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| AIR FORCE ONE THE ULTIMATE IN EXECUTIVE TRAVEL AND THE OBAMA VACATION MAGIC CARPET
President Trump is constantly looking for ways to economize on the cost of government. Like a frugal executive he often starts his search close to home. Recently he looked at the budget of the Presidential Office. He was suprised to find his predecessors hand still in the cookie jar with about twenty years of vacation funding at tax payer expense. Obama intended to use discretionary funds from the office of Presidential Visits and Vacations for about $2.1 BILLION in vacation funding. Really! Obama is reported to have lined up funding for foreign trips for he and up to 24 members of his family plus staff and a dog sitter through the year 2036. Not expecting to find anything like this Trump had hired three outside accounting professionals to hunt for savings in the White House operations budgets. One of these outsiders eventually found and handed him the ledger with the $2.1 billion vacation funding through 2036 for Mr. Obama. Trump immediately cancelled his predecessor's plans and recalled all Secret Service agents scheduled to protect the Obamas out side of the United States. You may recall that on recent junkets abroad Mr, Obama said many defammatory remarks about his successor in the White House. Do the tax payers have to pay for this undermining of the elected head of state?
Of course nothing in Mr. Trump's order grounds Mr. Obama or restricts his travels in any way, as long as Mr. Obama pays for his travels and not the American Tax payer . Any travel within the United States receives free Secret Service Security. But if he wants to go to Bermuda with 24 of his closest buddies he has to pay the air fare and for private security while abroad.
The White House sometimes a President has just got to get away
Discovery of this little boon doggle isn't Obama's only issue with the office of Presidential Travel and Vacations. He may have to repay the government for all those vacations that weren't official business. Mr. Obama took a lot of vacations. During his eight years in office records appear to indicate that he spent 692 days on vacation or nearly two years of his two terms in office. The bill could come to $214 million. Michelle may also have some payments due to the Office of Discretionaary Gifting Funds. This fund was supposewd to be for gifting visiting dignitaries. There appear to be some questionable purchases.
What a contrast. President Obama takes his full salary and apparently skips work for two years on installments, milks the expense funds and then attempts to continue to raid the White House cookie jar until 2036 after leaving the job. President Trump scrimps to reduce the cost to the tax payers of running the Presidency, donates his salary, and he is the one the House wants to impeach. Really people, could the differences berween the present president and any of the Democrats be more clear than this latest incident illustrates. Note you're not seeing any of this in the MSM. But we invite you to check it out for yourself even using such untrusted verification source as the typical Internet "fact checking" on line services. We the people have been had by the Obamas. |
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
THE COST OF OBAMA'S VACATIONS TO THE AMERICAN TAX PAYER
TRUMP MAKES A MAJOR ECONOMY MOVE ON THE WHITE HOUSE BUDGET AND FINDS OBAMA'S HAND WAS STILL IN THE COOKIE JAR
Friday, March 15, 2019
NAVAL SMALLER CRAFT AND CONSTABULARY FORCES
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If the US Navy is to be limited to something on the order of 300 plus capital ships it is never going to be able to sustain all of its global responsibilities under all circumstances. If the US Navy has to fight its way into a major naval confrontation such as a Chinese invasion of the Philippines or Vietnam or any combination of nations whose maritime territory they covet in the South China Sea most of those 300 war ships will be required. Yet the US will not be able to abandon its responsibilities in the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, the High Artic or anywhere else where we have maritime interests, including our own exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and territorial sea. In our own EEZ and our insular waters the US Coast Guard constitutes a standing constabulary naval force, but it is not adaquate alone on several fronts. Particularly in the high Arctic where we face many challenges from Russia we are presently operating with two ice breakers , one woefully over aged against a Russian fleet that includes about forty icebreakers.
The Navy needs more small ships in the mix. Not just for training, but as a significant part of the mission space. The trend has been to focus on versatile ships capable of handling any mission. Versatility is an important asset, but when destroyers are the only tool available for a job, destroyers get sent to do that job. Unfortunately, overkill inevitably brings the challenges of unnecessary wear and tear and it does more harm than good in the long run.
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Where the Problem Begins
Destroyers (DDGs) and cruisers (CGs) need to be forward deployed naval stations (FDNS). Their power projection is essential, and the Navy needs a solid right hook at the ready to knock down anyone who steps out of line. More than a good right hook is needed, however, to win a fight. For example, a jab might not take anyone off their feet, but it has an important role in supporting and setting up the other maneuvers. DDGs serve as versatile craft capable of fulfilling many possible missions, but when DDGs get tasked with escorting oil tankers and hunting down pirate crews, their power is being wasted.
The fleet’s right hook is solid. What it is missing is a good jab.
Veteran sailors will hear all these ideas and likely make the same point—yes, and the Navy has a ship class to fit this idea, littoral combat ships (LCS). Only they do not work.2 It is conceivable that an LCS could fill the role described, however, they have struggled to do so. The current push is to scrap further LCS plans in favor of fast frigates (FFs).3 Currently, the Navy lacks a forward-deployed craft capable of adequately supporting the DDG/CG role in any sufficient capacity.
In the absence of adequate supporting ships, the DDGs have become over tasked and worn down. These additional duties strain the ship and the crew. Destroyers should not be tasked with burial-at-sea detail or escorting oil tankers except in the most critical of matters. When the FDNS depend too much on one type of vessel to handle all missions within that space, there will be tasks for which the craft is over-equipped. Destroyers need more supporting craft to offload missions to with less critical demands that can still operate in a forward-deployed environment or shallow waters. Reconfigured craft of opportunity such as reconfigured and armed offshore supply vessels presently in abundant supply could fill many of these mission requirements.
The Navy needs a new, revamped class of patrol boat for: 1) better early leadership opportunities for junior officers, 2) reduced fatigue, and 3) cost/benefit analysis. This solution can address several of the problems cited as causal factors in the most recent surface fleet incidents. The Navy lost something important in the shift to bigger and better. It needs a new ship that is the right fit for the job.
