Friday, March 16, 2018

Just Returned From Relaxing Cruise . Put Together While Away. A Variety of Items Etc. Leaving Again Tuesday A Week.



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You cannot top this interaction.

And:

Hillary, I have never told my two white wives how to vote.
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I wrote this as I leave and before any potential remaining changes that Trump is likely to make and announce while I am gone.

The mass media and anti-Trumpers are highlighting the fact that The White House is in disarray.

Since I like Trump's policies and am prone to give him more leeway, I would remind readers of these memos, in that  it takes time to put together a team that is reliable, understands what you want and capable of executing your policies.  Trump did not know many of his appointees and relied upon recommendations of those he did  know.  Furthermore, Trump was making appointments of people who did not know him for a job that was totally new for him and which involved politics in a town full of power seeking backbiters and those loyal to their own aspirations.

Yes, Trump's staff turnovers have been high but he inherited a mess and the risks are even greater so my hope is he will get the right combination he feels comfortable with, who understand his goals and are loyal both to him and our nation.

Tillerson obviously did not fit, his Sec. of The V.A was unsuited by virtue of his own actions and some  appointees had issues regarding reliable answers during their vetting.

I am glad Trump has the guts to fire those he is not comfortable with but sometimes his methods are unbecoming and unnecessary.  They speak to his own insecurities and temperament and that could make qualified people unwilling to serve.

I am delighted John Bolton became part of Trump's advisors while I was away because he is clear eyed, tough and a straight talker .  Whether there is a position for Elliott Abrams that may be a tougher fit since he was vocal and critical during the campaign about Trump who is too thin skinned. Elliott would be the perfect fit for the number two man at State. (See 1 below.)

Yes, if Israel would only make more concessions there would be peace. More nonsense?

And if the U.S stopped mistreating Muslim there would also be peace. More nonsense?

Yes, there is no peace in this world because Israel and America seek territory, enslavement of others  and covet everyone's possessions.   (See 1a below.)
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Democrats finally have a brilliant solution to gun violence. (See 2 below.)
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There is a growing connection and it is becoming more open. (See 3 below.)
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Is This Any Way To Drive An Omnibus? 10 Questions About What Just Happened https://n.pr/2GaMweO

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I am leaving again Tuesday a week so I have a great deal to catch up on and any memos will be sporadic from this point.

Hope you had a pleasant Pesach and Happy Easter.
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1)

Firing Tillerson removed an obstacle to peace 

By Caroline Glick


As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was being fired on Tuesday, his central assumptions about the Palestinian conflict with Israel, which are shared by the entire Washington foreign policy establishment, literally blew up in Gaza.
On Tuesday morning, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah’s convoy was attacked by a roadside bomb during an official visit in Hamas-controlled Gaza.
Hamdallah was in Gaza to inaugurate a wastewater treatment facility sponsored by the World Bank. The facility was approved 14 years ago, but infighting between Hamas, which runs Gaza, and Fatah, the PLO ruling faction which controls the Palestinian Authority (PA), blocked its operation time after time.
The shuttered water treatment facility in northern Gaza has long been a monument to the Palestinian leadership’s incompetence and indifference to the plight of the people it is supposed to be serving. As the plant gathered dust, Gaza plunged deeper and deeper into a water crisis.
As the Times of Israel reported, Gaza has two water problems: insufficient ground water, and massive pollution of the existing supply due to the absence of sufficient sewage treatment facilities.
Untreated sewage is dumped directly into the Mediterranean Sea, and then seeps back into Gaza’s groundwater.
Gaza’s polluted acquifiers only produce a quarter of its water needs, and due to insufficient water treatment facilities, 97 percent of Gaza’s natural water sources are unsafe for human consumption.
Hamdallah’s visit to Hamas-controlled Gaza was supposed to show that the Fatah-Hamas unity deal Egypt brokered between the two terror groups last year was finally enabling them to solve Gaza’s humanitarian needs.
And then Hamdallah’s convoy was bombed, and the whole charade of Palestinian governing competence and responsibility was put to rest.
Later in the day, the White House held a Middle East summit that demonstrated Tillerson’s basic assumptions have the problems of the Middle East precisely backwards.
Under the leadership of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, along with Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s senior negotiator, Israeli officials sat in the White House for the first time with Arab officials from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar. Representatives from Egypt and Jordan, with which Israel enjoys open diplomatic relations, were also in attendance. Canadian and European officials participated as well.
Although they were invited, the Palestinians chose to boycott the conference. Their boycott was telling. The PA claimed it was boycotting the conference in retaliation for America’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and President Trump’s plan to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Israel’s 70th Independence Day in May.
But anger over Jerusalem doesn’t justify the snub. The purpose of the summit wasn’t to reach “the ultimate deal.” The summit was called to to formulate the means to contend with the humanitarian crises emanating from Hamas-controlled Gaza. The Palestinians boycotted a summit whose sole purpose was to help them.
As Palestinian commentator Bassam Tawil noted, the PA’s boycott while appalling, was unsurprising.
The White House summit was a threat to both rival Palestinian factions. It showed that the Trump administration, which both Fatah and Hamas hate passionately, cares more about the Palestinians than they do.
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is entirely the product of Hamas and Fatah actions. In an op-ed in the Washington Post last week, Greenblatt laid the blame on Hamas. “Hamas’s utter failure to fulfill any of the most basic functions of governance has brought Gaza to the brink of collapse, which has necessitated the response of the international community.”
Fatah, Tawil noted, is just as responsible. The Fatah-controlled PA has used the Palestinians of Gaza as a pawn in its power struggle against Hamas. Rather than work to decontaminate Gaza’s water supply and provide for the basic needs of the population, for the past year the PA has imposed economic sanctions on the Gaza Strip.
Ostensibly imposed to induce the population of Gaza to rise up against Hamas, they have simply served to increase the misery of the residents of Gaza. Hamas’s power remains unchallenged as QatarTurkey, and Iran shower the terror group with cash and arms.
As Tawil noted, Hamas and Fatah are willing to fight one another until the last Palestinian in Gaza.
The conference showed that the attack on Hamdallah’s convoy was not a freak episode. The bombing was emblematic of the Fatah-Hamas leadership’s obsession with their own power, to the detriment of the people they claim to represent.
The events in Gaza and the White House on Tuesday tell us two important things.
First, they reveal that the primary obstacle to both peace and regional stability in the Middle East is the Palestinian leadership – both from Fatah and Hamas.
Not only did the PA refuse to participate in a summit dedicated solely to helping the Palestinians, but also the very day the summit took place, PA-controlled Voice of Palestine Radio reported that the PA intends to file a complaint against President Trump at the International Criminal Court. Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem, the PA insists, “violated all international laws and resolutions.”
The report also said the PA intends to sue Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman for “crimes against the Palestinian people.”
Tuesday’s second lesson is that while the PA is the primary obstacle to peace and regional stability, it is easily surmountable.
Tuesday’s conference was a diplomatic triumph for the Trump administration. For the first time, official representatives of five Arab states that have no diplomatic relations with Israel sat publically in the White House with Israeli officials. They were brought together due to their common concern for the Palestinians in Gaza, and for the instability that the plight of the Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza might encourage.
Although it is still unknown whether anything discussed at the conference will turn into concrete improvements on the ground, the summit itself was a concrete achievement. It showed that the Arabs are willing publicly to bypass the Palestinians to work with Israel. The fact that the conference was devoted to helping the Palestinians served to transform the PA from the critical partner in any peace deal to an irritating irrelevance.
And that brings us to Tillerson, and the foreign policy establishment whose positions he channeled.
During his 14 months in office, Tillerson insisted on maintaining the establishment’s view that the Fatah-controlled PA is the be-all-and-end-all of Middle East peace efforts. The view that there can be no Arab-Israeli peace without the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) compelled successive U.S. administrations to continue to embrace it despite its support for terrorism, and despite its refusal to accept or even respond to any offer of peace by either Israel or the U.S.
The belief that there can be no peace without Fatah convinced successive American administrations to pour billions of dollars in aid money down the black hole of PA treasury accounts. Since the Israeli-PLO peace process began in 1993, the Palestinians have received more international aid per capita than any nation on earth has received in world history. And all they produced are an impoverished, sewage-filled terror state in Gaza, and a jihadist hub in Judea and Samaria that would explode in violence if Israel did not control security.
The view that the U.S. needs the PLO and its PA to achieve peace gave the Palestinian leadership an effective veto over every U.S. policy towards Israel and towards the peace process.
Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the embassy to Jerusalem was the first time any American leader since Bill Clinton had dared to reject the Palestinian veto on US Middle East policy.
Tillerson supported maintaining the PA’s veto. As a result, he all but openly opposed Trump’s decision.
So too, last June, in a bid to protect U.S. funding to the PA — despite the fact that fully 7 percent of its donor-funded budget is used to pay salaries to terrorists in Israeli prisons and their families — Tillerson falsely told the Senate Foreign Relations committee that the PA had agreed to end the payments. After the Palestinians themselves denied his statement, he only partially walked it back. The next day, he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the U.S. was in “active discussions” with the Palestinians regarding halting the payments.
In the event, the PA raised its payments to terrorists in 2017 to $403 million. In 2016, the PA spent $347 million to pay salaries to terrorist murderers and their families.
In other words, Tillerson is so committed to the view that there can be no peace without the PA, that he willingly misled U.S. lawmakers.
Trump administration officials keep insisting that they are almost ready to present their peace plan for the Palestinians and Israel. But whatever the plan may entail, the steps the White House has already taken – Tuesday’s summit, Trump’s move on Jerusalem, and his determination to sign the Taylor Force Act to end U.S. support for the PA if it maintains its payments to terrorists – have already advanced the cause of peace more than any American peace proposal ever has and likely ever will.
Those moves removed the principle blockage to all peace deals – namely, the Palestinian leadership from Fatah and Hamas alike. By bypassing the PA, the White House has focused its efforts on expanding the already burgeoning bilateral ties between Israel and the Arab states. It has encouraged the expansion of cooperation between these regional actors. That cooperation is the key to diminishing Iranian power in the region; defeating Sunni jihadists from the Muslim Brotherhood and its spinoffs; and to improving the lives and prospects for peace of Palestinians, Israelis and all the nations of the region.
Tillerson opposed all of these actions. Like the foreign policy establishment he represented, Tillerson refused to abandon the false belief that nothing can be done without PLO approval. By removing him from office, President Trump took yet another step towards advancing prospects for peace in the Middle East.

