Trump is misguided about AI.

Donald doesn’t care if he kills people, including Americans. 

He states the USA has to cut more with China. Not at all. China’s AI technology has suffered deaths of young scientists. The deaths are being blamed on the pressure of the government to produce AI weaponry for their military. 

When AI in China was first discussed it was stated there was an unplanned accident where deaths resulted. 

The Chinese program is hardly successful if they can’t even keep their scientists alive. 

AI has to be regulated. China can continue to have dead scientists and accidents that kill because of their ambitions, but, perhaps Chinese AI will turn on its masters and we won’t have to worry about it at all. 

Our military doesn’t need it. It is the finest military in the world. Trump has bought into Artificial Intelligence and replacing American workers with computers to the point of dysfunction. AI needs to be regulated to prevent harm to us all.

Absolutely not!

Air Force Major Jason Watson

Bring Hegseth up on charges. This is an act against the Major is hostility against the First Amendment.

This is a highly competent airman with sincere concerns for the military, this country, and his peers. He is allowed in every way possible to act as a whistleblower when there are illegal orders and/or danger to our country through malpractice of military standards.

Whistleblowing is not covered anywhere in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Whistleblowing is not contemptuous speech. The exercising of malicious prosecution under the UCMJ is just as serious, even more so, as the civil penalties.

Whistleblowing to protect the very country he is defending is vital to the USA Constitution. There is absolutely no misunderstanding about the warning Airman Major Watson told to the public. They are our men and women that put their lives on the line everyday and if ANY margin of safety is violated when it should not be and endangers these magnificent Americans the public not only should know, it has a right to know. 

I suppose every person on the USS Abraham Lincoln that told their families what deplorable conditions they faced should be charged as well.

The facts are very, very plain. Hegseth is in his capacity as Secretary of Defense because the president insists on it. Hegseth is the worst Secretary of Defense this country has every witnessed. He endangers the military with his FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT EVERY MILITARY MOVEMENT IS AN EMERGENCY. 

August 25, 2026
By Charles D'Agata and Eleanor Watson

A U.S. airman (click here) says he is facing charges for criticizing President Trump over the Iran war, which his attorneys believe to be among one of the only instances an officer of his rank has been charged under the uniform code of military justice for contemptuous words against officials.

Major Jason Watson, 40, has been detained twice in recent weeks. On one occasion, he called for Mr. Trump's impeachment — while in uniform at the U.S. Capitol.

A spokesperson for the Air Force on Tuesday confirmed that he was charged with three violations of Article 88, including for contempt toward Officials. The violations are disobeying orders and conduct unbecoming an officer....

Israel has a chronic state of emergency since it was originally authorized. Israel's state of emergency is NOT the state of emergency of the USA nor will it ever be.

The Case of Israel (click here)

It is a basic assumption pertaining to emergency arrangements in democratic

regimes that the state of emergency will be relatively transitory. This

transience is one of the justifications for granting far-reaching powers to the

executive authority to allow it to cope with the exigencies of the emergency,

even if the measures employed by it in that process entail the infringement of

constitutional principles of the legal system including an impairment of

human rights. On occasion, the measures are the result of exaggerated

assessments of the risks facing society, assessments which cause the public to

be willing to temporarily tolerate these infringements. As Justice Brennan of

the United States Supreme Court commented in relation to the American

experience:

The sudden national fervour causes people to exaggerate the security risks

posed by allowing individuals to exercise their civil liberties and to

become willing 'temporarily' to sacrifice liberties as part of the war

effort. 

"Free peoples", says Carr, "when they temporarily surrender freedom, will

expect to see their inheritance restored to them when the storm is over"....

Major Jason Watson is needed in his office as Major in the USA Air Force. He is more valuable than Trump or Hegseth could ever be. Every military personnel has a RIGHT to a safety margin for them the USA can create. It is paramount to their service they believe they will make it home and see their family again. It is also very, very obvious Hegseth cares little about the people that serve this country and their familiies. The Major is a great American and we need him to speak to us and end danger to all the people in our military. 

Hegseth has lost enormous numbers of planes in a conflict that is of choice and completely unnecessary. The Striates of Hormuz were never and I mean never a concern until Trump took office and Hegseth kissed the ring. 

