Cuba

It is time for the USA to examine its relationship with Cuba. Russia is spending money to recruit Cubans to be mercenaries in its continued genocide of Ukraine. The report came out of Reuters. These men are not soldiers, the are husbands and sons and brothers.

Russia will stop at nothing to continue its rampant killing, including targets of invaluable ports for global nutrition such as Odessa and Kherson. Kherson is a ship building port as well.

There needs to be an end to global recruitment by Russia of poor people to man its wayward military. These recruits believe they are on a noble mission when in fact they are becoming part of an evil use of power.

Congratulations to the USA House

It is a great bipartisan effort that allows for the greatest democracy on Earth to continue it’s missions of peace and prosperity. The USA House must come to terms with the intentions of its extreme right wing members. 

Today we witnessed a great Congress moving as one to protect itself from bad actors. I hope this continues to prove the USA is greatest when we all work together. Thank you to all those responsible for uniting the Congress. It is a good day.

Sorry to hear of the death of a great Senator.

Diane Feinstein was the peoples’ champion. There was never a issue she backed away from during her decades of service to Californians at all the levels of government where she served. 

There is absolutely no doubt she championed LGBTQ+ rights improving acceptance and quality of life.

I am happy she was with us as a US Senator to the end. She was very deserving of the honor. 

Good-bye, Diane, you will be missed. I look forward to her replacement that will continue the mission she started.

Trump has ordered the death of General Mark Milley.

The General’s response has been he is taking appropriate measures. I would expect that to include body guards fir himself and his family, especially his wife who has been in service to the country as a nurse.

General Milley will be retiring soon after serving his life in promotion of this country. That service included standing the breach with a madman in the White House named Donald John Trump. General Milley and his family deserve peace in his retirement and now that won’t happen.

Donald John Trump is an insurgent leader and his latest stunt to appease his followers and garner perverse images of power is too far out on the extreme. Donald John Trump needs to be arrested for death threats against the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff of the USA Military. 

I have to wonder who Trump is entertaining with his latest tirade for attention? Putin perhaps in hoping for more Russian monies to organizations such as the NRA?

Enough of this. Trump deserves to be in leg irons. Arrest him for his death threats against General Mark Miley. This is not a freedom of speech issue!

It may be time to rescind the "emergency use" provision of the pandemic.

An alarming study has come out about a treatment for Covid-19. It involves interrupting the virus ability to replicate. Not a bad idea, right? Except the way it is carried out actually induces a mutation. The concern of course is that viruses mutate all on their own. What happens to a virus induced to mutate that then mutates in a way to make it more virulent?

September 26, 2023

Out of research at the University of Minnesota

...Molnupiravir's antiviral activity (click here) stems from its ability to kill the virus by inducing mutations designed to take away its ability to replicate. As regulators weighed the risks and benefits of the drug during the emergency use approval process, they worried about whether the treatment could not only drive the arrival of new SARS-CoV-2 variants, but also trigger mutations in the cells of people who take the drug. Treatment guidelines recommend against using the drug in pregnant women unless no other options are available.

Authors of the Nature study described their findings in a January preprint, and other scientists have also raised concerns about whether the use of molnupiravir could trigger novel variants.

Still, with few oral treatment options available, several countries cleared molnupiravir for emergency use. Though the drug is thought to be less effective than Paxlovid, a recent study found that both drugs reduced COVID deaths and hospitalizations....

Is the global pandemic over?

With President Joe Biden formally declaring on May 11, 2023, (click here) the end to both the COVID-19 public health emergency and the national state of emergency, does that mean COVID is over?

The simple answer is no. COVID-19 is still a pandemic, and the virus continues to mutate into other variants, infecting people and in some cases, resulting in death.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is still reporting more than 85,000 cases in the U.S. every week, resulting in hospitalizations and deaths in the thousands. The numbers continue to decline, but the virus is still a concern.

The end of the state of emergency means the U.S. government is scaling back its approach to COVID-19, which means prevention, care and treatment are about to become more expensive....

It just seems prudent to return to the standards used for testing and approving medications before the pandemic was declared. I think the "emergency use" is allowing risky technology, such as molnupiravir, to be approved for use without complete knowledge of any potential TO CAUSE HARM.

That is “Just Joe.”

President Biden took a very natural posture today when he joined the picket line with the UAW.

No one running for any office in the USA can match his credentials when it comes to unions and the economic stability of the greatest Middle Class in the world.

He has been a friend to unions all his adult life, especially his political life. He understands all to well the meaning of Middle Class. He knows how vital unions are in maintaining not only the USA Middle Class, but, the very economic viability of this country.

