US Senate Approves Trade Promotion Authority

The US Senate voted today to approve the Trade Promotion Authority.   They just got three-fifths of the Senate to vote for cloture.  This clears the way for a final vote where all they will need to pass is a simple majority.  Bernie Sanders just stood up and gave a message angry in tone.  There were more speeches by Republicans saying "Occasionally the President gets it right".  Well the President has "gotten it right" a lot of time and a lot of votes in the pass, but previously the Republicans blocked him at every turn.  Not this time.  Now they gladly vote to sell out the interests of this country in so many ways- not just economically.  The significance of this Senate vote is that it conforms to what the House did passing the Trade Promotion Authority without the Jobs Bill or trade adjustment assistance or whatever.  This was the do or die vote.  If the senate had voted this down today the bill might well have died.  Now there are no more road blocks to passing the Trans Pacific Partnership- - which will probably sail through with little opposition and only 83 seconds of debate per congressman, from what I've heard, is mandated.

We have the Supreme Court decision by which cops in LA are no longer able to barge into a Motel and ask for the registry.  Then if they spot someone they can claim “exigent circumstances” and go busting down the door of the room.  The Court said “No”.   President Obama held an interview with a local comic who does a pod cast out of his old garage, and he used the word “Nigger” but how else are you going to say “We used to use that word”?   Linda and the crowd at the station got all paranoid over that word.  In the famous Spider Man case- - apparently a toy maker and Marvel Comics were in a dispute about whether royalties on a patent could be collected when the patent expires.  The court agreed with the lower court that you can’t collect royalties.  But which side are we talking about here?  It’s confusing, but it appears the toy maker is the one holding the patent on this novel toy, and he lost.  Then there was a thing on raison growers growing too many crops violating a New Deal regulation.  It would seem the justices were thinking ‘Screw the New Deal and let the growers sell their raison crop”.  

Now Governor Nicky Haley has agreed to take the Confederate Flag down.  I was flabbergasted by that ruling.  I never thought it’d happen.   Now “Jebbers” Bush took the confederate flag down in Florida years ago.  Mitt Romney says “Take the flag down”, and Rick Sandorum called the SC shooting an “act of terror”.  Wow!  I thought “In an era where we have to pick our battles, this Confederate flag is way down the list of immediate priorities”.  I thought getting rid of the flag was a pipe dream along the same lines as the Washington Redskins changing their name to be more “politically correct” and all.  They say that Bigotry is a personal attitude twords Blacks.  Whereas racism could be described as a whole government system in place to keep the Black man permanently down.  Think about it.  But the flag can't be taken down without the vote of the heavily Republican South Carolinan legislature, and if the governor doesn't lean on them pretty hard saying it's something she really wants, then it probably won't happen.

Is the following the final word on Ukraine?  Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko requests the supreme court of Ukraine to declare that his predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, was overthrown by an illegal operation; in other words, that the post-Yanukovych government, including Poroshenko’s own Presidency, came into power from a coup, not from something democratic, not from any authentic constitutional process at all.   “I ask the court to acknowledge that the law ‘on the removal of the presidential title from Viktor Yanukovych’ as unconstitutional.”  I had previously reported, and here will excerpt, Poroshenko’s having himself admitted prior to 26 February 2014, to the EU’s investigator, and right after the February 22nd overthrow of Yanukovych, that the overthrow was a coup, and that it was even a false-flag operation, in which the snipers, who were dressed as if they were Ukrainian Security Bureau troops, were actually not, and that, as the EU’s investigator put his finding to the EU’s chief of foreign affairs Catherine Ashton.

The US Senate has voted to ban CIA torture.  The vote was 72 to 21 with Marco Rubio not voting.  Most of the pro torture votes came from Republican senators.  Of course torture was illegal already.  Thom Hartman says that the reason why we waterboard or use other extreme questioning is NOT for security but rather to creat fear and crush densest in the average American.  Today what I was saying about medical experimentation is making the news today.  However our government was doing medical experiments on people in the forties at a time when the Nuremberg trials were going on.  What we condemned other governments for, we were guilty of ourselves.