Obama Brings Ebola to the U.S.

You think the Obama Administration wants to “Change,” err destroy America? Well, if you weren’t sure by now, you just got your answer – Yes!

Opening up the southern border to communicable diseases, Mexican Drug Cartels, and Islamic Jihadist wasn't quite doing it. So now Mr. Obama takes the unprecedented decision to bring Ebola, the world's most deadly communicable disease, to the United States and the North American Continent.

Why? For the purpose, we were told, of "potentially" saving two U.S. citizens. Who on arrival, are not near death's door, but are in “serious but stable condition.” In fact, video of the first to arrive, Dr. Kent Brantly, showed him not on a stretcher, but walking in a hazmat suit from the ambulance that transported him to Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia. He is the first person, ever, to be infected with the Ebola virus to be on U.S. soil.

But Government officials and health experts tell us not to be worried. CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, explained the infected patients pose little risk to others. Then why have over one hundred health workers in Africa, in biohazard suits been infected?

Dr. Frieden further proffers that "these are American citizens. American citizens have a right of return.”  From the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, whose primary mission is to protect the health and safety of the nation through disease prevention and control, this is an alarming statement. In other words, an American citizen has the “right” to return to the United States with the world’s deadliest communicable disease.

The CDC, it should be noted, was originally an agency within the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS). The USPHS was founded 1798. Its earliest mission was the care of sick and disabled seamen in USPHS established hospitals. But more significantly to the matter at hand, in 1878, the USPHS mission was expanded to take on control of infectious diseases, including quarantine, which previously had been a state function. As immigration increased, in the late 19^th century, the USPHS took on the responsibility.

Yet today, the Director of the CDC proclaims that a U.S. citizen has a “right” to return to the United States, to a hospital of his/her choosing with the world’s deadliest communicable disease – Ebola. No Government quarantine required.

Today we learn that a Tennessee doctor, Alan Jamison MD, working at the same Liberian clinic as Dr. Kent Brantly, returned home to Morristown, Tenn., after he was evacuated from Liberia by the aid group he was volunteering (for). Dr. Jamison, a retired pediatrician, says he's "well" and asymptomatic. Apparently, Dr. Jamison has put himself in quarantine in his home. I guess the Obama Administration did not get the memo on who is responsible in this county to quarantine an individual for communicable diseases. That was not meant as a joke.

Finally, today, Dr. Frieden lectured the American public that he ‘certainly hopes people’s fear doesn’t trump their compassion.’ Where have we heard that “compassion” thing recently? Yes, in conjunction with the massive illegal immigration on our Nation’s southern border. I wonder if the Obama Administration is following U.S. Code, Section 34.3 of 42 CFR Part 34[1]? Should not Dr. Frieden be concerned that thousands of illegal immigrants from Central America are not only on American soil, but are being dispersed to all parts of the United States?

Still, we are told not to worry. The United States Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will be there to ensure our safety. Never mind that just in the last months, the CDC: 

1.             Mishandled live anthrax;

2.            Misplaced live smallpox;

3.            Mislabeled influenza virus that had been cross-contaminated 
         with the highly deadly H5NI strain of bird flu.

Words escape me to describe the pandemic potential this moronic and inept decision by the Obama Administration can bring to the America people. And who stands between a catastrophic pandemic and us? The CDC and the Obama Administration.

If this doesn't bring America to its senses (remove Obama), than maybe it is time that the surplus population is removed. 

Author: Lawrence S. Schneiderman is a Capt. USPHS (Ret.), an International Consultant, and Dr. of Public Policy, Vanderbilt University. The views expressed are his own.

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[1] This provision provides specific screening and testing requirements for diseases that meet the definition of a communicable disease of public health significance.

Occam’s Razor: Understanding Malaysian Airline Disasters

Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 (MH 370) disappeared March 8, 2014 (MYT) or March 7, 2014 (UTC), less than an hour after takeoff from Kula Lumpur (Capital of Malaysia) en route to Beijing, China (Capital of China), with 227 passengers and a crew of 12. An historic multi-nation search effort has failed to find one smidgen of flight debris, and no crash site has been found.

Now, four months later, Malaysian Airlines Fight 17 (MH 17), on July 17, 2014 (UTC), at 14:15 (GMT), en route to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam (Capital of the Netherlands), with 283 passengers and a crew of 15, crashes in Eastern Ukraine after being shot down by a Russian BUK surface-to-air-missile (SAM).

The question must be asked, what do these two disasters have in common. In this case, the simplest explanation is the best. The principle of Occam’s razor can be applied in this particular context. What these events have in common is Malaysia and Malaysian Airlines.

