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Let The Celebrations Begin—Putin Will Die Soon
Vladimir Putin will die, hopefully a grisly death. This is an immutable fact—of how the civilized world views him. He alone is principally responsible for the killing of innocent Ukrainians; the raping and disfigurement of Ukrainian women, men and children; and the suffering of so many.
The more he suffers, the louder and longer will be the exhalations and celebrations. He and Russians are viewed as global pariahs, and very sick perverts.[2] Yes, that may seem harsh, cruel and even Godless, but what he has done to destroy Ukraine and its courageous people is sadistic and barbaric at the very least. He is pure evil, incarnate.
Soon, Russia may implode like the Soviet Union before it, and exist no more. Putinism will die with Putin.[3] The rape of approximately 2 million German women by the Soviet military—aka Russian barbarians—when they entered Berlin at the end of World War II, will have been avenged, somewhat.
Now a healing must take place, or at least begin, among Ukrainians. Those who fled their country must be welcomed back; and its heroes must be honored. Families must be reconstituted; and rebuilding must take place. Like the fall of the USSR, and in particular Berlin and Dresden in East Germany (or the DDR), reconstruction will erase the most visible scars of a war that will never be forgotten.
Lastly, America's despicable Left—aka Democrats or so-called "Progressives"—have rigged our elections since the days of John F. Kennedy. They have encouraged riots in our streets by the thugs, slugs, hoods and mongrels of "Black Lives Matter," Antifa and other far-Left groups, which have killed or hurt innocent Americans including our police; and destroyed black and other businesses. Now, they are rioting again and trying to subvert decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.[4]
[2] See, e.g., https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18402141/vladimir-putin-parkinsons-paranoia-traitors-insane/ ("Vladimir Putin is suffering from early stage Dementia & his paranoia is driving him insane, says former KGB agent") and https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-officers-shocked-putins-wild-26850180 ("Russian officers in dismay at Putin's orders which leave 400 soldiers dead a day") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10781397/Russian-soldiers-raping-Ukrainian-men-boys-women-says-war-crimes-investigator.html ("Russian soldiers are raping Ukrainian men and boys as well as women, says UN war crimes investigator") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10781737/Putins-Holodomor-Russia-steals-400-000-tonnes-grain-occupied-Ukraine.html ("'Putin's Holodomor': Russia steals 400,000 tonnes of grain from occupied Ukraine sparking fears of a devastating food crisis in the country in chilling echo of Stalin's famine") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10782185/Ukraine-war-Communications-lost-Mariupol-defenders.html ("Moment Russia uses 'thermobaric warheads' to devastate Azovstal plant: Communications are lost with heroic last defenders of Mariupol a day after Russian troops began storming the steel works") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10783207/Ukraine-war-Russian-T-90M-main-battle-tank-destroyed.html ("Moment £4m next-generation Russian super-tank with reinforced steel and special automatic defence system is blown up by Ukrainian army just days after making its battlefield debut") and https://www.the-sun.com/news/5268666/putin-practises-nuclear-missile-strikes-nato/ ("Putin practises NUCLEAR missile strikes and chemical attack in chilling war games on Nato border") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10786445/Ukraine-war-Russians-kicked-Azovstal-steel-works.html ("Russians 'KICKED OUT' of Azovstal – as defenders are 'dying in agony'"); see also https://www.dickmorris.com/an-endgame-exit-strategy-for-putin/ ("Dick Morris: An Endgame Exit Strategy For Putin?") and https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/world/europe/russia-invasion-ukraine-elections.html ("A U.S. Diplomat says Russia is planning to annex parts of Ukraine with 'sham' elections") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10784941/US-intelligence-helped-Ukraine-kill-multiple-Russian-generals-Putins-troops-invaded.html ("US intelligence 'has helped Ukraine kill multiple Russian generals' since Putin's troops invaded")
[3] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/russia-must-not-be-crippled-but-destroyed-like-the-soviet-union-before-it/ ("Russia Must Not Be Crippled, But Destroyed Like The Soviet Union Before It")
[4] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/john-f-kennedy-the-most-despicable-president-in-american-history/ ("John F. Kennedy: The Most Despicable President In American History") (see also the extensive footnotes beneath the article) and https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-law-enforcement-prepares-for-potential-violence-unrest-after-roe-decision-204137717.html ("Law enforcement prepares for potential post-Roe unrest") and https://www.westernjournal.com/justice-roberts-goes-nuclear-activates-police-force-answerable-court/ ("Chief Justice Roberts Goes Nuclear, Activates Police Force Answerable Only to the Court Itself") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10785709/Fence-SCOTUS-Justices-cancels-events-police-brace-violence-Roe-leak.html ("Huge fence around SCOTUS and Justices cancels events over Roe leak") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10787407/Roberts-calls-leak-absolutely-appalling-slams-one-bad-apple-tried-sway-Roe-decision.html ("Roberts calls Supreme Court Roe leak 'absolutely appalling'")
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Isn't This All We Really Need To Know About Joe Biden?
• President says first lady Jill Biden was Obama's vice president – a job he held for EIGHT years – in latest blunder during ceremony to commission Navy's newest nuclear submarine.[2]
He's undergone at least two brain operations in prior years.[3] And his so-called "gaffes" might be both laughable and sad if he was not the President of the United States, and ostensibly the leader of the Free World.
Russia's KGB-trained killer Vladimir Putin has been systemically destroying Ukraine; and his military forces have been committing an endless stream of mind-boggling atrocities, which might not be happening if Biden was coherent.[4] In a very real sense, Biden has blood on his hands; and he should be facing a war crimes tribunal[5], and removal from the presidency.
His humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan sent signals to the Kremlin—and to China's Xi Jinping—that Biden wasn't fit to serve. A window of opportunity opened, and Putin acted decisively.
Biden's other actions to destroy our great nation have been cataloged here before.[6] Tragically, at this critical moment in American and world history—when China's Coronavirus pandemic has not gone away from our shores[7]—the United States does not have a President.
[2] See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10681745/President-says-lady-Jill-Biden-VP-latest-gaffe.html ("Oh, Joe! President says first lady Jill Biden was Obama's vice president – a job he held for EIGHT years – in latest blunder during ceremony to commission Navy's newest nuclear submarine")
[3] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/biden-is-brain-dead/ ("Biden Is Brain Dead"), n.9
[4] See, e.g., https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/04/ukraine-war-horrifying-picture-shows-swastika-on-corpse-of-rape-victim-16402227/ ("Ukraine war: Horrifying picture shows swastika on corpse of rape victim") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10684031/Woman-tortured-raped-Russian-troops-burned-SWASTIKA-corpse-Ukrainian-MP-claims.html ("Woman 'was tortured and raped by Russian troops who burned a SWASTIKA on to the skin of her corpse', Ukrainian MP claims") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10683603/EXCLUSIVE-Ukrainians-fled-war-torn-cities-reveal-horrifying-sex-attacks-witnessed.html ("'The Russians were animals. A girl aged 15 was raped along with her mother': Ukrainians who managed to flee war-torn cities reveal horrifying sex attacks and murders they witnessed") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10685579/Rape-cruellest-weapon-war-DOMINIC-SANDBROOK-details-common-tactic.html ("Rape has always been the cruellest weapon of war: As evidence emerges of bestial abuse of Ukrainian women, DOMINIC SANDBROOK details how it's a common tactic, from the Romans to medieval warlords and Isis fanatics")
[5] See, e.g., https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/apr/4/biden-calls-putin-face-war-crimes-trial-after-mass/ ("Biden calls for Putin to face war crimes trial after mass graves found in Ukraine")
[6] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/03/27/the-search-for-sanity-amidst-so-much-insanity/ ("The Search For Sanity Amidst So Much Insanity")
[7] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/12/what-should-anyone-believe-about-the-coronavirus-and-its-mutations/ ("What Should Anyone Believe About The Coronavirus And Its Mutations?") (see also the comments beneath the article)
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Will Putin Seize Ukraine, And If So When?
