Author Archives: willmann

The federal debt limit suddenly reappears on January 2, 2025, but it is no Happy New Year. The limit is already reached and the game is on to raise it.

Posted on December 31, 2024 by willmann

By Robert Willmann There’s no business like show business. The United States Congress passed a law signed on 21 December 2024 to “appropriate money” to keep the federal government operating without being shut down until 14 March 2025. Misleadingly called … Continue reading →

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A U.S. Government employee is arrested in Cambodia for leaking the two documents describing Israeli military activity before it would attack Iran

Posted on November 13, 2024 by willmann

By Robert Willmann As has been widely reported today, Asif William Rahman was arrested in Cambodia and charged with leaking the two documents that were published on the Internet which described preparations by the Israeli military before it would attack … Continue reading →

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The 2024 federal fiscal year ended. $35.46 trillion in debt. A $1.83 trillion deficit. $1.13 trillion in gross interest payments. The presidential candidates are silent.

Posted on November 4, 2024 by willmann

By Robert Willmann Like Mother Nature, mathematics is impartial. The financial or fiscal year of the U.S. government starts on 1 October and ends on 30 September of the following year, with its name being the year of the last … Continue reading →

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It is time to throw away the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale and give the public better information

Posted on October 9, 2024 by willmann

By Robert Willmann After growing up on the coast and spending time there, I have personal knowledge about hurricanes. My parents built their house to withstand hurricanes, and stayed during the vicious Hurricane Carla in 1961, which had wind gusts … Continue reading →

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Newspapers say that NY City Mayor Eric Adams is charged in a sealed federal criminal indictment

Posted on September 25, 2024 by willmann

By Robert Willmann Activity before a federal grand jury is to be hush-hush, according to Rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure [1]— 6(e)(2)(B) Unless these rules provide otherwise, the following persons must not disclose a matter occurring … Continue reading →

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A man is arrested regarding a rifle at the golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida where Trump was playing

Posted on September 15, 2024 by willmann

By Robert Willmann As has been widely reported by the press and television networks, a man with a rifle was around the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where Trump was playing golf today, 15 September. Reports … Continue reading →

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The Democratic Party’s convention is to happen this week, or it has already happened, or something has happened

Posted on August 19, 2024 by willmann

By Robert Willmann An eerie similarity is emerging between what has happened to the Democratic Party in this year’s presidential election season and what occurred in 2022 when Xi Jinping became the president of China for a third term, which … Continue reading →

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The smoke signals were correct. Biden bails out of the presidential race, right on schedule!

Posted on July 21, 2024 by willmann

By Robert Willmann Never underestimate the finagling in and around un-democratic processes. Today, Sunday, 21 July 2024, a political party that calls itself the Democratic Party deftly removed its candidate for president, Joe Biden, who amassed way more than the … Continue reading →

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Efforts escalate to get Biden to withdraw as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president

Posted on July 19, 2024 by willmann

By Robert Willmann The nastiness of national politics is showing up. For the last four and a half years, the press, mass media, and the Democratic Party have continuously proclaimed that Joe Biden has the mental and physical ability to … Continue reading →

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The federal criminal case against Trump about classified documents is dismissed because the special counsel was illegally appointed

Posted on July 15, 2024 by willmann

By Robert Willmann The FBI, which is part of the Justice Department, seized documents from the Mar-a-Lago residence of Donald Trump on 8 August 2022 using a search warrant. Some of the documents taken had “classified markings”, and became the … Continue reading →

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