Showing posts with label Bush. Show all posts
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Monday, September 21, 2020

Who Murdered Scalia?




01 Jul 2021
We are republishing based on revelations by a DOJ Whistleblower who 
provides specific details on how government operatives poisoned Scalia.

[21 Sep 2020] 
We originally wrote this blogpost in July 2019, but withheld 
publishing it since it might jeopardize the safety of Scalia's family. 
Since then, we have witnessed the Democrat disruption of the 
Kavanaugh confirmation, followed by the violence conducted 
by BLM Anarchists, and now, new demonstrations of
 the beatification of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, whom we believe 
to have died in February [based on witnesses videoing 
the coroner's vehicle leaving her property], so we assume 
she's been on  ice ever since, with a young body-double 
posing as her to prevent her seat from being filled.

We republish to include the appointment of Amy Coney Barret to take
 Ruth Ginsberg's seat, and replace Justice Scalia as the most skilled 
and knowledgeable Conservative Justice on the SCOTUS.

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We revisit the murder of Justice Scalia in view of subsequent targeting 
of Judges, Legislators, Generals, Military heroes, and Investigative Journalists. 
We used to presume these were all Clinticides, but, as more facets of the 
Deep State are revealed, we have concluded this conspiracy process 
needs more exposure.

Of particular note is the black-mailing of Chief Justice John Roberts to force his protection of ObamaCare, and to vote against all legislation backed by Trump.  The Deep State has long tentacles and is ruthless in identifying and attacking in full force those it sees as potential enemies, needing to be eliminated.  Antonin Scalia was one, and we've seen professional colleagues, one by one, die mysteriously.  

[In the case of Chief Justice Roberts, it's been reported that not only were his kids illegally adopted, but that the adoption was facilitated by Epstein, who drew Roberts into the Pedophilia Ring at his now infamous island, leading to blackmail for the illegal adoption, as well as for Roberts being captured on video while engaging in Pedophilia.]

Associate Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1986 by President Reagan, and was unanimously confirmed.  He was a strong supporter of the Executive Branch, and served for nearly 30 years before he was murdered.

Scalia had previously been a member of a Cleveland law firm, and served as an Assistant Attorney General; Reagan appointed him the judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  

"He was regarded as the 'intellectual anchor' for the originalist and textualist position in the Court's Conservative wing."

His notable positions, which made him a target of the Deep State, were the following:
1) Morrison v Olson:  voted against the Constitutionality of an Independent-Counsel law;
2) Crawford v Washington: Defined a criminal defendant's confrontation Right
     under the Sixth Amendment;
3) District of Columbia v Heller: Second Amendment guarantees the right to individual
    handgun ownership; overturned DC law banning handgun ownership
4) Abortion:
    a) Planned Parenthood v Casey (1992): "The states may, if they wish,
        permit abortion on demand, but the Constitution does not require them to do so."
    b) Webster v Reproductive Health Services (1989): Scalia suggested Roe v Wade be overturned;
    c) Stenberg v Carhart (2000):  The Court invalidated a Nebraska statute outlawing
         Partial-Birth abortion.  Scalia stated "The method of killing a human child... proscribed by this statute is so horrible that the most clinical description of it evokes a shudder of revulsion."
5)  Death penalty was Constitutional.

Here's an evidentiary timeline of the Scalia assassination:

February 2016:  Justice accepts invitation to vacation at the Ciboloo

Scalia was invited by John Poindexter to spend a week at the Cibolo Creek Ranch near the ghost town of Shafter, Texas, for a week of hunting and shooting practice.

[As a retired Special Agent, with considerable investigatory experience, I felt this is/was a slam-dunk case that Scalia's death was clearly a murder, aided and abetted by clear violations of federal and state procedures and regulations - over and above murder.]

William Ritchie, former head of Criminal Investigations of the DC police force commented:
"I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia. 

"You have a Supreme Court Justice who died, not in attendance of a physician; 

"You have a non-homicide-trained US Marshall tell the Justice of the Peach that no foul play 
   was observed; 

"You have a Justice of the Peace pronounce death while not being on the scene and without any medical training opining that the Justice just died of a heart attack.  

"What medical proof exists of a Myocardial Infarction; why not a Cerebral Hemorrhage?"

"How can the US Marshal say, without a thorough post mortem, that Scalia was not injected with an illegal substance  that would simulate a heart attack.

"Did the Marshal check for petechial hemorrhage in his eyes or under his lips that would have suggested suffocation?

"Did the Marshal smell his breath for any unusual odor that might suggest poisoning?

"My gut tells me there is something fishy going on in Texas!"


Had I been the Special Agent In Charge, I'd have had a variety of folks, to include a federal marshal and a judge [Justice of the Peace], in cuffs and up for prosecution in the handling of this case, to include, but not limited to Conspiracy, Obstruction of Justice, Suppression of Evidence, and Evidence Tampering [charges familiar to Hilary from her days working in the Special Prosecutor's office in the Nixon Impeachment].

Cibolo Creek Ranch near Shafter, TX
234 miles from El Paso
Scalia seemed in excellent health shortly before when I chatted with him at an Opera Camerata performance in Washington, DC.   I marveled at his physical condition at 79, rivaling CIA's Judge Webster at 99, and hoped I could be nearly as healthy at that age. 

So, I found claims that he died of old age and ill health as bizarre as a report that Hillary had actually told the truth once in her career.

