A battalion of AR-15s won't stop one single tank.

It is institutionalized fear to drive profits. Just that simple. The fear of "the other" is rampant in the USA. It is racist and bigoted in nature and delivers profits to Wall Street.

Yes, tanks are deployed to protests. It was during the "W" administration when peaceniks were protesting the Iraq war that tanks showed up and attempted to intimidate the protesters.

Those protesters were the best armed group against tanks, they carried protest signs and wore costumes of CEOs and government officials. There were even snippers on the rooves of buildings along the protest route. 

Those protesters, if armed with AR-15s, would have been mowed down regardless of their message. The idea citizens could ever be armed well enough to stop the military is idiotic and disordered thinking. There is absolutely no basis for this ideology anywhere in modern American society.

Oh, what came out of the protests? Nothing?  "The Iraq Study Group." (click here)

The idea Americans need weapons of war is bizarre, and a social lie to the greatest democracy ever to exist on Earth.

Plutocrats are social poisons.

April 8, 2013

By David Welna

...Seated at the witness table (click here) was Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., had a question for the NRA chief: Did he agree with the point of view that people needed firepower to protect themselves from the government?

"Senator, I think without any doubt, if you look at why our Founding Fathers put it there, they had lived under the tyranny of King George and they wanted to make sure that these free people in this new country would never be subjugated again and have to live under tyranny," LaPierre said.

The same argument is being made by a smaller, more strident gun lobbyist, the Gun Owners of America.

"I think principally the Second Amendment deals with keeping the government from going astray in a tyrannical direction," says Larry Pratt, the group's executive director....

...To get a sense of how much more mainstream, I spoke with some gun owners at a diner in Hellertown, Pa. All said the government is not to be trusted.

"I fear the government, and I think when they start getting background checks, they're going to — just like in Germany years ago, they used that to confiscate weapons later on," David Kulp said.

"Everyone who has a gun, they want to take them and put them into a system that everyone can look at and say this person has a gun," said gun owner Michael Shallot.

Vasilios Christogiannis put it this way: "They put the Second Amendment in the Constitution ... in order for us individuals to protect ourselves against a power-hungry government."

Elected officials seem to be playing off those fears. Ted Cruz, the newly elected Republican senator from Texas, had the crowd on its feet at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference....

Still another one with similarities that occured in others.

It seems more important that killers have free access to their weapons of war and plenty ammunition to feed their diseased minds then have an uneventful July 4th parade. I don't know who has the worst diseased minds, the gunman or the government that enables him.

The gunman is the same as others, having nine years of violence programming and relatives that say, "I never knew. I can't believe he is capable of such a thing."

The websites and indoctrination aren't any different than those in the past. They want to kill people that are nameless and faceless with a weapon of war to make a statement about their priorities. It never changes. The scenario is always the same.

Law enforcement does a great job in responding to the violence and in conducting a man hunt. They can't get any better as they walk through carnage carrying their own AR-15 to counter the weapons power of the killer.  Any and all spending to support a response by law authority was always well spent. The hearts and minds of the men and women that seek to serve always demonstrated to be disgusted with the violence in the stone faced response. 

It is always the same as if authored by the same demon. 

Hours (click here) after a mass shooting at a 4 July parade in Illinois left six people dead and dozens of others injured, state senator Darren Bailey asked Americans to move on and celebrate....

Of couse, let's move on and wait for it to happen again. Osama bin Laden was a sick man that chose 911 to conduct horror, and the killer choose July 4th to kill. They are sick bastards that have no appreciation for life and the simple joy of a parade. How did such depraved people come to be an abomination to everyone?

But, hey, let's just move on. 

Protect the NRA and the profits from selling weapons of war as well as the Republican dogma, so, let's just move on.

This didn't really happen. Did it?

The scars don't matter, the PTSD doesn't matter. Look at the young people, they know exactly what to do to carry out a successful lockdown. So proud of them. They know what to do, while generations older say, "Lockdown? Shelter in place? I don't know what to do exactly and my life depends on it."

The great United States knows how to cower to the gun lobby and their bought and sold Republicans, so we do what? Shelter in place? Is that normal for a society? Does anyone ever ask that question?

July 4, 2022
By Cheryl Teh

A doctor (click here) who was in the thick of the chaos during the Highland Park parade mass shooting on Monday said he saw people with "horrific injuries" at the scene.

