George Dzunda also played the part of Warrant Officer Daskal (tank commander) in the excellent movie "The Beast (of War)".
(only real gripe that I had was that there's no way a T-55 is going to hold 5 men)
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Posted on 02/28/2025 9:00:00 PM PST by ransomnote
https://twitter.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1902178930271936757
Newly released JFK files confirm a secret intelligence pipeline between the CIA and Israeli intelligence, personally overseen by CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton.
This wasn’t just routine intel sharing—it was a deliberate effort to conceal Israel’s involvement in sensitive U.S. operations, bypassing standard intelligence channels.
Angleton acted as the sole gatekeeper, ensuring that all Israeli-related intelligence was filtered through him alone.
He also controlled the flow of intel to the FBI, carefully scrubbing reports to ensure that Israeli intelligence was never directly named—a covert operation hidden in plain sight.
I don't think so. They're about to have a whole lot more to talk about. Mark me.
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Woke up this morning to a call that another fire in Logan County. About 4 miles east of us again. Same area as one of the last ones. Heading northeast right now, but winds will be shifting in an hour and sending it southeast. Expecting 30+ mph winds.
Several departments are handling and sure hope it stops before hitting some of the towns nearby.
Come on April! Dump fire month!
TC
I believe it was JFK **JUNIOR** who called Joe Biden a traitor.
Many thanks for the update! Prayers up that you and yours remain safe and that the flames are quickly put out.
Channel 9 reports another fire near Luther, but there’s no high-flying plume so they’re hopeful it will remain small and be quickly put out. The wind shift is what worries me, because that will drive any current fires toward me.
Sick of this wind, and sick of the anxiety. I just want it to all be over. Best, AFB-XYZ
Good thread on FBI whistlbloweres, operation Artic Frost.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1901843413416173894.html
This past Friday, March 14, 2025, Senators Grassley and Johnson released new whistleblower information.
That bombshell set of revelations was particularly important to me because it told the world I had been targeted by the FBI’s Operation Arctic Frost.
More at link....
***I believe it was JFK **JUNIOR** who called Joe Biden a traitor.
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Is that the same JFK, Jr. who was going to run against Hillary in NY before he and his wife died in a plane crash?
Hmmm....
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Yes. Yes, it was. Excellent point.
The Firebee series of targets drones and RPVs (Remotely Piloted Vehicles) is one of the most successful and versatile unmanned aircraft developed so far. The latest versions are still in wide-spread service more than 50 years after the first flight tests.
www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-34.html#_Recce_AQM
Someone posted this on another site:
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Travel Affected - Warning Alert - US - Protests - Nationwide Update 6
Activists to continue rallies across the US through at least end March to denounce the national government’s policies.
Severity Warning Alert
Categories Vehicles and Roads, Mass Transit, Civil Unrest
Alert Begins Mar 19, 2025, 1:52:39 AM
Alert Expires Apr 1, 2025, 11:59:00 PM
Event Anti-government protests
Affected Area(s) Nationwide US
Date Through at least end March
Impact Heightened security, localized transport and business disruptions; possible clashes, vandalism
Summary
Activists denouncing national government policies, including the detention and deportation of undocumented migrants, plan to continue holding protests across the US through at least the end of March. Protests are probable near government offices, central squares, and major roads, especially in major cities and state capitals. Larger protests may draw hundreds to thousands of participants.
Heightened security is likely around related gatherings. Localized transport disruptions are probable, especially if demonstrators march along or block roads. Clashes between protesters and police or supporters of opposing political camps are possible.
Advice
Exercise caution near any rallies that materialize. Heed instructions from authorities. Plan accordingly for localized road travel delays. Immediately depart the area at the first sign of any security disturbance.
Affected Area
Location(s) affected by this Alert
United States
President Trump just exposed Arthur Schlesinger’s full 15-page memo calling for JFK to break up the CIA in 1961.
Schlesinger called the CIA a rogue “state within a state.”
“No one knows how many potential problems … are being created by CIA clandestine operations.”
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Schlesinger: “The contemporary CIA possesses many of the characteristics of a state within a state.”
“There is no doctrine governing our conduct of clandestine operations.”
Schlesinger slammed the idea that the CIA should “fight fire with fire” to defeat communism.
“If fighting fire with fire means contracting the freedoms traditionally enjoyed by Americans in order to give more freedom to the CIA, no one seriously wishes to do that.”
Schlesinger: “CIA operations have not been held effectively subordinate to US foreign policy.”