Russia's killer Vladimir Putin is expected to attend Xi Jinping's Winter Olympics in Beijing[2], and then all bets are off. As I wrote in 2015:
The world must never forget that Putin left the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing to launch his aggression against Georgia. Then, he left the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and launched his aggression against Crimea and the rest of Ukraine. Also, the world must never forget that in addition to downing Malaysia Airlines Flight 17—and killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board—Putin killed Alexander Litvinenko and countless others.[3]
Exploiting America's humiliating defeat in Afghanistan, both Putin and Xi are "chess masters" who may move simultaneously to inflict heavy losses—both psychologically and militarily—against the United States and the American people. In short, the "axis of evil" may strike on multiple fronts before our elections occur later this year.
Larry Kudlow—the Director of the National Economic Council during the Trump Administration from 2018 to 2021[4]—has written an article entitled "A Perfect Storm Engulfs Biden Over Economy, Europe, and Asia," which is worth reading:
Almost immediately following President Biden's blundering news conference on Wednesday, a near-perfect storm has descended. Stock markets are selling off with their worst performance in many years. Interest rates and oil prices are rising. High inflation is embedded in the economy, and the Federal Reserve is about to launch a monetary tightening cycle.
Russia shows absolutely no signs of de-escalating in the Ukraine. If anything, it has gotten more aggressive by moving troops into Belarus and ships into the Black Sea, effectively surrounding Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Mr. Biden's domestic agenda has collapsed, and the very essence of his presidency is hanging by a thread. He has never recovered from the catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal.
Nor has he recovered from his launch of a radical left big-government socialist domestic policy.
Polls unanimously show the public is simply not buying the product Mr. Biden is selling. He doubled down on his failed woke product last Wednesday, another huge mistake.
Now, in a futile attempt to recoup his failed diplomacy with Russia, Mr. Biden's Administration is suddenly saber-rattling an increase of American GIs into Eastern Europe under the NATO flag. This after telling the country he would not deploy American troops.
Right now, I am completely unconvinced and uncomfortable with putting another 8,500 Yanks into Eastern Europe.
For one thing, Putin couldn't care less. He's got about a couple hundred [thousand] troops around the area—8,500 is an ankle bite.
For another thing, President Biden and his team have been so far behind the curve on this Ukraine story that it looks as if they can never catch up. Our own diplomats, intel people and even Defense Department sources, expect Russia to invade Ukraine.
Look, I'm no isolationist and I'm always America First in international relations, but the way to deal with Mr. Putin is by closing down his Nord Stream pipeline and shutting Russia out of the dollar-based international banking system.
These kinds of brute economic sanctions are something that would surely get Mr. Putin's attention and do great damage to his economy. Close down the Russian central bank and their larger commercial banks from using the SWIFT electronic funds transfer system.
The dollar is the world's reserve currency. About 90% of foreign exchange transactions are denominated in dollars. Take Russia out of that system and their economy is literally sunk. S-u-n-k. They can fiddle around with some Chinese banks, but China and its capital controls are a small sideshow digression in world finance.
Say to Mr. Putin: No oil, no natural gas, no dollars, no banking. Then pour a larger and larger weapons arsenal into Ukraine. That's a tough policy. That's what Mr. Biden should have done the minute he learned of the Russian troop buildup.
Many weeks have been wasted. America has been reacting to Mr. Putin, not defending its own agenda. And now, the Bidens are digging a deeper hole by putting in more American soldiers, which will prove to be extremely unpopular and ineffectual.
By the way, I hate to say it, but the current Pentagon and national security group in this Administration has not earned any spurs after the Afghanistan fiasco. At the moment, I don't think we want them to expand their military horizon.
I don't know if we are appeasing Mr. Putin. That's such a toxic word. I do know that we have been enabling Mr. Putin. The former KGB officer now turned presidential autocrat understands this full well. We are playing his game, on his turf, with his narrative.
Instead of talking about NATO flags, backed by the unreliable Germany, I wish we were talking about American flags and American interests in freedom, democracy, and free-enterprise capitalism.
One final thought. This is just in, and it blows my mind. Apparently, the Biden Administration has arranged for the payment of Iran's dues at the United Nations.
Can you believe this? The Bidens have arranged to release $18 million of blocked Iranian funds, to be released to the Iranians so they can pay their dues, and—get this—have a vote in the United Nations, so that John Kerry and the State Department could once again bypass Congress and make a new deal with Iran. Like I said, a perfect storm.[5]
Kudlow's advocacy for the use of stringent economic sanctions is consistent with my earlier articles.[6]
[2] See, e.g., https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59663827 ("Beijing 2022: Putin tells Xi he will attend Winter Olympics")
[3] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/the-death-of-putin-and-russia-the-final-chapter-of-the-cold-war/ ("The Death Of Putin And Russia: The Final Chapter Of The Cold War")
[4] See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Kudlow ("Larry Kudlow")
[5] See https://www.nysun.com/national/a-perfect-storm-engulfs-biden-over-economy-europe/91975/ ("A Perfect Storm Engulfs Biden Over Economy, Europe, and Asia"); see also https://www.gingrich360.com/2022/01/25/ukraine-taiwan-and-a-weak-commander-in-chief/ ("Ukraine, Taiwan, and a Weak Commander in Chief") and https://theloudobbsshow.libsyn.com/president-trump-on-bidens-blunders-rinos-winning ("The Great America Show with Lou Dobbs: PRESIDENT TRUMP ON BIDEN'S BLUNDERS, RINOS & WINNING")
[6] See, e.g., supra n.3.
Unspoken in all of these discussions, but hanging like a dark cloud over all of the world today, is China's Coronavirus pandemic. Perhaps its impact is described best in an article by Meghan McCain, the former Senator and presidential contender's daughter, which is worth reading.
See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10443695/MEGHAN-MCCAIN-got-Covid-doubt-America-recover-not-Biden.html ("MEGHAN MCCAIN: I finally got Covid and it was so horrible it made me doubt if America will ever recover from this pandemic. It WILL but not with moronic Biden in charge")
I was not a fan of her father, but I voted for him. I know little or nothing about her, except she was anti-Trump. The latest Coronavirus mutation, Omicron, is overriding the vaccines and boosters.
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Will Americans Have A Country When Biden And His Democrats Are Finished With It?
If Donald Trump had served a second consecutive four-year term as our President, it is possible that China would have been forced to pay enormous reparations and/or restitution. Amounting to trillions of dollars—and paid to Americans and others for having unleashed the devastating Coronavirus pandemic that has killed so many, and hurt so many others—China has sowed chaos in the United States and globally. This is consistent with Xi Jinping's goal of achieving global domination.[2]
Americans are split between those who has been vaccinated fully, and anticipate periodic "boosters" in the future like our yearly flu shots; and "anti-vaxxers," many of whom are intelligent, well-educated and believe "devoutly" that we will not know for years (if not decades) what the long-term effects of the vaccines really are. After all, more than 100 years have passed since the Spanish flu ended; and an estimated 50-100 million died from it, with the exact number still being undetermined.[3]
Meanwhile, Xi and his lapdog—Russia's killer Vladimir Putin—continue to oppress their own people; threaten war against Taiwan and Ukraine, respectively; and sow the seeds of global chaos. They have willing accomplices or handmaidens in America's Left, who see this as an opportunity to further their own radical beliefs and agendas, and subjugate the masses.
A few examples will suffice. They are changing the voting rules; opening our borders wide to illegal aliens (including human traffickers and other criminals), and rewarding them with financial and other benefits; making us dependent on oil from the volatile Middle East again; weakening our global alliances after our humiliating defeat in Afghanistan, where Americans were killed while others are still left behind; and blessing crimes that were prosecuted until recently.[4]
Lots of us began as Democrats but abandoned that political party years ago, when it veered so far to the Left that it became unrecognizable. Today, it's as if the bowels of Hell have opened wide and unleashed a host of devils on our great nation, which are determined to destroy or "cancel" everything that we have held dear and sacred. To say that they are Godless is to be kind and forgiving, with respect to what they really are. They are the Devil incarnate; that much is crystal clear.
