Monthly Archives: January 2022

Doth Protest Too Much

14 Friday Jan 2022

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            I think that line was in a Shakespeare play about one character trying to keep another from the truth. That line is very relevant today as Trump tries to keep us from finding out the full story of the January 6th insurrection.

            Trump is going to try to hamstring the select committee by every legal and illegal means he can buy or coerce in hopes of thwarting their efforts in finding the truth. He has tried to prohibit his psychopaths from testifying. He is trying to keep the records and notes that pertain to their involvement secret by going to court.

            He is fighting several criminal investigations and trying to keep most Republicans scared to go against him. A few like Kinzinger and Cheney are openly against him while many others are hoping he will go to jail or go away.

            If Trump is as innocent as he, his Psychopaths, and his media friends proclaim then why the obstruction strategy? This has gone far past the Watergate cover-up. The greater the cover-up, the greater the crime.

            Yes, he doth protest too much!

Bleak Future

14 Friday Jan 2022

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            Fifty-one years ago I was studying the projection for life on Earth. We knew the two most important factors were global warming and population growth. We knew CO2 was going to raise the planets temperature causing the climate bands to shift toward the Poles. It would cause the glaciers to melt and raise the ocean levels. This would cause massive permanent flooding of coastal cities and portions of many states. A 300 foot increase impacted food production. Increasing need to energy would increase the CO2 levels and increase temperatures causing further disruption.

            At that time the population was a sustainable 3.5 billion. The actual numbers have matched projections. Those projections haven’t changed. We are still looking at doubling again within a century. Some optimists said the seas could feed us, but I knew that wasn’t going to happen. We have managed to feed the higher income people but those billions at the bottom are going to suffer even more with wider areas becoming unproductive.

            We didn’t consider wars in our discussions on migration. We saw the people in Central America and Mexico crossing our border, and Africans into Europe.

            All of those projections have rung true. What we didn’t consider was anti-science lunacy, mountains of garbage, chemical and plastics damage to the environment, and political denial of facts. We also didn’t consider a loss of life on the magnitude of World War II.

            The future is still very bleak.

Legal Conundrum

10 Monday Jan 2022

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            The next year or so will be the most exciting legal conundrum our country has ever had. It is sure to go to the Supreme Court. Here is the situation as it evolves over the next months.

            Donald Trump has lied on many notarized documents to obtain loans. His state and federal income tax returns were full of lies and he misrepresented values of his New York properties. These are laws ranging from misdemeanors to felonies involving city, state and federal laws. He is on record of trying to get the Georgia Secretary of state to commit voter fraud.

            If those laws were broken by anyone else who had not moved to another country, they would already have been indicted and in handcuffs.

            That still isn’t the gist of the legal predicament. Trump moved to one of his properties in the state most likely to defend him — Florida. Florida’s history of protecting con artists is well known. If Trump is arrested for Federal charges would the case be tried in the Federal Courts in that District with all the judges he appointed? Will he have to stay in Florida for the rest of his life? What will the Secret Service Protection people do to prevent his handcuffing?

            Think those questions are improbable? The media in Florida are talking about the Plan B ideas to keep New York from extraditing him and what to do if the courts are not going to protect him. Can politicians support a crook when Trump is in the media every night, or will they hide in the shadows to save themselves?

Crypto Currency Fantasy

10 Monday Jan 2022

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            How this internet fantasy is called money and has some worth is beyond me. Intelligent people have been told that Blockchain programs cannot be invaded by a hacker and stolen or wiped out. It isn’t backed by anything. A national currency is backed by a government like the United States or Venezuela. The currency for the USA is solid and used around the world as if it’s gold. On the other hand, Venezuela’s money makes good toilet paper because of rampant inflation but it is still real.

            It seems like a new crypto currency is invented every week. Bitcoin is the most famous and therefore the most trafficked by criminals. It can go up thousands of dollars in a day or down thousands. It has gone over 45,000 dollars and dropped to 30,000 dollars in a few weeks. What did the person have when the Bitcoin lost a third of its “value” — still nothing!

            There are thousands of solid investments that require no conning to get someone to invest. There are probably as many crooked or extremely risky ones that greed compels us to try and Crypto Currency is one. Buying air reminds me of the Dutch Tulip futures when a bulb had a fantastic value and went to nothing in hours. Will Crypto Currency become the great or even greater example of greed and fantasy?

Higher Taxes

05 Wednesday Jan 2022

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            Why do people vote against raising taxes on someone whose yearly income is 500, 600 or more on their income? Most if not all of those super rich make their money from someone else’s labor by reducing the number of workers. Some of these people make one or two hundred million a year, yet lower middle class people who make 40 to 50,000 are against taxing those billionaires more than they are taxed.

            In covering all the bases, the Congress raises the taxes and puts in so many loopholes and ways to dodge paying any tax that the higher rate is meaningless. That’s how the super rich get away with seemingly higher rates than the middle class but pay less, sometimes zero!             During the greatest growth period in this country, taxes were twice what they are today. Reducing taxes sounds great but it is actually counter-productive. Interest rates are much more important to a thriving economy. An example is Reagan’s economic plan. When he took over, the prime rate was high and got higher so Reagan reduced taxes by 30 percent. The budget bled red ink. Interest rates were reduced but the economy didn’t respond much. When the rates on the rich were increased the economy took off. It sounds odd, but it is economic history.

