Zero Oversight

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How many times must the CIA be found carrying out its primary mission – breaking the law – before it is publically recognized as a deadly threat to freedom or at least the congruency of what passes for government these days?

The letter, which was declassified and made public today reveals that “the CIA has secretly conducted its own bulk program,” authorized under Executive Order 12333, rather than the laws passed by Congress.

The letter notes that the program was “entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection, and without any of the judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight that comes from [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] collection.”

“FISA gets all the attention because of the periodic congressional reauthorizations and the release of DOJ, ODNI and FISA Court documents,” said Senators Wyden and Heinrich in response to the newly declassified documents. “But what these documents demonstrate is that many of the same concerns that Americans have about their privacy and civil liberties also apply to how the CIA collects and handles information under executive order and outside the FISA law. In particular, these documents reveal serious problems associated with warrantless backdoor searches of Americans, the same issue that has generated bipartisan concern in the FISA context.”

‘No need to bother any judge, congress critter, or the office of the president; we’ll just do whatever the hell we please!’

Now, sorry to bother you, back to the new abnormal. There’s a mask with your face under it, after all. Some women are sliding rocks across the ice on the telly! And, if you haven’t heard, the mean old Russians are up to something in another country you couldn’t find on a well-labeled map of Eastern Europe.

USA! USA?

Defending Analysts

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A modification:

In the past year or so, in writing and/or on the PPN, I think I was a little too general or too hasty in dismissing the translation notes from Langley’s edition of UNRESTRICTED WARFARE (1999). The notes’ derisiveness speaks for itself in comparison to the main body of the subject matter. However, the blame probably does not lie with the translators.

After all, as to the line interpreters, any presumable Westerner smart enough to translate Chinese is probably at least moderately familiar with simple algebra. A mid to high-level org flow chart technocrat might not be; one certainly wouldn’t be that interested in it – especially one ordered to “see no evil.”

While I should have suspected as much, I did not realize until recently the extreme pressure and bullying that went downwards through the Company in order to minimize any objective risk assessment concerning China – during the optimistic phases of the now failed Eastward Leap. (One wonders about the political acrobatics happening now as the dark state belatedly comes about). The Dilbert principle at work in a wicked agency.

If you haven’t read the book and do not know what I’m talking about here, then perhaps you’re up for a promotion!

Expensive Failure

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Who could have ever foreseen this?!

Democrats on the subcommittee argued that the program, which had passed with bipartisan support, needed more oversight, but credited it with helping “millions of small businesses and non-profit organizations stay afloat during the coronavirus crisis.” Then-Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin repeatedly defended the program to the media and Congress. The GOP report title introduces the PPP as a “Resounding Success.”

A more accurate description would have been “Expensive Failure.”

It’s not just “PPP.” Call me a crazy conspiracy theorist, but it’s almost like the whole pandemic thing was just a big old hoax. If only someone had seen something and said something. Better luck next time, right?

COLUMN: The Beast is Cornered

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The Beast is Cornered

 

What passes for news in the West is now so fake that it begins to surpass hilarity. What comes after that? Sympathy? Maybe of the end-of-Old-Yeller kind? Maybe.

Michael Bloomberg’s blog jumped the missiles and alerted the world that Russia had invaded Ukraine. This came as (fake) news to Moscow and Kyiv. Embarrassment aside, it must have been reassuring to Langley to see some of the old black budget money had properly if prematurely made its way into digital print. Next time, boys. 

Of their own accord, I think the Russians have no need to attack Ukraine. If they’re forced to act, say by utter stupidity out of DC, then I assume their response will be both proportional and overwhelming. And blindingly fast. I’m tempted to write that the fight, even against the whole machinery of the Pentagram, wouldn’t even be close – because it probably wouldn’t be. Cleetus, let me address your ultimate bluster: I don’t think the mutual destruction thing is mutually assured anymore; I can’t yet calculate odds, but I’d give the all-out nuclear win to Russia. The thing is, I think they’ve already won without having to fire the first shot. 

Right now, they’ve effectively halted NATO’s slow eastward advance. They have Washington’s puppet in Kyiv talking back to Washington. The Germans are even talking back. The rest of the world slowly notices that nothing horrible has, despite all the fake news, transpired. The DC Dark Swamp Cabal begins to look foolish. And stupid. And evil. Sometimes looks are not deceiving. 

Russia has managed, these past two decades, to remove itself from any position that can be manipulated by outsiders. Manipulation, or rather, the threat thereof, is about all that DC has anymore. It may be that the day of the SWIFT-proof Sino-Russian alliance has dawned. One-third of the world, the more cohesive, nationalistic third, would jump at the chance to do business with a financial system not run by satanists. More nations would soon follow.

