EYEWITNESSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE

CLIMATE CHANGE FACTS FROM SCIENTIFIC DATA MAY LEAVE YOU "COLD", BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE SEEING IT, REPORTING IT, TRYING TO CHANGE THE CLIMATE CHANGE BECAUSE THEY DEPEND ON A STEADY, UNCHANGING CLIMATE SO THEY CAN LIVE?

YES, VIRGINIA, THERE ARE HUNDREDS TO THOUSANDS OF DAILY MEASUREMENTS, PHOTOGRAPHIC AND VIDEO EVIDENCE, ALL FROM PEOPLE LIVING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE, AND WHAT THESE REAL PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO TELL US SUPPORTS THE PEER-REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE THAT OUR GLOBAL CLIMATE HAS CHANGED....NOT IS CHANGING...BUT HAS CHANGED.

AS I POINTED OUT IN A PREVIOUS BLOG, COASTAL AND ISLAND RESIDENTS WILL GLADLY SHOW YOU EVIDENCE THAT THINGS HAVE WARMED UP AND BEGUN TO MELT DOWN.
[ SEE http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2014/12/american-towns-destroyed-by-rising-seas.html ]
THAT ALONE SHOULD HAVE CONVINCED THE MOST DIE-HARD DENIER OF CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT HERE'S AN ADDENDUM....FOR THE CHRONIC DENIERS.

1~ MEASURED TEMPERATURES ALL OVER THE WORLD SHOW AN INCREASE IN TEMPERATURE.
IF YOU THINK ONLY "TREE-HUGGING HIPPIES", ONLY DEDICATED ENVIRONMENTALISTS KEEP TRACK OF GLOBAL TEMPERATURES, YOU ARE 100% WRONG!
THE WEATHER IN EVERY NATION IS CLOSELY MONITORED BY...THE NATIONS THEMSELVES, MANY WHO DO NOT AGREE THAT WE HAVE SEEN A CLIMATE CHANGE!
THERE ARE ALSO SATELLITES ABOVE YOU THAT TAKE ALMOST CONSTANT PHOTOS AND VIDEOS OF OUR CHANGES HERE BELOW.
[ YOU MAY ACCESS A SHORT LIST OF THESE BY OPENING LINKS AT THIS SITE:
http://ossfoundation.us/the-leading-edge/projects/environment/global-warming/current-climate-conditions ]

Even the U.S. Navy declassified maps showing rising global sea levels!
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/global_nlom32/navo/WHO.gif

WHAT DO THESE MANY THOUSANDS OF PIECES OF COLLECTED DATA SHOW?

A 1.2 TO 2 DEGREE INCREASE IN EARTH'S TEMPERATURE.
Almost 2 degrees warmer, half of which has happened since the early 1970s.
Northern hemisphere nations have seen higher rises than Southern hemisphere nations...greater population density, fewer expansive forests, less soil, more concrete, etc.
Simply the collected facts.
NASA may have the best facts, the most photographic evidence.
Or NOAA.
OR ALASKAN INDIGENOUS TRIBES!

But even nations like North Korea and China have had to admit, things ARE warming up!

Local weathermen all across America have long reported this trend.
Maybe no one watches local weather anymore?

Maybe no one realizes that greenhouse gas emissions have been cited as a leading cause in rising temps, BUT the U.S. "Environmental Protection Agency", which ONLY protects BIG BUSINESS and ALL who don't give one small damn about such, does NOT force greenhouse gas emissions reports, NOT EVEN FROM THOSE KNOWN TO PUMP THOUSANDS OF TONS INTO YOUR AIR EACH DAY!

NO, THE EPA IS HAPPY TO LITERALLY HIDE THE STATISTICS MANDATED BY CONGRESS THAT SHOWS WHO IS PUMPING WHAT INTO OUR AIR.

WHY WOULD ANY BIG BUSINESS WANT TO HIDE THAT?
YOU GET ONE GUESS.

THERE IS A MAP, OF SORTS, BUT THE EPA WARNS YOU THIS MAP DOES NOT REFLECT THE TOTAL, AS IN ALL, EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES, NOR IS IT EVER LIKELY TO, BUT THE MAP IS AN EYE-OPENER SINCE WE KNOW HOW FEW BUSINESSES HAVE STATS ON THIS MAP.
WHAT IF EVERY MAJOR AIR POLLUTER HAD TO BE SHOWN, AS IN HAD TO REPORT TO THE PUBLIC, TO US?
BOGGLES THE MIND!
HAVE A LOOK...GO BACK A MONTH FROM NOW, SEE WHAT'S CHANGED.
THANK THE EPA FOR NOTHING, UNLESS YOU ARE A NON-REPORTED BUSINESS, OF COURSE, WITH MUCH TO HIDE!
http://ghgdata.epa.gov/ghgp/main.do  

THE MAP IS INTERACTIVE, SO IF YOU ENLARGE ANY AREA,  LITTLE "FACTORIES" WILL POP UP AND HOVERING OVER THAT WILL GIVE YOU A NAME OF A POLLUTER, LIKE ANYONE CARES, RIGHT?

2~ ASK THE ANIMALS?
HAS ANYTHING CHANGED IN THE ANIMAL WORLD?
ARE THE ANIMALS TELLING US WE REALLY SHOULD BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE?
YES!
IN SEVERAL BIG WAYS!

(A) BREEDING SEASONS
All across the globe, hunters, as well as conservationists will tell you the breeding seasons are changed.
Some are radically changed, others by only days to weeks.
Most hunters, or so the stats say, do NOT believe in climate change, but all over the internet, hunting groups are chatting about the "new breeding seasons", and worrying that it will change their hunts.

For marine animals, especially those who breed within the Arctic Circle, or down near Antarctica, things are very, very much changed.
Penguins, not dependent on sea ice to breed, have managed to cope, just moving things up a little.
Other animals, like the Polar Bear, are not faring well at all.

(B) FOOD SOURCES
Migration and breeding are both dependent on good food sources, but what is an animal to do when its food supplies die off, becoming available earlier, later, in smaller amounts?
High country animals especially, it seems, are seeing changes.

Compared to the late 1800s, the first flowering dates for 43 of the most common plant species in higher elevations have moved forward an average of 10 days. Other plants have simply disappeared, including 15 species of orchids.

The term "native species" doesn't count for much anymore as earth's marine and land species are moving about 11 degrees further north each decade now due to climate change.
One species of bird, the Ceti warbler has moved 90 miles further north.
Some plant species are simply dying out as they cannot move away from higher temperatures.

Across the globe, of all bird species, the hummingbirds may be faring the worst.
COMPLETELY dependent on opening flower blooms for life-sustaining nectar, "hummers" are missing the "opening days" of many flowers, and so must move on, and on, never quite catching up.
Their plight has been noted everywhere by bird watching children to seasoned scientists.

(C) BASIC DNA CHANGES
DNA, genomes have shifted.
Most easily seen in common flies north of the equator, in bird species, in insects, their DNA now have DNA structures that more closely matches the DNA of their 'cousins' that live around the equator!
NO ONE was expecting this, so it isn't that scientists looked at DNA to prove climate change, but that IS what happened.
A first-year college student in a genetics class can show you this, no rocket science required.

(D) SOME SPECIES BREEDING OUTSIDE THEIR OWN!
Polar bears and grizzly bears are mating, as are different species of everything from butterflies to sharks.

