When CEOs and private industry fail the people, government has to step into the breach.

It is time to take our governance back! These projects MUST go forward. These projects are not an option.

March 20, 2023

...In recent years, (click here) wind turbine manufacturers like Siemens have expressed concerns that the cost of wind energy is getting too low to maintain the development and growth of the market. Rising costs, and government pricing structures present constant challenges to manufacturers.

Again in May 2023, Siemens’ Tim Dawidowsky’s commented, “it’s all about cash.” Obviously, Dawidowsky would like to see European turbine makers get more money – and he’s not the only one. We reported on that comment in an Uptime Podcast episode the following week, along with other concerns about energy pricing strategies.

Because different countries finance energy in vastly different ways, the industry absolutely does not enjoy a level playing field. While many European countries control energy developments outright – and other countries, like the US, has a long history of incentives and subsidy programs – it is difficult to determine actual costs, true profits and losses, and almost impossible to compare energy costs between nations....

This is a complete failure by private industry and its leadership to provide a paradigm shift. Private industry is NOT COMPETENT enough to provide the change in energy sources. The CEOs run away from cost and never bother to seek the power of the people to bring about change.

We all know the drill. CEOs get bonuses and salary based often in profits. When profits fail CEOs have to scrap their plans for their next vacation home. The incentives for CEOs to carry out costs that will ultimately be paid back after the utility is operational is counter productive for the people. The profit incentive is not workable on a hot planet. 

None of the CEOs in this article solicited the people and/or the governments to find a way forward. They simply looked at a balance sheet and their next bonus and cancelled plans that are vital to energy production.

Public utilities, no different than the purchase of EVs for the USA Post Office, should be the priority of the people and not one man with nothing but a profit margin in mind. There are aspects of governance that should never be privatized. One of those venues is energy production.

July 23, 2023

By Will Mathis 

...The jettisoned projects (click here) are the latest signs of stress for offshore wind farms that use turbines larger than skyscrapers to harvest power from the sea air, where winds are most powerful and consistent. Soaring materials costs, particularly for steel, forced turbine makers to raise prices. Costs of other key services, like specialized vessels to install the turbines, have jumped sharply as well. And rising interest rates mean that it’s more expensive to take on debt.

That doesn’t mean investment has ground to a complete halt. Some projects in the US and the UK are still going ahead, despite cost increases. And earlier this month, oil majors BP Plc and TotalEnergies SE bid €12.6 billion ($14 million) to develop offshore wind farms in Germany’s North Sea. But canceled and delayed projects show that if governments are committed to offshore wind, they’ll have to pay more to get it.

Capital costs and prices for turbines, cables and other equipment have “gone up sharply,” Mads Nipper, chief executive officer at Orsted, said in a post on LinkedIn. “This means that price of renewable energy regrettably must come up temporarily after years of steep decline.”...

This is why people vote for Trump.

July 21, 2023
By Rebekah Riess and Zoe Sottile,

A federal jury in Miami on Wednesday found a Florida family guilty (click here) of defrauding the United States by distributing a toxic bleaching agent as a Covid-19 cure, according to court records.

Mark Grenon and his sons, Jonathan, Jordan and Joseph Grenon, were convicted of promoting and selling “Miracle Mineral Solution,” which “when mixed, develops into a dangerous bleach which has caused serious and potentially life-threatening side effects,” according to the FDA, which issued a warning about the product in 2019.

The solution contains sodium chlorite and water, court records said. The Grenons instructed customers to mix the solution with an “acidic activator,” which produces chlorine dioxide, “a powerful bleaching agent typically used for bleaching and stripping textiles, pulp, and paper.”...

Trump's administration deregulates everything, lays off IRS agents and looks the other way at law breakers.

People that normally would never have a product to sell or the means to do it will vote for Trump and Trump-like candidates because they can conduct illegal and immoral operations with abandon.

Trump doesn't care about the death of others, only his own. 