Dr. David Baum told NBC Chicago that he was about 100 yards away from where people were shot and killed during the Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb.

Baum described hearing the "pow, pow" of a "Howitzer-type" weapon and that people began screaming and scattering moments after.

"You saw blood everywhere. You saw bodies down. You saw people screaming, you saw massive amounts of blood in the people who were gone," Baum told NBC. "There were a lot of bodies. Who was expecting to need 15 ambulances on the scene of our Highland Park parade?"...

Highland Park is an idyllic city, until today.

July 4, 2022

By Katherine Fung

...Highland Park, (click here) which is well known as the backdrop of several movies, including Home Alone and Ferris Beuller's Day Off, has a relatively low crime rate. The suburb has a population of about 30,000 people and is safer than 72 percent of U.S. cities, according to online database Neighborhood Scout....

There are too many guns on the street.

What do gunmen think when they are practicing with their weapons of war? This is a picture of a woman practicing with her AR-15. As a rule these gunmen are men and not women. They are frequently young men.

But, until an American has fired a gun do they understand what enables the people full of hate. Remember the Vegas gunman?

January 19, 2019
By Venessa Romo

More than a year (click here) after the FBI began its investigation, the agency has completed an analysis of the man behind the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting in Las Vegas, concluding there was "no single or clear motivating factor" driving Stephen Paddock's killing rampage and subsequent suicide.

The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit shared key findings Tuesday from the report, which explored details of Paddock's developmental, interpersonal and clinical history as they related to his behavior before the attack, as well the 11-minute massacre, during which he killed 58 concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest festival and injured nearly 1,000 others....

How about the motive being an "itchy trigger finger?"

Unless a person has held a gun in their hands realizing the killing power of that gun does that person realize the attraction to guns by the FEELING of power. Just hold it. Don't do anything else with it, just hold it and think this is a gun I can shoot and kill many, many people. I might add, it isn't easy to kill a person.

These weapons are powerful and the reason they are powerful is because it is not easy to kill a person. It takes a powerful effort by the weapon and/or the power of physical size and strength. So, hold an AR-15 and understand the weapon. Now, once one understands the weapon, what is it for? It is for killing. There no other purpose. It is a weapon and it isn't a kitchen knife turned weapon. There is absolutely no reason to have these guns except to kill.

What if a person can bring themselves to walk into a shooting range and take a gun, any gun, walk to the firing lane, with an instructor or a spouse and hold the gun at a target. Don't fire it. Just hold the gun with the target in the sites on the gun, either an add on site or the one on the gun that might even have radioactive material to bring the site into an easy gaze.

If a person can then take aim, reasonably accurate for anyone, with ear protectors and eye protection and place the finger on the trigger. Don't fire it. Just put the finger on the trigger. One thing a gunman/woman needs to be able to understand is the resistence the trigger provides to pulling the gun into action. So, even holding a gun with reasonable accuracy, so the gun doesn't have a kick back so strong it will send the gun upward to an unknown target, feel that trigger. That trigger is a person's best friend or enemy. Hesitation in firing the gun in a real life situation or being unable to know the trigger, may be more of a danger than a help.

Now that a person is ready to fire the trigger, hence putting the gun into a method of killing, what is that person thinking? I think most women when they practice with their guns they are looking to be masterful enough to protect themselves and quite possibly their family. I do not believe women are thinking about killing people so much as defending oneself.

Now that a White Supremacist is ready to pull the trigger what is he thinking when he practices? He is thinking about his own defense from another man ready to kill him or his family? I doubt that is ever a reason in their thinking when they practice. I think White Supremacists see more than a zombie on that target at the end of the practice range. I think that White Supremacist sees a person he hates when he pulls that trigger.

Back to the Vegas gunman. What did he think when he practiced with his arsenal? He spent tens of thousands of dollars if not a hundred thousand dollars on guns, ammunition in preparation of that war that is promised to Americans that hate. The war is the important part. He, no different than other men in prison with similar crimes, believes he if was clever enough and pulled off a mass killing, other haters of his loyalty would follow. That argument could be reasonably made these days with frequent mass shootings.

But, as to the Vegas gunman. What the heck? Right? A man that had anything he wanted in life all of a sudden takes up a room in a multi-floor hotel, sets up surveillance of the halls to see any police response and then sets up his weapons so he can aim at unknown people gathered at an outdoor concert. The concert or performer wasn't the draw, it was the large number of targets in the open. He did research enough to know there was a hotel near a place in Vegas where large numbers of people would be gathering to listen to a concert. An outdoor concert. Perfect. It was all premeditated. There was nothing spontaneous about it. He hadn't lost his mind and took guns to a room by chance there would be targets. It was all premeditated.

