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Greetings Readers,

Yes, Trump is right again. The Media must stop the inflammatory talk because we know our president never does and probably never will. If you have seen his last rally, or three, and in particular the last one just after the domestic terrorist bomb packges were discovered, you know Trump’s hypocritical head is not screwed on right. He simply does not know Black from White.

Wall Street has lost all its gains made in 2018. Yep, the loss may have weakened his most influential domestic base pillar, but let us not forget the massive tax reduction he initiated and pushed through with the able assistance of the GOP and Democratic Congress for the benefit of the Street is Permanent. The Street still owes Trump Big Time for that.

Presently the GOP and the FOx Network have been battling the Dems and liberals as violent mobs, are down playing the terrorist bomb packages episode and are hitting hard on the themes of immigration and the greatness of our economic prosperity. Winning the midterms is all important. So, get out and vote. I live overseas and have my absentee ballot in hand already .

All the Best to you.

Ron Miller

Greetings Readers,

(1) Woke this morning to breaking news: The Saudis admitted the U. S. green card holder and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi is dead and had died in the Saudi Consulate in Turkey. Well what do you know about that? It caught me by surprise. Actually, it surprised the hell out of me.

The Director of Saudi Intelligence has been sacked and eighteen (18) men have been arrested; the Crown Prince did not know a thing, not a darn thing about the incident. He was caught completely unaware. The group involved were renegades, rogues, mercenaries, and Muslim trash.

Jamal died during a simple fist fight during an overheated conversation between Khashoggi and his interrogator.

(You know like the kind of fist fights they occasionally have in New York’s Bowery, Detroit, Michigan’s Skid Row, or any ordinary standard Darwin, Australian Pub. Yeah, those quarrels and brawls can turn vicious)

The death was not premeditated, more like an accident…. i. e. Bone saws are merely standard passenger carry-on equipment for Israeli and Saudi Intel agents.

Aallegedly the hit on Khashogii was an unauthorized operation possibly “semi-officially ” initiated by the Intelligence Directorate, and heads will definitely roll over it no matter who or what. That is unless…. Trump pardons them.

Trump and Pompeo coached the young Crown Prince well indeed. (Keep your mouth shut) Those deceptive operations, like the U. S. Bay of Pig fiasco when failed have known a second stage of accusations as “Search for the Guilty” “Scapegoat” and a favorite of Filipinos, they say “a Fall Guy.”

In the political sweep, the real scapegoat, is the goat prince Salman, as the silly President Donald Trump says “We are waiting for more information”?

(2) Trump seems to advocate, or at least condone violence against the Press, and other enemies of the people. (The body slamming episode of a reporter during the campaign, etc.) Trump’s base, as FOx Network is part, outrageously claim the GOP is targeted by liberals gone wild with violence. Well, yes… to be fair, there have been death threats made to a few GOP senators. I know this to be correct, because I’ve sent out several myself last week.

Can you take a JOKE?

All the Best to You. 

Ron

Greetings Readers,

In 1978 I was Chief of Storage in Riyadh for the Corps of Engineers and Pacific Architects and Engineers for about four months until my family arrived to join me in relocating to Jeddah on the Red Sea. Our work site was about two kilometers over open desert brush fields from the newly constructed Marriott Hotel where the U. S. Air Force aerial surveillance team were quartered. When I arrived there were at least 130 forty-foot shipping containers ready to be opened and unloaded into our new warehouse.

One evening on the daily trash run, two Somali bothers took the warehouse truck to dispose of the day’s excess materials to the central waste dump, but the guys were anxious, weary, and lazy and deliberately unloaded it in an open brush field not far from the hotel. They were observed by the Saudi police arrested, jailed overnight, given a citation, and the Corps office was notified. The next day our organization was tasked to clear and clean the entire extensive area of all trash no mattering we had only a very few unauthorized load drops there, if that? But we had been caught in the act.

The company procurement office, headed by a shrewd or perhaps deliberately incompetent Philippine manager wrote the boiler plate contract to clear the abundant scrap materials lying about the desert fields nearby. In the contract the manager failed to specify the size of the truck (s) to be utilized to haul away the scrap etc. to the central disposal yard. Each truck was paid by the trip and not by weight or count whether it carried 400 lbs. or tons or no matter how much it carried or not carry per load. The small light vehicles like pickup trucks got the same rate per load as larger cargo trucks.

