Tucker to Interview Putin?

Carlson has asked for permission to interview the Russian president. [The Rude Awakening] August 28, 2023 [WEBSITE]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE]( URGENT! Only 2 Days Left! Claim Your Seat to the Paradigm Shift Summit NOW Before Time Expires! [Click Here To Reserve Your Seat]( Tucker to Interview Putin? - On X.com (formerly Twitter), the news made the rounds. - According to RT Editor-in-Chief, Carlson formally requested to interview Putin. - What would be the Deep State response? [Tiny AI Stock Targeted For Buyout Deal?]( [A massive buyout alert has just been issued]( on a tiny AI company that could skyrocket in the coming months, weeks, even days. And according to James Altucher, a man who has made millions of dollars on these kinds of deals… This could be a once in a lifetime opportunity for you to make a fortune. He’s revealing all of the details in the video below (including a leaked memo from Google). [Click here to learn more]( You can watch it by [clicking here](. [Click Here To Learn More]( [Sean Ring] SEAN RING Good morning from a brisk Asti! I’m back in Italy now, and it’s much colder than when I left. Currently, it’s 61F (18C) and only getting to 63F (19C). We had crazy rain last night, and the storm isn’t done with us yet. That’s a far cry from the over-90s weather we had this weekend. But I love Northern European weather in the south. Now that I’m back from holiday, alcohol-free, and in back-to-school mode, there are so many things I want to write about. From China’s alleged economic implosion to my crazy vacation to Belgian beers and ales to the BRICS summit, I’m chock-a-block with ideas. But, of course, X.com (formerly Twitter) had to intervene and put everything I wanted to write on the back burner. Because this news is bigger than any other. Tucker Carlson has asked for permission to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin. Cui bono? “Cui bono?” is Latin for “Who benefits?” It’s one of the first questions cops ask when a crime is committed. And it’s the first question most people asked when Nordstream blew up. That’s why pointing the finger at the US was so easy. But just because one benefits doesn’t mean one committed the crime. For instance, let’s say a disgruntled worker murdered his boss. Then, the boss’s daughter inherited millions. The boss’s daughter obviously isn’t guilty of a crime, though she benefited. I ask who benefits here because laying out the playing field and how this might play out is essential. It’s not an exhaustive list. The Beneficiaries: - Tucker: Watching Tucker dunk on the Legacy Media is a treat. If he lands this interview and completes it, he’ll cement his place as the most influential newsman of his day. - Putin: The Russian president will finally have a fair and unfettered chance to state his case. If Americans see Putin isn’t the raving lunatic Nuland, Blinken, and Sullivan make him out to be, funding for the war will dry up faster than the rain puddles in Southeast Asia. - Peace lovers the world over: Those who want an end to this war without any further escalation (that is, the break-up of Russia) will be thrilled for the other side to get heard. There’s a far greater chance of this war stopping once the talking starts. - The New Media: X.com and other alternative news sources crush the Legacy Media. The Losers: - The Deep State: They’re already losing badly. Between the arson dressed up as climate change failures, no one believing the COVID propaganda, and the US taxpayer tiring of funding the Ukrainians, the Deep State is on the back foot. If Tucker talks to Putin, this could be the last straw. - The Legacy Media: If Tucker can interview Putin on X.com, what’s the point of Fox News, CNN, or MSNBC? - Warmongers: Nuland, Sullivan, Blinken, the Kagans, and the rest of the Neocon Lunatics may finally be put to bed. - The US Diplomatic Corps: Massive egg on their faces if Tucker’s interview leads to a rethink. - Faux peace lovers who yearn for Russia’s destruction: Welp, there will be no Russia break-up for them. Seriously, lunatics like this exist inside of NATO and the EU: [SJN] Credit: [@GunterFehlinger]( There are considerable risks to letting Carlson interview Putin, especially if you’re a warmongering neocon. That’s because neocons don’t do diplomacy. [Urgent Notice From Paradigm CIO Zach Scheidt!]( Hi, Zach Scheidt here… I’m the Chief Income Officer at Paradigm Press. With inflation raging (and showing no signs of coming to an end any time soon), almost everyone in America is feeling the pain in a big way. Which is why, several months ago, I set out on a big mission… my goal was to create a [complete, step-by-step plan to surviving and beating inflation]( one that anyone could take advantage of. Today, after hundreds of hours of research, I’m revealing all of my findings. [Simply click here now to see how to survive America’s deadly inflation crisis](. [Click Here To Learn More]( The Lost Art of Diplomacy Over the last few decades, American diplomacy has become almost an oxymoron. But it wasn’t always that way. From [Foreign Policy]( U.S. leaders had excelled in the diplomacy surrounding the end of the Cold War. President George H.W. