Tuesday, November 29, 2016

"We are not just your old Viennese coffee shop, we are The Wind Turbine of The Record!"

Just another, emerging, of The Big Paper Wind Turbine's  ambivalent romances; the mutual adjustment of the Wind and The Big Paper Turbine is in progress: The Big Turbine needs the Wind to keep going: "We are not just your old Viennese coffee shop, we are The Wind Turbine of The Record!", and The Big Wind needs The Turbine to produce a lot of pieces of paper blowing in the wind. Great Symbiosis! 
Where were the eye-poking presences of David Brooks, Paul Krugman (who is much reduced to tweeting instead of publishing his columns in the NYT these days, although one did luckily appear recently), and where was our beloved "cobra" Maureen Dowd, who appears to have lost much of her medicinal poison lately, but who still inspires so much fear and loathing in Mr. Trump because "She treats me too rough"? Not rough enough, baby - that what methinks! 

"SULZBERGER [The Great Therapizer, The Group Therapy Leader, with an eye on a sliding bottom line - M.N.]: As we all say about Maureen, it’s not your fault, it’s just your turn."

It looks that all of them went on an indefinite strike. Keep rolling, the Great Old  Viennese Coffee Shop, pretending to be The Great Turbine! Keep flapping your disoriented, self-clipped, middle-class fanning wings, more like a hen than an eagle. Keep getting grayer and grayer, you, The Old Gray Lady. The Wind will just love you, whatever it means and implies, and will use you with pleasure, moving your rotors in the direction he chooses, prefers and manipulates. I guess a bad romance is better than no romance, The Old Gray Lady is so lonely... 

"The New York Times was once considered the gold standard in American journalism and the most trusted news organization in America. Today, it is generally understood to be a vehicle for politically correct ideologies, tattered liberal pieties, and a repeated victim of journalistic scandal and institutional embarrassment."

"The Times" and the times: to throw the stones and to gather them; to bomb the bridges and to build them, to sell your stock and to buy it, the times to sing and the times "to talk".

On "Wind Turbines" and other pressing issues, "Alt-Right-Delete", "Breitbart", and the other very-very-Brights: 
Excerpts from Trump's Interview to The New York Tmes: "What we do want to do is we want to bring the country together, because the country is very, very divided..."


"Take five!"

"What we do want to do is we want to bring the country together, because the country is very, very divided, and that’s one thing I did see, big league. It’s very, very divided, and I’m going to work very hard to bring the country together... No, I want to bring the country together. It’s very important to me. We’re in a very divided country. In many ways divided... I’m really looking … I think we have to get the focus of the country into looking forward."



Dave Brubeck - Take Five

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"Because our country’s really in bad, big trouble. We have a lot of trouble. A lot of problems. And one of the big problems, I talk about, divisiveness. I think that a lot of people will appreciate …

I absolutely have an open mind. I will tell you this: Clean air is vitally important. Clean water, crystal clean water is vitally important. Safety is vitally important.

I can’t do anything, I would never see my, I guess the only son I’d be allowed to see, at least for a little while, would be Barron, because he’s 10. But, but, so there has to be [unintelligible]. It’s a very interesting case...

TRUMP: Just a minute, because it’s an important question. I don’t care about my company. I mean, if a partner comes in from India or if a partner comes in from Canada, where we did a beautiful big building that just opened, and they want to take a picture and come into my office, and my kids come in and, I originally made the deal with these people, I mean what am I going to say? I’m not going to talk to you, I’m not going to take pictures? You have to, you know, on a human basis, you take pictures. But I just want to say that I am given the right to do something so important in terms of so many of the issues we discussed, in terms of health care, in terms of so many different things. I don’t care about my company. It doesn’t matter. My kids run it. They’ll say I have a conflict because we just opened a beautiful hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, so every time somebody stays at that hotel, if they stay because I’m president, I guess you could say it’s a conflict of interest. It’s a conflict of interest, but again, I’m not going to have anything to do with the hotel, and they may very well. I mean it could be that occupancy at that hotel will be because, psychologically, occupancy at that hotel will be probably a more valuable asset now than it was before, O.K.? The brand is certainly a hotter brand than it was before. I can’t help that, but I don’t care. I said on “60 Minutes”: I don’t care. Because it doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters to me is running our country...