I do not believe it is easy owning a gun. It comes with a great deal of expense, regardless the gun or it's intended use. Then there is the issue of mastering the gun so it doesn't become a danger to the owner. That means taking lessons. Plenty of lessons to know how to safely use the gun. If people are simply trusting their own ability to master a gun, that is dangerous. There is too much in holding the gun correctly, aiming it at a target with purpose, feeling the trigger and then successfully pull the trigger without danger to anyone in the area.

There should never be a gun sold without proper education BEFORE the purchase and required education and practice year to year to maintain concealed carry permits. There is plenty of reason for Americans to pass muster in order to purchase their own gun. Does anyone realize how many children are killed because the owner, usually a parent, neglected to handle the gun correctly and being sure it was locked or put away to a locked safe to the point where a child could never accidently fire it? How many guns are bought into friends homes to only realize that mom or dad was not a friend at all?

The point to this is whenever there is a mass shooting in the USA, the gunman has practiced either formally or casually and there is a particular thinking that occurs when that practicing goes on. 

What if it was impossible to get a gun? 

What if it were?

What would the hate-filled American think about instead?

This is written on a day when more Americans are dead, maimed and wounded; in honor of those that have perished in mass shootings in the USA since the Assault Weapon Ban was sundowned. My sincerest sympathy to those left behind.

The balance of power and peace's progress has been destroyed.

July 3, 2022
By David Cohen

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (click here) said Sunday that the Russian invasion of Ukraine ruptured illusions that had been in place since the end of the Cold War, creating a different dynamic in Europe than existed a few months ago.

Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Scholz told host Margaret Brennan that the brutal invasion launched in February by Russian President Vladimir Putin had shaken the world out of its complacency.

“I think too many in the world were hoping that we are living in a different world that is different to the experiences of the last century and the centuries before,” Scholz said, adding that a part of that gentler world order was that “we have had an agreement that there should be no attempt to change territory, to change borders, to invade the neighbor.”

He told Brennan: “And this agreement is now canceled by Putin.”

Scholz said Putin was a throwback to those leaders who saw conquest as a demonstration of a nation’s greatness....

Assad must be reading Trump's media, because his reality is not within the understanding of most of the world. Assad and Putin are allied in the deaths of innocent people. Russia committed war crimes in Syria no differently than it is in Ukraine.

"Long live Czar Putin."

July 3, 2022

Damascus recently recognised the independent republics of Donetsk and Luhansk from Ukraine

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad (click here) has indicated that Russian victory in Ukraine is in the interests of both Syria and Iran.

His comments came during his reception of Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir al-Lihyan in Damascus on Saturday.

The Syrian president said that Russian dominance in Ukraine “serves the interest of Syria, Iran and all peoples and nations that seek to defend their rights, principles, freedoms and sovereignty.”

Western losses caused by the war, described by al-Assad in the interview as “the slipping of the mask”, represents a redistribution of global power away from America and the West, he said.

“The steadfast relationship that has strengthened over decades between Syria and Iran has become a coalition committing to overthrowing the hegemony of the west”, continued al-Assad in his speech.

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky had previously severed diplomatic relations with Syria, after Damascus recognised the independence of Luhansk and Donetsk from Ukraine at the end of June....

Russia states victory in Donbas

What that tells me is that Russia is unable to advance but only hold land that has already been destroyed by years of bombings and cruelty. It is interesting that Ukrainian forces were able to penetrate it at all. It appears Russia can only fight for so many square miles of land at a time leaving the territory taken open for invasion again.

Russians are currently in the process of building drones. Evidently, they are in mass production. Russia has been impressed by their effectiveness early in the war. The Ukrainian drones were owned and operated by private citizens who know what they were doing. I doubt seriously, the Russian drones will be as effective. Russia has to teach their military to operate them. I would not underestimate the drone capacity in the beginning, but, realistically, the Russians are simply mimicking the Ukrainians and hoping to have the same result. That should tell The West all they need to know about the future of Russian drones.

Ukrainian grain has come into focus. The grain is normally supplied to other countries. Turkey (click here) has intercepted a ship stated to have stolen grain from the stores in the country. The UK is monitoring grain shipments with destinations to the rest of the world. The UK is using aerial surveilance to protect those shipments.

