STEVE PIECZENIK

TALKS
The October of 2014
through

The September of 2015

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STEVE R. PIECZENIK, MD, PhD

STEVE PIECZENIK TALKS:

The October of 2014 through the September of 2015
Copyright 2015 by Steve R. Pieczenik
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Table of Contents
Dedication ............................................................................................ 5
October 2014 ..................................................................................... 11
November 2014 ................................................................................. 31
December 2014 .................................................................................. 57
January 2015 ...................................................................................... 81
February 2015 .................................................................................. 109
March 2015 ...................................................................................... 131
April 2015 ........................................................................................ 153
May 2015 ......................................................................................... 175
June 2015 ......................................................................................... 193
July 2015 ......................................................................................... 213
August 2015 ..................................................................................... 251
September 2015 ............................................................................... 295

Dedication
Another year, another Steve Pieczenik Talks, volume II. Last
year I sold out of the books in about 90 days so I decided to do it again.
I want to thank all my readers around the world for their
continuous attention to the blogs. Sometimes I may write with a
particular country in mind, like Cambodia, Korea, Israel because they
may represent, at certain times, an inordinate number of readers. What
ever the country or the subject, you know my heart and my head are
always in it.
This time around, the book is one half the size of the previous
book because this one covers only one year. The first volume, which is
no longer available, included blogs from September 2012 to September
2014. Now I am writing only about the tumultuous year from September
2014 to September 2015. Much has happened on both the domestic and
international scene.
Once again, I have to thank my most loyal of all supporters: both
Stasia/Stephanie Marie Perkins. She meticulously spends time and
trouble to edit and burnish the ideas I have to put on paper. There is also
the ubiquitous Drew a.k.a Blabor who takes my words and relays them
all over the world with the mastery of a sorcerer. In addition, I thank my
faithful commentors, listed on the next page.
However, this particular book is dedicated to one group of young
people whom I have only started to meet. They are the intrepid silent
warriors of our country and the world. In terms of a defined profession, I
would consider them part of what is often referred to as the
military/intelligence community.
I have met a few of them here in America. They are bright, eager
and honorable. They want to serve our country wherever they may be
placed-Africa, Middle East, Latin America, Asia. One and all bring forth
a certain pride in me that the legacy of our past veterans of foreign wars
has not been forgotten. More importantly, they are well versed in the
intricacies of both domestic and foreign propaganda. With the ever
present internet, these young men and women have decided, on their
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own, to triangulate the truth in their own inimitable manner. I know these
young Americans have their counterparts in all parts of the globe.
At one and the same time, this next generation of warriors for the
truth appear both quizzical and somewhat cynical. However, they are
more than eager to adventure onto the world without any hesitation when
they are called forth to serve their country in whatever capacity.
Many of those I have met, in this country, have been homeschooled. The rest have gone to colleges and universities that are not the
presumed standard bearers of excellence. Unlike my generation, they are
older and more mature when they enter their governments service.
Therefore, they bring with them some temperance and guarded
enthusiasm toward any so-called gung-ho wars or jingoistic outcries.
These unique 21st century individuals go to school in order to
learn a specific trade, be it law or educational leadership. Their past
narratives are preludes to their future actions which are mainly presaged
by personal convictions and not blind obedience to rules and regulations.
Written large in bold letters is the warning to our civilian and military
leaders that whatever they say or demand of this new type of
warrior/patriot is reason based on careful forethought and not political
expediency as we had in the 9/11 Stand Down.
Our countrys elites will have to articulate more carefully the
problems that we, citizens confront. Those same leaders will be expected
to convene some group of experts to enunciate strategies and tactics
based on practical considerations and not wishful thinking.
There can be no more inexcusable, no-win wars like Korea,
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, and Somalia. We, as
dedicated citizens of the Republic, will no longer provide cannon fodder
to the cowardly POTUS who has never served our country and is more
than eager to send our brave children to be mauled through the grated
teeth of Harms Way.
Last but not least, I would like to leave you, dear readers, with
my deep felt conviction that we do live in extraordinary times. We are
part of a blessed sanctuary of self-designated citizens who will, for the
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most part, retain the inherent exceptionalism, which our Founding

Fathers and their progeny had the foresight to create and maintain.
Long live the American Republic.We shall endure and prosper
above all else.
May you all be entertained and enlightened by the few words I
have dared to put together.
Keep on Truckin!

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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Thank You to Federal Judge Thomas C. Wheeler!
Uncovers Bush Jr/Obama Secret Bailout
of Our Corrupt/
Incompetent Financial Institutions: Goldman Sachs is Right Up there on
the Top of the List!
Next in line we have Societe Generale [French Puffery] and
Deutsche Bank[German Dishonesty]; and the ever-crippled Merrill
Lynch. Our governments ability to deny transparency and truth to the
American public still amazes me even now. I am grateful for the lawsuit
brought by Maurice R. Greenberg, former Chief of A.I.G.[major insurer]
which had received $182B in bailout money. His lawsuit contends that
the bailout was so punitive that it amounted to an improper taking of
private property by the USG under the fifth amendment. Whatever
its confusing because its supposed to be but the bottom line: that was
taxpayers money that they were throwing around during the mega
bailouts!
The numbers are ridiculous and AIG is not an innocent babe in this
bail-out, it basically insured the toxic assets, subprime mortgages of
AIGs trading partners-Goldman Sachs; Societe General; Deutsche
Bank; Merrill Lynch. However, what will come out of these court
proceedings are the hidden truths about the malfeasance committed by
our public servants: Ben Bernanke former Chairman of the Federal
Reserve; Timothy Geitner [who did not know Obama before although
Obama worked as a CIA officer for Geitners father, Peter Geithner, Asia
Society], then President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and
then, the non-bankers banker from Goldman Sachs, Henry M. Paulson
Jr, the Treasury Secretary at the time. Finally the American people will
learn what had happened in the bailout and how our money was
squandered.
For the purpose of full disclosure, I was once offered an Investment
Banking job by Hank Greenberg, but I turned it down. I hope I can
explain to all of you why the bailout was so problematic and whimsical.
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If anyone thinks that logic, reason or concern for the American public
was involved, forget it!
So far, what the Judge has found out from the trial is that AIG was
charged loan shark rates of 14% changed to 8%. Contrast this to how
the feds favored and supported illegally Sandy Weills bank, Citigroup
and the other aforementioned banks by charging them somewhere around
2.25 %. However one cuts this allocation of burden, AIG got screwed
(as did their shareholders). Thank God for guys like Maurice Greenberg,
former U.S. Army Captain who became a lawyer and a mega-business
man. He didnt get his billions by being a sweetie pie but hes exactly
what we need to expose the enormity of financial skullduggery these
guys commit in the name of the USG.
Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson who have never had any experience
like your present blogger in salvaging Savings and Loans Companies or
banks; simply decided to place the financial, psychological burden onto
AIG. They accuse it as the insurer of creating the banking crises
when in fact it was the banks which deliberately gave out cheap money,
starting with Bill Clinton, passing this absurd financial scam onto Bush jr
and then Obama.
The basic premise of this lawsuit is not the money but the fact that
the TRES HOMBRES (Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson) were complicit in
illegally shifting the blame of the banking crisis from the banks to its
insurerAIG. In their cowardly deed of shifting the responsibility of the
banking crisis from their banking-buddies to the insurer in question
which had nothing to do with the banking part of the crisesthese
public servants committed a crime in lying to the U.S. Treasury and the
American Taxpayers. No wonder, Geithner, Bernanke and Paulson were
quick to come out with a nonsensical autobiography too big to fail as
they failed us, as did our PRESIDENTS.
Why dont we elect someone who has had business experience? Or
someone who has the strength to put the country first and not kowtow to
these fanatical bamboozlers who just want to cut deals favorable to their
banker friends and who screw the public regularly. Instead, we have had
nothing but two incompetent Economists who were political cronies and
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one failed Investment Banker, Paulson, who knew nothing about M1-M2
or fiscal policies or even simple banking.
I once explained to one ignorant Liberal congressman, that Paulson
was not a banker in the classical sense of owning a bank or knowing
how to evaluate risk, credit, cash flows; the answer I got was
predictable: whats the difference? This is the problem with todays
public servants, they are either crooked and greedy or they are just dumb.
I will anticipate more juicy details from this trial and hope that the
media doesnt squash it. One thing for sure, I wouldnt want to mess
with Hank Greenberg (despite his age), he is into revenge, just ask Eliot
Spitzer.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

The Grand Myth: That the American Government Can Protect its
Citizens at all, from War; Financial Corruption/Disaster; Terrorism;
White House Intrusions; and most of all, Ebola!
In the last few weeks, we have seen an elaborate charade of the
U.S.Gs stated raisonetre of protecting American citizens here at home,
or abroad. The recent incursion of a mental patient who entered into the
bowels of the White House residence, in an attempt to threaten POTUS
is a metaphor for all the contrived lies across a spectrum of American
life. Remember that we the taxpayers have paid for nothing more than
massive federal dysfunctional entity including:
the inebriated, promiscuous Secret Service
the dysfunctional military/intelligence complex throwing bombs
and drones all over Syria, Iraq and wherever else they feel like causing
murder and mayhem
our banking system which had been totally mismanaged by
unqualified bankers [who had never been functioning bankers]Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson;
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 raging epidemic of Ebola, staring in Sierra Leone, Guinea and

Liberia and now supposedly here in America
The federal government seems to be descending into a complete
FUBAR with every institution being run by incompetent jerks or greedy,
cheating thugs. I know that for many of you, I am stating the obvious. I
am just completely taken aback by the sheer incompetence of all these
federal agencies which profess to have some modicum of
professionalism. I cant remember anything good thats come from a
federal agency, institution or office in decades.
I worked with the secret service way back when they were
considered competent and professional. I ran the psychiatric back-up
wards at St Elizabeths Hospital in Washington D. C. for those so-called
White House intruders. There was no question as to when, how or why
these individuals were automatically incarcerated in a maximum security
ward. That was then. But now, one ostensibly can wander all around the
White House without even presenting a clear and imminent threat.
Times have changed.
Now our President throws our intelligence community under the bus
every time that he might have made a mistake about going or not going
to war anywhere and everywhere. When I heard that the present problem
with ISIS, ISIL; or even the wars in Iraq/Syria; did not lie within our
Commander-in-Chiefs hands but rather was the fault of Generals
Michael Flynn [DIA] and James Clapper [DNI], I was incredulous. This
type of externalization of blame is equivalent to the marathon runner
blaming the quality of his shoes, rather than himself. I do criticize our
intelligence community ad hominum but as a citizen and taxpayer that is
my right and duty .
However, when POTUS goes out of his way in public and directly
implicates Gen James Clapper as the source of POTUSs lack of strategy,
foresight or capacity to engage in an unnecessary wars, I find this type of
executive behavior to be completely abhorrent and disgraceful to the
Office of the Presidency. Sounds like humpty dumpty is cracking. I can
tell you that this type of behavior in any other country would have
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automatically led to a military coup. I could have told you that any
former POTUS who dared to compromise our intelligence services, be
they, civilian or military, were automatically eliminated.
So now it seems that our federal government failed us once again. It
was all over the news that ebola was raging through Liberia, Sierre
Leone and Guinea, all failed states on steroids. Did our big daddy
government that spies on all of us, keeps record of our travels and what
we buy, did It do anything to protect our shores from a viral invasion?
Nope! Doesnt take a genius to figure out that anyone coming from the
infected part of the world should have been quarantined. Does anyone
get held accountable for this mega mistake? Didnt Obama tell
American citizens that we have nothing to fear? Oh yeah, he was the
same guy that told us ISIS was not a threat. First its not a problem, dont
worry and then its whoops now its a problem (big problem) but its not
my fault. We pay these people a lot of money to do their jobs (president,
congress, judges, CDC) and we even look the other way when they skim
some off the top or from the sides. However, we do expect them to take
care of the basics and they are not, on any front.

Monday, October 6, 2014

Far Right Nationalist, Xenophobic, European Movements Meld into
a Rancid Hungarian Goulash!
Just as we have witnessed the rise of extremist Islamic Groups in the
Middle East, we are now going to be entertained by a motley crew of the
long-forgotten Aryan Supremacy dolts who once proclaimed their
dubious ancestral heritage to the white race; as well as to all matters
that are the inherently white in nature. What we have here is the
tedious ersatz philosophies of being white and therefore entitled to:
anti-immigration hatred; anti-Muslim diatribes; the obsessive reincantations of Anti-Semitism; anti-European integration; and, believe it
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or not, Anti-Americanism. That last point is a new one in the list of antieverything party which claims that we Americans have co-opted their
national culture.
So now we have the inevitable rise of the Anti-Party which means if
they cant articulate a constructive program then they must resort to
denying everything and anybody who has accomplished something of
value; be it good, bad or irrelevant. When one is bereft of a real
philosophy or ideology then the best thing to do is to resort to basic
ignorance and proclaim that you are the anti-party.
After having read a very detailed analysis of this amalgam of
dullards in Budapest, Hungary between Oct. 3-5, 2014 [Stratfor, Oct.4,
2014] it served as a reminder to myself of the turmoil that occurred
between WWI and WWII in Berlin, Germany. That time of the Weimar
Republic provides the original template of this Hungarian Goulash that
we find ourselves stirring today.
One of the leaders of this xenophobic, Anti-American movement is
none other than Richard Spencer, an AMERICAN WHITE
NATIONALIST [whatever that means], President of the National Policy
Institute and Washington Summit Publishers. Apparently this ungrateful
American has formed a strong bond with none other than the Russian exCzarist throwback by the name of Alexander Dugin, a personal adviser to
the Kremlin Kleptocracy of Vladimir Putin. As if this were not the most
bizarre odd couple, then we throw in a fat blob of a frenchman who looks
like he has eaten his way to the top of his absurd game. His name is
Phillipe Vardon, the so-called head of Nissa Rebela, the NICE [city]
affiliate of Le Bloc Indetitairie, a French far-right group founded in
2003.
However, we cannot have a Hungarian Goulash without the spice of
paprika. So we add the long-standing, inveterate Anti-Semitism of the
HUNGARIAN PEOPLE as evidence in the Jobbik Party, now
kowtowing to the commands of their master, Russia. Contrary to the
beatific image of Hungary as a country of rolling hills and the Danube
River, they have been a vicious race of xenophobes ever since the
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liberal-minded Emperor Franz Joseph let them fraction into segments of

ignorance and resentment.
Whats their agenda?
For one, these out-of-shape misanthropes are learning basic
fighting skills.. to learn how to resist cops.
An example of such a workshop is how to endure an assault to the
knee by a baton and withstanding tear gas. [Stratfor, Oct 4, 2014]. Of
course, let me not forget that ignorance, hatred and stupidity is not
limited to the aforementioned countries; also present at the private
Budapest conference are representatives from the Greek Dawn Party;
Italian Northern Party and Italys Fascist Party CasaPound; French
National Party; Swedish Democrats; as well as citizens of Austria [dont
forget the House Painter, Hitler]; Croatia [always reliable Estashi];
Belgium; and Germany.
This emerging trend of the rising of the far right resembles the rise
of fascism after WWI; and up to and through WWII. Most of the
members of this Hungarian Goulash should remember what had
happened in history. Russia formed an alliance with the Nazis. Next
Russia destroyed the Fascists ruthlessly. Then we Americans came in
after we made certain that all American Nazi sympathizers were
completely neutralized by Hoovers FBI.
What makes Richard Spencer, the American stool pigeon, think
that his fate might be any different from that of Father Coughlin?
America is quite forgiving of its sons and daughters who served her in
time of need, but she can be very vengeful and ruthless if one tries her
patience with that type of fascist nonsense. Richard Spencer should
remember that veterans, who fought for American values do not take
kindly to cowards, traitors and demagogues like yourself. Remember
WWII was fought in order to rid our Republic of your garbage and those
who purvey it.

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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Imminent Fall of Baghdad Reminds Me of the Fall of Saigon fifty
years ago!
I have sadly concluded that with the furious advance of ISIS
supported by the Great Pretenders our erstwhile DESPICABLE Sunni
allies: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, U.A.E, Dubai, Jordan, Iraq, and
Syria this entity will eventually through conventional and unconventional
tactics enter Baghdad within a week or so. Once again America finds
itself at the tail-end of the jackass of all wars, the initial Iraq Invasion
and then the subsequent consequences of incredibly incompetent civilian,
military and intelligence leadership. No one can be spared from this
denouement of trillion of dollars spent on unnecessary wars, drone
attacks, and indiscriminate civilian massacres.
I failed as a teacher, lecturer and national security operative to make
certain that our brave men, women and their families would be spared
the agonizing call of defeat beckoning our country into a combat
scenario reminiscent of the Vietnam War. Many pundits have claimed
that Vietnam and Iraq were two different species of warfare. Their
arguments of dissimilarity were enticing illusory, allowing our
civilian/military/intelligence planners to ignore the basic lesson of
Vietnam: Dont fight a war in a distant land that you do not intend to
win.
It should be simple history.
Yet ignorant narcissism of our civilian leaders [Clinton, Bush jr.
Obama] combined with the egregious cowardliness of our political
generals [Tommy Franks] allowed us to to repeat the hell of Viet Nam,
this time in Iraq. There are too many to blame for this incredible
foolishness; including the CIA; military Intelligence, legislators; and a
military officer corps that had no idea of how to fight counter-insurgency
[Gen David Petraeus] combined with an ossified CIA [Tenet; Panetta;
Brennan]. These dolts repeated the mantra of ignorance arm the
moderate rebels and we have no HUMIT. The citizens are also to
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blame for not going to the streets and protesting this absurd shameful war
which will mark this country as both a paper tiger and a decaying
Empire.
According to OSINT, Stratfor, October 7, 2014 (posted earlier)
three thousand ISIS fighters have succeeded in capturing the key
strategic areas a few miles from Baghdad---RAMADI and FALLUJAH!!
The town of Fallujah has a special resonance just like the Tet Offensive
has to meour marines were successful in capturing that town, they won
that battle; but our leaders LOST THE WAR!!
Coalition airpower bombing day and night will not make the
slightest indent in the actual membership of ISIS or its force structure.
Like the carpet bombing of Vietnam all that we had accomplished was
the spread of napalm over the bodies of innocent Vietnamese civilians as
well as poisoning our own troops with Agent Orange (thank you,
Admiral Zumwalt).
As ISIS comes ever closer to Sunni Baghdad; the Sunni ISIS
soldiers will change their combat uniforms into one of a local resident
of Baghdad; wherein they will continue to implement their successful
terrorist tactics (suicide bombers, IEDs) attacking both soft and hard
targets using counter-insurgency techniques. Our fighter jets can no
longer distinguish ISIS from innocent civilian targets. ISIS will advance
into the center of the capital just as they did in Damascus, Syria; and
drive both the Shiite Iraqi Prime Minister; as well as, the American
Embassy Officials out of Baghdad, if they dont slaughter them all.
Most likely, Obama will send in more Marines in order to protect
our useless, bloated American embassy until it becomes apparent to all
that we must evacuate all American personnel from there to our naval
fleet. This naval fleet that is standing by for one more evacuation of
American personnel.
How do I know this?
I was involved tangentially in the evacuation of the American
Embassy in Saigon and I remembered debriefing Ambassador Graham
Martin whose only words were:
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What happened? How could we have lost this Vietnam War?

Unfortunately, I had many obvious answers but out of respect for him
and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, I remained silent. The answer lay in
our ignorance of Vietnamese history and what Prime Minister Le Duc
Tho, reminded me years later that you Americans are lazy and
arrogant.
He was right!
Americans have been incredibly stupid and boisterous, screaming
out about how we could change the course of thousands of years Middle
East History in the vast deserts that really had no boundaries, despite the
Sykes-Picot Treaty. Our intelligence was akin to a fact-idiot; we knew
the coordinates of the geography without understanding the complexity
of the ethnic tribes woven in the incestuous cobweb of Shiite and Sunni
Factionalism.
Allow me to quote Former Special Forces General Jerry Boykin
who once said very poignantly, the American military has not won a
legitimate battle since 1944. In Iraq, despite all the military assistance
we provided the non-existing Iraqi Army, ISIS just defeated the 7th, 8th,
9th Divisions [located in Hit; Ramadi; and Fallujah, respectively].
Eventually, you will hear on the mainstream media how ISIS
infiltrated Baghdad and then raised the ISIS flag on top of the American
Embassy. Remember that history does repeat itself and these deadly
games are played over and over. Let me remind you that the Viet Cong,
like ISIS, was the creation of the OSS, the precursor to the CIA. If you
ever travel to Hanoi, you could see the pictures of Julia Child [yes, the
famous chef] and other OSS Operatives, teaching the VIET MIN how to
throw hand grenades. In WWII, we had trained HO CHI MINH himself,
an ardent admirer of American culture, to fight against the Japanese.
Today we have trained ISIS, the CIAs creation, to fight against
ourselves. How ironic and pitiful! America has become more self
destructive over the past fifty years as we ignore the history lessons that
our fathers paid for in blood.

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Friday, October 10, 2014

Common Core, start researching. Its the big brother to "no child left
behind"

Thursday, October 16, 2014

sorry about the absence, will get back to a regular schedule of posts
next week. I am fighting the legal bullies on a number of fronts, takes
time.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

C.I.A. Finally Tells the Truth about its Past Failures
CIA Study Says Arming Rebel Seldom Works [NYTimes, Oct. 15,
2014 , Mark Mazzetti].
Finally, the CIA, the intelligence organization which can never
resist a selfie; or dramatize its non-dramatic history [Argo; Homeland;
Assets] in a panoply of different media, has finally come-out-of-thecloset and told one BIG TRUTH!!
Somebody decided to reveal the truth that the CIA has had minimal
success with arming any rebel groups, except for the Mujahadeen in
Afghanistan. I have a sneaky suspicion that I know why they finally
decided to reveal the fact that they, the CIA, is not very good at most
things, including arming and training rebel groups, despite the hysteria of
neocons and their legislative puppets.

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I think that the CIA and Obama know all too well that arming a
moderate Syrian opposition is the equivalent of placing super glue on
the hull of the Titanic while it was sinking. The moderate Syrian
opposition is neither Syrian nor moderate nor an opposition. Obama was
correct months ago, when he described this motley group of dreamers,
farmers, pharmacists and medical doctors as a fantasy which could
never defeat their own shadow let alone ISIS. Remember, I was there
and from my experience the only credible fighting group in Syria is
attached to the hip of Bashar Assad and his more ruthless brother. Any
other pretense of opposition is wishful thinking.
Even the formidable Hizbollah Shiite fighting force is waning in
power against ISIS. Hizbollah is finding itself using ever younger and
inexperienced soldiers. If Hizbollah cannot match up to ISIS with all the
help they receive from Russia and Iran, believe me, vetting moderate
Syrians to fight is the moral equivalent of necrophilia.
The truth is what I have said a long time ago. The CIA is great at
creating 9/11 and the false flags along with our own military but
solving problems of blowback or other strategic challenges not so good.
Contrary to their collective interest in projecting an image of James Bond
or even that poor CIA analyst Jack Ryan, the agency has never been
effective in quasi-military activities or even professional assassinations.
They have had to recruit Special Forces through an office formerly
entitled Special Operations Low Intensity Conflict [SOLIC] located in
the bowels of the Pentagon. In fact, the CIA has been quite miserable in
the field of assassinations. They out-source them and usually mess up:
Lebanon; Libya, Iraq; etc.
Have you ever wondered why we muster our military forces to take
out a former ally now newly presented enemy? Think: Noriega in
Panama or Sadam Hussein in Iraq.

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So we cant even execute targeted assassinations which compels us

to create wars that we can never win and sometimes barely fight. Yet
pundits like Bush, Obama, Clinton or second tier Susan Rice, Samantha
Powers think nothing about sending our young men and now women in
as canon fodder.
We have 16 intelligence organizations that can barely find out what
each one is doing; but they brey like sheep for more and more money for
newer toys while they become more and more stupid. Now it seems like
a breath of fresh air was wafted through the NY Times. Yet we all know
that whatever the CIA tells you is usually done to protect themselves or
as you guys know it---CYA. So the new CIA should be entitled the
CYA!! Far more appropriate and far more honest.

Friday, October 24, 2014

False Assumptions about the Ebola Epidemic Permeates CDC, USG,
and the US Ability to Contain an Epidemic!
Thanks to Dr Craig Spencer of Doctors without Borders Recent
Subway Trip to a NYC Bowling Alley.
I hate to say this again but the CDC has performed according to past
experiencesTERRIBLY! Not to mention that this new Czarbola
Lawyer/Lobbyist without any medical competency has been less useful
than his bosss pronouncements that America is safe and well prepared
for Ebola. Both men have been proven to be beyond dismal failures
during a crisis.
We still have not answered the basic questions of how this disease
defies every precept and mantra about limited infection capacity and an
inherent high safety factor in being exposing to the Ebola virus. I
personally and professionally have never accepted two basic precepts of
the mantra that you have to be in direct contact with the fluids of the
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Ebola patient in order to become infected. I have always believed that

Ebola is an airborne RNA virus which has a very high capacity to infect
anyone in near proximity at a very rapid level of growth. In an infected
person, there are approximately 10 billion Ebola viruses per unit of blood
cell versus 10 million HIV viruses. This exceedingly large number of
Ebola viruses per blood cell allows the virus to expand exponentially into
the body at an extremely fast rate that cannot be contained or stopped.
Its a mistake to think that a RNA virus which mutates at a very rapid
rate every time any antibody attacks it, is a virus that remains static on a
surface. Simply put, the Ebola virus is airborne. It has to be because its
RNA genetic code is immune to any kind of interception other than the
fact that like the bubonic plague it will have no more hosts in which it
can survive and continue to change in form and strength.
This newest case in NYC involving Dr Spencer would not have
happened with proper mandatory quarantine and denial of entrance into
the USA by competent, knowledgeable US officials.
Here is what we should do now:
[1] Assume the virus is airborne. There is a reason why the Emory,
CDC, workers on the Ebola Ward wear RESPIRATORS!!
[2] Mandatory quarantine of all fliers coming in from West Africa.
[3] Assume that everyone will or has lied on the Customs Forms
about travel, fever and exposure to Ebola.
[4] Cancel all flights coming directly or indirectly from West Africa.
Thirty other countries have done so.
[5] Provide military charter flights for health workers who are going
overseas to treat Ebola patients.
[6] Forget the Czarbola whom Obama appointedtotally useless
and misleading. Neither Obama or the Czar have any knowledge or real
experience working in containing epidemics.
[7] Re-activate the Public Health Service and take it out of the Coast
Guard Operations and make it have the authority to quarantine any
persons, areas or countries that are infected with Ebola.

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[8] Re-activate the Surgeon Generals Office, with a competent

physician, trained in epidemiology and not just bureaucratic hack from
Health and Human Services.
[9] Present daily briefings/updates/best practices from some
competent medical doctor, other than CDC director or Czar both of
whom have lost credibility with the US public.
[10] The state, county and federal govt can pay for these procedures.
We pay taxes, the government is supposed to protect us from health
disasters like this.
Forget the mantra that you are not infected until you show
symptoms of fever of 100.4. Everyone in contact with Ebola patients,
directly or indirectly, must be quarantined immediately. Take precautions and keep your immune system healthy. Act accordingly
without panic or fright. Be judicious and be careful. Always assume that
what you are hearing from public officials is less than reliable so take
care of yourselves.. ..until this epidemic subsides. Ebola will subside
as did Polio, HIV, and other highly contagious diseases. It will just take
some time and the common sense of the American citizen in the
complete absence of USG leadership, WHO stupidity, UN paralysis and
a pervasive epidemic of incompetency.
This crisis will make you stronger and more acutely aware of the
increasing systems dysfunctions that will continue to grow exponentially
until we Americans decide to choose those people who have a Command
and Control system in place, when it is necessary.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Fat Cat REIT Plum Creek has a history of disasters, they promise the
poor folk "Chanel" pay off corrupt locals and then leave everyone with a
big mess. They did it outside of Yellowstone and in Moosehead Lake
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Maine and now they are trying to do it in North Florida. Their share
price sucks and so does their CEO, be posting tomorrow on this Plum
Creep.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Plum Creek: A Liberal Washington State Public Land Holding
Company Ravishing Small Rural Town Citizens in Gainesville, Florida!
Its a David Versus Goliath Biblical Story!
Just when liberalism connoted a fair and caring concern for the
underprivileged especially minority groups, like African-Americans
bereft of jobs; or the possibility of employment, Plum Creek a public
REIT [Real Estate Investment Trustwhich does not pay taxes] invades
Florida like poisonous weeds in the Garden of Eden. Nothing is more
hypocritical or cynical than a $1.3billion public company that banks land
and uses its considerable cash in order to rezone that land to profit from
the presumed greater value of the newly rezoned land. On the surface
this seems like an innocuous business. In reality this company has
spread across the USA from its pristine liberal base of Seattle,
Washington to prey on the helpless, weak, indifferent and ignorant.
What do I mean?
Its rapacious, longstanding financial greedy President, and CEO,
Rick R. Holley, had entered into an illegal land deal in Maine in order to
develop Moosehead Lake. What the innocent citizens discovered was
that Holley as he was wont by habit and natural proclivity, deceived,
double-dealt the citizens to such an extent that even he had to admit that
Moosehead was a loss leader. Plum Creeks M.O. is to acquire land
through complex land swap deals and federal timber contracts, then with
the assistance of financial bamboozlers like Tim Blixseth try to flip the
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pristine property to unsavory developers. These developers are usually

operating on flaky financials and typically end up suing each other and
declaring bankruptcy. The real losers, local citizens and property owners
are left with damage goods and lots of lost revenue. Just ask the state of
Montana, the Yellowstone Club fiasco is famous.
In financial terms, that type of duplicitous behavior in a public
company listed on the prestigious NY Stock Exchange would have:
[1] had Holley dismissed as CEO
[2] thrown Plum Creek off the stock exchange for interstate financial
chicanery, a massive federal offense.
[3] Dissolve the REIT because of fraud; using a financial vehicle for
purposes other than the one stated.
However, I write this blog because once again my thesis that the
corrupt and sociopathic never stop their dangerous behavior until they
are bitched slapped by the feds: SEC, FBI and various state attorney
generals from Washington State, to Maine, to Montana and, lastly
Florida.
Why Montana and Florida?
When I lived in Bozeman, MT, I had seen the heartless corrupt
practices of Plum Creek when they developed precious hunting/timber
land that was given to them by Governor Racicot, now on the Plum
Creek board, and called the expensive development of empty multimillion dollar lodgesMoonlight Basin. Needless to say that this
particular project in the beautiful mountains of Montana was a complete
disaster, just as it was in Maine.
For most of you readers all this stuff that I am discussing should
mean very little, except if it happens in your state. Yet this greedy
corrupt company happens to intrude into my privacy and land holding
rights by once again appearing mysteriously in Gainesville, Florida,
where, by chance, I happen to be living. As he has done many times
before, this charlatan of finances, King Midus Holley, never one to let
morals or good business sense get in the way of greed and corruption,
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promised all kinds of goodies in return for increased zoning rights in

order to flip this newly zoned property [66,000 acres of Florida swamp
land] onto another sucker, just like they did in Maine and Montana.
Now I had the good fortune to attend one of the meetings where the
county commissioners were listening to the palaver of the ineffective
Plum Creek representative as he lilted his way to the podium and replied
in a high pitched voice We will research that matter for you! Of
course, I and every one in that meeting knew the following facts based
on the past ignominious experiences of Plum Creek and its Board of
Directors led by the Rick R. Holley.
We all knew that most of the Black Baptist Ministers of local
Churches, in what is euphemistically called East Gainesville[ read
Black Harlem] were paid off to support the rezoning with the promise
that their constituents would receive jobs from Plum Creek. It was a lie.
Not one job was offered or provided; other than that of a paid lobbyist or
consultant.
The Director of the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce, who
happened to be black was clearly paid off by the Plum Creek board of
Directors, in order to bless the non-existing project of so-called newly
created jobs. Once again I reiterate the simple point that no new jobs
could, or would be offered because Plum Creek does not do anything
other than rezone worthless land in order to sell it off. Job creation is not
part of their IPO portfolio or stated objectives.
The Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Community leaders of
Alachua county were incredibly verbose and at the same time completely
inane in their claims that jobs valued at $40-50 per hour plus benefits
could and should come into Gainesville, thanks to the offer proferred by
Plum Creek. Also Plum Creek would be able to build a 15million
square foot factory to make. What? I am not sure.
Thank God no one in the room, including the shrewd AfricanAmerican representative believed this nonsense; and said so, in the
following sagacious insight:
My folks want to know how do they get a job when they have a
felony on their record?
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Great question!
Plum Creek could not and would not be able to answer that
question.
So why am I writing this blog?
I am writing to inform the Federal/State/County officials to watch
for corrupt, predatory interstate practices committed by the likes this
Liberal Plum Creek company which dares not invade its own pristine
woods of Washington State; lest their citizens there throw this company
out of Seattle, Washington. This company, Plum Creek, and many like
them, are predatory creatures who are staffed by ex-governors like
Racicot and other state and national officials and have no qualms
entering into a poor area like East Gainesville, stir racial hatred and
division for the sole purpose of earning a little bit more money for
having done nothing more than trading on public lands that were given to
them by the USG.
Its times for us, ordinary citizens to retaliate. We do this by writing
our congressmen and complain about Plum Creek. We write to the SEC
. And believe it or not, write the office of the attorney general of your
state and then the federal government. A strong grass roots campaign
will allow us to defeat hate mongers who stir up confrontations between
whites, black, environmentalist and working class people.
The little people, fight the GIANT GOLIATH who wants to destroy
everything that we hold precious: clean land; clean water; reasonable
jobs for just pay; and the right to fight for developing our small
community without interference from the Wall Street pirates.
What should really happen, is the Plum Creek should be indicted by
the both the SEC and the FBI for interstate offenses and RICOH
chargesattempt to commit crimes against the poor and helpless
across several state borders. The list of past crimes involving this
company are numerous, I will post a few but do the research yourself.
Despair not!
Once Plum Creek suffers financial loses and trading rights on the
big board; then David wins over Goliath!
Thats the way the Holy Book wrote it.
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I am just the messenger!!!

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Saturday, November 1, 2014

MainStream Media Incestuous Relations
IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE NEWS SYSTEM WAS RIGGED
AND YOU COULDN'T
PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT SOLVE THE
PUZZLE.
ABC News executive producer Ian Cameron is married to Susan
Rice, National Security Adviser.
CBS President David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes, Obamas
Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications.
ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman is married to former
Whitehouse Press Secretary Jay Carney
ABC News and Univision reporter Matthew Jaffe is married to Katie
Hogan, Obamas Deputy Press Secretary
ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of Obamas Special
Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood
CNN President Virginia Moseley is married to former Hillary
Clintons Deputy Secretary Tom Nides.
And now you know why it is no surprise the media is in Obama's
pocket.
Ya think there might be a little bias in the news ???
It also explains the cover up of Benghazi.........just before the
election!
Remember its your responsibility to make you know what is going
on before you vote.
If you want the find out what the hell is going on, try Fox new.

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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Ben Bradlee, Washington Post: A Formidable, Charming Adversary
in the Maryland Savings and Loan Crisis of the Late 1980s!
Some of my readers have asked me about my relationship with Ben
Bradlee, the iconic journalist of the Washington Post who recently died
at the age of 93. I certainly miss him and his bantering, blustering ways.
However, I admit that I really did not know him well. The only time I
had any meaningful interchanges with him personally was during the
1980s Savings & Loan crisis in Maryland.
You might remember that in the late 1980s most of the Savings and
Loan institutions which had acted as erzatz banks had been entering
bankruptcy, one after another. This tumble was started by Marvin and
Neil Bush in their scam entitled the Silverado S&L Crisis in Colorado.
Once that S&L went under the sheer momentum of convoluted
accounting and a paucity of assets to back up the net worth of the S& L
created a panic across the USA which resulted in the eventual dissolution
of almost all S&Ls. It is amazing to note how detrimental the entire Bush
family [except the mother] has been to the vibrant growth of this great
nation. Remember this particular crime when you think about the
cherubic, disingenuous Jeb Bush, the newly resurrected intellect.
Back to Ben Bradlee.
I was given the job, upon which I insisted [as per my usual Modus
Operandi] to take over the crisis management of one particular S&L in
Maryland in which I had deposited a significant amount of money. In
any case, without having to go into the complexities of bailing out a bank
[which by the way, Bernake, Paulson and Geitner had no clue
whatsoever], I had called up Ben Bradlee at the Washington Post.
Our conversation went something like an Abbot and Costello
routine circling around the definitions of net worth and cash flow.
Ben, a man with self-admitted deficiencies in banking, told me that net
worth and cash flow were not his problem and could not have
caused a cash flow run on the Savings & Loan that I was trying to keep
alive. I in turn went to great lengths to explain to him that our S&L had
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a net worth problem and not a cash flow problem. And as a result of
an article in his Washington Post, he had specifically created a cash run
on the S&L I was trying to save.
I ended up quite frustrated and hired a friend and major Federal
Prosecutor Earl Silbert, who helped me place an Injunction/ Temporary
Restraining Order against the Washington Post from publishing any
more information about the S&Ls in Maryland. The upshot was
devastating. I had to meet with Bob Woodward, the self-anointed high
priest of Journalism. I had very little, if any respect for him. I had
learned through my thorough background checks on this Yalie that he
was a former naval intelligence officer who had never had journalism
training. Woodward whos claim to fame was that he had briefed
General Alexander Haig, another nit-wit on Henry Kissingers staff. It
has always been my belief that Woodward and his low class partner Carl
Bernstein had facilitated the downward spiral of Nixon with the help of
John Dean in what I had considered a Yalie/CIA inspired take-down of
President Nixon.
Bob Woodward was the man whom Ben had asked me to see in
order to resolve this incredibly important problem on banking. However,
Woodward, as I had anticipated , turned out to be as stupid and
irresponsible if he were not given any inside information from his
Skull and Bones colleagues in the USG. Unbeknownst to Woodward,
I had worked on the Montgomery County Sentinel ( he once worked
there) where he was described by the editor as completely incompetent.
The rest of this story was predictable. A S&L crisis started by the
Texas family of Bush Marvin and Neilspread across the USA like a
wildfire and ended up in bankrupting the S&Ls, thanks to a Maryland
Governor who conveniently disappeared; as well as, a Federal
Institution, FSLIC, the counterpart of the FDIC which went belly-up.
That was my one and only experience with the legendary Ben
Bradlee. Please remember that legends are simply stories and distorted
memories that serve to warp the moments of history that no one wants to
remember correctly or accurately. I was a small player in a bigger
tragedy which repeated itself under the idiot-savant, President George W.
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Bush Jr, in an otherwise preventable tragedy entitled The Wall Street

Crash of 2008 where the banks were too big to fail! Nonsense!
Who says that history and miscreant characters dont reappear again
and again?
Woodward, like any semi-competent intelligence officer keeps on
appearing everywhere to spout the verbiage of self-aggrandizement, lies,
distortions and deceptions until the mainstream media reify him as the
sine qua non of objective journalism.
As for the Bush family, they never cease to amaze me in their
relentless efforts to destroy the Republic, once and for all. If Barbara
Bush[the mother] were to run for the Presidency, then I might support
her. As for the rest of them, they belong in the dust bin of American
history. How such a pathetic family of male losers have been able to
come to power is both a stigmata on our electoral system and an
indictment of those who have facilitated their subsequent ascendency to
the Presidency.
No one will ever forget the Bush Familys greatest legacy to
America: The 9/11 Stand Down/False Flag and the subsequent murder of
3000 Innocent Americans. Clearly not satisfied to destroy our banking
system, they went on to invade Iraq for weapons that were never there.
As far as I can remember, the Washington Post never condemned the
9/11 attack or even tried to investigate the fact that Bush Jr/Cheney had
been the creators of this fiasco. So what can I say about Ben Bradlees
absent cry of defiance in that particular moment in time?
I was not surprised.
He too was a Yalie.. Skull And Bones and all that other
nonsense. He never really reaffirmed his so-called moral courage which
Georgetown so admired about him.
Similarly, the august NY Times, under the direction of the ersatz
managers /editors Harold Raines and Bill Keller, performed as dastardly
as one might have expected by a newspaper co-opted Washington DC
and group think.

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The final chapter will not be written in my lifetime. When the truth
about 9/11 and all the other USG chicaneries that occurred under
Clinton, Bush jr, and Obama, no newspaper or journalist will have been
touted as admirable or courageous. That glory of uncovering the real
truths of Americas collective deceptions do not belong in any one
repository of news, but to you, the American citizens, who in your own
ways will uncover the lies, deceptions and conceits that have been
propagated from the center of this New Roman EmpirePax
AmericanaWashington DC which will inevitably languish into
intellectual and financial bankruptcy; as befits moral cowards.
So now the so-called Conspiracy Media, we the people, will arise
until there will be no one hero or media format, but a simple revolution
of truth and honesty, at whatever cost of lives that may take.
Let me end this post by quoting the words of the great German
writer, Goethe, who had pinpointed the nature of our collective
problems, centuries ago:
We, the people are NEVER DECEIVED. WE DECEIVE
OURSELVES!
Lets terminate our self deceptions once and for all and rid ourselves
of these noisome politicians who try to destroy our way of life.

Monday, November 3, 2014

Putins New Cold Borscht War.
In Air and Cyberspace, on Land and Sea, Russia Shows Muscle,
NYTimes, 11,1, 2014 by Andrew Roth.
It was only a matter of time before my favorite A.D.D. Russian judo
expert, Vladimir Putin, initiated a trial of anti-American incursions.
The NYTimes article quoted above, describes Putins ADD
activities as follows:
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How else to explain the sudden increase of bombers over Europe,

kidnapped spies, troop buildups in Eastern Europe and roaming
submarines in the Baltic Sea?
I wonder if Putin is trying out for a Directors/Producers role in one
of my partners Tom Clancys franchise movies? Maybe Putin might want
to make a sequel to the Hunt For Red October? Or something akin to
Clear And Present Danger? Somehow I think that Putin is really
putting his heart, mind and soul into an attempt to disrupt
American/European interests around the world.
What makes me come to that conclusion?
Putin is a creature of habit. He is not a long-range strategist; nor is
he a chess player, a game in which the Russians have excelled for
centuries. Therefore I must conclude as someone who has worked
against the KGB for decades that he is trying all kinds of nuisance tactics
to disrupt the natural flow of world events as they evolve without any
unnecessary turbulence. Putin is clearly disturbed, emotionally and
physically. He is, in the words of a New Yorker from Harlem, itching
for a fight.
But with whom?
Probably with anyone whom he could pick on who would not be
able to retaliate effectively against him or his country. The Baltic states
of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia have just witnessed the Putin Borscht
special with the following noisome overflights of the latest Russian
aircraft models:
Tu-95; Bear H Bombers; Su-27 fighter jets; IL-78 tanker aircraft.
To make sure that these small, helpless Baltic countries received
Putins loud message, he did not file flight plans or maintain contact
with civilian air traffic control.
During a period of heightened tensions in 2007, Putin resumed the
Soviet-era practice of long range patrols far beyond Russian borders.
However, Putin was still not content with playing with his air force,
so he decided to kidnap an Estonian Spy. The F.S.B. Russias security
service said in a statement that Mr Kohver [Estonian Spy] had detained
on Russian territory and had been found to be carrying a pistol and
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ammunition cartridges, 5000 Euros[$6000], surveillance equipment and

intelligence gathering instructions. Even in the world of spy novels,
this old scenario would never pass by an editors red pencil.
How prosaic and clich can Putin be?
In fact, my dear readers, especially you readers in Russia and the
Ukraine, I must admit that I am a little ashamed of Putin. He has
demonstrated a concerted and major deficit for creativity and
imagination. Any school boy in St Petersburg could have come up with
more original ideas to annoy the US and Europe.
I must insist on showing you how RETRO Putin really is. He had
sent mysterious submarines into the Baltic Straits where the war weary
Swedish Navy described Putins pathetic intrusion as, The Hunt For
Reds In October. Tom Clancy would have been very proud of that play
on his best-selling title. Please remember the principle that if one lacks
any capability to be new, then one must beat the tempos of past rhythms.
In this particular case, Putin has repeatedly tried to Cyber-attack the
states of Georgia and Estonia. Then, he attacked Western oil and gas
companies.
Ho-hum! How boring!!
Putin is clearly at his wits end. He has tried all the old tricks and
chicaneries and they dont seem to be working. He has no master mentor
as he had in the past to consult with like Andropov of the KGB or
Marcus Wolfe of the Stasi.
Now he has to turn to his childhood friends: The Crooked Duo
The Rotenberg Brothers [no brains between the two; only brawn]. There
is an old axiom that Matzoh Balls do not belong in the Borscht soup. It
will be a short matter of time before the Russian people, no devotee of
leaven bread, will figure out this UNHOLY ALLIANCE between the
pathetic X-KGB agent Putin and the corrupt Rotenberg Brothers. I
predict that the people of Russia will erupt into a maelstrom of a
POGROM against the remaining Jews in Russia and a replay of the
Bolshevik Revolution against the new Tzar Putin. Now, folks, this is a
scenario worth waiting to see.
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Trust me, Putin is now in center stage and a modern day Chekhov,
the physician-writer, is waiting to pen how Putin has destroyed the Great
Russia, after so much effort was made to take down the Soviet Union.
Stalin would have been angry by Putins pettiness and incompetency.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Russias Economy Hemorrhaging: Dj Vu All Over Again!
Putin Learns Nothing from the Evisceration of the Soviet Communist
SystemDeclining Economy, Increase Spending on Worthless
Armaments!
Congratulations Putin! You are true to your roots of being an ExKGB Operative. Keep on repeating the mistakes of the past and watch as
Russia teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. This time, it was not the
Communists who destroyed Russia, but the arrogance and financial
ignorance of you, Putin. It is unfortunate for the Russian people that in
the 21st century they had elected the village idiotsomeone who goes
around town spouting nonsense as the town, or in this case Russia, is
falling apart.
The lessons of the Soviet Unions dissolution were not complicated.
At the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, I learned about two
important fissures in the Soviet Union. One was its faulty economy
producing useless goods of absolutely no value. The second important
variable, was the fact that the Soviet Military, as brilliant as it had
performed in WWII under Stalin, could no longer sustain a force
structure that was credible as a deterrent.
It took the USG 30 years of regime change to transform the
dysfunctional Soviet System into a viable Russian Federation. Now,
unfortunately for Putin, he alone has been able to achieve the destruction
of that viable Federation. Like all intelligence operatives who are
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obsessed with self-grandeur yet are paranoid about their immediate

environs, Putin will go into a twirling self-destructive mode.
For some time now, I have been warning Putin that his own
dynamics would inevitably draw him into a vortex of self-implosion.
Hopefully, the Russian Federation can bail itself out before he takes
everyone down with him. Here are the hard numbers on what Russia
must endure as the price of world oil [brent oil down to $70-80] tumbles
precipitously because of Americas incredible entrepreneurial ability to
bring more capacity on line and break the spell of OPEC [bye-bye Saudi
Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Algeria, Libya].
The Kremlin Apparatchiks and potential ex-Kleptocrats who have
stolen trillions of dollars from Russia are now faced with the harsh
reality as outlined by OSINT, Stratfor, 11/4/2014:
Presently the Russian cabinet is holding meetings to revise the
Revenues [80% comes from oil] based on $100 a barrel. Intelligence
reports indicate that the more knowledgeable technocrats are basing the
Russian 2015 Economy on $80-$90 per barrel.
There are some indications that an immediate future scenario of
revenues may even be based on the more realistic price of $60 per barrel.
At any oil price below $80-90 a barrel, Russia must dip into its
Rainy Day Funds allocated for such a major deficit in the budget.
Example: Russia has about $582 billion USD in reserves to spend
on the budget deficit. $409 billion in currency reserves [immediate cash
flows]. $83 billion in National Wealth Fund; and $90 billion in the
National Reserve Fund [must be liquidated].
$70 billion has already been spent on plugging up the financial
hole created by the US/EU economic warfare.
It is suspected with a high amount of certainty that another $250
billion USD will also be used to patch up Putins Sochi and Ukrainian
Follies- exorbitant expenditures that would have placed him in the
Gulags under Stalin; or even the drunkard, Boris Yeltsin.
Thats not the worst, right now there is about $100 billion in flight
capital, and thats a gross approximation. Putin has no idea of how to
run the Russian Regional Governments, remember that Russia has 11
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time zones and the USA has only 4 time zones. Those regional governors
are no fools and they are correctly demanding that their collective debts
be immediately discounted and restructured, placing immense economic
pressure on a bankrupt Kremlin. Putins troubles have not even begun.
The Russian banks which have been hit hard by our economic warfare
have requested a major cash infusion in the 100s of billions of dollars in
order to keep them solvent. Putins thugs have no knowledge of how to
manage their Rosneft owned bank, the honey pot of corruption which
may soon not exist, thanks to financial illiteracy.
This is the real piece de resistance. Just as the Soviets had done
before, (true to my past and current assessment of their behavior) Putin
demanded increased weapons spending while his country is broke. From
my humble point of view, Russia is ready to go down in a flaming blaze
of insolvency, having been hit by the Mohammed Ali double punch of
a blow to the economy, while straining to maintain a credible force
structure. As a result, I believe that Putins so-called popularity, ranging
somewhere between 80% and infinity will not mean a damn thing when
oil gets closer to $50 a barrel. At that price, Russia will be knocking at
the International Monetary Fund[IMF]; as well as the World Bank.
I hope that I am wrong; because, I have always admired the fortitude
of the Russians and its magnificent culture. However, when the Putin is
allowed to mutter nonsensical words; while, at the same time, tries to
burn down his straw-hewn village, then something, or someone has to
go.
Vsyovo Haroshovo! All the best Russia.
Next time pick someone who is CULTURANI! Cultured and smart.
Preferably a master chess player.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Its not my expertise, but based on the feedback I will pursue the
issue. Here is the opinion of a molecular biochemist, just starting.
by Dr George Pieczenik PhD
Professor of Biochemistry at Rutgers University
The epitope for mumps is YQQQGRL. I have had students and a
dog who got optic neuritis, partial blindness (reversible) and complete
blindness(not reversible), from vaccine. The student from the MMR
vaccine all students are required to get (mumps, measles, rubella), Mimi
from the rabies vaccine.
The question is the odds of an antibody which binds 7 aa finding
another sequence on a surface that is the same.
There are 20 aa so it 1 in 3 million. And al 3 million can be
stimulated at any time by any surface antigen from any organism.
Now there is another problem with vaccines... the animal ones had
aluminum put in for patent purposes.
The other ones have thimerosa (mercury compound) which has a
known correlation with autism.
But, correlations are statistics, and statistics are like a drunk at a
lamp post... should be used for illumination not support.
My IVF colleagues have observed a systematic increase in autism...
so that observation is real.
Most vaccines in the last 20 years have had peanut oil used as
adjuvent . That is why there are so many now hypersensitive to peanuts.

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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Beyond Mission Creep: General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the
Joint Chief of Staff Recommends Modest [U.S.] Force In Iraq!
The recent article by Helene Cooper, NY Times, 11/13/2014, Top
General Says Hes Open To Using Ground Troops To Take Mosul
reaffirms for me one basic concept of war. We never enter into a war
with the complete conviction to win. Instead Americans become
consumed in our own quagmire of wishful thinking and lack of strategy.
How many times have we heard the re-affirmation from President
Obama that there will not be American boots in Iraq.
He, like most of our Presidents has lied repeatedly without
consequence. After POTUS has just deployed close to 3000 American
troops to Iraq to be military advisorswhatever that meanswe now
have a clear statement that there will be a very high probability that there
will be American combat soldiers fighting alongside the irrepressible
non-existent Iraq Army.
Ostensibly, we are downsizing our fighting forces. In reality, it
appears that Americans are fighting everywhere from Africa to the
Middle East and on to the Ukraine. Many of these fighting personnel are
categorized in the rubric of advisors. Yet, having spent only thirty
years in the national security apparatus, I am still not clear as to what
combat advisor is other than an American soldier shooting alongside
his designated consultee. The combatants that our advisors have
helped like the South Vietnamese, Iraquis and other unwilling patrons
have all exhibited one major deficit. They dont really want to win a war
or fight for themselves.
Isnt bizarre that our Presidents, JFK and LBJ, assured our nation
that we had no direct involvement in Vietnam, after having deployed
over one million soldiers in different rotations of advisor? How is it
that these advisors then turned into massive casualties in Vietnam
consisting of over 50,000 dead and more than 250,000 wounded?
Iraq has developed its own vocabulary of absurdity. We invaded for
WMDs that were never there. We fought against Shiites and other ethnic
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groups who killed and maimed our advisors at record numbers. Finally
we left in order to make certain that we would never return. However, we
have not really returned to Iraq because we are not there in full
combat roles but as advisors.
Now Dempsey not having learned the lessons of Vietnam, nor the
previous Iraq/Afghanistan wars, has now committed himself and our
country without a declaration of war, to having modest troop numbers
in Mosul. Dj vu All over again?
What will the final result of the non-combatants in the so-called
non-war of Iraq be? More dead Americans. Greater numbers of
wounded warriors.
Why do I think that this deployment to Mosul is very dangerous?
We are not in a state of war with Iraq, Afghanistan or any other country.
ISIS is strictly the result of our incompetent handling of a multi-culture
society that we did not really understand. Nor were we, Americans able
to effectively work with all the Shiites, Sunni, Kurds, Druze and their
shifting hourly alliances, purposefully created in order to confound our
so-called best efforts.
Dempseys inevitable deployment of a modest force is the third
time that Americans have invaded Iraq without a clear rationale; other
than the duplicitous, CIA-contrived-concept of fighting terrorism a la
George Bush Jr/Cheney. Terrorism is not a strategy. It is a tactic that
is best handled by HUMINT, psychological warfare methods, and
regime changerather than kinetic actions/forces.
For some time now, I have respected both the professionalism and
dedication of General Martin Dempsey. He has brooked the nonsensical,
amateurish behavior of the novitiates, like Obama and his White House
staff--- Susan Rice; Ben Rhodes; Samantha Powers; John Brennan;
Dennis McDonough.
Yet now in his statement that he is willing to deploy a modest force
to Mosul, Dempsey enters the pantheon of Army Generals who have
gone down in history as unadulterated failures like Gen. Westmoreland
[Vietnam] and Gen.Tommy Franks [shock and awe]. Americans have
remained too silent at a time when the President, once again, relies on
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rationales for war that depend on distortions, outright lies and constant
deceptions.
Obama did not serve in combat. Neither did any of the pundits who
had sent us into the wars in which we were defeated LBJ, Reagan,
Clinton, Bush jr
Wake up America! And lets stop this absurd warring! That is the
best honor that we can give our Veterans who have served our country.
No more unnecessary wars! Remember, it is very easy to send American
troops into combat but it is very hard, if almost impossible, to extract
them from combat.
Let us remember that we have not won a war since 1945. Yet we
have been involved in hundreds of undeclared conflicts over the world in
the ersatz jingoistic cry of national security over the past fifty years.
Let me end this blog by quoting Herodotus, the famous Greek
philosopher:
In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons!

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Obamas Ruling on Five Million Immigrants Proves One Salient
Point of Politics: Power Abhors a Vacuum!
President Obamas recent decision to allow five million immigrants
to remain in the USA without legislative approval proves one salient
point: Power of any type when effectively wielded abhors a vacuum.
The recent mid-term victory of the Republicans across the USA in
the senate, congress and in the states proved one thing onlythe
appearance of diffuse political victories in a Republican Party without
effective, strong or constructive leadership means absolutely nothing. In
the world in which I had inhabited, both as a national security operative
and as serial entrepreneur, I learned the one lesson that has buoyed me to
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successthe man alone is far more dangerous and effective than a

gaggle of inept individuals with fancy titles and no strategy or tactics.
Henrik Ibsen, the famous Norwegian Playwright, wrote a play called
the Master Builder about a single man who built churches. In that play,
Ibsen writes in far more poetic language; That the man alone is the most
dangerous man in the universe. Whether you are for or against the
immigration bill, Obama once again proved to me that particular adage.
Obama knew before the midterm elections that he had lost his
progressive Democratic base. He also realized that the media portrayed
him as a loner acting without consent and advice from the non-existent
legislators. Cleverly, he simply skirted the pyrrhic victory of the
Republicans who had really accomplished nothing more than spending
billions of dollars on a Potemkin election victory. Sensing the absurdity
of the Republican victory where the old ineffectual diehard reblend
themselves back into a mixture of predictable ineptitude and posturing,
Team Obama immediately went into action.
Right after the election, he went to Asia and worked effectively
with AIPAC, bolstering the ASEA treaty, both militarily and
economically. He discussed the limits of confrontation with the
recalcitrant Chinese President Xi concerning cyber security and
pollution. Next he reaffirmed our commitment to our front line South
East Asian allies insuring that our CINCPAC would work more
effectively with our former formidable enemy Vietnam. There are even
hints that we may rebase our navy in the very country that had once
defeated us in war. At the same time, he continued to increase the heat
on the economic warfare against Putin and Russia to the extent that Putin
has had to redeploy ancient military planes, battle ships that belong more
appropriately in a mothball fleet.
Finally, while Boehner was too busy pontificated about nothing and
Mitch McConnell was gloating about his soporific resurgence in the
Senate, Obama made complete fools of any Republican pretension that
they were either unified or effective. He announced to the Republicans
and America what he had promised to do all along if the Republicans
remained as obdurate and pompous as they had always been---he made
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Five Million Hispanics legal residents of the USA---with a stroke of the

pen. In addition, he won on the Keystone Pollution Pipeline that old
relic from the ancient energy era gone by.
Obamas past month successes demonstrate several important
factors to me about the American Republic [remember its not a
Democracy]:
Executive power abhors a legislative vacuum.
POTUS can declare wars, enhance conflicts and redeploy overseas
forces wherever he wants.
POTUS used the military to assess and curb the Ebola Epidemic
when all his civilian sycophants failed en masse.
Obama proved to me, that we should never underestimate the power
of the single man who fears no retribution of retaliation. Obama showed
us that we have no effective leadership in our legislative houses, neither
Democrat or Republican. What we have created through a nonsensical
Theater of the Absurd where obscene amounts of money can be spent on
sycophants and panderers who can do nothing more than act the part of a
senator or congressman but in reality accomplish little. Americans have
come to the sad conclusion that legislative gamesmanship is not even
worthy watching. So most of us have accordingly tuned out both the
Republicans and DemocratsAnd we will continue to do so way into
the future, especially in 2016.
Obama the victor, gets the spoils. Obama has effectively aced out
the legislative, judicial branches of the U.S.G; as well as the imploding
mainstream media with their endless narcissistic cries of Watch and
Listen to me I am your Oracle of Truth! Such Nonsense! CNN,
MSNBC, ABC, CBS have faltered into irrelevancy as no one really cares
to hear or watch any of their circus shows. Even Fox has become a
caricature of itself.
Hail Obama! I write this blog not to bury Obama, as the media and
phony pundits have wrongfully done. I come to PRAISE HIM !!
As General George Patton had once said:
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Sunday, November 23, 2014

Watch as the Pentagon Fails to End the Wars that They Should have
Never Started in Iraq/Afghanistan.
Over the past thirteen years, I have watched these war hungry
generals perform in the Pentagons Fools and Follies. Now, under
massive pressure from the Pentagon, President Obama announced that he
would continue to ensure American troops will have a direct role in
fighting in War-Ravaged Afghanistan . [NY Times, Nov.21, 2014].
Just when I thought that we Americans had enough of two wasteful
wars waged over an inexcusable 13 year period of time, Gen. John F.
Campbell and his cohorts intimidated Obama into sending more troops,
fighter jets [F-16, B-1B bombers] and drones [Predator and Reaper] to
fight an assortment of ersatz enemies in Afghanistan.
Who are the enemies?
Apparently, the Pentagon has had a serious problem in trying to
identify who these enemies really are. Suddenly, our enemies have been
augmented in size from just Al Qaeda to the Haqqani Network to the
Taliban and others. Our generals who feel that they have not had enough
wars to justify their existence, if not their absurd braids of useless metals
on their chest, have literally scared our President into expanding the
wars both into Iraq and now, Afghanistan.
I have found that our Department of Defense is replete with a group
of senior military officers who have no idea of how to start, manage, or
more importantly, FINISH A WAR!! What we have now is a military
RUN AMOK!
Let me assure you that our National Security is in no way threatened
by terrorists from Iraq, Afghanistan or anywhere else. In fact, more
deaths have occurred from obesity, smoking, diabetes than terrorism or
any other make-shift threat. Why do we continue to fight overseas in
unnecessary wars? Simply because we have a dysfunctional military
corps of officers who want to go down in their own history books tucked
away in their vest pockets, as having fought something, or someone,
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before they die, or more importantly, write their hagiography

[autobiography].
These generals and admirals could care little about the cost of human
lives, including both military or civilian deaths that they would incur
while trying to exercise their personal narcissistic enterprises. These
generals will never shy from using such buzz words as democracy,
freedom and training, in order to justify their fool-hardy incursions. For
over thirty years, America has spawned a group of useless, ineffectual,
primarily narcissistic generals who want nothing more than to claim that
they had fought at least once in their lifetime. They basically serve
themselves not our country.
We have no one in authority to stop these Generals-Run-Amok from
continuing wars that create needless wounded warriors which have
served as cannon fodder for the Pentagons Folly. These Pentagon
Fools who think they understand war, have never really won a war. Nor
have they ever terminated a war. In effect, they are men in uniform who
have become extremely dangerous to the national security of our great
nation. In addition, they have become inexorable nexus of toxic fumes
of war crimes, extensive collateral damage, and a blemish on Americas
history of military victories.
As a veteran of several conflicts, I cannot in anyway rationalize their
need to stay one more minute in Afghanistan. These foolish generals
know, all too well, that the enemies that they seek are products of
CIA/MI creators and work in close concert with Pakistans ISI (also CIA
created). Americans are allowing our generals an opportunity to fight the
shadows of our own creation. Witness the shades and shadows of wars
lost---Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, Libya,
Pakistan, et. al.
This is outright insanity. Our President is too weak to defy his
generals. The White House is split on its attitude to the necessary tradeoffs between the need for peace and the artificial imperatives of an
unnecessary war. For years, I have explained to you that we have had a
soft military coup in this country, now you see the evidence.
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What do I mean?
Most of congress is beholden to the Pentagon, for some jobs
contract or base funding. The military and its industrial minions hold the
threat of cutting jobs job loss over elected officials like a sword of
Damacles, making congressman hostage to our military. There is not
one district in this country that does not have a piece of the militaryindustrial complex in it. If we have no real enemies to fight, no worries,
we will just create some. President Eisenhower warned us in the late
1950s of this obscene military-industrial complex which would
eventually devour our civil society; bleeding it of much needed
sustenance that should go to schools, health systems and infrastructure
repairs. These brave generals whose only concern is their own personal
glory ---or the self-delusion of possessing that glory care not a wit for
the welfare of this great Republic.
Americans: Wake up and see the truth about these endless wars.
These are NOT for your protection nor that of this country, these
continuous conflicts are serving the glory of these generals and this
system that operates in the shadows. For many years, I have helped
DOD create strategies that would allow them to PREVENT combat in
foreign lands. It saddens me to see these generals that are misguided and
unchecked. This is the 21st century, its time to re-think this outdated
military model that fosters such egotistical, unpatriotic military
leadership.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Whiplash The Amazing Cinema Jewel of 2014!
The story of a student jazz drummer and a relentless sadistic teacher
scores major points on screenplay, direction and acting. This is a sure
academy award winner. Allow me to tell you about a film that I think
most of you will enjoy.
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Its an independently produced film that won awards at the

Sundance Film Festival. The story is about a young drummer trying to
reach perfection. Driving Andrew Neiman [Miles Teller] is a sadistic
drill sergeant of a conductor, Terence Fletcher [J.K. Simmons] who
manipulates the young man up to an obsessional point where Miles has
no other choice than to become both crazy with fury and at the same
time, the new Buddy Rich.
On the surface this story may not sound compelling, yet when you
see the J.K. Simmons, the avuncular insurance sales man on our TV
commercials, turn into a nasty-ass drill sergeant a la Full Metal Jacket,
then you have seen true acting. I was stunned by the performances of
both Simmons and Teller. Moreover, I was completely taken aback by
the taut script and professional directing.
Even more amazing was the fact that the writer/director was a
novitiate ex-Harvard Student, Damien Chazelle. His proficiency in
writing conflict and dialogue belied the fact that this was film was really
his break-out opus. Whiplash was only the second film which this 29
year old man had ever directed. Like the last years esoteric film, Dallas
Buyers Club , which I had picked to win Academy Awards in the three
categories of script-writing, directing and acting; I will go on a limb
again, and chose Whiplash as the trifecta winner in all three
categories.
What pleases me the most was the fact that an unknown
writer/director had a chance to make a small budget film [$3.3M] and
succeed at a time when movie sequels and blockbusters are deep-sixing
Hollywood. Please, if you get the chance to see this gem of a movie, be
prepared to witness the socialized sadism/masochism of becoming the
best of the best in the music profession. The film points out very clearly
that if one aspires to reach the apex of a career, personal ambitions mean
very little without self-discipline, intense focus and the unenviable ability
to endure humiliation.
This film shows how rejection is the mother of greatness. Never
give up!!
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Thank you, Damien Chazelle. May you continue to succeed in your

chosen profession of writer/director. I can only imagine how many
rejections you had to endure to make this treasure of a film. Thank you
Sundance Institute for giving him the chance to burnish his nascent
talents.

