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The Dnipro River needs to be scoured for Belarus and/or Russian ship(s) with missiles. It is a method to operate under the radar.
Ukraine should have patrol boats on that river. They need to be prepared for conflict.
In the image to the left the river widens just before the target. That is where they can be found. It is where they fired the missile. They knew what they were doing. It was a deliberate strike. It is a relatively short distance missle.
The muscle flexing at the Belarus border was a distraction.
Missile attack (click here) on Kremenchuk hit shopping mall with over 1,000 civilians, building is on fire – Zelensky
This was intentional. There is no missile that lands in Ukraine that is hitting innocent people by mistake. This is more of Putin's genocide.
The report is that this is ONE bomb. It was incendiary and illegal.
June 3, 2019
(Beirut) – The Russian-Syrian joint military operation (click here) has used internationally banned and other indiscriminate weapons in unlawful attacks on civilians in northwest Syria in recent weeks, Human Rights Watch said today. According to the United Nations, the area is home to 3 million civilians, at least half of whom had been displaced from elsewhere in Syria.
There is a reason why President Zelensky has continued attacks in the Eastern region of Ukraine and it is because any hint of weakness turns the communist zealots loose to do exactly this.
G7 has ruled for more sanctions on Russia. The biggest blow is Russian gold. Switzerland imported Russia gold in May (click here). Basically, what is happening is that the world makes decisions about Russia and Putin kills more Ukrainians.
There is a meeting in Poland about rebuilding Ukraine so some of the people could return. While Ukraine's leaders were optimistic about rebuilding the country, Putin put an end to the idea by sending missiles to kill innocent citizens in Kyiv and Kremenchuk. The attacks were deliberate. Citizens were deliberately targeted. This is definitely genocide and until Russia ends it's assault for some reason or another this will continue forever.
These attacks are the same form of terrorism used by Al Qaeda. Fill the people full of fear and they will turn against their government.
Dennis has been successful in finding friends in that region of the world. Someone needs to start a dialogue.
In this undated photo (click here) published on Sept. 7, 2013, on the homepage of North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, talks with former NBA player Dennis Rodman during a dinner in North Korea. North Korea is expecting another visit by former NBA bad boy Rodman on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in what would be his first to the country since President Donald Trump took office. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo. (Rodong Sinmun/Korea News Service via AP)
Most of the marijuana for sale in the USA is medicinal.
June 27, 2022 By Bill Chappell and Charles Maynes
Basketball superstar Brittney Griner arrives Monday at a hearing at the Khimki Court, outside Moscow. Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a WNBA champion, was detained in February on charges of carrying vape cartridges containing cannabis oil.
Moscow - Brittney Griner (click here) briefly appeared in public Monday, and moved one step closer to facing trial on drug charges in Russia. In a short court proceeding, a judge ordered Griner to be detained for the length of her trial, Griner's legal team told NPR.
The next hearing is scheduled for Friday, July 1, Griner's lawyer, Alexander Boikov, said. The trial will officially start that day, but it will begin with technical matters such as reading the indictment and reviewing case files, he added.
The news emerged from a preliminary court session that was closed to the public — but journalists did get a rare glimpse of Griner as the WNBA center walked through a hallway in the courthouse....
Putin is most probably using this very tall professional basketball player for propaganda campaigns. Russia is always being found out when they use performance enhancing drugs. Mr. Griner has been taken because she is female and tall. The fact she is a female professional basketball player lines up in a contorted way with Putin's rantings about trans-women in female sports. He has made speeches about how trans-women are going to take over women's olympic sports.
Ms. Griner was most likely targeted for search in hopes she was carrying performance enhancing drugs. Has a blood test been used in the prosecution of a very minor infraction in the law. The blood test could be contaminated by Russian trainers so Putin could make his case to Russia and the Olympics.
Ms. Griner is a political prisoner and nothing short of it. The NBA is silent and I have no idea why. A very important professional player was arrested. We do not know if she was set up. But, if she wasn't, her use of the oil was legal in the USA. She wasn't selling anything, she brought her personal equipment with her for personal use. If Russia is accepting visitors and/or tourists, they have to make concessions for such minor issues that are completely legal in the USA. Tourists and/or visitors should be informed when they enter the Russia and showing their passport that their personal belongings will be searched. If Russia finds contraband the person may not know it is contraband. The article(s) should be put in a locker and then made available back to the owner when they exit the country. Allowing these problems in Russia only sets up foreigners to be arrested and used for Putin's politics.
