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Staying FREE From The Totalitarianism of the Modern Trans Ideology

Bill Collier May 4, 2023

THE TRANS IDEOLOGY IS PURE EVIL, most serious observant Christians will agree. So then, what is our response?

People who identify as trans are no more evil than any of us without Jesus, and these human beings are not our enemy. The enemy is Satan, but even at that, we can recognize a coherent ideology, fruiting out as trans-genderism and trans-humanism, that is pure evil and that will destroy our entire civilization.

But what is the proper response to this hideous, Satanic assault aimed at making us all mindless slaves of a reprobate ruling class and erasing humanity itself? The response is to unilaterally adopt and build the genesis structures of a NEW Christian civilizational paradigm! The ideals of such a new civilization will empower and enable people to break free, maintain their Christian way of life in peace and abundance, and flourish even as society around them turns totalitarian, becomes poor, and experiences deadly upheavals almost constantly.

The trans ideology is really the justification and facilitation of the suicidal erasure of the human race. It is nothing less than that. To be clear, the trans ideology, whether it is radical and authoritarian trans-genderism or trans-humanism, represents a suicidal and totalitarian departure from the laws of nature that are rooted in the laws of God. It is the ultimate nadir of human culture and reveals how depraved, lost, and frankly unhinged our ruling class have become who push this evil.

The invasion of people who are males BY NATURE AND BY GOD’S LAWS into women’s spaces, violating their modesty, safety, and privacy, is abhorrent. This is unsettling to actual women who are being erased (e.g., “What is a woman?” has no answer from these idiots). But it is a far deeper problem even than that, which is severe enough. When trans-genderism is pared with its even more evil twin, trans-humanism, it represents the fatal decline of every civilization infected by it.

All things “trans” (in terms of this alt-gendered and anti-human anticulture ideology, while not calling people evil) are reprehensible and dangerous to a healthy life and society. We must destroy this trans ideology, or it will cause hundreds of thousands to millions of DEATHS and destroy our entire civilization. Everything you love and have worked for will be consumed and burned up by this wicked authoritarian movement.

Trans ideology = slavery and death to America. Whether it is the ideology that says a “trans woman” (natural man as Created by God) is in fact a real woman or the trans-humanism movement that ultimately adores AI and seeks the end of biological humans, the concept of “trans” from what God made you to anything other than that is wickedness. This is especially true of its authoritarian elements which begin with a demand for tolerance, then a demand for acceptance which leads to a demand for celebration at all times, and which then leads to a demand to force this evil ideology on to your kids, and, ultimately, which leads to a social credit system that pressures you to prove your acceptance by participating.

Just wait until you are forced by trans-humanists to “download” a map of your mind and let them install your memories into a machine which then replaces you, because it is cheaper to run a machine than to feed you! Once you accept trans-genderism and let them have your children to corrupt and indoctrinate, the table is set for the other shoe to drop: trans-humanism. You will be forced to accept the erasure of humans just as you accept the erasure of women. This is the true trans agenda, as envisioned by the evil ruling class: the erasure of humans.

All of this trans-gender and trans-human ideology in its authoritarian bent is dangerous to freedom and safety within a society that has already mostly lost its social fabric and modesty and made itself morally and spiritually unstable and weak! Essentially, every major world civilization, starting with Western Civilization, that has adopted this trans ideology, beginning with trans-genderism as the gateway ideology, is commiting suicide.

Unless you are not dependent upon the ruling class and their corrupted institutions and structures for sustenance, you are doomed to experience that destruction in your life. Breaking free from the people who run every major institution in this country according to ideologies we can only describe as doctrines of devils is one of the key radical imperatives of the hour.

It should be noted that a small isolated intentional community or collaborative association of fellow Christians lacks the scale and depth to withstand the onslaught that will be directed at them to force them to comply. Our problem is civilizational in scale, and our response must be civilizational in scale.

Trans ideology will ultimately run and then ruin the entirety of Western Civilization, especially America, and any other civilization, culture, society, country, or national people group who adopt its wicked ideas in any form. You have to decide for yourself and your family: ruin or liberation.

