A subversive Supreme Court

18 US Code 1512 (click here)

Look, the current case of Fischer v. US (click here) is clear. The law as written is below. It is my opinion given the overall performance of the Robert’s Court that they are a subversive court to the Rule of Law. Besides this case, there is the assault against New York use of law and Roe v. Wade, etc 

The US has a problem with this court. The conservative justices have given themselves permission to rewrite law passed by the legislature as well as stare decisis. That is subversive to the Rule of Law and leans heavily into corruption and permission of criminality.

Law enforcement officers were completely disabled from enforcing the rule of law  on January 6, 2021. It took the arrival of the National Guard to return law and order. 

Where does the Robert’s Court assault on the U.S. Constitution end? This is far more than political hubris.

Communism oppresses religious freedom

Ron DeSantis signed the teaching of communism into law during the most formative years of Floridian children (click here). 

Add to that former Attorney General Barr is now endorsing Trump for president and realize the idea of freedom is dead in the Republican Party. My first reaction is what does Barr need a pardon for?

At one time the fear of communism was never more evident when the fringe political left embraced communism. Now, a major political party of the USA is embracing communism in a toxic manner with our children. Communism is a dictatorship. If Americans have a reason to fear for their country it is on full display in Florida. DeSantis was a candidate for president. This reality with his priorities is starkly alarming.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

Maror during Passover has never been more real.

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President Minouche Shafik is absolutely correct.

Anti-Semitic speech is not free speech, it is hate speech. There was an American valedictorian that wanted to erase Israel from the map. She stated same in her online account in social media.

Anti-Semitism is Anti-American.

People with influence such as a valedictorian and a professor that has values of anti-Semitism are subversive and do not believe in democracy. There is no room for hate within people of influence. Absolutely not!

April 17, 2024
By Gabriella Borter

A U.S. congressional committee on Wednesday (click here) accused Columbia University's president of failing to protect Jewish students on campus, echoing accusations leveled against three other elite university leaders at a hearing last year that sent shockwaves through higher education.

Columbia President Minouche Shafik responded to the accusations by some members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce by strongly denouncing antisemitic behavior by students and professors at the New York City-based Ivy League university, and by pledging there would be consequences.

Shafik said the university was facing a "moral crisis" with antisemitism on campus, and it had taken strong actions against suspected perpetrators. It had suspended students who participated in unauthorized protests, for example, and terminated a professor who supported the deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, she said.

"Trying to reconcile the free speech rights of those who want to protest and the rights of Jewish students to be in an environment free of discrimination and harassment has been the central challenge on our campus and numerous others across the country," Shafik told the committee....

There is some criticism…

…that the case in New York regarding Trump’s Hush Money is not the most appropriate to start with. That is nonsense for several reasons. First, there aren’t politics that are suppose to rule any court, so there is no best trial to start with, there is just starting and the New York court was ready to begin.

Secondly, this is hush money to oppress harsh opinions about his adultery with a Playboy model and exotic dancer. This is about his election in 2016 against Hillary Clinton. If these facts were known would he have been elected at all? 

The hush money case exposes his willingness to discard USA law to benefit himself. It is a highly important case and is very appropriate one to begin the trials. The other cases exist after the fact he was elected.

Dismiss the U.S. House Impeachment

Senator Schumer simply needs to dismiss the impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas. There is no legitimate basis for it. It is the Trump wing GOP use of the USA Constitution for the purpose of politics. The USA Constitution is not a political tool which is also the Robert’s Court needs to learn!

President Biden has important work that needs to be conducted. The Trump extremist GOP is not governing. The Congress must act for the country’s national defense and securing our allies as well. There is the ongoing genocide in Ukraine that cannot be tolerated. There is far too many national security issues and this impeachment is a waste of time.

It is also an unpaid advertisement for a former President with a criminal history and 2 impeachments besides. Trump’s impeachment was due to his direct assault on the USA national security and he upheld Putin’s genocide in Ukraine.

The U.S. House Representatives that brought this impeachment are extremists and should be recalled by their electorates.

Senator Kennedy can be added to the list of Congresspersons that should be recalled by their electorate. Israel and Ukraine needs the support of the USA Congress and Senator Kennedy is not practicing governance so much as politics. How stupid is this?

