Monday, August 24, 2015

The United States Constitution (Video)

Listen and learn.  Please forward to others so they may become enlightened.  Many thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3xTwari7_s
The United States Constitution

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Published on Nov 27, 2013
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. The Constitution originally consisted of seven Articles. The first three Articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislature, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive, consisting of the President; and the judiciary, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. The fourth and sixth Articles frame the doctrine of federalism, describing the relationship between State and State, and between the several States and the federal government. The fifth Article provides the procedure for amending the Constitution. The seventh Article provides the procedure for ratifying the Constitution.

This is an audio recording of the United States Constitution. Go to LearnOutLoud.com to download this and more Founding Documents on mp3.

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The United States Declaration of Independence (short video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=164&v=zD2MwozRsEc
The United States Declaration of Independence

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Published on Nov 27, 2013
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nationthe United States of America. John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was unanimously approved on July 2. A committee had already drafted the formal declaration, to be ready when Congress voted on independence.

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OIA (Orlando International Airport) Board Members................How could you??......A Muslim Prayer Hall, BUT, Not a Veterans USO Lounge, in this Airport???

(This was sent to the OIA Board Members today. A formal complaint to the Governors office is being mailed this weekend.)
 

OIA (Orlando International Airport) Board Members................How could you??......A Muslim Prayer Hall, BUT, Not a Veterans USO Lounge, in this Airport???


OIA Board Members;

   Why do America's Military Veterans have to take a back seat to this "Authority's"  desire to pander to a sect of people visiting this country? How can this Airport Authority find money to build a "religious specific" hall of worship,but Not be able to find money to build a USO Lounge for America's Best,......our American Soldiers. Quite frankly your performance sickens me. I am filled with disgust over this blatant disrespect for America's own, and the excessive pandering to a religious sect, coming to visit America.
   Appeasing one specific Religion , as is being done here, reflects an underlying "Fear" that you will do what ever is necessary so as to not "offend" these groups of individuals, though you appear to have no problem in Offending, and  Disrespecting, America's Veterans.  Your lack of being (American), and Pro-active by not constructing any form of  WELCOME "Home-site" (USO endorsed)  at the Airport to embrace our very own American Brothers and Sister home from War, is evidence clear to that point.!!
  There already is a Non-denominational hall of worship / meditation, in  one of the Terminals , so why build one in another Terminal, at the same time that Emirate Airlines is to begin flights to Orlando? This is NOT a mere coincidence!!.....This is a Blatant and cowardly move to pander to one specific religious group and a Nation-wide insult to our American War Veterans.!!
   Your declaration that this is a Non-denominational hall of worship, is deceptive, miss-leading and may be an outright insult to Americans all over. This "Hall of worship" you have hastily prepared, has a specific religious intent in-mind as it will show visitors which direction is facing (Mecca)-(for Muslim worship). This so-called "neutral" hall will also have a location for (Ablution) the "washing" before prayer, as well as a place to put one's shoes, slippers, etc., and a supply of kneeling rugs!!!...........Excuse me,......... but what religions do you know of in America that allows for such equipment and such items except the Muslim religion?? How many other innocent citizens (do you believe) will actually want to enter and participate in any form of meditation, and prayer with all these intimidating, non-neutral ,unfamiliar paraphernalia items  surrounding them? What other religious specific items will you supply, and NOT tell America about?????
 