You will either be stuck in the flow of and dependency toward a dying civilization or you will decide to run with and adopt a new civilizational paradigm that will make you bulletproof against the many machinations of our corrupt ruling class. Anything less than the latter choice equals making the former choice, even if you do so by passive default without knowing it.

An individual who wishes to transition and assume the miene of a female is perfectly within their human agency, though in the eyes of God, unless this person is a born hermaphrodite, they have no “right” to demand God’s or anyone’s approval of their rebellion against the Creator’s laws! The issue is not trans people, which is people who identify as such and use their human agency to portray themselves as another gender, the issue is the ideology which also seeks forced “celebration” thereof on pain of some form of “consequences.”

While it is not at all our intent or aim to proscribe human agency, even to choose to adopt being trans this or that, it is not our intent to elevate that to some sort of right which everyone else must show deference to through forced acceptance. In short, human agency isn’t a right to disobey God, it just means that God judges and punishes in totality whereas we in our magisterial powers as ordained by God are limited as to what aspects of our human agency the state itself can proscribe. Hence, we aren’t seeking laws against people being trans.

When that womanface clown dude Dylan Mulvany threatens to sue anyone who doesn’t use his assumed gender, e.g. taking on the miene of a little girl who acts in the worst stereotypes of being a female, you can see how this is not merely a personal choice but an authoritarian ideology that is actually coming for YOU! Unless you are willing to engage in sex acts with a “trans” this or that, you will find that in time, especially in public schools, you and your children will become socially shunned pariahs constantly harassed and abused for your unwillingness to bow to their altrainbow pantheon.

This is us or them. This is freedom or slavery. This is either we become trans enthusiasts and betray God and His laws or we become a prey to angry woke cancel culture mobs bent on our destruction while we are physically powerless to resist their assaults on our rights, our property, and our persons. Unless you are sustained in your necessities by means not controlled by or connected to the structures that are run by our wicked ruling class, your protesting against all this will avail you no good: you can’t letter write or vote your way out of this, you must REMOVE your life’s sustenance in all aspects, as much and as soon as possible, from all dependency on this present system.

Mutual self-reliance and self-determination among fellow travelers is essential. You must unify with people who reject any notion society ought to ignore and not be governed by God’s laws. You must resort to the painful and difficult work of intentionlly restoring the social fabric in your life, relationships, and associations.

You must PREFER those of the same ilk as you. You must be deliberate about building and preserving community, extended family, the nuclear family, and marriage between one man and one woman as a mystical bond of oneness not available any other way between any two humans, solely on the basis of God’s laws.

In short, we must create a new form of shared identity at scale, called “nationhood”, that reflects God’s laws and righteous standards for the nations, by which we might reconstitute the social fabric and essentially give rise to the emergence of a new Christian civilization. Ultimately we must create a new nationhood, a spiritual nation based on God’s laws and ways.

The personal impact is felt as this nationhood allows us to facilitate connections and collaboration at the local level. As people gather and work together using this nationhood as a sociocultural and socioeconomic foundation, the social fabric is made unassailable. By this means we can build strong marriages in union with Christ, strong nuclear and extended families, and strong self-contained and self-sufficient intentional communities that may be distributed or clustered together in one habitation.

What we are saying is that the solution is not to reform the existing civilization and its political sociocultural, socioeconomic, civil, civic, or even religious institutions and structures ruled by a few evil scoundrels who view the entirety of the population outside themselves as cattle to be used and consumed. The solution is internal, peaceful, but very real economic, social, civil, civic, and cultural separation and independency to wit we build the rudiments of a new Christian civilization in our own lives, relationships, associations, and communities on our own terms, per our own beliefs, and for our own well-being and mutual benefit.

The baby steps we take today become the seedlings from whence future generations will find a strong, towering tree that offers sustenance and safety from the raging storms created by the forced adoption of this trans ideology by most people. Society and civilization itself will endure massive, deadly upheavals and ruination while those who today chose the path of a new Christian civilizational paradigm will remain mostly unaffected and free.

