The populous presidency of Trump was always a cult carried over from "You're fired, apprentice."

His presidency lead people right into death by virus no different than any other cult. If it weren't for Dr. Fauci the USA would be a complete shambles.

February 10, 2022
By Stephen Proctor

Former “Stop the Steal” supporter Keith Scott (click here) appeared Wednesday with CNN’s Elle Reeve on Erin Burnett OutFront, where he spoke about how he became deeply devoted to the movement that spread lies about the 2020 presidential election, culminating in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

Scott, who was there that day but did not take part in the attack, said, “Jan. 6, 2021 was the greatest day of my life. I felt like a patriot that was standing beside our founding fathers, speaking up against King George. I felt like Braveheart.”

But the violence that ensued that day caused Scott to reflect.

“After January the 6th,” Scott said, “I came here and I kept mumbling, ‘I feel like I just got out of a cult.’”

Scott had spent months living out of his car attending as many rallies as he could, despite never having even been to a Trump rally leading up to the election....

The demonstrations at the Canadian border are ridiculous.

Authorities that institute regulations regarding COVID-19 and it's variants have more and more reasons for the regulations. Liberty takes a backseat when there is a maiming and deadly virus that has launched into a global pandemic.

There is proof that points to brain damage to people that have suffered with the virus. The reason for this finding was known at the time of the pandemic when surgeons were finding blood clots in the brain that continued to spawn even as surgery to remove the clot was being performed.

It was learned early on the virus was causing blood clots and many of them microscopic in size, thus effecting the smallest of blood vessels resulting in COVID TOES. What was happening in macro diagnosis was a result of what was occurring microscopically. The capillaries were destroyed by tiny blook clots and resulting in blood circulation problems and pooling of blood in places like the toes. 

There is now proof that the tiny blood clots resulting from the infection of COVID-19 also causes heart problems. That also was evident early on, especially in New York City where chest pain was being reported so frequently the ambulances and emergency rooms could not keep up. The heart blood vessels are small and a clot can do a lot of damage.

February 9, 2022
By Nancy Lapid

The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. (click here) They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review.

Risk of new heart problems much higher after COVID recovery

Long after recovery from COVID-19, people face significantly higher risks for new heart problems, a large study has found.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs compared rates of new cardiovascular problems in 153,760 individuals infected with the coronavirus before vaccines were available, 5.6 million people who did not catch the virus, and another 5.9 million people whose data was collected before the pandemic. An average of one year after their recovery from the acute phase of the infection, the COVID-19 survivors had a 63% higher risk for heart attack, a 69% higher risk for problematic irregular heart rhythm, a 52% higher risk of stroke, a 72% higher risk of heart failure, and a nearly three times higher risk of a potentially fatal blood clot in the lungs compared with the other two groups, according to a report published on Monday in Nature Medicine. The elevated risks among former COVID-19 patients were evident in young and old, Blacks and whites, males and females, people with and without diabetes and with and without kidney disease, as well as smokers and nonsmokers, said Ziyad Al-Aly of the VA St. Louis Health Care System and Washington University in St. Louis.

The risks were high even in people who had mild COVID-19 and did not need to be hospitalized for it, he noted in a Twitter thread. "It really spared no one," Al-Aly told Reuters. "People with COVID-19 should pay attention to their health and seek medical care if they experience symptoms like chest pain, chest pressure, palpitation, swelling in the legs, etc."...

This study compared SIDE EFFECTS OF A COVID-19 infection to millions of other patients. These are not minor findings. The most common side effect of the mRNA vaccines is a sore arm at injection site.

The authorities ELECTED to office in the USA and Canada have a responsibility to citizens and not to demonstrators. There are far more citizens than demonstrators. I imagine feeling exhilarated at the idea of protesting and finding friends and being among others that want to change the path of government findings and policies is a welcome change after two years, but, the protests are irrelevant.

Democratic liberty takes a back seat to insults to the human body. Findings of "Layman Quackery" in Supreme Court prove politics overtaking science. The entire idea of staging a mass spreading event in demostrations against a virus is a waste of time and only complicates the country's future.

The inconvenience of shutdowns in car and truck production by major manufacturers is not going to cause the virus to go away. Shutting down major traffic routes at the Canadian-US border is not achieving liberty, it is causing a mass spreading event. 

