tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858417871397567272024-03-19T01:48:30.173-07:00Maggie's Madness Drug War Chronicles Baja CaliforniaA continuation of events surrounding the drug war and related social issues of Baja California and Mexico. Keeping an eye on Seig Heil Trump. We are still trying to restore all blogs from 2006 which were hacked by Linton Robinson and his team, famous for supporting the Baja Trump Towers on one of his real estate sites. Highlights of Paris-Simone's favorite music !!Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.comBlogger1137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-91052845089970440132023-07-30T03:43:00.025-07:002023-07-31T06:48:45.677-07:00Only In Santa Cruz ------ Link To Poland: The Suwalki Gap<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Ictf0sxRE_9LPN2tedPTk8jQIMI1INWE93i_Ot3xeY70c8yIaGpeXlVfOnzA-fxAFsqZT6KwJRePbE5LHg8iPIU12-n0UFII1lOZ3ypWfgQLpoGPk9n51MFjX2SNBcVAG4DYuMkkSavIPwSnrClyuI-SC_4OI84bkAWavUcmt3vrNd-BoAtxeDkT-K4r/s1080/361090084_18375972109060937_7418242044301672864_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Ictf0sxRE_9LPN2tedPTk8jQIMI1INWE93i_Ot3xeY70c8yIaGpeXlVfOnzA-fxAFsqZT6KwJRePbE5LHg8iPIU12-n0UFII1lOZ3ypWfgQLpoGPk9n51MFjX2SNBcVAG4DYuMkkSavIPwSnrClyuI-SC_4OI84bkAWavUcmt3vrNd-BoAtxeDkT-K4r/w640-h426/361090084_18375972109060937_7418242044301672864_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><i>Maybe by the end of the week they will have captured her:</i></p><p><i> ~ From Surfer Magazine:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/surfboard-stealing-sea-otter-sparks-controversy-in-santa-cruz">Surfboard Stealing Sea Otter Sparks Controversy In Santa Cruz</a></i></p><p><i>By, Dashel Pierson</i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i>Meanwhile, check out the trend and how people are cashing in on the plight of 841:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Bumper stickers:</i></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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Monday I have two appointments and one more lab to do, worn out. But you guys have the links, and <a href="https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/07/29/wagner-forces-in-belarus-have-moved-towards-suwalki-gap-for-hybrid-attack-on-poland-says-pm/">keep an eye on the Wagner boyz hanging out around Poland, bad news.</a></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Luckily it hasn't been really hot here but it has been muggy. The more I read about Hawaii, the more I am turned off. Pro Publica did a series of reports on Hawaii which you might be interested in; in some cases, their reports inspired government intervention:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i> ~ From ProPublica:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><a href="https://www.propublica.org/series/promised-land">Promised Land</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><div><i><a href="https://www.propublica.org/series/promised-land">A Failed Housing Pledge to Native Hawaiians</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>~~~~~</div><div><i>An older report:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><a href="https://www.propublica.org/series/paradise-lost">Paradise Lost</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div>~~~~~</div><div><br /></div><div><i>If you go to a search on google street views, you can pretty much scout out the neighborhoods, and it is shocking how many of them are below poverty level, some even worse than they are down here. The drugs and crime are problematic, and of course, the traffic is ridiculous. Oh brother.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>So maybe I'll go back to looking at Santa Cruz again. I also got some <a href="https://www.hawaiiliving.com/1302-nehoa-street-makiki-heights-home-for-sale-202313822/">creepy feelings</a> looking at some very old houses, like they were haunted and I would never be comfortable visiting the Plantation Museum in Oahu where so many people suffered as slave laborers. Aloha.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Problem is, I think the locals might be pissed off at me up in Santa Cruz because I think 841 probably needs to go to the Monterey hospital and be checked out.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Wish me luck, should be back in a couple of weeks.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>A song for 841:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div></div>
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Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-19859019413900085602023-07-21T16:21:00.002-07:002023-07-21T16:21:20.551-07:00Tony Bennett RIP<p><i>Wasn't he a doll ?</i> <i>Just a little while ago....go daddy go...πππππ</i></p>
...............<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xyTa_gJkYwI" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-6501271186242464372023-07-18T00:50:00.264-07:002023-07-19T01:18:51.426-07:00Poor Baby Totoabas and Vaquitas ! The Totoaba Cartel !!! - 07/19: Adding Press Release From The Animal Welfare Institute<p> <i>All last week plus a couple more days, I was swamped with Doctor appointments and Vet appointments. Actually, I'm not doing any of the driving due to my knee, Mike does it all, as you know, I just hobble along. </i></p><p><i>But there is good news, I go in for a pre-op the end of next week, and so far the knee surgery is set up (can you believe it ) for Friday, August the 4th. After all this time in knee limbo this is shocking news. Don't know all of the details but when I find out, I'll let you know. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnslfG5Wal95tXrM-M-oiFVAkuoD1DrY0MtrmpFTsqQ9Ed_K3TWYmVSEo3vUR9OTWsmEBP3hZ9HPcgqNKJf6PP-al9E_f5g8fn9Nn4Oo74yO0P1B18h0oHHs5-G0pxEsOIXgD3BeLbRRLqRWMyTsRvDCa52QeGN8V6t5RzFa7GDFvyj7DGOx4GhJAdcldv/s880/download.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="880" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnslfG5Wal95tXrM-M-oiFVAkuoD1DrY0MtrmpFTsqQ9Ed_K3TWYmVSEo3vUR9OTWsmEBP3hZ9HPcgqNKJf6PP-al9E_f5g8fn9Nn4Oo74yO0P1B18h0oHHs5-G0pxEsOIXgD3BeLbRRLqRWMyTsRvDCa52QeGN8V6t5RzFa7GDFvyj7DGOx4GhJAdcldv/w400-h246/download.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Bernie in Vermont after the deluge</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><i><br /></i><p></p><p><i>So, the blog is really behind, sorry. I'm just going to put up a couple of reports and come back to the real nitty gritty asap. First though, I've been following weather in the States and Hawaii. Mike desperately needs some new shorts (10") - his are threadbare. The faves are the ones at the Vermont Country Store, but I didn't want to bother them with the<a href="https://fagenwasanni.com/ai/extreme-weather-conditions-sweep-across-the-united-states/55574/"> intense and horrid flooding.</a> So, he will have to wait.</i></p><p><i>More<a href="https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/video/2023/07/18/hawaii-island-under-tropical-storm-watch-calvin-tracks-toward-state-bringing-threat-flooding/"> flooding on the way in Ha</a></i><i><a href="https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/video/2023/07/18/hawaii-island-under-tropical-storm-watch-calvin-tracks-toward-state-bringing-threat-flooding/">waii </a>due to Tropical Storm Calvin. If you happen to be looking for real estate there make sure the real estate agent has a flood indicator. I'm ready to give up, the housing is so expensive, and every house I like is destined to be flooded out. Look at <a href="https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2376-Oahu-Ave_Honolulu_HI_96822_M85589-44007?from=srp-list-card">this one </a>- but no backyard plus I would have to rob a bank. </i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilSBaRzXz2go_VY_LDL28s4-s47SRIOcIBVbpSLBvY55qWEjg9sLjMs_UrfeSQBOjR_9PeVBP9BBHbQiv97aj0sBNW5Ankm5-rZK2n4mMG_MmUDdp0PNmb63ucOcOixmg_UyJXVs0mmylOy0rsavH79OAKs-uWFhDOLgJdWyIeY64uTONn8m1jy4OnT160/s1474/ScreenHunter-1617.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="1474" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilSBaRzXz2go_VY_LDL28s4-s47SRIOcIBVbpSLBvY55qWEjg9sLjMs_UrfeSQBOjR_9PeVBP9BBHbQiv97aj0sBNW5Ankm5-rZK2n4mMG_MmUDdp0PNmb63ucOcOixmg_UyJXVs0mmylOy0rsavH79OAKs-uWFhDOLgJdWyIeY64uTONn8m1jy4OnT160/w400-h204/ScreenHunter-1617.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Precious</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><i>Quickly, because I'm overdue for a voltaren, check this out from Zeta:</i><p></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/07/biden-amenaza-a-mx-con-sanciones-comerciales-si-no-protege-a-vaquitas-marinas-y-totoabas-en-un-ano/">Biden Amenaza a MX Con Sanciones Comerciales Si No Protege a Vaquitos Marinos y Totoabas En Un Ano</a></i></p><p><i>Por, Carlos Alvarez - 07/17/23</i></p>
<i></i>"The president of the United States, Joseph Biden, urged, on July 17, 2023, the Mexican government to intensify conservation efforts for the vaquita and totoaba, two endangered species, threatening possible trade sanctions if they do not there were results in the same month next year.<div><br /></div><div> In a letter addressed to the US Congress, the US president explained that he had ordered various federal agencies in his country to hold a high-level meeting with the Mexican government, to "address the steps to follow to reduce illegal trafficking of totoaba and ensure the conservation of the vaquitaβ.</div><div><br /></div>
At this meeting, the US government will urge its Mexican counterpart to "strengthen the implementation" of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, in addition to establishing a calendar to review progress in the protection of both species.
Biden also instructed the Government that he heads, to support Mexico in the tasks of combating the trafficking of the aforementioned species and to train the Mexican authorities in the event that they so request.<div><br /></div><div> In his letter, the US president explained that at the moment no trade sanctions would be imposed on Mexico for this matter, but he instructed his Administration to submit a report to him in July 2024 to decide whether or not to adopt restrictions.</div><div><br /></div><div> "The report will be used as a basis to assess whether additional measures are necessary, including possible trade restrictions," said President Biden, who also acknowledged that the government led by his counterpart AndrΓ©s Manuel LΓ³pez Obrador had taken some actions.</div><div><br /></div><div> However, the US president expressed the opinion in his letter that the government headed by the politician from Tabasco had to "do more" to protect both species or else "the totoaba population will continue to decline and the vaquita will soon become extinct."</div><div><br /></div><div> The United States Department of the Interior expressed its concern in May 2023 about "totoaba trafficking and the inadequate conservation" of said species. In February of the same year, the US Government considered that Mexico was violating the environmental chapter of the T-MEC.</div><div><br /></div><div> While the non-governmental organization Sea Shepherd, which works for the preservation of these species in collaboration with the governments of both countries, registered at the beginning of June 2023, the existence of between 10 and 13 specimens of vaquita porpoise.</div><div><br /></div><div> On June 24, 2023, the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) of the Government of Mexico announced changes to the Zero Tolerance Zone polygon, where the vaquita and totoaba live, following a 79 percent reduction. percent of illegal fishing in that area.</div><div><br /></div><div> Through a statement, SEMARNAT informed that these modifications would be analyzed with the experience of the fishing sector and civil society, since the updating of the loading and unloading sites was also pending, as well as the schedules for the fishing activity.</div><div><br /></div><div> One of the changes was to expand the Zero Tolerance Zone to four kilometers "on two sides of the aforementioned polygon adjacent to the coastline so that in October of this year 216 cubes will be added to the 193 existing ones."</div><div><br /></div><div> As well as "strengthening operations with maritime, land and air patrols, with manned and unmanned units during the months of September and October corresponding to the shrimp fishing season."</div><div><br /></div><div> Similarly, SEMARNAT assured that these actions would be carried out by the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), under its supervision, in order to have scientific evidence of how the vaquita contributed to changes in the flow of the Colorado River and the salinization of the ecosystem.</div><div><br /></div><div> "It is expected to have evidence, through isotopes, of the environmental conditions to which the population of the vaquita has been historically subjected in the last seven or eight decades," said SEMARNAT, which also announced that it was working on a community project for the installation of a totoaba farm, so that said species could be commercialized and its illegal fishing could be avoided.</div><div><br /></div><div> On May 25, 2023, SEMARNAT announced that it was working on an action plan with seven lines and 34 goals, to prevent illegal fishing and trade in totoaba and protect the vaquita. </div><div><br /></div><div> SEMARNAT indicated that said plan was approved by the General Secretariat of the International Convention on Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) on April 13, 2023 and was immediately launched.</div><div><br /></div>
<div> INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION WILL RESTORE FLORA AND FAUNA TRADE WITH MX,WITH PLAN TO PROTECT TOTOABA</div><div><br /></div><div> The General Secretariat of the International Convention on Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), approved the action plan presented by the Government of Mexico, to prevent illegal fishing and trade of totoaba, In addition to protecting the vaquita, as reported on April 13, 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER).</div><div><br /></div><div> The fishing of this endemic fish of the Gulf of California, with a high value in Asian markets, has caused the incidental capture of the vaquita or cochito, a species of odontocete cetacean of the Phocoenidae family, one of the seven species of porpoise, which is about to become extinct.</div><div><br /></div><div> The prohibition fell on 3 thousand 148 species registered by the National Commission for the Knowledge and use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) before CITES, 2 thousand 513 of plants and 635 of animals. The Convention is an international agreement between 184 governments.</div><div><br /></div><div> According to his own description, CITES - which was signed in Washington, DC, on March 3, 1973, and entered into force on July 1, 1975 - has the purpose of ensuring that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants, does not constitute a threat to the survival of the species. </div><div><br /></div><div> With this measure, the recommendation to member countries to suspend all trade with Mexico in species of flora and fauna included in its appendices will be withdrawn. The approval came after a delegation of representatives from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), the Navy (SEMAR) and SADER, traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, on March 27, 2023. to hold a meeting with CITES representatives.</div><div><br /></div><div> At said meeting, the action plan was reviewed and adjusted according to the observations of said international organization. The endorsed plan considers compliance with all decisions and resolutions issued by CITES and contemplates seven lines of action and 34 goals, SADER said in a statement.</div><div><br /></div><div> Among the agreed lines of action are those of preventing the entry of vessels to the Zero Tolerance Zone (Zo) of the Upper Gulf of California, as well as keeping it free of gillnets and strengthening intelligence actions to combat organized crime. transnational that controls the illegal traffic of totoaba.</div><div><br /></div><div> Likewise, the plan of the Government of Mexico -approved by the International Convention on Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora- has the goals of installing long-range video surveillance, intensifying maritime, land and air patrols, and destroying networks found in ribbon.</div><div><br /></div><div> "Our country recognizes the willingness of CITES to work with the Mexican delegation and reiterates its commitment to the communities that inhabit the area of ββthe Upper Gulf of California to achieve their well-being and sustainable development, as well as to the families that sustainably use flora species. and fauna, helping to conserve our country's biodiversity," said SADER. </div><div><br /></div><div> INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION PROHIBITS FLORA AND FAUNA TRADE WITH MEXICO, FOR NOT PROTECTING THE TOTOABA</div><div><br /></div><div> The International Convention on Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), prohibited, on March 27, 2023, all trade in flora and fauna with Mexico, due to the deficient Action Plan that the Mexican Federal Government presented, the February 27 of this year. to combat totoaba trafficking. </div><div><br /></div><div> The fishing of this endemic fish of the Gulf of California, with a high value in Asian markets, has caused the incidental capture of the vaquita or cochito, a species of odontocete cetacean of the Phocoenidae family, one of the seven species of porpoise, which is about to become extinct. </div><div><br /></div><div> The prohibition falls on 3,148 species registered by the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) before CITES, 2,513 of plants and 635 of animals. The Convention is an international agreement between 184 governments. </div><div><br /></div><div> According to his own description, CITES - which was signed in Washington, DC, on March 3, 1973, and entered into force on July 1, 1975 - has the purpose of ensuring that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants, does not constitute a threat to the survival of the species. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> Recognizing the ban, the Mexican Federal Government announced, on March 26, 2023, that it would send a delegation to Geneva, Switzerland, to meet with CITES representatives and the requested comments on its work plan.</div><div><br /></div><div> βThe Government of Mexico considers an inequitable treatment towards our country by not taking into account the effort that has been made and that CITES has publicly recognized, but despite this, it is open to dialogue and willing to attend to the observations of that body. ", he claimed. </div><div><br /></div><div> Through a joint communiquΓ©, the secretariats of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), the Navy (SEMAR) and Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER), claimed the co-responsibility of the countries of transit and destination of totoaba trafficking, as well as international financing to combat it.</div><div><br /></div><div> βThe Government of Mexico considers an inequitable treatment towards our country by not taking into account the effort that has been made and that CITES has publicly recognized, but despite this, it is open to dialogue and willing to attend to the observations of that body. ", he pointed.</div><div><br /></div><div> βMexico showed its goodwill by submitting a preliminary version of the Action Plan in advance to receive comments, which were addressed in the final document. For its preparation, there was a broad participation of 10 institutions at the highest level that are committed to following up and complying with the actions proposed before the international instance, βsaid the Mexican Government.</div><div><br /></div><div> "This resolution indicates that even though the CITES General Secretariat recognizes the commitment of our country, it considers that it does not have all the necessary elements for proper monitoring, which is why it issuing a recommendation to member countries to suspend all trade with Mexico of species included in its Appendices, which will remain in force until it receives an Action Plan that it deems appropriate," it detailed in its statement.</div><div><br /></div><div> βIt is important to point out that in the problem of illegal totoaba trafficking there is an international co-responsibility of transit and destination countries. Likewise, it is necessary to comply with the offer of CITES to finance studies in attention to the Upper Gulf of California. The Government of Mexico reiterates its willingness to work together to reverse this decision and specifically address the specific issues that are required of it, "he concluded.</div><div><br /></div><div>MEXICO PRESENTS PLAN AGAINST TOTOABA TRAFFICKING
