Sunday, 30 October 2016

Senator Harry Reid:
''FBI Director Comey May Have Broken The Law''

 A few days ago the FBI Director, James Comey, sent an unusually short, cryptic but innuendo-filled email to Republican and Democratic Congress Members on the eve of the most important election in the democratic world

What Is Really Going ON?
Is There Much More Behind All This That We Are Not Being Told?
What Are Comey's Real Motives On The Eve Of A General Election? 
Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was not going to 'abscond' anywhere after the election - so why 'filibuster' the democratic process of the world's foremost superpower - and in the process turn the United States into a Banana Republic - and a laughing stock - in the eyes of the whole world?

4 Things You Might Not Know About James Comey, FBI Director




Fact 1
*The FBI Director was 'frustrated' at being stonewalled by the Department of Justice so close to an election - and may have 'over-reached his authority' by 'going rogue'.
The Chicago Tribune quotes the DoJ as having warned FBI Officials that Comey was 'going rogue' (i.e. had gone 'off the reservation' and was 'on his own')

Fact 2
*There have been ongoing wars between the FBI and Justice Department over several totally unrelated investigations - all of which have convinced the FBI Director Comey that the DoJ and not himself, is 'politically steering' legal investigations across the land - much to his frustration.

 Fact 3
*The FBI Director and his wife suffered a personal family tragedy in 1995 and there is some cause to believe that Patrice Comey's frustration with the lack of universal screening health care (preventative action) by both political parties to save the lives of other children (like their son Collin) may be one factor which caused Director Comey to 'loose faith' in the 'system' per ipse to 'deliver results' - hence his decision to 'go public' rather than 'suffer in silence'.
[I can empathize with the family in this regard for several reasons - which is why I am factoring this in as subconscious motive - and would not lightly use this term if I did not have the personal experience nor the professional qualification to so factor. PE ]

 Fact 4
*For the above reasons Director Comey had no future (as Director) in a President Clinton administration and, because of constant 'scraps' with the DoJ, his position, even within the FBI, was becoming 'untenable' as complaints that he was 'difficult' to work with, would be an understatement, according to unquoted sources.

Fact 
*Both political parties utilize the FBI and the DoJ wherever and whenever they can to garnish advantages for either prosecuting or withholding or stonewalling or leaving cases (with political overtures) in abeyance - or just deprioritizing them into (eventual) abeyance due to lack of funds and lack of bipartisan (political) approval.


It is probably a thankless job - whoever is in it.
You please one politician and displease others.
One lot praise you today - the same lot wanna burn you at the stake tomorrow if you transgress or hinder or question what they want to achieve or even caution them that they (or one of their own) might be breaking (or have broken) the law.

Expect some new information about Director Comey himself and (if you check Facebook or Twitter) maybe even some leaked internal memos between his Department and that of the DoJ in the next few days.
If I were you I would check the alternative media - Facebook or Twitter - for example - out first rather than rely on your compliant and docile mainstream media for the full stories about this matter - you are likely to get just as good a picture from the fringe as you are from corporate and compliant mainstream media sources.


 None of the above excuses recklessness on the part of the FBI.
(You can read about where such reckless actions
on the part of the FBI have resulted in the execution of innocent victims - all based on 'tainted' FBI evidence in the reference section below.)

 On A Side Note To This Blog:
The Comey's child Collin died shortly after birth from a very preventable bacterial infection - had universal prenatal screening for expectant mothers been covered by the health care insurers.
There has been no significant move in the United States towards preventable screening for the population as a whole for this nor other bacterial infections which could easily be detected and in the process thousands of deaths or severe disabilities prevented in unborn children - and all because of the high costs to the health insurance industry who do not want to foot the bill.
Even the FBI Director himself has limitations to his powers. 
This is enough to make anyone loose faith in 'the system' delivering if you just sit around and wait.
 [Having said that, what can be more 'reckless' than a 'belief' in political power and putting profit before people?]


Perhaps President Clinton, if elected, and as a mother herself, will do the right thing for the country and ensure that healthcare is genuinely overhauled to make people and not profit the objective - introducing statutory preventable screenings across a range of nationwide diseases - a new objective for a more just and equitable caring society than exists at present in the United States?;because for certain, her opposite number (Mr Trump) from his 'ivory tower of wealth', has no incentive to so do for the mass of the populace.

BUT THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN UNLESS YOU GET OUT AND VOTE!