  OIA, is a State legislated Authority and a State sanctioned Agency, therefore, it is my belief that you have violated Florida's Constitution, by providing a "Hall of Worship", that lends itself to serve one particular religious group of individuals, over ALL others. Florida's Constitution prohibits it's agencies, (directly or indirectly) of providing aid / funding towards any Church, sect, or religious denomination. Your (required), obligation to adhere to Florida's Constitution is enforced by the mere fact that your existence was enabled by, for, and of the people of Florida, through our Legislative Representatives, in the year 1971. Your entity is identified as a State Agency, and therefore  obligated to the Constitution of this State. This is further enforced by the fact that this Airport receives Millions of dollars in Grants from Florida to enhance and enrich it's appearance and performance. These so-called "Grants" are in fact Tax dollars, supplied by the people. You are compelled by these particulars to adhere to and to comply with the rule-of-law that prevails through our Constitutional foundation....Article-1 / Section-3 ,of our Constitution is what you should have read before proceeding in the manner that you did. **I am compelled to forward a complaint to the proper representative Agencies in this State, in consideration of these apparent Constitutional violations.
   ** On the Moral grounds of Loyalty, and Patriotism and of providing Aid to our American Soldiers you have Failed miserably. You should have provided (First and Foremost), for and financed a "Welcome Home Center" for our Veterans in cooperation with the USO. Your priorities should have been the construction of this OASIS, for OUR Veterans and their Families. A temporary place where a Veteran can sit and talk and share with the Family that he / she hasn't seen for months or years. The need of Veterans to feel welcome and wanted back home is a need that has never been fulfilled. Veterans coming home to "Nothing", and feeling Unwelcome in their own Country has contributed to the 22 daily Veterans suicides that we have to shoulder.
  Statistics show that there are only 47 USO affiliated facilities at any of the designated primary Airports in this country. A country that has hundreds upon hundreds of major / primary Airports and all we can supply is 47 "welcome-Home Centers" @ Airports, through-out America for our Veterans.
   OIA had an opportunity to "Step-up" and  set an example, and when the choice between a Veterans Center and a Muslim worship Center was laid-out in front of you, you decided that "Political Correctness" was the diseased path you chose to walk down, and you embraced this Muslim (leaning) worship Center over the need to Welcome our American Veterans back home.
   Statistics also show that OIA is rated 13th or 14th as a major Airport in this country, but you have chosen to be rated LAST, when it comes to Consciously, and Morally, exercising Loyalty, Patriotism, and Love for your fellow-American.
   As an American, and Vietnam Veteran  I am truly disgusted with this catering performance for strangers, and the total disregard for our fellow Americans. I will not and cannot ever use your Airport services again, because you have not shown your Patriotic Compassion and Necessary Loyalty to those who have protected your right to flourish, and survive in America.
  You took a calculated stance that clearly reflects your desire to pacify, and pander to those unknown to these United States, while your do-nothing for those whom you should Know-all-too-well, ..........America's beloved Veterans of our Armed Services!!
                                                                          I am truly saddened by your Failed performance.
          Thomas Pastore  / Vietnam Veteran / USMC,/.......In search of the America, I fought to Preserve.
 

2015 NCHV Veterans Access to Housing Summit: Commit to Changing Your Community

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2015 NCHV Veterans Access to Housing Summit: Commit to Changing Your Community

By GPD on August 24, 2015

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Thanks to the small-group, interactive structure of this event, you will have the opportunity to discuss the needs of your community and troubleshoot the specific hurdles you are facing. Come prepared to work and set an agenda for change when you go home!
You will have 100 days… what can you commit to change?
The 2015 NCHV Veterans Access to Housing Summit, “The Drive to December”, will be held Oct. 5-6 at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington, D.C.
Download the 2015 NCHV Veterans Access to Housing Summit schedule.
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Space at this event is limited, and no walk up registrations will be accepted. Please plan ahead to ensure you are able to attend. Stay tuned to the NCHV Veterans Access to Housing Summit webpage for the latest updates!
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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/08/24/2015-nchv-veterans-access-to-housing-summit-commit-to-changing-your-community/ 