</div><div><br /></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The Government of Mexico delivered, on March 1, 2023, its action plan to combat totoaba trafficking, which it had promised to present to the International Convention on Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES, for its acronym in English).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The plan is part of the measures requested to protect the vaquita in the Upper Gulf of California. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">According to a statement from the Ministry of the Environment (SEMARNAT), it was presented by the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations (UN) and other international organizations based in Geneva, Switzerland, with corrections to a first version delivered at the beginning of February. of 2023.</span></span></p><div class="td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_80 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type" data-td-block-uid="tdi_80" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.74; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 21px; padding-bottom: 16px; position: relative;"><div class="tdb-block-inner td-fix-index" style="box-sizing: border-box; transform: translateZ(0px);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The Government of Mexico proposed among its lines of action to prevent the entry of vessels to the zero tolerance area in said region, as well as to keep it free of gillnets. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Likewise, it undertook to monitor the effective compliance of the authorized loading and unloading sites, in addition to a program for marking and monitoring fishing equipment for small vessels.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The action plan also provides for the monitoring of the vaquita population, the establishment of a contact group for law enforcement, as well as financial intelligence to combat totoaba trafficking.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">CITES, and other international organizations, had called on the Government of Mexico to urgently adopt more effective measures to curb totoaba trafficking and protect the vaquita.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The delivery of the action plan was agreed within the framework of the nineteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-19) and the 75th meeting of the Standing Committee (SC-75) of CITES, which were held in Panama in November 2022.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"The Action Plan, whose reception has already been confirmed, complies with the guidelines agreed at COP19, with the recommendations of SC75, and with the determinations of the report on the results of the Visit-Mission (carried out by a group of CITES experts )β, indicated SEMARNAT.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">βTakes into account the considerations expressed by the international community in other forums and instruments of a regional and multilateral nature, with the purpose of generating synergies that allow strengthening the results of the actions that the Government of Mexico carries out in the Upper Gulf of California. β, added the institution, whose owner is MarΓa Luisa Albores GonzΓ‘lez.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">THE TOTOABA CARTEL, WHICH AFFECTS VAQUITA MARINA, IS DISarticulated, SEMAR SAYS</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Admiral JosΓ© Rafael Ojeda DurΓ‘n, head of the Secretary of the Navy (SEMAR), reported, on January 3, 2023, that they dismantled the Totoaba Cartel, which prevented the rescue actions of the vaquita marina in the Upper Gulf of California.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Likewise, the head of SEMAR pointed out that said criminal organization was engaged in the illegal trafficking of totoaba, a fish also known as "cocaine of the sea", whose crop is sold for up to 5 thousand dollars per kilo, from the coasts of Baja California to the Asian market.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">In addition, during the presidential morning press conference -carried out from the Treasury Room of the National Palace-, the federal official added that the arrest of seven elements of said Cartel was achieved and they are already in prison.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">βIn the upper Gulf of California, in front of San Felipe, there was a cartel called the Totoaba Cartel. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The totoaba was linked to the issue of the vaquita porpoise, and it was possible to dismantle that cartel, seven elements were arrested, who are already in prison, "explained Ojeda DurΓ‘n.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">According to the admiral, in view of this and to rescue said mammal, SEMAR carries out permanent surveillance and monitoring in the zero tolerance zone, as well as maritime and air patrols. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Ojeda DurΓ‘n also indicated that the recovery of gillnets was implemented, the installation of the 'Rinus' radar and the arrest of the leader of the Cartel del Mar.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">In addition, it revealed the total seizures that were carried out in the area, from 2019 to 2022, of which the following stood out: 744 nets recovered and 142 thousand lengths of nets recovered. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Regarding inspections, the following was registered: 2 thousand 42 vessels; </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">12 thousand 314 small vessels; </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">6 thousand 539 vehicles; </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">39 thousand 500 people; </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">and 37 facilities or warehouses.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">βIt is an action that is carried out with various dependencies. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Collaboration agreements were signed and the culture of denunciation was promoted", emphasized the head of SEMAR, regarding the relationship with institutions such as the National Commission for Aquaculture and Fisheries (CONAPESCA), as well as the secretariats of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER) and Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT)."</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">~~~~~</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i>Hmmmmmm......gosh, I heard there weren't any totoabas or vaquitas left in the northern Sea of Cortez, that they are history. Has anyone heard of the Cartel del Mar? Are they the guys shrimping in the contaminated water in front of us ? When were all of these arrests and seizures ? Anyone ? Truth is, AMLO no matter what he says, is simply not an environmentalist, <a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/07/atropellan-a-jaguar-y-a-ocelote-en-carretera-de-qroo-acusan-a-obras-del-tren-maya-amlo-lo-niega/">he never has been.</a></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">~~~~~</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i>Update/edit: Adding this:</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i> ~ From The Animal Welfare Institute</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i>Press Release: 07/17/2023</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i><a href="https://awionline.org/press-releases/president-biden-declines-embargo-products-mexico-vaquita-violation">President Biden Declines to Embargo Products From Mexico For Vaquita Violation</a></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i>
For Immediate Release, July 17, 2023 </i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i> Contact:
Marjorie Fishman, Animal Welfare Institute, margie@awionline.org, (202) 446-2128
Sarah Uhlemann, Center for Biological Diversity, suhlemann@biologicaldiversity.org, (206) 327-2344
Alejandro Olivera, Center for Biological Diversity, aolivera@biologicaldiversity.org, +52 (612) 104 0604 (en espaΓ±ol)</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i> Biden Declines to Embargo Products From Mexico Despite Vaquita Violation</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i> Critical Tool Could Have Helped Save Imperiled Species </i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i> "WASHINGTONβ President Biden announced today that he will not embargo products from Mexico despite the countryβs failure to halt illegal wildlife trade threatening the critically endangered vaquita porpoise.
The decision responds to the U.S. Interior Departmentβs recent certification under the U.S. Pelly Amendment that Mexico has βdiminished the effectivenessβ of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora by not stopping the illegal fishing and trade of totoaba, an endangered fish poached for its swim bladder.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i> The Pelly Amendment authorizes the president to act, including by imposing trade sanctions, against countries determined to be violating international conservation treaties such as CITES. Instead of issuing sanctions today, Biden called for a high-level dialogue between the United States and Mexico on protecting the vaquita from trafficking and directed U.S. agencies to reassess Mexicoβs efforts by July 2024 with the potential for trade sanctions at that time.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i> βIβm disappointed in the U.S. government for doing so little to save vaquitas from extinction," said Sarah Uhlemann, international program director at the Center for Biological Diversity. βThese are the rarest marine mammals in the world, and yet the United States has let the Mexican government off the hook again. Mexico has a long, painful history of failed promises on protecting these little porpoises. The United States needs to apply the strongest pressure and ban seafood from Mexico until thereβs real enforcement on illegal fishing in their habitat. The last 10 vaquitas are at stake.β</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i> The vaquita is the worldβs most critically endangered porpoise, with as few as 10 to 13 animals remaining. Vaquita become entangled in illegal gillnets set to catch totoaba, shrimp and other species in Mexicoβs Upper Gulf of California. Totoaba swim bladders are trafficked primarily to China, where they are sold at exorbitant prices to make soup with purported medicinal benefits.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i> For decades, Mexico has failed to adequately enforce its fishing and wildlife trade laws in the Upper Gulf, causing the vaquita to decline from nearly 600 animals in 1997 to only around a dozen today.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i> βSeven years ago, Mexico promised the United States that it would permanently ban the use of gillnets in all fisheries throughout the vaquitaβs range,β said Zak Smith, director of global biodiversity conservation at NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council). βToday, gillnets are still routinely used in vaquita habitat and the speciesβ population has plummeted to around 10 individuals. The United States should be using all the tools at its disposal, including an embargo on targeted products, to compel Mexico to meet its international obligations and save the species.β</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i> In 2014, in response to Mexicoβs failures, conservationists petitioned the Interior Department to certify Mexico under the Pelly Amendment. In May 2023, after nine years and a federal lawsuit filed by conservation groups, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland certified that Mexican nationals are diminishing the effectiveness of CITES by βengaging in taking and trade of the totoaba fish and the related incidental take of vaquita.β Following such certification, the Pelly Amendment required the president to decide whether to embargo Mexican wildlife products to prompt Mexicoβs compliance.
βWith only a dozen vaquita remaining, the Biden administration must remain vigilant, and ensure that Mexico does not continue to evade its CITES responsibilities,β said DJ Schubert, a wildlife biologist at the Animal Welfare Institute. βWe believe that strong sanctions against Mexico are warranted, and we will continue to demand that the United States exercise all options to ensure Mexico does everything in its power to save the vaquita. The U.S. public will not tolerate our government being complicit in the extinction of a species.β</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i> Although some evidence suggests a reduction in illegal fishing in the βzero tolerance areaβ β core vaquita habitat β recent reports show illegal fishing continues in the Upper Gulf, including in the vaquita refuge and gillnet prohibition area. Mexicoβs September 2020 regulations, which were supposed to meaningfully address illegal fishing, have not been fully implemented or enforced.
Without the removal of illegal gillnets from the entire vaquita habitat, the species will β at best β remain on the brink of extinction."</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i>~~~~~</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i> </i><i> Meanwhile,you've probably already heard or read about <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/santa-cruz-surfing-sea-otter-841-18199752.php">this one. </a></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGk8HEmpR9hmNLnmai03Bmo08v6bgOzfEE6FwNUIQmond23AtdjVnOjKEuQ_MI3HXMarS1fgIywVtn8G1wt_2_DY5a2awZLUPmrke2OobDoy_ur-QbH6pArEbSvWXs66opm8VfDT-DVfCeT40JlX-rYvGKdoiqeZO5arUHT__qDLjteWoOszsWT1OmnuG-/s2200/2200x0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1466" data-original-width="2200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGk8HEmpR9hmNLnmai03Bmo08v6bgOzfEE6FwNUIQmond23AtdjVnOjKEuQ_MI3HXMarS1fgIywVtn8G1wt_2_DY5a2awZLUPmrke2OobDoy_ur-QbH6pArEbSvWXs66opm8VfDT-DVfCeT40JlX-rYvGKdoiqeZO5arUHT__qDLjteWoOszsWT1OmnuG-/w400-h266/2200x0.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i>Nightie night y'all.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i>~~~~</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i>P.S. I am being told there will be about a six months recovery time period...so maybe next year?</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i>Lower Trestles, end of last month...watch out for the ShARks !</i></p></div></div></div>
..........<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E_MlnVueNM0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-12409086233647914342023-07-07T02:30:00.199-07:002023-07-18T02:46:14.984-07:00I'm Working On the Stats....Maskirovka Anyone ?....Stats Are In<p><i>We are sort of at an impasse here, unsure whether or not it is intentional that Zeta has not reported last months totals of homicidios dolosos (executions) and seems to be avoiding the everyday day to day murders of the drug war between the cartels to a very large extent.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm5us9NkFf60AAEAcFnDDWFrMbGF8eFVmcqIehYQH04-rSuLrbQWeaqmBvEYKGfgFl0jw4lvCDVy4D9VWYYdnPk7nmNFmFv4rPFYoYtOUX-HEsZayPBqJ9ZjDA6CdNY6ftStA7CXThLhbLYWBGu_ct9oZUPc-gWYkBzHGpUwj1e6LQjpVA5-YfCOQWw7gS/s1280/Pag_2_1z.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm5us9NkFf60AAEAcFnDDWFrMbGF8eFVmcqIehYQH04-rSuLrbQWeaqmBvEYKGfgFl0jw4lvCDVy4D9VWYYdnPk7nmNFmFv4rPFYoYtOUX-HEsZayPBqJ9ZjDA6CdNY6ftStA7CXThLhbLYWBGu_ct9oZUPc-gWYkBzHGpUwj1e6LQjpVA5-YfCOQWw7gS/w400-h300/Pag_2_1z.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i><p></p><p><i>Considering that the Mayor of Tijuana, Montserrat Caballero Ramirez</i> <i>has been holed up at the Army Barracks for " protection" since last month after her body guard was attacked and her claim to having received threatening messages, makes you kind of wonder. Zeta however does recently pose some <a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/06/sin-evidencia-de-amenazas-montserrat-caballero-se-acuartela/">questions as to her new living arrangement.</a> The news focus now seems to be more on the political level and we wonder if Montserrat isn't a part of that during her internment at the barracks. Not to worry,<a href="https://www.uniradioinforma.com/sociedad/reafirma-amlo-su-apoyo-proteccion-alcaldesa-montserrat-caballero-n673876"> Daddy's got your back hon.</a></i></p><p><i>During the Holiday weekend, Rosarito was flush with mucho touristas, not the white eyes, but Mexican-American young people who overall seemed well behaved. No one seemed particularly anxious or fearful and concerned.</i></p><p><i>I was disturbed because a neighbor took pictures of shrimp boats in front of us, three of them, fishing for shrimp. I decided not to publish the pictures of these boats catching the shrimp in the massively contaminated waters (right in the damn plume already) bound for local markets and restaurantes, slightly worried how the Shrimp|Squid Mafia would react. So, looks as though we are in a hear no evil, speak no evil or see no evil dilemma all the way around. Everything's Okay, right ? Still, I'm working on the stats.</i></p><p><i>Meanwhile, here is a link to goings on in the Ukraine;<a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/19083"> Steve Brown tickled me</a> (although the comments didn't quite go along with this perspective) explaining the concept of Maskirovka which I initially thought was behind the the entire Putin escapade...and after his report, I thought - yep. It all ties in how <a href="https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/churchill-bulletin/bulletin-166-apr-2022/the-enigma-of-russia/">Winston Churchhill</a> in 1939 defined Russia: " a riddle, wrapped in mystery, inside an enigma." (oh so you thought that was from<a href="https://youtu.be/3ema7lfEAMk">"JFK"..</a>.)</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/">The KYIV POST</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p>~~~~~</p><p><i>Update/edit around 10:30pm:</i></p><p><i>The Stats Are In. Working back:</i></p><p><i>Uniradio Informa reports in the first week of this month of July, TIJ has had 32 homicidios dolosos (executions) which brings the YTD total in TIJ up to 983 dead:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.uniradioinforma.com/policiaca/registran-primera-semana-mes-32-homicidios-equivalente-homicidio-dia-n680030">Registran en Primera Semana Del Mes 32 Homicidios; Equivalente a Un Homicidio Por Dia</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Uniradio Informa in their 06/29/23 report, 182 Homicidios Dolosos (executions) in TIJ during the month of June which brings the YTD total in TIJ to 951 dead:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.uniradioinforma.com/policiaca/fge-informo-mes-junio-casi-llega-suma-200-homicidios-n678001">FGE Informo Que El Mes de Junio Casi Llege a la Suma de 200 Homicidios</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>An earlier 06/22/23 report from Uniradio Informa breaks down the previous months in TIJ:</i></p><p><i>January = 156</i></p><p><i>February = 148</i></p><p><i>March = 138</i></p><p><i>April = 161</i></p><p><i>May = 169</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.uniradioinforma.com/policiaca/van-906-homicidios-lo-va-2023-134-homicidios-mes-junio-n676283">Van 906 Homicidios En Lo Que Va Del 2023, 134 Homicidios El Mes de Junio</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>So,May & June show definite increase, we'll see how it goes. Still, don't miss all the noticias:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/">Zeta Tijuana</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>The best is here:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://pulsenewsmexico.com/">Pulse News Mexico</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>end edit.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Paris says woof !</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p>
