Racism is not a mental health issue.

Otherwise there would not be a slew of racists in the prisons across the USA. There is a trend as of late that the mass murders were based in racism. There are already hate crime laws, but, that doesn't stop them either. The murderer in Texas was only 18 years old. The real problem is the exposure of young men to hate as an adolescent. They are recruited by racists and when they are old enough they kill. That is exactly what occurred in Texas.

The local police authorities didn't respond to the murderer who was slaying children because they were not equipped to do so. They waited for the Border Patrol to respond. This is not the first time police on duty refused to respond and place themselves in the line of fire to divert attention from the children. The local police like the job enough, but, are not willing to enter into combat for anyone.

The police are out gunned and it is directly a result of assault weapons that should be banned. If the assault weapon ban is not reinstated these deaths will continue and get worse. 

Worse?

Yes, worse.

The recruit of the White Supremacists/Ntionalists successfully killed 19 children and 2 adults. In Buffalo the racist successfully killed. The White Supremacists/Nationalists are being successful.

The Buffalo shooting (click here) has roots in “accelerationism,” a neo-Nazi idea linked to a wave of recent hate killings.

The enemy is well armed and seeking to end the lives of those that are different than him. We know that mimics happen all the time when violence manifests. The White Supremacists/Nationalists are perfectly happy with what is occurring. They aren't going to stop. They are successfully recruiting teens and as soon as they can purchase weapons of war, they kill the people that define their hate. Where do they get the money?

That killer in Wisconsin received his gun illegally, but, that was erased as an issue by the judge. Rittenhouse was handed an AR-15 and he killed with it.These killers are all young, Caucasian men. Tney are provided weapons of war to help define their masculinity of hate and violence. I don't care if Rittenhouse shot and killed Caucasian men, he was there because of minority protests. There were Caucasian men there to prevent minorities from being slain. The reason Rittenhouse was there was due to minority demonstrations.

January 10, 2022

The man who bought an AR-15-style rifle (click here) for Kyle Rittenhouse pleaded no contest Monday to a reduced charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor in a deal with prosecutors to avoid prison.

Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder accepted Dominick Black’s plea during a six-minute hearing. Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger dropped two felony counts of intent to deliver a dangerous weapon to a minor as part of the deal....

The gun culture in the USA FEEDS the racism that kills. And. Ah. Who exactly do they identify with for political purposes to maintain their ability to obtain weapons of war and the killing paradigm? Republicans would lose their elections without this corrupt electorate.

And what industry can't be sued to shut down the production of weapons of war? And why?  Why can't they be sued? Who protests the industry that kills Americans?

15 May 2022
By Adam Manno

The gunman (click here) who killed 10 people in a racist attack at an upstate New York grocery store appears to have had the name of a white woman who was run over at a Christmas parade in Wisconsin last year scrawled on his gun.

Photos of the rifle used by Payton Gendron, 18, in the live-streamed massacre show the misspelled name of Virginia Sorenson.

Sorenson, 79, was at the Waukesha Christmas parade to perform as part of the 'Dancing Grannies' troupe when a man in an SUV plowed into the crowd, killing her and five others....

The killers STUDY their victims.

They like the deaths that are accomplished.

They don't care about laws or prosecution because they die. 

The only way to end this carnage in the USA is to end the availability of assault weapons. No sales or resales. NONE. That isn't going to happen because the Republicans would lose their votes.

The gun manufacturers are making very big profits because they have monopolies of the markets.

May 26, 2022

...In addition, (click here) only a small number of gun-makers dominate the market. The top five pistol manufacturers alone controlled over 70% of all production in 2020: Smith & Wesson; Sig Sauer; Sturm, Ruger & Co.; Glock and Kimber Manufacturing. Similarly, the biggest rifle manufacturers – Sturm, Smith & Wesson, Springfield, Henry Rac Holding and Diamondback Firearms – controlled 61% of that market....

May 29, 2022

Mass shooters (click here) have exploited gun laws and loopholes before their carnage. A look at how suspects in recent mass shootings obtained guns, based on police accounts, court documents and contemporaneous reporting:

Salvador Ramos legally purchased two guns in the days before the attack that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School — an AR-style rifle from a federally licensed gun dealer in the Uvalde area on May 17 and a second rifle on May 20. Ramos made the purchases just days after turning 18, the minimum age under federal law for buying a rifle. He also purchased several hundred rounds of ammunition. At least one of the rifles was a DDM4, made by Daniel Defense and modeled after the U.S. military's M4 carbine rifle, though without the M4's ability to switch to fully automatic or fire a three-round burst....

I told you so.

This is the contorted thinking of Trump/Barr and it is malpractice. Durham should never have filled the legal proceedings in the first place. I hope all those parties vindicated today sues all those that maliciously prosecuted.The malicious practice of law matters and there needs to be accountability for this farce.

Reputations have been damaged.

May 31, 2022
By Charlie Savage

Michael Sussmann, (click here) a prominent cybersecurity lawyer with ties to Democrats, was acquitted on Tuesday of a felony charge that he lied to the F.B.I. about having no client in 2016 when he shared a tip about possible connections between Donald J. Trump and Russia.

The verdict was a blow to the special counsel, John H. Durham, who was appointed by the Trump administration three years ago to scour the Trump-Russia investigation for any wrongdoing.

The case centered on odd internet data that cybersecurity researchers discovered in 2016 after it became public that Russia had hacked Democrats and Mr. Trump had encouraged the country to target Hillary Clinton’s emails.

The researchers said the data might reflect a covert communications channel using servers for the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, a Kremlin-linked bank. The F.B.I. briefly looked at the suspicions and dismissed them....

It is Memorial Day Weekend…

 …to commemorate the fallen soldiers that defended this country.

We are fighting a new domestic war. The war against racism. The current bloodshed in the USA is based in hate and facilitated by gun laws that allow it.

It is time to say what it is, hate and those that allow the liberal gun laws are wrong and contribute to the hate. They may very well encourage it.

Young white men are recruited from an early age to hate and kill. The latest attack on minority children was a direct result of the hate found online to kill at will and first opportunity. The murderer simply couldn’t wait to carry out his fate.