In some instances, it's clear that climate change is playing a role. More than 1,700 animal species across the globe have shifted their ranges northward and upward in elevation, searching for colder temperatures and following as the plants and other animals they rely on shift as well. Ice sheets and other physical barriers that once kept species apart are disappearing.
Ecologically, does it matter if the world loses purebred species to hybridization? Is it best to get involved, or to let nature take its human-altered course, creating new species and eliminating others? These are the questions experts are just beginning to ponder, even as the planet continues to warm.

In 2006 an American big-game hunter from Idaho shot and killed the first documented wild polar-grizzly bear hybrid, UNHEARD OF BEFORE IN THE LOWER 48 STATES!

Across the continent, Eric Forsman, a biologist with the U.S. Forest Service, has watched closely while spotted owls, a threatened species in the United States, lose their tenuous foothold in the Pacific Northwest, in part because of interbreeding with newly arrived barred owls. Barred owls have expanded their range from their native Midwestern homeland to the Pacific Coast, likely due to ... yes, climate change.

Old hunters, fishermen, those who hike daily, landowners, school children, American Indian Tribal leaders, even seasonal renters and vacationers have complained and sent photographic evidence of serious climate change to their "congressmen".
CONGRESS DOES NOT CARE!

(E) REDUCTION IN NUMBERS
More polar bears, including cubs, are drowning as sea ice melts, causing them to have to try to swim further distances to get to sea ice, their hunting grounds. Starvation is also overtaking large numbers of polar bears.
Cub mortality has changed from about 18% to about 45%, a huge loss of life for the bears.
All along coastal areas, from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America, villagers, residents, as well as scientists are reporting huge fish die-offs, dolphin deaths, whales, walruses, sea stars, lobsters, sea turtles, even seagulls, everything in the oceans dying or beaching themselves in record numbers.

Many theories have arisen, but we do know that sea life is more sensitive to SUBTLE changes than we who live on land.
Sea life IS dying. That's what should matter most!

3~ IT ISN'T JUST ANIMALS, PLANTS ARE REACTING STRONGLY TO CLIMATE CHANGE
There is an odd example for this, something most wouldn't even think about:
Records of spring flowers in Concord, Mass., initially kept by Henry David Thoreau in 1845-1846, show that not only are flowers blooming earlier, the species that haven't moved up their first bloom dates are disappearing.
This same thing is being recorded all over the world, by every culture!
NOT surprisingly, the INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, "Native Tribesmen" on all inhabited  continents are the most angry about this, and many are trying to fight back.
They are there, have been there longer than "newcomers" and they know the land.
Do you?

Native Alaskans have complained and have even filed suit about these plant and animal changes. Their very LIVES depend on both!
The large inland game they hunt are staying higher up for longer periods because food supplies in traditional feeding grounds just does not show up as it once did.
Native Tribes in Alaska and other states have petitioned for a change in hunting seasons, and have sued over greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants they say are causing global warming, all to no avail.
If some court had to side with the Natives, those causing global warming might have to pay out BIG TIME!
Can't have that!

4~ ENTIRE ECOSYSTEMS COLLAPSING HAVE "REAL" PEOPLE WORRIED.
A PRIME EXAMPLE OF "EARTH CHANGE", MOUNT RAINIER
Mount Rainier: Case study of a changing Earth
2014
[ LOCALS KNOW NOT TO TRUST THE MOUNTAIN ANYMORE! ]
In 2006, Gordon Grant, professor of geosciences at Oregon State University, called floods and debris flows at Mount Rainier “the most dramatic catastrophic effects of climate change in the United States.”

Park biologists say rising temperatures could change the current mix of plant and animal species in the park from top to bottom in this century.

The magnitude of possible consequences at Mount Rainier is so great that the park has become a magnet for climate-change researchers from around the country.

Geologists and biologists are making predictions based on global climate models, but those models were designed for predicting changes on broad, ecosystem-size regions and don’t work well for predicting specific changes on an area as small and unusual as Mount Rainier.

That makes it difficult for park officials to communicate their sense of urgency to skeptics in Congress, some of whom still profess to believe that the whole idea of global warming is fiction.

[ MOST FOOLS NEVER LISTEN UNTIL HEARING IS A MOOT POINT! ]

At the foot of the Nisqually Glacier, the roar of rushing water and grinding rock is so loud you have to shout to be heard.

Water bursts from an ice cave the size of an aircraft hangar, its arched roof dripping in the sun. Flurries of stones clatter down canyon walls.

Paul Kennard, a National Park Service geomorphologist here with a team of researchers using laser scanners to locate the volume and sources of rock coming off the glacier, wears a helmet for protection against stones streaking like hot grounders from the glacier’s upper slopes.
While they work, two chunks of ice the size of refrigerators break away from the glacier and crunch onto the rocks below.

For anyone familiar with the effects of climate change, it comes as no surprise that Mount Rainier’s glaciers are melting.

The Nisqually Glacier, the one of Rainier’s 28 named glaciers most accessible to visitors, has been receding rapidly since 1983. It’s at a historic minimum, and this summer it shrank toward the mountain’s summit at unprecedented speed: more than 3 feet every 10 days.

Sediment from the glaciers is filling the park’s river beds and wiping out roads faster than the park can repair them, raising the distinct possibility that, before long, visiting the park by private automobile might no longer be possible.

Without congressional support, it’s impossible for park officials to do the two things they think are most important.
First, cut back on greenhouse gas emissions as quickly and completely as possible.
And second, fund research so it’s possible to recognize climate-caused changes and come up with management solutions.

NEITHER OF THOSE ARE REMOTELY LIKELY TO HAPPEN NOW THAT ALL OF CONGRESS WILL BE CONTROLLED BY THE GOP, WHO WOULD RATHER SEE THEIR OWN MOTHERS CHOKE TO DEATH THAN DENY CONTINUED POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION BY THOSE WHO SO HEAVILY PAD THEIR CAMPAIGN CHESTS!

SOME INDIVIDUALS WOULD RATHER WATCH THE EARTH SUCCUMB TO PRETENDED "PROGRESS", MAKE A FEW BUCKS OFF THE DEMISE THAN SAVE IT, OR EVEN SLOW DOWN THE PROCESS!

"We're forcing change to happen so quickly that it is more likely to promote extinctions than provide adaptive responses." ~ Spokesman for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

EXTINCTIONS?
WHO CARES?
LET'S KEEP DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING!
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER, RIGHT?
WHO CARES ABOUT "DUMB ANIMALS" AND PLANTS?

BESIDES, WE IN AMERICA HAVE GIVEN CONS IN CON-GRESS THE AUTHORITY TO CHOOSE EXTINCTION FOR EVERYONE!

HOW DUMB WAS THAT OF US?
WHO'S THE "DUMB ANIMAL" NOW?



OTHER SOURCES:
http://ossfoundation.us/the-leading-edge/projects/environment/global-warming/current-climate-conditions#section-25

http://www.audubonmagazine.org/articles/climate/climate-change-causing-some-mixed-wildlife

http://www.livescience.com/19679-climate-change-seasons-shift-mismatch.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2461314/Global-warming-causing-animals-evolve-migrate-claims-scientist.html

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/faq/global-warming.php 


http://www.livescience.com/23026-global-warming-changing-world.html

AMERICAN TROOPS ON THE GROUND AGAINST ISIS IN IRAQ

WE HAVE NOT BEEN PROPERLY INFORMED, OUR MAJOR MEDIA HAS NOT YET, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, REPORTED THIS, [BLOOMBERG DID, HOWEVER] BUT EYEWITNESSES IN IRAQ CONFIRM THAT AMERICAN TROOPS IN AMERICAN HUMVEES HAVE ARRIVED IN AL-BAGHDADI IN IRAQ'S WESTERN PROVINCE OF ANBAR.
WITNESSES SAY THE AMERICANS ARE THERE SUPPORTING KURDISH AND IRAQI FIGHTERS AND HAVE HELPED TO TURN THE TIDE AGAINST THE RADICAL JIHAD GROUP.

