There is a new form of government in the U.S.’s future. The Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) or ‘fast-track’ legislation not only eliminates Congress’ constitutional powers, it places the U.S directly inline with the United Nations’ Agenda 21 planning.

Under TPA, Congress will hand its authority to the executive branch giving up the power to write, debate, amend, and vote on any trade legislation. Through TPA, Congress will also be pre-clearing a political and economic union.

TPA was created by the Nixon administration in 1974 as a temporary transfer of authority from the Congress to the President.  It officially ended in 2011, at which time President Obama began pushing renewal despite his ‘opposition’ to it as a candidate.

Progressives in both parties want the TPA so they can ‘fast-track’ the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which includes 12 Pacific Rim countries. Under TPP, a new transnational governmental structure called the ‘Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission,’ will be formed and chartered using a ‘Living Agreement’ clause, already in place in TPP.

This clause gives the Commission the authority to amend TPP after its adoption, add new members, and issue regulations on labor, immigration, environmental, and commercial policy. In short, it will remove all constitutional protections against the creation of a global government.

There is also no expiration date to TPA. If Congress doesn’t refuse to reauthorize it at the end of 2018, it will automatically be renewed for another three years and so long as the President requests the extension.

If a trade bill’s is to Congress that the Commission believes violates TPA recommendations — or any U.S. laws — lawmakers wanting to amend it or remove it from the ‘fast-track’ will find doing so next to impossible. That’s because the bill falls under the control of the Committee.

Currently, the President’s required to send a report to Congress on the terms of a trade agreement at least 60 days before submitting legislation. Under TPA the President can also classify or otherwise redact information from this report and update the agreement without the consent of Congress.

The Administration can also act on its own to negotiate foreign worker increases with foreign trading partners without ever sharing them with Congress. Language already exists in TPA and TPP to provide for admitting more foreign workers, for longer periods of time, and language could later be added to TPP to further increase such admissions.

And if you don’t think Obama will take advantage of TPA and TPP, you’re fooling yourself. It’s exactly what he needs when it comes too completely and “fundamentally transforming America,” into something it wasn’t ever meant to be.

It was August 28, 2014, when President Obama stated, “We don’t have a strategy yet, we need to make sure that we’ve got clear plans. As our strategy develops, we will consult with Congress.”

Obama doubled-down on that claim, saying nearly the same thing at the recent G7 Summit in Germany, “We don’t have yet a complete strategy” he commented when asked about the achievements of the U.S.-led coalition in the battle against ISIL.

Now suddenly, following a new FOX News poll showing that 71 percent of those asked believe the president doesn’t have a clear strategy, the White House is planning to send another 450 more troops to Iraq. The administration says this will increase the number of training sites in Iraq from four to five and ‘enable’ Sunni’s to join the fight.

The decision, the Pentagon said in a statement, “does not represent a change in mission, but rather adds another location for DoD to conduct similar activities in more areas in Iraq. U.S. forces continue to perform an advisory, training, and support role and are not conducting offensive ground combat operations.”

Right now, the U.S. has 3,080 troops in Iraq, just under the cap of 3,100.  The new order will bring that level to about 3,550.

This means Obama’s broken another promise – this one about ‘mission creep” or rather the gradual shift in goals during the course of a military campaign, which usually resulting in an unplanned long-term commitment.

In September 2014 Obama told troops at U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida: “The American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. As your commander in chief, I will not commit you and the rest of our armed forces to fighting another ground war in Iraq.”

But as Jason Ditz of Anti-War.com writes: “The new troops are being labeled “trainers,” but are likely to be among those that Pentagon officials are openly talking about “embedding” on the front lines, meaning they’d be sent into direct combat.”

“As losses have mounted in Iraq and Syria, with ISIS taking more and more cities, the Pentagon has repeatedly rejected the idea that the strategy was at all flawed, and has tried to blame Iraqi troops for not winning more. The U.S. appears to be doubling down on this narrative by adding troops,” writes Ditz.

His assessment is on-the-mark as the State Department says there are plans to deliver 1,000 anti-tank weapons to Iraq in the coming weeks, meaning the Obama Administration learned nothing from the recent ‘equipment dump’ made by the Iraqi’s as they fled from ISIL in Ramadi.

