Achieving peace means practicing peace.

9 October 2026

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 (click here) goes to a person who with exceptional courage and integrity has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order. This year’s laureate has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

Navi Pillay’s commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass are constants in a long career. Born into a family of Indian Tamil origin under apartheid in Durban, South Africa, Pillay became a lawyer and legal pioneer, confronting deep structural discrimination, segregation and exclusion. A common thread runs from her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who stood up against apartheid to her service as a judge in some of the key international court cases of our time.

This year’s laureate has significantly enlarged the scope and impact of international law. She has served as a judge on the High Court in South Africa, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court. She was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and, until recently, she chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Today Navi Pillay is a judge on the International Court of Justice in the case where Myanmar stands accused of genocide....

It is safe to say the world appreciates justice over war. Interestingly, the International Criminal Court also uses the symbol of scales to illustrate it's mission.

The Sakharov Prize - what it is about (click here)

October 22, 2026

By Lorne Cook and Mike Corder

BRUSSELS (AP) — The International Criminal Court (click here) and its embattled staff have won the European Union’s top human rights honor, the Sakharov Prize, an official said Thursday.

The award came just days after the Trump administration announced sweeping new sanctions on the court, which is based in The Hague, Netherlands, as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal over investigations into the United States and its allies, including Israel.

Military escort

Trump is an idiot to his own ambitions. Russian oil tankers are approaching the USA coast. What if they explode in the ports? 

The tankers should not be approaching the coast. If the executive branch insists on threatening USA national security then the tankers need to be off loaded far offshore.

This Russian operation with Trump’s insistence is an enormous breach of national security, besides being highly illegal in the face of detailed legislative sanctions.

It is best for sovereign countries to align for their region rather than be used as a proxy war.

28 October 2026

Egypt (click here)

Egypt’s parliament (click here) has authorised President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to provide military support to Saudi Arabia as attacks by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis intensify.

The House of Representatives, chaired by Speaker Hisham Badawi, approved the mandate in a vote on Monday.

A parliamentary statement shared with the Reuters news agency said el-Sisi had been authorised to “undertake necessary” measures to support Saudi Arabia in defending itself, should Riyadh request assistance.

The move raises the possibility of Egypt becoming more directly involved in a conflict which has consumed the Gulf and the Red Sea in recent weeks. It follows Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s international airport and facilities belonging to Saudi Arabia’s state oil company, Aramco, disrupting flights and oil exports.

The Houthi armed group that controls Yemen’s capital Sanaa is fighting the Saudi-led coalition, which backs the internationally recognised government.

Fighting has intensified in recent weeks, deepening the humanitarian crisis that has already devastated Yemen....

The military strategy of burying the truth is better than living with it.

 October 13, 2026

As of September 24, 2026, (click here) CPJ’s preliminary investigations show that at least 247 journalists and media workers are among the more than tens of thousands killed across Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Israel and Iran since the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, 2023, and the Iran war began on February 28, 2026. Israel has now killed more journalists and media workers than any other government since CPJ began collecting data in 1992. More press members have died in the combined Israel-Gaza and related regional conflicts than in any other war that CPJ has documented....

25 August 2026

Mariam Abu Dagga, (click here) a mother and journalist, was killed in a 2025 Israeli double-tap attack on the last functioning hospital in South Gaza - she had a way out of Gaza but stayed to cover the slaughter. Chief international correspondent Bel Trew reports

Reaching into the body bag, and gently cradling her face, a family member places a mobile phone next to Mariam Abu Dagga's ear.

It is a devastating moment. Mariam, a journalist for Independent Arabia, has just been killed in an Israeli double-tap strike on the last functioning hospital in southern Gaza. She is surrounded by mourners in a tableau of grief.

On the phone is her only child, 14-year-old Ghaith. And he is saying goodbye.

He is more than 1,000 miles away, after his mother fought hard for him to be evacuated to safety in the UAE a year earlier.

And so - amid Israel's unprecedented siege and bombardment of Gaza - this is the only way for the distraught young boy to say goodbye....

