Category Archives: Foreign Policy
War On The Rocks opens fire
Filed under Foreign Policy, General Interest, Military, Politics
Update on Navy investigation into captured US sailors
Barbard Starr at CNN offers an update on the US sailors captured by Iran in January 2016:
Washington (CNN)The 10 U.S. Navy sailors captured and briefly held by Iran in January made repeated mistakes that led them into Iranian territorial waters and being captured, according to an initial Navy investigation.
The investigation has not yet been released, but CNN spoke with a U.S. official directly familiar with the details. Because the sailors and other naval personnel could be facing disciplinary action, the report may not be released until their fate is settled.
“Initial Navy report finds sailors captured by Iran made several errors”
Filed under Foreign Policy, General Interest, Military, Uncategorized
Some global hotspots
This will just be a quick list of links to some important events taking place beyond the American presidential primary sideshow:
On Turkey, watch carefully, as Erdogan’s Turkey wobbles:
- Islamist Turkey is Imploding, by Alex Alexiev. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/islamist_turkey_is_imploding.html
- Putin’s Newest Satellite State by Adam Ereli at http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/02/24/putins-newest-satellite-state/#5cf845b83549
- Russia takes concrete steps towards Syria ceasefire, Turkey continues shelling – MoD – Please note RT is a Russian government mouthpiece (propaganda arm), but it’s important to pay attention to their propaganda too. https://www.rt.com/news/333480-russia-syria-implement-ceasefire/
On China:
- China is buying up American companies fast, and it’s freaking people out by Portia Crowe. http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-outbound-acquisitions-concerns-2016-2
- China bent on ‘hegemony in East Asia,’ U.S. military’s Pacific commander warns – http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/23/china-bent-on-hegemony-in-east-asia-navy-adm-harry/
On Saudi Arabia:
- Start Preparing for the Collapse of the Saudi Kingdom by Sarah Chayes. http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/02/de-waal-and-chayes-saudi-arabia/125953/
Filed under Foreign Policy, General Interest, Military, Politics
Who are the real Trump political advisers?
The Pope jumped into the American political race yesterday, so while the Vatican is trying to clarify the Pope’s comment about Trump’s always talking about building a wall, as not being Christian, and offering the building bridges between people as the proper Christian way, lest we get sidetracked, some things struck me as odd, that go well beyond the Pope’s statement and timing to interject himself into US politics.
First, the Pope gave Trump more oxygen to get back to his original appeal, from which he has drifted considerably in recent months – that America’s national security is threatened by uncontrolled borders and illegal immigration. A “wall” and or whatever means are necessary to secure our borders is a primary duty of our federal government, one both political parties have abdicated for decades.
Second, the Pope allowed for Trump to monopolize the media coverage and news cycle heading into a critical GOP primary in South Carolina, on Saturday.
Who knows why the Pope gave Trump more attention, when a Trump loss in SC could speed up a Trump demise, which assuredly the Pope would welcome, as one who obviously aligns with leftist South American social justice politics.
As to Trump’s response, one thing struck me as very odd. For once Trump came out and appeared to be reading prepared remarks and seemed at great pains to keep his emotions in check. I wondered who wrote those remarks for him, because the remarks seemed very tempered compared to Trump’s usual rants and rambling spiels. I’d love to know who Trump’s closest political advisers really are? They aren’t his campaign manager or his snotty campaign spokeswoman, that’s for sure. Once again, who are the real Trump political advisers?
