June 30, 2022

June 22, 2022

By Ron Fonger

Flint - One of two consultants being sued in federal court (click here) for its role in the Flint water crisis says it’s committed to bringing former Gov. Rick Snyder to the stand as it rolls out its case to the jury.

Mike Brown, a spokesman for Veolia North America, made the comment in a statement to MLive-The Flint Journal, criticizing attorneys for four Flint children who are suing the company for failing to call Snyder as a witness before resting their case....

June 22, 2022
By Ron Fonger

One way or another, (click here) Rick Snyder will answer questions under oath about his role in the Flint water crisis in a federal courtroom on June 30.

And if, as expected, the former governor invokes his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, attorneys involved in the civil bellwether trial will turn to the next-best thing -- hours of previously unheard videotaped deposition testimony given by Snyder two years ago....

It is all about money.

June 24, 2022
By Matt Berg

Former vice president Mike Pence (click here) vowed Friday that “we must not rest” until abortion is outlawed in every state in the country, pushing for legislative action in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn nationwide protection for abortion rights.

“Now that Roe v. Wade has been consigned to the ash heap of history, a new arena in the cause of life has emerged, and it is incumbent on all who cherish the sanctity of life to resolve that we will take the defense of the unborn and the support for women in crisis pregnancy centers to every state in America,” Pence said in an interview with the far-right media outlet Breitbart News. “Having been given this second chance for Life, we must not rest and must not relent until the sanctity of life is restored to the center of American law in every state in the land.”...

They got what they wanted so what are they going to do for donations? I suppose the White Supremacists that aren't in jail is a possible reason for the Republican Party.

The Supreme Court is anti-woman and anti-childhood. Article below is available on J-Stor (click here).

These rights have far reaching consequences. Roe v. Wade was necessary for many reasons. 

Adoption is big business.

January 1, 2003
By Marianna Bitler and Madeline Zavddny

CONTEXT: The legalization of abortion in the United States (click here) led to well-known changes in reproductive behavior, but its effect on adoptions has not been investigated.

METHODS: Variation across states in the timing and extent of abortion legalization is used to identify the effects of changes in the legal status of abortion on adoption rates from 1961 to 1975. These effects are estimated in regression analyses that control for states' economic, demographic and political characteristics, as well as for health care availability within states.

RESULTS: The rate of adoptions of children born to white women declined by 34-37% in states that repealed restrictive abortion laws before....

Thousands and thousands of dollars changes hands with adoption. With Foster Care Adoption option, the adoptee continues to receive the monthly stipends of the child(ren) along with their Medicaid and other special income for birthdays and Christmas, etc. The federal budget for these Foster Care Adoptions became more costly to the country today.

June 3, 2021

By Tik Root

...Movies may portray (click here) the typical adoption as a childless couple saving an unwanted baby from a crowded orphanage. But the reality is that, at any given time, an estimated 1 million U.S. families are looking to adopt—many of them seeking infants. That figure dramatically outpaces the number of available babies in the country. Some hopeful parents turn to international adoption, though in recent years other countries have curtailed the number of children they send abroad. There’s also the option to adopt from the U.S. foster-care system, but it’s an often slow-moving endeavor with a limited number of available infants. For those with means, there’s private domestic adoption....

Parents that improvec their quality of life and want to keep the child(ren) are intimidated by the Foster Care Conselers, especially in the Red States. The enormity of the adoption and Foster Care system is unbelievable even today, but, after today it will pull more and more of monies from the federal budget. 

As of today, women's status dropped to 2nd class citizen to be treated as chattle with considerable profit margins for the adoption industry.

Abortion and mental health (click here)

Women who are denied an abortion are more likely to initially experience higher levels of anxiety, lower life satisfaction, and lower self-esteem compared with women who received an abortion.

Unwanted pregnancy has been associated with deficits to the subsequent child’s cognitive, emotional, and social processes.

The number of unsafe abortions is likely to increase when policies limit access to reproductive health care.

There is a strong relationship between unwanted pregnancy and interpersonal violence.
Laws restricting access to safe, legal abortion are harmful to low-income women, women of color, and sexual and gender minorities, as well as those who live in rural or medically underserved areas.

A woman’s ability to control when and if she has a child is frequently linked to her socioeconomic standing and earning power.

The grief of natural mothers giving up their child(ren) are the same as death of their child.

SISTER IS A NUN.

Sister Mary Borromeo, R.S.M., B.A., Dip.Soc.Wk. (1968)

 “Adoption: From the Point of View of the Natural Parents” (click here)

Borromeo based this article on many years of work with unmarried mothers. Its purpose was to draw attention to the grief reaction which the natural mother experiences after the adoption of her child which both she and her family are ill prepared for.

She compares the separation of adoption to the separation of a child through death. The loss is as irrevocable in terms of relationship.