For example, anyone who doubts this—or is offended by such an assertion—needs to read Barack Obama's "Dreams from My Father."[5] It is all there, in his own words: unbridled racism, and a hatred of America. For those who scoff at this, one needs to realize that he grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia, and never lived on the American mainland until he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.
His mother lived in Indonesia, and essentially raised her "second family" without him; and he only spent one month of his lifetime with his father, who visited Hawaii from Kenya. His unbridled anger toward America has sowed racial divisions between blacks and whites; the lawlessness that is almost nonstop and an epidemic; and hatreds that have been festering, like a wound that never heals.[6] All of this inures to the benefit of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and our other enemies, who are bent on America's destruction.
Conspiracy theorists aside, Barack Obama, Brain Dead Joe Biden[7], Willie Brown's ho Kamala Harris[8], Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, and their fellow travelers of America's Left are fulfilling the goals of Xi Jinping and China's other rulers. They are tearing apart the very fabric of our great nation. Unless they are stopped in their tracks—for example, in our congressional elections later this year—the United States' future may be imperiled.[9]
[2] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/timothy-d.-naegele.pdf (Timothy D. Naegele, "The Coronavirus and Similar Global Issues: How to Address Them")
[4] See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10391037/Nearly-100-people-charged-murder-free-walk-streets-Chicago-thanks-woke-bail-reform.html ("Nearly 100 people charged with murder are free on bail in Chicago")
[5] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/is-barack-obama-a-racist/ ("Is Barack Obama A Racist?")
[7] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/biden-is-brain-dead/ ("Biden Is Brain Dead")
[8] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/11/brain-dead-joe-biden-has-picked-willie-browns-ho-as-our-next-president/ ("Brain Dead Joe Biden Has Picked Willie Brown's Ho As Our Next President")
[9] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/01/07/january-6-2021-in-perspective/ ("January 6, 2021, In Perspective") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2021/12/30/2021-annus-horribilis/ ("2021 Annus Horribilis")
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January 6, 2021, In Perspective
The violence that occurred on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.—where I spent so many years—never should have happened, period. Before working there, I served as an Army officer in The Pentagon, where I was assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency when it was headquartered there.[2]
While memories fade with the passage of time, many of us were glued to our TVs on the morning of September 11, 2001—or the infamous "9/11″—when our great nation was attacked by thugs from abroad. They had hijacked our own airliners, which slammed into the Twin Towers in New York City, The Pentagon, and another that was brought down by courageous passengers in a Shanksville, Pennsylvania field. The latter flight might have targeted our White House or Capitol.[3]
I was in California that day, and had gotten up early to watch Laura Bush testify at a hearing on Capitol Hill, when I saw the horrors unfold. Before 9/11, I had eaten dinner at the "Windows on the World" restaurant, atop one of the World Trade Center's towers that were destroyed by the terrorists.[4]
Because of my work, I knew the security at The Pentagon and at our Capitol well, and had to pass security checks when I entered either building. What happened at the Capitol on January 6th of last year is mind-boggling for me, especially in light of the fact that the FBI and other government agencies were apparently tipped off ahead of time about possible violence at the Capitol, yet they failed to respond.
Having tried to destroy Donald Trump from the moment his quest for the presidency began—in bogus impeachment attempts, and other concerted efforts masterminded by Barack Obama and his Democrats[5]—it is not surprising that they would try to pin the Capitol attacks on him too. It is a convenient ruse to divert attention from the colossal failures of the Biden-Harris administration, which may result in the Democrats' loss of the House in our elections later this year.[6]
I began as a Democrat in a devoutly-Republican family, but became an Independent when I left the Senate. I had seen too much "dirt" on Capitol Hill[7], and I have been an Independent ever since. Indeed, I concluded that the Democrats were "evil" but smart, while the Republicans were "Neanderthals" and dumb. I have never changed that conclusion.[8]
Today, the Democrats and their Leftist cohorts in the media are trying to blame last year's Capitol attacks on Trump and the Republicans, in a pathetic effort to salvage their likely-failing election prospects. Some Republican "RINOs" are playing along with this ruse. One is the "architect" of the George W. Bush presidency, Karl Rove, who was there when Bush invaded Afghanistan, and then embarked on the tragic Iraq War—in which 5,000 Americans died and many more were maimed, and trillions of dollars were wasted, for nothing.[9]
Our great nation is divided because of the Coronavirus pandemic and other factors[10]; and we need to heal, not engage in more divisiveness . . . and yes, lawlessness. To incarcerate those who were there a year ago, without trials or other constitutionally-guaranteed rights, is repugnant unto itself. This is especially true when the thugs, slugs, hoods and mongrels of "Black Lives Matter," Antifa and other far-Left groups—who burned our cities, killed or hurt innocent Americans including our police, and destroyed black and other businesses—have never been brought to justice.[11]
[2] See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6 and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/
[3] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/13/9-11-every-american-should-read-this/ ("9/11—Every American Should Read This")
[4] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_on_the_World ("Windows on the World")
[5] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/impeachment-may-become-the-singular-obsession-in-washington-and-dominate-news-coverage/ ("Impeachment May Become The Singular Obsession In Washington, And Dominate News Coverage")
[6] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2021/12/30/2021-annus-horribilis/ ("2021 Annus Horribilis") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2021/12/20/have-woke-anti-americanism-and-china-risen-to-take-the-place-of-the-soviet-union-which-replaced-the-nazis-third-reich/ ("Have Woke Anti-Americanism And China Risen To Take The Place Of The Soviet Union, Which Replaced The Nazis' Third Reich?")
[7] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/washington-is-sick-and-the-american-people-know-it/ ("Washington Is Sick And The American People Know It")
[8] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/the-democrats-are-evil-but-smart-while-the-republicans-are-neanderthals-and-dumb/ ("The Democrats Are Evil But Smart, While The Republicans Are Neanderthals And Dumb")
[9] See https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-jan-6-responsibility-anniversary-riot-storm-capitol-trump-protesters-investigation-11641417707 ("Republicans' Jan. 6 Responsibility")
[10] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/timothy-d.-naegele.pdf (Timothy D. Naegele, "The Coronavirus and Similar Global Issues: How to Address Them")
[11] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/history-repeats-itself-thugs-riot-in-america/ ("History Repeats Itself: Thugs Riot In America")
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2021 Annus Horribilis
By Timothy D. Naegele[1][2]
Clearly, the Coronavirus and its mutations are not following the trajectory of the Spanish flu, which killed an estimated 50-100 million globally, and came and went within 18 months.[3] As 2021 comes to a close, the United States and other countries are shutting down again, with even worse predicted in the future.[4] Time-honored events such as American college football's bowl games are being canceled, because of the virus.[5]
Americans do not trust their government with respect to information about the virus. And our already-stressed healthcare system may be overwhelmed, as more Americans seek critical help for Coronavirus-related medical needs. Medical professionals have not recovered fully from the effects of the first rounds of the Coronavirus pandemic; and many have taken early retirements or just quit because of the stress. Also, Americans with non-Coronavirus medical needs are being turned away again.[6]
China and Russia may be on the verge of striking at Taiwan and Ukraine, respectively; and Brain Dead Joe Biden and his Vice President, Willie Brown's former ho Kamala Harris, seem more out of touch than ever. Lots of Americans have lost faith in our great nation, which is not limited to supporters of former President Donald Trump. They include vast numbers of Independents, who constitute an estimated 41 percent of the American electorate.[7] Many have become devout "anti-vaxxers," who do not believe the directives issued by our federal government, state governments or local governments. As the days pass, more evidence is mounting that governments at all levels are incompetent, and incapable of addressing the problems created by the Coronavirus pandemic and its mutations.