 Scalia's family had since pleaded that "Murder conspiracy theories" not be pursued; then again, I would not be surprised if the family has been threatened; thus they'll support the cover story.

I no longer dismiss any conspiracy theories since I have watched a massive conspiracy between the Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement Community in conjunction with the Obama cabal to win the 2016 Election and subsequently to force Trump out of office.

I recall the numerous physical and verbal threats on President Trump, his child, his grandchild,  his family, the direct, public harassment of Trump's Cabinet members, the physical assault on a US Senator while he mowed his lawn, and the shooting of a US Congressman, and others, while playing baseball in a DC suburb [Alexandria City] public park. 

I also took note, in Virginia, of the intentional derailing of the Congressional Train carrying Conservative politicians and their families -- by a dump truck squeezing between barriers to position itself on the tracks head on with the locomotive.

Thus, a physical threat to the Scalia family is entirely believable since it is evident the Democrats will stop at nothing to retain whatever political power they have left.

I also have since learned how completely corrupt Obama's DOJ and FBI were, so it would be easy to accept charges of FBI/DOJ intimidation of the family, the Judge, the Sheriff, the Coroner, and Scalia's friend [NFI] who found him dead. The officials [to include the federal marshals] on the scene violated these laws -- all will likely appear on several of the 31,000 sealed indictments waiting to be served.

a) 18 U.S.C. §    111:        Impeding certain [federal] officers
b) 18 U.S.C. §    351:       Assassination of a Supreme Court Justice
c) 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111:       Unlawful killing of a human being with malice of forethought
d) 18 U.S.C. §  1751:       Presidential staff assassination
e) 18 U.S.C. §  1510:       Obstruction of a criminal investigation


Here's the sequence of events following the discovery of Scalia's death with a pillow covering his face:

1) Local Sheriff Danny Dominguez alerted Presidio County judge [a Justice of the Peace], Cinderela Guevara, of Scalia's death (of undetermined cause);

2) US Marshals arrived on the scene almost immediately (within an hour) -- before the judge could arrive;

3) The judge argued with the Marshals, but conceded when the Marshals stated flatly there was no foul play.

4) Guevera, not witnessing the scene, declared Scalia dead, by phone, at 1:52 PM, February 13, 2016

5) The Marshals statement: Scalia died of "heart stoppage" [being poisoned and smothered tends to cause heart stoppage, like Breitbart's heart stoppage]

6)  Scalia's body was immediately whisked away and embalmed, before the mandatory autopsy could be performed, and then cremated 230 miles away in El Paso -- destroying any potential evidence of foul play.

Supporting Evidence:

1) Scalia was the solid, unbreakable Conservative voice on the Supreme Court and had,
    a) immediately before his death, blocked Obama’s plan to force drastic EPA Climate-Change rules on the American economy.
    b) The vote was 5-4; absent Scalia, future votes would be tied until a new, Liberal Justice could be appointed.
     c) Obama fully expected Hillary to replace him in the Oval Office, and there was likely a deal by which Hillary would appoint Obama to replace Scalia on the Supreme Court [that was the bargain reached before Hillary lost the election].

Poindexter

2)  The ranch was owned by John B Poindexter, a very wealthy, good friend of the Bush family, but also, as we learned, a major contributor to Obama and the DNC.
      a) Thus, the death of Scalia could be easily arranged and disguised as a heart attack.
      b) Given Poindexter's controlled environment,  the local judge and sheriff could be counted on for their loyalty, and
       c) 0bama's DOJ Marshal Service was fully adaptable to eliminate all forms of evidence with an immediate, illegal cremation of the corpse, thus destroying any evidence of poison or suffocation.

3) A DOJ Whistleblower recently provided new information on the method by which Scalia was murdered, which would have shown up immediately in an autopsy - thus the race to get Scalia's body to a cremation - and destroying all evidence.  

The Whistleblower presented evidence that Scalia was given a massage the night before he died;  the masseuse used a concoction of poison in the lotion, which was absorbed into Scalia's skin and subnormal tissue, leading to his lungs to cease functioning and causing him to suffocate. [the pillows on his face were
a distraction].

ED NOTE:
The poison was similar to that used to assassinate Breitbart, see the blogpost linked here, 
[and was reportedly the same poison smeared on Pelosi's gloved hand which she offered to President Trump just prior to his delivering the State of the Union message [Trump avoided the hand-shake].  
(Pelosi, and a variety of democrat and RINO politicos were captured on video by a lip-reader chortling about how Trump would succumb to the poisoned glove]. 
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Now, having been solidly in the Bush camp for many years, I would not have believed the scenario above since this ranch was definitely a Bush Safe Space, and we would have accepted the official version.

But, having witnessed the Bush family as they snarled and attacked Trump and gave their support to Hillary, this assassination scenario grew legs and validation. [Supplemental revelations indicate the Bush family was well involved in Hillary's Satanic rituals, to include torturing and killing children]

In view of the viciousness of the Liberals at, and since the Trump Inauguration by both GOP and Democrat Party stalwarts, it is evident that both Parties are now combined to achieve the construction of a Socialist, totalitarian government.  

We have the RepubliCrats, the Deep State's UNIPARTY.

The 0bama Administration was, without question, the most corrupt, evil, and demonic Administration in the history of the US.  You could not create a novel of fiction with this many evil characters -- no one would believe it, and yet, we were delivered a communist POTUS for eight years, who killed at will, and filled our Intelligence and Law Enforcement Communities with totally corrupt and evil people.

