Sunday, April 07, 2019

The USA expects and receives loyalty and services within that loyalty from it's allies.

I AM SICK OF TRUMP EXPLOITING ALLIES FOR POWER AND RETURNING NONE IN RETURN.

Justin Trudeau is not to be ridiculed by Washington, DC ever again. The USA has a national security debt to the Prime Minister.

China is a communist country. So, is Russia. Russia was once part of the G8 which is now the G7. Someone really needs to answer the question, "Did any country in The West believe an invasion into Ukraine was a surprise?" 

China is no exception. The Chinese communists have pushed their power on Vietnam and into international waters. These very aggressive moves are all part of the communists practicing brinkmanship. The West must respond.

The idea a communist country can simply come to the USA and exploit it for communist wealth is one of the most hideous idea I have ever seen the USA entertain. The idea China could simply be welcomed to USA lands and ports and consumer access because it would change any potential of danger to democracy.

China and Russia have a friendship pact as of 2001.

July 17, 2001
By Patrick E. Tyler

Russia and China (click here) signed a treaty of ''friendship and cooperation'' today, binding the two giants closer in the next 20 years and also committing them to oppose jointly much of the framework for international security that the United States is seeking to erect after the cold war.

Composed of 25 articles, the treaty joins Russia and China formally in opposing the United States' missile plans and places Russia more firmly behind China's claim of sovereignty over the island of Taiwan. It also strengthens military cooperation between Beijing and Moscow while rejecting the intervention that NATO undertook in 1999 in the Balkans to stop the killing of civilians.

The accord, sought by China, was concluded in a Kremlin ceremony with effusive gestures of camaraderie. The treaty bears the markings of a strategic pact that sets forth the deep concerns shared by Moscow and Beijing about a new world order dominated by the United States and its European allies. The agreement will quite likely be the center of discussion this week when President Bush and the leaders of the large industrial countries sit down with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at a summit meeting in Italy.

One Russian commentator here described the treaty as ''an act of friendship against America.''...

Add to this mess, the FACT Trump absolutely loves Russia and Putin.


Deliveries (click here) of ship-to-shore container gantry cranes, which are transported by specialized heavy-lift vessels, rose slightly in 2015, but remain below the pre-recession peak....

...More than one-third of the deliveries during those peak years were to Chinese ports, which were scaling up rapidly to handle double-digit volume growth and rapid increases in ship sizes, PEMA said....

When Nixon went to China, it was to build a friendship between the two country and build mutual engagement in all sorts of things, including the arts, science and technology and trade. Some of the first trade exchanges by China and the USA were ornamental plants. Nowhere in Nixon's wildest imagination did he think the trade between China and the USA would hack away at the Middle Class and provide the USA as a place where Chinese goods dominated the market place. China not only dominates the market place, or should I say, has dominated the market place of the USA, but, there are Chinese gantry cranes in every country in the world. And don't even start about the lousy size of these ships.

When Nixon went to China is was in hopes that the quality of life of the Chinese people would improve. He hoped that China would appreciate the idea that freedom and democracy are profoundly good dynamics for people and their leaders. What the USA got instead was a communist country that exploits every dollar of the globe for it's products while undercutting any domestic rivals. China is not interested in trade, it is interested in controlling the world markets, oppressing the people in every country in the world and opening opportunities for any Russian aggression against The West. 

Late President Nixon never expected China to become a national security threat. After all, plants don't fire bombs.

The idea the USA can simply look the other way while Wall Street and their CEOs rake in billions is grossly wrong. It was never intended and it has become a real problem for The West.

There is no good will between China, Russia and The West. The capacity for good will doesn't exist while communists want to end freedom and democracy. These countries are dangerous. 

The West has to reassess it's ability to conduct trade with hostile powers and realize there can be reversal of relations with such countries until they change their ways and realize human beings come first and not their communist regimes. The people of China and Russia will ultimately be grateful when their regimes end the tyranny of control.

