GLOBALIZATION'S CARPETBAGGERS?

An easy speculation to associate with the above commercial conjecture is the world is owned but not profiting from our entire planet's health and well-being? Despite the U.N.'s best face and The Rockefeller Fund's announced divestment of fossil-fuel investments over the next five years notwithstanding? Power manipulates to control. But, bully for the Rockefellers of course. Thirty-two years after the bicycle became my primary transportation. Drive a car. I don't care. Except please be a part of road safety for everyone.

While, pollution notwithstanding, last week, the day after Scotland voted to remain in Great Britain and not reconstitute as an independent sovereign state, the press' news readers claimed the election wasn't close when 45% of Scotland voted for independence raising this sarcastic reply - tyranny of the majority is alive and well and self-satisfied. Because as a descendent of Simon Fraser of Glasgow, 850 A.D., I take great pride in my being of Scottish descent, American and raised Floridian. As if I were a flinching professional baseball player every time a baseball almost hits me because I'd already been hit and do not appreciate being threatened. I find any type of gloating insulting when some of that 55% of Scotland made a pragmatic economic decision theoretically reflecting Prime Minister David Cameron's boast that if Scotland voted to secede they could never come back into the British fold though Scotland strengthened Britain as much as any in the monarchy. God Save The Queen. That said, I didn't have an opinion because I've never even visited, though I love the Scottish ideals as if I've lived there my whole life. Britain, don't gloat. Scotland has made a second chance. It's not socialism they prefer but a capitalism that actually works right. Despite elitists' claims? Or excuses? ... .

Mapping History's Ruthlessness?

History and tradition are the supposed precepts the powerful stand on to justify encompassing power. Thus the diplomatic effervescent glow above. History is portrayed as what winners produced through centuries of shameless ruthlessness. Mentioned here because of the specific theme in Ukraine's situation. The explanation we've all read and heard that's firmly planted in public consciousnesses. That the reason for Russian Crimean expansion is rectifying what the clumsy Soviet Union lost of Russian territory and pride. Including wherever Russian speakers are, they're to be protected (all nations' sovereign right). Though citizens were planted in local cultures throughout the former Soviet Union to ensure the dominance of an elitist Moscow political machine rather than the specific benefit of a local locale. Still. No offense intended to Russian and Soviet descendants.

Russian loyalty really is a worthy patriotic frame of mind to support except for some basic things that hold true everywhere. This shaky idea the Russian Soviet Union was more than a mere 20th Century speed bump in a long complex history perplexed by the concept of ruling and being ruled as the foundation for state loyalty rather than individuals' respect. Pushy government is pushy government. 

As it happens Ukraine was where the Greek-Orthodoxian influenced Russian alphabet began in the Ninth Century. Long story short, further north, Moscow, was a nuisance to reach, so they held back their tribute/taxes to the Mongol Horde and eventually Ivan The Great in 1480 at The Great Standoff on the Ugra River became ruler of all Rus plus the bread-basket of Russia and Soviet Union. Ukraine. 

Come on Владимир. Lift the facadé. The World-wide Potemkin Village the led and mis-led perceive as their only heritages. Competitive hateful rivalry nonsense requires deeper solutions than just waiting for the winners' bombing to stop when the innocent are gone. There is no superior morality no matter how much we're dressed up. Nor screaming from Allah's/God's house. The Creator just can't be as convoluted and messed-up as this world is when it comes to facing responsibility.

President Putin? Please be deeper than petty rivalries. Deeper than imagining that the world's different and separate cultures are superior or flawed. Because this era is about being when the smartest alive still can't run fast enough from being used by partisan politics for contrived massacres. Parties or gangs. Teams playing for opportunities with their constituents' lives. Bite the bullet, Mr. President. Justice is not this game of economic rivalry. Russia is bigger than when opportunistic monarchs ruled the earth's borders. No? 

