Elon Musk has gone too far.

His Neurolink is a national security issue. He is creating androids and there is no guarantee this technology is secure. If our enemies get their hands on it as we know they will there is no way to know where this will stop.

Michigan Primary February 27

Many new regs to Michigan elections this year starting with the presidential primaries.

To begin February 2024 is a leap year with 29 days in the month.

The state is required to fund drop boxes.

The state is required to provide prepaid stamps for absentee ballots.

The state is required to allow voters to apply ONCE for absentee ballots in future elections.

State is required to have an electronic ballot tracking and notification system.

State is required to allow military ballots to be counted up to six days after the balloting closes so long as the ballot is post marked by Election Day.

State election primary is August 6 with election balloting on November 5th. 

The state is required to have early balloting for all elections starting with the second Saturday before an election and ending with the Sunday before the election. That is nine days of early balloting and includes drop off absentee ballots.

Early balloting sites must be open from 8:00 am to 4 pm all nine days. 

Go, Littlejohn, go!

Littlejohn is a hero!  (click here)

Littlejohn deserves clemency!

Littlejohn deserves a pardon!

Every presidential candidate has always been transparent with the American people. Littlejohn did what Trump should have done, except, he has no conscience. Trump says, “Vote for me,” on blind faith. 

NEVER!

Iran should never be this hateful.

January 29, 2024
By John Bacon

Iran on Monday (click here) denied involvement in the weekend attack on a U.S. base in Jordan that killed three Americans, saying militant groups in the region do not take orders from Tehran and that Iran "does not welcome the expansion of conflicts in the region."

But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani accused the U.S. of repeatedly violating the sovereignty of Iraq and Syria and said the military strikes on militant groups in Iraq, Syria and Yemen will "escalate the cycle of instability."

“Repeating the unfounded allegations against Iran is shifting of the blame," said Kanaani, dismissing the accusations as a "plot by those who see their interests in once again getting the U.S. involved in a new conflict in the region and provoke it to expand and escalate the crisis.”...

Jerome Rivers, age 46, Carrollton, Georgia

Kennedy Sanders, age 24, Waycross, Georgia

Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, age 23, Savannah, Georgia 

Iran wants to deny it's involvement in the attacks from groups it supports. Excuse me? It is known these groups are supported by Iran. That is enough to blame Iran and seek greater sanctions against this sovereign country.

29 January 2024
By Michael Drummond

This satellite photo (click here) from Planet Labs PBC shows a military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan, Oct. 12, 2023. Three American troops were killed and 25 wounded on Jan. 28, 2024, in a drone strike in northeast Jordan, President Joe Biden said.

...Nevertheless, (click here) it is known that a number of groups across the region have received Iranian support.

Some of these - like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis - have been discussed in detail in other Sky News stories, but others are less well known.

Islamic Resistance in Iraq

Responsibility for the deadly attack on US forces over the weekend was claimed by Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella term used by a number of Iran-backed groups in Iraq....

Iran is one of two countries fondly thought of as a Shi'ite homeland, Iraq being the other. Iran should be ashamed of it's hateful advocating for deaths among groups that will carry out what Iran believes necessary to exist in the world. Iran is wrong and needs to stop arms shipments to terrorist groups.

January 20, 2024
By Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi

Dubai - Commanders from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) (click here) and Lebanon's Hezbollah group are on the ground in Yemen helping to direct and oversee Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, four regional and two Iranian sources told Reuters.

Iran - which has armed, trained and funded the Houthis - stepped up its weapons supplies to the militia in the wake of the war in Gaza, which erupted after Iranian-backed militants Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, the four regional sources said.

Tehran has provided advanced drones, anti-ship cruise missiles, precision-strike ballistic missiles and medium-range missiles to the Houthis, who started targeting commercial vessels in November in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, the sources said.

IRGC commanders and advisers are also providing know-how, data and intelligence support to determine which of the dozens of vessels travelling through the Red Sea each day are destined for Israel and constitute Houthi targets, all the sources said....

The American people do not want their military under such danger. Iran should know the value of life is far higher than those it calls allies. It has become necessary to come to the aid of our ally, Israel. The American people disdain war so it is highly unadvised for Iran backed militias to be forcing a conflict with the USA. It is highly unadvised for Iran to be such a willing partner to these deaths.

Sovereign, democratic countries don't commit genocide and they don't employ terrorists to carry out violence against others.

Iran breaks all the rules and is acting more as a terrorist itself.

Texas border with Mexico

Trump is really getting off on Texas’ secession movement at the border. He should run for president of Texas since he does not care his majority Supreme Court upheld the federal statues regarding the USA contiguous border and removing barbed wire. 

Honestly. Trump hates this country and wants to destroy it because he could never live by the rules and was crushed by his own corrupted business model over and over.

Trump is about retaliation. Nothing else. He will destroy the country to get it.

