With Russian families abandoning their country…

 …cam Russia still claim sovereignty? 

We saw young men leave for Canada during Vietnam, but, what percentage of US military was left to defend the country?

The problem with Putin’s war is that it is destroying two countries at once. His invasion into Ukraine was based in tank dominance. That didn’t happen and a large number of the men in those tanks died because it was a tinderbox once ignited by a armor penetrating middle. 

This strategy worked in Syria because the opposing forces were not armed to defeat Russian tanks. Syria was destroyed in many places, including hospitals. 

Russia’s conventional military is weak. When realizing the conventional military is weak, what is left is Putin and missiles. Not much else.

The nuclear power plants are estimated to be used as shields to prevent attack.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/satellite-images-show-damage-building-ukraine-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-russia-2022-8%3Famp

It sounds right. Nothing else makes sense. So, Putin sees two footholds in Ukraine at the nuclear power plants. Putin is treating the plants as forts. These facilities are not built to be forts. Putin has lost the war and the only thing allowing those soldiers at the plant to stay is the delicacy of the circumstances.

Soldiers at nuclear power plants are another human rights violation as it threatens the lives of so many including any accidental release into the atmosphere to be carried by wind anywhere.

Is there actually a Russia? It is disappearing everyday. The land is there. Some of the people remain including the ruling elite, but, other than an ocean naval fleet Russia has no military to defend its borders. 

There is Putin. There are missiles. Global Russian assets are being absorbed by foreign governments to assist Ukraine in it’s need for humanitarian aid as well as a national defense.

So, realistically is there a Russia. In my opinion, no. In name only. Putin counted on its propaganda and nothing of substance.

Putin’s anger with the world is destroying Russia from the inside and Ukraine from the outside. 

So, what to do? 

Wait it out until Putin realizes he is the leader of an emptied country except for the remnants of communism. Global leaders, including Xi of China, need to realistically assess any possibility of a victory and refuse assistance to prolong the end.

No power, including Ukraine, wants to invade Russia and kill Russians. Russia needs to stop and first turn over the nuclear power plants. Those reactors are neutral zones and no soldiers belong there. The soldiers there, are hiding from reality as is there president.

It appears Russians with young men to be conscripted are leaving.

Russia is claiming it has it's own iPhone now with premeir salesperson Maria. Butina, former spy. Putin claims the war that is not a war is going as planned to protect civilian lives. I guess having him represented at the NPT meeting at least got a message to him that he is killing a lot of innocent people.

August 29, 2022
By Yesica Fisch

Sloviansk, Ukraine - Russia and Ukraine traded claims (click here) of rocket and artillery strikes at or near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant on Sunday, intensifying fears that the fighting could cause a massive radiation leak.

Ukraine’s atomic energy agency painted an ominous picture of the threat Sunday by issuing a map forecasting where radiation could spread from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which Russian forces have controlled since soon after the war began.

Attacks were reported over the weekend not only in Russian-controlled territory adjacent to the plant along the left bank of the Dnieper River, but along the Ukraine-controlled right bank, including the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, each about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the facility.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Sunday that Ukrainian forces had attacked the plant twice over the past day, and that shells fell near buildings storing reactor fuel and radioactive waste....

Real world evidence, please. The global community seemed to have their own significant evidence at the NTP meeting. Shouting matches really don't matter. Where are the two nuclear lab persons taken to Belarus. No one has spoken to the kidnapping or worse by Russian soldiers.

Ukraine officially acceded to the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state on December 5, 1994

The treaty became effective in March 1970 and was to remain so for a 25-year period. Additional countries later ratified the treaty; as of 2007 only three countries (India, Israel, and Pakistan) have refused to sign the treaty, and one country (North Korea) has signed and then withdrawn from the treaty.

Currently only five countries have not signed NPT which are, India, Pakistan, Israel, South Sudan and North Korea.

China: Accession to Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) On July 1, 1968, the Treaty was signed at Washington in the name of the Republic of China. An instrument of ratification of the Treaty on behalf of the Republic of China was deposited at Washington on January 27, 1970.

The NPT has no veto rights by the five nuclear powers. It is not controlled by the UN Security Council.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Remains Strong Despite Russian Obstructionism. After weeks of intensive but productive negotiations, the Russian Federation alone decided to block consensus on a final document at the conclusion of the Tenth Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

I really think a high profile visit to the Ukraine nuclear reactors needs to include an energy minister from Russia, Ukraine and the IAEA. It should seek to settle this dispute and put forward the neutral country that will oversee the reactors and shut them down until this war is ended. Taking custody of the reactors by a neutral global power should allow Russia to return to the NPT without complaints. 

These reactors are in a war zone of which Russia admits it is a special military operation, hence, things going boom. So, the idea of a neutral party taking custody of the reactors to provide protections for human beings in the area and beyond is highly reasonable.

 

It has been a while since Artemus engines were fired up.

August 29, 2022

By David W. Brown and Kenneth Chang

On Monday (click here for video) we didn’t get to see the Space Launch System travel to space. But NASA’s moon rocket has fired its engines before, although it stayed firmly on the ground. Sometime between then and now, something went wrong with engine #3.

On March 18, 2021, NASA completed a “hot fire test,” when the four engines in the core stage of the Space Launch System ignited and continued firing for more than eight minutes, performing what they would do during a trip to space but firmly anchored to the ground.

"Don't believe them." is a great reply to the political lies of the anti-Constitutionalists.

"Don't believe them or it and this is the truth...and this is where it can be verified."

I think that is a real answer to most lies being peddled when someone states an obvious manipulation of an issue.

