US Senator Tester is a really great man. I am glad he is a Democrat from Montana because he brings a lot with him. He would make a great President. I would remind him about President Teddy Roosevelt. He was not nearly as tall as Senator Tester, he came in at 5 feet, 9 inches and weighed 220 pounds. We did lose him ten years after his presidency at the age of 61. Teddy Roosevelt was loved by the American people. Regardless of whether he is President or not we want Senator Tester around for a long time. So, he can take all that as he wishes.
But, entertain this. Tariffs take a heavy toll on USA agriculture sometime in the near future. Unless land has a dedicated use by some sort of set aside as in NJ Green Acres Program, what do farm families do with the land if they go out of business?
They sell it. But, to who? Developers.
What if Donald Trump doesn’t really care if farmers lose their land? What kind of policies would he care about when it comes to agriculture if he simply does not care about farming, farmers or feeding the world?
I think the USA is in far more trouble with Trump in the White House that it can imagine right now. Trump is very capable of doing the unthinkable.
Friday, November 30, 2018
I swear the State of Michigan is trying to put Flint back into enormous fiscal deficits.
November 29, 2018
By Zahra Ahmad
...Had (click here) the city agreed to the terms outlined in a Nov. 1 letter from the Attorney General's office, its $4 million disbursement request, along with any requests for work done prior to Nov.1, would be reimbursed to Flint....
The State of Michigan simply will not do what is right and best for Flint, Michigan.
Nov. 5
...The state will not reimburse the city of Flint (click here) for its service line replacements until what the state claims are violations of a $97 million dollar settlement are resolved.
According to a letter from the state Attorney General's office dated Thursday, Nov. 1, the city is violating the settlement by its current excavation method and its failure to look for lead and galvanized water pipes.
Flint city officials could not be reached immediately for comment.
In 2017, a $97 million fund was set up by the state in a settlement to reimburse the city after social groups demanded enough funding to replace the estimated 18,000 hazardous lead and galvanized steel pipes in Flint.
The price of digging up and burying a copper pipe increased from $77 to $1,800 after contractors were directed to dig 8- to 10-foot holes without a hydrovac, according to the attorney generals' office letter.
The letter states this, along with the city's current method of finding lead, is in violation of the settlement's agreement and could leave hundreds of hazardous pipes underground and in use.
According to the letter, from 2016-17 the city used available information and a predictive model to find lead or galvanized pipes which resulted in a 71 percent hit rate for finding hazardous pipes. The city's current plan has dropped that hit rate to 20 percent this year....
I think Mayor Weaver is going to have to meet with the new Governor as soon as she takes office and has office hours to discuss this and get rid of the old agreement and redistribute the monies FOR RESPONSIBLE PIPES for Flint residents. This is ridiculous. These people get no piece of mind and they will stop drinking the water again.
August 15, 2018
By Ron Fonger
...The mayor has said (click here) hydro excavation resulted in some lead and galvanized pipe having been missed and instead has required contractors dig a minimum of 4 feet on both sides of the curb stop, exposing much more of the service line.
"The mayor is correct that canceling the hydrovac contract was done to protect the health and safety of Flint residents," Joe Parks, project manager for Goyette, said in an email to MLive-The Flint Journal....
...Last week, Weaver visited service line replacement crews on the job, vowing to continue to use only traditional excavation tools like backhoes and shovels.
In addition to missing lead and galvanized lines that have been spliced with other material, city officials have said they risk breaking utility lines with high-pressure water and vacuum.
"We're going to ... take our time and do it right," the mayor said during a Facebook broadcast. "I think people's lives are worth it."...
By Zahra Ahmad
...Had (click here) the city agreed to the terms outlined in a Nov. 1 letter from the Attorney General's office, its $4 million disbursement request, along with any requests for work done prior to Nov.1, would be reimbursed to Flint....
The State of Michigan simply will not do what is right and best for Flint, Michigan.
Nov. 5
...The state will not reimburse the city of Flint (click here) for its service line replacements until what the state claims are violations of a $97 million dollar settlement are resolved.
According to a letter from the state Attorney General's office dated Thursday, Nov. 1, the city is violating the settlement by its current excavation method and its failure to look for lead and galvanized water pipes.
