Sunday, April 07, 2019

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.

Saturday, April 06, 2019

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)...

Friday, April 05, 2019

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. 

Thursday, April 04, 2019

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....

Wednesday, April 03, 2019

Senator Feinstein is correct in asking for a cessation of racing at Santa Anita Park.

There have been 23 deaths of horses at Santa Anita Park. The deaths aren't investigated and it is more than obvious something is happening. Senator Feinstein has done the right thing in asking for suspension of racing to investigate the causes of these deaths.

April 3, 2019

Arcadia— In a letter to the state’s horse racing board, (click here) Sen. Dianne Feinstein called for racing to be suspended at Santa Anita Park after the deaths of 23 horses since late December.

Feinstein asked for racing to be suspended until the cause or causes of the horse deaths can be fully investigated in her letter sent Tuesday to the California Horse Racing Board, which hours later scheduled a special meeting to consider relocating races to other tracks.

“The death of a single horse is a tragedy, but as a lifelong lover of horses, I’m appalled that almost two dozen horses have died in just four months,” Feinstein wrote in her letter.

Nearly two dozen horses have died at the Arcadia racetrack, most recently on Sunday – just two days after Santa Anita Park reopened after a nearly month-long hiatus. Racetrack officials have not been able to pinpoint any one factor causing the deaths, investigating everything from the effect of unusually heavy rain this winter on the track to race-day medication....

A cluster of equine deaths is not a minor issue. This is not a public perception problem.

April 2, 2019
By Tim Sullivan

Horse racing is running scared. (click here) Fearful of the fallout from a spate of equine fatalities, industry leaders are lobbying for reform with growing urgency and increasing anxiety.

“In horse racing, we say we have a public perception problem,” Claiborne Farm president Walker Hancock said Monday. “But we kind of bring some changes to the table and it’s ‘You can’t do that.’ I’m worried if we keep going down this road, how far do we have to go before significant changes are made?

“... If we’re not going to change now, I don’t know what it has to take.”

Though the Jockey Club’s Equine Injury Database shows North American racing suffered more than 6,000 fatal injuries during the last decade, the recent carnage at Santa Anita has created a crisis atmosphere within the sport. When Arms Runner, a 5-year-old gelding, was euthanized Sunday following the San Simeon Stakes, it was the 23rd fatality at the California track since Dec. 26....

Trump also seeks to confuse to create an opportunity for mockery.

During his ramblings yesterday, Trump made a reference to GPP rather than GDP. No one listens to that closely necessarily and sure enough, a journalist making comment after the president's words used the abbreviation GDP.

Trump will use that subtle difference to state it is fake news and if in debate and the fact comes up he made an observation during his NATO photo-op  GDP, Trump will be able to embarrass, humiliate and make a mockery of someone who misquoted him.

There is a difference between GPP and GDP. GPP is not used that widely except in Liberal political circles. However, when Trump strays from the mainstay of language to these obscure and rarely used words, he does it with a purpose and it isn't to have the most correct meaning or measure of a country's value. In this instance, Trump is using GPP because it is legitimate and rarely used so he can later leverage that moment of misunderstanding.

GDP (click here)

Gross domestic product is the total value of everything produced in the country. It doesn't matter if it's produced by are citizens or foreigners. If they are located within the country's boundaries, their production is included in GDP....

PPP (click here) and GPP is a spin off of that.

Macroeconomic analysis relies on several different metrics to compare economic productivity and standards of living between countries and across time. One popular metric is purchasing power parity (PPP)....

I just think it is important to clarify his use/mistakes of language when it happens rather than to allow it to grow and become a leverage point to unwitting people. Thank you.

Removing the right to vote is still a Republican priority.

I wasn't specific about "oranges." Florida has brought former inmates back into the opportunity to vote. When Trump makes these "coded" messages, then look toward the message and follow any indication that would effect his "win." As Trump said, winning is everything.

From the "Miami Herald."

March 19, 2019
By Lawrence Mower

A Florida House committee (click here) approved a bill addressing the rollout of Amendment 4 despite the likelihood it would undermine the ballot measure’s intent by limiting the number of former felons who could have their voting rights restored.

Voting along party lines, Republicans advanced the bill, which would require felons to pay back all court fees and costs before being eligible to vote, even if those costs are not handed down by a judge as part of the person’s sentence.

That standard goes beyond the restoration system before Amendment 4 passed in November, which only required someone pay back restitution to a victim before applying to have their civil rights restored. After the bill passed the House’s criminal justice committee Tuesday, Democratic representatives blasted it.

“It’s blatantly unconstitutional as a poll tax,” said Rep. Adam Hattersley, D-Riverview.

I believe Trump would like to see an expansion of this POLL TAX into all voting precincts across the country and why not apply it to all people that owe money to the government? In other words, don't owe the court a parking fee otherwise your vote won't happen until it is paid. Do you know the bureaucracy this will create? Once a person loses their vote to unpaid fines, etc., they will never vote again.

This is somewhat an expansion of the idea that criminals live among us and they are committing voting fraud. An unpaid parking ticket could label a person as a criminal if such extremes are allowed to propagate.

Aren't all the people crossing the southern border criminals? The ideology is already there.

This right wing fringe is real. They are extremists. Recently, there have been releases of closed circuit cameras in convenience stores of older adults calling the people behind the counter anti-American because there is Spanish language somewhere on a sign above the cashier regarding cigarette prices and the like. They are angry about the public use of Spanish as an indication the country is being lost to Mexicans crossing the border. They are weird, but, they also vote.

