Where Do We Go From Here by Deborah Cox

When you're in love
Some things you take for granted
Until someone pulls it apart
And leaves you with half of your heart
How do I trade
The best I had for less
Without giving up
Should I slowly accept that we'll be no more than just friends

How do I know
When to let go
I know what I'm feeling inside
But part of me still wants to try

So tell me
Where do we go from here
Why's my heart filled with so much fear
When all that you are
Is all I need and more

There's no winning bets
The battle's just begun
I know it's over
But I still feel the same
You'll always remain number one

'Cause letting go
More and so much
I know what I'm feeling inside
But part of me still wants to try

So tell me
Where do we go from here
Why's my heart filled with so much fear
When all that you are
Is…

There isn't much news about the trials of the Flint Nine.

There is a lot going on in Flint, including a government budget that hasn't passed for two votes of the city council.

There is ongoing discussions about lead pipes in the country. Flint has inspired such inventory.

May 25, 2021

By Steve Carmody

Harold Harrington (click here) is a master plumber. Fixing people's pipes is what he does. But it was something he found in his own home in Flint, Mich., that disturbed him.

"This came out of my house," Harrington says as he holds a small piece of pipe. "This piece of galvanized was in my basement. It fed my upstairs faucet and this is out of my upstairs bathroom. ... It's full of lead."

Harrington is among the tens of thousands of residents of Flint whose contaminated drinking water cast a spotlight on a threat faced by communities across the United States....

Genesee County is looking for teenagers for summer work. Flint is finally putting air conditioning in eight of it's schools.

There is another way for cities across the USA can help return citizens to their best selves. Expungement should also return voting rights.

June 2, 2021

By Winter Keefer

Flint - Nearly 1,000 Genesee County residents (click here) had the opportunity to wipe their criminal record at an expungement fair held on the lawn of the Genesee County Jail Wednesday.

The Wednesday, June 2, event was the first of many expungement fairs that will take place across the state, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said.

Nessel, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II were all in attendance, along with many other public officials....

The Non-partisan Biden Justice Department is doing the hard work.

Routing out the "Trump Culture" has to start somewhere.

June 11, 2021
By Kristine Phillips

Washington - The Justice Department (click here) will beef up its civil rights unit as part of an aggressive effort to fight policies and legislation that restrict voter access and discriminate against marginalized voters, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday.

"To meet the challenge of the current moment, we must re-dedicate the resources of the Department of Justice to a critical part of its original mission: enforcing federal law to protect the franchise for all eligible voters," Garland said, noting a recent wave of legislation in several states that restrict voter access.

Garland said within the next 30 days, the department will double the enforcement staff of the civil rights unit, a powerful division within the agency that investigates hate crimes, police abuses and other civil rights violations....

Journalism is our fourth estate, next to Government and People, Spiritual and Legal.(click here)  If the people of the USA sincerely want to be heard outside that of an election, quality journalism is vital to their future and that of their country.

June 11, 2021

By Josh Meyer and Kristine Phillips

Washington - The Justice Department’s independent watchdog (click here) on Friday announced that it was launching a broad investigation into whether the Trump administration and its two attorneys general improperly seized phone records of House Democratic lawmakers, their staff and journalists as part of an aggressive 2018 leak investigation.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed that he would launch an investigation into it, as well as on the use of subpoenas to obtain journalists' phone records. Horowitz also said his watchdog agency would look beyond subpoenas to “other legal authorities [used] to obtain communication records … in connection with recent investigations of alleged unauthorized disclosures of information to the media by government officials.”

“The review will examine the Department’s compliance with applicable DOJ policies and procedures,” Horowitz said, “and whether any such uses, or the investigations, were based upon improper considerations. If circumstances warrant, the OIG will consider other issues that may arise during the review.”...

Do media services have to reach to the bottom for viewers and readers?

Tucker Carlson never won a Pulitzer. To that reality, FOX News defames the Pulitzer Organization. That is their focus, money, and hate. When is that journalism going to surface that actually proves FOX News is a parasite to democracy. Where is that Pulitzer?

Let me make this real clear. FOX News facilitated the January 6, 2021 insurrection. Why? Because they don't care. They get their MILLIONS AND BILLIONS from sensationalism and NOT journalism. They facilitated the hate that inspired criminality and assault against democracy.

The reason FOX News is sponsoring, "Let's hate Kamala" agenda is because they are scared she is right about anything and will be presidential material in the future. I mean if they can assault Harris like they did Clinton, Trump is a shoo-in. 

The other reason the Vice President is being harrassed is that FOX does not want to report the FACT, that Trump is under investigation for his role in the insurgency of 2021. Every news service should be reporting loud and clear that the former President who never was removed from office because of sympathetic Senate Republicans lead by Moscow Mitch, is under investigation for his role in the country's turmoil and insurrection on January 6, 2021.

EVERY MEDIA SERVICE SHOULD BE REPORTING ABOUT TRUMP'S ATTEMPT TO END OUR DEMOCRACY IN FAVOR OF HIS HEIRACHY.  That is real sensationalism, not the empty detention camps at the USA southern border.