Better Training and Better Opportunities for Junior Officers
After last year’s collisions, training been brought up again and again as a causal factor. Sailors continue to discuss whether or not the accidents could have been avoided if people had the proper training or had kept their training up to date. Still, the critical challenge is—as always—having enough trained personnel for the operations involved. Watch sections are built around crew qualifications, and the more training required, the greater the burden placed on the crew. The result will be fewer personnel “qualified” for all duties, and greater fatigue imposed by the intensified watchstanding requirements.
Even so, more training has never been the right answer—more training is how the service took steps toward becoming a checkbox Navy, where every training box is filled in Navy Knowledge Online and sailors only learned how to click through menus more effectively. Proficiency in the most critical responsibilities should be the goal. It is more important to have two proficiently trained sailors at the helm when urgency strikes than a dozen sailors who half paid attention when trying to complete a qualification. If the Navy makes better use of the mission space, then it can start training sailors to become proficient in something rather than trained in everything.
Here is where the mission space issue impacts our training and prevents proficiency from developing.
Every time routine operations are interrupted with special evolutions. Every time a crew has to go out of their way to fulfill some specialized task. Every time a ship is tasked to overly simple duties. Whenever one of these things happens, it places a burden on the crew. There then is less time for maintenance, less time for study, less chance of passing the tests, and less time to schedule the test. Training burdens are inherently time burdens, and taxing the ship by tasking it with lesser duties compounds an already complicated challenge. More time to train seems as if it should help resolve some of the training burdens, but the challenge ultimately becomes how to create the time needed to resolve our training issues.
So how do more ships create better training opportunities? Smaller craft can swap in and out of some future rotation, creating a watchstanding schedule for ships in a particular region not unlike the watchstanding schedule an individual sailor while under way. When smaller ships can alleviate the burden, other ships can focus on their training. In the case of DDGs/CGs, those crews will gain time by not facing more special evolutions or simple duties. Time is a hybrid solution. Time provides the opportunity to train, but simply training is not enough—the training goal should be proficiency rather than just qualification.
Another training issue concerns the opportunities available to junior officers (JOs). If JOs are going to become seasoned senior leaders, there need to be leadership opportunities worked into the training pipeline.4 Not just a relief from collateral duties, but an opportunity to stand on his or her own as a leader. There is no substitute for real leadership experience, and there is no leadership experience like being the most senior officer on board a ship at sea. In addition to assuming significant responsibilities and feeling the full weight of command for the first time, the officer has an opportunity to learn. What areas or experience need the most improvement? What does he or she need to learn before moving to larger vessels? Does the officer have the temperament for these positions, or is the Navy wasting its time training someone without the potential to truly lead?
There are two ways to work this idea into the training pipeline. First, additional ships mean additional opportunities to take command earlier in a career. This approach would mean using the existing system and expanding the number of billets. More leadership opportunities mean more leaders that can be trained simultaneously—in this sense, additional ships would be a means to expand the diameter of our training pipeline and increase the flow. Second, command opportunities could become available to more junior individuals. This approach would mean trying to expedite the elite performers through the training pipeline even faster. Although both approaches are viable, the more reasonable option would be increasing the number of command opportunities available as milestone billets.
Still, expanding the number of opportunities is important for other reasons, most notably in versatility. The surface warfare community is only so large, and milestone billets only become available in so many ways. More opportunities creates a greater scheduling challenge for the detailers, yet sailors can choose whether they will take another key step toward becoming a leader or opt once again for the more comfortable, familiar role on board a similar ship. In so doing, sailors would self-select themselves out of the leadership fast track without sacrificing the capabilities of the fleet.
It should also be noted that command on board a small ship, such as a patrol craft, will be a limited experience. For example, managing and maintaining supply lines is a critical responsibility on board larger vessels, which an aspiring commander will learn during their department head tour. This need will not exist to the same extent on board a patrol boat, and even if it does, the problem will not be nearly as challenging for a crew of 30 as it is for a crew of 300. Even so, this limitation is not necessarily a bad thing. Early command responsibilities should be more limited than senior command responsibilities so sailors have the time and opportunity to develop into mature and capable leaders. Additionally, these command milestones would serve as a demonstration of basic seamanship and potential leadership—things prospective commanding officers should master and display.
There will still be opportunities to learn how to manage a larger crew down the road. In the meanwhile, JOs get the opportunity to test out their leadership abilities, feel the weight of true responsibility for the first time, and understand what critical skills may be missing. At the same time, the Navy mitigates its risk by limiting the size of a first crew and cost of a first ship , and improves its ability to execute the mission by expanding the mission space. One way or another, this experience will happen to a commanding officer. If their first taste of real command occurs on a small vessel in charge of a few dozen crew members , the potential mistakes are much more forgiving than when the ship’s crew is several hundred.
Reducing Fatigue
Fatigue has been cited several times in recent mishaps reports, and for life at sea, fatigue and restricted sleep are as common as saltwater.5 Some military communities already do an incredible job of managing fatigue and limiting the risk to their personnel. Aviation is one area where fatigue management is down to a science. Some suggestions are to start using aviation tactics to alleviate fatigue in surface warfare.
A lateral move in procedures will not work because aircraft can stop moving at the end of the day and ships cannot. Constant motion means constant responsibilities, which means someone must always be watching. This requirement also imposes increased maintenance responsibilities in addition to typical watchstanding burdens.
How does the large vessel versus small craft debate fit into this mix? If it takes one destroyer to successfully patrol a given area, it might take three or four enhanced FFs or patrol boats to fulfill the same immediate power projection requirements—minus certain missile launch or defense capabilities. If the Navy can field a dozen patrol craft to one destroyer, then there is an interesting option to consider. The destroyer must be on the move at all times, but we can swap patrol craft in and out of the rotation. More frequent time in port could reduce the strain on the sailors underway and provide new opportunities to alleviate fatigue. In addition, the destroyer could avoid high traffic areas where possible and send the patrol craft into the mix for physical presence. The Navy can thus maintain the same broad scale projection capabilities and physical presence without sacrificing either. Less high-risk evolutions for the larger craft also provide more manageable risk for the fleet and more time to spend training rather than conducting another high-risk evolution.
