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Friday, January 8, 2016





Pentagon to Extend Medal of Honor to Drone Operators Thousands of Miles Away from Combat Zones ! 
Obama’s new type of warfare demands new medals for courage and bravery in the midst of combat operations involving non-life-threatening, joy-stick warriors. How do I praise those brave men and women who have to sit in a room filled with overwhelming computer screens and flashing lights; almost blinding them with instant information that will determine whether they will, or will not, push a button on command from the CIA… or the US Military… to kill unknown personages [suggestive targeting]?
Quite frankly, I am perplexed!

The fact that our military has been feminized, eviscerated, and completely denigrated to a slovenly expression of non-warrior types has been mounting in the American public’s daily monitoring of the faux war; or, self-created war on terrorism. Obama has created an “Alice in Wonderland” type of existence where the concept of “brave” means “coming out of the closet”; and, the term “warrior” denotes non-confrontation with danger. Now if the person happens to be lucky enough to play with a joy stick thousands of miles away from a combat zone, he/she can become a ‘hero/heroine’.
Amazing!
What exactly can you expect from a POTUS; or, a Sec Def who has never witnessed the swollen, cankerous bellies of rotting corpses in a desert or a jungle? I can’t blame them. In fact, I do pity them for their obvious lack of courage. I despise them for their audacity and stupidity; assuming that a drone war, is both effective and aseptic.
As many of our former and present DCIs have pointed out in the excellent TV show, “Spymasters”, many of the more enlightened ones stated categorically that “killing so-called Al Qaeda operatives was at best counter-productive”; because the most important part of this type of counterterrorism war was HUMINT and humane interrogation.

“We cannot kill our way out of this war.” [“Spymaster”].
In any case, let’s go back to the potential heroes of the drone warfare and try to imagine what hazards these poor warriors may encounter in their daily kills:
hemorrhoids; sitting for hours on end can be detrimental to your anus.
tenosynovitis; no question that playing with a joy-stick for too long can induce an inflammation of the wrist/hand joints.
blurred vision; most of us know how terrible it can be staring at the internet for hours on end.
obesity; sitting in a chair for too long, without any exercise, can be harmful to your health.
You get the point.

Armchair warriors, including Obama, Ashton Carter, and many others have had to reconfigure a US military that really is not supposed to win a war; while, at the same time, allowing themselves the latitude to illegally initiate conflicts all over the world in the name of “protecting our national security” and lining their own pockets, of course.
However, what all of us have missed in this “Drone Award” is the fact that the true fighters in any conflict [i.e. Benghazi] are the outsourced mercenaries. They work for private defense contractors who are paying these “hired guns”-three to four times what an ordinary soldier in our military might make. These American Hessians receive an accolade entitled, “The Shadow Warriors Awards”.
Now, Obama has never discussed this award in public for fear that we might understand that he, like the others Presidents before him, has bypassed our Constitution; as well as our Congress; so that they may wreak havoc, at will, without our polity having to know anything about it. They can kill without any political/economic repercussions.
Why bother with the Constitution when you can hire killers from all over the world [Chile, Bulgaria, Chechenia, etc.] to do the POTUS’s dirty works? Obama is so clever that to avoid any mention of possible American military deaths which would presumably outrage the American public; he, in concert with John Brennan and other DCIs, sent Special Operations Forces[SOF], and placed them under the secret command of SOCOM; reporting, directly to the DCI, and not, the JCS; or, even the regular military command and control structure.

Get it?
We are playing games with our military and losing one war after another; because, no one in the WH or in USG has any idea of what they really are doing.
Therefore, I propose a new award for POTUS, Sec Def, DCI and the JCS---something along the lines of --- “The  Medal of Honor for Prevarication and Pusillanimous.”

If we actually had an effective DOJ; FBI; Homeland Security; or even Secret Service, these aforementioned miscreants, would have been brought up on charges of fraud and intent to harm our body politic. I know, that is asking too much from our domestic overseers of our national judiciary. They are too busy harassing innocent citizens with their nonsensical warrants, investigations, and false flags.
How sad it is that the following names : Holder; Freeh; Webster; Mueller; and now, James Comey… are just political appointments blasting our ears with much sound and fury.. signifying absolutely nothing!