...............<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/63ucJmVonAc" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-52153925632404628862023-07-04T17:40:00.002-07:002023-07-04T17:40:35.830-07:00Happy July the Fourth Y'ALL !<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3EsRpP2En6yDhtZkAnOw5dFlAswXaXqUqGh4CYHJhlOQ7QbqD526oUXJ42lSswaYBfJFJ8Dcs6dTg5tOIN-oQSvN_5uKFNfQDX5moRr4rPNu_1hgVJoexVNhDDAOGFfMLr7r1R6yCekG_hytCflolW3DeHVFlOlIr4N0hKSdoZqJJs6KN0j89e7IK-Nf/s679/81EbzFG9JUL._AC_SX679_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="679" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3EsRpP2En6yDhtZkAnOw5dFlAswXaXqUqGh4CYHJhlOQ7QbqD526oUXJ42lSswaYBfJFJ8Dcs6dTg5tOIN-oQSvN_5uKFNfQDX5moRr4rPNu_1hgVJoexVNhDDAOGFfMLr7r1R6yCekG_hytCflolW3DeHVFlOlIr4N0hKSdoZqJJs6KN0j89e7IK-Nf/w400-h400/81EbzFG9JUL._AC_SX679_.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><i>Well, this was rough. Paris wanted <a href="https://youtu.be/50_iRIcxsz0">"The Battle of New Orleans" </a>because "hounds" were mentioned several times, but I had to explain to her that that was a depiction of events in 1812-1815, although it is a very cool song and one of Johnny Horton's bestest.</i></p><p><i>So, let's go with this...and hope your spirits are high this Independence Day. God bless America.</i></p><p><br /></p>
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~~~~Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-19800740794670021352023-06-30T01:16:00.021-07:002023-07-01T00:34:57.289-07:00A Few Updates Russia-Ukraine<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGgve4P98ZmJKS2IcCvfFGZfNwAiAe79qc2MpzJ58bFz3_hMM9t-L6DUaWeerHQ9t4luRzDRzs6ag6jxu2p72NLkNFPrxx5bcBzU5pBGFKWEM12NwJYwLVpayYWN_6VmdSUgkrwu68UTZ7LxCrbEpy1zCnjSWMiZErl7j2zsi9_XwRmZxouR7DasSz8ibx/s1440/download.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1440" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGgve4P98ZmJKS2IcCvfFGZfNwAiAe79qc2MpzJ58bFz3_hMM9t-L6DUaWeerHQ9t4luRzDRzs6ag6jxu2p72NLkNFPrxx5bcBzU5pBGFKWEM12NwJYwLVpayYWN_6VmdSUgkrwu68UTZ7LxCrbEpy1zCnjSWMiZErl7j2zsi9_XwRmZxouR7DasSz8ibx/w400-h266/download.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sergei & Vlad</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p> <i>I had to take down the Paris meme, "Sergei...Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are" and replace it with Gerasimov due to developing reports that General Sergei Surovikin is being detained:</i></p><p><i> ~ From AP:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-generals-mutiny-putin-prigozhin-surovikin-b2e942036548a05f1f65791d0e70ae17">Russian General Is Believed To Be Detained in Aftermath of Wagner Mutiny, AP Sources Say</a></i></p><p><i>by, Tara Copp & Nomann Merchant</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Still, at this moment, Sky News has not confirmed this arrest but offers background on Sergei, plus Military Experts warnings to "keep an eye on him":</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From Sky News:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/sergei-surovikin-russias-savage-new-commander-in-ukraine-and-why-his-appointment-could-be-an-ominous-sign-of-putins-plan-12717203">Sergei Surovikin: Who Is Russia's 'Savage' commander - And what did He Know About Prigozhin's Wagner Group Mutiny ?</a></i></p><p><i>by, Richard Williams and Michael Drummond 06/29/23</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Poor Paris, she really worked her little paws off, although she is getting quite good on the keyboard.</i></p><p>~~~~~</p><p><br /></p><p><i>More Updates:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ <a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/">The KYIV Post</a></i></p><p><i>.</i></p><p><i> ~ From ALJAZEERA:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/tag/ukraine-russia-crisis/">Russia-Ukraine War</a></i></p><p><i>.</i></p><p><i> ~ From The Washington Post: </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ukraine-russia/">War In Ukraine</a></i></p><p>.</p><p> ~ <i>From The New York Times:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/ukraine-russia?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap">Russia-Ukraine War</a></i></p><p>.</p><p>~~~~~</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Where are you laying your bets ? That the Wagner Rebellion will have curbed Putin's blood thirst for power, that he has been weakened? Or, is it more"... likely he will take the path of escalation"? </i></p><p><i><a href="https://apnews.com/article/bucha-ukraine-war-cleansing-investigation-43e5a9538e9ba68a035756b05028b8b4">Nothing bothers him</a> or his supporters.</i></p><p><i>Consider what the experts are thinking:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From Counterpunch:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/28/russia-the-wagner-insurrection-and-the-perils-of-overwrought-punditry/">Russia, The Wagner Insurrection and the Perils of Overwrought Punditry</a></i></p><p><i>By, Jeffrey Sommers, 06/28/23</i></p><p><i>.</i></p><p><i>I'll be back with the stats.</i></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-3760615102313302252023-06-26T02:39:00.154-07:002023-06-27T21:11:59.706-07:00Well, I Wasn't The Only One.....Updates 06/26 Midday: State Department, Biden, Prigozhin & Putin Speak Out...Late Update 06/27 : US Intelligence KNEW !<p> <i> Apparently there were others who thought Putin and Prigozhin were in cahoots, but the margin was slim:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From Daily Kos:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/23/2177263/-Might-Prigozhin-be-in-cahoots-with-Putin-on-this-rebellion">Update: Nope. I Was Wrong. Might Prigozhin Be In Cahoots With Putin On This Rebellion ?</a></i></p><p><i>By, captainfactoid</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Am I embarrassed? Well, a little even though I still believe anything is possible especially concerning the gangster Russians... and I was spot on regarding Lukashenko. As far as Prigozhin and for that matter Defense Minister Shoigu where the heck are they ?</i></p><p><i>The most important thing at this point is the accepted notion of the dire instability the entire world is now faced with given Putin's position after the "coup that wasn't". Here are a couple of links, R037 has some interesting video and links:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/25/2177479/-Ukraine-Update-The-Coup-that-Wasn-t">Ukraine Update: The Coup That Wasn't</a></i></p><p><i>By, R037</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>From CNN:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/politics/wagner-putin-us-ukraine-analysis/index.html">Putin's Humiliation Will Require the West To Reexamine Its Balancing Act To Save Ukraine</a></i></p><p><i>Analysis by Steven Collinson</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>over and out for now.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Update/edit:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Here are some links with video as to what the State Department, Biden, Prigozhin & Putin have had to say this Monday - everything is still as puzzling in Russia as before, no change:</i></p><p><i> ~ From CNN:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-06-26-23/index.html">Live Updates: The Latest on the Fallout After Wagner's Rebellion in Russia</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p> ~ <i>From Kos:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/26/2177670/-Ukraine-Update-After-a-weekend-of-chaos-no-one-knows-what-happens-next">Ukraine Update: After a Week of Chaos, No One Knows What Happens Next</a></i></p><p><i>By, Mark Sumner</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From Sky News with Key Points:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/russia-ukraine-latest-putin-wagner-prigozhin-belarus-war-live-updates-12541713">Russia-Ukraine Latest: Putin Vows to Bring Rebellion Organisers to Justice in TV Address</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p>~~~~~</p><p><i>Nothing down here at all, nothing at all pure zip on the local level regarding the Russian monsters and AMLO's boyfriend. But wait a minute, first Putin lets Prigozhin off the hook, now so he says, he is after him again.<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/26/2177761/-Putin-rescinds-his-offer-of-Amnesty-for-Prigozhin"> It's a seesaw, Kabuki Theater ! </a>So, who's drivin the boat anyway? </i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i>Update/edit 06/27:</i></p><p><i>1. Visual this morning on CNN Live News: Putin lets Prigozhin off the hook yet again, can't seem to make up his mind. Two jets spotted in Belarus, belonging to Prigozhin.<a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-prigozhin-wagner-belarus-ed3af6c3985242e69b07b6f9494cf117"> From AP.</a></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>2. US Intelligence KNEW this ordeal was going to go down - from late yesterday, early this morning. Hilarious, well AMLO looks like your ass was left out of the loop entirely gee I wonder why.</i></p><p><i> ~ From CNN:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/politics/us-intelligence-wagner-chief/index.html">US Gathered Detailed Intelligence on Wagner Chiefs Rebellion Plans But Kept it Secret From Most Allies</a></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Stay tuned for the stats, it is heating up here.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>end edits.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>.........."but what's puzzling you, is the nature of my game." Could be attributed to Putin the asshole.</i></p><div>............<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GgnClrx8N2k" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-50620733096908507522023-06-23T20:59:00.182-07:002023-06-27T00:09:35.503-07:00Chaos and Mutiny (?) In Russia - Update 06/24 Dark Eyes !<i><i></i></i><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidUduhxAabPU9E26gDh-SSudRHrV5i8-hbVYC_TNF2oTl_IXf1hMGaJb6o4N1EyPXJlC3AgEleTD3DaHynLlXPtqIlAS-eJoNwWn5jj-TsyouE-WbTuKjwm_EMxOsav_O14mXUVgHwiYNEVATloUjStFW1_ssyJX6-PO0NRoimMn8ZUxZQIDeFWvc3Th1a/s400/400.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidUduhxAabPU9E26gDh-SSudRHrV5i8-hbVYC_TNF2oTl_IXf1hMGaJb6o4N1EyPXJlC3AgEleTD3DaHynLlXPtqIlAS-eJoNwWn5jj-TsyouE-WbTuKjwm_EMxOsav_O14mXUVgHwiYNEVATloUjStFW1_ssyJX6-PO0NRoimMn8ZUxZQIDeFWvc3Th1a/w400-h268/400.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Another Asshole In the World", Mike</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><i>Actually Mike, another devil in the world, Prigozhin could be worse than Putin (two war criminals) and he even looks like a demon. Mike also says, "This could be good for Ukraine"; well maybe in the short term, but it also could backfire...I don't trust either one of them. Let's look at the breaking news, but first though, hopefully y'all made it through the recent Titanic disaster,<a href="https://apnews.com/article/submersible-titanic-titan-greek-migrant-shipwreck-7db0c63b4439de820877af272527cb83"> and what a disaster it was. </a>Someone needs to explain to me who was doing the "banging" at thirty minute intervals (which happened way after the implosion...spooky).</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i> Meanwhile, I have had a horrible stomach bacteria for nearly a week from eating fresh wild caught and frozen Argentina shrimp (which was on sale) in a recipe we found over on the Washington Post. I think it was undercooked, just recovering now. BLAH ! </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Here's what I am picking up so far, need to run over to Kos and see what they are reporting; turn your tubes on live news:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Adding this one:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i> ~ From the Daily Kos:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/23/2177257/-Ukraine-update-What-s-this-about-a-Russian-civil-war">Ukraine Update: What's This About a Russian Civil War?</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><i>By, Kos</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Also, go here for more input:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/tags/Ukraine">#Ukraine</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>~~~~~</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i> ~ From BBC with videos:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/ce1qrvlegnyt">Russia</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>~~~~~</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> ~ <a href="https://kyivindependent.com/"><i>The Kyiv Independent</i> </a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>~~~~~</div><div><br /></div><div> ~ <a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/"><i>The Kyiv Post</i> </a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>~~~~~</div><div><br /></div><div> ~ <i>From AP:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><a href="https://apnews.com/hub/russia">Russia</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>~~~~~</div><div><br /></div><div> ~ <i>From Sky News:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/russia-5803">Russia</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/wagner-boss-accuses-russian-military-leaders-of-targeting-his-troops-12908654">Breaking</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>~~~~~</div><div><br /></div><div><i> ~ From CNN:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><a href="https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-06-23-23/index.html">Live Updates</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i><br /></i></div>
...............<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aHiymqGRQBU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Over & Out for now...stats on the way.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>~~~~~</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Update/edit 06/24 @ 3:40pm:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>For the past few hours we've had the news on TV, listening in almost disbelief of the "outcome" of this phoney coup. Although no one so far has alluded to this, Mike does agree that Putin's power role has been diminished, I'm not so sure.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Prigozhin back tracts and announces he is not going all the way to Moscow, it seems he has been forgiven by Putin and sent off to Belarus after a deal brokered by Lukashenko. That Lukashenko could broker anything is a red flag, he's an idiot.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Okay to cut to the quick because I need a nap, I think the whole enchilada was bullshit. I think this was straight out of a Russian Play - that Putin and Prigozhin knew exactly what they were doing and going to say regarding each other, it was all bluster, it was all a show. I think they wanted to see for themselves how many top brass and foot soldiers would defect and join the Wagner Group.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>And, perhaps smoke the rats out - for example, Defense Minister Shoigu and his entourage of Russian Military Top Leadership. Could it be possible that Shoigu or any one of his Generals were the ones who held back ammunition for the Wagners and did Shoigu and his team order the hit(s) on the Wagners in the field? We have been reading that this band of hoodlums have been feeding Putin misinformation for months now on troop readiness and victories, if we can believe what we are reading, but it makes sense.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Pretty simple, but then, I'm not an expert. Just an old surfer. We'll see, right ?</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>end edit. Paris wants her nappies.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>~~~~~</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>BTW, the lyrics for "Dark Eyes" ( a Russian Cabaret song) were written by the Ukrainian Poet Yevhen Hrebinka cerca 1843:</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
..............<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r77Fn5td-n0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-22187817766196519692023-06-17T00:49:00.000-07:002023-06-17T00:49:30.392-07:00Daniel Ellsberg Is Gone<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfc1b8H3bSxSkPYu_XFM04Dmw8KgyC7xxkoBPHp-AV2HOKsdah76Om19FSKkoLMSGPfqOSR7eQwihOUFMgd8HGnd1Vnwqc9UW9Dyg0KZAaPkZnd8olVnpxIVFsOnn7nFjDEf1UpgB7AMej3JE--iKsXWlp44inSy6SFfkfQcUroNJmYgQWIuPMfBBtOg/s900/Fyw8drqacAAhCdc.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="675" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfc1b8H3bSxSkPYu_XFM04Dmw8KgyC7xxkoBPHp-AV2HOKsdah76Om19FSKkoLMSGPfqOSR7eQwihOUFMgd8HGnd1Vnwqc9UW9Dyg0KZAaPkZnd8olVnpxIVFsOnn7nFjDEf1UpgB7AMej3JE--iKsXWlp44inSy6SFfkfQcUroNJmYgQWIuPMfBBtOg/w300-h400/Fyw8drqacAAhCdc.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><i>You will never be able to compare carting off Secret National Documents for a person's egotistic personal needs and making the documents public to protect the public, save countless innocent lives, and expose grand lies. They say that Daniel Ellsberg strongly suspected he would be thrown into prison for a lifetime for what he was about to do, but he never went, and we all prevailed. Although he was Richard Nixon's Public Enemy Number One, in fact, he was a National Hero.</i></p><p><i> ~ From AP:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://apnews.com/article/daniel-ellsberg-vietnam-war-pentagon-papers-12f57b417c372c1b8760a21d447cb502?user_email=d4a3641bf2c6e097d6ca04e99c3fdedab1eb545931a481b4767df43ac96d883c&utm_medium=Afternoon_Wire&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_campaign=AfternoonWire_June16_2023&utm_term=Afternoon%20Wire">Vietnam-era Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>by, Hillel Italie</i></p><p><br /></p>
"NEW YORK (AP) β Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, has died. He was 92.<div><br /></div><div> Ellsberg, whose actions led to a landmark First Amendment ruling by the Supreme Court, had disclosed in February that he was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer. His family announced his death Friday morning in a letter released by a spokeswoman, Julia Pacetti.</div><div><br /></div><div> βHe was not in pain, and was surrounded by loving family,β the letter reads in part. βThank you, everyone, for your outpouring of love, appreciation and well-wishes to Dan in the previous months. It all warmed his heart at the end of his life.β</div><div><br /></div><div> Until the early 1970s, when he disclosed that he was the source for the stunning media reports on the 47-volume, 7,000-page Defense Department study of the U.S. role in Indochina, Ellsberg was a well-placed member of the government-military elite. He was a Harvard graduate and self-defined βcold warriorβ who served as a private and government consultant on Vietnam throughout the 1960s, risked his life on the battlefield, received the highest security clearances and came to be trusted by officials in Democratic and Republican administrations.</div><div><br /></div><div> He was especially valued, he would later note, for his βtalent for discretion.β</div><div><br /></div><div> But like millions of other Americans, in and out of government, he had turned against the yearslong war in Vietnam, the governmentβs claims that the battle was winnable and that a victory for the North Vietnamese over the U.S.-backed South would lead to the spread of communism throughout the region. Unlike so many other war opponents, he was in a special position to make a difference.</div><div><br /></div><div> βAn entire generation of Vietnam-era insiders had become just as disillusioned as I with a war they saw as hopeless and interminable,β he wrote in his 2002 memoir, βSecrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.β βBy 1968, if not earlier, they all wanted, as I did, to see us out of this war.β</div><div><br /></div><div> The Pentagon Papers had been commissioned in 1967 by then-Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, a leading public advocate of the war who wanted to leave behind a comprehensive history of the U.S. and Vietnam and to help his successors avoid the kinds of mistakes he would only admit to long after. The papers covered more than 20 years, from Franceβs failed efforts at colonization in the 1940s and 1950s to the growing involvement of the U.S., including the bombing raids and deployment of hundreds of thousands of ground troops during Lyndon Johnsonβs administration. Ellsberg was among those asked to work on the study, focusing on 1961, when the newly-elected President John F. Kennedy began adding advisers and support units.</div><div><br /></div><div> As much as anyone, Ellsberg embodied the individual of conscience β who answered only to his sense of right and wrong, even if the price was his own freedom. David Halberstam, the late author and Vietnam War correspondent who had known Ellsberg since both were posted overseas, would describe him as no ordinary convert. He was highly intelligent, obsessively curious and profoundly sensitive, a born proselytizer who βsaw political events in terms of moral absolutesβ and demanded consequences for abuses of power.
