15-01-2017, 01:21 PM
Paul Rigby Wrote:Last Minute Change in Security at Inauguration Reminiscent of JFK in Dealey Plaza
Published on 15 Jan 2017
Without explanation and just a week before inauguration, President Obama has suddenly announced he is removing the Major General in charge of the DC National Guard who helped plan and was set to oversee event security that day, effective right in the middle of the ceremony the very minute after Donald Trump is sworn in as president.
The termination is unprecedented and out of decorum with such a high state function taking place, raising serious concerns about the vulnerabilities and gaps in security on such an important day. Not saying that anything is going to happen, but it's hard not to notice and raise questions when the scenario is being made plausible.
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Sloppy post, but the usefulness of this thread is an even larger question.
Quote:http://www.snopes.com/2017/01/14/nationa...uguration/
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According to a report from WUSA9 News, spokesmen for the Defense Department and National Guard said Schwartz was offered additional time to transition out of the post, but turned it down:"Major General Schwartz is a non-career status political appointee. As such he has tendered his resignation that will be effective January 20th," Major Jamie Davis, a Department of Defense spokesman told WUSA9. "This is standard procedure for political appointees."
Like an ambassador would, Schwartz followed protocol and offered his resignation to the incoming administration. But according to a senior transition official, the Trump team had not yet accepted it and had asked Schwartz to stay on a few days past inauguration day to help ensure the event went smoothly.
Sources say that with Schwartz successor already named, the General declined to extend his command those extra days, instead stepping down at 12:01 p.m. exactly on January 20th.
"He wants to ensure that there is a secure transition between two commanding generals," DC National Guard Spokesman Major Byron B. Coward told WUSA9. "There's not going to be any disconnect or anything of that nature."
The plan has been obvious. I do not understand the combination of resolve and head scratching I have read of in this thread. Whatever the shortcomings were in the existing
order, rejecting it and replacing it with this is obviously much worse and experience indicates it likely will be catastrophic and irreversible.
Quote:http://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/...07dd0f2f38
Melik Kaylan - contributor
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In addition, you find in populist regimes worldwide the discovery of hitherto untapped areas of news. Duterte of the Philippines hit on the drug problem. Trump has suddenly unearthed an entirely fresh news source in car companies' plans to invest abroad. Trump invented the Mexico wall issue, which will turn into a klaxon-loud distraction resource for him at every opportunity. In Georgia, Russia, Turkey and elsewhere people woke up one day to find that their national religion needed defending from inscrutable forces, according to their demagogue leaders. In Thailand, the regime's sentimental oratory wraps itself in the perpetually threatened flag of King and (Buddhist) Temple. Also in Thailand, the premier of the army-led regime has sung and released a mawkish patriotic pop-song urging unity and positive support to massive media coverage ad nauseam. He has auto-created his own news cycle, conflated entertainment and politics, an accusation oft levelled at Trump. We all see that Donald Trump's tweets also serve as news distraction, his form of pro-active self-leaking.
In this memorable recent interview on MSNBC, media guru Michael Hirschorn, formerly the programing director who brought reality shows to VH1, talks of Trump's reality tv approach to politics. Money quote: in reality tv you don't resolve disputes, you foster them endlessly to retain public attention.
Unnerving Fantasyland
Sometimes populists do invoke issues that have become urgent, issues that genuinely exercise citizens but which conventional politicians or media simply haven't dared address. Keep in mind, though, the Hungarian's warning above: there is no plan to resolve such issues, merely to keep them active and inflammatory. The aim is to keep it all on the boil, crisis merging into crisis, with the strong leader dominating and stoking the noise. There will be something fresh everyday from Monica Crowley's plagiarism to the fashion choices of the first lady. Behind the noise, there will be only more noise. Some demagogic quasi-successes will be paraded but paradoxically they won't illustrate real policy directions. Confusion IS the policy. That and the enabling of Russian power, removal of sanctions, neutering of Nato.
For the best guide to the garish sensory wall-paper of the Trump era's assault on our senses we must look to RT and other Russian news media. They pioneered post-fact reality as mainstream culture. Peter Pomeranzev's book "Nothing Is True, Everything Is Possible" studies the phenomenon, lays it out plainly. In essence, the kind of supermarket gossip-tabloid material that once infested our peripheral vision now moves front and center. Total fantasy for the masses. Every so often containing a tiny germ of truth. Total fantasy and not even simple lies like Kellyann Conway's recent assertion that the intelligence services clearly concluded Russia hadn't successfully influenced the election. (They concluded no such thing.) Or Trump's notorious assertion months ago that Mexico's President, after their meeting, had agreed to pay for the wall. It will feel more like a wholly fabricated unending theater of bizarrerie and Orwellian inversions. As Michael Hirschorn says in the MSNBC interview, we look for the wrong things in Trump's world, such as content and argument. "In reality tv it really isn't about content, it's about show, about performance,,, it's about endless chaos."
Orwellian inversions: Turkey's President just celebrated Journalism Day. Soberly and without irony. Trump's style hews closer to his post-modern reality show experience. As Michael Hirschorn says, "really great reality tv talent really doesn't know or soon forgets the difference between reality and television." Trump deploys a sort of loud kitsch with a built-in subliminal wink at the audience: 'we both know this is fake, mere performance, but it's a show you're complicit in. That's your level of participation. Leave the rest to me.' This echoes the false-real tone of Putin's rule in Russia where his face carries an almost-smirk in every television appearance. The implied message goes something like: 'you and I, all of us, know that this popular display nonsense, this dealing with the public, is a total charade (never happened during the old KGB days). It's all mere performance to fill the airwaves. The people don't decide anything, not even by their vote. (Just look at the recent US election). Here's our pact: you stay entertained but confused, paranoid even. That's why you need me.'
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Peter Janney's uncle was Frank Pace, chairman of General Dynamics who enlisted law partners Roswell Gilpatric and Luce's brother-in-law, Maurice "Tex" Moore, in a trade of 16 percent of Gen. Dyn. stock in exchange for Henry Crown and his Material Service Corp. of Chicago, headed by Byfield's Sherman Hotel group's Pat Hoy. The Crown family and partner Conrad Hilton next benefitted from TFX, at the time, the most costly military contract award in the history of the world. Obama was sponsored by the Crowns and Pritzkers. So was Albert Jenner Peter Janney has preferred to write of an imaginary CIA assassination of his surrogate mother, Mary Meyer, but not a word about his Uncle Frank.