The Revolt and The Revolting
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Wednesday, September 02, 2026
There is a thing called caging.
In one of Texas Paul's other videos he talks about how the White House contacted him about his videos. Harassment. Political harassment is what it is called. Attempts to squelch the truth and enforce corruption.
Where does the racketeering end?
By Rebecca Falconer
The Supreme Court on Monday (click here) permitted President Trump to proceed with plans to build the White House ballroom.
Why it matters: The 5-4 ruling is likely the final word on the project, which can now proceed with above-ground work after it was halted while the case played out in court.
Driving the news: The majority decision noted that the justices did "not pass upon the legality of the government's East Wing project."
They concluded only that, based on the submissions before the court, "the government is likely to prevail" in showing that the National Trust for Historic Preservation "lacks standing" to challenge the project in federal court "and that the remaining stay factors favor relief."
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented....
Sunday, August 30, 2026
Trump is delusional and not a dictator. He has to play by the rules and doesn't.
...KRISTEN WELKER: (click here)
Thank you so much for being here. We are going to talk about your visit, why you’re here in Wisconsin. But I’d like to start off by talking about the major issue that you are focused on every day which is Iran. Sunday will mark 100 days since the first strikes. Your secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said that the war had concluded. And yet, just this week, Iran attacked U.S. allies in the region, calling it retaliation for a set of U.S. air strikes. Is the United States at war with Iran?
PRES. DONALD TRUMP:
Well, they’ve been largely decapitated. And I call it a military exercise because people would rather have it called that. It’s not a big war for us. It’s not. We have the most powerful military in the world. I built it, frankly. I built it in my first four years. And I’m using it a little bit in my second four years. Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their anti-aircraft is gone. They might’ve built it up a little bit over the last four weeks during this little ceasefire that we did at the request of some very good people, very, very fine people from — actually from numerous places, as you know. You know, there are a lot of people involved. But from Pakistan in particular, the field marshal and the prime minister. And we’re very close to having a deal. And if we don’t have a deal, we’ll do it one way or the other. Either way, we win....
Saturday, August 29, 2026
Climate information is vital to the military. This is endangering out soldiers.
October 24, 2025
Retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant Vida Rivera (click here) knows heat can be as dangerous as any enemy.
Early in her military career, she collapsed from heat exhaustion while carrying a 65-pound pack on a sweltering hike in Quantico, Virginia. Years later in Afghanistan, Rivera drove a truck in temperatures nearing 120 degrees. But she was ready. She’d taken a mechanics course — twice — to make sure she could fix the truck’s air conditioning if it failed.
She knew extreme heat could incapacitate her Marines. “They need water and good temps like everybody,” she said.
Across the U.S. military, climate change isn’t a distant threat. It’s a daily challenge. The fallout from a warming planet has hit the military hard, sidelining more than 10,000 troops since 2018, flooding bases and undermining everything from runways to nuclear readiness.
Extreme weather is battering installations from Guam to North Carolina and fueling instability in regions overseas where American forces may be called to intervene....
The only climate scientist teaching at West Point, (ciick here) the US army’s military academy, was fired after he resisted an order to stop teaching about the human causes of the climate emergency, a lawsuit claims.
Dr Adam Kalkstein, a civilian professor of geography at the New York institution, was terminated after the spring semester this year, six months after a testy meeting with Brig Gen Shane Reeves, then dean of West Point’s academic board, the court filing said.
According to Kalkstein, who taught army cadets there for 17 years, he told the dean at a November 2025 meeting that an order to cut from the curriculum content about the human causes of climate change was immoral and potentially illegal.
It “would be like trying to teach the law without being able to even mention the constitution”, he said....
Measles is a political issue? That is the problem, not that deaths are occurring and being reported.
Deaths from measles' exposure is at a 35 year high. This is not a political issue. This is a survival issue.
...In the first seven months of 2025, (click here) confirmed measles cases have reached 1,288— marking the most infections since 1992.While weekly reported cases have slowed over the past few months, the CDC’s figure surpasses the high of 1,274 cases in 2019 and marks a grim milestone for the U.S. as immunization coverage wanes across the country and the federal government’s vaccine policy shifts under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
Now, RFK, Jr. is stating the Governor of Pennsylvania is lying about two deaths from measles exposure.
August 27, 2026By Carman Paun
Vaccination advocates told POLITICO they’re worried Shapiro and Pennsylvania health officials’ secrecy has given Kennedy an opportunity to again cast the public health establishment as villains, just as he did during the pandemic, when he said officials were inflating the death toll by counting people who died of another disease but had also tested positive for Covid. The result has been a hardening of the positions dividing partisans in the fight over the latest infectious disease scourge....
I am so tired of naivety serving the devil in the White House.