June 19, 2012
By Andy Borowitz

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report (click here)—In an unprecedented honor for the Rupert Murdoch-led network, the Fox News Channel today won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

In its official statement, the prize committee praised Fox for exhibiting “an imagination and inventiveness that rival the best of Charles Dickens and J. R. R. Tolkien.”

In hailing Fox, the committee singled out the network’s fourteen-part story about President Obama’s birth in a mud-hut in Kenya.

For Mr. Murdoch, the stunning Pulitzer Prize win was a rare bright spot in what he acknowledged had been “a difficult year.”

“When I first heard about the Pulitzer committee’s decision, I didn’t believe it,” he said. “I had to listen to their voice mails to hear it for myself.”

The Kentucky Attorney General looked the other way when an innocent woman was gunned down.

June 11, 2021

The Courier Journal (click here) was named a finalist for a 2021 Pulitzer Prize in two categories for its reporting on the police slaying of Breonna Taylor and the more than 180 consecutive days of protest it provoked in Louisville.

The Courier Journal staff were a finalist in the breaking news and public service categories.

"Much of what we now know about the night Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police is because of the Louisville Courier Journal’s dogged reporting, determination and demands for transparency," said Amalie Nash, senior vice president of local news for the USA TODAY Network. "The Courier Journal has been reporting on this case from the start, shedding light on a killing that subsequently gained national and international attention."

The winner in breaking news was the staff of the Minneapolis Star Tribune for its coverage of the George Floyd murder. The New York Times won the public service category, the Pulitzer’s top prize, for its coverage of the coronavirus pandemic....

Vice President Harris gave a great interview with Lester Holt. Evidently, it wasn't sensational enough for FOX News so they have to spice up the hate.

What else is there to say to other countries' leadership? The basis of Vice President Harris' visit was to bring a common understanding and common ground to USA foreign policy.

The very policy Vice President Harris is trying to RE-establish is the foreign policy that worked with the Northern Triad before Trump defunded it. He defunded the policies that addressed the problems the countries had and illegal immigration to the USA Southern Border went through the roof.

2019 saw the highest illegal immigration in history. Trump's approach was to treat the immigrants as criminals and housing them like animals. The Biden Administration is looking at the root causes of the illegal immigrants at the border. That is why Vice President Harris' approach in returning to sound policy will work to reduce immigration.

The one issue affecting the larger numbers at the border since the Biden Administration is the pandemic and the fact the USA had the highest number of vaccines to reduce the highest global incidence of infection and deaths. The largest population group at the USA southern border allowed into the country are unaccompanied AND abandoned children. The drug cartels and terrified parents are the reason. However, Vice President Harris has begun to address the child migrant crisis and the number of children held at the border has reduced.

May 5, 2021

The number of unaccompanied migrant children (click here) being kept in cramped government-detention facilities on the US southern border with Mexico has fallen sharply, after a 20-year high influx of border crossings led to overcrowding.

The massive influx of children left US immigration officials scrambling earlier this year for facilities to house the children.

The number of children being held in by US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) has dropped 88% between late March and late April, according to government officials.

The decrease comes as a task force set up by President Joe Biden begins to reunite families that were separated under his predecessor Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policy.

Mr Biden has urged migrants not to attempt to travel to the US border - "Don't leave your town or city or community," he has said - but with Mr Trump out of office, some believe immigration to the US is now more possible....

There isn't much hate to find at the USA southern border anymore. What has resulted instead of hate is a pragmatic approach to end the crisis. When a country south of the USA is experiencing mass emigration there needs to be a solution to end the exodus. That is what Vice President Harris is doing in the Northern Triad and Mexico. Obviously, she is right in that the administration has sent their people to the southern border and the circumstances now have to be addressed within the countries in crisis. 

The children being accepted into the USA are here temporarily unless an American adopts them. The USA Supreme Court made it completely clear that people in crisis finding refuge in the USA are not here permanently. Some of the people that come to the USA due to a crisis in their homeland do stay after achieving a working status and use other means of immigration to qualify. They are not granted permanent citizen status simply because their homeland is in crisis and "Gee that is terrible." 

The immigration issue must be addressed in legislation in Congress. That is the story and not the fact the Vice President is in the Northern Triad rather than at the USA southern border. The crisis of the children at the USA southern border is solved and there are minimal number housed there. The humanitarian crisis is addressed and now the Vice President is addressing the underlying causes.  Questions? 

I guess Vice President Harris is NOT a "Photo Op" politician.

So, here is the process.

l. Solve the crisis at the southern border.

2. Advocate for immigration reform in the legislature.

3. Address the crisis within the countries where immigrants are coming from so the migration will end and lives are not in danger to "attempt to make it to the USA." The travel through those countries is dangerous and should not be attempted.

Got it? 

Not very sensational even for a photo op.

Where FOX News goes, so many other news agencies follow thinking that FOX is all that. Well, FOX News is only good for one thing and one thing only; fear-mongering facilitated by hate. I dare anyone to say otherwise.

The rest of the media that are like sheep over a cliff need to practice journalism and not sensationalism.

   

THIS is the type of movement that needs to dominate The West and their international alliances.

It is great when an American President actually takes on the hard work that the country needs to have done.

June 10, 2021
By David E. Sanger and Michael D. Shear

Carbis Bay, England. England is surrounded by water with some of the most romantic places to visit.

