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Sunday 13 November 2016

Paul Ryan's Last Stand:
Reince Priebus

I have never had too much in common with the political outlook of Reince Priebus.
As with Ryan, however, I have always respected him as someone able, prepared and willing, ultimately, to 'broker' a deal in the interests of the country above the Party.
Trump's dumping of Priebus (if it happens tomorrow, Monday*) is probably the last signal Ryan needs to tell him that it's time to 'retire' from the House and focus on where his real political base is - in the community.

Even if Priebus stays on to act as 'go-between' I still maintain that Ryan cannot outlive a Trump administration - intact.


update for Sunday 13th November

*On Sunday evening (EST) it was announced that Priebus will take on the job as White House Chief Of Staff  to President Trump.

Cruel Intentions
President Trump would like to divide the globe between the United States, China and Russia - and the rest of us can go to hell if we don't like the arrangements.
He has grossly miscalculated the perceptions of Russia and China. 
The United States, far from benefiting, will pay a very heavy price for this miscalculation.
Ultimately, the planet is not big enough for 3 superpowers to happily co-exist.
[China and Russia will no doubt also have taken note of how Trump deals with perceived weakness.]

[It is at historic moments such as this that Britain should very carefully reflect on whether leaving the single Common Market, The European Union, is really such a good idea after all.  The United Kingdom now has a choice between being a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a bigger and most uncertain ocean.
The key issues for Britain are sovereignty, immigration, taxation,  and preferential tariffs. 
Given the changed circumstances, The EU is most unwise to show no flexibility to the United Kingdom in these regards.]
 end of update



At The Crossroads 
As Trump will be building and consolidating his own 'movement' over the next four years, there will be a huge alienated base of White Republicans, Hispanics, Blacks, Latinos and ordinary (non-partisan) voters to be tapped into and organized as part of the new Republican coalition.
There are many senior Republicans (and former Presidents) just waiting for leadership - and Ryan has both the energy and the time to solidify this new base, should he choose this road to go down.

This all assumes that Ryan is smart enough to get out before Trump attempts to use his 'bottom of the barrel' contacts to discover some way to 'blackmail' him with some or other 'indiscretion', personal failing or political 'errors of judgement' and, as with Clinton, scuttle forever his chances of ever making it to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

[Clinton was right on the money about Trump's character - but sadly she will not be remembered for this.  It is reported that Trump is already discussing appointing military commanders who have very strong personal relationships with the Kremlin.  Because of this, there may well be new political relationships of old foes, forged out of necessity, on Capitol Hill.  Watch that space.] 

Castles Of  Sand
An interesting issue will be will if Trump's 'empire' survives.  I would anticipate home grown 'terrorist' bomb attacks, fake threats, sieges and everything else you can imagine on anything domestically and abroad which has the name of  'Trump'  associated with it.
Even Rudy Giuliani's cracking down on the mainstream U.S. media as 'sponsors of terrorism' will not be able to prevent  news of such national and international events leaking out and being relayed to the world public (see my earlier blog about what if Trump became President.)


Night Of The Long Knives 
[Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes]
 
As with The Fuhrer, Trump will begin by saying what a fantastic job they are all doing and what great admiration and respect he has for them all.
Trump will of course blame a national and international 'conspiracy' - as did Adolf Hitler - to 'purge' the CIA, the NSA and the Pentagon (with 'popular' approval after he has purged a compliant media into place - not too difficult with the 98% oligarch-owned of all mainstream U.S. media outlets.)

Will Trump succeed?  I certainly hope not.

They say that there were secret 'conspiracies' with political agendas (and much to be gained) against Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama to derail their policies and rubbish their legacies.
In Trump's particular case, there will be individuals and groups by the hundreds (if not thousands) lining up in public, in lines going all around the block,  just to sign up somewhere, to do the job for free - not even a 'thanks' required.   


©Patrick Emek, November 2016





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Paul Ryan's Last Stand:
Reince Priebus

I have never had too much in common with the political outlook of Reince Priebus.
As with Ryan, however, I have always respected him as someone able, prepared and willing, ultimately, to 'broker' a deal in the interests of the country above the Party.
Trump's dumping of Priebus (if it happens tomorrow, Monday*) is probably the last signal Ryan needs to tell him that it's time to 'retire' from the House and focus on where his real political base is - in the community.

Even if Priebus stays on to act as 'go-between' I still maintain that Ryan cannot outlive a Trump administration - intact.


update for Sunday 13th November

*On Sunday evening (EST) it was announced that Priebus will take on the job as White House Chief Of Staff  to President Trump.

Cruel Intentions
President Trump would like to divide the globe between the United States, China and Russia - and the rest of us can go to hell if we don't like the arrangements.
He has grossly miscalculated the perceptions of Russia and China. 
The United States, far from benefiting, will pay a very heavy price for this miscalculation.
Ultimately, the planet is not big enough for 3 superpowers to happily co-exist.
[China and Russia will no doubt also have taken note of how Trump deals with perceived weakness.]

[It is at historic moments such as this that Britain should very carefully reflect on whether leaving the single Common Market, The European Union, is really such a good idea after all.  The United Kingdom now has a choice between being a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a bigger and most uncertain ocean.
The key issues for Britain are sovereignty, immigration, taxation,  and preferential tariffs. 
Given the changed circumstances, The EU is most unwise to show no flexibility to the United Kingdom in these regards.]
 
 end of update



At The Crossroads 
As Trump will be building and consolidating his own 'movement' over the next four years, there will be a huge alienated base of White Republicans, Hispanics, Blacks, Latinos and ordinary (non-partisan) voters to be tapped into and organized as part of the new Republican coalition.
There are many senior Republicans (and former Presidents) just waiting for leadership - and Ryan has both the energy and the time to solidify this new base, should he choose this road to go down.

This all assumes that Ryan is smart enough to get out before Trump attempts to use his 'bottom of the barrel' contacts to discover some way to 'blackmail' him with some or other 'indiscretion', personal failing or political 'errors of judgement' and, as with Clinton, scuttle forever his chances of ever making it to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

[Clinton was right on the money about Trump's character - but sadly she will not be remembered for this.  It is reported that Trump is already discussing appointing military commanders who have very strong personal relationships with the Kremlin.  Because of this, there may well be new political relationships of old foes, forged out of necessity, on Capitol Hill.  Watch that space.] 