So as long as I'm pushing buttons in La-La Land, President Putin, it's true. Why should you be less selfish than anywhere else? Except it would be especially nice if you stood in the way of one more pawn's sacrifice to the shame of abused military honor or police state disrespect of even the lowest criminal to protect us from mistakes. Ahem. Because this is on your shoulders. Your public ambivalence amusing when there's actually probably always been a plan all along, or at least the intention to re-take Ukraine. You know Moscow could grow food in-doors year-round now? But who's kidding whom? It's not about the equity of wheat distribution anymore is it? But don't let Caesar's triumphs be your illusion. Your legacy will be the whole story. Please embrace the noble in what the Soviet Union and Russia were meant to be. Not the veneer of imperial disgrace no ruling elite should ever feel free to laugh off in the face of history.  

Yes, of course, President Putin. Diplomats are too mature to stand up to you. But only you and those who form opinions will form your legacy. Powerful? Sure, that's fine. Unless of course you like being remembered as the ruler with Stalin's satisfied grin. So it's somewhat natural for me, from my point-of-view watching. I just can't help wishing in believing in you're too smart for a legacy this tarnished. Please?

End conflict as toys that include massacre, destruction, maiming and death. And yes, I do know this Russian President is above-it-all. Gripes can't really reach leaders of such supreme stature. Pardon me. But still, please, do not never mind. Be involved rather than a monarchical figure head. How about that for a kicker? Hear other opinions. 

Even now? Here's a decadent West Carnegie Corporation supported weighing of perspectives on Ukraine from 27 recognized experts living in the West.

| CARNEGIE FORUM |

Rebuilding U.S.-Russia Relations

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Putin Renames Police Unit After Bloody Cheka Founder Dzerzhinsky

THE MOSCOW TIMES

Go Team?

But, after all, why should you, Mr. President, give up on this game of national power when it's an ideal people derive so much pride from even when used wrong? Because losing Ukraine was Gorbachev's mistake? Letting the empire go? You were KGB. What's the odds the right people didn't always know what was going on when it was time to land and take over democracy? If America's any scale upon which to dissect the evolution of corruption, Russia's still just a baby. This mess could be left for generations after we're both dead. Legacy? Because you can see, President Putin. There's no way one man is a reason for anything. Take the myth of Ronald Reagan ending the Cold War by standing down the Soviet military that had already given up on everything but the expensive swagger the world still dwindles away at a profit for God's/Allah's sake? 

As we both know. KGB knew everything and now you too sit atop a puzzle of smoke shielding massive financial maneuvering. There's too much of that in this world, no? For instance a look at the American Congress. Or yours for that matter. Oh well. You portray a good king.

It's nice President Putin can be blamed as just another blowing in the wind politician riding out the factors waiting while carving up Ukraine piece-by-piece. But of course this all happened before. Military power set precedent as this Soapbox View essay, Transition Who Can't Afford?, alludes, a centuries old path kept on course not just by off-the-handle terrorists but democratic conspiracies. Pity. Real apologies never seem to be politicians' forté, especially within their lifetime. Well. To your eventual apologists, Mr. President. 

Woop de do! Cycle of Revenge For Everybody? Disengage President Putin. Former President Gorbachev can be marked by our generation as the loser who lost an empire. But he is the man who gave the world a look at freedom no matter how almost impossible it still seems. 

Lighten up President Putin. All you have to lose is a tarnished legacy. Set a trend. History won't always be the legends powerful friends make of their celebrities. Which might then just become true history?

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The game's a foot?

There's even The long game editorial, The Economist. 

Soapbox View

So in conclusion. From 1984. An explanation of conspiracy Bob brought to my attention.

Plus don't be a sycophant and have a sarcastic day.

Transition Who Can't Afford?

