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Friday, January 12, 2018
MONTH OF JULY 2014 POSTS LIST
CLASSIC ASIA RUMBLE POST 2014
Monday, July 28, 2014
Kerry trying to bubble out India
To counter balance US now bubbled-out China.
Smart shopping.
Long been booming a bunch of would be Asian, and subcontinent, sumos, each getting ready to rumble.
The rumble is not just an Asian rumble, however.
Whoever can stay out of it wins.
It will not define a new, objective, world understanding.
Forget sending the next Mary Kerry Poppins down, to sort things out.
Smart shopping.
Long been booming a bunch of would be Asian, and subcontinent, sumos, each getting ready to rumble.
The rumble is not just an Asian rumble, however.
Whoever can stay out of it wins.
It will not define a new, objective, world understanding.
Forget sending the next Mary Kerry Poppins down, to sort things out.
RE THE RUSSIANS HAVE ARRIVED SURPRISE RATHER LIKE THE MAFIA BECAME EXTINCT
The Haunted Wood, re sudden Russian influence here now, see eg Ch 1, Duggan...; State in the 30s was already literally filled with New Deal left liberal Russian agents like Duggan.
The OSS, scientific projects dealing with nuclear weapons, and Treasury, were also huge success stories for Russian espionage, until after the end of WWII.
During this same time period, the Soviets were quite successful also in Britain, capitalizing (my idea of a bad but true terminological joke on these left liberal stooge dupes) on the socialist tendencies of the British Liberal Establishment, call it the Milner Group for short, chronicled in Quigley's book, The Anglo-American Establishment.
The OSS, scientific projects dealing with nuclear weapons, and Treasury, were also huge success stories for Russian espionage, until after the end of WWII.
During this same time period, the Soviets were quite successful also in Britain, capitalizing (my idea of a bad but true terminological joke on these left liberal stooge dupes) on the socialist tendencies of the British Liberal Establishment, call it the Milner Group for short, chronicled in Quigley's book, The Anglo-American Establishment.
Thursday, January 11, 2018
THIS SEEMS A FAIR DISTRIBUTION PAGEVIEW SNAPSHOT TONIGHT
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INDIAN SCHMALTZ CURRY ITALIAN LEFTOVER WRAP IMPROV
Let's just say, that your wife, who is not ostensibly Jewish, has some old schmaltz she had rendered.
Let's say that you made an Italian tomato sauce with it, last week.
There is still some left!
What do you do with it, now?
Let's just suppose that you are also retarded, and need hand holding on this.
Fine.
Here's what you do:
You get some garam masala from somewhere.
Dump a few heaping teaspoons into an oiled skillet, let it cook on low for a minute or two. Use any oil you want.
Then throw in whatever raggedy old leftover pieces of meat you have.
Saute them for a few minutes in the garam masala oil.
Now, toss in the Italian tomato sauce you had sitting around. Simmer for a very short time.
You can serve this over anything, rice is traditional, but you can even do, say, toast! Or dip chips in it!
Tonight, I rolled some in a skillet toasted sourdough spinach millet lavash sheet.
As my Mississippi preacher's wife grandmother used to say, 'best thing I ever put in my mouth'.
Let's say that you made an Italian tomato sauce with it, last week.
There is still some left!
What do you do with it, now?
Let's just suppose that you are also retarded, and need hand holding on this.
Fine.
Here's what you do:
You get some garam masala from somewhere.
Dump a few heaping teaspoons into an oiled skillet, let it cook on low for a minute or two. Use any oil you want.
Then throw in whatever raggedy old leftover pieces of meat you have.
Saute them for a few minutes in the garam masala oil.
Now, toss in the Italian tomato sauce you had sitting around. Simmer for a very short time.
You can serve this over anything, rice is traditional, but you can even do, say, toast! Or dip chips in it!
Tonight, I rolled some in a skillet toasted sourdough spinach millet lavash sheet.
As my Mississippi preacher's wife grandmother used to say, 'best thing I ever put in my mouth'.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
RE NEW CHINA SILK ROAD MIGHT HARDEN AT SOME POINT
Call it:
The Great New China Silk Road Wall
Or, simply: The New Great Wall of China
Trump's efforts, regarding a wall, are a pathetic joke, by comparison.
Sunday, January 7, 2018
BANNON TREASON REMARKS LOGAN ACT EVERYONE IS GUILTY
The problem, for a nouveau McCarthyite prosecutor, is that the Logan Act could very quickly be rammed up his own sweet ass.
It is a statutory, Salem Witch Trial level, loose cannon, baby!
AS CHINA MOVES INEXORABLY TO ENCIRCLE PUTIN W THE GODDAMN NEW SILK ROAD
Which ways is this wily bastard going to flip?
How many pivots do you think he may have, regarding this flimsy web thrown across his interminable Eurasian entrails?
NOW THAT ALL CURRENCIES ARE FIATS WHY NOT TRUMPBACKS?
I have said this before.
Why shouldn't every successive Presidential administration issue its own new Presidential currency, for that term in office only.
Think of them as successive bitcoins...
Call it a variation on the spoils system...
Some of the founding fathers would have loved it.
They certainly did not want a national bank, baby! Except Hamilton, etc.
This post is dedicated to James Grant, whose views are very different from mine, but hey.
Saturday, January 6, 2018
SOME RECENT BROOKS POSTS REPRISED
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
BOBOS IN PARADISE
Tried to read just a few pages.
Couldn't do it!
Terrible.
Gives multidisciplinary studies a bad name.
Gives multidisciplinary studies a bad name.
I think he has early onset.
This is what passes for intellectualism in America.
Bourgeoise bohemians, fails to capture anything like the kind of cultural fragmentation among better off people here.
He calls it a new upper class. Bobos are not an upper class.
We have no upper class here. We have no meritocracy here. See my posts and references elsewhere here on that idea. See also ignoramitocracy.
You might also glance at the founding documents, some time.
(His ideas on intelligence smell of The Bell Curve, which may not be as bad as it was made out to be, but Brooks could not make real use of any of it.)
An anywhere New York fallen away Jew, who spends his holidays on a somewhere dude ranch near Bozeman.
Trust me.
Terms search: Brooks, bonobos, primates, chimps
Bourgeoise bohemians, fails to capture anything like the kind of cultural fragmentation among better off people here.
He calls it a new upper class. Bobos are not an upper class.
We have no upper class here. We have no meritocracy here. See my posts and references elsewhere here on that idea. See also ignoramitocracy.
You might also glance at the founding documents, some time.
(His ideas on intelligence smell of The Bell Curve, which may not be as bad as it was made out to be, but Brooks could not make real use of any of it.)
An anywhere New York fallen away Jew, who spends his holidays on a somewhere dude ranch near Bozeman.
