Thursday, February 13, 2025

What part of no don't you understand?



As much as I detest Agent Orange, the talk with Putin to end a war that never should have happened seems to be a tragedy to finally end if the gods will it as Putin, another guy I detest, said, for years, Ukraine cannot be allowed to join NATO due to its proximity to Moscow and Russia. The expansion of NATO to enable the arms suppliers to make money goes back to 1989, facts eloquently described by Chris Hedges in 1989 and William Smith in 2014, something quoted in BRT titled The Peter Principle clearly showing why this disaster could have been avoided without question. 


Ukraine, the historic link from the west to the east

For years, this writer had discussed the catastrophic foreign policy the US has conducted with the first fubar being Israel and Palestine in 1948 followed up by the house arrest of Iran's democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh by the CIA in 1953 in order for England to gain access to Iranian oil. To do this, the US installed the Shah, thus converting a friendly nation into a hostile one due to the shah's brutal regime, culminating in turning Iran into an enemy when Khomeini took power while converting Iran into a theocratic state in 1979. 







Summing it up ...


And we haven't discussed the cost of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza as the US is the enabler of enablers regarding ordinance to allow Israel to conduct its version of endless war in the year of our lord 2025.


The list is long and ... It's all about the money. Always has been, always will be.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

A history lesson ...


A history lesson with emphasis on Ukraine, a tragedy that never should have happened. 

Kinda says it all ...



Kinda says it all ...

Why Musk is the defacto president ...


Used to be 2 trillion ...






Any questions and remember, it takes, according to Musk, only 6 unqualified people to deal with the complexities of the government's budget and ... let's see what happens when Musk and company deal with the MIC, the real power of the country as it's all about the money, something Kennedy questioned without question and we all know how that turned out, right?


Saturday, February 08, 2025

The Clown Show



DOGE, aka The Clown Show, keeps on giving in terms of Musk's hiring people cosmically unqualified, not only in terms of security clearances and government wherewithal but also with ethics and the desire to create havoc as needs warrant.

And this.

One of Elon Musk's lackeys at his DOGE group, Marko Elez, unexpectedly resigned on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal revealed a litany of extremely racist social media posts he'd apparently made shortly before joining the team.

The exact reason for his abrupt departure remains unclear. However, as Wired reports, White House officials seem to have provided incorrect information about Elez only being given "read-only" permissions to the US Treasury codebase, hinting at the possibility that he could have been in trouble for things other than the egregiously racist posts linked to his departure.

According to Wired, Elez did in fact have write access, allowing him to push unvetted and untested changes straight to the Treasury's payments system — a nightmare scenario that could introduce all sorts of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and leave doors open for adversary hacker groups.


Elon Musk’s headlong rush to take control of crucial federal agencies and functions — and to dismantle some of them virtually overnight — has stoked widespread alarm in Washington about the aims of his Donald Trump-backed mission.

His so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s early moves have violated the Privacy Act and cybersecurity laws, according to legal experts, and triggered a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s assault on government bureaucracy.

Legal and security experts are particularly exercised by Musk’s move to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development and take control of the Treasury Department’s central payments database.

“The scale here is unprecedented in terms of the risk to sensitive personal and financial information,” said Alan Butler of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “It’s an absolute nightmare.”

Friday, February 07, 2025

Thursday, February 06, 2025

There's a pulse ...



There's a pulse after all as Elon Musk barred from accessing US Treasury payments data is in place. It's temporary but maybe it may be the tiny spark needed to save our democracy.

53 days ...


An existential threat to the continued existence of America is in play with a blitzkrieg resembling what Hitler did in 53 days whereby the weak Weimar government of Germany was systematically destroyed. 

1933 ...

Ninety-two years ago this month, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy, Hitler set about destroying a constitutional republic through constitutional means. What follows is a step-by-step account of how Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes. The minutes, as we will see, mattered.