Something has been added to this essay's conclusion on CUBA.  8/7/14

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States

The previous essay, PATRIOTISM FOR EVERYONE? included an idea that was highlighted by two events yesterday. Israeli ground troops entering the Gaza Strip and a Malaysian Airlines Passenger Plane shot down by a surface-to-air missile over Ukraine. Reuters

3. Which is why international dispute is not about - who's wrong? 4. But whether ruthlessness is rendered impossible?  

The rocket that brought down the passenger plane was a "mistake." Trigger-happy is a mistake. The passenger plane was nowhere near landing in Ukraine at that height and speed. So without the proper instruments the Ukrainian rebels couldn't take a chance? When conflict escalates the innocent are victimized. Clearly the fog of patriotic militarism entered this century as pervasive as the last. What idiotic logic made all this patriotic militarism acceptable? Freedom Fries pictured above. The buck stops with "the decider." Soapbox View Everyone knows how to hide from responsibility. Chesters just push out their chests insisting their pride is their nations'. Despite what PEACE really means?

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So perpetual war and defense are necessary evils? This essay, A Damaging Distance, in The New York Times, Sunday July 13, 2014, by Ethan Bronner focuses on what the Middle East hasn't fixed. Who in their right minds thought limiting Palestinian financial progress would be a protection when anyone with a clue knows everyone's better off when there's full financial circulation? Again both side's elites are likely duff sitters. 

Again!

4. To Mideast Diplomacy Rendering Ruthlessness Impossible.

"Vengeance is mine sayith the Lord" - not mortals.

Despite war's exploitation, no one wins and maybe, just maybe, we lose our souls?

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Change is constant. Transition a longer  haul. They're not the same difference if change is sudden and transition, evolution. The point? Most of the world has been relatively poor virtually all of human existence. Change has taken place, but not an actual transition. That "the poor will always be with" us is almost a dandy excuse for our destiny. Why lazy insufficient prosperity is the working poor's burden while improved circulation on their behalf is considered weak by those for whom opportunity overflows, and those that resent more hasn't rained on them - yet. Resourcefulness sure is part of the equation, and not entirely out of line to expect of people. Within reason. 

Visiting home, ten years back, my wife and I swam laps in my favorite swimming pool. A nine year old African-American boy, there with his little brother, was from another nearby small town. Like paradise, not crowded, only us four and the older man in lane 6.

The kid asked to look at my goggles then popped out both lenses before I got him to give the goggles back. Sure you can re-insert the lenses as he gigglingly pointed out. But done enough the seal is never the same. He was amused playing with me and when his little brother came over and asked to do the same thing, his older brother told him he'd already done it. But before that. Alone, hanging on to the deep end's gutter. He asked if I could give him money. Reminding me of my precious summer youth collecting cold drink bottles with my friend Patrick who'd told me about the bright idea. I made the kid cry. There were adults collecting everywhere and you were in trouble disturbing their territory. Don't tell me balance didn't drop out of the bottom of our economy. 

With education for the taking most everywhere on this planet? Plus all the money thrown far and wide for the denied to at least grab on to something? Yet money isn't circulating completely throughout while we have this nice basic reality used as an instrument economists can't solve. Inflation. Well, it's a fact of life the poor will never adjust to it and remain destroyed by it. Unable to tag along on the continuously replenishing financial treadmill the elite surf. The Poor rendered useless as perpetual debt. The president of the World Bank and functionaries even state that economies need some inflation so the salaried can keep up better. Considering all things equal, that's fine and dandy the relentless pursuit of inflation propelling those with the power to compete. Which does not solve the problem of economies not fully circulating. Maybe Russians fighting in Ukraine taking care of business at home would have kept Malaysian Airline Flight 17 aloft?

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It is sad. Rumors of revolution gossiped about Brazil if the hosts lost the World Cup before losing to Germany. Because money hadn't instead been spent on the poor who'll rise up in anger unless massaged by a championship. Perhaps contributing to tolerance of football field violence when a referee allowed Brazilians latitude attacking Columbians leading to unintended retribution that knocked a Brazilian star out of the tournament. Paraphrasing Sam Borden's Blame for a Crushing Injury Is Spread Across the Field The New York Times, July5, 2014. Digitally titled: For Bellicose Brazil, Payback Carries Heavy Price: Loss of Neymar. 

The first title worthily sums up the article's insight. While the second gauges momentum as the core of any sports story. One star makes a difference. Not easily replaced. Regardless. It's sad cultural identity is reduced to feudal rivalry.

