I thought this was a really nice article to help people take ownership of their young forests.

The article covers most of what has been mentioned before, the seasons of a forest, the herbaceous layer or flowers, the shrubs, the wildlife and of course the trees. I will continue to discuss indicator species. The article does not mention the Slate Colored Dark Eyed Junco. It focuses on what is easy to relate to and it is well done.

When I look at that picture, I see a harvested farm field with an edge forest in the background. I don't know how big the forest is, but, there will be "edge" species that live in the forest. The sky is beautiful and the mountains are breathtaking even at the ground level. Autumn colors, called senescence by botanists, is in full swing with a bare tree in the foreground. There is an herbaceous layer that continues to cover the ground and protect the soil during winter.

Adirondack Northern Hardwood Forest: (click here) The rich tapestry of hardwoods that characterizes the northern hardwood forest is conveniently seen in the autumn, when the orange and yellows of birch and aspen contrast with the orange-reds of maples. Autumn colors from the Old Orchard Loop at Heaven Hill. (6 October 2018).

The northern hardwood forest is the most extensive woodland in the Adirondacks. It occupies the region's best soils and sites, growing on the more fertile soils that make up glacial till. The northern hardwood forest is generally found on the lower and warmer mountainsides – gentle slopes where soils are neither extremely dry nor extremely wet.

The most dominant life form in the northern hardwood forest are deciduous trees, which lose their leaves each fall and are almost completely dormant in the winter months. One of the most striking characteristics of the northern hardwood forest is the extravagant display of fall colors, which results from the loss of green pigment, chlorophyll, as the trees slow down their photosynthesis in the autumn and prepare to enter dormancy for the winter. With the chlorophyll gone, pigments which were hidden previously become visible, producing the vibrant reds of the Sugar Maple and the golden yellows of the American Beech.

Northern hardwood forests in the Adirondacks can be recognized from afar by the color and pattern of foliage.

• In spring, before leaf-out, the grey-brown pattern of unleafed branches contrasts with the somber dark green expanse of conifers both above and below the hardwoods.
• In summer, hardwood forests can be distinguished by areas of bright green foliage.
• In fall, the oranges, yellows, and reds of deciduous trees stand out against the dark greens of the conifers....

It's Sunday Night

June 6, 2019

University of Göttingen (click here)

Forest conservation can be a source of tension between competing priorities and interests from forestry, science, administration and nature conservation organizations. Scientists have developed a framework of conservation objectives whereby targets can be compared and analyzed.

Twenty One Pilots Forest Lyrics (click here for official website of 21 pilots - thank you)

The lyrics are in the video. Nice young forest picture. It sounds to me as though everyone is strung out in their day to day life until they find time together in the forest.

This treaty needs to be reconsidered.

Last week there was a supersonic jet that flew across the USA. I know what I heard and it wasn't simply a loud jet. The sound was heard a few minutes after I heard it on a news broadcast out of Washington, DC whereby the journalist was drowned out for the jet sounds in the background.

I would not put it past Trump to allow Russia to fly such a jet over the USA so long as it was unarmed. THAT IS TARGET PRACTICE. I have had enough of the outrageous acts by this president and this treaty needs to be assessed for the danger it provides to the American people while Trump continues to be in office.

October 2012
By Daryl Kimball

Signed March 24, 1992, (click here) the Open Skies Treaty permits each state-party to conduct short-notice, unarmed, reconnaissance flights over the others' entire territories to collect data on military forces and activities. Observation aircraft used to fly the missions must be equipped with sensors that enable the observing party to identify significant military equipment, such as artillery, fighter aircraft, and armored combat vehicles. Though satellites can provide the same, and even more detailed, information, not all of the 34 treaty states-parties1 have such capabilities.  The treaty is also aimed at building confidence and familiarity among states-parties through their participation in the overflights.