Is ISIS fulfilling a prophetic dream? Recommeded read


Israel’s Rage and Impotence, the Final Days

Israel’s Rage and Impotence, the Final Days

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on August 23, 2015

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Photo:  Iranian missile tests
Israel is technically defenseless and humiliated. This is not conjecture nor is it a positive thing for prospects of peace. It is entirely the result of Netanyahu’s scheming and game playing and has led to serious escalations across the region. Today, Damascus is being shelled relentlessly. Our bureau personnel are in their homes and hotels, hearing sirens and shells falling.
Yesterday, an Israeli drone was shot down by a Syrian air defense missile of a type Israel was unaware had been deployed. The drone was directing fire from the Yarmouk Camp in South Damascus, Grad rockets and heavy mortars, that are hitting civilian areas across the city. Today an ISIS jihadist captured there described the Israeli fire control officers who are helping target key infrastructure systems, water and electricity. They have been successful.
This is on the heels of two days of Israeli air assaults that included no manned Israeli aircraft. The attacks are drones and artillery only on Syrian army positions across the UNTSO (United Nations Treaty Supervision Organization) lines. The UN has issued no reports of these violations as required by treaty.
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Israel has two agendas:
  1. They are pushing Syria to use new weapon systems from Russia. If Syria has the weapons Israel believes, including Iskander missiles, Israeli positions on the occupied Golan Heights are now useless.
  2. With the S300 contract ready to be signed, Israel is attacking Syria while planting press stories about Iran attacks they never executed. This is pure impotence and utter idiocy for Netanyahu, showing his hand.
The lack of credible analysis of the situation in the Middle East and the war on ISIS isn’t an accident. Israel has something to hide, a series of major blunders by Netanyahu that have left Israel defenseless despite her massive air force and nuclear arsenal. We may well be in another “August 1914,” a run up to world war. That reference is made time and time again, abused nearly as often as the word “holocaust,” but this time may really be different.
We had said Israel is defenseless, we now make our case:
  • In February 2015, the US took both Iran and Hezbollah off the Terror Watch List. They told Israel it was an administrative error. Iran and Hezbollah are still off the terror watch list some months later.
  • In 2014, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, a man with little good will for Israel, re-positioned two AEGIS ships to the Black Sea, in violation of treaties. On April 10, 2014, Russia responded by using advanced jamming equipment, disabling one of these ships, the USS Donald Cook. These ships were the backbone of Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system. Note that the US uses AEGIS ships for its anti-missile defense as well. You see, phased array radar is useless unless used at sea.
  • President Obama ordered the disabling of the Iron Dome in response to Netanyahu’s interference in American domestic politics, not just related to Iran but health care, social security, workers rights and other areas.  Netanyahu has been working closely with members of organized crime to crash the American economy to punish President Obama. Those efforts have increased 10 fold since the Iran agreement including moves against China as well including what we are now told was the use of an Israeli tactical nuclear weapon at Tianjin. Ten days after the explosion, IAEA inspectors leaked their initial findings which are being released here for the first time. They list the weapon at 20 kilotons.
  • The Iranian agreement with Russia over the delivery of an S300 air defense system will include, as has been reported by Moscow, sufficient upgrades to guarantee effectiveness against Israel’s nuclear tipped ballistic missiles, any possible tactic developed by the Israeli Air Force and to protect key regions of Iran from Israel’s German-designed and -built Dolphin nuclear cruise missile submarines.
  • On May 2, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Syria sank an Israeli Dolphin submarine using advanced Russian systems. In the past months those systems have been upgraded. Russian ASW (anti-submarine-warfare) systems are designed to work in the Baltic against diesel electric submarines. Iran will now be getting these systems as well, making both the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean a “hands off” zone for hostile submarines.
  • Iran’s diplomatic inroads with India and Saudi Arabia (to a lesser extent) and their “dance” with Turkey, has outmaneuvered Israel as has the recent opening of the British embassy in Tehran.
Netanyahu’s Disaster Scenario
Israel feels it is pushed to take out Iran using nuclear weapons. However, it has no platform to reliably deliver them, as its medium range and ICBM missiles are easily shot down by the S300. Israel then is forced to go after “soft targets” — India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, China, or perhaps as also seen in recent days, France.
This kind of thinking that worked so well on 9/11 no longer plays.
Were Iran to have need to respond to an Israeli provocation, even if the Iron Dome were a reality, which it is not, Israel would be destroyed in hours. Iran is simply too powerful and has, quite intelligently, manufactured thousands of medium range missiles that carry conventional payloads of some size. Worse still, through bombing Gaza, Syria and other precedents such as the Saudi air war on Yemen, after such a missile attack — even if Tel Aviv and Haifa were flattened to the ground, which they would be in hours — the international reaction would be muted.
Nobody cares anymore.
The US, no matter who or what is elected in 2016, will only stand and watch. America saw what interference brought in 1973, oil embargo and economic collapse. With Russia and China where they are today, there is no potential for American response, not even if Trump is in the oval office.
The media will simply underplay and ignore, as they have done for Israel so many times. The shoe will be on the other foot.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/08/23/israels-rage-and-impotence-the-final-days/

