Please advise small aircraft to reconsider their flight plans due to icing of the wings. Thank you.
Monday, January 05, 2015
There are wind chill, winter storm warnings, high wind warnings and gale warnings across the entire northern tier of the USA by the National Weather Service.
Please advise small aircraft to reconsider their flight plans due to icing of the wings. Thank you.
I implore President Obama to continue to close the gap between a communitties minorities and their police.
Currently, police are refusing leadership while using a prescribed legal methodology to openly kill unarmed citizens.
January 5, 2014
By Rocco Parascandola, Tina Moore, Corky Siemasko
Mayor de Blasio (click here) gave the cops who turned their backs on him a good smack Monday.
Speaking for the first time about the public dissing he endured at the funerals of hero cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, de Blasio said “they were disrespectful to the families involved.”
“I can't understand why anyone would do such a thing in the context like that,” an angry de Blasio said. “And I think it defies a lot of what we all feel is the right and decent thing to do.”
“I also think they were disrespectful to the people of this city, who in fact honor the work of the NYPD,” he added....
When I express loss to families or a country for any of citizens it is with the understanding I under their pain. I stand in recognition of their will at the funeral of their loved ones. I don't put my priorities first.
These officers were especially precious in that they were minorities. Their cultural diversity came out in their funeral services. They were the people we have so long wanted to be a part of public infrastructure to bring their insight and their abilities to bring about solutions. The loss of both of these men is profound beyond that of their families.
I thought the country had it's fill of funeral demonstrators, but, it would seem not.
Mayor DeBlasio jumped to assist the families of these men by increasing their rank when it was first learned of their heinous deaths. The state legislature has appropriated millions of dollars to outfit police cruisers with bullet proof glass. These deaths were profoundly felt and people came together to honor them by learning from this event.
It is unfortunate there was only insight after the fact not as a precaution before the deaths occurred. The missed opportunity to save lives occurs before the tragedy, not afterward.
January 5, 2014
By Rocco Parascandola, Tina Moore, Corky Siemasko
Mayor de Blasio (click here) gave the cops who turned their backs on him a good smack Monday.
Speaking for the first time about the public dissing he endured at the funerals of hero cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, de Blasio said “they were disrespectful to the families involved.”
“I can't understand why anyone would do such a thing in the context like that,” an angry de Blasio said. “And I think it defies a lot of what we all feel is the right and decent thing to do.”
“I also think they were disrespectful to the people of this city, who in fact honor the work of the NYPD,” he added....
When I express loss to families or a country for any of citizens it is with the understanding I under their pain. I stand in recognition of their will at the funeral of their loved ones. I don't put my priorities first.
These officers were especially precious in that they were minorities. Their cultural diversity came out in their funeral services. They were the people we have so long wanted to be a part of public infrastructure to bring their insight and their abilities to bring about solutions. The loss of both of these men is profound beyond that of their families.
I thought the country had it's fill of funeral demonstrators, but, it would seem not.
Mayor DeBlasio jumped to assist the families of these men by increasing their rank when it was first learned of their heinous deaths. The state legislature has appropriated millions of dollars to outfit police cruisers with bullet proof glass. These deaths were profoundly felt and people came together to honor them by learning from this event.
It is unfortunate there was only insight after the fact not as a precaution before the deaths occurred. The missed opportunity to save lives occurs before the tragedy, not afterward.
One of President Obama's greatest accomplishments to add to his legacy is civil rights.
Catherina Pareto, right, and Karla Arguello, second from right, kiss
after they were married by Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel, left,
Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, in Miami. Zabel provided a jump-start Monday to
Florida's entry as the 36th state where gays and lesbians can legally
marry, saying she saw no reason why same-sex couples couldn't
immediately get their licenses in Miami-Dade County ahead of a midnight
launch statewide.
Photo: Wilfredo Lee, AP January 5, 2015
By Curt Anderson and Tamara Lush
MIAMI (AP) — Lesbian and gay couples (click here) were wed in Miami on Monday by the same judge who approved their marriage licenses, hours before Florida's coming-out party as the nation's 36th state where same-sex marriages are now legal statewide.
The addition of Florida's 19.9 million people means 70 percent of Americans now live in states where gay marriage is legal.
The cheers in the courthouse reflect how much of the nation's third-largest state has changed since the 1970s, when Anita Bryant, the former beauty pageant queen and orange juice spokeswoman, started her national campaign against gay rights in Miami.
"It's been a long time coming," said Cathy Pareto, who wed Karla Arguello, her partner of 15 years. "Finally Florida recognizes us as a couple. It's just -- I don't know, sweet justice."...
Any oil infrastructure investment is poorly decided.
Those are the facts, both scientific and financial. OPEC is steadfast in it's resolve and that is good news. They will continue to be the one factor that will steady the market. There is a fall in demand for oil. It isn't just a glut.
January 5, 2014
By Joe Carroll
Tumbling crude prices (click here) will trigger a flood of oilfield write downs starting this month after industry returns slumped to a 16-year low, calling into question half a decade of exploration.
With
crude prices down more than 50 percent from their 2014 peak, fields as
far-flung as Kazakhstan and Australia are no longer worth pumping, said a
team of Citigroup Inc. (C:US)
analysts led by Alastair Syme. Companies on the hook for risky,
high-cost projects that don’t make sense in a $50-a-barrel market
include international titans such as Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and
small wildcatters like Sanchez Energy Corp. January 5, 2014
By Joe Carroll
Tumbling crude prices (click here) will trigger a flood of oilfield write downs starting this month after industry returns slumped to a 16-year low, calling into question half a decade of exploration.
The impending write downs represent the latest blow to an industry rocked by a combination of faltering demand growth and booming supplies from North American shale fields. The downturn threatens to wipe out more than $1.6 trillion in earnings for producing companies and nations this year. Oil explorers already are canceling drilling plans and laying off crews to conserve cash needed to cover dividend checks to investors and pay back debts....
For the USA legislation to add to this collapse is a huge mistake, but, Republicans legislate to their cronies and not real life. It is ridiculous to think the KXL is a viable project. The support for the KXL is extreme politics, so what else is new in the USA?
January 5, 2014
NBC News Staff, CNBC and the Associated Press
What a way to start the first full week of trading in 2015. (click here) The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more
than 300 points on Monday, dragged down by falling oil prices amid
worries that while they are a boon for consumers, they could hurt other
sectors of the economy.
