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Mexican Government Asks for Meeting With Pompeo, Alarmed at US designation of Drug Cartels as Terrorist Organization

No one should mistake what this is about. Plans for a US Military deployment into Mexico are being drawn up. That is the only reason to change the designation of Criminal Organizations,  which should be a matter for a Sovereign Nation's Law Enforcement in cooperation with others, into that of Terrorist organizations. The United States has Troops on the ground in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and other Countries under the rubric of "The War on Terror". None of those countries, asked us in. The US went in. This is why Trump wants to bring soldiers home from where they are, in order to deploy them onto the border and into Mexico. This is why he is pardoning War Criminals, to send the message to every potential psychopath in the Armed Forces that if they murder POWs, and defile their bodies like the Somali War Lords, the President has their back. He wants killers who will follow his orders to carry out his future plans with unswerving loyalty.  This is why the White House studied...

Philly Inquirer Op-Ed Raises Question, is GOP a Cult?

  Rather than taking the Sgt. Joe Friday approach of "just the facts ma'am", (Dragnet) or doing some forensic analysis of specific events, people or factoids, I would like to address certain general principles that might be helpful in forming a reasoned judgement on the matter.  First, we have a Constitutional Crisis. Second, is we as a Nation are more divided than at any time since 1860. And third, there are many informed people that have drawn the same conclusion as Will Bunch, that the Nation is imperiled having been hijacked by a Cult, which is in every way acting to protect, defend, and continue the criminal behavior of Russian asset or agent, Donald Trump. Neither Trump nor his defenders have denied that he did what he is accused of. Most of his defenders argue that yes, it was wrong, but not Impeachable. There is not a lack of clarity on this matter. Before digging in, I have never been one to generalize or judge individual people with broad brush strokes. It's...

Czar Vladimir the Terrible- What Makes Putin Tick?

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There is confusion about why Vladimir Putin is so aggressively interfering in the US election process, and what is really behind the massive influx of Russian money into US investments and coffers of US political figures and "Conservative" Trump associated organizations. Is this about one candidate or Party that is preferred by Putin? What is his goal?  US Intelligence Agencies have a myopic view, that Putin's motives are simply to sow division and internal conflict here, pinning down the United States and disrupting our political system, while advancing the Russians Geopolitical interests within their own self-defined strategic sphere. There is also the view that Putin is pragmatically maneuvering to have economic sanctions ended by engineering a friendly or manipulable American Presidency that will accommodate him and his business partners in the Russian Oligarchy. These conclusions are only partially valid. Why?  Because Russia and its leaders do not think like we do. ...

Did Trump Start World War III Today? (written November 18, 2019, reprinted)

From the beginning, thinking people have known that this Presidency embodies everything you don't want. Recklessness, stupidity, self serving aggrandizement of power, mental instability, Malignant Narcissism, Racism, and lack of respect for our Constitutional system, Institutions and traditions. All of which, enabled by his family and closest confidants. Now, you have an announcement today which represents the single most destructive policy that a President can announce, short of issuing orders to SAC to launch a pre-emptive Nuclear attack somewhere. There are two immediate beneficiaries of this move. Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump. Emphatically, Israel is being used as a Pawn in a maneuver, whose ultimate purpose is to rescue Donald Trump. And Israel will suffer the most.  First and foremost, this proposal gives the Right Wing Religious factions in the Israeli government and Military a Green light to send tanks and bulldozers into the West Bank and Occupied territories to begin ...

My thoughts on the Boomer-Millennial Divide

Boomers and others that complain about Millennials are like the Artist who paints a self portrait, who when finished, destroys the painting because he/she hates it. We brought the younger generation into this world, we created and allowed to flourish the culture we raised them in, and we gave them the information technology with which they can see anything, say anything, and destroy each others sense of identity with slander and shaming with an instantaneous swipe of their thumbs. We the Boomers, neglected to fight effectively for an optimistic Economic future, for the most part, and we sat back and allowed the Phantasmagoric Culture of Hollywood sex and violence and Roman Empire style Bloodsports to numb them to almost every form of senseless and random brutality.  And, then we turn around and complain about how they turned out.  Ah, some object, "not me! Not my kids! I protected my kids from all of that I did this and I did that"!. Well, rather than us Boomers digging in an...

The Epstein Case-- Fast Track For Crowning King William?

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Analysis of Existential Crisis for House of Windsor--- There should be a clear understanding that the recent revelations regarding the conspiracy to cover up the sex crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew, and other notables, are of a far more Historical nature than your usual Royal Family sex scandal to which we have become accustomed over the past Century and a half.  There are some Royal watchers who would compare this to the well known stories of Princess Margaret, the Queen's Sister, or Prince Phillip's affairs, or Queen Victoria's dalliance with Mr. Brown. No. This is a different animal.  Has anyone wondered why the Epstein case was revived 10 years after his plea bargain and sentencing? Some think it was the result of investigative journalists bringing new facts to light. Well, I'm sorry to say that the world doesn't work that way, especially as it bears upon the goings on of the worlds elite power structures.  Start with reality. The British Monarchy, and ...

The Whistleblower who brought down Nixon

-You can't say anything about this because it will screw up our source and there's a real concern. Mitchell is the only one who knows about this and he feels strongly that we better not do anything because ... if we move on him, he'll go out and unload everything. He knows everything that's to be known in the FBI. He has access to absolutely everything.-- H. R. Haldeman to Richard Nixon  In 2005, former FBI Agent and Deputy Director, Mark Felt, made a death bed confession that he had been Bob Woodward's and the Washington Post's secret source, known as "Deep Throat", who had been leaking the details of the Watergate break in and coverup, which ultimately forced Nixon to resign. Like today's Whistleblower against Russian asset Donald Trump, he risked everything to expose the threat of executive abuse of power by a President. What's notable as a difference, is that Nixon abused his power by using US Government Agencies, like the FBI, IRS, and ...