mediamatters | Considering that ads reportedly accounted for 90% of Twitter’s
revenue, it is clear that the power to hold Musk accountable if he rolls
back the platform’s protections against harassment, abuse, and
disinformation lies in the hands of Twitter’s top advertisers.
According to Pathmatics, a firm that tracks digital spending, the 20
companies that spent the most on Twitter advertising since January 1
paid the platform an estimated $358 million combined. These companies
include:
Home Box Office Inc. (HBO)
Mondelez International
Amazon
IBM
PepsiCo Inc.
Best Buy Co. Inc.
Apple Inc.
The Coca-Cola Company
Capital One Financial Corporation
Procter & Gamble
Unilever
Merck & Co. (Merck Sharp & Dohme MSD)
Disney
CenturyLink (Lumen Technologies Inc.)
Comcast Corporation
Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook Inc.)
Google
Verizon
Anheuser-Busch
CBS (CBS.com)
In the potential scenario that Musk wields Twitter to promote his red-pilledideological agenda, these 20 companies will be funding and lending support to a platform that fuels right-wing hatred and extremism.
Under Musk, Twitter is set to restore Trump to the platform and become a cesspool of right-wing misinformation
In May, Musk said
that the decision to permanently ban Trump from the platform was
“morally bad,” and that he would reverse the decision, even though Twitterandother platforms
saw decreases in misinformation after banning him. If Musk reinstates
Trump’s account, Trump could return to the platform and spread self-serving misinformation and hateful rhetoric to more mainstream audiences. Numerous other extremists could also rejoin the platform under Musk’s leadership.
When news first broke that Musk had plans to purchase Twitter, banned
users including former Trump aide Steve Bannon, Christian nationalist
Rep. Marjorie Tayor Greene (R-GA), white nationalist political
commentator Nick Fuentes, and numerous QAnon-supporting users celebrated the move. Election denier and “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander, who is also currently banned from Twitter, called
Musk’s prospective ownership of the platform “the most consequential
thing I’ve seen since the election of Trump.” Extreme anti-trans figures
also celebrated by begging the billionaire to bring back accounts suspended for spreading hatred and bigotry.
It is no mistake that extremists see Musk as their ally: the Tesla CEO has historically used his own Twitter account to amplify right-wing conspiracytheories, misinformation, and discriminatoryrhetoric. Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk has praised Musk for “dispensing red pills on every corner.”
Additionally, right-wing media have celebrated the pending deal and
suggested that once Musk owns Twitter, he will exact revenge on their
behalf for nonexistent bias against conservatives on the platform. Fox News host Sean Hannity advised Musk to fire “most, if not all” Twitter employees and Fox’s Tucker Carlson absurdly compared Musk's Twitter takeover to the fall of the Berlin Wall, while One America News host Addison Smith reveled that “Elon Musk has literally bought the libs. He owns them now.”
“Ari Emmanuel I lost 2 billion dollars in one day and I’m still alive,” West, 45, wrote in a post captioned “LOVE SPEECH” and shared via Instagramon Thursday.
”This is love speech I still love you God still loves you,” he added. “The money is not who I am the people is who I am.”
West’s message came after Emanuel penned a piece for the Financial Times, arguing that the rapper’s mental illness does not excuse his controversial behavior.
“Some of West’s behavior has been dismissed over time, citing mental illness, given that he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after being hospitalized in 2016,” Emanuel wrote last week.
“However, mental illness is not an excuse for racism, hatred or anti-Semitism.”
The Endeavor CEO, who is Jewish, continued, “Millions of people
affected by mental illness do not perpetuate hateful ideologies. Others
brush his comments off as just words, but hateful words far too easily
become hateful actions.”
“Those who continue to do business with West are giving his misguided
hate an audience. There should be no tolerance anywhere for West’s
anti-Semitism,” Emanuel wrote. “This is a moment in history where the
stakes are high and being open about our values, and living them, is
essential. Silence and inaction are not an option.”
“Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate
speech,” the German athletic company said in a statement Tuesday. “Ye’s
recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and
dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and
inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.”
The Pharisees were not Hebrews, Israelites, Judahites or Jews, they were
Indumenas who had usurped the tribal temple religion of the Judahites
and Benjamins in Judea and were extorting their wealth, a habit that was
continued by the neo-Pharisees, i.e.the Khazars. In the 8th Century the
Khazars accepted the Pentateuch written by Levites as a societal
control mechanism prior to the tribe being conquered and taken to
Babylon at the end of the 6th century BC. In Babylon they wrote
(plagarised) the Torah. Rabbis then started writing the Talmud (a
vicious,genocidal albeit camouflaged, anti-goyim series of 63 books) in
Babylon around 500 BC. They continued adding to it until about 500 AD.
There are two versions – Babylonian and Jerusalem – but the Babylonian
text is dominant.
The neo-Pharisees didn’t adopt the name ‘Jew’
until around 1775 when they started their overt campaign to dominate
Europe and the whole planet.Tthe term did not exist prior to that time.
The
Hebrews, Israelites, Gallieans, Benjamins and Judeans didn’t call
themselves “Jews” and Christ Jesus wasn’t a “Jew”, a Judahite, an
Indumean or a Pharisee. His mother was of Sumarian stock and his
father’s seed was provided by The Gabriel, the Administrator of the
Nebadon universe while Christ Michael Aton was bestowing himself on
Urantia by overshadowing the physical body of Esu Immanuel, i.e. Christ
Jesus.
Arguably the Pharisee leaders of the tribal Judeans and
Benjamins in Christ Jesus' time adhered to, and imposed on the rest of
the ‘tribe’, the laws and ideology set out in the Talmud. Moreover, as
Christ Jesus said of the Pharisees, 'they say they are Jews but are
not'.
Today the neo-Pharisee leaders of those who call themselves
Jews still adhere to the Talmud but virtually all of them are of
Khazarian not Indumean or Sephardic origins. The Khazars nurture a deep
seated albeit concealed hatred of Christians and especially of Russian
Christians because they destroyed their empire and scattered their tribe
in the 10th and 11th centuries. Russia's SMO in Ukraine is finally
putting an end to that episode.
For centuries the Khazarian
tribal leadership fostered it's ethnocentric hatred of all goyim in
their followers by isolating them in shtetls and apartheid community
situations where they could clandestinely use mind control techniques to
foster that hatred of all 'others' from birth to death.
