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.

If China, Russia and other debtors of Venezuela wants their monies they need to work through the World Bank to bring about a resolve the supports the people and a stable economy.

Trumps attempts to put distance between NATO and the USA didn't work. We are closer today than ever before and have united to identify Russia as the real threat it is and is becoming.

April 3, 2019
By Patricia Zengerle

Washington - The head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (click here) warned the U.S. Congress on Wednesday of the threat posed by “a more assertive Russia,” including a massive military buildup, threats to sovereign states, the use of nerve agents and cyberattacks.

“We must overcome our differences now because we will need our alliance even more in the future. We face unprecedented challenges - challenges no one nation can face alone,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.\

Saying “time is running out,” Stoltenberg also called on Russia to return to compliance with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, from which U.S. President Donald Trump plans to withdraw the United States this summer.

“NATO has no intention of deploying land-based nuclear missiles in Europe,” Stoltenberg said. “But NATO will always take the necessary steps to provide credible and effective deterrence.”...

Russia must leave Venezuela and return peace to the Western Hemisphere. Venezuela needs real solutions and not war, civil or otherwise. The country needs restructuring of it's debt and to work with the World Bank to bring about a plan to bring services to the people.

April 6, 2019
By Fred Kempe

The first major showdown (click here) of our new era of great power competition, unfolding with accelerating speed over the past ten weeks in Venezuela, has entered a dangerous new phase. That is true, most of all, for the Venezuelan people, but also for Latin American democracies and for vital US interests in the Western Hemisphere.

How this drama turns out may mark the most significant test yet of the Trump administration’s credibility, following a highest-level chorus this week of President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton, who all declared – in one way or another – that Russia had to get out of the country.

Vice President Mike Pence ratcheted up the pressure further on Friday, announcing at a speech in Houston with new sanctions on the state-owned oil company PDVSA as well as two additional companies that transport Venezuelan crude to Cuba. Pence, who will address the UN Security Council next week on Venezuela, also said the US would increase its pressure on Cuba.

What raised the stakes was Russia’s well-publicized and provocative move on March 23 to land two planes with some 100 soldiers in Caracas. The ostensible reason for their arrival was to service Venezuela’s Russian-made S-300 air defense systems, which are said to have been damaged in recent energy blackouts. Other Russian military contractors and mercenaries are already believed to be providing security support for the Maduro regime....

Venezuela's fiscal collapse will effect the global markets. War is not the way to remove debt. The World Bank can summit with those that hold Venezuela's debt and find solutions, but, the leadership must reject Russia and it's plans for military escalation.

April 5, 2019

The economy in crisis-hit Venezuela (click here) is expected to contract a further 25 per cent in 2019, the World Bank said on Thursday.

"Real GDP contracted by 17.7 per cent in 2018 and is likely to fall by 25.0 per cent in 2019, which would imply a cumulative fall in GDP of 60 percent since 2013," the bank said in its most recent biannual report on Latin America and the Caribbean.

The report attributes this "continuing implosion" in Venezuela, which has the most oil reserves of any country in the world, to the management of the country's economy rather than the global drop of oil prices and called the Venezuelan crisis "by far the worst in the region's modern history."

Together with declining oil prices, "highly distortionary policies, from price controls to directed lending, a disorderly fiscal adjustment, monetization of the public sector deficit, and overall economic mis-management have led to hyperinflation, devaluation, debt defaults, and a massive contraction in output and consumption" in Venezuela, according to the World Bank.

The bank repeated the estimate that the country would see inflation of 10 million per cent by the end of the year, a figure that was already predicted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in October...

Recently, Russia stated they are considering crytocurrency as their main financial commodity. All this manipulation has to stop and the World Bank needs to work with leadership strained to decide the best path for their countries.

August 20, 2018
By Tom Phillips

Caracas shears five zeros from bolívar, (click here) which will be pegged to new cryptocurrency

Venezuela moved to shore up its crumbling economy on Monday, devaluing its currency and preparing to raise the minimum wage by more than 3,000% in what the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, declared a visionary bid to tame rampant hyperinflation.

More than 500,000 Venezuelans have fled overseas this year amid chronic shortages of food and medicine, soaring crime and warnings from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that inflation could hit 1m% this year.

But on Friday Maduro unveiled a dramatic raft of measures designed to end a depression he blames on an “economic war” being waged by imperialist foes of the Bolivarian revolution he inherited after Hugo Chávez’s 2013 death....

