Americans MUST ATTEND (focus, concentrate), Demand Strict Attention to Essentials:

Critical Matters of World and National History

Knowledge Memory

Principle, Practice Preservation Propriety

United States public officials must be reined and required to serve not themselves but the people of the United States of America. Recorded documentation, direct textual transcription, and preservation of official actions and words are part of this critical matter.

Documentation of actions and policies taken on behalf of, in the name of, and in the position or in professional office representing the United States of America is absolutely essential to the life and memory of the United States and its people. Without exception, US public officials while in office (as servants of the people, the institution of Government; not owners of corporations; in international affairs, not deal makers but diplomats) must be required under strictly enforced law to submit in the moment all of their actions, policies, statements, all content to direct transcription (fully and completely without editing, redacting or altering in any way) and to the nation’s archive or library for public study or use. Such documentation is essential to the life and health of the country, essential for the clear thinking, the clarity and understanding and reflection of the citizenry.

Essentiality of Depth and Clarity
Knowledge, Reflection, Memory
Understanding and Truth
Respect for People, Culture, History

 

“…Symbolically…, there is an international date line nearby, on the border between Russia and the United States, where you can literally step from one day into another. I hope that we can do the same in political affairs.”

“Our countries are… are two islands, one Russian and one American, separated by a mere four kilometres…. We are close neighbours (and) … our shared history and many positive events are largely related to Alaska. There is still an enormous cultural legacy preserved since the age of Russian America, with Russian Orthodox churches and more than 700 place-names of Russian origin.… [T]his legacy will help us restore and develop mutually beneficial and equal ties at this new stage, even in the most challenging conditions”…. “[I]t is crucial and necessary that our countries turn the page and get back to cooperation.” —Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin.

This is an example of Due Diligence, Essential Documentation at the Official Website of The President of Russia August 16, 2025 
Verbatim (font changes, color, caps, bold, italics added)

Joint news conference by the President of Russia and the President of the United States, August 16, 2025, Anchorage, Alaska, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump held a joint news conference following Russia-US talks. http://en.special.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/77793

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADIMIR PUTIN: Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen,

We held our talks in a constructive and mutually respectful atmosphere, and they have proved substantive and productive.

I would like to once again thank my US counterpart for the proposal to come to Alaska. It is quite logical to meet here since our countries, albeit separated by oceans, are, in fact, close neighbours. When we stepped out of our planes and greeted each other, I said, “Good afternoon, dear neighbour. I am glad to see you alive and in good health.” I believe it sounds very friendly and neighbourly. Our countries are separated only by the Bering Strait — essentially, there are two islands, one Russian and one American, separated by a mere four kilometres. We are close neighbours, that’s a fact.

It is also important to note that our shared history and many positive events are largely related to Alaska. There is still an enormous cultural legacy preserved since the age of Russian America, with Russian Orthodox churches and more than 700 place-names of Russian origin.

During World War II, Alaska served as the starting point for the legendary air route that delivered lend-lease supplies, including military aircraft and other equipment. It was a dangerous and challenging route over enormous ice-covered territories. Nevertheless, the pilots and experts of both countries did everything they could to bring victory together. They risked and sacrificed their lives for our common victory.

I have just visited the Russian city of Magadan. A monument honouring Russian and American pilots stands there, adorned with the Russian and American flags. I know that here, too, there is a similar monument, and at a war cemetery a few kilometres away from here, there are graves of Soviet pilots who lost their lives in that heroic mission. We appreciate the efforts of US officials and citizens to preserve their memory. This is a dignified and noble undertaking.

We will always remember other examples from history when our countries stood together against common enemies in the spirit of combat camaraderie and alliance, rendering each other help and support. I am certain that this legacy will help us restore and develop mutually beneficial and equal ties at this new stage, even in the most challenging conditions.

As you know, Russian-American summit talks have not been held for over four years. That is a long time. This period has proved exceptionally difficult for bilateral relations, and, let’s face it, they have deteriorated to their lowest point since the Cold War. And this does not benefit either our countries or the world in general.

Obviously, sooner or later we had to remedy the situation, to move from confrontation to dialogue, and in this regard, an in-person meeting between the two heads of state was really overdue – of course, with serious and thorough preparations, and this work has been done.

President Trump and I have established very good direct contacts. We have had frank conversations on the phone multiple times. As you know, the US President’s Special Envoy, Mr Witkoff, has visited us in Russia several times. Our aides and heads of foreign ministries have maintained regular contacts.

As you are well aware, the situation around Ukraine is one of the key issues. We acknowledge the commitment of the US administration and President Trump personally to help resolve the Ukrainian conflict, and the President’s willingness to understand the root causes and its origins.