Friday, November 28, 2014

Three Secretaries of Defense Resigned/Fired on Obamas Watch !
Now is the time to redefine what a 21st Century Secretary of
Defense should be in this changing world. As you many of you know by
now, I will often take a bad situation in our National Security and try to
make something constructive out of it or at least, reformulate a new
understanding of the problem at hand. America requires a military leader
that is competent, powerful and understands that we are operating in a
new age but who also can advantage the lessons of the past. Yet we have
been witnessing an assortment of good men performing poorly or not at
all in overseeing a military of close to 2.2 million personnel.
Now I will redefine the role of a 21st Century Secretary of Defense
who must address the protean issues confronting our forces all over the
world including: terrorism in general; ISIS in Iraq/Syria; Russia/Putin
incursions; Chinese naval/military expansion in the South China
Sea/Indian Ocean; Middle East nation-state implosions; cybersecurity;
space warfare; naval warfare etc. Just enumerating the problems
confronting the new Sec Defense is exhausting, if not debilitating. The
multitude of these problems implies the notion that no one person is
capable of dealing with all of these issues. In reality that may be true.
However, like a Medical Emergency Room, the Pentagon with its
widespread military commitments is akin to the diversity of problems
that we, doctors, have to treat on a seemingly ad hoc basis, 24/7. I am not
suggesting that a physician become the new Sec Defense but the
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characteristics of an effective ER doctor might apply to the redefinition

of what the new Sec Def might require in order to perform his/her job
properly, if not magnificently.
This new Sec Def will have to possess the ability and experience to
read the personalities and capabilities of the senior military leadership
quickly. No Sec Def had a better assessment of his personnel than
George Marshal who dismissed over six hundred senior military
personnel and appointed George Patton, [Colonel] Eisenhower, Omar
Bradley, and the greatest narcissist of all, Douglas MacArthur, to key
positions for implementing a two war strategy. I am not advocating a
complete house cleaning because that would serve no purpose, other than
instilling massive fear into an already disfunctional system. What I am
advocating for is a candidate who has been tutored and experienced in
working with a myriad of military personnel in a smorgasbord of combat
scenarios from counter-terrorism to cyber-warfare; naval containment of
worldwide sea lanes; selective use of Special Forces [which would not
open their collective mouths as the SEAL TEAMS have done]; space
warfare; submarine warfare; and Regime Change.
Clearly this is quite a daunting task. Few of our past six Sec. Def.
have been good at any of these let alone a multiple of these skills. None
of them have been really trained specifically to deal with large groups of
different personalities; and equally important, none of them, be they of
either party, have experienced combat, let alone understand the dynamics
of terrorism, counter insurgence or regime change.
Our current military has some unique qualities. It is now populated
by the warrior/scholar which means that the intellectual demands of
leadership are far more rigorous than in the past. There will be many
challenges to decisions on strategy by underlings. The new Sec of Def
must be ready to delineate plans in theoretical terms as well as providing
references to past failures and successes. After the Chairman of the JCS
achieves a military consensus, it requires him/her to impose it on the
White House and all other ancillary bodies of intelligence, logistics and
implementation.
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The new Sec Def must be able to pivot back and forth to address the
different military strategies and tactics required by the specific regional
conflict. What may work in Syria may not work in North Africa.
Similarly, cyber warfare may not be appropriate to the penetration of
groups like ISIS which may involve an incredible effort on behalf of all
types of HUMINT from a variety of countries and esoteric sources.
Most likely, neither academia nor politics will provide this type of
individual who is really a polymath of military/psychological/managerial
talents rarely found in a political loyalist turned adversary [a la Panetta
and Gates]. Our country has always discovered these unusual individuals
at times of need. George Marshal was a quiet self-effacing southern
military officer, trained at Virginia Military Institute [VMI] and not at
West Point.
America needs to identify the Black Swans of International Foreign
Security and can no longer rely on the outdated, outmoded military
academies [West Point, Annapolis], think tanks [Brookings, Heritage,
RAND]; nor non-governmental institutions like the dormant Council On
Foreign Relations. New times require new types of leaders who have
been versed in all matter of war and its consequences.
Our new Sec Def must first listen, learn and then decide. Then
he/she must execute a strategy or different strategies; articulate the Rules
of Engagement [ROE]; and most importantly, know how to terminate the
conflict and leave without any residue of regret or resurgence of the
initial problem. Its a formidable task for someone that must have
unusual skills. The least of which is the need to inject his/her narcissism
into the front pages of our newspapers; nor the sadistic need to brow-beat
our senior officers into submission of military plan that would never
work.
Times are a changing. Now its time for a new type of American
leader be it in war, or in peace. For the reality is that war and peace are
truly inseparable. In times of turbulence, our Black Swans have often
arisen in the past, into the maelstroms of our discontent, and have been
able to allay our greatest fears, seamlessly.
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Interestingly enough, General George Marshall, later Secretary of

State, never wrote of his exploits as the most successful Sec Def. in the
history of our country. Modesty and competency are extremely rare
virtues in our modern times.
The less the medical doctor explains the complicated procedure of
healing the sick patient, the more successful will be the outcome. Titrate
expectations! Under promise and over deliver. Can we do that in the 21st
Century?

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Recent Accusations of Bill Cosbys Sexual Assaults Augur a Serious
Warning for Hillary Clintons 2016 Presidential Run Regarding Bill
Clintons Relentless Past & Present Sexual Adventures!
I must admit that I know very little about Bill Cosby, the comedian.
I do know that he and I shared the same talent agency in Hollywood,
William Morris Agency. They clearly and rightfully did much better by
him than they could do with me. He was generating significant amounts
of money for his TV show in syndication. I was impressed, then.
Now, I listen and read about all the accusations made against him
and wonder what type of man must he be, or have been, in order to have
drugged and raped at least seventeen women. As a psychiatrist, I
certainly can provide an array of diagnostic terms from misogynist,
insecure, sociopathic and hostile, etc. However, what interested me about
these accusations at this point in time in his 77 year old life is the fact
that bad deeds do not escape the attention of the American public no
matter how many years ago they had been committed. With this new age
of electronic immediacy nothing evades the ubiquitous, voracious
appetite of the internet and its ancillary partners twitter, Facebook,
Instagram, and many other apps.
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As I read about Cosbys travails, I immediately thought of Hillary

Clinton and what troubles she may have in her impending race for the
2016 Presidential Election. Despite nascent strife within the recently
defeated Democratic Party, I envisioned a far more serious issue for
Hillary than the one concerning the leftward tilt of the Democratic Party.
I recalled a conversation I had years ago with a prominent Democratic
politician who had asked me a key question when Hillary was running
against a young Obama: Will Bill Clintons continued sexual forays
hurt Hillary?
My answer was a simple, Yes!
Of course, Obama won and Hillary was dispensed to the not-soshabby State Department, where she really had not accomplished very
much as Sec State. This blog is not intended to bash or laud Hillary. I am
writing because the issue of past sexual indiscretions, no matter how far
back, always seem to arise to the surface at a point of time when one
least expects it. I am clearly not a fan of Hillarys. But at the same time,
if she were to run, then let her be judged on simply her talents and not
those of her husbands.
I am really asking one question:
Is Hillary running alone or is she running wittingly or unwittingly
within the penumbra of her husbands indiscretions?
My assumption that Mrs Clinton has not come to terms with her
husbands past and present indiscretions is based on the fact that she has
never really separated herself, physically, emotionally or psychologically
from the iconic personae of Bill Clinton. As a politician, she tends to
bask in the blinding glares of her husbands alleged accomplishments.
Yet she moves away from his desultory speeches and narcissistic
pronouncements of self-adulation when it is convenient for her to do so.
Hillary is, by choice, intertwined within the fibrils of a blaring sociopath,
Bill Clinton, whether she likes it or not.
For me, the Delphi Oracle has arrived in the most propitious way
possiblea collective cry by seventeen abused women against
Americas Father FigureBill Cosby.
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I am certain that Bill Cosby will pay the price for his miscreant
behavior. This time, his talent agents, William Morris Endeavor, can do
nothing to help him out.
However, the die is cast for Hillary. Will she disavow her husbands
debauched past? Is she able to articulate a coherent explanation for
womens rights reflecting on her own past experiences as an abused wife
of an inveterate sex addict? Or, will she run like Sisyphus up the
unending hill, never to arrive at her destination; while at the same time,
tearing apart her Democratic Party? We will have to wait and see.
Who would have thought that Bill Cosbys past indiscretions might
have a predictive aspect for determining our American future?
I did. Soon it will be time for everyone to make up their own minds.

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Monday, December 1, 2014

Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe has Courageously tried to
Restart the Lost Decades of Economic Stagnation and has Failed
Miserably!
The staid Japanese Ministry of Finance and its demands for socalled budgetary discipline win a pyrrhic victory---leading Japan into a
massive economic depression. Japan is entering in to what I call a
ZOMBIE ECONOMY[TM].
Many of you have heard rumbles of world-wide recession, starting
in China and the Far East, and spreading all the way to the European
Common Market [where unemployment ranges around 25% for the
youth]. Unfortunately, there is a very real chance that one country, Japan,
may well be headed into depression, even after the valiant attempts of
Abe to stimulate the twenty year old no growth economic malaise that is
structural, often described as recession, stagnation, or heading to
depression.
Why do I call it a zombie economy?
This particular term is based on the fact that the Japanese people
possess some very unique national character features that are particular
to that nation. This feature of the Japanese culture makes change of any
sort almost impossible to effect on a mass level. The Japanese are group
oriented in terms of requiring consensual agreement on any re-alignment
of the status quo. Therefore, it is close to impossible for any leader,
particularly a proactive, aggressive political leader with extensive
experience to change the Japanese economy when he is pitted against the
embedded interests of the most recalcitrant bureaucracy in Tokyo, the
Ministry of Finance.
Abe had pressured the Central Banks of Tokyo to flood the
economy with easy money and credit in order to increase consumer
spending and, therefore, improve the GDP. However, on April 1, 2014,
April Fools Day, the Ministry of Finance thwarted Abes attempts to
stimulate the GDP as the best way to increase annual revenues to pay
down the bloated national debt. This Ministry of Finance decided to
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impose an 8% tax on an already deflationary economy primed with

quantitative easing of money. The impact: consumer spending stopped
abruptly, dragging down a $5 Trillion economy with 220% of GDP in
debt.
Sound familiar?
In some ways, Americans had been heading toward the same
problem where we needed to infuse cash into a stagnant economy. The
major difference is that Americans, by proclivity and habit, are used to
creating new businesses in very quick time. That is what makes America
an exceptional country. In contrast, Japans economy is largely based on
huge vertically integrated conglomerates, called ZaibatsusMitsubishi,
Nissan, Toyota, et. al. which guarantee lifetime employment for their
respective workers who cannot be fired, despite the shadow presence of
so-called fake unions. Similarly, farmers refuse to follow the economic
mandates of an energetic financially proactive leader like Abe, because
they do not want to impair their century-long traditions of farming and
agriculture.
It was not an accident that we, Americans, had to send in our own
nuclear scientists during the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant disaster. No
one in the Japanese power plant management hierarchy wanted to take
any responsibility for the nuclear disaster. At the same time, the shame
that they experienced as a result of this self-induced accident, made it
much harder for anyone tell the truth as to what was really happening.
Like the fall-out from nuclear disaster, the effects of a Japanese
Recession will impact the rest of the world.
I am not writing to whip the Japanese people. I have a lot of respect
for them and their culture. I am only warning them that if they dont act
ASAP to correct their anti-growth fiscal policies proposed by the
Ministry of Finance as well as MITI [Japanese bureaucracy that rules
over their corporations] Japan will sink into vortex of inescapable
financial pain which might lead them to assume, once again, a nasty
course of action that no one would like to seeWar with China over the
Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
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I hope that this type of conflagration does not happen. Japan has the
third largest naval force in the world and the Spratly Islands (I wrote
about this area 20 years ago) are still an attractive excuse for conflict
with China. The Japanese, like Americans, may resort to the tenuous
rationalization that in order to make money, the political elite will
inflame nationalistic feelings to extract the promise of victory by
attacking a falsely manufactured enemy.
This type of inexcusable behavior is often called Wars of
Opportunity or Unnecessary Wars just like our wars in Iraq (3 times)
and our war in Afghanistan (12 years).
As Henry Fielding, the writer said:
Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Just watched a great documentary last night on Whitey Bulger,
Boston has been the hub of FBI, police, DOJ corruption for a long time.

Friday, December 5, 2014

Palestine: The New Emerging State in the Middle East!
Thank You England, Spain, Sweden and now France for recognizing
the state of Palestine! Finally, the past insane eruptions of conflict have
settled into a narrative that portends peace and legitimacy. France, a
country often associated with providing refuge to political dissidents
around the world has boldly and correctly recognized the state of
Palestine. Although this action is non-binding, it has the symbolic import
of a de jure recognition of a group of people who have been displaced
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from their own homeland to pieces of landboth the West Bank and
Gazathat constitute for all reasonable purposes the new state of
Palestine.
France follows several other countries like Spain, England and
Sweden which have understood that the pronouncement of statehood to
refugees who have been thrown out of their own lands, for whatever
reason, has legitimized the dreams of millions Palestinians to correctly
call themselves a nation. Most importantly, the Palestinians can begin to
have a piece of paper called the passport that is recognized all over the
world as a document that designates a particular person as a citizen of a
country. For the past sixty years, Palestinians have had to endure the
concept of statelessness which entailed their begging for laissezpassez, transit papers from either Israel or some other non-indigenous
authority.
Equally important, this symbolic recognition of Palestine is the
direct consequence of the barbarous fifty day slaughter of innocent
Palestinians in the camps of Gaza. I have always found Bibi, the
nominal leader of Israel, to be basically arrogant, merciless and not very
bright, despite the fact that he went to my alma mater, MIT. I can
pronounce these words because since the time that my former boss, Sec
State James Baker threw this shithead out of the State Dept for his
stupid, insolence pompous manners, I knew that Bibi would lead Israel
into a path of self-destruction. Bibi is a spoiled American child reared by
a self-aggrandizing Cornell University Professor. Bibis father worked
alongside another Cornell University Professor, the Neo-Con Paul
Wolfowitzs ruthless mathematician father. Funny, how much of the
foundational building blocks of the neo-cons come out of Cornell.
Unlike the true military geniuses, Moshe Dayan and Sharon, Bibi
never once understood that to win a battle is not to win the war. This past
battle of IDF tanks, jets, and gun boats, mercilessly bombarding innocent
men, women and children reawakened the conscience of the world.
People like myself, decried the IDFs actions as Nazi-like and compared
it to the devastation of both the Warsaw Ghetto and Guernica, Spain
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during WWII. It was obvious to me that Bibi had finally reached the
apex of his strategic limits and tactical malfeasance.
Those brave Israelis intelligence operatives and combat soldiers who
defied Bibis orders to destroy the innocent, be they Palestinians, Druze,
Jews or Christians, took the first and most important steps to realigning
Israel with the principles of fairness and just deeds. Justice and Fairness
are at the root of Jewish philosophy evidenced by the 15th century
writings of the great MaimonidesRAMBAM [medical doctor/ writer/
advisor to Arab leaders-- my direct descendant].
Thank you France.
Thank you England.
Thank you Spain.
And, thank you Sweden.
Now, let the other countries of the world step forward and finally
declare the just truth that those who have lived in the shadows of
legitimacy and self-recognition can finally have their own StatePALESTINE!!
Mazel Tov! Salem Alechem! Merci! Thank you! Gracias! Tusen
Tack!

Monday, December 8, 2014

The Blowback Phenomena of ISIS Gory Propaganda!
Nothing succeeds like success but nothing fails like too much of
success. ISIS has been creating an ersatz caliphate through an effective
propaganda machinery that employs Twitter, Facebook and other social
media. They have been incredibly successful, as they have claimed, in
recruiting new members from all over the Western and Arab world.
However, ISIS never really learned the lessons of psychological warfare
that too much of a good thing can become quite a downer. Now ISIS,
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whomever this entity may really be, has entered the arena of propaganda
warfare that is quite tricky and has to be managed very carefully.
In an excellent article (posted earlier) by Thomas Friedman, NYT,
Dec.6, 2014, How ISIS Drives Muslims From Islam, he illustrates a
number of very revealing cases of Muslims who are being turned off by
the idea of a Nation-State enveloped in the artificial Islamic codes of
Sharia Law.
Let me give you an example of what Friedman has insightfully
recognized.
.. on Twitter, a hashtag which translated as why we reject
implementing Shariah has been used 5000 times in 24 hours. The
conversation is mainly taking place in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
I find this particular anti-ISIS phenomena quite exciting. It
illustrates that no matter how much one wants to use social media for
recruitment and/or propaganda, there are internal limits to its utility.
Every piece of propaganda showing the horrors that are committed by
one or another side has inherent constraints which limit the utility of that
particular message and media. I call that a titration problem. No matter
how effective ISIS thought it was in the initial phase of its psychological
warfare, it had to go in only one constant directionmore of the same.
When the saturation point of absorption occurred among
knowledgeable Muslim youths all over the world, ISIS started to become
a parody of horror and grotesqueness. The message of instituting Sharia
Law backfired in such a way that it literally mobilized an anti-Sharia
campaign in the very areas of the Middle East where Sharia Law is most
prominent: Saudi Arabia. If there were any one Muslim country which
least represents the true value of Islam, it is Saudi Arabia, a desert
Kingdom of dysfunctional, spoiled brats who call themselves Kings,
Princes and Royalty.
For me, Saudi Arabia has been like a mirage in the desert, a fading
image of post British Colonialism earmarked by a completely
distorted/warped interpretation of Islam in the form of the parochial and
dangerous Wahhabi tribal traditions which are the guarantors of the
Saud/Faisal family reign. Fortunately for the enlightened world, Saudi
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Arabia and Wahhabism is faltering, if not moribund. The youth of Saudi

Arabia are too smart for this arcane type of spiritual/political leadership.
They have been trained in our schools from Montana State University to
the Eastern Ivy League Universities. Saudi women will no longer wear
the dark clothes of submission to assure the men that they are subjugated
to a false God and makeshift misogynic laws. Saudi women are
demanding their rights to drive, teach, learn as their western
contemporaries have done for centuries.
When I went to Saudi Arabia years ago, the inherent hypocrisy of
Sharia Law was evident in the 747 airplane that was taking off from the
runway. As soon as we reached a certain altitude, all the Saudi women
immediately disrobed and assumed their acquired western oriented dress
codes. Believe me, these women were exceedingly beautiful.
ISIS is eventually going to implode on itself. Military excursions for
and against ISIS, will have a very limited purpose. ISIS lives basically on
a cash flow which propagates a myth of a caliphate that can never exist
in the 21st century because the internet will deconstruct every statement,
picture or utterance of fake political entity based on thousands of years of
wishful thinking. Even the great Kurdish fighter, Saladin, knew that one
day Judeo-Christian beliefs would have to consort in a world with Islam,
Buddhism, and Atheism. He knew very well what the lesser, more
pretentious, ineffective pretenders of ISIS did not realizethe Caliphates
of thousands of years ago are essentially buried in the texts of the Koran,
if one knows how to read the Holy Book properly.
For those of you who are thinking of joining ISIS or any other
outdated, childish fantasy, think again. It could turn out that ISIS may be
dangerous to your health. I want to thank and encourage all those young
Muslims around the world who understand that religion and statecraft are
two separate entities. Western European Renaissance was an outgrowth
of the once dynamic Arab Culture that gave western civilization coffee,
calculus and world-wide commerce.
Now, it is time for the youth of Saudi Arabia and other countries
where so-called religious despots rule--- to overthrow their respective
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illegitimate regimes and become the terrorists that the American

Founding Fathers had once been called.
Good luck !
And thank you ISIS for completely failing in your mission of
conversion and nation-state building. If I did not know better, I would
have presumed that most of ISIS was composed of the most
dysfunctional NEOCONS, Intelligence Operatives and Bush-ites who
failed to establish a stable nation after they invaded Iraq. That is just a
whimsical thought..or maybe not!

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Here's my blog from a year and a half ago on the 6000 page "torture
report" , fyi.

The Unintended Consequences of the Boston Massacre: THE

SPECIFIC INDICTMENT of Bush Jr/Obama/CIA/US Military Torture
of 9/11 Prisoners at GITMOFINALLY CONFIRMED as a WAR
CRIME-- Equivalent to Prosecuted Nazi War Crimes and the Torture/
Internship Of Japanese Americans During WWII.
Nothing beats a sensational front page news story like a Boston
Marathon Massacre! Most readers would miss the incidental but far
more serious implication for the moral compass of America than the NY
Times story by Scott Shane, entitled, U.S. Practiced Torture After 9/11,
Non Partisan Review Concludes. (posted earlier)
In this article, both Asa Hutchinson [Republican/Bush Jr
Administration] and James R. Jones [Democrat, Congress] indict the
interrogation and tortures committed by Presidents Clinton [Rendition],
Bush Jr [full menu of tortures], Obama [Bush Jr in Black Face].
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In essence, this bipartisan report, along with 6,000 pages of still

classified docs
IMPLICATES THREE ADMINISTRATIONS of
INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMESRENDITION, TORTURE,
ENHANCED INTERROGATION.
What does this mean in the midst of our frenzy to find supposed
terrorists of the Boston Marathon Massacre?
It means that, as I have previously repeated time and time again, we
have had and still have Presidents who have willingly committed acts of
International War Crimes Punishable by Death and / or Life
Imprisonment.
Furthermore, to make matters even worse, the extensive
investigations showed that the abominable, criminal activities of
interrogation, torture, water boarding committed by the CIA, US
military, US mercenaries and sanctioned by three presidents were like
the wars themselves- totally useless.
In short, the USA is GUILTY of COMMITTING USELESS
WAR CRIMES!!!
Have I, an experienced counter terrorist expert with thirty years
experience who had never had to touch even one detainee, let alone
torture or interrogate anyone, suddenly had a fit of righteous
indignation or just decided to vent his RELENTLESS FURY for
UNREPENTANT SINS of our THREE PRESIDENTS and their
MINIONS?
The answer lies not in the headlines nor in the hysterical media
distractions of a tragic occurrence which I might have been able to
predict (I think Patriarch did predict this), had I known beforehand that
this report would come out on the same day as the BOSTON
MARATHON.
Thats right! Youve got it! Once again, Obama in concert with
FEMA, CIA, FBI, and other National Security minionsthe usual choir
boy suspectsdecided to OFFER A DISTRACTION.
Bloody! Macabre! Inane!! Insensitive!

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But please place this Boston Marathon along side the sacrifices
that Bush jr was willing to make in terms of dead American bodies in
9/11close to 3,000 innocent Americans in the World Trade Center
alone. The Boston Marathon Massacre is small potatoes in the theater of
distractions for war crimes.
A decade ago, Bush Jr had no qualms, of course along with his
close pal Cheney, of sacrificing a few thousand US military men in the
useless Iraq War. Dont forget the hundreds of thousands of innocent
Pakistanis, Yemenis, Afghanis, and Iraqis that Obama, Panetta, Tenet,
Hayden, Brennan et al, are willing to sacrifice in the name of terror or,
excuse me, the war on terror.
So whats a few Americans who were killed and injured in the
Marathon Race? Nothing, really, in comparison to the full scope of the
extent of the horror that Clinton, Bush jr and Obama collectively had
engaged in maiming the innocent; torturing the prisoners; injuring and
killing the countless thousands of innocent civilians; destroying societies
and countries; and creating world wide MAYHEM and CHAOSall for
the sake of NATIONAL SECURITY??
Let me be more precise and list some of the issues that are relevant
to the torture, interrogation and the legal consequences of those
actions over a thirty year period since the Clinton Administration.
But first lets go back, a bit further to WWII.
--A Japanese General was summarily executed by the US allies for
waterboarding pilots who had been caught in the Jimmy DoLittle Raid
on Tokyo.
-- US Army soldiers during the Vietnam War summarily placed in
prison for waterboarding Viet Cong prisoners of war.
--In 1948, Norwegians executed German SS officers practicing
enhanced interrogation techniques called Versharfte Vernehmung
developed by Gestapo Chief Heinrich Muller, using sleep deprivation,
extreme cold, suspension in stress positions and deliberate
exhaustion.
--Navy Captain Albert Shimkus Jr, who ran a hospital for the
prisoners at Gitmo protested the unethical behavior.
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-- Bill Clinton, Sandy Berger approved rendition.

--Bush jr, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Condi, Steve Hadley, Elliot Abrams,
Gen. David Petraeus, Jose Rodriguez [head of CIA Covert operations],
John Brennan, David Addington [WH staff], all approved the use of
severe interrogation methods including hypothermia, waterboarding,
stress positions, abdominal beatings, genital torture, and other bodily and
psychological harm according to Department of Justice Concurrence of
Attorney General John Ashcroft as written in the paper by John Yoo.
Also concurring to these aforementioned methods were NSA Director
General Michael Hayden, SecState Collin Powell, and DCI George
Tenet.
--The only official to dissent officially and was subsequently
reprimanded was Philip Zelikow, PhD who wrote a memo contesting the
DOJs Torture Memo written by John Yoo and others in Justice.
-- Karl Rove told BBC in 2010: Im proud that we kept the world
safer than it was, by the use of these techniques. Theyre appropriate,
theyre in conformity with our international requirements and with US
law.
--Cheney: I was and remain a strong proponent of our enhanced
interrogation program.
--Congresswoman, later Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi [D,
Cal. San Francisco] in a meeting with the CIA/Bush Jr Administration
WHOLEHEARTEDLY
SUPPORTED
ENHANCED
INTERROGATION AND TORTURE!
There goes our in-house LIBERALALL THE WAY WITH
TORTURE, PRINCESS NANCY! What happened to the infamous
University of Berkley WAR PROTESTORS-ITS ONE OF YOUR
OWN !!! And what about your Pacific Heights Liberal Constituents? Do
they know that you are true blue SADIST and WAR CRIMINAL?
--But Congresswoman Jane Harmon also from California and a
Democratic Liberal had the guts to dissent and object. But she was in the
minority.
--James Steele, in charge of the US Death Squads [Paramilitary] in
El Salvador where 75,000 civilians were killed was placed by Cheney
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and Rumsfeld as OUR MAN IN IRAQ to train the counter insurgency.

Also involved with Elliot Abrams and Ollie North in the Iran Contra
Affair. War criminal!!!
-- Jose A, Rodriguez Jr, the former Director of the National
Clandestine Service for the CIA [served 31 years] and author of Hard
Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American
Lives
This Puerto Rican Torture Wonder from the University of
Florida could not stop lauding his incredible efforts at engaging in
constant torture of 9/11 victims to such an extent that he rode the
celebrity circuit promoting his book of absurd observations: About 30
out of the 100 or so detainees that the CIA held were subjected to some
harsh treatment.
Its this same pobrecito who literally gave dictation to Kathryn
Bigelow for her fictional film rendition of Zero Dark Thirty and then
after being reprimanded by me in an email to my contacts, Jose quickly
recanted his story. What an dishonorable, cowardly pobrecito!!!
General David Petraeus, who would become the DC I and tried
to distance himself from Steele was deeply involved and knowledgeable
about the torture and paramilitary death squads in Iraq. My bad!!
Even yours truly could be fooled by the presumed integrity of a
man who had been shot by his friend on a shooting range and claimed
that he was the innovator of the thousand year old counter insurgency
theory. What a liar, well, someone saw fit to put Petraeus in his proper
place of ignominy. Too bad for the honorable men and women who
served him and were fooled by him as I was. Petraeus is an example of
how rampant sociopathy and self aggrandizement rages through our so
called warrior leaders.
BTW, in most cases of enhanced interrogation, one often needs
the presence or advice of a physician, psychiatrist or psychologist. I
would recommend consulting my former psychiatric colleague who
presents himself as an expert in the mind of a terrorist- Dr. Jerry Post.
He also trained at Harvard Medical College. However, unlike myself, he
was the founder and director of the Center for the Analysis of Personality
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and Political Behavior at the CIA for over 20 years. In fact, he was so
good at questioning terrorists or suspected terrorists that he was awarded
the Intelligence Medal of Merit in 1979 and received the studies in
Intelligence Award in 1980! Atta boy! He then received the Nevitt
Sanford Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Political
Psychology in 2002. He was a consultant for the CIA for a long time and
probably still is! He presently resides as many academic CIA assets do
at the George Washington University Department of Political
Psychology on E Street in DC. I am certain he knows a lot more about
enhanced interrogation than any other psychiatrist or medical
doctor.including me!
By now, my dear readers, I am certain you get the idea.
Falls flags galore. Deaths abound. Non-deaths are opine as in Sandy
Hook. At least, in the Boston Massacre, one can see how much of a
false flag, Sandy Hook was, without any pictures of blood, guts and
death. Remember that scene in Chicago where you have to razzledazzle them??? Distraction from the REAL story.
But the point is quite simple!
Once again, Executive tyranny reigns supreme over our Republic.
It started with Slick Willy and Rendition and his corrupt political
and economic cronyism. Then it accelerated and deteriorated with Bush
Jr and company.
And now the President of NON-TRANSPARENCY and
NIXONIAN SECRECY and DRONE WARS has continued the slide
of our republic into a criminal civilization worthy of an international
tribunal placing our leaders in jail or worse.
As for me, as I once said to a former governor who accused me
of tyranny acting against his brother, Bush Jr, I replied very calmly, In
times of tyranny, treason is PATRIOTISM!!!
Vox Populis! Vox Deus!!

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

The Russian Ruble is Crashing Thanks to US/EU Economic
Sanctions/Warfare!
In the course of my thirty year career in national security, I have
discovered that contrary to the consensus, bullets and artillery shells are
not the most powerful tools of regime change. In fact, we are witnessing
the strategy first implemented by Nixon, then carried out by Reagan and
primarily Bush Sr/Baker of psychological warfare inducing fear through
an economic system wherein the opposing regime cannot minimize the
effect of an American Economic War.
I am not gloating over the fact that the Ruble; as well as, the Russian
economy is literally on the brink of complete financial collapse. I am
merely pursuing a narrative which I had started years ago about how
powerful the American economy can be when judiciously targeted
against a weaker more fragile, artificial economy, be it the Soviet Union,
or the present Putin government. In the world of experts spouting
geopolitical imperatives for the destiny of nations, I refute their basic
constructs by pointing out that in the long term, most nations, like
individuals or groups of individuals respond to FEAR. No nation is
immune to the fear of an Ebola Epidemic or economic instability.
The very core of nation-state is based on the foundations of
economic and political security. If one falters, then both will tumble. In
both WWI and WWII what made America so powerful and lethal in
combat was the fact that our economic capacity to turn out bombers,
tanks, and war materials overwhelmed all the combatant nations. The
fact that our crippled FDR understood that WWII was about allowing
competing economic systemsboth communism and national fascism
to destroy each other showed an incredible insight into the dynamics and
faith he had about our unique capitalist economy.
During the Cold War, it was not weapons or missiles that won the
war, but our ability to harness our economic power to over-ride any false
confidence that the Politburo had about their failing, self-destructive
economy and the useless weapons and goods that they manufactured.
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The one factor that had always impressed me about the Russians is their
ability to delude themselves into believing that they were a formidable
nation-state. During this time, I helped to construct the strategy for the
psychological warfare of regime change in the Soviet Union, starting
with the Nixon administration sending me to Moscow to negotiate for the
release of Christian dissidents [Baptists] incarcerated in psychiatric
hospitals [ Kaschenko Psy. HospGRU/KGB]
as sluggish
schizophrenics [a concocted term]. I immediately developed an
economic matrix where I commoditized the value of the incarcerated
Christian against the value of Wang Computers.
How did that work?
If I wanted a very important Christian dissident out of the
psychiatric hospital, I had to determine with my adversary, Stalins
personal doctor/psychiatrist, how many Wang computers was the
individual worth to the Russians. I got the Christians and Stalins
henchman got the computers. We never talked about Human Rights or
anything other than the worth of a dissident in terms of an American
asset that they wanted.
Similarly, in developing the strategy for regime change in the Soviet
Union, the notion that Star Wars was not real but rather complete fiction
was a way of creating fear in the Soviet Military Industrial Complex to
spend whatever little remaining resources they had on a highly contrived
psychological operation which finally depleted the Soviet Economy. The
rest of the regime change involved cultural manipulations of imposing
religion where atheism existed; as well as, creating a youthful foment
[Agitprop] with Radio Free Europe/Jazz/ Rockn Roll. This led to an
underground swelling of the intelligentsia demanding change along the
lines of the west. Finally, all the factors combinedFinancial, Cultural,
and Agit Propdefeated the existing Soviet System. This is contrary to
Gorbachevs statements that Russia just collapsed in on itself.
Next Gorbachev was chosen by the USG but he failed to make the
necessary changes in both the economy and political body to sustain a
viable Russia. Now, Putin, as many of you know from my past blogs, has
literally fallen into the same psychological trap that the Soviets had done
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despite warnings from myself and others. He is NOT stupid yet his
arrogance and ignorance of the world economy and the ability of
America to literally vanquish any opponent economically [forget about
the military] was not taken seriously. So the present Russian catastrophe
of the Ruble crashing is the result of lessons not learned from the past.
If the occupation of the Ukraine was the initial precipitant, it was, at
best, a false start on both sides. The real give away for me that Russia
and Putin had failed miserably was the Sochi Olympics which was a
bustliterally and financially. It cost Russia over 50 Billion Dollars of
wasted money given to the Kleptocracy in the Kremlin. Once again, we
initiate a economic war in order to teach Putin that his narcissism was
completely out of control and that his weapon of choice against the EU,
gas distribution on a selective basis, would never work.
The key turning point in this economic war was not the Ukraine or
anything that we, Americans did or not do. It was Angela Merkel, the
leader of Germany who had understood Putin so well, because both grew
up in East Germany under the rule of Stasi [Putin was trained by Stasi],
and had decided that Germany could no longer work with Putin suis
generis. Her assessment that Putin was out of control because of his ego
and inane behavior, marked the end of the Ruble and the Russian
economy. Putin should leave office for the benefit of both Russia and
world peace. Nothing good will be accomplished by Putins remaining in
power.
For those who genuinely believe that Russians can continue to suffer
because of their legendary soul-searching angst, I would caution both the
Americans and Russians to think again. Angst and hunger do not play
too well with the 21st Century Russian youths who have never witnessed
the ravages of WWII and poverty.
As we say in the French Casinos:
Les Jeux Sont Faits!
The Game Is Over, Ladies and Gentlemen! No more Bets!
Adieu Putin! Good bye!

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

The Cuba Opening: Obamas Secret Diplomacy Success!
Most of you are aware that this blogger has not shied away from
criticizing Obama or the CIA and other covert agencies for their past
failures. However, if I am willing to criticize Caesar than I must also
praise him for the fine handling of a very delicate issue like the loosening
of relations with Cuba. I dont have to go over the history of a fifty year
embargo that has done nothing but made a few US mid-western farmers
extremely wealthy shipping grain and other crucial goods to Cuba.
Please remember that in every so called embargo of a country,
someone tends to benefit. More often than not, its our wealthy
corporations or agribusinesses that profit the most from goods and
services which find their way somehow into the embargoed country.
That was true of the embargo on South Africa when the Maritius Airlines
were laden with all types of goods that were prohibited from being sold
to South Africa. Or when Israel tested their non-existent atomic bomb off
the coast of the African Horn.
However, this time around Obama initiated a one and a half year
secret negotiations unbeknownst to me or others who were in the know.
He made covert overtures to Raul Castro through an intermediary who
was a guarantor for both the US and CubaThe Pope. Congrats to the
Pope Francis for his skillful backdoor negotiations with the Cuban
leadership. Also Congrats to our Intelligence/Diplomatic Community for
their persistent, quiet diplomacy which had effectively dismantled the
antiquated, useless embargo. More and more, I am beginning to see that
Obama is really growing in the Presidential office by initiating and
completing
several
successful
but
completely
unheralded
accomplishments:
A few worth mentioning..
1. One month ago a Singaporean tanker left Texas with American
oil, signifying that for the first time, Americans have become a major
exporter of oil to the world. At the same time, Obama has allowed the oil
companies to produce over 9 million barrels of oil per day placing us in
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the position of being able to drive down the price of oil precipitously.
Also Obama has, despite complaints from this left wing, increased the
fracking that has been occurring all over the USA, even in places one
would not have thought.
2. Obama vetoed the Keystone pipeline correctly claiming that the
gas transported from the sands of Canada would do nothing for the
American economy, but only benefit major Canadian Companies.
3. And the piece de resistance is that soon Obama will effectively
conclude a trade and diplomatic treaty with the most crucial country in
the Middle East: Iran. By doing so, he realigns the power base away
from the useless makeshift post English colonial countries like Saudi
Arabia [major thorn in our side]; UAE; Qatar; Jordan; Syria; and Israel [a
strategic liability].
Please dont forget that our economy has been growing while the
rest of the world has been in an economic recession, no mean feat. It was
the Obama administration and its covert operatives in the military,
civilian parts of the USG who effectively taught Putin the lesson in
economic theory. Dont mess with America when it comes to money,
honey! We will always win! Crony Capitalism trumps Kremlin
kleptocracy.
So I must congratulate this administration for deeds well done and
commend all the White House members for carrying out a very delicate
act of diplomacy, a long time coming. Hail Caesar! Hail Obama!
Republicans: you are in deep, deep trouble, carrying on like children
in a sand lot throwing mud at one another and the President.

Sunday, December 21, 2014

How the Mid-term Republican Victory is Quickly Turning the Staid
Party into a Carnival of Self-Delusion and Grandiosity.
Self-Implosion is imminent.
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Recently, President Obama pulled a Nixonian tour de force by

recognizing Cuba in a well-orchestrated strategy/tactics utilizing the best
of our Intelligence/ Diplomatic community. Whether you like what he
did is not as relevant as trying to understand and appreciate both the
bravado and deftness with which this complicated maneuver was
executed by POTUS and the Pope.
So what is the response from the Republican Party which should
have been in the forefront of creative diplomatic achievements a la
Nixon? A cherubic pubescent gnat identified as a Cuban-American,
Senator Marco Rubio uttered the most inane phrases like the baby-faced
sputtering Republican saprophyte he has become:
I know more about Cuba than the President.
What?
This hyphenated Cuban-American is neither Cuban nor American.
He has never served one day in our military nor intelligence service.
Instead, after graduating from the least impressive schools that America
can offer, this not very bright, ambitious panderer, immediately went into
politics serving in the corrupt Tallahassee Legislature.
Throughout his limited political career he has been known as nothing
more than a globule of protoplasm that spouts out repeatedly that his
family came from Cuba as political prisoners of Fidel Castro. Of
course, he was lying, like most indigenous Cubans, his family fled Cuba
to make a better living in the USA.
So what did these Cuban refugees do to improve our economy?
Parts of his family became involved in the drug trade so prevalent in
Miami. Rubio then distanced himself from his own distorted narrative,
supported by his mentor, Jeb Bush, and rescinded his stories about his
family and his own miscreant activities with American
banks[foreclosures].
Who is Marco Rubio?
Not an American and certainly not a Cuban. He was born in
America and went both to Catholic and Mormon schools to achieve
nothing more than a narrative of self-aggrandizement and self-delusions.
By contrast, I was born in Havana, Cuba, went on to all the Ivy League
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schools and universities not once mentioning the fact that I was truly
Cuban. Then I went on to serve both in our military, intelligence services
and State Department. Afterward, I left the comfort of USG to start a
series of start-ups as an angel investor. I had successes and I had
failures. Some other Cubans with whom I am very close to still serve our
country as well as create many new and successful companies.
None of us have created a life solely based on the place where we
were born a la Rubio who became the House Hispanic for the
Republicans. As both an American and a passport carrying Cuban who
fought Fidels and Rauls soldiers in Panama, I am proud that Obama
and Raul Castro made this incredible dtente worthy of Nixon.
As a life-long Republican, I am ashamed of my party for splattering
a moment of history with nonsensical palaver and self-delusional
statements. If the Republicans continue on this self-destructive course of
attacking every constructive initiative with ad hominum statements, they
will be seen as nothing more than a do-nothing party. Obstructionism is
not a strategy nor will it work and frankly, its unpatriotic.
In addition, the floater launched that Jeb is running for president
makes me feel even worse about this Republican Organization. Its either
stupidity, desperation or ego mania or a combination that propels Jeb
from sullying whats left of Bush Sr legacy. Forget the fact that 70% of
those polled believe that 9/11 was a false flag orchestrated by Bush
Jr/Cheney. Does Jeb really want to dig up the Neil/Marvin Silverado
Scandals and the lies (9/11, WMD etc) of the Jr years? This is in
addition to his own wifes greedy indiscretions, his daughters drug
addiction for which she served time and the whole election rigging for
his brothers presidential..other than that?!! (oh yeah, Jebs
questionable business associations in Miami before he became governor,
etc)
I digress, back to Rubio and his ignorance. For those who know a
little about the history of Cuba and America, the Founding Fathers could
not receive the necessary money, guns and gunpowder that allowed us to
win the Revolutionary War without Cuba. Cuba is more than Desi Arnaz
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and BabaLu and Castro. Yet Rubio claims he knows more about Foreign
Policy than former sec of state Hillary Clinton..I doubt it.
Please get rid of this hyphenated nobody before its too late for the
Republican Party. Rubio does NOT represent real Americans who have
served our country in the different times of need without elaborating on
their Hispanic Roots, be they Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Latin
Americans !!! A life-long politician is nothing more than a professional
panderer who contributes nothing to our capitalist society based on risk,
reward and hard work, asking nothing from anyone except the
appreciation of the fruits of their respective labor. Rubio created nothing
but a selfie on steroids that has become toxic element in our
entrepreneurial economy. We can no longer afford the Rubios nor his
mentor, Jeb Bush.

Monday, December 22, 2014

R.I.P. Joe Cocker

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

STEVE PIECZENIK LIVE on The Alex Jones Show [12-22-14]
Dr. Steve Pieczenik and Alex Jones discuss cyber warfare, North
Korea, economic warfare, the Russian Ruble, kleptocracy, psyops,
propaganda & more!

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CNN is compromised, Fox news is compromised, Obama was born

in Kenya, oil prices will continue to drop, Palestine will be recognized as
a state...
An explosive must watch interview broadcasted live worldwide on
12-22-14

Monday, December 29, 2014

American Sniper Movie Hits the Bulls-Eye!
Congratulations to Director/Producer Clint Eastwood and Bradley
Cooper, Actor/Producer for an outstanding depiction of the terrible Iraq
War and its collateral damage.
I was pleasantly surprised by this film that depicts an accurate
portrayal of the horror of war. Based on the true story of a Texan, Chris
Kyle, who volunteered for four tours of duty as a SEAL sniper in Iraq
[the battle of Fallujah] and was credited with close to 160 kills. This
film by the sagacious director, Clint Eastwood, neither glorifies nor
deprecates the actions of this brave, but disturbed character.
Like many of Clints films about war (Letters from Iwo Jima and
the Japanese participation in WWII), Eastwood has a steady hand in
directing the complicated action lines in many of the battles that occurred
in Fallujah, Iraq. He does not moralize for or against war, he simply
portrays the mayhem and terror that constantly surrounds our fighting
men/women. In the same vein of impressive performances, I must admit
that the once pretty boy image of Bradley Cooper has morphed into a
brilliant portrayal of a Texan born to snipe, fight and contemplate.
Cooper has assumed a maturity as an actor that has to be commended,
playing a SEAL whom everyone addresses as The Legend.
In this film, Cooper has demonstrated a wide range of emotions that
belie the bravado of a first time sniper who finally comes to terms with
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his need for war and action at a very high cost to his own sanity and the
well-being of his young family. Sienna Miller, his wife, was excellent as
a bar-hopping young woman who matures into a loving, caring mother
and wife.
What makes this film so exceptional is the perspective that Eastwood
takes from the view of both the Iraq sniper [the butcher] and the
American sniper. Neither one is more moral or even better at his lethal
skill of precision kills. Both are beset by circumstances that compounds
their own particular problems in sighting their respective targets.
However, I do caution those of you who have endured an assortment of
tours through either Iraq or Afghanistan that the scenes of mayhem and
death may resound beyond the borders of sensibility. I found the movie
to be both emotionally moving, disturbing and excellently executed.
Clearly, as someone in my Fourth Trimester of Life [pun] I am
encouraged by the fact that Clint Eastwood at the age of 84 has produced
this American Masterpiece about war. I dont know how the academy
will vote on this picture because the academy is usually biased against
films that portray war or even attempt to explain it; however, I would
vote for Best Picture and Best Director- The American Sniper and Clint
Eastwood. I would also vote Bradley Cooper as the Best Actor of 2014.
However, more often than not, I have been wrong in my selections over
the past ten years.
Congratulations to all involved in this brilliant film, American
Sniper, depicting the horrors of war, particularly, the Iraq incursion.
I would also include those individuals who are often described as
below the line for recognition:
Best Adapted Screenplay.
Best Film Editing.
Best Cinematography
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design
Best Visual Effects
Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing
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 Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

In other words, this film, American Sniper, is an all around winner!
Congratulations to all involved!!
P.S This film is a reminder that we really dont need these types of
wars anymore. But that is just my opinion.

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Thursday, January 1, 2015

Unbroken: The Movie that transformed Actress Angelina Jolie into a
Full Fledge Director.
Once again I am entering the bantam weight ring of film criticism,
awaiting your collective derision, mixed in with some hosannas. I found
the 2 hour plus film quite long and somewhat tedious. The story involves
an American Olympic runner, Louis Zamperini, who becomes a
bombardier during WWII and is tortured in different Japanese prison
camps until he and others are liberated by Allied forces. Usually a film
like this would have been cut down by half of the amount with sharper
editing and more tension points.
However, having said all that, I am still impressed that Angelina
Jolie was able to undertake such a huge enterprise wherein combat
action, personal reflection are interspersed with scenes of horrific
Japanese torture by one, historical well-known Japanese War Criminal:
Watanabe-The Bird. A significant portion of the latter part of the film
depicts in graphic detail the horrendous tortures that Louie had to endure
under the sadistic, homosexual Watanabe. What is exceedingly important
about these scenes is that fact that many Americans were not aware that
our soldiers, along with their counterparts in their respective armies-British, Canadian, New Zealanders, Aussies, Dutch, Chinese, Russian
were all subjected to war crimes committed knowingly and intentionally
by the Japanese Military under the direct command of Tojo who received
orders from Emperor Hirohito.
Emperor Hirohito, like many of our own leaders, should have been
subject to the International War Crimes Tribunal. However, thanks to
the intervention of General Douglas MacArthur and Alfred Sloan
[General Motors], Hirohito and various senior Japanese war criminals
were never prosecuted for the atrocities they had committed during
WWII. Clearly, I know about our saturation bombing of 60% of Japan
and the eventual dropping of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki; however, those actions did not mitigate in any way the
Japanese refusal to admit the atrocities that they had committed in the
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Rape of Nanjing and the Bataan Death March; along with the relentless
biological [bubonic, anthrax] attacks against innocent Chinese in
Manchuria and Russians.
The film has appropriated a Christian narrative towards the end of
the scene where Louie holds up a wooden beam in homage to the image
of Christ. However, the movie really does not address the personal and
national consequences of such barbaric activities committed by the
Japanese High Military and Senior Political officials.
Why do I harp back again to this bete-noire?
When I wrote Blood Heat, some thirty years ago as a fictional
account of the torture of our prisoners of war during the Japanese
Occupation of South East Asia, my Japanese publishers who had
included the editor of the infamous Mishima, the Japanese writer who
committed Hara-Kari, refused to allow the book into Japan. The
Japanese also banned me from coming to do a book tour. In turn, the
Brits, Aussies and Dutch took my book around Asia and allowed
everyone from the Vietnamese to the Chinese read about some of the
atrocities that Emperor Hirohito had personally ordered against the
gaijinforeigners.
Now, Angelina Jolie has addressed a new generation of Japanese
youth with a truthful, restrained portrayal of those atrocities. I commend
her and her team, including Clayton Townsend [producer] as well as the
actors who had to re-enact the barbarism of Japan that has been edited
out of the official history of Japan. Unlike Germany, Japan has refused to
confront their own history and their collective inhumane brutality under
Hirohito. Thank you Universal Pictures for keeping this picture in
development for fifty years. Thank you Angelina Jolie for once again,
taking on a brave subject about the horrors of wars.
To Ms Jolie: Your first film, The Land of Blood and Honey,
brilliantly depicting the Balkan Wars was the first hint of a prodigious
directorial talent which feared nothing---not a contemptible subject
matter rife with death, torture and sadism. Nor were you afraid to
undertake a production that would have daunted even the best of our
directors in terms of complexity of shots and subject matters. May you
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find satisfaction in your remarkable achievement. Hollywood may be

jealous of a woman of your beauty and eccentricity [real or not] and
might deny you a deserved reward. So keep on directing.

Friday, January 2, 2015

Here's the latest twist in the Jeffery Epstein under age sex scandal,
some big names added to the potential perp list.

Friday, January 2, 2015

More details on the pedophiles, the great defenders of Israel,
included

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz Implicated in Pedophilia Case
by U.S. Prosecutors!
Israel, as it begins to fall apart as a nation, has lost its main
propaganda Dummy, Alan Dershowitz, to a child sex scandal.
Its quite a challenge when my readers are ahead of me on such
happenings. I congratulate you all on the different insights you have
provided me and others regarding this nasty stuff. I can add very little to
this despicable case of moral depravity implicating Alan Dershowitz and
other prominent politicians.
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May I suggest that by now, the Webster Dictionary should create the
noun -- to become a CLINTON; which means suis generis-- morally
depraved, grandiose, sociopathic, self-destructive. This would apply to
all members of the Clinton family and their extended sycophant coterie.
Yet the most interesting character in this specific criminal case is the
egregiously unctuous so-called Harvard Professorthe professional Jew
and Zionist, Alan Dershowitz who has been clintonized long before
Clinton came to prominence on the political scene.
Never before have I found a more annoying strident voice
promoting the cause of Judaism and the State of Israel than the ignorant,
self-delusional Dershowitz. His incessant craving for public recognition
mirrors a sado-masochists need for constant pain and punishment as a
release of internal tensions. Israel has become a morally hypocritical
nation, the existence of which was defined by a moral catastrophe whose
founders including Theodore Hertzl [btw also accused of being a
pederast] decided to front the Jewish Bund which wanted to create a
haven for the persecuted jews.
Now God or serendipity has played its most brilliant strategy. As
punishment for Israel having killed thousands of innocent Palestinians in
Gaza and for its stiff-necked insistence on war and occupation as the
justifiable means of existence, the greater force of the universe have
conspired to proclaim that Israel and its egregious spokespersons will
have to pay the price of hubris: DESTRUCTION. Several years ago, I
had warned that Israels self-destructive path towards Iran, Palestine and
its constant double-dealing with Hamas and ISIS would eventually end
up to eviscerate the very guts of the country. Its a shame that those brave
Israeli Reservists who were dying for a few inches of land attached to a
false narrative would eventually end up in an Armageddon of world
condemnation. An advanced hi-tech country, Israel has acted as a
morally impeded child regressing to the very extremist ancient roots of
the false prophet and charlatan Rabbi Schneerson, the faux leader of the
ersatz Jewish Orthodox Group, Chabad.
The more Israel reverts to the precepts of these unholy charlatans
whose panoply of sexual practices including homosexuality; leather
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fetishes; sado-masochism; and pedophiliaportrayed in the brilliantly

prescient 1980 psychological thriller Cruising , starring the Al Pacino,
produced by the intrepid Jerry Weintraub. This vintage film delineates in
clear pictorial exposition the perversions that Alan Dershowitz and those
other so-called religious Jews and Zionists have been involved in while
at the same time professing to the world the moral imperatives of the
nonsensical terms, Never Forget [the holocaust] and Never Again!
That grandiosity and self-delusion of people with little talent or real
accomplishment like the low class Jeff Epstein who associate with
Clintons and Dershowitz fits into the psychological paradigm that birds
of a feather flock together. Not more complicated than that. I want to
thank the Southern Florida Federal Prosecutors as well as the Judges and
FBI agents for identifying Dershowitz and his fellow travelers.
Israel will continue on its course of self-destruction as long as Bibi
leads this nation of atheists, pious hypocrites, and military jingoists into
an ever expanding area of depravity. Such psychological political
dynamics will spin Israel into a whirlwind of evisceration.
Palestine will eventually become a state irrespective of any
interference. Its their time to be recognized! They were there before
any Diaspora Jew ever wanted to live in a desert. We Ashkenazy Jews
are neither born of the tribe nor part of any ancient history that was
concocted by some story tellers and fakirs. We were nomads in the Pall
region of the Ukraine, Poland and Russia.
The rest is just thatmyth making and weaving a nonsensical story
of entitlement. In any case, dear readers, thank you for all of your input
on this salacious case. Please continue to contribute your thoughts.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Watch out for your water, here is some interesting news.
Reprinted from the Florida Specifier November 2014
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High nitrate levels in Floridan Aquifer may have cancer implications

By SUSAN TELFORD
Robert Knight, PhD, director of the Howard T. Odum Florida
Springs Institute in Gainesville, has been studying water most of his life
and knows a bit about the states springs and natural resources.
Theres one ugly piece of information that he is aware of about the
Floridan Aquifer that he wants all of us to know.
Existing elevated nitrate concentrations throughout much of the
Floridan Aquifer may be harmful to humans in addition to their
deleterious effects on the
ecology of springs, Knight said. The concerned public and their
elected officials should demand that the federal, state and local public
health organizations conduct a comprehensive epidemiological study of
the effects of groundwater nitrate levels on human health in Florida.
Knight has good reason for his concern. A study released in 2001
indicated that drinking water contaminated with nitrates from fertilizers
or human and animal wastes may cause bladder cancer in women
nitrates at levels far below current government ceilings.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency states that nitrate levels
are safe below 10 parts per million. However, the study showed that
levels as low as 2.46 parts per million may nearly triple the risk of
bladder cancer.
There have been a few studies that looked at nitrate in drinking
water and a variety of cancers, said Peter Weyer, PhD, associate
director of the University of Iowas Center of the Health Effects of
Environmental Contamination and author of the study. And while some
have found an association with such diseases as non-Hodgkins
lymphoma, there has only been one study done in Spain, published in
1993, that showed an association between nitrate, a municipal water
supply and an increased risk for bladder cancer.
Bladder cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the country.
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Weyer and his colleagues used data from more than 41,000 women,
aged 55 or older, in the Iowa Womens Health Study.
We were looking at women who were using the same water supply
for more than 10 years. That turned out to be about 22,000 women.
16,500 of them were using the municipal water supplies from 400
municipalities, he said.
The level of exposure to nitrate was based on data collected from
municipal water suppliers. No nitrate data was available for women
using private wells. The research team checked the cancer incidence data
from the Iowa Cancer Registry from 1986 to 1998.
What we found was a positive association for an increased risk of
bladder cancer in women who used municipal water supplies, wrote
Weyer in the study. For women on municipal-supplied (water), if the
nitrate level was greater than 2.5 parts per million, those women had an
almost three-fold risk for bladder cancer compared to a group of women
who we used as reference who were exposed to less than 0.4 parts per
million.
The 2001 study was adjusted for risk factors such as smoking, nitrate
in the diet and vitamins E and C that impact how nitrate is reduced in the
body. According to Weyer, nitrates are reduced to carcinogenic Nnitroso compounds in the body. And nitrates are found everywhere. Its
present naturally in the soil. It can seep into groundwater from nitrogenbased fertilizers, from both agricultural and farming, as well as from the
single family home-owner, wrote Weyer. Nitrates are a by-product of
livestock facilities, human waste, municipal wastewater treatment plants
and septic tanks.
According to the American Cancer Society, the findings from the
2001 study are potentially important. Harmful concentrations of nitrate
are substantially lower than what the government claims will prevent
toxicity. In its 2008-09 Annual Report of the Presidents Cancer Panel,
Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk - What We Can Do Now,
published in 2010 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, authors
Dr. LaSalle Leffall Jr. and Dr. Margaret L. Kripke implored President
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Obama to take action by warning the public about everyday exposure to

carcinogens.
In 2009 alone, approximately 1.5 million American men, women and
children were diagnosed with cancer and 562,000 died from the disease.
With the growing body of evidence linking environmental exposure to
cancer, the public is becoming increasingly aware of the unacceptable
burden of cancer resulting from environmental exposures that could be
prevented through appropriate national action.
Of particular concern to the research panel was that the true burden
of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated.
With nearly 80,000 chemicals on the market in the U.S., many of which
are used by millions of Americans on a daily basis, exposure to potential
carcinogens is widespread. And children are far more vulnerable to
environmental toxins and radiation than adults.
The panel expressed concern that significant harm from cancercausing products had not been addressed adequately by the National
Cancer Program and that the American people, before they are even
born, are bombarded continually with myriad combinations of these
dangerous exposures.
The panel implored the president to use the power of the office to
remove carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water and air that
needlessly increase health care costs, cripple our nations productivity
and devastate American lives.

