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No religion, No fear...T... Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds... Bob Marley Teeluckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07436834652576541130noreply@blogger.comBlogger265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4405102889755809982.post-24368676792615248552017-05-06T16:33:00.000-04:002017-10-22T18:11:29.056-04:00Ode To Billy (The Kid)I am the hunted, I am the one,<br />
Living every day, under the gun<br />
Another day in the shadows,<br />
Another night on the run.<br />
But they won't catch me now,<br />
'Cause I'm second to none.<br />
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My deeds, they haunt me,<br />
From daylight, 'til I rest my head,<br />
If I don't find some refuge soon,<br />
One day I know, I'll end up dead.<br />
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The wind at my back, it follows me,<br />
The long and winding road ahead,<br />
The riders, they come, they.re out to get me,<br />
They wanna hang me,<br />
They'll make me dead.<br />
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The roadside flowers, they wish me well,<br />
If we'll meet again, they cannot tell,<br />
But at least they knew me,<br />
As I lived my last,<br />
At least they knew me, but that was the past.<br />
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The journey ends, when I get to boot hill,<br />
I had to get paid, for all those I'd killed.<br />
The Sheriff laughs, he got his man,<br />
Six feet under his boot I can...<br />
No longer run,<br />
No longer hide,<br />
Under boot hill now, forever I reside.<br />
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You will see me again, this curse I will say,<br />
We shall all meet here, on our long last day.<br />
With our guns in our hands, and our horses all tied,<br />
Death comes for us, for we've lived and we've died.<br />
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You will see me again, I'm Billy, I say,<br />
You will see me again, on your very last day.<br />
Boot hill is our home, one we didn't want ever,<br />
Our last breath now gone, We will see the light never.<br />
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Teeluck...<br />
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<b>This policy is also known as The Global Gag rule and affects millions of women and children around the world. It affects Health care providers around the world and essentially prevents them from providing healthcare services to women globally, resulting in more deaths than if left unactivated.</b><br />
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<b>This is the new war on women in 2017, which takes it to a global level, as was also done by previous Republican presidents. Make no mistake, this is global terror inflicted on defenseless women and children.</b><br />
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<i><b><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"You’re silencing the doctors and nurses in the consultation room, you’re affecting the practice of medicine and the free speech of medical professionals," says Girard. "</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Either they take U.S. money and stop providing comprehensive care for women, or they’re going to take U.S. funding and possibly forgo other sources of funding."</span></b></i><br />
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<b>WNYC's Brian Lehrer digs into this policy with Francoise Girard, President of The International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC). Click on this link to listen to the 36 minute show... </b><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/trumps-global-gag-rule" target="_blank"><i>WNYC's Brian Lehrer show audio.</i></a><br />
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<b>So we see, that the fight of the Native American still carries on. They fight for their very existence now as they have always done... as their blood was spilt in the 1860's, so it may be spilt again, but they are not alone this time around, as thousands gather to stand with them, and the world watches on. At the time of this posting, there are 2000 veterans gearing up to go there and support their native brothers, and face the police water cannons, rubber bullets and concussion grenades in sub zero temperatures. The battle continues...</b><br />
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<b>Donald Trump has the most wealth of any past presidential candidate invested in Europe, and Putin controls Europe. This makes Trump the highest security risk ever presented or personally faced by a sitting president.</b><br />
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<b>It is no secret that Putin has threatened European countries in the past and he holds too much power by way of his supply lines of fossil fuels.</b><br />
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<b>From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_sector" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>...<i>'<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Russia">Russian</a> Federation supplies a significant volume of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fossil fuel">fossil fuels</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> and is the largest exporter of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" title="Petroleum">oil</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" title="Natural gas">natural gas</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> to the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" title="European Union">European Union</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">. In 2007, the European Union imported from Russia 185 million tonnes of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_oil" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" title="Crude oil">crude oil</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">, which accounted for 32.6% of total oil import, and 100.7 million </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne_of_oil_equivalent" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" title="Tonne of oil equivalent">tonnes of oil equivalent</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> of natural gas, which accounted 38.7% of total gas import.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tenth_progress_report_1-0" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_sector#cite_note-tenth_progress_report-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a>...'</sup></i></b><br />
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<sup class="reference" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">'</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">In 2007, 38.7% of the European Union's natural gas total imports and 24.3% of consumed natural gas originated from Russia.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tenth_progress_report_1-1" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_sector#cite_note-tenth_progress_report-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gas_security_directive_5-0" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_sector#cite_note-gas_security_directive-5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[5]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">As of 2009, Russian natural gas was delivered to Europe through 12 pipelines, of which three were direct pipelines (to Finland, Estonia and Latvia), four through Belarus (to Lithuania and Poland) and five through Ukraine (to Slovakia, Romania, Hungary and Poland).</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gas_security_directive_5-1" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_sector#cite_note-gas_security_directive-5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[5]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">In 2011, an additional pipeline,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" title="Nord Stream">Nord Stream</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">(directly to Germany through the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic Sea</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">), opened.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nordstreamoperations_6-0" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_sector#cite_note-nordstreamoperations-6" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[6]</a>'</sup></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><br /></span></span>'The largest importers of Russian gas in the European Union are Germany and Italy, accounting together for almost half of the EU gas imports from Russia. Other larger Russian gas importers (over 5 billion cubic meter per year) in the European Union are France, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria and Slovakia.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-eia-russia_7-0" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_sector#cite_note-eia-russia-7" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-noel1_8-0" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_sector#cite_note-noel1-8" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[8]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> The largest non-EU importers of Russian natural gas are Ukraine, Turkey and Belarus.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-eia-russia_7-1" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_sector#cite_note-eia-russia-7" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[7]</a>'</sup></b></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><br /></span></span>Trump could have billions invested across Europe and there is no way to stop the Russian strongman Putin from financially ruining Trump, so naturally Trump will succumb to Putin's threat to bankrupt him, and will become Putin's puppet in the White house, as Hillary predicted. Trump does not have the will to refuse Putin. </b><br />
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<b>Trump does not have the resources to go up against a country... Putin has the power of Russia behind him, while Trump is just a businessman. Trump cannot use the power of the White house to wage war against Russia for personal business.</b></div>
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<b>If behind closed doors, Putin orders the European union members to shutter Trump businesses, those countries are helpless to resist such orders as Trumps businesses are not important to the running or existence of these countries. Trump is just one of millions of businesses in Europe so no one will care if he goes out of business.</b></div>
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<b>This is the greatest threat to America and the White House now, as we have never had a President who has so much wealth to lose and is such an easy target to blackmail...</b></div>
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<b><i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/world/colombia-peace-deal-defeat.html?_r=0" target="_blank">From the New York Times</a>... '<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">A narrow margin divided the yes-or-no vote, with 50.2 percent of Colombians rejecting the peace deal and 49.8 percent voting in favor, the government said.... </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"> And it left the future of rebels who had planned to rejoin </span><a class="meta-loc" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/colombia/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" style="background-color: white; color: #326891; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif;" title="More news and information about Colombia.">Colombia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"> as civilians — indeed, the future of the war itself, which both sides had declared over — unknown.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Rodrigo Londoño, the FARC leader, who was preparing to return to Colombia after four years of negotiations in Havana, said he, too, was not interested in more war. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">“The FARC reiterates its disposition to use only words as a weapon to build toward the future,” he said in a statement. “With today’s result, we know that our challenge as a political party is even greater and requires more effort to build a stable and lasting peace.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b><i>The question voters were asked was simple: “Do you support the final agreement to end the conflict and construct a stable and enduring peace?” But it was one that had divided this country for generations, as successive governments fought what seemed to be a war without an end and the Marxist FARC rebels dug into the forest for a hopeless insurgency.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b><i>To many Colombians who had endured years of kidnappings and killings by the rebels, the agreement was too lenient. It would have allowed most rank-and-file fighters to start lives as normal citizens, and rebel leaders to receive reduced sentences for war crimes.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>This feeling of betrayal and the need for revenge and justice is echoed in the resounding but close victory of the 'No' vote.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>Unfortunately for all Colombians, while the price for peace is not as horrible as the price of war, it is a bitter pill indeed. It is the only cure for what ails Colombia and it is a difficult price to pay but it is the best remedy for this 52 year curse. </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>The cry for justice alone, cannot cure the pain or right the wrongs... The price for peace lies in the giving up of the blood lust for revenge and for a justice that can not make up for the blood spilled in the last 52 years. </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>Giving up the hatred and the need for revenge, giving in to the need for peace and progress, accepting the country's need to move on without retribution on either side, is the only way forward.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>There are many on both sides who have lost loved ones, the taking of more lives and prolonging the bitterness is not what Colombia needs. There are many who can't bring themselves to forgive the other side... and no one has to. </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>All anyone has to do is lay down their arms and lay down the rhetoric of war, walk away from the rational idea of avenging their dead. That is the price of peace... just giving up on the hate, the rage, the anger. </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>Turning away from war and embracing peace is the bitter pill that is needed now. Sometimes the simple decision is the most difficult to put in motion and carry out. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Centuries ago, when the battle was over, both sides went home and nursed their wounds, they embraced those on their side who were left, those who lived, and they rebuilt their lives. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>That is the price of peace now for Colombia. Just give up the need for justice, there is no justice during war, neither is there justice after war... there never was and there never will be for those who have lost friends, family and countrymen. </b></span></span><br />
