If only "Xiongan" can have one advantage over modern cities of today, then President Xi's city will remain a tribute to him.

 President Xi is building a capital city in remembrance of his dynasty's administration.  It is intended to but retain a feature of modern life corrected.  You know what it is:  the urban sprawl that forces a commuter working for government to spend 50 minutes one way in congested traffic downtown DC.

"I'm bringing to the mid-city leafy parks instead of 'cough-producing traffic jams.'" Result: short commuter times to government work.  The average commuter to work will be reminded of the contribution President Xi made to a gov worker's daily life: a shorter commute time.

On the other hand, President Trump is thinking of upgrading Washington, DC.  He would like to be remembered, I think, as one who made the memories of the world's riches individuals living in the nation's Capital.  They will, if he has his way, be remembered for holding up traffic to enable each richer person's car to go in  front of every other's approaching a traffic signal!  The rich will be given his due honor, that is to say, in a traffic jam's line-up!

My opinion.

  

 

The Israelites know better than to occupy another's land!

They were in Egypt under the Pharaoh, but they knew they were the Children of God, of the mighty Yahweh, and were destined for great things in their own land.

And, Yahweh would not forget them.  So he rose up Moses and Aaron to become their leaders in His promised Land.  And His leaders held God to His Word. 

The Israelites crossed the Red Sea to bring them out into their own land.  And they worshipped; and Praised the Lord.

But now, in our time, Yahweh has joined with Islam's followers of Allah for those who have suffered so much at the hands of Yahweh's believers in their own Israel (that the Palestinians have been found cleansed by the power of prayer, the belief in the Oneness of God).  It is through Prayer, that God the Holy Spirit, attests to the sanctity of the Palestinian souls=as pure as the driven snow.

So come, ye Israelites, come ye Palestinians and join in unity of the One True God: "the God of Moses, of Mary, of Muhammed--the One, True, God of the Universe!"

My opinion.

Starmer trying to hold onto AstraZeneca!

To maintain its position as a leader in the health-care field, Britain should hold onto major companies in the preserving life category.

But its share of companies in R & D is in decline, boasting of major figures in the field.  The way in which new drugs are approved might be a starting point for reform.  Let discussions between the government and the industry should alleviate major problems and let Britain service its citizens with top quality health care!

My opinion. 

My new health aide is super!

We'll see how she fares with Washington doctors!

I'm in there tryin'!

Root, root for me!'

(said silently...) "Move your chair towards me...You have my word!"

"I'll sustain you, Ukrainians...freedom fighters for us."

The chair of the speaker was already stilted in Zelensky's direction, as the whisperer had indicated. 

"Then be of stout heart."  Chancellor Merz continued in hushed silence,  "The purpose of us EU members here with you this day has been accomplished."

And a chorus of  voices could be barely heard as chairs of all the other EU members present tilted ever so slightly towards President Zelensky's.  (In hushed unison, their saying,) "AMEN."  

My imagination.
 

Ukrainians await word of Congressional passage on $ 54B aid package as the Russian aggression continues.

 Is Russia really seeking peace or pursuing the conquest of Ukraine, which Russia does not even acknowledge is a legitimate nation?

Russia will soon be asked to attend another session of the peace-seekers with security guarantees that the West is planning.  

Sanctions that President Trump has in mind against Russian buyers of its oil and the aid package before Congress being prepared for passage and anything the EU comes up with to financially aid the Ukrainians are just the only steps to save Ukrainian sovereignty at this time.

My opinion.

Sharing our foods, living among each other, we grow into a universal Oneness.

We are living longer; and we are expanding our living quarters, ever so slowing--upward into the sky, beyond the boundaries of the Earth.

It takes brave courage to extend ourselves into the Universe. Nevertheless we are home withal its properties yet to be discovered and made ours!

We are growing up--literally up, up. fifty floors, 100 floors, reaching out to the planets and their moons.

Don't be afraid of heights! 

My opinion. 

      

Jake Sullivan of the US sees through the image that Russia's President is projecting---the Nineteenth Century dream of Russia's Czar--on CNN's Fareed Zakaria's GPS today; does President Trump see it's only a dream?

 President Trump may be caught up with the grandeur his own administration has provided to the festivities of entertaining Russia's President Putin in  Alaska.[

Doesn't he see that Russia's economy is dependent on the oil sales to India and China; and Russia is going to languish as the world advances toward dependency on electricity for energy?

To my mind, President Trump is enamored with his own image of Putin in his veritable adoration of royalty in an Eighteenth Century lure!  Wake up, President Trump, to the reality that he's dependent on you to make his dream, captured in the pomp and ceremony of the meeting, just as real.  

My opinion.       

Just as in Moscow, there's a German Sector that establishes trade with Germany, so there should be a Ukrainian Sector to establish good relations in trading with Ukraine!

Very successful to retain good relations among neighbors.