T.S. Eliot, the great British writer said the following:
“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.” 

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Someone posted this "letter to the editor" on my Twitter account.  An incredibly well organized, researched opus on Sandy Hook false flag.  Its a worthy read. https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=1010432915661688

Wednesday, January 6, 2016





Major Fluctuations in the World Financial Markets, Disturbing!
For some time now, I have been writing about the possibility of a major deflationary cycle spanning the world markets. Many of you have already predicted that possibility quite a long time ago. However, the recent Chinese devaluation in January of this year, on top of their other economic problems, has been quite disconcerting to me. I have repeatedly mentioned that President Xi Jipeng is not deliberately entering into an economic war with the highly pegged US Dollar. He has a real problem managing a system rife with corruption, false evaluations, and massive speculations. In part, I attribute these aberrations to the Chinese national character which, by nature, has been and will continue to be speculative because there may be no more possibility for real growth in the Chinese GDP.


Equally disturbing are the economic problems in Russia, Turkey, Ukraine; all related to the decreasing price of oil which I believe will remain low because of a massive glut in the world markets [including Brent, Sweet oil, et.al]. On top of these problems, we have the failing nation states of Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia , et. al. Interestingly enough, the American dollar keeps climbing higher and higher until we will not be able to export much of anything other than the over-valued, cash-strapped hi-tech companies which are valued in the billions while exhibiting negative cash flows. This bizarre phenomena will mandate a new type of math calculations which I have yet to comprehend.

Next we must consider the increase rate hike by the Feds which will choke off some of the necessary liquidity to sustain a minimal growth of at least 2 % per year. While the price of gas is dropping, the price of basic foods have increased somewhere around 6-10%. This means we will be able to drive more cheaply to a fast food restaurant and spend the difference we saved in gas on the increased price of the burger/fries and a coke.The USG optimistic statistics of increased employment is flawed because, as most of you know by now, it’s based on part-time jobs with minimum labor costs which will have to be subsidized by the feds, one way or another [EBT cards, Social Security, etc].

These aforementioned trends are the ones that appear somewhat apparent today. However, there are other hidden political/banking movements that are not so obvious. Switzerland, a wealthy country with possibly the highest currency value [the Swiss Franc], is now in a process of initiating a referendum that might change the banking system that we have been used to for the past 300 years. The Swiss want to eliminate the banks’ capacity to make money. They will force Swiss Banks to maintain currency reserves of 100% in order for them to be considered a ‘bank’. Loans, as we know them now, will be relegated to other sectors of the economy—private lenders—and the Central Banks, thereby, bypassing the need for local or regional banks. These new currencies will not be paper money any more but bitcoins of electronic transfers of binary numbers as in Pay-Pal or the Lending Club.

This all amounts to is a very great uncertainty as to which way our world finances will go. Wars can no longer pull out a country from a deflationary spiral as WWII did for the USA. Manufacturing will become a smaller segment of the world markets as people train for more hi-tech, process-oriented jobs.
We are in a time of major change. Adaptation and ingenuity will become paramount, if we are still able to maintain a wisp of hope.

As Charles Dickens wrote in the Tale of Two Cities:
“These were the best of times; and the worst of times.”
Let us approach this dichotomy with quiet resolve and pragmatism; and not bemoan our newly undefined fate.

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Monday, January 4, 2016





Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama—Tweedle-Dee and Twiddle-Dumb!
No two men joined by emotional/ intellectual propinquity have done more to destroy the American ethos than Rahm and Barack. Even their prospective names denote something strange and distant. Rahm, born of a pediatrician who fought in the EZL [Irgun], grew up to become a ballet dancer. Everything about his past history denoted a socialization process which would lead a normal man into an effeminate career.

