It takes exceptionel leadership to handle spies, double spies and agents of intelligence.

Simply by having 17 agencies means it is a mess. Not under control of the leadership it officially resides.

It means some other party is profiting from the situation.

“America is too important to be left alone”

I do have to get me a log.

Ofcourse surviving the ordeal is a first. But I am always intrested in the aftermath.
When the trembling and the shaking starts. When realising you could have been killed or just killed someone. When trying to go to sleep.

Read it all before. Years ago on Freds website.

Fine writing, Mr. Reed. Fine writing.

I realise the united states of America is a fairly young country and some Americans think it still to be a frontier country. But, everything has been ‘ discovered’, claimed or belonging to someone or some entity by now. There is no more vacant land to claim. America will, and has evolved into a socialist state where government will gain ground or takes the burden by salami tactics, brute force or simply by scraping up the residu of bankrupt individuals or compagnies. Cleaning up the mess those individuals or compagnies leave behind.

Even if peoples have enough of their kings, and put their heads under the guillotine. The first thing they do thereafter is elect a new leader who Ofcourse also need money to do the things most people are only too glad not to have to do themselves.

Hold your camels, Achmed.

I am not denying I may be a communist.

And yes, it will not work when earth is devided into separate states. Precisely because the reasons you gave. But all tax is a reset between those who run too far ahead of the crowd and those who lag too much. It is a matter of time preference.
Cheers!

True. The only tax I am for is inheritance tax.
The rich can give their children the best education, best health care. Spoil them rotten during their life if they wish. Give ‘m a house and maybe 100k.
How much of a head start do you need? Also I think they will become better citizens.

After that ALL should go to the State.
New game, new chances.

Being a solutions type of guy: Why not bomb all the Messikuns in Merica?

Nice piece, mr Reed.

I wonder what the Injuns think about all this alleged illegality.

Do tell.

What has your imagination fantasized will be in store for the writers dark soul?

Nice writing, Mr Reed,

Being somewhat of an optimist: I believe there will be a worldwar 4.

“Failing that, perhaps the US government could attend to their education.”

Wrong.
It is YOU who should then relentlessly, tirelessly, educate them. Educate others to not vote for anybody remotely pro-Israel.

The thing is: Can YOU motivate yourself?
Or do you ‘pay taxes’ and expect stuff to just happen your way?

Can’t help but stand in awe of the jews.
Taking the biggest kid on the block by the ear and let him pave the way through the international schoolyard, letting him think it is the Russian doing the ear jerking and, on top of that, make him foot the bill too. The pinnacle of diplomacy.

How can one not admire that?

You left out the boring co. and hyperlooptiedooptie.
I admire Him greatly for his salesmanship. Pluggin 100 year old ideas, tossing in some iPadarie, and revamping it as new, reaping billions from believers who can’ t read a 10-K form.

After all, He could just go yachting. that would be truly boring.

World population is stil growing by 1.5 million per week!
Almost 90,ooo,ooo car were sold last year.

Tesla did 90,ooo units.
Electric cars are not even close to being out of infancy.

Musk is a good salesman though. Besides Hitler 😉 I havent seen a man who can so mesmerise people with his promises….

Ofcourse the real problem with energy is the human luxury of living were you please and do so comfortably.
Who in there right mind would want to live in a swamp or desert without aironditioning?
Before the abundance of energy people simply died.

It is the likes of Texaco, Shell, etc that have given billions of people a chance to live. Next time when you say a prayer, mention Them.

American cars, great for driving straight.
Here in the Netherlands we have small roads with curves, city lay outs and canals developed hundreds of years ago. Almost no private parking spaces in cities, so the Chevrolet caprice I owned would stick out 5 feet when parked diagonally to the canal. So some of the hundreds of bicyclists would crash into it. Gasoline being 5,- euro per gallon and the car-owner tax going by weight. I was quickly cured of owning an American car.

