Quakers say "There is that of God in everyone" (and everyone makes mistakes).
Right now, both Trump and Putin are caught in swirls of conflicts they are partly guilty of, but want to avoid, and do not seem to fully understand. This morning, we had a great conversation with key IT people about the issue of trust... and what it would take to get out of impossible seeming situations.
Both Trump and Putin have done things which .. let us say, the angels would not approve of. But that is no excuse for slacking off in efforts to prevent the kinds of conflicts which really could end up (after many stages) in premature extinction of the human species... and perhaps of the very souls of those who proved by their actions they did not care enough to do their best.
Issues about McCabe and poison certainly move the risks up a notch.
Luda was incredulous that I refused to take a stand for or against the firing of McCabe.
"You would be really incensed if they fired Muller. You keep praising Teddy Roosevelt and complaining about gestapos improperly trampling on the rights of federal workers and of due process. So why aren't you supporting McCabe?"
My answer: "Because I don't know whether he is a victim of the gestapo, or an active member himself. If we don't root out that new gestapo, we are dead." This morning, CNN expressed contempt for what they heard about McCabe's firing being based on what he did unfairly to Hillary Clinton -- but in my view that does suggest he is part of this "gestapo," not so much a "deep state" as a network of people in the federal government controlled improperly from the outside, basically a product of corruption. Mistreatment of federal workers and of due process happened well before Trump was nominated, let alone elected. (I basically track it back to Cheney, though the book A G Man's Journal gives some additional perspective.) Are there really such awful conspiracies at work? Well, the book Dark Money gives some idea about it. And some of us have seen more ghastly things first hand, like it or not, kicking and screaming.. or terrified into silence.
And then what of Putin? PM May described Putin's response to her overtures as snarky. It is ever so understandable why he responded as he did, and why she responded back as SHE did. But by doing nothing to respond to the legitimate fears of a Russian assassination spree, he throws Putin under the bus, and makes it very hard to resist the energies of folks who want a war with Russia and Iran as once they wanted war with Iraq. (The SAME PEOPLE, in place after being installed at the same time.)
How to get out of a mess, into a situation of greater trust and ability to work together on very serious common problems? In the discussion this morning, I mentioned an old but serious book by Singer on Quantitative International Politics, which had a chapter on how to build trust/ability to cooperate.
One recipe they recommended: cooperate on a finite specific project, to get more used to cooperating.
So now: why not a joint project to somewhat limit the dangerous evil rogue billionnaires which plague Russia, the US and the Middle East, including locating and holding responsible whoever caused these assassinations regardless of their loyalties? Above all, why not create a new international monetary PLATFORM (IT system), working jointly with the EU to respond to the Panama papers scandals, to create more transparency and bring back money to rightful owners, and so on? Using unbreakable operating system, transparent in such a way that we all see that there are no write-enabled backdoors? (Was notified by IEEE today of acceptance of my new paper giving more detail on the general suggestions in wwww.werbos.com/NATO_terrorism.pdf, whihc has certainly been studied by top people in Tsinghua, among other places.)
The hope of survival is a narrow and twisty path... but certainly better than burying our heads in the sand and exposing our anatomy to hungry predators...
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Regarding the power plant issue: At www.werbos,com/NATO_terrorism.pdf, I discussed in 2016 what was ALREADY in the press. When Mike Rogers asked for permission to shut down electricity in St. Petersburg. Given how much had already leaked by then, why was there no real shutdown this past month? One serious possibility: a preliminary test, to be sure they are ready. The new operating system thrust I have proposed would solve that problem.
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