NO MORE NATION BUILDING.

It didn't work in Vietnam, Iraq, and now Afghanistan. If there was ever a chance it might work it would have been Afghanistan. Well, it turned out to be the next failure in the military might be the USA.

Get rid of all AUMF now!!!!

AUMFs relate to the 1991 Gulf War (click here) and a 1957 measure countering ‘Communist aggression’

The USA does not need a war to keep this country's military strength along with NATO. There is more money to spend during peacetime than when at war. It is time to reinvest in the USA and fight the war against greenhouse gases, poverty, and racism. 

When the political right likes to warmonger they point to success stories of nation-building like during WWII with Japan and Germany. That war as well as with World War I was a war of allies to survive evil. Europe and Russia could not defeat the Third Reich. The USA came in with fresh troops and military equipment built by USA industry. We drove the lousy demons back and saved Europe and ended the war with Russia. We would have been next anyway and Japan was already taking advantage of the European War when they bombed Pearl Harbor.

The USA successfully fought a two-front war with the help of FDR and our allies. We saved Europe, but, killed millions of people. It was the only time nuclear warfare ever was used.

Nation-building after WWII was to prevent war, not incite it. It wasn't nation-building either, it was war reparations which is engaged after a war is concluded.

We have had too many wars and not enough diplomacy that works. Diplomats will continue their work with Afghanistan to protect lives and bring about humanitarian efforts. The Taliban will suffer greatly if they simply kill Afghan citizens at will for absolutely no reason at all except to instill fear and control. The Taliban will be held responsible for the deaths of Afghan civilians. 

 

Hey, FOX News, get a clue. This is the best of Republican's generational nation building.

There is no easy way to say goodbye, President Biden took too long to end the American occupation in Afghanistan.

Hm? How long did it take to take Afghanistan from al Qaeda and the Taliban? How long? A generation ago, it took three days from the parachuting in of American soldiers to ride donkeys to their destination. 

THREE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bush's forever war was never authorized.

I really don't want to hear the boohoos about the USA leaving Afghanistan. Any soldier that served in that hell hole, should be pleased we are leaving to save ANOTHER ENTIRE GENERATION from failure.

August 14, 2021

DAN BONGINO: I agree with President Trump and President Biden,(click here)  who both shared the same vision that our mission in Afghanistan is coming to an end. It has to come to an end. The Afghan people have to take responsibility for their own country. I fully agree with their position on that.

But this hasty departure with no concern for force protection or our forces or our people being left behind is insane. We have soldiers still out there. We have soldiers out there now watching this program tonight who lost loved ones or lost pieces of themselves and friends over this overseas....

No sympathy for Pakistan, who took millions if not billions from the USA and turned around to buy weapons from China who then built more nuclear weapons aimed at the USA. Pakistan took care of Osama bin Laden for a long time until a Democratic president finally had the guts to kill him. One block away from the Pakistan military academy and no one knew. Bulloney.

Pakistan reconstituted the Taliban and rearmed them. Over and over again there were reports of how the police of any particular area of Pakistan were unable to enforce the law due to the occupation of the Taliban.

Then there was the Haqqani Network that General Mullen brought to the attention of the Pakistan president. He did that to alert them they should do something about that. The trillions poppy culture was their stronghold. Does the Haqqani network exist today? Of course, it does.

Afghanistan is a cesspool of Muslim losers that put their ideology before the well-being of their families and country. Afghanistan cannot be conquered, the terrain alone makes that impossible.

So, Goodbye to Afghanistan, this is the second chance to be a real country. You failed. 

August 14, 2021

By Emily Schmall

The Taliban (click here) are claiming towns and territories across Afghanistan. With each victory, scrutiny is falling on the leaders of neighboring Pakistan.

For decades, Pakistan has served as a sanctuary for the Afghan Taliban, who have often crossed the countries’ rugged, 1,660-mile border with ease. Officials have acknowledged that Taliban fighters maintain homes and families in Pakistan, at a safe distance from the battlefields.