Trans ideology is the death of culture, of civilization, of society, and every country under its thrall. We cannot stop this civilization from falling for the lie, because essentially our civilization has run its course, become old and decadent, as well as senile, and cannot be saved. It must be avoided, separated from, and replaced in your own life and relationships with a new civilizational paradigm in keeping with our Christian ideals and faith.

Students-of-Color-Only Graduation Held By Univerity of Pittsburgh

Paul Collier May 3, 2023

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.

As The Wheel Turns – Modern Ersatz Armies

Michael Cessna April 28, 2023

Previously here, we have reported on various aspects of warfare, both ancient and modern. The tools change all the time. Sometimes, the specific techniques to employ that technology changes, the better to employ the new sets of hardware that come out of inventor’s workshops and laboratories. But the basic rules, as the saying goes, do not change over time.

The proverbial “rag-tag band of rebels” – or revolutionaries, or guerrillas, as the reader prefers – have been a feature of warfare from the very beginning. In fact, a strong argument could be made that such groups were the very first “fighting forces” to appear on the battlefield; “organization” is the basic requirement for “organized warfare,” and that organization had to start somewhere.

But that is lost in the mists of eons.

Organized warfare, as such, waxes and wanes. The Mediterranean Basin and the European continent – south of the Danube, west of the Rhine, and north of Africa’s Mediterranean coast, and even extending into the Black Sea – was dominated by Rome and its army. This was, for the time, the best organized, regularly supplied and funded army in recorded history; the only real comparisons known are the armies of Sargon the Great and Alexander of Macedon…and yet, Rome “collapsed” (at least in Western Europe) in the 5^th Century; the final destruction of Rome in the east – what is now better known as “Byzantium” – would take another thousand years.

That Rome collapsed (both times) was not the fault of either form of its armies (that’s a long discussion). There were numerous factors involved in both series’ of collapses; in both cases, the ultimate failures of the Roman armies were merely the final acts. Indeed, it is no stretch of the imagination to say that the highly professional, disciplined and minutely organized Roman and Byzantine armies are what kept their respective states alive as long as they did.

Infantry wins wars, and the more professional your infantry, the faster and more decisively you win, all other things being equal. But, continuing with this historical digression, the battle of Adrianople in 378AD ushered in a perception of the superiority of mounted horse cavalry over professional infantry; whatever the actual historical truth of the battle (the arguments of Oman and Burns aside), the perception held true, and those ideas would lead directly to the rise of the mounted knight as the main military component of the medieval period. Horse-using elites were certainly not new, but they were never truly decisive, no matter how diverse the mercantile and military (YouTube link) trade networks were.

*Full-size replica of the Uluburun shipwreck, St. Peter’s castle, Bodrum, Turkey, 2004. Photo credit: Georges Jansoone. CCA/3.0*

In the aftermath of those Roman collapses, warfare reverted to a more localized and tribal form of organization. Even in the Levant, where the First Caliphate and the later Ottoman Sultanate largely ruled from the 7^th Century onwards, government regulation and control were not what they had been under either Roman or Persian rule. Warfare was largely thrown back at least a thousand years, each time.

Technology played a large part in this seesaw. Spears, swords, bows and arrows, and metal armor are all relatively easy for a blacksmith to turn out. As long as armies were small, and some form of “hard tack” (to use the modern term) was set back in a castle of some sort, small armies could maneuver cross-country without too much trouble. Bands of what we would now call “guerrillas” could also maneuver easily, as they generally operated in their native areas, and knew where watering holes and useful resources were located.

The advent of gunpowder changed all of this, however. While developed in Song Dynasty China in the 9^th Century AD (on the European calendar), the first use of the formula as a weapon dates to the early 10^th Century, in use against Mongol tribes. Once gunpowder became dominant as an infantry weapon in Europe, in the late 15^th to the early 16^th centuries, the scales that had been tipping slowly back towards infantry dominance slammed down decisively on the infantry’s side: now, as gunpowder weaponry rapidly progressed from the matchlock through to the flintlock, it became comparatively cheap and easy to recruit and train infantry en masse to a level sufficient to return cavalry to their nominal roles of scouting and decisive shock action.