Flint city officials could not be reached immediately for comment.
In 2017, a $97 million fund was set up by the state in a settlement to reimburse the city after social groups demanded enough funding to replace the estimated 18,000 hazardous lead and galvanized steel pipes in Flint.
The price of digging up and burying a copper pipe increased from $77 to $1,800 after contractors were directed to dig 8- to 10-foot holes without a hydrovac, according to the attorney generals' office letter.
The letter states this, along with the city's current method of finding lead, is in violation of the settlement's agreement and could leave hundreds of hazardous pipes underground and in use.
According to the letter, from 2016-17 the city used available information and a predictive model to find lead or galvanized pipes which resulted in a 71 percent hit rate for finding hazardous pipes. The city's current plan has dropped that hit rate to 20 percent this year....
I think Mayor Weaver is going to have to meet with the new Governor as soon as she takes office and has office hours to discuss this and get rid of the old agreement and redistribute the monies FOR RESPONSIBLE PIPES for Flint residents. This is ridiculous. These people get no piece of mind and they will stop drinking the water again.
August 15, 2018
By Ron Fonger
...The mayor has said (click here) hydro excavation resulted in some lead and galvanized pipe having been missed and instead has required contractors dig a minimum of 4 feet on both sides of the curb stop, exposing much more of the service line.
"The mayor is correct that canceling the hydrovac contract was done to protect the health and safety of Flint residents," Joe Parks, project manager for Goyette, said in an email to MLive-The Flint Journal....
...Last week, Weaver visited service line replacement crews on the job, vowing to continue to use only traditional excavation tools like backhoes and shovels.
In addition to missing lead and galvanized lines that have been spliced with other material, city officials have said they risk breaking utility lines with high-pressure water and vacuum.
"We're going to ... take our time and do it right," the mayor said during a Facebook broadcast. "I think people's lives are worth it."...
Butina's contacts were not babes in the woods, including one tied to Michael Cohen.
August 9, 2018
By Betsy Woodruff, Allison Quinn and Anna Nemtova
...When the accused infiltrator of the NRA needed cash, (click here) she turned to Igor Pisarsky, two sources familiar with her activities tell The Daily Beast....
...Pisarsky was Butina’s point of contact for the Nikolaev money, according to these sources—the face of the financing. According to one of the sources, he essentially acted like he was distributing grant money....
Konstantine Nikolaev - Banker
Igor Pisarsky - Middleman for banker and Butina, that has worked for two banks that faced USA sanctions, including the Bank of Moscow. Also, Pisarsky's firm's website: ...also says R.I.M. Porter Novelli has represented Skolkovo, an innovation center in Moscow run by a foundation connected to Putin ally Viktor Vekselberg, a sanctioned Russian billionaire linked to longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen. The FBI warned back in 2014 that Skolkovo, which has cooperated with MIT and other American organizations, could be a hotbed for Russian spies looking to worm their way into U.S. companies, as The Boston Globe reported....Pisarsky has also worked with Alfa Capital, a unit of Alfa Bank...One of the bank’s co-founders, billionaire German Khan, is the father-in-law of Alexander van der Zwaan, who spent several weeks in prison after pleading guilty to lying to special counsel Robert Mueller’s team about work his law firm did alongside Paul Manafort for the Ukrainian government.
Paul Erickson - USA Republican
Alexander Torshin - Kremlin contact
By Betsy Woodruff, Allison Quinn and Anna Nemtova
...When the accused infiltrator of the NRA needed cash, (click here) she turned to Igor Pisarsky, two sources familiar with her activities tell The Daily Beast....
...Pisarsky was Butina’s point of contact for the Nikolaev money, according to these sources—the face of the financing. According to one of the sources, he essentially acted like he was distributing grant money....