Trust me.
Terms search: Brooks, bonobos, primates, chimps
Saturday, November 18, 2017
RE BROOKS' BOOKS CHIMPS HUMAN RIGHTS THE SOCIAL ANIMAL
I checked these out.
The Social Animal, I read a few pages.....
Incoherent jibberish, dolled up as an intellectual tour de force.
If you asked him, point blank: "Should Chimps Have Human Rights?", he would probably say "Maybe."
If you asked him, point blank: "Should Chimps Have Human Rights?", he would probably say "Maybe."
Now I will look at Bobos In Paradise.
He obviously has a primate theme, so why not refer also, for his benefit, to Primates of Park Avenue, for comparison purposes, and to keep it on his home turf.
He obviously has a primate theme, so why not refer also, for his benefit, to Primates of Park Avenue, for comparison purposes, and to keep it on his home turf.
I am hoping for something worth attacking in detail in Bobos.
The problem with Brooks, intellectually, and you can quote me, is that he is a moving target.
Thomas Friedman, like shooting ducks in a barrel.
Brooks, quite something else.
The snipe of op ed columnists. The problem with Brooks, intellectually, and you can quote me, is that he is a moving target.
Thomas Friedman, like shooting ducks in a barrel.
Brooks, quite something else.
If you ever hunted snipe, you would know what I mean.
RE KRUGMAN MEPHISTOPHELES TRUMP FAUST ON THE POTOMAC
Our political system was done, was toast, already by the mid 19th Century, at the very latest.
It was always all the devils work, from the very beginning, really, unfortunately!
It was always all the devils work, from the very beginning, really, unfortunately!
It has just taken a very longish time to show itself fully unwinding, or unravelling, not unfolding.
The Rise of The Republican Party, and the Presidency of Lincoln, on the decaying corpses of the Whigs, the Democrats, and the Know Nothings, and the ensuing Civil War, was itself an enormous heads up, certainly an enormous amount of the devils work.
Reconstruction did not demonstrate any improvement in political conditions, in fact quite the opposite, a degenerate infernal diabolical and radical terrorist one party political devolution, unheard of in a modern so called liberal democratic civilized times, even compared to the abject, pathetic, Hellacious wartime situation which had just gone before.
Just be aware, Mr Krugman Mephistopheles, going forward, that Trump, no less than Hillary, and countless others now, are merely creatures, emanations, if you will, of the infernal spirit of your LIEO.
Just be aware, Mr Krugman Mephistopheles, going forward, that Trump, no less than Hillary, and countless others now, are merely creatures, emanations, if you will, of the infernal spirit of your LIEO.
IS THERE SOME BEHIND THE SCENES REASON FOR INTEL CHIP FLAWS?
Seems a little odd, all these well paid brilliant IT designers fail somehow to catch multiple security flaws in their own chip architecture.
And then, how does AMD, much later, suddenly pop out with a solution?
None of it passes the smell test, really.
And then, how does AMD, much later, suddenly pop out with a solution?
None of it passes the smell test, really.
RE DAVID MR MORE FREE TRADE, PLEASE BROOKS SEE CLASSIC POST BELOW RE DK POST
Saturday, September 12, 2015
RE DK CURRENT POST
"For a wide variety of reasons, which I cannot possibly take up today, it is less likely than at any time in my lifetime that either the government or the public could achieve a real strategic grasp of these problems."
Great sentence. Everyone who reads it, and stops to think in their whatever fashion, now may, or may not, think to ask, what reasons?
Kettle of worms really. Hard to answer that.
Whatever the reasons are, what are the solutions?
Here are some of the traditional candidates:
Make the www freer, and more open, (liberal international technological order) than we already blunderingly have? Not really....
Beef up NATO even more? Not really....
More Ridenour prizes? Not really..
More journalism as usual please? Not really.....
A little more McNeill Lehrerism? Not really....
More Fox News ism? Not really...
More Rush? Not really.....
Party reforms? Not really...
More congressional committees? Not really...
More presidential Committees? Not really...
Less government generally? Not really....
More government generally? Not really...
More trickle down economics? Not really...
More trickle out economics? Not really...
More free trade please (Terms search Brooks) ? Not really...
More globalization? (What about, then, a regional union, say bond politically with China in a 'PU' Pacific Union? Not really...
More American educational system? Not really...
How about credential pyramiding, say post post doctoralism? Not really...
Why not let MNCS, especially the big defense finance and technology ones, dictate strategy? What do you think?
Turn the government over to actors, even very famous ones?
Not really......
How about not only universal suffrage, from age, say, 14, they're precocious, but direct democracy for all of them, on every political issue state, local, international, and federal? Not really.......
Great sentence. Everyone who reads it, and stops to think in their whatever fashion, now may, or may not, think to ask, what reasons?
Kettle of worms really. Hard to answer that.
Whatever the reasons are, what are the solutions?
Here are some of the traditional candidates:
Make the www freer, and more open, (liberal international technological order) than we already blunderingly have? Not really....
Beef up NATO even more? Not really....
More Ridenour prizes? Not really..
More journalism as usual please? Not really.....
A little more McNeill Lehrerism? Not really....
More Fox News ism? Not really...
More Rush? Not really.....
Party reforms? Not really...
More congressional committees? Not really...
More presidential Committees? Not really...
Less government generally? Not really....
More government generally? Not really...
More trickle down economics? Not really...
More trickle out economics? Not really...
More free trade please (Terms search Brooks) ? Not really...
More globalization? (What about, then, a regional union, say bond politically with China in a 'PU' Pacific Union? Not really...
More American educational system? Not really...
How about credential pyramiding, say post post doctoralism? Not really...
Why not let MNCS, especially the big defense finance and technology ones, dictate strategy? What do you think?
Turn the government over to actors, even very famous ones?
Not really......
How about not only universal suffrage, from age, say, 14, they're precocious, but direct democracy for all of them, on every political issue state, local, international, and federal? Not really.......
CLASSIC DAVID BROOKS OUTED POST SOMEONE SAW
Sunday, November 12, 2017
DAVID BROOKS HAS OUTED HIMSELF AS MR GLOBALIZATION AS AMERICAN AS CHOW MEIN
Take a look at his The Existing Democratic Majority.
What do you all think he is talking about? American Democratic politics?
He's not talking about politics in a country.
He's talking about what he and those like him think of as his world.
He thinks of it as composed, mostly, of what he calls democrats, democrats he claims all like him.
He says we are living in an age of global populism.
What have I been telling you?
Thomas Friedman tipped his hand ages ago. Brooks has been lying doggo all this time, in some ways.
He sort of plays into my hands...
