This is a really excellent use of carbon.

November 19, 2020
By Sara Spary

...diamonds (click here) that are "physically and chemically identical to Earth-mined diamonds,"...

Diamonds might be forever, (click here) but that doesn't mean they have to take eons to form.

The gemstones are usually created after carbon is crushed and heated far beneath the Earth's surface over billions of years -- which is what makes them so coveted.

Now, scientists in Australia say they have sped up the process into just a matter of minutes -- and at room temperature.

An international team of researchers led by the Australian National University (ANU) and RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia said Wednesday they have created two types of diamond at room temperature by using high pressure equivalent to 640 African elephants balancing on the tip of a ballet shoe....

...To form the diamonds, researchers applied immense pressure to create a "twisting or sliding force" that they believe caused the carbon atoms to move into place, said Jodie Bradby, a physics professor at ANU.

"Natural diamonds are usually formed over billions of years, about 150 kilometers (about 93 miles) deep in the Earth where there are high pressures and temperatures above 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit)," she said. "The twist in the story is how we apply the pressure."...

Maduro now has "death squads."

November 19, 2020
By Isayen Herrera, Anatoly Kurmanaev, Tibisay Romero and Sheyla Urdaneta

The host of a popular radio show (click here), “The People’s Combat,” had always diligently praised Venezuela’s governing Socialist Party, even as millions sank into penury under its rule. But when acute gasoline shortages paralyzed his remote fishing town this summer, he strayed from the party line.

On his show, the host, lifelong Socialist José Carmelo Bislick, accused local party chiefs of siphoning fuel, leaving most people queuing for days outside empty gasoline stations.

Just weeks later, on Aug. 17, four masked, armed men burst into Mr. Bislick’s house and told him he had “run the red light,” before beating him in front of his family and hauling him away into the night. He was found dead with gunshot wounds hours later, dressed in his favorite Che Guevara T-shirt.

Those responsible for Mr. Bislick’s death remain at large in the town of 30,000, where everyone knew of him, and of his lifelong dedication to Venezuela’s Socialist revolution. The Socialist mayor never spoke of the crime or visited the family, who said the killing had been politically motivated....

Brazil has given up its sovereign borders to Maduro. Why does this sound like Putin's advice to the countries in South America. "Just pick him up and get on with it."

A country with a strong constitution and obeys the rule of law would have to hold extradition hearings before anyone can be brought across a border.

November 15, 2020

By Antonio Maria Delgado

...In accordance (click here) with the agreement between Russia and Venezuela dated December 8, 2011, the loan amounts up to US$ 4 billion. The Venezuelan government will pay a loan interest rate of 7.4% per annum.

Undercover agents of the Nicolás Maduro regime (click here) kidnapped an exiled Venezuelan businessman on Saturday in the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima, shooting him in a leg and then forcing him into an SUV to cross clandestinely into Venezuelan territory, in an operation that failed in the end when the truck got stuck in the mud, area residents and the local press reported.

People close to businessman Andrés Antonio Fernández, owner of a Brazilian radio station that is critical of Maduro, said they fear that the frustrated attempt is only the first in a series of similar actions to be perpetrated against people perceived as enemies of the regime on the other side of the border.

“They have orders to take dead or alive people that have been taking actions against that government,” a person close to Fernández told el Nuevo Herald on condition of anonymity. In this case, “they were unable to take him away because the community of Santa Elena de Uairén,” on the Venezuelan side of the border, “came out to save him when the truck got stuck.”...

There is a new economy of work from home that cannot be ignored for it's welcome reduction in GHG.

The Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, (click here) has recently stated the economy is not going back to the way it was. The new economy into the future is being welcome within the financial markets.

November 19, 2020
By Steven Mufson

Greenhouse gases generated by the U.S. economy (click here) will slide 9.2 percent this year, tumbling to the lowest level in at least three decades, a new BloombergNEF study says.

Battered by the coronavirus pandemic, the stalled economy is projected to have generated 5.9 billion metric tons of emissions, about the same level as 1983, according to the private research organization.

As a result, the United States has been inadvertently pushed back on track to meet the commitments the Obama administration made at the Paris climate agreement in December 2015, despite the fact the Trump administration pulled the country out of the pact. Before 2020, the United States had fallen badly behind its targets under the accord....

The work ethic.

