The DNC racists are at it again. The party of anti-racism that bases its entire claim to power on the lie that white people invented evil so everything they “created” should be destroyed (including the American Republic, Rule of Law, Due Process, and Integrity) is at it again displaying their overt racism, this time attacking the very right of Israel to exist.
The Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), stopped antisemite and DNC darling Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) from holding a conference that condemns Israel’s existence. It called the founding of Israel a catastrophe and seeks to paint Israel as an apartheid terror state that should be wiped off the face of the plant.
The purpose of the event is to stir up hatred against the nation of Israel and Jews in general, though their surface purpose is stated as being, “To uplift the experiences of Palestinians who underwent the Nakba, and educate Members of Congress and their staff about this history and the ongoing Nakba to which Israel continues to subject Palestinians, we’ve partnered together to host this congressional and community educational event, to be followed immediately afterward by dinner.”
Nakba means catastrophe and is identified as the founding of Israel.
The Hitler-aligned representative has been spewing antisemitic dog whistles since becoming a congressmember, in addition to once declaring the Constitution is just a white supremacist construct (making her an anti-American revolutionary openly serving in the U.S. government, which makes her a typical Democrat).
The Republican Jewish Coalition (The Democrat version hates the Jews almost as much as Tlaib does) said of the event that it was a coalition of antisemitic leaders of the DNC, also noting of the racist Tlaib, “Rashida Tlaib, who has repeatedly used antisemitic tropes, is hosting an event to attack Israel with groups that defend terrorism and support the antisemitic BDS movement.”
It should be noted that a DNC-controlled House would not only allow the violent event to take place, they’d call you racist for rejecting it. Also, the Senate Democrats and Socialist Bernie Sanders rescued Tlaib’s violently racist event, giving her a platform to spew her anti-American, anti-Jewish ideology with the full approval of the Democrat Party, the party of antisemites and seditionists.
Thanks to the DNC providing legitimization of the genocidal anti-semitic movement this seditious woman represents, she is now using the RNC’s efforts to stop this terrorist action in the halls of congres from taking place to raise campaign funds.
She wrote in a fundraiser to her anti-American constituency, “In an attempt to suppress the truth and silence Palestinian voices, McCarthy tried to stop the event by blocking the use of the auditorium it was planned for. But he failed to silence those voices or their truth, as the event proceeded in a different location with a packed, standing-room-only audience.”
“The U.S. government enables and perpetuates the Israeli government’s war crimes and massacres with U.S.-made weapons and billions in unconditional funding.”
Tlaib added that giving her money helpls her “stand up to U.S. and Israeli attempts to silence and erase Palestinians.” Methinks a little projecting is going here, with Tlaib and her coalition of hate wanting to eliminate Israel and the Jewish people.
A lawsuit filed this past month alleges members of the leftist organizations Election Integrity Partnership and Virality Project colluded with government officials to pressure Big Tech to censor Americans’ speech that did not meet with the approved leftist narrative these anti-American organizations are marketing. The founder of The Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, and the co-director of Health Freedom Louisiana, Jill Hines are suing the companies for their use of government agents to pressure Big Tech to censor their speech that challenged the narratives these far-left activist organizations favor, that the mass mailer election of 2020 was totally legitimate and the Covid-19 vaccine is completely safe and effective. GO DEEPER
The World Health Organization (WHO) is creating a new initiative called Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET) that is attempting to “guide countries in pandemic planning” in part through “incorporating the latest tools and approaches for shared learning and collective action established during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The document clarifies its initiative when it states, “Infodemic is the overabundance of information -accurate or not- which makes it difficult for individuals to adopt behaviours that will protect their health and the health of their families and communities. The infodemic can directly impact health, hamper the implementation of public health countermeasures and undermine trust and social cohesiveness.”
For over 75 years, the United States has been at war. American cities have been destroyed, entire states overrun, American citizens forced to live under the heel of a foreign occupier, U.S. brigades and divisions destroyed wholesale by an implacable enemy. It would not be until the mid-1980’s that the tide began to turn against the foe…the dreaded Circle Trigon State.
The preceding is real. It happened, and continues to happen – and you, the Reader, likely never knew anything about it…Because, while it was real, it was only “sort of” real.
