguson chief of police and the county prosecutor need to resign from their positions. There is growing conflict of interest.

How many cities in the USA have this type of law of oppression? Because what I found really unusual in Albuquerque is the complacency of the local media in reporting the 24 or more deaths of innocent and unarmed people. The Albuquerque media always took the position the police were acting within the law regardless of the horrific deaths occurring.

If local or national media or otherwise experience oppression enforced by law and there are deaths or wrongful acts being carried out with impunity by government against citizens, the media's complicity comes into question. As a matter of fact any oppression by government of the media and there is media compliance is complicity to misdirect information to the public.

What is going on in this country?

Daniel Pearl's murderer was captured in Pakistan because the case was high profile in the media.

...The Pearl Project (click here) says that US investigators have found evidence that the beheading was carried out by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who faces charges in connection with the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US.

A technique known as vein-matching found that the veins on Mohammed's hand matched those on the hand of Pearl's killer, seen in the gruesome video.

The al-Qaeda number three was captured in Pakistan in March 2003 and sent to Guantanamo Bay three years later....

The problem with finding the murderers of journalists speaks to the very nature of their work. The USA was able to put pressure on Pakistan to find who captured and killed Daniel Pearl. But, most journalists are in remote areas where the power structure rules at the muzzle of a gun or in the case of ISIL the gun of a USA tank.

The journalists that die still don't out number the journalists incarcerated which may lead to their death due to poor conditions in the jails of other countries. 

In countries where citizens are at risk for poor health conditions are going to have the same effect with journalists. If Taliban will shot a young girl in the face in protest of her education then the death of journalists are simply a matter of everyday business for those that hate Westerners.

Journalists work in dangerous parts of the world, but, they don't have to put their lives on the line, some choose to do so. The phenomena reminds me of Timothy Treadwell. A documentary was made about him as he was a protester to the death of Grizzly Bears. He lived among them a few months out of every year. His death was tragic due to an attack by an old Grizzly Bear. Journalists trust their instincts too much and don't apply common sense to the circumstances they face. If there is no central government to even pressure to bring killers to trial and prison there is a better than 50% chance justice will never happen.

June 24, 2014

Abdel Fattah al Sisi (click here) says he will not intervene over the jailing of three Al Jazeera journalists despite international outrage....

...Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian national Mohammed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed were jailed for seven years each on Monday for spreading false news and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.

Mr Mohamed received an additional three years on a separate charge involving possession of weapons.

World leaders, including Prime Minister David Cameron and Australian PM Tony Abbott, have called on Cairo to review the case, which has been widely seen as being politically motivated....

Sisi stated he would bring calm to Egypt. Being a military leader he made good on his election process, but, what is being seen now in Egypt is oppression of the people. Jailing journalists simply to end their commentary is over reach by most international laws.

Sisi's administration, while liked by Israel, will ultimately cause the same unrest that put him in charge of the military in the first place. Only next time when there are demonstrators in Tahir Square, Sisi will believe he has a mandate to kill those that oppose the government and they will die. Is this an atmosphere for journalists to flourish in while reporting to their readers? No. The oppression creates it's own reality among the people and to that end the truth is difficult to discern yet alone bring forward as a fact.

Potential for a third hurricane all at the same time.

August 21, 2014
1130.18z
UNISYS water vapor north and west hemisphere satellite  (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)

There is a tropical depression east of the Lesser Antilles that will consolidate. There are already two storms in the east Pacific Ocean offshore west Mexico. 

Police Officers are NOT suppose to be "Killer Cops."

Michael Brown, Jr. was ALLOWED to die. Police officers are trained in life saving measures including CPR and First Aid.

It was one thing to use incredibly bad judgement in shooting at an unarmed teenager, but, it is quite something else to treat that teenager as a dead person before he is dead.

This is a trend in police brutality. We have witnessed the casual indifference of police officers in the chocking death of a black man in New York City. We have witnessed casual indifference in the swat team in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Here is the difference. 

I worked for years in Newark, New Jersey and have witnessed and have heard stories circulating the hospital when something extraordinary happens.

I have a story. 

