This site indicates current status of coal-fired power plants in Japan. (click here)
Proposed map/list show power plants which are listed on polpsals or under EIA process, and existing map/list show power plants which have been on commercial operation in January 2016.

Yokosuka Power Plant, No.1 (click here)

JERA Power Yokosuka (established in March 2017)

Planning operation date:   2023

There is still enough time to end this nonsense.

Japan (click here) is the world’s third largest economy and seventh largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Its plans for decarbonisation were significantly set back after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster led it to move away from nuclear power and expand the use of fossil fuels.

Japan’s government now plans to increase both renewable and nuclear power. However, it also intends to build significant numbers of new coal power plants. Japan has pledged a 26% reduction in GHG emissions below 2013 levels by 2030.

June 18, 2019
By Paul Korzeniowski

Good news for the domestic coal market. (click here) U.S. thermal coal exports to Japan increased by 20% in 2018, and 2019 exports as of March are already 38% higher than in 2018, according to the US Energy Information Association (EIA). Trailing China and India, Japan is the world’s third largest importer: taking in more than 210 million short tons (MMst) of coal in 2018. The US is behind Australia, Indonesia, and Russia as Japan’s largest seller. What do you think about the Japanese coal market and its potential impact on domestric production?

From US Department of Energy:

Coal accounts (click here) for about one-third of Japan’s electricity generation. In 2018, Japan’s utilities produced an estimated 317 billion kilowatthours of electricity at more than 90 coal-fired power plants. Coal’s share of electricity generation in Japan was higher in 2018 than it was before the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. In 2010, coal accounted for 25% of Japan’s electricity generation, and nuclear generation accounted for 29%.

Before 2011, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) had planned to reduce coal’s generation share by more than half by 2030, intending for nuclear power to offset coal plant retirements. The plan included increasing the nuclear generation share in Japan’s electricity mix to 50% by 2030. However, as a result of the Fukushima accident and subsequent suspension of Japan’s nuclear fleet, METI now projects a future energy mix of 20% to 22% nuclear, 22% to 24% renewables, 26% coal, and 27% natural gas through 2030

The Japanese people are not giving up simply because American Coal wants to peddle for profits regardless of greenhouse gases or air pollution.

February 3, 2020
By Hiroko Tabuchi

This illustration, (click here) based on a GeoEye satellite photo viewed through Google Earth, shows the locations of the six Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors.

Just beyond the windows of Satsuki Kanno’s apartment (click here) overlooking Tokyo Bay, a behemoth from a bygone era will soon rise: a coal-burning power plant, part of a buildup of coal power that is unheard-of for an advanced economy.

It is one unintended consequence of the Fukushima nuclear disaster almost a decade ago, which forced Japan to all but close its nuclear power program. Japan now plans to build as many as 22 new coal-burning power plants — one of the dirtiest sources of electricity — at 17 different sites in the next five years, just at a time when the world needs to slash carbon dioxide emissions to fight global warming.

“Why coal, why now?” said Ms. Kanno, a homemaker in Yokosuka, the site for two of the coal-burning units that will be built just several hundred feet from her home. “It’s the worst possible thing they could build.”...

...The Yokosuka project has prompted unusual pushback in Japan, where environmental groups more typically focus their objections on nuclear power. But some local residents are suing the government over its approval of the new coal-burning plant in what supporters hope will jump-start opposition to coal in Japan.

The Japanese government, the plaintiffs say, rubber-stamped the project without a proper environmental assessment. The complaint is noteworthy because it argues that the plant will not only degrade local air quality, but will also endanger communities by contributing to climate change.

Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere is the major driver of global warming, because it traps the sun’s heat. Coal burning is one of the biggest single sources of carbon dioxide emissions....

The sky is not falling for Wall Street, it is about to break open with plenty of green dollars.

