It is a grey morning
Bob wakes up… brrr another hurricane arrived…. Lets
have a coffee… Floods… Suddenly the phone ringing…“Hi Bob, the boss asked me to tell you to go to the Watergate complex. Some guys braked in yesterday. Have a nice swimming hic..hicc”
It is June 17 1972 Washington. The hurricane “Agnes” caused
the biggest flood in 100 years in the Capital.
And one other hurricane appeared. Bigger than “Agnes. A
political one.
Why Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein made history?
They have managed to blow up a case of the abuse of the POWER by an American president. (I hope
you remember what we were thinking previously about power)
What is the end of the story?
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Bob and Carl each got a Pulitzer Prize; (Bob got
later another one as well.
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The informant or whistle blower called later the
“Deep Throat” dies about 35 years after the event – his identity was publicly revealed only then. Mark Felt considered being the only informant, but most
likely Bob and Carl would never write down a single word, unless they would not
be able to verify the information given
by Mark from various sources. So the other Deep Throats will remain anonymous and rest in peace…
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After his death Mark was called an American
Hero.
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Richard (Nixon) resigned and was pardoned by his
ex vice president Gerald (Ford); He lived his life and enjoyed all the
privileges of a retired president;
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The
Watergate scandal resulted in 69 government officials being charged and 48
being found guilty.
Why at June 16th 1972 late it the evening five men, one of whom says he used to work for
the CIA, were trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at
the Watergate hotel and office complex?
INFORMATION
But the history as usual repeats itself…
Carl writes another
article 40 years later (this time without Bob). 9th of July,
2012; And he compares Rupert Murdoch’s phone hacking scandal to the Watergate…
You can compare indeed.
In the middle of the scandal (and left on the photo)it is Andy (Coulson),
former press chief to Prime Minister David (Cameron)…
Do you remember David from our previous
story?
Yes, this is the same David… He once
learned a bitter lesson.
David, when he was still wearing shorts
at Tory’s headquarters, spent some time under Sir Norman (Lamont). Sir Norman
was among those, who decided to enter to the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
(ERM) at 1990. The same Sir Norman, as Chancellor was forced to quit the same
mechanism at 16th September 1992.
From our point of view we only need to
know, that David was working as Special Adviser to Sir Norman. The name of that day is the “Black Wednesday” (must have been a big
fun for DavidJ)
So what’s happened at Black Wednesday?
George (Soros) made a hip of money
after crashing the pound and the Bank Of England.
How could he do it?
Simple – he got proper INFORMATION and earned about 3 billion
dollars… He was in right place at right time and he took the best possible
action to take advantage of the situation.
Why this happened?
The British government had little clue
what to do with their economy at the end of 80’s (Do you think they have more
clue now? Don’t be too much optimisticJ).
So at the end of 80’s it looked like a good idea to gather with the Germans and
the ERM, as the system was working since its introduction. It worked till the re-unification
with the East Germany. But suddenly the Germans and the DM (Deutschmark) got
under huge pressure.
AT the same time Britain had an
opposite problem – they were in the mid of a recession and instead of turning their
effort to clean up their economy, to put in order their budget, they choose to
go the easy way…
This is somehow comparable to the
effect, when you have a pile of garbage under your dining table and instead of
cleaning it up you choose to change the tablecloth…
And
what about David?
David looks like learned only a part of
his Black Friday’s lesson…
He realized, that the INFORMATION is important, so he went
after it. He definitely benefited from his good friend Andy and won the
elections.
But he forgot one thing – phone hacking
will not give you sufficient information about you and your partner’s economic
situation.
And betraying your own EU allies looks
like another wrong decision. His Germanic phobia is understandable; I would
also have nightmares from Black Friday, but in here he was no more a Special
Advisor, but a Prime Minister.
David, did you hit this time a huge own
goal? The history shall prove. (And I do hope, that I am wrong).
A last question. Did the participants
do anything to prevent the black Friday type events? The answer is – practically
nothing.
George made a lot more money under the
same circumstances, but in other countries. The classical “recipe” is:
overstressed budget with over valued local currency, slow and incompetent
government reaction.
