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Obfuscation. Attack the messenger, instead of the message.
Change the topic matter, dissuade the issue into something that it is not.
Command & Control tactics:
“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
John Paul Stevens: It’s Time to Repeal the Second Amendment
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens called for the repeal of the Second Amendment in a New York Times op-ed published Tuesday. Stevens, who served on the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010, called the Second Amendment “a relic of the 18th century” that saw a lifting in its previously limited reach in 2008’s District of Columbia v. Heller decision. He said that case’s ruling “provided the [National Rifle Association] with a propaganda weapon of immense power,” and that overturning the Second Amendment “would be simple and would do more to weaken the NRA’s ability to stymie legislative debate and block constructive gun-control legislation than any other available option.” Stevens, now 97, also called for the March for Our Lives leaders to demand the amendment’s repeal, and claimed it “would move Saturday’s marchers closer to their objective than any other possible reform.” In an 2014 op-ed in The Washington Post, Stevens called for the courts to clarify the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms existed “in the Militia.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/retired-supreme-court-justice-john-paul-stevens-repeal-the-second-amendment
John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment
Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of schoolchildren and others in our society.
That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.
Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.
For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation. In 1939 the Supreme Court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a sawed-off shotgun because that weapon had no reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a “well regulated militia.”
During the years when Warren Burger was our chief justice, from 1969 to 1986, no judge, federal or state, as far as I am aware, expressed any doubt as to the limited coverage of that amendment. When organizations like the National Rifle Association disagreed with that position and began their campaign claiming that federal regulation of firearms curtailed Second Amendment rights, Chief Justice Burger publicly characterized the N.R.A. as perpetrating “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
In 2008, the Supreme Court overturned Chief Justice Burger’s and others’ long-settled understanding of the Second Amendment’s limited reach by ruling, in District of Columbia v. Heller, that there was an individual right to bear arms. I was among the four dissenters.
That decision — which I remain convinced was wrong and certainly was debatable — has provided the N.R.A. with a propaganda weapon of immense power.
John Paul Stevens: It’s Time to Repeal the Second Amendment
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens called for the repeal of the Second Amendment in a New York Times op-ed published Tuesday. Stevens, who served on the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010, called the Second Amendment “a relic of the 18th century” that saw a lifting in its previously limited reach in 2008’s District of Columbia v. Heller decision. He said that case’s ruling “provided the [National Rifle Association] with a propaganda weapon of immense power,” and that overturning the Second Amendment “would be simple and would do more to weaken the NRA’s ability to stymie legislative debate and block constructive gun-control legislation than any other available option.” Stevens, now 97, also called for the March for Our Lives leaders to demand the amendment’s repeal, and claimed it “would move Saturday’s marchers closer to their objective than any other possible reform.” In an 2014 op-ed in The Washington Post, Stevens called for the courts to clarify the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms existed “in the Militia.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/retired-supreme-court-justice-john-paul-stevens-repeal-the-second-amendment
John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment
Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of schoolchildren and others in our society.
That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.
Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.
For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation. In 1939 the Supreme Court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a sawed-off shotgun because that weapon had no reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a “well regulated militia.”
During the years when Warren Burger was our chief justice, from 1969 to 1986, no judge, federal or state, as far as I am aware, expressed any doubt as to the limited coverage of that amendment. When organizations like the National Rifle Association disagreed with that position and began their campaign claiming that federal regulation of firearms curtailed Second Amendment rights, Chief Justice Burger publicly characterized the N.R.A. as perpetrating “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
In 2008, the Supreme Court overturned Chief Justice Burger’s and others’ long-settled understanding of the Second Amendment’s limited reach by ruling, in District of Columbia v. Heller, that there was an individual right to bear arms. I was among the four dissenters.
That decision — which I remain convinced was wrong and certainly was debatable — has provided the N.R.A. with a propaganda weapon of immense power.
Buy volume 1,440,000 all .001 and above. Volume before price, trips are toast. You want in, you have have to pay double Z's
Come on now Paulie, we all know which member you are in support of here.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/MarchForOurLives?src=hash
Come on, it's just a couple of kids, nothing to see here..
https://twitter.com/hashtag/MarchForOurLives?src=tren
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/this-is-what-the-march-for-our-lives-looked-like-from-space_us_5ab6ae5de4b008c9e5f7dbe4
March for our Lives protests planned for 800 places across the world
Demonstrators in Washington, London, Tokyo and elsewhere will demand US Congress pass sweeping change on gun control
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/24/march-for-our-lives-2018-where-cities-us-protests-planned?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=268827&subid=14675834&CMP=GT_US_collection
Joe Biden surprises at Delaware rally
4:45 p.m.