Castles Of  Sand
An interesting issue will be will if Trump's 'empire' survives.  I would anticipate home grown 'terrorist' bomb attacks, fake threats, sieges and everything else you can imagine on anything domestically and abroad which has the name of  'Trump'  associated with it.
Even Rudy Giuliani's cracking down on the mainstream U.S. media as 'sponsors of terrorism' will not be able to prevent  news of such national and international events leaking out and being relayed to the world public (see my earlier blog about what if Trump became President.)


Night Of The Long Knives 
[Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes]
 
As with The Fuhrer, Trump will begin by saying what a fantastic job they are all doing and what great admiration and respect he has for them all.
Trump will of course blame a national and international 'conspiracy' - as did Adolf Hitler - to 'purge' the CIA, the NSA and the Pentagon (with 'popular' approval after he has purged a compliant media into place - not too difficult with the 98% oligarch-owned of all mainstream U.S. media outlets.)

Will Trump succeed?  I certainly hope not.

They say that there were secret 'conspiracies' with political agendas (and much to be gained) against Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama to derail their policies and rubbish their legacies.
In Trump's particular case, there will be individuals and groups by the hundreds (if not thousands) lining up in public, in lines going all around the block,  just to sign up somewhere, to do the job for free - not even a 'thanks' required.   


©Patrick Emek, November 2016





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Friday 11 November 2016

This Is Not America 
 Betrayal Of The Ukraine
 (A Personal Opinion)

[the edited version - reblogged due to popular reading - thanks for your interest.
Please note that the Section about 'Doctor Fausto' is not to be literally interpreted!]

A Precious Gift - Only Missed When It Is Taken Away
Many years ago when I was younger, I was invited to join Peace Through NATO. This later became The Atlantic Council.
It was a relief and joy to be actively supporting and working with others who shared similar beliefs that one day the people under Soviet rule in Eastern Europe would have the freedom to choose their own governments and have the right to free speech.
You only appreciate how precious the right to vote into office a government of your own choice when this freedom does not exist and you are forced to see the same politicians on the state-controlled media outlets - on billboards, on television and on radio - for decades.
The years went by and we never thought that one day, almost without warning, the walls of despair would be torn down and the light of freedom and democracy shine through. It was an awesome sight.
But I never forgot the imprinted pictures of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice - scaling the walls, running across the mined landfills, and whose place of final abode was dying from shots fired from high tower outpost gunshots between 'no mans land', their last thoughts unknown as they lay in pools of blood, never having reached the promised land.

'Betrayal' Is The New Business Model
Mr Donald Trump, President-elect of the United States is a business man.  Admired in Moscow because he sees everything in dollars and roubles.
''A man Moscow can do business with'' says President Putin.
It reminds me of the Stalinist era when 'Uncle Joe'  and Neville Chamberlain were both only too happy to do the business with The Fuhrer - at the expense of Poland.  And look where that appeasement led.

Pact With The Devil
The American electorate have made a fatal choice in electing Donald Trump as their next President.  They say people get the government they deserve.  This could not be further from the truth in this particular instance.
The day after the U.S. general election I watched corporate news networks: CNN, Putin's Russia Today, Fox, Sky Television and The BBC.   All networks hid from  their local audiences and from the world the many demonstrations across the United States which universally read 'TRUMP!' ' NOT MY PRESIDENT!'  As in prewar Germany you required access to foreign media outlets to know that this was happening across America the day after Donald Trump was elected.
(NPR was the exception - and I acknowledge this in my reference below.  Sadly NPR, as one of the few  'libertarian' networks in the United States, will be a major target for censorship or propaganda 'reprograming' during the Trump era.)
Only when U.S. mainstream media realized 'the world was watching' did they broadcast part of the truth about such widespread  demonstrations across America.
To date there have been no deaths of peaceful unarmed protesters - but expect this to change when Donald Trump assumes the office of President of The United States next January.
During his presidency, there will be as many martyrs for freedom and justice across America in these coming years of darkness over America as there are for justice in the Ukraine today.   

Suspension Of Civil Liberties:
Prepare For This Change Now -  Before President Obama Leaves Office In January
As in pre-World War II Germany, expect the new Homeland Security Chief to quietly suspend civil liberties - especially new restrictions on the media and internet - all silently unreported by the mainstream U.S. media - which is why I have always told you, prepare for your ability to mass communicate across the web and alternative structures now - before they too are restricted by tyrants and demagogues.
[Remember you will never know the U.S. media has been gagged by the Trump administration - since the 'gagging order' will forbid them from ever telling you they have been silenced - on pain of losing their licence to broadcast.]
It will all be packaged up as 'the war against extremism' and sold to the brainwashed and gullible as part of the 'sacrifices' which you must make to guarantee your personal liberty and freedom for the continuity of democracy. Nothing will be further from the truth.
But again, the Great Communicator will have fooled (or cowed or bullied into silence) all those acolytes and followers of the New Order or 'movement' (as he himself calls it) into docile subservience.

 No Friend Of Ours!
These are the real reasons educated U.S. politicians, diplomats (and former Presidents) have all distanced themselves - out of in sheer horror - from Mr Donald Trump.
They know what he is, what his intentions are, and what his final legacy will be when America re-emerges from the darkness - and they want no part of it.


Fool Me Twice.............
This is what happens when democracy is fooled and allows ISIS (or other fanatics) to stand as candidates and then be democratically elected into power in open societies.
What happened in the United States two days ago should serve as a beacon on the headland, a warning to steer clear of  the wrecking pirates rocks of democracy - where naive ships, drunken pilots at the helm, and crew, all perish, their ships and cargoes laying scuttled, beached and rusted, on a desolate skeleton coast, where their very bones are parched and bleached by the relentless sun and searing sands.

