Sunday, August 16, 2015

FEMA Fiddles While "Region X" aka Beautiful Washington State Burns. US Tax Dollars Fund Wars, with Piddles for Firefighting.


What's wrong with this picture? Some "firestarter" servants in our US Government spend billions to start fires and kill people in other countries, with bombs, poisons, bullets, etc. But when part of our beautiful America is burning and people are suffering, groggy FEMA arrives late at the scene, and then doesn't help people.

FEMA Region X Regional Administrator Kenneth D.
SEATTLE -
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the use of federal funds to help fight multiple fires around the state.
FEMA Region X Regional Administrator Kenneth D. Murphy has approved funds for the Reach fires.
At the time of the initial request, the fire was immediately threatening approximately 730 homes in and around the City of Chelan with the perimeter of the fire less than 200 yards from homes.
http://www.khq.com/story/29795637/fema-provides-federal-funds-to-help-fight-fires
http://www.khq.com/story/29791473/update-chelan-area-fires-cause-evacuations

As American citizens, we are the power in this country.
We must tell our servants in Washington D.C. what to do.
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

PS. When did our beautiful country get labeled with only the letter from the alphabet?
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Monday, August 3, 2015

Smoky Skies over Spokane, Washington from Wolverine Fire, August 1, 2, 3, 2015


Since the first weekend in August, Spokane has been bathed in smoke and orange haze.

KHQ in Spokane, WA noted on Aug. 2, 2015 that most of the smoke caught in Spokane is from the Wolverine Fire, northwest of Ione, Washington. Here's part of the report:
LUCERNE, Wash -            
"Update 1:00 p.m., Sunday: The U.S. Forest Service reports the Wolverine Fire burning on the west shore of Lake Chelan made significant growth over a 24 hour period. On Saturday night, an infra-red flight showed the fire had grown to 15,760 acres. The forest service said high temperatures and low humidity made for ideal fire conditions."
http://www.khq.com/story/29686878/smoke-from-wolverine-fire-causing-widespread-haze-as-fire-grows

The air quality in most of Washington State is not good right now, and probably best to keep small kids and others who may be affected by smoke inside, with windows closed as much as possible. Here's info from Holden Village, which was evacuated:

"The Wolverine Fire has expanded to over 15,000 acres. High temperatures and low humidity are providing ideal conditions for active fire behavior. After a safe evacuation of the majority of Holden Village residents and mine remediation workers on Friday and Saturday, the stay-behind crew were also safely evacuated by helicopter due to the road being compromised and for their safety. ..
The Pacific Crest Trail detour is closed through Holden Village. Hikers are advised to contact the National Park Service office in Stehekin or the Forest Service office in Chelan for information.
https://www.facebook.com/HoldenVillage
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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Happy Independence Day! Stay Safe and Enjoy the Liberties and Rights for All People. The Price of Our Freedom is Eternal Vigilence.

Happy Independence Day! Stay Safe and Enjoy the Liberties and Rights for All People.
Thank you to the American colonists who stood up for the rights that we are all born with, and for winning our freedom and independence with their sacrifices so that we may live in peace and prosperity. Have a safe and happy July 4th, and may we keep our spirited fight for freedom and liberty and justice for all!










 
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    U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
     www.archives.gov July 4, 2015 

    The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

    IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
    The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
    He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
    He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
    He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
    He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
    He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
    He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
    He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
    He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
    He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
    He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
    He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
    He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
    For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
    For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
    For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
    For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
    For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
    For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
    For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
    For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
    For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
    He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
    He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
    He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
    He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
    He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
    In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
    Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
    We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
    The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
    Column 1
    Georgia:
       Button Gwinnett
       Lyman Hall
       George Walton
    Column 2
    North Carolina:
       William Hooper
       Joseph Hewes
       John Penn
    South Carolina:
       Edward Rutledge
       Thomas Heyward, Jr.
       Thomas Lynch, Jr.
       Arthur Middleton
    Column 3
    Massachusetts:
    John Hancock
    Maryland:
    Samuel Chase
    William Paca
    Thomas Stone
    Charles Carroll of Carrollton
    Virginia:
    George Wythe
    Richard Henry Lee
    Thomas Jefferson
    Benjamin Harrison
    Thomas Nelson, Jr.
    Francis Lightfoot Lee
    Carter Braxton
    Column 4
    Pennsylvania:
       Robert Morris
       Benjamin Rush
       Benjamin Franklin
       John Morton
       George Clymer
       James Smith
       George Taylor
       James Wilson
       George Ross
    Delaware:
       Caesar Rodney
       George Read
       Thomas McKean
    Column 5
    New York:
       William Floyd
       Philip Livingston
       Francis Lewis
       Lewis Morris
    New Jersey:
       Richard Stockton
       John Witherspoon
       Francis Hopkinson
       John Hart
       Abraham Clark
    Column 6
    New Hampshire:
       Josiah Bartlett
       William Whipple
    Massachusetts:
       Samuel Adams
       John Adams
       Robert Treat Paine
       Elbridge Gerry
    Rhode Island:
       Stephen Hopkins
       William Ellery
    Connecticut:
       Roger Sherman
       Samuel Huntington
       William Williams
       Oliver Wolcott
    New Hampshire:
       Matthew Thornton

