Monday, January 06, 2020

Power damage NSW fires.

Power outage after the fire in New South Wales. In a heroic effort they got the power back in 3 to 4 days. All local power infrastructure was out side town was destroyed. 05 Jan 2020.
That's Bateman's Bay on the coast where I grew up and fought fires as a kid. My brother and parents are there and OK. Buildings at the end of the street 300 meters away burned.

Monday, May 20, 2019

My take on the Australian election.

We live in an age of political upsets. Trump won in the USA, Brexit in Britain, and now Scott Morrison won in Australia. This is the story that everyone is talking about. The pollsters got it wrong yet again. They predicted a win for a leftist party and the party on the right that had no chance won. 
However this is not just happening in these three case. In hundreds of cases in State & local votes its happening. Its happening with Viktor Orban in Hungary, the destruction of the left in Poland, and nationalist parties from Greece though France and Germany to Scandinavia. In a few places the left still holds on at the top or in the bureaucracy but the ground is falling out from under them.

 
Scott Morrison, above, is the parliamentary leader of the Liberal party of Australia. In Australia we never gave the term ‘liberal’ away to the Marxists. Only America has made that mistake; most liberal parties worldwide, that are older than 50 years old are centre right not on the left. This is written for my american friends.
The Labor party was supposed to win last week. Bill Shorten was the man of the hour. He has been a leftwing union lawyer since leaving law school. He ran with a mix of policies including a variation of the green new deal, promises of free stuff that would make AOC blush. He talked up new taxes on capital gains and a franking tax, a tax on dividends, and mining taxes. His party had attacked the church, anti-abortion campaigners, and anybody warning about the Islamic lobby. They talked about trade deals with communist China that would bankrupt exporters. China still owes us for food and resources the last Labor government sold it at a, ‘workers of the world unite’, loss. It can be argued that the rise of China is due to resources never paid for in the 1990’s. Over 50% of the stuff from China is re-packaged Australian resources.
They expected to win. This was their prediction. 

Malcolm Turnbull was the previous parliamentary leader of that party and was the PM that got into an argument with Trump while congratulating him on his election. Scott Morrison replaced Malcolm Turnbull in a parliamentary vote 8 months ago.
Malcolm Turnbull was a “wet” in Australian liberal party context “wets” are the equivalent of RINO’s in the Republican party. Conservative members of the liberal party are called “dry’s” in contrast. Historically wets loose to Labor, then drys win back a majority once they retake control of the party from the wets. John Menzies, the founder of the party in the 1940’s, John Howard the longest serving finance minister and PM, Tony Abbott his chosen successor, and now Scott Morrison are all drys. Free market, free press, Christian morality and free trade but using protectionist tools where you’re being taken advantage of. Trumps platform and some elements of his speeches are directly from John Menzies late 1940 policy or more likely his biography.
So why did the election go so badly for Labor?
This is the result today:


Australia is a country of coalitions. The liberal party and the national party (a rural right farmers party) rule in coalition when they win. In some states they are merged. More mergers can be expected with this win. In Australian politics we use the term Coalition almost as if it was a party name.

Labor once ruled outright but has been shrinking. We had a the post EU collapse of Australian industry, exports to England stopped as the EU banned them, so fewer workers and smaller less financial unions. With the fall of the Soviet block the Australian labor party has been shrinking fast. It now needs a coalition with the greens and a few confused independents to rule. It just lost several seats and some of their green partners.
Australia also has a preferential voting system. This means you number your preferred candidate/ party in order. If your candidate fails to get 50% (comes third) part of his vote goes to your next preference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_voting
We have what the US calls instant run off. 

This leads to preference deals. The liberals preference the nationals then other centre right parties. Everyone reciprocates. This year the liberals listed the Nationals, Palmer United (a mining magnates party), Pauline Hanson One Nation (nationalist but accused of racism), etc. This year preference deals mattered.
In this election both Liberal and Labor lost votes to Pauline Hanson's One Nation. However One Nation was preferencing the liberals so the votes flowed back from One Nation. Greens lost votes both to Labor and other leftist micro parties. Thus votes were going from Labor to One Nation and on to the liberals. Previous Coalition parties have attacked One Nation this time they were disciplined, did not and it worked.

So the coalition has won a working majority and is on track to a bigger majority.
Scott Morrison called it a miracle. 
His platform was simple: “it’s working, lets not change course now.” 
Labor called it the Climate Change election. Yet the left lost massively. Even Al Gore was over here to help and they lost massively. Its over for the lefts agenda and they have no other agenda. Common sense prevailed. There is no anthropogenic global warming.

Why were the polls wrong? Because they are not really anonymous like secret ballots. The pollsters know your number. The left threatens the right when they loose an argument. This election we had several assaults, one stabling of a conservative and a campaign van burned.
The right knows this and knows that the pollsters are using uni students to do the drudge work. These university students who can see the data and can find the address of the number if they choose to. 

We all know this. So conservatives and others on the right hang up. Most pollsters count only those that complete the survey. With conservatives rejecting calls and the left eagerly wanting to be heard, the bias is immediate and almost unresolvable.
I can however see a solution to this; Getting a ratio of call attempts to call connections, both to call completions and count a percentage of those rejected calls as conservatives and then creating a bias adjusted number. I need to form a company. A dyslexic pollster is a really bad idea. So's a dyslectic blogger.
Rowan Dean an editor, pundit and comedian did predict it and called the election. 

Sky news called it too. https://www.skynews.com.au/

The left is vocal while the right is quiet. This is worldwide. We are a people of solutions not debate. We are notoriously bad at debate. Commonsense, free market, and morality is hard to teach, easy to loose. We need to take back the schools. Where we stand for Nation and equal opportunity we are called racist and sexist by the globalists and the social justice warriors. We are thus invisible to polls but strong in secret ballots. Polls still have a value in guiding campaigns. The first person to fix them will get rich but the left will call you racist for just trying.

This is very good news for Trump in 2020.

Thursday, May 09, 2019

Valley or Low world houses.

Wesley Bruce

Many people see Mars as a nice place to visit but you would not want to live there. Many can’t even see the point of visiting. To win these peoples hearts and minds to the idea of a multi-planet civilisation we need to show them how Mars can be made habitable with technology they know and understand and with economics that they find believable.  
Some have proposed a worldhouse or para-terraforming. Richard L. S. Taylor outlined the technology some years ago.


A world house is where you roof an area of mars, or another planet, with a roof a kilometre or two high. The area enclosed is made earth like with cities and farms and perhaps even wilderness. A world house is technically possible even today but it is an enormous feat of engineering costing quadrillions of dollars.

There is a cheaper more achievable option. We could roof a smaller area at a height of 15 to 100 meters relatively cheaply. A low world house or valley house is a normal feat of civil engineering on a par with normal urban or suburban civil-engineering. Like a modern cities: roads, drainage; the reticulation of power, water, sewerage and communications. Roofing an area is a doable land development task, that would be operational at the private corporate level and not the government megaproject level. It is incremental; expanding step by step. Hectare by hectare.  It is therefore more likely to happen.
The image says more than I can say in words. Part of gale crater canopied over.