I have repeatedly said that the developments in Ukraine present fundamental threats to Russia’s national security. Moreover, we have always considered the Ukrainian people – and I have said this many times – a brotherly people, no matter how strange it may sound in today’s circumstances. We share the same roots, and the current situation is tragic and deeply painful to us. Therefore, our country is sincerely interested in ending this.

Yet, we are convinced that, for the conflict resolution in Ukraine to be long-term and lasting, all the root causes of the crisis, which have been repeatedly explained, must be eliminated; all of Russia’s legitimate concerns must be taken into account, and a fair security balance must be restored in Europe and the rest of the world.

I agree with President Trump. He said today that Ukraine’s security must be ensured by all means. Of course, we are ready to work on this.

Hopefully, the understanding we have reached will bring us closer to this goal and open up the road to peace in Ukraine.

We hope that Kiev and the European capitals will take the current developments constructively and will neither try to put up obstacles nor attempt to disrupt the emerging progress with provocative acts or behind-the-scenes plots.

By the way, under the new US administration, our bilateral trade has been on the rise. So far, it is a symbolic figure but still, the trade is 20 percent higher. What I am saying is that we have many interesting areas for cooperation.

It is obvious that the Russian-US business and investment partnership holds tremendous potential. Russia and the United States have much to offer each other in trade, energy, digital and high technologies, and space development.

Cooperation in the Arctic and the resumption of region-to-region contacts, including between the Russian Far East and the West Coast of the USA, also appear relevant.

Overall, it is crucial and necessary that our countries turn the page and get back to cooperation.

Symbolically, as I have already said, there is an international date line nearby, on the border between Russia and the United States, where you can literally step from one day into another. I hope that we can do the same in political affairs.

I would like to thank Mr Trump for our joint work and for the friendly and trust-based conversation. The main thing is that there was a commitment on both sides to produce a result. We see that the US President has a clear idea of what he wants to achieve, that he sincerely cares about his country’s prosperity while showing awareness of Russia’s national interests.

I hope that today’s agreements will become a reference point, not only for resolving the Ukrainian problem but also for resuming the pragmatic business relations between Russia and the United States.

To conclude, I would like to add the following. I remember that in 2022, during my last contacts with the former US administration, I tried to convince my former US counterpart that we should not bring the situation to a point fraught with serious repercussions in the form of hostilities, and I said directly at the time that it would be a big mistake.

Today, we hear President Trump saying: “If I had been president, there would have been no war.” I believe it would have been so. I confirm this because President Trump and I have established a generally very good, businesslike and trustworthy contact. And I have every reason to believe that, as we move along this path, we can reach – and the sooner the better – the end of the conflict in Ukraine.

Thank you for the attention.

 

“…Hottest country anywhere in the world… dealing … to try to get this over with”—United States President Donald Trump. (No transcript of press conference posted on US government-the White House's official website.) Kremlin transcript continues

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DONALD TRUMP: Thank you very much, Mr. President. That was very profound, and I will say that I believe we had a very productive meeting.

There were many-many points that we agreed on, most of them, I would say, a couple of big ones that we have not quite gotten there, but we have made some headway. So, there is no deal until there is a deal.

I will call up NATO in a little while. I will call up the various people that I think are appropriate, and I will, of course, call up President Zelensky and tell him about today’s meeting. It is ultimately up to them. They are going to have to agree with [what] Marco [Rubio] and Steve [Witkoff] and some of the great people from the Trump administration who have come here, Scott [Bessent] and John Ratcliffe. Thank you very much. But we have some of our really great leaders. They have been doing a phenomenal job.

We also have some tremendous Russian business representatives here, and I think, you know, everybody wants to deal with us. We have become the hottest country anywhere in the world in a very short period of time. We look forward to that, we look forward to dealing; we are going to try to get this over with.

We really made some great progress today. I have always had a fantastic relationship with President Putin, with Vladimir. We had many tough meetings, good meetings. We were interfered with by the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. It made it a little bit tougher to deal with, but he understood it. I think he has probably seen things like that during the course of his career. He has seen it all. But we had to put up with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. He knew it was a hoax, and I knew it was a hoax, but what was done was very criminal, but it made it harder for us to deal as a country in terms of the business and all of the things that we would like to have dealt with. But we will have a good chance when this is over.

So just to put it very quickly, I am going to start making a few phone calls and tell them what happened. We had an extremely productive meeting, and many points were agreed to. There are just a very few that are left. Some are not that significant. One is probably the most significant, but we have a very good chance of getting there. We did not get here but we have a very good chance of getting there.