 
©Patrick Emek, October 2016




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/30/1588811/-Sen-Harry-Reid-to-FBI-Director-Comey-Through-your-partisan-actions-you-may-have-broken-the-law
  
In a totally unrelated matter, a case to prosecute the FBI itself was being studied as a result of the following:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/convicted-defendants-left-uninformed-of-forensic-flaws-found-by-justice-dept/2012/04/16/gIQAWTcgMT_story.html

 DoJ Inspector General castigates the FBI for inordinate delays by 'highly flawed' FBI forensic unit in Death Row Cases:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/report-irreversible-harm-when-fbi-didnt-reveal-flawed-lab-work-in-death-row-cases/2014/07/16/ebf9496e-0d29-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html



http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:53fPmzeG5wEJ:articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-09-13/news/1995256217_1_collin-infection-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_care





http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-fbi-james-comey-hillary-clinton-emails-0161029-story.html


June 2016:
''FBI Could Start Leaking Evidence From It's Investigation''
http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2016/06/the-battle-between-doj-and-fbi-over-hillary-email-probe/

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:53fPmzeG5wEJ:articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-09-13/news/1995256217_1_collin-infection-baby+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-b 


DoJ Results of Investigations In Baltimore:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CBVKBNYj0OcJ:https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-findings-investigation-baltimore-police-department+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-b
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/10/12418428/baltimore-police-investigation-justice-department-report

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/08/12/489489803/dojs-withering-baltimore-report-says-what-black-folks-have-been-saying-for-decad


http://yournewswire.com/comey-ignores-doj-and-orders-fbi-investigation-into-clinton/

Federal District Judge:
''FBI Framed To Get Convictions By Withholding Evidence Which Would Have Cleared The Victims Of Murder'' 
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3Z6NODhFEtYC&pg=PT98&lpg=PT98&dq=rows+between+the+FBI+and+DoJ&source=bl&ots=swJZU_A8d9&sig=MTHk6UQn0tWmgFkB2iYGReDu_Eg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjS_r_8l4TQAhVLL8AKHfWcC7UQ6AEIUDAJ#v=onepage&q=rows%20between%20the%20FBI%20and%20DoJ&f=false 

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Saturday, 29 October 2016

Those New Emails and
Presidential Hopeful Hillary Clinton

Those New Emails and Presidential Candidates
The recent decision by the FBI to open a new investigation into related emails on a different server other than that of Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton must be seen in the light of new information having been discovered or made available.
*It was initially unclear on which server the relevant material was discovered. It is now being claimed to have emanated from Senator Clinton's civilian (unprotected) server.


Are They Relevant?
The sources, in this instance, are immaterial.
What is important is that the FBI is given the opportunity to study the relevance (if any) of this new material and to report its findings at the earliest opportunity.
As I write this blog no doubt the emails are being scrutinized to the finest minute and legal opinions are being (if not already) given about what further steps or indeed recommendations, if any, should be made to the Department of Justice.
Sadly, what Paul Ryan has not said (to date) is that, in the interests of democracy, the investigations must be speedily dealt with so that the election due in less than two weeks can take place in a democratic environment.

Speaking Out
In my opinion, one of the roles of the Speaker is to oversee the exercise of democracy - and to speak out in its defense, where necessary.
The shadow of another 'stolen' election (similar to that of Florida where Presidential hopeful Al Gore was, according to many U.S. citizens, even today, 'robbed' of the U.S. Presidency because of Gerry Mandering) because of political interference will not be perceived well - should the U.S. wish to retain it's status as the world's foremost democracy.

Withdrawal Of Senator Clinton's Access Privileges
Paul Ryan has requested that Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton be denied access to confidential top secret briefings because of her negligence in handling classified data. Sadly for Representative Ryan, this late intervention is unlikely to cut him any slack with a President-elect Donald Trump.  Ryan is perceived as 'part of the problem.  Of the 'old Republican guard', the GOP, which has lost its way and has no place in a 'Trump White House incorporated'.

Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity
My own view is that it is in the interests of the FBI to get the matter out of the way before the election - regardless of what the different politicians from both main parties are advocating.

Decline and Fall
A Trump Presidency will be just another step in the direction of  'Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire'.
For example, in the Philippines (which I know very well - having both lived there and researched it extensively)  (to the shock of the State Department)  President Duterte has said, to both the European Union and The United States, in a nutshell: ''F*** you, our future is with China.'' ''They can offer us a better deal, as fellow-Asiatics, than your imperialism and colonialism has ever done for our country.''   In my opinion nothing could be further from the truth.  President Duterte is just as ignorant as his counterparts - the fast-emerging U.S. and Western politicians (such as, for example, 'Fat Boy' Johnson, Secretary of State in the U.K.) who are ignorant, but masters of speech and of war.


The Pre-Emptive Mindset Is Conditioned or Evolved, It Was Not Born That Way
As I said in one of my few interviews, we have entered an era of ignorant politicians coming into power who are running the world towards unnecessary (and uneconomic) conventional and 'limited arena' nuclear wars - all fueled out of total ignorance, twisted ultra-nationalism and sheer greed - with no thought for future consequences.
Sadly, war, is, in my view, not always avoidable. My contention is that it should be a last rather than a priority option which politicians, if they get their way, are increasingly seeking ways and means to make it such. 

