The trials start today and the Trump circus is outside the courthouse.

Trump is a disgrace to his country and has been for a long time.

...Trump (click here) — the presumptive Reublican nominee for president — is required to be present for the entire trial, which could last as long as eight weeks. He’s pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records, a low-level felony punishable by up to four years in prison. The trial kicked off Monday, with both sides making legal arguments on outstanding issues ahead of the beginning of jury selection....

One would think for all the national debt he accumulated during his administration there would be no doubt how much of a disgrace he actually is. The so called fiscally responsible Republicans truly are not as they want to place him in the White House as emperor. The USA Treasury won't be solvent for a year if Trump were ever elected King.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

January 14, 2021
By Allan Sloan

One of President Donald Trump’s lesser known (click here) but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. The financial burden that he’s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt.

The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. That’s nearly twice as much as what Americans owe on student loans, car loans, credit cards and every other type of debt other than mortgages, combined, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It amounts to about $23,500 in new federal debt for every person in the country.

The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by a leading Washington budget maven, Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. And unlike George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln, who oversaw the larger relative increases in deficits, Trump did not launch two foreign conflicts or have to pay for a civil war....

He fell asleep (click here)? He is sedated. 

Why? What is Iran thinking? These are lands in Palestine.

Masjid Al-Aqsa (click here) is an important holy site in Islam, located in the Old City of Jerusalem in Palestine. It’s name translates literally as ‘the Farthest Mosque’. The wider compound includes the Dome of the Rock, seventeen gates and four minarets, and is usually referred to as al-Haram ash-Sharif, which means ‘the Noble Sanctuary’.

The Middle East

The Israel and Iran Conflict 

(Graphic click here)

Iran is in violation of international law when striking Israel. Breaking international law alone is a failure of Iran's authority.

Just a brief statement about war. There is a long history of conflict between the developed world and the undeveloped world. The causalities realized in the undeveloped world is always far larger than the developed world. There are very real reasons for this, but, the undeveloped world never stops aggression before there are large numbers of causalities. The dead in Gaza is not historically significant when looking at the outcomes of the wars between the developed world vs the undeveloped world. I know that is appalling to many, but, Israel is not committing genocide. It is conducting a war to defend their citizens with causalities in ratio no different than other wars with similar combatants.

The current meeting of the UN Security Council is correct, the hostilities need to stop. There are sincere methods to settle the current hostilities without further war. The region of the Middle East hosts many forms of governance within the understanding religious preferences play a major role in such governance. The region must stop hating each other and find a path to peace.

Now as to Iran. Iran has committed international crimes in attempting to cause far larger Israeli deaths than it already has with it's militia, Hamas. It is more correct to state this is a war between Israel and Iran. Iran expresses it's hate of any other religion than Shi'ite Muslim through violence and death of innocent people. That expression is done through Iran's militias. The Iranian militias currently employed are Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis to carry out war against Israel and the region when considering the disruptions of the Gulf of Oman, Straits of Hormuz, and the Persian Gulf. All these waters border Iran as does the Caspian Sea. Iran has no legal right to carry out these aggressions as they are international waters.

April 13, 2024
By Dan Williams

...Earlier on Saturday, (click here) Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported that a Guards helicopter had boarded and taken into Iranian waters the Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries.

MSC, which operates the Aries, confirmed that Iran had seized the ship and said it was working "with the relevant authorities" for its safe return and the wellbeing of its 25 crew.

MSC leases the Aries from Gortal Shipping, an affiliate of Zodiac Maritime, Zodiac said in a statement, adding that MSC is responsible for all the vessel's activities. Zodiac is partly owned by Israeli businessman Eyal Ofer.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused Iran of piracy....

Iran has committed piracy in taking ships away from owners and interrupting their purposes. There is no reason to consider this simply mischief. This is a violation of international laws and maritime laws that have been violated many times and not simply once. There is no doubt Iran is completely out of step with it's peers and the international community. Where does Iran take permission to carry out these attacks against the developed world? Every possibility to be a part of an international community of peace and good economy has been open to Iran, but, it insists on hatred of all others to justify it's extensive terrorist networks. Iran must stop it's hostilities with other countries to end the disruption and return missile.

The Shia Crescent (click here) is an interesting aspect of world populations, but, it in no way indicates Iran has a right to vanquish all the countries that welcome Shi'ites as citizens. Iran can act as a homeland, but, to think for one minute Iran has the right to kill at will to establish a Shi'ite empire is bizarre and complete nonsense. The leaders of Iran are fools to allow the Shia Homeland act as a "state" to communists. These communist countries have horrid human rights records, as well as high levels of corruption that destroy economic viability. Iran's leaders need to begin to make far better decisions to engage their citizens within a global economy that thrives within peace.