Who should be retaliated?

While Iran made concessions in the talk with the US to give up refining uranium and to accept surveillance by IAEA and the US personnel, the US has done the preemptive attack to Iran.

165 school girls were killed in Iran by the bombing of the US and Israrel.

Trump told 6 American soldiers were killed by the attack of Iran. He also declared to retaliate for them against Iran. 

Who should be retaliated? 

There will be endless conflicts in the Middle East.

 

Vandalism in science

I have never read such an editorial in any world famous medical journal. 

RFK Jr has destroyed the medical system as well as medical research relm in the US, that is, since the US has been the leading country in the world, in the world. As this editorial says rightly, it will take generations to restore the delay and destruction in medical science. A lot of people will be victimized by his vandalism in science.

 

 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00414-9/fulltext

Antipathy against science and conspiracy are the two sides of the same coin. Apart from science vs anti science, it could arouse ultra right politics prone to authoritarianism  and dictatorship against democracy. 

The preemptive attack to Iran by the US and Israel

This preemptive attack to Iran by the US and Israel is literally against the international law. They won't be able to blame if they are called terrorists. The news said Iran had made concessions to the US in the negotiation mediated by Oman. 

Here.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/28/world/iran-strikes-trump?fbclid=IwY2xjawQPjJlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFOZ3VsMmVPMWpQS1JPSEJmc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHs4TPraGl86zfaX3tdcA2lWIBG6YrxS0lpZLHQpuY9RlNbpI05TNeiVakt28_aem_S-sL2g4m2xJRO91_s-XmlA

Trying to change the administration into a reign favorable to themselves should never be admitted. If we admit it, the world would easily become "the war all against all" of Hobbs. The war could escalate easily and might leave unanticipated results. If this attack was planned to distract the domestic political issues in each country, it is a real war crime.

Both countries are equipped with nuclear weapon. If this brutality is admitted, we should question of the superiority of nuclear weaponized nations whose priviledge is protected by NPT. They won't criticize the other countries for developing nuclear weapon. It is a nightmare for us to have these countries with nuclear weapon behave in this way.

On the Trump tariffs and the big debt of the US

In response to the The Supreme Court of The USA ruling the reciprocal tariffs by the Trump administration unconstitutional, Trump has withdrawn it. He has declared a new tafiffs of 10% imposed to all countries around the world instead. 

He seems to increase revenue from the tariffs by any means. It is incorrect that such tariffs work in that way but they are only a domestic tax imposed on the US people. Actually, 90% of the the reciprocal tariffs have been proved to be borne by the people themselves but not by the exporting companies. It is a new taxation on the people. 

So far as I understand, it is the enormous amount of government's liabilities in tha US, that is, about 36 trillion USD that they strive to avoid default. They say the government needs to have revenue of 11 trillion USD every year. The deficit is increasing by 2 trillion USD every year as well. Trump would make more military expansion by 150% in the next budget. 

The secretary of the treasury, Bessent, and others in the administration seem to plot increment of the revenue by the following maneuvers;

1) Require the allies investment to the US. 550 billion USD to Eu. 510 billion USD to Japan. 200 billion USD to S. Korea. In the agreement with Japan, the US would take 90% of benefit while Japan only 10% if it makes any benefit. The investment is controlled by Trump.

2) Require Japan import more arms from the US. It amounts up to 910 billion USD in 3 years. Most of the arms are out dated ones.

3) Issue a new virtual currency named Stable Coin. Let certain financial institutions publish it with collateral of US national bond. This is a monetization of bond by the US government.

These measures are told to cover at least 2 trillion USD, that is, the annual deficit of the US government. They would cause more inflation which is beneficial to the US government in order to superficially compress the amount of the debt of the government.

