Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Denis Davydov
[REGNUM] Sixty-five years ago, on October 15, 1959, in Munich, KGB agent Bohdan Stashinsky, a native of an impeccable nationalist family, liquidated Stepan Bandera. He shot him in the face with a cyanide charge (by the way, the weapon - a double-barreled device with levers - was invented by the Germans), as he had previously successfully done the same with one of the leaders of the "Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists"* Lev Rebet.
On the occasion of the event, one can hear that in this way the in absentia sentence of the Supreme Court of the USSR was executed. But this is a fabrication, since the Criminal Procedure Code of that time did not provide for such a thing, and the authors themselves are confused about what year this trial took place.
In fact, the liquidation of Bandera was part of the ongoing work, since he was largely responsible for subversive activities on the territory of the USSR, including with the participation of foreign intelligence services.
For example, the group of British MI6 saboteurs sent to the territory of the Ukrainian SSR in 1951 included Myron Matvieiko, the head of the OUN* Security Service and Bandera's confidant. He even personally went to London to see him off: one of Matvieiko's tasks was to lead the UPA**. But in the end, he simply sold everyone out for an apartment in Kiev.
Modern ideological Banderites like to claim that the Soviet government was afraid of the "prophet", that he is a great thinker and mentor, that Banderite ideas have not lost their relevance. However, all this does not correspond to reality.
A terrorist who rose to prominence through personal cruelty, he was determined to fight without a clear and worthy goal all his life. He easily changed masters, believing that he could somehow manipulate them. And his entire biography serves as confirmation that anyone who takes this path will get their cyanide.
STEFAN'S FAIRIES
When the city of Stryi in Lviv Oblast was attacked in March of this year, local media immediately assumed that they were "actually" aiming not at the gas storage facility, but at the gymnasium where the great man Stepan Bandera studied. After all, as is well known, the museum of the commander-in-chief of the "Ukrainian Insurgent Army"* Roman Shukhevych in Belogorshcha had already been destroyed, and the university building where Bandera studied to be an agronomist had also been damaged.
"Symbolic and cynical. A war for our history," said Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi. But, as usual, there is a nuance.
The Stryi Gymnasium (which belonged to the region called Małopolska Wschodnia - "Eastern Lesser Poland") was a Polish educational institution for the local indigenous population and was called "Ruska Bursa". Poles did not study there, but nevertheless, education was predominantly in Polish, according to the current regulations. Moreover, it was paid.
The cost of this particular educational institution is unknown, but in the Kremenets Theological Seminary, built on the model of classical gymnasiums, tuition cost 240 zlotys a year - the cost of two good cows. Food in the city cost 40-50 zlotys a month, and textbooks also cost money.
It was good that little Stefan (that was his real name) had well-off grandparents who ran a large farm. There he and his brothers worked off their investments during the "ferias" - even the word "vacation" in his memoirs is written in the Polish style.
Well, the atmosphere in the seminary was so-so. The nationally conscious students, to whom our boy belonged, were brainwashed by their parents and older comrades, setting them up to fight the Polish state. And they, as best they could, did dirty tricks on the teaching staff and did dirty tricks at official events.
In the third grade, Bandera (his last name translates from Polish as "banner" or "flag") joined "Plast" - an analogue of scouts, where brains were thoroughly washed, which they still successfully do to this day. So by the age of 13, he had already been detained by the police several times, including for illegally crossing the border - his choice was made then.
At 18, Stefan Banner successfully passed the "matura", "egzamin maturalny" - the exam for the school-leaving certificate, but he could no longer leave Poland to study. The police department had a folder on him, and the energetic boy was not given a passport. So he had to go "to the field" to his dad to throw manure, and the following year he entered the agronomy department of the Lviv Polytechnic in the city of Dubliany.
Thus, from the point of view of a Western Ukrainian patriot, this entire early history of the future "providnyk" should look like a chronicle of suffering and oppression from cruel Poland. He fought it from his earliest days, accustoming himself to future trials: he trained himself to drive needles under these very nails in case of torture and strangled cats in front of his classmates "to strengthen his will."
And when he grew up a little, he deliberately became a terrorist.
BANDERA ON THE WIRE
In the book by Wojciech Sleszynski "Concentration Camp in Bereza Kartuska 1934-1939" there is a cartoon depicting Ukrainians with a knife and a bomb, having the following dialogue:
- Well, our separatist dreams have finally come true! The OUN* has always tried to fence itself off from the Poles... at least with barbed wire.