The truth might be a little hard on Wall Street, but, in the 1960s and 1970s when "The Greenhouse Effect" was taken seriously and the changes such as higher efficiency cars were built. What is best known as the CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards came into effect in 1975 (click here). They were well received by the public and when citizens purchased vehicles the fuel economy was a must on the window sticker.

Everyone did just fine. As a matter of fact, the new standards created more jobs in manufacturing the very mechanisms that would provide better fuel economy.

A more recent report is the Ceres report:

This Ceres report focuses (click here) on the economic impacts of strengthening fuel economy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for passenger vehicles sold in the United States. The analysis finds that stronger standards—more miles and fewer emissions per gallon—would lead to greater economic and job growth, both within the auto industry and in the broader economy as a whole.

This report comes as the Obama Administration and the state of California are developing new fuel economy and GHG emission standards for passenger vehicles for model years 2017-2025. Since light-duty vehicles account for more than 40 percent of U.S. oil consumption, and nearly 60 percent of mobile source GHGs, 1 the upcoming rules have important implications for energy security, protection from oil price spikes, and reducing global warming pollution....

February 14, 2020

An Australian climate scientist (click here) warns that epic bush fires and the hottest temperatures ever recorded on the continent are a wakeup call that climate change is occurring even more rapidly than models predicted. The scientist, Joelle Gergis, speaks to Holly Williams for a 60 Minutes report to be broadcast Sunday, February 16, at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

Williams went to Australia for her report, where she met Gergis of Australia's National University, a lead author of an upcoming United Nations report on climate change. "I think this summer has been a real wakeup call for most Australians. And myself as, as a climate scientist, seeing the extreme level of heat and the bush fires and the drought conditions playing out so catastrophically has been, I think, a wake-up call to the world," she tells Williams.

When Williams arrived earlier this month, the fires were still burning. The fire season is a normal occurrence in Australia, but this year's fires had begun earlier than usual in September and were on a larger scale than ever seen before. It is estimated that over 27 million acres have burned and a billion animals have died. Thousands of people have been forced from their homes by the deadly fires. Historic conditions caused by climate change gave rise to the severity of this year's fires, says Gergis. "2019 was the hottest and the driest year in Australia's history. So we actually saw temperature records be broken all over the country."

Scientists have predicted the temperature increase, but Gergis says the rise is occurring more rapidly than models indicated. "This is the type of summer you might not have expected 'til the middle of the century based on past projections. So I think this is really redefining what it means to actually be living through a period of rapid climate change."...

January 17, 2020
by Saranac Hale Spenser

The video referred to below (click here) has been proven to be propaganda by right wing media. That's right, they took a global tragedy and turned it into a political bone for right wing politicians.

Somehow, the disproved video never made a news story anywhere.

...Here’s what the video gets wrong: (click here) First of all, “nearly 200 arsonists” haven’t been arrested since Nov. 8, 2019.

As its source, the video cites a Jan. 7 story from Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper the Australian with the headline: “Bushfires: Firebugs fuelling crisis as arson arrest toll hits 183.”

The story said that “police arrested 183 people for lighting bushfires across Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania in the past few months.” But that total of 183 arson arrests occurred over various periods in 2019, including all of 2019 in the case of Victoria.

The story also referenced statistics since Nov. 8, 2019, from only one state — New South Wales. Police there announced that they had taken “legal action” against 183 people for bushfire-related offenses. Only 24 of those people were charged for “alleged deliberately-lit bushfires,” according to the police; others were cautioned or charged with different offenses.

So, the video used the date from the New South Wales announcement and the number of arson arrests counted over five states and various periods in 2019 from the newspaper story. The effect is an inflated number of arrests since the bushfires began.

The larger point in the video, though, is that arson is primarily responsible for the bushfires in Australia, not climate change. That message has been distilled into online memes. It also has been trumpeted by some high-profile political figures, including Donald Trump Jr.

But overemphasizing the role of arson and pitting it against climate change distorts the issue.

