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Johns Hopkins Researchers Say A High Amount of Protein Can Help Predict Brain Injury in Newborns

10-21-11 Results Also Shed Light on Value of Whole Body Cooling to Prevent Brain Damage:

Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that increased blood levels of a protein specific to central nervous system cells that are vital to the brain’s structure can help physicians identify newborns with brain injuries due to lack of oxygen.vv

>Measurements of the protein can also track how well a body-cooling therapy designed to prevent permanent brain damage is working. A detailed report of the Hopkins team’s finding is published in the current American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The yearlong study looked at levels of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in 23 newborns born between 36 and 41 weeks’ gestation who were diagnosed with clinical oxygen deficiency to the brain (hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, or HIE) and compared them with those in babies born at the same point in the pregnancy without brain injury.”More

Increased Cancer Risk for Babies Before Birth

10-21-11 According to the CDC:radiation exposure before birth can increase a person's health risk of getting cancer later in life. Unborn babies are especially sensitive to the cancer-causing effects of radiation. However, the increased health risks depend on the amount of radiation to which the baby was exposed and the amount of time that it was exposed. For example, if the radiation dose to the fetus was roughly equivalent to 500 chest x-rays at one time, the increase in lifetime health cancer risk would be less than 2% (above the normal lifetime cancer risk of 40 to 50%).

Womens Breast Surgery Now Preserves Artery For Future Heart Surgery

October is Breast Cancer Month 10-20-11 Doctors at Johns Hopkins have shown that during an increasingly popular type of breast-reconstruction surgery, they can safely preserve the internal mammary artery, in case it is needed for future cardiac surgery.

October is Breast Cancer Month“Some breast-reconstruction patients might need a cardiac bypass in the future, so we implemented and studied a new technique that spares this artery used for that purpose,” says Gedge D. Rosson, M.D., associate professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and lead researcher on the new report, which appears in the October issue of the journal, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Breaking News: Iron Fisted Libyan Leader Muammar Kaddafi is Dead

10-20-11 It has been reported that Libyan Leader Muammar Kaddafi is dead. Some TV networks are showing photogaphs of his dead body to verify that it is him.

A Response to the Occupy Wall Street Happenings From Tennessee

“10-17-11 Yesterday I went to an Occupy Wall Street meeting, held in a large parking lot outside of the East Tennessee University. About 50 people were there and more were arriving before the march downtown began. They were students, white-haired people, men in their 40s and women of every possible age. Most carried signs which ask for justice and condemned the shenanighans of Wall Street and greedy corporations. The people were earnest and very determined. They were organizing and planning other meetings. I just wanted to tell you folks that this is not a gathering of nuts or people who are stupid or not ready to act. Its the genesis of a revolution and is going to continue. Photographers were all around, and so were folks scribbling on notepads. I think they were reporters because the meeting was the front page of the local newspaper today.

“P.S. The writer of this email Annette Z. Reed Phd.,has two masters degrees and is retired from many tours of duty for the U. S. Public Health Service

U.N. Discrimination of Women Report

10-15-2011 Much progress had been made in establishing normative and legal frameworks required to fight discrimination and violence against women, but implementation of those frameworks, as well as necessary social transformation, lagged far behind, United Nations experts told correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon.

“There’s a great difference between de jure and de facto in women’s advancement,” said Silvia Pimentel, Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. She was joined at a press conference by Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences. Both experts had just briefed the General Assembly’s Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) on their respective reports.

Equality - I am Not Moving, a Short Video Story by Michael Moore

The original Wall Street Protestor for equality was Jesus, when he was at the temple and he overthrew the money changers at their tables of gold. He wanted equality in everything just like we do now..

Blatantly Gross Incompetence and Scandalous Behavior at FHFA and Fannie Mae

by Diane Knaus

911 info-10-10-2011 In a recent report sent out by the Federal Housing Finance Administration relating to Fannie Mae lawyers for Default -Related Legal Services were stupid enough to try to swindle mortgage deals. FHFA looked the other way when they knew the legal firms were committing illegal practices against the borrowers.