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<b>I can write about this because I have seen the success kids can have, from the inside. Parents don't have to sit and help their kids with homework, you simply have to prepare the child to want to do it, to want to do the hard work to get ahead. Parents are not the ones in class, so how can you do the homework? I did not have to help my kids with homework. </b><br />
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<b>It is easy to do if you understand what needs to be done. Children are distracted from all sides with issues that they sometimes do not understand in the world, and the parent has to realize this and steady the child, by talking to them and explaining things on their level. This helps to keep the children calm and steady as they face the challenges of getting a good education.</b><br />
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<b>The earlier you start to inspire your child it will greatly improve their trajectory. They can get into advanced classes and programs given at their schools. Essentially you want to get them in an advanced program by grade school, sometime before middle school.</b><br />
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<b>It may be something as simple as showing them expensive things like nice cars and houses and letting them know that they are capable of getting these things with a good education and a good job. It is not that we are trying to make the child grow up to be materialistic, it is a parent's trick to inspire their child... like Santa Clause being real. Children will believe you, so make the fantasy and the stories grand.</b><br />
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<b>As they get older, they understand more and you introduce them to the idea of doing good things and having pride in themselves, you teach them that they can become great leaders and that everyone will appreciate their leadership qualities. You impress upon them how far they can get by being a strong leader, and you always remind them of how proud you are of them, re-enforcing that they have your support. </b><br />
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<b>I taught my kids that there is no word called 'best' in their vocabulary. Instead they should focus on the word 'better' and use that to propel themselves forward. So if they came home with a 90 on their test or grade B in something, then they will build on that tomorrow and better that grade. In short, best means something final, the end on their effort, while bettering that grade is what they want to work on each day. So they are always climbing upward.</b><br />
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<b>Be prepared to give the child an extra boost by paying for extra lessons, I did... so they can use that boost to get into the advanced classes. The advanced classes get a better deal, they go from middle school to the best high schools. At these better high schools, they get to compete for scholarships given by companies who will pay for their collage costs and give them a great job when the kids graduate.</b><br />
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<b>It is the difference between a starting salary of under $50k, and one over that amount. I have seen kids who start with $100k salaries... so the sky is the limit if you as the parent get inside their heads at an early age.</b><br />
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<b>The new fad is parents are using all sorts of excuses to prevent their kids from taking standardized testing, thinking they are doing something good for their kids when it is really the opposite. Children who are not allowed to prepare for and do the tests, are being held back academically, and they will suffer those consequences later on.</b><br />
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<b>Both my kids went to public school in Queens NY, from PS 100, to PS 124, Then to MS226 and then on to Stuyvesant High School. So they stayed in the public school system from start to finish, the point being the schools and the teaching curriculum is fine, the secret is the child and what the parent puts in their heads to prepare them for learning in school. When children are inspired then you don't have to do much, just a little guidance and inspiration along the way... I did this.</b><br />
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<b>All this talk about charter schools and vouchers is just garbage. In my opinion it does not matter if you put your child in the newest or best rated school. If your child does not want to pay attention in class and learn, and absorb the work being taught... nothing will happen. You as the parent have to inspire your child at the earliest opportunity, when you can still mold their little minds, and just hold their hands and guide them along the way.</b><br />
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<b>Don't distract your child with anything outside of study and play. To do so may be your and their undoing. Whether its common core or something else, testing is great to identify the areas that kids are weaker in, and then you as the parent finds solutions, like extra lessons... don't find excuses, to stop their testing. I have written on<a href="http://shockandaweonamerica.blogspot.com/2016/04/stupid-parents-make-stupid-kids.html" target="_blank"> this subject</a> before.</b><br />
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<b>To begin with, immigrants pump some 90 billion dollars into the American economy each year. Much of this money is paid into Social Security, which is depended on by a majority of white Americans many of whom are the same ones against immigrants and their presence here. There are more white Americans using Social Security services than any of the minority groups. But this is not the problem.</b><br />
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<b>There is a bigger problem looming in America that no one seems to have noticed, and no one is talking about it, in America. This larger and increasing threat to America comes in the form of education and the dwindling resource it threatens to become... this is where immigrants and their children, may well turn out to be America's greatest hand to play. </b><br />
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<b>Be assured the rest of the world is well aware of this issue as America sinks ever lower in the list of well educated countries that can equip their citizens with needed skills, and embrace the challenges of a growing technological global marketplace.</b><br />
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<b>America's problem stems from the new fad that seems to be increasing every year. Parents are opting out of properly educating their kids and that is holding these brilliant kids back. I wrote about this for the past <a href="http://shockandaweonamerica.blogspot.com/2016/04/stupid-parents-make-stupid-kids.html" target="_blank">two years</a> and it is increasing. </b><br />
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<b>When parents follow each other and resist having their kids do common core or standardized testing, they set a lower educational trajectory for their kids and ultimately their kids come out of school at a lower level than others who did the hard work... these others ultimately end up being the immigrant children, who then are the ones left with the responsibility of moving America forward, competing in an ever growing technological global marketplace.</b><br />
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<b>No matter how good the parents' intentions are, even children who are home schooled are missing out on things they should experience while growing up, and this may pose a challenge for the child later on. I have heard that some home schooled kids do well academically, but I hasten to add that most home schooled children are the ones who are distracted by other things that are injected by the parent, and thus they still may not realize their full potential.</b><br />
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<b>CNN... '</b><i><b><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; line-height: 1.66667;">In New Jersey,</span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; line-height: 1.66667;"> </span><a href="http://www.nj.com/education/2015/03/parcc_nj_assembly_says_schools_should_let_students.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; line-height: 1.66667; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank">lawmakers recently approved a measure</a><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; line-height: 1.66667;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; line-height: 1.66667;">that would require schools to accommodate parents who opt out of testing by providing alternative activities such as independent reading for their children.</span></b></i><br />
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<i><b>And in Indiana, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/02/23/indiana-superintendent-of-the-year-parents-should-homeschool-kids-during-testing-week/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the state's 2015 superintendent of the year recommended that parents home-school their children </a>during the testing weeks instead of having them take the tests.'</b></i></div>
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<b>Immigrants have one focus, to educate their children, as they are taught that education is the only way for their kids and their families to get out of poverty. Everything else is second to that. </b><br />
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<b>So while some children are kept back by their parents, immigrant kids are going through these same school systems snubbed by the American parents, and they , the immigrant kids end up winning. They win because there are limited spaces available in advanced classes at all schools, and if American kids aren't competing for those spaces, they are being filled by immigrant kids more and more.</b><br />
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<b>It is not that the American kids don't want to fill the space in the advanced class, it is that they are prevented from being competitive...by their parents, so they lose out. Advanced kids get into advanced colleges, their trajectories are higher.... <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/17/living/parents-movement-opt-out-of-testing-feat/" target="_blank">from CNN</a> <i>'... </i></b><i><b><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: "cnn" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "utkal" , sans-serif; line-height: 30px;"> the </span><a href="http://www.nysape.org/allies.html" style="background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; line-height: 30px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank">New York State Allies for Public Education</a></b><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: "cnn" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "utkal" , sans-serif; line-height: 30px;"><b> -- 156,000 students refused to take this week's English exam, and that's with just from 50% of the districts reporting their numbers...</b>.</span></i><i style="color: #262626; font-family: cnn, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, utkal, sans-serif; line-height: 30px;"><b>With approximately 1.1 million students eligible to take the tests in grades 3-8 in New York, that means at least 14% of students are projected to sit out this year. According to the state education department, last year about 49,000 (4%) didn't have a known valid reason for not taking the English test and 67,000 (6%) didn't take the math exam.'</b></i><br />