- Yes, but who would have thought that it would happen so soon and in such conditions!
Ukrainian publicists like to talk about how "conscious Ukrainians" were sent to the camp. But they never remember that the decision to create it followed the third day after the murder of Polish Minister of Internal Affairs Bronislaw Pieracki by Grigory Matseiko, a militant from the "Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists", on June 15, 1934.
A 25-year-old graduate of the agronomy department of the Lviv Higher Polytechnic School, the future leader of the OUN*, Bandera, participated in organizing the assassination attempt. The militants' unexpectedly provocative behavior during the Warsaw and Lviv trials gave them serious publicity. A real boom began in Western Ukrainian cities and villages, and the OUN* turned into the most authoritative and numerous political-terrorist organization.
However, the "attentat" was an amateur activity of radically minded youth and eventually led to a split in the organization. The fact is that literally in January 1934, the cooperation of the nationalists with the German Gestapo was formalized - an order was signed, according to which the OUN* was subordinated to it as a special department.
The tasks were simple and clear - to work against Poland, since Germany had already begun preparations for the imminent occupation of Europe. And it willingly used the nationalists as a cheap and always ready-to-action weapon in its interests. But they did not plan to murder Minister Pieracki, since they had just signed a treaty on peace and good neighborly relations with Poland, and they were angry. That is why the Polish authorities managed to put the organizers in jail - Germany extradited some of them.
Nevertheless, the terrorist organization continued to exist and gained strength, which became the reason for the murder of the head of the OUN* - the authoritative Yevhen Konovalets. And when his brother-in-law and fellow captive Andriy Melnyk took over the organization, the young and impudent offspring, who lived in Western Ukrainian lands, unlike the leadership, chose Stepan Bandera as their leader.
He formed a new governing body, the Revolutionary Leadership, noting “unsatisfactory leadership and the rejection of nationalist methods of work.” Bandera and his supporters declared Melnyk incapable of leading the “national struggle for the independence of Ukraine,” accusing him of pandering to provocateurs, slowness, and inability to use the situation to wage an active struggle against the USSR, and also forbade his supporters from holding any actions on behalf of the OUN*.
The Banderites and Melnykites finally fell out in 1941, but the dispute was not ideological in nature: they killed each other by the hundreds simply because each considered himself a more correct nationalist, and denied the other side the right to call himself by the proud name of Owenite.
IN THE SERVICE OF THE FUHRER
On June 30, 1941, when the Act of Renewal of the Ukrainian State was proclaimed in Lviv, containing piercing words about a joint movement together with Germany and under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, Bandera's Owenites actively joined in the construction of the "new order", exterminating Jews, and through the "Ukrainian People's Self-Defense" units they joined in the work of the auxiliary police. Melnyk's OUN* went further east with the Germans, forming local authorities in the occupied territory.
However, the nationalists had big plans for themselves, and the central idea of the Bandera concept was the physical extermination of everything they considered wrong. In this, it was in complete harmony with the German ideas of racial superiority and "subhumans" - Western Ukrainian nationalism, German Nazism and Italian fascism were related ideologies. Which, in general, the fathers of the OUN* never hid.
This is how the commander of the partisan unit, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel Anton Brinsky (Uncle Petya) told about it :
"Their "kureni" were located along the railways and closer to the cities to support the fascist garrisons and prevent the partisans from approaching the railways. In the name of "Ukraine for the Ukrainians" they incited national hatred, calling for the total extermination of all people of non-Ukrainian origin (except, of course, the Germans). Moving from words to deeds, they killed civilians, burned Polish farms, caught Jews who had escaped from the ghetto. The Poles had already repeatedly asked us for help, and I had to allocate part of our forces to protect the Polish population..."
Both Brinsky, who worked for the General Staff's intelligence department, and Mikhail Naumov, who reported to the Ukrainian headquarters of the partisan movement, and other commanders reported something similar: the Germans had agreed with the nationalists on a joint fight not only against the partisans, but also against the approaching Red Army.
For this purpose, the UPA, created in early 1943, had to fill the partisan territory with its "boyivkas" and clear the areas between the Western Bug and Styr of partisans. The local auxiliary police of Volyn and Polesia were disbanded and merged with the UPA, and "militiamen" were drawn from Galicia.