I remind…

…this is a private blog of a substantial length of time. There is only one contributor with the occasional hack over all those years. This blog is available on public access in its entirety with exception of entries unfinished and/or sensitive information about individuals, primarily torture pictures available through online public access media. 

This blog in no way is connected to ANY government agency. It has equal disdain for government entities and officials as well as individuals and/or Wall Street both domestic and international.

All information stated here is gathered through public access and/or private sources that are not connected to any official source. 

Information on this blog is validated through more than one source of information.

I intend to have a better day and so should everyone that reads this in peace.

Aid for Palestine

This is difficult to state because I have believed in the United Nations mission for a very long time, but, the corruption within the organization is profound. There needs to be a change in leadership and quite frankly the only country that can carry out investigations and prosecutions is the USA. The UN Headquarters, while is has special standing due to its diplomatic purposes, is on USA soil.

The next General Secretary of the United Nations must come from the USA and be given the power of investigation and prosecution. Nothing else is going to clean up the mess. Until that occurs agencies within the UN must end relationships (ie: contacts) with independent organizations of all kinds. Travel, aid distribution, and all expenditures including spending accounts for employees must be handled internally. Inspector Generals from member countries will provide monitoring of all activities involving the movement of aid and monies with quarterly reports to the UN Security Council.

Change in the organization must occur in order to secure its continued operation in the manner originally set down in the charter. 

Realizing outside agencies that are supposed to serve a benevolent purpose are actually channeling monies to terrorists is astounding. 

Additionally, there is evidence that the terrorist activities with PayPal are using cyber access that appears to be sovereign in its power to remove monies from accounts without a trace. There is reason to believe this is a group of India nationalists based in California. 

All these nefarious cyber activities must stop and civilization preserved. The kind of power witnessed with high levels of cyber competency and assaultive purposes, in my opinion, is an act of terrorism and/or war. I remind there was an assassination of a Sikh activist in Canada and the cyber assaults on financial institutions such as PayPal may be related. 

Regardless, “Untied Nations” is a real entity operating within the structure of the United Nations that seduces people and takes their money. It is covertly operating as an exclusive travel agency to the UN. How convenient to have such power and access. The existence of this entity proves there are terrorists within the UN that must be dealt with and removed from assess of highly powerful cyber connections. It is ridiculous to think figure head leaders, including the UN Generals are not aware of these dangers. They are an arm of violence in the world. There should be no sympathy for those so willing to kill.

All these activities within the USA and internationally must stop. The disease of terrorism within the free world must end.

This is not an army of any god I know of.

Click here 

The USA Southern Border is no place for angry Americans no matter what they call themselves.

President Biden will end up deploying the National Guard just to protect Americans from themselves.

$83.3 million

Just write her a check, Don. I am sure $83.3 million is nothing to your vast fortune.

Israel Buffer Zone

I think Israel’s Buffer Zone is a perfect solution (click here).

The Palestinians will have a clear way of knowing where their border ends. It will also provide a method for Israel to monitor any attempt of attacks approaching its border.

The border security measures failed when Hamas successfully entered Israel and slaughtered 1200 citizens. The people slaughtered were focused on benevolence, including health care workers attempting to care for the wounded. These people were completely unarmed and I am sure they believed they were protected by international law. Well, international law be damned when it comes to terrorists such as Hamas. Hamas has no respect for others. 

The most classic example of such use of land is the Korean Peninsula DMZ. Bush visited it and Trump crossed it after exchanging love letters with Kim after he assassinated his own brother. 

The Buffer Zone will work as Israel has managed to reach the entire border with its military. There won’t be peace because Hamas won’t allow it, but, there will be a stabilizing force to the area. 

Long COVID

Where is the study using PAXLOVID to treat Long COVID? Seriously! PAXLOVID is an antiviral. A very good antiviral. Try it on other viruses, eventually even HIV. But, Long COVID might have at least a treatment if not a cure. I will keep my fingers crossed.

January 23, 2024

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, PhD

...The persistent presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA (click here) was observed in the blood of long COVID patients for over two years after recovering from acute viral infection. The researchers also identified antisense SARS-CoV-2 and FYN RNA levels as independent predictors of long-COVID status with more than 90% specificity and sensitivity.

Importantly, the current study is the first of its kind to provide a candidate two-gene blood biomarker that can be used clinically to diagnose long-COVID patients.

The EV revolution will improve highway noise pollution along with particulates in the air. How much? Depends on the number of EVs in use.

November 28, 2023

By Robert Walton

...U.S. consumers (click here) purchasing new light-duty cars or trucks are increasingly considering electric vehicles, which are on pace to make up 9% of sales this year according to data from EV Hub, a tracker run by Atlas Public Policy. EVs, including plug-in hybrids, accounted for 7.3% sales in 2022.

Combined U.S. sales of hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles reached 17.7% of new light-duty vehicle sales in the third quarter, according to the Energy Information Administration. Experts say the figure illustrates growing consumer interest in the range of benefits provided by EVs and other efficient vehicles.

