[NYPOST] Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the last surviving member of former President Richard Nixon’s Cabinet, died on Wednesday. He was 100 years old.
The German-born scholar, statesman and US military veteran died at his home Connecticut, according to a statement from his geopolitical consulting firm, Kissinger Associates. No cause of death was given.
Kissinger, the only presidential appointee to serve contemporaneously as national security adviser and secretary of state, was one of Nixon’s most trusted Cabinet members and secured lasting changes to US foreign policy in the 20th century through an emphasis on realism and de-escalation of tensions between great world powers.
While serving under Nixon and former President Gerald Ford from 1969 and 1977, he negotiated a rapprochement with China that began a new strategic alliance and initiated a policy of détente to engage with the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for helping to end US involvement in the Vietnam War and led peace talks the same year between Israel and Arab states that brought the Yom Kippur War to an end.
Ford also awarded Kissinger, who served as his national security adviser, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, for having "wielded America’s great power with wisdom and compassion in the service of peace."
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Just when we thought the Communist Chinese economy couldn't get any worse.
In 1943, the year he became a U.S. citizen, Dr. Kissinger was drafted into the U.S. Army, where his intellect and fluency in German would make him a perfect candidate for military intelligence. His intellectual abilities earned him a placement in the Army Specialized Training Program, an opportunity that sent him from combat training to college instead. Dr. Kissinger was sent to Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where he studied engineering, read books on history in his spare time, and tutored other students.
In 1944, however, the Army canceled the program, and Dr. Kissinger was returned to Camp Claiborne in Louisiana. From Camp Claiborne, Dr. Kissinger was assigned to the 84th Infantry Division, which set sail from New York to Europe in September 1944 as part of the pursuit phase of the war. When he arrived back in his homeland of Germany, Dr. Kissinger was quickly selected to become a German translator for General Alexander Bolling. Later, in the Battle of the Bulge, when most of the division was forced to withdraw, Dr. Kissinger volunteered to stay behind to be part of hazardous counter-intelligence duties, making good use of his German.
When the 84th Division later captured the German town of Krefeld on the Rhine River, Dr. Kissinger became the town’s administrator — relying on his language skills and his understanding of the German culture to command authority. He succeeded in restoring order and building a civilian government in the town in little more than a week, a success that enabled him to transfer to the Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC). The mission was to identify Nazis and members of the Gestapo in areas that the Allies had captured. His work there would earn him a Bronze Star.
Dr. Kissinger’s work in the CIC would continue even after the war had ended, as he was called upon to provide order and detect Nazis in Hesse. He kept any feelings of anger or resentment toward the Germans — who had forced his family to flee less than a decade earlier — beneath the surface. Dr. Kissinger operated with remarkable restraint.
In 1946, he was discharged from the Army, having obtained the rank of sergeant. As he would later reflect, his military service would become for him the highlight of his career, and also one that affirmed his American identity and gave him confidence.
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...Years ago, when it was finally confirmed that Kissinger knew we had left people behind in Vietnam and Laos, there was a vicious editorial cartoon I've never forgotten: it showed Kissinger on a cross, looking angrily up to the sky and saying, "Forgive them, Lord - they don't seem to remember who I am!"
I hope the first soul he meets is Le Duc Tho, asking, "Hot enough for ya?"
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/\ I have a friend who worked and traveled internationally with the MIA commission at the Pentagon in the 1980's timeframe. The assignment still leaves him with a very bad taste for our government.
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Yes. Realpolitik - the proposition that the best you can ever hope for is an accommodation of evil, a compromise with it. And if more evil men arise to game the system set up that way, that's just "the cost of doing bidness."
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Ref: MikeKozlowski comment about US POW's still held.
While I was working at Ft. Bragg it was general knowledge there was a 1984 plan for the SFOD-_ HRT group to liberate a Laos POW camp which held about 20+ US POW's.
The mission was canceled, after the load out was already underway.
RUMOR WAS...it was due the US Reagan/Daddy Bush election in a few months and Daddy Bush being Ex-CIA Dir. knew there were POW's still being held.
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^ Well, after their disasterous "250 All-time Best Guitarists" list, they had to get something sorta right...
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^Skid, in my vision there are corn kernels.
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I had no idea of his WWII history, and for that I am impresssed. Yet ultimately, two things with massive import, argue that his legacy if forever tainted with moral failure and historic nearsightedness. The Abandonment of POW's because of political expediency after the Viet Nam War loss, marking the evolution of the attitude that soldiers are merely units of political power, not Patriots whose lives we must always value and never leave behind and abandon to expediency. The second is the Opening to China, considered a master stroke, and directly the start of American economic decline through our massive de-industrialization and foolish belief in their massively accelrated industrial/economic growth as risk-less to our worldwide competitive advantages at the time. Fast forward to today, and the future our grandchildren face, and anyone who ever read Durant would know it was foolhardy to open the doors to the Middle Kingdom and its political skills and hegemonic ambitions.