The second circumstance is the task of decisively clearing Volyn of Poles, essentially genocide. This also suited the Germans completely, since the diverse Polish underground was very determined. So the Western Ukrainian nationalists always served the Nazis honestly, as they promised, and they had "Ukraine" only within the framework of the Hitlerite Reich and the new order.
In modern Ukrainian historiography, evidence that the Owenites “also fought Nazism” is considered to be an episode from the life of the “providnik”: in 1941, the Germans placed him under house arrest, and then (from early 1942 to September 1944) held him in the Sachsenhausen camp.
However, Stepan Andreevich, while in Sachsenhausen, had meetings with his wife, conceived a child, and at the same time calmly discussed business issues of the OUN* management. After his release in October 1944, Bandera had a conversation with the head of the SS Main Directorate Gottlob Berger regarding the "understanding" between the leadership of the Reich and the OUN (b)*.
“Providnyk” was offered to work under the auspices of the Fuhrer – to head the Ukrainian National Committee.
Bandera put forward counter-conditions: he would not submit to the “competing firm” represented by Andrey Vlasov and his “Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia,” and the Germans would finally recognize the “Act of the Revival of the Ukrainian State” proclaimed back in 1941. The Germans failed to reach an agreement with Bandera, and according to one version, they simply left him alone.
However, judging by the testimony of Abwehr officer Siegfried Müller, successful collaboration continued, and in December 1944, the former "prisoner of Sachsenhausen" consulted saboteurs from Abwehrkommando-202 in Krakow. And the two Bandera brothers, Vasily and Alexander, who are now considered "victims of Auschwitz", were killed by Poles held there - they knew this name well from the high-profile trial of the murder of Pieracki.
So the “seer” managed to bring even his own brothers to the brink of death.
After the war, he easily went into service with the Americans and the British, tried to promote the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, a coordinating center for anti-communist organizations of emigrants from the USSR and other camp countries, and made plans to return and "lead the fight." Only they did the same to him as he had done in his time: the young and daring organized another split in the OUN*, pushing the leader into the background. And the new masters quickly lost interest in him.
He accepted his death quite deservedly, as retribution for everything he had done since his youth. And the fact that in Ukraine they decided to make Bandera an analogue of Lenin, sticking him on every corner, is due to impotence: they simply couldn’t find anyone better. And the figure of the “great man” looks even more shameful against the backdrop of great events, where he was just a pawn that the players wouldn’t mind trading away.
Follow up to this story of their conviction a month ago.
[KavkazUzel] A Belgian court has sentenced a Chechen native and his wife to lengthy prison terms for preparing a terrorist attack. Two other defendants were given suspended sentences and another was acquitted. The authorities in Belgium and other European countries are not fighting religious radicals effectively enough.
True.
They pose as politicians, but in reality they are imposing radical ideas on members of the Chechen diaspora. Meanwhile, the courts are handing out excessively lenient sentences to some of them, noted analysts from European countries interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", in May 2023, the Belgian prosecutor's office announced the arrest of seven supporters of the "Islamic State", suspected of preparing a terrorist attack. Among the suspects are natives of Chechnya. On September 10, it became known that four supporters of ISIS* were convicted in Bruges. The leader of the group, a native of Chechnya, Abubakar S., was sentenced to 15 years, and his wife was sentenced to eight years in prison. Two more members of the group received suspended sentences, including Abubakar S.'s brother.
Belgium has one of the largest Chechen diasporas in Europe, according to an article published on the "Caucasian Knot" entitled "How to go to Europe and obtain refugee status."
BELGIAN COURT REVEALS DETAILS OF CRIMINAL CASE
The defense of Abubakar S., a native of Chechnya, convicted in Belgium for belonging to a terrorist group and preparing a terrorist act, has appealed the verdict, his lawyer, Dens Piteryan, told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. He declined to comment further.
Earlier, the Belgian publication Dhnet.be reported that the defense attorney at the first instance "admitted his client's Islamic radicalization," but disputed that he had attempted to commit a terrorist attack.
A representative of the press service of the Belgian courts, Peter Katthoor, confirmed to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that the decision of the court of first instance in Bruges regarding Abubakar S. has been appealed by the lawyer. Katthoor refrained from making any other comments, suggesting to study the verdict. He noted that the date of the appeal hearing is still unknown.
A "Caucasian Knot" correspondent studied the first instance court's verdict regarding Abubakar S. and translated it.