It was the worst session
for the Dow and for the broader S&P 500 index in over three weeks.
The Dow unofficially dropped 1.84 percent, the S&P shed 1.81 percent
and the Nasdaq dropped 1.6 percent. Monday capped the stock market's
first four-day losing streak since December 2013 and sent stocks to
their lowest level in two weeks...
The Republicans will be carrying out rhetorical legislation post election.
It is strange how 'dog whistle' politics is never silent even after an election.
The KXL is antiquated infrastructure. The Democrats needs to propose and pass an amendment which simply reads, "No further oil infrastructure will be built until the tropospheric carbon dioxide returns to 350 parts per million and the methane levels end its' escalation." Straight and to the point based in scientific facts. The Democrats need to have the NOAA and NASA scientists on the floor of both the House and Senate to state the facts.
We have witnessed two airline tragedies along very close longitudinal lines. Both were over the Pacific which is the largest of Earth's oceans, both were caused because of severe turbulence in Earth's troposphere. This was not a coincidence. They both received significant turbulence because of abrupt climate change which has caused huge shifts in hot and cold air masses.
Additionally, in the amendment needs to be strong language that will improve the safety of existing pipelines. The current pipelines need to be rebuilt with three wall USA steel pipes. This is similar technology that is used in building tankers that transport oil. Most tankers are double hulled. In the USA any and all current pipelines no matter what they carry need to be triple hulled. That change also has to be included with tanker cars on rails or the highway to prevent spills and damage to the USA lands.
Refitting the current oil infrastructure will increase sustainable employment far beyond that of any promised by the KXL. Gasoline tax increases are far overdue.
The KXL is antiquated infrastructure. The Democrats needs to propose and pass an amendment which simply reads, "No further oil infrastructure will be built until the tropospheric carbon dioxide returns to 350 parts per million and the methane levels end its' escalation." Straight and to the point based in scientific facts. The Democrats need to have the NOAA and NASA scientists on the floor of both the House and Senate to state the facts.
We have witnessed two airline tragedies along very close longitudinal lines. Both were over the Pacific which is the largest of Earth's oceans, both were caused because of severe turbulence in Earth's troposphere. This was not a coincidence. They both received significant turbulence because of abrupt climate change which has caused huge shifts in hot and cold air masses.
Additionally, in the amendment needs to be strong language that will improve the safety of existing pipelines. The current pipelines need to be rebuilt with three wall USA steel pipes. This is similar technology that is used in building tankers that transport oil. Most tankers are double hulled. In the USA any and all current pipelines no matter what they carry need to be triple hulled. That change also has to be included with tanker cars on rails or the highway to prevent spills and damage to the USA lands.
Refitting the current oil infrastructure will increase sustainable employment far beyond that of any promised by the KXL. Gasoline tax increases are far overdue.
Friday, January 02, 2015
Snow in Southern California
December 31, 2014
By Sean Breslin
It might "never rain in Southern California," (click here) as the old Albert Hammond song goes, but it sure can snow.
The snowfall even came down in areas that don't usually see wintry weather at the lower elevations. At 1,400 feet, Lake Elsinore reported six inches of snow to the National Weather Service, and residents were quite surprised to wake up Wednesday to see front yards and palm trees covered in snow....
There is nothing normal about this temperature map. And the water vapor satellite reflects the same oddity.
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The Weather Channel Current Temperature Map
The South Pacific Coast has an average temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
So while there is snow in southern California, the polar air isn't effecting the coastal ocean temperatures.
I saw this temperature change last year along the West Arm of Grand Traverse Bay, Traverse City, Michigan.
The warm very moist air initially caused rain for about 30 minutes or so and then it turned to snow and plenty of it. Out on the bay though, there was a very strange phenomena occurring. The ice had become very thick during the frigid arctic winter, but, with the warm air blowing across the bay the surface ice was melting. It wasn't melting because the water was becoming warm, but, because the air was warm. At the southern tip of the bay the wind was so very cold after crossing the frozen bay a person couldn't turn their face into the wind for concern of frost bite almost immediately. The surface ice was turning to water, but, there were still ice structures poking up through the water. The ice under the water hadn't melted.
Looking at the two USA coastal waters being warm in the Pacific and falling in the Atlantic, it makes sense. The air is cold, but, doesn't effect the Pacific coast waters because it wasn't exposed to it long enough. The Atlantic on the other hand is exposed to the frigid arctic air far longer, hence, changing it temperature on the surface.
Below is the UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of North and West Hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop)
Thursday, January 01, 2015
2014 in Photos by Pete Souza
Thank you, Mr. Souza. I enjoyed the collection. This photo is my favorite, although difficult to choose. It relates his concern for everything I care about. He is unafraid of the warming of Earth. He takes scientists seriously and does not doubt our agencies working diligently to understand the depth of the change to Earth.
I always assign the characteristic of a thinker to my President. This picture relates to me his depth of understanding of issues of importance. It also tells me how alone he can be in knowing the truth and grappling with others that don't abide by it.
It is a great collection, Mr. Souza.
“For the sixth consecutive year, (click here) I'm thrilled to share my annual Year in Photographs. Each photograph, taken either by me or a photographer on my staff, is accompanied by my personal observations about the image. In some instances, there is an interesting backstory to the photograph, which I've included. Most of the moments captured can best be described as behind-the-scenes — that is, photographs taken away from the spotlight of public events. Some of the photographs are historic because of what is taking place, but others hopefully give people a more personal sense of who the President and First Lady are. Editing is a highly subjective — and for me — personal endeavor. I've included a mix of 'moments,' but also some photographs that rely more on graphics, lighting and composition. Some are serious and some are humorous. And of course, some are with babies (since the President loves babies). I hope you enjoy this year's album of photographs.”
Pete Souza, Director and Chief Official White House Photographer
2014: Year in Review (click here)
I always assign the characteristic of a thinker to my President. This picture relates to me his depth of understanding of issues of importance. It also tells me how alone he can be in knowing the truth and grappling with others that don't abide by it.
It is a great collection, Mr. Souza.