Map (click here)

Basically, The West is doing everything it can to end genocide everywhere before it begins. Let's hope The West continues to be the advocate for the well being of all people. Russia or it's satellites such as Belarus cannot make that claim. 

July 4, 2022

By Bryan Pietsch, Victoria Bissef and Annabelle Timsit

Russia is setting its sights on the eastern Donetsk region (click here) after seizing Kyiv’s final major foothold in neighbouring Luhansk, a regional official said Monday.

Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai told Reuters he expects Russia to target Slovyansk and Bakhmut in particular, as the Kremlin seeks to take control of the larger Donbas area, which includes both Luhansk and Donetsk, in the latest phase of its invasion. While Haidai said that Ukrainian forces still controlled a “small part” of Luhansk, the loss of the city of Lysychansk means Moscow has seized virtually all of the region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky remained defiant after the loss of Lysychansk on Sunday and pledged to return, saying: “Ukraine does not give anything up.”

Elsewhere, attention will turn to Switzerland Monday as senior Ukrainian officials gather with European leaders in the city of Lugano for the Ukraine Recovery Conference. Zelensky is set to address the conference virtually....

Lavish Russian assets are making it to USA territory to be held for sale to fund Ukraine. I would expect any sale of Russian assets not to fall into the hands of Russians again.

There is every reason to believe Putin intends genocide at any cost. Besides depriving the world of Ukrainian grain, the people Putin has rounded up are not prisoners of war, but, civilians treated as prisoners of war.

12 April 2022
By Shweta Sharma

Vladimir Putin (click here) has sent almost 100,000 Ukrainian refugees thousands of miles away from their home, to resettle in remote corners of Russia, including Siberia and the Arctic Circle, according to Kremlin documents.

Moscow made the emergency order last month to move 95,739 people of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Donetsk, and Lugansk away from the war zones to be resettled as far as 5,500 miles away from their homes, the Kremlin decree seen by The i stated.

It comes amid several reports that Russian forces have allegedly forcibly disappeared, held captive or interrogated people in Ukrainian towns since Mr Putin’s invasion of the country on 24 February....

These deliberately displaced Ukrainians will not do well by every estimation. When people are forced to evacuate an area there is a degree of disorientation that occurs. Most people have mind maps of their everyday movements. Those mind maps will be destroyed as soon as the Ukrainians are removed from their homeland and/or forced to leave to survive. Additionally, added to that disorientation is the harshness of their placement. This movement of Ukrainians by Russia is not benevolent despite claiming it is moving Russian speaking people to Russia as if bringing them to a homeland.

Putin's Russia has no interest in peace or protecting the lives of others.

This is Independence Holiday in the USA.

July 4th is a long standing tradition in the USA to celebrate adoption of the Declaration of Independence (click here). The Revolutionary War (click here) was being fought while this declaration was drawn up and signed. The war was officially over in 1781, but, fighting continued until 1783. The United States Constitution would not be drawn up and in effect until 1789 (click here). After the USA Constitution was signed and brought to bear as the law of the land, the Twelve Amendments (click here) was drawn up in 1789. Only Amendments three through twelve were ratified in 1791. So, the coveted First Amendment was actually the Third Amendment in the first draft of the amendments.

That said, this Independence Day finds many Americans disillusioned and disadvantaged because of radical decisions by the USA Supreme Court. This 246th commemoration of Independence Day is troubled. In 2023 will be the 250th celebration of July 4th. I am certain there is anniversary celebrations already underway for next year. Hopefully, by this time next year there will be new legislators in the US House and Senate that will return function to the USA.

This Supreme Court confuses their religious and/or political affiliations with interpretation of the Rule of Law. This time next year, on the 250th July 4th needs to prove to all Americans that elections matter and with a moral majority in the federal legislature the country and the people are safe.

It needs to be investigated, but, it seems mostly an unfortunate accident.

One bomb does not equate to "Russia in ruins," as it is in Ukaine. This is an interesting accident in that the Russian people need to know there is a war proceeding and the degree of which Ukriane has suffered. This can serve as an example of what Russia has done to Ukrainians since February 24th.

While this accident is upsetting it is important Ukriane target military installations and not civilian areas. Ukraine has run a war anchored in excellent standards of international treaties. Ukraine should maintain those treaties at the center of their defense of their land. There is absolutely nothing wrong with striking Russia in military instillations, however, Russian civilians are out of the question.