Former Vice President Joe Biden surprised protesters in his home state of Delaware during Saturday's nationwide protests against gun violence.
"Folks, too many people are dying," Biden said in Wilmington. "Too many children are being hurt. But here's the deal, you guys, you talk about how you're going to change things. You are going to change things."
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/380084-live-coverage-students-march-for-gun-control?userid=63200
Good point Seminole Red, No.1 The USACE is a Federal Agency of the US Government, as it's own separate but permanent branch, under the DOD umbrella. It contracts out, and works with all kinds of civilian contractors for civil works projects. Much like the Military Sealift Command, {it is mostly a civilian run organization, serving the US Military} but with one small caveat, it is fully funded by the US Government, although some of their projects may be funded in conjunction with other Federal, State and local agencies.
I don't think most people actually know just what the USACE does,this is from 2013, allocated in Millions of dollars.
The USACE works with the Military all the time.
The President is the "Commander In Chief", and the top of the chain of command in the US Military.
He sets policy agenda and strategic objectives.
This is the real estate FUDS - {Formally used defense} sites under the purview of the DOD. Look @ all the red dots all along the border. Now do you think that it's a stretch of anyone's imagination that these properties could all be connected somehow in providing security for our nation?
Connect the dots, you cannot refute that our open borders have greatly contributed to all kinds of illegal activities across it, for many years now. Sure you can fly it, you can ship it, you can drive it, but our open borders are a glaring national security opportunity for anyone wanting to smuggle themselves, or anything else into this country unhindered. If that isn't a national security concern, I don't know what is.
Quite frankly the way he fell on his sword for the good of the party, instead of his own reality, increased his popularity as a Senator.
He stepped off, while calling for an investigation into himself, which kind of threw everybody for a loop.
His reputation is that he owned up to what he did, and took the hit for his behavior.
He shot himself in the foot, but he's walking better now than he ever did.
We're all looking at the political landscape and saying, yeah he was a serial ass grabber, but he was one hell of a Senator for a comedian.
I think Minnesota would vote him back into office with a coke and a smile, while saying privately.. Please don't violate our trust and turn into an Anthony whiner, with your cheese falling off the cracker.
On a side note,Joe Biden is totally pissed right the f**k off, if there is any country to take over from, Joe is a shoe in over anyone on the planet.
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Noam Chomsky on the Populist Groundswell, U.S. Elections, the Future of Humanity, and More
By Lynn Parramore
LP: Finally, as you look ahead, what do you consider to be the biggest threats to human beings in the future? What should we be most concerned about?
NC:Climate change and nuclear war. These are really existential threats. And what’s happening now is just astonishing. If media were functioning seriously, every day the lead headline would be this amazing fact—that in the entire world, every country is trying or committed to doing at least something. One country—one!—the most powerful country in history—is committed to trying to destroy the climate. Not just pulling out of the efforts of others, but maximizing the use of the most destructive means.
"There’s been nothing like this in history. It’s kind of an outrageous statement, but it happens to be true, that the Republican Party is the most dangerous organization in human history. Nobody, not even the Nazis, was dedicated to destroying the possibility of organized human life. It’s just missing from the media. In fact, if you read, say, the sensible business press, the Financial Times, Businessweek, any of them, when they talk about fossil fuel production, the articles are all just about the prospect for profit. Is the U.S. moving to number one and what are the gains? Not that it’s going to wipe out organized human life. Maybe that’s a footnote somewhere. It’s pretty astonishing".
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/noam-chomsky-on-the-populist-groundswell-u-s-elections-the-future-of-humanity-and-more
Al Franken breaks social media silence to reveal he asked FBI to investigate Jeff Sessions’ Russia falsehoods
Former Sen. Al Franken on Friday broke a month-long silence on social media to reveal that he and his former colleague, Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT), were the two lawmakers who asked the FBI to investigate Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ repeated false statements under oath about his interactions with Russia.
Writing on Facebook, Franken discusses the multiple false statements and omissions that Sessions gave during testimony before the Senate about his knowledge of the Trump campaign’s efforts to contact Russian government officials.