“For the sixth consecutive year, (click here) I'm thrilled to share my annual Year in Photographs. Each photograph, taken either by me or a photographer on my staff, is accompanied by my personal observations about the image. In some instances, there is an interesting backstory to the photograph, which I've included. Most of the moments captured can best be described as behind-the-scenes — that is, photographs taken away from the spotlight of public events. Some of the photographs are historic because of what is taking place, but others hopefully give people a more personal sense of who the President and First Lady are. Editing is a highly subjective — and for me — personal endeavor. I've included a mix of 'moments,' but also some photographs that rely more on graphics, lighting and composition. Some are serious and some are humorous. And of course, some are with babies (since the President loves babies). I hope you enjoy this year's album of photographs.”Pete Souza, Director and Chief Official White House Photographer
2014: Year in Review (click here)
The measurements of greenhouse gases in relation to Earth's warming was noted long ago
“The fuel of the future (click here) is going to come from fruit like that sumac out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust – almost anything,” the CEO of the Ford Motor Company told a reporter for the New York Times. “There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented.”
Were those the words of the CEO of Ford today? The New York Times opened it's doors on September 18, 1851. The science of monitoring climate existed at the time of these men and even earlier.
Those words, which capture the sense of excitement and potential surrounding biofuels today, were actually spoken in 1925 by Henry Ford. Nearly a century ago, the Model-T was designed to run on either gasoline or a corn-based fuel called “ethanol”. Even before that, in 1897, Rudolph Diesel demonstrated that his engine could run on peanut oil. Today, following an eight-decade detour in the petroleum age, biofuels are back – fueled by a powerful combination of advancing technologies, rising environmental concerns, farmer support, and soaring oil prices....
Those words, which capture the sense of excitement and potential surrounding biofuels today, were actually spoken in 1925 by Henry Ford. Nearly a century ago, the Model-T was designed to run on either gasoline or a corn-based fuel called “ethanol”. Even before that, in 1897, Rudolph Diesel demonstrated that his engine could run on peanut oil. Today, following an eight-decade detour in the petroleum age, biofuels are back – fueled by a powerful combination of advancing technologies, rising environmental concerns, farmer support, and soaring oil prices....
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison knew each other and collaborated from time to time.
...But a major hoped-for market, motor vehicles, was using gasoline, not electricity. But it was not for want of effort between two titans and dear friends. In 1914, Henry Ford announced a “Ford Electric” that would sell for $900 and have a range of 100 miles (Mom, p. 255). The brainchild of Thomas Edison himself, the concept—described as “Mr. Ford’s personal project” and “experimental” by Ford Motor Company—never got off the ground. The alkaline battery that penetrated the truck market was rejected by car makers because of its size and an incremental cost of between $200 and $600 per vehicle (Mom, pp. 255–56)....
According to The Ford Century, Ford invested $1.5 million (almost $31.5 million today) in the electric-car project and nearly bought 100,000 batteries from Edison before the project fell apart.
(Edison had produced lead-acid batteries when Ford wanted nickel-iron batteries.)
Henry Ford was the first to consider the fact, in order to sell his inventions the average worker needed an income to buy them.
Industrialism's universal sales tool was to sell convenient power. (click here) Power on demand made life easier for the working classes while increasing the clout of the already powerful. Yet even with this universal appeal, every inventor faced monumental setbacks due to the intrinsic resistance to change.
Ford's phenomenal success was largely due to his understanding that the social revolution was more important than the machinery. In many circles, he is given credit for inventing nothing less than modern enlightened capitalism. Ford's big social innovations include:
1) the decision to make his product cheap enough to sell to small farmers;
2) the decision to organize the growth of his company with a minimum of "help" from the financial community;
3) the 8-hour $5 work day based on the economic assumption that worker must be able to buy back production; and
4) the vertical integration of production. Compared with these social contributions to history, Ford's technological decisions to use gasoline for fuel, employ vanadium steel for the model T, or even his decision to use the moving assembly line, pale by comparison.
Social revolutionary though Ford clearly was, even he did not challenge the fundamental assumption of industrialism. In fact, by perfecting the most convenient use of power ever known to mankind, Ford is largely responsible for the energy-environmental crises that solar power must address. This means that in order to succeed as the power for sustainable technology, the solar alternative requires a boost from someone who is even more socially radical than Ford was at his enlightened best.
The strong basis of the USA economy and it's resilience to failure stems from a few things; it has a baseline commerce from it's entitlements when all else fails and it has a strong entrepreneurial small business community across the USA that chugs right along with small changes in it's business model during difficult economies. Basically, it works. Things are not so different today as in the time of Edison and Ford. What worked for an economy then, works today. The Middle Class and problem solving is the USA economy's claim to fame.
Ford and Edison tried. It fell to the lack of sufficient knowledge of materials that exist today. Ford's cars would eventually be modified to consumerism and sales demanded by the social revolution. But, even in the day of invention which fueled the industrial revolution there was the knowledge that burning anything for energy was raising the planet's temperatures.
Most countries in the world have records of their climate dating back at least one hundred years, some countries much longer.
The climate crisis is real and is due to human induced global warming. Those that began the industrial revolution knew energy would have to change to electric batteries eventually. They were responsible people that saw the need, but, was unable to fulfill the dream. But, as inventors they knew nothing is the same forever and as they invented and were attributed with genius; they also knew things would change with every knew improvement. They welcomed the change and the reason to invent again.
September 2014 was the hottest September on record since 1880.
Especially to note is the high temperatures of the tropical rainforest in South America. The heat over Antarctica is off the scale.
The global average temperature (click here) for September 2014 was 0.77°C (1.38°F) above the 1951-1980 historical average for the month, the agency reported Oct. 12 in its monthly Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index, which shows the temperature anomalies for each month of the year going back to 1880.
Earth's natural status is an ice planet.
September 1880 is -20 (planet average)
September 2014 is 81 (planet average)
A change in 101 degrees for the planet average for the month September.
1880 was at the beginning of the industrial revolution. 2014 is 134 years after the beginning of the industrial revolution. This is profound warming for Earth. Documented and factual.
Divide by 100 to get changes in degrees Celsius (deg-C).(click here)
Multiply that result by 1.8(=9/5) to get changes in degrees Fahrenheit (deg-F).
Best estimate for absolute global mean for 1951-1980 is 14.0 deg-C or 57.2 deg-F,
so add that to the temperature change if you want to use an absolute scale
(this note applies to global annual means only, J-D and D-N !)