Konstantine Nikolaev - Banker
Igor Pisarsky - Middleman for banker and Butina, that has worked for two banks that faced USA sanctions, including the Bank of Moscow. Also, Pisarsky's firm's website: ...also says R.I.M. Porter Novelli has represented Skolkovo, an innovation center in Moscow run by a foundation connected to Putin ally Viktor Vekselberg, a sanctioned Russian billionaire linked to longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen. The FBI warned back in 2014 that Skolkovo, which has cooperated with MIT and other American organizations, could be a hotbed for Russian spies looking to worm their way into U.S. companies, as The Boston Globe reported....Pisarsky has also worked with Alfa Capital, a unit of Alfa Bank...One of the bank’s co-founders, billionaire German Khan, is the father-in-law of Alexander van der Zwaan, who spent several weeks in prison after pleading guilty to lying to special counsel Robert Mueller’s team about work his law firm did alongside Paul Manafort for the Ukrainian government.
Paul Erickson - USA Republican
Alexander Torshin - Kremlin contact
I don't know that there has been a USA President as lousy as this one. His deregulation is killing Americans.
The Trump deregulation directly attacks the USA quality of life. Sonny Purdue, the Secretary of Agriculture should be up in arms at deregulation that kills Americans. Oh, wait. Sonny Purdue is the one allowing deregulation.
I might point out the deregulation Trump is overseeing hits California hardest. Is there a reason to bring hardship to California by Trump? Everything he does is due to politics and cronies.
The April outbreak of E. coli came from Yuma, Arizona (click here) Americans died then, too (click here)
November 11, 2017
Agriculture, Food Systems, Local, Sustainability, Urban Farming (click here)
That broccoli you and your family had for dinner last night, any chance you know where it was grown? Unless you bought it at a Farmer’s Market, chances are it was grown and shipped from California. Many people recognize California for Hollywood, scenic beaches, coastal cities, and it’s delicious wines. But California also grows nearly half of the produce consumed in the United States and it’s almost the sole source for some domestically grown fruits and vegetables.
To name a few, California grows:
I might point out the deregulation Trump is overseeing hits California hardest. Is there a reason to bring hardship to California by Trump? Everything he does is due to politics and cronies.
The April outbreak of E. coli came from Yuma, Arizona (click here) Americans died then, too (click here)
November 11, 2017
Agriculture, Food Systems, Local, Sustainability, Urban Farming (click here)
That broccoli you and your family had for dinner last night, any chance you know where it was grown? Unless you bought it at a Farmer’s Market, chances are it was grown and shipped from California. Many people recognize California for Hollywood, scenic beaches, coastal cities, and it’s delicious wines. But California also grows nearly half of the produce consumed in the United States and it’s almost the sole source for some domestically grown fruits and vegetables.
To name a few, California grows:
99% of Artichokes
97% of Plums
95% of Celery
95% of Garlic
94% of Broccoli
89% of Cauliflower
69% of Carrots
97% of Plums
95% of Celery
95% of Garlic
94% of Broccoli
89% of Cauliflower
69% of Carrots
You get the idea. California has some of the most ideal growing conditions for fruits and vegetables, in terms of climate and soil. It is even potentially one of the most productive places in the world. Which is quite the notable achievement for us as a nation....
Russia's crimes begin with the invasion of Crimean in 2014.
19 March 2014
By John Simpson
The annexation of Crimea (click here) was the smoothest invasion of modern times. It was over before the outside world realised it had even started.
And until Tuesday 18 March, when a group of pro-Russian gunmen attacked a small Ukrainian army base in Simferopol, killing one officer and injuring another, it was entirely bloodless.
For much of February, thousands of extra soldiers were quietly sent in to the bases which Russia was permitted by treaty to own in Crimea. Civilian "volunteers" moved in too. The plan was carried out secretly and with complete success.
The first obvious sign that Crimea was being taken over was on Friday 28 February, when checkpoints were established at Armyansk and Chongar - the two main road crossings from mainland Ukraine to the Crimean peninsula....
Long before Russia began to destroy Ukraine with the invasion in 2014 there were issues of great concern to the world in general.
After the disintegration of the USSR, (click here) Ukraine found itself in possession of the world's third largest nuclear arsenal. There were 176 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launchers with some 1,240 warheads on Ukrainian territory. This force consisted of 130 SS-19s, each capable of delivering six nuclear weapons, and 46 SS-24s, each armed with ten nuclear weapons. An additional 14 SS-24 missiles were present in Ukraine, but not operationally deployed with warheads. Several dozen bombers with strategic nuclear capabilities were armed with some 600 air-launched missiles, along with gravity bombs. In addition, as many as 3,000 tactical nuclear weapons rounded out an arsenal totaling approximately 5,000 strategic and tactical weapons. Today, Ukraine’s remaining nuclear activities are entirely civilian in nature, and Ukraine is a member of all major nonproliferation treaties and regimes....
