We don’t know the extent of contamination.

NATO needs to be on alert. 

Parts of Europe are within the reach of Iran. Maybe Trump is the madman Putin was hoping for after all.

The IAEA had reported the Natanz facility (click here) had contamination. I don’t know, at this point if the IAEA will be allowed into Iran or how any contamination can be contained without help from Russia or other countries. 

If Iran is to contain any leaks it may mean building more sarcophagus. Those decisions should be made soon. I doubt if Iran can conduct those operations alone.

The Iranian people are at risk.

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Russia only began to remove their people yesterday.

Trump is dangerous and unpredictable.

Two weeks is supposed to mean two weeks.

Congress must recognize a president out of control.

Iran was never a direct threat to the USA.

Iran was not an eminent threat.

His decorum is not one of a president. No one uses the word spectacular in describing a bombing of another country. Trump is out of line and grossly inappropriate.

Trump doesn’t know that anything has been obliterated. Dropping a bomb is not a guarantee of anything except dropping a bomb. 

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I respect Justice Jackson a great deal.

From where I sit she has the greatest accuracy in decision making of the cases before the court. I hold her in higher regard than the Late Justice Ginsberg.  

Justice Jackson has it correct. The conservatives are losing their legitimacy. Maybe they want to make that shift.

This decision is political through and through. The Late Justice Ginsberg not only included global climate change in her decisions she included allies when it applied to the focus of the law. 

Justice Jackson should keep writing like it matters. We keep reading it like it does.

The fact of the matter is no matter how much the current administration wishes the climate crisis away to suit it’s cronies, Earth is non-partisan and it’s climate isn’t accommodating increases in greenhouse gas emissions at all. California has been experiencing some of the worst of the climate crisis. And, oh by the way, it was all happening within the sovereign borders of California, not the the globe.

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People don’t like it.

It was cited in “Reddit.”

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We have him on the run.

In all honesty, it looks like Trump has the risk in attempting to oppress a free society. 

Hobble the First Amendment? Now, is the time for the opposite, unleash freedom of speech.

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The Federal Reserve Chair?

That person had to be able to perform math functions. Trump can’t. He has had a bankruptcy every time the law allowed.

War

Wars are not an answer to anything. Wars are temporary and unsustainable. How long was the USA in Iraq and today all we hear is how we should have never left. The USA was in Afghanistan for twenty years and longer considering the history before bin Laden and where is Afghanistan today?

A free country should only go to war when forced into it. It is the respect we deserve. Other countries don’t want to waken the beast of our bombs, war machines, and soldiers. They are wicked. 

The USA can sustain a battlefield forever as its people are highly industrious and determined. The question is why? Is a forever sustainable war actually a victory?

Peace can be the foundation of the world if it chooses it. The ideologies of difference can be propagated into a sustainable world that is prosperous but it has to choose it. In the USA there is an ideology in Christian Nationalism that is toxic to any hope for peace. 

The world has to choose peace. It won’t happen with war as it’s under pinning. It will happen out of free will and determination.

Tragedy

That is what is to be expected when powers go it alone.

I would think Iraq was enough. 

Did the Republicans say tax cuts? 

I think they call it mission creep.

Iran has some of the most sophisticated USA military technology that exists.

This isn’t the only time Iran has retrieved drone technology. A top of the line drone was shot down while running surveillance out of Afghanistan. Where do you think Russian drones originated from? Who is assisting Russia with its Ukraine assaults?

The only reason Iran isn’t more successful with Israel already is because of sanctions on it and on Russia. 

War? Attempting to bomb Iran into oblivion when the global community already has protested the killing in Gaza? What makes anyone think Iran is going to be alone when it’s allies like Russia, China, and North Korea want nothing more than end NATO.

Trump is lining up the USA military to engage Iran as an ally of Israel, does Trump assume Iran’s allies are sitting on their hands? The truth is they are waiting to spring a much larger trap.

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Why. does Israel assume it can’t be destroyed?

Iran is not Gaza.

There is no doubt Iran has been enriching uranium beyond that of any peaceful use. That came out at the UN Security Council meeting. The IAEA has been diligently following Iran’s progression. Why does Israel believe bombing is going to yield the desired outcome?