“In short, no one knows how many potential problems for US foreign policy — and how much potential friction with friendly states — are being created at this moment by CIA clandestine intelligence operations.”
In practice, Schlesinger told JFK, the State Department had become a “rubber stamp” for CIA clandestine operations.
“The concept of ‘contingency planning’ has legitimized the concrete preparation of operations still presumably in a hypothetical stage.”
“If a group is assembled and revved up on a contingency basis, then the failure to carry the project through (it is argued) will invite the disappointment and alienation of the group.”
“CIA has effectively ‘made’ policy in many parts of the world.”
“A number of governments still in power know that they have been targets of CIA attempts at overthrow — not a state of mind calculated to stimulate friendly feelings toward” the US.
Schlesinger recalled Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas C. Mann’s reaction to the botched Bay of Pigs invasion:
“I would never have favored initiating this operation, but, since it has gone as far as it has, I do not think we can risk calling it off.”
Schlesinger proposed that JFK de-couple the CIA’s clandestine operations from its research and analysis work.
“If intelligence is too closely connected with operations, then those committed to a particular operation will tend to select out the intelligence which validates the operation.”
In conclusion, Schlesinger proposed “a drastic overhaul of the State Department” to rein in CIA clandestine operations.
“The State Department would be granted general clearance authority over all clandestine activity.”
Schlesinger also proposed splitting the CIA into two agencies, one for clandestine and paramilitary activities and another for information collection and analysis.
One month after JFK’s assassination, former President Harry Truman echoed Schlesinger’s fears outlined in this 1961 memo.
“There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position.”
Truman wrote that he set up the CIA to streamline information-gathering.
“At times, the intelligence reports tended to be slanted to conform to established positions of a given department.”
But between his presidency and JFK’s, Truman witnessed a change in the CIA.
“For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment.”
“It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government.”
“I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations.”
Truman called for the termination of the CIA’s “operational duties” and the restoration of the agency to its “original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President.”
https://nitter.poast.org/holden_culotta/status/1902200798257263001
MarQ
For some of us, this is a bit gratifying to finally have out there.
🚨 JUST IN: The Trump Administration has "paused $175 MILLION in federal funding from the University of Pennsylvania" over its policies forcing women to compete with men in sports.
Winning!
pic.twitter.com/05jzc3kOzU— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) March 19, 2025
Good post - a nice synopsis of things. I just followed holden Culotta on X now because this is that good. He/she has pinned this post and thread so that this information is available there, if the link here fails.
I will say it again....
Not that my posts get seen after paying my 8 bucks, but there is a way to solve this lower court dilemma. The pardon power:
Bear with me here, I’m the guy who has designed and drafted more pieces of law that have been passed than probably anyone on the west side of the Mississippi:
1. The courts have held the President has immunity for official acts.
2. The President is granted absolute, un-reviewable power by the Constitution to override court imposed penalties using his pardon powers for an individual committing “offenses.” A sanction, contempt, penalties are just such offenses.
Put the two together.
A. Create a proclamation declaring a President requires final disposition of a case by the full Supreme Court on all matters that impinge Article ll powers. The final holding must be applicable to all Presidents and cases thereafter on THE QUESTION the President presents to the court. PRIOR TO a final holding by SCOTUS, (no remands without presidential consent), the President will “take under advisement” the orders of the inferior courts, but those orders are not enforceable upon any federal employee, appointee, or the President.
The Constitution cannot withstand and is not designed to assault the Article II powers of the Executive branch with a multitude of inferior courts drafting enumerable and differing opinions at different times that are largely overturned in any event when it comes to Article II matters.
As such:
B. Draft an EO that orders pardons for any federal employee or appointee who follows the orders of a President who declares an inferior court case has impinged the Article II powers of a President without a full disposition of the case at hand having been finally decided by the Supreme Court and published as such.
Rulings, orders, decrees... you name it, from the inferior courts will be “taken under advisement” by a President, but shall not be enforceable until the case makes it way to final disposition by the Supreme Court.
The people elect a President knowing that President has the absolute power to pardon. The pardon power is the power to override any offense a court may hand down upon an individual.
End of story.
If the Roberts Court wants to play this cat and mouse game with the Constitution, shove it down his throat.
The judicial fiat must end.
I am certain the fine lawyers at the White can put together my above outline in a very thoughtful and Constitutionally solid manner, although lately they could have used my legal advice when it came to the probationary employee firing actions. That was not the way to do that.
Anyway....
Rep. Rick Maedje (ret.)
My resume has been sitting in the Trump/Vance Transition team cache .....
Think you might want to call me. It’s about time.
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