W and Laura learn GHW confessed to all his crimes, 
and, W has been sentenced to death

Currently, Trump's forces have begun rounding up the Bush/Clinton/W/Obama cabal and their minions.  The evidence has piled up, and the prosecutions have been underway for some time now.


GHW Bush and John McCain were prosecuted by Tribunal, and executed, by  hanging, in Gitmo for Treason.  [Many Members of Congress and the Senate were relocated to Guantanamo for trial, imprisonment, and/or execution for Treason.] 


We presume that Hillary, if not already dead, is being preserved for public execution.

Friday, August 2, 2019

DNI Designee Ratcliffe - Best Qualified

Mueller Questioned by Ratcliffe     [CBSN]

Click here for related story

There is quite a furor over the appointment of Representative John Ratcliffe to become the next DNI [Director of National Intelligence].

Brennan


David Ignatius, a long-time supplicant of the CIA in even its most corrupt form, calls Ratcliffe a "dangerous, demented clown."  Keep in mind that Ignatius thought Brennan, the Muslim buffoon, to be brilliant; so much for the Ignatius credibility quotient.



Clapper
He also referred to James Clapper [the guy we saw smirking at Congressional committee members as he repeatedly perjured himself] "the most successful DNI since the position was created."  So, Ignatius manages to squeeze himself into a corner, worshipping the two most egregious criminals in the Intelligence Community since Jonathan Pollard, Ana Montes, Aldrich Ames, and Kim Philby.

The Washington Post, lacking any real understanding of a professional Intelligence Community, regards  the appointment of Ratcliffe as horrendous, tagging Ratcliffe as an "inexperienced, partisan politician."

We also hear from "former Intelligence officers" who demand that the DNI be selected from the executive levels of the CIA, or, at least from the existing DNI staff, or, By Gawd, from maybe the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence [SSCI], managed by Dianne Feinstein who employed a Chinese Spy as her driver for 20 years.

Why, Ratcliffe lacks "any real experience, and worse, he likely has embraces Trump's 'Deep State' conspiracy theories about the CIA and FBI.  Goodness! Even a former "Station Chief" [aka: COS] claimed "this place is under siege."  That, of course, would presume there are any Station Chiefs with any degree of credibility these days.

Pretty much ignored is that the Intelligence Community lost virtually ALL credibility when it conspired in a combined effort to effect a coup against President-elect Trump.  And, let's not forget that Ilhan Omar, a Somali, sits on our House Foreign Affairs Committee - with a Top Secret Clearance.

So, before we comment on Mr Ratcliffe's selection, we refer you to the ABOUT section on our blog site so you can grasp a bit about our background, and why we feel entitled to weigh in on this topic, and to give our full endorsement to Mr Rattcliffe as the new DNI.
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After the dust of  9-11 had settled, we sat down with President Reagan's Attorney General, Ed Meese, and laid the groundwork for the new position of the DNI.






Until 9-11 [and for a while after] the Intelligence Community was managed by the Director of Central Intelligence [DCI], who also was the Director of the CIA, giving that agency extraordinary power over the entire IC analyses, assessments, and operational activities. The DCI could over-rule any agreements and suppress any reporting; and the CIA could take credit for any assessments or reporting by other agencies. And when its own fumbling created disastrous results, it could, and did blame other agencies for its own errors.

 If there were successes, the CIA would claim the credit, no matter which agency had succeeded; and, if there were a failure, the CIA would run to the SSCI and point a finger [usually at Military Intelligence] claiming the Military was incompetent at Intelligence matters, and CIA should control all those operations [or analyses].

Given that history of abuse, we created the position of DNI to oversee the coordination of all components of the IC, but without the power the DCI had. Initially, the concept worked. But, then, under Obama, an IC which was limited to a few thousand employees of many specialties engorged to a population of nearly a million government and contract employees, creating a bureaucracy incapable of conducting or producing viable Intelligence. Thus, Trump's disdain for his IC support. Once again, having succeeded in neutering other components of the IC [e.g., DIA], the CIA assumed control of the IC once again with the combined power of Brennan and Clapper.

In plain and simple terms, the CIA was a Bully, and a fairly incompetent one at that with a long string of Intelligence failures, fiascos, abuses, and implications of corruption. Needless to say, this bullying annoyed the other members of the IC, and we all lurked in the shadows, waiting for the opportunity to drive a wooden stake through  the heart of this almighty vampire.

CIA ignored all the Indicators and Reports
And that day came with the horrors of 9-11, an event the planning/plotting details of which were discovered and provided by FBI agents, foreign intelligence and police services [e.g., the Philippines], and indicators from commercial [Private Sector] resources.

In essence, there was a plethora of Indicators completely and totally ignored by the highly touted and self-proclaimed "Terrorism Expert" John Brennan, who, in spite of missing/ignoring all the indicators, immediately rose to prominence with George W Bush, going on to become, what else, the Director of the CIA!

This came as a stunning surprise to the entire IC, but particularly to the remaining CIA professionals who almost unanimously despised Brennan and regarded him as a complete buffoon [much as they had regarded Bob Gates, a previous Bush designee, who, in spite of a continuous history of failure at the CIA, was promoted to the position of DCI by President GHW Bush.