*Vive l’Empereur!, 1891. Édouard Detaille (1848–1912). Charge of the 4th Hussars at the battle of Friedland, 14 June 1807. Public Domain*

But, that tipping of the scales had consequences, as gunmaking was a very specialized skill, as its requirements were very different from making simple metal objects like blades or horseshoes.

Likewise, the advent of motor vehicles changed the factors of “battle calculus” yet again, by replacing the horse with the motor engine. While the automobile has a host of limitations, those drawbacks are minimal in comparison to those of horse cavalry…

Which brings us, at last, to our core topic: “Ersatz Armies.”

As noted above, “irregular” forces – rebels, guerrillas, etc – have frequently struggled to compete with better-organized and supported “regular” armies. Such groups have to improvise methods of supplying not simply weapons, but food, medicines and other basic needs of a military force. In the past, these services and products were generally stolen from an enemy government, or were supplied directly by a foreign government, supporting the guerrillas. More infrequently than is generally assumed, a guerrilla force might purchase arms from “black market” arms dealers; in those cases, the guerrilla forces were teetering dangerously on the edge of being a criminal gang, more than a “heroic band of fighters for the people.”

But, with the sudden and rapid anarchy taking place in Sudan, another factor has once again reared its head: a deliberately created ersatz army.

In 2003, the Sudanese government in Khartoum recruited a group of tribal militias that coalesced into what is now known as the “Janjaweed”. This grouping of tribal militias went on to commit a host of terrible crimes, encompassing all the worst categories of criminal activities. So bad were these events, both the Sudanese dictator of the time, as well as one identifiable leader of the group, have been formally indicted for war crimes.

In the aftermath of the worst parts of the Darfur Conflict, the Janjaweed was not paid off and stood down by the government of Omar al Bashir – instead, it was expanded, given better training and weapons, had its name changed to the “Rapid Support Force” (RSF) (YouTube link) and was then used a force of “shock troops” to fight in regional wars, such as Libya and Yemen, where they proved willing to do the dirty jobs no self-respecting and –disciplined military would touch.

In effect, al Bashir created his own version of Adolf Hitler’s SA or SS – a powerful armed force, separate from the regular military, willing to do whatever was asked of them. Unlike Hitler, however, al Bashir lost control of his non-Army force; this resulted in the RSF collaborating with the regular Sudanese military to remove him from power. And, as these things almost always do, this resulted in a falling out among thieves, leading to the current disaster in the country.

What makes the RSF different from similar groups in the past, however, is its size and equipment. The RSF is estimated to number around 100,000 men (YouTube link), and have been equipped comparatively cheaply, with the most basic of infantry weapons and gear, as well as the ubiquitous “technical” vehicles. A hundred thousand troops, even if poorly trained, is nothing to scoff at, even if you intend to engage them directly.

Sudan is not unique: while other states may not have armed groups to the extent of the RSF, it is a far cheaper thing to do, than most people think…But these types of forces – with little or no control, nor moral training, but with effective weapons and training – are growing in number.

Ponder that, the next time you hear about drug cartel armies on the south side of the Rio Grande (YouTube link).

*The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To*

FBI Hopes to Infiltrate Religious Orgs to Develop News Sources on “Suspicious Activity”

Freedomist Editor April 25, 2023

FBI WANTED TO INFILTRATE CATHOLIC GROUP IT DEEMED A THREAT – The Biden administration sought to infiltrate the Catholic Church, a report shows from the U.S. House Judiciary Chairman, Jim Jordan (R-OH). Jim Jordan received a report from the FBI that it had received information derived from at least one undercover employee” to infiltrate religious organizations as “new avenues for tripwire and source development. It was seek to develop those “news sources” to report on what it characterized as “suspicious activity.” Jordan responded, “I know that the FBI distributed this document to field offices across the country,” suggesting this was hardly an isolated incident. He seeks further information to clarify the breadth and depth of these programs.