THIS HAS BEEN REPORTED SINCE EARLY SATURDAY BY BOTH AL-JAZEERA AND IN ISRAELI NATIONAL NEWS ONLINE.

"Police First Lieutenant Muneer al-Qoud later told Al Jazeera TV that the USsoldiers had come from the al-Assad military base.
The latest reports of US troops backing their Iraqi counterparts corroborate earlier claims in Iraqi media outlets last week that some of the roughly 100 US "military advisers" in the al-Assad base were aiding Iraqi troops in defending the base from ISIS. US President Barack Obama recently approved doubling the number of advisers, trainers and support personnel in Iraq, according to US media reports."  

American forces were involved in their first ground battle with Islamic State fighters, according to Kurdish media outlet Shafaq News, near the Ain Al-Assad base in the Anbar province of Iraq early Sunday. The report could not be independently verified.

US forces allegedly came to the aid of tribal fighters and the Iraqi Army battling Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) militants in the Al-Dolab area, 10 km (6.2 miles) from the Ain Al-Assad base, which is about 90 km (56 miles) west of Anbar’s capital, Ramadi.

“US forces intervened because … ISIS started to come near the base, which they are stationed in so out of self-defense, they responded,” said Sheikh Mahmud Nimrawi, a tribal leader in the area, according to Shafaq.

The base hosts about 100 US military advisers, the report claimed.
YEAH, "CLAIMED" IS RIGHT.
STUPID CLAIM!

UPDATE: 12/22/2014
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/12/22/us-stockpiling-fighting-vehicles-gear-in-kuwait-ahead-of-anti-isis-offensive

Since June, the U.S. military has been slowly stockpiling massive amounts of its gear coming out of Afghanistan at a depot in Kuwait adjacent to a bustling commercial port, in preparation for ultimately shipping it across the border into Iraq for an allied offensive against the Islamic State group.

The facility's warehouses and large asphalt yards now are home to roughly 3,100 vehicles, most of them MRAPs – the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles that have been ubiquitous in America’s prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is also some electronic equipment and other supplies at the depot, located at Kuwait's Shuaiba port, defense officials say.

YES, WE ARE GOING TO PUT BOOTS BACK ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ!

The gear, primarily from the Army, will be fixed up and held as top U.S. planners in Iraq determine what they’ll need to defeat the Islamic State group in the coming months, says Air Force Maj. Gen. Rowayne “Wayne” Schatz, the director of operations and plans for U.S. Transportation Command.

“From June to December, we’ve worked a lot on moving items into Kuwait,” he says. “The Army is holding the gear there, and it has room to hold it, as the mission fleshes out.”

"...AS THE MISSION FLESHES OUT..."
INTO WHAT?
INTO, AS JOHN KERRY RECENTLY SAID:
 "... the fight against the militants could last years..."
AND YEARS AND YEARS....AGAIN.

DENIAL BY THE U.S.  Meanwhile, a U.S. senior military official said there are no U.S. ground troops fighting in Iraq, though forces can engage in self-defense if required.
The senior military official said the U.S. mission in Iraq is to prepare and support the country in fighting Islamic State forces, and no engagement with militant forces was being tracked.

WILL THIS 'OFFICIAL' LOOK SILLY WHEN VIDEO OR PHOTOS COME OUT?
HE HAS ALREADY CHANGED HIS STORY TO SAY THE REPORTS OF AMERICAN TROOPS "BOOTS ON THE GROUND" ARE "BEING LOOKED INTO.
HERE WE GO WITH ANOTHER RUN-AROUND!

MEANWHILE, WE CAN SIMPLY ACCEPT THAT AMERICA HAS BEGUN ANOTHER SEASON OF DEPLOYED AMERICAN TROOPS, ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ, THIS TIME FIGHTING THE ISLAMIC STATE. 

IT WILL CERTAINLY NOT MEAN A "MERRY CHRISTMAS" FOR FAMILIES WITH SONS, HUSBANDS, BROTHERS, FRIENDS STATIONED IN IRAQ WHO ARE NOW FACING THE SAME "KILLING FIELDS" THEIR COMRADES FACED ALL THOSE LONG, LONG BUSH WAR YEARS.
THEIR FAMILIES DESERVE THE TRUTH.... 

"BOOTS ON THE GROUND AGAINST 'ISIS' IS NOT THE WAY WE SHOULD GO.
LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IS NOT THE WAY TO GO. 
WE HAVE ENOUGH "SECRET WARS" TO KILL THOUSANDS MORE OF OUR MILITARY, SO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SHOULD SIMPLY CANCEL THIS ONE!

OBAMA PROMISED TO PULL OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST, NOT RE-FUND THE WAR MACHINE THERE.
SO MUCH FOR POLITICAL PROMISES...







SEE ALSO:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/188913#.VJcVXsBY  

http://www.thenational.ae/world/united-states/us-soldiers-engage-isil-in-first-iraq-combat-since-2011   

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/12/bringing-iraq-ghost-forces-back--20141288397979792.html

THE NEW CONGRESS , SAME OLD TRAITORS

I'M SERIOUS.
IT MADE HEADLINES!

"GOP: Thanks for Electing Us, and Screw You"

THAT IS WHAT THEY HAVE PROMISED AND HERE'S WHAT THEY MEAN TO DO, THIS IS "THE WORD" FROM THAT 'WILD AND CRAZY GUY', OLD MITCH McCONNELL:

1~ TAKE CARE OF THOSE WHO TAKE CARE OF CAMPAIGN FUNDING!
HERE'S ONE FOR YOU, WALL STREET PALS! MORE TAX LOOPHOLES, OR NO TAX AT ALL! THE SUCKERS WHO VOTED US IN WILL PICK UP YOUR TAB!

Every year Congress ritualistically renews a package of "temporary" tax breaks for corporations in a process commonly referred to as "tax extenders" because they extend temporary tax breaks. This year, however, they want to make these breaks permanent -- particularly the ones that benefit large corporations and political donors. It's a process that the Washington Post refers to as "a periodic bonanza for lobbyists."

This particular bonanza is in the neighborhood of $450 billion.The majority of the loopholes and breaks are nothing more than handouts to the already rich and super rich. Depreciation tax breaks for people who own racehorses and loopholes that encourage corporations to move their profits offshore.  
2~ MAKE IT EASIER TO SEND AMERICAN JOBS TO OTHER "TRADE PARTNERS", INVENT NEW TRADE PARTNERS SO OUR BIG BUSINESS CAMPAIGN  FUNDERS CAN GET EVEN CHEAPER LABOR, WHILE CONTINUING TO RAISE PRICES BACK HOME.
SCREW YOU, AVERAGE CITIZEN!
KISS YOUR JOBS GOODBYE, AGAIN!

HELLLLLO, NEW NAFTA!
WE CHRISTEN THEE, The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership !
WE LOVE FREE TRADE!"The bill gives USTR a mandate to turn trade agreements into a tool for something else, namely enforcement of non-trade regulations favored by Democrats close to these issues, such as environmental policies, labor conditions and public health." 