This reality was not strange when the Soviet Union disintegrated. As a matter of fact there were three Soviet astronauts circling the Earth for three months before anyone bothered to bring them back. That's right. Three cosmonauts were left in space unattended for three months before Russia got their act together to bring them back to Earth.
February 28, 2014
By Ron Synovitz
...The "Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances" (click here) is a diplomatic memorandum that was signed in December 1994 by Ukraine, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
It is not a formal treaty, but rather, a diplomatic document under which signatories made promises to each other as part of the denuclearization of former Soviet republics after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Under the memorandum, Ukraine promised to remove all Soviet-era nuclear weapons from its territory, send them to disarmament facilities in Russia, and sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Ukraine kept these promises.
In return, Russia and the Western signatory countries essentially consecrated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine as an independent state. They did so by applying the principles of territorial integrity and nonintervention in 1975 Helsinki Final Act -- a Cold War-era treaty signed by 35 states including the Soviet Union -- to an independent post-Soviet Ukraine....
Ukrainian leaders realizing the proximity of the country to Russia gave up their weapons IN EXCHANGE FOR PEACE. Russia could not leave it alone and with the help of Paul Manafort put Viktor Yanukovych into the Presidency of Ukraine. Manafort, Putin and Yanukovych were buddies and made sure the leadership of Ukraine returned to Russia. It is well established Yanukovych was Putin's henchman.
Yanukovych disarmed the national military and instead placed militias under the control of oligarchs in cities around the country. Yanukovych made it completely impossible for Ukraine to defend itself against Russia.
Before Yanukovych was elected, Russia attempted to kill another Ukraine leader, Viktor Yushchenko by poisoning him. He narrowly survived.
The crimes of Russia is significant and it was at a time Russia was lead by Vladimir Putin.
Putin's politics embrasses the idea Russia is leading a return of the Soviet Union. Putin is ruthless and instituted nationalism in the country in the face of profound poverty with many of it's poeple, including those near the Olympic grounds in Sochi. For the wealth of the oil it sells, that wealth never translate into a better quality of life for the Russian people, while the elite of Russia and Putin accumulate incredible wealth.
March 20, 2014
By Mark Landler, Annie Lowrey and Steven Lee Myers
Washington — President Obama (click here for video thank you) expanded sanctions against Russia on Thursday, blacklisting a bank and several wealthy businessmen with close ties to President Vladimir V. Putin, as the United States struggled to forestall further Russian incursions into Ukraine.
Among those targeted were Sergei B. Ivanov, the president’s chief of staff; Gennady N. Timchenko, a billionaire investor with links to Mr. Putin; and Yuri V. Kovalchuk, whom the administration described as the personal banker for Russian leaders, including the president.
Mr. Obama also opened the door to more sweeping measures against core parts of the Russian economy, including the oil and natural gas industries, which account for much of Russia’s exports. He said the actions could disrupt the global economy, but might be necessary because of what he described as menacing movements by the Russian military near eastern and southern Ukraine....
Since the sanctions by President Obama because Russia continues to break international laws and invade and kill Ukraine, there have been additional sanctions on Russia by Congress as well. This was not a single act by a President, it was also backed by the USA Congress, too.
Enter stage right, Donald Trump, engaged in negotiations with Russia for a Trump Tower Moscow. He was securing a great deal of money from a bank sanctioned by the Russian government.
November 29, 2018
By David E. Sanger
...March 2016 (click here) was also when Mr. Trump brought into his campaign Paul Manafort, the longtime Republican lobbyist and strategist who had made millions of dollars advising and lobbying on behalf of the pro-Russia leader of Ukraine, Viktor F. Yanukovych. Mr. Manafort became the campaign’s chairman several months later.
