History of Western Oppression and Genocide (of Indigenous Peoples) Certainly ‘Rhymes’

Obscured within the mists of time is the history relevant to the west’s unquestioning support for apartheid Israel, namely the west’s covert support for apartheid South Africa.

After Boer South Africa annexed German Southwest Africa (1915) the United States initiated arms shipments to South Africa until the late 1980’s, even subsequent to the ‘voluntary’ UN Arms Embargo to South Africa of 1963, and after the mandatory embargo of 1977.

South Africa’s white supremacist ideology essentially denied the right of self-determination to the indigenous people there. Likewise, the apartheid Boer regime had expansionist ambitions in the region that are particularly notable via US/CIA support for South African expansion into Angola, until the Afrikaaners experienced defeat in their offensive versus Luanda. [1]

Western supply of weapons to apartheid South Africa continued on, nearly to the end the regime, when F. W. de Klerk’s caretaker government prepared to relinquish power to the African National Congress. Europe was heavily invested in supplying arms to apartheid South Africa as well, via its arms bazaar based in Lichtenstein, Brussels, London, and Luxembourg. London and West Germany were particularly loathe to end weapons sales and deliveries to apartheid South Africa, because the profits were great, and both perceived the apartheid regime there as being anti-Soviet.

Just as Israel possesses nuclear weapons at its nuclear site in the Negev (Dimona),  apartheid South Africa operated a covert nuclear weapons development program, too.  The program was run by Armscor, where Armscor also initiated illegal importation of weapons technology from Canada to South Africa. Prime Minister Botha labeled the potential nuclear deterrent as a “political weapons system” and reportedly did not intend to use nuclear weapons to destroy the world, as Israel claims it will do (if the regime is threatened with extinction) as defined by Israel’s “Samson Option”.

But expansionist South Africa is not considered to have committed a genocide versus the indigenous population of South Africa as Israel does in Gaza, however the Botha regime certainly targeted civilians by means of indiscriminate artillery shelling of farms and schools where civilians were present.

Western support for apartheid Israel’s genocide does not fully parallel western support for apartheid South Africa, because weapons that the west provides to Israel (for the genocide in Gaza) are overtly supplied and not covertly. And likewise the United States is fully complicit in that Gaza genocide, whereas regarding apartheid South Africa, it was not.

And of course at present time there is no UN arms embargo for the supply of weapons to Israel. The UN has scheduled a future meeting of the Security Council on the subject, but the United States responded by revoking visas that would allow the Palestinian delegation to attend.

Also, at one time, in modern history, the west recognized (or at least paid lip service to) the right of indigenous people to self-determination. The right of self-determination is implicitly recognized by the United States Declaration of Independence with three unalienable rights being, “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” which governments are created to protect. That historic proclamation reflects Natural Law, where there is no law today… other than profit and exploitation. Today the right to self-determination of any people is void. In other words, there is no prospect of a United Nations Arms Embargo versus Israel, and even if by some miracle there was, the United States would find a way to void that.

Israel owns the western world financially and politically – and owns its media. Israel colludes with corrupt powers all over the world, including Egypt, Turkiye, Jordan, Azerbaijan, Syria and the Gulf Monarchies. So the world stands idly by and merely wrings its hands in disbelief at the humanitarian atrocities Israel is engaged in, its starvation and genocide, and intentional murder of journalists and heads of state. Any resistance to Israel’s agenda will result in a loss of funding and attacks in the media – and perhaps military attacks, too.

Therein lies the great difference between the global treatment of apartheid South Africa, and genocidal apartheid Israel today. At one time the world reacted in horror to what the supremacist regime in apartheid South Africa was doing; today the world stands idly by while thousands are murdered and millions displaced.

[1] Remarkably, apartheid South Africa’s Sturmbannführer’s were called the “South African Defence Force” just as Israel’s storm troopers call themselves the Israeli Defense Force today

Steve Brown

Shady Billionaire Israeli Arms Dealer: Shoul Eisenberg

When arms dealer Shaul (or ‘Shoul’) Eisenberg died in 1997 the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency – the mother and father of many subsequent kapo operations since 1917) the JTA failed to write that Eisenberg provided arms to the Axis powers, working undercover due to his Jewish lineage. In fact, the JTA conveniently left out the fact that Eisenberg was an arms dealer at all. Link: https://www.jta.org/1997/06/05/default/israel-industrialist-shaul-eisenberg-dies

After the war, Eisenberg continued on as a weapons dealer via his connections, while covering his weapons deals under more mundane large corporate projects, involving paper mills and aircraft.

Eisenberg’s connection with Gerald Bull (introduced by a shady weapons manufacturer called PRB) and to the Israeli military, allowed Bull to produce and perfect the advanced ERFB (Extended Range Full Bore) 155mm artillery shell, where Bull’s SRC-I provided many thousands of shells to Israel’s military. The ERFB 155mm shell had maximum range of about 1/3rd more than any competing 155mm shell, so Israel could bombard Damascus from a range just beyond the Golan Heights. All thanks to Gerald Bull’s design of a 155mm shell, an artillery shell that is still in use to this day. (Gerald Bull was killed by Israeli assassins in 1990 when he entered into a ‘big gun’ contract with Iraq.)

Arms dealer Eisenberg illegally exported Bull’s shells from Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA, to Israel. After that, Eisenberg arranged to export thirty thousand of Bull’s (SRC-I) 155mm ERFB shells to the Botha apartheid regime in South Africa, for its war with Angola. Eisenberg’s provision of Bull’s artillery shells to the Botha regime greatly assisted in the US /Israeli oppression of Southern Africa’s population, while the two-faced US denounced apartheid in South Africa for politically motivated reasons of the day. [1]

(Of course, Botha’s apartheid regime operated almost as brutally versus the indigenous population of South Africa, when compared to the apartheid Israeli regime which enables genocide versus Palestinians today.)

