China in a position to counter Trump's madness by purchasing Iranian oil with its RMB currency

Shameful to call Trump President of the United States as his madness provokes a war with Iran.  By using Dollar transaction sanctions as a weapon to punish it’s economy he has put China in a position to counter as well as make Chairman Xi Jinping the peacemaker and leader with a steady hand the world can look up to.  By purchasing Iranian oil with its RMB currency China could truly incentivize Iran to stay within its JCPOA limits. It could use its fleet of tankers, if they don’t have one then they could buy one, also free from Dollar sanctions control to transport Iran oil owned by the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) for sale to Total, the French petroleum company.  These RMB oil transactions would greatly relieve and improve Iran’s economy and for China break the U.S. dollar’s monopoly of petroleum transactions and promote the RMB as a reserve currency of influence. Also the oil trade could further expand China’s Belt and Road initiative into Iran and more importantly Europe beyond the investments in Greek and Italian ports they already have.  For example France contrarily went against George W. Bush and his invasion of Iraq but with Mr. Trump they timidly took back investments in Iran by Total Petroleum, Peugeot Automobile Company and Airbus because of Dollar controls. China’s oil money could buy back the Total and Pegeuot investments. With regard to Airbus, China could start a joint venture to unlink Amercian hardware and avionics from its fleet as a matter of national sovereignty. One suffered by a Norwegian 737 Max that made an emergency landing in Iran and was stuck there for months because of an inability to get sanctioned spare parts.  If that had been a Chinese owned and operated Boeing aircraft then the humiliation of an arbitrary denial to freely operate its property would have been hard for a proud and up and coming superpower to endure. Can’t believe it went unnoticed.

Forced to steal what they can’t buy makes possible even cheaper Huawei pricing.

Trump’s decision to ban China’s Huawei from transacting with any U.S. company signals the end of trade negotiations and the commencement of war. The Bard's “all is fair in love and war” means they are free to steal the intellectual property they can’t buy. How difficult can it be to reverse engineer product over which they already have a close familiarity of both design and production. Also China Tech leads in the management of data rich environments promised by 5g networks so that it might be the perfect time for China to wean itself away from Silicon Valley and self develop their own. There is a credibility gap in the security concerns over Huawei voiced by Mike Pompeo. One suspects the real security concern is that the NSA and CIA won’t have the back doors to telecommunications that Bell Labs use to give them. Banning Huawei and thereby cutting American ties will make their future offerings all the more opaque to our intelligence services as China self develops in unique eastern directions never considered by western minds and its sheer idiocy to believe Huawei’s inroads into World’s telecommunication network with inexpensive gear will be stopped by a ban that forces them to steal and thereby make possible there offering even cheaper pricing.

Sending carrier strike group to Iran generates a laugh with a retort of yeah and now what that diminishes our might to that of a clown

      Teddy Roosevelt famously described his foreign policy was to walk softly and carry a big stick. It appears Trump practices the reverse with both his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton speaking boldly with the belief that the threat of military action carries the fear that it used to before North Vietnam showed revolutionaries to the contrary, that their will could outlast our political will to continue. Instead of fear sending the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to Iran generates a laugh with a retort of yeah and now what that diminishes our might to that of a clown.
      Where are the French? They resisted George W. Bush’s foray into Iraq why not Donald J. Trump’s renunciation of the Iran Nuclear Deal? It makes no sense they obey our U.S. Dollar sanctions against them when it was us that broke the deal not them. It makes no sense that they tolerate Trump’s trade war as if they were enemy and does not lead Europe in a negotiation with China over trade and Iran’s sanctions with a unified approach which uses the Euro to replace the Dollar and Airbus to replace Boeing.

Submarines built to generate electric power is an opportunity for Electric Boat and a realistic carbon free power alternative

Its early but our new Governor of Connecticut has already picked up the Lying Ned honorific.

A tale of two States, both with high taxes and meddlesome legislatures yet one fixes and builds its transportation infrastructure quickly, the other doesn't.  When the Northridge earthquake destroyed portions of Los Angeles freeways it took a year to repair. When the bridges tying Oakland to San Francisco where damaged in an earthquake one was completely replaced and the others repaired in about a year. On the other hand putting in extra lanes on I 95 between Stamford and Norwalk Connecticut took eleven (2007 through 2017, yes eleven count them) years. Time is money! When Connecticut's Department of Transportation is criticized for being nine times more costly than others, its because of this example. 
Its early but our new Governor of Connecticut has already picked the Lying Ned honorific. He waffled on tolls while campaigning which he now makes clear were always his intention.  Better for him to have had courage declare for highway tolls and openly talk about the need to restructure the clearly dysfunctional DOT that spends the money to be collected. Ned's legacy will be after spending his personal fortune to become Governor as the clown facing the tsunami crashing over Connecticut. 

Republican's tired mantra untethered from Milton Friedman's original free market precepts

GOP, Democrats are miles apart on Drug Pricing 

Ranking member Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) dismissed the proposal as “the seizure of medicines by an unhappy government.” Such an approach, he said, was “best left to socialist regimes and not the United States of America.” 

“On what planet is this a free market?” asked Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) in regards to drug companies that are guaranteed years without competition when they patent a new drug or device.

This exchange shows Republican's current and very tired mantra untethered from Milton Friedman's original free market precepts that transformed Washington and converted Democrats, to the point where Democrat Blumenauer has a better understanding of markets than Republican Nunes.