Yellowstone National Park closed until further notice.

Yellowstone National Park Extremely Dangerous (click here)

One of the nation's favorite national park has been hit with torrential rains causing massive flooding, rock slides and roads washed out.

As I write this Chicago, Illinois is under tornado warning (click here). The storm is centering on Midway Airport. Cities are heat islands.

June 13, 2022
By Jake Sheridan

The National Weather Service (click here) issued a tornado warning for Chicago, Cicero, and Schaumburg until 7:15 p.m. In Arlington Heights, Evanston and Schaumburg, the warning also included severe thunderstorms, wind gusts up to 70mph and hail as large as 2 inches.

Severe storms are headed for Detroit. Take these warnings seriously. Cities are heat islands. 

June 13, 2022

By Emma Stein

Hold onto your hat, metro Detroit is in for a week of wacky weather. (click here)

Monday night, experts say to prepare for strong storms with winds up to 70 miles per hour.  

"It's still kind of uncertain how things will exactly play out," said Dave Kook, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in White Lake. "But there's a large complex of thunderstorms right now over Wisconsin that's going to track southeast through lower Michigan this evening, and that'll bring the first possible round of severe weather to the area. Strong winds are probably the biggest threat, but with these systems, large hail and isolated tornadoes are also possible."

Cities are not used to these dynamics. There is far more danger to more people than where tornado alley is usually found. Straight line winds can be very damaging and dangerous as well. Cities are heat islands.

June 13, 2022

Milwaukee Public Schools to close early Tuesday because of extreme heat in forecast (click here)

January 6th Committee

11:07 An exmination of the thinking within the Trump administration, campaign and family is the focus.

Ivanka Trump stated an obvious in that the election had not been called and votes were still being counted. If one person has to be assigned the responsibility of lies and unrest it is Trump himself. He made public speeches based in lies to facilitate recounts.

Mr. Stirewalt stated clearly the vote of 2020 in the presidential election went to Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.

Bill Barr stated on election evening there were large shifts to favor Democratic votes because of mail in and absentee ballots. He also stated this was somewhat predicatable because Democrats normally use those types of voting more frequently than Republicans. Any early return is considered "The Red Mirage."

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Bill Stepien, former Trump campaign manager, stated the loss was possible to Donald John Trump, but, it was ignored and Trump called for an end to counting ballots.

These testimonies by Bill Stepien are video taped earlier as he is unable to be at the committee's meeting today (click here).

Arizona came into view as one that would be lost to current President Biden. Arizona in the past has been a strong constituency for Republicans. FOX News, editor Mr. Stirewalt states their computer findings on election eve was working and returning excellent predictions. He goes on to make testimony that rarely do their FOX News predictions prove wrong. He has a definite understanding of how these predictions are moved if at all in counting ballots submitted by the American people. His experience in predicting elections has come to play in 2020 and his confidence in his ability to understand how an election might shift to the other candidate clearly understood. He is an expert and with that submits opinions in confidence.

Bill Stepien's testimony includes many names of people involved in the election and with that an understanding of the expertise of those within the campaign. He states clearly, again out of experience, the chance there were significant number of ineligible voters. He states there are to few clearly ineligible voters.

Bill Stepien states clearly a new legal team was put in place by Trump to his campaign after it was determined to be a lost election. Trump changed staff at a point where Trump was recording low ratings via polls.

Bill Stepien states he was concerned, as Trump Team Normal, about the public statements from the Guilliani Team. He didn't think the Guiliani Team was appropriate.

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Guiliani comes out with statements of witnessed ballot stuffing from Democrats, including, shopping carts full of ballots for Joe Biden. The Guiliani Team, Sidney Powell specifically stated the algorhithm used for prediction of the election was broken.

November 16, 2021
By Andrew Goudsward

Eric Herschmann, (click here) a lawyer who represented former President Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial and later became a central figure in battles over the election results, left behind a $3.3 million partnership share at Kasowitz Benson Torres to join the Trump White House last year, according to a newly filed financial disclosure.

