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STEVE PIECZENIK
TALKS The October of 2014
through
The September of 2015
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STEVE R. PIECZENIK, MD, PhD
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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 .................................................................................. 109March 2015 ...................................................................................... 131
April 2015 ........................................................................................ 153
May 2015 ......................................................................................... 175
June 2015 ......................................................................................... 193
July 2015 ......................................................................................... 213
August 2015 ..................................................................................... 251September 2015 ............................................................................... 295
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Dedication
Another year, another Steve Pieczenik Talks, volume II. Lastyear 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 theircontinuous attention to the blogs. Sometimes I may write with a
particular country in mind, like Cambodia, Korea, Israel because theymay represent, at certain times, an inordinate number of readers. Whatever the country or the subject, you know my heart and my head arealways 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 isno longer available, included blogs from September 2012 to September2014. Now I am writing only about the tumultuous year from September2014 to September 2015. Much has happened on both the domestic andinternational scene.
Once again, I have to thank my most loyal of all supporters: bothStasia/Stephanie Marie Perkins. She meticulously spends time andtrouble to edit and burnish the ideas I have to put on paper. There is alsothe ubiquitous Drew a.k.a Blabor who takes my words and relays themall over the world with the mastery of a sorcerer. In addition, I thank myfaithful 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 silentwarriors of our country and the world. In terms of a defined profession, Iwould 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, eagerand 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 warshas not been forgotten. More importantly, they are well versed in theintricacies 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 theseyoung 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 aremore than eager to adventure onto the world without any hesitation whenthey are called forth to serve their country in whatever capacity.
Many of those I have met, in this country, have been home-schooled. The rest have gone to colleges and universities that are not the
presumed standard bearers of excellence. Unlike my generation, they areolder and more mature when they enter their government’s service.
Therefore, they bring with them some temperance and guardedenthusiasm toward any so- called ‘gung -ho’ wars or jingoistic outcries.
These unique 21st century individuals go to school in order tolearn a specific trade, be it law or educational leadership. Their pastnarratives 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 militaryleaders that whatever they say or demand of this new type ofwarrior/patriot is reason based on careful forethought and not politicalexpediency as we had in the 9/11 Stand Down.
Our country’s elites will have to articulate more carefully the problems that we, citizens confront. Those same leaders will be expectedto 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, asdedicated citizens of the Republic, will no longer provide cannon fodderto the cowardly POTUS who has never served our country and is morethan eager to send our brave children to be mauled through the gratedteeth of Harm’s Way.
Last but not least, I would like to leave you, dear readers, withmy 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 FoundingFathers 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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Included herein are the transcripts ofthe chronicles of Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik,
published via StevePieczenik.com,through the dates listed as follows.
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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 onthe Top of the List!
Next in line we have Societe Generale [French Puffery] andDeutsche Bank[German Dishonesty]; and the ever-crippled MerrillLynch. Our government’s ab ility to deny transparency and truth to theAmerican 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 thatthe 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 wastaxpayers 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 ofAIG’s trading partners -Goldman Sachs; Societe General; DeutscheBank; Merrill Lynch. However, what will come out of these court
proceedings are the hidden truths about the malfeasance committed byour public servants: Ben Bernanke former Chairman of the FederalReserve; Timothy Geitner [“who did not know Obama before” althoughObama worke d as a CIA officer for Geitner’s father, Peter Geithner, AsiaSociety], then President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; andthen, the non- banker’s banker from Goldman Sachs, Henry M. PaulsonJr, the Treasury Secretary at the time. Finally the American people willlearn what had happened in the bailout and how our money wassquandered.
For the purpose of full disclosure, I was once offered an InvestmentBanking job by Hank Greenberg, but I turned it down. I hope I canexplain 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 publicwas 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 howthe feds favored and supported ‘illegally’ Sandy Weill’s bank, Citigroupand the other aforementioned banks by charging them somewhere around2.25 %. 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-businessman. He didn’t get his billions by being a sweetie pie but he’s exactly
what we need to expose the enormity of financial skullduggery theseguys commit in the name of the USG.
Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson who have never had any experiencelike your present blogger in salvaging Savings and Loans Companies or
banks; simply decided to place the financial, psychological burden ontoAIG. T hey ‘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 jrand then Obama.
The basic premise of this lawsuit is not the money but the fact thatthe TRES HOMBRES (Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson) were complicit in‘illegally shifting the blame’ of the banking crisis from the banks to it’sinsurer — AIG. In their cowardly deed of shifting the responsibility of the
banking crisis from their banking-buddies to the insurer in questionwhich had nothing to do with the ‘banking part of the crises’— these
public servants committed a crime in lying to the U.S. Treasury and theAmerican Taxpayers. No wonder, Geithner, Bernanke and Paulson werequick to come out with a nonsensical autobiography too big to fail asthey failed us, as did our PRESIDENTS.
Why don’t we elect someone who has had business experience? Or
someone who has the strength to put the country first and not kowtow tothese fanatical bamboozlers who just want to cut deals favorable to their
banker friends and who screw the public regularly. Instead, we have hadnothing but two incompetent Economists who were political cronies and
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one failed Investment Banker, Paulson, who knew nothing about M1-M2or 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 knowinghow to evaluate risk, credit, cash flows; the answer I got was
predictable: “what’s the difference?” This is the problem with today’s 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 themedia doesn’t squash it. One thing for sure, I wouldn’t want to messwith 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 it’sCitizens 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 theU.S.G’s stated raison’etre 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 POTUSis a metaphor for all the contrived lies across a spectrum of Americanlife. Remember that we the taxpayers have paid for nothing more thanmassive 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 andLiberia and now supposedly here in America
The federal government seems to be descending into a completeFUBAR with every institution being run by incompetent jerks or greedy,cheating thugs. I know that for many of you, I am stating the obvious. Iam just completely taken aback by the sheer incompetence of all thesefederal agencies which profess to have some modicum of
professionalism. I can’t remember anything good thats come from afederal agency, institution or office in decades.