The case file mentions five defendants, their names are not given, the defendants are designated by numbers. The last of them, defendant No. 5, is named in the verdict as a supporter of ISIS, but he himself was not convicted of wanting to participate in terrorist attacks or disseminating ISIS propaganda, and was therefore acquitted.
Accused #4 was found guilty of producing and distributing IS propaganda content, although he did not express any intention to participate in the attack. He received a suspended sentence and was also fined €10,000. Accused #3 was sentenced to the same punishment.
The third defendant, according to the case materials, "played an active role in disseminating propaganda and recruiting supporters, exchanging propaganda content with the first defendant."
Another defendant is called a "couch potato," although the investigation has allowed that he could have committed the crime. "By spreading propaganda, inciting supporters (even if this only happens online), convincing people of his ideology, he participates in the activities of this terrorist group, realizing that in this way he contributes to the crimes committed by this group," the verdict says.
The case file shows that Abubakar S. is the main defendant. "A man with Russian citizenship, born in 1998," the verdict says. The case file also states that defendant No. 2 is his wife. "A woman with Russian citizenship, born in 1989, they entered into a "religious marriage," the verdict says. She claimed that she planned to apply for political asylum in Belgium, but had not done so at the time of her arrest. The doctor who examined her diagnosed her with post-traumatic stress disorder, but ruled out a mental disorder, as he had with her husband.
The verdict does not say that it concerns ethnic Chechens, but this is clear from its content. Thus, Abubakar S. "in a wiretapped conversation with his wife on April 2, 2023, expressed concerns that when he commits an attack, it will have negative consequences for the entire Chechen community." Therefore, Abubakar S. intended to cut off all contacts with the Chechen diaspora two to three months before the attack, the verdict says. A better solution would have been to not fucking do it.
In addition, Abubakar S. and his wife discussed in intercepted conversations "the Chechen emirs who took the oath [to ISIS] and went to Syria. "They also planned to send their children back to their homeland in Chechnya using forged documents, but they failed to implement this," the document says.
Abubakar S. was found to be particularly dangerous to society and subject to long-term isolation. The court in Bruges took into account his previous convictions. "His criminal record includes three criminal cases, two of which are related to theft. He spent a year in prison," the verdict states.
The document also states, citing data from the Belgian intelligence services, that defendant No. 1 (his initials are ASM. A Belgian court press officer also named him Abubakar S.) "attempted to enter ISIS territory in 2017-2018."
Investigators established surveillance and monitored social media pages and, based on the investigation, established through wiretapping of telephones that the first and second defendants had sworn allegiance to ISIS* and that there had been various alarming conversations between the first and second defendants related to ISIS, the verdict states.
The case used the findings of an Islamic scholar. In particular, he examined the question of what the oath of allegiance to the caliph means and came to the conclusion that it was specifically about ISIS, as well as the specific intention of the married couple to commit a terrorist attack in order to be recognized as "soldiers of the caliph." During the investigation, Abubakar S. admitted that if an ISIS* terrorist attack had been committed, he would have taken responsibility. The second convicted person, Abubakar S.'s wife, initially denied knowing about her husband's plans, but phone monitoring data and video recordings confirm that both swore an oath to ISIS*. The oath was taken remotely via video.
On September 21, 2023, the doctor involved in the trial concluded that the first defendant did not suffer from a mental disorder. During the second examination, he showed a tendency towards sadism. He is confident in his rightness, especially in his negative attitude towards the West, against which, in his opinion, violence is justified. The defendant openly states his geopolitical views and position, which is a positive moment, but he does not allow doubts about his rightness and does not show empathy, the doctor noted.
According to the case file, in one of the Telegram channels, the first defendant stated that he planned to carry out two attacks in the same city. They also discussed killing several soldiers to replenish their arsenal of weapons. It was decided not to carry out an attack in Brussels, since the first defendant did not know the city well and there had already been terrorist attacks there. The first defendant also asked the group how many weapons they would receive, and they discussed grenades that they were going to throw at the attack sites, in particular, at a nightclub, which would have led to numerous victims, the verdict states.
The document also mentions chat messages in which there are talks about attacks using explosives. On April 1, 2023, the first and second defendants discussed a place where they could commit jihad. The attack on Brussels airport was discussed.