My last article here—entitled "Have Woke Anti-Americanism And China Risen To Take The Place Of The Soviet Union, Which Replaced The Nazis' Third Reich?"—concluded with rays of hope and optimism. It referenced another article on the subject by Conrad Black, a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher and writer.[8] I have not changed my belief that Black may be correct, and there are reasons for long-term optimism. However, in the interim, Americans may go through even more pain and suffering, before there is a light at the proverbial "end of the tunnel." Indeed, I concluded:
As Americans seem mired down with the reemergence of Coronavirus lockdowns and fears, and the ineptitude—if not downright dishonesty—of the Biden-Harris administration as it implodes, they need to heed what Conrad Black has written above. A powerful backlash is building against woke anti-Americanism, which will likely overwhelm it and consign it to the dustbin of history.[9]
This and other factors may temper our enemies' actions against us.
[2] Last year at this time, I wrote a similar article assessing what had happened during the year. Tragically, the assessment this year may be even worse.
See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/22/2020-annus-horribilis/ ("2020 Annus Horribilis")
[3] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/timothy-d.-naegele.pdf (Timothy D. Naegele, "The Coronavirus and Similar Global Issues: How to Address Them"), p. 286.
[4] See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10355849/US-hits-record-nearly-500-000-Covid-cases-24-hours-Experts-says-viral-blizzard.html ("US sets WORLD record 489,267 COVID cases in 24 hours as country risks grinding to a HALT: 'Incoming viral blizzard will make it hard to keep everyday life operating'"); see also n.6 infra.
[5] See, e.g., https://www.si.com/college/2021/12/29/holiday-bowl-canceled-nc-state-ucla-covid-19-outbreak-official ("Holiday Bowl Officially Canceled, NC State Won't Play in a Bowl Game")
[6] See, e.g., https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/30/hospitals-staffing-shortages-omicron/ ("First they ran short of PPE, then ventilators. Now, the shortage is hospital staff")
[7] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_U.S._states
[8] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2021/12/20/have-woke-anti-americanism-and-china-risen-to-take-the-place-of-the-soviet-union-which-replaced-the-nazis-third-reich/ (Timothy D. Naegele, "Have Woke Anti-Americanism And China Risen To Take The Place Of The Soviet Union, Which Replaced The Nazis' Third Reich?"); see also https://www.nysun.com/national/powerful-backlash-building-against-woke-anti/91833/ ("Powerful Backlash Building Against Woke Anti-Americanism") and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Black ("Conrad Black")
[9] See id.
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Have Woke Anti-Americanism And China Risen To Take The Place Of The Soviet Union, Which Replaced The Nazis' Third Reich?
Conrad Black—a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher and writer—has written an article entitled "Powerful Backlash Building Against Woke Anti-Americanism," which is worth reading and heeding:
December 26 will mark the 30th anniversary of the disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and with it, the collapse of international communism. Political scientist Francis Fukuyama spoke for many when he said that we were "at the end of history" and that there would be no political evolution beyond what appeared to be the total triumph of liberal democracy.
This can clearly be seen now as a hopeful view inflated by triumphalism. China has risen to take the place of the Soviet Union, which itself replaced the Nazi German Third Reich as the principal rival to western democracy. One could easily imagine, looking at the feeble and inadequate regime now in office in Washington and imagine that the West, haltingly led by the United States and infested by appeasers and defeatists, was once again under severe challenge by a transoceanic, totalitarian power.
Showing unsuspected powers of improvisation, the international left that was completely defeated in the Cold War vanished into the undergrowth, but almost spontaneously returned as champions of environmentalism. If capitalism could not be defeated by a competitive economic system, Marxism, it shortly found itself in mortal combat with the old left now in alliance with the authentic, if often tedious, conservationists in a holy assault on capitalism as an environmental threat to the future of the planet itself.
We appear to be in a more dangerous confrontation with China and other countries conniving with it — especially Russia, Iran and North Korea — than we really are. China is aggressively posturing and claiming international waters as its own and threatening to accelerate reunification with Taiwan. Russia, having lost nearly half its population in the fall of the Soviet Union, is openly threatening to annex at least the predominantly Russian parts of Ukraine.
The enfeeblement of the American administration invites the inference that America is in irreversible decline. In fact, while China has enjoyed astonishing success as a development story, bootstrapping itself up from the socioeconomic depths, its institutions are untrustworthy, its government still maintains a high degree of control over the economy and the country's largest businesses, and it is run by an odious and corrupt dictatorship. It is a country with few natural resources and an aging population due to its long-standing previous one-child policy.
All this obscures the fact that the Cold War and the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. were the greatest and most bloodless strategic victories in the history of the world. The greatest consequence of them is the triumph of capitalism in the world, in particular in China and Russia. It is the best system because it is the only one that is aligned with the almost universal human ambition to have more.
Because it incentivizes competition, it inevitably leads to an overheated and potentially self-destructive economic frenzy, but since the Second World War, capitalism has demonstrated its ability to lift countries out of poverty and make advanced economies more prosperous, including formerly communist China, formerly fascist Spain, almost all of central and western Europe, South Korea, Israel, Chile, Singapore and much of Latin America. India is making unprecedented progress.
This is the triumph of capitalism: the peace dividend at the end of the Cold War and the demonstration of the absolute superiority of the American over the Soviet system as the Americans outdistanced the Soviet Union militarily while spending far less on military matters. The triumph of capitalism was earned, even if pure capitalism is not for everybody.
The waffling generated by a sharp change in prevailing currents of public policy in the United States should not be mistaken for a reversal in the fortunes of capitalism, whose benefits are sweeping over almost all the world.
The United States is in the midst of a complicated process of renovation. Six years ago, Donald Trump was practically the only prominent American who saw how disillusioned people were over being mired in fruitless Middle Eastern wars, seeing the steady exportation of American jobs to cheap labour markets and the importation of the resulting unemployment, and the fact that those in the middle class had seen virtually no increase in the purchasing power of their incomes for decades.
Mr. Trump led an assault on the complacent bipartisan governing political class. Despite being harassed by false allegations of colluding with Russia to rig the 2016 election and a spurious impeachment trial over an unexceptionable conversation with the president of Ukraine, he effectively eliminated unemployment, increased domestic oil production while reducing foreign imports and cracked down on illegal immigration.
Only the coronavirus gave the Democrats the opportunity they needed to terrorize the population and deprive Trump of what appeared to be his probable re-election.
The Biden administration has made an almost complete shambles of every policy area: immigration, inflation, Covid, crime, and the unprecedented and shameful debacle in Afghanistan. It is increasingly obvious that either Mr. Trump or a candidate supported by him and endorsing most of his policies will be elected in 2024, and the renovation of America will resume.
There will be a new and more purposeful political elite and a powerful backlash against woke anti-Americanism in the schools and universities, the self-serving hypocrisy of limousine liberals on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, and the narcissistic hypocrisy of Hollywood and Big Sport. In these circumstances, the status of the United States as the world's most important and influential country will be re-established.
China is fundamentally not remotely as strong a country as the United States. Its institutions are not credible and are universally mistrusted; it has the political instability of dictatorships where succession is always uncertain. Russia has a smaller GDP than Canada and is desperately trying to regain shards of its former empire after the sudden secession of nearly half the Soviet population.
The West can accommodate Russian ambitions up to a point. The key is to avoid driving a truncated and demoralized Russia into the arms of China and effectively giving the Chinese the right to develop the vast territory of Russian Siberia. As long as this can be avoided, the resumption of American national renovation will re-establish the unambiguous superiority of American influence in the world, and particularly its economic model. Capitalism is imperfect, but it is invincible, as was demonstrated 30 years ago.[2]
Are we as Americans descending into Hitler-esque times, when our thoughts, words and actions are constantly monitored? Have George Orwell's predictions in his prescient "Animal Farm" come true, where all of the animals were equal until the Pigs reigned supreme and subjugated the other animals?[3]
Those who live in China today are subjected to such regimens, and seem used to them. After all, Hong Kong's fledgling democracy has been snuffed out already; and more than 1 million ethnic minorities including the Uyghurs are enslaved in "reeducation" camps that are not dissimilar to the Nazi death camps of the past.
