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The early November detention of Asif Rahman, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, indicted in a federal national security court in the Eastern District of Virginia on two counts of “willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act,” was largely downplayed in the national media. He was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday November 5th at the US Embassy in Phnom Penh in Cambodia where he was stationed and was sent to appear in the nearest federal court in Guam on Thursday the 7th to be charged. After his initial court appearance and indictment, Rahman, was transferred to a federal prison in Virginia.

Rahman was a CIA analyst with a top-secret clearance that gave him access to the classified material that passed through the Agency’s Cambodia Station, which would have included much of the routine collection and dissemination of information on developments in Asia. Rahman allegedly selected one report containing two files relating to plans by Israel to attack Iran, which he then placed on an Iranian frequented site on the Telegram messaging app called the “Middle East Spectator,” which in turn claimed that the information came from a Pentagon source. After being posted it attracted a considerable audience, including US security monitors, numerous Iranians and, inevitably, the Israelis. The two top secret documents were marked as having been produced by the US government’s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. They included satellite imagery from October 15th and 16th that showed that Israel was moving Air Force military assets preparatory to conducting a military strike on Iran. Bear in mind that Israel has long sought to eliminate Iran as an adversary in the Middle East region they share, up to and including assassination of Iranian scientists and government officials and air attacks on targets in places like Syria that have been regarded as Iranian allies. Iran, for its part, has never attacked Israel prior to recent developments relating to the Gaza conflict.

The US government declared the leak of the classified files to be “deeply disturbing” and investigators who finally focused on Rahman declared that he might have been “ideologically” motivated to expose the information. Rahman has declared himself to be not guilty and as the case relates to intelligence on a non-allied foreign country’s military making preparations for war it raises some ethical problems as well as political issues connected to Israel’s unofficial special relationship with the United States government. It is, for example, not normal for someone detained for leaking classified information to be imprisoned as the preparations for trial are underway unless they are likely to flee jurisdiction. Rahman is from a prominent and wealthy family based in Vienna Virginia and his father Muhit Rahman and lawyer Amy Jeffress sought to have him stay at home with family in custodial pretrial, which is normal, but a ruling by US District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles overruled a magistrate who said a week before that Rahman could be free of additional restrictions including detention while he is awaited his trial. Jeffress has indicated that she will be appealing the detention order which was restored by Giles.

In the event, Israel decided to proceed with its plans and carried out the attack targeting Iran’s air defense systems and missile manufacturing facilities in late October. Citing no actual evidence, court papers related to the case reveal that the US government claims the leak of the files caused Israel to delay its attack plans. Prosecutor Troy Edwards said the volatile nature of the developing situation in the Middle East made the leak especially dangerous. He explained that “It is hard to overstate what other circumstances present graver risks of danger to human life than unilaterally deciding to transmitting information related to plans for kinetic military action between two countries.”

Actually, stopping the planned “kinetic action” is the solution if one wants to save lives. Edwards’ line of reasoning, encouraging one side to proceed, could be considered to be the reverse of what might be true if one is truly seeking to mitigate the “danger to human life.” While it is unquestionably true that a government employee who takes classified information and shares it is committing a serious crime under the Espionage Act as well as other legislation, one might argue that Rahman, if actually guilty as charged and convicted, may have been responding to what he might have considered to be mitigating circumstances. By exposing information on Israeli plans to attack Iran he might have believed that he was actually saving many lives as well as avoiding an escalation of a developing major war in the Middle East. He may have revealed information that the US government considered to be classified due to the way it was obtained by satellite but which, apart from that fact, did not in any way impact on the national security of the United States. Quite the contrary, as it would be quite plausible to argue that the United States would have been dragged into any conflict escalated by Israel against Iran, which does not in any way threaten the US, and which would serve no American national interest. Examining the leak from that perspective it would be quite reasonable to argue that Rahman, if he is guilty of mishandling the classified information, was trying to avert escalating a war that would quite plausibly do damage to all countries involved, including the United States and Israel.

The Rahman case is just one more indication of how anything having to do with Israel is not quite treated by government and media in the same fashion as for any other country. It is clearly a response to the immense power of the Israel Lobby in the United States. There is a strong tendency by the US to always defer to actions and behavior that Israel exhibits while also giving the Jewish state a pass when the results are awful or even genocidal as they are in Gaza. And there is a certain irony in how it all plays out going in the other direction. Israel, in fact, has a history of actively spying against the United States without any real consequences to make it pay a price for such behavior. The most devastating spy ever to steal American defense secrets was Jonathan Pollard, a Jewish civilian employee of the US Navy, who stole whole rooms full of classified information in the 1980s, including the beyond top secret National Security Agency‘s ten-volume manual on how the US gathers its signal intelligence, to include the technical details of how the US collected information on its actual enemies during the Cold War, revealing aspects of US intelligence gathering’s “sources and methods.” The defense information went to Israel where it was used in part to trade for visas from Moscow so Russian Jews could emigrate, certainly arguably a good cause, but paid for by damaging US security. Other US classified information went from Tel Aviv to China. Condemned to a life prison sentence, Pollard actually spent years in jail, where, in 1995, he became an Israeli citizen, but he was eventually released under parole in 2015 requiring him to stay in the United States. The parole requirement was canceled by President Donald Trump and Pollard immediately returned to Israel where he was celebrated as a hero. So much for Israel as America’s good friend and ally.

By another definition, Rahman, even if found guilty as charged over the sharing of classified documents, might easily be viewed as a whistleblower, revealing information that the United States government had collected on a foreign government that might lead to a war and many deaths. Rahman may have believed that the exposure of the war plans would make Israel pause and reconsider. And maybe it would also lead the United States to also reexamine its often touted “ironclad” support of everything that Israel does as excessively risky in a volatile part of the world where Washington has considerable real interests in terms of energy issues and national security.

If Rahman were to consider himself a whistleblower acting as he did as a matter of conscience, he would not be the first CIA officer to do so. John Kiriakou was an analyst and later a case officer and counterterrorism specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who worked in the Middle East, Pakistan and Greece. After leaving the Agency he became a senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and later a consultant for ABC News, after which he became the operating manager of a political risk analysis consulting firm in Arlington Virginia. To John’s credit, he became the first US government official to confirm, during an interview with a reporter in December 2007, that waterboarding, which was simulated drowning, was routinely used to interrogate terrorist suspects, which he described as torture. One victim was reportedly waterboarded 183 times in a secret prison.

In Kiriakou’s case, as it was and still is illegal for the US government to torture people to extort a confession, the same Virginia court that is trying Rahman had to avoid allowing the potential war crimes issue to surface. So on April 5, 2012, Kiriakou was indicted, not for exposing torture, but rather for one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, three counts of violating the Espionage Act, and one count of “making false statements” for lying to the Agency’s Publications Review Board regarding a book that John was writing. Kiriakou pleaded not guilty and was released on bail. His time in court began on September 12th, 2012, at the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. It was conducted as a closed hearing in line with the Classified Information Procedures Act. On October 22, 2012, Kiriakou agreed to a plea bargain of guilty to one count of passing classified information to the media, violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and thereby avoiding a formal trial. All other charges were dropped. On January 25th, 2013, John Kiriakou was sentenced to 30 months in a federal prison. On February 3rd, 2015, Kiriakou was released to serve a final three months under house arrest at his home in Virginia. Following his release, Kiriakou said his case was not about leaking information but about exposing torture, continuing, “and I would do it all over again.”

Kiriakou, to his immense credit, never walked away from what he did, declaring firmly that the torture regime and the lies that supported it was wrong, both illegal and immoral. Was Asif Rahman a whistleblower like Kiriakou? The answer to that depends on one’s point of view as he might have been seeking to stop a war rather than start one. He may have thought that it was something that his conscience and sense of shared humanity obligated him to do without regard for the possible consequences to himself. We will see how he defends himself when he finally appears before the judges. It will possibly be a very interesting discussion about America’s values as a nation vis-à-vis the questionable behavior of the state of Israel, but instead of listening to what Rahman has to say, the public will likely be hearing something like this from those in government as echoed by the captive media: Michael Waltz, Trump’s foreign policy advisor nominee recently said “When [Secretary of State] Blinken touched down in Israel yesterday, I hope he apologized to Bibi for leaking their battle plans, and told the Israelis that they were right all along. Because the Ayatollah is in hiding right now, not because of Biden, but because of Bibi.” The sad reality is that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has overwhelmed Joe Biden and will likely do the same to Donald Trump, has been allowed to become the prime architect of the shambles that the Middle East has become with no one but a handful of whistleblowers seeking to restore sanity.

Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is [email�protected].

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  1. deejay says:

    Wars are no longer declared by America. Congress is bypassed, and the Department of “Defense” spreads death and destruction. Consequently, this a simple case of mishandling classified documents. Rahman should lose his security clearance, however well-intentioned he may have been.

    If America had the courage and honesty to actually declare a war, and then these documents were leaked, that would be a serious crime.

    •�Disagree: One Nobody
  2. anarchyst says:

    If I was on the Rahman jury, I would not be able to find him “guilty” of anything.
    In fact, I would bestow the highest civilian award upon Rahman.
    He probably stopped, or at least delayed the onset of WW3.
    Now, Netanyahu, the IOF, and his American lackeys on the other hand…a rope would be too kind…

    •�Agree: JWalters
    •�Replies: @ltlee1
    , @Exalted Cyclops
  3. Notsofast says:

    it’s looking more and more likely both israel and the u.s., are hell bent on instigating ww3. how the hell would the israelis put the toothpaste back in the tube, israel is also in shambles as a country. in addition they are engaged four separate conflicts and have yet to resolve even one of them.

    hezbollah isn’t dead and they reorganizing their command structure, as they have done before and i’m sure they are finding new supply lines, preparing for a resumption of the conflict. yemen is continuing to launch missiles at tel aviv. how long can the israelis live in this state? the palestinians and lebanese are a strong people and have endured these conditions for decades, the israelis are privileged, spoiled europeans, how long will it be before they choose to go back to where they once belonged? galant has just stated they are risking a civil war within their normally tight knit society and the world will never forget their inhuman actions in gaza and lebanon.

    it’s obvious that bibi and his murderous tribe have no other option but the u.s. is in a similar no win scenario, due to their 36 trillion dollar debt, that increases by a trillion dollars every 100 days. this is not only unsustainable it’s becoming more impossible by the day. the u.s. is shipping massive amounts of heavy equipment to europe, as the swedes build new cemeteries to handle half a million new graves.

    the russians, chinese, koreans and iranians are keeping their powder day, while running their defense industries 24/7. this is why the russians and iranians pulled out of syria, to prepare for this much larger conflict, that is appearing on the horizon. looks like trumps plan to end the conflict in ukraine, will be take the deal or ww3. if they are foolish enough to attempt this, the western world will be destroyed both militarily and economically, the real question is what will happen with the rest of the world?

  4. I guess it all depends on how one chooses to so. In this case, the crime was attempting to stop a war — that was/is motive.

    The crime was dumping classified information in an open source channel. Quite a different thing.

    I have no idea why we would be hoodwinked into another Middle East excursion in a country that is no threat to the US or Israel for that matter.

    •�Agree: Old Prude
    •�Replies: @Rev. Spooner
  5. Sadly, yes. In 1940 there was another famous whistleblower you’ve never heard of, named Tyler Kent, who tried to stop another war in Europe. He was a clerk in the code room at the US embassy in London, which sent all diplomatic dispatches from American missions across Europe to Washington. When Kent began work, US law and overwhelming public sentiment seemed to insure that America would avoid entanglement in the European war. But from his special vantage point, Kent quickly learned that President Roosevelt was doing everything in his power to subvert the law and deceive the people in order to get America into war.

    Kent decided to make copies or summaries of diplomatic dispatches documenting Roosevelt’s secret policies and somehow bring them to the attention of sympathetic GOP congressmen and senators. The most incriminating of these was the illegal top secret correspondence between Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, in which the two conspired to violate the United States’ proclaimed neutrality. But Kent was arrested at his post in May 1940 and charged with violating the British Official Secrets Act. He was sentenced to seven years in prison, but was released and returned to the United States when the war ended. To this day the US government maintains that he was a spy for Germany.

  6. Anon[111] •�Disclaimer says:

    Minor corrigendum: the Russians themselves valued Hanssen more than Pollard (who even Izzies long rejected as a nut,) so he was more useful by their lights.

    But exactly right. Every whistleblower should base their defense on Francis Boyle’s civil resistance concept, which drags jus cogens into US court. Call two witnesses, one on the facts, one on the law. Make those scumbag judges decide if they want to be on the other side of the bench in Khabarovsk. And when CIA’s pet judges negate universal jurisdiction law, go over their heads to the Human Rights Council.

    https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/complaint-procedure/hrc-complaint-procedure-index

    •�Replies: @anonymous
  7. The murder of Palistinians go unchallenged now, at least 115 this week as the murderous scum United States and its whore media blanket the crimes with disinformation, exaltation over Syria and other such BS.

    Nothing has changed with Palistine as far as Syria goes, they’re still being murdered by the U.S. proxy cowards in the sky, thats why the U.S only pick on states a lot smaller and by proxy against bigger foes,…because they’re cowards and don’t consider they could march it against real men on a equal footing.

    •�Agree: JWalters, Anonymous45
  8. anonymous[260] •�Disclaimer says:

    [[The parole requirement was canceled by President Donald Trump and Pollard immediately…]]

    I want to know how many $Millions the Assassin trump obtained from selling the ‘office’ to release this jewish traitor? He freed other rich Jews with 20 years prison time for millions of dollars. Trump extorted over $2 billions from the faggot MBS to help his real estate business. Only gullible people voted him in to sell the office for more billions from the dictators and terrorists. America is corrupt beyond repair and should be broken up to rebuild again with its own indigenous population and not the criminal western thieves and invaders.

    •�Replies: @ariadna
  9. roonaldo says:

    I dream of the day the CIA puts on a recruitment drive and there are no takers.

    •�Agree: Bro43rd
    •�Replies: @Passing by
    , @Anonymous45
  10. Rahman will be sacrificed upon the alter to Israel. It should be no surprise to anyone, especially here at Unz.com, that almost all Western politicians are bought and paid for by Israel and world Zionism/Jewry. Those that aren’t…don’t last very long! There is only one political party in the West…the Jewish Uni-Party! For those in the US expecting Trump to MAGA, get ready for MIGA with an Israel first agenda!!

    •�Agree: annacat
    •�Replies: @OrangeSmoke
  11. JWalters says:

    The Espionage Act was passed during the Woodrow Wilson administration. Wilson was surrounded and managed by a cabal of Zionists. They wanted the US to enter WWI so Britain could win the war and get control of Palestine, as explained by Benjamin Freedman. The Zionists would then take Palestine from Britain.
    A Jewish Defector Warns America: Benjamin Freedman Speaks on Zionism
    http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/israel/freedman.htm

    The American public overwhelmingly opposed entering the war, and the Espionage Act was used to silence dissenters. It was an early Zionist effort to sabotage the 1st Amendment’s freedom of speech and the press for Zionist goals.

    Recently a prominent Canadian politician condemned Iran for being a “theocratic, genocidal” regime. He emphasized that description. His emphasis seemed peculiar to me since it describes Israel so perfectly. It was almost as if he were inviting listeners to make the comparison with Israel. None did. An actual comparison would show that Iran does not persecute its Jewish or Christian citizens. And Iran is not committing genocide.

    Similarly, at a recent press conference Trump repeatedly mentioned the loss of life in Ukraine from buildings being bombed that contained civilians, and the many civilian deaths that resulted. Here too, the description perfectly fit the Israeli bombing of inhabited residential buildings in Gaza and Lebanon. Here too, it was as if he were inviting listeners to make the comparison. (None of the reporters present did.)

    Everybody paying attention knows –

    (1) The Zionists / Israelis control the corporate media. Thus they hide the central fact that the Israelis have been the terrorists in Palestine from the inception of Israel, i.e. the Nakba. This is becoming common knowledge. For example, Kim Iversen recently did a report on this. Starts at 36:00 of video.
    Queen Elizabeth’s Shocking Claims About Israelis | Exposing CNN’s Fake News AGAIN
    https://rumble.com/v5zyz5q-queen-elizabeths-shocking-claims-about-israelis-exposing-cnns-fake-news-aga.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp

    (2) The corporate media have been trying to torpedo Trump since the start of his 2016 campaign, beginning with the Russiagate fraud.

    (3) Therefore – the Zionists / Israelis have been trying to torpedo Trump since 2016.

    This is so obvious that Trump must know it.

    In his press conference Trump also said he has a “warm spot” in his heart for TikTok. This is despite the Zionist ADL working to destroy TikTok’s free speech and reporting of facts about Israel.

    Hmmm …

    If Israel were so sure Trump would support a war against Iran, would they be so desperately trying to start that war before Trump takes office? Why not simply wait?

    The Zionist Neocons are also scrambling to escalate the war with Russia by assassinating the Russian general investigating the US bioweapons labs in Ukraine (with documents implicating the Bidens).