TRUMP: Was I involved with the wind farms recently? Or, not that I know of. I mean, I have a problem with wind …

TRUMP: Oh, I see. I might have brought it up. But not having to do with me, just I mean, the wind is a very deceiving thing. First of all, we don’t make the windmills in the United States. They’re made in Germany and Japan. They’re made out of massive amounts of steel, which goes into the atmosphere, whether it’s in our country or not, it goes into the atmosphere. The windmills kill birds and the windmills need massive subsidies. In other words, we’re subsidizing wind mills all over this country. I mean, for the most part they don’t work. I don’t think they work at all without subsidy, and that bothers me, and they kill all the birds...

Some environmentalists agree with me very much because of all of the things I just said, including the birds, and some don’t. But it’s hard to explain. I don’t care about anything having to do with anything having to do with anything other than the country...

TRUMP: O.K., I don’t want to influence anything, because it’s not that, it’s not that important to me. It’s hard to explain...

TRUMP: Now, according to the law, see I figured there’s something where you put something in this massive trust and there’s also — nothing is written. In other words, in theory, I can be president of the United States and run my business 100 percent, sign checks on my business, which I am phasing out of very rapidly, you know, I sign checks, I’m the old-fashioned type. I like to sign checks so I know what is going on as opposed to pressing a computer button, boom, and thousands of checks are automatically sent. It keeps, it tells me what’s going on a little bit and it tells contractors that I’m watching. But I am phasing that out now, and handing that to Eric Trump and Don Trump and Ivanka Trump for the most part, and some of my executives, so that’s happening right now.

But in theory I could run my business perfectly, and then run the country perfectly. And there’s never been a case like this where somebody’s had, like, if you look at other people of wealth, they didn’t have this kind of asset and this kind of wealth, frankly. It’s just a different thing.

But there is no — I assumed that you’d have to set up some type of trust or whatever and you know. And I was actually a little bit surprised to see it. So in theory I don’t have to do anything. But I would like to do something. I would like to try and formalize something, because I don’t care about my business.
So I don’t have to do anything, but I want to do something if I can. If there is something...

SULZBERGER: One of our great salesmen, by the way...

TRUMP: I can see that. I’ve started it already by, I mean, I’ve greatly reduced the check-signing and the business. I’ve greatly reduced meetings with contractors, meetings with different people that, you know, I’ve also started by — ’cause I’ve said over the last two years, once I decided I wanted to run, I don’t want to build anything.

FRIEDMAN: Just so you know, General Electric has a big wind turbine factory in South Carolina. Just so you know.

TRUMP: Well that’s good. But most of ‘em are made in Germany, most of ‘em are made, you know, Siemens and the Chinese are making most of them.

[cross talk]

DAVIS: I apologize for my delayed flight. I wanted to ask you about personnel. They say personnel is policy.

TRUMP: I can’t quite hear.

DAVIS: Personnel.

TRUMP: Personnel...

TRUMP: Well, Breitbart’s different. Breitbart cover things, I mean like The New York Times covers things. I mean, I could say that Arthur is alt-right because they covered an alt-right story.

SULZBERGER: [laughing] I am, I am. I’ll take whatever you say. I am always right, but I’m not alt-right.

[laughter, cross talk]

TRUMP: The New York Times covers a lot of stories that are, you know, rough stories. And you know, they have covered some of these things, but The New York Times covers a lot of these things also. It’s just a newspaper, essentially. It’s a newspaper...

TRUMP: Yeah, well Breitbart, first of all, is just a publication. And, you know, they cover stories like you cover stories. Now, they are certainly a much more conservative paper, to put it mildly, than The New York Times. But Breitbart really is a news organization that’s become quite successful, and it’s got readers and it does cover subjects that are on the right, but it covers subjects on the left also. I mean it’s a pretty big, it’s a pretty big thing. And he helped build it into a pretty successful news organization...

PRIEBUS: We have never experienced a single episode of any of those accusations. It’s been the total opposite. It’s been a great team, and it’s just not there. And what the president-elect is saying is 100 percent true.

[cross talk]

TRUMP: And by the way, if you see something or get something where you feel that I’m wrong, and you have some info — I would love to hear it. You can call me, Arthur can call me, I would love to hear. The only one who can’t call me is Maureen [Dowd, opinion columnist]. She treats me too rough.

I don’t know what happened to Maureen! She was so good, Gail [Collins, opinion columnist]. For years she was so good.