This war is known internationally as "Putin's War." It is important it remain that way.

July 3, 2022
By Henri Astler

Russia has accused Ukraine over explosions (click here) which reportedly killed three people in the city of Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine.

The regional governor said the blasts hit dozens of residential buildings and air defences had been activated.

The Kremlin said that Sunday's attack had been a deliberate attempt by Ukrainian forces to target civilians.

Ukraine dismissed the claim, saying the Russians had lied about similar incidents in the past.

Belgorod - a city of 370,000 that lies just north of Ukraine's second city, Kharkiv - has been attacked on several occasions since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February.

The latest incident happened in the early hours of Sunday morning....

Americans have invaded Sky/Cloud City.

Why would Supreme Court justices expect to have peace and order in their lives when the rest of the country doesn't?!?!?!?

July 2, 2022
By Ariane de Vogue and Veronica Stracqualursi

Sky City Haya (click here)

The marshal of the Supreme Court has asked Maryland and Virginia officials (click here) to direct law enforcement to enforce state and county laws prohibiting picketing outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, according to letters obtained by CNN.

Col. Gail A Curley sent letters to Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Democrat Marc Elrich, the county executive of Montgomery County, and Democrat Jeffrey McKay, Fairfax County board of supervisors' chairman.

The letters, released by a court spokesperson on Saturday to reporters and sent as the court ended a blockbuster term which saw historic decisions on guns, abortion and climate, refer to protests that have taken place "for weeks on end." Curley called in the letters for the officials to direct police to enforce the laws.

According to Curley, "large groups of protesters" have "picketed" justices' homes in Maryland and Virginia, "chanting slogans, using bullhorns, and banging drums."...

Article 2, Section 2 of the USA Constitution

The religious and political zealots of the USA Supreme Court are dismantling the USA Consitution.  

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

The agencies, by definition, are part of the Executive Branch. The Executive Branch does not legislate. The Secretary of the EPA serves at the pleasure of the President. The entire ruling by Robert's Court is idiocy.

The Late President George H. W. Bush was concerned about Earth's climate. He recognized this was a global concern and the USA had a place in it.

December 3, 2018
By Scott Waldman,

...Through legislation he signed in 1990, (click here) Bush started the National Climate Assessment, a sweeping study documenting climate change’s impacts on the United States. The Trump administration released the latest iteration on Black Friday and has since downplayed its definitive body of research, making false claims about its accuracy and inadvertently drawing more attention to the clear science that shows Americans will be increasingly at risk as a result of climate change.

Bush’s presidency came during a different time, when bipartisan actions to reduce greenhouse gases and other pollutants seemed possible, observers said. The very existence of the NCA is a reminder that Republicans in Washington once crafted aggressive climate policy....

President Clinton (click here) had extensive policies and was eager to address greenhouse gases whenever he could.

President George W. Bush addressed the issue of Clmate Change early in his presidency.

June 11, 2001

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. (click here) I've just met with senior members of my administration who are working to develop an effective and science-based approach to addressing the important issues of global climate change....

This is an issue that I know is very important to the nations of Europe, which I will be visiting for the first time as President. The earth's well-being is also an issue important to America. And it's an issue that should be important to every nation in every part of our world.

The issue of climate change respects no border. Its effects cannot be reined in by an army nor advanced by any ideology. Climate change, with its potential to impact every corner of the world, is an issue that must be addressed by the world.

The Kyoto Protocol was fatally flawed in fundamental ways. But the process used to bring nations together to discuss our joint response to climate change is an important one. That is why I am today committing the United States of America to work within the United Nations framework and elsewhere to develop with our friends and allies and nations throughout the world an effective and science-based response to the issue of global warming....

President Obama reached out to China specifically to have the two largest economies, the USA and China, to enter into agreements to bring about a resolve to end the dangers of Climate Change.

November 11, 2014

President Obama (click here)  Announces Ambitious 2025 Target to Cut U.S. Climate Pollution by 26-28 Percent from 2005 Levels

Building on strong progress during the first six years of the Administration, today President Obama announced a new target to cut net greenhouse gas emissions 26-28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.  At the same time, President Xi Jinping of China announced targets to peak CO2 emissions around 2030, with the intention to try to peak early, and to increase the non-fossil fuel share of all energy to around 20 percent by 2030....