Just as a reality check, the Congress has not passed border law that applies to the circumstances that exists in 2024. In that is to realize these proceedings for impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas are all lies. By not acting to pass effective law it compromises the national security of the USA of which creates an egregious situation for the Secretary. The measures at his disposal are insufficient. It is not his fault there aren’t enough border patrol and funding. When Congress does not do their jobs the country suffers. The Republican House and Senate have refused to bring effective law and instead decided to roll out an impeachment in the practice of their politics. 

Inflation

This advice will be laughable to many Americans, but, there is a method to balance the current inflation. 

Banks don’t offer much in the way of interest to any savings. There is an option to beat inflation. The current inflation rate is about 3.6 percent. The current interest rate on US Treasury Bonds are higher than inflation.

I think for Americans where such investments into USA Treasury Bonds being impossible a “buying club” or “cooperative” may be a potential with proper legal advice.

Tax Reform

President Biden and a strong Democratic federal legislature can lead to a fair tax code without corruption. It is an interest proposal so far that is on the table and addresses the deficit.

Many economists, including Larry Summers supports many aspects of the proposed tax reform. Some actually applaud the current proposals. Larry Summers has one objection and I agree with him to some extent and that is in regard to increased stock values, but, unrealized income.

If I may?

There is a measure in the proposals that want to tax increased values of stock holdings. That is not income, but, further investment. If an investor allows increased value to stand without taking profit that is further investment. I think it is folly to bring such a proposal to law. 

Increased values of stock holdings is an asset and not an income. When stocks are sold for profit it then becomes income and should be exposed to taxes. 

As an added value asset a lot of options exist within the investment network and through banking including loans, both business and personal. Those loans or other use of these value added assets create tax deductions in the way of interest and fees. Those are legitimate uses of the tax code and should not change. 

The value added assets must be viewed, no matter what form they exist; including home ownership; as assets and not income. Value added assets are fluid and can lose value in the future. While a loss in value will be a deduction and not income it is a concern for corruption. 

If such value added stock tax were to become law it would open up the tax code to manipulation. There is nothing preventing an investor to throw money at stocks losing value while other stocks increase in value. This would put a huge hole in the tax code where manipulation would result in larger national deficit. Such a dynamic would affect the USA code on Moodys and the like. I think a great deal of caution to such concepts has to be viewed as excessive overreach in law.

The new tax code should have a reasonably predictable income for the country year after year. Those types of tax incomes to the USA treasury will stabilize the reliability of the USA, hence translating that stability to allied as well.

I think the Democrats are the absolute best party to pass this new tax code into law. They will listen to the people and provide stability to the USA treasury. The tax code will finally be fair while eliminating current corruption such as offshoring. The Democrats must pledge to bring about a fair tax code while eliminating corruption and regulations that do not service the country well.

EV glitches

This is an email between friends. It shows complete disregard for the importance of adapting to electric vehicles. At the first inconvenience it would seem some Americans at least run home to mommy and gas powered cars because it is what they understand. By all consumer standards these days both these people should be yelling and screaming to the manufacturers and elected officials about the lack of cohesive infrastructure for ease in using electric vehicles. 

The car never failed to operate and provide good service. It is the electric charging infrastructure that has yet to be adequately addressed. The charging stations must be less competitive and more able to adapt to all the cars on the road that need to be charged up.

Capitalism is a valuable aspect of the USA economy, but, to place charging stations in an attempt to dominate this need for consumers is simply wrong. This is a huge paradigm shift for this country and there is enormous opportunity to bring down the carbon footprint of the country. These charging stations are about a child's future, the richness of nature in that future, and a livable climate. The climate today is causing deaths and none of it can be ignored.

So, rather than any company seeking to have exclusive rights to charging stations forcing consumers to purchase only one type of car, there needs to be charging stations that are more generic to accommodate any and all electric vehicles on the road.

LET'S GET THIS RIGHT! 

There is no turning back. This is the future and Americans have to stop whining and "get with it!"

No complete solution

There is no complete fix for the poor in the USA. Former President Clinton once spoke to this in recognizing the need for supportive services. The needs of the poor must include the basics of human survival such as food, clothing, medicine, and shelter. 

