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The wide swing in temperatures being experienced is due to seasonal changes. This is an abrupt closing climate crisis. It is a heat transfer system that is further homogenizing the temperatures of the planet. It is not a good thing.
This is the climate crisis the world was warned about for decades if not a century. Stop abusing Earth with emissions of all greenhouse gases.
Currently in Traverse City, Michigan, USA outside temperatures 35 degrees Fahrenheit. Winds are 13 mph southeast (out of the northwest) and increasing. Road surfaces are wet from rain, but, metal surfaces are iced over from being pummeled by ice from the sky. Basically, it is an ice storm that melts when reaching warm ground. Temperatures are expected to continue to fall to a low of 21 degrees Fahrenheit. Unknown whether to expect he ground to freeze over. End.
Greg Abbott is another populist governor that violates federal law because he wants to stay in power. He is traveling the same path as George Wallace, only it was segregation at that time. It is the same “States Rights” baloney all over again.
The immigrants from the southern border are going to freeze to death in the northern cities. It is a human rights issue. Cities in the northern USA cannot continue to receive migrants shipped to them from Texas. The funding has run out and there is now less housing to protect them from outdoor temperatures.
Abbott is in violation of federal law, 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii).
The cities need to sue the transportation companies and possibly arrest bus drivers. Texas needs to be sued as well as it is committing human rights violations.
This is the way I remember him. This is the way I will always remember him. Strong, unafraid, and focused with love for his country and all its people.
This is called “a treatment for infertility.” How many more medical treatments will become death row sentences? This is the future of genetic medicine at the very least.
This resulted out of the political power of wealthy Evangelicals. Amy Coney Barrett refused to answer Senator Blumenthal about this issue while calling up judicial wisdom as the ultimate “decider.”
Malignant melanoma treatment includes a successful genetic treatment that had received millions, if not billions of dollars in research for decades (click here). What is happening to quality of life in the USA due to an extremist decision by an extremist judge in Alabama? Besides hurting potential parents, the Alabama economy is being reduced with this decision. IVF anything is shutting down in Alabama, including embryo transport services. As of this decision the embryos in Alabama are logistically frozen. Potential parents can no longer take their embryos with them if they move out of state. There are no services to provide that transportation.
The economic return of investment companies that backed genetic research, including IVF, is now ending in Alabama. When does the damage by extremist Republicans stop? They are attacking not only democracy, but, also the free market system and American quality of life. Who is seeking an autocracy with alliances to communism? Political money and the Citizen United decision is destroying the USA one judicial decision at a time. Now, Alabama citizens seeking to become parents no longer can have the option of a pregnancy with their own genetically familial sons and daughters.
The political system in the USA is out of control and aligned to ideology out to destroy freedom and the “safety of ideas.”
…from an extremist Alabama judge that has no concept of separation of church and state; the country needs to realize one thing. Only one thing.
MAGA Republicans are allied to Russia and lead in ideology and greed by Vladimir Putin. Those legislators openly in loyalty to Putin and communism should never had been elected in the first place! Trump included.
I looked at the plan the Prime Minister presented to revitalize Gaza. I think it a strong plan that ultimately the Palestinians have to recognize as their best future. They have to focus on the quality of life for their children, value the education they will receive that will result in a secure and peaceful Gaza.
Israel will never demand anyone to turn away from a peaceful and benevolent God no matter the religion practiced. Israel wants peace and not a forever war based in ideology. Iran needs to practice tolerance of others and stop terrorist affiliations.
Terrorist organizations must be rejected as a means for aggression and hate between sovereign countries. Hamas used the Palestinian people as human shields while they plotted to kill Israel’s citizens. There is no room in the world for hatred of any kind. The world of people have much bigger problems, namely a climate crisis that kills everyday.
I am looking forward to Israel’s implementation of the plans for Gaza which means the complete dissolution of Hamas and other terrorist organizations that never had and still do not have respect for human life. They rage against others based in religious bigotry. All that must stop and peace the only goal religions should be seeking.
Mrs. Navalnaya is no different than any other relative of a deceased person, she wants to bury her son with dignity and any religious right she feels necessary to bless his soul to God.
In the United States of America even those who die on "death row" are released to their families for burial. This is not respectful of a woman now 69 years old and having to bury her son for being a decent and honorable man. The government of Russia is paranoid about the re-re-re-election of Vladimir Putin. It is time to let this anger end and provide the family with Alexie's body for proper treatment at the time of death. What is occurring is not even legal according to Russian law.