I would like to thank President Putin and his entire team, whose faces, who I know, in many cases, otherwise, other than that, whose faces I get to see all the time in the newspapers. You are almost as famous as the boss, but especially this one right over here.

But we had some good meetings over the years, right? Good, productive meetings over the years, and we hope to have that in the future. But let’s do the most productive one right now. We are going to stop, really, five, six, seven thousand, thousands of people a week from being killed, and President Putin wants to see that as much as I do.

So again, Mr. President, I would like to thank you very much, and we will speak to you very soon, and probably see you again very soon. Thank you very much, Vladimir.

VLADIMIR PUTIN: NEXT TIME IN MOSCOW.
DONALD TRUMP: Oh, that is an interesting one. I DO NOT KNOW. I will get a little heat on that one, but I could see it possibly happening. Thank you very much, Vladimir. And thank you all. Thank you.

Vladimir Putin: Thank you so much.

Final Points (my thoughts) Worth Repeating

The stewardship of the United States Presidency and the proper documentation and preservation of official acts is the duty of office owed to the PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF America, and indeed, to History.

The Head of State of the United States of America (and other employees of the United States Government) must ensure the diligent transcription and recording of official documents. Make available — on the official government websites (and in the libraries and archives of the government of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA (the White House, the Congress, various departments) —full transcripts of statements, speeches, press conferences, other official news and events. The casual and unprofessional practice of using corporate outlets, volatile media environments and platforms susceptible to interference, modification, and redaction should be strictly prohibited.

Moreover, INTERLOPERS (or extra-governmental), regardless of “intended” “goodness,” should be prohibited from presuming to represent or giving the impression of representing the United States of America.

Just as people positioned officially in government office should be schooled (or school themselves, substantively) in matters concerning the nation (the homeland, domestically); and, perhaps even more importantly and potentially perilously, in matters concerning international affairs—the wife or the relative of any public official not employed by the Government of the United States of America and so appointed and approved by appropriate branches and processes of the US Government SHOULD NEVER BE PERMITTED to represent, to give the impression of representing or presume to represent the United States of America in international affairs or in foreign or domestic matters.

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“Leadership” by Whimsy Exacerbates Causation (preexisting conditions), Casts Blame on Victims of its Prior Assaults

Whimsy 

Never admits Wrong

Never Takes Responsibility for its Actions 

“Economic conditions that drove many migrants north” have worsened under successive US regimes. Since the early nineteenth century, United States entities have meddled in and muddled, destabilized and thrown into chaos the institutions and essential advancement, domestic and governmental affairs of Latin American nations — often in the interests of “North American capitalists” and whimsical ideological siding with or against one or another variously labeled (understood or not understood) “right,” “left,” “popular,” “democratic” personality, party or entity.

REIGN OF TERROR

Always

Blames those it Terrorizes

USA Versus Americas of the Global South

USA v. Mexico 1846

Invasion of Mexico, price of forced peace: U.S. takes possession of more than half of Mexico’s territory, “what is now most of the western United States.”

USA v. Cuba 1903 -

Post- Spanish American War forced treaty results in “near total U.S. control of Cuban affairs” and “U.S. establishment of (US war machine) naval base at Guantanamo Bay.”

[US “restrictions” on Cuban economic and political freedom… lasted until the Castro revolution of 1959”]

USA v. Panama 1903 – late 1970s-1980s-1990s-2020s

Post-Panamanian Revolution, US assumes “control of vital trade route of the Panama Canal.”  In 1979, the U.S. government “returns the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. On December 20, 1989, the United States invades Panama. In 1999, the USA and Panama end their “joint partnership in controlling the strategic waterway,” the Panama Canal. In 2025, the forty-seventh US president, in public statements, threatens “to reclaim the Panama Canal—by force if necessary”

USA v. Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti from 1934 – present

Under occupation by US military forces

USA v. Guatemala 1954

CIA-backed coup overthrows government of “Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz”

USA v. Brazil 1964

U.S.-backed coup overthrows government of Brazilian President Joao Goulart, “installs military dictatorship lasting until the 1980s.”

USA v. Dominican Republic 1965

U.S. forces land, intervene in internal unrest

 

  

USA v. Chile 1973

U.S.-supported military coup overthrows democratically elected president Salvador Allende, replaced by Augusto Pinochet dictator who “imposes a brutal military regime, embarks on U.S.-guided program of extreme economic privatization and de-regulation”, seeding model for later “neo-liberalism”

USA v. South American peoples 1970s

US-aided “Operation Condor, a “brutal campaign of repression and assassination aimed at perceived ‘leftist’ threats”

USA v. Nicaragua 1980

USA [fortieth president, “Iran-Contra Affair”] “backs ‘anti-Communist’ Contra forces against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government”; backs “Salvadoran government against leftist FMLN rebels.”

