Showing posts with label nixon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nixon. Show all posts

Thursday 30 November 2023

Kinda Like Kissinger Without The War Crimes - Chalmers Johnson
















Some time back I came across a link to an obituary for the late Chalmer's Johnson. I read it and was a bit surprised that the spelling was as bad as mine in places, though I was most curious about the claim that Chalmers was the intellectual equal if not superior to Henry Kissinger. Unlike a lot of people who try to get into Kissinger debates my political mentor Joe Barbera said just 'Years of Upheaval' which is part two of his autobiographical trilogy was the one to read and so I read it in Hua Hin, Thailand.


It's an amazing read not because Kissinger writes particularly well, but because of it's comprehensive detail and let's face it, sheer chronological historical narrative. This is the guy who invented shuttle diplomacy. A German Jew flitting back and forth between Tel Aviv, Cairo, Riyadh, Damascus and Jordan. Then there's the Paris peace accord with Vietnam, Soviet détente, and secret trips to Peking in preparation for Nixon's visit, the oil crisis and so on and so forth. Truly remarkable times.



I disagreed with the obituary, though I've had to change my mind. If there's one video worth watching from Kissinger's political bender, this is the one. It's all there and most troubling for me, an emerging understanding of why the Euro was plummeting against the dollar, as the empire makes it's last-gasp efforts to hold on to the past. I urge you to watch this. Chalmers Johnson is in a different intellectual league to Kissinger. A man able to delineate between the expedient thing and the right thing. Something Kissinger isn't qualified to comment on. 


RIP Mr Johnson you were a great American patriot.


Update. I wrote this a long time ago and since then I learned that Watergate was about stealing the same Компромат as Epstein used on the Deletes. I also didn't mention that Kay Griggs, wife of Colonel George Griggs, Chief of Staff to General Al Grey, Commandant of the Marine Corp (Cherry Marines) testified that Kissinger raped a male officer in Cambodia leaving him mentally shattered. If you look at Kissinger's preposterous 'beard' and wife, it's all there. That's their humour. How and why would you believe a tall and elegant lady would marry a homosexual dwarf?



His real name was Heinz and the OSS picked him up in Germany after the war. No doubt another double agent like George Soros.

Update No 2 - I was reminded on Facebook that it isn't impossible that Nancy Kissinger was a, he-babe.






Monday 26 December 2022

Boxing Day





I've been a bit ropey for a couple of days. I was hungover and when I arose yesterday, I headed downstairs and under-cooked the chicken, and my risk/reward shields were down (dehydrated, drunk etc) so I ate it, and I was nauseous for a day or so. 

It's a Xmas not a Christmas thing.

Before I was ill, I was researching Dick Nixon again. All the info tallied with stuff I now don't know, because I'm certain of it. 

Certainty is the most dangerous place in the universe. I have some expertise.

I can only start with axioms

If the editors/producers in production land, are the heroes in every report they write. Why aren't they the heroes? 

Do heroes exist? 

Of course but to be the real deal they have fly under cover. 

That's just logic.

Sowieso Tricky Dicky

This sentiment goes against prevailing ignorance. If I liked the guy in the past because of context, I love him again. Even though, unlike all of you. I have seen the butterflies of the killing fields and it is written so.

Here. You can search for it. Cambodia might be a start. The rest is up to you.

Also while we're at, it's so easy to see who are the unwelcome players of history. The service-to-self crowd, airbrush our historical greats, and substitute their guys as the heroes (if they weren't in place before) [no more heroes any more].

They are heartless gangbangers, we are

Atlee
Nixon
Wilson & Secretaries
Trump
Corbyn

Media Hate = Dumbocracy

All knew more, but couldn't say...

Wednesday 21 June 2017

Trump's Mentor - Roy Cohn




I wanted to research Roy Cohn and discovered this gem of an interview. I assumed I'd judge him a loathsome New York, Jewish Criminal Lawyer but actually I quite liked him. He struck me as most definitely criminal but somehow a straight shooter.