The annexation of Crimea hardened anti-Putin sentiment among most Republicans. But from the start of his campaign in mid-2015, several months before prosecutors say his company began considering a deal in Russia, Mr. Trump departed from the normal Republican hard line about Russia, attacking President Barack Obama’s approach because it alienated a potential partner.
“I believe I would get along very nicely with Putin,” Mr. Trump said soon after announcing his run for the presidency. “I don’t think you’d need the sanctions.”
It was an unusual argument for a Republican candidate; the party had been instinctively anti-Soviet during the Cold War and deeply suspicious of Mr. Putin thereafter. So Mr. Trump’s position that sanctions were counterproductive — and harmed American interests — stood out from the start of the campaign, prompting many to question whether his interest in selling properties to rich Russians seeking to park their assets in the United States, or his efforts to build the tower in Moscow, explained his position....
That was Trump's position as a candidate and as the president. Trump UNDERSTOOD Putin better than anyone else in the world.
NO ONE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND A LEADER OF A COUNTRY ON A PERSONAL LEVEL.
All the President of the USA needs to understand is the international laws broken and the role of the USA in enforcing protections of the international status of democracy INCLUDING the democracy, freedom and USA Constitution and it's Amendments and subsequent laws.
The USA institutes the "Rule of Law" within it's borders and "Rule of International Law" outside it's borders.
President Trump seems to be stuck in thinking the only issue before the country, due to his manner of conducting business, is that he didn't build the tower.
"W"rong!
Trump INVITED Russia to unleash it's power on the USA elections of 2016. And it did. THAT is the issue. The fact that he was negotiating with Russia for building a luxury tower in Moscow is very interesting, because, it was when the USA government had significant sanctions against Russia. And what a relief it must have been to have a USA billionaire wheeling and dealing to bring dearly needed business to Moscow in complete conflict of the role of the USA.
Trump has no respect for the role of the USA in the world and he still doesn't.
He is complaining the Mueller investigation is getting in the way of any relationship between Russia and the USA.
I BET IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The dates of his lies are interesting. He was actively negotiating with Russia through his attorneys until July 2016. He never denied it before those dates.
By John Simpson
The annexation of Crimea (click here) was the smoothest invasion of modern times. It was over before the outside world realised it had even started.
And until Tuesday 18 March, when a group of pro-Russian gunmen attacked a small Ukrainian army base in Simferopol, killing one officer and injuring another, it was entirely bloodless.
For much of February, thousands of extra soldiers were quietly sent in to the bases which Russia was permitted by treaty to own in Crimea. Civilian "volunteers" moved in too. The plan was carried out secretly and with complete success.
The first obvious sign that Crimea was being taken over was on Friday 28 February, when checkpoints were established at Armyansk and Chongar - the two main road crossings from mainland Ukraine to the Crimean peninsula....
Long before Russia began to destroy Ukraine with the invasion in 2014 there were issues of great concern to the world in general.
After the disintegration of the USSR, (click here) Ukraine found itself in possession of the world's third largest nuclear arsenal. There were 176 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launchers with some 1,240 warheads on Ukrainian territory. This force consisted of 130 SS-19s, each capable of delivering six nuclear weapons, and 46 SS-24s, each armed with ten nuclear weapons. An additional 14 SS-24 missiles were present in Ukraine, but not operationally deployed with warheads. Several dozen bombers with strategic nuclear capabilities were armed with some 600 air-launched missiles, along with gravity bombs. In addition, as many as 3,000 tactical nuclear weapons rounded out an arsenal totaling approximately 5,000 strategic and tactical weapons. Today, Ukraine’s remaining nuclear activities are entirely civilian in nature, and Ukraine is a member of all major nonproliferation treaties and regimes....
This reality was not strange when the Soviet Union disintegrated. As a matter of fact there were three Soviet astronauts circling the Earth for three months before anyone bothered to bring them back. That's right. Three cosmonauts were left in space unattended for three months before Russia got their act together to bring them back to Earth.
February 28, 2014
By Ron Synovitz
...The "Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances" (click here) is a diplomatic memorandum that was signed in December 1994 by Ukraine, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
It is not a formal treaty, but rather, a diplomatic document under which signatories made promises to each other as part of the denuclearization of former Soviet republics after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Under the memorandum, Ukraine promised to remove all Soviet-era nuclear weapons from its territory, send them to disarmament facilities in Russia, and sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Ukraine kept these promises.
