Russia World Forum 2017

 July 3 and 4, Moscow
 

BEGIN PREAMBLE

Is it better to remain silent
and be thought a fool,
or speak up
and remove all doubt?

Well, I don't really like that comment, or question, or whatever it is.
It represents low-level thinking.
A retired Air Force Colonel I used to work with
would snicker and say it sometimes.
It's sort of a "humorous" put-down,
something meant to embarass or humiliate someone.
Military lifers are chock full of statements like that.
Here's another one,
"SNAFU"
When I inquired of the retired Air Force Sergeant who used it a lot,
he explained that it means
"Situation Normal, All Fucked Up."

The overall result of such negative mantras repeated in the mind, or aloud,
is to enforce and reinforce within the group the general paradigm
that things are fucked up, they always were, they always will be,
and there's nothing you can do about it,
so shut up, don't make a fool of yourself
by taking a positive (childish or naive) attitude,
and cope, and just get by
and accept and be part of the "no we can't" paradigm.
I was the youngest at 29 (the others 33, 34, 40, 42, 52),
and my youthful energy was often the object of their derision.
I eventually told them all to Go Fuck Their Mothers.
"GFYM"

Six of us were hired together at the County Assessor's office,
5 of us veterans, and the other the son of a colonel,
so military culture, military "humor" (aka insults and harassment)
prevailed.

I MUCH MUCH MUCH prefer a mantra of The Cool kids of Silicon Valley,
"Make More Mistakes!"

I know that my reasonable friends associated with The Russia World Forum
understand that this mantra is not meant to
intentionally make mistakes, just for the hell of it,
but rather "to go for it," to "just do it," "to aim high,"
and not be feared into inaction
by the prospect of the inevitable mistakes.

Our American Brats, on the other hand,
delight and excel in intentionally misunderstanding things,
and pretending to misunderstand things,
to the point where they really DO misunderstand almost everything,
especially anything that makes sense,
so we'll just mock the hell out of them, shall we?
Yes, of course we shall.

END PREAMBLE

*******

I am having trouble deciding where to begin,
(Well, I guess I just did with that sweet PREAMBLE, didn't I?)
and where to go with this.
I have notes scribbled all over the place,
on napkins, on index cards, on miscellaneous flyers and financial statements, etc.

I suppose what's really bothering me
is what I perceive to be the overwhelming task before me,
so much to say about so much.
Perhaps this is the "Trump Syndrome,"
so much to think about, to attend to, to do,
that one seems unfocused and scatter-brained.
So be it.
So, be prepared for a montage, for repetition,
for jumping around to different topics.
Let's just call it "The Fog of War."
Pay attention. Be perceptive.
Situational Awareness.
The world's in trouble.
It just keeps on getting worse.

It began in March and April in a flea bag motel in Gallup, NM
where I was staying, and wasting money,
because the police illegally kept (for 2 months) my truck that I lived in,
and illegally searched it,
making it even way messier than it was when they took it
(it got messy when I drove and stuff spilled over).

Well in the motel I unhappily contemplated my sad situation,
and I watched mostly FOX News, and Shark Tank, and some specials,
like the one, "Putin, Most Powerful Man In the World."

*******

So without even looking at my scribbled napkins,
let us mention now the overall theme of absurdity
(theirs, not ours), and fake news.
So, now I'm not in a motel room in Gallup, NM,
but now I get my news from the TV at McDonalds in El Paso, CNN.

A week or so ago, Putin is reasonably explaining (as he always does)
that his country, and the world, is full of hackers,
many of them youngsters,
and that these hackers do whatever they want and can.

The silly brats on cnn start chatting (analyzing)
"it sounds like Putin is admitting that he did it."
The heads all nod in agreement, with lips pursed seriously.

So, basically, Putin just explained that anybody in the world could hack
and our silly little cnn heads CONCLUDE
that he is confessing that he did it, that the Kremlin did it.

This is extreme negotiating at its worse.
A lot of the pundits sometimes say that Trump
sometimes spouts out extreme nonsense
to establish an extreme negotiating position from which he can "make concessions."

But here we have the cnn media doing it worse.
It's absolute illogical nonsense,
and if it's not just bratty intentional misunderstanding,
then it's stupidity off the charts.
I believe it's just an immature insistence on always having your way
and always "being right,"
so that anything anybody says "supports your position"
or "is a confession."

