Soviet Collusion Took The Hot One From American Shelves?

  What collusion kept the best can of shaving crème ever invented off the U.S. market? In the 1970s Gillette invented The Hot One. It was chemically formulated to become self-heating shaving foam upon emerging from the can. It was a brilliant improvement in shaving- especially in cold weather. It was available for less than a year then disappeared from U.S. shelves. There were rumors about why it disappeared.

The legends said that all of the other producers of shaving cream made an ultimatum to stores and suppliers that if they allowed The Hot One to be shelved and sold they would not sell any of their other products to the stores. It was a grand conspiracy or at least total collusion to prevent the best product for shaving since the razor blade off the market. If Special Investigator Mueller wanted to contribute anything worthwhile and lastingly useful for the people of the United States that shave he would investigate and explain what happened to The Hot One and include that in the report on Russian collusion.

I saw a few cans of The Hot One on the shelves of the Hudson Bay store in Whitehorse Canada in 1990. Yet on might next trip through the Yukon it was gone. The best shaving product in decades was erased as completely as Alex Jones’ Prison Planet from the public social product media.

One might wonder how the Russians were involved in the disappearance of The Hot One or if the former Soviet Union’s 3^rd Directorate special products collusion division choose to work with corporate America to ban The Hot One in order to destroy American faith in free enterprise and capitalism and instead to promote communist socialist values; slowly molding Americans or the future decades into a wrong belief that free enterprise could not produce a self-heating shaving cream.

Special Investigator Mueller might determine if Gillette is selling The Hot One to Russians. It is a cold country and The Hot One would sell like hotcakes to the starving there. If The Hot One is not being sold in Russia, President Trump could leaver Russia to relinquish claims in Ukraine to any land west of the Dnepr River in exchange for release of The Hot One for sale in Russian markets. The Hot One potentially could influence the results of the next election in Russia; for any candidate the can claim to have liberated Russia from cold shaving with The Hot One is likely to be regarded as  a hero.

Media Pounces On Trump Tweet About S.A. Expropriation of White Owned Farms

Why does the media attack President Trump for commenting about the South African Government expropriation of land from white farmers without compensation that has already started?  Would they think its a good policy?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/08/24/trumps-south-africa-tweet-is-a-reminder-that-white-supremacy-is-the-original-white-collar-crime/?utm_term=.ea21417d8050

http://www.africanews.com/2018/08/23/south-africa-opposition-brand-trump-fear-monger-liar-over-land-tweet/

https://www.herald.co.zw/understanding-trumps-stinking-land-stance/

https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/expropriation-without-compensation-would-risk-sending-sa-down-the-wrong-path-us-state-department-20180823

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1005725/south-africa-farm-seizures-white-farmers-cyril-ramaphosa-anc

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-africa-begins-seizing-whiteowned-farms/news-story/8937f899bd3f131bfc4ffb648ea5c53b

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/south-africa-moving-expropriate-white-farmers-land-180801185155806.html

https://qz.com/africa/1218309/south-africa-to-take-land-without-compensation-as-zimbabwe-backtracks-on-seizing-white-farms/

Kalashnikov EV Not Yet as Fast as a Speeding Bullet

Kalishnikov is manufacturing an electric vehicle that goes zero to sixty in about six seconds with a 350 mile range. While it's not as quick as an AK-47’s muzzle velocity there is something about the Kalishnikov name that has a certain element of guerilla about it. One might expect the Kalashnikov EV to have some Aston-Martin Bond-like machine guns behind the headlights, yet one can’t have everything.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/24/ak-47-kalashnikov-retro-styled-ev/

Luckily for Kalashikov, the U.S. Army hasn’t decided on a new combat rifle yet to provide a name for a Tesla EV competitor. The Tesla  Heckler and Koch G28 model doesn’t have much of a sound for sales. So the Kalashnikov EV has got the field to itself for a while in the electric vehicle field of car names with recognizable combat panache.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a19183026/us-army-squads-new-marksman-rifles/

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Does Mueller Believe Trump Org CFO Has Russia Stuff?

(disclaimer- I have applied an element of humor in this essay and hence disavow about everything in it). 

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/403443-trump-org-cfo-granted-immunity-in-cohen-investigation-report
Special Investigator Mueller of the laconic probe to determine if President Trump while candidate colluded with Russians to influence the election his way; in particular if the candidate cooperated with Russian hackers to get filthy, ditgusting dirt on Hillary's phone and computer files and/or those of the Democrat national committee, has given immunity to the Chief Financial Officer of Donald Trump's private business organization. While Mueller did management to work to get President Trump's personal lawyer convicted of eight different non-violent crimes, none of that had anything to do with Russia. I wonder if the look into the President's personal business that does not have any obvious relationship to Russia or collusion, is a good precedent to set. Can't any future President have a years-long investigation into their personal business interests to distract them while in office, on the basis of mostly partisan accusations of something or other, involving collusion or political influence unendearing dirty tricks?