In return, Russia and the Western signatory countries essentially consecrated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine as an independent state. They did so by applying the principles of territorial integrity and nonintervention in 1975 Helsinki Final Act -- a Cold War-era treaty signed by 35 states including the Soviet Union -- to an independent post-Soviet Ukraine....
Ukrainian leaders realizing the proximity of the country to Russia gave up their weapons IN EXCHANGE FOR PEACE. Russia could not leave it alone and with the help of Paul Manafort put Viktor Yanukovych into the Presidency of Ukraine. Manafort, Putin and Yanukovych were buddies and made sure the leadership of Ukraine returned to Russia. It is well established Yanukovych was Putin's henchman.
Yanukovych disarmed the national military and instead placed militias under the control of oligarchs in cities around the country. Yanukovych made it completely impossible for Ukraine to defend itself against Russia.
The crimes of Russia is significant and it was at a time Russia was lead by Vladimir Putin.
Putin's politics embrasses the idea Russia is leading a return of the Soviet Union. Putin is ruthless and instituted nationalism in the country in the face of profound poverty with many of it's poeple, including those near the Olympic grounds in Sochi. For the wealth of the oil it sells, that wealth never translate into a better quality of life for the Russian people, while the elite of Russia and Putin accumulate incredible wealth.
March 20, 2014
By Mark Landler, Annie Lowrey and Steven Lee Myers
Washington — President Obama (click here for video thank you) expanded sanctions against Russia on Thursday, blacklisting a bank and several wealthy businessmen with close ties to President Vladimir V. Putin, as the United States struggled to forestall further Russian incursions into Ukraine.
Among those targeted were Sergei B. Ivanov, the president’s chief of staff; Gennady N. Timchenko, a billionaire investor with links to Mr. Putin; and Yuri V. Kovalchuk, whom the administration described as the personal banker for Russian leaders, including the president.
Mr. Obama also opened the door to more sweeping measures against core parts of the Russian economy, including the oil and natural gas industries, which account for much of Russia’s exports. He said the actions could disrupt the global economy, but might be necessary because of what he described as menacing movements by the Russian military near eastern and southern Ukraine....
Since the sanctions by President Obama because Russia continues to break international laws and invade and kill Ukraine, there have been additional sanctions on Russia by Congress as well. This was not a single act by a President, it was also backed by the USA Congress, too.
Enter stage right, Donald Trump, engaged in negotiations with Russia for a Trump Tower Moscow. He was securing a great deal of money from a bank sanctioned by the Russian government.
November 29, 2018
By David E. Sanger
...March 2016 (click here) was also when Mr. Trump brought into his campaign Paul Manafort, the longtime Republican lobbyist and strategist who had made millions of dollars advising and lobbying on behalf of the pro-Russia leader of Ukraine, Viktor F. Yanukovych. Mr. Manafort became the campaign’s chairman several months later.
The annexation of Crimea hardened anti-Putin sentiment among most Republicans. But from the start of his campaign in mid-2015, several months before prosecutors say his company began considering a deal in Russia, Mr. Trump departed from the normal Republican hard line about Russia, attacking President Barack Obama’s approach because it alienated a potential partner.
“I believe I would get along very nicely with Putin,” Mr. Trump said soon after announcing his run for the presidency. “I don’t think you’d need the sanctions.”
It was an unusual argument for a Republican candidate; the party had been instinctively anti-Soviet during the Cold War and deeply suspicious of Mr. Putin thereafter. So Mr. Trump’s position that sanctions were counterproductive — and harmed American interests — stood out from the start of the campaign, prompting many to question whether his interest in selling properties to rich Russians seeking to park their assets in the United States, or his efforts to build the tower in Moscow, explained his position....
That was Trump's position as a candidate and as the president. Trump UNDERSTOOD Putin better than anyone else in the world.
NO ONE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND A LEADER OF A COUNTRY ON A PERSONAL LEVEL.
All the President of the USA needs to understand is the international laws broken and the role of the USA in enforcing protections of the international status of democracy INCLUDING the democracy, freedom and USA Constitution and it's Amendments and subsequent laws.