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<b>The end result is the immigrant children end up getting high five figure and even six figure jobs right out of college while many American children fall by the wayside or graduate into a lower paying job... or settle in to a manufacturing or construction job. I see this in the larger cities, where immigrant kids are graduating from specialized high schools and are thriving, in the spaces left by American kids.</b><br />
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<b>Immigrant children go on to take up the challenges of the global marketplace in an effort to keep America from descending into the global market abyss and keep America strong, competitive and in the higher echelons of the marketplace.</b><br />
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<b>America is now being sold on the idea of bringing back manufacturing jobs to America, these jobs will be low paying jobs and may be enough for families to stay afloat, but if parents do not keep their kids focused on higher education, then America may end up becoming some third world manufacturing low wage hub... soon 'Made in America' may carry as much weight as made is China, or Taiwan, or Bangladesh...</b><br />
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<b>There is a new uproar now, to get rid of the Sanctuary cities that accomodate large numbers of immigrant families. If this is done, the only loser wil be... America.</b><br />
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<b>I now think of the disease more in tune with that of a condition... a condition that can be reversed and maybe even extinguished like a bad blaze. I will let the good doctor explain...</b><br />
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<b>As with all billionaires, you develop an attitude over the years that always includes narcissism, and if your inclination is to feed that beast, it is sure to best you in the end. Billionaire narcissists tend to keep a low profile generally but as their close friends and relatives will tell you, many if not most, are not so warm and fuzzy behind closed doors... being quite eccentric at heart.</b><br />
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<b>Donald has fed his narcissism for decades and this brings up a particular problem for him, the same old has now become old. The thrill of being the 'it' guy, the center of attraction has faded. Donald now has to elbow his way through the other billionaires just to be noticed. At the country club he is not special anymore, he is just one of the many. His beast hungers... his ego needs sustenance.</b><br />
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<b>He caught a break with his TV show, and that calmed his ego beast for some years, but alas, this too has passed. </b><br />
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<b>Donald has the foresight needed as a businessman to understand the new opportunity when it presents itself, hence his presidential bid. Donald has to acquire something the other billionaires don't have, and the distinction of being addressed as 'Mr. President' by everyone, including the other billionaires is the crowning achievement. This will feed his narcissistic beast for a long time... maybe even forever, he hopes.</b><br />
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<b>Does Donald care that he will have to actually do the job now and again? Well, he has a solution for that, he will simply delegate the groundwork to his staff and simply make an appearance when the work is done, like all good bosses do. It's that simple.</b><br />
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<b>This approach of delegating most if not all the jobs to surrogates is different from other Presidents in that the others actually went in themselves and was part of the whole process. Donald does not have the time and patience for that. Donald can't be sympathetic, empathic and dedicated to solutions that serve others, because Donald's upbringing did not allow him the space to develop this mindset. </b><br />
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<b>He simply can't feel what he needs to feel, as poor people and poor nations do. He has always been on the other side of the fence... being the vulture, taking advantage, cannibalizing and profiteering from these poor people, companies and nations. His confession of using the system to file bankruptcies in the past, thereby wreaking havoc on smaller companies and thousands of their workers bears this out.</b><br />
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<b>For him as the leader of a nation to start developing feelings of sympathy and empathy so late in his life and in just a few months after being elected to the office, is something not even he can do. It takes years to understand and develop sympathy and empathy, quick and empty words are not enough. Donald is not interested in being a community organizer, he never was and never will be, it is beneath his status, as a billionaire.</b><br />
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<b>Donald's only wish, is not to hold office, but really to acquire the title, so he can prove himself above the growing mountain of other billionaires, as the thrill of everything has already worn off and is now boring to a long in the tooth billionaire. The other billionaires being made to unwillingly address him as 'Mr. President' is the only thing that will stroke his narcissism one more time... for the Don...</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 23.111px;">Now the bad news... next to your kids' classroom, there is another classroom filled with kids the same ages as your kids, who are doing a gifted or advanced class. These kids are not smarter than your kids... </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 23.111px;">This is the class you want to get your child into, because these kids will have different entities, non profits, and fortune 500 corporations offering to pay fully for their college costs, with the after college possibility of going to work immediately for the corporation or being placed in a job immediately upon graduation. All for free.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 23.111px;">When you refuse to have your child do the tests, they will not be accepted into a gifted or advanced kids program. You are forcing your child to stay in a regular class and miss out on the extra help that the advanced kids receive. </span></b><br />
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<b style="color: #262626; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23.111px;">Firstly, why are you helping your kids? If they pay attention in class , ask questions and do research, you will not need to help them. I couldn't understand my kids' homework because I was not in their class... I was at work. So they are the ones to do the homework, not me.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 23.111px;"><b>These well meaning, inexperienced parents are dumbing down America, by dumbing down their kids. Many if not most of these parents are first timers and are just now having their first experience at getting their kids ready for college and the global job market. </b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 23.111px;">Many are called 'Helicopter parents' for a reason and a little less of that hovering could prove to be a lot more helpful to their kids ... and the US as well. </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 23.111px;">Unfortunately while they are hearing from all sides about the issues they and their children face in preparation for college, many are listening without hearing certain things.... </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 23.111px;">As an experienced parent, I would like to add my voice. </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 23.111px;">My experience comes from having one child enter the job market and the other finishing her last year of college in 2016. I have been there through the years, I understand the fears parents have. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626; line-height: 23.111px;"><br /></span>The question is where do you want your child to enter the job market? Would you want your child to make below 65k or above 75k, when they are fresh out of college at 22 or 24yrs old?. So... At what stage do you want your kids' eventual level of education and qualification to be? <span style="color: #262626; line-height: 23.111px;">Do you want to get them to their flipping burgers stage or to the rocket science stage? </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626; line-height: 23.111px;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626; line-height: 23.111px;">When they go to middle school, they have a very limited number of years in which to learn certain things and they will have no time in High School to re-learn what they missed in those prior years. </span>I remember my kids telling me that in their specialized high school (Stuyvesant)... they were told that their choice is simple.... sleep or study.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 23.111px;"><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/cosmos-explained/" target="_blank">Neil Degrasse Tyson</a></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> said in an interview on <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/cosmos-explained/" target="_blank">WNYC </a> that reverse engineering something could have be done years ago because we were doing physics, but today we are using nanotechnology and Quantum Physics ... </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 23.111px;">That statement alone reveals a stark reality...</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With a global marketplace we need to have a student that has a more global standard of education, as there are no more borders with the advent of the internet. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/17/living/parents-movement-opt-out-of-testing-feat/" target="_blank">CNN</a> had some interesting interviews on this topic which parents should watch for themselves. Just click the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/17/living/parents-movement-opt-out-of-testing-feat/" target="_blank">CNN</a> link.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>As Melinda Gates mentioned in one interview, trajectory is important to a child. I would even say trajectory is everything to a growing mind. Parents must realize that a child's brain is a muscle... a muscle that needs exercise and challenges to grow, or they will get bored easily in class. Set your childs trajectory to a high level because that is really what they are capable of.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>First rule in class... pay attention. Learning is or should mostly be done in class. Homework is just an opportunity to reaffirm what you learned in class and revise, and expand on it... having already gotten the basics in the classroom. Don't be afraid of having them take extra lessons after school to catch up in what they are lacking. I did that myself 40 years ago.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>I know there are parents with kids who have certain disabilities, these tests will identify those kids so they can get the individual help they need without slowing down the rest of the class, the future depends on that. </b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>These standardized tests that kids are being allowed to opt out of are the building blocks of a great education, which gets them into a great High school and then a great College and an even greater job. The tests are their foundation blocks for the educated self that they are building.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> The more they face the challenges of preparing for each test, they are putting the building blocks in place. If they opt out they have damaged that building process and it will impact them severly in their later years. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>When they get into high school, they will do so in a diminished capacity and they now have a limited number of years to learn everything from foreign languages and programming to rocket science, they can't slow down to try to catch up on anything they missed out in their earlier years. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Same idea applies to middle school, they will be slowed down if they are allowed to not prepare for testing in their earlier years.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Testing and preparing for the tests, is their greatest opportunity for their next step, whether that next step is Middle school, High School, or College. Testing is an opportunity they simply can't afford to miss out on, and the preparation for these tests are priceless.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>From the CNN article...<span style="color: #262626; line-height: 1.44444;">"<i>It's really a way of making children think for themselves and have teachers speak less and students become more responsible for their learning," said a teacher and a mom of two who </i></span><span style="color: #262626; line-height: 1.44444;"><i>didn't want to be identified. "I feel the teaching has become better because of what's expected. Where we go wrong is understanding that the Common Core is a guideline and we still have to meet the needs of the students where they are academically."</i></span></b></span></div>