A 'Free and Fair Election' Says The Mainstream Media
'A Free and Fair Election' Says 'Russia Today' Television Network - run and controlled by President Putin, lock stock and two smoking barrels.
They say it was a 'free and fair' election.   Who says?  CNN, CNBC, Fox and Russia Today television stations.  These same media outposts owned by oligarchs whose only objective is to serve their respective political masters.
They allowed one candidate to scream nightly across mainstream media to tens of millions of viewers of this Reality TV show: 'Oh Lying Hillary' 'Jail Her' shouts and screams of 'Kill Her' 'Drain The Cesspit!' could be heard from the rabble used by America's first Fuhrer to assume democratic office.
(Trump is America's first but, be assured, his fanatics in political office will guarantee that he will not be it's last - but the first of many to come.)

'JEW-S-A!'  'JEW-S-A' (Shouts on Mainstream TV From A Typical Donald Trump Supporter During the Presidential Election Campaign)
Don't be fooled when he (Trump) tells you he has Jewish relatives - so too did the Fuhrer (Adolf Hitler) [carefully read the reference sections in my earlier blogs.]
You also heard the shouts of 'JEW-S-A' from one particular anti-Semitic supporter of President-elect Trump. Such are not the 'one-off' - but are symptomatic and now mainstream  - and such thinking will be running all branches of  the United States government from January 2017.  Prepare now for this 'celebration' of democracy - if you dare.
Expect more of such in the future from Mr Trump's 'baskets of deplorables' (to properly quote Hillary Clinton or 'the movement', to quote Mr Trump)
[I already told you in earlier blogs that the Fuhrer favored the creation of Israel as a homeland for the European Jews - and only (reluctantly) abandoned these plans because of fierce opposition by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem at that time.
If you read back, you will find that I told you of Zionist Jews only too happy to cooperate with the Nazis in Germany and across Europe between 1939 and 1945. You will find such individuals in the United States today.  Like Trump, their bottom line is business and survival - and not human dignity.
They will laud Mr Trump for his support for Israel  and, in exchange, will agree to stay silent as he and his supporters 'crucify' Muslims  across the United States.   Such ignorance will fail to appreciate that they too are on the same list of 'deplorables' by 'the movement' - but not the immediate priority for a pogrom.]


Is it any wonder that half of the population of America was mesmerized and brainwashed into hating Hillary Clinton?
 As in pre-World War II, Germany, the armed forces of the United States are disciplined, so do not expect a military coup.  What good would it do in any event?  Half the American population have either been brainwashed into believing Hillary Clinton is dishonest and the embellishment of evil incarnate and Donald Trump is truthful and good (the Presidential campaign was portrayed as a battle between 'good and evil' by mainstream propaganda media outlets - all going along for the ride - and for ratings) or simply voted for hate instead of love.   
[Who says that evil will not ultimately triumph on this planet of primitives?]

The Munich Pact - History Repeating
NATO will follow the instructions of its new Commander-In-Chief, President Trump, in January 2017, and find ways and means to cast the Ukraine and its people adrift.
Of course it will not be portrayed in the media this way - but you know already what will happen.
(Maybe even investment in the Ukraine by U.S. companies - ultimately to be taken over (sold) to Russian oligarchs : '' there are many different ways to skin a rabbit'' a businessman might say.
 New orders will be given to NATO worldwide to 'co-operate' with Moscow - at the expense of the liberties and freedoms of those of lesser economic value - from the Baltic States to Taiwan and South Korea across the Pacific and back to the Atlantic.

Or, as Churchill said
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”

'Peace In Our Time' will be the new slogan as the lives and liberties and true democratic values of people worldwide are signed off  in the blood of martyrs.

'Peace For Our Time!'
Who can ever forget the joy of the British people and the Empire when Neville Chamberlain arrived back in England from Munich in 1938 - to loud acclaim as he declares in his hand the signature of Herr Hitler and himself, on paper, to guarantee peace across Europe and the British Empire?  Nobody in Great Britain wanted to listen to calls of 'blood, sweat and toil' and pictures of a very dark and very different future ahead - than the one painted by Chamberlain and the mainstream media of the day - all sceptics and critics are banished to the back benches - as Chamberlain is lifted sky-high by over-joyous crowds to 'hip-hip-hip hooray!' and  'for he's a jolly good fellow!'  - and lauded as the savior of Albion and of The Empire.  [I always wondered what Winston Churchill felt and thought as he read through such nonsense in The Times of  London.]
We are talking about proud people, the Poles, being brought to their knees, dragged kicking and screaming into the darkness of bondage and servitude - and all for political expediency and business interests where money and not people are the true gods.  A world where Mammon has replaced God and is the only real objective worth living for.

Like all peoples whose liberties and freedoms have been removed, the Ukrainian people will fight back.  They will not go gently into the night.

They opposed Soviet exploitation during the 1920s and 1930s and will now do so yet again - this time against the Russian Federation.

The 'Evil' Muslim 
Trump is far too clever to 'play the Jewish card' too heavily and negatively - at this moment in time - in the United States.  Muslims, however, are in a weaker political and financial situation.
What I say to fellow-Christians, Jews, Buddhists and atheists alike, be prepared to stand up and defend the rights and liberties and safety of your (fellow citizen) brother and sister Muslims in the United States and in Europe as hate-filled propaganda fills the airwaves and brainwashes people to commit evil acts.
I especially appeal to those of you who have no love for Islam nor for Muslims.  Even if this is at the cost of your own life or liberty.
Some day, perhaps, they will repay the favor by standing with you and your family in your hour of testing and of need.
Do not let hatred and evil triumph your soul nor sell it to evil for temporal rewards in these coming years of darkness.
This could well be your moment of truth.   (Maybe this is even why you are really here?)  Your time to choose between good and evil.  You may not get another opportunity in the here and now.
Americans have made their choice.  Now it's your turn.

Doctor Fausto
(Metaphorically Speaking - Do Not Literally Interpret This Section - But Senator Clinton is Unlikely To Be Taking On Mr Trump Publicly in The Future for Reasons Other Than She  Accepts The Results Of The Democratic Process and More Related to the Scandals Which President Trump's 'Team' Would  No Doubt Disinter - Should She Become 'A Trouble Maker' - But Is This Real 'Democracy' and Transparency - Or Something Else?
You are likely to find President Trump the Least Transparent and Least Democratic of all the U.S. Presidents ever elected into Office.   Now read on.)