Why not look in depth into the members of the Supreme Court and their financial and personal business affairs for two or three years, every five years. With Rep. Duncan Hunter's recent indictment the need for Homeland Security to establish a more KGB-like 2nd Directorate to investigate and ferret out the truth of all federal level politicians is emerging. Who knows which politicians are really loyal to the nation and which have deep foreign collusion? Without torture of the Congress and the President, how can the truth really be found out?

What about Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos etc? Shouldn't Special Investigator Mueller put them under the microscope, as well as their personal lawyers and Chief Financial Officers, to determine if they know any Russian and have colluded to influence elections, business or social media?

The U.S. Congress and Supreme Court should have subdural surveillance chips with gps tracking and audio recording devices that could go into the 2nd Directorate of Homeland Security that would be removed after the politician's term of office is over. Democrats will sign off on the plan for the President right now. So the Party should get on it while it's hot.

Select Moral Criteria Against Universal Nuclear Weapons Development

This post is an improved version after some interaction with a fellow advocating the moral basis for the development of nuclear weapons by any nation. It is a political tradition for governments to be concerned about weapons of hostile foreign governments. Perhaps it is because they are sometimes used in war. Unlike a chess game wherein it is usual to start the game with an equal number and assortment of pieces, in war the players do not try to make sure that their opponent (s) have an equal number of pieces.

Another problem is with weapons of mass destruction; they are just too large to be used very much on a planet like the Earth. Fluid dynamic political balances make power relationships regarding weapons stable and not used when they are constant. Proportional quality and quantity weapons changes by various nations tend to precipitate conflicts if/when conflicts occur.
That is why there has been attention given by politicians and negotiators to changes in weapons balances internationally regarding quality and quantity with demands that any signed treaties regarding weapons balances are honored (such as the A.B.M. treaty signed with the Soviet Union).
If there is an existing balance of power, in peaceful relations between nations, a change in the balance of power in weapons qualitatively and quantitatively between the nations favors opportunities for new conflict between nations. I can understand why nations that desire aggressive war would first want to change the balance of power.

In reply to those that feel there is no moral basis for denying nuclear weapons development to every nation.. “No moral basis’ is too broad, people tend to go for the all are and none are choices rather than some are and some aren’t, from the square of opposition. There are moral arguments pro or con for virtually any position and some are valid. It is a very high standard to prove that no valid moral arguments exist for a point.

Consider utilitarian arguments; act and rule based as well as consequentialist. Nuclear weapons are used largely on other nations rather than within one’s own to suppress dissent. Do nations have an innate moral right to have weapons designed to kill millions of citizens of other nations? The rule base version might decide their is, a priori, no reason to allow the lives of millions to be endangered, albeit with some mitigating circumstances, while the act based and consequentialist might decide to go ahead and let every nation arm with nuclear weapons to determine experimentally if it the best method of securing the greatest good for the greatest number.

Within the latter criteria; should the United States tolerate development of nuclear weapons by Germany and Japan on the principles of political, democratic equality? One could consider the criteria in the case of John F. Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis that nearly brought World War III to fruition. Another moral argument would be quite plain; the development of nuclear weapons by Central Asian nations generally, that are independent, would greatly increase the chances for nuclear war and perhaps cascade billions of deaths. I believe some would conflate democratic and demographic national equality principles with the right to keep and bare nuclear arms, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction.

The other point was about making an inference about aggressive war and nuclear weapons; I tend to regard anything less than a strict, necessary inference as fundamentally invalid. People commonly use or assume points that they can make a plausible inference for in rhetoric yet for those that require more than guesswork and speculation-such as in writing a computer algorithm, there is a great difference between necessary and unnecessary inferences. The latter might be regarded as psychological in some cases.

What Pres Obama Lost While Golfing

President Obama golfed 333 rounds as President. He took 217 days of vacation. Thus he spent 540 days on activities not concerning public business. The opportunity cost was substantial. He might have spent a few of those days fomenting legislation to employ those out of a job longest, first, with tax credit incentives to employers, have reduced patent exclusivity to three years with 10% royalties for inventors after that in order to increase the pace of business development, and unified homeless and poor people’s community clinics with an expanded V.A. hospital network to provide free walk-in health care for the poor for free, creating at the same time a back-up national emergency public medical service able to process millions of casualties.