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Richard Dolan, worth pondering.

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Sunday, January 11, 2015

While Paris is Burning with Terrorism Hysteria, Pakistan Has
Forged a Dangerous Strategic Dagger to plunge into Heart of Kashmir
and India!
Pakistani Military succeeded in Soft Military Coup against the failed
state. This change in force structures and geopolitics is far more
significant than the Terrorism Farce taking place in the least valuable
strategic/tactical ally of the USA: France.
The irony of political psychology and intelligence is that the least
important incidences, i.e. French magazine/Kosher Market events, takes
precedence in the world media over the most dangerous and lethal soft
coup, where Pakistan ISI takes over the judicial system. This is called
Distraction.
Once again, our costly, burdensome intelligence community could
not and did not predict that the Pakistani military would take over the
judiciary a few years into Prime Minister Sharifs tenure. The corrupt
civilian leadership which has had a history of incompetence and a
running tension with the Pakistani ISI [created by CIA], has been
overthrown so elegantly and quietly. The NYTimes article, January 11,
2015 by Declan Walsh (posted earlier) noted that not one person was
killed nor were there any self-adulating CNN, FOX, MSNBC narcissists
to glorify the non-event.
So in the absence of media attention and in the lacuna that is
pervasive in our Intelligence community, the Pakistani military simply
abolished the rules of civil law in order to execute their subjects
according to an ersatz military rule. Whether this is right or wrong is not
the concern here. What is the major concern is that our political elite and
their spies have repeatedly failed to predict, manage or prevent military
coups around the world.
Instead they, like most Americans, have been monitoring the hoipolloi nonsense a Bourne Identity drama played out in the most
histrionic way, while India, South Asia and Kashmir have all entered a
new period of potential nuclear conflict.
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Congratulations to all the IC and our political elite. They never fail
to fail assessing and predicting real, major strategic events.
They, like Anderson Cooper, are too busy commenting on nothing
and everything, making absolutely no sense but much noise. Once again
farce trumps tragedy. This blogger will have to retreat in order to
monitor Pakistans activities toward South Asia and India and China.

Monday, January 12, 2015

I am trying to go totally solar, challenging but it should not be.

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Neutral Switzerland Invaded the European Markets with Nefarious
Economic Warfare on Thursday, 1/15/2015!
The Euro Keeps on Faltering into Possible Oblivion.
In the world of intelligence, nothing is more effective in warfare
than diversion and distortion. While the world was watching the ersatz,
buffoonery of the French/Belgian acts of Muslim Terrorism, the
Pakistani Army took over the Judiciary and created a De Facto state of a
Military Coup. At the same time, while the world media was dribbling
inanities about terrorism and other such irrelevant matter, Switzerland
initiated a SURPRISE ATTACK on the Euro currency.
The Swiss National Bank jolted the world by surreptitiously
eliminating the cap on the Swiss francs value; thereby driving the Swiss
franc up several percentage points. Concurrently,
the intended
consequence was to drive down the value of the Euro another 5 to 10%.
For some time now, I have been talking about this new form of
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Economic Warfare that we Americans had been practicing during the

vibrant years of the Soviet Union; and now, more recently, in the take
down of Putin and the Russian economy.
Yet no one had predicted that one day the Swiss Government would
suddenly allow the increasingly valuable Swiss franc to break away from
the imaginary currency snake which artificially constrained the nonvaluable Euro. Like any good businessmen, the Swiss decided to release
the Swiss franc into the Financial Markets of the world and allow those
real markets to determine the true value of the franc.
Now everyone who has grown up with the Swiss franc, as I had
during my short sojourn in Swiss Boarding School [Monivert] has
always understood that the franc throughout wars, depressions and other
turbulent political/economic periods was the most steady currency in the
world.
Why?
In three hundred years of peace, the Swiss have produced the
cuckoo clock and chocolates but more importantly, Geneva and
Zurich have always been the major cities where flight capital of any sort
went to, be it either illegal or legal. The only values the Swiss have
embraced historically are the value of money, gold, diamonds and other
precious commodities. Example: the huge confectionary/water
conglomerate NESTLE, adorned its front door with the Nazi flag when
the Germans were streaming across Europe and East Europe. Once it
looked as if the Americans were going to win the war, Nestle took down
the Nazi flag and replaced it with the American flag as our generals
visited their headquarters just before the end of the WWII.
It should be no surprise that Switzerland became tired and disgusted
with the French, Italians, Greeks, Spanish, and Germans and their
collective inability to titrate the proper value of the Euro, somewhere
around fifty cents to the American dollar. As a result of Draghis
[Italian] incompetency as the Minister of Finance for the EU, the Swiss
made the right decision to declare war on the Euro, forcing it down
several more percentage points further until eventually the Euro (as I
predicted) will eventually destroy the European Common market.
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However, the Swiss have paid a heavy price for their financial
assault. Tourism to Switzerland will be hurt far more than usual.
Swatches will go up in price. Also all the American financial crooks
who were defended by Attorney General Eric Holder, will have to pay a
lot more for escaping American justice. Those who fled to Zug
Switzerland will have to pay much more for their accommodations in the
crony capitalism capital of the world. boo hoo.
I hope you are beginning to learn an important lesson: what is
dramatized in the news, especially the defunct stations like CNN, FOX
News, MSNBC, are the least important stories. Learn to read between
the lines of those countries that few people mention.
Who really ever gave a damn about Switzerland or Pakistan??
Now, you will!
Avoid the strum and drang of the buffoons on TV/Cable and other
media outlets.
Let us see which other country will have either an economic or
military coup while we are concerned with the Disneyland of contrived
World Terrorism.

Sunday, January 18, 2015

A Completely Clean Slate for the 2016 Presidency: President George
Clooney and Mrs. Amal Clooney!
Have I gone astray?
Or perhaps I have been staring at goats too long.
The truth of the matter is that as I purview both the Republican and
Democratic field of contenders, no one and nothing stands out but
mediocrity, boredom and old re-treads, same old story. Neither Bush III,
Romney, nor Clinton II will be elected for a number of reasons that I
have previously enumerated in many of my former blogs. Furthermore,
the ancillary players are just that -simple props to an old narrative that
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everyone has heard or read before, be you Republican, Democratic, or

Independent. Same old blah, blah and not getting any smarter or better
looking.
So I came to the conclusion that what America needs now is another
actor a la Ronald Reagan with a much more au courant script. As I
analyzed the primary criteria for Presidency, it came down to one simple
factor: Attractiveness, both physical and emotional or maybe I mean
CHARISMA!
None of the contending candidates have the one element of
CHARISMA that Oscar/Golden Globe/BAFTA Award Winning Actor,
George Timothy Clooney, born Lexington Kentucky on May 6, 1961
has. I am not into male or female appearances, but in the world of show
biz which the US Presidency really is; no one can beat someone like
George Clooney.
Why?
He is the only one in the history of the Academy Awards according
to Wikipedia [dont forget to donate] to win the following awards:
Golden Globe for the Best Motion Picture-Drama.
The BAFTA Award for the Best Picture and the Academy Award
For the Best Picture Producing the CIA FantasyARGO!
He has been nominated for Best Pictures; Best Actor; Best
Supporting Actor; Best Director; Best Original Screenplay; and Best
Adapted Screenplay.
Clooney was clearly briefed on all the nonsensical, phantasmagorial
CIA adventures of Bob Baier [purveyor beyond fiction] and the non-CIA
hostages in Argo. As for the CIA and its contrived fictions, Clooney has
been well tutored by John Brennan and his group. And as for Clooneys
own political concerns, he has been active in trying to mediate the
conflict in Darfur for which he received numerous real or imaginary
awards.
Clearly he is a Democrat. In my opinion, he may be the only
Democrat who can be elected. Move over tired, haggard Hillary.
However, he, like many other Democrats, change their original political
stripes to assume the necessary appearance of whatever he has to be at
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that particular point in time, having executed whatever manner of

executive action. In the world of political fantasy and non-reality when
we have such dullards as Obama, Boehner, Pelosi, Reid who better to
increase the attractiveness factor but George Clooney?
His new bride,
Ms. Amal Ramzi Alamuddin is a
Druze/Lebanese/British subject who was trained at Oxford University
and New York University [Masters in Law]. She is clearly beautiful and
exceedingly cosmopolitan. She speaks fluent Arabic, French and English
and belongs to the most interesting Middle East Religious sects. Druze
have been around for centuries, quietly living their lives in their
respective countriesbe it Lebanon, Syria, Israel [in fact the Druze serve
in the IDF with great distinction]. So Ms. Amal brings not only worldly
jurisprudence but a Middle Eastern credibility that would easily co-opt
any extremist group ISIS, Al Qaeda, Salafists, et. al.
The fact that Clooney has been an actor, director and producer as
well as a successful businessman, building his own production
companies speaks volumes for his personal sense of self worth.
Certainly, he has accomplished more than Clinton [both Hillary and
Bill]; or Bush jr or Jeb or Obama before any one of them ran for the
Presidency.
That he is a Democrat is totally irrelevant to me, considering that
Obama has shown that a Democrat can be more ruthless in wars than
even Bush Jr and his family members. We are entering a new era which
is defined by looks, charisma and acting; be it in psyops or executive
functions. Who better to fill that role than a person born and bred of
acting and false pretense than the fully certified actor than George
Clooney.
He has an incredible work ethic and does not spend his time on the
golf courses. He writes, produces, directs and acts. As mentioned, he has
had a history of successes. He is articulate and looks good on screen.
George Clooney out guns all others if you really ponder it. Imagine him
giving the state of the union or negotiating with other world leaders. He
will rule in social media and you tube, not to mention TV news. Break
down the Clooney vote: women, gays, california, spanish, 20/30s,
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Kentucky, urban, suburban all will vote Clooney. Match him up with a
decent VEEP and Clooney 2016 is unstoppable. Compare him to the
other horses in the race and you might start to see it the way I do.

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

How to Make an Academy Award Best Film/Script:
Start with three hours about a completely insignificant subject like
your own family problems- Make certain you record it over twelve years.
Ta-dah! the movie Boyhood. Produced, Written, and Directed by
Richard Linklater, it will be a front runner for Best Film/ Script.
You must know that nothing exacerbates me more than a pretentious
person, story, or movie. In my opinion, Boyhood, a 12 year pseudodocumentary of a family growing up in the hip-state of Texas is beyond
BOREDOM! Clearly, I am in the minority of reviewers who feel the
opposite according the blurbs on the movie jacket:
One of the most EXTRAORDINARY movies of the 21st Century .
[A. O. Scott, NY Times.]
A New American Classic. ACTING OF THE HIGHEST RANK. A
four-star game-changer that earns its place in the cultural capsule.
Boyhood makes us feel euphoric about movies again.
I found the opening fifteen minutes of the film intolerable in terms
of subject matter; acting; and a major lacuna of storyline. However,
never one to take myself completely seriously, I sat down again at the
grueling insistence of my friends and neighbors who convinced me that I
should watch the whole film.
Well, I did.
Let me say this. I would rather be tortured by counting the blades of
grass in my front lawn than watch this exceedingly boring movie.
Imagine your most narcissistic family member, insisting on your
watching family movies with a Bell and Howell projector for three
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hours; wherein, your relatives about whom you cared less than nothing,
grow up in front of your eyes from bratty little kids to surly, mumbling,
angst-ridden teen-agers who, of course, are Obama enthusiasts!
Next imagine that there is no drama whatsoever except for the fact
that the rotund Patricia Arquette transforms from a single mother without
work to a sophisticated Psychology Professor at one of the Texas
Universities or extension courses. Imagine the usually talented actor,
Ethan Hawke, aging in front of you over three hours, splattering inanities
about life while his son the surly, angst-ridden boy/teenager who wants
to be a photographer, read: Director Richard Linklater, goes through
puberty at the same time as the rate of catabolism breaks down our
bodies.
If by now, you are still hooked on this film and consider it a classic
then you have too much time on your hands. The dialogue in general is
simplistic, if not prosaic. The story line of a liberal film turning toward
Christianity and supporting the second Amendment has more to do with
the Director/Writer/Producers [same guy] incredibly patronizing attitude
toward the town/people with whom he grew up in Texas.
Full disclosure: I also hated Million Dollar Baby and it won, Best
Picture Award. My point is that spin doctors have taken over reality and
quality be it films, politicians, or events so that the mundane and
boringbereft of drama or organic tensionis HIGHLY REWARDED
and GLORIFIED.
As for those other films in which there was drama, tension and real
acting---GOOD LUCK. You dont have a prayer than to receive anything
but a few head nods and maybe a good review from this blogger.
However, amidst 6000 plus Academy Members, I really dont count.
Too bad, Whiplash and American Sniper were great films.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Here is a MUCH better movie to watch, loved it. Dracula Untold

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

The Increasing Irrelevancy of the State of the Union and the U.S.
Presidency!
Last night, President Obama made his last State of the Union
Speech [SOTUS]. The problem was that he made it. And I did not listen
to it.
Why?
Like most Americans, I have become inured to the political
absurdities that were once considered mandates of a free society. There is
nothing that Obama or any other politician could tell me that could not
have been predicted and disregarded beforehand.
He talked about wage inequality. We have always had and will
continue to have wage inequality. So what? Americans struggle to make
a living. We have always struggled to make a living. You get the idea. So
on so forth.
The new biggest item on the agenda of show and tell was
trannies or transgender. I dont really think that the issue of
transgender or LGBT is commensurate with the supposed gravity of the
SOTUS. Nevertheless, that statement made it into the Huffington Post as
a hot item; alongside the Deflategatethe NFL report that the Patriots
used bum footballs in order to win their games.
By now, you get the idea of how prosaic and insignificant Obamas
or any other politicians comments were last night or, as a matter of fact,
any nights.
The citizens of the Republic have tuned out the words and non-deeds
of its representatives. For the most part, we realize that in age where the
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internet allows us to access information ASAP, world events transcend

whatever inanities our so-called political elites utter. As Obama was
talking about trannies, the Israeli army was mobilizing its reserve
units, aircrafts, tanks onto the southern border of Lebanon; after having
provoked Hezbollah by killing one of its senior leaders. Now, that is
news! or just another Middle East War, subsumed by an ovation of
standing buffoons clapping and cheering the last, least memorable words
of Obama.
Btw, Yemen had another coup by a shiite group called al-Houthis.
Our American Embassy was ordered to evacuate ASAP! The Dutch were
engaged in fighting in the Congo. And ISIS was once again performing
its ritual kabuki of killing for dollars [could be a game show; or
comedy show. I dont know which one would be more appropriate.] The
CIA hot paper on torture was pulled back by some Republicans.
Tom Lehrer [MIT instructor] words go:
We will all go together when we go.
Mixed in with his lyrics in the Masochism Tango
Pretty much summed up my feelings about the State of the Union in
general and in the speeches delivered by all individuals and parties that
had nothing really to say. As for me, I watched a movie about transspecies transformation called, Dracula Untold (trailer posted earlier).
Boy, did I learn about mans inability to stop killing, maiming and
torturing his fellow beingsby words, deeds and rapacious wars. In fact,
nothing had really changed since Vlad, The Impaler of Transylvania
[present day Romania]. Thank you Dracula for adding some relief to the
evenings costly, boring, irrelevant American side show entertainment
called, The State Of The Union.
In the words of Dracula:
Let the games begin!

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Monday, January 26, 2015

What is Faster than a Speeding Bullet. More Dangerous than an
Atomic Bomb?
The Swiss France! Monopoly Money On A Grand Scale!
Within hours of the moment that the Zurich Bankers in Switzerland
decided, correctly, to break away from the Euro and appreciate
significantly. the following countries went into a financial tailspin:
Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia..The list will rise
every day.
Why?
Unbeknownst to many of us in the west, most of the Central and
East European countries had mortgages denominated in Swiss Francs
[SF]. That means as the SF rose, it became much harder to pay back the
loans in the SF. Instead, Hungary decided to convert all SF loans into
their own currency-FORINTS [completely worthless in the open
currency markets]. Therefore, the aforementioned countries cannot pay
back the Swiss denominated loans without restructuring these loans
[Poland]; or declaring massive bankruptcy [Romania].
As I have pointed out over the past two years, the European Market
will never really be able to settle its financial/political/economic
differences amidst the poverty stricken- southern tiered countries:
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece [ready to exit the EU]and the more
prosperous northern countries: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England,
Belgium, Scandinavian [Denmark, Finland, Sweden].
The reason is quite simple, it has to do with the different political
cultures or the national characters of each country. One cannot expect the
Spanish who have a corrupt centralized government in Madrid to be able
to stimulate an economy with close to 25% unemployment rate. Spain,
other than Barcelona [Catalonia], has never been a major center of
manufacturing or industry like Frankfurt or Bremen.
Germans, despite two world wars; complete fragmentation of their
country have, once again, ascended to their apex of economic
performance because they are by nature INDUSTRIOUS, FOCUSED,
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HARD-WORKING; maintaining higher standards of production and

manufacturing than most EU countries. That is both a historical and
psychological reality. Therefore, when the French, who have never been
recognized for their manufacturing skills or work ethic decided to corral
Germany in the fictitious myth called the EUROPEAN UNIONthen,
the weaker of the two countries, France, suffers the most from this
unholy alliance. The reason is that the economic destiny of that EU is not
dependent on all the countries but on the strongest country and its
currency. The French Franc could never compete against the German
Deutsch Mark or, even the stronger, Swiss Franc.
Angela Merkel, the brilliant Phd leader of a reunited Germany
understands this better than anyone else. She grew up in the
dysfunctional East German sector and she knows from past experience
how poorly countries that are basically socialist or communist in nature
compete in the present day worldwide markets. However, there is one
serious caveat that Merkel has to bear, like the Iron Cross.
Germany/Austria had extended massive amounts of credit to these
failing states in the Southern, Eastern and Central part of Europe. If
they refuse to repay the loans in the denomination that they are loaned
out, usually Swiss Francs; then each country will decide to default on the
loans; creating a massive banking crisis throughout Europe, England and
possibly worldwide.
In time, that type of financial crises will lead to political instability
throughout the European continent. The more marginalized minorities
[Muslim, Gypsies, et al.] will begin to disrupt the political stability of
their respective countries as we have seen in both France and Belgium.
However, the real problem is the dissolution of the EU.
One way or another, the EU has to dissolve and allow each of the
respective countries to print their own moneys. That money will clearly
reflect what the dollar mirrors in our present day societypeace,
prosperity and political stability. All reality based psychological
determinants that must be met in order for a currency to reflect real
worth.
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As you know by now, Switzerland has had three hundred years of

peace and political stabilityirrespective of what they had to do in order
to achieve this long sought after goal. Therefore, this collective
underlying pressure felt by the Swiss bankers compelled them to break
away from the Euro-Pegged currency which did not really reflect how
good things were in Switzerland.
However, currency wars are two-edged swords. No sooner did the
Swiss Franc appreciate than the Swiss exports like Swatches, Chocolate,
Weapons, became much more expensive; and not as competitive, in the
open trade markets. So the currency wars can have unintended
consequences far more reaching in my opinion than KINETIC
ACTIONS [War].
Despite President Obamas jubilance about our present economic
situation, he has not really understood how our stock market does not
reflect his exuberance. In fact, there is clear evidence to me that there
may be signs of deflation creeping into, at best, an erratic stock market-with very low trading volumes.
So, what are we to do?
I think it would be prudent if we, Americans, could remain liquid.
In effect the dollar is so strong that US Treasury yields are so low that
just buying US Bonds denominated in US Dollars are considered a safe
bet for flight capital. Remember: a strong currency means fewer
exports of US manufactured goods. And the one thing that we,
Americans, are particularly good at is entrepreneurship; or creating
businesses in real time.
Clearly our conglomerates cannot carry the brunt of our economic
growth. We have to be able to create new businesses at the rate at which
employees are being fired in order to maintain the necessary growth rate
that will prevent deflation. At the same time, we must have tax codes and
financial incentives that will allow our country to grow without USG
impediments.
I think it would be prudent for us to wait and see what exactly will
happen-- as the Swiss Franc Bullet Speeds across the Worlds currencies- creating a major tidal wave of disproportionate heights.
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I hope that I am wrong.

The sooner, the EU dissolves, the better it will be for world financial
markets which depend on the ability of each country to print money
backed by nothing more than psychological determinants like hope,
anxiety, and fear---specific to that particular country. What a way to run
the world currencies: phony paper money absorbing the
cultural/political/historical/psychological determinants of a body politic.
Monopoly Money on a Grand Scale!
That is the reality of the CURRENCY WARS!!

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

The future is here, spooky. Organ harvesting aborted babies

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Many young, smart Jews do not like what is going on, they need
your support.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Russia Obtains Junk Bond Status! Half of the Banks in Russia will
Collapse in 2015!
Russia is completely bankrupt and this is not acceptable.
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Putin: Stop playing with your toy soldiers and fix the Economy or
Leave. Just what I had predicted years ago when Putin was flexing his
triceps, biceps and forceps, he forget that brains are really far more
effective than brawn. How many times must I have to say that the
Russian people deserve better than a miniature Rambo flaunting his six
packs while Moscow and St Petersburg are descending rapidly into the
cauldron of economic collapse? Contrary to many US intelligence
assessments that we Americans are descending into a new Cold War.
we are not in any shape or form.
How do I know?
I was intimately involved in the one and only Cold War which was
terminated without prejudice. The fact that we are pre-positioning US
military equipment into the Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and
BulgariaHungary once again chose the wrong sidemeans little more
than allowing our European allies in the surrounding area to have a sense
of comfort that we Americans are present in someway.
The real problem lies not with America or even the western
countries. It lies squarely in the mind or lack of mindful thoughts of
Vladimir Putin. He knows little or nothing about fiscal or market forces
that are whipping his country into a humiliating bankruptcy. Russias
economic collapse is nothing to gloat about for those of us who had
helped to terminate the Soviet Union once and for all. Real Russians
will suffer the brutal winters of scarcity, the likes of which will hint at
the misery that Russia once had tolerated during the dysfunctional Soviet
Era. When my Russian friends and I had to stand in bread lines in the late
1970s and early 198Os on Arbat Street in Moscow, I felt a kinship with
all those people who were grateful to just receive a loaf of bread for one
Kopek.
I was not grateful but furious that all these brave, honest citizens of
a once Great Russian Empire had to basically beg for what was rightfully
theirs---food and clothing.

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Yet like the selfish apparatchiks who ran the dysfunctional Soviet
Union, these new Kremlin Kleptocrats, an extension of the old corrupt
KGB, have elicited absolutely no concern for their fellow Russians who
did not rob, steal and destroy the State. Putin is now the only leader in
the history of Russia who purposefully took a great country that could
not afford a $50B Sochi Olympics and destroyed its industries,
infrastructures for nothing more than his own narcissistic insatiable
needs. He is more pathetic than feared. He is weaker than he is stronger;
and he is clearly more ignorant than he even realizes.
However the Ukraine debacle started, the real issue now is who will
save Russia from the Russians? As I had repeatedly warned, Russia
cannot effectively exist on the forced reality of $40 per barrel of oil.
Putin was alerted six months ago by me and his financial ministers. He
did not believe that oil would drop intentionally or otherwise to $40
dollars a barrel and even lower.
My Russian friends, its time for you to go into the bitter winter cold
and demand that Putin relinquish the reins of control to your brilliant
technocrats who have not been corrupted by the Kremlin Kleptocracy
and turn the Russian economy around ASAP! No one man since Ivan
The Terrible or even Stalin has destroyed such a great nation as Russia.
What you need more than ever is Peter the Great; who reached out to
Holland, France, and German to help him and his citizens become a
modern nation. What you do not need is a MUJIK [peasant] who knows
nothing except how to fight on a Judo Mat; demonstrating nothing more,
than brute force and ignorance.
Think of what the great writer Leo Tolstoy would have said of
Putin--- He is a BLOOD STAIN on the rich soil of Mother Russia!
Idite Damou, Putin!
Go home, Putin! Leave Our Great Mother Russia alone to recover
from your assault!

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Colicky Crying Baby Bibi, The Republican Senator From Israel is
Leading Israel into Another Quagmire of Self-Destruction and Pariah
Status!
Bibis recent gratuitous assassinations of an Iranian General and a
Hezbollah official near the Golan Heights in Lebanon demonstrate once
again how Israel, founded on the blood and guts of Diaspora Jews, as
well as IDF soldier, is being led into a quagmire of self-destruction. Even
the prestigious Jewish/Yiddish paper/blog Forward has printed in bold
letters the following words:
BIBIS BAD CHOICE!
The Forward did not print that bold statement just to make a
sensation. They articulated in a very elegant, calm, non-religious fashion
the reasons why Bibis impetuous, completely narcissistic desire to
deliver an unwanted speech in front of the US Congress defending his
untenable position in trying to destroy the Iran Treaty--- insults both the
United States President Obama; as well as the American people,
especially the American Jews, who purportedly are the back bone of
support for Israel.
The Forward quotes the following statistics and important personnel
in the USA:
Bibis appearance coalesces both the left wing Jews in America,
represented by J Street [Soros] alongside right wing Chris Wallace [Fox
News; Murdochs mother was Jewish].
Both extremes of the American political spectra agree that Bibis
actions can hurt Israel, qua Israel; as well encourage the ratification of
the Iran Treaty, more quickly.
Even Bibis ex Former American born Israeli Ambassador to the
US, Michael Oren, says the [Bibi] speech was a cynical political move
that could hurt our attempts to act against Iran
TRIFECTA!

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A childish narcissist like Bibi who was bred and raised in the cradle
of luxury outside of Philadelphia, PA. [nowhere near Israel] mistook his
entitled breeding for understanding the very people, Americans, who
gave him the unique opportunity to become the Prime Minister of Israel.
First, and most importantly, Bibi never really appreciated how much
Israels independence and survival really depends on Americas
goodwill. Its not a mandate from heaven that orders us Americans to
assist and abet Israel in her most dangerous times.
Bibi was not there in the 1970s when another American born Prime
Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, begged (yes, begged, pleaded) Nixon and
Kissinger [German Jew] to immediately aid her and Israel to avoid defeat
in the Yom Kippur War. Nixon, not known as a Hebraic scholar, went
out of his way to order ASAP American Fighter Jets to fly into Israel;
and quickly allow Israeli fighter pilots to take over control of the
American Jets that were on the ground with their after jets still burning,
marked with Israeli markings and allow them to save the day for Israel.
At that moment, Nixon literally saved the Israeli nation. And according
to the John Dean, the snitch of all snitches, Nixon was supposed to be an
Anti-Semite!
By coming to America and delivering a nonsensical speech about
the dangers of Iran, when in fact Pakistan already had 250 plus atomic
bombs, insults our President, our Congress [that may be too stupid to
know when it is being insulted] and most importantly, alienates the
preponderance of American Jews.
The Forward:
Apathy on Israel is far more dangerous in the LONG TERM than a
few angry college kids protesting the occupation [West Bank, Gaza]. .
Whoever is advising Bibi is showing their ineptness at reading and
reaching the majority of American Jews On a more objective level, as
if this would matter to the emotional immature Bibi, the Pew Research
Center 2013 Survey of American Jews showed that 53% APPROVED of
Obamas HANDLING OF IRAN compared with 41% of the public as a
whole. [Forward].
The problem of Bibi is quite simple.
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He is immature, self-absorbed and bereft of strategic concerns or

ability to map out a course for his country for more than a week or two of
fighting and repression. It is time for the Israelis to change course ASAP.
In the middle of March, 2015, Israel has the choice to vote for two
Sabrahs whose family marked the true history and legacy of the Zionist
StateIsaac Herzog and Livni Tsipi. Whatever their collective views for
both these alternative candidates of the new Zion Party, they represent a
history and future potential truly rooted in both Judaic history/ Diaspora
and Zionist Terrorism, upon which the state of Israel was founded.
Chaim Herzog, the father of Isaac Herzog was an Irish-born Israeli
politician; General of the IDF; and lawyer who served as the Sixth
President of Israel. Chaim had fought for Irish Independence; and his
famous Talmudic father, Rabbi Yitshak Ha Levi Herzog, spoke fluent
Irish Language and was knows as the SEIN FEIN RABBI [Irish
Republican Army]. Go Irish! Chaim volunteered for the British
Intelligence Corps in WWII and participated in the Liberation of several
concentration camps. Chaim also was involved in the capture of the
notorious Nazi Heinrich Himmler. Finally Chaim joined the new born
Israeli Army as Chief of IDF Military Intelligence , 1948-1962. He then
left the IDF as a Major General.
Try to match that one, Bibi! with your draft-dodger father.
Herzog was appointed Israels Ambassador to the United Nations,
serving until 1978. In 1981, Herzog entered politics for the first time and
became a member of the predecessor party to the Labor Party.
Similarly, Bibis other opponent, Tzipi Livni has an equally
impressive background. Her father was the Operational Director of the
Irgun Zve Leumi [ETZL]Menachim Begins Jewish Terrorist group.
She grew up in Betar [which I had joined as a youngster] and then went
on to many prominent senior legal and political positions in the new
Israel.
Therefore, what we have here is the case of the colicky baby Bibi
who wants what he wants when he wants it. On the other side of the
nursery we have true Sabras born and bred of the best and the brightest
of Israels scholar/warriors.. which one will continue to rule?
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Let me end with the words of a Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic:

A sitting President [Obama] cannot be written off by a small
dependent ally, WITHOUT TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES! [my
emphasis].

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Monday, February 2, 2015

Robert Parry details how the neocons, NYTimes and others (Bush,
Billary) make war, not diplomacy.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

When ever you stare up at the blue sky and wonder why those
plumes are forming....
think

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Brazil in Danger of Severe Drought!
Sao Paulo, Rio De Janeiro and Minas Gerais All have Major Water
Shortage Problems w/ over 30 Million People Affected!
Twenty years ago, I wrote a novel about the impending Second Civil
War in the USA over a shortage of water in the Southwest. The book
delineated the strife among California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah,
Arizona over the decreasing amount of water available in the Colorado
River. What I thought would happen in the USA in time has actually
become a reality in Sao Paolo, the business capital of Brazil.
Now, Brazil is a country about the size of the USA and has the
largest water basin in the world around the Amazon River. So how did
this country of natural bounties and a massive supply of water end up in
a state of near drought? Many reasons are given. Most of the shortage is
blamed on a corrupt government which was too busy plundering the
country of its natural resources and selling them overseas. I would not
disagree with that assessment as only part of the answer.
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You see the present President, an ex-terrorist and a clone of her

inept socialist boss, has no executive abilities that would in any way
suggest that she understood how to run a large resource-rich country.
Then there is the usual explanation that petrochemical and other
industries have used so much water that there was very little left for the
citizenry.
That is also partly true.
What no one, including the Brazilian Government, has discussed at
all is that animal husbandry in the AMAZON has deforested that water
rich area. I am not a hydrologist, but I do know a little bit about water
resources. The single most devastating cause of drought anywhere
around the world is animal husbandry. Yes, think for a minute that every
time you eat a Hamburger you in effect consume about 660 gallons of
water.
Am I delusional?
I had the good fortune to see an independent movie entitled
COWSPIRACY by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn
It was not a simple propaganda film. Trust me, I dont watch that
stuff. The film showed how we Americans and others citizens around
the world will be eventually depleted of water in the next decade because
of the massive requirements for water when a farmer raises the necessary
nutrients [grains, feed] as well the cows, pigs, chickens etc. to be
consumed per day to maintain our current diet.
Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of Greenhouse
Emissions; more than all transportation combined.
Methane has produced global warming 86 Times that of CO2.
Fracking water use ranges from 70-140 billion gallon annually. In
comparison Livestock is responsible for 65% of all emissions of Nitrous
oxide- A Greenhouse gas 296X more destructive than CO2 and stays in
the atmosphere for 150 years.
Growing feed crops for livestock consumes 56% of water in the
USA.
2,500 Gallons of water are needed to produce 1 POUND OF
BEEF!!
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 An average American consumes 209 pounds of meat per year.

You get the idea, the fork should dominates the knife. Vegetarian
diets minimize the aforementioned disasters. However, I am not going to
proselytize you.
I am here to answer one simple question:
Why did Sao Paulo become water starved when the leaders of Brazil
have known for many years that they would inevitably have major water
shortages if they continue on their current path? For decades, the beef
and farming industry in Brazil has been so powerful that they have
literally killed anyone that might interfere with their continuous
destruction of the rich Amazon Rain Forest for the purpose of animal
husbandry. An American Nun who had tried warn the world about the
impending doom of the Amazon Rain forest was killed by the Brazilian
meat industry.
If we continue to eat meat at our current rate; and we continue to
destroy our oceans for fishing and our lands for animal husbandry---we
too can become like BRAZIL!
without water. Just to make the point a little bit more poignant.
Several years ago, a group of people who had no water migrated to a city
and overloaded the capacity of that city until each person was fighting
the other for space and resources.
What am I talking about?
The Civil War in Syria was about water. The Sunnis from Homs
and Hama verses the Alawites [Bashar Assad] who had controlled
Damascus and the Syrian coastline where water and food resources were
plentiful. The water war turned into a religious war!
Climate Wars will constitute the next major outbreaks in our
continuous, addictive, worldwide self-destructive behaviors towards one
another. I hope that I am wrong but the recent water crisis in Brazil
might be an indication that I am right.

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Monday, February 9, 2015

President Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus, Once a Thug
Acting Solely on Behalf of Russia, has Turned into an Effective
Conciliatory Statesman!
On February 11, the EU countries which are directly involved in the
conflict with Russia over the Ukraine, along with the USA and NATO
representatives, will meet in Minsk, the capital of Belarus under the
diplomatic aegis of Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko.
Now, this Belarus President has a certain meaning in my personal
life. About a decade ago, I was on a train from Moscow to Poland.
When we arrived at the Brest-Litovsk station in order to change our rail
gauges, I was confronted with an array of Belarussian security guards
pointing an assortment of weapons at me, including the infamous AK-47
rifles. A melee of discussions, accusations and pushing ensued. Result: I
was thrown off the train for presumably not having had a transit paper to
go through Belarus. The reality, of course, was a little different. The fact
that I spoke Russian to some of the guards, carried an American passport
and was on my way to my ancestral homeland, Poland, coagulated into a
clot-like impediment to proceed the remaining thousand yards into
Poland.
When I returned back to Moscow, I reamed my KGB operatives,
disguised as travel agents for having inadvertently forgotten to give me
a transit paper through Belarus. I did not go to the US Embassy in either
Minsk or Moscow. I found that the hotel services of the Marriott
corporation were far more efficient and effective than the US Embassy
Representatives [hint: get rid of our useless US Embassies]. In any case,
I eventually returned to Poland soon after, using a direct flight from
Chicago to Poland.
Yet I simmered for years, cursing under my breath both Lukashenko
and Belarus. However, something happened to me and Aleksandr. Over
time, I noticed that Aleksandr had started to act in a more reasonable,
less totalitarian way toward his own lovely people [extremely helpful
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when I was thrown off the train]; as well as very statesman-like toward
the Ukraine problem.
There were times that Lukashenko, by geopolitical proximity to
Russia, had to support Putin in some of his more rash moments of action.
In particular, Aleksandr initially sided with Putin when Putin decided to
invade the Crimea under false pretexts. Then over a period of time,
Aleksandr correctly perceived that unadulterated affiliation with Russia
was both harmful to his country, Europe and Russia, itself.
In a very mature and statesmanship like initiative, he offered to
broker the dispute between the US/NATO/EU interests vs Russia/Putins
geopolitical spheres of influence. I dont know what the outcome will be
of this forthcoming meeting. I would hope that Merkel of Germany [East
Germany] and Aleksandr [ Former Communist Official] can convince
the ex-KGB agent, trained in East Germany that times have changed.
Spheres of influence, created by the nonsensical neocon and faux
geopolitical strategists wherever they may be ensconced [usually in some
type of govt funded think-tank] are completely irrelevant in a world of
economic/psychological warfare; climate wars; and interdependency of
fiscal/political interests; and most importantly, Cyber wars and cyberattacks.
The world has changed. Putin has not come to that realization yet.
Russia is a great country with large amounts of natural and human
resources that need a new type of bright Russian youth to take over the
Kremlin and redirect Mother Russia toward a greater destiny than old
regrets and antiquated geopolitical mandates. Maybe in the new Russia,
there is a young man who can arise and become the new Peter The Great
and take Russia back into the world full of economic growth and
progressive development. Or better yet, a young Russian woman of
Prussian descent can arise to become the new Catherine the Great.
Anything is possible in this newly changing world where a wrestler
can become a leader of a country and then eventually evolve into an
effective world statesman, like
Belarusian President, Aleksandr
Lukashenko.
Boshen Daragoy!
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Let Us Thank God!

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Englands Parliament is Investigating the Corrupt HSBC Secret
Swiss Accounts.. Surprise!
For most of you, the notion that a bank with the significant initials
like HSBC might be corrupt is not a new revelation. It is simply a
reaffirmation of what all of us have suspected for a very long time. So
what difference does this investigation make today vs. any day?
Here may lie the answer in this excerpt from Bloomberg Business,
Feb.9, 2015, by Robert Hutton:
The report that HSBCs private-banking unit made significant
profits handling secret accounts for drug cartels, arms dealers, tax
evaders and fugitive diamond merchants outraged the British lawmakers,
and forced Prime Minister David Cameron to defend his 2011
appointment of the banks former chairman, STEPHEN GREEN as a
TRADE MINISTER.
Please remember that our own distinguished ex-Attorney General
Eric False Flag Holder thought that HSBC was TOO LARGE TOO
FAIL He was wrong as usual. However, the British have in their own
disingenuous way suddenly discovered that a whale of a bank named
HSBC denoting the following territories of business: H-Hong Kong; SShanghai; B-Beijing; C-China is really.. CORRUPT!
This revelation is more ludicrous than one might realize, given the
fact that the former Tory [Republican] Chancellor of the Exchequer
[Secretary of the Treasury], Nigel Lawson pronounced the following
revelation that only an Englishman and Mad Dogs could ever state: I
cant believe that Stephen Green, who amongst other things is an
ordained church of England Priest, could possibly have known what was
going on.
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I write this blog to illustrate once again how incredibly corrupt our
large banks are, no matter where they are basedbe it Citigroup; JP
Morgan Chase; Bank Of America. They all have serious defects in
their structure which will lead eventually to self-destruction. These
entities have rapacious appetite to fund their own purses with imaginary
or illicit gains. That is the basic recipe for becoming antiquated in the
21st century when PayPay or other internet financial instruments
[Bitcoins ] will eventually evolve into the new currency of worldwide
transaction, absent buildings, useless tellers and managers, and charging
the customer for placing his/her money in a particular bank. In my
experience, no bank has had more problems on a retail level then the
newly reconstructed Canadian entity entitled TD Bank, a testimony to
human frailty and incompetence.
Yet I point the accusatory finger at England, once again. England
has hidden in the groves of antiquity and irrelevancy for almost half a
century when America became the major Superpower after WWII.
However, be it Tony Blair or David Cameron, these inept Prime
Ministers have always had their hands stretched out for pecuniary
reasons toward America or the Far East.
In the case of Tony Blair, literally a war criminal, his collusion with
our President Bush Jr/Cheney to doctor all types of intelligence in order
to create an unnecessary war in both Iraq and Afghanistan [both British
creations] cost our country billions with millions going straight into
Blairs pockets. As for David Cameron, here we see another aspect of a
spectrum of corruption couched in the shibboleth that HSBC was too
big to control.
Nonsense!
I know that between UBS, a Swiss Bank and HSBC, a certain
individual female senior executive was shuttled from one bank to the
other for the sole purpose of enticing American customers and other
wealthy individuals with the false, but promising notion, that one could
avoid paying a countrys taxes. No country in the world has been more
cowardly toward morality and the sense of justice than the Confederation
of Cantons, called per chance , Switzerland. No other country has
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declared the ersatz title of neutrality during all the major European
Wars in order to extract maximum profits from the victors and
vanquished, all at the same time. It was in Zug, Switzerland that the
greatest US commodity swindler Philbro/Mark Rich [defended by Eric
Holder and pardoned by Clinton] sought eventual refuge from US
Federal Prosecution.
Once again, we are witnessed to a charade of British justice as we
see what Prime Minister David Cameron will eventually do about his
transparent appointment of an de facto corrupt Minster of Trade, Stephen
Green, the Anglican Vicar of Embezzlement and Extortion. I am not
going to hold my breath. Everything the British have created in the Post
WWI period in the Middle East has turned into a turgid conflagration of
religion, extremism, ethnic diversity---all hidden within the initials of a
C.O.U.N.T.R.Y.
Thats right! They the Brits hid their past miscreant exploitative
behavior in terms of a word that would evoke a sense of nationalism and
patriotism the notion of a country when in fact there was no country
that could exist from its very inception.
Witness the creation by MI-6s desert warrior, Ms Gertrude Bell,
who by force, intimidation and sheer will power took Kurdish Tikrit;
melded it with Sunni Baghdad; and then, folded the two together along
with Shiite Basra into a central oil dispensary called: IRAQ!
So whether the entity is called Jordan, Saudi Arabia or Syria or
whether one has HSBC--- we, the public understand all too well that
money, corruption and chicanery will always be involved. Those
generations who are to follow us are doomed to unravel the mess that we
have created intentionally with all the rationalizations that absolve us
from accountability, morality or guilt.
Long Live the Thorny Crown of Iniquity!
May it last. Until its eventual demise!
And may disingenuous behavior keep serving us well into the
future of oblivion and amnesia!
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Thursday, February 12, 2015

goodbye Jon, from the Forward. We hardly knew ye!

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Congratulations to the New Attorney General Loretta Lynch, First
African-American Woman to be Nominated to that Office! Dont
Become an Eric HolderNewtown False Flag/Gun Control Fiasco/ Civil
Rights Wannabe Agitator!
Loretta is black, female, southern-born [Durham, North Carolina];
Harvard Undergraduate and JD. More importantly, she was the Sorority
Sister of Eric Holders politically powerful OB-Gyn, beautiful wife Dr.
Sharon Malone, M.D.- and a dedicated U.S. Attorney for the Eastern
District of New York. It looks as if political cronyism and racial affinity
has played a crucial role in the nomination of our new U.S Attorney
General. Even more cynical than her historical proximity to Eric
Holders wife, is that Ms Lynch is tainted by the fact of her seeming
superficial similarities to the Michelle/Jarret/ Malone Mafia -- all of an
elite group African-American Women who tolerate nothing except a
limited agenda of power to implement gun control and racial/economic
equality. However, I have this slight inkling that there is something very
different about this petite impish force, Loretta Lynch.
I believe she will be different in her future performance as strict
legal interpreter of the Federal Laws and that she will not pull an absurd,
disgraceful, national scam like the Newtown Stand Down, Gun
Control Fiasco.
Heres why
Lynch was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on May 21, 1959,
she is truly American. Her mother was a school librarian; and her father
was a Baptist Minister who helped persecuted blacks to flee the Jim
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Crow laws of the south [Wikipedia]. Now to many of you that may not
be very significant. Yet to me, who grew up in Harlem, I was well
acquainted with the Baptist Ministers, like Adam Clayton Powell; who
despite his political chicanery, was a charismatic, serious spokesman for
the poor blacks in NYC. Those African Americans who grew up with
privilege and education, like the medical doctor, Dr. Arthur Logan
[Director of the Health Insurance Group-HIP, my father was a partner]
and his lovely sister, were in the forefront of civil rights, way before the
Selma Marches; or Martin Luther Kings historic speeches. These elite
professionals began the quiet rumblings of an American Revolution
called, Civil Rights; which LBJ had implemented into official
legislation.
For me, Loretta Lynchs background of growing up in the 1960s in
the South allowed her to understand the intricate complexities that were
involved in segregation. This history of real confrontation with
segregation will have an impact on her future actions as a pragmatic
American jurisprudence professional. She is the true American daughter
of the real civil rights war; not just a participant/observer like the token
Republican black, Condi Rice who never smelled the stringent odor of
tear gas.
In contrast, neither Obamas and Holders light brush of
discrimination; giving them both a slightly tainted feelings of injustice;
allowing them to complain about injustices when they both voraciously
consumed the benefits of Affirmative Action; which eventually
propelled them into their lofty respective positions. It is important to
understand that unlike their respective wives, neither man was really An
American-- in the sense of growth or acculturation. Both men were
wrapped in the white mans guilty blanket of entitlements:
[1] Obama went to pre-paid private schools, fostered and nurtured
by the CIA.
[2] Holder was of Bahamian Mulatto roots; ascending to academic
excellence through elite high schools and colleges. He was a protg of
the Clinton machinery.
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The simple fact is that Sharon Malone, the sister of a well-known

civil rights leader, Vivian Malone-Jones [one of two students who
enrolled in all white University of Alabama] should have been a political
force in her own right. Instead she had decided assume the role of a
female Talleyrand who stood back in the shadows of power,
manipulating Obama, Holder, and Lynch from Washington DC to the
black-dominated summer homes in Oak Bluffs, Cape Cod, Mass. For
whatever reasons, she had decided to become one of the last medical
heroines: an Ob-Gyn doctor with twenty-five years of liability attached
to every delivery.
Such black women of power and brains could not step forward until
now. Loretta has the chance to demonstrate what justice really means to
all American because, unlike Holder, she really worked in the cesspool
of black/white crimes; political chicanery; and banking malfeasance
[indicted Citibank and UBS for corrupt practices]. Let me tell you that
when you have to oversee prosecution of felons in Brooklyn, Queens,
Staten Island and Long Island, you have seen the gamut of crimes from
petty theft to construction fraud of the highest order.
I would like to wish the new Attorney General Loretta Lynch the
best of luck. I dont care how she got to that position. I only ask that she
would act like her mother and fatherhonestly, courageously and fair.
This country cant afford any more Eric Holders. Let the Duck [Holder]
go back into the swamp waters and waddle away from our American
shores of decency, transparency, effectiveness and an a complete absence
of False Flags.
BTW, if you want to hear the most compelling, rational discussion
on race and police relations, then tune into the new FBI Director James
Comeys recent speech on that topic. What a breath of Fresh Air!

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Monday, February 16, 2015

Putin and Merkel Pivot Away from the Minsk Agreement toward
War? Peace? EU Disintegration?
Never have the psychological dynamics of each key player been
more important to world peace in the 21st century.
On February 15, the world saw what two strong personalities from
seemingly two disparate cultures will do with respect to the crucial world
issues of peace, war, EU disintegration and other ancillary untoward
consequences.
What do I mean?
It is very rare for me with my history to witness such a confluent of
worldwide issues being concentrated in one truncated place and time.
The recent Minsk Accords facilitated by Lukashenko [Belarus] was a last
minute attempt to bring a moment of respite to an escalating situation of
confrontation between the USA and Russia. Not since the Cold War have
we seen such a mounting sense of tension. Some pundits in the USA
want to compare the Russia-USA confrontation in the Ukraine to the
Cuban Missile Crisis during the Kennedy era. I dont think its similar at
all because that past incident occurred between two different types of
personalities.
JFK was correctly assessed by the ruthless, murderous Khruschev as
weak and indecisive. One must remember as I have written before in
other blogs that JFK was a mental/physical cripple who was completely
addicted to 19 different medications which were intended to maintain his
level of acumen. Despite such pharma regimens, he had psychotic
breaks when he was hospitalized at New York Hospital for Addisons
Disease [absence of Adrenal Glands]. On the other side of the
negotiations table was a ruthless mujik who had obtained his imprimatur
as a ruthless Soviet Stalinist who had already killed over three million
Kulaks [private Ukrainian farmers who had refused to be nationalized] in
over nine months in 1933. So, we had the medical/psychological wimp
and the killer, despite the nonsense propaganda pablum produced by
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Harvards Ted Sorenson about Camelot and its charismatic, determined

leader, JFK.
Today, we have Putin, a tough ex-KGB operative who had been
trained in East Germany under the auspices of Markus Wolf [Spy Who
Came in From the Cold]. Similarly, Merkel as we have described before,
was raised as the daughter of a West German Lutheran Minister who
went to East Germany to counteract the effects of Communism which
eventually led to the Berlin Wall being taken down. Merkel grew up to
become a strong politician and intellectual, she received her PhD in
Physics. So for the moment, I am positing the fact that we have two
different personalities from the two aforementioned politicians of the
1960s.
Now in the shadows of conflict lies an American President who
most people think is quite weak and indecisive based on past actions;
particularly the refusal to enforce the red lines in Syria and the botched
Libya experiment. I agree that both manifestations are of ineptness and
naivete. However, I am convinced that POTUS, a product of American
Intelligence, has learned his lessons with the use of force and the
willingness to be tough, irrespective of the consequences [witness the
massive Drone Wars in the Middle East]. Therefore, what we have is an
indeterminate respite of peace for as long as it will last.
Putin will continue to test the limits of his self-designated
geographical prerogatives. Thats his personality. He can brook no limits
imposed from the outside or even within his own coterie of Kremlin
advisors. As evidence, we see his transporting over fifty tanks into
Eastern Ukraine hours before the cease fire. Yet, Putin sat for 17 hours
in what appeared to be a serious attempt to negotiate a treaty in Minsk.
However, if one looks carefully at the photos of the roundtable
interactions, one will see that Putin has always kept one eye on Merkel as
she, in turn, has kept her eyes on Putin. If Putin breaks the Minsk accord,
the newly appointed David Cohen, Deputy Director of the CIA [first Jew
to be in such a senior position in a very anti-Semitic intelligence
organization] will increase the economic strangle-hold on the Russian
economy, dropping the Ruble to the point that it will not be worth the
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paper it is printed on. In turn, Germany will increase their economic

sanctions of Russia which may become more painful than what the US
can do. Germany may start to rearm its forces and once again we will
witness the rise of what was once a formidable fighting force.
At the same time, Merkel will have to deal with Greeces economic
woes that in my humble opinion are beyond repairing. She will try to
keep Greece in the EU in order to make certain that Greece cannot write
off the billions of dollars in debt that it owes to German, Austrian and
Italian banks. All types of EU committees, like one called cohesian
will desperately try to salvage Greece. Even the World Bank subsidiary
the International Monetary Fund [IMFa pathetic cover for American
donations] will try to loan Greece money.
This is the week that will be and then eventually become the week
that was. What will happen is not everyones guess. It will reside with
one major factor which we Americans really do not teach nor prepare for
the psychological/political dynamics of two very powerful
personalities--- Merkel and Putin. If we learn nothing more from what
will transpire, I will lobby for a unit of the White House that President
Eisenhower had once instituted Unit For Psychological/Political
Behavior. America must anticipate behavior of world leaders rather than
simply react to it. Its called strategy.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Leslie Gore R.I.P.

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Thursday, February 19, 2015

The Ukraine/Russia Self-Defeating Conflict: Both are Economically
Intermeshed to the Degree that Hurting One Seriously Damages the
Other.
Time to Stop Fighting and Start Making Money in Both Countries!
Lets get the Interested EU, East European countries and the USA
involved in a constructive economic program for both countries. This
way everyone wins.
And just for the record: No statement could be more false than the
one that Russia has changed the borders of the Ukraine by annexing
Crimea. As I have pointed out almost a year ago, Russia has had both a
historical imperative to the warm waters of the Crimea for which it had
fought a major war in the late 19th Century, losing millions of civilians
and soldiers in that process. Furthermore, Russia had been promised
when the Soviet Union was dismantled-- through side agreements and
verbal assurances that Crimea was and will continue to be part of the
Russian sphere of influence. Despite those assurances, America and its
NATO allies entered into costly economic/kinetic war that really
resolved very little in terms of territorial hegemony. More importantly,
this economic warfare which we successfully implemented has come to
point where it is now becoming self-destructive both to Russia and to the
Ukraine.
The reason is really quite simple.
Russia and the Ukraine are so economically intertwined that by
trying to hurt one bank in Russia, we in the west, are really damaging a
corresponding bank in the Ukraine. Witness the fact that Foreign Direct
Investments [FDI] from Cyprus [Russian Banking Cut-Out Country] fell
from 33% to 29% in Ukraine 2013 to 2014. [Stratfor, 2/18/2015].
Similarly, Russia and the Ukraine are one major oil/gas terminal made up
of interlacing pipelines; wherein both Roseneft and Lukoil [both Russian
firms] sold off 240 filling stations in the Ukraine to an Austrian
Company AMIC Energy Management.
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This worldwide accepted narrative that Russia has pre-empted

western attempts by Kiev to enter the EU is not completely true nor
enlightening. That narrative as usual serves the more bellicose desires of
those strategic neophytes who pontificate about antiquated geopolitical
spheres of influence which now have evaporated into a vapor cloud of
computing. These are now amorphous Cyber-Nations, funded by binary
numbers consisting of ones and zeros.
So what is to be done?
It imperative for the USA to initiate, along with its French/German/
Austrian and Chinese partners, a financial packet which will address both
the monetary requirements for economic rehabilitation in both of the
twin countries of Ukraine and Russia. This is a unique opportunity for
the leading financial Eastern and Western Superpowers in partnership
with their respective private financial conglomerates to create a new
menu of finance products/partnerships. These should appeal to the youth
of both nations so that they might start respective hi-tech and
manufacturing incubators that can act as models of economic
entrepreneurship in the 21st Century. Why not reconfigure an impending
disaster into a hopeful opportunity for peace and prosperity?
The Ukraine and Russians must remember that they have far more
in common than they have differences. Kinetic military actions will have
to become subservient to the economic imperatives of MUTUAL
DEPENDENCY! Otherwise, what will hurt one will also hurt the other.
Cut off one limb in Russia and you may be unwittingly amputating two
separate limbs in the Ukraine.
This time let us think out-of-the-box! Where are the Silicon Valley
Boys? Its time to grow up and influence developing economies in a
positive way.
Let me reiterate an interesting thought by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Whosoever would be man must be a conformist.
Or, in the words of the great economist, Adam Smith:
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
In the Information Age: Make Commerce not War.
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Monday, February 23, 2015

What Happens When Narcissism Gloats Exponentially and Delivers
Awards to Itself for Mediocrity?
Its Called The 87th Academy Awards or Where did Oscar Go?
It would be fair to say that a significant number of you probably
watched last nights Academy Awards Ceremony. Since I voted for the
best script, I started to watch it. As many of you know from my previous
blogs, I picked two movies that I thought stood out from the rest of the
films: Whiplash and the once ignored American Sniper. I am glad
they won some awards. However, I could not watch the Oscar ceremony
once the host, Neil Patrick Harris came out in his underpants and
thought that this puerile action was funny. For the most part, I have very
little respect for the actors who celebrate their narcissism on a steady diet
of false adoration and expansive platitudes. No two movies were more
absurd both in their creation and their execution than the front runners:
Boyhood and Birdman.
As I wrote previously, Boyhood was a boring family saga akin to
watching home movies of your most detestable family members who
have nothing better to do than navel gazing. Birdman was another
piece of cinematic farce. It was ostensibly a picture of a repulsive, faded
actor played by Michael Keaton attempting a comeback. Ironically, I
watched the beginning of the film when Keaton is floating in mid-air,
then goes into rehearsals on a Broadway stage. The rest of the story is
riddled with dialogue, drama and tension akin to free associations of one
of my former lobotomized patients who had been hospitalized for a bad
LSD trip. Yet, Birdman received numerous other awards from the
Directors, Producers and Screen Actors Guilds because it was
considered a film of an unbearable length of time, shot in one take.
Now, for those you who do not know that movies are usually shot in
small segments, then those segments are tethered together by a talented
[in this case] or non-talented editor, Birdman in principle was shot
without a retake or cuts. I dont believe that narrative. More importantly,
I could care less whether the film was taken from a satellite perspective
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or that of a cockroach [sorry Franz Kafka], both the story and the lead
character, Michael Keaton were at best boring if not completely
reprehensible. I have had the misfortune of meeting Michael Keaton in
Bozeman, Montana. What little interaction I had with him was both
unpleasant and dismissive. I found him by personality to be just what the
lead in Birdman was: self-involved, irrelevant and paranoid.
While watching last nights Oscar Event, I had feelings of
tediousness, disgust and boredom throughout. Wasnt this supposed to be
entertainment?? I sense as the Hollywood movie industry becomes
increasingly irrelevant to the world audience, the academy members have
become more desperate in testing the borders of absurdity and
narcissism. A host standing in his jockey shorts and making nonsensical
pronouncements, followed by the Lady Gagas inappropriate tribute to a
fifty year old film, Sound Of Music demonstrates that Hollywood is
caught in the nostalgia, bereft of any convincing or worthy scripts that
will engage the present or future generations into watching anything
other than Netflix,Twitter, Amazon, You Tube, et. al.
I am writing what I suspect is the beginning of an obituary for the
Hollywood Film Industry which was founded on the simple premise of
entertaining the masses without resorting to dick jokes or music that
has been buried within the distorted cavities of nostalgia. I once again
reaffirmed for myself that the nonsensical solipsistic palaver of the
Hollywood presenters and ex-celebrities was very much akin to the
nonsense that we, Americans hear on a daily basis from our present
leaders in the White House; as well as, our self-adoring, dim-witted
contenders for the Presidency. America, its time to shut off the TV.
We need some new forms of entertainment and leadership. Lets try
to assess merit and achievement over self-glorification, fictional
narratives and paeans to narcissism.
I believe in the following pronouncement by the great poet, William
Butler Yeats:
The best lack conviction [or taste]; while the worst are full of
passionate intensity [ self-love].
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Qatar: In the Line of American Fire.
We have 10,000 US Troops Protecting this Oil-Rich Emirate! and
we developed their Gas/Oil Fields. So why do we allow Qatar to
fund/manage ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas, and many other Islamic Terrorist
Groups? Are we playing games? Or are we wasting lives in a phony war
on terror?
Hats off to an intrepid young journalist, Jay Solomon, the point man
for Foreign Policy news at the conservative Wall Street Journal, who
wrote a brilliant article along with Nour Malas, on Feb. 23, 2015 entitled:
Qatars Ties To Militants Strain Alliance (posted earlier). The authors
point to one simple conundrum: Americans created the little Emirate of
Qatar when our behemoth oil companiesExxon Mobil Corp. and
Conoco Phillipstook the unusual risk of drilling for natural gas in that
destitute entity called a country. We now base our military personnel
and fly our jets to fight ISIS from Qatar. Yet, Qatar (along with Saudi
Arabia) is a main financier of ISIS, Hamas, Al Qaeda and any other
Sunni extremist groups. Americans are paying Qatar to kill our men and
women in a so-called existential battle to eliminate extremist terrorist
groups.
Now, either I have attended one too many Mad Hatter Lunches or
something is wrong with our Foreign Policy. Please read the following
sentence from the WSJ article: They said Qatar has the right to have
diplomatic ties with Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other Islamist
movements that they said have broad support in the Arab public.
Why not pull out of Qatar and let them do what they do best: Buy
insurance from terrorist groups who promise not to kill the young Qatari
Emirjust like Saudi Arabia did [and regretted it]. But here is where my
B.S. meter goes crazy.
We are not bloc-mentality belonging country. We create
platforms for dialogue, said Qatars foreign minister Khalid bin
Mohammad al-Attiyah,If this approach allows us to bring long-lasting
peace and security in our region, we will not be affected by criticism.
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If you want our troops to protect you guys, then do as we say or

we will do what we want! But then is our military at the beck and call of
the oil interests?
Whats the real story behind the mysterious beginning of the narrative
called , IsIs, Hamas, Al Qaeda, and all the Libyan Islamic Forces
that former Sec State Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power [UN], and Susan
Rice [NSC] created because of their incompetence in dismissing Col.
Qaddafi. And now, Egypt is trying to eliminate those Islamic Terrorist in
Libya while the Emir of Qatar is funding them and others.
So we create 9/11 with a little help from our friends; then we invade
Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudanbut we cant take out
the Emir of Qatar and his puny little government which we are protecting
so that we can fly missions over Iraq/Syria in order to waste more useless
bombs and extend a non-war for three more years. Yeah, thats a great
story.
But why dont we just take out the Emir and his coterie?
Maybe the CIA or Military Intelligence can tell you the answer. But
as far as I am concerned, we send our troops into a self-created harms
way, then we blow them up with weapons that we left behind as in Iraq
and we protect the bad guys who fund the most horrible killers whom we
call muslim extremists. While we try to explain to the world the nuance
of ISIS and how it represents a medieval caliphate. When in fact that
caliphate was created by the USG, CIA, MI, and other willing
participants.
You know that I am not a fan of the neocon warloving chicken
hawks. But I have to quote the despicable Dennis Ross whom I found to
be lacking in intellect and integrity:
That Qataris need to know they cant have it both ways, said
Dennis Ross, who was Mr. Obamas top Mideast advisor in his first
term. But so far, they see that they can.
When a bad man like Dennis Ross is criticizing a craven, desert rat
like the Emir of Qatar, we know that something smells in the state of
America. Lets get rid of this problem ASAP!
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America: STOP funding terrorists and maybe we dont have to

spend billions on Homeland Security- use the money for roads, schools
and space. DEFUND QATAR, DEFUND HOMELAND SECURITY, a
simple, elegant formula for success.