Example -- Table Value : 40
change : 0.40 deg-C or 0.72 deg-F
abs. scale if global annual mean : 14.40 deg-C or 57.92 deg-F
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
We saw a clear demonstration after the death of two New York City police officers directed at the current Mayor of New York City.
December 30, 2014
By Emily Ngo
The Staten Island (click here) prosecutor at the center of the Eric Garner case said Tuesday he is "very seriously considering" a bid for the congressional seat to be vacated by Rep. Michael Grimm, who pleaded guilty to felony tax evasion.
Daniel M. Donovan Jr. in a statement added that he is "deeply flattered by the enthusiastic expressions of support" he has received in the hours since Grimm announced late Monday that he would resign, effective Jan. 5....
Immediately after the police were killed in NYC the police union president, Patrick Lynch, sent a memo to his members to immediately conduct a work stoppage, except, for emergencies or obvious problems.
December 21, 2014
...“There’s blood on many hands tonight,” (click here) Lynch said Saturday. “Those that incited violence on this street under the guise of protest, that tried to tear down what New York City police officers did everyday.
But, where was the bullet proof glass? Why didn't the police union focus on what was a safety issue rather than playing politics. Politics isn't going to save their lives, but, bullet proof glass would.
December 22, 2014
By Erin Durkin
Members of the Assembly and Senate (click here) on Sunday announced they're drafting a bill to mandate bulletproof glass in police vehicles across the state. All police cars should have bulletproof windows, state pols said Sunday after two cops were murdered in their car in Brooklyn.
Republican Assembly members Jim Tedisco and Nicole Malliotakis and Sens. Marty Golden and Phil Boyle announced in Sunday they're drafting legislation that would mandate bulletproof glass in the windows of squad cars at departments across the state.
The pols say part of the $5.2 billion state surplus should be used to pay for the vehicle upgrades.
"We provide police officers with bulletproof vests to protect them when they are on the streets patrolling. We should give them equal protection when they are in their police cars," said Golden, a retired NYPD officer.....
...“There’s blood on many hands tonight,” (click here) Lynch said Saturday. “Those that incited violence on this street under the guise of protest, that tried to tear down what New York City police officers did everyday.
“We tried to warn it must not go on, it cannot be tolerated. That blood on the hands starts on the steps of city hall in the office of the mayor.”...
Wow. That is a heck of an opening statement following the deaths of two minority police officers.
What do the members of the union expect from their union representatives? Probably, pay, benefits including vacation time, health and life insurance and SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS. Let's think about that for a moment.
Who really is culpable in the deaths of the two police officers? Certainly, we know the gunman and his martyrdom while already have killed his girlfriend in another state and carrying his gun all the way to NYC.What do the members of the union expect from their union representatives? Probably, pay, benefits including vacation time, health and life insurance and SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS. Let's think about that for a moment.
December 22, 2014
By Erin Durkin
Members of the Assembly and Senate (click here) on Sunday announced they're drafting a bill to mandate bulletproof glass in police vehicles across the state. All police cars should have bulletproof windows, state pols said Sunday after two cops were murdered in their car in Brooklyn.
Republican Assembly members Jim Tedisco and Nicole Malliotakis and Sens. Marty Golden and Phil Boyle announced in Sunday they're drafting legislation that would mandate bulletproof glass in the windows of squad cars at departments across the state.
The pols say part of the $5.2 billion state surplus should be used to pay for the vehicle upgrades.
"We provide police officers with bulletproof vests to protect them when they are on the streets patrolling. We should give them equal protection when they are in their police cars," said Golden, a retired NYPD officer.....
No one is a fortune teller to advise a NYPD officer he is facing grave danger today. That reality is all too obvious, especially, after deaths of two very valuable members of that police department. What society has are ways of protection for law enforcement that insure a greater safety, but, never an absolute safety.
State lawmakers came together after the deaths of these officers to pass legislation that would mandate all police cars be fitted with bullet proof glass. There was no political wrangling, no rhetoric or pointing fingers laying blame for the deaths. They realized the folly of having police cars that were vulnerable to gun fire and they sought to make a difference in saving officers' lives.
State lawmakers came together after the deaths of these officers to pass legislation that would mandate all police cars be fitted with bullet proof glass. There was no political wrangling, no rhetoric or pointing fingers laying blame for the deaths. They realized the folly of having police cars that were vulnerable to gun fire and they sought to make a difference in saving officers' lives.
The state legislature did that. The Governor did that. Whether it was at the asking of the New York City Mayor or not is not clear. The police union didn't do that. The president of the police union decided he was going to protect police differently and that also included the aggressive measures seen in NYC by police that have killed young African American men.
The president of the police union is not helping his members, but, causing a greater fear of them when they are doing their jobs. The president of the police union never expressed remedies that would stem any more such losses. There was not a learning moment for the president of the police union, there was inflammatory rhetoric that served no one and actually placed the uniformed police officers in the line of fire between citizens whom are completely unarmed and unable to protect themselves from choking. The president of the police union is not helpful, he is more the problem than anyone is willing to admit.
The president of the police union is not helping his members, but, causing a greater fear of them when they are doing their jobs. The president of the police union never expressed remedies that would stem any more such losses. There was not a learning moment for the president of the police union, there was inflammatory rhetoric that served no one and actually placed the uniformed police officers in the line of fire between citizens whom are completely unarmed and unable to protect themselves from choking. The president of the police union is not helpful, he is more the problem than anyone is willing to admit.
What happened after Scalise pandered for forgiveness?
The right wing media began their racist hate mongering. Oh, they didn't come out and praise Scalise or seek to carry the message of the European White Supremacists. No, no, nothing that clearly racist.
They used their media power to pound away at the House Speaker, a man I fondly call Speaker Boner. He was to be removed from his Speakership as soon as possible for appearing weak in asking Grimm to resign and in not standing up for Scalise.
Scalise is a member of many House Caucus. There is one membership he touts that begins to explain the rant from the Right Wing Media. Along with the Civil Air Patrol, Diary Farmers, Kidney, Cancer and Diabetes Caucus, Mr. Scalise is also a member of the:
Tea Party Caucus (click here)
You know the Tea Party. Sarah Palin and the Koch Brothers, that caucus. Now rightfully, the Tea Party is said to be far more low profiled and less extreme and that is why Mr. Scalise is Third in the line of Republicans in the House in regard to power and organizing the House vote.