USA v. Grenada 1983

US entities accuse government of the Caribbean islanded nation of Grenada of “allying with Cuba” and U.S. military forces execute a violent invasion of the nation.

USA v. Panama 1989

U.S. entities invade Panama to oust “rogue CIA agent” aka “strongman” Manuel Noriega.

USA v. Haiti 1994

USA leads invasion to overthrow government of Haiti “installed by coup”; then, ten years later (2004), US-backed coup/invasion overthrows government installed after previous invasion and overthrow.

 

 

USA v. Venezuela 2002

U.S.-backed coup ousts government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (after two days, massive domestic support reverses restores President Chavez to office

USA v. Honduras 2009

U.S.-supported coup overthrows government of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya

USA v. Venezuela 2017 –

US entities interfere in Venezuelan domestic and governmental affairs by aggressive backing a non-entity named “Juan Guaidó as [non-existent] ‘interim president’ of Venezuela

  

  

USA v. Cuba and Cubans 2017 -

Between 2017 and 2024, in an attempt “to strangle” the Cuba’s economy, the US regime cuts migrant “remittances” sent to their homeland from approximately “$800 million” to “$35 million.” US entities further tighten “economic embargo,” “expand sanctions,” and increase “restrictions on foreign investment.”

USA v. Venezuela and Venezuelans 2017 -

US leadership slanders Venezuelans with unfounded accusations of criminal or gang-related behaviors, denounces Venezuelans as “invaders” of the United States, falsely claims that the Venezuelan government is affiliated with “the violent ‘Tren de Aragua’ gang”

USA v. Immigrants and migrant-originating countries 2025

US government entities’ attacks on migrants struggling to survive include greater taxes on remittances sent to their homeland (in Central America these remittances reportedly provide 23 percent of that country’s GDP). Wealthy migrants are able to avoid such penalties by moving money “through bank wires, investment accounts, shell companies, and real estate purchases.”

 

The United States of America

This great nation (as originally envisioned) and its people, as well as peoples and nations across the world could use (indeed they deserve) a far better caliber, a higher quality in all respects of leadership than the caliber of leadership that has been allowed position and power particularly in Federal Washington.

Sources

People's World January 25, 2019 “Before Venezuela: The long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America” (list compilation contributors the Associated Press and People’s World) https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/before-venezuela-the-long-history-of-u-s-intervention-in-latin-america/

New Historian April 12, 2015, “The USA and Latin America: A History of Meddling?”
posted by Daryl Worthington, https://www.newhistorian.com/2015/04/12/the-usa-and-latin-america-a-history-of-meddling/

Anna’s Archive “U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean”
Alt author Alan McPherson
https://annas-archive.org/md5/9ef7c53069f0c41e87fb9dd767b08c9c

Cronkite News “Trump is reopening past scars and stoking new fears in Panama: More than 35 years have passed since the U.S. invaded Panama to oust the dictator Manuel Noriega, but threats by President Donald Trump to reclaim the Panama Canal – by force if necessary – are reopening past scars and stoking new fears.” by Grace Berry/Cronkite Borderlands Project June 13, 2025 https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2025/06/13/donald-trump-reopening-past-scars-stoking-new-fears-in-panama/

Orinoco Tribune International Opinion US/Canada July 27-29, 2025, John Perry and Roger D. Harris “Trump Targets Latino Migrants – Ideology Over Humanity” https://orinocotribune.com/trump-targets-latino-migrants-ideology-over-humanity/

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Equal Right to Life These Children now Refused Protection, Food, Water, Medical Care. Collective Global Action MUST nonviolently STOP THE CARNAGE

MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED YEARS

Occupation, Tyranny, Torment

Starting with a “Mandate” of 1920-1948 when migrants from northern Germany (aka Anglo-Saxons also known the English and British Imperialists) — without consultation with or permission of native peoples — came to occupy and assume administrative control over the Palestinian Territories and the Arab State of Jordan (Kingdom of Jordan, then known as “Transjordan”) (general references). 

Having occupied the territories for a time, the British Imperialists threw their support to kindred occupiers and the “creation of a Jewish state”; on the heels of which (on May 14, 1948) came armed extremists’ push into Palestinian land and, on that ground, their designation and establishment of “the State of Israel.” 