I worked with the secret service way back when they wereconsidered competent and professional. I ran the psychiatric back-upwards at St Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D. C. for those ‘so -calledWhite House intruders’. There was no question as to when, how or whythese individuals were automatically incarcerated in a maximum securityward. That was then. But now, one ostensibly can wander all around theWhite 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 goingto war anywhere and everywhere. When I heard that the present problemwith ISIS, ISIL; or even the wars in Iraq/Syria; did not lie within ourCommander-in- Chief’s han ds but rather was the fault of GeneralsMichael Flynn [DIA] and James Clapper [DNI], I was incredulous. Thistype of externalization of blame is equivalent to the marathon runner
blaming the quality of his shoes, rather than himself. I do criticize ourintelligence community ad hominum but as a citizen and taxpayer that ismy right and duty .
However, when POTUS goes out of his way in public and directlyimplicates Gen James Clapper as the source of POTUS’s lack of strategy,
foresight or capacity to engage in an unnecessary wars, I find this type ofexecutive behavior to be completely abhorrent and disgraceful to theOffice of the Presidency. Sounds like humpty dumpty is cracking. I cantell 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 anyformer POTUS who dared to compromise our intelligence services, bethey, civilian or military, were automatically eliminated.
So now it seems that our federal government failed us once again. Itwas all over the news that ebola was raging through Liberia, SierreLeone and Guinea, all failed states on steroids. Did our big daddygovernment that spies on all of us, keeps record of our travels and whatwe buy, did It do anything to protect our shores from a viral invasion?
Nope! Doesn’t take a genius to figure out that anyo ne coming from theinfected part of the world should have been quarantined. Does anyone
get held accountable for this mega mistake? Didn’t Obama tellAmerican citizens that we have nothing to fear? Oh yeah, he was thesame guy that told us ISIS was not a threat. First its not a problem, don’tworry and then its whoops now its a problem (big problem) but its notmy 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 skimsome off the top or from the sides. However, we do expect them to takecare of the basics and they are not, on any front.
Monday, October 6, 2014
Far Right Nationalist, Xenophobic, European Movements Meld intoa Rancid Hungarian Goulash!
Just as we have witnessed the rise of extremist Islamic Groups in theMiddle East, we are now going to be entertained by a motley crew of thelong-forgotten Aryan Supremacy dolts who once proclaimed theirdubious ancestral heritage to the ‘white race’; as well as to all matters
that are the inherently ‘white’ in nature. What we have here is thetedious ersatz philosophies of ‘being white’ and therefore entitled to:anti-immigration hatred; anti-Muslim diatribes; the obsessive re-incantations 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 anti-everything party which claims that we Americans have co-opted theirnational culture.
So now we have the inevitable rise of the Anti-Party which means ifthey can’t articulate a constructive program then they must resort todenying everything and anybody who has accomplished something ofvalue; 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 basicignorance 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 WeimarRepublic provides the original template of this Hungarian Goulash thatwe find ourselves stirring today.
One of the leaders of this xenophobic, Anti-American movement isnone other than Richard Spencer, an AMERICAN WHITE
NATIONALIST [whatever that means], President of the National PolicyInstitute and Washington Summit Publishers. Apparently this ungratefulAmerican has formed a strong bond with none other than the Russian ex-Czarist throwback by the name of Alexander Dugin, a personal adviser tothe 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 lookslike he has eaten his way to the top of his absurd game. His name isPhillipe Vardon, the so-called head of Nissa Rebela, the NICE [city]affiliate of Le Bloc Indetitairie, a French far-right group founded in2003.
However, we cannot have a Hungarian Goulash without the spice of paprika. So we add the long-standing, inveterate Anti-Semitism of theHUNGARIAN 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 DanubeRiver, 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 ofignorance and resentment.
What’s their agenda?
For one, these out-of- shape misanthropes are learning “ basicfighting skills”….. to “learn how to resist cops.”
“An example of such a workshop is how to endure an assault to theknee by a baton and withstanding tear gas”. [Stratfor, Oct 4, 2014]. Ofcourse, let me not forget that ignorance, hatred and stupidity is notlimited to the aforementioned countries; also present at the privateBudapest conference are representatives from the “Greek Dawn Party”;
“Italian Northern Party” and Italy’s Fascist Party ‘CasaPound’; French National Party; Swedish Democrats; a s well as citizens of Austria [don’tforget the House Painter, Hitler]; Croatia [always reliable Estashi];Belgium; and Germany.
This emerging trend of the rising of the far right resembles the riseof fascism after WWI; and up to and through WWII. Most of themembers of this Hungarian Goulash should remember what hadhappened in history. Russia formed an alliance with the Nazis. NextRussia destroyed the Fascists ruthlessly. Then we Americans came inafter we made certain that all American Nazi sympathizers werecompletely ‘neutralized’ by Hoover’s FBI.
What makes Richard Spencer, the American ‘stool pigeon,’ thinkthat his fate might be any different from that of Father Coughlin?America is quite forgiving of its sons and daughters who served her intime of need, but she can be very vengeful and ruthless if one tries her
patience with that type of fascist nonsense. Richard Spencer shouldremember that veterans, who fought for American values do not takekindly to cowards, traitors and demagogues like yourself. RememberWWII was fought in order to rid our Republic of your garbage and thosewho 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 ISISsupported by ‘the Great Pretenders’ our erstwhile DESPICABLE Sunniallies: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, U.A.E, Dubai, Jordan, Iraq, andSyria this entity will eventually through conventional and unconventionaltactics 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 Invasionand then the subsequent consequences of incredibly incompetent civilian,military and intelligence leadership. No one can be spared from thisdenouement of trillion of dollars spent on unnecessary wars, droneattacks, and indiscriminate civilian massacres.