D WIlder; Could Retire Undefeated Like Marciano

Deontay Wilder has a fight ahead with undefeated former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. If Wilder defeats Fury and goes on to fight and win against the British world champ (the title agencies are split) he would have a 43-0 record. That's enough to let Wilder make a reasonable claim to being the best boxer in heavyweight history.

To defeat all of the great fighters of one's era and retire undefeated is a feat accomplished only by Rocky Marciano. Wilder could choose to retire undefeated if he defeats the greatest boxers of his time; now.

England's Anthony Joshua avoided setting a match with Wilder and choose to fight a very skillful Russian boxer with just one loss named Alexander Povetkin. Povetkin is much shorter than Joshua yet also a former Olympic heavyweight champion. The fight might be a little like Frasier-Ali.

https://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2018/08/boxing_report_2018.html The heavyweight division is re-energized with four excellent, articulate and very skillful heavyweight fighters that create interesting match ups for those that follow boxing. Three of the fighters have an opportunity to retire undefeated and fairly claim to be the greatest boxer in the history of the sport.

Sanctions on Russia May Help Russian Economic Development

U.S. and European sanctions on Russia may help Russian economic development. With direct foreign investment in Russia reduced to a low number- 26 million last year, Russia needs to rely on it's own resources. It has to increase it's economic efficiency and allocation of resources as well as to utilize Russian-personnel resources for work without the influence of foreign entities seeking to devour so much as they might have. 

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/22/pressure-is-on-trump-to-take-tougher-actions-against-russia-experts.html

Sanctions on Russia are in part a result of the return to Russia of the ninth federal district; the Crimea. The won't change, and the Ukraine issues seem quagishly stabilized. A political quasi-military swamp that Russia will continue to be a stakeholder in.

Boris Yeltsin designed the Russian state in its primordial form after dismissing the Soviet dominated parliament. His people wrote the constitution and had Russian Federal law trump Soviet law Chapter four articles 80 through 91 give the President Super-powers to issue decrees to correct wrongs in Russian legal and political structure. The rearranging of Russian political structure post cold war required a super-user to make sure that the development of new institutions was balanced and made to serve the Russian people. President Putin needs to leave a Russian political infrastructure that will work when he is gone and has made some progress toward stabilizing the state and keeping it more toward the free market side of things rather than Soviet or state-owned communism. Its a tough role to enact; that of chief designing officer made tougher, yet paradoxically easier, with U.S and European sanctions that keep the carpet-baggers at bay a little better.

The economic circumstance of Sanctions on Russia compel the Putin administration to divert resources of the state from investment in some sectors to others. The lack of direct foreign investment means the state needs to spend more on investment in Russian business development. Russian state censorship of the internet basically is about the ability of the state to view private communications in a way like the Americans experience in the Patriot Act mileau to sift for terrorists and secessionists. Evidently actual censorship is minimal; probably less than the U.S. equivalent of political censorship of Alex Jones and others with the rubrick of 'hate speech'. The U.S. broadcast media owned by the most rich Americans and globalists conditions the public in a way comparable to that of the Russian state media, yet more so. Russia does tolerate dissident media however. It is perhaps 20% of the media in Russia.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ebay-russia/ebay-plans-to-expand-in-russia-despite-sanctions-idUSKBN0FS0KF20140723

http://www.ewdn.com/2017/03/30/russia-teams-up-with-ebay-to-stimulate-sales-to-foreign-online-consumers/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozon.ru

http://rusmarket.com/ russian business websites

https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/russian-federation

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Russian_websites

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

https://www.opendemocracy.net/

https://www.oidp.net/docs/  includes a brief history of initiative budgeting

https://www.forskningsradet. "

Local government budgeting reforms in Russia: implications and tensions

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https://www.ned.org/region/ russian 2017 budget incl citizen initiative support

https://www.publicagenda.org/

https://truthout.org/articles/  -public votes on how to spend a pot of money

https://www.emeraldinsight.

https://siteresources

https://imrussia.org/en/

Does D Trumps' Stormy Stuff Compare With Whitewater and Monica?

Bill Clinton's administration had the Whitewater investigations during the first term and the Monica motif during the second and President Trump has Story Daniels. Does his payment to Stormy Daniels equal the sensations of the Clinton era so long ago? I think not.

