Trump's rantings and bozo orders only distract from the White Supremacist recruitment of our young sons.

When does it stop and the USA return to domestic peace?

October 15, 2026
By Clayton Franke, Dallas Finn Calvert, Nicole Vulcan and Peter Madsen

Police responded to an active shooter at Silver Rail Elementary (click here) in southeast Bend, according to an alert police sent out Thursday afternoon.

Five people are dead, including three children, a teacher and the 16-year-old male shooter, according to Mike Krantz, Bend Police chief, who spoke at a 5:30 pm press conference Thursday at Bend City Hall. The three children killed were ages 5, 8 and 11.

Crisis counselors will be available to the public Deschutes Central Library on Friday, beginning at 9 am....

Research in psychology and criminology (click here) shows that when a young boy or adolescent attacks classmates, the motives rarely stem from a single cause. Instead, they typically result from a complex mix of psychological, social, and environmental factors:

Bullying, Marginalization, and Humiliation: Many researchers, such as criminologists studying school violence, point to acute feelings of chronic bullying, social rejection, humiliation, or perceived injustice as primary catalysts.

The Desire for Revenge and Glorification: Young males experiencing severe alienation may develop obsessive revenge fantasies, seeking to reclaim power or achieve notoriety (often amplified by real or imagined peer or online audiences).

Mental Health and Emotional Regulation Challenges: Underlying depression, trauma, anger-management issues, or developmental vulnerabilities can impair a youth's ability to cope with stress or interpersonal conflict.

Online Subcultures and Influence: Exposure to toxic online communities, extremist rhetoric, or violent media (such as certain segments of the "manosphere" or incel/hate forums) can desensitize young people or validate aggression as a means of retaliation.

Access to Firearms or Weapons: The physical capacity to carry out a deadly attack almost always relies on the easy availability of unsecured firearms or lethal weapons in the home or environment.

There are only two of the five permanent nuclear nations State Party members.

The United States of America is ranked along side of Russia and China. That is an enormous disgrace.

Any and all sanctions placed against the ICC should be litigated within the court system of the USA. The International Criminal Court is a moral force in the world. Countries and their people globally look to the court for recognition of the sanctity of life. The USA's leaders should never be outside the circle of the most moral positions of governments in the world. There is no pretending. There is only living it.

The USA should be in lock step with our allies and not our enemies. There are treaties enforcing it.

  State party

  Signatory that has not ratified 

  State party that subsequently withdrew its membership 

  Signatory that subsequently withdrew its signature 

  Non-state party, non-signatory

The war in Iraq was an illegal war. The moral decline of the USA never stopped. While Bush believed the attacks of September 11, 2001 took the USA into unknown defensive miliary areas, the lack of return to our best moral content was abandoned. We should still stand with our allies and be a member party. 

In the Bush Administration's range of policies (click here) that had negative ramifications for the promotion and respect for international human rights, its approach to the International Criminal Court (ICC) was of particular significance. What was striking was not the Administration's position on the United States' becoming part of the court­-the Clinton Administration also had concerns over joining-but rather the intense, virulent assault that the Bush Administration advanced on the Court. Despite official claims to the contrary, the Bush Administration's approach, which was far more strident during its first term, appeared to be an intensive effort to cripple the Court....

Trump is scared. He is aware now that his presidential pardons won't work internationally.

The Hague has strong, moral, and capable allies. The Rule of Law matters.

October 16, 2024

By Raffy Boudjikanian

An internal memo told Justin Trudeau's government (click here) that it was expected to pursue the arrests of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his then defence minister and Hamas leaders if the International Criminal Court were to issue the warrants being prepared by one of its prosecutors.

Trudeau and his successor Mark Carney both later said they would act on the warrants. But the document — dated months before the warrants were ultimately issued — offers a rare glimpse at internal advice the government received from a non-partisan source.

"The International Criminal Court is a designated extradition partner under Canada's Extradition Act," Trudeau's national security adviser at the time, Nathalie Drouin, wrote in a memo dated June 10, 2024....

26-CV-5957 (JMF) (click here)

14 October 2026

By Anna Betts

A US federal judge (click here) has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from placing sanctions on two US-based human rights groups for working to help the international criminal court’s (ICC) investigations into war crimes in Gaza.

In a 30-page order issued on Tuesday, Jesse M Furman, a judge at the US district court for the southern district of New York, granted a preliminary injunction to the two groups, Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) and Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide (Taag).

The two organizations sued the Trump administration this summer, challenging an executive order issued in February 2025 that imposed sanctions against the ICC.

The order warned the US government would “impose tangible and significant consequences” on people involved in investigations that Washington said threatened the national security of the US or its allies, including Israel.....

Pope Leo is absoluely amazing.

Surgery for lung cancer nodule removal and now he is up and about serving mass. That is extremely remarkable.

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