Sunday, May 22, 2022

The 1930s was a disgrace to the USA.

Nearly 1,000 uniformed men (click here) wearing swastika arm bands and carrying Nazi banners parade past a reviewing stand in New Jersey on July 18, 1937. The New Jersey division of the German-American Bund opened its 100-acre Camp Nordland at Sussex Hills. Dr. Salvatore Caridi of Union City, spokesman for a group of Italian-American Fascists attending as guests, addressed the bund members as "Nazi Friends."

These men organized after WWI. The second world war would begin with the election of Adolph Hitler in 1933.

...After becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, (click here) Hitler swiftly consolidated power, anointing himself Führer (supreme leader) in 1934. Obsessed with the idea of the superiority of the “pure” German race, which he called “Aryan,” Hitler believed that war was the only way to gain the necessary “Lebensraum,” or living space, for the German race to expand. In the mid-1930s, he secretly began the rearmament of Germany, a violation of the Versailles Treaty. After signing alliances with Italy and Japan against the Soviet Union, Hitler sent troops to occupy Austria in 1938 and the following year annexed Czechoslovakia. Hitler’s open aggression went unchecked, as the United States and Soviet Union were concentrated on internal politics at the time, and neither France nor Britain (the two other nations most devastated by the Great War) were eager for confrontation....

The history of this disastrous movement began long before the radical right wing of the Republican Party discovered how fear can capture votes.

The most important promoter of racial ideology in Europe (click here) during the mid-19th century was https://www.britannica.com/topic/race-human/Gobineaus-Essay-on-the-Inequality-of-Human-Races, who had an almost incalculable effect on late 19th-century social theory. Published in 1853–55, his Essay on the Inequality of Human Races was widely read, embellished, and publicized by many different kinds of writers. He imported some of his arguments from the polygenists, especially the American Samuel Morton. Gobineau claimed that the civilizations established by the three major races of the world (white, Black, and yellow) were all products of the white races and that no civilization could emerge without their cooperation. The purest of the white races were the Aryans. When Aryans diluted their blood by intermarriage with lower races, they helped to bring about the decline of their civilization.

Following Boulainvilliers, Gobineau advanced the notion that France was composed of three separate races—the Nordics, the Alpines, and the Mediterraneans—that corresponded to France’s class structure. Each race had distinct mental and physical characteristics; they differed in character and natural abilities, such as leadership, economic resourcefulness, creativity, and inventiveness, and in morality and aesthetic sensibilities. The tall, blond Nordics, who were descendants of the ancient Germanic tribes, were the intellectuals and leaders. Alpines, who were brunet and intermediate in size between Nordics and Mediterraneans, were the peasants and workers; they required the leadership of Nordics. The shorter, darker Mediterraneans he considered a decadent and degenerate product of the mixture of unlike races; to Gobineau they were “nigridized” and “semitized.”...

It is a paradigm worth recognizing in other cultures, but, never has it ended humanly or without ethnic cleansing or racism.

The country of India there has been a Caste System that oppresses people into poverty while maintaining the elite in their roles.

Manusmriti, (click here) widely regarded to be the most important and authoritative book on Hindu law and dating back to at least 1,000 years before Christ was born, "acknowledges and justifies the caste system as the basis of order and regularity of society".

The caste system divides Hindus into four main categories - Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and the Shudras. Many believe that the groups originated from Brahma, the Hindu God of creation....

Probably one of the more deadly paradigms that adhere to difference in a person as important to discriminate in governance is that of Islam. In the 21st Century, that entire jihad thing is grossly wrong and available yet today for radicals to harness and bring hate and fear to people to justify atrocities. Why is it that mass murder is viewed as necessary to anyone?

...The division (click here) between Shia and Sunni dates back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632. This event raised the question of who was to take over the leadership of the Muslim nation.

Sunnism is the largest and most orthodox branch of Islam. The word Sunn, in Arabic, comes from a word meaning "one who follows the traditions of the Prophet."

Sunni Muslims agree with many of the Prophet's companions at the time of his death: that the new leader should be elected from among those capable of the job. For example, following Prophet Muhammad's death, his close friend and adviser, Abu Bakr, became the first Caliph (successor or deputy of the Prophet) of the Islamic nation.

On the other hand, some Muslims believe that leadership should have stayed within the Prophet's family, among those specifically appointed by him, or among Imams appointed by God Himself.

Shia Muslims believe that following the Prophet Muhammad's death, leadership should have passed directly to his cousin and son-in-law, Ali bin Abu Talib. Throughout history, Shia Muslims have not recognized the authority of elected Muslim leaders, choosing instead to follow a line of Imams which they believe have been appointed by the Prophet Muhammad or God Himself....

Hate and fear go hand in hand. Where hate becomes justifiable within the politics of any form of governance, what will ultimately result is a judgement of one authority to solidify ultimate control of POWER.

The Rwandan Genocide is well known (click here). There was a power shift in the country and within 4 days hundreds of thousands of people were dead for no other reason, except, the desire for ultimate power.

FOUR DAYS.

FOUR DAYS.

FOUR DAYS.

