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Round 2, was I right July 2016?

Trump Changes Axis of Planet = Family United
That was the headline of my post at the time. My thinking was that as I observed from the outside, not within the USA, I saw something developing that was operating at a level of energy that would “Trump”, (Sorry) all previous political and leadership events in US history.

Washington and Lincoln, not withstanding, Trump has shown to be a hard working, hard charging and predictably obnoxious president. But, if, as I try to be, you are honest with yourself, he has been able to accomplish a lot in his overtaxed 3 short years in office.

I like to equate things to those which the common person can relate. So, for Trump’s presidency, I choose to consider the USA as a large corporation with him as the newly hired CEO.

The Board of Directors in this case is the House of Reps and the Senate. Well, you see how that works now, in large part to the scrutiny given by the media and world press. The people are the employees.

So, word of advice for the BoD, be careful of showing your bias against the new CEO. The company is making a profit, the employees are being well paid, the shareholders are increasing shareholder value, and the competitors are looking to figure out the best way to do business with you, the USA, the company.

In the USA’s two party system, the Dem’s seem ready to fall into a very serious trap. One that is typically used by terrorists when they are sort of or semi aligned with a government. Namely, they seek an alignment with the government in opposition, and then carry out events that are disruptive to those in power or leadership. Those out of power don’t stand up for the terroristic behavior, rather, they simply ignore it since it helps their cause.

The presidential candidates such as Sanders, Warren, and some in the House of Reps, such as, you know them, AOC, and the gang of three, are allowed to say and do things that typically are prohibited. They are allowed to use their energy and stardom, in the twitter-verse, to get fellow opposition and frustrated voters to stay connected to the cause. This is with the understanding of the actual leadership in the DNC, Democratic National Committee and on the left that when the time comes to select the “one” to lead, all the voters that were kept warm and angry with the “terroristic” type behavior will have no other choice but to fall in line and vote for the Democrat selected.

BUT, the USA is not a socialist country, and the USA is not working by secret select few back door deals. The USA is founded on hard work and fair opportunity to pursue your dreams of a better life for you or your family, regardless of religion, color, national background, lifestyle, handicap, or even affiliation. Just play by the rules.

If your side has a better offer, then, offer it. If your company, i.e., Dem’s version of the company, the BOD and the employees will be able to change the direction or even the product of the company.

Can you imagine, actually imagine a Socialist USA? The fact that there are some people who actually think this could happen is an indication of the incredibly poor education system in the USA.

Socialism and its brother Communism lack the proper incentives inherent in a bell curve of talent, motivation, and accountability or ownership.

The dream is always a fantasy until it is applied to YOU!

2020 elections will be nothing but pure excitement. I’m sure there will be a lot of dirt spread, but in the end energy of Trump and his total commitment, I’d even say selfless commitment to the USA is what my overall point is.

You see, when your actions are for sharing or helping others, you can move worlds! That was my message a few years ago and it is true today. Until the Democrats can come to the party to give something rather than taking to receive more power to impose their control to take more from the employees of the company, like union dues, they’ll not stand a chance, again…

The great thing about the USA’s political system is that it is dirty and open. So, all the garbage gets exposed and the light is always the best disinfectant!

Cheers my friends,

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Trump Changes Axis of Planet = Family United

Leadership yields big things... Are we on that path?
Leadership yields big things… Are we on that path?

I’ll go out on a limb here and say that I feel that there is something brewing around the globe that has shifted the actual global consciousness, i.e., Axis or magnetic lines of our planet.

I like to look at the world in terms of a family; Where you have great grand parents, grand parents, parents, children, wife’s, husband’s and their offspring.?? Each of these family members would represent a specific country.?? The major powers would be your parents, in their prime, with grand parents being older countries with waning influence, new strong children the up and coming countries, and the little small “terrible two’s” or troubled teenagers as those countries that always seem to not get it.

Currently, again, as I see it, the world is awash with chaos and energy being dumped into destruction and division.?? The parents in this analogy are able to weather the troubles of the children, ignoring the kicks and bites on the lower ankles.?? If they get painful enough, then the parents and other senior family members might actually turn in their direction and correct the behavior.?? This could be a hug, some time to nurture, or if needed a time out or a “slap” in extreme cases to wake them up and set them on the right path.

