Aldrich Ames spied for the Soviet Union and Russia from 1985 until his 1994 arrest. He had pleaded guilty to espionage and tax evasion, admitting he received $2.5m from Moscow for betraying the identities of at least ten Western intelligence assets, at least nine of whom were executed.

This Judas Iscariot compromised more than 100 US intelligence operations in one of the most damaging breaches in American history, sending numerous US assets in the USSR to their deaths and crippling CIA operations.

Despite repeated red flags including failed polygraph examinations, unexplained wealth, and alcohol problems, CIA promoted Ames to increasingly sensitive positions, representing a major institutional failure with long-term consequences for counterintelligence practices.

Nota Bene: From 1985 to 1990, Vladimir Putin served as a KGB foreign intelligence officer in Dresden, East Germany. Aldrich Ames' Soviet handlers were primarily in Moscow and other locations, not in Dresden.

The 1980s saw other spies betray the US, like Clayton Lonetree, the first US Marine ever court-martialed for espionage. He was eventually released because the damage to the USIC was not significant, his motivation was loneliness, and he would serve as an expert witness in the trial of a more significant catch named George Trofimoff.

Chaos as armed gangs loot museum and terrorize Caracas Baghdad streets.
www.rawstory.com

The orange rapist "Shrub" did that.

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-07 01:20 AM | Reply | Flag: See George Santayana

"Intergalactically underqualified USSECSTATE Marco Rubio told lawmakers that recent public threats against Greenland by Trumpf junta members didn't signal an imminent invasion and that the goal is to buy the island from Denmark.

Rubio's prevarications were made during a closed briefing with legislators, all while junta apparatchiks have been braying belligerently about illegally taking control of the island. Dummkopf Trumpf and senior junta sycophants have publicly declined to rule out seizing the territory by force.

'President Trumpf has been publicly lying for some time now to the American people that acquiring Greenland is a national security priority of the US, and it's vital to deter our adversaries in the Arctic region,' junta propagandist Karoline Leavitt bleated.

'Dear Leader and his team of criminal lickspittles are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the US military is always an option at the Dotard-in-Chief's disposal.'"

The malevolent Trumpf junta continues going after information held in state databanks to populate the vast electronic gulag of DHS.

This is being done to disenfranchise voters with similar, long, Arabic, or Latino names.

Worse, this will lead to "one stop shopping" for police officers conducting "Terry stops" or investigators who won't be burdened with seeking warrants on suspects or "enemies of the State."

"Oh, you posted something pro-Palestinian last year."

"You're name here says Gonnzales, but there it says Gonzalez. Your vote will be counted provisionally. Next!"

"Oh, I see you owe the IRS taxes."

"Sir, your name matches someone on the TSA No-Fly List. Would you please step out of the car slowly."

"Ma'am, according to my information you participated in an antifa protest on 8 March 2025. Antifa is a designated terrorist group. Let me see your hands."

Concur all above.

Make Amerikkka Great Again!

Never has the world suffered so much from three men in their 70's trying desperately to stay in power to avoid going to jail.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-06 03:20 PM | Reply | Flag: Succinctly Put

*** D/DHS Kristi Noem Throws Tantrum at Hilton Hotels ***

The ICE Sturmabteilung stay at nice accommodations on their roving missions across the US with all their TDY expenses (meals, travel, gas, rooms) paid for by the hardworking American taxpayer.

Now the Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis is saying no to ICE guests and the puppy killer simply won't have it.

And think, just a little over a year ago, Tim Walz was on the precipice of becoming VPOTUS.

Now he won't seek re-election as Governor of Minnesota.

All the previous chances to quash the Trumpf menace failed, now look where we are as a country.

Thanks USAG Merrick Garland for inexplicably sitting on the FBI Epstein files for four years (21 Jan 2021 to 19 Jan 2025) which could have politically harpooned the geriatric orange pedophile.

Colombia is supposedly sending a team to FIFA 2026.

Remarkable.

The Sunshine State plans to build two additional detention camps after outfitting and opening two facilities in June 2025, Governor Ron DeSatan bleated at a state detention camp in Sanderson.