One must never forget that China launched the deadly Coronavirus pandemic—inadvertently or as a bioweapon—which has killed or hurt millions globally, with even more deaths to come. Yet, China has not paid one penny in reparations.[4] And arguably, America's Left and its "fellow travelers" are doing the bidding and handiwork of China today.
The American and global eco-Nazis ignore the facts that (1) the planet has undergone warming and cooling periods for millions of years, which will continue after all of us are long gone; and (2) while pollution is a legitimate concern, China and India are the biggest polluters in the world, by far. Yet, China pays lip service to the issue.
As Americans seem mired down with the reemergence of Coronavirus lockdowns and fears, and the ineptitude—if not downright dishonesty—of the Biden-Harris administration as it implodes, they need to heed what Conrad Black has written above. A powerful backlash is building against woke anti-Americanism, which will likely overwhelm it and consign it to the dustbin of history.
[2] See https://www.nysun.com/national/powerful-backlash-building-against-woke-anti/91833/ ("Powerful Backlash Building Against Woke Anti-Americanism"); see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Black ("Conrad Black")
[3] See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm ("Animal Farm")
[4] See https://naegeleblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/timothy-d.-naegele.pdf (Timothy D. Naegele, "The Coronavirus and Similar Global Issues: How to Address Them")
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Censorship At DIA, No Wonder We Lost Afghanistan
I spent two years working in the Pentagon, where I served as an Army officer assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). When I finished my service there—as a Captain—I received the distinguished Joint Service Commendation Medal, before going to work in the U.S. Senate.[2]
Like many organizations, DIA has an alumni group, which ostensibly posts comments about timely issues. None is more important today than the collapse of our great nation's presence in Afghanistan, and the loss of American, allied and Afghan lives. It is front and center globally. Yet, a former DIA employee, James Beirne—who presumably was a civilian when he worked there—has decided to ban my comments, which constitutes gross and unconscionable censorship. Americans have fought and died for our freedoms; and they are dying in Afghanistan today, to preserve them.[3]
No wonder Afghanistan constitutes a colossal defeat for the United States, which may surpass the fall of Saigon and Vietnam, and the Bay of Pigs fiasco, in terms of its national gravity. Presumably Beirne is part of the reckless "cancel culture," which has no place in America today. He is a stain on the DIA where I worked before him, with outstanding co-workers who contributed greatly to our national security.
Beirne should resign in disgrace. Our nation is not well served by the likes of him. Indeed, the association's motto is "Still Serving in Defense of the Nation." Clearly, Beirne is not doing this, especially in crucial times like this when China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin—and our other adversaries globally—are watching every move that we make, and gauging their responses accordingly.[4]
America does not need traitors at this critical juncture in our history.
[1] Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6, https://naegeleblog.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/timothy-d.-naegele-resume-21-8-6.pdf
He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service).
Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams; and he can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com
[2] See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6, https://naegeleblog.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/timothy-d.-naegele-resume-21-8-6.pdf
[3] See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9931085/Joe-Biden-tense-forth-interesting-guy-Steve-Doocy-Fox-News.html ("Nowhere to hide, Joe: President adopts fetal position pose as he crumbles under questioning from Fox News reporter Peter Doocy and tries to blame Trump for the catastrophe in Afghanistan")
On August 26, 2021, Beirne posted the following notice:
"You can't post or comment in this group.
"The admin has temporarily turned off your ability to post or comment in the group until September 23, 2021, 2:07 PM."
Needless to say, by late September, the world will know in meticulous detail what an unmitigated disaster Afghanistan has become for the United States, our friends in Afghanistan, and our allies globally.
See also https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/26/the-biden-harris-presidency-has-ended/ ("The Biden-Harris Presidency Has Ended")
[4] See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9905015/China-vows-crush-troops-Taiwan-force-Biden-abandoned-Afghanistan.html ("China vows to 'crush' any US troops on Taiwan 'by force' and conducts live fire naval exercises in South China Sea after Biden abandoned Afghanistan")
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The Biden-Harris Presidency Has Ended
Yes, it hasn't come to an end officially, yet. But for all intents and purposes, it is done. Lyndon Johnson's presidency was finished after the fall of Saigon and Vietnam. He was hated, and could not run for reelection.[2]
The tragedy of epic proportions that is emerging in Afghanistan and the fall of its capital Kabul, and America's humiliation at the hands of the Taliban, has trumpeted the end of the Biden-Harris presidency to the world—to friends and foes alike.[3]
Is Joe Biden "Brain Dead"? All indications are that this is true.[4] But in a sense, it is irrelevant. The world has watched the only true superpower disgraced like perhaps never before.[5] And the ripple effects will spread far and wide.[6]
The rise of Coronavirus hospitalizations in the United States adds an exclamation point to this.[7] Needless to say, China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin are watching these developments closely. As "chess masters," they will be calibrating their moves accordingly; and they are observing America mired down, like Gulliver and the Lilliputians.[8]
[1] Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6 He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams; and he can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com
[2] See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson#1968_presidential_election
[3] See, e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/25/world/asia/afghanistan-evacuations-estimates.html ("At Least 250,000 Afghans Who Worked With U.S. Haven't Been Evacuated, Estimates Say")
[4] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/biden-is-brain-dead/ ("Biden Is Brain Dead")
[6] See, e.g., https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/08/28/after-afghanistan-where-next-for-global-jihad ("After Afghanistan, where next for global jihad?")
[7] See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9929493/More-100-000-Americans-hospitalized-COVID-19-time-January.html ("More than 100,000 Americans are hospitalized with COVID-19 for the first time since January: Doctors say they've had to turn away patients as virus cases rise 138% over the last month")
[8] See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels
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When Will The Actual Shooting Begin In America's Second Civil War?
The title of this article is a "loaded question," which we hope and pray never happens. However, the Democrats have launched impeachment against our President, which moves us one step closer to a bloody internal war.[2] And yes, Trump supporters—including law enforcement and our military—are armed to the teeth, like they were when Abraham Lincoln was the president and our last Civil War began.
Acts of sedition have been underway since before our national elections in 2016. Barack Obama and his fellow treasonous co-conspirators embarked on a concerted effort to destroy the candidacy and then the presidency of Donald Trump, which continues to this day. When will they be held accountable, and imprisoned at the very least? Until this happens, no American should believe in our system of justice, because it does not exist. It is a fable and a fantasy, and a tragedy of epic proportions.[3]
On two other occasions in my lifetime, similar events have happened, when our great nation was torn asunder. One involved the Vietnam War and the hatred leveled at former President Lyndon Johnson. There were bumper stickers on cars in the District of Columbia that asked: "Where is Lee Harvey Oswald now that we really need him?—referring to John F. Kennedy's assassin, and suggesting that Johnson should be killed too. The second event involved Richard Nixon and Watergate, where the hatred of him reached a fever pitch.
Today, the country is polarized in a manner approaching that of our last Civil War, when America was torn apart and barely survived. If Abraham Lincoln had not been our president, it likely that the United States would not exist as a nation today, but might be two or more countries, occupying North America. Lincoln and his generals, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman[4], turned the tide and won the war, at an enormous cost in human lives. For decades after that. America's South functioned as a defeated nation within the United States, much like East Germany—or the DDR—existed in a united Germany after the fall of the Soviet Union.
