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The Poll Workers and The DOJ, and Are They Ready?

Posted by Wiley, 11/05/2012

Over the years there have been a variety of concerns about the voting system in the United States, from equipment (old, outdated in many cases, etc.) to operational requirements (staffing, production capabilities, etc.) to validation (accuracy). However with all the concerns and problems in the past (including Bush v. Gore and all the "hanging chads" questions), the voting process itself has enjoyed a level of respect, integrity, AND TRUST...UNTIL NOW! SUDDENLY, REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED STATES ARE ENACTING PHOTO ID LAWS TO "STOP VOTER FRAUD" WHEN THERE IS VIRTUALLY NO EVIDENCE OF ANY SUBSTANTIVE LEVEL OF SUCH ACTIVITIES. THIS APPEARS TO BE AIMED AT SUPPRESSING SOME VOTERS DESIRE TO VOTE FOR THE PRESIDENT (PRIMARILY MINORITIES) WHILE SUPPORTING THOSE PEOPLE WHO DISLIKE THE PRESIDENT AND THEREFORE, IN THEIR MINDS, MAY BELIEVE HIM TO BE CAPABLE OF SUCH ACTS. ONE BIG PROBLEM: HE IS ENCOURAGING EVERY VOTER TO VOTE.

A new wrinkle with voter suppression potential has been introduced in Ohio: "Four days before Election Day, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted emphasized to boards of elections a step that voters who use provisional ballots on Tuesday will have to take. Voters will be obligated to write on the provisional ballot form what type of ID they show at the polls and not rely on poll workers to do it for them, according to the directive issued late Friday afternoon."

A federal court has been asked to throw out the measure. Usually, provisional ballots are cast on Election Day because a person reports to a polling place where he or she is not assigned to vote.

Can You Trust 24/7 Cable Television News?

Posted by Wiley, 10/26/2012

“Talk” Cable Television News (TCTN) is the name Wiley has given the 3 main 24/7 cable news networks in the United States, because they appear more and more to resemble "Talk Radio" rather than television journalism. By Wiley's analysis, the "Talk"Cable Television News content consists of about 80 percent opinion and about 20 actual news. IIn general, they do provide a forum for both pro and anti-Government views. However, anyone watching or listening with anything less than a partisan view has to cringe at how often you hear someone say on the TCTN that “YOU CAN'T TRUST THE GOVERNMENT”. Surely (in the minds of most people), that statement is far too broad to be taken seriously on its face; however, there are people who believe it to be true and who will cite many examples of Government poor performance and even malfeasance. Among their main culprits are the Environmental Protection Agency, The Transportation Agency, and the Commerce Department. On the other hand, these people will cite the defense aspects of the Military side of the Government in favorable terms IN PURCHASING OF WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT without recognizing OTHER private sector benefits. For example, Wiley has not heard anyone on the TCTN HAIL THE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) as a SUPER-STAR, HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL, JOB CREATING (over 3 million last count) GOVERNMENT PROJECT (U. S. Air Force, which maintains control). Few, if any, private sector businesses could have taken the 20 years of development costs (launched in 1975, became operational in 1995) prior to a return on investment (ROI). The GPS has over 5 million users and it has become a must-have and TRUSTED navigational tool today! BUT, DON'T TRUST THE GOVERNMENT!

Do You Trust The Government of Hawaii?

The “trust” factor also includes the questions on the President’s place of birth and eligibility to be president. Most people know that extensive background investigations are conducted before anyone is allowed to see highly classified information. It’s hard to imagine the Bush administration's Justice Department failing TO VERIFY A CANDIDATE’S ELIGIBILITY TO BE PRESIDENT AND TO SEE THE INFORMATION. On a broader scale, the questions imply that a state in America (Hawaii) would participate in a fraud against its fellow states.

How deep in the minds of people does such distrust off Government exist? Could it delay the development of projects to fight the coming battles over the debt or climate change? Will the TCTN be an asset in the fight to save the planet, or JUST ANOTHER SHADOW ON THE ROAD? DOES THE SHADOW KNOW?