If there is a chance Dennis Rodman could be helpful and perhaps have a high profile visit with Ms. Griner that his friend in North Korea can arrange, then it should be done. It is wrong for the NBA to remain quiet.
The Russian teams should be suspended from competition. Their country is unpredictable and who knows what kind of espionage Putin will pull to cause problems for his political propaganda at home. The Russian athletes should stay in Russia. They are a political football. What if they decide to defect? No one needs it.
June 16, 2022 By Andy Hall
Russian teams (click here) have been suspended from playing in next season’s EuroLeague basketball competitions, following the country’s invasion of Ukraine, organisers said on Thursday. The invasion, which Moscow insists is a “special military operation”, has led to logistical problems, Euroleague said.
“The decision is taken due to the increasing difficulties for teams to play games against teams from that country, which include air travel restrictions and prohibitions or other limitations to issuing visas to Russian residents,” the Euroleague board said in a statement....
The Supreme Court has eliminated the liability of police when they ignore Miranda Rights. The six judges are radical extremists and are dismantling all civil rights, Miranda is part of the backbone of our criminal system.
THE SIX JUDGES ARE CARRYING OUT THE AGENDA OF THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY. DISMANTLING CIVIL RIGHTS AND INSTILLING RELIGIOUS ZEALOTRY IS SHIFTING THE CHARACTER OF THE USA CONSTITUTION.
June 24, 2022 By Tami Abdollah
The magic words (click here) beginning the Miranda warning that many know by heart – "you have the right to remain silent" – may be enshrined in Hollywood shows and films, but Thursday's Supreme Court decision means its civil rights protections will be significantly reduced, legal experts told USA TODAY.
The 6-3 decision, with the court's three liberal judges dissenting, in Vega v. Tekoh, essentially concluded that failing to "Mirandize" or give someone their Miranda warning, does not allow a person to sue law enforcement for a federal civil rights violation of the Fifth Amendment's protection against compelled self-incrimination....
Every one of these decisions are explosive. Count on the Robert's Court to do absolutely the wrong thing.
Religious liberty: High school football coach who prayed after games
The First Amendment's Establishment Clause prohibits the government from making any law “respecting an establishment of religion.” This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another.
The Establishment Cause was specifically placed in the USA Constitution because of the persecution character of the English King authorized by the Church's demands of it's subjects. By enforcing the Churches rules and commandments the King was considered good and benevolent regardless how brutal and cruel it all was.
The Robert's Cout has been chipping away at the wall between church and state beginning with vicious intent of the "W" administration. I remember "W" stating to a crowd at the White House that "One day perhaps the end of Roe will come to pass." Some of the right wing believes in voodoo thinking about Roe and abortion. They believe the attacks of September 11, 2001 occurred because of the sins of the country.
Immigration: Remain in Mexico
Climate change: EPA authority to regulate emissions from power plants
The five year review of the Clean Air Act is being disabled. The Clean Air Act clearly states there is a five year review of the entire country regarding air quality and the law now has to address that reporting.
THIS FIVE YEAR REVIEW IS A RECORD BY THE PEOPLE. ANYONE CAN MAKE TESTIMONY REGARDING AIR QUALITY DURING THESE SESSIONS EVERY FIVE YEARS.
I believe it was 2003 when carbon dioxide was entered into the five year record. I know that because I was the one that did it in Raleigh, North Carolina. I remember it as if yesterday. The illegal war in Iraq was raging and I remember the timer at the front of the room that provides a 5 minute guidance for verbal testimony showed I had one more minute after my prepared statements. As a result I entered a spontaneous protest of the military owning and training bottlenose dolphins for their own use. It was cruelty to animals. Dophins are also an endangered species and the ones the military was using prevented them from participating in the repopulation of the species.
