GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

FROM THE WEEK:

U.S. Debt: Targeted in warning from International Monetary Fund (Report)

U.S. Elections: Democracy dies in primaries (Article)

Russia: Running out of weapons needed for war in Ukraine (Article)

Dubai: Destructive flooding downpour a result of cloud seeding? (Report)

Texas: State fined $100,000 a day until foster children’s facilities show improvement (Report)

Ethiopia: Conflicts creating need far outrunning available aid (Report)

China: Extending its police stations around the world (Article)

U.S./Mexico: Going to the mat on GM Corn (Report)

Science: Another step towards quantum networking (Article)

Bank of America: Targeting political conservatives (Report)

COVID: More truth leaking out of China (Report)

Israel: 18 injured by Hezbollah drone impact (Report)

Truth: Is a distraction per NPR exec. (Report)

Switzerland: Ups military spending (Report)

China: Update (Article)

Argentina: Join NATO to help wrest Falkland Islands from Britain? (Report)

Artificial Intelligence: Now winning U.S. Air Force dogfights (Article)

U.S. Congress: GOP Speaker Johnson recruits Democrats to spend (Report)

Israel: Has begun bomving Iran (Report)

Middle school girls: Refuse to compete with “transgender” athlete (Report)

California: Hates landlords? (Article)

U.S. Government: Protecting LGBT athletes at women’s expense (Re[ortt)

United Nations: Is the International Criminal Court to arrest Israel’s Netanyahu? (Report)

China: President Biden protects monopoly of rare earth minerals (Report)

U.S. Elections: Growing list of states moving to disenfranchise small states voters (Report)

Science: Synthetic data worries (Article)

More science: Miniature touch sensors in clothing can control electronics (Report)

Coffee: Update on origins and future (Article)

Israel: Jewish religious problems interfere with defense (Article)

Chicago: 6 dead, 2- wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

All the weirdo’s remained clothed this wee?

EDITORIAL: The U.S. Government vs. the U.S. Middle Class

It seems interesting to note that, as government spending has risen, the heretofore substantial share of the nation’s income received by the country;s middle class has diminished in favor of the wealthiest citizens. The economic once middle class has now appended itself to the working poor. This a direct result of government mandating the price of labor and using inflationary policies to promote spending. Recollection of the 1930’s include a boy’s haircut at 75 cents and a new Chevrolet for$750. While government has mandated higher wages, workers have been replaced by machines and foreign factories, work shifts have been shortened and the dollar constantly buys less.

However, the government has steadily spent more. Much of the money spent is borrowed, repaid later by taxpayers with interest added. As the government earns nothing itself, only taking the earnings of others (mostly, the middle class) this means that the erstwhile wealth of the middle has devolved to government as pictured prior. Government policy has devolved most of the middle back toward the working poor, working hand to mouth.

The old Roman poet who asked: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” has yet to be answered; humans who need government fail as governors of humans. Our species cannot help putting our own needs first; we would be unlikely to survive otherwise. Leaving us to wonder: How will we survive the way it is?

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

FROM THE WEEK:

California Giving first time home buyers up to $150k .

Puberty blockers: Politically promoted medications tied to cancer, other problems by Mayo Clinic (Report)

San Francisco: Secretive weather modification experiment (Report)

Ukraine: The troublesome Tatars in Crimea (Article)

China: Spends more on its military (Article)

U.S. Government crime statistics are unreal (Article)

Green Energy: The biggest corporate welfare scam of all time (Article)

Medicare Advantage: Under attack by Biden Administration (Report)

Electric Vehicles: U.S. To subsidize sales with revenue from price increase for gas powered? (Article)

Arizona: Feds pursue Christian school previously cleared by state (Report)

Whales: And the scientists trying to speak with them (Article)

U.S. Federal Reserve: Cannot survive without perpetually increasing Federal spending? (Article)

U.S. Credit Card holders reflecting growing stress, set new record (Report)

The U.S. Dollar: Say goodbye as the IMF starts its move? (Article)

U.S. Postage: Going up again (Report)

South Korea: Big political reversal shaping up? (Report)

China: Financially increasingly shaky (Report)