A young Caucasian male police officer was admitted for chest pains. He and his captain believed he had suffered a heart attack while running. Where was he running? He was chasing a perpetrator. He never drew his gun and he counted on his agility and speed to CATCH the person he was chasing. 

Why would he not draw his gun?

Because he knew the person he was chasing was unarmed. He was not about to kill another person when he could catch up with them and call in back up if the person proved to strong to detain by himself. 

True story. No lie.

What was the condition of the officer after the first set of blood tests came back?

He had a myocardial infarction. He was given a stern talking to with his wife at his bedside about the difference between skeletal muscles and their strength as opposed to cardiac muscles and it's ability to pump blood fast enough to keep up with oxygen usage in such a young and healthy body. He promised to consider his own well being next time and to find a nonviolent answer that would provide the same result for the community. THAT WAS FOR THE COMMUNITY.

The USA has a problem, a very serious problem in that the Bush years and all the DOD and Homeland Security equipment and anti-terrorist training has resulted in Killer Cops. Why would any American not be afraid of this reality? It has to stop and the police have to stop killing young, black men in THEIR COMMUNITIES.

Ferguson is a community to be proud of in the USA. They are Lower Middle Class but they own homes, seek good educations for their children and want to have peace on their streets. THESE are the people that insure there is opportunity in our society. These are the people that set examples for others and generations to come. These are the Americans that state to their children, "Study as much as you can and find a good job." That is who Ferguson is. It is not a town of 21,000 + people on a map in Missouri. Ferguson lives and breaths and it does one heck of a good job in looking at tomorrow with anticipation of hope. 

Michael Brown, Jr. was that young person on his way to college. He was the future we all promise will be theirs if they just reach for it. Michael Brown, Jr. is dead and damn it, this is going to stop and the USA will have a future as a promise to all Americans.

Dennis, good to hear from you!

...This crisis comes from: (click here)

1) The erosion of a principle in federal law, Posse Comitatus, meant to restrict the use of the military in civilian law enforcement; 
2) The Pentagon's dispersal of military equipment to domestic police units, which has increased since 9/11;
3) Military-style police training reliant upon weaponry, as opposed to peace keeping, including skills development for de-escalation of violent tensions.

An unarmed, African-American teenager was shot and killed by a policeman. As people protested, the Ferguson police response evoked images of an occupying army come home....

A rose by any other name... It isn't like it's the US Constitution or something, right?

Whoever, (click here) except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

I might add, President Assad was spot on about the rebel forces in Syria when he stated, "They are al Qaeda." I am sure he would not mind sharing the particulars on that. 

Syria wasn't the same 'ole CIA anti-government gig, huh? Right, McCain?

CIA operations (click here) follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American business, and often with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies right-wing groups within the country (usually the military), and offers them a deal: “We’ll put you in power if you maintain a favorable business climate for us.”...

It works for Big Oil.

This is a great cartoon. They got it right.

August 20, 2014
By George S. Hishmeh

Even if a ceasefire is reached, (click here) the cycle of violence will continue so long as the Tel Aviv regime keeps appeasing hardliners and new colonies continue sprouting.

Washington: The “horrendous bloodshed,” as The Economist of London described the month-long Israeli bombardment of Palestinians in their besieged, overpopulated Gaza Strip, has highlighted the sharply different assessments between the British and American media.

A case in point is last Tuesday’s column by Richard Cohen of the Washington Post who wrote “it helps account for why the [Israeli] bombings of schools, hospitals and home in Gaza are almost instantaneously denounced as war crimes — a purposeful atrocity and not, as sometimes happens in war, a mistake. Israel, as some feel, is too good to be so bad.”

He added, “Not only is this hardly true... but it also veers into a kind of anti-Semitism. If the bombing of a school or hospital is not a mistake, then it must have been on purpose: Israel is the cold-hearted killer of children.”

What peeved him was what he descried as the “gravamen” of a column in The Independent, a British newspaper, authored by Mark Steel who called Israel “the child-murdering community,” — a view that Cohen insisted was anti-Semitic. He argued, “It assumed a maniacal willingness to kill children, either on purpose or because they are in the way — collateral damage, as it is sometimes called. It gives mocking recognition to all the precautions Israel takes to avoid such casualties.”...

The bottom line is Israel doesn't really get along with the neighborhood.