According to a recent report, as the conservator, FHFA is responsible for preserving and conserving each Enterprise’s assets and restoring them to a sound financial condition in order to support the nation’s housing finance markets. Someone was surely asleep at the switch for a long time, and ignoring what was going on. More

Occupy Wall Street

911info-10-11-2011 According to Senator Bernie Sanders: The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are shining a light on one of the most serious problems facing the United States -- the greed and power of Wall Street. Now is the time for the American people to demand that the president and Congress follow that light -- and act. The future of our economy is at stake.

Senator Bernie Sanders Talking Points:

1) If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

2) Put a cap on credit card interest rates to end usury.

3) The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

4) Stop Wall Street oil speculators from artificially increasing gasoline and heating oil prices.

5) Demand that Wall Street invest in the job-creating productive economy, instead of gambling on worthless derivatives.

6) Establish a Wall Street speculation fee on credit default swaps, derivatives, stock options and futures.

Your Money/Forex Market

10-5-2011 Washington, DC -Are you trying to get ahead by trading your money in the Forex market? The market is a dangerous place to be and companies will tell you to trade at your own risk, but thousands of people do it. One of the big firms, FXCM has been charged by the CFTC of negligence to the tune of a fine of up to $6 million civil monetary penalty and restitution of $8,261,937 to its customers and former customers. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges that Forex Capital Markets LLC (FXCM) failed to supervise diligently its personnel’s handling of more than 57,000 customer accounts that traded on FXCM’s forex trading platforms. FXCM is a registered retail foreign exchange dealer and futures commission merchant headquartered in New York, N.Y. The order also settles charges that FXCM failed to produce certain records promptly to the CFTC’s Division of Enforcement during its investigation.

In addition, the CFTC order requires FXCM to retain, at its own expense, a monitor to review for three years: (1) its trade execution practices and policies as they relate to the change in price between the time the customer places the order and the time the order is executed by FXCM; and (2) its compliance with its restitution obligation.More

Governor O'Malley Says Yes to Marriage Equality

Keep Us Safer

911 to President Obama, Congress, the House, Senate and Corporate America, The Protests are Spreading Across the Country:Update

10-15-2011 The protests have spread to over 20 States and now are spanning the globe. To have this happen in America is a crying shame. We help many third world countries route out bad leaders, but ours is not about that, yet we have corruption here as well. Our corruptors are mostly in large corporations.There are two Forex brokerages recently that have come into the news, FXCM and now Barki, LLC of Mint Hill, N.C., both are facing sanctions and large fines for their money practices, and the possibility of jail time for some executives.

Protests are now happening in Europe and New Zealand. Protestors are demonstrating against the big bankers, and corporations who take advantage of populations and ruin regular peoples lives. They overcharge fees for services and their top executives take big bonus' and their greediness for our money is what is about to bring them down. Illegal ponzi schemes are in many corporations, buyer beware, check with others to see where your money actually goes before investing.  

10-6-2011 When masses of people make an unannounced sit in on the Wall Street section of New York city, you can know that many more thousands of Americans are upset. These demonstrators are brave enough to give you the message saying what is in the rest of Americas heart. Enough is enough, we want action, and we want it now.

Our government should not take away accountability quality controls or reporting for corporations or manufacturers, food processors, insurance brokers or companies, banking or mortgage companies, rather make more of them because the recent past has proved that even the largest sized companies will only do the right things when forced to. More

SBA Disaster Assistance Available to Private Non-Profit Organizations in Maryland that Suffered Hurricane Irene Losses

>10-5-2011 ATLANTA – The U.S. Small Business Administration announced that certain Private Non-Profit Organizations (PNPs) in Maryland that do not provide critical services of a governmental nature may be eligible to apply for low-interest disaster loans. These loans are available as a result of a Presidential disaster declaration for Public Assistance resulting from damages caused by Hurricane Irene that occurred between Aug. 24 and Sept. 5, 2011

PNPs located in the following counties that provide non-critical services are eligible to apply: Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Harford, Kent, Queen Anne’s, Saint Mary’s, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester in Maryland. Examples of eligible non-critical PNP organizations include, but are not limited to, food kitchens, homeless shelters, museums, libraries, community centers and colleges.PNPs located in the following counties that provide non-critical services are eligible to apply: Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Harford, Kent, Queen Anne’s, Saint Mary’s, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester in Maryland. Examples of eligible non-critical PNP organizations include, but are not limited to, food kitchens, homeless shelters, museums, libraries, community centers and colleges.More