Gerald Bull was jailed in the USA for illegally exporting artillery shells (brokered through Brussels, Belgium) to South Africa, while Eisenberg’s participation in the exports – and Israel’s involvement – was officially and studiously ignored. Eisenberg was politically protected, In essence. Then – as today – Israeli aggression and criminal arms dealing was and is a subject never to be addressed by an corrupt US federal government, or its Military Industrial Complex, or a highly criminalized US Congress.

Arms dealer Eisenberg kept a low profile and shunned the spotlight, unlike Adnan Khashoggi. Khashoggi was a flamboyant Saudi arms dealer who seemed to seek fame and notoriety. But as with all illicit arms dealers, Shaul Eisenberg did go wherever the shekels took him — regardless of political affiliation or moral compunction. For example, according to Aryeh Levin, author of the book ‘Envoy to Moscow’, Robert Maxwell, Eisenberg, Arnon Milchan and many other arms dealers were attempting to do business with the Soviet Union, but found that to be difficult due to strict rules about illegal arms trading within the USSR.

(There is evidence for example that Eisenberg knew of Jeffrey Epstein, and that Robert Maxwell and Eisenberg coached and instructed Epstein on the intricacies of the illicit arms trade.)

Eisenberg was successful however in being the first arms exporter to China. Eisenberg provided the means for shipment of Soviet weapons to China in the late 1970’s, where some of those arms designs are still manufactured by Norinco today.

Eisenberg’s name is little known and seldom spoken today. He was certainly a man of no moral character; only driven by greed for the almighty dollar, and went with his arms deals wherever the dollar took him. In brief, Eisenberg sums up the abject militarism and ‘free market’ contracted-out aggression, that the collective west’s colonial empire is so famously known for.

[1] This was to be Gerald Bull’s downfall. While the US/ Israel supplied weapons to the Botha regime, the US publicly condemned apartheid. In essence, Bull was a ‘fall guy’ for US duplicity. And it is clear that even though Gerald Bull was a brilliant scientist and engineer, he was exceedingly politically naive.

Steve Brown

Read more: https://time.com/archive/6685593/israels-secret-weapon/

Gerald Bull, and a Great Irony of History

One example of great historic irony relates to the brilliant Canadian weapons designer, Gerald Bull. Until the late 1980’s, Gerald Bull’s success depended upon support from the west’s Military Industrial Complex, namely the Canadian government and US Army, and Bull’s influential supporters, such as the Bronfman family. [Ref: Arms and the Man, Lowther]

Back then Canadian government policies differed somewhat from those of today, because Canada had a strict arms embargo versus Israel. (Which no longer applies. see link https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/3/24/the-canadian-arms-embargo-on-israel-that-was-not ) Then as now, Israel was enabling weapons sales to unsavoury regimes all over the world and specifically to Botha’s South Africa regime.

The 1963 UN weapons embargo on South Africa by UN Security Council resolution 181 https://southafrica.un.org/en/about/about-the-un#:~:text=7%20August%201963%20%E2%80%94%20The%20Security,mandatory%20on%204%20November%201977 prohibited arms shipments to South Africa, but of course that UN prohibition meant nothing to Israel, which has not complied with any UN resolution ever resolved against it.

At the time Gerald Bull designed and provided effective and long range 155mm artillery shells called Extended Range Full Bore (ERFB) that have been an advanced standard for howitzers for many years. See: https://youtu.be/jB5eMVNYvD8 The Botha regime needed these 155mm shells for its war in Angola and support of Jonas Savimbi versus the Cuban and Soviet supported Angolan government.

On Savimbi from Wikipedia:

“In 1985, with the backing of the Reagan administration and through the lobbying efforts of Paul Manafort and his firm Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, which was paid $600,000 each year from Savimbi beginning in 1985, Jack Abramoff and other U.S. conservatives organized the Democratic International in Savimbi’s base in Jamba, in Cuando Cubango Province in southeastern Angola. Savimbi was strongly supported by the influential, conservative Heritage Foundation. Heritage foreign policy analyst Michael Johns and other conservatives visited regularly with Savimbi in his clandestine camps in Jamba and provided the rebel leader with ongoing political and military guidance in his war against the Angolan government.“

Jonas Savimbi

But let’s back up to the 1970’s, when the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations overtly supported the UN weapons embargo on South Africa’s minority government, while covertly allowing weapons shipments to continue from third-party rogue “states” such as Israel.

The extreme irony is that while the UN security council imposed arms embargo resolutions versus the apartheid state of South Africa, no such arms embargo was ever imposed versus the apartheid ‘state’ of Israel. And Israel has never seen a weapons-for-profit deal it didn’t like — so long as such weapons do not provide support for Palestine and Palestinians — and Israel was quite pleased to support another apartheid regime similar to its own, namely that of P W Botha.

To support Botha’s war versus Angola underwritten by the CIA and Israel, the Botha regime ordered thousands of 155mm artillery shells from Gerald Bull’s private company, the Space Research Corporation (SRC). Bull’s artillery test, development, and manufacturing facility straddled Canadian and US borders. https://clui.org/ludb/site/highwater-test-range

Canada did not allow weapons exports to Israel, but the US had no such embargo. Gerald Bull could truck large numbers of 155mm shells manufactured in Canada across his ‘private border’ (between Canada and the US) without any export certificate, also because the shell casings were considered “inert” and not an operational artillery round by the Canadian government.

Due to US complicity with Israel in weapons dealing, Bull could then ship 155mm shells to Israel and then cross-shipped to South Africa. Bottom line, after 1977, Israel was shipping large numbers of Canadian-made ERFB 155mm advanced artillery shells to South Africa in violation of the UN arms embargoe.

In brief, during the 1970’s -80’s the apartheid regime of South Africa was denounced publicly worldwide for its minority rule, even though Israel and the west continued to supply weapons covertly to that regime. The irony of the foregoing is astounding when compared to today. Now there is very little effective worldwide governmental opposition to the genocide taking place versus Palestinians in Gaza; and many at the highest levels of power support the brutal and murderous apartheid regime presiding in Tel Aviv.

