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Cleaning Out the Augean Stables

March 26, 2025March 25, 2025 photog Current Events, Trump CIA, Deep State, Drain the Swamp, FBI, JFK, JFK Assassination, Trump

When John Kennedy was assassinated in November, 1963, I was six years old. I think I was in kindergarten at the time. I remember the day because the nuns were all crying. So, there hasn’t been a day in my life that I can remember that I wasn’t aware of Kennedy’s assassination. And after the initial shock wore off my family members, it receded into my mind until his brother was assassinated a few years later. At that point, talk about conspiracies finally became loud enough and I was old enough to have it impinge on my thoughts.

But I wasn’t receptive to these ideas. I just believed what the official version stated. Lone gunmen were responsible and that was all there was to it.

I was watching a podcast that had a JFK conspiracy advocate on. After the initial obvious question (“Is there a smoking gun in the new document dump?”) was answered with a, “Whoa, whoa! I’m on page 3 of 60,000,” the expert explained that what he’s looking for isn’t a smoking gun but rather a pattern of facts that steers the explanation toward one of the likelier causes.

And here, there is a lot of information that tells us more about what was going on between JFK and his intelligence agencies. And none of it makes the CIA look less guilty. The CIA had been following Oswald around for the four years before the assassination and they knew exactly where he lived and worked and how close he would be to Kennedy that day. And there has never been a doubt that Jack Ruby was a mob-controlled stooge who did what he was told. And there is no doubt that the CIA had connections to the mob and that the mob hated the Kennedys. And JFK had been talking to some of the top staff in his administration about busting up the CIA for what happened in Cuba. This “conspiracy theorist” doesn’t come right out and say that the CIA had Kennedy killed. But that’s what he’s pointing to.

Somehow that still shocks me. Now, looking at what happened to Trump last year in Pennsylvania should make it seem obvious that the Deep State is completely ruthless and unconcerned with consequences. But as intellectually simple as that situation is to see, it’s still horrifying to me. Sure, I’ve known for decades now that our government isn’t the white hat good guys that I thought they were when I was younger. Iraq taught me that politicians of both parties use Americans as pawns whenever it’s convenient. We have psychopaths running many of our agencies. Just look at the FBI and the Justice Department. Guilt and innocence are the least important aspects of people they target for “justice.”

But the shock tells me that probably the most important work Donald Trump can do before he retires to Mar a Lago in three and half years is to empty out the CIA and the FBI. I think of these two agencies as threats a hundred times more dangerous to this country than China and Russia combined. We have a very expensive and on balance, formidable military machine. Even after eighty years, the nuclear deterrence of our arsenal is still potent. I don’t think the benefits we gain from the intelligence and judgement of these intelligence agencies compensate us for the malice and deception that they seem to display as their defining characteristics. They are a threat to the elected leaders of this country and they represent a potent force preventing the very information which our leaders need from reaching them. Instead of facts they provide a narrative that is convenient for their interests but often is confusing and destructive. I wish Donald Trump all the best luck in tackling these rogue agencies. And I hope he breaks them permanently.

Well, that’s what I thought about today.

Guest Contributor – Milo Mindbender – 28SEP2024 – Hot Spots

September 28, 2024September 28, 2024 photog Current Events, Guest Contributors, Milo Mindbender CIA, color revolution, Guest Contributors, Milo Mindbender, Russia, Ukraine War

Democrats policy is to screw things up and then point at the Republican co-conspirators and blame them for everything.
We have no business in the Ukraine, only by offering NATO statehood which under different presidents was not an option did we intentionally provoke a response from Russia. We almost went to war in ’62 over the weaponization of Cuba, and there is no land connection to the US. NATO statehood would allow for weaponization of a physically attached neighboring state, similar to allowing the arming up of Baja California, and expecting no response from the US.
The “wag the dog” scenario created by the MIC, and the state department to justify more expenditures on unneeded toys that have the newest “Gee, Wow” factor, and donors in your district co-opt many who enter the Swamp, there is no immunity to the corruption created in DC. It eats to the bone on almost everyone who succumbs to the lure of power.
Regarding the Israeli situation, I liked the simple elegance of arming the Hezbollah, Hamas supply chain with weaponized pagers. It was utterly ruthless, laser targeted, and minimally damaging collaterally. If you are forced into a defensive war you protect yourself from a 3 way attack, cut the heads off the snakes and let the bodies wither from neglect. Somebody did their job accurately, and correctly. Bravo Zulu from my viewfinder. I have no dog in the fight against Israel, and believe the Palestinians are a self inflicted injury upon themselves, they can not seek refugee status with any of their neighbors because they try to overthrow and disrupt anyplace they infest. They screwed up on Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria when they were still possibly able to claim aggrieved status, now it’s sorta expected that they always bite the hand that feeds them.
They voted to be administered by terrorists, deal with it.