Trump has just risen to fill a gap that saw the global family unit adrift or even on the verge of separation, total dysfunction.???? The global time has come for a strong family entity to emerge that will set a moral compass, entice good economic behavior, and in general bring the family together to create a better world.?? If you believe as I do, that there actually is a global energy of consciousness that can and does move to spontaneously create, invent, develop, discover, and act, then what’s happening in the U.S. election is really not that out of sight.

I think that for so many years both major parties in the U.S. failed to do what most people actually agree is the right thing.?? Sound bites that work to divide and segregate voting blocks serve only to actually create strife in the family of nations and in between siblings.?? Mr. Donald Trump is like a crazy fox, darting this way and that way, while actually keeping his eye on the most prized catch.?? That catch today is a need for a shift to a positive message, leadership, holding the reins of the team of horses to guide them on the correct path.?? Bumpy paths, cliffs, mud, trees, etc. area examples of a path not so desired, but one the U.S. has been on for years.?? Every now and then the horse driven coach is on the right path, but then it veers off and goes astray.

The global need for some control over a predictable market place, economic opportunity and safety for countries, (children) that only want a chance to live and grow, has taken over the collective sub-conscious of the United States electorate.?? I think there is a strong undercurrent that is going to surface, like a “Family Intervention” and work to correct the path that the parents and many children are currently on.

If you are honest about what a person says and not what others say they said, you might discover that you agree with 90% of their point.?? If that happens, its time to question the news sources that fed you the opinion or edited the words to fit their agenda.

Cause and Effect, Leadership makes things happen.

When you look at these images perhaps you can better understand that with strong leadership you deliver hope to all the people of the earth to work together for a common goal. ???? Economic opportunity is key, equal access to clean water, energy, education, and stability are all things that such leadership yields.?? Provided Mr. Trump is elected,?? if not, well, perhaps the Axis wobble will have to take another extreme level to correct and come back into sync with the rest of the universe.

 

 

 

 

Branding, Media, Politics, Russia, Security, United States of America

Brand USA vs Russia, does it matter?

US President Barack Obama (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a bilateral meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico on June 18, 2012 on the sidelines of the G20 summit. Obama and President Vladimir Putin met Monday, for the first time since the Russian leader's return to the presidency, for talks overshadowed by a row over Syria. The closely watched meeting opened half-an-hour late on the sidelines of the G20 summit of developed and developing nations, as the US leader sought to preserve his "reset" of ties with Moscow despite building disagreements. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama hold a bilateral meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico on June 18, 2012 on the sidelines of the G20 summit. Obama and President Vladimir Putin met Monday, for the first time since the Russian leader’s return to the presidency, for talks overshadowed by a row over Syria. The closely watched meeting opened half-an-hour late on the sidelines of the G20 summit of developed and developing nations, as the US leader sought to preserve his “reset” of ties with Moscow despite building disagreements. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad

With today’s media driving all things “perception” and instant three second attention grabbing headlines, what is the new branding reality for nations in the modern era and does it matter?

It really doesn’t matter if a headline if true or false, misleading or maligning, incomplete or careless, in the end, certain images or thoughts reside and are stored deep inside the consciousness via eyeballs and ears all over the world. A person may not even know they’re being programmed, but the programming is being done, very purposefully using the most asymmetrical type of geo or realpolitik of the modern era.

Consider the Brand of USA vs Russia, Obama vs Putin. In the USA, the President, is the Brand or face of the nation. This is why American’s need to feel that the person they vote for will well represent the brand that they are attached to at a very deep and emotional level, i.e., constitution, bill of rights, individual freedom, etc. They need to feel proud, confident, and secure in the belief that this person will measure up to the critical apparatuses of the job. In Russia, the same applies, but with a very different history of how to achieve these elements for the population. Putin is the current brand or face of Russia. He has very craftily navigated using power plays of the old guard to create both internally and externally the brand of old Russia. This makes his population feel proud and confident that they have a strong leader that is working on their behalf. They’re used never “rocking the boat” with voicing opposition, and they see quickly how things turn out for any who dissent. ?Putin, then has successfully Branded his country and I believe will continue to move quickly, before the next USA election to cement his line in the various sand boxes he’s currently sitting in. His media plays regarding recent military actions in Syria (Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov) remind me of Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister Tariq Aziz, that said whatever he wanted towing the line no matter what the facts truly were.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, shake hands after making statements following meetings regarding Syria, at a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday Sept. 14, 2013. U.S. Secretary of State Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said Saturday they have reached an agreement on a framework for Syria to destroy all of its chemical weapons, and would seek a U.N. Security Council resolution that could authorize sanctions, short of military action, if Syrian President Bashar Assad's government fails to comply. (AP Photo / Larry Downing)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, shake hands after making statements following meetings regarding Syria, at a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday Sept. 14, 2013. U.S. Secretary of State Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said Saturday they have reached an agreement on a framework for Syria to destroy all of its chemical weapons, and would seek a U.N. Security Council resolution that could authorize sanctions, short of military action, if Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government fails to comply. (AP Photo / Larry Downing)