Guess what? He has no choice, his back to the wall, no where ideologically left to run now, baby.
The Age of the Democratic Revolution, run to ground to the last man, Battle of Thermopylae, so to speak...
Guess what? He's always been a Republican.
His son is in the Israeli army, not the American one.
Kind of a heads up! For him, America is mierda, the best of them, best of a bad lot, just Bobos In Paradise.
What's the only country he cares about? Take a wild ass guess.
if he tried to tell this crazy democratic majority story to almost anyone in his world right now, they would either laugh at him, kill him, or run him off. Think about it. Asia, anywhere. The Middle East. Brussels, Catalonia, Paris, Germany. Eastern Europe, Russia, Venezuela, South America, anywhere in Africa frankly, etc. They would say his line is total bullshit. They are right.
FN:
Brooks needs to retire soon, preferably to Israel, a known safe haven for Global Democrats, where he and his family will undoubtedly be as safe as anywhere on the globalized earth.
His son, in or formerly in the Israeli Army, can take special measures to harden Brooks' compound.
Terms search: David Mr More Free Trade Please Brooks
What do you all think he is talking about? American Democratic politics?
He's not talking about politics in a country.
He's talking about what he and those like him think of as his world.
He thinks of it as composed, mostly, of what he calls democrats, democrats he claims all like him.
He says we are living in an age of global populism.
What have I been telling you?
Thomas Friedman tipped his hand ages ago. Brooks has been lying doggo all this time, in some ways.
He sort of plays into my hands...
Guess what? He has no choice, his back to the wall, no where ideologically left to run now, baby.
The Age of the Democratic Revolution, run to ground to the last man, Battle of Thermopylae, so to speak...
Guess what? He's always been a Republican.
His son is in the Israeli army, not the American one.
Kind of a heads up! For him, America is mierda, the best of them, best of a bad lot, just Bobos In Paradise.
What's the only country he cares about? Take a wild ass guess.
if he tried to tell this crazy democratic majority story to almost anyone in his world right now, they would either laugh at him, kill him, or run him off. Think about it. Asia, anywhere. The Middle East. Brussels, Catalonia, Paris, Germany. Eastern Europe, Russia, Venezuela, South America, anywhere in Africa frankly, etc. They would say his line is total bullshit. They are right.
FN:
Brooks needs to retire soon, preferably to Israel, a known safe haven for Global Democrats, where he and his family will undoubtedly be as safe as anywhere on the globalized earth.
His son, in or formerly in the Israeli Army, can take special measures to harden Brooks' compound.
Terms search: David Mr More Free Trade Please Brooks
Friday, January 5, 2018
NEW CHINA SILK ROAD NEW PAX SINICUM ROOSKIES HAVE TO BE THRILLED!
Wonderful Golden Horde!
Terms search: Pax Mongolica
Terms search: Pax Mongolica
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
RE PAX MONGOLICA ENLIGHTENED MONGOL DESPOTS ECONOMISTS' FANTASY PAX SINICA
If you read Power And Plenty, and other similar accounts of the so called Pax Mongolica, you get the impression of benevolent enlightened helpful friendly Mongol Khans, the kind of people that the Chinese now ostensibly are becoming, joining the commonwealth of enlightened nations in a spirit of hope and global unity. They want to make The South China Sea, and elsewhere in Asia, Eurasia, and Africa, safe for all of us to trade freely and openly. Call it The Pax Sinica.
Friday, July 14, 2017
RE JOSEPH TAINTER I HAVE TO GLANCE AT THIS
"Mediterraneans were better off after the collapse of the Western Empire..." That seems to be one theme....
This is hard to envision.
Sounds rather like some globalist economists recently claiming that the whole world was better off under Genghis Khan's Pax Mongolica.
If you don't expect very much at all, if anything, from the different compartmentalized social sciences, anthropology, economics, history, political science, English (Not technically a social science, but one branch of it now often called journalism, a faux social science) sociology, etc., then you are not too disappointed, later.
The Pax Mongolica is a classic example of what I would have expected from economists, and so I was able to cheerfully take it in stride as just another of the countless foibles of the social sciences....
If you don't expect very much at all, if anything, from the different compartmentalized social sciences, anthropology, economics, history, political science, English (Not technically a social science, but one branch of it now often called journalism, a faux social science) sociology, etc., then you are not too disappointed, later.
The Pax Mongolica is a classic example of what I would have expected from economists, and so I was able to cheerfully take it in stride as just another of the countless foibles of the social sciences....
THE WOODROW WILSON PIVOT TO LENIN ENTERS WWI
The United States entered WWI as much, or even more, to screw the entire West, in general, as to screw just the Germans and Austrians.
We entered the war because we were in thrall with Bolshevism.
Terms search: Wilson
Thursday, January 4, 2018
THE PIVOT REVISITED RE PUTIN OWNS TRUMP
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
RE KRUGMAN RUSSIA OWNS TRUMP NOT A NEW THING
Stalin owned FDR. FDR hated Germany, way before WWII. See eg, Beschloss, The Conquerors
Stalin knew it, going in.
Plenty of liberals here will try to candy coat all of it...
The Liberal WWII Pivot: Turn your butt toward Stalin to confront both Hitler and Western Europe, and then give Stalin Eastern Europe (a big chunk of your own butt). Smart shopping!
You can also call it: The FDR Pivot
Terms search: pivot
You can quote me.
Boomerbuster
Stalin knew it, going in.
Plenty of liberals here will try to candy coat all of it...
The Liberal WWII Pivot: Turn your butt toward Stalin to confront both Hitler and Western Europe, and then give Stalin Eastern Europe (a big chunk of your own butt). Smart shopping!
You can also call it: The FDR Pivot
Terms search: pivot
You can quote me.
Boomerbuster
SHARING DAVID KAISER CURRENT POST
Thursday, January 04, 2018
The Russians aren't coming--they've arrived
Over the past week I have read the new book, Collusion, by the journalist Luke Harding, which attempts to unravel the connections between Russia on the one hand, and Donald Trump and many of those who worked for his election on the other. Despite the title, the book has relatively little to say about the Clinton hacked emails and the Russian role in the election itself. It is about something more important, a network of relations between Russians and Americans. It is a jaunty, but not an easy read. I am going to summarize the most important things that I learned from it, to try to fill in the picture in a couple of places myself, and to ask, as I always do, exactly what the broader significance of all this is. The easiest way to do this is by talking about some of the major players in the story
Carter Page, born in 1971, is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. Although he does not seem to have been to great wealth, a Naval Academy classmate told Harding that he had lavish spending habits as a student. The Navy apparently sent him to Georgetown University to earn an M.A. After serving his statutory five years on active duty, he went to work for Merrill Lynch, specifically in their Moscow office. He left their employ in 2008 and founded his own energy firm in New York, but that firm does not seem to have any other employees or any business. How Page earned his living since 2008, thus, is something of a mystery. Meanwhile, he became known as an admirer of Vladimir Putin and an opponent of the Obama Administration's anti-Russian policies, especially after the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Then, in March 2016, as Trump became the favorite to win the Repubican nomination, Trump named Page as one of his five foreign policy advisers. That July, the Russians invited him to Moscow to give a commencement address. That address featured extensive criticism of US attempts to spread democracy in the former Soviet Union.