Nevada’s Governor Brian Sandoval says he won’t run for Senator Harry Reid senate seat, ending questions about whether he would or wouldn’t enter. Sandoval was re-elected in November with 71 percent of the vote and considered a favorite to run.

“I have said many times that it is an honor and a privilege to serve as Nevada’s Chief Executive and that I love my job,” he said in a statement, adding, ”For these reasons, I will not seek the United States Senate seat that will be available in 2016.”

Former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto announced her candidacy while Congress Dina Titus said she would not run. Meanwhile Congressman Joe Heck is thinking about making a bid and Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers has already decided to enter race.

In March, Reid said he wouldn’t seek a sixth term following a ‘supposed’ exercise injury that left him blind in one eye. He’s backing Cortez Masto as his successor.

“We have a winner in Catherine Cortez Masto,” Reid told reporters. “She’s a wonderful longtime Nevadan and in fact lifetime Nevadan, and it doesn’t matter who runs against her she’s going to be just fine.”

Sandoval announced a $1.1 billion tax plan in January along with other tax-laden bills for education. Eventually, the Nevada Assembly approved his plan.

This package includes $400 million for the general fund in so-called “sunset” taxes, first enacted in 2009 and originally set to expire in 2011, but since extended twice as well as another $376 million for education, created by an increase in the state’s sales tax rate. The bill is also expected to raise $200 million from a dollar increase on cigarette taxes and about $500 million in higher payroll taxes, corporate business license fees and gross receipt business taxes.

Sandoval’s been mentioned as a possible vice presidential candidate for former Florida Governor and unannounced presidential candidate Jeb Bush. The former governor said in a recent trip to Reno that it was much too soon to talk about potential running mates.

He had breakfast with Bush in Carson City in May. Bush later told reporters that he’s a “big Brian Sandoval fan.”

Sandoval claims Bush approached him, saying he wanted to discuss issues important to Nevada. Oddly, Sandoval’s hand-picked lieutenant governor, Mark Hutchison is running Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s campaign in Nevada.

Bush is expected to make his candidacy official during a June 15 speech at Miami-Dade College in Florida.

Sounding more like a spy thriller by Vince Flynn, the Iranian media is full of stories that Secretary of State John Kerry wasn’t injured in a fall from his bicycle May 31, but rather was the target of an assassination attempt. The alleged attempt came during a meeting with Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, a senior Tajik police commander, trained in the U.S, who recently defected to ISIL a few weeks ago.

The European Union Times reports Kerry left Geneva with officials from France’s 1er Régiment d’Hélicoptères de Combat and traveled to the former Phalsbourg-Bourscheid U.S. Air Base, in the Moselle department, which is now French Army base, Quartier La Horie. The purpose of the meeting was for a “strategy session” prior to a conference in Paris where over 60 nations will try finding a “final solution” to the problem of ISIL.

Communications reportedly intercepted by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) from France, the U.S. and Switzerland, claims that two other people were shot in the incident, one of them fatally. They state that after Kerry, 71, was wounded; he was taken by a French military medical helicopter to Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève and stabilized.

The story of Kerry breaking his femur in a bicycle accident in Scionzier, France, was then concocted to hide the incident.

Initial plans to fly Kerry aboard a commercial medical evacuation aircraft were cancelled after it was decided he should stay in Geneva for further evaluation. But due to his age and the extreme blood loss he suffered, U.S. military medical authorities were given the green-light for Kerry’s immediate evacuation, dispatching a C-17 assigned from the U.S. Air Force’s 86th Aerospace Medical Squadron, in Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

Hopefully, Kerry’s covered by Obamacare as the 10-hour flight costs at least $250,000.

The Jerusalem Post also reports that the SVR claims President Obama made a secret nighttime visit to Boston June 2, from the U.S. Air Force’s 89th Airlift Wing, based at Joint Base Andrews, and landing in Boston minutes ahead of Kerry’s flight. Meanwhile, Kerry’s regular plane flew back from Geneva to the U.S., carrying his staff and reporters who had originally accompanied him on the trip.

There are no photographs of Kerry’s accident, though he’s known to have his own cadre of photo-journalists following his every move, nor are there pictures of his arrival in the U.S. or transfer to Massachusetts General Hospital. Meanwhile the Associated Press says Kerry has already begun physical therapy.