    Is Trump’s open vow to end the Zionst Neocon war in Ukraine (based on lies) making the Zionists doubt his full-throttle support for war with Iran? Trump has recently said he’d like to get along with Iran.

    Recall that Trump withdrew most US troops from Syria, but was sabotaged in his effort to withdraw them all. And there are reports that he was pushed into going along with the Soleimani assassination (a longstanding Israeli plan).

    The ongoing efforts by the corporate (Zionist) media to sabotage Trump’s clean-up crew (Tulsi, RFK Jr, Patel, etc) looks like a serious effort by the Zionst Deep State to sabotage Trump 2.0. Here’s a good example of why.
    Mel K & Kash Patel | Government Gangsters Last Stand?
    https://rumble.com/v5yea1q-icymi-mel-k-and-kash-patel-government-gangsters-last-stand-the-people-are-w.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp

    Here’s Glenn Greenwald’s thoughtful take on Trump 2.0.
    A New Trump Revealed In TIME’s Person Of The Year Interview?
    https://rumble.com/v5yytx5-a-new-trump-revealed-in-times-person-of-the-year-interview.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp

    The sabotage operation extends to the Deep State members of Congress. Mere bribery cannot explain the horrific acts of genocide and brazen acts of treason they are supporting. The most plausible explanation to me is they are being blackmailed. They have secrets that are so sleazy and revolting they will destroy the Constitution they swore to uphold. Whitney Webb has documented this history in her book One Nation Under Blackmail. Her website:
    Unlimited Hangout
    https://unlimitedhangout.com/

    “Swamp” does not adequately describe the murderous, putrid cesspool that controls our country.

    •�Agree: Jim H
  12. JWalters says:
    @deejay

    In the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (published 1905) there is described a plan to get America into wars by authority of the president alone, bypassing the Constitutional requirement that Congress declare wars. This development is not an accident. It has been engineered by the Zionist mafia in order to drag American lives and money into wars for the Talmudic conquest of the world.

    It’s also no accident that the plans for American global hegemony were also developed by Jews, including the Wolfowitz Doctrine and the Project for a New [Israeli] “American” Century. The wars for Israel in the Middle East have utilized this strategy of bypassing Congressional declarations of war. Congress does not object because it has been filled with low-integrity cowards who are blackmailed by the Zionist mafia and then promoted to Congress. The top leadership are the most tightly controlled.

    This is why they are so willing to directly attack the first right in the Bill of Right, the right to freedom of speech and the press. This is to silence the truth about the Jewish mafia that has captured Congress and bought up the corporate media.

    •�Thanks: EL_Kabong, One Nobody
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    , @EL_Kabong
  13. It’s possible that Rahman did nothing wrong. There was a high-level leak and pressure on the CIA to find the source. They had no leads so just picked out a A-rab name to throw under the bus.

    Since his release from prison, former high-level CIA officer John Kiriakou has been all over YouTube exposing CIA corruption.


    Video Link

  14. cousin lucky says: •�Website

    Imho – Our God is money ( profit ) if it is profitable it is right for America.

    Wars, drugs, prostitution, etc bring in lots of money and that is all that matters here.

  15. Z-man says:

    This is the first I’ve heard of this, thank you.
    Philip, this story, as written, is so compelling that you should make sure that this young man’s father and lawyer have it to help with his defense.
    Thanks again.

  16. @JWalters

    I wish the citizens would just rebel…

  17. For each passing day, it is becoming clear that the total destruction of israel is an existential sine qua non for the whole world. The day the cancerous entity israel will be wiped off is fast approaching. The abominable zionist themselves are the best insurers of their own annihilation.
    Perchance a word of thanks is due?🤣

  18. @Non-Totalitarian

    Yes, thank you. We need to stop blaming “Israel” for controlling U.S. policies and start pointing to the true source “world Zionism/Jewry: Transnational Organized Jewry. Israel would be eliminate if not for the American Organized Jewry who dictate what can and cannot be published in legacy media, that each member of Congress (except Massie) must have Jew “handler”, who dictate to the federal and state legislators what laws to pass (especially censoring free speech when it comes to Jews, Israel and sexual deviants). Organized Jewry is essentially a crime family that bribes, blackmails, brainwashes those in power.
    Focus on the true cause of Israeli power and the American declining power.

  19. Jim H says:

    ‘This is why they are so willing to directly attack the first right in the Bill of Rights, the right to freedom of speech and the press.’ — JWalters

    With a government shutdown deadline coming up tomorrow, and the onus being on the House to vote a continuing resolution, it appears unlikely that Rabbi Schumer of the Senate will be able to attach S.4127, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, to the CR.

    Anything is possible, since we live in a post-constitutional era, and the so-called rule of law is a hollow joke. But when the rule of law still prevailed, a Senate amendment to House-passed legislation would require sending the amended bill back to the House for concurrence (or not).

    With Congress Clowns itching to skip town for the holidays, no time remains for additional votes on an amended bill. More likely, the unconstitutional and un-American Antisemitism Awareness Act will be reintroduced next month in the 119th Clowngress by a bipartisan group of whored-out, dual-loyalty traitors.

    •�Agree: Bro43rd
    •�Replies: @lavoisier
  20. John Dael says:
    @deejay

    All wars are evil. Period.

    And all those trying to stop them are the blessed of God.

    http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/all-wars-are-evil-period/

    •�Replies: @deejay
  21. Jews lie. The more power they are allowed to have, the bigger and more egregious their lies become.

    The Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant

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    The Grant years had brought American Jews heightened visibility and new levels of respect. More Jews served in public office than ever before, and for the first time America had firmly committed itself, even in its relations with other nations, to human rights policies “making no distinction…on account of religion or nativity,” with the aim of securing “universal liberal views.” An optimistic American Jewish community built synagogue after synagogue and established the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (1873), the first successful American synagogue organization; and the Hebrew Union College (1875), the first successful American rabbinical school.

    While Grant was not responsible for all of American Jewry’s progress during his White House years, his statements and actions, so marked in contrast with his General Orders No. 11 during the Civil War, set a new national tone. Looking back some 40 years later, Grant’s friend Simon Wolf,who knew every American president from James Buchanan to Woodrow Wilson, concluded that “President Grant did more on behalf of American citizens of Jewish faith at home and abroad than all the Presidents of the United States prior thereto or since.”

    Jews have never in their history cared about “Human Rights” and “Universal Liberal views”, and least of all “free speech”. It was always a lie, just like their lies about “blood libel”.

    But later on we get to sweet morsel of history:

    At age 58, Grant returned to private life. He settled into a handsome brownstone in New York City and, with help from longtime friends, members of the Seligman banking family, joined his son as a silent partner in the investment banking firm of Grant and Ward. The firm was managed by young Ferdinand Ward, known in his day as the “Napoleon of Wall Street.” With Grant’s illustrious name and Ward’s illustrious reputation, the firm quickly succeeded. On paper, at least, Grant became rich.

    By the time the 1884 election rolled around, however, Grant was destitute and largely out of politics. Ward, the Bernard Madoff-like swindler of his day, had borrowed against securities, paid out inflated dividends, used funds from one investor to reimburse another, and inevitably proved unable to cover his debts. The firm went bankrupt and Grant’s entire net worth vanished.

    Shabbos goyim who live by the Hebrew sword often end up being slaughtered by the Hebrew sword. Just ask the millions of Russian Freemasons and Bourgeousi that were slaughtered from 1917-1935,

    •�Agree: Passing by
    •�Thanks: hobnob, Bro43rd, anarchyst, Z-man
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    , @ariadna
    , @Felpudinho
  22. Priss Factor says: •�Website

    You know the US was behind this.

  23. Priss Factor says: •�Website

    The cursed tribe

  24. eah says:

    >Asif Rahman, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer

    The existence of the whole national security state, including/especially the CIA, is bad enough — while expressing no opinion on what this guy allegedly did, i.e. whether leaking the info was an admirable form of genuine public service (as opposed to the millions of government employees we are insultingly told are ‘public servants’), a Snowden-esque act so to speak, the fact someone named Asif Rahman, a surname most common in Bangladesh, was ‘a CIA analyst with a top-secret clearance’, is peak civnat insanity, and having such people as ‘CIA analysts with a top-secret clearances’ is potentially even more damaging to ‘national security’ — but powerful taboos prevent anyone in a position of influence from saying that out loud.