According to the Steele dossier, Page actually traveled to Moscow in July to meet Igor Sechin, one of Putin's closest aides. Two years earlier, Page had written a fawning blog post about Sechin, protesting the sanctions that had been imposed upon him. According to Steele, Sechin offered a deal. If the Trump Administration listed sanctions on Russia, joint ventures in the energy sphere might proceed. As it happened, a large venture involving Exxon in drilling in the Arctic had been put on hold by sanctions. Sechin also dangled a large brokerage fee before Page.
Steele also reported that Page had a later meeting with a another high Russian official, Igor Diveykin. Divekin told him that the Russians possessed damaging information about Hillary Clinton, but also about Trump--something that Trump should keep in mind. After returning to the US, Page was one of several Trump aides to meet with Soviet Ambassador Kislyak at the Republican convention. By this time, as it happened, the FBI had become sufficiently concerned about Page's many Russian contacts and his pro-Russian attitudes to ask for, and receive, a FISA warrant to tap his electronic communications. US intelligence also briefed senior Congressional leaders about Page, and Harry Reed made a public comment about the briefings. In September 2016, the Trump campaign dropped and disavowed him.
Just two months ago, Page testified before the House Intelligence Committee--too late for the appearance to figure in Harding's book. He confirmed that he had fully reported on his Moscow trip to various Trump campaign officials, including Jeff Sessions. He denied meeting with Sechin but admitted to meetings with two other high Russian officials. This forced some of the Trump campaign officials to refresh their memories about having heard about Page's trip. Robert Mueller's office will presumably get its hands on Page's contemporary reports of his meetings.
Born in 1949 in New Britain, Connecticut--where his father became Mayor--Paul Manfort holds a B.A. and a law degree from Georgetown University. He was active in the Ford and Reagan campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s,worked in the Reagan White House, and worked in the George H. W. Bush and Robert Dole campaigns as well. Meanwhile, Manafort's lobbying firms signed lucrative contracts with a number of foreign leaders. He might easily have been the model for the parallel career of the Doonesbury character Duke. His clients included the American client in the Angolan civil war, Jonas Savimbi; Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines; President Mobutu of the Congo; and many other governments as well. During the 1990s he also received $700,000 that came from Pakistan's Interservice Intelligence Agency, or ISI, for lobbying activities and a documentary film production designed to improve the image of the Pakistani government.
During the 00s Manafort had a long and lucrative relationship with the Ukrainian politician (and eventually President) Victor Yanukovych, whose image he remade after Yanukovych was driven from power by the Orange revolution of 2004, after he had tried to steal the election. Manafort helped get Yanukovych into power as Prime Minister just two years later, assuring anyone who asked (including Harding, who interviewed him at legnth) that Yanukovch was now a changed man and a friend of the West.
Around 2005, Manafort also entered into a relationship with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate who cannot travel to the US because of suspected ties to organized crime. The Associated Press has reported that Deripaska paid him $10 million a year [sic] to improve Russia's image in the West. Shortly after signing that contract, Manafort bought a $3.6 million apartment in Trump Tower in New York.) With Manafort's help, Yanukovych was elected Ukrainian President in 2009 (the supposedly democratic and pro-west regime had proven ineffective and corrupt), and began eliminating his opposition. The Maidan protests five years later drove him out of office and out of Ukraine. Putin's annexation of the Crimea and invasion of Eastern Ukraine followed.
Manafort had signed Trump as a lobbing client in the early 1980s. In March 2016, he approached Trump through a mutual friend, Thomas Barrack, who introduced him to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. On March 29, 2016, Trump announced his appointment as campaign manager. Manfort immediately began trying to do for Trump what he had down for Yanukovych--telling anyone who would listen that Trump was simply indulging in campaign rhetoric and would be a different man in office. The Washington Post credited Manafort with securing the nomination of Mike Pence as Vice President. But in mid-August, a story broke that a secret ledger discovered in post-revolutionary Ukraine showing that Yanukovych's right wing nationalist Party of Regions had paid Manafort $12.7 million in cash between 2007 and 2012. Both Manafort and Trump claimed the ledger was phony and denied the story, but he left the campaign, and Steve Bannon replaced him. Much later, in mid-2017, when Manafort tried to register retroactively as a foreign agent, he admitted to receving $17 million from the Party of Regions in 2012-14.
It has been reported that Manafort, like Page, had been wiretapped by American intelligence before the 2016 election. Mueller's team eventually raided his home, and he has now been indicted for conspiracy against the United States, money laundering, and failing to register as a foreign agent. Just this week he has sued to block the indictment, claiming that Mueller's charge did not allow the prosecutor to deal with these matters. It seems rather striking that while endless hours of cable television have been wasted on the issue of "collusion" regarding Democratic emails, hardly anyone ever says bluntly that Donald Trump's campaign apparently featured a director and a leading foreign policy adviser who were both suspected of being foreign agents for Russia and Russian clients in Ukraine, respectively.
Then there is the case of Michael Flynn, who rose to the rank of Lt. General in the US Army In 2012, Flynn had been appointed head of the Defense Intelligence Agency by President Obama--in whom Flynn had no confidence whatever. In 2013, Flynn received a mysterious, unprecedented invitation to speak at the headquarters of the GRU, Russian military intelligence, in Moscow, on leadership. He returned saying he had enjoyed the trip very much. In 2014 he was forced to leave his position early and retired. He was informed that he had to report any income from foreign sources.
Flynn formed a consulting firm and co-authored a book with neoconservative Michael Ledeen. It was very anti-Obama, and in August 2015, Flynn met Trump. In December of that year he was invited to a 10th anniversary party for the Russian television network RT in Moscow, and sat next to Vladimir Putin. He received, but did not report, nearly $34,000 for the trip. In March 2016 Flynn, along with Page, was named as one of Trump's foreign policy advisers, and he became an avid campaigner for Trump, declaring at the Repubican convention that Hillary Clinton should be locked up. In August, Michael Steele claimed that he received a report that Putin was very happy with the progress of his campaign to influence the American election. Visits to Moscow from a delegation of supporters of Lyndon Larouche, of Jill Stein of the Green Party, and of Carter Page and Michael Flynn had had good outcomes for the Russians, and even if Clinton won, she would be too weakened by domestic divisions to make much trouble for Russia. And just before the election, Flynn signed a $600,000 lobbying contract with a firm linked to the Turkish government--and failed to report it. (Jill Stein's Russian connection is reportedly under investigation by Robert Mueller. She drew significant numbers of votes in the states that decided the election.)