In a five minute testimony and 21 page document I stated that carbon dioxide at certain levels creates a toxic and dangerous atmosphere. Two weeks after the five year review closed on May 2nd "W" appeared in the Rose Garden and stated, "Carbon dioxide could never be a toxic gas and there was no such thing as global warming." About two months later, US Senator Barbara Boxer brought a bill out of committee to the floor of the Senate invoking regulation of carbon dioxide.
It is that five year review that is being dismantled by the Robert's Court. The Clean Air Act addresses many gases that cause disease and danger of NOX and SOX, toxic gases and particulate matter, but, it does not address greenhouse gases directly. The Clean Air Act was written in the 1970s and "Silent Spring" didn't include greenhouse gases in it's tragic scenario.
The five year review of the Clean Air Act is the EXACT best place to bring alarm to the federal legislature to act to protect all Americans. The Clean Air Act is written to effect change in all 50 states as one state receiving contaminants from another state can move against the offending state to end the contamination.
The Robert's Court is dismantling the USA Constitution's veracity.
'Pill mill'
Congress' war powers: Work protection for veterans
Sometimes the federal criminal code is inappropriate for such charges in the time we live in.
Georgetown Law (click here) The fact sheet by Georgetown Law sounds good but when reading the actual cited statutes the threat crime is qualified if connected to extortion. While the dialogue by Georgetown Law sounds exceedingly correct in relating to the crimes of insurrectionists, the actual statutes fall short and in relation to extortion.
The statute is qualified by extortion. It depends on the state. New Jersey laws will prosecute for death threats according to state statutes.
California actually addresses death threats that CAUSE FEAR.
California Penal Code Section 422 (click here) — California’s law on criminal threats — defines “criminal threats” as the crime of threatening to kill or seriously injure someone. The crime is committed when you intentionally place another person in fear of being killed or seriously injured....
Federal legislators must address this gap in the law. The California law is far better than any of the federal statues I have read. Death threats cause people to pause and reflect. In the case of election workers the job and/or volunteer position just isn't worth staying invovled in elections. Threat laws must be updated to include any connection with insurrection. Election workers are a target of insurrectionists.
In August, 42-year-old Travis Ford of Lincoln, Neb., posted those words on the personal Instagram page of Jena Griswold, the secretary of state and chief election official of Colorado. In a post 10 days later, Mr. Ford told Ms. Griswold that her security detail was unable to protect her, then added:
“This world is unpredictable these days … anything can happen to anyone.”
Mr. Ford paid dearly for those words. Last week, in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, he pleaded guilty to making a threat with a telecommunications device, a felony that can carry up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
But a year after Attorney General Merrick B. Garland established the federal Election Threats Task Force, almost no one else has faced punishment. Two other cases are being prosecuted, but Mr. Ford’s guilty plea is the only case the task force has successfully concluded out of more than 1,000 it has evaluated.
Public reports of prosecutions by state and local officials are equally sparse, despite an explosion of intimidating and even violent threats against election workers, largely since former President Donald J. Trump began spreading the lie that fraud cost him the 2020 presidential election....
...The depth of election workers’ fear was underscored in hearings this month by the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault at the U.S. Capitol. Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who are mother and daughter and both election workers in Atlanta, told of being forced into hiding by a barrage of threats in December 2020, after being falsely accused of election fraud by Rudy Giuliani, who was then Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer. Protesters tried to enter a relative’s house in search of the two. Eventually, they quit their positions....
"Morning Papers"
The Rooster
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Hero of the day.
June 26, 2022
By Carl Campanile, Joe Marino, Larry Celona and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Rudy Giuliani was slapped (click here) by a worker at a ShopRite on Staten Island on Sunday while campaigning for his son, leaving the 78-year-old former New York City mayor shaken, the ex-pol told The Post....
......Giuliani said he had just gotten out of the men’s room at the store on Veteran’s Road and was being greeted by a bunch of supporters when he was suddenly hit from behind — an incident caught on surveillance video obtained by The Post.
“All of a sudden, I feel this, ‘Bam!’ on my back,” Giuliani said. “I don’t know if they helped me not fall down, but I just about fell down, but I didn’t.
“I feel this tremendous pain in my back, and I’m thinking, what the — I didn’t even know what it was,” he said. “All of a sudden, I hear this guy say, ‘You’re a f–king scumbag,’ then he moves away so nobody can grab him....
