So they go into politics and prey on the oppressed to find power & money.

We give hundreds of millions to support Ukraine, but before that, the same politicians called it, a haven for computer  hacking, financial corruption, & human trafficking.

Now, we stand for so-called human rights in Ukraine, yet allow Israel to practice apartheid.

America fights by proxy or with sanctions around the world. Both are as brutal as direct war because millions suffer while politicians pull strings of genocide.

For decades now, old aggressive policies have failed, and we have lost every war fought in my lifetime.

no wonder we are being outsmarted by China, Russia, and their allies.

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The country is filled with many tribes. I guess mine are no longer on the East Coast.

A driver with Jersey plates caused a parking lot mishap after yoga, by entering from the wrong direction and being forced to back into the stall to beat other drivers to the spot.

When I was finally able to straighten myself out, I had come to a stop in front of the New Jersey car facing me directly .

Unprovoked the driver stuck their head out the window and said, “what the h*** do you looking at!” Saving me from opening a conversation.

“You just inconvenience 3 drivers to sneak into a spot, because you came from the wrong direction.”

“So, what the F*** business is it of yours?”, Was the response.

“If you want to be here, keep your bad manners in Jersey.”

My dialog continued confounding the driver who could only say, “You white Scottsdale prick!”

The Jersey drive was not only crude, rude, with no respect for others, but a racist!

So power to the people. Me!

Anyone who cares so little about civility should feel uncomfortable being here in the first place.

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The Americas, already had hundreds of indigenous nations that had occupied the continent for tens of thousands of years before the Europeans landed. They had large cities and the people were highly skilled in astronomy, geography and math.

Rationalized through a single god chosen by a single people, Manifest Destiny evolved, leading to the largest holocausts known to mankind. This self-empowered doctrine gave Europeans their right to discover and conquer land in the name of their Old Testament God. The rational was used to “civilize the new world” and wipe out whole cultures along with 70 to 100 million people.

Before Europeans, Native Americans found an advanced spiritual balance with Nature, Earth and Sky using many practitioners, similar to the ancient east. It seems inconceivable that one written document and its God could be used to lay so much to waste.

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Writer, Rebel, Producer, Poet, Kevin J Palmer

(aka Boy Scout)

Palmer Private Equity, is rooted in Kevin’s Behavioral Economic Research that once set standards for Wall Street brokerage firms. It is now run by Kevin & Gretchen both formally trained at NYSE traded corporations. Its Philanthropic entity invests for the public good in the family’s nonprofit. Kevin is a Financial Freedom Fighter, who as an epigrammatic writer illustrates  how emotional intelligence leads to decision processes that enable economic dignity & improves quality of life. He published two books as well as numerous articles and blogs on economic and financially related topics and his third book will be out in 2023. Kevin has also had radio appearances on NPR’s Market Place, NPR affiliate KJZZ-FM, KXTZ-FM, as well as television appearances on KPNX-TV, KVVU-TV5, KNXV-TV. He currently resides in Scottsdale, AZ

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At a party in East Hampton, I met woman we’ll call Kathy, to respect her anonymity, even though she had little respect for others. She was from Brooklyn and believed it to be the universe center. As a child, I recall Brooklyn not being such a garden spot, (perhaps my reality), but fact was many who could, were leaving to raise families in the Burbs.

Granted Brooklyn is going through a rebirth but it’s still not Manhattan. Yet that didn’t stop Kathy from using the two interchangeably, punctuated with the declaration, “Being from the city, I never set foot on Long Island.” …Huh, geographically Brooklyn is Long Island unlike Manhattan or “the Borough” as locals call it, which is a separate island.

Far be it from me to take issue with Kathy’s perception but she indirectly dissed the rest of the country! Within minutes of meeting me she blabbered. “I hate that phrase, as big as Texas, don’t you? What does that really mean anyway?”

She had similar opinions about other cool places in the country like Silicon Valley, center innovation and second city east, Chicago and what she said about Washington D.C., I wouldn’t repeat even in bad company. Nonetheless it was clear to my new acquaintance that, “there was no place like New York.”

Her sense of self-importance is not uncommon to New Yorkers, to which I plead guilty at times, but her assumption that everywhere else has less worth, is flat wrong.

