Scotland issue has some legs, here's an update
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/if-scotland-goes-then-britain-too/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0

I did force myself to read it, will post my review next.

Truth in a novel, great idea!
http://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2014/09/fbi-whistleblower-pentagon-cia-nato-and-mi6-were-masterminds-behind-911-2658160.html?utm_term=http%3A%2F%2Fb4in.info%2Fsfma&utm_campaign=&utm_content=beforeit39snews-verticalresponse&utm_medium=verticalresponse&utm_source=direct-b4in.info

Vote “Yes” for Scotland’s Independence!

I have been following the debates that are being launched by both the British and Scottish Governments [i.e. Representatives] regarding the benefits and dis-incentives for Scotland to secede from the British Union.  Scotland is a land and culture that has long influenced me since childhood,  from the fanciful writings of Robert Burns to the more serious considerations of the physician/writer A.J. Cronin, an outcast from the British Royal Academy of Medicine, Scotland has imparted me with an elan vital of writing esthetics that Shakespeare was not able to produce.  Of course, I have nothing against the writers of England,  Dr Somerset Maugham, also a physician/intelligence operative and playwright was an absolute genius.  Yet writers do not determine the final outcome of a nation’s destiny.  They do, however, indicate the underflow of courage, fortitude and determination that each of their respective nations possessed.

During WWII,  the Brits were a formidable force of restraint again the Nazi encroachment of Europe while France fell ungracefully down the steps of collaboration and sheer cowardice.  For me, the Scots have always been in the spearhead of the British Army,  be it in the Crimean Wars against Russia; or in WWI against the Germans; and even in WWII against the Fascists.  Remember that the infamous Black and Tan fighters? The core of any so-called British invasion or counter attack was always led by the Scottish Highlanders who were sacrifices ad nauseum in order to allow the proper British citizen a better chance of survival during combat.  I bring this point up only to demonstrate that for all of its supposed strength,  Britain has always relied on the ferocity of the Scottish people to ‘do the dirty work’.

Now Scotland is confronted with one simple question.

Are they a nation in and onto themselves?
Or are they part of a British Empire, to which, we Americans rebelled over hundreds of years ago?

My belief is that Scotland has it’s own natural resources—North Sea oil [how much is not yet determined] ; and they have the labor pool and entrepreneurial capacity to determine for once and all time that they are truly independent. Yet my insistence on their independence must go with one SERIOUS CAVEAT!! Scotland can no longer be part Financial British Commonwealth fund,  meaning that if they are to be independent, then Scotland must create its own currency which can be pegged to the euro or the british pound or the Libor. Scotland must have it’s own PRINTING PRESS, like America or England, in order to determine both it’s fiscal and monetary future irrespective of the EU or Britain’s financial future. That is a very difficult but yet very attainable position to achieve through serious negotiations with David Cameron, Prime Minister of England.

I would probably add that the British are in no way prepared for the imminent secession of Scotland.  They are too arrogant and complacent in their longstanding attitude toward Scotland as an appendage to England…. Which it is not! Next to consider,  there will immense ramifications for the secession of other parts of Europe which I find will be extremely helpful and beneficial to those countries or parts of countries that would want to secede from a corrupt, dysfunctional central control. 

In particular, I am talking about Catalonia.  From the very first blog that I had written two years ago,  I have always supported Catalonian Independence from the capital of Spain [an ersatz country created by French Kings], Madrid, because between a dynastic Royalty that has robbed the country of a rich heritage and an incompetent managerial bureaucracy which has given Spain the untenable 25% unemployment rate, Catalonia does not belong in this miscreant company of laggards and thieves.

Accordingly,  Belgium,  a country that has never been effectively integrated between the French Walloons and the Flemish Dutch, has not had an effective history of leadership in the past decade.  In one year alone, Belgium has had no less than five Prime Ministers.  Belgium, with its brutal royal lineage of decapitations and barbaric treatment of the Congolese,  is nothing more than a compilation of misbegotten French and Dutch citizens congregated on the doorsteps of Antwerp, the diamond center of Europe.