READ THAT AS "SCREW THE DEMOCRATS, SCREW THE ENVIRONMENT, SCREW LABOR CONDITIONS, SCREW PUBLIC HEALTH!  

3~ PASS THAT PIPELINE!
WE DON'T CARE IF THE PEOPLE ALL ALONG THAT THING HAVE VOTED AGAINST IT!
WE DON'T CARE THAT THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE BENEFITS CANADA!
SOME OF OUR BIGGEST CONTRIBUTORS TO OUR CAMPAIGN CHESTS DO BUSINESS IN CANADA AS WELL AS HERE!
THIS ONE IS FOR THOSE GOOD OL' BOYS!
SCREW YOU, AMERICAN INDIANS AND CANADIAN FIRST NATIONS WHO HAVE TRIBAL LANDS ALONG THAT ROUTE! YOU DON'T MATTER EVEN A LITTLE BIT!

SCREW YOU ALL BECAUSE NOT ONE MEMBER OF CONGRESS WILL HAVE TO LIVE NEAR THAT THING!

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the first priority for the new Republican-controlled Senate next year would be to pass a bill authorizing the Keystone XL pipeline.The 1,179-mile pipeline has been blocked for years...would create, at most, 50 american jobs, and is NOT needed AT ALL to boost AMERICAN OIL PRODUCTION!

The proposed Keystone XL Pipeline (Phase IV), would essentially duplicate the Phase I pipeline ALREADY IN EXISTENCE between Hardisty, Alberta, and Steele City, Nebraska, with a shorter route and a larger-diameter pipe. It would run through Baker, Montana, where American-produced light crude oil from the Williston Basin (Bakken formation) of Montana and North Dakota would be added to the Keystone's current throughput of synthetic crude oil (syncrude) and diluted bitumen (dilbit) from the oil sands of Canada.

MANY LAWSUITS HAVE BEEN FILED TO STOP PHASE IV , BY THOSE WHO TRANSPORT THE PRODUCT BECAUSE TOLLS IN CANADA ROSE ALMOST 150% AND IN THE U.S. ROSE ALMOST 1005, BY "the Natural Resources Defense Council that challenged the pipeline on the grounds that its permit was based on a deficient environmental impact statement", AND
"In June 2012,  Clean Energy Future Oklahoma, and the East Texas Sub-Regional Planning Commission filed a joint complaint in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma seeking injunctive relief and petitioning for a review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' action in issuing Nationwide Permit 12 permits for the Cushing, Oklahoma, to the Gulf Coast portion of the pipeline. The suit alleges that, contrary to the federal Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 701 et. seq., the Corps' issuance of the permits was arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion.
THESE SUITS DO NOT INCLUDE THOSE BY RESIDENTS AND INDIGENOUS TRIBES ALL ALONG THE ROUTE.

["NRDC's Suit to Block Canada-US Oil Pipeline Thrown Out". Associated Press. 2009-10-02. Retrieved 2010-07-22.

 "Enviros Sue to Stop Keystone Pipeline Project". Courthouse News Service. Retrieved 2012-07-18.

Shook, Barbara (2009-09-18). SUIT TO BLOCK CANAA/US PIPELINE THROWN OUT, The Oil Daily(AllBusiness.com, Inc). Retrieved 2010-08-01.]

'THE SPICE MUST FLOW!"  
OIL, GLUT, OIL, GLUT, OIL IS BIG MONEY!
"MUST HAVE THE 'PRECIOUS'!"

4~ KILL ALL ALTERNATIVE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT!
SOME OF THOSE WOULD PROVIDE ALMOST FREE ENERGY, MAKE FOR A HEALTHIER ENVIRONMENT, SO SCREW ALL THAT!
BESIDES, THOSE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GUYS CONTRIBUTE MOSTLY TO DEMOCRATS!
WE JUST SAY NO TO CHEAPER ENERGY AND DONORS TO DEMOCRATS!
NOTHING THAT MIGHT MAKE THINGS BETTER FOR "AVERAGE JOE" SHALL PASS!
STUDIES JUST SHOWED THAT WIND AND SOLAR  POWER CAN BEAT /HAVE BEATEN  COAL, HEATING OIL AND NATURAL GAS IN COST! NO, NOOOOO!KILL THAT!
SAVE OUR OIL AND GAS PALS! 

The cost of providing electricity from wind and solar power plants has plummeted over the last five years, so much so that in some markets renewable generation is now cheaper than coal or natural gas.

The Koch brothers, who have raked in billions from their fossil fuel empire, have been throwing piles of money at Congress to put a stop to this wind thing.

Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity, Heritage Action for America and others want Republicans to capitalize on their election victory by killing some of the tax "extenders" they've long hated, such as a one subsidizing the wind energy industry. Americans for Prosperity said it will spend $200,000 targeting 25 House Republicans on the wind issue. Among them: Reps. Gus Bilirakis (Fla.), Larry Bucshon (Ind.), Renee Ellmers (N.C.) and Michael Turner (Ohio). Koch brothers representatives have met with House Speaker John Boehner's staff in recent weeks to urge him to dump the provision.
YOUR GOP WHORES SAY "SCREW YOU, AMERICAN VOTERS, SUCKERS!"

AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING!

THE GOP BOYS WILL, NATURALLY, TRY TO REPEAL, KILL, END, ERASE ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THE BLACK/MUSLIM/KENYAN/COMMIE PRESIDENT DID...THE GOOD, THE BAD, ALL OF IT.

NO MORE HEALTH CARE FOR THE MASSES, NO, DEFINITELY NO WAGE INCREASES FOR MIDDLE-CLASS, POOR WORKING CLASS FOLKS, OH, HELL NO!

NO HELP FOR STUDENTS PAYING BACK STUDENT LOANS, NOT NOW, NOT EVER!

NO STIMULUS, NOT A ONE, FOR THOSE AMERICAN CORPORATIONS THAT TOOK AMERICAN JOBS TO CHINA, INDIA, MEXICO TO BRING THEM BACK!
NO WAY! 

THEY DON'T WANT TO COME BACK AND WE WILL NOT COAX THEM TO!

THAT WOULD MEAN PAYING AMERICAN MINIMUM WAGE!
THAT IS NOT GOING TO MAKE "WAR CHEST" CONTRIBUTORS HAPPY, SO NO, CONGRESS, THE GOP CONGRESS, WILL PAY THEM, INSTEAD, TO MOVE TO CHINA AND CUT THEM A THOUSAND TAX BREAKS TO DO SO!

MORE CUTS FOR EDUCATION!
EDUCATION IS NOT AS NECESSARY AS WAR, ESPECIALLY UNDECLARED WARS... WE MUST GREASE THE WHEELS THAT CRANK OUT ARMS, GREAT BIG WEAPONS, WHETHER WE NEED THEM OR NOT! 

WE MUST SUBSIDIZE THE BUILDING OF LUXURY HOTELS IN TURKEY, PAKISTAN, EGYPT, ETC!

OH,THIS INCOMING REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED CONGRESS HAS A LOT IN STORE FOR YOU, BOYS AND GIRLS!
SURPRISE!

AND SCREW YOU FOR YOUR VOTES FOR THE GOP!

"So once again, whether their actions are based on something as simple as political DNA or a plot to retaliate against the president by taking hostages and wiping out villages, Congress, led by the GOP, is working hard to hurt the very people who elected them and helping the ones who got them elected.

Apparently, working in the best interest of their constituents is considered an unnatural act."

BEND OVER AND SPREAD 'EM, VOTERS!

WALL STREET'S DARLINGS WILL BE BACK IN JANUARY AND THEY HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU! 