This type of ideology is extremely dangerous. No one thought for a moment that Vladimir Putin would be so ruthless to achieve the end of every Ukrainian in the 21st Century. It may not have achieved the numbers of dead as with Rwanda, but, it has been vastly dangerous resulting in the deaths and displacement of nearly an entire race of people. 

This is not to be tolerated in American politics. The only movement within the USA that should be tolerated is the goal of peace and prosperity that equates happiness. The poor has opportunity to upward movement. The Middle Class has the ability to educate their children and improve their lives with real happiness within families and communities. The Middle Class is America. It is where wealth takes place to the wealthy. The Middle Class has to succeed to bring about a vibrant economy. Economic exploitation and the viciousness of capitalism to deliver exclusive wealth is not part of a healthy America. 

The white supremacist conspiracy theory has a long history in the United States and abroad.

May 17, 2022
By Fabiola Cineas

Before the gunman shot down 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, (click here) at a supermarket on Saturday afternoon, he had stated his intent: “kill as many Black people as possible.” He reportedly wrote these words in a 180-page screed published online before he carried out what investigators are calling a hate crime and a racist act of violent extremism.

The 18-year-old white man, who claimed to drive hours to the zip code he targeted in Buffalo because it “has the highest black percentage that is close enough to where I live,” repeatedly lamented immigration, which he feared would result in “ethnic replacement,” “cultural replacement,” “racial replacement,” and ultimately, he wrote, “white genocide.”

This is the “white replacement theory” or the “Great Replacement” that has motivated similar mass killings in recent years — the racist conspiracy theory that holds that, through immigration, interracial marriage, integration, and violence, and at the behest of secret forces orchestrated by “global elites” (as the Buffalo shooter claimed) or Jews, white people are being disenfranchised, disempowered, and pushed out of “white nations.”

These ideas are not new. They have been documented for at least a century, the forces of white fear that shaped the national origin quotas of the 1920s. They have inspired mass attacks — and also smaller-scale instances of violence — that have claimed the lives of hundreds of people in the United States and abroad...


Former President John Tyler could still be impeached.

Dubbed “His Accidency” by his detractors, John Tyler (click here)
was the first Vice President to be elevated to the office of President by the death of his predecessor.

Born in Virginia in 1790, he was raised believing that the Constitution must be strictly construed. He never wavered from this conviction. He attended the College of William and Mary and studied law.

Serving in the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1821, Tyler voted against most nationalist legislation and opposed the Missouri Compromise. After leaving the House he served as Governor of Virginia. As a Senator he reluctantly supported Jackson for President as a choice of evils. Tyler soon joined the states’ rights Southerners in Congress who banded with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and their newly formed Whig party opposing President Jackson.

The Whigs nominated Tyler for Vice President in 1840, hoping for support from southern states’-righters who could not stomach Jacksonian Democracy. The slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” implied flag waving nationalism plus a dash of southern sectionalism....

Harrison Ruffin Tyler at the age of 91 is iconic for the Supremacist/Nationalist belief that the USA is to be a white, Christian country. Below is a paragraph from the US Presidential page.

...When the first southern states seceded in 1861, Tyler led a compromise movement; failing, he worked to create the Southern Confederacy. He died in 1862, a member of the Confederate House of Representatives.

If we are to destroy statues dedicated to the Confederacy to sufficiently remove such ideas of coupe and treason from USA history, white people such as the former President Tyler has to be included in that priority to rid the public square of ideologues that embrace White Supremacy as the world order.

The really interesting tilt to this reality with Tyler is that he died in 1861. That is more than 160 years ago, yet, his grandson and great-grandson are still alive to carry forward the ideology that Tyler spoke. Even if they deny they agree with Tyler's perspective, there is a family heritage that causes concern and a focus to extremists that would see genocide as a resolve no different than Putin.

It is time for the people of the USA to end the bigotry and racism.

November 29, 2020
By Gillian Brockell

These days Harrison Ruffin Tyler, 91, (click here) is allowed only one designated visitor. Those are the pandemic rules at the nursing home in Virginia where he lives. So in September, when his last living sibling, brother Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. died at 95, he found out about it on the daily visit from his daughter-in-law.

“He understood what was going on, he was upset,” said his son William Tyler, 58. But “he doesn’t have any memory of yesterday, he doesn’t have any memory of today.”

Due to a series of mini-strokes starting in 2012, Harrison lives almost without time. It would be quite a change for anyone, but it’s particularly so for someone like him, who grew up steeped in family history. Harrison was raised in his grandfather’s hunting lodge; his grandfather — John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States — was born in 1790....

Later

I am ending this early tonight. I will complete it tomorrow.

Thank you for your continued interest.

Comments:

Speaker Pelosi - The Bishop has it wrong. The type of relationship that exists with God is a personal relationship. It is that relationship regarding her accountability of her Earthly life that will interest God.

I find the Bishop’s declaration, opportune. He either has ambitions to be Cardinal or Pope himself. I would like to know if his unnecessary announcement about the Speaker’s right to communion was after a handsome donation to request his intervention.

