Smart bombs vs. Dumb bombs

Israel has munitions, they use what they use to defend their country. Perhaps Israel needs some Free World consulting in relation to the BEST defense now and in the future. 

The rockets used by the Jihadists are all dumb bombs but they effectively kill anyway. 

Grinch?

What statute is that?

There is no professional standard in Trump’s legal camp.

Immunity from the rule of law? That is anarchy. Isn’t that what happened on January 6th? Anarchy? 

Look, Trump assaulted his bodyguard because Trump wanted to be at the Capitol for the hangings. He wanted to supervise them.

The Secret Service protects “the President.” They don’t protect Donald John Trump. The President was denied his recreational activity at the Capitol Dome on January 6th because there was no reasonable way to protect “the President “ from a violent mob.

During Trump’s speech before the mob was directed to march to the Capitol he complained that the magnetometers were unnecessary because the mob loved him and any gun was never going to be used against him. He stated it to set the scene for the Capitol and demoralize the Secret Service. Trump wanted to supervise Pence and the electoral count. He absolutely did. He fully intended to be at the Capitol to change the delegates at the electoral count. Trump had alternate electors standing by to change the outcome of the election. Is Trump not as guilty as any other American already prosecuted and sentenced?

Immune? It was premeditated. It was a plot against the USA Constitution? Trump should be immune of such a crime?

No Truth will come of the U.S. House Investigation

The Republicans of the U.S. House want to create their own narrative. Their Speaker is a Trump puppet. Puppets don’t think for themselves.

What authors from the National Enquirer have written the script for the made for TV Impeachment?

Hunter Biden

Enough already. We know if he wasn’t the President’s son, the scrutiny of his life would not be this intense. Hunter Biden has had an enormous amount of loss in his life and to deprive him of the loss of personal freedom is just wrong. I am sure many people could point to other Americans claiming they had more loss that effected their lives. This is the President’s surviving son who has successfully overcome a wicked addiction.

What has been impressive was the fact he wrote a book in order to be transparent about his many ups and downs in life. I think Hunter Biden’s many, many prosecutions should be recognized in a pardon. The intense scrutiny of this man would never have occurred if he weren’t Joe Biden’s son. I think most people recognize the brutal politics involved. It is time to seriously consider a pardon for Hunter Biden. It might be different if he hadn’t turned his life around, but, he has and that is the true meaning of a pardon.

Israel did not start this war.

I think the generals are best to discuss tactics in Gaza. I have seen some pictures of the outcome of the tactics by Israel and the correctly targeted underground tunnels. Whether that targeting killed civilians and/or militants/combatants/Hamas/Islamic Jihad can only be known by the reporting of the dead. I have yet to hear that Israel has deliberately targeted civilians. The casualties are a result of an effective campaign by the military.

I think others need to measure criticism of Israel in factual terms and not inflammatory language. Facts are needed. Israel has extensive intelligence of Gaza. That intelligence was and is used in combat to conduct bombing, shelling and ground movement of troops. I think when Israel actually presents its facts others will be surprised at the accuracy of the targets. 

I realize the health care system in Gaza has collapsed. The reason for that is the fact Hamas had munitions stored in the basement of those buildings connected by tunnels. 

Israel wants its citizens safe. It has a strong military presence built over decades of time. Israel’s capacity is no surprise and neither is its intelligence capacity.

If Israel is to protect its citizens in a war with terrorists then it has to wage war that is effective. The definition of effective in war can be brutal within the understanding of Hamas’ occupation of Gaza.

I have yet heard alternatives to Israel’s invasion into Gaza. Israel is not going to surrender. Hamas and Islamic Jihad needs to surrender and lay down their arms. In doing so they need to release the hostages. 

The initial attack by Hamas into Israel was not just a few terrorists. There were many members of Hamas that murdered that day. Israel did not ask for this war. Hamas is the blatant aggressor.

I remind that Gaza was once governed by Israel. It was under the late Prime Minister Sharon that Israel left Gaza for the hope of peace. Israel knows how to govern Gaza.  Deciding now the governance of Gaza requires a peace process and there are no current peace processes in Gaza. The militants/combatants need to surrender, release hostages, and allow the humanitarian effort to take over the activities in Gaza. It is what all the people want, yet the combatants show no interest in protecting lives of Palestinians and Israelis.

The rise of jihadists in the region supported by Iran only creates hatred and mistrust. How is any peace process going to work if these dynamics in the region continue? 