[cross talk]

SULZBERGER: As we all say about Maureen, it’s not your fault, it’s just your turn.

[laughter]

...

[Ross did that again! Six long rambling sentences on the big issue of "the future of the Republican Party", and no promised question. I guess, it is easier to give yourself a non-answer to your own non-question, rather than to really ask it. Don't "ax" me Ross, ask me! - M.N.]

ROSS DOUTHAT, opinion columnist: I have a slightly different, but somewhat Steve Bannon-related question, I guess. It’s about the future of the Republican Party. You started out here talking about winning in so many states where no Republican has won in decades, especially Midwestern Rust Belt states. And I think many people think that one of the reasons you won was that you deliberately campaigned as a different kind of Republican. You had different things to say on trade, entitlements, foreign policy, even your daughter Ivanka’s child care plan was sort of distinctive. And now you’re in a situation where you’re governing and staffing up an administration with a Republican Party whose leaders, and Reince, may differ with me a little on this, but don’t always see eye-to-eye on those views.



Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled water (with lyrics)

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TRUMP: Although right now they’re loving me.

[laughter]

UNKNOWN: Well, right now they are.

[cross talk]

TRUMP: Paul Ryan right now loves me, Mitch McConnell loves me, it’s amazing how winning can change things. I’ve liked Chuck Schumer for a long time. I’ve actually, I’ve raised a lot of money for Chuck and given him a lot of money over the years. I think I was the first person that ever contributed to Chuck Schumer. I had a Brooklyn office, a little office, in a little apartment building in Brooklyn in Sheepshead Bay where I worked with my father.

And Chuck Schumer came in and I gave him, I believe, I don’t know if he’s willing to admit this, but I believe it was his first campaign contribution, $500. But Chuck Schumer’s a good guy. I think we’ll get along very well.

["Victory has many fathers, and the defeat is always an orphan. A good example of the fabled NYC promiscuity - M.N.]

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TRUMP: Although right now they’re loving me.

[laughter]

UNKNOWN: Well, right now they are.

[cross talk]

TRUMP: Paul Ryan right now loves me, Mitch McConnell loves me, it’s amazing how winning can change things. I’ve liked Chuck Schumer for a long time. I’ve actually, I’ve raised a lot of money for Chuck and given him a lot of money over the years. I think I was the first person that ever contributed to Chuck Schumer. I had a Brooklyn office, a little office, in a little apartment building in Brooklyn in Sheepshead Bay where I worked with my father.

And Chuck Schumer came in and I gave him, I believe, I don’t know if he’s willing to admit this, but I believe it was his first campaign contribution, $500. But Chuck Schumer’s a good guy. I think we’ll get along very well.

[Finally, Ross Did That (!) and was able to formulate his question, which sounded more like a soft ball flattery than a real question. And how Does he Do That? - M.N.]

DOUTHAT: I guess that’s my question is, how much do you expect to be able to both run an administration and negotiate with a Republican-led Congress as a different kind of Republican. And do you worry that you’ll wake up three years from now and go back to campaigning in the Rust Belt and people will say, well, he governed more like Paul Ryan than like Donald Trump.

TRUMP: I’m doing this to do a good job.’ That’s what I want to do... To me more important is taking care of the people that really have proven to be, to love Donald Trump, as opposed to the political people... They’re smart, they’re workers, and they’re angry. I call them the forgotten men and women.

[Donald: People "love you" today, and the same people will hate you tomorrow, if something goes wrong, or if there is something to blame severely and squarely on you. The campaign is over, or so it appears for now. Do not chase "People's Love", it is the most fickle of all the political commodities; just do what is right. And the most importantly, with the help and the general guidance of the collective leadership and the people of the Republican Party, and not only them, but the most talented, intelligent and dedicated people, willing and able to serve the country as her civil servants, and, fortunately, there are a lot of these people in America. This is the only piece of advice that I would dare to give you, besides the advice to remember that this exactly what is expected of yourself too: to be first of all and most of all a civil servant, at the expense of all the other considerations. - M.N.]

