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To: Drygulch Dan who wrote (90628)	3/15/2017 12:24:00 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 220722

Yep, one month and counting to the deadline... I already filed and paid a bundle... I hope it goes for good use, but it probably won't... GZ

To: Drygulch Dan who wrote (90628)	3/15/2017 2:51:06 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220722

The market is heading for new highs, happy days are here again... GZ

To: Drygulch Dan who wrote (90628)	3/16/2017 8:33:46 AM
From: cycleupcycledown	Respond to of 220722

an astro guy sald there would be tensons bout now......... Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, left, welcomes Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on March 16, 2017 in Tokyo. (Toru Yamanaka / Pool/EPA) By Anna Fifield March 16 at 5:49 AM TOKYO — It’s time to take a “different approach” to dealing with North Korea, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in Tokyo on Thursday, because 20 years of diplomacy had “failed” to convince the regime in Pyongyang to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons. Tillerson’s comments will fuel fears in the region that military options might be on the table to deter North Korea — an approach that could prove devastating for Seoul, where more than 20 million people live within North Korean artillery range. The secretary of state, making his first major trip abroad since taking office, also backed President Trump’s proposed cuts to his department’s budget, saying that the current State budget was “simply not sustainable” and that he would “take the challenge on willingly.” Today's WorldView What's most important from where the world meets Washington Sign up Tillerson was already in Tokyo when the Trump administration unveiled its proposed budget, which would cut combined spending for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development by $10.1 billion, or nearly 29 percent. The planned cuts to the State Department reflected expectations that the U.S. would become involved in fewer overseas conflicts, the secretary added. The proposed budget would increase defense spending by $54 billion. Tillerson is the former chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp and has no previous diplomatic experience. He has kept a low profile since assuming his new job and has not attended some meetings with foreign leaders in the Oval Office, leading to speculation that he has little influence within the Trump administration. Tillerson did not go to the U.S. embassy in Tokyo to meet staff Thursday morning, as is often customary, but instead stayed in his hotel, where he read and received briefings from embassy officials, a spokesman said. Like his boss, Tillerson holds the media in low regard and in another break with past practice, Tillerson did not allow the press corps to travel with him to Asia, instead choosing just one journalist — from the conservative Independent Journal Review — to fly on his plane. The Thursday’s press conference in Tokyo also looks to be the new secretary’s only forum for speaking to the media during this trip, and even then, he took questions only from four, pre-selected reporters. [ As Rex Tillerson makes his debut in Asia, ‘the No. 1 issue’ will be North Korea] Opening the first of three days of meetings in three countries — Japan, South Korea and China — Tillerson clearly put North Korea and its “dangerous and unlawful” weapons programs at the top of the agenda. “I think it’s important to recognize that the political and diplomatic efforts of the past 20 years to bring North Korea to the point of denuclearization have failed,” he said at the news conference with his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida, after their talks but before he went to see Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. His reference to 20 years of failure alluded to the 1994 deal between the U.S. and North Korea that would have seen Pyongyang receive aid and two proliferation-resistant nuclear power plants in return for freezing and eventually dismantling its nuclear weapons program. That deal collapsed in 2002 and years of stop-start efforts to reach a new deal have amounted to little, with North Korea actively pursuing nuclear weapons and the missiles with which to deliver them. Over that time, the United States had given North Korea a total of $1.35 billion in assistance “as an encouragement to take a different pathway,” Tillerson said, but it had been met with continued weapons development. "In the face of this ever-escalating threat, it is clear that a different approach is required. Part of the purpose of my visit to the region is to exchange views on a new approach,” he said. He declined to go into specifics about what a “different approach” might entail. The Trump administration is now conducting a review of North Korea policy and some in Washington are advocating “kinetic options” — a euphemism for military action. However, Tillerson also sounded something of a conciliatroy note. “North Korea and its people need not fear the United States or their neighbors in the region who seek only to live in peace with North Korea,” he said in opening remarks.