Cuba has socialized medicine. I don't think the ACA meant all that much to the people in relation to a lifestyle that improves their financial status.

The Democratic party is generous to a fault. The party likes public health to be stable without these ridiculous incidents that we are seeing in the USA today under Trump's indifference. To that end, the Democrats focus on providing help to people, but, with immigrants like those from Cuba, they are more interested in work and wealth. So, while the Dems focus on public health and food insecurity they also have to include job training and ethnic fairness in hiring.

The Dems need to get used to the idea of knowing the people and their dreams, not simply knowing their needs. Culture to Cuban men is very important and being a family provider is a point of respect.

Get to know them, not just their need.

November 19, 2020
By Nora Gamez Torres

...But Trump never really stopped campaigning in Florida. (click here) For years now, the Democrats have not been able to match the strong presence of the Republican Party in the community, which has given many Cuban Americans “an identity,” Florida International University professor Guillermo Grenier wrote in a two-part analysis of the Cuban vote. He is the director of the FIU poll that every two years surveys the opinions of Cuban-American voters residing in Miami-Dade....

...or many years, Democrats assumed that as older Cuban exiles were being replaced by new Cuban arrivals and younger voters, Cuban Americans would become less Republican. The 2020 presidential election was a surprise: The FIU 2020 poll found that many Cuban immigrants coming after 2010 had been registering Republican and becoming strong Trump supporters.

“We ran an innovative grassroots and advertising effort that directly engaged newer Cuban arrivals — who had been largely ignored by both parties — as well as young U.S.-born Cuban Americans in ways that were culturally relevant to them and different than how you’d engage my abuelos’ generation,” said Sopo, a Miami native who was one of the architects of the messaging targeting Hispanics in Florida.

The campaign ran a Spanish video ad featuring popular Cuban actress Susana Pérez, who is better known among Cubans who came to U.S. after 1980. Another radio ad with fictional characters “Marita y Yesenia” mimics the speaking style and slang used by recent arrivals.

Most observers agree that there is no single issue that could explain why most Cuban Americans mobilized so forcefully this year to support the president.

Take Hialeah, a working-class city with the most Obamacare enrollees in the nation and where many recently arrived Cubans live. The Trump administration asked the courts to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act. Yet, the Democratic Party was unable to exploit this to its advantage, and Trump grew his share of the vote by 18 points in the city, compared to 2016, beating Biden 67% to 32.5%, according to Sopo’s analysis....

...“We built a new conservative coalition in South Florida consisting of Cubans, Colombians, Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in Miami-Dade County,” Sopo wrote in a memo obtained by the Miami Herald. ‘This netted approximately 255,657 additional votes for President Trump in Miami-Dade in 2020, which accounted for around 69% of his 371,686-vote victory over Joe Biden in Florida.”...

Why is there no policy being set by NIH? This is ridiculous.

November 22, 2020
By Howard Frumkin and Richard J. Jackson

If there was any lingering doubt (click here) that climate change threatens human health and well-being, this year put it to rest. Wildfire smoke aggravated heart disease and lung disease up and down the West Coast and across the country. A record-breaking hurricane season killed and injured people from North Carolina to Texas, and left tens of thousands homeless and at risk of PTSD and other mental health problems. Oppressive heat across the Southwest imperiled outdoor workers and athletes, the elderly and the poor, and people with underlying health problems, with risks ranging from heatstroke to heart attacks and even death

2020 reinforced another lesson: If we don’t prepare for health disasters and manage them skillfully, informed by the best evidence, then people suffer and die needlessly. In confronting a novel virus, the United States failed in its response, and we continue to have one of the world’s highest COVID-19 death rates.

What is true for COVID is true for climate change. We’re not prepared. Part of the gap is a knowledge gap: We haven’t done the needed research, and we lack critical information....

Eighth greek alphabet storm.

November 11, 2020

By Doyle Rice

The relentless 2020 hurricane season has set another record. (click here)

The record for named storms in a single season was broken overnight with the formation of Subtropical Storm Theta far out in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Theta is the 29th named storm of 2020, breaking the record of 28 from 2005, the National Hurricane Center said. Theta transitioned to a "regular" tropical storm Tuesday afternoon.