To the Bishop of San Francisco,

The USA practices separation of church and state. Speaker Pelosi has an obligation to all people and faiths. Abortion is not about babies. They obtain citizenship at birth and not before. Abortion is about a woman’s health. There is no assault on babies in the USA. We welcome babies. What is at issue is the health of women and how that translates to the care of their families. 

The Bishop of San Francisco entered a dialogue that does not fall under his expertise. The law in the USA is best left up to legislators that know the issue and how to legislate. With all do respect the Bishop is confused to where his religious dogma ends.

ONE OTHER THING:

The Catholic Church based in Rome, Italy chronically has this problem with those that are practicing the faith while serving in office. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is dedicated to her faith and to the people of the USA. As Speaker she has a responsibility to all Americans and not just Catholic Americans. The Catholic Church should be proud to have a member of it's faith in one of the most powerful seats in the USA Legislature.

Additionally, Speaker Pelosi has a responsibility to all Americans and not just Catholic Americans. Her status with her faith is her own business not that of the USA federal government. Speaker Pelosi fully understands the impact abortion has on women's lives for the better. Abortion has always been defined in regard to the health of the mother, physical health, emotional health and mental health. She knows full well that abortion serves as a benefit to women that seek to have a better quality of life for their families.

What does abortion do for women? It allows them to compete for good paying jobs that can require a decade or more of learning. Abortion allows a woman to move from abuse to self-supporting while protecting her children when they to with her after a divorce from an abusive spouse. Abortion saves women's lives when they are faced with adverse outcomes to pregnancy, including in the African American community, preeclampsia ( high blood pressure, high levels of protein in urine that indicate kidney damage (proteinuria), or other signs of organ damage), eclampsia resulting from preeclampsia (seizures can cause episodes of staring, decreased alertness, and convulsions (violent shaking) and let's not forget depression. 

Post partum depression starts before delivery of the baby and continues due to hormone imbalances as well as pre-existing mental health issues. The most devastating mental health issues for women during the post partum period is Post-Partum Psychosis (click here). The people of the USA has witnessed the devastation of Post-Partum Psychosis when a women severely depressed actually murders her own children after the birth of a daughter. 

All these issues are serious problems women face when becoming pregnant for all the right reasons like family and personal fulfillment in being a parent. The Catholic Church's view is that of religious dogma and not modern day information. It is unfortunate because the Vatican has a scientific arm that could investigate this further if it harnessed the genius of it's nuns. 

If the Catholic Church believes it is a power player in any election, it needs to think twice because the non-profit status could be sacrificed when entering slight of hand defamation of character among government officials simply doing their job. The Catholic Church has no authority within the USA government structure and should maintain its interests where it belongs in saving the souls of those still engaging in sinful behavior.

Speaker Pelosi is one of the most ethical people in this country and is very concerned about women's health as well as happy lives for children with men fulfilled in their personal pursuits of employment, marriage and quite possibly small business interests. There is nothing here that a Bishop should concern himself with as Speaker Pelosi is an honorable woman, incredible leader and one that does not cross the line of church and state to replace the USA Constitution with the Bible. That ethical stance is not shared with political right wing Congresspersons who see the power of the USA open to be harnessed for wrong doing and exploitation of people. Enough of this displaced heralding by the Bishop, he owes people a letter of apology for his attempt at smearing Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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What is really interesting is the "Bush-Cheney" Republicans to this extremism that is gone mainstream with Trump's Republican arm.

 John McCain labeled his 2008 presidential campaign the “Straight Talk Express.” (click here) But that was just a slogan. In reality, McCain’s campaign was a desperately disingenuous project that saw the candidate and a cabal of corrupt aides lie to reporters and the American people, foster false impressions of their rivals, give Sarah Palin a national platform, and set the stage for the degeneration of the Republican Party into the antidemocratic confederacy it has since become.


The GOP’s debasement has had a lot to do with Donald Trump, but it did not begin with the 45th president. It had deep roots that were entangled not only with unprincipled strategists on the domestic front but also with oligarchs who were aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin. And it continues to haunt the party, and the United States, at a moment when Putin’s military is waging a genocidal war against Ukraine.

That is the most important takeaway from the headline-grabbing pronouncements of McCain campaign aide turned “Never Trump” Republican Steve Schmidt, who is currently embattled in a Twitter war with the late senator’s self-dealing daughter, Meghan McCain....

The Lincoln Project helped defeat Trump in 2020. Why? Because Trump was/is a profound threat to democracy in the USA and the other allies of the USA. The people that organized and funded The Lincoln Project understood the danger of Trumpism and the peril of the USA into the future.

The Lincoln Project (click here)

December 17, 2022
By Steve Peoples

A small group of President Donald Trump’s fiercest conservative critics, (click here) including the husband of the president’s own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump’s reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers.”

The new organization, known as the Lincoln Project, represents a formal step forward for the so-called Never Trump movement, which has been limited largely to social media commentary and cable news attacks through the first three years of Trump’s presidency. Organizers report fundraising commitments exceeding $1 million to begin, although they hope to raise and spend much more to fund a months-long advertising campaign in a handful of 2020 battleground states to persuade disaffected Republican voters to break from Trump’s GOP. 