Until recently, because of all the enviromental subsidies, CO2 and ownership taxes, etc, buying a 85k Tesla did not cost you anything after taxes for 5 years.
Buying a Chevrolet camaro in the usa starts at 26k, here at 65k. It is all about Taxes!!

It is only digital. In ten years you put the 10 trillion dollars on a USB-debtstick, put it in the world-vault, next to the clay tablets and papyrus scrolls of other debts, and forget about it.

The major purpose of the u.s. Military is garanteeing worldwide dominance of the u.s. Dollar.

Canadians have too much land already and the Mexicans have invaded long ago.
There is no way the North Koreaans can hide an armada of ships transporting troops to take on 200 million personal fire arms on u.s.soil.
Wich leaves Nukes fired for the hell of it, assuring your own destruction too.
Make it 50 billion, tops. To defend the homoland.

But then you would have to kill all tractors and go farming by spade and shovel. What fun is that in wasting the time away?

The U.S. Military does not cost you a dime! The only thing that is exported to foreign lands is depleted uranium, some iron, gunpowder and cotton in the form of u.s. dollars. Some oil to get it there. And blood, ofcourse.

I think 99% is domestic changing from your front pocket to the back pocket. Ofcourse you could choose a different way to distribute the money amongst yourselfs via welfare programs or building roads, dykes and dredging the Mississippi, but thats a matter of taste.

America is too important to be left to Americans. You should be proud that others take an interest.

Look at the bright side; If you lost the grocery list your wife gave you, call the NSA and ask them to send you a copy. If your boss denies promising you a raise. Call NSA.
SAAS ( Spying as a service)

Uhh.. ? Leaving your telephone at home will do the same.

Nah, you are just another social justice warrior. Thinking his way of live is best for everybody. Is all.

If there were ever a Just Cause for the Yanks to invade and bring democracy somewhere, it would be North Korea.
The horrors that generations of North Koreans in concentration camps are enduring, would even make the holo-jews cringe.

Then again, is Israel ready to take a second row seat on the holocaust narrative and let the North Koreans take the gold medal of international victimhood?
And what do you do with millions of people coping with culture shock, paranoia, etc.?
And, last but not least, who would make our clothing for 5 cents a piece?

All in all. I do not think the Israeli’s would let the USA attack North Korea.

Why burn the physical book when you can buy the kindle version? Download and delete.

I only know of the Dutch prime-minister Lubbers who shut down our (tiny) foreign intelligence office in the 90’s because it was such a mess.

Trump would likely be killed before he signed the order to shut down CIA . But something like it has to be done.
Kick ‘m all out, save 70 billion a year and have the spy and torture-guys build that wall with Mexico. Brick by brick. They will actually do more for their country that way.

The USA lost the second Indochina war at least 58.315 times.
The Vietnamese lost it at least 1.156.000 times.
How many times daily that war is still lost through landmines I don’t know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties

Say, have you perhaps had a wife or girlfriend run off with a Mexican?

Only one advice on food in the USA. Order small portions.

First time we went to a Pizza place in the USA with 4 Dutch guys we asked for 4 large pizzas, being accustomed to a 10-12 inch pizzas back home. The waiter looked at us strangely and asked if we were sure. After he brought an extra table we got a bit suspicous and rightly so. Those pizzas were huge.
If I remember correctly we finished 2 of those things.

Ha, I was thought English by a former U.S. Marine, believe it or not. And have been in the USA after gulf war1, had a few great steaks there. But that country is too big to see in a couple of days, or few weeks. I’m sure most folks are hard working, decent people. Like everywhere else.
And the politcal elite are bastards. also like everywhere else.
But we can have fun observing, speculating and denouncing them!

If Americans were not buying, Mexicans would not facilitate the drug trade. They do not sell it for fun but for money.
Why would it be great if your neighbour went bancrupt? American t.v.-series and films are showing the immense wealth of the USA worldwide on a daily basis to billions of people. Do not be surprised when some really believe the USMarketing, and want to be part of it.

I think President Trump is making margin calls to various countries, collecting billions. If big Pharma, big Oil, etc. can buy congres, why not buy congres himself?