February 22, 2024
By Anton Troianovski and Ivan Nechepurenko
...Lyudmila Navalnaya, (click here) Mr. Navalny’s mother, said she had been “secretly” taken to a morgue Wednesday night, “where they showed me Aleksei.” She was shown a medical report on Mr. Navalny’s death that said he died of natural causes, according to the Navalny team’s spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh....
If there is any solace to the family at all, the world is watching. Many in countries that might consider themselves friendly and even allied to Russia do not believe the level of corruption that accompanies Alexei Navalny and now his death. This is all corruption and illegal. The man is dead, what possibly can Russia fear from their own citizen and a mother of a man that died unjustly in a prison?
Let the family have time with him to properly mourn him and put his soul to rest. This secrecy by official Russian authorities is alarming to say the least. I believe the spouse, Yulia Navalnaya, currently lives in the UK. The body and his relatives should be remanded to the British government for his entombment. There needs to be an end to the corruption following this man's life and a proper burial of his body for his wife, mother, children and other relatives, friends and those that supported him. It is time for Putin to allow this to take place so it is over before his election and all is behind him.
Mr. Morris Tidball-Binz (click here) was appointed the UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial summary or arbitrary executions, on 1 April 2021. Mr. Morris Tidball-Binz (Viña del Mar, Chile, 1957) is a medical doctor specialized in forensic science, human rights and humanitarian action. Over the past 35 years, he has conducted fact-finding, technical assessments and capacity building missions to over 70 countries in all regions.
Perhaps Mr. Tidball-Binz could provide historical handling of the deaths of political prisoners to provide guidance to such events.
He is repeatedly violating a Supreme Court decision.
January 23, 2024 By William Melhado
The U.S. Supreme Court (click here) on Monday ordered Texas to allow federal border agents access to the state’s border with Mexico, where Texas officials have deployed miles of concertina wire.
The order did not explain justices’ decisions. For now, it effectively upholds longstanding court rulings that the Constitution gives the federal government sole responsibility for border security.
In October of last year, Texas sued the federal government after Border Patrol agents cut some of the wire strung along the Rio Grande, arguing the Department of Homeland Security destroyed the state’s property and interfered in Texas’ border security efforts.
The 5-4 order from the Supreme Court vacated a previous injunction from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that prevented Border Patrol agents from cutting the concertina wire....
Some Republican governors, such as Missouri and New Hampshire, are backing up the illegal activity in Texas by sending National Guard troops.
National guard troops can be called up to serve by state governors, I don't believe it is within their capacity to deploy the troops to other areas of the country or the world. That capacity to deploy National Guard troops is a federal authority.
At a news conference on Friday, Abbott announced the construction of what he said would a new "base camp" that could house up to 2,300 soldiers.
"As opposed to being scattered around many different places across this region, they will be operating out of one place. It will amass a large army in a very strategic area. It will increase the speed and flexibility of the Texas National Guard to be able to respond to crossings," Abbott said.
Officials expect that by mid-April they'll have a 300-bed capacity and will add another 300 each month until completion, Texas Maj. Gen. Thomas Suelzer, Abbott's top military adviser, said at the Friday press conference. The camp will include several features like large dining halls, individual rooms for soldiers and medical care facilities....
This is all political (click here) because Republicans promised the southern border would be secure and there were Republicans elected to the USA House of Representative from districts along the Texas border to allow that to happen. US Republicans only see running for office as politics. The Chief Justice John Roberts always falls to the political argument as he did in the Colorado decision regarding excluding Trump from the Republican primary election. National Guard troops are for national security measures, not politics.
Greg Abbott has made speeches implying the governor wants the right to order the deaths of those crossing the Rio Grande to the USA. Trump has considered Abbott for a Vice Presidential candidate.
The border crossings are at issue. There are problems. But, violation of the Rule of Law is not the answer. The US Senate has run aground again in attempting to end any obstruction to passing border protections. The US House simply is not interested in any legislation. They are interested in their own politics and not much else. This rancher in Arizona would love to get relief from border crossings, but, the USA House refuses to act. Greg Abbott should be pounding the halls of the USA House to bring about agreement and not simply allowing politics to rule the day.