Major Watson needs to return to work because he is an innocent man and capable of verbalizing the sincere danger the Air Force faces under Trump and Hegseth.

Don't deny it.

Three soldiers died in Jordan and those are just the latest statistics. Hegseth is more of an enemy to the USA than Iran ever could be.

Ashley St. Clare is a great American. I wish Elon Musk was. Musk wants to vanquish the truth. Why?

It was strange Elon Musk even wanted Twitter enough to pay enormous amounts of money.

Elon Musk once told Trump, “But, you have to do something about the elites.” What that meant, I don’t know. But, it sure explains the attacks against Harvard and the others. It could be just blatant hate talking, too.

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These are two separate sovereign powers. They are not one.

September 12, 2026

An understanding between Iran and Oman (click here) does not provide for the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz but establishes the basis on which it could reopen, an Iranian source told the semi-official Tasnim news agency on Saturday.

The source said the arrangement would be a step towards Iran exercising sovereignty over the strait and that its reopening depended entirely on the United States meeting Tehran's conditions.

That is exactly correct. They are meeting and negotiating. There are peaceful talks between the two countries that line the Persian Gulf. I am certain a big part of it is reassurances that Oman will not arm itself with USA weapons aimed at Iran or that Oman will not continue the USA blockade.

Again.

These are the two sovereign powers that have the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz as their waters and land. There is nothing wrong going on and Oman has been a strong peace negotiator before all this mess started with Trump and Hegseth. Oman is not attacking Iran.

Pandora's Box

12 September 2026

By France 24

A report released (click here) by The Wall Street Journal on Saturday said Chinese entities supplied Iran with satellite images of a base in Jordan before and after an attack that killed three US soldiers. US President Donald Trump has warned Beijing not to sell weapons to Iran, and in May, Washington sanctioned three China-based satellite firms for enabling Iran's military operations. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates....

See every country in the world see the USA very differently since Trump declared war on the world. When the USA became the world's only Superpower it was a feeling of reassurance and safety, but, then Trump aligned with Netanyahu and the belief the two together could annihilate every thing and everyone that bothered them. 

The Communists embraced Trump as someone they can trust, mentor, and defeat the USA from the inside and for all we know they are receiving intelligence from Trump. But, when it comes to the USA military those that would seek to exploit its power believes it is undefeatable and endless in the capacity as a war machine. That is not the case. At all. Soldiers, no matter the gender or sexual orientation, are still human beings with vulnerability. The USA military was always meant to be a defense force. It is not a war machine and never will be. By, using it as a war machine the enemy can deteriorate readiness and eliminate national security. 

Can there be another 911? Under Trump. Count on it.

See that area named "Houthi Stronghold" in the map to the right. Well, that is where the Houthi soldiers come from, but, they have already left that stronghold to carry out a strategy against Trump. It is just that Saudi Arabia is in the way.

After Iran came under unprovoked attack as Israel continued it's war against anything that moves, the Houthis kissed their children and bid their wives a farewell. The towns where these rebels live will take care of each other while their soldiers work for Allah. The USA is AGAIN the great evil.

Trump would want to bomb the stronghold in hopes of ending the supply of jihadists now occupying towns belonging to Yemen and Saudi Arabia. But, that is going to kill innocent civilians. Not that Trump cares, but, it won't eliminate the problem and if Hegseth thinks he can marshal Yemen to fight the Houthis he is delusional.

Now the Saudis are asking the USA to take care of the war that Trump brought to them. That is the problem here. The entire world looks to the USA military to do it's bidding and that is why Israel believed once Trump was in their back pocket their dreams would come true. 

The current administration needs to come to the reality they blew any chance at world peace. They need to stop living with the delusion the USA can do anything it sets it's sights on and end this mess and GO HOME! When the USA pulls out of the Persian Gulf the region will have to contend with itself and make peace a priority. But, as long as Trump thinks he is the military god of the great apocalypse this will continue to grow out of control. 

September 12, 2026

By Elena Becatoros and Joseph Krauss

...It’s a nightmare scenario for Saudi Arabia, (click here) and it has sent jitters through global markets.

The Saudis’ most essential ally, the United States, has been unpredictable and sometimes unreliable. U.S. President Donald Trump seems reluctant to widen an already unpopular and stalemated Mideast war ahead of congressional elections. For Iran, the rebels’ advance and closure of the pipeline ramp up global economic pressure as its grip over the Strait of Hormuz has been loosened.