--where cultural festivals are planned, together.

Show off  your wares and cultural achievements--people to people; and your heritages!

Such neighborhoods could function throughout your regional's cities.

My opinion. Don't destroy another's culture; add to theirs, benefits for them! 

I'm back in the fray again!

Can't keep a good man down!

But without a health aide!  Looking for one.

I miss my former health aide.  Anything can be done to bring her back?

Good to be back where I've been living!

Thanks for all your help.

 

I find a bit confusing to even refer to retaliatory tariffs in discussing some business dealing!

 I sense the BBC reporters find it confusing to bring in the concept of retaliatory tariffs into specifying the amassing of funds from legal reciprocal tariffs.  

My opinion.

The Saudis are getting half of their electricity needs met through renewables.

 Not veering away from the oil and gas products, many companies in the Near East are becoming conglomerates.  Natural gas seems a likely product for expansion.

Yet, some have gone off into decarbonization products--carbon capture and sequestration--away from gasoline..

US presence in Somalia amid embattled central government and recalcitrant federal states.

But the US has heard the pleas of the African Union to remain and is listening how they might help unite a fragmented country.  It seems a recurrent problem in Somalia!

One idea, posed to the US there, is to build a base in Somaliland, not unlike that China has done in the region--Djibouti--I would imagine.

My opinion.

Lebanon's President tries to handle the Hizbullah tactfully; Syria under al-Sharaa enters the community of nations in the area.

The Economist reports of daily air strikes or its occupation near the Israeli border, despite the efforts of the US in the person of Tom Barrack, ambassador to Turkey.  Both countries are trying to act as unified states, despite the several fractional divisions of differing clans.

How much enthusiasm for the Israeli interest in these neighboring two countries can only be surmised as the presidents persevere in holding on to their people.

My opinion.

 

It was timely: The introduction to deployment of tariffs with the rush to do AI tech research!

With discussion how much a typical middle class family would have to pay out to get the tariff method into gear and use, the promises of AI enthusiasts in both business and science alike hold open the prospect of a veritable new world of economic prosperity.  Hear the words from the Economist: "What if AI made the world's economic growth explode?" July 26, 2025, p. 18.

No wonder with that degree of enthusiasm to do AI, businesses are rapidly constructing AI data centers to readily handle AI projects despite their massive costs! 

Nevertheless, the general public seems willing to go along with the technical experts in making a societal commitment to AI's rapid development with that shared vision in mind!

My opinion.   

Innovation is the AI game!

Companies and governments should rely on innovation from within or in cooperation with other countries and foreign companies in solving problems and creating spectacular change. 

President Trump is right in encouraging "home grown" businesses to innovate and promote internal projects.  But he does not take seriously the importance of sharing ideas to achieve even greater significant, radical change--the kind of change those in AI tech research are finding occurring already, I understand.

In other words, government should encourage cooperation in developing new concepts and paths to greater economic and theoretical benefits.  Even as, in space development, those of many nations participate.  That sense of professional  comradery should be shared on earthly projects, too!

My opinion.

P.S.  The physicist Albert Einstein was an immigrant from Germany to United States, as I recall! 

 

Ukrainians are bringing back elements that make corruption in government more like it was before the West's support for their country's independence.

The two governmental agencies that monitor the possibility of corruption in government are the NABU and the SAPO.  Both are under the direct control of the President, Mr. Zelensky.  It could be used to question any further support for this youthful citizenry unused to "clean" government, i.e., without bestowing special privileges that abuse democratic principles. 

I would hope that investigations and prosecution would proceed as duly scheduled by the appropriate legal court without favoritism shown an accused beyond that to any citizen. 

This morning, CNN is reporting the tech jobs market is undergoing a significant change because of AI requirements to work on its features.

 A reporter for CNN job numbers is backing up what the firing of the Labor Commissioner that was reporting recent job figures seems correct.

AI, in short, is making tech requirements more stringent and tied to what the candidate in the tech field  knows of  AI!

They're talking about this permanent Tech Revolution--using robots and AI features--this morning on CNN.

My opinion.

    

We know what is the $64.000 question in the business world from now on: Who will win the trade war?

It seems to me, that President Trump has already determined that one of two parties who will ultimately be the winner is, as countries go, is the United States, the largest importer of goods--and the other, is China-- the largest exporter of goods (from Google's AI analysis).

Currently, the United States along with the other nations, are involved in making deals with trading partners to determine the "balance" between exports and imports with another trading nation in the context of all nations.   August 7, 2025 is the start of deals-in-force among those nations that have agreed upon a figure that applies to their situation with said trading partner.

We know one stipend of the winner to this war (as the business world stands today):  It will be either the United States or China.  And, even in this regard, the two countries, the United States and China, will come to be trading partners, with duty percentages levied upon a particular item being exported by the one and imported by the other, as expressly stated in a mutually drawn-up agreement.

My understanding.