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In the light of the January 6 committee findings, Garland and Jack Smith have a couple of months to indict Trump & Co. or preside over the end of the rule of law in US! DoJ obeyed Sessions and Barr, but now the survival of the Republic is the supreme law!
World situation is marked by the coalescence of a new edition of the Rome-Berlin-Moscow-Tokyo axis, this time as the Moscow-Beijing-Pyongyang-Tehran axis; US must lead opposition of free world to this New Axis;
Moments of decision loom for Ukraine: after so many atrocities, a negotiated peace with Putin is unthinkable; as with Hitler, appeasement spells wider war; Putin may escalate, but his military situation is unlikely to improve; CFR now regards anti-Putin coup as most likely outcome; As Gen. Ivashov foresaw, Putin’s aggression may mark the end of the current Russian state; His clones Patrushev, Prigozhin, Kadyrov contend for power; Over two dozen top Russian oligarchs eliminated by poison and open windows this year, the Kremlin equivalent of a faction fight!
Renaissance of Science under Biden: Artemis-Orion and Mars lander revive space program; Lawrence Livermore surpasses break even point for thermonuclear fusion reaction, a first for the world; NASA inaugurates planetary defense by deflecting an asteroid for the first time; Covid vaccines are landmark achievements; Cancer Moonshot advances; Chips and Science Act and other new laws repatriate offshored technology; NOAA upgrades oceanography and marine biology; Federal science workforce is expanding; lasers needed to defend against hypersonic weapons;
French scholar of eastern Europe sees roots of Ukrainian spirit of independence in the Zaporizhia Cossacks of the 1600s
Charges against MAGA boss include interference with a federal function; conspiracy to defraud US; conspiracy to make false statements; and aiding an insurrection;
Report leaves no doubt about Don’s criminal intent; Weakness of Report lies in failure to deal with subversives and enablers in Secret Service, Pentagon, and elsewhere;
Just as Condoleeza Rice claimed that use of airplanes against buildings had been inconceivable before 9/11, despite numerous drills, Report claims Trump’s role as prime mover of insurrection was inconceivable;
More attention required for call to Pentagon in which Gens. Charles Flynn and Piatt refused to send National Guard to Hill;
Some distortions due to demands of Liz Cheney, who wanted everything focused on Trump and no attention for subversive networks in intelligence, Pentagon, FBI, and Secret Service;
Lack of adequate military and police response on January 6 suggests failure of reforms advocated by Kean-Hamilton 9/11 commission almost two decades ago;
Zelensky’s address to Congress validates Biden’s achievement as champion diplomat of 2022; Ukraine to get $45 billion in aid, Patriot surface to air missiles, and should also receive ATACM longer-range missiles, more long-range artillery, and Abrams tanks; If Trump had still been president this year, Russians would already be in Kiev and massing on the Polish border, threatening world war; Churlish behavior of McCarthy towards distinguished guest; Reminder: ”In war, there is no substitute for victory”;
Congress passes $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill to fund US government despite hysteria of right-wing anarchists, reactionaries and fascists; 18 GOP join with all Dems in Senate; In House, measure passes 225 to 201, with 9 GOP votes; Squad member Tlaib votes present, while AOC joins MAGA rejection front; US government funded through end of September;
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Trump’s day of reckoning approaches: Fateful events next week include Monday decisions on criminal and civil referrals, followed by Tuesday’s announcements of further action from House Ways and Means after initial probe of Don’s tax returns, and Wednesday’s publication of the January 6 Committee’s final report with interview transcripts: democracy hangs in the balance!
Public focus is also on Eastman, Giuliani, and Meadows of Don’s circle;
TPM publishes trove of Meadows messages exchanged with 34 GOP tyrants;
War of all against all rages among House Republicans as McCarthy appears to fall short of 218 votes need to be Speaker, meaning no decision on first ballot of January 3; Coalition Speaker is only means of avoiding prolonged chaos; Struggle for power in RNC mirrors pervasive power struggles throughout GOP;
Special Counsel subpoenas witnesses in seven battleground states: AZ-MI-WI-GA-NV-NM-PA;
Erratic Putin punks out of yearly press conference, but redoubles rocket rattling; Gen. McCaffrey welcomes promise of Patriot battery for Ukraine, wants ATACMs and other offensive weaponry added as well; Ukrainian command expects Russian winter offensive, most likely against Kyiv;
Berserker Musk launches vendetta vs. his Twitter critics, provoking warnings from European Union and United Nations;
DeSantis forming anti-vax council of mountebanks and charlatans to help recruit anti-science mob;
Twilight of globalization as finance oligarchs, anti-union practices, foreign supply chains, just in time inventory, and prevalence of speculation over hard-commodity manufacturing are transformed;
Breaking: Press reports January 6 committee is preparing criminal referrals against Trump for conspiracy to defraud US, insurrection, and obstruction of an official proceeding; Conviction for insurrection would entail lifetime ban from federal office!
