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The David and the Goliath

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Peter Thiel has engineered a masterful political coup, exploiting easy algorithms of Political science to sculpt the Perfect Trump Storm, yet he too should beware that the Goliath may turn upon his David. I have no ill will toward Mister Thiel , neither do I have much interest in learning the nuances of his deal and personal perspective, I am certain there is some validity to it. ' Yet I begin to suspect a replay of the Iran/Contra deal of the Reagan Presidency. One thing could be certain in regards to the thought,  is that a lot of musical talent will "hole up" and polish up some great Rock and Roll / Alternative music in the next 4 years : It's times like these you learn to Love again.  Maybe the reincarnated soul of our San Francisco Rock Promoter Bill Graham has stepped outside of his teen age Years to strike a new chord in Musical experience presentation ? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/07/bill-graham-drigs People questioned why he had to leav

Tumbling DIce

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 Ukraine, 2 years ago, while in the midst of an incredible National crisis chose Petro Poroshenko to be their President, America 's electoral system  has chosen Donald Trump in the haitus of our Presidential leadership conundrum.  Soon Ukraine may simply walk away from any sense of connection to the Democratic values and socio-economic models  the USA promotes, and return to some perhaps semi-feudalistic state. Power and wealth today is already largely concentrated in the hands of a few, the Patronage model is tested by history and practice in Ukraine. If the ability to succeed by inventiveness, personal merit, honesty and hard work is further eroded, that may be the largest problem Ukraine faces , going forward from here. The dark shadow of a war, sucking off the best talents , minds to man the front lines of an un- winnable  conflict , it's bad enough. But a faltering of confidence, conveying the sense that there is no interest to uphold the  Ukraine State , that they mu

Gimme Shelter

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Is there some kind of thing about the people in Ukraine, where Russia wants to hurt them ? With President elect Trump assessing the panorama of geo-politics, the right brain-creative, left liberal in the USA is simply reeling in disbelief, now it's our turn ,  like Ukraine ,  to relegate our comments on the news to "unbelievable" yet it's arrogance to think that it's our show, some sort of vaudeville panorama ? this Ukraine conflict  started  , despite all the European delegation's best efforts , Obama , nobody could stop it. What were we going to do about it ? Go into a head to head , open war with Russia ? Call a spade a spade ? I have spoken directly with Charles P. White , a specialist in the USAF's  Office of the Chief Information Officer, and Ukraine's Astronaut Leonid Kadeniuk about the supposed advantages of a new space initiative that correlates with space mining and L5 colony developments, clearly there is a Trump Orbital Luxury Re

Between Two Apps

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the post  title, it is a riff, on the Documentary Movie "Between Two Worlds"  (photo of Central Kiev Graffiti, 2 years ago) it's unbelievable- that's what they were saying in Ukraine, all of the time 2 years ago Now the indelible ink has stained our country's hands with the taint of a white lash vote result.   I think that I felt it in my heart, that Hillary could not win, yet succumbed to the false comforts of tenuous pollster data that gave her 90 % assured victory. It was the Bradley factor, and I knew Tom Bradley, not well , but 2 times handshake and a bit of chat meeting is enough to garner an impression, gregarious, warm, kind, intelligent man. Some young gentleman from LA yesterday, he  had to actually Google Tom Bradley to educate himself,-- it's that long ago. People in California were not ready for a black Governor then. Ukraine is now caught between 2 apps : the Western app of highly efficient, rated, motivational traction versus the upd

it's Now or Never..

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 A Red Herring special ! A post in Memory of Janet Reno : she was a tough fighter for Justice and she got results ! lots of people maybe don't recollect that Bill Clinton's first foreign visit as POTUS was to Mexico, most of his cabinet went with him, except for Janet Reno, at the time (she was busy or something like that) there's some good stories of that visit, relayed to me first hand from somebody who got called in to the secure room of the US embassy in Mexico City to "run the meeting" She and the Clintons had a complicated, and not always friendly relationship- I'm wanting to extend my condolences to her friends and family, and thank her for a job pretty well done. ********************** With the final 48 hours counting down to the US election, components of  the Ukraine connection in North America are kicking into high gear, tracking Pro-Putin Chechens using Jordanian passports in Mexico City who are working  to organize the third, and Final E

Patriot Games, Tomorrow Now, or Fear and Loathing in Las Cruces ?

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Something is hilarious and you don't know what it is..... do you, Mister Jones ? What if Al Gore's college room mate, Tommy Lee Jones had been put in charge of investigating the situation with the hanging chads in the 2000 Florida Presidential election ? History would forever be alternate, it would seem. Now it sounds faintly possible that a handful of  Hopi Indian voters somewhere out on the reservations and polling stations outside of Las Cruces , New Mexico could decide history not just for the USA, but for Ukraine, possibly Europe and even places like Mongolia ! The Hopi Prophecy may just pull the rug out from under all the drama surrounding the US elections as described in this article : http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-the-craziest-end-to-the-2016-campaign-runs-through-new-mexico/ The question remains, what has Mister Trump done for the First Nations, and conversely what has Ms Clinton done for them recently. Could some GOnzo foreign  or domesti