The next country that must disintegrate is Romania, a completely concocted amalgamation of Hungarians who have been displaced from their rightful heritage in Transylvania.  What we are witnessing today, is the undoing of the Paris Peace Conference of 1918-19 initiated by Woodrow Wilson, a Princeton Professor who with Puritan certainty and American arrogance insisted on creating nations along the line of language affinities which were at best faulty if nonexistent.  Therefore the 21st century brings us not chaos but a renewal of national culture which insists that their determinants of existence do not belong anymore to a central government, be it London, or Frankfurt, the heart of the EU.

Now Germany must face the hard realization that the EU will no longer provide it with cheap labor and foolish consumers who will buy only German products at an  exorbitantly high price which has been artificially created by German flooding of the EU market with cheap debt. We Americans and the world are witnessed to a new type of World War, not one where bodies will be slaughtered but artificial Royalties like England [born of German, not English blood], Belgium [pathetic royalty] and Spain[ no country whatsoever] will eventually evaporate in the long awaited ether of SECESSION.

Scotland step up and show the world what a true Scotsperson is like!

Catalonia, remember you are not Spanish!
Belgium, you are not Flemish/French. You are not a country!

Romania—dissolve yourself to the greater forces of the Magyars!!

Oh, lest I forget, the north of Italy should also secede.

WWIII will begin, not in combat but in the referendum votes,  in street protests and civic action.  May the strongest secessionist gain independence, for once,  and for all time!!!

Zalmay Khalilzad Former Ambassador to Afghanistan, UN and Iraq Under Bush Jr: Investigated by DOJ for laundering money and illegal charges for Pentagon Contracts [ANHAM FZCO].

I have been writing blogs for years about the miscreant activities of our 9/11 Chicken Hawks who under the direction of Bush Jr/Cheney initiated the ersatz war in Iraq.On top of that list of corrupt, cowardly American officials has always been the name of Paul Wolfowitz,  Deputy Sec Def under Sec Def Rumsfeld.  However, allow me now to review the ‘token Muslim’, Zalmay Khalilzad, the CIA asset recruited at the American University of Beirut, who was eventually involved in the planning of the Iran-Iraq War; the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. He was assigned to administer these countries when in fact he had no experience as either a manager nor nation-state builder. 

Zal, as he was affectionately called by all of us, was assigned to me during the latter part of the 1980’s when I was working on the West Bank.  He was efficient and spoke passable Arabic. Over the years, we became friendly.  He had a seductive manner about him, acquiescing to almost all propositions then altering them behind everyone’s back. His intellect was sharply honed at the University of Chicago along with Richard Perle,  Paul Wolfowitz, and Scooter Libby under the tutelage of the Wohlstetter family [intellectual ‘hawks’ who delineated the Pearl Harbor “Stand Down”].

Zal wormed his way up the ‘greasy pole’ of the Republican Party,  toadying to their every wish,  assisting the Vulcans: Stephen Hadley, Condi Rice, Richard Perle and other Jewish Neocons to induct a faux intellect George Bush Jr, and Cheney into the White House.  Next, we know all hell broke loose in a wave of constant chaos resurrected through various ‘terrorist entities’ like Al Qaeda and now ISIS.

However,  there is something in the nature of the American soul (and world bloggers) who are disgusted by these parasites and creators of wars.   We are compelled to find out what the truth is behind these ‘evil warmongers’ who refuse to serve our country yet insist on trading their access and influence for ill-gotten gains.  Such a despicable man is Zalmay Khalilzad, a blemish on both the history of American diplomacy and Afghanistan nationalism.

As I had suspected for years,  Zalmay’s  character is basically sociopathic and completely absent of moral rectitude. When he was appointed first to the Pentagon and then to Afghanistan and Iraq, I knew that in time, he would self-destruct.  In this self-inflicted process of avarice and corruption,  I was also suspicious of his Viennese wife, Cheryl Benard,  a professional who had always espoused the need to invade Afghanistan in order to liberate the ‘Muslim Women’.   She was finally implicated by Austrian State Prosecutor, Thomas Vecesy, for ‘an alleged transfer of $1.5 million in an attempt to launder money that came from ‘illegal activities’ in Iraq and the United Arab Emirates.