Any learned person can point to dissatisfied people falling into further disarray. But considered logically, successful revolution against modern militaries is preposterous. As anyone can guess, throughout history, the poor have seldom relieved their stress through revolution. Possibly that great time of equality in the Soviet Union? Unfortunately elitist and when weighed with the sins of persecuting individuals - equality was not ironed out. 

Statistics show Brazilians are discontent. Wikipedia notes the 2013 Confederations Cup Riots followed that tournament Brazil won. Initiated mainly by the Movimento Passe Livre (Free Fare Movement), a local entity that advocates for free public transportation. The demonstrations were initially organized to protest against increases in bus, train, and metro ticket prices in some Brazilian cities, but grew to include other issues such as the high corruption in the government and police brutality used against some demonstrators. By mid-June, 2013, the movement had grown to become Brazil's largest since the 1992 protests against former President Fernando Collor de Mello.

It's of course ridiculous for affairs of state to be tampered with through sport and vice-versa. Yet on the other hand, political leadership is the art of forming mass opinion translated from ambivalent drivel to avoid blame? Football and politics aren't just games. 

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June 27 

Soapbox View conjectured - Crimea, the next Monaco? 

July 2nd, 

The Moscow Times, Flow of Crimea Tourists Drops 35%. 

July 4th, 

The Moscow Times Crimea and Sochi See Futures as Gambling Centers. 

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For objectiveness sake, history sinned.

Now. Relish this. It's not every day news is this close to making sense.

The National Capitol Building in Havana, Cuba, home to the Cuban Academy of Sciences. - Nigel Pacquette / Wikicommons

Russia Ratifies $35 Billion Debt Write-Off For Cuba  

The Moscow Times, July 9, 2014

Huh. 90% of 35.2 billion forgiven. So it's a deal to get 3.2 billion out of Cuba. When if 35.2 billion were put into Cuba to circulate properly this debt theoretically would have never happened. I think Cuba should take this last 3.2 to U.S. Federal Court and dispute that there's any debt at all. Everyone's thumbs were on the scales. Cuba would be a better ally if that 3.2 went into itself. The whole world should be paying Cuba not to industrialize to maintain a vacation paradise. But that's the great equalizer, for funding nations, terrorizing the land. I say try for Paradise Cuba. If you asphalt the entire island it will sink under the big flood. 

Señors Castro?

SERGEI LEONIDOVICH MAGNITSKY'S

Martyrdom To Ruthlessness

Misha Friedman

thoughtgallery.org The New York City Museum and Cultural Events Calendar was my alert the gallery, 287 Spring was showing the 2010 documentary, 

JUSTICE FOR SERGEI

to accompany 

287 Spring Gallery's

"subtle" 

MISHA FRIEDMAN 

 Photography Exhibit

Photo51 - Is Corruption in Russia's DNA?

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Justice For Sergei

So instead of a gallery opening first, Sergei Magnitsky. The figurehead, martyr, by whose death (some) rich Russians can't currently shop in the United States. While Russian orphans are no longer allowed to live in a U. S. family. With Russia's rationalization that their president promised to take care of all the orphans now. Now? Moot before long, as all political promises can become. American President Bill Clinton's First State of the Union Address, before the United States Congress, insisted something should be done about the working poor. 

The law, right or wrong, is always
 about money.

But as Film is convincing, I'll just include, here, contrary perspective provided by four anonymous authors on the internet, published, Tuesday, August 16, 2011. They provide backstory, not in the film, while fanning conspiratorial flames. Communists, spies, everyone, following where the money the flows. 

Still, Mr. Magnitsky was locked up and denied rational justice and allowed to die to be shut up. The show
Photo51 - Is Corruption in Russia's DNA?  
provides the subtle explanation ruthlessness can't afford to care. How its almost normal to see  Sergei's mother, relatives and friends resolved to the pain interwoven into the tragedy of a person's principles being used against him in a court of law. Justice for Sergei was lost because he didn't deserve revenge.

Sergei Magnitsky

Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky
April 8, 1972 Odessa, USSR

Prison environment Sergei Magnitsky is alleged to have endured 

contributing to his early death.