Russia's answer for Venezuela is to engage in massive war destabilizing an entire hemisphere. It would serve Russia's purpose as well since it's increasing issues as the world's worst aggressor.

April 4, 2019
By David Biller

The World Bank roughly halved (click here) its 2019 economic growth forecast for Latin America on a tougher global environment and Venezuela’s downward spiral.

Latin America and the Caribbean will expand 0.9 percent this year, down from the bank’s October forecast for 1.6 percent growth. The estimates include a 25 percent GDP plunge in Venezuela that’s triple the multilateral’s prior outlook, and a lower forecast for Mexico that reflects policy uncertainty....

August 20, 2018
By Nick Cunningham

PDVSA settled with ConocoPhillips (click here) on Monday over an outstanding debt issue, a move that the Venezuelan oil company surely hopes will give it some breathing room even as the nation continues to crumble.

Earlier this year, Conoco won an international arbitration award resulting from the 2007 assets seizure by Venezuela. Conoco quickly moved to lay claim to PDVSA’s refining assets in the Dutch Caribbean, a devastating blow to Venezuela that compounded fiscal and operational problems. Without the processing facilities on the islands of Curacao and Aruba, PDVSA’s oil exports plunged deeper in the second quarter.

Venezuela’s revolutionary government has made it a point of pride to resist outside pressure, which makes the latest settlement all the more remarkable. PDVSA has agreed to pay ConocoPhillips an initial $500 million within 90 days, which will then be followed by quarterly payments over the next four and a half years....

January 24, 2019
By Ricio Cara Labrador

Venezuela, (click here) home to the world’s largest oil reserves, is a case study in the perils of petrostatehood. Since its discovery in the 1920s, oil has taken Venezuela on an exhilarating but dangerous boom-and-bust ride that offers lessons for other resource-rich states. Decades of poor governance have driven what was once one of Latin America’s most prosperous countries to economic and political ruin. If Venezuela is able to emerge from its tailspin, experts say that the government must establish mechanisms that will encourage a productive investment of the country’s vast oil revenues....

...In an afflicted country, a resource boom attracts large inflows of foreign capital, which leads to an appreciation of the local currency and a boost for imports that are now comparatively cheaper. This sucks labor and capital away from other sectors of the economy, such as agriculture and manufacturing, which economists say are more important for growth and competitiveness. As these labor-intensive export industries flag, unemployment could rise, and the country could develop an unhealthy dependence on the export of natural resources. In extreme cases, a petrostate forgoes local oil production and instead derives most of its oil wealth through high taxes on foreign drillers. Petrostate economies are then left highly vulnerable to unpredictable swings in global energy prices and capital flight....

February 7, 2019
By MacKenzie Sigalos

Venezuela is in the middle of a power struggle(click here) at the highest level, and that could mean trouble for its two biggest foreign allies: China and Russia.

The socialist petrostate is home to the largest oil reserves on the planet, but endemic corruption has devastated its economy. Beijing and Moscow have helped the country stave off collapse by repeatedly extending financial lifelines — to the tune of tens of billions of dollars over the last decade.

For the most part, those oil-for-debt swaps were good for all parties involved. But that may be changing....

...Venezuela owes around $100 billion to its external creditors, including China and Russia. Some reports put the figure higher.

Those agreements gave Russia and China relatively cheap oil — and a foothold in the backyard of the United States — and they supplied Venezuela with much-needed cash.

But Venezuela’s oil production has plummeted. It is a third of what it was when Hugo Chavez was elected in 1998, which is especially troubling given that oil revenue accounts for about 98 percent of its hard currency earnings.

Venezuela still owes Beijing $20 billion, and Russia’s state-backed oil company Rosneft another $2.3 billion, excluding interest. However, the question remains whether those debts are valid if Maduro is thrown out and replaced by Guaido....

March 8, 2019

Washington - Venezuela must pay oil (click here) and gas company ConocoPhillips’ entities more than $8 billion as compensation to settle a years-long dispute over oil extraction, a World bank dispute settlement arm said on Friday.

In the ruling, dated Feb. 27, the Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes said Venezuela must pay out more than $8 billion to three of the company’s entities at an annual interest rate of 5.5 percent. (Reporting by Lesley Wroughton and David Lawder Writing by Susan Heavey; Editing by David Gregorio)...