TRUMP: General Mattis is a strong, highly dignified man. I met with him at length and I asked him that question. I said, what do you think of waterboarding? He said — I was surprised — he said, ‘I’ve never found it to be useful.’ He said, ‘I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and I do better with that than I do with torture.’ And I was very impressed by that answer. I was surprised, because he’s known as being like the toughest guy...
Look, we have people that are chopping off heads and drowning people in steel cages and we’re not allowed to waterboard. But I’ll tell you what, I was impressed by that answer. It certainly does not — it’s not going to make the kind of a difference that maybe a lot of people think. If it’s so important to the American people, I would go for it. I would be guided by that. But General Mattis found it to be very less important, much less important than I thought he would say. I thought he would say — you know he’s known as Mad Dog Mattis, right? Mad Dog for a reason. I thought he’d say ‘It’s phenomenal, don’t lose it.’ He actually said, ‘No, give me some cigarettes and some drinks, and we’ll do better.’
...

SULZBERGER: Well, thank you very much for this. Really appreciate this.

TRUMP: Thank you all, very much, it’s a great honor. I will say, The Times is, it’s a great, great American jewel. A world jewel. And I hope we can all get along. We’re looking for the same thing, and I hope we can all get along well.

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M.N.: The following is the piece that I did not include in the excerpts earlier simply because it is very difficult, almost impossible to take this "idea" seriously: Jared Kushner as the appointed peacemaker for the Israeli - Palestinian talks and/or process:

HABERMAN: Jared Kushner. What will Jared Kushner’s role be in your administration?

TRUMP: Oh. Maybe nothing. Because I don’t want to have people saying ‘conflict.’ Even though the president of the United States — I hope whoever is writing this story, it’s written fairly — the president of the United States is allowed to have whatever conflicts he wants — he or she wants. But I don’t want to go by that. Jared’s a very smart guy. He’s a very good guy. The people that know him, he’s a quality person and I think he can be very helpful. I would love to be able to be the one that made peace with Israel and the Palestinians. I would love that, that would be such a great achievement. Because nobody’s been able to do it.

HABERMAN: Do you think he can be part of that?

TRUMP: Well, I think he’d be very good at it. I mean he knows it so well. He knows the region, knows the people, knows the players. I would love to be — and you can put that down in a list of many things that I’d like to be able to do. Now a lot of people tell me, really great people tell me, that it’s impossible, you can’t do it. I’ve had a lot of, actually, great Israeli businesspeople tell me, you can’t do that, it’s impossible. I disagree, I think you can make peace. I think people are tired now of being shot, killed. At some point, when do they come? I think we can do that. I have reason to believe I can do that.

M.N.: Just imagine this: Of all the people on this sinful Earth, including the uncountable number of the professional and able diplomats, statesmen, envoys, etc., etc., it is some Jared Kushner (does anyone really know who and what he is?) is called for the role of the US-appointed official and plenipotentiary "peacemaker", simply by the virtue (or too suspicious possible lack of it), the puzzled me humbly thinks, of being the King's son-in-law or possibly whatever else, with the possible unimpeded access to the top secret classified information: if not by the hook, then by the crook. If this is not nepotism and "Rasputinshina", then what is it? He might be well suited for the role of the appointed Israeli puppet, but his qualifications for the top notch diplomatic and government post are very questionable, to say the very least. 

These excerpts are compiled and commented on 
by Michael Novakhov 

11.28-29.16


Sunday, November 27, 2016

A "Boor" vs. a "Bore" - from English Lessons series, or: "How To Not Be a Baby Bore" - from "Mum's The Word"

On "boors" and "bores":

Bourbon ("Boor born" attacks the "Well born"-s, etc.) Street, New Orleans (New Orly - New Eagles - ?!?) Shooting Leaves 1 Dead, 9 Hurt: Police:

"The Bayou Classic is the annual college football game between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars."
"You still hitch,
And we still pitch,
That what said The Mayor Mitch..."
"So far, so good... The main thing is, leave the cops and the crowds alone", he added.
Review your transcript for the full list of comments and interpretations. - M.N.
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Boor
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Bore
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"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."
"And tells you more, much more; more than you've ever expected or wanted to hear, to see, to read, to learn, and to know." - M.N.
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"In other words, a bore-man is happy to expose and to reveal himself in all his natural, unnatural, supernatural, and the tattooed beauty. Ain't it really boring?" - M.N.
http://www.mumstheword.me/2014/04/18/baby-bore/
How To Not Be a Baby Bore - Mum's The Word:
"It just became blasé, or blazeh, not to be confused with Blaise, see below", said Mayor Mitch  Landrieu,  "with the home work remaining".