If the Navy can replace a constant under way time for destroyers with a rotational patrol craft cycle, imagine the watchstanding versatility. Prolonged fatigue becomes less of an issue if sailors can have a couple of days to recover every week. The fleet becomes more alert and attentive while better able to match vessels to the mission space. The ultimate fatigue-related advantage is then that the service can move from having 300 sailors under way at all times, to 200 Sailors under way and 100 more on the bench ready to rotate. There still will be long days, but five days of long days versus five months of long days puts a different strain on the individual.
Cost/Benefit Analysis
Better optempo is the operational advantage, but there is another advantage to patrol boats and craft of opportunity that we must consider: cost/benefit analysis.. Scrapping one planned destroyer could provide the funding for two dozen patrol boats. Smaller ships also are cheaper to operate—fewer personnel, reduced maintenance costs, less fuel costs. The cost of sending a DDG to handle a mission when a smaller ship would suffice could easily be measured in millions of dollars.
Still, the reduced maintenance window is the notable piece because not only are the maintenance costs cheaper, but the benefit is greater. Less maintenance means less time in the shipyards, which costs the fleet in more ways than dollars. Shipyards are where operational readiness goes to rot. Morale drops and sailors get complacent.
Now take the devil’s advocate point of view. The Navy might not be able to replace one DDG with one patrol craft and maintain the same operational readiness. It may take three or four beefed-up patrol craft to support the fleet in lieu of one destroyer. So, if plans are scrapped for one Zumwalt-class destroyer, the Navy can build 12 PCs—while saving $2.9 billion.6 If the cost is based on an Arleigh-Burke class destroyer, the savings is only $6 million. But, the Navy will have to man these ships, and manning 12 patrol craft will take hundreds of sailors—just as many it would for one destroyer. So, adding up the costs, replacing a single destroyer with a squadron of patrol craft will cost the Navy almost nothing. If anything, the Navy is likely to end up saving money while making better use of the mission space and expanding junior leadership opportunities.
Adding more small ships to the mix is a cost effective solution where the low-end savings estimates still have at least eight or nine zeroes. Better yet, the ships the Navy has can do what they were always meant to do—maintain, train, and equip combat ready naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression, and maintaining freedom of the seas.
Summary and Recommendations
Here are three options for this proposed new class of ship:
- Fast frigates. The guided-missile fast frigate (FFG(X)) perhaps is the closest solution to the existing LCS. The idea (or at least one of them) will be to employ more unmanned systems and operate within contested areas to gain weapons and sensors advantages over potential adversaries.7 This new class would help relieve stress on the surface fleet by moving important, high-risk evolutions to a class of ships specifically designed for that role. Unmanned systems could help reduce the crew size and place lesser manning-related burdens on the fleet. Still, until we see designs, the FFG(X) requests resemble a souped-up LCS designed for high optempo.
- Enhanced Cyclone-class. The current ship class most resembling what we described here is the Cyclone-class patrol boat. It operates with a crew just under 30, diesel engines, and a range of over 2,000 nautical miles.8 These ships were designed more for mission support of SEAL teams and other special operations, which makes the design slightly different than the needs we outlined here. However, we have also seen the immense value of these ships in the Persian Gulf. Almost all of the Cyclone-class ships we have (numbering just over a dozen in total) have been deployed to great effect in contested waters, and when three-quarters of a ship type is succeeding while deployed at a mission for which it was not primarily intended, you may have stumbled onto a formula worth further investigation.
- Not one—but many. Another option is to harken back to the days of World War II and PT-109 where we operated many small ships, which could be used for various purposes. In highly contested waters, this approach would effectively scale down the fight and trade quality for quantity. The overall force effectiveness could remain the same, although this option would signify a fundamental shift in our existing procedures. Specifically, the Navy would need to invest more heavily in floating bases rather than just carrier strike groups.9
The Navy loses something important if it only focuses on bigger and better. There is value in matching the right craft to the mission rather than trying to have one vessel type to fit any mission. Hyperbole aside, the service never got rid of the patrol craft or patrol boats. However, the ones we have are aging, and in the big discussions of new ships like the USS Zumwalt or the FFG(X)s, it becomes easy to forget about the little guys. There are many good reasons for smaller craft, and we need more of them. In terms of rapidly reconfigurable seaworthy craft heavier than the patrol boat, a collection of very cheap to obtain off shore oil industry support craft could fill a wide variety of combat missions and handle intra theater sea lift.
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Thursday, March 7, 2019
SORRY YOU MISSED MARDI GRAIS
HAPPY MARDI GRAIS!
It's Thursday March 7, 2019 the BACCHUS Extravaganza was SUNDAY. Monday was Lundi Grais and Tuesday was Mardi Grais in New Orleans. I have not seen Johnas or the rest of the crew since Friday of last week. This is the longest that they have been missing in action of the four or five Mardi Grais I've been through with them.
New Orleans, Sorry about the weather where you are.
Its nearly 5 PM so I can safely assume they won't be coming to work. So even though I'm a giant catfish with little computer experience I've pulled down the Mardi Grais "station ID" as Johnas and crew call it. Oh, yeah its probably just Thursday where you are. It was all supposed to end promptly at midnight Tuesday just past, Mardi Grais day. We know it will probably just be Friday where you are tomorrow but the American Admiralty Books crew is in New Orleans ( They don't do Annapolis or anywhere else north of Baton Rouge in winter) and it's two days past Mardi Grais. Which Basically means that it was illegal to be serious the past week or more , and virtually required to be drunk. Through out the entire period it is unlikely that anyone will be sober when you need them, and impossible to get any actual work done. The AAB crew would usually all be up by noon on Ash Wednesday, but this was a "cold" Mardi Grais day by New Orleans standards (a high temperature in the low 50s). Such "frigid temperatures" propbably required "extra fortification" with alcohol by the AAB crew to withstand the temperatures during an entire day of parade participation, over eating, drinking to extreme excess, etc.
Maybe by Friday we'll be back to normal production assumeing the motly crew survived. Meanwhile, all of the previous posts since the start of publication are up and running as are all of the special interest sections. So if its just Thursday or Friday where ever you are come on in and enjoy. Thanks for visiting us. We promise to get our motly crew sober and back to work soon.