I don't see much of a trade relationship with China. The West needs to market the agricultural commodities once on it's way to China and Russia to the people within their alliances. The farmers no longer have to plant huge crops for export and the commodity prices will reflect that and agriculture might even receive parity for their crops.

Wall Street needs to get over it's greediness and realize the products they profit from are produced by people that are citizens of free and democratic countries. If China and Russia cannot move into the 21 Century and beyond without oppressive regimes, then we sure don't have to help maintain those regimes either.

The Canadian government needs to receive their citizens home as they will never need to be in China again. Prosecutions of Russians and Chinese breaking USA laws must go forward. The marketing to China and Russia need to be trimmed back. The West is going to need it's agricultural capacity on a hot planet.

The EXPECTATIONS of communist countries to move into the modern era has to be realized by them. The USA middle class cannot be the only middle class in the world sought after to provide markets with profit. It is not working well at all.

When the USA engaged in exchanges of culture and science is wasn't suppose to include corporate espionage. 

Enough of this. The strength of freedom and democracies have been demonstrated with the 70th anniversary of NATO. Tell me that should not be envied by the world's government and their people. There is nothing wrong with expecting change from oppressive and dangerous regimes.

I WANT TO BUY CANADIAN LABELED CANOLA!

Remember Canada and their Canadian citizens that count on the USA as an ally?


Three, not one, but three Canadian exporters of canola seed is being effected by China's hissy fit over the arrest of a CEO groomed to carry out espionage to benefit China.

There can be no BUGS that cause problems with canola crops with obvious yields like this. China will be defeated in it's complaint. The proof of such complaint should have been obtained BEFORE the grain left the Canadian ports bound for China, not after the shipment was receive. China has piss poor quality control if it is not testing imports before they leave the port. Such poor business practices result in adverse problems with the suppliers. It is one thing to have a product rejected on it's domestic dock and return the product to it's origins, it is something all together to send a product to it's destination only to have it rejected and then seek to have it returned at the expense of the original source. That is nonsense. All products BEFORE export should be received by the customer that is the destination WITH NO RECOURSE available short of sincere fraud.



April 2, 2019
By David Ljunggren

Canola field in the foreground with flax in the background in at Tigers Hills near Somerset, Manitoba, Canada

Ottawa - Chinese authorities (click here) have filed a quality complaint against a third Canadian exporter of canola, Canada’s agriculture minister said on Tuesday, potentially deepening a trade and diplomatic dispute between Beijing and Ottawa.

Early last month, China cited the discovery of pests as the reason for blocking shipments of canola seed from Richardson International. Shortly afterward, it expanded the ban to a second major exporter, Viterra Inc.

“We have been informed that there is a third company that received a non-compliance notification ... it does not mean that they are suspended,” Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau told the House of Commons trade committee, saying she could not identify the firm.

Beijing has been angry with Canada since the chief financial officer of Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd was arrested in Vancouver last December on a U.S. extradition request.

Richardson, Canada’s largest exporter of canola seed to China, said on Tuesday it would “not be a painless exercise” to find new international markets if Beijing’s ban on imports continued in the long term.


There is no such thing as a secure computer network, not even a military computer network.

I don't know how many times I have complained on this blog site that the F-35 was the most dangerous jet in the military and not because it was effective, but, because it was flown by computers. It isn't dangerous to others, it is dangerous to it's pilot.

There just is no reason that in REAL combat with other major companies these jets will perform to a standard that will result in USA dominance. I am a no vote for more and more USA weaponry to be computerized. The old jets did a heck of a job.

December 25, 2018
By David Majumdar

Fact: "Even combat-configured F-22s (click here) are not invisible to enemy radar, contrary to popular belief. Neither is any other tactical fighter-sized stealth aircraft with empennage surfaces such as tailfins—the F-35, PAK-FA, J-20 or J-31. That’s just basic physics."