The End of Lesson




Man is a thinking reed and a thinking bamboo, the strongest of the reeds: not to bamboozle, but to beat a drum. - M.N.


Gurdjieff, De Hartmann-Chant from a holy book-Solaris Quartet


Man is a thinking reed and a thinking bamboo, the strongest of the reeds: not to bamboozle, but to beat a drum. - M.N.


Pascal : Man is a thinking reed. ... This is an excerpt of Thoughts: “Man is a reed, the weakest of nature, but he is a thinking reed. It is not necessary that the entire universe arm itself to crush: a vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him.
Pascal : Man is a thinking reed - Philosophy & Philosophers
www.the-philosophy.com/pascal-man-thinking-reed

https://books.google.com/books?id=dW4EAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

The full quote sounds much better:

“Man is a reed, the weakest of nature, but he is a thinking reed. It is not necessary that the entire universe arm itself to crush: a vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than what kills him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage that the universe has over him, the universe does knows nothing”

This is the most famous quote by Blaise Pascal, a French philosopher. This is an excerpt of "Thoughts".

In summary, it is the thought that makes man worthy. Two lessons can be drawn from Pascal:
“All our dignity consists then in thought”
“Working to think well: that the principle of morality”
This dual conception of the human condition will greatly influence the existentialists like Sartre, Kierkegaard and Heidegger.

Dust and the Thinking Reed: Conceptions of Human Nature from Blaise Pascal and the Bible 

"думающий тростник"




[bam-boo-zuh l]
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verb (used with object), bamboozled, bamboozling.
1.
to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often followed by into):
They bamboozled us into joining the club.
Synonyms: gyp, dupe, trick, cheat, swindle, defraud, flimflam, hoax, gull, rook; delude, mislead, fool.
2.
to perplex; mystify; confound.
Synonyms: befog, bewilder, puzzle, baffle, dumbfound.
verb (used without object), bamboozled, bamboozling.
3.
to practice trickery, deception, cozenage, or the like:
He bamboozled his way to the top.
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1695-1705
1695-1705; origin uncertain

You mention business dealings in connection with “bamboozle,” which the American Heritage Dictionary defines as “to take in by elaborate methods of deceit; hoodwink.” But it’s worth noting that this is a presidential election year here in the US, and a cynic (that’s me) would say that we’re knee-deep in bamboozlement already with more than two months to go. It’s enough to drive one to guzzling bambooze, if there is such a thing.
What makes dreaming up a nifty story about “bamboozle” so tempting is the unfortunate fact that the actual source of the word is shrouded in mystery. (I like “shrouded in mystery” much better than “unknown,” don’t you?)



The Tin Drum (1979) - Trailer [English Version]

Clinton Backs Vote Recount Effort, Trump Calls It 'Scam'


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Clinton Backs Vote Recount Effort, Trump Calls It 'Scam'


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Clinton Campaign Backs Jill Stein's Election Recount Effort: Lawyer

NBCNews.com-21 hours ago
Hillary Clinton's campaign intends to back the statewide election ... of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology, we had not ... on respecting the outcome of the election and calling the recount effort "sad.".
Trump rages as Clinton helps recount
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Saturday, November 26, 2016

"Black mafia" as a tool of foreign intelligence services: The "Black Mafia", War on Police, and Mass Shootings - News Review: The various layers of these intermediaries and participants have to be taken out of these operations, by all and any means, as completely as possible, and as swiftly as possible. The blind eye and the inaction of the law enforcement authorities about them are incomprehensible.

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"Black mafia" as a tool of foreign intelligence services

As I expressed it in my previous posts, I think that the very significant number, if not the majority of the incidents of shootings at police officers and at least some of the episodes of mass shootings are instigated by the hostile intelligence services from abroad, with the purpose to destabilize the society and to weaken America, and also, in the period before the Presidential elections, to stir the mass emotions and to influence the election choices. 

I have the sufficient reasons to believe, based on certain observations, that this instigation paused or diminished markedly for the time being, although some minor copycat activity might continue for some time, but it could and should be distinguished from the original crimes. At this time, I do not want to go into the details of my reasoning for this impression and into the details of this hypothesis, you can deduce them easily by reading the previous posts. 