    •�Agree: Old Prude
  25. SafeNow says:

    “the immense power of the Israel Lobby” – the essay

    Maybe I am just ignorant, but I need help understanding how, mechanically, this lobbyist power is powerful. Is it that the lobbyist guy scores an interview with a Senator, and the lobbyist is so fluent, and so smart, that 10 or 20 minutes later, the Senator is saying, Hey, wow, I didn’t grasp it before, but now I get it! Or is it a matter of a monetary donation? If so, how big is the donation thst makes him powerful? Or, if not the above, then what?

  26. Old Prude says:

    I thought I was going to read about someone who was trying to keep Americans from getting killed, but it turns out its just another foreigner looking out for his tribe.

  27. @roonaldo

    If is said that 5% of any given population are psychopaths so there will always be takers.

    •�Agree: roonaldo
  28. @SafeNow

    Lookup “political ponerology”.

  29. ariadna says:
    @anonymous

    [[The parole requirement was canceled by President Donald Trump and Pollard immediately…]]

    Curiously, in all his statements beating his chest about all he has done for Israel Trump never mentions this great good deed. He only mentions “gifts” like the Golan Heights, or moving the embassy, or even having Suleimani assassinated, which are not perceived by most Americans as having any impact on the US. It would be nice, wouldn’t it, if someone pretending to be an Israel supporter would publicly thank him for it.

    •�Replies: @anon
  30. @roonaldo

    If only that were true. I’ve known military retirees, a number of whom couldn’t string two English sentences together who were making about 6 times my SS benefits.

  31. ariadna says:

    “The defense information went to Israel where it was used in part to trade for visas from Moscow so Russian Jews could emigrate, certainly arguably a good cause”

    A “good cause”? Much more “arguably” it was an aggravating factor. It was a minor relief for Russia getting rid of them, but a damage to the US where most of them wound up.

    •�Replies: @DanFromCT
  32. @Observator

    Thanks I had never heard of this guy.

    I read through his wikipedia bio, quite odd (not surprising!).

    “Kent was tried in camera at the Old Bailey. Brown paper was pasted on the windows and glass door panels. ” That is, illegally under US law.

    “….if they [the secret documents] had come to light at that time, Anglo-American relations would have been seriously damaged, for they showed that Roosevelt was looking at ways to evade the Neutrality Acts to help Britain survive a German onslaught.[2] This would also have damaged Roosevelt’s re-election bid for the presidency that year.[3]

    “At his trial, Kent also admitted he had taken documents from the US Embassy in Moscow, with the vague notion of someday showing them to US senators who shared his isolationist, antisemitic views. He said he burned the Moscow documents before being assigned to London. It was learned later that he had fallen in love with an interpreter who worked for the NKVD, thus fueling speculations that he had Soviet contacts.”

    Isolationist. Antisemitic. But also ‘pro Soviet’. Something doesn’t add up! As usual.

    The word ‘isolationist’ as a scare word, as a smear, as a criticism, is one of the deep state’s most successful verbal creations.

    •�Replies: @teotoon
  33. ariadna says:

    “waterboarding, which was simulated drowning, was routinely used to interrogate terrorist suspects, which he described as torture. One victim was reportedly waterboarded 183 times in a secret prison.”

    Chiriacou could have said in his defense that he made this revelation hoping to help people understand how difficult it was to make Islamic terrorists confess to the crimes we knew they must have committed, and how arduous the work of our interrogators was, pointing out that all the methods used were strictly legal because legal advisors like DeSantis were present to vouch for it.
    Granted, waterboarding is not an entirely enjoyable experience for the suspect obstinately refusing to confess, but why is it that nobody considers the effect of the waterboarder, like the sheer exhaustion from the effort, for one thing.

    •�LOL: WingsofaDove
    •�Replies: @Commentator Mike
  34. anonymous[627] •�Disclaimer says:
    @Anon

    Speaking of ‘scumbag judges’ … perhaps at the core of the USA’s political problems

    Phil Giraldi’s article begins by speaking of the federal judges of the Eastern District of Virginia, the district with CIA offices and federal judges most involved in ‘national security cases’ as here cited, the same judges used in the lawfare against Julian Assange and others

    In Europe there is an exile from the USA, a dual Polish & American citizen and former DOJ employee, who became a victim of those Virginia federal judges in a documented extortion scheme that involved a Bush-Clinton millionaire donor reportedly involved in paedophilia with children’s dead bodies, a gang of lawyers who seemed to be bribing those judges, and eventual Donald Trump impeachment investigator Robert Mueller overseeing this

    In 2018 that victim of the Virginia judges and Mueller, filed a 28-page-dossier with the USA Justice Dept IG re Mueller-endorsed-fed-judge-bribery, and faxed it to incoming Attorney General Bill Barr … who after reading the dossier, ordered an immediate wind-down of the Mueller impeachment foray, with Mueller later presenting as semi-senile as he testified before Congress. The dossier on Mueller and Virginia federal judge bribery is here –
    http://dr-les-sachs.eu/DOJ-IG-memo-Mueller-bribery-extortion.pdf
    The Bush-Clinton donor is reported as boasting, ‘Bribed American judges, motherf-cker!’
    Out of his experience, the former DOJ employee, made what became for many the standard reference guide to dealing with USA judicial and legal corruption
    https://faqusajudicialcorruption.blogspot.com/
    Also a target of Virginia federal judges –

    •�Replies: @N. Joseph Potts
  35. ltlee1 says:
    @anarchyst

    If I was on the Rahman jury, I would not be able to find him “guilty” of anything.
    In fact, I would bestow the highest civilian award upon Rahman.
    He probably stopped, or at least delayed the onset of WW3.

    There had or have been a movement to ask jury members to give not guilty verdict regarding narcotic drug use for those accused. At the same time, judges also say the jail term is unreasonably harsh for carrying a small amount of narcotics. But ultimately, guilty or not guilty, as well as prison term, are mostly a matter of legal codes. Not individual subjective morality.

    More important, the question raised by Philip Giraldi is a question of democracy. To what degree the people’s view matter? And how could people express their dissatifaction on a day in day out basis rather than once every few years?

    •�Replies: @Bro43rd
  36. DanFromCT says:
    @ariadna

    The most awful people I’ve encountered are these Jewish émigrés from Russia. A group of a dozen or so couples, no doubt given free housing and reportedly getting paid US Social Security just as if they’d worked their entire lives in the US, were given free memberships at a local Y with amenities like towel service, where these short, stocky, crude aliens used towels to wipe themselves. The steam and sauna rooms had to be closed because they were urinating in them, and one of them defecated in the shower. Last I heard they were asked to leave. Will persecution of such fine people never end?

  37. Che Guava says:
    @Observator

    I’d read of Kent before. As a U.S. citizen and U.S. government employee, his imprisonment under Britain’s Official Secrets Act had no legal validity.

    The Official Secrets Act isn’t arbitrary like the U.S. Espionage Act.

    If a person goes into certain jobs, in the military (any, at least for officers), intelligence (any), bureaucracy (if having access to state secrets), or military R&D (any), the person has to sign an agreement to be subject to the act as a requirement of the job.

    So, Kent was lawlessly imprisoned as an inconvenience throughout that war.

    •�Agree: WingsofaDove
    •�Replies: @Che Guava
  38. Priss Factor says: •�Website

    Two-faced piece of shit


    Video Link

    •�Replies: @ariadna
  39. megoy says:

    So happy to see Jews get burned by their big lie that “diversity is our greatest strength”. We saw Jew Pollard steal for Israel, the Chinese steal for China, and now a Middle Eastern steal for Iran. Maybe there are some Iranians in our nuclear facilities that can change coordinates to hit Israel!

  40. hobnob says:
    @Pepé Le Pew

    Jews have a knack for profiting from adversity. Grant’s order expelling the Jews set the stage for their empowerment. So says the author you quote. They got Lincoln to rescind the order immediately. Grant apologized publicly and as a sign of his repentance, when President, appointed more Jews to public office than any predecessor. He rejected calls for a Christian-nation amendment to the Constitution and “embraced Jews as insiders in America, part of ‘we the people’,” according to the same author. He also gave unprecedented support to Jews claiming persecution in Russia and Romania.

    If Grant was the first President to grovel to the Jews, he wouldn’t be the last.

    •�Agree: Pepé Le Pew
  41. Wokechoke says:
    @Notsofast

    Expanding military production is a smart move.

  42. Whistleblowing in the federal government became a crime under Obama. With the legalization of domestic propaganda from the State Dept/ CIA, the conversion of the old legacy media into State Media spewing Official Narratives from the federal government, and the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016, the US is well on its way to Stasi-like, Orwellian totalitarianism with unconstitutional censorship of dissenting views (most obvious during Covid) in the specious name of National Security.