Johns Hopkins Research Finds Serious Health Complications for Prostrate Biopsy Patients

9-28-2011 In a study of health complication rates following prostate biopsy among Medicare beneficiaries, Johns Hopkins researchers have found a significant rise in serious health complications requiring hospitalization. The researchers found that this common outpatient procedure, used to diagnose prostate cancer, was associated with a 6.9 percent rate of hospitalization within 30 days of biopsy compared to a 2.9 percent hospitalization rate among a control group of men who did not have a prostate biopsy. The study, which will be published in the November 2011 issue of The Journal of Urology, was posted early online. More <

John Boehner Good Guy/Bad Guy, Not Keeping Americans Safer, but Making Us Worse Off

by Diane Knaus

9-25-2011 He is up to his old tricks again, but this time he is putting America at the brink of disaster as are the rest of the republicans. As congresspeople thay are also charged with keeping America safe and what they are doing is not conviincing me that they have our best interests at heart. Why can't they see what they are doing? Republicans are stressing out the entire country instead of working together to find a solution.I would hate to be in one of their families if this is the way they normally like to behave.Holding our feet to the fire, yes, but they are the ones who are creating the stress in Americans lives and who are effecting stock market woes, joblessness, because of their proposed laws just to name a few items. Not only that, but they are holding America Hostage by not paying for disaster aid. They are holding back the money to pay for that.More

UARS Rentry to the Earth

As of 9:30 p.m. EDT Sept. 22, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 110 mi by 115 mi (175 km by 185 km). Re-entry is possible sometime during the afternoon or early evening of Sept. 23, Eastern Daylight Time. The satellite will not be passing over North America during that time period. It is still too early to predict the time and location of re-entry with any more certainty, but predictions will become more refined in the next 24 hours.

In Ohio, Vice President Biden Discusses Importance of American Jobs Act for Small Businesses, Announces

$20 Billion Commitment to Increase Small Business Lending

9-22-2011 According to Vice President Joe Biden, a three-year commitment by 13 major banks will help increase lending to small businesses in underserved communities. Speaking at Wrap Tite, Inc. – a small business in Solon, Ohio – Vice President Biden and Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Karen Mills today urged Congress to pass the American Jobs Act. The American Jobs Act is an important step to help small businesses in Ohio and across the country continue to grow and hire more workers. Vice President Biden and Administrator Mills also announced commitments by 13 private lenders, including many of the largest banks in the country, to increase lending for small businesses by a combined $20 billion over the next three years.

Thanks to a recent $1.5 million SBA-supported loan, Wrap Tite – a manufacturer and distributer of stretch wrap and other packing and shipping products – was able to purchase and renovate a new facility in Solon and hire five new workers. The new small business lending commitments announced today, which represent an increase of 10% or more beyond the current levels of lending at many of the participating banks, mean more small businesses like Wrap Tite will have access to the capital they need to help grow the nation’s economy at the local level.

“Small businesses like Wrap Tite are the real engines of our economy, which is why Congress should cut their taxes and put money back in the pockets of their customers by passing the American Jobs Act right away,” Vice President Biden said. “The only way we’re going to turn the vicious economic cycle we’ve been in into a virtuous one is by cutting taxes on our small businesses and making sure they can get the loans they need to grow and hire more workers.” More

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Don't Ask Don't Tell Law Repealed

9-20-2100 According to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta “This is a historic day for the Pentagon and the nation. As secretary of defense, I’m committed to removing all barriers that would prevent Americans from serving their country and from rising to the highest level of responsibility that their talents and capabilities warrant,” he said. “These are men and women that put their lives on the line in defense of this country – that’s what should matter most.”

“Last December, this department began a careful and methodical process to prepare for the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

“Since then, the Repeal Implementation Team has worked to coordinate the necessary changes to policy and regulations, and to provide education and training to service members. This effort, led by Undersecretary of Defense Clifford R. Stanley, was designed to ensure the smoothest possible transition for the U.S. military to accommodate and implement this important and necessary change.

“Today, as a result of strong leadership and proactive education throughout the force, we can take the next step in this process. The President, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and I have certified that the implementation of repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is consistent with the standards of military readiness, military effectiveness, unit cohesion, and recruiting and retention of the armed forces. This certification decision was carefully made after receiving input from the service chiefs, service secretaries and from all the combatant commanders, who stated their views that the force is prepared for this change.