I do want to call your attention to the intermediaries of these crimes, the witting, unwitting or duped tools of these services, who most of the time are killed themselves, to cover the tracks, and possibly, as I mentioned earlier, by the squads of the highly trained professional killers. 
The historical connections between the various nationalist black movements and their foreign sponsors, their ideological and operational provokers, instigators and inspirers, the main among them, the Soviet-era KGB, are very well known and are well documented, although some important details might still be unknown to us. There no reasons to believe that these connections ceased to exist, if anything, they intensified and acquired the new shapes, forms, and more aggressive functions and purposes. Unfortunately, some new and unexpected players appeared on this scene also.

These intermediaries allegedly belong to various gangs and groups, described collectively as "Black Mafia", or "Black Mafia Family", or "African-American organized crime", and they are probably inspired by the ideologically oriented groups, the "talkers and jesters", such as the "New Black Panthers". This thesis is illustrated amply by this recent case. 

It is a lucrative business for this mafia, in addition to their enormous profits from the drug sales: these crimes are most likely well paid and most likely are subsidized from abroad. Regardless of all these details, 

The various layers of these intermediaries and participants have to be taken out of these operations, by all and any means, as completely as possible, and as swiftly as possible. The blind eye and the inaction of the law enforcement authorities about them are incomprehensible. 

If these criminals enjoy some type of support (this very thought is horrifying, but some facts with regard to the so-called the "New Black Panthers" appear to be adequately documented), "benign neglect", or laissez-faire attitude, or unwillingness to deal with and to interfere with these issues from the top authorities, such as the Department of Justice and the White House, this lack of attention on their part can be viewed as a criminal negligence in itself and as the act of the administrative malpractice. With all the due and very sincere respect, Mr. Obama, your legacy will be judged by the failure to deal with this problem also, among the others; it has the enormous psychological impact on the collective mood of the society, as it should, and as the shocking results of the 2016 Presidential elections have demonstrated so vividly. With all the humbleness and the appropriate restraint, I urge you, among the other voices, spoken and unspoken, to deal with this problem, seemingly on the lower scale of priorities compared with other "big issues", but extremely important socially and for the society's psychological well-being, to deal with this problem head on, most decisively, and without any bias and delay, in the remaining days of your Presidency, Sir. Do not view this position as "racist", it is not at all, this is common sense and logical position based on the facts. The black people suffer directly and enormously from these groups and gangs themselves, this entangled connection is akin to the modern bonds of slavery. Besides, you are not just the first black President, it is almost irrelevant, and you are not the black President of the black America, you are the American President of all America, with all the corresponding duties and responsibilities. The "racial issue" is a pseudo-issue in this situation, it is exploited eagerly and deliberately by the hostile outside and inside forces, and we have to face this situation and its circumstances with the full awareness, not with the eyes "wide shut".  

I am not and I have never been in the law enforcement field and I do not know how they operate in this regard. I want to stress the urgency and the importance of these issues and problems. Again, the FBI: I will assist you in any way I can, mainly with the conceptual understanding of these issues, which, however, was described earlier. 

Michael Novakhov
11.26.16

The following is the news review of various topics pertinent to this subject. 

Links and Google Search Terms: 


War on Police Update - 11.25.16

Black Mafia - Wikipedia
Black Mafia Family - Wikipedia
African-American organized crime - Wikipedia
Editorial: As police killings rise, society suffers - Opinion - The Ledger - Lakeland, FL
News Reviews and Opinions: As police killings rise, society suffers - Editorial from "The Ledger" - 11.26.16
Organized cybercrime has already hacked you - Jul. 27, 2011
NCJRS Abstract - National Criminal Justice Reference Service

Black mafia as tool of foreign intelligence services

black mafia as tool of foreign intelligence services - Google Search
black mafia as tool of hostile intelligence services - Google Search
black mafia as tool of intelligence services - Google Search
black mafia and mexican drug cartels - Google Search
black mafia and russian mafia - Google Search
black mafia and russian mafia connection - Google Search

"We Hitch - You Pitch" - ("Al Abama") Alabama couple planned to kill cops - 11.25.16