In my opinion Trump was making a campaign speech in this very alarming rendition of anarchy.

Foreign to any speech or policy by Trump is a long and well established "Scientific Method." Medical investigation is among the most diligent of in the practice of safe standards. All that is absent completely in this campaign speech by Trump. I think he is culpable in his suggestion of using bleach.

The Scientific Method is a procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

If the DOD didn't authorize it, it doesn't belong at our country's border.

July 21, 2023
By Michael Collins and Bart Jansen

...“The State of Texas’s actions (click here) violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to public safety and the environment, and may interfere with the federal government’s ability to carry out its official duties,” the department wrote in a letter to Abbott on Thursday....

July 7, 2023

Eagle Pass (click here) became the first city to have a floating barrier in the Rio Grande River designed as another safety layer to the Texas border.

The new "wall" is made of massive orange buoys with connecting netting that stretches 1,000 feet. Each stretch of barrier cost the Texas government around $1 million dollars and it will take up to two weeks to complete....

Who's brother-in-law got the check?

Who collects the dead human bodies, animals and fish? It is a public heath hazard as much as a national security issue. It will get clogged with all sorts of debris from the river. If there is enough accumulation of garbage it could create it's own islands. Once the islands form, the path over the barrier will be easy.

There is a fairly large sediment transport by the Rio Grande because it's mouth into the Gulf of Mexico gets blocked. It is a project for the Army Corps (click here). The floating wall is going to compromise any efforts carried out prior to this and will cause flooding and human tragedy on both sides of it. Texas is going to be liable for it's use. 

Who is going to be jailed for the human deaths it causes?

US Assessments of the genocide in Ukraine has yet to be wrong.

The truth is that the ports belong to Russia are used to export to the west of the country, including military supplies.

July 20, 2023
By Tamara Keith

The National Security Council (click here) says that Russia is attempting a "false flag operation" to "justify any attacks against civilian ships in the Black Sea and to then blame them on Ukraine."

The declaration comes days after Russia backed out of a deal that helped move grain from Ukrainian ports, threatening global food supply.

NSC spokesperson John Kirby told reporters in a briefing Thursday afternoon that Russia may try to expand its targets in the Black Sea to attacks on civilian ships that are transporting grain and food.

"Russia has already announced publicly that all ships proceeding to Ukrainian ports in Black Sea waters will be considered potential carriers of military cargo, even though they are simply trying to pick up grain and food to be able to feed people around the world," Kirby said....

US NDS (click here)

There are a lot of countries along the Black Sea; Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Georgia. Moldova is near the Black Sea but has no direct water fronts with it. Putin will sink ships in order to begin a larger war while blaming Ukraine. He is a sincere global problem.

"We're seamlessly integrating our deterrence efforts to make a basic truth crystal clear to any potential foe," Austin said. "That truth is that the cost of aggression against the United States or our allies and partners far outweigh any conceivable gains."

This is no joke.

This book was written in 1978. Writing about the melting ice caps caused me to remember this title. 

It is amazingly current in it's content in the social setting and political issues. They are hardly political issues, they are life and death issues. The character comments are spot on.

This book was written 45 years ago and we are all facing the same exact concerns today.

Why is it humans cannot get their minds around the FACT there are dangers in this world we can end and yet we don't? The power of money dominates the human experience and it is so powerful it can summon death of civilization.

Everyone on Earth should read this book.

There is no there, there

I am really surprised at Senator Grassley. It is all Republican theatrics orchestrated by Trump.

Viktor Shokin was a corrupt Prosecutor General and removed from office by the Ukraine legislature. At the time Shokin was in office there were still strong Russian influences in Ukraine. That Russian influence was corruption. Shokin refused to follow that line of corruption in the country and it was viewed by the legislature as a violation of his oath in office.

At the time Ukraine wanted a trading relationship with the EU. The businessmen in Ukraine wanted that market opportunity to open. The EU saw what Shokin was doing and refused to allow any contracts or treaties to be drawn up because of the corruption. 

