Matlock Report

Martin Niemöller reminds us, “First they came for…then they came for me.” At Neuschwanstein Castle this past Christmas holiday, I looked across the icy mountains remembering an encounter with a male and female. Overhearing their conversation, I was sure they were American tourists. The female spoke with words that were cold and crystal clear, “Mom …

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.” Bertrand Russell One President rejected the idea of “importing nurses” awaiting resources to train its …

“China has become the world’s prime breeding ground for new and exotic strains of influenza and other viruses, including both the deadly SARS virus and avian flu…and the possibility of a pandemic in which tens of millions of people may die.”– Peter Navarro, Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy (OTMP). From Navarro’s …

Government Administrations quick to fund Defense Systems with soldiers and weapons stockpiles to take lives are realizing that defunding Health Systems’ staff and supplies ends lives.  In my February 2019 paper, The User: Has it replaced the Pedestrian? I posed the question, Is the user no longer a pedestrian? Is this what progress consists of? …

”Had the peoples and the nations known how much harm they brought upon themselves by destroying the Temple of Jerusalem, they would have wept more than the children of Israel” – TALMUD  The title of my paper was inspired by the film, Au Revoir, Les’Enfants. The film, written and directed my Louis Malle, is based …

Patentochter und Enkelin von Modedesigner und Modellbaue , ich lernte wie wichtig Handwerkskunst und Qualität sind. Als kleines Mädchen, das mit meinen Buntstiften in meinen Malbüchern auf dem Wohnzimmerboden meiner Großmutter malte und skizzierte, sah ich zu, wie sie mit ihren Handwerkszeugen – Bleistift, Papier, Maßband und Schere – künstlerische Muster entwarf. Wunderschöne Designs, kombiniert …

“The Ants 27:88 “You see the mountains and think them firmly fixed…” The Spider 29:41…but truly the flimsiest of houses is the Spider’s house…16:68 “…taught the Bee to build its cells in hills, on trees…”  – The Qur’an In 2015, a year before the 2016 U.S. Election, I wrote an open letter, Dear Future Madam …

“Testifying before this Senate committee in January 1975, CIA Director William Colby admitted that his agency had infiltrated domestic groups, used surveillance on U.S. citizens, opened citizen’s mail, and amassed files on at least ten thousand “dissidents.” – Joseph A. Califano, Jr. In 2013, Edward Snowden “blew the whistle,” but not in the usual manner …

 “Our goal is not to build a platform. It’s to be across all of them.” – Mark Zuckerberg, 2011 “This was the beginning of surveillance capitalism, and the end of the Internet as I knew it.” – Edward Joseph Snowden, 2019 “I’ll trade you these gold “Mastercoins” for your ruby ring,” I asked my friend …

“Glory Days. Well they’ll pass you by…In the wink of a young girl’s eye…” – “The Boss,” Bruce Springsteen Great expectations presume that what you expect, in your mind, is great, even if it is not. Listening to the phrase, “Make America Great Again” for the past three years, I have come to see its …