State-run Chinese media is claiming that the People’s Liberation Army has been able to track the U.S. Air Force’s Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor stealth fighters over the East China Sea. While the Chinese report might be easily dismissed as propaganda—it is not beyond the realm of possibility. In fact—it’s very possible that China can track the Raptor. Stealth is not a cloak of invisibility, after all. Stealth technology simply delays detection and tracking....

...even combat-configured F-22s are not invisible to enemy radar, contrary to popular belief. Neither is any other tactical fighter-sized stealth aircraft with empennage surfaces such as tailfins—the F-35, PAK-FA, J-20 or J-31. That’s just basic physics....

...Typically, that resonance occurs when a feature on an aircraft—such as a tail-fin — is less than eight times the size of a particular frequency wavelength. Effectively, small stealth aircraft that do not have the size or weight allowances for two feet or more of radar absorbent material coatings on every surface are forced to make trades as to which frequency bands they are optimized for....

I am in no hurry for China to dominate 5G. No one else should be either.

The charges against Huawei and Meng Wanzhou are not minor charges, including corporate espionage. (click here)

Well, looky thar. It's Xi, the control freak. Daddy Wanzhou has been grooming his daughter Med to step into his shoes. 

...Meng, 46, is chief financial officer of a company with revenues close to $100 billion. Her father Ren Zhengfei, 74, is a former officer of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Meng holds multiple passports and owns two luxury homes in Vancouver.

While her father's military background immediately raises flags outside China, the truth is that Ren has skillfully piloted the company, preventing the government from intervening too much and enjoying a certain degree of autonomy. This was the secret of Huawei's success....

The idea there are civilian oligarchs in any communist country that are completely autonomous, is grossly underestimating the power of the communist government. There are no wealthy Russians or Chinese that do not answer to their governments. Recently, China has curbed the investment outside the country because the money is not securing the Chinese mainland so much as exploiting the wealth of The West. Which brings me to my point at the end of this event.

...Military-civilian integration is a strategy designed to increase China's national power by mobilizing and incorporating all advanced technologies held by the PLA, the national government as well as state-run and private companies.

The strategy is spearheaded by Xi, who simultaneously serves as the top official of the Chinese military, the Chinese Communist Party and the state. It has been pursued in tandem with a bold organizational reform of the military...

March 17, 2019
By Julian E. Barnes and Adam Satarino

Chinese President Xi Jinping (click here) inspects troops during a military parade to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army, at Zhurihe training base in Inner Mongolia on July 30, 2017. China's military has the "confidence and capability" to bolster the country's rise into a world power, Xi said 

Washington — The Trump administration’s aggressive campaign (click hereto prevent countries from using Huawei and other Chinese telecommunications equipment in their next-generation wireless networks has faltered, with even some of America’s closest allies rejecting the United States’ argument that the companies pose a security threat.

Over the past several months, American officials have tried to pressure, scold and, increasingly, threaten other nations that are considering using Huawei in building fifth-generation, or 5G, wireless networks. Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, has pledged to withhold intelligence from nations that continue to use Chinese telecom equipment. The American ambassador to Germany cautioned Berlin this month that the United States would curtail intelligence sharing if that country used Huawei.

The warnings stem from the United States’ concern that Huawei and other Chinese telecom companies are a significant security threat given Beijing’s control over the industry. Top officials have pointed to new Chinese security laws that require Huawei and other companies to provide information to intelligence officials, arguing China could gain access to the vast amounts of data that will ultimately travel over 5G, allowing Beijing to spy on companies, individuals and governments — an accusation Huawei has vehemently denied....


Commercial use of spectrum is not crucial to commercial use. It just isn't.

I realize Wall Street thinks it's need for greed is more important than USA national security. It isn't.

September 21, 2017

Bigger swaths of spectrum are crucial to accommodate the massive increase in data usage produced by people and devices consuming more data than ever. For 5G to power these devices and sensors in the near future, it will need a lot more breathing room on the airwaves to acquire the bandwidth needed; refer to my previous blog 5G – Better Broadband Bandwidth....