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now this little reminder of  

That Should, or not, Ease Wonder Over How Long This Economic Disagreement Could Take?

And this, link, in case anyone wasn't wondering how objective RT could be?

Hurtling Toward World-Wide-War On Drugs Destruction

  Illegal narcotics are undoubtedly as debilitatingly destructive as the extreme ruthlessness that industry’s big money has wrought. In Sunday’s New York Timesinvestigation, U.S. Drug War Expands to Africa, a Newer Hub for Cartels By CHARLIE SAVAGE and THOM SHANKER, a significant expansion of the war on drugs is cited because the United States has begun training an elite unit of counternarcotics police in Ghana while planning similar units in Nigeria and Kenya as part of an effort to combat the Latin American cartels increasing use of Africa to smuggle cocaine to Europe.

  As nobly minded as William R. Brownfield of the State Department, pictured above, is as a leading architect of new antidrug strategies, the self-righteous exploitation of the chemically dependent is just a byproduct of increasing the capacity for ruthlessness by both criminals and our policing enforcement agencies. As The Times points out, the growing American involvement in Africa follows an earlier escalation of antidrug efforts in Central America, according to documents, Congressional testimony and interviews with a range of officials at theState Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration and The Pentagon.

  American officials are responding to fears that crackdowns in more direct staging points for smuggling, like Mexico and Spain, have prompted traffickers to move into smaller and weakly governed states, further corrupting and destabilizing them. Countries that are otherwise without the sufficient means to curb the narco-dollars that have and will corrupt participating cultures. Something that happened throughout the United States itself when, in the 1930s, after the end of liquor prohibition, Harry J. Anslinger stepped up the restriction of drug use by minorities as was pointed out by the authorsAllen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs who sagely advised against the continued escalation of the evolution of the United States into a country of finks on behalf of a warlord state.

  The Times even prints the aggressive response by the United States is also a sign of how greater attention and resources have turned to efforts to fight drugs as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have wound down. Jeffrey P. Breeden, the chief of the D.E.A.’s Europe, Asia and Africa section, said, “We see Africa as the new frontier in terms of counterterrorism and counternarcotics issues. It’s a place that we need to get ahead of” as “we’re already behind the curve in some ways, and we need to catch up.”

  These initiatives come amid a surge in successful interdictions in Honduras since May, but American officials have also been forced to defend their new tactics after a commando-style team of D.E.A. agents participated in at least three lethal interdiction operations alongside Honduran police officers. In one operation in May, the Honduran police killed four people near the village of Ahuas, and in two others in the past month American agents shot and killed smuggling suspects, who no doubt shot back but were legally due the protection of a justice system despite their inevitable ruthlessness.

  To date, officials say, the D.E.A. commando team has not been deployed to work with the newly created elite police squads in Africa, where the effort to counter the drug traffickers is said to be about three years behind the one in Central America. The officials said if Western security forces did come to play a more direct operational role in Africa, for historical reasons they might be European and not American. Spreading the Criminal Enterprise System’s wealth as, after all, these are harmful drugs destined for Europe anyway. Sad, just sad, that it’s so important to destroy peace and tranquility in the name of defending and enforcing peace and tranquility.

  In May as assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement, Mr. William R. Brownfield, a leading architect of the strategy now on display in Honduras, traveled to Ghana and Liberia to put the finishing touches on a West Africa Cooperative Security Initiative, which will try to replicate across 15 nations the steps taken in battling trafficking groups operating in Central America and Mexico where the desperate nonsense has escalated along with the governments’ insistence on sharing in the profit scheme.

  Mr. Brownfield said the vision for both regions was to improve the ability of nations to deal with drug trafficking, by building up their own institutions and getting them to cooperate with one another, sharing intelligence and running regional law enforcement training centers. And so goes the friendly neighborhood addict unfortunately caught up in the mess as only the most desperate and ruthless have much to gain competing on this military level that had no doubt began with President Ronald Reagan’s insistence on self-righteousness being best for all of us. In the meantime the government has never taken a direct responsibility for the escalation of the drug war as not worth gauging in human terms when power can insist on its’ own way despite whatever result could be rationalized from any point of view.