Bacteria-Powered Battery Could Run for 100 Years

Paul Collier April 25, 2023

BACTERIA BATTERY COULD RUN FOR A CENTURY – Researchers from Binghamton University’s Bioelectronics and Microsystems Laboratory have developed a battery that runs off of bacteria and could theoretically keep running for 100 years. Professor Seokheun Choi, the lead on the project, said, “The overall objective is to develop a microbial fuel cell that can be stored for a relatively long period without degradation of biocatalytic activity and also can be rapidly activated by absorbing moisture from the air.”

He continued, “We wanted to make these biobatteries for portable, storable and on-demand power generation capabilities. The problem is, how can we provide the long-term storage of bacteria until used? And if that is possible, then how would you provide on-demand battery activation for rapid and easy power generation? And how would you improve the power?”

The team created a dime-sized fuel cell, which was then sealed in Kapton tape, which resists extremely cold and hot temperatures. After the tape is removed, moisture enters in, which sets off a reaction between the bacteria and a chemical germinant that produces power, and spores.

The main drawback is the time it takes for the battery to produce power, which was originally 1 hour, but after adjusting temperatures and humidity levels it was reduced to 20 minutes.

The Battle for Khartoum Rages On

Paul Collier April 25, 2023

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.”

Biden Intends on “Finishing the Job” He Started in 2020, Destroy the Republic

Paul Collier April 25, 2023

BIDEN ANNOUNCES 2024 RE-ELECTION BID – Mass-Mailer President Joe Biden announced his re-election bid, claiming to be fighting for personal freedom by fighting for our democracy. He said, “Freedom. Personal freedom is fundamental to who we are as Americans. There’s nothing more important. Nothing more sacred. That’s been the work of my first term: To fight for our Democracy. This shouldn’t be a red or blue issue.”

He added, “This is not a time to be complacent. That’s why I’m running for re-election. Because I know America. I know we are good and decent people. And I know we are still a country that believes in honesty and respect, and treating each other with dignity. That we’re a nation where we give hate no safe harbor. And we believe that everyone is equal, and that everyone should be given a fair shot to succeed in this country.”

Kamala Harris confirmed she would be running for Biden, saying, “For two years we have made transformational investments to build a nation in which everyone can be safe and healthy, find a good job, and retire with dignity.” She then claimed, “As Americans, we believe in freedom and liberty—and we believe that our democracy will only be as strong as our willingness to fight for it. That’s why @JoeBiden and I are running for reelection.”

In his opening campaign video, Biden resorted to the usual incendiary, seditionist language, accusing Republicans of wanting to take our freedoms away and calling Trump supporters “Maga Extremists.” The opening salvo is vicious and portends a 2024 campaign that might make 2016 look like a 1950s election campaign (or our perception of one).

He laughingly claimed, “When I ran for president four years ago, I said we are in a battle for the soul of America, and we still are. The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer.”

The DNC-CCP wants to censor speech, make resisting abortion a criminal offense, seize our guns, continue to outsource or resources to foreign countries, but it does want more freedom. What kind of freedom? Freedom to groom your children is tops on their list. Freedom to murder the unborn is number two. They want the freedom to force their Moloch worship on the rest of us.

Politico is reporting:

“Serving as national campaign co-chairs are Reps. LISA BLUNT ROCHESTER (D-Del.), JIM CLYBURN (D-S.C.) and VERONICA ESCOBAR (D-Texas), Sens. CHRIS COONS (D-Del.) and TAMMY DUCKWORTH (D-Ill.), Michigan Gov. GRETCHEN WHITMER and entertainment mogul JEFFREY KATZENBERG.”

Biden claims in his video that “we are in a battle for the soul of America” in this upcoming election. We are, but the ones who wish to destroy the republic and replace it with a socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics are the DNC-CCP, the party of the Mass Mailer President. When they say “America” they mean market socialism. When they say Democracy them mean one-party control of the whole election/voting process.