Meanwhile, closer to home, Tropical Storm Eta continues to spin in the Gulf of Mexico west of Cuba. Although the center of the storm is offshore, heavy rainfall from Eta will continue across South Florida into Tuesday night. "Additional flash and urban flooding, especially across previously inundated areas, will be possible in South Florida," the Hurricane Center warned....

This film loop is about Hurricane Laura on August 26, 2020. After Laura there are 13 more names for the 2020 hurricane season. 

In less than three months there has been 21 named storms in the Gulf-Atlantic. Primarily the Gulf this year. That is an average of 7 named storms per month. The cooling mechanisms of Earth is unable to keep up with the heat of Earth.

I don't know what it is like to have my name reduced to three letters, but, I find it depersonalizing.

Alexandria is a great competitor. She is also a great representative. How does her point of view become demonized by the right-wing media, because, she is an icon in South Florida that represents socialism and a return of Castro-like government while also favoring Maduro.

I don't know how Maduro has become an icon of fear in South Florida, but, he has. The fear of Castro and Maduro superimposed on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is to fear the Democratic party.

These folks in South Florida flock to the ACA/Obamacare, but, when it comes to voting they fear Democrats. Democrats brought them Obamacare. Go figure. Right-wing media manages to disconnect all that and demonize really great people at the same time. Democrats must fight off THE LABELING the right-wing media uses to sell their agenda and candidates.

July 10, 2019

It’s hard to recall (click here) a newly elected freshman representative to Congress who has made a bigger impact than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her primary victory for New York’s Fourteenth District seat—as a young woman of color beating out a long-established white male incumbent—was big news, and Ocasio-Cortez has been generating headlines almost daily ever since.

Practically the day she took her seat in Congress, Ocasio-Cortez became the hero of the left wing of the Democrats and a favored villain of Fox News and the right. She battled Nancy Pelosi to make the Green New Deal a priority, and has been involved with a movement to launch primary challenges against centrist or right-leaning Democrats. Like Bernie Sanders, she embraces the label of democratic socialism and supports free college education for all Americans. She has called for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement....

Right is Kyle Rittenhouse (click here)

This interview is brave and calls out the ability of people engaged in White Supremacy to leverage their way through the USA Justice System. For Rittenhouse, it begins with a bail of $2 million. Yes, he made bail. There are three unarmed protesters dead and their murderer is out on $2 million bail. I never knew Rittenhouse was out on bail until I read the interview of Alexandria. Her voice with the focus she has is very important in this country. She is able to bring issues forward no one else wanted to talk about and for that she is a victim of right-wing media? The right wing media elevates Rittenhouse when they defame Alexandria. It elevates what he can get away with rather than being a "law and order" media service. 

There is an enormous problem in the USA with White Supremacy recruitment. This is the contribution of the right wing media? Encouragement of violence? There is something very wrong with this. It is like yelling "fire" in a theater and igniting more hatred accompanied by violence.

I thought the above image illustrates the dire straights Earth is now in, hence the living beings calling this planet home. The image to the left is the temperatures across the planet for one month, October 2020. The image on the right is the average temperature for the years1951-1980. The difference is enormous and clearly illustrates how eliminating greenhouse gases is vital.

November 17, 2020
By Brett Anderson

NOAA and NASA (click here) have recently released their October global surface temperature data. Despite a strengthening La Nina, which typically has a cooling influence on the global average temperature, last month ranked as the fourth warmest October on record. Records go back to 1880.

As you can see by both images above, the greatest warming relative to normal was across the Arctic region where an extended period of open water, which allows more heat to be trapped near the surface, kept the region well above normal. Eastern Europe was also unusually warm, while a distinct area of abnormal cold was centered over central Canada.

The last seven years have brought us the seven warmest Octobers on record, according to NOAA.

October 2020 in the 44th consecutive October and the 430th consecutive month where the global average surface temperature was above the 20th century average....

The Democrats fail to show a strong man attitude toward Cuba and Venezuela.

November 5, 2020
By Christine Sexton

Floridians flock to the federal health-insurance exchange (click here) in higher numbers than any other state, but Obamacare-supporting political candidates, including incumbents and hopefuls, got beat in key state and federal races Tuesday.

Florida Democrats during the campaign tried unsuccessfully to paint President Donald Trump as the man who would repeal the Affordable Care Act and place millions of people with pre-existing conditions at risk, but Trump defeated Democratic challenger Joe Biden in the state, capturing more than 51 percent of the vote.