Why would Malaysian Airlines allow one of its commercial airliners to fly over an air-space where only a few days before a Ukrainian military transport was shot down by a SAM, at high altitude? We know that other commercial airlines such as Qantas and Korean Airlines have changed their normal flight paths to avoid this area.

Why would the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), an United Nations (UN) organization, Euro Control, the European Union Brussels-based agency that coordinates air traffic in Europe, and Ukrainian Air Traffic Control, not restrict commercial air traffic and overflying to this area in eastern Ukraine?

Other countries without jurisdiction have issued warnings and restriction to their carriers. For example, the United Kingdom’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on June 14^th of this year, urged airlines to avoid overflying the Crimean and parts of southeastern Ukraine due to safety concerns. The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a similar advisory on April 23^rd of this year. Yet, Malaysia and Malaysian Airlines choose to ignore these advisories.

Again, we must ask why? And again, we apply Occam’s razor. It's simple. It's incompetence and stupidity. It’s time to recognize that incompetent officials govern Malaysia. They delayed the search for MH 370 and then issued misleading and false information. I would aver that their obfuscation and misdirection was to escape liability for the incompetence and/or sabotage of their crew and airline officials, or to hide the fact that its Captain and Islamic jihadist hijacked the airliner.

Now, MH 17 is put in harm’s way, directly overflying an active combat zone where SAMs, only a few days before, brought down a high altitude military transport. This incompetence and pleonexia is to what end? To save a few “bucks” on fuel costs!

The western governments and media wish you to believe the downing of MH 17 was: a war crime; a deliberate attack on a civilian commercial airliner; an act of war. It was none of these. It was an accident. It was a mistake. What would the Ukrainian rebels and their Russian master gain by shooting down a commercial airliner and 298 innocent people abroad? I cannot think of one good reason, with emphasis on the good.

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Why am I talking about Malaysian Airlines? You should know by now.

Major western governments and the media, want you to think the disaster of MH 17 is all about Russia and Vladimir Putin. While the avalanche of pronouncements by world leaders and followers, fills the airwaves and sells newsprint with bloody laundry, it is in fact window dressing -- pour la galerie. Its purpose is to cover-up the plethora of foreign policy failures across the planet.

Vladimir Putin is a man of his time. He is what he is – a Russian nationalist, a KGB apparatchik, an Orthodox Christian. He is certainly a lot more, but that is the essence of the man.

He is also the one of the luckiest men in history! His good fortunate is to have Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States of America.

His mission is clear. It is to resurrect Russia as a major world power, and to resurrect, to the extent the West permits, the Soviet Union (USSR). Mr. Putin has accomplished the former, and is on his way to bring about a significant portion of the later given the leadership in the West. It was logical that Russia would reassert itself on the world stage, especially in the power vacuum created by the Obama Administration. What we are witnessing is no less than a first in world history. Under Barack Hussein Obama, the number one super-power in the world is neutralizing itself – Mr. Putin doesn’t have to do a thing.

It has been Mr. Obama’s goal since taking office on January 20, 2009, to “change” America’s preeminence in world affairs. Examples are: going on tour to apologize to the World; relinquishing a European antimissile-system and get nothing in return; leading from behind in Libya; precipitously pulling troops out of Iraq without a stable political solution; dismantling your country’s defense budget resulting in critical reductions in the nation’s defensive capability; supporting Islamic terrorism such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran; allowing Iran to embarrass the United Sates with tripe and disingenuous negotiations; obfuscating the severe damage done by Benghazi; spying on our allies; and lying – lying to everybody.

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World order is in tumult. And none is more so than the southern boarder of the United States of America. America is in peril from the horde of illegal undocumented aliens crossing our southern border from Mexico. The dangers are not inconsequential. They include: communicable diseases; national security; Islamic terrorism; economic collapse; and the essence of being a nation.

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Indeed, for Russia, China, and Islamic Jihadist, it’s all too easy. Who needs missiles or even suicide boomers when you have Mr. Obama and his Democratic Party, America’s political class, European Socialist elitist, and the free world’s mass media? 

Author: Lawrence S. Schneiderman is an International Consultant and Dr. of Public Policy, Vanderbilt University. The views expressed are his own.

Iraq: There Was A Solution

The World today is parlously endangered. Barack Obama is President, and most likely will continue to be for another two and one-half years. In our time -- that is a long time. Add an incompetent, unqualified, and pathologically stupid State Department and National Security team, one should conclude that the world would remain in tumult.

As I wrote on this Blog since 2007, aka I told you so, Iraq is an artificial State. To believe that Kurds, Sunni, and Shi’a can live peacefully together contradicts realty. The solution to the Iraqi civil war is to construct a new compact. That new compact will be the partition of Iraq into three distinct States. 