...Omicron's route into cells helps explain symptom profile

The Omicron variant's method of infecting cells is different from the mechanism most often used by earlier SARS-CoV-2 variants, which could help explain Omicron's milder symptom profile, a study published in Nature suggests.

Earlier variants use the ACE2 protein on cell surfaces and an enzyme called TMPRSS2 to fuse themselves to the cell membrane and inject their genetic material inside. Omicron prefers to enter cells by creating tiny sacs in the cell membrane called endosomes that cells use to transport materials internally, researchers found. Omicron still attaches itself to ACE2 proteins, but it does not need help from TMPRSS2. In fact, Omicron multiplies most readily in tissues where TMPRSS2 is scarce, such as the nose. In the lungs, where TMPRSS2 is plentiful, Omicron has spread less effectively and caused less damage than earlier variants.

The findings help explain "why the disease is less severe and causes less pneumonia" with Omicron, said Dr. Ravindra Gupta of the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases in the UK. Gupta also noted that drugs targeting TMPRSS2, such as camostat mesylate, a pancreatitis treatment that has shown some benefit in COVID-19 patients, may be less useful with Omicron....

Never should a democratic government ever lean into minimalizing regulations to benefit their politics in relation to human wellness. Government needs to follow the science not because it is popular, but, because it is the best and moral route. I don't recall a time since COVID-19, even with vaccines and a booster on board, that I went without a mask into an indoor facility like a gym or mall willing to expose myself to what others may have brought with them to damage my wellness.

This pandemic is not over. The side effects of BEING INFECTED is certainly not over.

Trump denies stuffing paper down toilets. Was the White House plumber busy?

Limo arrives after 3 minute mark. (click here for article)

  

New England Journal of Medicine

January 26, 2022

...We found that the primary two-dose regimen (click here) of the mRNA-1273 vaccine elicited detectable neutralizing antibodies against the omicron variant in 85% of the participants 1 month after the second dose....

...Neutralization titers against the omicron variant 6 months after the third (booster) dose of vaccine were 6.3 times lower than the peak titers assessed 1 month after the booster injection, but the titers remained detectable in all the participants.... 

The boosters work well so far. That is why a fourth is being recommended by doctors as major hospitals. One of the reasons for the fourth booster is a higher death rate with omincron. It infects more people and the vulnerable die due to omicron. 

Feb. 9, 2022

With the Omicron variant (click here) now accounting for almost 100% of COVID-19 cases in the United States, the seven-day average of daily COVID-related deaths hit 2,600 recently, the highest rate in about a year,The Washington Post reported.

That’s higher than the approximately 2,000 daily deaths last autumn during the Delta surge, but less than the 3,000 daily deaths last January, when COVID vaccines were not widely available, The Post data analysis said.

The Omicron variant generally causes less severe disease than other strains of COVID, but because it is so transmissible, Omicron is infecting higher raw numbers of people that previous strains....

The precautions instituted by government at all levels may still serve a larger number of people and protect life. The hospitals have to be able to accommodate any people infected.

February 9, 2022
By Roshan Abraham and Kavya B

WHO Dashboard Covid (click here)

Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 400 million on Wednesday, (click here) according to a Reuters tally, as the highly contagious Omicron variant dominates the outbreak, pushing health systems in several countries to the brink of capacity.

The Omicron variant, which is dominating the surge around the world, accounts for almost all new cases reported daily. While cases have begun to level off in many countries, more than 2 million cases are still being reported on average each day, according to a Reuters analysis. Deaths, which tend to lag cases, have increased by 70% in the last five weeks based on the seven-day average....

Kennedy and FOX News owe President Biden an apology. This is a distraction tactic.

Alabama congressman tweets ‘inaccurate’ claim Biden giving out ‘free crack pipes’

They did this on purpose to distract from the facts being found by the January 6th committee. It can always be retracted, right?

February 9, 2022
By Howard Koplowitz

President Biden is not giving out “free crack pipes” to drug addicts,(click here) the administration said Wednesday -- contrary to a tweet by an Alabama congressman who cited a Fox News story White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said was among “inaccurate reporting” on the topic.

“More than a million Americans have died from drug overdoses. Joe Biden’s plan? Free crack pipes,” tweeted Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, on Wednesday night....

I can't believe this is still occurring. A 15 year old asked to take a performance enhancing drug. That should be criminal.

