George Mullen – Biography

Mullen and Panamanian citizen Ester Araujo García de Paredes have jointly created a cutting-edge branding proposal for the Republic of Panama known as Panama is Life.

In the world of financial affairs, Mullen was one of the few vocal individuals at the peak of the markets to predict what became the 2007 – 2009 economic collapse, and subsequent Great Recession. In fact, he was the first to coin the term “Financial Tsunami” to describe the crisis he foresaw in the article “The Coming Financial Tsunami” published in 2005. This term took on a life of its own in 2008 when CNBC and Pimco bond-king Bill Gross began repeatedly using the term, followed by Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld publicly blaming the Lehman bankruptcy on the “Financial Tsunami”. Soon thereafter, the likes of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, real estate mogul Sam Zell, and the Chinese government were all using the term to describe the economic collapse. Though most laughed or called Mullen an alarmist when these articles were first published, by 2007 no one was laughing anymore.  Read for yourself:

Over the next century San Diego’s population will double to 3 million in the city and 7 million in the county. How will all these people — our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren — enjoy our most sacred natural resource — our waterfronts — if we continue to wall them off from public access? San Diego Bay is now almost completely inaccessible. Think about it: where can you dangle your feet in the bay? Mission Bay is rapidly following suit. California’s tidelands are legally protected for the public under California Constitution, Article X, section 4. And yet, our politicians are subverting this at every turn — for the financial benefit of hoteliers. A Bold New Vision for San Diego’s Waterfront charts a viable new way forward.

The Coronado Bridge has disturbingly become one of the top suicide magnets in the world – with over 400 people now dead. This is outrageous and needs to STOP. Mullen has become active in the effort to do so and has put forward a viable proposal – one that can be accomplished within a month’s time and for less than $25,000. The concept was first introduced in this article: A Simple Solution to Preventing Suicides on the Coronado Bridge. The time has come to decisively turn the beautiful Coronado Bridge into the BRIDGE OF LIFE it was always intended to be.

• A Simple Solution to Preventing Suicides on the Coronado Bridge – Times of San Diego – April 24, 2018
  • Seeking Purpose in Times of Despair – PDF – January 10, 2016
• Lifesaving Solution for S.D. Coronado Bridge – San Diego Business Journal – May 14, 2018
• A Simple Solution to Preventing Suicides on the Coronado Bridge – Coronado Times – April 25, 2018

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Author & Commentator

George Mullen was one of the few vocal individuals at the peak of the markets to predict what became the 2007 – 2009 economic collapse, and subsequent Great Recession. In fact, he was the first to coin the term “Financial Tsunami” to describe the crisis he foresaw in the article “The Coming Financial Tsunami” published in 2005. This term took on a life of its own in 2008 when CNBC and Pimco bond-king Bill Gross began repeatedly using the term, followed by Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld publicly blaming the Lehman bankruptcy on the“Financial Tsunami”. Soon thereafter, the likes of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, real estate mogul Sam Zell, and the Chinese government were all using the term to describe the economic collapse. Though most laughed or called Mullen an alarmist when these articles were first published, by 2007 no one was laughing anymore. Read for yourself:

• The Coming Financial Tsunami – The San Diego Union Tribune – June 9, 2005
• Welcome to the Bubble Economy – The San Diego Union Tribune – February 17, 2006 (co-authored with Tom Mullen)
• While Our Brightest Economists Failed, “Nobody” George Mullen Warned Us – Pasadena Sub Rosa – December 7, 2008
• Welcome to the Depression (Time to Realize Our Economic Plight) – The San Diego Union Tribune – March 6, 2009
• Tax Cuts = Job Creation – The San Diego Union Tribune – June 17, 2010
• Reigniting America’s Economic Engine – Townhall.com – January 19, 2016
• The New American Age of Peace, Prosperity, and Innovation – Townhall.com – June 12, 2018

Other noteworthy articles Mullen has authored include:

• ‘City of Life’ Is San Diego’s True Identity – Times of San Diego – September 7, 2018
• A Bold Vision is Needed for San Diego’s Waterfront – IVN (Independent Voter Network) – July 10, 2018
• A Bold New Vision for San Diego’s Waterfront – Times of San Diego – July 9, 2018
• Lifesaving Solution for S.D. Coronado Bridge – San Diego Business Journal – May 14, 2018
• A Simple Solution to Preventing Suicides on the Coronado Bridge – Coronado Times – April 25, 2018
• A Simple Solution to Preventing Suicides on the Coronado Bridge – Times of San Diego – April 24, 2018
  • Seeking Purpose in Times of Despair – PDF – January 10, 2016
• The Crisis On Our Streets – San Diego Business Journal – October 16, 2017 (co-authored with Brian Caster)
• Alternate Proposal Would Bring Homeless Tent To Brown Field – The San Diego Union-Tribune – Gary Warth – August 11, 2017
• KFMB 760 AM radio interview with Richard Muscio & Joe Vecchio – August 3, 2017
• Stadium Sabotage in San Diego — Mayor Faulconer Needs to Resign – San Diego Free Press – June 26, 2017
• A Proposal to Bring Life to San Diego’s Brand – San Diego Business Journal – May 22, 2017
• Sunbreak Ranch Could Be San Diego’s Homeless Solution – The San Diego Union-Tribune – February 9, 2017
  (co-authored with Brian Caster)
• How We Can Fund a ‘Sunbreak Ranch’ to House San Diego’s Homeless – Times of San Diego – February 19, 2017
  (co-authored with Brian Caster)
• Sunbreak Ranch KUSI interview with Sasha Foo – February 13, 2017
• KUSI SPECIAL REPORT on Sunbreak Ranch – February 23, 2017
• KOGO 600 AM radio interview with Carl DeMaio on Sunbreak Ranch – February 27, 2017
  (segment begins at about minute 6:40…and extends to minute 24:30)
• Hoteliers Don’t Drive San Diego Tourism – The San Diego Union Tribune – July 22, 2016 (co-authored with Jason Riggs)
• Balboa Park Perfect Home for Smithsonian West – San Diego Business Journal – April 18, 2016
  • Photograph of Proposed Location for “Smithsonian West” in Balboa Park – April 18, 2016
• Mr. President, Please Resign – StudioRevolution – January 20, 2016
  • Mr. President, Please Resign – PDF – January 20, 2016
• The Art of Terrorism – StudioRevolution – January 15, 2016
  • The Art of Terrorism – PDF – January 15, 2016
• Seeking Purpose in Times of Despair – StudioRevolution – January 10, 2016
  • Seeking Purpose in Times of Despair – PDF – January 10, 2016
• They’re Raping Our City Blind! (The Hotelier Cabal) – San Diego CityBeat – September 30, 2015
• George Mullen’s Hotelier Cabal interview with NBC’s Gene Cubbison – Politically Speaking – NBC San Diego – September 27, 2015
• Man Who Lost The Chargers – March 31, 2015
• Downtown Stadium vs. Mission Valley Stadium – March 31, 2015
• Could So Cal Chargers Be Answer For San Diego? – The San Diego Union Tribune – January 17, 2015
  • So Cal Chargers article pdf – The San Diego Union Tribune – January 17, 2015
  • So Cal Chargers – A Win for All Stakeholders – January 22, 2015
• Waterfront Delays vs. Eiffel Tower – Comment to Bob Nelson article – The San Diego Union Tribune – January 17, 2015
• A Bold Vision for Balboa Park Centennial Celebration  – The San Diego Union Tribune – March 6, 2014
  • Balboa Park Jubilee Should Be A Sweet Piece of Cake  (Mullen quoted) – The San Diego Union Tribune – Logan Jenkins – March 6, 2014
  • More on the Dark Side of Balboa Park (Mullen quoted) – San Diego Free Press – February 25, 2014
• It’s Time to Dissolve the Tourism Authority – Voice of San Diego – October 21, 2013
• Crashing the Hotelier’s Cabal – Voice of San Diego – April 9, 2013
• Welcome to the Hotelier’s Cabal – Voice of San Diego – March 19, 2013
• San Diego Hoteliers Meet Their Waterloo – Voice of San Diego – March 5, 2013
• Mullen’s Rebuttal in Newsweek – Newsweek Magazine – September 24, 2012
• The City: San Diego – Newsweek Magazine – September 24, 2012
• San Diego’s Time to Rise in 2015 – Voice of San Diego – February 7, 2012
• Moving Forward in Forefathers’ Footsteps – The San Diego Union Tribune – July 16, 2011
• A Sailing Start to the Park’s Centennial – The San Diego Union Tribune – May 26, 2011 (co-authored with Ester Araujo Garcia de Paredes)
• Target Mona Lisa – screenplay – Terrorism + Art collide in an international political thriller (written from 2004 – 2009)
• Move Chargers to Del Mar Fairgrounds – The San Diego Union Tribune – July 12, 2009
  • KUSI News TV interview – July 13, 2009
  • Letters to the Editor – The San Diego Union Tribune – July 14, 2009
  • XX1090AM Radio Interview– July 17, 2009
• Where’s the Vision San Diego? (Caretaking Versus Envisioning) – Voice of San Diego – December 3, 2007 (co-authored with Steve Francis – 2008 San Diego mayoral candidate and Chairman of AMN Healthcare, a NYSE listed company)
• Iraq: The Way Out – The San Diego Transcript – January 11, 2007 (co-authored with Bob Witty – former Editor of Copley News Service and former Associate Editor of The San Diego Tribune)
• A “Tyrannical Minority” – New Oxford Review – September 2006 (co-authored with David P. Schippers – One of America’s foremost constitutional trial attorneys who previously worked for U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Though a Democrat, Mr. Schippers was Chief Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives in the successful 1998 Impeachment Trial of President Bill Clinton.)
• A Purely Secular Argument Against Abortion – New Oxford Review – November 2002
  • A Purely Secular Argument Against Abortion, Part II – December 2002
  • New Definition of Person – December 2002
  • Noteworthy Endorsements regarding the “irrefutable argument” – 2002
  • Letter from David Schippers – America’s foremost Constitutional trial attorney and prominent life-long Democrat – February 11, 2002
  • Letter from Karl Rove – Senior Advisor to President Bush – June 11, 2002
  • Letter from Senator Jesse Helms – Senator from North Carolina (1973 – 2003) – July 24, 2002
  • Letter from President Larry Arnn – President of Hillsdale College – June, 6, 2002
• Palestinians Should Adopt Peaceful Civil Disobedience – The San Diego Union Tribune – December 17, 2001
• Welcome to the CyberNation of Freedom – January 1, 2000
  • Liberation of the Individual (introduction) – January 1, 2000
  • Liberation of the Individual (full document) – January 1, 2000
  • CyberNation Freedom Test – January 1, 2000
  • CyberNation featured on Microsoft website – Summer 2000
  • Wired magazine – Burn This – October 2000
  • Forbes Magazine – This Guy Wants to Overthrow the Government – September 8, 1997
• Mullen’s American Language Dictionary (written years before texting and text-speak) (written half tongue-in-cheek) – May 3, 1997
• Mullen’s comments on O.J. Simpson verdict – U.S. News & World Report – October 23, 1995
• Will Jordan Be Saddam’s Next Target? – The Arizona Republic – November 12, 1994
• Peace in the Middle East – Book – Ican Press, 1994 – Mullen spent considerable time in the Middle East doing archaeological work in the 1980’s and 1990’s. The experience prompted him to author this comprehensive peace proposal for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  • Endorsement Letter from M.I.T.’s Noam Chomsky – October 5, 1993
  • Chomsky Named World’s Top Intellectual – October 18, 2005
• An Israeli-Palestinian Peace Proposal – Al Fajr Jerusalem Palestinian Weekly – April 27, 1992 (The heated response to this article prompted the 1994 Peace in the Middle East book. Several key proposal points in the article sparked an uproar within the Al Fajr readership and Palestinian community. It was so controversial that Al Fajr took the unprecedented step of publishing a disclaimer note in the subsequent May 11th issue.)
  • Disclaimer Note from Al Fajr to Readership – Al Fajr Jerusalem Palestinian Weekly – May 11, 1992
  • Background on Al Fajr – Jerusalem Post Magazine – 1992
• Letter from U.S. President Ronald Reagan – November 29, 1988
  (After Mullen’s lengthy trips to the Middle East)