The roofed area is on an urban scale but the city extends beyond it in a controlled way. The roof in this case is 60 meters high. The edge is anchored to a ledge on the hillsides and a berm with a concrete core and top. Like a raised road or dam wall the edge walls are complex works of engineering but ones we build regularly. The multiple plastic sheets that form the roof are anchored with care with concrete blocks and sealant.
The roof has vertical composite supports every few hundred meters and rafters that can support a light vehicle loaded with robots and replacement plastic. If the upper plastic is to be replaced. Cables laid from rafter to rafter allow the sheets to be drawn over the old sheet. Sealed in place and then the old sheet removed from below.   
There would be several sheets bedded in the wall at two levels. The upper sheet is called the canopy. It is designed to take the damage of the wind, dust and UV. It is designed to be replaced regularly and is not pressurised. This upper layer could be designed to support small robots or  soft "snowshoed" astronauts. The robots clean and check the canopy. They may patch small holes and may even be able to strip off a few micrometers of dust or UV damaged plastic and lay down a new smooth layer in its place. The astronauts might be used for major repairs, emergency retrieval of a disabled robot, etc. Most work would be very light robots.

 If you have a roofed valley wandering around in a space suit would be rare. Extra vehicular activities (eva) would still occur particularly for geologists and engineers.
The lower sheet is the envelope. It is pressurised and ideally it should also be able to at least support the cleaning and patch robots. It is pushed up against the rafters by the internal atmospheric pressure and is locked in place against the rafters lower edge. Vibration, Curvature and pressure sensors are used to detect leaks and stretching.
A roof of less than 100 meters allows us another option. A fire engine like vehicle with a telescoping boom capable of reaching the envelope with a bed sized adhesive patch. This would patch a small hole in minutes. Additional poles could be assembled to lock the patch in place freeing the truck to race to the next hole if there is more than one. With a higher roof this becomes much more challenging; very fast airborne patches would be required. We are experienced with the use of emergency service vehicles and have learned to trust fire services. On the earth the danger of things like fire and automotive accident are handled each day without panic. The danger of a micrometeorite hits on Mars can be coped with and thus reduced in a similar way.  

The buildings under the roof  would be pressurised and alarms would get everyone in side in an emergency and seal the buildings. Airlocks added to such structures would allow trained emergency workers to pick up stragglers and support the patch teams. Both teams would be in protective suits. Livestock barns and other facilities such as farm pump houses would also be pressurisable to protect the farmers and fauna. Some species would be lost but not people or key livestock. A pressure breach would produce a rapid drop in pressure but the volume under a 60 meter roof is 0.06 cubic km or 60000000 cubic meters of air per square kilometre. It would take several dozen minutes to vent through a 10 cm hole.
A second expedient sealing technique would be set of hydrogen/ helium balloons tethered in each area. If a pressure breach occurs the resulting wind triggers the balloons release. It is drawn by the wind to the hole but can’t pass through. Adhesive patches activated by pressure and wind effects seal the balloon over the breach creating a temporary patch. Balloons stuck to the “sky” due to accidental activation will be a minor inconvenience.

My first design. Done partly in Second Life with editing in gimp.

The accompanying picture shows several buildings. They are; 

  • Top left on the hill. Communication towers. Local positioning systems (GPS without the satellites.) 
  •  Left in the hill. Mines and storage tunnels; some pressurised. Back in second hill an early tunnelled complex. A base during the construction of the cities roof. 
  •  Left foreground. A mars vehicle construction building. For trucks, mining vehicles and heavy equipment. This structure is earth covered for cosmic ray protection. 
  •  Next door is laboratory complex that is vehicle access only. This provides quarantine protections allowing experiments you don’t what to do in the roofed area. I.e. Fruit fly and lab rat work, testing toxic ore samples, working with dangerous chemicals or making explosives for the miners. 
  •  The larger structure on the right of this is a reactor complex if required or a large volume chemical processor and gas liquefier. Storage is underground out side the dome. 
  •  Centre left foreground is a cluster of interconnecting structures that serve as the main base entry and exit point. It includes vehicle and robot garages. Light vehicle cleaning and maintenance. EVA training. General laboratories. Etc. 
  •  The small tower outside on the right is a back up command centre and roof maintenance control.

Inside the “dome” The low buildings near the entry/exit structures would be training facilities, robot assembly and perhaps a cafĂ© for the workers in the adjacent external buildings. 

  • The smaller towers are just simple support structures with perhaps some lighting, emergency sirens and communication relays.  
  •  The fat blue towers are accommodation and office space. 
  •  The main mall is open air [no rain] near the three fat towers serves as the main recreational and commercial section o the city. 
  •  There is extensive earth roofed housing near the mall. (dotted lines). The earth on the roof is used to block cosmic rays so that most indoor activities are radiation free. Plants can be grown on these roofs; this maximises growing space for plants even if it is only grass. All the larger buildings are similarly roofed, even the towers. 
  • The yellow area above the mall is incomplete housing. 
  •  The rest is farming: crops, orchids, gardens, coppiced trees, and fish ponds. Cosmic ray's do damage plants but only on a cell by cell basis so it rarely kills them, mutations are pruned off or just fail, beneficial mutations are so rare that they are irreverent.  Livestock barns if they are needed can be roofed with dirt or concrete. Water shields most fish. 

All the radiation on mars is a near vertical cosmic ray flux a little greater that Denver Colorado or Nepal. The plastic does not stop it. By roofing the buildings with earth, stone or concrete you block that flux completely. If your wandering around in the open you are at a small risk but if half your time is indoors under the shielding of a building halves the dose. The target is to get the cosmic ray dose down to the levels found in Denver.  

A totally biological life support system is possible; the ongoing work of Biosphere 2 has proved that. I prefer a hybrid system. Fine tuning the life-support with electrolysis and some plumbing. A set of distributed electrolysis cells turning water into oxygen for the atmosphere. The resulting hydrogen is fed to sabatier reaction units making methane which then feeds to a grid of pipes that link to storage. If the carbon and hydrogen is needed the methane is burned to yield the CO2 and water back to the ecosystem. 
If the Methane is not needed back in the atmosphere, it can be made into plastics, fullerene composites, graphite's or diamond composite. Some of the hydrogen is retrieved in these processes. 

The colonisation of Mars must ultimately be reduced to a simple problem of civil engineering. On achieving this the colony will quickly become self sufficient assuming each finds a product or service to sell to the others or to mother earth. Such a low roofed environment is also more easily explained to those that see the problems first and don’t grasp the opportunities.

We have done something like it on earth.

Another design. Early bad art. 


The roads under the canopy are brown, the houses are all earth roofed and are the multi-coloured areas. In the fore ground just under the canopy is an area of housing and equipment bays for inner canopy maintenance. 