1a)RUTHFULLY YOURS

THE RIGHT NEWS, FRONT AND CENTER



·    If and when Hamas is ever removed from power in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) will most likely seize control of the coastal enclave, where nearly two million Palestinians live.
   
·          PIJ’s new “political document” exposes the Palestinian terror group’s plan for “real peace” in the Middle East. This “real peace,” according to the jihadi group, can be achieved by eliminating Israel after “liberating Palestine, from the river to the sea, and after the original owners of the land return to their homes.”

·          This genocidal “peace” plan appears to be shared by other Palestinian terror groups, such as Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and even certain parts of Mahmoud Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction.


The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group is the second-largest terror group in the Gaza Strip after Hamas. Like Hamas, PIJ does not recognize Israel’s right to exist and believes that violence and terrorism are the only way to “liberate all Palestine, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.”

Like Hamas, in the past three decades PIJ has carried out thousands of terror attacks against Israel, including suicide bombings.

Recently, the PIJ wished to remind us again of its dangerous and poisonous ideology. This reminder came in the form of a new “political document” published by the Iranian-backed terror group in the Gaza Strip.

The document contains important information about the group’s strategy to destroy Israel and provides insight into the role Islam plays in the Israeli-Arab conflict.

Some may argue that there is nothing new in the PIJ document. However, PIJ is not just another Palestinian “resistance” faction, as some Middle East experts tend to describe it. Rather, it is one of the most dangerous Palestinian terror groups. It aspires to eliminate Israel and kill as many Jews as possible.

If and when Hamas is ever removed from power in the Gaza Strip, PIJ will most likely seize control of the coastal enclave, where nearly two million Palestinians live.

Western journalists often ignore the power and threat of PIJ, mainly because the representatives of the terror group rarely give interviews to the foreign media.

Besides, it is easier for Western journalists to take the short trip from Jerusalem to Ramallah to interview a Palestinian Authority official, who uses his or her fluent English to lie about the Palestinians’ desire for peace and coexistence with Israel.

Western journalists rarely, if ever, present to their readers and viewers what the terrorists preach to their own people.

That is precisely why there is a need to bring the main points of the PIJ document to the attention of the international media and decision-makers around the world. The PIJ is a major player in the Palestinian arena, and its political and military power can be ignored only at great peril.

Here is what the preface to the terror group’s document states:

    “Palestine is the homeland of the Palestinian people, from the early days of history. Palestine is an integral part of the Arab and Islamic homeland, and it was usurped by the Zionist Jews with the support and encouragement of Western colonialist powers.”

Explaining the timing of the publication of its document, PIJ said:

    “To maintain a clear vision and the unity of our goals, away from intellectual chaos dominating the Palestinian landscape, Palestinian Islamic Jihad saw the need to formulate this document to explain and affirm the intellectual basis and features governing its jihad and policies.”

Translation: the PIJ fears that it has fallen off the world’s radar. It worries that its ideology and plans to destroy Israel may be lost amid the “intellectual chaos” plaguing the Palestinian arena.

