Our Border Problems are Nothing Compared to Europe's - Ours Want Jobs. They are Fleeing DEATH

Our illegal immigration problems are nothing compared to what is happening in Europe.  They have a flood of over 170,000 people a year, many women and children, showing up in leaking boats to escape the wars raging through the Middle East.

Even death at sea is better than the bloodbath in countries where they came from. Would you pay $6,000 a person to escape Syria today? I would.

Illegals immigrants into the U.S. are looking for work. Illegal immigrants in Europe are fleeing DEATH. They are fleeing the killing raging in a widening circle from North Africa, Iraq and Syria.

In the final part of their journey they have to get past Libyan thugs who charge the $6,000 up, carry guns and threaten them, then put 300 of them in a 40 foot fishing boat, not caring if they drown or not. The people are so desperate they do it anyway.

Forty miles from Libya they are calling on satellite phones for Italian rescue ships. They have made it to safety. The Italians will take them, at great cost. Only now are other European countries stepping up to help.

Our "issue" of intercepting people who just want to work is a better problem to have.

I would never be so arrogant to tell a doctor about medicine - So Why Do People Do it on Trade?

I would never be so arrogant to tell a doctor how to do his job.

I would never be so arrogant to tell an electrician how to do his job.

I would never be so arrogant to tell a teacher or plumber etc how to do their jobs.

Yet I see people posting all the time who have never been outside their home state and have never been involved in international sales act like they are experts on TPP and international trade. Worse yet, they don't want to listen to someone who has. That's not smart. A BBC article said it indicates "you might be suffering from “confirmation bias” – the tendency to only pick evidence to support your viewpoint.

I am not a climate scientist but I LISTEN to their expertise, just as I do with mechanics, doctors and teachers. They have that expertise. I have mine. Don't blow it off and not expect me to rip your ears off.  I don't ask my dentist for tips on cutting trade deals.

I spent spent over 25 years selling American products overseas (which create jobs HERE) for both the Fortune 500 and for the little guys.  I wrote about it in Better Times Ahead April Fool.

These are FACTS not just an opinion on Trade Agreements and how they impact jobs.  It's documented in www.BetterTimesAheadAprilFool.com

TPP is far from finished so lets start an intelligent conversation, starting with this blog entry...

http://globalamericanvalues.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-people-expecially-democrats-need.html

If I am an Al Qaida Prisoner, BOMB the Place - They Will Kill Us Anyway

President Obama is apologizing for a U.S. airstrike that accidentally killed a couple hostages who were being held by Al Qaida.  I have been to Syria on a kidnapping case (before the war) and I don't think an apology is required.

In fact, if I was captured by Al Qaida then let it be known now that I'd want our government to go ahead an BOMB away because I am not aware of Al Qaida or ISIS releasing any American hostages. They were going to be killed anyway. 

I'd just as soon be killed by an American bomb that also kills my captors then wait to be beheaded on video.  I can "live" with that!

My global adventures are in "Better Times Ahead April Fool."

Gyro Copter Disaster - Now the Bad Guys Know How EASY it Would Be

The mailman who flew a Gyro Copter to the Capitol building said on TV that he is convinced that "it was a good idea."  He has no idea the gravity of what he did.  I say that as one of the few who predicted 911 and am a pilot.

He exposed how EASY it would be for the terrorists to storm our government with current low tech technology combined with guts and military grade explosives that can make a tiny flying bicycle into the equivalent of a 500 lb. bomb (or more).  Had our mailman's package included delivery of some C4 military explosive that can be molded to fit into an aircraft frame and reached the Congress' dome and exploded -- hundreds of Congressmen would be DEAD or injured right now! People would finally be paying attention. Think about that.

Our flying mailman has played the role of fool not patriot.  Whatever message he hoped to send has been lost in the realization that he was able to land on the south lawn and was not intercepted or shot down, even after giving warnings.

It showed the weakness everyone assumed did not exist. Because of that, no one tried.  Now they WILL try. Congress itself could pay with their lives as a result of this stunt.

Terrorists can now see that they don't need Boeing 767's. By using low tech means they "could send a message." That would include domestic extremist terrorists, the Tim McVeigh types, who are far more dangerous than the foreign ones at this point because they are far more numerous -- and they live here.

