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Bottom left: Betsy DeVos and President George H.W. Bush at a 2000 campaign fundraiser for George W. Bush. Bottom right: In 2004, Betsy DeVos campaigns with Representatives Mike Rogers and Candice Miller. | Regina H. Boone/TNS/ZUMAPRESS.com; AP Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586828e35016e16d5937e7e6/1485715196196-U61FQ9FLK744N0DS20EX/image-asset.jpeg EDUCATION The first and second generations of the DeVos family. Left–right: Dick & Betsy, Cheri, Helen & Richard, Daniel & Pamella and Doug & Maria. | Credit: Orlando Magic Media Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586828e35016e16d5937e7e6/1485718735114-WIW2QSJ7UML0SNNIGXBK/image-asset.png EDUCATION Donald Trump applauds as Betsy DeVos speaks at Trump’s “Thank You USA” rally in Grand Rapids, December 9, 2016. | Reuters/Mike Segar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586828e35016e16d5937e7e6/1485719355138-GM72MMLQM1NTQUU165RJ/Department+of+Education+Betsy+DeVos_28collinsWeb-master675.jpg EDUCATION Betsy DeVos at her confirmation hearing. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586828e35016e16d5937e7e6/1485715243519-KRIW5TPV3IM6V54XY1V3/image-asset.jpeg EDUCATION Clockwise, from upper left: Amway cofounders Jay Van Andel (left) and Richard DeVos (center) meet in the Oval Office with President Gerald Ford, who is holding a copy of Richard’s book, “Believe!”; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Richard DeVos during a 2009 event at the Scripps Research Institute; an aerial shot of Dick & Betsy DeVos’s primary residence in Ada, Michigan; Dick & Betsy enjoy their courtside seats at an Orlando Magic game—an NBA team owned by the DeVos family. | National Archives; AP; Getty Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586828e35016e16d5937e7e6/1485715348172-EIPNOMJ5EDYC3X345FB2/image-asset.jpeg EDUCATION Throughout the 1990s, Republican Governor John Engler was a force without parallel in Michigan politics. | AP Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586828e35016e16d5937e7e6/1485718964115-LX2YUM9EL4R1DGWE4NEZ/image-asset.png EDUCATION Betsy DeVos has pushed a drastic transformation of Michigan’s education system, with mixed and controversial results. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586828e35016e16d5937e7e6/1485718766561-3SUUXD9J8M4CJCSR4MTS/image-asset.png EDUCATION Protesters in and around the state capitol in Lansing on December 11, 2012. "Governor 4 Sale,” read one sign. “Call 1-800-Dick-DeVos.” | AP Photo/Paul Sancya https://www.shadowcabinet.info/defense daily 0.75 2017-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586828e35016e16d5937e7e6/1487702847487-3ZJ952IGEHD4TWD1WQ66/image-asset.jpeg DEFENSE The WSJ news article, describing an attack from the stealth-bomber airbase in Missouri. The flight price alone was $4.4 M. The 100 bombs dropped cost ca. $1.4 M. Drones as well push the cost of the strike to $6 M. 80 ISIS soldiers were reportedly killed. The cost of each soldier killed is ca. $75,000. Very likely, using aircraft from an aircraft-carrier battle group would be more costly. Also, more risky, given that the SAM-5 missiles have worked against US aircraft over Libya. Further, with internet and monitoring tactics on shore, people opposed to US presence in the Mediterranean could readily expose any aircraft-carrier battle group. Iran has developed speed-boat swarms for attacking and sinking such large ships, much like what the Venetian gondolas, with their bow-blades, were able to do against giant Turkish warships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586828e35016e16d5937e7e6/1487703012382-45FJ205G0LAOSGC0Q0VN/image-asset.jpeg DEFENSE Drawing made in Dusseldorf, Germany of the Sirte base and environs, with “Ocean-Earth Corporation” stamp, 1986. The gap between the main wadi (Talil) and the Sea is noted. A photograph of the site appeared in German, Italian and other press, and video footage appeared on TV news channels worldwide. The dendritic pattern within a Sirte Gulf basin was produced at about that time, with a JNC aeronautical chart (1:2,000,000), and appeared later in the book “Ocean Earth” (1994). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586828e35016e16d5937e7e6/1487702959593-P4N8I8CUEKR9U1GDR3EZ/image-asset.jpeg DEFENSE Excerpt of a news article from the International Herald Tribune (now the International New York Times), as recalled now, February 26, 1986. The article describes Ocean Earth and its president. It could have mentioned more people, such as the source of thinking that led to satellite monitoring at all, Taro Suzuki. Most memorable about the Libyan base study was how, in Rome, where the work was done, the press corps who had been on the USS Saratoga complained about seeing nothing, but this writer, having been in a satellite data-processing center, saw much more. Ironically, the article more harmed our ability to do business than helped; the spy agencies all swooped in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586828e35016e16d5937e7e6/1487703152670-7IM0XUJJ0K6FF8NTEIA0/image-asset.jpeg DEFENSE A simple act of pulling out a political line-drawing map of the Middle East, which I have used as a template for works, and then marking up just WHERE the travel-ban is imposed, reveals that the travel-ban probably has nothing to do with Islam, or terrorism, or immigration. It has to do, as the markup shows, with arranging the region for military action. Three of the travel-ban countries—Iran, Iraq, Syria—are being cajoled by Russia into sharing intelligence on stopping ISIS, okay, but more consequentially, for securing the route of a long-planned oil/gas pipeline from Iran through Iraq to Syria. If Russia succeeds, then it takes a huge chunk out of the Western control of Mideast oil secured with the end of World War One. This the US wants to prevent. Meantime, the US tries to secure the Red Sea better, meaning it must fend off anti-Saudi and hostile activity on both sides of the Gulf of Aden, being Yemen and Somalia, and it must also reduce threats from a long-time foe, Sudan. The US already took South Sudan away from Sudan, and has been pulling on the Darfur area to the West, so Sudan is understandably hostile. Libya is in turmoil, is controlled largely by ISIS and other hostile or outright renegade forces, so it will also be subject to military attack. The orange countries marked here simply are the targets for US military planners. All the white countries are not targets. One can propose ecological-restoration projects there, by the same US aircraft, as the “Art... circled sites.” The blue, being Sea, is also highlighted to indicate where the US has free range without permission by any State: it’s Navy area. Such a map is very likely now in the hands of US Navy officers in the region. Their freedom of maneuver is very separately in the Arabian Sea, with passage past choke points into the Red Sea and Arabian/Persian Gulf, and in the Mediterranean Sea. Probably no US warships will attempt passage in these days through the Suez Canal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586828e35016e16d5937e7e6/1488216121381-EW47NEAFLSA8NLH7BXH9/shadowCabinet_Defense_001.jpg DEFENSE First subject for Shadow Defense Secretary, due to WSJ news article on our first day, January 20, 2017. The site of bombing by two B-2s was studied by the Shadow Defense Secretary in Spring 1986. A record of this exists in the book “Ocean Earth,” including a drawing made in 1986 noticing a “gap” between the wadi (ephemeral river-bed) there and the Sea. An image of the air base, not showing the SAM-5 sites, was published in the International Herald Tribune article about Ocean Earth, February 26, 1986. The site is in the middle of a larger sea-basin concavity, that of the Gulf of Sirte and its immediate coastal outflow. The blue and green markings show sub-sea-level troughs near the Sea which Ocean Earth proposes to flood.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586828e35016e16d5937e7e6/1487703075767-EUTK2FPMIGSXAGND38TB/image-asset.jpeg DEFENSE A more accurate study of wadis as they flow into the Sea to the east and west of Sirte. This is based on a 1:500,000 TPC aeronautical chart, with wadis named. Elevations are shown for above 750 ft and above 1000 ft. Encircled are wadi areas smothered in alluvia, or blocked by sand. They exist along the coast, and well inland. The Shadow Defense Secretary proposes that the coastal barriers be removed by crews of work- and food-hungry refugees, who’d finally earn a living. Methods have been tested with a similarly-blocked wadi near Dubai (see Bomb magazine, Dec 2011). The sites well inland, and some parts of the wadis now with braiding, could have troughs and craters bombed out by B-2 bombers. Those sites might as well have no people; a warning could be issued beforehand, to be certain. Such bombing runs - conducted for solely ecological and economic-development reasons, being restoration of water supply, even soggy lands - could win the adulation of the people there, native and refugee alike. Next in production: a study of all wadi-Sea sand-dune barriers in Libya, aimed at starting a massive work program for the refugees now there. This would be coordinated with macroalgae sea industry, for local biofuel. Command would come from freshly-trained Libyan Coast Guard officers. https://www.shadowcabinet.info/epa daily 0.75 2017-02-20 https://www.shadowcabinet.info/justice daily 0.75 2017-02-28 https://www.shadowcabinet.info/commerce-health daily 0.75 2017-03-14