Herschmann had been working at Kasowitz Benson for more than 24 years when he left in August 2020 to become a senior adviser to Trump. He reported earning $3,313,154 from the firm, according to the financial statement....

What could possibly be a reason to abandon an entire investiment in a partneership to work for Trump?

Bill Barr, as US Attorney General, was asked to come to the White House to examine Trump's evidence of fraud. Bill Barr clarified the inappropriate nature of the request Trump had for the DOJ to prosecute the fraud Trump unearthed. Bill Barr made it clear bringing charges was the place of the campaign. Mark Meadows and Jared proposed the idea that Trump was slowly coming to a reality Trump lost the election. The 23rd and weekend of 29th of November revealed a deteriorating Trump in his demands of election fraud according to AG Barr. AG Barr stated there was no evidence to support the claims of fraud by Trump. He stated this to authorities, the public and the former president. "We have not seen fraud on a scale that would effect the election." AG Barr stated to his secretary to begin packing because he was confident he would be fired by Trump. Mark Meadows stated Trump was very angry. AG Barr stated he never saw Trump as angry as he was that day.

AG Barr stated he was very aware of the Detroit ballot counting method of 630 precincts and there was no fraud in Detroit. He stated the claims against Dominion Voting machines (click here) were not valid. AG Barr stated the continued claim of voting fraud was a disservice to the country. December 14th AG Barr stated Trump was insisting there was fraud with the voting machines. The report Trump referred to was suppose to be so conclusive it would provide him a second term. AG Barr did not find the report very professional and did not believe it exhibited fraud in a way that would change anything. AG Barr states in testimony he never found fraud in the election then or now, even the "2000 mules" story (click here).

The producer/director of "2000 mules" needs a peer review.

Ballot Harvesting - Those claiming it are illegitimately doing so. Any elected official claiming ballot harvesting needs an ethics review.

Ballot harvesting (click here) is the practice in which political operatives collect absentee ballots from voters’ homes and drop them off at a polling place or election office. It may sound pretty innocuous, but this practice can and has been abused across the country. We saw this play out in the 2018 midterm elections in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District when a political operative abused the process of harvesting ballots, which resulted in the North Carolina State Board of Elections to call for reelection....

AG Barr resigned as of December 23, 2020. (click here)

Rep. Lofgren is presenting the evidence about voting and voting machines considered to be fraudulent and criminal. People all along the way continued to examine all the claims by Trump of false outcomes for one reason or another and found they were baseless. 

When does someone charge Trump with fraudulent claims?

Ten minute break.

June 13, 2022

Severe storms (click here) have slammed much of the central United States in recent weeks with rounds of damaging winds, hail as large as softballs and isolated tornadoes repeatedly impacting the same locations. This week, AccuWeather forecasters anticipate more of the same....

Just a reality check. The claims of hail storms and tornadoes and subsequent damage are not false during June 7 through 10. I don't want to know the crop damage in Nebraska from hail storms. Department of Agriculture needs to check with Nebraska and emergency status of their crops. The world cannot tolerate any loss of Nebraska grains and otherwise.

Attorney General Barr began to be concerned about the mental health of the former president with his repeated and daily questioning and refusal of the facts of the election results. Realizing Attorney General Barr was leaning into the election results in a way that would not allow fraud by Trump. In that is a reality for this election and all others in that anyone claiming fraud would have to have profound proof otherwise the federal authorities will most likely uphold the first election results. States are not alone in reporting election results.

12:15 pm Committee reconvened, Ms. Lofgren continues, witnesses sworn in.

Byung J. "Bjay" Pak former US Attorney of Atlanta. He was asked by AG Barr about election fraud especially about a suitcase of ballots that was supposed to exist. Georgia found no evidence of fraud. The suitcase of ballots from under the table was actually an official lockbox where ballots were safely maintained. The lockbox was opened a second time to continue counting. Guiliani stated lockbox was a smoking gun. The reality is completely the opposite.