Biden announced his intentions to “finish the job,” and we know what that is, to finish the job of killing the American republic and criminalizing any values or beliefs that might support her.

Conflict Update – Sudan Unravels, As Its Crows Come Home To Roost

Michael Cessna April 21, 2023

Conflict monitoring is an odd field: You try to monitor the world, and eventually specialize out of necessity. The recent descent into chaos in Sudan, Africa’s third-largest nation by size, is no different.

Beginning on April 15^th, a series of armed clashes began in Khartoum, the capital of the African nation. The opposing sides are the regular Sudanese Army, and a paramilitary force called the “Rapid Support Force (RSF)“. The two forces had united in 2019 to oust Omar al-Bashir, the country’s long-time dictator, in a military coup d’etat; two years later, in 2021, the two parties staged another coup to derail Sudan’s return to a democratically elected government.

The situation has deteriorated, in barely a single week, to the point that the United States and other powers (YouTube link) are rapidly deploying forces to Camp Lemonnier, located in the state of Djibouti, on the Red Sea coast, in preparation for a possible evacuation of various embassy’s and foreign nationals – a daunting prospect, given that Khartoum’s international airport is not currently usable, and because the capital city is nearly 800 miles inland.

The source of the current “lover’s quarrel” is the Regular Army dragging its feet over formally integrating the RSF into its force structure, as well as delays in payroll to the paramilitary force, with its leadership claiming that they want to return al-Bashir to power.

Who are the RSF?

In 2003, fighting erupted in Western Sudan as non-Arab (i.e., “black African”) tribes united against the al-Bashir government’s continued campaign of oppression and discrimination against them. The result was the Darfur War (sometimes called the “Land Cruiser War” because of the extensive used of ‘technicals’), a genocidal conflict that killed hundreds of thousands, and created between two and three million refugees.

*Map of Darfur within Sudan, July 2011. CCA/3.0*

The RSF began life as the so-called “Janjaweed”, a Sudanese Arab tribal militia assembled by al-Bashir’s government to suppress the Black African inhabitants of the region. Supporting this, were the remnants of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s “Islamic Legion”, an openly racist and pan-Arab organization intended to unite the Saharan region by force.

As the Darfur war reached a stalemate (that would ultimately result in a nominal ceasefire agreement in 2020), al-Bashir’s government began using a now-experienced and capable Janjaweed – under their commander, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo – as extra muscle throughout the region, especially in places where the dirtiest of atrocities were needed.

Oozing to life in 2013 as an outgrowth of the Janjaweed, the RSF was quickly used by al-Bashir as a kind of “expeditionary force”, sending significant numbers of troops into both Chad and Libya (in the latter case, supporting the Libyan National Army of Khalifa Haftar), and a stunning 40,000-strong corps-sized unit into Yemen to fight against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The main difference between the RSF and the Janjaweed, is in the level of formal support and arms provided to them by the Sudanese government, with uniform weapons and vehicles.

The RSF is not simply large, with over 100,000 men under arms, but is also highly mobile, with an estimated 10,000 ‘technical’ trucks (YouTube link)…and it has developed an impressive economic infrastructure to support itself, thanks to the business chops of its leader and his family.

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (known as “Hemedti“, locally), who dropped out of primary school in 3^rd grade to work to support his family, started out as a well-respected camel herder in the Darfur region. As he positioned himself as the chief commander of first the Janjaweed, and then the RSF, he used the forces loyal to him to help is company, Al Junaid, to corner the gold mining industry within Sudan, as well as a host of other industries, ultimately controlling up to 40% of Sudan’s exports.

And, like most warlords with sufficient resources, he has made life well for his loyalists in the RSF, who now follow his orders without question, helped by him polishing his speaking skills. This, along with a “charm campaign” managed by Western public relations firms to improve Hemedti’s image, has combined to form a kind of “mercenary micro-state” of a type that is highly unusual in the modern day…In many ways, the RSF is the nightmare scenario that world security analysts have been dreading since the rise of the “corporate terror group” model, when al Qaeda appeared in the late-1990’s.

