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The Disaster Files: Concerns for The Future #1

A Supreme“ Court “Change”

Posted by Wiley, July 12, 2014

According to Alvin Toffler, in his book "Future Shock", 1970, New York, Random House, (p. 3), "Change is the process by which the future invades our lives"

"Hold Back The Future" seems to be the wish of the far right in the Congress as they seek to slow the social advances by women and minorities in the United States. They have attacked voting rights laws and health care laws that are designed to help prevent discrimination against minorities and women and provide better access to health care insurance for the uninsured. Recent rulings by the Supreme Court and new policies and laws at the State level will clearly hinder, and could even stop the forward progress of many people! The Hobby Lobby decision is a case in point. Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, 573 U.S. ___ (2014), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court allowing closely held for-profit corporations to be exempt from a law they religiously object to if there is a viable and least restrictive means of furthering the law's interest. The case is the first time that the court has recognized a for-profit corporation's claim of religious belief, but it is limited to closely held corporations under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The decision was described in the dissent as one of "startling breadth", meaning the full ramifications will likely be greater than expected. The important point here is that the Holly Lobby and voting rights issues cannot hold back the future. The following scenario envisions a post Holly Lobby “Benefits Meeting" between an employee and an administrator.

Active Affordable Care Act (AACA), Case NO. 350,000

Young woman (all dressed in black): I want child support!

Young Conservative Bureaucrat: Who and where is this baby Daddy?

Young woman (all dressed in black): The “XYZ” Corporation is this baby Daddy.

Young Conservative Bureaucrat: A Corporation can’t be a Daddy. Corporations just make money!

Young woman (all dressed in black): That was before they got religion, outlawed contraception, and gave me this baby through immaculate conception. It was all blessed by 5 Gods called Justices of the Supreme Court! I am in mourning for their very souls!

Young Conservative Bureaucrat: Can I get back to you later?

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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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