Borromeo notes that the surrendering mother knows that acceptance back into her family circle is dependent on her ability to “put it all behind her,” and so she is under double pressure to do this and suppress her grief. In cases where this is done it is not unusual to find a severe breakdown in self control occurring somewhere around the child’s first birthday.

Experiencing unwanted pregnancies appears to be strongly associated with poor mental health effects for women later in life....

Under Ronald Reagan due to Right Winged Extremists a study  was ordered of Dr. Koop. After 250 cases Dr. Koop stated there is dearly little information to draw any conclusion about mental health of women and abortion.

THERE IT IS. 

Women and childen aren't important enough to completely understand a woman's life and her decision based in socio-economic reasons to have an abortion. There is NOT a sincere study to understand the impacts of adoption on children into their adulthood. 

NO ONE CARES EXCEPT FOR THEIR POLITICAL DONATIONS.

Koop's exercise covered some 250 published research articles, (click here) most of them case studies, says study director George Walters. The results have been closely guarded, although Koop is expected to comply with an official request for them made by Representative Ted Weiss (D-NY), chairman of the subcommittee on human resources and intergovernmental relations of the Government Operations Committee.

Koop, in a 9 January letter to President Reagan, implied that his decision would come as a shock to those for whom it was a "foregone conclusion" that the negative health effects of abortion on women were...

Ending legal and safe abortion for women is a crime against the gender and their children. 

IT IS ALL ABOUT MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

February 11, 2022

By David Dodge

Each adoption process (click here) shares the same ultimate purpose: to unite children who need families with those that want children. Yet, despite this common goal, the price tag of adoption in the United States varies widely.

The cost depends on what path you choose: If adopting through the public foster care system, your total out-of-pocket expenses can be next to nothing. If you hope to adopt a newborn, however, the cost can reach $45,000 or sometimes higher if you’re adopting from outside the country....

Welfare

There will be more teen pregnancies that will seek welfare rights. The political activism today with the Supreme Court will cause very poor outcomes for women and girls. Count on spending more on programs that support the poor while the are cast out into homelessness.

Thomas has returned women to the status of chattel. When is he going to remove the woman’s vote?

The anti-abortion movement has not been a peaceful movement.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/29/us/30abortion-clinic-violence.html

I fully expect those that killed will look for pardons.

The Supreme Court majority are anarchists.

Gallup Poll (click here)

Abortion for women are supported by all American men except 14 percent and women 13 percent.

Women Pro Choice 61 percent

Women Anti-Abortion 33 percent

Politically Men divide nearly half about abortion despite their personal views.

Forced pregnancy (click here) has serious consequences, including:

Enduring serious health risks from carrying to term and giving birth Making it harder to escape poverty Derailing education, career and life plans Making it more difficult to leave an abusive partner

There is no conscience in a decision that denies women their own health. It is time to return a Democratic super majority to the USA Senate and ensure the US House maintains it's Democratic majority.

It is hideous to realize politics put women into the danger zone. There is no conscience in the majority Supreme Court. They are anti-federalist as is The Federalist Society.

The Robert's Court is causing harm to the American people. Someone needs to invade Cloud City.

June 24, 2022

By Greg Hilburn

Abortion is illegal in Louisiana today (click here) after the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned its historic Roe v. Wade decision that guaranteed women the right to terminate their pregnancies for the past 50 years....

The votes for these Supreme Justices are definitely divided by political party, with the exception of Robert's confirmation as Chief Justice. There is no polar opposites when it comes to women's health issues. These Supreme Court jutices were confirmed by Republicans. Their decisions are political and not based in any health standard or science or social antropological standard.

 

John Roberts' Confirmation vote on Septembe 29, 2005 (click here)

Samuel Alito Confirmation vote on January 31, 2006 (click here)

Clarence Thomas Confirmation vote on October 15, 1991 (click here)

Neil M. Gorsuch Confirmation Vote on April 7, 2017 (click here)

Brett M. Kavanaugh Confirmation Vote on October 5, 2018 (cilck here)

Amy Coney Barrett Confirmation Vote on October 26, 2020 (click here)

 Did Trump pardon himself ?

The Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection

3:02 pm Convened

The DOJ is the focus. It is stated Donald John Trump misused the US DOJ. Mr. Rosen was to be replaced by an attoney that would work to overthrow the government through legal mechanisms available to him.

Trump was attempting to advance his personal political agenda.

3:06 PM Vice Chairwoman Cheney introduces the purpose of the committee's work stating Donald John Trump used his office to corrupt the election of 2020 and used the hope of his followers, albeit violence and deadly, to raise illegitimate monies for his personal goals.

All these illegitimate claims and actions were overseen by Donald John Trump.

Mr. Jeff Clark letter to the Georgia State Legislator and other versions of the letter was sent to other states. Jeff Clark agreed to assist Donald John Trump in his illegitimate ambitions.