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker built enduring relationships with diverse leaders across the Soviet bloc and the Middle East. They negotiated compromises that gave other leaders what they needed in return for endorsement of key U.S. aims: nuclear arms control, reunification of Germany, and the reversal of Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait. Bush and Baker were less successful in negotiating a peace agreement between Israel and its neighbors, but they made progress there, too. Baker was the great U.S. diplomat of the late 20th century, as seen by Burns, who served on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff and frequently traveled with the secretary: “His skills, weight within the administration, relationships with all the key players in the region, and proven ability to deliver could not be easily replicated. He seemed like the right peacemaker at the right time.” Bush and Baker’s international achievements left a void as their successors undervalued the diplomacy they had carefully crafted to reach those results. A unipolar post-Cold War hegemon, the United States possessed unmatched military and economic power, and its ideological righteousness seemed unassailable. Who needed difficult, slow diplomatic compromises when U.S. leaders could get what they wanted largely through pressure and force? Did the unipolar moment destroy the American diplomatic corps? It sure seems like it. Why talk when you can drone? Why negotiate when your defense contractors get rich, and your GDP grows? Remember, defense spending is a part of government spending. The higher the government spending, the higher the GDP. It can be argued the USG doesn’t do diplomacy because it wants war. Remember what Mao said: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” I’d love to be wrong about that, but look at the aerospace and defense sector performance versus the S&P 500 since September 10, 2001: [SJN] The SPX is up 303.25%. But it underperformed the aerospace and defense sector by over 50%. Lockheed Martin returned nearly 2,000%. Northrop Grumman is up almost 1,700%. General Dynamics is up over 800%, and Boeing is up nearly 700%. Diplomacy takes time and costs money. With this kind of money on the line, I hope Tucker flies commercial to Moscow. Private planes are too easy to “disappear.” Just ask Yevgeny Prigozhin, the former Wagner CEO. Wrap Up I hope this interview happens. If Tucker can get straight answers from Putin, the American taxpayer may finally find courage and say, “Enough is enough.” Then, perhaps, the Democrats can return to doing what they usually do: spend all those taxpayer dollars inside the United States and rebuild the third-world infrastructure. Have a great week ahead! All the best, [Sean Ring] Sean Ring Editor, Rude Awakening Twitter: [@seaniechaos]( In Case You Missed It… 🤯 Nothing Artificial About This Intelligence [Sean Ring] SEAN RING Happy Friday! Today, I’ve got another treat for you. Good friend and frequent Rude contributor Byron King is back with a… movie review? You may be thinking, “Do they ever do movie reviews? And why start now?” Well, we usually don’t. But to have Byron suss out the historical details behind the hit movie is something to behold. I learned so many things I didn’t know before. And on a Friday morning, do you really want to work hard? Rather, grab your cup of joe, sit back, and enjoy all the intrigue behind this box-office hit! I’ll see you on Monday with an original Rude! All the best, [Sean Ring] Sean Ring Editor, Rude Awakening Twitter: [@seaniechaos]( [Biden’s Plan to Confiscate Your Cash?]( [pub]( On March 9, President Biden quietly signed Executive Order 14067. This Order could pave the way for Democrats holding onto power in 2024. In fact, they could control America indefinitely. A former advisor to the CIA and Pentagon believes this order could allow for legal government surveillance of all US citizens; total control over your bank accounts and purchases; and the ability to silence all dissenting voices for good. To protect your freedom and your wealth, [see his dark warning now](. [Click Here To Learn More]( What They Really Mean by “Don’t Give Up!” We don’t usually review movies in our pubs. Generally, we tend to stick to our core business which is looking for ways to preserve wealth and make some money. And what happens when the movie is three hours long? Whoa, that’s a lot of film. It had better be a timeless epic like David Lean’s 1962 masterpiece, Lawrence of Arabia, or Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1967 spectacular retelling of Leo Tolstoy’s book, War and Peace. Well, along comes Christopher Nolan and a lengthy opus entitled Oppenheimer, a biography of the brilliant, mercurial American scientist whose