February 18, 2024
By Eli Saslow and Erin Schaff
...His plan for the day (click here) was to survey three remote water tanks and locate a few lost cows — simple tasks in a place where everything had become increasingly complicated during the last several months. Jim laid out a map of southern Arizona on the hood of his truck and showed Sue the route he planned to take across their cattle grazing land, an area three times the size of Manhattan located on the outskirts of Arivaca, Ariz. He traced his finger over a desolate mountain range, across six canyons, and down to the five and a half miles of their ranch that ran along the U.S.-Mexico border in what had become one of the busiest corridors for a record wave of undocumented immigration....
The nonsense in the US House and at the Texas border is nothing but politics. Inaction and fear mongering is the resolve of the Republican Party.
February 21, 2024
By Isaac Arnsdorf, Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey
As president, (click here) Trump sought to use military planes and bases for deportation. Now, he and his allies are talking about a new effort that current and former officials warn could be impractical and dangerous....
The USA does not need a militarized southern border, it needs a better neighborhood.
...“I think (click here) that we have to take Donald Trump very seriously,” Cheney said Sunday. “We have to take seriously the extent to which you have now got a Putin wing of the Republican Party.”
“I believe the issue this election cycle is making sure the Putin wing of the Republican Party does not take over the West Wing of the White House,” she continued....
I didn't watch the town hall where Trump appeared and answered questions, but, a Trump supporter was bragging the comment was wonderful and what they wanted to hear. The problem with all that is that the devil lives in the air between the supporter's ears and his mouth. What they think they are hearing and what is actually the plot by Trump only lies in the fact he is a showman and not a loyal American.
I realize Israel fears for its citizens. Their efforts to end terrorist violence must continue, but, Israel must start to work with the Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza.
The Israeli intelligence agencies are using highly accurate. I mean all the time. They missed their mark on the recent raid on the hospital. It is time a governing authority has control of Gaza working with Israel to cleanse Gaza for f Hamas and other terrorists.
A joint authority has to occur. The PA was out gunned by Hamas and took control of Gaza. Israel must show good faith and begin a joint governance of Gaza to stabilize the area and return function. The Palestinian Authority must work diligently with Israeli intelligence to end the presence of all terrorist elements to protect citizens from being used as human shields ever again.
This is a transition that will be welcomed globally for the stability of a legitimate governance in Gaza. The safety and stability of Gaza has to be the priority and not simply a ceasefire and occupation of the same terrorists elements as before the war. There is now a trench separation and that must be recognized as an important security measure.
Alexei Navalny's body must be turned over to his wife for proper services and burial. Unfortunately, that means he will be buried outside of Russia. There is no way she can return to the forsaken country. There is leadership in Russia. The people are not safe under the leadership that exists. The leadership is perverted and dangerous even to the Russian people.
Former President Trump (click here) made his first comments on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, comparing the situation to his own ongoing legal problems.
Trump is all about money, illegal, immoral or any way he can get it. He wants Russian money to help bail him out of his downward financial spiral. He would no more aspire to be a challenge to Putin's regime than he would back a brave man such as the Late Alexei Navalny.
The situation surrounding Navalny’s death — and the aftermath — is raising questions about Russia and President Vladimir Putin.
All eyes are on Russia following the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Mourners have been detained: At least 366 people were detained in Russia over the weekend for mourning Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death, according to The New York Times. The AP photo above shows a man detained while laying flowers at a Navalny memorial in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Mourners are not allowed to mourn in Russia. They should fear they will be in IK-3 prison for the beliefs they hold dear and the leader they loved.
This is so outrageous. Alexei Navalny was a Russian citizen and had ambitions that would bring him to the attempt a run for the presidency. There is nothing wrong with any of those ambitions. They are normal in every way. The Late Alexei Navalny was a lawyer. What a better place for him but the politics of hope?
There was nothing radical about his agenda as a politician. He opposed corruption. He wanted his government cleansed of the corruption that oppressed the people while making a small circle of Putin loyalists wealthy.
Navalny’s wife pledged to fight against Putin: Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said that she would continue her late husband’s work and fight Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Excerpt: “By killing Alexei, Putin killed half of me, half of my heart and my soul. But I still have the other half, and it tells me that I have no right to give up,” she said in a video posted on her husband’s YouTube channel....
It is normally the wife that receives the body and prepares the proper services and burial. There is no reason why the Late Alexei Navalny could not be flown to his wife while accompanied by his mother and any other relatives to properly bury him.
The Late Alexei Navalny was never alone in his desire for change in Russia. He was a member Russian Opposition Coordination Council. Navalny was a concensus builder. There is every reason to believe the Russian people do not want their current leadership. The people believed in a different Russia. I sincerely do not see the Late Alexie Navalny disappearing over time. He was the new Russia.