He then reveals that he and Leahy were so concerned with Sessions’ pattern of making false statements that they asked the FBI to look into the attorney general to see if he had perjured himself.
“Nearly one year "Before" Attorney General Sessions fired Andrew McCabe… Mr. McCabe oversaw an investigation into whether Attorney General Sessions… lacked candor when he repeatedly misrepresented his contacts with Russians when testifying before Congress,” he writes.
“That investigation was opened after my former colleague, Senator Pat Leahy, and I wrote to the FBI last year and requested that the Bureau examine the attorney general’s false statements.”
Franken then said he felt disturbed by the fact that Sessions decided to fire McCabe even though McCabe had launched an investigation against him.
This Land is Your Land
Trees older than America: a primeval Alaskan forest is at risk in the Trump era
Tongass is the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, with trees more than 1,000 years old. But a pro-logging effort could uproot them.
by Brendan Jones in Sitka, Alaska
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/22/alaska-tongass-forest-at-risk-logging-trump
"Under the Trump administration, the future of these ancient trees is uncertain. The Alaskan senator Lisa Murkowski is pushing for more old-growth logging, and has sought to attach pro-logging provisions to the omnibus bill on US government spending that is being negotiated this week in Congress. If such efforts are successful, the country stands at risk of losing some of its last remaining coniferous old growth in order to sustain south-east Alaska’s last industrial-scale sawmill".
MM's don't need a reason, their very existence is to be a PITA.
Of the six Market Makers on this stock, NITE is handling 65.77% of the shares traded for the month of February 2018.
Since November of 2017 NITE has consistently handled over 50% of the shares traded with increasing percentages since then.
>> Just punch in ASFX and hit November, December 2017 then January, February 2018, and look to the right for the rising percentage rates beginning with November 2017.
http://otce.finra.org/MonthlyShareVolume
Follow the $money, all roads lead to the $bank.
Yeah, I agree he should just fire Bob Mueller and all those 15 do nothing attorneys.
I mean come on, it worked for Nixon.
We really need to get with the program here, and move things along.
Time is running short, we need to make America Great Again!
I know, and he totally agrees with himself too.
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“Special Council is told to find crimes, whether a crime exists or not. I was opposed to the selection of Mueller to be Special Council. I am still opposed to it. "I think President Trump was right when he said there never should have been a Special Council appointed because".....
4:29 AM - 21 Mar 2018
“Special Council is told to find crimes, whether a crime exists or not. I was opposed to the selection of Mueller to be Special Council. I am still opposed to it. I think President Trump was right when he said there never should have been a Special Council appointed because.....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 21, 2018
Solutions Only Arise Outside the Status Quo
3. "When faced with fiscal crises, central states/banks inevitably succumb to the temptation to print/borrow currency in whatever sums are needed to fill the shortfall of the moment. This profligate creation of currency seems to be magic at first; everyone accepts the “new money” at the current value. But eventually gravity takes hold and the currency’s purchasing power declines, as the real economy (the production of goods and services) grows at rates far below the expansion of currency.
Even the greatest empires in human history have been unable to resist the “easy” solution of devaluing currency as the means of fulfilling all the promises that were made in less trying and more prosperous times".
http://washingtonsblog.com/2018/03/solutions-only-arise-outside-the-status-quo.html
The judge in a federal climate change lawsuit wants a science tutorial
Here are answers to eight questions the judge wants to address during his climate crash course.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/3/20/17129354/climate-change-lawsuit-tutorial-alsup
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters says he's 'ashamed' of Fox News and leaves his role as analyst
http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-peters-fox-20180320-story.html
"When prime-time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of 'deep-state' machinations — I cannot be part of the same organization, even at a remove," Peters wrote. "To me, Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit."
The Illinois GOP Just Realized It Made a Very Big Mistake
Republicans just nominated a Holocaust denier to run for Congress.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/the-illinois-gop-just-realized-it-made-a-very-big-mistake/
Neo-Nazi Arthur Jones wins Republican nomination for Illinois congressional seat
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/21/neo-nazi-wins-republican-nomination-for-illinois-congressional-seat-.html
I think you could run Micky Mouse against this guy and he would win hands down.
It looks like the GOP is committing ritual Seppuku.
Good Point-
Citizens United v. FEC
LoL, be careful what you ask for. You would think that the US Supreme court would just choose not to hear the case and kick it back down to the lower court ruling on the matter.