Lol
No way I want to live in the USA.
I’m doing just fine in the Netherlands.

Would like to go skiing in Colorado sometime though. Supposedly excellent powdery snow.
That’s about it, I see no further atraction to the USA, besides the political fun.

President Trump is just raising the price of doing business with America.

I do not doubt President Trump is settling some old scores (Mexico) and making sure a couple of billion comes his private/business way through a myriad of off-shore compagnies.

Obama was cheap and could be bought with a nobel price and a couple million in book sales.
The Clintons could be bought for a few hundred million.

For President Trump that is pocket money.
He needs a couple of billion from Rusia, China, Iran.

See? He is already making America great again. He or his children will spend most of it in the USA.

All agreed.
In the Netherlands the left/media is frothing at the mouth.

I just cannot stop smiling.
Oh, what a start of the biggest show on Earth.

Thank you again for the laughs, Mr. Reed.

One pussy pulls more then ten locomotives.

At least he has to give us a year or so, it would be a shame if Trump dies before he can amuse us. When you bought the ticket you want to see the show.

Then again, I’m sure there will be another person willing to play that ‘indispensible’ role.

Consumers buy stuff.
Con summers are rainy, windy days, when the weatherforecast made you prepare for a sunny day at the beach!

Indeed. There was this excellent documentary series on Dutch television about the why and how en route from Guatamala to the USA.

http://www.vpro.nl/programmas/americanos/kijk/afleveringen/1-linke-soep.html
(Dutch voice over, but lots of Spanish and American English)

According to Forbes your president-elect inherited 40 million in 1975. He can only be credited for placing all his eggs in the right basket (New York City). And indeed the NY real estate market grew 12% per annum since the 70’s.

It is America that made him great 😉

What would you do for 40 years to come with a 182 million (adjusted) inheritance and lots of daddy’s political connections?

Congratulations with President Trump. Now keep him alive for four years.

I am afraid I need your help on that one.

How can I measure with the same measure?
You need some form of comparison with the past or others.

I agree that the jewish ideology teaches it’s followers to circumvent rules and still abide to the letter.
In countries like India though, with different ideologies, with tens of millions of child-slaves now working the fields, also wealth is accumulated by few.
China, you have to be connected to the communist party to be able to make serious money and keep some of it. Hundreds of millions are still scraping the land for food.

It is the human condition to want more. And more can only be measured by others having less.

On a more upbeat note: In the end, it is all rented.

Human nature is responsible.

At least everybody is having fun shuffling digits, keeping busy.

In the old days people had to build piramides, dig canals with a shovel or do other back-breaking work. Now you may break a fingernail. Isn’t that progress?

To make Fred’s story short;
It took you Yanks 200 years to go from a 40,000 (adjusted) dollar black slave to a 100,000 dollar chromium slave!

Black lives matter so much I think they should have their own seperate schools.

Blacks are a class apart in sports too. I’d say give them their own competitions because they are too athletic to compete with whites. Except maybe for Table tennis and Curling.

Keeping children in educational facilities for longer means less time in other make-work facilities. If most can’t be good students at least they can be good products for a few years to process for adults who need make-work themselves.

I see no special reason why being in college or university is somehow beneath other ways of spending lifetime.

The USA could invite the populations of Canada and Mexico to enter the land.
With upgrades in infrastructure I see no reason the US population can not grow to half a billion within a decade or two and a billion people in a few decades more.

Calorie production seems efficient enough for sustenance.

These make-work tax constructions create so much adult day-care on the government and corporate side of the game, that I do not see a problem. Tens of millions of lawyers, educators, accountants, clerk, ITguys, bankers, etc., would be out of jobs if taxes and regulations were simple.
Thousands of millionaires would never have made it with-out using the (loopholes in) regulations.

Ofcourse the youngest clerk at the treasury department could type 19 trillion dollars into the computer, buy the whole S&P500 and be done with it.
But who would then pay all the lobbyists and politicians?

