Overcoming the Divide

05 Friday Apr 2024

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        Divisiveness of a population is caused by many things. A traditional one is geography. Weather conditions, resources, terrain, density, and vegetation cause people in one area to feel different about life than others in a different area. Think the Civil War.

            Race and ethnicity are two natural divisions that can be easily overcome in all areas if all agree to jump into the melting pot. Centuries have gone by with some people being kept separate. Millions don’t want to jump into the pot and live with others like themselves. My first actual contact with ethnic seclusion was a very proud Polish Superintendent. He talked about the Polish community he grew up with in Chicago. Many of the older generation had been born in the several blocks and would die there without ever learning English, shopping or venturing outside the community.

            Another barrier is economic; money or a lack of it. Millions have overcome that barrier with education or a skill and have put themselves and their families on a different path. Too often they don’t cross the other barriers because they are not allowed to or don’t want to melt.

            Politics is another divisive issue. Moderates are able to cross back and forth but the more radical people are less likely to join other groups.

            These are just a few of the many issues separating Americans. The primary barrier today is the internet and its social media entities which could lessen barriers but will more probably increase and deepen barriers.

Old News

03 Wednesday Apr 2024

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        A congressional committee with a GOP majority is looking into the Afghanistan evacuation. They interviewed the general in charge of the region before and during the period. He blamed the State Department for not letting the army know an evacuation of troops and civilians would be needed. When the Donald Trump was President he signed an agreement with the military’s involvement setting the pullout date. That was over two years before. How did they not plan for the mobs of civilians waiting until the last possible minute? Haven’t they seen pictures of the people lined up to climb the stairs to get on the helicopter?

            Yes, the local State Department people should have got out earlier but they stayed too long to keep putting out visas and passes to the Afghans who helped us and waited for the documents, too. Everybody knew the last date months before but it’s human to figure there is plenty of time left and it’s just a matter of driving to another country or hopping an airliner. When that didn’t work out, the Air force cargo jets were the last option for thousands of Americans and Afghans.

            We have known all that since it happened. The media interviewed lots of people saying the same while waiting in the line. The eight soldiers who were blown up by the suicide bomber were doing their job. He wasn’t supposed to blow himself up in the line mob put on the plane but he saw they were doing to discover him so he took out soldiers and two hundred other people before he missed his chance.

 The real mess goes back to the beginning when the military wanted credit for getting the al-Qaeda Leaders by pulling the CIA’s people from the final hours of the chase. The Rangers let them get away.

Leaders of the Pack

01 Monday Apr 2024

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        What does a narcissistic, power hungry, greedy man do when he is leader of a supposedly democratic nation? You first eliminate any news media that may inform the citizenry of what is happening which would paint you in an unflattering way. Since the media can’t report happenings you would rid the country’s elective bodies of anyone who disagrees with you either by pressure or by jail or by death. You eliminate most of the votes that were against you and your friends. Since you control everything businesses can only operate with your approval, you are given a piece of the profits.

            Since the National leader has all the power, the Constitution can be changed to eliminate the pesky parts that limit the term of office. As long as you are in office you don’t have to worry about being arrested for crimes before and while in office.

            Two men who are successful at all the above are Xi of China and Putin of Russia. Putin is probably the richest man in the world. His secret yacht is valued at over a half billion dollars. Others who have started their path to dictator are Erdogan of Turkey, Orban of Hungary, Lukashenka of Belarus, and Modi of India. All are probably going to die in power to avoid what could happen if they were out of power. Netanyahu of Israel is hoping to stay in power by continuing the war with Hamas.

            All of these people have a common denominator, Donald Trump! He recently was quoted as saying he would squelch the press, jail those who were against him, and change parts of the constitution limiting his authority and terms. Trump has said many times how much he admires all of those authoritarians. Why can’t Americans really hear what he means? The people in the above countries didn’t listen either.

Gibberish

30 Saturday Mar 2024

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        How gullible can Americans be? Polls say a majority of Americans think the economy is in trouble. It is not! It is booming and because of the infrastructure and chips bills it will just increase. Unemployment is at historical lows of less than 4% with hundreds of thousands of jobs available. Inflation is under 2.5% with the Federal Reserve promising three rate cuts. Remember inflation was started by a lack of supply and transportation shortages.