    Matt Taibbi exposed the burgeoning federal government Censorship of Disinformation (including malinformation–true but “inconvenient”) in the Twitter Files (along with Michael Shellenberger and others) where the FBI and other government agencies demanded social media censor free speech of their opponents or face defamation cases in court, like book publishers (only for thousands of posts per day). While briefly held in check with Trump’s election, these Disinformation “Specialists” are counter-attacking (for National (and Global) Security of course). Today Taibbi sent out the following details:

    https://www.racket.news/p/twitter-files-extra-how-the-files

  43. anon[360] •�Disclaimer says:
    @ariadna

    Hello Honey !

     This site and you in particular, live in a world of make believe. Everyone has a “we should do” and “this needs to happen” but its all Alice in Wonderland hogwash. Arianna…is the queen of drivel !

    Your comments and ideas have a dreamlike quality about them ie they are bullshit !

    Here is the reality. Jews rule and few Americans even the Arabs with US Citizenship give a horse’s ass about their own or the Palestinians in particular. They are niggers and are using up our resources, They have to go ! If you like them so much contact your congressman and put some up in your crummy apartment.

    You, MAGA and the rest of the best of the west can forget about the Don. He is a controlled asset, bought, paid for and owned.

    Jews are in control and the Goy, Blacks and Darkies must toe the line. Its a Jew world and the non-Hebrews are there to serve. Get that through your thick shit filled skull. You and the rest of the dreamers have been mouthing off on this site for years now and nothing ha changed.

    Repeat after me: Jews are the Masters ! Do so before and after bed and recondition your tiny brain.

    Shalom !

    •�Agree: Servenet
    •�Replies: @ariadna
    , @Felpudinho
    , @Caruthers
  44. ariadna says:
    @Pepé Le Pew

    Ulysses Grant: How to co-opt the US presidency and make it subservient to Jewish interests.
    Brilliantly played, considering that was in the infancy of JP in America.

  45. Asif Rahman. Hmmm! What nationality is he? Sounds like a Muzzie.

  46. Bro43rd says:
    @ltlee1

    Jury nullification, how 1 person can make the difference. Every jurist should know this concept but the justice system works systematically to eliminate thinking people as jurists.

    •�Replies: @anarchyst
  47. Agent76 says:

    “In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell

    September 14, 2024 What is the Deep State? The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11 By Prof. Peter Dale Scott Defines “the Deep State”

     I would like to discuss four major and badly understood events – the John F. Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11. I will analyze these deep events as part of a deeper political process linking them, a process that has helped build up repressive power in America at the expense of democracy. 

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-doomsday-project-and-deep-events-jfk-watergate-iran-contra-and-9-11/27806   

    Dec 10, 2024 Why the Intel Agencies Want to Track Your Every Transaction and Throw Roger Ver in Jail for Life
    
    Roger Ver is facing life in prison for revealing how the US government worked secretly to subvert cryptocurrency and prevent economic freedom. More people should hear this story.
    

    Video Link

  48. annacat says:
    @Observator

    Thanks for the info,Observator!
    Like many others, at least those who live in Europe,I had no idea.

    •�Replies: @N. Joseph Potts
  49. Yes trying to stop a messianic zionist war is a crime in the zionist controlled ZUS, zionists are destroyers of nations and humanity and they have been at it since 1913, when the zionist banking kabal took over the money creation with the creation of their central bank the FED and their graduated income tax, the IRS, both of which are unconstitutional and are 2 of the 10 planks of the communist manifesto, so, with that America was placed under zionist communist satanist control.

    Zionist communists were the agent provocateur behind WWI and WWII and all the wars right down to the war in the Ukraine and the war in Syria, all brought about by the jewish banking kabal for profit for the zionist predator banksters and deaths and unpayable debt for the rest of us.

    Orwell was right , war is peace, freedom is slavery , and ignorance is strength, all brought to us by the messianic zionist satanists who are in control of every western regime.

    •�Agree: annacat
  50. teotoon says:
    @WingsofaDove

    The word anti-Semitic is also a scare word.

    •�Agree: WingsofaDove
  51. @annacat

    You were ignorant (but sapient) in 1940? “No idea” of what?

  52. ariadna says:
    @DanFromCT

    why did they get into the showers? weren’t they afraid?

    •�Replies: @DanFromCT
  53. anarchyst says:
    @Bro43rd

    Jury nullification involves “judging the law” itself in determining whether to convict or acquit a defendant. It is legal in all 50 states, but will not be disclosed to you. In fact, it you bring up jury nullification during voir dire (jury selection) you will be dismissed. If you bring it up as a reason for acquittal, depending on the court, you may be charged with contempt for refusing to base your decision on the defendant’s actions. Although jury nullification is legal, many jurisdictions will attempt to make it “illegal”.

    The key to successful jury nullification is to “keep your mouth shut” and tell NO ONE of your intent, especially other jurors.
    As firearms, environmental and civil-rights laws are technically unconstitutional and illegal, I would be reluctant to convict someone for merely “not having a piece of paper”, “digging a ditch on one’s own land” or “refusing to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding”.

    These are but three of many examples of when “jury nullification” MUST be used. It only takes ONE juror who refuses to convict to either declare a “mistrial” or “acquittal”.

    The one holdout juror (you) will probably be lectured by the “judge” who wants to dispose of the case, but you must stand your ground. The “judge” may threaten you with “contempt of court” but that is also highly illegal. Do not explain yourself beyond stating that “reasonable doubt” exists in your mind and that you cannot convict. In every case, do not mention jury nullification.

    •�Agree: Bro43rd
  54. ariadna says:
    @anon

    Not all Trolls are created equal. There’s dumb, willingly dumb, and then there’s pretending to be even dumber while venomous. You’re auditioning for the third class. Buzz off.

  55. ariadna says:
    @Priss Factor

    The worst blow that could ever hit Stiller would be for the rabbinate to call his mother conversion to Judaism invalid for having been done by a Reformed rabbi.

  56. anarchyst says:
    @DanFromCT

    They were merely following the dictates of their “rabbis”.
    Jews are so twisted that they seek advice from their “rabbis” for every little action, even rules for defecating on the Sabbath. Since it is illegal and verboten to tear toilet paper on the Sabbath, (considered to be “work”), the “rabbinical solution” is to get a “goy” to wipe the jew’s filthy @ss.
    This is not a joke.
    As to the uncleanliness of the jews, General George S. Patton had much to say about the filthy habits of the jews.
    Not too long ago, a gaggle of jews were kicked off an airline flight from Detroit to Miami (where else?) for attempting to “fly while stinky”. Complaints from other passengers forced the flight crew to take action and kick them off the flight. The airline provided them with a free hotel room for which to clean themselves. They were put on a flight the following day.
    They are now suing the airline for refusing to allow them to “fly while stinky”.
    Chutzpah, indeed…

  57. barracuda says:

    Drones have been spotted over Georgia. Some drones were reported to be sending out a jamming beam, preventing the camera from taking a picture at night time.

  58. Dr. Rock says:

    ZOG- The “U.S. Government” is 100% captured by jews.

    Not just Zionists, not simply NeoCons, and not just anti-American Marxists, but jews. Anti-White, Anti-Christian, spitting on all traditional human values, and working to destroy the Goyim in every way possible; Satan Worshipping jews.

    Once yo learn this, and see it (called “noticing”), you can never unsee it, nor stop seeing it, and everything else makes perfect sense.

    The the single Unified Theory that explains everything!

    Many of us here at TUR knows this precisely!

  59. CMC says:
    @Observator

    Tyler Kent

    Lots of whoppers in this timeline.

    ‘He was a clerk in the code room at the US embassy in London,’ AND ‘arrested at his post in May 1940 and charged with violating the British Official Secrets Act.’

    How is that possible? Aren’t embassies ‘considered sovereign territory of the sending state, not the host country, according to the Vienna Convention’?

    Why wasn’t there a US Marine Gunnery Sergeant Hartman asking the other Marines on guard duty why they weren’t stomping the guts out of the non-American foreign presumably British arresting officers? The arresting officers presumably would be British, right, since Kent was apparently charged with British crimes?

    But let’s dial back in time. Wikipedia. This needs a full quote:

    “Through his father’s connections, he joined the State Department and was posted to Moscow under William C. Bullitt, the first American ambassador to the Soviet Union. There he was promoted to cipher clerk.

    “By 1939, he was suspected of engaging in espionage for the Soviet Union, but lacking any solid evidence, the Diplomatic Service decided to transfer him to the embassy in London, where he began working on October 5, 1939. With a position that required him to encode and decode sensitive telegrams, Kent had access to a wide range of secret documents.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Kent

    Ha ha ha! Come on. This is nuts. Srsly?!?