South Africa: A slow, inevitable collapse? (Article)

U.S. Congressfolk: A road to wealth (ArticleO

Libya: Update (Article)

Britain: Mandatory registration for chickens (Report)

The Internet: The fading freedom (Article)

The U.S. Economy: I Cannot Afford To Live (Article)

U.S. Drinking Water: To become more pure and expensive (Report)

U.S. Social Security/Medicare Running out of money (Report)

Iran: Attacks Israel with numerous drones (Report) (More) (Still More)

President Biden approved in advance Iran’s recent attack on Israel (Report)

Denver: Reducing police, fire spending to fund illegal aliens’ services (Report)

Chicago: 2 dead, 19 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A naked man was arrested in a women’s gym dressing room claiming to be a woman (Report)

EDITORIAL Israel

Mighty Rome solved the problem presented by tiny Israel: It dispersed the Jews throughout the world, ridding the land of its recalcitrant occupants. But Rome has rgressed to Italy and the Jews are back, recalcitrant as ever and with their Western democracy, seen as a threat by local Arab and Iranian governments. Israel presents the governments of the Middle East with the same challenge as do Taiwan and South Korea in the eyes of the Chinese government. Such foreign success makes the domestic governor look bad by comparison and must be made into a hated enemy lest their be a demand for imitation.

Proven unable to destroy Israel, Jordan now accomodates it while other neighbors maintain Gaza and the West Bank (And their terrorist governments) as buffers. But that appears an unstable solution in danger of collapsing. Iran’s rent missile attack on Israel presages events after Iranian nuclear weapons become available. That is perhaps why Jordan, Britain and the U.S. Repoortedly assisted the Israeli defense against the missiles … and why Iran provided the necessary waiting time before its action. If so, it was all a show, though no less real for that. Some of the more than 300 drones and missiles reportedly won through the augmente defenses and it seems likely to be a while before the actual destruction is understood outside Israeli government circles.

We await the Israeli response; will it be as benign as President Biden has decreed? Or will dead Jews turn out to have a louder voice than a U.S. President?

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

FROM THE WEEK:

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Long article for understanding the subject (Article)

California: $20 per hour fast food minimum wage law starting d (Report) (More)

The U.S. Federal Reserve has created an American caste system (Article)

Aircrafft navigation: Attacked by electronic weapons (Article)

U.S. Commercial Real Estate: Urban Doom? (Article)

Taiwan: Earthquake protection from steel ball in Taipei’s tallest building (Article)

U.S. Tax Audits: Now targeting middle class (Report)

Massive cicada swarm: Map of expected heretofore “17 Year locusts” swarming in U.S. (Report)

U.S. Jobs Gains: It’s all part time jobs and illegals Article)

The Economy: U.S. Credit card debt and interest hit new heights (Report)

The U.S. Environment: A cost estimate of Biden mandates (Article)

Moldova: U.S. Troops join training (Report)

Zimbabwe: Introduces new gold backed currency (Report)

World War III is now inevitable? (Article)

Japan: Will now promote mass immigration? (Article)

U.S. Federal Reserve: Will produce stagflation with easy money (Article)

U.S. Great Depression: Was NOT ended by World War II (Article)

U.S. Unemployment: Reflections on another fake report (Article)

Chicago: 7 dead, 25 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A bloody, naked woman was collected at a high school gym (Report)

EDITORIAL: Lifetimes

People and their governments have lifetimes; both arrive under a death sentence. Both are nervous as a result. Some half a millenium ago, a Chinese government, threatened by the disruptions imposed by progress, imposed stasis. Leaving progress open to Europe and we all know how that turned out. Human governors do not seem a sufficient answer to our species’ need for government.

In too many places, politicians are considering the distractions of war to mask their insolvency and incompetence even though nuclear options have vastly raised the price required and aging populations cannot afford to waste their diminishing supplies of young men and women. And nor are current massive immigration policies likely to alter that reality as they destabilize civil order. They will nowever, supply governors with police and military ready to protect unpopular governors from the results of increasing disorder. The current treatment of January 6 Capitol protestors forcasts governors ready to support control with severe measures. Whatever reality is imposed by the upcoming elections will probably predict the reality of Western life for the next several generations. Or of course, not..