...600 MHz
In the U.S., the FCC recently auctioned off bands in the 600 MHz range. This is a lower frequency, so it can easily pass through physical objects and travel many miles.

5 GHz

5 GHz, an unlicensed range commonly used for WiFi (and since it’s unlicensed, anything else anyone wants to broadcast in that range such as Bluetooth Low Energy), is more likely to be absorbed by solid objects, but there is much more bandwidth (roughly 500 MHz in total) available for use; albeit shared. It also doesn’t propagate very well, so it is generally used for short ranges. That’s one reason why multiple WiFi access points are required to cover even small buildings.

It’s simple math, really – if you want, say, 800 MHz to deliver fiber-like speeds and also wanted that at a low frequency like 600 MHz, you’d take up from 600 MHz to 1.4 GHz (1400 MHz)....

If you think there is time to end Wall Street's power grab, it nearly isn't. Why is all this spectrum auctioned for a charge of $10 per month. Wall Street really needs an increase in it's capacity to exploit American consumers? No. The reason this is done is because CEOs are always trying to remain CEOs by improving "the take" by stockholders. 

When is enough actually enough?

March 13, 2019
By Tali Arbel

A handful of Verizon customers (click here) will soon have faster wireless service — but they'll have to pay $10 a month more.

Verizon says it'll flip the switch next month on a much-hyped, next-generation "5G" phone network . Service will start in parts of Chicago and Minneapolis.

The offer is available only on unlimited plans, which currently start at $75 for one person without 5G. It requires Motorola's Moto Z3 phone with a special 5G attachment.

Other 5G-enabled phones, including one from Samsung, will come this year. Verizon would not say how 5G pricing would work with those phones....
December 29, 2018

What does the 5G network (click here) and a non-lethal weapon developed by the military have in common? The Department of Defense has developed a non-lethal crowd control device called the Active Denial System (ADS). The ADS works by firing a high-powered beam of 95 GHz waves at a target—that is, millimeter wavelengths.  Anyone caught in the beam will feel like their skin is burning. The burning sensation stops once the target leaves the beam. This weapon operates on 95GHz waves and 5G will operate on the same frequencies.

Today's cellular and Wi-Fi networks rely on microwaves - a type of electromagnetic radiation utilizing frequencies up to 6 gigahertz (GHz) in order to wirelessly transmit voice or data. However, 5G applications will require unlocking of new spectrum bands in higher frequency ranges above 6 GHz to 100 GHz and beyond, utilizing sub-millimeter and millimeter waves - to allow ultra-high rates of data to be transmitted in the same amount of time as compared with previous deployments of microwave radiation....

There can be no "trade deal" when China shows no remorse for Western citizens in their country.

Wall Streets ambitions to make profits in China is not worth it. It is obvious The West has "know how" that the Chinese like and want, but, the Chinese price on The West's national security is far too high.

China is not a reliable partner and that is completely obvious with these actions. The West and The East are still mortal enemies. Xi wants control of his government without question and this mess is all part of it. Xi cannot be counted on to provide a safe environment for The West and it's "Know How" including business ventures.

None of this is worth it and it certainly is not based in a peacetime environment.

23 December 2018

Canada repeated calls (click here) that China immediately release two citizens it claims were arbitrarily detained there, soon after the arrest of a high-profile Chinese businesswoman.

The Canadian government is concerned about the “worrying precedent” the detentions set, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday.

Michael Kovrig, a diplomat on leave from his post in Hong Kong; and Michael Spavor, an entrepreneur who helped organise tourist trips to North Korea, were seized nine days after Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was taken into custody. Meng is out of jail on bail pending an extradition hearing....

Wall Street considers Huawei a requirement for 5G, but, in actuality Huawei is a national security threat to The West, including NATO.

This was some really excellent work. If China has a clue this arrest would occur, it didn't show it.

