[LEWROCKWELL] The way mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his private army have been waging a significant part of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has been well covered in the American media, not least of all because his firm, the Wagner Group, draws most of its men from Russia’s prison system. Wagner offers "freedom" from Putin’s labor camps only to send those released convicts to the front lines of the conflict, often on brutal suicide missions.
At least the Russian president and his state-run media make no secret of his regime’s alliance with Wagner. The American government, on the other hand, seldom acknowledges its own version of the privatization of war — the tens of thousands of private security contractors it’s used in its misguided war on terror, involving military and intelligence operations in a staggering 85 countries.
At least as far back as the Civil War through World Wars I and II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the first Gulf War, "contractors," as we like to call them, have long been with us. Only recently, however, have they begun playing such a large role in our wars, with an estimated 10% to 20% of them directly involved in combat and intelligence operations.
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[BEE] U.S. — Representative George Santos was taken into custody this morning on federal money laundering, theft, and fraud charges. Americans are still on edge, however, as 534 dangerous felons in Congress still remain at large.
"It's unsettling," said local Cathy Mable upon hearing the news. "To think that many thieves, rapists, and degenerate murderers are still walking free in Washington D.C. and throughout the country makes it difficult to sleep at night."
"Who will protect us?"
Sources warned the unarrested reprobate politicians are surrounded by well-armed security details and have unmatched power to pass laws and destroy the lives of American citizens at will. Citizens are being warned to be on their guard, as one of these creeps could attack another unsuspecting victim at any moment.
At publishing time, Americans grew even more worried upon hearing the news that there are thousands more dangerous villains still on the loose in the FBI, CIA, DOJ, DHS, and DOD.
Fourteen minutes excerpt from the two-hour long video can be seen at the link.
[Twitter - KanekoaTheGreat] "This is no longer a humanitarian mission, and all the decisions the United States has made since the start has been about prolonging the war, maximizing the violence of the war, and being absolutely intransigent against the many opportunities to actually settle the war. My understanding of the war is not that Zelensky is pushing this war as hard as he can but that the neocons in the White House want this war. They want regime change with the Russians. They want to exhaust the Russian army.
That's what Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in 2022, our objective is to exhaust and degrade Russian forces so they cannot fight anywhere else. President Biden acknowledged that one of his objectives in the war was regime change in Russia and removing Vladimir Putin. If those are the objectives, that is the opposite of a humanitarian mission. That is a mission to maximalize casualties to prolong the war. It's essentially a war of attrition, and that's what we are seeing, and the brunt of this is being paid by the flower of Ukrainian youth.
This is something that the Ukrainian government and the United States government have worked hard to hide, the number of catastrophic casualties. This is the most violent conflict since World War II that's probably occurred anywhere worldwide, and the casualties are enormous. Over 300,000 Ukrainians are dead... The real story starts in 2014 when the U.S. government and, in particular, the neocons in the White House and elsewhere participated and supported the violent overthrow, a coup de tat, against the democratically elected government of Ukraine and put in a very, very anti-Russian government.
This prompted the Russians, who believed the U.S. Navy would be invited into the Black Sea to have a port in Crimea. It prompted the Russians to pre-emptively invade Crimea. At the same time, the government that came into Ukraine began enacting a series of laws that turned the Russian populations of the Donbas region into second-class citizens. They essentially criminalized their culture and language and ultimately began killing them. They killed 14,000 of them, prompting a civil war in the country. And the Russian response was illegal; I have no sympathy towards Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin is a gangster and a thug, but his response to the Donbas is not irrational...
We have been doing integrative military exercises with the Ukrainian military. We were actively integrating them into NATO forces. There's no question. The one thing Putin said from the onset is that this is the redline... We're putting these intermediate missile systems all along the Russian border. Romania, Poland, and in Ukraine, and those missiles can hit Moscow in a few minutes... We should be de-escalating these provocations... George Tenet asked after the Soviet Union collapsed, why do we even have NATO anymore? Why don't we do a Marshall Plan for Russia?
