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A great Australian group The Seekers singing in happier times..... Democrats, Republicans and President Trump all supporting the enabling legislation telling the states to declare "states of emergency" so they could link up with federal financial support. The Republicans in Idaho who control the legislature arresting Ammon Bundy and others who came to the State Capitol to challenge their legislation in the emergency situation. Ammon Bundy posted this video last Wednesday that gets to the heart of many issues including the election, the raging political conflict and the notion of whether politics is worth anything.... Fauci Says Normality Not Coming...

Well welcome to Stalag Covid 19 for this weekend's adventure..... Hey the one and only "Rnaround Sue" Dion with a song he recorded in the days when he was part of the Contemporary Christian Music scene in the early 1980's. I was around and saw him beret and all in person. Idols and idolatry right out of the Good Book but what about today..... Resistance In Idaho: The Latest This week a woman arrested for asking too many questions, Sara Brady, as a group of mothers and children entered a closed down park in Meridian, Idaho engaging in civil disobedience....

"Before the breathin' air is gone...." "Before the sun is just a bright spot in the night-time" The song with those lyrics by Three Dog Night "A Walk In The Country" moving up the Top 40 chart 49 years ago today. I was young back then with fear of nuclear catastrophe being put into me among other things but also the fear of environmental catastrophe.... Fear when I was young expressed into the cassette recorder microphone. It of course reminds me of Greta Thunberg's rage this week: "You stole my childhood" Wow! I was young, I was bullied and sexually...

A raging Nicolas Maduro calling on his supporters to come out after two days of massive protest across Venezuela for Interim President Juan Guaido.... Two French prison guards stabbed during a conjugal visit to a jihadist and seriously wounded. Authorities calling it a "terrorist attack"...... Police in London investigating three packages said to contain explosives. They arrived at Heathrow Airport, London City Airport and Waterloo Station..... And the big story in the mainstream media this morning is vague and indefinite information regarding satellite imagery from North Korea. Pictures of a rocket testing facility where construction is said to be underway,...

President Trump and the First Lady taking phone calls from children as part of the "Santa Tracker" program of NORAD on Christmas Eve as Santa made his way to the USA to deliver presents. Early elections have been called in Israel. April 9th is the date. Elections could have been delayed until November of next year, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the call saying it was difficult to pass laws.... Turbulence on Wall Street in the shortened Christmas Eve session...... A federal judge ruled Monday that North Korea should be paying over 501 million dollars to the family of...

President Trump spoke at a campaign rally for the midterm elections in Las Vegas last night, urging everyone there to vote in November saying: "America is winning again, because we are putting America first again". Trump urged votes for Republicans saying: "We need to have more Republicans in office."...... There was a restitution hearing in Las Vegas yesterday in connection with the Bunkerville Standoff case for Todd Engel, convicted in May 2017 and sentenced to 14 years in prison. Engel came to the defense of the Bundy Ranch in Nevada in April 2014..... The latest from the lawyer for the...

"Do we just allow these wicked men and women to trample upon our rights and to put our friends and neighbors in prison. Is that what we do? We just go home. Go back to our TV's and whatever else it is that we do, our phones,...our happy places" Ammon Bundy Video 7/19/2018 "Today Trump's DOJ gave Todd Engel 14 YEARS for protesting" Gavin Seim for Liberty Facebook 7/19/2018 "Todd is not the vile hatred-filled individual the prosecution has painted. He believed that he did what he was doing for the right reasons, and he believed that his participation was...

Today's hearing for sentencing of Todd Engel after his conviction last year in a rigged trial, the first Bunkerville Standoff trial, resulted in a jail sentence. In the end Engel was given a 14-year sentence by US District Judge Gloria Navarro, even though his trial involved the rigged process of evidence proving his innocence being kept from judge and jury during his first trial. The courtroom was filled with government law enforcement and supporters of Todd Engel with federal law enforcement reported to be playing the role of "victims" of the 2014 Bunkerville Standoff. Link below to Andrea Parker video...

The motions by Todd Engel's lawyer, Warren Markowitz, to have Bureau of Land Management whistle blower Larry Wooten give a deposition and add his testimony to the record of the case have been joined by the new lawyer for Greg Burleson. Burleson is serving a 68 year, three month sentence after being convicted proving his innocence withheld at the trial by federal prosecutors. Meanwhile, Engel is approaching sentencing next month in Las Vegas (July 19th) before US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro. He was convicted in the trial with Burleson based on the hiding of evidence proving his innocence. Engel...

In secrecy the lead prosecutor in the Bunkerville Standoff case, Steven Myhre, was moved from his First Assistant US Attorney position to a new one in the Nevada US Attorney's office in recent months. His new position as "senior litigation counsel" includes duties like training new prosecutors in the Nevada office. Myhre was roundly criticized by a federal judge (Gloria M. Navarro) for deliberately withholding evidence proving the innocence of defendants in the Bunkerville Standoff case. The case involved rancher Cliven Bundy, his family members, and supporters who came to the family's defense in April 2014 when the federal government...

Last in the first Bunkerville Standoff trial, Todd Engel was convicted on two felony charges with a maximum sentence of 30 years. Greg Burleson was also convicted in that trial but the jury deadlocked on the 40 charges against four other defendants and US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro declared a mistrial on them. Burleson was sentenced to 68 years in prison last July but Engel's sentencing was pushed back to March 22nd, 2018. Las Vegas lawyer Warren Markowitz filed appeals on Engel's behalf last month after supporters raised 25-thousand dollars needed to fund it. One appeal calls for Engel's...

"I'm a big fan of America, but I'm not a fan of plea bargaining..... ......it's basically impossible in America now, today, to plead innocent, it's impossible because...if you go to a court its going to cost X million in legal fees and your sentence will be 750 years but of course if you want to plead guilty that's fine you'll serve five months and be out..... America is five percent of the world's population but has 20 percent of the world's prisoners...." Nigel Farage on "The Nigel Farage Show"-LBC Radio 2/6/2018 BREAKING NEWS: TODD ENGEL, WHO WAS CONVICTED IN THE...