On July 13, 2016, Arnold Schwarzenegger posted on his Face Book page his photo with then U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron with the comment: “Best wishes to my friend David Cameron. You are the definition of a great public servant.“
As a British-American based in California, I was involved in politics in both the U.K. and the USA, becoming a member of the Conservative Party of the U.K. in April 2015 and campaigning for David Cameron’s re-election the same year. Below is David Cameron’s email after the May 7, 2015 general election wherein he won an unexpected landslide victory.
But before I joined the U.K. Conservative Party and was involved in U.K. politics, I was quite active in American politics. Below is one of the yearly holiday greetings of then California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
What in heck is a person of color and why is it important to Howard Dean?
Bienvenido Macario responds:
I anticipate a very lively and interesting discussion on the two points Randy Black raised in this post.
First this is a major political history test beginning with the history of the Democratic and Republican Parties around 1854. Which of the two parties for the last hundred years or so is more supportive of the Native Americans or non-Caucasian peoples? We have to look at the period immediately after the American Civil War, to the SS St. Louis episode of 1938 (S/B 1939). And to which party did those who strongly opposed Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights movement belong?
If England’s and Germany’s political history would be of any guide to that of the US, then I have to say that the first female president of America will likely come from the conservative Republican party, including the first president with non-European family heritage. Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister of England, and Benjamin Disraeli, the first and only prime minister of Spanish-Jewish ancestry, were conservatives. Angela Merkel, the first female Chancellor of Germany, also came from the equivalent conservative party of Germany.
Already, I am grateful to Randy Black for bringing up the second topic: the definition of “Native American.” I will watch this discussion closely.
The native inhabitants of land purchased by the US from 1803 automatically became Native Americans. This is the status I am seeking for the people of the Philippines, and in the process, we are willing to give to the US Federal government the right, power and authority to take good care of our natural resources, especially because it has been proven beyond any doubt that Filipinos have turned the tropical islands into a massive environmental disaster.
JE comments: If we accept the experiences of other nations as a guide, it no doubt would/will be easier for the Republicans to elect a woman to the White House.
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In the bonus feature of the film Mission Impossible 1 (1996) DVD, one CIA officer explains how the TV series Mission Impossible (1966-1973) influenced him to join the agency.
CHASE BRANDON, Senior Operations Office, CIA: “Mission Impossible Force (IMF) is a group of operatives that can do all the non-attributable THINGS that CIA COULDN’T DO.
If a question could be posed: ‘Would an organization like that exist?’ The answer, logically, might well be . . . well YEAH!”
In Aug. 2014 when Martin Packard asked WAISers for help to get Peter Humphrey and his wife Yu Yingzeng out the Chinese prison. I volunteered. Had we been authorized to proceed, the couple would have been home by Thanksgiving or Christmas 2014. It would take another seven months before we were authorized to proceed. The couple were released in June 2015. This is the first gig.
The Second Gig
On July 22, 2015, I posted on WAIS the case of China’s missing gold. From June 12 to July 8, 2015, China’s stock market lost over $3.9 trillion in value.Also at that time, it was discovered that 3,200 tons of gold were missing from China’s treasury.
Forbes Magazine reported that 1,850 tons of gold was missing.
“Where Is China’s Missing 1,850 Tons Of Gold?” Forbes, World Affairs
I came across this story below, where some charts, graphs and slide presentation materials are very similar to what I saw on Bloomberg TV on July 20, 2015. Also at that time, it was discovered that 3,200 tons of gold were missing from China’s treasury.
Gold mined since 2009 : 2,000 tons Imported from Hong Kong: 3,300 tons Sub-total: 5,300 tons less reported: – 1,658 tons Missing: 3,642 tons
We came up with 3,642 tons of gold, almost twice as much as Forbes’ estimate as missing.
This episode about China’s missing gold has been forgotten considering that I was anticipating positive developments that would come following the release of GlaxoSmithKline consultants British national Peter Humphrey on June 9, 2015. His Chinese-born American citizen wife Yu Yingzeng was released two (2) days later.
The gig was about getting Peter Humphrey and his wife Yu Yingzeng out of the Chinese prison and back to the U.K. There was no mention of any missing gold and therefore no prepping were made regarding gold. In fact the story about the missing gold came out around June 12, 2015 when the Chinese stock market started losing value.
It usually takes me months, even years to do a research on a subject I know nothing about. And yet in the case of China’s missing gold, by July 22, 2015, I came up with this WAIS post: China: Two Astounding Numbers (Bienvenido Macario, USA, 07/22/15 5:16 am).
I simply cannot claim any credit to this research. In fact, I don’t remember how I did this research and discovery of that 1,850 tons or 3,200 tons of gold were missing. The only explanation I can come up with is what they refer to in RV as a “walk-in”.
I usually work alone in this kind of gig. But this time I worked with Brittany S. Lark. And she most likely have an ancestor, great-great-great grandfather or grand uncle either from her mother’s side or her father’s side (or both) who was (were) in the gold/silver mining industry say in the 1800s. If I’m to guess, it would be her father who had an ancestor who was in the gold mining industry in the 1800s. I’m certain there were no gold or silver prospectors among my ancestors.
WAIS Post References:
No. 1 JULY 08, 2014
1.) Trial of Yu Yingzeng and Peter Humphrey (Martin Packard, USA, 07/08/14 3:27 am)
Excerpt: “I am happy to report that Yu Yingzeng and her husband Peter Humphrey from the UK HAVE BEEN FREED after more than two years in Chinese jails. “
Yu Yingzeng had a month of her two-year sentence to serve. Peter Humphrey had seven more months of his two-and-a-half year term remaining.