April 2, 2019
by Margaret Wollensak

Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou arrives at a parole office, in Vancouver on Dec. 12, 2018. On April 3, The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee is set to discuss a resolution commending the Canadian government for upholding the rule of law in Meng's arrest. 

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (click here) will consider a resolution on Wednesday to commend the Canadian government for upholding the rule of law and to express concern over the Chinese regime’s response over the extradition proceedings of a prominent Huawei Technologies executive.

Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver on Dec. 1, 2018, by Canadian authorities at the request of the United States.

Ottawa maintains that it is upholding the rule of law in following its extradition treaty with the United States. However, since Meng’s arrest, Canada has faced increasing diplomatic and trade tensions with the Chinese regime, which has repeatedly demanded that Meng be released.

Sponsored by Sen. James Rich (R-ID), the current Senate resolution title reads as follows: “A resolution commending the Government of Canada for upholding the rule of law and expressing concern over actions by the Government of the People’s Republic of China in response to a request from the United States Government to the Government of Canada for the extradition of a Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. executive.”

The resolution is currently cosponsored by senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Cory Gardener (R-CO), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), and Marco Rubio (R-FL)....

It is obvious Xi wants control. The question is why?

Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji and Han Zheng are the Standing Committee's current members.

Party chief Xi Jinping (click here) has stacked Central Committee with loyalists
By Nectar Gan

...The previous Central Committee, which accompanied Xi Jinping through his first term as party general secretary, was largely picked by his predecessors. But at last month’s congress, which heralded the start of Xi’s “new era” and saw him emerge as China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, it was Xi’s term to dominate personnel decisions.

The reshuffle of the central leadership was the most dramatic in decades, with 67.3 per cent of the new Central Committee’s members being newcomers. That compares with 50.6 per cent of the 16th Central Committee formed in 2002 and 48.7 per cent of the 18th Central Committee formed in 2012, according to data compiled by Cheng Li, a veteran China watcher at the Washington-based Brookings Institution think tank....

China's decision making is conducted by seven men. There have never been women on the "Standing Committee."

Every five years, (click here) the eyes of the world turn to China as the ruling Communist Party holds its congress.

The event determines who will lead the Party. Those people will go on to lead the 1.3 billion people of China - most of whom don't get a say - and helm the world's second largest economy.

The 19th congress will begin on 18 October and while significant leadership changes are expected current Party leader and Chinese President Xi Jinping is widely expected to stay in the top job....

...The party has 2,300 delegates - although only 2,287 have been elected to attend, with reports suggesting the remaining 13 delegates were disqualified because of "improper behaviour".

Behind closed doors, those CPC delegates will elect the powerful Central Committee, which has about 200 members.

This committee in turn elects the Politburo and from that, the Politburo Standing Committee is chosen.

Those are China's real decision-making bodies. The Politburo currently has 24 members, while the Standing Committee has seven, although these numbers have varied over the years.

While there is a vote, in reality many of these people have already been handpicked by the current leadership, and the committee just approves their edict.

The Central Committee also elects the Party's top leader - the general secretary - who becomes the country's president. That is, and will most likely continue to be, Xi Jinping.

Why Taiwan?

Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong establishes the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1 after peasant-backed Communists defeat the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang and thousands of his troops flee to Taiwan. The United States—which backed the Nationalists against invading Japanese forces during World War II—supports Chiang’s exiled Republic of China government in Taipei, setting the stage for several decades of limited U.S. relations with mainland China.

Chiang Kai-shek would come to lead the "Republic of China" better known today as Taiwan. The revolution that moved China from a dynasty to communism first transitioned from 1927 to 1949 through a leader that wanted more democracy. As a matter of fact the KMT (Kuomintang) party expelled communists from it's ranks.

There was civil war in China at the end of WWII. The West never stepped into insure Chiang would have his government. Instead, the conflict cast Chiang to set up a government in Taiwan.

An interesting note about the Chinese Civil War was that it's impetus was Japan. Mao would lead a war against Japan which also advanced The West's war in the Pacific. While Chiang was given credit for the defeat of Japan, Mao ultimately was the person most responsible and took the control of China away from Chiang.