I failed as a teacher, lecturer and national security operative to makecertain that our brave men, women and their families would be sparedthe agonizing call of defeat beckoning our country into a combatscenario reminiscent of the Vietnam War. Many pundits have claimedthat Vietnam and Iraq were two different species of warfare. Theirarguments of dissimilarity were enticing illusory, allowing ourcivilian/military/intelligence planners to ignore the basic lesson ofVietnam: Don’t fight a war in a distant land that you do not intend towin.
It should be simple history.Yet ignorant narcissism of our civilian leaders [Clinton, Bush jr.
Obama] combined with the egregious cowardliness of our politicalgenerals [Tommy Franks] allowed us to to repeat the hell of Viet Nam,this time in Iraq. There are too many to blame for this incrediblefoolishness; 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 r epeated the mantra of ignorance “arm themoderate 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 warwhich will mark this country as both a ‘paper tiger’ and ‘a decayingEmpire’.
According to OSINT, Stratfor, October 7, 2014 (posted earlier)three thousand ISIS fighters have succeeded in capturing the keystrategic areas a few miles from Baghdad---RAMADI and FALLUJAH!!The town of Fallujah has a special resonance just like the ‘Tet Offensive’has to me — our marines were successful in capturing that town, they wonthat 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 it’s fo rce structure.Like the carpet bombing of Vietnam all that we had accomplished wasthe spread of napalm over the bodies of innocent Vietnamese civilians aswell as poisoning our own troops with Agent Orange (thank you,Admiral Zumwalt).
As ISIS comes ever closer to Sunni Baghdad; the Sunni ISISsoldiers will change their combat uniforms into one of a ‘local resident’of Baghdad; wherein they will continue to implement their successfulterrorist tactics (suicide bombers, IEDs) attacking both soft and hardtargets using counter-insurgency techniques. Our fighter jets can nolonger distinguish ISIS from innocent civilian targets. ISIS will advanceinto the center of the capital just as they did in Damascus, Syria; anddrive both the Shi’ite Iraqi Prime Minis ter; as well as, the AmericanEmbassy Officials out of Baghdad, if they don’t 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 allthat we must evacuate all American personnel from there to our navalfleet. This naval fleet that is standing by for one more evacuation ofAmerican personnel.
How do I know this?
I was involved tangentially in the evacuation of the AmericanEmbassy in Saigon and I remembered debriefing Ambassador GrahamMartin 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 himand Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, I remained silent. The answer lay in
our ignorance of Vietnamese history and what Prime Minister Le DucTho, reminded me years later “that you Americans are lazy andarrogant”.
He was right!Americans have been incredibly stupid and boisterous, screaming
out about how we could change the course of thousands of years MiddleEast History in the vast deserts that really had no boundaries, despite the
Sykes- Picot Treaty. Our intelligence was akin to a ‘fact -idiot’; we knewthe coordinates of the geography without understanding the complexityof the ethnic tribes woven in the incestuous cobweb of Shi’ite and SunniFactionalism.
Allow me to quote Former Special Forces General Jerry Boykinwho once said very poignantly, ”the American military has not won alegitimate battle since 1944.” In Iraq, despite all the military assistancewe 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 ISISinfiltrated Baghdad and then raised the ISIS flag on top of the AmericanEmbassy. Remember that history does repeat itself and these deadlygames 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 youever travel to Hanoi, you could see the pictures of Julia Child [yes, thefamous chef] and other OSS Operatives, teaching the VIET MIN how tothrow 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 CIA’s creation, to fight againstourselves. How ironic and pitiful! America has become more self
destructive over the past fifty years as we ignore the history lessons thatour 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 postsnext week. I am fighting the legal bullies on a number of fronts, takestime.
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-the-closet and told one BIG TRUTH!!
Somebody decided to reveal the truth that the CIA has had minimalsuccess with arming any rebel groups, except for the Mujahadeen inAfghanistan. I have a sneaky suspicion that I know why they finallydecided to reveal the fact that they, the CIA, is not very good at most
things, including arming and training rebel groups, despite the hysteria ofneocons 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 wascorrect months ago, when he described this motley group of ‘dreamers,farmers, pharmacists and medical doctors as a fantasy’ which couldnever defeat their own shadow let alone ISIS. Remember, I was thereand from my experience the only ‘credible fighting group’ in Syria isattached to the hip of Bashar Assad and his more ruthless brother. Any
other pretense of opposition is wishful thinking.Even the formidable Hizbollah Shi’ite fighting force is waning in
power against ISIS. Hizbollah is finding itself using ever younger andinexperienced soldiers. If Hizbollah cannot match up to ISIS with all thehelp they rec eive from Russia and Iran, believe me, ‘vetting moderateSyrians to fight’ is the moral equivalent of necrophilia.
The truth is what I have said a long time ago. The CIA is great atcreating 9/11 and the ‘false flags’ along with our own military butsolving problems of blowback or other strategic challenges not so good.Contrary to their collective interest in projecting an image of James Bondor even that poor CIA analyst Jack Ryan, the agency has never beeneffective in quasi-military activities or even professional assassinations.They have had to recruit Special Forces through an office formerlyentitled Special Operations Low Intensity Conflict [SOLIC] located inthe bowels of the Pentagon. In fact, the CIA has been quite miserable inthe 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 ‘takeout’ a former ally now newly presented enemy? Think: Noriega inPanama or Sadam Hussein in Iraq.
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So we can’t even execute targeted assassinations which compels usto 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 inas canon fodder.
We have 16 intelligence organizations that can barely find out whateach one is doing; but they brey like sheep for more and more money fornewer toys while they become more and more stupid. Now it seems likea breath of fresh air was wafted through the NY Times. Yet we all knowthat 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 theCYA!! 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 RecentSubway Trip to a NYC Bowling Alley.
I hate to say this again but the CDC has performed according to pastexperiences — TERRIBLY! Not to mention that this new CzarbolaLawyer/Lobbyist without any medical competency has been less usefulthan his boss’s pronouncements that “America is safe and well preparedfor Ebola”. Both men have been proven to be beyond dismal failuresduring a crisis.