We won the war; they are the losers and admit they are the losers. They want to join the European community. Let's make it easy for them. Let's not continue to treat them as if they are the enemy because that is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and that is, unfortunately, what we did... Why are we trying to expand NATO? We gave our word that we would not expand NATO one inch to the east, and now we've gone into thirteen countries. It is a provocation." 300,000 dead humans is child's play. Remember when Secretary of State Madeline Albright was OK with starving half a million Iraqi children to death? She said it was "worth it". Yes, these people really are that evil.
She may have been ok with that, but of course Saddam Hussein was lying about the number of dead children — both in total and directly caused by international sanctions.
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The phrase Military Industrial Complex conjures an image of corporatists fomenting war for profit purposes. That is certainly happening, but it undersells the true evil of their globalist overlords.
Pfizer, for instance, has made a great profit off of Covid, but the eugenicist nature of their MRNA product line will eventually strangle profits. Once the truth is fully visible, in a free society, Pfizer will not even be able to sell shoe laces because no consumer will willingly touch any of their products.
In a free society is truly a question as the tech giants are doing everything possible to enact a dystopian reality, where we are all controlled by globalist masters. Kennedy can fight the Military Industrial profiteers all he wants. They are a Mini-boss. The idea of Luciferian Globalist overlords interested in subjugation instead of profits used always be a crackpot myth until we read the transcripts of what Gates, Soros and Schwab had to say. Obama, Biden and the toady Fauci have put actions to their words.
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Once the truth is fully visible, in a free society, Pfizer will not even be able to sell shoe laces because no consumer will willingly touch any of their products.
Any idea when that train will arrive? No? Me neither.
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Kinda like in 2020, the Deep State had Sanders to the left and Trump to the right. Now they have Kennedy out in left field and Trump to the right. It'd be fun to watch if it wasn't so damned scary.
IMHO, from what I read here, Kennedy has the war in Ukraine pretty well figured out. My big problem is that he's...well...he's a Kennedy. That's kinda like being a Clinton or a Bush. We don't need another royal dynasty. We need a functioning democracy.
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So, if the deep state has been controlling elections since, Eisenhauer. it stands to reason that every election has been pre-planned and executed. Thus, DJT was elected by the deep state.
ponder that...
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Deep State didn't get total control over elections until 2020 when the pandemic gave them an excuse to mandate mail-in ballots.
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I'm watching Kennedy's video at the link. He's a terrible speaker. His voice is soft, raspy and wobbly. Sounds like he's already 80 or 90 years old. Sounds like Katherine Hepburn in that movie On Golden Pond. Just awful.
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[Peggy Noonan] The dawn of the internet age was so exciting. I took my grade-school son, enthralled by Apple computers, to see Steve Jobs speak at a raucous convention in New York almost a quarter-century ago. What fervor there was. At a seminar out West 30 years ago I attended a lecture by young, wild-haired Nathan Myhrvold, then running Microsoft Research, who talked about what was happening: A new thing in history was being born.
Apple & EveBut a small, funny detail always gave me pause and stayed with me. It was that from the beginning of the age its great symbol was the icon of what was becoming its greatest company, Apple. It was the boldly drawn apple with the bite taken out. Which made me think of Adam and Eve in the garden, Adam and Eve and the fall, at the beginning of the world. God told them not to eat the fruit of the tree, but the serpent told Eve no harm would come if she did, that she’d become like God, knowing all. That’s why he doesn’t want you to have it, the serpent said: You’ll be his equal. So she took the fruit and ate, she gave to Adam who also ate, and the eyes of both were opened, and for the first time they knew shame. When God rebuked them, Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent. They were banished from the garden into the broken world we inhabit.
You can experience the Old Testament story as myth, literature, truth-poem or literal truth, but however you understand it its meaning is clear. It is about human pride and ambition. Tim Keller thought it an example of man’s old-fashioned will to power. St. Augustine said it was a story of pride: "And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation?"
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“So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11:8-9
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/\ And "scattered" they should have stayed. Problems seem to inevitably arise when the rule of scattering is violated.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Peggy Noonan] The dawn of the internet age was so exciting. I took my grade-school son, enthralled by Apple computers, to see Steve Jobs speak at a raucous convention in New York almost a quarter-century ago. What fervor there was. At a seminar out West 30 years ago I attended a lecture by young, wild-haired Nathan Myhrvold, then running Microsoft Research, who talked about what was happening: A new thing in history was being born.