AAB MARINE ANALYST NAMAZU, THE LAST FISH LEFT STANDING AT THE NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAIS
Meanwhile I, the Great Namazu am the only intelligent being connected to the enterprise who is up and sober.
Feel free to browse.
The whole crew has been completely useless the entire weekend, and will be so apparently into Friday. There is still new stuff to look at. Personally I'm glad its just Thursday or Friday where you are. What if the whole world acted like this?.... Well I do have to admit that seriously drunken naked people have never started a war and seem unlikely to be able to sustain hostilities. But then again they don't get much useful done either.
Its nearly 5 PM so I can safely assume they won't be coming to work. So even though I'm a giant catfish with little computer experience I've pulled down the Mardi Grais "station ID" as Johnas and crew call it. Oh, yeah its probably just Thursday where you are. It was all supposed to end promptly at midnight Tuesday just past, Mardi Grais day. We know it will probably just be Friday where you are tomorrow but the American Admiralty Books crew is in New Orleans ( They don't do Annapolis or anywhere else north of Baton Rouge in winter) and it's two days past Mardi Grais. Which Basically means that it was illegal to be serious the past week or more , and virtually required to be drunk. Through out the entire period it is unlikely that anyone will be sober when you need them, and impossible to get any actual work done. The AAB crew would usually all be up by noon on Ash Wednesday, but this was a "cold" Mardi Grais day by New Orleans standards (a high temperature in the low 50s). Such "frigid temperatures" propbably required "extra fortification" with alcohol by the AAB crew to withstand the temperatures during an entire day of parade participation, over eating, drinking to extreme excess, etc.
Maybe by Friday we'll be back to normal production assumeing the motly crew survived. Meanwhile, all of the previous posts since the start of publication are up and running as are all of the special interest sections. So if its just Thursday or Friday where ever you are come on in and enjoy. Thanks for visiting us. We promise to get our motly crew sober and back to work soon.
AAB MARINE ANALYST NAMAZU, THE LAST FISH LEFT STANDING AT THE NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAIS
Meanwhile I, the Great Namazu am the only intelligent being connected to the enterprise who is up and sober.
Feel free to browse.
The whole crew has been completely useless the entire weekend, and will be so apparently into Friday. There is still new stuff to look at. Personally I'm glad its just Thursday or Friday where you are. What if the whole world acted like this?.... Well I do have to admit that seriously drunken naked people have never started a war and seem unlikely to be able to sustain hostilities. But then again they don't get much useful done either.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019
IT ISN'T EVEN OVER YET BUT THE GREAT CATFISH HAS SOME INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE COHEN HEARING
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| THE GREAT NAMAZU, FORMER JAPANESE DEMIGOD AND MARITIME AND POLITICAL COMMENTATOR |
I been monitoring the Cohen hearings via the hydrophones all morning. I offer the following observations:
Update February 28, 2017. The hearings continue away from the cameras. It appears all the stuff that could be presented in an incendiary manner was done yesterday. Despite the fact that everything said yesterday was mostly untrue and of virtually no consequence the hearings continue. Such is the way of Marxist political theater. Its all about atmospherics before starting a baseless drive to impeach the President for not being Hillary. Democrats believe that Americans are incapable of critical thinking. They aren't really sure though, so they hedge their bets by "expanding the electorate" to include convicted felons and inmates, and illegal aliens. They already have a bill to eliminate the Electoral College so that the "Deplorables" who are all citizens will have to accept the choices of their "expanded electorates" in California, and New York. Of course that would actually require a Constitutional amendment, which is not likely. Until they get control they will label anyone who is not for inclusion of felons, inmates, interdicts, and resident and illegal aliens on the voter rolls as "Racists" and "Antidemocratic" .
Update February 28, 2017. The hearings continue away from the cameras. It appears all the stuff that could be presented in an incendiary manner was done yesterday. Despite the fact that everything said yesterday was mostly untrue and of virtually no consequence the hearings continue. Such is the way of Marxist political theater. Its all about atmospherics before starting a baseless drive to impeach the President for not being Hillary. Democrats believe that Americans are incapable of critical thinking. They aren't really sure though, so they hedge their bets by "expanding the electorate" to include convicted felons and inmates, and illegal aliens. They already have a bill to eliminate the Electoral College so that the "Deplorables" who are all citizens will have to accept the choices of their "expanded electorates" in California, and New York. Of course that would actually require a Constitutional amendment, which is not likely. Until they get control they will label anyone who is not for inclusion of felons, inmates, interdicts, and resident and illegal aliens on the voter rolls as "Racists" and "Antidemocratic" .
1. Mr. Cohen ,and his legal counsel managed to withhold from the full committee his written comments until the hearings actually convened. Yet, the Democratic members seemed to know the contents as did the media. The ranking Republican member pointed out to the Committee chairman Rep. Cummings of Maryland (D) that this withholding violated committee rules. The Republican ranking member moved for a delay in the start of the hearing so that the Republican members could review the written statement and documents offered in evidence. The motion was immediately denied and the hearing opened with about a thirty minute lecture from Mr. Cohen on the alleged evils of Donald Trump. This from the only witness, a man already convicted of lying to banks, Federal investigators, and the Congress.
2. The major networks spent most of the day on the hearing at a time when the President was out of the country trying to insure the safety of all Americans from nuclear annihilation from North Korea. Conveniently, For the Democrats this denied the President any positive media coverage at a time when his positive activities should have been the focus of media attention.
3. One item the Democrats focused on was the President's discussions with Mr. Cohen about the Wiki Leak release of Hillary Clinton's hidden E-mails. The meeting took place in July of the year referenced. The Democrats visited this meeting again and again describing it in conspiratorial tone as if it involved discussion of secretly and illegally obtained information. In fact the pending release was described in electronic and print media in early June, a month prior. The two were discussing facts already reported to the general public. A Republican described this fact and entered into evidence the relevant media reports. He received about 30 seconds of media coverage. Subsequent Democrats constantly kept coming back to this meeting acting as if the meeting was based on secretly obtained illegal information .