Chiang Kai-shek (click here) was a Chinese military and political leader who led the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) for five decades and was head of state of the Chinese Nationalist government between 1928 and 1949.
Chiang Kai-shek (also known as Jiang Jieshi)....
...In 1928, he led the suppression of the Chinese Communist Party.
Chiang oversaw a modest programme of reform in China but the government's resources were focused on fighting internal opponents, including the Communists. From 1931, Chiang also had to contend with a Japanese invasion in Manchuria, in the north-east of China.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chiang,Kai Shek, and Churchill in Cairo, Egypt
In 1937, Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China. When the United States came into the war against Japan in 1941, China became one of the Allied Powers. As Chiang's position within China weakened, his status abroad grew and in November 1943 he travelled to Cairo to meet US President Franklin D Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. His wife, Soong Mei-ling, travelled with him and became famous in the west as Madame Chiang.
In 1946, civil war broke out between the KMT and the Communists. In 1949, the Communists were victorious, establishing the People's Republic of China. Chiang and the remaining KMT forces fled to the island of Taiwan. There Chiang established a government in exile which he led for the next 25 years. This government continued to be recognised by many countries as the legitimate government of China, and Taiwan controlled China's seat in the United Nations until the end of Chiang's life. He died on 5 April 1975.

There are rudimentary problems between a democratic country and one that is built on communism.

The People's Republic of China(PRC) (click here) has a Communist type government. The Communist Party of China is the only political party in China. There are no elections. The party chooses the President and Premier of the Nation.

The founder of communist china, Mao Zedong, had introduced a socialist communist government after defeating the democratic nationalist chinese government led by Chiang Kai-shek.

China, traditionally has been a socialist state, but in past two decades, China had embraced a more capitalist approach. Due to this, China, unlike the Soviet Union, has grown into a massive economy state.

China has two self governed regions - Macau and Hong Kong, which are democratic in a way. PRC also claims sovereignty over Taiwan (Republic of China or ROC) to which the Nationalist Chinese(Kuomintang) fled after mainland china fell to the communist.

The Chinese government has imposed lot of restrictions on areas like Press freedom, internet access, freedom to practice religion, freedom to form organisation, and even on freedom to have children (One child policy). The citizens have a very limited role in electing the head of their nation.

The last great Chinese Dynasty of China was the Qing (Ch'ing) Dynasty from 1644- 1912.

...Mao (click here) left his family to study at a higher primary school in a neighbouring county and then at a secondary school in the provincial capital, Changsha. There he came in contact with new ideas from the West, as formulated by such political and cultural reformers as Liang Qichao and the Nationalist revolutionary Sun Yat-sen. Scarcely had he begun studying revolutionary ideas when a real revolution took place before his very eyes. On October 10, 1911, fighting against the Qing dynasty broke out in Wuchang, and within two weeks the revolt had spread to Changsha.
Enlisting in a unit of the revolutionary army in Hunan, Mao spent six months as a soldier. While he probably had not yet clearly grasped the idea that, as he later put it, “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun,” his first brief military experience at least confirmed his boyhood admiration of military leaders and exploits. In primary school days, his heroes had included not only the great warrior-emperors of the Chinese past but Napoleon I and George Washington as well.
The spring of 1912 marked the birth of the new Chinese republic and the end of Mao’s military service. For a year he drifted from one thing to another, trying, in turn, a police school, a law school, and a business school; he studied history in a secondary school and then spent some months reading many of the classic works of the Western liberal tradition in the provincial library. That period of groping, rather than indicating any lack of decision in Mao’s character, was a reflection of China’s situation at the time. The abolition of the official civil service examination system in 1905 and the piecemeal introduction of Western learning in so-called modern schools had left young people in a state of uncertainty as to what type of training, Chinese or Western, could best prepare them for a career or for service to their country.
Mao eventually graduated from the First Provincial Normal School in Changsha in 1918. While officially an institution of secondary level rather than of higher education, the normal school offered a high standard of instruction in Chinese history, literature, and philosophy as well as in Western ideas....
It's Sunday Night