The deadliest strike on Nassar Hospital consisted of bombs and not tanks, is believed to be due to it's Wifi Network and no other reason. Israel would believe such sophisticated communication capacity of a hospital with diminished numbers of therapeutic supplies a threat. The communication tower was about ambulances, not Hamas. There was not a health worker in Nassar Hospital that would harbor killers. The IDF could have taken any Hamas members that were seeking treatment in that facility. The brutality of the war in Gaza was never necessary.

25 August 2026

Mariam Abu Dagga, (click here) a reporter with Independent Arabia was killed on the Israeli 25 August 2025 in a double-tap tank strike on Nasser Hospital, one of the last functioning medical centres in south Gaza. She was among at least 22 people, including five journalists, killed that day.

Based on dozens of testimonies from witnesses and whistleblowers, as well as analysis of images and videos, a joint investigation by the Independent and Independent Arabia, has put together the most comprehensive reconstruction of the attack revealing evidence of possible war crimes.

The findings also refute the Israeli military’s claim that the target was a camera “that was positioned by Hamas.”

The Israeli military declined to specifically comment on our findings but said “the review is still ongoing under the General Staff Fact-Finding and Assessment Mechanism.”

October 28, 2026

An Egyptian court ordered the closure (click here) of one of Egypt’s last independent news outlets Tuesday after convicting its editor-in-chief of operating a website without a license, a major blow to the country’s shrinking press freedom.

The publication, Mada Masr, said its editor-in-chief and founder, Lina Attalah, was released after paying a fine equivalent to about $53,400. She had been detained for seven hours after the verdict, with her whereabouts unknown during that time, according to the outlet.

Mada Masr is one of the few remaining news outlets in Egypt known for investigating corruption, the expanding role of the country’s powerful military, and human rights violations in a country where newspapers and television stations are closely controlled by authorities. Ahead of Tuesday’s hearing, Human Rights Watch called the prosecution of Attalah an escalation of an “outrageous attack on independent media.”

Attalah’s lead lawyer, Hassan el-Azhary, said Mada Masr planned to appeal the closure order....

There exists still the desire for a peaceful Israel without hatred or war.

October 27, 2026
By Julia Jester

KFAR AZA, Israel — Israeli American Keith Siegel (click here) doesn’t do politics, he said. Even, and especially, after he was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, and held hostage in Gaza for 484 days.

But when asked about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closing argument going into Tuesday’s voting that only he can keep Israel safe, Siegel simply said, “I don’t agree.”

On the eve of the first election since then, Siegel, now 67, made a rare visit to his home in Kfar Aza, a kibbutz a mile from the Gaza border where 80 people were murdered and 19 were taken captive by Hamas on Oct. 7.

As automatic gunfire and mortar rounds went off in the distance near the Palestinian territory, Siegel said he wanted the devastation and trauma to end.

“I hate war and I hate killing and I hate death, and unnecessary death, from my point of view,” he said. “I don’t only think about us Israelis, I also think about children in Gaza that were born into this reality they didn’t choose.”...

Netanyahu has waged a throw down the gantlet inhumane war.

Some of the greatness that was Gaza was the ability of the Palestinians to create a great city. Gaza was being transformed, not of resorts and casinos but of the dreams of the Palestinian people. Containment of both sides of mutual hate was necessary to allow the growth of a civilization worth protecting and enjoying. It is my belief Gaza now lies in disastrous debris because Netanyahu was afraid of that reality.

I could never understand the attacks on hospitals. It was a clear violation of the international laws. The way Hamas lying in hospitals should have been handled is for arrests and imprisonment carried out with potential of death sentences after trial. That would have been the way a civilized people would have done it. But, instead any Palestinian, any human being in Gaza for that matter, was the enemy. That was not the case. But, seeing every man, woman, and child as the enemy only justified the destruction of the infrastructure that had become Gaza.

The USA was never called in to mitigate the tragedy of October 7, 2026. The alliance was unimportant to the IDF. Securing Israel would have been an admirable pursuit that would have saved lives of innocent people while routing out Hamas. I could not understand that either. Why would Israel go it alone in such a destructive and deadly way? The elections in the USA in November would put Trump back into power and with that a partner in killing. I believe the assignment given to Trump occurred in his first term with the honors of a square in Jerusalem in his name along with a future Israeli community. I can't help but speculate that Trump put Iran in his sites long before he decided Hegseth could carry out assaults on peaceful use of nuclear capacity with GBU-43/B bombs. Let's face it with land and landmarks in his name didn't Trump have a vested interest in Israel, besides the religion of his son-in-law (click here).