So, the right wing media who is deeply in the pockets of Tea Party money came out to pressure the Speaker and his second in command Mr. McCarthy to back Mr. Scalise. Did it work? It sure did.
Boehner, McCarthy Circle the Wagons for Scalise (click here).
The Right Wing Media drew their racist weapons and shot at the feet of the Speaker and the House Majority Whip to seek to end the controversy regarding racism.
Let there be no doubt there is racism in the US Republican Party. It has been there for a long time and it continues to exist within it's ranks at the highest levels in the USA government. This is how it continues and why racism still carries a great deal of power within this country.
Now, about the NYPD.
Continued in the next entry.
They used their media power to pound away at the House Speaker, a man I fondly call Speaker Boner. He was to be removed from his Speakership as soon as possible for appearing weak in asking Grimm to resign and in not standing up for Scalise.
Scalise is a member of many House Caucus. There is one membership he touts that begins to explain the rant from the Right Wing Media. Along with the Civil Air Patrol, Diary Farmers, Kidney, Cancer and Diabetes Caucus, Mr. Scalise is also a member of the:
Tea Party Caucus (click here)
You know the Tea Party. Sarah Palin and the Koch Brothers, that caucus. Now rightfully, the Tea Party is said to be far more low profiled and less extreme and that is why Mr. Scalise is Third in the line of Republicans in the House in regard to power and organizing the House vote.
So, the right wing media who is deeply in the pockets of Tea Party money came out to pressure the Speaker and his second in command Mr. McCarthy to back Mr. Scalise. Did it work? It sure did.
Boehner, McCarthy Circle the Wagons for Scalise (click here).
The Right Wing Media drew their racist weapons and shot at the feet of the Speaker and the House Majority Whip to seek to end the controversy regarding racism.
Let there be no doubt there is racism in the US Republican Party. It has been there for a long time and it continues to exist within it's ranks at the highest levels in the USA government. This is how it continues and why racism still carries a great deal of power within this country.
Now, about the NYPD.
Continued in the next entry.
The display of racism today by the RNC cannot be over looked.
Currently American media CHOOSES to be stenographers with very little analysis. The exception to that is MSNBC, but, even there the analysis was rather weak. This is going to be lengthy. It actually starts in May of 2007.
My mother is 79 years old, is retired to North Carolina and has been a rock solid Democrat all her life. She has seen my father serve in local government and stood by him when he openly outed a man who wanted to bribe him for land use in our community. She is a great woman. She has raised three incredible daughters, all with careers and all that practiced birth control while she still prayed the rosary everyday. She is firm in her morality and it is reflected in her generous smile to everyone she meets. She judges no one. She states, that is God's job, not hers.
On May 2, 2007 my mother sat in front of a television while Barack Obama announced, as did Lincoln, he was running for president. She had seen him speak at the DNC convention and now she had to hear him announce.
May 2, 2007
Currently, Steve Scalise has a passport that may or may not have those stamps of passage into Europe and he is denying any sincere speech to White Supremacists. He had no clue who he was speaking to, but, he flew all the way to Europe to be confused about any racists leanings. Steve Scalise is a liar and his affiliations with racists is now on the record. He is considered someone of notable promise by David Duke. FACT.
So, yesterday evening and today, Steve Scalise has been making statements to roll back the controversy which has also seen the resignation of another GOP House member guilty of criminal charges. What else happened today? Media propaganda twisted to 'fit the reality' happened today. It was one of the major networks that even stated, there is absolutely no record of Scalise having voted in a manner consistent with racism. Really?
December 30, 2014
By Jake Sherman and John Bresnehan
Scalise's votes in the state legislature in Louisiana were extreme even to that state. The opposition vote to both those measures in the State of Louisiana were in the single digits and he was one of them. Does that mean he is a racist? Maybe. But, it tells everyone he is willing to do the work of a racist if he wins with their votes.
Why did David Duke ask him to speak in Europe? Because Scalise had demonstrated his willingness to carry their cause in his power within a legislature.
Continued in next entry.
My mother is 79 years old, is retired to North Carolina and has been a rock solid Democrat all her life. She has seen my father serve in local government and stood by him when he openly outed a man who wanted to bribe him for land use in our community. She is a great woman. She has raised three incredible daughters, all with careers and all that practiced birth control while she still prayed the rosary everyday. She is firm in her morality and it is reflected in her generous smile to everyone she meets. She judges no one. She states, that is God's job, not hers.
On May 2, 2007 my mother sat in front of a television while Barack Obama announced, as did Lincoln, he was running for president. She had seen him speak at the DNC convention and now she had to hear him announce.
May 2, 2007
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama (click here) stood before a cheering crowd in his home state Saturday and announced he will seek the 2008 Democratic nomination for president.
Invoking the memory of fellow Illinoisan and the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, the first-term senator addressed thousands packed into the Springfield, Illinois, town square on a chilly day in America's heartland....
She called me immediately after hearing his announcement and asked if I saw the next President of the USA announce today. I hadn't actually. I said, "No, I haven't seen the next President of the USA announce today, do you want to tell me who that is?"
She stated Senator Barack Obama. I told her he was new to the Senate and he was going to have a tough climb against any other Democratic candidate to win the nomination. Basically, I didn't really disagree, but, I wasn't convinced. However, my mother is rarely wrong. I mean it. When she sets her mind on something it happens. At the time she was 72 years old, my father was still alive and she was energized by his announcement. She stated, "You listen to me, he is going to not only win the Presidency, he is going to win North Carolina." I never said it to her as to not thwart her excitement, but, secretly I thought she really has lost some of her objectivity. Well, history tells the tale. Barack Hussein Obama became President of the USA with the help of North Carolina voters. Amazing.
This call from my mother happened before the global economic collapse. It was at a time when most editorials in the NYTimes were about a housing concern and financial markets. Paulson was in China most of the time. It was a time when the average American didn't have a clue, but, the USA economy was beginning to falter. It was before Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in 2008. That really is rarely discussed. There were many Americans behind Barack Obama for President before there was a major shift in confidence by Republicans and Independents due to the global economic collapse. Realizing that reality, rather than the reality pumped out by Republicans making excuses for the election of Barack Obama is most notable.