“With this certification, and in accordance with the law, on Sept. 20, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ will be repealed. We will have taken the time necessary to get this done right and to ensure that service members are properly trained for a change that I believe is essential to the effectiveness of our all-volunteer force.

“All men and women who serve this nation in uniform -- no matter their race, color, creed, religion, or sexual orientation -- do so with great dignity, bravery, and dedication. As secretary of defense, I am committed to promoting an environment free from personal, social, or institutional barriers that prevent service members from rising to the highest level of responsibility that their talents and capabilities warrant. They put their lives on the line for America, and that’s what really matters. Thanks to the professionalism and leadership of the U.S. military, we are closer to achieving the goal that is at the foundation of America -- equality and dignity for all.”

SEC Makes Changes to Save More Small Business'

>9-14-2011 If small business is to save America from itself, then the SEC is providing a great new service to them. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2011 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the formation of the Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies to focus on interests and priorities of small businesses and smaller public companies.

The committee is intended to provide a formal mechanism through which the Commission can receive advice and recommendations specifically related to privately held small businesses and publicly traded companies with less than $250 million in public market capitalization. More

Risks for Heart Transplant Patiients

9-13-2011 Johns Hopkins researchers say they have developed a formula to predict which heart transplant patients are at greatest risk of death in the year following their surgeries, information that could help medical teams figure out who would benefit most from the small number of available organs.

“Donor hearts are a limited resource,” says John V. Conte, M.D., a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the senior author of the study. “Now, we have a simple-to-use tool that is highly predictive of safe survival after a heart transplant, and can help guide organ allocation decisions.”

Conte and his colleagues, writing in the September issue of Annals of Thoracic Surgery, pulled together a series of risk factors already associated with poor outcomes, such as age, race, gender, the cause of a patient’s heart failure and whether he or she was on dialysis, and then assigned a number of points to each factor. The sum of those points created a score. The higher the score, the higher the risk of death one year after transplant and the less safe people are from death.. More

9-11 Thoughts of Forgiveness

by Diane Knaus

>9-9-11 As I sat and watched the news on the Today show and Matt Lauers reactions to a plane hitting the first of the tower towers in New York city, it is really hard to forgive anyone their horrendous acts of terror. It is much easier to remember the heroes of the day, weeks, months afterwards, and that is ultimately what helps to erase many of the bad feelings in my opinion.

I always remember the fallen, the families of the victims, their children and loved ones. Their suffering is never far from my heart. That is why I started this web site in the first place to help people when they need a reference if they are in a crisis situation whether it be health, or strife over financial problems. We provide 800 hotline numbers, links to other emergency information sites, imminent political, weather and news that might affect many lives. More so meet the moment."

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Red Cross Helps During Disasters

9-8-2011 The American Red Cross provided food and shelterand safety for more than 1,000 people around the country Monday night from multiple disasters, including residents impacted by wildfires in Texas and Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, which left severe weather in its wake over the Labor Day weekend.

In Texas, more than 450 residents spent Monday night in 10 Red Cross shelters as wildfires burned hundreds of homes and forced residents to safely evacuate. The Red Cross disaster response in Texas now joins multiple other Red Cross operations underway across the U.S. in response to floods, other wildfires and tornadoes. More

State-federal Review of Health Insurance Rate Increases Begins

9-5-2011 According to the review, double-digit price hikes must be justified. Health insurers seeking to increase their rates by 10 percent or more must submit their request to state or federal reviewers to determine whether they are reasonable or not. This rate review program, created by the Affordable Care Act, will bring greater transparency, accountability, and, in many cases, lower costs for families and small business owners who struggle to afford coverage.

In a growing number of states, regulators now have the authority to deny or reduce rate hikes found to be excessive. Insurers that insist on going ahead with double-digit rate increases are required to post their justifications on their website, and state and federal regulators will post them as well. More

The Feds Are Finally Using their Muscle to Yank Banks Bad Mortgage Deals Chains-

Sue The Bums and Throw Them Out/Into Jail

9-2-2011 According to the The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises), today filed lawsuits against 17 financial institutions, certain of their officers and various unaffiliated lead underwriters. The suits allege violations of federal securities laws and common law in the sale of residential private-label mortgage-backed securities (PLS) to the Enterprises. Maybe Americans wil get back some of our money from the bigger crooks afterall.We are not safe from bank fraudsters because even Bank of America was one of the big violators of our trust.

