December Notes (1)

December’s notes begin in the Far East with a look at empire’s stunning hypocrisy… we don’t arrest our own corporate officials for crimes of the corporation, rather the habit has been to penalize the corporation. Never was there a ‘too big to fail’ banker prosecuted. Throw that idea out the window in relation to China and the Trump administration’s rather dangerous trade war provocations on top of recent saber rattling:

http://www.atimes.com/meng-wanzhou-arrest-a-stunning-provocation-to-china/

Would Russia send a warship into Puget Sound? Ok, so Peter the Great Bay is a bit bigger but wtf, it’s little different when it comes to (these days habitual) provocations as the USA sends a warship to the vicinity of Vladivostock:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20181206_26/

&

https://sputniknews.com/military/201812061070426722-usa-russia-sea-of-japan-destroyer-mccampbell/

Recall that 21st Century medieval kingdom called North Korea? Maybe it’s not altogether the crumbling state the propagandists tell us, here’s the narrative of the Scotsman who ran a foreign law firm there for 12 years:

Part one

http://www.atimes.com/article/getting-to-grips-with-law-and-business-in-high-risk-north-korea/

Part two

http://www.atimes.com/article/going-native-in-the-hermit-kingdom/

The criminal mentality Alex Younger (MI6 boss) slips up and spills how the UK is pursuing 21st Century clandestine information warfare:

https://orientalreview.org/2018/12/08/mi6s-spymaster-revealed-how-the-uk-is-conducting-fourth-generation-espionage/

Maria Butina caves in and cops a guilty plea, probably to escape intolerable conditions of confinement. What is interesting is, the USA claiming the Russian state showing interest in her case, in and of itself, points to Butina being a spy:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-10/alleged-russian-honeypot-spy-changes-plea-guilty

If Russia’s interest in supporting their citizen, Butina, points to her guilt, what does that say about ‘Pastor Brunson.’ Oops:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-vice-president-pence-once-again-demands-pastor-brunsons-release-135862

In fact the CIA’s habit of employing missionaries in the spy games is hardly new:

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1996/april29/6t559b.html

I doubt Butina was anything more than naive, I don’t see anything dramatically changed since I’d written about her case in July:

https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2018/07/19/maria-butina/

Meanwhile, in Strasbourg, the European Parliament apparently can’t stand the thought ethnic Russians might actually decide for themselves who should represent them, so what, elections are anti-democratic? Ohhh, its that ‘Minsk Accord’ thing where the liberal democracies nazi lap-dogs in Kiev are allowed to absolutely ignore upholding their end of the deal but when it comes to the ‘rebels’ pesky aspiration to democratic ideals, that’s a BIG no-no:

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201812051070404571-eu-sanctions-donbass/

CIA promotes a woman to top hit-man position, her hair-style indicates a stunted maturity that’d never graduated beyond a 1970s high school year-book-look:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6474475/CIA-names-Elizabeth-Kimber-woman-lead-clandestine-operations-men-dominated-role.html

Meanwhile, in the realm of an aging Governor Moonbeam, the corruption surrounding water is breath-taking, forget all of those evaporating waste-holes of greater Los Angeles called swimming pools, this shit is unreal:

https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/pistachio-wars-killing-california-for-a-snack-food

Catalan separatists, who I’m normally somewhat sympathetic to (if only because they’re poking a finger in the eye of fascist Spain) get this months hypocrisy award … better they had torn down the immense monument to Columbus in Barcelona prior to looking for Native Americans interested in political fellatio:

https://www.elnacional.cat/en/news/catalan-government-letter-native-americans-borrell_330243_102.html

Another piece future politically correct historians will damn this author for, a social assessment of the ‘yellow vests’ degenerates into a satire where Brigette Macron is the undead Simone de Beauvoir, consort of the President of France, who is loved by the German state because he’s necrophiliac. Oh well.

https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2018/12/09/nation-vs-state-midget-macron-mini-merkel/

Speaking of dead things, I’d had unusually excellent sleep (for an old soldier’s tired bones) the night of 30 November and woke up to news ‘Bush 41’ had died. I seem to recall (was it a dream?) a jingle that went ‘ding-dong that Bush is dead’ … recalling Ross Perot was blackmailed into dropping out of his presidential run against Bush 41 with high quality photo-forgeries of Perot’s daughter in porn scenes, apparently including beastiality. Perot believed it was the work of GHWB’s CIA connections. It may well have been. No obituary I’ve seen mentions the elder Bush 20 years CIA association (officer? Certainly he had access to and moved in Alan Dulles’ circles) prior to his becoming CIA Director for Gerald Ford. Was Bush Sr in Dallas in November 1963? Some put him there. As well, what happened to any mention of the 1980 October Surprise? It’s not like that was never in the news. Then, there’s Iran-Contra. Finally there’s his criminal spawn, ‘dubya’ and Saddam’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’, Neal Bush (9/11) and Jeb & the quashed Novation case where two DoJ attorneys appear to have been murdered to cover up a massive Bush related fraud. The man smells (worse now, considering he’s a corpse) and has always smelled of a world class criminal. Perhaps America’s greatest ever, were the truth to become fully known. That’s what received a state funeral. This is one f’d up world.

I suppose I could have penned a satirical obituary but I was up and about other things. So, here’s the satire/obituary I’d done on former Bush ally & CIA international narcotics trafficking partner Manuel Noreiga instead, note the photo of George HW Bush sitting together with Noreiga in ‘better days’ (before the American crime boss stabbed his business partner in the back)

https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2017/05/30/pineapple-face-dead/

Almost through 2018? I didn’t think I’d live to see 2000 (career/lifestyle)