Where does an 18 year old get the money to purchase these weapons? Why not drop out of learning to empower the future when the short term goal doesn’t require it?

Those that facilitate these gun laws as well as the hate have no place in any seat of power.

There is financial liability and quite possibly prosecution for negligent homicide by the police but the focus belongs on the weapon and the ease of which it was obtained without any education, permit or plausible reason to own it.

Maybe suing legislators that pass laws that kill along with the manufacturer may stop irresponsible laws intended for profit at any cost. Sue the legislative body as well as the individuals.

Quiz pro quo. Donations resulting in profits have to be viewed as a danger to the people and the Constitution (state and federal).

Good night.

So, what do you think?

It seems to me guns are more important to the Republicans' than children, yes?

WHY?

It would seem some people that are decision makers do have their limit to violence and the death of children.

May 26, 2022

By Andrew Mark Miller

The company (click here) that manufactured the rifle used in a school shooting in Texas on Tuesday has canceled its plan to appear at an upcoming National Rifle Association meeting.

"Daniel Defense is not attending the National Rifle Association (‘NRA’) meeting due to the horrifying tragedy in Uvalde, Texas where one of our products was criminally misused," Steve Reed, Vice President of Marketing for Daniel Defense, told Fox News Digital in a statement Thursday. "We believe this week is not the appropriate time to be promoting our products in Texas at the NRA meeting."

It was revealed this week during a press conference from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that 18-year-old Salvador Ramos used a Daniel Defense DDM4 V7 rifle that retails for just under $2,000 when he opened fire at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday and killed 19 schoolchildren and 2 faculty members....

Oh, yeah, let's arm teachers. The problem is that is a heck of a gun for show and tell. Where do you put it when there is playground duty?

185 dead. What is the big deal? It isn't like genocide or something.

Americans are not seeing the war zone, the flag draped coffins or the bullet riddled bodies. It isn't real. It is someone else's problem. Oh, ya know, it is Texas again. I look at it this way; when parents in the USA lose a child to violence they become activists. Sooner or later there will be enough to turn the tide. 

May 25, 2022
By Alyssa Rosenberg

It is just another school shooting in the USA. (click here) 

Click here for the speeches to calm the crowds and ensure the gun manufacturers are protected and profits are still rolling in.(click here)

On the surface, contemporary America (click here) seems very distant from the world of Greek tragedy or the Toltec capital of Tula in 950 A.D. But our societies have something in common. We all practice child sacrifice.

The latest young victims of the ritual slaughter our culture permits are the 19 children shot to death inside their school in Uvalde, Tex., on Tuesday.

The massacre brings the total number of children killed in school shootings since the 1999 Columbine attack to 185. That figure doesn’t account for all the other settings in which children have been the victims of mass gun violence. And it doesn’t include the 311,000 children who were injured in school shootings, witnessed their classmates and teachers being shot, or sought shelter in barricaded classrooms, bathrooms and closets.

Given the lack of action after these spasms of butchery, there is only one possible conclusion: We are willing to tolerate the murder of children. We accept events that will gravely wound the bodies and psyches of many others....

It isn't as though it is Palestine or something. We still have law and order yet. 

Boys watch as the body of 18-month-old Palestinian boy Eliyan al-Bashiti is carried during his funeral procession in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunes 08 May 2003. The toddler died yesterday hours after being shot in the neck, as Israeli forces guarding a Jewish settlement opened fire on a refugee camp in Khan Yunes, where the houses are riddled with bullet holes and scars from shell fire. The boy's death brought to 3,211 the number of people killed since the Palestinian uprising against occupation erupted in September 2000, including 2,421 Palestinians and 730 Israelis, according to an AFP count.

The Grand Ole Party ain't so grand. They are a lot of do nothing to protect cronies.

They are very invested in doing nothing. The plans they have made are more important than the country.

May 26, 2022
By Catie Edmondson

Senate Republicans (click here) on Thursday blocked action on a bill aimed at strengthening the federal government’s efforts to combat domestic terrorism, rejecting a measure put forward by Democrats in the wake of a racist massacre in which a gunman motivated by white supremacist ideology killed 10 Black people in a Buffalo supermarket.

Democratic leaders had framed the procedural vote as the best vehicle for quick action on gun violence prevention measures in the wake of the elementary school shooting this week in Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers.

If Republicans allowed it to move forward, said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, he would open the bill up to proposed changes from both parties to address gun violence.

“It’s a chance to have a larger debate and consider amendments for gun safety legislation in general, not just for those motivated by racism — as vital as it is to do that,” Mr. Schumer said, imploring Republicans to allow the debate to open. “I know that many members on the other side hold views that are different than the views on this side of the aisle. So let us move on this bill. Let us proceed.”

But Republicans voted against even considering the measure, arguing that the bill was unnecessary and defined extremism in a way that could be too broadly construed by law enforcement. The vote was 47-47, leaving Democrats short of the 60 needed to move forward on the bill....

Nothing is going to happen on gun control either. It is Sandy Hook all over again and nothing ever changes. The GOP is corrupted to the core and it shows with these efforts and the abortion legislation. Nothing ever is resolved to help the people. The Democrats always have to have controlling majorities otherwise nothing gets done.

May 26, 2022
By Carl Hulse

The calculation behind Republicans’ steadfast opposition to any new gun regulations — even in the face of the kind of unthinkable massacre that occurred Tuesday at an elementary school in Texas — is a fairly simple one for Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota.

Asked Wednesday what the reaction would be from voters back home if he were to support any significant form of gun control, the first-term Republican had a straightforward answer: “Most would probably throw me out of office,” he said.

His response helps explain why Republicans have resisted proposals such as the one for universal background checks for gun buyers, despite remarkably broad support from the public for such plans — support that can reach up to 90 percent nationwide in some cases.

The reality is that that 90 percent figure probably includes some Republicans who are open to new laws, but would not clamor for them or punish a lawmaker for failing to back them, and the 10 percent opposed reflect the sentiments of the G.O.P. base, which decides primary contests and is zealous in its devotion to gun rights....