The accidents by qualified employees have always been part of this industry. Between the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico it has not improved. Then enter the issues in refineries and the cost to the planet at the pump and the deaths and injuries escalate. I don't know of any other industry given permission for such workplace danger. I am told, "It is the nature of the beast." Indeed.
Every year, (click here) numerous workers in the U.S. Oil and Gas Extraction (OGE) industry go to work, with too many paying the ultimate price. The dangers inherent in this industry cannot be overstated, as the statistics on oil rig deaths paint a grim picture of the reality faced by these workers. Overall, deaths among those working in the OGE industry rose sharply from 2016 until 2019....
The truth is age protected of the petroleum industry on YouTube. Amazing.
Venezuela
I am not surprised the Venezuelan president wants to sell oil. The devastation to her country of the latest earthquakes brought on by the climate crisis and isostatic rebound needs a great deal of new investment.
Currently, the governing laws of Venezuela does not really encourage outside investment. The natural resources of Venezuela belong to the people.
I am concerned about the exploitation of the Venezuelan people by Trump. He can't simply order up the country to allow American drilling companies access and expect things to go well. The oil companies are fully aware of trying to drill in countries with unrest and terrorists.
Some time ago when American oil companies moved into Nigeria will all sorts of reassurances, the people rebelled and attacked the drillers. The side effect was average citizens extracting oil themselves regardless of the poison exposure of their plans to their personal health.
That paradigm, by the way, is the method resulting in a two class system in an impoverished country. The people in power that provided reassurances to American companies then have to control the rebellious people and sends in the military to control the people. The people of Nigeria never had a power struggle before the American oil companies showed up. Their arrival causing all sorts of environmental damage to their local economies and food sources resulted in militias among the people to stop them. The militias wanted to kill the people doing the drilling.
The Trump administration is delusional. It comes from taking orders from a dictator-coward that does nothing but sit behind a desk overseeing the demolition of the White House lands and buildings, including the fact it is a museum. Paperwork is not the do all and end all to wonderful plans imagined by the dictator-coward. Nor is sending in the troops much of an answer. People, when acting in mass can defeat the inhuman plans handed down to American soldiers. That is a proven fact. No American soldier wants to be convicted of genocide or crimes against humanity. No presidential pardon gets them off the hook.
So, while Venezuela wants to have wells pumping crude out of the ground and spewing methane without containment and depositing sulfur in every water in the region, that doesn't mean it can or will be done. Drilling is expensive. If doing so results in greater problems for the company rather than the status quo, it won't happen.
And don't try to mask the subsidies petroleum companies receive in tax breaks and credits. The American people continue to support these companies and Trump has no right to say otherwise.
So, as to Venezuelan petroleum:
- is the oil being paid for by ` the oil companies to the Venezuelan people? How do Americans know the revenue to Venezuela will be used for the people? There are still terrorists in Venezuela. What percentage of the revenue and/or oil will be intercepted and used by terrorist networks still in Venezuela?
` what environmental laws will the companies use to drill? None? That in and of itself increases the carbon footprint for the people using it at a gas station.
` where is the oil going? Just because American companies will be drilling doesn't mean the petroleum product is destined for American refineries.
`there can be no violence against the Venezuelan people in this venture. None of the monies can be used to pay for the Maduros lawyers.
The Venezuelan president needs to hand any and all income to the Hague to establish a trust fund that will directly benefit the people of Venezuela and it's revitalization. The revenues must be handled properly and out of the reach of corruption that is known to exist with Trump.
Nigeria was not an isolated incident. Ask the people of Equator.
Friday, August 28, 2026
Nepal
Venezuela
Has Venezuela surrendered it's sovereignty to the USA?
This is ano her lame ambition by Trump to pretend the USA can invest in other countries like a business. We can't. It is why USAID existed. In order to help the people of any country the USA would open it's charitable monies to the country.
The USA can negotiate conditions for private companies so they can sell their wares to the American people, assuming the Americans want it.
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Nepal
American hikers from northern Virginia are missing.
Where was their route of travel and their route of hiking?
That area is devastated. The slurry of water and debris in the pictures and videos is massive. The chance of finding the dead is very remote. If they are alive it could be am infrastructure problem and aerial surveys can confirm the living. I don’t have much hope for them, but, the area should be evaluated for the possibility of survivors.
My sympathies for the families and friends. There is always a remote chance they are alive somewhere.
These are the Himalayan mountains. This is the region of Mount Everest. The velocity of the melt water came from thousands of feet if not tens of thousands of feet above sea level. The velocity and the amount of debris is unthinkable.
Thursday, August 27, 2026
The Great Lakes
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
I think the reporting by Al Jazeera has it correct. The facts seem to fit the outcomes.
By AFP and AP
Hundreds of people are missing (click here) and at least 95 have been killed after an avalanche of ice and rock...
Earth is a planet.
This is heartbreaking.
These events are happening globally. Governments need to look at their lands and the potential dangers differently. I will comment further in the next entry.