With the many time’s the Obama Administration has lied to the American people and the national media has allowed them to get away with it — it seems easier to believe what is ‘so-far’ nothing more than an outlandish rumor.

“A shift in who wields power and in what location does not necessarily mean better policies. It is more likely that a shift away from federal authority in education will increase the influence those with power and money, rather than enhancing democratic participation of average citizens,” writes Stevens Institute of Technology’s Arthur Camins.

A kitchen manager at Dakota Valley Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado lost her job after giving a meal to a child who didn’t have enough money to pay for it. In the Cherry Creek School District, students who fail to qualify for the free lunch or reduced lunch program receive one slice of cheese on a hamburger bun, and small milk.

Students still owe $15,000 for school lunches they bought in the Saugus School District in Massachusetts. The school board want the district enforce its collection policy to recoup the money. Earlier this year the board tweaked its policy to turn to a collection agency when people fail to pay.

The Orange School district in New Jersey fired a Forest Street School teacher for having her third-grade class to write ‘get well’ letters to a sick inmate convicted of killing a policeman in 1981. Activists held a sit-in in support of the teacher, demanding she get her job back.

In Florida, a science teacher’s been suspended for using a signal jammer to keep his students from using their cell phones in class. The Pasco County School board handed the teacher a five-day, unpaid suspension for potentially violating federal law because he interfered with 911 calls during an emergency.

A Mississippi family faces charges because they cheered when a loved one got her high school diploma. The girl’s father, aunt and two relatives are charged with disturbing the peace. The district’ supervisor doesn’t think the punishment is too much because he reminded audience members repeatedly to hold their applause.

A teacher at Encinal High School in Alameda, California told his students to find their parents’ sex toys and take selfies with them for extra credit.  Parents complained to the district which launched an investigation. The teacher remains in the classroom.

A Gaia Democratic School teacher in Minneapolis took about a dozen students to a sex shop. She said she wanted to provide a safe environment for students to learn about human sexual behavior. While parents are upset, teachers are defending the trip.

A Virginia high school teacher is under investigation after students reported seeing photos of her nude breasts. The Woodside High School teacher showed three students before and after photos of her breast augmentation. She has since resigned.

When a senior ordered her cap and gown for her Carrick High School commencement, she expected to be walking across the stage. What she didn’t know was that a trip her mother planned as a graduation gift would cost her the opportunity. Pittsburgh Public Schools mandates students attend graduation rehearsal.

It was graduation night at Northridge Academy High School, but many families who should have been celebrated were instead upset because they had been locked out of the ceremony. Nearly 150 people were unable to see their kids receive their diploma. The families were not allowed inside because the auditorium had been filled to capacity because the event was oversold.

A Florence, Oregon senior completed high school a year early but she won’t be allowed to wear a cap and gown and collect her diploma along with the Class of 2015 at Siuslaw High School. The problem? A deadline she missed by one hour.

A California high school has found itself in the hot seat after leaving two young women’s senior photos out of its yearbook because of dress-code violations. In their photos, for the Lincoln High School yearbook in Stockton, one student wore a tux and the other a button-down shirt and bow tie, rather than the off-the-shoulder black V-neck drape required for girls.

Two McKinney middle school students were sent home, and several others were told to cover up their “Gay O.K.” message on their shirts. They were worn as support for a Faubion Middle School seventh grader who came out and being was bullied. McKinney Independent School District in Texas said the shirts caused a disruption.

Also coming out of Texas, for the eighth year, teachers at Sulphur Springs Middle School handed out “Ghetto Classroom Awards.” Educators claim they didn’t know the term was derogatory. The school says it’s investigating.

In Nevada, a Rancho High School teacher in Las Vegas is under arrest for having sex with a pupil, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and kidnapping. Two bus drivers are also facing charges. One’s accused of inappropriately touching seven different children on 32 occasions, the other of assaulting passengers as young as three years old.

And finally, Somerset Academy in North Las Vegas apologized to a sixth-grader after telling her she couldn’t use a Bible verse in an assignment. The assignment asked her to include an inspirational quote in a presentation. The girl can now resubmit her work with the verse John 3:16.

The greater the power, the greater the abuse.

Stop doing the same things over and over without taking a break.
The time to take a deep breath is when you don’t have time for it.
If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’re getting.
Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.