Defining its ultimate mission, PIJ says in its new document:

    “Our number-one priority and main task is to carry out the duty of jihad and resistance to liberate Palestine. We are an Islamic national liberation movement and part of the Palestinian people’s and Muslim’s jihad against invaders and colonialists. We see ourselves as being part of the general Islamic trend in the world, which regards Islam as the source of our power and pride.”

Which “Islamic trend” the Palestinian terror group is talking about is not clear. Does it referring to the Islamic State terror group, ISIS, which has slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent civilians, mostly Muslims, in the past few years? Or perhaps the PIJ is referring to Al Qaeda, the murderous terror group founded by Osama bin Laden?

What is certain, however, is that PIJ is not referring to the Muslim Brotherhood organization. Why? Because PIJ believes that Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology and policies are too “moderate” compared with its genocidal agenda. Ironically, the PIJ views the Muslim Brotherhood as being too “pragmatic,” largely because of the latter’s failure to engage in a worldwide jihad against Jews and all infidels.

The PIJ document, which the Western media is doing a fine job ignoring, states:

    “Palestine is an Arab, Islamic land, where the Arabs and Muslims possess natural religious and historic rights. It is forbidden to give it up or compromise it under any pretext.”

The Jews, the document emphasizes, “have no right in the land of Palestine.” It says that the fact that some Arabs and Muslims have recognized Israel does not give the Jews any right to the land.

    “The Palestinian people’s right to all their lands and homeland, Palestine, is a comprehensive right that can’t be fragmented. This includes our right to own the land, our right to resist and liberate it, and our right to return to it and live in it. No one is entitled to give up the right of the Palestinians to return to their homeland. This is a non-negotiable issue.”

The PIJ document views Israel as a Zionist colonialist project imposed on Arabs and Muslims by Western powers. Revealingly, these are the same words that Israel’s secular peace partner and the darling of the West, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, recently used in a speech he delivered in Ramallah, during a conference of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council:

    “The Europeans wanted to bring the Jews here to preserve their interests in the region. They asked Holland, which has the world’s largest fleet, to move the Jews. Israel is a colonial project that has nothing to do with the Jews.”

Abbas and PIJ also share more of the same views. In its document, the Palestinian terror group states:

    “The Zionist entity is a functional colonialist entity and a tool of the [Western] project to seize control and dominance over Palestine. The source of this entity’s power lies with Western parties, especially the US.”

The PIJ document defines the conflict with Israel as an “existential conflict, and not a border conflict.” The Palestinian cause, it says,

   “is not about the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, or parts of them. Rather, it is the issue of the occupation of the entire land of Palestine, from the river to the sea. It is the central cause of all Arabs and Muslims, and not the Palestinians alone.”

In its document, PIJ outlines its plan to achieve its goal through “jihad and resistance against the Zionist enemy, with all means and methods, first and foremost the armed struggle.” The armed struggle, it adds, is the “main method and strategy in our struggle.”

For those who do not know, “armed struggle” is the euphemism for all forms terrorism, including rocket attacks and suicide bombings. The “armed struggle” also means that a Palestinian terrorist can storm the home of a Jewish family and murder women and children as they prepare dinner.

The PIJ document, which has been distributed among the group’s followers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, also praises suicide bombings against Israel by describing them as the “most noble acts of self-defense.”

The document also warns Arabs and Muslims against recognizing Israel’s right to exist or establishing any ties with it. “We reject all forms of normalization with the Israeli enemy by any Arab or Muslim,” it stresses.

Finally, the document exposes the Palestinian terror group’s plan for “real peace” in the Middle East. This “real peace,” according to the jihadi group, can be achieved by eliminating Israel after “liberating Palestine, from the river to the sea, and after the original owners of the land return to their homes.”

This genocidal “peace” plan appears to be shared by other Palestinian terror groups, such as Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and even certain parts of Mahmoud Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction.

The peace they seek is one that would result in the total destruction of Israel and the expulsion of all Jews from the Middle East. As the remarks of Abbas and PIJ show, Palestinians see Israel only as an alien body that was imposed upon Arabs and Muslims by imperialist Westerners, and not as people who have lived on that land for more than 3,000 years.

The PIJ document, which serves as the group’s “national charter,” is a valuable text. Every word in the document reflects the true sentiments on the Arab and Islamic street, especially with regards to recognizing Jews’ rights and history.

This is a document that is currently being taught in Islamic Jihad training bases, and schools and mosques. It is a document that will help raise another generation of Palestinians on the glorification of terrorism and anti-Semitism.

This is a document that deserves to be placed on the desks of all those Westerners who continue to tell us that peace is possible and that Israel just needs to make more concessions to achieve that goal.

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2) Democrats Announce All 2020 Candidates Will Forego Armed Security To Protest
Gun Violence

U.S.-Democratic National Committee spokesperson Michael Tyler announced
Thursday that all candidates who run in the 2020 presidential election as
Democrats will completely forego armed security for the entirety of their
campaigns, in a clear and bold stance against gun violence in America.
"We've talked to all possible candidates and everyone has agreed. Gun
violence is a huge issue in our country, and guns are the problem. So
whoever runs for president as a Democrat in 2020-be it Bernie, Biden,
Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Jerry Brown, and/or whoever else throws
their hat in the ring-they will steadfastly refuse to employ security teams
who carry scary firearms."

Tyler further confirmed that if a Democrat wins the White House in 2020,
their first order of business will be to disarm the Secret Service. Asked
how the president would then be kept safe, Tyler revealed that they plan on
introducing a gun-free zone encompassing a 500-yard radius around the
president at all times.
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3)

The Saudi-Israeli Connection

By Soeren Kern  



In a recent interview with Army Radio, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz revealed Israel has been holding covert talks with Saudi Arabia amid mutual concerns over Iran’s ascendancy in the Middle East. It was the first time a senior official from either country admitted to the long-rumored secret contacts.

Israel and Saudi Arabia both view Iran, which has emerged stronger than ever from the power vacuums created by the wars in Iraq and Syria, as the greatest threat to the Middle East. Tehran is now close to achieving the strategic goal of establishing a so-called Shia Crescent—an arc of Iranian influence stretching from the Persian Gulf to Lebanon—in the heartland of the Sunni Arab world. Such an arc would not only challenge Saudi Arabia’s claim to leadership of the Islamic world, but it would also allow Iran to establish a military presence on Israel’s northern border.


With Iran and Saudi Arabia battling for supremacy, tensions between Riyadh and Jerusalem have eased. Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot recently said Israel was prepared to share “intelligence information” with Saudi Arabia, saying their countries share a common interest in confronting Iran.
Israeli official Yisrael Katz has called for the creation of an Arab-Israeli economic bloc as the basis for an “anti-Iran axis.” Widely viewed as a contender to succeed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Katz said the bloc should be anchored by a rail and port network—dubbed as the “Orient Express”—that would pull the region together through trade.