September 11 Art

Mullen worked and spent a great deal of time in the World Trade Center in New York City in the 1980’s and 1990’s, his employer at the time being headquartered there. As such, September 11 prompted a large body of art work from him. Mullen’s “American Scream” painting first appeared in ARTnews magazine in 2002. Click here to view the September 11 Art pages.

Mullen’s September 11 Art is also featured at the 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York City: Mullen Art @ 9/11 Memorial.

Terrorism Art

Based on Mullen’s prolific September 11 Art from 2001, he has long been a leader in what is known as “Terrorism Art”.  With the renewed 2015 wave of terrorist attacks on western targets, he has launched two new art efforts entitled as Paris Terror Art and San Bernardino Terrorism Art.  Mullen is an admirer and frequent traveler to Paris, and San Bernardino is in his backyard.

Paris Terror

Entertainment

In the entertainment arena, projects of interest Mullen has been working on include his recently finished screenplay, Target Mona Lisa, as well as his concept for a reality-based TV show, American Bailout. On the musical front, Mullen was the rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the now defunct alternative rock band Dynamic Edge. For a sample of his songs, please visit his Song List.

TARGET MONA LISA – a screenplay
“Terrorism + Art collide in an international political thriller”

San Diego Chargers

As a native San Diegan and lifelong Chargers fan, Mullen was actively involved in the efforts to keep the San Diego Chargers football team in San Diego. His final attempt was published in The San Diego Union-Tribune (Could So Cal Chargers Be Answer For San Diego?) and attracted significant attention. Sadly, the opportunity for a deal was frittered away by San Diego’s mayor.