The fact is, hot, dry conditions allow for bushfires to escalate, regardless of how they are started. As we explained in 2017, in a story about wildfires in the western U.S., climate change doesn’t cause these fires, but it can exacerbate the hot and dry conditions that make wildfires more likely to develop and grow....

Giving up is what corporate American, primarily the petroleum and coal industry, has longed for and it is the worst possible scenario for every generation. Please, please love you kids.

February 16, 2020
By Barry Ruegar

What Will Be Lost (click here) is a series of reported stories and essays exploring the ways climate change is affecting our relationship to one another, to our sense of place and to ourselves.

Last year was when the endless bush fires in Australia convinced me and my wife, Susan, that climate change was unstoppable. It’s also when we realized that we likely will avoid seeing the worst of the climate emergency.

At 64 and 74 years of age, my wife and I believe there’s a good chance that we’ll be gone before coastal cities are flooded, the ice caps have melted, and the planet descends into a “Mad Max” dystopia. We would like to think that this isn’t what the future has in store, but the intransigence of almost all governments to actually slow carbon emissions leaves little doubt that things are unlikely to turn around.

One of the things that age gives you is a sense of history, a feeling that you’ve seen patterns repeat and that you can see where things are heading in the near future. Over and over again, we’ve seen corporations and governments ignore the people they should protect in order to line their own pockets. What has changed now is that they’re sacrificing an entire planet instead of a town or a country. I would like to believe that the younger people marching with Greta Thunberg could change that, but honestly I can’t see it happening....

...What frustrates us is that we’re part of the generation that saw all of this coming. During the ’60s and ’70s, the governments that we elected more or less invented municipal recycling, and in the ’80s many of us began carrying reusable shopping bags. We lived through the introduction of stringent pollution controls and many of us chose to replace our furnaces, water heaters and appliances with newer, more expensive low energy models. Like many people we’ve tried to move to a more plant-based diet, and one that avoids chemical additives and fertilizers, and we’re driving the market for electric cars....

...Whether we are leading by example or just running away from the inevitable can be debated, but this is how we’ll be taking back control of our lives. Meanwhile, as I watch the sea levels rise and Australia burn, I can’t help but remember the words of the old American spiritual “Mary Don’t You Weep”: “God gave Noah the rainbow sign / No more water, the fire next time.”...

It's Sunday Afternoon

A 21-year-old woman (click here) with a rare physical condition is receiving floods of comments from strangers hyping her up after she nervously posted ~sexier~ photos online.

"I usually don’t post pictures of myself when I have a nice dress on or when I go out...because I get nervous about comments since I’m not society's view of disability," Nila Morton told BuzzFeed News. "I decided that I should just post it because I felt beautiful and sexy."...

Lil Dicky - Earth (Official Music Video) (click here for the official website - thank you)

"Earth" by Lil Dicky

[Intro: Lil Dicky]
What up, world? It's your boy, just one of the guys down here. Well, I could be more specific. Uh, I'm a human, and I just wanted to, you know, for the sake of all of us earthlings out there, just wanted to say:

[Chorus: Lil Dicky]
We love the Earth, it is our planet
We love the Earth, it is our home
We love the Earth, it is our planet
We love the Earth, it is our home

[Justin Bieber]
Hi, I'm a baboon
I'm like a man, just less advanced and my anus is huge

[Ariana Grande]
Hey, I'm a zebra
No one knows what I do, but I look pretty cool
Am I white or black?

[Halsey]
I'm a lion cub, and I'm always getting licked (Meow!)