[We can speak pejoratively here since we were intimately familiar with the IC and had deep friendships and alliances with many CIA, DIA, NSA and FBI professionals, as well as colleagues in the Military Intelligence Services. Why, we even spent time with CIA as an operative, and at the Departments of Defense and State as a senior analyst with highly credible recognition (even from the DCI) - so we can't be accused of blowing smoke out our butt.]  We knew lots of folks (still do) throughout the IC and coordinated operations directly with the Assistant Attorney General, back before the IC became politicized and weaponized by Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and Mueller.  Given their atrocious behavior, we even wrote a blog on restructuring the IC.]

But, we have again digressed.
[Enough of slamming Brennan and Clapper; we'll spend more time on them in separate blogs.]

We worked with Ed Meese [Reagan's Attorney General] to create the DNI after 9-11 to eliminate the DCI position and to neuter the CIA's dominance of the analytical and operational community. We sought to create a lean and efficient Intelligence Community, unencumbered by bureaucratic bloating; one which could focus on creating viable operations through thorough and cooperative analyses from all elements.

Our proposed process, for example, might follow these components:
1) A CIA station might report rumors, via clandestine operatives, of coup plotting, while the Defense Attache might report comments by one or more of the military plotters.
2) CIA and DIA analysts would examine the profiles of the plotters, and establish key words for NSA to monitor in Communications Intelligence [COMINT].
3) NRO [the satellite imagery guys at the National Reconnaissance Office] could then monitor any and all military movements which might be gauged as supportive of a coup.
4) Since most coups are bloodless, we would also review Private Sector Intelligence showing commercial movements of personal goods and wealth transfers in preparation of the soon-to-be deposed leader.
5) We might even send in covert operatives to help the soon-to-be deposed leader on his way with dark means of transport.
6) And, all elements of the IC would work together on this project via the DNI o!ce where information on analyses and operations could be exchanged.

In fact, the process actually worked like that, briefly.  

We originally envisioned the DNI to occupy a rather small building near the White House which had served as a place for representatives of the IC to meet and coordinate issues and operations around the world.  Gradually, however, it expanded into a bloated empire of hundreds of thousands of bureaucratic entities incapable of coordination, much less creating actionable Intelligence.

Saddam Hussein


The politicization and bloating of the process began under George W Bush, whose primary goal was to create a smokescreen disguising his 9-11 attack as the basis for our new international war adventures throughout the Middle East, disposing of Saddam Hussein, our long-time Middle East ally and stabilizer [albeit brutal].  

[See Rick Francona's book: Ally to Adversary, which examines the bewildering process by which Saddam was transitioned from our Ally to the basis for the Gulf War and Operation Desert Storm.]



And then, the IC was directed to create the basis for the endless war in Afghanistan to track down Osama bin Laden and kill him - a simple enough task in the old days with a few teams of lightly armed Special Forces operatives.  

But, the Bush and Obama Administrations expanded both the Military and the IC into massive, expensive, and incoherent bureaucracies, while destroying the competency of both entities. 



[Unfortunately for The Swamp, particularly IC executives, modern technology is now revealing that 9-11 was a Bush ruse which cost the lives of thousands of people for the amusement and profit of a select group of Deep State puppet-masters; they've been identified and will find their way to Gitmo for trial, and likely execution. The professional investigators of 9-11 can no longer be dismissed as "Truthers" or Conspiracy Theorists with Tin Foil caps since forensic science now includes highly technical resources to discount the official versions with detailed revelations of the events and participants.]


But, we've digressed again.

When the Deep State positioned Obama in the Oval Office, it became important to create Intelligence Estimates [NIE] which lent credence to the Global War on Terrorism and justified the bloating of the IC from as few as 10,000 analysts and operatives to nearly a million government employees and private contractors, destroying any hope of processing any level of intelligence through hundreds of layers of indecisive and incompetent, but well-paid bureaucrats.

The Plan was to make the system so convoluted that no one could understand it, or its products.


When Trump took office, he was faced with nonsensical IC smoke and mirrors briefings which  had no bearing on reality. 

Thus, Trump's disdain for, and refusal to accept his IC support. 

He preferred to get his Intelligence assessments from the Private Sector -- which had hired the professionals from the IC and given them the resources and facilities to conduct Intelligence as we had envisioned the DNI to operate.

Clapper and Brennan recognized the Handwriting on the Wall, indicating their power positions and commercial contracts, post retirement, were in jeopardy, at which point they attempted to stage a coup with the amateurish resources they had at hand. 

And, we are now witnessing the unravelling of that process.

So, now, we return to the origin of this tale.

What about Mr Ratcliff's qualifications, or lack thereof, to become the DNI.
[We list his Committee participation below]

Briefly, as we've noted, the DNI position is not one of power over the IC, but is precisely limited in that respect. 

In fact, the DNI, by charter, is limited to only MANAGE the IC and to coordinate the functions of the components of the IC as the Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of a large corporation would manage all the components of a large company. Just as the corporate CEO need not be a programmer to manage an Google, or an engineer to manage Bechtel, the DNI needs only management skills, and a legal mind since much of what the IC does require a legal review. 


Judge William Webster
No Intelligence Background
Before Appointment
Keep in mind, the IC currently consists of highly technical resources [NSA, NRO, NGA], along with HUMINT [clandestine, covert, and open source operations]. 

You will never find any executive skilled in all those specialties, but, recall that Jack Welch managed General Electric and increase the company's value by 4,000%.