Going forward, it is the responsibility of the USA to hold hearings to bring about the truth of the attacks into Gaza. There were international laws broken and people killed unmercifully and without cause. The destruction of Gaza has created more reason for hate and more reason to stop the hate. 

The war in Gaza is wrong.

The war in Iran is equally as wrong.

The opposition to these wars is not about deciding the religious justification according to ancient text, or as revenge for past genocidal sins, it is about protecting the sanctity of life without hatred or bias as to whom lives on Earth. 

Accountability has to be clearly understood to be the only form of justice that exists in a world of civilizations.

Who is responsible for Israel's bloodlust?

October 23, 2026

Reserved, (click here) media-shy, and a relative newcomer to Israeli politics, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot presents a clear contrast to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the veteran leader he aims to defeat in an election next week. His image as a straight-talking security hawk from humble roots has resonated in a nation going to the polls on October 27 for the first time since Hamas attacked Israel three years ago....

Israel needs a peacemaker, not a war monger. Part of what is being observed by the world is Israel's understanding of peace and whether or not it is interested in it. Did any movement toward peace die with Ariel Sharon? 

October 27, 2026
By Steven Scheer, Rami Ayyub and Lina Obeid

Benjamin Netanyahu (click here) won the support of an unexpectedly clear majority of Israeli Jews in an election billed as a major turning ​point in his nation's history, apparently ensuring he will survive as prime minister at least in a caretaker role.

With around 70.7% of votes tallied on Wednesday morning, Israeli media forecast Netanyahu's bloc of ‌right-wing, far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties winning 54 seats in parliament, far surpassing 47 for the opposition bloc of rival Gadi Eisenkot. Parties representing Israelis of Arab descent would win 19....

It has been three years and no formal trial. Killing with American weapons has become a preferred way of justice for Israel. There seems to be no end in sight. The methods and reasons for war are questionable as well. October 7, 2023 (click here) occurred, but, the retaliation for those deaths has taken on a gruesome reality with a death total of 73,928 (click here), including 20,179 children and 12,500 women.

One of the justifications for attacks on hospitals were the tunnels. There is growing evidence that was nothing but propaganda. There were never tunnels under the hospitals and the attacks are a clear violation of every international law on the books.

October 27, 2026

By Christian Baha

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (click here) reported on Wednesday that its troops eliminated three operatives from Hamas' Nukhba unit last week in the Gaza Strip.

"Last Thursday, the IDF struck in the southern Gaza Strip and eliminated Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed Baraka, a Nukhba terrorist in Hamas' military wing," the military said in a statement, alleging that the operative participated in the October 7 attack.

Additionally, the IDF stated that its forces killed Omar Awadallah and Mahmoud Mohammed Al-Nimr in the strip last Friday, claiming that both were members of the Nukhba wing, while the former one served as a "platoon commander."...

Donald's DOJ is practicing malicious prosecution.

Whom is in charge over there?

October 27, 2026
By Salvador Rizzo, Perry Stein and Jeremy Roebuck

A federal grand jury in D.C. rejected (click here) an attempt by the Justice Department to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for the account she gave lawmakers of President Donald Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a grand jury matter....

Trump's crime family is coming to the USA to live.

Now why would these very fine gentlemen want to cause hardship in Brazil? Hm?

October 27, 2026
By Carrie Kahn

Brazil right-wing (click here) presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro (left) with President Donald Trump at the Oval Office in May 26, 2026: days after the meeting the U.S. government imposed a 25% extra tariff on imports from Brazil, a move largely attributed to an alleged requests by him, his brother Eduardo Bolsonaro (right) and far right blogger and influencer Paulo Figueiredo (center). Eduardo Bolsonaro

The United States says it will issue visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family (click here), amid multiple reports that the defeated Brazilian presidential candidate has left the country following Sunday's election. His whereabouts have not been independently confirmed.

Bolsonaro, a conservative politician and ally of President Donald Trump, lost Sunday's presidential election to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by more than four million votes, just three weeks after winning the first round. While Bolsonaro's Liberal Party has since recognized Lula's victory, Bolsonaro has refused to concede defeat.

