A Synopsis Of This Morning's News... H/t to ChrisM my MP3Angel for supplying the audio files.
[After the commentary, an infomercial from our sponsor... "Change The World". Just click for the video and a free quote.] «o»The Obama administration has begun divulging their plan for a New Millennial military and so far it's known that European-based troops will be reduced by about a brigade. Further, if you join the Army you will be rotated throughout the all of the global regions... Africa, South America, the Middle East, and the Asia/Pacific basin. It's called "increased OPTEMPO", and it's NOT a particularly good thing for our soldiers morale, health, OR their warfighting capabilities.
«o»The president of Iran is in Ecuador today and will head beck to the Pesian Gulf shortly. While on tour President of Iran Ahmadinejad made a twenty four hour stopover in Cuba where he talked with the nation's leader Raul Castro for FIFTEEN HOURS. Their talks focused on re-creating Cuba into a new oil marketing/trade center. You can bet that oil trade will not be based on the US dollar as a benchmark.
«o»Space Junk from a Russian Phobos satellite is due to reenter the earth's atmosphere on Sunday. One should probably not be on a cruise ship off the coast of Madagascar, because that's our 'rocket scientists' best guess as to a re-entry point on Earth. That is also the location where a US satellite crashed in December.
«o»A Washington DC court has ruled on Obama's recess appointment constitutionality. The court ruled there has to be somewhat of a full 'mechanism' for senatorial operation In place to prevent those appointments, and having someone come in, open a session, and close the session IS NOT a full mechanism. Expect more recess appointments from the Obama White House in the wake of that decision.
«o»Santa Clara California has refused to accept $100 million dollars offered by the state for the housing, care, and feeding of non-violent felon inmates due to be released to county jails under a federal court order. The county says they have no plan to build more facilities, nor do they have the locations to do so. They also say it would cost a lot more than that amount to create such facilities.
The state of California also has plans for California Youth Authority prisoners, who may be released in the future due to the governor's plan to shut all of those facilities. Expect LOTS OF young Ex-Cons on the streets with ZERO SOCIAL SERVICES available to them. No Food Stamps... no nuthin'. The youths released will be most affected due to their age... because they are being released into the job market crippled by their felony convictions, which prevent their being hired for many jobs, cash handling sales jobs, which are all there really are in the way of 'jobs for youths' in California, and typically, having been incarcerated at an early age, they also have no other marketable skillsets.
It might be noted that the annual cost of keeping a kid in prison in California is $200,000... and California's prison guards earn considerable more than a school teacher in the state.
«o»Finally...
You can take this to the bank (Credit Union if you prefer). IF they discipline the Marines who did this
...the punishment WILL NOT be as severe as the punishment inflicted on the person who blew the whistle… Just like Bradley Manning.
Army investigator recommends court martial for Bradley Manning
“Aiding the enemy”: That’s one of the crimes that Lieutenant Colonel Paul Almanza, who was tasked with an investigation of Manning’s case, says there is evidence he committed. Almanza has advised the Army to submit Manning to a court martial, relating to the massive, classified document dump to Wikileaks, with which he’s been accused. Manning’s defense attorney, David Coombs, has voiced complaint that Almanza works in the Justice department as a civilian. Justice is currently building a case against Wikileaks head Julian Assange, which opens up risk of conflict of interest. If Manning is convicted through a court martial, he could face life imprisonment. [In Full @ NPR]
In OTHER News:
Tanks, SWAT Teams, Surveillance Helicopters Cities Already Turning Into Mini-Police States for the Political Conventions
With millions in federal grants, local officials are preparing to crack down on dissent
January 10, 2012
Two cities have their hands full preparing for the upcoming Republican and Democratic National Conventions later this year. As officials in Tampa, Florida, make plans to manage an estimated 15,000 protesters expected to descend on the city during the four-day Republican gathering in August, their counterparts in Charlotte, North Carolina, are ramping up crowd-control training in the run-up to the DNC.
With the parties gathering just seven months from now, Tampa and Charlotte will spend the next half-year transforming their cities into mini-police states to manage the thousands of protesters who will carry on a long tradition of dissent at the major parties' nominating conventions. [In Full]
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