“Iran is the big enemy,” he told the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. “It’s very clear we [Israel and Saudi Arabia] are practically on the same side. All Sunni countries are against Iran. They see Israel as the only power that can stand against Iran in the region.”

Katz has invited Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Israel. He has also discussed the Saudi peace and economic development plan with Jason Greenblatt, U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s adviser on the Middle East. “I had seven meetings with Jason Greenblatt about these things in Washington about this initiative, about the railway,” Katz said.

Saudi Arabia insists that any rapprochement with Israel hinges on a peace deal with the Palestinians. However, Netanyahu’s former national security advisor, Yaacov Nagel, said Riyadh was so keen to begin open cooperation with Israel that it “doesn’t care” what kind of deal is reached with the Palestinians. According to Nagel, the current Saudi leadership is looking for any type of Israeli-Palestinian peace deal to give it political cover for normalizing relations with Israel.

Saudi Arabia and other Arab states have a shared strategic interest in improving relations with Israel, according to Kobi Michael, a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. “Egypt, Jordan, the Gulf states, excluding Qatar, have two strategic threats: Iran and the Salafi or radical Islamic terrorism,” he said. “Unfortunately, the U.S. left a vacuum in the region which was filled by the Russians in Syria and by the Iranians and their proxies in other parts of the Middle East. Israel is perceived as the most reliable potential ally. Therefore, the Saudis understand pretty well that it is a good time to be good friends with Israel.”

This paradigm shift in Middle Eastern politics is reflected in the Trump administration’s new national security strategy. The document asserts, “For generations the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has been understood as the prime irritant preventing peace and prosperity in the region. Today, the threats from radical jihadist terrorist organizations and the threat from Iran are creating the realization that Israel is not the cause of the region’s problems. States have increasingly found common interests with Israel in confronting common threats.”

Soeren Kern is a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, a nonpartisan foreign policy think tank based in New York City.
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Thursday, March 15, 2018

could not resist as I pack the car.


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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/03/15/cyberthreats_the_vexing_new_front_in_modern_warfare_136534.html
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this fits with my last memo about the future of man:https://video-subtitle.tedcdn. com/talk/podcast/2016S/None/Od edShoseyov_2016S-480p-en.mp4
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Humor:
Larry died.  His will provided $40,000 for an elaborate funeral.  As the last guests departed the
funeral, his wife, Sarah, turned to her oldest and dearest friend.  "Well, I'm sure Larry would be
pleased," she said.

"I'm sure you're right," replied Jody, who lowered her voice and leaned in close.  "How much did this
really cost?"
"All of it," said Sarah.  "Forty thousand."

 "No!" Jody exclaimed.  "I mean, it was very nice, but $40,000?"

 Sarah answered, "The funeral was $6,500.  I donated $500 to church.  The whiskey, wine and snacks were  another $500.  The rest went for the Memorial Stone."

 Jody computed quickly.  "$34,500 for a Memorial Stone? My God, how big is it?" "Four and a half carats."
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More Rants (See 1 below.)
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This from a very, very dear friend, fellow memo reader and brilliant psychiatrist regarding Trump:

"I agree.  Also he sits with the arms closed in front of his chest.  That is a no-no in  psychiatrist terms.

It may mean that he is hiding something, not open to conversation or not accepting what he is being told.

Happy spring , M----"
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1)I  previously mentioned that it is the credit spread that matters as much as the  index rate. Right now there are numerous sources of debt for real estate ranging from traditional banks and insurance companies to private equity funds, mortgage loan funds, and assorted other lenders. They are all competing for a shrunken pool of opportunities. This leads to the borrowers being able to shop their deals to get better, lower spreads. So the ten year might go up by 10 or 15 basis points, but spreads on a specific deal might go down by a like amount if the deal is attractive enough to the lenders. So just looking at rising 10 year base rates is not what matters. Most loans today are actually priced over the swaps rate, so the pure ten year treasury rate is not the index. Swaps can vary in spread from the ten year rate as well as the credit spread.  The  other issues for borrowers are covenants, and the competition by lenders to get the deal can sometimes result in covenant light, meaning looser terms than would be the case if money was tight. It all depends on who is the sponsor, how good is the deal, how much leverage the borrower wants, and location of the property. Point is, don’t just assume because the ten year yield is up a few basis points, that it is so bad for all real estate deals. The ten year is still near an all-time low and even at 2.9%, it Is still possible for a very good sponsor, with a good deal, to get a very attractive rate on his loan and 70% leverage. This even goes for land development loans. It takes a lot to get a good loan, but if you are a good borrower and a solid project it is very achievable.

We are past the wave of 2007 -2008 maturities that threatened to crowd out new loans. One way or another these maturing loans got repaid, modified, deed in lieu, or worked out with added equity infusions. That means there is now more capacity for lenders to make new loans and that has increased the competition by lenders which is good for borrowers. Corporate bond default rates are expected to drop to 2.2% this year from 3.2% in January. While leverage levels have risen again, it is very different if you can lock in 4% vs 6%-or 8% years ago before the crash. With lower taxes and a fast growing economy, the risk of default for several more years is low. Because banks have far more base capital, the risks to the banking system are far less than ever. The banks also hold far less risk on their own balance sheets and there are no more sidecar entities they used to hide the real risk. Primary bond dealers held $279 billion of corporate bonds. Today they hold $24 billion. Debt is much more affordable with very low interest rates, and cash flow is at record high levels thanks to tax reform and good economic growth.  With inflation remaining at moderate levels, interest rates will remain relatively low for at least several more months. Default risk will remain very low for at least this year.

There is still no final decision as to what is the replacement for Libor, and how the transition is to work. The documentation for new loans today is tricky in that nobody is sure what the replacement will be, and in transition from Libor to the new index, it is not clear how the pricing adjustment will be handled so neither party gets hurt. As a result, lawyers are having to be creative in the sections related to the index rate and how to finalize pricing and adjust for differing indexes. We are still 2-3 years way from all this getting finalized, but Libor will be gone by 2021, and maybe sooner. There are trillions in loans around the world indexed to Libor, so it is a bit messy right now and the closer we get to 2020, the messier it becomes. There are bound to be lawsuits when it happens with one side or the other claiming the adjustment was not in accord with the documents which by necessity will be somewhat vague until the final index is agreed. This will be messy no matter what is decided. It is a lawyers dream come true as far as fee generation possibilities.