Now that the American military has declared its part in the Afghan war over, and the Taliban increasingly look as if they can capture the country, Washington is applying pressure on Pakistan to push for a negotiated settlement.

While voicing support for a peaceful solution globally, however, the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan has been quieter at home. It has not spoken out against pro-Taliban rallies within Pakistan. It also hasn’t condemned reported Taliban atrocities as the group marches toward Kabul....

The time is now for search and rescue. No one should be waiting to respond.

August 14, 2021
By Evans Sanon

Port-Au-Prince - At least 227 people were killed (click here) and hundreds were injured and missing after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday, and Prime Minister Ariel Henry said he was rushing aid to areas where towns were destroyed and hospitals overwhelmed with incoming patients.

The epicenter of the quake was about 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and widespread damage was reported.

Haiti’s civil protection agency said that the death toll stood at 227 and that search teams would be sent to the area. Rescue workers and bystanders were able to pull many people to safety from the rubble, the agency said Saturday afternoon on Twitter. It said injured people were still being brought to hospitals.

Henry declared a one-month state of emergency for the whole country and said he would not ask for international help until the extent of the damages was known. He said some towns were almost completely razed and the government had people in the coastal town of Les Cayes to help plan and coordinate the response....

I didn't forget Flint .Flint is the reason I sat down at the computer.

What the heck is this? Nessel is saying the prosecutors for the people of Flint were private lawyers? 

Real cute. Private industry prosecutors are normally called mitigation experts and a one-person Grand Jury.

Prepare a Supreme Court case to get rid of the corruption surrounding the crimes committed against the people of Flint. Snyder and his Attorney General set up a corrupt scenario to avoid prosecution of the real crimes against the people.

There is a bunch of good ole boys running the State of Michigan. Wiped cell phone numbers, a one-man Grand Jury, and now a private prosecutor, instead of the government the people of Michigan pay to bring justice.

There is a lot wrong, It is sounding more like the State of the Lawyers, rather than the people. It is amazing the corruption that exists in that state. There need to be cases that can be appealed to the higher courts to get rid of the corruption, not only surrounding these cases but, in the state in general.

When Ferguson manifested in the State of Missouri, President Obama sent in the Justice Department to identify the problem and find ways forward. It sounds like the same thing here. The people count on a Governor that is uncorrupt and doing the work of the people. What the people don't expect is a system so corrupt that white-collar crime of corruption is never brought to trial and seriously imprison the criminals.

This is going to be a prolonged process because the corruption has to be identified and considering Snyder was Governor when the corruption was organized he is going to face far more than the charges he faces now. But, the corruption has to be identified, weeded out, and then the cases proceed without all this EVASION OF PROSECUTION existing.

Who knew?

August 6, 2021
By Beth LeBlanc

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's office (click here) is coming under fire for paying roughly $300,000 to five private lawyers for their work on the Flint water investigation and prosecution.

The private counsel makes up about a quarter of the roughly 20 lawyers who have worked on the investigation since Nessel's office scrapped prior prosecutorial efforts and began from scratch in 2019. The probe concerned Flint's switch under state-appointed emergency managers to a new water source that resulted in lead contamination of the drinking water and that experts linked to an outbreak of Legionnaires' diseases cases and deaths.

Supporters of the nine former state and city officials being prosecuted by Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud's team have cried foul over the employment of the private lawyers because Nessel criticized her predecessor, Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette, for "farming out" the prosecution....

...But Nessel's office has pointed out that her team is being led by a full-time employee of the Attorney General's office and not by a private attorney — as Schuette decided to do with Metro Detroit lawyer Todd Flood.

Nessel agreed early on to handle the civil litigation side of the Flint water crisis investigation and appointed Hammoud to handle the criminal investigation because of inherent conflicts between the two causes. In February 2019, as Nessel announced Hammoud's role, both she and the solicitor general criticized Schuette's handling of the case and his reliance on Flood to lead the prosecution "with practically no oversight by this office whatsoever."....

I get really annoyed when the storm systems in the world are looked at as the "usual" tropical system. This is a heat transfer system. Not hurricane.