Michael Ratney, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said the latest developments are “incredibly frustrating” for the kingdom.

“Despite their antipathy for the Iranians, this is a war they had never asked for, they had great trepidation about. And once it started, all of their … worst-case scenarios started coming true.”...

The incompetent war of Trump.

This time it was Iran in retaliation for strikes by Trump. Last time it was simply service people exhausted by Hegseth's chronic emergency status of the USA military.

This is so hideous. The attacks by Iran have nothing to do with the elections of 2026. This is all about the presence of the USA in the Middle East and the continued turbulence caused by that presence. 

Trump has opened Pandora''s Box in the Middle East and has no clue how to end it.

At U.N. meeting, Yemen seeks international support in its conflict with Houthis (click here)

Yemen's special envoy to the United Nations called on support from the international community after the Iran-backed Houthi militant group seized control of the Red Sea port city of Mokha.

"This renewed war should alarm us all," Hans Grundberg, the U.N. special envoy for Yemen, warned at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Thursday.

"It effectively marks the end of the relative calm that Yemen has experienced for over four years since the U.N.-brokered truce," Grundberg said.

He called on the international community to address this "new and more dangerous phase – one whose consequences, if left unchecked, will not stay within Yemen's borders."

Yemen's U.N. Ambassador Abdullah Al-Sa...

The cost of diesel fuel to truckers and farmers is now $6.00 per gallon. Trump doesn't care. He hates and he wants to kill. The American people mean nothing to Trump. The people of the USA simply have to continue to struggle, pay their taxes and shut up about the warring in the Middle East. Trump is using our military for his own purposes. 

September 10, 2026

By James LaPorta and Jennifer Jacobs

Multiple American military aircraft (click here) were damaged in Iranian strikes overnight Tuesday into Wednesday local time on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, people with direct knowledge of the matter told CBS News.

One A-10 Thunderbolt, an attack aircraft known as the Warthog, was struck and lost a wing, the sources said.

Roughly eight F-15s sustained light damage and were put back into service, according to the people familiar with the damage, who spoke to CBS News under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

No U.S. deaths have been reported in the strikes on Jordan.

The overnight damage came after the U.S. said Tuesday it attacked five Iranian tankers in retaliation for Iran targeting a U.S. Navy warship. In response, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed it launched attacks at eight tankers and two warships, including the base in Jordan.

U.S. forces in Jordan launched more than 30 Patriot missiles defending against the Iranian strikes in Jordan.

CBS News previously reported that U.S. officials are concerned over the rapidly declining stockpile of Patriot missiles among other types of precision munitions..

Drones...

These are our allies. They are under attack. What does Trump think he is doing? He has no strategy or goal. Jump bomb everything living thing he hates.

September  11, 2026

Saudi Arabia has shut down its East-West Pipeline (click here) as a precaution after reporting attacks on the strategically important line, the state news agency SPA reported on Friday, citing a source in the Energy Ministry.

The pipeline is capable of transporting oil from the Gulf to the Red Sea, bypassing the effectively blockaded Strait of Hormuz.

Several people were injured in the attack on Thursday, SPA said. The necessary measures have been taken to secure the pipeline, it added....

A bribe is money, a gift, or something of value given or promised to someone—often a public official or person in power—to unlawfully or dishonestly influence their decisions, actions, or judgment.

May have opened himself up to a "legitimate" legal issue?

May have?

No, he did. Absolutely he is breaking the law, but, racketeers don't care.

By Alexander Willis

President Donald Trump (click here) may have opened himself up to a “legitimate” legal issue Wednesday night after promising Americans $5,000 dividend checks, a number of experts warned.

Speaking at the RNC midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, Trump pledged to award Americans with $5,000 if Republicans end up performing well in the midterms and maintain their congressional majority....

So much for economic disadvantages.

Solar power is now less costly than fossil fuels.

September 7, 2026

Tackling air pollution and climate change together (click here) would boost global GDP by 2.8 per cent by 2035, according to a UN report, as the majority of the world continues to be exposed to air that remains below global quality standards. 