Ross Perot managed EDS, leading it to become one of the most successful companies in US history.. 

The skills of Welch and Perot consisted of directing capable executives who, in turn, managed highly technical components -- much the same as the DNI would direct the executives in charge of the various Intelligence agencies which comprise the IC.

Perhaps the best and most respected Director was  Judge William Webster who successfully managed not only the FBI, but later became the Director of Central Intelligence -- as a lawyer/jurist - NOT an Intelligence specialist.


Mr Ratcliffe is a manager, so, like Webster, he won't favor one agency over another in his management process.  As an attorney, he can recognize all the elements of a good legal brief
as it would pertain to clandestine or covert operations; and, he would be the most capable executive of listening to the heads of the specialty units of NSA, NRO, NGA, DEA, FBI, DIA, and the Military Services and evaluating their assessments and/or their proposed courses of actions as they would merge into achieving an ultimate goal, or operation.

So, we suspect Mr Ratcliffe can manage the Intelligence Community in an equally common sense manner, even if he is not an Intelligence technician.
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Ed Notes:
Congressman Ratcliffe's assignments on Capitol Hill

House Committee Assignments








Sunday, April 21, 2019

New Weapon of Mass Destruction



Tragedy struck nearby recently.

Death from Fentanyl
The daughter of a friend overdosed [OD] on marijuana - laced with Fentanyl; her small daughter found her, comatose.

She was an attractive young lady whose boyfriend introduced her to marijuana, then to heroin, and on to other drugs.  She had "gone straight" after her last overdose, and it's possible, she was given Fentanyl in another substance; the end result was death.

She was in the health business and lost her job when she was found using her access to pharmaceuticals for her increasing habit. In the meantime, her boyfriend died of an overdose, leaving her with a small child to raise on her own.

The young woman had moved away from her hometown and extended family, probably to be with her boyfriend two states away, to avoid family pressure to give up drugs. Her mom begged her to come home where she and extended family could help care for the child, but, the young woman was adamant that she was "clean".

A Fentanyl Dose the size of a Sesame Seed
Can be inserted into a Marijuana Joint
and not be noticed
Given her heroin OD, it was obvious she was not clean.

Sadly, she had visited with us only a few weeks before her OD death.

Fentanyl did the trick, as it takes only a smidgen to kill - and it killed her in a flash; and even with immediate response by the EMT, no measure of could revive her, and she died in her mother's arms in the ICU, with her child in the next room.

The mom and her family remain  devastated, and heartbroken, but will come together to raise the child in a loving environment.







But the grandmom, who co-signed for her daughter's student loans, is now on the hook for those loans; although she's unemployed/retired with a minimal income, she can't file for bankruptcy due to the exclusion of student loan liability protected by the Dodd-Frank Consumer Financial Protection Act -- which protects banks and destroys consumers.  The Financial Protection clause of that act ensures that students - or their parents who declare bankruptcy are still liable for student loans.

What's our motive for publishing this?
The issue here ties to Trump's goal of building that Wall.
It won't block all the Illegals, and it will only partially block the flow of drugs into the US.
But, it will enable our Law Enforcement Community to deal it some crippling blows.

In the interim, it will likely block the massive amounts of drugs crossing our southern border in tractor trailers, cars, horseback, and backpack.  Among those drugs are Fentanyl, which can be blocked from entering overland; the Wall could possibly stifle the drug trade, or severely limit it.

Don't look to Congress to act anytime soon since it's fairly obvious that most of Congress are in the pockets of the drug lords. Worse, several of our recent Presidents and their families were controlled by the Cartels which bolstered their multi-million dollar bank accounts - not to speak of the spin-off criminal activities of Human Trafficking and Child Sex exploitation.

But, this drug problem is nothing new; it began in earnest in Vietnam with opium and heroin being transported regionally in those ubiquitous "Black Helicopters" with the drugs subsequently being transported to the US aboard USAF cargo aircraft and commercial ships, and even  having been inserted into the corpses of our dead GIs.

Hollywood introduced Marijuana as a "cultural issue" in a variety of very popular movies such as MASH and movies about cool kids in California high schools.


In fact, one of the most popular TV series was Weed, which popularized the use and sale of Marijuana and linkages to Mexican cartels as just a lot of fun - with a touch of danger.  And then, there was the wildly popular series, Breaking Bad, which rationalized the use of a broad scope of narcotics as a part of the US drug culture -- and a very profitable one.  Drug usage for our younger generations is not only "cool", it is Mandatory to fit in as one of the "In-Crowd".

A large percentage of our young and naive troops in Vietnam were introduced to Marijuana to relieve their boredom in remote outposts and to reduce their tension while waiting for the inevitable Viet Cong attack.  As the War progressed, more of our GIs partook, and the dealers began lacing the Marijuana with Heroin to ensure continued addiction by our troops when they returned to the US.  Back home, the former GIs were hooked and were ready customers for drug dealers selling boosted Marijuana, and leading to Heroin and Cocaine addiction.


Nearly 20 years later, no one can define
why our troops are in Afghanistan!


