Google And Facebook Knows More About You Than the FBI,CIA, DHS, MI5 or SIS

Google and Facebook move to change (your) privacy settings
Google and Facebook are in the process of gathering all available information on it’s users to be consolidated into huge databases and ‘may’ be accessible or sold to companies and government agencies wanting to know how you use the internet, sites you have visited. People that you have chatted with and what information/sites you have searched for.

I have used Gmail from it’s start. However, I am now abandoning Gmail service and changing my email service to another smaller service that is much less intrusive into my life.
I now use several other search engines for my internet searches. At least to me, keeping my private information private is more important than the extra time I may invest Not Using Google’s mail and search engine.

Using the Gmail Vacation response message, I now notify all people that mail me at Gmail that a human {me} will never see any messages sent to this account.

I also now never sign in to any Google sponsored service effectively ending Google’s ability to track and collect my personal information and my internet activities. I am switching to and now using Firefox browser. Google’s Chrome browser being owned and operated by Google is collecting information on your searches, sites you visit, logging your keystrokes. Also a simple Chrome uninstall is ineffective, google/chrome leaves many files, and folders on your hard drive. It is not an easy task to escape google’s intrusion on your private information and your computer usage.

I have never had or logged into Facebook or Myspace, so this is not a concern for me. However if you are concerned about protecting your private information you should also abandon Facebook and Myspace accounts and ‘Never’ log in to or use those sites again.

It’s your private information and ONLY you can protect Your Private information.

Why is common sense so uncommon?

Obama And His Ivy League – White House – Gang Still Don’t Have A Clue!

Obama’s 2012 State of the Union speech will be nothing more than a 2012 campaign speech and an attempt to lay all the blame for his (Obama’s) failed plans to stimulate the economy. He will blame, Congress, Republicans and the American People, at times he has even blamed the weather for his failures.

Obama is still pushing the democrat controlled Senate to pass higher taxes on working class payrolls, capital gains and dividends. Obama’s healthcare plan will cost Americans trillions of more dollars during the next 10 years. Obama has succeeded in spending more than 4 trillion dollars in job and economic stimulus plans in 3 years, yet unemployment is still well above 8 percent, home foreclosures and business lay offs have not abated. Banks continue to fail and must be bailed out by FDIC. USPS lost more than 5 billion dollars in 2011. Obama blocked the oil pipe line from Canada to U.S. refiners, killing more than 20,000 new construction jobs. Canada is now looking to sell and ship Canada’s oil to China for refining.

Small business want to see a plan that will create jobs by reducing the constraints that prevent small-business owners, and all Americans who work and shop on Main Street, from investing in the future. {Good Luck With That!}

Obama has in only 3 years to turned the most productive nation on earth into a welfare state with 15 million unemployed, over 46 million receiving food stamps (SNAP). Fully one half of all state governments are now facing a financial crisis nearing state bankruptcy. City and towns across America are fairing no better!

Obama’s border plans and the Operations conducted by the Department of Homeland Security and the Border Patrol, has not ‘stopped’ or even slowed down Mexican gangs from smuggling tens of thousands of humans {Illegal Aliens} and tons of Illegal Drugs across our southern borders flooding America with Dangerous Illegal Drugs, Criminals, Rapist, Murders, Human Smugglers, Drug Dealers. Just another Failed Obama Administration Plan.

Ten Ways to Support Local Small Businesses

Ten Ways to Support Local Small Businesses by Shannon Barnett – 2012

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, most businesses in the United States are small businesses. However, only half of newly opened small businesses survive for five years; the other half go out of business.

Today’s economic recession proves that it is more important than ever to support all local small businesses. When you purchase locally, you help strengthen your local economy which, in turn, strengthens the national economy.

Listed below are ten ways to support your local small businesses:

1. Use a family-owned dry cleaning service, instead of a chain service.

2. Whenever available, purchase your fruits and vegetables from local farmer’s markets instead of the chain grocery store.

3. Purchase handcrafted furniture, linens, clay pottery, etc. from local artisans.

4. Purchase clothing from local boutiques.

5. Eat at family-owned restaurants, instead of big chains.

6. Instead of Starbucks, go to a locally-owned coffee shop.

7. When available, purchase locally-made food products at your local grocery store. For example, beer, locally-roasted coffee beans, etc.