Being poor in the USA has little to do with laziness or any other negative descriptors rendered by ignorant people who choose to hate instead of having a conscience. In 2024 conscientiousness is the opposite of hate. Not every person has to be involved in charity, but, every American should understand poverty. There are some Americans who aren’t capable of rising to upper middle class. There is such a thing as the working poor and multigenerational families in one home. 

So.

While the American Dream is vital to our society for all the right reasons, there are people completely unable to achieve it through no fault of their own. It is a form of denial, dismisses responsibility as a society, and removes compassion as an important quality of the character of the USA.

Strategy for Homeless

It has come to my attention by people who witnessed it that there are wealthy Republicans handing out phones and tablets to the homeless for their revolution and vote. 

Angry people come in all forms. The distribution occurs at places where the homeless congregate such as service areas, including food and clothing distribution organizations. If there is a way of corrupting the politics of the country Trump has already visited it.

It is a concern for potentially increased violence in the country with the right wing propaganda of  elements like Truth Social encouraging it. 

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The Democrats need strategies to tap into this added population of voters to give them correct information about the country. People need to understand what gas lighting is and its pervasiveness. Hopefully the new electronic capacity of those most in need will help them find outreach to improve their circumstances, but, in all honesty it is amazing to realize how greed has effected the cost of housing in the USA. The lack of conscience is pervasive.

Immigration is good for business

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New Jersey is experiencing growth in the billions due to immigrant labor. For every 1000 immigrants (Total 2.2 million) there are earnings of $21 million in annual wages resulting in local and state revenues of $2.1 million. There is also cultural enrichment improving quality of life. Immigration is great for the USA. 

The language surrounding immigration is toxic for our society (click here). Hatred is easy to tap into as a motivator to an election.

The trials start today and the Trump circus is outside the courthouse.

Trump is a disgrace to his country and has been for a long time.

...Trump (click here) — the presumptive Reublican nominee for president — is required to be present for the entire trial, which could last as long as eight weeks. He’s pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records, a low-level felony punishable by up to four years in prison. The trial kicked off Monday, with both sides making legal arguments on outstanding issues ahead of the beginning of jury selection....

One would think for all the national debt he accumulated during his administration there would be no doubt how much of a disgrace he actually is. The so called fiscally responsible Republicans truly are not as they want to place him in the White House as emperor. The USA Treasury won't be solvent for a year if Trump were ever elected King.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

January 14, 2021
By Allan Sloan

One of President Donald Trump’s lesser known (click here) but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. The financial burden that he’s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt.

The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. That’s nearly twice as much as what Americans owe on student loans, car loans, credit cards and every other type of debt other than mortgages, combined, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It amounts to about $23,500 in new federal debt for every person in the country.

The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by a leading Washington budget maven, Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. And unlike George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln, who oversaw the larger relative increases in deficits, Trump did not launch two foreign conflicts or have to pay for a civil war....

He fell asleep (click here)? He is sedated. 

Why? What is Iran thinking? These are lands in Palestine.

Masjid Al-Aqsa (click here) is an important holy site in Islam, located in the Old City of Jerusalem in Palestine. It’s name translates literally as ‘the Farthest Mosque’. The wider compound includes the Dome of the Rock, seventeen gates and four minarets, and is usually referred to as al-Haram ash-Sharif, which means ‘the Noble Sanctuary’.

The Middle East

The Israel and Iran Conflict 

(Graphic click here)

Iran is in violation of international law when striking Israel. Breaking international law alone is a failure of Iran's authority.

Just a brief statement about war. There is a long history of conflict between the developed world and the undeveloped world. The causalities realized in the undeveloped world is always far larger than the developed world. There are very real reasons for this, but, the undeveloped world never stops aggression before there are large numbers of causalities. The dead in Gaza is not historically significant when looking at the outcomes of the wars between the developed world vs the undeveloped world. I know that is appalling to many, but, Israel is not committing genocide. It is conducting a war to defend their citizens with causalities in ratio no different than other wars with similar combatants.

The current meeting of the UN Security Council is correct, the hostilities need to stop. There are sincere methods to settle the current hostilities without further war. The region of the Middle East hosts many forms of governance within the understanding religious preferences play a major role in such governance. The region must stop hating each other and find a path to peace.