This is the "Taming of the Shrew Syndrome."
I never could stand reading Shakespeare
even though the jesuits force-fed it to us,
but one day I was watching the kids put on a play outdoors near UC Davis,
"The Taming of the Shrew."
I had no idea what the storyline was,
but apparently this nobility guy marries a girl,
apparently a spirited girl, and goes about "taming" her
(aka breaking her will and spirit).

So whatever she says, he denies and contradicts.
She says "It's a lovely day today,"
he replies "It's horrible, and it's raining, and it's nighttime."
She is astounded and perplexed as she looks outside
at the warm, sunshine day.
So, basically he's just a fucking asshole
and eventually she wearies and goes along with him,
and I guess they live (or he lives) happily ever after.

So this is emblematic of our relationship with Putin and Russia.
PUTIN-BASHING.
KGB thug.
But to any reasonable person,
this leaves us open to the simple reply that, then,
George Bush the elder is a CIA thug.
I mean this is just CHILDISH rhetoric.

And I am not alone in my disgust.
Kissinger, Nxon's Secretary of State,
an icon of pro-American, anti-Russian conservatism,
repeatedly has scolded our media and politicians that
"Putin-bashing is not a strategy."

It's just childish.

Putin is not going to be tamed.
He is the most eloquent, intelligent and reasonable
leader in the world that I know of today.
His patience is Saintly.
His self-control despite
endless lies and absurdities and provocations and attacks
is very admirable.

I believe it is largely due to his martial arts training,
although I believe he already had these strong character traits
which attracted him to the practice of martial arts,
which only strengthened his character.

Lucky for Russia,
and lucky for us.
A lesser man wouldn't put up with our shit so patiently.
I hope he stays true to his character
and stays true to his martial arts
mental and spiritual discipline throughout his life
(a long and happy and successful one, I hope)

*******

So on that special that I saw on FOX, I think,
"Putin, Most Powerful Man In the World,"
it explains and displays the animosity
between hillary and President Putin,
explaining that hillary was encouraging, inciting, supporting,
anti-Putin elements and factions in Russia,
encouraging Putin's defeat at the polls,
and possibly his overthrow and even assassination,
as had been happening throughout the middle east
and in Georgia and Ukraine.

And don't forget when our
assistant secretary of state said "Fuck the EU!"
while she was on the phone with our ambassador to Ukraine,
telling him whom we should choose
to replace the elected President of Ukraine
(in other words we were overthrowing a foreign government.)

So, OF COURSE Putin didn't want the nightmare of hillary elected.

And let's talk about all the governments and entities and people
throughout the world
that are always trying to influence everything in the world
to their favor.

This is just American politics as usual
and the only winners
are the politicians and media
who get round the clock air time talking nonsense,
Putin-bashing, Russia-bashing, Kislyak bashing
(Kislyak is a SPY!)
I never heard such chatter so absurd and ridiculous
(except maybe when they talk about me!).
So, Tillerson's a spy, too, right?

Look, lemme straighten you motherfuckers out.
You're just damn lucky that guy in D.C.
didn't KILL a whole bunch of you motherfucking politicians.

Many, many, many Americans,
despite our abhorrence of violence,
and our rejection of violence as a viable choice of action,
would have thought
"You Had It Coming!"
We don't love you.
We don't admire you.
We don't like you.
We're fed up.

*******

I, myself, reject violence as a solution, except in self-defense.
I, too, have been profoundly influenced
by martial arts spiritual and mental disciplines
and peaceful intellectual philosophies.

I have always resorted to verbal responses, including
reason,
truth-telling,
and savage mockery
(although those mocked, seldom seem to get it).

*******

I have listened to all of our presidents and politicials talk,
and Putin stands out head and shoulders above them,
like a Giant.
He is basicly just an honest, hard-working man who loves his country.
He speaks unscripted,
coherently,
logically,
honestly,
persuasively.
You see, I'm nust ordinary guy.
I got radar for that kind of shit.

*******

The Crimea, and Ukraine, and Georgia
are none of our fucking business.
As long as our bratty politicians and media
refuse to get that,
that Russia has a right to defend itself,
then the U.S. is fucked.
Russia will defend itself and its interests,
and I don't blame them.
I respect and admire them for it.