DETROIT: ‘Smart’ freeway rises on I-96, I-696

DETROIT: ‘Smart’ freeway rises on I-96, I-696
August 24, 2015 in NewsRBN
Detroit News by | Michael Martinez 

The Michigan Department of Transportation has installed its first sets of sensors and cameras along 20 miles of Interstate 96 and I-696 in Metro Detroit that will be able to “talk” with certain cars to help drivers avoid construction, traffic and weather hazards.
The system is the first stage of what will become the longest stretch of technology-enabled “smart” roads in the country, and could be the next step toward self-driving cars.
It’s all part of MDOT’s connected-corridor initiative, which uses the latest vehicle and infrastructure technologies to create safer roadways. The department wants to deploy sensors along 50 miles of the expressways.
No cars in showrooms today can connect with the system, but the first car with that capability — the 2017 Cadillac CTS — already is in the pipeline. Other car companies partnering with MDOT, including Ford Motor Co., are working to equip future vehicles with the necessary technology.
The 17 sensors and cameras — 12 along I-96 and I-696 between Milford Road and Orchard Lake Road, and five at intersections just off the expressway — are small nondescript devices with antennas that have been installed on existing power poles and on top of stoplights.
They work by collecting information such as vehicle location, speed and driving habits from vehicles that connect to the network. That information is beamed to a virtual “warehouse” that analyzes and interprets the data into usable information and then shares it with connected vehicles on the roadway.
There are a number of practical uses: If road repairs are in progress on a stretch of expressway, sensors can pick up the location and tell the driver that the left lane is closed 1,000 feet ahead. If cars are sliding on an icy stretch, the system can warn drivers and even alert MDOT that salt trucks should be dispatched.
Automakers, along with the University of Michigan, are working with MDOT on the project, which is being paid for by a combination of state and federal money.
“I don’t think right now we’re intending to mass-market to drivers to say, ‘Go ahead and use this,’ ” said Matt Smith, MDOT intelligent transportation systems program administrator, commenting on the current absence of cars and trucks to connect with the system.
“Our approach is to work with automotive companies, U-M, and partner up with companies that have large fleet vehicles to equip them.”
Smith said security is a major concern, and the partners are working to keep the sensors and connected vehicles safe. The system doesn’t keep track of personal information, and Smith said the system won’t cause a car to brake or accelerate.
Testing for the project is taking place at U-M’s Mcity, an automotive proving ground in Ann Arbor that’s aimed at helping Michigan take the lead in driverless-car technology. Mcity opened last month.
“Adding this technology on roads around southeast Michigan is important, especially since it’s the home of the auto industry,” said John Maddox, assistant director of the U-M Mobility Transformation Center, which operates Mcity.
Maddox said testing has been done at Mcity and along public streets in Ann Arbor. He said knowledge gained there will improve driver safety and save gasoline by helping pick the most efficient routes.
“It’s going to help move people and goods around southeast Michigan in the most efficient manner,” he said.

http://republicbroadcasting.org/detroit-smart-freeway-rises-on-i-96-i-696/

George Ure Sez.... Here's Why The FED Has To Make A 'Surprise' Announcement ...And Soon...

George Ure Sez.... Here's Why The FED Has To Make A 'Surprise' Announcement ...And Soon...
Posted By: Watchman
Date: Monday, 24-Aug-2015 12:26:51

Well, tomorrow (Asia time, which is tonight our time in ‘Merica) the Chinese market comes to a major inflection point. I’d explain in Elliott Wave terms, but you’d glaze over.
The main thing is, if the Fed is going to do anything to hold the slide in the markets, they MUST make a major announcement today.
The two likely choices are?
1. They could announce NO RATE HIKE UNTIL THE ECONOMY FURTHER IMPROVES. Bully-pulpit QE-4.
2, They could also simply announce QE-4 because as we explained in our Peoplenomics analysis this weekend, the flow of imports is going back up.
3. The USA could hint that we are going to Devalue, too. In which case, American exports would become more competitive. Exports might increase and gold would go to the moon., But there would be plenty of pain. Forex markets are doing it, regardless.
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