If you think hacking is bad now, wait until AI takes over for the hackers. It will soon be possible for hackers to use AI to unleash storms of cyber-attacks by robot computers. Current defenses may become overwhelmed. It will be a battle of the AI geeks to attack and to defend. One of the other areas of danger is using AI to control swarms of drones to launch military attacks by overwhelming defenses. This technology exists now, and it is why the US military is working on lasers as defense as well as other electronic defenses to foil drone attacks. Just as the Iranians try to use swarms of small attack boats to attack US navy vessels in the straits, attackers will use swarms of drones. There are defenses being developed but a F-35 cannot take out a swarm of drones by itself the way it can blow up an aircraft. Israel and the US are way ahead in this field, but it is moving very fast, and it is why we need tens of billions for defense to develop these weapons and defenses. In China now the government is using AI to track everyone in a given area with facial recognition, and other identifying factors. The Chinese budget just released spends more on this internal security equipment than on external defense. In a couple of years, China will be George Orwell’s dream come true, and Xi will control it all.  AI will change life for the better in most cases, but the bad guys like Putin and Iran will try to use it for very bad things. With Google, Facebook, Instagram and the other social networks, there is no privacy in the US anymore. If you think you have privacy you are naive. If you go online to buy anything, use Facebook or Twitter or Instagram -you have a data set all about you somewhere. Just look what happens next time you go online to consider buying something and all of a sudden, ads appear with similar product offers. As soon as you go on your phone they know where you are. So now assume it is China and the AI tracking programs and equipment they use. The government knows all. Science fiction has arrived in real time.

Believe it or not, wood is replacing steel and concrete in tall skyscrapers in some places. Apparently the technology has been perfected such that wood now can be made stronger than steel and fireproof. Go look it up online. It Is not yet in the US, and it is new, but the first of these buildings are under construction in other countries, and if it proves itself, you will see it here. Cost and speed of construction is driving this.

Critical lesson for everyone signing agreements to sell a company, or do some other similar transaction or joint venture. In my big law suit on Sacramento we won the case on a single word in a key sentence. That was the entire case in a single word-refinance. The appeal judges focused on that single word-refinance. I wrote the one sentence that was the whole case, and I wrote it myself because I knew going into that deal that it would be the key to any case where the guy was going to try to not pay us. I wanted to be sure it was in simple English and with no possible ability to misconstrue what it said. And that was the key to our winning. In at least two other cases I know, the lawyers were not so careful to read the documents and the principals lost millions as a result. Bottom line—if you are the principal you must read every word in a sale or JV document, and make certain that the key sentences which dictate if you get paid or not are in clear, precise English with no chance of misunderstanding. You must be fully aware of exact terms of calculating if you get paid on an earn out, and time limits on when you must act or not. Do not ever trust your lawyers to do this.  Many lawyers are excellent, but just because someone passed the bar, does not make every lawyer competent. Do it yourself. Be sure you understand all the key covenants, and remember key dates and triggers even if it is a few years later. These were key to our winning our lawsuit.

Now we have the first proof that there was no collusion. It really was a plot to go after Trump and upset his ability to govern.  It is clear Mueller has no evidence either. Schiff will scream it is a cover up and the investigation is not complete, but that is just the Dems wanting to cover their butts and keep the script in play for the media. There also is no case for obstruction. Drafting a press release that was essentially true is not a crime, and there was no crime to obstruct. Firing Comey had a legal basis, and was demanded by the Dems until Trump fired him, and then it is suddenly obstruction. Trump had every right to fire him, and this is not Nixon.  The Investigation of Trump and collusion went on at the FBI, and by Mueller, and now there Is no case to have obstructed since there was no collusion. The media will keep trying to make a case for obstruction, but there is nothing there.

The Dems are hoping to win the House, and supposedly white suburban and urban women will be the difference. I wonder what it is these women are voting against other than they just do not like the individual Trump. Surely it can’t be womanizing after Clinton. Is it their tax reduction, their rising stock portfolio value, their rising home value, record low unemployment for blacks and Latinos, a far better DACCA deal than the Dems put forward, the rebuilding of relations with Israel and the Arab states, the near record low unemployment, 3% GDP growth everyone said was impossible, rebuilding the military, maybe having a shot at denuclearization of N Korea, reestablishing a good working relationship with XI, crushing ISIS which has led to a material reduction in terror attacks in Europe and the US, the reversal of losses in Afghanistan and now talk of a peace agreement possibility, attacking Syrian chemical weapons facilities, Standing with our allies against Iran, deregulation which has spurred greatly accelerated growth in the economy, a chance for real laws to prevent school shootings, a possible real infrastructure program, support for school choice for poor kids, getting NATO to pay more for their defense so the US taxpayer  is not supporting them, or maybe they are signing on to the new Dem platform to raise taxes back up, bring back regulation which will kill economic growth, pay people  not to work with minimum guaranteed incomes, clamping down on free speech, or maybe they are for the new Dem policy  of eliminating ICE so there will be no deportation of MS-13. Putin is correct- the US is eating itself with the political battles now being fought by the Resistance. If it is educated white women in the suburbs and cities, then one wonders where they got their education, and how they lost their ability to think clearly. Do they really think there is anything good to come of a vote by House Dems to impeach Trump which will have no real legal basis, but will disrupt the country and our foreign policy. Putin understands us better than we do. He thinks we have lost our collective minds. A year ago I said ignore the tweets and what Trump says, and watch what the cabinet does.
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CUOMO Protests While Being Protected By The Very Thing He Protests. Kroft and Soros. Shock Therapy Diplomacy. MY Thoughts. No MEMOING!


Takes self-righteous guts to protest gun ownership when you are protected by those carrying them.
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This from a long time dear  friend and fellow memo reader followed by my response.

Once when we were very young, a friend of mine told me to "consider the source", a process I have practiced ever since.  Thus I'm always interested in who is doing the speaking.  In your recent post "Democrats/Liberals Versus Peanuts", you included a terrific review of Charles Schulz.  Mr. Schulz, his characters, humor, and insights, which I have followed since their inception, have always been a delightful inspiration for me.  Thus, I was most pleased and impressed with your Charles Schultz post.  Question is:  who wrote the article?  Dick, since it flowed seamlessly in your post, I take it that you wrote it.  Yes?  Regardless, it is a great tribute to a great man and I thank you for posting it.  I'm also curious, why now?  I see how it fits with your recent theme of the different way liberals and conservatives react and conduct themselves in society, but I wonder, since Schultz died 18 years ago, whether the article was written then and republished or newly minted.  Would appreciate knowing the context for the post.  Thanks.

With best regards,
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I wrote it and posted it a few days ago. Thoughts and connections have a way of coming together at odds times. Me
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N Korea's terrorist connections and activity? (See 1 below.)
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Some times the best foreign policy strategy shock therapy . Trump's version of water-boarding. (See 2 below.)
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I am not endorsing Kroft's analysis or conclusions but he comes to some  about Soros with which I do  agree .

Recently, Soros has been funding campaigns of sheriffs and district attorneys in America.