The Fog Of War
To put it in a nutshell, what has emerged in the U.S. is a generation of  political naivety who wield a frightening level of power, who live in a 'bubble' and have no appreciation of their own (nor their country's) mortality, egged on in a hyper-mediated  vacuum, a hypercube of 'invincibility' and 'ultimate victory' which, sooner or later, motivates the thought of pre-emptive 'first-strike' options to settle political and economic differences with competing superpowers and smaller nation states.

 Of Democracy and Democratic Values 
(Have Any Heard of Plato's 'Republic'?; I think Not)
When you permit armed militias to be created the length and breadth of the land who perceive themselves as 'last lines of defence of democracy' or defending certain ('treasured') amendments of the constitution or to retain economic and social privileges, it's only a matter of time until such armed militias see their role in opposition to the State or Federation in pursuit of their own agendas and privileges.
It is only a logical extension that pre-emptive actions against real or imagined 'infringements' of such 'perceived' democratic 'values' is the next step.

This is why most of the world is wise enough not to permit armed militias (as opposed to citizens' rights to bear arms) to exist -  to the extent that they pose a threat to the security of the state or country.

The Doctrine Of PreEmption: 
Ringing Eight Bells
Should Mr Trump be elected he will attempt to extend U.S. influence in a way unacceptable to most of Asia and South America.
The economic future of the world for at least the next 200 years lies in the Pacific rim, with China, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and The Philippines playing critical parts.  (I exclude Australia because it is, to put it frankly, at the mercy of economic developments in China.  It would not at all surprise me if conflict breaks out at a future point between Australia and Indonesia for control of valuable sea lanes, oil and gas deposit fields in Straits curently within the territorial jurisdiction of Indonesia - but strategic resources which Australia will desperately need if it is not to become a poor Asiatic backwater in an otherwise thriving region.  Under such conditions a strengthening of ties between the U.S. and Australia as its 'eyes and ears' will only be to the benefit of both parties.  But such alliances will ultimately be regarded as 'threatening' to Indonesian sovereignty which, similar to the Philippines, might well pivot closer to China both economically and militarily.  It is for such reasons that I said in my last blog the election of a President Trump will undoubtedly move the hands of the clock closer to 'midnight', the end of this 'watch', than has ever been the case for over fifty years.)

Off Track?
So what in hell has all the above to do with this issue of emails?; you may well ask. 
Should this issue of Senator Hillary Clinton's emails not be resolved before election day and the electorate (in my opinion wrongly) perceive Hillary Clinton as 'untrustworthy' because of the mass media mis-reporting of FBI's inconclusive (or ongoing investigations) on or at Election Day,  the credibility of many institutions (The Presidency, The Electoral Process, The Justice System, and the FBI itself) are all gravely undermined, whoever is elected as President of the United States.
All of this will be reflected in the perception of the U.S. in many parts of the world as an 'unreliable' ally, one which is too fickle and lacks 'commonsense' in judgement - prefering instead to place itself and its values on hypocritcial soap boxes so it can preach to the world principles and codes of conduct which it itself either lost a long time ago or indeed has long-forgotten how to apply justly and fairly. 

©Patrick Emek, October 2016

 (Be Warned!)
The Shape of Things to Come:
Just one example (you can find many more internationally - if you research them) of  the 'diplomatic' 'language' of today's politicians - which will evolve to become 'standard practice' for trading insults worldwide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte
President Duterte of The Philippines Tells the EU:
''F**k You European Union!''
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-P7vP6-k0U

President Duterte Gives The European Union
'Human Rights Faggots' the Middle (f**k) finger:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dc2_1474487717&comments=1 

PHILIPPINES: President Rodrigo Duterte Calls US Ambassador Philip Goldberg “The Gay Son Of A Whore”

http://www.joemygod.com/2016/08/10/philippines-president-rodrigo-duterte-calls-us-ambassador-philip-goldberg-a-gay-son-of-a-whore/


Philippines' defence minister says military can cope without US aid:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/07/philippines-defence-minister-says-military-can-cope-without-us-aid

[Interestingly, before the decline and fall of past Empires, 'disaffection' and 'name calling' of 'superpower' leaders were commonplace - to taunt or goad 'the Empire' into taking military action against the insulters (to teach them a lesson) - thus consolidating disparate tribes against 'the common' imperial superpower 'enemy'.  Such 'disparaging' insults and remarks by 'the taunters' took maybe months for spies to transmit the 'disrespect' spoken either informally or at formal meetings (or festive gatherings) back home for action by Greece or Rome.
Alexander of Macedon dealt with such dissention and disrespect ruthlessly - as did the Roman Empire, The Spanish Empire, the British Empire and the Third Reich.   
Now it's America's turn.   Let us wait and see what will happen.]