Carbis Bay, England - President Biden (click here) and Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain signed a new version of the 80-year old “Atlantic Charter” on Thursday, using their first meeting to redefine the Western alliance and accentuate what they said was a growing divide between battered democracies and their autocratic rivals, led by Russia and China.

The two leaders unveiled the new charter as they sought to focus the world’s attention on emerging threats from cyber attacks, the Covid-19 pandemic that has upended the global economy, and climate change, using language about reinforcing NATO and international institutions that Mr. Biden hoped would make clear that the Trump era of America First was over.

But the two men also continued to grapple with old-world challenges, including Mr. Biden’s private admonishment of the prime minister against taking actions that could inflame sectarian violence in Northern Ireland....

This settles any question about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and where The West stands on an independent investigation.

10 June 2021
By Finbarr Bermingham

The leaders of the United States and Britain (click here) vowed to support an independent investigation into the origins of Covid-19, “including in China”, in a meeting on the eve of the
G7 Leaders’ Summit in Cornwall.

A joint statement from US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson added to earlier comments from European Union leaders urging China to permit inspectors “complete access” to all relevant sites and information related to the pandemic.

“We will also support a timely, transparent and evidence-based independent process for the next phase of the WHO-convened Covid-19 origins study, including in China, and for investigating outbreaks of unknown origin in the future,” said the statement, issued on Thursday.

The readout referred to China only once by name, but hinted at the rivalry with Beijing throughout, vowing to advance “the values of liberal democracies, open societies and open markets” and to “defend media freedom [and] advance a free and open internet”....

President Biden does not have to apologize for the large number of vaccines in the USA, because, Trump left the USA in shambles. The USA had the highest number of cases and the highest number of deaths. Someone had to bring the virus in the USA under control and it was President Biden and his vaccination efforts.

There are countries that won't need vaccines at all. There are countries like India that will require not only vaccines, but, a complete readdress of the way the people live. India needs a new quality of life and living in slums where people are stacked densely has to be replaced with more modern buildings that allow for safe quarantine. Other countries that faced or are still facing these deplorable conditions also need to improve the people's quality of life. All that can be done with an eye on the horizon of the climate crisis and putting the global community back together in a way that benefits all and Earth as well.

June 10, 2021

By Betsy Klein, Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez

Falmouth, England - President Joe Biden announced Thursday (click here) evening that the United States plans to donate 500 million Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses globally as part of his efforts to reassert US leadership on the world stage.

"America knows first-hand the tragedy of this pandemic. We've had more people die in the United States than anywhere in the world, nearly 600,000 of our fellow Americans," Biden said in remarks after meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

He added, "We know the tragedy. We also know the path to recovery."

The move will also serve to counter efforts by Russia and China to use their own state-funded vaccines to expand their global influence....

The West needs to decide about Russia and it's failed society, as well as a failed economy reflected by it's failed currency. The only strength Russia has in the global community is regarding ballistics and it's use to intimidate other countries. There is no benevolence to Russia anymore. It needs to return to a better economic status and revitalize a freedom movement within that country abandoned by Vladimir Putin when he needed the communist vote to win re-election.

In exchange for Russia to become a global trading partner with the USA and NATO again, it needs to come clean about the information Trump handed to them and why.

NATO should come together to sponsor their own space station and eliminate communist countries from the opportunity.

June 7, 2021

The head of Russia's space agency (click here) on Monday suggested Moscow would withdraw from the International Space Station in 2025 unless Washington lifted sanctions on the space sector that were hampering Russian satellite launches.

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos, was addressing parliamentarians ahead of a summit in Geneva later this month between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden.

Rogozin said Moscow was struggling to launch some of its satellites because of U.S. sanctions which meant Russia could not import certain microchip sets needed for its space programme.

"We have more than enough rockets but nothing to launch them with," Rogozin said, in a rare admission by a senior Russian official that Western sanctions are seriously impeding the development of a given industry....

I honestly don't believe Russian spacemen will be leaving the ISS anytime soon. But, honestly, who cares?

13 May 2021

By Catherine Shoard

Yulia Peresild has been announced as the female lead in the Russian production. 

The space race (click here) appears set for a relaunch following the news that Russia is to send an actor and director to the International Space Station in October, with the ambition of making the first feature film in space.

The crew are scheduled to begin their expedition on 5 October 2021. While on the space station they could encounter some fellow film-makers: Tom Cruise and the director Doug Liman, who are also due to travel there in October to make a movie.

The exact date of Cruise’s blastoff has not yet been revealed, but the departure of the Russians in the first few days of the month suggests an intention to beat the Americans.

Russia was first reported to be mounting a rival production last year, shortly after plans were confirmed last summer for Cruise, who will be 59 at the time of his mission, to go into low Earth orbit, backed by Nasa and Elon Musk....

Fire sale in Russia!

May 19, 2021

Russia (click here) has put up for sale one of its space modules, which in 2018 returned a Russian and two Americans from the International Space Station (ISS)....

June 4, 2021
By Sissi Cao

Next month, (click here) a big module called Pirs will be jettisoned from the Russian half of the International Space Station and fall into Earth’s atmosphere. No need to worry about pieces of metal falling from the sky, though, as calculation suggests that the giant debris should have completely burned up before making it to the ground.

