The planned signing ceremony in the White House Oval Office of the USA extorting Ukraine to give up its rare earth elements for peace with Russia  exploded into a shouting match among Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump and Vice-President JD Vance.   Zelenskyy was kicked out of the White House. What happened?  There will be reports citing White House, media and Russian views, but my take is that this meeting was planned as an ambush for Trump to extract his revenge stemming from his  first impeachment  in 2019.   Further orchestration becomes obvious when  Senator Lindsey Graham ( R-South Carolina ) immediately called on Zelenskyy to resign .  The whole misadventure surely looked like that scene in films you've seen of a schoolyard bully beating up a classmate.  It was terrible to witness. From  Fox News : After the Friday meeting, Zelenskyy wrote on X, "Thank you America, thank you for your support, thank...

   From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):            DAY    USA    WORLD      Brazil      India      South Africa June     9     1093     4732         1185        246       82 July    22      1205     7128         1293      1120     572 Aug    12      1504     6556        1242        835     130 Sept     9      1208      6222       1136       1168       82 Oct     21      1225      6849         571     ...

 I yesterday ended my posting with: Thus, all three points of view by Hanson, Horning and Mikiluna are wonderful and necessary, but hardly sufficient for real action.  What is the solution?  The FIRE, which will come.  Anything better?  Sure, the world truly committing to do something about climate warming.  Will this occur.  I think not.  So what?  The FIRE, a global crisis somewhat evocative of the James Baldwin's warning.   Hope I'm wrong . Then we are more and more learning that the leaders of some countries will not even bother showing up in Glasgow for the climate change talks.    Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend the COP26 summit .  He went to the Paris Agreement session.   For a while   Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison   also wasn't planning to come.  However, while he now is going, he indicated that he might not be able to agree to anything because his country has n...