While history may not repeat it certainly rhymes. Where the Reagan regime and Heritage Foundation gave covert support to Botha’s apartheid South Africa, now the Trump regime outright supports the terror and horror taking place in Gaza. And not just via Israeli use of US weapons versus Palestinians, but also by corrupt US evangelical and CIA contractors in Gaza via the US-backed https://www.facebook.com/CBSEveningNews/videos/gaza-aid-group-investigation/1271039941295546/ Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

As for Gerald Bull the irony is astounding too. In the somewhat more moral world of the 1970’s-80’s the Botha regime was proscribed for what it was – a brutal apartheid state in the pocket of the CIA and Israel. When Gerald Bull’s covert supply of 155mm ERFB artillery shells to South Africa was discovered back then, Bull was fined by the Canadian government for international arms dealing. Bull lost his US and Canadian contracts, at a time when the Reagan regime was covertly supplying the very same weapons to South Africa. https://www.damninteresting.com/project-babylon-gerald-bulls-downfall/

Bull, a committed capitalist, lost his US / Canadian contracts because of the South African weapons scandal, so again ironically moved his operation to another central point for illicit weapons dealing: Belgium. A committed anti-communist and believer in the free market, Bull believed that the offer to work for Iraq in weapons development would assist in combating the ‘Soviet menace’ even though the Soviet Union had collapsed by that time.

By finally working for Saddam in Iraq, Gerald Bull met his fate at the hands of the assassination nation of Israel, which knows no loyalty, no friends, and has no allies – only the promise of partners in crime for shekels. Which of course is the rest of the story…

The true irony? Gerald Bull was publicly condemned for supporting a brutal apartheid regime with weaponry; while today the world’s only ‘super power’ does the same — and is praised for it.

Steve Brown

Inverse Totalitarianism and Trotsky’s Continual Revolution

“The Corporative State* considers private initiative.. as the most efficient and useful instrument of the Nation. State intervention in economic production may take place only where private initiative is lacking or is insufficient or when are at stake the political interests of the State.” — Benito Mussolini, Grand Council of Fascism, Labour Charter of 1927 stated in article 7 * “corporativismo” (Italian translation)

The New World Disorder

Sheldon Wolin’s theory on the evolution of the Inverted Totalitarian State was published in 2008,  “Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism” and I’ve seen no update since then, subsequent to the financial collapse of 2008-2009. (NB: author Sheldon Wolin passed on in 2015.) As the Captured State becomes ever more captured, further utterance about this theory is in order.

Since 2008, the specter of Inverse Totalitarianism is no longer a specter but a reality,  Consequent to the western financial collapse of 2008-2009, there have been specific developments relating to the Surveillance State and its control of the media and government – well beyond Wolin’s theory –  beyond scope of this commentary.  (See US presidential Directive PDD-68)

So, the idea here is to propose one new component with regard to Inverse Totalitarian theory, new to the theory, but in existence for more than one hundred years: namely the concept of Continual or Permanent Revolution. Continual or Permanent Revolution is simple in concept, yet complex by manifestation, and treated here via the Plutocracy of State Capture and not in the context of Marxist-Leninist theory wrt the ideology of the Socialist State.

To embellish Trotsky’s concept, “The Theory of Permanent Revolution” was written by Nikolai Bukharin in 1924. According to Bukharin, permanent revolution is achieved when, “in the last analysis (we) will reach a stage when the workers will have captured political power.” In the Inverse Totalitarian State, we extend that to mean by Corporate consolidation and conglomeration, the capture and control of all markets, while ending/curtailing competition… as J Pierpont Morgan advocated in 1907 for predatory capital.  And of course the Corporate-Wall Street capture of the US political system.

Bukharin writes, “the revolution shall become unceasing until all the more or less wealthy classes have been removed from power and the proletariat has fully captured political power.” (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Volume 3, Gosizdat, 1921, p 501) In the case of Inverse Totalitarianism, the same is achieved when Mega-corporates and Oligarchs have complete political and monetary control of the media and electoral system, as they do today.

Because Corporatism is by definition rule by tyranny, Corporations are  limited by their structure as top-down, and unaccountable. The Incorporated world is a hierarchy of change in itself, never static, managed and operated according to its own rules, and no others;  thus the Corporation is the perfect quintessential manifestation of tyranny.

In its static form, the Corporation as tyranny must ultimately destroy itself with regard to never-ending increased profitability, because the Corporation must grow ever larger by monopolization, consolidation, conglomeration, and capitalization, to become ever larger and thus more profitable… or else die.

By extension, all tyrannical regimes rely upon the concept of Permanent (or continual) Revolution to become greater entities, because only by expansion can tyranny of the corporate entity continue to exist and grow. Again, when the Corporate entity ceases to grow, it must die … by its own  definition of greater profitability and conglomeration only “justifying” the Corporation’s existence.

To develop the theory of Continual Revolution, think about the manner in which Corporations have hijacked Trotsky’s ideology. Bukharin states, “By uninterrupted revolution [Trotsky] conceived the prospect of the revolution taking a course in which the relation between forces continuously alters”; and, “constant changes in the social context of the revolution are taken into account. It reflects that, in the progress of  revolution, the relation between the conflicting classes constantly changes and the revolution in its development constantly marches forward from one stage to the next, without end.”

How neatly Bukharin explains the rapid state of change we see via our current Continual Revolution doctrine and dogma, as expressed by Elliott Capital Wall Street billionaire Paul Singer who famously wrote, “Stability is not the way of the world.” Today this continual revolution concept is embodied by Disruption Theory which is leveraged at all levels by the combined powers of the US Federal government and its controlling major Corporations — and Wall Street and its banks — who collude with the central government and politically own it. [1]

While the hierarchical class  – or ‘Coup Class’ – consolidates and leverages wealth and power exponentially,  we see that not much works in a world descending into Trotskyite chaos, as manifested by predatory-vulture capitalism and its predatory Wall Street Commissars. From public or private lack of legal dispute resolution;  to monetary easing; to seemingly global unrelated events such as the “Arab Spring” or Impressive Statecraft — or chaos within the US electoral process itself….  the list is endless where no plutocrat desires political / cultural stability. Yes, the Coup Class has deemed that “stability is not the way of the world’, just as Paul Singer has said.

