Representative Trey Gowdy [R-SC], Chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Cost American Taxpayers $7Million Dollars with Nothing to Show for it.

Very rarely can a House Representative make a ‘horses ass’ of himself. Yet,Congressman Trey Gowdy [R-SC] did it over an eight hour hearing investigating the Benghazi affair by inadvertently allowing ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to perform at her best. Gowdy and his “Animal House” Republican sycophants, were so completely ignorant of the matter at hand that they fell into a “bear trap” that insulated Hillary from any accusations that she might be a liar.  At the same time, they made her appear stoical,smart,diligent, and resilient all at once.In financial terms, Gowdy and his miscreant staff wasted $7-12M without even having the vaguest idea about what they were trying to achieve neither short and long term.

Even I,a loyal Republican opposition member,  was taken aback as I watched Hillary correctly answer all the questions that Gowdy and his sycophants asked her about the State Department and the so-called failed Benghazi security problem.

South Carolina’s wonder-boy prosecutor, Trey Gowdy, has shown the world that ineptness and narcissism are the crucial ingredients for self-immolation on the stage of worldwide media. Without any semblance of self-awareness, or even a modicum of self-reflection, the ‘Spartanburg Wiz Kid’, Gowdy never asked the right questions about a covert installation that had absolutely nothing to do with the State Department or Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Instead the Benghazi problem revolved almost entirely around what really happens when ‘black ops’ and ‘off the book’ operations get into unforeseen problems. As someone who has been involved in such off line operations around the world, I can categorically state that there are no set rules for protection or safety wherever you might be working. Gowdy and company should have realized this reality from the minute they started researching the Benghazi affair. 

No… they decided to go on air for a good eight hours, demonstrating to me and the world how truly ignorant and incompetent our legislators really are. (CIA gotcha!) Equally disturbing was the $7M cost to the American taxpayers to allow these vapid glory boys to insist on having their one day in the sun in front of countless millions of viewers.

Never again!

I think that Trey Gowdy has done enough damage for one congressman. What a tool! Might suggest that he retire ASAP! I am sure he has a comfy $$$ account based on his NON-work in the Benghazi-Non-Investigation.  Love to see a record of his deposits in his Swiss bank or North Carolina bank account.  Can’t wait for the NEVER READ book that he will get an advance on…from some GOP/DEM PAC.

As for Hillary Clinton, there are many things wrong with her. Yet resilience, hard work, competitiveness, and endurance are not any of them. May the best she-man in the 2016 Presidential race win!

The creator of Peter Pan [i.e. Gowdy] wrote the following suggestion:

“Life is a long lesson in humility.” 

Bibi [Israel] and Erdogan [Turkey] Embrace After a Six Year Hiatus of Acrimony!

When the world’s attention is on the EU/Brexit, I would like to congratulate two of my favorite villains: Bibi & Erdogan for normalizing relations between the two countries after six years.In an extremely brilliant strategic movement, both leaders spent months negotiation a deal that restores normal relations between the Jewish State and the primarily Sunni Muslim State.

Not bad for two enemies who have been fighting over a raid which happened six years ago! Reminder: 10 Turkish activists were killed by Israeli navy commandoes when the Turkish boat, Mavi Marmara, tried to break an Israeli blockade of Hamas controlled Gaza Strip.

This new agreement specifies the following:

• Israeli government apologized for the 2010 raid and agreed to pay $20M in compensation to the families of the bereaved and injured pro-Hamas Turkish activists.
• Turkey will pass laws indemnifying the Israeli soldiers involved in the raid.
• Both countries will resume Ambassadorial relations.
• Israel will explore with Turkey potential lucrative gas deals in the Mediterranean Sea.
• Military weapons, training exercises, and intelligence sharing will resume for both countries.

Why is this important?

Turkey was the first Muslim country that recognized the state of Israel in March,1949. Since that time both countries have had extensive national security/business relations which allowed Israeli jet fighters to fly/practice unencumbered in the vast lands of unoccupied eastern Turkey. In turn, Israel has provided Turkey with advanced weapons systems and made certain that Turkey was secure both internally and externally.

