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Friday, October 14, 2022

Three Cs, like three Rs in schooling, Crucial to Good Governance

Vacuousness Destroys Possibility

Like the tried-and-true (sorely lacking today) four R (or three-R sounding) essentials (reading, writing, reasoning and arithmetic (budding responsibility) in the formative years (child and adolescent learning and development years) — four Cs (not churlishness, contemptuousness, color or creed) are essential in adult positions of leadership and public service, particularly positions affording inordinate power and influence.

The four fundamental Cs (sorely lacking today) are Character, Courage, Competence, and Civility.

’ve been concerned with the quality of public service leadership for a long time and these thoughts came to mind as I was reading a piece by Australian journalist and lawyer Graham Hryce appraising the caliber and consequences of Western leadership and one particular reflection of it.

Individuals aspiring to public service or finding themselves in leadership positions are too often hungry for power, hollow, and susceptible to being handled.

The seeming “madness” of Britain’s Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Truss who holds a position gifted to her by “Thatcher-worshipping members of the Tory Party” is, according to journalist Graham Hryce, “a product of a crude neo-liberal economic ideology”; and true to the code, she “persists in robotically touting the benefits of ‘trickle-down economics’;” and “(unsuccessfully) trying to blame (Britain’s and more generally the West’s) economic crisis entirely on Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and the conflict in Ukraine.”

Like the US factions, the Truss regime has attempted “to remedy deep-seated problems … in the economy—including decades of wage stagnation, ongoing working class and middle-class impoverishment, the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, dramatically rising energy and food prices, and the crisis in housing affordability”—by squaring a round hole or vice versa: doubling down with certifiably unworkable “neo-liberal economic policies.”

Systemically Weakened Economic systems Death knell of Western democracies

“Global elites” ruling Western “democracies,” Hryce observes, adhere obstinately to “greed-based, crude neo-liberal economic theories” and pledge their allegiance “to overturning the social democratic consensus” that prevailed, for example, before the UK’s (senile former plastics company worker boasting contempt for government service) Baroness Margaret Hilda Thatcher, and before the US’s (senile B-movie actor boasting contempt for government service) Hon. Knight Grand Cross Ronald Wilson Reagan. Thirty-two years later, another senile entrenched gerontocratic bencher followed Sir Reagan.

Britain’s current head of state as the United States’ current head of state preside over layered economic and political crises.

Some of Hryce’s insights (with added commentary) are these.

Any political system that seats a demonstrably incompetent person “is irretrievably broken.”

Any political system that encourages a long train of nepotistic, incestuously ideological incompetents perpetuates political instability.

A system that allows insider, gerrymandered selection (or pre-public balloting) of leaders degrades the quality of candidates and policies, weakens “democratic” processes, destabilizes institutions of governance, and deliberately forfeits the essential trust of the body politic (general public).

eakness of character, competence, courage, communication invites malleability. An incompetent in public office (public service or any position), a person mindlessly harnessed to hardened ideology, open to the puppeteer, opens to any manipulation by any element of influence.

Such weakness weakens a nation, and is a threat to the larger world.

Sources in addition to general references

An original article by Graham Hryce, October 3, 2022, “Truss exposes the current instability of Western democracies” “The turmoil in British politics can lead to disastrous consequences. It also mirrors the current state of the wider West.”

Author: “Graham Hryce is an Australian journalist and former media lawyer, whose work has been published in The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Sunday Mail, the Spectator and Quadrant.”

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Former Congresswoman Breaks with Destructionists

Warns of Reigning Extremists set on Destroying from within and without

“I love our country.

“Our God-given rights of freedom, life, and liberty enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights are my inspiration.”

Conscience, Cause of Action (charges)

ar Machine, Perpetual Aggression

Today’s Democratic Party led by warmongers firmly in the grips of the military industrial complex and recklessly leading America and the world to the brink of nuclear war lacks care or concern about the consequences—costs of war, and who pays the price.

awlessness: disavowal of institutions of justice, societal order and proper discipline The Party in exclusive service to its “partisan political ambitions” has repeatedly

· “Weaponized the security state and Federal law enforcement”
· Arrogantly demeaned “people of faith and spirituality”
· Created hostile presence against police while excusing crooks
· Demonized and dismissed the United States’ highest court (the US justice system and justices also the International Criminal Court) as “illegitimate.”

uppression: a Neo-McCarthyism

The Party in its weakness, cowardice, and peculiar practice of public-private partnering—working “hand-in-glove with corporate for-profit media and Big Tech to smear and silence political opponents and those who dare to challenge their authority—demonstrates its contempt for Americans and for protected freedoms (particularly of speech) enshrined in the Constitution of the United States of America.