Hans Frank served as Hitler’s private attorney and chief legal strategist in the early years of the Nazi movement. While later awaiting execution at Nuremberg for his complicity in Nazi atrocities, Frank commented on his client’s uncanny capacity for sensing “the potential weakness inherent in every formal form of law” and then ruthlessly exploiting that weakness. Following his failed Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923, Hitler had renounced trying to overthrow the Weimar Republic by violent means but not his commitment to destroying the country’s democratic system, a determination he reiterated in a Legalitätseid—“legality oath”—before the Constitutional Court in September 1930. Invoking Article 1 of the Weimar constitution, which stated that the government was an expression of the will of the people, Hitler informed the court that once he had achieved power through legal means, he intended to mold the government as he saw fit. It was an astonishingly brazen statement.

“So, through constitutional means?” the presiding judge asked.

“Jawohl!” Hitler replied.

Channeling Hitler's playbook.

It is a mistake to think of the first two and a half weeks of President Trump’s second term as a series of discrete and separate constitutional and legal crises. It is one crisis, with many manifestations. Think of Trump’s second term as a kind of legal hydra, in which the defenders of the Constitution are facing one body with many heads, and those heads are acting in concert.

Trump isn’t merely issuing orders and enacting policies; he’s launching a constitutional revolution. The object is nothing less than the transformation of the American presidency.

So is Elon Musk’s role in the federal government and the extraordinary effort to impound appropriated funds or destroy executive agencies established by Congress.

And so is Trump’s attempt to push the edges of his tariff authority and extend congressional trade statutes far beyond their intended scope.

Even the low and spiteful character of so many people who are being hired in the administration is related to Trump’s constitutional revolution. He needs people who aren’t just willing but also happy to blow through moral and legal guardrails for him.

For example, Secretary of State Marco Rubio just hired a man named Darren Beattie to serve as his acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy. Beattie has a horrific record of overt racism. On Jan. 6, 2021, he tweeted at multiple Black lawmakers and public figures, telling them to “learn their place” and “take a knee” before MAGA.

March 13 marks day 53 of the "Musk" administration ...

Tuesday, February 04, 2025

Admin ...



One of President Musk's lackeys is now an admin able to read/write government's payment system files as needs warrant, something most disquieting to this writer without question.

Interstellar - Orbiting Gargantua


“Black holes are where God divided by zero.” ― Albert Einstein

Monday, February 03, 2025

Leftovers ...


The picture says it all as Musk is the new Howard Hughes, becoming more power hungry and crazed as we speak. As an unelected operative, Musk now has unprecedented control over the government's payment system as well as access to secret documents thanks to the fact Agent Orange isn't running things, Musk, and significant others, are. With this being said, the "team" charged with the task of hijacking the government are rather young to say the least as seen in a perceptive Wired piece titled The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover. 

To whit.

Elon Musk’s takeover of federal government infrastructure is ongoing, and at the center of things is a coterie of engineers who are barely out of—and in at least one case, purportedly still in—college. Most have connections to Musk, and at least two have connections to Musk’s longtime associate Peter Thiel, a cofounder and chair of the analytics firm and government contractor Palantir who has long expressed opposition to democracy.

WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, tasked by executive order with “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.” The engineers all hold nebulous job titles within DOGE, and at least one appears to be working as a volunteer.

It get better.

The six men are one part of the broader project of Musk allies assuming key government positions. Already, Musk’s lackeys—including more senior staff from xAI, Tesla, and the Boring Company—have taken control of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and General Services Administration (GSA), and have gained access to the Treasury Department’s payment system, potentially allowing him access to a vast range of sensitive information about tens of millions of citizens, businesses, and more. On Sunday, CNN reported that DOGE personnel attempted to improperly access classified information and security systems at the US Agency for International Development and that top USAID security officials who thwarted the attempt were subsequently put on leave. The Associated Press reported that DOGE personnel had indeed accessed classified material.

“What we're seeing is unprecedented in that you have these actors who are not really public officials gaining access to the most sensitive data in government,” says Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan. “We really have very little eyes on what's going on. Congress has no ability to really intervene and monitor what's happening because these aren't really accountable public officials. So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world.”

Question, would this self appointed genius allow these leftovers to design rockets? I thought so. 


Crossing the line

Addendum



This has to stop now!