Rahm’s outward demeanor of brashness belied an insecurity that screamed for attention and compliance. To those who felt he had some modicum of talent, like the Clintons or Obama, he was seconded into their respective services as a ‘fixer’. However, like his Hollywood brother, Ari Emanuel, their narcissism drove them each into a field of endeavor which entailed extreme measures of manipulation and prevarication.

Rahm has never admitted to greasing the failed Obamacare by having his toddy, Obama, pay the pharmaceutical industry over 80 Billion dollars in order to extract a failed health care initiative. Similarly, when Ari bought out the William Morris Talent Agency, he initiated a system of reimbursements to clients which bordered on malfeasance. 
Neither Emanuel brothers have anything in common with America; or its ethos. They are strictly the product of Diaspora Jews whose loyalty to Israel was far greater than their allegiance to this country. They were socialized to help the IDF at a time when many of us were drafted/offered to serve in the US military during many conflicts. Their socialization was centered around ballet dancing in a city, Chicago, which screamed of violence and murder. Their schooling tended to the mediocre and on the yin side of education. Thus, the notion of American sports like baseball, football, or guns was at best alien, if not completely discouraged. Ari and Rahm were turned into Peter Pan boys who never had to confront violence or combat mano a mano. 

They each chose a profession where backroom guile, insinuation and emotional tantrums were the only means of motivating others. Intimidation by screaming and yelling was the keystone of Rahm’s apparent success in the greasy pole of politics. Their companion, Obama, was the dark equivalent of each of them, fearful of taking an outward appearance of American pragmatism. Instead, Obama, hid behind the imperial mandates of drone wars and ‘signature assassinations’, the hallmark of a military coward. Like the two ersatz American brothers, Obama never took the time to understand the cultural differences between Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and the deep Christian South cross-pollinated with the masculine imperatives of Wyoming, Montana or Idaho. All three individuals were as far removed from America as one could conceivably imagine; engrossed in a culture of feminine traits and Chicago chicanery—a deadly mixture ready to explode.

Now, the recent cowardly death of a Laquan McDonald, a 19 year old Chicago teenager mercilessly shot 16 times by white officer Jason Van Dyke, has erupted into a manifestation by the citizens of Chicago who are demanding the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel. The reason is simple. He acted in accordance with his vile, corrupt personality of hide and seek. Along with his cohorts in Chicago and his ‘best buddy’ Obama, he covered up the murder as one might expect of a spoiled male ballet dancer whose only ‘trick’ was to lie and ‘dance away’ from the truth.
However, in the meantime, his best friend ever [BFE], Obama, the equally flagrantly effete POTUS, decided to enact one of his more macho scenarios of ‘gun control by executive action.’ Clearly unhappy with the results of his lies, deception and betrayals, Obama, the errant knight of Fairy Land, decided that the false Sandy Hook story plus other ersatz scenarios of make-believe gunfights was not enough to convince the American public that guns, in themselves, were dangerous. Obama has done absolutely nothing to stop black on black gun violence in his hometown of Chicago. This seeming contradiction between words and actions reveals a basic fear wherein POTUS has not and will not address the issue that was his to claim—why blacks have a higher rate of murder than any other minority group in this country?

What will POTUS do in his own backyard in Chicago where the blacks have the strictest gun controls in the country and are still killing each other at a rate far greater than in any other area of the country where gun controls don’t even exist? 
I contend that both Obama and Rahm Emanuel are ineffectual role models for any normal male socialization pattern anywhere in the USA. Obama is far more concerned with pronouncing rights for minorities like LGBT or “same-sex marriage”, rather than deal with the nitty-gritty of disarming black gangs either in LA, NYC, SF, Miami, et.al.

Neither person, Obama and Rahm, are really representation of the American male. What they are and what this country has become are petulant teen-agers who yell, scheme or manipulate their way into wealth and prominence.
Theirs is the way of the past, and now we must wait for the future to arise in the guise of entrepreneurial competence and masculine bravado. There is a difference, my friends. If we don’t discard these two models of effete socialization, we, Americans, will pay a very onerous prize.
In the words of the British writer, John Dryden:
“Beware the fury of a patient man.” 

