By Rolf Yungclas ——Bio and Archives--August 15, 2016
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"insanity" - extreme foolishness; folly; senselessness; foolhardiness
In light of recent accusations of Donald Trump being insane, I hereby practice medicine without a license and diagnose the liberal media and Establishment politicians as being insane.
Actually, I'm using the non-medical use of the word as a definition and accusing them of doing, saying, and becoming exactly those things of which they accuse Donald Trump. For example, an August 3 Washington Post headline of an article by Greg Sargent proclaimed: "Republicans nominate dangerously insane person to lead America, then panic when he proves he's dangerously insane.""They have declared their independence from the European Union and have voted to reassert control over their own politics, borders and economy," [Donald Trump] elaborated in a statement. "Come November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence. Americans will have a chance to vote for trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first. They will have the chance to reject today's rule by the global elite, and to embrace real change that delivers a government of, by and for the people. I hope America is watching, it will soon be time to believe in America again."
"At its heart it is not only a detachment from, but a lack of interest in, the lives of your countrymen, of those who are not at the table, and who understand that they've been abandoned by their leaders' selfishness and mad virtue-signalling." "...something big is happening here with this division between the leaders and the led. It is very much a feature of our age. But it is odd that our elites have abandoned or are abandoning the idea that they belong to a country, that they have ties that bring responsibilities, that they should feel loyalty to their people or, at the very least, a grounded respect."Both Democrats and the Republican Establishment will make sure that global business as usual will occur and that a border policy will continue that leaves our nation vulnerable. While Donald Trump may not say things the proper way according to the elite, over and over we've seen his perception of what the problem is prove to be accurate, once the initial media hysteria over how he worded it dies down. If America as a nation is to reject the oligarchy of the global elite, a Trump presidency is the only way we can insure that the process of determining how we do that can even begin. While the Tea Party Movement gave a national voice to the anti-Establishment sentiment of American taxpayers in three Congressional election cycles (2010, 2012, 2014), its inability to attract a broader base than conservative Republicans has it now in the process of being dis-assembled by the Establishment Oligarchy.
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"For the Ricketts family or its super PAC to claim Huelskamp wasn't conservative on the issues they purport to care about is ludicrous. He has one of the best records in the entire Congress on those issues. "What ESAFund has become is an enabler of the Establishment. It purports to support fiscal conservatives, but in practice does the exact opposite."On the heels of their victory over Huelskamp and using the same smear tactics, the Oligarchy is now going after other others, including Representative Paul Gosar in his August 30 Arizona Republican primary. If Americans are to begin to successfully wrestle control from the global elite and reestablish government of, by, and for the people, conservatives will need to ally with this movement that the Trump campaign has energized. On another note, let's take a further look at the insane Obama administration's alliance with the terrorist-sponsoring regime in Iran. The more we look into the work of current Secretary of State John Kerry and his predecessor Hillary Clinton on this, the clearer it is that treasonous negotiations have been going on. Last week I showed that the money that was given in exchange for hostages on January 17 of this year, was from a monetary claim by the Iranians that had been dismissed by the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in 2009. A (State Department document shows the acknowledgement of this claim being dismissed:
"On July 17, 2009, the nine-member Tribunal largely rejected a $2.5 billion claim filed by Iran, known as Case B/61, in which Iran alleged that the United States violated the Algiers Accords by failing to arrange the transfer of certain properties (mostly military properties) that Iran purchased from private U.S. companies before the Iranian Revolution." "The Tribunal dismissed Iran's claim for compensation based on the U.S. refusal to license the export of Iran's export-controlled properties, concluding that Iran had failed to establish that U.S. action resulted in any compensable loss to Iran's pre-November 14, 1979 financial position with respect to those properties. Accordingly, the Tribunal did not award any damages to Iran."But the same summary document showed that on August 3, 2009 "Iran requested that the Tribunal reconsider the decision to dismiss Iran's claim to compensation based on the U.S. refusal to license the export of Iran's export-controlled properties. On August 14, 2009, the United States objected to this request because the Tribunal's Rules of Procedure provide no basis for such a review." Further investigation shows that request was denied by the Tribunal, as shown in a document dated July 1, 2011:
"The United States asserts that Iran's Request for Revision is not permitted under the Algiers Declarations or the Tribunal Rules of Procedure ('Tribunal Rules'), which establish that Tribunal awards are final and not subject to reargument or review." "THE TRIBUNAL DECIDES AS FOLLOWS: The 'Request for Revision of Partial Award No. 601' submitted by the Islamic Republic of Iran dated 3 August 2009 is denied."Stay tuned for more, as I continue to investigate how a final denial of an Iranian award request on July 11, 2011 became an actual transfer of funds to Iran on January 17 of this year. We do see that in December, 2 months before the denied award was delivered to Iran that the U.S. arbitrator was changed: "Professor David Caron was appointed to replace Judge Charles Brower as arbitrator to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, effective December 2, 2015." We'll have to see how Caron may have reignited any Iranian claims for compensation, but isn't it time, thirty-five years later, that this Tribunal, that was created specifically to deal with claims made in 1981, be dismantled? I know of a candidate for President who would be good at telling some bureaucrats in the Hague, "you're fired."
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Rolf Yungclas is a recently retired newspaper editor from southwest Kansas who has been speaking out on the issues of the day in newspapers and online for over 15 years