In 1946, in the aftermath of World War Two, a board of general officers – those who had commanded forces of all types, in all theaters around the globe, during the largest war in recorded history – was “convened” (although, in reality, most of the generals were surveyed by mail), and asked what they thought had been done right, and what had been done poorly, prior to the war…Resoundingly, on the “bad” side, the generals called for more realistic training.
Prior to the war (c.1940-1941), “training” – especially for the infantry – had consisted of lining troops up on opposite sides, handing one side blue armbands and the other red armbands, and having the units go at each other in a glorified game of “capture the flag,” as adjudicated by umpires who wandered the training ranges, making largely arbitrary calls on who had been “killed” or “wounded”, and which side had “won.” Both sides used doctrines and tactics straight out of the same training manuals of the service – mostly based on First World War tactics – with only a sprinkling of speculation about how things like tanks would be used on the battlefield. Little thought was put in on how potential opponents fought, nor what attitudes, tactics and doctrines they might have used, despite detailed battlefield reports from military observers working out of U.S. embassies around the world.
As a result, US forces – and their commanders – generally performed terribly in the opening stages of the war. In fact, it would not be a stretch to suggest that U.S. forces would have been better off without the extensive – and expensive – field training, beyond the most basic of “entry-level” tactical training.
One of the most important measures adopted to correct this abysmal training gap, at least by the US Army at first, was a breathtakingly radical idea, and idea that has metamorphosed and grown into a detailed regimen that now extends well beyond the military sphere:
This was not like the thinly veiled names for potentially hostile nations that had been used for the famous color-coded war plans for the thirty-odd years preceding WW2. This was wholly different: the U.S. Army applied the same principles used by writers of popular fiction, to write what was essentially an “alternate history” of Europe at the end of WW2, a Europe that was partially reunited by a fictional Fascist political group. The scenario drew inspiration from the example of post-World War One Germany and the bodies of wandering troops known as the Freikorps, which had battled Communists across Germany in the chaotic aftermath of that war.
Freikorps in Berlin around 1919. Major a. D. F. W. Deiß. Public Domain.
In this scenario, the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union failed to establish positive control over the battered remnants of Europe and abandoned most of their heavy weapons and equipment on the continent in a rush to repatriate their troops home, to get them back into civilian industries. (The details of why this happened were not explored; it was simply assumed, in order to create the setting.)
Into this tumultuous morass, surviving Fascist leaders in various countries reunited in Franco’s Spain, and created a multinational movement, called the “Circle Trigon Party” (PDF link) – modeled on the lines of various fascist parties from the 1930’s and 40’s – that quickly incorporated the bulk of the wandering and leaderless troops in this alternate Western European setting, and welded them into a new force. These forces promptly seized the heavy equipment and weapons left behind by the withdrawing Allies and began planning a preemptive assault on the United States, as the new state’s leaders saw the U.S. as was the most dangerous enemy they would face in the short term.
This scenario – never thought of before, on anything like this scale – was implemented by designating certain special training units to various Army posts around the country and using surplus equipment and uniforms, dyed black, to form units of the “Aggressor Army” to train units locally, on-base. The uniforms themselves, while distinctly different from U.S. uniforms, also included a slate of awards and decorations, while the rank insignias were entirely American in origin, but were either turned upside down, or pinned on in non-U.S. arrangements.
Aggressor Force officers in the field. Yakima, WA, 1963. US Army photo.
But neither were these units organized along regular U.S. Army lines. Instead, an “Aggressor Army Command” (YouTube link) was created in a building at Fort Riley, Kansas, that developed tactics and doctrines unique to this mythical force…tactics and doctrines that were not shared with the actual U.S. Army units who would face this curious opponent. The units were issued a variety of training tools, including inflatable tanks, trucks and artillery pieces; similar tools were used in Europe during the preparations for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Additionally, standard psychological warfare techniques were used against U.S. troops by the Aggressor forces – leaflet drops by aircraft, Jeeps with loudspeakers to broadcast propaganda, and even radio broadcasts.
But it didn’t stop there.