But...it was the US Supreme Court not too long ago, that gutted the voting rights act that ushered in a ton of voting irregularities.
Maybe Kobach is banking on their support yet again.
If it comes to that, He may just get it.
But here's the catch, Congress has the authority to regulate the US Supreme court.
Not going to get into a pissing law context argument here with regard to the three branches of Government.
Suffice it to say that Congress has been sitting on their backsides for a long time. They have been letting the US Supreme Court run rough shot gutting, or mitigating some of our most venerated laws for the protection of our democracy.
Checks and balances
Congressperson Lee Hamilton explained about how Congress functions within American government:
To me the key to understanding it is balance. The founders went to great lengths to balance institutions against each other––balancing powers among the three branches: Congress, the president, and the Supreme Court; between the House of Representatives and the Senate; between the federal government and the states; among states of different sizes and regions with different interests; between the powers of government and the rights of citizens, as spelled out in the Bill of Rights ... no one part of government dominates the other.[1]
"The Constitution provides checks and balances among the three branches of the federal government. The authors of the Constitution expected the greater power to lie with Congress as described in Article One".[1][2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Congress_in_relation_to_the_president_and_Supreme_Court
That's a good first step Susie, we definitely need accountable elections that can have a verifiable non-electronic recount mechanism IE: Paper Ballots.
I think any real lasting change will first start with the states.
All of a Sudden, Voting Rights Are Expanding Across the Country
Washington state is leading the pushback against national moves to curtail ballot access.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/all-of-a-sudden-voting-rights-are-expanding-across-the-country/
And of course we can't say it enough, this clown school idiot that got off the short bus from Kansas, definitely does not need to repeat the disaster that is "Crosscheck" on a national level.
Kris Kobach Just Got Humiliated in Federal Court
The Kansas secretary of state wanted to prove his claims of widespread voter fraud. Instead, he was repeatedly embarrassed.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/kris-kobach-just-got-humiliated-in-federal-court/
And of course posting anything about what is the colossal failure and most definitely voter suppression IE: "Interstate Crosscheck" would be remiss without Greg Palast
Trump’s Alien Voter Claim Goes To Court
Kobach Rule That Blocks 1 in 7 New Voters
Could Decide 2018 & 2020 Races
http://www.gregpalast.com/trumps-alien-voter-claim-goes-court-kobach-rule-blocks-1-7-new-voters-decide-2018-2020-races/
Cambridge Analytica Ain’t Nuthin:
Look Out For i360 and DataTrust
http://www.gregpalast.com/cambridge-analytica-aint-nuthin-look-i360-datatrust/
This is what President Trump is focused on as far as tariffs are concerned, and rightly so. Dumping by China's state run banks supported commodities on the market, has been going on unchecked for years.
China’s New Central Banker Is Just as Important as the Fed’s
By ESWAR PRASADMARCH 19, 2018
Yi Gang, who has just been named the new head of the People’s Bank of China. Credit Fred Dufour/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The recent appointment of Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve was the subject of intense scrutiny. After all, the Fed’s every action reverberates in international financial markets. The announcement on Monday of Yi Gang as the new governor of the People’s Bank of China, China’s central bank, received somewhat less notice.
The world should pay more attention. This choice is as important as any Fed nomination. It isn’t simply that China is the world’s second-largest economy, a crucial market for everything from American aircraft and soybeans to German cars. Its monetary and financial policies affect the whole world.
The central bank’s previous governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, engineered significant reforms. He freed up banks to set deposit and loan rates based on market conditions rather than by decree and also allowed capital to start moving more freely into and out of China. After a 15-year tenure, Mr. Zhou is turning over the keys to China’s economy to Mr. Yi, his trusted deputy, and leaving him with a great deal of unfinished business.
Unlike the Fed, China’s central bank is not independent. Major policy decisions are made by an elite government committee, and China’s president has to sign off on them. But President Xi Jinping came to trust the central bank under Mr. Zhou’s leadership and has given it a lot of leeway in setting and carrying out policies in key areas of the economy.
The People’s Bank of China sets short-term interest rates (like the Fed) and tries to control bank lending to support growth while keeping inflation low. It also determines how freely the Chinese currency’s exchange rate can move and manages restrictions on the flow of money in and out of China. Last week, the government increased the central bank’s oversight responsibilities, putting it in charge of drafting key banking regulations.
