What a wonderful picture: Wangari Muta Maathai – the first African woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize and Senator then Barack Obama – soon to be the first African American US President and future Nobel Peace Prize winner. There is nothing to this photo, but today I am reposting my exercise in “conspiracy theory” about the green guru Maurice Strong. It is just a rhetorical exercise – so lighten up!

Back to Obama and Maatai walking together in Nairobi, Kenya in 2006 where the headquarters of the United Nations Environmental protection agency is located. Maurice Strong was the first UNEP President and was serving together with Maathai and Mikhail Gorbachev on the Earth Charters Commission. It is always fun to place Obama and Gorbachev in the same circle of friends.

All folks mentioned above are saving the Earth. The crazy guy who attacked the Discovery Chanel also was on a quest to save the planet. Only the crazy guy really believed in it. The Gorbachev/Strong/Earth crowd is just establishing connections that give them access to power and money – tax-payer money.

Meet the club of the champions of non-government organizations of “philanthropist” funded by the tax-payer money provided by the governments for humanitarian purposes. Social networking is the key for success there – it has always been with the socialist/Marxist/Popper thinking crowd. Maurice Strong never cared about ecology – his main strength was connections – person who knows how to make connections with people in power and people with money. His talent made him perfect to organize the first international summit on environment in Stockholm ‘72. Among the sponsors of the event was the Rockefeller Fund. Steven Rockefeller served with Strong and Gorbachev in the Earth Charter Commission later.

After the summit the UN created UNEP and Strong with his connections became organization’s first president. They put the headquarters in Nairobi Kenya, where Maurice Strong began his carrier in the oil company CalTex.

To add a royal touch to the movement Strong recruited Prince Charles .You remember Prince Charles with the frog on his shoulder – if he would have kissed that frog it would have turned into Al Gore.

The UN conference in Rio in ’92 became the major forum establishing the Earth Charters.
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While checking the batteries and waiting for hurricane Earl to hit me and fellow North Carolinians, I heard Secretary Hillary Clinton talking about the Middle East peace:

I fervently believe that the two men sitting on either side of me, that you are the leaders. You can make this long cherished dream a reality and we will do everything possible to help you…

Today as ever people have to rally for the cause of peace. And peace needs champions on every street corner and around every kitchen table. I understand very well the disappointments of the past. I share them. But I also know we have it in our power today to move forward into a different kind of future and we cannot do that without you.

Sounds a bit like my favorite quote from the Theater of Absurd:

Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!

- Samuel Beckett, ‘ Waiting for Godot’.

President Obama plugged-in for the economy in his Oval Office Address on the War in Iraq which we are asked to believe is over. He said the word ‘economy’ three times, ‘debt’ – zero times, ‘deficits’ – one, ‘jobs’ – two and ‘education’ three times. Wow, what’s up with the education?

For too long, we have put off tough decisions on everything from our manufacturing base to our energy policy to education reform…

To strengthen our middle class, we must give all our children the education they deserve, and all our workers the skills that they need to compete in a global economy…

As always President Obama’s words sound beautifully, but lack details. Unlike the due dates for withdrawal from Afghanistan that are cut in stone by the Commander-in-Chief, the details about what ‘education reform’ means and how we are getting energy independence, jobs and reduce debt and deficits are missing.

Those who fell once for the vague ‘hope and change’ slogan are determined not to get burned twice.

What does ‘education reform’ mean? Judging by President’s actions so far it means pouring billions of dollars in our education system, mostly to save union jobs during the severe recession.

If Obama drops down the Community Organizer Guide that is covering his view he may see that our education system is becoming obsolete. We have the technology to reform the mass education into individual education through virtual schools.

Instead of funding bureaucracies, buildings, transportation and lunches we can provide each kid with a lap-top or personal education portal, where the kid can access the knowledge through programs that provide the curriculum, test and asses each kid’s progress. We have technologies to accommodate special needs. We have biometrics that can verify who is behind the keyboard. Advisers and tutors can help on-line.

The Defense Department just opened their virtual school to assist the kids of military families across the globe. On-line college education has gathered plenty of experience. States are developing on-line materials for families that do at-home schooling.

Why do we keep pouring money in same old inner-city hell-holes, when the same kids can access quality education that can be available to everybody on-line?

If a kid is failing the alarm will go off pointing to the exact spot where the failure occurs so tutors and social workers can address the situation.

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American tax-payers learned recently that the US State Department is funding mosques all around the globe, including one in my native Bulgaria:

To support the restoration of the Kurshum Mosque in Silistra. Although it is located in the center of town, damage has been caused by centuries of neglect and earthquakes. The mosque was built in the 17th century when Silistra was an important port city on the Danube River ruled by the Ottoman Empire.

Research shows that it has nothing to do with Islam, but with ecotourism. According to a local report the restoration of the mosque and other cultural monuments are part of the city tourism strategy: which is eco tourism.