These complaints were filed in federal or state court in New York or the federal court in Connecticut. The complaints seek damages and civil penalties under the Securities Act of 1933, similar in content to the complaint FHFA filed against UBS Americas, Inc. on July 27, 2011. In addition, each complaint seeks compensatory damages for negligent misrepresentation.

Certain complaints also allege state securities law violations or common law fraud. How can Americans feel safe about our environment when our own banks are committing fraud against us on a regular basis. It is no wonder we don't trust big institutions or sometimes government when they have taken so long to get the real robbers of the Amerian people. See list of banks involved

9-11 Stretching Safety - Healthy Thoughts 

9-1-2011 On September 11, 2001 the Twin Towers in New York city were targets of two jet airplanes whose terrorist passengers strongarmed and convinced the pilotes to do as they said, ram into the towers at the World Trade Center, other planes to target and hit the Pentagon building include, American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines flight 77, United Airlines Flight 93 and United Airlines Flight 175.

Osama bin Laden was later found to be the mastermind of the plot against Americans on American soil. He reasoned that we sided with Isreal too much on too many issues that were against Palestine and Muslims.

The tragic events from 9-11 entered the psyche of millions of Americans and has caused countless health damages to responders who went to help the victims. Damage to our health, our personal psyche, the will to keep on trying, the will to be forgiving or fair, the will to show integrity in our actions has been undermined to a point.More

Preparedness Counts

8-28-2011Many major incidents were prempted by residents stayng off of the streets. Damages in Ocean City, Baltimore City, and Anne Arundel County is minimal. The governor Martin O'Malley is pleased with the outcome so far.Other states were not so fortunate. Visuals from Connecticut flooding make many of us count our blessings. There are still much damage in many states and the repairs may take months to finish. Our prayers are with all of the victims and their families who have lost lives and properties and lveliehoods.

U.N. Officials Give Assistance to Palestinian Refugees

19 August 2011 – The United Nations is providing emergency assistance to some of the thousands of Palestinian refugees who have had to flee their homes in Syria in recent days amid mounting international concern at the violent crackdown by Government forces against civilian protesters, as they are no longer safe in the country.More

Governor Martin O'Malley of Maryland Urges Residents to Donate to Somalias' Victims-29,000 Children are Dead from Starvation

8-18-2011 The governor said:"Every day, we continue to see horrific images and countless stories of the pain and suffering in Somalia. But they aren’t just stories. In just the past three months alone, 29,000 children under the age of five have died from starvation."

>He continued "The Somali drought and famine have forced mothers with scarce resources to choose which child will live, fathers to leave their sick children to die on the streets and babies to enter a world with no hope for survival." More

Is the U.S. Post Office in Real Trouble

by Diane Knaus

8-15-2011 Yes it is in real trouble. Since 2002 the public has been able to buy stamps and pay bills online safely from their personal computers no matter where those computers were actually located. It is not like their management has not seen the trouble spots before today. The direct mail industry has indeed kept the post office safely in business and they have raised their postage rates as necessary.This bale of hay has been a long time coming to be bailed in the proper manner. And as the hay farmer would say, bailers and good bailer conditions must be met, some are good practices and others are not. If the hay is too wet it won’t work well.

If the U. S. Postal Office management micromanages things and they are still wet behind the ears, the plans won’t work either. Many thousands of employees have already been laid off and encouraged to retire early. Post offices in many cities have already been closed down. More

Who Should We Blame for Our Economic Crisis

8-13-2011 You can’t just blame the President for the whole economic mess. He was handed this mess even before he took the oath for his office of the president from President George Bush and Vice President Dick Chaney. I can still see them on the steps of the capitol building holding their press conference to say there was an economic crisis if we didn’t bail out the banks immediately.

Yes, I have a good memory thank you very much. And furthermore, some of the other reasons we are in such an economic mess is because of big business taking their business overseas, and not putting enough money into research and development here at home. Big business could also provide more on the job training, institute more company integrity, donate more to community organizations, and in my opinion, really promote more women to higher jobs because they are better at managing crisis situations than men because they are better at collaboration. More

Somalia

Somalia is gripped by a devastating drought and famine that has already killed tens of thousands and is leaving many hundreds of thousands more, particularly young children and babies, in desperate need of emergency life-saving humanitarian assistance from the outside world.