Friday, February 27, 2015

R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy

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Opposition Russian Leader Boris Nemstov Assassinated on February
27, 2015 before trying to Reveal Evidence of Russian Military
Involvement in the Ukraine!
Now Putin has Mistakenly Created a Russian Martyr.
For some time now, Boris had been compiling a research pamphlet
entitled, Putin And War [NYTimes, Feb28, 2015]. It was a direct
indictment of Putin and his sycophants involvement in officially using
the Russian military apparatus to propagate war in the Ukraine. Boris
Nemstov, like most Putin opposition leaders, realized that his compulsive
investigations into Putins ascendancy to the Kremlin accompanied by a
string of corruptions, might lead to Boriss eventual death. However, like
many individuals who deem it necessary to uncover the deceits and
machinations of pugnacious leaders such as Putin these people
sometimes confuse their just cause with invincibility. Boris was no
different. He was a former deputy prime minister and understood all too
well that his work to uncover Putins miscreant deeds in ripping off the
Sochi Olympics to the tune of $25 Billion Dollars was dangerous.
Yet these agitators for justice and transparency imagine that they
would live to see the day that their lifes efforts had been justified. Let
me quote to you from the Andrew E. Kramers NY Times article:
He [Boris] was afraid of being killed, Ms. Albats [Editor of The
NYTimes Magazine] said. And he was trying to convince himself and
me, they [Putin, FSB, etc.]wouldnt touch him because he was a member
of the Russian government, a vice premier, and they wouldnt want to
create a precedent. Because, he said, one time the power will change
hands in Russia again, and those who served Putin wouldnt want to
create this precedent.
Clearly, Boris Nemtsov was wrong! Putin and his cronies had no
hesitation whatsoever. They did what most KGB operatives had been
trained to do when they were perplexed and confused by surrounding
events, shoot those propaganda agitators dead. Therefore the
surrounding political cacophony that the agitators created would be
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terminated [without prejudice]. As usual Putin, a Russian born in

Leningrad and trained in East Germany by the Stasi, forgot that more
than anything else, the Russian people adore their poets, writers, and
freedom fighters and to make matters even worse, the Russians
absolutely adore their martyrs.
One only has to recall the extensive list of Russian martyrs from the
19th through the 21st centuries to realize that in the long term, martyrs
for political freedom always trump the extant corrupted leader.
Remember that in the famous novel by Boris Pasternak, Dr Zhivago, the
Soviet political commissar who happened to be Dr Zhivagos stepbrother was astounded to see how many Russians had paid their respects
to the late physician/poet Zhivago who had died under the ruthless reign
of Stalin. The step brother says in the book [and movie]: Oh, how we
Russians, do love our poets; even though we were never officially
allowed to read them [Zhivagoread Pasternak].
Once again, the political repression of the Soviet era ascends like a
phoenix stoked by the burning embers of extensive political corruption in
the Kremlin; accompanied by its twin, financial ruin of the Russian
economy; resulting from completely incompetent governance. Whatever
heuristic model we in the west may conjure up, the one that hovers over
this familiar narrative is the psychological imperative of repetition
compulsion. That is no matter how Putin may want to change his own
personal behavior as a former low level KGB thug [which I first
identified almost a decade ago in the American Intelligence Journal], he
cannot and will not be capable of changing his behavior patterns.
He was an intelligence operative destined by profession and
personality to remain a petty intelligence operative, resorting to the most
primitive forms of persuasion accorded to gangsters and fascists. Putin
understands all too well the nature of assassinating an opponent. He will
provide a nonsensical narrative along the lines that Boris had been killed
by Chechens or a distraught lover who had needed an abortion; but all
these ersatz narratives will fail in the cauldron of human compassion;
political resistance and the most damaging phenomena of allthe
blowback.
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Now, Putin has unwittingly created the very persona that a

competent assassin would have never createda Russian Martyr.
Why do I say competent assassin?
In the profession of assassination [which is a profession as is kinetic
warfare], the assassin will always allow for a scenario that can never; but
never, be traced to him or her. In this case, the culprit was so blatant that
it was almost comical to deny Putins involvement. Boris was shot in the
head from a drive by car; as he was walking by the Kremlin with a lady
friend in the middle of the night. Putins fingerprints could not have been
more embedded into the tissue of the crime because of its propitious
timing [just before the release of the pamphlet] and the obvious, if not
blatant location where the assassination took placeright outside of the
Kremlin walls.
Once a bullet passes through the flesh of a political opponent, it is
wise for the extant leadership to say as little as possible. The more that
they say, as Putin is wont to do, the more they accuse themselves of the
crime. My prediction of a decade ago still stands: Putin, A KGB Agent
Forever, will end up as the product of his own psycho-political
dynamics : self-destructing! Like all leaders who must use fear to control
their constituents, then fear will be the very emotion that will turn one of
his most loyal lieutenants against Putin.
Recall how quickly Stalins entourage turned against him, once they
were no longer afraid of him.
I would like to end this paean to Putins incompetency with a
German proverb:
He who would rule [effectively] must hear and be deaf; see and be
blind.

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Monday, March 2, 2015

On Alex Jones now. last minute commentary on Middle East etc.

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Sometimes one has to be on the inside for along time in order to
clean it up. Will post later.

Monday, March 9, 2015

DCI John Brennan has Stepped Forward and Courageously Initiated
a Complete Long-Needed Reorganization of the Staid CIA!
Congratulations to Brennan and David Cohen [Deputy Director] and
Good Luck.
For over six decades the once venerable CIA, the off shoot of the
OSS during WWII, has been divided into two artificial divisionsDDI
[analysts] and DDO [covert operatives]. How this came about is not as
relevant as the fact that DCI John Brennan realized a simple fact: that the
agency was too ossified to be able to anticipate the immediate or distant
future. Many of us who had been trained by the then forward looking
CIA [as well as DARPA] at the Phd program in Political Science at
M.I.T. already knew this long ago. The problem lay not in the high
quality of the personnel recruited out of the OSS; nor those recruited out
of their respective military services-- Don Gregg; Jim Lilly; Paul
Redmond; Fritz Ermarth; etcit lay in the artificial structure of the
agency itself.
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I cannot discuss in detail the inner workings of either the DDO, nor
the DDI; but I can say that for the thirty five years that I worked with
[not for] the CIA, I had noticed an erratic pattern of performance both in
the analytic and covert operative divisions. As a former Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State in four different Presidential Administrations, I would
receive all types of reports about an adversarys psychological profile;
some were good, many were not accurate. Similarly, I would sit down
with their analysts and discuss the strategic trends in a particular area and
I was, for the most part, completely unimpressed. There were many cases
where their analyses were completely incorrect, and I would have to go
directly in the combat areas to make my own assessment.
I concluded after some time that I could not change the way the CIA
worked so I went into the informal business of developing my own offline intelligence back-up system. Usually, I would pick up some random
individuals from the DDO, DIA, NSA, MI and congeal them into an
effective team. Other times, I would request a CIA operative who might
have known my adversary because that particular individual had a
personal, somewhat debauched background in concert with my potential
target.
However, the recent appointment of Dan Cohen to become the
Deputy Director of the CIA, an expert in economic and psychological
warfare was a very impressive moment for me because it denoted the
simple fact that DCI John Brennan was in the process of initiating a
major change in both the culture and efficacy of the future CIA. My
cursory understanding of Brennans reorganizational changes are
described very well in the following article [Associated Press, March 6,
2015.]:
He [Brennan] lamented that there is often no single person he can
hold accountable for the spying mission in any given part of the world.
That one point is so crucial that I really cannot emphasize it enough.
More often than not, I would have to dismiss a CIA Station Chief for one
or another reason, knowing full well that I was not being told the entire
truth; or they were trying to play mind/bureaucratic games with me.
John Brennan goes on to elaborate his rightful concerns:
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There are a lot of areas that I would like to have better insight in to,
better information about, better access to. Brennan said, Safe havens
denied areas. Whether because we dont even have a diplomatic presence
in a county, or because there are parts of countries that have been
overrun and taken over by terrorist groups and others.
As I had predicted after the 9/11 attack, most of USGs intelligence
focus was mis-directed and led to an erosion of both the analytic and
operative sections of our entire intelligence community.
Now, the hard work of reorganization begins. I have had the
privilege in the past of re-organizing several of the State Departments
officesRegional Medical Office [RMO]; Initiate a Family Liason
Office [FLO]; Hostage Survival Course; Senior FSO Seminars;
Reorganize USIA; creating the Office of Public Diplomacy , etc. This
was done in concert with many talented FSOs and other agency
personnel.
Reorganization of such a large institution is replete with
bureaucratic resistance to change; and the immutable force accompanied
by turf wars. Yet with bulldog persistence and a surgeons skillful
precision, many things can be accomplished once the desire for change
has been publicly articulated.
In the words of Sam Cooke, A Change is Gonna Come.

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Hillary Clintons Private Emails at the State Department:
Unfathomable and Criminal.
Her Actions Implicate Career Foreign Service Officers [FSOs] who
should have stopped her from the very beginning.
Including the following FSO Professionals:
Deputy Secretary of State William Burns.
Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy.
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 Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security Eric Boswell.

Ambassador Thomas Pickering.
One of the more unfortunate parts of writing my blogs is to highlight
the miscreant behaviors of many professionals with whom I had a very
successful past experience. When Under Secretary Lawrence
Eagleburger recruited me into the State Department in the late 1970s, I
had the good fortune of getting to know two exceptional Foreign Service
Officers [FSO]s: Pat Kennedy and Eric Boswell. Both were men of the
highest integrity and moral convictions. They were as far as I was
concerned the best of the FSOs. Yet these FSOs worked under a very
strange situation. Most if not all of their bosses were political
appointments who tolerated the Foreign Service and more often than not,
continuously complained about them.
From the very beginning of my career, I was a strong advocate for
the FSOs. I felt that they were not trained properly at their Foreign
Service Institute. I had insisted that courses in negotiations; as well as
more sophisticated instruction on terrorism and international crises
management should have been provided. In general, most of the FSOs
acted extremely professionally, especially overseas when they were left
alone to do best what they were trained to do-foreign diplomatic
overtures.
I must now emphasize that there was always one major security
element that was continuously enforced by the State Department Office
of Management and the Office of Diplomatic Security. That security
issue was none other than protecting at all times national security cables,
letters, information; and anything that was literally written during
working hours.These restrictions were so severe that I remember if I had
left even a non-classified paper on my desk accidentally, I would be
appropriately disciplined the next day by someone from Management
[Pat Kennedy] or his equivalent in the office of Diplomatic Security
[Eric Boswell or his surrogate]. That was the basic ethos of the
professional Foreign Servicemaintain security at all times and at any
cost; no matter what was written during working hours. Personal
communications were completely prohibited. At the end of each time I
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had served in the State Department, I had to sign a piece of paper that
stated that I had not taken or received any Classified Information upon
my departure.
Then along came Hillary Clinton!
What can I say that I have already not said about Hillary numerous
times? Her husband and she are the perfect duo for a Folie A Deux
each trying to outmatch the other for blatant sociopathic behaviors; as
well as criminal activities.
A couple years ago when the Benghazi Affair had occurred, I had
already earmarked Pat Kennedy and Eric Boswell as the two primary
FSOs who had to have known about this fiasco of prevarication. They
were placed on leave with pay.
Now, I point to these two gentleman once again.
Pat was and probably still is the most thorough administrative
manager I have ever met. He must have known about Hillarys blatant
flaunting of Diplomatic Security; as did her Assistant Secretary of State,
the Honorable Eric Boswell [who had been a Deputy to the Director of
National Intelligence]. Then there is the recently retired Ambassador
William Burns who had attained the highest accomplishment of a FSO:
Career Ambassador. Last but not least, is Thomas Pickering, one of the
brightest FSOs with whom I had the pleasure of working with in several
different administrations. He was and still is a very clever, wily FSO who
knew how to create or untangle a very complex embarrassing diplomatic
faux pas.Tom had to know from the very beginning of his investigation
into the Libyan fiasco that Hillary was not using the appropriate channels
of communications in either the Arab Springs or in Benghazi.
Now the time has come for these gentlemen to step forward and tell
all that they know about their ersatz boss, the woman who played the role
of a Secretary of State. In addition to the fact that Hillary had
accomplished nothing but garnering bonus miles at a large expense to the
American public, she had been in complete violation of the national
security laws throughout her tenure. Her use of private emails places a
stain on all the professionals in the State Department; bar none!
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As for Hillary, she will hopefully receive her just punishments.

However, my concern is for the blatant silence and absence of moral
outrage from any of the aforementioned professional FSOs. Hillary has
not only corrupted her personal future and reaffirmed the doubts that all
decent Americans had about her from the very beginning of her official
appearance in the folly of Bills House of Cards.The Foreign Service
confronts a moment in history where they will stand up and explain itself
as to whether they had been collusive or remain silent and by implication
remain the co-conspirators. If ever the FSOs are to assert their tenets of
professionalism-it is right now! Failing that, they will forever remain the
effete, non-professional supernumeraries that will always be dominated
by political cronyism.
Allow me to end with a quote from the Arthur Koestler, an author
who spoke out:
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion [of FSO
professionalism].

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Back to the Future: Chinese President Xi Jinping Invokes the Mao
Ethos in Order to Control China and Fight Corruption in the
Military/Industrial Complex!
For some time now, my readers in Asia have been asking me to
write something about the present changes in China. A few days ago, a
low level military officer made an official statement that the former vice
chairman of the central military commission was responsible for the sins
of the father. [Stratfor, March 10, 2015.] On the surface this seems to be
somewhat of an innocuous statement. Who really cares what a Chinese
soldier might have said about the past corruption in the military?
Unfortunately, for those who had worked for the previous two presidents
of ChinaHu Jintao and Jiang Zeminthis soldiers disingenuous
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statement widely publicized all over the Chinese media was a clear
warning shot from current President Xi.
In order for Xi to maintain a steady net growth of about 7% per
year, he must get rid of hundreds of thousands of military officers who
had placed their rice bowls into the private sector which replenished
them very well. Xi is using an old technique mastered by Mao who
would allow a poem or an esoteric reference in some daily newspaper to
hint at the massive changes he was about to make. President Xi has been
forced to utilized the questionable legacy of Mao in order to maintain his
Communist Party control over a very rapacious capitalist system replete
with political cronyism and financial corruption.
I am in no position to decide the merits of what Xi is doing. I am not
a China scholar yet I consider myself a disciple of such illustrious China
scholars as Dr. Richard Solomon [MIT, Kissinger Staff] and Prof. Lucian
Pye [MIT]. Learning from them, I believe I possess some sensibilities
regarding the fluctuating nature of the Chinese society.
After reviewing Dr Richard Solomons brilliant study of Chinese
behavior during and after the Chinese Cultural Revolution [Mao and
The Cultural Revolution], one point comes back repeatedly. That is the
Chinese ambivalence toward a Confucius society based on moral
principles of behavior toward one another which is in complete contrast
toward Maos constant need for revolutionary change.
This crisis of ambivalence is being played out today as Xi uses the
Maoist slogans and methods in an attempt to reform a society of 1.3
billion people. There is no question in my mind that Xi will purge the
remnants of Hus $1.7B unsightly personal fortune [Forbes Magazine].
At the same time, I have this compelling feeling that Hu, his family and
members of his extended family will have to go through the Kabuki
[sorry for the mixed metaphor] of a corruption trial. In addition, I believe
Jiang who was president before Hu will also try to retain his nefarious
power base while Xi attacks him and his coterie of political sycophants
[Chinese and Foreigners].
Through this past year of political purges, Xi has declared that he is
like Mao in the process initiating another cultural revolution. This time,
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however, he will make certain that student cannibalism and chaos will
not result from these national and local political purges. The number of
effected people ranges in the hundreds of thousands. In my humble
estimate, I think that Xis purges will probably number in the millions by
the time he decides the anti-corruption campaign is over.
So what does this mean for Hong Kong and America?
I think Xi will continue to ignore the precepts of democracy as the
youth of Hong Kong understand it. Xi will use Hong Kong as a
laboratory for showing the world what he intends to do with the
semblance of a democratic society that impinges on the Maoist ethos of
centralized control. There will be more student protests and more
confrontations, until Xi eventually exhausts the students of their elan
vital.
America is not a clear and present danger for Xi right now.
However, that caveat only applies as long as we as a nation state do not
interfere with the internal dynamics of his Maoist Revolution. If he
suspects that we are in any way creating dissension and taking advantage
of his extension of power, he will reactivate the Spratly Island crises with
a bravado that we have not yet seen [ read my vintage Pax Pacifica
novel].
His present foreign policy concern should be the rise of Japanese
Nationalism with its concomitant rise in military power in the China Sea.
One must remember that in a blog I wrote about one year ago, I
mentioned that Japan has the second largest navy in the world. That
military fact could disturb Xis strategic expansions into the China Sea
and Indian Ocean.
Xi is one busy leader engaged in garnering both his internal and
external control of the increasing larger Chinese Military and its ancillary
divisions of corruption and political cronyism. At the end of his purges, I
estimate that Xi will be in complete charge of his country; as well as, his
Communist Party. No one would dare mimic Mao, unless he was about
to understand that he would become a target of derision and hate. Xi is
neither afraid nor concerned about his personal safety. A man not afraid
to die is one very dangerous man.
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Only one man ever defied Mao twice. He was able to come back and
rule China effectively. That mans name was Deng Xiao Ping! However,
there is no new Deng! It will take a long time for someone like him to
arise. We will have to go back to the future!
One might even say in Chinese:
President Xi is in a position of tu quiong bi xian
[pronounced too chyoong bee hsien]:
Meaning--- He has nowhere to hide!
The dagger is exposed!

Monday, March 23, 2015

Bibis Re-election Marks the End of Ashkenazi Zionism after 65
Years!
Now Israel will be dominated by Sephardic/Orthodox Jews! Amen!
As many of you know by now, I am not a fan of Bibi. The reasons
are multiple and well spelled out in my past blogs. But I came to a
belated realization that with Bibis reelection, we Ashkenazi will no
longer feel the need to tie ourselves to Israel. Ashkenazi [particularly
Polish] founded Israel as an experiment in creating a state where we,
Polish and other Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe and the former
Austria-Hungary Empire would no longer be harnessed by fears of
Cossack Horsemen trampling down our lives.
This Ashkenazi experiment which was hatched in Poland, where
many Jews including members of my own family arose like a
serendipitous phoenix from the ashes of WWII. However, from the very
creation of the State of Israel in 1948 we, Ashkenazi really were out of
step with our new countrys surroundings where desert and Arabic
permeated the surface and culture of the region. When Madagascar was
offered to us as an alternative, we turned it down. Clearly, Saudi Arabia
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was not offered to us. The land that greeted our original pioneers was
filled with swamps and malaria.
The one group of Jews who felt at home in the desert and spoke not
only Hebrew but Arabic as well were the Sephardic Jews. They lived
with their neighbors who were predominantly Muslims.
These Sephardic Jews who had dispersed from Spain during and
after the Spanish Inquisition populated the MagrebNorth Africa and
became prominent physicians [Rambam] and merchants in Morocco,
Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and even Afghanistan. These were the true
Jews who understood that they did not need a Holocaust in order to settle
what was considered the Holy Land because they all grew up with the
clear impression that one day they would all naturally make an exodus to
Israel and settle there.
This Sephardic dream came true for them. Now they are becoming
the majority in Israel in both population and in the national security
service. They speak better Arabic than Bibi or any of his Ashkenazi
predecessors. However, they have never been given the appropriate
recognition for their native talents and incredible contributions to Israel
in particular and in the world in general. Now, Bibis ravaging tantrums
awoke the savage beast which had always been lying quietly in the
doorsteps of Israelthe Sephardic Jews who are primarily Orthodox and
have been willing to support Bibi at all cost.
Now, I say that we, Ashkenazi, can leave Israel knowing fully well
that the social liberal experiment of saving Jewish lives had worked. It is
time for the real Jews of that desert region to take over with their new
Messiah, Bibi Netanyahu. Bibi has done what no other American Jew
could have done--- separated Polish Born Zionism from Sephardic
Orthodoxy. He could never realize what he had done because he is not
that smart.
I and my fellow American Jews, most of whom are Ashkenazi can
surrender Israel to the comforting hands of the native Christian and
Muslim Israelis as well as the Sephardic Orthodox Jews. All I ask is for
Israel to get rid of its agents of influence in America as well as its useless
Mossad. If not, then as an American I find myself more than willing to
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roll them up and send them back to where they belonga dream state of
non-reality which was in the past primarily supported by the America
and the Christian Fundamentalists. That was then, now, everyone in
America is disgusted with Bibi and his entourage of neocon chicken
hawks.
So Shalom!
Dont ever come back to the USA and ask us to help you out..
again and again..
And as the Sephardim know all too well, we should say more
appropriately---Salem Alechim!
Peace be with you in Arabic!

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Republican Senator Ted Cruz, Presidential Contender: A Study in
Narcissistic Solipsism.
I love me! You love me! They love me! We all love me! Even
Princeton and Harvard Love Me! Even Harvard Prof. Alan Dershowitz
[Israeli operative] thinks I Am Uber Smart!
Sooowho does not love me?
Answer: The Veterans and Taxpaying Citizens of America.
By now every American has heard the clarion call from the Senate
Halls and Liberty University that Ted The Cross Cruz has decided that
the American citizens are worthy of having this native-born Canadian
[Calgary] become the President of the USA. How fortunate we are to
have such a stellar candidate.
I cannot tell you how long I have been waiting with baited breath for
this pronouncement. I cant remember anyone who was so divine that he
did not really have to be born in the U.S. proper to feel that he, and only
he, should be the next leader of this amazing Superpower.
Oops! I have made a slight mistake.
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I was just informed that the miscreant Republican President Chester

Arthur declared in a moment of a lapsed memory that he had been born
in Vermont; but, he belatedly discovered that he really had been born in
Canada---just like our divine Ted Cruz. Heck, even John McCain was
born in Panama Canal Zone. Lets not be petty. Mexico and Canada are
really part of the North American Hemisphere. Its just a minor
technicality.
However, the full impact of Teds announcement did not hit me
until he started to sing the praises of American virtue at Bob Jones
Liberty University. So I quickly went to check out the fact that he must
have signed up for military service as did the Democratic contender Jim
Webb who volunteered to go to the Vietnam War and serve. I looked in
every place on the internet and even some of the Army archives, YET I
could not find Ted Cruzs name anywhere. Maybe his voluntary military
service to America had been misplaced [ it does happen from time to
time].
I went to check if he had joined the Peace Corps like the great
American War Hero, Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Yet there were no
records that Ted Cruz tried to avoid Vietnam Military service as did the
four Bush Sons---Marvin; Neil; George Jr; and Jeb. So if he did not try to
avoid U.S. military service like the Bush sons, there was one other
alternative that I had clearly missed. I looked up to find out whether Ted
Cruz had become a Southern Baptist Missionary going into the
dangerous Ebola ridden areas of Sierra Leone or Liberia. Or maybe he
had gone with some of my Christian Missionary Association Pastors to
the Malaysia or Indonesia?
Nothing! I found that he had not even volunteered for missionary
work as a member of the 14 million devotees of the Southern Baptist
Churches. I decided there was only one attribute to which I could assign
his sense of divine destinyhis impeccable, radiating NARCISSISM!
Now I felt that I may have come closer to understanding what Ted Cruz
was really all about. He is a man who could not tell us enough about how
much he loved himself and more importantly how much we Americans
should love him. Then, I understood that Ted was just the logical
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extension of a thirty year pattern of Democratic [Bill Clinton and

Obama] and Republican [Bush Jr] Sociopaths who had really never
served our country but spent most of their childish lives [which extended
into adulthood] learning how to tell people how wonderful they really
were.
It is not easy to convince anyone especially oneself how wonderful
one is if that one person had never really had a real job, created a
functional business or served in our military. It becomes incumbent on
ones self to enter into a world of solipsism, repeating to oneself in a
series of logical circles about self-love; based on nothing more than
wishful thinking and self-delusions that one is completely wonderful and
destined for greatness.
The beauty of a Ted Cruz candidacy is that it highlights that we
have had nothing but paper tigers with daddy issues who have resided in
the White House for the past thirty years. If you think that I am belittling
the lack of impressive credentials that all three past presidents have hadsimply look at their respective backgrounds. Two went to YaleClinton
and Bush Jr. Two went to Harvard Graduate SchoolsBush Jr and
Obama.
This crme de la crme came out with diplomas signifying much of
nothing. They were all Ivy Leaguers who had never had to descend into
the brutal struggles of everyday living. They never had to meet a payroll
or a mortgage which they had bought with their hard-earned money. All
three were spoiled children of a generation of absent fathers and maternal
indulgences. None had ever created a job or a company with employees
they never really had to harden their callouses with manual work.
All three had one thing in commonthey were bred and nurtured by
our rarefied CIA organization that somehow attained the misbegotten
notion that they were the keepers of the Republic. Wrong again! Two
had no fathers [Clinton and Obama] and one never had a father at home
[Bush Jr]. Absent fathers allowed for the psychologically sensitive CIA
to move in and become the surrogate daddy [cheap Freudian theory
but thats how they work].
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Now we have Ted Cruz who had a father. This father is really one
piece of Cuban fanciful dreams. He claims that he was beaten by
Batistas ruthless thugs. Then as a result he joined the Castro Regime.
Poor daddy Cruz now emphasizing that he had made a mistake to join
Castro. More poignantly, he tells you that he also was beaten up by the
Castro regime. In Cuban Spanish we call his fatherPobrecito! Little
poor one!
Like Ted Cruz, the Daddy Cruz goes into desultory vocal rants
about our American founding fathers and their genius. However, he
forgets to tell us that unlike many of us grateful Cubans who came to this
country and gladly served in the military, Daddy Cruz DID NOT!
Ted Cruz is the penultimate sociopathic candidate. Do nothing, say
anything loudly and over again. And above all else: distort the truth!
Please lets discontinue our thirty year streak of worthless men. It must be
incumbent on us as citizens of this great country to find a candidate who
had served our country selflessly and has had the experience of running a
company, state or something that has proven his/her mettle along the
way.
I am grateful for Ted Cruz and his willingness to demonstrate
unabashedly grandiosity without having shown any really substance.
From Ted we can learn exactly what we do not want or need for our
great country.
Let me end with the witticism of the former Journalist/CIA
operative, William F. Buckley:
I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the
Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Andreas Lubitz, Germanwings
Flightworthy, Airline [Lufthansa] Says
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Appeared

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NY Times, March 26, 2015, Alison Smale and Jack Ewing.

This unbelievable tragedy of a single pilot purposefully crashing his
plane into the rugged French Alps was clearly a premeditated act on the
part of Andreas Lubitz, a 27 year old German national with 626 hours of
experience. As I started to bring myself to the realization that this young
man had contrived to kill himself along with his passengers and crew
mates, I found myself using the word terrorism instead of suicide.
Why?
For whatever underlying psychological issue that was festering in
Andreas mind, be it ideological or personal, he understood all too well
that this premeditated act of mass murder/suicide would be reported in
the worlds media as frightening act which would instill exactly what
most terrorists want: fear. He also understood that this horrible type of
death, crashing in an inaccessible, hostile mountain terrain would make
the salvage of the wreck increasingly difficult to attain and, therefore,
prolong the search for all the missing bodies and airplane parts. I am
certain that the culprit, Andreas, learned from the Malaysian Airline
disappearance that this type of Kamikaze act would garner world
attention for days, if not weeks and months. His name would be
emblazoned, rightfully or wrongfully, in immortality.
Andreas realized that he could clear the mental and physical exams
however abridged or faulty they might be. He had learned that having
had a medical problem in Phoenix Arizona [whatever that might have
been] was standard for the course, and his employers would never
dismiss him for those medical reasons. In effect, Andreas, in my humble
opinion, like all good terrorists, studied the bureaucratic system in place
to control pilots mental and physical health so extensively that he was
able to game it. He knew exactly where the system was faulty and more
importantly, he understood how to take advantage of it.
Whatever the reason for his terrorist act, I suspect it was far more
personal, reflecting some serious psychological problem that had
manifested itself way before the act of suicide. The reason I say that is
that he was by nature laconic as described by the traffic controllers and
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his co-pilot. However, despite the fact that he was described as happy
and pleased to fly , I think there is something else.
For the most part, he had a lot of ambivalence about what he was
actually doing and what it really meant to him and others. More
importantly, he had personal psychological issues which should have
been picked up in the previous time out that he had in Phoenix,
Arizona. In fact, I am certain that when the medical records are opened
[which they must be because of the extensive nature of this preventable
tragedy] we will discover some very pertinent medical/psychiatric
information that would have given his employers a clear picture that they
had employed a walking timebomb.
Normally, I would not have come out so soon in declaring my
professional opinions, but I have seen, diagnosed and observed airline
pilots who had the following series of problems that had been missed or
purposefully overlooked: drunk; hungover; hidden brain tumors
[common in Air Force/Navy Pilots]; suicidal notions; family/personal
unresolved problems. et al.
A system no matter how well it appears to be controlled for safety is
still as strong as its weakest link. In the airplane business that means the
people who work on the planes as mechanics, service people, pilots,
stewardesses; stewards, attendants, etc. No matter how well-run this
complex system is considered [and the German Lufthansa Group is one
of the best] its still very fallible. One can say that something like this
could have been averted. But I am not certain.
What I do know is that Andreas was very young. He had still lived
at home with his parents. He had a medical problem for six months and
then despite his quiet, sober appearance and the finding that he was
100% flightworthy, he was clearly not. In fact, I will predict that his
personal psychological problems will have been revealed very early on in
his flight training career; but somehow, it was purposefully overlooked
or ignored.
Lufthansa could be negligent if the corporations
management/human resources ignored warning signals in Andreas
record.
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One way or another, Andreas, on that day, was so angry at himself

and others that he had arranged in his mind to crash the plane in very
rough terrain in France to payback the world or somebody [or people] for
his personal failings and inadequacies. My deepest sympathies go to all
the families who lost a loved one on that plane.This is another type of
terrorism that we have not yet come to identify or accept: The 21st
Century Neo-Kamikaze Pilots working at commercial airlines
worldwide.
The brilliant French novelist, Albert Camus said the following:
An intense [personal] feeling carries with it its own universe,
magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Congratulations Nigeria on your New Democracy!
The New Leader of the Opposition Party has Become the President
of Nigeria!
Since 1999, Nigeria has been ruled by one major partyPeoples
Democratic Party, led by Goodluck John.
On March 31, 2015 , Goodluck met his bad luck when Buhari of the
opposition All Progressive Congress defeated him by a wide margin.
What this election victory portends for the Nigerians is a period of
economic and political stability which they have not had for some time.
Buhari was once the military ruler of Nigeria from 1983-1985 so he is
quite familiar with the use of military force to extricate ISIS associated
with the Boko Haram group that has been terrorizing the northern part of
Nigeria where the unemployed youth have been heavily recruited. At the
same time, he will attempt to maintain some economic stability in the
Niger Delta in order to suppress the indigenous militancy groups that
have arisen when citizens from that region believed they did not receive
their proper share of oil.
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The election of Buhari should presage a much needed period of

economic and political stability in a country rife with Christian-Muslim
divisions and poverty. A certain amount of gratitude should also be
expressed to the South African Mercenaries who fought on behalf of the
Nigerian Military and inflicted serious military defeats against Boko
Haram. Although somewhat controversial in nature, South African
mercs are still one of the most effective fighting forces in all of Africa.
Clearly, it will take some time for Buhari to instill the necessary
mechanisms he will need to attain his goals. But even if political
patronage and oil subsidies will be required, that is a small price to pay
for peace in Nigeria. I wish all my Nigerian readers the best for a
prosperous and safe decade of peace.

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Friday, April 3, 2015

Hillary may get the ET full disclosure vote

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Six Years After President Obama Reached Out to Iran, He Made a
Historic Deal!
Congratulations to Obama, John Kerry, State Dept. Team,
Military/Intelligence Community.
Historic Day for America/Hysterical Day for Bibi and Republican
ChickenHawks!
For over 37 years, I have waited for this rapprochement with Iran. I
knew that Obama would eventually reach it with this country. Obama
had taken the initial risk as did Nixon with his unexpected shift to
recognize China. Silent leaders make bold movements. Loud leaders or
histrionic leaders like Bibi and McCain do nothing but create
unnecessary wars which slaughter countless innocent victims. Neither of
these men will go down in history for anything more than saber rattling
ad infinitum.
Obama understood that Iran has been helpful to the US ground
troops both in Iraq and Afghanistan by extricating them from a very
dangerous, complex situation. Our military leaders had informed me for
years that this was the case.
However, the Iran deal is important suis generis. For the most part,
it really has nothing to do with nuclear capabilities. Iran really does not
want a nuclear bomb. It is totally useless. Please ask the Pakistani
leadership, both civilian and military, whether their having the Islamic
Bomb in any way curtailed their corrupt political, incendiary practices in
Afghanistan, Kashmir, and India? Funny how Bibi never brings up
Nuclear Pakistan when he rants about the dangerous of a Nuclear Islamic
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State. Thats because neither he nor the IDF care about nuclear
capability.
As for Saudi Arabia and the other Sunni states, they have failed to
maintain a civil society based on secular laws and transparent economic
incentives. Instead of coming to terms with Iran, a very powerful Persian
state, Saudi Arabia has decided to act out like a spoiled brat in
kindergarten who has not been able to get the continuous attention of
their surrogate father, America. For too long, Americans have tolerated
Saudi Arabias nonsensical religious interpretation of the Holy Koran
with narratives that emphasized the religious extremism and barbarism of
a tribal sect, the Wahabbis.
Now times have changed. Obama along with his negotiating team
understood that inevitable transformation where America no longer
would pamper the spoiled oil drenched hooligans of the Middle East
Dubai, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia and their poorer cohorts Egypt, Jordan,
Turkey, etc.
Obama and Iran have signaled to the world that trade will once
again travel through the Silk Roads of China, Russia and Iran in a vast
infrastructure yet to be built by the different private corporations that will
be bidding for the necessary contracts. New enterprises will arise where
once sands and ruins have stood. Once again, our corporationsBechtel,
Boeing, Northrup Grumann, and Halliburton will descend into Persia and
start up much needed businesses. Persian students will continue to flood
our universities in the USA as they have had in the past and become the
new leaders of a different type of democracy in Iran.
Germany, France, Russia and China will have the advantage of
doing trade with the Iranians on a real competitive basis without fear of
legal sanctions. Even the sneaky state of Israel who supplied the
Ayatollah Khomeini with arms, guns, pilots, fighter jets and artillery
shells [in Hebrew] during the 1989 Iran/Iraq Wars will make their
necessary shekels without having to transfer goods to a third country as
they have in the past four decades [especially
gas/oil/
telecommunications equipment/ military assistance, etc].
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Finally, the Middle East hypocrisy of long-abiding allies: Israel,

Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, Dubai, etc. will be attenuated for real
dtente without pretext that that those countries really need us for more
than military hardware and assistance. Iran will dominate the Middle
East Crescent as I have predicted for years. They will effectively displace
the Sunnis and try to maintain a hegemony akin to what they had during
the times of Cyrus the Great and Darius.
The only fly in this seemingly halcyon ointment is Turkey which for
the present is completely besieged on all of its major geopolitical
borders. But its Prime Minister, Erdogan, can no longer bluff his way
forward. He will have to declare whether Turkey is a secular or religious
state. Did Ataturk fail in the long run? Or did Sunni Islam rise again?
Either way, Erdogan will have to deal with a Shiite Persia. He knows
that and he has no choice.
As for America, we are in very good shape. Obama has corrected
our financial markets so that we are no longer in a recession or economic
abyss a la Bush Family. Obama has made us as of the past year, a net
exporter of gas/oil. Obama has recognized Communist Cuba. And finally
Obama has made peace with a three scores and seven year enemy: Iran.
Even Stupid Republicans who want to destroy/diminish Obamas
accomplishments by inviting American trained con man Bibi to speak in
front of congress, cant stop the momentum.
As for me, as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Navy
Captain, I resigned over President Carters orders in 1978 to accompany
Ramsey Clark to visit Ayatollah Khomeini in Paris. At the time, I
believed this opening movement would cause the USA major problems.
So I left. Sec. State Cyrus Vance resigned six months later. How would I
know then that it would take five different Presidencies to finally
accomplish what we should have done back in 1978----make peace with
Ayatollah Khomeni?
Congratulations to all those members of this incredible American
and Persian team that made this deal possible. The American people are
no fools and we will not let anything stop this treaty from finally being
ratified in June 2015.
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As we say in Persian, Merci!

As we say in Harlem, Dont Mess With The Man! as a warning
that should be heeded by all who think that they can spoil this deal. Just
ask Petraeus, Hillary, Republicans and others what happens when you
do.
Criticism of this deal is pretty much like worthless Book Reviews:
Book Reviewers [critics] are little old ladies of both sexes. John
OHara [American Novelist].

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Yemen: Gunfight at the OK Corral -Young Saudi Prince vs. Old
Iranian Gunslinger!
For some time now, there has been a civil war wrapped within a
regional conflict populated with internal ethnic strifeall occurring in
one desolate place: Yemen!
Now, if I tried to explain the different factions involved in the chaos
called, The War in Yemen, both you and I would be so confused that
we would agree that it would be best if I did not attempt to even describe
the real situation. In turn, I decided to extract that essence of this chaotic
situation bordering on Saudi Arabia as a conflict between two sects of
Islam trying to deny the other an opportunity to encroach on the mental
territory of other.
More specifically, the wise old religious leaders of the Iranian
Shiite Revolution want to embed their beliefs both geographically and
intellectually into a failed nation state, Yemen, that borders Saudi
Arabia, a Sunni faction of Islam with variations of a theme on Shiite
philosophy. Now a young Saudi Prince [all names withheld in the
interest of clarity] refuses to allow this old Shiite interloper to tread on
his territory with his gunslingers, the Shiite proxy fighters. This young
Saudi whipper-snapper has amassed his troops, guns and artillery with
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the help of the US Cavalry in order to stop the old man and his
gunslingers.
As many of you already know, gun fights over different territories
and beliefs was an integral part of establishing the Republic of America.
When it was convenient, we sent out our Buffalo Soldiers to slaughter
indigenous natives in order to annex more property to the west and south
of the growing American territories. Our philosophy was simple. If it
moved we killed it. If it did not move we buried it. This is how we
became a nation of God Fearing people.
How the gun and God came to be the symbol of our Republic is
steeped in legends, fairy tales and mainly history books [which were the
equivalent of fiction]. Now, we see the rise of guns and God once again.
However, this time, we made certain that the confluence of these two
disparate elements did not encroach in our own territories. Instead, we
described the confluence of these two factors as part of the world wide
war on terrorism [which by definition was and still is an oxymoron].
Nevertheless, Americans made certain to fight alongside the old Iranian
gunman in Iraq [another failed state which we helped to demolish with
God and gun]; and, at the same time, we allied with the young Saudi to
fight the old man in another territory [also failed state]Yemen.
Americans have become the most pervasive gunslingers around the
world trying to shoot our way into the hearts and minds of foreigners
without having the vaguest idea of how to stop these inane series of
Gunfights at the OK Corral. In reality, we are confused and completely
disoriented by any sense of purpose, goal or ability to extricate ourselves
from endless battles in very far-away places. Our leaders have fled south
to Panama and Cuba to find some respite from the daily conundrum they
had created but do not know how to extricate themselves from. Instead
they offer us, the palaver of God, National Security and Freedom
as token efforts to ease our queasy questioning concerning death and
mayhem in territories that we didnt know even existed.
Until that day when God and gun are no longer associated with
each other, I then offer you the simple lesson of the Gunfight at the O.K
Corral. The fight lasted only 30 seconds and took place at 3:00 p.m. on
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Wednesday, October 26, 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona Territory--everyone was shot or killed eventually. There were no winners; only
losers. Yet the world of fiction blossomed with narratives that have
distorted this episode beyond any semblance of reality.
Let us pray that the conflict in Yemen be terminated as quickly as
possible with the help of the USG, UN and the Gulf States. In time, they
will all realize that the true value of the conflict will lie not in the reality
of its horror and mayhem; but in the tales of fictitious heroism and virtue
that will be elaborated accordingly by both the Sunni and Shiites who
have need for more conflicts in order to maintain their conflicting
narratives of God and his Prophet Mohammed.
As for me, I will watch more movies in order to drown out the noisy
pleas for peace made by all and listened by none, in order to better
understand who is really the good guys and who are the bad guys.
Truthfully, I am still confused. Only the word, Vendetta, seems to
scream in my ear.
Maybe I have been watching reruns of Gunfight at the OK Corral
too many times. Its time to find God somewhere in this smoke-ridden
world of gunpowder and rotting flesh.

Monday, April 20, 2015

Robert Bates, 73 year old Volunteer Deputy Sheriff Accidentally
Kills Eric Harris, 44 year old African American.
Once again, the Bates name denotes murder as in the Hitchcock
Horror Film, Psycho. Recently, reality has presumed the arrogance of
superseding the whimsical fantasies of fiction and a screenwriter, like
myself. ISIS defies the imagination of any aspiring Tom Clancy to
predict that confluence of American ineptness and Sadam Husseins
remnants of Sunni officers.
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Similarly, the fact that a 73 year old white male without any
previous history of intense criminal justice training can mistake a gun for
a taser in the pursuit of a man really defies any line of reason or logic.
How a man 73 years old is even allowed to carry a gun in the name of
any local sheriffs department is beyond even my expansive
comprehension.
As someone who has worked with local law enforcers over thirty
years, I would not even consider the possibility of asking to carry a gun
and participate in a sting and arrest case. At best, I have approached my
locale Miami Beach Police Department to try to help them understand
hostage negotiations. I did that in my shorts on one sunny day in their
lecture room. There would never have been any possibility for me to
engage in any professional activity that in any way resembled the
rigorous police work demanded of the Miami Beach Police Department.
How Bates was able to be an active part of the Sheriffs Department in
Tulsa, Oklahoma is really egregious in every sense of the word.
There were intimations that he had donated to the Sheriffs election.
Also there were anonymous suggestions that his records were falsified in
terms of the necessary training that was required to fulfill this ersatz role
which should have never existed in the first place. Clearly, Batess
apology is neither sufficient or necessary. He has to serve time for what
he did: manslaughter. In addition, the Sheriff and any other cohorts who
were involved in granting the wannabe Wyatt Earp a badge to kill should
be dismissed ASAP.
I have no pity for Bates or the Tulsa Police Department.
I believe in the Second Amendment and the right to carry guns. I am
strongly opposed to allowing any civilians to accrue some sort of
legitimacy, be it a policeman or even a judge, without having been a
professional beforehand [whatever that would mean].
There are no part time victims who can be killed at will. Only in the
Bates Motel does the perpetrator of his heinous crimes [Anthony
Perkins] get away scot free. That is simply a horror movie. God forbid
that Robert Bates is released from prison for his accident then Alfred
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Hitchcock has really returned from the graveyard of filming those acts of
horror that defy the imagination.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clintons Legacy in LibyaA Failed
State and Thousands of Dead Refugees!
Recent articles in the media portraying the horrendous deaths of
African refugees transiting through Libya have once again placed a black
stigmata upon Hillarys non-existent legacy at the State Department. It is
important in the world of national security to understand consequences of
action or non-action. No country has better defined the limits of Hillarys
skills and intelligence than Libya. I am not talking about the well-versed
narratives of Benghazi. Rather I am talking about the recent human
tragedies multiplied into the thousands of ignominious episodes arising
in different parts of Africa and resulting in illegal Libyan trading of
refugees throughout the continent.
Without a central government of any authority, Libya has
transmuted from a well-organized, even somewhat prosperous country
under Colonel Qaddafi to one that has deteriorated into tribal conflicts
marked by ancient blood feuds and a currency of transaction that
considers dead or living refugees fleeing oppression or poverty into a
monetary gain.
Hillary, along with the disingenuous, incompetent Genocidespouting Ambassador Samantha Power and National Security Advisor
Susan Rice were the main proponent of dislodging a tenured leader for
reasons that were at best nave, if not completely distorted. However,
ignoble Gadaffi may have been, he did provide for a unified society
where tribal blood feuds were transformed into a patronage system which
effectively allowed him to maintain control over a vast desert and keep
some modicum of viability in Libya. Now, we and the world can witness,
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once again, what happens when an U.S invasion into a country has led to
countless deaths of all types of Africans fleeing their respective
dysfunctional countries from Somalia, Nigeria to Libya itself. This also
happened in Iraq, Afghanistan when again we were without legitimate
interests other than the palaver of we must get rid of despots.
It is very easy to exert force and displace authoritarian leaders. It is
much harder to think beforehand and exam the short and long term
consequences of such an action. Hillary is known to be a certified war
hawk in the clearest sense of the word. Rather commit herself to the
grueling intellectual /emotional examination of short and long term
consequences of invading a country like Iraq and Libya, she reflexively
kowtows to the neocon hysteria of war and more wars as evidence of
American resolve and power. At the same time, many of the senior
military officers who command our forces have always cautioned and
tempered these civilian outcries for action and more action.
Over thirty years serving in national security, I have never met a
competent senior military officer who urges war as a solution to
economic/political conundrums. Usually, its those people who are
ensconced in the national security apparatus that have urged military
decapitation without really comprehending its direct and distant
manifestations. However, inaction in the time of obvious mass slaughter
is equally malfeasant.
Let me explain what I mean.
When the Hutus were about to slaughter the Tutsis with the help of
the Chinese sending machetes and the French [Mitterands son] helping
to gun down Tutsis, President Bill Clinton had sufficient warning to
prevent this unconscionable slaughter of 800,000 innocent civilian
victims. But he, under the direction of his wife, Hillary Clinton, refused
to intercede in this eventual African Genocide. Either way, Hillary has
shown herself to be inept in Foreign Policy by personal and professional
disposition.
She is bereft of intellectual gravitas. What she does well is to create
the appearance of a dutiful Wesleyan College student who listens and
absorbs the lessons of history. Yet she is completely incapable of
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formulating any type of coherent strategy or tactics. It may be inborn

disorder of intellectual perspicacity. Whatever the reason, she speaks
articulately about all matters that appear to be serious. Then when the
time comes to act effectively and decisively, she fails time and time
again; as if she were some form of an idiot savant who knows the facts
but misunderstands the reality of what she did or did not do.
That is her problem. Now it is our problem.
America has to really probe in depth into Hillarys palaver not to
embarrass her personally but to exam carefully why she has consistently
appeared like Zelig in the span of historical change; but when called to
action, she fails for want of trying or understanding the political
dynamics of her action and inactions. She has refused to really
understand her historical failures. Instead she has surrounded herself with
high priced sycophants who will reassure her like Voltaires Candide
that what she has done is for the best.
Noise and process are Hillarys strong suites. The rest is vacuous
shell of misunderstandings and failed actions upon the mantle of history.
She has proven herself without any effective reality testing to be a person
without gift or talents except the one: to self-aggrandize and tolerate ad
hominum abuses.
I do not decry her for being a woman, a politician or any other
persona she might want to assume. What I am simply saying is that
Hillary has played out her part in history and has like many who have
never been held accountable, she has failed by all accounts.... and will
continue to do so, if elected to anything more than Jeb Bushs having
awarded her some nonsensical recognition as A Great American.
BTW, Jeb can also fit comfortably within the skeleton of the
politically spoiled idiot savant, [as do his other three brothers].
America, its time to demand new candidates and a new way of our
maintaining our role as a Super Power in the 21st Century.other than
brute force and military decapitations.
Our Republic deserves better and should strive to achieve it at all
costs!
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Thursday, April 23, 2015

and now for something completely different, physics!
Prove Einstein Wrong in 20 Minutes!
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Sunday, April 26, 2015

Obamas Failed Drone Program Consistently Kills More Americans
and Pakistani/Yemeni Innocent Victims!
Time to Transfer the Entire Program from CIA to U.S. Military.
Get rid of the Agency of International Development [A.I.D] workers
overseas---completely useless and exceedingly expensive, accomplishes
little. Time has come to shut down the consistently ineffectual CIA and
allow the U.S. military to work unhindered by civilian incompetency.
By now you have learned about the accidental death of American
A.I.D worker, Warren Weinstein of Rockville, MD, who was killed in
the fog of war by an American drone targeting supposed Al Qaeda
members in Pakistan. The truth of the matter is a little bit more serious
than this tale of an AID worker captured in 2011 working on a local
water project for delivering fresh water to Pakistanis.
First of all, as usual, the Obama admin has no idea of how to
conduct a major rescue operation or an effective war against terrorist
bred and nurtured by our duplicitous ally, Pakistan. This country, thanks
to completely ignorant assessments of how to stop terrorism there,
received over $25B in aid and military assistance over the past decades.
As expected, the corrupt military and civilian leaders of Pakistan
purloined the money and kept on creating so-called terrorist groups for
which we had so-called convenient targets to destroy.
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This scenario reminds me of a world carnival where our CIA

provides the necessary funds to already discredited ersatz nations like
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen , et. al in order for the CIA and some
U.S. military units [especially SOF] to play kinetic wack-a-mole. Yet the
truth is far more brutally destructive. For some time now, we have been
playing with completely dysfunctional units of the USG, the CIA and its
direct cousin the Agency For International Development [AID]. There
is a pattern that we see over six decades where the CIA and its satellites
have created cancerous wars in Viet Nam, Latin America and the Middle
East. The CIA has become a life-threatening disease in the Republic.
In addition, the CIAs direct cousin is another completely useless
organization that doles out billions of dollars to intermediary companies
usually located in Arlington Virginia, like J.E. Austin Associates [a
bullshit front] which hired the professional AID worker, Warren
Weinstein. I don begrudge a man like Warren if he wants to run around
the world and make believe that he is important by doing little
insignificant projects in ghastly infested corners of poverty and
decadence from East Asia to Pakistan. However, I will not grant him any
status of nobility or integrity when in fact, I know that men and women
like him do very little other than infuse their narcissism with the
necessary adrenalin rush which allows them to become natives of a
multitude of corrupt, dysfunctional countries which provide this type of
action junkie with raison detre. When a presumed Jewish man like
Weinstein wants to sacrifice his life in a most Islamic extremist country
then that is his business.
Americans have no duty nor need to send these action junkies, like
the Peace Corps or so-called innocuous NGOs overseas at taxpayer
expense when in fact these collective groups do nothing more than
provide useless cannon fodder for terrorists to capture and use as
bargaining chips.
How do I know?
For many years, these action junkies have wandered overseas to
seek new adventures and esoteric experiences for personal reasons,
refusing to use their presumed skills in our own country in places like
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Detroit or Appalachia. Is it more worthwhile to help Tanzanian children

when our American children suffer from lack of nutrition and education?
Are children in Pakistan or Africa more deserving than our American
kids who live in poverty, dont get enough to eat and cannot read?
Its time to eliminate the CIA and transfer all of its supposed
intelligence operations to the military or the Director of National
Intelligence [DNI]. For the most part, the CIA only borrows military
assets in the guise that they are covert and secret. Nonsense! In
addition, its time to eliminate AID, the presumed front of the CIA,
because it has wasted countless billions of dollars in ineffectual projects
that have no impact other than allow the American action junkies
[civilian and church sponsored] to assume an exotic patina.
Last but not least, please STOP the most embarrassing, ineffectual
program of all: drones flown from Nevada 16,000 miles overseas. They
create more civilian casualties and inspire more hatred from the
Pakistani/Yemen citizens than any other program we could have created.
Falling in love with our technology is indicative of a civilian leadership
that has had no operational strategic experience nor tactical successes.
As I have said in the past, Obama is the contrived product of a
historically dysfunctional CIA which continues to create more problems
for the American Republic to the extent that it has become synonymous
with the well known termLegacy of Ashes !
If we fail to learn from these reverberating lessons of needless
deaths and incompetent intellectual/kinetic actions, then we, Americans,
will be doomed to repeat our mistakes again until the Republic will be
eviscerated of all meaning. Now, is the time to stop this childish
nonsense before we are no longer a nation which can address its own
internal problems for want of sufficient resources and intelligent, capable
manpower.
We dont need the CIA to send CIA operatives overseas under cover
of A.I.D so that a CIA born POTUS , Obama, can order to kill these
humanitarian workers accidentally or intentionally with no other than
CIA drones.
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Let me end this blog with a quote from the great French
writer/philosopher, La Rochefoucauld:
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue
As for Mr. Weinsteins need for action and immortality, let me
quote Napoleon Bonaparte:
Glory is fleeting; but obscurity is forever.
And as for Obama, it seems the close he gets to the big prize, a
Treaty with Iran, the more he keeps slip sliding away.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The 7.8 Nepal Earthquake kills at least 5000.
In 1994, this blogger was literally in the middle of the Infamous 6.6
Northridge Earthquake in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. It
was terrifying! At the time, I was out in Hollywood consulting on an
Oliver Stone film, starring Al Pacino. That night I went to sleep at the
Vagabond Inn and at 4:30:55 A.M pacific coast time, I felt a huge
vibration that shook the wooden framed lodging. For a moment, I cursed
the large trucks that were driving near by on the 405 Highway heading
south into Los Angeles.
However, I quickly realized that the thunderous noise and the
collapsing Inn were the beginning of a major earthquake. I did not stand
in the doorway for protection as it is often prescribed. Instead, I ran out
of the motel and went to the rented car, a large Cadillac, for which I had
mysteriously packed the night before. I say mysteriously because that
was the first time in my professional life, I had not packed what little
clothing I had just before I was to fly out at 11AM.
As I rushed out of the door, I encountered what I can best describe
as a scene from Armageddon. The concrete beneath my feet cracked
open in a wide yawn revealing flames and smoke spewing from the
bowels of the pipes buried beneath the street. At the same time, live
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electrical wires from the overhanging telephone poles were whipping

around the smoke-filled air.
I saw one police cruiser passing by with its searchlight beaming a
bright light through the debilitating rancid smoke that quickly consumed
what little oxygen was left. I rushed into my rented car, set on getting to
the Los Angeles Airport at all cost, betting on one simple fact. I
convinced myself that the different airlines which flew out of LA Airport
would not leave their $40M planes on the tarmac. I had a first class
ticket, I would board whichever plane that flew out of LA to whatever
destination they would take; be it China or NYC.
It was extremely dangerous driving to the airport. First I drove in the
middle of the 405 Freeway as I noticed lesser sized cars than my
behemoth Cadillac peeling off to the sides of the highway as the road
started to buckle in front and behind me. I turned off the air conditioner
because smoke from the burning buildings that I was passing had entered
the air conditioning system. I was choking throughout the minutes or
however long that trip took to get to Century Blvd which led to the
Alamo Rental car then onto the LA Airport.
As I approached Century Blvd, I noticed a police barricade placed in
front of the exit ramp. I decided that I would swerve around the barricade
and try to get to Century Blvd and then Aviation Blvd at whatever cost;
even if it meant I would enter a police chase or an arrest. I managed to
swerve around the police barricade without injuring myself or any LA
police and proceeded by rote to Century Blvd. Next, I turned onto
Aviation Blvd and then into the Alamo which had, ironically, the only
lights on in the entire LA block that I was traversing.
I asked the bus driver to get me to the airport ASAP. Of course, I
gave him a significant tip; and finally I reached the United counter where
the lovely lady informed me that I should head back to my hotel. I
explained to her that I would not leave the airport and that I would pay
extra for any United Flight that would take off any time soon.
As serendipity would have it, I boarded the next flight out of LA on
First Class of an almost completely empty plane back to Washington D.
C.---my original destination. When the attractive stewardess came up to
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me and asked me what I would have for breakfast as I watched the plane
take off from a seemingly buckling tarmac, I replied Champagne. The
rest of the five to six hours were a blur. But I know that I had never
drunk as much Champagne in my life in one sitting.
Now that I see the horror of an earthquake in Nepal where thousands
of victims have been killed, I whisper a few consoling words to myself
and them, wishing them a speedy recovery. We take too much for
granted when it comes to the equilibrium of our planet. We assume that
the ground beneath our feet will always remain firm. We breath air that
will always be only slightly polluted and not filled with noxious
contaminants.
Most of all, we tend to live in places that beckon us to stay away; be
it a fault line in a potential earthquake; or a combat zone in a war-weary
mountainous region where no man has ever conquered man or nature. As
so-called rational human beings we are completely irrational and selfdelusional about our vested interest in remaining safe and healthy. We
presume without reason that nature is compliant to our wishes because
we can conquer the air by flying and the seas by sailing.
However, we cannot and will not subdue Mother Nature whenever
her tectonic plates rub against each other at times we know not where or
when. A bit more humility and respect is required when addressing the
great forces of nature which we have mistakingly assumed we have
tempered.
The earthquakes in Nepal and Northridge make me realize that the
internet is not the only phenomena that binds me to the world. It is also
the savage rumble of a destructive force in the past that makes the
Nepalese my neighbors of today.
May their recovery be swift and without even more major damage;
and may our need to destroy ourselves through war be submissive to our
respect of Mother Nature.
Let me end with the words of the great Roman warrior/philosopher,
Marcus Aurelius: Life is a strangers sojourn, a night at an inn.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Baltimore Flares UP Once Again!
The City refuses to Resurrect Itself!
I am writing this blog with a sense of personal loss and
disappointment. Most of you have already seen the rioting and looting
scenes that have transpired in Baltimore in the past few days. There is no
need to belabor the point as why, where and what had happened. I really
dont care why thugs are looting and arson is flaring up all over the city.
The reason is quite simple: decades ago, I was one of those business
owners who had purchased some major property in the city of Baltimore.
I came in as an entrepreneur from Washington D.C. who had been
encouraged by then Governor Shaeffer to do business in the then run
down city as a matter of opportunity and morality.
Clearly, morality and business opportunity are not similar. I did not
go in to do any charity work in this city abandoned by big
manufacturers/sports teams but by the time I left this municipality it was
bereft of any business opportunities and clear civil society mandates.
Watts, Ferguson, and now and then Baltimore, these cities have a selfdestructive tendency in which the police were at best inadequate in their
capacity; while at the same time, the citizenry was ready to explode at
any given moment of discontent.
Like now, the mayor at the time was an African American,
Schmoke, who had no idea of what he was doing; other than
pronouncing platitudes about working together and some nonsense
about opportunities. Next came the Savings and Loan Crisis of the late
1980s where Baltimore and its white citizenry had been involved in all
types of financial chicaneries that were eventually uncovered by the
diligent work of the FBI. Needless to say, both blacks and white went to
prison then. Baltimores history as a city has been part of vortex of white
injustices and black despair.
Do I sanction either one?
Obviously not!
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However, incompetency has been the hallmark throughout the

history of Baltimore as far as I can see; no matter who the governor,
mayor or police chiefs were. There is a tendency, like the Federal
Government, to bloat out like a beached whale creating all types of state
and city organizations with fancy initials, the meaning of which defies
anyones concentration or interest. The bureaucracy grew while the city
shrank in opportunities and people became dissatisfied with their status;
whatever that might be. Those who could prosper moved out to Towson,
Maryland in an aseptic community that bore no real relationship to
Baltimore. Few decent people wanted to live in the heart of Baltimore.
There are many Baltimores located all over the United States.
Eventually they will erupt into uncontrolled passions and fury that will
be rationalized by all sorts of theories and explanations. As for me, the
only explanation for Baltimores flagrant disregard for the law and its
compulsive looting is the fact that is what the people of Baltimore do and
want to do---loot! Be it in Savings and Loans or banks with fancy names
or in street corners containing new CVS pharmacies! The times have
come so that mulatto correspondents on TV explain why black
compatriots are looting ad hominum. The truth is that this whole scenario
is becoming tiresome and too familiar.
When martial law will one day be implemented, then we,
Americans, will see the final chapters of the recent scenes we have seen
in Baltimore. Its only a matter of time before the U.S military declares
martial law in Ferguson, Missouri; Baltimore, Maryland. And? The
rest of the sentence depends on those who need to loot and burn in the
name of grievances and injustice. Those words will soon disappear
from the vernacular of impatient custodians of the peace.
One more Baltimore in any other place will probably illuminate
more clearly the concept of Martial Law. Its just around the corner
candy store that was looted yesterday in Baltimore, City. Taunt the
police at your expense! But threaten the National Guard and all bets are
off!
Thomas Fuller [British Author] wrote the following apt description:
The mob has many heads but no brains!
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

A hostage czar, really?