In this case the valley is deeper allowing a more natural sylvan [forested] landscape. The roof is supported on steel or fullerene cables anchored deep in the hills. 
There is the option for a lake and recreations such as hang gliding. Birds and other fauna are possible. Repairs are by truck near the edges and airship inside the domes main valley over the lake. A surface repair car wide enough to spread its weight across three or more cables should be possible. This can support another vehicle via magnetic fields below the canopy. A magnetic repair vehicle slung under the canopy may also be an option if the cables are steel or have a magnetised track under them. A set of vacuum pumps, an inverted hovercraft skirt could create an inverted hovercraft.

If all else fails and a set of cables to three points just under the canopies edge can reach anywhere under the canopy defined by the three points. Abseiling anchor rings added to the underside of the cables would be mandatory. Base jumping from the inside of the canopy would be fun. Insane but fun.

Part of gale crater roofed.

Low world houses are not the first stage of mars colonisation. It may not be the last. It would however make living on mars normal in most senses. It reduces risks. Its kid safe if your air lock is not designed by idiots. It looks normal. It is doable with today's technology and free market capital processes.

For the earlier stages of mars colonisation read this:
http://appliedimpossibilies.blogspot.com/2010/10/building-first-generation-of-buildings.html

For the first stage see my NASA innocentive submission:
Coming.

Sunday, March 03, 2019

Aquatic Techlevels.

An under water industrial revolution one eel at a time.
By Wesley Bruce

Many science fiction writers can not imagine how an aquatic alien race could develop technology so in many cases the underwater race is either primitive or fanatically advanced with unexplained and unexplainable technology. In Traveller the several aquatic races are described as primitive, eg. The Schalli of Aubaine [Vras](0738/Aubaine/Old Expanses ) were primitive until humans gave them technology. A second example is the Githiaskio of Githiaski (0806 Githiaski/Dartho) These were described by Phil Masters in 'the Journal of the Travellers Aid Society.' (No.16 pp 12 - 14,27 ) as having "developed several distinct, complex cultures at around tech level 1-2 but lacking metals except for an occasional nearly pure lump which could be worked into something useful or decorative." With due respect to these authors they have uniformly associated metallurgy with fire and assuming fire is impossible, they have then assumed that metal refining is impossible. It is in fact possible to have a technology based society at TL 6 or 7 (WW2- modern) where fire in not yet a useful tool. See below.

The table below assumes the species has no manipulators and can not walk on land, ie. a Dolphin or fish. The first tool required is a pair of mouth tongs for manipulating things; these become automatic Grippers and then mechanical hands at higher tech levels. Using a variant of the Traveller RPG technology level system With some Gurps high technology and ultra-technology gadgets.
If the race has hands or other manipulators, i.e. an Otter, then progress is easier if not faster. If it can move on land easily the land carts are only used for long expeditions.


1. Mouth tongs [A pair of tongs that is held in the mouth and is opened and closed with the tongue ] Hammer-stone, Fish traps and free stone break walls in shallows. Pokers and daggers made from sharp coral, shell and bone. Naked eye study of Astronomy and land vegetation. Trained land crab sent to retrieve small coastal vegetation items.

2. Raw hide skin. Woven seaweeds. Sculpting of living coral by feeding, covering & abrading.
Bagtube: a streamlined woven basket/bag that has a loop on each end to allow it to be towed. Seagrass rope lines. Oscillating lines as a power transmission system. Oscillating wave and current mills. Drop hammer. Diamond headed bow drills. Assembly frame and jigs [A set of mounted spring loaded grippers used for assembling complex items]. Pipette and short coral/shell pipes. Oil sack. [Oil filled bladder or fish gut tube that allows chemicals to be mixed in a bubble within the oil. The oil keeps the sea water out]. Spears made from sculpted coral, drift wood and sea side trees.

3. The breeding of seaweeds, seagrasses, coral, fishes and molluscs. Dry bells air filled bells over a working surface or gripers. The bell allows the dry working of materials. Gold Crafting with small drop hammers in dry bells. Clay sealed coral tubes. Early cements and grouts dried on drying rafts or poles. Clockwork powered general gripper and special propose mouth tools. Weapon harness allows spear-guns and lances to be used with the mouth free. Early hydraulic and pneumatic tools with rigid pipes. The periscope to aid the study of things above water level.  Wave powered surface vessels. Sailing vessels with submerged hulls and exposed rigging. Acclamation to fresh water: Exploration up rivers.
The first studies of electric eels, rays, etc lead to animal powered capacitors and electric arcs.

4. Industrial dry box with mechanical tele-operated arms, lathes and drills (an advance from the drybell with periscopes and multi-function grippers). Chemical dry box with scoops and stirrers for manufacturing compounds in the absence of sea water. Rubber like extracts from sea weeds. Flexible hydraulic and pneumatic lines. Spear guns. Rotary Wave and current mills. First experimental batteries. Electrodeposition of calcium carbonates produce first large structures. Canal building with locks in low lands and estuaries.

5. Age of electrolysis. The Key industrial technology. Insulated Wire & big battery arrays. Electroplating, Hydrogen, Oxygen cutting and welding, Direct reduction of ores using hydrogen and carbon. Glass, Steel, Copper, Aluminium, Electric servo's & solenoids. Iron is not of much use due to rust except in alkali iron batteries.
Wheeled carts drawn by large amphibious animals used to explore land and shallows.

6. Electric motors. Gun Engines [Explosive charge powered compressors driving pneumatic systems]. Electric and Gun Engine  powered boats, submarines, Bathy-crawlers & landcarts. Hydrogen powered Airships. Full range basic of chemicals produced in dry boxes including Ammonia, Nitrates, Acids and Alkalies. Cellulose based polymers produced: Bakelite, cellophane & Nylon. Explosive torpedo and spear head.
Hyper oxygenated recovery tank [This quarters recovery time for external injuries].

7. Titanium and concrete. Electronics: Sonar, Radar & Radio. Microhydraulic circuitry [Fluidics] Early sonic weapons. Coast and mangrove farming. Solar, wind, or methane powered bathy pumps lift nutrient rich deep sea water to the surface as fertiliser.  First permanent land based structures: Pool houses.
Hydrogen powered Boats, Land Trains, and Seaplanes. Oceanic noise pollution crisis.

8. Oil discovered: plastics, petrol and Diesel. Large ships ply the seas. Nuclear isotopes discovered and nuclear lights developed [isotopes and phosphorous sealed in a glass clad aerogel. One such light lasts for a decade without significant fading.]
Touch feed back systems for robotic limbs, vibration based.
{In Traveller true Antigravity is TL 8}

9. Cold Fusion experiments linked to electrolytic deuterium experiments. First fission reactors. Genetics.
Sea launch space craft. Full lifesupport technology. Microelectronics. Optic fibres. Hovercraft. Personal wheeled landcarts. Shower suit to keep the user wet on dry land.
Smart robotic limbs. Bionics: Nerve impulse controller for vehicles and robot limbs. Powered speargun with autoloader. {Early Traveller Jump drive is TL 9.}

10. Cheap legged personal land 'carts'. Flexibody drive train. Fusion vehicles. Early stardrive {non traveller} Fully functional Robotics. Long range Encrypted Digital Acoustic communication.  Early work on gravity ripple {or Meson} communicators. Sonar Blinder grenades (micro torpedoes.)

