Musings, rants and scrutinies of reveries and realities around MJ Santos, Global Chairman/CEO of MJS Global Group, an international branded venture capital organization creating branded companies worldwide within international trade and relations, technology, entertainment, capital markets, commodities, communications, industries, energy and aerospace.
Some key brands:
MJS Strategies Limited
MJS Capital
MJS Commodities
MJS Ventures
MJS Interactive
The Santos Republic
Blu:kastr
iCampaign
MJ serves also as an Expert Commodities Consultant for DeMatteo Monness LLC, a specialized agency brokerage with equity trading operations in New York and Boston and a member firm of the NASD and clears trades through Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing LLC.
Previously served as Communications Director for European Women’s Management Development, she is also member of International Association of Political Consultants and European Association of Political Consultants, board member and Women´s Caucus Rep for the Norwegian Conservative Party, alumnus of National Association of Female Executives, Toastmasters International member and competitor.
Her core competency is in strategy, image/media, branding, geopolitics, energy, commodities, debt capital markets and private placement. With a background in working for U.S. state and federal political campaigns, she is also a public speaker and lecturer on politics and motivational topics.
Besides being international politics and cigar aficionado, music is in the same sphere of enthusiasm and passion. She is also a singer/performer. She has been on and off performing within gospel, soul, blues and pop genre for over a decade and has performed and shared the stage a couple of times with two Grammy winning and gospel celebrated artists, Kirk Franklin and Donnie McClurkin. She has been writing her own songs and plans to cut an album when time is right.
She is very much in love with water and adventure. Her love for the ocean reflects most of her desired and private activities like snorkeling, diving, surfing, body boarding, skydiving, hang-gliding. There are more, the journey is just beginning…
[...] bumped into Michelle Santos on Facebook yesterday and we Kama’ainas got super nostalgic all over each others’ [...]
Ah I finally got to see a BIO of you, that is good. I cannot say that I am awed, I am kind of a primitive ‘me like rocks’ but I understand that in the world today being a good communicator counts more then being able to build things hands on. I feel your pain about Liberal attacks. When I posted on Ornery American as Straygaldwyr and simply described my day to day impressions of Iraq and Afghanistan with comments about why what was said and done by the administration made sense given current info and other things about why Obama’s promise to withdrawal was a disaster I was not only accused of being either a fake or a complete ‘Fobbit’ but of being deluded or insane or worse. I was disappointed that McCain ran such a stupid race, as if demonstrating that he was a gentleman was more important then winning. Yet his collaboration to throw Romney under the bus was epic underhanded play against his own team. Romney/Palin ‘12 is all have to say about that. In the end I have seen every logical fallacy used to argue the position of the Left, I have seen personal attacks treated as gleeful victories and I have felt for the people who have to shift so deftly to hold their own views while I can plod along with mine and never have to budge, they always work!
Here they are for all of you, what is a conservative…? A Conservative is a person who believes Power (Votes, Money….whatever its form it comes down to Choice) should rest in the hands of individuals as much as is possible. That means that you do not surrender your economic choices to the government, you do not surrender your vote to a union, you do not surrender your money without a fight, and when you do give it up for the greater good, you damn well have a right to get your moneys worth or you take it back (as with schools) We believe in the choices made by individuals at the margin so that the best thing for that hungry man is for those around him to share their food, not for them to take my money to give him food. What goodness is left if I am robbed at gunpoint to fix another’s problem? I am not going to Heaven for paying my taxes! Conservatism trusts adults making choices and sees society as the mechanism by which little wild animals are shaped into adults who are capable of making choices.
A whole bunch of life can come from this simple realization, including some insight as to why things progressed so slowly in Iraq and Afghanistan where we have left the power of choice in the hands of the Governments instead forcing the Governments to hand that power over to their people. Leave the Oil money in the hands of the Iraqi Government? Give it to the people and let them decide what is important. Corruption ends when personal responsibility begins. Accountability…personal responsibility for failure and success…personal advancement for choosing right…and the long fall to the bottom for screwing up. These are not things we should try to protect people from, they are the human story that must be told and retold forever until we are gone or something other then human, these experiences are our sacred right.
As for my choice to serve in the Military, I see it as my dues, no lesser thing can qualify me for the power of choice that my country provides for me and everyone else, if there is one function that is absolutely the responsibility of the central authority it is the defense of the body politic. That is why everyone who screams their heads off to be saved instead of having the money go to the military for the destruction of our enemies is simply off the reservation. Your mortgage is not the Federal Governments problem, it is yours or your banks. Your national security is the Federal Governments problem…it is why it exists at all. Yep I am a mean and nasty person… I could not turn the other cheek. I am here to make an end to Islamic Jihad against my world by killing those that carry it out at the margin, when they choose to engage me and mine in battle, or when I can find them and kill them first while they are curled up and dreaming of a Muslim Heaven…I do not care, I am not here to fight a fair fight and go home smiling about being a good sport… I will call in an air strike on an outhouse if I need to… because I want them to be so afraid to attack my wife and daughter that even if they can, they will piss themselves before they will try. That is what I believe in!
Wow. I am sorry you have been hit with so much hostility from the tolerant left. But I am not surprised. I have a political satire channel on Youtube and while my channel has so far been left alone, many of my friend’s channels have not.
I support you and your right to speak out.
As an actress in Hollywood, I decided I had had enough with the silence and decided to “come out of the closet” and speak up as a conservative. Thus the reason for my political channel. I may lose work but at least I keep my mind
A Twitter follower suggested I follow you. Would you consider checking us out?
Thanks Michelle.
MJ – That’s quite a resume. Don’t you realize you’re a pasty-faced cigar-chomping white male living in a Hispanic woman’s body? Either that or you’re a traitor to your ethnic group and gender. Shame on you!
http://VocalMinority.typepad.com
The Jewish Republican’s Web Sanctuary
MJ, have you launched the Capital and Commodities groups yet? I’d be interested to hear of your business models. Launched a small fund last year, got slaughtered, but still holding on to my clients. What’s your overall market strategy these days?
http://mjscommodities.com; http://mjscap.com
This moment, we are in the process of doing a feature film fundraising.
Good luck! I’ve never much luck in that category, but it can certainly be lucrative..
I’m loading on up some heavy shorts for U.S. Treasuries paired with a variety of long gold bets.