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<b>Firstly we have to ask, how are the right wingers wrong, and if so, then what is the correct way to address the terrorism issue? </b><br />
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<b>Well, first thing that may surprise right wingers is the fact that terrorists may change their minds and vice versa, good people may decide to become terrorists. </b><br />
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<b>The right wing is concerned that Syrian refugees, Mexicans, and all Muslims around the world need to be stopped from entering the US because they are potentially terrorists, this is just a strawman argument. It has teeth, just not sharp ones. Compared to the two potential terrorists that sneak into the US, we create a thousand potential ones, in our backyard.</b><br />
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<b>The bigger picture is for decades we have been creating our own terrorists without any help from the Muslim community, they are made in our prisons and in our streets. We have the largest prison population this side of the Milky Way. Not all terrorists manufactured in the US prison system are brown and Middle Eastern in nature.... they are blacks and whites.</b><br />
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<b>Many of our home grown terrorists are white and come from a non Middle Eastern background, while others are black and come from the inner cities where there is little hope of ever having a meaningful life, and once you have been dragged through the Justice system, which just takes kids who have their lives ahead of them, chew them up and spit them out without any hope of them being able to pick up and move on... we create potential terrorists by the thousands. </b><br />
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<b>We make this happen in larger numbers than the number of terrorists that can migrate here.</b><br />
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<b>When would-be terrorists see a nation that will nurture their children and do our best to educate, love and protect them, that alone can change one's mind for the better and thereby help someone to not go off the deep end and perform terroristic acts. </b><br />
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<b>The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/us/san-bernardino-attacks-us-visa-process-tashfeen-maliks-remarks-on-social-media-about-jihad-were-missed.html?_r=0" target="_blank">San Bernardino shooters</a> left their child here, with the Grandmother, to become a meaningful and productive part of a great society... the same society they had rebelled against, for their own reasons. Their parental love and best wishes for their child was bigger than whatever reason fooled them into taking their lives down that darkened path.</b><br />
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<b>Like many other criminal organizations, once you join you are not allowed to leave, it may have been the same for these parents. After they got to the US and started a family, they realized their mistake, but could not stop the terroristic plan because usually, the group will kill all your family, so in effect, they had just given their lives to save their child and family members here and abroad.</b><br />
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<b>When a kid who did a stupid thing is thrown to the wolves in a terrible prison system, there is little hope for him or her to come back into society without hate and anger coarsing through their veins... this is the easiest way to create home grown terrorists, who become gangbangers, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/states-expanded-gun-rights-after-sandy-hook-school-massacre-n479216" target="_blank">school or workplace shooters</a> and religious idealists with a special propensity to act out against society in general... and Planned Parenthood offices. </b><br />
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<b>American history is littered with groups and incidents that fall within the confines of terrorism, from the early 1900's to San Bernardino and the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/09/us/colorado-planned-parenthood-shooting/" target="_blank">Planned Parenthood shootings </a>recently.</b><br />
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<b>Our politicians are not stupid even though they pretend they are, by adopting the worst and most heinous policies, which are not geared toward Nation Building, but instead is geared toward tearing down all the programs that are needed to help impoverished individuals receive Federal help to turn their lives around... even defenseless children are made to suffer with the cutting of school feeding programs by the right wing politicians.</b><br />
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<b>Those who raise the argument that Federal dollars are not for use in Nation Building are absolutely wrong, this is the best use of our tax dollars. Revitalizing our communities will make us a stronger country, a safer country.</b><br />
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<b>Anyone can decide to become a terrorist, for whatever reasons they choose, so by prohibiting one religious group, the Muslims, from traveling to America, the right wing is still not addressing the issue. We simply have to have a more intelligent discussion and approach to terrorism. Home grown terrorism can result in larger numbers than immigrant terrorists sneaking in.</b><br />
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<b>It is no secret that people become radicalized in our prisons and our impoverished communities at a much higher rate than any amount of terrorists that will sneak in within the crowds of refugees. Anyone can decide to become a terrorist, so it is impossible to see a terrorist from the outside, and we can't read their minds. We have many terrorist events in the US that are not committed by those of Middle Eastern descent.... and they are not brown in color either. </b><br />
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<b>We have even had some that are not religious in their terroristic acts, such as <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/19/timothy-mcveigh-viewed-oklahoma-city-bombing-as-failure-docs-show/" target="_blank">Tim McVeigh's bombing</a> of a Federal Building.</b><br />
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<b>I think if we take proper care of our prisoners and make sure they have a productive life to return to, we will face one million less terrorists, and the few dozen that we do otherwise encounter, will seem a whole lot less scary to right wingers.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>There are no traditional borders anymore, as a culture of terror or an ideal is hard to defeat as it can be spread to anywhere and anyone regardless of borders.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-in-a-borderless-world-the-days-when-we-could-fight-foreign-wars-and-be-safe-at-home-may-be-long-a6741146.html" target="_blank">Independent.co.uk</a>.... </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>"<span style="background-color: white; color: #281e1e; line-height: 28px;">Early in 2014, Isis released one of its first videos. Largely unseen in Europe, it had neither the slick, cutting-edge professionalism of its later execution tapes nor the haunting “nasheed” music that accompanies most of its propaganda. Instead, a hand-held camera showed a bulldozer pushing down a rampart of sand that had marked the border between Iraq and Syria. As the machine destroyed the dirt revetment, the camera panned down to a handwritten poster lying in the sand. “End of Sykes-Picot”, it said... "</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #281e1e; line-height: 28px;">"Like many hundreds of thousands of Arabs in the Middle East, for whom Sykes-Picot was an almost cancerous expression, I watched this early Isis </span><a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-in-a-borderless-world-the-days-when-we-could-fight-foreign-wars-and-be-safe-at-home-may-be-long-a6741146.html#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px none transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ec1a2e; cursor: pointer; display: inline; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p" style="border: 0px; bottom: auto; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; white-space: nowrap !important;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook0w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; bottom: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #009900; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: underline !important; top: auto; white-space: normal;">video</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" id="itxthook0icon" style="border: 0px !important; bottom: auto; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline !important; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #281e1e; line-height: 28px;"> in Beirut. The bloody repercussions of the borders that the British and French diplomats, Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, drew in secret during the First World War – originally giving Syria, Mount Lebanon and northern Iraq to the French, and Palestine, Transjordan and the rest of Iraq to the British – are known to every Arab, Christian and Muslim and, indeed, every Jew in the region. They eviscerated the governorates of the old dying Ottoman empire and created artificial nations in which borders, watchtowers and hills of sand separated tribes, families and peoples. They were an Anglo-French colonial production."</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>In response to immigrants seeking asylum in the United States, many state Governors have been putting blocks into place to prevent mainly Syrian refugees from being allowed into the US, with the premise that this will help keep ISIS operatives out.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>While this is an understandable response by lawmakers, unfortunately it is not going to work as the terrorist ideology and culture is spread by words from one person to another, from one jihadist to another, from words and misconstrued teachings on the internet, from videos on websites and youtube... on social networking sites like Facebook.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>There are already operatives in the US who will follow any group that comes along and fits into their ideals, today it is ISIS, yesterday it was Al Queda, tomorrow it will be some other misguided group.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>There were a few dozen armed Militia groups in the US before Barrack Obama was elected to be POTUS.... this turned into literally hundreds of Militia groups after Obama's election. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Armed Militias are an easy target for ISIS operatives to join and get military training. You can't always spot a terrorist, they are not always brown or black in colour. You cannot prove what religion or religious ideology a person subscribes to. Anyone can say that he is a Christian, or any other religion, and it is easy to learn the ways of said religion and therefore blend in.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Many operatives are accepted into groups simply because they have a prison record, something that all but proves that the individual is anti-government and would make a great soldier for whatever cause the group has. Prisons are where terrorists are made or converted. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>It is widely known that once in prison, many are led to the alter of religion after which they are easily radicalized. These ex prisoners can simply say they are of the desired religious persuasion, join the hundreds of militias in the US, or even form their own, and get training and then lay in wait for the right moments to strike. There are thousands of prisoners who have found religion in prison, being released from prison every week.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I think this is happening right now. While we are distracted with trying to block immigrants from entering the US, there are thousands of potential terror operatives getting trained in Militia camps nationwide.... the cat is already out of the bag.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>That 24 day time frame is actually the first time there has been a specified inspection time frame, It is divided into two parts, the first two weeks is set aside for the relevant authorities to address the issues and concerns with Iran, after which if deemed necessary, the inspections would be carried out in ten days. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Mary Matalin when confronted by <a href="http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/episodes/13/359-episode/index.html" target="_blank">Bill Maher on episode 359</a>, about quitting coal energy, kept insisting that then we must go to Nuclear energy. Bill reminded her of Fukushima as a good reason to not build anymore Nuclear sites as she was clearly suggesting. She really thought she had a smart counter argument to the eradication of coal energy plants.