Flynn was, of course, appointed National Security adviser by Trump. Meanwhile, he was having conversations with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, including a meeting at Trump Tower with Kushner and Ivanka Trump. FBI surveillance picked some of them up. The Obama Administration had just imposed new sanctions on Russia in retaliation for the intervention in the election, and although we do not yet have all the data, it seems that Flynn may have been discussing the lifting or easing of these and other sanctions--Putin's primary goal. In any case, he, like Manafort and Page, was now heard by US intelligence surveillance. He denied, to Vice President Pence and the FBI, that he had had certain conversations with Kislyak. The Justice Department informed the White House that he ws lying. Flynn was forced out, and has now pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and is cooperating with Mueller. It has occurred to me that the appointment of Rex Tillerson, who as CEO of Exxon had negotiated a big oil exploration deal with Russia that had to be canceled as a result of sanctions--and who has argued repeatedly that human rights considerations should not control US foreign policy--could have been designed in part to make the lifting of sanctions easier, as well.
The reader will note that I have managed so far to avoid discussing the Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump, Jr. and two Russians, the well-connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, and the former Soviet intelligence officer Rinat Akhmetshin, now a lobbyist and US citizen. They had promised derogatory information about Hillary Clinton. Their goal was the repeal of the Magnitsky Act, named after a dissident Russian citizen who had died in custody, which barred Russians guilty of specific human rights abuses from the US. Indeed, apparently some of the derogatory information they brought involved links between William Browder, Magnitsky's partner, and the Clinton foundation. This was, clearly, just one of a number of channels that the Russians had developed to persuade a possible Trump administration to lift sanctions. Donald Trump Jr. had been to Moscow several times himself, and the approach that led to the meeting came from contacts he had developed there, in the same way that Page, Manafort and Flynn had developed contracts of their own. Jeff Sessions clearly knew about a lot of this, and had spoken to Kislyak himself. When Al Franken asked him about contacts between the campaign and the Russians in his confirmation hearing, he simply lied. It is shocking that his tenure has survived the subsequent revelations.
And last, but hardly least--what about Donald Trump himself?
The President, it turns out, has sold many apartments in his properties to Russians going back to the 1980s, including some linked to Russian organized crime. He has had Russian-American partners in deals who have been involved in criminal activity. Ample evidence, reported at length by Harding, shows that Russians have invested in Trump properties to launder money. And US Attorney Preet Bharara, of the Southern District of New York, used wiretaps to catch a Russian mobster running a gambling ring out of his suite in Trump tower. Bharara, of course, lost his job shortly after Trump became President. (This episode could be the origin of Trump's famous tweet accusing the government of wiretapping Trump Tower.) Harding discusses other connections as well, including the remarkable sale of a Florida property to a Russian oligarch for about a 100% profit at the height of the financial crisis. But what struck me as potentially critical to the whole story was the role of Deutsche Bank in Donald Trump's career.
Trump's career as a developer has been marked by repeated failures to meet expectations, resulting in several bankruptcies. When his Atlantic City casinos collapsed, his creditors, sadly, decided to allow him to keep operating because they thought they would be worth more with his name associated with them. However, American bankers, according to many accounts, had finally learned their lesson by the early 2000s.The Deutsche Bank stepped in, apparently, to fill the gap. Trump personally guaranteed a $640 million loan from Deutsche Bank to build Trump Tower in Chicago. When the financial crisis struck, Trump stopped paying, with $340 left to go. When the bank sued to get their money, he countersued for $3 billion, blaming them and the other big banks (correctly) for the financial crisis. A judge threw out the suit.
Amazingly, in 2010, Trump settled the matter with the help of a new series of loans from another office of Deutsche Bank, their private wealth sector. Bloomberg estimated that by 2017 Trump owed the bank about $300 million, due in 2023 and 2024. Meanwhile, beginning in 2005, Deutsche Bank had been involved in huge money-laundering deals with Russian interests. Their Moscow office had developed close ties to leading Russian officials. It does not seem at all impossible to me that the Russians had encouraged Deutsche Bank to bail Trump out in 2010 partly to secure leverage over him. Reading this part of the story, I was reminded of a recent interview in which John LeCarre described the similarity he saw between Trump and his own father, a lifelong con man, whom he described length in his novel A Perfect Spy. LeCarre voiced his suspicion that Trump--like his father--actually has no real assets at all. I began to wonder, once again, if that might be true.
Jared Kushner is also deeply involved with Deutsche Bank, which lent him $285 million in October 2016 to pay off an earlier loan on the old New York Times building, which he had purchased from a Russian. And in early December, Kushner met with Russian Ambassador Kislyak to propose setting up a secure communications channel, using Russian facilities, between the Trump transition team and the Kremlin. He denied, when this was discovered, that lifting sanctions was discussed.
Where, then, does all this leave us?
The Trump campaign, from the moment that it first seemed likely to get the Repubican nomination, hired or involved three men--Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn--who had close personal and business ties to the Russian government and wanted to advance its interests, specifically by loosening or ending the sanctions imposed by the Obama Administration. At least two of them were benefiting financially from that connection. To judge from his many friendly statements about Putin--which continued after he took office--Trump would have been delighted to improve relations as well. That proved impossible, as it turned out, because the whole effort became so obvious. After Manafort, and then Flynn, had to leave the campaign and the Administration, Congress passed a new and tougher sanctions law tying Trump's hands. One reason Tillerson has fallen out of favor may be that he could no longer play the role some had envisioned for him.
Manafort and Flynn face serious legal problems as a result of their Russian connections. The real question is whether the President of the United States, Donald Trump, is bound to the Russian government by indirect financial obligations, compromising information developed during his trip to Moscow, money laundering deals over a period of years, or something else. That would be a very proper subject for an impeachment inquiry, but I see no possibility that the House of Representatives will undertake one any time soon. They too are in thrall of oligarchs--though not, for the most part Russian ones. I have no idea how much of the story Robert Mueller will be able to uncover. I am afraid that the real story is much too complicated and intricate for our news media, as they are now configured, to convey to the American people. I have done what I can to do so today.