 This compared with more than 2 per cent of GDP spent on subsidies for fossil fuels in 2022, which contribute to harms when burnt, and about 9 per cent on healthcare in 2023. 

 The economic case made by the report, said co-chair Shuxiao Wang, of China’s Tsinghua University, was based on measures that were not new but “proven and available in the world”. 

 Climate change and air pollution share many of the same drivers, including the burning of fossil fuels as well as some agricultural practices and industrial processes.  

 The report demonstrated that purely using market benefits, the action would create economic value each year, the authors said. Every year of delay had unrecoverable costs....

European oil companies

 If Greenland were to sell leases for petroleum exploration it would probably go to European oil companies. My first thought is Norway. But, the idea a Texas company decided to occupy Greenland is an outrageous injury to that country.

Denmark is phasing out it's petroleum industry. I believe Denmark will no longer produce oil for domestic use or for sale. The country has a conscience. They value the future of their children. To think Greenland would allow oil production is an outrage, insult, and injury.

I told you so.

(Click here)

The Shia diaspora also known as the Shia Crescent are not going to be passively watching the aggressions in the Persian Gulf.

Oman and Iran have been in talks about governance of the Straits and the Gulf. They are the only countries acting legally within their sovereign rights.

Greenland Energy Company

The Texas company is trespassing in the country of Greenland. Any and all equipment delivered illegally to Greenland can be dumped into the sea, dismantled and used for scrap, confiscated and used to the purposes of the country of Greenland, or Denmark can pick up the equipment as evidence and arrest all the people committing the crime. When the people and equipment keeps coming, the ships can be boarded and confiscated.

If Trump and Hegseth believe they can assign USA military to act illegally with illegal orders to back trespassing by a Texas company they have another thing coming. 

Ever wonder why Russia APPEARS to be disinterested in the conflict between the USA and Iran?

This is an outrage and the USA should be pulling it's support from Israel, but, it isn't. I guess when the president has a square and a future town in Israel named after him it is difficult to continue to have a perspective.

TO BE CLEAR. THE UK IS IN PROTEST OF THE LACK OF HUMANITARIAN INTERESTS BY ISRAEL AND IT'S AGGRESSION TO OTHER COUNTRIES.

ISRAEL'S RESPONSE IS ABOUT POWER, CONTROLLING IT AND KEEPING IT.

Israel isn't the least bit interested in why the British authorities are placing sanctions on the country and individuals responsible for expansionism and/or the killings. Israel can no longer deny the expansionism ambitions as settlers are moving citizens of other countries, including Lebanon, out of their homeland and taking it over. We have all witnessed the Israeli aggression in lands belonging to the Palestinians, but, the excuse Israel always used was a matter of self-defense. It never stops. Israel moves into lands that do not belong to it, devastates the areas only to have Israeli citizens then occupy those lands. The expansion of Israel has been an ongoing issue, but, it is out of control under Trump.

Now, Moscow might be supporting Iran in purchasing their drones and it's technology, but, it is not providing much noise about the USA chronic upheavals in the Persian Gulf. 

This is sort of the way I see it.

Trump is a transactional president. He has family everywhere on this planet in positions in American embassies. He has his own listening posts and influencers in those jobs. Highly qualified people were removed from those positions for absolutely no reason, except the same old lies about how the American government does not have the interest of it's citizens at the center of its policies. That excuse has been a broken record for more than six years now since he pulled an attempted coup on January 6th.

I sincerely believe Putin and Trump have an agreement. Putin stays out of the USA aggression with Iran so long as Trump continues to degrade the USA military, it's soldiers, and it's alliances. Why would Trump make such an agreement other than hating Iran? Because he is in a pact with Netanyahu. Russia stays out of Iran and it's war with Israel and the USA for Trump's services to diminish the strength of The Free World. The Middle East is to belong to Israel as a keeper of the Holy Land.

Now I will state there is a wrinkle in that as Russia was attempting to move forces into north Africa and has been impeded by Europe. Assuming Putin was allowed to aggressively move into north Africa he could set up housekeeping that could eventually effect the war by Israel and the USA with Iran. But, that strategy is a weak and time consuming attempt. But, considering Russia's initial invasion of Ukraine it sort of fits the character of Russian leadership.

Again. There is always a lot of transactional conversations masked as peace talks that never result in anything but more war and killing.