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

FROM THE WEEK:

Somali pirates are back (Report)

The Environment: Killing a river and all its salmon to save it (Report)

U.S. And Japan: Pursuing tighter military ties in face of Chin threat (Report)

U.S. Real Estate: The meltdown in commercial property (Report)

California: Latest on fast food minimum wage raise (Report)

China: Awakens too late to the threat within? (Article)

Money: Global cybercurrency coming? (Article)

Ecuador: Growing violence challenges government (Report)

New York City: Will charge drivers entering lower Manhattan (Report)

Time: Earth’s spin rate variations are challenging timekeepers (Article)

Planet Earth: Population peaking; decline expected to follow (Article)

California: Judges in child welfare required to take LGBTQ training (Report)

More California: Prominent attorney helping Trump disbarred (Report)

Western Russia under attack (Article)

U.S. Illegal Immigration: Update (Article)

You Tube: Will censor/manipulate content affecting coming election (Report)

U.S. Medicare: Biden Admin plans to underfund Medicare Advantage plans? (Report)

Your ESG score may be used against you (Article)

U.S. Electric grid: Cannot support present government policies (Article)

U.S. Financial Leaders: Warn of unsustainable Federal debt (Report)

The U.S. Wealth gap and the road to serfdom (Article)

U.S. Regional Banks: How many will survive the meltdown of commercial R=real estate? (Article) (More)

U.S. Homeowners: Beware of squatters (Article)

Left-leaning U.S. Counties see immigrants replacing departing voters (Report)

U.S. Government: Why the Dept. of Justice wants to take down Apple (Article)

Russia: Russian rebels raid Russia (Article)

Science: Mammall social status physically linked to behavior (Report)

Hollywood: A hurrah for times past (Article)

Chicago: None dead, 11 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A naked woman was arrested (Report)

EDITORIAL: A Changing America

Not long ago, the Democrats were thought to represent workers while Republicans stood for the wealthy and the interests of big corporations. Now, the Democrats are hell bent on socialism and the Republicans just want to slow it down some. Nobody is selling a return to small government and free enterprise. Anywat, it will be necessary to work through the accumulated financial destruction before such fundamental matters will be within reach and that will be a while. Quit a while… But change is in the air.

In Albuquerqe, it is becoming noticeable that drivers in residential areas are starting to park their cars facin against the flow of traffic at the sides of residential area streets. Understaffed and overworked police have no time for dealing with it and it appears to be spreading. We should probably expect more older patterns to fall as the inflow of foreign migrants settles in and the economy finishes off most of the middle class.

While the gyrations of Biden and Trump will likely take precedence, the replacement of retiring Congressfolk may be more indicative of change and its direction. Pay attention. .

GLANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

FROM THE WEEK:

China: Unwanted electric vehicles accumulating (Report)

The Pandemic: CDC issued report on heart problems after COVID shots; every word was redacted (Report)

U.S. Elections: Security compromised by decryption keys found in voting machines (Report)

The Pandemic: Exploding cancer rates among the vaccinated (Report)

Arizona: New evidence in the voting fraud case (Report)

Artificial Intelligence: Google’s AI fiasco exposes deeper info war (Article) (Recommended)

Cuba: Current economic failure (Article)

U.S. Elections: Michigan attorney pursuing voter fraud arrested (Report)

Russia: Claims more than Ukraine (Article)

Russia: Can it continue war on Ukraine after 2024? (Article)

U.S. Military: Permanently stationed on Taiwan (Report)

U/S/ Veterans Administration: Reducing staff bu 10,000 (Report)

U.S. Govt: Investigating sale of illegal electronic jammers by Amazon, others (Report)

The Virality Project’s censorship agenda (Article)

California: Insurer drops coverage of 72,000 homes over inflarion and risk (Report)

Florida: Reinventing the poorhouse? (Article)

Wake Up Call: One concise view of current political reality (Article)

Ukraine: Russia launches massive aerial attack on energy infrastructure (Report)

Oakland, Ca: Swamped by thousands of abandoned cars (Report)

Electric Vehicles: Competition from China ..? (Article)

Energy: The West’s nuclear power revival slower than hoped? (Article)

Languages: Those endangered today (Article)

The Pandemic: U.s. Govt Agency reverses opposition to Ivermectin in court (Report)

Chicago: 4 dead, 15 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A naked man was arrested after entering a home (Report)

EDITORIAL: The Suicide of the West?