We still have not answered the basic questions of how this disease
defies every precept and mantra about limited infection capacity and aninherent high safety factor in being exposing to the Ebola virus. I
personally and professionally have never accepted two basic precepts ofthe 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 thatEbola is an airborne RNA virus which has a very high capacity to infectanyone in near proximity at a very rapid level of growth. In an infected
person, there are approximately 10 billion Ebola viruses per unit of bloodcell versus 10 million HIV viruses. This exceedingly large number ofEbola viruses per blood cell allows the virus to expand exponentially intothe 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 rapidrate every time any antibody attacks it, is a virus that remains static on asurface. 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 thefact that like the bubonic plague it will have no more hosts in which itcan survive and continue to change in form and strength.
This newest case in NYC involving Dr Spencer would not havehappened with proper mandatory quarantine and denial of entrance intothe 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 appointed — totally useless
and misleading. Neither Obama or the Czar have any knowledge or realexperience 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 General’s Office, with a competent physician, trained in epidemiology and not just bureaucratic hack fromHealth and Human Services.
[9] Present daily briefings/updates/best practices from somecompetent medical doctor, other than CDC director or Czar – both ofwhom 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 healthdisasters like this.
Forget the mantra that you are not infected until you showsymptoms of fever of 100.4. Everyone in contact with Ebola patients,directly or indirectly, must be quarantined immediately. Take pre-cautions and keep your immune system healthy. Act accordinglywithout panic or fright. Be judicious and be careful. Always assume thatwhat you are hearing from public officials is less than reliable so takecare of yourselves.. …..until this epidemic subsides. Ebola will subsideas did Polio, HIV, and other highly contagious diseases. It will just takesome time and the common sense of the American citizen in thecomplete absence of USG leadership, WHO stupidity, UN paralysis anda pervasive epidemic of incompetency.
This crisis will make you stronger and more acutely aware of theincreasing systems dysfunctions that will continue to grow exponentiallyuntil we Americans decide to choose those people who have a Commandand 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 PlumCreep.
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Plum Creek: A Liberal Washington State Public Land Holding
Company Ravishing Small Rural Town Citizens in Gainesville, Florida!It’s a David Versus Goliath Biblical Story!
Just when “liberalism” connoted a fair and caring concern for theunderprivileged especially minority groups, like African-Americans
bereft of jobs; or the possibility of employment, Plum Creek a publicREIT [Real Estate Investment Trust — which does not pay taxes] invadesFlorida like poisonous weeds in the Garden of Eden. Nothing is morehypocritical or cynical than a $1.3billion public company that banks landand uses its considerable cash in order to rezone that land to profit fromthe presumed greater value of the newly rezoned land. On the surfacethis seems like an innocuous business. In reality this company hasspread 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 todevelop Moosehead Lake. What the innocent citizens discovered wasthat 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 Creek’s M.O. is to acquire landthrough complex land swap deals and federal timber contracts, then withthe assistance of financial bamboozlers like Tim Blixseth try to flip the
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pristine property to unsavory developers. These developers are usuallyoperating on flaky financials and typically end up suing each other anddeclaring bankruptcy. The real losers, local citizens and property owners
are left with damage goods and lots of lost revenue. Just ask the state ofMontana, the Yellowstone Club fiasco is famous.
In financial terms, that type of duplicitous behavior in a publiccompany 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 thecorrupt and sociopathic never stop their dangerous behavior until theyare ‘bitched slapped’ by the feds: SEC, FBI and various state attorneygenerals from Washington State, to Maine, to Montana and, lastlyFlorida.
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/timberland that was given to them by Governor Racicot, now on the PlumCreek board, and called the expensive development of empty multi-million dollar lodges — Moonlight Basin. Needless to say that this
particular project in the beautiful mountains of Montana was a completedisaster, just as it was in Maine.
For most of you readers all this stuff that I am discussing shouldmean very little, except if it happens in your state. Yet this greedycorrupt 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 letmorals 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 inorder to flip this newly zoned property [66,000 acres of Florida swampland] onto another sucker, just like they did in Maine and Montana.
Now I had the good fortune to attend one of the meetings where thecounty commissioners were listening to the palaver of the ineffectivePlum Creek representative as he lilted his way to the podium and repliedin a high pitched voice “We will research that matter for you!” Ofcourse, I and every one in that meeting knew the following facts basedon the past ignominious experiences of Plum Creek and its Board ofDirectors led by the Rick R. Holley.
▪ We all knew that most of the Black Baptist Ministers of localChurches, in what is euphemistically called ‘East Gainesville’[ read‘Black Harlem’] were paid off to support the rezoning with the promisethat 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 Direc tor of the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce, whohappened to be black was clearly paid off by the Plum Creek board ofDirectors, in order to bless the non-existing project of so- called ‘newlycreated jobs’. Once again I reiterate the simple point that no ne w jobscould, or would be offered because Plum Creek does not do anythingother 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 le aders of
Alachua county were incredibly verbose and at the same time completelyinane in their claims that jobs valued at $40-50 per hour plus benefitscould and should come into Gainesville, thanks to the ‘offer proferred byPlum Creek’. Also Plum Creek would be able to build a 15millionsquare foot factory to make…. What? I am not sure.
Thank God no one in the room, including the shrewd African-
American representative believed this nonsense; and said so, in thefollowing sagacious insight:
“My folks wan t to know how do they get a job when they have afelony 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 pristinewoods of Washington State; lest their citizens there throw this companyout of Seattle, Washington. This company, Plum Creek, and many likethem, are predatory creatures who are staffed by ex-governors like
Racicot and other state and national officials and have no qualmsentering into a poor area like East Gainesville, stir racial hatred anddivision for the sole purpose of earning a little bit more money forhaving done nothing more than trading on public lands that were given tothem by the USG.