From the moment that Donald Trump began his presidential campaign, he has been attacked by the Left and despicable RINOs like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on the right[5], and by the Left-leaning American media. The attacks have been relentless, without ceasing. In a very real sense, Trump is America's first truly Independent president, who is beholden to neither political party, and attacked by elements in both. His very presence has been and continues to be a threat to Washington's "establishment" and power structure, and to the goals of globalists in the United States and abroad. As I have written, the Democrats are "evil" but smart, while the Republicans are "Neanderthals" and dumb. This was my conclusion when I left the U.S. Senate, and it has never changed and continues to this day.
I began as a Democrat in a devoutly-Republican household, where my parents "idolized" Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. However, working on and with Capitol Hill for most of my adult life led me to the conclusion that I did not want to be a member of either political party. I have been an Independent ever since. Lots of Americans in our great nation's "Flyover States" have felt disenfranchised; and Donald Trump has captured their beliefs and been their leader since his presidential campaign began. Is the man perfect? No one is, but he embodies the hopes and dreams of vast numbers of Americans who elected him in 2016 and may reelect him in 2020. Will his enemies, domestic and foreign, accept that result; or will his presidency be besieged until it runs its course?
The latest attacks on the President have been discussed by Pat Buchanan—an adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, and a former GOP presidential aspirant himself—in an article entitled "Will 'Ukraine-Gate' Imperil Biden's Bid?":
With the revelation by an intel community "whistleblower" that President Donald Trump, in a congratulatory call to the new president of Ukraine, pushed him repeatedly to investigate the Joe Biden family connection to Ukrainian corruption, the cry "Impeach!" is being heard anew in the land.
But revisiting how this latest scandal came about, and how it has begun to unfold, it is a good bet that the principal casualty could be the former vice president. Consider:
In May 2016, Joe Biden, as Barack Obama's designated point man on Ukraine, flew to Kiev to inform President Petro Poroshenko that a billion-dollar U.S. loan guarantee had been approved to enable Kiev to continue to service its mammoth debt.
But, said Biden, the aid was conditional. There was a quid pro quo.
If Poroshenko's regime did not fire its chief prosecutor in six hours, Biden would fly home and Ukraine would get no loan guarantee. Ukraine capitulated instantly, said Joe, reveling in his pro-consul role.
Yet, left out of Biden's drama about how he dropped the hammer on a corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor was this detail.
The prosecutor had been investigating Burisma Holdings, the biggest gas company in Ukraine. And right after the U.S.-backed coup that ousted the pro-Russian government in Kiev, and after Joe Biden had been given the lead on foreign aid for Ukraine, Burisma had installed on its board, at $50,000 a month, Hunter Biden, the son of the vice president.
Joe Biden claims that, though he was point man in the battle on corruption in Ukraine, he was unaware his son was raking in hundreds of thousands from one of the companies being investigated.
Said Joe on Saturday, "I have never spoken to my son about his various business dealings."
Trump and Rudy Giuliani suspect not, and in that July 25 phone call, Trump urged President Volodymyr Zelensky to reopen the investigation of Hunter Biden and Burisma.
The media insist there is no story here and the real scandal is that Trump pressed Zelensky to reopen the investigation to target his strongest 2020 rival. Worse, say Trump's accusers, would be if the president conditioned the transfer of $250 million in approved military aid to Kiev on the new regime's acceding to his demands.
The questions raised are several:
Is it wrong to make military aid to a friendly nation conditional on that nation's compliance with legitimate requests or demands of the United States? Is it illegitimate to ask a friendly government to look into what may be corrupt conduct by the son of a U.S. vice president?
Joe Biden has an even bigger problem: This issue has begun to dominate the news at an especially vulnerable moment for his campaign.
Biden's stumbles and gaffes have already raised alarms among his followers and been seized upon by rivals such as Cory Booker, who has publicly suggested that the 76-year-old former vice president is losing it.
Biden's lead in the polls also appears shakier with each month. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has just taken a narrow lead in a Des Moines Register poll and crusading against Beltway corruption is central to her campaign.
"Too many politicians in both parties have convinced themselves that playing the money-for-influence game is the only way to get things done," Warren told her massive rally in New York City: "No more business as usual. Let's attack the corruption head on."
Soon, it will not only be Trump and Giuliani asking Biden questions ab[o]ut Ukraine, Burisma and Hunter, but Democrats, too. Calls are rising for Biden's son to be called to testify before congressional committees.
With Trump airing new charges daily, Biden will be asked to respond by his traveling press. The charges and the countercharges will become what the presidential campaign is all about. Bad news for Joe Biden.
Can he afford to spend weeks, perhaps months, answering for his son's past schemes to enrich himself through connections to foreign regimes that seem less related to Hunter's talents than his being the son of a former vice president and possible future president?
"Ukraine-gate" is the latest battle in the death struggle between the "deep state" and a president empowered by Middle America to go to Washington and break that deep state's grip on the national destiny.
Another issue is raised here — the matter of whistleblowers listening in to or receiving readouts of presidential conversations with foreign leaders and having the power to decide for themselves whether the president is violating his oath and needs to be reported to Congress.
Eisenhower discussed coups in Iran and Guatemala and the use of nuclear weapons in Korea and the Taiwan Strait. JFK, through brother Bobby, cut a secret deal with Khrushchev to move U.S. missiles out of Turkey six months after the Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba.
Who deputized bureaucratic whistleblowers to pass judgment on such conversations and tattle to Congress if they were offended?[6]
Next, award-winning investigative journalist John Solomon has written an article for The Hill, which is entitled "Let's get real: Democrats were first to enlist Ukraine in US elections":
Earlier this month, during a bipartisan meeting in Kiev, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) delivered a pointed message to Ukraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
While choosing his words carefully, Murphy made clear — by his own account — that Ukraine currently enjoyed bipartisan support for its U.S. aid but that could be jeopardized if the new president acquiesced to requests by President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate past corruption allegations involving Americans, including former Vice President Joe Biden's family.
Murphy boasted after the meeting that he told the new Ukrainian leader that U.S. aid was his country's "most important asset" and it would be viewed as election meddling and "disastrous for long-term U.S.-Ukraine relations" to bend to the wishes of Trump and Giuliani.
"I told Zelensky that he should not insert himself or his government into American politics. I cautioned him that complying with the demands of the President's campaign representatives to investigate a political rival of the President would gravely damage the U.S.-Ukraine relationship. There are few things that Republicans and Democrats agree on in Washington these days, and support for Ukraine is one of them," Murphy told me today, confirming what he told Ukraine's leader.
The implied message did not require an interpreter for Zelensky to understand: Investigate the Ukraine dealings of Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and you jeopardize Democrats' support for future U.S. aid to Kiev.
The Murphy anecdote is a powerful reminder that, since at least 2016, Democrats repeatedly have exerted pressure on Ukraine, a key U.S. ally for buffering Russia, to meddle in U.S. politics and elections.
And that activity long preceded Giuliani's discussions with Ukrainian officials and Trump's phone call to Zelensky in July, seeking to have Ukraine formally investigate whether then-Vice President Joe Biden used a threat of canceling foreign aid to shut down an investigation into $3 million routed to the U.S. firm run by Biden's son.
As I have reported, the pressure began at least as early as January 2016, when the Obama White House unexpectedly invited Ukraine's top prosecutors to Washington to discuss fighting corruption in the country.
The meeting, promised as training, turned out to be more of a pretext for the Obama administration to pressure Ukraine's prosecutors to drop an investigation into the Burisma Holdings gas company that employed Hunter Biden and to look for new evidence in a then-dormant criminal case against eventual Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a GOP lobbyist.
U.S. officials "kept talking about how important it was that all of our anti-corruption efforts be united," said Andrii Telizhenko, the former political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington who organized and attended the meetings.
Nazar Kholodnytsky, Ukraine's chief anti-corruption prosecutor, told me that, soon after he returned from the Washington meeting, he saw evidence in Ukraine of political meddling in the U.S. election. That's when two top Ukrainian officials released secret evidence to the American media, smearing Manafort.
