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"The past is never dead. It’s not even past." -Faulkner

archival notes on covert operations, media and corporate/state entanglements

Filasṭīn sayyidah wa ḥurrah
I don't know if they had wider than regional influence but as a Californian I feel like Rubio's Fish Tacos really set a vibe
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Whether she is currently experiencing active coercion or has negotiated what autonomy remains available within constraints may matter legally but doesn't change facts: she was brought into the country through trafficking and is married to a documented predator who operated trafficking networks.
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I always thought municipal par 3 courses should be more popular than they are. My local muni is 9 holes ranging from 82 to 148 yards and some people break out short irons but most clear it with a pitching wedge and putter alone.
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I think the first lady is a trafficking victim. I'm not sure she is a free person.
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Its plausible that is what they are planning but Trump is detoriating so fast. I think its doubtful he is alive long enough to finish a single term let alone go for a 3rd.
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Ibn Saud in 1937 said that when mankind gets to Mars the first thing they will discover is American geologists already there
combing its sands for oil.
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
JFK was a rich kid whose corrupt daddy bought him an office he wasn't ready for. His murder was a tragedy but the Camelot mythos is as fake and manufactured as Trump's. The office was purchased for him in shady deals. The corruption killing us is the same corruption Joe used to make his kid Pres.
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Its like in the Epstein releases where Jeffrey Epstein admits he was warned and it was a mistake for him to have gotten involved with Prince Andrew.
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Sorry I wasn't clear. He was a fantasist, but it seems like that is used to diminish the utility of the material he provided to Israel. My understanding is that Pollard provided material to Israel that the Soviets wanted and Israel traded it to them in return for Russian Jewish immigration to Israel
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Wasn't Pollard as a fantasist partly a frame to make his Israeli disclosures look like mistaken idealism and harmless when in fact Israel sent his material straight to the Soviets?
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The value tanked under nationalization, Champion had insider info on all of America's rail assets and their timed return to private hands. Here is a video about their surprisingly pro employe mag with a note about its overseas distribution by the state department as a model of the US way of life 4/4
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
In 65 my grandfather was president of Champion's paper division under the leadership of Karl Bendetsen author of executive order 9066. Karl also ran all of America's railroads when they were nationalized from 50 to 52 after which he joined Champion which was a heavy investor in railroad bonds 3/4
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
to fund intelligence activity during the interim between the end of the war and the creation of a peacetime civilian intelligence program and then as a source for funds outside of congressional scrutiny. 2/4
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Very cool and relevant to the genealogical research im doing into my grandfather. He was involved in cold war intelligence and a lot of the oddness in his business career makes sense if he was a NOC or witting asset of some sort.
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Of niche interest but was it an NAL paperback?
November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
America's best literary self strived to show Europe a nation of thinkers not just folks who made a nice toaster. Feats of the 20th can be matched with honesty about the cultural cold war, public funding and secret CIA subsidy ie Congress For Cultural Freedom and or covert publishing ala WUBONBON.
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I don't think many UK right wingers are ready for how for real no safety net, no one really cares if you live or die ,wild west America can be.
November 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
They "canceled" Paul Wellstone and his family for that
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Reposted by RDM
Anytime you read a nyt oped, just go ahead and google the author of it and type in '2003', you'll find their Iraq era shit and you will have all the reason you could ever imagine to not take them seriously.
September 11, 2023 at 1:57 PM