fingerprints are all over 20th century physics, as well as a key man in the saga of how America developed the atom bomb during World War II, via the Manhattan Project. In this movie, there’s serious intelligence on display; nothing artificial about it. So, let’s review the effort and see where it takes us. [first atomic blast] World’s first atomic blast, called Trinity. [Courtesy U.S. Air Force](. American Prometheus To be sure, the Manhattan Project, America’s fast-paced, ultra-secret wartime effort to build an atomic bomb, holds all the building blocks of an epic tale. In this case, Nolan’s movie script is an adaptation of a 2005 book, American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin. Obviously, per the authors and their book title, Oppenheimer was an “American Prometheus,” a heroic figure who led the effort to reveal nature’s inner nuclear secrets. And in the end, just like what happened with ancient Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods, both individuals were severely punished for their works. Now comes the question of how best to tell the tale of the American scientist who placed nuclear fire into a bottle, if not a bomb casing. And keep in mind that movies are not history; they are merely Hollywood-generated entertainment. This caveat pertains even to epic movies about physicists and atomic weapons. And thus, armed with a vast body of source material, Nolan wrote his script and made his film. Cinematically, Oppenheimer bounces across time and place, beginning in 1959 in Washington, D.C., during the course of hotly contested Senate hearings over confirming a man named Lewis Strauss to President Eisenhower’s cabinet. In the late 1940s and early 50s, Strauss and Oppenheimer had issues, and Strauss carried a grudge. In 1954 Strauss arranged to strip Oppenheimer’s security clearance, essentially ending the man’s days as an insider within the nuclear biz. And in 1959, payback loomed for Strauss, although we must await the movie's end to see that particular drama play out. From those Senate hearings, the film flashes back, sifting through three decades of events. For example, one scene depicts Oppenheimer as a clumsy graduate student at Cambridge in 1926, breaking his laboratory instruments and then cutting class to listen to a visiting scholar – Niels Bohr – give a lecture on quantum theory. Other scenes transport viewers to late-1930s Berkely and its openly communist social and academic milieu. It was the Great Depression, of course, and all the smart, fashionable people were certain that capitalism had failed and Soviet communism was the wave of the future. In this sense, if you were Oppenheimer, sure… why not subscribe to the Daily Worker, send money to the Communist Party, hang out with Commie friends, marry an ex-Communist, and even fool around on the sly with those easy Communist women? Back then, that’s what all the cool kids were doing. Other Oppenheimer scenes occur in the middle of nowhere, in New Mexico, in the 1940s, at what would become the Los Alamos National Laboratory. And for all the importance of this particular locale, Nolan fails to explain the origins, namely, that Oppenheimer suffered from tuberculosis as a youth and went to the high, dry desert mesas of New Mexico to recover. Over time, he grew to like it there and bought a local ranch. All this and more, as the movie presents many other scenes in different places and times, there is far too much to detail here because, as previously noted, the film is epic in scope. Meanwhile, it helps if the moviegoer ever studied chemistry or physics because famous names of science come at you fast and furious: icons like Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Earnest Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and more. The movie even depicts a sleazy, rat-faced, turncoat physicist Klaus Fuchs, who worked with Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project and betrayed the trust by passing critical secrets to his Soviet handlers. Throughout the film, Nolan hammers home that Oppenheimer was brilliant, certainly in physics but in many other ways. Yes, Oppie excelled in math and science. In the movie, the principal character glibly discusses general relativity, quantum mechanics and electrodynamics, neutrons, and neutron stars, the idea of black holes, quantum tunneling, and much more. Meanwhile, in addition to math and physics, Oppie was a scholar in other fields. He spoke several languages, read voraciously, and could converse at the highest levels with experts on the most arcane topics. At one steamy point, Oppie recites Sanskrit poetry as he seduces a woman who happened to be an ardent Communist, forming a mutually destructive relationship that would haunt the physicist well into his days building atom bombs and then long afterward. In all this, the point is that Oppenheimer was a brainiac polymath far beyond his Ph.D. in quantum theory, which he wrote in flawless, academic German. Indeed, he was scary smart