Law enforcement agencies across the state are ramping up arrests in conjunction with federal immigration agents, DeSatan boasted. One of the worst governors in the US made the announcement during a press conference at a facility in Baker County dubbed "Deportation Depot."

Apart from "Operation Tidal Wave," joint efforts from Florida counties contributed to 20,000 arrests. All of Florida's 67 counties have 287(g) agreements, deputizing officers to act as ICE officers by arresting and detaining individuals for immigration violations.

DeSatan praised the "meaningful results" and said the state has "good momentum" and will build a "Panhandle-Pokey" in Northwest Florida, but is waiting for approval from DHS -- upon which the state will be reimbursed.

The good-for-nothing governor whined that DHS didn't have capacity for ICE detainees.

Unknown are which Republican Party insiders will be awarded the lucrative contracts to construct the human warehouses or which company will be feeding the prisoners cheap non-nutritious gruel in uncomfortable prison cells in order to maximize corporate profits.

"Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro pleaded not guilty to drugs, weapons and narco-terrorism charges on Monday, two days after his abduction by USSOF in an unlawful operation ordered by Dummkopf Trumpf that sent shock waves around the world.

As Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, addressed the court in lower Manhattan, the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting just a few miles to the north, where a dozen countries condemned the US "crime of aggression" and UNSG Antnio Guterres suggested the operation constituted a breach of international law.

Maduro (63) insisted to federal judge Alvin Hellerstein that he was "still president of my country", had been illegally "captured" at his Caracas home, and was "a prisoner of war".

"I am innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man," Maduro declared in Spanish.

First Lady Cilia Flores sustained "significant injuries during her abduction" and required medical examination for "severe bruising" on her ribs.

Flores, who had large Band-Aids on her temple and forehead, pleaded not guilty and stated that she was "completely innocent."

She appeared to be supported by a Deputy US Marshal in the proceedings.

"If this action were constitutionally sound, the Attorney General wouldn't be tweeting that they've arrested the President of a sovereign country and his wife for possessing guns in violation of a 1934 US firearm law."

US Border Patrol 'Cobra' Commander Gregory Bovino, mocked as "Little Napoleon" by underlings, will be leading the pogrom against Somalis and other migrants with an unspecified number of Border Patrol Sturmabteilung.

HSI conducts criminal investigations into fraud, child pornography, or other non-immigration offenses. One former law enforcement official described the scale of this junta operation as extraordinary, noting that 600 HSI agents being sent to Minneapolis is roughly equivalent to the entire HSI workforce assigned to the state of Arizona.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), the 2024 Democratic Party VPOTUS candidate, is dropping his 2026 re-election campaign amid increased criticism over his handling of alleged Medicaid fraud in the state which prosecutors say could be as high as $9bn.

*** Colombia President Gustavo Petro to Dummkopf Trumpf: "Come get me, coward." ***

"Come get me, coward. I'm waiting for you here. Don't threaten me, I'll wait for you right here if you want to. I don't accept invasions, missiles, or assassinations, only intel.

Come speak here with intelligence, and we'll receive you and talk face-to-face with facts, not lies.

Stop getting lied to by Colombian political mafias who condemned us to 700,000 deaths and made us the world's most unequal country."

*** House Bleater Mike Johnson (R-LA): "Dummkopf Trumpf Informed Congress of Attack ***

"I spoke with the geriatric bloodthirsty President of the United States and the vastly underqualified Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense, within hours of the abduction. This was one crime that did not require prior authorization by Congress. It just required notification, and all the junta apparatchiks did exactly what they were supposed to do on the timetable they were supposed to do it in.

Junta sycophants have been on the phone constantly with members of the House and Senate, and they'll continue to provide further misleading information. We'll get a lot more claptrap here today, but our understanding and my appreciation of this entirely corrupt fandango designed to benefit the oligarchs and oil companies and not the American people was completely authorized by law."

"On Tuesday 3 November 2026, all 435 seats in the US House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the US Senate will be contested to determine the 120th United States Congress. 39 state and territorial US gubernatorial elections, as well as numerous state and local elections, will also be contested."