You may ask me why I am interested in such a matter in the US insisting that it is only a domestic financial issue in the US. It still involves us greatly because it aggravates the inflation in our country as well as all over the world. American people may lost the status of key currency and more liable to be affected by inflation as well than ever. Bessent told to refund long term national bond to super long zero coupon. Our ministry of finance, the biggest owner of the US bonds, may not be able to sell them any longer, I am afraid.  If our government obeys the US government to increase the expenditure for arms up to 5% of GDP, it will be around 25% of the annual budget. I am afraid our country coming into the unprecedented aging society won't go sustainable with it.

I am afraid the US may lose credit by the other countries while the US people may suffer a lot from these policies as well.   

Looking for old friends in the internet

As written in a previous post, in a couple of note books, I have kept almost all call signs of the USA hams whom I had worked. I have sorted out all the stations after their suffices. I am in a few ham groups in facebook. Whenever I find any call signs likelily familiar to me, I try to look them up in those note books. Sadly, they rarely hit in them. 

https://nuttycellist-unknown.blogspot.com/2024/08/two-indices-notebooks.html

Considering of my age 76 years, those in the note books must be the same age or older. I am pretty confident of haing worked most active stations in the US from '80s through '00s. I have never counted how many but it must be more than hundred thousands. CW guys always keep active throughout their lives in my exerience. I am afraid those old timers have already gone inactive or even SK by now. 

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 Actually, the FOC gang in the west coast whom I have most often chatted for the last decades are becoming fewer year by year. It must be how the life goes on. But I still miss them. I am still going on looking for old friends of mine in the internet. There are rare cases that my friends' family members give me a note or a comment like Susan KD4VXO whose father was N4DAG David. I always enjoy communicating with such a person as Susan. Say hi to me whoever you may be in case you or your family remember of me.

I sometimes have horriying moments when I realize having forgotten on good old friends. It is a way to prevent it that I have written about them in the blog. So far, I am struggling that senile moments. 

   

Prof. Isoyama's 8th anniversary

 It was the 8th anniversary of Prof Isoyama's passing yesterday. Even though I was aware of that, I didn't want to post too many subjects at the same time yesterday. This post on his anniversary is not the least but one of the most precious ones for me. He could have been 79 years old if he was still alive. His passing was not expected at all. It was due to an accident. But how he has lived surely looks like a perfect completion of life one could achieve. He has returned to the heaven immediately after finishing his dissertation on St. John's Passion.   

Having this anniversary every year, I could not help feeling time is flying away so fast that time in my life is not left so much. Not comparable to his way of living, I would not only regret on death bed. Of course, I have a lot of things to be regretted. Still I want to believe my life would be ended by the unseen hand of God, however incomplete it might be .

I have already written a lot about him and things I owe to him. I would spend sometime listening to St. Matthew's passion before going to bed. Muenchener Bach Choir and Orchestra conducted by Karl Richter. 

Spring is arriving here whatever we may think of things around ourselves

I have been concerned about what went on in the politics in our country, that is, the drift to the far right, for the past several weeks. It is a reason why I haven't renewed this blog. I still have some observation and view on it. But not so cranky at it any longer like when I was younger. People may realize what they have chosen for the administration in our country in the near future. Or before that, they may encounter drastic peril. I still believe the problem is that people are accepting and even supporting the reign by ultra right politicians, who often make very bad and thinly veiled or even obvious lies. It often causes unscientific as well as unreal conspiracy in the society. As quoted Arendt's words previously, it is akin to or leading them to fascism.

Enough with politics. I am still cooking dinner at home. This is pork seasoned with salted rice malt. I knew salted rice malt was useful in cooking. I have practised it as the seasoning of chicken breast thinly sliced. You may preserve it for a week or two. This pork dish was also good. Salted rice malt contains protease or amylase. Once foods are is marinated with it, protein and/or starch is digesed and the food becomes even more delicious. 

How many times I have uploaded the photo of blooming Ume? One of the earliest signs of spring here. From the end of last month to a few days ago, it had been pretty cold. But it seems the biological clock within these trees tells them to come out. 

I could not help askng myself how many times I could appreciate it. Not asking such unnecessary question, I may have to enjoy the moment of arrival of joyful spring. It is the time for me to start planting such as potatoes very soon.