The mission, as outlined in a website that launched Tuesday coinciding with a New York Times opinion piece, is simple: “Defeat President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box.”

The group is led by a seven-person advisory council that features some of the GOP’s most vocal Trump critics. Most, but not all, have already left the Republican Party to protest Trump’s rise. 

The principals include former John McCain adviser Steve Schmidt, former Ohio Gov. John Kasich adviser John Weaver, former New Hampshire GOP chair Jennifer Horn, veteran Republican operative Rick Wilson and George Conway, a conservative attorney and husband of Trump’s chief counselor Kellyanne Conway. 

In an interview, George Conway said he encouraged the new super PAC to involve Anonymous, an unnamed Trump administration official who authored a recent book warning the public against Trump’s reelection. The rest of the group ultimately decided not to take Conway’s suggestion....

The Republicans are having trouble AGAIN doing the right and best thing for the people of the USA.

US Senate Bill 963 (click here)

May 22, 2022
by Alexander Bolton

Senate Republicans are lining up against a House-passed bill (click here) that would authorize special offices within the government to investigate and monitor domestic terrorism, which is being pushed in the wake of a racist shooting in Buffalo that left 10 people dead.

The GOP compares the proposal, which sets up offices in the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the FBI to target domestic terrorism, to the recently paused disinformation board set up by the Biden administration.

“It sounds terrible,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) of the House-passed bill, predicting it won’t get 10 Republicans in the Senate.

Josh Hawley, of course, is the one that was encouraging the violent crowd at the US Capitol before entering the building to place Joseph Biden at the top of the USA Executive Branch.

“It’s like the disinformation board on steroids. Another way to look at is the Patriot Act for American citizens,” he added, referring to the law passed immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that expanded the government’s power to monitor phone and email conversations and collect bank records.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he will bring the bill to the floor this week as a response to the killings at a Buffalo supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood. The bill passed the House 222-203 on a mostly party-line vote, with Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) casting the only GOP vote in favor.

Democrats increasingly see the need for the government to take more action against the threat of domestic terrorism given a long string of incidents that includes the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and several mass shootings targeting Black, Hispanic and Jewish people.

But the efforts have run into opposition from the GOP....


The Communists have the floor.

20 May 2022
By Flora Garamvolgyi

The Hungarian leader, (click here) Viktor Orbán, has told a conference of US conservatives that the path to power required having their own media outlets, calling for shows like Tucker Carlson’s to be broadcast “24/7”. Orbán, recently elected to a fourth term, laid out a 12-point blueprint to achieving and consolidating power to a special meeting of the US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), under the slogan of “God, Homeland, Family”, held in Budapest....

Trump already has his own media. This most assuredly solidifies the idea that the Republican Party is no longer the GOP of the USA, but, a foreign governing authority that has members in the USA under the guise of democracy, when they are absolutely looking toward authoritarianism.

Our Vision (click here)

In the year 2021, the media pendulum has swung dangerously far to the left. Silicon Valley, the mainstream media, and Big Tech have begun to forcibly silence voices that do not align with their woke ideology. Big Tech platforms demonetize, throttle, and cancel those who stray from the mainstream narrative. They are not just censoring content – they are determining what can and cannot be said. By controlling how information is shared, they control the narrative. They control the future. They control you.

To counter this dangerous exercise of Big Tech monopoly power, President Donald J. Trump and TMTG are building a media and technology company rooted in social media, digital streaming, and more. TMTG intends to even the playing field by providing people with open media platforms where they can share and create content without fear of reputational ruin.

Join us.

Authoritarianism the concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people.

Understand this, on January 6, 2021 the right wing extremists of the Republican Party attempted to coupe the elections and prevent the swearing of oath of President Biden. If that were to occur and Trump continued as the authority in the Oval Office, the USA Constitution would be null and void and Trump would have complete authority of the presidency and it's power. 

 

House Bill 350 codifies Domestic Terrorism as a national priority in prevention of the crime.


May 19, 2022
By Darragh Roche

The House of Representatives (click here) passed new legislation designed to deal with the threat of domestic terrorism on Wednesday along a largely party line vote, with just one Republican in favor.

Members of Congress approved the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act by a vote of 222 to 203, with Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois joining Democrats in voting yes.

Four Republican members of the House didn't vote on the new legislation, which was passed in the wake of a mass shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 people dead.

President Joe Biden has described the attack, which authorities believe may have been racially motivated, as "domestic terrorism."

The bill would create an office of domestic terrorism in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI. It will now head to the evenly divide Senate.

This is the list of Republicans who voted against the bill, grouped by state....

Hate Crimes have already been defined by law.

...A hate crime (click here) is a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias. For the purposes of collecting statistics, the FBI has defined a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.” Hate itself is not a crime—and the FBI is mindful of protecting freedom of speech and other civil liberties....

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 249 

This statute makes it unlawful to willfully cause bodily injury (click here) —or attempting to do so with fire, firearm, or other dangerous weapon—when 1) the crime was committed because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin of any person, or 2) the crime was committed because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of any person and the crime affected interstate or foreign commerce or occurred within federal special maritime and territorial jurisdiction.

