Ironic Inversion: Russia and USA swap cultures

 In the span of just one life-time, the international ying-yang of political beliefs has inverted, ironically. What does that mean?

 

The poison seed of American self-hatred, planted by deliberate foreign influence operators, in the 1920s and 1930s sprouted, spread, and bore fruit, with full bloom in the late 1990s. The self-hating fruit poisoned our culture and created a twisted self-hatred.

 

Meanwhile, the source of the poison, the Russian-dominated Soviet Union and its Comintern, collapsed under the weight of its own fake philosophy, based on human-hatred, Marxism-Leninism. Russia reverted to its own national normal state, dropping the fake Marxist-Leninist-Darwinian communist dogma that imagined the entire human race would evolve into a global group-hug filled with hatred for the reality of human nature.

 

The geniuses of the covert influence operations against America (full details in my book, Willing Accomplices) were slaughtered by their communist sponsors. But, like farmers who planted kudzu seeds and then died, their malign work grew on its own and spread over the entire USA.

 

The operation created social and political organizations that celebrated the beliefs and attitudes that became Politically Correct Progressivism (PC-Prog): "America is a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, imperialist, capitalist hellhole; and it must be changed."

 

These organizations celebrated the hatred, and made it socially attractive to be part of the in-crowd. Like a self-licking ice cream cone, the PC-Prog belief system became self-reinforcing. Although it took 80 years, instead of five to ten years that the Comintern operators expected, the influence operation infected all American cultural transmission belts.

 

The result? In 2022: an American culture fixated on hatred of Normal-America and the Normal-Americans who created our republic. A culture gazing at its own navel with hatred and disgust for Normals. A culture that now turns its PC-Prog attentions outward, in an actual imperialist push to force the rest of the world to accept its twisted version of "values" and "morals."

 

The irony? Russia, whose communist influence operators planted and cultivated the PC-Prog payload of American self-hatred, has reverted to Normalcy. America, the former bastion of Normals, has collapsed under the weight of the PC-Prog payload. 

 

An ironic inversion.

Loudoun County Planners: Climate Change will be "non-existent" in Five Years!

It appears the worm has turned for the fraudulent Climate Cult.

For the last twenty years, every government agency from the Pentagon to garbage districts seemed to slip "global warming" or "climate change" into any issue. The Pentagon warned of the threat to national security posed by massive sea level rise driven by mankind spewing CO2 into the atmosphere. Town planning boards gravely discussed the impact of "global warming" on local economies.

Climate Cultists love fear-mongering

We may have reached a tipping point. Sanity is slipping into the equation.

In Northern Virginia, on August 9, 2018, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors and the Planning Commission met to discuss the county's Comprehensive Plan. 

The Plan lays out the vision for the county’s development, resources, priorities, spending, and overall governance for the next ten or twenty years.

A bureaucratic exercise, the Plan focuses on the long-term. Nothing exciting usually comes out of a Planning meeting. Some generic Politically Correct verbiage about "thinking globally, and acting locally" is common.

However, a local newspaper reported, at the County Commission meeting that night:

“[Kathy] Blackburn … led the charge to take out language in the plan calling to “update and implement the County Energy Strategy to reduce the impacts of climate change.” She argued the use of the phrase “climate change” is politically charged and “could be obsolete” before long. And in five years it could be nonexistent,” she said. Other commissioners agreed."

Kathy Blackburn, right, Climate Realist

The local paper reported the facts with no comment, no reaction, no rebuttal, no hysterics.

I believe is a significant milestone. The warming/climate/CO2 fraud has reached a tipping point.

Let it die. A return to reality is long overdue. We don't control the weather. Climate changes, naturally. Always has. Always will. We'll adapt and overcome whatever nature throws at us.

Follow the lead of the Loudoun County Planning Commission and say it loud: "Climate change in five years will be nonexistent!"

Middle Eastern Civil Wars--Background and Interests--What are we doing?

Originally published in social media--2013

What exactly is the American interest in Iraq now? 