CUBA, CHINA., AMERICA. THE HYPOCRISY OF OUR CONGRESS.

WHEN OLD "WEEPING JOHN" BOEHNER TWEETED,

"Relations with the Castro regime should not be revisited, let alone normalized, until the Cuban people enjoy freedom – & not 1 second sooner" I HAD TO JUST SIT HERE AND WONDER AT HIS HYPOCRISY, HE WHO OWNS MEGA-STOCKS IN CORPORATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF OR HAVE ADMITTED TO THE SAME "HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS" HE BEMOANS CUBA AS GUILTY OF!  HE OWNS STOCKS IN COMPANIES THAT DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE FREEDOM OF THE CHEAP WORKERS THEY HIRE IN NATIONS THAT HAVE VIOLATED FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR CENTURIES, SOME FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS!
AND OTHER CONGRESSMEN OWN SIMILAR STOCKS!

'OPEN SECRETS' TOOK A LOOK AT BOOZY BOEHNER'S STOCK PORTFOLIO AND WE CAN CLEARLY SEE 'JOHN BOY' PROFITS FROM HIS COMPANIES THAT WORK OUT OF CHINA AND OTHER NATIONS THAT GRANT AMERICA CHEAP, UNPROTECTED WORK FORCE,

One glance at Boehner’s assets portfolio via Open Secrets reveals that Boehner is making a bundle from corporations that are actively exploiting workers and racking up human rights violations in China, a nation led by communists with a long history of human rights abuses, as well as other countries such as Burma and perhaps even Iran. In other words, it really doesn’t seem as if Boehner is all that concerned about people enjoying freedom.

1) Walmart. Boehner owns somewhere between $15,000 and $50,000 in Walmart stock, despite the fact that it’s arguably one of the worst offenders in terms of sweatshops and labor violations in China. In addition to running shoddy factories, workers were paid less than the 41-cents-per-hour minimum wage.

2) Apple. I wonder if Boehner used an iPhone to send out his tweet about Cuba. It doesn’t really matter because at the end of the day, Boehner owns up to $50,000 in Apple holdings. And unless you haven’t read any news for the last three years, you probably already know about this story:

The spate of suicides made headlines around the world. Last May, seven young Chinese workers producing Apple iPads for consumers across the globe took their own lives, prompting an investigation into working conditions at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, southern China.

3) Dell. Boehner also owns a pile of Dell stock. What’s Dell doing in China?

Undercover filming by China Labour Watch and DanWatch reveals a number of apparent breaches of Chinese labour laws at Dell subcontractor Mingshuo Computers, which operates a 156,000m2 factory in Jiangsu province, south of Shanghai. […]

The report claims that “tens of thousands” of underage workers are employed by Pegatron, Mingshuo’s parent company, and that over a third of the workers on the floor where the investigator worked were between the ages of 16 and 18.

4) Chevron. Boehner also holds five-figures worth of stock in this energy company. In addition to doing business in China, it might interest Boehner to know that Chevron has been desperately trying to circumvent U.S. sanctions in order to work with with “evil empire” nation Iran.

Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) negotiated with the Iranian government about developing Iraq-Iran cross-border oilfield, in direct violation of U.S. sanctions against Tehran, according to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

But Iran doesn’t have any human rights issues, does it? 

Elsewhere, in Burma, there’s the following story involving Unocal, which was soon after absorbed by Boehner’s Chevron:

The plaintiffs were Burmese peasants who suffered a variety of egregious violations at the hands of Burmese army units that were securing the pipeline route. These abuses included forced relocation, forced labor, rape, torture, and murder. In addition to EarthRights International (ERI), counsel for the plaintiffs included Paul Hoffman, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Hadsell & Stormer, and Judith Brown Chomsky.

After Chevron merged with Unocal, the violations continued.  

5) Exxon-Mobil. Yes, Boehner is also heavily invested in these guys, too. And which nation with a colossally awful human rights record is Exxon-Mobil doing business with? Saudi Arabia, of course.The Daily Banter‘s Michael Luciano wrote the following about the Saudis:

Women are prohibited from driving an automobiles, and those who are caught doing so are arrested. In August, at least eight people were beheaded, mostly for crimes such as “drug trafficking, adultery, apostasy and ‘sorcery.’”

But we totally can’t open an embassy in Havana because of… what again, Mr. Boehner? Oh, that’s right. Freedom."
[DAMN FINE ARTICLE, THAT!]

THE HYPOCRITES AND/OR BRAINLESS IN THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT PARTIES WHO ARE SCREAMING THAT WE SHOULD NOT LIFT THE EMBARGO, ALLOW TRAVEL TO, OR TRADE WITH THAT COMMUNIST COUNTRY, CUBA, MUST HAVE BLINDERS ON REGARDING THE BIGGEST COMMUNIST NATION ON EARTH AND ITS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS...CHINA, CHINA, TO WHOM THE U.S. OWES...TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS...CHINA, WHICH OWNS A LARGE CHUNK OF AMERICA.

HELLO, LIARS AND CONS ON THE HILL, YOU FORGOT ABOUT CHINA?

AND THEN THERE ARE THE MIDDLE EASTERN NATIONS, ESPECIALLY SAUDI ARABIA, ESPECIALLY KUWAIT, WHO REDEFINE "HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS", BUT YOU DON'T MENTION THEM, EITHER, AS NATIONS WE SHOULD EMBARGO, REFUSE TO TRADE WITH?

NO, THE INDIGNATION  FEIGNED BY THE LOUDEST NAY-SAYERS TO THE END OF THE CUBAN EMBARGO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CUBA.
 IT'S WHO SAID, "LET'S END THE EMBARGO."

IF OBAMA HAD DECIDED TO OPEN TRADE WITH HEAVEN ITSELF, THE SCREAMS FROM CONGRESS WOULD HAVE BEEN EQUALLY DEAFENING.

"TO HELL WITH ANYTHING/EVERYTHING THAT BLACK MAN WANTS TO DO!
HOW DARE HE?
THE MAN IS A MUSLIM KENYAN!
HE'S OUT TO DESTROY WHITE AMERICA!"

WE'VE HEARD SUCH STATEMENTS SINCE DAY 1 OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.

NEVER MIND THAT CRUZ WAS BORN IN CANADA TO A CUBAN 'IMMIGRANT' FATHER, OR THAT McCAIN WAS BORN IN PANAMA, AND CERTAINLY NEVER MIND THAT THE REST OF THE PACK UP ON 'THE HILL' ARE OFFSPRING, THE "ANCHOR-BABIES" ,OF 'ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS', i.e., THE "BOAT PEOPLE" OF THE MAYFLOWER AND OTHER SHIPS FROM EUROPA.

TO GET A REAL "AMERICAN" IN OFFICE, WE'D HAVE TO TURN TO THE INDIGENOUS TRIBES, WHAT'S LEFT OF THEM, AND SELECT FROM THOSE "ORIGINAL PEOPLE", AND MAYBE LEARN AN "ORIGINAL LANGUAGE"?
AN IROQUOIAN, GIDUWV, OR SIOUAN DIALECT WOULD HAVE TO BE THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA, YES?
V, YUNEGV, V?

BUT LET'S COMPARE CHINA TO CUBA.
AND LET'S JUST SEE HOW MUCH THE U.S. HELPS CHINA VIOLATE HUMAN RIGHTS EVERY YEAR.
LET'S SEE IF AMERICA IS ACTUALLY ENCOURAGING CHINA TO REMAIN A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATOR.
(HINT: YES, YES WE DO ENCOURAGE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN CHINA!)