I understand why the word dissident is used to describe him, but, he was not a loner with an empty cause. I do not think of him at all as a dissident. I think of him as a visionary. He understood the hopes of the Russian people. He used mainstream methods to bring about a path forward. There was really very little radical about him. By every measure, the Late Alexei Navalny was a legitimate alternative to the communist regime under Putin. He was the hope of the people. This taking of a political leader in Russia is something that is very troublesome. He was not a westernized idol to convert the Russian people to dictates of democracy. He was a son of Russia. A brilliant man. He loved his country and the people. This is a profound injustice to him, his family, the Russian people, and humanity.
The Late Alexei Navalny was somebody. He was a very important somebody. He went back to Russia to finish the path he started. He would not be deterred from the reality and vision he knew.
February 19, 2024
By Ivan Fomin
...Navalny (click here) consistently exposed new weak spots of Putin's regime and looked for ways to exploit them. In particular, he became a noticeable political figure after using Russian legislation on government procurement to conduct prominent anti-corruption investigations. His RosPil project invited the public to scrutinize public documents for evidence of corruption. Other projects that Navalny launched early in his career, such as RosYama or RosZhKH, were based on the same principle, empowering Russian citizens dissatisfied with the authorities due to the poor quality of the country's infrastructure.
A decade later, in 2019, following a similar principle, Navalny managed to leverage the labor rights agenda. The Teachers' Alliance and Doctors' Alliance, members of the trade union association he created, became visible political actors in Russia.
Navalny was also very open-minded about who he entered into coalitions with, to the point of attracting criticism. He chose diverse partners throughout his career, guided not so much by ideological affinity as by the extent to which they could open up new opportunities for his struggle. His political career started in the Russian social-liberal party Yabloko in 2000. In 2007, he co-founded the national-democratic movement NAROD, together with prominent Russian nationalists.
During the protests of 2011-2012, Navalny coordinated actions with various liberal, nationalist, and socialist forces. He also contributed to creating the Coordination Council of the Russian Opposition to unite a broad spectrum of politicians, from right-wing to left-wing ones. In 2013, he was nominated as a candidate in the Moscow mayoral elections by the liberal....
The Russian prisons and judicial system is inhumane. The judicial system is more or less an extension of the communist party that intends to exert control and not justice.
The Late Alexei Navalny spoke of the inmates placed in his cell with him. They were primarily insane. One man did nothing but scream for hours and hours, only stopping during the night for a few hours. Setting aside the harsh conditions and the fact Navalny was imprisoned there, that screaming inmate was in pain, emotional and psychological pain. There was no treatment for him to relieve him of his distress? The Russian penial system should be scrutinized to bring about a system of reform and mental health, not persecution and hatred. Navalny was hated. All his legal proceedings proved that the communists were in control and they decided his outcomes.
...Last year, (click here) the Federal Antimonopoly Service also included IK-3 — which can house up to 1,050 prisoners, according to the Federal Penitentiary Service — on its register of unreliable contractors.
Other prisoners reported experiencing “psychological stress” due to their conditions, Vyorstka said.
Some even accused prison guards of torture.
“When prisoners enter the colony, they are taken to the bathhouse. When a person undresses and goes to wash, the water is turned off and people in masks come in and start beating him. With me, this lasted for about half an hour. There were about 15 people — both prisoners and employees,” said convict Mikho Khulilidze, who served his prison term in IK-3.
“They put me on the floor and beat me with batons and fists on my buttocks, my head, my face, my ribs. They did not provide any medical assistance,” Khulilidze said....
The Late Alexei Navalny loved being Russian. He loved the people. He is missed and will be missed for time unending. Russia has a new hero and it is the Late Alexei Navalny. He would be more than pleased to be that icon to the people.
To me Alexei Navalny was a miracle. He was a man that came forward formed of the sincerest hopes of the Russian people. There was never a doubt he was their profound hero. That desire for a different Russia was a vision he shared with vast numbers of the Russian population.
His life is a statement that defines the suffering of the Russian people. He was one of the true living examples of their deepest wishes. He was the son of Russia. Unafraid. Deeply committed. Willing to sacrifice all to achieve a dream that is Russia shared by so many others.
His life story and the love he had for the future of his country must be written, treasured, and passed on from one generation to the next.
To me Alexei Navalny was a miracle that is the true heart of the Russian people. Pure hope for a different Russia. His name must be spoken often and of the hope of millions of Russians. His death is not defeat, but, rebirth.