You have to wonder. The earth’s preeminent societies are inundating themselves with less educated, less advanced foreigners, revoking their hard won technology in the name of a specious climate emergency and using government to reduce their standard of living generally. And said governments are promoting dependence upon them just as they commit financial hara kiri via unsustainable debt. Churches that once reinforced government efforts toward promoting decent behavior have faced increasing abandonment, taking much good behavior with them.

A result is the beefing up of governmental efforts to cope with increasingly unrestrained behavior, resulting in more authoritarian government. Governmental methods for assuring desired behavior are inevitably less well received than those of churches, raising the tension between governors and governed, Some of us are noticing that now. And noticing too that in the hands of government, good behavior becomes politicized. Denomstrators who support the ruling politics are tolerated; those who disagree are punished for the same transggressions. That of course, signifies an end to democracy.

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

FROM THE WEEK:

Healthcare: A new blood test to revolutionize detection of mental illnesses (Report)

Auto Insurance: Is your car telling your insurer the details of your driving habits? (Article)

More Healthcare: Doctors can edit genes inside your body (Article)

U.S. Immigration: Corporate employers needing cheap labor (Article)

Argentina: President Milei applies shock therapy to the failing economy (Report)

CVS Pharmacies: Downgrade job performance merit in favor of wokeness (Re[ort)

Donald Trump: Consolidates grip on GOP (Report)

U.S. Elections: Mr. Garland: Can I vote in France and Spain? (Article)

North Korea: Update (Article)

U.S. Employment: Part time jobs replacing full time at increasing rate (Report)

Robot ships: Becoming an industry (Article)

China: Harassing foreign investors it needs (Article)

Haiti: U.S. Marines augment embassy as government falls (Report)

U.S. Flu Shots: Switching to MRNA COVID type tech with little notice (Report)

The Pandemic: Vaccines, seen from the other side (Article)

United States: Government workers earn some 40% more than private sector workers (Report)

U.S. Capitol Riot: CIA personnel were involved (Report)

17 Year Locusts: Are about to make news in the U.S. (Report)

The (U.S. National Association of Realtors: Agreed to give up its standard sales commision (Report)

Tyson Foods: Lays off Americans in favor of cheaper immigrants (Article)

Afghanistan: Update (Article)

Gaza: U.S. Constructing new pier to boost Palestinian migration to Europe? (Report)

The Pandemic: The “I told you so’s” continue (Article)

Space-X is building spy satellite network for U.S. Government (Report)

U.S. Cancer deaths: Spiked in COVID years (Report)

Crude Oil: Becoming a weapon as Russian refineries attacked (Report)

Parents: Found guilty of son’s crimes (Report)

Chicago: 1 dead, 12 wounded in weeend shootings (Report)

A naked man was arrested after a SWAT standoff (Report)

EDITORIAL: The Crumbley Case

In these days, there is risk in reacting to what the providers of “news” tell us; they do not seem trustworthy as they once did. But if, as the accounts state, Mr. and Mrs. Crumbly were unaware of their teenage son’s plan to murder schoolmates and shoot up the school, their trials and convictions for not somehow preventing his crime is unconscionable. With that sort of risk involved, who will want the risk of becoming a parent?

Criminal prosecution has become a political tool in the U.S. As Mr. Trump’s current cases illustrate; perhaps there is an unreported political element here. Regardless, it is a notable expansion of the current trend towards governmental benefit from the presence of children while holding parents accountable for their production and maintenance. That may relate to the declining birth rate. So also does the Crumbley case.