A Kurdistan Solution for Iraq

20 October 2006

http://thegreygrater.blogspot.com/2007/06/kurdistan-solution-for-iraq.html

Iraq War III

11 December 2011

http://thegreygrater.blogspot.com/2011/12/iraq-war-iii.html

Diplomatic Malpractice: Sectarian Violence In Iraq

25 July 2012

http://www.eurasiareview.com/25072012-diplomatic-malpractice-sectarian-violence-in-iraq/

It's Simple Logic: Obama Supports Terrorism

10 October 2013

http://thegreygrater.blogspot.com/2013/10/its-simple-logic-obama-supports.html

Inveterate Interventionism Is Bad Foreign Policy

23 October 2013

http://thegreygrater.blogspot.com/2013/10/inveterate-interventionism-is-bad.html

Where It’s At: Perspective for Memorial Day

26 May 2014

http://thegreygrater.blogspot.com/2014/05/where-its-at-perspective-for-memorial.html

It’s a broken record – still the vacuous denizens in the State Department and our National Security team will never listen to it. There are options – there are solutions. It doesn’t have to be this way, unless your intent is to destroy the United States and World Order. That begs the question, who has been educating these people, at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Denver University?

In my view, America has had enough. We have had it with Mr. Obama’s and Mrs. Clinton's and Mr. Kerry’s deceitful, pathetic, apologetic, naïve, and schizophrenic foreign policy. And, we had it with Mr. Bush’s and Ms. Rice’s foolish naive foreign policy, and mismanaged military campaigns restricted by absurd rules of engagement. If you go to war – you go to war. Moreover, trying to build a nation while conducting a war is a fool's errand. 

Not one more American needs to die to implement the failed policies of incompetent leadership.

Lawrence S. Schneiderman is an International Consultant and Dr. of Public Policy, Vanderbilt University. The views expressed are the author’s own.

Quisling: Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl

By all accounts, we are finding out that, Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl is a deserter and traitor to the United States of America. His words and deeds speak for themselves. Still, to fully understand and make sense of his and his family’s nature, you need to understand his pedigree: a Norwegian quisling.

Contemporary Norway is a duplicitous country. As Churchill observed in a speech at St. James’s Palace on June 12, 1941 – Norwegians are “a vile race of quislings* to use the new word which will carry the scorn of mankind down the centuries.”

Founded in the 11th century by King Olaf II, Norway was a frozen and isolated nation for 200 years. From the 13th century, the Danes ruled Norway until the 19th century. Afterwards, the Swedes took control under a union that lasted until 1905. Well, there you have it; they didn’t participate in the Renaissance, the Reformation, or even the Enlightenment. Is it any wonder that they admire Lenin and Stalinist Russia, the Soviet Union, Authoritarian Socialism, and Communism?

This is Norway, where not long ago (August 24, 2012), Anders Breivik murdered 77 people, and was sentenced to a mere 21 years in prison. But if you think the Norwegian penal system is no walk in the park – think again. His lawyers say, ‘Mr. Breivik will spend his confinement in a prison outside Oslo in a three-cell suite of rooms equipped with exercise equipment, a television, and a laptop, albeit one without Internet access.’ Oh my, the inhumanity! No Internet! In other words, you can without contrition gunned down 77 unarmed fellow citizens, the majority of which were children, and received only 21 years in prison, with benefits.

If, Alfred Nobel, a Swede, had not thrown the Norwegians the 5th portion of the Nobel Prize to administer (the other four belong to Sweden), we would most likely never hear from them again. But he did -- and so we do. And as a result, every year or so we have to put up with their insult, called the Nobel Peace Prize.

And now, in the embodiment of Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl, we are again reminded of Churchill’s spot on insight, they are “a vile race of quislings.”

*Vidkun Quisling, leader of Norway in 1940, who cooperated and collaborated with the Nazis when Germany invaded Norway in 1940.

Where It’s At: Perspective for Memorial Day

Don’t look now, but here is where it’s at.

We’ve had two Democrats and a Bush,

And the Soviet Union is back.

What to do, what to do,

How did we get so screwed?

We’ve had two Democrats and a Bush,

And the Soviet Union is back.

Journalism is dead.
We have a biased and pathologically stupid mainstream media.

Journalism is no longer a profession,

It’s been bought and sold for cheap.

It sucks up to power, only to be insulted.

It has become a puppet, a toady, a lackey.

It accepts lies and condescension,

As a child in search of praise.

Journalism is no longer a profession,

It has no ethics.
Journalism is dead.