The DOJ investigations already had informed Donald John Trump of the lack of evidence of any of the claims to remove the outcomes of the presidential election of 2020.

John Eastman and Rudy Guilliani were both involved in the plans to overthrow the 2020 outcome of the elections. They and Jeff Clark were moving to carry out false movements to overturn the elections of 2020.

Why did Barr authorize the investigation of the elections and the allogations being made by Trump? Barr states it was the prudent thing to do so he could personally validate the outcome and protecting the elections 2020.

Presidential pardons were sought after the false claims being made to overthrow the elections.

3:14 pm Adam Kinzinger (click here)

He states there are times a person is faced with the risk of losing a job or an elected office to do the right thing and protect the USA Constitution. He states there were people in the DOJ that did exactly that. The department was to sew dought into the election outcomes. It was to justify The Big Lie. The election was to be described as corrupt. 

Donald John Trump turned to a third attorney general in three weeks in order to carry out the fraud, insurrection and sedition. The previous attornies asked to become AG declined to carry out false assertions about the vote outcome in the USA in 2020.

One attorney found one lawyer to overturn the election Jeff Clark. Violation rule 68. Clark had no qualifications that meet the requirements of the AG. Jeff Clark only had to carry out the sedition and for that Trump believed he was capable.

Jeffery Clark was to replace Jeff Rosen. Clark stated he could carry out exposure of wide spread fraud. Clark had the wisdom and will to carry out the deception. Clark not competent to be AG because he never had criminal experience. Pat Cipollone letter is a murder-suicide pac and we should not have anything to do with it.

Richard Donaghue was involved in stating the reality of the moment, but, to Trump it was irrelevant to what needed to be done in Trump's opinion.

3:25 pm Rep. Kinzinger calls upon other Republicans to understand the brevity of the information and this moment in time.

3:26 pm Chairman Thompson introduces today's witnesses.

Jeff Rosen, Richard Donaghue, and Steven Engle. Witnesses sworn in to tell the truth.

Rosen: Was in contact with him everyday sometimes twice a day from December 23rd to January 3rd.

Interruption at this end.

The DOJ would file an objection to the elections in the Supreme Court. Georgia nad other states were to receive a letter. The focus was dissatisfaction with the investigation of the election of 2020.

Donaghue states most of the conversation with Donald John Trump was about Allied Security Group in Michigan. December 15th report stating the election was defective. The report was to be investigated. Antrim County, Michigan.

Steven Engle states he had no reason to question AG Barr's resolution regarding the election of 2020. 

FOX News was looking for information form the DOJ to validate Trump's allogations

Gohmert states there was wide spread evidence of fraud because the DOJ is not doing their job.

Andy Biggs 

Matt Goetz

Jim Jordan 

Mo Brooks

They all carried The Big Lie as the truth and to inspire unrest and violence with their constituents and the mob in Washington, DC on January 6th.

DOJ today and in the time of the insurrection stated clearly to Donald John Trump the allogations were not true. The political machine which included FOX News continued to push The Big Lie.

Antrim County security operations group was saying a 65 percent error rate and the hand recount found one error. 0.0063 percent error rate.

The tractor trailer investigation from New York to Pennsylvania full of ballots was not true. Most of the allogations were in swing states.

State Farm Arena was fraud staring them right in the face. Not true.

Personal notes were necessary to get all the details stated by Trump, 205k votes in Pennsylvania were not counted. States DOJ has a specific roll in these elections but the states were to be responsible for their accurate elections. 

"The American People" do not constitute a client of the USA DOJ. That understanding was validated by other lawyers.

Still notes "...just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to us (the Republican congressmen)..."

Isolation incidents of fraud that would never rise to change the Electoral count in any state.

Jeffery Rosen was called on Christmas Eve with Donal John Trump that election fraud again. Pecular reference about "...knowing Jeff Clark..." Rosen was unaware that Trump knew Clark.

Jeff Clark and his division was never involved in investigating election fraud.

Taylor Green is another fraudster. Why aren't these Congressional members up on ethical investigations and more? There ya go, Trump looking to the Congressmen and women to defraud the election as well as calling up on the DOJ.

Rep. Scott Perry solicited Jeff Clark to carry out the sedition. Perry introduced Clark to Trump. Giuliani advocated the replacement of the AG with someone who was not frightened to what would happen to his/her reputation. Guiliani was at the center of the sedition along with Trump.

Rosen states Clark had gone to a me

h Trump and it was unplanned and organized by Perry. Clark never told Rosen after the fact that the meeting occurred. There is a policy of whom can have contact with the White House. Really? Does Virginia Thomas know that?

The DOJ AG and Assistant AG can authorize others to contact the White House. 

