Monthly Archives: June 2008

Presidential Candidate Recognized for PSYOP Expertise

Obama The PSYOP President?  Colonel Dietz asks. In short, Senator Obama appears to have an understanding of PSYOP and IO. Should he get elected, it would be refreshing to see a Commander in Chief who knows a little more about … Continue reading

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The honor and the reputation of news professionals

L’Affaire Enderlin could happen anywhere in the West.  Dan Rather wishes he was French. a dangerous American trend of “vindictive pressure groups interfering with news organizations,” now unfortunately crossing the Atlantic. “Americans have been under the gun of such people … Continue reading

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The Right To Keep And Bear Arms Is An Individual Right

From the most excellent SCOTUSblog:  Held: 1. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.  Pp. … Continue reading

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Why the Wire Service I’m Boycotting Sucks

Propaganda, Lies, and Wire Service Articles 1. Decide which side is the good guys. This can be based on your ethnic-communal background (unless you are Jewish since then you must lean over backward to prove yourself fair by supporting the … Continue reading

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The great challenge of the 21st century

New John Fonte Article: “Global Governance vs. the Liberal Democratic Nation State: What Is the Best Regime?”

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This Is Profound

Next time you get a break, wrap your brain around Politics as Pathology. Not an easy read, but worth your time.  Some nuggets:  . . . the contrasting views of man’s essential nature as either innately fixed; self-focused; self-reliant and responsible … Continue reading

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History is Already being Written

And President George W. Bush will come out looking a lot better than most people think. Why Iraq Was Inevitable . . . by the time George Bush entered the White House in January 2001, the United States was already … Continue reading

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They WANT You Depressed

“They” who want you depressed are a conglomeration of people and organizations who seek to emiserate you until in your despair you cry out for deliverance.  And they just happen to have The Deliverer for you. A most egregrious example … Continue reading

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Demographic warfare closely aligned with psychological warfare

Fjordman posting at Gates of Vienna on multiculturalism, Marxist feminism and dhimmitude in Scandinavia: A nation is never conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground…. Turning Western women, especially white women, into weapons of mass destruction … Continue reading

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American Protective League

The Web:  A Revelation of Patriotism by Emerson Hough “A. P. L” means the American Protective League. It means a silent, unknown army of more than a quarter million of the most loyal and intelligent citizens of America who did … Continue reading

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Spiritual invasion

Underlining added by me. As there has never been a country which devoted itself so ruthlessly to espionage as Germany, so there has never been a country which offered so wide and varied a field for it as America. The … Continue reading

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The Battle of Guantanamo

Walid Phares at Counterterrorism Blog: . . . the conglomeration of all anti-American political forces, including many radical circles within the United States, will unleash its attacks against Guantanamo and what it represents, meaning the existence of the “War on … Continue reading

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Less Habeas, More Corpses

  Jacksonians have had it. Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates. UPDATE:  Is the US Constitution a suicide pact after all? SCOTUS disgrace: Foreign terrorists captured abroad held to have same rights under U.S. … Continue reading

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This is a fight, we the people, must win for them.

Losing the Information War with Amendment 56

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The victory of lawfare over the traditional and proven rules of warfare and national survival

Bruce Kesler gets it. The game of bait-and-switch that today’s opinion plays upon the Nation’s Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed. Henceforth, as today’s opinion makes … Continue reading

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Rocco DiPippo — Remember That Name

When the Cold Civil War goes hot and you don’t understand how everything went to hell, it will be because you didn’t read Rocco DiPippo’s history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an … Continue reading

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Phony Ops

James Lewis coins a term I hadn’t heard before. Staged photo-op. Tie-in to fauxtography. Read the whole thing, and learn about Decembrists and Leni Riefenstahl and Boris Godunov. See also Political Warfare.

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Civilian Irregular Market-State National Security Operators

The new SERVIAM is out. Commander Joseph A. Gattuso, USN (Ret.) has an article in it entitled Trading Places: How and Why National Security Roles Are Changing which fits in nicely with recent discussions on this blog and elsewhere of … Continue reading

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President Bush tolerated disloyalty and paid the price

Bing West reviews Feith. First, poisonous leaks by senior CIA and State officials corroded trust inside the administration and damaged its public image. Feith cites leak after leak aimed at undercutting him personally, the Defense Department in general and the … Continue reading

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The headline grabbing, mass media version will be out first, and it will largely be wrong

Surefire Spy Scandals Kind of makes you wonder why anybody would spend decades working for a government like ours. How do you retain any vestige of patriotism or idealism under such conditions?

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