The Clintons had more intrigue than the Adams family while in office. Hillary Clinton's personal lawyer Vince Foster did sepuku or a DC version (apparently) after the reappearance of a Clinton diary on a coffee table in the White House that had gone missing for months. Michael Cohen, formerly Donald Trump's personal attorney, made a plea deal and was convicted even so for eight crimes mostly done to benefit himself.

President Trump also hired the world's best campaign manager Paul Manafort who was like an undefeated heavyweight boxer in his own field of promoting politicians to office with brilliant packaging. 

The fact that Manafort was just convicted of tax evasion and other crimes to benefit himself isn't really a guilt by association kind of thing. Donald Trump as a capitalist just hires the best available to get his work done. Those people sometimes are volatile themselves cutting and trimming things to win. Maybe hired guns are a regular business practice.

I would rate Donald Trump's actions as just a 2 on a scale of 10 for treachery and political perfidy in comparison to the Clintons. President Trump hasn't even lied under oath yet. Democrats would probably demand his execution at the tower if he swore that he did not have sex with that women. If he would kindly do so regardless of if he did or not then the affair could proceed to the next stage, a better stage although well trodden now, about the cigar and the meaning of 'is'.

SCOTUS Rules By Decree Now and Then

The U.S. Supreme Court is comprised of elites, largely from Harvard, that should just make decisions among more or less settled social issues. The founders never intended the court to have an elite, non-democratic license to rule by decree when the court is packed with an elite cadre of collusionists as it is presently and was in 2015 when it decreed homosexual marriage on the nation in Obergefell v. Hodges. The founders were not pro-queer marriage. To say they were is a very substantial fiction.

The Supreme Court decided for itself to decide in favor of a minority to corrupt one of the world's and nation's oldest and basic social institutions- marriage, without popular support. Technically anyone could bring any sort of silly issue before the court that could decide in its favor and make it the law of the land. The Constitution was formed in a frontier society without content regarding innumerable contemporary issues. Hence the court can choose whatsoever whey it likes to creatively, yet that doesn't mean it must.

SCOTUS should try to remain within the paradigm of democracy and allow the legislature and executive branch to make and execute the laws so far as it can. Where it should be very cautious is in making laws through the court itself that have no precedence in written or customary laws and that are not at all popular. It should allow the states to vote for their own establishments where they will and not compel all Americans to support issues popular in some states and unliked in others where no federal law exists.

A Supreme Court that is clearly inclined to rule by decree and force unpopular laws upon the nation is a court that should be legally hobbled. If the people wanted a dictatorship they could keep electing Democrats,, national socialists and Harvard grads.

Apparently Russia is working on an e-government and open-government to supplement the federal government and to input public ideas and try to be more attentive to public interests. The public initiative is a good idea if the results are public and if only registered voters that are verified sign in to vote on initiative suggested by the public. While they would have no legally binding consequence they would service to advise instead of biases opinion polls from corporations owned by the most wealthy.

https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/stocktaking/projects/Project/Details?projectId=1512397515 Russia public initiative description

Why the U.S.A. Entered the Vietnam War

The U.S.A. didn't enter the Vietnam War because of the Cuban Communist revolution near Florida. The Cold War began much earlier, as early as the first Russian revolution when the U.S.A. sent 2000 soldiers to Russia in support the white army fighting the red army. The United States wasn’t willing to give diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union until 1933. The Nazis were rising then and President Roosevelt may have had a pragmatic interest in establishing relations.

World War II occurred and the U.S. and Soviets became allies to defeat the Nazis. Then with the end of the war and two large winning armies in Europe the continent was largely divided up in two sides; those free nations of the west affiliated with the western allies and those of the east affiliated with Soviet Communism.

Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin had a row with a rival; Leon Trotsky, and liquidated Trotsky and his relatives in the process of gaining absolute power. He also purged the military of potential security threats to himself before the war. Stalin as absolute dictator believed in communism in one country, Russia, instead of global communism as Trotsky espoused. Of course he kept a tight leash on those eastern European nations rolled up in defeating the Nazis although preponderantly they were not annexed, retaining nominal independence. With Trotsky dead Stalin’s more inward-looking politics of industrializing and rebuilding Russia and increasing it militarily prevailed. Yet with Stalin’s death a Trotsky policy of support for global revolutions commenced. Communist revolutions around the world were supported by the Soviet Union intensifying the Cold War.

Stalin died in early 1953. The Korean War was already in progress. That war occurred from 1950 until 27 July 1953 because of the ideological cold war between communism and free enterprise democracy. The two incompatible systems required two separate nations in Korea, so the United Nations ordered elections for a government for the South and the Northern Communists invaded starting the conflict.