    He was suspected of spying for the Soviets. In 1939. “But lacking any solid evidence…”

    Ok, in a rational normal comprehensible serious world, the next part of that sentence would read something like, “the diplomatic service posted him to a low-level backwater non-strategic banker’s hours career dead-end locale.”

    But no. Like wow the federal civil service unions must have been something back then, because our guy not only doesn’t lose his job, or get posted to an igloo in the South Pole, but he gets posted to possibly the next most important, if not the most important diplomatic posting in the world at the time, Londonium. Come on. Can we be real here?

    Ok, ok, but they put him in a real crap position? Like that embassy’s version of the NYC teachers union rubber room? They locked him in a basement room for 8 hours a day, right? Kept him cut off from all comms, from even seeing anyone, from any access? They had guys literally just walk him in and out blindfolded, right?

    LOL no, let’s set this guy to work in the beating heart of the whole operation! Full access! Key man! Secret documents! Right there inside, at work on the sine qua non of all successful conspiracies: secure comms.

    Major doubts on the history of this Kent fella.

    •�Replies: @Rich
  60. EL_Kabong says:

    “Prosecutor Troy Edwards said the volatile nature of the developing situation in the Middle East made the leak especially dangerous.”

    Really? A leak that supposedly postponed air strikes on another nation which would likely kill people on the ground, ‘made the leak especially dangerous’ All it really did was throw a wrench in Israel’s planned strikes.

  61. @ariadna

    Since we know that these Jihadi terrorists are actually CIA agents, then all this waterboarding must just be training for the terrorist agents (and the CIA torturers) just in case the terrorists fall into someone else’s hands and reveal who they really work for. All that rendition was just gathering potential terrorists from around the world and training them. Guantanamo too is just a training centre from which terrorists are released to go do their jobs. Some die in suicide bombings, some return, some are permanently released to spy for the CIA; nobody really knows what goes on there under the veil of secrecy, but it certainly isn’t what we’re told.

    •�Troll: Sarita
  62. @EliteCommInc.

    I think he’s a scapegoat and being framed.
    An Asian, a Muslim and belonging to the CIA? Methinks he would be more Catholic than the Pope.
    He’s being framed.

    •�Replies: @EliteCommInc.
  63. EL_Kabong says:
    @JWalters

    We get it all with just this single Protocol. We can see every detail of this entire Protocol taking place before our eyes today.

    Protocol 7

    1. The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces – are all essential for the completion of the aforementioned plans. What we have to get at is that there should be in all the States of the world, besides ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our interests, police and soldiers.

    2. Throughout all Europe, and by means of relations with Europe, in other continents also, we must
    create ferments, discords and hostility. Therein we gain a double advantage. In the first place we keep in check all countries, for they will know that we have the power whenever we like to create disorders or to restore order. All these countries are accustomed to see in us an indispensable force of coercion.

    In the second place, by our intrigues we shall tangle up all the threads which we have stretched into the cabinets of all States by means of the political, by economic treaties, or loan obligations. In order to succeed in this we must use great cunning and penetration during negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is called the “official language,” we shall keep to the opposite tactics and assume the mask of honesty and complacency. In this way the peoples and governments of the GOYIM, whom we have taught to look only at the outside whatever we present to their notice, will still continue to accept us as the benefactors and saviours of the human race.

    UNIVERSAL WAR

    3. We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war.

    4. The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its undertakings: the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat.

    5. We must compel the governments of the GOYIM to take action in the direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly promoted by us through the means of that so-called “Great Power” – THE PRESS, WHICH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY ENTIRELY IN OUR HANDS.

    In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the goyim in Europe in check, we
    shall show our strength to one of them by terrorist attempts and to all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising against us, we shall respond with the guns of America or China or Japan.

    It is still(for now), America’s guns being used to flatten the enemies of Israel. If America somehow would turn against them, then they’ll switch to China and Russia and use their guns on America.

    •�Thanks: anarchyst
    •�Replies: @JWalters
  64. @DanFromCT

    Why didn’t they give them memberships to their local JCC? They’d be right at home.

  65. DanFromCT says:
    @ariadna

    . . . to defecate, apparently

  66. @anon

    They are niggers and are using up our resources, They have to go ! If you like them so much contact your congressman and put some up in your crummy apartment.

    LOL! I can see Nellie (aka ariadna) training those “niggers” to make crumpets and serve her tea, trying – since she has to feed them – to put them to some good use around the house.

    As for the rest of your comment: It’s rings as a parody on what conceited (devout?) Jews think; it’s both over-the-top comedy and a reminder of what millions of Jews genuinely believe about us soulless goyim – it’s worth remembering.

    •�Troll: Sarita
  67. Sarita says:

    Dear Mr Giraldi,

    Is this true?
    (This kind of anomalies will never happen in third world countries)

  68. @Sarita

    True unfortunately!

    •�Replies: @Sarita
  69. @Rev. Spooner

    The intelligence services do frame people. And since 9/11, I suspect that the intel services have hired: muslims, asians, and mix more than ever before.

    And with the liberal hijacking of of some very legitimate concerns hiring practices are probably not what they used to be.

    If one can ever get to the evidence of a frame up that would be helpful, but I suspect that this gentleman’s hire was what it was diversifying the workplace.

    As for the supposed conduct, if accurate, it is disappointing. There are plenty of other methods of protest, that do not require a complete download of potential operations. While, I think Iran is a problem and despite being an ally of Russia and probably China — her threat level is just not enough to tear up the middle east further. That said knowing that Iraq and Iran will grow in partnership. But I suspect that there are plenty of Sunnis that will have something to say about that. The Shah is gone and I don’t see another anywhere on the horizon. We should have supported him when we had the chance.

    I just don’t subscribe to the agenda of democratizing countries by force. These are countries whose foundations are “religious” 360 The Koran despite its lack of historical support governs not only private life, but public life as well. So extremists seem unlikely to be dancing on the pillars of democratic reform.

    I don’t reject framing, I just am not aware of any evidence to support. And I absolutely believe people get framed.

  70. @Pepé Le Pew

    Ulysses S. Grant, bankrupt, painfully dying from throat cancer, wrote his autobiography in his hope to provide economic security to his wife before he died. Mark Twain, Grant’s good friend, saved him from signing a terrible writing contract and helped market his autobiography, which Grant finished mere weeks before his death. The book was a huge success and Grant’s wife’s finances were secure for the rest of her life.

    “Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant,” is a good read. Here’s the link:

    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4367/pg4367-images.html

    An excerpt of an American boy’s life, Grant’s life, in 1830’s America:

    “Chilton is reported as having told of an earlier horse-trade of mine. As he told the story, there was a Mr. Ralston living within a few miles of the village, who owned a colt which I very much wanted. My father had offered twenty dollars for it, but Ralston wanted twenty-five. I was so anxious to have the colt, that after the owner left, I begged to be allowed to take him at the price demanded. My father yielded, but said twenty dollars was all the horse was worth, and told me to offer that price; if it was not accepted I was to offer twenty-two and a half, and if that would not get him, to give the twenty-five. I at once mounted a horse and went for the colt. When I got to Mr. Ralston’s house, I said to him: “Papa says I may offer you twenty dollars for the colt, but if you won’t take that, I am to offer twenty-two and a half, and if you won’t take that, to give you twenty-five.” It would not require a Connecticut man to guess the price finally agreed upon. This story is nearly true. I certainly showed very plainly that I had come for the colt and meant to have him. I could not have been over eight years old at the time. This transaction caused me great heart-burning. The story got out among the boys of the village, and it was a long time before I heard the last of it. Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did, and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity. I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. When I went to Maysville to school, in 1836, at the age of fourteen, I recognized my colt as one of the blind horses working on the tread-wheel of the ferry-boat.”

  71. Colin Wright says: •�Website

    Wars usually lead to unmeasured acts of intolerance: see the First World War and the Espionage Act, the internment of Japanese-Americans in 1942, the Cold War and the Red Scare. Even the shenanigans accompanying the American Civil War.

    I’d say the real distinction is that these wars were about real issues, dramatically affecting the world, or at least America. They mattered, and right or wrong, our response was understandable.

    All this is just about groveling to the blood-lust of just about the nastiest little state that’s ever appeared in the First World. It’s the same abuse of rights — but on behalf of evil, and in no way in our own interest. It’s the difference between killing the neighbor because he molested your daughter and killing him because his cat took a crap in your yard.

  72. Che Guava says:

    Thank you. It is a touching tale.