This narcotics consumption process continued to the present with hundreds of thousands of US troops  shipped to the Middle East to fight in the Bush/Clinton/Obama Middle East wars, the most recent of which continues in Afghanistan -- a key source of international heroin production and distribution.
[Otherwise, we remain bewildered at why our troops are deployed there]




Fast forward to today, after decades of Hollywood movies and Television programs extolling the virtues of Marijuana and Opiates as "Recreational Drugs",  the pressure was on to legalize "Medical Marijuana"; and, many states took that initiative.  The hook there was that Big Pharma lobbied state legislatures to create tight restrictions and massive amounts of paperwork to sell this Medical Marijuana, squeezing out the small medical Mom&Pop outlets who could neither staff their enterprises or manage all the paperwork involved to meet state requirements.

Today's marijuana, produced by the Pharmas is magnitudes greater in intensity than that which was popular in the 1960s, and now, it's laced with both heroin and Fentanyl -- the point is to eradicate our younger population as a functional element of our work force and overall population.

We'll get off our soap-box now.
If you know of any users, or families of users, feel free to pass our comments along; your kids, and our kids are not safe.

And our country is under assault with narcotics as the new Weapon of Mass Destruction.
Drugs like laced/boosted Marijuana reduce our workforce through elimination via drug testing; while more potent drugs [e.g., heroin] reduce the effectiveness and judgment of the mid-range executives managing financial institutions.

Ultimately, Fentanyl is poised to create massive damage to our water supply infrastructure, as only a small amount can contaminate millions of gallons of water.  This deadly substance is being carried across our southern border in amounts sufficient to cripple our major cities well ahead of any detection process -- and Congress is allowing this to happen by blocking the efforts of President Trump to close the border access to Illegals transporting this WMD.




Sunday, January 6, 2019

Trump Pulls Troops Out of Syria and Afghanistan



Mattis, a superb combat warrior, disagrees with a  superb strategist
They're both right! 





We may take a bit of flack from pseudo-hawks and NeoCons, but we support Trump's decision 100%.

Old Military and Intelligence guys have wondered at the rationale of keeping our troops in the Middle East.
Saddam is dead,
Osama bin Laden is still dead.

We have no stake in the Middle East other than to assist governments to stabilize, which does not include the massive presence of Central Command Forces. Nor does it require keeping massive US Military forces in Europe under the European Command -- a relic of the Cold War. Let the Europeans fund and populate NATO; we're tired of taking their lip and funding their exquisite tastes.

As necessary, we have the capability of transporting a fully equipped combat division, with combat support aircraft from the US to a crisis site within hours via our Transportation Command's  C-5 and
C-17 cargo planes.  We can deploy supersonic bombers and fighters from the US to arrive over the Middle East with minimal flight time with maximized combat effectiveness.

We should learn from history [an odd idea, now, isn't it?]

We've been involved in these faux wars for decades, the purpose of which always remains vague - other than to support the Military-Industrial Complex -- as detailed by General/POTUS Eisenhower.

As the Soviet Empire was crumbling, we sat with Bill Clark, then the Assistant Secretary of the Army [General Mark Clark's son] as he bemoaned the future/demise of the Military without a defined enemy.

Specifically, without a definable enemy, we would have no reason to maintain a large, standing Military; and if a new global crisis arose, how could we mobilize in time to meet that crisis?

We've spent a few years in combat in a variety of countries, supposedly to "defend our country", only to learn the enemies we fought were once our friends, and our current friends were once our enemies.

Worse, we learned our "leaders" [e.g., Kissinger, Bush-1, W, Robert Gates, Obama, Billary] were the actual enemy we've come to know as the Deep State, all leading us into senseless wars.

After we [personally] were able to defeat the insurgency in Northeast Thailand, we gloated until we learned the insurgency had been sponsored by the Chinese who coopted the anti-government movement protesting the government's confiscation of farmlands in order to build a hydro-electric dam, funded by our very own Agency for International Development [USAID].  The dam construction devastated famers by claiming their fertile land and relegating this once prosperous group to generations of poverty and government subsidies.

But, the "greater good" prevailed as the region received electricity -- although few could use it.

That revelation in 1974, got us to thinking about our major Military commitments.

China and Vietnam [Ho Chi Minh] were some of our greatest supporters in WW2, establishing OSS spy networks (which we inherited during the Vietnam War) and recovering our downed pilots; but now, that enemy, Japan - the invading force, is our close ally in the Pacific, and China is now our enemy.

Ho Chi Minh worked in England and in France, and on the docks in Baltimore, so he was fluent in English as well as the US culture.

He led the movement for independence from France and formed the Indochinese Communist Party, and following WW2, sought Eisenhower's support for Vietnam's independence - which Ike declined.



LBJ initiated the war with North Vietnam by sending our warships into their territorial waters, drawing fire, thus convincing Congressional hawks to declare war.

As it turns out, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was drafted a full six months before the attacks on US vessels occurred.

While we valiantly fought that war until 1975, Henry Kissinger, without the knowledge of Nixon, was selling us out to the Chinese in 1972, in exchange for a trade agreement.

But, throughout that war, we were often reminded of the heroin trade, via the Golden Triangle, through US Military transport, to the US.  Some folks are convinced that trade was sponsored or conducted by the CIA.

Iraq, for decades before we invaded to depose Saddam, was our closest Middle East Arab Ally [see our colleague, #Rick Francona's book "Ally to Adversary"], as well as our principal oil supplier.

Dick Cheney's Defense Contractors made a fortune exploiting the war -- and our soldiers, and we then had a generation of soldiers succumb to the Gulf War Syndrome [attributed to the oil vapor from burning wells, or, depleted uranium munitions, but in fact, derived from the Anthrax vaccine immunizations in 1990 by order of the Department of Defense on all Army troops who "might" be deployed to Iraq -- Bush's friends in the Pharmaceutical Industry profited mightily from that requirement -- even though it had not been through more than one (incomplete) trial.