What Mr. Yi will do with all this power matters for the whole world.
China’s mostly state-owned banking system is burdened with bad loans to state-owned enterprises, many of which are unprofitable, and the pet projects of powerful provincial leaders. Mr. Yi must push these banks to clean up their books. Otherwise, depositors might eventually lose confidence and pull out their savings. China’s banks manage investments and make loans in many other countries, so turbulence in those banks could infect financial markets worldwide.
And if China’s banks falter, that could set off a sharp drop in growth because China would no longer be able to rely on debt-fueled spending to keep its economy growing. If China’s growth slows, Chinese consumers and companies would import less, and the government would then try to increase exports to resuscitate growth — exactly the opposite of what the United States and most other countries want. That could set back economic recovery for the rest of the world, depress international prices of commodities and other goods, and escalate trade tensions.
Mr. Yi must come up with a policy that changes the incentives for banks. As long as loans to state-owned enterprises are guaranteed by the government, banks will keep making them. Mr. Yi can’t end that policy on his own, but he can tell bankers that they can recognize bad loans on their books without worrying so much about keeping their unprofitable state-sponsored clients afloat. And he can encourage them to focus instead on lending to private firms at the higher interest rates that they are now allowed to charge.
Xlent repost basserdan, bottom line is we have been consistently spending more than what we have every year, and backing up bond securities with the full faith and credit of the United States of America.
All administrations and Congress have been doing it since the 60's, inside, and to our own Government functions, thus to the people of our country. Case in point, "Special" government bond issues to the social security system even passing law to justify it.
Totally raping the "TRUST" fund saying that the trust fund cannot operate with a surplus, thus forcing it to operate with only the money it needs to operate for the fiscal year. The rest of the money goes to the general fund, for whatever Congress wants to spend it on.
That's been happening for decades now, but now with all the baby boomers retiring the money being collected is not sufficient enough to pay for it's operation. Now the trust fund becomes a liability to the general fund. And instead of being a cash cow, it's now referred to as an entitlement.
*["Not" something citizens have been paying into for their entire working lives as an investment into their financial future].
That's just one glaring example of a totally dysfunctional Government that has not been working to sustain itself with a view to the long term viability of itself. But with a short term view, with no fiscal constraints, eating itself alive from within.
Fact is we live "Not" in a proactive society, but in a reactive one.
There is no thought for tomorrow, concerning the financial security of our country.
We are headed for a financial reckoning full bore, with no apparent constraints in place whatsoever to prevent it, or at the very least to mitigate it's consequences.
Xlent article, Bill Holter gets it.
https://www.milesfranklin.com/mope-the-government-will-never-let-it-happen/
Warnings of 'Civilization-Threatening Disaster' as John Bolton Tops List of McMaster Replacements.
"If John Bolton is in, well, if you liked the Iraq War, you’re gonna love the Iran and Korean ones."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/03/16/warnings-civilization-threatening-disaster-john-bolton-tops-list-mcmaster
Well, he was just saying how proud he is of his Generals, and if you are on the other side of a Marine, you better watch out.
Mueller is a Marine.
I thought Maria Bartiromo was a shoe in.
http://www.foxnews.com/shows/sunday-morning-futures.html
So, where are they going to put John Bolton?
I'm thinking personal emissary to the president carrying the Nuclear football when they go to North Korea.
Oh'Mueller is so.. on the shit list. This is where Mr.T fires the man for cause, or fires Jeffy for not doing it already.
Bob has to slow his roll, he's making Ken Starr look bad.
Pedestrian bridge collapses near Florida International University
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/live-coverage-mass-causalities-reported-pedestrian-bridge-collapses-near-florida-international-university/
Building the UniversityCity Bridge Up To 12-14-2017
Trump’s new economic adviser is really bad at economics. Here are the receipts.
Larry Kudlow has made some astoundingly bad predictions, even for a CNBC pundit.
https://thinkprogress.org/larry-kudlow-bad-economic-predictions-f02ebf47c918/
Trump Reaches Deep Into The Bench, Grabs Larry Kudlow From The 80s For NEC Chair
https://heisenbergreport.com/2018/03/14/trump-reaches-deep-into-the-bench-grabs-larry-kudlow-from-the-80s-for-nec-chair/
Everything will be just fine... relax.