It’s times for us, ordinary citizens to retaliate. We do this by writingour congressmen and complain about Plum Creek. We write to the SEC. And believe it or not, write the office of the attorney general of yourstate and then the federal government. A strong grass roots campaignwill allow us to defeat hate mongers who stir up confrontations betweenwhites, black, environmentalist and working class people.
The little people, fight the GIANT GOLIATH who wants to destroyeverything that we hold precious: clean land; clean water; reasonable
jobs for just pay; and the right to fight for developing our smallcommunity without interference from the Wall Street pirates.
What should really happen, is the Plum Creek should be indicted bythe both the SEC and the FBI for interstate offenses and RICOHcharges — attempt to commit crimes against the poor and helpless — across several state borders. The list of past crimes involving thiscompany 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!That’s 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 RIGGEDAND YOU COULDN'T
PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT SOLVE THEPUZZLE.
ABC News executive producer Ian Cameron is married to Susan
Rice, National Security Adviser.CBS President David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes, Obama’s
Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications.ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman is married to former
Whitehouse Press Secretary Jay CarneyABC News and Univision reporter Matthew Jaffe is married to Katie
Hogan, Obama’s Deputy Press Secretary ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of Obama’s Special
Adviser Elizabeth SherwoodCNN President Virginia Moseley is married to former Hillary
Clinton’s 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 diedat 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 Ihad any meaningful interchanges with him personally was during the1980’s Savings & Loa n crisis in Maryland.
You might remember that in the late 1980’s most of the Savings andLoan 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 enti tled the ‘Silverado S&L Crisis’ in Colorado.Once that S&L went under the sheer momentum of convolutedaccounting and a paucity of assets to back up the net worth of the S& Lcreated a panic across the USA which resulted in the eventual dissolutionof almost all S&Ls. It is amazing to note how detrimental the entire Bushfamily [except the mother] has been to the vibrant growth of this greatnation. Remember this particular crime when you think about thecherubic, disingenuous Jeb Bush, the newly resurrecte d ‘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 inMaryland in which I had deposited a significant amount of money. Inany case, without having to go into the complexities of bailing out a bank[which by the way, Bernake, Paulson and Geitner had no cluewhatsoever], I had called up Ben Bradlee at the Washington Post.
Our conversation went something like an Abbot and Costelloroutine c ircling around the definitions of ‘net worth’ and ‘cash flow’.
Ben, a man with self- admitted deficiencies in banking, told me that ‘networth’ and ‘cash flow’ were ‘not his problem’ and ‘could not havecaused a cash flow run on the Savings & Loan that I was trying to keepalive.’ 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 ofan 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 FederalProsecutor Earl Silbert, who helped me place an Injunction/ TemporaryRestraining Order against the Washington Post from publishing anymore information about the S&Ls in Maryland. The upshot wasdevastating. I had to meet with Bob Woodward, the self- anointed “high
priest of Journalism”. I had very little, if any respect for him. I hadlearned through my thorough background checks on this Yalie that he
was a former naval intelligence officer who had never had journalismtraining. Woodward who’s claim to fame was that he had briefedGeneral Alexander Haig, another nit- wit on Henry Kissinger’s staff. Ithas always been my belief that Woodward and his low class partner CarlBernstein had facilitated the downward spiral of Nixon with the help ofJohn Dean in what I had considered a “Yalie/CIA inspired take -down ofPresident Nixon.”
Bob Woodward was the man whom Ben had asked me to see inorder to resolve this incredibly important problem on banking. However,Woodward, as I had anticipated , turned out to be as stupid andirresponsible 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 workedthere) where he was described by the editor as ‘completely incompetent’.
The rest of this story was predictable. A S&L crisis started by theTexas family of Bush – Marvin and Neil — spread across the USA like a‘wildfire’ and ended up in bankrupting the S&Ls, thanks to a MarylandGovernor who conveniently disappeared; as well as, a FederalInstitution, 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 distortedmemories that serve to warp the moments of history that no one wants toremember correctly or accurately. I was a small player in a biggertragedy which repeated itself under the idiot-savant, President George W.
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Bush Jr, in an otherwise preventable tragedy entitled The Wall StreetCrash of 2008 where the banks were ‘too big to fail’! Nonsense!
Who says that history and miscreant characters don’t 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 thesine qua non of ‘objective journalism’.
As for the Bush family, they never cease to amaze me in theirrelentless efforts to destroy the Republic, once and for all. If Barbara
Bush[the mother] were to run for the Presidency, then I might supporther. As for the rest of them, they belong in the dust bin of Americanhistory. How such a pathetic family of male losers have been able tocome to power is both a stigmata on our electoral system and anindictment of those who have facilitated their subsequent ascendency tothe Presidency.
No one will ever for get the Bush Family’s greatest legacy toAmerica: The 9/11 Stand Down/False Flag and the subsequent murder of3000 Innocent Americans. Clearly not satisfied to destroy our bankingsystem, they went on to invade Iraq for weapons that were never there.As far as I can remember, the Washington Post never condemned the9/11 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 Bradlee’sabsent 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 whichGeorgetown so admired about him.
Similarly, the august NY Times, under the direction of the ersatzmanagers /editors Harold Raines and Bill Keller, performed as dastardly
as one might have expected by a newspaper co-opted Washington DCand ‘group think’.
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The final chapter will not be written in my lifetime. When the truthabout 9/11 and all the other USG chicaneries that occurred underClinton, Bush jr, and Obama, no newspaper or journalist will have been
touted as ‘admirable or courageous’. That glory of uncovering the realtruths of America’s collective deceptions do not belong in any on erepository of news, but to you, the American citizens, who in your ownways will uncover the lies, deceptions and conceits that have been
propagated from the center of this New Roman Empire — PaxAmericana — Washington DC which will inevitably languish intointellectual and financial bankruptcy; as befits moral cowards.
So now the so- called ‘Conspiracy Media,’ we the people, will ariseuntil there will be no one hero or media format, but a simple revolutionof truth and honesty, at whatever cost of lives that may take.