China supported the North Koreans. The United States was the major ally of the South Koreans although numerous United Nations forces participated. The U.S.A. already had military advisers in Vietnam. The U.N. also recognized two nations divided along the same lines as Korea, and thus a war was fought in Vietnam too.

The N. Vietnamese regarded the war as anti-colonial conflict battling the French and as a civil war fighting against the South. The United States supported the South in Vietnam as it had in Korea with different results.

The Cuban revolution was not an anti-colonial revolution. It was the United States that liberated Cuba from Spain acting in a sense with paradigmatic symmetry with that of Russia supporting the liberation of Vietnam from colonization as part of French Indochina. Vietnam was colonized by the French from 1887 until 1954.

Because the Soviet Union with its vast and growing nuclear weapons arsenal was an empirical threat to the free world, the Eisenhower administration was conservative in trying to control or contain communist revolutions globally. Even formerly friendly nations such as Iran became distrusted. The U.S.A. sponsored a coup to end the democratically elected government under Prime Minister Mossadegh who had nationalized Iranian oil fields. He did that because Anglo-Iranian oil owned the oil rights and wouldn’t let Mossaddegh look at the books. Winston Church and Eisenhower organized a coup and let the Shah have the country. He ruled like a dictator friendly to the west. That happened in August 1953- it was a busy year.

The Cuban revolution occurred between 1953 and 1959. It was another communist insurgency to overthrow an oppressive government. It was difficult in the 50s and 60s to have a non-communist revolution overthrow an oppressive government although many were worthy of one. Unfortunately colonialism of Brits and other European nations along with dictators in former colonies were conflated with communist propaganda and support in revolutionary movements. Vietnam also fell in to the juxtaposition of wars of liberation, war against dictators, was against communist globalism etc that were all concurrent thematic elements of the ropes humanity hung itself with in that time. Each had valid reasons for existing, tragically, with the probably exception of the dictators who generally had anti-communism as their valid premise for existing, and that in some respects was just a borrowed excuse valid more externally rather than domestically.

Wars for survival of the west and freedom generally against global communism sponsored by the Soviet Union and Communist China clashed with numerous local liberation movements that were supported by real globalists for communism, even if the local revolutionaries were motivated more for local empowerment. It was all an ideological mess especially with capitalism thrown into the mix that eventually would evolve in global corporatism and plutocracy cozying up with Chinese Communist elites.

Christianity in the U.S.A. and a Couple of Challenges

Christianity has several theological and ecclesiastic challenges to meet. In a way Christianity has experienced some of the same difficulties that adversely impacted newspapers and network television from ubiquitous mass media and internet. For Christian churches the socialization by anti-Christian elements that became pervasive along with additional technological changes in U.S. and world society made it much easier for people ti choose to opt out of attending church. Yet in the underdeveloped world Christianity increased in numbers because of the easier dissemination of information and expansion of social contacts made possible with new technology.

American Christians have encountered numerous structural issues along with theology that is off. Two easy to consider issues are those of apocalyptic end-times; did it already happen as Jesus said it would before that present generation passed in the first century a.d. or is it still ahead with all of the strange metaphysical events that pre-millennialist teach? The theological example is the failure of the church with universal literacy in a technological information age to adapt to Martin Luther’s idea about the church that all Christians are priests. A priesthood of believers church structure would be egalitarian and share roles in church presentations on Sundays. It would be a far more active church, a more honest church with all being professing Christians rather than pew sitting observers. Modern Christianity should be a participation practice rather than one of a laity under a separate class of Christian priests or even one priest that is non-working an over-tithed.

In the post-millennial era Christians are supposed to be increasing in numbers and increasing the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is within you as the Lord said, and the Holy Spirit leads as God wills, to make it possible for as many Christians to be saved as He has pre-destined. Not one shall be lost.

The actual pace, scale and shape of the future demographics of Christians in-the-world is known to God rather than mankind.

Pres Trump Should Build Icebreaker and the Wall

Instead of letting things slide the President should build a new icebreaker as well as a vast hovercraft designed to live in the Arctic. Alaska could use such capacity anytime. The two icebreakers the U.S.A. has are old old built in the 1970s.

The wall should go ahead in order for the Democrats to prove that they aren't simply obstructionists that must have everything their way or they won't play.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/08/04/is-the-coast-guards-icebreaker-project-doomed/

Bernie Sanders in 2020?

