17 February 2019

Illegal Immigration Emergency is Just the 30th National Emergency Now in Effect

The United States has dozens of ongoing national emergencies. president Obama declared 13 national emergencies and President Clinton 17; it's churlish and unfair not to let President Trump declare one too.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/22/president-obama-states-of-emergency/16851775/

President Trump should declare some kind of national emergency shortage in his administration and find some more emergency-worthy issues. The Congress could find some itself and ask the President to recognize them officially as national emergencies.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/presidents-national-emergencies/

An obvious candidate is the parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere being more than 500. Another is the lack of surplus drinking and irrigation water in the southwest.

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/15/695203852/many-presidents-have-declared-emergencies-but-not-like-trump-has

Reform for Churches Within Corrupt Phase of an Historical Cycle

Society is increasingly corrupt as part of traditional historical cycles. Christianity also is in need of reform unto a priesthood of believers structure. The present ecclesiastical form was designed for pre-literate, agrarian social structures.

 Martin Luther was correct about the priesthood of believers. Churches should be more participatory in a collective do-it-yourself format with expert guidance.

Individuals including women are regarded as free, exploitable workers these days and families are fundamentally losing rights since they tend to conflict with corporate power and concentrated wealth. Television and media have usurped family social bonding and replaced them with wickedness. Government has followed suit. The Lord shall prevail anyway over time. He has already won the victory.

16 February 2019

Asylum for All Citizens of High Crime-Rate Countries?

It does not seems reasonable to allow political asylum for citizens fleeing nations with high crime rates. How would one differentiate one citizen from another within that criterion when all of the citizens of Honduras or El Salvador for example, experience the dangers of high national crimes figures?

Political asylum was designed to afford individuals rather than entire nations a refuge from danger and/or death. Even large numbers of people actually targeted for elimination may be given political asylum; Jews or Armenians would have been given asylum when genocide was being wrought upon them.

It is necessary to end crime or reduce it to ordinary international standards at least in countries with very high crime statistics such that people seek political asylum. A policy that actually works to reduce crime from the U.N., Interpol the EC and the United States etc is a better way to go; a rational and realistic way to go, to benefit those nations seeking political asylum.

https://thehill.com/latino/430102-aclu-sues-trump-administration-over-plan-to-keep-asylum-seekers-in-mexico

President Trump May Win the Next Noble Pizza Prize

President Trump may win the next Noble Pizza Prize. Reportedly he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too- that in the view of some is less prestigious.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/15/trump-claims-he-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-japans-leader/2885851002/

President Carter won a Nobel for hosting the Begin-Sadat talks at Camp David after Sadat visited the Knesset to ask Jews to allow tourists to see the pyramids in Egypt again instead of Israel. President Obama won the prize for speech-making and policies that got wars started from Libya to Syria. President Trump did nothing more than to get substantive normalization talks going with North Korean Dictator Kim Un where none had since the armistice was signed at the end of the 1950s Korean War. Therefore President Trump may be awarded the Noble Pizza Prize; awards aren't given for simply trying.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/trump-kim-summit-north-koreans-pessimistic-gimmick-talks-190215184012702.html

President Obama did restart the cold war with Russia as best as was possible while President Trump wanted to have normal relations with the Eastern savages that can drink vodka from paper cups while Cossack dancing.

President Trump has actually held talks with the Taliban to see if he can get them to stop molesting children or whatever it is they are reported to have done in media articles of past years, in addition to sending suicide bombers to demolish clusters of civilians. There is great potential when one has such partners in peace talks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi

President Trump may get a border barrier constructed that is sufficient to slow human trafficking and illegal dope transport into the nation. Border security was the premise of NAFTA to start. Without border control the economics of NAFTA can't work too well and corruption benefits more. A border barrier that works and NAFTA together may benefit Mexico and the United States even though NAFTA was renamed the USMCA.