Thursday, April 30, 2015

White House Creates Hostage Czar?
When all else fails due to WH incompetency and ignorance, Create
American Version Of Russian Czar! Russians and Putin should be
laughing by now. They got rid of their Czar in the Bolshevik Revolution
of 1917! Yet we resurrected the Czar because no one knows how to
negotiate a minor hostage situation here or abroad.
Unbelievable!
As someone who had dealt with hundreds of hostages all over the
world including: the USA [Hanafi Muslims Washington D.C]; Uganda
[Idi Amin]; Colombia [FARC]; and in the Middle East [PLO; Habash;
Abu Nidal]it was very easy for me to coordinate all my activities with
the FBI, CIA, MI, SOF, Air Force, Navy, State Department, DOD,
Metropolitan Police Dept [Wash DC- Police Chief Cullinane] and even
the White House [Dr Peter Bourne and others]. I do not claim anything
more than the ability to take calculated risks when presented with
information from all sources of intelligence ranging from sophisticated
NSA sweeping ELINT/SIGINT and HUMINT from the CIA, MI, local
police forces, etc.
Once I had information, I would talk to the families of the hostage
when it was necessary. Very often, I assigned competent Foreign Service
Officers, CIA operatives and even military or police officials to deal
effectively with the respective families that were involved in the hostage
negotiations.
Now the WH is spewing nonsensical palaver concerning payments
to so-called self-designated terrorist groups. Since I was one of the
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originators of the presently completely misunderstood state policy of no

payment for hostages, I can assure you that I had a successful rate of
recovery because I did whatever it took to get those hostages out of
harms way. Whether it was money or media attention, I was in the
business of negotiating with terrorists along the lines of whatever
currency they or I insisted upon. That point is crucial. The key to a
successful hostage rescue is rarely to go in with kinetic action and play
Jack Ryan on steroids [sorry Tom Clancy].
A terrorist situations as in Washington DC in the late 1970s
involved an intricate analysis by the Washington DC police and the
successful use of three very brave Muslim Ambassadors Gen Yaqub
Kahn [Pakistan]; Adeshir Zahedi [Iran]; Amb Ghorbal [Egypt] and a
very brave police chief named Cullinane. Eventually President Carters
orders to stand down were refused and the 150 plus hostages in three
different buildings were safely released thanks to the brave efforts of
everyone. There was no czar or czarina in any position. There was Earl
Silbert, intrepid lawyer, who gave me legal guidance before, during and
after the event. There were the brave bureaucrats of the Washington DC
government and the senior administration officials who provided me and
my team cover from the prying media which I eventually terminated
[there was no First Amendment Right to incite a hostage siegeI argued
correctly].
The media, especially one correspondent from the ABC, was upset
that he and the other media personnel were not allowed to cover the
hostage siege. I told him and the media subsequently that they would not
be allowed to intercede as long as I was running a crisis nor would they
interview anyone related to the crisis. Not during; nor after.
I was fortunate that the Washington DC judge at the time had
ordered at my request a gag ruling which meant that no one was
allowed to talk about it after the episode.
The past is the past but nothing has changed. Terrorism as I have
noted before has become a major business on both sides of the financial
aisle. Terrorists around the world have commoditized hostages in terms
of dollars and cents. These so-called Security Experts have made a
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fortune servicing the desperate families with all types of false promises;
as well as providing Hollywood with spurious hostage situations and
outcomes. Lets not forget the new Czar position with a salary at the
taxpayers expense.

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Saturday, May 2, 2015

Chinese Chopsticks, Russian Borscht, and American Hot Dogs
Trump the Failed SaudiArabian Military Assault in Yemen!
In a remarkable confluence of economic and political interests,
America, Russia, China have quietly tempered the young Saudi Princes
attempt to assert his desert prerogatives as royalty and decimate his tribal
rivals in Yemen.
He failed!
In contrast, in a moment of glorious media silence, American
military/intelligence officers in concert with Chinese, Russia and Iranian
national security advisors had conspired [that means behind the scenes]
to blunt any misbegotten Saudi military initiatives in Yemen. This was
accomplished through the old principles of Real Politik.
In essence, Sunni states like Egypt, Pakistan, and Jordan asked
themselves what was more important: working in peace to establish a
viable economic/political future in the East/Middle East or continue to
harbor ancient hatreds that lead to nothing more than continued
devastations?
Thanks to the quiet, mature interventions of President Xi of China,
President Putin of Russia and the US military, Saudi Arabia was told in
no uncertain terms that it would fail in its war against Iranian proxies in
Yemen. The Chinese/Russia narrative of a newly expanded Silk Road
through the northern tier of Eurasia has most of the leading developed
Sunni Muslim countries like Turkey, Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt deciding to
place their fortunes with the promise of a Chinese-led future, guaranteed
by Russian geopolitical imperatives.
This means that China has promised all countries surrounding it that
they all can participate in one large entrepreneurial endeavor to build
large infrastructures through their countries leading in and out of China
and Europe. I accept this proposition that China can and will build what
it determines to be the best fit for its national economic/military/political
future built on economic hegemony, and kinetic invasions. This has been
a long time coming. Thanks to America which provided China with the
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technological advances needed to grow its formidable economy of 1.4

billion citizens, China is now in a more stable position to expand
effectively through the development of major infrastructure projects like
building new ports, highways, and civil societies.
Through its newly created Asian Infrastructure Initiative
Bank[AIIB] China can compete with Americas economically flaccid
World Bank and its subsidiary. More importantly, this complete change
in the method of conflict resolution from kinetic destruction to a future
laden with economic opportunities reaffirms the basic tenets that China
has strongly embraced and America has lost: the benefits of capitalism
over wars.
Once it was inconceivable that former communist countries like
Russia and China could desire to excel economically beyond the
restrictive bonds of ideology and want to enter a world that Adam Swift
had defined primarily for the Anglo-Saxons. Now, the East [China,
Russia, Turkey] will once again enter the pantheons of historical
grandeur to assume their heritage of successful hegemony at different
times in the course of history.
As for America, without a course-correction we will continue to lose
our ability to successfully compete in the new economics of the global
information age.We are now pre-occupied with a military that spans the
globe as had the Roman Empire before its inevitable demise. We have no
present or future promise of leadership which encourages me to anoint
the next leader of our decaying Republic with the promise of true hope
and proven past accomplishments. What we have now are stick figures
like the young, immature princes of both Saudi Arabia and the
undeservedly rich U.A.E who bluster and bluff into a vapor of
inadequacy and incompetency.
For the most part, the most successful leaders of China [as well as
Russia] have been those who have literally fought their way to the top,
stopping at nothing, except to eliminate one contender after another,
sending them to prison or exile. Instead we have potential criminals who
have committed more crimes than Putin and President Xi combined-both the Bush and Clinton familieswho are the pathetic representation
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of spoiled, entitled sycophants. Neither one of these future candidates

could ever achieve a moments success or accomplishment without a
family member vouchsafing for their non-deeds.
Americans have a Patrician Class that has not served us well and
will eventually ruin the Republic and make it into a province for their
own corruptions.
Who will rid me of these noisome pests? I ask in the spirit of Sir
Thomas More in the brilliant play, A Man For All Seasons [By Robert
Bolt].

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Obamacare Starting to Fall Apart: More Medicaid Patients Use
Emergency Rooms than Private Physicians!
90% of Patients Are Sicker!
I have said very little concerning Obamacare. I knew that it would
eventually implode on itself because it was based on extremely faulty
premises. First, Medicaid patients could not and would not find
physicians. Secondly, physicians would be reimbursed at a much lower
rate than before. Thirdly, there were not enough physicians [especially
American-trained ones] to take charge of all the patients who were
supposed to receive the insurance. Finally, over 100 Million people have
some type of insurance for mental health care yet there are not enough
psychiatrists and mental health professionals to take care of a fraction of
these people.
You get the idea.
Obamacare is going to fall apart from its own structural/ functional
distortions which were based on faulty premises created by legislators
who never had to worry about their own health care. From the very
beginning of the Obamacare, I had a serious concerns about those who
created this dysfunctional healthcare system. Most of the Senators and
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Congressmen who voted for the Nancy Pelosi grab-bag lets find out
what Obamacare really entails after we have passed the bill were
spoiled, entitled people who for the most part, should have visited
pediatricians rather than internal medicine practitioners.
Pelosi was, as were her congressional henchmen, completely inept
in their understanding or implementation of health program that had no
correlation to what these legislatives centurions were accustomed to in
terms of their own health care. All legislators have the Navy Bethesda
Hospital as well as Walter Reed Army Hospital at their convenience for
FREE! They are cradled in a special insurance plan that could take care
of dystrophic alien with total body ailments [whatever that would be] --again for FREE!
In reality we have the weakest, most effete element of our society
designing a system to work for the rest of us. It doesnt work to entrust
those least able to provide for themselves in the open capitalist markets
without constantly pandering for special favors [which is what a
politician is really about] in return for nothing.
The WSJ article on May/4/2015 discusses what I have known and
suspected for decades since I first started practicing medicine in 1968
the Emergency Rooms of most hospitals has always acted as the primary
care facility for most patients in the USA. We, doctors, have not been
able to turn away any patient once they stepped into the Emergency
Room. Never in my career as a Medical Doctor and Board-Certified
Psychiatrist have I turned away anyone in need of physical or mental
health care.
Now, these patients who come to the ER have been older and sicker
as the population of the country has aged accordingly. Also, as fewer
American citizens refuse to curb their voracious diet for sweets, fats and
junk food, we, doctors, are seeing a preventable epidemic of diabetes,
heart disease and other symptoms of a drastically bad diet and sedentary
life.
The notion of preventive medicine has not and probably will not
invade our pervasive mindset, fostered by the greedy Big Pharma, that all
medicines, irrespective of how expensive they were, could rescue our
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bodies from the inevitable destruction of well-being sloth and

ignorance. I know of several cases where men and women patients
decided that it was easier to risk surgery for a stomach band [which is
paid in full by the USG] than go on a reasonable diet or exert oneself for
some type of moderate exercise.
Instead, we find the easy way out.
Yet it just does not work.
One example: overweigh patient undertook a stomach-band surgery
in order to lose weight. This patient developed severe bronchial asthma
as a result of the obesity. This patient then went on inhaler and nebulizers
which created heart arrhythmia. This patient was admitted to the hospital
several times to arrest the arrhythmia and ended up with an unsuccessful
ablation of the AV node.
So the story goes on and on.
The administration was so concerned about making certain that
everyone had health insurance that was affordable yet the actual cost of
healthcare rose dramatically. New policies that reimbursed physicians at
a much lower rate so physicians now refuse to see the patients and pass
them on to the ER where they were charged a significantly large amount
of money for a very simple procedure which could have been treated by
a primary doctor who no longer exists because it is impossible for
him/her to make a decent living. Fewer doctors are left to treat patients.
I was recently offered a full time job as a psychiatrist for the state of
Maryland at about 2/3 of the money that was offered to the actor,
Matthew McConaughey, for speaking at the commencement ceremony
of the University of Houston for just an hour ($155K). Also, let us not
forget that Rami Emmanuel, then Chief of Staff for the Obama White
House, agreed to pay over $80B to the Pharmaceutical Industries to
allow the passage of the Obamacare bill. Now, that is a pretty penny.
As a physician who has decided to leave my profession, I strongly
suggest that if you have any type of mental ailment or dyspepsia, please
call the aforementioned actor or an executive at Big Pharma that
continues to insist that they can charge as much as they can and want,
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even for generic drugs. Ask the Big Pharma rep if she/he knows how to
prevent or treat suicidal ideation with a modicum of success?
Better yet, please call up Dr James McDermott, Congressman from
Washington State [paid by Boeing] and ask him why he does not identify
himself as a Board Certified Child and Adult Psychiatrist rather than a
Congressman? He worked for in the State Department as a Regional
Medical Psychiatrist. Now, he hides behind the platitudes of palaver and
process. Thats his choice!
Its time for Americans to vote in those representatives who can
dismantle this absurd beached behemoth, entitled Obamacare ; after a
costly segue of internet incompetency which marked the beginning
passage of a piece of legislation which belongs to no citizens; other than
those who have already been treated for free. We are not a healthy
nation. We have no will power or discipline to enact anything other than
indulging in immediate mental and culinary gratification. We Botox our
faces. We drink beer as if it were water from a faucet. We eat as if there
is no other meal will be served. We glorify our chefs as they become the
new elite of our society; adoring their every word and motion in the
kitchen as if culinary arts was the new religion de jour.
It is often said that an army walks in its stomach. But, I say that a
nation that crawls on its stomach to the Emergency Room is destined to
die a prolonged, ghastly death.
Unfortunately, there is no real recourse. Once in the ER; next in the
OR; then in the mortuary.
In the words of the comedian, Woody Allen:
Im not afraid to die. I just dont want to be there when it happens.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Lufthansa Senior Managers as well as Physicians who examined CoPilot, Andreas Lubitz, are guilty of collusion in covering up the details
regarding the terrorist pilot!
He killed 149 Innocent Passengers from Germany, Spain, France
and other countries.
From the very beginning of this tragedy on March 24, 2015, I
specifically delineated this suicide act committed by the 27 year old
Andreas Lubitzs of deliberately flying the German airline [ Lufthansa ]
into the French Alps as a clear act of premeditatedTERRORISM! And
not some mental disorder which no one could pick up along the way.
Contrary to the prevailing views that this was a disturbed individual
who had a history of mental illness, I specifically refused to accept that
notion that the death of 149 innocent passengers was merely an act of
some crazy person who wanted just to kill himself, willingly taking 149
innocent victims with him. I said without any hesitation that Andreas
actions were well thought out, even planned to the smallest detail; and
could have been prevented like any other act of terrorism.
Perhaps, no single person is more culpable of this premeditated act
of terrorism than Carsten Spohr, Chairman and CEO of Lufthansa since
2007. Spohr, an industrial engineer by training and a qualified pilot,
immediately and intentionally lied to the public and the families of the
victims. He was, as we say in the psychiatry/intelligence business, a clear
give away when he emphatically declared that Andreas Lubitz had
passed both his physical and mental status exam without any problems.
Spohr knew differently.
How do I know that?
Over thirty years of working in the counter-terrorism business as
well as reorganizing major companies, I have learned that the CEO,
whomever he/she might be, is always responsible for the ultimate acts of
all of the employees. And in Spohrs case, he had been in charge of the
Lufhthansa personnel as far back as 1996 [according to his bio]. Why am
I so emphatic about making this incident a criminal and not civil case?
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The reason is simple!

Flying is a complicated business with multiple variables that have to
be monitored. However, from my experience, I knew that the mental
status of most pilots has rarely been addressed appropriately or even at
all.This tragedy highlights the fact that a plane can be an instrument of
death as easy as a gun, artillery shell or bomb. In the wrong hands, a
plane becomes an instrument of death and destruction as effective as a
bomb.
Whether someone wants to fly the plane into a building as an act of
terror as in 9/11 then it is equally plausible that same plane can be flown
into the ground as an act of terror in order to instill fear in the passengers
on board; as well as, the potential passengers who might want to fly one
day. Terror is not the act of destruction; but the act of terror in order to
instill fear into an innocent populace all over the world.
Such a terrorist was Andreas Lubitz.
Despite the pathetic plaintive cries of clergymen from his town in
Germany or individuals involved in his former gliding club, no amount
of white washing can eliminate the very definite act of a man, like
Andreas Lubitz, who spent countless hours, days and possibly years,
mapping out the method, place and techniques by which he would
eventually kill 149 innocent people, many of whom were school
children. There is no mercy for him or the co-conspirators like Carsten
Spohr and Dr. Wolfgang Roller, Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory
Board of Lufthansa. These officious individual representing nothing
more than their financial interests in a company that prides itself on
German Excellence in Engineering and Service.
Its time for the world to understand that every pilot flying any plane
can be a potential terrorist as long as he/she is never evaluated effectively
for mental illness or suicidal ideations with the intent to kill massive
amounts of innocent people.
That day has not come yet.
Only after a significant prosecution of the people involved in this
tragedy will the world once again trust flying and the pilots.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Seal Team 6 / Bin Laden Lies Predicted 14 Years in Advance
Once Dr. Steve's 14 year prediction after the false flag 9/11 stand
own was right on what he predicted that a future president will claim that
SEAL Team would kill Oasma. But Osama was already dead with
Marfan Syndrome! There was no SEAL execution - all a lie by Obama
admirals MacRaven --team leader- Adm Mullen -- also Panetta and John
Brennan DCI.

Friday, May 15, 2015

Its time for the rich, mafioso types to go away or at least OUT of the
political process, AMERICA does not need thugs bankrolling our
political candidates, that includes Norman Braman (Rubio). There was a
time long ago where any self respecting candidate would stay away from
these mobsters...

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Miami Billionaire Norman Braman, Major Car Dealer Supports
Cuban Gnome Marc Rubio for the Presidency
Good luck ! I Bought a BMW 750 Sedan from Braman Motors
which was a Lemon!
Sometimes I have an occasion to pierce the publicity shield created
around our 2016 Presidential Candidates with a particular insight or past
experience. No one has been more attractive to me as ersatz front
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runners, the well-spoken Hispanics, Ted Cruz/Marco Rubiowho are

being supported by Jewish businessmen with questionable ethical
backgrounds. I have already discussed the repulsive Jewish thug from
Nevada, the portly, ignorant casino owning Bugsy Segal wannabe
Sheldon Adelson and his Israeli born wife. His ignoble squandering of
money to Republican candidates is based on one false assumption: the
dire need for all Americans to support Israel. However, a far more
sophisticated merchant of questionable goods is Norman Braman, a man
I have never met yet I have gotten to know through the faulty
merchandise and services he purports to provide in Miami.
Some time ago, I went shopping for a car. Suffice it to say, I had
bought a used or pre-owned BMW Sedan with significantly low
mileage. His car dealership was no better nor worse than any other car
dealership in Florida. They hustle, sell, and bargain. Nothing unusual
there. However, from the beginning of my ownership of my BMW
sedan, I had nothing but troubles. The tires that went with the car when I
bought itblew out within weeks. Then I bought new tires from Braman
Motors. Needless to saywasted money.
Next a series of mishaps occurred with the electronic system and
eventually the transmission shaft started to deteriorated before I could
avoid an inevitable catastrophe. All that time, I had the best that Braman
Motor Management and Services could providemuch palaver and
increasing amount of dysfunction and incompetency. Do I need to tell
you that I traded that lemon for a SUV of Japanese origin.
The point is quite simple.
Braman is a flashy name with a lot of faux elegance and integrity.
He and his wife purport to be art collectors and charity donors without
having the necessary gravitas of any intellectual force or studied grace of
savoir-faire. They are the pure, unadulterated product of a time when
Jewish youngsters in America grew up from the streets of Pennsylvania,
as Braman did, engaged in some type of financial chicanery which
allowed him to buy a football team, the Philadelphia Eagles, and then
expanded into a massive car dealership extending all over Miami and
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Colorado. Ask the sports fans and citizens of Philadelphia what they
think about Norman Braman.
Dont get me wrong. I believe that whatever Braman did to get to
his position of wealth, be it greed tempered with fantasy story tales, that
is his business. However, when the likes of Adelson and Braman become
national figures of crass money indulgences like supporting Republican
candidates for the Presidency of the USA, then it becomes an issue for
me. How a person climbs the greasy pole of politics to reach the
Presidency, is their business and mine, if it turns out to be contrary to the
interest of the USA. Marco Rubio is not a representative of anything
more than some pathetic Spanish-speaking Cuban American who does
nothing more than splatter a story line of arising from poverty to
ascension in Florida political offices with no major accomplishment than
his ability to retell his nauseous story of a Cuban family that fled
Castro.
The truth is that Rubio and his wife who is also hired by Braman for
their ersatz foundation related to Genomics [I doubt that Braman knows
anything about the history of Watson Crick, Sanger, or the contributions
of Cambridge University to DNA-RNA research] have been a welfare
family for the rich Miami Jews who find Rubio quaint and articulate (for
a Cuban). If we had painted a black face on Rubio, in the olden days, we
could have anointed him as Sambo, the caricature of African
American. In reality, the best we can call Marco Rubios
accomplishments insignificant , if non-existent.
Rubio and his family are very much like my former BMW Sedan,
sleek, fancy, denoting wealth and elegance. BUT in truth a Braman
lemon that he sold to a sucker like me. Thats my problem. Yet, I do
not want the low class Jews, like Adelson and Braman, to eventually
determine the future of America and make us all suckers!
Get a new type of candidate. Someone, not beholden to any one
particular person, Jew, Christian or whatever, and who has shown a
history of accomplishment as a governor in the Midwest or became a
professional, other than some type of dullard lawyer. Its time for
America to start shopping around for a candidate with no real miscreant
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baggage, endowed with care for this country because they had served it
more than they had served themselves.
Caveat emptor! Buyer beware!

Thursday, May 21, 2015

More Jewish Billionaires to fund 2016 Presidential

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Tom Clancys Op Center OUT OF THE ASHES is officially a New
York Times Bestseller!
The latest release in the Tom Clancy's Op Center Series in now
officially another New York Times Bestseller!
CREATED BY: Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik
WRITTEN BY: Dick Couch and George Galdorisi
You can get your copy on Amazon

Friday, May 22, 2015

Don't need to say anymore, Ann Coulter did it for us.
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Sunday, May 24, 2015

Thank You General Raymond Odierno for Reaffirming the
Legitimate Concern: Our citizens DO NOT trust the government nor the
Military.
Implementing the Pathetic Idea of Invading Texas in Order to
Enhance SOCOMs Human Domain just adds fuel to the fire.
A stupid idea deserves a proper answer: Stop the Wasteful $10B
Exercise called Jade Helm 15.
It will do nothing but alarm the American citizens and reaffirm the
fact that we, Americans, can not trust our civilian and military leadership
to do anything effective except to appear as if they are implementing
martial law.
Just when I was about to take sigh of relief while eating dinner at
my local diner, three different veterans came up to me and asked me
what did I think about Jade Helm 15 ? Initially, I had no idea of what
they were talking about. So I looked it up then I was completely
shocked.
I read that General Odierno was going to spend over $10B to deploy
a complement of troops throughout the Southwest of the USATexas,
Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado from July 15 to September 15.
Why is this exercise completely absurd and wasteful?
There is no way that any of our elite soldiers will learn about
human terrain of foreign enemies by playing these useless war games.
Desert areas in America; as well as Americans have no correspondence
to the topography, cultures and psychology of Arabs, Muslims or
Bedouins. Remember: Odierno had the dubious distinction of being chief
military advisor to Condoleeza Rice during the Iraq War. I think he
should be unloaded for poor performance and very poor decision
making.
For many of us, this exercise reaffirms the incompetency and lies
which have prevailed for over thirty years with the Clinton, Bush Jr and
now Obama administrations. Such leadership have proven countless
times that they know nothing about the nature of wars or how to conduct
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an effective kinetic overseas action. Instead they have all proven to be

indifferent and inured to the concerns of the American public which does
not trust our USG.
Now General Odierno has literally transferred that mistrust and
dislike for our present and past presidents to our failing military which
cannot and has not won a war since WWII [and even then it was the
Soviets who bore most of the burden].
Odierno, too bad you didnt read my book entitled, State Of
Emergency written twenty years ago in which I delineating the
precipitant to the next civil war just like your actions of placing military
troops into Southwest statesin my book it was Nevada, Utah, New
Mexico. It would be less costly and less intrusive for you and your
Special Forces to learn about psychology, national character and foreign
languages at Fort Bragg without having to incur a wasteful 10 billion
dollars and rightfully scaring our concerned citizens and Veterans.
Here is what you have to learn about our country and its basic
needs and failures because like most political generals, you are wasting
billions which can be used far more effectively for the following
domestic issues:
20% of our children under 18 years old are in poverty.
17.5 million households [14%] were food insecure.
serious infrastructure problem and severe water shortage.
major deterioration in northern/midwestern urban areas
public schools standards and education of our youth on a
downward spiral especially compared to other countries
General Odierno, Eisenhower had warned us about toy soldiers like
you and your comrades who are splayed all over the world, losing one
battle after another for an indecent amount of years: Iraq, Afghanistan,
Yemen, Somalia, Sudan. Are we supposed to be impressed with your
accoutrements of faux educationHonorary Doctorate from the Institute
of World Politics in Washington DC, along with multiple degrees from
military/civilian institutions? How did your Iraq strategy work out???
What about all the great advice you gave super star Condi Rice?
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I find it refreshing that Governor Greg Abbott had engaged in the

proper action of ordering the Texas National Guard to monitor your
incompetencies. Contrary to the hysterical NYTimes which thinks that
the American people have no right to mistrust our civilian and military
rulers when on Sept 1, 2001, we were lied to; insulted; and worst of all
murdered in the ersatz name of national security and the even more
nonsensical term War On Terror. In addition, I want to know where
are the responsible voices in congress that say stop this archaic military
madness that is so wasteful and so counter productive? Did you get
promised some campaign contributions to keep quiet? Or are you just so
out of touch with the citizens that you are supposedly elected to
represent?
Over the past thirty years, our military has functioned below par yet
has received more money to fight foreign wars for which they had never
had the courage to refuse or implement effectively, leaving the inept
civilians like Clinton [Bill And Hillary]; Bush Jr; and Obama as well as
his novitiate WH coterie to mandate kinetic actions overseas which lead
to more mayhem and chaos a la Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen. Meanwhile,
back at home, our own country is deteriorating in quality of life for many
(education, jobs, health, clean environment).
Message to Military and Government Leadership: Stop wasting
money and being just stupid. Americans are fed up with you.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter Blames Iraqi Military for
Faulty/Absent USG Military Strategy in Iraq!
While Ramadi, Iraq and Palmyra, Syria fall to ISIS --Carter assumes
no responsibility/neither does Obama Administration/White House.
Palmyra was a beautiful city and I had fond memories of the
Venice of the Desert so I was deeply disturbed when this treasure of
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antiquity fell to hordes of ISIS (created by the CIA/Bush/Cheney/Jerry

Bremer). Next I hear Sec Def Carter boldly declared that the Iraqi
soldiers have no will to fight and another once beautiful city, Ramadi, is
felled by a comparatively undersized and ill-equipped ISIS.
I wondered whether this effete physicist whose only real
accomplishment was to manage his lackluster Brooks Brothers
career[thanks Col. Ralph Peters] had even prepared to be nothing more
than highly paid consultant to the Temple Money lenders at Goldman
Sachs [which is what he had been among other things unsavory].
When I was asked about his appointment, I shrugged my shoulders
in disappointment. I had seen seemingly polished Ivy Leaguers [Yale
Summa Cum Laude in Medieval History an Physics; Phd from Oxford]
all my life in national security; as well as in my unique training at
Harvard and MIT. They were all made from the same mold of growing
up in a protective bubble where their parents [father a navy
neurologist/psychiatrist] allowed Ashton to receive the best education
possible.
Clearly, I dont begrudge his educational accomplishments, other
than the fact that even in his background there is evidence that he took
the easy way out of academia. Going to Oxford to receive a Phd in
Physics is close to the equivalent of buying a degree of little significance
from one of our on-line commercial colleges. In fact, there is no evidence
in his entire history of consultantships from Mitre [CIA fed] to an
assortment of other prestigious anoxic organizations [CFR], that Carter
had really been in the nitty gritty front of battle; fighting counterterrorism; nor studying war strategies/tactics. He is more on the profitmaking side of war/conflict, please check out many of his partner
positions and BOD appointments.
Carter is a man of the privileged classes in America where for the
most part, he never got his hands dirty in the textured world of inhumane
deaths and brutal executions of well-conceived strategies/tactics. Yet he
makes a good side income from the military-industrial complex. Carter,
like Rumsfeld, and Bob MacNamara [whiz-kid of the Vietnam war who
had a mental break down] are part of the sanitized and profit-oriented
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version of warsterile and incompetent. I would call these incredibly

credentialed water walkers as operatives whom I had to stay away
from or neutralize in my past efforts to affect operational change in
the field of combat/terrorism.
Now, I discover that this well-manicured, completely inarticulate
civilian representative of our formidable fighting forces, has just blamed
in public the very people whom our brave warriors has supposedly
trained, equipped and instructed. Carter publicly crucified his supposed
ally, the Iraqi army, for fleeing and cowardice in the field of battle. That
is a very strong indictment of not the Iraqi soldiers nor even the nonexistent Iraqi Government but rather of George Bush Jr and his coterie of
neocon chicken hawks who created this mess a decade ago.
Moreover, Carters accusation is akin to a verbal boomerang which
indicts himself and those military men who sacrificed their lives in order
to select, train and force this proxy army of ethnic strife to fight an
entity which his predecessors created when they attempted to disband the
Saddam Husseins Army. [thanks to Jerry Bremer and Rummie]. Carter
demonstrated that in the blame game of this particular administration as
well as the three previous ones, none of them had the slightest idea of
what they were doing in the human terrain of combat and sustained
kinetic encounters.
Americans have had the privilege to fund in the trillions of dollars, a
completely inept series of administrations, each of which had proffered
the seemingly best and brightest to the forefront of leadership. Again,
many of those in leadership have profited significantly by this constant
warring. The reality of the past decades concerning Iraq and Afghanistan
is that we have wasted and discarded the most valuable assets America
has to offerthe men and women who want to serve this country. How
many of us who had been in Ramadi or Palmyra [ as I had been during
the Second Iraq War] feel betrayed by the complete incompetency of our
civilian and military leaders who are only to eager to write a book or
work as a consultant for large sums of money. How pathetic it is that we,
Americans, were offered to read the absurd memoirs of the dysfunctional
braggadocios like Bush Jr; McCrystal; McRaven; Cheney; Panetta;
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Gates; Hillary; Obama in order to realize that there was no gravitas nor
strategic sense in these representatives of the best and brightest.
It would be best if Carter would resign for having been rude,
inappropriate and incompetent in all aspects of his short tenure. Not to
mention, did anyone in authority realized that he was mobbed up by
the war industry? Talk about conflict of interest. Maybe President
Obama had basically run out of possible sacrificial lambs.
Our country has once again confronted the ineptitude of civility
where the fighting grunts who have died and those who are willing to
diehave to ask themselves as they had done in the Korean War,
Vietnam War and the prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistanwhat am
I doing? Was it worth being doomed to a hospital bed for life, trying to
exist with half a body?
Americans must turn back to the times and methods when we were
forced by necessity and limited time to select out a George Marshall; an
Eisenhower; a Patton; a Curtis LeMay; and a Nimitz. If we dont address
our real national security issue: the absence of effective civilian and
military leadership then we, the Republic will certainly disappear into
the footnotes of history as an example of a country that had lost its way
and destroyed itself through the pretense of having selected the best and
brightest when in fact they were the worst and most cowardly.

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Just finished watching "American Crime", I thought is was a worthy
watch, my review coming shortly.

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Monday, June 1, 2015

American Crime An Outstanding TV Series [ABC Studios],
Written, Produced, and Created by John Ridley
Should Sweep TV Emmy Awards!
In a time of domestic turmoil when dynamic human forces are
swirling about in a series of confrontations and family tragedies,
American Crime, an innovative TV series, created by the talented
Academy Award Winner [12 Years A Slave] John Ridley has captured
the times troubled temper.
In a kaleidoscope of characters, ranging from L.A. Chicano gangs
played by Richard Cabral [once a real gang member] to the ostensible
black gangster, Elvis Nolasco; arching over the lead characters played by
Caitlin Gerard, Timothy Hutton; and Felicity Huffman, we see an
American Tragedy emerging as these characters try to make some sense
of a senseless drug killing.
From the very beginning of the TV series, one is completely thrown
off by the fact that we never see the actual murder. The creator of this
series, the articulate, bright screen writer/novelist, John Ridley
concentrates his story line on the different familial reactions to a crime
that the viewer never really sees. Next Ridley takes us through a series of
dramatic twists and turns that keep drawing us further into the disparate
story lines till we, the viewer, want a moment of respite and emotional
catharsis. It is very rare to see a TV series of such emotional depth
without relying on stereotypic characters or iconic scenes of violence.
To say that the actors were uniformly outstanding is an exceedingly
rare occurrence in this judges experience. For those who might
remember the American writer Theodore Dreiser, one might imagine that
American Crime could be the modern day equivalent of Dreisers
masterpiece, An American Tragedy. The polymath John Ridley happens
to be African American. However, his sensibilities are clearly universal
and trenchant. He understands the complicated dynamics that occur
amidst all the races and ethnic groups without straining credulity. Its a
pleasure to witness this kind of talent in action. All of the characters,
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played by exceptional indigenous actors range from the panoply of

diversity that we see in America.
There are very few moments in the lengthy TV show that appear
contrived, or incredulous. To ABC Studios, I send my kudos for taking
an exceptional risk on a very delicate subject and making certain that the
show never wavers into maudlin, self-indulgence; or bursts out into flairs
of gratuitous violence. The Television Academy would do well to grant
this show all the recognition that it deserves , as follows:
Best Director;
Best Producer;
Best Original Screenplay;
Best Production Designs.
For the leading charactersawards galore.
Once again , congratulations to John Ridley for a job exceedingly
well done. May his career continue to prosper in the directions that he
may chose. To ABC Studios, a tip of the hat for taking an incredible risk
that could have easily backfired into the TV land of gratuitous sex,
violence, drug addiction, and minority stereotyping.
I will end this blog on note of caution to ABC Studios and John
Ridley. It may have been sufficient to have developed this series for only
one season. I am concerned that two or more seasons will strain the
viewers compassion and interest.
But what do I know?
I just watch and vote.

Friday, June 5, 2015

Lets make our own rockets in U.S. instead of giving $$$ to Putin!
We are now completely dependent on Putin for rockets, giving him
Billions of Dollars from our inept Air Force/Pentagon. Why are we
incapable of producing our own rockets? What about Lockheed Martin
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and Boeing? Dont we need jobs in the U.S.? Shame on us and on these
functionaries and tax subsidized private companies.

Our military /industrial complex is overseen by highly paid

generals/admirals/civilians who pay billions of taxpayer dollars to
corrupt Russian oligarchs including Putin to send our Top Secret
payloads into space. At the very same time, those same US military
officials are trying to make a regime change in Russia because of their
supposed invasion of Ukraine [Crimea].
I was shocked to read in the NY Times article on June 3, 2015 by
Steven Lee Myers about this incredible paradox in which our senior
Pentagon officials and their eventual employers after retirement
Lockheed Martin and Boeinghave had to beg the White House/
Congress to continue the exorbitant payments to the Russians for their
rocket boosters. It was more evidence that DOD has become nothing
more than a nursing home of useless military officials who garner all
types of fruit salad for nothing more than preparing themselves for a
highly subsidized tax payer retirement.

The Pentagon has become a bloated and festering tumor due to

ignorance, laziness, and greed. The U.S Air Force [descending quietly
into oblivion with the advent of drones] has not been able to develop the
simple booster rockets required to send our intelligence/satellite payloads
into space. As a result of the so-called peace dividend, Americans
have the good fortune of paying the Russians for the privilege of using
their efficient booster rockets; which we could not and have not been
able to manufacture since the 1990s.
Unbelievable!
We have our very own dysfunctional private corporations,
Lockheed Martin and Boeing, demanding that despite our sanctions
against Russia for their invasion of the Ukraine that Congress should
release the necessary funds to buy more Russian booster rockets.
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Here are some of the relevant quotes from the NYTimes article:
Certainly we cannot have Vladimir Putin and his cronies profit
from the sale of rocket engines, Senator McCain said at a news
conference.
Ending the reliance on the RD-180 [rocket booster] is not as simple
as it appears, said David A. Deptula, a retired Air Force General who
runs the Mitchell Institute For Aerospace Studies in Arlington, Virginia.
He continued, Underinvestment, lack of clear vision and stifling
bureaucracy has slowed innovation of alternative for years.
Please tell me why no present or past Sec Defs or POTUSs did not
FIRE everyone involved or uninvolved in developing a 21st century
American rocket for the new space era?
The reason is simple.
American citizens have tolerated dysfunctional military which has
not and cannot win a battle or a war since 1944. They have been coddled
by Generals and senior officers whose primary concerns have been their
careers and their own wallets. We have allowed our legislators to pork
barrel the pentagon budget so that every member of Congress has a
totally useless military installation in their district yet serves no segment
of national security. Our so called weapon systems are primarily
constructed from elements of electronics developed/manufactured by our
potential enemies; China, Russia, and questionable allies; Israel, India,
Pakistan.
Def Ashton Carter should kick these lazy celebrity generals in the
butt. In addition, as Congress feeds the old dinosaurs Lockheed and
Boeing tax payer handouts in exchange for fat campaign contributions,
tell them to dust off the R&D departments and make some space age
technology happen. Or give the money to Elon Musk and Space X, hes
got rockets and the drive to make something happen.
Time for the generals and old time corporations that exist on the tax
payer dole to take the dirt nap.
Congratulations to Putin! He understood that no matter how tough
we might posture in the world, the truth was more pathetic: We need
Putin in order to fight Putin.
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Sunday, June 7, 2015

Olive Kitteridge-- An HBO Special TV Mini-series- Starring
Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins and Zoe Kazan Should Be
Recognized by the TV Academy! Outstanding Writing, Acting and
Producing [Tom Hanks/Play Tone].
Usually, I have very low expectations for what I would call, A
Chick Flickthose dealing with marriage; personal relationships; and
family dynamics. Yet I was proven wrong by none other than the
brilliant actress, Frances McDormand of Fargo fame and Mississippi
Burning. She is one of our countrys greatest actresses; bar none. She
made a very wry, sardonic Maine school teacher living with a boring
pharmacist husband, Richard Jenkins an extremely compelling character
to watch.
Without any chase or shooting scenes, the HBO special mini-series,
Olive Kitteridge based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same
name by Elizabeth Strout, is one of the more interesting psychologically
driven shows of this past year. In part, Ms Jane Anderson has done an
exceptionally brilliant job of translating the book of short stories into a
full length mini-series with enough compelling plot twists that allow the
viewer hours of entertainment. The direction by Lisa Cholodenko
allowed Olive to proceed without any visual hiccups.
This is a movie about ordinary women written by a woman and
adapted by a woman produced by a woman [Frances McDormand] and
directed by a woman. It has proven to me how insipid I had been
regarding the stereotype of a chick flick.
If nothing else, I had wanted Olive Kitteridge to continue for
another season. However the finale of the film was sufficient. I
recommend this HBO series for as many awards that an adapted Screen
Play can receive and then some.
For those of you who do not know anything about the matrons of the
NortheastNew Hampshire, Maine, MassachusettsI strongly
recommend this film as an introduction to the world of the laconic,
determined and forceful woman whom we often refer to as the Yankee
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Standard. My only word of advice: dont mess with them. Maybe one
day we will have a leader who can represent all the honest and brutal
qualities of these Yankee Standards.
Thank you Play Tone and HBO for an excellent miniseries. May all
the deserved accolades come your way.
P.S. Frances, you might want to show your husband and brother-inlaw, the Coen Brothers, how to write, direct and produce a movie that is
truly interesting and dramatic without being heavy-handed; as well as,
having to rely on Sophomoric Yiddish Humor. But that may be asking
too much.

Monday, June 8, 2015

The Intolerable Essence of Being Greece and the EU!
Stop renegotiating a fictitious debt that has already been discounted
with an entity, the EU, that may no longer exist in a few years. For some
time now, we have been witnessing a financial Kabuki where Greece and
its ignoble, manipulative representatives are playing on the world stage
while their country sinks into oblivion.
For the past year, I have stated very clearly that the best thing for
Greece is to refuse to pay a debt incurred while doing business with
Germany. Simply put, Greece cannot afford to pay anything, let alone
fictitious debts denominated in the over-inflated Euro. At the same time,
Germany knows all too well that there is no collateral that will guarantee
any repayment, let alone one that is denominated in the billions. Both
parties are playing an exasperating game which amounts to really
nothing other than process leading to Erehwon [nowhere spelled
backwards].
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Get rid of all its present leaders who have made a mockery out of a
country that once had a very noble history albeit centuries ago. These
politicians know all too well that they are just kicking the can of
insolvency down the road so that they can come later onto the world
stage and play their farce once again. The most important reason for
Greece to leave the EU is the simple financial revelation that with their
own printing pressin Drachmasthey can literally print their way out
of trouble; instead of pleading to retain a currencythe Eurowhich is
nothing more than a paper barometer of the German economy.
In turn, Germany has to come to turns with the realization that
Greece will never be able to ascend from this fictitious morass created by
France and Germany to basically control the militaristic future of a
Prussian resurgence a la WWI, WWII etc. The Euro is not a real
currency that reflects anything other than the presumed strength of the
once formidable, Deutchmark.
Contrary to the world bankers and hedge fund managers accruing
paper wealth beyond the diktats of the game, Monopoly, they are really
nothing more than Teddy Boys[sorry Britain] playing with themselves.
For the most part, currencies are nothing more than paper expressions of
wishful thinking about a particular nation, commodity or assets. In reality
there is nothing to back up the myriads of currencies floating around the
world. All that moves around are electrons which indicate some number
that may or may not having meaning; according to the receiver.
The Greek debt is as much a myth as the European Union is and will
be. There is no real European Union! What we have is a group of former
politicians in one country refusing to give up their past personas in order
to play again in a country which cant even garner a Prime Minister, let
alone a efficient government. And that basket case of a country
Belgiumhas become the epicenter of the fictitious European Union
where more countries are performing under par [France]; or, completely
out of step with German growth like Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal
[PIIGS].
In reality, the EU has become somewhat of psychological burden on
the financial systems of the world, having to work through national
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companies which are highly subsidized like the French or even the
Spanish. Only those countries that have grown strong have retained their
own currencies, denominated in numbers that can attain whatever ratios
are needed for trade. Witness the Swiss Franc that broke through the
ersatz basket [or snake] of the Euro to ascend into one of the strongest
currencies in the world.
Why?
For three hundred years, the Swiss have been successful in allowing
their banks and FIFA executives to indulge in massive financial
corruption without harnessing an ounce of moral indignation. And so,
England, Norway, Sweden, and Holland have all quietly amassed an
impressive growth picture while remaining relatively silent on the world
stage.
Only the Greeks and Germans, and sometimes the French, scream
bloody murder when the Kabuki goes awry.
Greece will inevitably default on its debt.
In fact, if anyone bothers to take the time to read their balance sheet,
one will find that Greece is in technical insolvency! In other words,
Greeces DEBTS EXCEED ITS ASSETS! If that is not bankruptcy, then
folks, I have no idea what that term really means.
The Greece/Germany two step has shown me how inept our own
bankers, Secretaries of State and Treasury really are when they
announce that the world financial markets will collapse if Greece fails to
pay its debts. It has already failed de facto to pay its multiplicity of debts.
Nothing has happened to the world markets; simply because Greece and
the Euro are not that important to Chinese, South East Asian and
American GDPs [which is what really matters].
Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe are all nice geopolitical entities in
which highly paid pundits revel about in their nonsensical discussions
about Geopolitical Imperatives or the New Cold War. The truth is more
ugly than that. China keeps growing. India will grow.
Vietnam; Indonesia; Cambodia; Myanmar will all grow.
Europe is the newest and oldest sense of the term is just not
relevant!
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America could become an asterisk in the history of the 21st Century

if we dont stop creating wasteful and complete inane wars thousands of
miles from our shoresall in the name of Peter Pans Terrorism. We
have a very weak growth capacity. We will enter a negative growth
curve if we dont stop producing the useless tools of a war that has no
bearing on our future.. or national security.
Yet who am I? Just a lonely voice in the world of bankruptcy;
whether real; or imagined. A word of wisdom to all countries and
currency producers---Get Your Own Printing Press! No more worldwide
Kabukis, its a distraction and its tiresome.

Friday, June 19, 2015

T.B.D. American Wars Against Al Qaeda, ISIS!
Without An Effective War Strategy Against ISIS, we have created a
tbd warTo Be Determined!
Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, General Martin Dempsey,
recently made a very revealing comment as he met with Israeli senior
military/intel officials. When he was asked the question: Will we have a
more robust strategy in Iraq/Syria?
He responded: To Be Determined! TBD?!.
Or maybe, wait and see what our American Generals will concoct
on the fly.
Equally interesting and disturbing is the fact that there is no
consensus between Dempsey and his General, Lloyd J. Austin III, Chief
of Central Command. Austin sees the center of gravity as defeating ISIS
by recapturing Mosul [Iraq]. However, Dempsey does not think that
Mosul is at all relevant. To compound the American strategic quagmire,
the State Department and the White House have chimed in with their
perspectives of a non-existent unified military strategy.
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For some time now, I have reiterated the fact that we have an army
that cannot fight. We have civilian and military leaders going all the way
back to Bush Jr who had no idea of kinetic wars and their consequences.
For the most part, American citizens appear to be indifferent, if not
disgusted with the unnecessary wars. Occasionally, we hear a draft
dodger like Jeb Bush [who went into the Peace Corps in Mexico to avoid
the draft] utter some regurgitated neocon statements about more force or
boots on the ground. Yet still the same cycle of stupidity rears its ugly
head. Seriously, how many times have we screwed up in Iraq??
Afghanistan? No wonder we dont teach military history anymore.
Most of us war/terrorism veterans are completely disgusted by what
is happening. As I wrote in my previous blogs, we have created our
enemies, Al Qaeda and ISIS, through civilian/military incompetency; and
now, we find ourselves bereft of any cogent immediate strategies. I am
not surprised that we have entered this period of TBD wars all over the
world. As someone who had been peripherally involved in
teaching/advising our senior DOD, I have found that the brightest of the
military officials all the way from Captain on upward--- left the military
to earn a hefty salary. Example: General Keith Alexander who now
makes over $600,000 per month on one contract. In contrast, I encounter
soldiers who are in the National Guard who complain that they are not
treated on par with the regular full time army; despite the fact that they
are doing most of the fighting and performing the necessary services to
maintain some semblance of an effective kinetic warfare.
Our military/political leadership is completely incompetent in
planning and executing an effective strategy yet we taxpayers are paying
an exorbitant price to so-called private contractors who basically out
source the war. I guess that TBD means that we have no military
strategy. It also means we do not have an effective tactical or
implementation capacity.
TBD also means that CYA Cover Your Assis becoming the new
sobriquet for our non-existent U.S. military. Consider the Secretary of
Defense, a civilian who never met a Hedge Fund or bank [Goldman
Sachs] that he didnt like; is far more interested in promoting an openly
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gay civilian official to head up one of our armed services. I am all for
progress BUT when the military and the White House appear to be more
concerned with celebrating LGBT day at the Pentagon than
implementing a long term military/political strategy in global trouble
spots than I start to get very concerned. Our American military and
political system has been degraded and corrupted to such an extend that
it no longer functions at all. YET we continue to fund this bloated
corporation at the expense of public education, infrastructure and the
environment. Now these bloated, inefficient institutions must be DOWN
SIZED. Get rid of the over paid, pension hogs who can not even talk a
good strategy let alone execute one.

Thursday, June 25, 2015

The South Carolina Flag is Retired to a Museum as a Symbol of the
End of White on Black Crime in Charleston, S.C.
Which Flags should be retired for Black on Black Crimes in Detroit?
Miami? Chicago?
The Governor of South Carolina decided that the state flag of South
Carolina should be retired to a distant museum as a symbol of white
racism. How a state flag could represent the horrible crime committed
by one insane white boy who had killed nine innocent blacks during
Sunday Prayers is still a mystery to me. I have dealt with multiple
murderers of all types at St Elizabeths all of which could equal the
ignoble actions of that particular white boy who had committed that
heinous crime this past Sunday.
One crazy white boys hate does not signify the advent of any type
of White Supremacy or national movement ignited by his venomous
feelings toward black people. In fact, this is a one-off incident that
immediately accrued significance through the hysteria of the American
media which could not really define at that particular moment what had
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motivated that boy other than hatred and a history of repeated mental
illness. Instead of concentrating on the more relevant problem
stigmatizing this countrymental illness; the press led by none others
than the CNN agit-prop team of Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper go
for the race card.
Fact: America has 100 Hundred Million yes, ONE HUNDRED
MILLION---people WITHOUT MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS. This
FACT was completely IGNORED.
Our so-called aloof President Obama repeated his noisome
colloquy about gun control and racism; not even daring to consider that
the real problem again and again is MENTAL ILLNESS. The South
Carolina Governor, a woman of questionable intelligence and integrity,
rode the most convenient hobby-horse available to everyone who did not
know anything about the history of the Civil War or its roots.
Neither the Governor nor President were born or raised in America
to the extent that they might have had some questions about the courage
and validity of the state of South Carolina to defy the tyrant Abraham
Lincoln; who had no intention of freeing the black slaves from the very
start of the war. His intentions were clearly delineated in his papers and
those of his warmongers henchmenStanton, Seward, Sherman and
Grant. They all shared the common mercenary conviction that the north
needed the waterways and land rights embedded in the rural south.
Slavery was not even an issue until Lincoln, a manic-depressive,
Marfan syndrome railroad lawyer, had to disguise his ignoble intentions
of killing hundreds of thousands of his OWN PEOPLE in the name of
the Republic. South Carolina reiterated the basic tenets upon which our
original 13 colonies had coalescedupon condition that anyone of them
could and would secede. Nothing in that statement reaffirmed the need
for black slavery. Yet the northern Armies under the misfits like General
Grant [alcoholic] and Sherman [savage, ruthless] had no qualms when
they indentured young Irish Immigrants who came off the ship from
Ireland to involuntarily fight for the cause of northern aggression. The
north indentured the poor whites of all nationalities; yet no flag waves
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for them; other than an incidental asterisk in some irrelevant narrative of

the civil war.
As a youth, I had a problem understanding how AUTO GENOCIDE
Lincoln willing to kill his own peoplecould be justified on any
grounds; let alone by the notion that black slaves would be freed. That
was the biggest lie of all. Two southern states had to ratify the
constitution after the civil war in order to legitimately free the black
slaves.
So we butchered our own people in order to convince them that they
had to free some of our own people; completely ignorant of the fact that
Lincoln and his northern cronies wanted railroad tracks from north to
south; as well as usurping the transit waterways of the grand Mississippi
River and the Missouri River. It was also convenient for the north to
acquire the crucial seaport of New Orleans in order to ship goods from
the north ---southwards.
The flag of South Carolina has been retired in much the same way
that the truth of our barbarous history toward Native Americans and
toward our own Americans on 9/11was concealed and disguised by
nonsensical statements of national security and songs God Bless
America. The longer we divest ourselves of truth the longer we will
remain retarded in our growth of the country and its intellectual horizon.
Instead we can one day visit our past in the empty museums of inanity;
flags; and worthless symbols.
Long live the Republic! It will one day default into a moment of lies
from which it can never ascend. Artificial symbols have co-opted
history; and America is headed into a spiral of self-destruction based on
historical ignorance and present day arrogance.
Hubris Ate Nemesis!
Pride Brings Its Punishment!

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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Greece: Vote NO on June 30th Referendum!
Not One Euro will go to the Greek People but to the Indifferent,
Greedy CreditorsFrench and German Banks!
Once again, people around the world are confronted by the interest
of the ordinary citizen versus the financial interests of opportunistic,
voracious international banks which have zero interest in helping Greek
citizens.
Greece, if you vote to remain in the EU, you will be basically
throwing your hard earned money away to some corporate
French/German bankers who have not one iota of interest in your
collective welfare. Therefore, voting NO will afford you citizens of the
once great civilization a new chance to re-start your economy on a parity
with your growth and income stream. NO means that the future
belongs to every single Greek man, woman and child. If you allow
yourselves to be controlled by fancy titles of ersatz institutions like the
European Economic Commission or the International Monetary Fund
[Americas Investment Banking arm]; then you remain in
political/financial servitude; constantly replenishing the bottomless pit of
money that was originally owed to the private bankers who had taken a
risk on Greece---and lost! That is the essence of your vote on June 30th,
2015.
No means freedom and a future opportunity to start all over again
in a fashion that will be consistent with your particular live styles. A
Yes vote will bind you in perpetuity to a highly contrived financial
system that benefits not one Greek citizen. This vote will only line the
pockets of the bankers who did what they do best--- loan out money with
quantifiable risks. The Greek risk of default was always there. Since my
last blog where I pointed out that as far as these fancy named
meaningless financial institutions are concernedGreece is already in
technical default. I will repeat that term because the bankers knew that
this had been the case for close to a decade yet they want to CYA [cover
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their ass] on the balance sheet so they dont appear as reckless and stupid
as they really have been.
In a way, Greece will be making history. It will be the first country
to officially exit the nonsensical Euro which was set up to enforce the
French Magical Thinking that post-WWII, France could contain the
growth of a dynamic Germany. At best this was a fantasy. At worse, it
was a complete state of self-delusion; a psychological dynamic
characteristic of the French since Napoleon Buonaparte, a Corsican who
tried to make France a Revolutionary Empire. It failed and so did France.
Now France can barely lift its economic head from the internal discords
harping throughout Lyons, Paris, and Toulouse. France, as a financial
entity is, at best a basket case; at worse it is a museum to be visited on a
tour of the other failing states.
Greece could be the new leader of an onslaught of other countries
which will probably exit the Euro right after they do; Italy, Portugal, and
Spain. The reason is that these countries also want their own printing
press to determine their liquidity and not be beholden to some faceless
German banker in Frankfurt.
Times change is here. It is a simple choice --- NOmeans
freedom and self-determination. That is the course for which many brave
Greeks fought during WWII and the post-war Communist Regime. Dont
forget the bravery of those Greeks who literally gave their lives for the
right for you all to determine your respective freedoms.
Ephristo! Thank you !

Monday, June 29, 2015

Puerto Rico, An American Commonwealth [State] must be able to
Declare Bankruptcy Because the Governor, Alejandro Garcia Padilla,
Clearly Stated that the Puerto Rican Debt Not Payable!
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Just as we are entering the death spiral of Greece and potentially

other EU countries [Spain, Italy, Portugal]; Puerto Rico refuses to pay
any of its hundreds of millions of dollars of debt. Governor Padilla has
stated to all of his debtors that Puerto Rico will not pay any of its debt
back. This statement may sound arrogant and dismissive; however, I
found it to be a breath of fresh air. Unlike all the leaders of the EU who
are basically in technical insolvency, this Governor makes no bones
about the fact that he and his cohorts are incapable of restructuring any
reasonable deals with his creditors.
How Puerto Rico became such a financial basket case is a shady
story with endless Investment Banking and Hedge Funds willing to
extend credit to any Island on a basis of fictitious numbers of future cash
flows which the creditors knew in advance were never really viable. Why
would such sagacious bankers from the mainland go out of their way to
prostitute themselves in front of Puerto Rican institutions like the Light
and Power company?
The answer is very simple.
Most of these bankers wanted to EARN FEES on the financial
instruments that they were creating specifically for Puerto Rico,
irrespective of caring about its REAL FUTURE EARNINGS. What is
happening in Puerto Rico is what had happened when our fearless,
greedy leaders like Bill Clinton and Bush Jr allowed the banks to loan at
will; assuring them through the mumbled thoughts and words of the three
stooges: Greenspan, Bernanke; and Geitnerthat all these banks would
be backed up by Fannie Mae and other Federal Financial Institutions.
Effectively, these financial geniuses created zombie banks that could
do no wrong every time they flushed a suzerainty like Puerto Rico [used
as target for US Navy shelling] with Bonds for everything. The bonds
were to be paid back in principle by revenues and tax dollars that were
supposedly generated by the consumers of the utility or manufacturing
facility.
That did not happen.
Instead most Puerto Ricans [whom I admire] came to Nuevo York
[mainly around my neighborhood on 108th and Amsterdam] decades ago
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to make better, safer living for themselves and their family. Many of you
would say that the financial behavior of the Puerto Ricans was
irresponsible.
I could not completely agree.
The willingness to take money that seemed endless and free was
too tempting to refuse. However, what had happened during the tenure of
the governors prior to Alejandro was reprehensible. This endless flow of
bonds for everything and anything was part of a collusive entity created
by greed and irresponsibility between the Wall Street bankers seeking
fees for their meager work and Puerto Rican officials harvesting cash
crops for their respective political futures. Now, Puerto Rico beset by
malignant neglect by the Obama administration has ventured down a
road where they are stating out right that no debt will be repaid.
That may mean very little to us, Americans for now.
It does portend a trend where American localities like Detroit and
Stockton, California have also gone into a fiduciary default mode. The
difference is that both Detroit and Stockton were able to declare
bankruptcy and wipe out their respective debts in order to start all over
again. Puerto Rico which has debt in the billions of dollars cannot and
will not pay back any of the bonds. If PR is granted the right to enter into
Chapter 9 [bankruptcy] then it might be able to restructure the debt load
and something on the bonds.
However, this is a new phenomenon where a commonwealth [ read
state] has no ability to wipe out it debts completely is problematic,
uncertain. Now, we will wait and see what PR does in the next few
weeks; as well as watch the Wall Street Bankers like Citibank accrue
fees for helping them to bail out from their own debts .
Banking is nothing more than a vicious cycle of numbers floating
around the ether of make-believe or more clearly stated by the lead
banker in the Wolf of Wall Street--Its Fugazi!
Poof! Magic! Where the money never goes back to the client; but
keeps floating around the banking cycle fueled by cocaine, alcohol, sex
and mucho greed!
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Folks, sit back and watch the new show:

West Side Story meets Wolf of Wall Street!

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Greece is the Opening Act of the Fiscal Tragedy Called OverLeveraged/ Under-Funded Economies
Including Brazil; Turkey; Italy; and Most Importantly China!!!
For some time now, I have felt like the Greek seerthe infamous,
Cassandra. Clearly, I did not create the fiscal tragedies that I could
foretell. However, I had the unique experience of having been involved
in the crisis management of the Maryland Savings & Loan disaster of the
late 1980s.
One unidentified S&L requested my help to stem the flow of dollars
leaving that particular institution in a suburb of Maryland. I soon learned
that America can also suffer liquidity shortages. During that time, any
check from any Maryland S&L was not accepted as a legitimate
currency, even if the person had more than sufficient funds to cover that
check. In particular, I remember how ordinary people were refused
service at Giant Food Stores for the most basic consumer goods [bread,
meat, vegetables]. Cash was king yet these S&Ls were forbidden to dole
out more cash that a small stipend. Sound familiar? Thousands of
Marylanders had to suffer because a S&L crisis was precipitated in a
Colorado S&L called Silverado.
Who were the culprits in the Silverado fiasco?
None other than two spoiled, noisome, entitled brothers who never
had any experience doing anything more than leveraging their
identifiable names into dangerous deals that frequently ended up raping
the public. By now those two brothers are well knownNeil Bush and
Marvin Bush.
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What made the S& L crises so hard to manage was the convenient
editorial ignorance of the major newspaper in Washington D.C. In
particular, the then highly esteemed team of Ben Bradlee and Bob
Woodward were completely incapable of helping to stem a rush on the
S&Ls because they had no comprehension of the difference between net
worth and liquidity. That was the beginning of my crisis experience in
managing a dysfunctional banking system and the ancillary variables that
contributed to that S&L meltdown.
I will say that the Maryland prosecutors in Baltimore, along with the
FBI, prosecuted those individuals who had started the rush on the S&Ls.
Of course, Neil and Marvin were never indicted.
Now, for the present situation.
China has just entered a stock market crisis where the large amount
of leverage in their markets have created a bubble where the highly
inflated values will lead inevitably to a crash. That is not wishful
thinking on my part. China has had an artificial economy where in the
political leaders have granted large sums of liquidity to friends, family
members of the elite Communist Party. The political cronyism has led to
a depressed economy where the GDP may be entering negative territory.
All these highly leveraged assets, stocks and housing will fall in value
because there is not enough liquidity to maintain the artificial values
created by the inveterate Chinese speculators.
Unlike the EU, China has its own currency. However that currency,
once lauded as the next substitute to the dollar, is basically a worthless
piece of paper based on the bad faith of the political system.
What do I mean?
China for too long has based its economy on political cronyism and
not the principles of economic entrepreneurial growth. As a result, the
present leader, Premier Xi has no other option than showing that he is in
charge of a failing economy by arresting many of his former comrades
who had helped this princeling to attain his position of leadership.
In addition, Premier Xi has created an elaborate strategy of reviving
the concept of the Silk Road Trade from Russia back to the Middle
Kingdom [China].
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At best that narrative is a distraction from the more serious issue of

unemployment for millions of highly trained university students; as well
as, inculcating some hope in a desperate China which can barely provide
water for over 500 Million of its inhabitants in the western part of the
country.
So like the Bush family that keeps on giving us miscreant crises, the
Chinese, like the corrupt Turkish, Brazilian and Italians are now in the
cross hairs of financial meltdown.
Nothing taints a currency more than self-delusion and wishful
thinking conflated with self-serving political corruption. For now,
Americans will weather out the storm; despite the fact that our political
elite have absolutely no idea as to what to do.
The reason is simple.
This country is so big geographically and blessed with all the natural
resources that we could literally seal our borders and remain viable.
Also, we must thank those geniuses at Bretton Woods [N.H.] who
had the foresight to dominate all future assets, commodities and
properties all over the world in United States Dollars. Now that is
American ingenuity!
Lets see if we cant bring it back one more time with someone who
has economic experience and strategic foresight.
Lets work to get that individual amidst the herd of bovine
contenders.
Choose wisely!

