Are Iranian Nuke Negotiations Continuing Tomorrow?

VIENNA — Hopes for a final agreement in the Iran nuclear talks were put on ice Monday, as Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said no deal was imminent and the White House said the talks are expected to continue into Tuesday.  Secretary of State John F. Kerry met late Monday night with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Federica Mogherini, the foreign policy chief of the European Union, and there were no indications that a long night of negotiations would end soon. That raised the possibility that talks would continue well past a soft deadline of midnight, and that an agreement might be reached in the middle of the night.  Although diplomats had been optimistic Monday morning that a final agreement would be reached before the midnight expiration of an interim deal, those hopes were dashed shortly before nightfall.   There seems to be a major list of unresolved issues.  But this hasn’t stopped Shawn Hannity from claiming that “A deal with Iran has already been made”.

Perhaps law enforcement officers can practice their own discretion to a degree.  For instance an alarmed woman caller was worried about school busses going past crowds of anti abortion protestors holding up giant signs of aborted fetuses and even sticking pamphlets in through the bus windows for the children to read.  Were I in charge of this intersection I would not interfere with what these protestors are trying to do.  My reasoning is that “Life trumps disruption” and that in defense of human life – certain liberties should be allowed.

Shawn Hannity has announced that he’s going to have Scott Walker on his program and give him the royal treatment that he gives most of the Republican candidates, including a whole hour on his TV show.  They released a video of a campaign commercial.  I’d give it a C + even if it is filled with a lot of dubious accomplishments.   It’s like a Star Wars movie preview.  You scower the thing loomking for “clues”.   These Republicans speak of “the tax payers” as the focus of their attention rather than people associated with various interests like those who wish to be shielded from legal predators, union members, environmentalists, or government workers.  And so it’s “the taxpayer” which supposedly this vast silent majority of main stream American that seems not to care one bit about oppressive governmental leaders like Walker, much as the average German didn’t understand any of Adolph Hitler’s “targeted groups”, people to be “gone after” – to mean them personally.  Unfortunately they didn’t continue to feel that way.

That Pluto fly-by was today and Pluto is fifty miles bigger in diameter than we thought.  (The error is small)  But it’s icier and less rocky than we thought.  It passed by at 31,000 mph, which is somewhat faster than I thought inter-planetary ships traveled.  I thought once they passed the escape velocity of 26,000 they continually slowed down after that.  The only time they might get temporarily sped up is of they go past Jupiter and the slingshot effect.

Hillary Clinton is at least looking more robust than she did a couple of years ago when she left Secretary of State.  Hillary spoke on Wall Street and her desire to crack down on the rich Wall Street bankers.  But she seemed reluctant to field specific policy questions.  One guy was escorted out of the room after asking her “What are you going to do about Glass Stiegel?”

Greece has apparently agreed to stay with the Euro and with the EU.  I didn’t know it was that close.  The thing is that the nations of the EU say “It would make the Euro look bad if one of our nations exited the union”.  The question is why that is - - unless somehow Greece is going what several other nations secretly want to do and now they’ve got the courage.  They say the provisions are the harshest since those imposed on Germany or something after WW I.  But according to Norman Goldman Wall Street got rich off the thing- - and did accounting tricks without making the Greek government any stronger.  And you must remember that the Greek people expressed their opinion just eight days ago that THIS is the thing they DON’T want.

FOX news has told Donald Trump that they are going to keep him out of the first Debate coming up in three weeks, unless Trump officially files his paper work to make things right with the Federal Elections commission.  Norman Goldman said that “I always had the feeling that Trump was only in it for the publicity and isn’t really running but will pull out and offer some excuse”.  But now he’s in too deep and has nothing to lose because he’s lost a lot of business dealings in the past few weeks.  My only remark would be that there are such things as legally binding contracts that have to be fulfilled “whether they feel like it or not”.  Rush Limbaugh has defended Trump to the extent that he says the Republicans will split the party is they don’t knock it off against The Donald.   However Lindsey Graham has referred to Donald Trump as “a giant wrecking ball”.   Shawn Hannity is not on friendly terms with Lindsey Graham - - too liberal.