It is not about Islam, but about the environmental mafia of NGOs sucking tax-funds for green projects.

The whole thing is happening in 2004. Big Bureaucracy reported that at the same time the USAID was funding eco-tourism activities in Russia through the ‘4 Vlast’ firm for which the Russian spy Anna Chapman and her dad Vasily Kushchenko worked. You can read the research here.

In 2004 Chapman was the London contact person for the 4Vlast firm, Kushchenko was running their tourism firm and worked for the 4 Vlast Mrs. World pageant brand.

Below is a screen shot of a Google search for the names of the company 4Vlast and Soros. The result is an article that cannot be accessed any longer. The title is:

Countryside tourism: The Americans are paying for the agro-tourism in Russia.
There is a mention of the Soros’s fund ‘Small towns’

The web-site is down. Domain however belongs to the same 4 Vlast company where Chapman and Kushchenko worked at the time.

Ironically the project left traces in the Internet. There is an on-line CV for a person named Sergei Isakov who claims he was working for 4 Vlast company and selotour. ru in 2004 while being an expert on the project named “Help for local government for encouraging agro- and eco-tourism as strategic direction of development of the small and middle size towns in Russia”.

Isakov goes on to say that the project was financed by Eurasia Foundation and The US Agency for International development (USAID).

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Do you believe in God? Every time I answer the question honestly I lose friends. Still I tell the truth: I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe in the evolution either. I just believe we don’t have enough knowledge to know the world yet.

If you are still reading, I appreciate your tolerance.

Glenn Beck’s answer to America’s troubles is turning to God. Where does it leave us: the non believers? Beck’s solution reminds me of my godmother, who is a nun in an Eastern Orthodox Monastery on the Balkans.

When I visited her she answered every question I had with: you have to believe, you have to have faith, and you have to pray. That was the only answer to everything. She and Glenn Beck could be soul-mates.

She sensed it is hard for me to believe so she tried to teach me something simple: Just try to be good and keep praying ‘Lord forgive my sins’. That was kind of a ‘safety net’ advice she came-up with while trying to save my lost soul.

I think this is the answer: just be good. Do not lie, do not cheat, do not envy, do not steal, do not kill,  respect your parents, do not idolize people, repent your sins and try to be good.

Does it really have to be in the name of God? Or just for goodness sake.

Mike Huckabee often says that if we agree on 7-8 things out of 10 – we still can be friends. Can God be one of the things we disagree on?

Half of the Americans don’t even agree on ‘do not kill’ and support abortions. How hard is it to make us agree on 7-8 things for our own good and the good of the nation?

As a kid in the communist Eastern Europe I was thought in school that the religion is opium for the masses. Much like President Obama said: those bitter people who cling to their religion.

I learned the story of the Creation from a Russian edition of the caricatures of Jean Effel. Those were hilarious, but not exactly the original source.

Although my parents were not religious they did everything possible to educate me and my sister and gave us a broad view on the world. The Orthodox Church had a crucial role in preserving the Bulgarian culture during the hundreds of years of Ottoman enslavement. We grew up with respect for religion as a cultural phenomenon.

I was 13 when I was baptized by accident.

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Restoring Honor rally will be held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

10 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 28, 2010

Come as you are!

One of the most outrageous lies said during the Ground Zero Mosque controversy was told yesterday by Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President, on the O’Reilly Factor:

A few very well orchestrated agitators have created a situation where we now see tea party people going after Jewish American elected officials. Mayor Bloomberg, myself, the speaker of our assembly Sheldon Silver.

Shame on you Mr. Stringer!

America knows that those who disagree with Mayor Bloomberg on the MosqueGate are doing so not because of he is Jewish, but because he is misleading the public on the issue from day one.

Mayor Bloomberg and other NYC officials are refusing to take responsibility for the scandal by pretending it is a Freedom of Religion issue. It is not.

Mosques like churches, synagogues are buildings and are subject of property and zoning regulations. The constitution is not making the NYC zoning plans. Mayor Bloomberg and his administration do. NYC officials are trying to shift the blame on the Founding Fathers instead of taking responsibility for the mess.

Mayor Bloomberg is a good mayor. Who cares if he is Jewish? Only Scott Stringer does. On the mosque, however, Bloomberg is wrong and people have to point that out. NYC administration decided that the building on Park 45-51 is not a landmark.

Well, it is! Looks like some radical creeps are getting hard-on from the fact that the building was the resting place of Mohamed Atta’s missile airplane landing gear.

What has no value for the pinhead NYC bureaucrats is like treasure for the Islamic extremists.

Maybe Imam Rauf and friends are just smart entrepreneurs who saw the potential of making money from a mosque on Ground Zero as a tourist destination for all the world crazies that want to come to the place where Mohamed Atta landed. They just want to make money on the back of the suffering of the community.