Two years ago…

…George Floyd was murdered. It is a death not easily forgotten.

Gun deaths vary from state to state.

...The rate of gun fatalities (click here) varies widely from state to state. In 2020, the states with the highest rates of gun-related deaths – counting murders, suicides and all other categories tracked by the CDC – included Mississippi (28.6 per 100,000 people), Louisiana (26.3), Wyoming (25.9), Missouri (23.9) and Alabama (23.6). The states with the lowest rates included New York (5.3), Rhode Island (5.1), New Jersey (5.0), Massachusetts (3.7) and Hawaii (3.4)....

I find that impoverishment can have an impact on violence. The reasons are many, but, a focus on what is occurring in states that basically have high poverty rates and high gun deaths need to be known. Three of the top gun death states include Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. They also have very high poverty rates. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate in the country with 19.78 percent. 

Poverty (click here)
is defined as not having enough income to meet basic needs. This goes beyond just not having enough money for a new vehicle, smartphone, or to take a vacation. Instead, people who live in poverty struggle to keep a roof over their heads, put food on the table, or even purchase basic items like clothing, shoes, and hygiene items....

That does not mean the gun lobby has no fault in the level of mass shootings in the country, they do. What accompanies these shootings are very loose gun laws in the same states that are impoverished. The masculine culture in these states also propagate violence. The less a man can state he is the bread winner the more likely men are to emphasize strength as a characteristic of their masculinity. 

Gun culture is huge when it comes to the male identity in right wing politics. One might note that the states with the least gun deaths also are wealthier and enforce gun controls of one kind or another. I strongly believe how masculinity is defined state to state makes a difference in gun violence. The statistics prove it out. Gun control statutes work as do male cultures that are somewhat removed from the gun culture that prides itself on being strong and powerful. The gun culture in the USA is more than the number of guns sold, it is about how the owners of those guns THINK ABOUT THEIR REAL WORLD USE.  It ain't just hunting anymore.

I also want to point out that population density has a reverse pressure on stress. It would seem the more people in a state, the less gun violence. That might be because of the pressure on legislators to protect populated areas from weapons that penetrate walls. 

Population density in the U.S. by federal states including the District of Columbia in 2021 (click here)

I might point out that Wyoming has the lowest population density, but, is considered among the top five in gun deaths.

The masculine culture of poverty is very different than the masculine culture of the middle class or wealthy. I think that has a great deal to do with the permission men have to kill. 

Mass murders are committed by young men, not women.

There is a lot wrong within the gun culture and how American men identify with killing.

The Russian soldier understands his crime far too late.

A young man's life destroyed because his country's leadership is full of hatred and bitterness at the loss of communism as a legitimate governance. Communism does not work. Everywhere one looks to see communism as a governing strategy there is failed society and economy. Communism has proven to be among failed governance. It's failure is more and more apparent every day.

May 23, 2022
By Elena Becatoros, Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Ricardo Mazalan

Russian Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin listens to his translator during a court hearing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, May 23, 2022. The court sentenced the 21-year-old soldier to life in prison on Monday for killing a Ukrainian civilian, in the first war crimes trial held since Russia's invasion.

Kyiv - A Russian soldier who pleaded guilty (click here) to killing a civilian was sentenced by a Ukrainian court Monday to life in prison — the maximum — amid signs the Kremlin may hold trials of its own, particularly of the captured fighters who held out at Mariupol’s steel plant.

Meanwhile, in a rare public expression of opposition to the war from the ranks of the Russian elite, a veteran Kremlin diplomat resigned and sent a scathing letter to foreign colleagues in which he said of the invasion, “Never have I been so ashamed of my country as on Feb. 24 of this year.”

Also, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for “maximum” sanctions against Russia in a video address to world leaders and executives at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

And on the battlefield, heavy fighting raged in the Donbas in the east, where Moscow’s forces have stepped up their bombardments. Cities not under Russian control were constantly shelled, and one Ukrainian military official said Russian forces targeted civilians trying to flee....

A rude awakening at Davos this year. The faith of instilling capitalism to resolve the world's ills is not a realistic point of view. It was used by communists as a tool in hopes of destroying freedom and democratic governance. I hope this lesson becomes policy to all the businesses that attend. Caution needs to serve the corporate bottom line as much as zealous resolve to profits.

Those attending the World Economic Forum this year have witnessed a small miracle with the people of Ukraine standing up for their land and freedom. They should learn to appreciate it and realize what governments are truly a part of their profit structure.

Capitalism works when democracy ensures choice. Those at Davos also need to appreciate Earth's status as a homeland and work diligently to end the climate crisis. There is no other option.

May 23, 2022

Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor

DAVOS - Before the pandemic interrupted (click here) the ritzy gatherings of the world’s political and business elites in this Swiss mountain town, Russia occupied a central space — literally. Anyone strolling along the main Davos promenade would encounter a wooden building that, if you squinted, seemed sort of like a traditional dacha. “Russia House,” as it was called, was part of the Kremlin’s soft power play at the World Economic Forum and served as a venue for boozy cocktail parties and cheery panels on investment opportunities and tourism in Russia.

This week, as the Forum convenes after a more than two-year gap, Russian businesses and political authorities are explicitly not invited — a consequence both of the Western sanctions that followed the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as the principled stand taken by the Forum. No Russian oligarchs will be jetting in on their private aircraft. No Russian delegations will rub shoulders with their governmental counterparts at the forum’s fresh juice and espresso bars....

Bloomberg (click here)

So what are Americans to make of the radicalization of the Republican Party?

Social platforms since the organization of Facebook present dangers to democracies. Movements have been built on social platforms that cause average citizens pause in deciding about a topic that leads to a political decision. People running for office are now judged in ways that may be more anti-social than political and that leads to a break down of leadership with strong beliefs in democracy.

We have witnessed the undermining of the American democracy with Former President Trump in leadership. The breakdown was profound, fought at every turn and gratefully so, but, it ended with a sincere attempt at a coupe of the presidency of January 6, 2021. To that end Trump could not carry out his hatred of this country without the use of social media.