Most people are told to think that Nixon, McCarthy and other media hate-targets are evil, but I've found that when the media smears someone repeatedly and ad nauseum, then it's the media who are covering up something, and the targets knew something the media would prefer wasn't widely known.

Saturday 7 January 2017

Bob Woodward - Media Paedophile #PizzaGate





I've been writing for some time in various channels that the most protected paedophile network is the media paedophile network. I've never cared for the official narrative about the Watergate Scandal on the basis that the MSM never peddles anything or is outraged big-time unless it's part of their owners agenda. 

I've also written back in 2012 that I knew that Bob Woodward was working for ONI during Watergate which was really just another coup d'etat to get Nixon out as he was pulling moves the NWO didn't like (Detente, Peking Visit).

Today is the day I learned that Bob Woodward was directly involved with little boys at the Reagan/Bush Sr Whitehouse during the Franklin Scandal. I did a quick search and it seems the information has been out there for some time.

Update - Original video censored. Replacement largely unrelated to original.

Friday 12 October 2012

Cold War Documentary - Episode 16: Détente (1969 -1975)




A great example of the power elite's ability to smash presidents and shape opinion is the downfall of Nixon for a relatively trivial misdemeanour. For sure one can't ignore his crimes against humanity in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam but these took no part in the legal effort to impeach Nixon and are no greater than the crimes of Truman, Eisenhower or LBJ in South East Asia. 

Instead the clear thinking observer can see the ability of the power elite to remove those it feels are getting in the way with relatively little fuss. The Russian adviser to Brezhnev Georgy Arbatov confirms my research that Nixon was removed for among other crimes his rapprochement work with Russia. Anyone who thinks Nixon's Wategate crimes were greater than Bush/Reagan's Iran Contra needs their head examining.

Episode 16: Détente (1969--1975)

Nixon builds closer relations with China and the USSR, hoping to leverage an honourable US exit from Indochina. The Soviet Union is fearful of a US-Chinese alliance, but summits between Nixon and Brezhnev lead to a relaxation of tensions and concrete arms control agreements. Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik strategy also normalises West German relations with East Germany, the USSR and Poland. Although deeply unpopular domestically, US bombing of Cambodia and Hanoi succeeds in bringing North Vietnam to the negotiating table, leading to the Paris Peace Accords in 1972. Deeply resented by South Vietnam, the Accords ultimately fail to prevent Saigon's fall three years later. In 1975 reapproachment continued with the Helsinki Accords, which enshrined human rights and territorial integrity, and the symbolic Apollo--Soyuz Test Project. Interviewees include Melvin Laird, Valeri Kubasov, Winston Lord, John Ehrlichman and Gerald Ford. The pre-credits scene shows a Soviet cartoon demonstrating the futility of the arms race. 

Wednesday 26 September 2012

Emile de Antonio - Nixon, Bush, Reagan, Roger Ailes & MENA Airport Drug Smuggling




Fascinating to hear them talk of the MENA airport drug trafficking before the governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, was worth mentioning. The alert thinker will ask themselves if Clinton's drug trafficking for Bush Sr/CIA through MENA airport had anything to do with his election as President. 

Think about that. 

Saturday 1 September 2012

Knee Deep In Nixonian Nazis - Hank Paulson's Lesser Known Life




After the war Allen Dulles, head of the newly formed CIA drafted in the cream of the Nazis to the United States. They are still operational today. Hank Paulson is part of that milieu. His frequent trips to China are a point of concern for many researchers. Did he succeed in building the criminal links that prop up the United States today?

Wednesday 22 August 2012

Heinz Kissinger & Klaus Barbie's Narcotic Empire





Mae Brussell's work is invaluable to the researcher. She was smart, ground breaking and totally plugged into what was going on back in the 70's. In her last broadcast her life was being threatened by the powers deletes and she suffered one of those CIA heart attacks a week or two later. 


Her work was not in vain and along with Dave Emory and other researchers her legacy to the United States may be the difference between making it and not making it. Superb stuff.

Update: Mae was Jewish so it's normal that she spotted the Nazi connections we missed. However it goes up the hierarchy chain considerably more. Original video deleted. Replacement found on Youtube. You know why?