You will excuse me, but, Gaza given to Palestinian extremist terrorists is a huge failure. It is a failure of the anticipated peace that resulted in putting the Palestinian people in the middle resulting in their victimization as human shields. Residential areas in Gaza and the very hospitals were governed by putting civilians at risk. That was the governance Israel faced when the war was declared. Israel had and has few options to end the endemic treat of terrorists. When is the world going to accept this failure of international policy that allowed the Palestinians to be used by terrorists as human shields? 

Where is Alexey Navalny?

Everyone should have had this figured out; Putin is seeking to renew his dictatorship and his favorite opponent disappears within Russia’s prison system.

This is a human rights abuse. Hiding people from their loved ones is a violation of their human rights. 

Border Crossing

The Republicans can write as many words into law as they want to make political statements, but, it won’t stop the human toll at the U.S. southern border. This has been going on for decades.

The legal authority to use force is against the drug cartels and they use the legal border crossings and trucks to bring their goods to market. They use shorelines and half subs as well.

The ONLY proven method of ending illegal border crossings is to work with the countries of the northern triad to stabilize governments, stop drug trafficking, and establish an economy where people work a job to provide a living for families. These countries are also stressed by the collapsing climate of Earth. 

So, the Republicans in Congress are nothing more than cowardly Paper Tigers.  

US Republicans are backing Russia

May they have many babies.

A line of Ukraine’s artillery has stopped shelling smaller groups of the Russian military because it is running out of US ammunition. The Republicans in the USA have refused Ukraine it’s much needed munitions and now we are looking at engagement with NATO as soon as there is a collapse of the Ukrainian military.

How stupid is this?

It is more than stupid, it is Anti-American while defeating our national security interests. 

Basically, the Republicans of the USA are giving permission to genocide!

I don’t want to hear squat about the cost because Ukraine has some of the most productive farmland in the world. It will pay its bills in the next generation if necessary. The USA should be grateful for the opportunity to help these people survive a brutal onslaught by a ruthless, faithless, and genocidal communist dictator!

7000 Hamas

Israel is reporting there are 7000 Hamas terrorists dead. There is escalation of fighting in the north and the southern city of Khan Younis is being targeted as Hamas moves about Gaza. 

The IDF is a significant fighting force but it is being met with resistance and casualties (click here.) Hamas is not a rag tag handful of terrorists that fly commercial jets into skylines. They are armed and mentored by Iran.

Therefore.

The war as declared by Israel will be on.

UN Resolution

Who wrote the UN Resolution? It was all one sided exonerating Hamas from the crimes it has committed and continues to commit.

There are still hostages.

Hamas broke the previous ceasefire.

They use the Palestinians as human shields. 

Israeli intelligence has found the plans Hamas had for Israel.

Where is President Abbas in moving the people to the West Bank? 

Those that demand a ceasefire by Israel make no such demand of Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organization that continues to fight Israeli forces. What plan is the UN proposing for Israel to end the hostilities of Hamas? 

The countries ranting on about the USA and the UK are among the criminals with charges at the world court. I hardly call any of them humanitarian in any of their demonstrable values. Their statements were nothing more than staged propaganda.

The UAE has been instrumental in the past, what now that everything is once again in chaos and violence. The answer here seems simple to me; Hamas is to surrender, end all violence, release the remaining Israeli hostages, and end the occupation of Palestinian lands. 

Hamas can end this violence now.

Evening is quickly approaching.

Happy Hanukkah to all. Eight beautiful days of remembrance while looking toward a future of peace. It is possible. Let the Supernova Sukkot Gathering find a special meaning this year and for all years to come.

So, Texas murderer needed a job.

That is Texas. God forbid there should be any concern for the human condition. God forbid there are food stamps, unemployment, Medicaid, or welfare. If a Texan has no income or sufficient income to support themselves and/or their many children then put your life and health in the line and start drilling for oil and gas.

There is so much violence in that state. They live and die by the gun. I take it the border had little or nothing to do with these unnecessary deaths.

There is also enforced racism in that state. I don’t recall the case, but, a community protested the death of a Hispanic man while law enforcement walked away without a question. Racism exists in all aspects of Texas including healthcare.

But, in this case, a desperate man seeking employment did not have the moral appreciation for life of others over their deaths to demonstrate his pain.

Well.

It sounds like Texas.

There is ALWAYS only one winner.

There is always one winner in any of the Republican debates and it is the candidate that has placed THE TRUTH at the center of his campaign. The truth is the strength of democracy and the weakness the Republicans chronically enter into our democracy is at the very least unethical, but, many times is illegal like George Santos and his mentor Donald John Trump.