Also, Democratic U.S. House members Donna Shalala and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, both of whom were elected in 2018 mid-term elections following Trump’s attempt to repeal the federal health-care law, were defeated by Republican challengers Tuesday night in South Florida districts....

It's Sunday Night

West Side Story has been loved by the American people for decades. Perhaps it is too ethnic for the year 2020, but, it is still a great performance of dancers and singers.

The storyline is much different than today. Gangs. The Sharks and the Jets. Clashes between two different ethnic gangs. That comes through in the song "America."

Not so different are the appearances of gangs on the streets of the USA. Political gangs. That may be different in Chicago where guns are a real problem that contributes to disruption of life and longevity in all too many instances. But, there are gangs now, and guess what, it is mostly about racism yet in the 21st century. I think the year of the appearance of West Side Story was 1947. More than 70 years has passed by and there are still racial differences in the socio-economic balance of the USA. Half of the time since the end of the USA Civil War in 1865.

There is a lot of man-woman interaction throughout the entire play/movie. It is nearly palpable with plenty of joy thrown into the laughter in the dance scene. Men trying to make their way in a new country and women finding happiness in the freedom of expression. Both genders carry out their new awareness and joy between themselves and not expressing all they are to others.

How can people be a part of the same society and yet be separate? Assimilation is not needed, so much as acceptance and a bridge to understanding, appreciation, and solace this country is the greatest country on Earth.

West Side Story, Back story (click here)

Conceived in 1949, West Side Story has a serious message that pleads for racial tolerance, delivered in unforgettable song and dance. People have been listening to that message, and humming the songs, ever since the show premiered on Broadway in 1957 and debuted on the silver screen in 1961.

Composer Leonard Bernstein and his co-creators, Jerome Robbins (director, choreographer and original idea-man) Arthur Laurents (who wrote the book) and Stephen Sondheim (lyricist) aimed for lofty ideals in the show’s themes and every detail of its production. But West Side Story, winner of two Tony and 10 Academy Awards, has endured because it's also incredibly entertaining....

"I like to be in america" by Leonard Bernstein (click here for artist website) and Stephen Sondheim

Ok by me in america
Everything free in america
For a small fee in america

I like the city of san juan
I know a boat you can get on
Hundreds of flowers in full bloom
Hundreds of people in each room

Automobile in america
Chromium steel in america
Wire spoke wheel in america
Very big deal in america

I'll drive a buick in san juan -
If there's a road you can drive on
I'll give my cousins a free ride -
How you fit all of them inside

Immigrant goes to america
Many helloes in america
Nobody knows in america
Puerto rico's in america

When I will go back to san juan -
When will you shut up and get gone
I'll give them new washing machine -
What have they got there to keep clean

I like the shores of america
Comfort is yours in america
Knobs on the doors in america
Wall to wall floors in america

I'll bring a TV to san juan -
If there's a current to turn on
Everyone there will give big cheer -
Everyone there will have moved here

When a request is this stupid it is time for the Biden campaign to end the recourts.

Georgia has already certified it's election after an extensive hand count. It is time to call it what it is, manipulative infighting in the Republican Party in attempts to undercut democracy.

November 22. 2020
By Steven Fowler

Georgia's nearly 5 million votes (click here) in the presidential race will be counted for a third time, as President Trump's campaign has formally asked for a recount because his loss is within the legal margin for that request.

Of the 4,998,482 ballots cast in the race between Trump and President-elect Joe Biden, the president lost by 12,670 votes, or about 0.26%. State law allows a losing candidate within 0.5% to ask for a recount within two business days of certification.

While thousands of workers spent most of the last week hand-counting every vote as part of a newly required statewide risk-limiting audit, this recount will be different....

Thank you to the former Governor. He is the second Republican to take a real world view of Donald John Trump. It is time the rest of them stop playing games and stand up for the democracy they say they love. The extended crying over a lost election is an assault against the USA national security.

November 22, 2020

By Colin Campbell

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (click here) had harsh words for President Trump’s legal team as it pursues its increasingly quixotic quest to overturn the November election.

“Quite frankly, the conduct of the president’s legal team has been a national embarrassment,” Christie said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

Trump lost the Nov. 3 election to President-elect Joe Biden, but has launched a series of lawsuits seeking to claim victory in states narrowly won by the Democrat. But the cases have been largely dismissed, and judges have consistently rejected Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud....