Let me end this post by quoting the words of the great Germanwriter, Goethe, who had pinpointed the nature of our collective
problems, centuries ago:“We, the people are NEVER DECEIVED. WE DECEIVE
OURSELVES!” Let’s terminate our self decep tions once and for all and rid ourselves
of these noisome politicians who try to destroy our way of life.
Monday, November 3, 2014
Putin’s 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 Putin’s ADD
activities as follows:
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“How else to explain t he sudden increase of bombers over Europe,kidnapped spies, troop buildups in Eastern Europe and roamingsubmarines in the Baltic Sea?”
I wonder if Putin is trying out for a Director’s/Producer’s role in oneof my partners Tom Clancy’s franchise movies? M aybe Putin might wantto 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 disruptAmerican/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 ishe a chess player, a game in which the Russians have excelled forcenturies. Therefore I must conclude as someone who has workedagainst the KGB for decades that he is trying all kinds of nuisance tacticsto disrupt the natural flow of world events as they evolve without anyunnecessary turbulence. Putin is clearly disturbed, emotionally and
physically. He is, in the words of a New Yorker from Harlem, “itchingfor 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 statesof Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia have just witnessed the Putin Borschtspecial with the following noisome overflights of the latest Russianaircraft models:
Tu-95; Bear H Bombers; Su-27 fighter jets; IL-78 tanker aircraft.To make sure that these small, helpless Baltic countries received
Putin’s loud message, he “did not file flight plans or maintain contactwith civilian air traffic control”.
“During a period of heightened tensions in 2007, Putin resumed theSoviet- 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. Russia’s securityservice said in a statement that Mr Kohver [Estonian Spy] had ‘detainedon 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 editor’s red pencil.
How prosaic and cliché 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 hasdemonstrated a concerted and major deficit for creativity andimagination. Any school boy in St Petersburg could have come up withmore 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 wearySwedish Navy described Putin’s pathetic intrusion as, “The Hunt ForReds In October”. Tom Clancy would have been very proud of that playon his best-selling title. Please remember the principle that if one lacksany capability to be new, then one must beat the tempos of past rhythms.In this particular case, Putin has repeatedly tried to Cyber-attack thestates of Georgia and Estonia. Then, he attacked Western oil and gascompanies.
Ho-hum! How boring!!Putin is clearly at his wit’s end. He has tried all the old tricks and
chicaneries and they don’t seem to be working. He has no master m entoras he had in the past to consult with like Andropov of the KGB orMarcus 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]. Thereis an old axiom that Matzoh Balls do not belong in the Borscht soup. Itwill be a short matter of time before the Russian people, no devotee ofleaven 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 theBolshevik Revolution against the new Tzar Putin. Now, folks, this is ascenario 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 GreatRussia, after so much effort was made to take down the Soviet Union.
Stalin would have been angry by Putin’s pettiness and incompetency.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Russia’s Economy Hemorrhaging: Déjà Vu All Over Again!Putin Learns Nothing from the Evisceration of the Soviet Communist
System — Declining Economy, Increase Spending on WorthlessArmaments!
Congratulations Putin! You are true to your roots of being an Ex-KGB Operative. Keep on repeating the mistakes of the past and watch asRussia teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. This time, it was not theCommunists who destroyed Russia, but the arrogance and financialignorance of you, Putin. It is unfortunate for the Russian people that inthe 21st century they had elected the ‘village idiot’— someone who goesaround town spouting nonsense as the town, or in this case Russia, isfalling apart.
The less ons of the Soviet Union’s dissolution were not complicated.At the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, I learned about twoimportant fissures in the Soviet Union. One was it’s faulty economy
producing useless goods of absolutely no value. The second importantvariable, was the fact that the Soviet Military, as brilliant as it had
performed in WWII under Stalin, could no longer sustain a forcestructure 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 destructionof that viable Federation. Like all intelligence operatives who are
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obsessed with self-grandeur yet are paranoid about their immediateenvirons, 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 takeseveryone down with him. Here are the hard numbers on what Russiamust endure as the price of world oil [brent oil down to $70-80] tumbles
precipitously because of America’s incredible entrepreneurial ability to bring more capacity on line and break the spell of OPEC [bye-bye SaudiArabia, UAE, Qatar, Algeria, Libya].
The Kremlin Apparatchiks and potential ex-Kleptocrats who havestolen trillions of dollars from Russia are now faced with the harshreality as outlined by OSINT, Stratfor, 11/4/2014:
▪ Presently the Russian cabinet is holding meetings to revise theRevenues [80% comes from oil] based on $100 a barrel. Intelligencereports indicate that the more knowledgeable technocrats are basing theRussian 2015 Economy on $80-$90 per barrel.
▪ There are some indications that an immediate future scenario ofrevenues 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 itsRainy Day Funds allocated for such a major deficit in the budget.
▪ Example: Russia has about $582 billion USD in reserves to spendon the budget deficit. $409 billion in currency reserves [immediate cashflows]. $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 Putin’s S ochi and Ukrainian“Follies” - exorbitant expenditures that would have placed him in the
Gulags under Stalin; or even the drunkard, Boris Yeltsin.That’s not the worst, right now there is about $100 billion in flight
capital, and that’s a gross approxi mation. Putin has no idea of how torun 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 governorsare no fools and they are correctly demanding that their collective debts
be immediately discounted and restructured, placing immense economic
pressure on a ‘bankrupt Kremlin’. Putin’s troubles have not even begun.The Russian banks which have been hit hard by our economic warfarehave requested a major cash infusion in the 100s of billions of dollars inorder to keep them solvent. Putin’s thugs have no knowledge of how tomanage their Rosneft owned bank, the honey pot of corruption whichmay 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) Putindemanded increased weapons spending while his country is broke. Frommy humble point of view, Russia is ready to go down in a flaming blazeof insolvency, havi ng been hit by the “Mohammed Ali double punch” ofa blow to the economy, while straining to maintain a credible forcestructure. As a result, I believe that Putin’s so -called popularity, rangingsomewhere between 80% and infinity will not mean a damn thing whenoil gets closer to $50 a barrel. At that price, Russia will be knocking atthe International Monetary Fund[IMF]; as well as the World Bank.
