An Effective Solution To Syria’s and Iraq’s War Refugee Crisis?

Can an Egyptian telecommunication billionaire’s proposal provide an effective solution to Syria’s and Iraq’s war refugee crisis? 

By: Ringo Bones 

Ever since the Arab Spring in Syria got heavily suppressed by strongman Bashar Al Assad in 2011 and the sectarian conflict in Iraq which eventually gave rise to the so-called Islamic State or Daesh that resulted in the 21^st Century’s largest refugee crisis that overwhelmed neighboring countries like Turkey and Lebanon, the affluent Western countries are at odds in finding an effective long-term solution. Apart from starting yet another bloody war to initiate a “regime change” in Syria and a ground war against Islamic State / Daesh that would result in casualties of American and NATO coalition troops that could number in the thousands, it seems that this refugee crisis does not yet have a viable long-term solution that the international community can easily live with. But could a proposal offered by an Egyptian telecommunications billionaire be that solution? 

Egyptian telecommunications billionaire Naguib Sawiris - which according to Forbes magazine is Egypt’s third richest man - already has plans to buy a Greek or an Italian island for the purposes of settling in 100,000 or more war refugees fleeing from the ongoing conflict in Iraq and Syria. As far back as 2014, Sawiris has been in contact with Greece’s and Italy’s prime ministers to purchase an island  - a "refugee island" if you will - to house the refugees fleeing the conflict from Syria and Iraq. Greece already has a long-list of islands being offered for sale for those fortunate enough to afford to buy one given they are usually priced in the millions of dollars, but Sawiris wants to make his refugee housing scheme legally binding with the pertinent territories after he purchases the island. If the Greek and Italian governments agree with Sawiris’ refugee housing scheme, he will do the rest given that he already has millions already set aside to fund his humanitarian scheme. Sawiris is an Egyptian Coptic Christian and plans to establish his refugee island before the winter of 2015 sets in. And “conservatives” (The U.S. Republican Party?) the world over will love Sawiris’ refugee housing scheme because any refugees of working age will be gainfully employed by him as opposed to just getting a free ride.  

Kim Davis’ Same-Sex Marriage License Denial: Jesus Made Me Do It?

Despite being made legal across the United States in a US Supreme Court decision back in June 26, 2015, should a clerk be imprisoned for using the “Jesus Excuse”?

By: Ringo Bones 

If using the “Jesus Excuse” allow one to be exempt from serving jail time when committing a serous felony in the United States, Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bomber Timothy McVeigh would have been walking free somewhere in the United States by now and every white supremacist group on American soil will be free to harass and murder every non-white-Anglo-Saxon-American citizen in the name of white-Anglo-Saxon-Jesus. Thankfully, the United States is still a nation where the rule of law sill reign supreme and the last time I checked – a democracy as opposed to a white-supremacist-based theocracy. Unfortunately, some government workers still don’t get the memo. 

Last week, an elected Rowan County, Kentucky clerk named Kim Davis was sentenced to jail by a federal judge after Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Despite of her “political stance”, Kim Davis is apparently a registered Democrat and was elected last fall as a Rowan County clerk while gaining 53-percent of the votes. Davis’ rather extreme stance against the LGBT residents of her county was primarily borne out of her conversion to Apostolic Christianity 4 and a half years ago and this particular Christian sect was notorious for harboring a strict moral code – especially when it comes to sexuality, thus the reason for Davis to become embroiled in this very recent and high-profile same-sex marriage row that is currently heard around the world.  

Despite the American right-wing conservative Evangelicals adopting such extremist stance of morality – especially in the US Republican Party – not all of the Christian clergy in America subscribe to such NAZI Party like interpretation of the Holy Bible. The Reverend Broderick Greer even said “Kim Davis’s denial of same-sex marriage licenses is not what Jesus would do.” While the biblical Jesus opened himself to be changed by people who were different, the embattled Rowan County clerk is using religion as a social bludgeon akin to what the so-called Islamic State / ISIS is currently doing in Syria and Iraq. 

Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton’s Special Relationship Under Strain?

With Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump now serous rivals fro the US presidency, with the “special relationship” between Ivanka trump and Chelsea Clinton now under strain?

By: Ringo Bones 

Even though Ivanka Trump’s father, Donald Trump, is currently a serous rival of Chelsea Clinton’s mother, Hillary Clinton as representative of their respective political parties, it seems that the “special relationship” or close private friendship of the two seems to be fine according to a recent interview. Sadly, Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton’s “special relationship” won’t be helping Larry C. Flynt sell millions of his “product” to a particular market at the moment. 