Then there is more Trump family in Kushner. It seems obvious (exampled by Kushner and Brothers-In-Law and the Kazakhstan mining deal) Kushner seems to be interested in the ideology of economic development as a means to end conflict. That is a transaction called racketeering. Again, Kushner gets something from his international travel, the Trump sons get something out of their's, and they take their scheme to Trump to provide a ramp to success and lots of money to their own wallets. I mean even Ivanka is in on it and her promotion of land use as the Trump Ideology of resorts and casinos that always fail. Trump even wants Gaza for his own purposes under the mask of economic development.

I would like to say I am very, very wrong, but, the evidence to all this Trump mess that creates false hopes and then crashes into continued war is all too obvious.

I applaud the UK for having the guts to stand up to Israel's menacing aggression. It has to end sooner or later. 

8 September 2026

By Andrew Sparrow

Israel says it will close UK consulate in Jerusalem (click here) in retaliation, foreign minister Gideon Saar says

Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, has said his country will retaliate for the sanctions imposed on West Bank settlements.

He has just announced:

The UK consulate in Jerusalem will be shut.

The UK will no longer be allowed to participate in the US-led Gaza coordination mission in Israel.

Twelve Britons are being banned from entering Israel.

In a response, Saar also accused Miliband of “outrageous lies” and claimed the UK government was “systematically working against the state of Israel”.

UPDATE: There are 12 Britons being banned, not 10 as originally stated. See 4.13pm.

And Israel has also said Britain can no longer train Palestinian Authority forces in the West Bank under the “British Support Team in Ramallah”.

Indeed.

What bothers me most is that Trump is a transactional president. There always has to be something in it for him in order to have cooperation. Trump also tends to be too difficult by inserting his own ideas and ideologies to talks and expected outcomes. When those outcomes don't service his interests he has temper tantrum. That is not a reliable administration. That is corrupt one.

April 12, 2026
By Jean-Pierre Filiu

Some seemingly minor investments (click here) can yield enormous returns. For Steve Witkoff, then a corporate lawyer, it was simply a sandwich he offered in 1986 to his client Donald Trump. At the time, Trump was embroiled in one of the many lawsuits that marked his real estate career. Penniless, as is often the case with the ultra-wealthy, Trump accepted his attorney's invitation.

A few years later, he remembered the gesture. Witkoff, who had since moved into real estate, forged a lasting friendship and solid partnership with Trump, fueled by their shared passion for golf. The two men even set up their respective golf clubs in Florida, not far from each other.

It was during a round of golf with Witkoff that Trump survived an assassination attempt on September 15, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Two months later, the Republican candidate, having just been elected to a second term as president, announced Witkoff's appointment as his future special envoy to the Middle East....

Suggestions seem late and ineffective.

It is good to hear from President Zelensky. He stated Witkoff had good suggestions. I hope those suggestions finally result in a peace agreement.

It has been a very long time. The war has taken many lives. Children are still unsettled and some I believe are still missing. They have not all been returned to their homeland. Part of any peace agreement is to secure the countries involved so their children are safe.

There is a lot about these circumstances that go beyond Ukraine and involve NATO. With that understanding it would seem to me there would be more than just suggestions. There are NATO border incursions by drones. The war is taking on incremental problems for NATO. What concerns me is that an incremental problem will become far more than incremental and unmanageable and NATO will be compromised. I find all this mess rather worrisome. 

There are concerns for the capacity of Ukraine to return to normal, especially it's agricultural sector. The world needs Ukraine at it's best and that for some reason does not seem to be important to Vladimir Putin. Ukraine and it's people are important to a world for peaceful purposes. It is not a warring nation. Ukraine was at peace with all other countries and working on a corruption clean up when it was invaded. There are nuclear facilities at risk. There is a lot in Ukraine too important to the world in general to simply accept good suggestions. 

I am glad President Zelensky is finding the USA can be positive and attempt to find reconciliation, but, this current administration isn't as trustworthy as it should. I am concerned they are serving Moscow's purpose all too much.

September 8, 2026
by Tim Zadorozhnyy

U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys (click here), Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, brought Kyiv some "pretty good, decent" ideas on how to end Russia's war against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters on Sept. 8.