The USA is part of NATO. The EU is part of NATO. With Ukraine wanting to establish trade relationships with the EU, the USA used leverage to force the issue. It had nothing to do with Burisma. The fact Hunter Biden has a relationship with Burisma is happenstance.

The then Vice President Biden was acting in the very best interest of NATO. It is all verifiable. Hunter’s relationship with Burisma has and still has nothing to do with the leverage used by the USA to end the corruption with the Ukraine Prosecutor General Shokin. Shokin was basically Putin’s puppet within the Ukraine government.

What surprises me is Grassley. He appears to be Trump’s puppet within the USA Senate. AND. The idea Grassley would want it to have happened differently. Is Grassley Anti-NATO as Trump is? Certainly he is not anti-Ukraine, is he? Biden acted on priorities that were NATO policy.

Curious. Very. Very. Curious.

When water shifts. I have to disagree with this information.

June 18, 2023
By Tereza Pultarova

Earth's tilt has changed by 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) (click here) between 1993 and 2010 because of the amount of groundwater humans have pumped from the planet's interior.

In that period, humans removed 2,150 gigatons of water from natural reservoirs in the planet's crust. If such an amount was poured into the global ocean, its surface would rise by 0.24 inches (6 millimeters). A new study has now revealed that displacing such an enormous amount of water has had an effect on the axis around which the planet spins.

Scientists arrived at this conclusion by modeling the changes in the position of Earth's rotational pole, the point at which the planet's imaginary axis would stick out of the surface if it were a physical object. The position of the rotational pole is not identical with the geographical north and south poles and actually changes over time, so the rotational axis cuts through different spots on the planet's crust at various points in time....

If Earth wasn't on meltdown they would have a more viable argument, but, Earth is on meltdown.

It is realistic to believe the water taken from reservoirs ultimately makes it to the ocean and increases the level of the seas, but, there is a much larger runoff of fresh water into the oceans and it isn't from reservoirs.

March 21, 2023
Aylin Woodward and Marianne Guenot

Since 1980, Earth's north and south poles have drifted about 13 feet. (click here)

The poles are where the planet's surface intersects with its axis of rotation — the invisible line running through the center of Earth's mass, which it spins around. But their geographic locations aren't fixed: As the Earth's axis moves, so do the poles.

A study published in March 2021 found that Earth's axis started shifting drastically in 1995, speeding the movement of the poles and changing its direction. The culprit behind that shift, the researchers found, was melting glaciers....

The icefields of Earth are melting. Historic melt is occurring in Greenland as I write this. It is the hottest season in the Northern Hemisphere and glaciers and the Arctic Ocean are melting.

July 20, 2023
By Laura Padison

A recently discovered ice core taken from beneath Greenland’s ice sheet (click here) decades ago has revealed that a large part of the country was ice-free around 400,000 years ago, when temperatures were similar to those the world is approaching now, according to a new report – an alarming finding that could have disastrous implications for sea level rise.

The study overturns previous assumptions that most of Greenland’s ice sheet has been frozen for millions of years, the authors said. Instead, moderate, natural warming led to large-scale melting and sea level rise of more than 1.4 meters (4.6 feet), according to the report published Thursday in the journal Science.

“When you look at what nature did in the past, as geoscientists, that’s our best clue to the future,” said Paul Bierman, a scientist at the University of Vermont and a lead author of the study....

Greenland's ice cores are infamous. It has taken decades to work through the enormous amount of information extracted from them.

The rule of thumb is that the Arctic Ocean is an ocean and floating so all the melt there won't contribute to large amounts of sea level rise. It is like an ice cube floating in a water glass. The water level will not change as the ice melts and cools the water. The Arctic Ocean is not a direct analogy, but, does lend itself to that dynamic. The real concern is the land based ice like glaciers.