11. Radio-wave based submarine power transmission system, Ultra Low Frequency. Tractor Beams. Flow Ways: Tractor beam driven artificial currents.
Smart Gels [Bioplastic] Cheap gravity ripple {or Meson} communicators. Implantable robotics controller [interface jack]

12. Antigravity. Hydrostatic force fields [Surface tension increased 1000 fold, water/air interface only]
Tractor beams that work in air. Elemental Teleportation & Disintegrators [Objects are destroyed by teleportation but elements can be teleported intact arriving as a pure element sample stream].

13. Force Fields, Shape changing Bioplastic walkers, landcarts and limbs, Nano technology medicine. Technologically achieved telepathy [implanted cellphones with direct brain interface.]

14. 'Elemental' or Robotic water [Nanoswarm with force field  and sensor capability.] Force field and antigravity limpet. [Personal force field and the ability to fly with little apparent technology]. Regeneration Globe. Slave Dart [Dominator nanoswarm.] Implant limbs (retractable),

15. Force field and antigravity implants. Full teleportation ( traveller teleportals) Teleguns.
Techno Telekinesis: Virtual Matter Limbs. [A configuration of tractor beams and force fields with the appearance of invisible mind controlled limbs].

Your Fishy stories will never be the same again.

Don't ask me how they evolved I'm a creationist.

Sunday, November 04, 2018

Q anon's intermittent silence.


Why does Q on the Q anon forum (on 8 chan) stop posting for a few weeks. People aware of Q tend to worry. There was a two week hiatus at the end of last month. It ended at the beginning of November. Q posted half dozen posts.
Q posts now serve Four functions.
1. Rally the crowd; if twitter and Fox News is doing it OK Q goes quiet.
2. Diplomacy. If delicate negotiations are happening, Q goes quiet. All foreign minister's are watching Q.
3. Error. If the Q board gets off track, Q comes up to get them back on track.
4. Fake Q. If false statements about Q are made, Q posts to debunk them.  Q [and Trump] are being sued by someone this week on spurious grounds. So HE responded.

Q had a 5th function: intelligence communications while they were fighting for control of the three letter agencies: FBI, CIA, DOJ, NSA, a few others. They are now secured so that function is over. However when Trump came into office members of the Obama administration were still very much in control. The command and control structure still had people that were willing to act for Brennan, McCabe, Clinton, etc. They still had security clearances and probably passwords.
When a command structure is compromised you have to go outside the structure and contact people by other means. The chain of command is useless. You don't know who it on your side; you're only guessing. A lot of people got a weekend knock on the door from people Trump, and they, could trust. The Q site had a function contacting some that could not be found in suburban Virginia or Maryland.

So silence from Q does not indicate a problem it just means that things are on track.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Jamal Khashoggi alive and well?

The Jamal Khashoggi story is getting very interesting. Jamal Khashoggi is a left wing Saudi reporter working for the wall st Journal and Washington post but several sources have him down as a Saudi intelligence agent with current Muslim Brotherhood connections and past connections with Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Khashoggi is the nephew of late, high-profile Saudi Arabian arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.
He also has close association with people in Turkey that are AKP the ruling proto-dictatorship there. These people are also suspected of supplying ISIS with arms. Jamal Khashoggi is a vocal opponent of the new government in Saudi Arabia put in place there in a Palace coup that was completed followed a helicopter crash that took out the military strong man in the royal family's islamist wing, Prince Mansour Bin Muqrin. The non islamist wing took full control detaining the rest. Prince Mohammad bin Salman became crown prince in June but had no power until becoming First Deputy Prime Minister late last year. That is the position that really controls the country not the throne. The King has Alzheimers disease.
Khashoggi has been critical of both Prince Salman's reforms and the arrests of both islamist supporters and people that were close to Hillary Clinton and Obama. Tese people that were arrested are an overlapping group; hence the claims that Hillary was funding ISIS. These people, all close friends of Khashoggi, were reportedly paying both ISIS and the Clinton foundation. And they were not using their own money but money designated for infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. (or all least that was the cover for the state funds allocation.) There are reports that Trump and Pompeo, then at the CIA, helped with the palace coup in early November.
Jamal Khashoggi had fled to Turkey. With Trump in the US and Prince Salman in Saudi Arabia neither country was safe. Khashoggi had in the process divorced a wife in Saudi Arabia. He was marring his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish citizen to get Turkish citizenship. He had to get divorce papers so went into Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018. He never came out or so it seems.
From the media reports, mostly Turkish and clearly with AKP and Turkish police as the primary sources we know at the very least he was detained. He had left his I phone with his fiance and turned audio on his Apple watch making it into a 'bug'. In the Consul General's office he was probably read an arrest warrant. He was heard screaming and then according to the Turkish police he was drugged. The rest is speculation that the Turkish police have derived from sounds heard. [Apple watch experts are disputing the claim that the watch would have worked as a bug over any distance. If true then the building itself was bugged and the Saudis now know it. ]
I think that this is where the story gets interesting. Up until this point this is a rather standard arrest of a criminal or dissident that has gone to an embassy. It's actually not that rare. If the country is a neutral or an ally the result is a car ride to the airport, all visa's having been negated by the arrest warrant. The arrest is on Saudi jurisdiction so is legal. However Turkey is not an ally of the new Saudi government. Its an ally of Khashoggi and the overthrown Saudi government. So they have to smuggle him out. I'm only speculating here but I think the Saudis knew this and arranged to get him out alive and succeeded.
Anticipating challenges the Saudis look like they used an old espionage trick of sending two teams. One covert and one overt team. The 15 man conspicuous team tied up the Turkish intelligence people while the other team put him in the back seat of a car and drove off quietly. He is probably in a Saudi jail. Very unhappy but quite alive.
The Turks however have concluded that he was murdered. They think that the Saudis drugged him, cut him up and disposed of the parts. This may be projection; how the Turks would have done it. Don't go to a Turkish embassy. Kurd's already know that.
I think the Saudis have begun playing along. Thinking they killed and cut up the body puts the fear of god [not Allah] into the new Saudi governments enemies. It also creates the perfect way to take down all the media entities in Turkey, the middle east and the west that have run with this. If this reaches the UN, and it looks like it might, it creates the perfect way to destroy the reputations of the new governments opponents globally.
All they need to do is produce Jamal Khashoggi alive and well, and on legitimate charges. Why not produce him now? The answer is that the Turks are sending in a forensics team this week. If they find evidence of a murder that is later proven to have not occurred the Turkush police, the AKP and the Recep Tayyip Erdo?an government may fall and that is something both Prince Sulman, Trump and NATO would be happy with. At the very least leaving it another week ropes in all of the global left media.
Trump, Foxnews, PJmedia and breitbart are all being cautious.
If I'm wrong I'm wrong. If khashoggi shows up alive then enjoy the greatest psychological operation in history.

