Lose the politics.

The current politics of the Trump Republicans assault democracy, authority, and the well being of the American people. No one can deny that. This country has never been in this condition. The economy is failing and so is the health of the people.

Trump is attempting to dissolve the results of free and fair elections. The guy is a wacko and his politics are anti-American.

There are protesters at the Michigan Secretary of State home  after she did the right thing (click here). This isn't politics anymore, it is a confrontation of our own USA Constitution.

The Trump influence in the Republican party has to end. The Republicans need to return to benevolent policies for the people and have the backbone to stand up to the pressure to do differently.

Both parties need to reassess their strength and weaknesses and move into the 21st century. This past election saved democracy. Now what?

December 7, 2020

Atlanta - Georgia’s governor (click here) is again telling lawmakers that he won’t call a special session to overturn Georgia’s election results and appoint 16 presidential electors who would support Republican President Donald Trump instead of Democratic president-elect Joe Biden.

Republican Brian Kemp issued a joint statement Sunday with Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, saying it would violate state law for the General Assembly to name electors instead of following the current state law that calls for the governor to certify electors after results are certified.

“Any attempt by the legislature to retroactively change that process for the Nov. 3rd election would be unconstitutional and immediately enjoined by the courts, resulting in a long legal dispute and no short-term resolution,” the two said in their statement....

2030 and no later to stem the climate crisis. Seriously.

President Joe Biden is going to need a team to lead the COVID-19 response to the country.

Dr. Fauci has been correct about this pandemic. He warned about this exact second wave. He stated it could be very bad including overwhelming hospitals and staff. All that said, Dr. Fauci is not trusted by a segment of the political right-wing. A Libertarian stated to me only a week ago, this incident clearly states Dr. Fauci is untrustworthy. He said, "He didn't trust the American people enough for them to understand how masks were important for healthcare workers."

Dr. Fauci will need a team member "that speaks Republican and Libertarian" to garner a unified approach to ending the pandemic. They demonized Hillary Clinton all her career. They will do it here, too.

There is nothing wrong with the interview, but, there is plenty wrong with the politics. End of hate.

July 16, 2020
By Grace Panetta

Dr. Anthony Fauci (click here) says he doesn't regret joining other Trump administration public health experts in advising Americans against buying masks early on in the COVID-19 pandemic.

In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor and 60 Minutes correspondent Norah O'Donnell published in InStyle magazine, Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, defended his credibility amid a steady stream of attacks on his expertise and trustworthiness from the White House.

In late February and early March as the COVID-19 outbreak began accelerating in the US, hospitals and health facilities experienced severe shortages of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. In response, experts like Fauci and the US Surgeon General Jerome Adams advised Americans against wearing masks.

"I don't regret anything I said then because in the context of the time in which I said it, it was correct. We were told in our task force meetings that we have a serious problem with the lack of PPEs and masks for the health providers who are putting themselves in harm's way every day to take care of sick people," Fauci told O'Donnell.

Wellness depends of Earth's climate.

December 2, 2020
By Catherine Clifford

The world is getting warmer, (click here) but the global response has “remained muted” despite efforts like the Paris Climate Agreement — and millions of lives are at risk as a result.

This according to a report published Wednesday by The Lancet, a leading peer-reviewed medical journal.

“This past year, we have seen the harms of our converging crises — COVID-19, climate disasters, and systemic racism; it’s been a preview of what lies ahead if we fail to urgently make the necessary investments to protect health,” Renee Salas, lead author of the U.S. Lancet Countdown Policy Brief, said in a statement published alongside the report.

Salas likened the kind of plan needed to what she does during her day job as an emergency room doctor.

“Just like in my emergency department, I can’t take one health problem and place it in isolation because one insult on the body creates new problems and worsens old ones,” Salas says. “We must take an integrated approach when tackling these challenges. Climate action is the prescription we need for better health and equity as we emerge from this pandemic.”...

The tragedy of Paradise, California was less about trees and more about wind and combustibility. It is interesting the number of trees still standing among the rubble. Healthy trees are often not effected by rapidly moving fire. The forest floor had very little to do with the tragedy in Paradise. That is all misinformation.

There were 86 people dead (click here) from the "Camp Fire" of which Paradise was a victim. The wind was the enemy. It carried embers miles. The climate crisis caused this tragedy. Nothing else did.

Previous to the USA being involved,...

...the Horn of Africa was under the influence of Russia and Cuba before the USA became involved. They didn't do well with it. They ran a war between Ethiopia and Somalia that established Somalia's borders, but, there was no government established and terrorists took over the country and hijacked ships.

Does anyone really want to revisit this mess?

