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    • The U. S. Election was a Travesty and Tarnished Democracy

      Posted at 12:00 pm by ronaldstanleymiller, roguedinosur.wordpress.com, on November 28, 2016

      Greetings Readers, In mails to friends and acquaintances I have often voiced the concept American elections, particularly this presidential one, is a fiascos and a farcical insult to most ordinary …

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    • The U. S. Election was a Travesty and Tarnished Democracy

      Posted at 11:59 am by ronaldstanleymiller, roguedinosur.wordpress.com, on November 28, 2016

      Greetings Readers,

      In mails to friends and acquaintances I have often voiced the concept American elections, particularly this presidential one, is a fiascos and a farcical insult to most ordinary rational thinking people. They are often created for ulterior reasons, deceptions, and misdirection not apparent or easily understood by the general voting public. The Clinton, Trump presidential election is a prime example of what I’ve been writing.

      By whom I ask did this lengthy drawn-out campaign assist in  political decision making?  Certainly not the people of America who are targeted as weak-minded obsessive bystanders and kept from understanding the true issues one should support for a healthy government change. The main issues were sidelined. The proper issues in the public interest should have been emphasized more readily were and in my opinion, i. e. the 18 trillion-dollar debt, set to be increase by both candidates, growth of the of the unbridled defense industry, past military spending make accountable auditors nervous, and they have not passed a creditable audit in 50 years; the humiliation of our inter-city school system and the facilities themselves; the third world infrastructure of our road, bridges, and electrical grid maintainance have been gridlocked and planed costs diminished by Congress in a nation that desires to right now as “make America Great Again.‘

      The candidates promised but did not clarify specifically where the funds would be coming from and when analyzed the math it becomes hypothetical or faulty or both. In each, including the foreign affairs debate and, in campaign communications, glazed over our present overseas conflicts, i.e., a 14 year war in Afghanistan, Iraq I, II, and currently deep into Iraq III, issues of life and death concerning conflicts and trade wars that will undoubtedly involve the U. S. directly or indirectly into positions of  challenge and responsibility where not adequately discussed because programmer and the two debaters were busy with other wedge and personal issues. Those of incompetence in handling classified material or other disclosures. Some of these were politely ignored in the debates, a good move, and not directly mentioned in the debate were the groping women by a star entertainer, the marital relationship between the Clinton’s, unpaid taxes by a billionaire, and a scandalized bilking at Trump University.  Nevertheless these are valid moral issues.

      The Clinton foundation apparently was setup to mainly to accept  foreign donations as in ‘favoritism’ disallowing social caring patriotism. These few scandals and irregularities are only the tip of the iceberg. Overriding these at times for decorum were the insults and slights mostly by Trump, with his few threats of a special prosecutions and ‘You belong in Jail.’ (Actually the GOP’s Bush and Cheney belong in jail)

      At the end of the lengthy campaign, 86% of Americans who followed it were displeased, disappointed, and bored. Having previously written in comparison to other practical countries the campaign and vote took approximately 300 days in the making, but have recently read a national magazine that claimed the campaign lasted nearly 600 days before the first votes were cast. (Time, page 9, International addition, 21, November 2016) It’s enough to make any American observer, voter, journalist, or public figures unwell. The result proved astonishing, we the people elected a demagogue and a scoundrel.

      By sheer grit and aggressiveness right to the very end Trump had a message similar to Bill Clinton’s in the 90s.  When Bill asked his chief confident what should be the major theme to emphasize in the campaign, the replay was ‘It’s the economy, stupid.’  The manta for Trump was ‘It’s the American jobs gone awry, stupid.’ Trump with the fresh political face, was the so-called ‘outsider’ because he would ‘drain the swamp in Washington DC.‘ It was not an easy answer in reply for a thirty year veteran of ‘insider the government’ and Wall Street investment houses as is one Hillary Clinton.

      But who won democratically? In a democracy the majority of voters win over the minority. It frequently doesn’t turn out that way although the U. S. frequently boasts it is a true democracy; Clinton captured the majority by more than two million votes over the Trumpet. This has happened four times previously in presidential elections, the last being Albert Gore against George Bush in 2000, and what a difference that would have made, possibly for the U. S. and for the Middle East, as we face complicated multi-conflicts today.