Attempting to bomb Iran’s nuclear tendencies into oblivion will result in only one thing; Iran’s determination to have nuclear military capacity. War will not bring Iran from the breech, it will force the country into nuclear military capacity. With war raging there is absolutely no reason to stop the progression forward into nuclear armament. 

The strategy Trump is proposing with Israel is based in ego and not military capacity. The foolishness being proposed as if it was at all possible will not result in a failed state in Iran, but, Israel could be destroyed. The land mass of the two countries alone dictates a far different outcome than what is being envisioned. Israel cannot sustain major assaults on its land for any reasonable period.

Netanyahu sees this as an opportunity to end Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Iran is a sovereign power with capacity beyond what Israel estimates. How many scientists did Israel kill? Yet, the enrichment went forward. Israel forgets the Iran that was before the fall of the Shah. Those people and their intellectual culture still persists. The Iranian protesters are more successful than Israel will ever be.

There is no doubt Iran’s nuclear capacity has to be stopped. But, war? Bombing? The global community needs to take a hard line against such a strategy before it is too late.

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It’s gotten to be a little ridiculous.

Trump’s big push to violate the USA Constitution is that no one is safe. In this case the country is not safe from Harvard’s admission standards in recruiting and accepting foreign students. There is no basis of truth to it.

The judge has allowed the greatest deference to Trump in hearing the reason for such bizarre executive orders and decisions. Harvard has stood steadfast and allowed democracy to work its powers through the court. Trump has been allowed Due Process.

Look.

The USA is a strong democracy. While elements of society and politics would see a coupe to allow a king to control the structure of law enforcement to certain outcomes, it isn’t going to happen. The laws of the USA bend toward freedom. Why would anyone ever believe Harvard was a national security threat?

The students that demonstrated on college campuses were looking for recognition no different than any other person(s) in our history. Those that remember the illegal wars of Vietnam and Iraq remember the demonstrations that would eventually end the corruption that fed them. This isn’t any different. 

Students who saw injustice in Gaza wanted it ended. You mean to tell me Harvard or Columbia or any other University didn’t have control of their campuses so that nuclear secrets would end up in the hands of Hamas? If any of that danger were to end up with Hamas check Iran and not Harvard.

So, in distilling all this down Trump’s bizarre executive orders were racism. The students had rights. They were on USA soil and they exerted those rights. I am proud to say. 

I realize the demonstrators that were to benefit Palestine were considered anti-semitic. No one dismissed those concerns either. But, at the end of the day freedom won and the USA and their magnificent universities are still standing. A little battered and bruised, but, very much still standing.

Hopefully, now the universities will recover from an onslaught of hate and racism. 

Jeeze!

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Governor Gavin Newsome is doing a great job.

Anyone who believes in democracy and freedom knew it would take a great deal of patience to turn this ship around and right it again. The misdirection of the United States of America happened over time. It won’t take long to return to a benevolent circumstance for all, but, it does take a great deal of patience and steadfast insight.

Governor Newsome is one of those men who presides over an enormous state. California is a big chuck of the west coast of the United States. Anyone who has been governor of that incredibly free state would have experienced the USA in a way no other had unless perhaps the president of the country. It is prophetic and somewhat welcome for Trump to pick as his first victim, California.

It is a relief to realize California has been able to secure the proper attention of the judiciary in the request for briefs to be filed in this head to head battle of freedom versus authoritarianism. I know many governors in this country are up to the challenge, but, Governor Newsome has a state that demands freedom in the way Trump most wants to oppress it including a very dynamic economy that rivals most of the world’s economies. 

Judges in the USA mostly have a practice free of oppression. They don’t anticipate hatred, anger, corruption, or authoritarianism to win the day. The USA has developed over centuries and next year it will be two and a half centuries old. Many like to call the governance of the USA an experiment, but, 250 years of practicing democratic principles with the outcomes we have witnessed in our lifetime is not really an experiment at all. It is an odds on favorite the USA has already been there and done that in any judicial decision.

