Search for Missing Malaysian Jet Yields Discovery of Wreck from Two Centuries Ago; Ceres Photographed From Closest Vantage Point Yet, Lights Still Baffle Scientists; Philadelphia Train Wreck Kills Six, Injures 50, Five Critically; Congress Votes Down Obama's Trade Bill Despite McConnell's Assistance; Five Teens Charged in Sadistic Beating of Baltimore County Man, 61

BALTIMORE, Maryland May 13, 2015 - As an international team continues its lonely search for the still-missing Malaysian Airlines Jet in the remote southern Indian Ocean, there is news that its efforts will not be totally in vain.  A 19th Century Ship has been discovered on the ocean floor two and one-half miles below the surface of the sea.  The cargo vessel was laden with goods when it was lost in the early to middle of the century which began in these United States with word that the father of our country, George Washington, had gone to heaven to be with our Lord.  This discovery is far from the only scientific news in the teapot this morning.

NASA has released another series of photographs taken by the Dawn Spacecraft now orbiting the proto-planet Ceres, the largest asteroid in the Asteroid Belt.  The odd celestial body - spherical while all of the other asteroids in the belt are, literally, odd chunks of rock in all manner of shapes - orbits the sun with the other asteroids in a path between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.  Scientists believe that all but Ceres are the remnants of a planet that blew apart for reasons still unknown.  What draws attention to the photographs are the two bright lights situated at the bottom of an otherwise unremarkable crater found just north of what would be the equator of the asteroid, discovered originally by the brilliant Enlightenment Astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi of the Academy of Palermo, Sicily, in 1800.  The idea that a planet should be found in the area where Ceres was actually discovered was put forth by Johannes Kepler, the incredibly brilliant German Astronomer, in 1596.  The lights are so bright that the Hubble Telescope picked up the luminosity from Earth's orbit in 2004.  Scientists are completely baffled by the lights and no small number of "experts" are assigning extraterrestial intelligence as being the base cause.  The Dawn craft took the latest photographs directly above the lights during an orbit some 8,400 miles above the surface of the asteroid.  The Dawn mission calls for more photographs during the coming weeks as the craft descends to orbits as low as 210 miles.  

The news this day is dominated by the grizzly crash of an Amtrak Train in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  As I write this post, six people have been confirmed dead in the wreck, which occurred around 9:30 pm Monday night as the train, which began its journey in Washington D.C. and included stops in Baltimore and Philadelphia and other places.  There were well over 200 people on the train, including AMTRAK crew members.  Nearly 50 of the passengers were injured, in addition to the deaths, and five of those injured are said to be in critical condition.  In addition, rescuers at the scene continue to search the badly-mangled wreckage for other victims.  The train had just headed north from its Philadelphia stop and was heading into a sharp corner turn when survivors said the front five cars and tbe engine "began to shake."  The engine and five cars separated from the rest of the train and derailed.  At 9 a.m. authorities had still not determined a cause for the wreck, nor had they decided whether the train itself or the track were at blame for the wreck.  One man who said he had ridden the AMTRAK to New York from Baltimore at least 100 times, said trains typically travel very slowly during the part of the trip where the wreck occurred.  

Also in the news is the decision by Congress to reject the Obama Administration's Free Trade Bill.  Stunningly, the rejection - which came on a procedural vote - was fueled not by the loyal opposition in the GOP, but by the President's own Democratic Party.  While administration spokespeople called the rejection a mix-up that would be reversed in short order, congressmen in the majority were in agreement.  This was a vote that found the increasingly turncoated Mitch McConnell, the GOP member now serving as Senate President, out in front of the Obama supporters, while Dingy Harry Reid led the senators voting against the secretive measure.  Many believe that the bill is laden with secret riders that would mandate unlimited immigration from Mexico and increased statutory limits on obtaining firearms.  It is said to be all but impossible to obtain copies of the bill.  Obama, meanwhile, visited Georgetown University on Tuesday and engaged in an openly Marxist pep talk with left-leaning students.  The mainstream media has been reticent to report the open manner with which Obama now discusses his hardcore Marxist beliefs.  Yesterday, for instance, Obama criticized successful people who send their children to private - instead of public - schools, and have them practice their athletic skills at private clubs instead of public parks.  In Obama's opinion, these successful people are "withdrawing" from mainstream society.  Obama failed to mention that he sends his own two daughters to the most exclusive private school in Washington, D.C., Sidwell Friends, or that he plays golf several times per week at private golf clubs.

