The demonstrators in France are correct.

It is about discrimination, if not racism. The school involved is basically a ghetto school. From what I can discern it would be the equivalent in the USA of Camden at its worse.

The students want to learn but the teachers are inconsistently hired. No one wants to teach at that school. There are more students than desks. It is the poor kid school with some students traveling an hour or more one way to get there. When they arrive the quality of the education is very bad. The students have no alternatives.

France needs to improve their circumstances. How France does that can be a matter of improving the income of the parent(s) so a better school can be found or a government program like bussing.

There is another way. Distant learning. Give the students “Amazon Kindles” and contact Oxford University Press for electronic books and tests.

That is not a joke. Distant learning is employed by other countries such as Canada through Oxford content and Amazon technology. Kindergarten through high school graduation learning at home. The young people that are old enough can also work part time while using other time for their studies.

Distant learning eliminates the need for infrastructure projects and provides relief immediately or as soon as it can be arranged.

It is called fleecing.

 

These are the people being killed by Putin. People at a flea market.

So let me get this correct. The Late Senator Lindsey Graham and probably Senator Mitch McConnell with others like Senator Tom Tillis provide sales to Ukraine as it is in a war with Russia. Senator Lindsey Graham dies and his sister steps in for him. A bill with Russian sanctions is passed in the US Senate in the late senator's name, Trump signs the bill recognizing the fact Senator Darline Graham was voting for the bill and anticipating the president signing it and implementing the provisions.

At the same time the USA is preparing to harvest Venezuelan oil.

October 15, 2026
By Cyril Widdershoven

NABEP (click here) is deploying 11 workover rigs and two drilling rigs to accelerate Venezuela's oil production recovery.

Production has surged to 200,000 bpd, according to NABEP, with independent Rystad Energy estimates supporting the latest output figure.

NABEP targets over 1 million bpd, with a proposed $100 billion investment program aimed at reviving Venezuela's vast oil reserves....

And now Trump in recognition of the attacks by Russia on Ukraine and Ukraine's employment of the USA technology has backed out of serving the USA national security issue and instead came up with a bogus oil trade for sanction relief with Russia.

There is a lot wrong with this picture and Ukraine should be moving in court to end the lavish premission of Trump to allow Russia it's own way without engaging the sanctions passed by the USA legislature.

October 17, 2026

By Max Matza

Donald Trump blocked numerous sanctions (click here)  on Russia two days before they were due to take effect, as a row with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky deepens.

The sanctions were passed by the Congress and signed into law the president in September.

But Trump issued an executive order Friday night saying that suspending some was in the US national interest, prompting a backlash from US lawmakers. Zelensky said it was unfortunate the US has decided to "completely disregard" the sanctions.

Relations between Washington and Kyiv frayed after the US struck a controversial deal to import Russian diesel last week. Ukraine has accused the Trump administration of withdrawing key military support.

Trump and Zelensky have exchanged sharp words about one another. Ukraine's president declared it was nice to be among "real leaders" while addressing an EU summit, after Trump said Zelensky was "more difficult to deal with" than Russian President Vladimir Putin.

How is a flu vaccine developed?

The developers of the flu vaccine use past virus to determine the composition of today's virus. 

The flu vaccine isn't just thunk up and manufactured for the purpose of allowing danger to those that need it the most. Past vaccine are combined with some statistical analysis to combine the virus RNA to provide coverage stimulation of the healthy immune system to bring about antibodies that will be needed when and if anyone is exposed to this year's virus.

Introduction to flu virus (click here)

There is always a chance the virus will manifest in a way that is uncharacteristic to the RNA used in the vaccine. Evidently, this year is one of those years. There are virus known to be dangerous like the avian flu, or the swine flu so there is plenty of proof the flu virus is not static. It changes.

The 1918 influenza pandemic (click here) was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Although there is not universal consensus regarding where the virus originated, it spread worldwide during 1918-1919. 

In the United States, it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918.

It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus....

National Flu Activity Map (click here)

If a person is high risk for adverse health contracting any virus or bacteria, there are always masks to wear.

But, this leads into a bigger issue, it is the fact the Trump Administration has cancelled the vaccines for bird flu. Chickens and turkeys and the like.

To introduce my concern is this article from the lands down under.

17 May 2025

By Tom Hartley and Richard Mockler

...Virus Ecologist Dr Michelle Wille (click here) said the impacts on the animals before death are shocking.

“It’s really targeting the brains of these animals,” she said.

“Animals are having neurological [symptoms], and that’s not just the marine mammals like the elephant seals, that’s the birds too,” she explained....

The point is the virus as it stands today can cross species lines, maim, and kill. A few years ago dairy cows (click here) in the USA were infected with the virus and pieces of the RNA were found in milk. It was not transmissible to human beings from pieces of the virus, but, it was a concern. 

This is the correct way to look at this in deciding if the vaccine is important. The word is mutation. There is nothing to say when a virus crosses species lines it won't mutate and continue to infect that species. As a matter of fact the RNA will incorporate the information of the species DNA and go forward in a different form to continue to infect that species. We saw this capacity with COVID-19. There was Omnicron and all the variants. Today there are still more variants, too.