[Zac Brown]
How's it going? I'm a cow (Moo!)
You drink milk from my tits (Moo)

[Brendon Urie]
I'm a fat, fucking pig

[Hailee Steinfeld]
I'm a common fungus

[Wiz Khalifa]
I'm a disgruntled skunk, shoot you out my butthole

[Snoop Dogg]
I'm a marijuana plant, I can get you fucked up

And I'm Kanye West

[Chorus]
We love the Earth, it is our planet
We love the Earth, it is our home
We love the Earth, it is our planet
We love the Earth, it is our home
We love the Earth

[Adam Levine]
Ba-dum-ba-dum-dum, ba-dum-da-di
We are the vultures, feed on the dead

[Shawn Mendes]
We're just some rhinos, horny as heck

[Charlie Puth]
I'm just a giraffe, what's with this neck?

[Sia]
Hippity-hop, I'm a kangaroo
I hop all day, up and down with you

[Miley Cyrus]
I'm an elephant, I got junk in my trunk

[Lil Jon]
What the fuck? I'm a clam!

[Rita Ora]
I'm a wolf. Howl!

[Miguel]
I'm a squirrel, lookin' for my next nut

[Katy Perry & Lil Dicky]
And I'm a pony, just a freak horse, heh-heh-heh
But, uh, c'mon, get on (Get on, yah!)
Giddy up, let's ride

[Lil Yachty]
I'm HPV, don't let me in

[Ed Sheeran]
I'm a koala and I sleep all the time
So what? It's cute

[Meghan Trainor]
We love you, India

[Joel Embiid]
We love you, Africa

[Tory Lanez]
We love the Chinese

[Lil Dicky]
We forgive you, Germany

[Chorus: Lil Dicky, (Snoop Dogg), Meghan Trainor, Lil Dicky & Sia, John Legend]
Earth, it is our planet (It's our planet)
We love the Earth (We love the Earth), it is our home (Home)
We love the Earth, it is our planet (It is our planet)
We love the Earth, it is our home
We love the Earth

Verse 3: Lil Dicky]
I'm a man (Hello?)
Can you hear me? (Anyone out there? Hello?)
I've trudged the Earth for so damn long
And still don't know shit (What's going on?)
I hope it's not a simulation (Huh)
Give each other names like Ahmed and Pedro
And, yeah, we like to wear clothes, girls still look beautiful
And it covers up our human dick (Woo), eat a lot of tuna fish
But these days, it's like we don't know how to act
All these shootings, pollution, we under attack on ourselves
Like, let's all just chill (Hey), respect what we built (Hey)
Like look at the internet! It's cracking as hell
Fellas, don't you love to cum when you have sex? (Ayy)
And I heard women orgasms are better than a dick's (Uh)
So what we got this land for? What we gotta stand for?
Love, and we love the Earth (The Earth)

[Ariana Grande]
Oh, yeah, baby, I love the Earth
I love this planet

[Lil Dicky]
Hey, Russia, we're cool
Hey, Asia, all of you, c'mon
Every one of you from the plains to the Sahara
Let's come together and live

[Choir]
Hum-dum-dum-dae-dum, hum-dum-dum-dae-dum

[PSY]
우-우-우리는 지구를 사랑해요

[Bad Bunny]
Amamos la tierra

[Kris Wu]
我们爱地球

[Outro: Lil Dicky, Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber]
(We love you, we love you)
C'mon everybody, I know we're not all the same
But we're living on the same Earth
(We love you, we love you)
Have you ever been to Earth?
Everyone who is listening has been to Earth, Ariana
(We love you, we love you)
We're not making music for aliens here
Are we gonna die?
You know what, Bieber? We might die
(We love you, we love you)
I'm not going to lie to you
I mean, there's so many people out here who don't think global warming's a real thing. You know? We gotta save this planet. We're being stupid
Unless we get our shit together now

"...the Comeys of the world,..." Huh?

February 14, 2020
By Matt Stieb

The president's (click here) personal lawyer is at the center of questions about Trump's handling of aid to Ukraine.

And then all the president's men lied about it.

...“Rudy (click here) — he did all of this,” one U.S. official told the Washington Post. “This s--t show that we’re in — it’s him injecting himself into the process.”...