Update:

War Pig commented:

Israel can handle Hamas and Hezbolla. If Iran sends their special forces that may escalate things. If Iran tosses a nuke Israel can obliterate them in return. And if Israel has to throw nukes, Iran won’t be the only target, so the other naughty actors in the region will tamp Iran’s desires that way. Israel seems to have pretty good infiltration or Iran’s military operations.

If the Iranians want to use their navy to make trouble in the gulf, they can look back to 1988 when our navy’s Praying Mantis operation sank half of their navy in one union shift. Imagine what our navy could do to theirs now?

The Western Alliance Begins to Plan for the Ukraine’s Collapse

April 4, 2024April 4, 2024 photog Current Events CIA, color revolution, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine War

Politico published an article that confirms that Ukraine admits that the Russian offensive will force the Ukrainians to yield large swaths of their country wherever the assault comes.

“Ukraine is at great risk of its front lines collapsing

According to high-ranking Ukrainian officers, the military picture is grim and Russian generals could find success wherever they decide to focus their upcoming offensive.

Essentially, everything now depends on where Russia will decide to target its strength in an offensive that’s expected to launch this summer. In a pre-offensive pummeling — stretching from Kharkiv and Sumy in the north to Odesa in the south — Russia’s missile and drone strikes have widely surged in recent weeks, targeting infrastructure and making it hard to guess where it will mount its major push.

And according to high-ranking Ukrainian military officers who served under General Valery Zaluzhny — the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces until he was replaced in February — the military picture is grim.”

And there don’t seem to be any optimistic dissenting opinions either

“There’s nothing that can help Ukraine now because there are no serious technologies able to compensate Ukraine for the large mass of troops Russia is likely to hurl at us. We don’t have those technologies, and the West doesn’t have them as well in sufficient numbers,” one of the top-ranking military sources told POLITICO.

“Don’t believe the hype about them (the Russians) just throwing troops into the meat grinder to be slaughtered,” he added. “They do that too, of course — maximizing even more the impact of their superior numbers — but they also learn and refine.””

The latest rumors are that the West is advising Ukraine to re-brand itself as a smaller country where the western areas are ceded to Poland and the eastern to Russia. These sound like desperate attempts to make disaster appear as strategy. What a horrible blunder the Ukrainians made listening to Washington.

The Ukraine War Approaches Its Climax

May 31, 2023May 30, 2023 photog Current Events CIA, color revolution, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine War

Now that the Battle of Bakhmut is over everyone is wondering what the next step will be in this war. Currently there have been incursions into Russia proper by Ukrainian forces. It is being claimed by the Ukrainians that the attackers are Russian partisans who want to overthrow Putin’s government. But a number of the attackers were captured and these turned out to be Ukrainians.

In the last few weeks there has been a significant increase in missile and drone attacks by both sides. Drone attacks on Moscow and missile attacks in Kiev have become a common occurrence. Today the word is the Russians hit the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence headquarters to take out the Ukrainian and Western brains behind the drone attacks on Moscow. Now whether they succeeded in destroying the headquarters or decapitating the military intelligence organization is completely unknown. What is clear is that this is all moving toward an escalated war where more than just the front-line troops are impacted.

The Russians have been concentrating on disrupting the anticipated “spring” offensive. The most notable effort has been a string of missile attacks on large ammunition depots, some apparently so enormous that seismic readings as high as 3.5 on the Richter Scale have been detected. But they’ve also been attacking large troop emplacements.

In the last few weeks, the western press has been hinting that the spring offensive may not provide a significant change in the status quo and that maybe it’s time for a negotiated settlement. But there’s no indication by either side that negotiations are even possible.

So, it looks like sooner or later we’re going to hear about full-scale military operations with the battle tanks and other equipment that the West has donated and with the troops they trained over the last six months. One thing that can be said is that this will be the decisive series of battles of the war. The Ukrainians will be expending the last reserves of their prime manpower. If they are to deal a decisive defeat to the Russians it will have to be now. Otherwise, they will be without the troops and even without the artillery ammunition they would need to continue the war against the larger and better equipped Russian forces.