Is it not better to be safe than sorry? I think it is. I was raised that way. 

The vaccine stopped by the Trump Administration was to be issued to the animals most likely to contract the virus. It is not a human vaccine. In vaccinating the animals and preventing their illness we are preventing the chance of mutation and potentially real danger to people.

I realize the words "chance" and "potential" are fighting words to this administration. They should be. The ability of that virus to mutate is real. We have seen it in the past with other viruses. People of the USA paid for the research and the manufactured product ready to administer is on the shelf but being withheld. It is a ridiculous situation and one that should not exist in the USA.

Vaccinating animals keep them healthy and in turn keep us healthy. There is nothing wrong with that, and, everything right with it.

Texas Paul gave me a chance to be on my soap box. I think that is a good thing, too.

 I like him a lot. I will address his statements about the flu vaccine in the next entry.

Imagine that. History being important. And, in all places Washington, DC.

October 16, 2026
By Jonathan J. Cooper

President Donald Trump’s (click here) plan to paint a 19th-century historic landmark building next to the White House would diminish the historic character of the White House complex, the Trump administration concluded in a draft environmental assessment published Friday.

Trump has suggested the massive Eisenhower Executive Office Building be painted as part of his push to remake and beautify the nation’s capital. The plan, estimated to cost at least $7.5 million, has alarmed preservationists, architects, historians and others who argue that granite is not meant to be painted and that paint would trap moisture and degrade the stone.

Trump last year said the building’s gray exterior is a “really bad color.”

The building’s architect, Alfred B. Mullet, hand-selected the construction materials, which “are central to the building’s historic character and original design intent,” the environmental assessment concluded....

We can use the money more productively than this.

A press secretary has to know what to do when entering that room.

They are not the enemy. They are allies to the American people's right to know. They work hard to understand government policy and explain it along with delivering the news. 

There are propaganda outlets that like to call themselves "infotainmnet" with little interest in the truth so much as politics. Politics is their power base. 

Regardless of whether the journalists are there to actually engage the truth or fantasy they are bright people. If a press secretary tries to feel her way through this crowd, it will not go well. 

The appointment of Zacharia is unfortunate, but, it is not out of line with other Trump choices. He has allowed people to have full exposure to the government without first securing the country. Trump, in his insane pursuit of exonerating himself of any wrong doing in the past has caused a great deal of damage to the country and the freedom of the press. Placing an unqualified Press Secretary at the podium is as good as propaganda which robs the American people of their government. Such lack of expertise in the Press Secretary is a facade that allows deception and hidden agendas.

The press has every right to demand a Press Secretary that knows the job and delivers information vital to the country. 

Journalists are not stenographers regardless of the fact Trump would rather it that way. Journalists are the front lines.

Don't let them get away with it. Fine tune the law to make it escape proof for the time they resided there.

October 14, 2026
By Matt Durot

California voters are set to determine the fate of California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax (click here) in November. But some of the state’s wealthiest people aren’t taking any chances and have already moved out of state, starting with its two wealthiest people, Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. According to their representatives, Page (estimated fortune: $288 billion) and Brin ($265 billion) are now residents of Florida and Nevada, respectively. Though Forbes was unable to find updated voter registrations or declarations of domicile documenting their moves and their spokespeople declined to provide any proof, Brin and Page both recently bought houses out of state as they made their frustration with the tax known....

Why is Elizabeth Warren's message still relevant today?

The hysteria is Islamophobia.

 CAIR (click here)

There are many other ethnicities with the same kind of organizations supporting them. 

Fie Example:

JCRC (click here)

JCRC stands for the Jewish Community Relations Council. It represents a network of locally based Jewish public affairs and advocacy organizations across the United States. Operating as the public policy and community relations arm of the organized Jewish community, each local JCRC acts as a unified voice to engage with broader civic, political, and faith-based groups.

Core Mission & Focus Areas
While individual councils focus on their respective regions, most JCRCs operate across four core pillars:Combatting Antisemitism: Partnering with civic leaders and educators to address bias, hate crimes, and anti-Jewish sentiment in public, academic, and digital spaces.

Government Relations & Advocacy: Lobbying local, state, and federal lawmakers to influence public policy, secure community security funding, and champion social justice initiatives. 

Intergroup & Interfaith Relations: Building bridges with other cultural, racial, and religious communities (such as Black, Hindu, Muslim, and Christian organizations) to foster dialogue and collaborative action. 

Israel Engagement: Advocating for a safe and secure Israel, and organizing educational seminars or goodwill missions for government and community leaders.

Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy (click here)

PAA (click here)

The Polish American Association is a non-profit human services agency founded in 1922 that provides bilingual and bicultural support to Polish and immigrant communities.

It appears the PPA has been around for so long they have developed their own scholarships.

Given the FACT Mike Rogers has tried to instill fear of the American Islamic faith through poison ads degrading the ethnicity as terrorists within the borders of the USA contributing to a candidate other than himself. Considerable amounts too, something like a little less than half a million. Can we actually contribute that much to a campaign? That would be a special interest ad from a PAC. Those monies did not go to anyone's campaign.

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO TRUTH IN ADVERTISING?