      I am not merely going to bitch about the shortfall in this campaign. I do have something of value to submit concerning its length that other nations do not abide by, while under their breath chuckle at us, not wanting to openly laugh or criticize the largest economy and the most powerful military in the world of its internal failure. Anyway, by any means, it keeps the giant occupied for a year or more and less likely to dictate to the world.

      What follows are undeniable recommendations for the betterment of American elections in the future. Will the Elitist corporations and their vassals in congress act on them? I doubt it because these recommendations make sense. The Congress and the Supreme Court have their heads in the sand. It’s become a tradition.

      • The U. S. Media, Radio, TV, and publications have various dates as to when the campaign started, 250, 300, and so on, 600. We know whatever it is, it’s too long. An analysis of other countries is revealing: For our neighbor to the north Canada it campaigns for a 36 days to 11 weeks period before the Election Day depending on the issues,  In Japan it’s only 12 days. Britain a month. France the official rule is two months. Europe, the EU, often it is one to two months, but none goes past three months of campaigning and Election Day to my understanding.
      • There are restrictions protecting misuse and privacy: No campaign party commercial publications or signs allowed, and no private purchase of commercial Air, TV time is allowed because it is said the ‘Rich would quickly control those means for their own benefit.’  Himm!
      • Moreover, campaigns are expensive. In 2005 the U. S campaign costs 1.6 billion dollars or more; the same year Britain spent the equivalent of 33 million dollars. There the government provides a limited amount of radio and TV time, for each candidate to state his or her cause and to debate each principle. Not allowed are mass campaign phone calls, faxes, spam letters.  It sounds civilized to me. I hear the  Brits sometime elect responsible people like say Winston Churchill and Margret Thatcher.
      • A few of these countries have Election Day registration. Across the U. S. registration to vote can be confusing. Only thirteen states have same day registers. Making this effort uniform could lead to greater turnout. There is automatic registration in Switzerland and France. In the U. S. Oregon is the only state that does. Auto-registration may triple registered voters.
      •  Mandatory voting and fines for not voting have been considered in the U. S. but believed to be unpopular. Australia and Uruguay have this system and appear content with it. Should a person not want to vote and avoid penalty , that person my go to the station collect the ballot and write in ‘none of the above’ and dispose of it at the station. No fine. Or the use the absentee ballot method may be preferable.
      • Weekend day elections as some claim will significantly increase turnout.  Brazil, Greece and may other counties advocate it rather than work days. It would make it easier for Americans to get to the polls. However, I can see to some of the voters may not be enthusiastic because they may receive a half day or the entire day off on Election Day. 

               All the Best.

               Ron Miller

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    • The Fukushima Tsunami and the Trump Presidency.

      Posted at 8:18 am by ronaldstanleymiller, roguedinosur.wordpress.com, on November 26, 2016

      Greetings Readers, A few days ago in Fukushima, Japan all hell broke loose after a 7.4 earthquake was reported several hundred miles from the city’s shore. Tsunami warnings hurriedly advised …

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    • The Fukushima Tsunami and the Trump Presidency.

      Posted at 8:04 am by ronaldstanleymiller, roguedinosur.wordpress.com, on November 26, 2016

      Greetings Readers,

      A few days ago in Fukushima, Japan all hell broke loose after a 7.4 earthquake was reported several hundred miles from the city’s shore. Tsunami warnings hurriedly advised residents to take higher ground as ships speedily departed for deeper safer waters. It was near assured that an approaching catastrophe was about to take place. The quake was particularly frightening due to the proximity to the Onagawa Nuclear Plant facility 25 kilometers from the city.

      The warning was of course Justifiable. Five years earlier tsunami waves smashed into the port and city center killing, and currently missing, a total of 22,000 people. The event was well publicized in the international media, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, accompanied with shocking huge waves pouring inland destroying everything in its path. Fukashima quickly became a horribly devastated city as radiation seepage seemed to govern the prefecture for several years. Over one million structure were destroyed by the erupting sea.

      This time the tsunami waves proved to be merely 1.3 meters high and shortly TEPICO the builder and government custodian for the reactor facility announced  ‘NO Danger’ the danger had passed.