such that one professor who examined Oppie for his doctorate reportedly said, "I'm glad that's over. He was on the point of questioning me." From the Cutting Room Floor Of course, no one is born this smart, and Oppenheimer was a product of his family and upbringing. Yet despite the movie's length, Nolan doesn’t delve deep into this part of the biography. Our Prometheus-to-be was born in 1904 in New York City into a nonobservant Jewish family where the father had done quite well in business. Indeed, the Oppenheimer clan was wealthy by the standards of the time. Young Oppie lived a comfortable and privileged life. In his family living room hung original paintings by Picasso and Van Gogh. He attended rigorous private schools. And one high school-era expedition included a trip by the young New Yorker to the Hartz Mountains of Germany to collect radioactive mineral specimens. (Note: yes, he was a mineralogist – like your editor! – which helps explain the later interest in atomic theory.) Oppenheimer burned through the science program of Harvard College in three years, packing extra courses every semester and achieving graduate-level status in physics before exiting summa cum laude. He went to Cambridge to study more physics but was bored there because the real “quantum” action was in Germany at the time. So Oppie transferred to the University of Gottingen for his Ph.D., awarded in 1927 at the astonishingly young age of 23. For the next fifteen years, Oppenheimer was a scientific nuclear dynamo. He lectured in physics at universities in Europe and the U.S. and was recruited by Harvard, Cal Tech, Berkeley, and others. A constant stream of graduate students huddled beneath Oppie’s wing, many of whom went on to make immense progress in physics and other fields. And he published prodigiously a long list of important papers, many of which are still cited today. According to physicist Hans Bethe, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physics: “Probably the most important ingredient (Oppenheimer) brought to his teaching was his exquisite taste. He always knew what were the important problems, as shown by his choice of subjects. He truly lived with those problems, struggling for a solution.” To Build a Bomb Now, fast-forward to 1942, post-Pearl Harbor, when President Roosevelt approved a massive scientific-industrial program to build an atom bomb. In a nation where the 1940 Census counted 132 million heads, there was but a small handful of people who could even dream of leading such an effort, and the top name on everyone’s list was Prof. J. Robert Oppenheimer. When his country called him to build a bomb – he was brusquely summoned by then-Colonel/eventual General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project – Oppenheimer answered enthusiastically. He plunged into the work but first came certain bureaucratic niceties. On his security questionnaire for the U.S. Army, Oppenheimer admitted to being “a member of just about every Communist Front organization on the West Coast.” He would later claim that he was just (sort of) kidding, but FBI surveillance records from his days of partying with the Berkeley Reds spoke for themselves. Still, Oppenheimer was Oppenheimer, and America needed him to work on the bomb. Groves reviewed the files, spoke with Oppie, and summarily waived him into the sanctum nuclear sanctorum. Then comes more history via cinema. We see Oppie recruiting scientists from across the land. In many instances, he cajoled and arm-twisted stubborn, skeptical people to leave cushy jobs at fancy, leafy, ivy-walled universities to travel to the dusty flats of New Mexico, where Los Alamos sprang up from the sagebrush at wartime, Priority-One speed. In one scene of Nolan’s film, we witness Fermi’s first successful fission experiment, in a hand-built, graphite-moderated reactor cobbled together in a squash court beneath the University of Chicago football stadium. In another part of the movie, we stand in the dusty, windswept New Mexico desert awaiting the test shot of an actual atomic device – the “gadget” – on July 16, 1945. [Robert Oppenheimer and MGen Leslie Groves at Trinity] Robert Oppenheimer and MGen Leslie Groves at Trinity, site of first atomic blast. [U.S. Department of Defense](. To its credit, the movie makes the point that the intent of the nuclear scientists was not to build a bomb just for the sake of building a bomb. No, the drive behind the Manhattan Project was to develop a weapon ahead of the Germans, who also pursued a vigorous nuclear program under the direction of the above-mentioned Heisenberg. In other words, developing the bomb was less a discretionary policy choice by the U.S. government than a foundational military and geopolitical absolute. When Germany surrendered in May 1945, Oppie’s team had two different types of gadgets ready to test and deploy. All this while the war with Japan raged on. And sometimes, as in this case, vast programs take on their own momentum; in other words, we know