Tuesday, March 06, 2018

It is actually happening. Could the Non-Proliferation Treaty be returning to the forefront of international policy?

I fully expect this to be a major breakthrough for the Non-Proliferation Treaty. I also expect all the peacemakers to be in line for a Noel Peace Prize nomination. This is more hope than I have seen on our planet in decades. The entire region will be at peace with each other for the first time in millennium.

The people responsible for this breakthrough are very brave. One would expect South Korea to launch into nuclear proliferation themselves, but, instead the new President of South Korea saw a way forward. The entire world needs to come to a stop to realize the incredible movement toward peace and prosperity these meetings will bring, including bringing families together that have been separated by a border for decades. It is simply incredible.

March 7, 2018

North Korean (click here) leader Kim Jong Un (center right) sits with a visiting South Korean delegation in Pyongyang and other high-level North Koreans.

...North Korea expressed (click here) its intention to have a candid dialogue with the United States to discuss denuclearization and promised a moratorium on nuclear and ballistic missile tests during the period of talks, President Moon Jae-in’s special envoy to Pyongyang said Tuesday. 

The two Koreas also agreed to hold a summit at the truce village of Panmunjom in late April, Chung Eui-yong, head of the Blue House’s National Security Office, said in the evening as he announced the outcome of his two-day trip to Pyongyang, which included a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that lasted more than four hours.

“North Korea made clear its will for denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” Chung said. “It also assured that it has no reason to own nuclear arms if military threats against the North are resolved and the regime’s security is guaranteed.”
According to Chung, the North also expressed its intention to have candid talks with the United States to discuss denuclearization issues and normalization of North Korea-U.S. relations.... 

Rex Tillerson's closing of the Cuban mission does not answer what caused the health problems of the employees. I am still assuming there are actually health problems.

Who is being left in the embassy, the Cuban cleaning lady? Is she immune to the health issues caused by the mysterious cause of illness?

Where are the congressional investigations into this issue since no one really knows all the facts?

Cuba is 90 miles from Key West, Florida. A huge storm ran over that area of the world recently and could have picked up the contagion that caused the symptoms closing the Cuban embassy and dropped it all over Florida. So, what caused the problems with the people in Cuba. I am assuming they are on permanent disabilitly and have doctors that can speak for them and where is the CDC on this mess

March 2, 2018
By Doug Stanglin and Jessica Durando

...The State Department said the embassy (click here) "will operate as an unaccompanied post, defined as a post at which no family members are permitted to reside."

The move, which goes into effect Monday, stems from late 2016 when a series of U.S. diplomats in Havana began suffering unexplained losses of hearing and the beginnings of neurological symptoms.

The statement said the department still does not have "definitive answers" on the source or cause of the attacks and that an investigation continues.

But it said the key factor in the decision to reduce the number of personnel was Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's concern for the health, safety and the well-being of U.S. government personnel and family members. 

The decision follows a toughening of U.S. policy toward Cuba under the Trump administration in a reversal of President Obama's easing of U.S. sanctions against the island-nation in an effort to improve bi-lateral ties.           

A total of 114 children have died from the flu this season.

I am beginning to get the picture children don't have a chance in the USA. They don't have a chance in the classroom in case a "madman with a gun" drops in and they don't have a chance when a sincerely vicious flu exists. 114 children. I doubt their families care who Sam what's his name is.

March 2, 2018
By Kim Painter

The most intense nationwide flu outbreak (click here) in a decade appears to be losing steam, but it killed an additional 17 children, bringing the total to 114 pediatric deaths, federal health officials reported Friday.

The flu remained widespread in 45 states in the last full week of February, down from 48 the week before, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

Fewer people showed up at doctors' offices with flu-like symptoms. Such visits made up 5% of all outpatient visits, down from 6.4% the week before. 

A few weeks ago, that number was at 7.7%, the highest since the swine flu pandemic of 2009....                       
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"Okeydoke"

Sam Nunberg is putting on the show Trump wants him to display. He is trying to change the momentum in the country regarding Mueller. That has been a directive of Trump when the special counsel was first assigned and Robert Mueller accepted it. Nunberg is Trump's lackey.

March 5, 2018
By Josh Dawsey and Phillip Rucker

Former Trump campaign aide (click here) Sam Nunberg publicly defied the Justice Department special counsel on Monday, announcing in an extraordinary series of media interviews that he had been subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election but that he will refuse to go....