Despite a spate of news articles lamenting slower EV uptake, observers say the data may not bear out that narrative as supply chain shortages are alleviated. “I don’t see sales lagging at all,” said Joel Levin, executive director of Plug In America....

It would make Pittsburgh happy.

MIT has found economically viable means to implement carbon capture from the oceans.

Acidification of the oceans is a huge and ongoing problem. To reverse this process means to bring about a stream of carbon capture that may very well return function to ocean waters and Earth's troposphere. CO2 will continue to enter the ocean environment, but, it is a better storage facility than the gaseous layers of Earth. If this process can be commercially viable it should be pursued, especially in areas of the ocean where acidification is already a problem, ie; Northwest USA waters. It will return function to the fisheries.

As the CO2 is removed from the oceans in carbon capture to make diamonds or other solid carbon products that WILL NEVER ENTER THE ATMOSPHERE AGAIN, more CO2 from the atmosphere will enter the ocean and the cycle will continue. The acidification will be reduced, but, will need to be maintained in a commercially viable process.

This discovery is from the scientists at MIT.

Energy & Environmental Science
01 May 2023, Issue 5

Asymmetric chloride-mediated electrochemical process for CO2 removal 

from oceanwater

By Seoni Kim, Michael P. Nitzsche, Simon B. Rufer, Jack R. Lake,

Kripa K. Varanasi and T. Alan Hatton

Current studies on CO2 removal (click here) from oceanwater have used bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BPMED), although the high cost of bipolar membranes might impede the commercialization of the process, and some of these architectures even present risks of toxic redox-couples leaking into the oceanwater. We propose a new approach based solely on electrochemical modulation of the pH to initially release the CO2 and then to alkalize the treated water before it is returned to the ocean. This approach (i) does not require expensive membranes or addition of chemicals, (ii) is easy to deploy, (iii) does not lead to formation of byproducts or secondary streams, and (iv) requires a lower energy input (122 kJ mol−1) than do other approaches, to the best of our knowledge. In addition, a preliminary technoeconomic analysis which suggests that this ocean capture system can be economically feasible.

US National Intelligence is not surprised by any events occurring to undermine American confidence in their elections.

It is just that the events today were known to exist and were being nurtured by enemies of the USA. Avril is an interesting person as well as a magnificent intelligence director.

What is interesting to me is that the National Threat Assessment (click here) does not discuss terrorist organizations, their structure and/or their leadership; either alive or dead. I find that odd. Terrorism is referred to when sovereign authorities, like Iran, are involved. 

April 14, 2021

Yesterday, (click here) Avril Haines took the oath of office to serve as Director of National Intelligence. DNI Haines is the first woman to lead the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Remarks (click here) as prepared for delivery by The Honorable Avril Haines Director of National Intelligence

...The US Senate (click here) has approved Joe Biden’s nomination of Avril Haines, making her the first woman to be director of national intelligence, and the first of the president’s picks to be approved.
The vote was 84-10, with all the “no” votes coming from Republicans.
Both Democrats and leading Republicans issued statements praising the nominee. Among Republicans voting against Haines were senators reputed to have party leadership ambitions; Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri.... (You call that leadership?)

...Moscow will continue to employ a variety of tactics to undermine U.S. influence and erode Western alliances. While Russia does not want a conflict with the United States, Russian officials have long believed that Washington is seeking to weaken Russia and Moscow will use a range of tools to pursue its objectives, including mercenary operations, assassinations, and arms sales. It will also employ, as we have reported, new weapons and cyber capabilities to threaten the United States and its allies, and seeks to use malign influence campaigns, including in the context of U.S. elections, to undermine our global standing, sow discord, and influence U.S. decision-making. Russia is becoming increasingly adept at leveraging its technological prowess to develop asymmetric options in both the military and cyber spheres in order to give itself the ability to push back and force the United States to accommodate Russia’s interests. 

Turning to Iran, Tehran is seeking to project power in neighboring states, deflect international pressure, and minimize threats to regime stability. Iraq will be a key battleground for Iranian influence in the coming year, but Tehran will also continue to pursue a permanent military presence in Syria, destabilize Yemen, and threaten Israel. For its part, North Korea may take aggressive and potentially destabilizing actions to reshape its security environment and will seek to drive wedges between the United States and its allies. These efforts could include the resumption of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile testing. 

When it comes to transnational threats, the assessment focuses on key issues that intersect with the state-actor threats I just outlined, starting with COVID-19....

Title 42

It is my understanding Title 42 (click here) has ended. Another name for Title 42 is Expulsion. The extremists of the Republican Party are mourning this law because it allowed border agents to immediately send southern border crossers back to Mexico. There was a reason for Title 42 and it had nothing to do with immigration.

Title 42 was a public health law that allowed the USA government at the federal level to prevent anyone from entering any border of this country due to the global pandemic. Why people would want to come to the U.S.A. during the pandemic is anyone’s guess because this country under the Trump presidency had the highest numbers of dead and diseased than ANY other country globally.

