Stories vs. Reality

These are a few of the news stories that leave me shaking my head in disbelief that the U.S. could be a rogue nation that hurts itself, its people and the world. A sample only.

Automatic registration for US military draft to begin in December (The Hill).

Were I a mother, wife, sister, daughter, girl friend, during Vietnam, Iraq wars, and my son, husband, brother, father or boy friend wanted to go serve their country in the American military, I would kidnap them and take them to Canada. They would not be protecting their country, but being trained to kill innocent civilians in far away lands, putting money in the upper echelon of arms dealers for fake reasons sold as patriotism.

By contrast I like that in my new country Switzerland, military (or civilian service) is required of every male. It brings citizens together from four disparate regions with four languages. It is truly for defense and not to attack other countries

The difference is the leadership.

The full story isn't in on this. CBS News is one of several sources.

An employee of a third-party distributor of the Kimberly-Clark paper goods warehouse in Ontario was arrested on multiple felony arson charges in connection with a massive 6-alarm fire that engulfed the 1.2 million square-foot building on Tuesday morning.

On Wednesday, A video posted by a person who appears to be the fire bug says, "All you had to do was pay us enough to live. ... There goes your inventory."

There was a point in France when the people were fed up with the aristocracy taking too much and decided to take matters in their own hands by removing heads from aristocratic  bodies. The serfs when upset by the Czar killed his entire family.

I don't recommend decapitating the billionaires and the CEOs who take too great a portion of the effort made by the rest of the country nor do I recommend burning down property, but there is a major strike scheduled for May 1 telling people to buy nothing, not go to work, stop all activities. They demand a nation that but puts workers over billionaires. No school! No work! No shopping! More info can be found at /maydaystrong.org Non violent.

People need to show enough is enough. 

The US “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world,” a top official told the Vatican’s US representative. “The Catholic Church had better take its side.” Free Press

I'm not a religious person, but threatening a religion that has existed for over 2000 years is wrong. At the same time other members of the same administration is asking for God's blessings in their illegal wars. A good god, a good religion does not support killing people, What's next bombing the Vatican while chanting God is Good????

ICE is paying 'eye-popping' prices for warehouse detention centers. Experts in federal property acquisition said DHS may be paying high prices to compel developers and commercial landowners to sell.

How many ways can one spell CO R R UP T I O N? Why are does the U.S. need detection centers? Should we name them Buchenwald Redo? Auschwitz America? Do you want to be a part of a country that has concentration camps?

So who was rescued? Multiple stories and a news conference.

So allegedly two American pilots ejected out of an American aircraft behind enemy lines. One was rescued immediately. Another hid until Americans at a cost between half and two billion dollars (but there's no money for things for the American people). Never mind that the two pilots were committing a war crime and were there to kill innocent people. This is by an administration that went nuts talking about cost savings. 

If there were service people rescued that would be good for them and for their families, but why aren't their names released? Shouldn't they be used to exploit how clever the military is?  I don't want to push conspiracy theories, but I find it just weird this entire story. What else might the American military have been doing with all those planes behind enemy lines? 

WASHINGTON – Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-VA) today released a statement after voting in favor of Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA)’s war powers resolution.  

What Happened?

The senate went home rather than deal with a resolution that points out the unconstitutional acts of the deranged President Trump.

It is hard to believe that Congress is refusing to act. Words that come to mine are immoral, scum bags, lily-livered, scaredy cats, traitors who should be thrown out of office for not fulfilling the responsibilities they were elected to uphold. I know that throwing words like that around is not journalistic professional. 

I have only been this frightened for my birth country once before at this level and that was during the Cuban Missel Crisis. I'd just married and my Army husband was on his way to his next assignment in Stuttgart, Germany. If there were a war, would I ever see him again. My senior year of high school in history class when every student was assigned one major country to follow closely, from it's history to all aspects of its politics, I felt sympathy for Cuba. After being one of those children who hid under their desks to practice in case Russia dropped a nuke, I was afraid. Fortunately we had a sane president at the time.

I'm not alone in my fear. My Catalan physiotherapist told us the same thing as did other neighbors, locals and internationals. Their opinion of the American president is he is out of control and the people are unaware of how disturbed he is and how dangerous for every living creature on the planet.