The White House/President has an attorney that carries out assessment of activities for constitutional/legal/ethical content. Meetings not authorized is not to occur at the White House.

Meadows is told by Perry that Clark is to be elevated in his importance in regard to January 6th. Meadows stated Clark needs an Assistant and not Deputy status in order to carry out actions otherwise not recognized by the FBI.

Man, oh, man. These guys scoured the entire system to find where the assault against the USA Constitution through a coup could occur. Giuliani is scum.

The USA Attorney for Pennsylvania stated any difference between the actual vote count and that reported on a computer site was due to lack of updating the computer site. There was no basis for any concern of fraud. 

4:00 pm Donoghue email and an attached letter. He read it and wrote a response promptly rejecting any request to tell states how to choose their electors. Mr. Donoghue seems upset by the email and letter now, he was probably more upset at the first reading as he paused to understand the true content of the letter. This letter and email was the actions of Jeff Clark. There was a contentious meeting to tell Clark it was highly inapproprate to carry out such actions. Clark started to conduct his own investigations regardless of the opposition to the scheme. There was no basis for his concern according to Donoghue. There was no foreign interference but Clark continued to push the idea of corruption. A series of conversations of that week became very confrontation. It seems to me Donoghue was attempting to mimize the brevithy of Clark's action in order to stop further criminal actions. In other words, this infraction is not as serious as one might think if you stop now although it was not the direct words of Mr. Donoghue.

4:07 pm Clark states executive priviledge upon meeting with the January 6th committee.

4:08 pm Recess for 10 minutes

There is a core set people that created the insurrection and subsequent sedition. Giuliani and Donald John Trump were the two leading the planning.

June 20, 2022

By Lee Hedgepeth

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — John Eastman, (click here) a Trump acolyte who advocated overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election, is no longer a member of the American Political Science Association, a representative of the organization said Thursday.

“I can confirm that John Eastman is not an APSA member at this time,” Dan Gibson, an APSA spokesperson, said in an e-mail to CBS 42.

The organization has not responded to questions related to when Eastman’s membership ended and why. A copy of the lawyer’s curriculum vitae posted by Congress shows that Eastman claimed membership in APSA, the largest professional organization of political scientists, from 2001 until at least 2019....

Trump's minions are finding disdain in the real world.

June 21, 2022
By Jonathan Stempel

New York - Donald Trump (click here) is likely no longer in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena in a New York civil probe into the former U.S. president's business practices, the office of state Attorney General Letitia James said on Tuesday.

In a letter filed with a New York state court in Manhattan, a lawyer for James said affidavits filed by employees of Trump businesses appeared sufficient to lift an April 25 contempt order, which led to Trump paying a $110,000 fine.

"Respondent's counsel must rely upon current employees to provide the required information," the letter said. "[We] are prepared to agree that the affidavits satisfy the court's order because it is not apparent what else, if anything, the respondent and his counsel can be ordered to do."

Alina Habba, a lawyer for Trump, did not immediately respond to a request for comment....

June 14, 2022

By Jack Holmes

...As Rosen and Donoghue listened, (click here) Clark told Trump that he would send the letter if the president named him attorney general....

4:21 pm Committee reconvened

Mr. Kinzinger asks Steven Engle about his work relationship with the president. He stated the DOJ had no basis to file a lawsuit to declare the election corrupt. The electors were already chosen and there was no basis for the lawsuit. The draft lawsuit was drafted outside that of the DOJ. That was not the practice of the DOJ

Special Council was proposed by Trump in December 2021. Could the AG chose a state prosecutor to investigate elections. The option was not available to carry out a Special Council. The outside council would only be necessary if there was conflict of interest of the DOJ. Barr in his assessment the need for a special council was not needed. Any concerns have been handled by the DOJ to his satisfaction.

Powell (click here) is suspected of raiding money from a nonprofit that is said to be paying the defense fees for Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

4:30pm

Mr. Donoghue stated there was authority through DHS to investigate and seize voting machines. Donald John Trump stated Cuccinelli (click here) was not doing his job and should be seizing voting machines. Here again Trump is the instigator as soon as he learns about the structure of the government.

Mark Meadows emails raised concerns about state votes. The emails came from political parties and that was not the role of the lawyers within the White House practice. Another stated an Italian company conducted internet conspiracy to change votes from Trump to Biden.

March 16, 2021

Washington – The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), (click here) including the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), released today key findings and recommendations from a joint report to the President issued last month on the impact of foreign governments and their agents on the security and integrity of the 2020 U.S. federal elections. 

The Departments investigated multiple public claims that one or more foreign governments owned, directed or controlled election infrastructure used in the 2020 federal elections; implemented a scheme to manipulate election infrastructure; or tallied, changed or otherwise manipulated vote counts. The Departments found that those claims were not credible.