Social hierarchies in democracies and authoritarianism: The balance between power asymmetries and principal-agent chains

Rationality & Society
March 13, 2020; Issue published: August 1, 2020
Volume: 32 issue: 3, page(s): 334-366
Author: Björn Toelstede,
Linköping University, Sweden
Department of Economics, Linköping University, House A Campus Valla, Linkoping 581 83, Sweden.

...During the last decade, (click here) the people of several countries fought for freedom and democracy (e.g. in the Arab world or in Hong Kong). Their countries had different starting points and they took different courses. We could observe not only regime break downs (e.g. Tunisia/Libya), revolutionary threat-driven reforms (e.g. Morocco/Saudi Arabia), popular pro-democratic movements (e.g. Tunisia/Hong Kong) but also civil warfare and authoritarian restoration (e.g. Libya/Syria). These incidences motivated me to think about the movement of countries between democracy and authoritarianism depending on their respective degree of social hierarchy.

Recent approaches on this subject focus either on the distinction between hierarchical/horizontal societies or on the pro-/anti-sociality of the same. They describe social hierarchies as ambivalent (Van Vugt et al., 2008), divide them into productive or dominance hierarchies (DHs; Rubin, 2000) or functional and dysfunctional hierarchies (Anderson and Brown, 2010). Henrich and Gil-White (2001) distinguish between two behaviors, dominance and prestige. Democracies rather reward prestige and punish dominance meanwhile authoritarian systems do the contrary. Dubreuil (2010) writes that “the [hierarchical] state can be simultaneously the most efficient and most dangerous tool under human control” (p. 230). Magee and Galinsky (2008: 21f.) define hierarchies as “differentiation across individuals or groups on any (commonly) valued dimension” which can differ between cultures (Bowles, 2009; Dubreuil, 2010: 176). For Lake (2009: 264), hierarchies are any form of social differentiation and stratification as well as differences in authority over others (here: power asymmetries). All these approaches distinguish either between pro- and anti-sociality or between hierarchical and non-hierarchical societies.

The combination of both, the degree of pro-sociality and the degree of social hierarchy, can be found in Aristotle (2009: 100f.). He distinguished between governments whose objective is the “common interest” (pro-social) and those who are “directed to the [selfish] interest” (anti-social). Furthermore, he defined three degrees of social hierarchy between non-hierarchical and strongly hierarchical. In short, he combined different degrees of power asymmetries with the pro- or anti-social use of power.

The question about social hierarchies is also present in contemporary political discussions. When talking about democratic transitions, the common standpoint often endorses the (immediate) establishment or extension of institutions and hierarchical escalation. For example, Tharoor (2014) and Friedman (2019) claim the missing hierarchy in Hong Kong’s pro-democratic protest movement as the main reason of its alleged failure. Another example for the endorsement of more power asymmetries is France’s reaction on the 2015/2016 terror attacks. Immediately after the attacks, the country responded by increasing the number of security forces (Toelstede, 2019a, 2019b). The widespread endorsement of hierarchy-reinforcing responses on public goods problems justify a model that allows to categorize countries according to their degree of social hierarchy....

The attempted coupe that would have lead to the end of democracy in the USA was based in social content far different than ever before attempted. It was penetrating and dangerous to the point where it forced every person that loves this country to become a cog in the wheel that would end Trump's reign. The desire for American power in the hands of one man is more than evident with CPAC and it's recent convention in Hungary. Viktor Orban is the least of the hatred spewed at that convention.

21 May 2022

By Flora Garamvolgyi and Julian Borger

A notorious Hungarian racist (click here) who has called Jews “stinking excrement”, referred to Roma as “animals” and used racial epithets to describe Black people, was a featured speaker at a major gathering of US Republicans in Budapest.

Zsolt Bayer took the stage at the second day of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Hungary, a convention that also featured speeches from Donald Trump, Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and Trump’s former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows.

The last featured speaker of the conference was Jack Posobiec, a far-right US blogger who has used antisemitic symbols and promoted the fabricated “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory smearing prominent Democrats as pedophiles....

CPAC spoke loudly and in one voice, it wants the end of democracy in the USA and wants to deceive the American people in the same way Viktor Orban deceives the people of Hungary. That is not even remotely American, it is out of an ideology that kills relentlessly and without apology.

The Republican leadership that heils to Trump is not based in the best outcomes for the USA nor is it a new spiritual reality lead by shaman and demons, this ideology is as old as the modern era and it is taking place where people measure their words and deny self-expression.

The ideology of Trump is simply bad. Period. No discussion. Those that see Trump as a new kind of leadership have invested heavily in the idea of having a man in the White House that bows to their desires and not that of a democratically lead country where every person has a voice in their votes through fair and open elections.

The dangers are real as demonstrated by Orban. Those that saw the end of Trump's reign need to be careful of those that are his minions with unproven ability to govern benevolently and uphold the Rule of Law with deep and unwavering loyalty to the USA Constitution. This is not simply flag waving, this is knowing the history of the demon and being willing to end it's power and influence.

The elections in the USA going forward will require special attention to detail to insure the best outcomes for the people as they are oppressed by those that would control ethnicity and destroy diversity.

The people of Hungary are not free. They ingest the propaganda for smiles and approval that will carry out still yet another election of the king of Hungary who embraces killing in any country. The GOP is following the methodology of Orban in his disintegration of democratic authority.

April 4, 2022

By Zack Beauchamp

On Sunday evening, (click here) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán won reelection for the fourth time — emerging with control of over two-thirds of the country’s parliamentary seats in defiance of close pre-election polls. This fourth consecutive victory means he will remain the third-longest-serving current leader in Europe at nearly 16 years in power, behind only Belarus’s Aleksandr Lukashenko (28 years as president) and Russia’s Vladimir Putin (23 years as president or prime minister).

That Orbán’s peers in longevity are outright dictators is appropriate, as Sunday’s election was anything but free and fair. For the past 12 years, Orbán has systematically worked to turn Hungarian democracy into a sham: one where elections seem fair, but take place on uneven playing ground. Through tactics ranging from extreme gerrymandering to media control to unfair campaign finance rules, he has made it unthinkably difficult for the opposition to defeat his Fidesz party at the ballot box....

