Former Arizona state representative Austin Smith (R - Maricopa County) was sentenced to two years of probation and barred from running for public office for five years after forging signatures on his election petition. Defense counsel Kurt Altman pleaded for economic leniency from the Court because Smith's "finances are not extraordinary," so he was only fined $5,500.
The Justice Department has backed off a dubious claim about Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro that the Trump administration promoted last year in laying the groundwork to remove him from power in Venezuela: accusing him of leading a drug cartel called "Cartel de los Soles."
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on 5 Jan that Vasyl Maliuk will step down as head of Ukraine's effective Security Service (SBU) but will remain in the agency to focus on asymmetric operations against Russia.
Aldrich Ames (84), the CIA counterintelligence officer who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia for ten years in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in US history, died in a Maryland prison.
Donald Trump, his Cabinet, and other White House insiders are 'discussing options for acquiring Greenland' and 'utilizing the US military is always an option.'
Thanks for the tips, Doc Sarvis. As I don't watch TV, I'll have to find the book A Spy Among Friends.
And Jefferson Davis outlived most of the Lincoln cabinet by decades if I recollect correctly.
I gave away the Lincoln Conspiracy many years ago which also accused the Lincoln cabinet of involvement.
One of our drudge.com Fellow Travelers put me on to Dorothy Kilgallen ("What's My Line" panelist and journalist extraordinaire) who was investigating the JFK assassination by concentrating on Jack Ruby and interviewing him.
She was writing in her nationwide column that the Warren Commission report was a bunch of bunkum.
Ms. Kilgannen confided to a few trusted people that she was on to something "big."
In 1965, she mysteriously died in a "suicide" that didn't look right to her hairdresser when he came upon her body in a room that Dorothy would never have slept in.
All of her notes were seized by the FBI in NYC in 1965.
One link of many: www.youtube.com
There are at least 935 billionaires in the US. Anyone of these 935 oligarchs can easily save public broadcasting for Americans. Bill Gates is spending his fortune saving lives in the Third World, which all well and good and maybe out of guilt pangs, and Warren Buffet is retiring (what's he doing with his loot?)
I found one superrich couple making a contribution to public broadcasting:
"Eric and Wendy Schmidt committed $5.5 million to NPR to expand its Collaborative Journalism Network last year."
Enjoy NYC's not-for-profit classical radio station while it's around: www.wqxr.org
"Thanks for making me unemployed, Republicans s***heads!"
Arizona state representatives currently receive an annual salary of $24,000. Additionally, they may receive a per diem allowance which varies depending on their residence; for example, legislators residing within Maricopa County, like Austin Cole Smith, receive $35 per day.
Links:
Bio of 'Young Republican' Loser Austin Smith
Experts in Latin American crime and narcotics issues have said "Cartel de los Soles" is actually a slang term, invented by the Venezuelan media in the 1990s, for officials who are corrupted by drug money. And on Saturday, after the Trumpf junta abducted Mr. Maduro, the Justice Department released a rewritten indictment that appeared to tacitly concede the point.
Link: SDNY Superseding indictment
Background:
The highly questionable allegation made by the Trumpf junta traces back to a 2020 grand jury indictment of Nicolas Maduro drafted by the Justice Department. In July 2025, copying language from it, the Treasury Department designated "Cartel de los Soles" as a terrorist organization. In Nov 2025, USSECSTATE Marco Rubio and Dummkopf's Trumpf's national security adviser, the picture-perfect definition of an "Empty Suit" if ever there was one, ordered the State Department to do the same.
There was no independent verification, USIC validation, or quality assurance from anyone in the junta about "Cartel de los Soles," just amateur tradecraft and mindless obedience resulting in US sanctions being placed on a non-existent organization and the president of a sovereign country being indicted for leading it.
Hi Doc Sarvis:
In a way, yes. James Angleton thought the US had its own version of the infamous UK Cambridge Five.
You might like this article: theintercept.com
BTW: I just finished The Day Lincoln was Shot by Jim Bishop (1955).
Immediately taking charge after President Lincoln was shot (and slowly dying), Secretary of War Edwin Stanton thought the assassination was a huge Confederate Secret Service operation because USSECSTATE Seward was also attacked (but he survived).
Previously exposed Confederate plots like spreading Yellow Fever to the Union Army or burning down NYC put that these thoughts in his head. So immediately after the assassination, Stanton had all the US police and military forces looking for non-existent spies, ghosts, and terrorists, using the telegraph system efficiently.
Meanwhile the plotters were John Wilkes Booth, a violent oaf, and two good-for-nothings.
Stanton realized his miscalculation later and never owned up to it.
Like our immediate post-9/11 world, paranoia and fear took over reason in Stanton's head from 14 - 15 April 1865.
Like James Angleton after being duped by Kim Philby during WW2.
Here is the super-loser that tried to fire Professor Darren Michael and found himself eating a $500,000 crow, President of Austin Peay State University "Dr" Mike Licari: www.apsu.edu
No surprises seeing his official portrait.
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.
The other notorious Benedict Arnold in the USIC from that era who caused grave damage to the US is Jonathan Pollard. He spied for Israel while working as a civilian intelligence analyst for the US Navy. Pollard disclosed the names of thousands of people who had cooperated with US intelligence agencies and he shopped his services successfully to other countries as well. This Judas Iscariot was paroled on 20 Nov 2015 and then he moved to Israel where he was greeted as a national hero by PM Benjamin Netanyahu: Benjamin Netanyahu Greets American Traitor
The late CIA traitor Aldrich Ames (USMS #40087-083):
"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.'"
Link: Marco Rubella Humble-Mumble-Chumbles to Congress
On Tuesday 5 Nov 2024, 77,303,568 Americans idiotically voted for a good-for-nothing pedophilic oligarch and white supremacist warmonger who has been correctly ranked as the 'Worst President in US History.'
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."
Source: www.democracydocket.com
*** 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.
Link: x.com
"No room service for you, thug!"
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.
Double Ivy League graduate Ron DeSatan gleefully wants to construct ICE concentration camps which have been described as everything from "torture chambers" to "inhumane Soviet-style gulags."
Link: ACLU Report on ICE Gulags
"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."
Link: x.com
*** 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."
Link: Trumpf Coward
FYI:
"More than 10,000 Colombian military and police officers have graduated from the US School of the Americas (SOA, now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or WHINSEC) since its founding. A 1992 report identified over 100 Colombian officers who were alleged to be responsible for human rights violations as SOA graduates, and another source states that out of 247 Colombian military officers implicated in human rights cases, 124 had received training at the SOA."
Source: US Military Trained Colombian Military Officers
Has anyone said it yet? Let me do it.
Aldrich Ames would have made a great Trumpf junta official.
#7 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-07 08:36 AM | Reply | Flag: Good shot! Maybe Trumpf Will Attend His Burial