Fred and it's heat transfer system (click here)

Looking at the large satellite there is a heck of a storm in the Pacific off Central America and one over Costa Rica. There is another system in the Atlantic, too.

Tropical Strom (where it originated) Fred is over Cuba and in this satellite, it is green in color.

It is not only a storm unto itself, it is the anchor of the branch of the vortex near Greenland and exits north to the Arctic Circle and what is left of the Arctic Ocean.

In this satellite, is appears to be heading straight north from Cuba. Those northern vortexes are strong systems and they are not storms themselves so much as an organization of heat transfer, usually off the Equator. That is why good, ole Fred is part of the northern vortex system. It is one of the mechanisms of the heat transfer system.

That is my estimation. I think the entire State of Florida should be on alert for flooding and high winds. It doesn't look good to me.

that other Atlantic Ocean system following Fred can escalate it's winds because Fred is throwing more water vapor from the ocean into the air. That water vapor will encourage the Atlantic storm to grow and absorb more heat from that water vapor kicked up by Fred.

We are living in ridiculous times. Everyone is supposed to be able to exercise pinpoint accuracy to every danger in life because Artificial Intelligence tells them so. That is a bunch of hogwash. When I watch the film loop of Fred, it is not moving outside the water vapor trail of the northern vortex that mitigates heat. I think it is going north. There is a system coming down from Canada to hold that water vapor trail of the northern vortex in place and even push it slightly east.

I don't find Artificial Intelligence much of a help. I think good old common sense and accurate measurements go a long way to saving lives. Calculations are always a reassurance, but, when it comes right down to it, people have a gut that recognizes the shortcomings of computers and calculations. The tools we use are a help for people, but, they aren't the answer. 

The storm is too wide to only cast clouds and shadows on the western part of Florida. The state needs to be ready for a change in direction due to the approaching front from Canada and the heat transfer vortex near Greenland. I would say there is a lot of uncertainty, especially if one is depending on computers to point the way.

Good luck to everyone.

I heard a report that Tropical Storm Fred disappeared over Cuba. That is nonsense.

This is a picture of Tropical Storm Fred over Cuba.

GOES-East - Sector view: (click here) Tropical Atlantic - Nighttime Microphysics

Now, take it seriously and get out of the way of the storm and it's immense flooding. Stop living in denial of the facts and start packing!

AND THAT GOES FOR THE ENTIRE STATE OF FLORIDA. i AM NOT SO SURE IT IS  GOING INTO THE GULF.

August 13, 2021
By Bob D'Angelo, Michelle Ewing, and Theresa Seiger

Update 7:50 p.m. EDT Aug. 13: Fred remained a tropical depression (click here) and is dumping heavy rains across the central coast of Cuba as it moves toward the Florida peninsula, the National Hurricane Center said in its 8 p.m. EDT intermediate advisory.

A tropical storm warning remains in effect for the Florida Keys from Ocean Reef to the Dry Tortugas including Florida Bay, and a tropical storm watch was still in effect on Florida’s southwest coast from Bonita Beach and south and east to Ocean Reef.

Warnings could be extended on the west coast of Florida late Friday or early Saturday, the hurricane center said.

The depression, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph, was located 175 miles east-southeast of Key West, Florida, and 45 miles west of Caibarien, Cuba, the hurricane center said.

The storm was moving to the west at 12 mph, and the hurricane center said Fred could regain tropical storm strength sometime Saturday....

It is not enough for an ally or cooperating country to have their military needs met, we have to provide for the people, too.

 "Oligarch Toys" -- The extreme wealth disparities (click here) are glaring between Ukraine's oligarchs and the average person living on $500 a month in Europe's second-poorest (after Moldova) nation. We round-up what we know of the mansions, yachts, jets and other luxuries of the top 5 oligarchs. -- The revolving door continues at Ukraine's almost-bankrupt state railway, on the brink of collapse because of subsidies to oligarchs' steel, coal & metal, a bloated workforce & a history of management in private rather than national interests. -- Hacking is big business now. Ukraine's cyber defenses need to be improved. -- Will Amos Hochstein mitigate the damage of Nord Stream 2? -- Belarus dictator retains firm grip after stealing an election a year ago. -- The 25 Ukrainians who won 19 Olympic medals at Tokyo Games. -- Eugene Czolij: Why Ukraine's renewed independence matters.