FBI became involved and determined nothing irregular occurred and the allogations by Guiliani was false. Why wasn't Guiliani prosecuted for fraud? It is a burden to the people to continue to entertain the false allogations.

Richard Donaghue gave testimony claims as unproven.

Mr. Pak stated all claims of voter fraud was never enough to undermine the determination of college electorates assigned to President Biden.

Former AG continues to testimony about the claims by Trump of voter fraud. The Philadelphia vote was challenged as far too many voters than is usually cast, that was a false claim. Why are the people claiming there is fraud within the voting system not prosecuted for fraud themselves. It is not like it is one place that fraud was found, these are stories across every one of the "swing state" votes. Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania so far. Al Schmidt states the questions regarding the Philadelphia vote was taken every seriously and nothing was found to be wrong that would change the outcome of the vote.

These are premeditated attacks against sovereign states of our federal elections. There were no dead people found to be voting and all election machine fraud is completely bogus. When are these people going to be prosecuted for leveling false claims? Donald John Trump actually threatened Mr. Schmidt's life and that of his family with highly detailed information to make the threat very real.

Rep. Lofgren apologized to Mr. Schmidt for what occurred that deeply threatened him. An apology is not enough. It is good to apologize, but, false claims that attack a vote systemically must be prosecuted.

Mr. Ginsberg, an election lawyer, analyzed the post election litigations of Trump. He testifies to the process of challenging election results. The campaign is the place where complaints would be made. 

l. The election of 2020 was not close. 

2. The Trump campaign brought claims without evidence.

3. There was never an instance where the Trump campaign had a valid complaint about the 2020 elections. They never made their case.

Opportunity of being in court was allowed and the complaints were dismissed for a variety of reasons, including, the complaint was brought by other than the campaign. Post election reviews of the six battleground states found no credible evidence of fraud (or irregularities) by Trump campaign or supporters. Trump Campaign had a false narrative. 61 cases of fraud were false. That is not an accident.

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61 losses 

9 case filings

22 judges

10 Trump appointed judges

The Trump Campaign false claims resulted in the lawyers bringing the claims disciplined by their professional state boards. That is not enough. Trump, via the AG Barr testimony, was responsible for carrying the false claims over and over.

It seems as though Trump lawyers take the fall for his law breaking, ie: Michael Cohen and now the campaign lawyers. This shows a pattern that requires legal review to Trump's strategic approach to government power and it's use. It is time to hold Trump responsible for making these claims in the first place. There were not simply voters finding irregularities, they were all gathered and created these complaints.

Hanna Alred - Gary Coby

Money was flowing in during these claims. Large amounts of money went to a Save America PAC that subsequently donated the monies back to Trump and his organizations and businesses including payoffs to Mark Meadows. False election claims facilitated these DIVERTED donations.

Small dollar donors deserve the truth about their donations and the Trump Campaign defrauded these donors as well as larger donors.

East to Hershman stated all he wanted to hear wsa "Orderly Transition" rather than continued threats to the peaceful transitions of power of the USA. 

The January 6th Committee has proven to be a committee of integrity in encompassing all the people that were defrauded by Trump.

The Garland DOJ needs to establish a Special Prosecutor to carry out necessary charges to protect the USA from such abuses ever again by Trump and his minions including Hershmann. It is outrageous that one man would abandon his own business to attempt a coup of an election. Hershmann needs to be contended with as a facciliator of an attempted coupe. The legal profession should be up in arms at this insult to them and to the country.

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I said this early on, "Fight for Ukraine now or fight for NATO later." Besides Ukraine being a strategic partner this is genocide, there is nothing else to say, except every Ukrainian soldier dead or disabled is one more Ukrainan satifying Putin's thirst for hate. The war that was never supposed to be is entering a stage where The West needs to examine it's pledges to save Ukraine for death and/or permanent occupation.

Kindly remember, this is genocide, but, also this war started in 2014. 