Theoretically, the US would use oil sales from Iraq to pay for that war, but, in the end, the oil fields went under the control of other countries, and the US got not a cent!  On the other hand, US Defense contractors made fortunes.

Estimates by Reuters put the estimated total cost of the Iraq War at more than $5.6 Trillion.  
The war killed an estimated 150,000 Iraqi civilians, with unconfirmed estimates ranging up to 600,000, including security forces, insurgents, journalists, and humanitarian workers!  Bush demonstrated US power by publicly executing Saddam by hanging him, by the neck, until dead.
[Rumor has it that W faced that same sentence in Gitmo in December, 2018]

The social impact in Iraq included the reinvigoration of Islamic militants, reversal of women's rights, and a weakened an already precarious healthcare system.  The multi-billion reconstruction effort was regarded a failure as most of the monies spent on security was lost to waste or fraud.

Keep in mind that the basis of George W Bush's invasion of Iraq was based on his announcement that Saddam Hussein held "Weapons of Mass Destruction" [WMD] a claim discounted by Rick Francona who was/is an expert on the region and acted as General Schwartzkopf's personal Arabic interpreter and Intelligence Advisor.

Schwartzkopf, opposed by Dick Cheney later became critical of the rationale behind the war once he learned the "WMD" claim was fraudulent and handed in his retirement papers rather than remain on Active Duty.  No evidence was ever substantiated of WMDs in Iraq.

Our legacy in Iraq was, perhaps, to create the subsequent regional terrorist factions which represent our current global threat.

The Afghans were our closest allies in their battles against the Soviets, as we helped create and aided the Mujahiden; but, there were even allegations that the CIA created Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, via Operation Cyclone, -- and then, once the Soviets were defeated, we abandoned our Afghan colleagues, allowing religious zealots to control the Taliban who were then dubbed terrorists; they're now our enemy because bin Laden was reportedly hiding out in Afghanistan.

In spite of the Special Operations assault on bin Laden's Pakistan hideout and his assassination, he has been repeatedly reported in sightings vacationing in the Caribbean with his family.

The faux assassination of bin Laden was conducted by Admiral McRaven's Special Operations units under the guise of Operation Neptune Spear as a public relations event for then-POTUS Obama.  McRaven reportedly was one of the flag rank officers who signed on to Obama's requirement that they agreed to fire on US Civilians if so ordered.

Contrary to all Intelligence protocols, bin Laden was killed and his [supposedly his] mutilated body was dumped in the ocean, sparking Muslim outrage throughout the world, and leaving professional Intelligence officers bewildered that he was not taken captive [he was unarmed] and interrogated to obtain his knowledge of regional and global terrorist groups.

Notably, SEAL Team Six, the lead on the bin Laden assault, later suffered 38 casualties, to include 15 participants of the bin Laden raid when their Chinook helicopter was shot down on August 6, 2011IN [Extortion 17] -- not long after members of the Team lampooned Obama as in Clint Eastwood's Empty Chair soliloquy.

Loading 38 SEALs aboard a chopper in a combat zone strains credulity, but, apparently, the orders came down from McRaven -- an officer we all respected until too many of these incidents surfaced, and he has recently become a highly vocal critic of President Trump.

The chopper was allegedly shot down by a Surface to Air [SAM/MANPAD]


But, why are we in Afghanistan now?

Most experts remain bewildered, other than the US now tacitly protects the poppy/heroin trade.


And, we learned that ISIS, our Enemy-du-Jour, has been led and funded by senior officers of our closest Mid-East Allies, apparently so we would have an officially recognized enemy.

Later, we learned that Benghazi was all about covering up Hillary's arms deals with ISIS and al Qaeda by overthrowing Qadafi and transferring the contents of Libyan armories to al Qaeda -- who just might be tempted use those weapons against US forces.


Of late, we received from an anonymous donor, the complete [unclassified] war-plan designed by [former General] Wesley Clark [Clinton's protege and commander of the Military raid on Waco] in which Clark planned a war between Ukraine and Russia, into which US forces would be inserted and engaged.
[It was difficult to determine who would have been the enemy in that war, but US engagement would guarantee profits for our Defense Contractors.]

In Central America, a grouping of 'banana republics" and a hotbed of corruption, the US built up the Southern Command [SouthCom] headquarters from a Military retirement vacationland to a highly energized and blossoming combat command, focused on defeating the communist threat to Nicaragua, which Jimmy Carter had turned over to the Sandinistas by pulling support from the "evil despot", Somoza - [a West Point graduate] and allowing communist Daniel Ortega to come to power and who then ushered in the Cubans and Soviets -- who presented The Threat.

We were assigned as the Special Intelligence Advisor to SouthCom, a thinly staffed regional headquarters which could respond to any regional crisis, and watched it mushroom into a bloated, top heavy bureaucracy which justified its existence by toppling our host and ally, Noriega with a massive invasion, built a huge Military force in Honduras and El Salvador, created a war zone in El Salvador, and essentially destabilized an entire sub-continent by becoming the common enemy of all, and a seeming ally of the Drug Cartels, thanks to Bush-1, Clinton, Bush-2, and Obama.

