Space Junk Crisis

November 11, 2025
by Aaron Leong

...Having successfully completed a six-month rotation (click here) aboard the Tiangong space station, the trio were fully prepared for undocking when China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) mission control detected small space debris had struck the crew's spacecraft. While the astronauts themselves were reported to be in "good condition" and safely housed within their orbital module, teams on the ground were already busy carrying out tests and drills at the landing site in Inner Mongolia.

Having a total of six people onboard Tiangong also could mean logistics and supplies could be strained, especially if the unmanned Shenzhou-22 rescue/return mission is postponed indefinitely. The Chinese space agency has likewise confirmed that the Tiangong station is in "normal" condition and is perfectly capable of safely supporting both sets of astronauts....

Nothing like propagating one's own business.

October 13, 2025
By Elizabeth Rayne

...It’s a bird, (click here) it’s a plane, it’s... probably a hunk of trash metal from yet another de-orbited Starlink satellite burning up in the atmosphere.

Starlink constellations are only adding to the swarm of space junk in low-Earth orbit. While the SpaceX answer to affordable worldwide internet may not be the worst threat to our part of the cosmos—especially compared to other, larger satellites—one to two of their 8,000 satellites are already falling back to terra firma every single day. And there could soon be as many as five daily de-orbits, once Starlink and other companies such as Amazon and Kuiper collectively get 30,000 satellites hovering above us. That doesn’t even count the Chinese systems, which are predicted to add another 20,000....

"Wind power in the United States has been subsidised for 33 years - isn't that enough?" NO!

November 9, 2025
By Justin Rowlatt

..."Wind power (click here) in the United States has been subsidised for 33 years - isn't that enough?" US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said when I asked him to explain the administration's policy when we met in September. "You've got to be able to walk on your own after 25 to 30 years of subsidies."

John Podesta, a senior adviser on climate to both Obama and Biden, sees it differently. "The United States is taking a wrecking ball to clean energy," he argues.

“They're trying to take us back not to the 20th Century, but the 19th."...

August 24, 2023

by Simon Black, Ian Parry, Nate Vernon-Lin

Fossil-fuel subsidies ((click here) surged to a record $7 trillion last year as governments supported consumers and businesses during the global spike in energy prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the economic recovery from the pandemic.

As the world struggles to restrict global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and parts of Asia, Europe and the United States swelter in extreme heat, subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas are costing the equivalent of 7.1 percent of global gross domestic product. That’s more than governments spend annually on education (4.3 percent of global income) and about two thirds of what they spend on healthcare (10.9 percent).

Our findings come as the World Meteorological Organization says July was the hottest month on record, underscoring the urgent need to curb human-induced climate change.

As the Chart of the Week shows, fossil-fuel subsidies rose by $2 trillion over the past two years as explicit subsidies (undercharging for supply costs) more than doubled to $1.3 trillion. That’s according to our new paper, which provides updated estimates across 170 countries of explicit and implicit subsidies (undercharging for environmental costs and forgone consumption taxes). Download detailed data for different countries and fuels here....

Trump is a pedophile.

Many, many people have suspected this for most of the years he was in public. 

Donald Trump always accuses others of the immoral and crass actions he is guilty of committing. It is a pattern. 

When the Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ran for the presidency against Trump there were accusations that she and other Democrats were molesting children and eating them. Where did that sort of weird idea come from? It comes from a man trying desperately to hide the truth about himself.

It is no different than today. These letters surfaced and now he is out in the public screaming that the states need to recall the SNAP benefits they lawfully issued. There is only one reason these wild ideas exist and that is to distract from the truth. When Americans feel threatened they react and the media goes with them. Trump is the ringmaster of his own circus for a reason.

Look, Trump was molesting children openly in his sponsored beauty pageants. Everyone knows that. He justified his ogling of young teens (the same age as Epstein’s prey) as stimulating their deportment in the pageant. Excuse me, but, that is the side of a young teen best addressed by Mom, Dad, or her coach, not the owner of the pageant.

Donald Trump is a sick man in many ways, pedophilia is one of them. He hides amidst the wealthy and justifies his lifestyle as an architect or general contractor. He never built anything that didn’t fail. Structurally it stood, but, failed financially. He had entertained the imaginations of the wealthy to be the risk taker openly to get them what they want through racketeering. Being the wealthy’s go to guy is his escape from his maladies. That is the truth and these letters prove it.