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I would also remind Republicans that we should go nuclear... the sun is the largest nuclear reactor in our galaxy, and all we need to do is invent something called solar panels, and point them towards the sun. Oh wait! We already did. Bill missed that.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bill rightly pointed out that solar energy will also provide twice the amount of jobs. This is something Republicans should be really excited about.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trump met on Tuesday with the CEO of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Javier Palomarez, and will be made to appear to the chamber on October 8th for a question and answer forum.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/01/politics/2016-donald-trump-hispanic-chamber-of-commerce/" target="_blank">CNN</a> <span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; line-height: 1.66667;"><i>"It's kind of interesting, the dichotomy between the private Donald Trump and the public Donald Trump. He listened a lot more than he spoke," Palomarez said. "He never once interrupted me."</i></span></span></b><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At one point, Palomarez said Trump joked that "he didn't need the Hispanic vote" as he referenced his high poll numbers.</span></b></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="line-height: 1.66667;">"But I think we both know that he's recognized that in fact, he does need the Hispanic vote," Palomarez added. <span style="line-height: 30.0000610351563px;">He said Trump earnestly expressed his desire to win over the Hispanic community, saying: "I want it...I</span></i><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.0000610351563px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 30.0000610351563px;"><i>feel like I've been mischaracterized and treated unfairly and my name has been slandered to some extent with this audience."</i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trump boasted that his biggest ace in the hole was his money, and that may have been so... until now.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> He boasted time and again that he is above his competitors, because he is super rich and does not need anyone elses money for support. He boasted that while the other Republican candidates had to get their support from other rich persons, and as a result they will be indebted and open to paying the piper when the time comes, he will not bow or be indebted to anyone. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He thought that he was powerful enough to do what he wanted, powerful enough to say what he wanted, and was powerful enough to insult the Latino population and walk away unscathed. He was wrong. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is as green a wanna be politician, as they come. He is a beginner, he kept his eye on the ball, but he took his eye off the field that he had to run on, to get the win. That field of voters being... the Latinos.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is now being seen as nothing more than a regular man with foot in mouth disease, a regular candidate, a regular politician... in that he does not need to be bought, he can be made to beg for free. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He just woke up to the fact that his money can't help him now, to win votes... he needs to be respectful... bow... and beg.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trump learned that he does not need to be bribed or donated to, for him to be humbled and made to know his place in an election. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sleeping giant that he insulted, causing it to show its hand, is a coalition of over 300,000 Latino businesses. This coalition, by itself, generates some 4 billion dollars annually. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He realizes that not only do you need money to win an election, but you also need votes. He realizes now that he need the votes from the fastest growing voting block in America... the Latinos.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trump realizes that he does not need to take someones donations to be indebted to them, to be made to bow, grovel and beg to them... he realizes that he is asking something of them, he needs them, not because they can give him money, but he needs their votes.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Funny enough, Trump has run into another wall of his building... the Latino wall... of voters.</span></b><br />
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<b>Donald is an honest man, he has said that he is not paying politicians anymore, to get favors. He confessed that he used to extend the graciousness of his wallet to politicians in times gone by, but he is now a reformed and honest man... as he insists that he can not be bought by other rich men while on his journey to acquire the office of the president, nor will he take 'donations' when he gets there.</b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>Donald Trump is a fair and unbiased man. To him it is definitely not a race issue. The world is now aware that The Donald has gotten the down low from his people, they must have told him that there are about 12 million illegal Mexicans in the US and he says he has plans to have them removed. He said he has the plan to do just that, and we will have to wait to see it happen... he also said it would be very easy to get the job done.</b><br />
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<b>Apparently his people have already searched and found only Mexicans illegally here in the US, who by the way he thinks are rapists, criminals and murderers. He says he is sure some of them are good people, but his statements reflect the sentiment that there are no white or other peoples illegally here from around the globe... obviously his people would have found them and told him so. </b><br />
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<b>There are no illegal Germans, Russians, Italians, Irish, Chinese, Indians, Pakistanis, Africans, Haitians, Jamaicans, West Indians, Philippians, Spanish, French, Greek, Dutch or any other such illegals of the fairer or darker skin types... there are only Mexicans, and as such, his actions would be tapered to solving this Mexican dilemma. His really competent people has surely intimated to him as much, hence his bold and accurate statements to the facts of the matter.</b><br />
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<b>For every Mexican that comes across the southern border, thousands from around the globe fly in to our airports, sail into our ports, and cross our northern border with Canada. </b><br />
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<b>According to Donald's people, none of these thousands of people over stay their visas. If they did, then surely Donald would have been told of this and would have been advised by his people, that it is not only Mexicans he needed to deport... but a few million more foreigners as well.</b><br />
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<b>I am sure these wonderfully thorough 'people' of Donald's, would obviously do a bang up job informing President Trump on how to conduct the country's business in foreign policy issues. </b><br />
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<b>I am sure these meticulous 'people' would be able to work out the best solutions to deal with China and other BRIC countries.</b><br />
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<b>I am sure these well informed 'people' will have a well laid out plan to deal with the ideology in the middle east that breeds radical Islamic followers... because for every thousand ISIS fighters, there is another radical group waiting in the wings for their turn at the trough.</b><br />
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<b>I shudder to think of the disadvantage other countries would be at when facing President Trump and his people, as the globe tries to trade with the US.</b><br />
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<b>I am sure President Trump and his people would do immaculate work when dealing with <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/donald-trump-very-hard-say-were-ripping-iran-deal-n410641" target="_blank">foreign Nuclear powers</a>... I am sure of this. Obviously Trump does have the complete <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/08/10/gop-establishment-wouldnt-support-trump-heres-why-it-should-say-so/" target="_blank">backing of the GOP</a>, the Mexicans and the 'minorities.</b><br />
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<b>Donald Trump has his finger on the pulse of this great country... and the globe, just like he has his finger on the pulse of the immigration debate.... I am sure of this... his 'people' have let him say as much.</b><br />
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<b>His people let him infer that the <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/birthright-citizenship-not-mandated-by-constitution" target="_blank">14th ammendment can be challenged</a> because it is unconstitutional. He said his lawyers are on it! He says 'anchor babies' should not be afforded legality and they should be deported.</b><br />
<b><br /></b><b><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word" target="_blank">MSNBC The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell </a>... Judge Sandford in 1844 settled the case of Julia Lynch in which he stated that she was born and briefly lived in New York, and was thus entitled to her family's inheritance and fortunes of the <a href="http://www.saratoga.com/waters-of-saratoga/springs.cfm" target="_blank">Saratoga Springs mineral water empire</a>. She was an 'anchor baby.' ... He explained that the law of that time made you a subject of the King whenever you were born in territories that we</b><b>re subject to his command. </b><br />
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<b>Donald has put much thought into this, he is now suggesting that well <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word" target="_blank">educated 'illegal' children </a>should be allowed to stay and build the country that they studied in and has come to love... something I said in my book, so maybe the <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/16169" target="_blank">Donald read my book. </a></b><br />
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<b>He did say in fact that he watches Television to get<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/08/16/trump-i-get-my-military-advice-from-watching-shows/" target="_blank"> military advice</a>...and gleans much of his information from that.</b><br />
<b>That reminded me of how much information <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/09/30/30022/palins-news/" target="_blank">Sarah Palin was able to glean</a> from reading magazines and newspapers and whatever she put her hands on back then... whatever was on the coffee tables.</b><br />
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<b>I am really interested in finding out if Donald would take members of our police forces off regular duties and task them to find illegals. If not the police, maybe he will task the National Guard, or the other military branches. His people are on it... I am sure.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>There was a time when drugs ran rampant in Portugal. In a daring move that was frowned upon by many, Portugal decriminalized all drugs... with certain regulated conditions.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><a href="http://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decriminalized-all-drugs-here-s-what-s-happening">Mic.com</a>...</b> <b><i>'<span style="line-height: 25px;">In 2001, the Portuguese government did something that the United States would find entirely alien. After many years of waging a fierce war on drugs, it decided to flip its strategy entirely: It decriminalized them all...</span></i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If someone is found in the possession of less than a 10-day supply of anything from marijuana to heroin, he or she is <a href="http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/country-overviews/pt" style="background-color: transparent; color: #497fbd; text-decoration: none;">sent</a> to a three-person Commission for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction, typically made up of a lawyer, a doctor and a social worker. The commission recommends treatment or a minor fine; otherwise, the person is sent off without any penalty. A vast majority of the time, there is no penalty.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fourteen years after decriminalization, Portugal has not been run into the ground by a nation of drug addicts. In fact, by many measures, it's doing far better than it was before.'</span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is now a need to try something outrageous again. In doing so, millions of lives around the world would be affected, and saved!