August 15, 2022

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision (click here) overturning Roe v. Wade, it’s essential that California voters amend the state Constitution to ensure reproductive choice.

California’s existing laws protect an individual’s right to make decisions about abortion and contraceptives. And the state constitutional right to privacy has been interpreted by California’s Supreme Court to safeguard those choices.

But as we’ve seen with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent shocking decision and the rush by other states to ban abortion, reproductive rights that are not explicitly granted in a constitution are vulnerable to the whim of justices and lawmakers. And, as Justice Clarence Thomas foreshadowed in his concurring opinion, the federal right to contraception could be overturned next.

Thus, Californians can no longer count on federal protections. They need to explicitly embed rights to choose an abortion and to choose or refuse contraception in their state constitution. Proposition 1 on the Nov. 8 ballot would do just that. Vote yes.

The law would ensure that only future state voters, not politicians nor justices, could alter those rights. It is perhaps the most important measure on the upcoming ballot.

And it is certain to face an onslaught of campaign misinformation. Californians should expect to be bombarded this fall by political ads arguing that Prop. 1 would allow unrestricted late-term abortions that would cost taxpayers millions. Don’t believe them....

"Morning Papers"

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

August 29, 2022
By Amy B. Wang

The judge presiding over the Georgia grand jury investigation (click here) into possible election interference by Donald Trump and his allies on Monday denied a motion from Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) to quash a subpoena requiring him to testify.

However, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C.I. McBurney also delayed Kemp’s appearance before the grand jury until “some date soon after” Election Day in November. Kemp, who is running for reelection against Democrat Stacey Abrams, has alleged that the investigation is politically motivated.

McBurney had previously expressed skepticism over arguments from Republicans that the prosecution, led by a Democratic district attorney, was politically motivated.

“It is not my space” to focus on politics, McBurney said last week as lawyers for Kemp argued that the subpoena had already become a political issue this election season. “I don’t think it is the right forum” to debate the political ramifications of the case, said the judge....

Really?

Must every legal DELAYING maneuver be tried by the people that should be cooperating? Seriously? What kind of lawyers are these that don't even try something legally that will work? They are criminal in their purpose and content.

Lawyers when they receive a license takes an oath. 

Atlanta, April 22, 2002

The Honorable Supreme Court met pursuant to adjournment. (click here)

The following order was passed:

The order entered by this Court on April 8, 2002, amending the Rules Governing Admission to the Practice of Law is hereby vacated. It is further ordered that the Attorney’s Oath, found in the Rules Governing Admission to the Practice of Law, Part B, Section 16, be amended to read as follows:

I, ________________, swear that I will truly and honestly, justly and uprightly conduct myself as a member of this learned profession and in accordance with the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct, as an attorney and counselor, and that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Georgia. So help me God.

I realize oaths and state and federal constitutions don't mean anything to people like Kemp and Graham, but, this is such nonsense. For those involved with Trump that have a law license, there needs to be complaints brought to the state law agencies to file at the very least ethics complaints.

...The legal maneuvering is the latest sign of tension between prosecutors and high-profile witnesses in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s expansive criminal probe of alleged election interference by Trump and his allies....

Even the Washington Post recognizes for what it is. Let me add a few words to that, evasion and fraud. Every person involved with Trump knows they are pulling stunts and not practicing law. The judge in his instance made it clear there is no politics in his court. So, with that, legal remedies need to be sought in every state these bozos are trying to pull the wool over the eyes of voters. They are practicing politics rather than submitting to the law. That in any other court would not be tolerated, as it isn't here, but, at what point are licenses pulled and fines levied for DELAYING the right of the people to try those breaking the law?

The Sixth Amendment to the USA Constitution guarantees all those charged with crimes a speedy trial. When does the right to a speedy trial also satisfy "the people."

It is no different than Big Tobacco and the State of California. It isn't just what is in question, it is what is gained.

August 29, 2022
By Scooty Nickerson

Win or lose, (click here) tobacco companies are reaping hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to a California proposition that they spent a fraction of that amount to get on this fall’s ballot.

The measure, known as Proposition 31, asks voters if a 2020 legislative ban on flavored tobacco products, including electronic and menthol cigarettes, should be upheld.

But here’s the thing: The No on Prop. 31 campaign secured a nearly two-year pause on the ban when it collected 623,000 signatures to force the Legislature’s handiwork to a vote in the next general election. That delay cost Big Tobacco about $20 million, half paid to a signature-gathering firm.

Qualifying a referendum on the ban cleared the way for manufacturers to continue selling flavored tobacco products to Californians, including everything from mango-flavored vape pens to menthol cigarettes, until voters weigh in this November....

Those involved in the Trump Republican Circus are trying to delay any proceedings in hopes Trump makes it back to the Oval Office to hand out pardons immediately and get on with the revolution of ending the US Constitution. That is unethical if not illegal. Can we get on with all this, please.

The State of California should sue for the entire amount of money Big Tobacco gained in it's "gaming the system."

Flavored tobacco is a gateway to hook young smokers for life and the addiction to the product remains the No. 1 cause of preventable death in the state, killing 40,000 Californians a year.

"Good night, moon."

New moon

1.6 day old moon

2.9 percent lit

Now that Artemis is announced and on its launch pad, the reach into space has to be sincere and earnest.

The USA should be looking to the moon as an interim weigh over to Mars. It should be looking to Mars as the initial move to interstellar space and beyond.

The James Webb Space Telescope (click here) is bringing in incredible information and NASA needs to start mapping our way to other solar systems and quite possibly other reaches to the universe. I think the American people need to have a realistic vision of tomorrow beyond the Milky Way.