The Arctic Ocean, to be clear, has had land based ice as the ice forms on land as well as the ocean. But, the majority of the Arctic Ocean is floating, or at least it was until the melting has spawned nothing more than one year old ice. Even that one year old ice is marginally an ice flow. Scientists are having trouble setting up equipment that normally lent itself to establishing a temporary campsite. The ice that is called one year ice is very thin and unable to hold a scientist for very long before cracking. The one year old Arctic Ocean ice is very unstable because it hasn't time to build a strong matrix when the heat hits it again.

Antarctica is all land based with the exception of floating sea ice and icebergs. So, the melting occurring in Antarctica directly adds to sea level rise. It can be substantial.

But, as to Earth's axis, the caps are melting. They are no longer stable. Water is heavy and as it moves around Earth in currents it can easily contribute to Earth's wobble.

As the icefields of Earth melt and are added to Earth's seas and oceans there is a huge weight added that will alter the world's axis. 

Besides that there is also valuable studies done as to Earth's rotation. The heating occurring with anthropogenic greenhouse gas pollution actually causes changes, "drag if you will," of the atmosphere on Earth's rotation. So, over time, Earth's rotation is slowing. Add to that the weight of water now in currents of Earth's oceans and seas, there is a lot of change that will occur with Earth. It is not good change.

Polluting societies MUST stop polluting NOW.

Recently, in the last day or so, some of the petroleum industry stated that if there were more trees planted there would be no need for converting from fossil fuels to alternative energies. That is a lie. The heating of Earth has gone way to far. There is also nearly 8 billion people on Earth as never before. The idea planting more trees will solve the problem with Earth's heating is nonsense when one realizes there are spontaneous wildfires all the time now. Trees burn on an overheated planet. Planting more is necessary and the moral thing to do, but, it alone will not solve a problem that is way out of control.

The populations of Earth need to realize this is the only place in the universe they can call home. It is time, as Pope Francis said, to treat it like a common home to all people.

ANTARCTICA MASS VARIATION SINCE 2002 (click here) Losing mass means losing ice to water runoff.

People are dying. 2050 is far too late.

Thank you.

Dr. Wilfred was unconscious. He is now awake, oriented and alert. He is receiving treatment. You did yourself proud.

Dr. Richard Wilfred…

…once employed with the UN Mission in Somalia as an orthopedic surgeon was traveling recently in Europe and became ill with malaria.

To left, Dr. Richard Wilfred in his early career.

It is reported to me he is in a private hospital in Silesia, Poland. The hospital name is stated as Family Center.

To right, Dr. Richard Wilfred in his years with NATO. (from his Facebook page) The picture was posted in 2021, but, his career with NATO was much earlier.

Dr. Wilfred has no family, is alone and it is stated treatment is not forthcoming because of needed payment. These are facts as I know them. It is stated he was born in San Francisco, California, but, his parents lived and worked in Germany. His parents were supposed to have perished in a car accident when he was eight years old. He lived for caring for those least served.

Below is Dr. Richard Wilfred in his late career. He is currently disabled and in a wheelchair due to severe injuries that occurred in a car accident in Somalia.

Someone reading this needs to search for him and help him. He is stated to be a devout Christian.

There are just some people in this world no one should turn their back on when they have never turned their back on others.

He is a special breed.

This is how our democracy gets sold to the highest bidder

 https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/18/ken-paxton-impeachment-dan-patrick/

The money needs to go back to Paxton’s pac.

I am not interested in Donald Trump’s mail service! Jerez!

Speaking of Trump, it became very plain that his favorite ally made it perfectly clear the rest of the world can starve.

Joe Manchin is being bought the presidency bid.

 He is by far the most fossil fuel corrupt official ever elected to office.

