Saturday--Red Eye with Expresso

What question did journalists fail to ask George W. Bush and John Kerry during their 2004 debate? Since both were Skull and Bones, it was "Where's Geronimo"s skull?" Geronimo's family is now suing Skull and Bones for the return of his remains. It seems George Senior was involved in the original theft.

Has Alan Keyes gone across the line to sedition? The former candidate on George Wallace's American Independence Party now claims that not only was Obama born in Nairobi (changing his original charge from Mombassa) but is a radical communist who must be stopped at all costs if the country is to survive. While such nonsense can be amusing,this is playing into the growing hysteria on the right about Obama and this rhetoric encourages violence. Lest we forget the Oklahoma City bombings and the violence by pro-lifers.

My 2012 prediction-- the following will not be the Republican presidential candidate: Mitt Romney, Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin or Marc Sanford. The opposition to the Obama stimulus plan may look like a short-term winner for the Republican front-runners but it is a total loser. Republican Mayors and Governors, who actually pretend to govern, are hailing the initiatives. There is literally no marked uptick in anyone's polling showing Republicans have hit any responsive chord on this. In a trans-Atlantic interview with Newsmax, Ambrose Evans Pritchard chastised his American counterparts on the stimulus debate. Saying he is philosophically opposed to much of its details, he said it was absolutely necessary because we already are in a world depression.

Not so good news on the human rights front. The Obama Administration looks like it will lift the isolation of Burma and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seemed to close down any discussions about China's human rights policies. The latter is particularly worrisome since we are at the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising and the Chinese have moved more troops into that province. The whole issue concerning the Bush Administration's policy against terrorism is still up in the air, awaiting for Eric Holder's review of Gitmo and a few other sites. So far, the news is not good as the Obama Administration wants to move on.

A friend from Vancouver, Canada telephoned to report how ecstatic Canadians were during Obama's visit. He said it was great that the American President was the most popular person on the whole planet. According to the Harris Poll, it appears Obama has moved into America's number 1 position as hero with Jesus polling second. We remember the last time someone was more famous than Jesus. There were alot of record burnings in the South.

An interesting GAO report came out this week, it showed that 87,000 or 36% of those weapons given by the US to the Afghanis are missing and unaccounted for. Also, the records and serial numbers of an estimated 135,000 weapons donated by 21 countries are also nowhere to be found. The report concluded this "could pose a significant danger to the U.S. and coalition fiorces involved in security, stabilization, and reconstruction efforts." Captain Obvious.

If you want to know what a Depression looks like, take a gander at Central Europe and the Baltic countries. Latvia lost its government this week because of the collapse of its economy and the doubling of unemployment. In Hungary, people are in homes now worth less than 50% the value of a year ago. With Western Europe holding all of Central Europe's debt, none on the American side, the collapse of the remaining economies with blow through Western Europe, which is in a Depression. The Germans will be especially hurt since they were slow in reacting to the global financial collapse, thinking it was an Anglo-American problem.

We all know what happened during the last Depression with the rise and formation of fascism. In future bogs I will be outlining the rising threats both here and abroad for a new type of fascism emerging.