Here's What the EPA's Website Looks Like After a Year of Climate Change Censorship
http://time.com/5075265/epa-website-climate-change-censorship/
“There is no more significant threat than climate change and it isn’t just happening to people in far off countries – it’s happening to us,” Gina McCarthy, the EPA administrator under President Obama tells TIME.
“Censoring scientific data doesn’t make its threats any less real, it hides the problem from the American people so the Trump administration can wage a dangerous assault on public health safeguards that protect all Americans. It is beyond comprehension that they would ever purposely limit and remove access to information that communities need to save lives and property.”
It's been my opinion for quite some time now that the MM's are desperate for shares, and they have been giving out next to nothing on the ask, and then bumping it ^up^ [most of the time by .0002], while lowering the amount offered.
Look at the chart, if you didn't know any better you would think that there is a massive selloff...lol
The Market Makers are trying to induce a selloff, so they can pick up shares on the cheap, and / or cover a short they have developed by selling shares they do not have, which is entirely plausible.
According to REG SHO OTC FINRA, all of yesterdays volume was shorted:
20180308|ASFX|2098000|0|2098000|O
http://regsho.finra.org/FORFshvol20180308.txt
To belay any argument, I know the difference between short volume, and short interest.
Just saying-
Alan Keyes when he was running for president I thought was a pretty sane and thoughtful individual, but in this article he's got everything all twisted into a knot to try to infer or read or instill something that was not intended and not in existence in the day.
"So, the Second Amendment is about fulfilling an obligation to God, which give rises to an exercise of right, right, the fulfillment of which is necessary to maintain the free State in which people live. What’s particularly arresting is that this necessity calls for “a well-regulated militia”, i.e., some arrangement of rules for the organization and training of people, not part of the regular armed force, to participate in the defense of their community against an armed threat".
This totally off base and tripped off the line. He's trying to read something into it, that just isn't there.
List of United States militia units in the American Revolutionary War
http://military.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_United_States_militia_units_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War
The "Militia" was the standing military of the day made up of the states to fight the tyranny enforced on us by another country. It absolutely had nothing to do with fighting or maintaining some fighting force against our own country by it's people. Absolutely nothing to do with that whatsoever.
The Militia was all we had to fight with, that was it, we had nothing else. There was no Army, Air force, Navy, Marines or Coast guard, none of that was in existence.
The "Militia" was the only game in town to fight "FOR" the Government, not against them.
This whole idea of freedom was to fight as a whole, all the states combined into a "Militia" against a foreign entity that was trying to take over lands and it's people.
The standing "Militia" was the Military of it's day, made up of the people of the states to fight as a whole unit to defend the country.
To unite the people, and take up arms to fight for our country, not against it.
This whole twisted analogy that Mr Keyes [Who I think is an intelligent man] has constructed to define a standing "Militia" into something that it was not is total and complete hogwash.
I know why he wrote it, to try and justify the arming of the citizens of this country with military weapons, against an armed threat.
That's why we have law enforcement in this country to protect us, not for us to fight against them.
"But it coincides with the elitist faction agenda to distract from and denigrate the role the Constitution envisages for the people themselves when it comes to the security of the free communities in which they live. We don’t need gun control. What we need is a Constitutional Militia Act, providing for the well-regulated militia the Constitution demands. If President Trump were half the visionary leader his boisterous supporters wish him to be, he would make such legislation a top priority. After all, national security means nothing if it does not extend to the communities (including schools, malls, office buildings, etc.) in which we learn, work and otherwise conduct our affairs. It also means nothing if the nation (i.e., the people themselves) are not the matter and the means that make it a reality".
Haaaaa Lolol.... We already have a well regulated 'Militia' that our taxes pay for dearly, it's called the Department of Defense.
Mr Keyes you really do need to upgrade into the Twenty first century and stop trying to redefine the past into something which it is not.
Mariner*
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The Declaration of Independence
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke and the Continental philosophers. What Jefferson did was to summarize this philosophy in "self-evident truths" and set forth a list of grievances against the King in order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country. We invite you to read a transcription of the complete text of the Declaration.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
Column 1 Georgia: Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton
Column 2 North Carolina: William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton
Column 3 Massachusetts: John Hancock Maryland: Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton
Column 4 Pennsylvania: Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas McKean
Column 5 New York: William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris New Jersey: Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark
Column 6 New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Massachusetts: Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins William Ellery Connecticut: Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott New Hampshire: Matthew Thornton
https://www.military.com/independence-day/the-declaration-independence.html
I don't like anti-gun bullchitt being considered at all; if it anti-gun it is anti-freedom, even when discussed in views of the positive. We must remain hyper-vigilant when it comes to anti's constant onslaught of a game of which ends in our disarmament.