There is poverty in Moldova and Ukraine. NATO nations need to address the poverty within these important democracies. The people are allies as much as a country's military. Where there is poverty there are always underlying beliefs about the government that never improves the people's circumstances. NATO allies need to examine more closely the economies of these poorer countries and provide immediate relief to the people in some of the basic needs such as food, clean water, and medical needs. The people are as important as the military in supporting democratic principles that provide a good education to their children and an economy that is always improving to meet their needs. The USA cannot appear to be the bogeyman with the state-of-the-art military while the people wallow in poverty and lack hope. USAID should be strongly at work in these countries and bring about change to end any and all corruption and provide a far better quality of life.

Russia's presence is rather insidious. They send in oligarchs to bring some sort of economic opportunity to the people and in doing so begin to develop propaganda the people will listen to in order to protect their interests in Russian oligarchs and their MOBILE economies. We see this same dynamic in Kentucky with oligarchs that are viewed as essential to any type of economy.

The Oligarch Regimes of Russia MUST END!

The people need heroes and the USA should be supplying them.

Moldova cooperates with NATO on a range of issues. (click here) The main focus of NATO’s cooperation with Moldova is to support the country’s efforts to reform and modernise its defence and security structures and institutions. Moldova is also a valued contributor to the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo....

Russia is running scared since President Biden took office and it should remain that way. These INVITES are typical on many occasions by leadership because these smaller countries are interested in peace rather than a military invasion by Russia. Ukraine lives as a democracy attempting to remove Russian corruption from all of it's citizen and government structures. But, Ukraine's loss of control in Crimea and the War of Donbas are all examples of Russian aggression to avoid. So the leadership in Russia become a diplomatic issue and not a military issue, hence, a prolonged occupation by Russia. NATO needs to engage diplomatically and be involved with the military, but, also the people have to have the promise of democracy and upward movement to a better quality of life to ensure the stability of their democracy, hence economic growth.

With China and Russia becoming a bit of a nightmare when it comes to individual rights and engagement of ideas, I would think Wall Street should be less interested in Russia and China and more interested in allies and cooperating countries to offer ways to stronger economies.

August 12, 2021
By Vladimir Socor

Deputy head of the Russian presidential administration, Dmitry Kozak

The Kremlin (click here) has wasted no time reacting to the positive signals from Moldova’s new, Western-oriented leadership. On August 11, only five days after Moldova’s new government took office, the deputy head of Russia’s presidential administration, Dmitry Kozak, descended unexpectedly on Chisinau for talks with President Maia Sandu and government members. Kozak carries out the Kremlin’s policy toward Ukraine and toward Moldova on parallel, correlated tracks (see below).]

Kozak rushed to be the first foreign official of high rank from any country to visit Moldova after the new authorities came to power. According to the Russian side, Sandu invited Kozak; but the Moldovan side did not mention this (TASS, Moldpress, August 11). It may well have been an informal self-invite by Kozak followed by Sandu’s formal but unpublished invitation....

This is a real problem. We are not doing this correctly. NOT a Friday the 13th joke.

There need to be more forensic pathologists to follow all the COVID-19 variants. We (medical professionals and forensic experts) are allowing variants to fly under the radar.

Lambda has a real potential to be the FIRST Level Three Virus. Yet, because the PATH of these variants is important, the community is putting emphasis on "the virus of the moment," hence, intense tracking on the Delta Variant. While the global community is discussing the Delta Variant, Lambda is spreading widely and only being picked up when sequencing is being done. The sequencing for Lambda is rarely performed and only showed up as it grew in numbers among the people.