Right now I have $200 in cash and about $4.00 in change. That is actually less than I had on Tuesday, because, I spent $100.
I rarely travel with less than $500 cash. Why? Because cash is real and works when nothing else will. Cash is important especially during times of difficult weather.
I frequently pay people that are friends in cash if they have gone into debt for something important for me.
This is a money tester pen. It is used frequently by restaurants and businesses for detecting counterfeit dollars. They don’t test every dollar, do they? They test $50 or $100 bills. So, I guess there are lots of other people that carry lots of cash, too, huh?
I am not a minority, but, money talks when skin color doesn’t. Huh?
President John F. Kennedy never gave a second thought to asking his brother to take the Presidential Cabinet position of Attorney General. Why? Because he knew the trustworthiness of the man that would serve the USA.
When it comes to asking personal friends and relatives to serve in government in offices with prestige and financial gain it always raises suspicions as to the real motivation. The point is the USA respected the Late Attorney General Kennedy and this building proves it.
I find the Georgia case against Former President Trump overwhelming. As a responsible prosecutor would Fani Willis seek to place the case in very capable hands even if it means controversies? Yes.
I think the current case in Georgia preceding the actual trial is nothing but COVID brain fog by Trump. He can’t seem to come to terms with the truth regarding his criminal acts and is using money to purchase gambles that he can actually derail the truth. It is a shame that a gas lighter like Trump is actually given brevity by lawyers for profit and the media for sensationalism.
Trump lawyers are seeking to reinvent the wheel. They are parsing words and are using the hearing to create social controversies.
Basically, the defense council has no defense.
It is beneficial to the Trump Campaign to create the idea of having to deal with a corrupt court by emphasizing the need for transparency (even to change the definition of lawyer-client privilege) and definition of words.
The Trump defense lawyers are attempting to do the impossible. An effective lawyer would recognize the extreme brevity of the evidence and the guilt of the client and move to minimize any forthcoming sentence.
The court hearings are another example of Trump’s desire to manipulate the conversation and has nothing to do with good practice. The Trump lawyers are probably getting paid plenty to please the demand of their client. All I can think is that any lawyer employed should realize others have fallen in efforts to please Trump’s impossible demands, ie; Sidney Powell.
The U.S.A. Republicans have passed a new milestone using a majority of their members to use impeachment as a political tool.
Homeland Security was created as a Presidential Cabinet position by Former President George W. Bush after devastating terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It was created to incorporate the knowledge and expertise of USA agencies to end any danger domestically to the American people by terrorists globally. Now, the small majority of extremists in the U.S. House have acted in defiance of the U.S. Constitution in an act of political anarchy and impeached a perfectly qualified Secretary of Homeland Security. This political act is a violation of the USA National Security.
The American people need to realize how their security domestically is being trivialized by US House Republicans for politics. This is more of the trivialized national security agenda of the Firmer Trump Administration who is now directing an entire political party. One man is demanding undying leadership of an wntire political party in the uSA. One man. The Republicans are not governing by consensus, but, through illegitimate autocracy.
The USA is not going to be a militarized southern border to the USA because it would open this country to a border war that would be backed by communists like Russia and China and terrorists like Hezbollah out of Venezuela. The answer to mass migration out of the Northern Triad is to strength their economies, defeat drug cartels and allow the people domestic peace within their sovereign borders.
We take the fight to them. We don’t allow the instability to come to us. A huge player in mass migration globally is the climate crisis and the trivial Republicans don’t even recognize it.
The USA lost control of its southern border under Trump. Militarizing it is not the answer. A strong conversation has to begin in recognizing the problem, the migrating people, the problems they may cause and the labor answer they also bring in their willingness to work. The answer domestically is peace and strength within our borders, not bringing war to our sovereign bidets.
Trump and his minions are crazy and weak in their ability to solve problems . Their approach defies peace and welcomes chaos and violence. The domestic gun issue is a direct result of very poor domestic policy of right wing political extremists.
The people spoke in 2020. That voice was for governance and not violence!
I expect the Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies to be out front leading a strong vote in the U.S. House. Max Boot has an interesting opinion in the Washington Post.
The House Speaker is not capable of governance so much as politics. I would think US Intelligence is more damning than Max Boot, too.
Johnson has no conscience. He and Trump are scared of losing their majority along the southern border. That is all they focus on. Today, under Johnson’s leadership the USA national security is in danger. There is no turning away from allies and expect USA national security to be intact.