Either emboldened after his acquittal (click here) in the Senate impeachment trial or comfortable on the show of a longtime friend, President Trump told Geraldo Rivera on his podcast on Thursday that he had, in fact, sent his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. When Rivera asked if Trump if it was “strange to send Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine” and if he regretted the decision, Trump said, “No, not at all.”

“Here’s my choice: I deal with the Comeys of the world, or I deal with Rudy,” Trump said, referring to James Comey, who gave him a “very bad taste” of the capabilities of American intelligence after the former FBI director maintained the independence of the agency in the early days of the administration. Thus, Trump had to “use” Giuliani to solicit foreign interference in an American election....

It wasn't him injecting himself into the process, it was a conspiracy between Giuliani and now admitting to same, Trump to demand a statement from Ukraine's president about an investigation into Former Vice President Biden and his son Hunter.

They conspired. It is just that simple. The conspiracy was more than Trump and Guiliani. It involved others that fronted for Guiliani and provided money besides. They stayed at the Ritz-Carlton in Vienna on Russian money (click here).

January 15, 2020
By Mary Clare Jaloonick and Eric Tucker

Democrats released the files (click here) Tuesday as they prepared to send articles of impeachment to the Senate for Trump's trial. The documents add new context to their charges that Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Democrats as he withheld military aid....

The only thing that Trump is good at is lying. No one trusts him anymore.

The Seattle Times has a good article to show the degree of protection the hospitals in the USA already engage in to protect caregivers and the public.

On February 11, 2020 the World Health Organization announced an official name for the disease that is causing the current outbreak of coronavirus disease, COVID-19.

This is a Controlled Air Purifying Respirator (CAPR) (click here) used at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett. Nurses and doctors wear the respirator when they have to enter an isolation room. 

...“It becomes a whole different skill”

Once the patient was in the unit, Diaz examined him from the next room using what is called a telehealth system, basically a video call that allows a doctor to speak to and see the patient.

From there, a lot of the work was fairly routine. A rotating staff of 20 nurses, three doctors and personnel from every corner of the hospital kept the patient as comfortable as possible. They took his vitals regularly. They gave him an IV to replenish his fluids.

But the gear the medical team had to wear made these basic tasks difficult. There was the respirator helmet, which came with a plastic faceguard. They doubled up on gloves. The whole outfit got so hot that the nurses had to swap out every four hours at the most....

...an experimental antiviral drug called remdesivir.

Remdesivir has been tested in Ebola patients and proved to be safe but not effective against that virus. Researchers have reported some success using it to treat monkeys who have MERS-CoV, which is another coronavirus. China has begun enrolling COVID-19 patients into a clinical trial of the antiviral, which was developed by the pharmaceutical company Gilead (click here).

The patient’s fever went away the day after treatment, and he began feeling better. It is too early to know how well the treatment will do in others, but the results are promising, Diaz said.

“It is only one case,” Diaz said. “It’s the first person in the world who got this medication for novel coronavirus, but it seems to have worked.”...

It needs to be a court fight. The cities being invaded by Trump's border guard unit are Democratic cities.

This isn't about the elections. It is about the 2020 Census and reducing populations in Democratic cities. It is racism plain and simple.

These raids will only lead to more parentless children and broken families. It is an Anti-American directive.

February 14, 2020
By Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti

The Trump administration (click here) said Friday that it is preparing to deploy elite Border Patrol tactical units to the interior of the United States to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement teams in “sanctuary cities” and other jurisdictions where authorities are seeking to boost arrests and deportations.

The deployment, which will send 100 agents from Border Patrol’s highly trained BORTAC teams to embed with ICE agents, comes as the Trump administration has threatened to retaliate against states and jurisdictions that eschew cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Immigration officials said the Border Patrol tactical agents will assist in routine operations and would be deployed to sanctuary jurisdictions as well as other areas where the agency needs help.