Gerrymandering: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

 https://www.uvm.edu/~dguber/POLS125/articles/pomper.htm

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=b9bvVnM18boC&pg=PA581&lpg=PA581&dq=Florida+gerrymandering+of+Votes+Al+Gore&source=bl&ots=PiyI8YKrQR&sig=JQ00paUpnhBb4u5X5doydtb-8Jo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6ssWBkIDQAhXmDsAKHWLDA6o4ChDoAQg0MAc#v=onepage&q=Florida%20gerrymandering%20of%20Votes%20Al%20Gore&f=false

  https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-new-national-security-strategy-and-preemption/

http://www.rand.org/topics/military-doctrine.html

https://www.frstrategie.org/publications/notes/russia-s-evolving-nuclear-doctrine-and-its-implications-2016-01

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HfeNCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR4&lpg=PR4&dq=2016+The+Military+Doctrine+of+Preemption+United+states+Military&source=bl&ots=HU_eZgxKAL&sig=n3wJPv8YzFqApgIGk1Prf-1Fsjg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiH3OnMkYDQAhWnAcAKHQAVCrcQ6AEIUDAI#v=onepage&q=2016%20The%20Military%20Doctrine%20of%20Preemption%20United%20states%20Military&f=false

Ha'aretz:
http://www.haaretz.com/the-u-s-preemption-and-international-law-1.392402


Masters of War:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8CdlSolo1E
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Wednesday, 26 October 2016

What If........it's........
 President Donald Trump?

The Shape of Things to Come
Should Donald Trump be elected to the Office of President of The United States, there will be a lot of disappointments.
The first major political casualty will be the man who I earlier described as one of the most intelligent people in the House today, and a likely future Presidential candidate (but not if Trump has his way) Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan will, at some early future point, resign and bide his time as a local activist until Mr Trump disappears from the scene.   (Ryan may well have to wait a very long time for The Great Manipulator and his 'entourage' to exit the scene.
A President Trump, with a hit list of those Republicans who no longer, in his view, represent the Party, will no doubt take a lot of pleasure in taking revenge on Ryan - and ensure that in the process he forever scuttles Ryan's future hopes and dreams of ever making it to the White House.
Ryan is clever enough to appreciate you cannot work constructively with someone like Trump.
Sooner or later they would both inevitably have to part company, no matter how conciliatory Ryan attempted to be with regard to policy support and development on behalf of President Trump.)

Did They Go...Or Were They Pushed?
Don't Rely On Your CNN and other Corporate Mainstream Media To Tell You the Truth!
Apart from the obvious political replacement candidates chosen by President Trump the list of additional (non-essential - not required because of political changes at the top)  'resignations' are likely to be very substantial from every Department: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Health and Human Services, Energy, Treasury, Department of Justice, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Department of The Interior and from The Department Of Agriculture.
Also expect senior resignations from the Federal Reserve, which is not a Government Department, to take place.

 Expect a Trump Presidency to appoint 'Witchfinder Generals' to 'go after [perceived] 'enemies' of Donald Trump - across all Departments and in both Houses, amongst Republican and Democrats alike.

(In another era, more robust official steps might have been taken to stop Trump becoming President.
)
Then there are the likely senior (non-essential) resignations from the CIA, the NSA and all other branches of the Armed Forces including the Department of Defense.

To The Gullible and Subservient Corporate Mainstream  Media:
Be Careful What You Wish For
(A Coup By Any Other Name)
If the U.S. media reported them all, it would look like a coup d'etat had taken place in the United States. But the (usual subservient) corporate media will just fall in line and you will be hard pressed to gauge the extent of the political chaos and revolution which is taking place within.
Neither will the media itself escape the wrath of Trump and his extremist supporters in both Houses.
Indeed it will also be amongst the first of casualties.
New defamation (censorship) laws (similar to Singapore) will be introduced to put the media into checkmate.
Familiar faces will announce they are 'stepping down', leaving politics, going into business, retiring for 'health reasons'.
(We can thank the Russian Federation for this state of events.)
In the Kremlin, President Putin, his heads of Military, the FSB and the GRU will all be celebrating the first victory ever of the birth of a new order on the American continent - and speculating where these new possibilities can take Russian - U.S. relations.
(In actual fact, the hands of the clock will have moved closer to midnight, for all of us, than they ever were since the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s.)

The media will (just about) live to rue the day it was complicit in the birth of the Trump era - before it too finally succumbs to total subservience - a prefect clone of it's Russian Federation counterpart.
Of course all will be explained away to an almost totally ignorant American public audience as one by one, media empires are 'taken over' by individuals personally loyal to one individual - President Donald Trump.
A few 'bones' will be 'thrown' to the Trump 'faithful' -the 'common' 'plebes' - to convince them that he is 'one of them' (or at least continue to keep them angry and now direct their motivation and energies away from domestic stagnation and against those 'disloyal' and 'enemies within' who are 'conspiring' to prevent America becoming great again.)