What is overlooked (maybe not understood?) is the context behind what is happening in Iraq now.
This is a war between Shi'a and Sunni. That is Iran/Hizballah/Maliki/Mahdi/Assad against Al-Qaeda/ISIS. 

This is an unsettled struggle for supremacy in the area--the Levant and Mesopotamia--left over as a result of British/French/American ham-fisted division of territory after WW1 and WW2. We did not take into account the realities of culture/religion/ethnicity when we drew the lines in the sand to create Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and others. 

As is happening around the world (Congo, Sudan, Ukraine, Bosnia, Syria, Iraq, etc) people are sorting themselves out. Iraq will likely end up being three de facto countries: Kurdistan, Shia-stan, and Greater Sunni-land. 

The ISIS forces (Sunni) are already meeting Iranian (Shia) forces in Iraq, as they have been in Syria.
What is in it for us to become involved? Just like in Syria--whose side are we on? Al Qaeda? Iran? Kurds? 

Let 'em sort it out. We need to aggressively pursue American interests. Which in Iraq now are: protect American citizens, American property, American businesses. There is no American interest in supporting any of the sides in this conflict. 

We should be prosecuting a war on our own southern border. And a war against the crony corruption of Obama's handlers in DC and around the country. 

Convenient how IRS, Benghazi, Gitmo prisoner release, and all the other Obama regime scandals are forgotten isn't it?

Normal-American Tea Party Swamped by Influencers

New book coming out April 30:

Amazon link here.

This is a much needed exploration of how the Tea Party was seized by influencers acting for foreign and other interests. 

The author might want to explore the manipulation and hi-jacking of the Tea Party by the neo-cons. They unleashed their influence peddlers on the Tea Party organizations early and often.

From 2010 till today, you'll see the most common speaker or issue at local Tea Party meetings is "the threat of Shariah," or "Iran," or any of the other neo-con specific issues of concern to their foreign sponsors.

Frank Gaffney was/is the go-to guy for indoctrinating Tea Party groups with this neo-con payload.

The other interest group that hi-jacked the Tea Party movement was spear-headed by a freakish New Zealander, Trevor Loudon. Loudon hides his affiliation and traipses around the USA (on whose dime?) presenting to Tea Party groups his fetish-weirdness--that all American Progressives are directly connected to overt Socialist/Communist organizations.

This is such a horrible misunderstanding of American politics that it could only come from a foreigner--which he is. But Loudon is even worse--he represents a strange convolution of two cults--Scientology and a rump-remnant branch of the John Birch Society.

Loudon is a long-time representative of, spokesman for, and true-believer in a New Zealand cult (ZAP--Zenith Applied Philosophy) that blends Scientology (their leader, "Johnny Ultimate") was defrocked from Scientology and had to form his own cult) and documents they dredged up from John Birch Society of the 1950s.

Since the Tea Party was formed, Loudon appears, as if by magic, at local meetings all across the country. Who's funding this insanity?

Loving Their Servitude

Huxley to Orwell:

"I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency." 

Huxley's narco-hypnosis?

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/huxley-letter-orwell-my-book-was-right

Hillary Clinton’s Shadow HUMINT Operation

By Kent Clizbe and Paul Hair

Hillary Clinton struggles to justify the unjustifiable: her illegal use of a private email server while she served as Secretary of State and her actions and inaction during and after the Islamic terrorist attacks on the American installations in Benghazi, Libya during 2012. But few people have realized there is another story, reported on but under-analyzed, that could potentially be more damaging than both of these. And this story centers on how she ran her own private intelligence operation without the official consent or knowledge of the U.S. government. Mrs. Clinton appears to have violated the law by doing this. She most certainly damaged U.S. national security even more than what is already known and a special prosecutor should investigate to find out everything that she did.

Initial Rumors of the Operation

Tyler Drumheller was a retired CIA officer who rose to fame years ago when he went public with allegations designed to hurt the Bush administration and its war in Iraq. Mr. Drumheller claimed that the CIA ignored his warnings that the intelligence it had on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction program was faulty. His version of what actually happened has since been challenged by both members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and former CIA Director George Tenet.