8. If you’re interested in biking, buy your bike from a locally-owned bike shop.

9. Purchase home decorations at local antique stores and furniture stores.

10. Go to a gym that is locally owned and not a large chain.

There are many other ways to support your local economy. The idea is to purchase as many goods and services as possible from businesses based in your locale. Yes, buying products from mom and pop shops can be more expensive, but the great thing about dealing with small businesses is you get an opportunity to negotiate a price; try doing that at a national chain store!

For help finding great locally-owned small businesses in your area, contact your local Better Business Bureau.

Shannon Barnett owns the site Careers in Criminal Justice (http://careersincriminaljustice.net/) In her spare time, she enjoys writing articles for various other sites on many topics of interest.

Ten Ways to Support Local Small Businesses was submitted by Shannon Barnett under my Guest Author program. I wish to thank Shannon for this article and I look forward to Shannon’s next submission.
~Pobept

Judge(s) Rules Against Obama Administration … Again

Supreme Court Allows New Plaintiffs in (Obama’s) Health Care Law Challenge
The Supreme Court allowed the addition of two new business owners to a suit challenging the (Obama) health care law that was in question because one of the original business owners attached to the case has gone bankrupt.

Supporters of President Obama’s health care law argued that her bankruptcy made Mary Brown ineligible to continue on as a plaintiff, suggesting the entire case could fall apart because of a lack of standing. Other business owners were attached to the case, but the Justice Department would not stipulate that they met the standards for establishing standing in this case.

The Justice Department did not formally challenge the addition of business owners Dana Grimes and Dave Klemencic. Grimes lives in Greenwich, N.Y., and owns a building/home contracting services business. Klemencic is from West Virginia and owns a flooring company.
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Judge Rules Against Obama Administration on Off-Shore Oil Drilling Again.
U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman a federal judge ruled that the Obama administration has to decide within thirty days whether or not it will grant five deepwater drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman of the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled “the government is under a duty to act by either granting or denying a permit application within a reasonable time. Not acting at all is not a lawful option.”

Republican Louisiana Senator David Vitter said “I applaud this ruling today. It confirms what [Democratic Louisiana Senator] Landrieu and I have been saying along with virtually every other Louisianian. President Obama’s continuing de facto moratorium in the Gulf is inexcusable. This ruling says it’s not only inexcusable but that it violates the law.”

Vitter and Landrieu have vowed to leverage their power to obstruct Obama’s nominee to head the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service until deepwater permitting resumes.

Earlier this month, the same federal judge held the Interior Department in contempt of court for instituting what many say has amounted to an off-shore drilling moratorium despite his previous ruling against such a moratorium. The delicate drilling issue continues to surface for Obama and it is now complicated by the fact that the clock is ticking.
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Obama’s Birth Certificate Still in Question?
A state judge in Georgia has denied a motion by the Obama administration to dismiss a complaint challenging the president’s eligibility to be on the ballot there.

Attorney Orly Taitz filed the complaint back in November, on behalf of a Georgia resident, contending President Obama is not a natural born citizen and therefore, should not be in the March presidential primary in Georgia.

Last year the White House released the president’s long-form birth certificate. However, Taitz along with many others is still not satisfied. Some call it a fake, others say the real issue is that he’s not a natural born citizen.

A hearing has now been set for January 26th. President Obama’s lawyer in Atlanta, says he is optimistic the judge will decide in Obama’s favor.
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Voter fraud ‘a normal political tactic’ in upstate NY city
Eight Democrats, including county and city elected officials and party operatives. Four defendants have already pleaded guilty to a variety of charges, and what has already unfolded exposes just how easy it could be for political insiders to illegally manipulate the electoral system.

Voters said “they never filled out absentee ballot applications for the 2009 Working Families Party primary, and were later stunned to learn the applications were, in fact, turned in to the Board of Elections, with ballots cast in their names.”

Democratic candidates routinely try to secure the Working Families electoral line to obtain more votes in the general election. The party was associated with the now defunct community group ACORN.

Attorney Michael Feit said “there is no question that someone tried to steal the election. It is awful, it’s despicable, it’s terrible.”

Two veteran Democratic political operatives in Troy said voter fraud is an accepted way of winning elections, and faking absentee ballots was commonplace.
Anthony DeFiglio, a Democratic Committeeman who pleaded guilty to falsifying business records, told state police investigators that such fraud is actually an ongoing scheme and it occurs on both sides of the aisle. The people who are targeted live in low income housing and there is a sense that they are a lot less likely to ask any questions. What appears as a huge conspiracy to nonpolitical persons is really a normal political tactic.