Because we're winning.

Sunday 19 August 2012

Nixon & Kissinger Mattered Less Than Nixon & The Bush Dynasty

 




Professor Robert Dallek is clearly a nice chap and I learned some nice things from this talk but he's trapped in an academia which cannot admit that President JFK was shot from a number of different directions and that the Warren report is constructed reality from beginning to end.


He's spent so many years defending and fitting the establishment story into reality he's drifted off into a fictitious world that only academia and the wildest of coincidence theorists live in. I would debate his version of history any day in public and teach him the latest information because it's always turning up. For example the hidden relationship between Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker Bush and Nixon. Far more important than Kissinger and yet he never mentions it once. Furthermore some old boy gets up at the end and tackles him on the Vietnam and Korean war being U.N wars which they were and the professor of history has nothing to say about it even though it matters a great deal.

This is why the internet is amazing. You can put a hundred hours into something and if you research it right you can come up with a better version of events than a person who has spent their life studying something. That doesn't mean there isn't value here. There is. Ya just gotta wait till he's on safe turf.

Saturday 4 August 2012

Watergate Didn't Drown Nixon. The Bush Family Did





Listen to investigative journalist Russ Baker explain it far better and more persuasively than I ever could. It's time to bury the old myth that Nixon was an evil president. He was no more evil than any other and actually did a lot more good when looked at in balance such as the Environmental Protection Agency, visiting China and detente with the Soviet Union. Compare that to Obomber who eschews brokering an Iranian peace deal in person.

Monday 30 August 2010

Did you do any fornicating?




I really like Oliver Stone's work. I think he's consistently dealt with the most excruciating themes of the American 20th century in a candid way that most Americans aren't ready to deal with. I also like that he did two tours of duty in Vietnam despite being part of that privileged elite who could have avoided the draft, as did the Neocon chicken-hawks; Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, William Kristol et al.

I just rewatched Stone's Nixon earlier because yesterday I finally got round to seeing Frost/Nixon, a clip of which I've used above. It's extraordinarily good and made me want to revisit Nixon the man because in the thick of all the Bush bashing (when it's evident he never really had the intellectual gravitas to manipulate the world but was instead a subject of manipulation) I took great delight in telling people Nixon was one of my favourite presidents. I can't say it now because I've dug a bit deeper after watching this, though I will say that despite the carnage that Nixon authorised, particularly the unconscionable bombing of Laos and Cambodia he still presided over the most geopolitically volatile period apart from all out world war. It's easier with hindsight but the question remains did he exploit that geopolitical volatility? Was it really necessary?

The answer's probably no because proxy ideological wars in far away places are at a primary assessment level abysmal failures though arguably have much more complex secondary geopolitcal angles like the suggestion I read today that Afghanistan and Iraq is about having an experienced army  at hand if middle Asia becomes the arena for conflict over resources (not just oil). Believe me the only peaceful ideological solution we have for that is a sharing one. Marx came close and I suggest we need to try again, because the profit motive is hitting a dead end and hey, even the Wright brothers didn't quit when their first plane nose dived. However my ideological chin sticking out affirms a simple principle. Don't bomb and maim small Buddhist countries to achieve larger geopolitical ends. Take some pain on the chin, and I most definitely am looking at the United Kingdom as well as the United States too.

It's time to open up an Easter Egg on this blog because when I wrote that last Nixon piece it had another story behind it. It was allegorical too, because my apartment was being broken into at the time. The protagonist(s) were also reading my blog (note the personal Wifi router the case is sitting on) so I thought I'd land a punch when it suited me and today it does. So I guess I got to write about it, share what I think about Richard Nixon and pluralistic thinking, as well as nail a date and a time to that period when things like my Porsche briefcase had it's combination lock popped while I wasn't at home.  I did walk away with my full deposit from that affair. That's unheard of in Asia when two warring sides choose to go their separate ways with a tenancy contract between them.