Arguably
Talmudic ideology was and still is designed as a brain washing
socio-political control mechanism. Jewish leaders are indoctrinated in
Talmudic ethnocentric, genocidal ideology from cradle to grave and
impose it on the rest of the "tribe". That ethnocentricity and its
inherent collectivist nepotism has garnered enormous financial,
political and social success for those who say they are 'Jews'. While
that situation is maintained by the Talmudic Khazarian, i.e.
non-Semitic, controllers of global Jewry,(both the Bolshevik NWO
globalists and the Zionist, Israel Firsters) the mind controlled general
Jewish population will remain in the fold. Why not? After all, the
educational, vocational, financial and political rewards of covertly not
assimilating to the rest of humanity appear to be very substantial.
Some History: Today's
'Jews" are of Khazarian (Mongol/Turkic/Finnish) extraction. As Koestler
and others have said, the Khazars took over the Talmudic ideology in
the eight century AD. The Khazars (both their leaders, the Talmudists
and their ignorant ‘followers’) pretend to be victims when they are, to
varying degrees, perpetrators.
Those who say or think that they
are 'Jews' falsely believe they are because they have been mind
controlled, often from birth, to accept that status. Moreover, I think
that huge numbers of those who think they are Jews although they are not
Talmudists and haven’t been indoctrinated into Talmudic ideology,
actively promote their “Jewishness” because of the social, educational,
vocational, financial and political advantages they accrue from that
status. In other words, most 'Jews' are not guilty of the crimes of
their Talmudic leaders. In this regard I think that the large portion
of the general Jewish population that are either not sayanim or
hasbara, or even if they are, they only ‘go along’ with the directives
of their Jewish leaders in order ‘to get along’, just as, for example,
most USans and Brits and "Five Eyes" populations fund via taxation, and
otherwise ‘go along to get along’ with their leaders’ invasions and
other war crimes in foreign nations on the other side of the world.
Arguably most people ‘know not what they do’ but they are still culpable
for their ignorance and cognitive dissonance although not consciously
murderous or ‘satanic.’
Arguably most people who profess to being
'Jews' don’t realise that they are not genetically descendants of Shem
but rather most of them have Khazarian genetic origins. A much smaller
number of people who think that they are 'Jews' have Separdic, i.e.
North African Arabic ancestral origins. It is widely accepted today that
virtually no people who say they are 'Jews' actually have significant
Shemite DNA; nor were their ancestors Hebrews or Israelites. Most 'Jews'
don’t know that let alone understand what it means.
The subject
is complex, especially as the Pharisees (while they existed as such) and
the neo-Pharisees, i.e. the Khazarians who, in the 8th century embraced
the Talmud and Torah and the trappings of the Pharisees’ tribal
religion in order to pretend that they were changing their murderous and
barbaric ways.
Their culture was essentially devious and
deceptive before they converted to Talmudism and nothing changed
thereafter. BUT to avoid the overt wrath of goyim societies, they
redoubled their deceptive efforts to pretend to be religious and to seem
like the rest of humanity while merely going underground with their
blood thirsty, cannibalistic and satanic behaviours. Thus today, 75% of
Jews are atheistic and the remainder worship a jealous, vindictive,
genocidal entity that is no god at all.
To survive and carry out
their plot to seek vengeance on Christians and all non Talmudists, the
neo-Pharisees, have not only hidden the truth about themselves but also
they’ve embarked upon a successful millennia long campaign to conceal
and falsify not only the teachings of Christ Jesus but also they have
successful concealed and falsified virtually all of our planet’s history
just as the Pharisees had previously distorted and hidden the truth
about Christ Jesus’s divine revelations by influencing Roman emperors to
create the Christian religion. Jesus didn’t incarnate to establish a
religion and didn’t. He came to teach divine truths lost and corrupted
over millenia by Pharisees and others. In recent centuries the Christian
religion and especially the Catholic Church, has been a prime
neo-Pharisaic mechanism for destroying human spirituality and knowledge.
That doesn’t mean that many Catholics, and religious people generally,
are not spiritual and moral any more than that many non Talmudic 'Jews'
are not spiritual and moral people.
The Khazars converted to
acceptance of the Talmud and Torah because it plausibly mirrored their
murderous barbarism while cloaking it in pseudo religious rituals.
They
had to do that to placate their neighbours, the Rus, the Muslims and
the Byzantine Empire, because their overtly murderous empire was no
longer being tolerated and faced invasion if they didn’t. Their
barbarity and bad faith continued however and so the Rus (the nascent
Russian empire) and the Byzantine empire combined to eliminate the
Khazarian empire in the 10th and 11th centuries. The Khazarian ruling
class dispersed heading north west towards modern day Poland and
Germanic lands where they morphed into the Askenazis that, because of
their ethno-centric nepotism and hatred of the Christian Rus and
Byzantines who destroyed their empire, lived in in apartheid shtetls and
enclaves which enabled their leaders (rabbis) to mind control and hence
control their Khazarian masses from cradle to grave. That tyrannical
collectivist ideological mechanism has become apparent in our wider
world as the Ashkenazis have morphed it into various ideologies notably,
Capitalism, Communism, Bolshevism, Fascism,Nazism and neo-Marxist
Wokeism which they have imposed on various areas of global society.
Before Khazaria was dissolved they were known ln Europe and Asia as the name stealers (See The new jew question and Space Aliens) because
they used to provide hospitality to travelers from both the east and
the west, learn all about them and their business and then murder them,
steal their belongings and pretend to be them and carry on their trade
and defraud the murdered traders’ contacts in neighbouring lands.
Because
of their trading skills and knowledge, and because they harboured
fierce hatred for all non-Khazars, and because they lived apart in tight
knit shtetl communities repelling and pillaging outsiders, Khazarian
leaders were able, over centuries, to mind control the ordinary members
of their communities. That enabled them to act cohesively within other
societies such that they became very distinctive (the Pharisees’ "goyim"
and related terminolgy and collectivist ideology greatly facilitated
this tribal indoctrination and enabled their leaders to become rich and
competent in the manipulative arts which they then practiced on
Christian and other non-Khazarian societies.
Their ethnocentric
lifestyle, distinctive customs and averice, and their tendency to
parasitically exploit every society in which they lived, made them very
distinctive and caused resentment and hatred by those they exploited. As
a result they were expelled from well over a hundred societies and
countries. Never-the-less they persisted and their dominance in
trade, ‘money changing’ and banking has enabled them to dominate
societies, countries and empires.
That collectivist exclusivity
and ethnocentricity will rapidly dissipate once the Khazarian Mafia's
control of global finance and banking is broken and they can no longer
reward, and where necessary, coerce rank and file Jews and others to do
their bidding. THAT process is underway now.
ICH | Most Americans would be shocked if they knew how many foreign citizens are in our federal government—and at what levels. They don’t know because the mainstream media (or the conservative media, for that matter) almost never talks about it. It is one of the biggest secrets in Washington, D.C.