Putin wants to end NATO. With Trump, he nearly did. This will continue until the Kings of Putin realize they will never succeed. The American people have a responsibility to carry out their own aggression in the face of fascism. What did our fathers and grandfathers die for? The rule of Putin's kings?

Who was Margaret Sanger? An Icon of change for women. A pacifist. A mother.

In the early 20th century, (click here) at a time when matters surrounding family planning or women’s healthcare were not spoken in public, Margaret Sanger founded the birth control movement and became an outspoken and life-long advocate for women’s reproductive rights. In her later life, Sanger spearheaded the effort that resulted in the modern birth control pill by 1960.

Born September 14, 1879, in Corning, New York, the sixth of eleven children born to Michael Hennessey Higgins, a stonemason, and Anna Purcell Higgins, a devoutly Roman Catholic Irishwoman. Sanger’s life course was shaped by the poverty of her childhood and the death of her mother at age 50, which Sanger understood resulted from the physical toll of eleven pregnancies. Sanger later became a nurse, attending Claverack College and Hudson River Institute in 1896 and completing the nursing program at White Plains Hospital in 1902. That year she married William Sanger, an architect, and moved to Hastings, New York, where the couple had three children....

The modern day word for her would be activist. She wanted to end the poverty women faced in the 19th Century with having many children. She became iconic in the USA and Europe. Her criticism reached into the vestiges of World War II. She was vocal about USA neutrality. She was welcome in circles of power. Was she successful in her pursuits of influencing that power? 

In favoring neutrality she could be viewed as a Nazi sympathizer. It was never an obvious character trait, but, there comes a time when a country has to take a stand or be willing to surrender before the war is even begun for them. If Margaret Sanger had her way, the USA would be run by Nazis and there would be no freedom. The question is not about contraception or elevating poor women out of poverty or even population growth; the question is did Margaret Sanger and her influence change the course of history for democracy? The answer is no. The USA entered the war and fought along side allies to the end of Nazi power that committed genocide.

She had conflicting values due to the love of her sons. That is legal and it is important because it creates an intolerance of war that buffers the blatant power the USA has in it's own right. She is important to history and very important to the women's movement even today. No one needs demonize her for the love she held dear of her sons.

...February 3, 1942
Last night I dreamed of Hitler (click here) – Saw him in a room so close that I could see his eyes wink ... house I was in with others raided by Nazis. I hid under a table with others but one womans leg was discovered then we all were brought forth. Hitler came in to execute war plans & operations using this house as his base. A bird flew into the room from the window & lighted near me – It was white & a dove – Hitler caught it, held it up high over my head & told me to pick out a feather – I did so & awakened. (Journal Entry, MSM S70:513-514)

May 1942
Grant in Navy! ... expects to be called Somewhere any day. God forbid– (Journal Entry, MSM S70:570)

January 26, 1943
Millions of Women in Industry, Defense & other National Activities are needed unencumbered & unhampered for the duration as much as their husbands or brothers are needed as free men on the battle fronts. (MS to Kenneth Rose, MSM S22:108-109)

March 22, 1943
I do not know whether or not you listened to Churchill's speech yesterday, but I was never more disappointed in his views, expressing, as they did, the whole Tory clique of the City of London. It was what I call a nationalistic, jingoistic brain storm! (MS to Margaret Valiant, MSM S22:373)

August 12, 1943
Stuart may have to go Overseas – God knows I'll be crushed over that. It will be the end for me! (MS to Florence Rose, MSM S23:0062)

March 10, 1944
Planned Parenthood must be an important plank in the post war platform if enduring peace is to prevail. Global war demands global peace, and the gains which we are struggling to achieve in this country must be extended throughout the world if they are to be effective for us. In the United States we have achieved a favorable balance between population and resources which has contributed greatly to the raising of our national standard of living. But it will avail us little in the long run if European and Asiatic countries continue to overrun their boundaries, and to breed themselves into greater poverty, famine and ultimately into war. Therefore the fight for planned parenthood must encompass the world. ("Children of Tomorrow" speech, MSM S72:380)

May 10, 1944
What an amazing experience for you, as you say, to have two human beings fall through the air from that height – it is all too ghastly and horrible. I keep wondering what is going to happen after the war to men who live through experiences of that kind. (MS to Stuart Sanger, MSM S23:954)

September 19, 1944
Stuart is in France having left England with the others without a days vacation. I think the American Army is treating the American boys as if they were children, not letting them get away in case they get into trouble when not with his Uncle Sam. (MS to H. G. Wells, MSM S24:323)

October 27, 1944
Grant is out in that Philippine battle in a carrier ... its too horrible being at the end of a phone waiting. (MS to Margaret Valiant and Florence Rose, MSM S24:395)

August 10, 1945
Atomic Bomb over Japan startled the World. (Calendar Entry, MSM S80:647)

August 30, 1945
Stuart has come back from France but is not out of the Army. Grant was still in Okinawa the last we heard, we only hope he will not be sent in Japan. We as everyone else are terribly thankful that the war is over. (MS to Marion Willis Brock, MSM S24:1148)

October 25, 1945
Isn't it true, General, that until America, with her present power, stands for the rights of parents everywhere in the world to voluntary and healthful reproduction, neither a large standing army or the atomic bomb can save us from another war? (MS to General Douglas MacArthur, MSM S25:213)

The 1930s was a disgrace to the USA.

Nearly 1,000 uniformed men (click here) wearing swastika arm bands and carrying Nazi banners parade past a reviewing stand in New Jersey on July 18, 1937. The New Jersey division of the German-American Bund opened its 100-acre Camp Nordland at Sussex Hills. Dr. Salvatore Caridi of Union City, spokesman for a group of Italian-American Fascists attending as guests, addressed the bund members as "Nazi Friends."

These men organized after WWI. The second world war would begin with the election of Adolph Hitler in 1933.