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

FROM THE WEEK:

Electric cars dirty the environment worse than gas powered (Report)

COVID: Free test program being suspended (Report)

Doctors: Worry vaccination will produce increase in prion brain disease (Article)

The Pandemic: Dr. Anthony Fauci’s article questioning the efficacy of vaccinations (Article)

The Annual Flu Shot: Is being transformed into a COVID-type MRNA injection? (Report)

Income needed to afford a U.S. Home up 80% since 2020 (Report)

Satellites: Breakneck expansion (Article)

U.S. President Biden: Will cap credit card late fees (Report)

Atlanta: 19,000 single family homes owned by three corporations (Article)

U.S. Social Security/Medicare: Death by Congressional neglect? (Article)

U.S. Government: Grants $200 thousand for transgender voice training (Report)

Egypt: Forced into massive devaluation of its currency (Report)

Russia: A wartime economic crisis (Article)

The Pandemic: CDC admits COVID can be treated like the flu (Report)

Donald Trump: A somewhat different analysis (Article)

World War Three: An interestingthough debateable projection (Article)

U.S. Navy: To provide security while U.S. Builds a port in Gaza (Report)

President Biden: To propose massive tax increase (Report)

Credit Cards: U.S. Debt hits new high (Report)

U.S. Congress: Democrats’ bill would would would give Justice Dept veto over state, local election laws (Report)

Daylight Saving Time: A U.S. History (Article)

Japan: Meltdown as deaths double new births (Article)

The Financial Crisis begins (Article)

Syria: Update (Article)

Warplanes: The F – 35 in action (Article)

U.S. Economy: Layoffs surging (Report)

The U.S. Capitol Riot: Lawsuits against Trump to proceed (Report)

U.S. Court: upholds program importing 30,000 asylum seekers monthly (Report)

Ukraine: A decade of CIA operations (Article)

A Low Trust Society is an impoverished society (Article)

Haiti: U.S. Evacuating nonessential embassy personnel (Report)

U.S. Federal CDC: Responded to GOIA request for COVID risks information with 148 blanked out pages (Report)

Univ. of VA: Employs 235 DEI staff for $20 million per year; some earning a half million (Report)

Chicago: 2 dead, 14 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A Russian singer was arrested after his nude performance went viral (Report)

EDITORIAL: Cutting Through the Fog

Understanding our government is not difficult, it is just inconvenient. Human behavior is an uncomfortable element of our reality; it wars with human aspirations. We paper over the discomfort with the necessary level of self-delusion. Governments are not staffed wit saints; the needs of pursuing power are corrupting and so, those pursuing it are corrupt as the governed will allow. Presently, the governed have largely abandoned America’s traditional Christian rectitude in favor of convenient abortion and an attitude of entitlement. This makes citizens who are suckers for politicians who promise to take from someone else and give to you. We will close our eyes and refuse to notice that someone else always ends as our neighbors and ourselves. From that, we deserve our results. And as that finally sinks in we scramble to find some else to receive the blame. Normal human behavior, no?

To this we are adding technology that provides governors the ability to monitor, track and supervise most of our daily lives; do we really expect them to refuse that opportuity? Such nobility would not fit human behavior; if it did, we would not require governors.

The world, not just the U.S. Is reverting to autocratic government with only increasingly corrupt human governors currently available. Given the general assumed entitlement, it is going to be a rough ride for a while. Have you wondered why the U.S. Government is fillin the country with dependent foreigners at a time when resident citizens are already having an increasingly difficult time?

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

FROM THE WEEK:

Informant in Biden bribery scandal jailed indefinitely (Report)

U.S. Government wants to know race and gender of all broadcasting employees (Report)

Female convict forced to bunk with transgender rapist (Report)

U.S. Government disinterest in illicit Chinese biolab in California (Article)

Nigeria: Unions strike protesting inflation, economic failure (Report)

Japan: Sets record low new births (Report)

U.S. January 6 mystery pipe bombs (Article)

Defense spending rises with nearness to Russia (Article)

China/Taiwan: February, 2024 (Article)

White House: Warns Fox News to stop covering Biden corruption (Report)

Air Transportation: Israeli airliner finds problems over Somalia (Report)

Pakistan: Status (Article)

Large U.S. Employers in massive layoffs (Report)

U.S. Energy: Wearing dirty clothes to save the planet? (Report)

X (Twitter): Reintroduces pronoun censorship (Report)

U.S. Government: Prosecuting journalist for January 6 reporting (Report)