Back in 2015, Michael Hager wrote a very important missive that appeared in The Hill. Hager said:
The Biblical injunction that “No one can serve two masters” (Matthew 6:24) doesn’t apply to nations. Almost half of the world’s countries, including the U.S., recognize dual citizenship—even when they don’t encourage it for the complicated legal issues it often raises.
For example, one who obeys a requirement to give allegiance to a country or votes in a foreign election may be regarded as having renounced citizenship in the other country. What happens when the legal claims of one country conflict with those of the second country? Which of the two countries has an obligation to assist a dual national in distress?
Until the Supreme Court decided otherwise in the 1967 case of Afroyim v. Rusk, a U.S. citizen who voted in a political election in a foreign state would forfeit his or her U.S. citizenship. From that point on, dual citizens have maintained their right to vote and hold public office without penalty.
Anyone can become a dual citizen, even members of Congress, high court judges and top officials of the executive branch. There’s no law or regulation against it. Nor are they required to disclose such dual citizenship.
So what’s the problem?
In my research for this column (which was not exhaustive), I found over 100 members of the U.S. government who are known to be dual U.S.-Israeli citizens. Here is a short sample list (compiled from public documents):
Michael Chertoff
He was the 2nd United States Secretary of Homeland Security (2005 – 2009), serving under G.W. Bush and Barack Obama. He was co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act, Federal Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2003 – 2005) and United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division (2001 – 2003).
Chertoff’s father was Rabbi Gershon Baruch Chertoff (a Talmud scholar and the former leader of the Congregation B'nai Israel in Elizabeth, New Jersey). His mother was Livia Chertoff (née Eisen), an Israeli citizen who worked for the Mossad.
Researcher and investigative journalist Christopher Bollyn (author of the blockbuster book The War On Terror: The Plot To Rule The Middle East) writes this about Chertoff:
As Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the Dept. of Justice, Chertoff personally supervised and controlled the entire FBI non-investigation of 9-11. Chertoff is the responsible person for the obstruction of justice and blocking access to the evidence since September 11, 2001.
Chertoff is the co-author, along with Viet Dinh, of the USA PATRIOT Act, signed into law on October 26, 2001. As head of the Justice Department's criminal division, he advised the Central Intelligence Agency on the legality of torture techniques in coercive interrogation sessions.
From 2001 to 2003, he headed the criminal division of the Department of Justice, leading the prosecution against terrorist suspect Zacarias Moussaoui. In this role, Chertoff was central in creating the 9-11 myth by providing the list of the 19 Arab suspects and supervising the FBI's confiscation of evidence and the non-investigation of 9-11.
thesaker |The Saker: Now, turning to your books on Rabbinical
Phariseism, could you please summarize the main theses of your books on
this topic? What is, in your opinion, the true nature of Rabbinical
Phariseism, what are its core tenets/beliefs? What would you say to an
average person are the myths and realities about what is referred to as
“Judaism” in our society?
Hoffman: Orthodox Judaism, which is the scion of the
religion of the ancient Pharisees, is above all, self-worship, and
pride is the paramount destroyer. In the occult scheme of things, the
ideology closest to it was Hitler’s National Socialism, in that it
shares this predominant characteristic of pathological narcissism.
Christians and many other goyim (gentiles) have been deluded
into imagining that Judaism, while being somewhat flawed due to
rejecting Jesus, nonetheless manages to be an ethical religion
reflective of the prophets of the Old Testament. Hillel, the first
century A.D. Pharisee who is believed to have been a contemporary of
Jesus, and Moses Maimonides (“Rambam”), the medieval philosopher and
theologian, are most often held up as exemplars of this supposed ethical
Judaism.
The myth of the benevolence of these two can only be sustained by
ignorance. The problem is, that when a scholar begins to unearth facts
that undermine pious media legends about men like Hillel and Maimonides,
they enter “anti-Semitism” territory: if they dare to retail the truth,
their ability to earn a living and keep their good name and reputation
will be damaged, sometimes irreparably by the myth-makers who have the
power to permanently stigmatize them as “haters and anti-Semites.”
I’m beyond those fears, so I can venture to say that Hillel offered
theological grounds for the molestation of children and invented a “prozbul”
escape clause for evading the Biblical command that no loan shall be in
force more than seven years. Maimonides detested Jesus Christ with a
volcanic hatred that led him in his writings to urge the murder of
Christians when it is possible to do so without being detected. These
facts are documented in my books Judaism Discovered and Judaism’s Strange Gods.
Meanwhile, if you google “Hillel” or “Maimonides,” or you consult
Wikipedia, you’ll find them described in terms of saccharine sainthood
and humanitarian benevolence.
Orthodox Judaism, I regret to say, is a religion of lying and deceit.
Duplicity and mendacity are formally inculcated. They are not
incidental. There isn’t even a great deal of trust among Talmudists
themselves. Witness what Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, one time head of the
reconstituted Sanhedrin in Tiberias, and premier translator of the
Babylonian Talmud, has pronounced on this matter: “Rabbis are liable to
alter their words, and the accuracy of their statements is not to be
relied upon.” (The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition [Random
House], Vol. II, pp. 48-49). In BT Yevamot 65b permission is given to
lie “in the interests of peace,” a category so broad it is capable of
serving as an alibi for countless situations in which scoundrels wish to
conjure excuses for their falsehoods. There is also the general
permission to lie to a gentile (BT Baba Kamma 113a).
These facts are not published in major media such as the New York Times. Yet the Times
does not shy from insinuating that Shiite Islam is a religion of liars:
“…there is a precedent for lying to protect the Shiite community…part
of a Shiite historical concept called taqiyya, or religious dissembling.” (New York Times, April 14, 2012, p. A4).
Another defining theological aspect of Orthodox Judaism is its dogma that non-Jews are less than human. This is how the goyim
are viewed in the Talmud and its sacred successor texts. In certain
branches of Kabbalistic Judaism, such as the politically powerful and
prominent Chabad-Lubavitch sect, their founder, Rabbi Shneur Zalman,
formally promulgated the doctrine that goyim are not just less than human, they are non-human trash — “supernal refuse” — which is a reference to their Kabbalistic status as kelipot who possess “no redeeming qualities whatsoever.”
The Saker: My personal research has brought me to
the conclusion ever since the recognition by Christ as the Messiah
promised by the prophets of the Old Testament by one part of the first
century Jews and the rejection of Him by the other part, the latter
group began by developing an “anti-Christian scriptural toolkit” which
included, of course, the forgery of the so-called Masoretic text, the
development of the Talmud and the various commentaries, interpretations
and codification of these texts. The goal was to develop a “polemical
arsenal” so to speak. At the same time, the first kabbalistic concepts
were developed for the internal use inside
the anti-Christian communities. Would you agree with this (admittedly
summarized) description and would you then agree with my personal
conclusion that Rabbinical Phariseeism is at its core simply a religion
of “anti-Christianity”?
