El Salvador best not use OUR PROTECTED POPULATION as trading objects with Venezuela.

El Salvador opened it's torturous prison to innocent people according to USA standards of law. THEY ARE OURS. We apologize for the illegal activity of the Trump Administration. They are way outside the law and the entire incident should not have happened.  These men have families and employers waiting for them. They need to be returned promptly from El Salvador to the USA.

Enough. Stop the humiliation of men that deserve respect!

Some Americans take the issue of death of very viable lives seriously. Others, like Trump believe the life of others are disposable. That is not at all the case in the beliefs of most Americans. These men are not dangerous to us. They were provided a chance of asylum and made their lives count for GOOD. They weren't bad people. We wish they were back on USA soil already.

I am sure there are diplomats from the previous administration that would be happy to work with El Salvador to bring their own people home without any prisoner exchange with Venezuela. I am confident talks between El Salvador and Venezuela are possible. I betcha diplomats from NATO would also be interested in intervening if possible. They need to be asked. The idea of countries with conflicts talking to each other is a good idea. Diplomats from the Free World would love to resolve dilemmas all over the world. They need to be asked from earnest parties.

Food for thought. The companies leaving the USA may be looking for new homes for foreign investment to employ the people there and improve quality of life. I would love for countries like El Salvador to be at the top of such a list. That and countries in Africa. Africa needs sincere investment and not just medical and pharmaceuticals. Africa is missing that important component of growth that provides a country with assets to improve living conditions for it's people. Wall Street needs to think about where in the world there lacks profound investment to change the way the world ends suffering.

May 1, 2025
By Jay Weaver

A federal judge in Texas (click here) ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration cannot use an 18th Century law — meant to be deployed against members of a hostile foreign nation during a declared war or military invasion — as a basis to deport undocumented immigrants in the U.S. who supposedly belong to a violent Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua. 

The judge’s ruling permanently prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from removing immigrants detained under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act in the Southern District of Texas, which includes Houston. His decision represents a major setback for the Trump administration’s effort to deport suspected members of the Venezuelan gang under the archaic law to a notorious mega prison in El Salvador....

April 27, 2025 -This is not normal.

Large Tornado Blows Train Off Tracks In Nebraska

May 1, 2025

Dramatic video shows how severe storms spawned a huge tornado in northwest Nebraska on Sunday. The twister derailed a train near Ashby, knocking over as many as 130 railcars.

This massive tornado tore through northwest Nebraska Sunday evening and while award across mostly rule open fields near Ashby in Hyannis the twister through this train off the tracks just west of ash be leaving dozens of rail cars flipped over luckily it was an empty coal train and no injuries were reported for the 2 workers on board.

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Now, go from 3 deaths from thunderstorms and the current dynamics of an EF-1 is starting to come into view.

April 29, 2025
By Anthony Bettin, Jonah Kaplan, and Lisa Meadows

Both Minnesota and Wisconsin (click here) were hit by tornadoes during Monday night's severe storms, the National Weather Service confirmed.

The first hit Kenyon, Minnesota, in Rice County around 5:55 p.m., according to a storm report. The NWS said debris was blown about a mile away and the tornado has a preliminary damage rating of at least EF-1

A WCCO crew saw major damage to farm structures and houses in Kenyon, which is about 60 miles south of Minneapolis....

It is ongoing. 

May 1, 2025

The National Weather Service (click here) in Tulsa has confirmed an EF1 tornado in Gravette from storms that moved through Northwest Arkansas on Tuesday.

NWS said the tornado occurred around 8:25 a.m.

Damage from the tornado included uprooted and snapped trees and damage to homes....

April 30, 2025

By Marta Mieze

There were no confirmed tornadoes (click here) in Springfield city limits April 29, though strong wind speeds of up to 90 mph caused damage and left thousands without electricity.

According to the National Weather Service, there was a confirmed brief, weak EF-0 tornado about 9:30 a.m. April 29 in Christian County. It began near Eaglecrest Street in Nixa and damaged an auto repair shop, where part of the roof was removed and a wall collapsed.

The tornado path was intermittent to the northeast, crossing Highway 160 before lifting near a storage shed business....

And let's not forget the flood waters.

April 30, 2025

By Jeanine Santucci, Thao Nguyen

At least two people are dead in Oklahoma (click here) after being caught in floodwaters as thunderstorms brought destructive winds and heavy rains across parts of that state and Texas, authorities said.

The threat of thunderstorms, flash flooding, and a chance of tornadoes hovered over the south-central part of the country, with some of the greatest risk in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and north Texas, forecasters said. North Texas, southeast Oklahoma, southwest Arkansas, and northwest Louisiana were all at an enhanced risk for tornadoes, large hail, and damaging winds on April 30, according to the Storm Prediction Center....

The solid blue line is 2024. The red line is 2025 and it looks like the same trend with a slight increase. The least number of tornadoes is 2013 with only 943 for the entire year. We are nearly there on April 30, 2025 with a total so far of 689.