I expect that the Russians will be hunkering down behind their defensive works and will make the Ukrainians pay very dearly for a frontal assault on these positions. But without a doubt if the Ukrainians go all out to break through these lines the casualties on both sides will be enormous. So, what we will see is a reenactment of the kinds of battles they fought in World War I; massive artillery bombardment and frontal assaults on heavily reinforced positions. But added to this will be massive tank attacks by the Ukrainians and modern missile and drone attacks by both sides.

So, either way this goes the Slavic peoples are about to experience a tragic blood-letting. And essentially the US State Department and the CIA are the authors of this tragedy. It will be interesting what the fruits of this decision will be for us. We handed the Ukrainians tens of billions of dollars’ worth of weaponry. I wonder which of our enemies will be provided with Russian weapons to pay us back. I hate to think of the Mexican drug cartels with several billion dollars’ worth of drones and missiles loose inside of our non-existent southern border. But that’s a distinct possibility. And who will we have to blame but our own government.

H/T to the Conservative Treehouse for Primer on Ukraine Politics

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 photog Current Events CIA, Fake Democracy, globalism, neo-cons, Russia, The Biden Crime Family, Ukraine

Sundance at the conservative Treehouse has many great links. I never thought I’d be linking to a documentary made by Oliver Stone, the grandfather of the conspiracy theorists but I found this long (90 minutes) video very informative. Now without a doubt we are getting the Russian take on what happened in Ukraine but it looks like it describes pretty closely what happened in a “color revolution” staged by the CIA and the State Department.

And of course, the neocons and Joe Biden make their appearances. I think Vladimir Putin is now my favorite evil dictator. Maybe I looked into his eyes and saw his soul (or something).

FBI, Stasi? What’s the Difference?

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 photog Current Events CIA, East Germany, FBI, NSA, Stasi, Weaponizing the Deep State Against Dissent

Staatssicherheitsdienst or in English, the State Security Service was the East German arm of the KGB but it was commonly referred to as the Stasi. They learned all the lessons that Stalin’s KGB could teach them and then in typical German fashion they made them more efficient. Their hallmark was to eschew the gulag by making all of East Germany one giant prison. Hundreds of thousands of East Germans were employed as informants on their families, friends and coworkers. All types of brutality and coercion were used by the Stasi. But their masterpiece was a technique called Zersetzung.

“The Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic. It was called Zersetzung, and it’s described in another guideline. The word is difficult to translate because it means originally “biodegradation”. But actually, it’s a quite accurate description. The goal was to destroy secretly the self-confidence of people, for example by damaging their reputation, by organizing failures in their work, and by destroying their personal relationships. Considering this, East Germany was a very modern dictatorship. The Stasi didn’t try to arrest every dissident. It preferred to paralyze them, and it could do so because it had access to so much personal information and to so many institutions.”

—Hubertus Knabe, German historian

What seems apparent to me is that the Left has lifted this technique and applies it to both their operations in the intelligence agencies and also in their cancel culture operations through the woke social media platforms. Look at the definition, “by damaging their reputation, by organizing failures in their work, and by destroying their personal relationships… It preferred to paralyze them, and it could do so because it had access to so much personal information and to so many institutions.” These are the weapons of personal destruction that are on display throughout our culture.

What does it say about our country that the methods of communist dictatorships have been borrowed by our own federal police agencies? Maybe it’s just a case of, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” But the illegality of the techniques that are on display by the NSA and the FBI are wholly as despicable as what the Stasi did. And I don’t mean that they did things like torture people and beat confessions out of them. What I mean is that unlike Russia and East Germany our intelligence agencies are absolutely forbidden to violate the privacy laws inherent in the Bill of Rights. But these prohibitions have been swept aside without even a pretense of due process.

The excesses of Russiagate and the recent case of the leaked text messages of Tucker Carlson show clearly that the FBI, NSA and other executive branch intelligence services no longer feel the need to pretend to follow the law. They are clearly above the law and flaunt this status as a way to cow their targets.

When the East German government finally fell the records of the Stasi were exposed to public scrutiny and countless informants were exposed. Wouldn’t it be liberating if a full accounting was finally made of the partisan crimes that the Obama Justice Department perpetrated in 2015, 2016 and 2017? These treasonous acts very much deserve to be exposed and the culprits prosecuted. The death penalty seems excessive. I would say life in prison would be fair. And I don’t suggest this as a form of revenge, although I would enjoy that. I propose it as a deterrent against the next partisan hack who decides he disagrees with the results of an American election. After all we grant enormous power and prestige to the law enforcement personnel who work at the highest levels of the Justice Department. When they use that power to attack innocent Americans, they strike at the very heart of the American system.

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