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Do You Have Trust In...

The Poll Workers and The DOJ, and Are They Ready? (CONTINUED)

In at least twenty-four states any random person is authorized, if they feel so inclined, to question individual voters and ask them to “prove” their eligibility to vote. As restrictive and complicated Voter ID laws have passed state-by-state, conservative groups have realized there’s good leveraging in voter registration challenges and poll watcher training.

While getting trained to learn how to perform a task is generally a good thing, there are some tasks that present obstacles for which other training is needed. If, for example, the poll watcher training included instructions on creating distractions for poll workers, and/or creating disturbances in the voting lines, the poll workers would need to be prepared and trained for such tactics. At this juncture, it is unclear as to the what tactics the conservative groups will coach their supporter to use in what clearly appears to be a major voter suppression effort. Possible tactics might include:

trying to challenge the authority of Poll Workers and other officials
spreading rumors and distributing false information to voters,waiting in long lines
producing fake Government documents urging voters to take disqualifying action(s)

Houston-based True the Vote, self-proclaimed poll integrity organization, has pledged to deploy a virtual army of watchers to sniff out alleged voter fraud at polling stations in Texas and elsewhere across the nation. With Election Day only four days off, the Justice Department is planning to send 780 observers to polls in 23 states including Texas, California and New York. DOJ regularly sends Election Day observers to guarantee ballot access under the Civil Rights Act of 1965. On Tuesday, they’ll be on the lookout for whether voters are subjected to different voting qualifications or procedures based on race or speaking a language other than English.</blockquote>

However, with the levels of sophistication available for training using various computer software and simulation techniques, handling poll watcher challenges could become a very difficult endeavor. Hopefully, the POLL WORKERS and the DOJ are prepared.

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Wall Street, Truth In Green Eye Shades

Posted October 12, 2012 by Wiley

Yes, there are those times and places WHEtRE GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED! For example, after Congress kicked the Government (that’s us. Y’all, “We the people…”) under the bus (out of the way) on regulations in 1993 (killing Glass-Seagul banking rules, with help from the Federal Reserve and the President), Wall Street began a growth spurt that grew faster and taller than Jack’s Beanstalk. They began to use more sophisticated software that enabled and enhanced the development and packaging of sophisticated new “paper products” centered around derivatives and credit default swaps (an insurance program that provides a hedge against an investment loss). With tremendous amounts of the new “paper products” actual value dependent on real products such as mortgages which, at the time, were experiencing amazing growth rates, the beanstalk really took off! Now, Wiley is no green eye shades guy, but upon reading in 2006 that Wall Street was creating a billionaire a month, he became concerned that so much money would soon be accumulating at the top (with the 1 percent’s control of the Country’s wealth GROWING FROM 40% TO (YOUR GUESS PERCENT) IN 5 YEARS! Soon, he thinks, the money at the top will begin to attract more money like carbon to a carbon sink, with trickle down only a misplaced memory! JP Morgan-Chase, where is that 4 billion dollars?

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THE IRAN AGREEMENT

THE POWER TO “EXTERMINATE” OURSELVES (1)

This song was taken from the Bible by a black slave:

God gave Noah the rainbow sign,

No more water, the fire next time.

Regardless of whether the above statement means anything to you and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council p, it does address the essence of the possible danger many nations in the Middle East and the world fear about Iran having a nuclear weapon. The U. S. has worked with its allies to strike a nuclear deal between Iran lus Germany which will freeze Iran's nuclear program and greatly reduce the stockpile of enriched uranium.develop an agreement with the nation of it of Iran.

Republicans are united in their opposition to the deal.

"...the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat - "(2Pet.3:10,12). This is a perfect definition of nuclear bombs. The elements (uranium-plutonium etc.) will melt with a fervent heat of millions of degrees and both the atmosphere and the earth will be burned up."

At a time when the rise of radical Islamism is threatening the Middle East, improving relations with an important regional power like Iran, if such a thing is possible, is clearly in the strategic interests of the United States.