The release of the evidence forced Manafort to step down as Trump's top campaign adviser. A Ukrainian court concluded last December that the release of the evidence amounted to an unlawful intervention in the U.S. election by Kiev's government, although that ruling has since been overturned on a technicality.
Shortly after the Ukrainian prosecutors returned from their Washington meeting, a new round of Democratic pressure was exerted on Ukraine — this time via its embassy in Washington.
Valeriy Chaly, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States at the time, confirmed to me in a statement issued by his office that, in March 2016, a contractor for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) pressed his embassy to try to find any Russian dirt on Trump and Manafort that might reside in Ukraine's intelligence files.
The DNC contractor also asked Chaly's team to try to persuade Ukraine's president at the time, Petro Poroshenko, to make a statement disparaging Manafort when the Ukrainian leader visited the United States during the 2016 election.
Chaly said his embassy rebuffed both requests because it recognized they were improper efforts to get a foreign government to try to influence the election against Trump and for Hillary Clinton.
The political pressure continued. Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in crucial U.S. aid to Kiev if Poroshenko did not fire the country's chief prosecutor. Ukraine would have been bankrupted without the aid, so Poroshenko obliged on March 29, 2016, and fired Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
At the time, Biden was aware that Shokin's office was investigating Burisma, the firm employing Hunter Biden, after a December 2015 New York Times article.
What wasn't known at the time, Shokin told me recently, was that Ukrainian prosecutors were preparing a request to interview Hunter Biden about his activities and the monies he was receiving from Ukraine. If such an interview became public during the middle of the 2016 election, it could have had enormous negative implications for Democrats.
Democrats continued to tap Ukraine for Trump dirt throughout the 2016 election, my reporting shows.
Nellie Ohr, the wife of senior U.S. Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, worked in 2016 as a contractor for Fusion GPS, the same Hillary Clinton–funded opposition research firm that hired Christopher Steele, the British spy who wrote the now-debunked dossier linking Trump to Russia collusion.
Nellie Ohr testified to Congress that some of the dirt she found on Trump during her 2016 election opposition research came from a Ukrainian parliament member. She also said that she eventually took the information to the FBI through her husband — another way Ukraine got inserted into the 2016 election.
Politics. Pressure. Opposition research. All were part of the Democrats' playbook on Ukraine long before Trump ever called Zelensky this summer. And as Sen. Murphy's foray earlier this month shows, it hasn't stopped.
The evidence is so expansive as to strain the credulity of the Democrats' current outrage at Trump's behavior with Ukraine.
Which raises a question: Could it be the Ukraine tale currently being weaved by Democrats and their allies in the media is nothing more than a smoke screen designed to distract us from the forthcoming Justice Department inspector general report into abuses during the Democratic-inspired Russia collusion probe?
It's a question worth asking.[7]
"Ukraine-gate" and impeachment are simply the latest attempts by America's Left to divert attention from their presidential candidates, who consist of misfits, freaks, racists and anti-Semites.
As these attacks on President Trump continue unabated and get even worse before next year's elections, the country may be ripped apart and become more polarized than ever. When will the actual shooting begin, and open warfare commence like our last Civl War? Is it merely a matter of time? Can our great nation heal and survive from such trauma? If the past is any indicator of the future, the answer is "yes," a resounding "yes," but it will take time, perhaps lots of it—and there may be bloodshed aplenty.
And what are America's enemies abroad thinking and doing? Like our last Civil War, they would be wise not to get involved, or to take any actions that would be adverse to those of the United States. This is true of China and North Korea; and it is especially true of Russia's brutal dictator-for-life Vladimir Putin's designs for all of Ukraine: "a key U.S. ally for buffering Russia," to quote John Solomon.[8]
[2] See https://apnews.com/a9a0bed9f81343b7a725a9adcd84e01b ("Pelosi orders impeachment probe: 'No one is above the law'")
[3] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/08/24/americas-left-is-vile-and-evil/ ("America's Left Is Vile And Evil") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/29/barack-obama-is-responsible-for-americas-tragic-racial-divide/ ("Barack Obama Is Responsible For America's Tragic Racial Divide") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/10/will-the-trump-presidency-conclude-in-2025/ ("Will The Trump Presidency Conclude In 2025?") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/02/is-putin-right/ ("Is Putin Right?") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/the-democrats-are-evil-but-smart-while-the-republicans-are-neanderthals-and-dumb/ ("The Democrats Are Evil But Smart, While The Republicans Are Neanderthals And Dumb") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/18/the-mueller-report-a-monumental-travesty/ ("The Mueller Report: A Monumental Travesty") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/02/06/the-state-of-our-union-2019/ ("The State Of Our Union, 2019") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/29/it-is-time-for-trump-supporters-to-fight-back/ ("It Is Time For Trump Supporters To Fight Back") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/the-american-lefts-feeding-frenzy/ ("The American Left's Feeding Frenzy") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/the-department-of-injustices-inspector-general-is-complicit-in-the-deep-state-cover-up/ ("The Department Of Injustice's Inspector General Is Complicit In The Deep-State Cover-Up!") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/should-barack-obama-be-executed-for-treason/ ("Should Barack Obama Be Executed For Treason?") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/11/robert-mueller-should-be-executed-for-treason/ ("Robert Mueller Should Be Executed For Treason") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/the-real-russian-conspiracy-barack-obama-the-clintons-and-the-sale-of-americas-uranium-to-russias-killer-putin/ ("The Real Russian Conspiracy: Barack Obama, The Clintons, And The Sale Of America's Uranium To Russia's Killer Putin") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/americas-newest-civil-war-2017-and-beyond/ ("America's Newest Civil War: 2017 And Beyond") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/justice-and-the-law-do-not-mix/ ("Justice And The Law Do Not Mix") (see also the extensive comments beneath each of these articles)
[4] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/ulysses-s-grant-an-american-hero/ ("Ulysses S. Grant: An American Hero")
[5] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_In_Name_Only ("Republican In Name Only"). Lots of us are ashamed of the fact that we voted for Romney and Ryan in the past.
[6] See https://buchanan.org/blog/will-ukraine-gate-imperil-bidens-bid-137533 ("Will 'Ukraine-Gate' Imperil Biden's Bid?"); see also https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7492969/The-story-Bidens-son-Ukraine-Trumps-claims.html ("Hunter Biden got millions from overseas biz while his father was VP. Did Joe intervene to save him?") and https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/23/donald-trump-flips-ukraine-furor-joe-biden-son-hun/ ("Trump flips Ukraine furor on Biden, son") and https://pagesix.com/2019/07/01/hunter-biden-started-dating-brothers-widow-right-after-crack-binge/ ("Hunter Biden started dating brother's widow right after crack binge") and https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/06/12/hunter-biden-married-los-angeles-woman-after-split-with-his-brothers-widow/ ("Hunter Biden's messy personal life is back in the news. Will it cause political headaches for his dad?")
[7] See https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/462658-lets-get-real-democrats-were-first-to-enlist-ukraine-in-us-elections ("Let's get real: Democrats were first to enlist Ukraine in US elections")
[8] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/the-death-of-putin-and-russia-the-final-chapter-of-the-cold-war/ ("The Death Of Putin And Russia: The Final Chapter Of The Cold War") (see also the extensive comments beneath the article)
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The Tianning Templeis a Buddhist temple complex located in Xicheng District of Beijing, in northern China.The temple contains the 12th-century Pagoda of Tianning Temple. The 8 sided pagoda is of the Liao Dynasty, built from around 1100 to 1119 or 1120 CE, shortly before the Liao Dynasty was conquered by the Jin dynasty.One of the city's best kept secrets, Tianning Temple is 60-meter-tall pagoda was originally made from wood and in 602AD acted as the depository for treasured Buddhist artifacts on instruction by Emperor Wendi of the Sui dynasty. The now stone structure is adorned with relief sculptures of stone warriors and bodhisattvas, slightly dilapidated and worn, giving them a truly aged quality that is both hard to find and refreshing in country where a substantial number of historical sites have been rebuilt in the past 50 years.