U.S. Capitol Riot: Appeals court rules many rioters sentences excessive (Report)

Anti-Christian Left’s dishonest attack on “Christian Nationalists” (Article)

U.S. Pharmacies: Will dispense “abortion pill” where state law allows (Report)

Russia: Botnets on the offensive (Article)

Western Birth Rates: Are too low BECAUSE ABORTIONS ARE TOO HIGH (Article)

Illegal U.S. Immigrants financed by taxpayers (Report)

Climate change data problems revealed by scientists (Article)

Chicago: 4 dead, 17 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)N\

EDITORIAL: Some Changes Have Been Made

For the first three quarters of last century, America was a distinctly middle class country. Its family model was a male breadwinner supporting a housewife and children. But then, changes began and are still proceeding today. With surprisingly little attention, the middle class housewife began to disappear in the 1970’s as erstwhile housewives had to doin the workforce to make ends meet for faily finances. This financial retreat was camoflauged vy the inflation that gobbled up the value of nominally increasing paychecks. A reality was the addition of women to the workforce held down the pay of men.

Government is not resting upon these layrels: It is busy reducing the available energy, degrading the qualit of industrial production (to save the planet) and flooding Europe and the U.S. With cheap and relatively uneducated illegal foreign labor at the samme time that domestic jobs no longer pay enough to support a family. Add to that, government continues to operate by expansion of debbt past anything likely to be repaid by increasingly impoverished citizens. And citizens who enter politics univnited suddenly find themselves criminally charged in apparently corrupt courts.

Two simple statistics condense this tale simply: U.S. Government spending to GDP and U.S. Household Income quintiles. A glance at these suggests that the U.S. Government share of the economy has burgeoned as the majority of citizens’ shares has declined, So much the reality of human

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

FROM THE:

U.S. Immigration: Subsidies for both legal and illegal migrants (Article)

U.’s. Elections: Efforts to improve security facing challenges (Report)

Estonia: Building a fence on its Russian border (Article)

Science: Evidence that men’s and women’s brains do differ? (Article)

U.S. Immigration: Nearly 7.2 million illegals have entered under the Biden administration (Report)

The Pandemic: Vaccines tied to heart, brain and other injuries by new research (Report) (More)

U.S. Cities: 70% of largest are spendthrifts (Article)

U.S. Gasoline: Biden to approve year round sales of ethanol (Report)

Scanning QR codes via smartphone can endanger your wealth (Report)

Designed lifespan of large home appliances shrinking (Report)

Globalism: A current Christian criticism (Article)

Naval Warfare will never be the same (Article)

Iran: Update (Article)

Cell Phones: Major U.S. Nationwide outage (Report)(More)

Half of U.S. College grads’ jobs unrelated to their degrees (Article)

Weight loss drugs: A conundrum (Article)

Flushing the water from toilets (Article)

Elections: Google can swing up to 30% of the voters? (Article)

GROQ AI: A solution for Chat GPT’s difficulty? (Article)

The dark side of AI (Article)

Science: An improved battery for electric vehicles? (Report)

Navigation: New, unjammable magnetic system to supplement or replace GPS? (Article)

Artificial Intelligence: Is the human world ready for Chat GPT 5? (Article)

Science: New technology recognizes human emotions in real time (Report)

More Science: A breakthrough in using light (Report)

Still More Science: Using AI to progress in nuclear science (Report)

U.S. Government: Wants to dictate race/gender of broadcaster’s staffs? (Report)

The Pandemic: What public health agencies aren’t disclosing about COVID vaccines (Article)

Canada: Doctor offers to euthanize woman paralyzed by COVID shot (Report)

Space Satellites: Dependable and expendable (Article)

Gun turrets with AI operators (Article)

Brazil: Massive protest for Bolsonaro against Lula’s legal attacks (Report)

Chicago: 3 dead, 16 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A naked man was arrested dancing in the street (again) (Report)

EDITORIAL: Brazil and the United States

In an interesting parallel, the two largest American countries are both currently watching their governments corrupted into political weapons for use against political opponents at the top ranks. In Brazil, current President Lula, a leftist whisked after five months from prison for corruption into the presidency, is investigating his right wing predecessor Bolsonaro with evident thoughts of a tit for tat incarceration.