How did this unusual Muslim/Jewish relationship come about?

During the birth of Jewish Zionism [somewhere in the late 1920-30s] when Ben Gurion was developing a foresighted foreign policy for the non-existing Jewish state, he spent an immense amount of time with Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, then the secular leader of Turkey [believed to be a crypto-Jew from Salonika].

Both visionaries foresaw a world where both a Jewish and Muslim state could co-exist and co-operate in a meaningful relationship without resorting to constant religious bickering.

Ben Gurion went even further in his quest to surround the Middle East with Muslim ethnic tribes like the Kurds and others [non-arabs] who could eventually help the nascent state to survive in a hostile environment. For the most part, his vision was successful.

Israel is now in close partnership with Saudi Arabia, Dubai, UAE, Jordan and other Arab/Muslim states.These alliances which have been kept secret for the most part have really prospered over the past eight years as the Obama presidency correctly decided to diminish its moral/financial support of Israel.

What we are witnessing today is the growth of Israel from an infantile dependency on the USG into a more mature outgoing country forced to make alliances of all sorts with its presumed enemies—the Muslim/Arab world.

In time, ISIS will disappear. Instead we will see a new balance of relationships where Israel will continue to be a conduit between the Sunni Arab states and the Shi’ite Persian [non-Arab] Iranian hegemony.

Finally, strategic geopolitical and psycho-political imperatives have forced all the countries in the Middle East to make serious accommodations with each other in order to maintain political/economic stability throughout the region.

Mazel Tov and Merci—to both Turkey and Israel!
May their respective people enjoy the mutual bounties/benefits of peace.  

   

Probably on again at 2PM, talk about Benghazi Report.

Thanks to Patriarch, yesterday's show on Alex Jones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnN_RLDduPI&app=desktop

EU JUNK! Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker!

By now, Brexit has become the “boogey man” of world politics.Everyone is afraid. Yet,they still don’t know why.

The reason is simple. 

A country with a rich, highly textured culture [Britain] has defied the mores of an upstart union of 28 countries [the EU] and decided to leave that union. The EU was led by a man from the tiniest of countries,Luxembourg. Jean Claude Juncker who directed a state ministry of ‘a few dozen employees’ became the big honcho with the title of European Commission President. [Der Spiegel Online International by Peter Muller, Christoph Pauly, Christian Relermann, and Ralf Neukirch].

If anyone wants to understand why the EU is so bloated and incompetent, one must read the Spiegel Online International article written about this bombastic, ego-maniac leader who does not have the faintest clue about managing an organization of 30,000 bureaucrats.
The question is why are there so many people doing publicity [whatever that is]; and/or, wasting good taxpayers’ monies processing 100 page documents which no one reads? The answer lies within the nature of useless, complex organizations. These entities tend to multiply from within like cockroaches scurrying about on a hot, humid day in Hades.They exist simply to exist and collect your money.

When an ethereal bureaucracy is placed on top of another bureaucracy which may be considered nationalistic or legitimate, then we have the EU conundrum. Its a con,a scam or a ponzi scheme. Imagine that some anonymous bureaucrat in Bruxelles, Belgium, is ordering a red-coated Chelsea Pensioner living in London to trim his future earnings?  

All hell breaks loose!

On top of this hot mess, one literally places a ‘horses’ ass’ to lead this misbegotten entourage of supernumeraries. Hence we have Brexit; as well as, the eventual dissolution of the EU. No one wants to take orders from a Kafkaesque personae located in the ether of nowhere [and believe me Belgium qualifies for nowhere].

Allow me the opportunity to quote you a few lines from Spiegel Online concerning Herr Juncker’s major faux pas:

• “He has even come up with a philosophic framework for his increasingly erratic behavior….  called, Political Commission” wtf??
• “According to the European treaties the body Juncker leads is a normal government agency that must INSURE that AGREEMENTS REACHED ARE ADHERED TO…however, he sees his job is to break agreements if it is politically advantageous.”
• “But in Paris, Juncker essentially CLAIMED that he is no longer bound by rules of the economic and MONETARY UNION.”