  But because drug traffickers have already moved into Africa, Mr. Brownfield said, there is also a need for the immediate elite police units that have been trained and vetted. “We have to be doing operational stuff right now because things are actually happening right now,” Mr. Brownfield said.

  But some specialists have expressed skepticism. Bruce Bagley, a professor at the University of Miami who focuses on Latin America and counternarcotics, said that what had happened in West Africa over the past few years was the latest example of the “Whac-A-Mole” problem, in which making trafficking more difficult in one place simply shifts it to another. Hello. “As they put on the pressure, they are going to detour routes, but they are not going to stop the flow, because the institutions are incredibly weak” and “I don’t care how much vetting they do,” Professor Bagley said. “There is always blowback to this. You start killing people in foreign countries, whether criminals or not, and there is going to be fallout.”

  American government officials acknowledge the challenges, but they are not as pessimistic about the chances of at least pushing the trafficking organizations out of particular countries. And even if the intervention leads to an increase in violence as organizations that had operated with impunity are challenged, the alternative, they said, is worse. What? Without a realistic consideration of getting it through people’s thick skulls there could be safer drug dependencies and even safer use of non-narcotics?

  But Mr. Brownfield, with a status innocently above the tragedy, states, “There is no such thing as a country that is simply a transit country, for the very simple reason that the drug trafficking organization first pays its network in product, not in cash, and is constantly looking to build a greater market.” Which is how Mexican cartels were recruited to ambitiously destroy each other pursuing wealth at all costs. As Mr. Brownfield says, “Regardless of the name of the country, eventually the transit country becomes a major consumer nation, and at that point they have a more serious problem.” Yep. But replacing the tragic consequences with better fought wars can, and has, only produced more ruthless participants. Period.

  The United Nations says cocaine smuggling and consumption in West Africa have soared in recent years, contributing to instability in places like Guinea-Bissau. As an example The Times notes, several years ago, a South American drug gang tried to bribe the son of the Liberian president to allow it to use the country for smuggling. Instead, he cooperated with the D.E.A., and the case resulted in convictions in the United States. Even more ominous, according to American officials, was a case in which a militant group called Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb offered three of its operatives to help ship tons of cocaine through North Africa into Europe to raise money to finance terrorist attacks. The case ended this past March with conviction and sentencing in federal court in New York. Point being Governments continued participation in the Criminal Enterprise System is quite possibly a main source of finance for movements among the most resentful people on earth who despite government resolve still have to have a way out of the resentful mess they’ve inherited from a backward past that’s still present today because governments can’t be bothered to care about the basis for their resentment.

  American counternarcotics assistance for West Africa has totaled about $50 million for each of the past two years, and up from just $7.5 million in 2009, according to the State Department. The D.E.A. also is opening its first country office in Senegal, officials said, while the Pentagon has worked with Cape Verde to establish a regional center to detect drug-smuggling ships.

  Though agency units have not been sponsored in West Africa before, there have been operations with similar teams, given training, equipment and pay while subjected to rigorous drug and polygraph testing in countries around the world whose security forces are plagued by corruption, including the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama. All of which had been experienced on a large-scale in the United States before the system yielded and increased law enforcement’s cut/share. Same old story, same old song and dance, my friend. Here might be a good place to substitute Al Pacino’s accent, as Tony Montana in the 1983 film Scarface when he’d look at his gun he called “my little friend.”

  It is routine for D.E.A. agents who are assigned to mentor the specially trained and screened units to accompany them on raids, but it had been unusual for Americans to kill suspects. Several former agents said the recent cases in Honduras suggested the D.E.A. was at the vanguard of the operations rather than merely serving as advisers in the background.