The reason (click here) why Trimetazidine is banned is because it can increase blood flow efficiency and improve endurance, which are both crucial to high-end athletic performances like skating.

February 10, 2022
By Dan Wetzel

Susanne Lyons, (click here) chair of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, made it clear Thursday in Beijing that the pending “legal matter” surrounding Russian skating sensation Kamila Valieva and a failed drug test is more than just who winds up winning gold in the figure skating team event.

“Really the whole credibility of the Olympic Movement and the Paralympic Movement stands teetering on the edge of us saying that we really believe and live the values that we say we stand for,” Lyons told Around the Rings.

“It is so important to the athletes of the world that the values of this [Olympic] Movement be upheld, and one of the most important values is integrity of sport,” Lyons said. “And it’s just terribly upsetting to the athletes today to have that wound potentially reopened again.”

The 15-year-old Valieva reportedly tested positive for trimetazidine, a banned heart medication, according to the Russian newspaper RBC. The World Anti-Doping Agency prohibits the drug because it can aid in endurance and increase blood flow....

He gave orders for the insurrection to the crowd at the time of the speech.

He then went to the Oval Office to watch it all.

He had his general at the insurrection, he didn't need to micromanage. There were witnesses to Trump's behavior, demeanor and focus. The testimony of these people need to be obtained and recorded since there is missing information. 

The idea that information was deliberately removed from the record also brings up the question, who erased the information, was it recorded elsewhere and was that person ordered to carry out that task?

February 10, 2022

By Andrew Feinberg

Mr Trump’s habit (click here) of using mobile phones belonging to his aides is causing a headache for investigators

Investigators working for the House select committee investigating the 6 January insurrection have found significant gaps in White House call logs which have reportedly hindered their efforts to reconstruct his communications during the worst attack on the Capitol since the 1814 Burning of Washington.

Thank you US Senator Mitch McConnell.

It isn't easy being on the right side of the US Constitution these days, but, Senator McConnell did exactly that and he has my thanks. What was astounding was the backlash he received from "toe the line" Trump loyalists. The Trump loyalists are simply wrong. They are on the wrong side of history and outside the parameters of the USA Constitution.

I not only appreciate the words Senator McConnell spoke, I appreciate the way he said it. His voice was strong and unequivocal. 

February 9, 2022
By David Morgan

Washington, DC - Top U.S. Senate Republican Mitch McConnell (click here) on Tuesday criticized his party's censure of two prominent Republican critics of Donald Trump, joining an intra-party battle that could upend his efforts to project an image of party moderation in this year's midterm elections.

Last week, the Republican National Committee censured Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, the only two Republicans serving on the House of Representatives select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when supporters of then-President Trump stormed the Capitol in a failed attempt to prevent Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory....

There should be fines to countries that do not stop these cyberattacks.

There are countries that do not have internet laws and if they do sometimes choose to ignore them. If I recall correctly it was not difficult for the Pakistani police to follow the cyber trail of the murderers of Daniel Pearl. If Pakistan can do this any country can do this.

The cyber arena is thought of as the Wild West, I don't believe that is necessarily the case.

There is no excuse for cyber attacks or ransomwear attacks. They can be traced and people held responsible. I would think if the attacks are from within the USA it should be even easier. But, I remind that while we are waiting for Russian hackers to decend on the USA to cause problems, fining Russia through the banks might work to begin enforcement of hackers and stop them from causing problems.

I would think if ransomwear were traced to Russia it would be the government consenting to the attacks and reaping the ransom.

January 5, 2022
By Alexander Panetta

The director of the FBI (click here) compares this moment to 9/11: A time of reckoning about a threat that's increasingly proven its ability to destabilize society.

He's referring to cyberattacks.

Recent digital ransom attacks have accelerated an acknowledgment in Washington that the current trajectory is untenable.

That's after meat plants were shuttered temporarily including in Canada this week; after cars lined up at empty U.S. gas stations when a major pipeline was hacked.

A hacker recently tampered with chemical levels at a water-treatment plant in Florida. Nuclear and other power facilities, voting systems, political parties, hospitals and governments have all been compromised.

"This is our new normal," said Nicole Perlroth, a cybersecurity reporter at The New York Times and author of a new book on the history of cyberattacks....

Stand up mirror

Not everyone doing the at home COVID test will have one, but, for those with a stand up mirror, I found it helpful in conducting the nose swab. 