I don't mind confessing there were days when I thought I'd lose a lot more than the deposit as I'm stubborn. It's irrespective of what influence or power I'm up against though a shiny motorcycle police escort one early morning while nipping down to 7 Eleven prompted me to settle for the cash. A foreigner never actually win's in Asia so I did OK given who I was up against, and that post I wrote time stamps accusations without ambiguity. Not that I didn't appreciate it being nominated for post of the month too because the dual narratives were completely coherent and utterly sincere. You'll forgive me if I killed two birds with one stone. It's the mark of a really lazy person not an industrious one ironically.

Anyway that was  all wild and I learned that snakes really do writhe when you have them by the tail but the reason for this post is very simply to outline that Oliver Stone is for me, more of a patriot than any of the abysmal Tea Party crowd and (I contest) a brave creative American icon. Which is kind of my way of saying sorry, because I met him in a nightclub once, here in Bangkok. He'd been filming Alexander the Great and unfortunately I'm less amusing after a cocktail than I think I am so I confirmed if his name was Oliver and leaned into his ear sharing something along the lines of 'I hope you didn't omit from your film, that while Alexander was pinning down Asia, he was also pinning down his Generals'.

Oliver immediately backed away as if purgatory was imminent and his entourage protectively engulfed me from saying another word, sweeping me away back into a less interesting world. The moral of the story I guess is just be nice, say hi and 'how are you' when you meet someone you respect instead of being a smart ass, and also just make sure they haven't directed a turkey of a movie.

Both Nixon and Frost Nixon are brilliant films. The first historically and the second, well the second did something that a small screen has never done for me before. I've been moved by actors on the big screen theatre but the Nixon character in this second movie. I was spellbound by the end. I never believed that a small netbook screen could ever command  or impose such pathos and yet it was all there. You should watch it because even if you don't care about politics you should care about how the mightiest can fall and once again how little in life is black and white all set to a Greek tragedy of biblical proportion. I just discovered that Frank Langella was nominated for an Oscar in this movie and that's the most deserving nomination I can think of for some time. I also think it's great to see actors doing very fine jobs of David Frost and John Birt. Both of whom now I think have knighthoods. Watch Langella in this. Sometimes it's like a bear leaning over you baring perfectly ominous but preternaturally perfect teeth. Or is that Frost as well?


Thursday 11 June 2009

Nixon & Complexity




Prior to George W Bush the most reviled president by pretty much unanimous opinion in recent American history was Richard Nixon. However, after a few years of listening to my early American baby boomer friends or non octogenarian civil rights supporters trash the name of Richard S Nixon I took the time to read into this complex figure who in my eyes is pretty much inseparable from Kissinger as they both dominated the political stage that extended from a year before my birth in 1969 to 1974 when Nixon was ceremoniously (sic) squeezed out of the Whitehouse while walking across the Rose Garden lawn towards the helicopters with one final wave to the cameras before a life of relative obscurity.

There's something about seminal helicopter shots in U.S. history such as the last line of South Vietnamese people desperate to bail out of Vietnam before the Viet Cong triumphed with the fall of Saigon. Yeah, helicopters and history is something I'll always associate with the Americans in much the same way that the Chinese will forever be associated with Tanks and squares.


 


 Incidentally this famous photograph of the fall of Saigon was taken by Dutch photojournalist Hugh Van Es who died just under a month ago here in Hong Kong. It is all connected you know even if it's largely some illusory Black Swan post rationalised causality.


Traditionally the view of Nixon is one of mendacity, vulgarity and sneaky subterfuge, and yet, it is one I can reconcile with the other side that I want to talk about because let's face it, the problems don't lie with our politicians, they lie with the electorate and our complete inability to handle the truth or even discuss it in an adult manner. That doesn't mean I'm not surprised by the sheer scale of human fallibility over on the other side of the Atlantic with the MP's expense claims which are surely not that far morally from those who claim income support while having an income from work. Benefit cheats sounds so much more dramatic and I'm surprised the press haven't dreamed up a more sticky label for the "right dishonourable members of the Parliament". I digress.