In the U.S. We find President Biden, a Leftist, eggomg pm ,i;to[;e [rpsecitopms pf jos [redecesspr, President Trump who seems something of a populist. In both cases, incumbent pols are subverting the governmental machinery toward political use; that is corruption.

The bottom line: A place where political power is used to subvert intended procedures cannot be a democracy. When politicians overrule the demos by breaking rules, you have at the least, an autocracy and corruption of the rule of law. It has been said that democracies are inherently unstable and short lived; these two seem particularly worthy of current attention as they proceed to confuse or validate that view..

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSdING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

FROM THE:

U.S. Homes: More squatters taking homes as ownership becoming unaffordable (Article)

The Pandemic: Tens of thousands of elderly euthanized to inflate COVID deaths? (Report)

Electric Vehicles: Heavy, heavy hangs over they head (Articled)

The Pandemic: CDC buried Its own myocarditis warning in 2021 (Article)

U.S. Commercial Real Estate: Crisis unfolding? (Report)

Ukraine: Replacing ships with USV’s (Article)

Russia: Arctic bases unsafe from Ukrainian attack (Article)

Teamsters demand drivers in driverless trucks (Report)

U.S. Casualties: 186 dead or hurt in 170 recent Middle East attacks on troops (Report)

U.S. Finance: The Fed is juicing the system by a backdoor bank bailout (Article)

More Finance: The Fed is worried by government debt interest and spending (Article)

Russia: Is running out of tanks (Article)

Surveillance: CIA asked foreign spy agencies to target Trump campaign (Report)

Georgia: Investigation shows thousands of illegal votes cast in elections (Report)

Censorship: Recruiting judges to protect vote fraud? (Report)

Censorship: A new American industry (Article)

Israel: Northern war heating up alongside Gaza in the south (Article)

Money: The CBDC indoctrination has begun (Article)

U.S. Immigration: Funded via the U.N. With U.S. Money (Article)

Remote War: Fighting foreign opponents from bases in the U.S. (Article)

Alabama: Real Estate Board sued over race quota (Report)

U.S. Military: Facing a historic recruiting problem (Report)

U.S. Political Left: Quietly backing away from Leftism? (Article)

Japan: Slides into recession (Report)

U.K. In recession (Report)

Israel: Update (Article)

Russia: Weapons production failing to support war needs (Article)

Iran: Now claims ownership of Antarctica (Report)

U.S. Finance: Capital controls are imminent? (Article)

Science: A new type of magnetism promises a leap forward in electronics (Article)

More Science: The coming disappearance of the Atlantic (Article)

Free Speech: Does it have an American future? (Article)

E.U. : Brussels threatens to flood continent with migrants (Article)

Yemen: Update (Article)

U.S. Spending: What Senate would spend on Ukraine, Israel (Article)

Texas: Universities admit continuing DEI programs despite new state law (Report)

Mystery dog disease sweepng the U.S. (Report)

U.S. Physician’s group files brief against Biden in COVID (Report)

Chicago: 1dead, 17 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A naked man :was arrested strutting naked at airport (Report)

EDITORIAL: Alexei Navalny … and Donald Trump

The Russian political dissident is described as a minor political figure publicly opposed to Vladimir Putin, which may have had something to do with his imprisonment and death. In Russia, that’s probably the way to bet on such things. That seems unlikely to surprise anyone. But how many of those aware of these facts and living elsewhere ache to emigrate to Russia?

In America, the current government appears to be providing Donald Trump with the current U.S. Version of Mr. Navalny’s treatment: Experts have been quoted pointing toward the dubious nature of the published accusation and of the described characters of some of the accusers. It seems a program intended to demolish Trump’s electability while breaking him financially and ultimatly jailing him. If it works as seemingly planned. But that bet is not the only concern here: After some thought, It seems likely that Mr. Putin’s public opponents of Navalny’s tupe will be few. And likewise, political wanna-be’s who impose themselves upon a U.S. Political party will be few. Clearly, neither is wanted.

This suggests that a timely question for american voters is: Do you want to live in a place evidently moving toward current Russian ideas of government?