Already, it is said, Mr Trump intends to offer Hillary Clinton (and her family) a deal - a way out - should she care to take it.
To paraphrase: '' I'll call off my packs of wolves (Congress, 'the movement', and the subservient mainstream media) from tearing you and your family apart if you stay silent while I run the country.''   It's a 'take it or leave it' businessman's offer.  ''Either take your chances when I already have my packs of  starving (fanatical supporters) wolves - and the media to booth - from here to Moscow - all drooling and foaming at the mouths for your blood, for the heads of you, your husband, your daughter, her husband and family, all to be served and delivered on a silver platter  in the Amphitheatre of Public Reality TV entertainment for the masses - and where I guarantee the most intimate aspects of your private life and that of your husband from your idle teenage years, all will be exposed on national and international TV -  and whats left over after that, fed, in neatly cut up pieces of juicy meat (news), to the gossip press Rottweilers for their further wild speculation and titillated amusement - or sign my pact in blood to not oppose me and I will let you, your family and your foundation survive politically and financially - for the moment - and at my sole discretion.''

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To the Ukrainian People
Neither be fooled by accepting 'offers' from those who appear to be friends bearing 'gifts'.
Like the Wooden Horse of Troy, there are (and will be) many ways to destroy the Ukraine and again enslave its people in the process.


In Conclusion

As the world of  Mammon disguised as God replaces light for darkness is there any hope of salvation where religion itself has sold its very soul for less than thirty pieces of silver?


As history repeats will we ever learn from our mistakes?

Is this 'the ultimate' 'democracy' has to offer?; yet another Hell with Lucifer playing the role of God?

Is so primitive a species even worth the effort?

Will we ever get to the Promised Land?
[Only if you have an inter-galactic spaceship I fear.]


©Patrick Emek, November 2016


 in memory of Elma






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dhPyipbnMs

http://www.vox.com/2016/11/9/13581078/trump-victory-protests


 http://www.npr.org/2016/03/11/470154065/donald-trump-rally-in-chicago-canceled-amid-widespread-protests
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/11/470154065/donald-trump-rally-in-chicago-canceled-amid-widespread-protests

http://history1900s.about.com/od/churchillwinston/a/Iron-Curtain.htm
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”



http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-delivers-iron-curtain-speech 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bddFvkvexYo 

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What You Should Know About The Ukraine

1.Where Is the Ukraine? (see the reference section)

2.Until the collapse of the Soviet Union The Ukraine possessed the third largest number of nuclear weapons in the world (over 2,200 by some estimates.)
3. By international agreement, the new government of the Ukraine in 1994 signed what is known as 'The Budapest Memorandum' surrendering all of it's nuclear arsenal in exchange for an international guarantee of sovereignty by Russia and the United States.
(The United Kingdom was a guarantor party to this Treaty.)
Fact 1
It was never established whether the entire nuclear program was completely dismantled in the Ukraine.
Fact 2
Several 'sting' operations managed to retrieve 'missing' nuclear fissile material from being sold on the black market originating from Ukraine.
This in itself suggests that there was (and still is?) unaccounted fissile material stockpiled somewhere in the Ukraine to this very day.
Most experts suggest that the above statement is 'nonsense' - but it is these same 'experts' who have been advising on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East for over two decades - and look at the chaos it is in.

'Chaos' Is The Name Of The Game
Some countries  in the world have had disastrous foreign policies which have created more regional instability than stability, growth and regional economic prosperity. In the Middle East in particular this would include Israel and Saudi Arabia.  [You do not have to be an expert to look at the chaos which this has caused to both of them - regionally and internationally.]
The Ukraine likewise has had a dysfunctional foreign policy  because of its relationship (or estrangement) with it's closest trading neighbor - The Russian Federation.
It was key decisions by the European Union and not the United States which added to this fractious state of affairs (see earlier blogs about The Ukraine.)
Likewise in the Middle East.  I have said repeatedly that U.S. foreign policy over the past decades has been a disaster.
You may very well be puzzled and ask why I am not a Trump supporter for this very reason alone.
The answer I can summarize in a nutshell.
Donald Trump is an ignorant, bigoted individual who over a period of forty years has shown himself to be incapable even of promoting good race relations at home in New York - let alone be able to deal with a complex world where bigotry, racism and tribalisms abound. President Trump may very well find 'a home' in the company of such individuals in Africa and the Middle East sharing similar values of tribe and race - but this is not the same as being able to solve their complex racial, tribal and religious divides which, in certain regions such as The Ukraine, are pushing the world towards all out nuclear wars.
[I have never met anyone in my lifetime ticking both boxes who has brought about harmony between disparate partisan groups.  
We usually surround ourselves with like-thinking individuals and be assured those President Trump will appoint will be no different - creating chaos on the home front (the racial, economic and class divides in the United States) and internationally - in the Middle East, the Baltic States and Eastern Europe.]

Insignificant Little Pygmies [To Use Trump's  Private Informal Language]
President Trump will make it quite clear that he will not 'go to war' over insignificant little 'economic pygmies' (I am using his own private racial slants) such as Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania - let alone The Ukraine.
Thankfully, my school gave me a better history education and, as I recall, it was that  'insignificant economic pygmy' - Serbia - which triggered World War I and the deaths of millions.
(an estimated 17 million dead and twenty million wounded to be more precise.)  (My grandfather was fortunate to have survived the Great War.)
President Trump will (as do all politicians) surround himself with an ignorant bunch of like-thinking and like-minded individuals who, by their very nature and instincts, will move the hands of the clock closer to midnight.
[You do not need to be Albert Einstein to see this state of affairs coming over the hedge.  The important question now, is, how close do you want to be when the mountains of  s*it hit the fan from all directions.  This is why I supported Hillary Clinton, warts and all.]
Bibi Netanyahu has publicly 'endorsed' President elect Trump as 'a great friend of Israel' - so you can already kiss goodbye to peace between Arab and Jew, Shia and Sunni, in the region for at least the next four years [I could be more sarcastic and say for at least the next four thousand years - but I won't be (!)]