Foley was an American by birth and a Syrian by choice.

He was married there and lived the lifestyle there. Was the USA also going to pick up his wife when they rescued him?

If the USA wants to be successful in finding Americans in Syria than broker a session with Assad through the United Nations and ask for his cooperation. The American military makes their greatest mistakes in pretending leaders like Assad are the problem. That isn't the problem, the culture of violence is the problem in the Middle East.

The United Arab Emirates is currently following the example of Saudi Arabia and passing laws that will eliminate the culture of violence within their country.

August 20, 2014
By Samir Salama

Dubai: A new law to combat terrorism (click here) was endorsed by President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan yesterday.

The law will usher in new security measures to counter a sweeping range of crimes deemed acts of terror at a time when international efforts are being mustered to fight the global menace.

The government fast-tracked the law which establishes “terrorist” capital offences which result in the death of a victim, including attacks on a head of state or his family or a representative or officer of a state; coerced recruitment of individuals into a “terrorist” organisation; hijacking; hostage-taking; infringement of diplomatic or consular premises in committing a “terrorist” act; use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and assaulting security forces....

This new policy was begun during Ramadan, the time of atonement, of this year. Americans never hear about the progress these countries are making to combat terrorism. The people carrying out these horrible offenses around the world live in these countries. when a government official is involved in trying to control them through death sentences and/or prison their lives are at risk. 

July 3, 2014
By Samir Salama

Abu Dhabi: The Federal National Council (FNC) (click here) is due to be called into a special session in late Ramadan to review and pass an anti-terrorism draft law, Gulf News has learnt.

The legislative and legal affairs committee at the House will meet on Sunday to discuss the draft law, only a couple of months after the country introduced recent changes in international regulations against money-laundering, which can be used to fund terrorism, into its laws.

Sources said the UAE, a signatory to 13 international treaties on terrorism, is revising its counter-terrorism law, issued in 2004, to better fight evolving threats.

In late April, the FNC passed a draft law to fight money laundering and terrorist financing....

It isn't like sitting under the Capital Dome and passing The Patriot Act which removes many civil liberties from the American people and then have the people too scared to change horses in midstream. Taking this type of action in the Middle East requires leaders to have the loyalty of the vast majority of their citizens. It also takes a real assessment of the threat to those citizens from within the country's borders. It is not simply in the Middle East to pass such laws. This is an astounding victory for the UAE.

August 20, 2014
By Gulf News

While the focus of the United States and its allies (click here) has been on turning back the threat posed by the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), the conflict has left a tide of human detritus in its wake. Since fighting intensified in Iraq beginning in January, more that 1.2 million Iraqis have been displaced, the United Nations says.

In addition, a further four million Syrians have been forced to seek refuge outside its borders in sanctuaries in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. As a result of the latest Isil offensive, some 500,000 Iraqis have sought refuge under the auspices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

In all, the nations involved are facing an unprecedented crisis. Whole communities have been swept aside, generations of tradition uprooted, families forced to flee with just the clothes on their backs and the few precious items that they can carry as they escape an evil enemy bent on destruction and massacre as never before.

These are desperate times, where millions are at the mercy of their fellow man, where aid is the most precious commodity, where humanity is under threat, and where the human condition is focused on getting through the next day.

What water source to you trust?

The graph shows number of Alzheimer cases in the world. Countries such as the USA have a lower incidence of the disease, why?

Dementia statistics (click here)

...Drinking contaminated water (click here) is one of the main causes of diarrheal disease, which results in 1.5 million deaths each year in children under the age of 5. mWater’s preliminary work testing over 100 water sources in Mwanza, Tanzania’s second largest city and one of the fastest growing urban centers in East Africa, found fecal contamination in 90% of shallow dug wells and springs. Many of these sources were only a short distance from safer piped water kiosks. In a baseline survey, mWater found water users choose from up to three water sources each day. The organization believes that more information about the safety of water sources will encourage people to make safer water choices....

With a demographics that drastic, in a medical condition many Americans believe they inherit, more REAL investigation is necessary. As soon as I looked at that graph and realized the recent study about contaminated water, it all came together. Heavy metals. The Third World nations have more problems with water contamination than any First World country. The demographics of the third world countries are not skewed by early detection and/or better medical institutions.