Harvard warns North Carolina

Harvard Key Metrics (click here) for a county by county awareness map.

November 21, 2020

Charlotte - Researchers with Harvard University (click here) say nearly half of North Carolina’s counties need to enact stay-at-home orders immediately.

The Harvard Global Health Institute maps the COVID-19 risk state-by-state and county-by-county.

States with more than 25 cases per 100,000 people are listed in the “red zone” a category researchers say requires immediate lockdowns.

Two-thirds of the counties in the greater Charlotte area are currently in the red zone.

Others, like Mecklenburg and Iredell, are listed in the “orange zone” which calls for rigorous test and trace programs to be implemented.

For small business owners, like the Bost family which owns Cabo Winery in Concord, who worry about public health and their own economic future, they find themselves in a tough spot.

“I think we do need to do a lockdown. But not to the extent we did the first time,” said Kendall Bost....

"The Path to Zero"

NOT the path to Herd Immunity!

The Lawbreakers.

The Ameican people need to come to terms with the Republican Party, their corruption, and lawlessness. This is absolutely ridiculous. Biden has won 306 electoral votes. Michigan has 16 electoral votes (click here). Their objection doesn't matter.

This is nothing but an attempt to prevent certification of the Michigan vote and force the conflict into the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is not going to throw the election to Trump who has only accumulated 232 electoral college votes. Michigan's 16 votes are not going to change anything.

The objection by the Republicans is based on racism. That alone will prevent any change in the Michigan delegates.

November 20. 2020
By Jonathan Oosting

Lansing - A key Republican (click here) on the Board of State Canvassers is threatening to refuse certification of Michigan election results until after an audit, but legal experts say he has no authority to demand a process that is not even allowed under Michigan law.

Norm Shinkle, one of two Republicans on the four-member board, has echoed President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of irregularities or fraud in the Michigan election, which Democrat Joe Biden won by more than 154,000 votes in unofficial results.

“I do think with all of the potential problems, if any of them are true, an audit is appropriate,” Shinkle told The Washington Post ahead of a Monday meeting where he’ll be asked to certify those unofficial results already certified by all 83 Michigan counties.

“I take one step at a time, and if we can get more information, why not?”...

There is no option to sabotage a presidential election. The electors vote the way the electorate voted.

The Rule of Law.

 MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW (EXCERPT) (click here)

Act 116 of 1954

168.47 Convening of presidential electors; time and place thereof; resignations; refusal or failure to vote; vacancies.

Sec. 47.

   The electors of president and vice-president shall convene in the senate chamber at the capitol of the state at 2 p.m., eastern standard time, on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December following their election. At any time before receipt of the certificate of the governor or within 48 hours thereafter, an elector may resign by submitting his written and verified resignation to the governor. Failure to so resign signifies consent to serve and to cast his vote for the candidates for president and vice-president appearing on the Michigan ballot of the political party which nominated him. Refusal or failure to vote for the candidates for president and vice-president appearing on the Michigan ballot of the political party which nominated the elector constitutes a resignation from the office of elector, his vote shall not be recorded and the remaining electors shall forthwith fill the vacancy. The ballot used by the elector shall bear the name of the elector. If at the time of convening there is any vacancy caused by death, resignation, refusal or failure to vote, neglect to attend, or ineligibility of any person elected, or for any other cause, the qualified electors of president and vice-president shall proceed to fill such vacancy by ballot, by a plurality of votes. When all the electors appear and the vacancy shall be filled, they shall proceed to perform the duties of such electors, as required by the constitution and laws of the United States. If congress hereafter fixes a different day for such meeting, the electors shall meet and give their votes on the day designated by act of congress.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955 ;-- Am. 1971, Act 172, Eff. Mar. 30, 1972
Popular Name: Election Code

Brookings:

Jully 14, 2020
By Barry Fadem

In July 6, 2020, (click here) the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that states have the power to require presidential electors to vote for their party’s candidate for president.

More specifically, the decision allows states to pass laws requiring presidential electors to cast their votes in a manner that faithfully reflects their commitment to vote for the person they promised to choose when they were nominated as an elector....