Still, it will be the first ISS module to be completely decommissioned and discarded in space. On Wednesday, a pair of ISS residents, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov, went outside the orbital lab and performed a seven-hour spacewalk to prepare for Pirs’s release....

The communists have their own space station. Russia will be going here. Now, why not be a part of the ISS? Right? Assets spent together provides for better domestic budgets. 

BECAUSE THE COMMUNISTS DON'T CARE ABOUT PEACEFUL USE OF SPACE.

May 31, 2021

By Arjun Kharopal

Guangzhou, China - China (click here) has completed another major part of its own space station, the latest in a string of ambitious extraterrestrial projects from the world’s second-largest economy.

The Long March 7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft took off at 8:55 p.m. local time on Saturday from the Wenchang launch site, according to the China Manned Space agency.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Tianzhou-2 docked with the core module of the space station called Tianhe.

China’s space station will be made of three modules which includes the Tianhe “core,” cargo spacecraft such as Tianzhou-2 and laboratories. China will carry out 11 missions this year and next to complete the construction of the space station, and bring astronauts and supplies up too. The space station is expected to go into operation in 2022....

The Voting Rights Act of 1964 was impressive and massively changed everything about voting oppression.

Joe Machin is ridiculous. On one hand he touts all the expansions afforded the people of West Virginia. Then on the other hand he pretends as if all the changes he made as West Virginia Secretary of State are permanent and will never change.

Either Joe Machin hasn’t read a newspaper lately or he simply doesn’t care about the vulnerability of voting rights regardless of it’s fundamental and constitutional right to every citizen. He treats the “For the People Act” as a partisan witch hunt to eliminate Republicans. He is wrong and his rhetoric is disgraceful.

I have a suggestion for Speaker Pelosi. Break down “For the People Act” into smaller bills so those voting against it can be identified to their particular hatred of freedom and Democracy. 

When the “For The People Act” is broken down into separate parts and still rejected by the US Senate, send it on a tour of the country asking citizens to do two things. First, adopt the provisions into a state referendum. Second, begin the process of an Amendment proposal that will take voting rights out of the hands of politicians and into the hands of the people. 

For Amendments to be successful Americans need to understand the proposed Amendment and how best to support it through a 2/3rds vote in Congress and in the states.

E. Jean Carroll Case

President Biden needs to consider filing an Amicus Brief with the courts regarding the proper function of a President of the USA in regard to women’s rights and sexual assault. There can be no back sliding in regard to the efficacy of these sexual assault cases. Women and prosecutors have made incredible gains in taking back a woman’s dignity and rights in cases of sexual abuse assault. Ms. Carroll was assaulted by the Former President. When she came forward her employment was then in peril. There is a lot wrong with what occurred in Ms. Carroll’s life. Since the assault including her deafening silence for decades because of fear of retribution. She was right in being silent in this white wealthy man dominated society where money talks louder than a woman’s right to safety from sexual predators.

The DOJ may be technically correct but is morally disgraceful within its purview. A friend of the court filing is necessary by the White House to set the record straight. This behavior of sexual assault cannot be tolerated in the highest ranking officer in the military either. There is a great deal at stake and the Biden Administration has a place in this case far afield from Merrick Garland’s DOJ.

Mayoral races? Really?

Texas isn’t really all that surprising, now is it. The Democrats have given up for so long in Texas that they didn’t have candidates with governance experience or familiarity to the voters. McAllen is a city right on the Mexican border chocked full of illegal migrants. How willing were the voters to over turn a familiar government? If Democrats want to continue to win in states where Republicans have dominated the corruption has to be routed out and made part of  a campaign. Candidates will have to be familiar and with some experience in governance and not just experience in politics.

Thank you for stopping by, but, It’s Sunday Night will occur later this week. 

There is a lot of climate misinformation and I have to tackle that. 

Until later...

Dr. Fauci is a national treasure and a hero to all those that survived the pandemic.

There is no there, there.

Dr. Fauci is not a punching bag for the likes of Rand Paul. Paul is PO'ed because Dr. Fauci always answers him with dignity and grace and makes sense. No one can say that about Rand Paul's questions of anyone he embarks on to make a political commercial and free B Role.

I am serious about the lawsuits. The political attacks are a bunch of hogwash. Rand Paul and FOX News would love to drive Dr. Fauci right out of the government positions he holds. That is a fact and it is vicious defamation.

June 3, 2021
By Nachiket Mhatre

02 Jun 2021: Dr. Fauci's leaked 2020 emails (click here) reveal knowledge of lab-leak theory

Not long after Dr Anthony Fauci changed his tune on the possibility that the COVID-19 could be man-made, more skeletons tumble out of the US medical advisor's closet. A massive cache of email correspondence obtained by BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post reveal that Dr. Fauci was appraised of the possibility that the SARS-COV-2 virus could have been bioengineered in a lab....

To begin with, there were no government leaks. These emails were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

DAH!

Gee, do you think Dr. Fauci knew that a lab could produce such a thing as a virus? It is called biological warfare. He has the credentials and the position to speculate on such issues. There is no skeletons in Dr. Fauci's closet. He was engaging his freedom of speech power to communicate with others about issues of the day and this has been an issue since Trump called it The Chinese Virus.