Between 1947 and 1949, “military forces” of the extremists “attacked major Palestinian cities,” “destroyed some 530 villages,” committed “mass atrocities … including dozens of massacres”; and left “some 15,000 Palestinians” dead. From that time through the present day—the latest reports show Palestinian deaths resulting from the raging impunity that began October 2023 has exceeded “54,670” (Press TV) — “Israel’s military occupation of Palestine” has remained “at the core” of unrelenting “conflict”— determining life and death, wellness and sickness, progress or regress, shaping every facet, “every part of Palestinians’ lives.”

ATLAS OF PALESTINE 1948 published in 2004 contents include: 

• Geography of Land and Water
• Land Ownership and Population Composition
• Status of Towns and Villages Before and After 1948
• Origins of Present Population
• Shifting of Armistice Lines
• Troubled Border with Lebanon
• Land Exchange with Jordan 1994
  
• Present Jewish Distribution
• Present Palestinian Distribution
• Destruction of Landscape
• https://www.plands.org/en/maps-atlases/atlases/atlas-of-palestine-1917-1966 Source: Palestine Land Society. https://www.plands.org/en/maps-atlases

Colonies of Anglo-Saxon Imperialists
Themselves Criminal, Immoral Imperialists

“Over the past few decades, the US government has vetoed Security Council resolutions more than 50 times—standing against the international community’s demand to enforce law and prevent gross violations of international law by the (extremist) regime.” This pattern in US leadership has enabled consolidation of “the occupying regime’s impunity”— Republic of Iran Diplomat Esmaeil Baghaei.

Without doubt, “This is … one of the main factors in the continuation of the occupation and colonial genocide by Israel, making the US a direct accomplice in the crimes of the Israeli regime.”

May UNICEF Statement (excerpt)

… Lives that should never be reduced to numbers—Children’s Lives: “These children… are now part of a long, harrowing list of unimaginable horrors:

• …Grave violations against children
• …Blockade of aid,
• …Starvation
• …Constant forced displacement,
• …Destruction of hospitals, water systems, schools, and homes

“In essence (what is happening is) the destruction of life itself in the Gaza Strip.”

“Since the March 18, 2025, ceasefire ended, according to reports, “1,309 children have been killed, 3,738 injured. Totals reported since October 2023 include “more than 50,000” child deaths or injuries.

“How many more dead girls and boys will it take? What level of horror must be live streamed before the international community fully steps up, uses its influence, and takes bold, decisive action to force the end of this ruthless killing of children?”

“The children of Gaza need protection. They need food, water, and medicine. They need a ceasefire. BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING, they need immediate, collective action to stop this once and for all.”

NEWS REPORTING

May 2022

Haddad, Mohammed “Nakba Day: What happened in Palestine in 1948?” Al Jazeera News May 15, 2022, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/15/nakba-mapping-palestinian-villages-destroyed-by-israel-in-1948

May 2025

May 12, 2025, UNICEF
“Lives changed forever by war in Gaza

Gaza’s children remain trapped in the jaws of conflict. Even for those who survive their injuries, life will never be the same.” May 12, 2025, UNICEF for Every Child State of Palestine, 
https://www.unicef.org/sop/stories/lives-changed-forever-war-gaza


UNICEF for Every Child State of Palestine: 

“The world cannot stand by and allow the killing, maiming, and suffering of children to continue.

•  Civilians must be protected.
•  Hostages must be released.
•  Aid blockade must be lifted and commercial goods (permitted entry into) Gaza.
•  Ceasefire must be renewed. And a
•  Lasting political resolution must be found that 

PRIORITIZES THE RIGHTS AND WELL-BEING OF 

THIS AND 

FUTURE GENERATIONS OF CHILDREN. 

“Stories from the State of Palestine” https://www.unicef.org/sop/stories-state-palestine

May 27-28, 2025, UNICEF Statement, “‘Unimaginable horrors’: more than 50,000 children reportedly killed or injured in the Gaza Strip,” Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Edouard Beigbeder https://www.unicef.org/sop/press-releases/unimaginable-horrors-more-50000-children-reportedly-killed-or-injured-gaza-strip


June 2025 PressTV News

Press TV June 2, 2025, “‘Militarized’ aid mechanism: UN blasts Israel’s weaponization of food amid Gaza aid site massacres” https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/02/749076/UN-slams-%E2%80%98militarised%E2%80%99-aid-mechanism-in-Gaza-as-Israel-kills-3-more-at-aid-site

“Since October 7, 2023, when the Israeli regime began its genocidal war on Gaza, it has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians and injured over 124,000 others, most of whom are children and women.”

Quoting the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): 

“Israel’s militarized humanitarian assistance mechanism violates international standards on aid distribution, endangers civilians, and is contributing to the catastrophic situation in Gaza…. Weaponization of food for civilians, restricting or preventing (people’s) access to other life-sustaining services constitutes a war crime….”