This thirteen story,57.8 m tall,octagonal-based Chinese pagoda is made of brick and stone, yet imitates the design of wooden-constructed pagodas from the era by featuring ornamental dougong (bracket supports).It rests on a large square platform, with the bottom portion of the pagoda taking on the shape of a sumeru pedestal.
The pagoda features a veranda with banisters, yet is entirely solid with no hollow inside or staircase as some pagodas feature. Other ornamental designs include arched doorways and heavenly Buddhist guardians.Its design inspired that of later pagodas, such as the similar Ming Dynasty era Pagoda of Cishou Temple of Beijing built in 1576.


Die in Taiwan geborene und zurzeit in Paris lebende Künstlerin Shu Lea Cheang über das von ihr kuratierte Artists-in-Residence-Programm der Stadtwerkstatt.
For the summer2014 residency at Station Messschiff Eleonore, I curated three artists – Afroditi Psarra, Ce Quimera, Robertina Sebjanic, each takes up two week residence on board Eleonore anchored in the harbor of the Danube flowing through the city of Linz. The title »The Soft, the Hard and the Wet« takes the cue from Sergio Leone's »The Good, the Bad and the Ugly«. Leaving the goldmine in the wild wild west, we operate self-guided tours in exploring current electronic media art practices – respectively in soft circuit, open hardware and wet lab.
Afroditi Psarra, an Athens based multidisciplinary artist, works with a wide variety of media and techniques that extend from embroidery, soft circuits, DIY electronics, hacking and creative coding, to interactive installations and sound performance. She is well-versed in new technologies and contemporary artistic practices with a PHD dissertation on cyberpunk and new media arts which studies the relationship between science fiction, performance and digital art.
Her art works take up body as interface, fabricating body suits with embedded electronic circuits, conductible materials and Arduino microcontroller. In her interactive sound performance Idoru() (2013), she creates an enhanced hyper-body immersed in data processing and sonic fusion. Inspired by William Gibson's female virtual entity Idoru (1996), the wearable in Idoru() references uniforms in scifi movies and Princess Leia's high neck line white dress in Star Wars. The accelerometer motion tracking device sewed into the sleeves of the garment renders the suited performer's gestures and movement into sound output through amplifiers and connected sine, noise oscillators. Her collaborative project Oiko-nomic Threads (2013) produced amid the crisis ridden Athens employs an obsolete knitting machine to sort out the Manpower Employment Offices databases and results in a generative textile that borrows patterns from Greek folk art.
Her Eleonore residency project Divergence dives into the invisible electromagnetic field with a tailored soft-circuitry garment. Embedded with Adafruit Flora microcontroller, coil antenna, zipper slider, conductive threads, the wearable provides haptic and sonic feedback of the electromagnetic sources that surround us. During her two week residency, she transforms Eleonore's main cabin into a solar powered multi-task work lab, sewing machine and soldering iron included. Divergence as performance locates the performer wearing the garment in the middle of the crowd, inhaling and exhaling the immediate surrounding environment and all the nuisance generated by human/machine presence.
Ce Quimera is co-founding partner of Quimera Rosa [Pink Chimera] who situate themselves in Barcelona's hacking/sexing activist communities. Taking Donna Haraway's notion of cyborg as theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism, Quimera Rosa further push bodies as a platform where prostheses trigger synesthesia and body private exposed to invite public intervention. Partly based in Hangar medialab in Barcelona, Quimera Rosa are nurtured by a generation of open minded open source geeks who pass on circuits and patches for appropriation and re-application. Quimera Rosa take off with the tool boxes and open schemes to reposition their bodies as post-gendered sonic instruments engaging in transfeminist and post-identity discourses. Combining their performance presentation with workshops on body noise, Quimera Rosa is on the road making much noise.
Trained as a dancer, Ce Quimera proposes to develop a performance work, There is no body without F[R]ICTION, during the residency. F[R]ICTION is a DIY synthesizer device that generates sound by body friction. Departing from wired body with prosthetic attachments, Quimera considers prosthetic reversal where the body prosthesis branch out to make contact with its immediate environment. Body sensors via contact through touch, light, bending or vibration are re-evaluated for their maximum impact.
The resulted performance attempts to create a new subjective fiction of body, building on Quimera Rosa's earlier works (i.e. SXK/sexoskeleton, La Violinista) around subjectivity and sexuality, where the body mutates by the incorporation of prosthesis. Using recycled materials to create a spatial notion based architecture, comprised of various organic and machinistic technologies, There is no body without F[R]ICTION explores forms of body modification in which the expanding space meets the body in friction. Admit the electronic debris, the flesh merged with the plastic, the wire, the circuit boards, the flesh takes up the space and becomes space. The generative liquid sound flowing through the space composes chaotic imagery as bona fide noise disrupting any narrative linearity that the viewers may wish to construct. Given an open space to move around, we expect the audience in the performance to be drawn into the F[R]ICTION, sharp edged and non reconcilable.
As one of the founding members of Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory (established in 2010), Robertina Sebjanic is deeply involved with what Ljudmila sets out to do – »to connect research practices, technologies, science, art and civil society… to engage in the development and popularisation of open culture, free licenses and software, and in new ways of distribution.« The context for her ideas and concepts is often realized in collaboration with other authors through interdisciplinary and informal integration.
With a particular focus on bioart and homegrown biotechnologies, Sebjanic has accumulated a body of collaborative works - echo 10-9 (2013) sets up a playground for nanobots swimming in micro/macro fluids, triggering in sonification the autopoetic chemical reactions on multiple levels. As an art and research project, HUMALGA: Towards the Human Spore: Reminiscing Algaeis (since 2012) tackles the genetic hybrid of the human and the alga, two distinct organisms fused as trans-species, connected through complex life cycles.
For the Eleonore residency, Sebjanic takes up Hydra, a biologically immortal freshwater animal, as her lab pal. Hydra, attaching herself to vegetation with the tentacles suspended free in the water, possesses an amazing capacity to regenerate 1/200 part of her body. In the context of research done on prolonging life itself, the artist further questions the quality of an extended life. By studying the pluripotent stem cells and proteins of Hydra, does the artist wish to acquire their properties via »biotech download« in human cells? Is it possible to undo the restrictions set for biological life forms by means of medical interventions or engineering innovation?
Setting up a hackteria style (http://hackteria.org) wet lab on board Eleonore, Sebjanic puts Hydra under the observation of a DIY microscope. The focus of her study includes the regenerative process of Hydra, Hydra's reaction to colors, tracking the movements of hydra with light sensors and electrodes, experimenting with sonification of hydra and the development of a biosynth.
Working towards an ambiental poetic immersive performance, Hydra Reminiscence, featuring Hydra as the performer, Sebjanic zooms in on Hydra cells, amplifies the pulse in generative process, brings back the archive of the time reminiscence collected during the 14 days' residency. The A/V environment conjures up a fictional scenario where species trade cells, agencies trade secrets and the eternal life cries for an exit.
The three artists brought together by the summer2014 Eleonore residency represent a fraction of current studies in body performance art where technologies serve as tools of intervention and circuit diagrams rewire the bodies. These artists are not alone aboard Eleonore. They are deep rooted in their associated labs where coding, soldering, wiring are communal activities. They are supported by a network of open source open culture practitioners. They in turn contribute their own appropriation back to the sourceS. They are part of the rising femtech network where hacking takes on genders and genres for a system restart that's long overdue.
»The Soft, The Hard and The Wet« summer2014 residency is part of A.I.R - KünstlerInnen, AkteurInnen neuer Medien, a major cultural initiative launched by Stadtwerkstatt in 2010.
The 3 part performance »The Soft, The Hard and The Wet« is part of NIGHTLINE. Programs organized by Stadtwerkstatt.