You Can’t Make This Up – Sexy Mc(sex)Nuggets

Police say woman offered sexual favors for chicken McNuggets!

Burbank, Calif. – A Los Angeles woman was arrested last week for offering sexual favors in exchange for chicken McNuggets, according to Burbank police.

Khadijah Baseer of Los Angeles allegedly opened customers’ car doors while they were in the drive-thru of a Burbank McDonald’s.

A witness reported Baseer’s activity to police and she was arrested on suspicion of prostitution.

National Labor Relations Board Appointments By Obama Creates – Constitutional Crisis

Obama’s recess appointments create ‘constitutional crisis’

A process created by democrat Harry Reid, during the last two years of President G.W. Bush’s term to block President Bush from making ‘out of cession appointments’ has come back to bite (want to be King) Obama in his ass as he(Obama) makes what many lawmakers and judges see as unconstitutional appoints to National Labor Relations Board(NLRB).

Harry Reid – Nevada’s Village Idiot Threatening Republican’s

Reid on bipartisanship: Republicans, drop the Tea Party ‘extremism’
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reidsaid “with a warning to Republicans to leave Tea Party behind and “learn what legislation is all about.”

“I would hope that they understand that everything doesn’t have to be a fight. Legislation is an art of working together, building consensus, compromise. And I hope that the Tea Party doesn’t have the influence in this next year that they had in the previous year.

Repeating three times his claim that Republicans are engaged in “obstructionism on steroids,” the Nevada Democrat said President Obama for two and a half years “bent over backwards” to reach out to Republicans, only to find a fist rather than a hand to shake. Reid said he’d prefer that Democrats not have to go it alone in the Senate this year.

Reid said since last September Democrats in Congress have forged ahead alone pushing the president’s jobs bill and demanding tax hikes. Obamas using a congressional recess, to appoint Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau. Republicans are still smarting from Obama’s Out Of recess appointments!

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the action “extraconstitutional” and said it shows Obama “doesn’t want to have to work with both parties, he wants to jam through whatever he’d like to do.” But Reid, who came up with the plan to use the pro-forma sessions to block former President George W. Bush’s nominees, said Obama’s move is constitutional.

Among the items Democrats want to pass this year is a widely despised Internet piracy law that supporters say is aimed at protecting intellectual privacy but opponents say will shut down social media. Reid said he expected it will pass the Senate.
However, on Saturday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said he secured an agreement with Republican leaders that the legislation will not be brought to the House floor until a consensus is reached to address concerns of the Internet community.

When Did Mobile City, Alabama – City Council Become King Of The World?

(City) Council member wants Kripsy Kreme open
Bob Glidden said he closed Krispy Kreme’s doors because they couldn’t afford to add a city approved drive Thur. Councilmen William Carroll drafted a letter asking the city to give one last look at the business’s proposed drive-thru. He said he wants the city to do what it can to support local businesses.

We are asking administration what’s necessary to make sure we’ve gone above and beyond what we need to do to try to keep one of Mobile’s business in the location it’s been operating in for awhile,” Carroll said.
Owners said the city didn’t deny their request for a drive-thru, but it did ask for it to comply with city regulations, which could cost the business about $300,000.

Owners worried the changes the city requested, could make for an uncomfortable trip for customers.
We’re not going to have our customers park at the back of the store and walk around, go in the front and turn around and walk back – Glidden said.

Some customers said they enjoy ordering from their car. It’s just much quicker and a lot more convenient, especially in the cold weather said one customer.

Other’s said it doesn’t make a big difference. We rarely do the drive-thru because it’s a family experience, so it wouldn’t bother us about the drive-thru, Mary Lynn Frantz said.

Owners said they doubt they could re-open the business at the same Government Street location again, but would consider opening somewhere nearby.

More government interference with the operations of a ‘private’ business causing it to close because of the cost of meeting a Stupid City Counsel mandated business control ordnance.

Why Is Common Sense So Uncommon?

Loud Music And Loud Drunk Customers Must Be Stopped

Local Tavern Owner Is Concerned About Possible City Zoning Changes Here’s a news flash for Ed’s Tavern in South Charlotte, NC and ‘All’ businesses operating any where that offer entertainment like karaoke, billiards or music. If you can hear the ‘entertainment’ outside the building it’s To Damn Loud, Turn It Down!