Signing of the Treaty on the adoption of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia. Left to right: S. Aksyonov (click here), V. Konstantinov (click here), V. Putin and A. Chalyi (click here).

The people of Ukraine were disarmed from any national defense under Yanukovych. The security at the time of Yanukovych was to keep Ukrainians under control. Never did Ukraine have a military to protect it's sovereignty since Yanukovych empowered the oligarchs to oppress the Ukrainian people. 

The annexation of Crimea and Donbas was illegal (click here). The signators to the annexation in the picture above right are all Russians. Ukraine never consented to the annexation and the vote taken in Crimea was corrupt. The people of Crimea complained of the corruption, but, no action from The West occurred. The record of the Crimean vote is officially viewed as illegal.

June 10, 2022
By Richard Haass

With Russia’s war (click here) against Ukraine having passed the 100-day mark, calls for the conflict to be brought to an end are multiplying in the United States and Europe. Italy has put forward a detailed peace plan, French President Emmanuel Macron has emphasized the importance of giving Russia an off-ramp, and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has suggested that Ukraine ought to consider ceding territory to Russia in exchange for peace.

But wars end in only one of two ways: when one side imposes its will on the other, first on the battlefield, then at the negotiating table, or when both sides embrace a compromise they deem preferable to fighting. In Ukraine, neither scenario is likely to materialize anytime soon. The conflict has become a war of attrition, with Russian and Ukrainian forces now concentrated against each other in a relatively confined area. Diplomatically, the Ukrainians have little interest in accepting Russian occupation of large swaths of their territory. Russian President Vladimir Putin, for his part, has little interest in agreeing to anything that could be judged at home to constitute defeat. The inescapable conclusion, then, is that this war will go on—and on.

With victory and compromise both off the table for the foreseeable future, the United States and Europe need a strategy for managing an open-ended conflict. “Managing,” not “solving,” is the operative word here, because a solution almost certainly would require a fundamental change in Moscow’s behavior, caused either by widespread popular protest in Russia stemming from economic collapse or massive casualties or by Chinese pressure....

There is little doubt that the sanctions on Russia have growing effectiveness. More and more sanctions have to take place to isolate Russia from growing acts of war in Ukraine and otherwise.

June 12, 2022
By Kelsey Vlamis

Yale historian Timothy Snyder (click here) said Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to starve some countries as part of his efforts in Ukraine.

Snyder published a lengthy Twitter thread Saturday explaining how he believes Putin is using food insecurity to his advantage and called it the "latest chapter of hunger politics."

"Russia has a hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage in his war in Europe," Snyder, a professor at Yale University and expert on authoritarianism, began, noting the importance of Ukraine's food exports to the global food supply.

The area around the Black Sea, including Ukraine and Russia, has been referred to as the "world's breadbasket" due to its fertile soil and high rates of grain production. Collectively, the two countries account for 30% of the global wheat exports while Ukraine produces about 12%....

The West has been far too generous with Russia over past decades. The Russian Five (click here) has to be the pinnacle of stupidity for The West. Russia was never been a true ally, but, yet it was treated to all sorts of wealth and opportunity that sincerely should have been reserved for strong, loyal and proven allies.

Welcoming Russian women as Birthing Tourists is grossly out of step with protecting sovereignty. In this case Russian women were allowed to travel to the USA to give birth. That is a strong statement about Russian medical talent, because, at least one of Putin's children was born in Scandanavia. But, this tourism is a foothold for Putin to have Russian children born in the USA that can eventually return to become part of the USA legal and government infrastructure. I am uncertain how long this tourism existed or may even exist today, but, the children are getting older and no doubt their parents are looking at the USA for their education.

All of these generous programs are used strategically by Russia's long view. The legislature in the USA and the parliments in Europe need to make it illegal for Russian children born within their border to granted citizenshp with all the rights and privileges thereof. This is not done out of hate so much as protection of sovereignty and the right for people of all ethnic backgrounds to exist.