As I mentioned last week, Europe in the late 16th and early 17th century was ruled by oligarchs, largely independent of state authority. Today much of the world is ruled that way--including, increasingly, the United States. Within the Trump campaign, when Manafort had to go because his Russian patronage was exposed, he was replaced by Steve Bannon, a creature of an American oligarch, the hedge fund manager Robert Mercer. The Koch brothers have just rammed the tax bill through Congress. Other oligarchs are influential within the Democratic Party. Our President and the people around him are tied to the Russian oligarchy through Deutsche Bank and perhaps in other ways. This is the world we live in, and it still would be, even if Donald Trump were to die tomorrow of natural causes. I do not know what it would take to change it fundamentally and I don't expect that to happen any time soon.
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Carter Page, born in 1971, is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. Although he does not seem to have been to great wealth, a Naval Academy classmate told Harding that he had lavish spending habits as a student. The Navy apparently sent him to Georgetown University to earn an M.A. After serving his statutory five years on active duty, he went to work for Merrill Lynch, specifically in their Moscow office. He left their employ in 2008 and founded his own energy firm in New York, but that firm does not seem to have any other employees or any business. How Page earned his living since 2008, thus, is something of a mystery. Meanwhile, he became known as an admirer of Vladimir Putin and an opponent of the Obama Administration's anti-Russian policies, especially after the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Then, in March 2016, as Trump became the favorite to win the Repubican nomination, Trump named Page as one of his five foreign policy advisers. That July, the Russians invited him to Moscow to give a commencement address. That address featured extensive criticism of US attempts to spread democracy in the former Soviet Union.
According to the Steele dossier, Page actually traveled to Moscow in July to meet Igor Sechin, one of Putin's closest aides. Two years earlier, Page had written a fawning blog post about Sechin, protesting the sanctions that had been imposed upon him. According to Steele, Sechin offered a deal. If the Trump Administration listed sanctions on Russia, joint ventures in the energy sphere might proceed. As it happened, a large venture involving Exxon in drilling in the Arctic had been put on hold by sanctions. Sechin also dangled a large brokerage fee before Page.
Steele also reported that Page had a later meeting with a another high Russian official, Igor Diveykin. Divekin told him that the Russians possessed damaging information about Hillary Clinton, but also about Trump--something that Trump should keep in mind. After returning to the US, Page was one of several Trump aides to meet with Soviet Ambassador Kislyak at the Republican convention. By this time, as it happened, the FBI had become sufficiently concerned about Page's many Russian contacts and his pro-Russian attitudes to ask for, and receive, a FISA warrant to tap his electronic communications. US intelligence also briefed senior Congressional leaders about Page, and Harry Reed made a public comment about the briefings. In September 2016, the Trump campaign dropped and disavowed him.
Just two months ago, Page testified before the House Intelligence Committee--too late for the appearance to figure in Harding's book. He confirmed that he had fully reported on his Moscow trip to various Trump campaign officials, including Jeff Sessions. He denied meeting with Sechin but admitted to meetings with two other high Russian officials. This forced some of the Trump campaign officials to refresh their memories about having heard about Page's trip. Robert Mueller's office will presumably get its hands on Page's contemporary reports of his meetings.
Born in 1949 in New Britain, Connecticut--where his father became Mayor--Paul Manfort holds a B.A. and a law degree from Georgetown University. He was active in the Ford and Reagan campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s,worked in the Reagan White House, and worked in the George H. W. Bush and Robert Dole campaigns as well. Meanwhile, Manafort's lobbying firms signed lucrative contracts with a number of foreign leaders. He might easily have been the model for the parallel career of the Doonesbury character Duke. His clients included the American client in the Angolan civil war, Jonas Savimbi; Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines; President Mobutu of the Congo; and many other governments as well. During the 1990s he also received $700,000 that came from Pakistan's Interservice Intelligence Agency, or ISI, for lobbying activities and a documentary film production designed to improve the image of the Pakistani government.
During the 00s Manafort had a long and lucrative relationship with the Ukrainian politician (and eventually President) Victor Yanukovych, whose image he remade after Yanukovych was driven from power by the Orange revolution of 2004, after he had tried to steal the election. Manafort helped get Yanukovych into power as Prime Minister just two years later, assuring anyone who asked (including Harding, who interviewed him at legnth) that Yanukovch was now a changed man and a friend of the West.
Around 2005, Manafort also entered into a relationship with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate who cannot travel to the US because of suspected ties to organized crime. The Associated Press has reported that Deripaska paid him $10 million a year [sic] to improve Russia's image in the West. Shortly after signing that contract, Manafort bought a $3.6 million apartment in Trump Tower in New York.) With Manafort's help, Yanukovych was elected Ukrainian President in 2009 (the supposedly democratic and pro-west regime had proven ineffective and corrupt), and began eliminating his opposition. The Maidan protests five years later drove him out of office and out of Ukraine. Putin's annexation of the Crimea and invasion of Eastern Ukraine followed.
Manafort had signed Trump as a lobbing client in the early 1980s. In March 2016, he approached Trump through a mutual friend, Thomas Barrack, who introduced him to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. On March 29, 2016, Trump announced his appointment as campaign manager. Manfort immediately began trying to do for Trump what he had down for Yanukovych--telling anyone who would listen that Trump was simply indulging in campaign rhetoric and would be a different man in office. The Washington Post credited Manafort with securing the nomination of Mike Pence as Vice President. But in mid-August, a story broke that a secret ledger discovered in post-revolutionary Ukraine showing that Yanukovych's right wing nationalist Party of Regions had paid Manafort $12.7 million in cash between 2007 and 2012. Both Manafort and Trump claimed the ledger was phony and denied the story, but he left the campaign, and Steve Bannon replaced him. Much later, in mid-2017, when Manafort tried to register retroactively as a foreign agent, he admitted to receving $17 million from the Party of Regions in 2012-14.
It has been reported that Manafort, like Page, had been wiretapped by American intelligence before the 2016 election. Mueller's team eventually raided his home, and he has now been indicted for conspiracy against the United States, money laundering, and failing to register as a foreign agent. Just this week he has sued to block the indictment, claiming that Mueller's charge did not allow the prosecutor to deal with these matters. It seems rather striking that while endless hours of cable television have been wasted on the issue of "collusion" regarding Democratic emails, hardly anyone ever says bluntly that Donald Trump's campaign apparently featured a director and a leading foreign policy adviser who were both suspected of being foreign agents for Russia and Russian clients in Ukraine, respectively.
Then there is the case of Michael Flynn, who rose to the rank of Lt. General in the US Army In 2012, Flynn had been appointed head of the Defense Intelligence Agency by President Obama--in whom Flynn had no confidence whatever. In 2013, Flynn received a mysterious, unprecedented invitation to speak at the headquarters of the GRU, Russian military intelligence, in Moscow, on leadership. He returned saying he had enjoyed the trip very much. In 2014 he was forced to leave his position early and retired. He was informed that he had to report any income from foreign sources.