The coal companies never corrected their violations or paid fines and people died. Schools had heavy layers of coal dust and it is anyone’s guess what the children’s lungs look like.

https://grist.org/accountability/west-virginias-coal-mine-cleanup-process-is-an-underfunded-house-of-cards/

Manchin is a sell out to the fossil fuel industry including the latest pipeline through his state. The people that want to keep their fossil fuel money and wealth see him as their savior. He will seek to stop all lawsuits right or wrong.

https://www.wvnews.com/statejournal/news/we-have-this-vicious-cycle-u-s-census-report-identifies-persistent-poverty-in-west-virginia/article_6e29234c-ef79-11ed-9675-cbfa1b9faf47.html

Manchin sold the myth of the fossil fuel warrior/hero to the people of West Virginia while they lived in chronic poverty spanning decades. Ask children from West Virginia where their Daddy is, they say, he died in the mines.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/05/west-virginia-coal-miners-tourism

I guess whenever it comes to Joe Manchin, it boils down to, “Whatever floats your boat.”

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES1021210001

Manchin came into office in 2010. Coal mining mechanized for the sake of profits. From 2013 to 2023 half of all coal mining jobs were lost. He is no friend to unions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-13/feeding-the-world-s-coal-addiction-is-more-profitable-than-ever#xj4y7vzkg

Coal company profits tripled during the same period. You better believe they want him as president.

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_and_environment/west-virginia-under-toxic-threat-from-highest-industrial-selenium-pollution-levels-in-the-country/article_5a99d49c-3362-5273-87ab-c6235827a164.html

While living in poverty the people of West Virginia were poisoned because mining companies were polluting at will.

Should I stop?

I think I made my case. There is so much more to say though. So much more.

Grain

Russia needs to stop its genocide in Ukraine. It is not allowed to genocide other nations by blocking the grain shipments. The movement of grain and its production agriculture must be defended. Russia’s power leveraging of a global grain supply is an act of war against all others.

Chris Christi…

 …should model his campaign after those of Grover Cleveland, a New York Democrat, but, a political reformer and fiscal conservative.

As President he stood against the Pullman Union to keep the railroads running as Reagan did the Pilot Unions.

Cleveland was also interested in the Progressive movement.

The politics of 2023 is too rigid without any “real” meaning to the people. Grover Cleveland “made decisions” not political dogma. He saw new freedoms for the people in the Progressive movement without examining it through expensive programs. It was a true freedom movement.

Politics doesn’t have to be about money, but, it does have to deliver better quality of life for all Americans.

Billionaires just do what they want.

Musk’s space pollution ultimate is endangering Earth and the ability of ground astrological stations from detecting incoming meteors.

Space should always belong to government and not private industry of any kind.

 https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/starlink-satellites-flooding-sky-with-radiation-which-could-be-hurting-radio-astronomy-study-1.6473263

Has it actually been a year already?

It seems like yesterday watching the meticulous work of the creators and engineers, correcting any "oops," and then launching the work of perfection into space with prolonged anticipation for deployment. It is so hard to believe a year has passed. 

NASA (click here)

The scientists need a news conference on these anniversaries to allow everyone to understand what we have learned by harnessing perfection.

The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displays the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. 

July 12, 2023
By Joel Achenbach

The James Webb Space Telescope (click here) was designed to tunnel deeper into space and farther back in time than any previous observatory, with the audacious goal of seeing the very first galaxies that lit up the young universe. Creating pretty pictures was always a pleasant but ancillary feature of having this amazing new piece of hardware out in space.

Today, 365 days after NASA unveiled the mission’s first batch of data and images, it’s clear that the JWST can produce the hard science and the beauty shots with equal aplomb. NASA is marking the first anniversary of the JWST’s scientific debut with the release of a new image, demonstrating the telescope’s ability to re-envision the universe. The dramatic, somewhat hallucinatory image captures the dynamism of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth, where planetary systems like our own could be in the initial stages of forming....

The GOP has lost it's way on every moral issue of our time.

WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE INVESTING? (click here)

Sustainable investing refers to a range of practices in which investors aim to achieve financial returns while promoting long-term environmental or social value. Combining traditional investment approaches with environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) insights has led to investors generating more comprehensive analyses and making better investment decisions.

Sustainable investing ensures firms aren’t judged solely on short-term financial gains but on a broader picture of what and how they contribute to society. Investors must think critically about investments’ potential impacts as they relate to environmental, political, and societal landscapes....

I thought the right wing political types were all about free enterprise. When the climate concerns grew and grew there were free enterprise solutions put in place. Now, because Republicans have no basis for any presence in government they are making up reasons to attack the free enterprise system because it doesn't worship oil anymore.

Will someone tell the GOP this is 2023 and not 1923. Please.

July 12, 2023
By Sharon Udasin and Saul Elbein

Members of the House Financial Services Committee (click here) sparred on Wednesday over climate disclosure rules, as the GOP-led body began the first of six hearings attacking sustainable investing.

The committee took aim at a rule proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that would make it easier for investors to judge the climate risk of the companies they invest in.

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing push from investment firms for greater disclosure of information around corporations’ impact on climate change, as well as their exposure to associated risks.

Committee Democrats criticized Republicans for what they characterized as attacks on the free market.

“For over 100 years, the followers of Leon Trotsky and the Socialist Workers Party have waged war against the capitalist model. Today, elements of the Republican Party join them in that effort,” Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) said....

Members of the OUN took an active part in the Holocaust in Ukraine and Poland.

"The West" (click here) as it is known in so many places, was never about war, it was about peace. Always. The people of the USA desire peace and have sought it along with economic viability everywhere in the world. Without exception, the people of Europe and the USA look to peace and prosperity. There is no way there will be a world war again. Unlike Putin, the rest of the world learned a valuable and enduring lesson. The West's military might has always been about prevention of war and not propagation of it.

The world was once a very different place.

Genocide is a METHOD of war as well as hate. When Putin and Moscow states "special military operation" or whatever the verbiage is, it is obvious it is genocide. It is genocide for the reason of Russian expansion and control of land. There will be no real peace, Russia no matter the dialogue does not plan for it or want peace. Any negotiations or diplomatic talks of same is a Russian ruse. 

Right up to the Russian invasion and continued attacks, Ukraine was a self-declared neutrality. Recent Ukrainian constitutions and elections were all based in freedom and peace. The politics of Ukraine was about purging corruption and economic growth. There was nothing Ukraine was engaged in that warranted a confrontation with Russia. Ukraine wanted economic relationships with all countries. There is absolutely no justification for Putin's invasion into Ukraine to commit genocide.

I might add that 

...In October 1942 OUN-B (click here) established the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). In 1943–1944, in an effort to prevent Polish efforts to re-establish prewar borders, UPA units carried out massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia....

Review of recent history leading to exodus of millions of Ukrainians and displacement of millions of others to Russia (click here)

July 12, 2023

Monument to the victims of the Volyn massacre in Warsaw

On Tuesday, July 11, (click here) the Polish Sejm (the lower house of parliament) adopted a resolution to commemorate the victims of the Volhynia tragedy on its 80th anniversary.

The resolution received unanimous support, with a total of 440 Sejm deputies participating in the vote. The document refers to the events of July 11, 1943, in Volhynia, where, according to the resolution, “Bloody Sunday took place – the culminating moment” of the Volhynia tragedy, which Polish deputies describe as genocide.

The Volhynia Massacre has long been an impediment to fully developed Polish-Ukrainian friendship.

As the resolution highlights, on that day, “Ukrainian units of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), often supported by Ukrainian civilians, attacked 99 villages inhabited by Poles in the former Volhynia Voivodeship and killed a significant part of their population.”

According to the document, starting from 2016, July 11 has been designated as the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide, during which “more than 100,000 Poles were killed – often in a very brutal way.”...

Russia has it wrong. This is about genocide, not NATO expansion.