Since I was occupied with a second scotch and she was a buzz kill, I opted for some entertainment.

“Where else have you lived Kathy besides Brookline?” I asked.

“New York born and breed. Why would I go anywhere else?”

“Well maybe because in 1983 something called the internet made New York’s cutting-edge information in fashion, art and so on, accessible worldwide, which is why they call it the world wide web, ha ha .”

My laughter quelled her rising temperature that was putting her chilled martini at risk.

“Then in 1997 a company called Amazon went public and you could effortlessly buy anything sold in New York, anywhere in the country.”  A sinker right over the plate for strike two. She gripped the glass stem dumfounded that a homeboy could disrespect The  City.

Fortunately, at the perfect moment, a waitress brought two fresh drinks and either Kathy felt obliged to stay or was too drunk to move and I of course, used the opportunity to enlighten her on some history. “During the pandemic I understand there were city people who never left their apartments. Where I live there wasn’t much pandemic inconveniences.”

With a whisk of, was cooler than you in high school, I continued. “Golf courses put enough social distance between people so there was no real need for masks.”

Then I tapped the breaks for a five-mile slide. “For someone who lived in the same place for so long you may have missed how the rest of the country lives. Seem your thinking is stuck in the 20^th century.”

She grimaced before the words left my mouth, tightened her grip on that poor martin glass stem and said. “There’re too many damn immigrants in New York, that’s the problem!”

Squinting my Popeye eye I pointed, “See the beautiful blond over there talking to the bartender? That’s my wife and she’s an immigrant.”

Kathy turned, looked, then leaned into me and whispered. “She’s adorable and it’s so hard to tell —from where?”

“England. Her family came over on the Mayflower. They are documented too, as the first to buy and pay for, land from Native Americans.”

With a Cheshire Cat grin turned to Cherokee stealth I said. “Likely Native Americans feel the same as you do about too many damn immigrants.”

Mocking her white race card, would have been enough but for all those who suffer her conceit, I twisted the knife. “My wife was from Wyoming and during her first time meeting my family in New York she asked why, “everybody in New York City looks so pasty.”

“Never noticed it myself but since that day can’t get the image of weakling aliens starved for adequate sunlight, roaming the streets like aimless ants in a once mighty city.”

Perhaps at that point I should have asked Kathy how long her people were there but I got the distinct sense she wanted to spill her drink on me before she walked away.

I love New York don’t get me wrong. I just don’t buy Kathy’s self-indulgent hype. People come to New York to make it, like “Inventing Anna” and make it or not, many stay caught up in the wonderful charm of the city.

The unavoidable result is overcrowding. That many people living so close becomes a rat race extraordinaire. Services can never keep ahead of the crowd curve which spawns systemic corruption, way too high taxes for too few services and crime by those desperately on the bottom trying to survive.

Maybe as a shield against that reality attitude becomes all pervasive. Notwithstanding there’s nothing you get living in New York that you can’t get anywhere else in the country—except maybe for agita.

Palmer Private Equity, is rooted in Kevin’s Behavioral Economic Research that once set standards for Wall Street brokerage firms. It is now run by Kevin & Gretchen both formally trained at NYSE traded corporations. Its Philanthropic entity invests for the public good in the family’s nonprofit. Kevin is a Financial Freedom Fighter, who as an epigrammatic writer illustrates  how emotional intelligence leads to decision processes that enable economic dignity & improves quality of life. He published two books as well as numerous articles and blogs on economic and financially related topics and his third book will be out in 2023. Kevin has also had radio appearances on NPR’s Market Place, NPR affiliate KJZZ-FM, KXTZ-FM, as well as television appearances on KPNX-TV, KVVU-TV5, KNXV-TV. He currently resides in Scottsdale, AZ

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– Even before the war erupted, there were ugly examples of authoritarianism in Ukraine’s political governance. Just months after the 2014 Maidan revolution, there were efforts to smother domestic critics, which accelerated as years passed. Ukrainian officials also harassed political dissidents, adopted censorship measures, and barred foreign journalists whom they regarded as critics of the Ukrainian government and its policies. Such offensive actions were criticized by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and other independent observers. The neo‐​Nazi Azov Battalion was an integral part of President Petro Poroshenko’s military and security apparatus, and it has retained that role during Zelensky’s presidency.

