Russia has legal obligations to Ukraine for the destruction and loss of life it has caused.

The court has no direct means to enforce the order, but, the international community and the banks can find justice for Ukraine so long as Russia continues to kill the people and rape the land.

I believe sovereign countries can act against Russia that limits it's ability to carry out war and the banks have a legal obligation to Ukraine in requesting monies to protect this country and return function. Banks with the authority invested in them by sovereign governments can begin to take Russian wealth and return Ukraine's function and protections for the people.

There is absolutely no doubt the World Court has ruled that Russia is acting illegally and is to stop. As it continues beyond the decisions of the world court only proves it has no respect for authority of any kind. When such a rouge status is valued by Putin, it is time for the world and it's banks to act responsibility to end this travesty of this war.

16 March 2022

The UN’s international court of justice (ICJ) (click here) in The Hague has ordered Russia to halt its invasion of Ukraine, saying the court had not seen any evidence to support the Kremlin’s justification for the war, that Ukraine was committing genocide against Russian-speakers in the east of the country.

The court ruled by 13 votes to two for a provisional order that “the Russian Federation shall immediately suspend military operations that it commenced on 24 February 2022 in the territory of Ukraine”. Only the Russian and Chinese judges on the court voted against the order.

The court president, US judge Joan Donoghue, said the court “is not in possession of evidence substantiating” Russian allegations of genocide on Ukrainian territory. In any case, she said it was “doubtful” the Genocide Convention gives any authority for the “unilateral use of force in the territory of another state”.

Consequently, she said “the court considers that Ukraine has a plausible right not to be subjected to military operations by the Russian Federation”.

ICJ rulings are binding under the UN Charter, and the court order noted they “create international legal obligations for any party to whom the provisional measures are addressed”, but it has no means of enforcement. It is unlikely to influence Putin’s choices, but it does provide an authoritative refutation of his frequently used pretext for starting the war.

“Ukraine gained a complete victory in its case against Russia at the international court of justice,” the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said in a tweet. “The ICJ ordered to immediately stop the invasion. The order is binding under international law. Russia must comply immediately. Ignoring the order will isolate Russia even further.”...

This is not a culture war, it is an attack on freedom of speech by Texas.

If Texas is good for anything that attacks moral content of society like freedom of speech, multi-culturalism, gun control and the climate. Other than that I don't find much virtue in what goes on in Texas. It is biased against most anything American.

There is a children's section in any public library and why adult content would be found there is because of librarians that don't know the Dewey Decimal System.

It is outrageous to even make an issue of this. When it comes to transgender anyone there is no arguing with it. It is a physical PROOF that is genetically based. There is no INFLUENCING anyone to be transgender. It is a matter of genetics and the extremist idiots in Texas need to get over themselves.

They don't even care to understand where the responsiblity at the southern border ends with States Rights and Federal responsibility. This idea of limiting content in public libraries and schools is outrageous. I think School Boards have been doing a great job at the local level and there is no other way to address school children and their needs. One has to wonder what fuels the sports bonfires in Texas.

April 17, 2022

By Annie Gowen

Llano, Tex. - In early November,  (click here) an email dropped into the inbox of Judge Ron Cunningham, the silver-haired head chair of the governing body of Llano County in Texas’s picturesque Hill Country. The subject line read “Pornographic Filth at the Llano Public Libraries.”

“It came to my attention a few weeks ago that pornographic filth has been discovered at the Llano library,” wrote Bonnie Wallace, a 54-year-old local church volunteer. “I’m not advocating for any book to be censored but to be RELOCATED to the ADULT section. … It is the only way I can think of to prohibit censorship of books I do agree with, mainly the Bible, if more radicals come to town and want to use the fact that we censored these books against us.”

Wallace had attached an Excel spreadsheet of about 60 books she found objectionable, including those about transgender teens, sex education and race, including such notable works as “Between the World and Me,” by author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, an exploration of the country’s history written as a letter to his adolescent son. Not long after, the county’s chief librarian sent the list to Suzette Baker, head of one of the library’s three branches.

“She told me to look at pulling the books off the shelf and possibly putting them behind the counter. I told them that was censorship,” Baker said....