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Monday, November 3, 2014

THE SMART THING TO DO

ISIS
Posted 10/22/2014 by Wiley

My Goodness, just listen to the breathless “Breaking News” nearly every nanosecond: ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has captured a third of Iraq and a quarter of Syria in the Middle East. One might think that ISIS is a major power playing the MAD (mutually assured destruction) card: we win or everyone will lose! The Western press and ISIS successes have created an almost legendary attack force in the Middle East. ISIS has no air force, no navy, no weapons factories, no long range missiles or spy satellites; and yet it has acquired a near super power arsenal of weapons (if you believe cable news which is watched by 51 percent of those younger than 30)!

As the ISIS conquests continue, the Western press giddily announces, “ISIS has captured a Syrian Military base and 3 fighter jets”. Why giddily? The Western Press, and specifically the Right Wing press in the United States, is anti-anything the Government does under President Obama! In their view, a win for ISIS is “WHOOPEE” a loss for Obama! Damn what happens to the other countries in the region! The Western Cable News people, going crazy to fill the air with talk 24/7, will jump on a dead bone and say its from a "TERRORIST"! Then they will go "in-depth" and tell you the CIA and the FBI loss track of him/her before the remains were found on the "White House" lawn! The prime directive of today's cable news is find someone to blame!

Everything from Ebola to ISIS to Ukraine is happening because Obama is weak! If Obama is so weak, why is Russian President Vladimir Putin accusing the United States of trying to “reshape the whole world” for its benefit. Would that be the "weak" Mr. Obama? While the ebola virus in West Africa has killed nearly 5,000 people, Mr. Obama is following the scientists and the Centers for Disease Control, and not calls to quarantine everyone with a hint of a stop over in that area. The U. S. is providing resources essential to fighting and stopping the virus. Would that also be Mr. Obama?

Sectarian and ethnic violence has been a continuing problem in the Middle East! From the beginning of written history about 3500 BC, the land known as Mesopotamia included different groups, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq. Iraq has a history of sectarian warfare carried out by the different tribal, sectarian, and ethnic groups in Iraq (Sunni and Shia, Arab and Kurd).

The President is right: help where you can, LIMIT the mission, and allow the people in the region to fix the problems. He was listening when Brent Scowcroft, former national security advisor to President George H. W. Bush, warned that an attack on Iraq could create a cauldron in the Middle East that could "destroy the war on Terrorism." The message is avoid the quagmire on the ground! That is the smart thing to do! We have been there, done that...twice in the last 13 years (Afghanistan and Iraq)!

How and why did all those ISIS fighters get together?

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Saturday, August 16, 2014

The Disaster Files: Concerns for The Future #2

Congress: All "Locked Up" by The House
Posted by Wiley, 08/12/14

According to Alvin Toffler, in his book "Future Shock" (p. 3), "Change is the process by which the future invades our lives"...and "consequences of contemporary events radiate instantaneously around the world".

If the future "invades" the lives of the American people through "change" created by the dysfunctional, myopic, Republican majority in the United States House of Representatives, it will be an UGLY FUTURE. In that future, the Republicans pick up their marbles (tax cuts for the wealthy 2 percent), put them in a box (to deny funding to upgrade and improve the nation's power grid and transportation systems), and go home! Many, if not most, of their members believe Climate Change is a hoax, and major Immigration Reform does not require some form of amnesty for 11 million people already in the Country. What is clear is that the Republican members of the House of Representatives are so ideologically opposed to what they view as liberal legislation, they are willing to put the future of the Country at risk!

A "Lock" on The Door

To this end, they have locked all the doors to the House and halted the production of
legislation. The White House and the Democrats have tried to open talks through the FRONT DOOR of the House of Representatives, but no change to date. The doors remain locked. The Republicans have circled the wagons, and declared that they WILL NOT BE MOVED AS LONG AS THIS PRESIDENT IS IN OFFICE, and any legislation without majority Republican support such as Immigration Reform will not be moved! The side door with the “White Flag” of “compromise” is no longer a road to resolution. The consequences of not passing NEEDED legislation can only be imagined at this juncture, but in all likelihood it will radiate around the world!

After all, if you don't believe the Government can do anything right, why not shut it down. They have done it before, and if they can win control of the Senate in the 2014 elections and keep the House, the "private sector" may indeed be the next U. S. form of Government (Corporations already have "religion").

So what is changing? It could be the Republicans have a new way to "privatize" the Government: ''Sue The President" when they disagree with him (or her), especially on legislation they dislike such as Immigration Reform, and win the battle in Court -- not by the vote!

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Climate Change

Posted by Wiley, June12, 2016

One of Wiley's close relatives who worked for a NASA contractor on the Earth Observing System (EOS) believes that the Republican opposition to Climate Change is based primarily on their rigid ideological opposition to big Government! Their dislike and fear of Big Government has no bounds, especially if the "bounds" require Government spending! Wiley's relative, a Systems Engineer, suggests that without serious spending at this early stage on Climate Change may only lead to greater spending later. The GOP seems to ignore the scientists working in aUnited States Global Change Research Program and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and they ignore the suite of instruments on EOS spacecraft capable of acquiring simultaneous

complimentary observations of cloud properties as well as provide error free surface images. The hope is that the data being collected will provide more definitive answers very soon.

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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