– New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces. The shaky video, filmed by Al Jazeera cameraman Majdi Banura, captures the scene when Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian-American was killed by a bullet to the head at around 6:30 a.m. on May 11. She had been standing with a group of journalists near the entrance of Jenin refugee camp, where they had come to cover an Israeli raid. While the footage does not show Abu Akleh being shot, eyewitnesses told CNN that they believe Israeli forces on the same street fired deliberately on the reporters in a targeted attack. All of the journalists were wearing protective blue vests that identified them as members of the news media. ​ https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-jenin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html

Whitewashing Ukraine’s Corruption

The country is not a symbol of freedom and liberal democracy.

The notion that Ukraine was such an appealing democratic model in Eastern Europe that the country’s mere existence terrified Putin may be a comforting myth to U.S. politicians and pundits, but it is a myth. Ukraine is far from being a democratic‐​capitalist model and an irresistible magnet for Russia’s groaning masses. The reality is murkier and troubling: Ukraine has long been one of the more corrupt countries in the international system. In its annual report published in January 2022, Transparency International ranked Ukraine 123rd of the 180 countries it examined, with a score of 32 on a one to 100 point scale. By comparison, notoriously corrupt Russia ranked just modestly lower, 139th, with a score of 29.

Ukraine’s track record of protecting democracy and civil liberties is not much better than its performance on corruption. In Freedom House’s 2022 report, Ukraine is listed in the “partly free” category, with a score of 61 out of a possible 100. Other countries in that category include such bastions of liberal democracy as Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines (55), Serbia (62), Hungary (59), and Singapore (47). Interestingly, Hungary—which has been a target of vitriolic criticism among progressives in the West because of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s conservative social policy—ranks eight points higher than Ukraine, which is the recipient of uncritical praise from the same Western ideological factions.

Indeed, some repressive measures deepened under Zelensky even before the outbreak of war with Russia. In February 2021, the Ukrainian government closed several (mostly, but not entirely pro‐​Russia) independent media outlets. They did so on the basis of utterly vague, open‐​ended standards. Zelensky has now used the war as a justification for outlawing 11 opposition parties and nationalizing several media outlets. Those are hardly appropriate measures in a democracy, even in wartime.

It is entirely appropriate to sympathize with Ukrainians who are experiencing terrible suffering as a result of Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a war. Whatever the level of provocations from the United States and its NATO allies, and Ukraine’s willingness to collaborate in those provocations, Russia’s response was over‐​the‐​top. It created a dangerous breach of the peace in Europe and a humanitarian catastrophe. However, one can condemn Putin’s actions and even cheer on Ukraine’s military resistance without fostering a false image of Ukraine’s political system. The country is not a symbol of freedom and liberal democracy, and the war is not an existential struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. At best, Ukraine is a corrupt, quasi‐​democratic entity with troubling repressive policies.

Given that sobering reality, calls for Americans to “stand with Ukraine” are misplaced. Preserving Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity most certainly are not worth the United States risking war with a nuclear‐​armed Russia.

COMMENTARY By Ted Galen Carpenter   This article appeared in The American Conservative on April 6, 2022. https://www.cato.org/commentary/whitewashing-ukraines-corruption

Palestinian Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh can be seen lying motionless

CNN — 

Several shots ring out in quick succession, cutting through a clear, blue spring morning in Jenin, in the West Bank. Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack.

The cameraman filming the scene scrambles backwards to take cover behind a low concrete wall. Then a man cries out in Arabic: “Injured! Shireen, Shireen, oh man, Shireen! Ambulance!”

When the camera operator pans around the corner, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh can be seen lying motionless, face down on the ground as another Palestinian reporter, Shatha Hanaysha, crouches down beside her, using a tree trunk for cover. Hanaysha reaches out and tries to rouse her as gunshots continue. There’s no response. Both women are wearing helmets and blue protective vests marked “Press.”