So, Title 42 is ending because the pandemic is over for the USA with the Trump legacy of more than 1.1 million dead USA citizens including the elderly and children. 

By the way, the Rwanda genocide killed approximately 800,000 Tutsis including the elderly and children. 

Title 42 cannot be invoked anymore because there is no longer a public health crisis and to continue it would be specifically targeting South Americans and Mexicans and that would be a racist law.

Nikki Haley

I am glad she has decided to remain in the race for the Republican nominee. I think it is vitally important she continues on as a woman and Republican that loves the country and its constitution.

I wish Former Governor Chris Christy was still running. I honestly believe he had a real chance at the nomination and president.

Nikki needs to be a strong woman candidate because Republicans don’t value women near enough. Republicans are too willing to victimize them. Her candidacy is important.

This election is bigger than the candidates. It is about truth, the very basis of democracy and the value of freedom both as an innate characteristic of the human being and the element of prosperity.

DeSantis had a donor base.

Bernie Sanders Republicans (click here)

Current ongoing scams

These are very clever scams occurring now. Kindly note the computer generated greeting. 

DO NOT CALL THE PHONE NUMBER.

The people that answer have an accent from the country of India. I am not saying this is a scam from India, the people speak perfect English.

The person I spoke with is named James. He is a very persistent fellow.

James phone number is 480-631-6484. He will give you a special web-address to type into the address bar. He will then be looking at your screen to guide you to get your $599.99 refund immediately. The catch is you have to open your online access to your bank account with username and password. Then, of course, you will immediately be given your refund. 

DO NOT DO IT!

There are other scams, too, like internet security companies that you may actually use on your devices. All these are very bad people trying to trick the person receiving the email. 

In calling PayPal the response is that if you received a notice about funds transfer it is fraudulent and a scam and the account is safe and there has been no transfer of funds.

These scams always start out thank you for your business. It is all electronic in nature. Below is an example of the Norton scam email.

The one below is the PayPal email. 

 

Everyone have a better day.

Believe it or not

Prosecutors can have romances, too.

There are no complaints of hostile work environment in Fulton County, Georgia. There are no claims of sexual harassment or misconduct.

Now, because two people in the county prosecutor’s office traveled together and enjoyed each other’s company that translates into “no charges” of Trump and his co-defendants? That is the joke of a lifetime!

These complainants against the prosecuting attorneys are coming from conspirators to commit sedition, Trump who has paid off former lovers while committing adultery, Trump with liable suits in the millions for sexual assault against a woman he intimidated from coming forward and some twenty more women who have come forward to complain about his ill behavior with sexual innuendo. Trump complains while carrying out pedophilia in teen dressing rooms. 

Trump is a parasite in this country as has he been most of his adult life. His assault on democracy is well documented and he will stand trail in Georgia as will every other assailant of our democracy!

Honestly!

Colorado “chaos”

What else is news with Trump? What does anyone think he caused on January 6, 2021; peace and tranquility?

Trump is openly threatening people with his understood power over other peoples’ behavior to be violent!

Trump needs to be charged and arrested for inciting riots and promoting violence. Put him in jail!

Cowards with guns

Texas likes the reputation politically as being the bravest and the strongest state in the country unafraid to protect it's own. 

WRONG!

May 29, 2022
By Paula Reid

The Justice Department (click here) announced Sunday it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

“At the request of Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, the U.S. Department of Justice will conduct a Critical Incident Review of the law enforcement response to the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24,” DOJ spokesman Anthony Coley said in a statement.

The review is a significant development as Texas officials and law enforcement have been under intense scrutiny for the way officers responded to the shooting.

The massacre, America's deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook in 2012, has been followed by conflicting official accounts of how it unfolded. The delayed police confrontation with the mass shooter has compounded parents' anger, with some saying a quicker response could have saved children's lives.

“The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events. The review will be conducted with the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing,” Conley said. “As with prior Justice Department after-action reviews of mass shootings and other critical incidents, this assessment will be fair, transparent, and independent. The Justice Department will publish a report with its findings at the conclusion of its review.”

Let me remind what every gun organization states, "Always treat guns as if they are loaded." Well, this time when every gun in the vicinity that responded to Robb Elementary School for an active shooter knew their guns were loaded.

There were a large number of so called Texas Officials armed with every type of armaments possible and not one, NOT ONE, charged into the school to end the killing.

Guns are an enormous problem in the USA. Even with every possible armament available to Texas Law Enforcement Agencies never saved the lives of the very people they took oaths to protect. Every officer that responded to the mass killing ongoing at Robb Elementary School were afraid to use their weapons to end the murderers life. Every officer that responded were AFRAID OF THE GUN that an amateur murderer carried into a classroom with some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

The Law Enforcement Officials never, not for one minute, treated the killing scene as an active murder scene so much as a soldier confined in a space that needed to be taken down. The VICTIMS of this amateur murderer were NOT in the minds of the Law Enforcement Officials. Basically, the victims were already dead, even if they weren't and the only aspect of the scene the officers were worried about was their own lives in securing the scene from a soldier inside a classroom with many already dead or going to be dead.