These conclusions are part of a classified report to the President prepared by DOJ and DHS pursuant to section 1(b) of Executive Order 13848, Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Influence in a United States Election (the EO), issued on Sept. 12, 2018. Although the 1(b) report notes that Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government-affiliated actors materially impacted the security of certain networks during the 2020 federal elections, the Departments found no evidence that any foreign government-affiliated actor manipulated election results or otherwise compromised the integrity of the 2020 federal elections....

Johnson is working with Giuliani. Private meetings were requested by Giuliani of Mr. Donoghe. Mr. Donoghue was not interested in Giuliani's slight of hand.

Trump/Giuliani continued to pass on the lies to Christopher Miller regarding the Italian theory.

...On Nov. 9, 2020, (click here) Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper and installed a more compliant Christopher Miller. On Jan. 4, 2021, Miller issued a memo requiring his approval to deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C. On Jan. 6, Defense Department leadership delayed the National Guard’s response to the Capitol siege by three hours....

Same Christopher Miller? He received information about the Italy nonsense and then went on to be Defense Secretary or Acting?

Jeff Rosen drew on multiple attornys to discuss the events surrounding his dismissal. January 2nd meeting with Mr. Clark was to sign letter to Georgia. Mr. Donoghue and Mr. Rosen were not going to sign any letter declaring fraud of any kind. The Trump Administration was only in power for less than three weeks.

Mr. Engle was informed about the change of personnel at this late state of the administration. Assistant Attorney Generals were to have telephone meeting to inform them of current activity to replace persons currently accountable for the government.

It was a circus while Trump pulled power moves and Giuliani continued the corruption.

All the allogations still were floated by Clark and the final conversation was about removing Jeffery Rosen.

Clark was determined to carry out the responsibilities Trump was demanding as AG. Rosen stated the issue wasn't about him but it was the use of the Justice Department. The Department had to remain within the facts, etc. He believed the fundatmental institutions of the DOJ would be damaged. 

Trump, "What do I have to lose?" Trump was told the other lawyers would resign. Every AAG would leave. It was concerning as to know what the US Attorneys would resign. Trump was told hundreds resignations would be the result of Clark being put in at AG. 

Steve Engle states Clark would be disasterous. "Jeff Clark would be leading a graveyard." Clark would ultimately been reviewed by judges and possibly the Supreme Court. It would be disasterous for Trump. I can't imagine any USA judge being willing to carry out the idea of ending electorate votes on Januayr 6th. It was already done. The election was over. Trump and Giuliani just could not handle the idea of trashing their dreams as being a Russian satellite.

Video of Rudy Giuliani Praising Vladimir Putin Resurfaces (click here)

Trump and Giuliani had been conducting fraud for a long time while having power in the White House. They weren't finished yet.

Lev Parnas (left) (click here) arrives with Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, before a funeral service for former President George H.W. Bush on Dec. 5, 2018. Parnas and Igor Fruman, Soviet-born associates of Giuliani, are accused by U.S. prosecutors of skirting campaign contribution limits as part of a plot to oust the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

Both Trump and Giuliani were well invested in their plot of sedition. They were determined to see it to the end. Trump should have been impeached. What was wrong with the idea of President Pence? The Republicans were cowering in the corner of their political aspirations for no reason at all. There were enormous number of reasons to remove Trump.

FOX News is just as toxic to Republicans as it is to the country. The paradigm of lies at FOX News is not entertainment it is sabotage of decency while attacking the USA Constitution. Turning lies into fact is an assault against our democracy and corrupt and brainwashes Republicans they have to cower to the FOX News power or lose their seats of power. Murdoch is a problem. 

5:18 pm

Mr. Kinzinger gives closing remarks. He focuses on the function of the DOJ and the importance of its integrity. Trump, "Just state the election was corrupt and leave the rest to us." Trump and Giuliani regarded the DOJ as a method to an end and not the backbone of the Rule of Law of the USA. Trump disregarded his oath the day he took it.

Mr. Kinzinger called on patriotism of the citizen to understand the brevity of this moment in history.

Vice Chairwoman Cheney brings the focus to where the authority of the government lies and that is elections. She brings the clarity to the hearings and committee's work that involved Republicans of any degree of conservativism to bring the truth forward. 

Chairman Thompson brings the facts to this moment while at the time of the insurrection Trump had nothing but fabrications with the brevity of power. Trump looked far and wide for those that would bring his lies forward to be the truth of the 2020 election.

Chairman Thompson brings focus to Vice President Pence as the last place Trump's lies played out and the strength of character needed to protect this country's US Constitution.

Chairman Thompson states the hearings are to bring clarity to the American people.

5:29 pm Adjorned

There has to be research regarding the deaths of Americans in relation to population density that prohibits gun possession and carry. Legislate guns based in population density.