In a statement, ICE acting Director Matthew Albence said the BORTAC agents would help alleviate “resource challenges” produced by sanctuary policies....

"The State of Flint Kids"

February 14, 2020
By Ron Fonger

Flint - Advocates for Flint children (click here) say they have made strides in health, nutrition and education in the nearly six years since the city’s water crisis started, but stubborn problems remain for kids who grow up here.

“We realized that as a community what we really needed to do, really the only thing we could do” after the water crisis “was to move forward,” Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha said during a report on the State of Flint Kids Friday, Feb. 24. “We have been leaning on incredible and emerging science of child development ... to build a model public health program to mitigate the affects of this crisis.”...

...Data presented Friday showed the number of Flint 3 and 4 year olds in the Early On preschool has more than doubled since 2014, the year the city’s water source was changed to the Flint River for 17 months. Enrollment in Flint Community Schools has continued to decline from more than 11,400 in 2010-2011 to 4,500 in 2017-2018.

More than 98 percent of children in the city now have health insurance, and more than 26,000 are enrolled in a Medicaid waiver benefit that was part of the federal government’s response to the water crisis.

Doctors have prescribed more than 34,000 fruit and vegetable prescriptions since 2016, using federal funds, and more than 9,000 lead and galvanized water service lines have been replaced using federal and state funds....

Flint, Michigan was in fiscal trouble when Rick Snyder took over the city with his emergency manager. He not only took over the city to protect any schools still in operation, but he also took over the entire city government which was new for the State of Michigan when it's legislature, with Snyder as Governor, allowed it. Any idea that Flint can handle their own school problems and maintain a health program for more than 26,000 affected children (click here), replace water lines while attempting to run a city is not possible. The city was further impoverished by the Snyder Administration when every available asset was sold to the highest bidder. So, the city not only continues to have fiscal problems due to its new status of disrepair, it has no assets to even draw up bond issues to support any city government efforts. Flint is going to be on the federal dollar for some time to come.

I find it troubling that there is a need for a "State of Flint Kids" reporting. This is not a situation that is going to get better, it is a matter of intervening to give the children of Flint half a chance at life. They were disadvantaged by the Snyder Administration and the government at all levels needs to realize the children of Flint will need financial support most probably the rest of their lives. It is best to give them a chance to be successful after their lead poisoning in a method that provides a path to independence and achievement, but, there is a larger possibility they will be disabled for the rest of their lives. Only time and intervention will tell the tale. Some children will do better than others, but, there will be some that will not succeed. That reality has to be faced and a permanent fiscal solution put in place.

Flint, Michigan does not exist in a vacuum. It has the same problems as other cities and needs infrastructure improvements as well. But, Flint also has an issue with violence and that needs to be handled and brought to a minimum. The children can receive assistance, but, they also need to grow up in a city that is benevolent to their best outcomes. Given the problems Flint has and continues to experience, the state and federal governments are going to have to contribute to the enormous disruption Rick Snyder caused to this American city.

Donald Trump is used to Michael Cohen being his FIXER so he is expecting the same thing from Bill Barr.

Bill Barr has done exactly that in the past, but, eventually steps back from the brink of being treasonous. I am confident he knows that he will have the punishment for treason fall on his life and not that of Donald John Trump who should have been removed from office.

At first I thought this John H. Durham thing is probably really benign and not I am not so sure.

December 9, 2019
By Liam Stack

John H. Durham, (click here) a federal prosecutor conducting a criminal investigation into the origins of the F.B.I.’s Russia probe, said Monday that he disagreed with a report released by the Justice Department’s inspector general, which said there was no basis for President Trump’s accusation that the bureau conspired against him during the 2016 presidential election....

There was nothing that the Special Counsel found that would indicate there were issues between agencies of the USA intelligence community that would demand that of a US Prosecutor to scrutinize. There are always culture differences between the agencies and NCTC (click here) is always supposed to bring the best intelligence together from all agencies to result in a comprehensive threat assessment.