The deeper we plunge into debt the more vulnerable our financial system and currency becomes vulnerable to a raid. Decades ago The Hunt Brothers tried to corner the price of silver.  They failed but market manipulation can work and often does. (See 3 below.)
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I am taking another stab at the break down of community and family as it related to school,other killings and the blame leveled at The NRA. (See 4 below.)
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FOR THOSE WHO READ THIS FAR I LEAVE TOMORROW FOR AN EXTENSIVE PERIOD AWAY FROM THE LANDINGS AND DO NOT KNOW WHEN I WILL BE MEMOING AGAIN. STAY WELL AND SAFE!
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1)U.S. Monitoring Possible North Korean Military Base in Syria

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The United States is monitoring information indicating that North Korea may be running a large underground military base in Syria that could be used for advanced weaponry and nuclear-related work, according to regional reports and U.S. officials tracking the situation.

Regional reports have begun to surface indicating North Korea has neared completion of the construction of an underground military base located near Qardaha in Syria, the hometown of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"According to … satellite images and a military source the underground facility has been under construction for seven years, started by the beginning if the Syrian revolution in March 2011," Zaman Al Wasl, a Syrian news outlet, reported earlier this month. "The high level of secrecy and tight guard in the North Korean base raise speculations whether it's a nuclear facility or overseas depot for North Korean weapons."

U.S. officials told the Washington Free Beacon they are monitoring these reports and efforts by North Korea to help Assad rebuild Syria's chemical weapons factories.
"We are aware of reports regarding possible DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] assistance to Syria to rebuild its chemical weapons capabilities," a State Department official, speaking on background, told the Free Beacon. "We take these allegations very seriously and we are working assiduously to prevent the Assad regime from obtaining material and equipment to support its chemical weapons program."
The Trump administration has been engaged in efforts to counter North Korea's proliferation in Syria, particularly its efforts to supply Assad with chemical weapons.
"The United States has long expressed its deep concerns about both the assistance the DPRK provides to Syria's weapons programs and Syria's ongoing possession and use of chemical weapons—both activities in defiance of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions," the State Department official said.

The underground North Korean military base could be hiding more than just chemical weapons, according to regional reports indicating that the sheer size of the base, which is mostly situated within a mountain, raises concerns of nuclear work.
Purported satellite images of the base circulating on the internet indicate that only a small portion of the facility is visible from above ground.

"Long tunnels have been built during the last seven years in a deep valley in Qardaha under the supervision of North Korean experts," the Zaman Al Wasl outlet reported.
The United Nations recently cited North Korea for its increased efforts to meddle in Syria and provide the Assad regime with new caches of chemical weapons.
This has fueled U.S. concerns about the hermit nation at a time when the Trump administration is pursuing diplomatic talks regarding North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

Evidence that North Korea is working to bolster the Assad regime is likely to fuel further international tensions as Iran and Russia undertake similar efforts. The newest underground facility may facilitate further Iranian and North Korean military collaboration.

The Trump administration is continuing efforts to crackdown on this military collaboration and is urging allies to apply similar pressure.

"North Korea is a significant threat to international security and the Assad regime's ongoing use of chemical weapons is a similar affront to international law," the State Department official said. "We work with all our partners to uphold U.N. Security Council Resolutions and prevent North Korea and Syria from further threatening international peace and stability."

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Dermer: Trump’s Jerusalem move is ‘shock therapy’ for Palestinians
By HERB KEINON
The minute the Palestinians recognize a Jewish connection to Jerusalem, he said, the whole edifice of Palestinian rejectionism would begin to collapse.

US President Donald Trump’s recent moves on Jerusalem constituted “shock therapy” against Palestinian rejectionism, which is the real obstacle to peace, Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer said in Washington.

Dermer was speaking at an event in the Senate on Tuesday where former Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold gave a presentation to about 100 legislators, congressional staffers and think tank members titled “Jerusalem: What’s at stake.”


Dermer said that there is no peace today between Israel and the Palestinians because of a Palestinian refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the right of the Jews to a state in Israel within any boundaries.

“That is why the Palestinians try to deny any historical connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem,” he said. “Because to admit this connection is to admit that the Jewish people aren’t foreign colonialists in the Land of Israel; that Israel for the Jewish people is not India for the British, or Algeria for the French, or the Congo for the Belgians – but that this is the land of our ancestors.”

The minute the Palestinians recognize a Jewish connection to Jerusalem, he said, the whole edifice of Palestinian rejectionism would begin to collapse, because it would mean that the Jewish people are in Israel “not merely by might, but by right.”

“Dealing with this Palestinian rejectionism is critical if you are going to advance peace, and the rejectionism is strongest, and of course most absurd, when it comes to Jerusalem,” he said.

Dermer mocked the phrase that Palestinian officials often use – that Israel is trying to “Judaize Jerusalem,” saying this is akin to saying that the Chinese are “Sino-fying” Beijing, or the Russians are “Russo-fying” Moscow.

Dermer said that while he understands why the Palestinians are trying to deny a Jewish connection to Jerusalem, he does not understand why the world tolerates it and even applauds it, as it did when it adopted UN Security Council Resolution 2334 in December 2016, a resolution that essentially stated that the Western Wall is in occupied Palestinian territory.

“To advance peace, you must confront this Palestinian rejectionism,” he said, “and that is precisely what President Trump did when he recognized Jerusalem as our capital. It is shock therapy for Palestinian rejectionism. And it is actually, in my view, one of the first positive things that has been done to advance peace in decades.”

He said that by recognizing the Jewish people’s historical connection to Jerusalem, Trump “laid an important cornerstone for peace.”

Gold, the head of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, said that Trump’s announcement also “effectively put to rest” the idea of a corpus separatum – or internationalization – of Jerusalem, an idea that he said has persisted up until today.

When President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, he effectively put to rest the internationalization idea,” Gold said. “He was also correcting decades of diplomatic distortions at the United Nations. Finally, he was fulfilling the Jerusalem Embassy Act from 1995, that bipartisan initiative cosponsored by senators Tom Daschle and Bob Dole, calling for moving the embassy to Jerusalem.

That was the accepted position across the American political spectrum and across our political spectrum.

“This,” he said, “was the greatest gift the United States could give to Israel on the 70th anniversary of its birth.”
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3)THE MOST EVIL HUMAN ON EARTH

Steve Kroft (born August 22, 1945) is an American journalist and a longtime correspondent for "60 Minutes".  His investigative reporting has garnered him much acclaim, including three Peabody Awards and nine Emmy awards, one of which was an Emmy for Lifetime Achievement.  You can understand what is happening to our America after reading this. 
May God have mercy upon our nation!
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One Evil Human
FROM STEVE KROFT ("60 Minutes")

Glen Beck has been developing material to show all the ties that Soros has through the nation and world along with his goals.  This article is written by Steve Kroft from "60 Minutes".  It begins to piece together the rise of Obama and his behavior in leading the nation along with many members of Congress (in particular the Democrats, such as the election of Pelosi as the minority leader in Congress).