Filed under Culture Wars, Foreign Policy, General Interest, Politics
When new information comes to light
For a long while, I believed the analysis that our going into Iraq fueled the radical Islamic fervor and set the conditions for ISIS to form, but here’s a new look from David French, “The Rise of ISIS Predates the Fall of Saddam Hussein,”
that dismantles my view and it’s worth studying. More information should prod us to reconsider our previous conclusions, especially on complex geopolitical issues. French quotes extensively from Kyle Orton’s New York Times piece, “How Saddam Gave Us ISIS”, so please read both articles. French begins:
“The New York Times has published a necessary corrective to those who view the invasion of Iraq as essentially Year Zero in the Middle East — the origin point for all the calamities that followed. Have you heard that ISIS is George Bush’s fault? Think again. Writing in the Times, Kyle Orton properly attributes the rise of ISIS in Iraq to cultural and religious forces that long pre-dated the American invasion of Iraq. It turns out that Iraq was no more immune to increased radicalization than any other Middle Eastern state, and Saddam reacted in part by embracing the new religiosity”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/431380/rise-isis-predates-fall-saddam-hussein
Jay Nordlinger added, “Saddam and Fille,” which also expands on French’s piece.
Definitely worth taking time to reassess what we think we know about the history of Iraq and ISIS, because sometimes those things that Rumsfeld dubbed “known knowns” are shown to be incorrect, making it imperative to be willing to reassess when new information comes to light.
Filed under Foreign Policy, General Interest, Islam, Military, Politics, Terrorism
Pretty lame propaganda gambits *yawn*
Hostile foreign infiltration in the Pentagon (and the Obama Administration):
Totally faked!!! The above video was released yesterday. The objective is to make America’s military look weak.
Today in the news Iran (Death to America, remember?) releases this video:
You, the American people are being played by hostile foreign intelligence propagandists, but they have legions of aiders and abettors in the Washington power structure, many whose parents, grandparents, even great-grandparents came to America as foreign agents (many Soviet) and stayed. They also have deep tentacles in our mass media structure too, to include far-right venues, not just in academia or Hollywood, as so many on the right believe. From the beginning, they melded with organized crime elements here. Thus, their progeny now wield a spidery web, no longer retaining those close ideological ties with their home countries, but instead operate on the nepotism model, that one GOP candidate kept referring to as, America is sick of the “permanent political class in Washington”. Just keep in mind, many of that class still engage in slimy information sharing with hostile nations.
Some hold top political positions in the US, but are kept in line by ruthless blackmail, as these hostile intelligence agencies, keep files a long, long time. So, if they possess damning video or photos of, let’s say, for instance, some behavior in Vietnam, that might damage a war hero’s reputation, they might put the screws to these politicians to keep them in line. One might look into the Elizabeth O’Bagy still sitting on John McCain’s staff and both John Kerry and John McCain relying on her Syrian expertise over the expertise of US intelligence analysts and ponder if there’s some other reason to explain why an outed liar is still on the government payroll, other than that she’s young and perky in a Monica Lewinskyesque manner? Alas, she helped McCain and Kerry sell the “moderate Syrian myth” to the detriment of US foreign policy for a long time. And ponder also that in her bio at her ISW paper on Syria she stated, “female militancy” as her thesis topic (alas, I can’t link to it as I am getting “access denied” to that ISW link at the moment, but the guys helping me have kept meticulous records on everything). I still want to know who she is and where she came from?
Please, keep in mind, that while they fed the partisan political divides tearing America apart, they’re doing it to consolidate their own power.
My post describing how the Soviets used women to latch onto top leaders in both the officer and NCO ranks, well they engaged in the same ploys in Washington and especially with the President. I think for every major presidential scandal since 1980, these two forces mentioned above, hostile foreign countries and this web of their agents’ progeny and organized crime here have created all these agitprop scenarios to fuel the partisan divide, with the goal as ultimately to destroy us from within.
Grab your popcorn and start using my profiling method – look for first family connections, then ethnic and religious affiliations and lastly consider political affiliations and you will quickly see the hostile foreign forces at play. So, if say Christiane Amanpour is Iranian and engaged in serious agitprop to get America involved in Bosnia – I believe she is likely an Iranian agent. Amanpour married a key Clinton aide, furthering her reach into the Clinton administration. Despite Bill Clinton being a pig with women, if Monica Lewinsky is Jewish, that would leave a huge question mark in my mind that he was set-up, by another foreign intelligence agency, perhaps Israeli. This is just how it works in the real world. Drudge, where did he come from and who funded him in the beginning, who is his family, and his background?