I think Durham is duplicating work and at the same time tearing apart the confidence of the national intelligence agencies.

Besides that there is the national threat assessment which the most recent was published 29 January 2019. Perhaps it is just me, but, I can't seem to find the 2020 edition.

RUSSIA AND EURASIA (click here)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has the tools to navigate challenges to his rule, and he is likely to sustain an assertive, opportunistic foreign policy to advance Russia’s interests beyond its borders and contest US influence.

Russia’s Domestic Politics

The Russian economy’s slow growth and most Russians’ disapproval of government officials’ performance will foster a more challenging political environment for the Kremlin, although its centralized power structure and the resonance of anti-American themes will buoy Putin, sustaining his push for international stature and challenging US global leadership.
continued...

There is this however:

February 8, 2020
By Marty Johnson

...In a Jan. 15 letter (click here) to acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, Schiff described the hearing as a chance for the his committee "to provide an unclassified, yet important broad understanding of how threats have evolved and what the nation can expect in the year to come."

Historically, the annual hearing takes place during the first half of the year. Since it includes the convening of the director of national intelligence and the heads of the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency, scheduling of the hearing can sometimes take a while.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who is also a member of the Intelligence Committee, told CBS earlier in the week that it was important for the public hearing to happen this year.

"We need the American people to know what the threats are and then justify why we're investing in protecting people from those threats," Swalwell said. "They need to answer to congress and we're going to keep pressing."

Donald John Trump expects all the agencies to bend to his will no different than he expected of President Zelenskyy of Ukraine and PROVE there is a Deep State and Trump is the USA's and the world's savior. He is not interested in the balance of power, global balance of trade or any other national security concern including the coronavirus.

My concern goes beyond reports and hearings, the bozo in the White House is actually "eyeing" a limited nuclear war.

There is a reason he is not signing the New START and has dissolved other nuclear agreements and it isn't because Russia is not honoring them, I don't believe a word Trump says. If Russia is violating treaties where is the proof and why are there not talks to secure the cooperation with Russia. The entire issue with Trump is his blind and quite stupid egotistic ambitions to carry out every nightmare known as the Republican Party.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney occasionally talked about "a limited nuclear engagement." With what and against whom wasn't really the concern, so much as simply the political rhetoric of it all.

Well, Trump went ahead and is going to show Dick Cheney he is so much more a man than Cheney could ever hope to be.

Introducing Trump's ultimate toy he plans to use to rule the world.

February 7, 2020

The Federation of American Scientists (click here) evealed in late January that the U.S. Navy had deployed for the first time a submarine armed with a low-yield Trident nuclear warhead. The USS Tennessee deployed from Kings Bay Submarine Base in Georgia in late 2019. The W76-2 warhead, which is facing criticism at home and abroad, is estimated to have about a third of the explosive power of the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima....

From the "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists:"

January 28, 2020
By Andrew Fancic

In the unintuitive world of nuclear weapons strategy, (click here) it’s often difficult to identify which decisions can serve to decrease the risk of a devastating nuclear conflict and which might instead increase it. Such complexity stems from the very foundation of the field: Nuclear weapons are widely seen as bombs built never to be used. Historically, granular—even seemingly mundane—decisions about force structure, research efforts, or communicated strategy have confounded planners, sometimes causing the opposite of the intended effect.

Such is the risk carried by one strategy change that has earned top billing under the Trump administration: the deployment of a new “low-yield” nuclear weapon on US submarines....

January 6, 2020
By Josh Farley

..."We're talking (click here) about the center of a city being devastated," he said as an example. "It's not like a pinprick — this is vastly more devastation than you can inflict than with conventional weapons."...

Trump thinks about NOTHING but his personal agenda and a limited nuclear strike is one of them. 