Every company in the Free World wants to compete for profits in the USA. Even China understands the importance of the Middle Class and wants to maintain its interests here, “TikTok,” etc. But, the American consumer is a commodity all of itself and it is due to Middle Class wages.

President Biden said a great thing in the early times of his administration. It went something like this, “Unfair consumer prices need to be met with competition in order to bring about better prices in this country.” I think it was something about $5 per pound hamburger meat. If I remember correctly President Biden provided subsidies to small farmers to increase their production and provide competition to Big Agriculture.

That is Joe Biden and decades of knowledge that improves the lives of all Americans. It is fitting Joe was on the picket line with the UAW, a history making event for a USA President. In a way, that also makes a huge statement about other Presidents in they frequently were anti-union or held them at arms length for the sake of their politics. By Joe wading into these strikes he removed ambiguity about his support for “The Average Joe” and their love of family and what it takes to raise a happy, healthy, and well educated American child(ren).

Thanks, Joe. Today was hugely important and in true Biden spirit, you did it well.

Neuralink

How are human trials going forward without FDA approval?

Menendez

 I find it interesting that Senator Menendez is up for re-election in 2024 and on indictment for the second time. The Republicans are also having success in electing Hispanics to Congress. The USHouse shifted majority because of the Hispanic victories along the Texas border.

That said, Senator Menendez is not the wealthiest man in the Senate. He is still what I would call Upper Middle Class, however, there is potential for law breaking. At this point Democrats should feel free to primary him with someone who could win his seat and not lose it to a Republican that appears to have moderate to liberal values. After all the US House in its majority is still trying to coupe the government. The oppression of democracy is still very apparent in the Republican Party, especially with women’s rights. 

But, Senator Menendez has survived these attacks before and may still do so with a victory in 2024. I would not underestimate his innocence until proven guilty. I think a primary challenge is appropriate though.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spoke as a leader.

He really had a lot to say. I think he had the best speech of the meeting.

Heroes come in all forms.

Russia should be removed from the UN Security Council.

September 20, 2023

By Louis Casiano

Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama speaks during a high level Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, at United Nations headquarters.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama (click here) didn't mince words Wednesday while criticizing Russia's attempt to block Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from speaking at the United Nations Security Council meeting in New York.

Rama noted that the notice of speaking orders was given in advance and any objections should have been raised beforehand.

"I want to assure our Russian colleagues and everyone here that this is not a special operation by the Albanian presidency," Rama said, referring to Moscow's wording of its invasion in Ukraine.

In response, Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian ambassador to the U.N., said Albania had placed its "political and ideological beliefs above the obligations" of the council.

Rama quickly assailed Nebenzia and Russia's military ambitions in neighboring Ukraine.

"I must say that coming from all these lectures of violating the rules in this building is quite an impressive show," he said. "But as far as you repeat it many times that the violation here is about presidential Zelenskyy speaking before the council members, There is a solution for this. If you agree, you stop the war and President Zelenskyy will not take the floor."...

The leader of the free world still believes in International Law. That means something.

He is fighting for peace. He wants all other countries to value peace and move toward it. He won't stop insisting peace is a high priority while the USA continues to do what it always does and fortify it's military, embrace it's allies, and have the most dedicated soldiers in the world.

So the communists have abandoned peace. The real question is did they ever care about it?

I like this. It is truthful and I know exactly where everything stands. It is the way it was before Yeltsin and Gorbachev. 

How many Americans know the current form of Russia only existed since 1991. Before that it was the Soviet Union. Yeltsin was the first president of the Russian Federation and the end of the Soviet Union was with the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev. The existence of Russia as we know it today is only 32 years old. North Korea and China as they exist today are far older than the Russian Federation.

Let's face it all the decades of attempts at peace between these countries and the USA was based in the idea mutual economic interests were stronger than any military advantage of any country. That is why China has become an issue for The West.

The West allowed itself to believe capitalism would be a benefit to other countries, hence, the world would be balanced and content in a higher quality of life. The West thrives on capitalism, for the most part. But, evidently, communist aggression is a cultural preference and the peace based in mutual economic interests is nothing but a fraud.

On 24 March 2014, the G8 summit to be held in Sochi was cancelled because of Russian aggression in Crimea. Then what followed was an escalation of tensions and a war along the Russia border with Ukraine instigated and supported by Putin in Donbas.

...“International law (click here) prohibits the acquisition of part or all of another state’s territory through coercion or force,” the statement said. “To do so violates the principles upon which the international system is built. We condemn the illegal referendum held in Crimea in violation of Ukraine’s constitution.