LET'S SEE IF CHINA OWNING A BIG PIECE OF THE AMERICAN PIE HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH CONGRESS BEING JUST FINE WITH AMERICA "TRADING WITH AN ENEMY STATE"!

TWO MAJOR ISSUES IMMEDIATELY COME TO MIND:

#1 ~ INFANTICIDE, OR "GENDERCIDE" IN CHINA

In my mind, China's most horrific human rights violations are committed against the unborn or the newborn of the "wrong" gender. 
China has long had a 'one-child policy", and parents there seemed to want male children, so it was perfectly understandable that pregnant women, on learning they were carrying a female, got an abortion, or, having delivered a female, simply threw the newborn out like one would the trash.
Missionaries to China have long reported abandoned, tossed-aside female babies there, and some have devoted themselves to their rescue.

China has a history of female infanticide spanning 2000 years. CUBA DOES NOT.

 Reproductive rights in Chinese society have been co-opted by the government as a component of a broader push towards socialist modernization.

The denial of these fundamental rights is seen by the government as a necessary societal sacrifice for the preservation of the state.
This powerful state loyalty creates a ripe environment for a pervasive fertility policy, regardless of the ramifications. 

When Christian missionaries arrived in China in the late sixteenth century, they noticed the practice of female infanticide, and witnessed newborns being thrown into rivers or onto rubbish piles. 
During the 19th century female infanticide was practiced in the majority of China's provinces. 

THIS PRACTICE HAS BEEN WELL-DOCUMENTED IN TODAY'S CHINA.
LITTLE HAS CHANGED IN 2000 YEARS! 

On 25 September 1980 in an "open letter", the Politburo of the Communist Party of China requested that members of the party, and those in the Communist youth league, lead by example and have only one child.

 (See Joseph Farah, "Cover-up of China's gender-cide", Western Journalism Center/FreeRepublic, September 29, 1997.) Farah referred to the gendercide as "the biggest single holocaust in human history."

Although China eased restrictions of the one-child rule for rural families, few trusted the government, it appears, and the gendercide continued.

BUT AMERICA IS FINE WITH THAT!
AMERICA TRADES FREELY WITH A CHINA THAT BASICALLY ENCOURAGES ABORTION OF FEMALE FETUSES.

#2~ ETHNIC CLEANSING?
CHINA DOES THAT!
NOT A PROBLEM.
AMERICA UNDERSTANDS...COLONISTS,ET AL, VERSUS INDIANS, AFTER ALL....

Millions, yes, LITERALLY MILLIONS of Tibetan farmers and herders, an ethnic minority in China,  have been rounded up like animals themselves and sent off to what China calls "a mass rehousing-and-relocation policy" that forces them into socialist work villages. 
We might call them prison camps here.


WHAT ABOUT CUBA ON THIS ISSUE? 

'The government continues to rely on arbitrary detention to harass and intimidate individuals who exercise their fundamental rights. 

The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation—an independent human rights group the government views as illegal—received over 3,600 reports of arbitrary detentions from January through September 2013, compared to approximately 2,100 in 2010.  

Dozens of political prisoners remain in Cuban prisons according to local human rights groups, which estimate that there are more political prisoners whose cases they cannot document because the government prevents independent national or international human rights groups from accessing its prisons."  

In November, Cuba was re-elected to a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, defeating Uruguay for a regional position despite its poor human rights record and consistent efforts to undermine the council’s work to respond to human rights violators. 

" The Code for Children, Youth and Family states that a parent who teaches ideas contrary to communism can be sentenced to three years in prison."

CUBA'S PRISONS EACH HOLD DOZENS TO THOUSANDS IN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, AS COMPARED TO MILLIONS HELD IN CHINA, BUT ONE IS TOO MANY.
THAT THE U.S. MAINTAINS CLOSE RELATIONS WITH CHINA AND NOT WITH CUBA, DOES NOT MAKE SENSE WHEN BOTH ARE GUILTY OF THE SAME THING, AND IT IS HYPOCRITICAL TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL, EVEN FOR CONGRESS, TO MAINTAIN THERE'S ANY  REASON CHINA MAY BE EXCUSED. 

Torture is common in Chinese prisons/prison camps, and China still refuses  to recognize a clause in an anti-torture agreement they signed with the U.N. that allows the United Nations to investigate suspected torture, thus eliminating the enforcement mechanism. 

In essence, they say they won't torture, but they do, just like, ummm, America.

Human Rights Watch notes that there exists in China such "new programs" as 'new' legal-aid services to victims of domestic violence, for disabled children and other at-risk groups.

These services are illegal according to Chinese "State Law", so their creators/organizers, under said "Law" , face imprisonment. 

What's the point in creating programs to help the victims of human rights violations if you go to jail for doing so, if anyone who seeks help can also go to jail for doing so?

For a brief time, human rights violations and the truth of life inside china slowly leaked out to the international community by means of the internet.
But the Chinese Communist Party has VERY recently moved to make it easier to charge activists and Internet critics as part of a crackdown on free expression. 

Some call what the Communist government put in place "THE GREAT FIREWALL OF CHINA".
It virtually ended our peeks inside the "Great Dragon", "Red China".

It seems one big rule in china is "Thou shalt NOT cast China in a bad image, even if the image is an honest one."

I feel those would-be truth-sayers' pain.
It's almost to that point here in America, thanks to the "Patriot Act' and the incessant spying by our NIA on OUR internet activities and OUR phone conversations here in America!
A lot of US are labeled "potential terrorists" when WE speak out against our brand of "communist parties", against our own "regimes".

A QUICK COMPARISON ON MAJOR ISSUES:

~CHINA HAS A ONE-CHILD POLICY THAT "LOOKS THE OTHER WAY" WHEN WOMEN ELECT TO ABORT OR DISPOSE OF FEMALE FETUSES/NEWBORNS.
CUBA HAS NEVER BEEN GUILTY OF THIS.

~CHINA RESTRICTS RELIGIONS, PUNISHES THE RELIGIOUS SEVERELY.
CUBA WELCOMES POPES, HAS CHURCHES EVERYWHERE, ALLOWS WORSHIP, BUT NOT "RELIGIOUS INTERFERENCE IN GOVERNMENT".

~CHINA SEVERELY PUNISHES HOMOSEXUALS.
CUBA NO LONGER DOES.

~CHINA COMMITS ETHNIC CLEANSINGS.
CUBA IS NOT REALLY FOND OF ITS BLACKS, BUT DOES NOT ROUND THEM UP AND HERD THEM OFF TO LABOR CAMPS.

~CHINA WELCOMES AMERICAN BUSINESSES AND PROVIDES THEM WITH WORKERS WHO HAVE NO HUMAN RIGHTS, WHO WORK FOR PENNIES AN HOUR.
CUBA HAS NO AMERICAN-OWNED BUSINESSES (TECHNICALLY).
AS AN ISLAND NATION, IT HAS LITTLE INDUSTRY AT ALL, IMPORTS ALMOST EVERYTHING.

~CHINA'S GOVERNMENT  IS STILL CONTROLLED BY MALES.
CUBA HAS WOMEN IN ALMOST HALF ITS HIGH-LEVEL NATIONAL ASSEMBLY POSTS.