If you factor in Trump's character and his disdain for 'Arabs', 'Muslims' and (what appear to be) 'Oriental' peoples, I really don't see anything but 'the darkness' I have already predicted for (at least) the next four years on both the home front and internationally.

Back To The Ukraine
The greatest immediate threat to world stability today is not the Middle East, not Africa, not ISIS, not Al Qaeda, not Iran, but the Ukraine.
It is not a foregone conclusion that there are no 'missing' nukes - as obsolete as they may be.
There are certainly no 'missing' nuclear scientists but there are many individuals in the Muslim world whose countries are in chaos, thanks to U.S. and Russian foreign policies, who would jump at the opportunity to 'assist' the Ukraine (and other countries) to rebuild its nuclear 'know-how'.
[read the history of how Pakistan acquired its first nuclear bomb.]

Leaving the Ukraine....
The Bigger Picture
Yes a number of nuclear scientists working on programs at home and overseas (especially in Iran) have been assassinated (reportedly by Mossad on behalf of the government of the United States) during the Obama administration years and it is likely that clandestine warfare will intensify under President Trump.  The critical question is: will assassinations and 'bombing the crap out of them' solve the world's problems and add to peace and security?
The last U.S. presidents to engage in such intense clandestine warfare as we are about to see were John F. Kennedy, LBJ and President Nixon.
The existing state of the world - a product of previous decades of both the Monroe Doctrine and aggressive U.S. foreign policy interventions and blunders - would suggest that such clandestine operations were ultimately foreign policy failures.
(Arguments will be made that assassinations and military invasions have kept the world safer from nuclear Armageddon for decades.
I would ask you a very simple question: Do you personally feel that you are living in a safer world or safer local environment today than your parents or grandparents were?  If your answer is 'no' then why assume the rest of the globe is any different?)

And The Winners Of The U.S. Presidential Election... are.....China and Russia (!)
Which is why I have also factored in China as a 'big winner' during the forthcoming Trump years of foreign policy and economic blunders as he attempts to impose American economic doctrines in regions which already distrust America and its ultimate intentions.
Interventions (or blitzkriegs) and clandestine warfare and assassinations - especially in Africa, the Middle East, Syria and Iran are unlikely to produce anything other than unintended adverse consequences.
Again just to reiterate, 'open' 'endorsement' of Trump by Bibi Netanyahu at such a sensitive time in the region is, literally, 'the kiss of death' to U.S. (and Israeli) peace hopes in the region for at least the next four years - despite all the weapons, firepower clandestine operations and U.S. financial aid President Trump will no doubt pour into the region.

Groundhog Day
Ireland (North and South) has been, both metaphorically and sometimes literally, the graveyard for centuries, of generations of British politicians. The same is true for U.S. politicians in the Middle East.   President Trump will fare no different.
The difference is that Britain and its politicians have learned from their mistakes over the centuries.
American politicians, however, are destined to 'groundhog day' for forever and a day.


©Patrick Emek, November 2016

References

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

Nuclear weapons at a glance:who has them and how many?
https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat

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

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

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

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

 http://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/radioactive-waste-and-spent-nuclear-fuel/2009-04-three-arrested-for-trying-to-sell-nuclear-materials-in-ukrainian-sting-operation


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/top-ten-cases-of-nuclear-thefts-gone-wrong-10854803/?no-ist

 https://nuclear-news.net/category/2-world/europe/ukraine/

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

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

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

 http://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/radioactive-waste-and-spent-nuclear-fuel/2009-04-three-arrested-for-trying-to-sell-nuclear-materials-in-ukrainian-sting-operation


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/top-ten-cases-of-nuclear-thefts-gone-wrong-10854803/?no-ist

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What You Should Know About The Ukraine

1.Where Is the Ukraine? (see the reference section)

2.Until the collapse of the Soviet Union The Ukraine possessed the third largest number of nuclear weapons in the world (over 2,200 by some estimates.)
3. By international agreement, the new government of the Ukraine in 1994 signed what is known as 'The Budapest Memorandum' surrendering all of it's nuclear arsenal in exchange for an international guarantee of sovereignty by Russia and the United States.
(The United Kingdom was a guarantor party to this Treaty.)
Fact 1
It was never established whether the entire nuclear program was completely dismantled in the Ukraine.
Fact 2
Several 'sting' operations managed to retrieve 'missing' nuclear fissile material from being sold on the black market originating from Ukraine.
This in itself suggests that there was (and still is?) unaccounted fissile material stockpiled somewhere in the Ukraine to this very day.
Most experts suggest that the above statement is 'nonsense' - but it is these same 'experts' who have been advising on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East for over two decades - and look at the chaos it is in.

'Chaos' Is The Name Of The Game
Some countries  in the world have had disastrous foreign policies which have created more regional instability than stability, growth and regional economic prosperity. In the Middle East in particular this would include Israel and Saudi Arabia.  [You do not have to be an expert to look at the chaos which this has caused to both of them - regionally and internationally.]
The Ukraine likewise has had a dysfunctional foreign policy  because of its relationship (or estrangement) with it's closest trading neighbor - The Russian Federation.
It was key decisions by the European Union and not the United States which added to this fractious state of affairs (see earlier blogs about The Ukraine.)
Likewise in the Middle East.  I have said repeatedly that U.S. foreign policy over the past decades has been a disaster.
You may very well be puzzled and ask why I am not a Trump supporter for this very reason alone.
The answer I can summarize in a nutshell.
Donald Trump is an ignorant, bigoted individual who over a period of forty years has shown himself to be incapable even of promoting good race relations at home in New York - let alone be able to deal with a complex world where bigotry, racism and tribalisms all abound. President Trump may very well find 'a home' in the company of such individuals in Africa and the Middle East sharing similar values of tribe and race - but this is not the same as being able to solve their complex racial, tribal and religious divides which, in certain regions such as The Ukraine, are pushing the world towards all out nuclear wars.
[I have never met anyone in my lifetime ticking both boxes who has brought about harmony between disparate partisan groups.  
We usually surround ourselves with like-thinking individuals and be assured those President Trump will appoint will be no different - creating chaos on the home front (the racial, economic and class divides in the United States) and internationally - in the Middle East, the Baltic States and Eastern Europe.]