Mr. Drumheller returned to the public spotlight in 2013 when it began to appear that he was involved in gathering and reporting human intelligence (HUMINT) for Hillary Clinton while she served as Secretary of State. That appearance emerged after the Smoking Gun, RT and other outlets published information alleged to be from emails that a Romanian criminal stole from the email account of long-time Clinton supporter Sidney Blumenthal. (The Romanian criminal went by the name “Guccifer.” His real name is either Marcel Lazăr Lehel” or “Marcel-Lehel Lazar.” Since there are differing reports of his correct name this article will refer to him as “Guccifer.”)

At least a portion of those alleged emails have since been verified to be authentic because the U.S. Department of State officially and lawfully released some of the emails that Mrs. Clinton sent through her private email server. And these authenticated emails prove that the appearance that Mrs. Clinton was receiving privately collected and reported intelligence from Messrs. Blumenthal and Drumheller was reality.

Some of the authenticated emails from Mrs. Clinton’s private server bear a close resemblance to real HUMINT reporting, complete with accompanying operations cables that partially describe their sources. For instance, here is an excerpt of a Sept. 11, 2012 email (obtained from the Department of State FOIA website) containing a Benghazi HUMINT report. (The email worked its way from Mr. Drumheller to Mr. Blumenthal to Mrs. Clinton. You can verify this by looking at the email forwarding history. Mr. Drumheller’s name is easily identifiable in his email ID and the email ID “sbwhoeop” has since been revealed to be an email ID that Mr. Blumenthal used.)

SUBJECT: Libya (37)

SOURCE: Sources with direct access to the Libyan National Transitional Council, as well as the highest levels of European Governments, and Western Intelligence and security services.

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COMES FROM AN EXTREMELY SENSITIVE SOURCE AND SHOULD BE HANDLED WITH CARE.

1. On September 12, 2012 Libyan President Mohammed Yussef el Magariaf told senior advisors that the death of the U.S. Ambassador at the hands of Islamist militia forces represents a threat to the future of the newly elected General National Congress (GNC) Government. According to a sensitive source, el Magariaf believes that the primary goal of this and other attacks on Western facilities is to demonstrate that the GNC cannot protect its non-Islamic friends. Libyan security officials believe that the attack was carried out by forces of the Islamist militia group calling itself the Ansar al Sharia brigade; working out of camps in the Eastern suburbs of Benghazi. . . .

In short, Secretary of State Clinton had organized and run a private HUMINT operation, with Mr. Blumenthal apparently having served as her de facto Director of Intelligence and Mr. Drumheller apparently having served as her de facto Deputy Director of Operations (DDO) . . . all without the U.S. government officially knowing about it.

Media Didn’t Initially Realize the Full Significance of the Rumored Operation

The media didn’t know if any of the stolen emails were valid in 2013. So while they reported on Secretary of State Clinton appearing to have received privately collected and reported intelligence when Guccifer breached Mr. Blumenthal’s email account, they didn’t focus on that story. Instead, most media reporting focused on the breach of Mr. Blumenthal’s email account, and how Mrs. Clinton may have knowingly lied with her claims that the “Innocence of Muslims” video inspired the 2012 terrorist attack on U.S. installations in Benghazi. These are important stories in their own right and the media have been correct in spending a lot of time covering them.

Yet even now many in the media still have not focused on this story. Some, however, have.

Media Begin to Understand the Significance in March 2015

The first signs that some in the media were beginning to understand that Mrs. Clinton had been running a shadow HUMINT operation began to appear in early March 2015 when the New York Times reported that Mrs. Clinton used her private email account for official business, and when the Smoking Gun published what appeared to be screen captures of the actual emails that Guccifer had allegedly stolen in 2013. On top of this, in May 2015 the House Benghazi Committee issued a subpoena for Mr. Blumenthal. These three news items helped generate renewed media interest in what Mrs. Clinton had been doing while at the Department of State. And a handful of media began to look at her private intelligence operation. And when they did, they produced article that provide quite a bit of information.

