Kid Berwyn
Kid Berwyn's JournalAgree, totally. Shame so many became America's "trusted friends."
THE CIA’S WORST-KEPT SECRET: NEWLY DECLASSIFIED FILES CONFIRM UNITED STATES COLLABORATION WITH NAZISPried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the cold war--the CIA's use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a clandestine campaign against the Soviet Union.
By Martin A. Lee | May 1, 2001
“Honest and idealist … enjoys good food and wine … unprejudiced mind …”
That’s how a 1952 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) assessment described Nazi ideologue Emil Augsburg, an officer at the infamous Wannsee Institute, the SS think tank involved in planning the Final Solution. Augsburg’s SS unit performed “special duties,” a euphemism for exterminating Jews and other “undesirables” during the Second World War.
Although he was wanted in Poland for war crimes, Augsburg managed to ingratiate himself with the U.S. CIA, which employed him in the late 1940s as an expert on Soviet affairs. Recently released CIA records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue’s gallery of Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence agencies shortly after Germany surrendered to the Allies.
Pried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the cold war–the CIA’s use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a clandestine campaign against the Soviet Union.
The CIA reports show that U.S. officials knew they were subsidizing numerous Third Reich veterans who had committed horrible crimes against humanity, but these atrocities were overlooked as the anti-Communist crusade acquired its own momentum. For Nazis who would otherwise have been charged with war crimes, signing on with American intelligence enabled them to avoid a prison term.
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https://fpif.org/the_cias_worst-kept_secret_newly_declassified_files_confirm_united_states_collaboration_with_nazis/
More history on the subject from GWU’s National Security Archives:
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB146/index.htm
Jewish Virtual Library also provides excellent resources:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/cia-s-support-to-the-nazi-war-criminal-investigations
ETA: The intelligence community lied to Truman about this history. Apparently the team Eisenhower had in place didn’t mind.
The Four Dictators
Los cuatro dictadores (1962) by Eduardo Arroyo
Four European dictators, from left-to-right: Francisco Franco of Spain, Benito Mussolini of Italy, António Salazar of Portugal, and Adolf Hitler of Germany.
The reason I bring them up is to remind us of what Donald J Trump, former (hurts to type) President of the United States said about his own political philosophy:
(I want) “my people” to treat him the same way North Koreans treat that nation’s murderous head of state. “He’s the head of a country, and I mean, he’s the strong head, don’t let anyone think anything different,” Trump told Fox News. “He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”
SOURCE: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-generals-loyal-nazis-hitler-1393980/
Recently, Trump became irate when he heard that Gen. Mark Milley had expressed loyalty to the Constitution and not to him personally.
Trump Floats the Idea of Executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley
The former president is inciting violence against the nation’s top general. America’s response is distracted and numb.
By Brian Klaas
The Atlanti, September 25, 20223
Late Friday night, the former president of the United States—and a leading candidate to be the next president—insinuated that America’s top general deserves to be put to death.
That extraordinary sentence would be unthinkable in any other rich democracy. But Donald Trump, on his social-media network, Truth Social, wrote that Mark Milley’s phone call to reassure China in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.” (The phone call was, in fact, explicitly authorized by Trump-administration officials.) Trump’s threats against Milley came after The Atlantic’s publication of a profile of Milley, by this magazine’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who detailed the ways in which Milley attempted to protect the Constitution from Trump.
And yet, none of the nation’s front pages blared “Trump Suggests That Top General Deserves Execution” or “Former President Accuses General of Treason.” Instead, the post barely made the news. Most Americans who don’t follow Trump on social media probably don’t even know it happened.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-milley-execution-incitement-violence/675435/
Richard Stengel, former TIME editor and Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs during the Obama Administration, was on Nicole Wallace's "Deadline: White House" on MSNBC Thursday, Oct. 5, and said:
"Violence is to Fascism what the Free Press is to Democracy."
Democracy should take a moment and thank Al Gore for the Internet and, by extension, DU! Then let's get back to kicking fascism in the ass! If we don't, Trump, the fascists and their toadies will get away with treason.
Gen. Smedley Butler was chosen to ride the white horse in 1933.
Bastards didn’t like FDR…
THE BUSINESS PLOT TO OVERTHROW ROOSEVELT
In the summer of 1933, shortly after Roosevelt's "First 100 Days," America's richest businessmen were in a panic. It was clear that Roosevelt intended to conduct a massive redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor. Roosevelt had to be stopped at all costs.
The answer was a military coup. It was to be secretly financed and organized by leading officers of the Morgan and Du Pont empires. This included some of America's richest and most famous names of the time:
Irenee Du Pont - Right-wing chemical industrialist and founder of the American Liberty League, the organization assigned to execute the plot.
Grayson Murphy - Director of Goodyear, Bethlehem Steel and a group of J.P. Morgan banks.
William Doyle - Former state commander of the American Legion and a central plotter of the coup.
John Davis - Former Democratic presidential candidate and a senior attorney for J.P. Morgan.
Al Smith - Roosevelt's bitter political foe from New York. Smith was a former governor of New York and a codirector of the American Liberty League.
John J. Raskob - A high-ranking Du Pont officer and a former chairman of the Democratic Party. In later decades, Raskob would become a "Knight of Malta," a Roman Catholic Religious Order with a high percentage of CIA spies, including CIA Directors William Casey, William Colby and John McCone.