Putin has patiently extended the hand of cooperation
throughout the decades,
despite our provocations and insults.
He continues to do so.

*******

So my heart will be in Moscow on July 3, 2017,
when they unveil a Gorbachev/Reagan sculpture.
My mind will be there.
My spirit will be there.
Will my body be there?
Possibly, but probably not, because I am financially poor,
but that is the only reason.

Over the next few days,
I will write,
look into the logistics of flying over and attending
(possibly too late in deciding to get visa)

*******

I donated over $250 to the World Russia Forum this year
(I admit I have attended 1 or 2 without donating).

My reasoning was that the expenditure,
for a few hours of watching a statue being unveiled,
not being able to speak Russian,
just standing around like I usually do at Forum events,
would show that I am not fiscally prudent.

However, by donating generously (for me),
I could clearly display goodwill,
and save all the expense of the trip,
and not be a pest.

You see, when you get these invitations by email,
you don't know whether they really want YOU to come,
or whether they're just emailed to everyone,
so no one feels slighted or left out.

This is where you have to read between the lines,
and make judgement calls,
and take hints (evaluating whether any hints were given), etc.

When I lived near Harrisburg,
I could just drive to D.C. in 2 hours
and attend because I wanted to,
even if they didn't invite me,
or invited me just to be polite,
and I was not being financially irresponsible
to spend a few hundred bucks.

I remember when I was in California,
living in a trailer on a farm, a broke truck driver,
I got an invitation from The White House
or from The Republicans or someone
to a dinner in D.C.,
and I thought "I'd love to go.  I supported Bush again
when he got re-elected,
and these are the kinds of things you're supposed to go to
when you get invited.  They're opportunities.
I didn't go because I didn't have any money
to go from CA to D.C., and hotels and cabs etc.

I remember when I lived in Sacramento,
I spent a week's salary to go do a limbaugh dinner there,
and all I got was a gift bag with a cigar and some crap,
even though I "wrote the script for the limbaugh program"
(it certainly APPEARS that his radio program at kfbk radio in Sacramento
was an imitation on radio of what I had written in my newsletters)
in 1982 when I wrote 7 weekly newsletters about
liberal fascist political correctness on campuses
BEFORE ANYBODY ELSE like Dinish D'Souza or Diane Ravitch or Tammy Bruce
in 1992 and 2003 or so,
so I got burnt by that,
so I figure if anybody wants help me/work with me/support my projects,
that we can talk it over in emails or in blogs or by phone.

I'm always willing to go to Moscow or D.C. when expected.

But, anyway, Ed's response to his thank you note was

"Dear David,
Thank you so much for this generous contribution.
It will help us to continue our work to avoid
a looming catastrophe of US - Russia military confrontation
and switching the relations to partnership.
Ed"

I was somewhat taken aback by his words
"looming catastrophe of US - Russia military confrontation"
and I wondered for a bit whether he was pushing my buttons
with an exaggeration to test my ability to assess things.

Upon reflection I don't think he was,
and if Ed says things are bad,
then that is probably the consensus in Moscow and, after all,
Putin recently said that U.S./Russia relations are at an all time low.

You see, I don't claim to be a Russia expert,
but more informed and insightful that the average educated American,
especially since 2012 or so when I was invited
and started attending World Russia Forums in D.C.

I mean, there was Georgia, and the Ukraine issue is still going on,
but especially Syria
where we're playing a real dicey game
with Trump bombing a Syrian site where Russians had been
(albeit informing the Russians that aforehand that we were going to do it),
and now Russia now declaring a "do not cross line" West of the Euphrates, I believe.

So I believe we are very close to the very real possibility of
Russian and American planes shooting each other out of the sky there.
Is it worth it?
Abolutely not.

We could solve the Syria and Georgia problem overnight
(or in a week)
if the U.S. and Russia would work together,
get realistic.

You know, I've been in El Paso, TX a month or two,
and I cross to Juarez, MX several times a week.
I noticed a little sign at the crossing building
with three little flags,
Canada, U.S., and Mexico,
and something about working together, keeping borders safe
or something like that, and I thought,
"Russia's little sign would have a lot more flags,
a dozen or two, I guess."