June 3, 2021

Key points raised by critics (click here) such as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) concern the alleged NIH funding of dangerous bioengineering ("gain of function") research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and Dr. Fauci's responses to questions about this....

I watched this interchange between Fauci and Paul. Rand Paul was pathetic. Dr. Fauci clearly stated to him there was no funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 'gain of function' (click here) research. That is correct.

Get for real people. The USA government is going to fund gain of function research in China? That is just about the most stupid thing I have ever heard reported. This is all about discrediting a very valuable science-based part of the USA government, the NIH. The Republicans absolutely love to play "we are the people" and let's topple the government at every turn. The USA could not function without the NIH.

I will comment on the points being made by other physicians and surgeons below.

The NIH funds for research at the university in Wuhan were for the discovery of sources of the coronavirus that continues to plague the world. Those monies were once accompanied by American scientists to be sure they were applied to the proper research in the proper way. Trump ended that. He pulled the scientists from China because he didn't want to fund them anymore. American scientists were completely welcome in China to assist with the prevention and/or the discovery of disease. Got that? Our scientists were welcome in the labs in China, even the ones at the university in question.

The comment was once made about the discovery of SARS under the Bush White House that the president knew about the virus before the Chinese president did. Why? Because American scientists were on the ground with Chinese scientists as issues presented themselves. The lack of that connectedness was witnessed with the Chinese physician screaming to his government that there was a virus killing the people in Wuhan. The Chinese government wanted nothing to do with a screaming physician. YET, if the President of the USA called up President Xi Jinping there would be something done about it and probably with the assistance of the Americans in China.

You can say what you want, but, there was no relationship between Trump and Xi. End of discussion over that. There is nothing that can be done by the NIH with monies proposed for specific purposes if the American component is not in China. We still don't know if that funding was misused and we will never know. This is all noise by Rand Paul and FOX News to push some kind of political agenda to remove President Biden from office and defame the Democrats in the 2022 elections.

May 25, 2021
By Samuel Chamberlin

The National Institutes of Health earmarked $600,000 (click here) for the Wuhan Institute of Virology over a five-year period to study whether bat coronaviruses could be transmitted to humans, White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci told lawmakers Tuesday.

Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told a House Appropriations subcommittee that the money was funneled to the Chinese lab through the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance to fund “a modest collaboration with very respectable Chinese scientists who were world experts on coronavirus.”

But Fauci emphatically denied that the money went toward so-called “gain of function” research, which he described as “taking a virus that could infect humans and making it either more transmissible and/or pathogenic for humans.”

“That categorically was not done,” he insisted.

Rand Paul has no proof otherwise, but, he never stops. He goes on and on about topics that irritate his constituents who like to filet scientists. You know ripe the guts out of them kinda stuff.

This is Rand Paul who said what about wearing masks? And this is the beautiful part, that the CDC said all those that were vaccinated didn't have to wear masks. Dr. Fauci came out to clarify the statement, but, did it matter? No. Why? Because the political machinery for the Republicans would not let it be known the information was misinterpreted to the public.

This is Rand Paul again carrying on as if he actually knows something that no one else can purport to Dr. Fauci because Rand Paul was an optomologist. Rand Paul the eye doctor is an authority on vaccines. 

March 19, 2021
By Morgan Watkins

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul clashed yet again (click here) with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the federal government's top infectious diseases expert, on Thursday as he derided public health experts' recommendation that people wear a mask even if they've caught or gotten vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Paul suggested it's just "theater" to mask up if you've already been immunized either through infection or vaccination and accused Fauci of making policy based on conjecture. 

Fauci pushed back against that and said COVID-19 variants are circulating in the U.S. that pose a threat even to people who previously got infected or vaccinated.

"You’ve been vaccinated and you parade around in two masks for show," Paul told Fauci during a congressional hearing Thursday. "You want to get rid of vaccine hesitancy? Tell them they can quit wearing their masks after they get the vaccine....

Anyone with a dead friend or relative that listened to Rand Paul, get a lawyer and sue the lousy no good eye doctor for their deaths.

Rand Paul created a "hot topic" for the folks back home that will vote him out of office in that the CDC was stupid and knew nothing about the real world. You know Paul has got a neighbor that absolutely hates him for this kind of reason. I think the guy attacked him more than once. The neighbor has an excuse, it is called "aggravated" anything. Because Rand Paul is an outright liar that keeps getting re-elected. People with good conscience can only put up with all this for so long and they react because they feel they are saving lives and good government policy.

The issues below are correct and troubling. But, don't look to Dr. Fauci who was on the firing line every day with Donald John Trump contradicting the president and being sure Americans knew there were facts known about the virus and that it was a growing base of knowledge they were finding to treat people and prevent "the spread." It wasn't Dr. Fauci that was out front telling Americans not to believe the experts and there was no danger. That was the policy of the Trump White House. 

When it comes to all these issues, this is not neglected by Dr. Fauci or any agency he is affiliated with, this is due to the lack of real policy by the USA during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Secret science? Is there not a Freedom of Information Act that provides all that information to the public. The AAPS needs to do some research before they come out and scapegoat Dr. Fauci. 