Elon Musk is nothing short of a genius. If it weren't for his batteries humanity wouldn't have a chance.

This was on the web. It is a Tesla battery used to save energy derived from solar cells.

December 3, 2020
By Shalini Nagarajan

...Tesla stock (click here) rose as much as 5%. The electric vehicle maker's shares are up 603% year-to-date, boosted by its upcoming inclusion in the S&P 500 on December 21 and fading concerns about its ability to make profits.

Goldman's strategists wrote in a December 2 report that "the shift toward battery electric vehicle adoption is accelerating and will occur faster than our prior view."

They noted battery prices are falling faster than expected, while governments around the world are passing regulations that could entirely phase out higher-emission vehicles within 10 to 20 years. That, in turn, is improving the sales outlook for electric vehicles....

22 December 2017

Ahmad Umar, (click here) also known as Abu Ubaidah, is the emir of al Shabaab. Al Shabaab spokesman Ahmed Abdi aw Mohamed announced Umar as the group’s leader on September 6, 2014, after a September 1 U.S. airstrike killed former al Shabaab emir Ahmed Abdi Godane.

Al-Shabab means The Youth in Arabic. (click here)

It emerged as the radical youth wing of Somalia's now-defunct Union of Islamic Courts, which controlled Mogadishu in 2006, before being forced out by Ethiopian forces.

There are numerous reports of foreign jihadists going to Somalia to help al-Shabab, from neighbouring countries, as well as the US and Europe.

It is banned as a terrorist group by both the US and the UK and is believed to have between 7,000 and 9,000 fighters.

Al-Shabab advocates the Saudi-inspired Wahhabi version of Islam, while most Somalis are Sufis.

It has imposed a strict version of Sharia in areas under its control, including stoning to death women accused of adultery and amputating the hands of thieves....

...There have also been numerous reports that al-Shabab may have formed some links with other militant groups in Africa, such as Boko Haram in Nigeria and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, based in the Sahara desert.

Al-Shabab debated whether to switch allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group after it emerged in January 2014.

It eventually rejected the idea, resulting in a small faction breaking away.

Al-Shabab is currently led by Ahmad Umar, also known as Abu Ubaidah.

The US has issued a $6m (£4.5m) reward for information leading to his capture....

The cooling effect of La Nina no longer works. Earth has exhausted all it's temperature mitigation.

November 17, 2020
By Brett Anderson

NOAA and NASA (click here) have recently released their October global surface temperature data. Despite a strengthening La Nina, which typically has a cooling influence on the global average temperature, last month ranked as the fourth warmest October on record. Records go back to 1880....

Is there something to be explained or studied? NO! Earth has reached it's ability to mitigate climate. Is there a question about achieving far lower greenhouse gases in the troposphere by 2030? NO!

Are humans so greedy and hard-wired to GHGs they can't save themselves? It is a question asked by scientists for a generation!

This was the "real" map of Somalia in 2010. The country cannot be allowed to return to this map or worse.

 Maps (click here)

The first map shows the locations of the three main Islamist groups in Somalia: al Shabaab, Hizb al Islam, and Ahlu Sunna wa al Jama'a.  Al Shabaab is currently in control of southern Somalia and has established Islamic administrations in its territories.  Hizb al Islam controls Beledweyne and administers Hiraan region, as well as Afgoi district near Mogadishu. These two Islamist groups have coordinated their efforts in central Somalia and in Mogadishu, but have clashed over important southern cities, such as the port city of Kismayo.  The third Islamist group in Somalia, Ahlu Sunna wa al Jama'a, tends to align itself with the governments - both local and national.  It has worked in cooperation with the Transitional Federal Government and with the Galmudug Administration....

With the Climate Crisis well established, the Paris Climate Accords is widely successful at empowering "the people."

Under Jacinda Ardern's (click here) administration, New Zealand has sought to play a progressive role in climate negotiations.

Around the world, (click here) the courts are increasingly being used as a battleground in the fight against climate change. MLS News spoke with experts about what this means for business, government and the legal community.

By Kate Stanton.

In February, the NSW Land and Environment Court ruled against a proposal to build the Rocky Hill open-cut coal mine in Gloucester, a farming community in rural NSW. The court cited the mine’s impact on the social and environmental welfare of the town as one reason for rejecting the proposal. In an Australian first, Chief Judge Brian Preston also recognised the country’s obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement. It was a landmark decision, one that signalled how Australian courts could start approaching climate change, says Jacqueline Peel, a professor of environmental law at Melbourne Law School. “The court talked a lot about the impacts of the mine on climate change, not just for the local environment but in the broader global context,” Peel says.