We’ve had two Democrats and a Bush,

And the Soviet Union is back.

How could it happen so fast?

We’ve had two Democrats and a Bush,
We’ve had a Christopher, an Albright, a Rice, a Clinton, and a Kerry.

Someone tell the media, Obama needs to know.

The Soviet Union is back.

L.S. Schneiderman

Putin’s Playbook: Predictable as a Packers’ Sweep

written April 13, 2014

Here’s the headline being reported in newspapers around the world:

Ukraine is at War with Russia. Fighting broke out today (April 13, 2014) in Sloviansk, Eastern Ukraine.

First reports put one Ukrainian Special Forces soldier killed and five wounded. Apparently, the Kiev Government planned the assault to evict Russian Separatists from a Ukrainian police station they had taken over yesterday (April 12, 2014).

Now, let me tell you what's really going on here:

It's the equivalent of the Packers’ sweep. For non-football fans, this is a play in American football. The Green Bay Packers, under their eminent and legendary coach Vince Lombardi, ran it, and ran it, and ran it again, until someone stopped them.

What's occurring in Eastern Ukraine is the same play the Russians ran in Georgia 2008 (South Ossetia and Abkhazia), and the Crimea 2014. And, like the 1960s Packers, they will keep on running it, until someone stops them.

The Russian play is from the United States and NATO playbook, which they ran in Kosovo, with the help of the Kosovo Liberation Army (“KLA”). Instead of the Packers’ sweep, let’s call this play the Kosovo Exception, developed by Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright.

The Kosovo Exception had its origin in Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland) when Hitler ran it in the run up to the Second World War. It should not be forgotten that Mrs. Clinton recently chastised Mr. Putin for behaving like Hitler when Russia invaded the Crimea. By Mrs. Clinton’s logic it follows that her husband also behaved like Hitler, when he went to war in Kosovo in March 1999, employing the same pretext.

Here’s how it works:

First you need a minority within a State who believes they are being persecuted. Toleration of the minority differences, by the State, is not enough. They want “group-differentiated rights,” thereby requiring exception from laws of the State e.g. religious beliefs, language accommodation in schools, voting, et al. In sum, they want self-determination, i.e. nationalism. They want their own laws, and do not want to be ruled by the laws of the State in which they reside.

Not getting all that they believe they have a right to, they rebel. A rebellion with acts of civil disobedience, vandalism, subversion, armed resistance (aka freedom fighters), and terrorism. In a viable state, these measures are swiftly put down, and the tumult ends. But for a weak and dysfunctional State, herein lies the seeds of insurrection.

Second, a strong benefactor is required, ethnic affiliation is useful but not a prerequisite. For Kosovo it was the US and NATO. For Georgia, Crimea, and the Eastern Ukraine it is Russia.

Third, engineer and trump up some demonstration: a sit-in in the President’s office, a take over of a government building(s), a dramatically staged catastrophe, thereby forcing the State to act against your sedition. Then proceed to lie, obfuscate, intimidate, and malign. All the while a complicit mainstream media reports and editorializes the validity of your scam. This sets the stage for your benefactor, like a knight in shining armor, to take action on your behalf. Hence, the benefactor virtuously comes to the rescue and liberates the downtrodden minority within the State.

One, two, three – Bob’s your uncle.

Make no mistake, today Europe is a weakling, and Barack Obama cannot, and will not act. Today, the West is not dealing with a Boris Yeltsin. And today, unlike Kosovo, Russia will not sit back and allow the West to dictate both the terms of the engagement and its aftermath.

Mr. Putin will run the play until someone stops him or he achieves his goals. My bet is on the latter.  

Lawrence S. Schneiderman is an International Consultant and Dr. of Public Policy, Vanderbilt University. The views expressed are the author’s own.

Plan X For The Ukraine: A Game Changer

Written on March 4-5, 2014

Now that the Russian President Vladimir Putin has gotten his way in the Crimea and the Ukraine, thanks in no small measure to the bumbling bureaucrats in Brussels, and the naïve amateurs in America. What to do?

There is a game changing action Mr. Obama and the United States could set in motion that, in my view, would have a profound impact on American security and foreign policy, and global stability. Its impact will be felt worldwide.

Operation Game Changer is proprietary. It is a bold plan of action. So I would hold out little hope that the Obama Administration would give it a green light.

As for other options, there is nothing this administration and its allies have but excuses. American military action in the Ukraine, with Mr. Obama as Commander in Chief, is off the table. We’re spread to thin. NATO intervention requiring support of European capitals – never happen. Besides, Ukraine is not a member of NATO, so no Charter obligation. Economic sanctions sure, but the other side can play that game too. In fact, the crisis has increased energy prices that will compensate Russia in lost revenue from other sources. Other sanctions such as visas, suspending multi-lateral talks, cancelling meeting participation, and White House non-participation in the Sochi Paralympics Games, are all under consideration.