On the day to begin the clean up and relocation approximately 80 trucks and two forklifts showed up. Perhaps seven our of each ten were the size of pickups or light trucks and could at most carry a light ton of miscellaneous trash and scrap material. Paid by the trip with the advantage of light loads contractors and perhaps the Procurement Manager really cleaned up by costing the project a lot more $ money than intended. The task took near three days when it should have been one and indirectly, directly cost the Corps, U. S. Government thousands of unnecessary additional dollars to clear the mess.

The sharp procurement manager was a nice fellow and we all liked the chap. The Corps Engineers with our director, a retired Air Force General, gave our contract performance a 98% evaluation that month despite another one or two fiascos like the one mentioned above. (Forty rows of  overloaded newly erected Link shelving collapsed in a cloud of dust one lunchtime killing one cat. When I arrived the dust was so thick pouring out of the main gateway, I thought it a hot on going fire)

Each month or so it was my practice to give a humorous low-cost award to the most outstanding team or department leader. Because of screw-ups like this one they were not always for merit. On the Arabian desert it was not too uncommon to find dried bones scattered about, some of which were goat skulls. We found the best one we could, framed it and presented it to the Procurement Manager in my office. I kept a Polaroid photo of the humorous two-minute ceremony for years before discarding it during lengthy travels.

Years later, I, we, thought back of being much too hard on the manager because the loads lay diverse and widely scattered sometime in small quantities. However the cause of the expensive operation was tantamount to dropping a tissue and plastic bottle on a main street and having to clear and clean the entire avenue and back allies too.

All the Best to you.

Ron Miller

Greetings Readers,

I have always, well probably for decades at least, admired the British weekly magazine, the Economist.  Never a small cursory issue, but an in-depth extensive well written detailed reporting with frequent inside the news stories in every issue. One can read Time Magazine in about an hour. I have never read the Economist with some degree of speed for under three. Usually with care one farms many significant facts and details that do not appear easily in any of the other weekly periodicals

I admire its accuracy and opinions. It is a well thought out and thoroughly researched publication before the print is set. I do not know how they do it? The magazine must have superb reporters and experts devoted to the magazine in every country. The imperialist, colonist British press in times gone by in all probability got the jump on other western media publications for two hundred years, and the Economist as recipient of this history has deservedly gotten solid international popularity because of it. 

During the past years I have subscribed to the magazine several times, but it often did no arrive because I suspect it was pilfered and resold to a group of local academic fans, or in lieu of poor postal service and constant moving about by this addressee.

Within the magazine this week was of the Kavanaugh vs. Ford , she said, he said, row decision in senate’s favor of Kavanaugh by passing his nomination by two votes within the conundrum of two personal political personality.

In pure politics and law Kavanauagh was unwilling to show impartiality in legal decisions, not only by his own ranting words against the Democrats, but his long supportive loyalist GOP career. The candidate has never been neutral in or on issue that the Economist could research and fully determine while on the staff of Ken Starr’s impeachment efforts against Bill Clinton, and when on the staff of George Bush which was firmly against the second ballot recount during the Florida presidential election bid that gave Bush the victory in the 2000 election. The decision was  outright closed with only a mere 600 state votes bush lead. The decision was then finalized by the GOP governor agreeing to it. (Perhaps, just perhaps, if Gore had won there would not have been an Iraq ll?)

Moreover, as an aside note, the text of the FBI investigation report was softened, perhaps deliberately as not to embarrass, but college school boy’s word for “spoofing” meant not what was reported, its meaning is three-way sex, anal sex, and induction of alcohol and drugs.  To be fair Brett may not have ever meant that after supporting it in writing.

Yes, from what I surmise, as the most important swing vote in the Supreme Court Kavanaugh will support anything placed before him by the Trump and the GOP. He is safely under their wing for his term for life and for the swing vote power he now holds in his hand.

Under the FOx network Trump and his Administration can do no wrong, as Trump dickers and threatens ‘Severe punishment’ against those responsible for  the alleged Khashoggi — Saudi Arabia — assassination fray. No concrete proof has surfaced thus far except the deep-seated suspicion the target of the assassination was Khashoggi, is highly suspected to be dead  and has complete disappeared from the face of the earth. However, the Saudis have ventured other confidential explanations for the disappearance:

1. Khashoggi was walking on slippery marble steps and fell by accident killing himself. The Saudis were so embarrassed by the incident, because the  janitor was the cause not performing his duties satisfactorily was immediately beheaded on the spot. The accident was not reported to the outside world. Jamal’s  dismembered  and pulverized body was flushed down the toilet.