When I said the USA Supreme Court under Chief Justice Roberts is guilty of gross malpractice, I meant it. It is obvious the Robert's Court is out of control and way outside the parctice of the Rule of Law.

September 3, 2016
By Mark Landler and Jane Perlez

Hangzhou, China — President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China (click here) formally committed the world’s two largest economies to the Paris climate agreement here on Saturday, cementing their partnership on climate change and offering a rare display of harmony in a relationship that has become increasingly discordant.

On multiple fronts, like computer hacking and maritime security, ties between China and the United States have frayed during the seven and a half years of Mr. Obama’s presidency. The friction has worsened since the ascension of Mr. Xi as a powerful nationalist leader in 2013.

Yet the fact that he and Mr. Obama could set aside those tensions to work together yet again on a joint plan to reduce greenhouse gases attests to the pragmatic personal rapport they have built, as well as to the complexity of the broader United States-China relationship, a tangle of competing and congruent interests....

These agreements directly come from the powers of the President.

November 10, 2021

U.S. - China Joint Glasgow Declaration on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s. (click here)

l. The United States and China recall their Joint Statement Addressing the Climate Crisis of April 17th, 2021. They are committed to its effective implementation and appreciate the intensive work that has taken place to date and the value of continued discussion.

2.The United States and China, alarmed by reports including the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report released on August 9th, 2021, further recognize the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis. They are committed to tackling it through their respective accelerated actions in the critical decade of the 2020s, as well as through cooperation in multilateral processes, including the UNFCCC process, to avoid catastrophic impacts...

China EXPECTS the USA to maintain it's promises and agreements. In reaction to the Robert's Court gross malpractice, China immediately reminded the USA of it's responsibilities.

July 1, 2022

Beijing (Reuters) - The United States must meet its international obligations (click here) on climate change and do more than "shout slogans", China's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Friday following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting Washington's ability to cut power sector emissions.

The Supreme Court voted to constrain the authority of the U.S.'s Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal- and gas-fired power plants under the Clean Air Act, sparking dismay among environmentalists....

Every national leader on Earth is completely aware of the dangers of the climate crisis. It is time to end the foot dragging and the US Congress, as if they don't have their hands full with January 6th, must begin a review of the malpractice of the Robert's Court. It is completely obvious the court is out of control. Robert's can't keep the court secure without leaks and absolutely has abdicated his leadership to the right wing extremists since Coney-Barrett showed up and is running her own game from inside the court.

Could it be the Flint Water Tragedy is finally finding itself out of the corruption within the Michigan legal system?

The people of Flint, Michigan have a right to hear from an independent prosecutor regarding the charges of manslaughter, murder and/or gross negligence of the government officials of the time the tragedy in this American city. Murder has no statute of limitations.

July 1, 2022

By Ron Fonger

Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud, right, and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy wait to answer questions from Flint residents during a community meeting with Flint water prosecutors on Friday, June 28, 2019 at UAW Local 659 in Flint, two weeks after dismissing the charges in the criminal cases.

Flint water prosecutors (click here) have filed new court motions aimed at putting their criminal cases against nine government officials, including former Gov. Rick Snyder, back on course.

Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy filed motions in Genesee County courts on Friday, July 1, seeking to comply with a state Supreme Court ruling that says state law does not authorize one-person grand juries to file criminal indictments directly....

...Attorneys for Snyder had announced after the Supreme Court decision on Tuesday, June 28, that they would move to dismiss two Flint water criminal charges pending against their client, but Friday’s filings by the attorney general show they will face a fight before that happens.

Snyder and eight other current and former city of Flint and state of Michigan employees were indicted for crimes related to the water crisis in January 2021. Newblatt acted as a one-man grand jury in the prosecutions, but the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling says that while he had the authority to investigate and issue subpoenas, he did not have the authority to indict.

It didn't take long. The entire world of professionals, through their journals, know what morons sit in six seats on the Supreme Court.

"Nature" has been consolidating information to it's subscribers for decades. Probably from at least the 1960s regarding climate. The first journal of Nature published in November 1869.

"Nature" is widely read and respected. It will profounding effect issues with the USA. These professionals, as of I consider myself one, have been working hard at bringing knowledge to the community and the public, including government for a long time now. Their work is selfless and continuous. This decision by Roberts' is not going over well among reasonable and important people.

Right now, the Roberts' Court is nobody. They are corrupted lawyers with a permanent seat of power. Their power is not as it should be.