The American people are suffering and he is attempting to dismantle our democracy. The Republicans have always said immigrants are here to increase Democratic votes. What does Trump do? Sends his minions to capture people engaged in employment and a way forward not afforded to them otherwise. The other day ICE rammed a woman’s car and took her into custody because she was a secretary to an immigration lawyer. She was an American citizen. THAT single act is supposed to terrify others within the legal field so they cower from Trump. THAT is a highly illegal strategy to continue his power grab when in fact he belongs in government housing with bars on the windows.

This has to stop. He is a sick man at the top of our government to do the bidding of the richest people in the world and there is no other reason. He is not a president, he is a racketeer. Donald Trump has always been a racketeer. Ask his former lawyer.

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Five times increase

Families accepting ACA health insurance subsidies are seeing their monthly cost increase by 500 percent.

What was a $500 per month insurance subscription is now $2500 per month. Congressional Democrats were saying the insurance would increase 30 percent. That is far from accurate. Families will be uninsured again.

Happy Veterans’ Day

Thank you, veterans.

Thank you, President Obama.

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No appreciation of our common home.

If scientists could explain in plain everyday language the dire circumstances that humans face on a warming Earth there would be no need for scientists. 

Scientists have warned civilizations over and over about gambling with “the benevolent Earth.” 

WHEN are their warnings going to be heeded?

Is finding exoplanets simple? Just load up a rocket and go, right? Nothing to it. 

Why is Earth taken for granted?

Ignorance is bliss.

Prince William is correct.

Bill Gates is wrong. 

But, who cares anyway, right? The climate crisis gets in the way of cyber coins and oil profits. Who wants that?  

It’s only been 85 years since the first warnings went up. 85 years. Humans just don’t learn. 

All good things must come to an end sometime. 

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Primary!

I imagine everyone that neglected the skyrocketing costs of healthcare insurance and voted for the shutdown deal can expect to be primaried. No doubt plans are being made to do exactly that. 

They’re politicos, not justices.

Excuse me, but, keep up what fight? 

Students of law are learning to act for and defend clients according to the rule of law. There is some other “fight” in the curriculum? I would love to know what that is exactly. 

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High end crops are about to get more expensive.

From cocoa beans to grapes the climate crisis is taking its toll.

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A REASONABLE proposal

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Get real.

Does anyone actually believe the FBI was going to base an investigation on one document? Give me a break. The FBI was interested in protecting the people and sovereign lands of the USA. The FBI took down terrorist networks. That is real work by highly qualified people. The FOX News tag lines are fairy tales authored by the Tabloid President.

The Trump - Russia Dossier

Do I have to go back to reading the extensive report that was interrupted and dismissed by Attorney General Barr? It appears on this blog. I think I read most of Part One.

James Comey and John Brennan did NOT lie to Congress. In the extensive Trump-Russia Investigation by the FBI the Steele Dossier was never used as evidence.

The evidence regarding the Trump Camp relationships with Russian operatives and business associations was independently investigated including direct access obtained to the GRU cyber data banks.

While the government is shut down and the focus is on Congress and the needs of the American PEOPLE, Fox News and who knows who else, like Lindsay Graham, are off on a tangent with a fairy tale propagated by MAGA sympathizers. Trump is trying to find footing to racketeer his lies to make them the truth. 

I have other things to do with my life, but, I refuse to allow a racketeer to turn lies into the truth. The Steele Dossier exists. It was interesting to the Clinton Campaign. The Clinton Campaign did not author it. Knowing Hillary as someone who loves this country if an agent produced a document that implicated her opponent as a Russian sympathizer (which Trump is) she wouldn’t look the other way.

The Steele Dossier while it exists had absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH THE EXTENSIVE TWO PART FBI INVESTIGATION.

The news items circulating about the dossier are propaganda in a Russian like attempt to prosecute what Trump calls his enemies. The charges against Mr. Comey and anyone else for that matter is pure unadulterated racketeering.

The Shadow Docket

I am not one of the more than 13 percent of Americans watching and waiting for their food supplemental funds. That doesn’t mean I don’t fee for those that do. 