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    Declaration of Independence - Text Transcript

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  • We can celebrate this holiday with fun, and without fires. Firefighters deserve to have the holiday, and not risk their lives because of fire. Let's all work to keep our woods, fields, and homes free of fire.
     http://www.khq.com/story/29474310/crews-continue-to-fight-rail-canyon-fire-saturday 
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    Sunday, May 10, 2015

    Happy Mothers Day Sunday May 10, 2015


    Happy Mother’s Day
    to all for this important part of life.

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    Thursday, April 23, 2015

    The Hidden Story of Teen Suicide, Unreported, in Spokane, and the World Thursday April 23, 2015

    This has been a beautiful Spring in the Pacific Northwest, with many days of blue skies and colorful flowers blooming. So, today's event is thrown into tragic relief, with the loss of a first year student at one of the area high schools, Lewis and Clark. The principal sent phone messages saying that a freshman had died, and asking all of us to be extra special and sensitive to our LC students as they experience this sad time. The area news stations are not reporting this, and perhaps we need to make this more of a news, and do all we can to keep all our young people, and people of all ages, safe and knowing how special they are.

    Here's a link with advice for parents and guardians, on helping kids live through the tragedy of losing a friend or loved one.
    http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetails.aspx?p=114&np=141&id=2384

    Via the Mayo Clinic:
    "If you're a teen and you think you may be depressed — or you have a friend who may be depressed — don't wait to get help. Talk to a health care professional such as your doctor or school nurse. Share your concerns with a parent, a close friend, a spiritual leader, a teacher or someone else you trust."

    ...get help right away. Take all talk of suicide seriously. Here are some steps you can take:

    • Call a suicide hotline number — in the United States, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (800-273-8255) to reach a trained counselor
    • Seek help from your doctor, a mental health provider or other health care professional.
    • Reach out to family members, friends or spiritual leaders for support as you seek treatment

    Here are just a few other links on symptoms of depression in teens and others:
  • Teen depression Symptoms - Mayo Clinic
    www.mayoclinic.org/.../teen-depression/basics/symptoms/CON-20035222
    Teen depression signs and symptoms include changes in your teen's emotions and behavior, such as the examples below. Emotional changes. Be alert for emotional …
  • Teen Depression: Causes, Symptoms, Heredity, and ... - WebMD
    www.webmd.com › … › Depression Health Center › Depression Guide
    Here’s information about teens and depression -- the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment -- that parents can use to help prevent serious problems.
  • 10 Signs Your Teenager Is Depressed | World of Psychology
    psychcentral.com/.../07/21/a-few-signs-your-teenager-may-be-depressed
    Jul 21, 2012 · Symptoms of Teen Depression. How do you tell the difference between clinical depression and ordinary teen moodiness? These are some of the signs …
  • A Parent's Guide to Teen Depression: Learn the Signs of ...
    www.helpguide.org/articles/depression/teen-depression-signs-help.htm
    Parent's Guide to Teen Depression Learn the Signs of Depression in Teens and How You Can Help In This Article. Teenage depression isn’t just bad moods and the ...
  • Teen Depression: Get the Facts on Symptoms and Warning Signs
    www.medicinenet.com › … › teen depression index
    Read about symptoms of teenage depression, learn about causes, and get the facts about medications used in treatment.
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  • Depression Warning Signs | Teen Depression
    www.teendepression.org/info/depression-warning-signs
    Adolescence is an unsettling time, with the many physical, emotional, psychological and social changes that accompany this stage of life. Depression is very common in ...
  • Recognizing teen depression - National Library of Medicine
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/patientinstructions/000648.htm
    Know the Symptoms of Depression. If your teen is depressed, you may see some of the following common symptoms of depression.
  • Psych Central - Teenager Depression Symptoms
    psychcentral.com/library/teen_depression_symptoms.htm
    Symptoms of teenage depression. Teen depression is a serious issue, but can be helped when you know the symptoms.
  • REGARDING GUIDELINES FOR REPORTING:

    • via: http://www.afsp.org/news-events/for-the-media/reporting-on-suicide
    "Two Viennese studies on suicide contagion* found that less extensive and dramatic media coverage of subway-related suicides resulted in fewer suicide deaths following the reported suicides. In fact, subway suicides and non-fatal attempts actually dropped by 80 percent in the six months following initiation of a campaign to encourage safe media reporting. The total number of suicides also declined."