Hoffman: I think you’re correct up to the
Renaissance, which is the point at which members of the Roman Catholic
hierarchy including many popes, were secretly initiated into Kabbalistic
mysticism. The belt of that transmission is chronicled in detail in The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome.
Rabbinic Phariseeism is more than a religion opposed to Jesus for this
reason: in its beginnings in the time before Christ, it had existence as
a creed founded upon esoteric oral teachings that nullify the Bible
itself.
Orthodox Judaism is an anti-Biblical religion. Yes, it has a “Moses”
and a “Noah” as its patrons and it names other patriarchs too, but these
are not the Moses and Noah of the Bible. These are radically falsified
figures who bear those names. Pharisac Judaism is contemptuous of the
Biblical Noah about whom, in the Midrash, it makes scurrilous
claims. There is even contempt for Moses. About Isaiah, who said that
Israel has filthy lips, the Talmud teaches that Isaiah was justly killed
by having his mouth sawed in half for “blaspheming Israel.”
In both Left-wing New Age and Right-wing neo-Nazi circles, the heresy
of Marcion is alive and well and the Old Testament is execrated. It is
equated with the Talmud (most famously on the Right by Douglas Reed in The Controversy of Zion).
The problem with that tack is that the Old Testament is absolutely not a
book of self-worship of the Jews. It is radically different from the
Babylonian Talmud. The Bible is an antidote to self-worship. The Old
Testament excoriates Israelites in the strongest possible terms.
vice| Rabbi
Nuchem Rosenberg—who is 63 with a long, graying beard—recently sat down
with me to explain what he described as a “child-rape assembly line”
among sects of fundamentalist Jews. He cleared his throat. “I’m going to
be graphic,” he said.
A member of Brooklyn’s Satmar Hasidim fundamentalist branch of Orthodox
Judaism, Nuchem designs and repairs mikvahs in compliance with Torah
Law. The mikvah is a ritual Jewish bathhouse used for purification.
Devout Jews are required to cleanse themselves in the mikvah on a
variety of occasions: women must visit following menstruation, and men
have to make an appearance before the High Holidays such as Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Many of the devout also purify themselves
before and after the act of sex, and before the Sabbath.
On a visit to Jerusalem in 2005, Rabbi Rosenberg entered into a mikvah
in one of the holiest neighborhoods in the city, Mea She’arim. “I opened
a door that entered into a schvitz,” he told me. “Vapors everywhere, I
can barely see. My eyes adjust, and I see an old man, my age, long white
beard, a holy-looking man, sitting in the vapors. On his lap, facing
away from him, is a boy, maybe seven years old. And the old man is
having anal sex with this boy.”
Rabbi Rosenberg paused, gathered himself, and went on: “This boy was
speared on the man like an animal, like a pig, and the boy was saying
nothing. But on his face—fear. The old man [looked at me] without
any fear, as if this was common practice. He didn’t stop. I was so
angry, I confronted him. He removed the boy from his penis, and I took
the boy aside. I told this man, ‘It’s a sin before God, a mishkovzucher.
What are you doing to this boy’s soul? You’re destroying this boy!’ He
had a sponge on a stick to clean his back, and he hit me across the face
with it. ‘How dare you interrupt me!’ he said. I had heard of these
things for a long time, but now I had seen.”
The child sex abuse crisis in ultra-Orthodox Judaism, like that in the
Catholic Church, has produced its share of shocking headlines in recent
years. In New York, and in the prominent Orthodox communities of Israel
and London, allegations of child molestation and rape have been rampant.
The alleged abusers are schoolteachers, rabbis, fathers, uncles—figures
of male authority. The victims, like those of Catholic priests, are
mostly boys. Rabbi Rosenberg believes around half of young males in
Brooklyn’s Hasidic community—the largest in the United States and one of
the largest in the world—have been victims of sexual assault
perpetrated by their elders. Ben Hirsch, director of Survivors for
Justice, a Brooklyn organization that advocates for Orthodox sex abuse
victims, thinks the real number is higher. “From anecdotal evidence,
we’re looking at over 50 percent. It has almost become a rite of
passage.” Fist tap Dale.
The Western “framing” of the current civil war in
“Ukraine” is ahistorical, as much by ignorance as by design. The
division of “Ukraine” and “Poland” by the Prussian, Austro-Hungarian,
and Russian Empires between the Congress of Vienna
and the collapse of the USSR has caused 200 years of horrific suffering
and deeply-held grievance throughout the region that is
incomprehensible to Western audiences.
If you have a strong constitution, read about the events of June-July 1941 in Lwòw (Lviv) where the retreating NKVD’s murder of thousands of ethnic Polish and German “Enemies of the State” was quickly followed by a Banderite pogrom
in which Ukrainian civilians armed with sticks and clubs murdered thousands of
Jewish men and women in the streets — the U.S. Holocaust Memorial has a
fragment of a “home movie” shot by an SS-man of this savage barbarism
conducted against the backdrop
of a modern European city. It will shock you. The Nazis and the Red
Army then conducted another decade of mass-murder and forced
resettlement/ethnic cleansing that even make Pol Pot’s killing fields
pale in comparison.
It is a tragedy that the U.S. State Department and Central Intelligence Agency have annointed no one except grievance-holding refugees from
these Eastern European Killing Fields, like Kissinger, Brzezinski, and
Albright (Korbelovà) and their descendants Kagan,
Nudelmann, and Blinken, to be the “expert” arbiters of American policy
toward the region. Their only interest appears to be in controlling a false and irrelevant narrative that demonizes Russia in order to facilitate the settling of old scores that have no bearing on American interests.
Some countries (Trump's "shitholes") are largely
ignored by the U.S. because they are worthless lacking either natural resources or technology. Some countries, like most European ones, lack natural resources but have technology, so the
U.S. wants them as vassals. Within that
state of vassalage some countries have been allowed to have
social-democratic and even semi-neutral governments - so long as they
absolutely create no trouble for the master. That's the choice made
by South Korea, Singapore, Ireland, Austria, etc.; it takes a degree of skill to enjoy a little autonomy as a U.S. vassal.
The same is not true for resource-rich
non-technological countries. These slave states are harshly
ruled by compradore sellouts who pillage their own people on behalf of a U.S. master. Finally, there are natural enemy states. These are countries that are both technological and
have significant natural resources (e.g. Iran, RF, PRC) Eventually, the U.S. will turn its baleful glare in this regard toward India as well.