South Charlotte, NC - City Attorney

South Charlotte, NC city’s attorney called him (Eds Tavern Owner)Thursday and told him to take down his twitter post about the zoning issue. Hey city Attorney! That’s just un-America, an out and out attempt to censor an Americans Freedom Of Speech Rights! {This weeks Idiot of the week winner is South Charlotte, NC City Attorney What an Idiot!}

Eds tavern twitter posting

Most Untrustworthy Government On Earth?

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Food Stamp (SNAP) Program – Tax Payer Funded Bottomless Government Money Pit

Obama (Tax Payer Supported) Dollars

Supporters of the program call it a safety net for families who claim to be unable to pay for food. At last count there were more than 45 million Americans receiving Food Stamps(SNAP) payments, setting in that safety net at a cost of more than $75 billion dollars a year in American Tax Payer Dollars. Social welfare reformers call it a bottomless government money pit.

Reformers say the Federal Government should get out of the Social Welfare food stamp program and send block grants to each state. The government should stop promoting a welfare state and convert food stamp spending to block grants to be administrated by the states.

The Food Stamp (SNAP) program has more than doubled in cost since Obama has been president. Driven by a temporary expansion of the benefit in the 2009 (Obama) economic stimulus bill.

Many people think that recipients are required to look for work or enter job training in order to receive food stamps. {Not true} When asked if able-bodied adults should be required to try and find work as a prerequisite for aid, a majority of voters (Tax Payers) said yes!

In the long term what you must do is transform this program from being a cash entitlement program into a program that promotes work and self-sufficiency and not a continuing dependency on A Government Social Welfare System.

Americans Spending Less On Health Care – Americans Not That Sick Anymore

Americans become much Healthier when medical cost are not being paid by and subsidized by Tax Payers.

Health care cost has almost stopped the run away cost rises of the 2000 – 2010 years. Spending edged up 3.9 percent, bringing the total size of the U.S. healthcare system to $2.6 trillion, or $8,402 per person, according to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Growth in 2010 was only 0.1 percentage point higher than the 3.8 percent recorded in 2009, {I’ll bet your wages did not increase 3.9 percent last year!} which was the lowest rate recorded in half a century. Per capita health spending in the United States is still the highest worldwide.

“It’s absolutely clear what’s going on,” said William Galston of the Brookings Institution. “People’s budgets have been hard hit, and even if they have 20 percent co-pays from their insurance companies, that 20 percent may still be too much.” The data are likely to play prominently in the political debate over U.S. government spending as President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare reform law approaches challenges from the Supreme Court and he fights for reelection in 2012.

The healthcare industry’s eats up 17.9 percent of the U.S. economy. In 2010, the net cost of health insurance which includes the overhead and insurance company profits increased by a huge 8.4 percent.

Federal spending in dollar terms rose as a result of the Obama administration’s efforts to help cash strapped state governments by paying a greater share of Medicaid, which saw enrollment rise. The rate of spending growth slowed for both Medicaid and Medicare as Medicaid enrollment decelerated from recession levels and fewer senior citizens signed up for Medicare Advantage, which allows the elderly to purchase private insurance through Medicare.

Medicaid spent $401 billion, an increase of 7.2 percent. Medicare program costs grew 5 percent to $525 billion.

America’s Economy 2012 – Economic Recovery? Or More Bad News?

Here are the views of some of Americas {so called Experts} on Americas economy in 2012.

John Lonski, Managing Director and Chief Economist at Moody’s Capital Markets Group said “U.S. economy will have some upside surprises.” “What begins to happen is that as the long-term unemployed admit to the difficulty of finding work, they are willing to take lower paying jobs.” {Take a lower paying job, wow, how knew that little tid-bit?}

Maury Harris, chief economist at UBS Securities said “Typically people don’t start looking until the jobs are already there.”

Chief Economist John Silvia at Wells Fargo said “expects approximately 1.5 million jobs to be added over the next year. The disconnect between skills among the American labor force and the skills in demand by firms remains the biggest challenge to stability in the labor market.” {At 1.5 million new jobs a year it will only take 10 years to reemploy the 15 million that are ‘currently’ unemployed. Will 2022 be the year the unemployed should be looking forward to?}

U.S. Home mortgage rates hit record lows this year, with the 30-year, fixed-rate averaging 3.91% this month, the lowest in 40 years, according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Existing home sales and new home sales were both up in November, signs that the housing market could be on its way to stabilizing going into 2012.

Mortgage lenders believe there are many financially strong households that would love to take advantage of low mortgage rates but won’t because they are afraid of housing prices being de-valued.

