Monday, July 25, 2016

From Russia to the DNC With Love



Wow, the Democratic National Convention begins tonight and I'm not ready for it. I'm exhausted emotionally from my visit to Mordor at the RNC convention and all of the violence that has happened over the weekend in Germany, Afghanistan, and Florida. When I said that it was gong to be a hot, violent Summer, I didn't really mean it, just a turn of the phrase. Let's now predict that the rest of the Summer will be spent in more peaceful pursuits, with those angry individuals seeking help instead of acting out their dark fantasies...

We have a couple of my sister's grandkids coming to visit, so I many not make it to the television, may have to view it on this tiny laptop... I also thought that the DNC would be a lot more boring, but it seems that already my assumption has proven wrong! Russia has been spying on the Democratic Party, along with the State Department and the Pentagon. One Russian intelligence group has been sneaking through files over a year and was just discovered three months ago, which kinda makes Hillary Clinton smart for using her own private servers, that were evidently harder to hack into that the US government, which has been no secret among hackers. She was just following the lead of former heads of the State Department, Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell, both Republicans who have not been investigated and who both had their own private servers... The simplest way to protect files is to take the servers that they are stored on and put them offline. Otherwise, any computer that is hooked up to a network can be hacked, the flaw is in the nature of the design...

Anyway, the weekend before the Democratic convention WikiLeaks published over 3000 emails that were on their server, embarrassing top Democratic officials and causing the Democratic Party chairperson to resign. The conspiracy theory is that Vladimir Putin himself ordered the publishing of the documents because:

1) it's payback for the US's involvement in getting Russia's athletes banned from the Rio Olympics and exposing the long lasting Russian doping program sponsored by Putin's government, or

2) he is trying to mess up and influence the American election, skew the election in favor of his mini-me, Donald Trump. Perhaps Vladimir is using Melania Trump to send coded messages disguised as fashion advice... Perhaps someone should recheck her convention speech to see if there isn't some plagarism from Das Capital...


The other conspiracy theory going around is the incredibly paranoid vision of Turkey's president-for-life-in-his-dreams, Recep Erdogan, blaming the recent failed military coup on an old friend who has been living in Pennsylvania since 1999... OK, so maybe this guy has a sinister dark side and plays puppet master through all of his schools and businesses, many which are in Turkey. Or maybe he just thinks that Erdogan has taken one toke over the line and he is criticizing him for the increasing autocratic way Erdogan is ruling Turkey these days. He did declare martial law for three months, giving his police special powers to arrest and interrogate without an ok from a judge, and the Turkish police can now come into your house to search it and take your valuables as "evidence," just like the US soldiers did in Iraq... Yes, he's trying to get rid of as many journalists as he can. canceling their credentials, or, if they are Turkish, having them fired... It's time for someone to hit him with a stick, much like the Buddhists do in group meditation, and bring him back to a sane consciousness...

The US and Turkey have an extradition treaty, so we could give Fethullah Gulen to Turkey, the Justice department has said give us your evidence, but so far Turkey has squat. Erdogan's personal spokesman wrote an article for the opinion page of the New York Times, where he tried to squash the rumor that Erdogan himself planned the attempted coup in order to get more power and to purge all followers of his old friend Mr. Gulen. The half-assed way that the coup played out suggested that it was planned by some amateur who just so happened was staying at a party house on the Turkish Riviera. His schill stated that "The claim that this was a fake coup is no more credible than the laughable  claim that the 9/11 attacks were coordinated by the United States"... Hmmmm, maybe they know something that we don't. Maybe it's time to reopen the 9/11 cases, just to point out all of the mistakes and mis-directions used with the  given evidence, and to put George W Bush on trial for getting us into a false war based on his desire to do one better than his daddy...

On to the convention! Oh what surprises will the Bernie Sanders supporters bring? Nothing as much fun as Vladimir and Recep bring us, but we are carrying a big basket, and there's always room for a few more bad eggs...







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