For instance, ProPublica and Gawker jointly published a story on March 27, 2015 called, “Private Emails Reveal Ex-Clinton Aide’s Secret Spy Network.”

And Monica Crowley of the Washington Times wrote at least two columns focusing on Mrs. Clinton’s shadow HUMINT operation (one in March and the one at the link in May).

Additionally, Mark Hemingway wrote two articles at the Weekly Standard that focused on it—one in March that expanded on the ProPublica and Gawker article, and another one in September that uncovers further information that hints that Mr. Drumheller may have been engaged in information manipulation for Mrs. Clinton as well.

Mr. Hemingway’s September article looks into how Mr. Drumheller was working for (or a consultant for) CBS News at the same time he was acting as the DDO for Mrs. Clinton’s shadow HUMINT operation. Read the article to get an idea of how much we still don’t understand about what Mrs. Clinton and her subordinates were doing and how much damage they inflicted.

But apart from these few and notable exceptions, the media haven’t focused on Mrs. Clinton’s shadow HUMINT operation. Yes, the media have focused on her failure in Benghazi and her subsequent attempts to shift the blame for that failure. And, yes, the media have focused on her using a private server to conduct official government business. But in general, there has been far too little media attention on the fact that Mrs. Clinton was running a shadow HUMINT operation.

And that is unfortunate because Mrs. Clinton’s shadow HUMINT operation truly was scandalous and damaging to U.S. national security.

Damage Done by the Shadow HUMINT Operation

Operation Bypassed the IC, Oversight and More

Mrs. Clinton’s shadow HUMINT collection and reporting operation bypassed the entire intelligence community, bypassed oversight (so Congress, the Judiciary and FOIA requests wouldn’t be able to learn what she was doing), was partially executed for political and business purposes (by politically connected former intelligence professionals and political operatives serving in the IC) and possibly carried out cover-up operations to serve Mrs. Clinton’s political purposes.

Operation Damaged NATSEC

On top of this, the U.S. government has already determined that Mrs. Clinton violated national security by way of transmitting classified information over unsecured private email system. And these classification violations weren’t some inconsequential administrative error. They had real-world consequences, with the U.S. government having officially acknowledged at least one instance of Mrs. Clinton having revealed the name of an intelligence source who is (or was) supplying information to the U.S.

Operation Relied on Unverified HUMINT

Furthermore, Mrs. Clinton’s shadow HUMINT operation meant that she was receiving human intelligence reports from sources that she couldn’t possibly verify or authenticate, and which Messrs. Blumenthal and Drumheller couldn’t do either.

Remember, the shadow HUMINT operation was collecting and disseminating intelligence reports about the 2012 Benghazi attack the day after it occurred. These reports contained information providing intelligence on both terrorists and the Libyan government from “sensitive sources.”

This means that Mrs. Clinton’s shadow HUMINT operation was relying on sources/assets in Libya to provide her with information about what was happening, who it could trust, and what her potential courses of action were for responding to the attack and deteriorated security situation.

A May 2015 article from the New York Times provides some insight into just how big a mistake this was.

The emails suggest that Mr. Blumenthal’s direct line to Mrs. Clinton circumvented the elaborate procedures established by the federal government to ensure that high-level officials are provided with vetted assessments of available intelligence.

Former intelligence officials said it was not uncommon for top officials, including secretaries of state, to look outside the intelligence bureaucracy for information and advice. But Paul R. Pillar, a former C.I.A. official who is now a researcher at the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University, said Mr. Blumenthal’s dispatches went beyond that sort of informal channel, aping the style of official government intelligence reports but without assessments of the motives of sources.

“The sourcing is pretty sloppy,” Mr. Pillar added, “in a way that would never pass muster if it were the work of a reports officer at a U.S. intelligence agency.”

Collecting and evaluating HUMINT is a time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive process. There are a lot of things that professional HUMINT collectors and intelligence need to verify before they will certify they have solid sources/assets. For instance, a professional HUMINT collector must ask and answer the following questions: How can I verify my source has access to the information they’re giving me? How can I verify that my source’s information is accurate? How do I know my source isn’t being fed false information without him knowing it? How does my source’s information compare with what other sources (human and other intelligence disciplines) reveal? Is my source’s information timely and relevant? What consequences might come to my source and me for receiving and using his information?