Now as to Iran. Iran has committed international crimes in attempting to cause far larger Israeli deaths than it already has with it's militia, Hamas. It is more correct to state this is a war between Israel and Iran. Iran expresses it's hate of any other religion than Shi'ite Muslim through violence and death of innocent people. That expression is done through Iran's militias. The Iranian militias currently employed are Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis to carry out war against Israel and the region when considering the disruptions of the Gulf of Oman, Straits of Hormuz, and the Persian Gulf. All these waters border Iran as does the Caspian Sea. Iran has no legal right to carry out these aggressions as they are international waters.

April 13, 2024
By Dan Williams

...Earlier on Saturday, (click here) Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported that a Guards helicopter had boarded and taken into Iranian waters the Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries.

MSC, which operates the Aries, confirmed that Iran had seized the ship and said it was working "with the relevant authorities" for its safe return and the wellbeing of its 25 crew.

MSC leases the Aries from Gortal Shipping, an affiliate of Zodiac Maritime, Zodiac said in a statement, adding that MSC is responsible for all the vessel's activities. Zodiac is partly owned by Israeli businessman Eyal Ofer.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused Iran of piracy....

Iran has committed piracy in taking ships away from owners and interrupting their purposes. There is no reason to consider this simply mischief. This is a violation of international laws and maritime laws that have been violated many times and not simply once. There is no doubt Iran is completely out of step with it's peers and the international community. Where does Iran take permission to carry out these attacks against the developed world? Every possibility to be a part of an international community of peace and good economy has been open to Iran, but, it insists on hatred of all others to justify it's extensive terrorist networks. Iran must stop it's hostilities with other countries to end the disruption and return missile.

The Shia Crescent (click here) is an interesting aspect of world populations, but, it in no way indicates Iran has a right to vanquish all the countries that welcome Shi'ites as citizens. Iran can act as a homeland, but, to think for one minute Iran has the right to kill at will to establish a Shi'ite empire is bizarre and complete nonsense. The leaders of Iran are fools to allow the Shia Homeland act as a "state" to communists. These communist countries have horrid human rights records, as well as high levels of corruption that destroy economic viability. Iran's leaders need to begin to make far better decisions to engage their citizens within a global economy that thrives within peace.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty…

…has been ignored and abused far too long!

She’s fine.

It is called self-expression. If anyone bothered to review the dresses (If you can call them that vs. costume.) at the Oscar parties, Ms Sanchez dress is rather tame.

There have been others that have graced the White House with beauty such as Marilyn Monroe. Ms. Sanchez was simply being herself. Most any picture of her anywhere is of a woman that is sexually expressive. There is nothing wrong with that.

State dinners are a diplomatic occasion. It is the place where one can reach out to others to have a richer view of life. I am certain Ms. Sanchez welcomes any criticism as well. It was good of her and Jeff Bezos to join the Biden’s at this lovely occasion.

Today is a sad day.

October 7th was sad, but, today is more so.

The lines have been blurred so many times regarding the attacks at the Maidan in Kyiv.

Please note these are all unarmed protesters. They have no real weapons. They have shields in an understanding that violence was possible.

At this point in the country Yanukovych was still in power. The national military still existed but was completely disarmed by him. What Yanukovych put in place of the military were militias owned and operated by oligarchs friendly to him. Basically, Yanukovych booby trapped the country. While the people could still protest at their own peril, the militias were to enforce the dictates of Yanukovych. If one recalls, he was spirited away to Crimea where under cover Russian officers saw him aboard a jet to self-exile in Russia. So, this is not a Ukraine dynamic. This is what occurs when those loyal to Russia rule in Ukraine. They destroy the Ukrainian Constitution and rain authority and violence on the people. 

So, why do Ukrainians fight? Why not? They had no peace under Yanukovych. They don't want it back!

The first investigations of the Maidan violence were considered falsified. We know for a fact there was extreme Russian corruption in Ukraine. The European Union demanded the corruption to be removed before Ukraine could be eligible for membership. It is one of the reasons President Zelensky was elected. He was well known to the Ukraine people, liked, and trusted. He promised to establish good relations with Europe by cleaning up the corruption as well as good relations with Russia for the same purpose; to engage a vibrant economy. Then, in time, as Zelensky installed a magnificent, young, and corruption free government Putin decided good relations were not possible and started a war with a wonderful country full of earnest people.