I believe they have North Korea, China, all the Stans, etc.
The Baltics, Poland, Ukraine, etc.,
and they're very very close to Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria
(I don't have a world map right now
and I'm not even taking the time to look at my scribbled napkins
and 3 X 5 cards and flyers and financial statements, scribbled on).

So Americans, like spoiled little entitled brats living rich and spoiled in the suburbs,
just don't get it, don't want to think about it,
REFUSE to think about it,
that RUSSIA LIVES IN A BAD NEIGHBORHOOD!

*******

So now, Sunday June 25, cnn news is saying breaking news
is that Russia hacked 21 states' voting systems,
lke a burglar rattling doorknobs.

So it goes on and on and on

Don't you just love the phrase "Russia Meddling?"
It seems to be a phrase with no meaning.
What does meddling mean?
It sounds like a sexual offense,
like child abuse,
"Putin is meddling."

It's like talking about "Putin aggression"
after our assistant secretary of state apparently
engineered an overthrow of Ukraine's president
to get an anti-Putin president
on the doorstep of Russia,
"Fuck the EU!"

Bottom line is that Trump won and prevented hillary from becoming president,
Thank God!
If Trump accomplishes nothing else
and melts down from old age and pressure,
he has still done the country well in that.

This Russia thing is a fun story for the media
and a great distraction for you motherfucking politicians in D.C.,
but there's nothing unusual about leaders of other countries
preferring candidates or parties in other countries.
Of course, military action to intervene is going too far
(though our "fuck the EU" brat assistant secretary of state
didn't seem to get that principle regarding Ukraine)
but what the limits are between verbally exressing a preference
on the one hand
and military action on the other hand,
is not clear.

The fact is that the Snowden disclosures
and the Wikileaks disclosures
have shown the U.S. to be a deceitful,
dirty cheater,
listening to Merkel's phone call's,
the president of Argentina's or wherever's phone calls,
spreadin' ill will, distrust, and making deposits into the Bank Of Anger
throughout the world.

Hillary shouldn't have tried to depose Putin.

*******

I wonder if the Russians have a mental health field,
you know, psychologists and psychiatrists, etc.

If so, one of my requests is that
they get a team of their best available to evaluate me thoroughly
top to bottom.
I volunteer.
I request it.
You see, I bet that most countries in the world don't even HAVE such bullshit industries.
Oh, except france, of course,
and germany, where freud came from,
and probably england and the commonwealth nations.
But, after freud, it was basically invented and made up in the U.S.,
you know, Skinner at harvard, and so on.

And what it is now is a nonsense industry
that's used for punitive purposes and intimidation.

I am willing to bet that the Russians will find me to be
very psychologically and mentally sound,
perhaps emotionally angry,
but, hell, any warrior on the battlefield
is going to feel fear and anger.
That's not an emotional or psychological illness.
To NOT feel these things is illness.

People are motivated to protect and enhance their careers,
and many careers are susceptible to fraud.
The mental health industsry has been soundly mocked
for having the following mental disorder,
"disorder invention disorder."
In other words, they can't stop inventing (making up
out of their imaginations)
new and usually silly and ridiculous "mental disorders."

I ask the Russian mental health professionals to evaluate me
in this regard
inside out and upside down.

You see, I bring this up now
because, I believe that one of the measures of mental health,
or whether a person is "crazy" or not,
is whether they are rational and have a reasonably realistic
understanding of the world around then.

Don Quixote de la Mancha was "crazy"
because he thought windmills were dragons,
because it made everything else in his mind make sense if they were dragons,
and not windmills, which they were.
(of course, Don Quixote is fictional. I know that.)

They called the steamboat, "Fulton's Folly" and called him crazy.
The list is extensive.
Galileo was punished by the Church and imprisoned
for showing us that The Earth goes around The Sun, and so on...

I have a hunch that The Russians may have discovered,
from the information they got from the Snowden disclosures,
that I was not planted by the U.S. government
(a reasonable suspicion on their part
based on a West Point brother, and my own military service
and conservative arguments as an adult).
I conjecture that Snowden's disclosures
may have enabled The Russians to find FBI files on me,
or other security files on me,
showing that my government has been harassing me,
and often, indeed regularly and systematically,
thwarts me.
This is a mere hunch,
and I do not know whether it is so, or not,
but I conjecture it.

