My memories of this are still pretty good. My wife and I left Washington DC in 1992 when I finally came to terms with the fact that Ashkenazi Jewish criminals and crackpots totally controlled the US government. That was my opinion then and it is an opinion that has hardened considerably since then. In fact the evidence has become overwhelming. We were in Washington for about 3 years. I had been expected to work for the US government, writing speeches for George HW Bush while he was head of state. At least that was the idea.

I was supposed to kiss ass around Washington and do my thing at the same time. That this is a bizarre impossibility did not appear to be a truth for anyone. Ashkenazi Jews in the White House and the State Department – and their hard core American [genetically European] acolytes – stepped in to show their exasperation if I questioned the legitimacy of Israel and Zionism. I refused to do that. I always thought Jews were pretty dubious. I am being polite. Zionism is an utter nightmare.

In the 1990s my wife and I managed to get into a situation where we could travel virtually nonstop for many years – around the world. Mostly overland, on public transportation. It is not that I am afraid of bureaucratic warfare, I am not. What I found objectionable is wasting my time on this bullshit. And it is bullshit. Once you are a policy-maker you better have serious power or it is a waste of time. I have argued in another article that it is truly baffling how this policy-making power plays out and how you become influential – no one would believe me if I tried to explain it.

It was about several years after the Berlin Wall came down that I began to question the value of everyone having the right to vote. By 1996 or so I began to think in terms of “development dictatorship” and it was about then that I coined the expression. By 1998 I became determined to apply my argument to Europe. So I wrote out the essay or monograph that I titled The Power and Pain of Union: Europe's Evolution from Cold War Stagnation to the Pivot of Eurasia.

You will see at the end that I mention for the first time development dictatorship.

Now you might want to ask how my thought has evolved since 1998. I had a lot of conviction that the European Union would be very powerful and very effective. I had equal confidence that the European Monetary Union would also be very powerful and effective. I had no doubts whatsoever. I was on friendly terms with the first president of the European Central Bank, Mr Willem Frederik "Wim" Duisenberg. I had a chance to meet him in Frankfurt in 2002 or so but I was so busy traveling in Europe and the Middle East that I had to postpone it. And it never happened because he suddenly and unexpectedly died in 2005.

“Duisenberg died in 2005 at the age of 70 while on vacation at his villa in Faucon near Orange, France. He drowned in his swimming pool after suffering a heart attack. A commemoration service was held on 6 August 2005 in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Duisenberg was buried later that day in the Zorgvlied cemetery in Amsterdam.”

I was friends with his wife Mrs Gretta Duisenberg-Nieuwenhuizen and she was unable to say his death was from natural causes. I have not talked to her since then, in 2005. I am not saying he was killed but I will say this: he was getting ready to do an interview with me. It just so happens that Duisenberg's wife Gretta has deep sympathies for the Palestinians.

"Gretta Duisenberg-Nieuwenhuizen (born 6 November 1942) is a Dutch pro-Palestinian political activist. She is the widow of Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) politician Wim Duisenberg who was also the first president of the European Central Bank (ECB)."

Had I interviewed him this would have been awesome – and I am certain that I would have eventually persuaded him to do it. I had been arguing to him that the European Monetary Union would work just fine. There was considerable doubt in Frankfurt and indeed all over Europe that it would succeed. I knew it would.

Anyway this is history and I am pleased to state here that I was proven correct. The first image below suggests why I was confident – though I did not have at the time this theory of mine [the fundamental and secondary sources of economic growth and development]. I have not read through the text in many years but I will try to do so soon and then I will write another article updating my argument – if it needs some serious updating and it probably does. The core argument remains however very powerful. That seems to be the reality. Also below is information about Mr Wim Duisenberg and his wife Gretta.