 

It had to be around 1967 when I first heard his name, only because I remember the grape boycott. Mom thought Cesar Chavez was a hero for shining a light on the plight of migrant farmers in California’s Central Valley, but I couldn’t care less at the time.

Three years later I had to do a book report about Chavez. Looking back, that reader made him seem god-like and the same appears true today as in 2014 President Barack Obama proclaimed March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day.

Since that book report, and setting aside politics, I’ve learned more about him as I recently, I picked up a 1975 copy of “Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa.” Though the information’s limited and vague, I jus’ discovered that he lived in Del Norte for a while, writing:

“By that time Helen and I had two children, Fernando and Sylvia, born a year apart, and Helen was pregnant with Linda. We rented a house from an Aunt in San Jose and started looking for a job. But we just couldn’t find one anywhere. The best we could do was pick string beans, making $1 or $1.50 a day and working only for a few hours because that was all the work there was. Finally the employment office told us they wanted people up in Crescent City, more than four hundred miles to the north.

We didn’t even know where Crescent City was, and we had never done any lumber work but Richard, my cousin Manuel, two other cousins, and I all got in the car and took off.

In the beginning it was very tough because we didn’t know all the tricks working in lumber. We worked so hard the first days that when we came home, we couldn’t eat or do anything. We went right to bed. Even though we were young, the work on the green lumber chain was just killing. Eventually, we learned, and it became easier.

After Richard built a little shack for us, we drove back to San Jose to get our families. Linda was born in Crescent City and so was Richard’s son Freddy.

We stayed about a year and a half, then got tired of all the winter weather. The constant rain was too much, so we returned to San Jose where Richard became an apprentice carpenter, and I got a job as a lumber handler in a mill.”

Evidently, pulling on the green chain kicked their butts – something I can appreciate as the chain moves green lumber along a belt in order for it to be graded and sorted. Employees stand beside the chain and literally ‘pull’ the fresh-cut wood, putting them in sorting piles.

But, in the end, it was Del Norte’s signature weather that became the deciding factor as to whether he would stay or not. I’d love to know what lumber mill he worked for, the shacks location and why I never learn about his connection to Crescent City when I was doing that damned book report.

Its official – Rick Perry has tossed his Stetson into the GOP ring for president. He’s the 10th candidate to enter the 2016 race for the White House.

“The world has descended into a chaos of this president’s own making, while his White House loyalists construct an alternative universe where ISIS is contained and Ramadi is merely a setback, where the nature of the enemy can’t be acknowledged for fear of causing offense, where the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, the Islamic Republic of Iran, can be trusted to live up to a nuclear agreement,” Perry stated during his announcement.

Twelve years earlier, then-Gov Rick Perry signed agreement with his friend and Muslim leader Aga Khan. Then in April 2004, the Aga Khan Foundation and the University of Texas-Austin (UTA) finalized a grant proposal creating the partnership that became known as the Muslim Histories and Cultures Program (MHC).

MHC recruited and directly trained 80 teachers affecting more than 15 thousand students in ten key Texas districts in 2005 and 2006. The project’s curriculum was initially available for viewing on UTA’s website, but has since been scrubbed from the Internet.

Islam scholar Robert Spencer examined the program at the time and concluded, “The curriculum is a complete whitewash and it’s got the endorsement of Perry. It’s not going to give you any idea why people are waging jihad against the West — it’s only going to make you think that the real problem is ‘Islamophobia.’”

This shouldn’t be a surprise as one of the doctrines maintained in Islam is Taqiyya, allowing Muslims to purposefully lie about their true religious beliefs to “unbelievers” and Muslims of different sects. Of course, it is doubtful Texas children will learn any thing about this.

In 2008 he expanded the MHC project and signed off on several Islamic-friendly pieces of legislation, including a consumer protection law ensuring the accurate labeling of food products conforming to Islamic dietary restrictions.

Perry was also instrumental placing Sharia law in the Texas justice system with an Islamic Tribunal operating as a non-profit organization in Dallas, whose website states, “…Muslims here in America are obligated to find a way to solve conflicts and disputes according to the principles of Islamic Law …” adding, “Stoning adulterers, cutting of the hands, polyandry and the like are mainly a part of Islamic Criminal Law.”

We already have an Islamic-enabler in the White House, we don’t need another.