This rapid rate of change is seen via the lens of Permanent Revolution, as adopted by the predatory capital Coup Class. Trotsky’s ideas on Permanent Revolution have thus been adopted  by predatory capital and their Corporate entities; and as such partly describe the western Inverse Totalitarian State.  As Bukharin described it, the State as we know it cannot exist without that disruptive change; the Empire of Chaos and instability demand by ever-expanding power, control and profit… and war.

Bukharin again: “the relation between the conflicting classes constantly changes, and that  revolution in its development constantly marches forward from one stage to the next”.  The foregoing is a perfect description regarding how the far less than 1% wield power – not in the form of some vague global conspiracy; but in the form of an intelligent tyranny in the manifestation of  greater global consolidation. The New World Disorder. So the Continual Revolution of Corporate Coup Class Wall Street billionaires embroiling the Great Unwashed in an empire of chaos, becomes perfectly analogous to Trotsky’s vision of a worker’s tyranny.

The goal of constant Corporate evolution via rapid change and transformation into larger consolidated and conglomerate entities – always looking to redefine to some new and Larger State of Existence – has been emboldened since the western financial collapse of 2008=-2009. The path of  Inverse Totalitarianism  has not only been broadened, but reinforced by the ascendance of  Surveillance and Police States; by the “fake news” media, by constructed events, and the stampede to AI. The ultimate irony is that Wall Street’s predatory Vulture Capital has its own chosen entity – the modern western mega-corporation – in part modeled on Trotsky’s concept of Continual Revolution.

So finally we are left with the question: is Continual Revolution necessarily a bad thing? If Trotsky’s concept were used to promote the greater good – or common good – then probably not.  But when Permanent Revolution is hijacked by incorporated powers and State Capture in the form of the Inverse Totalitarian state – ie working to advance tyranny and oppression (the result of which is the decline of humanism in favor of the inhumanity of Corporate rule)  — the end result is not just the specter of Inverse Totalitarianism, but its reality. And not continual revolution – but forever wars and oppression by the Plutocracy that rules our political system in the west.

[1] A current example of Disruption Theory might be the actions of Donald Trump, with his on-again off-again tariff tactics; or the United States provocation of war via its Ukraine proxy, since 2014.

Steve Brown

John Paisley’s CIA “Suicide”

No, CIA expert and KGB mole John Paisley did not commit suicide -Paisley defected to the USSR in September, 1978. But after twenty-seven years of a successful career in the US intelligence services… why?

1970’s
By the 1970’s the Cold War entered a contentious period when SALT talks were underway, and both sides struggled for covert advantage in assessing relative weapons strength.

In 1975, the bizarre case of Nick Shadrin had just wound up — messily — where defector Shadrin was supposedly kidnapped in Vienna by the KGB, and died of a heart attack as a result. Based on documents I’ve seen, it’s unlikely that Shadrin and Paisley were connected in a substantive way, even if Paisley was only just aware of details regarding the Shadrin case.

Briefly, Paisley was best known for arranging CIA sex party’s (Paisley was a forerunner to Epstein) https://wikispooks.com/wiki/John_Paisley and Paisley’s knowledge about the Soviet military’s strength and budget. Paisley produced National Security Estimates key to the US negotiating position on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (at that time, SALT II under Carter).

Interestingly, Paisley had ‘retired’ from the CIA (more likely a staged event) two years prior to his disappearance. Even so, Paisley maintained a high-level security clearance after retirement, that allowed him to freely roam the halls of Langley and interact with high-level operatives there, even if no longer an employee of the Agency.

In the book, ‘Widows’ by Corson and Trento, witnesses of the time state that Paisley engaged in alarming and unlikely conversations while hanging out at CIA Langley. Conversations made no sense, and alarm bells rang in certain quarters, but there is little evidence that the FBI had Paisley under deep surveillance (due to CIA concerns) as a result. [1]

Paisley had enemies within the CIA, who knew about the sex party blackmail, via the Rush River Lodge Corporation, where “swinger” sex parties were held at the lodge (1971). Paisley’s party’s included CIA and FBI employees, and journalists. Nixon regime people, and even KGB covert operatives –such as Karel Koecher [2], participated. It’s likely that these party’s occurred with the blessing of CIA higher-ups, but possibly without knowledge of the director. (Helms at the time.)

When Paisley disappeared in September of 1978, Paisley hoped to sell his high-end Brillig sailboat, and had been selling radio gear as well, and even hoped to land a job with the Merchant Marine [3], at the rather advanced age of fifty-four. But on September 24, 1978, Paisley disappeared from his boat Brillig. The body discovered floating in the Patuxent River later on (October 1st) was identified as being Paisley, but as already stated, was not John Paisley.

And even if the Brillig investigation was botched, details seem reliable enough that Paisley had been using his boat to communicate — with the Soviets — using a burst transmitter and high-end radio gear. Based on documents found on the boat after his death, it seems that Paisley had been transmitting CIA detail about Soviet weapons assessments to the KGB when he disappeared. The obvious question: why would the CIA still rely on Paisley’s Soviet weapons assessment when Paisley had retired? The answer is that the CIA did not, and that Paisley did not retire.

The key to understanding this bizarre state of affairs, is John Paisley’s personal friendship with CIA counter-intelligence boss Jim Angleton, which allowed Paisley to have direct access to CIA Langley’s top secrets, even after Angleton had been terminated by director Colby. Paisley used his still-current “contractor” access to Langley HQ to learn about the CIA’s existing Soviet assessment, then transmitted that data to the Soviets as a double agent.