Given that their close private friendship precedes the political rivalries of their respective parents, Ivanka and Chelsea are both in their thirties – Clinton, 35 and Trump, 33. They are both new moms and both live in Manhattan. Both of them have Jewish husbands and Ivanka even converted to Judaism. 

Chelsea Clinton told Vogue magazine back in August 20, 2015 that there’s nothing “skin-deep” about Ivanka and that she’s always aware of everyone else around her – Chelsea says. “It’s an awareness that in some ways reminds me of my dad and his ability to increase the joy of the room. But would the ties that bind them soon become their friendship’s Kryptonite once the presidential race heats up? 

Former US President’s Sex Scandal Proven Via Recent DNA Test?

Even though the scandal is already century-old did a recent DNA test proved the truth of a former US President’s impropriety?

By: Ringo Bones 

Unfortunately it is neither about proof about former US President Ronald Reagan’s bastard son who is also a famous pornstar (Peter North? Faye Reagan?) nor about former US President Bill Clinton. It’s all about Warren G. Harding, the 29^th President of the United States where a recent DNA test had proven that he indeed is the biological father of his alleged illegitimate daughter born out of his affair with his mistress Nan Britton. Harding’s daughter’s complete name is Elizabeth Ann Britton Harding Blaesing. 

Nan Britton publicly claimed back in 1928 that Harding had fathered her illegitimate daughter shortly before his election as president in 1920. The affair wasn’t exactly hush-hush because in 1927 Nan Britton went public by publishing “The President’s Daughter” alleging than Nan Britton had been Harding’s 30-years-younger mistress and Harding had gotten her pregnant. But Harding died unexpectedly in 1923 leaving Britton in the lurch without any financial provisions made on Harding’s will for the child. Britton wrote the book but she’d destroyed her correspondents / love letters with Harding. Worse still, Harding’s family insisted that he couldn’t have kids because he was afflicted with a severe case of the measles. Without much in the way of proof, Nan Britton faced a harsh blowback. 

Finally though a pair of the Harding family reached out to Blaesing’s surviving family and decided to try genetic testing. By the way, Nan Britton passed away in 1991 while Elizabeth Ann Blaesing in 2005. According to the DNA test results, Mr. Blaesing – Nan Britton’s grandson – was a second cousin to Peter and Abigail Harding meaning that Elizabeth Ann Blaesing had to be President Warren G. Harding’s biological daughter. An ancestry exec told the Times that they’re very confident of the DNA test results. 

Donald Trump: The US Republican Party’s “Manchurian Candidate”?

Though he’s not as glamorous as either Frank Sinatra or Denzel Washington, is the media-glitzy American billionaire Donald Trump a true-blue “Manchurian Candidate”? 

By: Ringo Bones 

Political pundits in recent years had labeled former US President Ronald Reagan as a “closeted liberal” while President Barack Obama has been recently labeled as a “closeted Ronald Reagan like conservative”, the recent search for a GOP frontrunner for the 2016 US Presidential Elections had both political pundits and the general public alike wondering as of late whether media-glitzy billionaire Donald Trump could be a true-blue Manchurian Candidate”. But is there any proof that Trump could be one or is it just the “moneyed narcissism” talking? 

The term “Manchurian Candidate” stems from the 1959 novel by Richard Condon referring to a US presidential political candidate or person that has unknowingly been convinced to act toward some interest. At the prevailing political climate when the book was released, the global spread of communism was the perceived existential threat of the American way of life thus the first Manchurian Candidate movie released in 1962 starring Frank Sinatra revolved around the “Truman Doctrine”; While the 2004 remake that starred Denzel Washington revolved around the post 9/11 Islamist terror ("Dubya" Bush Doctrine?) as the existential threat to the American way of life. 

But based on what I’ve seen and heard so far in the CNN coverage on Donald Trump’s “plans” if elected as the president of the United States – Trump eerily reminds me of myself back when I was 11-years-old (back in 1983) if asked by news reporters on how to solve the threat posed by the then Soviet Union to the free world in which I would answer by “invoking Sly Stallone and Chuck Norris or even Snake Plissken to kick some ass and take down names”. Sadly, Donald Trump is much older than me.

When asked on how to solve the Islamic State / ISIS problem in a recent CNN interview, Donald Trump responded with bombing the Hell out of their crude oil revenue via round-the-clock airstrikes. Given the recent fiscal expenditures of the military adventurism of former US President George “Dubya” Bush on the search of nonexistent WMDs in Iraq, I’m beginning to wonder if Donald Trump even knows how much in US dollars worth of aviation-grade kerosene his private jet burns in an hour spent airborne. Is Donald Trump a “Manchurian Candidate”? More like an “immature candidate”.