In a very real sense, the leader of the regular Sudanese armed forces and Hemedti’s rival in the power struggle, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, have created a monster they can no longer control.

But, ultimately…who cares? Why should you care?

The current fighting in Sudan will almost certainly determine who will be the next ruler of the nation. As well, major powers – both global powers, and up-and-coming regional states seeking to expand their influence – are all jockeying for position, and that kind of jockeying can swiftly lead to an expanding conflict.

And all of this is happening literally on the banks of the Nile, Africa’s ancient major river system. No matter who wins this conflict, this will pose significant issues to Egypt and its population of over 100 million, already alarmed over Ethiopia’s dam building project that seriously threatens the downstream ecology and climate of the region.

Lastly, is the serious potential for major-power involvement, up to and including combat: Russia’s Wagner Group mercenary company has significant ties to the RSF, and in the region, generally. The Wagner Group has been reportedly guarding some gold mining areas for the central government since at least 2019, with speculation that Wagner-defended gold is being using used to fund Russia’s war in Ukraine. Numerous foreign corporations have major investments throughout the region, and the expansion of the “private military company” market in the last twenty-five years means that there is little incentive to not hire lots of ex-military guns to guard their investments.

And, looming over the regular Western military commands’ psyches is the shadow of 1993’s “Battle of Mogadishu”, but on a far larger scale, with far fewer advantages for the Western powers.

The future does not look sunny.

The Future of Intelligence

Michael Cessna April 17, 2023

With the recent arrest of an Airman of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, the United States’ defence and intelligence establishments are once again under fire for apparently lax information security. In fact, this is the second time in less than a year that this has happened.

At first glance, this seems like a very bizarre thing…until you realize, sadly, that it is not.

In both cases, the leakers involved were not leaking classified intelligence – including casualty reports, battle plans, friendly agent identities, strategic concerns from and about allies, and technical intelligence, to name but a few – because they had been “honey trapped”. Likewise, the leakers were not employed by foreign state intelligence agencies, nor were they crusaders trying to expose crimes committed by the US defense and intelligence apparatus.

Instead, incredibly – or, sadly, not so incredibly – the leaks were the result of rabid video game players trying to prove how cool and ‘edgy’ they were.

While some of the leakers may be older, this is the result of the programming of the so-called “Generation Z”. This is the first generation to grow up with social media as a main facet of their lives. When “social media” as we would now recognize it, first arose in 1997, no one had any real idea of what its impact would be. Whatever the imagined intent, what it has evolved into, is a sort of electronic version of an elementary school playground at recess, with no adults present to regulate it.

Where older generations who entered the various defense and intelligence services would never, in their wildest nightmares, have taken classified materials to their local watering hole and deliberately passed them around to score social points, this is becoming increasingly common for a deliberately infantalized generation of youth. While there certainly were, and are, spies and informants stealing and passing on information for money, ideology or “love”, those reasons were at least tangible and understandable. Scoring social media points is, to be blunt, pointless in the extreme.

Coupled to the insanity of the RESTRICT Act (deliberately misconstrued as the “TikTok Ban” bill), this works to sweep away all the foundations of legality of the Rule of Law, in the fleeting hope of gaining some sort of security.

And, like the hysterical attacks from the music industry against services such as Napster and Grokster, idiocies like the RESTRICT Act are guaranteed to have exactly the opposite effect, as outraged online activists will find ways to send out increasingly large amounts of classified material – not for the older reasons, nor even the newer reasons, but simply out of anger at such tight restrictions. The fact of facing heavy penalties for doing so, are irrelevant once the information is “out in the wild,” as the saying goes: the damage will have already been done.

But the above does not address the real question: Why are these kinds of leaks so dangerous?