Evidence indicated that Paisley had been sending data to the Soviets via his boat’s radio gear, and thus the KGB would have no desire to end that relationship. The exception could be if a high-level mole within the CIA believed that Paisley was capable of compromising his or her identity; or could reveal the mole’s activities to CIA higher-ups. The foregoing is possible but in this author’s opinion, exceedingly unlikely.

The truth is far more complex. The real deal involves Yuri Nosenko, a Soviet defector to the US, and alleged senior KGB officer. Nosenko was dispatched (by the Soviets) to the US, and Paisley was his handler. By protocol, Nosenko and Paisley were forbidden from having direct contact. But Nosenko’s feedback to KGB Department 14 (when Paisley fell under suspicion at Langley) resulted in Paisley receiving an urgent alarm that he was under suspicion as being a traitor to the United States.

When the Agency was tipped off about Paisley being a traitor by an internal investigator, the CIA ordered a polygraph for Paisley. Paisley vanished from his boat just two days before the CIA could conduct that polygraph test. Obviously, as above, Paisley was tipped off that the Agency was on to him. That alarm resulted in Paisley’s defection from the US, where Paisley’s “suicide” was staged to accomplish that defection.

On the night of Paisley’s disappearance, an Hungarian trawler was observed in the location where Paisley’s boat was reported to be, and the trawler did not identify itself, and was running without lights. After a brief sighting from a location near Paisley’s last known location, the unlit Hungarian trawler left the scene at about the time Paisley failed to return to his docking berth, re sailboat ‘Brillig’. (The foregoing was determined by an investigation of Paisley’s disappearance much later on, but was not possible to fully follow-up on that lead.)

Major media reports — and some authors — still claim that Paisley was killed by the KGB. But that allegation makes little sense. We cannot discount that Paisley may have been a triple agent working both sides. If so, all the Soviets had to do was feed Paisley bad material (at best) or simply cut off all communication. At worst, the KGB could shop him to the KGB’s mole within the CIA who could then compromise Paisley from within the Agency. In other words, if Paisley had been working for the KGB, it is exceedingly unlikely that the KGB would have him killed — unless Paisley endangered some other active KGB project, which, at that stage in his career (“retired”) seems unlikely.

Theoretically, a far more likely scenario is that the CIA wanted to see the end of John Paisley. In fact, by 1978 Paisley had incurred the wrath of senior CIA leaders. Paisley, in their view, had deliberately underestimated the Soviet’s military strength. Under Carter, extremist CIA hawks wanted more weapons and more Pentagon spending, to enrich their Wall Street friends. The CIA’s top brass believed that Paisley’s Soviet position had hindered that. CIA senior officials also knew of Paisley’s sex party blackmail scandal – which, at that time, had not been revealed (yet) in the major media of the day.

So… what to do with John Paisley? The CIA’s choice was either scandal – or death. However, as above, Paisley was warned. According to all accounts, Paisley’s behavior was paranoid and distressed prior to his disappearance, reason being that in such danger (two days prior to a CIA polygraph) Paisley must vamoose – and fast.

The result that we see however, is a body floating in the Patuxent River off the west coast of Chesapeake Bay.. and that was not the body of John Paisley. But perhaps this disappearance was somehow accomplished or enabled by the CIA? No. In truth, Paisley was one of a very select few individuals who managed to stage an own death successfully – and perchance with considerable assistance from the KGB.

Factually, John Paisley defected to Soviet Russia – and Moscow is where he died. How did Paisley die and under what circumstance? As to do with spies and/or traitors, that much – other than his defection – we will shall know. But among the agency’s very darkest secrets may be the case of John Paisley where the hall of mirrors never ends.

[1] Cooperation between the FBI and CIA has never been stellar – or even competent.

[2] In 1986, spies Karel Koecher and his wife Hana were exchanged for the very annoying and most irritating Anatoly Sharansky https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anatoly-Shcharansky over a Berlin bridge.

[3] For some reason, the Merchant Marine seems good recruiting ground for the CIA – not just at universities. A personal friend of this author, Chris Fitzgerald, had been recruited from the Merchant Marine. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/08/christopher-fitzgerald-obituary

Down to the Sea in Super Yachts

If you’ve never heard of the “KleptoCapture Task Force” as founded by Merrick Garland and the US Department of Justice, that’s not a surprise, because most Americans have not either: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-announces-launch-task-force-kleptocapture

But consider first. Years ago, a luxury yacht would measure no more than forty meters, and was a beautifully crafted sailing vessel, of taste and elegance. No more. Since the 1980’s or thereabouts, the obscene excess and bloated debacles that the Coup Class have engaged in, have evolved to a similarly bloated proportion, exemplified by a typical mega-Elite’s commissioned Superyacht of today. While a yacht of the 1960’s might remind us of the beauty of say, Sophia Loren, an mega-Elite’s Superyacht of today is most mindful of a Bond villain, like Blofeld.

Meanwhile, our mega-Elite lackeys have engineered us into a sanctions dilemma that has played out for more than two years now, more like a sanctions drama of western cat versus sanctioned Kremlin mouse — or at least that’s how CNN might portray it. Bemoaned as ineffective, sanctions do provide an instance where the western collective attempts to achieve some influence – especially when sanctions evolve to outright theft, as the western collective has set expectations to do.

But to assume that ‘to the victor belong the Superyacht spoils’ is false, because the west has won nothing. As per some anonymous individual’s quip that failing at the same thing repeatedly will eventually achieve success, the west keeps trying, with round after round of imposed sanctions.

In this light, picture a drama where western regime sanctions have seized Elite yachts owned by their “enemy”, even while claiming to be at peace with that enemy (Russia) and not at war. At the same time, promising an even more leveraged future injustice, namely theft in aid of supplying weapons of war, for the west’s own desired outcome in the Ukraine, with an only goal of regime change for Russia.