The Rocky Hill mine decision is part of a growing, worldwide movement to tackle climate change through the justice system. Many environmental activists see litigation as a viable path – in addition to public protest and lobbying politicians – to creating change where governments have been slow to act. Brendan Sydes (BSc 1993, LLB(Hons) 1993, MEnv 2006), CEO of Environmental Justice Australia, says that in the absence of major policy developments, climate change litigation pushes courts to develop a jurisprudence around environmental law. “I think we really need solutions at all levels of government, but legal action has a really important role to play in continuing to raise those demands and force that change,” he says....

Hillary Clinton, both as Senator and Secretary of State was adamant about Somalia.

August 2, 2009
By Edmund Sanders

Nairoli, Kenya - Bolstered by a meeting Thursday (click here) between Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Somalia’s transitional president, the Obama administration is embarking on the most direct engagement in the Horn of Africa nation since 18 U.S. peacekeepers were killed there in 1993, diplomats of both countries say.

Wrapping up her first stop of a seven-nation Africa tour, Clinton met Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed at the U.S. Embassy in Kenya to discuss ways Washington can provide additional financial and military support to help the fragile government defeat an insurgency by Islamic extremists.

Clinton is the highest-ranking U.S. official to hold a one-on-one meeting with the head of Somalia’s 5-year-old transitional government. The meeting was part of a new approach by the Obama administration to restore formal diplomatic ties with Somalia and take a more active role in assisting the U.N.-recognized government....

In 2005, when Katrina hit the USA, it was not okay to say there is a climate crisis.

Now, Eta is nearly the same kind of storm as Katrina except it took a different path. It is okay in 2020, nearly a generation later, to say "climate crisis."

If coming to terms with Earth's physics and where humanity is headed because it requires generational change, there is something wrong with the understanding of "WARNING."

15 November 2020
By Jeff Ernst

Paddling in a canoe through the flood waters (click here) left by Hurricane Eta in his rural village near the north coast of Honduras, Adán Herrera took stock of the damage.

“Compared with Hurricane Mitch, this caused more damage because the water rose so fast,” said Herrera, 33, a subsistence farmer who is living on top of a nearby levee with his wife and child while they wait for the water to recede. “We’re afraid we might not have anything to eat.”

Hurricane Mitch in 1998 was the most destructive storm to hit Central America. But hundreds of thousands of subsistence farmers across the region have lost everything in flooding caused by Eta, which made landfall in Nicaragua as a category 4 hurricane on 3 November. Now, with a second hurricane projected to make landfall on Monday near where Eta did, even more could find themselves in the same situation.

Climate scientists say that this year’s record-breaking hurricane season and the “unprecedented” double blow for Central America has a clear link to the climate crisis.

“In a 36-hour period [Eta] went from a depression to a very strong category 4,” said Bob Bunting, CEO of the non-profit Climate Adaptation Center. “That is just not normal. Probably it was the fastest spin up from a depression to a major hurricane in history.”...

"The main problem in Somalia is Somalia itself." as stated by Hillary Clinton

December 5, 2020
By Colin Dwyer

This is a geographical map that outlines the legal boundaries of Somalia. That almost portrays a country united. 

The Trump administration (click here) is planning to draw down U.S. troops in Somalia by early 2021. In a statement released Friday, the Pentagon explained that "the majority" of the roughly 700 soldiers currently stationed in the country will be reassigned to positions in neighboring countries in East Africa.

"While a change in force posture, this action is not a change in U.S. policy," said the Department of Defense, which noted that President Trump had personally ordered the withdrawal. "We will continue to degrade violent extremist organizations that could threaten our homeland while ensuring we maintain our strategic advantage in great power competition."

The announcement represents just the latest upheaval at the Pentagon, where President Trump has ordered a raft of changes since his loss in the presidential election last month. Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper and replaced him with Christopher Miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, in mid-November, and just a week later, the Pentagon announced a reduction in forces in both Afghanistan in Iraq....

When USA soldiers leave a country we have to ask what are we leaving behind and why?

May 31, 2019

Somalia’s first female (click here) company commander is remembered as both a hero in the fight against al-Shabaab and a devoted mother.

Col. Faadumo Ali spent her life trying to bring peace and security back to her home country of Somalia.

The 33-year-old mother of 10 joined the military in 2007 and led a division of Danaab, an elite, US-trained commando force. She had taken part in many battles against the extremist group al-Shabaab, including fights that liberated the capital, Mogadishu

But on May 22nd, while standing guard at a checkpoint in the capital, Ali was killed by a car bomb, VOA reported. Her husband, Cmdr. Bashar Sharif Abdullahi, also a member of Danaab, died in the attack as well....

 

This was 2015 in Somalia.