Flynn formed a consulting firm and co-authored a book with neoconservative Michael Ledeen. It was very anti-Obama, and in August 2015, Flynn met Trump. In December of that year he was invited to a 10th anniversary party for the Russian television network RT in Moscow, and sat next to Vladimir Putin. He received, but did not report, nearly $34,000 for the trip. In March 2016 Flynn, along with Page, was named as one of Trump's foreign policy advisers, and he became an avid campaigner for Trump, declaring at the Repubican convention that Hillary Clinton should be locked up. In August, Michael Steele claimed that he received a report that Putin was very happy with the progress of his campaign to influence the American election. Visits to Moscow from a delegation of supporters of Lyndon Larouche, of Jill Stein of the Green Party, and of Carter Page and Michael Flynn had had good outcomes for the Russians, and even if Clinton won, she would be too weakened by domestic divisions to make much trouble for Russia. And just before the election, Flynn signed a $600,000 lobbying contract with a firm linked to the Turkish government--and failed to report it. (Jill Stein's Russian connection is reportedly under investigation by Robert Mueller. She drew significant numbers of votes in the states that decided the election.)
Flynn was, of course, appointed National Security adviser by Trump. Meanwhile, he was having conversations with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, including a meeting at Trump Tower with Kushner and Ivanka Trump. FBI surveillance picked some of them up. The Obama Administration had just imposed new sanctions on Russia in retaliation for the intervention in the election, and although we do not yet have all the data, it seems that Flynn may have been discussing the lifting or easing of these and other sanctions--Putin's primary goal. In any case, he, like Manafort and Page, was now heard by US intelligence surveillance. He denied, to Vice President Pence and the FBI, that he had had certain conversations with Kislyak. The Justice Department informed the White House that he ws lying. Flynn was forced out, and has now pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and is cooperating with Mueller. It has occurred to me that the appointment of Rex Tillerson, who as CEO of Exxon had negotiated a big oil exploration deal with Russia that had to be canceled as a result of sanctions--and who has argued repeatedly that human rights considerations should not control US foreign policy--could have been designed in part to make the lifting of sanctions easier, as well.
The reader will note that I have managed so far to avoid discussing the Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump, Jr. and two Russians, the well-connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, and the former Soviet intelligence officer Rinat Akhmetshin, now a lobbyist and US citizen. They had promised derogatory information about Hillary Clinton. Their goal was the repeal of the Magnitsky Act, named after a dissident Russian citizen who had died in custody, which barred Russians guilty of specific human rights abuses from the US. Indeed, apparently some of the derogatory information they brought involved links between William Browder, Magnitsky's partner, and the Clinton foundation. This was, clearly, just one of a number of channels that the Russians had developed to persuade a possible Trump administration to lift sanctions. Donald Trump Jr. had been to Moscow several times himself, and the approach that led to the meeting came from contacts he had developed there, in the same way that Page, Manafort and Flynn had developed contracts of their own. Jeff Sessions clearly knew about a lot of this, and had spoken to Kislyak himself. When Al Franken asked him about contacts between the campaign and the Russians in his confirmation hearing, he simply lied. It is shocking that his tenure has survived the subsequent revelations.
And last, but hardly least--what about Donald Trump himself?
The President, it turns out, has sold many apartments in his properties to Russians going back to the 1980s, including some linked to Russian organized crime. He has had Russian-American partners in deals who have been involved in criminal activity. Ample evidence, reported at length by Harding, shows that Russians have invested in Trump properties to launder money. And US Attorney Preet Bharara, of the Southern District of New York, used wiretaps to catch a Russian mobster running a gambling ring out of his suite in Trump tower. Bharara, of course, lost his job shortly after Trump became President. (This episode could be the origin of Trump's famous tweet accusing the government of wiretapping Trump Tower.) Harding discusses other connections as well, including the remarkable sale of a Florida property to a Russian oligarch for about a 100% profit at the height of the financial crisis. But what struck me as potentially critical to the whole story was the role of Deutsche Bank in Donald Trump's career.
Trump's career as a developer has been marked by repeated failures to meet expectations, resulting in several bankruptcies. When his Atlantic City casinos collapsed, his creditors, sadly, decided to allow him to keep operating because they thought they would be worth more with his name associated with them. However, American bankers, according to many accounts, had finally learned their lesson by the early 2000s.The Deutsche Bank stepped in, apparently, to fill the gap. Trump personally guaranteed a $640 million loan from Deutsche Bank to build Trump Tower in Chicago. When the financial crisis struck, Trump stopped paying, with $340 left to go. When the bank sued to get their money, he countersued for $3 billion, blaming them and the other big banks (correctly) for the financial crisis. A judge threw out the suit.
Amazingly, in 2010, Trump settled the matter with the help of a new series of loans from another office of Deutsche Bank, their private wealth sector. Bloomberg estimated that by 2017 Trump owed the bank about $300 million, due in 2023 and 2024. Meanwhile, beginning in 2005, Deutsche Bank had been involved in huge money-laundering deals with Russian interests. Their Moscow office had developed close ties to leading Russian officials. It does not seem at all impossible to me that the Russians had encouraged Deutsche Bank to bail Trump out in 2010 partly to secure leverage over him. Reading this part of the story, I was reminded of a recent interview in which John LeCarre described the similarity he saw between Trump and his own father, a lifelong con man, whom he described length in his novel A Perfect Spy. LeCarre voiced his suspicion that Trump--like his father--actually has no real assets at all. I began to wonder, once again, if that might be true.
Jared Kushner is also deeply involved with Deutsche Bank, which lent him $285 million in October 2016 to pay off an earlier loan on the old New York Times building, which he had purchased from a Russian. And in early December, Kushner met with Russian Ambassador Kislyak to propose setting up a secure communications channel, using Russian facilities, between the Trump transition team and the Kremlin. He denied, when this was discovered, that lifting sanctions was discussed.
Where, then, does all this leave us?
The Trump campaign, from the moment that it first seemed likely to get the Repubican nomination, hired or involved three men--Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn--who had close personal and business ties to the Russian government and wanted to advance its interests, specifically by loosening or ending the sanctions imposed by the Obama Administration. At least two of them were benefiting financially from that connection. To judge from his many friendly statements about Putin--which continued after he took office--Trump would have been delighted to improve relations as well. That proved impossible, as it turned out, because the whole effort became so obvious. After Manafort, and then Flynn, had to leave the campaign and the Administration, Congress passed a new and tougher sanctions law tying Trump's hands. One reason Tillerson has fallen out of favor may be that he could no longer play the role some had envisioned for him.