Litigation is no longer corrupted.

April 1, 2019
By Ron Fonger

Flint -  A federal judge (click here) who last year dismissed Rick Snyder as a defendant in a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of Flint residents and businesses has put the former governor back in the case in a decision issued Monday, April 1.

U.S. District Judge Judith E. Levy’s decision, which addressed claims against multiple defendants -- several of whom are current and former state government employees charged with crimes related to the Flint water crisis -- specifically allowed for a claim against the governor to move forward....

Quantitative Easing?

The last time "QE" was introduced to the banking system was after a global economic collapse. Trump begs for money at every turn. Anyone can do that. What basis is there for ANOTHER ROUND of quantitative easing? Does Trump know there is another collapse coming or does he simply "Not get it."

April 5, 2019
By Martin Baccardex

...“I personally (click here) think the Fed should drop rates, they’ve really slowed us down,” Trump told reporters before boarding Marine One. “There’s no inflation. In terms of quantitative tightening, it should be quantitative easing.”...

"Bubble and Bust," that is the answer the Republicans see as an economy. The government monies needed for "Bubble and Bust" is incredible. Trump has no sustainable economy. He needs more and more money to support his economic ? strategy ?.

The jobs report? It is a failure when reaching for a sustainable future. This is my jobs report.

The jobs report is a complete failure when measuring sustainability into the future.

To begin, the report most people receive is not a report, but, a newsletter (click here).

The jobs data is here (click here) and cannot be reported on in a matter of minutes.

The jobs being ? created ? by the Trump White House is illegitimate to the priorities for the people. It is not sustainable. The Trump job growth has resulted from reaching into the past and deregulating such as methane. The Trump job growth highly reflects the priorities of his cabinet members that are nothing more than cronies and greed merchants.

To understand the impact of Trump's policies on the small business climate there is an interesting table entitled. "Table A-8. Employed persons by class worker and part time status." (click here)

In that table look at the line stating "Self-employed workers, unincorporated." When looking at these tables, one must be aware there is actually two different years being reported. The first three columns is a March 2018 number that is not seasonally adjusted and two months from 2019. It reflects a falling number that includes a strong indication that the self-employed individual is failing.

The last six columns entitled "Seasonally adjusted" of the same line of "Self-employed workers, unincorporated," clearly indicates the loss of small businesses or self-employed is falling and significantly.

"National Association of Women Business Owners" (click here)

• More than 11.6 million firms are owned by women, employing nearly 9 million people, and generating $1.7 trillion in sales as of 2017. 
• Women-owned firms (51% or more) account for 39% of all privately held firms and contribute 8% of employment and 4.2% of revenues.

The Trump Economy is about Steve Mnuchen, Wall Street and robbing the middle class of opportunity. The fastest growing jobs is not about Wall Street. The fastest growing jobs are solar installers and wind service worker.

The Trump economy is buffering a failing economy from the past through deregulation and not supporting the future.

There is NO HOPE for the future in the Trump economy. Deregulation clearly illustrates a desperate and failing strategy.

When a Texas oil man heads the DOE, one has to know there is no real focus for a sustainable economy.

The table mentioned above is only one column in one table. Need I go on?

In regard to health care:

West Virginia is the highest enrollment in Medicaid in the country. This is touted by Trump and his cabinet as a return of coal jobs. Hello? Coal jobs are a failing form of employment. Coal jobs have been a failing form of employment for decades with ever increasing mechanization.

Here again, as seen by Walmart, Medicaid is corporate welfare and to simply eliminate the ACA will crash the coal industry if they are required to provide employer based health care.

THERE IS NO VIABLE REPUBLICAN ECONOMY THAT PROTECTS AMERICANS, THERE IS ONLY A FAILING ONE.

The petroleum industry is a failing industry. (click here)

Supply and demand, oil is a Wall Street commodity that helps Wall Street investment firms maintain cash flow:

"Peak Oil" occurred in 2005. What happened to the prices from 2005 going forward? This is the OLD PARADYMN the Republicans CONTINUE to state is their answer for an economy. The Republicans have a carbon based economy and it is dying. Every time a Republican is elected it reinforces the OLD WORLD and not the future.