According to what I am reading 67 others were killed in the raid. What I am not reading is how many of those 67 were Hamas?
The King of Jordan was at the White House to advocate a ceasefire or more. There is an understanding that MBS is vital to ending the violence with Hezbollah.
This is very simple in many ways. I think most everyone agrees Hamas is a terrorist organization and not a governing authority. Hamas needs to surrender, provide proof of hostage death or release and end the Palestinians’ bondage as human shields.
If NATO looks the other way, this is exactly what will occur with Ukraine.
This film is bone chilling to realize this level of indifference and apathy about life is possible again. Putin already has camps full of Ukrainian children for reassignment of their loyalties to Russia. This is the level of evil that still exists in the world and it started a decade or so ago when Russia began to call it's diaspora home. There have been plans for a long time and this is nothing if Putin is given permission to conduct himself as he pleases.
"Don't worry, he won't put all of them up the chimney, there will be workers as you need them."
Hitler wanted a certain outcome to his cleansing of diversity from his land and it was carried out as the Fuehrer of the Third Reich demanded. Did Hitler make these plans? No. He simply stated what was to be and the result were the crematories. The Commandant said it was the perfect solution, demonstrated it, and expanded on it when granted the power. All others simply walked away and congratulated him as he continued to ethnically cleanse Hitler's land.
Retribution is nothing but evil.
Retribution is nothing but evil.
Retribution is nothing but evil.
The war with Ukraine, for Russia, is retribution for the fall of the Soviet Union.
There is no looking the other way or defunding the war for NATO or the USA.
February 11, 2024 By Stephen Fowler
Conway – Former President Donald Trump (click here) said America would not defend NATO allies against Russia if they did not meet his definition of contributing enough defense spending, threatening to upend the alliance if elected president again in 2024.
Trump has long criticized defense spending by other NATO member countries and has long falsely suggested there are unpaid balances owed by allies, but Saturday's remarks during a campaign rally in Conway, S.C., went a step further as he suggested Russia should attack allies that are "delinquent" with contributions.
"If we don't pay and we're attacked by Russia, will you protect us?," Trump recalled another country's leader asking while him while he was president. "No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want."...
This is retribution and nothing short of it. Alliances are far more than money. They are a commitment to stand with each other and protect the sovereign rights of the citizens. Reducing an alliance to obedience over funding is sick and lacks profound understanding of what national security actually is made of and why standing alone is idiocy.
Our allies put their military lives on the line along with us. This is not a minor issue. This is not simply politics or campaign fodder, this is a change in the way people think that will open them up to danger as they have never before experienced. The passivity of the USA previous to WWII was due to the importance placed on wealth and trade. It was absolutely idiocy to allow Europe to crumble while wealth merchants played a game that ultimately brought the war to USA shores.
Nearly 24 million Russians died in WWII of which half were civilians. There were Russians in those concentration camps that died along side others in the crematories. I would think this is NOTHING they would idealize again because the borders of Russia has changed and the people are happy living within a democracy.
The Holocaust (click here) was the Nazi’s deliberate, organized, state-sponsored persecution and machinelike murder of approximately six million European Jews and at least five million Soviet prisoners of war, Romany, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and other victims....
This is old world hatred and war. There is no room for this anymore. There is a planet at stake and the divisiveness is typical of politics that destroys and is loyal to money rather than human life. This hatred has to end. Peace must be the discussion of the day.
The aspirations of the few can destroy the home of many. The priorities of the world have to change. This nightmare is never, ever to repeat itself.
Books are under profound attack in the United States. (click here) They are disappearing from library shelves, being challenged in droves, being decreed off limits by school boards, legislators, and prison authorities. And everywhere, it is the books that have long fought for a place on the shelf that are being targeted. Books by authors of color, by LGBTQ+ authors, by women. Books about racism, sexuality, gender, history. PEN America pushes back against the banning of books and the intolerance, exclusion, and censorship that undergird it.
PEN America tracks all book bans in libraries and classrooms across the U.S. in our Index of School Book Bans, updated for the 2022-2023 school year....
She has strong feelings about things and her fans appreciate her for her moral character. It is exciting and wonderful to see her in love. It would be wonderful for her and Travis Kelcie if this is true love and the story continues.
She has been dedicated to her career and seems to be a good business woman. Her shows don’t lack in quality which speaks to her love for her fans. I hope for them, Taylor, and Travis this friendship becomes the real thing.