15 February 2019

A Brief Evaluation of President Carter

President Carter allowed economic problems that seemed as bad as the last recession in 2007–2008 of George W. Bush with help from President Clinton and his home mortgage policy. Presidents Bush and Carter were nice guys although Carter it was written, believed he was the smartest guy in the room. Unemployment was very high. Some counties in Oregon had better than 50% unemployed. A billboard on the Seattle freeway said “Would the Last Person Leaving Please Turn Out the Lights”. Credit card interest rates hit 20%. There was a badly designed attempt to rescue the hostages. The post-Vietnam military didn’t have the elite special forces structure like it does now.

President Carter was rather poor at Middle East policy. He won a Nobel yet Moshe Dyan thought President Carter’s help to Israel was too slow. Began and Sadat deserved the Nobels yet Carter’s seemed as improbable as President Obama’s. Sadat made that brave trip on his own to speak at the Knesset and paid for it with his life when the Muslim Brotherhood gunned him down.

President Carter apparently mistimed his work on rebuilding the economy and it got better after the election so he lost to President Reagan.

As a Christian, President Carter was credible and a good example. He would be a good neighbor yet probably a poor foreign policy planner. As a nuclear submarine engineer he might have been more used to targeting solutions in a different way than someone with a degree in world history and politics might. Nuclear missiles are not subtle.

The Arab oil embargo was another problem for President Carter to address. He started the synthetic fuel program, or tried to, at Parachute Colorado. It never really got going too well. That seems quaint these days. Even the Nazi syn fuels program would be scotched as a polluter by retro-historians. There is enough oil already. It’s too bad he couldn’t have had 30% efficient solar panels for peanuts and electric cars; he probably would have used them.

US Should Sell California to Mexico for $22 Trillion

California's government already thinks it's part of Mexico, so why not sell it to Mexico for a good price? The cost of building a wall around California would only be 70 billion more or less and the hate from the state of California would go toward the Mexican government instead of the U.S.

Mexico could be given easy payments to buy the state; the U.S. shouldn't make it tough.

https://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/state/california/article219310805.html

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2019-02-15/california-may-sue-trump-over-emergency-wall-declaration

https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-california-to-sue-trump-administration-1505858312-htmlstory.html

Image credit- modified C.I.A. map of Mexico showing the great location of the new property


14 February 2019

Inquisitor Mueller Was HEU Mule to Moscow in 2009

In 2009 Sect of State Clinton passed on a request from a Russian ambassador to provide highly enriched uranium (weapons grade) in a small amount for a sting operation. Then F.B.I. Director Robert Mueller was the mule taking the stuff to Russia. It is a very strange history that was documented to a certain extent in a leaked official U.S. government cable via wikileaks.

It is a somewhat suspicious operation in that RUssia probably had pounds or a ton of HEU laying about and available for the FSB, GRU or just President Putin's staff and that they asked Sect. CLinton for a few grams. Unfortunately, it could be the tip of an iceberg regarding collusion between President Obama, Sect. Clinton, their transport mule and President Vladimir Putin. Maybe the Mueller Inquisition should investigate the concern.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE38943_a.html