As much as anyone, Ellsberg also embodied the fall of American idealism in foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s and the upending of the post-World War II consensus that Communism, real or suspected, should be opposed worldwide.</div><div><br /></div><div> The Pentagon Papers were first published in The New York Times in June 1971, with The Washington Post, The Associated Press and more than a dozen others following. They documented that the U.S. had defied a 1954 settlement barring a foreign military presence in Vietnam, questioned whether South Vietnam had a viable government, secretly expanded the war to neighboring countries and had plotted to send American soldiers even as Johnson vowed he wouldnβt.</div><div><br /></div><div> The Johnson administration had dramatically and covertly escalated the war despite the βjudgment of the Governmentβs intelligence community that the measures would notβ weaken the North Vietnamese, wrote the Timesβ Neil Sheehan, a former Vietnam correspondent who later wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning book on the war, βA Bright Shining Lie.β</div><div><br /></div><div> The leakerβs identity became a national guessing game and Ellsberg proved an obvious suspect, because of his access to the papers and his public condemnation of the war over the previous two years. With the FBI in pursuit, Ellsberg turned himself in to authorities in Boston, became a hero to the antiwar movement and a traitor to the warβs supporters, labeled the βmost dangerous man in Americaβ by National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, with whom Ellsberg had once been friendly.</div><div><br /></div><div> The papers themselves were seen by many as an indictment not just of a given president or party, but of a generation of political leadership. The historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt would note that growing mistrust of the government during the Vietnam era, βthe credibility gap,β had βopened into an abyss.β</div><div><br /></div><div> βThe quicksand of lying statements of all sorts, deceptions as well as self-deceptions, is apt to engulf any reader who wishes to probe this material, which, unhappily, he must recognize as the infrastructure of nearly a decade of United States foreign and domestic policy,β she wrote.</div><div><br /></div><div> The Nixon administration quickly tried to block further publication on the grounds that the papers would compromise national security, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the newspapers on June 30, 1971, a major First Amendment ruling rejecting prior restraint. Nixon himself, initially unconcerned because the papers predated his time in office, was determined to punish Ellsberg and formed a renegade team of White House βplumbers,β endowed with a stash of White House βhush moneyβ and the mission of preventing future leaks.
βYou canβt drop it,β Nixon fumed privately to his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman. βYou canβt let the Jew steal that stuff and get away with it. You understand?β</div><div><br /></div><div> Ellsberg faced trials in Boston and Los Angeles on federal charges for espionage and theft, with a possible sentence of more than 100 years. He had expected to go to jail, but was spared, in part, by Nixonβs rage and the excesses of those around him. The Boston case ended in a mistrial because the government wiretapped conversations between a defense witness and his attorney. Charges in the Los Angeles trial were dismissed after Judge Matthew Byrne learned that White House βplumbersβ G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt had burglarized the office of Ellsbergβs psychiatrist in Beverly Hills, California.</div><div><br /></div><div> Byrne ruled that βthe bizarre events have incurably infected the prosecution of this case.β </div><div><br /></div><div> Meanwhile, the βplumbersβ continued their crime wave, notably the June 1972 break-in of the Democratic Partyβs national headquarters, at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. The Watergate scandal didnβt prevent Nixon from a landslide reelection in 1972, but would expand rapidly during his second term and culminate in his resignation in August 1974. U.S. combat troops had already left Vietnam and the North Vietnamese captured the Southern capital, Saigon, in April 1975. </div><div><br /></div><div> βWithout Nixonβs obsession with me, he would have stayed in office,β Ellsberg told The Associated Press in 1999. βAnd had he not been removed from office, he would have continued the bombing (in Vietnam).β</div><div><br /></div><div> Ellsbergβs story was depicted in the 2009 documentary βThe Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.β The movie had its West Coast premiere only a few blocks from the Rand Corp. headquarters in Santa Monica, Ellsberg former workplace. He sent college students with fliers to urge old colleagues to attend the screening, but none attended.</div><div><br /></div><div> Ellsberg was born in Chicago in 1931, to Jewish parents who converted to Christian Science. His father was an unemployed engineer in the early years of the Great Depression and the family later moved to suburban Detroit, where his father worked in a plant making B-24 bombers. Daniel held vivid memories of learning that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, and of reports of the Nazis bombing London and the U.S. bombing Germany and Japan.</div><div><br /></div><div> In his teens, Ellsberg found himself in agreement with Harry Truman and other βCold War liberals,β believing in civil rights and economic justice at home, and containing the Soviet Union overseas. He was also shaped profoundly by personal tragedy. During a car trip in 1946, his father nodded off at the wheel and crashed into a sidewall, killing Ellsbergβs mother and younger sister. Ellsberg would look back with a sense of loss and mistrust β his father, the authority figure, had failed to keep his family safe. </div><div><br /></div><div> With thoughts of becoming a labor organizer, Ellsberg won a scholarship to Harvard University and graduated summa cum laude. He served in the Marines as an act of defiance against his Ivy League background, but eventually returned to Harvard and earned a doctorate in economics. In 1959, he became a strategic analyst at the Rand Corp., a global policy think tank based in Santa Monica, California, and consulted for the Defense Department and the White House on nuclear weapons, nuclear war plans and crisis decision-making. Ellsberg spent two years in the mid-1960s with the State Department in Vietnam, where he learned first-hand how casually military and political officials lied and became convinced the conflict was unwinnable, in part through the firefights with the North Vietnamese that he survived.</div><div><br /></div><div> Encouraged by a close friend from Rand, researcher Anthony J. Russo, Ellsberg had decided by the fall of 1969 that the Nixon administration would continue the policies of other presidents and that the McNamara study needed to be seen. His life would soon resemble an espionage thriller.</div><div><br /></div><div> Ellsberg removed some of the bound, classified volumes from his safe in the Rand offices, placed them in his briefcase and walked past security guards and a sign reading βLoose Lips Sink Ships.β With Russoβs girlfriend owning an advertising agency, Ellsberg spent months copying the documents on an office Xerox machine, sometimes helped by his teenage son Robert. On occasion, the office alarm would mistakenly ring, police would show up, and leave soon after. Ellsberg became so worried that he began slicing off the βTop Secretβ markings from the papers, in case authorities wanted to inspect more closely.</div><div><br /></div><div> Leaking to the Times was not his first choice. He had hoped that government officials, including Kissinger, would read the study and realize the war was hopeless. Legislators turning him down included Sen. William J. Fulbright of Arkansas, the longtime chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, who in 1972 would run for president as an antiwar candidate.</div><div><br /></div><div> A final plot twist was unknown to Ellsberg until decades later. He had showed some of the report to Marcus Raskin and Ralph Stavins of the liberal think tank the Institute for Policy Studies before approaching Sheehan. Only in the early 2000s did he learn that Raskin and Stavins, who had recommended that he speak with Sheehan, had already given some of the papers to the Times reporter. Sheehan, who died in 2021, also defied Ellsbergβs request not to make duplicate copies and did not give him advance notice before the first Times report ran.