What if an anti-Obama right wing fanatic group -- or young jihadis --  with easy access to guns, explosives and hate, flew one or more gyro-copters (or small planes) on a suicide mission into Congress in session or the White House? What if a couple guys jump the fence and show up at the back door with AK 47's and grenades and try to kill them! 

Upgrading that security zone now is paramount.

"Upgrading" means that the next fool who tries it needs to be forced down --or shot down as extreme as it sounds-- because if he isn't, you have given a green light to the people or groups who will use it to violent ends.

No Mr. Mailman, it was not a patriotic thing to do. You have jeopardized the very government you wanted to improve. Now it is more dangerous. We have all seen the flaw.  It's only a matter of time when the real terrorists take advantage of that knowledge that there is not a real "no fly zone" around our capitol.

I am a pilot.  I have flown "hedge hopping."  Small ultralights do it all the time. There are literally tens of thousands of small aircraft available to anyone and everyone in the USA as it should be. In the wrong hands they are also potential weapons, just like a car can be a car bomb. We don't ban cars for that.

Mr. mailman wanted to be a hero. But he should have talked to me first. He has opened Pandora's Box on security in our own backyard.

Stay tuned.

One of my past articles was on what would happen if the 911 Flight 93 had made it back to DC and hit its intended target, either the White House or Congress. It turns out that there is no easy replacement for house of representative members, while Senators can be appointed by the Governor. House members would take special elections. Government would stop for months and put everything into chaos.

 Let's hope we don't have to go down that road ...

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How Even the Bush Administration Backed Away from a War with IRAN

I found this article as part of the research I am doing for a new book - it confirms my prior blog entry about a war with IRAN costing as many lives in 5 minutes as Iraq did in over 10 YEARS.

But it is even worse than that.  Iran's Persian Gulf border is mountainous, giving them the high ground over the Gulf and its only exist, the Strait of Hormus.  Between its Excocet missiles (purchased from France) and Sunburn missiles (thank you Russia), Iran could riddle every ship we have in the Gulf and sink them - while blocking the reinforcement fleet from entering the Gulf.

Towards the end of the article it talks about the Bush administration suddenly backing away from talk of a military conflict with Iran. I quote in part:

"In May 2007, Fallon Nixes an Invasion of Iran
WASHINGTON – Admiral William Fallon, then President George W. Bush’s nominee to head the Central Command (CENTCOM), expressed strong opposition in February to an administration plan to increase the number of carrier strike groups in the Persian Gulf from two to three and vowed privately there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM, according to sources with access to his thinking.
Fallon’s resistance to the proposed deployment of a third aircraft carrier was followed by a shift in the Bush administration’s Iran policy in February and March away from increased military threats and toward diplomatic engagement with Iran. That shift, for which no credible explanation has been offered by administration officials, suggests that Fallon’s resistance to a crucial deployment was a major factor in the intra-administration struggle over policy toward Iran."

VERY interesting. Check it out.

From White House Fence Jumpers to GyroCopter Attack on Congress

In 1990, jobless with nothing to do, I started writing "Fire Over Arabia" - a fiction book about a flash war in a place called Iraq, and a terror attack on the U.S.   It was interrupted when Saddam invaded Kuwait. It was never published.

                     Above: Not all gyro-copters are "flying bicycles"

Today, we see a repeat of that story on a smaller scale. 

Fire Over Arabia was about a cruise missile attack on our nation's capitol, launched from a freighter offshore. That requires a lot of sophistication to pull off - big money, international connections, knowledge of complex weapons.  Even Al Qaida hasn't been able to do that, yet. 911 involved trained pilots hijacking a plane and turning it into a flying bomb. 

The Germanwings incident proved that cockpits are secure from that threat when the co-pilot locked out the pilot and flew the aircraft into the ground. No political purpose required.

But what if it was a low tech attack - say, a guy in a small plane or gyro-copter that was packed with military grade explosives. Maybe the pilot would be wearing a suicide vest. Could that small of a craft cause real damage?

                         C4 explosive comes in small packages

As a 911 terrorism analyst and a licensed pilot I would say "YES" definitely.  Here's why.