You see, this is where distrust and conflict
cause problems everywhere,
from familial, work and interpersonal and business relationships,
to countries distrusting one another, and suspecting things.

The first time I went to a World Russia Forum (in 2012, I believe)
I was thwarted from renting a car at the car rental counter
at Harrisburg International Airport.
As I entered the car rental building,
I saw a man in a suit, who looked like he could have been
a law enforcement agent of some sort,
hurry up to the counter, talk to the kid there,
and hurry back out to the terminal.
The kid then treated me rudely, insulted me,
and refused to rent me a car.
I called up the car rental customer service,
and screamed and yelled,
and got the car the next morning
in time to get to my first Forum.

Was this an agent, thwarting my effort to attend a Russia Forum?
I don't know.
I think so.
It is my current interpretation of the world,
but my world would not come crashing down
if I found out that it was just some guy talking about something else,
and the kid was just extremely, extremely rude and poor with customer service,
UNUSUALLY RUDE.

I believe in God, and like Rousseau suggests,
I respect the religion of my birth,
and as Thomas Paine concludes, there is a God,
but most of religions are lies,
because he knows that men lie regularly and often,
but he's never known of a man to survive in the belly of a whale
(or a big fish) EVER, except in one particular religious story.

Usually, we can't even agree on the truth of today's breaking news,
yet most people believe, BELIEVE
BELIEVE!
with all their heart and mind and soul
about religious events that supposedly happened over 2,000 years ago,
that would be thrown out of any court for their impossibility
and absurdity
were they to be brought up by a defendant in court.

I, myself, believe that such things are
POSSIBLE,
maybe,
and I am emotionally attached to these stories,
because I was brought up with them,
but I think it is
CRAZY
to 
BELIEVE TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY
in these stories,
so I believe that most Americans
are mentally ill,
because they have the minds of little children,
which, I believe,
is fundamentally a character flaw,
being the lack of courage
to be intellectually honest.

They CAN'T be that stupid.
It HAS to be a character flaw.

*******

PROPOSALS

"Thank you so much for taking part in our events on May 12 or 13 or just expressing interest in attending.
As discussed, please send your proposals which you want to promote and we will do our best to help."
(bold font placed there by me)

"Our next project is the installation of Reagan - Gorby sculpture based on the attached photo
at the "American Square" in downtown Moscow
next to sculptures of Lincoln with Alexander II and Elbe river reunion.

The event is taking place July 3, 2017.  More information to follow."


OK, so here we have an invitation to send proposals.
This is somewhat reminiscent of the limbaugh thing.
There is absolutely NOTHING at all delusional about
what I wrote in 1982 at California State University Sacramento
over a period of 7 weeks, or that I published and distributed them
or that there were reactions at high levels,
and it certainly SEEMS like limbaugh imitated me, or was inspired by me
or was influenced by me, but I can't prove it (or maybe I have,
to certain standards).


So now an email from Ed which appears to be to the mailing list of (scores?)
(hundreds?) (thousands?).  I don't know.
I never discussed a proposal with Ed, but with another attendee, so here goes.
Here's what I propose, very roughly.


OK, Ed, you see here I'm putting up some photos from Juarez MX
but I only got one picture up
because they ALL need to be resized to 300 pixels high
in order to fit.

This is a very rough page
done in one day at McDonalds
where I have electricity.

Tomorrow (Monday)
I will clean it up more and more.
Still may be possible to go to Moscow
if you think that is part of networking
and people might want to meet me,
but I am thinking Silicon Valley connections
would be best for financing
(loan, investment or grant)

School could be non-profit,
and then we could get grants, possibly
from the big foundations that Diane Ravitch writes about
that the billionaires set up
that are putting so much money
into charters and private and public schools.

I've clarified some of my ideas on education recently
so I'll be cleaning up the rants I have here.

But anyway, better to get something started,
so here's my first day's rough copy.

*******
Basically, I'm talking about taking a presence in the Southwest of U.S.,
along Interstate 10 corridor,
between Tucxon AZ
and to El Paso/Juarez

Education, of course,
because as Rojansky says, that's the problem
educate the people about Russia/U.S.
and that Putin not a bogeyman

also construction,
trucking (fundamental stables)
housing
arts (singing, performance)

Breakaway!