...After becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, (click here) Hitler swiftly consolidated power, anointing himself Führer (supreme leader) in 1934. Obsessed with the idea of the superiority of the “pure” German race, which he called “Aryan,” Hitler believed that war was the only way to gain the necessary “Lebensraum,” or living space, for the German race to expand. In the mid-1930s, he secretly began the rearmament of Germany, a violation of the Versailles Treaty. After signing alliances with Italy and Japan against the Soviet Union, Hitler sent troops to occupy Austria in 1938 and the following year annexed Czechoslovakia. Hitler’s open aggression went unchecked, as the United States and Soviet Union were concentrated on internal politics at the time, and neither France nor Britain (the two other nations most devastated by the Great War) were eager for confrontation....

The history of this disastrous movement began long before the radical right wing of the Republican Party discovered how fear can capture votes.

The most important promoter of racial ideology in Europe (click here) during the mid-19th century was https://www.britannica.com/topic/race-human/Gobineaus-Essay-on-the-Inequality-of-Human-Races, who had an almost incalculable effect on late 19th-century social theory. Published in 1853–55, his Essay on the Inequality of Human Races was widely read, embellished, and publicized by many different kinds of writers. He imported some of his arguments from the polygenists, especially the American Samuel Morton. Gobineau claimed that the civilizations established by the three major races of the world (white, Black, and yellow) were all products of the white races and that no civilization could emerge without their cooperation. The purest of the white races were the Aryans. When Aryans diluted their blood by intermarriage with lower races, they helped to bring about the decline of their civilization.

Following Boulainvilliers, Gobineau advanced the notion that France was composed of three separate races—the Nordics, the Alpines, and the Mediterraneans—that corresponded to France’s class structure. Each race had distinct mental and physical characteristics; they differed in character and natural abilities, such as leadership, economic resourcefulness, creativity, and inventiveness, and in morality and aesthetic sensibilities. The tall, blond Nordics, who were descendants of the ancient Germanic tribes, were the intellectuals and leaders. Alpines, who were brunet and intermediate in size between Nordics and Mediterraneans, were the peasants and workers; they required the leadership of Nordics. The shorter, darker Mediterraneans he considered a decadent and degenerate product of the mixture of unlike races; to Gobineau they were “nigridized” and “semitized.”...

It is a paradigm worth recognizing in other cultures, but, never has it ended humanly or without ethnic cleansing or racism.

The country of India there has been a Caste System that oppresses people into poverty while maintaining the elite in their roles.

Manusmriti, (click here) widely regarded to be the most important and authoritative book on Hindu law and dating back to at least 1,000 years before Christ was born, "acknowledges and justifies the caste system as the basis of order and regularity of society".

The caste system divides Hindus into four main categories - Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and the Shudras. Many believe that the groups originated from Brahma, the Hindu God of creation....

Probably one of the more deadly paradigms that adhere to difference in a person as important to discriminate in governance is that of Islam. In the 21st Century, that entire jihad thing is grossly wrong and available yet today for radicals to harness and bring hate and fear to people to justify atrocities. Why is it that mass murder is viewed as necessary to anyone?

...The division (click here) between Shia and Sunni dates back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632. This event raised the question of who was to take over the leadership of the Muslim nation.

Sunnism is the largest and most orthodox branch of Islam. The word Sunn, in Arabic, comes from a word meaning "one who follows the traditions of the Prophet."

Sunni Muslims agree with many of the Prophet's companions at the time of his death: that the new leader should be elected from among those capable of the job. For example, following Prophet Muhammad's death, his close friend and adviser, Abu Bakr, became the first Caliph (successor or deputy of the Prophet) of the Islamic nation.

On the other hand, some Muslims believe that leadership should have stayed within the Prophet's family, among those specifically appointed by him, or among Imams appointed by God Himself.

Shia Muslims believe that following the Prophet Muhammad's death, leadership should have passed directly to his cousin and son-in-law, Ali bin Abu Talib. Throughout history, Shia Muslims have not recognized the authority of elected Muslim leaders, choosing instead to follow a line of Imams which they believe have been appointed by the Prophet Muhammad or God Himself....

Hate and fear go hand in hand. Where hate becomes justifiable within the politics of any form of governance, what will ultimately result is a judgement of one authority to solidify ultimate control of POWER.

The Rwandan Genocide is well known (click here). There was a power shift in the country and within 4 days hundreds of thousands of people were dead for no other reason, except, the desire for ultimate power.

FOUR DAYS.

FOUR DAYS.

FOUR DAYS.

This type of ideology is extremely dangerous. No one thought for a moment that Vladimir Putin would be so ruthless to achieve the end of every Ukrainian in the 21st Century. It may not have achieved the numbers of dead as with Rwanda, but, it has been vastly dangerous resulting in the deaths and displacement of nearly an entire race of people. 

This is not to be tolerated in American politics. The only movement within the USA that should be tolerated is the goal of peace and prosperity that equates happiness. The poor has opportunity to upward movement. The Middle Class has the ability to educate their children and improve their lives with real happiness within families and communities. The Middle Class is America. It is where wealth takes place to the wealthy. The Middle Class has to succeed to bring about a vibrant economy. Economic exploitation and the viciousness of capitalism to deliver exclusive wealth is not part of a healthy America. 

The white supremacist conspiracy theory has a long history in the United States and abroad.

May 17, 2022
By Fabiola Cineas

Before the gunman shot down 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, (click here) at a supermarket on Saturday afternoon, he had stated his intent: “kill as many Black people as possible.” He reportedly wrote these words in a 180-page screed published online before he carried out what investigators are calling a hate crime and a racist act of violent extremism.

The 18-year-old white man, who claimed to drive hours to the zip code he targeted in Buffalo because it “has the highest black percentage that is close enough to where I live,” repeatedly lamented immigration, which he feared would result in “ethnic replacement,” “cultural replacement,” “racial replacement,” and ultimately, he wrote, “white genocide.”

This is the “white replacement theory” or the “Great Replacement” that has motivated similar mass killings in recent years — the racist conspiracy theory that holds that, through immigration, interracial marriage, integration, and violence, and at the behest of secret forces orchestrated by “global elites” (as the Buffalo shooter claimed) or Jews, white people are being disenfranchised, disempowered, and pushed out of “white nations.”