“We also strongly condemn Russia’s illegal attempt to annex Crimea in contravention of international law and specific international obligations.”...

Now, if international law was at all important to any of the communists why was Russia and China absent from the UN General Assembly? International law is not important to these jerks and they instead want to reek fear on the civilized world in hopes there will be some kind of movement so Putin can still have his politics in intact regardless the number of deaths. China protesting along side Russia by not showing up at the UN General Assembly only implicates their leaders in the genocide that is continued to be carried out by Vladimir Putin. Un can be included in that as well.

September 14, 2023
By Josh Smith

Seoul - Whatever practical cooperation emerges (click here) from this week's summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, their deepening relationship is aimed at sending their rivals a warning, analysts said.

Calling each other "comrade", the men toasted their friendship on Wednesday after Putin showed Kim around Russia's most modern space launch facility and they held talks alongside their defense ministers.

The two countries have an interest in demonstrating that, despite their geopolitical isolation, they have partners they can call on. And both seek to weaken U.S.-led sanctions and pressure campaigns, against Russia over the war in Ukraine and against North Korea for its nuclear weapons and missile programs, analysts said.

"Putin and Kim would both gain from a transactional bargain but they would also gain geopolitically by giving off the impression that their nuclear-armed countries are cooperating militarily and sending a warning about potential consequences to America’s allies and like-minded partners that support Ukraine," said Duyeon Kim, of the Center for a New American Security....

North Korea's (click here) new intercontinental ballistic missile, unveiled at a military parade last week, appears designed to overwhelm U.S. missile defenses, security analysts say, a development that may spur the U.S. to add costly new interceptors.

Paxton Impeachment

Texas is OWNED and not governed. If the voters of Texas can’t see the corruption clearly after the vote that is a travesty then they never will.

Texas is not a democratic state, it is a plutocratic state whereby politicians go to the highest bidder.

Paxton does not have the law or ethics on his side and should have been removed from office, but, big money came in and leveraged votes to protect their own interests through corruption.

Now, Paxton can go back to work protecting the corrupt.

Ethical standards are the morals of the professions. When ethical standards are sacrificed for money and power there is no more morality. Governing of this methodology is very disgusting.

Trump Impeached

He is desperate because he can no longer hold office. I think the Congress persons that backed the insurrection can be removed from office. Congresspersons like Hawley and Taylor-Green can be removed. The Biden impeachment inquiry is a smokescreen to prevent a focus on the insurrectionists.

Trump is running around screaming and trying to campaign on an expungement of his impeachments. He knows he can no longer hold office. 

The current Congress needs to be scoured of the insurgents as they are a threat to the USA Constitution.

If the Republicans want to play politics with some kind of exoneration of the insurgents, all the sympathizers will be just as guilty. The entire Freedom Caucus can find themselves in question as to their loyalty of the US Constitution.

Everyone should be checking the oath of office. That should prove to be a very good test of loyalty to the sovereignty of USA.

There is a line to be drawn. If an elected official wants to change and/or abandon the USA Constitution by politics alone they will lose their standing and May very well be in violation of laws, especially the 14th Amendment.

The US Senate even states it.

https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/14th-amendment.htm#:~:text=It%20banned%20those%20who%20%E2%80%9Cengaged,of%20the%20House%20and%20Senate.

It bans those engaged in insurrection against the USA. Sorry folks, but, when people erected gallows on the grounds of the USA Capitol, used violence to achieve their purpose, and caused the deaths of those there to protect the grounds where democracy happens, that is a violent insurrection intended to bring about a coup. Those that participated and/or supported the event can never hold office.

F35 malfunction

I am grateful the pilot is okay. The pilot of Amy US military flying machine is far more valuable than any machine they fly.

I have been complaining about those jets since the concept was known to the public. Computers took over the imagination of the design engineers for our military. The USA needs to return to good old mechanical machines with stelth coating. The mechanical jets are easier to maintain and last forever. 

The best example of the best of USA engineering is the B52. Sure the parts are scarce, but, they can still be milled if needed. 

There must be an investigation to the large number of deaths in Libya

First off this is the climate crisis. These tragedies may very well become common place. However, we don't know that until there is an investigation/inquiry into the events leading up to the flooding that killed so many. My concern is that the authorities in Libya may have known about the impending disaster, didn't comprehend the brevity of it and/or DECIDED that it was unnecessary to protect the citizens of Libya. We know that Libya is divided into east and west with conflict between the two. It is important to understand exactly what transpired if it is at all possible.