8-12-2011 According to officials from the U.N.:A complex amalgam in Somalia of accelerated political progress and the unexpected withdrawal of insurgents from the capital — amid a deadly famine devastating large swaths of the country — made increased international support to the nation urgent at this critical time, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative told the Security Council today.

This is an extraordinary moment for Somalia,” Augustine Mahiga said via video teleconference from Mogadishu. “Now is the time for the international community to demonstrate its commitment,” he said, adding: “The Somali people simply cannot wait any longer.” Describing the situation in the political and security sectors, he was joined by Catherine Bragg, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, who briefed on the food crisis. More

Donate to international charities you know are helping, like the Red Cross.

Londons Raging Rioters Are Destroying the City

by Diane Knaus

8-9-2011 Who is to blame for all of the caos? At this point it doesn’t really matter what started them on their path of destruction, the street ragamuffins and those unhappy about the status quo are using this to vent their anger, and are out to destroy whatever they can. To continually set buildings on fire to destroy them for one day is one thing but to continue this for more than three days is a symptom of a much larger problem than being angry about someone being unfairly killed in the street.What kind of human rights issues are really at play here?Literally while London burns who is doing the fiddling, who is attending to the crisis in the streets besides the police on the front lines with the rioters? What has the royal family said? Who is minding the political store?

This type of thing is exactly what started all of the regime changes we have seen in the past year abroad. On man tired of being taken advantage of by local police who were taking his fruits and not paying for them fought back and others joined in to help him. Now Tunisia is under a new regime to help their own people more.More

Last Week Moody's Confirmed Aaa Government Bond Rating of the United States Following the Raising of the Statutory Debt Limit on August 2.More

Congress Leaves Town As Their Duties Languish When Over 4,000 FAA Workers Were Not Paid

by Diane Knaus

8-4-2011 Whats' up with that? Does the President have to hold their feet to the fire over each new event that they need to be working on as it unfolds into a disaster, or before?

I have seen the televised goings on of the House of Representatives on television. They waste a lot of time on formalities and bluffing and puffing in my opinion. Yet while they are doing so untold thousands of people are left to do whatever they can to save their homes, pay their rents, put food on their tables and possibly save some money. The fact that Congress took no action toward the FAA workers ahead of time tells me they do not take their jobs seriously.

That brings up another point I want to make. People are fed up with Congress and they want to be sure they can get to their money when they want it. Hence many small investors with a couple of thousand dollars in the market will be selling their stocks and not wanting to take a chance that prices will be falling anymore than they have already. People want to save their money not lose it. The Dow has fallen 500 points as of today.

Janet Napolitano, Eric Holder Announce Bust of Massive International Sexual Abuse of Children Criminal Ring

8-3-2011 WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today the unsealing of three indictments and one complaint charging a total of 72 individuals for their participation in an international criminal network dedicated to the sexual abuse of children and the creation and dissemination of graphic images and videos of child sexual abuse throughout the world. Attorney General Holder and Secretary Napolitano announced the charges with Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Director of U.S. Immigration of Customs Enforcement (ICE) John Morton and U.S. Attorney Stephanie Finley of the Western District of Louisiana.

Operation Delego, an ongoing investigation that was launched in December 2009, targeted the 72 charged defendants and more than 500 additional individuals around the world for their participation in Dreamboard – a private, members-only, online bulletin board that was created and operated to promote pedophilia and encourage the sexual abuse of very young children, in an environment designed to avoid law enforcement dCriinaletection. To date, 52 of the 72 charged defendants have been arrested in the United States and abroad. Members traded graphic images and videos of adults molesting children 12 years-old and under, often violently, and collectively created a massive private library of images of child sexual abuse. The international group prized and encouraged the creation of new images and videos of child sexual abuse – numerous Dreamboard members sexually abused children, produced images and videos of the abuse, and shared the images and videos with other members of Dreamboard. Operation Delego represents the largest prosecution to date in the United States of individuals who participated in an online bulletin board conceived and operated for the sole purpose of promoting child sexual abuse, disseminating child pornography and evading law enforcement.More