Leadership with Partners’ Complicity (United States of America)

Islamic Republic of Iran Diplomat Esmaeil Baghaei:

“This is undoubtedly one of the main factors in the continuation of the occupation and colonial genocide by Israel, making the US a direct accomplice in the crimes of the Israeli regime” …. “Over the past few decades, the US government has vetoed Security Council resolutions more than 50 times, standing against the international community's demand to enforce law and prevent gross violations of international law by the Zionist regime, thereby consolidating the occupying regime's impunity.” News Reporting June 2025 “Iran blasts US veto on Gaza ceasefire resolution as American policymakers’ moral decline” https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/05/749299/Iran-blasts-US-veto-on-Gaza-ceasefire-resolution-as-American-policymakers%E2%80%99-moral-decline

PressTV June 5, 2025, “New Israeli strikes kill dozens, including four journalists, in Gaza” … “More than three dozen people, including four journalists, have been killed in the latest Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip as the regime presses ahead with its genocidal war.” https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/05/749287/Gaza-Palestine-al-Ahali-Hospital-Israel

A Personal Parting Note

I am not anti- (quasi, kind of or sort of “semi” … (anything)! I expect this distractive mantra (or formulaic deflection) will at some point wear itself out. I fear that will not happen before it has caused considerable harm—especially to the young who, by definition, are incapable of speaking for themselves.

My anti(s)  

I am anti-arrogance and pretentiousness, anti-conceit and deceit. I am anti- deliberate ignorance and the spreading of ignorance. I am anti-laziness: intellectual, mental, moral, psychological, physical.

I am anti-braggadocio, anti-bullying, anti-bribery, anti-plunder and thievery

I am anti-disparagement, misrepresentation and disrespectfulness. I am anti-waste of human life, or the natural environment, and material matter.

I am anti-war and anti-belligerence. I am anti-repression (anti-extinguishing or crushing). I am anti-genocide and cultural or ethnic razing

In the arenas of politics and the press, government and society, I am anti-pandering, anti-puppeteer and puppet and parroting. I am anti-prostitution and pimping.

I am anti acquiescence (“go along to get along”) when lives are threatened and considered action could save lives.

Cowardice chooses the path of least resistance. 

Cowards and people lacking in essential capacity for discernment refuse to learn, refuse to study and consult. Refuse to govern.

I am anti-rape and razing of cultures and of children, thus anti-rape and razing of creation present and future.

I am against committing or condoning the morally reprehensible—not only what is, by any reasonable standard, criminal; but what is clearly unjustifiable, unprincipled, conscienceless, unconscionable.

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Face of Two-facedness

United States Public Officials’ Selective Application of Law, their attacks on institutions of law, their penchant for feigned “Shock” together with Vicious “Shock and Awe”—exposes a Dangerously Unprincipled Nature. 

In Domestic and Foreign Affairs, they are Instruments of Lawlessness.

A case in current affairs reporting 

Prompts a nagging question

WHY

“WHY” is not in this instance the common question of motive usually asked of a killer in any-state USA but rather the WHY that goes to priors – prior conditions, judgment, pressing realities (even with an implied HOW: how did matters reach this point?).

FIGHTING OVER LOUD MUSIC IN RESIDENTIAL SETTING

WHY does a man working as a cook deported from the US more than a decade ago put himself in further jeopardy by throwing punches instead of lowering the volume of his music that is apparently disturbing his neighbors or roommates?

FLYING OFF THE HANDLE ON THE BENCH

WHY does a professional on the bench for nearly a decade together with a long career in legal practice risk her reputation and occupation by flying off the handle and directing a petty criminal to commit further crimes instead of choosing proper time and place to intercede?

POOR JUDGMENT AND (even passing) REALITY

Bad judgment dismisses an atmosphere in which the country is being ruled by retaliatory and reactionary extremists prone to public showboating on stages and media platforms. It is at one's own peril to dismiss show boaters centered on self and careless of the United States of America's chronic domestic problems:

•  Mental and physical illness including various forms of addiction (and causation)
•  Homegrown human and drug trafficking (remember Epstein & Co)
• Joblessness (in terms of productive, effective and efficient labor forces, sustained work and living wages for workers)
• Homelessness and public squalor (even in the shadow of and clearly visible to occupiers of Capitol Hill and residences of high-positioned US public officials).

GOOD JUDGMENT

Good judgment takes into account present reality and acts accordingly. There is a time and place for everything under the sun. 

A Milwaukee judge and a Mexican cook used bad judgment. 