These ideas are not new. They have been documented for at least a century, the forces of white fear that shaped the national origin quotas of the 1920s. They have inspired mass attacks — and also smaller-scale instances of violence — that have claimed the lives of hundreds of people in the United States and abroad...

Former President John Tyler could still be impeached.

Dubbed “His Accidency” by his detractors, John Tyler (click here) was the first Vice President to be elevated to the office of President by the death of his predecessor.

Born in Virginia in 1790, he was raised believing that the Constitution must be strictly construed. He never wavered from this conviction. He attended the College of William and Mary and studied law.

Serving in the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1821, Tyler voted against most nationalist legislation and opposed the Missouri Compromise. After leaving the House he served as Governor of Virginia. As a Senator he reluctantly supported Jackson for President as a choice of evils. Tyler soon joined the states’ rights Southerners in Congress who banded with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and their newly formed Whig party opposing President Jackson.

The Whigs nominated Tyler for Vice President in 1840, hoping for support from southern states’-righters who could not stomach Jacksonian Democracy. The slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” implied flag waving nationalism plus a dash of southern sectionalism....

Harrison Ruffin Tyler at the age of 91 is iconic for the Supremacist/Nationalist belief that the USA is to be a white, Christian country. Below is a paragraph from the US Presidential page.

...When the first southern states seceded in 1861, Tyler led a compromise movement; failing, he worked to create the Southern Confederacy. He died in 1862, a member of the Confederate House of Representatives.

If we are to destroy statues dedicated to the Confederacy to sufficiently remove such ideas of coupe and treason from USA history, white people such as the former President Tyler has to be included in that priority to rid the public square of ideologues that embrace White Supremacy as the world order.

The really interesting tilt to this reality with Tyler is that he died in 1861. That is more than 160 years ago, yet, his grandson and great-grandson are still alive to carry forward the ideology that Tyler spoke. Even if they deny they agree with Tyler's perspective, there is a family heritage that causes concern and a focus to extremists that would see genocide as a resolve no different than Putin.

It is time for the people of the USA to end the bigotry and racism.

November 29, 2020
By Gillian Brockell

These days Harrison Ruffin Tyler, 91, (click here) is allowed only one designated visitor. Those are the pandemic rules at the nursing home in Virginia where he lives. So in September, when his last living sibling, brother Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. died at 95, he found out about it on the daily visit from his daughter-in-law.

“He understood what was going on, he was upset,” said his son William Tyler, 58. But “he doesn’t have any memory of yesterday, he doesn’t have any memory of today.”

Due to a series of mini-strokes starting in 2012, Harrison lives almost without time. It would be quite a change for anyone, but it’s particularly so for someone like him, who grew up steeped in family history. Harrison was raised in his grandfather’s hunting lodge; his grandfather — John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States — was born in 1790....

Later

I am ending this early tonight. I will complete it tomorrow.

Thank you for your continued interest.

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Speaker Pelosi - The Bishop has it wrong. The type of relationship that exists with God is a personal relationship. It is that relationship regarding her accountability of her Earthly life that will interest God.

I find the Bishop’s declaration, opportune. He either has ambitions to be Cardinal or Pope himself. I would like to know if his unnecessary announcement about the Speaker’s right to communion was after a handsome donation to request his intervention.

To the Bishop of San Francisco,

The USA practices separation of church and state. Speaker Pelosi has an obligation to all people and faiths. Abortion is not about babies. They obtain citizenship at birth and not before. Abortion is about a woman’s health. There is no assault on babies in the USA. We welcome babies. What is at issue is the health of women and how that translates to the care of their families. 

The Bishop of San Francisco entered a dialogue that does not fall under his expertise. The law in the USA is best left up to legislators that know the issue and how to legislate. With all do respect the Bishop is confused to where his religious dogma ends.

ONE OTHER THING:

The Catholic Church based in Rome, Italy chronically has this problem with those that are practicing the faith while serving in office. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is dedicated to her faith and to the people of the USA. As Speaker she has a responsibility to all Americans and not just Catholic Americans. The Catholic Church should be proud to have a member of it's faith in one of the most powerful seats in the USA Legislature.

Additionally, Speaker Pelosi has a responsibility to all Americans and not just Catholic Americans. Her status with her faith is her own business not that of the USA federal government. Speaker Pelosi fully understands the impact abortion has on women's lives for the better. Abortion has always been defined in regard to the health of the mother, physical health, emotional health and mental health. She knows full well that abortion serves as a benefit to women that seek to have a better quality of life for their families.

What does abortion do for women? It allows them to compete for good paying jobs that can require a decade or more of learning. Abortion allows a woman to move from abuse to self-supporting while protecting her children when they to with her after a divorce from an abusive spouse. Abortion saves women's lives when they are faced with adverse outcomes to pregnancy, including in the African American community, preeclampsia ( high blood pressure, high levels of protein in urine that indicate kidney damage (proteinuria), or other signs of organ damage), eclampsia resulting from preeclampsia (seizures can cause episodes of staring, decreased alertness, and convulsions (violent shaking) and let's not forget depression. 

Post partum depression starts before delivery of the baby and continues due to hormone imbalances as well as pre-existing mental health issues. The most devastating mental health issues for women during the post partum period is Post-Partum Psychosis (click here). The people of the USA has witnessed the devastation of Post-Partum Psychosis when a women severely depressed actually murders her own children after the birth of a daughter. 

All these issues are serious problems women face when becoming pregnant for all the right reasons like family and personal fulfillment in being a parent. The Catholic Church's view is that of religious dogma and not modern day information. It is unfortunate because the Vatican has a scientific arm that could investigate this further if it harnessed the genius of it's nuns. 

If the Catholic Church believes it is a power player in any election, it needs to think twice because the non-profit status could be sacrificed when entering slight of hand defamation of character among government officials simply doing their job. The Catholic Church has no authority within the USA government structure and should maintain its interests where it belongs in saving the souls of those still engaging in sinful behavior.