President Dwight Eisenhower first proposed that the United States and the Soviet Union allow aerial reconnaissance flights over each other's territory in July 1955. Claiming the initiative would be used for extensive spying, Moscow rejected Eisenhower's proposal. President George H.W. Bush revived the idea in May 1989 and negotiations between NATO and the Warsaw Pact started in February 1990....

Who is Russian journalist, Ivan Golunov? (click here for a news article - thank you)

The Russia government is really trippin' this time. A highly acclaimed INVESTIGATIVE journalist is selling drugs. Sure.

Some mob boss in Moscow paid the police to arrest him on false charges and then they proceeded to beat him to ensure he would not write investigative articles again.

June 8, 2019
By Doug Stanglin

Ivan Golunov, (click here) a prominent Russian investigative journalist who has exposed corruption among Moscow's most powerful business and political elite, has been hospitalized with bruises and abrasions two days after his arrest for allegedly trying to illegally sell drugs.

The 36-year-old reporter for the Latvia-based news site Meduza was jailed on Thursday, but was taken to a hospital on Saturday after complaining of feeling poorly.

His lawyer, Dmitry Julay, told reporters that the journalist had been denied food and sleep for more than 24 hours.

Moscow police said only that an emergency medical squad was summoned and found that Golunov should be taken a hospital for examination, but did not elaborate.

The head of human rights organization Agora, Pavel Chikov, told Russian news agencies the reporter was suspected of having a concussion and a broken rib. In a video taken after his arrest and posted by the Russian news site Breaking Mash, Golunov showed marks on his back....

The world is becoming less safe, all in the name of Daesh.

This is from a Forbes article in 2019. Hong Kong is the second highest number of billionaires in the world, but, not for long. The Chinese government will ruin it's own economy, by instituting an oppressive dictatorship. The people that can leave Hong Kong will leave Hong Kong and take all their money with them.

2. Hong Kong, 79 billionaires (+2) (click here)

Total net worth: $355.5 billion

Richest resident: Conglomerate kingpin Li Ka-shing, $31.7 billion

Housing prices in the city have quadrupled since the Great Recession, thanks to its government’s tight grip on supply. The booming market has vaulted the fortunes of developers like Lee Shau Kee and Peter Woo, and 29 Hong Kong billionaires (and half of its top-ten richest) count real estate as their chief source of wealth. But a correction may be imminent—a Citigroup survey says that 57% of Hongkongers anticipate a drop in residential real estate prices during 

2019. June 9, 2019

Hong Kong — Hundreds of thousands of protesters (click here) marched through Hong Kong on Sunday to voice their opposition to government-sponsored legislation that would allow people to be extradited to mainland China to face charges. The peaceful protest turned violent early Monday morning when several hundred protesters stormed Hong Kong's parliament and clashed with police.

According to Reuters, demonstrators charged at police lines in an attempt to enter the Legislative Council building. The police charged back, displaying tear gas guns and using pepper spray. The crowd briefly pushed its way into the lobby but police used batons and pepper spray and the protesters were moved outside. There is no confirmation yet if anyone has been killed or injured....              

Related cases to the Special Counsel report.

In reading the report of the Special Counsel I didn't mention all the other cases that have come from that investigation. Before returning to Volume 1, I thought listing these would provide a point of reference to understand the accounts written about in that volume.

Related Cases (click here)

U.S. v. Roger Jason Stone, Jr. (1:19-cr-18, District of Columbia)

Roger Jason Stone, Jr., 66, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was arrested in Fort Lauderdale on Jan. 25, 2019, following an indictment by a federal grand jury on Jan. 24, 2019, in the District of Columbia. The indictment, which was unsealed upon arrest, contains seven counts: one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering.

U.S. v. Michael Cohen (1:18-cr-850, Southern District of New York)

Michael Cohen of New York, New York, pleaded guilty on Nov. 29, 2018, to making false statements to the U.S. Congress in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001 (a)(2). Cohen was sentenced on December 12, 2018, to serve two months in prison and pay a $50,000 fine.

I find it interesting that Manafort has absolutely no loyalty to his citizenship and willing conspired against the USA.