"Classified By: EUR/FO: ACTING DAS ANITA FRIEDT E.O. 12958: REASONS 1.4 (B), (D), and (F). 1. (S) This is an action request for Embassy Moscow regarding the delivery by FBI Director Mueller of a requested sample of seized highly-enriched uranium (HEU) to appropriate Russian authorities. Please see para 3. Embassy Tbilisi see para 5. 2. (S) Background: Over two years ago Russia requested a ten-gram sample of HEU seized in early 2006 in Georgia during a nuclear smuggling sting operation involving one Russian national and several Georgian accomplices. The seized HEU has been under U.S. custody and is being held at a secure DOE facility. In response to a 2007 Russian request, the Georgian Government authorized the United States to share a sample of the material with the Russians for forensic analysis. FBI Mueller's trip to Moscow on April 27 provides an opportunity to deliver the requested ten grams from the seized HEU in order to obtain cooperation from the GOR on this nuclear smuggling case and to eventually establish a more productive mechanism of U.S.-Russian cooperation on nuclear forensics. (S//NF) While there was a reasonable exchange of information with Russian security services at the time of the seizure, we have had poor cooperation investigating the diversion of HEU, which the United States believes was stolen from a Russian facility. Russia did not respond to papers that former Acting U/S Rood provided his counterpart in December 2008 reiterating the USG position that Russia should pick up this sample in the United States. Further, when asked for an update on their response to our proposal, DFM Ryabkov told us recently in Washington that there was an interagency dispute over who would come and pick up the material. Given Russia's reluctance to act so far, FBI Mueller's delivery of this sample will underscore to Russia our commitment to follow through on this case. While some details may be too sensitive to discuss, delivery of the sample could enable us to discuss whether Russian authorities investigated the diversion and prosecuted anyone. Moreover, we hope it will spark discussions on mechanisms to exchange information and material on future incidents. 3. (S) Background continued: On April 16, the FSB verbally confirmed to Legatt that there will be no problem with the Russian Ministry of Aviation concerning Mueller's flight (although we probably won't see paperwork until shortly before the trip). The FBI is requiring that the sample be turned over to a Russian law enforcement authority (i.e., FSB) as opposed to an intelligence service (i.e., SVR) or technical authority (i.e., Rosatom). A representative from the responsible Russian Law Enforcement authority, who will accept custody of the sample, must be identified and verified ahead of time. That individual will be required to have signatory authority to accept the sample. Appropriate arrangements need to be made to ensure the transfer of material is conducted at the airport, plane-side, upon arrival of the Director's aircraft. Post should also remind the GOR that this is the material about which the GOR gave the USG nonproliferation assurances in 2008 (ref) in a diplomatic note from February 2008. 3. (S) Embassy Moscow is requested to alert as soon as possible and at the highest appropriate level the Russian Federation that FBI Director Mueller plans to deliver the HEU material once he arrives to Moscow on April 27. Post is requested to convey information with regard to chain of custody, and to request details on Russian Federation's plan for picking up the material. 4. (SBU) Post is requested to draw from background above and the following talking points: --We wish to inform you that FBI Director Mueller plans to arrive in Moscow at approximately 10 pm local time on April 27 with a ten-gram sample of seized HEU, which you requested for nuclear forensics analysis. --We require confirmation that a representative from a responsible Russian law enforcement authority will be available to accept custody of the sample and have signatory authority to accept the sample. --We require that the transfer of this material be conducted at the airport, on the tarmac near by the plane, upon arrival of the Director's aircraft. --We place a high priority on completion of this sample transfer to facilitate your forensic analysis of the material. --Further, with the delivery of this sample, we hope to collaborate more closely on promoting a more effective relationship between our law enforcement organizations to counter illicit trafficking of nuclear materials. --Efforts to work closely on nuclear smuggling and forensics will help advance the goals outlined in our presidents' recent joint statement in London of securing vulnerable nuclear materials and improving nuclear security. --Moreover, it is our hope to eventually establish a more systematic mechanism to facilitate U.S.-Russian cooperation on investigations into nuclear smuggling cases. We continue to believe that Russia should be concerned by the prospect that HEU was diverted from one of its facilities, and should actively investigate the incident. 5. For Embassy Tbilisi: No action is required at this point. At the appropriate time, State will send instructions on alerting the Georgian Government that the transfer of the seized HEU has taken place and is in Russian custody. 6. (U) Department thanks Post for its assistance. Washington point of contacts are Mike Curry, ISN/WMDT, 202-736-7692 (CurryMR@state.sgov.gov) and Nate Young, EUR/PRA, 202-647-7278 (YoungNH@state.sgov.gov). Please slug all responses for EUR, ISN/WMDT, and T. CLINTON "

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