The fake administration is in a terrible position as are their masters. They all know it – Nuland, Blinken, Garfinkle, Yellen, maybe even Brandon. Heck, the man they would rely on to fight their unwinnable war, Austin, just told the fools to cool the impotent bully act before someone gets killed. In one dull, demented mind after another, it occurs that the dead, rotting empire that could do nothing against the might of the Taliban has not even the proverbial snowball’s odds against a modern power. Let alone two.

Part of the wicked hatred in the hearts of too many foreign elite rulers of the USSA, for Russia, comes from the fact that too many of them are the direct ideological and/or co-ethnic descendants of Leon Trotsky. They bitterly recall their fathers’ just expulsion and may forever hold the grudge. The same scum now hates China with almost the same heat over that sane nation’s rejection of their offer to move in and “help.” Kicked out of the one and banned from the other. 

And, there’s just not much they can do about it. The late, already forgotten failure in Kazakhstan was supposed to be Ukraine 2014, 2.0. It was caught and killed in real-time. The color revolution just took up residence in Trotsky’s discarded basement in the house of history. Kapo Soros’s very recent comments about deposing Xi, via a similar coup, borders on the … hell, it crosses way over the border into the insane. It’s completely impossible. And trying it would be beyond dangerous. Like Russia, China has evidently won the latest, greatest battle against the forces of globalist iniquity without really having to do more than stand fast.

If there’s a third current party to the Alliance of the Nationalists, then it’s Iran. I’d estimate the odds of success against Tehran somewhere between those against the Taliban and China – in other words, doomed. The Iranians know it. Thus, like China and Russia, they’re just moving on while the globos sulk and stew. I wonder if they enjoy their bits of the fabricated press. That Times piece this week about the “new” missiles is years out of date and horrendously underestimating. I enjoyed it, for what that’s worth.

As an aside, the Prometheans are trapped where they are in the collapsing USSA. The other semi-plausible outlets for their escape would be Brazil and India, both of which are about to ally with the Nationalist Alliance. They’re stuck where they are and you, Americans, are stuck with them.

Know that as much as they hate Russia, China, the Islamic world, and most other places and peoples, they hate America and Americans just a little more. Not as much as they hate Jesus Christ and His Father, but it’s still a white-hot and atavistic abhorrence. Therein lies your, our danger.

This sad, tired, wounded thing in the corner is still a menace. Many teeth are broken, but the jaws are still strong. Many are missing, but the claws still attached are sharp. Shut down, shut out, and shut off from global terror and victory, they reason they can still wage hell on the American People. If you’ve been half-awake these past two years, then you know that’s a hard, horrible practice and not a theory. 

If we can stand fast, leave fear to the fearful, and resist the prevailing evil, then perhaps someday our children or their children can join the ranks of the free, reborn, civilized nations. Old Yeller’s in the barn. In the corner. Snapping and foaming. Should we consider paying him a final visit? 

UPDATE (2/11/22): If THIS alarmism is to be believed, then we may be about to see what true 21st-century warfare looks like when done right. Russia has (or would have) three probable objectives: 1) push NATO back a safe distance; 2) secure Russian demographic interests in Ukraine, and 3) get rid of Ukraine’s Brandon/Jerry Seinfeld character and fake government. A fourth honorable mention is/would be forcibly driving home to the globos that their day is well and truly over. Time will tell. Do keep in mind that these are the same alarmists who preached about an honest election in 2020, a bat-based pandemic, and 10,000 other hoaxes and lies.

E Maximus Unum?

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People from 160 NATIONS!!! all crammed in together do not make a cohesive society. They make the mess that is Miami, “schools” and all.

The school system in Florida’s most populous county includes students whose families moved here from 160 nations.

As part of the “stop-woke” agenda of Gov. Ron DeSantis, R, Florida lawmakers are now considering bills that would allow almost anyone to object to any instruction in public school classrooms. DeSantis wants to give people the right to sue schools and teachers over what they teach based on student “discomfort.” The proposed legislation is far-reaching and could affect even corporate human resources diversity training.

This anti-wokism is almost poetic justice, taking the insanity home to the retards who started it. If this proceeds, they will discover, again, that even if they try to play by the devil’s rules, he’ll just change them and quash any dissent. Wouldn’t it have been far better if the conservatives had had spines and limited America to just being the ONE Nation?

The solution, as always, to this abject stupidity is to homeschool your kids.