BIPEDS THIS IS THE SUREST SIGN OF MARXIST STYLE POLITICAL THEATER. AS KARL MARX WOULD ADVISE ; LIE BIG, KEEP REPEATING THE SAME LIE. EVENTUALLY IT WILL BE BELIEVED.
4. The chief "evidence" offered by Mr. Cohen of Trump's involvement in an alleged series of pay offs of alleged former sexual partners were heavily redacted checks for varying amounts with no "memo" or accompanying correspondence indicating the purpose of the payments. This would not qualify as "evidence" in any court of law. More importantly there is no significance to the alleged affairs as they are not alleged to have occurred while Mr. Trump was in office or even running for office.
OPINION: The hearing is simply classic Marxist political theater. The committee has no authority to bring criminal charges and received no real evidence of such. The purposes of the theater were:
1. Distract potential positive media attention from the President who was over seas performing his duties, and strike at his reputation while he was distracted and out of town.
2. Develop atmospherics towards public support of an impeachment. What is an "impeachable offense"? Pretty much anything the Congress says it is and that the public might stand for.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
THE RECONQUISTA. A VIEW FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
THE GREAT CATFISH EXAMINES THE GROWING RECONQUISTA MOVEMENT
THE GREAT NAMAZU: Retired Japanese Demigod , Maritime Analyst, and Political Commentator
GREETINGS AMERICAN BIPEDS:
Previously we posted on the growing number of illegal aliens illegally voting in the United States. That was some months ago and being rather a conservative catfish, I was rather conservative in my estimate of the problem. Of course I also posted on how large numbers of illegals participating in the US Census skew representation in favor of the states running "Sanctuary Cities". I repeat some of those cautions in the post below. The information now being posted by the Los Angeles Times , hardly a bastion of conservatism , observations only relevant to the Los Angeles area, are so alarming compared to my earlier estimates that every American should consider the facts outlined below as reported by LA TIMES. Consider that what the LA TIMES is saying about Los Angeles is probably true proportionately in the other California Sanctuary Cities. Then consider that similar situations exist in New York, and parts of Florida and Texas. The reconquest of our South West is definitely underway and seriously making progress. Its not the state of Mexico that is taking over, it is a movement of illegal aliens who are empowered and urged into action by the leadership of the American Democratic Party. Here are some highlights of the statistics as reported in the LA TIMES.
1. There are approximately 10.2 million people living in Los Angeles and about 40% of the workers are working for cash and paying no income tax. This is largely because the bulk of these non tax payers, many of whom consume taxpayer funded social services and subsidies are illegal aliens.
2. 95% of the warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for Illegal Aliens.
3. 75% of the people on the LAPD's "Most Wanted List" are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of the births in Los Angeles are to illegal Mexicans and paid for by California's tax payer funded " Medi-Cal".
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California's correction system are Mexican Nationals who entered the country illegally. They are not incarcerated for their illegal entry but for serious violent and property crimes.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports that it is estimated that half of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from "south of the Border".
8. Nearly 60% of the occupants of all HUD properties in the Los Angeles area are illegal aliens.
9. 21 radio stations in the Los Angeles area are Spanish speaking.
10. Of the approximately 10.2 million people in Los Angeles County 5.1 million report English as their primary language, 3.9 report Spanish. What do you think the proportion will be in a few years if we do not stop illegal immigration in its tracks now?
Now here is some food for thought about the impact of this illegal influx nationally:
1. Nationally less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare.
2. Over 70% of the annual population growth nationally averaged is due to illegal immigration. This jumps to 90% in places like California , Florida and New York.
Why is California slipping beneath the RECONQUISTA boot heel? The politicians in California demand an open border, stop California police from assisting the feds in enforcing our immigration and naturalization laws or border security. The state requires no proof of citizenship for a drivers license, and has a "motor voter law". In addition, most of the cities in California are "sanctuary cities" in which the city governments refuse to follow Federal law and punish their local police if they show any inclination to do so.
Who benefits from these practises? Nancy Pelosi and all of her kindred spirit local politicians. She and her like minded state and municipal office holders are able to wield power beyond their wildest dreams through all of these illegals who keep them in office and skew California's impact on the rest of the nation. Even if only 2 million of these illegals vote , most get reported on the census which Pelosi and her fellow travelers had adjusted so as to not question citizenship. Under the US Constitution written by men with common sense who never imagined such an organized non military coup the number of Congressmen that a state gets is determined by the population, not by the voter register. California may have as many as twice as many congressmen as the state is constitutionally entitled to, but for the the Democratic party maneuver to remove citizenship related questions from the census. What we wrote about this census packing with illegal immigrants is as true today as when we first posted the ideas below:
".....illegal voting by illegal aliens is not the only way they tip the balance of any Federal election in favor of the deranged (er...I meant to say "democrats" but you get it) . The mere presence of illegals within a state , especially a state like California now declared as a complete "sanctuary state" by their own "Governor Moonbeam" tips Presidential elections. You see these illegals are counted by the U.S. Census Bureau as "citizens" or "residents" of the states they illegally reside in. This practice in turn skews the numbers that determine how many congressional seats a given state gets and how many Electoral College votes the state gets in determining Presidential elections.
We have another census coming up in 2020. That census will determine how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes states like California and all others that disregard Federal immigration law will have in the subsequent elections. We estimate that there are about 22 million illegal aliens residing in the United States. They are not evenly spread across the land scape. They favor residence in states like California, New York, Florida, and Texas. Their presence dilutes the strength of Republican legal residents in Texas and Florida and puts California and New York over the top in Electoral College seats and Congressional seats, where illegal voting by these pseudo democrats is not only tolerated but encouraged. Giving these states additional Congressional seats and Electoral College votes is manifestly unfair and disenfranchises legitimate Republican voters. It is illegal, when people like Governor Moonbeam collude with others to hide illegal aliens in residence to the disenfranchisement of lawful voters they violate criminally the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It is obviously unconstitutional to allow such a twisting of the census. The problem is so large that there exist a real possibility that the House could switch to Democratic control by 2019 and a demonic Democratic global socialists again would occupy the White House by 2021
Write the President, he could issue an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to identify only lawful residents and to take pains to establish such lawful identity. This would mean more burning of shoe leather and the related expense and less reliance on forms returned by mail. Of course such an executive order would be immediately challenged by the so called "justices" of the "Deep State" as they have challenged every Trump Executive Order and rubber stamped any and all Obama orders in the past, but it's worth a shot. The sooner it is issued the sooner it can be challenged and fast tracked to the US Supreme Court where it would have a fair chance of being upheld. In the meanwhile also write your Congressional Representatives and Senators for a legislative attack on this problem. Now is the time to act. Remember the next Democrat in the White House probably won't be "Obama light" but a far more virulent form of the cancer than that which recently vacated the White House.