The USA institutes the "Rule of Law" within it's borders and "Rule of International Law" outside it's borders.
President Trump seems to be stuck in thinking the only issue before the country, due to his manner of conducting business, is that he didn't build the tower.
"W"rong!
Trump INVITED Russia to unleash it's power on the USA elections of 2016. And it did. THAT is the issue. The fact that he was negotiating with Russia for building a luxury tower in Moscow is very interesting, because, it was when the USA government had significant sanctions against Russia. And what a relief it must have been to have a USA billionaire wheeling and dealing to bring dearly needed business to Moscow in complete conflict of the role of the USA.
Trump has no respect for the role of the USA in the world and he still doesn't.
He is complaining the Mueller investigation is getting in the way of any relationship between Russia and the USA.
I BET IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The dates of his lies are interesting. He was actively negotiating with Russia through his attorneys until July 2016. He never denied it before those dates.
The Hawaiian hot spot is still moving and contributing to the seismic activity of the Ring if Fire. There is some real damage to Anchorage. They are going to need some help. The roads alone are an issue.The Pacific Plate has been very active.
By Rachel D'oro
In this image (click here) courtesy of Dr. Holy A. Bell, books and ceiling tiles litter the floor at the The Mat-Su College library in Anchorage, Alaska
...Cracks could be seen (click here) in a two-story downtown Anchorage building. It was unclear whether there were injuries....
...People went back inside buildings after the first earthquake struck, but the 5.8 aftershock about five minutes later sent them running back into the streets....
In many ways, Alaska is a frontier and there can be people in the surrounding area that may have been affected. USGS would like to hear from people that FELT the quake so long as they can respond.
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake (click here) struck north of Anchorage, Alaska on November 30, 2018 at 8:29 a.m. local time (17:29:28 UTC).
Visit the USGS event page for more information. For estimates of casualties and damage, visit the USGS Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) website.
If you felt this earthquake, report your experience on the “USGS Did You Feel It?” website for this event.
For information about tsunami watches, warnings or advisories, visit the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tsunami website.
The USGS operates a 24/7 National Earthquake Information Center in Colorado that can be reached for more information at 303-273-8500.
It is amazing the USA has this level of information almost instantly. The USGS does a really great job. The Big Lake Quake goes to Cook Inlet and all the way north to the Alaskan Range (mountains). There are some seismic activity that goes beyond the mountains.
2018-11-30 20:26:54 (UTC)
M 5.2 - 17km SSW of Big Lake, Alaska (click here)
Seismic activity surrounding Anchorage (click here)
There are a couple of volcanos in that region. Mount Redoubt is one of them. Mount Spurr is there, too. With a 7.0 quake followed by significant other quakes like the one at Big Lake requires an assessment of those mountains with a potential to eruption. AIRPLANE SAFETY. Just a brief look without an extensive assessment. Be careful.
I would suggest if there is even evidence of steam from those volcanos the airline paths need to be averted.
It is amazing the USA has this level of information almost instantly. The USGS does a really great job. The Big Lake Quake goes to Cook Inlet and all the way north to the Alaskan Range (mountains). There are some seismic activity that goes beyond the mountains.
2018-11-30 20:26:54 (UTC)
- 61.369°N 150.044°W
M 5.2 - 17km SSW of Big Lake, Alaska (click here)
Seismic activity surrounding Anchorage (click here)
There are a couple of volcanos in that region. Mount Redoubt is one of them. Mount Spurr is there, too. With a 7.0 quake followed by significant other quakes like the one at Big Lake requires an assessment of those mountains with a potential to eruption. AIRPLANE SAFETY. Just a brief look without an extensive assessment. Be careful.
I would suggest if there is even evidence of steam from those volcanos the airline paths need to be averted.
How many times and in how many ways does it have to be said to a party of gas lighters that Whitaker is not qualified to be Attorney General of the United States of American? He should not have a license to practice from the looks of it. Ignoring fraud is gross malpractice. He is not interested in protecting the public trust. He needs an ethics review by the Bar and possibly criminal neglect. He should pursue all those professional venues while Trump is still president and can issue him a pardon like Scooter Libby.
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