    This site has notes about the under-reported and unreported problems in Spokane, with suggestions for solutions.
    https://inlandnw.wordpress.com/about/?blogsub=confirming#blog_subscription-3


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    Saturday, December 20, 2014

    Coal Companies Mining on Federal Land Royalties: 60 Day Comment Period Dec. 19, 2014

    Here's some information about coal companies in the US settling low royalties on coal sold to Asia from mines on federal land.
     
     
    We have a 60-day comment period for this.

    By Patrick Rucker
    Reuters
    Dec. 19, 2014
    WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - U.S. coal companies will no longer be able to settle royalties at low domestic prices when they make lucrative sales to Asia according to reforms proposed by the Interior Department on Friday.
    American taxpayers by law are due a 12.5 percent royalty on the sales of millions of tons of coal pulled each year from federal land that mining companies lease.
    In past years of strong global demand, U.S. miners have been able to avoid a royalty hit on lucrative exports by first selling to affiliated traders at low domestic prices.
    The reforms proposed on Friday will update rules on how energy companies settle their royalty payments on coal, oil and gas pulled from federal land but the changes to the coal program may have the biggest impact.
    "Coal produced on public lands is an important part of our domestic energy portfolio, but we have an obligation - and we are fully committed - to ensure that the American taxpayer receives a fair return for the production of domestic energy resources," Deputy Secretary of the Interior Mike Connor said in announcing the proposal.
    The Interior Department has been investigating possible royalty shortfalls in the federal coal program since February 2012.
    The plan is now open for public comment for 60 days.
    Arch Coal Inc, Peabody Energy Corp and Cloud Peak Energy Inc are among the leaders in mining coal from federal land in the West. 

     
    Larry Winslow
    Communications Coordinator
    Northern Plains Resource Council
    220 South 27th Street, Suite A
    Billings, MT 59101Phone: 406.248.1154 X 114
    Fax:  406.248.2110
     
    Northern Plains Resource Council is a grassroots conservation and family agriculture group. We organize Montana citizens to protect our water quality, family farms and ranches, and unique quality of life. If you aren't a member, you should join!
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    Thursday, November 27, 2014

    Happy Thanksgiving! and updates about coal companies Thursday November 27, 2014

     Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving!



    The First Thanksgiving Jean Louis Gerome Ferris (1863-1930)
    Artwork between 1913 to 1915.http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_First_Thanksgiving_cph.3g04961.jpg
    1 photomechanical print : halftone, color (postcard made from painting). Postcard published by The Foundation Press, Inc., 1932. Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pageant of a Nation.
    The scene depicted here is a romanticized (idealized) version and not historically accurate. The clothing worn by the Pilgrims is incorrect, the Wampanoag did not wear feathered war bonnets, nor would they have been sitting on the ground.[1]

    We can celebrate our heritage
    and
    keep our Earth clean and fresh for all.
     
     
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, November 26, 2014
    Contact:
    Meg Matthews,     206.291.5942 / meg.matthews@sierraclub.org
     Statement online: https://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2014/11/power-past-coal-statement-ambre-energy-selling-coal-export-projects

    Power Past Coal Statement on Ambre Energy Selling off Coal Export Projects

    Today Australian-based Ambre Energy announced that it is getting out of the troubled North American coal-export market. Ambre will sell its shares of Oregon and Washington projects to Resource Capital Funds, a Denver-based company known for seeking out     high-risk volatile investments.

    In response, Power Past Coal campaign director Cesia Kearns released the following statement:

    "On Thanksgiving eve, we have a lot to be thankful for, and a lot to work towards. Among that thanks is the news about Ambre Energy, which is yet another sign that U.S. coal export proposals are a financial train wreck going nowhere. Resource Capital Funds has gotten the wrong end of the wishbone from this turkey and we suggest they find another industry to back where their investments have any chance of yielding profits, as well as benefiting the health, environment, and longevity of the communities they wish to operate in.

    "From the recent carbon pollution agreement between China and the US to the freefalling coal export prices around the world, it's clear that coal exports are a losing proposition. Northwest families have known all along that dirty, dangerous coal is the wrong choice for our region. Communities from British Columbia, the Pacific Northwest, Gulf of Mexico and around the world will  continue to fight coal export companies until we protect our health and safety for good from these shortsighted projects. Resource Capital Funds, Millennium Bulk Logistics, Gateway Pacific and other companies may want to look at     Ambre's own filing papers before they sink anymore money into these hapless proposals."
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