~CHINA EDUCATES AND PROVIDES HEALTH CARE TO WHOMEVER IT WILL. SOME ETHNIC GROUPS RECEIVE NONE.
CUBA PROVIDES FREE EDUCATION AND FREE HEALTH CARE TO ALL. 
IT DOES MONITOR PATIENTS AND STUDENTS FOR "POLITICAL REACTIONISM". 
IT ALSO LEAVES NO TREATMENT OPTIONS OPEN IN TREATING SOME ILLNESSES.
HOWEVER, BOTH HAVE PRODUCED VERY FINE PHYSICIANS, SOME OF THE BEST ON THE PLANET.

~CHINA SEVERELY RESTRICTS TRAVEL BY "TOURISTS".
CUBA HAS FEW TOURISTS AND ANY FROM NATIONS ALLIED TO AMERICA ARE CAREFULLY WATCHED.
BOTH NATIONS USE SEPARATION OF FAMILIES AS A FORM OF PUNISHMENT.

IT MAY BE INTERESTING TO YOU TO KNOW THAT:

Since November 1966, the Cuban Adjustment Act provides automatic permanent residency for almost all Cubans arriving legally or illegally after one year and one day in the US. 

No immigrant from any other nation has this privilege. 

Controversy over this policy centers around the loss of Cuba's scientists, professionals, technicians and other skilled individuals.  

 In 1995 the US government entered into an agreement with the Cuban government to resolve the emigration crisis that created the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, when Castro opened the docks to anyone who wanted to leave. 

The result of the negotiations was an agreement under which the United States was required to issue 20,000 visas annually to Cuban emigrants.

  
This quota is rarely filled; the Bush administration has refused to comply with the act, issuing only 505 visas to Cubans in the first six months of 2003. It has also blocked some Cubans who have visas.  

~CHINA DOES NOT ALLOW FREE PRESS, FREE SPEECH, UNRESTRICTED INTERNET USAGE .
CUBA DOES NOT EITHER. 

CUBA OWNS NO AMERICAN LAND.
THAT IS NOT ALLOWED!
BUT CHINA?
HOW MUCH OF AMERICA DOES CHINA ALREADY OWN?
WELL, DEBT-WISE, OVER $1 TRILLION. 
FORBES, 2013, ESTIMATED A TRILLION, BUT DIDN'T TAKE MUCH INTO ITS ADDITION PROCESS.
TREASURY NOTES HELD BY CHINA ARE JUST THE TIP OF THE OLD ICEBERG.  

CHINESE SNAPPING UP AMERICAN PROPERTY    

The Chinese are on a real estate buying spree all over America as they are now the dominant 'buyers' of investment green cards. 

This is occurring as private equity buyers and hedge funds exit the buy-to-rent business en masse and, as Mike Krieger explains, are desperate to pitch American property to anyone willing to keep Housing Bubble 2.0 inflated... it seems Zillow is more than happy to enable that as "Zillow agreed to make its U.S. property listings available to Chinese consumers through a partnership with a Beijing-based website." 

China is on the way to becoming the dominant land owner in the entire country, and that is starting to alarm a lot of people.  Do we really want a foreign superpower to physically own so much of our territory?

In other cases, the Chinese are gaining control over vast tracts of U.S. territory by buying up our large corporations.

For example, when the Chinese purchased Smithfield Foods, they suddenly owned 460 large farms and became the top employer in dozens of communities all over the United States… 

IT IS INEVITABLE, ECONOMIC MINDS SAY, THAT CHINA BECOMES DOMINANT OVER THE U.S.!  

The President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve recently stated that “attitudes in the U.S. are going to have to change” because America “will not permanently be the global leader”…

That’s according to Federal Reserve Board of St. Louis President James Bullard, who spoke to the Wall Street Journal on the sidelines of a conference during a recent visit to Hong Kong.

“Attitudes in the U.S. are going to have to change, because the U.S. will not permanently be the global leader,” Mr. Bullard said.

In fact, Bullard insists that it is inevitable that the U.S. will end up playing second fiddle to communist China…

In that case, “the U.S. would be playing a role to China similar to the role the U.K. plays to the U.S. today,” Mr. Bullard said. “People think it’s 50-75 years away but it’s probably only 25 or 20 years away, something like that.”

And this is one of the guys that is running the U.S. economy?

DEFINE "HUMAN RIGHTS"
"In the U.S., Europe, and many other parts of the world, the idea of human ‘rights’ means things like freedom of religion, assembly, voting rights, anti-discrimination provisions to protect minorities and people with disabilities, and the like. 

On these measures, China FAILS.  

 "There is endemic local corruption, abuses of political opponents, restrictions on free expression and assembly, abuses of property rights, discrimination against people who are out of favor with the government, no real voting rights as that idea is understood in the West, and so on."      

These types of human rights abuses are deemed necessary by the state to preserve "social stability," Human Rights Watch says:

Historically, China has used "re-education through labor" — forced labor camps — as a means of punishment.

In addition, the disabled face discrimination in employment and education opportunities.

Workplace safety is a major concern in China, where migrant workers cannot get residence permits that allow them access to education and other social services, and where women can be punished, including being forced to have abortions, for violating government family planning laws.

China remains an authoritarian state without truly free expression and democratic choice, and where political dissidents and those who practice civil disobedience face harsh penalties [OR DEATH].

Meanwhile, China executes thousands of people a year and imprisons or forces labor on hundreds of thousands [TO MILLIONS] of others with scant due process. Finally, many groups — ethnic minorities, the disabled, and migrant workers, to name a few — remain marginalized by the state. 

LET'S HEAR IT FOR CHINA?
REALLY, CONGRESSMEN, CHINA IS A GREAT TRADE PARTNER BUT NOT WEE CUBA?
CHINA, AMERICA'S BELOVED PART-OWNER.
CHINA, WHERE HUNDREDS OF U.S. BUSINESSES FLOCK TO CASH-IN ON "SLAVE LABOR WAGES", WHERE THE RULE FOR MANUFACTURING GOODS IS "THERE IS NO RULE". 

Between 1983 and 1999, the profits of the Top 200 firms grew 362.4 percent, while the number of people they employed grew by only 14.4 percent. Profits AND production BOTH ROSE, but the Big Boys were using almost the same percentage of workers to make goods and profits. 

TAKING JOBS TO CHINA PAID, KEEPS PAYING THE CORPORATIONS !
 
CHINA is a great place to do business if you want high profits! 

 A wage slave in CHINA can't quit an oppressive job to find a less slave-like job, because in China's present society, almost all jobs involve wage-slavery. So the options are obey and stay, quit/try to quit and die of starvation, or become a vagrant, which is illegal in China.

THE BIG CORPORATIONS LOVE CHINA BECAUSE OF THEIR "ANYTHING GOES" (AS LONG AS WE SAY SO) TAKE ON CREATING GOODS.

"Worker abuse is still commonplace in many of the Chinese factories that supply Western companies..."

EXAMPLE  1:
AMERICAN COMPANIES KNOWINGLY HIRE CHILDREN AND PAY "SLAVE LABOR WAGES" JUST AS KNOWINGLY WHEN THEY MOVE JOBS TO CHINA.
55 cents an hour is a "high-paying" job in China when American businesses come to town.
55 cents an hour is the new "minimum wage" that Big American companies love to pay overseas, but in some instances, that 55 cents is a half DAY's pay elsewhere!

American business CEOs know how to find CHEAPER labor, labor that will never demand higher wages, nor demand safe working conditions.

AS THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTED:  

"In the Pearl River Delta region near Hong Kong, for example, factory workers lose or break about 40,000 fingers on the job every year, according to a study published a few years ago by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

Pushing to keep America's big corporations honest, labor groups regularly smuggle photographs, videos, pay stubs, shipping records and other evidence out of factories that they say violate local law and international worker standards. 