Every US president has been aggressively targeted since the Soviet Union came into being, then later communist China, Iran, and the MB/Wahabbi/Saudis entered the game too. And all the other countries, both friends and foes, are involved in this intelligence game too, but the alliance of Russia, China, Iran and the Sunni group have colluded to take us down. With the complete collapse of American foreign policy under Obama, even America’s allies have had to recalibrate their own security equations, with many of our closest allies turning to Putin, as the rational actor, world leader, especially in the Mid-East, instead of relying on the United States. It might help if you start avoiding going down that rabid, domestic, partisan-political rabbit hole, that they use to trick us into this endless partisan political in-fighting, and stick mostly to the family connections, then ethnic and religious connections – the picture becomes much clearer that way. I don’t care if people want to write me off as a conspiracy nut – I intend to expose what happened to me during impeachment and stand up for The Constitution, no matter what!
Filed under Culture Wars, Foreign Policy, General Interest, Military, Politics, Public Corruption, The Media
Things are not as they seem (with this wide GOP field, Trump or Hillary)
Posted a comment on Andrew McCarthy’s article, “Hillary’s E-mail Recklessness Compromised Our National Security” at National Review.
susanholly Sunday, February 7, 2016 2:19 PM
Mr. McCarthy, I believe that there’s much more afoot than just Clinton corruption on an epic scale or just her email server. Throughout the Cold War, America’s most ruthless enemies pursued aggressive infiltration efforts to destroy us from within. Once the Soviet Union collapsed, we walked away from aggressive counter-measures, choosing to buy into all that “end of history” nonsense in the 90s. The Carville/Begala mass media manipulation is a foreign infiltration program, I believe. Now, we have Sunni/MB infiltration in Hillary’s inner-circle, Iranian infiltration in the White House and Chinese infiltration throughout our government, business and especially in our cyber-activities – all of the social media and realityTV, and talk shows to teach Americans to betray their families on national TV were part of the effort. I feel certain that with the effort to expose the Clinton plot to sabotage the GOP primary, via the Trump effort (with Clinton political operatives working behind the scenes there), much more will come to light that will shock Americans. I believe our government, all the way to the top, all of our mass media (cable networks, to include FOX), the partisan agitators (both left and right) and every institution has been carefully and systematically infiltrated,with people they put in place to foment agitprop, to fuel the partisan divide and to buy or put in place candidates, they control.
The Soviet efforts, focused on usurping both Christian themes (world Peace) and patriotic American themes,wrapping them in the American flag and The Constitution, targeted the political right, making them harder to detect. These programs have run unabated for decades. There are church groups in America that were infiltrated, not just the Catholic church in Central and South America. The Chinese efforts focused on buying up large American companies to use as fronts, buying politicians (Clinton Chinese money ring any bells) and now cyber warfare. The Chinese now own our debt. The left was easier and they’ve succeeded there, the right now sits poised to fall too, because things are not as they seem with this wide GOP field – it’s all kabuki theater, not just Trump. That is my prediction. Screenshot this fast, because I expect this comment to be removed quickly.
My nickname on those old Excite message boards was mhere – a pun of sorts, being an old Cold Warrior myself. Kind of amazing is back then I felt like the last Cold Warrior and here we are infiltrated all the way to the top.