At this “Aggressor Army” headquarters at Fort Riley, KS, extensive records were maintained of thousands of wholly fictional officers and troops, in a format similar to U.S. personnel summary cards. These personas were “assigned” to various training units, and troops were issued identification cards in these names and ranks; if “captured” during an exercise, these were the ID’s the “enemy” forces would hand over.
Even more remarkably, the Aggressor state, according to its back-story, had adopted the “constructed language” of Esperanto – and the troops were at least partly trained in its use. The reason for this was two-fold: captured troops would do their best to only answer questions in Esperanto, forcing intelligence units to attempt various forms of interpreting, and that all radio transmissions between Aggressor units were in Esperanto, forcing radio interception teams to also attempt to interpret the signals.
As the various exercises at posts were carried out during the late 1940’s and into the 1950’s, the Aggressor Headquarters in Fort Riley kept a careful score of when operations happened where and when, and what the outcome was…And, while U.S. forces didn’t always lose, they lost enough times, that the nation could frequently be presented as being in dire peril. One stark example demonstrated for American citizens was 1952’s Operation Longhorn (YouTube link), in which the town of Lampasas, TX and its civilian population were “captured” by Aggressor forces, and the citizens were given a very mild demonstration of what European civilians had faced under Nazi occupation ten years before.
The aim of the Aggressor force and the Circle Trigons was to train U.S. forces for large-scale combat against a foe who used very different tactics, and who saw the battlefield in a completely different light than U.S. commanders. Little thought was placed into “guerrilla warfare,” which has never really been given a stable place within the training cycles of United States troops. Oddities such as the “Pentomic Army” aside, the Aggressor Nation concept performed remarkably well…
But, the concept is not gone, by any means.
During the post-WW2 period, a polite fiction was maintained, in that the Circle Trigons were constructed as a Fascist, Nazi, German-like group…but everyone involved knew that they were actually training to fight the Soviet Union and its allies, exactly as anyone who knew of the color-coded war plans knew that “War Plan Red” (YouTube link) was code for war with England, or that “War Plan Orange” was about war with Imperial Japan.
Beginning in 1979, with the opening of the National Training Center (NTC) in the California desert, the U.S. military revamped its concept of the “aggressor” training tool, renaming it “OPFOR” (“OPposing FORce”), and creating multiple nations – versus a single state – with not simply a Soviet influence, but with Western and Third World influences as well.
OPFOR Shirt and Shoulder Boards used to add realism during exercises, 2010. US Army photo.
The U.S. Army reactivated the 6th Battalion, 31st Infantry (“The Polar Bears“) from the 7th Infantry Division based at Fort Ord, California, and the 1st Battalion, 73rd Armor, redesignating the two units as the 177th Armored Brigade (Separate), to form the Center’s primary training unit. While maintaining their regular U.S. Army organization and training standards at one level, the 177th also “fought visiting” Army units by organizing and training itself to model a standard Soviet Motorized Rifle regiment (the fictional 32nd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, known jokingly as “the best armored regiment in the Soviet Army”). After the 9/11 Attacks, the brigade transitioned to training for counterinsurgency warfare training (along with a similar unit at Fort Polk, Louisiana) for units headed to Iraq and Afghanistan…And now, following Vladimir Putin’s Russia reminding the world that large-scale warfare is not, in fact, a thing of the past, the Center has switched back to training for major-scale warfare against a “near-peer” opponent.
An Operation-force Surrogate Vehicle (OSV) Representing a Soviet BMP at Fort Irwin, California (National Training Center), 2012. Photo credit: Mrkoww CCA/3.0
This model has worked so well as a training tool, both the U.S. Marine Corps (PDF link) and U.S. Air Force created similar training units of their own. So far, the U.S. Navy seems to be the only holdout.
U.S. Soldiers of the 1st Bn, 4th Infantry Regiment dressed in OPFOR uniforms, Hohenfels, Germany, July 2, 2013. US Army photo (SGT Caleb Barrieau).
For the casual reader, much of the background information and training materials are available online for free, courtesy of the U.S. Army, via its ODIN website, part of the Training & Doctrine Command (TRADOC), where you can explore the challenges of fictional nations like Atropia, or Olvana. (For an alternate wargame setting, based in a fictional Latin American country – once used by Great Britain as a wargame exercise – see the MapSymbs website.)