If you have wondered where Obama came from and just how he quickly moved from obscurity to President, or why the media is "selective" in what we are told, here is the man who most probably put him there and is responsible.  He controls President Obama's every move .  Think this is absurd?  Invest a few minutes and read this.  You won't regret it.

Who is Obama?  Obama is a puppet and here is the explanation of the man or demon that pulls his strings.  It’s not by chance that Obama can manipulate the world.  After reading this and Obama's reluctance to accept help on the oil spill you wonder if the spill is part of the plan to destroy the US?  "In history, nothing happens by accident.  If it happened, you can bet someone planned it." ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Who Is George Soros?  He brought the market down in 2 days.  Here is what CBS' Mr. Steve Kroft's research has turned up.  It's a bit of a read, and it took 4 months to put it together.  "The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States of America."  ~ George Soros" 

George Soros is an evil man.  He's anti-God, anti-family, anti-American, and anti-good."  He killed and robbed his own Jewish people.  What we have in Soros, is a multi-billionaire atheist, with skewed moral values, and a sociopath's lack of conscience.  He considers himself to be an elitist world class philosopher, despises the American way, and just loves to do social engineering and change cultures.

Garry Schwartz, better known to the world as George Soros, was born August 12, 1930 in Hungary.  Soros' father, Tivadar, was a fervent practitioner of the Esperanto language invented in 1887, and designed to be the first global language, free of any national identity.  The Schwartz's, who were non-practicing Jews, changed the family name to Soros, in order to facilitate assimilation into the Gentile population, as the Nazis spread into Hungary during the 1930s.

When Hitler's henchman, Adolf Eichmann arrived in Hungary, to oversee the murder of that country's Jews, George Soros ended up with a man whose job was confiscating property from the Jewish population.  Soros went with him on his rounds . 

Soros has repeatedly called 1944 "the best year of his life."  70% of Mr. Soros's fellow Jews in Hungary, nearly a half-million human beings, were annihilated in that year , yet he gives no sign that this put any damper on his elation, either at the time or indeed in retrospect".  During an interview with "Sixty Minute's" Steve Kroft, Soros was asked about his "best year."

KROFT:  My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson. 

SOROS:  Yes.  Yes.

KROFT:  Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from your fellow Jews, friends and neighbors. 

SOROS:  Yes.  That's right.  Yes.

KROFT:  I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many, years.  Was it difficult?

SOROS:  No, not at all.  Not at all, I rather enjoyed it.

KROFT:  No feelings of guilt?

SOROS:  No, only feelings of absolute power.

In his article, Muravchik describes how Soros has admitted to having carried some rather "potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble."  Be that as it may.  After WWII, Soros attended the London School of Economics, where he fell under the thrall of fellow atheist and Hungarian, Karl Popper, one of his professors.  Popper was a mentor to Soros until Popper's death in 1994.  Two of Popper's most influential teachings concerned "the open society," and Fallibilism.

Fallibilism is the philosophical doctrine that all claims of knowledge could, in principle, be mistaken.  (Then again, I could be wrong about that.)  The "open society" basically refers to a "test and evaluate" approach to social engineering.  Regarding "open society" Roy Childs writes, "Since the Second World War, most of the Western democracies have followed Popper's advice about piecemeal social engineering and democratic social reform, and it has gotten them into a grand mess."

In 1956 Soros moved to New York City, where he worked on Wall Street, and started amassing his fortune.  He specialized in hedge funds and currency speculation.  Soros is absolutely ruthless, amoral, and clever in his business dealings, and quickly made his fortune.  By the 1980s he was well on his way to becoming the global powerhouse that he is today.

In an article Kyle-Anne Shiver wrote for "The American Thinker" she says, "Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England.  He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically, almost overnight."

In 1994 Soros crowed in "The New Republic," that "the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire."  The Russia-gate scandal in 1999, which almost collapsed the Russian economy, was labeled by Rep. Jim Leach, then head of the House Banking Committee, to be "one of the greatest social robberies in human history.  "The "Soros Empire" indeed. 

In 1997 Soros almost destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia.  At the time, Malaysia's Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohammad, called Soros "a villain, and a moron."  Thai activist Weng Tojirakarn said, "We regard George Soros as a kind of Dracula.  He sucks the blood from the people."

The website Greek National Pride reports, "Soros was part of the full court press that dismantled Yugoslavia and caused trouble in Georgia, Ukraine and Myanmar [Burma].  Calling himself a philanthropist, Soros' role is to tighten the ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New World Order while promoting his own financial gain.  He is without conscience; a capitalist who functions with absolute amorality."

France has upheld an earlier conviction against Soros, for felony insider trading.  Soros was fined 2.9 million dollars.  Recently, his native Hungary fined Soros 2.2 million dollars for "illegal market manipulation."  Elizabeth Crum writes that the Hungarian economy has been in a state of transition as the country seeks to become more financially stable and westernized.  Soros deliberately driving down the share price of its largest bank put Hungary's economy into a wicked tailspin, one from which it is still trying to recover. 
My point here is that Soros is a planetary parasite.  His grasp, greed, and gluttony have a global reach.  But what about America?  Soros told Australia's national newspaper "The Australian."  "America, as the center of the globalized financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world.  This is now over.  "The game is out," he said, adding that the time has come for "a very serious adjustment" in American's consumption habits.  He implied that he was the one with the power to bring this about." 

Soros:  "World financial crisis was "stimulating" and "in a way, the culmination of my life's work." 

Obama has recently promised 10 billion of our tax dollars to Brazil, in order to give them a leg-up in expanding their offshore oil fields.  Obama's largesse towards Brazil came shortly after his political financial backer, George Soros, invested heavily in Brazilian oil (Petrobras). 

Tait Trussel writes, "The Petrobras loan may be a windfall for Soros and Brazil, but it is a bad deal for the U.S.  The American Petroleum Institute estimates that oil exploration in the U S could create 160,000 new, well-paying jobs, as well as $1.7 trillion in revenues to federal, state, and local governments, all while fostering greater energy security and independence." 

A blog you might want to keep an eye on is SorosWatch.com.  Their mission:  "This blog is dedicated to all who have suffered due to the ruthless financial pursuits of George Soros.  Your stories are many and varied, but the theme is the same:  the destructive power of greed without conscience.  We pledge to tirelessly watch Soros wherever he goes and to print the truth in the hope that he will one day be made to stop preying upon the world's poor, that justice will be served." 

Back to America.  Soros has been actively working to destroy America from the inside out for some years now.  People have been warning us.  Two years ago, news sources reported that "Soros [is] an extremist who wants open borders, a one-world foreign policy, legalized drugs, euthanasia, and on and on.  This is off-the-chart dangerous.  In 1997 Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote, "Soros uses his philanthropy to change or more accurately deconstruct the moral values and attitudes of the Western world, and particularly of the American people".  His "open society" is not about freedom; it is about license.  His vision rejects the notion of ordered liberty, in favor of a PROGRESSIVE ideology of rights and entitlements.