While the national media cheers Caitlyn Jenner’s coming out as ‘a watershed moment in transgender visibility’ — a two-week investigation in Florida came to an end with 22 people arrested after they believed they were going to have sex with children between ages 10 and 14. One of those 22 people includes a Muslim youth coordinator.

Ahmed Saleem is the founder of the Saleem Academy, an organization empowering Muslim youth globally and served as the Orlando coordinator for CAIR, the Counsel On Islamic American Relations. Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said Saleem planned to have sex with a 12-year-old girl, but found himself arrested and charged with felonies ‘for traveling to seduce or solicit a child to commit a sex act.’

The national media is ignoring his arrest for the most part.

Odd how Saleem’s actions fit with ISIL as new evidence reveals how Islamic State buys children as sex slaves and force them into marriage — with girls from Iraq and Syria being stripped, sold, and made to undergo over a dozen ‘virginity reparation’ surgeries. A 2014 United Nation’s report says doctors also perform abortions on pregnant girls as young as nine.

Many of the child victims are from the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq.

ISIL defends its action in an online article with claims of following the Prophet Mohammed – who enslaved and raped non-Muslim women: “Allah has opened the lands for His awliyā’ (supporters), so they entered and dispersed within the lands, killing the fighters of the kuffār (non-Muslims), capturing their women, and enslaving their children.”

“I and those with me at home prostrated to Allah in gratitude on the day the first slave-girl entered our home,” the article concludes.

As ISIL continues to carry out real atrocities against women, on “Game of Thrones” fictional character Sansa Stark gets raped by fictional villain Ramsay Bolton while being watched by fictional character Theon. This prompted Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill to ‘tweet’ that she’s had enough of HBO’s “horrific treatment of women.”

Now, couple McCaskill’s complaint to presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and his 1972 ‘rape fantasy essay’ and it becomes obvious that there’s a serious disconnect between what Progressives think is ‘real’ and what’s ‘make believe.’  So far McCaskill hasn’t asked Sanders to explain himself and neither one has called on the Obama Administration to put a halt to ISIL’s continued aggression.

And as further proof of the total dissociation between Progressives and what’s fact and fiction — the man formerly known as ‘Bruce Jenner,’  is starring in her own ‘reality’ show, documenting her ‘new life’ as a transgendered woman.

Satirical news website, “News Examiner,” reports: “After seeing a decline in earnings for the first time in nine years, McDonald’s plans to do something no other restaurant of its kind has ever done before; open a store run entirely by robots.”

“In the end, it will come down to what is best for the shareholders and the customers. The potential employees hoping to make a minimum wage of $15 per hour, maybe not so much,” the lampoon concludes.

While McRobots running a restaurant are fictional, McDonald’s did place 7,000 touch screens throughout its European stores in 2011. And then there’s ‘Momentum Machines’ which has built a robot that “isn’t meant to make employees more efficient. It’s meant to completely obviate them,” according to a 2014 Business Insider report.

The robot can “slice toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible,” and is “more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce 360 hamburgers per hour.”  In fact, the company’s site boasts that their robot “does everything employees can do, except better.”

Panera Bread plans to introduce self-service ordering kiosks and mobile ordering options to all of its properties by 2017. Meanwhile, Chili’s and Applebee’s has already placed tablets on their tables, letting customers order and pay “without interacting with human wait staff at all.”

These changes are worth considering as Seattle, San Francisco and most recently Los Angeles have adopted a $15 an hour minimum wage, more than double the current federal minimum-wage law of $7.25. Other cities like Chicago, Washington, D.C., and California’s Oakland, have raised their minimum wage as well, though not as much.

In Oakland voters chose to increase the minimum wage from $9 an hour to $12.25 an hour earlier this year. So far at least four restaurants and six grocery stores in the cities’ Chinatown district have closed shop as a result of the increase.

Seattle’s $15 minimum wage law went into effect April 1, 2015, leading to wide-spread closings of restaurants across the city.  And now, California’s Senate has approved raising the state’s required hourly rate to $11 in 2016 and $13 in 2017 and will continue increasing annually starting in 2019 based on inflation.

Progressives aimed the wage increase campaign at fast-food businesses hoping to destroy the industry — but because they don’t believe in ‘American exceptionalism’ they cannot foresee the ‘free market system’ and its response to a ‘manufactured crisis’ and calls for ‘social justice.’