...The opinion goes on:

“The Constitution is barebones about electors. Article II includes only the instruction to each State to appoint, in whatever way it likes, [its presidential electors]. The Twelfth Amendment then tells electors to meet in their States, to vote for President and Vice President separately, and to transmit lists of all their votes to the President of the United States Senate for counting. … That is all.”.

Justice Thomas reached the same conclusion as the other justices, but he (and Justice Gorsuch) said that the 10th Amendment provided a basis for the decision. Thomas wrote that the “powers related to electors reside with States to the extent that the Constitution does not remove or restrict that power. Thus, to invalidate a state law, there must be ‘something in the Federal Constitution that deprives the [States of] the power to enact such a measure.’”...

Any person committing election falsification shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.

Rudy, who's skirt are you chasing? Rough being divorced, huh? The $3 dye job. Ya hafta know that working as Trump's personal lawyer only pays enough to get by. Afraid of being fired, Rudy?

What happened to all that Russian money, Rudy? It isn't easy being Rudy these days. 

November 19, 2020

By Jonah Engle Bromwich

Rudolph W. Giuliani (click here) gave a news conference on Thursday in which, as he continued to cast doubt on the results of the presidential election, it appeared he was starting to melt.

Speaking from the headquarters of the Republican National Committee in Washington, Mr. Giuliani grew increasingly agitated as he expanded on the debunked allegations of widespread voter fraud that he has pursued since the election was called for Joseph R. Biden Jr. earlier this month. About 40 minutes into his statement, his sweat began to drip in color.

By the time Mr. Giuliani began to take questions from reporters, the dark rivulets of liquid streaking down his face had become impossible to ignore, even as he pleaded with those present not to make light of his claims, for which he has yet to present evidence....

The status and dignity afforded every USA president hasn't touched Trump's groveling for power. He has no shame. He can't even imagine what most Americans are thinking right now. Trump still has the support of A SMALL NUMBER OF AMERICANS with big signs and voices. He is counting on a civil war to save his presidency. It isn't going to happen. 

November 19, 2020

By David E. Sangar

Washington - President Trump’s attempts (click here) to overturn the 2020 election are unprecedented in American history and an even more audacious use of brute political force to gain the White House than when Congress gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency during Reconstruction.

Mr. Trump’s chances of succeeding are somewhere between remote and impossible, and a sign of his desperation after President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. won by nearly six million popular votes and counting, as well as a clear Electoral College margin. Yet the fact that Mr. Trump is even trying has set off widespread alarms, not least in Mr. Biden’s camp.

“I’m confident he knows he hasn’t won,” Mr. Biden said at a news conference in Wilmington, Del., on Thursday, before adding, “It’s just outrageous what he’s doing.” Although Mr. Biden dismissed Mr. Trump’s behavior as embarrassing, he acknowledged that “incredibly damaging messages are being sent to the rest of the world about how democracy functions.”

Mr. Trump has only weeks to make his last-ditch effort work: Most of the states he needs to strip Mr. Biden of votes are scheduled to certify their electors by the beginning of next week. The electors cast their ballots on Dec. 14, and Congress opens them in a joint session on Jan. 6....

November 19, 2020

By Craig Mauger and Mellisa Nann Burke

...The former mayor of New York City (click here) focused on allegations made in a case brought on behalf of Detroit poll challengers who sought to stop the certification of Wayne County's election results. The claims focused on purported restrictions on challengers, late arriving absentee ballots and Detroit clerk's office workers who supposedly encouraged early voters to cast their ballots for Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and Democrats. 

But city of Detroit officials have denied the allegations. And Wayne County Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny said the plaintiffs'  "interpretation of events" was "incorrect and not credible."...

...Biden won Michigan by 154,000 votes, according to the current unofficial results. All 83 counties have already voted to validate their totals. The Board of State Canvassers is scheduled to meet Monday to consider statewide certification.

It's unclear what would cause a judge to throw out all of the votes in Wayne County, which has a population of about 1.7 million, 17% of Michigan's total population....

...U.S. Rep. Paul Mitchell, a Dryden Republican who votes with Trump 96% of the time, said he’s “disgusted” with what Trump is doing, saying he’s damaging democracy and people’s trust that their vote matters in U.S. elections. 

“You can’t just throw out votes you don’t like. That’s a third-world nation. What’s the basis upon which these would be thrown out?” Mitchell said of Wayne County votes. 