...AAPS states that the following issues are of critical concern: (click here)

AAPS (click here)

Secret science: What research is NIH funding or suppressing?

Oversight and FOIA. There are legislators that are involved in oversight, where are they? If AAPS doesn't want to seek FOIA requests then they should be writing the legislative committees and ask them why there isn't better oversight? This is nonsense.

Oversight: Why are Americans learning about these Covid controversies only through FOIA? Are there no checks and balances on individuals and agencies that have such a profound effect on our lives?

There are medical journals that publish research about these drugs. AND. No one is preventing any physician from prescribing them. If a physician wants to prescribe hydroxychloroquine they can do exactly that. There is no law against it, HOWEVER, there is research that has found the drugs to be invaluable and in some instances causes damage and/or hastens death.

There is nothing preventing any litigation against anyone working for the government. The point is mute. 

Central control with no accountability: NIH "guidelines" are being used to deny treatment with long-approved drugs including hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to thousands of Americans. This therapeutic nihilism is likely the cause of more than 100,000 preventable deaths—but the policymakers have no liability.

Conflict of interest. Ask the legislative committees because this is about oversight again. What I find interesting is that Pfizer CEO is a veterinarian and he is rolling out vaccines every quarter to prove to his stockholders he is deserving of his bonuses. I find that interesting. He now wants to vaccinate infants. I don't know there is something about a profit-driven veterinarian and an infant that raises a lot of questions for me.

Conflicts of interest: What interest groups are determining NIH policy? Foreign governments? The pharmaceutical/vaccine industry? Big tech? Non-governmental organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?

This is inflammatory. It has a distinct political undertone that brings up genetic medicine in a very bad light. If find these physicians and surgeons appalling when they know full well people benefit from genetic medicine, ask Moderna.

Before a professional group of physicians and surgeons carry on like this, they need to have some kind of proof of their SPECULATION.

Genetic engineering: The SARS-CoV-2 virus may be genetically engineered. If so, for what purpose? The only NIH-touted response other than lockdowns and masks are genetically engineered products. Not themselves vaccines by the previous definition, they introduce genetic instructions for the recipient to make genetically modified proteins to stimulate an immune response. The long-term consequences cannot be known.

I have no problem with Dr. Fauci because I pay attention. If he wasn't on the firing line every day, this country would have seen far more dead Americans. Dr. Fauci deserves the Medal of Freedom. He certainly defended mine.

Trust: Should we hand over control of our lives and medical treatment to Dr. Fauci and the agency he heads? Do they have our welfare at heart, or only their own power and a political agenda?

There is no deeply troubling situation here, except, for the witch hunt of Rand Paul AGAIN and this time a group of wealthy physicians looking for a scapegoat.

"The e-mails provide a glimpse into a deeply troubling situation," states AAPS executive director Jane M Orient, M.D. "But would be a mistake to focus solely on reading thousands of e-mails by one government official and overlook the work of thousands of bioengineers that could profoundly alter our lives."...

Dr. Fauci saved lives and if it were up to him, there would not have been a pandemic. It was Trump that insured the virus spread at will through the USA. Did I mention, the gun lobby really profited from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Somehow a gun was going to protect Americans from an invisible virus. Amazing. Americans were flocking to hospital emergency rooms with overburdened nurses without PPE. The nurses weren't carrying guns, so I guess sick people aren't really interested in a war so much as a cure.

I think the detractors of Dr. Fauci that side with Rand Paul need to ask themselves if they would have wanted Dr. Fauci's job working alongside Donald John Trump. See, Dr. Fauci attempted to get Trump to address the virus long before it began it's uncontrolled spread, but, causing such concern would hurt Wall Street profits and his re-election.

The folks here have no stone to cast against Dr. Fauci. He did his job and he did it well. The AAPS needs to form its own oversight committee and do the real work before clamoring for political attention.

Huh?

So, Ms. Baez is another victim of the circumstance of a government that allows citizens into the Capitol when the electoral votes are being counted. Sure, sure and I am Whistler's Grandmother.

Why then did the Capitol Police line up to prevent entry when in fact if the doors were swinging wide open for citizens didn't they greet everyone with a MAGA hat as a symbol of consolation?

The Capitol had been closed to visitors. I guess everybody has got to try.

Some of these insurgents need to do lots of community service every election year going from town to town to tell everyone they had been duped by Donald John Trump by the isolation of information on FOX News and the Trump YouTube Channel. Trump was a big spender to reach those folks by having a YouTube channel. Amazing.

The difference (click here) between metropolitan average household income and nonmetro average household income, 2009–2019

Remember those payments Trump was handing out to the farmers? Did they ever get them or did the poor Wall Street bozos get them when they didn't have commodities to sell to China anymore? The income gap widened incredibly during the Trump years. I am assuming this graph reflects the income with the subsidies.

I wish Democrats would have viable candidates in the local and state levels as well as federal for every Republican-dominated state. This information alone should be turning their heads. They are similar to coal miners. They actually believe the Republicans are the only ones that care about them. When did Moscow Mitch actually add jobs to the coal industry that resulted in the boom of "the good 'ole days." Never. Yet Republicans will come out of elections as if they were the only ones that voted for The Farm Bill. The Republicans have some of the best propaganda machines in this country and the MidWest and farms show it. The number of farms in the USA keeps shrinking. That plays into the idea the USA can no longer feed the world, so why not hunker down with Russia and eat Chinese Rice.