      The event of nature could be a corollary to the coming Trump administration. Will Trump soften his far right and other controversial positions when he is asked a second or a third time around or when he actually takes office next year? According to the New York Times, CNN, and Time magazine Trump has modified or changes his position 124 times since becoming a candidate. On the outset of his administration he is selecting a staff largely composed of neoconservatives and far right GOP personalities, military and civilian, while alarming most of the American public and nearly every one of our overseas allies.

      We don’t know what the final outcome will be of course and it does not help with contradictory statements issued by Trump’s staff atop the Tower, i. e. ‘It’s assured relations with Russia will significantly improve’ while at the same moment a high staff candidate, Romney, states ‘Russia in our number one dangerous foe.’ What does this mean and what does it portend? No one knows at present. It’s all wait and see and kind of exciting political time. Will the U. S. over the next four years go down the drain with Trump at the helm?

      In the meantime Wall Street, the Dow, NASDIQ, and Standard and Poor reached record heights this week and it was a good sign oil prices rose o4%. Evidentially the Street feels comfortable with Trump as it was cozy with Clinton. There is also a vague anticipation Trump will bring at least some jobs home to the U. S.  Actually the strategy is bound to fail and besides the corporations don’t care. Where will those jobs come from, mainly China and South East Asia and the countries involved will not be pleased about it. All this is not going to happen overnight, but begin this decade or next. It took 25 years to lose these jobs and it may take that long to get them back, if it ever does.  Will the U. S. have the patience to wait?

      As  an acquaintance of mine wrote, the Trump strategy is the identical  approach dictators Hitler and Mussolini used to grab power and become popular with the electorate. The Bushes, and Clinton, provided meek promises, assurance of more and better work for America to cover their hypocrisy and outright lies for a better future. The three presidents could not completely deliver without expanding conflicts and continuing wars, but the aforementioned foreign dictators certainly did by aggression.  Perhaps the question is do we negotiate and let’ bygones be bygones’ or do we want to make the choice of full employment or war.

      The nervous Japanese expected massive Tsunami waves this week that did not arrive. Will we be as lucky as Japan?

      All the Best.

      Ron.

      PS: An added note. Russia has deployed on a Russian enclave between Lithuania and Poland two sets of nuclear and defensive missiles under tremendous criticism from NATO members. These placements are mobile, not permanent as our missile bases in Europe. They are deployed approximately 400 miles from Moscow, while in the recent past the U. S has sent a rotating three million soldiers some eight thousand miles around the globe from its shores to fight a peasant people in Vietnam. Iraq, Afghanistan, are a long way from home too. Currently the U. S. has over 850 military bases around the globe. Do people read history anymore, or have common sense anymore?

      l find the Russian bear is a thuggish brute, but we must understand for the long-term and for our own benefit and safety they have a sphere of influence and claim it as we do ours.

       

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    • Asian, Middle East News Briefs. #70

      Posted at 4:59 am by ronaldstanleymiller, roguedinosur.wordpress.com, on November 22, 2016

      Greetings Readers, Asian, Middle East and U. S. political news briefs to be read in 2 minutes or less. India derailment accident kills 142 and injures more than 200. (latest) Kabul, Afghanistan, mo…

      Source: Asian, Middle East News Briefs. #70

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    • Asian, Middle East News Briefs. #70

      Posted at 1:55 pm by ronaldstanleymiller, roguedinosur.wordpress.com, on November 21, 2016

      Greetings Readers, Asian, Middle East and U. S. political news briefs to be read in 2 minutes or less. India derailment accident kills 142 and injures more than 200. (latest) Kabul, Afghanistan, mo…

      Source: Asian, Middle East News Briefs. #70

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    • Asian, Middle East News Briefs. #70

      Posted at 1:47 pm by ronaldstanleymiller, roguedinosur.wordpress.com, on November 21, 2016

      Greetings Readers,

      Asian, Middle East and U. S. political news briefs to be read in 2 minutes or less.