βIt was just luck that he didnβt get the whistle blown on the whole damn thing,β Sheehan later said of Ellsberg, whom he regarded as βout of control.β</div><div><br /></div><div> In his later years, a spry, silver-haired Ellsberg became a prominent free speech and anti-Iraq war activist, drawing parallels between U.S. involvement in Iraq and Vietnam, and called for impeachment of President George W. Bush. He expressed similar fears about Afghanistan during the Obama administration, saying it had the potential to become βVietnamistanβ if the U.S. increased troops there.</div><div><br /></div><div> He was active in campaigns to prevent nuclear arms proliferation and drew upon his history in government for the 2017 book βThe Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner,β in which he included a once-top secret document showing that the U.S. had considered launching nuclear attacks on the Chinese in 1958. He also defended other leakers and whistleblowers, among them WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, the government contractor who disclosed details of secret U.S. surveillance programs and is now living in Russia.</div><div><br /></div><div> βMany of the people whistle-blowers work with know the same things and actually regard the information in the same way β that itβs wrong β but they keep their mouths shut,β Ellsberg told The New York Times in 2023.</div><div><br /></div><div> On Friday, Snowden tweeted that he had spoken with Ellsberg last month and found him more concerned about the worldβs fate than about his own.</div><div><br /></div><div> βHe assessed the risk of a nuclear exchange to be escalating beyond 10%,β Snowden wrote. βHe had hoped to dedicate his final hours to reducing it, for all those he would leave behind. A hero to the end.β</div><div><br /></div><div> Ellsberg is survived by his second wife, the journalist Patricia Marx, and three children, two from his first marriage. He and Marx wedded in 1970, the year before the Pentagon Papers were made public. In a New York Times wedding announcement, he was identified as a βsenior research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyβs Center for International Studies, where he was writing a critical study of United States involvement in Vietnam.β</div><div><br /></div><div> ___</div><div><br /></div><div> Associated Press reporters Eric Tucker and Nomaan Merchant in Washington, D.C., contributed to this story, which includes biographical material compiled by former AP reporter Louise Chu.</div><div><br /></div><div> ___</div><div><br /></div><div> Online:
http://www.ellsberg.net</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> ~~~~~</div>
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~~~~~Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-87213484994693652692023-06-14T16:11:00.059-07:002023-06-15T00:20:06.478-07:00Daniel Dale: Fact Checker Extraordinare ! Beatles On the Smothers Brothers Show October 6, 1968, Still Fantastic !<p> <i>I want to get these up due to their importance - not that they would change the brainwashed minds of the Trump followers, hopelessly lost cases.</i></p><p><i>The Latest:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From CNN: 06/14/23</i></p><p><br /></p>
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By Daniel Dale, CNN
Updated 3:35 PM EDT, Tue June 13, 2023<div><br /></div><div>~~~~~</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Be back later, have to take a wild kitty to the vet. If we can capture him, he's a big boy.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>You guys want more Beatles? That was a groove last time.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Well, you can never get enough Beatles, or for that matter, Daniel Dale. Think back to October 6, 1968 - this video was first aired in the USA on the Smothers Brothers TV show. Remember? I remember watching it then, pure magic. Still is. Enjoy....</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><i>π</i></div>
..............<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A_MjCqQoLLA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-15669818416582100092023-06-14T01:53:00.093-07:002023-06-14T22:13:02.605-07:00Bathroom Apologists For Donald Trump Are Coming Out Of the Woodwork ! Don't Miss Opinion Piece By David Zurawik<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfpZ1-cuodewa7myN5HsM1XYZ7Cq1dcchXdgVmRCBIAJnisBi-IbzM0rk9HM2OKT2Rn_5oThACwq02_Lzubhi17w9CLRIKGJ7acu2oOsR7QKuZG3qb3FIhcf0qdrE_40ZtxAd0kTVlueo-2lO7B-EQ_921aehchTf07cbLVcpsZDL1QE-1wSFOQ9gNmA/s1280/230609142550-04-trump-federal-indictment-0609.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfpZ1-cuodewa7myN5HsM1XYZ7Cq1dcchXdgVmRCBIAJnisBi-IbzM0rk9HM2OKT2Rn_5oThACwq02_Lzubhi17w9CLRIKGJ7acu2oOsR7QKuZG3qb3FIhcf0qdrE_40ZtxAd0kTVlueo-2lO7B-EQ_921aehchTf07cbLVcpsZDL1QE-1wSFOQ9gNmA/w640-h360/230609142550-04-trump-federal-indictment-0609.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><i>This is going to be quick, and will return with <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/14/politics/jill-biden-donald-trump/index.html">go get em Jill Biden's comments, </a>everyone's hero Daniel Dale's infamous fact checks, and a rundown on events of Trumps' arrest manana.</i></p><p><i>But, ah, the bathroom.</i></p><p><i> ~ From Salon:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/06/13/mocked-over-ridiculous-defense-there-are-33-bathrooms-at-mar-a-lago/">Republican Mocked Over Ridiculous Trump Defense: "There are 33 bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago"</a></i></p><p><i>by, Gabriella Perrigine 06/13/23</i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Watch these knuckleheads melt down:</i></p><p><i>From The Washington Post: 06/13/23</i></p><p><i><a href="https://youtu.be/VtwZryYZ-bg">Republicans Insist Trump's Bathroom Is Secure</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p>~~~~~</p><p> ~ <i>From Truthout:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/gop-claims-docs-safe-at-mar-a-lago-because-bathroom-door-had-a-lock/?amp&utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other">GOP Claims Docs Safe at Mar-a-Lago Because Bathroom Door Had a Lock</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>By, Chris Walker 06/13/23</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>~~~~~~</i></p><p><i>Noted on some of the comments that the bathroom also had a copy machine although I didn't see it...oh whoopsie, and never forget, not ever guys...it also had a freakin window ! π With no lock !</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAO06MJTRyMgYHwXNANBKZkwP8APmz_ecPqNylDTZ1u8V6GdfJi2igPoNWGY_jO1X0Xnd0JZc9Xbx2UK05-gaD65b1uMZ7v5t5QRNKJar8cF9m7HjCFWh6fPEE31LkvV7fuzC_afAblpsAZyD8GSJOTXKtX786O2aIzGRKlWUYPVYhBkzPgQvl84TgUA/s1200/beatles-she-came-in-through-the-bathroom-window.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAO06MJTRyMgYHwXNANBKZkwP8APmz_ecPqNylDTZ1u8V6GdfJi2igPoNWGY_jO1X0Xnd0JZc9Xbx2UK05-gaD65b1uMZ7v5t5QRNKJar8cF9m7HjCFWh6fPEE31LkvV7fuzC_afAblpsAZyD8GSJOTXKtX786O2aIzGRKlWUYPVYhBkzPgQvl84TgUA/w400-h225/beatles-she-came-in-through-the-bathroom-window.webp" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><br /><i><br /></i><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxXpn2n4eyNTwozq2tVB9ttRhPM5RMl9EyLSwE2brj-OAPFOw81d-RhQs0QJRWaR_3QR8VeM4deLKMjbXxrL-Mr9XgHoUSdMm9rKbKGZWDsSm9ks1dke5IRLj6l772tAl-fl-Ce1KHbj_lxCFt3nelK8plnhUnAdXCq2m1Dv9yXR_e6ZOmf2qTRHoCLg/s264/ob_5a9e9a_2q.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="188" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxXpn2n4eyNTwozq2tVB9ttRhPM5RMl9EyLSwE2brj-OAPFOw81d-RhQs0QJRWaR_3QR8VeM4deLKMjbXxrL-Mr9XgHoUSdMm9rKbKGZWDsSm9ks1dke5IRLj6l772tAl-fl-Ce1KHbj_lxCFt3nelK8plnhUnAdXCq2m1Dv9yXR_e6ZOmf2qTRHoCLg/w285-h400/ob_5a9e9a_2q.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><br /><p><i>Turn that volume up high.....</i></p><p><br /></p>
...............<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NVv7IzEVf3M" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Update/edit: Adding this:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i> ~ From CNN: 06/14/23</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/14/opinions/trump-indictment-images-zurawik/index.html">Opinion: Trump Lost The War Of Images</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Opinion by David Zurawik - 06/14/23</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div>
"Former President Donald Trump is no slouch when it comes to the media. Even his harshest critics would have to admit that he is effective at commanding attention β so effective that he might be in a league with Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy as masters of their presidential campaign images.<div><br /></div><div> But he lost one very large and important battle this week in the war of images that has been taking place since his 37-count indictment from the Justice Department and Special Counsel Jack Smith was unsealed Friday. And he lost it to static photos of a bathroom and ballroom stage.
Trump has been working overtime since the indictment trying to project images of strength, power, defiance and control. There he was over the weekend at the GOP conventions in North Carolina and Georgia strutting onstage and preening at the podium.
Monday and Tuesday, our screens were filled with images of Trump coming off his plane and riding in a motorcade of big, black SUVs like he was still president of the United States.</div><div><br /></div><div> After his arraignment Tuesday in a Miami courtroom where no cameras were allowed β and thus no perp walks shown β Trump was seen waving through the tinted window of one of those SUVs as it left the federal courthouse.
More Iβm-your-beloved-leader optics followed as Trump stopped at a packed Versailles restaurant in Miami where he posed for cameras and was surrounded by supporters.</div><div><br /></div><div> βFood for everyone,β Trump called out.</div><div><br /></div><div> And then, the night-time rally on the brightly lit, American flag-festooned portico of his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he showed more defiance of what he again labeled the department of βinjustice,β and Smith, whom he called a βthug.β</div><div><br /></div><div> All in all, it was a pretty impressive display of image-managing for someone who was charged with 37 felonies for the alleged mishandling of classified documents, obstruction of justice and making false statements. </div><div><br /></div><div>Given the lack of any Trump-in-chains imagery, you could almost call the visual battle a triumph for Trump, except for one thing: those frontstage-backstage, behind-closed-doors, down-and-dirty photographs of boxes and boxes of documents piled in a bathroom, a shower and a ballroom stage at Mar-a-Lago.</div><div><br /></div><div> For all the Trump imagery I have absorbed since Friday, those are the images that stick in my mind and continue to resonate.</div><div><br /></div><div> I am not the only one.
Geraldine DeRuiter took a tasty bite of this apple in a column titled, βWe Need to Talk About Trumpβs Bathroom Chandelierβ in the Washington Post. As the headline suggests, DeRuiter focused on the chandelier in the bathroom and humorously deconstructed it in terms of taste, dΓ©cor and even hygiene.</div><div><br /></div><div> I see the bathroom image as a symbol of the sloppiness, lack of social responsibility, messy, make-it-up-as you-go-along and utter chaos of the man and his presidency. The boxes stacked behind and almost hidden by a cheap-looking shower curtain suggest the mind of a hoarder who has no sense of priorities or value, who can no longer (if he ever could) determine what matters and what doesnβt.</div><div><br /></div><div> Coupled with the chandelier and the sconce in the bathroom, we have an image that suggests a world of glitz and glitter out front intended to hide the secrets, decay and darkness behind closed doors.</div><div><br /></div><div> Visuals are more powerful than words β whether it is a TV, computer, tablet or smartphone screen on which they are seen. We are primarily a visual culture. We have been, at least, since the arrival of television in our living rooms in the 1950s.</div><div><br /></div><div> We connect with words intellectually. But we connect with images viscerally and emotionally. We feel the meaning we make of them in our hearts, guts and bones. </div><div><br /></div><div> These images of boxes β some of which allegedly include classified documents, piled up in a bathroom and shower seemingly ripe for mildew and mold β are what matter. They are the visual takeaway from the last five days, not all the I-am-in-control strongman postures that Trump constructed of himself to fill our screens." </div><div><br /></div><div><i>end edit.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>~~~~~</i></div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-7453584768120686472023-06-12T01:59:00.015-07:002023-06-12T16:12:58.044-07:00The Indictment<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVzl2MHX-fbqAcLMkSJYjQZBuj3P1xocpc4W0y3l0xL5E_BSFXoenN5TUod8TLi9k_M4Fw4LtG3MnomTTaG_eEhF6auIF1OgeqA5j_wMmrvTcyMtbGKw3Sw_ZSa-uMMx1bT4F-SQmTZZ_0l3mtb_UB0Dyx_7QbFszEDozGXn5BtNCyQybzJXovCy9iTA/s1600/trump-indictment-illo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVzl2MHX-fbqAcLMkSJYjQZBuj3P1xocpc4W0y3l0xL5E_BSFXoenN5TUod8TLi9k_M4Fw4LtG3MnomTTaG_eEhF6auIF1OgeqA5j_wMmrvTcyMtbGKw3Sw_ZSa-uMMx1bT4F-SQmTZZ_0l3mtb_UB0Dyx_7QbFszEDozGXn5BtNCyQybzJXovCy9iTA/w640-h360/trump-indictment-illo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><i>In case you haven't had the chance, here is the Indictment (annotated) to read, and by all means, please do read it. You might not be able to sleep afterwards, I couldn't. I had nightmares all weekend.</i></p><p><i> ~ From CNN:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/06/politics/annotated-trump-indictment-dg/">Former President Donald Trump's Second Indictment, Annotated</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>
By Zachary B. Wolf and Curt Merrill, CNN
Published June 9, 2023<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>~~~~~</div><div><br /></div><div><i>So far, nothing in yet from Zeta on this. Maybe they are waiting for Tuesday.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>...here's a gloomy frightful thought...tonight Mike reminded me;'Well, they arrested Hitler for treason, gave him five years and he served something like eight months..<a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/beer-hall-putsch-munich-putsch#:~:text=The%20Beer%20Hall%20Putsch%20was,eight%20months%20of%20his%20sentence.">.then the shit hit the fan'</a> I don't think that was an immature analogy, in fact given that the United States is swirling in a cesspool of "God, Guns and Country" true believers, Trump loyalists and ranking GOP leadershipTrump support, it's pretty appropriate.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Interestingly, if you clicked that link and read it, who does Georg Neithardt remind you of ?</i></div><div><i><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/harvard-law-expert-concerned-about-judge-cannon-s-pro-trump-history/ar-AA1cnNiK?cvid=b6079ad">Ring a bell?</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Over and out for now.</i></div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-21434963546827022582023-06-09T01:10:00.001-07:002023-06-09T01:10:51.648-07:00Grab Your Coat and Get Your Hat...The Federal Indictment of Donald Trump<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpubBsu5JAFPQacsxY9XXz_YYVl06d8gnA67LU4lduBzWpYxPMicR8i6TyewNYmu4V6gMZbsEdMgvo71aD_gtFzeJzzTV8ZCKAnsmItje8VE3zp813tqfJtA2USUKsK9wGDh9GXtI7GtTk1CToM4AfJiaJAarAnR75mU379SGjH8Dj8_ft6GDNE-DiXw/s1560/ai2html-graphic-desktop.cfeab576.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1560" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpubBsu5JAFPQacsxY9XXz_YYVl06d8gnA67LU4lduBzWpYxPMicR8i6TyewNYmu4V6gMZbsEdMgvo71aD_gtFzeJzzTV8ZCKAnsmItje8VE3zp813tqfJtA2USUKsK9wGDh9GXtI7GtTk1CToM4AfJiaJAarAnR75mU379SGjH8Dj8_ft6GDNE-DiXw/w640-h368/ai2html-graphic-desktop.cfeab576.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>More on the way...courtesy CNN</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p><p><i>Isn't McCarthy a total kiss ass? He always was. Another historic indictment, although as of this moment we are not aware of all the seven counts, but we'll find out at least by this coming Tuesday.</i></p><p><i>To keep us up to date:</i></p><p><i> ~ From CNN:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/mar-a-lago-documents-probe-latest/index.html">The Latest on the Federal Indictment of Trump in the Documents Probe</a></i></p><p><i>By Maureen Chowdhury, Tori B. Powell and Matt Meyer, CNN
Updated 1:59 a.m. ET, June 9, 2023</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> Includes videos:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/politics/fact-check-trump-claims-documents-investigation/index.html">Fact check: Seven of Trump's False or Unsupported Claims on the Documents Investigation </a></i></p><p><i>By our hero, Daniel Dale</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From AP:</i></p><p><i>Includes: What to know, Read the Warrant, Live Updates & Other Investigations</i></p><p><i><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-department-indictment-classified-documents-miami-182ac44fde89767bc0c3e634f61686bd">Trump Charged Over Classified Documents in 1st Federal Indictment of an Ex-President</a></i></p>
By ERIC TUCKER, JILL COLVIN and MICHAEL BALSAMO
today<div><br /></div><div>~~~~~</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Stay tuned....despite the denials I'm pretty sure we will be walking on the sunny side of the street real soon.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Take care y'all.</i></div>
..............<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_TVlSSpWi8s" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-71344875927398623452023-06-04T20:13:00.079-07:002023-06-06T23:29:10.919-07:00Mexico Recognizes Palestine As An Independent State With Updated Revision - May Stats: 164 Executed in Tijuana, YTD in the city: 764 Dead<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Ke7BebezLrhBxqIdkjH7C8JfC_qkSkj2mFGgTL_IIpnnmyUKU-dSNGaN6Qgct_SOEp-2OQX_i279eUEtgdTBKcsuHawzB5cKmJpYZqw3QVSdnj_Smn8xqs7IzMQvhrdiM56uhM-ISGGSL0UyewTVSfGo0Ol-bQpVo4jU_Hu7i0HTz6cv0OlDPG1HUg/s1280/mexico-fully-recognizes-palestin%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Ke7BebezLrhBxqIdkjH7C8JfC_qkSkj2mFGgTL_IIpnnmyUKU-dSNGaN6Qgct_SOEp-2OQX_i279eUEtgdTBKcsuHawzB5cKmJpYZqw3QVSdnj_Smn8xqs7IzMQvhrdiM56uhM-ISGGSL0UyewTVSfGo0Ol-bQpVo4jU_Hu7i0HTz6cv0OlDPG1HUg/w400-h225/mexico-fully-recognizes-palestin%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Courtesy Informed Comment</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <i>I was hoping Pulse Mexico or Zeta had reported this or even that we might be lucky enough to read something very current on the state of affairs of anti-semitism in Mexico and Latin America by the notable Historian,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/opinion/enrique-krauze-anti-semitism-stirs-in-latin-america.html"> Enrique Krauze.</a></i><p></p><p><i>Anti-Semitism just doesn't fade away although it seems we have not heard much about it since the exile of<a href="https://www.wlrn.org/news/2013-03-20/south-floridas-venezuelan-jews-recall-bitter-anti-semitism-under-chavez"> Jewish peoples from Venezuela.</a> We have had warnings in the United States that it still lingers just below the surface, particularly with the far right groups throughout the country and like a ghoul and with the correct conditions, it can easily rise again from the underworld.</i></p><p><i>Whose heart didn't sink when <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/tag/benjamin-netanyahu/">Netanyahu ("the godfather of modern fascism")</a> took back power and thumped horrifying extremisms against the Palestinians ? We have close Jewish friends who every year went to Israel to work with the peace groups whose numbers still remain in the thousands, battling the odds to form pathways to Independence for Palestine. The last two years, they didn't go.</i></p><p><i>So, I am torn over this new announcement from the AMLO gang. Naturally I thought immediately, oh AMLO is diverting to take the focus off of himself.. After all, he has been receiving nothing but bad press from all directions for good reasons on being an incompetent blubbering fool. Mexico is a mess. My second thought was -oh, of course, he wants to make life miserable for Joe Biden.</i></p><p><i>Especially in the Human Rights Department. What Human Rights? The fox has taken over the henhouse here.</i></p><p><i>If it were me, I would be hesitant on wearing this endorsement as a badge of honor on my sleeve, I would be embarrassed. For a country that has allowed 40 percent of its area to be controlled by the drug cartels to be talking about human rights is ironic and outrageous. If Palestine has any cojones they should reject this endorsement as being a farce.</i></p><p><i>Just remember darlings, AMLO loved Donald Trump and he adores the war criminal Putin.</i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i> ~ From Informed Comment:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2023/06/recognizes-independent-palestinian.html">Mexico Fully Recognizes Palestine as as Independent State, Welcomes Formal Palestinian Embassy</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>By, Juan Cole 06/04/23</i></p>
"Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) β The Spanish-language Twitter account for Palestine, βPalestino Hoy,β announced on Thursday that the Palestinian delegation in Mexico City will now be upgraded from a βSpecial Delegationβ to a full embassy, after Mexico fully recognized the state of Palestine.<div><br /></div><div> The statement announced, βThis measure is undertaken in the spirit of cooperation and friendship between the two countries, which is evidenced in the continuous development of bilateral relations in the bilateral and multilateral sphere, since its establishment in 1975.β </div><div><br /></div><div> The document continued, βThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates expresses its firm conviction that this measure will significantly contribute to the continued development and strengthening of relations between the United Mexican States and the State of Palestine, on the basis of mutual respect and recognition and for the benefit of the two peoples, as well as contributing to international security and development.β </div><div><br /></div><div> The Mexican Senate passed a resolution recognizing Palestine as an independent state last November, on the anniversary of the Palestiniansβ own declaration of independence on November 15, 1985.