I could write about a government that doesn't deal with racism among any of it's representatives, but, that isn't true of the Democratic electorate. If there are any people in this world that are color blind to ethnic differences in skin color it is many average Democrats in the USA. My mother is a prime example of that.
Now.
Realize what happened with the political rise of Mr. Steve Scalise.
December 29, 2014
By Ashley Parker and Alan Rappaport
WASHINGTON — Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, (click here) the No. 3 Republican in the House, addressed a group of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in 2002, a Scalise spokeswoman confirmed Monday as his party prepared to take control of both chambers of Congress.
Mr. Scalise made his remarks to the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, which was founded two years earlier by David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader and Louisiana politician. Mr. Scalise was a Louisiana state legislator at the time.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has described the organization — which uses EURO as an acronym — as a hate group, while noting that in recent years it has “accomplished little” and serves “primarily as a vehicle to publicize Duke’s writing and sell his books.”...
He began his political ambitions at the state level in Louisiana. His ambitions ran far beyond state politics. In 2002, he attended a meeting of White Supremacists. These White Supremacists were not at a local RNC meeting or any other party in Louisiana, this meeting was in Europe. Europe. Mr. Scalise had to get on a jet, quite possibly paid for by the organization that was beginning with this meeting, and he flew a long time to Europe. This wasn't a simple hop to the other end of Louisiana, it was to Europe whereby people have the time to write a speech to deliver at the meeting they were going to attend. Many hours passed and Mr. Scalise did not ask who was sponsoring said meeting. He didn't need a staff to run any vetting process. This was a meeting developed by a long standing Grand Dragon of the KKK, David Duke. Now, let's think about that a minute.
This was a new organization in Europe of White Supremacists. Mr. Scalise was attending this first meeting. Why was he important to David Duke? Why would David Duke go through a great deal of trouble to have Steve Scalise attend an organizational meeting of a European White Supremacist group? Scalise wasn't well known yet, but, here was this American with ambitions to win at the federal level making a speech in Europe. Did David Duke want those Europeans to buy into the idea of a global victory for them? You are damn right he did.
Now, the speech. A politician doesn't go to a meeting without knowing who is hearing his speech. Why? Because he wants to relate to the people at that meeting to leave an impression they won't forget. This wasn't a stump speech for votes, it was in Europe to SPECIAL INTERESTS.
Now.
Realize what happened with the political rise of Mr. Steve Scalise.
December 29, 2014
By Ashley Parker and Alan Rappaport
WASHINGTON — Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, (click here) the No. 3 Republican in the House, addressed a group of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in 2002, a Scalise spokeswoman confirmed Monday as his party prepared to take control of both chambers of Congress.
Mr. Scalise made his remarks to the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, which was founded two years earlier by David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader and Louisiana politician. Mr. Scalise was a Louisiana state legislator at the time.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has described the organization — which uses EURO as an acronym — as a hate group, while noting that in recent years it has “accomplished little” and serves “primarily as a vehicle to publicize Duke’s writing and sell his books.”...
He began his political ambitions at the state level in Louisiana. His ambitions ran far beyond state politics. In 2002, he attended a meeting of White Supremacists. These White Supremacists were not at a local RNC meeting or any other party in Louisiana, this meeting was in Europe. Europe. Mr. Scalise had to get on a jet, quite possibly paid for by the organization that was beginning with this meeting, and he flew a long time to Europe. This wasn't a simple hop to the other end of Louisiana, it was to Europe whereby people have the time to write a speech to deliver at the meeting they were going to attend. Many hours passed and Mr. Scalise did not ask who was sponsoring said meeting. He didn't need a staff to run any vetting process. This was a meeting developed by a long standing Grand Dragon of the KKK, David Duke. Now, let's think about that a minute.
This was a new organization in Europe of White Supremacists. Mr. Scalise was attending this first meeting. Why was he important to David Duke? Why would David Duke go through a great deal of trouble to have Steve Scalise attend an organizational meeting of a European White Supremacist group? Scalise wasn't well known yet, but, here was this American with ambitions to win at the federal level making a speech in Europe. Did David Duke want those Europeans to buy into the idea of a global victory for them? You are damn right he did.
Now, the speech. A politician doesn't go to a meeting without knowing who is hearing his speech. Why? Because he wants to relate to the people at that meeting to leave an impression they won't forget. This wasn't a stump speech for votes, it was in Europe to SPECIAL INTERESTS.
Currently, Steve Scalise has a passport that may or may not have those stamps of passage into Europe and he is denying any sincere speech to White Supremacists. He had no clue who he was speaking to, but, he flew all the way to Europe to be confused about any racists leanings. Steve Scalise is a liar and his affiliations with racists is now on the record. He is considered someone of notable promise by David Duke. FACT.
So, yesterday evening and today, Steve Scalise has been making statements to roll back the controversy which has also seen the resignation of another GOP House member guilty of criminal charges. What else happened today? Media propaganda twisted to 'fit the reality' happened today. It was one of the major networks that even stated, there is absolutely no record of Scalise having voted in a manner consistent with racism. Really?
December 30, 2014
By Jake Sherman and John Bresnehan
...But Scalise’s record in Louisiana (click here) is now being closely reviewed for any signs of racial bias. As a state representative in Baton Rouge, for example, Scalise voted twice against establishing Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a holiday. His congressional leadership office has yet to explain those votes.
And in 1997, Scalise voted against a bill to prohibit hate crimes based on race, class or sexual orientation.
Scalise's votes in the state legislature in Louisiana were extreme even to that state. The opposition vote to both those measures in the State of Louisiana were in the single digits and he was one of them. Does that mean he is a racist? Maybe. But, it tells everyone he is willing to do the work of a racist if he wins with their votes.
Why did David Duke ask him to speak in Europe? Because Scalise had demonstrated his willingness to carry their cause in his power within a legislature.
Continued in next entry.
There is strong evidence that Mr. Scalise has lied and has used race as an election tool.
Any idea racism had worn off is not innocence to the fact it exists as an election tool. His statement acknowledges that in the past being a racist is an uptick to campaign results. The question remains what did he do politically and personally to dispel racism and promote equality?
