The statute of limitations are a worry for the people.

Lester Holt conducted a good interview with Attorney General Merrick Garland. I think Attorney General Garland is correct to work meticulously to bring justice to the country regarding January 6th.

Part of the issue regarding January 6th is a significant fear within the country that Trump could run again and possibly win the presidency. The DOJ preserves civil rights of those being investigated in case the investigation does not turn out to be indictable. 

January 6th was traumatic. It was an assault on our democracy. It seems urgent. The indictments have to be perfect in order to protect the country.

This is a terrible time for Americans. Coming off the Trump presidency there are huge problems, including a global pandemic. American lives are not usually troubled in this way. The country would like those guilty before a judge and contained, but, it has to be done well. It is a time to believe in the strength of the USA. I am sure the Attorney General is looking at any statute of limitations. I believe he knows these trials need to take place within this administration.

I believe the correct statute of limitations for sedition is covered under the “Subversion Activities Control Act.” That would be Title 50, Section 783(e). It would be a ten year statute of limitations. However, the indictments need to go through and trials held within the Biden administration’s first term of office.

Next Republican President will look like Youngkin if not Youngkin himself.

The strategy of the "Big Lie" has been a part of genocides before.

This is a known method to turn reality to a different paradigm. I resist any analogy of Hitler, but, this is exactly the history where the "Big Lie" became the understanding of an entire country to tolerate genocide.

There is a reason to adhere strongly to THE TRUTH. The truth is not about dangerous propaganda, it provides the strongest reality for any citizen of any country. When I hear the words the "Big Lie" it sends chills down my back. It is dangerous and should be avoided at all costs.

Vigilant Americans can always feel good about saying, "That is a bald face lie!" History is on their side.

...This is an excellent definition of the “Big lie,” (click here) however, there seems to be no evidence that it was used by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, though it is often attributed to him.

The original description of the big lie appeared in Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler applied it to the behavior of Jews rather than as a tactic he advocated. Specifically, he accused Viennese Jews of trying to discredit the Germans’ activities during World War I. Hitler wrote of the Jews’ “unqualified capacity for falsehood” and “that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation…. From time immemorial, however, the Jews have known better than any others how falsehood and calumny can be exploited.”

The OSS psychological profile of Hitler described his use of the big lie:
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it....

When police are allowed to kill at will it is a police state, a totalitarian form of law enforcement.

This killing was particularly heinous as the grandmother involved was unarmed. She was not a criminal getting away that will kill other Americans. The police officer had the license plate number and a dented car. I think that is called an insurance problem.

Traffic stops can be removed from the dangers Americans face in their lives. Cameras within the police car can easily see any traffic violations. Traffic tickets can be mailed to the driver and/or with the judges authorization of a hold on the driver's license renewal to bring them in to pay their fines. Traffic stops have become more and more problematic. Why not just protect the police and the citizens and conduct traffic violations online with cameras.

April 16, 2022

By Christine Fernando

Lawyers representing family members (click here) of a woman fatally shot by a California police officer claimed this week that the officer acted with excessive force when he responded with a volley of gunfire after she backed her car into his police vehicle.

Tracy Gaeta, 54, died after a K-9 officer identified by police officials as Kyle Ribera fired more than two dozen shots into her car on Feb. 22, according to police and body camera footage released this month.

"Like too many Black women across this country, Tracy Gaeta is yet another victim of preventable police violence," Angelina Austin, an attorney at the firm representing Gaeta's family, said in a statement this week.

Gaeta's daughter, Tressie Gaeta, remembered her as a "loving, caring mother and grandmother" who "always knew how to put a smile on your face," according to the statement from family lawyers....

People are sicker when they come to the hospitals and floor staff demands are higher.

This is from the ANA (American Nurses Association).

...The groundbreaking (click here) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) compels nurses to continue innovation, transformational leadership, and care coordination as major stakeholders in provision of the next generation of cost containment, quality advances, and patient access improvements....

The original Affordable Care Act that was passed by Congress had within it's provisions educational monies for nurses and general practitioner doctors (family doctors).

Nurses have been ready take on the demands of the profession. That was completely obvious during the first year of the global pandemic. President Vice President needs to review that provision in the Affordable Care Act and perhaps reinstate that initiative if it has run out of funds.

Staffing the floors with operating room nurses is not the best idea. Most nurses with expertise of higher demand hospital work do not want to return to bedside patient care on the floors. They have signed on to education that elevated their expertise and the pay differential. Using specialty nurses on the hospital floors because of poor staffing otherwise is not an effective solution. They will leave to go to work in their specialty. 