The main evidence for the prosecution was the circumstances of the preparation of the weapons. According to the investigation, defendant No. 1 rented a garage in which he intended to store weapons. He also carefully planned the attack. During a conversation with an undercover officer, he immediately announced the search for a weapon with which it would be possible to hit the largest number of victims. During subsequent conversations, Abubakar S. informed the security officer of his intention to commit two terrorist attacks in Antwerp by a group of five people. When the police came to the conclusion that real preparations for a terrorist attack were underway, arrests were made on May 4, the day the weapons were handed over.
Analysts point out to Belgian authorities that the fight against radicals is insufficient
The husband and wife, who were convicted of preparing a terrorist attack, have lived in Belgium for a long time, noted Belgian resident and refugee from Chechnya Fatima Margieva, who represents the Swiss NGO "Woman for Peace in the World".
"I've been living in Belgium for 16 years, and this has never happened before. The court gave suspended sentences and released people - how is that possible if there were such serious charges? The "leader's brother" got off with a suspended sentence and a fine. How could they even get into a NATO building in the center of Europe to carry out a terrorist attack there?" she told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
She called for not using the cliche of "radicalizing Chechen youth". "If we talk about youth, that they are being radicalized, that they are being drawn into all this, then this is not true. <…> We all meet with young people, try to explain to them, so such accusations cannot be made indiscriminately. I know that now the majority of young people are interested in education, integration, sports, and learning languages. Many people from the Chechen diaspora participated in the recent Paris Olympics. In the teams of Austria, Germany, Albania, and Denmark. It is a shame that the media pay attention to the ethnic origin of people only when it comes to terrorists," Margieva said.
One of the members of the Chechen diaspora in Europe harshly criticized those convicted of preparing a terrorist attack. "If they detained someone for such a crime, they were right to give them a sentence. They didn't give them enough. You can't break the law, especially under such articles. They gave a person shelter, a roof over their head, the opportunity to earn money and study, and in response such meanness on their part is a very serious crime," he told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on condition of anonymity.
Statements by Chechen authorities may influence the radicalization of young people abroad. In addition, flirting with radical Islam by Chechen elders in exile is unacceptable, said Ibrahim Nikarho, an activist of the Chechen Democratic Party living in Austria.
"Belgium did a good job in preventing this terrorist attack. But overall, I think that both Belgium and other European countries are fighting the consequences. Once people are recruited, and once a person openly begins preparing a terrorist attack, some actions begin. But the authorities are still missing the process of turning a person into a terrorist," Nikarho told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
In France, Great Britain and Belgium there are Islamist groups who call themselves politicians but advocate the establishment of Sharia, he continued. "Unfortunately, the United Force and the government of the CRI do not clearly condemn all these political Islamist efforts... the elders, instead of clearly condemning this, are actually sending them a signal: "We are politicians, you can hide behind us." Of course, this can influence young minds, who can perceive this as approval. After the fall of the Emirate* and ISIS*, sobering up has begun to occur in the Chechen émigré community," the analyst noted.
However, then activists appeared who first gained popularity on the theme "Kadyrov is bad", and then began to talk about the need for Sharia, Nikarho noted. He stated that such ideas destroy the Chechen diaspora, and therefore they must be fought. "95% become radicalized in Russian, which they can read, on the Internet. Maybe 5% listen to Chechen and Dagestani mullahs," the analyst said.
The official authorities of Chechnya also influence the mood among Chechen emigrants, he continued. "Previously, Islam was not put on display in Chechnya. Weddings, funerals, and other important events in personal life were held according to Islamic rites, and that was it. But since the introduction of radical Islam, Sufi Islam, traditional for Chechnya, has also entered the competition on the topic of "who is the best Muslim here," Ibrahim Nikarho pointed out.
French journalist, former hostage of ISIS, author of books on radical ideas Nicolas Henin said that the number of ethnic Chechens in radical circles has been increasing since 2019. "But they were there before, in particular in the Alsace-Lorraine-Champagne-Ardennes region.
French-Algerian Islamic scholar, journalist and writer Mohammed Sifaoui noted that many ethnic Chechens do not integrate into society because of the language barrier. After ISIS was defeated in Syria and Iraq, the terrorists changed tactics and targeted, in particular, the recruitment of young people already living in Europe, as well as the Caucasus. And so they were able to recruit new members, in particular, from the Chechen diaspora, he noted.