Manafort and Flynn face serious legal problems as a result of their Russian connections. The real question is whether the President of the United States, Donald Trump, is bound to the Russian government by indirect financial obligations, compromising information developed during his trip to Moscow, money laundering deals over a period of years, or something else. That would be a very proper subject for an impeachment inquiry, but I see no possibility that the House of Representatives will undertake one any time soon. They too are in thrall of oligarchs--though not, for the most part Russian ones. I have no idea how much of the story Robert Mueller will be able to uncover. I am afraid that the real story is much too complicated and intricate for our news media, as they are now configured, to convey to the American people. I have done what I can to do so today.
As I mentioned last week, Europe in the late 16th and early 17th century was ruled by oligarchs, largely independent of state authority. Today much of the world is ruled that way--including, increasingly, the United States. Within the Trump campaign, when Manafort had to go because his Russian patronage was exposed, he was replaced by Steve Bannon, a creature of an American oligarch, the hedge fund manager Robert Mercer. The Koch brothers have just rammed the tax bill through Congress. Other oligarchs are influential within the Democratic Party. Our President and the people around him are tied to the Russian oligarchy through Deutsche Bank and perhaps in other ways. This is the world we live in, and it still would be, even if Donald Trump were to die tomorrow of natural causes. I do not know what it would take to change it fundamentally and I don't expect that to happen any time soon.
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
TIPPING POINT COMING KEEPING POWDER DRY TO SCREW YOU WHEN THE CRASH COMES
That is the American way, baby.
After you have sold, at the bottom, I will buy a few shares....think about it.
After you have sold, at the bottom, I will buy a few shares....think about it.
RE DK CURRENT POST AND ANATHEMA'S CITATION
I took a look at this reference:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-oona-hathaway-and-scott-shapiro-internationalists
I don't bother to read mierda like this.....
Knock yourselves out...
https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-oona-hathaway-and-scott-shapiro-internationalists
I don't bother to read mierda like this.....
Knock yourselves out...
PAGEVIEW SNAPSHOT KOREANS SCARED SHITLESS ROOSKIES WATCHING HARD OR PORN SITES
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ROOSKIES AND KOREANS LOVE ME TODAY
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TRUMP HAS GOTTEN RID OF EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED HIM EXCEPT HIS FAMILY
Hitler ended up purging the SA, the base of his own party. What did they call it, the night of the long knives....?
JAPAN HANDS CHINA HANDS TRADED TRADING PLACES
Remember Prestowitz' book Trading Places.
He knew, way back then, but late in the game, baby, that we'd already long been totally queered once, just since WWII, by Japan.
WNYC INTERVIEW WITH A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN JEW
He' s disoriented, thinks Republican Party cannot go on...
He is right.
Sounds like he thinks he might have been queered by his own party.
He is right.
He is right.
Sounds like he thinks he might have been queered by his own party.
He is right.
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
CHINA HANDS JAPAN HANDS REAL WORLD HUNDRED YEAR MARATHON
For the last hundred plus years, each group of America's so called hands' hands might just as well have been on the other hands' dicks.
With hands like this, who needs enemies?
Just call it a Russia China Japan global gang bang!
Putin has certainly had his way with both recent candidates!
'The postwar international order, the president of the United States declared, is “not working at all.”' DK.
Terms search: pivot
With hands like this, who needs enemies?
Just call it a Russia China Japan global gang bang!
Putin has certainly had his way with both recent candidates!
'The postwar international order, the president of the United States declared, is “not working at all.”' DK.
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RE LEONHARDT TRUMP HELPING CHINA HERE'S A POST FROM 2016 SOMEONE SAW
Saturday, October 22, 2016
I AM JUST GOING TO TRY TO PUT SOMETHING INTO PERSPECTIVE FOR YOU
A lot of people think of Clinton as a ' safe ' choice, safer, at least than Trump.
Unfortunately, we, and the West, no longer have a safe versus unsafe Presidential choice.
Because Clinton merely represents more of the drifting decline that we put in place early in the 20th Century, and have kept to ever since, her candidacy is itself assuredly very unsafe, going forward, because decline of this kind has already reached what one might call a tipping point. And I am not here talking mainly about domestic politics.
Re tipping point, see prior post: HOMAGE TO RANDALL COLLINS
I am not suggesting that Trump's decisions in office would solve the international situation, not at all, but staying with a post Milner Group liberal international economic order policy, which she represents in spades, will no longer work, and not just for economic reasons, but rather for cultural and spiritual ones.
Unfortunately, we, and the West, no longer have a safe versus unsafe Presidential choice.
Because Clinton merely represents more of the drifting decline that we put in place early in the 20th Century, and have kept to ever since, her candidacy is itself assuredly very unsafe, going forward, because decline of this kind has already reached what one might call a tipping point. And I am not here talking mainly about domestic politics.
Re tipping point, see prior post: HOMAGE TO RANDALL COLLINS
I am not suggesting that Trump's decisions in office would solve the international situation, not at all, but staying with a post Milner Group liberal international economic order policy, which she represents in spades, will no longer work, and not just for economic reasons, but rather for cultural and spiritual ones.
RE NYT LEONHARDT CHINA TRUMP TPP DUMP YOU KNOW YU BEEN QUEERED YOU JUST DON'T KNOW HOW OR BY WHO
For those of you reading Leonhardt's piece on Trump helping China, I sorta feel a little sorry for ya.
You don't know which end is up, you question whether you are either a Democrat or a Republican anymore, you wonder about your orientation or your true color, and your race, you wonder why China matters more than black lives matter, or LGBT, or womens rights, you are disoriented, you rent to own, or you're rich, you eat out of food now or bite now, or a bad fancy very expensive restaurant. you are Americans.
There you are.
So, queered by China, or queered by Leonhardt, does it matter?
"Who Queers You Matters"?
Oh, by the way, what is his orientation?
There you are.
So, queered by China, or queered by Leonhardt, does it matter?
"Who Queers You Matters"?
Oh, by the way, what is his orientation?
Monday, January 1, 2018
THE OLD EUROPEAN ORDER'S LIBERALISM FROM SAY 1760 WHIG WAG SHAG
resulted in the major wars of the 20th Century, but also the major ones of the 19th that liberals like to more or less completely overlook, the Irish chronic endemic military unrest, the Crimean, the Franco Prussian, etc, Russo Japanese (a heads up, Boxer Rebellion, another), the Boer a milestone to WWI, and then in the globalization debacle which followed, and which now puts what has gone before in the shade...all swept under the thick shag rug of Western Whig History.
Americans make much of the Civil War, but it was a ridiculous, blundering, small, side show, really, in which the great powers, for various reasons, failed largely to take part (quite contrary to how they had behaved, say, at the American Rebellion of 1776... and for quite different reasons).
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