   No. Sanders isn’t a good potential shelved product for the Democrat market. He would lose. Democrats want someone like Oprah Winfree or Eric Holder or maybe someone with 1/32 Cherokee ancestry that is female to stand for the job. Just so long as they don’t know what ecological economics is and support homosexuality and illegal alien mass immigration the Democrat Party would be down with that. New York Governor Cuomo II is just to white and male; probably even strait and without hookers in the closet, although the Mueller investigation hasn’t given him the eyeball yet, to be a potential candidate.

What happened to the Ralph Nader sort of radical environmental and capital reforming Democrat- Independent; are they an extinct species"

If the U.S.A. Had Given Germany an Armistice in 1945

Armistice instead of unconditional surrender? Why in the world would that have happened? World War One ended with an armistice. Patton said that was a great mistake at the time. Without fighting to the point of Germany’s unconditional surrender, World War Two was inevitable. The ground was set for the rise of the Nazis to replace the lost aristocrats against which Germans had revolted for leading them into the first world war with a failing outcome.

There was no way at all that the Second World War could have been concluded with an armistice that would have allowed Nazi scientists to finish projects like jet fighters and nuclear bombs. The paradigm of armistice is too bizarre to realistically consider. Even so; here is what would have occurred; all of Europe would have been in the communist block after the Soviets conquered England while the United States withdrew all of its forces so as not to get in the way. The twenty million Americans that had served in the war could have had illegal aliens do their heavy lifting work and legal dope and homo marriage to queer society with and forgot about war and conflict that are known in California to be stress inducers.

Clintons; Ethical Good Example Compared to Cohen? (LOL)

I wonder if the Clintons were more ethical at practicing law than Michael Cohen. Ever since F.D.R. used law like silly putty as a lawyer, Presidents with law degrees have tended to feel the law is there’s to finesse. When a lawyer is President it’s as if there were a civil and criminal trial and just one side was represented in court; the lawyer-President’s side. So they tend to go way too far with expropriating the powers of other branches regarding interpreting law and cutting corners.

None of the items that Special Democrat Prosecutor Mueller’s federal co-conspirators got Cohen to plead guilty to had the word ‘Russian’ in it. Initially that was what the task force was put together to investigate. Maybe half the lawyers on Wall Street and in D.C. if grilled like Cohen with their law offices being ransacked too by federal agents, could be convicted of something I would guess.

http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/402959-cohens-plea-deal-is-prosecutors-attempt-to-set-up-trump

Trump is innocent until charged with something besides maybe giving a porn star money not to talk about theoretical sex with candidate Trump. John Edwards paid a lot to keep an affair quiet when he ran for President against Hillary and was shot down. None dared called that treason, an illegal use of campaign funds or even a crime of passion. Wealth and power attract the wrong kind of women- like flies seeking to land on what is for them, their ultimate good; rotten, do-oothing dead meat.

America is Unique in Some Respects

If one means the United States in saying “America’ (one needs to disambiguate the term as the U.S.A. or one would need to default to North and South America and regard them as one entity or fail to have uniqueness), it is a concatentation of historical events and geographic things-for-themselves that have made the United States unique. Some elements are unique such as leading the revolt against all things British and royal. America was the first large colony of Britain to decolonialize; a process that never really ended though dozens of nations have kicked the king out for themselves.

The United States of America were free states in the Americas while everyone else in the Americas were ruled by Kings and Queens. It is theoretically possible that other nations will join the United States in the future. Perhaps the U.S.A. is unique in that respect.

The United States developed french fries and cheeseburgers when other nations had sandwiches and dainty slices of boiled potatoes. America had coca cola when others were drinking tea at 4 p.m. on hot days. America has possums and Europe, none. It is the constitution of the United States as well as the Declaration of Independence that set the nation apart as a leader and defender of democracy. The United States even fought a terrible civil war fewer than threescore years after the British invaded and burned the national capital, to keep the U.S.A. from splitting apart and being victimized again by tyrants that hate democracy and prefer aristocracy. The war was also fought against the confederacy and their foreign supporters such as Britain to free men enslaved in the confederate state-about three million slaves I believe the number was.

The United States banned the importation of slaves within 25 years of the constitution being ratified into law. That was a leading article in the day. The U.S.A. is a nation that formed from its start without an aristocracy. The greatest threat to the freedom of Americans today are foreign and domestic plutocratic corporatists that own a sycophantic broadcast media incessantly attacking the nation and its values.