The law also provides funding and technical assistance to state, local, and tribal jurisdictions to help them to more effectively investigate, prosecute, and prevent hate crimes.

The law provides for a maximum 10–year prison term, unless death (or attempts to kill) results from the offense, or unless the offense includes kidnapping or attempted kidnapping, or aggravated sexual abuse or attempted aggravated sexual abuse. For offenses not resulting in death, there is a seven–year statute of limitations. For offenses resulting in death, there is no statute of limitations....

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 242 - Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 245 - Federally Protected Activities

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 247 - Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 248 - Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 844(h) - Federal Explosives Control Statute

Title 42, U.S.C., Section 3631 - Criminal Interference with Right to Fair Housing

Title 42, U.S.C., Section 14141 - Pattern and Practice

I will rely on the information from Steve Schmidt to exam the intention of wrong headed GOP priorities for the USA power structure.

May 18, 2022
By Naveed Jamali and Maura Currie

June 2019 - Steve Schmidt quoted, "“29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump,” Steve Schmidt tweeted early Wednesday morning.

Schmidt went on to call the party “corrupt, indecent and immoral.”

Political strategist Steve Schmidt (click here) has made headlines recently over new revelations about his professional—and personal—relationship with the late Senator John McCain, as well as with the McCain family.

Schmidt, to hear him tell it, has nothing to sell or promote with this discussion of a campaign that took place a decade and a half ago. He's merely setting the record straight, and drawing a throughline from our nation's infancy to Sarah Palin to the present.

Schmidt joined Declassified With Naveed Jamali to discuss his frustration with McCain's choice of running mate in 2008 and the trajectory of the party he very publicly left in 2018.

I think that the overwhelming majority of Americans...recognize that Russia is a geopolitical adversary, and a great threat to the stability of the world and world peace. And that the fetishizing of Putin and Russia that takes place with Tucker Carlson, with Laura Ingraham, with CPAC, who is doing their convention in Budapest...really speaks to a reawakening of a political tradition in the country that's always been there—has manifested itself over time and a lot of different ways....

Domestic Terrorism has already been defined in law. (18 U.S. Code § 2331 - Definitions)

 As used in this chapter (click here)

(1)the term “international terrorism” means activities that—
(A)
involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State;
(B)appear to be intended—
(i)
to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii)
to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii)
to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C)
occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum;
(2)
the term “national of the United States” has the meaning given such term in section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act;
(3)
the term “person” means any individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property;
(4)the term “act of war” means any act occurring in the course of—
(A)
declared war;
(B)
armed conflict, whether or not war has been declared, between two or more nations; or
(C)
armed conflict between military forces of any origin;
(5)the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that
(A)
involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B)appear to be intended—
(i)
to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii)
to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii)
to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C)
occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States; and
(6)the term “military force” does not include any person that—
(A)has been designated as a—
(i)
foreign terrorist organization by the Secretary of State under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); or
(ii)
specially designated global terrorist (as such term is defined in section 594.310 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations) by the Secretary of State or the Secretary of the Treasury; or
(B)
has been determined by the court to not be a “military force”.

Thanks to the "Chicago Tribune" for truth telling and strengthening the country.

In the early days, it was white men running the place. That has since changed and the change occurred with accurate reporting that brought dialogue.

May 22, 2022

By Rick Kogan

A newspaper is not, of course, a living thing. (click here)

It is, by its humblest definition, ink on paper, and that is the way it has been for a very long time. For the Chicago Tribune, that time began June 10, 1847, and over the next several Sundays, we will chart the 175-year history of this newspaper.

That is, of course, a lot to bite off, for it is a story that has unfolded against the backdrop of this remarkable city. Chronicling Chicago, as well as the “outside” world, has made for a colossal pile of Tribune pages, full of triumphs and tragedies, oddities and oddballs, events and people both wonderful and wild....

It all seems so stupid. Conservative White Men NEVER admit to being vulnerable and/or wrong !


The age-adjusted death rate (click here) for the total population increased 16.8% from 715.2 per 100,000 standard population in 2019 to 835.4 in 2020. Age-adjusted death rates increased in 2020 from 2019 for all race-ethnicity-sex groups, increasing 42.7% for Hispanic males, 32.4% for Hispanic females, 28.0% for non-Hispanic Black males, 24.9% for non-Hispanic Black females, 13.4% for non-Hispanic White males, and 12.1% for non-Hispanic White females.

The pandemic. The vaccine refusals. The variants. The chronic spread. The deaths that are still occurring. The stressed hospitals. It all was completely preventable.

There is a mindset to white men of the Republican and/or Libertarian variety that states masculinity is decided by toughness. That is literally killing Conservative White American Men. They do not listen to anyone, except, maybe another peer. But, for the most part Conservative White Men rather have their tombstone reflect their lives forever rather than living them.

And that is the truth.