U.S. v. Paul J. Manafort, Jr. (1:17-cr-201, District of Columbia)

Paul J. Manafort, Jr., of Alexandria, Va., pleaded guilty on September 14, 2018, to a superseding criminal information filed today in the District of Columbia, which includes conspiracy against the United States (conspiracy to commit money laundering, tax fraud, failing to file Foreign Bank Account Reports and Violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and lying and misrepresenting to the Department of Justice) and conspiracy to obstruct justice (witness tampering). On March 13, 2019, Manafort was sentenced to serve 73 months in prison, with 30 months to run concurrent with his sentence in the Eastern District of Virginia.

The Russians are still out there. They could easily be committing the same crimes on behalf of Putin. What has the Trump State Department done to bring them to justice?

U.S. v. Viktor Borisovich Netyksho, et al (1:18-cr-215, District of Columbia)

A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment on July 13, 2018, against 12 Russian nationals for their alleged roles in computer hacking conspiracies aimed at interfering in the 2016 U.S. elections. The indictment charges 11 of the defendants with conspiracy to commit computer crimes, eight counts of aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to launder money. Two defendants are charged with a separate conspiracy to commit computer crimes.

Kilimnik is still wanted by the USA and the Trump State Department has not brought him to justice yet. He was the one that received election data from Manafort to report back to Putin.

U.S. v. Konstantin Kilimnik (1:17-cr-201, District of Columbia)

A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a third superseding indictment on June 8, 2018, against Konstantin Kilimnik, of Moscow, Russia. Kilimnik is charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice.

Rick Gates has provided information to the Special Counsel which allowed other criminals to be charged. It is amazing to me how these Americans could simply disregard USA law and do as they please. There is no conscience in committing any of these crimes.

Wealth. It is the carrot and stick. All the more reason to worry about the country and demand they pay their share to the USA Treasury.

U.S. v. Richard W. Gates III (1:17-cr-201, District of Columbia)

Richard W. Gates III of Richmond, Va., pleaded guilty on Feb. 23, 2018, to a superseding criminal information that includes: count one of the indictment, which charges conspiracy against the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371 (which includes conspiracy to violate 26 U.S.C. 7206(1), 31 U.S.C. 5312 and 5322(b), and 22 U.S.C. 612, 618(a)(1), and 618(a)(2)), and a charge of making false statements to the Special Counsel’s Office and FBI agents, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001.

Besides committing crimes as individuals, Manafort and Gates committed crimes as a team.

U.S. v. Paul J. Manafort, Jr., and Richard W. Gates III (1:18-cr-83, Eastern District of Virginia)

Paul J. Manafort, Jr., of Alexandria, Va., and Richard W. Gates III, of Richmond, Va., were indicted by a federal grand jury on Feb. 22, 2018, in the Eastern District of Virginia. The indictment contains 32 counts: 16 counts related to false individual income tax returns, seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, five counts of bank fraud conspiracy, and four counts of bank fraud. On March 1, 2018, the court granted a motion to dismiss without prejudice the charges against Gates, following his guilty plea in a related case in the District of Columbia (1:17-cr-201). On Aug. 21, 2018, a federal jury found Manafort guilty on eight counts: counts 1-5, subscribing to a false individual income tax return for tax years 2010-2014; count 12, failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts for year 2012; count 25, bank fraud; and count 27, bank fraud. The court declared a mistrial on 10 counts (counts 11, 13-14, 24, 26, 28-32). As part of his plea agreement on Sept. 14, 2018, Manafort admitted his guilt of the remaining counts against him in this case. On March 7, 2019, Manafort was sentenced to 47 months in prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine.

U.S. v. Alex van der Zwaan (1:18-cr-31, District of Columbia)

Alex van der Zwaan, of London, pleaded guilty on Feb. 20, 2018, to making false statements to FBI agents, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001. Van der Zwaan was sentenced on April 3, 2018, to serve 30 days in prison and pay a $20,000 fine.