Perhaps the most important of these "whistle blowers" are David Horowitz and Richard Poe.  Their book, "The Shadow Party", outlines in detail how Soros hijacked the Democratic Party, and now owns it lock, stock, and barrel.  Soros has been packing the Democratic Party with radicals, and ousting moderate Democrats for years.  The Shadow Party became the Shadow Government, which recently became the Obama Administration.

Discover The Networks.org (another good source) writes, "By his [Soros'] own admission, he helped engineer coups in Slovakia, Croatia, Georgia, and Yugoslavia.  When Soros targets a country for "regime change," he begins by creating a shadow government, a fully formed government-in-exile, ready to assume power when the opportunity arises.  The Shadow Party he has built in America greatly resembles those he has created in other countries prior to instigating a coup."

November 2008 edition of the German magazine, "Der Spiegel," in which Soros gives his opinion on what the next POTUS (President of the U. S.) should do after taking office.  "I think we need a large stimulus package."  Soros thought that around 600 billion would be about right.  Soros also said that "I think Obama presents us a great opportunity to finally deal with global warming and energy dependence.  The U.S. needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights."

Although Soros doesn't (yet) own the Republican Party, like he does the Democrats, make no mistake, his tentacles are spread throughout the Republican Party as well. 

Soros is a partner in the Carlyle Group where he has invested more than 100 million dollars.  According to an article by "The Baltimore Chronicle's" Alice Cherbonnier, the Carlyle Group is run by "a veritable who's who of former Republican leaders," from CIA man, Frank Carlucci, to CIA head and ex-President George Bush, Sr.
In late 2006, Soros bought about 2 million shares of Halliburton, Dick Cheney's old stomping grounds.  When the Democrats and Republicans held their conventions in 2000, Soros held Shadow Party conventions in the same cities, at the same time.  In 2008, Soros donated $5,000,000,000 (that’s Five Billion) to the Democratic National Committee, DNC, to insure Obama's win and wins for many other Alinsky trained Radical Rules Anti-American Socialist.  George has been contributing a billion plus to the DNC since Clinton came on the scene. 

Soros has dirtied both sides of the aisle, trust me.  And if that weren't bad enough, he has long held connections with the CIA.  And I mustn't forget to mention Soros' involvement with the MSM (Main Stream Media), the entertainment industry (e.g. he owns 2.6 million shares of Time Warner), and the various political advertising organizations he funnels millions to.  In short, George Soros controls or influences most of the MSM.  Little wonder they ignore the TEA PARTY, Soros' NEMESIS.

As Matthew Vadum writes, "The liberal billionaire-turned-philanthropist has been buying up media properties for years in order to drive home his message to the American public that they are too materialistic, too wasteful, too selfish, and too stupid to decide for themselves how to run their own lives."

Richard Poe writes, "Soros' private philanthropy, totaling nearly $5 billion, continues undermining America's traditional Western values.  His giving has provided funding of abortion rights, atheism, drug legalization, sex education, euthanasia, feminism, gun control, globalization, mass immigration, gay marriage and other radical experiments in social engineering." 

Some of the many NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) that Soros funds with his billions are:  MoveOn.org, the Apollo Alliance, Media Matters for America, the Tides Foundation, the ACLU, ACORN, PDIA (Project on Death In America), La Raza, and many more.  For a more complete list, with brief descriptions of the NGOs, go to DiscoverTheNetworks.org.                                                           
Poe continues, "Through his global web of Open Society Institutes and Open Society Foundations, Soros has spent 25 years recruiting, training, indoctrinating and installing a network of loyal operatives in 50 countries, placing them in positions of influence and power in media, government, finance and academia."

Without Soros' money, would the Saul Alinsky's Chicago machine still be rolling?  Would SEIU, ACORN, and La Raza still be pursuing their nefarious activities?  Would big money and lobbyists still be corrupting government?  Would our college campuses still be retirement homes for 1960s radicals?

America stands at the brink of an abyss, and that fact is directly attributable to Soros.  Soros has vigorously, cleverly, and insidiously planned the ruination of America and his puppet, Barack Obama is leading the way.

The words of Patrick Henry are apropos:  "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?  Forbid it, Almighty God!  I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" 
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4)Historians and sociologists associate the breakdown of the family and community with The Industrial Revolution.

Prior to this period, people lived in small groups, were dependent upon their family unit for a variety of essential needs and knew each other intimately. They even had significant influence over each other, felt responsible for each other and even shaped the behaviour of those in their own family unit. They generally worked in family businesses and activities.

Along came The Industrial Revolution and state and governmental entities supplanted the family unit and the community.  People were freed of family connections,  and the state and government took over many of the roles of educating, protecting , supporting, ruling the behaviour of individuals.  

In less than two centuries most vestiges and benefits associated with family and community have been radically altered and/or replaced.

Psychologically, as people developed away from family and the Post-industrial Revolution community came to be, their emotional and physical needs were addressed and filled by more distant entities (bureaucracies.) People were free to go their own way and the safety net of the family and community was lessened if not entirely erased.

Statistically, as borders became established and nation states were  formed, man has lived in relative security notwithstanding, tragic periods of wars and other horrible human dislocations. We are witnessing such in Syria and areas of Africa at this very time. Today, benefits derived from wars have lessened as man becomes more dependent upon technology and his own creativity and most people are increasingly able to sustain life.

The Jewish people could not take land with them so they developed trades and professions that were more intellectually connected/oriented  Unless you were decapitated you could leave with your head and start life somewhere else.  Once Israel was established, Jews reverted back to being like other people, in that they farmed, developed methods that enhanced cultivation and productivity. even in desert conditions. and you know the rest.

Man's life pursuit is to be happy, to be safe, to be free, to achieve wealth and to procreate among other goals and desires. Modern man also finds himself living in an increasingly lonely world because the connection with family and community has been broken and his support system is more distant and de-humanized.

Biologists maintain our mental and emotional world has been shaped by millions of years of evolution. Happiness, one can argue, is the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations. What satisfies man often proves ephemeral/fleeting.

When one examines the pathology and life of the wretched soul who killed 17 students and teachers in Florida, I do not see a connection because of the existence of The NRA.  The lack of a family structure, his biological make up and the distance of the external support system, which totally failed to act, is more to blame than the NRA. 

I do not own a gun nor have I ever been a member of The NRA. However, pursuing the wrong avenue will not lead to answers. It might assuage emotions of the moment and political goals but every time we try this approach we find no true answer and/or solution.

If blaming The NRA makes you feel better so be it.  

Scapegoating is a human condition but to be human is to err.
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