With the findings of the January 6th Committee, the agencies of government were going to wait any longer to complete their records.

That is not just a few boxes. Some of them may belong to the family, but, there should be no co-mingling of government papers and that belonging to the family.

A federal grand jury (click here) has issued at least one subpoena, and investigators are seeking interviews in the case of sensitive documents that ended up at the former president’s Florida home.

A grand jury is the voice of the people. There is nothing nefarious about the decisions of a grand jury. The FBI and DOJ are above reproach given the thoroughness in seeking the input of a Grand Jury. This is outrageous that Trump is continuing to cry boo-hoo they took all the papers I was in the process of selling.

August 24, 2022
By Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany

People (click here) wait for a moving van after boxes were moved out of the Eisenhower Executive Office building inside the White House complex, on Jan. 14, 2021, in Washington.

About two dozen boxes of presidential records (click here) stored in then-president Donald Trump’s White House residence were not returned to the National Archives and Records Administration in the final days of his term even after Archives officials were told by a Trump lawyer that the documents should be returned, according to an email from the top lawyer at the record-keeping agency.

“It is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the Residence of the White House over the course of President Trump’s last year in office and have not been transferred to NARA, despite a determination by Pat Cipollone in the final days of the administration that they need to be,” wrote Gary Stern, the agency’s chief counsel, in an email to Trump lawyers in May 2021, according to a copy reviewed by The Washington Post.

Cipollone was the former White House counsel designated by Trump as one of his representatives to the Archives. A spokeswoman for Cipollone declined to comment Wednesday....

Trump has no right to those records. The records belong to the people of the USA. The question is not what the FBI did, but, why was it necessary AND what was Trump planning to use the documents for, especially considering they were classified and unable to displayed anywhere. Were they the type of documents that would go into a presidential library that Trump has yet to begin to build?

Those records don't belong to him. Were there copies and what was done with the copies? The people have a right to know these things.

Stop the insane shouting match. The Ukrainian nuclear plants must be given in custody to a competent nuclear power.

The war over these nuclear power plants is insane. One of the powers in the world  competent enough to run the plants without favoring any other military involvement can take custody of them and end the danger.

Japan, Sweden, Canada or South Korea come to mind. There will be a demilitarized zone around any and all of the Ukraine nuclear power plants while disinterested parties secure them, if possible, and eventually take them offline as this is a danger zone for any form of power generation, except, green energy. Quite frankly, until the world has settled ridiculous ideology that leads to war, these power plants must come offline.

August 23, 2022

By Richard Pérez-Peña and Farnaz Fassihi

As United Nations officials pleaded for inspection and demilitarization of the battle-scarred nuclear power plant caught in Russia’s war on Ukraine, countries traded harsh words at the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday but moved no closer to resolving the intensifying crisis, which has hung over the war for months.

At the Security Council meeting, the second in two weeks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the United States and its allies accused Russia, which controls the plant, of peddling lies about the situation there and blaming others for its own actions, while Russia leveled similar charges at them. The Council’s member nations emerged from the 80-minute meeting with no evident movement toward inspection or improved security.

Russian forces have held the sprawling Zaporizhzhia complex and Enerhodar, the town encompassing it, since early March, and the remaining residents live under a harrowing occupation, exhausted and fearful as many of them work to keep the plant operating safely....

Also to take note, there are two NATO allies that have not done a thing to assist Ukraine humanitarian aid or militarily aid. Those two countries are Austria and Hungry. Hungry is no surprise, given the hatred of freedom and democracy by it's dictator, but, Austria?

It is more a question, should Austria stay neutral? 

July 12, 2022

By Caroline de Gruyter

“Austria always wants to be a bridge between East and West,” (click here) former Austrian Vice Chancellor Erhard Busek said one afternoon in 2017 during a long conversation over tea in his office in Vienna. “The problem is: A bridge has no identity. If East and West quarrel, and nobody wants that bridge anymore, what should Austria do? What is Austria then?”

Few Austrians had such a keen eye on what was happening in their militarily neutral Central European country as Busek did. He was well read, had a dry sense of humor, and above all possessed a remarkable talent for connecting national events with broader international developments. Pinning one’s identity on a bridge, he argued, illustrated well how his traumatized country had elevated the avoidance of painful questions to perfection. One day, he predicted, Austria would pay for this mistake dearly.

Busek died in March, just weeks after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. But had he still been alive, he surely would have been one of the signatories of an open letter that 50 prominent Austrians published in May. The letter is a strong appeal to Austria’s political leadership and citizens to finally stop trying to be a bridge between East and West and to end the country’s dependence on Russia in terms of energy and other sectors. The letter calls for a “serious, nationwide discussion about the future of Austria’s security and defence policy” and finally raises the central question in a country that has turned neutrality into a secular religion since the 1950s: Can Austria still be neutral in today’s world?...