Robert Clark - One of Wall Street's richest bankers and stockbrokers.
Gerald MacGuire - Bond salesman for Clark, and a former commander of the Connecticut American Legion. MacGuire was the key recruiter to General Butler.
The plotters attempted to recruit General Smedley Butler to lead the coup. They selected him because he was a war hero who was popular with the troops. The plotters felt his good reputation was important to make the troops feel confident that they were doing the right thing by overthrowing a democratically elected president. However, this was a mistake: Butler was popular with the troops because he identified with them. That is, he was a man of the people, not the elite. When the plotters approached General Butler with their proposal to lead the coup, he pretended to go along with the plan at first, secretly deciding to betray it to Congress at the right moment.
What the businessmen proposed was dramatic: they wanted General Butler to deliver an ultimatum to Roosevelt. Roosevelt would pretend to become sick and incapacitated from his polio, and allow a newly created cabinet officer, a "Secretary of General Affairs," to run things in his stead. The secretary, of course, would be carrying out the orders of Wall Street. If Roosevelt refused, then General Butler would force him out with an army of 500,000 war veterans from the American Legion. But MacGuire assured Butler the cover story would work:
"You know the American people will swallow that. We have got the newspapers. We will start a campaign that the President's health is failing. Everyone can tell that by looking at him, and the dumb American people will fall for it in a second…"
The businessmen also promised that money was no object: Clark told Butler that he would spend half his $60 million fortune to save the other half.
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http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Coup.htm
The rich think they own the planet and all that is on, in, around, and near it — and to them that includes the US Government.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007tbs0
Muckrock also rocks…
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/aug/29/smedley-butler-fbi/
Made Man of the BFEE
Know your BFEE: Homeland Czar & Petro-Turd Bernie Kerikhttp://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2788428
"Flying monkeys on a mission for the wicked witch"
Is how Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) put the GOP impeachment inquiry.
https://www.alternet.org/raskin-house-gop/
Remember Bitburg
This was worse as it was on purpose.
Elie Wiesel, the noted author and Holocaust survivor comments, “I cannot believe the President, whom I have seen crying at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony, would visit a German military cemetery and refuse to visit Dachau or any other concentration camp.” (New York Times, April 13, 1985)
https://israeled.org/ronald-reagan-visits-bergen-belsen-bitburg-cemetery/
Ente, auf Deutsch
die Ente
duck, canard, hoax, false report, bed urinal
Sums up former pee-resident Donald John Trump nicely:
https://archive.org/details/DerFuehrersFace4
Dip's a menace to law abiding people and to those who aren't so much.
The late billionaire and sexual blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein, who said shortly before he was suicided that he introduced the former first couple, broke his friendship with Trump because he thought the guy was "dishonest."
Donald Trump, Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida. Davidoff Studios/Getty Images
Jeffrey Epstein said he stopped hanging out with Trump 'when he realized Trump was a crook,' according to his brother
* Jeffrey Epstein hinted at his fallout with Donald Trump in an unaired interview, according to his brother.
* "He stopped hanging out with Trump when he realized Trump was a crook," Mark Epstein told Insider.
* Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were friends for years, and the nature of their fallout remains hazy.
Jacob Shamsian
Business Insider, March 11, 2023
Jeffrey Epstein said in an unaired interview that he distanced himself from former President Donald Trump after realizing Trump was "a crook," according to his brother, Mark Epstein.
Mark Epstein told Insider he viewed a clip of the interview, conducted by Trump's former White House advisor Steve Bannon, after his brother forwarded it to him in the spring of 2019.
At the time, Bannon was conducting filmed interviews with the now-dead pedophile financier. Bannon sent Jeffrey Epstein a Dropbox link to a clip, which he forwarded to his brother. The link is no longer active, according to Mark.
"Jeffrey showed me the link to one of these interviews," Mark Epstein said. "And in that interview, Jeffrey said he stopped hanging out with Trump when he realized Trump was a crook."
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-dropped-donald-trump-realizing-crook-brother-says-2023-3
Trump Refused to Wear Masks Because They Smudged His Bronzer
Appears a million Americans lost their lives to a demented idiot’s vanity. “Bronzer.”
Trump Refused to Wear Masks Because They Smudged His Makeup, Ex-Aide Says
Adam Chitwood
The Wrap, September 22, 2023
Donald Trump was rarely photographed wearing a mask during his presidency as the COVID-19 pandemic brought the country to a standstill, but a former White House aide says his reason had less to do with the virus and more to do with vanity.
In her memoir “Enough,” Cassidy Hutchinson, the close aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, recalls an incident in which Trump noticed his makeup had been smudged from wearing a N-95 mask.
“I slowly shook my head,” she writes of her reaction to Trump choosing a white mask, per an account from The Guardian ahead of the book’s release next week. “The president pulled the mask off and asked why I thought he should not wear it.
“I pointed at the straps of the N95 I was holding. When he looked at the straps of his mask, he saw they were covered in bronzer,” she says in the book.
“Why did no one else tell me that,” he snapped. “I’m not wearing this thing.”
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-refused-wear-masks-because-142643012.html
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