This explains a lot as to why American and European foreign policy has been so risible and pathetic. The Russians, Chinese, Israelis, Egyptians, and others, understand that the world is a dangerous place, even deadly, not classroom exercises. Lives are at stake, and the possibility of a catastrophic event is not science fiction. History for these people is long and incredibly serious, and not correlated to today’s bankrupt sensibilities and cultural deprivation.

If you follow the dialogue between Messrs. Putin and Sergey Lavrov on the one side, and Messrs. Obama and Kerry on the other, you would think you went through time and found yourself in March 1999. But, it would be confusing. Then it was Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright, playing the parts of Putin and Lavrov defending NATO’s duty to go to war in Kosovo, and Boris Yel’tsin and Igor Ivanov searching for a peaceful solution. It’s true, where you sit is where you stand.

Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright lied about the “atrocities” being committed in Kosovo leading up to the war in March 1999. What was going on in Kosovo in 1999 was a military campaigned waged by the Kosovo Liberation Army (“KLA”), to separate Kosovo from Serbia, and eventually creating a greater Albania, made up of Albania, Kosovo, northern Macedonia, and the Preševo Valley in Serbia. The so-called humanitarian disaster in Kosovo was orchestrated by the KLA, not Serbia. Mr. Clinton’s statement to the nation, read: “We act to protect thousands of innocent people,” while Madeleine Albright chirped endlessly about atrocities being committed by the Serbs. It was all lies. The real perpetrator was the KLA, Mr. Clinton’s and Madame Albright’s “freedom fighters.”

Moreover, the KLA took advantage of the Holbrooke Agreement (Rambouillet) in October 1998, in which Serbia removed their forces from Kosovo, to conduct their bloody military campaign. This was never made public. There were very few incidents of Albanian civilians being attacked by Serbian forces (see OSCE reports of monitoring groups). Total Albanian civilians killed before the war started in March 1999, was at most, 47. So the rai·son d'être for NATO to go to war was false.

Today we know we were being told more lies by the Obama Administration and European Union (“EU”).  On February 18, protesters attack police lines and set fires outside parliament. Riot police respond to the violence by trying to push protesters off Independence Square. At least 26 people died and hundreds were injured. On February 20, hours after a truce is announced, violence resumes, with snipers shooting protesters from the rooftops. All the western media and government officials reported that the snipers were under orders from the Ukrainian Government of President Viktor Yanukovych.

Not so fast. First reported on ZeroHedge.com, March 5, 2014, a new recording of a telephone conversation between EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet, revealed this socking and disturbing news: In the conversation, Mr. Paet states that:

“the killing were from both sides, policemen and people from the street… So there is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new coalition.”

The upshot is: first the United States orchestrates and foments the overthrow of the legally elected Yanukovych government, because the West did not like his decision on the EU; and now we learn the leaders of the newly installed Coalition Government, were the ones who ordered the killings in the Maidan Square in Kiev, the capital city of the Ukraine.

A Coalition Government that came to power with US and EU support, which murdered its own people to fabricate the pretext under which it took power. Does this despicable act remind you of anything? That’s right, Kosovo.

The Coalition was running the KLA playbook, and the US and EU was laying down cover. But this time their hand is weak. NATO is a shell of its former self, and Russia is not Serbia. As a result, the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine are now for all intents and purposes part of Russia.

And finally, Mr. Obama now tells us that what Russia is doing violates international law. He lectures:

“There is a strong belief that Russia’s action is violating international law. I know President Putin seems to have a different set of lawyers making a different set of interpretations, but I don’t think that’s fooling anybody.”

Well Mr. Obama, Mr. Putin must have hired the same lawyers Bill Clinton and Tony Blair had to justify NATO’s war in Serbia (Kosovo). Then the Russian’s argued that the Kosovo War and recognition of Kosovo’s independence was a violation of international law, a UN Resolution, the UN Charter, and the principle of national sovereignty forged out of the horror of World War II. So Mr. Obama, the only one fooling anybody is you, your Administration, and the Brussels bureaucrats. Kosovo was folly, and until you correct that mistake, it is disingenuous to tell others they are acting badly.

Mr. Obama and company has another foreign policy failure on their hands. A word to the people of the Ukraine -- do you really think a man like Mr. Obama, who would not save his own Ambassador in Benghazi, Libya against a band of terrorists, would come to your rescue?

Still, there is always plan X.