I didn't forget Flint .Flint is the reason I sat down at the computer.

What the heck is this? Nessel is saying the prosecutors for the people of Flint were private lawyers? 

Real cute. Private industry prosecutors are normally called mitigation experts and a one-person Grand Jury.

Prepare a Supreme Court case to get rid of the corruption surrounding the crimes committed against the people of Flint. Snyder and his Attorney General set up a corrupt scenario to avoid prosecution of the real crimes against the people.

There is a bunch of good ole boys running the State of Michigan. Wiped cell phone numbers, a one-man Grand Jury, and now a private prosecutor, instead of the government the people of Michigan pay to bring justice.

There is a lot wrong, It is sounding more like the State of the Lawyers, rather than the people. It is amazing the corruption that exists in that state. There need to be cases that can be appealed to the higher courts to get rid of the corruption, not only surrounding these cases but, in the state in general.

When Ferguson manifested in the State of Missouri, President Obama sent in the Justice Department to identify the problem and find ways forward. It sounds like the same thing here. The people count on a Governor that is uncorrupt and doing the work of the people. What the people don't expect is a system so corrupt that white-collar crime of corruption is never brought to trial and seriously imprison the criminals.

This is going to be a prolonged process because the corruption has to be identified and considering Snyder was Governor when the corruption was organized he is going to face far more than the charges he faces now. But, the corruption has to be identified, weeded out, and then the cases proceed without all this EVASION OF PROSECUTION existing.

Who knew?

August 6, 2021
By Beth LeBlanc

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's office (click here) is coming under fire for paying roughly $300,000 to five private lawyers for their work on the Flint water investigation and prosecution.

The private counsel makes up about a quarter of the roughly 20 lawyers who have worked on the investigation since Nessel's office scrapped prior prosecutorial efforts and began from scratch in 2019. The probe concerned Flint's switch under state-appointed emergency managers to a new water source that resulted in lead contamination of the drinking water and that experts linked to an outbreak of Legionnaires' diseases cases and deaths.

Supporters of the nine former state and city officials being prosecuted by Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud's team have cried foul over the employment of the private lawyers because Nessel criticized her predecessor, Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette, for "farming out" the prosecution....

...But Nessel's office has pointed out that her team is being led by a full-time employee of the Attorney General's office and not by a private attorney — as Schuette decided to do with Metro Detroit lawyer Todd Flood.

Nessel agreed early on to handle the civil litigation side of the Flint water crisis investigation and appointed Hammoud to handle the criminal investigation because of inherent conflicts between the two causes. In February 2019, as Nessel announced Hammoud's role, both she and the solicitor general criticized Schuette's handling of the case and his reliance on Flood to lead the prosecution "with practically no oversight by this office whatsoever."....

I get really annoyed when the storm systems in the world are looked at as the "usual" tropical system. This is a heat transfer system. Not hurricane.

Fred and it's heat transfer system (click here)

Looking at the large satellite there is a heck of a storm in the Pacific off Central America and one over Costa Rica. There is another system in the Atlantic, too.

Tropical Strom (where it originated) Fred is over Cuba and in this satellite, it is green in color.

It is not only a storm unto itself, it is the anchor of the branch of the vortex near Greenland and exits north to the Arctic Circle and what is left of the Arctic Ocean.

In this satellite, is appears to be heading straight north from Cuba. Those northern vortexes are strong systems and they are not storms themselves so much as an organization of heat transfer, usually off the Equator. That is why good, ole Fred is part of the northern vortex system. It is one of the mechanisms of the heat transfer system.

That is my estimation. I think the entire State of Florida should be on alert for flooding and high winds. It doesn't look good to me.

that other Atlantic Ocean system following Fred can escalate it's winds because Fred is throwing more water vapor from the ocean into the air. That water vapor will encourage the Atlantic storm to grow and absorb more heat from that water vapor kicked up by Fred.