If you can have a minimum wage, why not a maximum wage?

Everyone owning more then x million should not be allowed to work but spend or give away untill they drop below y.

When the U.S.Government has aquired Earth dominance I’m sure they will start pissing-off the rest of the Milky Way.

Do you live strictly according to your (great grand) fathers rules?

The ‘law’ is simply a guide of words construed by other, fallible men in a time gone by.
Some want to change back the times, some want to stand still and others want change too fast.

Mr. Unz,

By asking such tuiton prices Harfund disperses smart students to other universities.
When that university is now percieved to be money, incrowdy-elitist it is not necessarily seen as academic-elitist and people can waive Harfund by simply admitting to (daddy’s) lack of money.

When Harfund also becomes tuiton-free, less smart students at other universities have less chance to study with and learn from the superbright they might else encounter at underendowed universities.

Yes, hundreds of years before WWII 😉

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany

At least the Israelis have a politician who stands up for his voters and does as he promised to get elected. The jewish ideology amongst the people of other countries is a tool he uses brilliantly in favor of his Israeli countrymen.

Realizing it is important to have a single person as head of state-marketing I wonder which current canadidate can actually operate and meaningfully steer a bureaucracy too.

Too bad my hero, The real Donald (Rumsfeld), is not a candidate. After declassification his torrent of presidential snowflakes would be so much fun to read.

The microterror the USA endures is nothing compared to the macroterror it unleashes.
Not even half a days worth of motor vehicle fatalities in fifteen years.

I’d say the US federal government runs a grand, efficient operation.

Maybe that is why so many Americans are leaving the U.S.A and renouncing their citizenship, despite the State Dep. charges going up to 2,000 Dollars from 400 Dollars.

It might be a lot easier to let go of the ‘country’ concept-indoctrination and let individuals choose a server they want paperwork to be stored and send to/ from. (Re)Migrating from server to server as they please.

Lol
Make war, not love. A little bombing will sort out those prostitutes.
Please tell me you have a little American flag on your desk and were playing the national anthem while typing your heroic reaction.

Good luck with that.

Hundreds of thousands of government people are directly depended on drugs staying illegal, providing a basic income for them.

Great column, mr Reed.

The land of unlimited gambling with free drinks, prescription and illegal drugs, on-and offline porn, guns and bombing. Using a quarter of all energy resources on air-conditioning and huge cars to drive one person. Having millions of poor, undernourished people. Hundred thousands left death on operating tables. More people in prison an tortured than any other ‘free’ country. Thanking handicapped for their service killing peasants in far away lands. Waving flags and singing the national anthem before breakfast and every goddamn ballgame.

It is endlessly funny to see how those people are against some woman making a buck by giving pleasure to men, trying to pay off their student debt or not willing to work two jobs cleaning the offices of the rich. More power to them, I say.

The U.S.A is way too important to be left alone. Exceptional nations need exceptional oversight by exceptional people.

That’s computer-accounting. It does not mean all of those trillions were actually paid out to somebody.
I can only imagine the nightmare of having hundreds of different, constantly up-dated and renewed, versions of non-integrated softwareprograms of the 90s throughout the defense department.

Why not allow more terrorist attacks?
The USA could easily cope with one or two 9/11 incidents every year. The national ego may get bruised a bit but 5.000 to 6.000 deaths is not overly much compared to the tolerated 40.000 yearly traffic deaths, 41.000 suicides and 440.000 deaths by preventable medical errors.

The enormous cost of the intell-warfare apparatus could have been used to better infrastucture and healthcare. Give analysts and warmakers an orange vest and let them direct traffic. They’d be doing more for their country that way.

Women have stilleto heeled shoes they can swing or throw at you. Wear hairpins.
Since they reside mostly in kitchens they have knives, pots and plates at their fingertips. Boiling water within reach. They can smile and wink at you.
They are constantly armed and most dangerous!!

Men must be physically stronger to have a slim change of surviving against womens weaponry.

Cheer up.