In Baltimore County, Maryland, the State's Attorney had returned charges on seven people, at least five of whom are teenagers, in the severe beating of a 61-year-old Dundalk man who asked the seven to move away from his vehicle, which was parked on a public street directly in front of his home.  According to police, the victim looked out his window and saw an altercation between two women being joined by onlookers, all of whom were extremely close to and surrounding his pick-up truck.  He walked outside of his door and merely asked the group to move their activity away from his vehicle.  Instead, the seven sat upon him and beat him so severely that both of his eyesockets were broken, his nasal bone was broken, and his injuries were so severe that doctors placed him in a medically induced coma.  Many witnesses told police that the attack was racially motivated, inasmuch as the victim is white while all of his attackers are black.  All of the charges are brought against the perpetrators as adults.  Unlike attacks in which the alleged perpetrator is white and the victim black, and which receive very extensive media coverage, this incident has received virtually no media interest.  The attack was caught on video, and the video is said to have thousands of hits on Youtube.

In Baltinmore: Curfew Ends, Guard Leaving, Police Charged But Charges Held Shakey At Best as Second-Guessing Begins In Ernest; Obama Vilified

BALTIMORE, Maryland May 4, 2015 - They were marching again in Baltimore on Saturday, although after dozens of charges had been laid on the six police officers involved in detaining the career criminal, Freddy Gray, just prior to his sustaining fatal injuries, it was hard to figure why.  These charges were announced on Friday.  The nascent State's Attorney for the City, Marilyn J. Mosby, conceded that the list of charges she filed against the six officers - without benefit of a Grand Jury Review - was a direct response to, and a decided effort to placate, the riots and uprisings throughout the City in the days prior to her announcement.  "I have heard you," she assured rioters,  "I have heard your calls for no justice, no peace."  

Meanwhile, the Mayor of Baltimore and the Governor of Maryland jointly decided to end the 10 pm to 5 am curfew on Sunday, and the pull out of some 3,000 National Guard Troops also has started.  Governor Robert Hogan said the State of Emergency declared for the City would remain in full effect until all Guardsmen are deactivated.  Businessmen made an almost desperate plea for people to return to patronizing downtown businesses.  In the years after the last round of riots in Baltimore, which was in 1968 after the murder of Martin Luther King, hundreds of downtown businesses failed and hundreds of thousands of citizens moved out of the City.

In the wake of State's Attorney Marian Moseby's announcement of charges against the six police officers, some immediately wondered whether this meant that there would not have been charges if there would not have been riots.  A lad by the name of Greg Bailey, meanwhile, was arrested and charged with slicing the fire hose of City Firefighters battling the spectacular arson blaze at the CVS Store in on Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore during the height of Monday's riots.  Police said cell phone videos taken of the incident were quite clear, and a City officer recognized Bailey in those videos as he rammed his knife into the fire hose.  Bailey was already in police custody on unrelated charges.  All six of the charged officers are veterans of the force with uniformly exemplary records.  Yet, without a witness of the alleged injuries, without a witness to any injuries inflicted upon Mr. Gray, without any possible motive, all six officers were charged with a long list of bogus charges.  One officer, the one driving the police van, was actually charged with second-degree murder.  To be guilty of second degree murder, the State must prove that the officer wanted to kill Mr. Gray.  Swish that one around for a minute.  

City police revealed that that there had been over 200 arrests during the six days of rioting, looting and curfews.  Race Hustler Rev. Al Sharpton called Saturday's march one "of celebration" for the long list of charges leveled against six Baltimore City Police Officers involved in the arrest of Freddy Gray.  Gray was found badly injured in the back of a police wagon when it arrived at a police station after his capture.  He subsequently died.  No one witnessed his injuries, but prosecuters, reacting to the demand of rioters and looters to hold police responsible for Gray's death, lodged the charges anyway.

The FOP and the Vanguard Justice Society are standing firm behind the six officers, all of whom turned themselves in Friday.  Five were immediately released while a sixth was temporarily detained for unknown reasons.  The FOP blasted the charges and the speed with which they were brought.  Most egregious, according to many legal experts, is the second degree murder charge brought against the police officer driving the prisoner transport van.  Such a charge means that the officer intended to kill Mr. Gray, who was being arrested for the 40th time since turning 18 seven years ago.  Another City officer who works with and is familiar with all six of the arrested officers told a television interviewer Friday night that the officer charged with the murder is a good and decent man and the last person one would ever expect to harbor such feelings.  The officer interviewed said Gray was not disliked by any of the officers.  It was revealed during the interview that Gray often cooperated with police after his series of arrests, and had provided information that allowed police to clear several serious crimes.

The officer explained that Gray, like other persons from that part of the City, often put on a very hostile display at the scene of the arrest so that no onlooker would believe that they are "snitching" to police.  But once the van leaves the scene of the arrest, Gray would quickly calm down and begin providing information to police.  None of the six officers have any idea how Gray sustained the injuries that led to his death, the interviewed officer said.

Morale among City police officers is said to be at an all-time low after they were compelled to appear during the riots with orders not to intervene, resist the violence and looting, or in any way interact with the law breakers.  Many predicted that there would be a rash of retirements and resignations in the days and months after this violence subsides.  The posture taken by police at the height of the rioting led to over 100 officers sustaining injuries.