The reason Lambda is being sequenced at all is because it is making people sick and they are presenting in the hospital emergency room. If Lambda is presenting with ill and suffering people then it is just as important as Delta if not more so. Why? Because we understand Delta. We know all that we need to know and now it is a matter of numbers of people and CONTACT TRACING where it is realistic to do it. 

IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON to sequence Lambda and understand it ENTIRELY. The focus on sequencing has to take place and it's characteristics known BEFORE it becomes more dangerous than Delta.

The scientific nightmare of a virus becoming stronger than the people's immune system is playing out with Delta. Delta is more contagious and it is making unvaccinated people sick who are then passing it along to vaccinated people that have compromising health situations such as COPD or asthma. 

We need to know more about Lamda! Now! And we need more lab space and staff to adequately identify through sequencing the virus and thorough clinical examination of reporting, the symptoms of patients.

Let's do this thing. It is NOT a waste of time and money to know the enemy better than we know ourselves.

July 22, 2021
By Laurel Wamsley

...Lambda spread (click here)until it became a dominant sequence in people with COVID-19 in Peru. The WHO noted last month an elevated presence of lambda in other South American countries, including Argentina, Chile and Ecuador. And now we know it's present in the United States.

The lambda variant carries a number of mutations with suspected implications, such as potential increased transmissibility or possible increased resistance to neutralizing antibodies, the WHO says. But it says the full extent of those mutations' impact isn't yet well understood and will need further study....

So good to know everything is back to normal.

August 10, 2021
By Thomas Maresca

Seoul - Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, (click here) called joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States a "war rehearsal" and warned that they would inflame tensions on the peninsula in a statement released in state-run media on Tuesday.

U.S. and South Korean forces began a four-day crisis-management training session Tuesday and will hold a combined command post training exercise from Monday to Aug. 26.

Kim Yo Jong called the joint drills "the most vivid expression of the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK" and said they were an "unwelcoming act of self-destruction for which a dear price should be paid."

The Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea is the official name of North Korea....

Belarusian refugee found hanged in Kyiv, dissidents feel threatened 

Link: (click here)

or

https://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/podcast/belarusian-refugee-found-hanged-in-kyiv-dissidents-feel-threatened

Belarus is one of the countries that Russia covets to state proudly that they have an ally in Belarus. That is why the elections are monitored and corruption wins the election in Belarus.

Russia is beginning to look like a stand-alone country except for it's sister, China. It would have been nice for Russia to capture the elections in the USA on a regular basis. it would make Russia's life much simpler.

Motorcycle rallies are not the only place where SuperSpreader events occur.

August 12, 2021
By Sophia Tareen

Chicago - Chicago health officials on Thursday reported 203 cases of COVID-19 (click here) connected to Lollapalooza, casting it as a number that was anticipated and not yet linked to any hospitalizations or deaths.

“Nothing unexpected here,” Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said at a news conference. “No sign of a ‘superspreader event’. But clearly with hundreds of thousands of people attending Lollapalooza we would expect to see some cases.”

The four-day music festival, which started two weeks ago, drew about 385,000 people to a lakefront park. Critics questioned holding the event during the pandemic. Footage showed tightly packed crowds at concerts and on public transportation with few masks in sight. Last year's festival was canceled because of COVID-19....

Does everyone want to get on the same page?? What is a SuperSpreader Event in the way of verifiable numbers. People begin to challenge the validity of their own authorities because there is opposing information about very important information.

August 12, 2021

By Maher Kawash

Chicago -  Chicago's top doctor (click here) said there's "no evidence" Lollapalooza was a "super-spreader" event.

Two weeks ago Thursday, Lollapalooza kicked off.

And on Thursday morning, Chicago's top doctor, Dr. Allison Arwady, gave some answers about cases linked to the big music festival.

It's been two weeks since Lollapalooza, so it's right in the timeline to see any infections linked to the festival.

To this point, the city has held its ground, saying it does not regret hosting Lolla, which saw crowds of more than 100,000 people each day of the weekend festival.