There are 16 years recorded here not including 2025. Of six years the highest number are only six. 2011 had the highest followed by 2024, 2019, 2010, 2017, and 2023. 2011 was a pivot point to the increase of tornadoes in the USA, it also holds the current record for deaths at 553 Americans.

The dark line in the middle is the average of all those years. So, the six years I mentioned are all above average years. Except for 2011 there was a distinct increase 2016. 

Sometimes there is something called a rolling average in scientific statistics. This is from Wikipedia (click here). The trend of increased number of tornadoes began in 1990 when the numbers crossed 1000 with reliable frequency.

The year on the Wiki chart most interesting to me is 2005. There was a significantly lower number of tornadoes from 2004. 2005 saw three major Category 5 hurricanes with Katrina carrying the most deaths at 1,392. See, these storms, including tornadoes, is sort of like a heat budget. They all distribute Earth's heat to maintain a habitable troposphere.

...Of the 7 major hurricanes (in 2005), (click here) an unprecendented 3 reached category 5 status, with a 4th reaching the greatest possible windspeed within category 4 of the Saffir-Simpson scale....

The upward trends only indicate we have a climate crisis that is killing people.

May 1, 2025

In recent weeks, (click here) top stories have featured violent weather with tornadoes, damaging winds, large hail and flooding that injured people and infrastructures, and even caused fatalities.

How do these values compare to the average? Are we seeing more tornadoes than we used to or is this just par for the course at this time of the year? If it seems like 2025 has experienced more tornadoes through the first third of the year than normal, the data backs this up. From Jan. 1 through April 30, 2025, the Storm Prediction Center has received 689 tornado reports...

Tornado reports for the year through April 30

This is still happening.

Three Americans died in this storm. Thunderstorm. Not a tornado, this was a thunderstorm.

April 29, 2025
by Renee Straker

Severe Storms That Slammed Central US Leave At Least 3 Dead In Pennsylvania (click here)

Severe storms that stretched from Texas to New York on Tuesday have left at least three people dead in Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh Public Safety announced that a man was electrocuted by live wires in the South Side Slopes area of the city, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. In a news conference on Wednesday, Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey extended condolences to the victim's family and held a moment of silence.

In State College, police said a 22-year-old man was electrocuted while trying to put out a mulch fire started by downed power lines. Just outside Pittsburgh in Ross Township, a 67-year-old man was killed by a fallen tree, the Associated Press reported.

The storms caused widespread damage across the Pittsburgh area, with the city’s 911 system experiencing a temporary outage. Allegheny County reported more than 5,000 calls per hour to its regional 911 centers as the storms brought down trees and power lines. The Pittsburgh Public Safety Department said the 911 system was fully restored by early Wednesday....

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The storm that hit PA today was wild lol. Got hit with a microburst (click here) that instantly wiped 100% of power in my township. Trees and houses fallen and on fire everywhere. Power company said nothing till Sunday

Spent the evening cleaning trees off roads and now I’m in a hotel

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The USA economy is in a major stage of contracture.

 his is not temporary or insignificant. Foreign companies are making decisions based in a dynamic never before witnessed in the USA.

Lock, Stock, and Barrel. Gone.

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01 May 2025

Following (click here) President Donald Trump's introduction of the “Liberation Day” tariffs, the first major car manufacturer has announced plans to halt production in the United States....

The foreign companies in the USA have a problem they never had before, their executives from places like Japan can be assaulted by ICE and removed to another country for who knows why and for who knows how long. The entire situation is nothing short of deranged.

With Mazda pulling up stakes to bring their employees home, there will be another company shuttering their doors with loss of federal and state revenues, payment of local property taxes (which will hit schools), and increased unemployment. These are huge dynamics which can't always be predicted exactly, but, as the number of foreign businesses go home the USA will find itself in free fall.

Mazda is a Japanese company that has manufactured cars in the USA since 1970. That is a relationship between a Japanese company for 55 years. Overnight. And I mean on that time line of 55 years, that is an overnight closure and for one reason and one reason only, BECAUSE THE USA IS NOT A RELIABLE PARTNER.

JOE BIDEN DID NOT DO THIS!

There is little chance this decision will be reversed. 

Mazda Reports December Sales and Full-Year 2024 Sales Results - Sets New Sales Records for the U.S.

These are not easy decisions for any company to make.

January 3, 2025

Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) (click here) today reported total December sales of 40,201 vehicles, an increase of 1.7 percent compared to December 2023. Full-year sales totaled 424,382 vehicles; an increase of 16.8 percent compared to 2023. With 25 selling days in December, compared to 26 the year prior, the company posted an increase of 5.8 percent on a Daily Selling Rate (DSR) basis.

CPO sales totaled 5,931 vehicles in December, an increase of 17 percent compared to December 2023....