Of course one of the first things the new democratic dominated Congress proposed as soon as the new more virulent demonrats were sworn in was to eliminate the electoral college. That of course would make all of the red "Great Flyover States" irrelevant. California, New York, and the small handful of reliably Blue states with the aid of their illegal voters would have a majority of any popular vote. They would then put into office collectivist globalists popular with the nut case electorates in those few states and roundly hated in the majority of the country. A perfect recipe for violent revolution. Of course the power hungry and short sighted elite like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck would not be happy when the RECONQUISTA dominated states of California , and by then possibly Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado wanted to succeed and join Mexico or form an independent republic. This would reduce the power of the demonrat elite and they would probably deploy Federal troops to secure the succeeding states. Meanwhile the powers in office in the RECONQUISTA STATES would probably resort to armed force to hold the original tax paying population in place to support their welfare programs, as the tax payers did everything in their power to relocate to the Great Flyover States. Meanwhile Michigan would probably be ready to establish a Sharia Law Islamic state. About seventeen contiguous Fly Over States would probably opt for freedom from the Demonrats mess but would have to purchase it by force of arms.
Things don't have to be this way. I hear so many American bipeds lamenting that the Pelosi crowd are obviously "traitors" but no one seems able to prosecute them. American bipeds you need a dose of legal sophistication. "Treason is so narrowly defined in your constitution that the charge can never be made to stick when your nation is not at war with a foreign state power. But when the demonrats are doing is costing you your voting and representational constitution rights. There is a law against that. Whenever any two or more people conspire to deny anyone a right granted by the constitution and take action against the exercise of that right such an action is a felony. Pelosi, Shumer, the whole new crop of freshmen demonrat congressmen, more than half of the municipal and state authorities in California are guilty of violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The potential complainants are countless. All of those illegal aliens are in violation of the law. A massive law enforcement and diligent prosecutorial effort could nip this mess in the bud. The American main stream media the chief propaganda arm of the demonrats will scream to high heaven.
Some of these media mavens need to be arrested for aiding and abetting the felony violation of your rights. The law must be enforced or you are going to see the end of the greatest experiment in human rights ever seen on the face of the earth. All those illegal immigrant inmates should not be returned to the welfare rolls when their jail sentences are up, they need to be deported. The turn coat American office holders violating your rights need to take up their prison bunks and lose their rights to vote and hold office when they have served their sentences. Those state laws that encourage illegal alien voting need to be struck down in Federal court. All non citizens who have voted should be rounded up and deported. The rest of the illegal aliens should be given the opportunity to register and have their cases heard before an immigration judge. any found who failed to register should be arrested and immediately deported . BUT FIRST YOU MUST SECURE THE SOUTHERN BORDER AND CUT OFF THE CONSTANT GROWTH IN RECONQUISTA MANPOWER. SECOND YOU MUST DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR COLLECTIVE POWER TO ELIMINATE THE DEMONRATS FROM CONGRESS AND THE DEMONRATS AND RINOS FROM THE SENATE AND SECURE THE WHITE HOUSE AGAINST ALL DEMONRAT CHALLENGERS. THE PRICE OF FAILURE IS THE FALL OF YOUR COUNTRY IN JUST A FEW YEARS.
You'll need a tough guy as President to carry this off. If you have to hold your nose to do it, make sure you vote for Trump. The demonrats will sell you into slavery to the RECONQUISTA and the ISLAMOFACISTS. WAKE UP AMERICA!
THE GREAT NAMAZU: Retired Japanese Demigod , Maritime Analyst, and Political Commentator
GREETINGS AMERICAN BIPEDS:
Previously we posted on the growing number of illegal aliens illegally voting in the United States. That was some months ago and being rather a conservative catfish, I was rather conservative in my estimate of the problem. Of course I also posted on how large numbers of illegals participating in the US Census skew representation in favor of the states running "Sanctuary Cities". I repeat some of those cautions in the post below. The information now being posted by the Los Angeles Times , hardly a bastion of conservatism , observations only relevant to the Los Angeles area, are so alarming compared to my earlier estimates that every American should consider the facts outlined below as reported by LA TIMES. Consider that what the LA TIMES is saying about Los Angeles is probably true proportionately in the other California Sanctuary Cities. Then consider that similar situations exist in New York, and parts of Florida and Texas. The reconquest of our South West is definitely underway and seriously making progress. Its not the state of Mexico that is taking over, it is a movement of illegal aliens who are empowered and urged into action by the leadership of the American Democratic Party. Here are some highlights of the statistics as reported in the LA TIMES.
1. There are approximately 10.2 million people living in Los Angeles and about 40% of the workers are working for cash and paying no income tax. This is largely because the bulk of these non tax payers, many of whom consume taxpayer funded social services and subsidies are illegal aliens.
2. 95% of the warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for Illegal Aliens.
3. 75% of the people on the LAPD's "Most Wanted List" are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of the births in Los Angeles are to illegal Mexicans and paid for by California's tax payer funded " Medi-Cal".
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California's correction system are Mexican Nationals who entered the country illegally. They are not incarcerated for their illegal entry but for serious violent and property crimes.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports that it is estimated that half of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from "south of the Border".
8. Nearly 60% of the occupants of all HUD properties in the Los Angeles area are illegal aliens.
9. 21 radio stations in the Los Angeles area are Spanish speaking.