On Tuesday a senior U.S. administration official said that the State Department would issue visas to Bolsonaro and his family, allowing them to enter the country....

The Islamophobia is getting out of hand.

It is too much to expect the Republican candidates to call out the million-billionaire ads that seek to create irrational fear about the Democratic candidates for the USA Senate, so let me give it a go.

I have never seen that dish being prepared in the video below. Heck, I have never heard of it before. As a young person my grandmother would fix some profoundly Polish dishes for Easter. Every Easter she would have her homemade Polish Kishka in a basket along with other items she planned to serve at Easter Breakfast and Supper. She then donned her babushka and went to the church basement with all the other women to have her basket blessed. 

Pizza has a long history. Flatbreads with toppings were consumed by the ancient Egyptians, Romans and Greeks. (The latter ate a version with herbs and oil, similar to today’s focaccia.) But the modern birthplace of pizza is southwestern Italy's Campania region, home to the city of Naples.

The United States of America is a melting pot. It is not okay to bring people from other countries to the USA to fill employment needs and then turn around after promising them a dream come true deport them back to the nightmare where they left.

Every ethnic population in the USA has faced discrimination at one time or another, but, they were able to get to the other side of the discrimination and bring diversity to this country with a deeper knowledge and acceptance of difference. 

There is a problem with the current Republican party. They want to have the country abandon not just people of different skin color, but, our proud heritage as a melting pot of ethnic diversity that has culturally enriched this country. It is good for Americans to accept difference and exercise tolerance to create a strong country. Every ethnic identity in the USA has served in the USA military. Every form of religious practice has been within the minds and hearts of the soldiers that proudly defended this democracy and sacrificed their lives. Those soldiers and their faiths are displayed on the tombstones in Arlington National Cemetery and national cemeteries all over this country. 

In the year 2026, the Republicans want to rule this country by taking a majority in the USA House and USA Senate. They are not interested in governance. They are mocking diversity and proliferating hate for difference by creating fear of a religion and culture. 

Look, I want this recipe. I have never tried the dish but it looks plenty interesting. 

I may not wear the traditional dress of the Muslim women, but, I have relatives that wore babushkas to church and by damn it, they will continue to do so if they want to. I welcome the breath of fresh air and the amazing energy of Abdul El-Sayed. It is good to have a guy on our side that is a physician. He knows what it is like to be a patient and seek the help of competent people to solve complicated problems of longevity. 

Any fear mongering to instill islamophobia is not truth in advertising, it is tabloid nonsense and does not belong in a moral USA.

Fall back one hour at 2 AM local time to 1 AM.

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Daylight Saving Time concludes this weekend, November 1, 2026, across most of the U.S. and Canada. Clocks will fall back one hour at 2 AM local time to 1 AM, granting an extra hour of sleep and shifting sunrise and sunset an hour earlier. This change occurs despite the U.S. House passing the Sunshine Protection Act, which aimed to make Daylight Saving Time permanent; however, the bill has not yet become law. Consequently, most Americans will still adjust their clocks. Some areas, including Arizona, Hawaii, and parts of Canada like Alberta (starting 2026), do not observe these biannual changes. Public opinion largely favors ending clock changes, though there's a split between preferring permanent standard time or permanent daylight saving time. DST is set to resume on March 14, 2027.

Get involved.

Corruption cannot occur when voters are involved in elections. Investment in participation often leads to more and more interest in the outcomes of the elections. That means there is honesty in reporting and honesty in the elected government that follows. When people police their own officials by following their votes and the content of the legislation passed, there is no way corruption can exist. 

Read newspapers. That is the best advice I can provide. Read more than one. The newspapers are required to report the truth. I am not talking about the tabloids or infotainment. I am talking about the solid newspapers that have been around for a long time. Their archives about the living history of this country is amazing. Then follow up the information with action and write the people you voted for and set the record straight as to where his country's legislation should take us.

What I like about Texas Paul is his frankness in assessing the immoral, corrupt, and simply mean spirited politicians that want to always cause waves rather than governance.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins (click here)

All I heard what how poorly President Lula of Brazil was doing. He was supposedly going to lose his re-election. That didn't happen. Quite frankly, I would have been very surprised if President Lula did lose. He has been a magnificent president for Brazil. The people really loved him.