How a nation feels about another nation is critical for how a leader controls his people and the nations he or she must do business with.?? Branding by nations is critical, and that’s why it is so important to get this right as news flashes by so quickly. Entire populations can be whipped up into a frenzy based on false allegations or outright distortions and miss-direction or as they say in the spy business disinformation. Third page retractions, corrected images, completed statements that were edited, etc. all are ignored and every leader knows this, which is why you mostly will not get any real information in the fog of instant news reporting. Free loving people all around the world feel that the Brand USA, their last hope for true freedom is not as sexy as it used to be. Russia never was a brand for freedom seeking people.

The recent actions regarding Doctors without borders is a classic example of this in action. We don’t really know as of this posting exactly what happened. But having lived in Israel for many years, I know all too well how the enemies of freedom play the game of media headlines. I’ve seen so many examples of media filming shots of supposedly dead bodies that fall off the stretcher and then get back up on them to be carried off, or quiet intersections suddenly erupting into a fury as soon as a TV truck pulls up to film, only to quiet down and go back to whatever they were doing after the two minute shot is finished, complete with flag burning, rocks, chanting death to America, etc… The enemy knows that all they have to do is win the image war, not the actual war. If they can grab the headlines and two second “ahhh, how horrible” expression from the eyes and ears, their job or goal is achieved. Remember last week’s baby on the shore from the refugees’ crisis or is that already old news…?

How do you feel about Obama as a brand? If you’re an American it’s political, pretty much if you voted for him, mostly you’ll be very much in need to justify every action he has ever taken. Typically that’s just under 30-40% who will always be “he’s great, I love him” no matter what he does. However, heads of businesses, folks in the military, investors, international travelers, have very different realities to deal with that affect their life on many levels. Brand matters to them…

The reaction that an international traveler gets at an airport or at a caf? after another traveler learns that he or she is from the USA will be different based on who the President is and the current media blitz attacking or supporting that president. Everybody knows that Obama’s Nobel prize for being Obama was a major joke, but nobody cared since we’re living in a “who cares” world with no shame. Shame went out the window along with personal accountability or voicing your opinion after some self-research on a subject. It can get you fired, sidelined, disciplined, marginalized, pushed out, etc. Too many examples of this too, where nobody said anything for fear of getting noticed… Then people died after their self-serving actions. (2009 Fort Hood Shooting, Maj. Hasan’s colleagues had been aware of his increasing radicalization for several years.)

So, in conclusion with what arguably is a much longer post, Branding USA vs Russia is critical. We are fast heading in a very chaotic direction that needs to have leadership, and not be driven by media headlines. A short story comes to mind, where a person who goes to heaven is denied entry by an angel at the gate. The person says: “Hey, I was loved by everybody, everybody loved me, I was nice to everybody, I said yes to all, never criticized anybody, never questioned anybody or anything, just did what I was told, always a good person…” “Yes said the angel, so now go directly to hell. You’re not supposed to just sit there, you’re supposed to say something when you see that it is obviously wrong.? Why did God give you the ability to speak? How many times did you see evil, or a wrong being committed only to ignore that to be nice? Well, now you can think about that for a while.” Balance between right and wrong is not always easy, but when it is, one better be firm and clear in their understanding of why they need to stand up for love and hope. Brand Freedom or Brand Chaos?

Brand USA is weak in my opinion and getting lost in the myriad of global events. They just don’t matter any longer since they don’t act, they just talk platitudes. Brand Russia is acting strong and leading the events by acting with conviction. Putin is the poster boy for a leader that is seen by his nation as acting in Russia’s best interest. What’s better for humanity, peace, love, is for history… or another post at least…