I first attended the law enforcement armaments exhibition at the Convention Center in order to observe the wares. As the professor for a weapons course at the University of Michigan it was paradise. All things A to Z, from small to big. DHS and DOD were there revealing how the items could be obtained at little or no cost...war leftovers you know. It is my interpretation that within two years that law enforcement agencies within America will be weapon equipped at the same level as an USN Seal Team including MRAP's and armed helicopters. To me this is SCARY...if you can not use the military you militarize the police and create the militia as was done in totalitarian nations. A patriot may be easily redefined as a terrorist! I did obtain a new H&K catalogue, but you may want to check this URL.
I was invited to a Franklin Initiative lunch at Judicial Watch which was overseen by the Heritage Foundation. The attendees seemed to be chiefly Cold War experts from the intelligence community. There were presentations on Benghazi, the vanishing US industrial base (a RD-180 rocket engine replacement), recently revealed Russian weapons, the ChiCom threat and their (our) weapons, and the ChiCom infestation of the University of Michigan. Everyone expressed their concern with the continuing and broad economic and military decline of America as a result of failed, stupid, and corrupt leadership, and that immediate action is required although the corrective course of action is at present uncertain. Likely, later in the Summer there will be a two day seminar to address this issue. I assume that most attendees were conservative GOP, but they had harsh criticisms for not only BHO and Clinton, but also for Bush I and II, and there was an enemies list beginning with Condi Rice and Colin Powell. They noted with regard to 2016 that Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney have no idea as to what national security means. A few trusted members of the media were there which leads to the next item.
I gave an hour long interview concerning the China Threat to Sandy Rios which was broadcast on AFR, the Sandy Rios Show on 3 June 2014, and which can be heard as a podcast at this URL
http://mediaserver3.afa.net/
I was taken for dinner by a retired USAF officer from our old Moscow team who also worked on the F-117 and the Global Hawk to the Army Navy Country Club where we were seated in the Eisenhower Room. A large oil portrait of General Dwight David stared down at us. My host began the conversation by noting the need for statesmen of proven accomplishments to serve in government and noted their absence in the immediate past and present. On the job training is NOT an acceptable option. This need for statesmen and women was as well heard elsewhere.
Another dinner meeting was with an individual with OSHA experience and now in the office of the Capitol Architect and a colleague from grain elevator explosion days...they hardly ever explode now because of effective regulations. There was much to discuss because of the recent string of fires, explosions, spills, and other catastrophes all allegedly occurring just by themselves. The first reports are now arriving on the West TX disaster where fifteen first responders were annihilated by the detonation of ammonium nitrate which had also occurred previously on a much larger scale in Texas in 1947. Texas works hard to present a "business friendly " environment with little or no regulations. Such, results in explosions which level entire towns and atmospheric contamination from fracking operations resulting in human health damage as recently substantiated by a successful victim litigation related to the Eagle Ford Shale. Nationally, the first results of the investigation of the BP Macondo Well explosion have just been released , and a short animation may be viewed at the URL http://www.csb.gov/videos/
On Friday, 16 June , a visit was made to the Operation American Spring delegates gathered on The Mall where each day they march from the Washington Monument to the Capitol. On the first day perhaps there were ~1500 participants from all across the nation espousing all causes supporting democracy. The many participants that I spoke with were sincerely dedicated to the true causes of freedom and with a broad contempt for the current government. They hope to have a delegation on The Mall each day for the rest of the Summer. Information can be found at the URL
http://patriotsforamerica.
"The recommendation of a victim of the Wall Street financial fraud led me to read undisturbed and cover-to-cover the book Presidential Puppetry by Andrew Kreig. My reading occurred on the return leg of a Moscow flight after I had made a first time but failed effort to become elected in Michigan as a public official with a reform agenda. During my career, the USAF had often sent me to the Soviet Union / Russian Federation in order to interact with aerospace colleagues.