Set the mirror up before hand washing to start the test to remove any surface germs that may have been on the mirror.

The package has a tracking number.

I have one spot where I open all the packages after spraying them with disinfectant and allowing that to dry for awhile.

This is the government test kits as they arrived from the USPS facility. They were in a plastic white bag, basically.

Below is the four tests out of the bubble wrap and rubber band.

The distribution system seems to working well. 

Let me put it plainly. Texas is a scheme, not a state.

If Texas is allowed to continue to enforce it's unique laws through a "marshall" service of the public, it will no longer be a state, but, an authonomous governing authority without any influence of federal law. It is legislated secession. The Republicans in the US Senate are enforcing that directive. They are turning State's Rights on it's head to satisfy Evangelicals that want to disconnect from any brush with abortion. They don't have a problem with poverty and the death penalty at all.

The USA should have maintained it's boycott of the Chinese Olympics.

The athletes can't compete anyway because as soon as they qualify they get sick with the virus and then bring it home.

International agreements mean nothing to politics.

All that motivates Putin is his propaganda politics. NATO has done nothing to insight any war. It has been acting defensively since Russia first invaded Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Putin will cry about "a threat to the Russian people" and build permission by Russians to go into war. Half of Russia will not support him in his decisions about violence, but, it doesn't matter because the government is so corrupt. 

Putin started is "Russian people" campaign some time ago and has taken steps all along the way with the Russian Duma cranking out legislation to back every violent decision Putin makes. What the Russian Duma doesn't do is uphold international agreements and treaties to stop the violent regime of Vladimir Putin. The Duma and Putin acting together is a strong basis for extremely tough sanctions.

Putin treats his "Russian people" campaign and politics as if the world wants to commit genocide against them and Russia is the only safe haven for Russian people. That is the entirty of his actions in promoting violence against The West.

The United Nations and NGOs need to conduct investigations into his charges and debunk his rantings. It would provide a basis of opposing Putin's actions and begin to end his hostility by The West. The World Court could hear such a case.

Putin, today, is warning The West and Ukraine (click here) as France's President Macron is in Moscow. This is the Putin progaganda machine at work. The civilized world must confront his accusations with more than peace talks. His allogations must be investigated.

Febuary 2, 2022

By Natalia Zinets and Vladimir Soldatkin

Kyiv/Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) accused the West on Tuesday of deliberately creating a scenario designed to lure it into war and ignoring Russia's security concerns over Ukraine.

In his first direct public comments on the crisis for nearly six weeks, a defiant Putin showed no sign of backing down from security demands that the West has called non-starters and a possible excuse to launch an invasion, which Moscow denies.

"It's already clear now ... that fundamental Russian concerns were ignored," Putin said at a news conference with the visiting prime minister of Hungary, one of several NATO leaders trying to intercede with him as the crisis has intensified....

The Carillo Case is about interstate traffiking of firearm modifications.

These cases are about a few things, like an adverse element in the USA military, but, also in gun sales and gun sale parts across state lines. Both these men killed police officers with modified weapons facilitated by a West Virginia gun dealer. How does a state stop this malicious activity from other states? Basically, by using Texas vigilante laws. 

The federal government should be ending this type of interstate commerce and certainly should end the sale of these modifications and illegal guns internationally. However, the Republicans in the federal authority refuse to do their job and end the conflict of laws between states, in this case, to protect police officers. The Republicans do nothing but obstruct what is the diligent work of other legislators to end such laws that are advantageous to violence.

The Political Right Wing in this country is fomenting hate and providing gaps in interstate laws that faciliate interstate sales of weapons and their modifications.

The politics of violence and anti-government directed sentiment is now pervasive with Republicans and it is disrupting our governance. McConnell likes to brag he can stop Democrats and that is his strength as a majority or minority leader and the basis of his fund raising. That is highly irresponsible and abuse of power. Why isn't he censured for his abuses?

It doesn't matter if Republicans beat back a censure, it matters that the investigation of ethics violations exist and the charges are brought forward. Abuse of power is written all over the US Senate including Rand Paul that insights killers to act. This is ridiculous. Words matter. Votes matter at least for Republicans.

February 7, 2022

San Francisco - A former Air Force sergeant (click here) plans to change his not guilty plea in the fatal shooting of a federal security officer in Northern California during 2020 protests against police brutality, court records filed Monday showed.