Blog: Couple charged with planting fake bomb; planned to ambush police, start race war
Alabama Police: Couple Planned to...
Alabama couple planned to kill cops in bid to start race war - NY Daily News
The U.S. and Global Security Review: Alabama couple planned to kill cops in bid to start race war - Friday November 25th, 2016 at 3:58 PM
Israel arrests at least 12 on suspicion of arson in connection with massive fires - The Washington Post
Israel wildfires: Haifa residents go home; fires under control - CNN.com
Black Friday violence breaks out across America | New York Post
RUSSIA and THE WEST - РОССИЯ и ЗАПАД: Сергей Иванов (слева) на церемонии вручения премии Русского географического общества
Телефонный разговор с Премьер-министром Израиля Биньямином Нетаньяху • Президент России
hitch meaning - Google Search
pitch meaning - Google Search
pitch meaning in baseball - Google Search
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As police killings rise, society suffers - Editorial from "The Ledger" - 11.26.16

Photo published for Editorial: As police killings rise, society suffers

Lisa Tuozzolo at the funeral on 11.10.16 for her husband, Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo killed on 11.4.16 in the Bronx, NY. 


As police killings rise, society suffers

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Three months ago Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who pledged to be the law-and-order candidate, called for an end to the “war on our police.” Trump did so just after Milwaukee erupted in rioting after a black suspect was shot and killed by police. Last month, the liberal news website Huffington Post declared Trump’s assertion “bunk.”
The Post, citing FBI data and academics who study crime and policing, pointed out that 2015 was one of the safest years on record in terms of law enforcement officers who were feloniously killed — as opposed to dying in vehicle crashes, for instance — in the line of duty.
Forty-one police officers were intentionally killed in 2015, with a record low recorded in 2013, 27. Last year’s total was just two-thirds of the average of 64 officers killed annually since 1980, and a third of the number killed each year in the early 1970s, according to the Post.
“Any suggestion in the political arena that there is a ‘war on cops,’ is symbolic political crime control rhetoric exaggerated by the fact that it is an election year,” Philip Stinson, a retired police officer and now a criminologist at Bowling Green State University, told the Post.
We think, however, that the Post and its sources would have a difficult time convincing those who actually patrol our streets or their families that they aren’t under siege.
On Thanksgiving Day, Collin Rose, 29, a K-9 officer at Wayne State University, died from gunshot wounds he sustained earlier in the week after encountering a suspect. Rose became the 61st police officer shot to death this year, based on a tally by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, which tracks violence against police.
The dramatic rise in police killings is disturbing enough in itself. But one-third of those slain in 2016 so far were victims of ambush killings — which police organizations say are typically defined by an element of surprise, assailants who conceal themselves, their weapons or their intents and a lack of provocation — and The Washington Post reported this week that such attacks have hit a 10-year high.
Police officers have been murdered while sitting in their patrol cars, eating meals, as they exited their vehicles in responding to calls.
That number of ambush murders might have crept higher last week had a pair of suspects in Alabama not suddenly gotten cold feet. The pair, who are black, planted a fake bomb at an elementary school and intended to shoot responding cops in order to start a “race war.” Authorities were not sure why they backed out of the murderous part of their plot.
Police work is inherently risky for those who choose to serve. They understand it can be dangerous, and that at any time some people they encounter can be violent, anti-social, mentally ill or unpredictable.
But what eludes those who criticize Trump, police union leaders and politicians for using the “war” rhetoric is the mindset that underpins such violence.
While some observers attribute the attacks on police to strained race relations and a desire for retaliation for perceived injustice suffered by black community in some areas, that doesn’t tell the whole story, as race is not a factor in all of these killings.
Rather, suspects who are willing to shoot and kill police without provocation exhibit a contempt toward authority and an orderly society. As Craig Floyd, president of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, recently told Fox News, “So much dialogue has centered around race relations, but there is a hatred in this country right now that's just gotten out of control. There is a lack of respect for government in general, and the most visible and vulnerable symbol of government in America is patrolling our streets in marked cars."
This violence, of course, threatens police directly. But the rest of us are affected in an indirect way. In one way, pure self-defense might lead police to ramp up militarism and community crackdowns. Or, as has been reported, police departments across the country are reporting that it’s become more difficult to find new recruits, and that they are sacrificing standards in order to compensate. That, in turn, could mean less qualified people who patrolling our streets, which could mean more incidents that cause police-community relations to deteriorate.
The “war” language might be a bit overblown, but it encapsulates the destructive nature of this threat to the safety and stability our society — and whatever we label it, we need to solve it sooner rather than later.
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