30 June 2022
By Jeff Tollefson

The US Supreme Court (click here) has limited the regulatory tools that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can use to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, dealing a massive blow to US President Joe Biden’s climate agenda. Academics and environmentalists lamented the loss of authority, as well as the precedent it could set for the EPA — and potentially other US agencies trying to tackle major societal issues in innovative ways.

“It’s a very dangerous decision,” says Lisa Heinzerling, a legal expert at Georgetown University in Washington DC. “As an agency, if you are trying to tackle an important [new] question, and you’re trying to do it in a creative way, then this case should give you pause.”...

Calls for Papers (click here)

This court is making everyone crazy. They refuse to recognize THE TRUTH about the world we live in today.

NATO is facing rebuke from China and Russia.

We are equal then, because, NATO allies rebuke China and Russia over creating threats to the global order. The West has facts on it's side and the Asia rouge nations do not.

June 30, 2022

NATO was facing rebukes (click here) from Moscow and Beijing on Thursday after it declared Russia a “direct threat” and said China posed “serious challenges ” to global stability....

The USA does not have sovereign authority in other countries.

These are also climate refugees. A human being has to have land to live on and Central America has received some of the worst of Atlantic hurricanes. There is also a pattern that brings the storms from the Pacific, too. There have been loss of crops, mudslides and landslides.

We saw what the climate crisis did to Yellowstone Park. That is basically what is happening to Central America. These countries don't necessarily have the resources to maintain their people when these impoverished communities are devastated.

Central America doesn't get a chance to recover before their is another storm upon them. The hotter the troposphere, the worse it can get.

Picture above is from the USA EPA archives. The federal agency is responsible for the well being of migrant workers. Their health is not to be in danger while working in the USA. This photo is from 1970.

YOUNG MIGRANT WORKER (click here)  WEEDS SUGAR BEETS FROM 7:00 A.M. UNTIL DUSK FOR $2.00 AN HOUR

June 30, 2022
By Adam Liptik

Washington - The Supreme Court (click here) on Thursday rejected a challenge to the Biden administration’s efforts to end a Trump-era immigration program that forces asylum seekers arriving at the southwestern border to await approval in Mexico.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh and the court’s three liberal members. Justice Amy Coney Barrett agreed with much of the chief justice’s analysis.

The challenged program, known commonly as Remain in Mexico and formally as the Migrant Protection Protocols, applies to people who left a third country and traveled through Mexico to reach the U.S. border. After the policy was put in place at the beginning of 2019, tens of thousands of people waited in unsanitary tent encampments for immigration hearings. There have been widespread reports of sexual assault, kidnapping and torture....

I struggle for words for this majority of the Supreme Court except stupidity. Corrupt is another good word.

There is nothing here that is malicious. All actions to combat the climate crisis is a benevolent act. 

The global community needs to come up with a strategy to end the greenhouse gas emissions in the USA. The global community should minimize exporting any commodity to the USA that produces greenhouse gases. Tariffs need to be leveraged against the USA of these products. Trade restrictions for not limiting and ending greenhouse gas production by the enormous consumer base of the USA must be part of the strategy. 

The idea the USA is not a leader to end a climate catastrophe is unconscionalbe. What can be done is for states in the USA can still lead. Trade relations with states of the USA can bring about change. California has very aggressive climate policies and it should not be punished by the global community. The global community should work with the states to end the pollution of greenhouse gases.

June 30, 2022

The Supreme Court on Thursday (click here) limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, dealing a blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to address climate change.

The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s three liberal justices in dissent, saying that the majority had stripped the E.P.A. of “the power to respond to the most pressing environmental challenge of our time.”

The ruling appeared to curtail the agency’s ability to regulate the energy sector, limiting it to measures like emission controls at individual power plants and, unless Congress acts, ruling out more ambitious approaches like a cap-and-trade system at a time when experts are issuing increasingly dire warnings about the quickening pace of global warming....

Men often accompany women to their abortions. Now, they are getting sterilizations.

That regression of society didn't take long.

Men have surrendered.

They don't want unwanted children. Abortions are about the men as well as the woman. Pregnancies are not necessarily welcome by the man involved. That is a very big fact and reality of modern society.

June 29, 2022

By Meena Venkataramanan

Thomas Figueroa (click here) always knew he didn’t want children. Growing up in Central Florida, he remembers his classmates getting pregnant as early as middle school and had considered getting a vasectomy for the past few years.