Look, why not classify Trump as a terrorist. The classical definition of a terrorist is one that uses a country's infrastructure against them. That is exactly what Trump did for four years in allowing Russia free access to all kinds of information. He used the USA government to OPPRESS information, lie and deceive through agencies like the EPA and destroyed precious records related to decades of truth about scientific investigation and the widening divide between Ag and Non-Ag incomes.

June 4, 2021
By Dominique Mosbergen

Stephanie Baez, (click here) a woman who was recorded saying on Jan. 6 that she wanted to “find me a Proud Boy,” referring to the white supremacy group, has been arrested in connection with the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that day.

Baez was arrested Friday in Alabama for her alleged involvement in the riot. According to a criminal complaint filed by the Justice Department, she was among the throng of Donald Trump supporters who violently forced entry into the Capitol in an attempt to stop the tally of Electoral College votes that affirmed Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election....

...She denied that she had been in the building unlawfully

“The defendant … stated that everyone was calm and no one had any reason to believe that they were not allowed inside,” the complaint said.

“The defendant further stated that some people were just following groups and she feels like it is insane not to take that into consideration,“ it added.

To date, the Department of Justice has arrested more than 465 people in connection with the Capitol riot.

“The Department of Justice’s resolve to hold accountable those who committed crimes on January 6th has not, and will not, wane,” the Justice Department said in a statement Friday.

When does the abuse of our minority citizens stop? This is unconcionable. It is all corruption. All of it.

I cannot believe the level of abuse and lack of respect for life that chronically surfaces with Flint, Michigan. These people were tested when the lead was first found. Any testing with this scanner needs to be removed as evidence ANYWHERE. 

What is going on already? Lawyers want a full third of the settlement and now the people remaining to receive the monies have to be exposed to the abuse of lawyers wanting to illegitimately disqualify them. Where does it stop? The State of Michigan Justice Department should be all over these people.

June 3, 2021
By Paul Egan

Lansing - The manufacturer of a handheld lead scanner (click here) wrote to a Flint law firm in May and told the lawyers to stop using the device on Flint residents because the company has not certified that it is safe to do so.

But the device has already been used on likely thousands of Flint residents seeking a share of the proposed $641.25-million proposed settlement — with the state of Michigan and other defendants — of the Flint water crisis civil litigation.

“The safety instructions contained in the … User’s Guide explicitly instruct all users to ‘(n)ever point your analyzer at yourself or anyone else when the shutter is open,’” Thermo Fisher Scientific Vice President and General Manager Chloe Hansen-Toone said in the May 12 letter to the Napoli Shkolnik law firm, obtained by the Free Press.

“All users are expected to abide by the safety instructions, except under specific circumstances (not present here) that require adequate assurances regarding safety.”...

Thermo Fisher Scientific (click here)  The only lead scanner I found available from this company was to detect lead paint.

This is corruption. There is no other word for it. As a matter of fact, the accused and their lawyers need to demand a second grand jury of peers. These tactics are so outrageous I would be surprised that any crime charged of anyone with a one-person grand jury in Michigan would receive an acquittal.

Our justice system is based on the Rule of Law and the idea that a jury of the accused peers would pass judgment. This one-person grand jury should never have been tolerated in Michigan or any other state. One person can indict a citizen and ruin their life. Ridiculous. How many people over how many years?

May 30, 2021
By Oe Guillen and Elisha Anderson

The ongoing Flint water case (click here) against former Gov. Rick Snyder is relying on an investigative tactic so rarely used that some legal experts aren’t familiar with it.

Known as a one-person grand jury, the process is cloaked in secrecy.

It involves the appointment of a single judge to review evidence out of public view and decide whether charges should be brought. In contrast to the way most criminal charges are brought, using a one-person grand jury alters how evidence is turned over to defense attorneys and delays their ability to cross-examine witnesses.

Prosecutors call the one-person grand jury an essential tool for fighting crime and compelling reluctant witnesses to testify. Defense attorneys of the accused decry its use because they have no official role during the grand jury proceedings, which they say is a denial of due process.

The tactic now is under attack in one of the most high-profile political cases in years: the state’s prosecution of Michigan’s former governor and a slew of his former aides for their alleged criminal roles in the poisoning of Flint’s drinking water supply....

It is time to clean up the mess!

Unions are a beautiful thing. I was a member and a shop steward at one time. My family are union people. We stand for the right things. Fair wages and benefits define the quality of life for Americans. It is right to be union members. It is completely wrong to be a union official and exploit the worker's membership dues.

June 3, 2021
By Robert Snell and Riley Beggins

Detroit - Prosecutors (click here) want former United Auto Workers President Gary Jones to spend more than two years in federal prison for helping steal as much as $1.5 million from union members.

Prosecutors revealing the desired 28-month prison term Thursday also requested Jones pay $550,000 in restitution to the UAW, $42,000 to the IRS and a forfeiture of $151,377.