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amnesty International has been working for years trying to come to grips with the fate of millions of unfortunate women globally who are abused in one way or another as a direct result of the sex worker trade. They have seen women mistreated, raped and even killed in this trade and they are trying to initiate policies which will globally impact this assault on women. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They will have to tiptoe through the legislatures of all countries regarding what is allowed or not. This is made even more difficult when you throw differing cultural norms into the mix... like <a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=29715&ea.tracking.id=Country_MoroccoandWesternSahara~Country_Tunisia~MessagingCategory_WomensRights~Region_MiddleEastandNorthAfrica~Country_Algeria">rapists being allowed to marry their underage</a> victims and getting off scott free!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After extensive work done in four countries involving numerous agencies, Amnesty International has now cleared a huge bar and has voted to take up the issue in a definitive way... work toward the Decriminalization of sex workers.</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a divisive, sensitive and complex issue and our priority has been and remains an approach that best protects the rights of some of the most marginalized people in the world. That is why we have been working for over two years to develop a policy to protect the human rights of sex workers based on research and global consultation with hundreds of organizations, our international membership and many more individuals worldwide.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amnesty International now stands alongside leading human rights and health groups around the world, including the <a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/14session/A.HRC.14.20.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #126786; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health</a>, the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decriminalization-of-sex-work-could-reduce-hiv-infections/2014/07/21/890a3f8e-110c-11e4-98ee-daea85133bc9_story.html" style="border: 0px; color: #126786; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a>, the <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/un-commission-calls-legalizing-prostitution-worldwide" style="border: 0px; color: #126786; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Global Commission on HIV and the Law</a>, <a href="http://www.nswp.org/news-story/human-rights-watch-supports-push-decriminalising-voluntary-sex-work-adults" style="border: 0px; color: #126786; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Human Rights Watch</a> and <a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/ten-reasons-decriminalize-sex-work" style="border: 0px; color: #126786; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Open Society Foundation</a>. among others. Just this week, the world’s longest-running medical journal, <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)61460-X/fulltext?rss=yes" style="border: 0px; color: #126786; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Lancet</a></span>, endorsed the proposal.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Human rights belong to everyone inherently by virtue of being human — and that includes sex workers. Sex workers are particularly at risk of human rights violations, including physical and sexual violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, extortion and harassment, medical interventions, and exclusions from health care, housing and other social and legal benefits.</i>'</span></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amnesty-international-sex-workers_55ca283fe4b0923c12be34aa?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067" target="_blank">Huffington Post.</a>..</b><i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Century, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">“This is a historic day for Amnesty International,” Salil Shetty, secretary general of Amnesty International, </span><a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press-releases/global-movement-votes-to-adopt-policy-to-protect-human-rights-of-sex-workers" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2c9178; font-family: Georgia, Century, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said in a news release.</a></b></i></div>
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<i><b>He added, “Sex workers are one of the most marginalized groups in the world who in most instances face constant risk of discrimination, violence and abuse." The group believes that removing criminal law surrounding sex work will lessen the abuse and stigma faced by sex workers. </b></i></div>
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<i><b>The resolution, which passed at the human rights group's International Council Meeting in Dublin, recommends decriminalization of both buying and selling sex by adults. Tuesday’s vote does not mean that a specific policy has been adopted. Rather, the group’s International Board is now authorized to <a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press-releases/qa-on-the-policy-to-protect-human-rights-of-sex-workers" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #2c9178; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">develop and finalize a policy</a>...</b></i></div>
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<b><i>Amnesty has been developing a draft policy for the past two years. From the release:</i></b></div>
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<b><i>The policy has drawn from an extensive evidence base from sources including UN agencies, such as the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, UN Women and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. We have also conducted research in four countries.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>The consultation included sex worker groups, groups representing survivors of prostitution, abolitionist organizations, feminist and other women's rights representatives, LGBTI activists, anti- trafficking agencies and HIV/AIDS organizations.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>The draft policy drew widespread support from sex workers and advocacy groups worldwide, but sharp criticism from some anti-trafficking groups who fear decriminalization will increase exploitation and abuse.'</i></b><br />
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<b>This project is purely an uphill battle as it will not be done on a 'small' scale... like decriminalizing drugs in Portugal. This is rather a global attempt and it is assured to draw the ire of the likes of those who see rape as an acceptable thing in one way or another, for example in many African and Middle Eastern nations.... even the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/middleeast/isis-enshrines-a-theology-of-rape.html?_r=0">rape of underage victims</a>.</b><br />
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<b>Update, this is an interview by the author of the article on Isis' systematic rape culture in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/middleeast/isis-enshrines-a-theology-of-rape.html?_r=1" target="_blank">New York Times</a>.... on <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/systematic-rape-isis-theology/">WNYC</a> with Brian Lehrer.</b><br />
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<b>The other side of the coin is that republican voters have learned to become embarrassed and ashamed, and many don't like the mirror anymore... or at least what they see in that mirror.</b><br />
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<b>This is information they are slowly awaking to... because for the last 14 years, since 9/11, they have been using the Internet more and more and now have smart phones and they have since heard a constant faint drumbeat in the background. That faint and haunting drumbeat of criticism brings the realization that a blinding light is now shone on them...the whole world can see them, and see what they do and also see what they have done.</b><br />
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<b>To begin with, what they have done is they elected the most arguably unqualified person in the form of George 'Dubya' Bush to lead the free world and he broke it... with their blessing. </b><br />
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<b>He ignored the warning about 9/11 and thereby let it happen, which in essence turned the world upside down because he used the attack to launch two wars and spent much blood and treasure. Demolition evidence suggests and some conspiratory theorists conclude, that this went well, according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century" target="_blank">PNAC's plan</a>.</b><br />
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<b>He then had the worst recession since the last depression... which all but sealed the fate of the world at large. As fast as the chips fell in the American economy, it plummeted just as fast in global markets. Some economies have still not recovered.</b><br />
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<b>Bush destroyed countries in the blink of an eye... all to satisfy the hunger of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY#t=28" target="_blank">military industrial complex.</a></b><br />
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<b>This is important because until Bush, the republican voter could have still held their heads high and simply say that they have different ideas to anyone who disagreed with them. But now the shoe has dropped, they slowly realize that they are blamed for the error of the Bush rampage through the corridors of idiocy. As Bush ran through the ward, he took the voting base right along with him. </b><br />
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<b>To everyone, the patients running the ward was just the punchline of a silly joke... until now, until they were made to look in the mirror, through the mirror of the Internet world. That slow and careful look in the mirror is always a hard thing to face... and realize you are the fault, for voting that person into office... and then he broke the world.</b><br />
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<b>Since Bush's reign of terror, the republican voter has seen the world change so rapidly because of what was left of the wounded world. The reinvigorated push-back by the whole world, against most of what republicans stand for, has opened their eyes... just a little. </b><br />
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<b>They still want to go back to the old ways, in a long lost century, when there was no internet... not much electricity... where women could stick some aspirin between their legs for birth control... where rape had its legitmacy... where it was ok for family to mingle... in the dark...</b><br />
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<b>We see a new hope for the world now, with a new Pope. A Pope with eyes wide open making sweeping changes in this now broken world. Opening other's eyes... making amends.</b><br />
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<b>We see the first black American President, making even more sweeping and most welcome changes. More changes than anyone thought was possible for a Captain of a half sunken ship. They both come together to give us this one message... 'On a sinking ship, the more gold you grab, the less your ability to swim... In life, take things that would not drown you.'</b><br />
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<b>We see on social media that republicans are being schooled now more than ever, and unlike 20 years ago when it was just non republicans in their hometowns attempting to school them verbally, now it is people from all over this precious globe. That is a loud voice that can't be ignored. When you see this uproar against your policies in writing, and in every corner of the Internet... you can't escape it unless you throw away your smart phone, of keep your computer and TV turned off. They feel ashamed... they hear the voices.</b><br />
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<b>So republican voters have just gotten the message, they now look at their new field of 2016 presidential candidates, and they do not like what they see. They see a bunch of broken people with the same old broken ideas, the same old broken policies, and the same old broken talking points... they still like it, but they know they look less than smart to the rest of the world.</b><br />
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<b>This is why they are throwing a Hail Mary pass, and are supporting Donald Trump right now. They know he is a clown, but he is just different to the rest of what people call 'the clown car,' even though he is just a magnification of their very disillusioned best... he is the ultimate old, white, rich man.</b><br />
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<b>They don't care what he says, he has dropped the pretense that he needs to be apologetic, he is brash and ill mannered, he does not believe in God, as he believes he does not need to ask or get forgiveness from God. He has donated many dollars in the past to buy favors from politicians, yet he says he will be honest and not be bought by other rich men.</b><br />