2. Nearly similar in some aspects. Khashoggi was applying for a license to marry his Turkish sweetheart whom he loved deeply, and was told she was not a virgin and shown video proof. At that Jamal became distraught, felt dishonored, disgraced and committed suicide. Under Muslim law the dead must be buried before sunset, but no means were available, so it was decided to dismember and dispose of him by flushing the parts down the toy-toy. 

3. Jamal Khashoggi was an agnostic, and at the last moment after a friendly beating he regretted being one therefore for himself his family and loved ones became a born again Muslim of deep faith. Allah and Mohammed were delighted on hearing the new and they immediately sent a white horse with feathered wings to take him from Jerusalem directly to heaven. He was invisibly whisked away in seconds from the Consulate. (The Muslims disregard animal and humankind types with the assistance of evolution took 100 million years to create the feather, presently man can make feathers with machines)

Sorry, but I don’t quite believe those reasons. But I do know this, kings and dictators want complete power and need to destroy dissent in any form. Evil anti-government non conforming ideas must be destroyed. They then make examples of dissenters with poison, bombs, armed drones, and hit squads which are more effective than says torture, prison terms, and surveillance.

As an older observer writing this I recall comedian Bob Hope returning from Cold War Russia in the 1950s and authoring a humorous book (I Owe Russia $1200 Dollars) in which he wrote ‘In Russia they have television, but you don’t watch it, it watches you’ and ‘In Russia you can say anything about the government, the difference is, you say it only once.’

All the Best to you.

Ron Miller

Greetings Readers,

From the very beginning Democrats and liberals have badly underestimated  Donald Trump. There is no political opponent of sufficient stature at this time to oppose his bluster, brilliance, and gravitas.

During the campaign and after it people scoffed that he would become a threat to democracy despite the bad publicity, the lies, scandals, tax evasions, the alleged frauds committed, and the dirty international business connections of which some have said he, Trump, is actually good for the country.

A change in democratic administrations is often a good thing and reassuring, a little more to the left or to the right, adjustments, compromises, and the rigged system unfortunately, quietly, goes on itis merry way as before. In the case of Trump 45, it has gone far, too far in the direction of the Altr-right conservatives and has rapidly become a detriment to the balanced system we know as delivered to the American people in the Constitution. The healthy balancing act has completely swung over for the benefit of the elitist and other powerful controlling elements of government overseeing our lives and fate.

The president is a smart and able campaigner whose showmanship, personality and ceaseless campaigning prove, as he gathers enthusiastic crowds of supporters each week. His maneuvering is affective in this regard as well as managing his persona and ego.

The pillars of Trump support of which I often refer for the blonde demagogue are as strong and committed as ever before: Internationally, Israel love him and apparently he them. The Saudi Kingdom will do Trump’s bidding in Yemen against the Iranian backed Shia Houthis as one of their prime allies.

Domestically, Trump has pocketed and intimidated the GOP, and Wall Street after more than a twelve point tax write off overhaul  that has consummated a long-term marriage with the president. The Israel lobby with its billionaire contributors is esthetic, never have they had such control over the office, while the sometime wavering military, due mostly to Trump’s ridicule of  the hero McCain, continues to be entirely with him as do the perennial defense lobbyist and contractors hangers on. Readers we must understand one party or group of parties cannot overcome these  five powerful  political and economic Trump forces. It’s Trump Incorporated.

Most U. S. citizenry do not appear to care in what direction the country is heading toward  which is catastrophic and eventually to military clashes and war to ostensibly save our capitalistic democracy headed by the racist leader.  Apparently people are gratified by the economic progress made under Trump’s administration.  I for one am not taken in or intimidated by it and do not live by economic bread alone. There is something bigger more important at stake…. Individual freedom and, democracy not the tyranny of one man. As many other Americans I feel there is a disappearing democracy that lay before us.

While the sheep are led down the rosy path of temporary prosperity dependent larely on International economic cooperaton on international issues of conflicting trade barriers, sanctions declarations etc., it is asked where are the opposing working and middle classes to meet the rising tide of Mr. Trump’s divisive nationalism? Where are the combined and unified street demonstrations, the regrouping of a third-party, the George McGoverns, the Martin Luther Kings, and yes as radical as it sounds, the likes of an armed but peaceful weathermen, and Black Panthers of decades ago who attempted to make a difference during the fiasco of the Vietnam War.

The seeds of destruction are being sewed by Trump and the GOP  at a very dangerous period in world history..

Where are the brave of heart and not the Summer soldiers?

All the Besst to you.

Ron Miller