Given the gift of bad judgment, the showmen and show boaters at the helm swooped in with a command performance. 

A FINAL WORD TO THE WISE

Governance, Judiciary practices, Professional work, at its best, is not and should not be conducted—in any manner or degree—on social media platforms.

People entrusted with public service of any kind should take the work seriously. Among other things, that means staying clear of social media platforms.

Leave to the bored masses the Internet pods and silos, rumor mills and generally questionable and unserious sites. 

Peg Sources

Biography
https://milwbar.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/2022JudicialPollBios/2022%20JUDICIAL%20CANDIDATE%20BIOGRAPHIES%20-%201%20per%20page%20Dugan.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Dugan

News

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel April 25, 2025, Daniel Bice, John Diedrich, Mary Spicuzza, Vanessa Swales “Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case” https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/breaking/2025/04/25/milwaukee-county-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-by-feds-at-courthouse/83270885007/

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel April 25, 2025, Mary Spicuzza, Vanessa Swales, Ricardo Torres, Bridget Fogarty “Protesters decry arrest of Milwaukee judge charged with helping immigrant evade ICE” https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2025/04/25/protesters-decry-arrest-of-milwaukee-judge-charged-with-helping-immigrant-evade-ice/83274429007/

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Beware THIS “Second Coming”

No Good Comes from Wastefulness

Penn Ave Pageantry

Rabid Consumerism

Disavowal of Conservation

Dependency thus Weakness 

F

orty years of hollowing out U.S. domestic manufacturing [without any consideration, policy or concern focused on conservation, reduction of consumerism and waste, change in Americans' behavior] and an ever-increasing DEPENDENCY on imported products and goods has resulted in a self-inflicted vulnerability of the United States and its people.

“Importing products from overseas is a major industry in the United States.” “Hundreds of companies bring in goods from other countries to sell to American consumers and businesses.” This importing activity has seeded long-lasting consequences for the economy and the lives of the people of the United States of America.

In this man's machine, money plays; pandering names the game. Paymasters call the tune and politicians and public servant bow and obey. This is consummate betrayal, cuddled dependency in service to a master. How high? No high is too high to jump. No outrage too great to keep the puppeteers' funds flowing into the coffers of pliable panderers. Money plays. Pandering (Corrupt 'R' US) in the name of the game. 

Off shoring, Outsourcing
SELLING out at High price

Crossing United States borders are imports (not including the drugs) that touch every aspect of American life:

“Cars on dealership lots, computers in offices, clothing in home closets, edibles and non-edibles in home pantries and cupboards.” Ten leading US companies (i.e., companies headquartered in the United States) across retail autos, technology, apparel and home improvement are “responsible for importing more than $600 billion annually from abroad.”

Top 10 U.S. Import Companies by Total Value of Goods Imported

Rank
Company
Total Value of Imports

No. 1 Walmart $200 billion	No. 2 General Motors $114 billion	No. 3 Ford Motors $70 billion	No. 4 Target Stores $50 billion	No. 5 Samsung Electronics $45 billion
No. 6 Home Depot $43 billion	No. 7 Nike $27 billion	No. 8 Dell Technologies $25 billion	No. 9 GAP $23 billion	No. 10 Lowe’s            $20 billion

Konnect International Charlotte Smith January 18, 2024 “Top 10 Import Companies in USA” https://www.konnectinternational.com/top-10-import-companies-in-usa/

The top US-headquartered importer, Walmart, is a multinational “with stores under different names” operating in countries throughout the world: countries such as “Canada, Mexico, India, Chile, South Africa, and China.” China is home to “more than 400 Walmart stores (including Sam’s Club, where Chinese workers make up 99 percent of the workforce).” Mangoful December 16, 2022, Lisa Jones “Chinese Walmart Products? Here’s What You Should Know” https://mangoful.com/chinese-walmart-products-to-know/

Owned by the world’s richest family, the Walton family [net worth “approximately $432.4 billion” (Bloomberg)] via Walton Enterprises, Walmart Inc. (formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) GLOBAL (its divisions Walmart U.S., Walmart International, Sam’s Club, Global eCommerce) is headquartered 99 miles from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and 288 miles from Dallas, Texas, in a place called Bentonville, Arkansas (USA). 2025 all rising estimates show revenue at $680.99 billion, operating income at $29.348 billion. (Source: general reference)

Charlotte Smith writes that United States commercial and consumer sectors insatiably demand imported merchandise (e.g., “energy production” struggles “to keep pace with consumption”, demand constantly increases for greater varieties of year-round off seasonal domestic crops). Imports crossing US borders reportedly 

• “Contribute trillions in economic activity,” 
• “Support millions of jobs …” and 
• are projected to “accelerate” and “expand” far into the future.