In short, HUMINT is difficult to collect and evaluate correctly even when you have the money and resources that only can come from the backing of a government. It’s easy to be fooled even with this level of support.

With this understanding, think about how irresponsible it was for Mrs. Clinton to rely on the information being provided to her by her private, un-vetted shadow HUMINT operation. She had no way of knowing if the intelligence she was receiving from it was accurate. Some of it was accurate (such as the information that terrorists, and not people protesting over the “Innocence of Muslims” video, were responsible for the Benghazi attack) but then again, some of the rumors we all hear are true too. Other information that she received from her shadow HUMINT operation (and of which we don’t yet know about) undoubtedly was inaccurate.

Operation Warrants a Special Prosecutor

But the lack of attention on Hillary Clinton’s shadow HUMINT operation likely won’t last. Stories of the FBI investigating her along with rumors that she will eventually be charged have been regularly appearing in the news cycle since late 2015. And if she is charged, the public likely will learn a lot more about her shadow HUMINT operation and just how much damage she did with it. If she isn’t charged, there are going to be a lot of angry people.

Remember the hysteria over Watergate? That looks like amateur hour peccadillos compared to Mrs. Clinton’s massive shadow HUMINT operation.

People went to prison for Watergate and that was a third-rate burglary of a Washington, DC office.

Additionally, people have been punished for offenses similar to (or smaller than) Mrs. Clinton’s offenses.

Servicemen have been relieved of command for mishandling classified information. People have been convicted of mishandling and improperly storing classified information. And people have been fined and imprisoned for the same or related misdeeds.

So if Mrs. Clinton and those involved with her shadow HUMINT operation (minus Mr. Drumheller who died last year) get away with what they did, what does that mean for the concept of law and order?

It would be another devastating blow to what little there is left of it in the United States.

And in order to keep that from happening there is only one solution to deal with what they did: appoint a special prosecutor. (A Special Joint Congressional Committee wouldn’t be a bad idea either.)

A special prosecutor is required because of the political nature of the crimes, and because of the highly politicized Obama government.

The FBI is under direct pressure from the executive branch to do the politically expedient thing. After all, the Director of the FBI works for the Department of Justice, headed by Loretta Lynch. And she works for President Obama.

Hillary Clinton’s shadow HUMINT operation was worse than useless; it was horribly counter-productive and damaging to American interests. A special prosecutor not only would reveal all the details of that system—which would include the unofficial communications channel on which she received the reports—it would likely uncover as yet unimagined high crimes and misdemeanors by her and others.

Kent Clizbe (www.kentclizbe.com) served as a staff CIA case officer in the 1990s, and as an ops contractor after 9/11. He worked in counter-terrorism against Islamic Extremism in Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, and was awarded the Intelligence Community Seal Medallion in 2004. He provides Credibility Assessment and risk mitigation consulting services to businesses.

Paul Hair writes fiction and nonfiction for a variety of national organizations. His books, Mortal Gods: Ignition and Winning through Losing, are available now. Paul also honorably served in the U.S. Army Reserve as an intelligence analyst and is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Connect with him at http://www.liberateliberty.com/. Contact him at paul@liberateliberty.com if you are interested in hiring him for ghostwriting, intelligence analysis or other work.

What is Political Correctness?

[This article is an excerpt from my book, Willing Accomplices.]

 
What is Political Correctness?

PC is easier to identify than it is to define. 

It is an attitude more than it is a philosophy. The attitude is easy to adopt. No thinking is necessary. No introspection or reflection is required. The attitude is handed down to PC believers fully formed. 

A Hollywood insider, quoted in the Radoshes’ Red Star OverHollywood could have been describing PC Hollywood, when he described his relationship with the communist party [my substitution of “PC” for communist party]: “when I joined [PC] I was handed ready-made friends, a cause, a faith and a viewpoint on all phenomena…. I learned the [PC] view… on everything under the sun. An airtight, ready-made worldview came along with [being PC].” 