I might add, the buildings surrounded by water are not safe. The land there may become saturated and destabilize the foundations. They are also surrounded by contamination as refuse and sewage would be in the water after the flooding. There will be disease potential to the people that remain there. Those surviving need to be rescued via boats, etc. They should be transported to safety in other areas of the country. They are climate refugees to their new location.

Let's hope the new found unity of the people continues. Libya has one of the highest per capita GDP in Africa from oil revenues. It should be well able to relocate the survivors of these devastating floods. There is no doubt given the extent of the flooding entire families were lost. There needs to be a national day of mourning for all those who have drowned.

The entire number of deaths may never be known. The waters washed people away.

September 15, 2023

By Yousef Mourad

It is estimated that at least 30,000 people are displaced (click here).

DERNA, Libya (AP) — Libyan authorities (click here) limited access to the flooded city of Derna on Friday to make it easier for searchers to dig through the mud and hollowed-out buildings for the more than 10,000 people still missing and presumed dead following a disaster that has already claimed more than 11,000 lives.

The staggering death toll could grow further due to the spread of waterborne diseases and shifting of explosive ordnance that was swept up when two dams collapsed early Monday and sent a wall of water gushing through the city, officials warned.

The disaster has brought some rare unity to oil-rich Libya, which after years of war and civil strife is divided between rival governments in the country’s east and west that are backed by various militia forces and international patrons. But the opposing governments have struggled to respond to the crisis, and recovery efforts have been hampered by confusion, difficulty getting aid to the hardest-hit areas, and the destruction of Derna’s infrastructure, including several bridges....

Pardon

Hunter Biden is a political pawn. The charges made are very rare. It was one gun. It was never used in a crime. He had absolutely no prior record.

He is the surviving son of a U.S. President. He has incredible loss in his life. He managed to make it back to a prosperous life from a very vicious addiction.

Hunter Biden does not deserve this and neither does his magnificent family, including President Joe Biden. 

Enough!

The stairs have to be demolished.

September 13, 2023

By Christine Hitt

...“Our decision to remove Haiku Stairs (click here) was predicated on a number of factors. First and foremost public safety; both for hikers and especially for surrounding residential community that has endured illegal trespass, harassment, and property damage for decades from those seeking access to the stairs,” Blangiardi said in a statement. “Secondly, we do not believe the managed access plan as proposed by the Friends of Haiku Stairs is feasible, cost effective or a solution to illegal access.”

Actual demolition, though, may have to wait on a pending court battle.

The Friends of Haiku Stairs, a nonprofit organization formed in 1987 to protect and maintain the stairs, sued Honolulu last month for violating environmental laws, saying it relied on an “outdated, and legally irrelevant” environmental impact statement from 2019....

People are hung up on the name of "Stairway to Heaven." There is no sound environmental assessment that would back the continued existence of the stairway. The stairs were built of a military purpose during WW II after the USA entered the war when there were no environmental regulations at all. 

The mountain habitat is best served by removing all manmade objects and returning natural flora to the land. In doing so invasive species can be eliminated as there will be no foreign anything going up the stairs on shoes and/or boots. The natural habitat will return and with it native species of animals. The entire continued maintenance of the stairway is ridiculous. Besides returning the native habitat to nature, the landowners having their rights violated is nonsense. Every American has the right to peaceful utility of their property.

Take the stairs down, the demolition will be temporary and the land will recover afterward. 

Tuberville is objecting to Wokeness.

Wokeness is a poorly defined political point of view. Tuberville is grossly unethical in attempts to oppress any political expression of so called Wokeness by military personnel. His job description does not include oppressing the First Amendment of the US military. 

Tuberville has a very poor excuse to prevent promotion of qualified candidates into military leadership. He continues to mask comfort for the enemy in such nonsensical reasons to create danger of American National Security.

This level of oppression is a direct assault on the military and has a ripple effect through the ranks. Why strive to a career in the military if there is no advancement?

Recruitment is down across all branches of the military since Tuberville declared war on the U.S.A.

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3369472/vice-chiefs-talk-recruiting-shortfalls-readiness-issues/

JAG Corp has recourse against Tuberville for causing damage to quality of life kin the military at the very least.

Republicans like what Christi says.

 https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/15/chris-christie-trump-desantis-polls-new-hampshire

If there is a perfect storm for Christi, this year is it.

Putin Loyalists

Vladimir Putin has a loyal soldier within the ranks of the US Senate in Tommy Tuberville. NATO is facing some of its worst threats and Tuberville is providing comfort to the enemy.