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Sunday, January 3, 2016

others agree http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/nimr-al-nimr-execution-protesters-tear-gassed-in-bahrain-after-saudi-arabia-carries-out-death-a6793761.html



Saudi Arabia Welcomes the New Year 2016 with Salafist Compassion and Empathy.  
The New Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Nayef, in his Sagacious Wisdom, Summarily Executes Shi’ite Holy Leader, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr!
The Holy Wars Continue!

For moment there, I was becoming concerned by our brave Hawaiian/Kenyan Leader, Sheikh Obama, and his obsessive needs to create false flags and stand-downs like Sandy Hook in order to impose gun control. Yet, no act of stupidity by Obama can really match the pubescent thoughts of the present rulers of Saudi Arabia. After having just executed over 157 people to mark the beginning of the new year, Saudi Arabia sent ‘a message of determination to Iran’ [NYTimes, Ben Hubbard, January 2, 2016] by killing the most revered Shi’ite leader in that God-forsaken rat hole, Sheikh Nimr al Nimr, the leader of  the minority Shi’ites in Saudi Arabia.
Since Islam provides for more than ample allowance for the eye-for-eye Code of Hammurabi, The Saudi Arabian Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulazziz Al Sheikh “called these executions a ‘mercy to the prisoners’ because the executions would save them from committing more evil acts.” Now, if that reasoning is not solipsistic, I don’t know what else to call it, other than venal, absurd, short-sighted and clearly self-destructive.
If anyone in America or the western world thinks that the present reign of terror is about anything other than Shi’ite versus Sunnis; they then should keep their hands on their smartphone and their minds on social media—lost in the world of binary numbers and the Kardashians. Nothing has changed in decades or centuries, since the Shi’ites and Sunnis have been killing each other over a belief; interpretation of the Koran; or whatever rationalization might be proffered at a particular time.

I have repeatedly warned the Saudi Kingdom that they are living in a world of self-created misery and death that has been their inveterate companion since the birth of that desert kingship [after WWI]. Nothing was more ill-timed and poorly conceived than executing a highly revered holy man [whatever his religion] alongside common criminals who were absurdly categorized as ‘Al Qaeda/ISIS’ terrorists.
No one in the world will believe that Saudi Arabia, which gave birth to Al Qaeda,  in concert with its puppet masters--the choirboys from the increasingly defunct American CIA; Israeli Mossad; and British MI/6—can exonerate itself for past, present and future crimes committed against the rest of the world. Iran has and will retaliate in kind, if not worse. The world is waking up and realizing that the Saudis are very old news and the country is warped beyond repair. 
Having travelled through both countries, I garnered a clearer sense of civility and sobriety in Persia, present day, Iran. I personally witnessed their complete tolerance toward Sunnis, Greek Orthodox Russians, Armenians, Jews, Christians and many other religious sects other than Bahais [unfortunately]. In contrast, Saudi Arabia tolerates no other religion on its soil—neither Christianity nor Judaism [its creator and writer of the Koran].

Geopolitical imperatives had placed Saudi Arabia, and its desert minions in supplicant positions to the great western powers of England and America. However, now that neither power is in need of its sycophant partner, Saudi Arabia has literally been cast to the desert of 40% unemployment; as well as thrown to the mercy of a resource which has been completely depleted—oil.
Now, alone, left on its own, Saudi Arabia has shown a complete lack of understanding of how to arise as a civilized nation in a world that no longer cares about a former faux desert kingdom. It would behoove the rulers of this pathetic country to learn a little bit about Christian charity and forgiveness in this New Year of 2016, if they have the least desire to see the next few years.
My prediction is that Iran will teach SA such a strong lesson that their rulers will think twice before committing another stupid act like this one. As for the rest of the world, let Shi’ites continue to kill Sunnis. That’s just what they do.

 I urge both sides to enter combat at full force until there is no more will to fight. Only the complete exhaustion of hate can allow for some new, more constructive remedy in the 21st century.
Allah Be Praised!
    

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Friday, January 1, 2016

Got hacked, again. if I only had some courage to switch away from aol. lol.  Will be posting soon.