I experienced it first hand with a member of my family. He was a self-made millionaire and golfer. He loved to golf. One day he was convinced he needed to consult with a dermatologist about the mark on his arm. It was melanoma. There is no cure melanoma. It is a life of chronically pursuing any spread of the tumor and defeating it as it erupts.

My Uncle was tougher than the tumor, you know. He went into surgery and that mark on his arm took one third of the skin and tissue on his left upper arm. The surgeon told him they got all of it, but, melanoma would occur again and he was to see his dermatologist regularly for anymore eruptions.

My Uncle died when he was 72 years old for no other reason except self-righteous neglect. The real disease for the people that rail against society and social norms is self-righteousness. Self-righteousness is a disease when every aspect of life dictates certain behaviors to save your own life, like getting a vaccine in the face of a pandemic, and a person simply won't accept that reality.

My uncle was self-righteous. He never followed up with doctors after his initial surgery, but, saw them regularly when it was too late to save his life. He died because his self-righteousness was out of control and no one, not even his wife, could convince him he was neglecting himself and not in control of his tumor's spread.

He was a great guy. He believed in God. He put his grandchildren through private Catholic school. All twelve of them. There is no doubt his faith was deep into his soul, but, faith is about the soul, not about having miracles. Expecting God to be able to care for a human body is arrogance and keeping score. That is not faith. Just because a man or woman is a devout practitioner of the faith does not mean anything about life on Earth, so much as the soul after parting the body. Don't expect God to save one's life from disease if one does not act upon the miracle of medical science in their vigilance and life sustaining interventions.

A miracle came to human beings in the form of a vaccine to fight off a deadly virus and it's deadly variants.

Indeed, acute stubbornness. How does anyone discount a vaccine? That makes no sense.

May 22, 2022
By Julia Prodis Sulek

The obituary of Stephen Elliott, who died of COVID-19 on Jan. 5, 2022, rests in the hands of its author, his son Ryan Elliott, on May 4, 2022, in Palo Alto. Ryan and brother Jason tried and failed to persuade their dad to get vaccinated.

Ryan Elliott (click here) couldn’t put off writing his father’s obituary any longer. Word was already spreading through Vallejo that his dad – a well-known commercial real estate broker and civic leader – had died.

But he had to work his way up to it. He and his brother, Jason, held warm childhood memories of their father teaching them to waterski at Lake Tahoe and drive off-road along the Rubicon Trail, but like many sons and fathers, their relationship was complicated. Their dad could be difficult – especially when it came to COVID-19.

The first week in January – nearly two years after the pandemic began and a year after the vaccine first became available – Ryan sat down with his laptop and began:

Acute stubbornness.

“Anybody could read into that and understand,” Jason Elliott said, “that odds are he probably didn’t have a vaccine.”

As Americans near a cruel milestone of one million COVID deaths, personal obituaries like Stephen Elliott’s, humble death notices written by family and friends, have become a heartbreaking historical record of the worst pandemic of our lives....
Humility as a practice, instead of gratefulness, is a character strength.

Self - Righteousness is arrogant, a character flaw and very, very dangerous.

There is no way any one person can know everything that is benevolent and good for their lives. To believe one is in complete control of their life outcomes is pure stupidity. 

Society in the USA has provided for education of professionals such as doctors to even the odds that life has handed to you. No one should ignore the greatness within our society that seeks to guarantee a healthy and happy life, through all of life.

Pure Racism. What does it look like?

FOX News.

Whites are being replaced? Wow. That is flat out racism. They offer no plausible proof. None.

What are white peoples replaced with? Dogs, cats, horses or elephants? Maybe monkeys?

Oh, white people are being replaced with black people. Job market? Really? Right. Well, it just goes to prove the old small brain theory is horseshit.

Oddly enough, all the white people on FOX News haven’t been replaced unless they are women leaving to sue for sexual assault. Even then they are replaced with more white people. 

RACISM is on full display at FOX News if anyone is wondering what it looks like. My understanding is that those white people are payed a lot of money so they stay on those jobs promoting racism. That should tell everyone something about capitalism at the extreme. They sell their souls and there is no indication they will be repenting anytime soon.

Saturday, May 21, 2022

Intimidation

Why did Ginni Thomas have Trump's ear? Because of the deceptive authority she leaned into. There is absolutely no way Ginni Thomas can deny she was a power player. She was. Definitively she was.

We have testimony from those that worked in the Trump White House that everyone dreaded the day Ginni Thomas showed up at Trump's office, because, people would be fired from their jobs.

When a wife of an Associate Supreme Court Justice calls on lawmakers there is an undertone to that interaction whether it is witnessed or simply pillow talk. A spouse of a Supreme Court Justice has access to one of the nine highest ranking legal authorities in the country. What conversation at the dinner table occurs is confidential, but, not illegal to share with the public.

Ginni Thomas had/has an air about her. She is an activist and a woman married to a powerful man. It is completely clear she cannot mind her own business to save her own life. So, I am quite sure there were times when the activist would converse with hubby about the potential of "this or that." That this or that when it came to Trump was the understanding that one could use measures, albeit ancient, that could return a decision to put Trump into the White House again and this time if the US Constitution was to fall, Trump could be king forever.