The Party “ideology … of hate and divisiveness” exposes their disavowal of principles associated with a “traditional liberalism”— principles such as “the basic goodness of people, the autonomy of the individual; support of civil liberties, and government of, by, and for the people.”

At her website posting, Tulsi Gabbard says

“I’ve dedicated my entire adult life to serving our country. What I care about is the truth and what’s right. I don’t fit into any box, and you’ll find me hard to label. I have a simple message: let’s do what’s best for the American people, our country, and the planet.” (Emphasis added)

“I love our country. Our God-given rights of freedom, life, and liberty enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights are my inspiration. I answered the call to duty and took an oath, dedicating my life to supporting and defending those freedoms, both in uniform and in public office.”

Biographical sources show Tulsi Gabbard’s nineteen years of US Military Service (continuing) which have included deployments to Africa and Western Asia; the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, awards to include “Combat Medical Badge,” and “Meritorious Service Medal.”

Her Civilian Service includes

Member of the Hawaii State House of Representatives (2002-2004)
Legislative Aide to US Senator (Chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee) Daniel Kahikina Akaka of Hawaii (2010-2012)
Member of the City Council of Honolulu, Hawaii (2010-2012)
Member of the Congress of the United States (Committee memberships Armed Services, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, 2013- 2021)
Candidate for the US Presidency (2020)
Lieutenant Colonel, Civil Affairs officer in the U.S. Army Reserves (present)

“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party,” Gabbard declared.

In her biographical notes is the affirmation that Tulsi Gabbard

“Puts country before party; and approaches every issue—domestic and foreign—based on ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.”

[Text minor edited for present composition]

Sources
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000571
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard
https://tulsi.substack.com/about

Gabbard, Tulsi, “Why I’m leaving the Democratic Party,” circa October 11, 2022 https://tulsi.substack.com/

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rings to Mind a Great American Moment

Separation and Cause (An excerpt)

“[W]hen a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Cause (charges)

“He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”

“He has dissolved Representative Houses, repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.”

“He has refused for a long time … to cause others to be elected… (thus exposing the State) to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.”

“He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.”

“He has made judges dependent on his Will alone….”

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the Consent of our legislatures.”

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the (Civilian) power.”

“He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation.”

From the top

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all … are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect (to secure, bring about) their Safety and Happiness.” (Emphasis and synonyms added)

Except from one of our greatest documents: Declaration of Independence
In Congress, July 4, 1776: “The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America”

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HINK!

Think of destructionist and tyranny in contexts other than ancient and not so ancient Colonialism.

Think of tyranny personified in a two-headed political party and worse a singular domineering party. And ask what ought I to do?

What is my citizenry duty? In contemporary times with so many technological gadgets and platforms, and communications enablers—How do I call our nation to Unity? Break the bonds of tyranny? Demand law, discipline, and order among the higher echelon as well as among the masses?

Blame and complain will change nothing.

How do we establish and insist on participation of multiple political parties, dissent, debate, and independent thought and action (together with respectfulness and proper civility), and no-money (no-greased palms)-required access to public forums, discussion and debate, and candidacy and place on the ballot?

How do we dissolve or disband the incestuous cabal, the tactics, and the instruments of tyranny? How do we work to reestablish and improve Conscience and the Union of the United States of America?

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Nobel Con sits atop the Stack of Speakers in Opposites

Humanitarianism means robbing, bombing, massacring, maiming, starving, and displacing people. Peace means unending global aggression and lauding the same. Nobel Peace means Nobel War Prize

One writer, putting it mildly, says the Nobel Prize for Peace “has of late been losing its shine.” A little stronger, though indirectly, the writer continues:“When globally recognized awards are seen to be handed out on political considerations, they raise a good number of legitimate questions.”

And “the respect associated with such awards takes a slide downward to a point where” (like beauty contests and other nonsensical exercises) “they are no longer taken seriously.”

The writer notes some of the Nobel Cons’ Admissions and Prohibitions.

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rohibited Individuals and Leaders of Peace and Progress

Four statesmen of Asia, Africa, Southeastern Europe “who developed the theory of non-alignment” originating in conference in 1961 at Belgrade, Yugoslavia (the Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries). Remember: America’s 42nd President, William Jefferson Blythe III (aka William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton) of the later Haiti "humanitarian relief" ("do-gooding") notorious Clinton Foundation, destroyed Yugoslavia.