I hope that I am wrong; because, I have always admired the fortitudeof the Russians and its magnificent culture. However, when the Putin isallowed to mutter nonsensical words; while, at the same time, tries to
burn down his straw-hewn village, then something, or someone has togo.
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 PhDProfessor of Biochemistry at Rutgers University
The epitope for mumps is YQQQGRL. I have had students and adog who got optic neuritis, partial blindness (reversible) and complete
blindness(not reversible), from vaccine. The student from the MMRvaccine all students are required to get (mumps, measles, rubella), Mimifrom the rabies vaccine.
The question is the odds of an antibody which binds 7 aa findinganother sequence on a surface that is the same.
There are 20 aa so it 1 in 3 million. And al 3 million can bestimulated at any time by any surface antigen from any organism.
Now there is another problem with vaccines... the animal ones hadaluminum put in for patent purposes.
The other ones have thimerosa (mercury compound) which has aknown correlation with autism.
But, correlations are statistics, and statistics are like a drunk at alamp 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 asadjuvent . 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 Staf f Recommends “Modest [U.S.] Force In Iraq!” The recent article by Helene Cooper, NY Times, 11/13/2014, “Top
General Says He’s Open To Using Ground Troops To Take Mosul”reaffirms for me one basic concept of war. We never enter into a warwith the complete conviction to win. Instead Americans becomeconsumed 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 Americantroops to Iraq to be ‘military advisors’— whatever that means — we nowhave a clear statement that there will be a very high probability that therewill be American combat soldiers fighting alongside the irrepressiblenon-existent Iraq Army.
Ostensibly, we are downsizing our fighting forces. In reality, itappears that Americans are fighting everywhere from Africa to theMiddle East and on to the Ukraine. Many of these fighting personnel arecategorized in the rubric of ‘advisors’. Yet, having spent only thirtyyears in the national security apparatus, I am still not clear as to what‘combat advisor’ is other than an American soldier shooting alongsidehis designated ‘consultee’. The combatants that our ‘advisors’ have‘helped’ like the South Vietnamese, Iraquis and other unwilling patronshave all exhibited one major deficit. They don’t really want to win a waror fight for themselves.
Isn’t bizarre tha t our Presidents, JFK and LBJ, assured our nationthat we had ‘no direct involvement’ in Vietnam, after having deployedover one million soldiers in different rotations of ‘advisor’? How is it
that these ‘advisors’ then turned into massive casualties in Vi etnamconsisting of over 50,000 dead and more than 250,000 wounded?
Iraq has developed its own vocabulary of absurdity. We invaded forWMDs that were never there. We fought against Shi’ites and other ethnic
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groups who killed and maimed our ‘advisors’ at r ecord numbers. Finallywe left in order to make certain that we would never return. However, wehave 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 ourcountry without a declaration of war, to having ‘modest troop’ numbersin Mosul. Déjà vu… All over again?
What will the final result of the non-combatants in the so-called‘non-war o f 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-culturesociety that we did not really understand. Nor were we, Americans ableto effectively work with all the Shi’ites, Sunni, Kurds, Druze – and theirshifting hourly alliances, purposefully created in order to confound ourso-cal led ‘best efforts’.
Dempsey’s inevitable deployment of a ‘modest force’ is the thirdtime that Americans have invaded Iraq without a clear rationale; otherthan the duplicitous, CIA-contrived- concept of ‘fighting terrorism’ a laGeorge Bush Jr/Cheney. “Terrorism” is not a s trategy. It is a tactic thatis best handled by HUMINT, psychological warfare methods, and“regime change”— rather than kinetic actions/forces.
For some time now, I have respected both the professionalism anddedication of General Martin Dempsey. He has brooked the nonsensical,amateurish behavior of the novitiates, like Obama and his White Housestaff--- 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 Mos ul”, Dempsey enters the pantheon of Army Generals who havegone down in history as unadulterated failures like Gen. Westmoreland[Vietnam] and Gen.Tommy Franks [‘shock and awe’]. Americans haveremained 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 constantdeceptions.
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 let’s 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 Americantroops into combat but it is very hard, if almost impossible, to extractthem from combat.
Let us remember that we have not won a war since 1945. Yet wehave been involved in hundreds of undeclared conflicts over the world inthe 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
Obama’s Ruling on Five Million Immigrants Proves One SalientPoint of Politics: Power Abhors a Vacuum!
President Obama’s recent decision to allow five million immigrantsto 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 only — theappearance of diffuse political victories in a Republican Party without
effective, strong or constructive leadership means absolutely nothing. Inthe world in which I had inhabited, both as a national security operativeand as serial entrepreneur, I learned the one lesson that has buoyed me to
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success — the man alone is far more dangerous and effective than agaggle 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 mostdangerous man in the un iverse.” Whether you are for or against theimmigration 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 portrayedhim as a loner acting without consent and advice from the non-existent
legislators. Cleverly, he simply skirted the pyrrhic victory of theRepublicans who had really accomplished nothing more than spending
billions of dollars on a Potemkin election victory. Sensing the absurdityof the Republican victory where the old ineffectual diehard reblendthemselves 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 effectivelywith AIPAC, bolstering the ASEA treaty, both militarily andeconomically. He discussed the limits of confrontation with therecalcitrant Chinese President Xi concerning cyber security and
pollution. Next he reaffirmed our commitment to our front line SouthEast Asian allies insuring that our CINCPAC would work moreeffectively with our former formidable enemy Vietnam. There are evenhints that we may rebase our navy in the very country that had oncedefeated us in war. At the same time, he continued to increase the heaton the economic warfare against Putin and Russia to the extent that Putinhas had to redeploy ancient military planes, battle ships that belong moreappropriately in a mothball fleet.