GO, CHRIS CHRISTIE, GO!

The USA is not fighting for it's life.

I am waiting for the Republicans to grow up. This is ridiculous.

The Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the entire Joint Chiefs should be called up on for their opinion (click here) of the aid packages to our allies as it is a national security issue.

Providing support to allies is an OBLIGATION that ensures the USA national security. Every country the USA calls allies is such for the protection of the USA. They are vital to our own national security, not just theirs. Tuberville finally relented and now this mess. 

WHY IS THERE A SIXTY VOTE THRESHOLD ON NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES?

Every one of those three countries holds the line on threats to the USA. Every one of those countries. Not simply one or the other, but, all three are pivotal to USA national security interests and the Republicans are playing politics.

The American people need to wake up to all this gaming and put people in office that actually belong there.

6 December 2023
By Joan E. Greve and Patrick Wintour

The Senate has blocked (click here) a supplemental funding bill that included financial aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan as well as provisions aimed at bolstering border security. The vote, which fell mostly along party lines, increases the likelihood that Congress will fail to approve more funding for Ukraine before the end of the year, as the White House has warned that Kyiv is desperately in need of more aid.

The vote was 49 to 51, as every Senate Republican opposed advancing the legislation. Sixty votes were needed to take up the bill. Republicans in both chambers of Congress had demanded stricter border regulations in exchange for their support, and they said the bill failed to meet their requirements....

The border issues are non-issues. The Republicans are making a mountain out of a mole hill. The people coming to the USA southern are not violence militias. The are unarmed human beings. There is very little to discuss. The funding for their countries were cut in past administrations and now there are migrations north because of the lack of employment and services.

The issue of the USA southern border has absolutely NOTHING to do with the security interests of Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

NOTHING!!!

An ongoing rise in the number of migrants (click here) coming from Central America’s so-called Northern Triangle—comprised of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—has cast a spotlight on a long-suffering part of the world. Governments in the region have made some efforts to mitigate the poverty, violence, and corruption that are driving citizens away, but the problems remain widespread.

Recent U.S. administrations have varied in their responses to the Northern Triangle challenge, which have included changes to foreign aid and U.S. immigration policies. So far, the Joe Biden administration has proposed a $4 billion plan to address the root causes of migration from Central America, worked to stimulate private-sector investment in the region, and extended temporary legal protections for certain migrant groups....

The southern border issues HAS TO BE SOLVED, not ignored!!!!

This is so ridiculously political it is disgusting. We know what works and why it works. This is all an enflamed issue because the Republicans like the politics. it is the ONLY reason the southern border is in the middle of national security funding for three allied countries in desperate need of the USA's help.

What is being said about the USA Border is unethical and highly immoral. People are dying when they should be home working and building their country. But, because previous administrations cut funding and destroyed the progress made this is now a political focus. Republicans are NOT RESPONSIBLE and DO NOT GOVERN!

Premediated political deception

December 5, 2023
By Annie Grayer

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee (click here) released a document showing payment from Hunter Biden’s business entity, Owasco PC, to President Joe Biden when he was not in office, but neglected to include evidence that the president’s son was repaying his father for a car.

The redacted document provided to CNN shows that an account affiliated with Hunter Biden paid Joe Biden $1,380 on September 17, 2018. The document states the payments would occur on a monthly basis, and the panel is aware of at least three monthly payments to Joe Biden in total, a source familiar with the committee’s work told CNN.

But documents provided to CNN appear to show that Hunter Biden was repaying his father for a Ford Raptor, information that had already been publicized. A source familiar with the payment told CNN that Hunter Biden’s credit was low at the time while he was struggling with addiction, so he couldn’t finance the car and his father signed for the car, which was in Joe Biden’s name....

So while non-news is being scandalized by the US House. The Speaker is admitting he is anti-American. Anyone notice or is everyone more interested in car payments?

The US House Speaker uses government film to distract from the truth by carrying out paternalism toward criminals involved in the January 6th crimes. He deliberately blurred the images of the government films so those carrying out the crimes on January 6th can't be identified. Does that make the US House Speaker an accomplice after the fact?

So Hunter Biden pays his father back for a truck purchase out of an account where deposits were made for his work abroad, even China and the US House Speaker is pretending to protect insurgents (not rioters) from identification. Who in particular did Johnson believe he needed to protect? Maybe the US House ethics committee needs to ask him that question.

December 5, 2023

By Ryan J. Reilly 

"We don’t want them to be retaliated against (click here) and to be charged by the DOJ,” the House speaker said. His office later noted that DOJ already has the raw footage.

