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The Geneva Conventions supposedly govern the way prisoners of war are treated by their captors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions

I hope we are still a signatory to all four treaties in the Geneva Conventions. I do not believe that enhanced interrogation including water boarding is allowed. Resorting to water boarding shows impatience and ignorance in my humble opinion. I hope we will not torture our prisoners of war in the future.

Supposedly intelligence garnered via water boarding a HUMINT target was necessary to locate our arch nemesis, Osama bin Laden. bin Laden was hiding in essentially in the plain sight in Abbottabad, Pakistan. We sent members of SEAL Team 6 to assassinate the leader of the Islamic Revolutionary organization known as al-Qaeda. All the necessary intelligence came from a near onsite joint CIA-NSA observation and listening post. We lost a very valuable stealth helicopter in the operation.

1. Rule out trigger happy bullies
2. Only accept civilian applicants
3. Only accept liberal arts college graduates with majors in sociology or psychology
4. Check everything on an applicant’s resume
5. Require all college transcripts (3.0 out 4.0 GPA minimum, preferably 3.5 and up)
6. Two polygraphs one limited scope and one full scope
7. Require some type of martial arts training
8. Two different clinical psychological examinations by two different clinicians
9. A tribunal question and answer operational interview with nursing staff and sociological technicians, and social workers
10. An extended trial period of work in the facility

The Pathways Center Second Season security personnel certainly did not meet the preceding strict criteria (most desirable requirements). I was threatened with death multiple times by gun toting (off the facility for the most part) turnkeys. I was continuously bullied by the Security Staff and those beasts should not have been allowed to work around the mentally ill!

I have signed up for the Zoosk online dating service due to my utter desperation. I know I have stated this several times for the record, but I realize there are only three real females that I was totally and head over heels in love with these remarkable women.  One was my former psychiatrist Dr. Yvonne M. (Marie or Maria) Greene, MD who was way out of my financial league and she was ethically and morally bound not to even to write me and certainly not to date me. At the time, in 2006 or 2007, Dr. Greene was married to a real genius medical doctor and holder of a Doctor of Philosophy too. I theorize that she is probably still married to her aesthetic and intellectual match. Prior to that I was trying to get the musician Kylie Minogue’s online attention. That chasing on the WWW of that skirt occurred while I was probably under Dr. Greene’s therapy. My Kylie years were about 2001 to 2003. I do not count Kylie as a real love just a beautiful statue on an exceedingly high pedestal. Back to reality from the ethereal ozone layer. I became involved with someone who turned out to be a toxic individual towards me. She lived on and off with me from about 2010 until May 8, 2019. I loved her mainly because I was so down on myself that I felt I did not deserve someone of my intellectual, ethical, legal, and moral caliber. She claimed to be separated from her husband, but I think that was just a ruse. She had a strange definition of love and I would tell her whole story in this and subsequent posts but for right now I do not believe she deserves any more notoriety. My final love found and then probably irretrievably lost has the initials, MSB no not Most Significant Byte. I believe I know where she works nowadays and a lot of her contact information, but as usual there is a remarkably high and seemingly impenetrable ethical barrier standing between my contacting her or vice versa. She told me sometime in the interval May 8, 2019 until October 17, 2019 that she was divorced in 2018 and she stated that she would like to see me sometime in the future in my natural habitat.

“A Bridge of Spies” if realistic and factual is a great Tom Hanks movie about “Wild Bill” Donovan, Francis Gary Powers, KGB Colonel Rudolph Abel, the Berlin Wall, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady. The movie starts off with Col. Abel performing the acquisition of a KGB left dead drop of a message carrying fake coin and a little later getting picked up for espionage by FBI counterintelligence agents. Anyway to cut to the chase and getting to point of this blog entry, Francis Gary Powers, an Air force officer, along with other Air Force officers meet in a no tell motel with a CIA agent to be clandestinely inducted into the CIA as “drivers” (pilots) of “The Article” (CIA lingo for Clarence “Kelly” Johnson’s famous Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady). Meeting away from CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, gave the CIA plausible deniability if one of the drivers was captured. Of course, on Mayday, May 1, 1959, Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union from an altitude of 70,000+ feet by a very high-flying Surface to Air Missile (SAM) developed by the U.S.S.R. He failed to destroy his “Article” via the self-destruct switch which was to be activated before ejection from the U-2. Another failure was that Captain Powers did not eat his cyanide pill hidden away in a coin on his person. Anyway, the story has a happy ending with Francis Gary Powers being swapped for Col. Abel on the “Bridge of Spies” near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Please watch the movie for more detail. I just wrote this blog entry to display one method of CIA maintaining plausible deniability.