America disagrees equally with President Obama (not Jewish as far as we know) for the same reason. The Constitution gives freedom of religion to people not buildings. Churches and mosques and all other houses of worships are subject to zoning regulations, like all other buildings.

The Chicago zoning committee has rejected building a mosque (a tax-exempt institution) in the commercial district that is supposed to produce revenue for the city. The community in Chicago has the right to do it.

The only reason why today Imam Rauf and his greedy friends have right to build a mosque on Ground Zero is not because of freedom of religion, but because Mayor Bloomberg and his administration allowed it.

Blaming it on the Constitution is ridiculous and misleading.

The biggest auditor in the world Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu came up with opinion piece recently on how to deal with ‘The Gap’:

Western societies have over-committed their current and future resources… Money has been spent that hasn’t been earned, and promises have been made that cannot be fulfilled.

The Gap is popular known as ‘the trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities’ in social services created over decades of piling up entitlement programs and hefty pensions and benefits.

Deloitte authors agree with Big Bureaucracy that just raising taxes and cutting spending is not going to be enough to take us out of the ditch (although it is more like a crater).

Structural changes in government and bureaucracy are needed:

In a world of mobile capital, trans-border exchange, heightened competition, and exponential technological change, many governments are mired in bureaucratic-age thinking. In order to close their fiscal gap, governments will also need to address the associated performance gap…

The bureaucratic barriers to change in the public sector greatly exceed those in the private sector — not due to mal-intent, but due to a culture of risk aversion and program protection, and as a systemic consequence of the way government has been organized since the early twentieth century…

Reform of the executive branch is needed and the goal is to produce better public value.

It is common sense: tax-payers want more for their money. Americans dig slogans like: pay less, get more. The private sector is always striving to achieve that goal. It is time for the career civil servants to follow.
For example, the DHS has a budget bigger than the Defense Department and yet half of the folks in the USA have to pay thousands of dollars for health insurance on the top of the taxes that feed to the bureaucratic monster.

The Obama Care just added over a hundred new bureaucracies to DHS. The result: the tax revenues will feed more government in hope that the new agencies will come up with ‘cutting the costs’ solution while costing billions of dollars to operate.

Instead of making the over-bloated DHS structure leaner the ObamaCare just loaded the monster with more bureaucratic weight. The US Department of Health and Human Services is so big it should be proclaimed as one of the wonders of the world: the most obese health bureaucracy on the planet.

Unfortunately the Deloitte paper does not give us any details on how and what specific bureaucracies should be transformed. It is basically an elitist blah, blah, blah. Also it is a bit creepy. It looks like the folks at Deloitte who know everything about the way the world runs are not ready to share details with us while talking about transforming the Western democracies.

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Embracing the Ground Zero mosque? The vacationer-in-chief is puzzling the world. Why is all this self-destructive behavior from Barack Obama? Here is an idea: maybe it is about giving a chance to democrats in conservative districts to distance themselves from the President without offending the liberal base.

Remember Rev. Wright? The radical pastor’s sermons were about to cost candidate Obama the democratic primary in 2008. The wannabe president then gave a major speech on racial relations explaining how difficult for him is to disown Rev. Wright. Unfortunately the electorate did not seem to buy the whole ‘he is like uncle to me’ excuse.

Then something interesting happened. Rev Wright scheduled appearance in the National press-club. The commentators, journalists, reporters sat down and the circus began. The pastor stood up in front of the cameras and microphones and made sure the judges from the mainstream media give him the ‘insanity verdict’. Rev. Wright masterfully worked the audience throwing at them ridiculous stereotypes, mixing it with beeb-bop-boom-boop sounds and helicopter/airplane hand movements.

It reminded me of the mafia comedy ‘Analyze That’ where Robert De Niro was a mobster trying to get out of jail singing ‘You’re so pretty’ and enduring the pain of the needle pinned in his leg just to get a note from the psychiatrist Billy Crystal. Robert De Niro received his note; despite the fact that both the psychiatrist and the authorities knew he was faking it.

And so did Rev. Wright. The media gave him the insanity label for the charade and the candidate Obama was free to distance himself from his mentor without offending his African-American base. You can’t blame Obama for throwing his pastor under the bus: Rev Wright told the world that the black people are wired differently.  That’s crazy stuff. From that moment on the ‘Rev. Wright issue’ was over for Obama and he proceeded to claim the Oval Office.

Fast forward to 2010. The few special elections this year proved for Democrats that the winning strategy for those of them running in conservative districts is to run as far away from Obama as possible.

Democrat Mark Critz won the PA 12 House seat. Critz ran on conservative platform. Being a former John Murtha district director he just buried the old snake skin somewhere in the woods and came up fresh, hissing and biting the Obama agenda. Somehow Critz was so convincing in his act that everybody forgot the fact: each one of the “blue dog” democrats marched in sync with Pelosi and Reid to pass half a trillion in Medicare cuts and half a trillion in new taxes in ObamaCare.

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