The nonsense about how President Lula was going to lose was about money. The "talk" was about how there would be no more regulations and Wall Street would have huge profits where they could not otherwise. No lie. That is what the anti-Lula talk was all about. Brazil is Latin America's largest economy. If there is a loss today in the Brazil market it is because they were artificially inflated with ideology of greed. The place to look to understand the nonsense about President Lula losing are the Brazilian market investors that got out of their investments the night before the election.

The people rule in a democracy. Don't ever let that slip away.

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What is expected of our military?

When an American joins the military they expect to have to answer to a chain of command. It is how the military works. In the past the people at the top of the Pentagon had the most education and experience to direct operations for the country's national defense. Those at the top would never accept the issuance of illegal orders. As a matter of fact when the USA was deployed to the southern border of the USA and the country was stunned, General Mattis (click here) (Trump's first term) openly stated it was a legal order. 

Senator Mark Kelley was a former commander and Captain in the USA Navy. This is some of his accomplishments:

During his Navy career, Kelly received:(click here):

two Defense Superior Service Medals

one Legion of Merit

two Distinguished Flying Crosses

four Air Medals (two individual/two strike flight) with Combat "V"

two Navy Commendation Medals, (one with combat "V");

One Navy Achievement Medal

two Southwest Asia Service Medals

one Navy Expeditionary Medal

two Sea Service Deployment Ribbons

a NASA Distinguished Service Medal

an Overseas Service Ribbon

Honestly, the one place that lists all Senator Kelly's accomplishments is Wikipedia. When serving in the military, including NASA, he never blinked at the devotion he shared with his brother for the needs of this country. Never once. He was there for all of us and did the hard stuff. When he retired it was only right he entered a civilian life to pursue wherever his interests lead him. We were lucky to have him elected as a Senator and he has brought invaluable insight and dedication to this country yet again. 

The assault of the Secretary of Defense in Trump's second term is oppression of the truth. Hegseth is attempting to punish Senator Kelly to bring him to heel to the demands of a disturbed president. 

We are democracy. 

We have laws. 

We are proud of our military.

We depend on the women and men that line the halls of history in defending this country and our allies.

There is absolutely no way a civilian that was once a celebrated military officer should receive the type of treatment and disregard for his honest assessment of this country, it's national defense, and the legality of the commands to our military. 

Secretary of Defense Hegseth has lead one of the most failed Defense Department in this country's history. The reasons are far to many to mention here. But, I am certain for those in the USA Senate that spoke out against illegal orders they know all to well how failed this defense department has been and lives lost unnecessarily.

I thank Harnish Law for the dedication to your members of the military and the willingness to share much needed insight and expertise with us.

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Returning function to government is occurring.

The United States of America is a democracy. Appointees to important jobs in the federal government can be from any party. Their job descriptions do not allow for partisan politics as a punishment or revenge of the members of the opposite party. 

The USA is not a banana republic and abides by the Rule of Law. I congratulate Asst. US Attorney Maurene Comey for believing the Rule of Law protected her and us.

October 26, 2026

By Zach Schoeneld.

In this photo (click here) taken with a smartphone former Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey and her husband Lucas Issacharoff leave a hearing in her lawsuit over her firing by the Justice Department at a Manhattan federal courthouse on Dec. 4, 2025, in New York.

A federal judge ruled Monday (click here) that the Department of Justice (DOJ) unlawfully fired and must provide back pay to Maurene Comey, former FBI Director James Comey’s daughter who was terminated as a prosecutor last year.

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman rejected the Trump administration’s arguments that it had constitutional authority to fire her.

“Defendants’ argument is contrary to an unbroken line of Supreme Court decisions dating back almost two centuries, and the Supreme Court itself has not formally overruled any of those decisions. That is sufficient, in itself, to reject the argument,” Furman wrote in his 55-page opinion.

Maurene Comey has since taken another job and won’t be returning to the DOJ. But the judge’s ruling retroactively reinstates her, provides her with back pay and restores pension benefits for the four-month period before she took that new role. It also orders an update to her personnel file to reflect that she resigned instead of saying she was fired.

