Monday, October 21, 2024
It's the Iranian spy ring Washington (Robert Malley)
There Appears to Have Been a Severe Intelligence Leak at the Pentagon
Iran launched a massive ballistic missile strike against Israel earlier this month. We’ve been waiting for how Israel will retaliate, reportedly a massive airstrike that will hit terror targets throughout the Middle East, Iran especially. With the 2024 election about to enter its final stages, there were reports that target packages were finalized, and it was only a matter of time before nothing came.
Well, as it turned out, there’s been a massive security leak. Whether these two events are linked is unknown, but it wouldn’t shock me if the reason for Jerusalem’s stalled attack were over their plans being leaked by someone at the Pentagon. Regardless, the larger story is that there’s been a massive breach of national security documents, and there are fears that more will be disclosed (via CNN):
The leak is “deeply concerning,” a US official told CNN.
The documents, dated October 15 and 16, began circulating online Friday after being posted on Telegram by an account called “Middle East Spectator.”
They are marked top secret and have markings indicating they are meant to be seen only by the US and its “Five Eyes” allies — Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
They describe preparations Israel appears to be making for a strike against Iran. One of the documents, which says it was compiled by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, says the plans involve Israel moving munitions around.
Another document says it is sourced to the National Security Agency and outlines Israeli air force exercises involving air-to-surface missiles, also believed to be in preparation for a strike on Iran. CNN is not quoting directly from or showing the documents.
A US official said the investigation is examining who had access to the alleged Pentagon document. Any such leak would automatically trigger an investigation by the FBI alongside the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies. The FBI declined to comment.
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The National Security Council referred CNN to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Pentagon for comment. The Pentagon and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency declined to comment. CNN has reached out to the National Security Agency for comment.
Another US official said that “these two documents are bad, but not horrible. The concern is if there are more.”
“Bad, but not horrible” almost sounds like the line Soviet officials likely used regarding the radiation readings when Chernobyl exploded. It’s no wonder why Israel often goes alone regarding their anti-terror operations against Hamas operatives in Gaza: the Biden folks would leak it if it were shared, just like how these same people shared sensitive information with the Chinese about Russia’s Ukraine invasion plans, which Beijing then forwarded to Moscow.
Is it shocking? No, because as it’s been reported for quite some time, we have alleged Iranian spies in positions to catch such information:
Another mess for the Biden-Harris camp as we enter the final stretch here. It’s more distressing than any of the cocktail napkins and state dinner menus found at Mar-a-Lago.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Why Democrats love illegal aliens
NYC’s shelter contracts are ripe for fraud and abuse by unscrupulous nonprofits
Democrat ethics or lack thereof
Long Island village used government accounts to push event that was a rally for Democrats in disguise: ‘Voters deserve better’
Leftist promise nirvana but never deliver...please go!
Freak-Out: Kamala Voters in MI Panicking, Threaten to Leave the US If Trump Wins
The narrative doesn't need proof
Warnock: High Turnout Doesn’t Mean There Hasn’t Been Voter Suppression
How does one communicate with the delusional haters?
The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway
If Trump overturns the 2024 election, here’s how it could happen.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/20/trump-overturn-2024-election-plan-00184103
Progressives did this because they've convinced themselves that government workers are omniscient angels
How the US Government Turned on the People
The catastrophic mismanagement of Hurricane Helene relief is showing the American people that Washington’s dysfunctional but, worse, it doesn’t even seem to be trying to serve the people.
Instead, we serve it. Like livestock.
So how did we get here?
The Long March of Bureaucracy
As with the economy, the seeds of our political crisis began a hundred years ago in the Progressive era.
The Progressives big year for taking over the economy was 1913, with the income tax and the Federal Reserve Act.
But the political takeover was earlier — according to historian Murray Rothbard, it began precisely 30 years earlier with something called the Pendleton Act of 1883.
The Act made bureaucrats professionals who are independent of politicians. This was allegedly to fight corruption, but note that a bureaucracy that’s independent of politicians is also independent of voters.
After all, politicians are the only part of the government who answers to voters. So if bureaucrats don't answer to them who do they answer do.
Simple: they answer to nobody. The government bureaucracy becomes a self-serving occupying army. By design.e!
Bureaucrats and Angels
Progressives did this because they've convinced themselves that government workers are omniscient angels -- that the act of collecting a government paycheck is a kind of purifying bath that washes away the greed and malice of the unwashed masses over whom the government lords.
This may sound goofy, but talk to a Progressive.
Of course, after Covid anybody who thinks bureaucrats are omniscient angels needs a lobotomy.
The Union of Bureaucrats and Socialists
Once installed with Pendleton, this independent bureaucracy was, of course, captured by the left — socialists. Because they both wanted the same thing: increased government control.
They began in the Progressive Era with widespread regulations that were billed as “reining in” Big Business but were, of course, written by Big Business, marketed by their paid socialist activists, then implemented by bureaucrats whose funding came from politicians on the payroll — well, the donor lists — of Big Business.
And so was born our Corporatist system — of course, there’s another word for it that begins with F and ends in -ism, but then I’m not trying to get censored.Socialism’s “Inevitability”
This partnership is why it feels the world is grinding ever more socialist: the bureaucracy partners with socialists to a common end: government control over the people.
They then use government money -- your money -- to propagate the takeover through academia, media and corporations who are punished if they don't toe the line. Elon Musk’s regulatory harassment being just one example.
It can feel intimidating: Covid showed us there is essentially no institution in the country that has not been infiltrated by this toxic combination government money and intimidation.
The cartels call it plata o plombo. Silver or lead. And the socialist Deep State uses both.
Crisis and the Deep State
Over the past century, every crisis grew this Deep State: world wars, Great Depression. Even made-up crises like global warming and, of course, Covid.
Covid was their dream come true: total control.
The problem, of course, is that once a wild animal tastes human blood you can never trust it again.
That’s exactly what happened in a moment I think is very close to today: The wartime socialism of World War I.
The men who pushed World War I -- men like Herbert Hoover -- imposed Soviet-style economic and social control during the war.
Once the war ended, they were very reluctant to hand that power back, and they spent the rest of their careers trying to get it again.
Unfortunately, the stock market crash of 1929 was the excuse they needed. They used it to seize the commanding heights of the economy -- the administrative state. And, 100 years later, they still run it.
So that all takes us to today: a totalitarian Deep State that progressively seizes economic, social, and political power. Enslaving us with debt, mandates, taxes, and surveillance.What’s Next
The administrative state can be defeated, but not by fighting the hydra head by head. Rather, you go to the source: the independent bureaucracy.
To end the totalitarian deep state, politicians must have the ability to fire and hire anybody they like. Because the people must have that power, and until we abolish governments, politicians are their only voice.
The only alternative is progressive enslavement by bureaucratic kommissars until the people rise up and fix it by other means that few will enjoy.
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