There are plenty of hospitals that will give them sign-on bonuses and retention bonuses as well as higher pay. The hospitals must solve their short staffing needs, but, this is not the answer. OR Nurses do not want to work the floors.

July 26, 2022
By Jessica Bartlett

Depleted by two years of fighting a global pandemic, (click here) some of the state’s largest health systems have had to temporarily close their operating rooms due to staffing issues, exacerbating their financial troubles.

Many of the operating rooms have been shuttered off and on for months, due to unexpected staff absences and family leaves. An influx of sicker than expected patients onto hospital floors and into emergency rooms, many of whom delayed care during the pandemic, has also complicated staffing plans, as more specialized nurses or larger teams are needed to care for more complex patients.

“Across the health care system, closing ORs is a near daily event,” said Dr. Eric Dickson, chief executive of UMass Memorial Health. “Some procedural area or OR is not open, and we’ve had to adjust. cases because of our ability to staff.”...

Trumpism is completely based in lies, corruption and a lot of money to promote FAKE NEWS.

July 25, 2022
By Craig Mauger

Lansing - The campaigns of five Republican candidates (click here) for Michigan governor who were disqualified from the ballot because of a wave of fraudulent petition signatures collectively spent about $11 million on their bids for the state's highest office, according to new disclosures.

The reports, filed in recent days with the Secretary of State's office, reveal how the GOP hopefuls used donors' money and their own cash ahead of being knocked off the Aug. 2 primary ballot in May....

These candidates aren't even trying to meet the legal requirements for their candidacy. Johnson has spent $7.2 million including $4.3 million on media. Evidently, money can't burn through corruption.

June 1, 2020

The Michigan Court of Appeals (click here) rejected Wednesday a lawsuit from Republican businessman Perry Johnson, who asked the judges to revive his campaign for governor by giving him a spot on the August primary ballot.

The unanimous decision from a three-judge panel marked a significant setback for five GOP candidates for governor who were caught in an alleged wave of fraudulent petition signatures. Last week, the Board of State Canvassers deadlocked on whether the candidates had gathered the 15,000 required valid signatures, denying the five gubernatorial hopefuls spots on the ballot....

Other than sanctions, these are also national security concerns.

Putin uses Russian citizens to carry out his strategies. One strategy the USA has to assess and change is the "pregnancy tourism" used by Asian countries to have a child born in the USA. It is a national security issue that Trump properties participated in for profits.

The Free World must take a look at all aspects of Russian influence and remove the threat. Russian's genocidal war is an entirely new chapter for global security. Russia is a rouge state. Nothing can be overlooked.

25 July 2022

A straw poll (click here) carried out by the Finnish News Agency STT suggests strong backing for a ban on new tourist visas for Russian citizens.

The agency asked the leaders of the largest parliamentary delegations whether Finland should stop issuing tourist visas for Russian citizens due to the country's attack on Ukraine, now in its sixth month.

Leaders of each of the four largest parties – the prime minister's SDP, the National Coalition (NCP), the Finns Party and the Centre – said they would back an immediate halt to issuing visas. The SDP and Centre are the main government parties while the other two are the main opposition blocs.

Antti Lindtman, chair of the 40-member SDP delegation, said that there was good reason for the government to urgently look into restricting tourist visas....

Housing prices are coming down. So much for inflation.

July 26, 2022

The Bay Area’s once-scorching pandemic housing market (click here) continued to cool in June, with home prices plunging to the largest monthly drop for this time of the year in at least three decades.

In June, the median price of existing single-family houses in the nine-county region declined 7% from the previous month — from just over $1.5 million to $1.4 million, according to data for the California Association of Realtors. That’s the steepest May-to-June dip ever recorded in the association’s regional home sales data, which dates back to 1990.

What’s behind the record price drop? Real estate experts point to rising interest rates squeezing buyers, more homes staying longer on the market and an increasingly uncertain economy — all signaling the Bay Area housing market may have peaked after prices hit all-time highs earlier this year.

“From this point on we probably won’t see another record price, at least for this year, for either the Bay Area or for the state,” said Oscar Wei, deputy chief economist with the California Association of Realtors....

Just an FYI, as of July 12, 2022 the FBI released a warning about scams related to housing.

As rents, home prices, (click here) and inflation surge in today’s highly competitive real estate market, the FBI Boston Division is warning the public about the risk of rental scams, and the need to be cautious when posting and responding to rental properties and real-estate online.