The Hill has reached out to a Justice Department spokesperson for comment.

JD Vance is a Charlie Wannabee.

Vance, yes the Vice President, has not only moved his family to a prestigious ranch for their comfort after a new birth in the family, he has spent a lot of time with Ericka Kirk after the assassination of her spouse.

In all honesty I have been waiting for this. Mrs. Kirk is not the domestic peace woman everyone wants to believes she is. Neither was her late spouse. Charlie Kirk never cared about honest debate regardless of the facts presented to him by others. He was only interested in politics and converting young adults to voting for extreme values. His Christianity served his political interests well.

September 8, 2026
By Natalie Allison

Nearly a year has passed (click here) since Charlie Kirk was shot dead debating politics on a Utah college campus, an assassination that shook the conservative movement and beyond. Now at the headquarters of Turning Point USA, which Kirk grew from a small youth organization into a movement with global reach and the ear of the White House, his team is increasingly focused on an electoral mission.

To some extent, they’re gearing up for the midterm contest just eight weeks away, in which Republicans are bracing for losses. One reason those losses seem likely is erosion among the young voters Kirk played a major role in rallying in 2024. But Turning Point’s main focus is now 2028, when the group intends to play a key part in getting Kirk’s close friend, Vice President JD Vance, elected president....

I fully expect the university to take on these monsters saluting Nazism. Where are the Jewish organizations to make a stand as well? This is Trump. He believes in all this mess. The Late Charlie Kirk was a Trumpee. Ericka is no different.

I have hesitated to take this on because young Right Wingers have a right to their First Amendment rights. But, in all honesty, the Kirk movement has a lot to be desired. JD Vance is hoping this all will come his way in his bid for the presidency in 2028. Vance is expected to do the same thing the Late President Gerald Ford did for Nixon, pardon him from all his wrong doings.

MAGA is the party of fascism. "Turning Point USA" is an indoctrination agent.

September 8, 2026
By Natalie Allison

...In August, (click here) something peculiar started happening on TikTok.

Charlie Kirk, the political commentator and Turning Point USA founder who was killed in September of 2025, started appearing in increasingly distorted, nonsensical and sometimes morbid memes and short-form video clips....

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RIP Kirk 🥀

It is a reference to Kirk's disposition to heaven. But, inside a movie (click here)? The guy who posted it is a sci-fi guy. He seems to like politics.. This is the Kirk effect.

Erika Kirk (click here) calls students to model her husband’s life as ‘happy warriors’ who reflect Christ

When Enrica Kirk starts calling their political rally participants soldiers and they are exhibiting aspects of intolerance any government has a right to question the intent of their members.

October 22, 2026

By Jasmine Beahr

A Turning Point USA faith leader (click here) is calling on President Donald Trump to intervene after Australian lawmakers grilled a Christian church leader about his religious beliefs, including whether he influences members' marriages, hairstyles and even pet ownership.

Lucas Miles, vice president of faith at Turning Point USA, told Fox News Digital he contacted the White House Faith Office and several administration officials over what he described as a politically motivated investigation into the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.

"We've reached out to the faith office, we've reached out to several members of the administration to make sure that they're aware of this," Miles said. "We're hoping to see some response and action soon."...

Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition

October 22, 2026
By Anthony W. Haddad

At least two attendees at a Turning Point USA event (click here) at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo made Nazi salutes toward protesters Wednesday night, prompting condemnation from university officials who called the gestures antisemitic and deplorable.

Videos published by Mustang News, Cal Poly’s student-run newspaper, show two men making the gestures outside the campus Performing Arts Center during Turning Point USA’s “America: Love It or Leave It” tour stop. The newspaper reported that at least three attendees made Nazi salutes toward protesters.

The event drew hundreds of attendees and more than 70 protesters, according to Mustang News....

Just as a note to bolster "the truth;" JD Vance is a passive participant in all the Trump schemes.

Why is this bribery important? Other than it is a crime, this is an election season and Trump expects not only a personal reward, but, the donations beyond what Musk is capable of.