A 2021 article at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis website notes that

“During the past two decades, the production process has become more fragmented, with different stages occurring in different parts of the world (often referred to as global value chains).” And the United States’ “heavy reliance on a few foreign suppliers in some industries could make the U.S. economy more susceptible to foreign economic shocks.” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Ana Maria Santacreu and Jesse LaBelle May 13, 2021, “Investigating the U.S. Reliance on Foreign Suppliers” https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2021/may/investigating-us-reliance-foreign-suppliers

To avoid over-dependency of imports or create at least a “40-percent increase in production” dramatically reducing dependencies, one analyst suggests that the United States “Produce at least 50 percent of most products it consumes (“100 percent…, in many cases by working 24/7…, if foreign supply is cut off”)” and

• Strengthen its skilled workforce
• Increase its competitiveness
• Cut the US trade deficit to zero.

Advanced Manufacturing December 9, 2021, updated May 26, 2024, “The U.S. is Overly Dependent on Imports” Harry Moser, Founder/President, Reshoring Initiative   https://www.advancedmanufacturing.org/industries/the-u-s-is-overly-dependent-on-imports/article_77bdf500-1ba0-11ef-bf04-6351f2f9cee3.html

Exposing 

Fantasy

Infantilism

Exploitation of Weakness

International journalist Martin Jay in an April 8, 2025, article reflects on the current pageantry playing out in Washington, DC, going viral on internet platforms, and hitting a little ball on who-knows-where golf courses.

The “tariffs tantrum” or “tariff stunt,” terms Jay uses alternately, 

“appears to be born of frustration from his first term in office, both not pulling off many of his election promises and wanting to garner more respect around the world.”

However, “Trump isn’t as bright or as capable as some give him credit for.”

The president’s “tariff stunt” is imbued with the hope (or fantasy) that “that it will boost blue collar jobs as many foreign firms might be forced to move to the U.S. and set up factories to bypass the tariffs.” It will not happen. Trump 2.0 may hang out on the links “waiting for news of new companies setting up shop in the U.S. and consumer spending to increase.” But neither will happen. And bashing the major supplier to the US commerce and consumers is not a winning strategy.

Jay points out that all those poor Americans sporting MAGA Merchandise—and momentarily parroting Trump & Co’s China bashing—are major consumers (on credit or otherwise) of all that cheap stuff retailed by Walmart and Target and Home Depot, imported from the United States’ indispensable supplier: the People’s Republic of China.

“All experts have agreed,” Jay writes, 

“…that it will not be the companies in China who will absorb the new costs (Trump tariffs), but these costs will be passed on to the consumer” — (thus) “shooting in the feet those poor folks …, typically Trump supporters who wear the MAGA baseball caps….”

Buyer Beware Message and Messenger

“Trump isn’t as bright or as capable as some give him credit for,” Martin Jay writes. 

This second coming, arrogantly unlearned in the workings of government and US public service and “international business and global trade,” is radicalized, deliberately lacking able counsel, and surrounded by yes-men (madams, mademoiselles). 

Trump 2.0 “is not interested in listening to experts and developing policies.”

“He prefers dumbed-down oversimplified strategies which he can be the architect of and claim the credit for, once implemented.”

Sooner than later, Jay writes, “he will come to understand that something as huge and as complicated as the U.S. economy can’t be fixed by juvenile and ill conceived ‘no-brainer’ fixes.”

“At a certain point (earlier more than later), he will be forced to listen to the economists who, at the moment, lack the courage to tell him that collapsing markets in Asia – AS WELL AS America’s own two bourses — cannot be a good sign. Jay, Martin April 8, 2025, “Trump tariffs will impact his own grassroots supporters” “The case for the tariffs – that they will boost the U.S. economy – is hardly a clear-cut case,” https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/08/trump-tariffs-will-impact-his-own-grassroots-supporters/

NOTE Bourses / Stock exchanges: marketplaces in which U.S. financial 

securities, commodities, derivatives, and other financial instruments are traded

United States Stock Exchanges: the New York Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (Nasdaq)

Beware Second Comings and other Fantasies. 

Beware leaders (and would-be leaders) who put forward policies and practices of rabid consumerism, destruction, and wastefulness.

Beware power that fails to govern, fails to govern for the public good (for the common defense and general welfare). Beware the recklessness and arrogance of power, power that disdains and disavows conservation.

A high price will be paid for deliberate ignorance and the recklessness of power. And the burden will be borne not by members of the billionaires’ club, but by disciples of a charlatan.

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