Arwady said Chicago health officials did not see anything that "surprised" them in regards to COVID cases linked to the music festival....

A total of four Capitol police officers have died of suicide.

This is what the Trump Insurrection has done to the good men and women that protected our legislators and Former Vice President Pence that day. AND there are current legislators in the House and Senate that are using this insurrection to garner support for their elections. It is outrageous this is occurring.

Surgeon General Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA needs to commission a slate of doctors to examine each one of the Capitol Police and DC Police regardless of whether they were on duty or not on January 6, 2021. The members of the commission need to be expert psychologists and psychiatrists to determine the best way forward for EVERY Capitol Police Officer.

The financial circumstances need to be assessed as well, perhaps by Treasury Secretary Yellen's commission. They are doing the nation's hard work. They deserve to be brought up to their standard of quality of life because they were hit by the pandemic as well as the loss of fellow officers. Police Officers no matter where they are become effected by the death or deaths of other officers.

The Capitol Police Officers and DC Police need to be decorated for their heroic struggle with the insurgents and held their ground until the National Guard was able to respond and end the insurrection. Speaker Pelosi could bring about a unique metal for every officer in the Capitol Police Force and the DC Police Force. I would also encourage the Mayor of Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser, to commemorate the day of January 6th in recognition of the brave men and women that came to aid the Capitol Police that day. They are valued in measures beyond imagination. They saved our US Constitution that day.

These people saved our country from the loss of order and the USA Constitution. Their heroics are no different than a soldier in the field. They are amazing men and women that serve in this capacity. We need to bring their feats to light and award them accordingly.

I hope the families of the deceased officers are being rightfully compensated to assist in their stability. I am not familiar with what support Capitol Police families receive, but, a Spouse's Auxillary would be a way of them being together to know each other and support each other through difficult periods of the country. There is every reason to bring about a good resolution to their heroics in making them the center of a very dangerous and necessary job on the Capitol Grounds.

August 2, 2021
By Kevin Breuninger and Dan Mangan

Two more Washington, D.C., (click here) police officers, Gunther Hashida and Kyle deFreytag, died by suicide in the months after defending the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot by Trump supporters.

Jeffrey Smith of the D.C. Police and Howard Liebengood of the Capitol Police, previously died by suicide within a month of the attack.

The riot began after then-President Donald Trump urged supporters to march to oppose a joint session of Congress confirming the election of President Joe Biden....

You can tell by looking at the graph this new wave of Delta Variant is far worse than it's parent COVID-19.

COVID - 19 New York Times graph (click here)

Take a good look at all the inclines to the wave of the COVID-19 and it's variants. Which incline going up is steeper? Yes, that is correct, the current one. The winter of 2020 into 2021 has the steepest decline, but, the current Delta Variant spreads faster, infects the host, and rampages through the body faster damaging the ONLY SET OF LUNGS A PERSON HAS.

What is the latest census of people with COPD, asthma, and emphysema? It would be easy to track escalations in lung disease because the inhalers are being sold at a higher rate than before.

Then take a look at the demand for other medications, like heart disease medications, mental health medications, appointments for rehabilitation after hospitalizations. There are ways of deciding what the exact toll is of these viruses and whether there were adequate precautions by state governors.

With this graph alone there is reason to keep schools closed. Then add the nightmare scenario of IGNORANT parents and children that contract the viruses and there is even more reason to keep the children enrolled in distant learning and home. That is especially true for the children of minority parents. 

August 9, 2021
By Emily Anthes

Pilar Villarraga had spent much of the summer (click here) counting down the days until her daughter Sophia’s birthday. In early August, Sophia would turn 12 — and become officially eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine. “I didn’t want her to start school without the vaccine,” said Ms. Villarraga, who lives in Doral, Fla.

And then, in late July, just two weeks before the milestone birthday, Sophia caught the coronavirus. At first, she just had a fever, but on July 25, after four quiet days convalescing at home, her ribs began to hurt. The next day, Ms. Villarraga took her to the emergency room, where chest X-rays revealed that Sophia had developed pneumonia. She soon began coughing up blood.