The US militarized El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica, and headquartered Army and Air Force bases in each country, and supported Panama's Noriega as a "benevolent despot", who profited by accepting payments from the KGB, the CIA, Army Intelligence, -- and the Chinese.

[We managed HUMINT programs in CentAm following a by-name request by the CIA DDO-LA [D Clarridge] and the former DCI [V Walters] to restructure both the CIA and the Military Intelligence HUMINT operations in Latin America]

Noriega was also a drug runner and arms dealer; but, then we created an intelligence program that revealed that Noriega was not just a tin-horn dictator, but masterminded a global network of hundreds of front companies through which he moved drugs, arms, and laundered money -- a sophisticated network CIA/Deep State coveted, so Noriega was declared evil, and the US invaded Panama, and the CIA took control of all the Noriega Front Companies to carry on their global, Black enterprises.

But, all that is hidden in the background, and Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria are sort of enemy strongholds, but, we're not sure who are the good guys, or the bad guys.

So, now, who will the US have to identify and combat "The "Threat"?
Afghanistan for another 10 or 15 years? or Syria, for another 10 years!

We have the highly skilled and specialized Special Forces [the Special Operations Commmand (SOCOM) designed for insertion into hostile zones to address "Terrorists".

We have a Cyber Command which theoretically can combat hacking by all our Cyber enemies, and even the Russians, if we can admit that the US targets the successor to the USSR
[the Cyber Command apparently includes Spookdblog as an enemy since they have bombarded our residences with impulse waves, hacked our cell-phones and texted Clapper's threats to us, along with excerpts of our highly classified Officer Evaluation Reports (OER)-- just to let us know they could do it.]

Notably, there are several other Unified Commands [AfriCom, SouthCom, Strategic Command, etc.,] which serve no purpose other than to create command slots for unnecessary generals and bureaucrats, and to fund NATO.

But, let's not forget the Defense contractors who provide that expensive support for our Military forces deployed in those regions. The massive expansion of our Military and Intelligence organizations under Bush and Obama have created a huge financial burden, and a bloated Military hierarchy unseen in the history of the US -- even at the peak of World War 2.

These Commands waste manpower and equipment, and create the scenarios for regional wars - usually backing the wrong elements; they augment their forces by deploying National Guard units from the US at great expense. It's time to rethink our Military from top to bottom.

Do we need to remain in Afghanistan or Syria?

Lots of senior Military officers will state adamantly that the US must live up to its commitments in both areas of operation [AO].  But, precisely what commitment is there?



1) Afghanistan: 
After 17 years, our accomplishments consist of:
   a) Trillions of dollars spent,
   b) Deployment of countless National Guard units in six month deployments barely long enough
        to familiarize them with the environment before coming under attack,
    c) Countless suicides during, and after deployments, abominable leadership, massive
        post-deployment illnesses,
    d) Assassination of US personnel by Afghan allies, and
    e) Absolutely no positive results other than protecting Poppy fields for local drug lords,
    f) Bad guys control most of the country and the Afghan Government [our Ally] controls
        a few acres
    g) Most Afghans regard us as their enemy



2) Syria:
We've only been engaged in Syria for seven years, since 2011, and here's a list of accomplishments:
   a) Roughly 500,00 people are dead
   b) Dozens of countries are involved
   c)  Many [exact number unknown] terrorist groups are involved -- on both sides
   d)  Syrian President Assad is backed by Iran and Russia [our current "enemies"] and Pakistan
   c)  Opposition to Assad includes
        (1) hundreds of "militias" from an estimated 85 countries,
        (2) Syrian Democratic Forces [Kurdish-led coalition of Arab and Kurdish Militias],
              (a) led by the Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK)
              (b) regarded by the US and the UK as a Terrorist group although the US provides
                   them air support against ISIS]
              (c) BUT, Turkey fights the Kurds fearing they will use a victory to declare an independent
                    state along the border
        (3) Miscellaneous Arabs, Sunnis, Christians, Druze, and Kurds],
        (4) Islamic extremists -- some of which have been declared terrorists,
              including the Syrian version of al Qaeda [armed by Hillary from Libyan
              military warehouses]
        (5) ISIS- supposedly local Islamic extremists, although manpower derives from a variety
              of countries including Canada, the US, Australia, Israel, the UK, Iraq, etc.
        (6) Official backing by outside nations includes the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey
       

Mr Trump has stated he will pull out of Syria, but, given the complexities listed above, he faces a great deal of opposition from Allies, the Democrats, the Pentagon, the GOP, and all those who anticipate profiting from the continuation of this conflict.

Essentially, Trump is removing his "Boots-On-The-Ground" units and still maintaining a protective shield by creating a "No-Fly-Zone" in the Northeast of Syria which is rich in Agriculture, Water, and Energy resources - the target of all the Bad Guys.

The US can remove its primary units deployed by Obama, but tactically, can still respond, as needed from other Middle East areas, or,  from the US with Special Operations units and A-10 Warthogs, the close-air support aircraft Obama was intent on eliminating.

Assuming the reports of satellite enabled weaponry [Star Wars], bad guys [if accurately identified] could be targeted and blasted into oblivion in seconds using the Directed Energy Weapons developed back in the 1970s, or lasers developed during the 1960s, now significantly enhanced, with targeting via sophisticated technology developed since then.




In the ancient words of Walt Kelly's POGO,
"We have met the enemy, and he is US!"
Trump has an uphill battle to fix this.