Imminent Danger Will Robinson
Update: The link: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/cars-lined-up-out-of-town-as-hordes-attend-trump-rally-in-exeter-nh-fox-news-barred-by-fire-marshal/ , which I mentioned in, More alarming tidbits, seems to have been removed from that blog and I checked the The Last Refuge blog, alternately known as Trump Polling Update Central, and can’t find it there either. The revision of “history” blitz will begin shortly, where the term “virtual reality” takes on more ominous meaning – time to start screenshoting everything. Of course, the link may reappear shortly to make me look like a nut or liar, but as of 10:39 am EST it is gone. I urge all of you to do the same. There’s a much larger plot afoot in America, that goes well beyond Hillary and Bill’s desperate actions, to use any means necessary, to seize the White House. Ruthless and determined, foreign enemies have worked their way through every corner of American society and power, through decades of concerted and relentless infiltration operations and they are ready to move.
Call this wild conspiracy theory if you choose, but when you see the agitprop moves rapidly progressing from the lame White House “narratives” to full scale mass media manipulation of our news, on a scale you never imagined, just remember that I warned you first. On both the political left and right – groups, pundits, websites and entire news networks have been set up to play you, the American people, as mindless idiots. YUGE foreign fronts are in place to deceive you and throw gasoline on the partisan divides, that they’ve worked for decades to put in place. I am not alone, trust me, there are many Americans dedicated to protecting America from all enemies, both foreign and domestic, who saw these threats years ago. They are all law-abiding, loyal American patriots, not crazy militias and not fomenting any violence whatsoever, in fact, they intend to follow the rule of law, expose the TRUTH and make sure all of these enemies get rounded up as expeditiously as possible! That is our mission!
Update: The gateway pundit link is working at 10:27 am EST, 2/15/16 – I admit to a typing error in that link, but I had gone to the actual site that day and could not locate this story and also to The Last Refuge blog. It’s very curious about the numbers game with these Trump rallies in the beginning and who he had organizing them, and the effort to fill these venues, plus who did the crowd estimates. A lot of effort went into hyping his support and the YUGEly overestimated polls. The Last Refuge blog, a site that made it’s name by dissecting the black grievance industry in America, and one that attracted a lot of overt racists and bigots, in my opinion, quickly became his online polling update center. I visited that site often trying to understand crowdsourcing, as a possible means to use to expose my impeachment story. Of course, the proof I need is held by the people who orchestrated the attack on me and not through crowdsourcing. Over the years, I’ve explored trying to contact real journalists, I’ve relayed my story with names, dates and details to a few men with the connections within the Army to get at the facts, I explored politics chat rooms, comment sections on various online sites, facebook and finally I started this blog. This blog was started at the urging of a friend, who told me that I have good ideas and should write my own blog. A few weeks into the blog – an epiphany struck that perhaps this blog could serve as my force multiplier to tell my story. Yes, I wrote my story in a rather tongue-in-cheek manner and used “cutesy names” (pseudonyms for my own protection), and in that annoying third person for a personal story, but hey, the truth is that third person gave me a little emotional distance, because I still wake up often with nightmares. I just wanted to be honest and acknowledge an error on my part with the link above.
Life for me since ’99 is an effort at keeping fear at bay and trying to still live my life. It’s a struggle not to become like Alex Jones and see a conspiracy behind every corner, but assuredly for that retired general to show up here and attack me, when the only outside activity I engaged in was that Excite message board on impeachment, left me no doubt there were other people who sent him (a conspiracy). My husband was ready to retire from the Army and I was at home taking care of my family. Someone sent that general and the attack used to try and silence me was not cheap. It’s a lot like the Elizabeth O’Bagy story – I stumbled upon some inconvenient facts there too and wrote about them on my blog and then posted my information at a popular blog, in their comments section. During impeachment, I stumbled upon some foreign infiltration and wrote about it in those impeachment threads, making me wonder if thatwtich2016 and their political sideshow was only a much smaller part of why I was attacked and a concerted effort was made to have me locked away permanently in a state mental hospital. During those 18 days in that mental health facility, I could bath, dress, talk coherently, take care of my own personal needs and still had time to listen to just about every other female patient in that mental health facility for 18 days – but they wanted me locked away permanently…