We are living in ridiculous times. Everyone is supposed to be able to exercise pinpoint accuracy to every danger in life because Artificial Intelligence tells them so. That is a bunch of hogwash. When I watch the film loop of Fred, it is not moving outside the water vapor trail of the northern vortex that mitigates heat. I think it is going north. There is a system coming down from Canada to hold that water vapor trail of the northern vortex in place and even push it slightly east.

I don't find Artificial Intelligence much of a help. I think good old common sense and accurate measurements go a long way to saving lives. Calculations are always a reassurance, but, when it comes right down to it, people have a gut that recognizes the shortcomings of computers and calculations. The tools we use are a help for people, but, they aren't the answer. 

The storm is too wide to only cast clouds and shadows on the western part of Florida. The state needs to be ready for a change in direction due to the approaching front from Canada and the heat transfer vortex near Greenland. I would say there is a lot of uncertainty, especially if one is depending on computers to point the way.

Good luck to everyone.

I heard a report that Tropical Storm Fred disappeared over Cuba. That is nonsense.

This is a picture of Tropical Storm Fred over Cuba.

GOES-East - Sector view: (click here) Tropical Atlantic - Nighttime Microphysics

Now, take it seriously and get out of the way of the storm and it's immense flooding. Stop living in denial of the facts and start packing!

AND THAT GOES FOR THE ENTIRE STATE OF FLORIDA. i AM NOT SO SURE IT IS  GOING INTO THE GULF.

August 13, 2021
By Bob D'Angelo, Michelle Ewing, and Theresa Seiger

Update 7:50 p.m. EDT Aug. 13: Fred remained a tropical depression (click here) and is dumping heavy rains across the central coast of Cuba as it moves toward the Florida peninsula, the National Hurricane Center said in its 8 p.m. EDT intermediate advisory.

A tropical storm warning remains in effect for the Florida Keys from Ocean Reef to the Dry Tortugas including Florida Bay, and a tropical storm watch was still in effect on Florida’s southwest coast from Bonita Beach and south and east to Ocean Reef.

Warnings could be extended on the west coast of Florida late Friday or early Saturday, the hurricane center said.

The depression, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph, was located 175 miles east-southeast of Key West, Florida, and 45 miles west of Caibarien, Cuba, the hurricane center said.

The storm was moving to the west at 12 mph, and the hurricane center said Fred could regain tropical storm strength sometime Saturday....

It is not enough for an ally or cooperating country to have their military needs met, we have to provide for the people, too.

 "Oligarch Toys" -- The extreme wealth disparities (click here) are glaring between Ukraine's oligarchs and the average person living on $500 a month in Europe's second-poorest (after Moldova) nation. We round-up what we know of the mansions, yachts, jets and other luxuries of the top 5 oligarchs. -- The revolving door continues at Ukraine's almost-bankrupt state railway, on the brink of collapse because of subsidies to oligarchs' steel, coal & metal, a bloated workforce & a history of management in private rather than national interests. -- Hacking is big business now. Ukraine's cyber defenses need to be improved. -- Will Amos Hochstein mitigate the damage of Nord Stream 2? -- Belarus dictator retains firm grip after stealing an election a year ago. -- The 25 Ukrainians who won 19 Olympic medals at Tokyo Games. -- Eugene Czolij: Why Ukraine's renewed independence matters.

There is poverty in Moldova and Ukraine. NATO nations need to address the poverty within these important democracies. The people are allies as much as a country's military. Where there is poverty there are always underlying beliefs about the government that never improves the people's circumstances. NATO allies need to examine more closely the economies of these poorer countries and provide immediate relief to the people in some of the basic needs such as food, clean water, and medical needs. The people are as important as the military in supporting democratic principles that provide a good education to their children and an economy that is always improving to meet their needs. The USA cannot appear to be the bogeyman with the state-of-the-art military while the people wallow in poverty and lack hope. USAID should be strongly at work in these countries and bring about change to end any and all corruption and provide a far better quality of life.

Russia's presence is rather insidious. They send in oligarchs to bring some sort of economic opportunity to the people and in doing so begin to develop propaganda the people will listen to in order to protect their interests in Russian oligarchs and their MOBILE economies. We see this same dynamic in Kentucky with oligarchs that are viewed as essential to any type of economy.