Here again, is a Russian entity that committed crimes against the USA. Their identities are yet to be realized.

U.S. v. Internet Research Agency, et al (1:18-cr-32, District of Columbia)

A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment on Feb. 16, 2018, against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of violating U.S. criminal laws in order to interfere with U.S. elections and political processes. The indictment charges all of the defendants with conspiracy to defraud the United States, three defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and five defendants with aggravated identity theft.

People like to say Pinedo had a minor role in the crimes committed that assaulted the 2016 elections. Considering what he facilitated, without a care about the USA, he was no minor player.

U.S. v. Richard Pinedo, et al (1:18-cr-24, District of Columbia)

Richard Pinedo, of Santa Paula, Calif., pleaded guilty on Feb. 12, 2018, to identity fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1028. On Oct. 10, 2018, Pinedo was sentenced to serve six months in prison, followed by six months of home confinement, and ordered to complete 100 hours of community service.

Pinedo (click here) had a shady online website that sold stolen US bank account numbers to help people circumvent PayPal’s identity verification features. And some of his customers just so happened to be Russians involved in the so-called “troll farm,” a social media propaganda effort to influence the 2016 campaign. The operation was mainly run from a group called the Internet Research Agency and financed by oligarch and Putin crony Yevgeny Prigozhin.

U.S. v. Michael T. Flynn (1:17-cr-232, District of Columbia)

Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn (Ret.), of Alexandria, Va., pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2017, to making false statements to FBI agents, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001.

U.S. v. George Papadopoulos (1:17-cr-182, District of Columbia)

George Papadopoulos, of Chicago, Illinois, pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2017, to making false statements to FBI agents, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001. The case was unsealed on Oct. 30, 2017. On Sept. 7, 2018, Papadopoulos was sentenced to serve 14 days in prison, pay a $9,500 fine, and complete 200 hours of community service.

I believe it was Wednesday that a supersonic jet flew over the USA. It was terribly loud for a sustained period of time because it must have broken the sound barrier at lead by 10X it's speed. It was so loud I could not hear the radio. It was so loud that a journalist reporting from Washington, DC  the television about two minutes later could not be heard. It probably wasn't two minutes either, it was probably less.

No one reported it.

It had to be military. The commercial jets some want to see operating again, aren't that fast.

What I want to know is, was it out of Venezuela?

Trump moved the B52s. Russia wants to attack if it can.

It is also a piss poor decision to keep four of those jets in one place. Idiots.

I am being nice when I state, the latest rantings by Trump are unbalanced. I don't mean diplomatically unbalanced.

There was absolutely no reason for all the flamboyant threats last week. He is unbalanced.

It is okay to expect normal behavior and good memory from the President of the United States of America. When that doesn't occur, it is a worry.

June 8, 2019
By Carolina Kelly

Mexico had already promised (click here) to take many of the actions agreed to in Friday's immigration deal with the US -- months before President Donald Trump's tariff threat, officials from both countries who are familiar with the negotiations told the New York Times in a story published Saturday.

Trump moved to accept the existing agreements in a deal Friday after negotiations prompted by his threat to impose growing tariffs on Mexico in response to the border situation dragged on over several days. Talks between Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard and State Department officials lasted for more than 11 hours Friday.

The Mexican government had pledged to deploy the National Guard nationwide with a focus on its southern border -- a key part of Friday's agreement -- during secret meetings in March between former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Mexican interior secretary Olga Sanchez in Miami, the officials told the Times.

The deal's key expansion of a program that would keep asylum seekers in Mexico while their claims are processed was established in two heavily brokered two diplomatic notes exchanged between the two countries, the Times reported. Nielsen announced the Migrant Protection Protocols during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in late December....

Prostitution is so much easier than Non-disclosure Agreements.

June 3, 2019
By Rachel Kurzius

A bill (click here) that would decriminalize sex work in Washington D.C. will be reintroduced at the D.C. Council on Tuesday, this time with four councilmembers in support.