• Stadium Sabotage in San Diego — Mayor Faulconer Needs to Resign – San Diego Free Press – June 26, 2017
• Chargers / NFL New Term Sheet Proposal for Mission Valley Stadium – February 22, 2016
• Man Who Lost The Chargers – March 31, 2015
• Downtown Stadium vs. Mission Valley Stadium – March 31, 2015
• Could So Cal Chargers Be Answer For San Diego? – U-T San Diego – January 17, 2015
  • So Cal Chargers article pdf – U-T San Diego – January 17, 2015
  • So Cal Chargers – A Win for All Stakeholders – January 22, 2015
• Move Chargers to Del Mar Fairgrounds – The San Diego Union Tribune – July 12, 2009
  • KUSI News TV interview – July 13, 2009
  • Letters to the Editor – The San Diego Union Tribune – July 14, 2009
  • XX1090AM Radio Interview– July 17, 2009

The Man Who Lost the Chargers

Hotelier Cabal

Mullen is leading a community-inspired effort to eradicate the Hotelier Cabal that has been laying waste to San Diego’s civic landscape since November 2005. To read about the extensive damage the Cabal has inflicted, please visit HotelierCabal.com. Likewise, we invite you to follow Hotelier Cabal on Twitter @HotelierCabal.

Balboa Park

• Balboa Park Perfect Home for Smithsonian West – San Diego Business Journal – April 18, 2016
  • Photograph of Proposed Location for “Smithsonian West” in Balboa Park – April 18, 2016
• They’re Raping Our City Blind! (The Hotelier Cabal) – San Diego CityBeat – September 30, 2015
• George Mullen’s Hotelier Cabal interview with NBC’s Gene Cubbison – Politically Speaking – NBC San Diego – September 27, 2015
• A Bold Vision for Balboa Park Centennial Celebration  – The San Diego Union Tribune – March 6, 2014
  • Balboa Park Jubilee Should Be A Sweet Piece of Cake  (Mullen quoted) – The San Diego Union Tribune – Logan Jenkins – March 6, 2014
  • More on the Dark Side of Balboa Park (Mullen quoted) – San Diego Free Press – February 25, 2014
• Centennial Mermaid Logos – March 4, 2014
• It’s Time to Dissolve the Tourism Authority – Voice of San Diego – October 21, 2013
• Crashing the Hotelier’s Cabal – Voice of San Diego – April 9, 2013
• Welcome to the Hotelier’s Cabal – Voice of San Diego – March 19, 2013
• San Diego Hoteliers Meet Their Waterloo – Voice of San Diego – March 5, 2013
• San Diego’s Time to Rise in 2015 – Voice of San Diego – February 7, 2012
• Balboa Park Centennial Celebration Grand Vision Proposal – August 2, 2011
• Moving Forward in Forefathers’ Footsteps – The San Diego Union Tribune – July 16, 2011
• A Sailing Start to the Park’s Centennial – The San Diego Union Tribune – May 26, 2011

The CyberNation of Freedom

• Welcome to the CyberNation of Freedom – January 1, 2000
  • Liberation of the Individual (introduction) – January 1, 2000
  • Liberation of the Individual (full document) – January 1, 2000
  • CyberNation Freedom Test – January 1, 2000
  • CyberNation featured on Microsoft website – Summer 2000
  • Wired magazine – Burn This – October 2000
  • Forbes Magazine – This Guy Wants to Overthrow the Government – September 8, 1997

Flag of the CyberNation

Peace in the Middle East

Noam Chomsky

Department of Linguistics and Philosophy,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Chomsky Named World’s Top Intellectual – October 18, 2005)

Summary: In the spring of 1992, well before the breakthrough Middle East peace agreements of 1993-1994, George Mullen authored a controversial article in the weekly Palestinian newspaper Al-Fajr entitled, “An Israeli-Palestinian Peace Proposal.” Mullen, being neither an Arab nor a Jew, provided a uniquely unbiased and highly detailed proposal for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that directly faced the most controversial issues – Palestinian statehood, the status of Jerusalem, the Jewish settlers, et al. Because the contents of the article stirred such strong emotions within both the Palestinian and Jewish communities, Mullen used it as the basis for Peace in the Middle East. This book outlined a realistic and comprehensive proposal for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

(Ican Press, 1994)

Paintings Slideshow

Mullen’s Artist Statement: “Artist statements, biographies, and awards are meaningless hyperbole. Either the art is compelling, or it is not.”