But after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, he rushed to schedule one. He registered Monday for a vasectomy with Doug Stein, a Florida urologist known as the “Vasectomy King” for his advocacy of the procedure.

“It is something I put on the backburner of my mind until very recently, when the Supreme Court decision happened,” said Figueroa, 27, who lives in Tampa. “That was basically the triggering factor right there. It pushed my mind to say: ‘OK, I really do not want children. I’m going to get this vasectomy now.'”

Figueroa is not alone. Urologists told The Washington Post that they have seen a spike in requests for the procedure in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Stein said that before Friday, he received four or five vasectomy requests a day. Since the court’s decision was announced, that number has spiked to 12 to 18 requests per day.

“It was very, very noticeable Friday, and then the number that came in over the weekend was huge and the number that is still coming in far exceeds what we have experienced in the past,” Stein told The Post. “Many of the guys are saying that they have been thinking about a vasectomy for a while, and the Roe v. Wade decision was just that final factor that tipped them over the edge and made them submit the online registration.”

Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists names award winning journalists.

June 24, 2022

From breaking news coverage of Derek Chauvin’s conviction (click here) for murdering George Floyd to comprehensive investigations into police misconduct to in-depth reporting on COVID-19, the 2022 Page One Awards from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists (MNSPJ) highlighted the best of journalism during a challenging year.

Our Peter S. Popovich Award, given annually to the person or organization that best exemplifies the fight for First Amendment rights, went to Jared Goyette. Police fired a projectile at Goyette’s head while he was reporting on protests after Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd in 2020. 

Goyette, a freelance journalist at the time, wasn’t alone in being targeted. He and other injured journalists went on to serve as plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against the city of Minneapolis, the Minnesota State Patrol and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. Read more about Goyette’s story and the lawsuit here.

Deena Winter of Minnesota Reformer was named Journalist of the Year for strong reporting on police misconduct during protests after the murder of George Floyd, the bankruptcies of My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell and more standout coverage. Judges noted the sheer scope of her reporting skills deserved “the highest praise.”...

If Alito isn't leaking decisions he is using the Shadow Docket to sink voting rights.

Over dissents from the three liberal Justices, #SCOTUS issues unsigned, unexplained shadow docket order putting Louisiana's congressional maps (which a district court blocked) back into effect and adding the case to the merits docket for next

The Louisiana congressional map is in violation according to the Voting Rights Act of 1964.

This may was vetoed by the Louisiana Governor.

February 18, 2022
By Wesley Muller, Julie O'Donoghue and JC Canicosa

The White Republican majority (click here) in the Louisiana Legislature exerted its influence on political redistricting with maps that maintain their control across a state that has grown increasingly diverse. Lawmakers concluded a special session Friday with the approval of new lines for Louisiana’s seats in Congress, keeping five majority-White districts and one majority-Black.

Updated maps for the state school board, Public Service Commission and the Louisiana House and Senate also kept the same share of minority districts, despite Census data that show Louisiana with a Black population of 33% and 40% of residents who identify as a minority.

To keep district lines where they want them, GOP legislators will likely have at least two more major hurdles to clear: possible vetoes from Gov. John Bel Edwards and lawsuits from civil rights and voter advocacy groups.

“I remain adamant that the maps should reflect the growth of the African American population in our state over the last 10 years, allowing for minority groups to have an opportunity at electing candidates of their own choosing,” Edwards said in a statement after lawmakers adjourned, “and I do have concerns that several of the maps do not fulfill that moral and legal requirement.”...

There is a method to solve the gerrymandering problem and was the method used before gerrymandering was invented. When the USA Census states there is a population increase there are more US Representatives added rather than manipulating the map. It is a method with respect as it provides more assistance to citizens than simply shifting the same number of US Representatives around the country. 

There are currently 435 US House of Representatives. There were not that many when there were 13 original states.

Hello, America. 

Cassidy Hutchinson has a full understanding of the federal government at it's highest levels.

“No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.”

— U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 2, clause 2

She should consider runninng for office. She would be great.

Trump

“…great malice of forethought…”

Trump and any of his family, former cabinet and/or staff that continues to have national security access should be suspended until further notice. The exception to that is Former Vice President Pence and anyone providing truthful information to the January 6th Committee.

The USA Joint Chefs has the capacity to convene tribunals of personnel past and present that could be a national security threat.