Zelensky said it remains unclear whether the proposals can actually work.


"We need to understand whether we can implement them and make them effective," the Ukrainian president said. "I don't know yet if it will work out."

His comments came days after Witkoff and Kushner traveled to Moscow and Kyiv with revised peace proposals in an apparent attempt to restart negotiations that have been deadlocked for months....

Trumpism

Zelensky has been hoodwinked by Witkoff, the Nazi.

Germany needs to identify Trumpism at every turn. All the opposition needed to do was to identify the Trump strategy in elections by calling it what it was and the election would have gone differently.

Putin is winning battles. He is looking forward to winning the war. 

Does literacy include cursive writing?

By: Maggie Downs

...A noticeable shift (click here) has occurred when it comes to handwriting: Cursive is on the comeback. Once considered a relic of the past, cursive writing instruction is again happening in classrooms, with nearly half of U.S. states mandating its inclusion in the curriculum. In California, cursive was recently signed into law — beginning in 2024, first through sixth graders in public schools are required to learn to write in cursive....

Literacy is a fundamental human right for all. (click here)  It opens the door to the enjoyment of other human rights, greater freedoms, and global citizenship. Literacy is a foundation for people to acquire broader knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, and behaviours to foster a culture of lasting peace based on respect for equality and non-discrimination, the rule of law, solidarity, justice, diversity, and tolerance and to build harmonious relations with oneself, other people and the planet. Despite progress, at least 739 million youth and adults worldwide still lack basic literacy skills in 2024. At the same time, 4 in 10 children are not reaching minimum proficiency in reading, and 272 million children and adolescents were out of school in 2023.

This year, International Literacy Day (ILD) marks its 60th anniversary. It was proclaimed by UNESCO in 1966 during the 14th session of the General Conference. Celebrated under the theme “Literacy for people, the planet and prosperity," ILD 2026 provides an opportunity to take stock of progress, deepen understanding of persistent and emerging challenges, and shape future literacy agendas in a rapidly changing world.

Over the past six decades, countries and partners worldwide have advanced literacy as a fundamental human right and a powerful driver of peace and sustainable development. Building on this progress, ILD2026 will celebrate achievements, especially since 2015, while identifying remaining and emerging challenges. It will also provide a platform to highlight effective policies, practices and partnerships to advance literacy for all in support of peaceful and sustainable societies....

Israelis do not feel safer.

It is easy to say Israelis are terrified. There is wide spread fear of "the other." The West Bank is the latest target of fear. How is a people suppose to stop being fearful if all that is being told to them is that they need to be fearful?

3 August 2026

By Zev Stub

A record-setting wave of emigration from Israel (click here) continued in 2025, with nearly 50,000 Israelis leaving the country for more than 12 months for the third year in a row, according to a report published Monday by researchers at Tel Aviv University.

After about 49,000 Israelis left the country for more than a year in both 2023 and 2024, travel data from the Central Bureau of Statistics indicates the trend likely continued in 2025, Itai Ater, one of the report’s lead authors, told The Times of Israel....

There is no respect for this country, the military, and especially the people.

The Trump administration is about the abuse of power no matter where they find it. The USA military is a vehicle for Trump and his minions, not a country's defense.

The sailors were deployed more than 250 days in the Persian Gulf. 

When the USS Abraham Lincoln (click here) docked in Thailand this week some people were quick to criticise the condition it was in.

The US aircraft carrier has been at sea for about nine months where it's been supporting the US-Israel war with Iran.

BBC Verify has spoken to military experts who say, although the length of its deployment is unusual, the wear and tear isn't. Jake Horton reports.

So, rather than returning home to their family and friends, the USS Lincoln went to a Thailand port for R&R. Thailand is a good ally to the USA. That is not the issue. Evidently, a consensus of the sailors on board the Lincoln was excitement at going to Thailand. Evidently, it was on the crews wish list. The Thai people were nice hosts to very weary USA sailors.

The long deployment and the alarm of the families are the continued issue. I am glad the Lincoln is finally headed home.

August 31, 2026
By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng

...The Lincoln (click here) left its home port of San Diego in November and was later redirected to the Middle East to support military operations in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran — setting a modern-day record for consecutive days at sea, according to Democratic lawmakers.