Now.

Those earnest people are engaged in war with many dead and many more refugees into eastern and western Europe.

Living with Putin is not life at all, it is oppression without end. This is why the Post-Soviet states are not interested in any relationship with Putin in power and quite possibly communist influence forever. It is why they made choices to align with NATO. NATO does not interfere with their independent governance.

This violence and killings were 20 years ago. Twenty years is a generation and Americans forget the reason these people are resolved to be alive under democracy and freedom. To them there is no going back and they still mourn the taking of their children by Russian soldiers into re-alignment camps. Ukraine children are not suppose to be Ukrainian anymore, but, citizens of Russia. That is a form of genocide.

Children in Russia help supply the country with militarized items (click here).

A boy wearing camouflage walks past a mural depicting a special forces soldier during a military-style competition organized by the National Guard security force for military cadets and youths, at a training ground in Balashikha, outside Moscow.

I am quite sure Vladimir's children are not involved.

This video appendix shows shootings (click here for video) of Maidan protesters from Maidan-controlled buildings and areas during the Maidan massacre in Kyiv in Ukraine on February 20, 2014 and a massacre of Maidan protesters in Khmelnytskyi on February 19, 2014. It uses content analysis of brief segments of well-known videos of these massacres and unbroadcast segments of a widely broadcast Belgian VRT News TV video of the Maidan massacre to reveal such shooting. This is the online Video Appendix C of papers prepared for presentation at the virtual 52nd Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in the US in 2020 and the 10th World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies in Montreal in 2021.

The case of Ms. E. Jean Carroll's gun has been handled.

She is a law abiding citizen that happens to have been sexually assaulted by Donald J. Trump.

SHE WAS RAPED.

What does anyone expect from a woman, a business woman, faced with violence? Her rape was not down a dark ally by a drunk, it was in broad daylight in of all places a high end store's dressing room.

Ms. Carroll's gun should not be a surprise considering she was not at all empowered to file rape charges against Trump. She has stated many times as a woman employed in a job she loved she would be compromised in her employment if she became a topic of social gossip because of Trump's rape of her.

So, fast forward to 2024 and this time she has braved public opinion to stand up for other victims that believe silence is a better resolve than the law.

Trump's lawyer aggressively pursued Ms. Carroll's gun ownership in court as being illegal and an attempt to defame her. She was very defamed by Trump even after the trial, so this aggression by Trump continues. But, regardless of any latent fear of him she relinquished her gun to law enforcement. The problem is mitigated. She did not pull a right wing rant about gun rights and how government is taking all the weapons from Americans, she realized her error and compromised her ownership to allow New York gun laws to prevail.

There really isn't anything else to say about this. Even if she ranted and raved about gun rights she would have faced a summons to court and this would probably be the result anyway. She isn't a law breaker. She doesn't sexually assault men. She is a victim of violence and that would be recognized in any court of law. By relinquishing the weapon to authorities she ended any confrontation.

I sincerely believe Ms. Carroll was and may still fear him. She is only one of dozens of women sexually assaulted by Donald John Trump. They remained silent for a long time. Why?

"Women are being a bit too kind in too many situations." (click here)

April 12, 2024
By Katherine Doyle

Police in New York took possession of a gun (click here) belonging to writer E. Jean Carroll in February after she said during testimony in her defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump that she had an unlicensed firearm at home, according to a police report obtained by NBC News.

The chief of police in Warwick, N.Y., visited Carroll at her home on Feb. 15 “to discuss some open issues,” the report states, including Carroll’s disclosure of the handgun while she was on the witness stand Jan. 17.


During the second day of the civil trial, Carroll had told the federal court in lower Manhattan that she kept a “high standard revolver, nine chambers” at home with ammunition. “By my bed,” she said.

"I still do not have a license," Carroll added.

John Rader, the reporting officer, said in his report that he “offered to secure the weapon at the police station’s property for safekeeping.”

Carroll and a member of her security team surrendered the gun a day after Rader visited, and the firearm was being held until Carroll receives a New York pistol license, the report said....