Finally, while Boehner was too busy pontificated about nothing andMitch McConnell was gloating about his soporific resurgence in the
Senate, Obama made complete fools of any Republican pretension thatthey were either unified or effective. He announced to the Republicansand America what he had promised to do all along if the Republicansremained 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 oldrelic from the ancient energy era gone by.
Obama’s past month successes demonstrate several importantfactors to me about the American Republic [remember its not aDemocracy]:
▪ Executive power abhors a legislative vacuum. ▪ POTUS can declare wars, enhance conf licts 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 showedus that we have no effective leadership in our legislative houses, neitherDemocrat or Republican. What we have created through a nonsensicalTheater of the Absurd where obscene amounts of money can be spent onsycophants and panderers who can do nothing more than act the part of asenator or congressman but in reality accomplish little. Americans havecome to the sad conclusion that legislative gamesmanship is not evenworthy watching. So most of us have accordingly tuned out both theRepublicans and Democrats…And we will continue to do so way intothe future, especially in 2016.
Obama the victor, gets the spoils. Obama has effectively aced outthe legislative, judicial branches of the U.S.G; as well as the implodingmainstream media with their endless narcissistic cries of “Watch andListen to me I am your Oracle of Truth!” Such Nonsense! CNN,MSNBC, ABC, CBS have faltered into irrelevancy as no one really caresto hear or watch any of their circus shows. Even Fox has become acaricature 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 Pentagon’s “Fools and Follies.” Now, undermassive pressure from the Pentagon, President Obama announced that hewould continue to “ensure American troops will have a direct role infighting 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] tofight 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 beenaugmented in size from just Al Qaeda to the Haqqani Network to theTaliban and others. Our generals who feel that they have not had enoughwars to justify their existence, if not their absurd braids of useless metalson their chest, have literally ‘scared’ our President into expa nding thewars both into Iraq and now, Afghanistan.
I have found that our Department of Defense is replete with a groupof senior military officers who have no idea of how to start, manage, ormore importantly, FINISH A WAR!! What we have now is a militaryRUN AMOK!
Let me assure you that our National Security is in no way threatened by terrorists from Iraq, Afghanistan or anywhere else. In fact, moredeaths have occurred from obesity, smoking, diabetes than terrorism or
any other make-shift threat. Why do we continue to fight overseas inunnecessary wars? Simply because we have a dysfunctional militarycorps of officers who want to go down in their own history books tuckedaway 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 humanlives, including both military or civilian deaths that they would incurwhile trying to exercise their personal narcissistic enterprises. Thesegenerals will never shy from using such buzz words as democracy,freedom and training, in order to justify their fool-hardy incursions. Forover 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 servethemselves not our country.
We have no one in authority to stop these Generals-Run-Amok fromcontinuing wars that create needles s ‘wounded warriors’ which haveserved as ‘cannon fodder’ for the Pentagon’s Folly. These PentagonFools who think they understand war, have never really won a war. Norhave they ever terminated a war. In effect, they are men in uniform whohave become extremely dangerous to the national security of our greatnation. In addition, they have become inexorable nexus of toxic fumesof war crimes, extensive collateral damage, and a blemish on America’shistory of military victories.
As a veteran of several conflicts, I cannot in anyway rationalize theirneed to stay one more minute in Afghanistan. These foolish generalsknow, all too well, that the enemies that they seek are products ofCIA/MI creators and work in close concert with Pakistan’s ISI (also CIAcreated). Americans are allowing our generals an opportunity to fight theshadows of our own creation. Witness the shades and shadows of warslost---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 trade-offs between the need for peace and the artificial imperatives of anunnecessary 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 ele cted officials like a sword ofDamacles, making congressman hostage to our military. There is notone district in this country that does not have a piece of the military-industrial complex in it. If we have no real enemies to fight, no worries,we will just create some. President Eisenhower warned us in the late1950’s of this obscene military -industrial complex which wouldeventually devour our civil society; bleeding it of much needed
sustenance that should go to schools, health systems and infrastructurerepairs. These ‘brave generals’ whose only concern is their own personalglory ---or the self-delusion of possessing that glory – care not a wit forthe 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, thesecontinuous conflicts are serving the glory of these generals and thissystem that operates in the shadows. For many years, I have helpedDOD create strategies that would allow them to PREVENT combat inforeign lands. It saddens me to see these generals that are misguided andunchecked. This is the 21st century, its time to re-think this outdatedmilitary model that fosters such egotistical, unpatriotic militaryleadership.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
“Whiplash” The Amazing Cinema Jewel of 2014!
The story of a student jazz drummer and a relentless sadistic teacherscores major points on screenplay, direction and acting. This is a sureacademy award winner. Allow me to tell you about a film that I thinkmost of you will enjoy.
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It’s an independently produced film that won awards at theSundance Film Festival. The story is about a young drummer trying toreach perfection. Driving Andrew Neiman [Miles Teller] is a sadistic
drill sergeant of a conductor, Terence Fletcher [J.K. Simmons] whomanipulates the young man up to an obsessional point where Miles hasno other choice than to become both crazy with fury and at the sametime, the new Buddy Rich.
On the surface this story may not sound compelling, yet when yousee the J.K. Simmons, the avuncular insurance sales man on our TVcommercials, 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 bythe taut script and professional directing.
Even more amazing was the fact that the writer/director was anovitiate ex-Harvard Student, Damien Chazelle. His proficiency inwriting conflict and dialogue belied the fact that this was film was reallyhis break-out opus. Whiplash was only the second film which this 29year old man had ever directed. Like the last year’s esoteric film, “DallasBuyer’s Club” , which I had pic ked to win Academy Awards in the threecategories of script-writing, directing and acting; I will go on a limbagain, and chose “Whiplash” as the trifecta winner in all threecategories.
What pleases me the most was the fact that an unknownwriter/director had a chance to make