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Socialism in a nut shell

Socialism in a nut shell.


Marxism assumes a zero sum pool of wealth and resources which means that in order for one to have more others must have less. While Marx argued with Malthus on detail they agree in effect on finite pools of resources and thus wealth. Hence war for land, resources, unskilled labour and power all of which are seen as raw resources. Hence the famines. Hence green socialists limits to growth and overpopulation arguments. 

The capitalist idea that an entrepreneur can turn a non resource into a resource is rejected by them. The fundamental underlying misunderstanding of Socialists is this limited sum theory of economics. 


Their secondary error is that capital does not decline over time. This is the other thing the capitalist is doing. This is what his unspent wealth is really set aside for. The gold, the bank, the yacht, and Lear jet are just placeholders. Wealth you can move easily in the latter two cases. 

Socialists seize and deplete depreciation funds, rainy day funds, insurances, and investment reserves. This leads to systems failing for lack of provisional and maintenance funds.The oil rigs in Venezuela seize up, the railways in the USSR rust and Californian roads crumble.

Monday, June 11, 2018

Success for Korean liberty at Singapore.

Success for Korean liberty at Singapore.

Most think this is a start but I believe this is actually a conclusion of process. The rumours coming from Q anon are that Kim was not in control of his country. He was a figure head puppet for the masses but not the ruler. When his Uncles and security people bowed he bowed too and did not rise till they rose. See this video.https://bombardsbodylanguage.com/2016/12/15/body-language-kim-jung-un/
Kim's not in control; the uncle was. Then the uncle is killed and Kim in much more control but is unsure of himself. His political minders are still setting policy. They and their western allies are still trying to make North Korean communism work. Trying to avoid their version of Nuremberg.
Then something happens. According to the Q anon public intelligence channel the White House is running on 8Chan, the state security apparatus were still in control. Q asked
" Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: 5902e7 No.146454 Dec 22 2017 01:26:25 (EST) >>146326
What do Clowns do w/ the access codes and tech?
Who controls NK?
Who really controls NK?
.....
Q "
Q is probably a navy cyber warfare officer in charge of the project; Q+ is the White House; 5.10.20 on the Q account is Trump posting. Clowns is slang for intelligence agencies. 
This indicated that someone in the White House understood for the first time that freeing up Kim could free North Korea. The post is 22nd December 2017.
The west has been making the same fundamental mistakes. They are assuming that child that inherits a dictatorship is a dictator. In reality the child of the dictator is more of a prisoner than someone in a gulag. His personal security detachment is also an able jailer. The child could be an anti-communist or they could be completely ignorant of the free would. We might never know unless we look carefully. The left makes this mistake intentionally while the right makes this mistake out of anger.
Does the child inherit the crimes of the parent and nation? Not in western law. Does a citizen born into a nation inherit the crimes of the nation done before the child could act? Not in Western law. We have no confirmation of Kim Jong Un ordering any unjust action.
There is a good chance that Kim was the parody of a dictator not by mistake but by intention. Later in the above video you see the same over the top "I'm in charge" behaviour. It's all choreographed and has to get boring for the leader fast.
In the apartment part of the above video you see the problem this creates. 5.50 The people are having a hard time relaxing around him. He's really a nice guy but people are terrified. One wrong move and the security people that are really in charge could send you to the gulag or worse.
Later video's from Bombard's site show Kim freed: https://bombardsbodylanguage.com/?s=kim Now he is interacting with the Chinese and westerners. They do not bow or Fawn and he likes it. Its new, Its real. Its liberating. He wants more.
What can free him fully. Firstly the idea that the west does not punish the children of dictators. Secondly the realisation that the west is not out to wipe out his people but could.
Trump's people, particularly Pompeo, engaged. They may have taken out the remaining communist security personnel or found a way to contact him and bypass them. Kim can understand some english. He has made the effort to learn. That helps.
Q signals that Kim and Trump have already met covertly in North Korea. You have to fly around NK to get from Tokyo to Seoul. If you don't there is a convenient air field and about half an hour to use. Trump has published a picture taken from Air Force 1 low over that airfield. That is one hell of a risk if he took it but if he took it and Kim was receptive that is amazing. A skype meeting is more likely.
The Olympics was one of a series of tests to see if Kim was really free enough to do what was needed. Kim's meetings with Mike Pompeo. The hostage release. At the hostage release most do not know that there were two stair cars brought up to the plane. I watched live. While an air force officer knocked on the front door, left side of the plane and Trump waited a dozen or more people came down the other stairs. They entered a vehicle and were whisked away in secret. Why do they want to take a dozen or more other people off the plane first in total secrecy? Who were they? Why did Trump say "All the hostages were rescued."
My hunch is that Kim got at risk members of his family out of the country before proceeding further. Removing any remaining potential people that can be used against Kim Jong Un. ProKim government staff went to the USA on those to planes to organise the treaty. 
Now he is free to negotiate far more than mere nuclear disarmament. The Singapore meeting is going very well. Pens & pads are on a table for a signing as I write.The document is now signed. Seemingly short but many pages behind it. 
We shall see. Which is easer? Denuclearisation or decommunisation? An end to the socialism, gulags and poverty? Something much harder than peace. I'm expecting big things.

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Taking down the deep state from the inside.

Taking down the deep state from the inside.