So, what exactly does Trump have planned for the workers that are losing their jobs?  Not a damn thing. Trump thinks as does Musk that everything will be fine and there will be other jobs. This is irresponsible government.

And what is the majority Republican Congress doing? Making it worse.

May 1, 2025
By Drew Friedman

House Republicans (click here) have advanced a series of proposals attempting to cut costs by reducing the value of federal retirement annuities, increasing contributions into the government’s retirement system, and requiring federal employees to decide between taking a reduced paycheck or keeping their civil service protections....

For those not paying attention, this is called political hubris. It has no real reason to occur, it is simply political bias that singles out federal workers as lazy and over compensated.

I am confident there are unions involved and ultimately if these measures pass they will end up in court and meaningless because it is called CONTRACT LAW.

Those that lost an enormous…

…amount of money since Trump took office January 20, 2025 raise your hand.

Hate is not justification for deporting.

Christi Nome is of the opinion that the protected people in the USA that she wrongfully deported can be deported again if they are returned to the USA.

I don’t think so.

When does the Trump administration get tired of being law breakers? These deportations have been halted. These people are not criminals. They have it wrong and need ethics reviews from states where they hold license.

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I might point out…

…when members of Congress visited El Salvador, they were respected armed with international laws, treaties, and conventions.

File in El Salvador

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We already know Americans all over the world travel and get in trouble without even trying. The answer to their plight is to take it up with the court systems where they are held. That is not dissimilar to the answer by the Supreme Court in regard to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. However, the issue with Mr. Garcia grew into something bigger, contempt of court by Trump. And it was King Trump in defiance, not the DOJ.

I sincerely believe the Venezuelans are imperil as El Salvador intends a prisoner swap that will result in death at the hands of Maduro. I also believe at that point Trump falls into peril at the ICC. The ACLU of a correct in that returning the Venezuelans to the USA as a DOCUMENTED protected population of people needs to happen now. I also believe this issue has multi-fronts, including El Salvador, Venezuela, and the ICC. I think the Supreme Court has set precedent on this case. Why they kept it in the USA is odd to me. That is not a real world experience to protect and save the lives of Americans and in this case coveted Immigrants. 

To be clear. I think what Trump did involving other countries in his chosen bigotry and racism is explosive to say the least. Carter failed in Iran, but, this has similar qualities as to how far an intervention can go with potential to violence in crossing borders. 

I am not a lawyer, but, to sincerely save the lives of protected Venezuelans may mean moving before the ICC involving the Presidents of El Salvador and Venezuela for what is being planned here. I also believe with acknowledgement of secret phone conversations on disappearing verbal communication such as with Hegseth, Trump has an element of suspicion to any death of these protected people.

All that said, I believe the Supreme Court closed the door on domestic orders regarding immigrants, including the children illegally removed from American fathers to Honduras. The hearings have to take place where the immigrants are held.

The deportation of protected people, including American born children, from this country is illegal. It is illegal from the president to Homan to ICE agents and any other law enforcement involved. I think Louisiana needs to stop being blind to illegal deportations, including Americans, and stop it. I believe legal criminal actions, as well as civil l, can be pursued against the same people, Trump, Homan, ICE agents and any other law enforcement involved.

That said expedited hearings in El Salvador before the courts need to start to prevent further abuse of people protected by this country. Protected status was granted to them. That is an international recognition of long standing civil disruptions in Venezuela that citizens of that country flee for their lives.

The Venezuelans were protected through our immigration system through asylum as well as Presidential order under President Biden. It is amazing how King Trump expects his presidential decrees to be respected when he does not respect those of others because of his seething hatred.

The human beings caged in El Salvador can be defended from further persecution in foreign courts. We have done this before in many other countries with their own habeas standards with the full weight of American mortality and the ICC staring them in the face.

The ACLU has a noble reason for their persistence. They must succeed. They should be supported because the next deportation could be anyone.

Consumers have a right to know.

This is not political. Amazon is being transparent so consumers can decide the best way forward with tariffs kicking in. This is Trump creating a controversial distraction from the fact the trade deficit is escalating as a quick pace.

Some estimates are that the start of next school year will see spiral bound notebooks with 100 pages costing $5.00 each. 

Consumers have a right to know to plan for the future. It maybe that using credit now for items not normally paid for with credit is actually prudent considering the information Amazon is providing. When the cost of a student notebook normally 5 for $1.00 has the potential to cost 25 times that purchasing on credit makes sense. The American consumer wants and needs this information. Marketing and not politics is the reason behind the transparency at Amazon.

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Musk has completed his presidential powers.

Reports today that the teenyboppers at DoGE now have access to the USA nuclear triad. Do not play this down. The brats have computer savvy enough to take over the nuclear triad with a foothold. And Musk, whose son states he is the “real” president is a conduit to China.

All this bus going on while the majority Republicans legislature is writing legalization of racketeering. 

The USA is comprised.

In comparison, Hegseth only committed treason while America soldiers were engaged in battle.