The United States of America has had the grace of God with it for much of its history. Humanity itself has a poor history of goodness and the battle to achieve dignity in the rights of the average man along with freedom and security has only advanced with blood, sweat and sacrifice. The United States sacrificed hundreds of thousands of young lives with casualties approaching a million in two world wars to bail out their traditional enemies the British, as well as a few other nations that could not defend themselves. The dangers presented by the Nazis were plain enough, although the dangers posed in the first world war by the German aristocrats that prosecuted Hindenberg’s war are far less clear. Perhaps that was America’s first mistake that set the course for some further errors in the 20th century. Alternative history that didn’t happen is largely an exercise in fiction writing unfortunately.
The United States could be regarded as unique in leading the defense against global totalitarianism. That is a two-sided issue I am well aware; the cold war had supporters on the side of communist totalitarianism rather than that of the free markets of the free world.

The United States continues to be the only nation that has placed men onto extra-terrestrial bodies. The United States is blessed with having two oceans and nations north and south that could not defeat it in war though each have been military enemies of the United States at various times in their history. It had great people with adventurous natures and scientific brilliance from the start. The number of early 20th century inventors it produced that changed the way mankind lives is remarkable. The nation today has far fewer immigrants than in its early years. Today about one of five Americans is an immigrant and the rest have ancestors that left Europe and elsewhere in some cases centuries ago.

The Colonel that wrote the surrender agreement that General Robert E. Lee signed was an assistant to General U.S. Grant named Parker. He was a full blooded American Indian. America went to some trouble to provide save reservations where Indians could survive the contact with immigrants with better technology and numbers. Some nations such as Argentina tried to extirpate them and largely were successful. Today most Americans know the history of American Indians as immigrants arriving as long ago as 35,000 B.P. and the fact is celebrated. The United States was the first large Western nation to elect a negro to the Presidency. England hasn’t had an African ancestry Prime Minister yet much less Russia, Saudi Arabia, Canada, China, France or Germany. American black men average the same annual salary as white men at about $25,000 annually.

The United States was rather unique in being a God-fearing nation much later than the nations of most of Europe. The number of Christians still comprises a majority of the population but the interminable propaganda of the broadcast spectrum and bad theology are driving down the numbers of believers.

The United States has the power to make large successes and large failures. It is important to direct it to large successes tat advance the well being of mankind and America first rather than to harm the nation and indirectly harm others with its troubles. Continuing creativity and human dignity when their are global powers to destroy individual integrity and independence making civil rights into the right to be a subject of elites with no moral will for-oneself except to be programmed isn’t easy. Wisdom is required along with leadership and those can be challenging to find and elect with such mediocre global powers working against it.

Michael Cohen P.O.W. and the Martinets

Apparently Cohen cut a deal with federal prosecutors to reduce his sentence for sundry criminal offenses. Cohen plead guilty and said that Donald Trump directed him to pay off various women as “hush money”.

Michael Cohen Says He Arranged Payments to Women at Trump’s Direction

One wonders if Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer can be trusted. Trying to get a reduced sentence might have influenced his decision to say what Democrats wanted to hear. Mueller is a known associate of Trump-hating politicians that has a better career path if he can convict the President of something instead of just saying he couldn’t find a darn thing to lever the President with. CNBC wrote that Michael Cohen plead “guilty on Tuesday to eight counts related to tax fraud, excessive campaign contributions, making false statements to a financial institution, and unlawful corporate contributions at a court hearing in New York on Tuesday.” Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen admits to illegal payments at direction of candidate to influence election

None of those charges included anything about paying hush money to women during the campaign. I wonder if paying money to women so they won’t say they had sex or whatever is illegal? Prostitution is illegal in some states, yet giving women money not to say they had sex regardless of the truth about that, might not be illegal.

If it isn’t illegal for Joe Duck to pay Sally the Slick twenty dollars not to Tweet that she had sex with him because the ladies at church would look down on him while the Sheriff just wouldn’t care, why is it illegal for Joe Duck’s Serious Older Brother who is running for mayor of Pittsville to pay Sally the Slick’s slicker sister 50 dollars of his own money not to tweet and publish on Facebook and buy 10,000 likes an article that says she had sex with Bill the Serious Brother of Joe Duck who is running for mayor?

Topic; The Best NAZI Chess Player

Germany has had a chess championship since 1861, and Erich Eliskases won it in 1939. The Nazis were going to have him play for the WC in 1941 yet he defected before that. So I guess he wasn’t a NAZI. Lasker died in 1941, and wasn’t a Nazi either, apparently.

Alekhine wasn’t a Nazi; he played in tournaments in France sponsored by them before the war in order to perhaps get his wife released from Germany. The Nazis wouldn’t let her go. That is, he sought to be on their good side a little for a favor, yet he lived in France until he moved to Buenos Aires.

He was something like an extortion victim of the NAZIs.