At
precisely the same time that CIA-directed psychological torment of
Danish orphans was underway, authorities in West Berlin were dabbling
with something even more diabolical - state-endorsed pedophilia.
Psychologist Helmut Kentler advocated in the 1960s for placing vulnerable youths in the care of pedophiles—on the ostensible basis that “loving environments” would effectively integrate them into society.
An
influential figure, Kentler used his extensive political connections to
market his ideas directly to lawmakers and state institutions.
Kentler
established the Pedagogical Center in February 1965 to conduct various
tests and trials. The results were supposed to help educational
authorities develop best practices for nurturing the nation’s youth.
Fully
endorsed by the city’s Senate and Social Democratic Party (SPD) and
West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, the Center was granted a multi-million
dollar budget, along with 37 staff. It was overseen by SPD Senator for
Schools and Education Carl-Heinz Evers, who knew Kentler personally.
(Brandt later served as West German chancellor 1969 - 1974.)
Children in West Berlin were sent to live with pedophilic foster parents at Kentler’s direction in 1969.
Kentler's ideas gained increased currency in the wake of incendiary student protests, which erupted across much of the Western world the previous year. These mass actions revitalized the writings of Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, in particular his early 1930s works The Sexual Struggle of Youth and The Mass Psychology of Fascism.
Reich’s
thesis was suppression of sexuality went hand-in-hand with obedience to
authoritarianism, as an individual’s perspectives and predispositions
were formed during their formative years. The argument went that it was
necessary for people of all ages to become sexualized, and embrace their
sexuality.
The resurrection of Reich’s ideas was no doubt welcome
to West Germany’s occupying powers. The notion Germans were
psychologically and genetically disposed towards aggression and
dictatorship—and that German society needed to be drastically reordered
to blunt these tendencies—was widespread in the aftermath of World War
II.
thesaker | The blowing up of Nord Stream (NS) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2) –
everybody knows who did it, but the suspect cannot be named – took to
the next level the two-pronged imperial project of cutting off cheap
Russian energy from Europe and destroying the German economy.
From the imperial perspective, the ideal subplot is the emergence of a
US-controlled Intermarium – from the Baltic and the Adriatic to the
Black Sea – led by Poland, exercising some sort of new hegemony in
Europe, on the heels of the Three Seas Initiative.
But as it stands, that remains a wet dream.
On the dodgy “investigation” of what really happened to NS and NS2,
Sweden was cast as The Cleaner, as if this was a sequel of Quentin
Tarantino’s crime thriller Pulp Fiction.
That’s why the results of the “investigation” cannot be shared with
Russia. The Cleaner was there to erase any incriminating evidence.
As for the Germans, they willingly accepted the role of patsies.
Berlin claimed it was sabotage, but would not dare to say by whom.
This is actually as sinister as it gets, because Sweden, Denmark and
Germany, and the whole EU, know that if you really confront the Empire,
in public, the Empire will strike back, manufacturing a war on European
soil. This is about fear – and not fear of Russia.
The Empire simply cannot afford to lose the “garden.” And the
“garden” elites with an IQ over room temperature know they are dealing
with a psychopathic serial killer entity which simply cannot be
appeased.
Meanwhile, the arrival of General Winter in Europe portends a
socio-economic descent into a maelstrom of darkness – unimaginable only a
few months ago in the supposedly “garden” of humanity, so far away from
the rumbles across the “jungle.”
Well, from now on barbarism begins at home. And Europeans should
thank the American “ally” for it, skillfully manipulating fearful,
vassalized EU elites.
Way more dangerous though is a specter that very few are able to
identify: the imminent Syrianization of Europe. That will be a direct
consequence of the NATO debacle in Ukraine.
The Syrianization of Europe
In the Ukrainian battlefield, NATO’s crusade against Russia is doomed
– even as in several nodes as much as 80 percent of the fighting forces
feature NATO personnel. Wunderwaffen such as HIMARS are few
and far between. And depending on the result of the US mid-term
elections, weaponization will dry out in 2023.
Ukraine, by the spring of 2023, may be reduced to no more than an
impoverished, rump black hole. The imperial Plan A remains
Afghanization: to operate an army of mercenaries capable of targeted
destabilization and or/terrorist incursions into the Russian Federation.
In parallel, Europe is peppered with American military bases.
All those bases may play the role of major terror bases – very much
like in Syria, in al-Tanf and the Eastern Euphrates. The US lost the
long proxy war in Syria – where it instrumentalized jihadis – but still
has not been expelled.
BAR | One would think that Europeans would be outraged to see their already
limited energy supply cut even further but they are strangely quiet. Sweden
announced that it wouldn’t participate in a Joint Investigative Team
because of fears that national security would be compromised. That’s a
strange position to take considering that a terror attack took place
near that country.
The countries involved are more than likely silent because they know
that their super power ally, the United States, was involved in the
sabotage. They murmur about Russia being the culprit but they also know
that makes no logical sense whatsoever.
Europe is under the thumb of the United States, which is determined
to turn allies into impoverished vassal states. France is suffering from
fuel shortages created by sanctions against Russia and a general strike
has been called. Italians are also protesting high fuel prices and are
calling for an end to that country’s EU and NATO memberships. But these
governments dare not complain.
The U.S. runs a protection racket not unlike that of its infamous
organized criminal gangs. The state is reminiscent of characters in the
movie Goodfellas, who promised partnerships with local
businesses only to loot them and then set them on fire. The Biden
administration is akin to a mafioso boss. European governments do
nothing but grovel out of fear, which is just what the criminal gang
wants.
The truth of U.S. “partnerships” with allies has been revealed as a
gigantic fraud. In reality these countries are living under occupation
and now there is no pretense that they will be treated any differently
from other countries living under U.S. control. Germany, Italy, Spain,
Poland, and the UK all have U.S. troops stationed on their soil. Germany
has gold reserves held by the Federal Reserves. They are not truly
independent and the Nord Stream sabotage shows it.
Russia isn’t the only country the U.S. is trying to weaken. The
hegemon has come out of the closet. It has no friends, only enemies and
puppets and all end up being treated badly. Europe went along with the
scam only to see the ruble rise in value and the euro decline. It turned
out that Russia had a strong economy while the Europeans were very
weak.
TASS | Moscow is ready to provide all interested parties with detailed
clarifications on preparations by Kiev for a provocation with the use of
a `dirty bomb,’ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
told Channel One television on Monday.
Earlier on Monday, "the question was answered fully by Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov, who commented on the
situation. He pointed to a certain interest among overseas experts and
said we are ready to establish appropriate contact. We want to make it
clear to everybody that we are ready to [answer] any questions and that
we will give the necessary answers, the Russian diplomat emphasized,
adding that Russia had repeatedly reiterated this position.