Although horrible on a personal level, militaries do not nearly kill enough people to even make a dent in population growth.
Just today another 220.000 humans have been added.

The trillions of dollars spend on killing my militaries is easily countered by a few billion of Bill Gates donations.

It is well known that Dutch and Danish diesel-subs ‘killed’ U.S. carriers in Int. Naval excercises.

I share Fred’s fear that by sinking a carrier, and thus killing thousands of sailors, U.S politicians will want to go nucleair. Lets hope the Chinese are indeed wise and go easy on the U.S. Navy.

Sardonic that militaries have to be more fearfull of the U.S. politicians then the professional U.S. warfighters.

You could be wrong.

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-historic-delft-einstein-god-dice.html#nRlv

Seriously? All that trouble for diamonds and pharmaceuticals?

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/middle-east/north-africa/israel

These political accords prove why businesses need to seek protection from unpredictable and changing politicians and whimsical populaces.

Where logic ends, the government continuous.

His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Frederick Reed, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the American Empire in Central America in General and Mexico in Particular,

May your modesty, mildness and fairness be an example for aspiring dictators.

When the enemy is rolling on the floor with laughter because of the U.S. cross-dressers and you can shoot’ m with pink rifles or stab them to death with high heels, I think it’s a devilishly fine plan.

Gay S.A.! Gay S.A.!

lol

Taking the piss out of everybody.

Nicely written, Mr. Reed.

Side-Clip Suspenders! Hilarious

Then again. When you lend to a drug addict, do not be surprised when more drugs is bought.

Whats wrong with a little friction? Never waste a good problem by resolving it.

Some time ago I spoke with an African telecom executive and we chatted about the percepetion we had of each others continent when we were younger.

Me, telling him how on television we only got to see fly-covered, starving, black children and please donate for a water well or adopt a child through FosterParents. etc. In general, misery all over. Hell on earth.

Him, how the ‘West’ could send over aid-workers who lived in nice villas with cooks, chauffeurs, maids and drive new Jeeps.
He thought the people who could send over that kind of luxury helpers had to at least live in huge golden palaces back home.

Can’t blame the black people for trying their luck.

Do not be so harsh on whites.
Slave trading had been (and is) going on in Africa amongst African tribes and Arab merchants long before whites sought some return freight for their vessels. Maybe some African tribal chiefs and Arabs made out like bandits from the slave-trade with the Americas and Asia, white traders and sailors where the suckers in that game.

Overly pessimistic, Mr.Reed.

Ofcourse a huge land like the USA will always have it’s troubles and maybe occasionally a few hunderd thousand or a million or two (less then 1%) will get killed in internal strife between white, black, hispanic in a noticable time frame.
Nothing the USA can not absorb or not replace.

The land is potable, defendable and it’s crazy populace has the biggest war machine on earth with the only global currency.

I would never want to live there but I’m long US stock.

How about 350 million from the insurer?

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2015/03/27/362344.htm

A third pilot in every aircraft is never going to happen.

Lets start with relieving some of the pilots stress by paying these heavily indebted young pilots a decent wage first.

http://thetruthabouttheprofession.weebly.com/

It is hugely funny that the USG in the MSM have diagnosed Putin with Asperger’s syndrome and then have an FBI forensics-psychologist in an unrelated television documentary declare that people with Asperger’s are less prone to violence then normal people.

Indeed, many respected historical figures have had symptoms of Asperger’s, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Thomas Jefferson.

Maybe because of Putin’s alleged Asperger’s we are still not in a nuclear war. Any normal guy would have freaked with the whole world coming down on him.

With fertility rate below replacement the Americans should be happy with such an influx of youngsters.

Think of all the countries who have to harbor millions of (older) refugees because of liberating U.S. bombings.

Indeed. Nothing new.

Poor have to physically go and try to get some.
The rich (Americans) send their military and ngo’s around the world and pave the way to get cheap recources.

Eyewitnesses are not very reliable.