Steven Carrillo, 33, pleaded not guilty in July 2020 in the killing of David Patrick Underwood, who was shot on May 29, 2020, while he stood in a guard shack in front of a federal building in Oakland....

...Prosecutors say Carrillo had ties to the “boogaloo” movement, a concept embraced by a loose network of gun enthusiasts and militia-style extremists. The group started in alt-right culture on the internet with the belief that there is an impending civil war, according to experts.

Authorities accused Carrillo of fatally shooting Underwood from a white van after developing a plot with Robert Alvin Justus Jr., of Millbrae. The pair is accused of driving to Oakland and taking advantage of the distraction afforded by protesters marching through the city’s downtown. Justus drove the van, authorities said....

The Kangaroo Courts

That is the way the Supreme Court is treating the state courts. There was a decision in North Carolina by its Supreme Court (click here) that the redistricting by the legislature is gerrymandered and unconstitutional. It will be appealed and the state decision overturned. The Robert's Court is leaning into the legislature as the quintessential answer to more and more of it's rulings. We are seeing it with abortion and now redistricting. The North Carolina decison, if overturned, will begin to scream of politics rather than the USA Constitution.

If there is a leaning to the political right, it will be all that more obvious that a conservative Supreme Court with it's current members compromises the country, in that, States Rights will overturn many decisions and cause disharmony in enforcing laws. The Texas vigilante law will begin to show up more and more and in more areas of law. The Texas vigilante law prevents a citizen from MIGRATING to other states to receive services illegl in Texas. That is not a United States of America and criminalizes citizens living productive lives that otherwise would never have legal problems.

The Robert's Court is becoming a governing problem.

February 8, 2022
By Adam Liptak

Washington - The Supreme Court on Monday (click here) reinstated an Alabama congressional map that a lower court had said diluted the power of Black voters, suggesting that the court was poised to become more skeptical of challenges to voting maps based on claims of race discrimination.

The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joining the court’s three liberal members in dissent.

The Supreme Court’s brief order, which included no reasoning, was provisional, staying a lower court’s decision while the case moves forward. The justices said they would hear Alabama’s appeal of the lower court’s ruling, but they did not say when....

16 January 2022

The volcano erupted for several days. This photo was taken a day before the eruption that caused the tsunami

New Zealand (click here) has sent a plane to Tonga to assess the damage after a huge volcanic eruption triggered a tsunami.

The eruption has covered the Pacific islands in ash, cut power and severed communications.

Up to 80,000 people there could be affected, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) told the BBC.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the tsunami had wreaked "significant damage".

No deaths have been reported so far.

Information remains scarce, however, and New Zealand and Australia are sending surveillance flights to assess the extent of the damage....

January 26, 2022

Western Union Waives Transfer Fees for Money Transfers into Tonga Through February, 28, 2022; Western Union Foundation Pledges a Donation and Kicks Off a Fundraising Appeal with Agents and Employees

Singapore - The Western Union Company, (click here) a global leader in cros-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, today announced business and foundation support for communities impacted by the devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami in Tonga....

I remind, the Hawaiian hotspot shifted. The plate has been moving a lot in recent years.

"Morning Papers"

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

View (click here) of the Three Sisters from nearby Mount Scott

February 1, 2022
By Ally Osborne

If you’ve been around Central Oregon for a while(click here), you’ll probably recall the magma bulge found near South Sister in the 1990s.

Now, the United States Geological Survey discovered another 12-mile bulge in the same area after reviewing data from June 2020 until August 2021.

“Data from satellite radar images show an uplift of about 0.9 inches or 2.2 cm (about the width of an adult’s thumb) occurred between the summer of 2020 and August 2021 across an area 12-mile (20-km) in diameter,” according to the Cascades Volcano Observatory.

The volcano is still in the green zone, meaning an eruption is very unlikely, but the event is still leaving scientists fascinated.

“And why is it so exciting?” I asked Hal Wershow, an Assistant Professor of Geology at Central Oregon Community College.

“Oh man,” said Wershow, after bursting into laughter.

He said he didn’t know where to start.

“The Earth is inflating upwards,” Wershow said, “It’s a very small amount, we’re talking an order of inches. There’s no way a human being would be able to detect it.”

The lift suggests that magma around 4 miles deep is shifting, causing the ground to rise and fall over the years....