    Educational, too, for me. I’d always assumed the paddle-wheel was simply an early application of steam-power on the water. Never heard of horse-driven cylindrical paddles before. Is it true? If so, assume the horses were on deck, or a deck, driving an axle.

    They would have had to whip the horses like hell to go upstream, or even to find a stable berth, if rain had caused strong currents.

  73. bjondo says:

    History, no secrets here:

    What happened in Syria A Dialogue with Dr Olsi!, 57:31, Sheikh Imran Hosein

    Video Link

    5ds

  74. Servenet says:

    Is there a single person, who is both rational and has a baseline moral frame, that has any sense of patriotism or belonging to this evil quasi-country? A boomer whose father was a WWII vet – USMC Pacific, was fiercely patriotic for most of my life, but has lost it COMPLETELY sometime along this evil age.

  75. Che Guava says:
    @Che Guava

    A point to add, his extralegal incarcenation long (by 18 or so months) pre-dated official U.S. entry to the war, so it was doubly a betrayal of a U.S. citizen.

    Does anyone know what became of him after his release?

  76. Rich says:
    @CMC

    Wikipedia isn’t a good source of information. It’s politically slanted and often put together by ideologues and ignorant individuals.

    •�Replies: @CMC
  77. EL_Kabong says:
    @DanFromCT

    “The steam and sauna rooms had to be closed because they were urinating in them, and one of them defecated in the shower.”

    General George Patton –

    “We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any sense of decency or else they lost it all during their period of internment by the Germans. My personal opinion is that no people could have sunk to the level of degradation these have reached in the short space of four years.”

    “These people do not understand toilets and refuse to use them except as repositories for tin cans, garbage, and refuse . . . They decline, where practicable, to use
    latrines, preferring to relieve themselves on the floor.”

    “Where, although room existed, the Jews were crowded together to an
    appalling extent, and in practically every room there was a pile of garbage
    in one corner which was also used as a latrine. The Jews were only forced
    to desist from their nastiness and clean up the mess by the threat of the
    butt ends of rifles. Of course, I know the expression ‘lost tribes of Israel’
    applied to the tribes which disappeared — not to the tribe of Judah from
    which the current sons of bitches are descended. However, it is my
    personal opinion that this too is a lost tribe — lost to all decency”

    “This happened to be the feast of Yom Kippur, so they were all collected
    in a large, wooden building, which they called a synagogue. It behooved
    General Eisenhower to make a speech to them. We entered the
    synagogue, which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of
    humanity I have ever seen. When we got about halfway up, the head
    rabbi, who was dressed in a fur hat similar to that worn by Henry VIII of
    England and in a surplice heavily embroidered and very filthy, came
    down and met the General . . . The smell was so terrible that I almost
    fainted and actually about three hours later lost my lunch as the result of
    remembering it.”

    https://ia600704.us.archive.org/10/items/GeorgePattonOnTheJews/George%20Patton%20on%20the%20Jews.pdf

    •�Thanks: DanFromCT
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  78. @anarchyst

    So my bet is that Satanyahoo’s next visit to the gathered whores of Sodom-on-Potomac the 59 thunderous standing ovations (don’t ever be the first to stop applauding!) he got last time will go to over 100. Maybe they’ll just stand when he enters and start applauding endlessly. Finest congress that fake-money can buy! Murika – We’re Number One!

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    , @DanFromCT
  79. @Exalted Cyclops

    Of course the bloodthirsty mob will applaud and celebrate his slaughter and robbery of the Arabs.

  80. lavoisier says:
    @Jim H

    More likely, the unconstitutional and un-American Antisemitism Awareness Act will be reintroduced next month in the 119th Clowngress by a bipartisan group of whored-out, dual-loyalty traitors.

    SINGLE LOYALTY TRAITORS.

    Focus your anger on these whored out Gentile traitors more than their Jewish pimps–who, despite their myriad faults and sins, at least have loyalty to their tribe.

  81. @Notsofast

    Living in the stooge country, Austfailia, is akin to dwelling in, say, Romania, c. 1944, as your Nazi Boss, then Germany, now the USA, or the ‘JewSA’, prepares for a true Nutterdamerung to do the ‘Samson Option’, to the entire planet. Moreover, eschatological insanity is common among the Judaics and mock ‘Christians’ of the Real Evil Empire, and they drool for the End Times.
    Bibi’s golem, the reptilian Schneerson, he of the Judeocides in Europe being Yahweh ‘the professor surgeon’, amputating a ‘diseased limb’ for the health of Jewry, allegedly told Bibi the Demonic that he, Bibi, would help usher in the return of the Jedi-oops, wrong faery story-the Mosiarch, and eternal bliss under full Talmudic rule would ensue. One can hardly wait.

    •�Replies: @DanFromCT
  82. @Sarita

    How low must the Sabbat Goyim grovel? To the centre of the Earth!!!

  83. @SafeNow

    Bribery, blackmail and threats-the Judaic Holy Trinity.

  84. @anonymous

    Weren’t Grubman’s crime, and trial, in NEW YORK?

  85. DanFromCT says:
    @Exalted Cyclops

    Even Netanyahu was noticeably embarrassed at those fawning whores’ groveling servility, not toward him, but in obedience to each member’s handler assigned to him or her by AIPAC. As you point out, each of these stinking whores was no doubt told, “Don’t be the last to stand or first to stop clapping if you intend on keeping your seat.” Netanyahu no doubt realizes that today’s Congress, who, with two or three exceptions, are all bought-and-paid-for stooges of AIPAC, would sell him out tomorrow as fast as they sold out the Palestinians if Jewish-American money and power dried up.

    As evil as Netanyahu may be, he’s obviously shrewd enough to know he could suffer the same fate as Tiberius’ “prime minister” Sejanus, who was a hero one day and yet on the next had his severed head kicked down the streets of Rome like a ball—or in Netanyahu’s case, kicked down the aisles of Congress by hooting whores who were just yesterday’s his servile flatterers. No wonder the man privately shits on “America,” meaning the Jews’ bought-and-paid-for government in DC. Who wouldn’t in his place?

    •�Thanks: Felpudinho
  86. CMC says:
    @Rich

    Agree re Wik. But it is sort of the ‘official story’ source, right? Or someone’s ‘official story,’ right?

    Meanwhile, pardon, interesting story, hopefully it’s not a rabbit hole, but Unz has something on Kent already!

    https://www.unz.com/pub/jhr__the-roosevelt-legacy-and-the-kent-case/

  87. @deejay

    The US Congress is Israel’s harem. Each member is at the beck and call.

    •�Replies: @deejay
  88. DanFromCT says:
    @mulga mumblebrain

    Aussies are allowed to act like boys, as they do, just so long as they obey, which they do.

  89. anonymous[869] •�Disclaimer says:
    @deejay

    HOW do both cases Rahman/Kiriakou compare with the Jonathan Pollard Case? Rosenbergs? the role of Jewish Americans in govt/DoD/Pentagon/Congress that usually spy for ISRAEL…for example; helping Israel Atomic program??…I was so naive I actually though,believe that the USA Nation Building was going to make the world safe for DEMOCRACY?? as in Japan/Phillipines/SKorea/Germany after WW II…BUT Irak/Afghanistan/Lybia/Yugoslavia/Syria have become cauldrons of terrorism anti American, regional WARS..is that the desire outcome of USA policies?? Action=REaction??

    •�Replies: @deejay
  90. Gerry says:
    @Sarita

    Now this has stunned me, stunned me more than anything I’ve read in quite some time and raises huge questions about Christian leadership or rather the shocking lack of it especially in Ohio!? ESPECIALLY OHIO OF ALL PLACES? Why Ohio? Because as the birthplace of a new nation some remarkable events occurred there through the work of two of Americas greatest clergymen. Read these astonishing events and stand amazed perplexed actually as to what and how of a nations demise?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??

    Another example is what occurred in America with Oberlin College under the leadership of Asa Mahan:

    “I had an appointment,” he said, “during the season of afflictive drought, to preach in one of the churches of the city where I lived one Sabbath morning. As we came to our carriage, I said to my wife, ‘There is not the remotest probability that it will rain today. I will, therefore, carry in the robe which we usually take with us,’ and did so.

    “When I kneeled before that congregation, I had no more expectation that it would rain that day outside than inside the house of God. When I began to pray about the drought, however a power came over me which rendered that prayer a wonder to myself and the congregation. The Monday’s issue of our daily paper contained this statement: ‘The preacher in one of our churches prayed very fervently yesterday morning that it might rain, and his congregation were drenched with rain on going home at the close of that service.’