July 12, 2023

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) attends a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 12, 2023.

...“We can never see a repeat of what has happened in Ukraine (click here) and this declaration reaffirms our commitment to ensure it is never left vulnerable to the kind of brutality Russia has inflicted on it again.”

The G7’s long-term plan

G7 nations on Wednesday pledged to offer "enduring" military support to Ukraine to help it fight Russia's invading forces and stop any repeat of the war once it ends.

"We will each work with Ukraine on specific, bilateral, long-term security commitments and arrangements towards ensuring a sustainable force capable of defending Ukraine now and deterring Russian aggression in the future," the G7 said in a statement....

...Russia marks day 2 with another drone attack

Ukraine said on Wednesday it had shot down 11 Russian drones overnight in a second consecutive night of attacks on the capital Kyiv, as NATO leaders prepared to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Vilnius.

“A total of 15 kamikaze drones were involved in the strike. Eleven of them were destroyed in the areas of responsibility of the Centre and East air commands,” Ukraine's air force said on social media....

...More angry Russian reaction

Top Russian officials have accused Kyiv and its allies of bringing humanity closer to World War 3 and prolonging the war in Ukraine in some eyebrow-raising reactions in response to the first day of the NATO summit in Vilnius.

While Zelensky expressed frustration that no firm timetable for his country joining the military alliance was laid out, his anger was dwarfed by that coming out of the Kremlin.

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy secretary of Russia’s powerful Security Council, went into full-hyperbole mode, saying: “The completely crazy West could not come up with anything else... In fact, it’s a dead end. World War Three is getting closer.

“What does all this mean for us? Everything is obvious. The special military operation will continue with the same goals.”...

Russia is still attacking people that are not attacking Russia. The entire operation in Ukraine is based on defense of the country, it's rightful borders, and the people still living in the country. It would be best if Russia would stop it's nightmare politics by creating an unnecessary war just to kill Ukrainians. There is no world war in progress. It is simply Russian propaganda fear tactics.

This is about genocide. When Russian propaganda states world war three is coming, do they mean they want to genocide the entire world? That is what this is about. You'll excuse me, but, didn't Adolf Hitler want the same thing? It would seem the Nazis are in Moscow's Kremlin, not anywhere else.

Power playing is not about the US Constitution

What the country is witnessing within the corruption of the Supreme Court is power playing without regard to the US Constitution. The Christmas parties of Thomas is about containing an agenda before any proceedings are even begun. It is no different than fancy vacations, or financial favors. It is about a preconceived agenda that was and is the ground work for the political right wing and control of the country without regard to the US Constitution.

The right wing majority on the Supreme Court is corrupt and seek parts of the US Constitution to justify the agenda. That is not at all about constitutional interpretation of the law. Agendas are about power over the US Constitution and not about upholding it. The most resent decision regarding affirmative action is stark in proof of that agenda. 

Affirmative Action was legally legislated to solve a problem. The problem was legitimate and still exists today.

The USA has a shameful history of racism in slavery. The country fought a civil war to defeat it and bring the right to live a free life to all Americans. There were constitutional amendments made to bring those freedoms to the highest levels of law to enshrine the human toll of that war.

Yet, somehow, the current Supreme Court majority refuses to look at the country’s history, the long struggle for civil rights, the innumerable members of White Supremists in prison for acts of violence and murder (including members of the judiciary) and facts regarding racism and its injustice to simply carry out an agenda of self-righteousness hubris. 

Instead of upholding legitimate legislation that provides a measure to correct a racist past it CHOSE to find words that would negate the civil war, the deaths of that war, the constitutional amendments identifying the very reason for that horrible war and take a path not recognized by stare deciss. 

That is a Supreme Court grossly out of step with the US Constitution, the stark reality of the people of this country with an agenda for enormous cultural change to satisfy their benefactors that paved their path to their current wealth and job security. 

The Supreme Court majority is poison to the very freedom this country is built on.