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

The Once Honorable Leslie H. Gelb, President Emeritus of the
Council on Foreign Relations [CFR]; Senior Correspondent for the N Y
Times; and a Ubiquitous Board Member: Appears on Hillary Clintons
Missing Emails, Kowtowing to Her!
On this July 4th weekend when we celebrate the deeds of those who
fought for the independence of this great nation, I want to honor a man
whom I had admired and was a very special person in my lifeDr.
Leslie Gelb.
When I first met him decades ago, he was a senior official in the
Carter Administration which was filled with all types of forthright men
and women who were willing to stand up for their personal and
professional beliefsincluding President Jimmy Carter. From that
period in my life, one person stood out in my mind-- Leslie Gelb. During
this time, he had refused to acquiesce to Zbig Brezenski and resigned. I
found that act very impressive. Soon Cyrus Vance and I were to resign
afterwards over the issue of the Iran Hostages.
I found that Les was an honorable man who stated his convictions;
stood by them; and then acted accordingly. His subsequent career
became an admirable trajectory, where Les became a senior
correspondent for the NY Times [even a senior editor]; and eventually
attained the then much-vaunted position of President of the Council On
Foreign Relations. At the CFR, where I attended few meetings, I had the
rare pleasure of talking to him and renewing old acquaintances.
Subsequently, I resigned from the CFR, after having realized how
toxic they had become from an inherent inertia of creativity; alongside
the perseveration of old thoughts and self-aggrandizing mantras.
Then, I happened to read a letter by Leslie H . Gelb where he
apologized to whomever for having used his august position at the CFR
and in Washington society to take a cowardly stance on the Iraq War. He
urged our brave American Warriors to enter distant conflicts which Les
knew from his past experiences[as a senior official at DOD having
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overseen the production of the Pentagon Papers] that our warriors would
die needlessly; as would, thousands of innocent civilians.
This is the letter Les wrote for future posterity:
My initial support of the Iraq War was symptomatic of unfortunate
tendencies within the foreign policy community, namely the disposition
and incentives to support wars to retain professional and political
credibility. No truer words were spoken from a man who eventually
succumbed to such unfortunate tendencies.
Now we cant really say that he owned up to his own miscreant
behavior. Yet we can say that he became a man who pandered to the
whims and ways of an amorphous community of neocons and idiots who
had never fought in a war [neither did Les]. However, I would have
given Les a pass and written off his cowardly behavior as an insecure
Jew who needed the approval of the WASP and military community in
order to be heard and accepted.
A king of inferiority complex.
No problem there!
Yet flash forward to current headlines, what do I find in todays
Wall Street Journal article regarding the missing Hillary Clinton emails?
Let me quote directly from the email:
A loyal supporter and Democratic activist, Lynn Forester de
Rothschild wrote Mrs. Clinton that she has spent the day on Nantucket
with Leslie Gelb, a former State Department and Pentagon hand who
wanted to write a Parade Magazine piece about the Secretary, detailing
her daily life and the impact she is having on national affairs..
He said he would give you a veto over content and looked me in
the eye and said, SHE WILL LIKE IT. Ms De Rothschild wrote. The
resulting [Gelb] piece was INDEED QUITE POSITIVE.
Mr Gelb wrote that diners in the State Department cafeteria burst
into applause upon seeing her and concluded that she is absolutely
determined to make her tenure as Secretary of State a success and to
accomplish important things.
As usual, Les was wrong in this puff piece on Hillary.
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As most of you know by now, Libya, Benghazi and the 100 plus
nations she had visited amounted to a complete disaster as Sec State.
However, my concern is not with HC. She is at least a well-known entity
to Americans.
The reason I wrote this blog is to show you how it is the good,
decent men of our nation who hide in the shadows of the Pentagon and
State Department; as well as the countless Think Tanks camouflaging as
neutral analysts who send us into the wars in Korea; Vietnam; Iraq;
Afghanistan; et. al. Leslie Gelb is an Honorable Man who has shown
himself to be a panderer to the rich and famous; and a sycophant of
those he serves.
I might remind you, all, that Les won the Famous Father Of The
Year in 1999. How ashamed I would have been of my father had he hid
behind the skirts of women and men in order solicit favors from them in
return for a flattering portrait in the shlock propaganda magazine
Parade.
What we have here is simply frailty of mankind. Neither malicious
nor nefarious; just too frightened to assert his true beliefs lest he lose his
job and reputation as one of the boys. How often have I heard those
rationalizations in the Nazi prisoners whom I had seen as a child in the
French Displaced Persons CampI was just doing my duty!
It did not stop there! The Soviet Communist System also offered me
a panoply of excuses and reasons for the retention of that corrupted
system.
However, the 9/11 Stand Down and the consequent outcry of silence
by those in the knowthe Foreign Affairs Community was simply
deafening.
Now, Les is offered by me as the Personae of the Year 2015, as an
American in his twilight years who becomes most cowardly and
disgustingly ingratiating to the rich and famous. I give Leslie Gelb as the
model of what has happened to our Honorable Men ----they have
descended into perfidious insolence and dastardly deeds for which they
still refuse to assume personal responsibility and attribute them to outside
forces beyond their control.
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Let me end with a quote from a famous French novelist, Honore de

Balzac:
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by PYGMIES!!

Saturday, July 4, 2015

The Middle Kingdom, China, is Teetering on a Dangerous Precipice
of Self-Destruction by Stock Manipulators!
Most of you have heard about Chinas problem with its stock
exchange. A group of manipulators are shorting a highly leveraged stock
market. What they are doing is basically allowing China to fall into an
economic downturn which was never intended. How this happened has
more to do with Chinese National Character than any other factor.
The Chinese are very serious gamblers. So much so, that the
political elite of China made the right decision to locate most of the
gambling establishments in Macau [a former Portuguese colony] rather
than on the mainland. If they had placed the casinos in easy access to
every Chinese citizen, the political elite realized that their citizens would
be gambling all day long.
How they became such inveterate gamblers is not really known.
However, they have historically engaged in highly leveraged activities
including real estate speculations which ended in massive foreclosures
mounting into the trillions of dollars. Rather than mark the mortgages
down to the market, the Chinese officials kept the non-performing loans
on the books as if they represented the true value of the real estate in
question.
So fiction substituted for reality.
Then along came the real serious gamblers the stock market
manipulators who numbered in the hundreds of thousands, if not the
millions, who placed a margin call [payment] on a stock and when the
stock failed they had to pay the full amount of the stock price plus the
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brokers commission and other fees. It is not working too well. For
unknown reasons, the leaders of China cannot stop the market
speculators from shorting their calls and basically creating a chaotic
market which has fallen almost 30% in the past few days. This type of
run in a lightly controlled market like China can lead to the eventual
collapse of the economy where everyone pulls their money out of the
banks and remain in cash; spending or earning nothing.This type of
economic self-implosion is quite rare; but it does it occur when a market
is highly leveraged and there is no actual cash to back the speculations;
other than wishful thinking.
This means while China tries to expand along a new Silk Road it
will have to contend with internal financial turbulence that can delay its
growth for months, if not years.
China cannot afford that kind of delay. The economic forecasts and
central controls are based on a controlled economy that must grow
about 6-7% per year.
That is not happening now.
President Xi knows that. So he is arresting many of the senior
Communist Officials whom he considers corrupt [an easy determination]
and places them in prison as both a distraction from the main problem of
slow/no growth and extreme high margin speculations. I wish that the
great Middle Kingdom will resolve its problems as quickly as possible;
otherwise the world at large will feel the ripple effects of China
imploding financially.
While Greece falls, let us make certain that China will be able to
endure its own miscreant behavior long enough to be able to create the
New Silk Road. Otherwise, the weight of the Middle Kingdom will be
too heavy for the world financial systems to bear.

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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Bill Cosby: Lude Man Date Raped Women!
Treatment: His entire wealth should be distributed to organizations
that help women, rape victims; and kids in education and health care.
He can afford all of the above. or go to jail!
By now most of you know about the heinous behavior of the once
highly lauded and extravagantly paid actor/comedian Bill Cosby. Does
it matter that he was a prominent African-American? What would be
different if he were white? Nothing?? He is still a creep and a dangerous
poseur.
I dont know him. Nor would I like to know him. I do understand his
psychopathology. It is too late to do anything about it. Although, I
suspect that members of his family; as well as close friends, and financial
cohorts had a very clear sense of what he had been doing over decades.
Cosby was not a modest man. He was for the most part a
braggadocio whom I suspect bragged about his ersatz conquests such
as they were/arewith an assortment of women. Whoever prescribed the
Quaaludesi.e. a physicians of sorts should be investigated for the
endless prescriptions he/she wrote on behalf of Cosby.
I am not here to praise nor condemn the man. That is for society to
judge. Although, I do congratulate all the women who came forward and
tried to press their respective cases against him against all odds.
What Cosby has done to all the women and to African-American
society is beyond reproach. I do know quite well, for reasons that I
cannot disclose here, that Cosby had made literally millions, if not
billions of dollars from his TV shows. I never watched them. My time in
Hollywood afforded me the opportunity to assess his wealth without
even soliciting anyone in particular.
Having said that, I do strongly recommend that most of his earnings
be distributed to organizations that afford help to all kinds of women,
men, children to protect them against rape. Also I would use his money,
in the name of the victims whom he had molested, for courses all over
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the country on bullying; women studies; and last but not least, African
American women and their relationship to men.
Cosby is finished as an entertainer. He is denigrated as a man and
has left a bitter legacy as a human being. The only redeeming factor in
this whole conundrum of his guilt is the fact that he is very wealthy and
should be stripped of that wealth for the benefit of American women in
our society.
Quaaludes has been used abusively as a soporific agent. But perhaps
the maker of Quaaludes and Cosby himself might want to pay the
necessary penitence to rectify in part the damage that both entities have
caused in our society. Neither psychiatric help nor jail will do Cosby any
good. Yet his wealth, if properly distributed by the courts, can rectify
many injustices.
Napoleon Bonaparte said the following apropos comment:
All famous people lose dignity on a close view.

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Dade County Florida, watch how county commissioners killed
democracy and ignored the will of the citizens (all 500,000 of them).
Pets Trust continues to fight on despite the corrupted county
commissioners

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Russell Crowes Directorial Debut in The Water Diviner Should
Put Him in Place for an Academy Award!
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Congratulations to both actor and director, Russell Crowe, on his

new film.
I was perusing Amazon the other day and saw that The Water
Diviner was an Aussie Film which starred Russell Crowe. On
probability alone, I knew I could not go wrong watching the versatile
actor of such epic films as The Gladiator and L. A. Confidential.
What stunned me completely was the subject matter of this expansive
film about the tragic aftermath of Battle of Gallipoli, Turkey. This
movie was rich with depictions of realistic war scenes between Aussies
and Turks; sparing nothing about the brutality of war. Crowe, the
Director, took an incredible risk in shooting a film that carefully and
respectfully delineated Muslim Turkish customs just before the advent of
Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, the Secular Nationalist.
I have rarely seen such a sensitive and compassionate portrayal of
combatants in war who then become allies in peace; despite the
incredible cultural gap between a Christian [non-practicing ] and a
practicing Muslim Turkish Officer [Major Hasanplayed brilliantly by
Yilmaz Erdogan]. To my delight, I re-discovered a new talent whom I
had first seen in the TV Series Magic City Olga Kurylenko [a
beautiful Ukranian actress] who plays a Turkish widow with finesse and
passion. Most amazing was how Crowe wove the story line so
effortlessly through different locationsAussie Outback; Istanbul and
Gallipoli, Turkeywithout straining credulity or verisimilitude. One had
the feeling that one was there in Turkey at the turn of the century.
Crowe showed the absurdity of war and its crass aftermath without
getting complicated or sentimental; simply that war is wasteful and
meaningless.The film revealed how England had reached its pinnacle of
military success around the beginning of the Twentieth Century only to
repeat its expansionist instincts into oblivion at a cost of about 37
million people wounded and killed. It reminded me of recent defeats
and needless, expansionist wars that America created in the same areas
as Britain had one hundred years ago. Both countries had the same
results; vainglorious Generals and Authoritarian Leaders disregarding the
will of the people, with millions killed, wounded or lost.
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Old men/women send young people to fight for something they

know nothing about; nor really care about-- and couch it in terms of
honor, flag and country. Usually its in a far-away country or countries
that have no national security interest. Moreover, we do not know either
the language nor the culture of the countries that we are sent to fight in.
Yet we fight because we are told to by those who have rarely fought
themselves. The only winners are the rich men and faceless profit
mongering corporations.
Yet in The Water Diviner, Crowe showed a surprising and
endearing ending that is worth watching through the fast-paced two hour
film.
Congratulations to the writersAndrew Anastasios and Dr
Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios ; and Andrew Knight.
Congratulations to the Producers and to the entire cast of
outstanding characters from Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Jai
Courtney, Cem Yilmaz, and Yilmaz Erdogan.
Also, I must congratulate the various studios who took a very high
risk making this particular film: Universal Studios; Warner Bros. and
Entertainment One [Australia]. This is my first nomination for the best
picture, direction, writing, producing and acting for the 2015 Academy
Awards as well as other international prizes.
Crowe, in my humble opinion, has managed to do what only one
other famous Hollywood actor has doneClint Eastwoodtransmute
into a director who can shoot an epic film across different continents,
about war and peace.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Greece is a Moribund Country, Barely on Life Support!
Only Two Enfeebled Countries: France/Italy Want a Resuscitation
Lest they Drop Dead as well!
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By now, you and I have all witnessed this macabre dance of

impending death as a tedious exercise in collective self-delusions. No
German in their right mind could have the slightest doubt that Greece can
never and will never abide or comply with anything that requires selfdiscipline or some measure of austerity. The Germans, masters of racial
profiling and discipline, have never hesitated on their often accurate
analyses of their dying Greek partner. Greece has no idea whether it
wants to live in a community of nineteen nations or enter the real world
of hard work and self-denial and go it alone in this big scary world.
The truth is evident in the incredible delay of the negotiations
process. The Germans should consult their past famous psychologists
before their exegesis to America and learn that DELAY IS DENIAL. By
delaying the process of decisions, both on the Greek and German sides,
the very process denotes incredible denial on both sides of the
negotiating table which has been the major characteristic of a superior
power [Germany] that does not trust a subordinate, undeveloped power
[Greece].
Whatever Greece will promise for any potential future actions will
be nullified by the fact that the people of Greece made it very clear in
their past referendum that they do not want to remain in a custodial
relationship where their every movement and existence depends not on
the veracity of the economic/political realities but on what our own
esteemed playwright, Tennessee Williams, once describe as the
kindness of strangers. There is no more kindness to distribute when the
recipient is neither grateful nor capable of gratitude. At this end stage of
Greeces existence there is nothing more than the whimper of entitlement
in slurry words that amounts to something akin to the fact that Greece
was the mother culture of western civilization.
Impending death and delay of termination are not bosom buddies in
life or even in the end stages. How Greece exits this farce contrived as a
narrative of negotiations when in fact the Germans know all too well that
they are playing the final aria. Let death acquire its dignity not in the act
of termination but in the dignity of allowing Greece to exit with some
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sense of self-worth and hope. The Euro is nothing but the last strains of
oxygen provided to a moribund patient.
Its time that Germany shut off the oxygen valve and let the youth
of Greece start again with a clean slate.if that were possible.
Let me end with quoting Matthew 25:36
I was sick [Greece], and ye visited me.

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

From Pluto to Tehran: America is on a Roll from Space to Earth!
Critics Abound with the Latest Agreement with Iran: Expected but
Inappropriately Hysterical!
Now that the deal between Iran and America has been culminated
after years of negotiating, I must congratulate President Obama and his
administrationincluding the civilians, military personnel, and
intelligence community. For most of you who have never had the
pleasure of negotiating an international treaty with any foreign countries,
I can assure you that it is arduous and invariably thankless. Predictably,
the hackneyed misanthrope of past administrations, be they famous or
infamous, immediately rush to the media to make pronouncements which
may sound erudite and profound but really reflect their envy and selfloathing for the inevitable process of aging and becoming less than
irrelevant.
I have been a healthy critic of the Obama administration from the
very beginning. However, I must admit that years ago, when I first
realized that Obama and his administration, including all elements of
military/civilian capabilities, were involved in a discrete and serious
detente with Iran, I maintained that the Iran deal would be inevitable.
The times have changed since I refused President Carters order to
negotiate with Ramsey Clark [inept left wing political crony] with
Ayatollah Khomeini.
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I remembered that upon my final resignation after having been

insubordinate for the second time to President Carter [Hanafi Muslim
Hostage SiegeI refused to stand down], I informed Sec State Cyrus
Vance that the Iran Hostage Siege would last quite a long time. Then
almost a decade ago, I went on my own to Iran and visited the house of
Ayatollah Khomeini were his family was extremely gracious and
welcoming, as most Persians are.
After having espied countless nose jobs of young Persian women
and absorbing the fact that most of the people I had seen were young,
intelligent and pro-America, I knew then, that in short time Iran and
America would once again enter in a mutually satisfactory
economic/political relationship. It was Obama and his team including
Sec State John Kerry who have accomplished the long overdue
rapprochement.
I would like to make it clear that from the very beginning of my
support for this treaty years ago, I was certain that the geopolitical and
psychological realities of the Middle East would have to change. My
response to recent comments by some of my former colleagues, many of
whom have never been involved in implementing a treaty or changing a
regime without violence, is that they have concentrated on the wrong
issuenuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. Those issues are a
complete distraction created by our erstwhile dependent, pubescent
country which Americans have breast fed for too longIsrael, the
nipple dependent infant of a country.
The bold calculations that were made by this administration with all
of its component parts was that Iran and Turkey would become the new
hegemony of the Middle East while we, Americans, shift to the Far East
and concentrate our time, energy and concerns in Asia where the
prospects for peace and economic growth exceed normal expectations.
Understandably, most of think tank experts including the ones who
had considered themselves realpolitik experts missed the crucial shift in
the schwerpunkt [center of gravity] when our illustrious Gen. David
Petraeus and Gen Martin Dempsey clearly stated that Israel is a strategic
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liability and that our concerns are not to be mired in ancient, tribal
conflicts that had its precedent centuries ago.
A close friend of mine whom I respect, asked me if I thought that
Obama, suis generis, has the ability to engage in a strategic world
overview. I assured him that like our previous boss, Pres. Nixon, Obama
had shown the same personality traits of someone who wanted to
accomplish major achievements in world affairs like the opening of
Communist Cuba [my birth place] as well as something as difficult and
impossible as peace with Iran.
Remember what I have written continuously in my blogs: Obama
was what I have derisively described in the past as a CIA baby
nurtured and fostered since childhood as an operative with great
potential. I referenced his mother who worked in Indonesia as a trained
anthropologist who spoke several languages. I mentioned his maternal
grandfather and grand mother who both worked in the East-West Center,
a place known as a cut-out for the CIA.
Now, I must congratulate the CIA/ MI and other intelligence
communities for having nurtured and supported one of their own to
initiate a bold peace plan that truly deserves a Nobel Prize. It was the
latter award that gave me the clue that Iran and Obama would make
certain that he would one day deserve that award that was given to him
prematurely.
Many say that times are changing and we have entered into a period
of chaos and world disorder. I disagree.We have always had wars or low
intensity conflicts even during the Cold Wars but then, we did not have
the internet and social media to augment the intensities of conflicts that
were de rigeur for centuries.
As for the fear of an Arab Nuclear Bomb, please, I have often
written about the most dysfunctional state of Pakistan which has
hundreds of nuclear bombs with delivery capacity that can easily reach
Israel or India. Yet never one word is uttered about the ISI control of a
nuclear arsenal where Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Haqqanni network
of terrorists know everything about this loosely controlled arsenal of
massive destruction. Why is the Pakistan Bomb never mentioned by our
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antiquated pundits who slobber words of righteous indignation as they

reside in our tax supported nursing homes a.k.a Washington D.C. Think
Tanks?
America, enjoy the fact that in one day, we have been able to
achieve what most nations in the world can only dream of---we reached
Pluto, the planet as well as correctly realigned the Middle East where our
new surrogates will try to maintain some stability. Now Turkey will
oversee the Sunni States as they have done for centuries under the guise
of the Ottoman Empire. Turkey will continue to engage those post neocolonialist nations created by the British: Saudi Arabia; UAE; Jordan;
offering to engage in war or peace. Now those aforementioned countries
are frozen in time with a stale economy where fossil fuels can never
resurrect their impending futures.
As for Iran, along with Russia, China, and some of the EU countries,
they will temper the Civil Wars in Syria; Lebanon; Bahrain; Yemen;
Iraq. Contrary to the zeitgeist of hysteria and panic, I am one American
who is extremely proud of the President and the members of his
administration who helped to bring Iran back into the fold of nations. I
have waited longer than the ride to Pluto, almost thirty some years.
I will quietly celebrate something that I could never expect would
happened in my own limited life time: a Treaty with Iran. Next watch the
American, German, French, Russian, Chinese companies enter into a
melee of infrastructures and booming oil wells long discarded by wars
and negligence. Always remember that most treaties are never about the
manifest content but about Money!! Everyone stands to make a
fortune in the new wild-west called Persia/Iran [Boeing; UAL; American
Airlines; Peugot; Halliburton; Shlumberger].
Already some of our senior former Ambassadors are lining up to
line their pockets with whatever currencies they may want to use.
Merci !!!!

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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Donald Trumps Hillary and Jeb! He May be Joke to those on the
Left/Democrats but I can Assure you He could become our Next
POTUS!
No Joking!
Donald Trump came out with a fury unbeknownst in modern times.
He has elicited the comedic vitriol of the enfeebled Jay Leno and those
who really think he is cannon fodder for some type of humor at his
expense, of course. Somehow I want to take him a lot more seriously
than those who think he is a blustering buffoon or a self-caricature. His
braggadocio has effectively covered a very shrewd, highly manipulative,
sensitive businessman and showman.
I dont know Donald Trump. I have never met him. Yet I have
worked with five Presidents of the USG and he stands out in a way that
reflects some characteristics of each president with whom I had worked.
Nixon was not comfortable in one on one encounters. He was
basically shy as was George H. W. Bush. Both were tempered by the
imperatives to pander for political favors and assume a faade of
gratitude. Trump has no need to pander to anyone. He chooses his own
friends and colleagues and demands a certain amount of respect and
loyalty. That was true of Nixon, Bush Sr, and Reagan.
Like Jimmy Carter, Trump has appealed to the populist and the
incompetency or corruption of his predecessors as a narrative that will
allow him some justification for running for POTUS. Those who do not
take him seriously now, will pay a very high price later. He, like Nixon,
Bush Sr, Reagan all demand an implicit loyalty that transcends practical
quotidian concerns. Theirs is a loyalty for a lifetime to be called upon
whenever they decide they might need you.
Like Nixon, Trump does not avoid risk and in particular the
willingness to endure failure. I must admit in that sense, Trump is also
very much like Obama who has been willing to risk all his political
capital on Obamacare; the Iran Nuclear Treaty; and the opening of
relationship with Cuba.
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Trump is quite bold and at times offensive. His mode of operation is

to basically come into an unknown scenario blazing away, hitting
indiscriminately anyone or any issue that may stand in his way of
progress as a serious candidate for the Presidency. Reagan was very
much that way, except he used humor which could be quite biting and
offensive, as a way to disarm his opponents. Reagan would mock them
later on for taking themselves too seriously [ a bit of a sadistic streak].
Next we have Trumps business ventures which may or may not be
valued at $9 Billion. Whatever fraction of that number may be the real or
presumed estimate is not for me to say. I do know from having visited
his failed casinos as a managing director for Kidder Peabody [on his
helicopter that was not properly certified to fly- no biggie!] his missing
cash flows and discounted net worth was still sufficient to garner the
attention of Wall Street to try and bail him out of one of his many
bankruptcies. As a business man, I am always impressed by those
entrepreneurs who have gone bankrupt and then return to the so-called
coterie of successful businessmen. Nixon had always said that he
measured a man by his ability to get up from the floor and continue to
fight. Nixon, like Trump and even Hillary Clinton can be evaluated on
the basis of how they rebounded from disaster or failure.
As for his specific plans that he would like to implement as POTUS,
Trump has said very littleand rightfully so. Like Reagan and Bush sr,
specificity of implementation will come much laterprobably after the
Republican Debates. For Trump like Carter, Reagan, Obama, the grand
illusions are out there to be articulated and debated endlessly while they
concentrate on the other aspects of their respective careers.
Trump has the same affability as Bill Clinton and can deliver it with
somewhat more gusto. For now, the American public wants to hear not
words but affective emotions that will resonate with their underlying
feelingsbe it hope, anger or both. Trump has the political acumen of a
Bill Clinton who can reach out and co-opt any adversary through bluffs,
cajoling and endearments.
As someone who has been involved extensively in real estate
transactions, I can assure you that as practitioner of motivating a matrix
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of skills and diversity of different types of people, Trump may have no

equal. The one reason I never went into construction was the fact that I
did not want to deal with the different zoning commissions and their
particular peccadillos. It was tiresome and exhausting. However, Trump
has made his basic livelihood as man overriding these minor problems
and constructing all types of buildings all over the world. In many cases,
he sold his name as moniker for others to develop what they wanted to
see built. Some were successes. Some were failures.
That combination of failures and successes is par for the course of an
industry that has more sinusoidal waves inherent in its industrial
fluctuations than a tidal wave in maelstrom.
Jeb Bush is nothing more than a pimple on the ass of Trumps
discomfort. He should never have run. And it serves Mr. Priebus
[Chairman of RNC] that he best leave Trump alone; lest Trump break out
of the staid, moribund Republican Party and run as an Independent. Over
the past thirty years, the Republicans have shown an incredible inability
to sense underlying emotional issues that resonate with Americans
despite the highly publicized misbegotten and erroneous polls created by
lackluster retreads of past campaigns.
Romney lost the election because he ran a very poor campaignthanks to his inability to discern any reliable talent that was not
vouchsafed for previously. I warned that Rich Williamson, his Campaign
Manager, would never deliver a Presidency. I knew that because these
guys had failed before, they didnt have the fortitude nor the skill set to
get elected. Trump must pick a political team that is chosen by him and
not transferred from some other failing candidate. He must also learn to
monitor his energy level and remember that this is a long race in which
he must defeat an opponent Hillary Clintonwho has known as many
failures as he has. She will not give up. She could be the Nixon in a
transgender mutation. She has his wily skills and quiet intellectual
arrogance that will flash in moments of desperation.
Trump should remain in the race. If the Republicans give him a
hard time, then he should leave the party and create a new Independent
Movement. Now Americans will no longer vote accordingly to party
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lines. Instead, they are tired of party politics and will vote for the
individual without admitting to others whom they had voted for.
Its a new voting reality. Party politics are arcane and dying.
Religion, gun control and abortion will not be the future issues for
him to worry about---it will be simply ---Trump versus Trump!
May the best man win!

Friday, July 17, 2015

The Ultimate Paradox of Terrorism: Hamas and Israel Working
Together as The Odd Couple Mabrook! Mazel Tov!
For years I have been trying to state a simple fact that most
American Jews and the Moronic Neocons could never understand:
Hamas was created by the Israelis as a counter-force to the PLO. Every
Jewish and Republican supplicant to the state of Israels massive guilt
factory funded by AIPAC and American Zionists Organizations
including the most intellectually and morally impaired goniffSheldon
Adelson and his cronies [Saban, et. al.] now must contend with an
intellectual dilemma that beguiles the paranoia of Israels defenders.
Israel has been working intensively with its nemesis, Hamas, in order to
deal with recently exploding problems in Gaza; as well as, the southern
flank of Israel where ISIS-sponsored groups have given all parties
[including the Egyptians] some major headaches.
How do alleged enemies suddenly invoke some element of trust in
order to work with each other when a mutual enemy suddenly confronts
both? By now, many of you readers know the old Middle East saying
that the enemy of my enemy is my partner. What that means is that for
whatever reasons that were propagated time and time over, Hamas was
far less a lethal enemy that some ersatz-Saddam Hussein left overs
called, ISIS.
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In reality the nefarious nature of the supposed evil lethal terrorist

group Hamas could not have been as deadly as the Israeli father /
holy creator of this particular group had screamed with hysterical
intensity. For as long as I have known the Israeli security apparatus
part fantasy/part braggadociothey have always been in partnership
with a host of terrorist groups from the very day that these groups were
even conceived including the infamous PLO; PFLP; Habash; Abu Nadel;
et. al.
I have mentioned repeatedly terrorism is another form of playing
the big game of manipulating strategic tensions all over the Middle
East and even in America in order to mobilize national sentiment and the
accompanying preparations for conflict that often results in
predetermined failure.
What are we to make of this new marriage of convenience?
From my perspective, I think it is turning point for all parties in the
Middle East where realignments of new partners and different
consortiums have to be created. Hamas will align with Israel as will its
ostensible false enemy, Saudi Arabia. Then the UAE, Bahrain, Dubai,
Jordan, Lebanon will all fall into place shifting their alliances as needed
on a timely bases. We can even imagine these new alignments as part of
a Contra Dancing maneuver where one partner might end with a
completely different partner, time and time againaccording the
instructions of the caller. There will be no music, of course, but rather
there will be a lot of verbiage condemning the present state of affairs;
decrying Americas indifference to the new situation. It has been a long
time coming: the Middle East countries take the responsibility to
straighten out what might be the natural order of things without the
intervention of big brother America.
I am not totally optimistic that these newly created countries
established after the Ottoman Downfall will succeed in any great
measure.Yet for the moment, I do enjoy watching the inherent paradox
of hatred melting away when necessity and expediency keep knocking on
the door of new opportunities.
I wish my Arabic friendsMabrook!
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And to my Israeli friends [if I have any more]Mazel Tov!

Congratulations to the new partners in this new dance called,
alliances against self-created terrorists group.
Please remember that at the core of ones self-destruction is the
minute one decides to use terror and violence. It rarely works!
I know! Most of the groups who started with terror are not around
anymore.
They have become some asterisk in history, if that.

Sunday, July 19, 2015

In the Spirit of Taking Down the Racist South Carolina Flag, I
Propose that another Black-Hating-Bigots Words and Statues be
Completely Removed from our History Books and Our Capitol!
When I tried to explain why I was against the removal of the South
Carolina Battle Flag, I was jeered and overridden by the hysteria of the
ignorant and vindictivebe they black, white, or yellow. Immediately,
as in all well-calibrated propaganda movements, mass hysteria took over
any attempt at discerning the truth or the possible validity of the reasons
for that flag as a symbol of one of the original colonies to be allowed the
legal right to secede from the Union.
In the spirit of the present mass hysteria and self-righteous
ignorance of white and black politicians and rabble rousers, I then went
hunting for more evidence of inappropriate racism against the blacks. In
doing so, I realized that I, too, had an obligation to denounce the validity
of history and denigrate the man who spoke the following words that I
have uncovered. I reveal this man of loathsome venom and hypocrisy--approaching the level of a complete sociopath and mentally deranged
individual:
I will say, the, I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing
about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black
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racesthat I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters or

jurors of negroes, nor in qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry
with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a
Physical difference between the white and black races. I, as much as any
other man in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white
race
If that is not the words of raging Skin Head, Neo-Nazithen I have
never heard words and feelings more racist, bigoted and inflammatory
than these and other words that I can quote to you. For example, this
person wasnt happy just trying to explain that white people were
superior to blacks, he then went on to propose an APARTHEID STATE
just like South Africa. Let me continue with these ignoble words that
has been lost to the history of America:
Such separation if effected at all, must be effected by
colonization.what colonization most needs is hearty will.. our interests
[white people]to transfer the Africans to his native climate [Africa], and
we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be.
Clearly no one in their right mind would consider the
aforementioned words conciliatory or pro-black. Therefore these words
and many other words and deeds have shown that the man who
pronounced them time and time again did so in order to curry favor with
his American voting audience.Yet, now, these words represent the most
heinous of attitudes that one can even imagine at any time in the short
history of our nation.
By now, most of you will suspect that I have played the same
propaganda trick on you that our United States Government and state
governments played on all of us while we growing up---in the name of
education we received highly contrived propaganda by those in the elite
schools and institutions of the northeast telling us about a fictional
character who was honest, noble and caring; when in fact his actions
and deeds show a malevolent individual replete with hate and tyranny.
Of course, I am talking about none other than our illustrious
President Abraham Lincolnor honest Abe as we would watch
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Raymond Massey play this Marfans role in the movie that was shown in
grade school again and again.
So where did I get those verifiable quotes?
The first denigrating the blacks comes from the 1858 LincolnDouglas Debates. For those of you who are historians, you may find this
quotes and similar ones in the Lincoln Douglas Debates of 1858,
edited by R. W. Johannsen [Oxford University Press, New York,
NY:1965], pp. 162-163.
The last quote comes from Abraham Lincoln Speeches, Letters,
and State Papers. Vol. I, p. 458.
Let us now, tear down the Lincoln Monument because without a
doubt Lincoln was a racist of the highest order. Next let us rescind his
presidency and demand by government fiat that any all pictures of
Lincoln be abolished including whatever paper and coin currencies his
picture and/or name appears.
Now, I feel justified that a flaming racist who lied, deceived and
killed hundreds of thousands Americans [on both the Northern and
Southern sides] would be finally reproached for his heinous deeds and
actions.
But, I have one simple question.
How did the North so cleverly disguise Lincolns miscreant words
and misdeeds so effectively that not one school child in the north would
ever be taught the truth? Perhaps the truth does bend to the will of the
aggressor? And that the palaver of so-called American Education is
nothing more than highly contrived propaganda disseminated in our socalled textbooks and history lessons.
What else has the our Federal Government lied to us in modern
times?
Lets ask the new Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
Perhaps that is too much work and exposure on our part of possible
retributions.
Let us just take their word at faith value and believe that this is the
best of all governments and truths as my old friend Candide would often
opine in Voltaires satirical novel.
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Control of the masses always takes place through lies and more lies --Nazi Air Force General Herman Goering said it at the Nuremberg War
Trials. Repeat the lie often enough and it becomes to sound like the truth.
Hail Abraham Lincoln !!
Once again, you have showed that the tyranny of the few can
dominate the supplicant masses over and over again.
Was John Wilkes Booth the real culprit when he assassinated
Lincoln and pronounced the prophetic words that would eventually
remind us of what Lincoln really wasa TYRANT!!
Sec Sempis Tyrannis!
Thus Always With Tyrants!
The great Greek philosopher/writer, Aeschylus writes as follows:
Words are the physicians of a MIND DISEASED.
And so it was with Abraham Lincoln and his supplicant apologists
of the North East Establishment and our pathetic two hundred year
education establishment.

Sunday, July 19, 2015

More agree with Donald Trump's honesty and refusal to back down

Monday, July 20, 2015

Trump Attacks John McCain and Double Downed!
McCain was Not a War Hero!
Once again we find ourselves in the middle of a stream of invectives
between a man who served our country [McCain] and one that refused to
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serve [Trump]. Does the fact that Trump seemingly insulted McCain
minimize his chances in the Presidential race for 2016?
Lets exam the more relevant factors in Trumps assertions.
[1] He claims that McCain was a dummy and was low man in his
Annapolis Class.
Fact: John was born to an extremely privileged military family about
which he says very little. Both his grandfather and father were famous
Four Star U.S. Navy Admirals.
Clearly he had an advantage when he entered the U.S. Naval
Academy. However, according to his own memories, he said the
following: ..it was bullshit and I resented the hell out of it [demands of
discipline].
McCain would later acknowledge that those [key] courses math,
science, engineering were a struggle for him [Wikipedia].
His class rank was further lowered by poor grades for conduct and
leadership which reflected his sloppy appearance, REBELLIOUS
ATTITUDE, and POOR RELATIONS with his company officers.
Being on Liberty with McCain was like being in a train wreck
[Classmate testimony].
McCain graduated fifth from the bottom in CLASS RANK, 894th
out of 899.
Conclusion: Trump was correct that McCain did not perform well. I
suspect that if McCains father, a very famous admiral had not
intervened on behalf of his son, McCain would have been thrown out of
the Naval Academy for behavioral and intellectual deficiencies.
[2] Trump claims that McCain being a captured pilot was not a war
hero.
Fact: General Patton in his biography and opening statement in the
movie played by George C. Scott correctly inveighed his Army troops to
believe the following precept of war: Taking a hostage is what makes us
war heroes; not become a hostage.
What factors in this rambunctious McCains military life would
have led him to eventually end up as a hostage to the North Vietnamese?
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By his own admission, McCain revealed that during his training at

Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida, he was a party man, drove a
Corvette . and dated an exotic dancer named Marie the Flame of
Florida. McCain concluded that he generally misused my good health
and youth.
He was not assigned to the elite units of fighter aircraft. Instead
became a pilot of attack aircrafts.
A brief history of McCains flying accidents and mishaps:
During March 1960 on a practice run in Texas, he lost track of his
altitude and speed and his single-seat, single pistoned engine AD
Skraider CRASHED INTO CORPUS CHRISTI BAY and sank to the
bottom. [Wikipedia].
In December 1961, McCain collided with power lines while
recklessly flying too low over Southern Spain.
In January 1965, McCain appeared as a contestant on the quiz
show Jeopardy winning one game. Perhaps stroking his insatiable
narcissism?
In November 1965, McCain had his third accident when apparent
engine failure on hi T-2 Buckeye trainer jet over Eastern Shore of
Virginia led to his ejecting safely before his plane crashed.
On July 29, 1967, then a Lieutenant Commander crashed once
again, this time on the USS Forrestal which created a major fire wherein
he was struck in the legs and chest by fragments. The fire he had created
killed 134 sailors and took 24 hours to control.
In fact, McCain even wrote in all candor, we[McCain] thought
our civilian commanders were COMPLETE IDIOTS who did not have
the least notion of what it took to win a war. Wikipedia.
On October 26, 1967 , McCain was flying his 23rd bombing
mission over North Vietnam in his A-4E Skyhawk and was shot down by
a missile over Hanoi.
What in all these accidents made McCain a hero?
That is really the key question.
The early release of McCain from the Vietnamese Prison is strictly
prohibited by the military code of conduct so that nonsense that he
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voluntarily refused early discharge from the Hanoi Hilton is nothing but
pure propaganda. This propaganda was promoted by McCain himself,
Kissinger and Schultz.
Trump has a very reasonable point when he stated repeatedly that
McCain was not a war hero. In fact, he was a major screw up.
The rest is history and with a lot help from his well-connected
father, McCain became a Navy liaison to the U.S. Senate beginning in
1977. Next he went on to run for politics as a Presidential Candidate
where once again, he was a loser. As a senator, McCain supported
every major nonsensical war created by the Bush Jr administration and
continued by Obama.
Please tell me and the other veterans how McCain was a legitimate
war hero after having crashed and burned five times before his final
captivity? Forget his personal life replete with alcoholism, gambling,
domestic violence and constant extra-marital trysts.
So for all those who did not serve or refused to serve like Jeb Bush,
Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Romney [who ran away to Paris
to become a Mormon Minister during the Vietnam War]--- McCain
stands for recklessness; childishness; and complete and unadulterated
narcissism fostered by a political system for which there is no outrage or
accountability. McCain fits right in with the misfits of society called
Entitled Politicians. Trump makes no bones about his draft dodging
days and his capacity to defy the system without any recourse to
pandering and political correctness.
No one can be more hypocritical or vicious than those who spout
platitudes and are born with the congenital lying gene: Hillary, Jeb etc.
Trump is not a perfect candidate. He is a man who will on impulse or
calculation tell it like it is Now its up to us to decide if that is what
America needs or not
Good luck future voters and supporters.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

knew too much. Former White House Top Chef Found Dead in New
Mexico Mountains

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Senator Lindsay Graham [R-South Carolina] Calls Donald Trump
A Jack-Ass! Trump Kicks Lindsays Proverbial Hypocrisy and
Political Pandering by Waving Lindsays Phone Number on air..
Next Murdoch Insults Trump despite the fact that NYPost Makes a
Fortune Off of Trumps Antics!
Everyday now, I have been getting up with a certain elan vital and
mischievous eagerness to find out what Trump the 21st Centurys
Balladeer of Insults, Deprecations and Verbal Manipulations had to say
for that particular day [oops, I mean moment]. Trump is doing the job of
cleaning out the underlying hypocrisy and bullshit that has
characterized almost of all our 2016 presidential candidates.
Unfortunately, the Trump Phenomena took over thirty years to fully
express its calculated force of upsetting a staid, ossified electoral system
marked by lies, distortions, and cowardly behavior, characteristic of most
of our civilian, military, intelligence leaders over the past several
decades. Trump is the Newtonian verbal reaction to the lies of the
Clinton and Bush families who have provided inept cannon fodder for
the past several generations. I have a distinct feeling that Trump in his
boisterous but exceedingly shrewd presentations understands far more
about Americans than any of the soporific pundits on the media, who are
paid whores of a particular party, candidate or corporation.
What Trump is effectively doing is a verbal and emotional
Blitzkrieg through the patent nonsense of the candidates and politicians
who presume that they above all others are fit to lead this amazing
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country. Yet none of the so-called frontrunners dared to serve or created

any formidable assets that arise from our savage, but effective, capitalist
system.When an effete, if not effeminate Senator like Lindsay Graham,
squeaks that Trump is a jackass because Trump correctly pointed out
the Senator John McCain was not and will never be a war hero despite
being tortured, then we, Americans, are on the right road to
understanding that there is a new kind of revolution occurring in
America.
No one has to riot in streets as we had done in the 1960s to stop a
war that was created by several war criminals whom we know all too
well by now. We do not have to arrest the Bush family in total
including Jeb the cherubic panderer whose personal family history
comprises a lesson in addiction, incarcerations, and corrupt political
cronyism.
As long as Trump runs, he is effectively tearing down the absurd
pretenses of an Australian huckster, Rupert Murdoch, whose loyalty to
any country is determined by his obsessional ability to make money even
at the expense of committing major fraud in all his media outlets
English, American News Papers and Fox News. Murdoch belongs to no
country other than that which bows to his intrepid use of fear to expose
the peccadillos of any politician, friend or foe.
Trump is neither scared nor intimidated by Murdoch suis generis.
Trump knows all too well that Roger Ailes, the genius businessman with
whom I had worked on one of the Bush Srs successful campaigns will
not be told what he should or should not say. Fox Media is to Trump as
Mothers Milk is to a newborn baby.
The question arises as to how much longer this Trump Whirlwind
will continue on its course of decimation and neutralizing potential
candidates for the Presidency. I think that the upcoming Republican
Debates on August 6, 2015 will in many ways define in part, Trumps
limitations. If he can maintain his riff of improvisations without allowing
himself to self-destruct with ad hominem words attacking those around
him, then he has a clear chance. In order for him to continue the grueling
race till next year, he will need a assortment of different strategies and
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talking points which can still convince us, the American people that he
does, in fact, have the gravitas to become POTUS.
He must also realize that POTUS is not a job where every second is
filled with thrills and chills but involves laborious attention to details and
process. One would assume that Trump has had to deal with the tedious
and mundane in his normal or at least unusual life. Whatever happens
in the future, I have only hope and wishful thinking for now.
Trump or those around him understand that revolutions, be they
verbal or kinetic, have a certain life span before they peter out.
Napoleon Bonaparte described Trump in an interesting way:
A leader is dealer in hope.

Friday, July 24, 2015

In Defense of the Death Sentence: Calculating, Mass Killer James
Holmes Convicted by a Jury of his Colorado Peers of 1st degree Murder,
Must Be Executed!
A life sentence would be a mockery of State Judicial System and the
useless, ineffectual Insanity Plea. As most of you by now, James
Holmes, a failed Neuroscience graduate student, dumped by his alleged
girlfriend, went on a premeditated bloody rampage in a movie theater.
By chance, Colorado still has the death penalty after having rescinded it
at one time in their recent history.
The reason I am particularly interested in this case is that very early
on in the trial, I explained that this was a typical case of a narcissist,
childish pre-calculated murder by a young man who was not mentally
insane. Some of my colleagues in psychiatry disagreed, declaring a false
truism that by the very nature of this mans mass-killing, Holmes had to
be insane. That seemingly rational logic has no basis in truth or in my
extensive experience dealing with mass murders in the civil arena as well
as in the national security environment.
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How many times have I heard a senior State Department Official

say to me that a particular leader had to be crazy or paranoid. I would
always calmly explain that leader X could not run a country of millions
of people as well as command a military, if they were crazy. Our
society has become very lazy in their understanding of what the concept
of mental illness involves. It is much easier to state that a barbaric act
of mass killing like one that James Holmes had committed was part of a
simplistic matrix of calculations and manipulation for James to be
designated as crazy.
However, thanks to the excellent work of the Colorado State
Prosecutors and the FBI [which has extensive behavioral experience in
these type of cases] Holmes was convicted on 160 charges including 12
first degree premeditated murders. I congratulate the citizens and jury of
Colorado for understanding how egregiously calculated Holmes
murders were. Holmes was so clever that he even tried to play the part of
a catatonic schizophrenic in court by just sitting there and saying
nothing. His defense attorneys did what they do best they try to
convince the jury that he committed the act of mass murder because he
was mentally insane. The prosecutors and law enforcement officials
made a brilliant case of how really pre-calculated Holmes had been. And
the judge, judiciously allowed for all the evidence to speak for itself.
Clearly, any type of sentencing will never bring back the innocent
victims [including lovely children] who were wantonly slaughtered by
machine gun fire. As the judge and jury agreed, Holmes had been very
circumspect and exceedingly calculated in every part of planning his
debauchery of mass murder. The question that hangs over Colorado is
what to do with James Holmes?
As someone who took care of the criminally insane, I professionally
and personally advocate for the death sentence ASAP! Holmes could
never be rehabilitated from any mental disease that he never had. Despite
the psychiatrists that can be hired to say anything at any time for the
proper amount of sheckels, they do not constitute the basis of any truth
other than the fact that they can declare anyone insane for the right
amount of money.
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The converse also works.

When someone like Holmes is placed in a State Psychiatric
Institution, he will receive a work-up and then meds according to the
diagnosis he will evidence at any given time in order for him to justify
the faux reason he had been hospitalized to a life sentence. I have never
been able to reform or rehabilitate a mass murder or know of anyone
who has. What the mass murderer does in his new surroundings is to
revel in his past glories and remain ineffective for the rest of his life, at a
huge multi-million dollar cost to the taxpayers.
Look at murderers like Chapo in Mexico and those two lifers in NY
State who attempted to escape from prison, I strongly suspect that
Holmes will spend most of his solitary life figuring out how to escape
from captivity. Prison provides a retreat for a mass murderer to figure out
how much further he can game the system. Professionally, I would
strongly recommend immediate execution without any delay or
commutation of sentence at the last minute. Killing a mass, cold-blooded
murderer is as compassionate an act as society can invoke as punishment
and retaliation for his wanton killing.
The American mass murderer deserves no less than a full
termination of his life ASAP!.
The killers death may or may not deter someone else. Death does
have a certain psycho-dynamic finality to it which will allow the grieving
families to start to end their grief process and work on a new, inspiring
perspective to their respective lives. Life sentence for James Holmes
would allow for a constant reminder of an odious element to constantly
mock society and the judiciary for having gamed it to perfection.
Congratulations to the honest citizens of Colorado who had found
James Holmes Guilty on First Degree Murders. Please take the next steps
and allow him to end his life as he might have not intended to end his
Machiavellian games of revenge for personal hurts and injustices.
He may have gamed the system in killing and wounding as many
people as he had but dont let him game out his final ending of guilty by
insanity.
Nonsense! He is guilty without any marks of mental illness.
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He must pay as the other three murderers [also from Aurora] on

Death Row in your Colorado Prison. James sought out celebrity status by
enacting his mass murder scenario. Instead, let him discover an
ignominious death with alacrity and publicity; so that a man who had
committed a heinous act will now pay the proper judicial and mental
price for his miscreant behavior.
The French writer, Jean Anouilh wrote the following:
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Monday, July 27, 2015

Congratulations to Donald Trump for a Brilliant Tour de Force
Speech in Iowa: Humorous, Biting, Highly Detailed, and
Comprehensive!
I hope that as Donald keeps running and devastating the Republican
and Democratic field, he is cautious of the envy he generates; especially
in the Bush and Clinton families. For some time, you and I have been
cheering on Donald Trump and his revolutionary style of eviscerating
opponents while at the same time explaining the problems of our staid,
dysfunctional American political system. I am concerned as some of my
more dedicated readers have pointed out- that the longer Trump keeps up
his engine-of-truth that the more desperate the Bushes and Clintons
become. I use the plural because Hillary and Jeb are not really one
person but a compilation of enablers whose relatives have been former
presidents with checkered and miscreant pasts.
Both Bush and Clinton families have had an infamous record of
avoiding prosecution for economic and political crimes committed by
them against the American people. Without belaboring the point, all one
has to do is to look at Jeb, who promised a new team, but said team has
been repopulated the Neocon cockroaches like Wolfowitz and company.
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Likewise, Hillary has rebounded from one lie to another with alacrity and
vibrant pathology.
I am not writing this blog to laud Trump, he certainly can do that
on his own. My deep concern is when a revolutionary force like Trump
appears on a fixed political system, an ossified dyad of Republicans and
Democrats, unfortunate accidents and assassinations appear from socalled lone gun men.
Recently Americans have witnessed a bizarre circus of so-called
lone gunmen killing innocent victims all the way from the lovely Cajun
center of Lafayette, Louisiana to churches in South Carolina. Whether
these killings are part of a copy-cat effect or something else, I will leave
up to the FBI. However, I do know that in the case of other Presidents:
JFK, Nixon, Ford, Reagan we have had a spade of attempted/successful
assassinations by so-called crazies. There is now a requirement for
extra protection be it private and publiclest an unfortunate accident
should transpire on one of Trumps stops. I do not and will not advocate
violence of any kind against anyone, especially presidential candidates.
But, having been in the business of mass killers and political
assassinations, I must warn those who do protect Trump that as of now
all the psycho-dynamics are in place for something untoward to occur
whatever that might mean.
The speech in Iowa capitalized on the fact that Trump was
funny, knowledgeable, self-effacing and well versed on a host of subjects
from currency fluctuations to trade imbalances. That type of insouciant
delivery, almost effortless will engender all types of envious feelings
among his so-called colleagues in the Republican Party including the
odious comment by the ignorant, incompetent Scott Walker, whose
representative called Trump dumb. The more covert candidate on that
trail of jealousy and envy has to be Jeb Bush who was rightfully
dismissed as a toady of lobbyists and special interestsa nobody
[Trump words].
When envy penetrates the dysfunctional family of spoiled, idiot
sons of the lovely Mrs Barbara Bush, many things happened like:
Silverado S&L Crisis, 9/11 False Flag or falsifying evidence to invade a
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foreign country. Clearly the Clintons were baptized by our dishonorable

Bush CIA in Arkansas when they were assisting in the illegal drug
smuggling initiated from Central and South America by Reagan, Bush
Sr, Elliot Abrams.
The media and the sheeple will repeat the mantra of conspiracy
theorists which by now has become a badge of honor, certainly for me.
However, as we say in intelligence, expect the unexpected at all times.
Thanks to the previous assassinations of our own presidents and
successful candidates, we, Americans have learned to mistrust our
system and our leaders to the extent that the initials JFK denoteLBJ,
Bush Sr, Nixon, Cuban/Italian Mafia; and the Warren Commission. Not
an exaggeration, its simply a matter of fact.
Look how the Bush family is now trying to portray the 9/11 selfinitiated attack by showing pictures of POTUS Bush Jr looking in a
series of stupefied expressions. My friends in the intelligence business as
in psychiatry know that very little happens by coincidenceask General
David Petraeus when he went against future DCI John Brennan and
POTUS Obama in the Benghazi affair. Suddenly, Americans found out
about some ludicrous extra-marital affair just as Obama was about to be
re-elected.
If Trump does not make it to the Presidential Races as the major
candidate against the constantly judicially besieged Hillary, then I will be
quite disappointed and very suspicious. That is not a very good position
for me or my fellow American citizens to be in; our future rests on
eviscerating this cancerous dyadic nonsense called: Republicans and
Democrats. Long live Trumps and the Republic!
Homer the great Greek poet/writer said the following of a great man
who was assassinated:
Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Jonathan Pollard: Americas Benedict Arnold becomes Israels
HeroThe Ultimate Perversion of a Dependent Nation-State
Relationship!
For those of you too young to remember the name Jonathan Pollard,
please read the excellent section in Wikipedia on this ignoble individual
and one of Americas greatest traitors. To summarize his life is basically
to use pejorative, but extremely accurate terms like nuts, manipulative,
sociopathic, greedy and a vicious traitor to his birthright, America.
Pollard sold highly sensitive Top Secret Intelligence as a former
U.S.Naval Intelligence officer for hundreds of thousands of dollars to his
beloved fantasyland Israel.
He is finishing a 30 year sentence in prison and will be extradited to
Israel as a one of their newly minted citizen-heroes. My cursory
depiction of Pollards most salient characteristics as a ignoble human
being is countered by a combined American-Jewish and Israeli chorus
he has regret for his actions and Pollard was never charged with
treason. The counter argument presented in an ad hominem form for
decades by this congregation of ignorant American Jews who have no
idea of how much damage Pollard had inflicted on the American
Intelligence Community [IC]. These Jewish Fakirs did not realize that
treason technically involves cases where someone spies for an enemy
state. Stupid Americans never have considered Israel as an enemy
state despite their malfeasance in 9/11 when countless Mossad
Operatives were arrested in NYC and NJ for aberrant activities.
Yet let me concentrate on this Pollard.
While I and others in the CIA, MI and the Reagan Administration
were busily implementing a strategy for the regime change in the
Soviet Union from Communism to Capitalism, Pollard was busy
collecting money from enemy operatives in South Africa, Pakistan,
Argentina, Taiwan and of course, the Soviet Union to the tune of a
monthly salary of $2.5K plus hotels, travel, sapphire and diamond ring
for his second wife. For those of you who might be impressed by the
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ersatz legends created by the highly imaginative Mossad/Lekem Unit [a

highly selected science-intelligence unit] Pollards controller was a very
famous Israeli spy by the name of Rafi Eitan.
When Pollard was asked what he would do with all the money Israel
had given him; he stated the following:
I not only intended to repay all the money [to Israel of course, not
America] I had received but also, was going to establish a chair at the
Israeli General Staffs Intelligence Training Center outside of Tel Aviv.
Voila! Pollard becomes the new benefactor of Israel.
What does this all mean to you and me?
Pollard is a reminder that in the world of international relations,
Americans have no friends or partners whom we should and can trust.
What we have are national interests.
How Pollard received countless security clearances in the light of
obvious mental health problems as well as manifest sociopathic
behaviors is still a mystery to me. Perhaps there are others in the
Intelligence Community? However, credit must go to DCI George Tenet
and the CIA for pursuing the indictment and conviction of this Israeli spy
until he was finally incarcerated after some very complicate
manipulations on Pollards part.
As for Israel, it is the only friendly country that I know of that has:
[1] Attacked mercilessly our spy boat, the Liberty and willfully
killed many of our brave sailors.
[2] Was intimately involved in the 9/11 False Flag and multiple
explosions in the World Trade Towers which were not caused by any
flying planes.
[3] Is the only country to allow dual citizenships of: Bibi, Michael
Oren, Dore Gold, and Ron Dermer, all of whom represent Israel with a
venom against the country of their birth that qualifies them as an enemy
of the state rather than a natural born son of America.
None of the aforementioned turncoats has ever served in our
American military or intelligence service. Yet, they have the audacity to
berate our country for imagined travesties of diplomacy that they have
concocted regarding:
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[1] Hamas one of their own progenies

[2] PLO their ally
[3] Saudi Arabia their longtime ally
[4] Syria an erstwhile ally under the Assad family
[5] ISIS who they helped to create and foster
[6] Iran they had oil trade with them for decades
Like a Frankenstein, America has unwittingly created a bon fide
Israeli dybbuk with inherent malfeasance structured into its DNA from
the self-propelled and constantly refueled paranoia which they have
created to justify any inhumane actions anywhere around the world. As a
the scion of holocaust Jews who were fortunate enough to come to
America and embrace its opportunities and requirements for citizenship
[as well as serving in the military], I have always warned the Israeli
operatives that they are not the friends of those of us who survived the
Death Camps. We do not pledge any allegiance to their makeshift history
of how they, Palestine/Israel, had saved us. Israel and the ignorant
America Jews who know nothing about the real history of the
Holocaust should pay dearly for any transgressions against our
Republic. Every American/Israeli who decides to hold two passports
should be the object of suspicion and doubt.
The hi-tech miracle of Israel will remain as that as long as it is not a
front for siphoning off secrets from the country that allowed them to
existAmerica. It is an unfortunate truism that Americans expect China,
Russia, France and Germany to spy on our leaders but to have Israel gut
out our secrets that is no longer a Gentlemans Agreement.
Perhaps Pope John XIII gives us wise counsel on such matters:
See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.

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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Here's Donald Trump's letter to supporters, I like what he says and I
like how he says it. I gave him some $$$ (not a lot, he's rich and I am
not) to show that I support him. Read his letter, a breath of fresh air, lets
see what happens in debate on Aug 6th.
Urgent Message From Donald J. Trump
Dear Friend,
Are you ready to Make America Great Again?
Since I announced my candidacy for the Republican nomination for
president I have soared to first place in the polls, defying the mainstream
media and the GOP establishment.
I am rising in the polls because of you and the fact that I am
offering the American people an alternative to the inept career politicians
who talk big but never produce results.
I have a long track record of producing big results. Very big results.
Frankly, I am running for president because I hate seeing what is
happening to America the country I love so much.
I am sick and tired of China and Mexico and all other countries
beating us at the negotiating table getting one-sided trade deals from
Washington officials.
They have been letting these countries rip off our jobs, killing our
potential for economic growth.
Let's face it, America is in deep trouble.
We are a laughingstock around the globe as our incompetent leaders
like Obama and Hillary Clinton get outmaneuvered.
Our economy is a disaster.
I think the American people are ready for some hard truths.
You know I call it the way I see it.
Thanks to Obama, the American dream is dead.
But I can bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever
before.
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Weeks ago the political establishment went crazy when I pointed out
the fact that some illegal aliens from Mexico, being pushed into our
country by the Mexican government, are bringing crime, drugs and
murder to the United States.
The media tried to smear me, claiming I was "racist" and that I
attacked the Mexican people.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
I forced the media to focus on a number of horrific crimes in which
U.S. citizens were killed by illegal immigrants who got into the country
because our borders are so porous practically anyone can walk into the
United States.
In the face of this media onslaught, my poll numbers actually went
up.
I even pulled well ahead of Jeb Bush, the supposed "front-runner."
Bush is a weak and ineffective leader who would merely preside
over the continued decline of this country. If he gets the nomination, we
lose in 2016.
I am very critical of John McCain's record in the U.S. Senate. He has
done little to help veterans.
John McCain has been in the Senate for 30 years and worked closely
with Senator Bernie Sanders to pass legislation to ensure that no one was
held responsible for the scandal at Obama's Veterans Administration, in
which over 1,000 of our veterans died waiting for medical care.
Ironically many of these veterans died in the VA hospital in Phoenix,
Arizona McCain's home state!
It's just like Benghazi incompetent and pathetic officials screw up,
then Americans die . . . and no one in Washington is held responsible.
My concern is for all those men and women who served this country.
As president, I would build the finest Veterans Hospital system in
the world where our veterans would have universal access and I will
do it for far less in tax dollars than we are spending now on our
disgraceful broken Veterans Administration health care system.
The political establishment is in shock over the way I have taken the
lead in the presidential race and they are scared to death.
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I am not afraid I know Americans like you are with me.