The Internet and the World Wide Web have evolved from a useful military and scientific communication toolkit to a black hole of advertisements, commerce, palaver, pornography, pontification = neologism the act of pontificating, and propaganda. The progenitor of the Internet Version 4 based on IPv4 Internet Protocol was the DARPANET, a United States defense and military project. The DARPANET was a distributed and redundant system of Wide Area Network supercomputers to ensure some necessary and enough information to run the United States would be saved in the event of an all-out thermonuclear war involving the United States. The first great or killer application on the DARPANET and later the Internet was email and it was invented in the late 1960s. The World Wide Web (WWW) was invented in 1989 as a communication channel using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) so particle physicists could share information and scientific results of large-scale particle colliders and cyclotrons. It was commandeered by commercial ventures in the mid-1990s. The WWW grew exponentially with the acceptance of commerce. Now the IPv4 network has accumulated a lot of garbage especially pornography and propaganda. Perhaps IPv6 with its 128-bit addressable Internet Protocol addresses will not be polluted by the sicknesses in IPv4 and its rather tiny 32-bit address space.

Perhaps we could borrow a chapter from the KGB and issue a ricin laden umbrella for self-defense instead of offense to our secret operators. Of course, one might substitute a mixture of amanitin and phalloidin for the ricin. The mushroom toxins mentioned previously have not been placed in the arsenal of any country that I have knowledge of its clandestine operations and military weaponry. Here is a blurb about the United Kingdom based ricin incident of the late 1970s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov

I tried calling the Georgia mental health crisis line twice to talk about some anger management and PTSD issues I am having occasionally. I could not get through to a counselor or clinician in 32 total waiting minutes. This is an unacceptably long wait time in my humble opinion.

It is my fervent wish that unabated capitalism like the type practiced in the current United States will disappear from the face of our Earth relatively soon (next 20 – 50 years). The excesses of our current economy sicken me with all the waste and proliferation of high carbon footprint automobiles and industries (coal fired power plants, etc.) Our economy is notorious for differentiating us into a majority lower poverty-stricken and disenfranchised class, a fleeting minority middle class, and millionaires and billionaires who have bought our federal government in almost its totality (“lock, stock, and barrel”).

Former and deceased President Dwight D. Eisenhower in one of his final speeches as President warned the United States citizens about the power of the military-industrial complex. We need strong armed forces, but how many times do we need to destroy our planet with our Nuclear (“Deterrent”) Triad. I am happy to read in hopefully the real news that our President Donald J. Trump is ready to negotiate better nuclear arms reduction treaties. I believe we need treaties banning cyberwarfare, computer and network hacking of any kind, creation of genetically modified organisms, and human manipulation of human and other animal genome (recombinant DNA machinations).

You may call the above diatribe sour grapes and perhaps you would be correct but only time will tell.

I know this post will disturb some of my black friends, but this is the way I feel. There were some very decent, good, and noble Confederates fighting in the Civil War, and thus should be honored on Memorial Day, not Veterans Day since that is traditionally a WWI remembrance. Captain and later Rear Admiral and General in the Confederacy Raphael Semmes was a very caring and noble privateer (commerce raider or pirate). He set the crews of the ships he and the CSS Alabama captured free and only destroyed only empty US commerce ships. Also, the CSS Alabama put up a hell of a fight against the USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg Harbor, France on June 19, 1864:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cherbourg_%281864%29

My idea is put a large Confederate flag from the era June 1864 in our Confederate Soldier Park on the corner of Ridley Avenue and Morgan Street next year.

I am going to honor my four misguided blood kin who fought in Confederate States Army by wearing a  gray Confederate cap that I bought along with a Union cap at the Legacy Museum half the time while I out around town walking. The other half I will honor my uncles (WWII and Korea, WWII, respectively) and the Union Army by wearing a Union cap.

According to the article (post) below “Pac-Man” is 35 years old today:

https://twitter.com/i/topics/news/e529780273?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email

I remember playing “Pong”, the very first video arcade game, in the early to mid-1970s. Not soon thereafter I was playing “Space Invaders” in the same era as “Pong”. I started playing “Galaga” in the early 1980s. I used to know the cheat for “Galaga” and I would amaze my acquaintances and friends by running up a score on “Galaga” of more than a million points. I was not a great fan of “Pac-Man”.