  By contrast, officials say, the effort in West Africa is still at the beginning stages. Oh boy. But the problems there are the same and growing. Officials described one instance in which a methamphetamine lab was discovered in Africa, with documents suggesting it had been set up by a Mexican trafficking organization. William F. Wechsler, the Pentagon’s top counternarcotics officer, said that observing drug traffickers’ advances into West Africa, and the response from American and local authorities, was like watching a rerun of the drug war in this hemisphere in years past. Uh huh. Forgive the pun Sir, but that’s straight from the horse’s mouth. 

  Mr. Wechsler also said, “West Africa is now facing a situation analogous to the Caribbean in the 1980s, where small, developing, vulnerable countries along major drug-trafficking routes toward rich consumers are vastly under-resourced to deal with the wave of dirty money coming their way.” Don’t worry. Those countries will also increase pay to those assigned enforcement and, as has gripped America’s increase in bureaucratic pay to stem corruption, the value of money will deflate crippling and debilitating the world-wide economic system further where no one was ever really able to afford their own home when you consider the fact mortgages were planned on forty-year payment plans. Right. We can afford to fight the drug war forever. But stopping it is a complete other issue. So in prayerful hope may Allah/God bless us for we know not what we do.

7/24/2012

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Hurtling Toward World-Wide-War On Drugs Destruction

7/24/2012 concluded: Mr. Wechsler also said, “West Africa is now facing a situation analogous to the Caribbean in the 1980s, where small, developing, vulnerable countries along major drug-trafficking routes toward rich consumers are vastly under-resourced to deal with the wave of dirty money coming their way.” Don’t worry. Those countries will also increase pay to those assigned enforcement and, as has gripped America’s increase in bureaucratic pay to stem corruption, the value of money will deflate crippling and debilitating the world-wide economic system further where no one was ever really able to afford their own home when you consider the fact mortgages were planned on forty-year payment plans. Right. We can afford to fight the drug war forever. But stopping it is a complete other issue. So in prayerful hope may Allah/God bless us for we know not what we do.

April 20 - May 8, 2018

  Tuesday May 8, 2018 Everyone knows six is a landmark age.
  Monday May 7, 2018 
  A P. T. Barnum with a negligible conscience is a nasty thought.

Charles M. Fraser

May 5, 2011 · 

I feel so damned bad I can't take back a word I've said.

Pep Rally America?

  Has all the rationality gone? Hyped up, up, and away? 

  When we admit it, we reject blowhards casting bandwagon spells. When there's enough history to dichotomously balance the illustrious imagery shrouding power's nuance-less strides over imagined inconveniences. Where ethics took a backseat to process. For verification, ask the Shrugger-in-Chief when he's back from River City. 

WELL

  According to a BBC reporter, Kim Jong-un arrived in Panmunjom by motorcade to meet President Moon Jae-in. It's probably assumable then, that, likewise, the socialist aspects of South Korea didn't provide an adequate train connection to the site for either president either? 

  The rest of the story:

Huh? Well what do you know? 

Both Moon Jae-in and Kim Jung-un are traveling by mobile throne motorcade, despite railroad access? Elitism rules. 

  So I asked the South Korean government (that didn't respond). 

  No doubt the BBC didn't bother to ask - 
  Having learned of Kim Jung-un's imminent travel by motorcade, before walking into Panmunjom, I'm inquiring whether the South Korean president has a statement regarding his own traveling method when trains, to the site, exist for both leaders? 

  A response would appear in a Soapbox View. 

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  Yes, no response. Nothing gets through the waving hands and adulation except the most powerful agendas. Well-rounded economic vision just has to wait out the rites of power's enjoying their toys? Just kidding? Unfortunately not. 

  The Soapbox View's Previous Korean Hopes

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World-Wide-War's Unnecessary Roughness, 

What's the Penalty?

  So yeah. We've carved this dilemma for ourselves, where the visualization of the moral life doesn't include variations in behavior, condemned by the superior point of view. This concept of people riding bad drugs to the gutter, while authentic in various respects, is shortsighted about what civilized behavior means because monotonous frames of reference brought about society's stilted condemnation resulting in a criminal enterprise system. 

  Face without facing. When the solution's ruthlessness, that's the result. End The Criminal Enterprise System

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  The (in progress) short story -  

Where Yesterday's Tomorrow