While notionally interesting, the foregoing history of recent developments in military training is something that people need to know. The gaming environment is not all about cartoon ‘first-person shooters’, played by bored kids in their parents’ basements. Wargaming simulations have been, and continue to be, one of the most valuable pieces in the training toolbox.
And this Marine doffs his cover to the Army, for getting that right.
The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
The University of Pittsburg recently held a “special graduation ceremony to acknowledge and celebrate graduating students of color.” The Event was called “The Gathering.” The College Fix claims there was no public listing for the event.
The Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Vide Chancellor Clyde Pickett told the school’s student newspaper the event is “…a chance to build unity and community with one another. Ultimately, the success of our students is our most important priority, so I think any elevation and acknowledgement of our students that allows for space for cultural exchange, cultural identity and cultural awareness is a good thing.”
The overtly racist event is being passed off as not being “separate or segregated” in the graduation ceremony. Rather, it’s an additional event to the shared final ceremony The President of the Latino student group, in defending the segregated event said, “I think it’s important to acknowledge — with Black students, Asian students, Hispanic Students, Indigenous students, first-gen, low income, they have been traditionally excluded from being able to access higher education. They have not always been wanted and they’ve not always been supported.”
If we are to be a united nation, the continued segregation of the world’s population into the leftist American constructs of “people of color” versus “whiteness” will only lead to further balkanization among those that reject the idea of the individual being sacred and unique in and of themselves, apart from their biological and ideational identities.
The idea of an individual being assessed based on their personal demonstration of character, integrity, quality, and reliability is the idea that creates the maximum amount of opportunity for the maximum amount of people, across all the diverse divides of the human experience.
So long as colleges and universities continue to teach hate and fear and division, our nation continues to risk the final fall.
Biden’s Federal Housing Finance Agency has announced plans to increase the loan-level pricing adjustment for people with credit at or above 640 to offset the cost of mortgages for people with credit under 640. The more good credit you have, the more you pay. The less good credit you have, the less you pay. A 740 borrower will see their fee quadruple, while a person with a 639 credit will see their credit reduce by two-thirds.
The plan is a simple redistribution of the wealth plan done with a regulatory order from a quasi-independent but mostly governmental agency at the behest of the mass-mailer President and the team that operates the Biden.
Forcing high credit-score families to subsidize those with subpar credit will perversely result in some less-well-off (but financially responsible) families paying for the imprudent decisions of their higher-income (but financially irresponsible) neighbors.
In some instances, the slightly higher debt-to-income ratios resulting from adding this fee into the requested mortgage will exceed DTI limitations, artificially shrinking the housing purchase options.
Meanwhile, some with poor credit will find themselves now equipped, thanks to the subsidy, to obtain a mortgage previously out of reach.
This is just another example of children running a complicated machine on simplistic ideals and even more simplistic math. When you scale out these utopian schemes, they inevitably lead to further exploitation of the very people they claim to be serving. This is going to be no exception.
First Republic Bank was seized by auditors and sold to JPMorgan, which, before the acquisition, already claimed 10 percent of all U.S. bank deposits, and is the biggest bank in the U.S. The failure was the second biggest banking failure in history, which follows the third and fourth biggest failures that happened in March of this year.
Immediately after the failure, bank stocks sharply moved down, with some banking shares dropping as much as 28%.
The move happened on Monday, May 1st, when regulators seized control of First Republic Bank and handed it over to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, who then accepted a bid from JP Morgan to buy all the assets. The bank had $229 billion in assets at the time of the seizure.
According to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, they will make a “modest” $2.6 billion gain, but they will also have to spend $2 billion to complete the full restructuring and integration with his company.
What JPMorgan gains is $92 billion worth of customer deposits, as well as $173 billion outstanding loans.
In the deal, JPMorgan will give the FDIC $10.6. They will not assume the corporate debt or preferred stock. They will repay $25 billion of deposits made by other major banks into the now failed bank.
What JPMorgan gets is an immediate windfall of $2,6 billion and about $500 million net income increase. The FDIC will also provide 80% coverage for single-family residential mortgages over seven years and 80% coverage for five years on commercial loans.