October 20, 2026

By Tyler Pager

The public record (click here) supports a substantive portrait of a banker who founded and owned Bancrédito, held documented control at Britannia Financial Group and returned to its board in 2026. Those professional achievements are the strongest basis for this profile. The public monetary claim is recorded separately and does not alter the documented career finding.

Julio Herrera Velutini, (click here) a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job....

There doesn't have to be a legal binding contract to state it is a crime. Quite the opposite. The case has to be made and this one has a wide open road map.

"Daily Show" (click here) host Ronny Chieng mocked the Trump administration for its latest corruption scandal, reacting to reports that the president gave out a pardon in exchange for $50 million by joking, "Inflation really is getting bad!"

Chieng kicked things off Wednesday night with a string of jokes made at the expense of Vice President JD Vance. Trump's second-in-command insisted recently that the entire Trump administration wholeheartedly rejects "pay-for-play" schemes and "anybody getting rich off of their connections to the government." In response, all Chieng could do was sarcastically laugh.

"Maybe JD is right. When have you seen allegations of corruption in the Trump administration?" he asked. "There was his ambassador to Greece and his crypto deals, his IRS slush fund, his son's wedding party, his son-in-law's real estate deals. But those were weeks ago! When have you ever seen corruption allegations this morning?"...

Former U.S. Department of Justice Pardon Attorney (click here)

..."any armed attack on and threat against nuclear facilities devoted to peaceful purposes constitutes a violation..."

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Oh, yeah. The nuclear facilities where Trump dropped the Daisy Cutters were peaceful use. Just because they were underground does not mean they had nefarious purposes. 

12 November 2025

NPT (Non Proliferation Treaty) Safeguards Agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran

Pages 6-8 are of interest as well. I think the reasons are obvious. 

Today Trump is promising the Cuban population in Florida he will attack Cuba AFTER the conclusion of Iran. Everyone should give that real thought about the possibility of that actually happening and IF it were ever to occur the ramifications of such actions, including the deaths of innocent people, but, also the impacts internationally.

Trump touts his demands for control of the western hemisphere allowing the communists to believe they are safe from aggression. How stupid are communists really?

The communists will allow Trump destroy the Free World, but, will reserve the destruction of the USA and it's military until after NATO and USA allies are dead.

Council on Foreign Affairs (click here)
December 20, 2024

...This year’s report (click here) revised upwards the estimate of China’s defense budget, the second-largest in the world (behind the United States), to one-and-a-half to two times its public defense budget ($330 billion to $450 billion). While the report included a special section on corruption in the PLA, it would be a mistake to focus on this issue at the expense of the significant strides China is clearly making toward building a highly modern and capable military that can threaten the United States and its allies and partners. Indeed, the fact that China’s leader Xi Jinping continues to aggressively root out corruption in the PLA over a decade into his tenure demonstrates his determination to have a military that can provide him with credible options to achieve his political objectives, above all unification with Taiwan....

Here are six takeaways from this year’s report:...

December 26, 2025

China's fast-paced military modernization (click here) now creates direct risks for the US mainland, from nuclear forces to cyber operations...

More Trump propaganda. This time straight out of the DOJ. Excuse me, America. The DOJ?

It is an attempt at voter intimidation. It is identity theft AGAIN.

October 23, 2026

By James Brooks

The U.S. Department of Justice (click here) filed suit against the Alaska Division of Elections late Thursday, seeking to block the division from certifying the result of the state’s U.S. Senate election if the Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, wins.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday in Florida that he ordered the lawsuit be filed.

“I’m the one that said, ‘do it,’” he said.

Peltola is the leading opponent to incumbent Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, and polls show her with a small lead over Sullivan, but the race also includes two other candidates — Republicans Gerald Heikes of Palmer and Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg.

In the complaint, the Department of Justice claims that Dan J. Sullivan’s candidacy is “frivolous,” and was intended solely to confuse voters and benefit Peltola.

Until there is an investigation to determine the extent of that confusion, the Department of Justice argues, Alaska should not be permitted to certify the result of the ongoing Senate election.

Legal experts immediately dismissed the federal argument as bunk....

There are real issues. When Trump pulls his identity theft of a candidate it instills concern where it does not belong. It distracts from the FACTS that his administration have failed EVERYONE.

