Here's hoping....

 

Support the Guantanamo Survivor Fund

 All funds received through the end of the year will be matched. For some of the men this is the only support they have had or will have. And life for these men and their families has been pretty awful.

so, if you have any spare money consider supporting the survivors of Guantanamo. Click here for more.

FOR OUR FRIENDS IN THE UKRAINE

 HOPING FOR A MORE PEACEFUL 2023:

part 2

 

christmas time in the U S of A

 

FROM ROGER FITCH AND OUR FRIENDS DOWN UNDER AT JUSTINIAN....

 The stolen documents saga ... The attempted coup ... Legal problems piling up for Trump ... 70 million people in America still believe the dangerous fantasies of a disturbed mountebank ... Criminal servitude beckons ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

"No other president has refused to concede that he lost an election, attempted a coup and incited an insurrection and then stolen hundreds of government secrets on his way out the door. He always says there's never been anyone like him, and it's true." - Salon

"Would he really give, say, Kim Jong-Un the names of undercover intelligence agents operating in South or North Korea, thus guaranteeing their assassination? If it meant fending off an indictment, he would ... they're sitting around at Main Justice asking themselves how many assets' lives they might be risking by indicting Trump." - New Republic 

In September, it seemed a tipping point had been reached in the legal pursuit of Donald Trump, with the filing of the NY Attorney General's "monumental" civil enforcement action against Trump, his family, and his corporate organisations. 

His accountants Mazars and banker Deutsche Bank have both parted company with their deadbeat client and provided evidence against him; Paris-based Mazars is probably used to official requests for the accounts of crooked politicians.

The man has so many stolen documents that Just Security set up a "Mar-a-Lago Clearinghouse" one can consult.

Even so, just after the elections, Donald Trump announced with astounding chutzpah that he's standing for president again. As Karl Marx observed, historical facts and figures appear twice, first as tragedy and then as farce. 

Trump proclaimed his candidacy in the glitzy ballroom of his Florida home, an estate as tasteless and garish as the man himself. Ivanka and Don Junior were missing, but the disgraced ex-president was bucked-up by the puzzling presence of the Western Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart.

If he succeeds, it will be only the second time an ex-president has managed a second term.

So far, it's all been downhill. 

One investigation in particular - the January 6 insurrection - seems to be moving forward at the Justice Department. Will there be indictments? It seems likely, and for the document heist there's even a model prosecution memo to peruse here. 

In addition, the January 6 committee is winding up its investigation and on December 21 will release its final report in which a number of people will be referred to DoJ for criminal prosecution. 

Many wonder why US AG Merrick Garland hasn't already indicted the principal offender, Donald John Trump. One explanation may have been the AG's wish to avoid filing charges so close to a congressional election. 

In response to Trump's 2024 announcement, AG Garland has appointed a special counsel. Jack Smith, presently Chief Prosecutor of Kosovo war crimes at The Hague, is a man who should be able to find where Trump has buried the bodies, or documents.  

The ex-president is still in legal peril for the latter, although DOJ is said to believe he stole government documents to gratify his unbounded ego - a mere narcissistic hoarder - rather than for the more plausible purposes of blackmail, treason or cash.

READ THE REST HERE.

AND SPEAKING OF HUMAN RIGHTS....

 21 years is a long time to be held without charge.

And remember - being released from Guantanamo does not mean you are free. 

Please donate to this fund that helps former prisoners as they try to heal, support their families, and continue to fight for justice.

International Human Rights Day

 

Anther day in the U.S.....musical interlude...

 

another day in the U.S.

 It is really a sad day in this country when 48% of the people in an election vote for a clearly unqualified individual. The trumpers were willing to vote for this man because their hero asked them too.  But the good news is that Warnock won and our democracy hobbles on.