Because my campaign will be funded mostly with my own money,
the Washington insiders know that the lobbyists and special interests will
have no influence in a Trump administration.
The special interests know you can't "buy" me.
As I have traveled across the country I have met thousands of
Americans who want to join our crusade. Actually, some people are
calling it a movement.
The media, however, wants to claim that I have no grass-roots
support.
I want to prove them wrong. I am asking you to stand with me and
join with me today.
I believe so much in this campaign and that we can Make America
Great Again, that I will match dollar-for-dollar every dollar donated by
people like you.
If you will send a contribution of $25, $50, $100, $250 or more I will
personally match whatever gift you give.
If you can send $500, $1,000 or more, I will also match that.
Show your support by Going Here Now.
I want to show the liberal media that not since the days of Ronald
Reagan has there been such a grass-roots movement of people ready to
transform our party and our country.
My #1 goal is to create the greatest economic boom in American
history, to unleash the incredible spirit of free enterprise in this country
get America moving again!
I have been tremendously blessed in this country.
I want all American families to share in the great economic
opportunities this country offers.
I am very rich and I created something very special.
I want to make you and the American people rich.
I have no doubt the liberal media and the GOP establishment will
continue to attack me.
But, make no mistake, I will never back down or apologize in the
fight to make America great again.
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Stand with me today and send a powerful message to the

establishment by supporting my campaign.
Please rush me your answer today Go Here Now.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Trump
P.S. I so strongly believe in what I am doing that I am willing to
match every dollar you contribute to my campaign. Jeb Bush just raised
over $100 million from Washington insiders. His donors are not donating
to me because they can't own me. Show America you want to join me in
taking back Washington
-Paid for by Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.

Saturday, August 1, 2015

UBS- The Swiss Bank that Keeps on Giving and the Ex-American
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who Keeps on Taking!
What a Wonderful Parasitic Relationship.
By now, we should all have Clinton-phobia or at least ClintonFatigue! Yet, I am still amazed by the insatiable avarice manifested by
the Clintons in terms of receiving illegal payments, graft and all other
forms of financial irregularities. Perhaps, there is some perversion in my
delight at discovering how we, Americans have concluded that the
Clinton and the Bush families are by far the most corrupt two families
spanning our political spectrum from left to right. If money had an
ideology than it would be reconfigured along the lines of a Clinton
BitCoin that would suck up whatever was in the US treasury and the rest
of the world banks and redirect it to some ersatz paradigm entitled: a
non-profit foundation; super pac; or the Chelsea foundation for advanced
skulduggery.
I want to thank the two journalists at the WSJ [July 30, 2015]-James V. Grimaldi and Rebecca Ballhaus for detailing the incredibly
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incestuous relationship between UBS, one of the worlds most corrupt

banks, and, of course, our Lady of the DollarHillary Clinton.
A few weeks after HC was sworn in as secretary of state in 2009,
she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart. The
American IRS was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with
secret accounts.
Now it gets better
Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal
settlementan unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS
turned over information on 4,450 accounts --- A fraction of the 52,000
sought by the IRS, an outcome that drew criticism from some lawmakers

Now comes the piece de resistance.

From that point on UBSs engagement with the Clinton familys
charitable organization increased. Total donations from UBS to the
Clinton Foundation grew from less $60,000 through 2008 to a
cumulative total of $600,000 by the end of 2014.
And where is Bill Clinton in this financial chicanery?
Here comes the rest of the familiar tedious political/financial
corruption tale:
UBS lent the Clinton Foundation$32M for inner city programs and
inner city loans.
Bill Clinton was paid $1.5M [on top of everything else guess for
what?] for participating in a series of question and answer sessions with
UBS wealth management chief executive, Bob McCann. Making this
UBS donation the single biggest corporate source of speech income.
You may think that I am being a little harsh on UBS. But, let me tell
you about incredibly corrupt bank.
In Miami Beach, where stupidity, greed and illegality is a way of
life, one of the UBS American Executives, a Latin born female and a
gringo both approached me to place my financial assets in a UBS High
Wealth Management fund of about $1. 7 Trillion. Both bankers assuring
me that UBS in Switzerland could guarantee that I would not have to pay
any US taxes on income derived from my investment. UBS had a
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fanciful scheme where all the American investors could skirt our IRS
laws. Having been an official of the USG, I was fascinated to learn more
about the scheme where in effect they would allow you to leave the USA
and travel around the world and if you stayed only a certain number of
days, then you, the American, would avoid USA taxes. I explained to
both of these well-dressed nitwits that their scheme was stupid and
possibly criminal. They disagreed with me. I said nothing and left to
inform my contacts at the IRS that there was a financial scheme
developed by UBS Switzerland and its subsidiaries in Miami to convince
Americans that they were free of taxes.
Neither banker was arrested as I had recommended. Instead, true to
the venal nature of world-wide banking, both individuals went on to
work with an American bank. This is just one example that points to the
obvious truth as to the perfidious nature of the Clinton and the Bush
Families. Such revelations have finally erupted into a swelling rage; best
expressed by Donald Trump who makes no apologies for his
braggadocio and financial wealth.
Hypocrisy and political/moral cowardly behavior of the Clintons,
whose bounds of veracity has never seen any limits of decency, have
contrived to create faux drama with another cowardly corrupt politico,
Jeb Bush. Their plan is to make forthcoming 2016 elections seem
politically credible and morally consistent with some manufactured
standard decided by both families ahead of their ersatz repartees.
Heres a quote from Bill regarding the UBS issue, I dont know [if
the Clinton Foundation donors ever sought favor from Sec State
Hillary] I never know what peoples motives are. They really must
think Americans are stupid. Its time to rid ourselves of this kind of
garbage disguised as disingenuous ignorance and make-believe civility.
No enlightened American believes anything from the mouths of a
Clinton or a Bush.
Unfortunately, UBS will continue to do what it does best and that is
to steal and hide assets in the cloud of ether, assuring every depositor that
they will be safe from hackers and any other noisome intruders like the
American IRS.
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That is a fact of life.

Sunday, August 2, 2015

V. P. Joseph Biden: Plan B for the 2016 Democratic Presidential
Race!
Hillary Clinton cannot and will not be the Democratic Candidate.
She is on a continuing road of self-embarrassment and self-destruction.
She cant help herself. So, I have decided to comment on the
Democratic Party Candidates as a biased impartial observer. In that one
statement I reflect the inherent contradiction of a Hillary Clintontalks
one way/walks another way.We dont need to belabor the point of
Hillarys genetic disposition for prevarication leading to her eventual
self-implosion---on the smallest unpredictable matter.
Now back to what I would do if I were consultant to the present
Democratic Party [clearly I am not]. There is no question in my mind
that Joseph Biden is a seasoned politician. Even his verbal gaffes are
part and parcel of his persona, eliciting a cringe tainted with a hint of
sympathy. It is that last factor that I want to talk aboutsympathy.I
know as much about Biden as most of you maybe even less.
But I do know one thing.
That man and his family has suffered personally and collectively
more than any other politician in either the Republican and Democratic
Party, combined.Without going into the perverse details of Bidens
losses, cumulatively the full panoply of those losses from the death of his
first wife, children and cancer---Biden would in any Biblical Sense
qualify for Job, Gods trusted servant of endurance.
Have I become sentimental or have I suddenly become religious in a
country that is evolving into atheism and agnosticism as the new
shibboleth of faith?? No, I have not become either religious or
sentimental. What I see is a large political lacunae in the Presidential
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Race of 2016. If Trump, by chance, self-destructs or even gets run over

by one of his fleet of golf-carts and subsequently sustains serious
injuries.whats the backup?
In other words what happens to the electoral field if untoward
accidents occur throughout? As for the Republicans, they will produce
their medical team of Drs. Ben Carson, Rand Paul, and even recruit some
ignoble candidate of lesser merit. As for Bernie Sanders as the Plan B for
the Democrats? No Socialist, avowed or even defrocked, can really
sustain a credible narrative of trade, economics and a secure foreign
policy.
Elizabeth Warren, the ersatz American Indian who shimmied her
way into the pretentious Harvard faculty, she will flame out as Hillarylike opportunist and indigenous fakir. That leaves me to suggest Vice
President Joseph Biden, loyal American and exceedingly tenured
politician, who has held more political offices than I can remember.
What is the difference now?
VP Joseph Biden has had to suffer through death of his oldest son
who died from a brain tumor. That is a life-changing experience when, if
one is to believe the narrative that Beau requested one last wish of his
fatherto run for the Presidency and co-opt the Clinton familythen
his presence in the race becomes more compelling. Even mandatory!
President Nixon, a man of strong convictions always remonstrated
to those around himjudge a man when he is down not when he is on
top. Judging Biden at his nadir of his personal and professional career, I
admire the fact that he is reserved, focused and reliable to the present
POTUS. He neither cowers from attention or political assignments that
only a few aides could possibly discuss in public.
Therefore, as a participant-observer of the 2016 Presidential Race,
let me reiterate my support for Bidens entrance into the Democratic
Race as initially Plan B. Let us see how Plan B eventually converts to
Plan A as the Hillary, Banshee of lies and deceits, whirls herself around
into another Charlottes Web of self-destructionaided by none others
than her sycophant advisors and so-called, Family Friends.
Go Joe!
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Let America see which is the more revealing truth about a

Democratic candidate inevitable choices-- or an accidental fate which
inspires one to reach beyond reality?
Let the best man/woman win!
At least Democrats, please have a Plan B!
Let me quote the Bard from the play, Hamlet:
A politician . One that would circumvent God.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Just Like the Ebola Situation, The Center for Disease Control and
Prevention has Failed to Predict the Rise of the Highly Infectious
Legionnaires Disease Outbreak in the Bronx and Elsewhere.
The CDC was once a great institution but it has now been degraded
to just another money sucking, useless government entity. Never has a
health agency costing taxpayers north of $7B, employing over 15,000
medical personnel failed so poorly as in the former Ebola Epidemic
which was eventually curtailed by the brave initiatives of our U.S.
Military who were sent by General Martin Dempsey (AFRICOM) to
Liberia and surrounding areas to stop the spread of the epidemic. This
dysfunctional CDC and its accompanying officer corps of the Public
Health Service managed to showup for pictures in Africa after the
epidemic was stopped by our military force.
A while back, I met an extremely knowledgeable former Assistant
Surgeon General. This individual told me well over a year ago that the
CDC was again in default with regard to its duties. This discrete, highly
talented infectious disease expert warned me about the imminent rise of
Legionaires Disease in the USA.
How did this person know?
This person was an expert in the spread of infectious diseases here
in the USA and abroad. They warned that Legionnaires was once again
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found in the HVAC systems located in hotels, apartment buildings,

hospitals, and other large buildings; where air is mixed with water which
often contains the gram-negative aerobic bacteria called Legionalla
pneumophilia.
Legionnaires is usually not a fatal disease. It affects those people
who may have a compromised immune system, especially in the very old
and very young. It does not travel from person to person. It has a far
more insidious pathway, it is located in the air conditioning systems that
have not been cleaned out on a periodic basis. Basically we breathe in the
bacillus once we enter any large building and then we take our chances
that we do not get infected. Once the incubation period of 2 -15 days has
passed usually the most common symptoms are those of a typical flu-like
viruscough, fever, sweats, muscle aches, headaches, fatigue..
In the case of Legionnaires Disease, physicians can easily treat it
effectively by quickly administering the proper antibiotics and fluid
regimens. The real burden of proof that we have a potential Legionnaires
Epidemic, rests with the highly incompetent CDC which should have
picked up the pandemic course of Legionnaires well over one year ago,
starting somewhere in New Orleans, Louisiana. Its time for the Director,
Thomas Friedman, MD, to quit or be fired [God forbid this Obama
Administration would hold anyone accountable]. Next I would dismiss
the entire PHS Commissioned Officers Corps which should have been
deployed as soon as one outbreak was reported one year ago.
Remember Kathleen Sebelius? That was one disaster that was
eliminated ASAP.
Now we have Sylvia Matthews Burwell, current Secretary of Health
and Human Services. She is a former president of Walmart who also
worked on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her finest nonqualification for this onerous job of monitoring our public health in
America was as a political aide to Governor Dukakis (Mass) and a
political operative for the Clinton Gore campaign. How such a resume
qualifies her to protect our public health befuddles me. Despite the
Harvard degree in government studies and the store bought Oxford
degree on a Rhodes scholarship, Ms Burwell seems eminently qualified
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for nothing in the health related sciences or even conversant in

epidemiology. Or maybe we are counting the fact that her father was an
optometrist?
Americans have an incredible amount of talented professionals in all
parts of our society. Sadly, now, political loyalty is paramount to
competency in government agencies originally set up to protect our
citizens. Most of our governmental institutions have degraded into
employment agencies for political friends and relatives of same. Skin
color nor gender should dictate who is the most qualified to hold
leadership positions in key public service institutions. Neither should
how much money youve brought into the wallets of your politician
friends. Remember, we have two medical doctors running in the
presidential, Dr Ben Carson and Dr Rand Paul, why not ask one of these
qualified physicians to set up to the task of protecting our countrys
health? Now thats a great resume builder.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Putins Russia: On the Tipping Point of Economic/Political
Instability!
Russia is like And Quiet Flows the Don [River] quiet on the
surface but turbulent below. When one discusses Russia, whether it be
peace or war, one must always remember that this is not just a country
but an entity replete with a rich texture of civility, angst, and civil wars.
Nothing about Russia is simple. Remember it is composed of eleven
highly varied time zones spanning both Europe and Asia. It is not about
one particular demagogue replacing another one. That is a narrative that
is bereft of a deep appreciation of 20th Century Russian history.
I have to go back to a book, which I read at my mothers behest,
entitled And Quiet Flows the Don by Nobel Prize winner Mikhail
Sholokhov. The book contains four volumes depicting the history of the
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famous [or infamous] Cossacks who lived on the Don River their lives
and loves [without love there is no Russian novel]during the First
Word War. The author follows several Cossack families through their
trials and tribulations during the Bolshevik Revolution and the
subsequent Civil War which lasted for over a decade [contrary to popular
images]. The book describes the pains and sorrows of the Russian people
during a time of political repression and economic starvation, much like
today.
The irony of the books title is quite apparent.
As the Don River flows quietly and majestically like Russia itself,
beneath the placid waters are the turbulent currents of impending
historymuch like Putins present stance of impending suppression of
his own people. Why do I call Putins actions impending when in fact,
we are beginning to see the elimination of free speech and the
congregation of protestors? Russia is now on a tipping point of economic
instability accompanied by social unrest.
As I have written for over a year, Russias economy is evaporating
at a far faster rate than I would have predicted even in one of my more
somber blogs. In fact, the financial picture is bleak. Eighty-three
different regions are approaching bankruptcy. Their banks have no more
liquidity to service their clients. Foreign investments have dropped by a
staggering fifty percent [unofficially far more]. Close to 200 Billion
USDs fled the country, placing thousands of local Russian banks on the
brink of a major financial collapse.
Without exaggeration, Greece literally pales in comparison to the
problems that Russia is facing economically as oil continues to drop
below $50 USD per barrel. The problem is that neither Putin nor his
Kremlin coterie of security sycophants have any idea as to which
financial instruments to use to attempt a correction of the impending
financial disaster. They are not economists. Nor are they requesting the
help of more advanced western countries to try and implement a drastic
fiscal program to avoid the aforementioned problems.
Between Putins personal arrogance and inherent ignorance, he has
resorted to the only instruments of financial and political control that he
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has been taught and knows---suppression of potential Russian protestors.

Putin will use the hammer to knock down any regional financial
problems instead of employing the incredible intellect available to him
throughout Russia and the surrounding countries in Western Europe
[especially Germany and the northern tier nations]. He will beat the
protestors in place of resolving an imminent financial catastrophe that
has been long in the making thanks to Putins avarice for wealth and
fame.That is not an outcome that I or any other caring friend of Russia
would wish on these brave people who have suffered more than any
other during WWII and the aftermath.
Yet as the Don flows quietly and no protests have erupted, but
Putin knows all too well that below the surface of a placid country lies
the phoenix of discontent that has erupted continuously from the very
first days of the 20th Century, from the time of Czar Nicholas to Stalin
and onto the dissolution of the Soviet Unionfollowed by more
turbulence and political chicanery.
When I was personally involved in the regime change in the Soviet
Union, I had reaffirmed to my colleagues in our National Security
apparatus, that we changed only the face of the Russia people.. but we
had done nothing to change the admirable suffering Russia people
themselves.
And so, I write to you all, my Russia friends, whom I admire for
your stalwart nature; your tolerance for suffering but enough is enough.
Never forget that the Don River flows quietly through much of
Mother Russia but beneath its smooth surface it is exceedingly turbulent.
Lets wait and see which way the river flows, into Moscow or away from
it. It is far beyond credulity to see eighty-three regions fall mercilessly
into the river because one man did not know how to navigate The Quiet
Don!
Please remember the words of our great Russian novelist, Leo
Tolstoy, who wrote the following:
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
Vsoyvo Harishivo!
All the best!
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Thursday, August 6, 2015

The Political Debates: Outmoded Entertainment in the 21st
Internet/Social Media Century!
Nothing is sadder and more painful than to watch outmoded
entertainment that has no particular relevancy to our present times.
Example: presumably baseball is our national sport, however, it has a
waning attendance that is only equaled by the non-devotional attendees
at any local Catholic parish. Sad but true.
Even the presence of the Holy Father Pope Francis, the papal Rock
Star brought in to increase the number of attendees has barely succeeded
in Latin America where the Evangelical Christian movement co-opts
Catholicism in exponential numbers. Similarly, the national political
debates, be they Democrats or Republicans, shares the same pallid shoal
of religion. It is become increasingly antiquated as the years approach
2016.
Nothing bores American viewers more than tedious, repetitive
political catechisms that were pre-digested by political operatives who
earn more obscene amounts of money than a honest grade school teacher.
Novitiates of persuasion and propaganda [mislabeled as informed
insiders] pick out members of the church of political narcissism,
officially labeled politicians and politics, to create a persona which has
no correspondence to reality or truth. Just like religion, politics relies on
faith. Faith arises in the hope that some amount of truth can penetrate the
armor of deceit worn by candidates when describing their personal
history and distorted resume of achievements.This palaver that slobbers
all over the Presidential debates assumes an annoying, aggravating
boredom which prevents most citizens from learning anything
substantive.
So why do we watch the Presidential Debates?
Part of the reason is schadenfreudeour need to quietly enjoy the
miseries of someone else. We watch those debates for the same reason
that many of us enjoy NASCAR racing. We dont necessarily count the
number of times a driver is ahead as much as we want to anticipate
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within our quiet, sadistic souls the imminent crash of one or another car
traveling at hundreds of miles per hour. Then when the car crashes we
can express our deep sorrows and even admit surprise that such a tragedy
could happenwhen we had been praying all along that it MIGHT
happen.
We do not watch the presidential debates to learn anything. The
reason we watch is to hope that one or more candidates will make a
mistake which will become the butt of every late night comedian; as well
as, as allowing us, mortals to deprecate each and every candidate in what
is normally called discourse. By the time there is even the possibility of
discussing the debates and its travesties, the social media engine will
have initiated a narrative that over-rides any informal or formal
discussion. This far more sophisticated form of propaganda co-opts the
possibility for anything that would resemble normal verbal exchanges.
It is not an accident that there are always key words or phrases that
are inculcated into our apostates of narcissism, be it about #abortion,
#same sex marriage, #immigration, or #terrorism. The true beliefs of the
candidates and their potential to lead can never really be tested
accurately in these variety shows labeled as debates. The debates simply
provide a scorecard for how many gaffs each candidate makes so citizens
can review the next day like any other spectator sport.
Its time we choose our candidates according to the zeitgeist on
social media. Lets end the pretense of truth in fake eyeglasses;
disingenuous blabber and stale Hispanic reminisces. As baseball gives
way to soccer as the nations most popular sport; lets make real time
tweets and posts the way to see whos the best candidate for the
irrelevant position of POTUS.
I will end with a quote from the famous American anthropologist,
Dr. Margaret Mead:
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change
the world, indeed its the only thing that ever has.

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Friday, August 7, 2015

Fox News Entered into the Hunger Games- Sparing No One in Order
to Create Ratings: It Failed Miserably.
These moderators became the Rapacious Vultures of Ratings
making the real loser in the debate: Fox News! Sorry Roger Ailes, you
went way over the top and blew it.
Like millions of other viewers, I anticipated an interesting give and
take in last nights Republican Debate. Yet what I discovered, along with
millions of other viewers, were verbal snipers who were so proud of
having been tutored so well that they could not even disguise their
childish delight with their own presumed success.
Of course, I am talking about the Megyn Kelly whose false
eyelashes and windswept blond extensions were distracting enough to
attract my attention to the degree that for the most part, I could not really
take this seemingly bright woman seriously. I wrote in my previous blog
that these debates were irrelevant and last nights antics proved it.
I can now say that if I were the Trump Camp, I would disavow
myself from these debates which prove nothing except that the
narcissism of the moderators is even greater than that of the candidates
on the dais. I have never seen such childish, boorish behavior among
seemingly serious moderators who gave themselves a high-five at the
end of the show as a congratulations for what they thought they had
accomplished. They had reaffirmed the simple truth that should be
evident to the moribund Republican Party-- that Trump should break
away from this group of staid school boys who can recite on command
the proper catechisms of concern about the American economy, security
and immigration.
I have warned the party that if the irrelevant if not noisome issues of
abortion or same sex marriage supersedes the much greater concern
of a failing economy or the absence of political leadership, then party is
moribund. I believe that Donald is too strong and creative for such a stale
party that gave America wars upon unnecessary wars.
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Trump is an outlier. He should accept the mantle without regrets or

explanations. If he does not break from a non-existing party of retreads,
he too will become what they all are nowself-caricatures of a political
dolls that have nothing more profound to say than God, Abortion,
and a stronger defense with through more boots on the ground.
Enlightenment was not part of last nights Fox Burlesque Show.
Even the dower Fox News Contributor, Dr. Charles Krauthammer
[whom I know well], made some fawning comments about how great
Megyn was and how this debate was the definitive test of Trumps
superficiality. Unfortunately, Charlie has never been an insightful,
objective critic of America; nor, its complex foreign policy. The reason
is quite simple. Charlie willingly transformed himself from a serious
Harvard Psychiatrist [and VP Mondale speechwriter] with some gravitas
to a pitiful Fox accomplice spouting ex-cathedra statements without any
bearing to reality or first-hand knowledge of anything.
For me the defining moments were the beginning of the show when
the Fox Moderators wittingly compared themselves to LeBron James and
his Cleveland basketball teams.
The moderators were so proud that they literally playing in the same
Hunger Arena as the exceedingly talented LeBron. Without belaboring
the fact, last night was the first and possibly the last night of watching
this sequel to Hunger Games [ a movie promoting perverse sadistic
themes of kill-or-be-killed]. Trump should leave the Republican Party
and run as an Independent. He will probably choose Senator Ted Cruz
[Princeton-trained Hispanic] to be his Vice President or even Carly
Fiorina [ a Stanford Graduate and the darling of Silicon Valley] to be
his running mate [they should bring in the women].
As for Jeb Bush?
What can I say that I have already not said?
Inarticulate, lifeless, awkward and corrupt.
He is literally a $100M embarrassment to the old man [who should
have reigned in his cretin sons] and America.
Fox News accomplished for me what I had expected that they would
domake the debates about their pathetic selves completely bereft of
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maturity, gravitas and enlightenment. Roger Ailes should have known

better. He is far too smart for this type of narcissistic solipsism
demonstrated by the Three Stooges Megyn Kelly; Chris Wallace [a pale
scion of his more tutored father, Mike Wallace] and Bret Baier. Perhaps,
the only salvage for last nights fiasco would have been to place only
Brit Hume as sole moderator. He is perhaps one of the best TV Journalist
in the past decades, who had both the gravitas and elegance to refrain
from the offensive self-congratulatory childishness of the Three
Stooges.
Alas, I am not Roger Ailes; and, I know one thing above all else,
Roger received the ratings he had wanted to achieve -bar any sense of
journalistic credulity. May I suggest that next time, he might place on
stage the once offensive group Twisted Sister [Mrs Al Gores nemesis]
playing against Kanye West. Then he would have broken the world
record for real television firsts with regards to vulgarity, entertainment
and ratings, which is all Fox really cared about.
Lets hope that in the next year, we, Americans, can decide on what
type of leader we will need without any prompting from the billion dollar
dying industry of political operatives who know nothing more than how
to sell postcards, bumper stickers and expensive TV commercials.
Time for change.

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Megyn Kelly, she's got issues, I'm just sayin'

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Monday, August 10, 2015

R.I.P. Tyler Drumheller, a man on the inside who dared to challenge
Bush Jr.

Monday, August 10, 2015

Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly: On the Road to Fame and Fortune
Type A Woman with a Sharp Wit!
I have already written about what I consider to be a fiasco of
journalism: The First Republican Debates. As much as I respect Roger
Ailes and Brit Hume, I was annoyed that Megyn Kelly, a beautiful
woman of great potential got herself in a pissing contest with Donald
Trump. Clearly, her questions were well rehearsed and simulated for
counter-responses, both intended and unintended. She felt that she must
give truth to some salacious statement that Trump [also an A Personality]
made about women in general and one woman in particular.
From my perspective, Megyn unwittingly revealed far more about
her own psychodynamics than did Trump who basically said go f..k
yourself [in much nicer words]. The truth was that Trump restrained
himself from his usual verbal scherzos on the incompetency and
pandering nature of reporters who in better times tend to suck up to
him.
It must be challenging to be a reporter these days when anyone with
a brain can make a decent investigative video and post it on Youtube. I
dont believe that Journalism in the 21st Century is a viable profession in
which one has to contemplate, reflect and write.
So what separates a Megyn Kelly from the round-of-the-mill
journalist?
Her highly coiffured good looks combined with a Mae West/Joan
Rivers type of sassiness. We really dont listen to what she says because
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it borders on the absurd, if not the hysterical. Call me a male chauvinist

and ask me why I may tune to her program from time to time; because I
am tired of seeing mulatto skinned she/men on boring CNN. I will say
that Anderson Cooper presents himself as a gay newsman who has at
least earned his battle stripes having covered more of the world than
most TV journalists.
But, Megyn?
No such gravitas. She is a pure product of Syracuse University
where she was a star athlete. She is overly conscious of her own good
looks which has encumbered her intellectual development. Her
insecurities prevent her from maturing and thats why she has to prove
herself by taking on a man like Trump.
Trump is unique. He says and does what he wants to do. Thats his
prerogative. He earned it by hook or crook.When he made statements
about women or a woman it was not as much a misogynist as it was a
point of disgust at having been attacked as self-made celebrity much
like Megyn herself. Megyn has a problem with dominant men. I think
that is understandable. She is not the first beautiful high powered woman
to have a problem with the opposite sex (abandonment /disappointment/
control issues) and she wont the last one.
However, if she expects to grow in her position as an anchor
woman, she must understand why it is that she acts like a field hockey
player [which is what she was in High School] and less like a mature
individual who happens to be a woman and happens to have earned the
limelight of fame as a celebrity journalist. If she continues down that
road of a group cheerleader, giving her Fox News little brothers an
inappropriate high five then her credulity will start to wane as rapidly
as she had ascended.
I do not wish her any ill will. Yet, self-consciousness on the air is
not an admirable trait to watch, especially on a woman who attempts to
flaunt her beauty over her intellect. I guess its a maturity thing or an
insecurity thing, or both. She is more comfortable as the wise-ass miss
smarty pants than a serious journalist. Megyn must become more
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professional. Yet it will take a man like Bret Hume [who has interviewed
me before] to continue to teach her how to act maturely and credibly.
We already are beset by the Kardashian phenomena of extroverts
and selfies. We dont need a blonde-haired ace-jock to join the club of
empty narcissism. Megyn: beauty is truly fleeting. So is a sassy
personality, they both tire the eyes and ears. Sobriety with humor is a gift
that few journalists have tried to develop. Eventually, you need to loose
the hooker extensions, the 60s style false eyelashes and realize we would
love to see an elegant woman with brains and nerve ask alpha male
power brokers really tough questions. Time for a make-over.
Goodnight and Good Luck!

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Syria Implodes in its Endless Civil War
Turkey Attacks Syria and the Kurds,
America Negotiates and Builds Effective Coalitions!
To all you cynics, it just may work. As the Republican race for the
presidency mounts in tempo, heated discussions without much thought
have been thrown out to the public regarding resolving the problem of
ISIS and the Syrian Civil War. We hear the cries for more U.S. boots on
the ground and greater fire power. Neither one is a viable solution for
many reasons, the least of which is that we are dealing with a multifaceted problem with over one hundred different competing fighting
groups in both Iraq/Syria.
After some convincing and cajoling, Erdogan agreed to allow U.S.
fighter jets into a base in Turkey to pursue the continuing kinetic
degradation of ISIS. Yet this bouillabaisse of problems is so convoluted.
On one hand, we are supported by a group of Kurds in Syria and Iraq
while we overlook the Turkish enmity to the Kurdish PKK front.
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Without looking at the big picture, its easy to opt for a simplistic solution
like more force; however, the real questions are:
how much more?
when?
which of the 100 member groups, even within ISIS should be
attacked?
So far this administration has chosen an effective weapon with the
blessing of our military/intelligence community [IC]. Such a choice is
extremely difficult to pursue and implement but it may prove out to be
the most lethal weapons of allNEGOTIATIONS and BUILDING
COALITIONS! Sounds airy-fairy but believe me, it is far more difficult
to accomplish and implement than a useless kinetic war.
Why?
Contrary to common wisdom, Russia has turned out to be one of our
more crucial allies in the Middle East. Putin and his extremely talented
Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, have made a concerted effort to engage
the Iranians through the good services of IRG General Suliemani as well
as Syrias President Bashar Assad to negotiate an end to this useless civil
war. Alongside these efforts, the USG went out of its way to co-opt the
Turkish President Erdogan to help us destroy the enemy that we both
inadvertently created-ISIS/ISIL. In that latter process, we have been able
to work with two different Kurdish groups the Pesh Merga in Iraq
[Tirkrit] and YPG [primarily women fighters] in Northern Syria. At the
same time, we have allowed the mercurial leader Erdogan to have his
way in fighting his primary nemesis the PKK [the head of the Kurdish
Liberation Movement].
How the outcome of these conflicting alliances might turn out, I am
not certain. I do know that this type of coalition building is complicated,
tedious and very labor intensive [if not psychologically demanding]. For
those Republicans and Hawkish Democrats who think that we should
have more bombings and American boots on the ground, I say no
American citizens has vouchsafed for this expensive undertaking nor has
military leadership proposed a more intensive kinetic war.
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We are in an age where war is fought in areas of the ethos that no

one could have predicted decades ago, let alone prior to WWII. We are
now engaged in conflicts where binary numbers are going to determine
the outcome of some battle on social media. We have the limited
resource of water in both Iraq/Syria as a most effective weapon. What
happens when both the citizenry and the combat elements have no more
water? That is what is happening in Syria.
For many of you who dont remember why the civil war started in
Syria, it had nothing to do with religion but rather the horrible truth that
the Sunni farmers of Homs [Sunni stronghold] had no water. They could
no longer farm their land. So they all descended onto Damascus, looking
for work and water. Neither appropriate work nor water was
conveniently available so social instability with the unsolicited aid from
Saudi Arabia [seeking to place a foothold into Syria against its arch
enemy Iran] flared up into what we now call a Humanitarian Disaster.
Over 4 Million Syrians have been displaced from their homes and over a
quarter of million were killed by the conflict. As usual, the UN stepped
into the scenario and performed accordingly, a fiasco.
Russia, US, Iran, Turkey and an assortment of different parties,
including the Israelis, who have maintained a decent modicum of silence
with regards to the Syrian conflict have helped this burgeoning coalition
to succeed. In the beginning, I was hoping that Bashar Assad could hold
onto the reins of power. I was wrong. I did not misread his intentions or
ruthlessness. I just underestimated the degree to which he would want to
decimate his own Syrian citizens utilizing gas warfare and barrel
bombs [they are more deadly than regular bombs because they splay out
deadly metal debris].
I have come to the sad conclusion that the beautiful country of Syria
where Aleppo, Damascus and Palmyra stood in my mind as enticing
respites from the endless deadly arid deserts, is now gone. Whatever is
left of Syria is a swath of useless land somewhere in the coast line of the
Mediterranean waters. The conclusion of this unwarranted civil war is
yet to be set in writing. My suspicion is that Bashar and family will have
to leave Syria for either Russia or England where Bashar trained as an
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Ophthalmologist; and the interim ruling party will consist of a coalition

of different parties acting as proxies of the major powers.
I am certain that Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the USA will have to
provide some guarantee for this eventual peace. Perhaps it could be in
the way Lawrence Eagleburger and I set up the initial peace-keeping
force in the Sinai Peninsula, creating an effective buffer zone between
Egypt and Israel. Or, it could look like the interim peace agreement that I
helped to set up in Cambodia under Secretary of State James Baker.
In either case, patient negotiation with all the parties involved in the
conflict is the best weapon of peace that we have for now.
In the words of John Lennon:
Lets Give Peace A Chance!
Everything else has failed up to this point.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Recent Devaluation of Chinese Yuan: Mama-Hoohoo! HalfTiger/Half-Zebra!
Chinese President Xi Jinping assumed control of his failing
economy then he suddenly devalued the Yuan by 4%. What does it really
mean for China and the world currencies? What does that mean to me
and to us?
I think its a mixed picture hence the blog header: half tiger/half
zebra. Its not indicative of anything in particular except for the
following considerations:
a highly inflated Yuan had to drop against the dollar in order to
realign its true value for spot market [denominated in dollars].
US exports will decrease markedly as the dollar climbs in value
making all products sold to China and Asia in general exceedingly
expensive.
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 Yuan dropped in anticipation of the Chinese Presidents impending

visit to POTUS.
Yuan drop is an attempt to break away from the worldwide dollarbased currencies created by the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference in New
Hampshire.
China wants Yuan to be considered by the IMF as part of the
universal sovereign funds consisting of the Euros, Yen and the US dollar.
The above list is a rational assessment of what China thinks it is
doing as a one-off depreciation. However, I am not all that impressed by
how President Xi has been able to manage a highly restricted,
manipulated economy that has been based on political favors, subsidized
by State Owned Entities [SOEs] and which has changed from an export
driven to a domestic consumption economy. I believe that China is in a
very serious financial and possibly political trouble.
Why do I think that right now?
China has a top down artificial economy based on exports and false
numbers related to growth [average GDP about 6-7%]. Such figures were
all highly exaggerated from the very beginning as Deng Xiaoping
encouraged his 1.2 billion former Communists to become more
capitalistic. From the beginning, the Central Banks of China had created
a structured economy that could not endure for more than a few decades.
The past and present economic concerns have never been the free flow of
capital or profits. Chinas primary concern has always been its
transformation to a free market economy; providing jobs for hundreds
of millions of people.
That initial hypothesis was correct up to a point.
When the workers became successful a strong middle class arose
which like America demanded high quality consumer goods. For a
period of time that Middle Class acted appropriately. They worked
limited hours. They bought their houses and even bought second ones for
investments.
However, China was no longer able to export quality goods at a
cheap enough prices to USA [primary client]. Instead, our manufacturers
who had shipped their respective factories to China realized that the
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quality of Chinese goods were poor and relatively expensive when one
considers the cost of shipping, handling and delayed deliveries.
So what did our manufacturers do?
They went to Mexico where they could build cheaper factories
which in turn produced cheaper cars which did not need to be shipped
over the expansive Pacific Ocean.
The Yuan was no longer attractive to American industrialists who
also left China because of severe pollution and restrictive trading
practices and realigned their central offices to the more friendly,
financial oriented states like Singapore and Vietnam.
What is the state of the Yuan today?
The cheaper Yuan will create a massive deflationary spiral all over
Asia and possibly throw China into a severe recession if not depression.
But what do I know?
I have owned a few banks here and there. Lately, I found that banks
were outdated modes of currency exchange as the internet created such
powerful virtual entities as Pay Pal and Lending Tree. I see a major
restructuring of the financial markets all over the worlds where the Euro,
the Ruble and other weaker currencies will have to be seriously
devaluated if not eliminated, as in the case of the Euro. As most of you
know by now, I feel that the Euro entity/currency is not sustainable
politically/financially because it was an artificial construct initiated by
the French in an attempt to control Germanys rise after WWII. We all
know how that turned out. I would say that Germany should pull out of
the Euro and introduce its powerful Deutschmark once again.
For those of you who are worried about the Dollar, dont! The idiot
pundits in the Washington who are screaming that American
xenophobia will be destructive are completely wrong. Our economy
will continue to grow at a 2-3% level with the present administration if
the Federal Reserve does not do something stupid like choke off our
dollar liquidity in the name of a non-existent inflation by raising
interest rates.
Americas exceptionalism resides in one simple fact. We are an
Entrepreneurial State which means that we depend on the ability of
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many of our citizens to create and implement small businesses of all

types which in the aggregate create economic growth. Even if our dollar
is too strong we can offset our trade inbalances with creative financing
which is what sophisticated manufacturers will have to do in the course
of doing business.
If we elect candidates who are attuned to specifically creating a
growth economy based on sound principles of business, then we will
become an even stronger economic, political entity. America first! That
will continue to sustain us as the Financial Tiger of the World.

Monday, August 17, 2015

Note to FBI /Federal Prosecutors: No Doubt that Ex-Sec. State
Hillary Clinton Did Not Follow Proper Procedures
Just ask Under Secretary of State Patrick Kennedy.
He has been lying to cover-up for the inveterate mendicant Hillary
since the beginning of her tenure. For some time now, we, Americans
have been exposed to the Hillary pathological tendency to lie. Yet, how
do I know that the Under Secretary for Management, Patrick Kennedy, is
covering up for her lies and in the process has committed a criminal
offense? Pat worked for me [Under Secretary of State Lawrence
Eagleburger] when I was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
Management under Sec States Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance.
When I went overseas on official business, Pat was an extremely
conscientious administrator who wanted my expense sheet asap upon my
return. I recall one particular assignment in Panama, where I was being
hunted down by General Noriegas PDF soldiers. I had to hide and
move about Panama in order to create the necessary conditions to allow
Noriega to leave involuntarily. When I presented my official expense
sheet for a small sum of money, Pat was correct in denying me any
reimbursement because I could not produce any receipts. It slipped my
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mind while I was being chased by the PDF. That is Pat Kennedya
professional Foreign Service officer who had acted accordingly to the
rules of the State Departmentno receipts, no reimbursements.

Remember during the Benghazi affair when two FSOs had to resign
with pay? They were Eric Boswell [Diplomatic Security] and Pat
Kennedy [Management]. I had warned then that if the State Department
personnel felt that they must break the rules to suite Hillary, then these
FSOs must be held accountable. Like all good bureaucrats, Pat is a
decent, hardworking individual garnering a government salary that was
significantly less than what one could earn in private practice.
Nevertheless, Pat knows very well that no one sends unclassified
documents to the Secretary of State, all correspondence that is inherently
confidential.
Certainly any information related to the CIA has to be marked with
an appropriate security designation. In effect, Hillary as she is wont to
do creates a web of cover-up on all her past miscreant deeds and in the
process compromises the entire system for which she was supposed to be
the effective leader. Hillary tends to be a walking disaster insinuating
herself in places and positions to which she has neither the skill nor
knowledge to function in a professional, transparent fashion.
Pat Kennedy, along with Hillary should be spending some jail time
otherwise, security clearances will mean absolutely nothing. On the other
hand, what value are they when the Chinese and Russians can hack into
our porous cyber systems and reveal the identity and backgrounds of
millions of American civil servants and spies?
Let me end by quote the British mathematician/philosopher about
knowing/ignorance:
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of
knowledge.

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Pump Up the Volume: Bernard Sanders and Donald Trump!
Please Get Lost: Bush and Clinton
Just as we had discussed for some time now, America is ready for a
new type of President. One who is not tutored or scripted by the retread
idiot-savants of previous failed administrations [read Clinton, Bush Jr].
This new breed of political species is born of rage and frustration the
two crucial elements that constitute an effective, non-violent revolution.
Sanders. to my complete surprise and ignorance, [I never really
followed him-shame on me] drew thousands of young, black, Hispanic
Americans to rallies on the west coast and New Hampshire that $100M
could not buy for Jeb Bush. Similarly, Trump is storming across the goal
line time and time again. He is the superman of a new type of politics
called, Internet Populism. Without having to spend so much money,
Donald is streaming across the country, annunciating tough-love sound
bites of hope and possibility, in contrast to Bernie who has denounced
financial inequality and doomsday scenario.
Both candidates complement each other. Bernie has worked as an
independent in the highly partisan legislature for the longest time in the
history of the U.S. On the flip side of the coin, is Donald who has been
an independent entrepreneur, neither beholden to banks, legislators or
anyone other than himself. The forces of American discontent fueled by
the inadequacies of past Presidents and politicians has come to full
fruition where everyone has gasped with one last breathe We Want
Change!
No more Political Dynasties [Bush /Clinton]
No more political chicanery at the expense of the American
taxpayer!
The message was received loud and clear.
Even the tempered boyish disingenuous Anderson Cooper of the left
leaning CNN has literally dominated his full hour for over seven weeksto try to understand the political/psychological dynamics of a
phenomenon like Donald Trump. The studious and learned David
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Gergen, JKF Harvard School, gave a fair discussion of Donalds

narcissism and explained why he is not going away from the presidential
race.
On the radio, I heard Rush Limbaugh discuss in a very logical
sequence why Bernie was leading and why Hillary would not drop out of
the race because she could not. I agree with him that she is indentured to
so many people that she may have no choice but to run out of the money
which she and Bill would never reimburse [again another 100 Million
Dollars].
The media has turned around in fast time to accommodate the
pumped volume of the publics reactions to both Bernie and Donald.
Contrary to the pronouncements of the other losing candidates in both
parties, the American people are responding rationally and vocally to
what they correctly perceive to be a major shift in the body politic.
Donald and Bernie are extremely healthy representatives of an American
narrative that has permeated our society since the Founding Fathers
started the kinetic Revolution in 1776. On one hand, we had the
firebrands who were willing to upset the status quo, like John Adams and
The Boston Tea Party. On the other hand, we had the ersatz populist,
Thomas Jefferson, who was Governor of Virginia doing almost nothing
while the British soldiers were raping Richmond. Then as now,
Americans accepted a narrative slightly different from the reality of the
times.
We are in a new era where people are voicing their discontent with
social media and rallying to see the real candidate and more importantly,
learn how history is being made. One can feel the excitement in the air!
Gone are the staid platforms of propped up stick figures and what do we
get instead? A famous John Hopkins Neurosurgeon who can best most of
them by simply stating that he has to learn about the problem and then
try to solve it logically. No more BS about position papers and
deceptive pronouncements about peace in our time a la Cretin- George
Bush Jr --when all along he was planning for the Iraq War. Even more
dastardly than Geo W. is his younger brother Jeb Bush who had the
audacity to state the Iraq War arose from an INTELLIGENCE/
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MILITARY FAILURES!!! To which part of the Military did Dick

Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condolezza Rice belong?
We no longer have to pretend that no honorable men/women were
killed in action because of the compounding incompetence of the former
Presidents. Now we have those leaders who can articulate our major
discontents. What they will do next, its up to them.
As for now. JUST PUMP UP THE VOLUME!!!

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Jared Fogle Subway Sociopath
Busted by FBI/ Indiana State Police on Charges of Child
Pornography/Pedophilia!
My suspicion is that this particular Jewish bullshitter, who had a Bar
Mitzvah in Israel and is the failed son of a successful physician and
school teacher, is a compulsive liar and an inveterate sociopath who
never really lost the weight that was claimed by Subway. We now see a
man of a particular background who has committed one of the venal sins
of Judeo-Christian societyPedophilia and its sub-variant medical
diagnosis. Thanks to the effective work of both the FBI and the Indiana
State Police, they were able to uncover a far greater child pornography
enterprise undertaken by Fogle and his compatriot, Russell Tyler.
What do I make of this particular incident right now?
I thought about what type of man was this Jared Fogle and how did
he become a spokesperson for Subway a very successful franchise that
was inspired by a physician at Georgetown Hospital in Wash. D.C. I read
in Wikipedia and elsewhere, the disturbing words that Fogles
roommate had written an article in the school [Indiana] newspaper about
his weight loss. Then the rest became history. The Subway franchises in
Chicago and elsewhere then entered into a collusive relationship with
Fogle to create a convincing narrative [probably false] that Fogle lost
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200 plus weight eating only Turkey and vegetable sandwiches at

Subway.
Sounds convincing?
Except for the fact that I have eaten Subway sandwiches for decades
(usually on the highways of Montana, California and Florida) when I
could find nothing but McDonalds or Wendys and I didnt lose
weight?! In my mind, I convinced myself that I was eating healthfully
when in fact I was eating bread and mayonnaise with maybe a bit of
tuna. The point is that from the very beginning of the Fogle story onward
we had nothing but corporate America using a sociopath to promote what
most of them like to promote themselves with a cautionary tale of
weight loss. In the Jared story, we have a full blown sociopath who lies
with little children because he is completely inadequate physically and
mentally to deal with mature women or even men [if he were
homosexual]. Even if he were Muslim where child brides are accepted, I
would still have to question Fogles behavior and even more importantly
the integrity of a company like Subway which prided itself on
transparency and truthinforming all of us about the hidden calories
embedded in the food we eat.
What I suspect is that from the very beginning of the Fogle Subway
Man creation, the corporation was blinded intentionally by the ching-aling of the coins dropping into the massive franchise all over the world.
They even promoted him using ersatz props like oversized pants that
they claimed, without any verification, that these were the pants that
Fatso Fogle wore before becoming slim and trim. Subway in the
classical American flim-flam corporate manner propagated a completely
disingenuous narrative and performance in order to enhance their paltry
profits.
I would even go further to claim that certain senior corporate
executives knew about Fogle and his perfidious sexual activities and the
non-profit foundation that Fogle had created to fight childhood obesity;
but they were hoping that the FBI and law enforcement agents would not
catch up with their collusive scam with Fogle. My past experiences with
sociopathic individuals, especially Fat Jewish Boys who could not
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measure up to their physician father, is that they end up destroying

themselves through lies, deceits and miscreant behavior [just like our
politicians].
What is to be done now?
I would strongly suggest that Fogle remain in prison for a far longer
time than he was given. He should donate the fifteen million dollars he
gained while lying through those Subway commercials. As for his
partner, if he attempts suicide againlet him be.
Subway has a real problem.
They have to hire an outside investigator [not Freeh, the ex-FBI
Director] to completely vet Subway of any possible illegal activities or
false advertisements. Lets listen carefully to the words of Axl Roses
song:
Oh Sweet Child Of Mine

Saturday, August 22, 2015

North and South Korea Enter their Ritual of Mutual Deprecation,
Once Again!
Its been a while since we have heard from either Koreas. However,
the Swiss-Boarding school educated leader of NK, Kim Jung Un, has
found the time and need to address the problem of the enduring silence
on the DMZ border. He has just announced to his people and to the
world that he has placed his rundown military on full alert; presumably
ready for war with SK. For the most part, everyone in South Korea,
especially in the wealthy, beautiful city of Seoul have been ignoring his
words.
What could possibly be wrong with these young South Koreans who
have one of the lowest unemployment rates in Asia?
Are they spoiled?
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Or are they just inured to the boisterous flatulence proclaimed by
Kim Jung Un, a contemporary of theirs who had more of a privileged
upbringing than anyone in South or North Korea? Most of you know the
answer by now.
No one takes Kim Jung Un seriously, not even his own people. They
too have become used to the yearly ritual of threats and ultimatums
thrown at the South Korean government for one or another reason. Why
does Kim Jung Un continue this useless yearly rituals? One reason is that
his grandfather, Kim IL Sung and his father, Kim Jung In, had made this
a practice in order to keep their people under a presumed threat of war
and terror. Most of the North Koreans know that there will be no war for
the simple reason that they also know that no one can or will win a war
between North and South Korea. So the North Korean people acted
accordingly, making believe that they have been insulted by the
propaganda statements of South Korea and then warning the world of
imminent war.
The only country that must worry about North Korea is not South
Korea or the USA.
Its China.
Since WWII, North Korea has been a client state of China. Nothing
gets done domestically or externally without China having blessed that
particular action. Occasionally the Chinese operatives will deny this, like
the time they had personally told me that they have no control over
North Korea and, then they dismissed that notion outright.
The reality of the North-South Korean problem is basic. Contrary to
the American critics untutored in psychology, who have claimed that the
Kim Jung Un or NK in general are crazies, the truth is far simpler.
There has been no insanity demonstrated in the actions of the North
Korean leaders over the past half-a-century. What we see is the helpless
outcry and acting-out behavior of a country mired in poverty and
repression. Unlike SK, where the youth indulges in the excesses of
capitalism, NK people can barely live through a days work without
some financial hardship.
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NK is not only a failed state, it is also a geopolitical entity that

serves the purpose of legitimizing our naval presence in the South China
Sea as well as allowing over thirty thousand American soldiers to remain
in Seoul as a trip wire to possible war. Yes, possible war. Not actual
war; because if one looked at the map of SK, one can clearly see how
close Seoul is to the DMZ. This makes it almost impossible for both
American and South Korean troops to amass a sufficiently large enough
force structure to deter the theoretical might of 2.2 million North Korean
troops only a few miles from the heart of SK.
The nonsensical ritual of deprecation continues between both sides
as if there were two babies spitting at each other in two aligned cribs. SK
raises its countrys flag to seven feet on the DMZ. Next NK has to raise
it to seven feet one inch in order to instigate a rivalry of sorts which leads
to nothing more than a fruitless round of negotiations.Old habits die
hard. Neither side wants to concede defeat in this constant antagonism.
One day when North Korea has been able to improve its GDP after
having worked with South Korean factories in the south of NK, they will
finally realize that there is difference in their respective cultures divided
now by an artificial financial barrier of the have nots and haves. The
dirty secret is that SK uses North Korean labor as a cheap working force
in their respective factories located on the border of the DMZ. When NK
attains a more impressive economy and the financial discrepancy is not
that large, then NK and SK will be one again.
At this point in time, SK feels a bit like West Germany before East
Germany, the crippled state, was integrated into WG. SK cannot afford
that type of integration now. It would drain the SK economy and
possibly implode both states financially. So the merger has to accrue
over time as one entity become worthy of an acquisition.
These two entities are like two companies that want to seek a merger
at the appropriate time in the fiscal cycle.
Who will be the intervening bankers to arrange this merger?
You guessed right!
America, China, and a few other states that could benefit from this
new financial giant called, KOREA!
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It might do the leaders of both countries well to remember the words

of the great Greek philosopher, Heraclitus:
There is nothing permanent except change.

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

A Cautionary Political Tale to the American Public:
The Morton Downey Jr. Story The Meteoric Rise of
Shock/Shlock/ Reality TV on CNN [Magnolia Films].
During a casual Saturday evening meal of turkey [and cranberry
sauce], my friend, the hostess, started an effortless conversation which
spun off from Donald Trumps triumphant gathering in Mobile,
Alabama.
The guests, consisting of former Vietnam Veterans and their
spouses, agreed that Trump was skyrocketing through the presidential
race like a meteorite that hopefully would not burn out before the
election. My hostess, an extremely well-versed reader and former health
professional, started talking about someone that I had heard about but
really did not know much about: Morton Downey Jr.
The table was silent as she described in her usual logical manner
how Morton Downey Jr reminded her of Donald Trump and some other
political narcissists whose personality pre-empts any consideration for
substantive discussion of policy. She then added that CNN was replaying
the film underwritten by Magnolia Films entitled, Evocateur which
portrayed the beginning of Downeys rise as the King of Shock/Shlock
Reality TV.
As I watched the unnecessarily long film, replete with annoying
commercials, I became quite disturbed by what I was witnessing. Morton
Downey Jr, the son of a famous Irish tenor/ film star, tried his whole life
to attain the fame and notoriety of his father. However, the son chose a
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path based on completely inflated narcissism, lies, deceptions and in

your face anger.
For the most part, his TV producers who had facilitated Mortons
meteoric rise in the TV ratings aided and abetted what they
euphemistically called a Shock TV Personality; eager to encourage the
narrative that outside of the TV set, Morton was a decent kind man who
loved his family. Yet like most hucksters, be they on TV or in politics,
their persona becomes the message [Marshal McLuhan].
In the case of Morton, his persona knew no bounds of reality. He
affiliated with other sociopaths of any color or message, including the
obese Al Sharpton, after he had performed his greatest scam involving a
black teenager who claimed she was raped and sodomized by white boys.
Of course, Sharpton and Downey knew this was a lie. However, both of
them used this tragic case as ratings booster.
Sound familiar?
Ironically we see pictures of Morton Downey Jr consorting with a
very young Donald Trump at one of his palatial condominiums, Trump
Towers in NYC. Whether the producers of the Magnolia film had
intended to make this association between a young Trump and a
decaying Downey intentionally is up for conjecture. After seeing
Evocateur, I decide to write this blog as a cautionary tale to my readers
and others that the self-inflated narcissist, be it a business man or
politician, can distort any semblance of a rational narrative by simply
acting boorish and inappropriately.
Downey and Trump understand all too well that politics and TV
shows are literally entertainment where shock and shlock created by
any side of the political spectrum will override any attempt at a rational,
fair give-and-take discussion on any matters of state.
Back in 1976, the brilliant screenwriter, Paddy Chayefsky, wrote the
foreboding Academy Award film Network. This film delineates the
cynical use of TV for increasing ratings by showing the blended
evolution of reality and reality shows. He predicted that real
terrorist/hostage sieges would become part and parcel of daily TV
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watching. Boy, was he right. Starting wars and crises gained legitimacy
in creating increased TV viewing and ratings.
Two stellar thoughts arose from that film:
We know things are bad, worse than bad.
TV will never be the same.
You all know that I like Trump. I like the idea of him as a
presidential candidate and evidently, a lot of other people do as well.
Yet, Trump and other TV personalities, who garner and manipulate mass
attention have an inherent destructive element built within their hysteria,
eventually they can self-destruct. Continuous ranting and raving about
the decrepit nature of our political situation in America will not result
helpful solutions. There is an underlying anger and discontent of the
political citizenry that is rallying around Trump. However, if the crowd
turns their anger against Caesar, then the Republic must once again
dissolve in a coup or into the ashes of history. Morton Downey Jr could
not, at the end of his career, discern the difference between his
narcissistic fantasies and the reality of every day living.
Democracy demands a certain modicum of psychological
sophistication which I believe the American public possess when they
have shut off their respective TV sets.
Let me quote my former boss, Dr. Henry Kissinger:
Now when I bore people at a party, they think its their fault.
Or let me a bit more crass and let one of our Founding Fathers,
Benjamin Franklin, explain fame more clearly:
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon
his own arse.

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Peggy Hubbard speaks the truth on CNN
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Donald wows them in New Hampsha

Thursday, August 27, 2015

How's this for scary, 3 teenagers from Central America at a "state
run school" in Homestead Fl. hack another teenager to death w/
machetes. Does this sound like a nice place?

Friday, August 28, 2015

Turn Out the Lights Night Watchmen!
The Intelligence Community No Longer Needs You Anymore.
So they think.
I have just recently returned from a reunion of intelligence officers
who have served this country for the past forty years. Since I was trained
by CIA/DARPA/Military components of our country at both Harvard
Medical College and more importantly at M.I.T [DARPA/CIA funding],
I wanted to show my gratitude for a career in and out of several different
administrations working in policy/intel matters. For the most part, I
would have to say that the reunion was well organized and quite moving
as the major speakers, including DCI John Brennan, were personable,
hospitable, and informative.
For most of my professional life, people thought I was a CIA
operative. This was not true yet I was quite proud to have worked with
many outstanding CIA Station Chiefs, DCIs and Operatives. The names
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are legendary: Stanfield Turner, William Casey, Don Gregg, Jim Little,
Paul Redmond, Fritz Ermath and many others.
At this particular meeting, Brennan revealed the outline of his new
reorganization chart which included the creation of new Directors for
functional bureaus like digital media and cyber warfare. Next, a man
who will remain unidentified gave a brief but excellent analysis as to
why the Iran Treaty to limit nuclear weapons was sanctioned by the CIA
and other members of the intelligence community. I did not have time to
query him further, his basic point is that the IC had thoroughly vetted the
nuclear issues from a strictly scientific perspective and found it quite
realistic because of the half-life of radioactive elements lasting so long
that no one could really escape or avoid detection.
Another CIA professional stood out. His name [its safe to reveal] is
David Robarge, CIA Chief Historian. Throughout two days of meetings,
he presented a very accurate and often critical historical perspective of
the rise of our first civilian intelligence operations, the OSS which
spawned the CIA through several presidencies. Many of his key points
and insights can be read on the CIA website.
I particularly found the elan vital of these old operatives [including
myself] to be convivial and often jovial and reflective. No one was really
puffed-up about what he/she had done in the past. It was simply a group
of us sharing different insights and faux pas that we had made at
different times in our careers. Contrary to the image of Jack Ryan or
Jason Bourne, most of the operatives were modest, earnest and proud of
their service over thirty years. There was no discussion of kinetic wars or
Hollywood-type escapades. The sobriety present among my colleagues
was appreciated yet it was constantly punctuated with a sharp, incisive
wit that I have often associated with CIA operatives in particular. Most
of them, some married to their partners in the service, found quite
meaningful lives after the CIA.
For a brief moment on the second day, I realized why I felt I had to
come to this reunion of intelligence officers, most of whom I did not
know or would not know. I understood that my hegira to Langley Va, to
a building which I had visited twice in my life as DAS, was a final
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moment of gratitude to a DCI whom I did not knowJohn McCone.

McCone created the Center for International Studies at MIT where I had
learned my psychological political tradecraft. If it had not been for
visionaries like Walter Lacquer [psychoanalyst], Ruth Benedict
[anthropologist], Harold Laswel [Psychopathology and Politics] and
Prof. Lucian Pye, I would never have had my unique, exciting career
serving five Presidents as well as DOD and others.
However, my stay did not end on a happy note, in part due to my
own moment of discontent. A British journalist who claimed to be not a
spy decided to lecture us on the end of HUMINT in the IC. That was a
premise that was at best faulty if not completely erroneous. Making
matters worse, this person started his talk by stating that one of his
British ancestors had developed the Grey Massacre of 1777 where
Colonel Grey of the British Cavaliers thought it moral and expedient to
silence their flintlocks so that they would make no noise when they
bayoneted and massacred American Revolutionaries in their beds.
I found this quite offensive. In my usual brusque and intolerant way,
I dismissed his handler [a former CIA operative who made a living
protecting action jockey wannabe journalists] while I reprimanded the
British speaker for his inane comments. I stated that he and his
countrymen
were
Forlorn
Hope
for
recent
American
Intelligence/Diplomatic achievements including the regime changes in
the Soviet Union and the recent economic warfare in Russia. After
scolding the Brit and absorbing what I thought was enough, I left to go
back to my home in the South. My home, where Americans fight every
day to make an honest buck and no one cares about the CIA or what
would become of its future.
I wrote this blog as a tribute to my fellow operatives who had served
valiantly and quietly during the worst of times in the Cold War and the
present eruptions of worldwide terrorist attacks. Yet there is one more
point that I have to emphasize. Whatever happened in the attack in 9/11,
which many of you know was a homegrown fiasco by Bush
Jr/Cheney/Rumsfeld, the CIA really inadvertently dug its own grave.
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What I had finally realized when I looked back on 9/11, is that the
CIA [whether collusive or incompetent] had given birth to the Director
of National Intelligence who would one day relegate the CIA to the one
job that they were so well qualified to do: HUMINT! Yet for some
bureaucratic misconceptions, they refused to continue their basic utility
of HUMINT which came from the CIAs very foundations after WWII.
This is what they did: the collection and development of HUMAN
ASSETS all over the world using psychological/ cultural determinants.
However, under John Brennan, the CIA became Operational using
drones to create ersatz wars all over South Asia and the Middle East.
They had failed to develop the very core expertise that set them aside at
MIT and other learned institutionsHUMINT!
I bid the Night-Watchmen [CIA operatives] a fond farewell and
wish them the best of luck. For they have become just another
bureaucracy buried beneath the greater funded, increasingly more
important, MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, implemented by
15 other agencies. Binary numbers have replaced the basic concepts of
psychological determinism. For that, Americans will pay a very heavy
price. I am certain that Russia, China, Vietnam, Korea, Israel, Iran, Saudi
Arabia, Japan and the EU are still using personality profiles and psyop
programs to eventually co-opt our manifest destiny.
We will need new leadership to think-out-of-the-box. Perhaps, one
day in the future, a Wild Bill Donovan, the founder of the OSS/CIA,
will arise at the least likely of all places and times.