      • India derailment accident kills 142 and injures more than 200. (latest)
      • Kabul, Afghanistan, more than 27 dead in Shiite Masque bombing.
      • Eight killed in Myanmar-Chinese border clash.
      • China places army on full alert after border clash.
      • China to build solar plant near Russia’s Chernobyl.
      • Two Indonesian fisherman kidnapped in Malayan waters.
      • China says Dalia Lama visit to Mongolia harmful to relations.
      • Asian Nations concerned with Trump’s outspoken TPP policy.
      • South Korean opposition moves to impeach president Park.
      • Japan Parliament agrees to maintain full U. S. cooperation.
      • Thailand to build funeral pyre in 2017 in honor of King.
      • NATO nations agree to spend more on defense next year.
      • Putin say Russia may take counter-measures if NATO expands.
      • Iran Shiite prepare for world’s biggest ‘Arbaeern, Kabala Pilgrimage.’
      • Pope declares 2017 ‘ Year of Mercy.’
      • Pope extends forgiveness for abortions to priesthood;
      • Obama declares ‘wait and see policy on Trump policies.’
      • Obama says will speak out on Trump Policy issues at later date.
      • Facebook asks world not to disconnect  in new Trump era.
      • Families of missing aboard MS-370 will conduct own private search.*

      *Gods, haven’t we heard enough about this one?

      (News extracted from Channel New Asia, UroNews, France 24, and BBC)

      All the Best.

      Ron Miller.

       

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    • Asia and Middle East Briefs. #69

      Posted at 12:33 pm by ronaldstanleymiller, roguedinosur.wordpress.com, on November 18, 2016

      Greetings Readers, Asian and Middle East Headline News meant to be read in two minutes or less. Duterte may follow Russia in withdrawing from ICC. Philippine economy grows 7.1% on year’s thir…

      Source: Asia and Middle East Briefs. #69

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    • Asia and Middle East Briefs. #69

      Posted at 12:21 pm by ronaldstanleymiller, roguedinosur.wordpress.com, on November 18, 2016

      Greetings Readers,

      Asian and Middle East Headline News meant to be read in two minutes or less.

      • Duterte may follow Russia in withdrawing from ICC.
      • Philippine economy grows 7.1% on year’s third quarter.
      • Duterte says refugees can always come to the Philippines.
      • Myanmar ‘Exorcist’ in Court over death of three children.
      • Former President Marcos given controversial hero’s burial.
      • Vietnam Prime Minister back off of PTT.
      • Cambodian senator jailed for 18 months for insulting PM.
      • Rohingaya flee to Bangladesh due to Myanmar crackdown.
      • At least 36 dead in Syrian airstrikes west of Aleppo city.
      • 16 killed in car bombing at Shiite village north of Baghdad.
      • Iraqi special forces capture another airport west of Mosul.
      • Iran exceeds heavy water limitations twice in lieu of treaty.
      • In Berlin Obama urges Trump to stand up to Russia.
      • Merkel has been an outstanding EU partner (Obama)
      • Obama leaves for Berlin after multi-EU meeting for Peru conference.
      • North Korea will head agenda at Obama, XI meeting next week.
      • Trump far-right appointments raise concerns in Asia’
      • Abe,Trump have candid, cordial, multi-topic meeting in NY.
      • Japan PM says he has full confidence in Trump leadership.
      • Clinton says America’s division after election ‘Run deep.’
      • Bernie Sanders demands Trump withdraw far-right advisors.
      • U. S. National Security Chief James Clapper announces resignation.
      • Trump must weigh cost of his fiscal polices. (Yeller)
      • U. S. weekly jobless claims fall to 43 year low.

      (News gathered from Asia news sources, France 24, BBC, Eronews)

      All the Best.

      Ron Miller.

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    • Asia News, This Rare and Precious Earth

      Posted at 1:58 pm by ronaldstanleymiller, roguedinosur.wordpress.com, on November 15, 2016

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      Greetings Readers,

      The World Trade Organization, and the International Court will shortly rule on an escalating disagreement between the U. S. and China. The U. S. complaint is China is hording materials through trade policy for the export of raw materials, cobalt, copper, tin, and more crucial materials like idiom and other rare earth resources which if not gotten will hinder U. S. manufacturing. The rare earth materials are precious, vital and at the very heart of the issue. We currently get most from Bolivia, Argentina, and portions from Africa. If I were a Trumpite or super corporate patriot, I would say let’s get in there and get those vital minerals one way or another. After all we badly need them for running nearly all our economic machinery and for environment and defense purposes.

      But hey, unfortunately those listed resources, particularly raw earth minerals are on and beneath Chinese land…

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