Hypothetical, of course. Right, Ginnie?

Where it becomes a problem is when Ginnie's activism seeks to destroy an entire election of a president. That is subversion at the very least of the USA Constitution. Chapter 115 is something Associate Justice Thomas would know  something about, so Ginny would carry messaging to the country and the world that was profoundly safe and not at all unconstitutional, right Clarence?


Maybe this section of the law is more clear when it comes to Ginni's activism.


Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

But, activist Ginni would state, "I wasn't there!" Physically, she was not there. But, organizationally, she definitely was there.

There are times when I sincerely feel bad for the hubris the Republican elite actually subscribe to as they believe every dollar has a vote. Ginni simply took that understanding one step further. Since, money of any kind voted, surely there was more money spent in Arizona among Republicans than at any other time in history. Therefore, there must be a problem in the vote in that state.

Ginni Thomas broke the law. She used her power within a marriage to an Associate Justice to advance an agenda that would dissolve the election of 2020 and carry out a coup d'é·tat. In that coup lay the idea that the existing president would be the last president of the USA forever, basically a king. Realizing that was a goal, not only by Trump, but, the Federalist Society, there is real peril for Ginny Thomas. She was intimately involved in grooming the Trump staff within the power of the White House to an agreeable group that were "believers" in a certain outcome for Trump, hence, the Republican Elite.

To say this is unethical when it comes to the Associate Justice Thomas in his willingness to entertain his spouse's activism in theory alone, is an understatement. If Thomas actually knew she was empowered in a way that would seek a coupe to the presidency resulting in a permanent king, Justice Thomas at the very least has many questions to answer.

The American people need to understand the brevity of all these activities and the plans made long ago to overthrow the USA Constitution. Americans need to understand how close this came to dissolving the USA Constitution. This is serious and not simply politics.

May 20, 2022
By Emma Brown

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, (click here) the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed Arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside Joe Biden’s popular-vote victory and choose “a clean slate of Electors,” according to emails obtained by The Washington Post.

The emails, sent by Ginni Thomas to a pair of lawmakers on Nov. 9, 2020, argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. Though she did not mention either candidate by name, the context was clear.

Just days after media organizations called the race for Biden in Arizona and nationwide, Thomas urged the lawmakers to “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure.” She told the lawmakers that the responsibility to choose electors was “yours and yours alone” and said they had “power to fight back against fraud.”...

Arseniy Pavlov is an animal, not a human being.

“I don’t give a f***k about what I am accused of, believe it or not,” he said, according to a recording of the conversation. “I shot 15 prisoners dead. I don’t give a f***k.”

Wartime prisoners have a special status. Pavlov violates every one of them.

Pro-Russian militants carry a man with his eyes covered outside the regional state building they seized in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on May 5, 2014.


May 21, 2022
By Dan Peleschuk

Kyiv - “If I want to, I kill. If not, I don’t.”
 

That’s part of the cold, startling alleged confession of an infamous separatist commander in eastern Ukraine. This week he reportedly admitted to the Kyiv Post newspaper that he personally executed more than a dozen Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Arseniy Pavlov, better known by his nom de guerre “Motorola,” is one of many Russian volunteers who have flocked to eastern Ukraine in the past year to join the Moscow-backed insurgency against Ukrainian government forces.

He's gained a cult following among rebel sympathizers in Ukraine and Russia, and has featured as a star in Russian state media.

His exploits include leading the seizure earlier this year of the highly symbolic Donetsk airport, and even staging a high-profile wartime wedding last summer with a local Ukrainian insurgent....

There is also a huge division among the people taken prisoner by Russia. Some are innocent Ukrainians that never was involved in any aspect of the war.

December 2021

...When Ukraine, (click here) Russia and Moscow-backed separatists exchange prisoners, it is usually men — captured fighters and male civilians. In the latest exchange on December 29, 2019, however, pro-Russian separatists handed over a total of 76 people to Ukraine, more than a dozen of them women. DW met two of those women in a clinic in Kyiv, where they were receiving medical care.

Olena Sorokina stood out during the prisoner swap. She got off the bus wearing a white sweatshirt that had a trident, the Ukrainian national emblem, sketched on the front with a ballpoint pen. On the back, the shirt was emblazoned with the words: "Ukraine is my state."

"I drew on the sweatshirt at night in my cell under the bed," Sorokina said, adding that was what she wanted to wear when returning to Ukrainian forces. "There were armed guards on the bus, so I only put the sweatshirt on when I saw soldiers with Ukrainian insignia outside — at that point, nobody could hurt me anymore."...

Regardless the danger in identifying themselves as Ukrainian, they never, not one second succumbed to the pressure of changing their identity. These people are NOT Russian in any aspect of their hearts or minds.

Vladimir Putin and his Duma have on many, many legal fronts indicated the "rights of Russian speaking people" for their enforced civil war in eastern Ukraine. There is absolutely no one in Ukraine that sees their identity as "Russian speaking" as a proof of their nationality/ethnicity. Putin has CREATED a scenario for his politics to maintain the civil war in eastern Ukraine even if he has to kill every Russian Speaking UKRAINIAN in the process.