How do you find left wing people planted in key places in the government after the change to an unexpected President? Only a few of us thought Trump would win. Dozens of left wing people had been promoted though the ranks FBI, CIA, NSA. Some manoeuvred into position in the tail end of the Bush years and more all though Obama's administration. We now know they tried to spy on the Republican candidates as early as March. (Some of us now know that someone was counter surveilling them when they did these things.) All though Obama's 8 years people who were on watch lists in Australia, Britain and other countries showed up in the White House and State Dept as staff not just visitors.
When Trump entered the White House it was quickly clear that the building was bugged and that entrenched bureaucrats were openly fighting him. He retreated to Mar-a-lago and other Trump properties to do the job. All the wiring was ripped out of the White House fixing the bug problem. Trump got rid of the obvious Muslim brotherhood staff in the state department but how to sought out the rest?
Enter Q. Q is someone that set up on 4Chan, an anonymous chat site and began working in October 2017. He posted a mix of patriotic stuff, cryptographic messages, and questions. Q indicated he was Navy intelligence with the highest clearance working in the White House with President Trumps permission. People responded to the crypto codes. I served in the Australian army signaler; some of the codes had familiar structure. I don't know what the codes meant but the format was recognizable.
He was bypassing the corrupted chain of command. Following a well know method for doing so that goes back to WW2. Why 4Chan? Because that is where the Anonymous Hackers hang out, that is where Wikileaks people hang out. As a result every intelligence organisation monitors it. He was contacting patriots in the command structures. Why did he not end up contacting the deep state people in the command structures. Very few of the leftists were trying to catch the Anonymous hackers or Julian Assange's people. They weren't Russian hackers were they? The DNC connected deep state people knew there were no hackers in the DNC just the whistle blower, Seth Rich so they were not following 4Chan closely.
The orders he gave were in the form of questions. Directions to people to do targeted research. The opposition could not block that. They could only watch. It was like the BBC sending clear nonsense phases in french to the free french partisans in WW2.
Who were the targets? The major anti-trump people in FBI, NSA, CIA, media, left wing activist funding. Most here could list them from past writings about who put together the worlds banking cartels, the MSM, left wing NGO's, universities. etc.
Q asked Four types of questions. Who really controls X? Who are the wives and husbands? Who are the networks, clubs and societies? Who are the Four major families that fund and coordinate the left wing deep state? He says one fell before the election. (I have no idea who the one that fell was; which major left-wing funding source fell before the election? The Clinton Foundation was still active at that point. Some think it was the Bushes. I'm sceptical)
The other three were the Saudis, the Rothchilds, Soros. An Islamist oil monarchy, a left wing banking family, a left wing investment tycoon. All three fund left wing causes world wide including Hillary Clinton's political activity and her foundation. They also influence others to donate.
Q focused in on each one. Within days we had a palace coup in Saudi Arabia and a change of Crown Prince; Material on the Rothchilds occult dabbling came out, connections to Jeffrey Epstein and there were fatalities among Rothchilds staff. (I don't think Q is calling hits on people, he is identifying people to subpoena. They knew too much & someone else eliminated them. ); Hungary gets enough evidence to go after Soros and freeze a lot of his European accounts and closing down his Hungarian operation. There is a big child trafficking component implied in all three. Young girls for Saudi Princes, Epstein, Nxvim cult, Soros funded gangs. Trump has signed a law that freezes the funds of child traffickers and suddenly some interesting people are travelling economy or not at all.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM
In April Q predicts that May would be a bad month for the Pope. It is, with two sex scandals, public heretical statements from him and an open challenge to him from a majority of conservative cardinals. There are books and movies coming out about homosexuality among the priests in general and the Vatican elite. The Roman Catholic left is not broken but its taking fire.
Q also asked a key question. Who is in control of North Korea? Who is really in control of North Korea? He has asked it about several countries including Australia. After asking about NK people posted information about people on the left that are regular visitors to North Korea including key people from google and other silicon valley company's. Pictures of the luxury hotels they stay in. Even before the first talk of denuclearisation Q says that North Korea has been freed and people would not believe who the real power behind the throne was.
Suddenly Kim and Trump are acting differently. It implies that Kim Jong Nam's murder was done to keep Kim Jong Un in line. Someone, besides me, guessed it and found a way to “free the hostages.” They passed the information to Trump and Pompeo who acted. Kin Jong Un is now smiling and hugging people. Q indicates that Trump and Kim have already met and talked and the current manoeuvrings are mainly to keep remaining communists on both sides confused. To stop Kim being assassinated.
This is not just about peace, denuclearisation or reunification. Without threats from rogue state like North Korea what can happen? When Trump welcomed the hostages back from NK, who got off the other side of the plane before Trump went up the front set of stairs? Why was the air force officer knocking on the door to the plane unanswered? Distract the cameras. A large number of extra people got off the other side of the plane while the cameras were focused on the air force officer at the near side door. 
Next is Iran and apparently the key there is Armenia. How do people get to and from Iran undetected without much fuss? Yerevan to Tehran is 1h 30min by air. Why was the sudden change of Armenian leadership not predicted by anyone? With the sanctions on Iran again how long can the regime keep the people down? What tools do the people in Iran need to liberate themselves? Armenia may also hold the keys to winning the Russian people support without the autocracy of Putin. 
Eventually 4chan was hacked and 8chan was created to replace it. Several times people challenged Q to prove he is working for Trump. Q uses the white rabbit from Alice in wonderland and a code word Wendy both of which appeared in Trumps tweets hours latter. Trump said in one tweet Wendy wasserman schultz (google it) the tweet was corrected but the error was intentional! On April 2 someone asked Q to ask Trump to say Tippy top. Hours later Trump speaks at the White House egg roll standing beside the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland and says tippy top with extra emphasis. The MSM went bananas “Trumps got the wrong rabbit!” No he didn't. 
Watch the rabbit's ear when he says it. He knows whats up.
Q is quiet now indicating with his last few posts that the FBI, NSA, CIA, are now secured. Dozens fired, resigned and some facing charges. DOJ will be next but there is a timer on when someones eligibility runs out, 11th next month perhaps, and that person will have to step aside. He was a temporary Obama appointee and can't be fired but automatically gets sidelined on that date.
Q was expecting a shorter harder fight. He is still expecting assassination attempts but everyone is well guarded. He implies that Air combat in US airspace has already been attempted and failed. How do you hide a crashed fighter jet in plain sight? Report a trainer accident. Trump or someone connected to him was supposed to be at or near the harvest festival concert in Vegas when it was attacked. MS 13 were the deep states main expendable attack dogs. Seth Rich, Officer Miosotis Familia, and one other unnamed officer were assassinated by MS 13 working for someone on the left. The latter two has seen key evidence on people connected to Jeffery Epstein. Jeff sessions has had MS 13 people rounded up, removing the threat. The Jeffery Epstein material is being released to the legal community so they can find other cases.
Apparently the Clinton/ Obama team never expected to lose the White House so they got stuck with No secure communications afterwards. That makes ordering people around harder. They attempted to fix the problem in several ways but they were countered at each step.
Q has riled some anarchists because he is reforming the FBI, NSA, CIA, etc not scrapping them totally but that's to be expected. Conservatism verses anarchism. Q is also in a fight with Alex Jones. Jones supported Q and publicised him but then rejected where Q was going. I suspect Q did not confirm his pet conspiracy theories and there's a bit of the anarchist in Jones. (However that may be a ruse to get Jones out of someones cross-hairs.)
 
Q and Trump are not CFR A or B and that riles and confuses a lot of people. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan member organisation, think tank, and publisher. Or so it says on their web sites. In reality its also the international diplomats union, the globalists teaching institution, the deep states divided leadership and it runs a secure dating system for diplomats! It's split into two factions (A & B/ left & right) but generally Presidents and Prime Ministers and particularly Foreign Ministers are meant to be CFR members. Only a few exceptions ever existed.
Many simply don't get Trumps act and distract tactics and don't understand why that process works.
The best Q anon summery site is here. https://qanon.pub/ The blue numbers link to the main forums. I have a few questions to Q there but am not expecting a response. Note it took me several weeks to work though the Q posts and links. Study several dozen video's on it and discussed a few points on YouTube and twitter with others.
A site with a searchable version in here. https://qmap.pub/ It also includes Trumps tweets for cross referencing. 
While I generally consider most conspiracy theory's to be rubbish this one looks like the real deal. 

Friday, May 11, 2018

Qanon for busy people.