The amateur murderer had the officers buffaloed even as he planned his racist plans. Oh, yes, this was a racist attack. The children and teachers in Robb Elementary School was never safe in the first place UNLESS they could survive on their own because these bozos were never going to carry out RISK to their own lives to protect others. 

So much for Texas and it's focus on being the biggest bad ass law enforcement in the world. NONE of the propaganda is true; none of it.

Every officer involved should be charged with a hate crime!

Gun laws MUST now reflect the derelict response by law enforcement officers and end the availability of these killing machines to amateur racist killers. These machines are used by these amateur killers because they are so deadly regardless of the trigger man's ability to actually shoot a gun. The military weapons on the market need to end availability and the American society made safe REGARDLESS of derelict law enforcement!

Tim Scott

Well. How much money is Trump handing out this time? He bought himself a House not long ago so he could have the most economically and educationally deprived district Representative become Speaker. Now with the Supreme Court deciding if his insurgency was enough of an insurgency to keep him from the nomination he is buying out every person along the way including the Senator Nikki Haley nominated. 

That is Republicans in a nut shell, corrupt to the core when money is floated to them.

NATO…

…is being kept at bay by Russia. NATO needs to accept Ukraine into its alliance. It would bring pressure to end the war and validate peace talks. A large number of Ukrainians are already refugees in NATO nations. There is no end to Putin’s aggression with the philosophy that if he can’t have Ukraine then no one else can. Ukrainians have proven themselves and it is time they are allowed into the alliance so they are taken seriously. 

Belarus

Putin wants to attempt a nuclear strike against Ukraine. Other than being stupid enough to forever contaminate a very valuable piece of real estate on Earth, the nuclear fallout will drift into NATO and there will be war because of it.

Putin is irrational in all his plans and his allies need to start to deescalate the hatred driving Putin’s desperation. His politics have gotten him what he wants, he needs to stop the aggression that he pretends is important.

Happy Fat Tuesday !

White Supremacy dominated the leadership of the January 6, 2021 insurrection.

August 10, 2022
By Michael Kunzelman

A Maryland man (click here) described by the FBI as a “self-professed” white supremacist was sentenced on Wednesday to four months of incarceration for storming the U.S. Capitol while wearing a court-mandated device that tracked his movements, court records show.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly also sentenced Bryan Betancur to one year of supervised release after his term of imprisonment and ordered him to pay $500 in restitution.

Betancur, 22, was on probation for a 2019 burglary conviction when he traveled from the Washington suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland, and joined the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. A GPS-enabled monitoring device that he was wearing under the terms of his probation showed that he spent roughly three hours in or around the Capitol that afternoon....

January 8, 2023
By Ella Lee

Opening remarks (click here) are set to begin this week in the seditious conspiracy trial of members of the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group with ties to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

Longtime Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio and four other members of the group are charged with plotting to forcibly oppose the authority of the federal government and halting certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election win, along with a plethora of related crimes.

The trial comes weeks after the historic sedition convictions of two leaders of the right-wing militia group Oath Keepers. Three other Oath Keepers were also found guilty of multiple felonies in connection with the attack that left several dead, dozens of police officers injured and nearly 1,000 rioters arrested....

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, (click here) who’s Cuban, has tried to sell the group as “rough around the edges,” but welcoming to people of color. Many of those who’ve bought the message are fixated on proximity to power at any cost.

13 January 2024
By Adam Gabbatt

Supporters of Donald Trump have long been forced to suspend their belief in reality (click here): expected to believe, against all evidence to the contrary, that the one-term president won the 2020 election, hasn’t committed any crimes and is a successful businessman.

But as another tight presidential election looms, the recent efforts by Donald Trump to reimagine the people imprisoned for their role in the January 6 insurrection as “hostages”, and to downplay the horrors of that day as a peaceful protest, could have serious ramifications for democracy and his own party, onlookers have warned....

February 16, 2021
By Maya King

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, (click here) D-Miss., takes his ballot from election managers Gail Davis, left, and Joyce Moore to vote at his home precinct in Bolton, Miss., in Mississippi's Second Congressional Democratic Primary, Tuesday, June 7, 2022.

On the heels of the Senate’s acquittal of Donald Trump (click here), the NAACP, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson and civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll filed a lawsuit against the former president, Rudy Giuliani and two white supremacist groups, citing their role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday morning in Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that Trump and Giuliani, in collaboration with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, conspired to incite the riot to keep Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. It claims they did so in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act (click here), a Reconstruction-era statute designed to protect both formerly enslaved African Americans and lawmakers in Congress from white supremacist violence....

If one hates equality and "the other" then one hates the USA Constitution.