For those not familiar with intelligence gathering, as a discipline, the short answer is that, in the “old days,” obtaining intelligence – meaningful intelligence – on a hostile target was hard…very hard. An intelligence agency – from East or West – had to insert “non-official” (or “illegal”) agents into the target country; those illegal agents would then have to either infiltrate a facility, or suborn an intelligence worker (assuming that they could identify them). Conversely, they could hang out in bars, nightclubs or restaurants (good for staging a honey trap) outside the gates of military facilities, or take menial jobs at establishments outside the gates such as working as a barber or as a waitress, in an attempt to glean nuggets of information from random conversations…Not very flashy, and not very James Bond, but such methods did work.

*An example of a one-time pad. Credit: Mysid, 2007. Public Domain.*

(My favorite intelligence warning in the mid-1980’s, was an order that came down, telling service personnel to stop…”liberating”…large bottles of Tabasco® sauce from restaurants outside base main gates in preparation for going to the field or “rapidly redeploy strategically”, to make the early Meals-Ready-to-Eat (MRE’s) at least somewhat palatable. The problem had gotten so bad, those base-local restaurants developed their own internal intelligence networks, and were suddenly “out of Tabasco” when they learned of a local unit deployment…thus giving hostile agents a dead giveaway that large unit movements were afoot.)

With the rise of online gaming and their associated forums and chat servers in the early 2000’s, however, intelligence agencies quickly grasped that their agents could sit behind Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), in the comfort and security of their home nations. They could then “lurk,” monitoring boards silently, while not communicating very often, waiting to pounce on discussions where people who should know better would often drop bits – or entire files – of classified data…and those agents wouldn’t even have to hound the leaker, because the rest of the forum or chat group would do that for them, unwittingly.

This kind of thing came naturally to intelligence agencies, as it was a form of OSINT [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence]. OSINT, or “Open-Source Intelligence,” is a method, or discipline [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_gathering_disciplines] of intelligence collection where a person meticulously (some might say, “obsessively”) scours every publicly available source of information on a subject they can find, and attempt to collate and boil-down the resulting information into a general picture.

OSINT differs from more expensive, technological or hazardous methods of information collection – like finding human sources of information, satellite reconnaissance, radio signal interception, etc. – in that it simply requires an illegal agent to buy multiple piles of newspapers and magazines, and inhabit libraries relentlessly. While also not very flashy, OSINT analysis often leads to very clear pictures of a nation’s defense strategies. As well, it lends itself very well to crowdsourcing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing].

So…Where does this leave us, in mid-April of 2023?

Unfortunately, there are serious problems within the information security apparatus in the West, as a whole. With the need to bring in a new generation of intelligence workers, the West – as opposed to Russia and Communist China – is finding that the “Woke” agenda that has been allowed free rein over the last decade has badly polluted the potential recruiting pool, as people who have been raised in a culture where ephemeral “electronic cred” is as important, if not more important, than being a “quiet professional”.

And, as those who promoted that social context are discovering, there is no putting the toothpaste back in the tube.

IRS Shakes Down Matt Taibbi on Same Day He Testified to Congress

Paul Collier March 28, 2023

IRS SHAKES DOWN TWITTER FILES REPORTER ON SAME DAY HE TESTIFIED TO CONGRESS – The recently militarized tax agency known as the IRS is flexing its Biden muscles by attempting to intimidate one of the reporters who testified before congress about how the FBI is controlling Twitter for political purposes to silence opposition to the DNC-CCP. Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter demanding answers from the thug organization, saying. “In light of the hostile reaction to Mr. Taibbi’s reporting among left-wing activists, and the IRS’s history as a tool of government abuse, the IRS’s action could be interpreted as an attempt to intimidate a witness before Congress. We expect your full cooperation with our inquiry.”

One suspects Jordan is being political in not plainly stating that it is, in fact, a shakedown effort made by the seditious, mass-mailer-elected Biden regime taking more notes from the Chinese Communist Party’s playbook in direct opposition to the American constitution the zombie President allegedly swore to uphold.

If members of the Democratic Party who do not wish to see this republic destroyed do not stand up to the seditionists within their own party, then the Democratic Party must cease to exist, or America will cease to exist. You cannot, anymore, have both.