A Hail Mary
The McCarthy witch hunt era will be reborn anew - with new internal enemies of the State to be burnt at the stake (or deported.)
And so it will be with other known household institutions which have guaranteed American pre-eminence throughout the globe - as one by one they are all absorbed within the Trump empire - the logic being that you cannot organize America's economy successfully unless you can replicate those of China and the Russian Federation.
As individuals of wealth attempt to leave the United States for citizenship of other jurisdictions, they will face huge 'penalty fines' before being allowed to relinquish American citizenship for foreign shores.
The IRS will be instructed to mercilessly pursue any individual of wealth attempting to relinquish U.S. citizenship and transfer their substantial assets abroad.
Global corporations will be legally obliged (forced) to repatriate to within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States all wealth held overseas - except where special permission has been granted by the Internal Revenue Service.
Some will choose Canada, others Mexico, the Caribbean and South America.
Citizenships For Economic Refugees
Russia and China, amongst other nations, will attempt to woo Americans of wealth desperately seeking to 'escape' their predicament under a Trump Presidency.
 And the above will only be the start.

 Somewhere....... Over the Rainbow.........
And what about the ordinary American folk?
They will be exactly where they have always been - angry and confused - but the great manipulator will know exactly how to channel away this anger and confusion so that the real issues of the day (economic decline and how to revive America as a global industrial and economic force) can be comfortably kicked somewhere far far down the road for another day, for someone else to resolve at another time and in another era - assuming  the Trump 'dynasty' (or cult of personality) has an 'end'.


© Patrick Emek, October 2016


 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hopkins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fahr069-fzE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)
 https://en.wikipedia.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U016JWYUDdQ
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Friday, 21 October 2016

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton,John Podesta, Russia Today (RT) and Those Wikileaks Emails


I just want to very briefly touch on Russia Today
(Keiser Report, 22nd October) to show how biased against Hillary Clinton the Presidential Campaign has become.

'Right On the Money'
When President Obama assumed office in 2008 it is alleged that Citicorp/Citibank choose his Cabinet for him.
Not at all.
Being 'right on the money' (reference to Podesta's response to Citicorp when consulted about the best people to choose for particular Cabinet posts) is not the same as asking Citi to nominate the Cabinet members.
But this has been lost upon the populace as a whole who prefer to listen to Donald Trump's interpretation of RT's interpretation of the emails rather than either analyse the latter for themselves.

What A Consultation 'Exercise' Is
I want to relate a particular instance when NATO was involved in a very controversial campaign several decades ago.
At that time I was active in the Atlantic Council of the UK.
Because the NATO policy was new and controversial (believe it or not!) NATO ran a consultation 'exercise' to gauge the 'thinking' of members. I do not know if it was across the board or random sampling.
In any event I was asked if I approved of this particular policy and if not what my own suggestions would be.
I thought long and hard about my response because, like my nemesis (the politicians) I appreciated that I was being asked for a view which could (conceivably) feed into 'the system' (up the chain so to speak) and affect the lives of others.

Obama Saved The U.S. and World Economic Order – And If You Don't Like Me Saying That, Tough
What the transition team were effectively doing,
in the midst of the worst economic crisis the United States and the world had seen since the 1930s (yes folks, you have rarely been told, but President Obama saved not just the U.S. but the economic structure of the world – much to the disappointment of Russia Today and the Kremlin. For that, he and his original Cabinet will be forever hated in Moscow) were attempting to identify the best people to fill posts in what was an 'emergency' 'firefighting' Cabinet where the 'best brains in the land' (within the known 'system') were desperately needed to save America and the world economic system as we know it from total collapse – and to assist in a process of domestic and world recovery.

What Citi was being asked was part of a 'round robin' consultation with corporations (which included JP and other leaders in the field of economics and social policy) close to the administration.


Wikileaks Is Not Infallible(!)
Wikileaks was unable to 'put the total picture together' because what it could 'hack' or what were leaked were coming from independent mainframe systems – some of which were more vulnerable than others to either hacking (again probably by Moscow) or infiltration.

Take Clinton Down! At All Costs!
But the only story which Moscow is 'pushing' on the eve of the American election is that John Podesta asked Citigroup to select the U.S. Cabinet of President Obama – so the U.S. Presidential election process was a sham.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The desperation (and now panic in Moscow) to see Mr Donald Trump as the next U.S. President could not be more in evidence than this last fling of everything – including 'the kitchen sink' – at the Clinton Presidential campaign in one last ditch, one last desperate bid, to save Donald Trump from electoral defeat in 3 weeks time.

Will it work? Are the American electorate so gullible? Will America choose a billionaire as it's 'man of the people'; as a man who 'understands' from personal experience and suffering, 'ordinary folk', their fears, their needs, their hopes and desires for themselves and for their families?
Only time will tell.