Russia has to be stopped. Ukraine is the unfortunate place where Putin's agenda and goals are currently playing out. But, that reality has been in existence from 2014. The West must continue it's support for Ukraine. At the same time, every Ukrainian lost, including female soldiers is a Ukrainian lost to the world. That in and of itself should send foreign ministers and secretaries of state to look for military relief for Ukraine.

The West has no choice. Putin will not stop in Donbas. He has no conscience and he is causing suffering of innocent Ukrainians within Russian borders. He is without a doubt conducting a genocide of Ukrainians. Ukrainians are being killed in defending their country, but also genocide in which the land is treated, too.

Putin is causing liquidation of borders while carrying out a scorched earth strategy with missile strikes that are unending. Putin is destroying entire cities in order to kill and gain territory and call it victory. That is the same exact strategy noted in Syria. When a country has nothing upon it that supports human lives, including the World's Breadbasket agriculture, it is genocide. People require land in order to live. By the simple fact Putin continues his missle scourge is proof he has no value of human life. Destroying acre after acre, square mile after square mile forces people to abandon the land in order to survive, but, also abandoned continued utility that provides food, water and basics for an economy. This abandonment is not voluntary, but, brought on by the Russian military.

The West has a very difficult time ahead with Russia's continued genocide of Ukraine and Ukrainians. The people are estranged from their culture and native lands. The West needs to take a long view in regard to the war and the return of use of the land. The destruction of Ukraine's culture or as a member of the global community is not acceptable. Surrending to Russia over time with incremental gains is consenting to genocide of the type Putin carries out wherever he sends his military.

The West must assess it's own future and the role that is unquestionably important in enforcing peace and prosperity for all that want to achieve it. Russia is no longer a country of value in world order. The reason Russia is involved in any aspect of world order, including it's role with Interpol (click here), is to carry out it's agenda to destroy countries and end the lives of those that are not agreeable to him as citizens of the world. 

There is no going back. Putin has conducted many, many deaths in the name of Russia with a scorched earth strategy to destroy the land that supports populations of people. Syria is an example as is Ukraine. He has to be stopped. He is killing as he wants. That is not upholding world order, that is destroying it.

Going forward, The West must develop methods and strategies in realizing the communists in Asia are moving in directions not accepted in Geneva or the United Nations. This includes Taiwan. Tiawan has a very different culture than China and China is mowing down Hong Kong as well as plans that destroy more and free cultures. At no time were agreements with China believed to allow destruction of peoples and land in order to CONVERT cultures of now oppressed people. China can easily have a "One China Policy," but, never did anyone think it meant destruction and deaths, so much as a gain in real estate and economic strength.

This is a major paradigm shift for The West, but, it is completely capable of carrying it out. Now is the time for the nightmare and heartache of the reality of the communists to end. The world cannot accept these communist realities as a matter of correct domination over lives on this planet. It is one thing to incorporate land and peoples into a sovereign government through either agreement or annexation and it quite something else to kill those people within agreements to suffer loss of their homeland culture and their lives.

No matter how any of these threats are viewed, it is genocide by definition and legal precedent. It is time to shift strategy and strengthen alliances. Human Rights Abuses cannot be part of any agreement and/or annexation.

"Good Night, Moon"

Full Moon

13.2 day old moon

97.2 percent lit

Our beautiful, delicate satellite took a hit from a tiny rock.

June 12, 2022
By Steven Masso

HARLINGEN, Texas - The world’s most powerful telescope (click here) sustained an impact to one of its primary mirrors after being struck by a micrometeoroid.

NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope sustained a micrometeoroid impact at some point between May 23 and May 25.

Initial assessments showed a “marginally detectable effect in the data” as a result of the impact. Despite that, NASA is confident in the telescopes’ abilities....

...NASA closed their statement by saying the impact did not cause any changes to Webb’s operations schedule.

The first full-color images and data from the telescope is scheduled to be released on July, 12, 2022.