"The Muslim community is not homogeneous in Europe. Moderate Muslims, non-practicing Muslims, Muslims of different movements - everyone, except those who support the radicals, trusts European institutions, European civil society and the sentences handed down accordingly. Therefore, this sentence will only cause indignation among those whose opinions have been formed in advance and who cannot be persuaded by anything," he told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Sifaoui believes that the EU countries' fight against terrorism is effective, but noted that its causes are not being eliminated. "Schools and mosques that openly call for hatred of the West have not been closed. Because there is democracy here, and one can express one's opinion up to a certain point. Where this line between opinion and violence lies is a question that has not yet been resolved," the analyst said.
[AmricanThinker] A recent report shows that the assassination attempts on President Donald Trump were facilitated by unacceptable misconduct and unprofessional behavior by employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States Secret Service (USSS) stemming from deep-seated politicization within these agencies.
The increasing politicization of the U.S. government and its institutions has become a pressing concern in many media. Conservative pundits have been sounding the alarm about that issue since at least 2016, when the FBI plot against Donald Trump was initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory. Now, after it became clear that the Democrat party has weaponized the Department of Justice to destroy Trump’s presidential campaign, it turned out the "conspirators" were telling nothing but truth.
New information released by Empower Oversight (EO), a respected American civil rights watchdog, proves that the FBI high ranking employees became way too supportive of the Democrat party. A September 19 letter from EO president Tristan Leavitt to Jim Jordan, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, exposes mistreatment, and even the firing of agents because of their conservative political views.
WHAT IS THE LETTER ABOUT?
It is a real story of a certain Marcus Allen, a highly professional and decorated FBI employee, who had his security clearance suspended and was later fired because of his conservative stance and doubts about whether the bureau acted properly during the Black Lives Matter and January 6 incidents.
WHO ENABLED THE MISCONDUCT TO HAPPEN?
According to the EO investigation, a dramatic change in the FBI leadership back in 2021 allowed some agents, specifically those with pro-Democrat sentiments, to experience a skyrocketing growth in their career. The letter reads that unnamed witnesses describe these agents as deeply anti-conservative. One of them, a certain Jeffrey Veltri, previously the Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) of the New Orleans field office, was later promoted to the Section Chief of Security Integrity and Investigation Section (SIIS). Another employee, Dena Perkins, serving as Assistant Section Chief of SIIS from 2018, worked together with Veltri and reportedly played a significant role in Allen’s case.
MR. ALLEN’S CASE IN DETAIL
On September 29, 2021, Mr. Allen made protected whistleblower disclosures about the FBI’s alleged misconduct in connection with the January 6 incident; when Mr. Veltri learned about it, he launched an investigation to affect Mr. Allen’s security clearance. Witnesses claim the whole process was retaliatory to punish the employee for his political views. Moreover, the paperwork was done with severe violation of the chain of command, the Law and the U.S. Constitution.
Besides, Mr. Veltri’s investigators learned that Mr. Allen refused to take a then-mandatory COVID jab. Even though mandatory vaccination was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in late January 2022, Mr. Allen’s refusal turned into "extremist and potentially dangerous behavior" in a report on his political preferences, which is absolutely baseless and incorrect.
As ASC of SIIS, Perkins put a lot of effort to hinder transparency when investigating the FBI’s own personnel. Moreover, the Insider Threat Office initially found no threat in Allen’s activity, but sometime between November and December 2021 that report was altered and projected as a threat because of his stance on the FBI’s actions and the U.S. administration.
All these actions taken by Veltri and Perkins led to Allen’s clearance suspension. Later in 2022, Mr. Allen was fired because he was (falsely) accused of disloyalty to the United States.
THE ’TRUMP QUESTIONNAIRE’
The Empower Oversight investigation sheds light on numerous facts of retaliation measures taken against FBI agents by mid-tier and top-tier leadership. It also contradicts testimonies made by the bureau’s director, Christopher Wray, in Congress about alleged abuse and retaliation policies based on employees’ political views. It was also disclosed that a so-called "Trump questionnaire" actually existed and was widely used to determine loyalty of personnel to the FBI, which translated to allegiance to the Democrat party. In July 2024, it was suggested in Congress that Veltri and Perkins were behind that form.