Sophia was promptly admitted to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, in Miami. Her parents, and their friends, were in shock. “I didn’t think that kids could get that sick,” Ms. Villarraga said.

Why would anyone think that? Why would any rational adult in the USA think that children were not going to get violently ill and possibly die? It is all politics and the politics are deceiving Americans and making them and their children ill. BECAUSE if a parent, like Ms. Villarraga, doesn't think that children could get that sick from the killer viruses among us, then Ms. Villarraga is getting BAD INFORMATION from a source she trusts.

Amazing. After all the death in this country that is illustrated in the shortening longevity of Americans, people can't see the forest for the trees. Absolutely, Amazing.

130 children were admitted to hospitals across the entire country with the same problem, they were sick from deadly viruses. If that rate continues, which will probably increase after children return to school and winter sets in, but, 130 children hospitalized over a year is more than 45,000 children. Are there 45,000 pediatric intensive care beds in the USA on an annual basis? If there is not a census of pediatric intensive care beds in the USA to match the census of children, then the country needs to get busy building them.

Not only do pediatric intensive care beds need to be in line for this variant, but REHABILITATION beds for children exposed to these viruses will also be ultimate long haulers that need to be treated for their impairments and disability. The American people think there are too many special needs kids now, wait, you ain't seen nothing yet.

But Sophia was one of roughly 130 children with Covid-19 who were admitted to a U.S. hospital that day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number has been climbing since early July; from July 31 to Aug. 6, 216 children with Covid were being hospitalized every day, on average, nearly matching the 217 daily admissions during the pandemic’s peak in early January....

"Morning Papers" 

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

August 9, 2021

Justice Department (click here) says it intends to release some secret 9/11 files on Saudi Arabia....

"Good Night, Moon"

The new 

0.5 days old

0.3 percent lit

August 7, 2021
By Brian Lada

One of the best meteor showers (click here) of the year will unfold next week during arguably the best time of the year to enjoy a night gazing up toward the heavens. And this year's edition will be enhanced by the moon phase.

The night of Wednesday, Aug. 11, into the early morning hours of Thursday, Aug. 12, is the peak of the popular Perseid meteor shower. It is often touted as the best annual meteor shower, in part due to the weather.

“The Perseid meteor shower offers a consistently high rate of meteors every year and it occurs in August when the temperatures are usually nice enough for a night under the stars,” the American Meteor Society (AMS) explained on its website.

Only December’s Geminid meteor shower boasts more meteors per hour, but cloudy and cold weather often accompanies the peak of this event across North America....

Corruption is knee deep with Trump and his minions.

August 6, 2021
By Jacob Bogage

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy

The U.S. Postal Service (click here) will pay $120 million over the next five years to a major logistics contractor that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy previously helped lead and with which his family maintains financial ties, according to DeJoy’s financial disclosure statements and a federal contracting database.

The new contract will deepen the Postal Service’s relationship with XPO Logistics, where DeJoy served as supply chain chief executive from 2014 to 2015 after the company purchased New Breed Logistics, the trucking firm he owned for more than 30 years. Since he became postmaster general, DeJoy, DeJoy-controlled companies and his family foundation have divested between $65.4 million and $155.3 million worth of XPO shares, according to financial disclosures, foundation tax documents and securities filings.

But DeJoy’s family businesses continue to lease four North Carolina office buildings to XPO, according to his financial disclosures and state property records....

You got that? 

XPO Logistics purchased DeJoy's Trucking firm, New Breed Logistics. In the purchase agreement, DeJoy became the new Supply Chain Chief Executive for at least a year. 

Now, that he is Post Master General the company XPO Logistics will be working for the US Postal Service and pulling in $120 million over 5 years. 

DeJoy was appointed to the position of Post Master General in May 2020. 

This is the price trajectory of XPO Logistics. This is pure unadulterated corruption. DeJoy and his family's business continues to collect millions from the XPO Logistics in leases.