You get the idea. 

We have a Luxembourg version of Obama/Clintons.The great difference is that we, Americans, are splayed out over such a big country that despite threats to the contrary, it is hard [nearly impossible] to enforce Washington D.C. laws that do not suit our personal predispositions [be it the First or Second Amendments].

Brexit underscores the importance of understanding/accepting the thermodynamic laws of entropy [disorder] which must prevail in the ongoing DEVOLUTION of power from the EU to the individual nation states. 

For a while the financial markets will roil downwards, as it must.Major change and its concomitant partner –uncertainty—go hand-in-glove.

I recommend that the EU: Junk Juncker!
and then, take a good look at the southern tier countries like Spain,Portugal,Italy and Greece – all of which will continue to default on their obscene amount of unsolicited German credit until they admit the dirty little secret that Juncker was trying to hide. They are all bankrupt!

The times are changing. 

Our political elite were completely surprised/stunned by the binary choice of Brexit. Who can blame the EU for their CLOWN JUNCKER when we, Americans, are subsidizing a circus cavorting in Washington D.C with trillions of $$ of citizen’s tax money. I should remember that “people in glass houses should not throw stones.”

I will…till the next time when more countries exit the EU! Until then, a bientot!

from Tony U.P.

The Florida Milk Farmer: National Security Problem Vs. George Will or Washington D.C. Supernumerary/ Burn Out!

Yesterday, the highly touted intellectual-conservative literary writer, George Will, left the Republican Party over his disgust with Donald Trump as the 2016 nominee.

Good riddance!

Last night, I spent a lovely evening with my friends, J and N, who run a highly prized dairy farm which specializes in a certain type of milk and cheese that services an indigenous area of several thousand consumers. Today, I sat down and realized that my friends, the dairy farmers, are presenting America with a national security problem. 

In contrast, the effete George Will has been a drain on the good will of this country. The farmers are needed. George is disposable.One received countless media attention [George]. The other lives in total anonymity.Something is wrong with this picture.

Forget the fact that Farmer J served valiantly in our highly sophisticated nuclear submarines during the Vietnam War. Contrast George was AWOL/draft dodger--obtaining one useless academic degree after another in order to avoid the draft.

The fact is that in our great country, fewer than 7% of our farms are family owned.What that means is that we, Americans, will have to depend on mega agriculture corporations to supply us with our daily sustenance over the next several years. The shortage of future farmers is a dire problem for America. Fewer young people want to go into farming because it is damn hard work. [usually more than 18 hour days]!

It is so difficult to run a family farm now that most children of American farmers leave their family to try some easier lifestyle in the big cities. Worse, yet, the price of milk today is so low that it is at the same price that it was in the 1970’s. Five major family farms went bankrupt this year alone in my small area of northern Florida.

Forcefully stated, the present situation of diminishing family farms, constitutes a major national security problem [similar to that of increasing droughts]. Without the food that we Americans have grown accustomed to eat, we will find that we will have fewer fresh items to consume at our local grocery stores. More processed foods are detrimental to our health. 

The reason that farmers today cannot make a decent living is because that the ethanol we still use for gas was made from grains/corns [sugar canes] needed to feed the cows. Accordingly, the price of feed has risen to prohibitive amounts, forcing most farmers to abandon their family farms.

Yet, we no longer need ethanol in our fuel to reduce carbon emissions. In the USA, our ethanol is made from corn primarily grown in the Midwest. Surprisingly, the powerful U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley [R-Iowa] has created an unnecessary glut of ethanol made from corn; primarily subsidized by the American taxpayer at the expense of small family farmers all over the country. Now these family farms can no longer afford to buy that necessary feed for their animals [cows, etc].

In addition, it turns out that ethanol is quite destructive to our car engines which have to be constantly repaired.It’s time for the American public to wake up and insist that we can no longer take our family farmers for granted and address this issue ASAP! We don’t need ethanol in our gas tanks.

We don’t need George Will or any other Republican like him. We do need our family farms for the prosperous future of our country!