It is all very interesting that in the US Senate's remorse for not impeaching Trump, for political reasons, is drafting legislation that is not veto proof to hem in Trump's ability to kill Iranians at random while calling it an imminent threat. There is nothing more an imminent threat than Donald John Trump.

John Durham's career is over. He probably doesn't know it yet, but, it is over. Why? Because he actually is indulging the idiot in the White House.

Donald John Trump is not fit for office and with that reality he has called up the idea of a Deep State. It is so important to him that he is willing to destroy the USA federal government in the process to win another election and continue to scheme to be the USA's first dictator as is Duterte.

Bill Barr and all the other pawns in the Trump administration play along because they believe they have control. They don't. They are pawns in a very sick game that is only known to the imagineering of Trump. 

The deployment of a weapon that can begin a nuclear holocaust in the world is pure idiocy. There is nothing that Trump won't do to stroke his own ego. Nothing.

The USA intelligence agencies are never perfect. Never. There is not a Director of the FBI and/or the CIA that has not sat in front of Congress because of culture issues within their agencies. That does not mean there is a Deep State, it means there are times when power is misread by agents and they depart on their own idea of their jobs.

The CIA and FBI will never be perfect. They weren't designed to be perfect, they were designed to work to protect the USA and it's citizens. If anyone believes Durham actually has something to say, they are wrong. The only thing Durham can take credit for is ruffling the feathers of all those in the CIA and FBI and most probably every international agency that the USA cooperates with and caused some degree of chaos.

Just because an employee of a USA intelligence agency entered wrong information to the FISA court does not mean it is a Deep State so much an agency with power that can appear to be toxic to Americans when such employee tampering happens. This is not a unique situation, what is important is that the information is caught in DUE PROCESS and stopped. It is why there is due process written into the USA Constitution in Amendment Five (click here).

John Durham is wrong. He is nothing but a political pawn in the Trump Administration and a figment of Trump's ego. There is absolutely no reason for his investigation. NONE. Ask President Zelenskyy about the covert methods of Trump and Durham will find out any work in examining the USA intelligence network is futile and only causes problems with securing intelligence. Agents will be asking is this okay to report or act on or isn't it? 

You'll excuse me, of course, but with n investigation of Russian wrongdoing in the USA elections whereby Michael Flynn is known to be befriended by Vladimir Putin directly and communicated with Vladimir Putin directly; I would do everything within my power to secure a FISA warrant, too and chock it up to being a patriot if my actions were found out and considered illegal.

MICHAEL FLYNN IS NOT GOING TO WALK. 

GOT THAT?

When a former General of Military Intelligence is willing to sit down at a party with Vladimir Putin and expect to be viewed as a benign entity in the Trump Administration; he's got another thing coming; independent prosecutor or no independent prosecutor. Why does anyone believe the judge in this matter has stated to Flynn at his sentencing hearing, "You sure you don't want to provide more information to the government?" Because Flynn completely violated every oath he took within and outside the USA military.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A DEEP STATE AND THERE NEVER HAS BEEN !

Boohoo, the Deep State did it to him. (click here)

Michael Flynn lied to the very government he took an oath to protect. The defense is making more of the Strzok issue than exists. Of course, further investigation by an independent prosecutor will prove the Deep State was at work all the time. Trump has turned the proceedings of THE LAW in the USA into a melodrama.

February 20, 2020
By Josh Gerstein

Amid ongoing turmoil (click here) at the Justice Department, a prominent member of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s team surfaced in a court filing on Wednesday to defend the government’s prosecution of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Just one day after President Donald Trump publicly slammed the targeting of Flynn and a longtime Trump adviser, Roger Stone, fueling a furor that apparently led four prosecutors to quit Stone’s case, Brandon Van Grack submitted a written pleading urging a judge to reject Flynn’s effort to have his prosecution thrown out on the grounds of “egregious government misconduct....

The judge has postponed the sentencing until further notice by the court. The judge should execute the sentence and let the appellate courts have it if there is new valid information.

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