I was not surprised by her complicity.  These were two PhD professionals who wanted to live the ‘high life’ in the Washington ‘social/embassy rounds’.  I knew that between the both of them they did not have an ounce of wit about business practices or any knowledge about how to make money honestly. They would spend some time in my house asking me basic questions about organizational behavior and other topics that indicated to me that the higher these ambitious,  greedy foreigners climbed up the Republican ladder of Texas avarice and insolence, they would have to skirt the laws of our country as well as the places in which Zal would become Ambassador.

Unfortunately, many of our brave men and women in military service died as a direct result of the venal activities of both Drs Cheryl Benard and Zalmay Khalilzad.  Good news: Once this hornet’s nest of ignominious behavior is pierced than all the rest of their so-called colleagues in crime will follow:

[1] Stephen Hadley with Condi Rice have their own consulting firm.

[2] Paul Wolfowitz , at American Enterprise Institute.

[3] Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, David Arrington.

[4] Michael Chertoff-TSA.

[5] Sandy Berger [already indicted for stealing secrets]. 

Zal and Cheryl will start to talk and the new FBI and  Federal Prosecutors will extract all the necessary information to indict the aforementioned culprits along the same crimes ---‘laundering money’ from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Dubai, Iraq, Iran.  Concomitantly, there will be further indictments for ‘raping and gouging’ the American taxpayer with inflated priced Pentagon contracts for work that was never really done.

Now is the time for all the veterans of both the Iraq and Afghan wars to decide the fate of these true villains who called you all into a ‘false war’ for their own profit and personal gains, while their children were sent off to pricey private schools and colleges, safe from the ravages of war and destruction. Zal and Cheryl were ‘foreign guests’ of America. They thought as ‘foreign guests’ of this great country; they were entitled to rob, steal and deceive us,  at will.  Start rounding the thieves up!  Let’s clean house and make America a bit more decent.

      

I have an opinion, be posting soon.  Here is the background news story.
http://www.kwwl.com/story/26474771/khalilzad-ex-top-us-diplomat-in-laundering-probe

Washington ThinkTank Icon: Brookings Institute Up For Sale!

Scholarly Institutes supply Countries/Issues “Objective Conclusions and Reports” [that favor Norway, Qatar, U.A.E interests]  for the Right Price of course!  In addition, Brookings,  a non-profit Institute will lobby U.S.G. (illegally) at Tax Payers’ Expense!
These sanctimonious institutes of “Research” become the world’s bordello for U.S. Policies that Americans Don’t Want or Need! Thanks goes to the Brookings Institute; Atlantic Council; Council of Foreign Relations; and The Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS] for making it all seem so legit.

In a recent  NY Times article,  entitled “Foreign Powers Buy Influence At Think Tanks,” by Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams and Nicholas Confessore, these intrepid reporters took on the burden of examining the chicanery of one of the most sacrosanct Washington institutes of so-called, ‘Intellectual Pursuit’—the Brookings Institute.

Why is this an unusual investigative journalistic article?

The President of the Brookings Institute, is none other than the 32 Degree Masonic Equivalent of the WASP /Journalist Establishment, Yale-trained, Strobe Talbott, former Editor of Time Magazine and Deputy Secretary of State under the Clinton Administration.  Many of you who are aware of Bill Clinton’s miscreant collaboration with our venerable dysfunctional CIA, cocaine dealers par excellence but did you know that Talbot literally ‘cleaned’ out the well-documented CIA lies of Clinton’s involvement in Mena, Arkansas?  Strobe is an inveterate ‘Washington insider’ with all that term denotes.  There was a time when Strobe’s intellectual baggage was admirable as when he was assigned to Russia during the Cold War.  However,  Strobe quickly receded into the services of pandering for money to any and all countries worldwide,  much like Brooking’s Vice President,  Martin Indyk,  former Australian spy and neo-con Dennis Ross’s toady, another illustrious, faux diplomat to Israel.

I have  told you readers many times that after having been in the Council of Foreign Relations, the Disney Land equivalent of power and intellect,  I left for the simple reason that the CFR, like most of the Washington Think Tanks was primarily a huge waste of time and money.  However, what I did not know, is the fact that many, if not most these so-called ’think-tanks’ parading as ‘non-profit research organizations’ were literally ‘Lobbying Organizations’ for a wide assortment of countries.

