Short and sweet

 

Readers are asked to please excuse odd spacing and other anomalies below. It has become increasingly difficult to make corrections, so I ask readers for their understanding. Some days, posting is easier. some days, like today, it is much harder. Because of so many problems with this post, it will be short and I hope somewhat sweet in terms of providing information. 

Wash. Post, Newly released Epstein email claims that Trump ‘spent hours’ with victim

In the 2011 email released by House Democrats, the disgraced financier wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell that Donald Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims and that encounter “has never once been mentioned” by police.

Would Mr. Trump have forgotten all about this? Or does he still remember and has simply decided to lie? 

E. Jean Carroll's allegations against Trump become more credible by the hour. 

Mr. Trump is getting major pushback now from many quarters. 

Wash. Post, Catholic bishops launch new program in defense of migrants

Glad to see someone now defending migrants, as they still want to come to our country 

and we still really need their contributions and their continued presence here. Donald Trump 

is totally wrong on the migrant issue. His own wives were illegal migrants who stayed beyond 

the terms of their visas. There has never been a legal and practical method of allowing migrants 

into the US--or, for that matter, into any other country. Even the sea has not prevented illegal 

migrants from entering Britain nor prevented Africans from arriving in Europe. At best, 

measures to deter or push back migrants have prevented them from becoming an avalanche. 

Wash. Post, U.S. allies begin to push back on Trump’s Caribbean military strikes

Officials from allied nations who are now urging Trump to cut back on the lethal Caribbean strikes include those from Britain, Canada, and France. Are these strikes even legal under international law? Probably not without a declaration of war.

TIME, The Trump Administration has authorized a series of missile strikes on vessels in the Caribbean

alleged to be carrying drug shipments. 76 people have been killed in some 19 strikes thus far. Trump 

and his Administration argue the military action is necessary to curb the flow of drugs into the 

United States. 

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who also answers to the title “Secretary of War,” following President

 Donald Trump’s rebranding of the Defense Department, has so far led the charge in announcing many 

of the strikes, which he says are “protecting the homeland and killing these cartel terrorists who wish to 

harm our country and its people.”

The U.S. government has not yet released any evidence indicating that any of the targeted ships were

 actually smuggling drugs.

NY Times,

The Penny Is Dead at 232

The cause was irrelevance and expensiveness, the U.S. Treasury Department said. The final pennies were 

minted on Wednesday afternoon in Philadelphia.

NY Times, Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire

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The cease-fire with Hamas has blunted the hunger faced by Gazans during the war. 

But aid agencies say Israeli 

restrictions are still hobbling their work.

NY Times, Israel Reopens Gaza Aid Route It Had Closed for Months

NY Times, Israel’s President Says Trump Asked Him to Pardon Netanyahu

So he did. 

News

UN officials warn of mounting violence, deteriorating humanitarian crisis in 

South Sudan

I met this Lady in south Sudan. 

Because of My Previous mission to South Sudan, I Closely follow news there.

 

from there..