Qanon for busy people.
Q is an account on 8chan an anonymous chat site. Q claims to be a Q level intelligence officer with White House authorization to post on the site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_clearance
 Sensitivity Level 3 or 4. Q is DoE terminology but everyone uses it now. At one point he posts what may be a security Authorization code: auth478-24zgP
He/they is posting hints, clues, questions, riddles, photo's and links. He predict events a day or so ahead sometimes. He quotes Trump and Trump has made intentional mistakes in tweets that confirm that Q is real and authorized. Q talks about wendy with Obama in posts. Then Trump posts a tweet including 'wendy wasserman schultz' and corrects a few hours latter.
 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbQ3lo0U8AAkfuB.jpg

That was not a mistake it was a message. Wendy has meaning behind the scenes. Girl running with the gang. (Possibly second generation girls on the left who know nothing else. My opinion.)

In effect this is a controlled leak system to debunk and negate the made up leaks in the main stream media. This is the stuff they can't put on twitter.  Q has used " we " on a few occasion indicating its a team.

The White House needs to activate millennials and the conspiracy fans. They need to get libertarians on side. They can't do that with Fox news, breitbart or c-span. Millennials don't do those things they are on sites like 4chan, 8chan etc that is where Trump has sent someone to work. A ranking intelligence officer no less. He is building a network of thousands of volunteers working on finding the linkages, identifying deep state actors, and creating memes, YouTube, and other social media. It gets the conspiracy theory minded millennials aimed in the right direction. It's a psychological warfare operation aimed at the heart of the deep state. Designed to demoralize them.

He is also implying that there have been several false flag operations foiled recently with clues about the NY subway bombing. Hints before hand that something was about to happen connected to Bangladesh. The injured suicide bomber was Bangladeshi. It indicates that they knew who but not where yet had enough to stop the guy.

Also he gave hints before hand of the Hawaii events with assurances afterwards that the Patriots in the intelligence and military are on top of the false flag cases now. 


He has established the inside terms wizards and warlocks. Both are intell/military with the wizards being the good guys and the warlocks being bad.
{I stand corrected the warlocks are good guys too. Possibly Navy intelligence. }
He is also indicating that military intelligence is now investigating the FBI, NSA and CIA elite for illegal activities. Ouch!

Early on some of his messages were cryptic designed to contact patriots in those agencies without tipping off the corrupt ones. A bit like the nonsensical messages broadcast into France before D-Day to inform and direct the French resistance.

He is also indicating that Australia and New Zealand are involved. Hopefully on both sides.  Hillary Clinton is Hiding out in New Zealand and Australia this month, May 2018.

The White House is not only using wikileaks now but using their tactics to go around the barriers: the MSM and silicon valley leftist controlled social media. You can't make this stuff up!



Here are the Q post at source. https://8ch.net/patriotsfight/res/62.html#78
with discussion in the link below there are a lot of nuts and trolls on qresearch.
 https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/1248614.html#1249365

That's hard to navigate. The best list of posts is here:
https://qanonposts.com/ and https://qanon.pub/ for older ones.

This week he posted a piece of blank White house stationary, the Presidents pen and leather document binder. All taken from the Presidents point of view.

People have created side by side meme showing the confirmation posts. One of these proof images. 


Thursday, February 01, 2018

Reforming global currency and debt.

Someone on YouTube predicted the final collapse of the world fiat currency system. He ruled out violent revolution. His solution:
Plan 1 Tax strike: but then you get thrown in jail.
Plan 2 Blockade congress: OK = get thrown in jail with friends.
Plan 3 call for a military mutiny against government. Err... wait how is that not violent revolution?

Some of us have a better set of plans.
1. Develop replacement currencies bitcoin and gold notes. https://shiresilver.com/
2. Point out to those in power that in a currency collapse their favourite shop in Brussels, New York or Washington wont be able to restock. They will starve with the rest of us.
3. Develop Assurance Contract sites [crowd funding] and debug it by crowd funding cool stuff.
4. Crowd fund those things [public goods] that government claims to do with taxes and borrowing. Thus making taxes obsolete and getting stuff done faster.
5. Authorise the creation of thousands of new debt free banks (congress just did that bit last year).

We are not finished yet but there are a lot of people in high places with bitcoin accounts just in case.

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Shadow banning and Demonetization.

Most conservatives probably think the left is just demonetizing the right on YouTube but they are doing it to almost everyone including some popular gamer YouTubers, people talking about Star Trek and Star Wars and even popular arts and crafts YouTubers!?! Similar things are happening on Facebook and Twitter and even some of the art sites like Pinterest. 

Something more than just left verses right bias is happening. I think a key part of their algorithm is broken. All these sites are trying to take out Islamist's content on their sites; It is reasonable to expect a counter attack from the Islamists. The simplest counter attack is to get everything else banned too. Reporting sites both conservative and profitable as spam, porn, terrorist and otherwise contrary to the the allowed policy. There is no way all reported material can be reviewed in two or three days. It is definitional of social media that there is too much for any human to screen. The Algorithms them selves are vulnerable to trolling and abuse.

So Islamists are reporting anything and everything, while people on the left are reporting conservative and right wing stuff as say porn when its not. It is interestingly rare for people on the right to falsely report the left even for genuinely offensive material. To the right such things should be seen both to rally the cause and to some extent because they are seen as signs of desperation on the left.

The algorithm bans reported pages etc automatically or demonetizes the YouTube account. It is Guilty until proven innocent and if you don't complain to the overworked people in the head office then human eyes never check the post that's reported or the channel that's demonetized. Both Facebook and YouTube is losing money as a result.

Worse still with content in some parts of Asia, the people checking the content there are sub contractors in Pakistan and other predominantly Islamic countries. India is priced out of the market and don't know the languages. So you have Muslims looking at and trying to screen content for Islamic terrorism and porn!

There is only one solution. Social media needs to drop anonymous reporting and switch to pseudo-anonymous reporting with a rating system for reports. Those found to be reporting non porn sites as porn should be down-rated and ignored when they reach a threshold.
Like wise anyone that is falsely reporting  sites as somehow unacceptable need to be logged, down-rated and ignored. Those who report terrorist, crime and real nasty porn should be up rated too and given priority on the ban/ block.

This will not fully solve the bias in the social media screeners but a second rating algorithm is needed in that case. If non porn but “insensitive” material flags are used this is where we get the biggest political problem.

The bulk of social media screeners are university educated young people and so tend to be on the left. (The universities may be greatly reformed soon but that is a different matter.) Many will also grow out of their leftist positions as they get smashed in the face by hard reality. Many on the left can't afford to live in California any more.

The first solution is to check the number of likes. A site with truly insensitive material should not have a lot of public likes. Prager university will have millions of likes where as some random holocaust denier will have only a few dozen. A pro terrorist jihad site will have a low base in the English world while a site critical of Islamic terrorism will have a much larger base, even though the same video may appear on both: one is a warning and so, like the naked victims of the holocaust, must be seen. 

Then jury the question across several people in the public network. The dislike button should have some weight but there is a problem. People use that if they like the context but disagree with its conclusion. It is possible to be both very popular, widely shared with 70% dislikes. A like but disagree button may help.