This needs to be reviewed by the Inspector General and also to discern if this was a no-bid contract to XPO Logistics. There have been a lot of no-bid contracts under Republican administrations.

It is amazing the blatant corruption this man has dealt himself. And he has nearly crippled the constitutionally protected US Postal Service and it's union. The union is there to protect our postal workers from jerks like DeJoy. This is amazing. It took place in the open and he simply didn't give a damn so long as he got his millions out of the hard work of US Postal Workers over centuries of time. They are monsters. He and Trump are monsters.

The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development is lending $20 million for the best Ukraine electric car.

A pair of electric cars (click here) stand outside Bank Agricole's designated electric vehicle parking zone on Oct. 1, 2019, on Pushkinska Street in central Kyiv. The EBRD loaned $20 million euros ($24 million) to automotive importer Winner Group to update its facilities and help the company invest in electric vehicles, according to the bank’s press release published on Aug. 6. 

Things are looking up in Philadelphia.

August 7, 2021
By Allison Steele

Lauren Pierre, 25, gets inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine at Delaware County Wellness Center in Yeadon on Saturday. Pierre said she wanted to get vaccinated because she is going to work in a health-care profession.

As Lauren Pierre spent 2020 (click here) completing her kinesiology degree from Temple University, and learning what health-care workers have endured since the coronavirus pandemic began, she became more committed to her goal of someday working in an emergency room.

There is a real American. Nothing too dangerous to protect and save lives. Amazing. The other side of that is compassion and dedication are real clowns in this country that don't believe vaccinations are worth the time to get it.

This is what is so frustrating in this country. Health Care Workers have died attempting to save lives. They even became bedside family because patients are not allowed to have visitors. When there is a bike rally and the lives of nurses, doctors, and other staff such as nursing assistants and transport workers are in danger again. How can we tolerate such immature and completely irrelevant behavior by other Americans. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT OTHERS AND THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE COUNTRY! The USA still has the highest infection rate numbers and the highest number of deaths. Nothing makes an impression on these bozos.

So even though she’s questioned the COVID-19 vaccines, wondering whether they were safe and whether getting one would make her part of a test group, her ambition to join the medical field won out. On Saturday she got her first shot of Pfizer-BioNTech at a clinic in Delaware County, and felt immediate relief.

“As I pursue a career in medicine, I have to get it,” said Pierre, 25, who lives in North Philadelphia. “Especially if I’m going to be pushing it on people.”...

"The Lambda Variant burns through the lungs faster."

August 5, 2021

By Katherine Fung

Experts are beginning to monitor (click here) another highly transmissible mutation of the coronavirus as the Delta variant continues to sweep across the nation and fuel the most recent surge in cases.

The Lambda variant, which was first documented in Peru and has been spreading predominately in South America, was only flagged as a "variant of interest" by the World Health Organization (WHO) on June 14.

While much remains to be known about the variant, experts have been wary that its rapid spread could mean that the mutation is more infectious and more resistant to vaccines than the original strain....

Vaccines have not been proven to work against the Lambda Variant.

July 7, 2021

By Keristen Holmes

San Diego - The State of California (click here) lifted its COVID-19 restrictions less than a month ago and now news of variants has doctors all across the globe concerned. First, the Delta variant that's been found in California. Now the Lambda variant out of South America has been deemed the variant of interest by the World Health Organization.

Yaneer Bar-Yam is a professor and the President of New England Complex Systems Institute. It’s his job to study and find scientific solutions to real-world problems like COVID-19. 

"The Lambda Variant is the latest in a string of variants that makes it more difficult for us to control the disease. They infect quicker and they burn through your lungs faster," Bar-Yam said. 

He’s concerned about this latest variant.

“This is not a mild disease and we should be doing everything we can to get the cases down. We should know by now that if it's not this variant it's going to be another that's going to really raise the bar in terms of danger to people and the difficulty in stopping it from spreading," he said. 

When Bar-Yam compares the Delta and Lambda variants, he said, “It's [Lambda] becoming a concern that maybe it will even be faster than the Delta as far as spreading."...