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<b>He does not need to have brainy ideas as he believes he can pay the best thinkers to do his thinking for him. He understands that business runs the world, but he misunderstands this to mean that he can buy hearts, minds and souls with business. </b><br />
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<b>He does not believe in Socialism but wants to save everyone... says he has a heart. I think that is a social idea. I think that's what Jesus would do... save everyone with his big heart. He thinks he does not need to be a humble man as all good Christians are, or are supposed to be. </b><br />
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<b>He does not have to be smart enough to know that a wall can be tunnelled under. He does not have to be smart enough to know that they have shovels in Mexico. He has already forgotten the lessons of the last two big prison breaks, the one in upstate New York and the other in Mexico by 'El Chapo.' Maybe he is smart enough to know, and is just fooling his voters.</b><br />
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<b>He does not need to know anything... republican voters don't care much for knowing things, as long as he can reflect something back to them that does not remind them of ...them. They have always bought the idea that they can each become a millionaire and need to give the millionaires a tax break, or an estate tax break... just in case they come by the odd million dollars, or two.</b><br />
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<b>They feel the need to distance themselves from their past mistakes and bad decisions with the votes for candidates that they really wanted at the time. They were not careful of what they wished for, and they got it, each obviously disappointing time.</b><br />
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<b>They see themselves reflected in a dysfunctional congress because they have been branded as the party of 'No.'</b><br />
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<b>They are embarrassed and ashamed. That is why they need Trump, to help them save face as the world looks on. The first half is nearly over as the teams have been picked, and are on the field playing ball... and their team looks like a weak one, one that could lose... again.</b><br />
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<b>First they lost to a black man, now they could lose to a woman, or worse yet... a socialist! So they need this Hail Mary pass...in the darkness that is their world view, with glorious war at every turn... they desperately need it... he can provide it... he is the rich and glorious Donald Trump!!</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In science it is said that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In that vein, Iran and Iraq largely cancelled out each other's power at the time, by each keeping the other in check.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While the balance of power between Iraq and Iran prior to the US invasion was arguably incident free under the watchful eye of the US, when Iraq was invaded two notable things happened. The ''standoff' and push back by Iraq against Iran was eliminated and the overseeing of that 'condition' was nullified as the US now had its hands full fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and was not then able to police the region in any meaningful sense.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The US invasion of Iraq essentially removed Iraq from being an opposing force against Iran, thereby providing the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/opinion/how-bush-let-iran-go-nuclear.html" target="_blank">freedom for Iran</a> to pursue its many goals, on of which was the realization of <a href="http://www.iranfactfile.org/2014/02/08/numbers/" target="_blank">Nuclear independence.</a> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Republican operative George 'Dubya' Bush was so blinded by his party's thirst for war to feed the <a href="http://shockandaweonamerica.blogspot.com/2010/09/jfk-eisenhower-warnsbeware-military.html" target="_blank">Military industrial Complex </a>that he and his party largely ignored Iran in the first few years after the Iraq invasion... </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-28/bush-s-iran-plan-is-worse-than-obama-s" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a>;<i> '</i></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333340; font-family: Tiempos, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333340; font-family: Tiempos, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;"><b><i>So by June 2004, there were 1,140 fully installed centrifuges at Natanz. In October of that year, Iran announced it had substantial feedstocks ready to enrich in the centrifuges.'</i></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Bush started the push to invade Iraq, Iran at that time had about 20 barely working centrifuges, when Obama was sworn in, by 2008, <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-28/bush-s-iran-plan-is-worse-than-obama-s" target="_blank">Iran had thousands</a> of operable centrifuges ... and was by then also sitting on some 2000 lbs of uranium that they had made themselves!... '</span></b><i><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333340; font-family: Tiempos, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;">By the time Bush left office in January 2009, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><a data-web-url="https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/gov2009-8.pdf" href="https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/gov2009-8.pdf" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00b9e7; cursor: pointer; font-family: Tiempos, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.00392157) 1px 1px 1px;">Iran had</a><span style="color: #333340; font-family: Tiempos, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;"> just </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333340; font-family: Tiempos, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;">under 4,000 working centrifuges and an additional 1,600 installed. '... </span></b></i><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/02/why-our-obsession-irans-centrifuges-could-give-them-bomb/105660/" target="_blank">Defense One</a>...'<i>Zero is a fantasy, and you can blame President George W. Bush’s administration for that. It may have been possible to convince Iran to dismantle all its centrifuges when it had only a few dozen in 2003 and first offered to talk to the U.S.. Or in 2005, when it had a few hundred and was in talks with the European Union. But the Bush administration spurned any deal.'</i> </span></span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In short the Iranian lion cub had eight unimpeded years of growth and had become a different animal, one that was now full grown and had a deafening Nuclear roar.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any chance of curbing or eliminating the Nuclear progress Iran had enjoyed under the Republican minions' watch, was now a folly of unimaginative conservative thinking. They had created a monster which had outgrown its cage and shackles. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The incoming Obama administration was by then saddled with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan coupled with a deep recession that was </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fast becoming a </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">great global depression, while combating internal <a href="http://shockandaweonamerica.blogspot.com/2010/09/treasonous-republicans-sabotage.html" target="_blank">sabotage by the republicans </a>in congress at every turn... all these issues effectively tied the hands of the US government. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consequently Iran was able to build on its arsenal of 5,600 centrifuges in 2008, increasing that number to over 19,000 in 2015.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>So far tattoos cannot be removed, they are simply treated with lasers and broken down and now float around your body and may eventually be deposited in your lymph nodes. It is a permanent threat to you for the rest of your life.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>From <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/" target="_blank">WNYC</a>... <i>'<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">The FDA lists </span><a href="http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm048919.htm" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgba(18, 140, 244, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #128cf4; line-height: 25.6000003814697px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 250ms, color 250ms;" target="_blank">several risks from tattoos on its website</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">: Infection, Allergies, Scarring, Granulomas, and MRI complications. However, tattoo inks are regulated as cosmetics in this country, which means that there is no federal agency that reviews, or approves, tattoo inks. A </span><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60215-X/abstract" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgba(18, 140, 244, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #128cf4; line-height: 25.6000003814697px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 250ms, color 250ms;" target="_blank">study in Lancet</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;"> revealed titanium, barium, aluminum, and copper are predominantly used as colorants in tattoos, and there is little scientific information about the lifetime internal exposure to these ingredients. </span><a class="guestlink" href="http://www.wnyc.org/people/r/?n=Monona+Rossol" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgba(18, 140, 244, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #128cf4; line-height: 25.6000003814697px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-color 250ms, color 250ms;">Monona Rossol</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">, industrial hygienist and president of Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, Inc., will discuss the latest study on what is known, and what is unknown, about the safety of tattoos.'</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>I'll give a quick synopsis; apparently most inks contain tiny, nano sized metal particulates that migrate from the tattoos and are deposited in the Lymph nodes, where they are falsely detected as cancerous cells, thereby causing some of us to undergo treatment and surgeries for cancer when in fact we are not correctly diagnosed. This means you will have organs incorrectly removed.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>This has happened to at least one person who then went through the treatment and a hysterectomy for cancer. They later realized the mistake and said upon a review that they did find microscopic cancer cells anyway...(grain of salt needed for that one.)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">Sometimes cancers show up in the actual tattoo, as has been observed in many sailors who were known for having inked up long ago. Now tattooing has become the norm and everyone is at risk. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">Tattoos are classified as cosmetics so there are no regulations per se, to control manufacturing of the inks, which even in the case of organic inks, there is still the risk of bacterial infections so they are infused with toxic chemicals, </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">solvents and banned chemical preservatives</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;"> to prevent infections.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Titanium oxide, mercuric oxide and cadmium are carcinogens that are widely used in cosmetics and inks. Aluminum, Barium, Copper, Lead, Arsenic, Cobalt, Nickle and other products are still found in todays inks. </b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">Titanium Dioxide is also used in sunscreen... so yeah, there is that!</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Doing an MRI is usually troubling and painful because the MRI is a magnetic process which actually attracts the metals in the tattoos as they are trying to rip away your skin through magnetic attraction to the machine.</b></span></span><br />
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<b>The asshole said nothing... it just shut up and shut down, doing none of its work. Two days passed and things got a little uncomfortable. Four days passed and everyone felt quite bloated and were finding it much harder to function; stuff was piling up. By the seventh day the body parts were all screaming to get some relief, all the 'garbage' had piled up and it stunk so bad the body was ready to pass out. Then the asshole spoke up... he was unanimously elected to be the boss.</b></span><br />
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<b>The Reality... Donald Trump is right now fulfilling that job of being the asshole in the 2016 Presidential elections. He is spewing all the crap that the Republican party and the GOP base wants to hear but all their candidates are too scared to say. The candidates are all willing to say crazy things but only one crazy can drive the <a href="http://shockandaweonamerica.blogspot.com/2015/07/and-gop-clown-car-turns-into-bus.html" target="_blank">Clown Bus</a> at a time... so they won't all look crazy. By letting out all their little 'nuances' and secret dog whistling calls, Trump is forcing everyone to put up or shut up.</b></span><br />