On Sunday, two U. S. Congressmen who represent Maryland said on national television that the blame for the riots belongs with Republicans who refuse to spend even more millions of dollars on inner city projects.  Congressman Christopher van Hollen and Elijah Cummings both leveled the charges on Sunday.  What wasn't said by the two Democrats is that nearly $2 billion in Obama Stimulus Money was ticketed for Baltimore, but no one seems to know what that money was used for.  Nor did the two career politicians address the fact that over $15,000.00  is spent annually on each and every Baltimore City public school students, among the highest per pupil outlays in these United States.  As Credible and Incisive has reported, Maryland has been in the total choke hold of Democrats for decades, and this is one place where any effort to blame problems on the GOP is pure folly.  

Former Congressman Helen Delich Bentley said on a Baltimore Radio Station Monday morning that "100 percent" of the blame for the problems in Baltimore are the fault of President Obama.  Obama has been in office since 2008 and has done nothing at all to alleviate the high rate of black unemployment.  Obama had a virtual mandate to address the inner city plight of poor black Americans  but instead chose to channel his energy to his ultra far left agenda, which includes, in pertinent part, degrading the nation's capitalist economy.  In that category, he has been purely successful.

Are Far-Left Money Sources Helping to Coordinate Urban Unrest?

BALTIMORE, Maryland May 1, 2015 - There is evidence - some of it starting to amass - that the unrest in various urban settings around these United States, while not being actually planned by the Obama Administration, are in fact being immediately seized upon and even 'nurtured' to a similar conclusion by Obama functionaries as part of Obama's plans to push his version of socialist or marxist 'income equality' throughout these United States.

If 'income equality,' which many see, plainly, as a code word for pure Marxism, becomes a policy of the Administration - if it isn't already - then the days that the United States exists as a nation which rewards success and achievement, in an atmosphere of freedom and liberty, are over.

While 'income equality' sounds good as a rallying cry to poor and unsuccessful people, it is a policy that has uniformly failed every single time it has been tried.  The Iron Curtain nations in the orbit of the former Soviet Union were all Marxist, requiring that people were paid what they 'needed' rather than what they had earned, and they all failed miserably within 50 years of their founding.  Cuba is another Marxist country, and its people live in abject poverty and overt repression.  The national government of Cuba blames the United States ban on trading for its longstanding societal and economic problems, but virtually every other nation on Earth does trade with Cuba, but it hasn't mattered to the economic status of this Marxist regime, which is far poorer than every other Carribean Country, despite the fact that it has natural resources and other advantages not enjoyed by other island countries.

President Obama said this week that what he has seen is that the minute that civil unrest ends in an urban part of America the poor that live there fall out of the national attention and focus, and their plight loses its appeal as a national priority.  But there is ample evidence that Obama is completely wrong.  Figures available in Maryland, for instance, indicate that under the administration of Martin O'Malley, the far left Democrat who recently completed the maximum of two terms as Maryland's Governor, Baltimore and its school children were the beneficiary of tens of millions of dollars of state aide, not to mention federal assistance and direct Baltimore City assistance.  Over $15,000.00 is currently spent on each and every Baltimore child enrolled in its public schools.  There are also other federal and state programs that directly benefit Baltimore residents.  Despite this almost record-setting amount of tax-payer assistance, the poverty rate in Maryland under O'Malley actually increased.  Maryland is one of the highest taxed states in these United States, and state officials are left to combat large numbers of residents leaving the state to avoid these strangling taxes.  Interstate 83, which runs out of central Pennsylvania, then through central Maryland before ending in the middle of Baltimore City, is choked each work day with Pennsylvania residents commuting to their jobs in Baltimore.  Retirees are also moving out in an effort to hold on to the money they have saved during a life of labor.  If they can afford it, many move to Florida.  Others move across the state line to Delaware and Pennsylvania.  Despite these facts and despite these trends, the Democratically-controlled Maryland Legislature actually tried to again raise taxes at this year's session, and newly-elected Republican Governor Hogan saw his initiative to end the infamous "Rain" Tax fail miserably.  Hogan defeated O'Malley's Lieutenant Governor, Antony Brown, a Vietnam Veteran, even though the number of registered Democrats in Maryland far out-numbers the number of registered Republicans, and the percentage of registered Democrats is among the highest in these United States.

All across these United States the voters turned out to send a clear message to elected officials that they wanted no more of President Obama's far left policies.  Their message to end these policies and stop their implementation fell on deaf ears.  Obama has doubled down on his determined effort to end the tradition of liberty and freedom in these United States, and replacing it with an oligarchy of elite ultra far left Democrats hell bent on getting a vice grip on political power and holding on to it forever, despite what the voters say.