Nehru (Jawaharlal Nehru, India)
Sukarno (b. Koesno Sosrodihardjo, Indonesia)
Nasser (Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, Egypt)
Tito (Josip Broz known as Tito, Yugoslavia)

Asia
Mao Zedong and Zhou En-lai
Chinese statesmen and leaders who “went forth in inaugurating a brave new enterprise with the United States in 1972”

Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani leaders who worked to build “a structure of peace in South Asia through the tripartite agreement of April 1974” (Bangladesh-India-Pakistan Agreement signed in New Delhi April 9, 1974; and Agreement on the Repatriation of Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees, at New Delhi, April 9, 1974)

Caribbean
(Cuban) leader Fidel Castro (Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz)

For more than sixty years until Castro’s death (and continuing), governments (leaders, politicians, allies) of the United States tried, repeatedly, to assassinate Cuba’s leader; and they “have invaded, sanctioned, and embargoed the island country of some 11 million people.

Yet under Castro’s leadership, “Cuba has demonstrated that a poor country can dramatically improve the health of its population through long-term, consistent investments in primary care and public health.”

The infant mortality rate, since Cuba’s 1959 revolution, fell from “37.3 to 4.3 per 1000 live births.” The rate is lower than the USA’s 5.8 rate; Cuba’s literacy rate is 99.8 percent. (Source: The Commonwealth Fund, November 28, 2016, “Fidel Castro’s Health Care Legacy, To the Point”

By contrast the literacy rate in the United States is 2022 was reported at a level more than 20 points lower: 43.0 million United States adults suffer “low literacy”: one in five U.S. adults (21 percent) have low literacy skills; 79 percent “have medium to high English literacy skills.” (Source: World Population Review)

“Cuba has trained a surplus of physicians in its 13 medical schools; and, annually, sends 50,000 health professionals (among them “25,000 physicians”) to other countries “to provide care in developing countries.”

The Nobel Committee failed to consider Fidel Castro’s achievements “in building a strong health system in Cuba” and helping Cubans reestablish their self-confidence

Africa (South Central), Asia

Hakainde Hichilema (politician, farmer, businessman, head of state (2011- ))
President of Zambia “who has inaugurated a fresh new beginning in ensuring democracy and human rights in his country”

Atal Behari Vajpayee
In the 1990s, undertook “bus diplomacy in his search for peace with Pakistan

[“Atal Bihari Vajpayee was one of the most respected politicians in India,” credited as an “excellent administrator” and for “good governance.” He was India’s Prime Minister in 1996, and from 1998 to 2004.]

Organizations, Consortiums, Governments

Edhi Foundation of Pakistan
Founded by legendary Pakistani philanthropist and humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi, the foundation operates hospitals, orphanages, homeless shelters and rehab centers throughout Pakistan; and has for decades brought “relief assistance to millions of people in distress”

Governments of Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia in recent times have been working to establish programs focused on ending poverty and creating welfare-oriented societies.

The Andean Community (Spanish: Comunidad Andina, CAN) made up of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru “is a leading international organization in integration within the continent that works to improve the quality of life of 111 million Andean citizens.” It promotes “the balanced and harmonious development of the Member Countries in conditions of equity, through integration and economic and social cooperation.” Consortium: Member Countries Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru; Partner Countries Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; Observer Countries Spain, Morocco, Türkiye.

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dmitted Russiaphobes

War-Propaganda Nobel Peace Prize 2022: Politically-Motivated Nobel Committee

Awarded to Belarusian Ales Bialiatski

Belarus is one of nine core members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a regional intergovernmental organization in Eastern Europe and Asia. The core members are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan

The recipient of the “peace” award is a Russian born of Belarusian parents who, in recent times, became a felon jailed in 2021 for tax evasion, and is still serving a seven-year prison sentence. In their anti-Slav politics, the prize awarders lauded (or used) Ales Viktaravich Bialiatski as their tireless champion of the West’s favorite delusional and contradictory, misused and abused mantras “democracy” and “human rights.”

Awarded to anti Russia Ukrainian, and Interloper

Kyiv (US-conveniently allied) Ukraine-founded (2007) Center for Civil Liberties (enough said)

An Anti-Russian (Memorial) group lauded for being “against” Russian “militarism” (while applauding US militarism); lauded for promoting the International Criminal Court while applauding U.S. officials’ repeated, unbridled attacks on the ICC (of which the US is not a member), including issuing threats against the lead prosecutor of the Court. So much for protectors and advocates of “human rights”, “the rule of law,” and in particular “international law.”