They said that they hoped it would contribute to a peaceful resolution of the conflict in the Mideast.
The chairman of the Commission on Exterior Relations, Senator HΓ©ctor Vasconcelos, said at that time, βI express my desire to see a free, independent Palestine in full exercise of its rights, because the Palestinian-Israeli conflict affects how we conceive of the human rights of peoples, how we conceive of freedom and of being recognized as free persons and not subjects of other nations.β</div><div><br /></div><div> Vasconcelos, who is an important intellectual, put his finger on something hereβ that if Palestinians can be rendered stateless and without any real human rights, that situation detracts from our very notion of human rights. It clearly wouldnβt be universal anymore and would be subject to many important exceptions that might render it meaningless. That is, the situation of the Palestinians affects our very conception of what human rights are, and that is why it is so important.</div><div><br /></div><div> President AndrΓ©s Manuel LΓ³pez Obrador (AMLO), who is center-left, has often been critical of the Israeli government and joined in calls at the UN for investigations of Israelβs bombing of Gaza in 2021. Many Mexicans sympathize with the colonized Palestinians since they feel the force of US hegemony themselves.
Mexico will have gotten enormous pressure from the US State Department not to recognize Palestine, but then Mexicans are used to such pressure and it often backfires.</div><div><br /></div><div> Mexican thinkers see recognizing Palestine as a path to achieving a two-state solution.
The state of Palestine has over 80 embassies around the world and 12 in Latin America, including in Brazil and Argentina, so Mexico is joining a consensus here. Western Europe, which mostly has Palestinian missions rather than embassies, is an outlier in global terms. Even then, Sweden has a Palestinian embassy and so do many former East Bloc countries, including both Russia and Ukraine."</div><div><br /></div><div> ~~~~~</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Update/edit 06/06/23:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Juan Cole's report has been revised. Did someone jump the gun? I guess we'll find out, well if they did it would not have been Juan who we love to pieces, it might have been his source - check it out:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2023/06/recognizes-independent-palestinian.html">In Wake of Mexican Senate Vote to Recognize Palestine, Palestinians Seek to Upgrade to Full Embassy in Mexico City</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><i>By, Juan Cole</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>~~~~~</i></div><div> ..........</div><div>............<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d22CiKMPpaY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>
</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Footnote: Senator Hector Vasconcelos is from an old guard elite intellectual family. Recently:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div>"On September 8, 2022, he voted in favor of the controversial law that authorizes the National Guard to become part of the Ministry of National Defense, operating administratively and operationally through it, but retaining command and a civilian character."<div><br /></div><div><i>The National Guard since then has been involved in stealing drugs from the cartels for their own profit.</i></div><div><i>They are mentioned in this<a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/masacre-se-unieron-arzate-y-rusos/"> robbery report from Mexicali:</a> (The San Vicente Massacre)</i></div><div><br /></div><div>" The Flaquito Cell is the main suspect in an alleged drug robbery in Mexicali, in which they would have had the support of elements of the National Guard, which was videotaped on security cameras."</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>~~~~~</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Meanwhile,<a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/triple-homicidio-en-la-colonia-buena-vista-en-tijuana/"> Zeta reports </a>we have had 164 executions in Tijuana the last month of May, bringing the yearly total in TIJ to 764 executions.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Take care.</i></div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-81427016751500561202023-06-02T02:49:00.143-07:002023-06-02T16:23:29.990-07:00Dreaming About Havasupai and The Havasu Falls - Demonstration In Coronado Over Contaminated Ocean From Tijuana Sewage - The Cenotes are Screwed Thanks to AMLO - Latest on Dummy Trump<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ANd4II_S66t14vssmV387wCG4TKikKLUQCkHmDa4aDUX9a1iifh5EMpCxojz7cIKBbyBg7Q3v1-1sfEh78Bl_jenveQYks0rDX3lhkcApywGjrbte6v75cSapOlsv2VQrcWASZSjS1hyejWfFX6Q_OO0bNewLVcVCzxJ-vkvxGshJvFCR74eBvtCmg/s740/Hiking-in-Havasupai.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="740" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ANd4II_S66t14vssmV387wCG4TKikKLUQCkHmDa4aDUX9a1iifh5EMpCxojz7cIKBbyBg7Q3v1-1sfEh78Bl_jenveQYks0rDX3lhkcApywGjrbte6v75cSapOlsv2VQrcWASZSjS1hyejWfFX6Q_OO0bNewLVcVCzxJ-vkvxGshJvFCR74eBvtCmg/w400-h266/Hiking-in-Havasupai.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Gorgeous, huh ? We'll come back to this</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><i>Hope you had a nice Memorial Day Weekend. A few blogs back I went on a rampage against John Oliver and suggested he needs to cover the contamination of ocean water both here and in San Diego from lack of infrastructure in Mexico.</i></p><p><i>I have some links for y'all with video from last weekend's demonstration in Coronado over their contaminated beaches - which as I understand it, have been closed down for months now. I have to admit, I was wrong. Back in 2006 I never thought that the sewage from Mexico would hit Coronado, but it did. Of course, we are<a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/04/playas-de-tijuana-y-rosarito-de-las-mas-contaminadas-de-mexico-autoridades-omisas/"> off the charts here </a>as far as contamination and truthfully, no one thinks this problem is ever going to be resolved. It is horrible down in<a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/por-cespe-playas-contaminadas-por-14-meses/"> Ensenada</a> also. Instead of dealing with the problem here, speculation and development went rabid with no infrastructure for at least the last twenty five years. Just fast cash on real estate junk.</i></p><p><i>A couple of corrections: I stated the US gave Mexico 350 million dollars to clean the mess up on the border. That figure should have been 330 million dollars. The Mexican government is </i><b><u>SAID</u></b><i> to have thrown in 120 to 134 million dollars to the pot. The problem is, that was back in 2022 AFTER A SO-CALLED AGREEMENT WAS MADE IN 2019 and yet, there has been absolutely no accountability - from either side. More millions are apparently on the way from Joe Biden, but is it too late? Didn't anyone sign an agreement that clear oversight should be part of the deal and both sides need to account for their progress - or lack of it at least on a quarterly basis along with general information in the form of town halls open to both the gringos and the Mexicanos. Knowing San Diego, the godfather of the good ole boy networks we should not be surprised.</i></p><p><i>Okay - BTW, nothing down here, no crowds it is a bust ....of course it is, it is contaminated (and violent).</i></p><p><i> Another quick observation on the one chart it is listed as the San Antonio de los Buenos creek, the main sewage pours out just a bit north of that at "Punta Bandera" - but now it pours out everywhere. And BTW, the ocean has been a brown plume practically all the way out to the Coronado Islands for weeks and yep you guessed it, once again no potable H2O here...a slight trickle but that's it.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From The Coronado Times: With video</i></p><p><i><a href="https://coronadotimes.com/news/2023/05/29/stop-the-poop-protesters-hit-coronado-beach-currently-closed-due-to-sewage-contaminated-water/">'Stop the Poop!' Protesters Hit Coronado Beach, Currently Closed Due to Sewage Contaminated Water</a></i></p><p><i>By, Megan Kitt 05/29/23</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i>Over dinner during the Holiday, Mike read me this:</i></p><p><i> ~ From The Guardian:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/31/mexico-president-peace-agreement-cartels">Mexico's President Says He would Support Peace Agreement With Cartels</a></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>By, Oscar Lopez 05/31/23</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>πππππ</i></p><p>~~~~~</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Everything Here: Note Mark Lorenzada's report 06/01/23 on Pulse. Note everything.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://pulsenewsmexico.com/">Pulse News Mexico</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i><a href="https://pulsenewsmexico.com/2023/06/01/cartels-terrorize-jalisco-municipality-after-amlo-peace-pact-rhetoric/">Cartels Terrorize Jalisco Municipality After AMLO's 'Peace Pact' Rhetoric</a></i></p><p><i>By, Mark Lorenzana 06/01/23</i></p><p><br /></p><p>~~~~~~</p><p><br /></p><p><i><a href="https://www.pandotrip.com/swim-under-the-havasu-falls-in-grand-canyon-usa-2752/">The Havasu Falls story is a long one</a></i><i><a href="https://www.pandotrip.com/swim-under-the-havasu-falls-in-grand-canyon-usa-2752/">,</a> let's just say after hours of investigating the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/upload/phantom-walking.pdf">Phantom Ranch</a> Camp in the Grand Canyon (whose 1930's CCC built pool was taken out in the '70's), Havasu would be better for us. The reason this comes up is because we've been talking about going somewhere ( but where ?) when I can walk again. Mike's choice is the Grand Canyon, because he has never been there. But what turns me off other than having been there a few times, are the crowds and the commercialization and the heat, I cannot stand the heat. Of course, it all depends on my knee outcome; but this looks great - I know it's not Bali, but check out the link.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>More environmental news from Mexico:</i></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZ5aDvhprMBi2yJM47MGzJe7S50UO_mDTl_FeSpjAZXcumy1tWb0hkK_s7m6DNkcOjNyqw-NDCtUCBeBPgppdAyy5QTfHssY0r6dLXcfaWB761P_KJinIGTg2OsBpFAGfkYWpYNcbwllkQkLJNGT5Z-MjFW7KC9yU3iBqASeWfSiJ9KFCEotjThVPjw/s866/Island-Life-Mexico-Yucatan-Blog-41.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="866" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZ5aDvhprMBi2yJM47MGzJe7S50UO_mDTl_FeSpjAZXcumy1tWb0hkK_s7m6DNkcOjNyqw-NDCtUCBeBPgppdAyy5QTfHssY0r6dLXcfaWB761P_KJinIGTg2OsBpFAGfkYWpYNcbwllkQkLJNGT5Z-MjFW7KC9yU3iBqASeWfSiJ9KFCEotjThVPjw/w400-h268/Island-Life-Mexico-Yucatan-Blog-41.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Adios Forever</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From The Yucatan Times: 04/29/23</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2023/04/tren-maya-threatens-the-cenotes-of-the-yucatan-peninsula/">Tren Maya Threatens the "Cenotes" of the Yucatan Penninsula</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>BTW, Time had an outstanding report last January:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://time.com/6245748/maya-train-tulum-yucatan-indigenous-people-land/">A New Tourist Train in Mexico Will Destroy Indigenous Land and Livehoods</a></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>by, Soraya Lishwari/Tulum, Mexico 01/12/23</i></p><p>~~~~~</p><p><i>Latest On Dummy Trump</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From Informed Comment with video:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2023/06/smoking-classified-materials.html">Smoking gun: Trump's theft of Classified Iran Materials Caught On Tape, May Bring Him Down</a></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>by the Master, Juan Cole</i></p><p><i>06/01/23</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Meanwhile, I'll be back, more info on the shoot-out/Massacre in San Vicente and a round up of the stats,the voltaren pills are driving me crazy I hate them.</i></p><p><i>Paris says woof.</i></p><p><br /></p>
..............<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NrUIJY_Xu2s" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-48231104426531854282023-05-27T02:14:00.091-07:002023-05-27T18:30:36.108-07:00The Rolling Stones & The Ukrainian Choir In Vienna - 149 Executions In Tijuana So Far this Month of May, Bringing the Yearly Total Up To 752 In the City. <p><i>The truth is I simply am not getting the Tijuana homicidios dolosos (execution) numbers for this month of May from<a href="https://zetatijuana.com/"> Zeta </a></i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/"> </a>. <i>Which gives us pause. However,<a href="https://www.elsoldetijuana.com.mx/policiaca/"> El Sol de Tijuana</a> still seems to be covering this aspect of the Mexican Drug War.</i></p><p><i>But we do know this: AMLO's six year term is already the most violent in the history of Mexico:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From Zeta: Yea! I sort of fixed the paste thing for y'all !</i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/">Con 156 Mil Asesinatos, Sexenio de AMLO Ya Es El Mas Violento de la Historia en Mexico</a></i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/">Por, Carlos Alvarez Acevedo 05/26/23 </a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/"> AMLO's six-year term is already the most violent in the history of Mexico</a></i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/"> " According to figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) and the daily report of the Secretariat for Citizen Security and Protection (SSPC), from December 2018 to May 24, In 2023, 156,136 intentional homicides were registered in Mexico, which would make the current six-year term, that of the Government headed by President AndrΓ©s Manuel LΓ³pez Obrado, the most violent in the history of Mexico.</a></i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/"> An analysis carried out by the newspaper El Universal, published on May 25, 2023, indicates that during the entire Administration of Enrique PeΓ±a Nieto there were 156,066 victims of intentional homicide, while in the governments of Felipe CalderΓ³n Hinojosa and Vicente Fox Quesada , 120,463 and 60,280 murders were committed, respectively.</a></i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/"> The aforementioned newspaper indicates that the Government headed by the Tabasco politician accumulates other records in terms of insecurity, including the most violent years, 2020, 2019, 2021 and 2022; as well as the highest number of months with more than 3,000 murders and the most violent days on record, among others.</a></i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/"> Regarding the annual figures, the year 2020 is considered the most violent of all historical records, with 36,773 murders; It is followed by 2019, with 36,661 intentional homicides; 2021, with 35 thousand 700; and, 2022; with 31 thousand 944.</a></i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/"> Likewise, so far from January to May 24, 2023, there have been 11,967 intentional homicides, according to statistical data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System -made up of different federal, state and municipal authorities- and of the daily report of the SSPC.</a></i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/"> In addition to the above, the LΓ³pez Obrador Administration has accumulated the highest number of months with more than 3,000 murders. October 2020 tops the list, with 3,347 cases; followed by December 2019, with 3,309; December 2020, with 3,207; October 2019, with 3,198; and March 2021, with 3,186.
Regarding the most violent days recorded in all of Mexican history, since records have been recorded, December 1, 2019 leads the list with 127 murders; followed by May 24, 2022, with 118 intentional homicides; on June 7, 2020, with 117; and on July 4, 2021, with 115. </a></i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/"> IN MEXICO, 191 MASSACRES HAVE BEEN REGISTERED SO FAR IN 2023, ACCORDING TO THE COMMON CAUSE</a></i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/"> The non-governmental organization Causa en ComΓΊn assured, on May 23, 2023, that from January 1 to May 21 of this year, at least 191 massacres were registered in Mexico, for which it urged that forceful actions be taken to combat the violence. </a></i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/"> The NGO explained in its report 'Gallery of horror: atrocities and high-impact events recorded in the media', that only so far in May 2023, the media had recorded 30 massacres in the country. The two most recent occurred a weekend earlier, in Veracruz and Baja California.</a></i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/"> "As with the rest of the entities, there is an indeterminate number of atrocities that were not registered by the press,"he said, however, the non-governmental organization, whose president is MarΓa Elena Morera Mitre.