“We have seen a significant increase in the amount of money being lost by people who are desperate for a good deal. Scammers are cashing in on renters who need to act quickly for fear of missing out, and it’s costing consumers thousands of dollars, and in some cases, leaving them stranded,” said Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division. “We are asking everyone to exercise caution, especially over the next few months, as folks look to book last minute summer getaways.”

Russia is doing the Free World a favor by ending dependency on Russian anything. This Putin. Every entity in Russia is under Putin's control. He is trying to get the Free World to collapse and end aid to Ukraine.

25 July 2022

Russian gas giant Gazprom (click here) said Monday it was cutting daily gas deliveries via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to 33 million cubic metres starting Wednesday.

That would correspond to 20% of the pipeline's capacity. The current flow of gas into Germany is only at 40%.

The company said it was halting the operation of another turbine due to the "technical condition of the engine".

The full capacity of Nord Stream 1 is over 160 cubic meters of gas exported daily. Stopping the turbine will result in reduced capacity of 33 million cubic meters. Gazprom said the production capacity is to be reduced at Russia's Portovaya compressor station.

"We are monitoring the situation very closely in close exchange with the Federal Network Agency and the gas crisis team,'' the German Economics Ministry said.

"According to our information, there is no technical reason for a reduction in deliveries,'' it added.

German Economy Minister Robert Habeck told Germany's dpa news agency Monday that "Russia is breaking contracts and blaming others," adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing a "duplicitous game." ...

Awareness. Many Russians will learn of their country's genocide as travelers.

July 25, 2022
By Leonie Kijewski

Countries around the world (click here) should ask every Russian national applying for a visa whether they support the war in Ukraine, Kyiv's special envoy on sanctions told POLITICO.

"We insist that those Russians who support this genocidal war — and different polls show that over 80 percent of Russians still support the war — they should not get access to the free world," sanctions envoy Oleksii Makeiev said in an interview. He suggested introducing "special treatment" for Russians.

That special treatment would come in the form of a mandatory new questionnaire for Russian citizens when applying for a visa to go to, say, France or Germany....

Any Russian empowering the war effort in their travels should be refused entry. The only real problem with traveling Russians is their passports, in that a passport at entrance to the country doesn't require a questionnaire.

Russia doesn't want peace, they want lasers in space. All the rouge countries in the world, including Russia, will have their own space station. Russia will probably be collecting fees from all it's allies.

July 28, 2022
By Kenneth Chang and Ivan Nechepurenko

The new head of Russia’s space agency (click here) announced on Tuesday that Russia will leave the International Space Station after its current commitment expires at the end of 2024.

“The decision to leave the station after 2024 has been made,” said Yuri Borisov, who was appointed this month to run Roscosmos, a state-controlled corporation in charge of the country’s space program.

The pronouncement came during a meeting between Mr. Borisov and President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Mr. Borisov told Mr. Putin that Russia would fulfill its commitments through 2024. “I think that by this time we will begin to form the Russian orbital station,” he said....

The Free World will have to meet and surpass the Russian armaments. Yes, this is the cold war space race. No satellite, including Musk's will be safe. To a greater extent the world can thank Donald John Trump for the escalation when he assembled "The Space Force" when it was never necessary. Welcome to blatant stupidity in the arms race.

July 18, 2022
By Brett Tingley

Recent Google Earth images reveal construction (click here) at what appears to be a sophisticated laser system at a Russian space facility designed to blind adversary satellites.

The construction is taking place at the Russian Ministry of Defense's Krona space facility near Zelenchukskaya in Russia's far southwest, home of the massive RATAN-600 radio telescope. The existence of this new complex was brought to light in an in-depth open source investigation(opens in new tab) published by The Space Review that analyzed public satellite imagery, solicitation documents from Russian industrial contractors and Russian financial documents.

All of these sources lay out the construction of a project named Kalina, described in the financial documentation obtained by The Space Review as a laser system designed for "electro-optical warfare" that can permanently blind adversarial satellites by shining laser pulses so bright they can damage optical sensors. (This is distinctly different from other lasers known as "dazzlers," which are aimed at only temporarily blinding optics systems.) ...

Mississippi needs regime change.

Mississippi’s Bryant was the state’s 40th auditor from 1996 to 2008. The investigation of fraud involves him. It is why the Attorney General was fired. 12 years of controlling the audit of the State of Mississippi is more than a decade of cover-up.