#NeverKevin faction of five Tea Party extremists urges McCarthy to end candidacy because he lacks the 218 votes; Seven other raving extremists pose conditions for getting their votes, including toppling of Speaker, using debt ceiling to extort a balanced federal budget, and attaching extraneous riders to must-pass bills;
Many center-left pundits still studiously avoid mentioning #CoalitionSpeaker option, although McCarthy cites it incessantly;
Trump reeling from series of political and legal defeats, making indictments timely;
On Hunter Biden Twitter story, GOP cannot grasp that First Amendment applies to government actions, not private companies, and that Trump, not Biden, was president in October 2020;
Ukraine launches successful attacks against the Russian air bases that support criminal bombardments of cities: Engels-2 in the Saratov region, Dyagilevo in Ryazan near Moscow, and Kursk;
Legal cranks with guns plan Putsch: German authorities round up 25 ”Reichsbuerger” fanatics seeking to make disgruntled petty nobleman Heinrich XIII Emperor and successor to Kaiser Wilhelm II;
In Peru, attempted autogolpe by President Castillo is turned back;
Crackpot doctrine of independent state legislatures is another MAGA timebomb threatening democracy; No conservative jurist would entertain such vandalism!
A realistic compromise Speaker backed by a bipartisan majority to attain or exceed magic number of 218 is now the only alternative to two years of chaos, default, defeat, and sabotage by MAGA diehards!
McCarthy warns Republicans that Democrats could control House if ”Freedom Caucus” lunatics run wild over coming weeks; House currently estimated at 222 R, 213 D; If 5 current categorical no votes hang tough, McCarthy would be unelectable – and there may be more;
Likely formula would be all Democrats plus half a dozen dissident Republicans to block McCarthy’s power grab; GOP is grievously damaged by MAGA midterm failure, and losing control of House would seal party’s doom as a national force;
Under cover of corrupt media lies blaming Biden, Republicans block student loan relief and seven days of paid sick leave;
Biden administration dismantling many of the worst aspects of globalization era (c. 1990 to 2022);
Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta ends the farce of Judge Cannon’s Special Master as indictments get closer;
Andrew Jackson had his Kitchen Cabinet of sycophantic advisers; his admirer Trump has raving antisemitic ideologues Kanye West and Fuentes; In broadcast, Ye endorses mass murderers Hitler, Stalin and Mao; Under massive backlash, Gym Jordan’s House Judiciary staff finally remove their ”Kanye. Elon. Trump.” slogan!
McQarthy is losing 5 to 8 Tea Party extremists, posing risk of hung Congress or monstrous concessions to crazed MAGAts, unless Democrats take over!
GOP busily working on its own extinction: For January 6 Cttee final report, Liz Cheney, readying her own 2024 campaign, demands censored report with narrow focus on Trump alone, banning probe of intelligence, law enforcement & Pentagon failures; Study of coup funding to be deep sixed, & investigation of militias & violent extremists banned; Her goal evidently to preserve these networks for her own use; Democrats must block this crude power grab, give public full results of committee’s work; Lesson: Republicans are incorrigible!
MAGA foreign policy Blob is close to embracing outright cut and run policy for US to betray NATO allies, Ukraine & appease Putin, setting up Russian conquest of Europe;
MAGA boss fraternizes with scurrilous anti-semites Fuentes & Kanye;
Garland still dawdling, denying justice through endless delays; Questions arise about his dubious role in Oklahoma City trial, where he was his own Warren Commission;
CSTO, Putin’s feeble answer to NATO, is breaking up due to his abject failures: Armenia pushes back against his dictates in Collective Security Treaty Organization of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, & Tajikistan; Eurasian guru Dugin wants Putin ousted and worse!
Breaking: MAGA Grand Inquisitor Rep. Comer wraps his MTP debut in lies!
Move raises specter of justice delayed; Far from placating Trump fanatics, this step may increase acrimony, as Rep. Greene demands impeachment of Garland;
Democrats hold Senate and Arizona governor’s post; Pelosi quits as Speaker, followed by Hoyer and Clyburn; likely Dem succession is Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, and Pete Aguilar;
Pelosi excelled in promoting unity of Dem caucus; Jeffries dealt effectively with disruptions by ousting AOC’s guru Chakrabarti; Ultra-lefts trying to escape blame for New York losses by condemning Mayor Adams’ stance on crime;
Chaos and anarchy run riot among House MAGA extremists, with personal hatreds, rivalries, and runaway committees; no major forces in House GOP respect voters’ aversion to Trump’s bombastic lunacy and demand for dictatorship;
Multiple ballots for Speaker loom in January, with uncertain outcome; GOP could splinter in short order;
Wall Street loves gridlock: corrupt corporate media pushing hard for DeSantis, just as they aided for Trump in 2015-2016;
GOP ran on border, crime, and inflation, but first steps don’t involve oil company executives or energy speculators: instead, in parody of Nixon’s infamous Enemies’ List, House MAGA extremists target 42 Democrats of Biden administration starting with Klain, Mayorkas, and Cardona; Gym Jordan and James Comer focus on Hunter Biden laptop, but voters demand to know about the Ginni Thomas emails;
Seize and nationalize Twitter as a key national security asset of US!