In the moments that follow, a man in a white T-shirt makes several attempts to move Abu Akleh, but is forced back repeatedly by gunfire. Finally, after a few long minutes, he manages to drag her body from the street.

The shaky video, filmed by Al Jazeera cameraman Majdi Banura, captures the scene when Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian-American was killed by a bullet to the head at around 6:30 a.m. on May 11. She had been standing with a group of journalists near the entrance of Jenin refugee camp, where they had come to cover an Israeli raid. While the footage does not show Abu Akleh being shot, eyewitnesses told CNN that they believe Israeli forces on the same street fired deliberately on the reporters in a targeted attack. All of the journalists were wearing protective blue vests that identified them as members of the news media. ​

“We stood in front of the Israeli military vehicles for about five to ten minutes before we made moves to ensure they saw us. And this is a habit of ours as journalists, we move as a group and we stand in front of them so they know we are journalists, and then we start moving,” Hanaysha told CNN, describing their cautious approach toward the Israeli army convoy, before the gunfire began. ​ https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-jenin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html

By Zeena Saifi, Eliza Mackintosh, Celine Alkhaldi, Kareem Khadder, Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Abeer Salman, CNN Video by Livvy Doherty and Oscar Featherstone, CNN

Updated 5:55 AM EDT, Thu May 26, 2022

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Presumption of innocence; not in Constitution,

Proof beyond reasonable doubt; not in Constitution,

Unanimous jury verdict; not in Constitution,

Right to court appointed counsel; not in Constitution,

Same sex marriage; not in Constitution,

Right to contraception; not in Constitution,

Miranda warnings; not in Constitution,

Exclusionary rule; not in Constitution,

Right to privacy; not in Constitution,

Right to interracial marriage; not in Constitution,

Right to marry; not in Constitution,

Right to parent; not in Constitution,

Right to travel; not in Constitution,

Right to work; not in Constitution,

Right to occupation; not in Constitution,

Right to health; not in Constitution,

Right to sexual identity: not in Constitution,

Judicial review to declare law unconstitutional; not in Constitution,

Tradition as basis to uphold law; not in Constitution,

Stare Decisis; not in Constitution,

Right to read; not in Constitution,

Right to personal attire; not in Constitution,

Women’s equality; not in Constitution,

Right to justice; not in Constitution,

Right to freedom; not in Constitution.

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The mythology of our culture rings in our ears and no one pays any attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to our mythology, this is what he was born to do. Man is fulfilling his destiny. This is the price that has to be paid for indoor plumbing and central heating and air conditioning and automobiles.

The price man has paid is not the price of becoming human. It’s not even the price of having the things we want. It’s the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.

The limitations of the hunting-gathering life had kept man in check for three million years. With agriculture, those limitations vanished. Settlement gave rise to division of labor. Division of labor gave rise to technology. With technology came trade and commerce and science.

The problem is that man’s conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we’ve attained, we don’t have enough mastery to stop devastating the world or to repair the devastation we’ve already wrought.

We have to go on conquering the world until our rule is absolute. Then, when we’re in complete control, everything will be fine. We’ll turn the rain on and off. We’ll grow a bushel of wheat in a square centimeter. Then we move into the Star Trek era. Man moves out into space to conquer and rule the entire universe. And that may be the ultimate destiny of man: to conquer and rule the entire universe. That’s how wonderful man is.

Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidity, greed, destructiveness and shortsightedness. Man is the taker culture. Man takes takes takes.

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Palmer Private Equity, is rooted in Kevin’s Behavioral Economic Research that once set standards for Wall Street brokerage firms. It is now run by Kevin & Gretchen both formally trained at NYSE traded corporations. Its Philanthropic entity invests for the public good in the family’s nonprofit. Kevin is a Financial Freedom Fighter, who as an epigrammatic writer illustrates  how emotional intelligence leads to decision processes that enable economic dignity & improves quality of life. He published two books as well as numerous articles and blogs on economic and financially related topics and his third book will be out in 2023. Kevin has also had radio appearances on NPR’s Market Place, NPR affiliate KJZZ-FM, KXTZ-FM, as well as television appearances on KPNX-TV, KVVU-TV5, KNXV-TV. He currently resides in Scottsdale, AZ

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America is mostly immune to world crisis and we have the luxury of safety and speculation from the sidelines but Sunday morning quarterbacking won’t protect anyone.