Insignificant Little Pygmies [To Use Trump's  Private Informal Language]
President Trump will make it quite clear that he will not 'go to war' over insignificant little 'economic pygmies' (I am using his own private racial slants) such as Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania - let alone The Ukraine.
Thankfully, my school gave me a better history education and, as I recall, it was that  'insignificant economic pygmy' - Serbia - which triggered World War I and the deaths of millions.
(an estimated 17 million dead and twenty million wounded to be more precise.)  (My grandfather was fortunate to have survived the Great War.)
President Trump will (as do all politicians) surround himself with an ignorant bunch of like-thinking and like-minded individuals who, by their very nature and instincts, will move the hands of the clock closer to midnight.
[You do not need to be Albert Einstein to see this state of affairs coming over the hedge.  The important question now, is, how close do you want to be when the mountains of  s*it hit the fan from all directions.  This is why I supported Hillary Clinton, warts and all.]
Bibi Netanyahu has publicly 'endorsed' President elect Trump as 'a great friend of Israel' - so you can already kiss goodbye to peace between Arab and Jew, Shia and Sunni, in the region for at least the next four years [I could be more sarcastic and say for at least the next four thousand years - but I won't be (!)]

If you factor in Trump's character and his disdain for 'Arabs', 'Muslims' and (what appear to be) 'Oriental' peoples, I really don't see anything but 'the darkness' I have already predicted for (at least) the next four years on both the home front and internationally.

Back To The Ukraine
The greatest immediate threat to world stability today is not the Middle East, not Africa, not ISIS, not Al Qaeda, not Iran, but the Ukraine.
It is not a foregone conclusion that there are no 'missing' nukes - as obsolete as they may be.
There are certainly no 'missing' nuclear scientists but there are many individuals in the Muslim world whose countries are in chaos, thanks to U.S. and Russian foreign policies, who would jump at the opportunity to 'assist' the Ukraine (and other countries) to rebuild its nuclear 'know-how'.
[read the history of how Pakistan acquired its first nuclear bomb.]

Leaving the Ukraine....
The Bigger Picture
Yes a number of nuclear scientists working on programs at home and overseas (especially in Iran) have been assassinated (reportedly by Mossad on behalf of the government of the United States) during the Obama administration years and it is likely that clandestine warfare will intensify under President Trump.  The critical question is: will assassinations and 'bombing the crap out of them' solve the world's problems and add to peace and security?
The last U.S. presidents to engage in such intense clandestine warfare as we are about to see were John F. Kennedy, LBJ and President Nixon.
The existing state of the world - a product of previous decades of both the Monroe Doctrine and aggressive U.S. foreign policy interventions and blunders - would suggest that such clandestine operations were ultimately foreign policy failures.
(Arguments will be made that assassinations and military invasions have kept the world safer from nuclear Armageddon for decades.
I would ask you a very simple question: Do you personally feel that you are living in a safer world or safer local environment today than your parents or grandparents were?  If your answer is 'no' then why assume the rest of the globe is any different?)

And The Winners Of The U.S. Presidential Election... are.....China and Russia (!)
Which is why I have also factored in China as a 'big winner' during the forthcoming Trump years of foreign policy and economic blunders as he attempts to impose American economic doctrines in regions which already distrust America and its ultimate intentions.
Interventions (or blitzkriegs) and clandestine warfare and assassinations - especially in Africa, the Middle East, Syria and Iran are unlikely to produce anything other than unintended adverse consequences.
Again just to reiterate, 'open' 'endorsement' of Trump by Bibi Netanyahu at such a sensitive time in the region is, literally, 'the kiss of death' to U.S. (and Israeli) peace hopes in the region for at least the next four years - despite all the weapons, firepower clandestine operations and U.S. financial aid President Trump will no doubt pour into the region.

Groundhog Day
Ireland (North and South) has been, both metaphorically and sometimes literally, the graveyard for centuries, of generations of British politicians. The same is true for U.S. politicians in the Middle East.   President Trump will fare no different.
The difference is that Britain and its politicians have learned from their mistakes over the centuries.
American politicians, however, are destined to 'groundhog day' for forever and a day.


©Patrick Emek, November 2016




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Thursday 10 November 2016


How Americans Voted By Religion


 The 2016 U.S. General Election
The statistics below give an initial breakdown of how Americans voted by religion.

What the statistics do not tell you is that the ultra-Far Right voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump - but others within this group will say they regarded both candidates as 'illegitimate' - for very different reasons.

This group is not included in the statistics of Pew Research so why they supported Trump is given in a separate reference below.

Widespread Rage
With widespread demonstrations across the nation at the election outcome results and Trump's abysmal record on race relations over a period of nearly forty years, it is only a matter of time before civil unrest by disenfranchised minorities - completely alienated from the Trump administration -  plagues the Trump Presidency for the next four years - with the death count of Black, White and Hispanic-Latino protesters likely to be very substantial after President Trump assumes Office in January and commences the process of enforcing law and order against peaceful protesters opposed to his Presidency, across America.

Hispanic Rage
I do not even want to speculate about anger, rage and revolutions in the American Hispanic and Latino communities and in the Hispanic and Latin world, worldwide, if and when President Trump commences his Hispanic 'rounding them up' - breaking up families and the profiling of Mexican and other immigrants (similar to the Jews being required to wear Stars Of David prior to their deportations to concentration camps in Nazi Germany) before their 'processing' and enforced mass deportations across the Rio Grande.

And What About The U.S. Mainstream Media?
Don't expect your compliant mass mainstream media to cover these distressing events - until the international media and world opprobrium shames them into so doing.

[Sounds like a bumpy road ahead for President-elect Trump and, as Hillary Clinton quite rightly pointed out, all his actions will add fuel not water to all the fires both at home and overseas  - truly bonfires of vanities.]