DISTURBING REVELATIONS OF FBI AND US SECRET SERVICE FAILURES IN TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS
Why is there so much focus on the story? This is actually a pretext to better understand the following document presented on September 23 by a ranking member of the U.S. Senate, Kentucky’s Rand Paul. The Initial Findings Report on the failures of the USSS regarding the assassination attempts on former president Donald J. Trump reveals some very shocking details.
First, before the July 13 Butler rally the USSS refused to send its sniper units to protect Trump. Second, that assassination attempt could have been prevented if the USSS had allocated additional Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) assets as was requested by the Trump team. The existing C-UAS device began operating only 40 minutes after the shooter Crooks flew his drone over the event.
And last but not the least. On July 10 the USSS Pittsburgh Office requested the FBI to report on any intelligence related to Trump and his July 13 rally in Butler, PA, but there was no response. At the same time Mr. Paul’s report says that "USSS Lead Advance Agent was told that ’credible intelligence’ existed of a threat" but she never mentioned that in a security planning document. Given the specific kind of work of both the FBI and the USSS, it is highly likely that the bureau was aware of a heightened threat risk, but kept silent because of the pro-Democrat views of its high-ranking agents.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FBI PRO-DEMOCRAT ABUSERS?
Now let’s return to the EO investigation. One of those responsible for excess politicization in the FBI, Mr. Veltri, was promoted to Special Agent in Charge in the Miami Field Office earlier this year and now leads the FBI’s investigation into the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Fortunately, both assassination attempts failed. But the evidence gathered by the EO investigation and the U.S. Congressional Committee proves that it is politicized, and therefore the mostly unprofessional approach of both the FBI and the USSS enabled those wrongdoings to occur. Given all the facts, one can hardly be sure that the investigation led by Mr. Veltri’s team would be professional and unprejudiced.
The state of affairs in the U.S. government, built and encouraged by the Biden-Harris administration, is unacceptable. There should be no difference whether it is Trump or another president, a Republican or a Democrat. It is an American citizen, so his or her rights must be respected and the job must be done properly.
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At this point both orgs need to be shutdown, everybody laid off for good and new organizations created with "CLEAN" people.
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"FBI Fudges Violent Crime Stats To Hide 55 Percent Rise Under Biden-Harris Administration
While the FBI claims that serious violent crime has fallen by 5.8 percent since Biden took office, the NCVS numbers show total violent crime has risen by 55.4 percent."
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#3- Kamala’s ad says she never pursued investigations by first asking if they were a Democrat or Republican. Gee, maybe the FBI didn’t get the memo.
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[Wirepoints] Presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump is in Chicago Tuesday for his latest campaign stop. While neither Chicago nor Illinois is in play this election, count on him to hit Chicago’s leadership hard for their many self-inflicted crises when he addresses the Economic Club of Chicago.
Trump has been highly critical of Chicago in the past, calling crime in the city "embarrassing to us as a nation" and "worse than some of the places...in the Middle East where you have wars going on." He’s also decried its migrant policies: "New York City and Chicago play the Sanctuary City card, where criminals are protected..."
His rhetoric on Chicago can often be nasty and over the top, but it’s not wrong. Too many Chicagoans experience the high-crime, low-literacy, high-tax, low-opportunity version of Chicago — which we detail below — and which Trump is likely to point at. But because it’s Trump talking, expect the media and connected class to deflect or even deny that the city’s problems exist.
Their denials should anger many of the ordinary Chicagoans who live with the impact of these problems every day. There are the residents who feel threatened living in the nation’s long-running homicide capital — polls show nearly two-thirds of Chicagoans don’t feel safe from crime. There are the black residents who’ve made their voices heard in multiple hearings, frustrated by the attention and billions in financial and healthcare resources directed towards the city’s illegal immigrants. And there are parents who feel their children’s education is secondary to the extreme demands of the Chicago Teachers Union — one reason why 110,000 black children have fled the public school system since 2000.
Most of these problems have been inflicted by the city’s political class. They’ve stopped prosecuting many criminals. Most students aren’t taught to read or do math proficiently. Fiscal failures have the city, CPS and the regional transit authority all stuck with near one-billion-dollar deficits. And all of that mess is wrapped up in endemic political corruption, of which former Ald. Ed Burke and former House Speaker Mike Madigan are just the latest examples.