It is an open secret that organizations masquerading as nongovernmental organizations are often destabilizing cells that burrow into countries (like the Soros cell in the United States and Central Europe, and CIA pawns everywhere) to indoctrinate and radicalize the young, undermine seated officials, overthrow governments, and generally violate the sovereignty of sovereign nations.

The Nobel awarded Memorial organization is a group long situated in Moscow and supported by the Collective West. It was charged by the Russian justice system with violating the Russian “foreign agent law,” a charge often made by US officials against “foreigners.”
At court, the Prosecution accused the group of “creating an image of the Soviet Union as a ‘terrorist’ state” and making contemporary Russians “repent for the Soviet past….” The Supreme Court of Russia on December 28, 2021 “ordered the International Memorial Society and its regional branches to close (for having) violated the 2012 foreign agent law.”

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ainfully Ignored by Nobel is WikiLeaks founder and journalist Julian Assange who committed no crime, no injustice, not abuse of human rights; but who languishes (by US command) in her or his majesty’s hardened criminals container at Belmarsh.

Silent is the almighty Nobel Committee and friends about scores of individuals tormented in countless and unspeakable ways by US and US-allied officials and governments.

Perhaps the Nobel Peace fraudsters prefer

handing out tosh to tormenters.

Sources

General Reference

Article: “Devaluing the Nobel Prize for Peace,” The Business Standard, https://www.tbsnews.net/analysis/devaluing-nobel-prize-peace-509958

Saturday, October 1, 2022

SOVEREIGNTY Loves Homeland without Fear or need to Disparage or Destroy

Lessons denied a Young Nation by Extremists: Arrogantly self-centered, Callous leaders

Very Old Nations

China

Archaeological site discovered at Shanxi Province (North China region west of the Taihang Mountains) dates back some 1.27 million years.

Evidence of Homo sapiens in China extends back 125,000 or 80,000 years (Fuyan Cave in Dao County, Hunan). Chinese proto-writing is documented in Jiahu (ancient China near the Yellow River) from 6,600 BCE (Before the Common Era or BC: Before Christ)

Proto-Chinese millet agriculture and settlement along the Yangtze River: 8,000 years old; First pre-imperial dynasty: circa 2070 BCE

WorldAtlas lists Top 5 Oldest Countries according to the year SOVEREIGNTY was acquired as

1. IRAN 3200 BC (Persia) Western Asia

2. EGYPT 3100 BC (“Gift of the Nile”) Northeastern Africa

3. VIETNAM 2879 BC (State of Văn Lang) Southeast Asia

4. ARMENIA 2492 BC (Hayastan, Transcaucasia) The Caucasus, Eastern Europe/Western Asia

5. NORTH KOREA 2333 BC (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) Eastern Asia

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elatively Old Nation

Russia at 1160

Rus’ People, Slavs

Russian History: 862-2022

Beginning with History of East Slavs, most populous subgroup of the largest European ethno linguistic group (Slavs), speaking East Slavic languages; forming the majority population of medieval Kievan Rus’ state: ancestral culture of East Slavic states: Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia

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

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

elatively Old Nation’s Lessons (excerpt, emphases, minor edit)

We have learned a hard lesson: that for Russia it is mortally dangerous to relax its SOVEREIGNTY or renounce its interests, even for a limited period of time.
We will not succumb to blackmail or intimidation, and we will never betray or lose our SOVEREIGNTY. In strengthening our sovereignty, we are developing our country.

SOVEREIGNTY guarantees freedom for everyone. Nobody, according to our traditions, can feel truly free if the people, the country, the homeland is not free.

Being part of a diverse civilization means happiness. It also means responsibility and duty. Our civilization is distinct. It has its own path, and there is no arrogance or a feeling of superiority in this. This civilization of ours—this is what’s important to us.

We will fight for … our homeland of which there is only one. We will fight for our independence and SOVEREIGNTY, for our culture and traditions.

Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin was speaking at A Gala concert devoted to the 1160th anniversary of Russian statehood, September 21, 2022 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/69397

To a Young Nation

eople (and their leaders) of character, integrity and true love of country will reflect on the past, learn from it and learn from other people and leaders’ cultures, character, leadership and experiences.

People (and their leaders) of character and integrity (true patriots in fellowship with one another) will correct their course, mend their ways and mend relations near and far (at home and abroad), improve their performance and stewardship. Repair the brokenness of a young nation and its people.

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