I believe judges all along the path from local to Supreme Court have to get a clear picture of bad intent for this democracy before they will call it. No judge that I have read yet dating back to the January 6th insurrection has acted against the democracy. They yield to allow freedom of legal expression in their courts of law, but, ultimately they are interested in upholding justice and not pretense.

In requesting briefs to be submitted in California it is a way to bring to focus the law, its application, and some great legal argument that will result in clarity.

The problem with Trump’s application of the law is corruption. Republicans play a game of “word meaning” in their politics. In the case of the USA Constitution there is more than wordy definition entering the decisions of justice. Justice is dynamic and not just a word. 

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…the Council must speak with one voice…

There are casualties and destroyed or damaged infrastructure including Israel’s largest hospital.

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“Unusual AND extraordinary

Hm?

California should appeal.

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Just sayin’.

 

Happy Juneteenth

 

My thoughts on Iran’s nuclear capacity is not unique

Israel has stated it’s bombing of Iran is pre-emptive. That would be correct as Iran has no nuclear weapons to date. There is absolutely no reason for the continued assault on the Iranian people.

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This assault on a sovereign country such as Iran is illegal in that the reason for it is ill placed without sincere purpose. Iran is not Gaza. It had nothing to do with the October 6th attacks that killed innocent and unarmed Israeli citizens. Israel can make the argument that Iran supports the “Shi’ite Crescent,” but, that is a completely different topic. Iran had no first hand knowledge of the murders on October 6th and it’s on going conflict.

Iran attacked Israel in an effort to end the circumstances of the Palestinian people. It is no surprise Iran hates Israel and will not recognize its right to exist. If Iran made that leap of faith, perhaps its militias such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis might lower the threat from these groups. Israel has seen to the continuing problems of Hamas and Hezbollah by carrying out successful attacks on their foot soldiers as well as leadership. Hassan Nasrallah is dead. 

The argument to end this war between two religious opposites is strong in realizing the agreements under Obama have been mostly successful in containing Iran’s nuclear weaponization. There has been no movement toward a successful nuclear bomb under Iran’s current government since 2003. That is  a full generation of peace, but, with progress noted in enrichment.

If the USA continues on a path of war it will be violating international laws that protect innocent people when countries differ in ways that result in violence.

We have witnessed senseless deaths of Syrians when Assad was the authoritarian in that country. Those deaths were brought about by chlorine barrel bombs and Russian tanks. Every form of civilized building was a target by Russia and Assad including hospitals. We have witnessed this same level of disregard to international norms with Israel and its attacks into Gaza. Now, Israel in its pre-emptive bombings are carrying out the same meaningless strategy of warning people of eminent bombings. This time with Iran Israel’s ambition is much bigger warning a city with 10 million people to evacuate or face death. It is more obvious than ever that warnings to evacuate are to placate an international community appalled by the inhumanity shown another race of people. 

If Trump continues in a path of senseless killing as he endorses today, he has a real problem to face in killing people without purpose in the face of Iranian leadership that has not moved aggressively to nuclear weaponization.

Practicing racism of all extremes is not leadership in any form.

The 50th Anniversary

The UK and USA signed contracts on trade. The other nations did not.

Joint Statement (Click here)

I find the joint statement on wildfire to be timely and important (click here). Adopting a “whole society) approach is most interesting. It means citizens don’t have to seek modernization alone. Government among these nations now recognize the problem with climate can’t be leveraged by consumer interests alone. That is a very important first step and will carry over to COP in the future. 

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…and two months later…

…another illegal war…

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Silly to assume Iran is alone.

A world war is not the answer. A treaty on nuclear non-proliferation is the only solution with Iran. They can't use nuclear anymore. It causes too much concern over danger to other regional countries. Please stop this craziness. It makes no sense.

June 17, 2025
By Sophia Yan

A day after Israel attacked Iran on Friday, (click here) a cargo plane took off from China. The next day, a second plane departed from a coastal city. Then on Monday, yet another departed, this time from Shanghai – three flights in three days.

Data showed that on each flight, the plane flew westward along northern China, crossing into Kazakhstan, then south into Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan – and then falling off the radar as it neared Iran.

To add to the mystery, flight plans indicated a final destination of Luxembourg, but the aircraft appeared to have never flown near European skies....