Chicagoans’ concerns have merit, and the failures of the city’s politicians deserve to be discussed. If the Economic Club of Chicago was to have an open, honest conversation about the city with Trump, here are five key goals that should get deeper attention:
1. Start arresting, prosecuting and sentencing again. Protect victims, make crime criminal.
If not, Chicago will likely continue to lead the nation in total homicides as it has for the last 12 years. If this year’s murder trend stays on track, it will be 13 years in a row. Overall violent crime will also continue to threaten Chicagoans. Through August of this year, violent crimes were running at a six-year high, over and above the jump in violent crimes last year.
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[HotAir] Yes. In response to our previous posting about headshots on Paleo kids. Pics at link
I am not a ballistics expert and don't play one on TV. I didn't even sleep in a Holiday Inn Express, so what I write here is based entirely on the analysis of others.
But I am pretty sure they are right, given the balance of the evidence and the provenance of the opinion piece published by the New York Times.
At issue is a piece published by the Times in which 65 medical personnel who have worked in Gaza during the Israeli operation accuse soldiers of deliberately targeting Gazan children, shooting them in the head. There are lurid stories and X-ray images that purport to show bullets lodged in the head and neck of children.
Those X-rays appear to be--according to doctors and ballistics experts--totally fake. And even I, a layman, can call bulls**t on them due to obvious problems that a 10-year-old can spot.
Look at the linked photos in the above tweet, and you will immediately notice a few things: there are no entry or exit wounds, despite the claim that a military rifle supposedly shot these children with a bullet designed to penetrate armor. The bullets show no deformation and appear to have been placed under the body.
I could be wrong, but lots of people in the law enforcement, military, and forensics fields have pointed these facts out. People have also done experiments using the same weapon and bullets on models, and there is no way that any of these children would have survived as claimed or that images of the wounds would appear that way on any type of medical images.
It's not one or two people who are trying to debunk the claims being made in the pages of the Times; it seems to be everybody with any knowledge of ballistics or gunshot wounds piling on.
The Times begs to differ but offers nothing more than an assurance that their robust fact-checking operation didn't let anything get past them. They have "layers and layers" of fact-checkers, just like Dan Rather did, so nothing gets past them!
Snipers scoff at the images and the stories because they know the effects of military bullets striking heads. The bullets almost certainly would pass through the head, causing massive trauma in both the brain and the exit wound.
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They're all Hoaxes.
Better question, Has the NYT ever published the truth?
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Leaving aside the lack of entrance/exit wounds, something I noticed, purely from an imaging perspective, is that the x-rays show a lot of fine anatomical detail, but the outlines of the bullets had a bad case of the "jaggies" - a sign of image-processing bumfoolery.
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I stopped in to see which NYT story was passable as truth. Apparently, none, it is a story requiring a suspension of belief greater than thinking The Acolyte earned a second season.
[NYPOST] Elon Musk is working miracles with rockets, but a bunch of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, apparatchiks want to stop his launches because of... his tweets.
The immigrant genius stunned the world Sunday as his SpaceX landed a reusable Starship booster back on the launchpad.
This is a huge tech advance, bringing launch costs down by a factor of ten and advancing space exploration and exploitation by decades.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike! he yelled...... the California Coastal Commission just rejected the Space Force's request for more frequent SpaceX launches on the Golden State's Central Coast by a vote of six to four, with some of the ''nays'' specifically citing Musk's political speech.
This, by the way, follows the Biden Justice Department's suit against SpaceX for allegedly discriminating against asylum seekers in hiring, as well as the Biden Federal Communications Commission canceling a $900 million contract with Musk's Starlink to provide rural high-speed internet.
(Then again, Musk did it for free, at least temporarily, to help Hurricane Helene victims.)
Ayn Rand must be spinning in her grave... or laughing at how so-called "progressives" spurn actual progress when driven by a truly independent mind.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike! he yelled...... bet on Musk to beat the Lilliputians: Expect him to launch the first manned mission to Mars from Texas, which has the good sense to welcome him and all his businesses.
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Rand would expect nothing less from them. Or from him. "Judge and prepare to be judged."
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SpaceX should tell the Air Force "No further launches from Vandenburg. At all."
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The only thing they're really protecting is themselves. They're angry at Musk for not throwing his intellect and wealth behind their idiot Kamala, and they're abusing their power to punish him. Now, Musk is vowing to sue the commission for violating his First Amendment rights, claiming his words have nothing to do with his rocket launches, like Saturday's record breaker.
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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.
[NYPOST] Elon Musk is working miracles with rockets, but a bunch of 