Decision Time

05 Wednesday Jan 2022

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            The world is becoming more complicated every day and it just got a log worse. Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi have openly met and promised to keep the West from interfering in their affairs. Both countries are planning to use force to take control of another country. Putin has over a hundred thousand troops and equipment just over the border from the Ukraine. Xi is threatening to invade Taiwan.

            Why should we care about either country? Why should we lose an American life over the independence of either country? Is our national reputation and promises worth supporting them when they are in danger or are we only an ally when there is no danger? We, as a nation, need to make that decision in the next few weeks. The choice is to be a paper tiger or an active friend and ally.

            The decisions must be made soon because I think both invasions are being planned to occur together. Putin wants to keep NATO out of it by cutting off their natural gas for heating their homes, so he needs to act while it is cold. Xi needs to act while we are so dependent on Taiwan’s chip factories. Without those chips, our economy could implode. Once they get control of or destroy those factories they can control our policies and economy.             Don’t be guided by Russian or Chinese lies and misinformation any more. Get off the internet and look at a world globe using the brain you have and not what Xi and Putin tell you to think! Quit believing the Big Lies!

Not My Responsibility

05 Wednesday Jan 2022

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            I pay more for my house insurance than I should because the company pays to repair or replace houses destroyed by hurricanes and floods in the South. They also are paying for the 3,600 buildings in the Kentucky tornadoes and the thousands burned in the Western fires.

            If someone’s buildings are in a river flood plain they pay special flood insurance for the right to get any insurance. If I drive certain vehicles or drive in a dangerous area, my insurance will be more than other people’s.

            Basic insurance is a pool of people who try to compensate those people in the pool who have property damaged. The same applies to those in health pools. So many of those in that pool will get sick and the cost is spread among all those in the pool. Some of those in the pool will pay more because they will be more unhealthy than the average person in the pool. Smokers and others who have unhealthy habits need to pay more to compensate the pool for their foolishness. (their personal choices).

            Several smart politicians and companies have decided to charge more for insurance if pool members haven’t had their Covid 19 shots. The expenses for members who haven’t been vaccinated can easily go into hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. The other members should not have to pay for their choices. Some people have suggested $50.00 per month additional charge. I think it is a great idea. Is it right for a company, a government, or me to pay someone else’s hospital bills when they had a chance to get their shots for free?

Extortion

03 Monday Jan 2022

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            Ex-President Trump’s legal expenses for things he did before he was President are being paid by the Republican National Committee. These problems may extend back to when he was a Democrat. As of the end of November, they total over 1.6 million.

            Did the RNC decide to pay for his legal bills out of the kindness of their hearts or because they are afraid of his threats to start his own party? When he wanted his, his kids, and his sycophants travel expenses paid by the RNC, they buckled and put them on a credit line.

            The legal term for what Trump is doing is called extortion. He has been getting away with extortion all of his business life. He has become an expert at extorting to get his way. His four years as President is a good example. Until more people publicly stand up to him, the longer and more dictatorial he will become. He wants to become President for life with control over the legislatures such as Putin and Xi have in Russia and China.

            This will happen until others like Kinzinger and Cheney stand up to him. American is supposed to be controlled by “We the People,” and not by “He says.”

Another “Big Lie” Exposed

03 Monday Jan 2022

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            The “Big Lie” about Putin not helping Trump in the 2016 election is being expanded, exposed, and confirmed by some Russian cybersecurity people. Ilya Sachkov, founder of groups-1B wanted to expand its business outside Russia so he worked for the U.S. and other counties’ intelligence agencies. He is being held by the FSB (KGB’s new name) for treason. Group 1B reported to the FBI that the GBU (Russia’s military intelligence) and FSB both hacked the Democratic National Committee’s computers and gave the information to Wikileaks to be make public. How much other interference has to be rediscovered since Trump’s appointee’s shut down the investigations?

            We already knew the GRU was involved and twelve of the GRU people are indicted and will be tried if they leave Russia. The Swiss have Vladislav Klyushin in maximum security until he can be expedited here for insider trading. He founded another cybersecurity and was a close insider to Putin and should know Russia’s entire involvement into Putin’s plan to put Trump into the White House. Klyushin’s company, M13, handled all the media monitoring services for the Kremlin, defense ministry and other agencies and would know their involvement. One of his senior workers, Ivan Yermakov, is one of the twelve indicted Russians. Klyushin is being kept in maximum security to keep Putin’s hit teams from killing him. He would probably know what was discussed during the secret Trump-Putin and Trump-Russian Ambassador meetings and what Putin might have over Trump.

Global Economic Conflicts

03 Monday Jan 2022

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            There are lots of advantages to the global economy because international trade is needed for a viable world economy. We import lots of needed things and a huge pile of junk we could do without.

            The huge problem with a global economy is how easy a country can be blackmailed or extorted. Take the Ukraine as a current example. Russia is the prime supplier for natural gas for Germany and much of Europe. If Russia invades Ukraine, can we move enough LNG in tankers to make up for Russia cutting off supplies? Of course Russia could quit selling oil driving the cost up to prices never seen before.

            Let’s say we have a problem with China invading Taiwan where much of the world’s computer chips are made. Imagine no cars, refrigerators, or any other high tech devices needing a chip. In a few years new chip plants here will make America self sufficient in chips. Very rare earths we never heard of are used to make steel and aluminum better and many other things usable. We can’t do without those earths now or in the future.

            Among the things both countries need from us is food. Our farmers supply millions of tons of grain and meat which would be very difficult to replace.  China’s economy would be destroyed even more than ours since whole regions are based on exporting things to America.

            Conflicts occurring within a global economy are a two-edged sword. Both get hurt badly.