Lead in paint. Copper in water.

Water quality. Interesting.

There may be a real correlation between family members in the incidence of the disease because at some point in time the children and adults are all exposed to the same water source. 

August 20, 2014

Drinking tap water (click here) containing trace levels of copper may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease, say scientists.

Researchers believe copper combined with cholesterol may prevent the brain removing a protein which produces the brain-clogging plaques associated with Alzheimer's.

The tap water link emerged from a study of rabbits fed a high cholesterol diet.

It has long been known that rabbits fed a cholesterol-rich diet develop many of the features of Alzheimer's, leading researchers to use them as a model for studying the disease.

But two US scientists noticed that cholesterol-fed rabbits given distilled water to drink developed fewer amyloid beta plaques than those drinking tap water....

Everyone is going to complain, but, commercial drones are ruled out over the USA.

15 August 2014
Nature
By Heidi Ledford

US Drone Research Hits Regulatory Turbulence (click here)

...On 23 June, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told drone users that such aircraft cannot be flown for ‘commercial’ use — defined as any activity that is not recreational or part of a government programme. That includes research and teaching at private, but not public, universities. Even though the announcement merely clarified existing rules, it caught many by surprise and reinforced a seemingly arbitrary dichotomy that treats researchers differently on the basis of their institutional affiliation....

Mass quarantines won't work. Those behind the barrier will believe they are sentenced to death.

MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia’s halting efforts (click here) to contain the Ebola outbreak spreading across parts of West Africa quickly turned violent on Wednesday when angry young men hurled rocks and stormed barbed-wire barricades, trying to break out of a neighborhood here that had been cordoned off by the government.

Soldiers repelled the surging crowd with live rounds, driving hundreds of young men back into the neighborhood, a slum of tens of thousands in Monrovia known as West Point....

Liberia has to educate the country's people about the disease and how to prevent it, either through social media or by government ministers working with the public. The violence was a direct reaction to the lack of information available to the Liberian people.

June 24, 2014
By Carrie Dann

A divided nation (click here) finally agrees on something overwhelmingly: the war in Iraq was simply not worth fighting.

Seventy-one percent of Americans now say that the war in Iraq “wasn’t worth it,” a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Annenberg poll shows, with skepticism about the lengthy war effort up substantially even in the last 18 months.

Just 22 percent now believe the 2003 war effort was worthwhile....

I want to know what exactly the American PERSONNEL in Iraq are doing? There is no justification for added personnel since the bombing is said to be effective.

If the bombing runs are not successful then the USA needs to stop them.

At this point with Secretary Kerry calling for more PERSONNEL to be assigned to State Department missions, it is unclear if he is running his own war. If there is danger to the consulate personnel they need to be evacuated. 

Either Americans are safe or they aren't. This is not rocket science.

If additional PERSONNEL are chronically needed in the Former Iraq then the Americans aren't safe and simply BAIT for escalation.

With continued escalation of American presence in the war in the Former Iraq the people of the USA need to ask themselves WHAT PURPOSE does this serve and what is going to guarantee there won't be still another "Oops, we should not have left Iraq and we sure shouldn't have left all that American military hardware and munitions with the former Iraqi military."

If the American people allow the delusions of the White House that the USA military can actually return order to Iraq and end any violence they are sentencing this country to a forever war.

I won't be counting bodies, innocent or military any more.

There is absolutely no purpose to USA intervention in any country unless it's going to serve a PERMANENT stabilizing effect by the sovereign military. If the Kurds need assistance in holding their borders than they need to ally with Turkey. But, for the USA military to become a force to contend with in the former Iraq to expand any borders and/or seek to make permanent a USA presence that requires not only the permission of the American people, but, an act of Congress. This is getting to be ridiculous. 

The American consulate personnel are being used as an act as a reason to continue the USA presence in the region. If the missions require that much support they need to be evacuated.

The USA does not have an anti-genocide policy for it's military to immediately deploy and that is the correct stance for the USA.

For a very protracted time the USA sacrificed both blood and treasure to allow the Iraq to establish itself. If fell apart. There is absolutely no reason to do it again. NONE.