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Hillary Clinton Threatens Joe Biden and Becomes The Sad Sack
Figure of the Democratic Party!
Its time for Bill to Start the Razzle Dazzle Routine
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As Hillary Clinton becomes increasingly mired in the self-inflicted

wounds of corruption and disgrace, she has committed the gravest sin of
all, being boring. No one can watch her without having a sense of pity
for her exceedingly boring explorations of nonsensical policies that
everyone knows she would never implement. She has become a political
borein all its varied connotations.
She blusters through Q&As, responding with the blunted insights of
a short-sighted Elmer Fudd. Even her speech is faltering, searching for
words that seem to be appropriate to questions that were never asked or
never even would be considered. She has made her inept showing in the
2008 race against Barack Obama look like a virtuoso performance.
On a very practical matter, whoever donated over $100M better
think seriously about bringing in the likes of a Richard Gere in the
musical, Chicago. We need some fancy tap dance and some smarmy
vocals to brighten up Hillarys abysmal performance. We all know that
no one can touch Bill Clinton in the fancy footwork department.
Whatever agreement between Hillary and Bill that keeps him out of her
campaign should be immediately rescinded, if she wants to have a
chance to win her partys nomination.
Why?
Nothing is more vitriolic in a political performance than the absence
of emotion, humor or vitality.
Hillary is the master of contrivance. She forces facial and bodily
postures that simulate important political variables like approachability;
being liked; or trust. She has the lowest ratings across the polls on all
such factors. Hillary comes across as a matronly android simulating
human emotions. In contrast, Bill oozes emotion and charm. In the best
and worst sense, he is truly an entertaining politician. He loves the crowd
and the crowd loves him. I have never met anyone who had not been
charmed or seemingly seduced by Bills personal attention and amazing
recall of specific facts relating to that individual person. Decades after
the fact, I see pictures of Bill and certain women pasted on the
refrigerator doors.
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No, I am not jealous, merely observing. These women were

charmed by this man and they remembered it for years, who knows if
they even voted for him??!
Here is some simple advice to the Democratic braintrust:
If you ever want to see Hillary anywhere near a number which
might indicate that she is true presidential contender, then recruit the
peripatetic ex POTUS and let him start to razzle dazzle the American
audience. Even if she were to lose, no one could say that the Democrats
did not do their best to make the election as entertaining as the Donald
has done.
Lets be honest, nothing turns us off more than a talking head who
does not mean a word that she says or will say. Hillary: re-introduce your
charming, entertaining husband and admit for the first time that you do
not have the charisma to win even a seat in the audience for the TV
show, American Idol. Democratic operatives: deal with it. Even
Carville says he cant get enough of Donald.
The alternative: the $100M investment in the Hillary Show will
bomb before it gets to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Let us bring back to
the American Political StageThe Silver Tongued Prince, Bill Clinton,
singing something like all I care is about love. Americans will be
entertained by the newly created TV/Cable ShowTrump Bill!
Thats show business for which we pay our entrance tickets or as
they say in Washington DC: TAXES.

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Thursday, September 3, 2015

A Realignment of Business and Power in the Middle East: Turkey,
Israel, Hamas, Gaza.
All in Line for Potential Free Trade Zone!
For some time now, we have been hearing about the mutual
animosities between Israel and Turkey and Israel and Hamas. Yet recent
developments between Turkey and Israel indicate that there may be some
type of rapprochement about to arise between two former friends.
Turkey has always been the major Sunni ally of Israel since the days
of Ben Gurion. The reason is quite simple: Ben Gurion and Ataturk were
close friends. They lived and worked together in Istanbul for some time.
Ben Gurions strategic philosophy for the nascent state was to develop a
non-Arab geopolitical ring around the Arab countries so that Israel would
have potential allies; within this arena of presumed friendship was Iran
and the Kurds [Barazani Jewish]. Remember that Israels formidable air
force had to practice within the expansive areas of eastern Turkey
because their Phantom Jets[French made] could traverse their tiny
country in seconds.
Now Israel and Turkey have met in the Gaza strip to consider the
possibility of recreating a Free Trade Zone in that devastated area which
would employ fifteen to twenty thousand Palestinians. This has the quiet
support of American Intelligence. As fanciful as this idea might seem to
many of you, the truth is that during the time of PLO occupation in the
Gaza, Israel and Arafat did have a thriving free trade zone.
Yes, the AH-HA moment.
What do I mean?
For too long Israel has been fighting too many enemies, real and
perceived- to no real constructive end. Yet when Israel partners its
formidable Hi-Tech capability with its historical ability to create diverse
manufacturing companies, then peace and prosperity prosper in the
region. No country can benefit more from the horrendous destruction
created in Gaza, Syria, Iraq than the highly capable Turkish construction
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companies who have been in the business of building for centuries

during the Ottoman Empire.
So we are beginning to see subtle changes as a result of a successful
treaty between Iran and America. Turkey and Saudi Arabia will pick up
the mantle of coordinating moderate Sunni activity through the Middle
East; while Iran in conjunction with Putins Russia will negotiate a
sustainable peace settlement in Syria. Obamas military/intelligence
strategy which allowed our allies to work out their differences is starting
to blossom. There will be ups and downs but Americans must be patient
and allow the constructive aspects of this treaty to take fruition. Tectonic
shifts in geopolitical strategies require patience and quiet nurturing from
all interested parties.
Peace always starts with a treaty; no matter how porous it may seem
on the surface, especially to those who have never been involved in such
negotiations. I speak from experience. Ironically, the most successful
treaty or initiative that was created during the Baker/Bush Sr tenure was
one that neither man ever mentions: The 1991 Cambodian Peace Treaty.
This treaty was initiated by the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia,
Dr Richard Solomon Phd [MIT].
Now twenty years later, the once ruthless Khmer Rouge are
engaging in democracy and business too busy to kill each other.
Hun Sen, the leader who was put at the helm of this amazing
experiment had morphed from a former Khmer Rouge Commander into a
successful Prime Minister. BTW, this is an example where the United
Nations served quite successfully as peace makers.
Its a pity that our civilian leaders do not laud their own
accomplishments toward peace thats their problem.Those of us who
were involved in both Camp David Peace Accord [Jimmy Carter] and the
Cambodian Peace Conference [Bush Sr.] are quite proud of how
American initiated peace overtures that seemed, from the very beginning,
destined to fail. Yet they succeeded contrary to the broadcasts of the
Washington pundits.
Give peace a chance and allow our military/intelligence community
do what it does best: work quietly and effectively, sub rosa.
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Friday, September 4, 2015

Putin Goes to Beijing with Hat in Hand Begging for Money from
Chinese President Xi
What a sad sight!
For some time now, I have warned my Russian friends that their
economy is not doing well. Now what I had told them is a serious
understatement. Putin went to Beijing asking for hundreds of billions of
dollars for oil/gas that was presumably sent to China from the eastern
parts of Russia. President Xi, no negotiating slouch, waited and allowed
Putin to puff up his bravado before Xi politely explained that the Chinese
were not really interested in funding Putins oil or his imaginary gas
pipeline that he and his corrupt oligarchs had wanted to build between
Russia and China.
I am not writing to humiliate Putin or the Russians. Yet Russia is in
serious financial trouble because of mismanagement, political corruption
and the decreased price of oil. For those of you who think this Obama
administration, including its civilian/military IC, had not been effective
in their economic sanctions- time to re-think your assessment. I have
been involved in several economic embargoes but this one and the one
that was placed on Iran worked well, despite the hysterical outcries from
American politicians who have never been involved in nation-state
sanctions or embargoes.
I caution the Russian intelligentsia to re-examine their approach to a
failing economy that will not rebound even if the price of oil rises back
to certain untenable levelsaround $90 per barrel. Its doubtful that this
will happen any time soon. The world markets are flooded with surplus
oil and Chinese impending economic recession will not facilitate a
healthful rebound in Russias economy.
Now we have a scenario where the beggar, Russia, is asking the
once rich ersatz partner, China, for money that China cannot distribute to
any outside nation. China is busy trying to correct its own failing
economy by eliminating 300,000 military personnel to streamline
military costs. To make matters worse, China is buying its oil on the spot
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market from Russias former colonies Central Asiawhere the oil

prices are significantly lower than what Russia can offer.
I ask the Russian people to re-evaluate their failing economy and
decide what they, collectively, want to do about it. Just wishing that
Putin and his corrupt oligarchs, former KGB operatives without business
experience, will conjure up a quick fix is foolish. May I remind many of
us about Russias tendency to act like Goncharovs Oblomov
daydreaming in bed. Russia has some of the most talented young
economists in the world. I think its time for them to come to the
forefront and start to manage this abysmal economy.
Russia: suffering is appropriate when you were besieged in
Stalingrad. Yet in peace times, suffering is not a virtue but a sin
committed by those who fail to do anything constructive for the Mother
Country.
Vsoyo Haroshovo!
All the best!

Monday, September 7, 2015

The Black Hole of the American Presidency: Americans know very
little about our POTUS!
A recent poll among Trump supporters has revealed that most of
them believe that Barack Obama was not born in America and is a
Muslim. These two beliefs have been growing as more Americans begin
to realize that we know almost nothing about Obama or any of the other
candidates including Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton and the rest who are
paraded across the media as true representatives of the American
people.
What nonsense!
Our vetting process is non existent. This includes the Secret
Service, whos blind loyalty to the job to protect and serve the POTUS
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has compounded this masquerade. Here are some questions that you
and I would have to answer on any job application in the federal
government for much less important positions than POTUS.
[1] Do you belong to any organizations/societies that are by nature
exclusive or covert?
Obama, Hillary, Jeb all belong to the CIA and were recruited long
before their respective candidacies.
[2] What is your professional relationship to those covert
organizations and whom were you in contact with?
Obamas mother, Anne Dunham was a trained PhD anthropologist
who spoke several languages and was sent to Indonesia during our
military coup against Suharto. His maternal grandmother and grandfather
worked at the East-West Center, a cover in Hawaii for the CIA and other
USG intel services. Both grandparents were bankers in the financial
institute where the USG pays the CIA operatives.
Obama worked for Peter Geithner in the Asia Society, a cover for
the CIA, and was intimately involved in international affairs before he
was a state senator.
Valerie Jarrett, the power behind the throne, was born in Iran
during the Shahs time. Her father was a prominent black physician who
did outstanding research in Iran. Clearly, he too had close relations with
the CIA and other intelligence organizations.
Remember: during the late 50-70s, the CIA was recruiting very
talented people to serve our country. This is the crucial part in
understanding many of our presidents. They had served our country in
covert ways that no one might have known. Were they Manchurian
Candidates? If my suppositions are correct, Obama and others have
served our country in covert positions way before it was popular to think
of intelligence operatives as sexy or dashing.
[3] Was Obama born in the USA and is he a Muslim?
Now, its time for you to decide for yourselves whether his cover,
including the questionable birth certificate and contrived story of a
Kenyan father was a distraction from the main point that his maternal
family were patriotic Americans who served. Similarly, Bill and Hillary
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Clinton, were both recruited out of Yale, the primary location for the
birth of the OSS and CIA. Was Bill Clinton at Oxford really studying?
Or was he in Moscow and other locations monitoring covert activities
that were mandated by his handlers?
Did Hillary get on the Nixon impeachment committee as an
operative in the guise of a neophyte lawyer out of Yale? Could the
Secretary of State, like Hillary or John Kerry, be both a civilian and a
former or even present day operative for the CIA?
If you have watched the brilliant, revealing CBS TV show,
Madame Secretary , you all will learn the real truth. Most, if not all, of
our so-called civilian functionaries were and are both CIA and Sec State.
The real questions are the ones that have never been asked about our
candidates.
Its up to our citizens to uncover whether Jeb Bush, the son of
George H.W. Bush is like his father and brother- a CIA present or past
operative. Whether they tell the truth is up to our system of transparency.
We should not allow any government agency to vet our potential
candidates as to their past activities and qualifications. It is our job as
citizens of the USA.
Our intelligence community has waited decades for the citizens of
America to poke and probe the black holes of the potential presidential
candidates and their particular choices for different positions in the
administrations. Our federal and state government have been created in
such a way that no one institution could assume too much power.
It is our civic responsibility to frame the right questions and demand
full explanations about anything or anybody with whom our
representatives have worked or concerted with in the past, present and
future. That is the right of every American as well as any employer.
We are the collective employers of our past, present and future
presidentsnot the CIA, MI, Secret Service or any other organization
for which we pay with our hard earned tax dollars. You see all those
people, past and present, are dispensable; only the body politic of
America is not.
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This black hole of ignorance about whom we elect is massive with

the advent of the internet it could get bigger (more dis-information).
Truth can be hidden by all types of distraction including the greatest
mind game of all: the Presidential Elections. Stop worrying about
whether a candidate has insulted someone rather probe seriously for the
lacunas of truth that pervade every one of these potential sociopaths who
call themselves candidates.
In reality, the country must act as a counter-intelligence operative
digging to uncover the truth about the candidates who claim they are best
to lead us. Obamas candidacy taught us Americans one very important
lesson: he was never properly vetted by the citizenry which took the easy
way out. We elected a mixed race man who pretty much had no history.
Hope for the Changeetc. They said he went to Columbia (did not)
and Harvard (did) but he did graduate from the CIA recruiting school:
Occidental College. Seek the truth and ignore the distractions that are
presented to you as history or truth. Truth is not self-evident nor is it
easily accessible. Yet its worth the hard work to uncover its camouflage.
Long live the Republic and its eventually enlightened citizens.

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

A Clear and Present Danger to the USA!
While her Personal Server Keeps on Revealing Top Secret
Information, Hillary Clinton Continues to Deny, Prevaricate and
Obstruct Justice!
No one person in recent history has caused more public
consternation than Hillary Rodham Clinton. I thought I finally I had
nothing more to say about her blatant pathological sociopathy. Yet she,
like most self-centered narcissists, has proven me wrong again.

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Now, she denies that she had sent Top Secret Emails despite the fact
that both the CIA and National Geospatial Agency representatives have
repeatedly stated that she has violated the national security of our
country. For those who do not know about this newish intelligence
agency, the National Geospatial Agency or the NGA, they are more than
just an intelligence collection bureau that stores random bits of
unclassified material. The NGA is lead by very senior intelligence
officers who do not make it a practice of sending non-classified data to
senior officials in the USG.
Truthfully, to describe Hillary, I may have to resort to one
psychiatric diagnosis that I rarely use. A Harvard colleague of mine used
this term when describing corrupt, murderous dictators like Sadam
Hussein. That diagnosis is Malignant Narcissism. Those of us who
analyzed foreign leaders, who presented a clear and present danger to our
national security, used this label of malignant narcissism. From my thirty
years in the USG, I have witnessed only one such example of
obstreperous behavior and that was under the Nixon Administration over
the issue of the tapes and possible impeachment. Even Nixon, whom I
considered to be incredibly brilliant but flawed, eventually saw the
futility of his ways and resigned.
Resignation does not to appear to be in Hillarys zeitgeist. What she
is doing is systematically encumbering our intelligence, FBI, federal
prosecutors and other costly federal employees with an incredibly selfish
need to garner the most amount of time to prove a point that has already
been de facto contradicted. She is guilty of sending and receiving
classified emails on her personal server. She has created a state of Clear
and Present Danger for this country. If she does not cease her stalling
behavior, she will end up with a possible obstruction of justice charge.
Remember: Hillary and Bill were born and nurtured by a stream of
lies that have no beginning and no end.When we elected Bill, his
sociopathy screamed out in one or another behavior that almost lead to
his political demise. Later, America was to develop some amnesia
regarding his wily ways. Hillary has a long public history that is replete
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with lies, distortions, and insincere apologies. America can no longer

ignore her well documented iniquitous history.
If the DNC has no concern about the welfare of the US and thinks
that Hillary is still a viable candidate then they are in a collective state of
self-delusion on the road to self-destruction. As of now, the DNC has
two or more legitimate candidates who have amassed, through diligence
and integrity, the adulations of their voting constituents. I am talking
about Joe Biden and Bernard Sanders. Its amazing that in close to fifty
years of service, I have yet to hear about Joe Biden having violated any
major federal laws concerning our national security, considering the fact
that he, more than Hillary, was clearly involved in a far greater panoply
of national security secrets.
The solution is quite simple.
Either Hillary bows out of the race or the DNC decides that she has
done enough damage to this country and forces her out of the race. I
dont think that they are that brave or forceful. The last but perhaps the
most effective and swift recourse is for Attorney General Loretta Lynch
to indict Hillary for violation of the national security act.
One way or another, Hillary must go
As I have repeatedly stated, she now constitutes:
A Clear and Present Danger to our Country.

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Putins Chess Game: Outflanking USA in the Middle East, Arctic,
and Asia.
The recent arrival of Russian forces into Syria is beginning to show
what Putin has in mind when dealing with his perceived arch-rivals, USA
and EU. He has displayed his chess game, where all his bishops and
knights, along with his queen, are all pre-positioned for a check mate.
What would a check-mate look like?
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In the world of superpowers, America had shown that it could

maneuver with ease in all the necessary choke points of strategic value.
At one time, these geopolitical imperatives included a major projection
of force in the Middle East, Asia and the Arctic Circle. In fact, the
northern tier nations bordering the arctic assumed that they were in
safely contained within a NATO partnership that would obviate any
Russian or other foreign intrusions into the zone of comfort.
Yet for the past year, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland have
found that they had to engage in some type of phantom war with Russia
fighter jets and sea-borne provocations. Nothing underlies this feeling
more than the fact that Russia has already declared the Arctic [rich with
petroleum resources] to be part and parcel of their sphere of influence.
Similarly, as POTUS drew his red lines for potential engagement in the
Syrian civil war but did not follow through, Putin realized that he had the
ability to maneuver into a major position of controlling the chess game in
the Middle East.
Putin allowed Dr. Bashar Assad to continue his war of terror against
his presumed enemies including ISIS and other Sunni rebel groups. In
reality, Putin could care less about Assad or Syria. Assad is using
chlorine gas and barrel bombs [makeshift weapons] to decimate his
enemies. This has made his country into a heap of rubble.
Putin has partnered with Iran in order to guarantee a major shift of
political power away from the USA, NATO and the EU. He has
overflown Bulgaria and Greece in order to place his ground, aerial and
sea based troops into their proper position along the Mediterranean Sea.
At the same time, despite his cap-in-hand begging for more time and
money from China, he has started to forge an alliance with China as that
country tries to assume a financial and geopolitical hegemony around
Asia and Central Asia.
Recently, Putin quietly implemented full mobilization of Central
Asias Azerbaijan military. This indicates to me that Putin is also in play
in a region where the USA has airbases for rapid deployment for
protection of oil interests of international companies.
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There is nowhere in the world where Putin has not inserted his chess
pieces. Even the refugees streaming into Europe has the earmarks of
Putins hand. His support of the Syrian massacres forces the mass
movement of refugees disrupting the European continent. Putin has
successfully moved his military chess pieces into strategic choke points
that have placed American civilian/military/intelligence strategists into a
complete pre-checkmate position.
While our White House is concerned with defending a treaty that
should have passed a long time ago, and the American public is
consumed by the show business of a faux presidential election, Putin,
despite dwindling resources, has moved rapidly to pre-position his chess
pieces before our administration can even figure out what he has done
and will be doing. This what Rudyard Kipling, the brilliant British author
called, The Big Game of Nations.
America has lost any real capacity to assess the world situation in a
coherent, systematic fashion. Now we just have a knee-jerk reaction to
every major crisis with no long term strategy. The age of strategic
reasoning, which had characterized our post WWII successes, has
disappeared.
The end of the Soviet Union [which I helped to foster ] was not the
beginning of our deficit in strategic thinking and tactically maneuvering.
It was the disappearance of any institution of learning that left
Washington D.C. drowning in ersatz think tanks. Studying anything for
money and offering no real substantive analytic perspective to Americas
national security interests became the new normal.
As I tried to tutor our senior military personnel who multiplied like
farm cats, I discovered that I was wasting my time and ideas. America
spends billions of dollars on all types of military/intelligence institutions
and centers for counter-terrorism. I was completely shocked that the
money our government spends on outsourcing everything from thinking
to fighting. Our once great nation is now stilted and reactive in our
geopolitical interests and positions.
To be quite honest with you all, we have never really been a nation
of strategists. Strategy and survival was more of the bread and butter of
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the Europeans, Chinese, South East Asians and Russians. Americans

took the high road of morality to explain our interventions into
everything that never was of critical importance including: Vietnam,
Korea, Iraq [twice], Afghanistan and then the piece de resistance Libya
[brought to you by Susan Rice/Samantha Power & Hillary Clinton].
For the present, I do not see a shift in the paucity of our strategic
thinking. Instead of worrying about how many centrifuges Iran will or
will not have, we should be concentrating on a full board assessment of
what I have talked about in these blogs and radio shows:
What is America going to do with the new power balance in the
Middle East as Iran and Turkey and now Russia become the dominant
forces?
Our civilian /military leadership are wanting in critical thinking. Our
country no longer want to play chess with a master of the game, who has
been seriously wounded and is quite angry. Putin will not wait to be
comforted by our paltry overtures nor threatened by our military.
I fear time is not on our side. Pax Americana has descended upon us
in a very deliberate, stealthy way- where indolence of thought and
timidity of action has become our shibboleth for the present and future.
As Rudyard Kipling once said in The Light That Failed:
Were all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of
misunderstanding.

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Bibi Netanyahu, the Presumptive Leader of World Jewry Refuses to
Accept Devastated Syrian Civilians.
Ironic, that the egotistical leader of a country that was created
entirely by refugees (Jews, Muslims, Druze, Christians and even
VietNamese Buddhists) will not open the doors to a single soul in one of
the worst refugee crisis in history. No Israeli leader has shown less
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compassion, empathy or historical knowledge than the son of a Cornell

Professor whose family was granted refugee status by America as Jews
fleeing the Holocaust. No Israeli understood less about the beneficent
nature of many Muslim Countries who gave many of us, Ashkenazy
Jews, sanctuary during the WWII Holocaust.
Part of my family comes from Algeria, where they had lived in the
African Muslim culture for hundreds of years before they were thrown
out during the French/Algerian War. At that time, there were thousands
of Jews who lived in Morocco under the direct protection of the Royal
Family. Even when the Sephardic Jews were chased out of Morocco
because the nascent state of Israel created conflict points to force the
Jews to leave to Israel; King Hassan always wanted to make certain that
his Jewish children would be well taken care of in this new state.
Distant cousins in Turkey came from the Ladino refugees who were
protected by Turkey for over 500 years. I can go on about how different
Muslim countries, even ones that are perceived as hostile to Israel, have
welcomed Jews throughout centuries of wandering about this earth
seeking a homeland. Only a few years ago, I remember that in Isfahan,
Iran, I encountered thousands of young and old Jews praying on a Friday
morning under the bridge that was called in Farsi, The Bridge of Jews.
In contrast, its interesting to note that during WWII, Ben Gurion
and the Jewish Council refused to save the lives of thousands of Jews
incarcerated in the Nazi death camps. Instead, they insisted that Heydrich
[father was an Austrian Jew] and Eichmann send cows and not Jews to
Israel. Israels history is not great when it comes to saving the lives of
the Polish Jews who literally created that state from its inception in
Warsaw, Lodz, Bialystok. However, in the tradition of true Judaism [ a la
Rabbi Hillel], Begin and the others of the Likud brought into Israel-Ethiopians, Eritreans, Russians and Vietnamese refugees.
Now we ask Israel to bring in those Syrian civilians tortured by war
that was not of their making. I ask the youth of Israel to demonstrate
against your presumed leader, Bibi, and demand that once again, Israel
show mercy to those whom we consider our neighbors and friends.
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I have been in Syria during the best and worst of times and I have
never witnessed any Anti-Semitism against their own Syrian Jews. Yet I
have seen Bibi attack with venom and graceless disrespect the very
country that made and nurtured him and his arrogant family The Great
American Society of Christians [primarily]. Americans did not ask what
you could do for them. They simply wanted to extend a hand to those in
need.
Never Forget: America saved thousands of us Diaspora Jews when
all others turned their back on us, even the nascent land of Israel.
The youth of Israel, who fight for its very existence, must show the
compassion that your leader can never possess because he is too
consumed with his arrogance, ignorance wrapped in layers of selfdelusional paranoia. I am certain that his brother, the true hero of
Entebbe, Yonatan Netanyahu who died to liberate hostages in Uganda,
would have welcomed everyone in need to his homeland. Thats why he
is a Jewish Hero and Bibi can never be! Its up to you, the youth of
Israel, to reclaim the future by truly understanding our past in the real
diaspora.
Treat others as you may want to be treated.. that is all you must
learn in the Talmud Rabbi Hillel.

Friday, September 11, 2015

Finally DNC Agrees to have Plan B for Hillary
#Dukakis2016DNC Fears what happened in the Bush Sr/ Dukakis
Presidential Election.
This twitter reference to Dukakis allows me to write about my
personal/professional involvement in the 1988 presidential. Not to sound
too Donaldesque but I did some of my best psychological work in that
race for the Presidency.
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As I remember, I was called in to see James Baker III. I didnt know

why I was summoned but I had an immense amount of respect for him
and his assistant Robert Zoellick.
They asked me to formulate a strategy to help George H. W. Bush
Sr. ascend his ten or fifteen point loss to Mass. Governor Dukakis.
Without much ado, I first asked Baker to make certain that Atwood, who
had just come into the room, be asked to leave. I did not like him nor was
I interested in his gunshot approach to life and politics in general. In
any case, seated next to me was another figure whom I did not know but
eventually learned to respect. His name was Roger Ailes of now Fox
News Fame. At the time, he was TV/media expert.
In a few hours, we started to create a strategy using Dukakiss
personal dynamics [not relevant for this discussion] to affect a change in
his behavior. It worked, Dukakis literally ended up in a tank, making
himself look absolutely ridiculous. We kept Dukakis busy in Mass. , and
we swung Bush Sr out of the state and moved him onto other states
where he was able to politic as best as he could.
It is important for me to add that the old man, like Jeb, is not a
natural politician. Unlike George Bush Jr [whose campaign I was also a
part of unfortunately] was more of natural. He was comfortable joking
and teasing people around him. George Bush Jr had the ease of dealing
with strangers [ although I had never met him] that his father and brother,
Jeb, just do not possess.
It must be said of President Nixon as brilliant as he might have been,
he was not a natural people-to-people type of politician. Perhaps the best
candidate I have ever met was Bill Clinton. He was simply excellent at
glad-handing strangers and working the vote. Bill owned the room as
soon as he entered. I have already whined about his uncanny ability to
appeal to the ladies.
Bill had that gift but his wife does not. Hillary is learning that no
amount of training or prepping can make you approachable and
engaging if you are not. Its one of those personality traits with which
one is endowed. From what I can see on the TV, it seems that Bernie
Sanders has that type of controlled charisma that makes him both
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credible and approachable. If you were to tell me that an avowed Jewish

Socialist from the failing state of Vermont was to become popular, I too,
would have been incredulous.
I made the mistake that thinking that the affable President Gerald
Ford would trump the more dower President Jimmy Carter. I was clearly
wrong. Personality and charisma do not necessarily win the elections.
Yet those traits do help a candidate go quite far.
As for the Present Plan B for the DNC, I can say the following about
two of the potential candidates whom I have met on a cursory basis:
Former VP Al Gore was born and bred to be POTUS. He came
from a distinguished family of sincere, honest politicians. He could win
the race, if he picked the right team. He may have to face the dirty trix
Bush team again but this time he is wiser. Hell have to work out the
failed marriage thing but hey, its the 21st century.
VP Joe Biden has a clear shot at the Presidency. There is
something quite genuine and sincere about him that makes him appear
approachable and credible. He has had the endurance and suffering that
wizens a politician in a way that makes him act in a very responsible,
effective way. He is a politician who enjoys his work and wants
everyone else to share part of that enthusiasm.
In effect, I am glad that the DNC has begun to think of Plan B.
Irrespective of the $120M that Hillary and Bill raised and the so-called
formidable team that they have organized in every state, the truth is far
more cruel. My advice to the DNC is put your new candidate into play
ASAP!
Its not too late.
And then, let the games begin!!
Let me end with the prescient words of President John F. Kennedy:
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015

September 11, 2015: Fourteen Years After.
George Bush Jr, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Condi attacked their own
citizens and betrayed America!
Remember a time in our recent history when POTUS decided to
attack America to justify an unjustifiable war in Iraq. Americans sent
their sons, daughters, husbands and wives to die for a cause concocted by
cowards and criminals. Those simple two words describing a leader like
George W. Bush Jr and his compatriots has lingered in the ethos of
American incredulity.
Most Americans did not and could not imagine a POTUS arranging
an attack against his own people. Yet, little by little, ordinary Americans
begin to realize that the inconsistencies in the 9/11 narrative and physical
impossibility of NYC buildings collapsing due to plane crash, are too big
to ignore.
What have we learned in the last fourteen years?
We lost American civilian and military lives for a cause that was
highly contrived and replete with lies and distortions.
The USG became a source of mistrust and disgust by its citizenry.
Legislators, FBI, CIA and military officials were placed on a watch list
of mistrust and most of the youth felt both alienated and angered by a
government that was willing to kill its people on US soil and in foreign
lands such as Iraq, Afghanistan.
Our military performed according to modern day standards: poorly
and without honor. Every so-called victory was met with civilian disdain
as our country assumed a position of an aggressive intruder.
Our leaders became purveyors of lies and half-truths. All three
POTUSs Clinton, Bush Jr, and Obama were directly and implicitly
indicted for this 9/11 travesty.
The present outrage of the American public against establishment
candidates is a direct result of the citizenry informing the Republic that
there will be no more stand-downs and false flags now. This outrage
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extends to these faked, copy cat mass shootings to promote so-called

gun control.
Both the Bush and Clinton families have been outed as
purveyors of death against Americans.
Hillary is not a feasible candidate due to the lies that infest the
trenches of mistrust that she and her husband dug for over thirty some
years, culminating in the present day crisis of the private emails.
The Bush Family legacy has been destroyed once and for all.
Matriarch Barbara Bush declared that no more Bushs in the White
House. She, like any smart and protective mother/wife, realized that her
family was tainted with the innocent blood of brave warriors. Jeb shares
both the arrogance and ignorance of his three other brothers. What is
most interesting is to watch him twist in the wind as Trump eviscerates
him and his family in public again and again.
I have realized for some time that Trump knew all too well that the
George, Jeb and the rest of chicken hawks were clearly responsible for
the 9/11 attacks against Americans. He does not have to say it yet he
shows the lack of respect for the Bush family that they truly deserve.
What Trump realizes is that once and for all the Bush Family will
descend into the festering bowels of disgrace, betrayal and greed just like
the Borgias and Medici families, caught in their own deceitful web of
miscreant behavior.
As for the rest of the 9/11 cabal of neo-con cowards, Steve Hadley,
Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Zalmay Khalizad, et. al. they have
entered into the lexicon of traitors, cowards and criminals whose
descendants will continue to bear the enigma of an American Judas.
Even Mueller of the FBI will have to live with the stigmata that he had
brought onto himself in an otherwise distinguished patriotic career. He
failed as did the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, FAA. Worst of all, were our
Generals in both the Army and Air Force; who conspired to engage in
this heinous act against their own country men.
On the more positive side, fourteen years have afforded America
enough time to realize that even when our USG lies to us and tries to kill
its own citizens, we have armed ourselves accordinglywith knowledge
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and bullets. No incident in American history has caused a greater run on

guns and bullets among the citizenry than the 9/11 attack perpetrated by
our POTUS and his entourage. If those who were involved in the 9/11
Stand Down and false flag think they are free of retribution, they are
sorely mistaken. I can assure those culprits of 9/11, be they American or
of other nationalities, that not one of them will be free of justice and a
proportionate retribution.
Time is on the side of Americas youth. Stats show that up to 75%
of the population believe there is cover up or a false flag surrounding the
events of 9/11. Americans have too much independence to fall for Nazi
Luftwaffe General, Herman GoebbelsRepeating the big lie over and
over again. Too many of us know the big lie when we see it.

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Trump's Trump by G. Murphy Donovan
sent by a friend
This is an interesting commentary, written by a Vietnam-era Air
Force Intelligence Officer. Take it for what it is worth. You fans of old
Hands Across The Aisle McCain will not appreciate this.
The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of
Islam.
B.Hussein Obama,
at the UN, 2012
From a navy friend. Interesting. As Trump continues to lead in
the polls, as conscientious voters, we need to understand more about
him. Is there a moral imperative that compels Trump to run for
President?
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Heres a little additional info on the author of the following piece:

G.Murphy Donovan
G.Murphy Donovan is a Vietnam veteran, a former Intelligence
officer and Director of Research and Russian (nee Soviet) Studies, USAF
Intelligence, at Bolling AFB when DNI James Clapper was the
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, HQ USAF. The author was also
a former senior research fellow for Intelligence at the RAND
Corporation, Santa Monica.
Trump's Trump
DonaldTrump is a piece of work even by New York standards: tall,
white, loud, brash, entrepreneurial, successful, rich, ruthlessly candid,
well-dressed, and fond of heterosexual women. He has married at least
three delicious ladies in fact. Trump has five children and seven
grandchildren. Indeed, his progeny are well above average too, smartly
groomed, photogenic, and successful to boot.
As far as we know, Donald does not have any tattoos, piercings,
unpaid taxes, or under-aged bimbo interns. He is not a drunk or a junkie
either. Trump projects and enterprises probably employ more folks than
the NYC school system -- or the United Nations.
You could say that Trump is living the life, not the life of Riley, but
more like Daddy Warbucks with a comb over. The Donald, as one exwife calls him, is not just living the American dream. Trump is the dream
-- and proud of it.
You could do worse than think of Trump as upwardly mobile blue
collar. He is the grandson of immigrants and the product of Long island,
a Queens household, and a Bronx education. The Donald survived the
Jesuits of Fordham University for two years before migrating to finish
his baccalaureate at the Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania.
When readers of the New York Times , The New Yorker , and the
New York Review of Books speak of the city, they are not talking
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about the Queens or the Bronx. Growing and schooling in the bluecollar boroughs gives Trump a curb level perspective, something seldom
found in Manhattan. Or as any D Train alumnus might put it, Trump
has a pretty good Bravo Sierra detector.
So whats not to like about Donald Trump? He doesnt just stay in
four-star hotels; he builds them.
He doesnt just own luxury condominiums; he makes them. He
doesnt just own historic buildings; he restores them. He doesnt just eat
at the best restaurants; he creates them. He just doesnt belong to the best
country clubs; he builds those, too.
And Donald Trump, unlike the Manhattan/Washington fantasy Press
and every Beltway political pimp, doesnt just pay lip service to a bigger
and better economy, he creates micro-economies every day.
The only thing we dont know about Donald Trump is why he would
like to immigrate to the District of Columbia.
In any case, the merits of entrepreneurs like Trump might best be
defined by the character or motives of his critics. Trump detractors are
for the most part B list politicians, ambulance chasers, and a leftleaning Press corps that lionizes the likes of Nina Totenberg, Dan Rather,
Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, and Brian Williams.
If the truth were told, most of Trumps critics are jealous, envious of
his wealth -e- and they loath his candor. Donald might also be hated for
what he is not. Trump is not a lawyer, nor is he a career politician who
lives on the taxpayer dime. Trump is paying for his own campaign.
Bernie, Barack, McCain, and Kerry could take enterprise lessons
from a chap like Trump.
Unlike most government barnacles, Trump can walk and chew gum
at the same time. He knows how to close a deal and build something. He
is a net creator, not consumer, of a kind of wealth that provides life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for Americans -- real jobs not
feather merchants.
Today, Trump has nothing left to prove. Yet, success has allowed
him the rarest of public privileges, an electoral pulpit and the courage to
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speak his mind. Alas, truth is not necessarily a political asset in a

socialized democracy.
Indeed, the erstwhile presidential candidate stepped on his crank
recently by suggesting that Mexico, already exporting dangerous drugs,
cheap tomatoes, and even cheaper labor, was also exporting violent
felons to the US.
Truth hurts! Trumps rude candor is underwritten by nearly half a
million illegal felons in American jails.
Coincidentally, events have conspired to support Trumps take on
Mexican dystopia with the El Chapo Guzman jailbreak and the murder of
Kathryn Steinle by Francisco Sanchez.
Senor Sanchez sported a lengthy criminal record and had been
deported on four previous occasions. San Francisco, a "sanctuary" city,
failed to honor existing warrants and released Sanchez from jail just
before he blew Kathy Steinle away.
As serendipity would have it, Trump then went to Phoenix on 12
July and gave a stem winder to a sell-out crowd on the subject of illegal
immigration. Senator John McCain was not pleased to have The Donald
on Arizonas front lawn and intemperately called Trump supporters
crazies. Trump returned fire saying that McCain was no hero.
Here again Trump cut to the quick, pointing out that no one qualifies
as a hero because he was shot down or captured. Indeed, being a hostage
in North Vietnam is not necessarily heroic either. McCain is thought by
some to be a heroic because he refused to accept an early release.
In fact, the Hanoi parole offer was a ruse, a Hobsons choice,
designed to embarrass McCain and his father at CINCPAC.
If McCain took the parole and abandoned his fellow POWs, he
would have shamed his father and been ostracized by shipmates. Indeed,
had John McCain not been the son and grandson of famous and
victorious, Pacific Command flag officers, no one would have noticed
him then or now.
Few of the demagogues who have come to John McCains defense
could name any of the 600 Vietnam-era POWs other than McCain.
McCain is famous today because he, like John Kerry, has parlayed a very
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average Vietnam military service into a three-decade political sinecure.

We know of 50,000 Vietnam veterans that might be more deserving
than John McCain. Unfortunately, they died in a war that generals
couldnt win and politicians couldnt abide. A body bag seldom gets to
play the hero.
McCain is no political hero either.
He is famously ambiguous on domestic issues like immigration. He
is also a Johnny-come-lately to Veterans Administration rot, which has
metastasized as long as McCain has been in office. On foreign policy,
McCain is a Victoria Nuland era crackpot, supporting East European
coups, playing cold warrior, and posturing with neo-Nazis in Kiev.
McCain pecks at Putin too because the Senate, like the Obama crew,
hasnt a clue about genuine threats like the ISIS jihad or the latest Islam
bomb.
To date, Trump has run a clever campaign. He is chumming,
throwing red meat and blood into campaign waters and all the usual
suspects are in a feeding frenzy.
McCain, the Press, the Left, and the Republican establishment all
havesomething to say about the Donald. It is truly amazing how
cleverly Trump manages to manipulate the establishment.
If you are trying to sell an idea or a candidacy, theres no such thing
as bad publicity.
Who knows where the Trump campaign goes? For the moment, he
has scored direct hits on Mexico and McCain. With El Capo on the loose
again, every time a toilet flushes in Sinaloa, Mexican garbage is likely
spill out in Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle.
Indeed, its hard to believe that the Left Coast could survive without
cheap labor, pistileros, meth, coke, heroin, or weed. Necrotic
immigration and its byproducts are ready made targets for a gunslinger
like Trump.
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Trump is no bigot. He probably employs more Latinos and Blacks

than Enrique Pea Nieto or Barack Obama. In his own way, Donald
Trump is both immigrant and POW, a refugee from Queens and still a
prisoner of Wharton. The Donald is The Dude, the guy with babes and a
role of Benjamins that would choke a shark. He is the wildly successful
capitalist that some of us love to hate.
Before democratic socialism, success and effectiveness were
measures of merit. It doesnt take much insight to compare Trumps
various enterprises with federal programs. Public education, banking
oversight, public housing slums, poverty doles, veterans fiascos, Internal
Revenue hijinks, and even some Defense Department procurement
programs are consensus failures. The F-35 Lightning fighter is
an illustration, arguably the most expensive single DOD boondoggle in
history. Pentagon progressives seldom win a catfight these days, but
they still spend like sailors.
If and when Trump fails, he is out of business.
In Trumps world, failure has consequences.
In contrast,
Washington rewards failure with better funding. Indeed, generational
program failure is now a kind of perverse incentive for Beltway
politicians and apparatchiks to throw good money after failed programs.
The difference between Trump and McCain should be obvious to
any fair observer; Trump has done something with his talents. McCain,
in contrast, is coasting on a military myth and resting on the laurels of
Senatorial tenure.
Any way you look at it, Donald Trump is good for national politics,
good for democracy, good for America, and especially good for candor.
If nothing else, The Donald may help Republicans to pull their heads out
of that place where the sun seldom shines.
The author had two tours in Vietnam as a junior officer and
subsequently served as command Intelligence briefer in Hawaii where he
updated CINCPAC, John McCains father, on POW matters.
By G. Murphy Donovan
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Monday, September 14, 2015

Happy New Year from Iran. Good Diplomacy.

Monday, September 14, 2015

In the Circle Of Terrorism: Hamas Fights ISIS in Gaza!
What an interesting paradox. Contrary to the pervasive language of
war on terror, we already recognize that terror is a tactic and not an
entity or body of fighting units. Yet one element of surprise that I have
found in my long career in counter-terrorism, is the crucial even ironic
paradox that terrorism ends up fighting terrorism. For decades, I have
witnessed this unique phenomenon where one political group that used
terrorist tactics in the past then becomes legitimate but then must use
terror to neutralize a rival, newly formed terrorist group.
This just happened with Hamas. Remember: Hamas was created in
the late 1980s as a counterforce to the PLO and PFLP. Now Hamas
must use its once formidable terrorist fighters and order them to ferret
out the still nascent ISIS cells working in the hot bed called, Gaza
City. Only one year ago, Israel and the world were bemoaning the very
atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli citizens. Now Israel will
help Hamas [usually covertly] to infiltrate those groups of malcontents
who are discredited members of Hamas or the PLO and decided to join
ISIS. The rationale for joining ISIS is usually quite standard
disaffection with previous terrorist groups and a newly found attraction
for Salafism.
If one takes a long view of how terrorism becomes an endless circle
of self-destructive killing, one can recall the origins of Israel and the
Irgun Zvai Leumi. Remember how the IZL was neutralized by the precursors to the IDF Ben Gurions Haganah. The IDF played with and
encouraged the PLO, PFLP and other terrorist groups to create strategic
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tensions in the that part of the world. Eventually the PLO under Arafat
became legitimate and then it had to fight its own break off extremist
elementHamas.
You get it!
Its a never ending circle of guns, bullets and fear. Yet the political
aspirations are eventually achieved not by violence but by outside
negotiations. Then the new government, which came into power using
terrorism, must await a new unpredictable eruption of violence from
another groups of believers and killers. I predict that Hamas, with the
quiet help of its Middle East neighbors, will resolve this messy situation
and will enter into a new era of financial growth and success sponsored
by Israel, France, Germany, and Turkey [with the silent help of Saudi
Arabia, Dubai, Qatar].
How do I know?
In my experience, usually money and trade trumps all forms of
unsustainable violence. Violence begets violence until money begets
legitimacy. That is the circle of resolution for which we now wait..

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Russia Threatens Both Sweden and Finland if they Formally Join
NATO!
However, Russias main concern is Finland. Once again, Putin is
flexing his biceps by threatening Sweden if they join NATO. This past
Friday saw an event that has become all too common, with Putin acting
desperately to intimidate those western European countries which may
present a potential geopolitical threat to Russia. As I have posted
previously, Putin and his military are provoking the Swedish military
into potential conflicts by Russian overflights into Swedish territories
and Russian submarines patrolling the littoral areas of Swedish
sovereignty.
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Putin is re-enacting the Soviet Unions paranoia, where any near-far

lands that may present potential threats have to be diplomatically coopted before they become real strategic threats. Sweden and Finland are
literally a stones throw away from the true heart of RussiaSt.
Petersburg. Finland is so close that some of you may remember that prior
to the full outbreak of WWII, Russia and Finland fought a brutal war
against each other where thousands of troops on both sides froze or died
in their ensuing battles in their respective snow tundras. Putin has
utilized these old memories of conflict to reinvigorate his new virtual
Russian Federation expansion. By outright reprimanding the Swedish
Ambassador this past Friday, warning him to abstain from joining
NATO, Putin was really warning Finland and the USA. Sweden presents
far less of a military threat than does Finland which has the advantage of
military expertise and geopolitical proximity as a true threat to Russian
sovereignty.
From the USA and EU perspective, both Sweden and Finland would
act as effective counter-forces to a potential incursion by Russian troops
into the northern sector of the EU. Please bear in mind that Putins
extravagant gestures of bellicosity do not effectively correlate with the
current Russian economy. Putin desperately directs his frenetic attention
away from the more serious concern: the complete bankruptcy of the
Russia economy. Neither he nor his ineffectual political cronies can
control this economic sinking.
A new narrative has been created by the Kremlin where they claim
that the stalwart Russians are not in anyway encumbered by the failing
consumer economy. Some of our leading policy thinkers agree with this
complete myth. There is no doubt that when over 81 regions of Russia
are bankrupt then the people have already suffered more than they should
have. Putin has ensured that those who might want to complain about
souring conditions in the consumer sector are silenced for quite some
time.
Putins image of a progressive Russia has more bearing to that of
Stalin-Yeltsin borscht. He wants to look and act like Stalin without the
efficiency or lethality. In reality, Putin has the ineffectual traits of a
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wannabe Stalin with the complete incompetency of the drunken Yeltsin.

Not a great combination. The more he threatens the less intimidating he
becomes.
If Putin thinks that the invasion of Georgia or Ukraine was
impressive, may I remind him that anyone who dealt with the powerful
Soviet Union will not take his predictable gestures seriously. Putin must
be reminded that Russia is a very large federation of 125 different ethnic
groups located over 11 time zones. If we were able to takedown a far
greater threat than Russia that is the Soviet Unionrest assured, Putin,
that you are nothing more than a fly on the bears ass.
If you keep on threatening those countries around you like Moldova,
Nagorny--- time is not on your side; neither is China, the EU nor the
USA. Putin: please remember the Swedish Russia Wars of 1595, 1788,
and 1808. What did Russia really gain or lose in those wars? A few
kilometers here and there.
Russians are now tired of wars and foreign intrusions which take the
attention away from more important subjects. What will be the future of
a rich Motherland which is sinking rapidly into poverty and oblivion as
the rest of the western world keeps on growing and advancing. Putin you
have managed to stultify the growth of the great Russian citizens more
than any Czar in the history of Russias repression.
Congratulations, you bully. Watch out for your security apparatus
which has been planning behind your back for the next successor.
Why not?
You did that with Yeltsin, now its your turn to be deposed. Thats
fair.
Forget Sweden and Finland !
Instead, pay attention to Mother Russia, which needs your help
ASAP!!!

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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Trump was right 7 years ago. He is the ONLY candidate to bring up
poor treatment of vets.

Monday, September 21, 2015

Lebanon: An Incredibly Resilient Country in the Midst of a
Garbage Revolution
Protesting corruption with #Youstink and fighting ISIS at the same
time!
An American citizen and her family, including a son and daughter in
their early twenties, went to see her relatives in Lebanon. She reported
back an inspirational story of a multi-cultural population in the midst of
major battles, where the young men are fighting ISIS only a few minutes
from their homes and other young people are rallying against corruption
in government. At the same time, Lebanon is blossoming.
Ironic isnt it?
A country where battles are raging only ten minutes from their
doorsteps is still prospering and living a vital existence. Yet, despite this
contradictory reality, there is a new type of youthful political resistance,
called The Garbage Revolution or #YouStink. Amidst streets and
souks, garbage piles up everywhere and has morphed into a symbol of
political protest against corrupt leadership.
In the past, the presidency and prime minister positions were usually
balanced between the Muslim and Christian factions of Lebanons major
ethnic groups. Now the youth of the country want to change this old
formula for powering sharing. They feel that their voice should be heard
once and for all.
I still do not understand why the Lebanese government allows this
sanitation hazard to exist. Yet I must express my admiration to country
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which has Shiite and Sunni Muslims mixed in with Druze, Christians
and they all seem to live well together. The war against the barbaric ISIS
has unified these different people into an effective coalition of which
they are all proud to claim that they are one-- Lebanese citizens.
I have always admired the Lebanese. Even during their terrible civil
wars during the 1970s and 1980s, their economy never dropped one
penny and trade continued to flourish in all parts of the country. For
those who see Hezbollah as a terrorist group, you best reconsider the fact
that the Shiite sons and daughters of normal Lebanese families are going
out to fight every day against ISIS.
For some years now, I have insisted that Sheikh Nasrallah was a
brilliant leader of a group that once was considered terrorists
Hezbollah. Now it is a legitimate political/economic Lebanese faction.
Its his forces, along with Iranian soldiers, who are the major bulwark
against ISIS. The Hezbollah militia fight for ten days to two weeks then
come home to Lebanon to rest and then go back into the battle field.
Amidst all this fighting, Lebanon has been able to absorb the
Palestinian refugees of the past and integrate the new Syrian refugees of
the present and future. The Lebanese Army has become extremely
effective and vigilant where once it was considered to be part of the
flower power generation of youth. Overhead, the IDF flies jets to make
certain that no extraneous forces intercede into the vibrant lifestyle of the
Lebanese people.
I wish all my Lebanese friends a Happy New Year and send wishes
for a safer, more peaceful future. As for the Israelis, I thank them for
keeping the skies and ground clear so that the Lebanese can continue to
throw garbage into their streets.
May the youthful revolution continue!
Merci! Thank you.
Shanah Tovah! Happy New Year.
#YouStink

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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

SHOCKING ! Muslims in france, soon all of europe !

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Xi Coming to America with Rice Bowl 1/2 Full!
Chinese President Xi Jinping has lost an immense amount of Foreign
Reserve Currency which started at a high of $4 Trillion now down to $36
Billion. Just like Russia, Chinas economy is falling apart. When a
Princeling like Xi Jinpinga son of Maoist Revolutionary leadershas
to resort to both Confucius and Maos Childish Book of Wisdom then,
President Xi Jinping is in serious trouble.
As the economy of China starts to fall apart because it is both
structurally and functionally built on lies, deceptions and massive
corruptions then the Yuan can not be a vehicle for financial transaction.
Yet it does becomes an expression of the worlds contempt for a fast
growing economy built on make-believe numbers and a fictitious
narrative with the least amount of credibility that the ruling Communist
party could have mustered.
China, under the leadership of Xi, is returning back to the past of
torturous memories for the Chinese people when Mao, a man of little
perspicacity of finances but an expansive sense of himself, created a
Chinese Revolution that decimated millions of his own people. Like the
Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Mao devoured his own people in a fit of
rage, cleverly labeled purging the old way in order to bring the new
ways. China is poised to expand its overseas investments into massive
infrastructure projects in order to attempt to replace the ersatz currency,
the Yuan, with the dollar. Clearly that will not happen.
When a country as large as China cannot manage its economy
without the envelope factor i.e. graft, then all bets are off. There is
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nothing inherently sacrosanct about the Yuan that would allow traders
and merchants to accept this worthless piece of paper as more than what
it is ---monopoly money. I sound harsh but I happen to like China and
what was happening when it was growing at a more realistic pace.
However, Xi came in and decided that the Chinese would convert
from an export country to an internal consumption one. Yet he didnt
bother to supply a corresponding narrative that would explain such a
Chinese reversion. He demonstrated an immense paucity of intellectual
heft; not to mention any understanding of economic principles that have
dominated the post WWII trade and finance since the Bretton Wood
Conferences. Instead he has played the weakest political card, arresting
potential threats to his vacuous reign.
He is repeating the mistakes that destroyed Lin Bao, the Chinese
General who was killed in an airplane accident because he refused to
follow Maos order to control the Cultural Revolution. That very
revolution that eventually created massive slaughters of innocent Chinese
intellectuals and businessmen. At present, China is merely a shadow of
what it should have become. Its economy is close to complete collapse
if not bankruptcy.
Its military is extending its reach to the Spratly Islands just as I had
predicted in my novel Pax Pacifica twenty some years ago. However, if
Xi read the end of the book, it clearly describes how China will find its
self caught in a spiders web of military ineptitude bereft of skilled
warriors and clear strategic vision. I still believe that Chinas expansive
moves will be the final wake up call for the Chinese people who will
discover that the diversion of necessary funds for domestic growth has
been squandered on useless overseas expansions.
Like its past three leaders, who have never been tutored in the ways
of responsible leadership and strategic financial realities, President Xi
Jinping is what one can honestly call, a political hack. He is from the
princeling class where he was embedded into the hierarchy of promotion
without any real evidence that he knows much of anything other than his
own survival within an antiquated, stilted system called, Communism.
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In time, Xi will discover, as did Mao, that someone out there in the
Chinese hinterland will challenge his authority and prove that he is really
no more than a paper tiger. Meanwhile, Americans must watch out for
the onslaught of Chinese intelligence operatives who come to this great
country in the guise of being professors, students and teachers of
Confucius and Chinese.
There is a Chinese Expression for President Xi Jinping;
zhi lu wei ma [pronounced: jrr loo way ma]
Meaning:
Swear that black is white; Or, The Emperor Has No Clothes.
President Xi Jinping: Get serious or leave.. And allow the more
talented youth of the country to take over!!

Saturday, September 26, 2015

The Government of Colombia and the Terrorist FARC Organization
are finally Reaching a Peace Agreement after Decades of Fighting.
Congratulations! Recent newspaper articles describe the imminent
signing of a peace treaty that is being crafted to end the war between the
terrorist group FARC and the Columbian government.
Decades ago, I had the unique opportunity to negotiate with the
FARC regarding the release of an American Peace Corps hostage who
was taken while he and others were trekking through the jungles of that
country. I immediately assessed the situation from afar and determined
that in fact a peace corps volunteer had been taken for reasons that
remained both unclear to me and more importantly to FARC. FARC
assumed that this young man was a CIA operative. However after some
time, they conceded with my insistence that he was not ever CIA nor
could ever be CIA because his education and lifestyle were completely
inconsistent with that of an American operative. Once we agreed that this
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individual was a target of happenstance, like many other Peace Corps

members, they decided after some long distance communication to
release him for a price.
At first the price was quite high. I dont remember the amount but it
did not correspond to the raison detre for his capture. Eventually, it
came to a point in our conversations where the FARC leader had to
admit that they had made a mistake in taking him. What became more
interesting was, as the weeks went by, I was sensing an urgency from the
FARC leader to get rid of the American hostage. I recalled the OHenry
short storyThe Ransom of Red Chiefwhere the captive became so
obnoxious that the captors eventually released the captive.
As I gathered more HUMINT, I learned that the Peace Corps
volunteer had made himself so incredibly disliked and burdensome to the
FARC over a very few short days that I was able to knock down the
asking price to a paltry amount. Thanks to the fact that Peace Corps
hostage was a real pain in the ass. I went down to Colombia to make the
necessary exchange without involving myself or the FARC in any direct
communications.
The Peace Corps volunteer was released. The FARC was true to
their word. And the rest of the story was inspiring, right?
Not quite!
In the middle of another hostage siege that took place in the USA
involving a black American Muslim who had taken over five hundred
hostages in Washington DC, [Hanafi Muslim Siege], I received a
disturbing phone call from the Peace Corp members family. She
informed me that one year after his release, he had committed suicide. I
mentioned a few words of consolation and then proceeded to extract out
the five hundred hostages from the hands of the Black Muslims. After
the ordeal was over, I asked myself what had happened to this young
Peace Corps volunteer who really was extremely helpful in facilitating
his own release.
I began to realize that his suicide might have been a PTSD reaction
to what had happened to him while he was in captivity. I researched the
issue of hostage taking and PTSD; and I found that there was very little
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literature related to this phenomena in the civilian press. Yet in military

literature there was an inchoate movement that was starting to study
prisoner captivity in North Korea and Vietnam. As a result of this FARC
hostage siege and its tragic aftermath, I recommended that the State
Department personnel [those who were about to leave abroad on
assignment] should take a mandatory hostage-survival preparation
course. Under Secretary for Management, Lawrence Eagleburger,
enforced this mandate.
In retrospect, as much damage and pain that FARC had caused
Colombia, I do remember one small, incidental episode where they had
inspired me to make hostage-survival a part of the Foreign Service
Curriculum. Whether that program still exists, I have no idea.
I congratulate both the FARC and the Colombian government for
their final approach to signing a peace treaty.
May that peace last for many years!
The Colombian people deserve a respite from violence and terror.

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Boxing at the Military Academies is Required for Military Cadets
Expose Them to Fear and Stress!
A recent article in the NYTimes, September 29, 2015 entitled
Despite Concussions, Boxing Is Still Required for Military Cadets by
David Philips explains that the number of brain concussions does not
warrant continuing boxing as a sport for training our future soldiers.
From my experience, I have found that nothing that the army is
presently doing has increased our militarys ability to win a conflict or
increase the capacity of our military staff to configure a successful
campaign. In fact, the recent successes of the Taliban in Afghanistan
overwhelming our own soldiers as well as decimating our Americantrained Afghanis has shown, once again, that we do not have an effective
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fighting force anywhere in the world. Our methods of training combat

officers in the various elite military academies is at best antiquated, if not
completely irrelevant.
Since WWII, our US military leadership has become an
embarrassment to our country. Its not the soldiers themselves who have
been wanting. It is the Senior political and general staffs that have turned
out to be disastrous.
What can explain the failure of our military in Korea? Excuses
abound but only five years prior to that war, we had prevailed in two
World Wars. Then the Vietnam War mirrored the errors of strategy,
tactics and implementation that were reflected in Korea. In both cases
and then subsequently to that, our military has not been able to assess
what it can and cannot win [in its fullest sense].
When I was drafted for the Vietnam War, I knew from the very
beginning that our political and military leaders had no idea of what they
were doing and why they were there.
Similarly, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan, Somalia and other
zones began to pop up with a regularity of senselessness that begged the
basic question of who really was in charge of trying to win a war. From
my extensive experience in conflict areas around the world, I knew that
our leaders [civil and military] did not know the languages, cultures nor
the mentality of the people with whom they were fighting against or for.
Eventually, it became so absurd that we, Americans, were arming the
very factions that we were supposed to defeat.
Witness the recent fiasco where our military/CIA trained a
certain number of people [say100] and ended up with about six
moderate rebels who relinquished their equipment and trucks over to Al
Qaeda or ISIS. Thus we have become a military of failed endeavors and
wanton mockery. That is no way to run an Army. This entire imbroglio
starts with a White House that has never seen combat nor understands the
nature of war, let alone the science of warfare.
Since the Bush Sr administration, there has been no POTUS
who has ever witnessed the ravages of war first hand. Most of our
Presidents and presidential candidates have made a mockery of our draft
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system, demonstrating to the American public that time and time again,
only the rich and entitled have avoided military service.
Witness the satirical palaver of Trump who is proud to have
avoided the Vietnam Draft while I and others really did not have the
chance to buy or game our way out of it like George Bush Jr [ and his
National Guard Charade]; or the sanctimonious pronouncements of a
wealthy Mitt Romney who ran to Paris and proclaimed the need for a
Mormon Priest to convert the French Catholics. Yet we see on the roster,
men perhaps boys, who want force and wars to defeat our erstwhile
enemies like ISIS or the Taliban while they scurry off to the Peace Corps
and try to convince the Mexicans to come to America as Jeb Bush and
his cowardly family has done.
As our leadership resigns to bellicose talk while hiding beneath
their school desks, our military leaders have refused time after time [with
few exceptions, namely Gen Martin Dempsey] to deny POTUS the
opportunity to fail in combat and instead to learn to win the peace. No
travesty was greater than our constant bombardment of Libya in the
name of democracy and transparency while the only henchman who did
maintain political and economic stability was whisked away [Qaddafi].
The problem is far greater than this endless charade of military
disasters. There is a cancer within our military that promotes political
professionalism at the expense of true strategic and tactical capability.
No longer do we have a system in place where the competent, war-tested
Captains and Majors can be promoted into senior positions of
responsibility because our very senior slots are taken by sycophants and
staffers.
Currently, there is not a measure of what makes a good or
outstanding General or Admiral. Instead we have resumes filled with all
types of acronyms that for most of us mean nothing. On top of these
supernumeraries, we then place Secretary of Defense, like Pannetta,
Carter or even Gates who have never witnessed or experienced any sort
of combat other than as a guest of DOD.

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We need a new way to assess the needs of a modern military

configured for the 21st century. This modern military must be equipped
for combat in the information age.
We dont use horses anymore but maybe our training should
include something other than boxing. I read a recent think tank book
on the future of our military and how we should utilize it. The book was
like our military; a complete fiasco of thinking critically instead relying
on completely false assumptions and heuristic concepts that could never
be realized.
We do not need a bigger stronger military. We need a smarter
more effective one with senior leaders who have been culled out for their
courage to resist civilian authority; as well as the ability to demand real
outcomes in military matters. That search alone is enough to induce a
brain concussion. It is worth firing everyone until we get the people we
needjust like General George Marshal did in preparing for two wars in
WWII.

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