1) Chronic and Acute Economic Frustrations
2) Cumulative Right-Wing Media Advantage
3) Movement Alignment

Movement alignment: "Recent cycles have shown that Democrats are more likely to win when campaigns are aligned with movement forces and energy. Exhibit A is Joe Biden administration's handling of Israel's war in Gaza. Both movement activists and many ordinary voters were horrified by the Biden White House's shockingly ineffective and callous approach to Gaza, combined with the equally shocking unwillingness of the party apparatus to even engage with reasonable critics.

That ultimately dampened the enthusiasm and support of some of the Democratic Party's most engaged and reliable supporters."

Further granularity from www.commondreams.org:

"A recent poll found that among the 19 million people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but did not vote in the 2024 election, nearly a third " -- about 29% -- "cited the US government's support for Israel's war on Gaza as the top reason for staying home.

This means roughly 5.7 million Democratic voters did not cast a ballot in 2024 because of the administration's stance on Gaza, which many described as a genocide.

This issue was the most frequently cited reason, even above concerns about the economy or immigration."

Between the winning 2020 and losing 2024 elections, Democrats lost 6,265,888 votes. The Democratic Party of 1968 lost felt the same sting because of their support of the brutal Saigon regime and the Vietnam War. Between 1964 and 1968 the Democratic Party lost about 12 million voters with the Vietnam War being a major factor in this decline.

A drunk misogynist racist who spilled state secrets over the phone and paid off a rape victim for her silence is in charge of the world's most powerful military and ordering defenseless smugglers on boats killed, abducted a couple from another country, is persecuting a decorated astronaut who is taking care of his invalid wife because she was shot in the head years ago by a Republican gun nut.

*** Trumpf Junta Shuffle ***

"As a retired Navy Captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he is still accountable to military justice," Hegseth bleated.

~Kegsbreath never made it passed US Army Major and he commands Flag Officers. Those Generals and Admirals know he is an incompetent buffoon and a drunkard way above his head, like Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel as D/FBI.

~Kegsbreath should know that US military personnel don't receive "pensions," we receive "military retirement pay." This distinction was taught to us on Day One. We are not union workers or civil servants.

~If this malice from Hellbreath succeeds after the 30-day rebuttal process, this will be just another reparation the next Democratic administration will address. Senator Kelley's former rank would be restored and he would receive the lost retirement pay retroactively. Last century I witnessed an officer receive TWO back-to-back promotions in one day over an injustice that was finally remedied years afterwards.

Senator Kelley's words and actions are a mere trifle compared to what former officers and enlisted personnel did to protest the Vietnam War. Just ask former USN Seal/USSECSTATE John Kerry.

Having been to both apartheid and post-apartheid Suid-Afrika and pre- and post- Oslo Accords Israel several times, the Palestinians have it much rougher than the Xhosas and Zulus did. The Afrikaaners were not ethnic cleansers, but racial and tribal dividers, exploiting cheap Bantu labor and playing one tribe off of another. They were like a modern day Confederacy, with plantations, mines, and factories.

The Israelis under the nefarious Likud regime are ethnic cleansers, as we have seen over the decades.

Years ago there were mixed Israeli and Arab neighborhoods like in Haifa; I don't know know how many such neighborhoods exist today.

There are many Israelis who believe in co-existence with Palestinians, like many in the Labor Party, but they are the minority now.

Other Israelis are fighting injustice besides the human rights lawyers of B'Tselem, like the Israeli Communist Party (AKA the Makis).

And the Maduro government is intact and in power. I'm wondering what's really changed.
No American oil company is going to Venezuela any time soon. What a stupid god-damned idea.

#15 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-05 07:47 AM | Reply | Flag

Weeks before JFK's assassination, CIA orchestrated the overthrow of unpopular Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem on 2 Nov 1963.

The ARVN installed their CIA-backed generals and continued the same brutal policies.

With Venezuela, the USG removed Maduro but the government is still intact, as you said.

What was the Trumpf junta thinking with their plan, that things would fall neatly into place for them after arresting Maduro?

This overthrow scheme was concocted by Empty Suit Marco Rubio, so here we are.