Start here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-12-14/the-geography-of-u-s-gun-violence

There is a direct relationship between suicide and homicide and liberal gun decisions by the Robert’s Court.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_United_States_by_state#/media/File%3A1999-_Gun-related_deaths_USA.png

Reference 

https://www.healthdata.org/

Public health standards are not political fodder. They well studied and established. Gun violence has moved into a public health standard and population density is well established as a focus of those standards.

I also find it odd this decision was leveraged as the US Senate is about to vote on gun regulations.

Has NATO and Ukraine attempted to begin a peace process with Belarus?

It is about the value of human life. People can live in peace and prosperity and have cultural and language differences. If Putin is too lost to reason with others may want to end the genocide. Many people of Belarus do not find their current president a worthy candidate. If there was an offer of peace by his opposition it may assist to stablize the region in hopes of ending the war that Putin refuses to call war.

Lukashenka has been pushing the idea of patriotism and nationalism in the past week. It is time to put that dynamic to work for peace. If the Belarus people appreciate their neighbors they may not want to bring about a conflict that is easily avoided. There are some reports of wooden tanks along the Belarus border with Ukraine. Evidently, it is practice for the real thing. I doubt the people of Belarus realize what the deception of nationalism is bringing them. Putin needs more soldiers. Some dead Belarus soldiers have already been found on Ukraine's battlefields.

I think the people of Belarus need an alternative. They should never think Russian influence is their only option in governance.

June 15, 2022

By Brian Whitmore

This is a nuclear-capable Iskander missile and launcher that Belarus is deploying on the Ukraine border. That is a little to close to NATO for comfort. It isn't a highly sophisicated missile and launcher, but, nuclear capacity sitting on a country's border doesn't have to be all that accurate. I don't see that NATO should put up with this mess. It is getting more reckless than should be tolerated.

With war raging in Ukraine’s east and south, (click here) there are mounting concerns that the threat to the country’s north and west, including the capital Kyiv, could soon return.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka said on June 10 that Belarus may be forced to enter the war to fight for the west of Ukraine so that it is “not chopped off” by NATO. The Belarusian dictator’s remarks came as Minsk was reinforcing its electronic warfare capabilities along the Ukrainian border, according to a Facebook post by the Ukrainian General Staff. “Combat engineering tasks are being performed to reinforce checkpoints and deploy additional electronic warfare equipment in the areas near the border between Belarus and Ukraine,” the General Staff wrote.

Additionally, Belarus has been conducting military exercises in the area and Lukashenka has announced the creation of an operational command for troops on the border with Ukraine. Russia has recently deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles, Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft gun systems, and S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems near the frontier. Alongside these developments, Lukashenka has announced the purchase of S-400s and Iskanders from Russia. The Belarusian autocrat has also ordered the creation of a “people’s militia.”...

June 22, 2022

Andrei Machalau (click here)

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, (click here) a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Belarus....

...Actions requested

Please write to the authorities of Belarus to urge them to:

guarantee in all circumstances the physical integrity and psychological well-being of Andrei Machalau and all other human rights defenders in Belarus;

quash the conviction of Andrei Machalau and put an end to all forms of harassment, including at the judicial level, against him and all human rights defenders in Belarus, and ensure that they are able to carry out their activities without hindrance or fear of reprisals,

immediately revert the regional Minsk Bar Association’s decision and reinstate Andrei Machalau his lawyer’s license, as its cancellation is only aimed at punishing him for his legitimate human rights activities;

ensure an enabling legal, institutional, and administrative environment that effectively guarantees the right to defend human rights, the right to freedom of association, and protects human rights defenders in Belarus.

There is already a nascent resistence movement in Belarus. They want to fight communism, not Russians. They don't care where it means the fighting is, if Ukraine then it is Ukraine. There are people in the region that do not see genocide as justified by any power. Belarus and Russian's current leadership are violating the Geneva Conventions and any other human rights dialogue.

May 31, 2022
By Joanna Kakissis

A volunteer sleeps in the Belarusian House, a cultural center in Warsaw, while waiting to leave for Ukraine. Many Belarusians have come to enlist in a battalion named after Kastus Kalinouski, a writer and revolutionary who was the driving force behind Belarusian nationalism in the 19th century.

Inside a sunny classroom in a leafy neighborhood, (click here) a burly man in army fatigues and a black martial arts T-shirt holds up a tourniquet.

"We use this for serious gunshot and shrapnel wounds, or if we have severed limbs because of explosions," he says in Polish to about 30 men.

An interpreter repeats the instructions in Russian for the class — all men are from the former Soviet republic of Belarus. They're learning first aid before heading to Ukraine, where they will join the Kastus Kalinouski Battalion, an all-Belarusian volunteer brigade that fights alongside Ukrainian soldiers.

"We have this motto — for our and your freedom," says Pavel Kukhta, a brigade leader in charge of new recruits who says he receives 100 applications a day. "We're totally in solidarity with Ukrainian people."