After warnings from Biden in Independence Hall and Union Station speeches, American people confirm standing as most anti-fascist major power on planet!
AG Garland must now honor his oath of office by immediately enforcing the rule of law against a weakened Trump and his co-conspirators;
Donald set to declare candidacy next Tuesday, but allies urge him to postpone taking plunge;
Kelly wins in Arizona to make Senate 49-49, while Cortez-Mastow gains on Laxalt in Nevada and Graham threatens civil war if MAGAt does not prevail; Democrats near control of Senate; Warnock must win Georgia on December 6 to devalue recalcitrant Dems; House majority still not clear;
Internecine struggles among disappointed GOPers could cripple party; Reactionary extremists of House Tea Party (aka ”Freedom”) caucus promise challenge to McQarthy, demanding right to oust Speaker at any time and other chaotic measures; Five senators signal no confidence in Moscow Mitch; Trump against DeSantis
Defeated Rep. Maloney notes AOC was AWOL in New York House races; Ultra-lefts as the bane of the Democrats, from Florida to Albany to Ohio; Shame of the controlled corporate media for pushing the fantastic narrative of a red tsunami;
Too late for maskirovka: Ukraine liberates Kherson from Russian war criminals; Negotiating with Putin is as futile as talking to Hitler about Czechoslovakia in August 1938; Russian troops are free to leave Ukraine at any time; Reparations and transportation might then be discussed; Zelensky: Putin does not negotiate, but issues ultimatums;
Crypto world collapsing; Will Wall Street follow?
Biden attends COP 27 in Egypt, where Xi and Modi are absent; President continues to ASEAN in Cambodia, followed by summit with Xi at G-20 in Bali, Indonesia
36 million early voters nationwide by late Friday, a midterm record, while Trump is reportedly preparing to announce a new bid for power on November 14; That makes this is a referendum — on Trump!
MAGA is now the party of Quislings appeasing Putin, as shown by Rep. Green’s pledge to betray Ukraine by cutting off all US assistance; Kremlin still rooting for Dem defeat;
AG Garland wanted his job, so he should face up to his responsibility to indict the coup leader within a month after the election — or resign; No to the obvious copout of a Special Prosecutor, which would postpone justice past the November 2024 elections and perhaps forever;
Stakes include civil war, with models including: the polycentric model of the French Wars of Religion, c. 1560-1600, a series of 9 regional conflicts plus assassinations and massacres involving Catholics and Calvinist Huguenots; Victims estimated at 2 to 4 million dead; Rebellious nobility used religious appeal to get mass support vs monarchy; andGermany’s Weimar Republic, 1919-1933, marked by fascist militas, left and right wing putsches, and 350 murders by the Konsul political assassination bureau, culminating in Hitler’s seizure of power, with QAnon-style irrational cults;
Want to avoid these nightmares? Vote the straight Democratic ticket from now on!
Breaking: Rusty Bowers sees fascism; Oprah endorses Fetterman over her protege Oz, plus Val Demings, Mandela Barnes, Cortez Masto, Beto, Warnock, Stacy Abrams, and Cheri Beasley; Harry Styles backs Beto in Texas; Support Adrian Fontes, a tough Democrat for Arizona Secretary of State, challenging the egregious MAGAT Finchem!
Would-be killer severely wounds husband Paul Pelosi, showing fascist threat is real today; Pelosi demonized in countless GOP cable ads;
Corrupt corporate media reach new low with their fatuous narrative of red wave and Democratic defeat; To the contrary: 17 million have voted early so far, with over 1.3 million in Georgia, while Republicans tend to wait for Election Day; Harvard Youth poll shows 40% of those 18-29 intend to vote, with 57% of them leaning Democratic; Polls cannot reflect massive post-Dobbs pro-choice registrations, who will now vote;
Ornstein warns of deliberate falsifications by dishonest pollsters; The role of dark money in punditry;
Jayapal first releases, then repudiates appeasement letter signed by 30 Dems calling for negotiations with Putin just as Kremlin dictator escalates his dirty bomb threats to Ukraine and McCarthy announces GOP will betray Kiev; Ultra-left pasionaria is shown unfit for leadership role in Democratic caucus; As with Hitler in 1938, negotiation with Putin is a fool’s errand;
New UK Premier Sunak expected to impose the most brutal killer austerity seen in Europe in many moons;
Despite media gaslighting, Dem success on scale of New Deal Congress in 1934 remains within reach reach; All Democrats and people of good will must mobilize now!
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