While no reader will likely shed a tear about any Elite being deprived of his or her Superyacht via government seizure, the underlying moral and legal implication — especially if that asset is sold to provide weapons of war to a third party — is important to consider.

In a time of war, the seizure of a vessel by a belligerent is not only expected, but common. And yet the seizure of an asset is at best murky (and at worst illegal) when no state of war exists. Furthermore, when the vessel is a yacht and not a merchant ship, and not a military vessel, the water becomes murky indeed.

But in light of their ability to do anything unlawful and outrageous — and perhaps also based on professional jealousy — western Elites have rejoiced at the idea of purchasing seized Russian assets — especially luxury assets. And a yacht, as Bezos confirms, is at the top of Elite desire. (Well almost.)

Washington Post Propaganda Boss, Jeff Bezos, with Lauren Sanchez

The first seized Russian super yacht to go under sanctions, the Axioma, was not sold by the former United States, but sold by Gibraltar; and as the linked article states, with profit to US investment bank JP Morgan. That is, the proceeds of the Russian-owned yacht sale in August of 2022 did not go to the Ukraine, but to JP Morgan — a US dealer bank. (JP Morgan is the largest dealer bank and largest private bank in the world, based on market capitalization.)

Notably we have Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame — “worth” a reported $171Bn US — purchasing (via Rutte’s* Netherlands) the 118 meter yacht Launchpad, which had been commissioned by Vladimir Potanin but not delivered, due to US and EU sanctions. Zuckerberg’s leveraged formerly Russian-owned yacht just recently arrived in the former US.

Then there is the Alfa Nero Superyacht, owned by sanctioned Russian chemical financier Andrey Guryev. The yacht was seized by Antigua in April of 2023, then purchased at auction by former Google honcho Eric Schmidt. Schmidt’s judgement must have been lacking, because he eventually backed out of the deal, and the Alfa Nero remains in limbo, pending a legal decision.

Another sanctioned yacht — and cloaked in mystery — is the MySky a unique Superyacht owned by Igor Kesaev, and alleged to have been sold in secret and re-registered. We’ve seen no news of the MySky or any sighting of the yacht at all, for nearly two years. It’s a similar case to the Amadea that the US seized in San Diego.

Latest detail on the Amadea here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EggoRrjACQQ

Next on the list is the Russian-owned Superyacht Nirvana which has been safely-harbored in Dubai beyond the clutches of the Sanctioneers. The Nirvana is just one of a number of Russian-owned yachts harboring in Dubai.

Our last example is the Scheherazade allegedly owned (but not definitively linked) to the president of Russia. The yacht is impounded in Italy, in drydock, and for some reason apparently being refitted, at least by the stern. As always, the NPR report is unreliable and biased, but one issue is clear — the Scheherazade won’t be at sea any time soon. Does it really belong to Mr Putin? Who knows, the western press can’t be relied on, ever.

The interesting thing about the Superyachts theft story is that it takes us out of the trenches, and right up to the level of dueling mega-Elites. Finally, we see that the western collective has used its support for a very corrupt regime – and involvement in it — as leverage for its own theft and usury, and on a grand scale.

Especially in the US since August 15th, 1971, western mega-Elites and Oligarchs have exploited, extorted, and rigged markets, rigged US debt instruments and commodities, to support a supremely corrupt Empire. It’s a corruption and lying that we see in the west at the very highest levels, every single day, day after day. They are so brazen, the US Department of Justice even calls their kleptocracy the “KleptoCapture Task Force”, in spite of us all.

It is not a United States of America… but a United States of rules-based theft. And it’s interesting to compare Russia’s business people to the US American ones. In Russia, they produce something real. Oil. Gold. Silver and palladium. Agricultural chemicals, and fertilizers, steel and iron. While in the US, the mega-Elites rule over a kingdom of nothingness. Amazon. Google. facebook. Starbucks. AI. It’s a fake empire built on falsehood and lies. And dangerous to us all.

*Rutte is rumored to be top pick as the new NATO czar

Steve Brown

Did a Chechen Terrorist Assist in Moscow Terror Attack?

Russian investigators say they have proof that the Crocus Hall gunmen have terror connections to Ukrainian militants, if not to the Kiev regime itself.  Although the investigators have not revealed specific details yet, we must credit Pepe Escobar for joining the dots and calling out one Abdul Hakim al-Shishani (also sometimes identified as Rustam Azhiev) as a potential prime suspect with regard to potential recruitment of the Tajik shooters in the Moscow attack, likely on behalf of the Ukrainian SBU terror organization.

Abdul Hakim al-Shishani, Independent Terrorist

In Syria, you’ll recall that after 2016, Chechen terrorist Abdul Hakim al-Shishani (above, left) briefly — and ineptly — filled the void left by “Tarkhan the Rodent” Omar al-Shishani, when Omar al-Shishani was exterminated there in 2016. Omar al-Shishani operated with other Pankisi Gorge terrorists in earlier years, including Dokka Abu Umar https://dbpedia.org/page/Dokka_Umarov . Umarov was eliminated in 2013.

Tarkhan the Rodent (Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili) was trained in Georgia by the United States under Sakashvili, as part of the Georgian Brigade that fought against Russia in the Caucasus in 2008, and with the Ukraine military, to this day.

‘Tarkhan the Rodent’ (now deceased) exits a captured US Humvee in Syria.

[A reasonable history by name appears here, even if scrubbed of US complicity with regard to its assistance in the emergence of the overall Chechen terror threat to Russia: https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-caucasus-emirate-from-anti-colonialist-roots-to-salafi-jihad/ ]

As for Abdul Hakim al-Shishani, a brief analysis appears here: https://www.counterextremism.com/extremists/abdul-hakim-al-shishani and here: https://www.france24.com/en/video/20230109-notorious-chechen-commander-leaves-syria-and-joins-ukrainian-army-to-fight-russia

From 2018 on, I often wondered what had happened to Abdul Hakim al-Shishani after his narrow escape from Syria. He narrowly escaped after an Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) ‘night of the long knives’ squabble, that developed just after “Tarkhan the Rodent” (Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili) was thankfully eliminated as a threat in 2016. Abdul Hakim’s stint as a replacement for ‘the rodent’ was brief, with friction likely due to Abdul Hakim al-Shishani’s refusal to fully align with ISIS, and his commitment to the independent Caucasus Emirate.