According to the Presidents Message of Balancing the Budget. More

A Time for Greatness is Now

7-29-2011 Who's looking out for the health and economic safety of American people? In the long run it is the President who guides the compromises of the House of Representatives and the Senate for the “good of all” as the laws are written wein the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Yet our congress people are now fiddling while the U.S. burns through their options of bad plans to solve the economic crisis. All they want is to keep cutting the budget. That is a good idea, except when you cut it too much many more people suffer and for longer, lose jobs not gain them, and can’t afford to spend on their real needs let alone save any money for home emergencies, college education or job losses. Now is not the time to make any more major across the board cuts. Enough is enough, because we are at a high unemployment rate,while home prices and wages continue to fall as taxpayers lose respect and confidence in those that are governing now.

This is a time for greatness when a few politicians can show their stars and work for the common good. Hopefully this type of crisis will never happen again.This is the time for boldness and courage to do the right things to keep this country economically safe and the time is now. The president has said publicly that he will not accept any bill that does not involve compromise and a tax increase to directly generate money to fixing our ailing economy. He said “to fix the economy in a manner that will not further harm the economy”. As of today, the President has named a group of the federal government’s top waste, fraud, and abuse watchdogs and other agency leaders to this Board. Starting with the first meeting this morning. These leaders are developing plans to enhance transparency in federal spending, root out and stop waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs.The President is charging them with the econmmic safety of our government to change for the better because they know where the fat really is.More

The Signs of Heat Stroke

7-25-2011 According to the CDC:

Warning signs of heat stroke vary but may include the following:

An extremely high body temperature (above 103°F),red, hot, and dry skin (no sweating,rapid, strong pulse,throbbing headache,dizziness,nausea, and confusion.If you have these symptoms, call 911 immediately.

Somalia Famine Crisis

26 July 2011 – Up to 100,000 internally displaced people have arrived in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, over the last two months in search of food, water, shelter and other vital humanitarian assistance after fleeing famine-hit areas, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.

“The number is growing by the day, with daily arrivals averaging 1,000 in July,” Vivian Tan, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told reporters in Geneva.Severe drought has plunged communities in the southern region of Somalia into famine and sent thousands fleeing both to Mogadishu and to neighbouring Ethiopia and Kenya. The UN and partner aid agencies are seeking approximately $1.6 billion in aid to assist millions affected by the crisis in Somalia and the wider Horn of Africa region. More

NASA and International Partners Discuss New Uses for Space Station

7-26-2011 WASHINGTON -- The Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) for the International Space Station partner agencies met Tuesday, July 26, to discuss how to use the space station as a test bed for technologies that will enable missions beyond low Earth orbit.

The board will begin identifying several specific technology collaboration initiatives based on possible future missions suggested by the International Space Exploration Coordination Group. These technology developments and demonstrations on the station could support voyages to an asteroid or Mars or the development of lunar habitats. More

Is There an AIDS Cure Coming? More

Chinas Economy VS U.S./March on Washington More

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The Meaning of the 4th of July in the U.S.

7-4-2011 Basically the 4th of July means you have the freedom to do what you want unless you create bodily harm on someone or restrict the health and safety of others. It means you should be able to get married without your spouse beating you,(man or woman or same sex partnerships) or harming someone else. It means you should not beat anyone in your family or outside the family even if they disagree with you. In the U. S. there is freedom of speech and anyone has the right to say what they want and mean. That does not mean what is said is always correct, or fair, just that there is a right to have your say. So if someone tries to shout you down, you can still say what you want because you have that right. The tricky part here is to know if you disagree with someone if they will harm you for what you say anyhow.

In the lifelong process of growing up and interacting as a parent, you have the right to tell your children when to be quiet or even to tell them to shut up if need be.There sometimes becomes a tricky balance when discipline comes in to play with unruly and disrespectful children. To gain respect, you must earn it, even with children. What is fair is fair even with children. Their feelings are much different than grown ups. Children have rights as well as you do and those rights must be respected as anyone elses are. Anyone, man or woman, teenagers, or children all have rights to be respected just as adults have those same rights. Those rights are what our service men and women, gay and straight fight for when in other countries and when they are on U.S. assignments as well. Salutes go out to all of our service people everywhere, today and always for their service to us, our country and the world.

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