2003	$27.69	$38.06
2004	$37.66	$50.36
2005	$50.04	$64.71
2006	$58.30	$73.08
2007	$64.20	$78.13
2008	$91.48	$107.05
2009	$53.48	$62.90
2010	$71.21	$82.54
2011	$87.04	$97.82
2012	$86.46	$95.21
2013	$91.17	$98.92
2014	$85.60	$91.36

What happened in 2009? President Obama was taking office and instructing all of his cabinet to seek out opportunity for New Green Jobs. The demand for carbon based fuels was not in demand under President Obama and then by 2010 "Peak Oil" bolstered the price once again.

Oil prices fell in 2015 because the petroleum industry CREATED it's own glut on the market because of nothing more than GREED with high prices. 

This is a peer review. It has brevity.

On balance, when considering the prosecutions, indictments, guilty pleas and continuing Grand Jury proceedings; this peer review coming from those that contributed to and wrote the Special Council's report; carries a great deal of weight.

The AG doesn't appreciate the American people and their demand for perfection when it comes to enforcing the law. He seems to think he can disregard the very people that wrote the Special Council report and their alarm at his dismissal of their work without further proceedings coming from it.

Considering the outcry by professionals that have served this country with expertise for many years, it is the obligation now of Congress to review the Special Council's report and it's supporting documents without redactions or exception.

AG Barr should be grateful these attorneys have brought their review of his work to a newspaper. I can think of many other venues, including professional ethics panels, where they could have turned to bring more weight to their work.

For the length of time this report was being accumulated, the American people have witnessed a president having continual hissy fits over the legal dilemma he faces with his associates going to prison. There has been extremely alarming behavior and policy adopted by this president that rises to the level of illegal and threatening to the USA security.

For god sake, doesn't Barr have any worry about the national security of his country? He sure doesn't seem to have concern for his peers such as James Comey. The mistreatment of the former director cannot be understated. Trump naively believed he could fire an FBI Director and have an existing investigation into election meddling simply go away. Then to allow Russian hierarchy to come to Oval Office within hours of firing the director over Twitter is a demonstration of Trump's true loyalties.

I believe Barr's view of the world and his loyalty to Trump and his family is very misguided. It requires further action by Congress to bring Former Director Mueller and his team to testimony to bring light to the reality of the report they filed.

April 3, 2019
By Nicholas Fandos, Michael S. Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti

Washington — Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators (click here) have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations.

At stake in the dispute — the first evidence of tension between Mr. Barr and the special counsel’s office — is who shapes the public’s initial understanding of one of the most consequential government investigations in American history. Some members of Mr. Mueller’s team are concerned that, because Mr. Barr created the first narrative of the special counsel’s findings, Americans’ views will have hardened before the investigation’s conclusions become public....

Today is a great day. 70 years of an alliance that shares history and peace.

The NATO alliance has spanned more than three generations. That is incredible. But, NATO is more than an alliance, it is an economy and free and open tourism. That is a rare relationship and it was bred by shared values and the profound belief in democracy.

Students on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are renewing the history, beliefs and great friendship of the NATO members on their 70th anniversary. An alliance can only be as strong as it's members and NATO has the strongest countries in the world forever bonded in purpose.

I thank NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for his incredible visit to the USA and making a speech to a joint session of the USA Congress.

The article below was nearly an impossibility when NATO first wrote it's charter. The story is told by "RadioFreeEurope." Radio Free Europe was a genius idea to give the people behind the "Iron Curtain" words of a different reality. It is appropriate they are heralding the newest member of NATO, Georgia.

March 25, 2019
By RFE/RL's Georgian Service

Tbilisi  -- During a visit to Georgia, (click here) NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has again said that the South Caucasus country will eventually join the Western military alliance, despite the Kremlin's fierce opposition.

Stoltenberg was in Tbilisi on March 25 to hold meetings with Georgian officials and attend joint NATO-Georgia military exercises.

Speaking alongside Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze, he said that the 29 NATO member states had "clearly stated that Georgia will become a member of NATO."

"We will continue working together to prepare for Georgia's NATO membership," Stoltenberg said, adding that no country has the right to influence NATO's open-door policy.

"We are not accepting that Russia or any other power can decide what members can do," he said.

Bakhtadze said that "NATO membership is the choice of the Georgian people."

At a 2008 summit in Bucharest, NATO agreed that Georgia will eventually become a member, but no firm date has been set, although the membership perspective for the country has been reconfirmed at every summit ever since....