Even attending a White Supremacist meeting is a violation of the trust any American electorate has placed in their choices. This isn't about the politics of the USA House, Mr. Scalise does not turn 2014 elections from Republican to Democrat; this is about racism and the importance of removing it from our country. Racism has ripples in the real lives of African Americans and the Jewish Community. This is not a minor issue, this is about the USA and it's importance in global dialogues as well.
December 30, 2014
...Far from pleading ignorance about Duke, (click here) Scalise was described by Roll Call in 1999 as saying he “embraces many of the same ‘conservative’ views as Duke, but is far more viable” as a candidate for an open congressional seat.
“The novelty of David Duke has worn off,” said Scalise then. “The voters in this district are smart enough to realize that they need to get behind someone who not only believes in the issues they care about, but also can get elected. Duke has proven that he can’t get elected, and that’s the first and most important thing.” Electability, rather than the odiousness of Duke’s views, seemed to be pre-eminent in Scalise’s mind at the time.
The 2002 EURO event in question also received local coverage, further undercutting any suggestion that Scalise was unaware of the group’s background. An alternative weekly newspaper in New Orleans, The Gambit, wrote in 2002 that a baseball team from Iowa refused to stay at the Best Western where EURO was holding its event, citing the organization’s “controversial views.”...
This information appears not just on the Southern Poverty Law Center, but, on "Hatewatch" (click here) as well. There was very little trace of this anywhere until the outing of him recently. It speaks to the sad covert manner in which hate and racism exists in the USA.
Even attending a White Supremacist meeting is a violation of the trust any American electorate has placed in their choices. This isn't about the politics of the USA House, Mr. Scalise does not turn 2014 elections from Republican to Democrat; this is about racism and the importance of removing it from our country. Racism has ripples in the real lives of African Americans and the Jewish Community. This is not a minor issue, this is about the USA and it's importance in global dialogues as well.
December 30, 2014
...Far from pleading ignorance about Duke, (click here) Scalise was described by Roll Call in 1999 as saying he “embraces many of the same ‘conservative’ views as Duke, but is far more viable” as a candidate for an open congressional seat.
“The novelty of David Duke has worn off,” said Scalise then. “The voters in this district are smart enough to realize that they need to get behind someone who not only believes in the issues they care about, but also can get elected. Duke has proven that he can’t get elected, and that’s the first and most important thing.” Electability, rather than the odiousness of Duke’s views, seemed to be pre-eminent in Scalise’s mind at the time.
The 2002 EURO event in question also received local coverage, further undercutting any suggestion that Scalise was unaware of the group’s background. An alternative weekly newspaper in New Orleans, The Gambit, wrote in 2002 that a baseball team from Iowa refused to stay at the Best Western where EURO was holding its event, citing the organization’s “controversial views.”...
This information appears not just on the Southern Poverty Law Center, but, on "Hatewatch" (click here) as well. There was very little trace of this anywhere until the outing of him recently. It speaks to the sad covert manner in which hate and racism exists in the USA.
Voting rights laws and gerrymandering are discriminatory practices.
Those in power like to provide reassurances to their political donors regarding the outcome of any election. It is called cronyism and it is backed by corrupt discriminatory practices. These practices have to end. No more toying with our democracy.
December 30, 2014
By Jordan Carleo-Evangelist
County lawmakers on Monday (click here) forcefully rejected a proposed settlement to a three-year-old voting rights lawsuit, sending the case back to federal court with an emphatic rebuke of County Executive Dan McCoy.
The settlement would have ended the complex and increasingly costly case alleging racial imbalances in the county's political map by, among other things, establishing a fifth legislative district in which minority voters are a majority.
And while several of the majority Democratic lawmakers said that they support that goal, they blasted McCoy for freezing the legislature out of the settlement process and accused him of overstepping his authority in trying to dictate how the new lines would be drawn.
High on the list of grievances is that the settlement would have prescribed the makeup of the county's redistricting commission, a task legislative leaders said is clearly lawmakers' prerogative.
The vote was 34-3, with even some of the Democratic executive's Republican allies opposing it.
"I think everybody believed that legislative process should be a legislative process," legislature Chairman Shawn Morse, a Cohoes Democrat, said after the vote....
December 27, 2014
By Vanzetta Penn McPherson
In two weeks, (click here) we will begin a 365-day observance of two American milestones and the imperatives that triggered them - imperatives and milestones that no one wants to talk about. On this eve of 2015, 50 years after the Selma-To-Montgomery March and the 60 years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott, it is critical that we plan observances that reflect the serious, revolutionary impact of the Voting Rights Act, the legislative progeny of 1965's mass protests.
Before the VRA was passed, African Americans were systematically and ruthlessly disenfranchised by murders, lynchings, employment terminations, poll taxes, and curious other machinations. It took two constitutional amendments, several Supreme Court decisions, countless lower court decisions, and serial protests during the Civil Rights Movement simply to create a playing field upon which blacks could reasonably expect to participate in the American democracy....
By Vanzetta Penn McPherson
In two weeks, (click here) we will begin a 365-day observance of two American milestones and the imperatives that triggered them - imperatives and milestones that no one wants to talk about. On this eve of 2015, 50 years after the Selma-To-Montgomery March and the 60 years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott, it is critical that we plan observances that reflect the serious, revolutionary impact of the Voting Rights Act, the legislative progeny of 1965's mass protests.
Before the VRA was passed, African Americans were systematically and ruthlessly disenfranchised by murders, lynchings, employment terminations, poll taxes, and curious other machinations. It took two constitutional amendments, several Supreme Court decisions, countless lower court decisions, and serial protests during the Civil Rights Movement simply to create a playing field upon which blacks could reasonably expect to participate in the American democracy....
Stop killing young black men. All the grand juries that have exonerated the murders of these men need to be revisited in prosecution of the deaths.
The practice of exoneration of police through the grand jury process has to end. The unjustified deaths of these men have to be prosecuted. That needs to begin now. Corruption is no excuse for killing.
December 29, 2014
By Dan Whitcom
(Reuters) - An unarmed 25-year-old black man slain (click here) by Los Angeles police officers in August suffered three gunshot wounds, including one to his back, a long-awaited autopsy report into the killing showed on Monday.
December 29, 2014
By Dan Whitcom
(Reuters) - An unarmed 25-year-old black man slain (click here) by Los Angeles police officers in August suffered three gunshot wounds, including one to his back, a long-awaited autopsy report into the killing showed on Monday.