"What the United States, what Britain and France should do now is
postpone all their business to sit down and review the materials
mentioned by Russia in phone calls and analyze the information in
public," Zakharova said. According to her, the Anglo-Saxon duet had
created another monster who was currently pushing the world to the most
dangerous brink.
Zakharova also said Kiev’s continued shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant was a direct proof of its nuclear blackmail.
Lavrov
told reporters on Monday that the risk of Kiev using a "dirty bomb"
would be on the agenda of a UN Security Council meeting soon. According
to him, some of Moscow’s partners had suggested discussing the
developments at a professional military level, while he dismissed as
"not serious" the West’s rejecting these as false allegations.
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical
and Biological Defense Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, said at a
briefing on Monday that Russia’s top brass had all forces and means
ready for executing missions amid radioactive contamination. Russian
Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu earlier warned his British, US, Turkish
and French counterparts of the Ukrainian threat. Washington, London and
Paris, however, dismissed Russia’s warnings as false allegations.
navy.mil | OMAN - On October 19th, General Michael
“Erik” Kurilla, commander of CENTCOM, conducted a visit aboard the USS
West Virginia, a U.S. Navy Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile
submarine at an undisclosed location at sea in international waters in
the Arabian Sea.
Kurilla was joined on the USS West Virginia by Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet and NAVCENT.
During his visit on board the submarine, General Kurilla received a
hands-on demonstration of the capabilities of the vessel, which operates
globally under U.S. Strategic Command.
“I was thoroughly impressed with the crew of the USS West Virginia;
these sailors represent the highest level of professionalism, expertise,
and discipline across the U.S. military,” said Kurilla. “These
submarines are the crown jewel of the nuclear triad, and the West
Virginia demonstrates the flexibility, survivability, readiness, and
capability of USCENTCOM and USSTRATCOM forces at sea.”
USSTRATCOM forces are on watch 24/7 globally, operating in all domains,
while supporting other commands, to defend the nation and our allies.
West Virginia is one of six ballistic-missile submarines stationed at
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, and is capable of carrying up
to 20 submarine-launched ballistic missiles with multiple warheads.
sonar21 | There is an uptick in the panicked speculation about Ukraine using a
dirty bomb in order to fabricate a pretext that would justify NATO’s
intervention in Ukraine. Reminds me a lot of the previous efforts by the
Brits and the Yanks to manufacture a crisis in Syria in August 2013
that would compel the United States and the Brits to send their troops
to aid Islamic rebels seeking to overthrown Syrian leader Assad. Barack
Obama had vowed in August of 2012 that any use of chemical weapons by
Assad’s government would represent crossing a red line that would be
followed by retaliation by the West. Why did Obama balk at responding to
this alleged crime against humanity by Syria? Sy Hersh provided the
answer:
The answer lies in a clash between
those in the administration who were committed to enforcing the red
line, and military leaders who thought that going to war was both
unjustified and potentially disastrous.
We may be on the cusp of a new fabricated provocation–this one
involving a dirty nuke. The Russian General Staff are taking this threat
seriously and are on the phone to Turkey, France and China to warn
about this plot to detonate a dirty bomb and blame Moscow. The Russians
clearly learned the lessons from Syria and sarin. Remains to be seen if
the current U.S. military leadership has the backbone their predecessors
displayed in August 2013.
Let me take you back 9 years to August 2013. Washington’s political
class had Syrian fever–i.e., they were hot and anxious to overthrow
Syria’s Bashir Assad and the news channels were peppered with dire
predictions of Assad’s imminent demise. Then came word of an alleged
“sarin” gas attack on Syrian civilians by Assad’s military. At least
that this the story the media was pushing.
I was working inside a SCIF at Fort Bragg at the time and had access
to the intelligence reports about the attack at Ghouta. General Michael
Flynn was the head of DIA at the time. In contrast to the propaganda
being spun by State Department’s INR, the CIA and the media–i.e., that
the Syrian rebels were steamrolling the Syrian government and, wait for
it, Syrian President Assad was on the ropes–DIA did a great job of
honestly reporting the combat activity and the order of battle. The DIA
reports told an entirely different story–the Syrian Army was making
progress in containing the rebel uprising and the combat effectiveness
of the rebels was waning.
Then came the alleged sarin attack by the Syrian government at
Ghouta. Turns out this was a lie. Sy Hersh got the story and did, as
always, first rate reporting:
Obama’s change of mind had its
origins at Porton Down, the defence laboratory in Wiltshire. British
intelligence had obtained a sample of the sarin used in the 21 August
attack and analysis demonstrated that the gas used didn’t match the
batches known to exist in the Syrian army’s chemical weapons arsenal.
The message that the case against Syria wouldn’t hold up was quickly
relayed to the US joint chiefs of staff. The British report heightened
doubts inside the Pentagon; the joint chiefs were already preparing to
warn Obama that his plans for a far-reaching bomb and missile attack on
Syria’s infrastructure could lead to a wider war in the Middle East. As a
consequence the American officers delivered a last-minute caution to
the president, which, in their view, eventually led to his cancelling
the attack. . . .
The joint chiefs also knew that the Obama
administration’s public claims that only the Syrian army had access to
sarin were wrong. The American and British intelligence communities had
been aware since the spring of 2013 that some rebel units in Syria were
developing chemical weapons. On 20 June analysts for the US Defense
Intelligence Agency issued a highly classified five-page ‘talking
points’ briefing for the DIA’s deputy director, David Shedd, which
stated that al-Nusra maintained a sarin production cell: its programme,
the paper said, was ‘the most advanced sarin plot since al-Qaida’s
pre-9/11 effort’. (According to a Defense Department consultant, US
intelligence has long known that al-Qaida experimented with chemical
weapons, and has a video of one of its gas experiments with dogs.) The
DIA paper went on: ‘Previous IC [intelligence community] focus had been
almost entirely on Syrian CW [chemical weapons] stockpiles; now we see
ANF attempting to make its own CW … Al-Nusrah Front’s relative freedom
of operation within Syria leads us to assess the group’s CW aspirations
will be difficult to disrupt in the future.’ The paper drew on
classified intelligence from numerous agencies: ‘Turkey and Saudi-based
chemical facilitators,’ it said, ‘were attempting to obtain sarin
precursors in bulk, tens of kilograms, likely for the anticipated large
scale production effort in Syria.’ (Asked about the DIA paper, a
spokesperson for the director of national intelligence said: ‘No such
paper was ever requested or produced by intelligence community
analysts.’)
When the first reports surfaced about the attack in Ghouta I
immediately started looking at the intelligence briefs to the Joint
Chiefs of Staff that were published in the days prior to the attack. I
reasoned that if the Syrian military was the culprit then the United
States intelligence community would have detected the Syrian chemical
weapons units standing up and making preparations for the attack. Why?