There should be a sign in large letters next to these public displays of Spanish language stating it is important that people know their world because it saves lives and keeps others safe as well. The Spanish language used in public places brings ordinary awareness to public health issues and promotes well being. It is vital to the wellness of all Americans that foreign language in a diverse country is incorporated into public displays. It promotes well being in many ways, including perhaps as a deterrent to smoking cigarettes.

Trump uses dog whistles to inspire White Nationalists/Supremacists. His "orange" is about Florida.

Michael Cohen stated openly and freely that Trump speaks in code. He does. There is not a moment in his day when he is not selling himself to people for his 2020 run. All these statements are dog whistles. It is nearly impossible to listen to Trump without realizing he is campaigning 24/7.

His dog whistles are real and are causing populations of people to hate and kill.

This is a bit of a side story, but, "AlterNet" has linked Trump to real ideology that victimizes freedom and human rights.

...McCarthy’s chief aide was attorney Roy Cohn, (click here) who zealously attacked innocent people who were accused of being Communists (Reds), or soft on Communism (Pinkos). Many believed he lacked any sense of ethics or honor and he was much feared.  Even after McCarthy fell from favor and then died in 1957, Cohn’s prominence continued and spent his remaining career as an attorney who often chose to represent reprehensible elements of society, including Organized Crime. He was also known for his wild social life.

Then, Roy Cohn met a young real estate entrepreneur named Donald Trump. The two men became close friends and Cohn impressed upon Trump how to exploit and play “hard ball” to gain ever more wealth and public influence....

Now, I normally would blow this off as a strange coincidence, but, the ideology is long standing with Trump. The link to METHODOLOGY to bring about victimization is all to obvious.

Trump wants to undermine Social Security and Medicare. I believe he means it. He is taking a stand against socialism because he best can then victimize those receiving entitlements as enemies of freedom and democracy. His use of language has a far different purpose than any normal use of language. He uses language as an assault to support his ideologies.

Trump cannot deny he is courting White Supremacists/Nationalists. He also cannot deny there is real violence in the world conducted by people that see him as a reason to act.

April 3, 2019
By Adam K. Raymond

President Trump met with NATO secretary Jens Stoltenberg (click here) in the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon. Then he forced the poor guy to sit there while he vomited words all over reporters who shouted questions at him. It’s a thing Trump likes to do.

Two moments in particular stood out today, and they’re both the kind of thing that’ll have you breaking out your pocket Constitution and rereading the text of the 25th Amendment....

...While declaring his love for Germany, Trump said he’s proud that his father was born in the country. “Born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling for Germany,” Trump said. Fred Trump was born in the Bronx....

There is one more odd thing. I have to find it....

Derek Black was interviewed by NPR. I found his ideas about White Nationalism and White Supremacy somewhat troubling as if one is exempt from hate.

September 24, 2018
By Terry Gross

Derek Black: (click here) My dad popularized the term "white nationalism" ... when he founded Stormfront and called it a white nationalist community, and he saw the distinction between white nationalism and white supremacy as being one that he didn't want anything bad for anyone else — he just wanted everybody to be forcibly put in different spaces, and that that was not about superiority, it was just about the well-being of everybody. ... Looking back on it, that is totally irrational. How exactly do you think you're going to forcibly separate everybody and that that's not supremacy?...

Perhaps the difference between White Nationalism and White Supremacy screams out loud to their members, but, I don't see it.

There is this nexus between Trump and White Nationalism/Supremacy and it cannot nor should it be igorned. He has developed a very toxic ideology all his life and now he is breeding it.

The White Supremacy thread to the Mosque massacre in New Zealand continues.

Artemly Vldmirovich Dubovskly (click here) was a former Russian special forces soldier. The thread of violence in the world being linked to Russia continues.

3 April 2019
By Kurt Bayer

The Russian gun and Nazi "fanatic" )(click here) who died after a police stand-off in Christchurch "supported the actions" of the alleged mosque terror attacker, according to police.

Armed police raided the home of 54-year-old Artemiy Vldimirovich Dubovskiy, also known as Troy Dubovskiy, last Tuesday after a tip-off from the public.

Officers found a cache of firearms, including a modified semi-automatic weapon, 
ammunition, "violent extremist content", along with Nazi uniforms, helmets and clothing.

Dubovskiy, who had spent time in jail for a violent home invasion where he put a replica German WW2 Luger pistol to a man's head, died after a three-hour stand-off with police last Wednesday.

Today, police confirmed that Dubovskiy first landed on the police radar after "some concerning emails" that he sent and included reference to the Christchurch terror attacks.

"Based on the nature of the items located during the search warrant, the nature of what he said to police during the negotiation and subsequent inquiries, police are of the view that Mr Dubovskiy did pose a significant threat to the community," Canterbury District Commander Superintendent John Price said this afternoon.

"This remains an ongoing investigation. Based on inquiries to date it is clear that Mr Dubovskiy supported the actions of the man charged with murder in relation to the Christchurch terror attacks, however no connection has been established between the two."...

The link between Donald Trump and White Supremacy violence is growing.

February 8, 2019
By Dan Bilefsky

Alexandre Bissonnette, (click here) a 29-year-old former politics student fixated on President Trump, the far right and Muslims, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 40 years for shooting six people dead in an attack on a mosque in Quebec City in January 2017....