    “I can never tell when then ‘spirit of grace and of supplication,’ in that form, shall be poured upon me. Nor do I feel under obligation to have such experience whenever I pray. All that I can do, or feel bound to do, is leave my heart open, and let the Spirit intercede in it as and when He chooses. This I do say, however, that when the Spirit does thus intercede, I always obtain the specific object for which I pray. Nor can anyone pray under the intercessory power of the Spirit without the hearer, as well as himself, marking the peculiarity of prayer.

    “Hence it is that, for many years past, my students, in times of drought, for example, have been accustomed to say, ‘We shall have rain now. Did you mark our President’s prayer?’ Nor were they ever disappointed.”1

    Also consider the story of Charles Finney:

    “During the summer of 1853 Oberlin was struck with a severe drought. The hay fields were dried up so there was no feed for the cattle. The cattle soon must die and the harvest fail unless rain comes. Crops had withered, wells dried up, and the parched earth became powdery.

    On Sunday morning the church was filled. Not a cloud was in sight and no one expected a drop of water to fall from the skies that day. The situation was desperate. Finney arose from his chair walked to the pulpit and lifted his voice in prayer.

    “O Lord! Send us rain. We pray for rain. Our harvests perish. There is not a drop for the thirsting birds. The ground is parched. The choking cattle lift their voices toward a brassy heaven and lowing, cry ‘Lord give us water… We do not presume to dictate to Thee what is best for us, yet Thou dost invite us to come to Thee as children to a father and tell Thee all our wants. We want rain! Even the squirrels in the woods are suffering for want of it. Unless Thou givest us rain our cattle must die… O Lord, send us rain! and send it now! For Jesus sake!’ Amen.”

    “In the preacher’s voice,” reports the California minister, “was the plaintiveness of a creature’s cry. I do not know whether any pencil caught more of this wonderful prayer, but all who heard it had to tell of its bold importunity. It had the pathos and power of an Isaiah.”

    Then the pastor-revivalist poured out his soul in a searching sermon, “hewing close to the line,” from the text, “I have somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first love.”

    “Not many minutes did the sermon go on before a cloud about the size of a man’s hand came athwart the summer sky,” says the California preacher. “It grew fast. The wind rattled the shutters of the old church. Darkness came on the air, joy aroused our anxious hearts as great raindrops pattered on the sun-scorched shingles of the monumental old church. Finney’s lithe figure, tall as a Sioux warrior, ruddy as a David, trembled. His clarion voice choked. God had heard his cry. The sermon was never finished, for torrents of water poured from the prayer-unlocked heavens. The preacher bowed over the pulpit and said, Let us thank the Lord for the rain.”

    Our leaders despised the Christian religion and instituted as a result of it the separation of Church and State only to find ourselves with what instead a coming Jewish theocracy? Nice!

    What the nation needed was a national Church that it could call its own and not follow the European model of division and it was guess who to the point of tears tried to warn the infant nation to not follow in the ways of Europe? Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf!!! He was actually horrified by what he was seeing occurring in America and warned constantly the new nation. His warnings went unheeded and then along came Finney and Mahan who couldn’t get things together either except where Freemasonry was concerned, the one religion which astonishingly is not divided as Christianity is and how those two men went to war against this cult trying to put an end to it. Wow, if Finney could see what they installed in front of the IRS building he would soil himself!

    https://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-irs-headquarters-maryland/

    To the reader I’m sure you’d enjoy the last paragraph!!!!!

    St. Paul wasn’t he right we are engaged in a spiritual war against powers in heavenly places and their winning this war, a war that we are told will end in a second try deicide! Don’t believe me or rather the Book of Revelation well then take a gander at this unbelievable report by Steve Quayle:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/they-hate-trump-steve-quayle-fears-nuke-false-flag-keep-him-out-office?utm_source=daily_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3659

    What a sentence this is!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

    In closing, Quayle says to be on the lookout for the big lie coming in the future. Quayle says, “The big lie is aliens created us . . . and there is no God. . .”

    Wow? I really got to re-title my book on climate change to HOW GREAT THE BLINDNESS and get it published!!!

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  91. deejay says:
    @John Dael

    This part of the blog you posted applies here:

    3) Personal dislike. If a foreign country’s leader refuses to kowtow to the current Empire’s whims and wishes, then the Empire (presently the US, manipulated or not by third parties) goes on the attack. That foreign country’s leader is sullied in the Empire’s mass media in order to prepare the imperial citizenry to acquiesce in sending their children to be killed in a senseless war. More often than not, such a war tees off by way of a false flag operation (such as 9/11 and the Gulf of Tonkin incident), designed and executed by the Empire to deceive its citizens and demonize the adversary.

  92. Z-man says:
    @EL_Kabong

    LOL 😂
    Patton was right ✅️ and he was da Man.
    Growing up in NYC I’ve been exposed to the stench of the Hasids. Oy vey 🤮
    Thanks

  93. deejay says:
    @One Nobody

    The US Congress is Israel’s harem. Each member is at the beck and call.

    Even houseflies can see that the American government is at Israel’s beck and call! But, the worst part is that America pursues its foreign policy objectives in the most womanishly way. They pretend not to be doing what the whole world can see that they are doing. They should at least have the courage to admit what they are doing. I would disagree, but I would respect that they were being honest.

    The assumption in the American government and media–that our eyes do not see what we are seeing and our minds do not know what we know–is maddening. It is dehumanizing that we are expected to pretend.

    Incidentally, declaring a war is probably in their own benefit, because it provides some legal protections, if such a thing as accountability existed in today’s world. Every politician who votes in favor of funding undeclared wars overseas should be held liable for the destruction of lives and property. Gaddafi’s family, for instance, should sue Hillary Clinton into bankruptcy, since she admitted it on television.

  94. Z-man says:

    Many people in government, the media, Wall Street and Jewlywood deserve the Luigi Mangione treatment.

    •�Replies: @deejay
  95. deejay says:
    @anonymous

    HOW do both cases Rahman/Kiriakou compare with the Jonathan Pollard Case?

    This is a good question, because the cases are about as different as can be, save for the common denominator of state secrets. While Pollard shared information to spread death, Rahman and Kiriakou shared secrets to protect life.

    It’s like comparing the traitor, George “Don’t get fooled again” Bush, to a patriotic American soldier who volunteered to serve and still suffers from injuries. There is no comparison.

    There also is no comparison between the treatment of Pollard and that of Rahman or Kiriakou. The former received a presidential pardon and a hero’s welcome, while the latter face a grueling legal battle and years in prison. Let us not forget Julian Assange either.

    At every opportunity, our leaders choose death over life, injustice over justice, and one six-pointed star over fifty stars.

  96. JWalters says:
    @EL_Kabong

    Excellent choice of quotes. Thanks.

    As you say, we can see all this happening right now.

    •�Agree: EL_Kabong
  97. Caruthers says:
    @anon

    And this would be your advice to the inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto: Germans rule! Fellate and worship them! It’s nobler than resistance of any sort, and it’s the proper place for Jews!

  98. deejay says:
    @Z-man

    Many people in government, the media, Wall Street and Jewlywood deserve the Luigi Mangione treatment.

    Does Rahman deserve to be Luigied?

    •�Replies: @Z-man
  99. ariadna says:
    @Gerry

    I don’t mean to hurt your feelings but two pastors-with-rain stories (long ones at that) is at least one too many.
    “Faith is knowing with your heart,” says Burt in one of his finest performances. I don’t dispute that.

    In a remake to come maybe his character’s name would be HARP.


    Video Link

  100. The defense information went to Israel where it was used in part to trade for visas from Moscow so Russian Jews could emigrate, certainly arguably a good cause, but paid for by damaging US security.

    Really?! Please explain how it is a good cause to flood Palestine with cretinous shtetl Jews in order to displace Palestinians in their homeland. In fact, how is it a good cause to help (((them))) escape to anywhere in the civilized world?

  101. Z-man says:
    @deejay

    He deserves applause 👏 and a promotion.

    •�Replies: @deejay
  102. deejay says:
    @Z-man

    Yes. And Rahman also deserves the applause that Luigi is getting. This article is the first I’d heard of him. The one preserving life is blacklisted, but the life-taker is front page news

  103. Priss Factor says: •�Website

    Ferguson arrived on the scene as a fresh voice. Over the years, he’s become just another shill of globalism.

    Ferguson is Anglo cuck who shills for Jewish Supremacists who push Great Replacement on the UK. He regards Jews as the master race, meaning Anglos exist to serve them as superiors. Ferguson left his family over some Somali harlot. He’s a turd.

  104. ariadna says:

    I wish Ron would publish Caitlin Johnstone’s articles, like this one

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