            Some people think prices would go back down if Former President Donald Trump was in office but that isn’t going to happen. In fact, he wants to put high tariffs on products we buy to maintain our standard of living. Climate change and viruses have caused meat prices to go up plus the cost of animal food, labor to process, and transportation. Do not expect meat prices to go down until viruses and climate impact are greatly reduced.

            Trump says energy prices will go down if he is elected. He says more wells will be drilled where the Biden Administration won’t lease the land. The truth is companies producing natural gas are closing off wells since the prices have dropped so much. Oversupply from over drilling caused this. We are the largest producer of petroleum and actually export about two million barrels per day that our refineries can’t refine. The government is supporting the cost by buying oil in 70 dollar range to replace oil it sold in the 90 dollar range.

            Trump seldom talks about the deficit which skyrocketed during his term. Of course, facts have never been a basic for his gibberish when talking to his duped followers. Those gullible people live in a dream world that didn’t exist and never will.

            What is in danger is Democracy and electing someone who thinks he can be like Putin and never leave office again.

Silos

27 Wednesday Mar 2024

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        I wish more than a million people read my views because they are factual and scary. My focus is on climate change, destruction of the planet, historical Presidency, and if necessary, politics. I am not a believer in a lot of technology and the internet which put my views out to readers far from my area. My wife and I donate to several environmental groups and during the election cycle particular people who agree with our views. Our political position is in the old middle camp but as the GOP has gone towards the nutcase radicalism, the moderate line has moved left. That is why moderate Republicans can’t win primaries,

            As I said before I am against the internet because tens of millions of Americans and people in other countries believe the most outrageous writing and not the truth. Those social media posts have created opinion silos which keep people from understanding the entire picture. The anti-abortion silo realizes they have stepped into a quagmire but don’t know how to ameliorate their position to allow some abortions. They think they are forced to support a person they despise. The anti-science silo wants to take America back more than a hundred years to when diseases killed tens of thousands each year. The down-with-government group is against everything especially taxes and expenditures, unless the money goes to something in their area.

            As a student of history, especially wars and their causes, I can see how history is repeating itself with Donald Trump and Adolph Hitler. Only a few in the media have made that connection. The silos supporting Trump haven’t seen what happened to the people who put Hitler into power and destroyed Germany.

RNC Shake-Up

19 Tuesday Mar 2024

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            Former President Trump dumped the leadership of the Republican National Committee. Why? Last year Trump got money from the RNC to pay some of his legal fees. After a revolt from the donors RNC leadership said no more. They only had a few million to do the job but needed ten times that amount for supporting down ticket races.

            What is Trump’s solution? Fire everyone at the top of the National Committee and replace them with a friend and his daughter-in-law who knows nothing about the job. Her qualification is she will do what Trump says including signing checks to pay his bills. He doesn’t care about the rest of the party especially if they don‘t kiss his hand or any other part of his body.

            How will the small and large contributors feel about their money going to pay Trump’s legal bills that have nothing to do with anyone else’s campaign? He believes he is the party and everyone else is expendable. That philosophy has always been his way of life. Three wives; two divorced and current one bought off with a new contract, and a galore of hookers and molesting, $100,000 to Planned Parenthood tells about his morals. How can any religious person support him?

Mideast Mess

11 Monday Mar 2024

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        History shows Israel’s choices with Gaza will be looked at by commissions, university courses, and historians. Military academies will add the Israeli actions to their studies no matter what they do.

            Currently, November 3rd, they are bombing apartment buildings in the hopes of killing Hamas leaders and followers. The problem is the people. They want to kill the Hamas who are spending most of their time in concrete lined tunnels 200 feet below those buildings. The Viet Cong tunnels were all dirt and few were deeper than 30 feet and we didn’t eliminate them.

            Another example of what happens when bombing apartment buildings and cities is Churchill’s decision to bomb German cities after a Luftwaffe pilot got lost and dropped a few bombs on London’s working district housing. It led to the destruction of both countries’ cities and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. The peoples of both countries became enraged instead of lackadaisical about a war benefiting both leaderships.

            Bush I and his advisors knew they didn’t want to go into Iraq to do away with Saddam and his government because it would leave a mess for Americans to manage. Bush II and his people invented reasons to invade and it took up years to leave and it is still a mess. Afghanistan is another example of staying and creating enemies by being there.

            Most Israelis want their country out of Gaza and the West Bank but the extreme-Right Religious Group can yank Netanyahu’s chain so he will continue to keep letting the right take West Bank land and kill Palestinians on their own lands. The only way the Mideast problems will ever be solved is for the Israeli politics to have a major change.