It was a special expression of the respect and affection Travis has for Taylor by bringing her family to the Superbowl. Very, very special. Let’s hope all her travel plans work well AND SAFELY for her arrival to watch the big game. It is noteworthy she didn’t cancel any performances to be at the Superbowl. I think it demonstrates her dedication and priorities to her career and her loyalty to her fans.
Everyone is looking forward to the lucky charm called Taylor Swift to this year’s Superbowl!
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was voted on by Congress; by a majority of its members; and passed so that it could be voted on by a majority of Americans to pass safeguards to the U.S. Constitution. No justice in any court has a right to disallow the will of the majority of federal legislators and states full of citizens because to exercise the will of those people is inconvenient for their politics.
American men and women died during the Civil War to defend the U.S.A. Constitution. That sacrifice cannot be ignored by extremists sitting on the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
By the way, the Supreme Court’s radical right wing is a vehicle to destroy this democracy of which those Justices will never rule again in their oath of office should an insurrectionist become president!
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, (click here) the chair of the Senate Judiciary committee, called for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from weighing in on whether former President Donald Trump can be removed from states’ 2024 ballots for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The nation’s highest court is expected to hear arguments on Thursday in the case, which centers on the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove the GOP frontrunner from their state’s primary ballot. The state court ruled Trump ineligible based on the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause, a Civil War-era provision that bars those who took an oath of office as a U.S. official from federal office for participating in a rebellion or insurrection.
Durbin argued the involvement of Thomas’ wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, in the effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss creates a conflict of interest for the justice....
Ginni Thomas, (click here) the wife of a Supreme Court justice, was directly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
How on Earth has Clarence Thomas not been required to recuse himself from all cases involving Trump's attempted coup? At the very least. I mean c'mon....
March 25, 2022
By Jack Holmes
It's easy to get caught up (click here) on the news that the spouse of a sitting Supreme Court justice went full QAnon regarding the 2020 election, parroting conspiratorial delusions around how "the Biden crime family" would be "living in barges off GITMO to face a military tribunal" for the grievous crime of getting more votes than "This Great President." (Scattergun capitalization appears to be a hallmark of the politically unhinged.) Granted, Thomas seemed to legitimately believe Trump really won, likely because she boiled her own brain in a vat of right-wing Internet. But within its sterling writeup of Ginni Thomas's communications with then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows—as Donald Trump's coterie attempted to overturn the results of an election he lost so that he could stay in power in contravention of the will of the American public—the Washington Post flagged an important detail....
Trump spoke publicly during this period about his intent to contest the election results in the Supreme Court. “This is a major fraud on our nation,” the president said in a speech at 2:30 the morning after the election. “We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So we’ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court.”...
It is all so cozy, isn't it? Like a family sort of. No. Not family, a religious conspiracy against a democracy that allows freedom is more the picture.
Do I think there is something corrupt and dangerous about this court?
You betcha I do.
Beginning in the early 1980s, (click here) when it was not exactly cool to be a conservative law student, a small group of students started a club, named in honor of The Federalist Papers, where they could safely discuss their right-of-center views. Fast-forward 40 years and six of the nine sitting Supreme Court Justices are current or former members of that club....
Never in my wildest imagination did I expect a Chief Justice confused about the Rule of Law. This is a no brainer. Robert’s doesn’t understand the words of the 14th Amendment? The courts after the civil war never had a problem understanding the English language of that Constitutional Amendment. Trump is guilty as sin through his own actions and words.
John Roberts is bringing shame to his court. According to him every state will bring lawsuits that remove a candidate from office on the grounds of insurrection. For real now? It is all nonsense.
Colorado is correct and other states that allow Trump a place to be president are corrupted. This is just plain wrong!
February 7. 2024 By Stephen Groves and Mary Clare Jalonick
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans (click here) blocked a bipartisan border package Wednesday, scuttling months of negotiations with Democrats on legislation intended to cut back record numbers of illegal border crossings.
Many Republicans said the election-year compromise wasn’t enough, even as supporters of the bill insisted it was the best possible in divided government.
The 49-50 vote, far short of the 60 ayes needed to take up the bill, came after most Republicans said they would vote against the legislation, which also includes $60 billion in wartime aid to Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel and was backed by President Joe Biden. GOP lawmakers had insisted that the money for conflicts abroad be paired with help for the U.S. border....
On August 14, 2023, (click here) a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury indicted Donald Trump on 13 counts of criminal felonies. The charges revolve around Trump’s and 18 co-defendants’ efforts to overturn the will of the voters and interfere with the results of the 2020 presidential election.