(1)Baldwin, James (1964), The Fire Next Time. Dell

Dell Publishing Co., Inc. New York

Why Climate Change

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-gap-between-what-scientists-say-and-americans-think-about-climate-change

Conservatives and others who disavow the concerns so many scientists raise about Climate Change may not be aware of the degree to which extensive amounts of data are collected and shared on a near real time basis by scence labs around the world. being highly sophisticated science instruments are the outlook so certain to scientists

There One of the keys to research the public is unsure that Climate Change may be due to the fact that they are unaware of thview of thenot given an understanding real may be due to an dsomethingmay be due to a lack of awareness as to how

So, when the pollsters questioned people Accordingdifferently, asking whether there is solid evidence the Earth is getting warmer, 72 percent of people said it was, up from 57 percent in 2009. Only 25 percent said the Earth is not getting warmer, up from 11 percent in 2009.

Climate Change. Perhaps you know that the research has been going on for years. But do you know there are______ spacecraft in orbit carrying over ____ of the world's most sophisticated science instrumental that provide data and imagery scientists with anything about the tools and resources thehow thataboutchanikthge! Some Republicans call it a “hoax” and a host of reporters happily repeat it. If those reporters would watch the NASA Channel occasionally, they might learn about the Earth Observing System (EOS). A long term, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research mission kicked off in 19---- to advance the understanding of the earth as a system and how it is changing. Atmospheric and Earth surface data is gathered by instruments mounted on polar-orbiting spacecraft.

The mission objectives include the utilization of a global data base to support definitive and conclusive studies of global change!

ABOUT THE PRESS

Posted by Wiley, March 23, 2015

You can also throw the Press into this mess. They have not tried to educate the public on ExecutiveAgreements, or explained what would likely happen if an agreement is reached and the U. S. fails to uphold it. Such an outcome would almost certainly dissuade many, if not most nations from trying to work with the U. S. Government. That could be bad for a future GOP president. Do they care? What if no agreement is reached? (e.g., There doesn't appear to be any easy

answers!

One thing is for sure. The Press will continue its unending quest to obtain Hillary Clinton's e-mails -- that's suspect, not respect!

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Can Congress Sing the Blues?

The U. S. Congress is in dire need of a time out to seriously work on passing needed legislation that gives the people reason to hope rather than reason to sing the blues (feel depressed). Yes, the blues is a mostly black thing, but you can find traces of its foot print in Rock and Roll, Hip Hop, and songs in the Top Forty. This Country and this Congress needs to find sufficient traces of good will to produce necessary legislation. Time is running out! They must act before the parade passes by and leaves the Country in the legislation ditch! The lyrics in the music the House hears says, “Cut Taxes” and “Kill Obama Care”: the lyrics the Senate hears say, “Raise Revenue” (taxes) and “The Minimum Wage”. The Country says, “Until Congress works things out, many of us will be singing the blues”!

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POINT OF VIEW

From Wiley's point of view, the ACA problems reflect the political "divide” in the United States that:

· Drives the economic divide (income inequality) which in turn drives the racial and class "divides".

· Attempts to kill the ACA and similar programs vital to the middle class and those trying to enter the middle class (e.g., under the ACA medical care costs want bankrupt a family).

Leads to rigid new voter ID laws designed to make it difficult for minorities and other pro-democrat voters to vote in most of the states run by Republican Governors. It is worse than Jim Crow and the poll tax.

Many in the T-Party people don't see President Obama as someone capable of handling the responsibilities of the Presidency of the United States. They quite easily ignore the fact that he has WON 2 presidential elections. The level of disrespect for the Office with Obama in it is….astounding!

POINT OF VIEW

From Wiley's point of view, the ACA problems reflect the political "divide” in the United States that:

· Drives the economic divide (income inequality) which in turn drives the racial and class "divides".

· Attempts to kill the ACA and similar programs vital to the middle class and those trying to enter the middle class (e.g., under the ACA medical care costs want bankrupt a family).

· Implements rigid new voter ID laws designed to make it difficult for minorities and other pro-democrat voters to vote in most of the states run by Republican Governors. It is worse than Jim Crow and the poll tax.

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