The Oligarch Regimes of Russia MUST END!

The people need heroes and the USA should be supplying them.

Moldova cooperates with NATO on a range of issues. (click here) The main focus of NATO’s cooperation with Moldova is to support the country’s efforts to reform and modernise its defence and security structures and institutions. Moldova is also a valued contributor to the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo....

Russia is running scared since President Biden took office and it should remain that way. These INVITES are typical on many occasions by leadership because these smaller countries are interested in peace rather than a military invasion by Russia. Ukraine lives as a democracy attempting to remove Russian corruption from all of it's citizen and government structures. But, Ukraine's loss of control in Crimea and the War of Donbas are all examples of Russian aggression to avoid. So the leadership in Russia become a diplomatic issue and not a military issue, hence, a prolonged occupation by Russia. NATO needs to engage diplomatically and be involved with the military, but, also the people have to have the promise of democracy and upward movement to a better quality of life to ensure the stability of their democracy, hence economic growth.

With China and Russia becoming a bit of a nightmare when it comes to individual rights and engagement of ideas, I would think Wall Street should be less interested in Russia and China and more interested in allies and cooperating countries to offer ways to stronger economies.

August 12, 2021
By Vladimir Socor

Deputy head of the Russian presidential administration, Dmitry Kozak

The Kremlin (click here) has wasted no time reacting to the positive signals from Moldova’s new, Western-oriented leadership. On August 11, only five days after Moldova’s new government took office, the deputy head of Russia’s presidential administration, Dmitry Kozak, descended unexpectedly on Chisinau for talks with President Maia Sandu and government members. Kozak carries out the Kremlin’s policy toward Ukraine and toward Moldova on parallel, correlated tracks (see below).]

Kozak rushed to be the first foreign official of high rank from any country to visit Moldova after the new authorities came to power. According to the Russian side, Sandu invited Kozak; but the Moldovan side did not mention this (TASS, Moldpress, August 11). It may well have been an informal self-invite by Kozak followed by Sandu’s formal but unpublished invitation....

This is a real problem. We are not doing this correctly. NOT a Friday the 13th joke.

There need to be more forensic pathologists to follow all the COVID-19 variants. We (medical professionals and forensic experts) are allowing variants to fly under the radar.

Lambda has a real potential to be the FIRST Level Three Virus. Yet, because the PATH of these variants is important, the community is putting emphasis on "the virus of the moment," hence, intense tracking on the Delta Variant. While the global community is discussing the Delta Variant, Lambda is spreading widely and only being picked up when sequencing is being done. The sequencing for Lambda is rarely performed and only showed up as it grew in numbers among the people.

The reason Lambda is being sequenced at all is because it is making people sick and they are presenting in the hospital emergency room. If Lambda is presenting with ill and suffering people then it is just as important as Delta if not more so. Why? Because we understand Delta. We know all that we need to know and now it is a matter of numbers of people and CONTACT TRACING where it is realistic to do it. 

IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON to sequence Lambda and understand it ENTIRELY. The focus on sequencing has to take place and it's characteristics known BEFORE it becomes more dangerous than Delta.

The scientific nightmare of a virus becoming stronger than the people's immune system is playing out with Delta. Delta is more contagious and it is making unvaccinated people sick who are then passing it along to vaccinated people that have compromising health situations such as COPD or asthma. 

We need to know more about Lamda! Now! And we need more lab space and staff to adequately identify through sequencing the virus and thorough clinical examination of reporting, the symptoms of patients.

Let's do this thing. It is NOT a waste of time and money to know the enemy better than we know ourselves.

July 22, 2021
By Laurel Wamsley

...Lambda spread (click here)until it became a dominant sequence in people with COVID-19 in Peru. The WHO noted last month an elevated presence of lambda in other South American countries, including Argentina, Chile and Ecuador. And now we know it's present in the United States.

The lambda variant carries a number of mutations with suspected implications, such as potential increased transmissibility or possible increased resistance to neutralizing antibodies, the WHO says. But it says the full extent of those mutations' impact isn't yet well understood and will need further study....