Did you perhaps have a few drinks in the hours before?
Was your adrenaline surging when hearing gunfire?
Did you actually see the incident or are you boastfull because you just missed seeing the whole thing while you were on the toilet, and afraid friends would laugh, call you a coward and hid in the bathroom?

I’ve been ten yards from bar fights and had to learn about it from the local newspaper.

“Maybe we can counterfeit Russian currency and loan it to them and collect interest.”

You would just be helping the Russian treasury reducing paper/printing cost. The Russians would ask for more to pay the interest 😉
In the digital age coin and paper money are a fraction of global currency flows.

Entertaining thought though: If the Russians would somehow be able to print enough trillions of US dollars to have an impact on the U.S. economy. It would take 10.000, 1 ton pallets of 100 dollar notes for one trillion.
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_debt/us_debt.html

Over 90% of production is to replace old notes.
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/uscurrency/annualproductionfigures.html

The Russians would ruin their own economy just by trying to keep printing and somehow distribute enough physical U.S. Dollars to make a dent in U.S. dollar confidence.

Unkraine should have never given back all of those 5000 nuclear weapons.

If it is good for the Israelis, Chinese, Russians, Americans, French, English, Pakistani, Indians and North Koreans to have Nukes, why wouldn’t it be good for Iranians to have them? Especially when you have a potential president of the biggest warmachine on earth, McCain, singing about bombing your country? I’d be looking for something to at least pause them too.

Maybe it is actually ‘Good for Americans’ when the rest of the world has got it’s own nuclear capabilities. The US government might be a bit more reluctant to send out it’s ‘warriors’.

The land of the freaks, home of the slave.
Your overlords are ruthless and powerfull, kill and maim worldwide with atombombs if the feel like it.

That’s way I keep buying American equities for my euro cash.

Men should get out of the military game. After thousands of years fighting wars to end all wars men obviously are not capable.

For the blood thirsty, strictly female militaries are best.

Academics is a good industry to be in.

In the Netherlands too, since 1950, college/university attendance by 18-25 years olds, has risen from 5% to 40%.

I think oil producers are not underpricing oil but (are still) overpricing. Why pay 2-3 times the cost of production? A 6-7% r.o.i. seems plenty to me. Let those middle eastern guys work for a change.

Decades of research and effort in expanding recycling, more fuel efficient engines, production and distribution networks, home insulation, alternative energy sources and new materials may finally be paying off. Lessening the demand for oil.

And although I cheer Putin for competing with the Americans, by no means do I wish him to prevail. I have no desire to live under Russian rule. So, No Bravo for Putin but a simple; Carry-On.

Mr. Giraldi left out the 9/11 Israeli masterpiece of forging an international paradigma shift and have everybody, especially the Americans, go after the muslims.
I was shocked and awed by the chutzpah of the Israeli strategists.

I think it smart of the Israelis to have the jewish diaspora do their bidding in the international political market.

To have the American united states government and thus the mightiest military and lots of the American propaganda channels under controle is a strategic feat one can only admire.

The intelligence bureaucrats would not even want to live in a safer world. They’d be out of a job.

From a populace whom condones the death penalty by government it is not surprising they think torture by the government is justified in some cases.

Why have governments hoard gold when it should be put to use in medicine, space flight, mobile phones, etc. Even as juwelry it gives people more joy then having gold in a government vault.

Go electronic for state/tax purposes and have governments strictly live in digi-la-la-land.

Only then will old folks with silver and gold bullion be able to buy something usefull with it.

Lol

You must be the anonymous that hacked the kkk.

Hello Jim,

People want to go to America because you guys are masters of marketing and spreading dreams (films/television series) around the world.
When Americans are travelling they usually leave the impression that money is not their biggest concern.

Whether you constantly bombard people with Coca-Cola-ads or U.S.A.-ads, some start to believe. And the poorest usually believe the most.

Haha, nice writing, mr. Reed.
In my beloved socialist monarchy of the Netherlands we have the same sort of diversity dominance, albeit from Morrocan decent.
No significant problems with negroes though. Negroes here have more of cuddly stature.