The country doesn't concern itself with Alaska that much. It has been a bit more independent because of the petroleum industry, but, the climate has had it's toll there, too. The salmon are an industry. While they are wild in the Pacific Ocean they are still an industry for Alaska as well as a tourist interest. There are a lot of problems and no one is dealing with them. It is an inconvenient truth for Trump to actually take on the real issues so much as deflect to the wars he has created to bolster his ideology of being a power broker. 

Trump has had TWO years to get it right and he hasn't yet. 

October 23, 2026

By Corrinne Smith

Four candidates (click here) are vying for an open seat to represent the Southwestern Alaska House District 37, one of the state’s largest rural districts where fisheries, skyrocketing costs of living, transportation and schools are top of mind this election season....

Does Erik Prince look similar to Hegseth?

7 September 2025
By Ben Makuch

Amid reports that Donald Trump’s administration (click here) is considering using US private military contractors in a postwar Ukraine, multiple sources tell the Guardian one high-profile and controversial American from the “war on terror” era is already circling for business.

In the streets of Kyiv, military hawks and defense privateers have described how Erik Prince, Maga disciple and founder of the now-defunct mercenary company Blackwater, has been aggressively pitching his services and looking to buy.


According to those same sources who spoke on background and on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive defense matters, Prince was pitching himself to the valuable...

The USA military can really go off the rails if Republicans are returned to office.

December 20, 2020

One of the contractors, Nicholas Slatten, (click here) was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, and the others — Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty and Paul Slough — had each been sentenced to between 12 and 15 years for voluntary manslaughter. Their convictions came after the largest and most expensive federal investigation since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The accompanying White House statement, which came among a batch of 20, claimed that the pardons were “broadly supported by the public,” citing specifically Fox News personality Pete Hegseth and a number of conservative members of the House. The statement described the 14 deaths and other injuries as “unfortunate.”

The four convicted killers, all military veterans, worked for Blackwater Worldwide, a security firm founded by former Navy SEAL Erik Prince, brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The State Department had contracted with Blackwater to provide private protection for U.S. diplomats in Iraq. The company changed its name to Xe Services in 2009, and then changed it again to Academi after Prince sold the business to private investors in 2011...

If USA Congress were to allow the continuance of war there is no telling whether drones purchased by private mercenaries such as Prince would be turned on the people and infrastructure of the USA. Trump's communist leanings only allow for mistrust and the Republicans always go right along with Trump's aggression. It has to stop. Putting Republicans back into any majority is dangerous.

August 6, 2017

By Shawn Snow

Afghan National Air Corps L-39 Albatross jets (click here) take off in a formation practice for an aerial parade for Afghan National Day in Kabul. The head of the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater wants to provide a private air force to supplement the Afghan's fledgling fleet.

Erik Prince’s proposal to bridge the Afghanistan air force’s capability gaps (click here) with his own private air force faces a mountain of legal hurdles, government oversight, and raises new questions about private military companies operating in roles typically in the purview of nation states.

On Wednesday, Military Times reported that the former Blackwater CEO had submitted a proposal to the Afghan government to contract services using a private fleet of attack aircraft, gunships, transport planes, and intelligence assets to help the war-torn country’s fledgling air force transition over the next two years....

It is called assimilation.

I don't know all the facts, but, the facts are probably illusive. The Omar family was ESCAPING a war in Somalia where people wanted to kill them. It wasn't just them, but, people of their region of the country.

Now I ask myself, "Self? Would you keep a name that a war lord from Somalia could trace?"

Self: "NO. I correct that. Hell, no!"

In all these accusations Trump is relying on the naivety of the public to the intricacies of immigration, background checks, friends, neighbors, and co-workers.

Name changing among immigrants (click here) refers to the voluntary or involuntary alteration of family surnames as individuals and families transition to a new country. This practice has significant historical roots, particularly in the context of immigration to the United States, where many immigrants altered their names to assimilate, avoid discrimination, or simplify complex names....

Asylum applicants (click here) must attend a USCIS biometrics appointment for fingerprints, photo, and signature. USCIS sends this data to the FBI and cannot schedule the asylum interview until the FBI returns a final criminal background result. Vetting spans multiple federal databases. Applicants should bring proper ID, disclose criminal history on Form I-589, maintain consistent biographical details, and consider legal representation....