The adoption of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution (click here) extended civil and legal protections to former slaves and prohibited states from disenfranchising voters “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Forces in some states were at work, however, to deny black citizens their legal rights. Members of the Ku Klux Klan, for example, terrorized black citizens for exercising their right to vote, running for public office, and serving on juries. In response, Congress passed a series of Enforcement Acts in 1870 and 1871 (also known as the Force Acts) to end such violence and empower the president to use military force to protect African Americans....

EEOC needs additional funding and/or personnel

"Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies." New York City, April 4, 1967. "We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream. '"

I am sure they are pedaling as fast as they can, but, the agencies are still overwhelmed with a backlog of cases.

October 29, 2021

By Barbara Bellinger

...Civil Rights officials say staffing shortages predate the pandemic. (click here)

“Prior to the pandemic, we had experienced an increase in turnover, with a number of experienced staff retiring or leaving for other positions,” said Vicki Levengood, the communications director for the department.

The pandemic complicated matters.

“The hiring freeze that was put in place early in the pandemic meant we were not able to fill a number of open positions in enforcement,” Levengood said. “For some time, we were down more than 10 investigators and intake staff.”

Since the state’s hiring freeze was lifted in December, the department has been able to fill open investigative positions, but training takes time. It still has only 30 investigators to work on the 2,500-case backlog, Johnson said.

“Those jobs are now being held by newly hired people who require training and on-the-job experience before they can be as efficient and productive as the experienced individuals they replaced,” Levengood said....

Hunter Biden is being used as a political pawn by the Republican Party.

Hunter Biden should be given a pardon for all his past mistakes and immunity to testify for whatever he believes needs to be said.

In this Congressional hearing Hunter Biden showed up because it was televised. He wants to be heard by the American people and Congress needs to allow him to do exactly that.

Iowa needs a state of emergency declared

It is a little late to prepare but the people will need some education (click here).

For those taking medication be sure a sufficient supply is in the house.

This is from the Des Moines Register

Houthis ?

They have been menacing the shipping channels for a long time. Until recently the USA presence was able to maintain some control. But, the Houthis with Iran’s help, are now using drones and missiles. This is an entirely new menacing profile for the Houthis and it is without a doubt far more dangerous. 

This is not an escalation in the Israel-Hamas War. Israel has no arguments directly with the Houthis as it does Hamas. I believe the Houthis hate. They are using the war with Hamas as an excuse to carry out hate directed death. 

This is not new, it has just become far more dangerous and simple measures don’t work anymore.

The USA along with the United Kingdom are doing the right thing. Every American and Brit should be proud of their country and it’s capacity to enforce peace when violence escalates.

This is pure insanity.

 https://youtube.com/shorts/WALMzvloRuA?si=I5pUmZylyqmXsh3z

Earth’s moon is sacred territory. It is our satellite directly related to the gravitational stability of Earth, ie: tides. That is only one example.

We already know Lunar Landers have caused moonquakes. Enough already.

The manned missions to the moon that began in 1968 were a magnificent achievement for the USA, but, that is where it should end.

If countries want to explore space then do so in space and not Earth’s only satellite. No way stations, no nothing!

I found the idea of cremated remains being placed on Earth’s moon a huge ethical issue and it should never have been considered. Those canisters are now floating remains forever. The egos involved in wanting a cemetery plot on Earth’s moon is appalling.

Molecules and atoms matter and Earth’s moon needs to be returned to pristine condition and the USA should lead the way. 

Space exploration is about planets and those that can support human life orbiting around a more youthful sun. 

End of discussion!

Chris Christie…

 …needs to reconsider continuing his campaign for the Republican nomination for president.

Iceland has many tiny vents of active eruption.

Link below:

https://youtu.be/2ZJs4gjHda0?si=C7C5qRKd_IBzroiK

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Russia is a global menace.

9 January 2024
By Cosmo Sanderson

A GE turbine in Ukraine (click here) has been destroyed and a wind farm partially shut down following a “massive night attack” by Russian drones, said local industry officials.

UK developer Elementum Energy partially shut down its 100MW Dnistrovska wind farm after it was damaged yesterday, the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association (UWEA) told Recharge.

An amateur video seen by Recharge shows what the UWEA says is a 5.5MW GE turbine collapsed to the ground, with others still standing around it.

It is unclear if the attack specifically targeted the wind farm, but Russia has launched waves of attacks on Ukraine’s energy system since invading the country in 2022.

UWEA said it “cannot disclose more detailed information about the nature of the damage and losses” because local police have opened criminal proceedings and an investigation into the incident.

However it confirmed that no wind farm employees were injured.


The UWEA said the attack was a Russian “terrorist act” against Ukraine and its energy security.

It added that the incident has “become the subject of several fakes about unfavourable weather conditions that led to the damage.”

Elementum, which has offices in London and Kyiv, is an independent power producer focused on the development and operation of renewable energy assets in Ukraine, where it reports having 540MW of capacity.

It is owned by London-based hedge fund VR Capital.