Washington - Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that House Republicans are blurring footage from the Capitol attack before releasing it publicly because they don't want Jan. 6 rioters to be charged with crimes.

"We have to blur some faces of persons who participated in the events of that day because we don’t want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ," Johnson said Tuesday.

Johnson, who was deeply involved in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election based on false claims of mass election fraud, said that people should do their own research into the Capitol attack.

The speaker said he is releasing the footage to counter the Jan. 6 Committee's presentation of the riot.

“We want the American people to draw their own conclusions,” Johnson said. “I don’t think partisan elected officials in Washington should present a narrative and expect that it should be seen as the ultimate truth.”...

COP 28

Wealthy participants can’t get their jets off the ground (click here).

Al Gore took on a malicious host of COP28 (click here).

While the UAE emits more and more greenhouse gas emissions, Brazil is launching restoration of the rainforest (click here).

I ask, how are we supposed to preserve and restore Earth without bans on greenhouse gas emissions (click here).

Israel

Hamas attacked Israel again (click here.) It is impossible to overlook an increase in aggression when there is suppose to be a ceasefire.

There is a website pointing to evacuation areas for the Palestinians. The Israel military website is written in Arabic. 

The New York Times has a report about the displaced Palestinians (click here). I am certain the article is meant to be accusatory, but, the reality is that the maps are proof many Palestinians successfully lived through the retaliatory strikes by Israel of Gaza. It is safe to say the Palestinians “get it.”

Holiday Travel

If traveling this holiday season, first and foremost arrive alive. If able to use mass transit at least consider it. If traveling by personal vehicle consider the fuel used and conserve. Traveling five to ten miles per hour slower will prove to save fuel and money.

Thank you.

IPCC (click here)

Climate scientists did not scaremonger. If anything, they undersold the scale of the crisis (click here)

The UN warns there has been a ‘disturbing acceleration’ in the number, speed and scale of temperature records tumbling this year. As Cop28 prepares to open its doors in Dubai, Roger Harrabin says we should begin imagining a world where temperatures have risen by 3C... because that is where we are heading....

15 countries are corrupting COP 28. No excuses, this is about the most corrupt conduct ever to be realized regarding the climate crisis.

And they have the nerve to arrest Greta Thunberg. She has made a court appearance and pleaded not guilty. She is the only public figure that has been honest and forthright through this entire disaster that effects her generation the hardest.

They really want to shut her up. It doesn't matter that the UAE wants to deal oil and gas during a climate crisis summit, they don't get arrested regardless the incredibly unethical and immoral act against Greta's generation. No, those bozos go on put greed before life.

October 28, 2023

Climate activist Greta Thunberg (click here) has been charged with a public order offense after being arrested at a demonstration against an oil and gas industry conference in London.

The Metropolitan Police force said Wednesday that the 20-year-old Swedish campaigner was one of 26 people charged after protesters gathered outside the luxury InterContinental Hotel during the Energy Intelligence Forum. Thunberg was among dozens of protesters who chanted “oily money out” and sought to block access to the hotel on Tuesday.

Thunberg was detained and taken to a police station before being released overnight, police said....

It is called "greenwashing." (click here)

No deniability anymore.

 November 27, 2023
By Damian Carrington

The host of the UN Cop28 summit, (click here) the United Arab Emirates, planned to use climate meetings with other countries to promote deals for its national oil and gas companies, according to leaked documents.

Cop28 begins on Thursday and will be run by Sultan Al Jaber, who is the chief executive of the national oil company Adnoc as well as the UAE’s climate envoy. This dual role has been criticised as a conflict of interest, and climate summit veterans said the new revelations undermined trust in Al Jaber’s presidency of Cop28, potentially threatening a successful outcome.

The Guardian reported recently that Adnoc had the largest net zero-busting expansion plans of any company in the world and that state-run oil and gas fields in the UAE had been flaring gas almost daily despite having committed 20 years ago to a policy of zero routine flaring. Adnoc questioned the figures behind the report but did not provide its own figures....

BBC (click here)

UAE Oil Fields Constantly Flaring Despite 20-Year-Old Commitment To Stop, Analysis Shows (click here)

November 17, 2023

By Joe Sandler Clarke

State-owned oil and gas fields (click here) across the United Arab Emirates have flared almost constantly despite a long-standing policy to eliminate “routine” flaring in their operations, DeSmog can reveal.

New data, produced exclusively for The Guardian and DeSmog, found that a single gas field in the United Arab Emirates run by state oil firm Adnoc flared more gas than all oil and gas fields in Norway last year....