Because the United States was part of warning system for Israel. There
was the fear that Syria might use chemical weapons against Israel and
the United States was using its technical means to monitor the activity
of the Syrian military units that would carry out such an attack. The
Syrians used a binary chemical weapon system. This means that two
chemicals had to be mixed together in order to create a deadly brew.
That type of activity can be detected by intelligence technical
measures. Oddly, there was no prior intelligence indicating any activity
by the Syrian military in the days preceding Ghouta. Nothing. Nada.
Zero. Zip.
Would you be surprised to learn that British and CIA intelligence
officers may have been involved in the Ghouta plot with the mission of
manufacturing a casus belli that would allow the United States and the
United Kingdom to intervene militarily in Syria?
Which brings us back to Ukraine. There is serious concern that the
West is once again trying to concoct a false flag that can be used to
rally a reluctant public to go to war with Russia. Instead of chemical
weapons, the current scheme reportedly involves detonating a dirty nuke
in territory ostensibly under the control of Russia. The Ukrainian
military is suffering catastrophic casualties and, western propaganda
notwithstanding, will have great difficulty sustaining any offensive.
The United States and its NATO allies realize this and are searching for
a pretext to send NATO forces to the rescue. It appears that the West
is considering using the threat of defeating a nuclear attack as the
justification for sending its own forces into the Ukrainian maelstrom.
I think the Ukraine situation is far more dangerous than what
transpired in Syria. Russia’s national security is at stake and the West
is panicked at the prospect of Ukraine being beaten into submission. At
least Russia is doing the right thing–moving preemptively to warn
relevant countries that it knows what is being plotted and that it will
take appropriate actions to counter such an attack if it occurs. We are
sitting on a nuclear powder keg. Pray that cooler heads prevail.
aftershock |The
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has information about the
Kyiv regime planning a provocation related to the detonation of the
so-called "dirty bomb" or low-yield nuclear weapons.
The
purpose of the provocation is to accuse Russia of using weapons of mass
destruction in the Ukrainian theater of operations and thereby launch a
powerful anti-Russian campaign in the world aimed at undermining
confidence in Moscow.
Recall that at the Munich Security Conference on February 19 this year. President Zelensky announced his intention to restore the nuclear status of Ukraine.
It
should also be noted that during the course of the special military
operation, Zelensky repeatedly called on NATO countries to strike at the
Russian Federation. QUOTE: “What should NATO do? Preemptive strikes so they know what will happen to them if they use it. And not vice versa - wait for Russia's nuclear strikes ... ".
More
recently, on October 22, in an interview with Canadian TV channels,
Zelensky called on the world to strike at the Kremlin if Russia strikes
at the “decision-making center” on Bankova Street, where the Office of
the President of Ukraine is located.
I
would like to recall the likelihood of a complex radiation situation
that may develop around the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the
largest nuclear power plant in Europe.
From
February 24 to the present, the territory of the Zaporozhye power plant
has been subjected to 39 fire strikes by the armed forces of Ukraine,
10 of them using unmanned aerial vehicles and 29 using various artillery
systems.
At
first, the shelling of the station by the Armed Forces of Ukraine did
not cause concern among the world community, since, according to the
conclusion of a number of American experts, the risk of radiation spread
when large-caliber artillery shells hit spent nuclear fuel containers
would be insignificant, and nuclear reactors withstand the fall of a
civilian aircraft.
However,
the forecast of the development of the radiation situation carried out
by our specialists, subsequently confirmed by relevant European
scientific organizations, showed that the release of radioactive
substances would affect almost all of Europe.
In
addition, despite the visit of the IAEA Director General Grossi, the
Armed Forces of Ukraine do not stop attempts to seize the station by
sabotage. So, on September
1, 15 and 30, as well as on October 17, special units of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine tried to land troops across the Kakhovka reservoir and
take control of the nuclear power plant.
According
to the information we have, two organizations in Ukraine have specific
instructions to create the so-called "dirty bomb". The works are at the final stage.
In
addition, we have information about the contacts of the office of the
President of Ukraine with representatives of the UK on the issue of
possible obtaining technology for creating nuclear weapons.
For this, Ukraine has an appropriate production base and scientific potential.
So,
in Ukraine there are nuclear industry enterprises that have stocks of
radioactive substances that can be used to create a "dirty bomb" - these
are three operating nuclear power plants: South-Ukrainian, Khmelnitsky
and Rivne with 9 pools of spent nuclear fuel, which contain up to one
and a half thousand tons of uranium oxide enriched to 1.5%.
At
the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant with storage
facilities for radioactive waste, 22,000 spent fuel assemblies
containing uranium-238 are stored, as well as products associated with
operation - uranium-235 and plutonium-239, which are the main component
of the nuclear charge.
At
the recently created enterprise for the processing of radioactive waste
"Vector", at the Prydneprovsky chemical plant, at the disposal sites
for radioactive waste "Buryakovka", "Podlesny", "Rossokha" can
accommodate more than 50 thousand cubic meters. m. of radioactive waste, which can also be used as components for a "dirty bomb".
In
addition, the Vostochny Mining and Processing Plant produces uranium
ore at two mines out of three with a capacity of up to 1 thousand tons
per year.
It
should also be emphasized that there is a scientific base in Ukraine -
this is the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, whose
scientists took part in the nuclear program of the USSR, where various
experimental facilities are currently operating, including the Uragan
thermonuclear facilities, as well as the Institute for Nuclear Research
at the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, where research is being
carried out at the WWR-M reactor using high-level radioactive materials.
I want to remind you that a "dirty bomb" is a container with radioactive isotopes and an explosive charge. When
the charge is detonated, the container is destroyed, and the
radioactive substance is sprayed by a shock wave, while creating
radioactive contamination of the area over large areas, and can also
lead to radiation sickness.
As
a radioactive substance, uranium oxide can be used, which is in the
composition of spent fuel elements stored in spent nuclear fuel storage
facilities and spent fuel pools of nuclear power plants. In
addition, radioactive substances from the spent nuclear fuel storage
facilities of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant can be used.
According
to the plans of the Kyiv regime, the explosion of such a munition can
be disguised as an abnormal operation of a low-yield Russian nuclear
munition, in which highly enriched uranium is used as a charge. The
presence of radioactive isotopes in the air will later be recorded by
the sensors of the International Monitoring System installed in Europe,
with the subsequent accusation of the Russian Federation of using
tactical nuclear weapons.
It
is worth noting that similar information warfare technologies have
already been used by the West in Syria, when the White Helmets filmed
propaganda videos there about the use of chemical weapons by government
forces.