Elementum brought the 40MW first stage of its Dnistrovska wind farm, featuring ten GE 137-4.0 MW wind turbines, online in 2021....

Siemans is Number One in Wind Energy. It isn't enough.

Siemans is a magnificent company and should be proud to be the wind energy leader, but, this effort is not enough. Every country on the planet should be building more wind turbine facilities as quickly as possible.

I don't want to hear anything except positive words for this technology, this company and the way forward. There is absolutely nothing more ugly in this world than an offshore oil rig and all it's hazards and deaths of employees!

Siemans (click here)

Revenue: US$78bn
Country: Germany

A more than 175-year-old technology company which played a major role in the early years of electricity, Siemens’ wind power offering is extensive. The company established the world’s first offshore wind power plant in 1991 and continues to be a large player in both the onshore and offshore spaces. As a market leader in connecting offshore wind to the grid, Siemens has 6.5GW connected to date and a further 4.5GW under construction.

Siemens Gamesa, a leader in the renewable energy industry and a Siemens AG subsidiary, is well-known for its SG 14.0-222 wind turbine, the largest variant based on the Siemens D7 Platform, as well as being the largest wind turbine in the world.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

His silence is completely understandable. The United States of America is involved with at least two wars, one as an ally and the other as munition procurement.

Defense Secretary Austin loves this country and protects it with his life, including allowing any enemy of this country feeling empowered by perceived weakness. Defense Secretary Austin stood under his own power to tell the nation of his diagnosis. He is still on the job.

A grateful nation wishes him all the empowerment available to see him and his family through a difficult time. I am looking forward to more of his leadership. He has and will continue to protect us everyday.

Peregrine

Apollo 13 

This is the Republican strategy for democracy. Starve democracy and it will fail.

January 4, 2024
By Noah Robertson

The U.S. had no funds left (click here) to replace weapons sent to Ukraine, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said during a Thursday press briefing.

“We’re out of money,” he told reporters....

There is nothing that is going to satisfy any Republican to return funding to Israel and Ukraine. 

NOTHING.

This is an election strategy to hold the House border districts. If the Republicans settled the dispute with the bill that also funds Israel and Ukraine, there would be no reason for current House Representatives to remain in office.

Endangering the lives of people in Israel and Ukraine and allowing weakness to creep into democracy is nothing but a political party display of desperation to keep US House seats. There is no governance here. It is politics creating weakness in the USA and our interests.

If Ukraine is going to be required to build their own munitions, it needs to be on NATO soil as there is nothing that can be built with Russian missiles constantly barraging the country of Ukraine. In order to build munitions Ukraine needs a plant. WHERE IS THE FUNDING AND LAND?

This picture is pure politics with absolutely no regard for freedom or democracy!

There is nothing to fear at the USA southern border.

January 3, 2024

Eagle Pass, Texas - U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (click here) led about 60 fellow Republicans in Congress on a visit Wednesday to the Mexican border to demand hard-line immigration policies in exchange for backing President Joe Biden's emergency wartime funding request for Ukraine.

He expressed serious doubts about whether he would support a bipartisan compromise.

The trip to Eagle Pass, Texas, came as the Senate engages in delicate negotiations in hopes of striking a deal....

I love Joe Biden as POTUS.

He stands for everything I believe in, freedom, fairness, unions, but mostly the strength of the American Middle Class. Every month as critics are looking for the weakness in the USA economy there are more and more demands for workers. No real critic can figure it out. Why isn't the American economy collapsing? Why? Because the American Middle Class is protected, nurtured with the vision of equity and empowerment for all Americans.

Joe Biden is a great president. He reclaimed our democracy and now he needs to protect us one more time and he is willing to do it. This is a great speech.

"...everyday people...can govern themselves without a king or dictator..." 

The idea of the USA at the time of General George Washington was and is "One of the highest moral lessons ever given the world."

When will the assault on democracy end?

Pearl Harbor, September 11, 2001 and now January 6th.

The New Yorker (click here) is publishing the full report of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, in partnership with Celadon Books. The edition contains a foreword by the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, which you’ll find below, and an epilogue by Representative Jamie Raskin, a member of the committee.

Our forefathers and mothers came to the USA for freedom. They wanted to live their lives in peace and with the right for free thought and expression of that thought. Who would know after all this time that free thought and peace would be an enemy to anyone?

Merrium-Webster

1: the quality or state of being free: such as

 a: the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action
 b: liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another :                           INDEPENDENCE

 c: the quality or state of being exempt or released usually from something                 onerous freedom from care
 d: unrestricted use gave him the freedom of their home
 e: EASE, FACILITY spoke the language with freedom
 f: the quality of being frank, open, or outspoken answered with freedom
 g: improper familiarity  (any inappropriate or unduly intimate or informal conduct)
 h: boldness of conception or execution

See, freedom, is a lot more than freedom of speech. Freedom is a state of being. It is the right to one's own body, movement, and any aspect of life. Freedom touches all aspects of one's life with bold intent of self-expression OR the withholding of that expression.