Beside mishandling terror operations in conjunction with HTS in Syria, and losing confidence of (all but a few) fellow Pankisi Gorge terrorists, word is that Abdul Hakim was not a leader of the same caliber as Tarkhan the Rodent. After that, Abdul Hakim al-Shishani departed for the Ukraine, to assist the Kiev regime. Such provides an interesting analogy and profile for today, because if Abdul Hakim al-Shishani did recruit the Tajiks on behalf of the SBU for the Crocus Hall attack, then we may speculate that’s why the Tajik shooters operated and behaved as they did.

Regardless of the above historic detail, it’s reasonable to conclude that the former United States is once again hiding behind the skirts of takfiri Salafi terrorists (of whatever caliber or alignment) to deny their own knowledge and even potential implicit involvement in the attacks… which also assumes that the SBU is involved, as appears likely.

That the western media constantly whines that ISIS-K is the one and only organization involved in the Crocus Hall attack [1] – just as the CIA claimed that Lee Oswald was a ‘lone nut’ and unknown to them within hours after the JFK assassination – indicates that the US may be complicit once again with regard to fomenting terror attacks versus Russia.

Bottom line, is that Abdul Hakim al-Shishani must be located, and must be forcefully confronted and questioned, as a prime suspect with regard to organization of the Crocus City Hall tragedy.

[1] The US publicly announced that it knew ISIS-K was behind the Crocus City Hall attack, and that the Ukraine was not involved, less than two hours after the attack occurred!  Why? 

Steve Brown

From Nazi Germany to Now, Netanyahu’s Regime Knows that Famine-Related War Crimes are Tough to Prove

Alex DeWaal,
June 19, 2017

“Prosecuting starvation as murder (or extermination) faces extraordinary evidentiary problems. Only in the case of prisoners, where the victims and their food supplies are entirely controlled by the jailer, can there be proof beyond reasonable doubt that the perpetrator is responsible for the death of the victim. In other instances, the defence could argue that the victim failed to make use of opportunities to escape or find other sources of food.”

Operation Starvation, expanded version 2

The Nazi RHSA under Heydrich developed a plan to provide food stations under cover of some nebulous organization, to provide food for starving Russian civilians; then, when the civilians appeared, murder them at the stations.

Just as Israel considers all Gazan Palestinians to be terrorists, Heydrich considered all Russian civilians to be Partisans. However, when the Wehrmacht considered the RHSA plan to murder starving Russian civilians at a food station, the plan was rejected as brutal and outrageous.

Today, Israel has no such compunction or moral restraint, as the Wehrmacht and even Schutzstaffel did then.

Itamar Ben-Gvir

See more:
https://www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en/news/hitler-s-hungerplan

NB: In consideration of the Nobel Center article above, note that the major media portrays the Holocaust as applying only to Jews, being a portrayal that is exclusionary and prejudicial. Many non-Jews perished during World War 2, based on their ideological and religious beliefs, or for racial association.

Dissidents, trade union leaders, communists, devout Christians, Partisans, intellectuals, retarded and disabled, other minorities (example Romany gypsy’s), Slavs, and those inside Germany and its occupation (who were simply critical of Hitler and/or the regime) were killed by police firing squads and SS penal regiments; or died in prisons, such as Torgau, and in detention if not in the camps.

Historian Yehuda Bauer says no more than 1/2 million non-Jews were killed in the camps. But the camps are only part of the story. Bauer admits that potentially 35 million non-Jews were killed for racial, ideological, and political reasons by German police and state elements during World War 2.

Steve Brown

Border Crisis Highlights US Federal Rot

What looks like a trivial Biden campaign news item, staged and with subtitles, says almost as much about the tragic and surreal fix America is in today, as does this youtube clip of immigrants to the US being handcuffed together by ISS Action at Jacumba California, near the border with Mexico.

While seemingly most Americans miss the fact that criminal elements on Wall Street — as represented by the likes of Vanguard Group, BlackRock, BlackStone, State Street and the Fed/Banking system — have hollowed out the United States over time to make it a shell of its former self, we can join a few border-related dots that may be of interest.

Since the dawn of civilization (and before) people have migrated to other lands in search of a better life, with the ‘new world’ being one modern case in point. Since the dollar US is to some extent still the global reserve currency (it’s being worked on) and since the dollar US is the most desired currency in many third world nations (especially in Central and South America and island countries) the desire for the dollar US fuels migration to the United States.

For their part, Donald Trump and Steve Bannon wanted to build a physical wall to keep illegal migrants out, perhaps based on the Israeli model. But Israel has heavily armed camp towers at regular intervals to fire on intruders with a shoot-to-kill policy, and checkpoint police action immigration controls, whereas the United States does not.

Trump’s emphasis on a passive wall with occasional federal armed patrols (supported by contractors) prevented Homeland Security from becoming a real border control agency. In part that’s because Trump and his supporters did not comprehend that the political mantra of “making American great again” is at odds with Wall Street’s agenda.

Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and State Street’s agenda is to control just about everything within and about the United States, where what remains of actual US industry relates only to weaponry or food. Ergo Nancy Pelosi and friends push their non-productive scams, from Google to bitcoin. Most Americans still wish to believe in the fantasy of air market share products like ARK, Microstrategy, RIOT and illusory ETF’s, pushed by the likes of Cramer and CNBC, where a gamed Treasury market is for the more seasoned gamers.