THESE ARE NOT LEGITIMATE PRISONERS OF WAR!!!!!!!!!!

Stop allowing Putin's delusion! There is no legitimate narrative that can have within it's context any justification for the civil war nor the current killing campaign.

This is all a propaganda campaign and not a legal or legitimate reason for killing. All Ukrainians are confronted with the option to live up to expectations as prisoners, etcetera, or die. There is no real choice in any aspect of Putin's war. The Ukrainians have an obligation to the world to survive. The methods in maintaining their lives, regardless any guilt, will always be justified. There can be no crime for staying alive.

April 12, 2018


First deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, (click here) representative of Ukraine in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group for Donbas, Iryna Gerashchenko, has said that the Ukrainian side is ready to transfer 20 Russians who are held in Ukrainian prisons in order to release Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia; this issue will be raised in Minsk on Wednesday, April 4.

“The working group will meet in Minsk on April 4 … The second issue that we will raise is the release of hostages. The Ukrainian side is doing everything to ensure that the next wave of hostage release is taken as soon as possible. But for us it is important to release not only those, who remain in the occupied territory, but also the captives of the Kremlin,” Gerashchenko told reporters in Kyiv on April 2.

She said that the Ukrainian side is ready to hand over “20 Russians who are detained in Ukrainian prisons for violating Ukrainian legislation and participating in the war in order to free Sentsov [a Ukrainian film director who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for terrorism], Kolchenko [Crimean activist Oleksandr Kolchenko] and our other prisoners.”

At the same time, Gerashchenko noted that in this issue “the will of the Russian Federation is very important.”...

US Rule of Law
50 U.S. Code § 4105 - Prisoners of war

As used in subsection (b) of this section, (click here) the term “prisoner of war” means any regularly appointed, enrolled, enlisted, or inducted member of the military or naval forces of the United States who was held as a prisoner of war for any period of time subsequent to December 7, 1941, by any government of any nation with which the United States has been at war subsequent to such date....

When fighting for one's life, there are few rules that reign. But, genocide is disallowed as a reason for war.

The Azov Special Forces Regiment was on the very front to end the atrocities of the Russian War. Russia has no justifiable grounds for this destruction which really was intended to kill the people hiding inside. This steel rubble is proof of the attempts at further genocide by Russia. If Russia truly had one objective to stop production of steel at his plant, that status occurred long before this picture took place. This is pre-meditated genocide. There were also children inside the steel plant.

I remind. This is all pre-meditated with significant proof. Russia was never a rigorous partner at Minsk I or II. President Zelenskyy had been seeking peace and prosperity talks with Russia for two years prior to the attack. Russia was never successful in ending the civil war it initiated in eastern Ukraine. Russia initiated a civil war in eastern Ukraine for the sole reason of a pre-meditated timeline to celebrate his politics on May 9. There is absolutely no reason for the invasion into Ukraine that is causing pain and suffering by over 40 million Ukrainians.

In this photo (click here) provided by Azov Special Forces Regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard Press Office, a Ukrainian soldier stands inside the ruined Azovstal steel plant prior to surrender to the Russian forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, May 16, 2022. For nearly three months, Azovstal’s garrison clung on, refusing to be winkled out from the tunnels and bunkers under the ruins of the labyrinthine mill. A Ukrainian soldier-photographer documented the events and sent them to the world. Now he is a prisoner of the Russia.

May 21, 2022
By Elena Becatoros, Oleksan, Oleksandr Stachevesky and Ciaran McQuillan


Pokrovsk, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s claimed seizure of a Mariupol steel plant that became
a symbol of Ukrainian tenacity gives Russian President Vladimir Putin a sorely needed victory in the war he began, capping a nearly three-month siege that left the city in ruins and more than 20,000 residents feared dead.

After the Russian Defense Ministry announced late Friday that its forces had removed the last Ukrainian fighters from the plant’s miles of underground tunnels, concern mounted for the Ukrainian defenders who now are prisoners in Russian hands.

Denis Pushilin, the head of an area of eastern Ukraine controlled by Moscow-backed separatists, said Saturday that the Ukrainians considered heroes by their fellow citizens were sure to face a tribunal for their wartime actions.

That is a carefully worded statement. Denis Pushilin is not stating genocide, but, uses "...wartime actions" to bring the Russian law to oversee it's burden. The Russian Courts are not the place for these jury trials. The prisoners should immediately be transported to The Hague for a free and open trial. Russia is not capable of fair hearings of prisoners as it is at war and will use the trials for propaganda for Putin's politics. If the trials are to go forward, the poisoners should be held in a disinterested third party country while hearings to determine guilt are held at The Hague.

I believe that a tribunal is inevitable here. I believe that justice must be restored. There is a request for this from ordinary people, society, and, probably, the sane part of the world community,” Russian state news agency Tass quoted Pushilin as saying.

The Ukrainian government has not commented on Russia’s claim of capturing Azovstal, which for weeks remained Mariupol’s last holdout of Ukrainian resistance, and with it completing Moscow’s long-sought goal of controlling the city, home to a strategic seaport....