On August 24, 2023, Donald Trump surrendered at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia. As part of his release, he agreed to a $200,000 bond and certain release terms, including agreeing not to use social media to target or harass his co-defendants or witnesses who might appear in the criminal proceedings.
All 19 defendants, including Trump, are charged with criminal racketeering under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, which ties together individual criminal acts into a broader criminal network and conspiracy.
The Fulton County, Georgia indictment was brought by a grand jury of everyday citizens convened by DA Fani Willis. DA Willis is a highly respected veteran prosecutor who has been investigating Trump and his allies efforts to meddle with the 2020 election for more than two-and-a-half years.
The grand jury heard from many witnesses, including state officials who were asked by Trump and his allies to help overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
What I find incredibly unsettling is the persistent harassment by Mr. Trump of Mr. Raffensperger who diligently was trying to get him to understand they have found no fraud in the election. I sincerely believe Mr. Raffensperger thought Mr. Trump was misdirected by others and needed to understand the facts and not fiction. I think there is great respect of the former president to listen and validate his concerns, but, Trump gave them no respect in return.
I think Mr. Raffensperger is a great American. I believe he loves the country and the rule of law. He has integrity and that means a lot.
April 18, 2023 By David Bauder, Randall Chase and Geoff Mulvihill
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Fox News (click here) agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company’s lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election.
The stunning settlement emerged just as opening statements were supposed to begin, abruptly ending a case that had embarrassed Fox News over several months and raised the possibility that network founder Rupert Murdoch and stars such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity would have to testify publicly.
“The truth matters. Lies have consequences,” Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson told reporters outside a Delaware courthouse after Superior Court Judge Eric Davis announced the deal....
The FCC has enormous amount of evidence to severely review licenses of these broadcast frauds.
December 15, 2023 By Andrew Goudsward
WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Rudy Giuliani (click here) must pay more than $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers he defamed through false accusations that they helped rig the 2020 election against Donald Trump, a jury decided on Friday.
The jury in federal court in Washington found that Giuliani owes the workers, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman, roughly $73 million to compensate them for the reputational and emotional harm they suffered and $75 million to punish the former Trump lawyer and one-time New York mayor for his conduct....
Sorry folks, but, the conspiracy touted by the Trump camp is so big that it falls as false by it's own weight.
It is time for the Federal Communication Commission to monitor the blatant lies in some media services (click here). According to the Newsweek article a woman with the convoy that went to the USA southern border found the conditions at the border were not as bad as she thought.
Ya know, infotainment is causing Americans a lot of stress in broadcasting blatant lies. No American needs more stress in relation to their own personal safety and the safety of their family members.
The USA has been experiencing a booming labor market. Wages have kept up with inflation and in most instances show a small margin increase over inflation. In the last year inflation is far less than the year before.
Personally, a private industry job I work increased my pay 28 percent as a retention issue. I never asked for it and it is not union. Then management opened the number of hours worked to be decided by the individual while holding the line on hours required to work.
President Joe Biden has conducted a magnificent return of the USA following a very volatile and deadly presidency preceding him. His job rating on the economy should be substantially better than it is. Additionally, President Biden and the Secretary of Defense never treated the USA military capacity as muscle bound. The use of our military has been more than appropriate in addressing genocide, potential threats to NATO, showing strength in the Pacific, and being a strong ally to Israel.
The FCC needs to apply power in ensuring the American people are protected from the extreme right wing media that is completely out of control. The caravan of concerned Americans traveling to the southern USA border is uninformed and upset as well as being armed. The FCC is not doing its job and allowing frank and dangerous lies to cause such dangerous actions by Americans that sincerely love their country, but, have media full of misinformation and misdirection in reporting.
It is profitable to be conjuring up lies, but, that is also illegal. Infotainment is false advertising and Americans don’t realize it.
This attack was empowered by Iranian weapons purchased by terrorists. Iran supports terrorists and no matter how much Iran wants to deny the decisions to attack Americans, Iran facilitates terrorists. Iran gives aid and comfort to the enemy.
This attack also took place on Jordanian soil. Jordan is an American ally. The USA would have responded anyway regardless of who was murdered by Iranian facilitated terrorists.
This temperature map on February 2nd is pathetic. February is usually brutally cold. There is not one place in the USA experiencing single digit temperatures.
Snow cove is even more pathetic. Where it exists it is melting.