The Vanguard Group et al WEF mindset for America is about fantasy and illusion, rather than providing real jobs in real industries that require real workers. Most Americans buy it. The real industries of decades ago no longer exist as general employment opportunities, examples including the auto industry, ship-building, steel, oil services, aerospace and general heavy industry that once fueled America as an industrial global power house. No longer. Hence ‘making America great again’ is not going to happen. It’s not going to happen because the trillionaire class who owns the west will not allow it, with a by-the-way reminder that Trump is of that class.

BlackRock and Wall Street investors own much of US domestic housing stock too, contributing to housing lack of affordability, which is leveraged further by millions of new immigrants to the US who demand housing. In much of the country, the existing domestic population of Millenials and Zoomers cannot afford BlackRock’s home and rental prices. They must act as entrepreneurs outside and beyond a structured economic system, working off the cards and for cash. Among these marginalized youngsters are those who want to do real work — like construction, logging, and manufacturing. Providing real goods and real services. But they cannot do so, because predatory vulture capitalists on Wall Street have destroyed those industries. And our young people cannot compete with illegal immigrant cheap labor in construction for example, with regard to the real jobs that do exist.. Can Trump reverse Wall Street’s modus operandi in that regard? No. Wall Street’s globalists won’t allow that to be.

Even so, Americans still want to believe in Wall Street … as much as they want to believe that the USA can be “made great again”. It’s a form of ‘doublethink’ that has been pounded into American heads by an incredibly perverse and corrupt western media empire. But while America’s woes are profoundly deep and likely irreversible, it’s more interesting to consider what the WEF globalists may have in store going forward. Certainly the WEF Globalists see a US opportunity in its destruction which the rest of us have either missed or don’t get.

Much like Castro’s Marielitos of four decades ago, while the Washington Deep State welcomes immigrants from China, China is just as pleased to rid itself of internal dissidents. The same is true for Central and South American countries. Why feed and house prisoners if they can be packed off to the USA? Israel is no doubt disappointed because their government cannot ship Palestinians to Jacumba in lieu of the Sinai, due to the obvious political scandal such an effort would provoke, as well as the ironic historic issues created by Israel for both Biden and Trump, both staunch lackeys of the Zionist regime.

Now, immigrants from China to the US are generally well-educated, law-abiding, and productive. And as this author knows from personal anecdotal experience, immigrants from China who know the English language are highly prized targets by the US-CIA Surveillance State, as analysts. Likewise, the US military is finding recruitment to be difficult, so employing new immigrants as military contractors in private military companies can address this issue. Sure, there are obstacles to assigning valid immigration status to illegal immigrants as military contractors, but it is far more efficient to do so, than to attract new but unreliable domestic recruits, who likely present mental, emotional, and educational challenges as soldiers. In fact, fighting age immigrants are being inducted into the US military, and into private military companies.

Trump oft repeats his Obrador story about how Mexico was “forced to enforce border controls” during his reign, but it seems Mexico is more strictly controlling the border now than the United States is (or was). Perhaps Obrador is worried that the US border issue will provide a platform for Trump’s return to Executive office in 2024. In a weird sort of calculus perhaps Obrador thinks that Mexico’s border patrols might prevent that return; and it’s a theory no stranger than the Biden regime’s, where illegal immigrants must be allowed in, and funded with few or no questions asked.

With the impeachment of Mayorkas and perhaps some dawning of reality within Washington’s regime of surreal incompetence and arrogance, it seems that the most recent federal response is to outsource the taking of prisoners by ISS Action Inc, then dumping them in New York City. However progress beyond such point regarding the prisoner/immigrants is anyone’s guess — and neither ISS Action or the DHS will say.

The only true means to fix the border crisis is to treat the border as a real border and stop illegal immigration using all means available, using technology and actual enforcement. But that won’t fly with Wall Street and the Big Money interests who own and operate the United States, or with private military contractors. As such, the US Captured State is at odds with its citizens, and must gamble that the border is not such a big populist political issue as to derail the US Deep State’s plans for continued funding of US-backed corruption in the Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel.

Meanwhile the Biden Deep State – simply an extension of the Osama, er excuse me Obama regime – has the greater issue of its relentless march to World War 3, accompanied by domestic and external political chaos inspired by its own vile hand. For example, very senior Poltico’s have informed Nikki Haley that she must be patient, because just like Nord Stream 2 was not allowed to go forward, Haley has been informed that Trump will not be allowed to run either… “So hang in there, gal!”

In all, one thing is very clear: the people at the highest levels of power in the West have carried on Bormann’s plan for the west to this very day, including his plan for Schengen open borders and the Big Club (including NATO) that is alive and well. As George Carlin said: “It’s a big club — and you ain’t in it!”

Finally, with Biden’s incompetence there is of course a certain predictability. So long as Biden remains in Executive office, US borders will remain open, and the United States will continue to be a dumping ground for criminals and dissidents from all over the globe. Biden will likewise continue to mismanage and weaken the United States. He will maintain his grotesque kabuki dance with his painted clowns, and continue marching the United States to more wars and more ruin via Central Government rot, with Jimmy Kimmel cheering on.

For the rest of the world – not to mention the WEF and Wall Street – such predictable and continuing US decline may be more desirable than any other alternative.

Steve Brown

ISS Action Inc Government Contractor Ships Illegal Immigrants to New York and Boston

Transport company shown working with the US Border Patrol is ISS Action Inc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rywY4k3KxuY

As can be seen (link below) ISS Action Inc has in excess of $300M US in US federal government contracts for ‘immigration services’. This governmental/ US taxpayer funding relates to transporting illegal immigrants to the US, primarily to New York and Boston.

Click to access GS-07F-072GA_ISSACTION-1.pdf

Web page: https://issaction.com/#

ISS CEO Pamela Newman has close financial relations with Israel via Bank Leumi

https://english.leumi.co.il

Israeli financial institutions are well known for money laundering and Bank Leumi is of course no exception.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bank-leumi-admits-assisting-us-taxpayers-hiding-assets-offshore-bank-accounts

That ties in well with the depth of the Fed monetary cancer afflicting the west.

“You don’t have to dig very far in the dirt to find even more..”