At present, all levels of American government have failed or are failing to meet their intended purpose of serving the public good because they have been subverted to serve and enrich special interests. The alleged core values of American democracy espoused by the founders and proselytized by numerous charlatans at present ring most hollow. The current political / government racket is one of deception, smoke, and mirrors. How much longer will such be tolerated by citizens, voters, and taxpayers? The charade is finally being exposed, chiefly as a result of the internet.
This book aptly summarizes the process. Andrew Kreig thoroughly and masterfully documents this tragic situation.
Presidential Puppetry was released in its updated edition in late 2013 to encompass much of the previous electoral year’s events. He describes in the twenty-two chapters how the Federal government no longer represents We the People. Instead, the special interests hold sway with the common goal of the accumulation of wealth and power by a small minority for nefarious purposes, including subjugation. I fear that America is currently a colossal Potemkin Village. If this is not deconstructed now we face societal collapse.
My Cold War training was inspired by a vision of America, the Shining City on the Hill. At present, what are the differences between Obama's United States and Putin's Russian Federation? Both have tyrants, kleptocrats, oligarchs, plutocrats, etc. As Kreig shows, there is a desperate need for a true leader to arrive on the scene, such as a statesman of the caliber of Winston Churchill, Summer 1940. If the internet survives the current attacks by the proponents of the national security state, the crooks and the thieves will be outed and democracy restored. But such a scenario is not certain.
The hour is late, and the intimidation is great. Yet again, as at Lexington / Concord, real American patriots are going to have to come forth to expel this time both domestic and foreign oppressors. Our nation can no longer tolerate politicians and public officials who keep secrets and tell lies!"
It is totally footnoted, and it is very similar to the book which exposes the rampant Michigan corruption written by retired Chief Justice Elizabeth Weaver, "Judicial Deceit" again a book known to some of you. Andrew's knowledge of national political corruption is massive, and he shared some of it with me as we sat on the large plaza in front of the now defunct Jack Abramoff restaurant and watched an overwhelming number of the ubiquitous alphabet soup police deal with a minor number of demonstrators at the DOJ in the Nation's Capitol.
I would conclude by observing that America is currently in the same economic and political situation that the USSR found itself in during the decade of the 1980's where there were the leadership failures of Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko. The Putsch and end of the Soviet Union actually came under Gorbachev in August and December 1991. Although he was competent he could not reverse the seventy four years of chronic failures.stemming from a faulty economic and political system and the unqualified leaders. It is my determination that now we stand at the exact same point with the stubborn, persistent, and continuing chronic system failures that will coalesce in the near future into an acute societal situation. The existing two party political system has abandoned our founding national core principles and failed because of the party bosses who are following their own selfish agendas and who are selecting toady candidates and appointees for public office. Cronyism and campaign contributions (bribes) are no substitute for excellence. Those who are to serve the public interest MUST be redefined and the proper selection process established. No more promises and Band Aids. Four decades ago when Jerry Springer was Cincinnati Mayor and Neil Armstrong and I were having lunch, I was encouraging him to seek public office. He responded with the query "Do you want me to get down in the mud and wrestle with the pigs"? At present we actually have our officials opposing our own best interests. In the area of great concern to me, national (military/economic) security, Federal authorities, Obama, Holder, Comey, McQuade, etc are actually aware of the Communist Peoples' Republic of China covertly, openly, and significantly looting our national assets. Because of my training by various Federal agencies during the Cold War I do have some idea as to what constitutes espionage and treason. Regarding specifically the ChiCom activities at the University of Michigan extensive materials were given to Federal authorities in 2006. If this had been USSR/RF subversive activity immediate action would have resulted, but because it was/is the ChiCom's nothing yet has happened.
Flight crews are selected because of their abilities...takeoff, climb, fly straight and level, maneuver, descend, and land. The use of other selection criteria results in smoking black holes in the ground.
C. William Kauffman
Professor, Retired, Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Michigan
President, Explosion Research and
Investigation Corporation
9669 Hermitage Way
Whitmore Lake MI
48189-9624
Professor, Retired, Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Michigan
President, Explosion Research and
Investigation Corporation
9669 Hermitage Way
Whitmore Lake MI
48189-9624
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