Jones's lawyer is also expected to ask U.S. District Judge Paul Borman for a preferred sentence later Thursday for his role in a conspiracy that undermined members' faith in union leadership and led to prolonged government oversight....

President Biden calls for strong reform of the filibuster. It is currently abused by Republicans that support the insurgency.

It is about time the Democrats got serious about their constituency. The DNC should scrutinize the voting records of those they fund for a Senate office. What good is a democrat for Congress if they do the bidding of the Republicans? President Biden as the leader of the Democratic Party has the right and a duty to call the shots the way he sees them. This was long overdue. 

If Manchen and Sinema cannot support the return of filibuster rules that were originally intended for the minority to be heard and not controlling the outcome of a vote, then what use are they. Any vote with Republicans is supporting the insurgency. There is no reason to see it any other way. 

June 2, 2021
By Savannah Behrman and Jorey Garrison

Washington - President Joe Biden (click here) appeared to single out two moderate Democratic senators as obstacles to passing parts of his agenda, yet the White House insisted Biden was not being critical of them.

On Tuesday, Biden referenced Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, while he discussed his support for the For the People Act voting rights bill during remarks commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre in Oklahoma.

Though he didn't mention them by name, Biden referred to “two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends."

"I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’” Biden said. “Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends. But we're not giving up."...

Britian is hosting the G7 post pandemic.

The Democrats can put through the minimum global corporate tax with the next budget after the G7 passes it into law.

May 31, 2021
By Jan Strupczewski

General view of a working session during the G7 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Chantilly, near Paris, France, July 17, 2019.

Finance ministers from the group of seven rich nations (G7) (click here) will vow this week to support their economies as they emerge from the pandemic and reach an "ambitious" deal on a minimum global corporate tax in July, a draft communique showed.

G7 officials, set to meet in London on June 4-5, will also say that once the recovery is well established, they will need to "ensure long-term sustainability of public finances", which is understood to be code for a gradual withdrawal of stimulus.

The G7 comprises the United States, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada.

"We commit to not withdrawing policy support too soon and investing to promote growth, create high-quality jobs and address climate change and inequalities," the draft communique, seen by Reuters, said....

It is called corruption and the US Congress needs to hold hearings about it.

The gambling at race tracks may have to be curtailed if the industry cannot treat the horses humanly and the races are not run according to the rules. 

This is not Baffert's first scandal. He doesn't the horses. He doesn't love their running heritage. He wants winners. He wants winners at any cost. That is a trainer that cannot be trusted with some of the best horses in their generations. There is no excuses left for Baffert, he has been a trainer far longer than he should have and he knows all the ethical practices with thoroughbred race horses. This was not an oversight, it was a manipulation of Medina Spirit and the cold will never be known to his real capacity as a race horse. As a horse that will be bred, his reputation is scarred for the rest of his career.

June 2, 2021
By Jason Frakes

The New York Times (click here) reported Wednesday a split sample of Medina Spirit’s drug test following the Kentucky Derby confirmed the presence of betamethasone, further jeopardizing the horse’s status as the winner of the Run for the Roses.

The New York Times’ Joe Drape reported lawyer Clark Brewster, who represents Medina Spirit owner Amr Zedan, said the laboratory at the University of California-Davis confirmed the presence of betamethasone, a corticosteroid.

While legal as a therapeutic aid for horses, betamethasone is illegal when found in the blood on race day because it’s considered a possible performance-enhancer.

Medina Spirit trainer Bob Baffert announced May 9 — eight days after the Kentucky Derby — that Medina Spirit had tested positive for 21 picograms of betamethasone....

Additionally, Santa Anita still had racehorse deaths in the year 2020. Each dead horse had a life insurance policy. Their policy is worth more than their running careers.

There are many people within the thoroughbred industry that sincerely loves the horses, their heritage, and the nitch they have in providing a pastime for Americans. Jockeys put their lives on the line every time they mount a horse to race in some of the best ideas of the sport, but, they are little valued for their sportsmanship or dedication to a breed of horse that has seen its species nearly gone due to the corruption in the industry. Trainers and managers were producing winners that should not be in the winner circles and going on to breed offspring that continued the diminished vitality of the thoroughbred racehorse.

Congress needs to hold hearings on this sport and it's link to gambling and whether or not that endangers the animals as well as the people that like to watch them run and follow a horse's and jockey's career. The public needs to know they are going to a race track with a good reputation and wagering on horses that are honestly displaying their odds to win.

NO MORE DEAD RACEHORSES WHO ARE TOO YOUNG TO DIE OTHERWISE.

December 16, 2020
By John Cherwa

Southern California’s main thoroughbred tracks (click here) had their first racing or training fatality in more than three months when an unraced 2-year-old filly suffered life-ending injuries during morning training at Santa Anita on Wednesday.

Penelope Rose had not run a race and was galloping on the main track when she fractured her right front humerus, the bone that joins the shoulder to the elbow, while galloping. Radiographs showed that the injury was unrecoverable and she was euthanized. As is standard, a necropsy will be performed and reviewed by the California Horse Racing Board.

It was the second training death this year for trainer Eddie Truman. Miss Romania, a 3-year-old filly, died on Feb. 12, also of a fractured humerus....