©Patrick Emek, November 2016




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Wednesday 9 November 2016

This Is Not America 
 Betrayal Of The Ukraine
 (A Personal Opinion)

[the edited version]
A Precious Gift - Only Missed When It Is Taken Away
Many years ago when I was younger, I was invited to join Peace Through NATO. This later became The Atlantic Council.
It was a relief and joy to be actively supporting and working with others who shared similar beliefs that one day the people under Soviet rule in Eastern Europe would have the freedom to choose their own governments and have the right to free speech.
You only appreciate how precious the right to vote into office a government of your own choice when this freedom does not exist and you are forced to see the same politicians on the state-controlled media outlets - on billboards, on television and on radio - for decades.
The years went by and we never thought that one day, almost without warning, the walls of despair would be torn down and the light of freedom and democracy shine through. It was an awesome sight.
But I never forgot the imprinted pictures of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice - scaling the walls, running across the mined landfills, and whose place of final abode was dying from shots fired from high tower outpost gunshots between 'no mans land', their last thoughts unknown as they lay in pools of blood, never having reached the promised land.

'Betrayal' Is The New Business Model
Mr Donald Trump, President-elect of the United States is a business man.  Admired in Moscow because he sees everything in dollars and roubles.
''A man Moscow can do business with'' says President Putin.
It reminds me of the Stalinist era when 'Uncle Joe'  and Neville Chamberlain were both only too happy to do the business with The Fuhrer - at the expense of Poland.  And look where that appeasement led.

Pact With The Devil
The American electorate have made a fatal choice in electing Donald Trump as their next President.  They say people get the government they deserve.  This could not be further from the truth in this particular instance.
The day after the U.S. general election I watched corporate news networks: CNN, Putin's Russia Today, Fox, Sky Television and The BBC.   All networks hid from  their local audiences and from the world the many demonstrations across the United States which universally read 'TRUMP!' ' NOT MY PRESIDENT!'  As in pre-war Germany you required access to foreign media outlets to know that this was happening across America the day after Donald Trump was elected.
(NPR was the exception - and I acknowledge this in my reference below.  Sadly NPR, as one of the few  'libertarian' networks in the United States, will be a major target for censorship or propaganda 'reprograming' during the Trump era.)
Only when U.S. mainstream media realised 'the world was watching' did they broadcast part of the truth about such widespread  demonstrations across America.
To date there have been no deaths of peaceful unarmed protesters - but expect this to change when Donald Trump assumes the office of President of The United States next January.
During his presidency, there will be as many martyrs for freedom and justice across America in these coming years of darkness over America as there are for justice in the Ukraine today.   

Suspension Of Civil Liberties:
Prepare For This Change Now -  Before President Obama Leaves Office In January
As in pre-World War II Germany, expect the new Homeland Security Chief to quietly suspend civil liberties - especially new restrictions on the media and internet - all silently unreported by the mainstream U.S. media - which is why I have always told you, prepare for your ability to mass communicate across the web and alternative structures now - before they too are restricted by tyrants and demagogues.
[Remember you will never know the U.S. media has been gagged by the Trump administration - since the 'gagging order' will forbid them from ever telling you they have been silenced - on pain of losing their licence to broadcast.]
It will all be packaged up as 'the war against extremism' and sold to the brainwashed and gullible as part of the 'sacrifices' which you must make to guarantee your personal liberty and freedom for the continuity of democracy. Nothing will be further from the truth.
But again, the Great Communicator will have fooled (or cowed or bullied into silence) all those acolytes and followers of the New Order or 'movement' (as he himself calls it) into docile subservience.

 No Friend Of Ours!
These are the real reasons educated U.S. politicians, diplomats (and former Presidents) have all distanced themselves - out of in sheer horror - from Mr Donald Trump.
They know what he is, what his intentions are, and what his final legacy will be when America re-emerges from the darkness - and they want no part of it.


Fool Me Twice.............
This is what happens when democracy is fooled and allows ISIS (or other fanatics) to stand as candidates and then be democratically elected into power in open societies.
What happened in the United States two days ago should serve as a beacon on the headland, a warning to steer clear of  the wrecking pirates rocks of democracy - where naive ships, drunken pilots at the helm, and crew, all perish, their ships and cargoes laying scuttled, beached and rusted, on a desolate skeleton coast, where their very bones are parched and bleached by the relentless sun and searing sands.

A 'Free and Fair Election' Says The Mainstream Media
'A Free and Fair Election' Says 'Russia Today' Television Network - run and controlled by President Putin, lock stock and two smoking barrels.
They say it was a 'free and fair' election.   Who says?  CNN, CNBC, Fox and Russia Today television stations.  These same media outposts owned by oligarchs whose only objective is to serve their respective political masters.
They allowed one candidate to scream nightly across mainstream media to tens of millions of viewers of this Reality TV show: 'Oh Lying Hillary' 'Jail Her' shouts and screams of 'Kill Her' 'Drain The Cesspit!' could be heard from the rabble used by America's first Fuhrer to assume democratic office.
(Trump is America's first but, be assured, his fanatics in political office will guarantee that he will not be it's last - but the first of many to come.)

'JEW-S-A!'  'JEW-S-A' (Shouts on Mainstream TV From A Typical Donald Trump Supporter During the Presidential Election Campaign)
Don't be fooled when he (Trump) tells you he has Jewish relatives - so too did the Fuhrer (Adolf Hitler) [carefully read the reference sections in my earlier blogs.]
You also heard the shouts of 'JEW-S-A' from one particular anti-Semitic supporters of President-elect Trump. Such are not the 'one-off' - but are symptomatic and now mainstream  - and such thinking will be running all branches of  the United States government from January 2017.  Prepare now for this 'celebration' of democracy - if you dare.
Expect more of such in the future from Mr Trump's 'baskets of deplorables' (to properly quote Hillary Clinton or 'the movement', to quote Mr Trump)
[I already told you in earlier blogs that the Fuhrer favored the creation of Israel as a homeland for the European Jews - and only (reluctantly) abandoned these plans because of fierce opposition by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem at that time.
If you read back, you will find that I told you of Zionist Jews only too happy to cooperate with the Nazis in Germany and across Europe between 1939 and 1945. You will find such individuals in the United States today. Like Trump, their bottom line is business and survival - and not human dignity.
They will laud Mr Trump for his support for Israel  and, in exchange, will agree to stay silent as he and his supporters 'crucify' Muslims  across the United States.   Such ignorance will fail to appreciate that they too are on the same list of 'deplorables' by 'the movement' - but not the immediate priority for a pogrom.]