Two Fences with a Narrow Space Between

09 Saturday Mar 2024

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        I can argue both sides of the Hamas-Israel War without any effort which is why I have a gap between two fences. Both parties have inflamed the other side.

            The Israeli’s pushed hundreds of thousands Palestinians off land their ancestors had farmed hundreds of years before. The ones who didn’t leave have not got full citizenship even if they have a couple of seats in the Knesset. The ultra right-wingers are trying to take away those seats and any right they have now. A few of the ultra-right Israeli Zionists do things to cause protests by the Muslims and reactions by the police and military. The people of Gaza or those on the West Bank may shoot someone or blow themselves up in frustration and revenge for an Israeli action. Every time they bomb an apartment building killing families, they create more Hamas fighters.

The Israeli’s leadership and ultra-right have their own agendas which is to overreact to any action. The majority of the Israelis would like an equitable peace between all three sides. Some past Prime Ministers have done deals with the PLO to make peace in spite of what the settlers have done. Israel does supply water and electricity to Gaza as a humanitarian effort but they frequently cut it off for actions of a few.

            Both sides get massive subsidies for their economies and their military organization. The United States gives money because of Jewish political leverage in Washington D.C. and originally because we stopped most Jewish immigration from the Nazis. We have worked to eliminate or greatly lessen any conflict with the area’s Arab countries. They have cut some subsidies to Gaza in hopes of ending conflict but Iran has stepped up its support of Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

                I think the wars would be over if all subsidies were stopped by American and the Arab countries.

Gullible America

06 Wednesday Mar 2024

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Gullible America

        Conspiracies aren’t new. History is full of them. Most were about another group about to attack. That may be the reason for the first Polynesian War and Marc Antony’s demise. Our Revolutionary War was caused by conspiracy lies. The Boston Tea Party was concocted creating a reverse conspiracy.

            We know of many today but my memory goes back to the Apollo Moon Landings and Kennedy Assassination. Hitler people used conspiracies to start the War and to turn Germans against their own people and others. Many Americans still don’t believe the concentration camps.

            Today’s number one is Trump won the election. Rudy Giuliani started it during the election night according to others in the Oval Office.

            Today many Americans make money from starting conspiracies and continuing others. Many of today’s conspiracies are anti-science which harms and kills people. One kind is vaccines cause Autism and other illnesses. Thousands died because of conspiracies around the COVID shots. Some like the GPS chips or were more ludicrous.

            Foreign actors from Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and others have learned how gullible Americans are. The propagandists from those countries and groups within our country know how easy it is to sway opinion using half truths and the most outrageous ideas. The next eight months will be filled with such crap in order to persuade people to vote for the worst, most immoral President we have ever had. Trump is unable to tell the truth even under oath as his attorneys know when they tried to keep him off the stand. Many of the lies we are bombarded with comes from his mouth.

               

Today’s War on Disputed Land

05 Tuesday Mar 2024

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        We have learned our Intelligence Agencies told the Israeli Agency about the activities in Gaza. For some reason they did nothing to counter the possibility of the massive attack. Israelis who survived the initial attack on their Kibbutz want to know why the army did not react to sappers opening the gaps in the wire barrier. One settler said the army was always there in minutes when a bird or pig touched it.

            The satellites showed Hamas was concentrating its missiles for a barrage on September 28th. October 5th, the CIA gave another warning and the next day the Israelis were reporting theirs and U.S. intelligence of the major increase in activity. The attack occurred the next day, October 7th, when Hamas launched its attack. An Israeli source said Netanyahu didn’t want to ruin the country-wide parties.

            We can be absolutely sure that Netanyahu was informed before the sixth so the warning could be distributed. Why did he not move troops to where the attack was aimed? Why did he not warn the area settlers? Did he decide to wait until the Hamas troops came over the border to kill them? Did his plan go awry? Did he allow this to happen so he could divert attention from the over 100,000 protesters that are against his pushing to cut the Supreme Court’s power and his taking the land on the West Bank for his ultra-right wing supporters.

            I don’t support either side in this war because both sides are to blame. The Israelis are finally going to do what we did when he moved the people off the land they had lived on for hundreds or thousands of years. We said it was God’s way of giving the Europeans a home. We only killed eighteen of the twenty million through diseased blankets, starvation, or with lead. I guess bombing ten story buildings with families in them is the modern way of exterminating those people Israelis don’t want.