Liquidity in capital markets is drying up and may lead to market malfunctions. Russian crypto currency wallets are filling to 40 million dollars each as money moves out of our US treasures.

Cyber-attacks by “anonymous” against the Russians are quietly condoned by the same American leaders who called out similar attacks by Russia against us last year.

Embargos mean less oil to us which means more drilling and environmental damage in our backyard and it will go deeper, so to speak.

The best way for this War to end, is quickly regardless of who wins. Right now, the world is on fire so beware of being sucked into anybody’s agenda.

SMA Institute

Palmer Private Equity, is rooted in Kevin’s Behavioral Economic Research that once set standards for Wall Street brokerage firms. It is now run by Kevin & Gretchen both formally trained at NYSE traded corporations. Its Philanthropic entity invests for the public good in the family’s nonprofit. Kevin is a Financial Freedom Fighter, who as an epigrammatic writer illustrates  how emotional intelligence leads to decision processes that enable economic dignity & improves quality of life. He published two books as well as numerous articles and blogs on economic and financially related topics and his third book will be out in 2023. Kevin has also had radio appearances on NPR’s Market Place, NPR affiliate KJZZ-FM, KXTZ-FM, as well as television appearances on KPNX-TV, KVVU-TV5, KNXV-TV. He currently resides in Scottsdale, AZ

“Peace through Prosperity” projects to challenge Injustices through Self-empowerment.
Kevin Palmer writer-rebel-producer-poet http://KevinjPalmerAuthor.com

Kevin Palmer Arizona http://KevinjPalmerAuthor.com

Kevin Palmer www.thequietrich.com

Author Kevin Palmer http://reawakeninganamericandream.com 

Kevin Palmer Arizona www.smainstitute.com

Kevin Palmer Phoenix www.kevinpalmerscottsdale.com

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Another Reagan Recession Like 1979?

Historically, global stocks have recovered and posted gains after periods of armed conflict—except when a recession followed. In the U.S. we have soaring energy prices and rising inflation, which will hurt household spending. The U.S. household savings rate is already at its lowest point since 2013, providing little cushion for consumers.

The economics in nontheoretically terms of “lies propped up by lying oligarchies”, is Federal Reserve is caught in the middle before today’s meeting. My trading bet, is higher rates and tighter monetary policy for months ahead because they are losing their own war against inflation.

Add to that the perennial standoff in Washington over the federal budget and more than $13 billion in aid for Ukraine plus the massive government infrastructure funding bill, and the economics are simple.

Escalation of massive spending agreements in Congress will lead us into recession.

Kevin J Palmer is a financial industry veteran devoted to challenging economic injustices by empowering others to attain Financial Freedom. His proficiencies are rooted in decades of driving performance for Wall Street giants Merrill Lynch and Paine Webber. Then, as Managing Director at Strategic Management Advisors where partnering with other executives, he built better broker-dealers by improving business models during an industry paradigm shift. Opposing power in the hands of the too few, this writer, rebel, producer, poet exploded into advocacy to end economic abuse and assure morally achieved wealth. Humbled by blessings and aversion to seeing suffering, this unabashed champion of financial justice also participates in wildlife rescue, environmental stewardship–and as recipient of the Governors Archaeology award, is fascinated by the lives of individuals who lived thousands of years ago. By then I had my fill of traveling around the country making myopic security industry owners richer and began doing behavioral research exclusively—not to mention indulging in an old bad habit of Day Trading. Soon, as a give back, so to speak, I began advising the Governor and State Treasurer, pro bono, on how to navigate the Great Recession that we were in the middle of, by keeping businesses open and attracting new enterprises to Arizona. As it turned out I discovered that “we the people” were merely slaves to a self-serving system. My years on “The Street” taught me to understand tone of the tape and how to dull beta and enhance alpha. Working with empty suits who had escaped to government because they would have failed in the private sector, quickly resulted in my frustration. Changing course, I began using my research to write, albeit seditiously at times, about how to resist falling prey to corrupt political machinery that shackles common mankind for its own benefit

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