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<b>The problem the Republican candidates face is that they have nothing to put up as Trump has cornered the market in the insanity area. The inmates are indeed running the ward. He has taken all the nice soundbites that the Republican base has swooned over in past elections, and he is spewing all that garbage, which we have heard over and over for all these years and he has left none for the others to spew.</b></span><br />
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<b>We have heard other assholes present themselves in the past, Christine O'donnell had to say that she was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxJyPsmEask" target="_blank">not a witch</a>... the jury is still out on that, <a href="http://www.littleredumbrella.com/2012/01/lets-be-clear-ron-paul-fucking-sucks.html" target="_blank">Ron Paul</a> said women can stick some aspirin between their legs if they needed, Romney's Veep <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2012/08/ryan-on-abortion-exceptions-rape-is-just-another-method-of-conception/" target="_blank">Candidate Paul Ryan</a> had to distance himself from his buddy Todd Akin, when they revealed that they considered some types of rapes to be ligitimate... <i>'P</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 27.8999996185303px;"><i>aul Ryan says that he personally believes that rape is just another “method of conception” and not an excuse to allow abortions'</i>... </span>and don't get me started about Sarah Palin!!</b></span><br />
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<b>Donald Trump has now spewed all the good stuff and we see the Republican hopefuls being left in the dust, quite rapidly I might add. This has awoken the GOP base and the other candidates are scrambling for anything they could now say to make themselves appear valid, sane, smart and compassionate... somethings they have never been known for.</b></span><br />
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<b>The Donald has republican candidates trying to separate themselves from him and the statements which they have all used in the past, by attempting to tell the truth... enter Ted Cruz. </b></span><br />
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<b>Senator (Canadian) Ted Cruz is now proudly representing himself to be a Cuban, (ok he is now a Canadian Cuban...American) and says that he will bring <a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ted-cruz-promises-to-bring-pork-to-white-house/ar-AAdrxMr?ocid=zdhp" target="_blank">Cuban festivities like pig roasts</a> to the White House if elected. His latest brush with truth telling is to stab his Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the back by admitting that M<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/us/senator-ted-cruz-accuses-mitch-mcconnell-of-lying-on-ex-im-bill.html" target="_blank">cConnell is a liar</a>, something the rest of the world knew all along.</b></span><br />
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<b>Rick Santorum, famous for his '<a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-04-23-santorum-excerpt_x.htm" target="_blank">man on dog</a>' and other gay bashing comments over the years, now admits to the world via a <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow--santorum-go-head-to-head-on-scotus-489847363973" target="_blank">Rachel Maddow interview</a>, that he does not know anything about LGBT people and if they are born that way. This is something he should at least spend some time thinking about since his decisions on the subject as President, would affect millions of Americans.</b></span><br />
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<b>Texas Gov. Rick Perry, while under indictment and <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/24/rick-perry-loses-court-rules-face-felony-abuse-power-charges.html" target="_blank">facing a felony charge,</a> has tried to wear glasses in a blatant attempt to secede from his deserved reputation of being a blockhead...ooops. This act of distraction has not escaped the watchful and trained eye of the Donald as he has had plenty practice weeding out the goats from the sheep on 'The Apprentice.' The Donald recently sold him down the river for the scam he is trying to pull...of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/22/politics/donald-trump-rick-perry/" target="_blank">trying to look smart</a>. </b></span><br />
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<b>I could run down the list of the other 200 or so republican candidates running for the 2016 Presidential elections, but I'll leave that for another time.</b></span><br />
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<b>Trump is waving the same boring clueless 'build the bridge' flag as those before him and none of them or their base even realize that Mexicans know how to do many things... like picking, gardening, washing dishes, babysitting... and digging tunnels under walls!!... <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/prison-workers-face-charges-escape-mexican-drug-lord-32673100" target="_blank">remember El Chapo</a>? It is stupid to think there are no shovels in Mexico!</b></span><br />
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<b>Regarding that assinine wall idea... there have been as many or more people coming into America through the airports for decades and simply overstaying their visas. President Reagan gave an amnesty and republicans hate him for this. There are also many who drive across from Canada, so to think that the Mexicans are the biggest immigration concern, simply shows the more racist aspect of republican logic... or lack thereof.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>So hopefully, the asshole wins the Republican nomination!</b></span><br />
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<b>Lest I lose this audience from the start, let me attempt to first outline certain terms that we may know, but as I realize, 99% of us do not understand. To this end I recommend a really great radio episode by an economist who really discusses these business ideas in great detail. </b></div>
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<b>The show is called '<a href="http://www.wbai.org/archive.php" target="_blank">Economic Update</a>' hosted by <a href="http://www.rdwolff.com/" target="_blank">Professor Richard D Wolff</a>, from 9am to 10am, on <a href="http://www.wbai.org/archive.php" target="_blank">WBAI radio</a> and the episode was broadcasted on July 17th 2015. It is quite educational and one would be well advised to listen at the above radio links, it will take you to the archive page of WBAI. At the page, just locate the program 'Economic Update' and click it.</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_mode_of_production_(Marxist_theory)#Synopsis" target="_blank">Capitalist</a> Enterprise ; traditional business model which focuses on a top down control and decision making structure with little concern paid to the workers' social well-being, or their ability to work safely and more productively on the job. The focus is mainly on profit without strong concern for social or environmental issues related to the result of doing business.</b><br />
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<b>Capitalism is about 300 yrs old, starting in England in the 17th century and expanding outwards from there to Europe and the Americas... and globally. Called an individualistic system it is not well favored in most countries as the result is always a widening of the economic gap between workers and management while having some unsociable or damaging affects on society and the communities where they operate.</b><br />
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<b>Socialism; Emerged in the 19th century and is more geared toward workers getting a better and/or more humane deal, and better social rewards as a direct result of employment. Geared to also socially serve the communities with greater affect in and around where they exist. Cooperating collectively to conduct profitable business while enhancing the society they exist in as a whole. </b><br />
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<b>In its largest form, Socialism is thought to mean using the government to have and maintain large economies that were socialistic in focus... this is a misunderstanding, as that is really State Capitalism; it is directly run and regulated by the State. </b><br />
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<b>Socialism has never been achieved anywhere in the world by major countries like China, Russia, Cuba or France, as they were still run and regulated by States, not private community sources.</b><br />
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<b>State Capitalism is just a means to arrive at Socialism but it is not in itself Socialism... it is just a means to get there. Many people misunderstand this... including Stalin; and think State or Private Capitalism is actually Socialism, but it is not, if you have not transformed the production process into a community social structure or affair. </b><br />
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<b>A good example of a long existing social success in the form of a Cooperative is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation" target="_blank">Mondragon Corporation</a> in Spain.</b><br />
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<b>Workers' Self Directed Enterprise; is an alternative to traditional Capitalist enterprise. This seems to now be the preferred mode of reducing company expenditure and realizing more profits for the company as a result of the reduction. There may be different ownership arrangements but the workers get a better socio economic result than being employed at the traditional hotel or rental car company. Worker cooperatives are the oldest form of this business model, one example is religious organizations, where the workers are sociably interactive with the community/society they function within, with positive results for everyone involved.</b><br />
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<b>The new trend for some business models has been greately re-done by the use of the internet and using new platforms that helps companies to grow much faster, spread the cost to a wider framework by letting owner/operators share in the operations and the profits, while not burdening the company with owning the hardware or product. </b><br />
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<b>This is a link to a <a href="https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/510802" target="_blank">WNYC Bryan Lehre</a>r episode where the co-founder of <a href="http://www.zipcar.com/" target="_blank">Zipcar</a> Robin Chase is interviewed and offers some wonderful ideas about how and why this business platform is successful. In Zipcar's case, the customers have a much better experience fulfilling the needs to get a vehicle when needed, while not having to deal with the rules and practices of a regular car rental company, or owning a vehicle that you only use on weekends.</b><br />
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<b>With new business platforms using the internet, the actual owners of the products being used are in fact the actual workers as well, for instance <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/" target="_blank">Air BnB,</a> where the home owners that facilitate the business also maintain their homes and are thereby the owner/operator of that empty room and property used.</b><br />
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<b>In the case of <a href="https://www.uber.com/" target="_blank">Uber</a> and <a href="https://www.lyft.com/" target="_blank">Lyft</a>, owner/operators are used by these companies via their exclusive app platforms, to connect riders to a privately owned car operated by its owner who is courteous and keeps within the high standards required by the company. The car owner is paid a premium price for their work and is able to fashion their work hours and work zones, around their personal lives, thereby beneftting from having enough time to have other activities including having a family. </b><br />
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<b>These new businesses are the epitome of having as close to a successful Socialistic business model in the 21st century as is feasible and it is only growing. It is far more cost effective for the companies, as they do not own a car but just an app and a payment system...and makes millions of dollars with it. Welcome to the 21st century!! Open your wings/minds and fly people!</b><br />
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<b>This is the best example of what I call 'Capitalistic Socialism' in the 21st century. </b><br />
<b>Could these business models be a boon to self described Socialist <a href="https://berniesanders.com/" target="_blank">Bernie Sanders</a> in the 2016 election, as opposed to the traditional approach of <a href="https://www.hillaryclinton.com/join/72485/?utm_medium=om2016&utm_source=gs&utm_campaign=lb-launch&utm_content=68871582378&utm_term=c" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton</a>? Well, it is Socialism... kinda</b><br />
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