what happened. There’s a telling scene in the movie from just after the first successful nuclear test in the desert of New Mexico. Oppenheimer walks into a room where Army officers sit at desks, performing calculations on nuclear effects. Oppie offers to help, and a very polite captain says, “It’s okay, sir. We’ve got this.” In other words, Oppenheimer and his team had built the bomb, which was their task. And the government had its deliverable. Of course, the next phase was the obligatory “thank-you-for-your-service-to-your-country, sir.” That is, once the underlying science was proven, the Manhattan Project transformed into a military-industrial project to produce more bombs. It became the kernel of a massive government program. And in a Promethean level of subtle irony, Oppie’s former ranch at Los Alamos became ground zero for Big Government to get into the business of Big Science, building Big Weapons. Prometheus Meets His Nemesis Oppenheimer remained involved in nuclear physics when the war ended, although more at the political level than in fundamental science. In the late 1940s, he took a position at Princeton, in the Institute for Advanced Studies, and met Admiral Lewis Strauss. Strauss (pronounced “Straws,” with a Virginia accent) was a highly successful Jewish businessman who got his start working with Herbert Hoover during the Belgian Relief Campaign of World War I. In his travels in Europe, Strauss saw firsthand the handiwork of Bolshevik forces in Poland, and it’s accurate to say that he was a hard-core anti-communist. In the 1920s, Strauss worked on Wall Street and was involved with many basic U.S. industries such as railways, steel, mining, and chemicals. As an aside, in 1926, Strauss took a commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve while pursuing his business affairs as a civilian. With Strauss, we can fast-forward through the 1930s to World War II, when the Navy called him into active duty. Due to poor vision (almost blind in one eye), Strauss was non-deployable anywhere near the front lines. So the Navy assigned Strauss to its Bureau of Ordnance, where he deftly applied his industrial knowledge to play a crucial role in jump-starting American industry to produce vast amounts of guns and ammunition. In fact, Strauss was astonishingly good at his job and was an admiral by the end of the war. Postwar, Strauss leveraged his finance and Navy ordnance background to become one of the first commissioners of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the successor to the Manhattan Project. And from that perch, he championed building out a U.S. nuclear power complex, along with a broad and deep focus on nuclear energy and advanced weapons. [Robert Oppenheimer and Lewis Strauss] Robert Oppenheimer and Lewis Strauss. Courtesy [Jewish Telegraph Agency](. Suffice it to say that between Princeton and the AEC, Strauss and Oppenheimer crossed swords along the way. And also coming between the two men was an intra-faith conflict over Judaism, with the details well beyond what we can explore here [but worth understanding](. As things evolved, in 1954, when Oppie’s security clearance was due for renewal, Strauss opposed recertification. Well, here’s where Oppenheimer’s 1930s-era communist elbow-rubbing came back to haunt him, along with other security scandals from the Manhattan Project, including the physicist-spy Klaus Fuchs and the Rosenberg spies who also spirited secrets out from Los Alamos. In the anti-communist environment of the early 1950s, Strauss was instrumental in blocking Oppenheimer from retaining his security clearance. The matter became a bone of contention across U.S. academe, within the military, and via politics. To sum it up, Strauss nailed Oppenheimer in 1954, and later in 1959, Oppie’s friends tubed Strauss for a cabinet position. Which brings us back to the Prometheus analogy. Despite his labors to bring nuclear physics to the forefront of American science and his work to develop the atomic bomb for his country, in the end, Oppenheimer was cast out from the temple of government science. Without further clearance to work on the biggest of the big physics projects being run by the AEC, Oppenheimer was a mere outsider looking in. Like ancient Prometheus, who was tortured for bringing fire to mankind, modern Oppenheimer was banished by the bureaucracy of a program he helped birth. No less than Albert Einstein offered an opinion on what happened to Oppenheimer. He quipped that Oppie’s problem was that “he loves a woman who does not love him, the United States Government.” That’s all for now… Thank you for subscribing and reading. Best wishes… [Byron King] Byron King Rude Awakening [Paradigm]( ☰ ⊗ [ARCHIVE]( [ABOUT]( [Contact Us]( © 2023 Paradigm Press, LLC. 808 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore MD 21202. By submitting your email address, you consent to Paradigm Press, LLC. delivering daily email issues and advertisements. 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