Is it any wonder that half of the population of America was mesmerized and brainwashed into hating Hillary Clinton?
 As in pre-World War II, Germany, the armed forces of the United States are disciplined, so do not expect a military coup.  What good would it do in any event?  Half the American population have either been brainwashed into believing Hillary Clinton is dishonest and the embellishment of evil incarnate and Donald Trump is truthful and good (the Presidential campaign was portrayed as a battle between 'good and evil' by mainstream propaganda media outlets - all going along for the ride - and for ratings) or simply voted for hate instead of love.   
[Who says that evil will not ultimately triumph on this planet of primitives?]

The Munich Pact - History Repeating
NATO will follow the instructions of its new Commander-In-Chief, President Trump, in January 2017, and find ways and means to cast the Ukraine and its people adrift.
Of course it will not be portrayed in the media this way - but you know already what will happen.
(Maybe even investment in the Ukraine by U.S. companies - ultimately to be taken over (sold) to Russian oligarchs : '' there are many different ways to skin a rabbit'' a businessman might say.
 New orders will be given to NATO worldwide to 'co-operate' with Moscow - at the expense of the liberties and freedoms of those of lesser economic value - from the Baltic States to Taiwan and South Korea across the Pacific and back to the Atlantic.

Or, as Churchill said
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”

'Peace In Our Time' will be the new slogan as the lives and liberties and true democratic values of people worldwide are signed off  in the blood of martyrs.

'Peace For Our Time!'
Who can ever forget the joy of the British people and the Empire when Neville Chamberlain arrived back in England from Munich in 1938 - to loud acclaim as he declares in his hand the signature of Herr Hitler and himself, on paper, to guarantee peace across Europe and the British Empire?  Nobody in Great Britain wanted to listen to calls of 'blood, sweat and toil' and pictures of a very dark and very different future ahead - than the one painted by Chamberlain and the mainstream media of the day - all sceptics and critics are banished to the back benches - as Chamberlain is lifted sky-high by over-joyous crowds to 'hip-hip-hip hooray!' and  'for he's a jolly good fellow!'  - and lauded as the savior of Albion and of The Empire.  [I always wondered what Winston Churchill felt and thought as he read through such nonsense in The Times of  London.]
We are talking about proud people, the Poles, being brought to their knees, dragged kicking and screaming into the darkness of bondage and servitude - and all for political expediency and business interests where money and not people are the true gods.  A world where Mammon has replaced God and is the only real objective worth living for.

Like all peoples whose liberties and freedoms have been removed, the Ukrainian people will fight back.  They will not go gently into the night.

They opposed Soviet exploitation during the 1920s and 1930s and will now do so yet again - this time against the Russian Federation.

The 'Evil' Muslim 
Trump is far too clever to 'play the Jewish card' too heavily and negatively - at this moment in time - in the United States.  Muslims, however, are in a weaker political and financial situation.
What I say to fellow-Christians, Jews, Buddhists and atheists alike, be prepared to stand up and defend the rights and liberties and safety of your (fellow citizen) brother and sister Muslims in the United States and in Europe as hate-filled propaganda fills the airwaves and brainwashes people to commit evil acts.
I especially appeal to those of you who have no love for Islam nor for Muslims.  Even if this is at the cost of your own life or liberty.
Some day, perhaps, they will repay the favor by standing with you and your family in your hour of testing and of need.
Do not let hatred and evil triumph your soul nor sell it to evil for temporal rewards in these coming years of darkness.
This could well be your moment of truth.   (Maybe this is even why you are really here?)  Your time to choose between good and evil.  You may not get another opportunity in the here and now.
Americans have made their choice.  Now it's your turn.

Doctor Fausto
-Metaphorically Speaking - Do Not Literally Interpret This Section - But Senator Clinton is Unlikely To Be Taking On Mr Trump Publicly in The Future for Reasons Other Than She (Obviously) Accepts The Results Of The Democratic Process and More Related to the Scandals Which President Trump's 'Team' Would  No Doubt Disinter Should She Become 'A Trouble Maker' - But Is This Democracy Or Gangsterism?)
Already, it is said, Mr Trump intends to offer Hillary Clinton (and her family) a deal - a way out - should she care to take it.
To paraphrase: '' I'll call off my packs of wolves (Congress, 'the movement', and the subservient mainstream media) from tearing you and your family apart if you stay silent while I run the country.''   It's a 'take it or leave it' businessman's offer.  ''Either take your chances when I already have my packs of  starving (fanatical supporters) wolves - and the media to booth - from here to Moscow - all drooling and foaming at the mouths for your blood, for the heads of you, your husband, your daughter, her husband and family, all to be served and delivered on a silver platter  in the Amphitheatre of Public Reality TV entertainment for the masses - and where I guarantee the most intimate aspects of your private life and that of your husband from your idle teenage years, all will be exposed on national and international TV -  and whats left over after that, fed, in neatly cut up pieces of juicy meat (news), to the gossip press Rottweilers for their further wild speculation and titillated amusement - or sign my pact in blood to not oppose me and I will let you, your family and your foundation survive politically and financially - for the moment - and at my sole discretion.''

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To the Ukrainian People
Neither be fooled by accepting 'offers' from those who appear to be friends bearing 'gifts'.
Like the Wooden Horse of Troy, there are (and will be) many ways to destroy the Ukraine and again enslave its people in the process.


In Conclusion

As the world of  Mammon disguised as God replaces light for darkness is there any hope of salvation where religion itself has sold its very soul for less than thirty pieces of silver?


As history repeats will we ever learn from our mistakes?

Is this 'the ultimate' 'democracy' has to offer?; yet another Hell with Lucifer playing the role of God?

Is so primitive a species even worth the effort?

Will we ever get to the Promised Land?
[Only if you have an inter-galactic spaceship I fear.]


©Patrick Emek, November 2016


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