Police have said two officers shot Ezell Ford, described by a family lawyer as mentally challenged, on Aug. 11 after he struggled with one of them and tried to grab the officer's holstered gun.
Ford's death, which came just days after the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, touched off demonstrations outside police headquarters in Los Angeles.
More protests were expected for Monday afternoon following release of the report, which was completed some time ago but kept under wraps by police officials during their investigation into the incident....
Scientists have located patient zero in the recent outbreak of a more virulent Ebola.
The entire circumstance of the people of West Africa is dire. There is simply no quality of life, they have been abandoned to profound poverty with no escaping it.
Recently, the presence of malaria has increased and now out numbers the cases of Ebola. The global community must address areas of permanent poverty and the dangers that await them and the rest of the world. The communities within these lands have been ignored far too long.
December 30, 2014
By David Quamman
The Ebola epidemic of 2014, which has now totaled almost 20,000 cases and at least 7,708 deaths, began quietly in southeastern Guinea slightly more than a year ago. News of the outbreak reached the wider world last March, and within weeks Leendertz assembled a multidisciplinary team that included ecologists and veterinarians, plus an anthropologist to interview local people, and traveled to the affected area, near the borders of Liberia and Ivory Coast.
Surveying wildlife in forests there, the scientists found no evidence of a die-off among larger animals, such as duikers, monkeys, and chimpanzees, that are also susceptible to Ebola. This suggested that perhaps the virus had spilled over directly from its reservoir host into humans, without passing through other animals hunted or scavenged for food....
How impoverished are these people? They use bat meat in their diets. In the past it has been the ingestion of these bats that have caused the outbreak. The past is the past and the isolation of the virus is no longer a practice to protect the world. The fact remains these people are the victim to fear and lack of resources to combat the virus. These people need a great deal of help in removing the living conditions they have come to know.
The journal currently publishing the article identifying the bat responsible for this more virulent strain of virus has strong proof of the extent to which these viruses can destroy human life.
Article first published online: 26 MAR 2009
...the discovery of the filoviruses, (click here) Marburg virus (MARV) and Ebola virus (EBOV) in 1967 and 1976 respectively, refuelled the fear that viruses of this family Filoviridae could, similar to smallpox virus, sweep around the globe in a matter of weeks, and kill millions of people. That fear provided the incentive for several countries to establish an infrastructure for studies aiming at the development of intervention strategies for such highly pathogenic (category 4) microorganisms. However, rather than witnessing such a pandemic filovirus outbreak, the world was instead confronted in the early 1980s with the more insidious pandemic viral outbreak of AIDS, caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Although AIDS was identified only two and a half decades ago, the HIV pandemic belongs to the most devastating plagues in human history. Nevertheless, the high fatality rate of filovirus infections, the potential of filoviruses as bioterrorist agents and the high media attention for outbreaks caused by viruses of this family, have further increased the fear for outbreaks caused by these viruses. Furthermore, the increasing number of newly emerging and re-emerging virus infections in humans and animals in the past decades, as well as the general perception that the global capacity and infrastructure to adequately respond to such threats are insufficient, had had a negative impact on public confidence in our overall preparedness to combat such challenges. Obviously, the most important question in this regard is whether filoviruses do indeed pose a global threat and whether they may be the cause of future pandemics.
It is in the best interest of every country on Earth to improve the quality of life of the people of West Africa. There should be no delay.
How impoverished are these people? They use bat meat in their diets. In the past it has been the ingestion of these bats that have caused the outbreak. The past is the past and the isolation of the virus is no longer a practice to protect the world. The fact remains these people are the victim to fear and lack of resources to combat the virus. These people need a great deal of help in removing the living conditions they have come to know.The journal currently publishing the article identifying the bat responsible for this more virulent strain of virus has strong proof of the extent to which these viruses can destroy human life.
EMBO Molecular Medicine
Volume 1, Issue 1, pages 10–18, April 2009
...the discovery of the filoviruses, (click here) Marburg virus (MARV) and Ebola virus (EBOV) in 1967 and 1976 respectively, refuelled the fear that viruses of this family Filoviridae could, similar to smallpox virus, sweep around the globe in a matter of weeks, and kill millions of people. That fear provided the incentive for several countries to establish an infrastructure for studies aiming at the development of intervention strategies for such highly pathogenic (category 4) microorganisms. However, rather than witnessing such a pandemic filovirus outbreak, the world was instead confronted in the early 1980s with the more insidious pandemic viral outbreak of AIDS, caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Although AIDS was identified only two and a half decades ago, the HIV pandemic belongs to the most devastating plagues in human history. Nevertheless, the high fatality rate of filovirus infections, the potential of filoviruses as bioterrorist agents and the high media attention for outbreaks caused by viruses of this family, have further increased the fear for outbreaks caused by these viruses. Furthermore, the increasing number of newly emerging and re-emerging virus infections in humans and animals in the past decades, as well as the general perception that the global capacity and infrastructure to adequately respond to such threats are insufficient, had had a negative impact on public confidence in our overall preparedness to combat such challenges. Obviously, the most important question in this regard is whether filoviruses do indeed pose a global threat and whether they may be the cause of future pandemics.
It is in the best interest of every country on Earth to improve the quality of life of the people of West Africa. There should be no delay.
NYPD is staging a work stoppage. This is the unmitigated intimidation police unions carry.
There needs to be an order for the police to return to work or given permanent unpaid leave. Eric Garner's death means nothing, just all in a day's work. This is an over reach by the police union in NYC. Police safety is an issue, but, also at issue is the deaths of unarmed New Yorkers.
December 29, 2014
By Larry Celona, Shawn Cohen and Bruce Golding
December 29, 2014
By Larry Celona, Shawn Cohen and Bruce Golding
NYPD traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped off by a staggering 94 percent following the execution of two cops — as officers feel betrayed by the mayor and fear for their safety, The Post has learned.
The dramatic drop comes as Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio plan to hold an emergency summit on Tuesday with the heads of the five police unions to try to close the widening rift between cops and the administration.
The unprecedented meeting is being held at the new Police Academy in Queens at 2 p.m., sources said.
Angry union leaders have ordered drastic measures for their members since the Dec. 20 assassination of two NYPD cops in a patrol car, including that two units respond to every call....
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