According to Common Cause, the states that recorded the most victims were Veracruz, with at least 716; Chiapas, with 473; Chihuahua, with 290; Nuevo LeΓ³n, with 284; and Guanajuato, with at least 222.</a></i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/con-156-mil-asesinatos-sexenio-de-amlo-ya-es-el-mas-violento-de-la-historia-en-mexico/"> Meanwhile, those entities with the fewest number of victims were: Campeche, with 9; Durango and Coahuila, with 10 each; Aguascalientes, with 15 and QuerΓ©taro, with 17. As for the states that stood out for the number of "massacres", they were: Zacatecas, with 19; Guanajuato, with 18; Chihuahua, with 15; Veracruz, with 11; and Morelos, with 10."
~~~~~~~~</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p>~~~~~</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Adding this:</i></p><p><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/en-mexico-el-crimen-organizado-controla-el-40-del-pais-raul-tola/">"<i>En Mexico el Crimen Organizado Controla el 40% Del Paiz"; Raul Tola</i></a></p><p><i>Por, Enrique Mendoza 05/27/2</i></p><p>
"In Mexico, organized crime controls 40% of the country": RaΓΊl Tola</p><p> Guadalajara, Jalisco.- On the penultimate day of activities of the V Vargas Llosa Biennial that takes place in various facilities of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), Saturday May 27, the dialogue table entitled "War and the guerrilla: Europe and America in the mirror", in which Giovanna Pollarolo, Carlos GranΓ©s, RaΓΊl Tola, director of the Vargas Llosa Chair, and Rosa MarΓa Palacios as moderator of the table participated in which some data on the conflicts in Europe and Latin America and their literary works thrown away as a product of violence.</p><p> For example, when making use of his voice, RaΓΊl Tola, director of the Vargas Llosa Chair, expressed that "It is true that the history of Europe, that the current situation in Europe is marked by wars, that is, by conflicts between two countries or between several countries, but the current situation in Latin America is not marked by conflicts between different nations, but by conflicts between brothers; that is, violence in Latin America is generated within the countriesβ.</p><p> βIn Ibero-America we kill each other between brothers, basically; and I say Ibero-America because I believe that this phenomenon extends to Spain as well, which is still living -I believe- the consequences of the Civil War, there is still a debate about the Spanish Civil War, much more is being written now than before about the Civil War Spanish, especially from 'Soldados de Salamina' by Javier Cercas, and then Almudena Grandes has written a lot and there is a great literature on the Spanish Civil Warβ.</p><p> Tola spoke in Room 2 of the Santander Performing Arts Group in the presence of by Mario Varga Llosa, Marisol Schulz, writers participating in the V Vargas Llosa Biennial and the general public, especially young people.</p><p> Then, the director of the Vargas Llosa Chair broke down the contemporary violence in Peru, Colombia in Mexico, as well as some of his literary works that also reflect their respective violence:
βWe Peruvians have the phenomenon of Sendero Luminoso, and there is a literature -I think it is still incipient- on this phenomenon..., which includes titles such as 'Red April' (by Santiago Roncagliolo). In the case of Colombia, of course, the violence is also internal, it is a violence that has been rooted for 50 years, until the Peace Accords, and that has thus generated novels such as 'Rosario Tijeras' (Jorge Franco), 'El I forget what we will be' (HΓ©ctor Abad Faciolince) or 'The Virgin of the Hitmen' (Fernando Vallejo), and all this literature on drug trafficking, on the guerrillas, on the paramilitariesβ.</p><p> Thus came the inevitable moment to also address the violence of organized crime in Mexico:
"In the case of Mexico, organized crime, which controls 40 percent of the country, has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in recent years and has produced novels such as 'Los trabajos del reino' (Yuri Herrera), and there is a great deal of literature about also drug trafficking and the violence generated by organized crime.β</p><p> Then he made an interesting quantitative comparison between the millions of victims in World War I and II, in relation to Latin American countries:
"We have, it seems to me, in Latin America a reality very marked by this form of conflict, this form that although it does not have the atrocious, horrifying numbers of World War II, between 50, 60 million deaths as I listed yesterday Jesus Ruiz Mantilla; or by the First World War, close to 40 million deaths; You (Rosa MarΓa Palacios, moderator of the table) have mentioned the figure, for example from the Truth Commission of Peru, which reached 65,000 deaths. I believe that, let's say, it is another form of violence, a form of violence that does not make anyone proud, in the sense that there are clearly no winners and losers within these processes, because we have been killing each other among brothers," he lamented. </p><p> The V Vargas Llosa Biennial takes place from Thursday, May 25 to Saturday, May 28 at the Santander Performing Arts Complex, the Enrique DΓaz de LeΓ³n Paraninfo, and the University Center for Economic-Administrative Sciences of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG).
To follow some details of the V Vargas Llosa Biennial, social networks such as Twitter are available: CΓ‘tedra Vargas Llosa (@CVargasLlosa), FIL Guadalajara (@FILGuadalajara), University of Guadalajara (@udg_oficial), Semanario ZETA (@ZETAtijuana)" </p><p>~~~~~</p><p><i>
Update/edit 05/27:</i></p><p><i>Zeta to the rescue...I was probably impatient, but I did start to worry, you know how it is down here. At the moment, Tijuana stands at 149 homicidos dolosos (executions) this month of May, giving a YTD total in TIJ of 752 dead.</i></p><p><i> ~ From Zeta:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/en-tijuana-matan-a-hombre-en-ataque-y-abandonan-restos-de-mujer-en-tambo/">En Tijuana Matan a Hombre en Ataque y Abandonan Restos de Mujer en Tambo</a></i></p><p><i>Por, Ana Kerena Ortiz 05/27/23</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>end edit.</i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i>Meanwhile, Paris only has three more days of antibiotics which I roll up in liverworst balls to give her, the canned organic pumpkin ( about 2 heaping tablespoons per day) and yogurt are helping her tummy and poopie. I know that is a weird thing to mention but just in case you have doggies on antibiotics you know already the antibiotics can be problematic to the pup, and that organic pumpkin plus the yogurt is a lifesaver. Paris actually has a favorite yogurt from down here, it's Oikos the cranberry flavor which is heavenly. Hopefully a baby bath by the end of next week for the little Princess will make everyone feel better.</i></p><p><i>I just found this from last summer: The Rolling Stones & The Ukrainian Choir ( actually two choirs) in Vienna, and here is a quick update on the<a href="https://mailchi.mp/kyivindependent/welcome-to-the-ukraine-daily-newsletter-17338338?e=d190373363"> carnage.</a></i></p><p><i>Have a nice Memorial Weekend y'all.</i></p><p><br /></p>
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~~~~~Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-70757722887750012182023-05-24T00:36:00.027-07:002023-05-24T14:44:55.954-07:00Have You Seen the Stars Tonight ? The "New" 2023 Bi-Partisan Dignity Act<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifzWmUbHVnq4KbYWlM4V3rd1dVi84JTItu_5Vu8Ezmgt_zaRCVfpYtVzKWZkGc4CNK0-tQa5En52zpeBjBqflqIErT6lCTBbUKp-ER0HLezbnyM5TcptpdjKPD16fKzXpLvu_1Mzdcb98F0qtt75oOq3ydiyDd9cHaBLoWWeakhtONse2XKS5tgwVCOA/s750/tumblr_0316683990ba83d3b54ce6da9a85ee7b_9a565068_1280.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifzWmUbHVnq4KbYWlM4V3rd1dVi84JTItu_5Vu8Ezmgt_zaRCVfpYtVzKWZkGc4CNK0-tQa5En52zpeBjBqflqIErT6lCTBbUKp-ER0HLezbnyM5TcptpdjKPD16fKzXpLvu_1Mzdcb98F0qtt75oOq3ydiyDd9cHaBLoWWeakhtONse2XKS5tgwVCOA/w400-h400/tumblr_0316683990ba83d3b54ce6da9a85ee7b_9a565068_1280.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><i>In between taking care of Paris I have not been able to find the text or PDF of the newly 2023 bi-partisan introduced Dignity Act. As soon as I can get my hands on it, I'll post it. The previous <a href="https://salazar.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-salazar-introduces-dignity-act">"Dignity Act"</a> was not my most favorite by a longshot, it was written by all GOP and insisted on renewal of contracts to continue building the Border Wall, which we all know is a joke and an insult.</i><p></p><p><i>Still, reading through the initial reports I thought...this could be it, this could be a winner. Unfortunately we have been socked in by the marine layer, so I really couldn't howl at the moon or pin any hopes on the hiding stars...and I really need to read it first.</i></p><p><i>Since I am unable (thanks Linton) to copy and paste, I'll list some of the initial reports, you will have to click the links to read 'em:</i></p><p> ~ <i>From the Washington Post:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/23/congress-immigration-legislation/">Hispanic Women Introduce Bipartisan Immigration Bill In House</a></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>by, Marianna Sotomayer & Theodorie Meyer 05/23/23</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From: Roll Call</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://rollcall.com/2023/05/23/salazar-escobar-to-propose-comprehensive-immigration-bill/">Salazar, Escobar Unveil Comprehensive Immigration Bill</a></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>by, Suzanne Monyak 05/23/23</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Okay, I found a streamlined version and it clearly notes that, "No funding for restarting construction of the Trump Border Wall or similar cross-border barrier projects." Can we hang that on a star? Still, I need to read the whole 500 pages where </i><i>ever they are....</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://escobar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1254">escobar.house.gov/</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p>~~~~~</p><p><br /></p><p><i>I just hope the GOP wrecking crew doesn't destroy the good parts.</i></p><p><i>Keep your fingers crossed.</i></p><p><br /></p>
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Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-58791361773992454272023-05-21T23:40:00.069-07:002023-05-26T00:36:55.896-07:00The San Vicente Shoot Out - Attacks On Agents At San Ysidro POE<p><i>Paris had surgery on Friday, three more lumps removed which turned out to not be cancerous, but I've had my hands full. She is on antibiotics and pain pill</i> <i>and not feeling really great; her stitches come out in another nine days. Poor little thing (77 pounds of love).</i></p><p><i>So, I missed the big shootout in San Vicente. No one is saying right now who exactly was culpable, we can speculate but I wouldn't due to the changing dynamics of the cartels nowadays and their current</i><i> alliances. However, from some of the photographs it looks as though El Trebol (CAF/AFO) a target, was prepared for something...here are weapons he left behind in his race car:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfzuiQ6h7Y4cwSMmLgvvoUxyPAfjeg1KbhQtuC-_CLu9dHJapd38iCVAFQAOfdkYs_a-GCn-vyNYfavQzeFVr1eV-Hs5Nloyu9Txc0ReyXblRB21uBk2rt7k8n2xsLQ4XXQoe69QrGWQyyTL3ICdpBeqQU0BPAAv4ncdWN8cez-OUfJD6VmQc7drU2A/s900/Aemas-carrera.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="900" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfzuiQ6h7Y4cwSMmLgvvoUxyPAfjeg1KbhQtuC-_CLu9dHJapd38iCVAFQAOfdkYs_a-GCn-vyNYfavQzeFVr1eV-Hs5Nloyu9Txc0ReyXblRB21uBk2rt7k8n2xsLQ4XXQoe69QrGWQyyTL3ICdpBeqQU0BPAAv4ncdWN8cez-OUfJD6VmQc7drU2A/w400-h223/Aemas-carrera.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><i><br /></i><p></p><p><i>There have recently been other CAF/AFO operatives executed and attacks in the Valley de Guadalupe, the Ensenada region and Tijuana; here is a synopsis of events from Valley de Guadalupe area - note the narcomanta left this morning:</i></p><p><i> ~ From Zeta: (Note the connections between Maneadero, Valley de Guadalupe and San Vicente)</i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/tag/valle-de-guadalupe/">Valley de Guadalupe</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Earlier last month:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/04/clausuran-restaurante-en-valle-de-guadalupe-tras-ataque-armado/">Clausuran Restaurante en Valle de Guadalupe Tras Ataque Armado</a></i></p><p><i>Por, Lorena Lamas 04/12/23</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Another CAF fatality:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/04/matan-a-el-dani-miembro-del-caf/">Matan a "El Dani" Miembro del CAF</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p>~~~~~</p><p><i>The question everyone seems to be asking is what will the repercussions be from Saturday's shoot out? Will there be full warfare between the "El Mayo" and "Los Chapitos" factions ? No one knows yet.</i></p><p><i>Adding these links which may help to piece together the puzzle:</i></p><p><i> ~ From Insight Crime:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://insightcrime.org/mexico-organized-crime-news/los-chapitos/">Chapitos</a></i></p><p><i>01/09/23</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From Justice In Mexico:</i></p><p><i>This is a working paper, great source for CAF/AFO - Sinaloa-CJNG activity in our region. Follow the links and we are waiting on their updates:</i></p><p><i>Arellano-Felix Organization</i></p><p><i><a href="https://justiceinmexico.org/tag/arellano-felix-organization/">Justice In Mexico Releases "Public Security in Baja California"</a></i></p><p><i>11/28/2022</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i>Currently, Tijuana stands at<a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/ocho-asesinatos-en-tijuana/"> 108 executions this month of May.</a> </i></p><p><br /></p><p>~~~~~</p><p><i>Lastly, the attacks on USBP which was<a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/patrulla-fronteriza-denuncia-ataques-desde-mexico-estado-desconoce-situacion/"> reported by Zeta</a>, with a good follow up by Channel 10, San Diego. However, I disagree with Jim Desmond regarding what he terms as a failure of the Federal Government to prepare BP for the ending of Title 42. No Jim...what happened dear is that the GOP blockheads in Congress refused to appropriate more funds for our guys, everyone at the POE knew what they were facing. Just the facts ma'am.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From Channel 10, San Diego:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/south-bay-news/border-patrol-agents-report-2-recent-shooting-near-san-ysidro-port-of-entry">Border Patrol Agents Report 2 Recent Shootings Near San Ysidro Port Of Entry</a></i></p><p><i>By, Pat Mueller</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i>Over and out for now, Paris will probably push me out the bed again, looking forward like crazy</i></p><p><i><a href="https://aframe.oscars.org/news/post/killers-of-the-flower-moon-trailer-leonardo-dicaprio">for this </a> and Honolulu looks better each day....despite the traffic and the tiger sharks, they do have a lot of fresh air and clean ocean water......</i></p><p><i>Take care.π</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p>
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~~~~~Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-41314329561533865082023-05-11T19:25:00.018-07:002023-05-12T01:31:43.809-07:00Continuation of Yesterday's Blog.....<p> <i>Apologies...last night when I blogged, I copied and pasted the email from Move On. Unfortunately, something is wrong with my code and doing that affects regular just blogging. Anything after the copy-paste is illegible.</i></p><p><i>So, here it is once again - that last bit I don't know how to fix it:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From Yesterday:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>"I've been reading some misinformation which people against sending the 1,500 US troops to the Border areas have been spreading. One Representative from Texas said, "I saw that last time, those US soldiers were pointing rifles at the migrants!" And, she said that twice.</i></p><p><i>Nope, didn't happen. Due to our <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/posse-comitatus-act-explained">Posse Comitatas Laws, </a>the US troops sent to the Border are unarmed.</i></p><p><i>However, noted this late afternoon on Avenida International alongside of the Tijuana River Channel, either Mexican Army or Mexican National Guard troops have been deployed, posted individually between Avenida International and the Tijuana River Channel...and these guys are heavily armed.</i></p><p><i>Just a note - careful as you go if you are headed down to Ensenada on the<a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/estado-de-emergencia-por-hundimientos-en-la-escenica-ayala/"> Scenic Highway</a>. Carumba !</i></p><p><i>Over and out for now, we are all feeling uneasy over this situation here so adding a little tune to lighten things up a bit."</i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>UPDATE: (today)</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>This has been confirmed, the troops on the Mexican side are the Mexican Army. This afternoon they were deployed in groups of three on Avenida International and the Tijuana River Channel. They appear to be stationary, some are undercover in the brush. They are heavily armed.</i></p><p><i>Well what would you do if it were you or me seeking asylum for our safety sake and trying to escape the evil? Heck if I was able, I'd crawl to the nearest train and jump it to get the hell out of Dodge.</i></p><p><i>Take care y'all.</i></p><div>..............<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YSZJFWn7OM4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>