It is a partnership with fate and the luck of the draw. That is not justice. It is more obvious than ever, it is a threat to democracy, freedom, and now the very lives of Americans whom are dictated that their hunger is not an emergency.

The Shadow Docket’s use to excess is abuse of power.

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Precedent and Amendment 27.

The Congress of the USA is a powerful body. For as poorly its rating on any given day its power is significant so long as it doesn’t abdicate to a dictator. It is time it have rules to live by that respects the people they represent and not regard their constituents as political tools. 

I disagree with Senator Kennedy more often than I agree with him, but, this expression of respect for the people of this country is valued by me more than he knows. I value the people who I have elected. They are human beings with families and responsibilities, too. I hold no malice toward them for any of their votes and as they approach these two bills they should consider their own circumstances and those of their colleagues to pass one or both of the bills. 

As human beings we need our circumstances to provide for basic needs. I think everyone knows what those needs are. There is no debate to what allows for good health, including food and water. If we all can please simply address the basic needs of every American, especially that of children, our status as a great country will return. A great country is not based on its military alone.

These bills provide brevity to the decisions that accompany a shut down of the federal government. The decision to pass them should be made with brevity. One or both should become law.

Thank you, Senator Kennedy. 

By the way, the Democrats are principled, not emotional.

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Why Nigeria? Christians? Wrong. Petroleum.

Nigeria has the largest petroleum reserves in Africa.

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Nigeria?

Nigeria had problems without a doubt. It is an American ally. 

An invasion into Nigeria will be another Iraq with terrorists migrating to kill American soldiers, commit jihad, and receive support from Iran.

Trump’s wars are very ill conceived. 

See. And they aren’t supposed to be taxed. Really?

These people are egotists with no conscience. So Musk is going to receive a trillion U.S. salary and what exactly is he going to do with it? We know what he did with his last salary grab, he corrupted the election process in buying Trump’s presidency and then received Quid Pro Quo with every legal government proceedings involving him. 

What is he going to do, buy the world this time? 

His charitable trust is “The Musk Foundation” co-chaired with his brother. The focus of the charitable trust is renewable energy (batteries), human space exploration (SpaceX), pediatric research (brain implants), science and engineering education (Tesla). Somehow it does not really look like a charitable trust like that of the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation or the one administered by George Soros, or Warren Buffet. 

Egotists need to be taxed. 

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So, let’s get this right.

Back in the day there was an international Jet Set that folks talked about. There was no People magazine, but, there were society pages. Trump is a real womanizer in that he lauded his ownership of Miss Universe as well as the Junior pageant variety. So Trump was at least as hot as Hugh Hefner and the Bunnies. He didn’t have a magazine or a Playboy Mansion, but, he did one better; he had high rolling hotels and casinos. 

That is Donald’s lifestyle. He is absolutely no different today except for his age. That party and his callous view of the world is proof. 

Epstein was never a brilliant Wall Street Genius. He had parties believed to be “the place to be” if one wanted to be well connected. It was all the inside information floating around at the Jet Set parties that provided Epstein his reputation. The parties are where wheeling and dealing takes place.

So, now, Donald is building a ballroom to party with global friends to be drunk, high, snorting, and entertained while trading secrets from classified USA documents in exchange for Trump Gold Cards and any other form of corruption Don comes up with. 

It is the same Donald Trump that could never afford his lifestyle committing bankruptcy to all those he convinced to be “in on the deal.”

Same guy. Same M.O.

Get the picture yet?

Trump is not helping.

I think some folks are in drag at Maralago.

Scantily clad? Oh. This is what the new ballroom is for. A return to the Jeffery Epstein culture, when Trump would built the next best Jet Set hotel and casino for all his friend’s entertainment. I got it now. Yep. The Host with the most. OMG. 

The country sinks into impoverishment while America soldiers fight Trump’s wars and he celebrates with his friends how brilliant he is.

Who are his friends? The Chinese again? Russians? Maybe a love letter to North Korea as an invite? Republicans? Is that where the USA House Republicans are? Seriously. The American people want to know. They are not attending town halls, so where are they? 

Maybe Republicans are the scantily clad dancers in martini glasses for Trump. Maybe he needs to be entertained by them to ensure their loyalty. The Republicans are dancing every other way, why not in martini glasses?