Chess.com published an article on Alekhine and the NAZIS in 2007.

Alexander Alekhine and the Nazis

The Chess.com article I cited says about Alekhine “So he stayed in France and played in chess tournaments sponsored by the Nazis.”

Alekhine wrote articles such as the anti-Semitic tract 'Jewish and Aryan Chess' (1941), perhaps under coercion. Alekhine was French and Russian and well aware of Morphy, Lasker and other chess GMs that were Jewish or partly so. In his articles he wrote about Jews being too materialist (grab a pawn sort of materialism). Mikhail Tal, Gary Kasparov and Robert James Fischer who all are or were at least partly Jewish, in addition to Morphy and even Lasker, make the idea seem de trop. Really, one shouldn’t be bigoted against taking a pawn, or advocate chess communism with all pieces advancing together. Perhaps the Hippopotamus opening is an example. It led to a draw in a WC match between Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky in the 26th world championship. https://www.chesscentral.com/pages/free-chess-games/hippopotamus-anyone.html

Alekhine was a brilliant chess ultra-modernist and his tract must have been something like having Pablo Picasso write on the blandness of positional classical art. Historians may or may not have gone far enough in depth into understanding his actual motives in the period.

It’s a tough question. Maybe the German chess champion from the war years gets the title? It might have been the champion in 1943- apparently they didn’t have a championship match in 1944–45. Ludwig Rellstab (chess player) - Wikipedia

German Chess Championship - Wikipedia

The wiki article for Eliskases informs us that he choose to stay in South America in 1939 rather than return to Germany, intentionally, along with other members of the Olympiad team. He remained in Argentina and Brazil for the duration of the war and then became an Argentine citizen playing in several Olympiads for them after the war. Erich Eliskases - Wikipedia

The 1939 Olympiad didn’t finish until Sept 19, 1939 and war broke out Sept. 1, 1939 at which time Lufthansa suspended commercial air travel. Yet it is not at all plain that actual Nazis could not still journey to Germany via Mexico or elsewhere. Mexico did not declare war on Germany until late in 1944 or early 1945. Pan Am might have had a flight he could have caught to Europe someplace where he might have slipped across some border to enlist in the Wehrmacht if he’d really cared.

Eliskases probably wasn’t a NAZI. He defected, or appeared to do so, and that is not consistent with acquiescence in the political party values from which he defected. There is an article about Eliskases that has more detail of his history in Austria, relationship with the Nazis before he left to South America, and potential showdown with Alekhine for the World Championship the Nazis wanted to arrange. Eliskases

The German “Grossdeutscher Schachbund' (GSB” wanted Eliskases to be the good example of the pure” German upright style of fighting chess’. He was in somewhat apparently involved with keeping ‘the purity of the German language’, even though he left to live in Portuguese and Spanish speaking nations. I would think that for Alekhine at least the idea of an Aryan style of chess must have seemed very odd or comical, unless he was prescient and thinking about Vishy Anand.

Jewish chess players have had been champions and outstanding GMs. Germany in the Nazi era lost most of the Jews that played a good game. They would have fallen on hard times bereft even of an Austrian champion contender.

List of Jewish chess players - Wikipedia

Being Jewish was not an automatic exclusion from being a NAZI; nearly so, yet not absolutely. A wiki article states that there were a few high ranking Nazis with Jewish ancestry, such as Admiral Rogge. List of Nazis of non-Germanic descent - Wikipediaand a few Jewish Nazi collaborators such as given in a wiki list Category:Jewish Nazi collaborators - Wikipedia

Some Jews did not know a priori that Hitler and Himmler would try to wipe out all the Jewish pieces from the board with a sweep of the arm.

You Too Can Improve at Chess

So many ways exist to improve one’s chess game that it is not simple to reference more than a fraction. There are numerous websites on YouTube with free chess instruction regarding openings, middle and end games, tactics etc.. Several on-line websites have opportunities to play chess live in games of all forms. There are chess engines to play against such as Stockfish that are free to install in Linux operating systems. Chessgames like Pychess are free to download for several Linux systems and Stockfish may be added to it. One may watch live SuperGM tournaments on-line to watch. Here are a few places…

Chess News | ChessBase

chess24.com your playground

Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games

http://Lichess.com ,

Chess Tactics at Chess Tactics

Saint Louis Chess Club

kingscrusher

iChess.net

thechesswebsite

Live Chess Ratings - 2700chess.com

Many cities have local chess clubs with people that are willing to help with ideas and suggestions for improvement. There are thousands and thousands of books on chess etc.