In 2007, factories that supplied more than a dozen corporations, including Wal-Mart, Disney and Dell, were accused of unfair labor practices, including using child labor, forcing employees to work 16-hour days on fast-moving assembly lines, and paying workers less than minimum wage. (Minimum wage in this part of China is about 55 cents an hour.)

In December, 2007 two nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, documented what they said were abuse and labor violations at 15  factories that produce or supply goods for Wal-Mart — including the use of child labor at Huanya Gifts, a factory here in Guangzhou that makes Christmas tree ornaments."   

IF THEY FOUND 15, HOW MANY WERE NOT FOUND?
TRAVEL IS VERY RESTRICTED INSIDE CHINA, AND SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF THE PRESS ARE CAREFULLY WATCHED.
WHAT AMERICANS DON'T SEE, THEY WON'T KNOW ABOUT, RIGHT?
RIGHT.
BUT, EVEN KNOWING, LOOK WHO CARES!
CAN WE HAVE A SHOW OF HANDS?
WHO CARES?

EXAMPLE 2:
In China dogs, especially a breed known as "raccoon dogs" are skinned ALIVE to create fur trim for clothing and accessories.
The Humane Society of America has reported this to Congress...who...

doesn't give a damn.

But Congress didn't really want American consumers to know this nasty little fact.

You see, way, way back in 1951, it was CONGRESS that created a loophole for big business on this, so, although in 2000, Congress passed legislation that prohibits importing or exporting dog and cat fur, CONGRESS KNEW THERE'S A LOOPHOLE, HAS NEVER ENFORCED THE BAN, AND NO MAJOR CORPORATION HAS BEEN CALLED TO TASK BY OUR GOVERNMENT FOR CONTINUING TO TRADE IN DOG AND CAT. JUST QUIETLY CONTINUE AND DON'T GET CAUGHT. 

OUR GOVERNMENT WON'T BE MONITORING WHAT'S FUR AND WHAT FUR IT IS!
CONGRESS MADE YOU A LOOPHOLE OVER 50 YEARS AGO!
CARRY ON!
MAKE PROFITS!

U.S. Rep Jim Moran (D-Va.),  is the lead sponsor of legislation that would remove the 1951 loophole THAT CONTINUES TO ALLOW THIS.AT LEAST SOMEONE TRIED.

The resolution unanimously passed the House of Representatives on July 28, 20S140. 

Georgia U.S. Congressman Hank Johnson was one of 170 sponsors. 

It has STILL NOT gone before the U.S. Senate.  

The Humane Society reached out-of-court settlements in March 2010 with Lord & Taylor, Macy's, Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue to stop advertising garments as faux fur that are trimmed with coyote or dog pelts. 

The settlements came after a District of Columbia judge in February fined Neiman Marcus $25,000 for advertising items as faux that were actually trimmed with raccoon dog, the St. Petersburg Times reported.

BUT IT IS NOT JUST THIS "FAUX FUR' ISSUE.

CHINA ALLOWS A HOST OF CONTAMINANTS AND TOXINS, INCLUDING HUMAN EXCREMENT AND HEAVY METALS IN ITS "MANUFACTURING", IN ITS EXPORTS.

TIME AND TIME AGAIN CHINA HAS HAD TO FACE RECALLS DUE TO HARM OR FATALITY CAUSED BY THEIR EXPORTS.
THEY JUST DON'T REGULATE THINGS LIKE GROUND-UP PLASTICS USED IN FOOD PRODUCTS, ETC.

LOOKING AT ALL THE ABOVE, ONE JUST MIGHT QUESTION WHY AMERICA TRADES WITH CHINA....

AND WHY OUR CONGRESSMEN WANT TO CONTINUE DOING SO.

AND WHY CUBA COULD POSSIBLY BE SEEN AS "WORSE THAN COMMUNIST CHINA" BY ANYONE WITH A VIABLE BRAIN.
THEY ARE CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH!

DOES ANYONE BESIDES ME WONDER WHY AMERICA'S BUSINESSES AND THOSE WHO MAKE IT EASY FOR THOSE BUSINESSES TO MOVE TO CHINA (OUR CONGRESSMEN) DON'T SEND ARMIES INTO CHINA, RUSSIA, CUBA, ALL COMMUNIST NATIONS TO RESCUE THE BILLIONS WHO SUFFER FROM HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE THERE?

WE SEEM TO ONLY SEND IN AMERICAN FORCES TO MUSLIM NATIONS.

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY?

I'LL TELL YOU ANYWAY....

BECAUSE IF AMERICA WAS TO TREAT ANY COMMUNIST NATION AS IT HAS TREATED MUSLIM NATIONS, THOSE COMMUNIST NATIONS (CHINA AND RUSSIA) WOULD SIMPLY NUKE AMERICA INTO A FINE RADIOACTIVE POWDER, THAT'S WHY!

CUBA IS 90 MILES OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA!
90 MILES!
IN ALL THESE 60+ YEARS, AMERICA HAS NOT SENT IN RESCUE TEAMS TO "BRING DEMOCRACY" TO CUBA...POPULATION 11,100,000, WITH A COMBINED MILITARY FORCE OF JUST 60,000 AS OF 2003.

AMERICA COULD TAKE OVER CUBA FAR MORE EASILY THAN IT DID IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, ANY OTHER NATION HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD, BUT NOT ONCE HAVE WE GONE A SHORT 90 MILES TO DO SO!

WHY?
BECAUSE BIG, BAD CHINA SAID WE'D BETTER NOT DO THAT!
RUSSIA SAID, "NO, NO!"

BUT WHILE WE TRADE NICELY WITH BOTH RUSSIA AND CHINA, BOTH WHO HAVE VOWED TO ERADICATE US, WE JUST MUST NOT DO THE SAME WITH....CUBA?

THAT IS HYPOCRISY, AT ITS WORST.
AND WE REALLY SHOULD LET THE HYPOCRITES IN WASHINGTON, UP ON "THE HILL" AND IN THAT OVAL OFFICE KNOW THAT WE SEE THE HYPOCRISY.  

WE SEE THAT $$$$$$$$$$$$ TALKS, AND THAT THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR DETERS A LOT OF "SANCTIONS, EMBARGOES, AND IMPORTS BANS"....

$$$$$ AND NUKES MAKE US DELIGHTED TO TRADE WITH CHINA AND RUSSIA.
BOTH RUSSIA AND CHINA HAVE HACKED INTO OUR MILITARY'S SECURITY SYSTEMS, HAVE HACKED INTO OUR POWER GRID, HAVE STOLEN "STATE SECRETS", HAVE PAID AMERICANS TO SPY FOR THEM, HAVE  WAGED COLD WAR AND REAL WAR AGAINST US, HAVE KILLED AMERICANS ABROAD, AND BOTH COMMIT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS EVERY SECOND OF EVERY DAY, BUT THEY ARE OUR BUSINESS PARTNERS....
AND CUBA IS....INCONSEQUENTIAL...UNTIL THAT BLACK PRESIDENT MENTIONS IT...

CUBA IS USELESS TO WALL STREET.
CUBA CAN'T LOAN US MONEY.
IT DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH CONSUMERS TO INTEREST AN AMERICA CONTROLLED BY BIG BUSINESS.

TOO BAD, CUBA.

SOURCES NOT LINKED ABOVE:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/business/worldbusiness/05sweatshop.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

https://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/researchdigest/china/InfanticideChina.pdf