One
of the most resonant and widely replicated episodes is the provocation
organized by the specified non-governmental organization on April 4,
2017 in the city of Khan Sheikhoun.
Pay your attention to the photo in which people taking soil samples are without personal protective equipment. But it doesn't seem to bother anyone! Especially those who made the decision to use a missile attack on the territory of a sovereign country - Syria.
The
Americans, using this provocation as a pretext, without waiting for the
beginning of the investigation and, moreover, the decision of the UN
Security Council, launched a missile attack on the Shayrat airbase,
grossly violating the norms of international law.
It is highly likely that a similar scenario will be used in this case as well.
The
detonation of a radiological explosive device will inevitably lead to
radioactive contamination of the area over an area of up to several
thousand square meters.
Thus,
in Ukraine there is a motive for the use of a "dirty bomb", as well as
the scientific, technical and industrial potential for its creation.
As
a result of the “dirty bomb” provocation, Ukraine expects to intimidate
the local population, increase the flow of refugees across Europe and
expose the Russian Federation as a nuclear terrorist.
The
Ministry of Defense has organized work to counter possible provocations
from Ukraine: forces and means have been put in readiness to perform
tasks in conditions of radioactive contamination.
Barrons | The US and Russian defense chiefs spoke Friday for the first time in
months but Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he saw no interest
from Moscow for broader talks to end the Ukraine war.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin "emphasized the importance of
maintaining lines of communication amid the ongoing war against Ukraine"
during the call with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu, said a US
spokesman, Brigadier General Pat Ryder.
Russia's defense ministry confirmed the call and said the two discussed Ukraine without further details.
The defense chiefs last spoke on May 13 when Austin urged Moscow to implement an "immediate ceasefire" in Ukraine.
Russia
did not do so, and Kyiv's forces have since regained swathes of
territory from Moscow's troops in the east and south of the country with
the United States and other Western powers sending in billions of
dollars in weapons.
Austin separately spoke with his Ukrainian
counterpart Oleksiy Reznikov "to reiterate the unwavering US commitment
to supporting Ukraine's ability to counter Russia's aggression," Ryder
said.
Blinken said the United States would keep contacts with
Russia but said that any broader diplomacy depended on President
Vladimir Putin showing an interest "in stopping the aggression."
"We have seen no evidence of that in this moment. On the contrary, we
see Russia doubling and tripling down on its aggression," Blinken told a
joint news conference with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna.
Blinken
pointed to Russia's recent attacks on power stations and other civilian
infrastructure in Ukraine and the mobilization of troops who Blinken
called "horrifically, cannon fodder that Putin is trying to throw into
the war."
"The fundamental difference is that Ukrainians are
fighting for their country, their land, their future. Russia is not and
the sooner President Putin understands that and comes to that
conclusion, the sooner we will be able to end this war," Blinken said.
profilesinsuccess | Ed’s wife, Marilynn, was beside him every step of the way through the
BTG journey. In fact, several years before they married, she left CTEC
and became Ed’s first employee at BTG. “She’s my moral compass,” he
says. “Through all the ups and downs, she’s always kept me on the
straight and narrow, and is an exceptional judge of character. She’s got
this sense about her, and she keeps me grounded.” Ed is also grounded
by his remarkable daughters—one a research physician and professor at
Harvard Medical School, and the other a practicing physician in DC who
successfully treated one of the anthrax patients. “As proud as my
parents were of me when I showed them my speech at the White House, I’m
equally proud of my daughters,” says Ed.
Ok I'll weigh in. The question for me isn't whether it's okay to express schadenfreude wrt Walensky. It's how can we pressure her, as executor of a family trust whose $ comes from her father's role in Titan Corporation, to pay reparations to Titan's torture victims in Abu Ghraib
Ed’s engagement in the
business community has remained strong in the wake of selling BTG. In
2006, he joined with a team of investors to form a Special Purpose
Acquisition Corporation, raising $126 million in the public market to
purchase a civilian government contractor called ATS Corporation. Ed
served as CEO of ATS, leading it to flourish until it was sold in 2010
to Salient Technologies, Inc.
Ed then shifted his focus full-time
to his participation in nonprofit and for-profit boards—commitments he
has prioritized since 1984. Using his “Seven P’s” as guiding beacons,
he has served as a Board member, Advisor, or Committee member of over
fifty organizations, including Virginia’s Center for Innovative
Technology, the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the Technology
Work Group of the Virginia Economic Recovery Commission, and Holy Cross
Hospital.
Education, as well, has remained a passion for Ed, and
although full-time academic teaching never became the focal point of his
career, he taught mathematics at NYU and Kingsborough Community
College. During his tenure at NASA, he taught similar courses at Boston
University and Northeastern University. Later on, he continued to teach
at American University, the University of Maryland, and George Mason
University. He served as President of the Board of Directors of the
Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation, as well as
on the Board of Trustees at Virginia Commonwealth University. One of his
greatest honors came when he was asked to serve on the Board of
Trustees at New York University, his Alma Mater, and more recently, he
was invited by Governor Terry McAuliffe to serve on the Board of the
Virginia 529 Program. “It’s a lot of fun,” he says. “We have to think
about how you finance a college education, and what the return on
capital for that education will look like in 20 years.”
In
advising young people entering the working world today, Ed underscores
the importance of commitment as a foundation for laying out the Seven
P’s. “Nothing is easy,” he says. “Don’t flounder. Figure out what you
want to do and then go do it. And when you face setbacks, remember you
have two choices. You can go back to bed and hide, or you can go to work
and put on a brave face. Those moments will be your waypoints, and I
hope you choose to do what you have to do, rather than what you might
want to do in that moment.”
Beyond that, Ed has found that the
Seven P’s tend to lead people to that ideal ground where altruism and
self-interest intersect. “Self-interest is fine, but never at the
expense of others,” he says. “Altruism is wonderful, but you can’t have a
mission without money. I think the real value set is all about pursuing
something of importance, but in a business-like way so you ensure you
have the resources to actually accomplish it.”
From his days
delivering papers and playing street ball in Manhattan, to his
introduction of President Bill Clinton at the White House, to his legacy
of leadership throughout the DC business community, Ed’s astounding
accomplishments are the projection of the mission sense that has always
guided him—a pixel-precise vision he hopes the entire country will
reclaim with time. “When I graduated from college and started work at
NASA, every single person in that organization—and across the U.S.—was
aligned and motivated in our goal to make it to the moon,” he reflects.
“Now, I attribute our national sense of malaise to the fact that we’ve
lost our mission sense as a country. Everyone needs that object called
mission—the new moon that inspires them to write their future, and then
go out and live it.”
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