By using an easily obtainable version of C4, the primary military explosive, the firepower of a Gyro-copter could be like getting hit by a rocket from an Apache attack helicopter.  C4 can be safely molded to fit an airframe. It won't explode even if penetrated by a bullet, say from a secret service agent firing a weapon. It takes a detonator. Here is an excerpt on C4 from Wikipedia:

"Terrorist groups have used C-4 worldwide. C-4 has been used in terrorism and insurgency related to Middle Eastern crises, but also in domestic terrorism and state terrorism
Composition C-4 is recommended in Al-Qaeda’s traditional curriculum of explosives training.^[5] In October 2000, the group used C-4 to attack the USS Cole, killing 17 sailors.^[29] In 1996, Saudi Hezbollah terrorists used C-4 to blow up the Khobar Towers, a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.^[30] Composition C-4 has also been used in improvised explosive devices by Iraqi insurgents.^[5]
Homemade C-4 is a popular subject amongst domestic anarchist terrorists in the United States^{[31][dubious – discuss]} and is the subject of a chapter in the original The Anarchist Cookbook which details how to separate RDX from Composition-4.^{[32][dubious – discuss]} Ammonium nitrate is referenced as the anarchists "homemade C-4" and many do-it-yourself books list several explosive formulations derived from it with detailed instructions as to the proper grade of AN to purchase. Prepared by reacting ammonia and nitric acid, it is widely available to the public as a fertilizer. In 1986 over 11 billion pounds of ammonium nitrate were produced in the U.S.^[33]"

                                                                                         ^{C4 explosion}

After the Oklahoma City bombing, its no guarantee that the next terrorist event at our capitol would be a middle east "jihadi." It could just as easily be a white extremist who would not call in advance of his flight.  

An impact with either the Congress building in session or the White House by even a gyro-copter with C4 explosives attached would be catastrophic. Injuries and death would be guaranteed.

Therefore, the air defense system around the capitol needs to be enhanced - police helicopters and at least one Apache on station at the minimum.  Communication and radar need to be expedited and coordinated like it never has. 

The attempts to breach security under President Obama are several times that of prior presidents. It won't be any safer for the next president, be it a man or woman.  Security has to be right 100% of the time; a terrorist has to get it right only once.

I guess its time for me to write another book. This time it won't be about a cruise missile that would change life as we know it. Follow here and.....Stay tuned!

Does Israel Have the NEUTRON Bomb? What That Means regarding IRAN

From a knowledgeable source I have been advised that it is quite possible that ISRAEL has a bomb banned - a NEUTRON Bomb.

I confirmed this when I checked Wikipedia:
"By 1984, according to Mordechai Vanunu, Israel was mass-producing neutron bombs.^[23] A number of analysts believe that the Vela incident was an Israeli neutron bomb experiment.^[24]"  

My expert further says that even one Iran nuke would be useless. Two reasons:

(1) Israel has over 200 Nuclear warheads, including the NEUTRON bomb that kills people, not buildings - and has higher yields than standard nuclear warheads.  
(2)  It would take 4 nuclear hits to even take out one city like Jerusalem because of Israel's hills that deflect atomic blast waves. 

One nuclear bomb would not be sufficient for Iran to even knock out one city, much less "destroy" an entire country!

Not even Russia or the USA deploy Neutron Warheads. 

So the question is: WHY is Israel so worried about the Iran deal? They have not signed the nuclear non-proliferation act themselves! No one gets to inspect Israel's nuclear facilities.

Stay tuned...

How We Could Lose More Military in 5 MINUTES in a War with IRAN vs. 10 YEARS in Iraq

International Expert Who Predicted 911 Says This about President Obama’s  Iran Deal

TRANSCRIPT:
There is bold talk by some in Congress that we should reject Obama’s deal with Iran. This reminds me of the loose talk before the Iraq invasion when I was a terrorism analyst on TV, the lone voice in the wilderness opposing it at the time. That invasion led to the growth of Al Qaida and ISIS today and has cost us over $6 TRILLION dollars and countless deaths. 

A war with Iran would make Iraq look like child’s play—because we DO have evidence of what a short conflict with Iran would look like - and how it would end. Ugly, very ugly. Don’t take my word for it – take the Pentagons.