</div><div><br /></div><div>π</div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-1029870088990501412023-05-11T01:52:00.125-07:002023-05-11T18:51:30.360-07:00No We Did Not Watch Trump - Look at what the GOP Has Up Their Sleeves - Posse Comitatus - Trouble on the Scenic Highway and Now My Foot Is Screwed Up<p><i>This is slightly late, more problemas aqui. I stepped on a piece of broken glass</i> <i>down in the garage and my foot went beserk and became infected. To make a long story short, I was prescribed a fluoroquinoline antibiotic which really made me sick and my blood sugar dropping way too low (50-60's) for the last four days. I have stopped taking it and am getting something else tomorrow, but feeling better.</i></p><p><i>Although it is too late to stop CNN granting Trump free air space to lie, here is the petition from Move On and you can still sign it, if nothing else to let CNN know you did not approve. Of course, neither of us watched it, how disgusting.</i></p><p><i>I'm going to try to copy and paste the email which may not work, but maybe it will, also a couple of reports from AP:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> ~ From AP:</i></p><p><i><a href="https://apnews.com/article/congress-border-immigration-bill-255921c69678468580d0d106282623f0">House GOP Points to Migration Surge as Lawmakers Advance Asylum Restrictions, Border Wall</a></i></p><p><i>By, Stephen Groves (today)</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://apnews.com/article/congress-border-security-immigration-biden-d62168665ba1581fc75651abc0409071">Biden Would Veto House GOP Bill on Border Enforcement</a></i></p><p><i>By Colleen Long & Stephen Groves 05/08/23</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 1em 0px;"> I've been reading some misinformation which people against sending the 1,500 troops to the Border areas have been spreading. One representative from Texas was visibly upset and said,"I saw this the last time, those US soldiers were pointing rifles at the migrants !" And, she said that twice. N<i>ope, didn't happen. Due to our<a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/posse-comitatus-act-explained"> Posse Comitatus </a>laws, the troops sent to the Border are unarmed.</i></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 1em 0px;"><i>However noted this late afternoon on Avenida International alongside the Tijuana River Channel, either Mexican Army or National Guard Troops have been deployed and they have been posted between Avenida International and the River Channel...and these guys are heavily armed. </i></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 1em 0px;"><i>Just a note - careful as you go if you are headed down to Ensenada on the<a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/05/estado-de-emergencia-por-hundimientos-en-la-escenica-ayala/"> Scenic Highway.</a> Carumba !</i></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 1em 0px;"><i>Over and out for now, we're all feeling uneasy over this situation here so adding a little tune to lighten things up a bit.</i></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 1em 0px;"><i>Take care y'all</i></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 1em 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 1em 0px;"><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i> </i></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://act.moveon.org/go/169649?source%3Dmo%26utm_term%3Drecurring%26t%3D13%26akid%3D351835%252E57242256%252EtaKMhp&source=gmail&ust=1683877376055000&usg=AOvVaw2mOmSLZfLgNB8NVPkerPs2" href="https://act.moveon.org/go/169649?source=mo&utm_term=recurring&t=13&akid=351835%2E57242256%2EtaKMhp" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Sign the petition to tell CNN: Stop giving free airtime to Donald Trump!</a></span></h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div>Dear MoveOn member,</div><div> </div><div>In a few hours, CNN is scheduled to give an exclusive, prime-time platform to Donald Trump the day after a jury concluded that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll.<sup>1</sup></div><div><div> </div><div><strong>It's decision time for CNNβtell it to stop giving free airtime to Trump! </strong></div><div> </div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://act.moveon.org/go/169649?source%3Dmo%26utm_term%3Drecurring%26t%3D14%26akid%3D351835%252E57242256%252EtaKMhp&source=gmail&ust=1683877376055000&usg=AOvVaw1HZ8M0j2xqG6LFP4OiGa7M" href="https://act.moveon.org/go/169649?source=mo&utm_term=recurring&t=14&akid=351835%2E57242256%2EtaKMhp" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><strong>Join nearly 200,000 MoveOn members who have already signed.</strong><strong> It's not too late for them to cancel Trump's infomercial town hall before he spews lies about the 2020 election and so much more on live television.</strong></a></div></div></div><div style="background-color: #efefef; border-radius: 8px; border: 1px solid rgb(239, 239, 239); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 1em;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CNN: Stop giving Donald Trumpβa seditionist, QAnon conspiracy theorist, spreader of disinformation, and abusive sexual predatorβfree airtime on cable news! </span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://act.moveon.org/go/169649?source%3Dmo%26utm_term%3Drecurring%26t%3D15%26akid%3D351835%252E57242256%252EtaKMhp&source=gmail&ust=1683877376055000&usg=AOvVaw1T0-8hufTB-RcB2H7kvfrr" href="https://act.moveon.org/go/169649?source=mo&utm_term=recurring&t=15&akid=351835%2E57242256%2EtaKMhp" style="color: #1155cc; display: block; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><button style="background-color: red; border-radius: 8px; color: white; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding: 0.6em 1.3em;">Sign the petition</button></a></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div>Carroll showed incredible bravery in coming forward with her story and demanding accountability from a powerful man with a history of using his platform to attack anyone who stands up to him. Now, a jury has affirmed what we've known for a long timeβthat Trump is a predatory sexual abuser and liar.</div><div> </div><div>But CNN's conduct has been the opposite of brave. They've catered to Trump in hopes of boosting their ratings.<sup>2</sup> They have a long history of airing his lies unchecked and giving him space on their valuable platform to spew his toxic hate and vitriol.<sup>3</sup> Following the verdict, CNN should recognize it's craven and unacceptable to honor and elevate him, which they are doing by putting him on the air.</div><div> </div><div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://act.moveon.org/go/169649?source%3Dmo%26utm_term%3Drecurring%26t%3D16%26akid%3D351835%252E57242256%252EtaKMhp&source=gmail&ust=1683877376055000&usg=AOvVaw0Ra3bz1vIb2qeEnggZ-5-R" href="https://act.moveon.org/go/169649?source=mo&utm_term=recurring&t=16&akid=351835%2E57242256%2EtaKMhp" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><strong>Nearly 200,000 of us have already signed the petition. </strong><strong>And thousands have filed direct complaints with CNN to urge them to change course. </strong><strong>Let's get to 250,000 before tonight's town hall, and keep building the call to demand accountability in the public sphere for Trump's heinous actions. Sign now!</strong></a></div><div> </div></div><div>Carroll's case is unique in winning a judgment against Trump. But it is part of a broader pattern. More than a dozen other people have made claims of assault against Trump.<sup>4</sup> And he's famously admitted on tape to doing actions exactly like those he did to Carroll. So why is CNN continuing to advantage him by giving him free air time?</div><div> </div><div>Trump's most MAGA supporters might continue to back him regardless of what he does. But there's no excuse whatsoever for CNN to give him this kind of sweetheart arrangement.</div><div><div> </div><div>This is a critical moment in defining how the media will treat Trump in his bid to retake the White House after a $5 million judgment against him for sexual assault and ahead of further criminal charges that might come against him in the coming months.</div><div> </div><div>Please make your voice heard and tell CNN to stop this outrageous action.</div><div> </div><div>Thanks for all you do.</div></div></div><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 1em 0px;">βMaria Schafer, MoveOn member </p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 1em 0px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 1em 0px;">~~~~~~~</p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 1em 0px;"><br /></p>
...............<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nbQ283J_NkQ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-44635261759229377542023-05-02T01:07:00.273-07:002023-05-05T00:21:36.993-07:00If This Becomes Out Of Control It Will Benefit Trump and Please AMLO - Update 05/02: Biden Sending 1,500 Troops To the Border - 164 Executions in TIJ During April - BC YTD Total = 606 - Long Tall Sally !<p> <i>Already Trump is rubbing his tiny little hands together over <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/01/us/cleveland-texas-neighbor-shooting-monday/index.html">Francisco Oropeza Perez-Torres </a> smugly bantering to himself, 'I told you they were all murderers, see ?'</i></p><p><i>We are in for a rough ride - a small preface to the John Oliver show:</i></p><p><i>(Update/edit: I like John Oliver, or have in the past...but thinking about it I felt he was a bit rough on Biden. Of course, WOLA won't agree with me, too bad. Biden has had his hands full and overflowing with Trump crap since day uno. He was halted by the courts to end this outrageous move (# 42) and installed other programs within the native countries to help the migrants apply for amnesty - yet Oliver does not even mention that. BTW, anytime you have phones or computers with newly established programs involved you are freakin bound to have problems, big fucking deal Oliver, what's new? Just too critical, period. Hey Oliver, this is coming from a Bernie Sanders supporter. Maybe you need to go back home and cover the Coronation. end edit. Maggie) (BTW watch your screens, television set up outside CBP's Pogo Row today...they have been working their asses off building this gigantic facility to house and feed the migrantes whilst they are being processed, it is fantabulous, hell I could stay there with Paris. Why don't you cover that one Oliver ?) </i></p><p><i>More: To argue and claim that allowing refugees from the Ukraine into the United States immediately before others who have been waiting in line is " racist " is probably the most ridiculous allegation I have ever heard in my life. Perhaps those who complain endlessly about this situation need to immigrate to Kherson and all cities in the Ukraine being destroyed by the butcher and criminal Putin to get a grasp on reality. Then, check back with me and let me hear your sad story. Shame on y'all and especially you Oliver you dork for espousing the position that one needs to be white to immigrate into the USA. Fuck You ! </i></p><p><i>Further: Here's a story you could work on - maybe Oliver - last year in the spring of '22 we gave the Mexican government Three Hundred and Fifty Million dollars to help fix their problem of contaminated raw sewage they allow to flow into the ocean which not only contaminates their beaches, but also the beaches in the USA. Last year, Oliver - read it and weep. The problem has grown so bad in the United States and has worsened to the point where the USA beaches including those in Coronado have been shut down countless times.</i></p><p><i>Yet, nothing has been done by the Mexicans. NOTHING. Here's the scoop Oliver - where's the money? I ask not only because nothing has been done to improve the border situation of Tijuana's sewage problem, but now the Mayor of Tijuana is complaining they just do not have the facilities to house and feed the migrantes. My suggestion would be to take some of that money from the $350 million (since it is obviously not being used) and fucking build a few facilities instead of whining and crying wolf waiting for more handouts from Uncle Sam. The problem is, where is the money ? No one knows. Is it gone? Where the fuck is it ? Good story, but I don't think you could handle it you prick. But Padre Murphy can,<a href="https://zetatijuana.com/2023/04/gobierno-debera-buscar-espacios-para-migrantes-en-tijuana-a-ante-fin-de-titulo-42-padre-murphy/"> check it out Oliver.</a></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>end edit.)</i></p><p><i>~~~~~</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahJDift5zn6kM8gMa4WEUDtvpnaApUPTVfSitLm7J0y3rt8L5m1thAHv4gdCU9ngOt4TdL_AUhrKeEm1G6TBlNaR6-hqk353Gtplu8W6wWv1KjoPdaHYUhr1CKDq-nvj7bxBESySNhZ5KwCrtPDOERvdfPCNDIsw2sYHwzv7llaplgtmvJR1lpaB0Aw/s300/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahJDift5zn6kM8gMa4WEUDtvpnaApUPTVfSitLm7J0y3rt8L5m1thAHv4gdCU9ngOt4TdL_AUhrKeEm1G6TBlNaR6-hqk353Gtplu8W6wWv1KjoPdaHYUhr1CKDq-nvj7bxBESySNhZ5KwCrtPDOERvdfPCNDIsw2sYHwzv7llaplgtmvJR1lpaB0Aw/w400-h224/download.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i><p></p><p><i><br /></i></p>
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Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-51312417598550393872023-04-29T22:22:00.000-07:002023-04-29T22:22:27.247-07:00Get Down Michelle !!! WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO !!!!<i>You may have already seen this today, but I could not resist. The sound isn't that great, maybe down the line someone will clean it up....</i><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>.................<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hyKX5PzJ3u8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>
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<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i>From what I've been reading, they lost their minds in Barcelona. <a href="https://youtu.be/6vQpW9XRiyM">Outasight !</a><a href="https://youtu.be/6vQpW9XRiyM"></a></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>πππππππππππππππππππ</i></div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585841787139756727.post-74690511029945667572023-04-25T15:53:00.004-07:002023-04-28T14:47:32.365-07:00Harry Belafonte RIP<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdsnPIEtK69O4I0fptfgvXPVzKe2npbyNmLBnlXnq6aOkXcFQTkcvMus1EZfCK0KNWj1Bt603ej0Mb3ldez2wvm7lOMQWMdP1elVLagmipbm8-oCQtK57aqbQ4o0jhrRd6yuTjyQIXn87fBYHQ567wmJmgXZ4h6NvATcb_cHSkXFbJXSpcA2J4vVp2EQ/s681/harry-belafonte-1.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdsnPIEtK69O4I0fptfgvXPVzKe2npbyNmLBnlXnq6aOkXcFQTkcvMus1EZfCK0KNWj1Bt603ej0Mb3ldez2wvm7lOMQWMdP1elVLagmipbm8-oCQtK57aqbQ4o0jhrRd6yuTjyQIXn87fBYHQ567wmJmgXZ4h6NvATcb_cHSkXFbJXSpcA2J4vVp2EQ/s681/harry-belafonte-1.webp" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdsnPIEtK69O4I0fptfgvXPVzKe2npbyNmLBnlXnq6aOkXcFQTkcvMus1EZfCK0KNWj1Bt603ej0Mb3ldez2wvm7lOMQWMdP1elVLagmipbm8-oCQtK57aqbQ4o0jhrRd6yuTjyQIXn87fBYHQ567wmJmgXZ4h6NvATcb_cHSkXFbJXSpcA2J4vVp2EQ/w640-h360/harry-belafonte-1.webp" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Courtesy Variety<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><i>We all grew up listening to and loving him not for a second ever thinking he would not be around anymore.<br /><br /> ~ From AP:<a href="https://apnews.com/article/harry-belafonte-dead-2d8cbdf0043e4383a6c4a85c862cdbe1?utm_campaign=position_03&utm_medium=taboola_news"> Harry Belafonte, Activist and Entertainer, Dies at 96</a><br /><br /> ~ From Variety:<br /><br /><a href="https://variety.com/2023/music/news/harry-belafonte-best-songs-1235594095/">The Brilliance of Harry Belafonte in 12 Songs<br /><br /><br />~~~~~<br /></a>π’</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div> ...............<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H5dpBWlRANE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762081456903711504noreply@blogger.com0