Speaker Pelosi is one of the most ethical people in this country and is very concerned about women's health as well as happy lives for children with men fulfilled in their personal pursuits of employment, marriage and quite possibly small business interests. There is nothing here that a Bishop should concern himself with as Speaker Pelosi is an honorable woman, incredible leader and one that does not cross the line of church and state to replace the USA Constitution with the Bible. That ethical stance is not shared with political right wing Congresspersons who see the power of the USA open to be harnessed for wrong doing and exploitation of people. Enough of this displaced heralding by the Bishop, he owes people a letter of apology for his attempt at smearing Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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What is really interesting is the "Bush-Cheney" Republicans to this extremism that is gone mainstream with Trump's Republican arm.

 John McCain labeled his 2008 presidential campaign the “Straight Talk Express.” (click here) But that was just a slogan. In reality, McCain’s campaign was a desperately disingenuous project that saw the candidate and a cabal of corrupt aides lie to reporters and the American people, foster false impressions of their rivals, give Sarah Palin a national platform, and set the stage for the degeneration of the Republican Party into the antidemocratic confederacy it has since become.

The GOP’s debasement has had a lot to do with Donald Trump, but it did not begin with the 45th president. It had deep roots that were entangled not only with unprincipled strategists on the domestic front but also with oligarchs who were aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin. And it continues to haunt the party, and the United States, at a moment when Putin’s military is waging a genocidal war against Ukraine.

That is the most important takeaway from the headline-grabbing pronouncements of McCain campaign aide turned “Never Trump” Republican Steve Schmidt, who is currently embattled in a Twitter war with the late senator’s self-dealing daughter, Meghan McCain....

The Lincoln Project helped defeat Trump in 2020. Why? Because Trump was/is a profound threat to democracy in the USA and the other allies of the USA. The people that organized and funded The Lincoln Project understood the danger of Trumpism and the peril of the USA into the future.

The Lincoln Project (click here)

December 17, 2022

By Steve Peoples

A small group of President Donald Trump’s fiercest conservative critics, (click here) including the husband of the president’s own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump’s reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers.”

The new organization, known as the Lincoln Project, represents a formal step forward for the so-called Never Trump movement, which has been limited largely to social media commentary and cable news attacks through the first three years of Trump’s presidency. Organizers report fundraising commitments exceeding $1 million to begin, although they hope to raise and spend much more to fund a months-long advertising campaign in a handful of 2020 battleground states to persuade disaffected Republican voters to break from Trump’s GOP. 

The mission, as outlined in a website that launched Tuesday coinciding with a New York Times opinion piece, is simple: “Defeat President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box.”

The group is led by a seven-person advisory council that features some of the GOP’s most vocal Trump critics. Most, but not all, have already left the Republican Party to protest Trump’s rise. 

The principals include former John McCain adviser Steve Schmidt, former Ohio Gov. John Kasich adviser John Weaver, former New Hampshire GOP chair Jennifer Horn, veteran Republican operative Rick Wilson and George Conway, a conservative attorney and husband of Trump’s chief counselor Kellyanne Conway. 

In an interview, George Conway said he encouraged the new super PAC to involve Anonymous, an unnamed Trump administration official who authored a recent book warning the public against Trump’s reelection. The rest of the group ultimately decided not to take Conway’s suggestion....

The Republicans are having trouble AGAIN doing the right and best thing for the people of the USA.

US Senate Bill 963 (click here)

May 22, 2022
by Alexander Bolton

Senate Republicans are lining up against a House-passed bill (click here) that would authorize special offices within the government to investigate and monitor domestic terrorism, which is being pushed in the wake of a racist shooting in Buffalo that left 10 people dead.

The GOP compares the proposal, which sets up offices in the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the FBI to target domestic terrorism, to the recently paused disinformation board set up by the Biden administration.

“It sounds terrible,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) of the House-passed bill, predicting it won’t get 10 Republicans in the Senate.

Josh Hawley, of course, is the one that was encouraging the violent crowd at the US Capitol before entering the building to place Joseph Biden at the top of the USA Executive Branch.

“It’s like the disinformation board on steroids. Another way to look at is the Patriot Act for American citizens,” he added, referring to the law passed immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that expanded the government’s power to monitor phone and email conversations and collect bank records.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he will bring the bill to the floor this week as a response to the killings at a Buffalo supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood. The bill passed the House 222-203 on a mostly party-line vote, with Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) casting the only GOP vote in favor.

Democrats increasingly see the need for the government to take more action against the threat of domestic terrorism given a long string of incidents that includes the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and several mass shootings targeting Black, Hispanic and Jewish people.

But the efforts have run into opposition from the GOP....

The Communists have the floor.

20 May 2022

By Flora Garamvolgyi

The Hungarian leader, (click here) Viktor Orbán, has told a conference of US conservatives that the path to power required having their own media outlets, calling for shows like Tucker Carlson’s to be broadcast “24/7”. Orbán, recently elected to a fourth term, laid out a 12-point blueprint to achieving and consolidating power to a special meeting of the US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), under the slogan of “God, Homeland, Family”, held in Budapest....

Trump already has his own media. This most assuredly solidifies the idea that the Republican Party is no longer the GOP of the USA, but, a foreign governing authority that has members in the USA under the guise of democracy, when they are absolutely looking toward authoritarianism.

Our Vision (click here)

In the year 2021, the media pendulum has swung dangerously far to the left. Silicon Valley, the mainstream media, and Big Tech have begun to forcibly silence voices that do not align with their woke ideology. Big Tech platforms demonetize, throttle, and cancel those who stray from the mainstream narrative. They are not just censoring content – they are determining what can and cannot be said. By controlling how information is shared, they control the narrative. They control the future. They control you.

To counter this dangerous exercise of Big Tech monopoly power, President Donald J. Trump and TMTG are building a media and technology company rooted in social media, digital streaming, and more. TMTG intends to even the playing field by providing people with open media platforms where they can share and create content without fear of reputational ruin.

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Authoritarianism the concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people.

Understand this, on January 6, 2021 the right wing extremists of the Republican Party attempted to coupe the elections and prevent the swearing of oath of President Biden. If that were to occur and Trump continued as the authority in the Oval Office, the USA Constitution would be null and void and Trump would have complete authority of the presidency and it's power.