First Republic seems to have specialized in large deposits and big loans at low interest rates. The average median single-family home borrower had cash assets averaging $685,000. This accounted for half of their business, making them vulnerable to high-interest costs. As the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, First Republic was accruing debt by having to pay shareholders compounded interest amounting to 19.5%, which is more than double the average.
What it has in common with the other banks that failed is a specialization in serving wealthy clients and large organizations. Non-profits and schools, for instance, accounted for 22% of its loans.
By the end of December, First Republic saw its gross unrealized losses grow from $53 million at the end of 2021 to $4.8 billion by the end of 2022.
There appears to be no cryptocurrency attached to this bank failure, which is a factor in the other two major banks failing.
A Federal lawsuit challenging an EPA regulation on fishermen could break the so-called Chevron defense, which has been used to justify the executive branch’s use of regulations to create de facto new laws. The conservative court appears to be telegraphing a willingness to overthrow the Chevron defense, which could significantly limit the power of federal agencies to create increasingly broad-ranging regulations that might not be in the scope of the legislation that created those powers in the first place.
Loper Bright Enterprises and other fishing companies are suing the Federal government over a new federal regulation created by the EPA that would lower fishing vessals’ incomes by 20 percent or more. The EPA has created a rule that requires fishing vessels to monitor 50 percent of their declared herring fishing trips. The rule would require the vessels to use monitoring services that would cost $700 and more a day.
The lawsuit was chosen for review by the conservative judges of the Supreme Court, leading some to question whether this case could undermine what’s called the “Chevron Defense.” This is a precedent that gives deference to federal agencies in interpreting the intentions of the legislation that they base their claims to create new laws without having them pass the legislature.
These new laws are called regulations, which is de facto new law that can bypass the halls of congress and the White House.
The lawyers for the fishermen are going directly after the Chevron defense, saying of it that it “encourages the executive branch’s aggrandizement at the expense of the judiciary, Congress and the citizenry.”
The lawsuit was rejected in a lower appeals court, the District of Columbia Circuit. The Court ruled that the precedent set in Chevron V Natural Resource Defense Council in 1984 still applies.
FACING VIOLENCE FROM ABORTIONISTS, UNIVERSITY FORCES PRO-LIFE GROUP TO PAY FOR SECURITY – Students for Life of America must pay over $8k to the University of Mexico to protect them from rapid unborn-child-murder advocates conditioned largely by the same university to believe violence is a legitimate means of political expression. The group plans to have their President, Kristan Hawkins give a speech at the University called “Lies Pro-Choicers Believe.”
One lie they believe is that resistance to murdering unborn children makes the human expendable, assaultable, as violence against pro-life pregnancy centers continue to rise unabated, and the anti-life rhetoric from unborn-murder advocates has led to an attempt on the life of a sitting SCOTUS judge over a rejection of the unconstitutional Roe v Wade ruling.
If this seems more like a shakedown than a service, then you must be an American.
SUDAN CIVIL WAR THREATENS TO SPILL OVER ITS BORDERS – 18 months after taking over Sudan in a military coup, the two Generals that led the coup are now vying for supreme power. The war is for control of the country by either the General of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, and the General of the Army, Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan. Now the fighting is leading border countries like Chad and Libya to shut their borders down for fear of seeing the fighting spill into their countries.
The United States has evacuated its embassy, as have most other nations. Control for the capitol of Khartoum rages on, with the state media center switching hands at least twice so far in the fighting. The number of killed has not been generally reported, but it appears to be at least in the hundreds, so far, with no hope of a cease fire on the horizon.
The war began after the power-sharing agreement reached in 2021 broke down. Dagalo wants to integrate his paramilitary group, the RSF, into the regular army gradually, over the course of a decade. While al-Burhan wants a more rapid integration into the regular army he controls.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted about the conflict, “Deeply concerned about reports of escalating violence between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces. We are in touch with the Embassy team in Khartoum – all are currently accounted for. We urge all actors to stop the violence immediately and avoid further escalations…”
A UN envoy, Volker Perthes, said“The two sides who are fighting are not giving the impression that they want mediation for a peace between them right away.”
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