February 2, 2022

By Joelle Jones

Portland, Oregon - The Pacific Northwest (click here) is well known for its stunning summits and plentiful peaks, but are the mountains moving?

In a USGS Hazard Notification statement Monday, Cascades Volcano Observatory announced their scientists have tracked an increased rate of ground uplift in the Three Sisters volcanic region.

Using satellite radar images and GPS units, USGS scientists have tracked an increased rate of uplift for a 12-mile diameter region, 3 miles west of the South Sister volcano. According to USGS, the data suggests the ground rose 0.9 inches (2.2 cm) from June 2020 to August 2021....

February 7, 2022

By Cascades Valcano Observatory

Data from satellite radar images (click here) show an uplift of about 0.9 inches or 2.2 cm (about the width of an adult’s thumb) occurred between the summer of 2020 and August 2021 across an area 12-mile (20-km) in diameter. GPS data from a volcano monitoring station near the center of uplift measured at least 0.2 inches (0.5 cm) of uplift since August 2021.

Additionally, seismologists observed brief bursts of small earthquakes in October 2021, December 2021, and January 2022. Most of these shallow earthquakes are too small to locate precisely; those located are inside the uplifted area....

"Good Night, Moon"

The waxing crescent

6.0 day old moon

35.7 percent lit

February 6, 2022
By Tara Holley

For any fellow sky gazers like me, (click here) make a note somewhere or ask Siri to remind you. You don't want to miss beholding the February "Snow Moon" this year. It's set to be at peak illumination in our night skies on February 16 this year....

Sir Edmund Hillary didn't climb Everest for the sake of tourism to the summit.

...Since Edmund Hillary (click here) and the Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit, in 1953, more than 6,000 people have been recognized for reaching the top...

Climbing today is far less a challenge than it was in 1953. Sir Edmund Hillary didn't climb for the reason of creating a pastime, he climbed because no one before him had made it to the summit and returned alive. There is always this "thing" about dominating Earth's and nature's toughest challenges. Human beings always feel so small in comparison to Earth's natural powers of volcanoes and high mountain peaks. It seems the belief by humans is that staying alive means there is reassurance in conquering all that can be conquered. Sort of like war with Russia, too.

But, Mount Everest has been a bit of unique Earth history. Now, due to human pollution it is losing it's glaciers and the mystery that once existed is melting away. Literally. Humans on Earth are not so small after all.

When does it become appalling? When do people in power finally admit we have pushed Earth too far and it is time for radical changes? Never? Would those that see COVID-19 and it's variants as meer problems that sometimes kill people cast aside the reality of the climate crisis and the unfortunate future for human beings?

My answer to all those questions is, yes. I believe there are powers at work that care little about the future and only seek to profit from the present. There is no reverence for life in that paradigm. The truly unique aspect of an American democracy that links itself to allies that see democracy as an important human event, is the capacity of being very flexible in times of great change. 

We are within one of those times. From Putin's longing for the return of Nikita Khrushchev to the warming of Earth and a pandemic that would see us all dead, we are facing critical turning points now. Right now. The USA is capable of bringing peace in assertion of power that demands respect from a wayward Russian war effort. It looks by every estimation Europe and NATO are taking a united stand (click here). Certainly, the people of Russia don't want this war with their own former brothers and sisters.

Now is the time for China to end it's ideas of war that can destroy civilization as we know it and end the conflict of major powers before it starts. The Olympics were created to end differences and unite over sport and achievment.

Now is the time to turn the corner on the climate crisis and bring on strong aspirations to "Zero Carbon Emissions." The generations working jobs in the USA are ready for a brave new world without fossil fuels. It is possible and it is needed now and not postponed into the future where disaster currently resides.

The people of Earth in the year 2022 are great at bringing change to the forefront of life as it occurs today, with hope to end a global pandemic, return Earth's atmospheres to benevolence and find peace in the hope of new methods of economic interests that bring about a better quality of life. Certainly, Russia can appreciate the opportunity for better quality of life, rather than the suffering of war.

Now is the time for great change. It is possible. It is a matter of accepting the pinnacle we face that is somewhat different than that of Sir Edmund Hillary. It is the pinnacle of the inevitible that ensures the future and makes proud the peacemakers.

9 January 2022
By Kim Moodie

The son of mountaineering icon Sir Edmund Hillary (click here) hopes a classic train expedition along the length of the South Island will help local businesses survive the wait for international tourists to return....