If neutrality is genuinely desired by these companies then this should suffice. If however the staff of Google, Facebook, YouTube and twitter are genuinely left of centre then there is little that can be done to save these businesses. Capital and advertising are both very capitalist things. Competition is arising: Gab, Twitch TV, Wistia, Vidyard, Brightcove, SproutVideo, Vimeo. This is just for YouTube.

That said Facebook and YouTube have seen a drop off in views and I suspect the Chief Financial Officer will over rule and political bias on the board. Left wing CEO's and their companies are quickly separated.

So I think vetting the people trolling social media will be implemented. If, as I suspect, Islamists and trolls are attacking western social media itself even the left wing staff of YouTube and Facebook will grasp that they need to vet the anonymous reports of content and ignore the false reports.

All the ELUA's will need to be changed with a line or two on gaming the system added. Some countries my also need to change legislation.

Wesley Bruce

Sunday, October 15, 2017

How President Crump has won.



I have my Facebook friends completely confused when I talk US politics.
One asked:
"Do you think RINOs helped nominate Trump because they thought he was least likely to win against Hillary?"

No I think Reince Priebus and the RINO's were trying to block Ted Cruz and the Freedom Caucus at all costs. They used Trump to block Cruz but then failed to organise someone to topple Trump at the convention via the second or third vote strategy. They tried to manipulate the convention and its rules but botched it.
Their candidates Jeb Bush and John Kasich were no match for Hillary. In simple terms they believed their own propaganda about Bush and Kasich and believed the lefts propaganda about Hillary beating conservatives like Ted Cruz. I doubt they really thought it though with Trump until Jeb Bush dropped out. At the convention they blocked Ted but had no-one else to go with as a candidate from the floor. Romney and several others turned the plotters down. Anyone inclined to accept was clearly un-electable.

So they switched to plan B get Trump elected and controlling him. I don't think they expected Hillary to win. She had lost the rust belt to Trump and the black vote was lost to Facebook history memes of the KKK democrat party connections. The black vote stayed home.

To get Trump to a winning number on the first vote they transferred votes from Bush and Kasich to Trump without telling the delegates or Trump. Ted Cruz had the numbers to force it to a second vote and would have won the second convention vote. That was unacceptable to some at the convention.

Ted Cruz saw Reince Priebus attempt to control of Trump coming. He also saw the great danger of Hillary winning in the south east and south west where Trump was weakest but in those areas Ted Cruz was much stronger so he passed almost all of his campaign personnel to Trump. He also seems to have passed all his cabinet picks and maybe his VP pick, Mike Pence, to Trump creating an unbeatable machine in the election. Kellyanne Conway was added to the mix to keep things organised. She was a Cruz organiser and fund raiser.

Then once back in the Senate Ted Cruz and the Freedom Caucus  launched a policy blitz beating Priebus out of the White house. As the battle for Obamacare repeal and replace progressed Priebus was blocking the Freedom caucus and other conservatives from getting to Trump. The RINO's that backed and wanted to control Trump actually do not have any viable alternative policies. They have never articulated policy to achieve Trumps goals or their own. The freedom caucus is clear and public in terms of goals and policy.

Instead of fighting Trump the freedom caucus is trying to find ways to make the results Trump articulated policy work. That is why the wall is a fence in places. They already knew, as do Trump supporters, that the key is enforcement and that the guards need to be able to see through the wall in most places. Priebus recommendations failed repeatedly, while Cruz had got working people and policies in where it mattered. Eventually Reince Priebus had to leave beaten. 

So what about Steve Bannon?
Steve Bannon and also Newt Gingrich and Pat Buchanan were all on board with Trump early. I suspect that they all sounded out Ted Cruz and a few others in 2014 but Cruz, Rand Paul and others Libertarian favoring caucus members would not go along with all of their plans.
Bannon, Gingrich, Buchanan want protectionism to be the banner but a different kind of protectionism than the 1930's and 1960's. All conservatives not just Ted Cruz want real free trade not fake free trade but he is not willing to threaten protectionism to get it. The catch is that without threats of protectionism your going into a trade negotiation empty handed and naked. [No you can't do free trade by simple declaration as the libertarians want to. ] Trump understood the need to threaten protectionism to get true free trade so they backed Trump.

I think Cruz (and Newt) also understands that some industries are truly obsolete and will never return and that's is a real problem for the percentage of people in those dying fields that genuinely can't be retrained.

The past six months all five men have learned that they will have to converge their positions creating a more nuanced program of policies. If they can't do that they wont get a policies though.

Bannon has not been kicked out of the White house. He has realized that the problem is not the committees in the White house. Attending meetings is point less if you discover that the committee all agrees yet the government genuinely can't do some things even with full control of both houses and the White house.

It needs to be not just take a majority in congress. You must obliterate the Democrats and the RINO's AND 30 million bureaucrats that will not implement policy even when ordered to. (That's a big unreported story).

In that you need a permanent campaign mode and so Bannon has been redeployed where he can do the most good at Breitbart.
Bannon is not a libertarian or CATO type conservative so he still disagrees with Ted Cruz and Rand Paul on things. And Cruz and Paul differ to. Like me he probably thinks that such things will work but that we simply can't sell them. This was always Ted's problem you can't talk complex policy in a pub. Newt has the same problem. Unintelligible policy wonks might be right but can't win if no-one understands a word their saying. Trump simply does not try.

In the next months we will see people aligned to both Trump and Cruz running against incumbent RINO's that face re election in 2018. There will also be people running against the most vulnerable Democrats in the Rust belt. The DNC gerrymandered those blue collar districts to hold them half a century ago but with the blue collar vote flipping to Trump they guaranteed they will now loose them.

Watch the southern black districts too. A new generation of black Republicans are running there and the same memes that broke Hillary's grip in 2016 will now switching up to the next stages pointing out that Marx, Lenin, Andrew Jackson and Lyndon B. Johnson were not black and that Frederick Douglass, the first black congressmen and Martin Luther King jr were all Republicans. The democrats are not being helped by black lives matter crowds with marxist banners or KKK actively reminding everyone that they were once called the "the military arm of the Democratic Party". These things are piling up and will drive a disconnect between socialism and black rights. It will happen very fast without warning and the DNC can only afford to loose 10% of the black vote to loose half the south permanently.

The Democrats have lost the old industrial states on the great lakes. The left is losing its grip on the black vote. The LGBT block is tiny; vocal but not enough to matter and Harvey Weinstein has blown up half the feminist vote and most of the Hollywood lobby. The party may even die!


The RINO's, called the Tuesday group in congress, are a policy free zone. Out of ideas. They are pro-military and pro-police but left of center or clueless on everything else. They will face conservatives in their primaries. They will be forced to shift or loose well before November 2018.
We will get President Crump. Policy Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, etc signed into law by Trump to achieve his agenda because there is no other way.

PS technically everyone's kicked out of the White house, not just Bannon, because their doing maintenance. No one is reporting where the National Security Council meetings are being held while they rip the wiretaps out of the Oval office.