To paraphrase (or constitutionally interpret!) one Supreme Court Judge:

''you'd wanna be a real dummy (or dopey) to select Trump for President.
Me, I'm getting the hell outta Dodge if he comes into Office!''


©Patrick Emek, October 2016


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Podesta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg



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Tuesday, 18 October 2016

Russia Today (RT)

(I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Outta Here!)

Making News

The last thing a journalist or news network ever desires is to be in the news.

Our task is to make the news – not to be a star (or celebrity) in it (!)

That's exactly what happened to Russia Today yesterday – but don't expect to be informed about it on the BBC, Fox or Sky Television Networks.

Russia Today is part-funded by the Russian government and is, for want of a better word, run lock stock and barrel by staunch supporters of Mr Vladimir Putin.
(No different from our own major news and commercial networks - which are owned by companies who themselves have strong links with the political class, at very senior levels.)

Leni's Children
I have on several occasions cited RT as being the most effective news propaganda machine in the world today.
It replaced the BBC about 5 years after it first started broadcasting – and the world of news (or propaganda) has never been the same since.
The BBC, CNN and Fox all changed our perception of what news is or should be.
Russia Today Televison Network is the 'new kid on the block' and it too has changed the world of information - as we know it.

If you really understand propaganda (and I have been very fortunate in my life to have an opportunity to study it in operation) then you can appreciate Fox, CNN, The BBC and now RT, not just as news outlets but as art forms in themselves.)

Run, Buddy, Run

RT is so effective a propaganda machine (much more than CNN or Fox) that questions have been raised continuously on the Hill about how to stop it's influence – worldwide. Nothing so far has worked in this regard.
No amount of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at other networks have had any significant impact in any way shape or form on RT nor of its ability to influence the shape of events worldwide.

Part of the reason for the failure to halt the haemorrhaging of the local populace away from 'traditional networks' (such as the BBC for example) towards RT can be found in what I call the 'type' of individuals entering politics in Western Europe and the United States today and their perception of news as a technology of political control.
Because they see RT with 'tunnel vision' they haven't a clue about where to start to counteract it's influences both at home and across the planet:

''if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail''



Ours Is News – Yours Is Propaganda !
If you step back you can see across Europe a move away from traditional politicians and towards extremism.
(Ironically, RT, as a propaganda network, has been encouraging such divisions simply to cause as much disruptions to the political and financial structures as is possible within the limits of its remit. To complicate matters even further, our own politicians have been 'aiding and abetting' RT over at least the past two decades with remarkable foreign policy blunders which have destroyed our abilities in the West to sell basic goods and services (everything except weapons) across much of the Middle East and North Africa today.

Killing The Messenger

The 'nuclear' solution to the problem caused by RT's successful inroads into popular viewing availability options is to simply find ways of closing it off from mainstream media access network streams and push it into the back alleys. Effectively, to isolate the channel and make it harder for the general populace to access it's propaganda or news.
The decision to withdraw UK banking facilities is just one step in this direction.

Neither is it inconceivable that mobile networks will not 'pull the plug' on RT or recategorize it as 'premium rate' for access.

This, in my opinion, as I said a year ago or longer, is a very dangerous path to go down.
The only time I would ever support such action would be in the advent of a world war (really serious stuff!)

Information and It's Messengers
Are Always Amongst The First Casualties Of War
Long gone are the days where you 'declare war' on another country.
Today and tomorrow you will just have to look for the (subtle) signs elsewhere that The Rubicon has been crossed.

(There is no doubt in my mind that many in mainstream news in the UK are concerned about RT's right to broadcast without hinderance – but they too have mortgages, bills to pay, families, careers and promotions to think about.)

Support for colleagues at a foreign news network (RT) dedicated to the economic and political destruction of life as we know it is not a very motivating factor to garnish their support - under such circumstances (!)


Mad, Mad As Hell (!)

I have been incensed by the vitriol against U.S. Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton being spewed out by RT on a daily basis. It has been a very long time since I have seen such biased coverage of a U.S. election campaign by a major foreign TV network.

Should Hillary Clinton be elected President of The United States, RT might just as well pack it's bags on the American continent as a whole. In this regard, it has only itself to blame.


The First Real Cyberwar Between the Superpowers (The Russian Federation and The United States)

Should President Clinton assume office in January (which I hope she will) forget about throwing hundreds of millions of dollars to counteract RT propaganda– it will simply be closed down on the U.S. mainland. Companies such as Verizon will, more likely than not, introduce access streaming fees which specifically target the ability of the RT network to provide an effective service.
But this will only be the start. Expect the Russian government to retailiate with similar restrictions on European and U.S. networks.

I call this the first global cyber war because access to RT, even at cyber cafes, will be 'closed down' across the world (at least that cyber world where servers pass through mainland and other territorial jurisdictions of the United States.)