Mitchell noted that former Michigan elections director Chris Thomas — with decades of experience in election administration — has signed affidavits saying there’s no indication of fraud or gross errors in absentee voting.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who represents parts of Wayne County and Detroit, said Trump’s strategy is a criminal scheme to “steal” the election he clearly lost.

“We must make sure that we push back against that kind of approach of taking away people’s voices via their vote. It’s important: You cannot choose your voters. This is not how democracy works,” Tlaib said. 

Mitt Romney, the moral man.

November 8, 2020
By Dennis Romboy

He has tried (click here) to be reasonable, tried to be patient. But Mitt Romney, with an earnest sigh, says he’s arrived reluctantly at a moment of unavoidable judgment: Donald Trump has bad character. Disrespectful. Divisive. Erratic. Yuck....

Salt Lake City - When asked Sunday about President Donald Trump (click here) claiming he won the election, Sen. Mitt Romney said the president has a “relaxed relationship with the truth.”

“You’re not going to change the nature of President Trump in these last days apparently of his presidency. He is who he is,” the Utah Republican said. “He has a relatively relaxed relationship with the truth. He’s going to keep on fighting until the very end.”

Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper, Romney said he expects Trump to accept the results of the election once he has exhausted any remedies to contest the “inevitable” outcome....

Why do Black Lives Matter? Because they are innocent people, quite possibly other African Americans, serving time for crimes they didn't commit.

"Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States" (2017) (click here)

November 19, 2020

By David Ovalle

Notorious American serial killer Samuel Little (click here) has been identified as the murderer of two more women in Miami-Dade County — including one case in which another man served 22 years in prison before he was exonerated.

Authorities recently concluded that Little murdered Karen O’Donoghue, whose body has never been discovered, in the early 1970s, and Dorothy Gibson, who was strangled outside a downtown Miami hotel in 1977. Detectives say Little, who confessed to 93 murders and has been dubbed the country’s most prolific serial killer, admitted to both cases and there’s enough evidence to corroborate his claims.

In all, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office has officially identified Little as the killer of four women in the county, although he is suspected in several other South Florida cases....

November 27, 2018

By James Queally

Sam Little, (click here) the convicted murderer who earlier this year claimed he had killed at least 90 women across the U.S., has confessed to slayings in at least 37 cities stretching back decades, including more than a dozen in Southern California, according to an FBI timeline made public Tuesday.

Little, 78, had been a target of law enforcement for decades after he was linked to the strangulation deaths of prostitutes in Mississippi and Florida in the 1980s, but he eluded conviction.

In 2012, a cold-case investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department led to Little’s capture in Louisville, Ky., and his eventual conviction in 2014 in three murders. He stayed silent in a California prison until May, when Texas Ranger James Holland began to develop a rapport with him, investigators have said....

Trump is angry about the latest actions by Israel to end the presence of al Qaeda in the Middle East.

The deed is done. There is no reason for the Iranian people to suffer more than they already do under hideous sanctions after first experiencing relief. There is absolutely no reason to invade Iran.

November 16, 2020

Washington - Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, (click here) accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States, the New York Times reported, citing intelligence officials.

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle in the streets of Tehran on Aug. 7, the Times reported on Friday.

The killing of Masri, who was seen as a likely successor to al Qaeda’s current leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was kept secret until now, the newspaper said.

A senior Afghan security source told Reuters in October that Masri, who has long been on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, had been killed in the Pasdaran area of Tehran. Reuters had been unable to corroborate that information.

It was unclear what, if any, role the United States had in the killing of the Egyptian-born militant, the Times said. U.S. authorities had been tracking Masri and other al Qaeda operatives in Iran for years, it said....

November 14, 2020

By Farnaz Fassihi

Iran’s Foreign Ministry (click here) on Saturday denied a report that Israeli agents had fatally shot Al Qaeda’s second-ranking leader on the streets of Tehran, likening it to a “Hollywood” scenario manufactured by “American and Zionist” officials.

The ministry issued the denial to Iranian reporters in the wake of a report Friday by The New York Times, which quoted intelligence officials as saying that Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was killed by two motorcycle-riding assassins on Aug. 7.

That day was the anniversary of the 1998 attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people. Mr. al-Masri was accused of being one of the masterminds of the attacks.... 

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