I like this new PM. Not only does he elucidate Churchillian rhetoric, he sounds downright Churchillian himself. If he’s half as good in a crisis as Churchill was, it’s time to buy the FTSE.
Sic transit solis
A photo of the International Space Station as it transits the Sun. Note the complete absence of sunspots. Scientists think the next solar cycle starting in 2020 will be the weakest in 200 years.
See https://cosmosmagazine.com/climate/new-sunspot-cycle-promises-to-be-mild-but-not-harmless
Photo-dogging the President
Read this terrific interview with Doug Mills, the New York Times photographer who covers President Trump—and covered Presidents Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama as well.
Great photos too.
The coming disruption of energy and transportation?
Trump emergency proclamation
The proclamation is linked here.
Update 1: Headline, The New York Times, March 5, 2019:
Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Unauthorized Migrants Cross in a Month
Update 2: Reasons President Obama gave in February 2016 for continuing the national emergency on Cuba that was declared by President Clinton in 1996:
Whereas the Cuban economy is in a relatively weak state, contributing to an outflow of its nationals towards the United States and neighboring countries;
Whereas the overarching objective of U.S. policy is stability in the region, and the outflow of Cuban nationals may have a destabilizing effect on the United States and its neighboring countries;
Whereas it is United States policy that a mass migration from Cuba would endanger the security of the United States by posing a disturbance or threatened disturbance of the international relations of the United States…
The number of Cuban immigrants to the US in 2016 was 43,000. That’s the full year, not a single month. Surprisingly, most of them came via Costa Rica to Mexico, crossing the border at Laredo, Texas!