 Clearly the thorniest role that confronted Nixon was Vietnam and there's no denying that in order to extricate the United States from that holy fuck up of ideological warfare in proxy countries that a lot of nasty, ugly and criminal decisions were taken such as the bombing and warfare that took place across the Ho Chi Minh trail which veered into Laos (the most bombed country in the history of the world) and Cambodia thus compromising the lives of millions of their own inhabitants. I'm on record as being hugely fond of the Laotians and the Khmer because of the inexplicable and retarded snobbery they face from other developing world candidates such as Thailand who exercise the rule of marginal superiority acted out from deeply evident insecurity in the manner of the arriviste nouveaux riche against old money while more than aware that side by side with the Benz and it's logocentric Star, is the sticky steamed rice, the stink bean and the ubiquitous calloused hands from pre-school tilling of the paddy fields of Isaan, more often than not controlled by the plutocratic Siamese Chinese families as indeed they do across South East Asia.


 But back to Vietnam because despite the claims of denial by Kissinger  (Nixon is now gone) there can be little ground for conceding that nobody knew what was going on in the Mekong Delta and it's a crime against humanity that only the land of the free are obliged to defend themselves against. However we all know that 95% Americans don't even know the difference between Taiwan and Thailand because as long as the milk and honey is flowing in the lands where territorial transgressions are the sticky issues there's little need to have an empathy for what is known as 'the other'. When it's always about two sides isn't it?
 Which brings me on to the nature of this post because I'm of the opinion that the duality of binary classification is no longer a simplistic luxury we can afford and it's time if you haven't started to look, for the complexity and infinite shades of grey that exist between the polar states of good and bad, black and white, north and south or up and down.


 Life isn't some post war halcyon consumer years of rosy cheeked goodness and evil empire badness, though of course that latter term was Reagan's contribution to political history, yet we now see Obama introducing the nuance of different types of Islam between Cairo and Jakarta and which it would be wise to pay attention to (if taking a look at Islamic country birth demographics for example).


To bring anything to the advertising planning table is the ability to embrace complexity and distance oneself from the relentlessly overly simplistic reductionist role of account planning which is one part science to two parts art and not the other way round.  Particularly now we know that homo economicus is forever dead. And so with that mental perspective in mind I want to reverse back, full speed and with screeching tires (distant sound of police siren in the background) into Nixon's career because it was his role with the Plumbers and the repeated and subsequently scandalous 'break ins' of the Democrat National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate office complex and now forever preserved in political history and it's meme like propensity to term any scandal with the suffix of 'gate' and which first came to light when on June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, a security guard at the Watergate Complex, noticed tape covering the locks on several doors in the complex. He took the tape off, and thought nothing of it. An hour later, he discovered that someone had retaped the locks. The scandal revealed the existence of a White House dirty tricks squad but to my mind, the democrats could have played a smarter game with what they left out for the uninvited breaking and entering squad.


More to the point is that the labeling of Nixon as  monolithic-bad doesn't do justice to one of the more contradictory and paradoxically subtle minds of the post-war Whitehouse. Here we have a president as in the above video playing his own Piano Concerto.


Furthermore once we distance ourselves from the morally repugnant Indochina actions and the break ins that subsequently required extensive lying, we have a figure who was easily one of the most intellectually qualified of his era, and a character who was responsible for the detente that was fostered in partnership with the Soviet Union (unthinkable really given the postwar context) and most markedly became the first president to visit Chairman Mao and extend the hand of tentative friendship with the Communist China.


 One only has to think of the McCarthy era to understand the deeply Pavlovian response of the American peoples to anything of a socialist nature despite the recent global socialization of the banking system from the efforts of their last GOP president.


Nixon was also responsible for the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) "clean air, clean water, open spaces" and so we have a complex figure with both the vulgarity of a Bronx bare-fist fighter and the intellectual subtle fingered sensitivity of  a concert pianist, the diplomacy skills of the long term thinker and player as well as the DNA of a progressive environmentalist. Arguably the only game in town as we observe the decline of the American empire.


So in summary embrace complexity and only settle on reductionist simplicity once the really hard work of weeding out the immortally terrible and the infinitely unworkable.


A lot more difficult than one might think.

(I'll come back and try get the formatting right but it's still a mess in draft blogger)