Generally, economists say the outlook for growth in 2012 is positive for the United States, but many unknowns remain that could knock the U.S. and global economies backward. The European crisis, instability in the Middle East, Vladimir Putin’s ascendency in Russia and his influence in Eastern Europe, and Iran’s nuclear capabilities all could play a role in 2012, not to mention the potential for China’s economic bubble bursting.

American City And Town Streets Are Going Dark – Street Lights Are Being Turned Off

Cities turn off their lights as budgets get slashed and revenues decline
Street lights across America are being turned off and removed from service. Highland Park, Mich. In an effort to save money, 1,100 of it’s 1,600 streetlights were yanked from the ground and hauled away this year, and the resulting darkness is a look that is familiar in the wide open cornfields of Iowa but not in Highland Park, a community surrounded on nearly all sides by Detroit.

Parents say they now worry more about allowing their children to walk to school early in the morning. Motorists complain that they often cannot see pedestrians until (their)headlights are right upon them. Cities around the nation, grappling with what is expected to be a fifth consecutive year of declining revenues and having exhausted the predictable budget trims, are increasingly considering something that would once have been considered untouchable, street lights. Highland Park’s circumstances are extreme with financial woes so deep and long term, it has extinguished all but 500 streetlights in a city accustomed to 1,600 lights.

Over a matter of years, Highland Park accumulated a debt of about $4 million dollars to DTE Energy, the utility company. Scott Simons, a spokesman for DTE said “The city was paying less than half of its $60,000 monthly bill for an antiquated lighting system that was costly to maintain. So the company and city struck a deal. The company could turn off and take away 1,300 of the city’s lights, add 200 lights in strategic locations, and the debt would be forgiven.”

In Highland Park, yard lights are helping to illuminate some streets, and some (city) leaders have urged residents to add their own (security) lighting if they are worried about their security.

Helpful Hints:
If you can’t see pedestrians after sunset, Slow down your over driving your headlights.
Don’t drive after dark!
Buy a flashlight!
Pedestrians must wear reflective clothing or a reflective vest!
Don’t walk on the streets.
Cross streets only at marked pedestrian cross walks!
Try doing something different. Look ‘both’ ways Before you cross a street!
Turn on your porch light!
Install a security light!

But above all, Quit your Damn Whining! Pay the extra cost to keep the street lights turned on or shut up about No Street Lights With all the street lights turned off, this may be the first time your child has ever seen a dark sky twinkling, full of tiny stars shining in the darkness!

* Star Light Star Bright first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might have the wish I wish tonight. ‘Happy New Year’

Jailed Criminal Illegal Aliens Get Tax Payer Funded HOT LINE To President Obama

DHS Launches Hot Line for Jailed Immigrants

Department Homeland Security (DHS) is launching a tax payer funded hot line for people jailed on illegal immigration charges.

The toll free hot line will be staffed 24 hours a day and run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to answer questions from people held in local jails about whether they may face deportation proceedings.

Obama – In a grab for 2012 reelection votes, established a tax payer funded hot line in this latest move by the Obama administration to address concerns about suspected illegal immigrants held in local jails. {These criminals can’t vote for Obama in 2012 if they have been deported!}

Earlier this month, Department of Homeland Security ended agreements that had allowed deputies at an Arizona sheriff’s office to check the immigration status of local jail inmates. {Another Obama power grab to get more Latino 2012 reelection votes.}

Obama Doesn’t have a clue! Obama and his socialist agenda administration doesn’t have a clue what the words ‘Enforcing U.S. Laws’ mean. Obama and his gang simply change the rules when Obama or one of his socialist agenda gang members don’t like U.S.Laws.

Obama’s overall job approval is nearing 40 percent. He is now in full 2012 reelection campaign mode and will ‘Do and Say’ anything he (Obama) believes will get him more votes in his bid for reelection in 2012.

Israel’s Home Grown Terrorist – Ultra-Orthodox Jews

Israeli girl’s plight highlights Jewish extremism
Ultra-Orthodox Jews are it seems are no better than Extreme Islamic Terrorist. Ultra-Orthodox extremists who have spat on an 8 year old girl (and others) and called her a whore for dressing “immodestly. Her plight has drawn new attention to the simmering issue of religious coercion in Israel, and the increasing brazenness of extremists in the insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.