It is so sad to realize a segment of the American society hates freedom so much they were willing to remove the very document, the USA Constitution, that ensures and enshrines the freedom so many of our ancestors wanted and fought to institute and/or keep.

The USA Constitution is powerful. It has built a nation of people into the most secure and powerful country in the world. And the incredible aspect of the USA Constitution is that it demands peace as the pinnacle of this country's development. The idea of peace is also enshrined with the understanding of freedom, for without peace freedom is simply a word and not a method of living. Peace is necessary to fully appreciate and understand freedom.

What do you want to do with your freedom? 

George W. Bush decided painting was a freedom he loved. If there was not enough peace in his life he would not be AVAILABLE to paint and freedom of expression would be denied to him.

Showcasing (click here) President George W. Bush’s tribute to America’s servicemen and women

...But it wasn’t until Bush had a conversation with Fort Worth, Texas, painter Sedrick Huckaby that he thought to combine his interests in art and military service. “[He] suggested I paint people whom I knew but others didn’t,” writes Bush in the book’s introduction. “Instantly, I thought of painting wounded warriors I had gotten to know.”...

We all know George W. Bush had an abiding regard of the people who served our military. While the military personnel might appreciate a visit from the Commander and Chief, it was often regarded as politics and not profound respect for all that served. So, with the understanding this respect was part of the former president's idea of freedom, to express it in THE WORK of painting is a deeper understanding of his respect.

What if that expression were gone? What if it were oppressed and never even considered valuable? Would our military have a clear understanding of their standing in the American society? 

The value of freedom as granted under the USA Constitution is precious and should never be taken for granted or spat upon. 

Our country is great. There is a reason.

Nasrallah should look toward peace.

Cleric Nasrallah was far more wise to stay out of the fray as he stated in the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas. Cleric Nasrallah needs to reflect on the fact that Israel formally declared war against Hamas and he was giving aid and comfort to the enemy of Israel. They didn't come for the Cleric. Israel knew exactly who was to be dealt with and they carried out an act to end one of the masterminds that killed 1200 of it's citizens.

January 3, 2024

Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah (click here) said in an address Wednesday that Israel should expect “a response and punishment” a day after the death of senior Hamas leader Saleh Arouri in a suspected Israeli drone strike in a Beirut suburb. Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militant group based in Lebanon, has traded fire with Israel in recent weeks, though the Lebanese government said it was urging Hezbollah to show restraint. “If the enemy thinks of waging a war on Lebanon,” Nasrallah said, they “will regret it.” Before Nasrallah’s speech, the Israel Defense Forces said its troops were “prepared for any scenario.”...

Cleric Nasrallah should be careful not to become a puppet to Iran. This war is not about the Shi'ites. This is about a deadly attack on citizens of Israel within their own borders. I wish Cleric Nasrallah and the Grand Ayatollah Sistani (click here) would collaborate to find a peaceful end to all this. I remind that the power of Islam is it's people. The Grand Ayatollah knows all too well how the people marched to the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf and that march ended a siege of American troops and their tanks. It was correct and right that it occurred and the mosque was intact and maintained as a place of worship.

Hezbollah is not a part of this, nor should its members be seeking revenge against Israel for defending it's citizens. The tragedy of Palestinians has yet to be defined, but, one thing is certain, the citizens of Gaza were used as a weapon of war as Hamas deployed the strategy of "human shields." That strategy led to the death of the very people Hamas should have sought to protect.

Cleric Nasrallah needs to maintain the understanding this is not about the Shi'ites. This is about the violent regime of Hamas that brought innocent Israeli lives to an end. Iran is attempting to bring about a war of inclusivity with all Shi'ites, but, that is a wayward view of the world. This war is about ending the blood thirsty regime of Hamas. This is not about Hezbollah or Iran or Iraqi Shi'ites. It is wrong to expand this conflict. It will lead to greater and greater deaths. The Shi'ites should be standing up for peace and not the death of others.

I remember it like it was yesterday. The Grand Ayatollah Sistani moved the people to walk the path of Mohammad and stopped the hostilities of the USA military. It was the most magnificent movement of people I ever witnessed. The Shi'ites cannot compete with advanced militaries. However, militaries can't compete with the people.

August 25, 2004

Shiite Muslims (click here) demonstrate outside the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, southwest of Baghdad

...Makeshift barricades (click here) set up to protect the entrance were torched as tanks moved along the western side of the compound wall towards the surrounding Old City.

To the east, US forces had smashed through militia defences in the marketplace in Midan square while the heavy boom of artillery fire thundered out across the area from the southern side.

The situation on the northern side, closest to the city's vast cemetery, was not immediately clear but the southern and northern exits from the shrine were in the sights of snipers, preventing anyone from entering or leaving.

The shrine -- one of the holiest Shiite pilgrimage sites in the world -- was very close to being sealed off from the rest of the city, the AFP correspondent said....