But the prolonged deployment has also brought with it ​reports of mental health concerns and deteriorating conditions aboard, with two military-focused outlets this month describing suicide attempts and declining morale on the ship.

In ​Pattaya, a fishing village partly transformed into a tourism centre on the back of U.S. servicemen seeking succour during the Vietnam War, some are hoping for ‌a financial ⁠boost.

Each U.S. military personnel could spend 1,000 to 3,000 baht per day ($30 to $91), depending on how long they stayed ashore and whether they stayed overnight, said Pattaya Mayor Poramase Ngampiches....

Stressing families out and the intermittent relief to a stressed deployment is not okay.

This ship was due in port during May of this year and still hasn't arrived. There was no servicing of the ship on a regular basis or the needs of the sailors. Some of that is because the deployment was met with strong resistance by Iran, a country that lost it's leadership and female CHILDREN to bombs. As a result Iran could not bomb the USA because it does not have the capacity, so the idea the bombing was necessary to defend our borders is nonsense. Iran was rather successful in interrupting the supply chain of the USA military.

Any attempt to justify this abuse as defense of an ally, namely Israel, is also nonsense. Israel was and is involved with expansionism, not defense of the country. Netanyahu promised vengeance after the attack on innocent people on October 7th. That is not defense, that is a greater ideology that includes dangerous paradigms such as genocide. Dismantling any terrorist apparatus was the mission. Forcing surrender rather than killing was the mission. The war Israel has launched is an agenda and not a defense (click here).

August 26, 2026
By Dana Taylor

...Families described poor food, (click here) shortages of basic supplies, broken facilities and packages that sometimes took months to arrive. What did your reporting reveal about daily life on the ship?

Chris Quintana:

Yeah, it's a lot of that, and it's kind of in cycles. There's time when the food is better, but then there are times... I was talking with someone whose sister was on board, and she saw the food via a video call, and she described it as slop, the kind of stuff you wouldn't feed to a dog. And there are times when it's good and better, but it's definitely cyclical there.

And another conversation we were able to peek into, the sailor was talking about how they didn't have hot water, so they couldn't take hot showers.

And the packages thing too is very real for these folks. I was talking with Senator Richard Blumenthal about this actually, and he was describing it as this very real connection to your loved ones back home. He had this great story where he said, "Even if you get a stale cookie, it's nice to know that it's baked by someone you love." And so for that to not be available to folks on top of this kind of never-ending deployment, it just really stresses a lot of people out....

If there were lists of terrorists then why were the attacks into Gaza more demolition, as Trump put it, than capture?

What is occurring by the USA in the name of Israel is wrong. If Israel is not fighting terrorism, they are killing randomly as if every Palestinian was the enemy. There are international laws regarding civilians. At this time the USA and Israel are in violation of all of them. The USS Lincoln should never have been in the middle of a war of hate.

21 May 2026

By TOI Staff

Israel has created a list of all Palestinians (click here) who took part in the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks and is working to kill or arrest each one, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing current and former Israeli officials with knowledge of the matter.

According to the report, the list includes all Gazans who were identified as having crossed the border on October 7, as well as all Hamas leaders involved in orchestrating the massacre, during which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage, mostly civilians, in the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Israeli intelligence agents tasked with compiling the list of names did so by studying the plethora of video and photographic evidence of the attack posted online by terrorists on and after October 7 and running the footage through facial recognition software, the report said, as well as the contents of intercepted phone calls from people who breached the border into Israel that day....

The attacks on innocent people on October 7th was heinous. There is no doubt about that. But, the entire of Gaza is not responsible for the massacre. The killing of the innocent as if they are the army of Hamas past, present, and future is complete disregard for civilization. There was no permission by any measure to conduct such massacre in return.

Bloody vengeance and killing agendas are not in any understanding of an alliance with the USA. The abuse of power will stop.

August 30, 2025

...“To the leaders who vilify Israel, (click here) I say, ‘Watch this film.’ To the terrorists of Hamas who vow to repeat the October 7 massacre again and again, I say, ‘We won’t let you do it,’” Netanyahu added. “We’ll destroy Hamas. We’ll bring our hostages home because we remember October 7. And so should you.”

A dose of reality that America needs.

 

The art is reasonable for the quality. Well done.

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My title for this work is "So Very True."