10. Of the approximately 10.2 million people in Los Angeles County 5.1 million report English as their primary language, 3.9 report Spanish. What do you think the proportion will be in a few years if we do not stop illegal immigration in its tracks now?
Now here is some food for thought about the impact of this illegal influx nationally:
1. Nationally less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare.
2. Over 70% of the annual population growth nationally averaged is due to illegal immigration. This jumps to 90% in places like California , Florida and New York.
Why is California slipping beneath the RECONQUISTA boot heel? The politicians in California demand an open border, stop California police from assisting the feds in enforcing our immigration and naturalization laws or border security. The state requires no proof of citizenship for a drivers license, and has a "motor voter law". In addition, most of the cities in California are "sanctuary cities" in which the city governments refuse to follow Federal law and punish their local police if they show any inclination to do so.
Who benefits from these practises? Nancy Pelosi and all of her kindred spirit local politicians. She and her like minded state and municipal office holders are able to wield power beyond their wildest dreams through all of these illegals who keep them in office and skew California's impact on the rest of the nation. Even if only 2 million of these illegals vote , most get reported on the census which Pelosi and her fellow travelers had adjusted so as to not question citizenship. Under the US Constitution written by men with common sense who never imagined such an organized non military coup the number of Congressmen that a state gets is determined by the population, not by the voter register. California may have as many as twice as many congressmen as the state is constitutionally entitled to, but for the the Democratic party maneuver to remove citizenship related questions from the census. What we wrote about this census packing with illegal immigrants is as true today as when we first posted the ideas below:
".....illegal voting by illegal aliens is not the only way they tip the balance of any Federal election in favor of the deranged (er...I meant to say "democrats" but you get it) . The mere presence of illegals within a state , especially a state like California now declared as a complete "sanctuary state" by their own "Governor Moonbeam" tips Presidential elections. You see these illegals are counted by the U.S. Census Bureau as "citizens" or "residents" of the states they illegally reside in. This practice in turn skews the numbers that determine how many congressional seats a given state gets and how many Electoral College votes the state gets in determining Presidential elections.
We have another census coming up in 2020. That census will determine how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes states like California and all others that disregard Federal immigration law will have in the subsequent elections. We estimate that there are about 22 million illegal aliens residing in the United States. They are not evenly spread across the land scape. They favor residence in states like California, New York, Florida, and Texas. Their presence dilutes the strength of Republican legal residents in Texas and Florida and puts California and New York over the top in Electoral College seats and Congressional seats, where illegal voting by these pseudo democrats is not only tolerated but encouraged. Giving these states additional Congressional seats and Electoral College votes is manifestly unfair and disenfranchises legitimate Republican voters. It is illegal, when people like Governor Moonbeam collude with others to hide illegal aliens in residence to the disenfranchisement of lawful voters they violate criminally the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It is obviously unconstitutional to allow such a twisting of the census. The problem is so large that there exist a real possibility that the House could switch to Democratic control by 2019 and a demonic Democratic global socialists again would occupy the White House by 2021
Write the President, he could issue an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to identify only lawful residents and to take pains to establish such lawful identity. This would mean more burning of shoe leather and the related expense and less reliance on forms returned by mail. Of course such an executive order would be immediately challenged by the so called "justices" of the "Deep State" as they have challenged every Trump Executive Order and rubber stamped any and all Obama orders in the past, but it's worth a shot. The sooner it is issued the sooner it can be challenged and fast tracked to the US Supreme Court where it would have a fair chance of being upheld. In the meanwhile also write your Congressional Representatives and Senators for a legislative attack on this problem. Now is the time to act. Remember the next Democrat in the White House probably won't be "Obama light" but a far more virulent form of the cancer than that which recently vacated the White House.
Of course one of the first things the new democratic dominated Congress proposed as soon as the new more virulent demonrats were sworn in was to eliminate the electoral college. That of course would make all of the red "Great Flyover States" irrelevant. California, New York, and the small handful of reliably Blue states with the aid of their illegal voters would have a majority of any popular vote. They would then put into office collectivist globalists popular with the nut case electorates in those few states and roundly hated in the majority of the country. A perfect recipe for violent revolution. Of course the power hungry and short sighted elite like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck would not be happy when the RECONQUISTA dominated states of California , and by then possibly Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado wanted to succeed and join Mexico or form an independent republic. This would reduce the power of the demonrat elite and they would probably deploy Federal troops to secure the succeeding states. Meanwhile the powers in office in the RECONQUISTA STATES would probably resort to armed force to hold the original tax paying population in place to support their welfare programs, as the tax payers did everything in their power to relocate to the Great Flyover States. Meanwhile Michigan would probably be ready to establish a Sharia Law Islamic state. About seventeen contiguous Fly Over States would probably opt for freedom from the Demonrats mess but would have to purchase it by force of arms.
Things don't have to be this way. I hear so many American bipeds lamenting that the Pelosi crowd are obviously "traitors" but no one seems able to prosecute them. American bipeds you need a dose of legal sophistication. "Treason is so narrowly defined in your constitution that the charge can never be made to stick when your nation is not at war with a foreign state power. But when the demonrats are doing is costing you your voting and representational constitution rights. There is a law against that. Whenever any two or more people conspire to deny anyone a right granted by the constitution and take action against the exercise of that right such an action is a felony. Pelosi, Shumer, the whole new crop of freshmen demonrat congressmen, more than half of the municipal and state authorities in California are guilty of violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The potential complainants are countless. All of those illegal aliens are in violation of the law. A massive law enforcement and diligent prosecutorial effort could nip this mess in the bud. The American main stream media the chief propaganda arm of the demonrats will scream to high heaven.
