My Dear Madams and Sirs,

I hope I find you all well, or as well as can be when old age settles in for so many of us. My robust livelihood as a carpenter and passion for sailing fast centerboard dinghies have aged my joints and tendons far beyond their 60 years, so I can empathize with many of you. And of course mental weariness is an occupational hazard for deep historians like me, as we spend decades trying to make some sense of the erratic behavior of the extremely puzzling and problematic human critter.

My abiding interest in history was sparked by the remarkable self-taught historian Barbara Tuchman, your very own Steering Committee member Jessica Tuchman Mathews' mother, of course. Her first Pulitzer Prize winning book, “The Guns of August,” was a most fortuitously timed analysis of the insanity that sparked the horrific meat grinder of World War One and may have helped save humankind during the American Missile Crisis of 1962 (we aimed nukes at Moscow first). At the same time that JFK was slamming copies of it on the desks of advisers who were arguing for a nuclear first strike because we had a 5 to 1 numerical superiority in missiles, that book sat on my father's reading table, and my siblings and I were marching home with classmates in futile H-bomb air raid drills in Dayton, Ohio, where Wright-Patterson AFB was high on the Soviets' target list.

I read all her books because her focus on what she called we men's “wooden headedness,” shared by some women finding themselves in a man's world, resonated in every fiber of my being. Please understand that I am a skeptic and seek scientific confirmations of theories whenever possible. My parents were very bright and our house was full of high brow magazines and books. A few modern historians have criticized Tuchman for focusing too much on that “wooden headedness,” but she was twice the historian most of them are, and the simple fact of the matter is that she was spot on. I know this because I have spent the last 40 years proving that. I regret that I could not have shown my hard-won data to your dear mother, Jessica.

I hope you will take a look at my first Reader Supported News article, “Brain Catastrophes by the Numbers: Mental Minefields We Must Traverse to Survive.” If one explores the video links I include, it becomes more a symposium than an article, but a quick reading of the text and peek at the illustrations will show you the nature of the beast, and I do not use the term 'beast' lightly:

http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/22-22/29824-brain-catastrophes-by-the-numbers-mental-minefields-we-must-traverse-to-survive

Assuming you scanned the text, now it is time for me to liven things up a bit by “tossing a few .45 caliber pistol rounds into the fireplace,” so to speak:

Don't you all think that the eminently qualified and widely experienced Jessica Mathews would make a simply smashing Secretary of State for President Bernie Sanders? Now don't you bolt for the door here, dear lady – I know you were looking forward to a well-deserved rest, but I believe that nobody on the planet would make a better SecState in 2016 than you. If some of your colleagues agree, perhaps they will perform a public service by enticing you into fireside chats (sans exploding bullets) and plying you with drink - perhaps absinthe, with a subtle tincture of laudanum, if needs be – so you all can share visions of a kinder, gentler, New World Order.

Okay, now that the issue of SecState Mathews has been decided for Bernie, even before he was aware of how much he wanted and needed Washington insider and foreign policy expert Dr. Mathews on his team, perhaps I can now convince you “Best of the West All Stars” to exercise your not inconsiderable legerdemain and help install Senator Sanders as the next POTAE – President of the American Empire. Don't worry - in many posts I have inured RSN readers to the fact that since World War Two we are no longer a nation, but an empire.

You chess masters know I was setting up the board a bit with your colleague Dr. Mathews before discussing Democratic Socialist Senator Sanders. I hope I have the savoir – faire to convince you to explore the possibility of his becoming POTUS. A number of you are from the very successful and largely harmonious Northern European nations Bernie Sanders admires so much, and some of you have had profitable business dealings with those nations. So I will not presume to enlighten you re the viability of Democratic Socialism. But as our 70 year young American Empire gradually acquires its “sea legs” with a lot of help from members of older European nations, I see that more Americans are Bilderbergers than previously, as is perhaps right, so what I write below is intended more for “mah fella Mercans,” as Lyndon Johnson called us. Oops! so much for savoir-faire, eh?

The key to Democratic Socialism, or even a real democracy, is a strict and fair judicial system. Without one, the Danes' unofficial motto, “No Dane is better than any other Dane,” that they take very seriously, would be meaningless. Now, I know and you know that since the American Colonies were situated along the Atlantic Seaboard, piracy, smuggling and slavery were rife and played a large role in our early economy. And the fact that nothing has changed in that regard to this day - even slavery, with 2 million prisoners working for a few dollars a day - is the reason for today's deep national hunger for a fair judicial system. A Danish friend told me he doesn't think the entire system that works so well for 5.4 million Danes can be scaled up to encompass the American Empire, and I am inclined to agree. But if the only thing we managed to accomplish was to significantly tighten up our corrupt judicial system, the positive effects of that would flow throughout our entire society, so that it would be very pleasantly unrecognizable only a decade from now. The solution really is that simple.

Since piracy and class warfare is so endemic at every level of our society today, in order for a justice-driven political system to get a start here, I would suggest a 2-3 year amnesty that would allow rich and poor pirates to clean up their acts, via legal or gently nefarious means, in the allotted time. I sincerely believe that so many businessmen are criminals merely because that is the way the game is played today, if one wants to compete in it. I urge you all to think deeply upon my proposal. Details could be worked out and deadlines stretched a little here and there to accommodate on-the-ground realities like our War on Drugs that is so profitable to pushers and law enforcers from beat cops and lawyers to judges and wardens. Imagine, if you can, a United States where we would never again have our Secretary of Defense inform us taxpayers that our Pentagon could not account for $2.3 trillion dollars. Well, perhaps a 5 year amnesty for the denizens of the Pentagon might be advisable to avoid a military junta...

One last point, because I have to head out for an interview for a job that pays $12. an hour. Now, "Don't cry for me, Argentina" – my wife and I both work and the nearly paid-off mortgage on our palatial estate is only $350. a month. We have long experience in pinching pennies, so we are doing fine, really. However, if some progressive think tank out there could use the services of this loose cannon polymath, they can be acquired at a bargain basement price! Back to business:

Since many Bilderbergers are Ashkenazi Jews, little of what follows will be news to them, but much of it may be news for the majority of readers here. As a people, Ashkenazim like Bernie Sanders and Jessica Mathews have considerably higher I.Q.s than any other genetic haplotype, including Sephardic Jews. Harvard has long had a cap of 25% on Jewish student enrollment and Nobel Laureates are predominantly Ashkenazim. This phenomenon was little understood until very recently, via the new scientific field of epigenetics – environmental factors that switch our genes off and on. Our brain is by far the most plastic and changeable organ in our bodies, and that plasticity is the key to their higher I.Q.s. Paradoxically, the people who persecuted them the most – Christians – were the main drivers for them becoming so damned smart. Scroll down to page 187 of the book in the PDF file below, and you can learn everything I know about this fascinating topic that applies to our future POTUS and Secretary of State and explains why Rothschild estates put many Gentile estates to shame by comparison, my friends.

https://lesacreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/the-10000-year-explosion-how-civilization-accelerated-human-evolution-2009-by-gregory-cochran-henry-harpending.pdf

My very best wishes to all!

-Brendan Maloney
Dayton, Ohio, USA

P. S. - I MUST share this incredibly inspiring and hopeful 8-minute video trailer for the documentary, "World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCq8V2EhYs0

World Peace Game Foundation homepage:

http://www.worldpeacegame.org/