We can blame George, however better we
blame our own governments. As George only uses an opportunity…
Remember the Black Friday and George,
as we shall come back to this matter later on.
But we did not yet finished completely
with David…
Richard of Watergate had to resign.
David managed to keep his seat and this is a significant difference.
He was definitely smart, very smart and
most probably managed to learn something in Oxford.
However, if he would spend more time
with economics and less with arts and the Bullingdon Club, than might the
history would turn different way.
The Guardian, Monday 18 July 2011 18.04 BST
“Sean Hoare, the former News of the World show business reporter who was the first named journalist to allege that Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead.”
“The inquest into his death
noted the irreversible damage caused to Hoare's liver by his alcoholism and his
return to drinking brought about by the resurgence of media interest in the
phone hacking scandal in December 2010. It ruled he died from natural causes”.Sean was 48 years old.
And what happened to David’s buddy Andy?
“He appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on 13 June 2013 in private, represented by Richard Keen QC, no plea or declaration was made and he was given bail. There was a ban on reporting this at the time, but it was challenged by some media outlets and lifted a few days later.” The BBC news reported.
Anyone abused its POWER? It is up to you to make a conclusion…
I have promised to talk to you about moral issues… But the life goes on and it goes faster than my silly plans…
And there are few more important issues we need to look after…
Lets go back to Ed Snowden.
He
is still enjoying the Sheremetevo Airport Transit Lounge hospitality
(unfortunately for him, they do not serve anymore black caviar and Champaign)The Americans want him badly.
According to the CNN “The U.S. Justice Department will not seek the death penalty for U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, Attorney General Eric Holder wrote to Russian authorities in a letter dated July 23….
Once back in the United States, Snowden would not be tortured and would face a civilian trial with a lawyer appointed to him…”
There is no one on this Globe, who would believe to the americans and especially not since Sacco & Vanzetti.
Snowden has no chance to have a fair and independent trial in the US.
Why they want him so much?
Why no one wants Gerard Depardieu, who recently got a nice Russian passport?
His government instead of correcting their own illegal actions makes a full scale campaign and put pressure on the half of the World to take Snowden back home – most probably with the reason to silence and isolate him
or may be Snowden's Mummy asked Barack to get him back home, same as the Nation did with Private Ryan... So romantic...
I let you decide for your own who is right and who is wrong.
This entire story about Snowden reminds me about another recent event.
The Marte Deborah Dalelv’s rape case. The young Norwegian interior designer accused a Sudanese man of raping her in a Dubai hotel. After the attack she immediately reported the event to the Dubai police.
After a long investigation the court sentenced her to jail based on charges of committing adultery and consuming alcohol.
After a Number of Human right groups made a huge noise, Dalev was finally pardoned few days ago… She says, she is happy… Are you sure?
As she was raped first, then lost her job, than sentenced to jail, than finally pardoned. But the rapist is still somewhere out there… (http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/22/world/meast/uae-norway-rape-controversy/index.html)
Will Ed Snowden ever be happy? I wouldn’t bet on it… Does the American justice system shifting towards the Islamic one? Hopefully not, but at the moment it certainly looks so.
But from the point of view of our future thinking we need to record the fact itself, that despite the earlier propaganda, it turns out, that the biggest power of the World suddenly appears to be at the same time the biggest hacker as well. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23123964
It looks also evident, that more powerful you are as a NATION, more you can follow the principle of “THE END JUSTIFY THE MEANS” – meaning you do whatever you want just make sure to show some results.
This in the meantime verifies our previous suspicion, that the INFORMATION has an extreme importance on both, NATIONAL and GLOBAL level.
We shall later analyse this subject (the INFORMATION) in
details, but probably everyone will agree with me, that right now a full-scale information war goes on, involving private, corporate and
government structures from all over the World. In this war there are no allies
any friends or associates. This process can be compared to an early stage of an evolution process,
where a huge variety of species fight for their survival.
Let me finish our today’s story with Charles Darwin:
“It
is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the
one that is the most adaptable to change”.
So never give up as the majority of the
changes are still ahead of us!
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