Tori Amos - "China" (Official Music Video) (click here for official website - thank you)

China by Tori Amos
China all the way to New York
I can feel the distance getting close
You're right next to me
But I need an airplane
I can feel the distance as you breathe
Sometimes I think you want me to touch you
How can I when you build a great wall around you
In your eyes I saw a future together
You just look away in the distance
China decorates our table
Funny how the cracks don't seem to show
Pour the wine dear
You say we'll take a holiday
But we never can agree on where to go
Sometimes I think you want me to touch you
How can I when you build a great wall around you
In your eyes I saw a future together
You just look away in the distance
China all the way toNew York
Maybe you got lost in Mexico
You're right next to me
I think that you can hear me
Funny how the distance learns to grow
Sometimes I think you want me to touch you
How can I when you build a great wall around you
I can feel the distance
I can feel the distance

I can feel the distance getting close

An abundance of spores. A cure has to attack it's ability to reproduce.

Candida auris: (click here) A systematic review and meta‐analysis of current updates on an emerging multidrug‐resistant pathogen

What about steroids? Any effect on the outbreak? The resistance is to anti-fungal medications, what about something that changes the environment, like steroid application or taken orally? If the environment becomes hostile to the fungus it will die.

The fungus, Candida auris, (click here) is known to occur in healthcare settings such as hospitals and nursing homes, CNN reported.

It is a recent problem in the USA, but, this is exactly why the USA must be involved with health issues globally.

Candida auris (click here) is a species of fungus that grows as yeast and is ascomycetous. Ascomycetes are spore shooters, which produce microscopic spores inside special, elongated cells or sacs, known as asci. ... Candida auris has been reported to cause bloodstream infections, wound infections, and otitis (ear infection).

Temperature, aerobic, anaerobic, airborne? The airborne part seems like a non-brainer, but, what triggers it's release of spores. Only spores can contaminate a room that intensely.

Spores (click here) are really durable. The reason it spreads so rapidly is because the spores are plentiful and will cling to anything. Visitors have to wear contamination gear when visiting, IF visiting is an option. Sometimes visiting may be standing outside the window and talking on mobile phones or holding up signs. An isolated patient usually feels reassured if they know others are aware of their plight.



April 6, 2019

By Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs


Last May, (click here) an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed that he was infected with a newly discovered germ as deadly as it was mysterious. Doctors swiftly isolated him in the intensive care unit.

The germ, a fungus called Candida auris, preys on people with weakened immune systems, and it is quietly spreading across the globe. Over the last five years, it has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, swept through a hospital in Spain, forced a prestigious British medical center to shut down its intensive care unit, and taken root in India, Pakistan and South Africa.

Recently C. auris reached New York, New Jersey and Illinois, leading the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to add it to a list of germs deemed “urgent threats.”

The man at Mount Sinai died after 90 days in the hospital, but C. auris did not. Tests showed it was everywhere in his room, so invasive that the hospital needed special cleaning equipment and had to rip out some of the ceiling and floor tiles to eradicate it....

There is something triggering the release of the spores as well. The application of heat can also effect spores. If heat works, then how much heat? And heat in what form? Moist will probably encourage the breakdown of the spores and provide for destruction of the material inside. Dry heat might bake the darn things dead. Portable heaters that can obtain prescribed heat to a room might work.

Populations of Bacillus subtilis spores (click here) in which 90 to 99.9% of the spores had been killed by moist heat gave only two fractions on equilibrium density gradient centrifugation: a fraction comprised of less dense spores that had lost their dipicolinic acid (DPA), undergone significant protein denaturation, and were all dead and a fraction with the same higher density as that of unheated spores.

Dipicolinic acid (DPA) increases resistance (click here) Alter the biochemistry and destroy the resistance.