Belarusians like Kukhta see Ukraine's defense against Russia as inextricably linked to Belarus' fate as a future democracy free of Kremlin influence. The idea is that Russia's defeat in Ukraine would both deal a blow to the Russian President Vladimir Putin's imperial ambitions and bring down his close ally, Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko....

It was wrong to ever trust Russia.

At least China had enough integity to invest in their own space technology.

We need a new one. A rotating space station that produces it's own gravity.

June 22, 2022
By Ed Browne

NASA was forced to abandon a planned five minute boost test (click here) on the International Space Station (ISS) after just five seconds, the reason for which is unclear.

The failure of the planned maneuver has propmpted an investigation by NASA and U.S. aerospace and defense firm Northrop Grumman.

NASA is currently testing its ability to use a U.S.-built cargo ship to complete orbital boosts of the ISS—a maneuver usually carried out with Russian technology....

Today is the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere of Earth. It is time to secure Europe's energy needs before they need it.

“Reckless,” “dangerous,” “destabilising” is Russia's middle name no matter the issue.

June 20, 2022
By Vishwam Sankaran

In November, (click here) missile test prompted ISS crew to take emergency shelter amid fear of collision with debris

The International Space Station had to conduct an avoidance maneuveur on Thursday to avoid a piece of space debris from Russia’s missile tests in November that took out one of their own satellites.

Nasa said the space station’s thrusters fired for about 5 minutes in a Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM) on Thursday to swerve away from the predicted track of a fragment of “Russian Cosmos 1408 debris.”

While the crew was “never in any danger,” and the maneuver did not impact astronauts’ routine operations, the American space agency said the fragments could have passed within about half a mile (0.8km) from the station.

The shrapnels are from a weapons test that Russia conducted in November 2021 in which it took out an old defunct Soviet-era satellite, launching a cloud of over 1,500 pieces of debris through space.

Following the missile test, both US astronauts and Russia’s own cosmonauts aboard the ISS were forced to take emergency shelter in the orbiting laboratory amid fear of collision with the debris cloud.

Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson had condemned the anti-satellite weapons test, calling it a “reckless,” “dangerous,” “destabilising” action....

Emergency relief.

June 22, 2022

President Joe Biden (click here) will call on Congress in a speech Wednesday to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes until the end of September, senior administration officials said, framing the move as necessary to provide relief to American consumers but itself not enough to resolve the problem of surging energy prices.

Biden will also call on states to take steps removing their own taxes on gas and diesel. And he’ll tell oil refining companies to increase their capacity ahead of their planned meeting this week with administration officials.

Combined, the senior administration officials claimed, the steps Biden will call for could reduce the price per gallon of gas by $1. Yet that figure relies on a number of steps entirely out of the President’s control — not least of which is convincing a skeptical Congress to approve his plan....

The measure is needed. At this point there is no telling how much price gouging benefits the gas station vs. it's supplier. It would be prudent to examine the cause of high gas prices and document for Congress' reading and assessment.

However, today emergency relief is important to the people of the USA. State and federal taxes can be near $2.00 per gallon in some cases.

The emergency bill needs to focus on the consumer and the relief Americans and vacation consumers can receive immediately. Within this emergency relief there will be tempation by gas station owners and distributers to enjoy the relief themselves without passing on the support to the consumer. In that is price gouging and law enforcement has to take it on. Legislators might want to allow a small percentage of 5% to the relief to the gas station and distributors. But, the consumer of gasoline and methane for home use, should receive 90% of the relief and soon. 

All fifty states rely on tourism for their economic viability. The current cost of gasoline is prohibitive even to staycations in visiting local amusements.

Unfair prejudicial impact on jury

This is an interesting finding. Prosecutors are seen as breaking the ethics of law. Drama is a violation of ethics.

June 22, 2022
By Tina Burnside

Georgia's highest court (click here) has overturned the murder conviction of Justin Ross Harris, the father sentenced to life without parole for the 2014 hot car death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper.

In an opinion issued on Wednesday, the Georgia Supreme Court stated that evidence submitted by the state during Ross' trial regarding his "numerous sexual dalliances and escapades and his desire to act on ongoing sexual communications and solicitations with other women" as the driving force behind his decision to kill his son had unfair prejudicial impact on the jury....

Break the window as calling the police. The chilid or pet does not have to show signs of distress. Distress is already begun and will escalate quickly. The "Break Glass" instrument below is simple and not required to be assembled wasting valuable time.

The owner of the car can call their insurance company to replace the glass. It would be good if state and federal legislators provided protection for Good Samatarians capable of saving the lives inside a hot car even with the windows partly cracked. If it is a certain degrees of temperature outside and there is a living being inside the car then the danger is defined and citizens can act on the circumstances alone and be exonerated from any liability.