It might well be in your interest to learn the meaning of different HTTP error codes now – before you start to see them on your screen when attempting to access RT.

As to whether restricting RT's broadcasts will help or hinder the fight for the heart and soul of propaganda worldwide, only time will tell.


Are we at war? Watch out for the signs - or shapes in the clouds - because for sure, the media of today will never tell you straight to your face (!)



©Patrick Emek, October 2016





https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_all_you_have_is_a_hammer,_everything_looks_like_a_nail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

http://www.tvparty.com/recrunbuddy.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run,_Buddy,_Run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1czI_IBbpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1vVOXqFzIY


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_a_Celebrity...Get_Me_Out_of_Here!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leni_Riefenstahl
On 17th October, 2016, RT Released the press statement below:

''RT has received a letter from Natwest, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, which has a significant shareholding by the UK government, informing it that its UK banking facilities with the bank will be withdrawn without explanation or redress.
This decision is incomprehensible, and without warning. It is however, not at odds with the countless measures that have been undertaken in the UK and Europe over the last few years to ostracize, shout down, or downright impede the work of RT.
RT UK will continue its operations uninterrupted.''
 
 

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Wednesday, 12 October 2016



Introduction
Thailand is, as with Hong Kong, with Malaysia, and Singapore, a model for economic development - especially for the continent of Africa.
In my previous blog in March 2014 (reproduced below) I left out some important information.
Some years ago I had the opportunity to meet and question the former Thai Premier, Thaksin Shinawatra.  The setting was a Press Briefing at Carlton House in Central London.
I also had the opportunity for a 'one-to-one' chat with Mr Shinawatra.
(The premises is no longer used by the International Press for briefings.)
Thaksin Shinawatra was one of the most likeable Prime Minister's I ever met.
Very much at ease with the Press, very humble, great sense of humor, and very polite. 
I contrast that with Kofi Annan, the former U.N. Secretary General (on whose 'watch' the Rwanda genocide took place) who, the only time I met him at a venue in central London, asked me ' and what do you do for a living?'  When I informed him that I was Secretary of The Chartered Institute of Journalists, Freelance Division, he darted a cold steely look directly at me - which already said 'then you probably know all my secrets!' and hastily moved on.  (Actually I do know a lot not in the mainstream about Kofi Annan but I have never been in the 'peddling dirt' end of media research so I just committed it to memory because it was all so fascinating.)  Likewise when I was introduced by a friend to the former Malaysian Premier at a private gathering in the British House of Commons, that same 'Kofi Annan' syndrome (as I coin it!) was apparent when the words 'media' and 'researcher' were used to describe me. 
Not true of Mr Shinawatra, former Premier of Thailand, loved by half of the country and despised by the other half (including the armed forces - who mounted a coup d'etat just to prevent him from returning to power - when he would have been elected overwhelmingly by the populace in any free and fair election.  Even today, in a free and fair election, Thaksin Shinawatra would be Premier of Thailand.)
Interestingly, as with Mr Donald Trump, Mr Shinawatra is one of the wealthiest individuals in the world.  Unlike Mr Trump, he is so polite, so friendly, well-mannered and so cordial
that they were both obviously 'schooled' then 'baptised' in the fires of the business and political worlds, through very very different paths and encounters. 
I omitted this information from the article below because events in Thailand were, say, very delicate, at that time, and it would have served no useful purpose (indeed it would have been counter productive) to bring Mr Shinawatra into the equation.

A press release about the health of the King was issued yesterday - which is most unusual in the wording and stylized manner in which it has appeared.
The Thai government appears to be preparing the country (and the world) for the imminent demise of King Rama IX (Bhumibol Adulajev.)

The Thai military, by mounting a coup (Thai style - nobody killed just the removal of identified 'troublesome' politicians from office) two years ago have already firmly ensured through the ensuing 'democratic elections' (Thai-style) which followed, that there will be no return of Mr Shinawatra nor political chaos in the country in the (anticipated?) event of the death of King Rama IX.
I have heard all the 'locker room' talk about the Royal Household when last in the country.
Because people are forbidden by law from talking about the King and Royal Household in the media and in public, almost everyone banters and gossips ('locker-room' style - including 'girls talk'!) about what is happening at 'the Palace' in the privacy of their homes.
The nature of what I heard (maybe real maybe imagined) convinced me that, well perhaps a more 'open' approach would benefit the reputation of the Royal Household amongst the Thai people, as a whole.
It's a very brief article but because the international media will not speculate about the King's succession (they would loose their VIP 'access privileges' in Thailand if they did !) I thought you might want to see how the Thai people view the issue of succession (in private - since they cannot by law talk publicly about this matter in the country.)



