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It worked. Trump has changed the subject: ‘ Breaking news: U.S. says it struck 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near oil route’ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/10/world/iran-war-trump-us-israel?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260310&instance_id=172307&nl=breaking-news&reg I do not mean to imply that news of Trump’s disastrous Iran Adventure is not newsworthy. I ask here, that we do not forget what the conversation was before Iran -   *New York Times 2/3/26* ‘’You need to pay attention to the guns ICE agents are pointing at all of us. You also need to pay attention to everything happening around the guns. Just before Jonathan Ross, an ICE agent, pulled the gun that he discharged into Good’s S.U.V., he was shooting video of the incident on his cellphone. The gun and the phone are both weapons — one a tool for violence and the other a tool of control.’’ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/opinion/ice-surveillance-protesters.html?campaign_id=39&emc...

  Recent weeks call to mind events from my youth. I was 13: ‘May 4, 1970 . At Kent State University, the Ohio National Guard shot unarmed college students — some who were protesting the war and others who were passing by. The guards fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students (Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Knox Schroeder) and wounding nine others.’ https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/kent-state-massacre/ I recall being confused, and somewhat anxious about American Soldiers shooting and killing students at the university. I recall asking my Mom why American Soldiers were Shooting American Students. I remember she said it was ‘complicated’, and the Students were ‘Rioting’ at the College.   Oh. I also recall the words of Crosby, Stills. Nash & Young: ‘Gotta get down to it Soldiers are gunning us down Should have been done long ago What if you knew her and Found her dead on the ground? How can you run...

    For over 30 Years Vladimir Putin, as well as China, have worked to unravel the strong alliance among the U.S. and NATO… Trump did it for them in about 10 Days: If Trump meant the Threat of Military Invasion of Greenland, forcing NATO Allies to unite in Military Opposition, that indeed would have ended U.S. Membership/Participation in NATO. If he intended rather to enforce outlandish Tariffs against NATO members, this too would serve to fracture the alliance. Congratulations Mr. Putin, Pres. Xi, you win. It’s typical New York, Chicago, Philly, Mob Tactics: ‘If you don’t do what we say your legs are gonna’ get broken. But, of course, if you just hand over 20% of your profits, there’s a very good chance Nothing Bad Will Happen’.     It all amounts to, as John Brennan says, a huge distraction. ‘Trump’s next book should be ‘The Art of Distraction’, says Brennan. We’re no longer talking about the Epstein Files, and talking a lot less about Minnesota, and Tru...

  At the 2024 Republican Convention there were loud and repeated chants of ‘Mass Deportation Now!’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/29/republicans-trump-mass-deportation-immigration#:~:text=That%20they%20were%20planned%20 I wonder if the stagnant 33% Trump Supporters are happy with the results. Probably. But that’s about it, 33%. https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53878-more-americans-view-ice-shooting-minnesota-unjustified-than-justified-january-9-12-2026-economis Now, they get what they enthusiastically shouted for: https://immigrantjustice.org/for-immigrants/know-your-rights/mass-deportation-threats/ And, of course there’s the Murder of Ms. Good: https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html   ‘This is now Trump’s America, Steven Miller’s America’ Jon Lemire MS Now   https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%98This+is+now+Trump%E2%80%99s+America%2C+Steven+Miller%E2%80%99s+America%E2%8...

  Stephen Miller is probably one of the most dreadful, deplorable, and possibly dangerous men on the face of the Earth. And that’s given this Earth offers us Putin, Xi Jinping, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/tags/xi-jinping   Prime Minister  Viktor Orbán , Recep Tayyip Erdogan, https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/expressions/portrait-recep-tayyip-erdogan-president-republic-turkey and Donald J. Trump. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-called-jan-6-henious-attack-now-calls-day-love-rcna175942 Miller is worse than Trump because Miller knows what he is doing, Trump does what Miller tells him to. Come what may: https://www.wesh.com/article/minneapolis-shooting-january-7-2026/69936781?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%20-%20National%20Breaking DHS Secretary Kristi Noem (Remember, the one who shot &killed her puppy?), can also be counted here as a dangerous co-conspirator. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=forbes+breaking+news+kri...

  In July of this year, on the 4 th , The American Experiment will be 250 years old, and in its greatest peril in the past 165 years. One can only Hope, (and Pray), that Donald J. Trump will have somehow been somewhat restrained by then. At no time since the Confederacy seceded from the Union, has the U.S. Democratic Republic been in such grave danger of devolving into some sort of fascist anarchy. Mainly, the chief perpetrator of this is in fact Trump, but let us not dismiss the %35 of American MAGA Voters who propelled him to leadership and tyranny, nor his fascist co-conspirators presently serving Trump’s Administration in what’s left of the White House.   January 6 th – ‘Fight like Hell…’ On January 6 th , 2021 https://www.britannica.com/event/January-6-U-S-Capitol-attack Thousands of Trump supporters attack the U.S. Capitol   After Trump tells them at a Maga Rally -   ‘Trump addressed a rally in the Ellipse in the National Mall just south of the Wh...

  Pardon my absence, financial, domestic issues...* Trump’s ‘War’ The United States Military Code of Justice specifically prohibits firing on Shipwrecked Survivors – The most notorious case was the Peleus incident of March 1944, which became a landmark prosecution for war crimes at sea. After the German U-boat U-852 sank the Greek freighter Peleus in the South Atlantic, Commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck ordered his crew to systematically machine-gun survivors on life rafts and in the water for several hours . https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1997/february/peleus-war-crimes-trial The  Peleus  was bound from Freetown to the River Plate...  'Nobody on the tramp saw the surfaced U-boat chasing them; consequently, by 19:20hrs. the  U-852  was only 600 yards away when Eck fired two torpedoes, both of which hit the target on the starboard side and caused devastating damage. The ship sank in less than three minutes, with no time to launch the lif...

  President Trump Declares War... Kinda ’.   In Ordering U.S. Military Forces to conduct Combat Operat ions against Iran, Pres. Trump has taken The United States int o War.   While there was No actual Decleration of War, the act itself is an Act of War. And while there was No actual Consent from the U.S. Congress, Pr es. Trump pretty much let anyone paying attention, including both Congress and Iran, know that This was Coming.   While there was no formal notification of the Combat Mission , until the Mission was Complete, he certainly le t on that a Combat Mission was imm inent. W e are all fortunate and grateful that the Mission appears to have been a huge success , even though the process of moving to, and carrying out, the Mission was, in typical Trump fashion, highly flawed.   First, there was no attempt by the Trump Administration to garner support of any allies we may have left. This includes of course , Canada and England, but also other Allies from ...