I guess you need to change the I-Box then Gary to a more exclusionist board then, one that only allows a segmented view of reality, and only entertains posts that are supportive of a certain narrative.
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We've been all through this before right Gary?
Throughout history laws have been changed and augmented to the changing of the times. Alcohol, Marijuana, Speed restrictions, Abortion laws, Civil rights, Voting rights, Environmental laws ect... the list is long and ever changing, right?
So why all the hullabaloo about even carrying on a conversation about laws that were enacted during the founding of our country when muskets were the lethal weapons of the day?
A lot has changed since then right Gary?
I know, I know... change just one thing with regards to guns laws to update them with the changing times and then government is going to take away all your guns is a totally ludicrous analogy of the reality of the judicial procedure.
Basically it just is cemented into the fear of change and progress allowing for all citizens to have a voice in laws that affect all of us, and not just a chosen few. Right Gary?
I mean come on, this entire issue does not exist in a vacuum.
Not allowing for free speech to even occur on the topic matter is to stymie the entire concept of a free and open society that our founding fathers fought and died to protect.
Wouldn't you agree with that Sir?
Mariner*
That 10k hit was for .00096 4 tenths under .001, looks like a partial fill on a bid order under the ask?
American Scientific Resources ASFX
AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC RESOURCES, INC. F12000000983 CROSS RF
Title President, Director
FABER, ROBERT
1200 N. Federal Highway
Suite 200
BOCA RATON, FL 33432
03/02/2018
http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=AMERICANSCIENTIFICRESOURCES%20F120000009830&aggregateId=forp-f12000000983-2dd5fb59-ae0a-424b-bbda-ad5e441dae66&searchTerm=%20American%20Scientific%20Resources%20&listNameOrder=AMERICANSCIENTIFICRESOURCES%20F110000027670
http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/GetDocument?aggregateId=forp-f12000000983-2dd5fb59-ae0a-424b-bbda-ad5e441dae66&transactionId=f12000000983-36ac7ade-794a-4928-a89a-c8807301172e&formatType=PDF
So are they going to clean it up, do all the back filings and do a symbol / name change to: BROOKLANDS, INC.???
Streett I think the reason that they didn't switch to a Chapter 11 - Bankruptcy and just stay with the Chapter 7 - Bankruptcy are immense.
1st off a Chapter 11 gives the creditors a chance to recoup some of their losses going forward, a chapter 7 does not.
With a chapter 7 you take what you can get and that's it.
After the BK case is closed, creditors have no rights to any further claims going forward whatsoever, none, nadda, zip.
The company albeit a shell, is absolutely sanitized from all debtors, and has a clean slate once emerged from Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
This chapter of the Bankruptcy Code provides for "liquidation" - the sale of a debtor's nonexempt property and the distribution of the proceeds to creditors.
Shareholders are exempt property, because we are not owned by the company. We cannot be bought and sold like physical property.
[Although, we can be considered an asset for other considerations like selling the shell in a reverse merger], legally the company cannot relinquish property that is doesn't own.
This is why the "Company" after the judge closes the case file, which they are about to do, will be valuable to a reverse merger candidate because they will be purchasing a shell that has absolutely no liabilities or carry overs to the private company wishing to go public.
At an extreme discount to an IPO I might add, that runs up over a million dollars.
Which is why shareholders that have been sitting here for years, are about to be rewarded for their patience. Imo.
Mariner*
The Arctic Is Melting Down as the Antarctic Food Chain Is Breaking
"While no single weather anomaly can be attributed to anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD), what is happening in the Arctic is so far off the charts scientists are aghast.
Worldwide, the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 were each a record warm year for Earth, with 2017 a close second place behind 2016. A report in Anthropocene Magazine recently showed that if carbon emissions remain unchecked, such multi-year global record temperature surges, along with their accompanying coral bleaching events, droughts, polar ice loss, storms and floods, will likely become routine by 2100".
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43716-the-arctic-is-melting-down-as-the-antarctic-food-chain-is-breaking