That’s the essence of PC—it’s so easy to be PC. No thinking required. No need to deal with messy evidence and conflict, debate and discussion. The PC powers have spoken, case closed. Debate is over, time to act. 

Do you think that Leonardo DiCaprio is really a climatescientist? Or does he just accept the PC “the science is settled”? Is Sean Penn really a social worker? Or is he just channeling the PC point of view? Is Michael Moore really an expert on health care? Or is he just spouting the ready-made, America-sucks, PC point of view? 

Health care expert? Or just a piggish PC-Prog?

PC, at its heart, is a hatred of all things traditionally American. Its credo, if it had an overt credo, might be: “America sucks. Living straight white American men suck. Dead straight white American men suck. America is bad. America is imperialist. America is racist. America is homophobic. America hates foreigners. Rich people suck (see special dispensations below). American tradition sucks. American history sucks. American morality sucks. American taboos suck. Rich white American males suck really hard.” 

Implicit in the attitude/definition is the requirement that PC believers must be dedicated to “changing” America. So for each of the “…sucks” credos above, there is a corresponding “change” that PC-Progressives seem to believe is required. 

Note that “American” is inserted in most of the credo’s beliefs. It may be better to substitute “traditional American” instead of American, because some American straight white males are okay. For example, Al Gore is PC-approved, so is Bill Ayers. John F. Kennedy is PC-approved. John Kerry is PC-approved. Eminem is PC-approved. 

PC Approved Straight White Male

Straight white non-Americans are more likely to be PC-approved than not, but it’s a bit tricky. If they have a cute accent, like an Aussie or a Brit, they’re probably okay—see Julian Assange, for example. Italian, French, Dutch, German, and most Russian, straight men are probably okay. This is a tricky business for the PC doyens, so it’s best to check with an expert—like any American student under 21. They instinctively know who’s okay, and who isn’t. 

At the same time, some minority Americans are deemed to be PC-traitors, or maybe “honorary straight white males” for the purposes of PC-hate targeting. Thus, Clarence Thomas is considered a straight white male. Condoleezza Rice is considered the same as a straight white male. Sarah Palin is a straight white male. 

Honorary Straight White Male--to PC-Progs

Rich people can get a special dispensation from the PC arbiters. If they are not white, that is an automatic PC pass. If they are scummy, rich minority rap stars (or white rap stars who act ghetto) with lots of tattoos and felony convictions, they have a permanent pass into the upper echelons of PC society. If they are scummy, rich minority athletes (or white athletes who act ghetto) with lots of tattoos and felony convictions, they too have a permanent pass to PC society. 

If they are straight white males, they can be given a PC pass if they give a lot of money to PC causes (AIDS, hunger in Africa, Democrats, global warming, recycling, and abortion) and/or if they publicly denounce Republicans, straight white men, or anything related to traditional America.

An ethnological study of PC society is long overdue. 

I invite anthropologists to begin such a study so that the next edition of this book can include a more scholarly treatment of the question, “What is PC?”

Not PC

To end this attempt at defining PC, it would be best to provide a few examples of things that are not PC:

The Boy Scouts of America Oath:

On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.

Christian wedding vows:

In the name of Jesus, I ___ take you, ___, to be my (husband/wife), to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, for as long as we both shall live. This is my solemn vow.

American patriotism—God bless America!

Believing that life begins at conception and that killing a pre-born human is murder.

Using firearms to protect yourself.

Using firearms to hunt cute bunnies and other furry creatures.

Using firearms for anything except rounding up haters.

The Republican Party.

The Tea Party.

American conservatives.

Anyone or anything that indicates belief in traditional America or traditional American values.

Anyone who is in favor of enforcing immigration laws, or enhancing the legal protection of America with more strict immigration laws or enforcement.

You can likely add more examples to this list. 

PC is a silent censor of our public and private discourse, and even thoughts. The PCThought Police are nearly here.