June 4, 2022

What would you do to free yourself (click here) from your car if the doors jam? One solution is a car window breaker, which is a tool that helps you exit your car’s cabin in case of an emergency. You can also rescue someone else who is trapped inside their car. This guide will help you find the best car window breaker on the market....

Benefits of a car window breaker.

Prepare for emergencies. Anything can happen when you're traveling, and you may get into an accident. Sometimes cars automatically lock the doors, which can trap you inside. A car window breaker will enable you to break the side window and crawl out of the car.

Prepare for severe weather. A car window breaker can come in handy if you live in a region that experiences severe weather changes, such as storms, floods, or heavy snow. You will have peace of mind knowing that you can break out of your car if the weather takes a turn for the worst. 

Save lives. Side window and windshield breaker tools are an essential item in a safety tool kit, especially for first responders such as firefighters, paramedics, police officers, rescuers, and emergency medical technicians. It helps to remove car crash victims trapped in their cars and is faster than kicking out the window. 

I rest my case. Putin is a killer.

China is lost to ideology. Currently, China and Russian sea vessels are surrounding Japan.

Brinkmanship should never be tolerated and met with force if necessary.

It is time to prepare to be a first strike country, because, Putin obviously is there already. The world has no choice but to confront this new reality. There should be strong resolutions to end the aggression of these countries in the General Assembly of the United Nations. It is time the world address Putin's obvious aggression that is a real threat to the entire global community and China's willingness to assist in death and destruction.

Russia is not just looking at Eastern Ukraine, it is looking at it's next step in expansionism. The world is at risk.

I find it really funny that Russia has no respect for nuclear power and poisoning and it's lethality. Russia is so large and it's borders so expansive just as it is legally defined now, there is no national security scheme to completely protect that country, nor has there been any in the past. Russia is very vulnerable and the Free World needs to stand it's ground. It is time for the Free World to assert it's capacity to end such fear and end aggression by these rouge countries. Yes, Russia and China has joined the ranks of the rouge countries.

June 22, 2022
By Will Stewart

The UK will 'vanish' if the standoff in Lithuania leads (click here) to a nuclear World War 3, a retired Russian general and military expert has warned.

Lieutenant-General Evgeny Buzhinsky explained to Russian state TV that the West is playing a dangerous game by blockading Russian exclave Kaliningrad to stop sanctioned goods being sent to the area through NATO state Lithuania.

He hit out at British general Sir Patrick Sanders, who this week took charge of British land forces and told soldiers to prepare to fight and defeat Russia in a third World War, the Mirror reports.

Buzhinsky stated: “He doesn’t understand that as a result of the Third World War Britain will physically cease to exist... The island will vanish, so I’ve no idea where he or his descendants will live.”

In his message to troops, General Sanders had said: “I am the first Chief of the General Staff since 1941 to take command of the Army in the shadow of a land war in Europe involving a continental power.

"The scale of the enduring threat from Russia shows we've entered a new era of insecurity. It is my singular duty to make our Army as lethal and effective as it can be. The time is now and the opportunity is ours to seize.”...

Afghanistan

Are there mines in operation? They need to be checked for people that may still be alive but trapped.

The Pakistan ISI should never have tolerated the reconstitution of the Taliban. Afghanistan needs sophisticated leaders that are recognized by the rest of the globe. Pakistan destroyed lives and futures for children in Afghanistan.

Senator Ron Johnson is a law breaker.

Sen. Ron Johnson lobbied Pence to accept fake elector documents, evidence shows

President Trump (click here) invites Sen. Ron Johnson to speak after he was introduced at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena where a president held a rally in Milwaukee last January.

By Matthew Brown

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) (click here) offered to hand-deliver certificates of fake electors to Vice President Mike Pence as part of the Trump campaign’s broader effort to overturn the 2020 election result, according to evidence released by the House Jan. 6 committee.

In texts obtained by the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a Johnson staffer approached a top aide to the vice president requesting that Pence and Johnson meet for Johnson to deliver fake electors’ votes for Michigan and Wisconsin, which the Trump campaign had also instructed the fake electors send to the National Archives.

“Do not send that to him,” the Pence aide told the Johnson staffer, rejecting the senator’s request that Pence participate in the ruse to contest the election. The previously undisclosed interaction emphasizes the degree to which elected officials in Donald Trump’s orbit tried to aid the former president in contesting the election.

The Trump campaign instructed fake electors to fabricate elector documents and send them to the vice president’s office and the National Archives as if they were the authentic electors. The electors also met in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Nevada and Wisconsin on Jan. 4, at the Trump campaign’s instruction.

The documents had no legal standing and consequently were ignored by the National Archives, leading to Johnson’s office to intervene and directly lobby Pence’s office, a request he ultimately rebuffed.