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Thank you Dr. Kismyass for transforming a third-world country into one that will likely surpass the USA economically, militarily and politically. Oh, did I mention it’s a communist dictatorship?
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THE LEFT's ACCOMPLISHMENTS
* Open support of the BLoM & Anti-FA
* Failure to Jail and detain Career criminals.
* $ Billions in Looting & Rioting damages.
* The failure to jail Looters & Rioters.
* Attacks on Police.
* Defunding The Police.
* Hindering HONEST Citizen Firearm Ownership.
* Arresting citizens for protecting themselves and family.
* Attacks on Elderly Whites (Polar Bearing)
* Black On Black Crime rates way above National Averages.
* Blacks murdering fellow Blacks.
Year To Date
* Shot & Killed: 536
* Shot & Wounded: 2352
* Total Shot: 2888
* Total Homicides: 594
See The JACKASS website for the complete ongoing Crime Report on Chicago.
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as the HeyJackass site reveals, homicides are down 2022 and in 2022, they were down from 2021
but car theft, car jacking, and other crimes are way up
with respect to Chicago homicides, a lot of them, probably 75% or so, are criminal vs criminal
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So Lori Lightfoot is now supposedly part of a vast Right Wing Conspiracy. The only Right Wingers in Chicago play for the Black Hawks. BTW don’t wear face paint to their hockey games. Just saying.
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homicides are down ... but car theft, car jacking, and other crimes are way up
Somebody realized it was easier to turn a car for profit, than a gun.
[Fox] The Biden administration worked together with employees of Google-owned YouTube in 2021 to target alleged "misinformation" relating to the COVID-19 virus and its vaccinations, according to documents obtained by FOX Business.
The documents, acquired through a source close to the House Judiciary Committee, reveal a level of correspondence previously unknown to the American public, as President Biden and his aides sought to promote coronavirus vaccinations in efforts to quell the raging pandemic.
The campaign was led by former White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty, who has since left the administration to help run Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign as a Deputy Campaign Manager.
Flaherty emailed Google team members in April 2021 to "connect […] about the work you’re doing to combat vaccine hesitancy, but also crack down on vaccine misinformation," according to the documents.
Flaherty continued, asking for trends surrounding vaccine misinformation on the website, while offering government assistance in the form of COVID experts at the White House to partner in product work with YouTube.
Google, in an internal email, noted that after a subsequent meeting with Flaherty, the White House staffer "particularly dug in on our decision making for borderline content," – which is content that doesn’t cross Community Guidelines but rather brushes up against it, according to YouTube.
A week later, Google acknowledged that they sent the White House the total amount of videos removed for COVID vaccine misinformation, while discussing the government’s desire for even more data.
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IMO natural immunity works better that booster vaccines and very possibly the original vaccines. Why else would Biden and howdy duty(Fauci) both come down with positive results AFTER taking booster shots.???
I caught the Hong Kong Flu in 1968 and never took anything even though I was very sick for 7 days with high temps...and never went to hospital.
[NYPOST] Mayor Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a few of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... on Wednesday touted his year-old initiative to get more mentally ill homeless New Yorkers off the streets — as more than half of the Big Apple’s 100 most troubled vagrants now off the streets and getting help.
An average of 137 mentally ill locals are now being taken off the streets by first responders and city health professionals every week — a significant number of them removed involuntarily under the mayor’s directive officials said.
So far, 54 vagrants named on two Top 50 lists of the city’s most at-risk homeless New Yorkers are either hospitalized or in housing and working toward normality, officials said.
"These 54 lives matter and they matter to everyday New Yorkers," Adams said at a City Hall presser Wednesday. "We see them, we sought them out, we helped them out and now their lives are on the right path.
"We want to be clear," he added. "We know there’s so much more to be done. We know that there’s so much work to be done. But starting these first steps gives us an opportunity to show that we are moving in the right direction and it fortifies the team.
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Does the list (of mentally ill to be taken off NYC streets) includes Letitia James & Arthur Engoron?
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Taking them iff the street is easy. It’s keeping them off that’s the issue, when their legal system is deliberately designed to send everyone arrested right back out again.
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[NYPOST] Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the last surviving member of former President Richard Nixon’s Cabinet, died on Wednesday. He was 100 years old.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a few of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve...