As drafted, the Community Safety and Health Amendment Act of 2019 would “remove certain criminal penalties for engaging in sex work in order to promote public health and safety.” It does not include any measures that would create red light districts in D.C. or otherwise regulate sex work. Coercing people to engage in sex work against their will would still be illegal, as would human and child trafficking.

At-large Councilmembers David Grosso and Robert White, who co-introduced a similar measure in 2017, are now joined by At-large Councilmember Anita Bonds and Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, as jurisdictions across the country are seeing sex work decriminalization movements gain steam. Last term, the original bill was sent to the Judiciary Committee, where it never got a hearing.

“We have to be making sure we’re looking after our constituents,” says Nadeau. “Those who engage in sex work are our constituents. Let’s make sure that people engaging in sex work are being fully supported,” she says, comparing the harm reduction strategy to the “same reason that we decided as a city that we want to address the root causes of drug use and violence.”...

...The legislation comes at a time when sex work-related charges have more than doubled year-over-year from 2017 to 2018, according to data from the Metropolitan Police Department. In 2017, D.C. police charged 228 people with crimes associated with sex work (the bulk of them, 197, were for sexual solicitation). Compare that to 2018, when there were 551 such charges (including 512 for sexual solicitation)....

'Bring it on,' Corbyn says to Conservatives after Peterborough victory

Emotional scenes as Labour beats Brexit party in Peterborough byelection

The Bannon Regime is being dismantled with every election in the FREE WORLD!

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This entire ship is a radar array. It is attempting to listen to internal radio signals on the USA ships.

June 7, 2019
By Mari Yamaguchi

TOKYO — The U.S. and Russia accused each other (click here) of unsafe actions on Friday after an American guided-missile cruiser and a Russian destroyer came within 165 feet (50 meters) of each other in the East China Sea....

Trump has taken lessons on lying from Russians!

The ocean is not the best surface to reflect radar from though. Vladimir Putin is afraid of his own shadow. He is a fool. The entire alliance was at the 75th anniversary of the D Day invasion and Putin was home counting his blessings.

Here Vladimir, allow me to help you. The fraction surface of the water is not that efficient.

The real part nr controls (click here) the phase speed of the EM wave through the medium. nr is defined as the ratio of the speed of light in vacuum c to the speed of EM waves through the medium c1: Nr = c/c1


Vladimir Putin should be fearing the children of the USA. They and their teachers are engaged in sending experiments to the ISS to grow a MUTO that will emit EMPs to destroy Russia. They take their inspiration from Hollywood. Someday the dream will be realized!

Every American lives to be diabolical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trump is a loser, Vlad. Even his military high school is shutdown.

Former Governor Snyder and 65 other officials have had their cell phones and hard drives seized in an investigation of the Flint Water Crisis.

June 4, 2019
By Jessica Corbert

Activists reiterated demands for "accountability and justice" for the people of Flint, Michigan following reports Monday that the authorities investigating the city's water crisis executed search warrants for the state-owned cell phones of former Gov. Rick Snyder and 65 other current and former officials.

"The people of Flint deserve answers," Mary Grant, public water for all director at Food & Water Watch, said in a statement. "Hopefully this investigation will yield them. And there needs to be accountability for those involved in creating this crisis, including former Governor Snyder."

The Associated Press reported Monday on search warrants (pdf) the outlet obtained through public records requests....

Snyder and his attorney are rebutting the reporting of seizing. They stated they have cooperated the entire time. That isn't the point. The point is NONE of this evidence was ever seized or provided voluntarily before. THAT IS THE POINT.

June 4, 2019

By Kate Sullivan and Caroline Kelly

...Snyder and more than 65 other current or former officials (click here) have had their cellphones or other information seized in connection with the investigation into the crisis in Flint, Michigan, where cost-cutting measures led to tainted drinking water that contained lead and other toxins.

The Associated Press first reported the contents of the search warrants.

Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud said in a statement to CNN, "The prosecution is aware of substantial potential evidence that was not provided to the original prosecution team from the onset of the investigation. The team is currently in the process of obtaining this evidence through a variety of means, including search warrants."...

June 7, 2019
By Ron Fonger

Flint - Former U.S. Department (click here) of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro will apparently be the first 2020 presidential candidate to set foot in Flint, saying in a Twitter message that he will visit this weekend.

Castro, a Democrat and former mayor of San Antonio, was in Flint in March 2016, when he met with Mayor Karen Weaver and U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint.

Weaver and Kildee are scheduled to join him again Saturday, June 8, after he tours the Flint Farmers’ Market at 9 a.m.

The Castro campaign said the candidate will visit First Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, 1226 Beach St., at 11 a.m. Saturday and Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, 2316 W. Coldwater Road, at 2 p.m. Saturday.

On Thursday, June 6, Castro tweeted he’s looking forward to returning to Flint “to meet with residents about the progress still to come.”...

June 7, 2019
By Zahra Ahmad

Flint - Jaden Smith has donated another Water Box to Flint, (click here) this time in Ellen DeGeneres’ name.

The American rapper surprised the famous talk show host with the donation on Thursday, June 6. The Water Box is a sustainable alternative to supply clean drinking water that uses a portable filtration system to generate five to 10 gallons of water.

“We’ve kind of been tracking the progress in Flint since the beginning and supplying Flint with clean water,” Smith said on the talk show. “Bottles of water aren’t always the most efficient thing. With this system people can come with five or 10 gallon drums and just fill up for free in 60 seconds.”...

This is what the Hyde Amendment started.

It began the idea that people of faith were in a superior class of American than the rest of all other Americans. The florist, the cake baker are all people where LGBTQI Americans live. The LGBTQI community have finally achieved the right to marry and be treated equally with other Americans. Since winning civil rights, the Christian right wing in the USA has carried out assaults against those rights because it would taint their souls to take their money for services affiliated with marriage.

This action allowed by the Supreme Court is Un-American. Do the Christians involved in this extremist find their souls tainted by liars? Do they find their souls tainted by criminals? No. They are only tainted by those that are not heterosexual.

This extremism is known as a farce and the extremist Robert's Court which allows such insults to the civil rights of a CHOSEN group of Americans allows such nonsense in the communities of the USA.

You know, my family is Catholic. A big Irish Catholic family. We love nearly everything Kosher. I am glad we are still allowed to purchase those special items in major corporate grocery stores, as well as small family, owned businesses.

The Robert's Court allows too much indulgence to this extremism. This is the USA where anyone can have any belief and be an American. The Robert's Court, especially Sam Alito, needs to get over themselves.

June 6, 2019
By Kevin Daley

A florist (click here) who refused to create floral arrangements for a same-sex wedding will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after a Washington state court ruled Thursday that she violated the state’s civil rights law.

The case presents the high court with an opportunity to decide whether conservative religious believers can use the First Amendment as a defense against laws requiring accommodation of LGBT people, a question the justices ducked in the 2018 Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling....

Ginny Thomas, the wife of a Supreme Court Associate Justice, is looking for Dark Money.

Wow, she sold her soul along time ago. She seems to believe in conspiracies by calling the media in lock step with the far Left. White Supremacy. Anti-Muslim. She keeps absolutely the worst company of any Supreme Court spouse. That is a shame.

June 9, 2019
By Peter Montgomery

Ginni Thomas, (click here) wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a right-wing political activist, has launched a new set of organizations meant to “protect President Trump” and attack Democrats and left-leaning organizations, according to an article published by The Intercept this week.

The well-connected Thomas, a former Heritage Foundation staffer, presented her plans to build a “robust infrastructure” to a meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy last month. The CNP is a strategy-development-and-sharing network that includes leaders across the U.S. religious and political Right, including people like neo-Confederate Christian Reconstrucionist Michael Peroutka. CNP members pushed Trump to sign an executive order on religious liberty.