What is the problem then?
Let me quote selectively from the NY Times article:

“The scope of foreign financing for American think-tanks is difficult to control.  But since 2011, at least 64 foreign governments state-controlled entities or government officials have contributed to a group of 28 major US based research organizations.” ‘… a list of 13 foreign governments donors to the “think-tanks from Germany to China…”

”’Yikes’ said Todd Moss, chief operating officer at the Center for Global Development after being shown dozens of pages of email between his organization and the Norwiegan government [remember, they gave us quislings during WWII]….. which detail how they lobby the white house and congress on behalf of the Norway government. Todd responded, “WE WILL ABSOLUTELY SEEK COUNSEL ON THIS.” [my emphasis].

Now, most of you will ask me why does a nice, quiet, oil-rich, ex-Nazi Collaborator like Norway needs a pathetic think tank like the Center For Global Development? 

Here it goes, believe it or not:

▪ Norway has spent over $24M on enhancing Norway’s role in NATO; here is the doozy: promote it’s plan to expand oil drilling in the Arctic as it pushed its climate change agenda [ in order to produce more oil].” 

▪ Oil Watch International, an environmental advocacy group calls ‘Norway’s forest protection’ a ‘scheme whereby POLLUTER USE FORESTS AND LAND AS SUPPOSED SPONGES FOR THEIR OIL POLLUTION.”[ my emphasis].

▪ Next Norway, no slouch in making money and world pollution, then hires the Center For Strategic And International Studies, to ‘double on the Brooking’s Study’ which will encourage Norway’s need to drill for oil in the high north translated into English—Arctic Circle.  

Norway has always had a checkered history of morality.  They were more than happy to anoint QUISLING as the Prime Minister during WWII while at the same time, they sent a few soldiers to fight with the British against “Quisling supporters”.  Get it? they play both sides of the game, just like Switzerland, Sweden, and many other Scandinavian countries. Norway also gave us the literary Nobel Prize Winner in Literature,  Knut Hamsun , 1920 , major Nazi Collaborator who had to spend time in an Allied prison.

If you think that these ‘innocent Norwegian sardine eaters’ are a moral disaster,  listen to these ‘scholarly’ disputes:

• “In order to influence USG thinking on the Middle East, Qatar hired one think-tank to argue that Muslim Brotherhood-style political Islam is the Arab world’s best hope for democracy.”

• “And the United Arab Emirates hired CSIS to allow them to buy United States Ports“ with Bill Clinton as the advocate.

• “Michele Dunne, served for nearly two decades as specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs at the State Department….In 2011, she was the natural choice to become the founding director of the Atlantic Council’s Rakik Hariri Center for the Middle East named after the Prime Minister of Lebanon, who was assassinated in 2005” 

Let me tell you about RAFIK HARIRI.  He was the most corrupt businessman in the most corrupt country.  He was ‘assassinated’ because he screwed over more business partners as he acted as the well known pimp of the Saudi Family.  He bought up all of Lebanon while he had control as Prime minister.  The Syrians killed him as a favor for countless other entities that already had it with Hariri and his near-do-well Israeli Pimp son, Bahaa Hariri [Gen. Sharon was ready to kill him for double crossing the IDF in Lebanon].

What should Americans do?
Eliminate the notion that anyone of these think-tank jackals are scholars.  Like any official Washington Lobbying Group,  force all think-tanks and their participants to register as official lobbyists for any country that gives them a so-called research contract.  Nothing is so pathetic as a think-tank scholar who cannot think,  cannot write and has nothing left but connections to corrupted greedy entities wanting US approval and access.

Let’s start scaling down Washington DC, epicenter of mediocrity; political cronyism; and expensive slap-stick comedy.  No more tax payer funded monuments to lies and corrupt business practices.  Stop funding these “freeloaders” masquerading as intellects or researchers.  These upper crust welfare recipients are detrimental to our national security.  Call a spade a spade and a lobbyist a lobbyist.  Lobbyists have to pay high taxes to ply their sly craft of influence peddling and meddling, as they should.