*Kofi Annan:

I must add here that there is nothing detrimental to Mr Annan. The Secretary General at the time of the Rwanda Tutsi genocide was Boutros Boutros-Ghali.   I said on Mr Annan's 'watch' referring to his delegated departmental responsibility - and not as Secretary General. 

The Rwanda genocide of the Tutsi people was an institutional (United Nations) failure at all levels.  The failures were systemic and, to this day, few lessons have been learned.  For those who were U.N. Officers it was very frustrating and decisions were taken which, to say the least, were in bad judgement.   Mr Annan was not at that time The Secretary General.


 It is also an appropriate time to mention these facts again because what is happening to the ordinary people  in The Yemen and in Syria are crimes against humanity - for which nobody will ever be brought to account.  The Yemen because it is one of the poorest countries on the planet with little to no influence internationally - and Saudi Arabia, the United States, Iran and the Russian Federation will never agree as to who are 'war criminals' in the civil ( tribal-religious) war; in  Syria because any 'war criminals' will never be agreed  between the United States, Saudi Arabia, the Russian Federation, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, The Kurdish people and the government of Syria (which, the way outsiders are speaking, you might be forgiven for thinking that this was not a sovereign independent country but governed by Imperial powers or the Ottoman Empire.)


http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1108093/thais-don-pink-for-his-majesty


http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1010762.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaksin_Shinawatra

unrelated travel information:
http://www.thaitravelblogs.com/2013/09/dont-fall-for-the-grand-palace-is-closed-scam/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide


Nothing appears on the official government website (below.)
The official explanation is that there is no connection between the Royal Household and the Thai government - other than in it's capacity of acting as 'protector' of the Thai Constitution and Royal Household against destabilization and insurgency - at home and abroad.

http://www.thaigov.go.th/en.html

http://www.thaigov.go.th/index.php/en/component/search/?searchword=King+Rama+IX&ordering=newest&searchphrase=all

http://www.thaigov.go.th/index.php/en/the-cabinet1


 March 2014 article (reproduced)
 

King Rama IX (Bhumibol Adulajev)
Reports have it that Thailand's much loved and revered King Bhumibol is again in ailing health.
Fortunately his premature expiration has been falsely predicted on many occasions and, for many years, he has managed to soldier on – and the country continues prosper as a beacon of economic success and development for South East Asia and rest of the world.

Most Thais would rejoice if the King's daughter* succeeded her father to the throne.
She is (genuinely) much loved by the populace as a whole.
But the Royal line of succession precludes a Queen of Siam.
It is for this reason that millions of Thais are praying that the King will continue to live – for forever and a day.   We all know that such is not going to happen and talk in the country about the Royal succession, whilst strictly forbidden, is nonetheless the main event in every other Thai household.
The King's son, however, is the likely successor.

*eldest

[Interestingly, there has been a Buddhist prophesy for centuries that after the IX Rama, the dynasty will end.   I am unclear as to whether this solely refers to the male lineage or the dynasty as a whole.   There are so many different versions and interpretations of this prophesy that it would just be too confusing to mention all of them - other than to say that some Thais give considerable weight and respect to prophesy.]


King Bhumibol has brought stability, economic prosperity and development for Thailand as a whole.
Yes, admittedly there are groups – political parties, farmers, local communities, trades union representatives who will tell you a different story - and there are genuine grievances about wealth distribution, corruption, intrigues for power and influence within the elite of the Armed Forces and the Royal Thai Police.
Then there are border disputes with Cambodia which, thanks to international mediation and restraint by both sides, rarely escalate beyond occasional skirmishes over temples.
In November of last year, much to the disappointment of Thailand, the U.N. Court ruled in favor of Cambodia in the area around Preah Vihear Temple and ordered Thai forces to withdraw from the immediate vicinity.  This area is likely to be the flashpoint for further future conflict between the two countries as Thai nationalists and their supporters in the armed forces will never accept this decision.
There is also the prospect of Islamic insurgency intensifying in the South of the country as Malaysia does little to bring the insurgents to heel - for fear that the Jihadi militias will turn their attention (guns and bombs) to waging a campaign to destabilize the peace and quiet of Malaysia proper and an even greater threat is that they will link across with Jihadi insurgents in the province of Sabah to create a unified front – which could have devastating consequences for economic and political stability in the region as a whole.
[The Malaysia authorities will argue that they work in cooperation with Thai security forces to prevent terrorist infiltration across both sides of the border and will also suggest that arms and explosives are reaching Islamic rebels not across the Thai-Malaya border but from other countries.]

Hence the successor to King Bhumibol  will require the continued unanimous support of the Police and Armed forces to ensure that peace on the Thai-Cambodia and Thai-Malaysia borders are maintained as these areas could quickly flare into all-out wars between both parties, if outstanding border and Islamic identity issues, are not resolved to the long-term satisfaction of protagonists, and continue to linger.


Patrick Emek



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