Thomas is planning to build a “robust infrastructure” of affiliated organizations. Among her partners in the new project are longtime right-wing operative Richard Viguerie; undercover videographer and political trickster James O’Keefe; Republican campaign lawyer Cleta Mitchell; and Bill Meierling, chief marketing officer for the American Legislative Exchange Council, a matchmaker for corporate lobbyists and conservative legislators willing to do their bidding....

...This January, Thomas organized a White House meeting where she was joined by anti-Muslim activist Frank Gaffney and others where, among other things, they complained that White House aides were blocking right-wing Trump supporters from getting administration jobs.

Thomas and many of her partners were among conservative activists who mobilized a year ago to try to replace then-House Speaker Paul Ryan with right-wing favorite Rep. Jim Jordan.

Thomas presented United in Purpose “Impact” awards to O’Keefe, Gaffney, and Sean Hannity in 2017. In 2016, TPM reported that Thomas “wanted to ‘target’ the ‘most questionable’ precincts in Virginia with an anti-voter fraud campaign.”...

The near collision with a Russian boat was not a near collision.

It was a cyber mission to access wavelengths the Russians cannot access IN A CLOSED MILITARY NETWORK.

They are looking to find a way into the nuclear missile batteries.

Nothing Russia does is an accident, with the exception of Chernobyl.

The Robert's Court states abortion has to be available, but, it is okay to put as many obstacle in the way as possible.

Anti-abortion is oppression and a violation of a woman's body. The state doesn't belong in this. Abortion clinics are safe and affordable when a pregnancy is unwanted.

For some time now I have believed the Hyde Amendment is the springboard to the religious extremism that began with the presidency of George W. Bush. The Hyde Amendment opened the assault against the Affordable Care Act and the contraception women asked to have to protect from unwanted pregnancy.

The Hyde Amendment empowered financial discrimination and the most impoverished are the minorities in this country. The Hyde Amendment is a form of bigotry. There was no sense to discuss the Hyde Amendment until the country was ready to do so. It is a harbinger of abuse of power, yielding religious preference wrongly over the USA Constitution.

It could be said the Hyde Amendment began the breakdown of the wall that separated church and state. It was passed because of the money the American people would have spent through Medicaid to allow impoverished women their choice in how their bodies were used. In fact, the Hyde Amendment guaranteed poverty and more of a burden to the USA people through their federal treasury.

The Hyde Amendment as it relates to abortion rights of women is completely wrong and I believe it opened the USA Constitution to abuse of religious power in the USA making it weaker and susceptible to attacks by the religious right. If A is constitutional, then B, C and D are constitutional.

The USA Constitution guarantees the free and open practice of religion, regardless, the faith or denomination. It also guarantees the lack of religious practice and the open and free expression of that self-will. In realizing more and more laws were passed by anti-abortion activists throughout the Republican states it is easy to realize how this religious movement took hold in the states. It has to stop.

The reason there are so many anti-abortion laws being passed is to prove to the Supreme Court it is what the country wants. It is not what the country wants, it is the right wing extremists want to ensure their votes to extremist candidates.

January 18, 2019
By Jordan Smith

....On August 7, (click here for video) Danielle boarded a Greyhound bus for the three-hour trip to Jackson. She left the kids with their grandmother, and she packed a duffle bag because she’d be gone at least three days — Mississippi law requires abortion patients to have an initial visit in which they’re counseled on the choice they’re making, and then a second appointment for the abortion itself. In between is a state-mandated 24-hour waiting period, allegedly necessary to allow the patient extra time to wrestle with the gravity of her decision.

This meant that in addition to the bus fare and the $450 she needed to pay for the abortion, she would also have to come up with money for a hotel, meals, and cab rides back and forth to the clinic, all of which posed a significant burden, especially since Danielle was between jobs. By the time she left Jackson three days later, Danielle estimated that she would have less than $30 to cover family expenses for the rest of the month....         

African Union suspends Sudan over violence against protestors (click here for article - thank you)