Some of these media mavens need to be arrested for aiding and abetting the felony violation of your rights. The law must be enforced or you are going to see the end of the greatest experiment in human rights ever seen on the face of the earth. All those illegal immigrant inmates should not be returned to the welfare rolls when their jail sentences are up, they need to be deported. The turn coat American office holders violating your rights need to take up their prison bunks and lose their rights to vote and hold office when they have served their sentences. Those state laws that encourage illegal alien voting need to be struck down in Federal court. All non citizens who have voted should be rounded up and deported. The rest of the illegal aliens should be given the opportunity to register and have their cases heard before an immigration judge. any found who failed to register should be arrested and immediately deported . BUT FIRST YOU MUST SECURE THE SOUTHERN BORDER AND CUT OFF THE CONSTANT GROWTH IN RECONQUISTA MANPOWER. SECOND YOU MUST DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR COLLECTIVE POWER TO ELIMINATE THE DEMONRATS FROM CONGRESS AND THE DEMONRATS AND RINOS FROM THE SENATE AND SECURE THE WHITE HOUSE AGAINST ALL DEMONRAT CHALLENGERS. THE PRICE OF FAILURE IS THE FALL OF YOUR COUNTRY IN JUST A FEW YEARS.
You'll need a tough guy as President to carry this off. If you have to hold your nose to do it, make sure you vote for Trump. The demonrats will sell you into slavery to the RECONQUISTA and the ISLAMOFACISTS. WAKE UP AMERICA!
Friday, February 15, 2019
THE LATEST ON THE NOW OVER DUE (2015) NEW NICARAGUA TRANS OCEANS CANAL.
THE PANAMA CANAL EXPANSION WAS SPARKING CONSTRUCTION OF BIGGER SHIPS AND A RACE AMONG AMERICAN PORTS TO IMPROVE INFRASTRUCTURE TO ACCOMMODATE THEM. BUT NOW AT BEST "Nicaragua’s US $50b rival to Panama Canal ‘going ahead slowly’ as funding evaporates and Chinese investor keeps low profile" Full Article in: South China Morning Post (2018)
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| The Original Panama canal Under Construction, The Great Culebra Cut July 4, 1885 image from Wikipedia Commons |
In January of 2013 we introduced our readers for the first time to our analysis of the potential ramifications of a new Panama Canal. On August 22, 2013 we updated you a bit on the continuing development. An improved Panama Canal had been under construction for some time at the time of our reporting and was slated for completion in 2015, that of course didn't happen. The new canal if ever completed will feature vastly improved channel depths, channel widths, lock dimensions and over head clearances rendering obsolete the shipping term "PANAMAX" to describe ships specifically designed to transit the canal. Once completed the "new canal" will pass much larger ships faster than the "old" canal. But, this Chinese sponsored project seem to have run out of Chinese money. The Nicaragua canal authority doesn't have the money to build the canal and never will if dependent on the Nicaragua economy but they are continuing work at a snail's pace while trying to find new sponsors in China. The Canal authority is also starting to meet environmental movement resistance at home. We link you to the full story from the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST on progress into 2018. Below you can read in excerpts from our August 2013 report about the impact of such a canal on US shipping, especially along the Gulf Coast if the canal is ever built. As we look at progress through 2019 the question seems to be will it ever be built?
No one is quite sure what this means for U.S. Gulf Coast/ East Coast trade with the Pacific region. But its pretty certain that the only ports that can accommodate such giant ships are going to benefit. Baltimore and New Orleans share a lively coast wise trade with each other and compete somewhat for various elements of foreign trade. Both have been able to handle some of the largest bulk carriers in the coal and grain trade but most of their general cargo facilities are built to "PANAMAX" standards. Other U.S. Ports have never built the infrastructure for the larger bulk carriers and have been competing as general cargo ports largely based on "PANAMAX" engineering. The looming completion of the "new canal" was spurring a spending and construction race in a number of U.S. ports to improve infrastructure to handle these larger ships when they come. Unfortunately these are, in too many cases, highly speculative investments. No one knows over time how the new trade picture will emerge. History and maritime economics however tell us that the decision to utilize a particular port may begin with the verification that your ship can navigate the channel and fit at the available berths, but there is a lot more to it than that. Interested in more details? The links below are to more recent press and trade journal coverage.
Panama Canal expansion spurs railroads, ports to prepare for new business -Article from Progressive Railroading
http://www.progressiverailroading.com/rail_industry_trends/article/Panama-Canal-expansion-spurs-railroads-ports-to-prepare-for-new-business--35793
New locks for Panama Canal near half-way point- Article from Miami Herald:
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
BOOK REVIEW ; "THE GATHERING PACIFIC STORM"
An Analysis of U.S. China Strategic Competition In Military Technological and Industrial Development by Tai Ming Cheung and Thomas G. Mahnken
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There is a growing military technological competition between the United States and China. This growing competition is an integral part a larger strategic contest. To understand this complicated military technological competition requires an in depth understanding of the military, political, economic , drivers behind the phenomena. This military technological rivalry evolves out of the larger geostrategic and geo-ecomoic competition involving the "Middle Kingdom's" desire to control the China Seas and their neighboring littoral states as virtually a Chinese lake and vassal islands. China is behind at the moment, in our opinion, in this technological race. But the United States is just starting to awaken to the fact that a race is on. This technological contest is just getting underway. We anticipate that it will grow rapidly and become more complex and intense over time.
We do see some similarities in this modern day conflict between near peer powers and the old "Cold War". We understand this conflict to be quite different in nature despite the surface similarities with the old "Cold War". The Cold war was primarily a contest between ideologies communism vs capitalism. The Soviet block had its allies or vassal states and the United States had its allies, but in the new contest the military and industrial , and commercial boundaries are blurred. The contest is taking place in a globalized interdependent economy. Geo-economic determinants are coming to the foreground and will make for some strange bed fellows.
The book is an anthology of sorts , a collection of essays by experts carefully selected and edited to address the military and industrial elements of the growing competition between the United States and China. The limitation of the work to these limited aspects of the competition works well for keeping the book readable and reasonably sized. But this is not the comprehensive all purpose examination of the subject. Probably no one volume would ever suffice. But we find it to be a highly useful and insightful work for this portion of the contest and at this stage of the evolution of the conflict. We highly recommend the work for journalists, political scientists (and their students), naval officers especially any junior officers with orders to the region or to the Naval Post Graduate school or War College. We also believe that Commercial maritime management may find the insights useful as would many people in the State Department.
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