Beit Shemesh’s growing ultra-Orthodox population has erected street signs calling for the separation of sexes on the sidewalks, dispatched “modesty patrols” to enforce a chaste female appearance and hurled stones at offenders and outsiders {Sounds like Extreme Islamist in action}. Walls of the neighborhood are plastered with signs exhorting women to dress modestly in closed-necked, long-sleeved blouses and long skirts.

Eight year old Naama’s case has been especially shocking because of her young age and because she attends a religious school and dresses with long sleeves and a skirt. Ultra-Orthodox Jew Extremists, however, consider even that outfit, standard in mainstream Jewish religious schools, to be immodest.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews make up 10 percent of Israel’s population and are its fastest growing sector because of a high birth rate. {I guess Ultra-Orthodox girls don’t know how to keep their legs closed}. In the past, they have generally confined their strict lifestyle to their own neighborhoods. But they have become increasingly aggressive (terrorist) in trying to impose their ways on others, as their population has grown and spread to new areas.

“It is clear that Israeli society is faced with a challenge that I am not sure it can handle,” said Menachem Friedman, a professor emeritus of Bar Ilan University and expert on the ultra-Orthodox, “a challenge that is no less and no more than an existential challenge.”

Rising Cost In Stores – Inflation Plus Shoplifters Steal $1.8 Billion in Merchandise

Shoplifters taking bigger piece of holiday pie
In the four weeks leading up to Christmas, retailers in the U.S. are expected to lose $5 billion in theft and other crimes. About 36 percent of those losses come from shoplifting. Employee theft represents about 44 percent. During the 4 weeks preceding Christmas day shoplifters will cost honest shoppers $1.8 Billion dollars. Theft is calculated into the store price of merchandise, hence You the honest citizen are paying $5 Billion dollars more that you should pay to cover the cost of losses caused by thieving, criminal shoplifters.

Experts say the economy’s influence is largely a cop-out. They say shoplifters are stealing for myriad reasons this holiday season that have nothing to do with economic turmoil. Some do it for a rush or thrill. For others, it’s about filling a void. Still others are trying to relieve anxiety, boredom or depression all emotions that are particularly common during the holidays.

“Shoplifting is generally a crime of opportunity and opportunities abound at the holiday,” says Barbara Staib, a spokeswoman for the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention. The stressors that come with the holiday will certainly help them rationalize their need for bad behavior.”

Shoplifting is surprisingly common. An estimated one in 11 Americans shoplift, according to the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention. It bases its information on academic research and information from those who are ordered or choose to enter its counseling programs for shoplifters.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Iraq – Sunni and Shiite-Tribal Warfare Starts Only Days After US Military Pull Out From Iraq

Baghdad Iraq, A wave of bombings ripped across Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing at least 69 people and injuring almost 200 in the worst violence Iraq has seen for months. The apparently coordinated attacks left a bloodbath just days after American forces left the country. The blasts also came on the heels of a political crisis between Iraq’s Sunni and Shiite factions that erupted this weekend.

Only days after the U.S. Military is with drawn from Iraq, Sunni and Shiite tribal and relegious factions battle for control of Iraq’s government and it’s military. Shiite and Sunni tribal warfare blood bath for the past 10 years has been controlled under the watchful eyes of the U.S. military.

Iraq is still fighting a stubborn, lower-grade insurgency with Sunni Islamists tied to al-Qaida and Shiite militias backed by Iran, still staging daily attacks. Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein using military force suppressed for the most part Shiite tribal and religious members for more than 35 years.

Many Sunnis fear that this is part of a wider campaign to go after Sunni political figures in general and shore up Shiite control across the country.

Merry Christmas – Obama And EPA Power Plant Mandates Will Cost America $9.6 Billion Annually

EPA Tells Coal-, Oil-Fired Plants to Clean Up Air (or) Shut Down
Clean up Or Shut Down – That’s the decision facing hundreds of the nation’s oldest power plants under an Environmental Protection Agency rule announced Wednesday that will force plants to control mercury and other pollutants for the first time.

Will New EPA Rules Force Business and home owners to install Wind, Solar or Gas/Diesel power generators to avoid brownout and blackouts caused by EPA forcing the shut down of existing power plants?

The impact of the ruling will be greatest in the Midwest and in the coal belt, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia where dozens of units likely will be mothballed.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, which is an association of companies producing electricity from coal, said the rule will destroy jobs, raise the cost of energy and make electricity less reliable. A study by the group estimated that as much as 12 percent of coal fired electric generation would be forced to shut down due to the regulation.