 A 2002 military exercise called “Millennium challenge” was held by the Pentagon simulating a "War with IRAN" took place. Result? America's worst naval disaster since Pearl Harbor.   The military stopped it after we lost 16 ships including an aircraft carrier—which is home to 5,000 sailors! We could lose more people in 5 minutes than we lost in Iraq in over 10 years! How?  One Iranian cruise missile travels so fast that our ships’ radars can’t even lock on. It could take out one of our aircraft carriers in just 5 minutes. And that would only be the beginning of our losses.

I am Michael Fjetland. In my career I’ve negotiated in over 50 countries and spent time in the Middle East. Several years before 911, I predicted a terror attack on the U.S. on TV during the first Gulf War. No one listened. 

I became a 911 terrorism analyst on TV and opposed the invasion of Iraq since Saddam had nothing to do with it. Again no one listened. As a result of kicking open that Pandora’s box the U.S. lost over 4,000 military and trillions were borrowed and spent to support it  – all it did was lead to a growing Al Qaida and today’s ISIS, and veterans who will need medical care the rest of their lives.

I hear the usual suspects now disparaging President Obama’s deal with Iran to limit its nuclear ambitions. It’s as if they learned nothing from the Iraq war fiasco.

                                                                       Aircraft carrier hit by Iranian cruise missile

Before we convince ourselves to reject the Iran deal and encourage even more evil to fly out of Pandora's Box in the volatile Middle East, know this: key Senators urging a military “solution” like Senator Tom Cotton have not only tried to sabotage the President, he didn’t even know that Tehran has been the capitol of Iran for thousands of years--that's how little representatives like him know about the real world! Are you going to believe a brand new Senator who doesn’t know basic global geography, or a President who has been winding down America’s trillion dollar war boondoogles?

Do you really want to go down that road to war again? The President has put in place a verification process like what Pres. Reagan did with the Soviets in reducing missiles. Reagan’s motto was “Trust but verify.” Obama’s is basically the same.  

Is Israel’s security at risk? Hardly. 

                                    Israel has largest military and hundreds of nuclear bombs in inventory

Israel has the largest military in the middle east.  Experts believe it has a nuclear stockpile of at least 200 nuclear bombs. Iran has zero. Even if Iran managed to sneak production of one bomb it is hardly in a position to threaten Israel who could wipe it off the face of the planet, killing millions of innocent Iranians in the process and launching even more Mideast blowback that would not help our security. And don’t forget Pakistan, a Muslim  country, has had nuclear missiles for years, and its not been used against anyone.

Keep that in mind as those running for president dish it for political reasons – at great risk to the American people. The results of Millennium Challenge is a warning not to rely on a military solution over a diplomatic one -- like we heard before the Iraq invasion.

 The last thing we need is yet another war—or to be fooled into another disastrous war. If Congress kills this deal, we citizens will have hell to pay. You will find links below where you can follow these developments in my Global American Values blog.

Pass it on! 

And find out how to make America No. 1 in the world again in "Agenda for American Greatness" - a free chapter in Michael Fjetland's book "Better Times Ahead April Fool" - How does one go from farm to global negotiator and terrorism adviser in over 50 countries?

No wonder others think we have been putting LSD in the water in Texas

Just now ·

Today at lunch in Seabrook two (OLD, WHITE) men at the next table were talking (loudly), so i could not help but hear from of them say: 

"If Hillary gets elected, I'm moving to another country! Then it slipped into 'grumble, grumble.'

I was SO tempted to stop by on the way out and say: "What? You don't like the best economy that we've had in 7 + years under Obama?... that Clinton can build on-- after Bush/Cheney produced the worst economy since the Great Depression of the 30's...and ran up trillions in debt from UNPAID for wars, tax cuts, etc...? 

So I ask - Do you really want to go back to that borrow and spend like we have seen in Texas -- with the GOP running up over $40 BILLION in highway borrowing for roads? 

When people like Ann Richards were in office, the roads were paid for when they dried. And Texas had a better education system than we have today when the No. 1 priority is guns in schools instead of full day Pre K, etc. Frankly, that's pretty BIZARRE. 

No wonder others think we have been putting LSD in the water.
LOL