876 BC: Zimri, a military commander of Israel, kills King Elah–Zimri then briefly becoming king (before himself committing suicide to preempt a countercoup [?] by another military commander named Omri)
Was this history’s first coup d’état?
Was it, at the very least, the first military coup in recorded history?
Many coups followed.
In many countries around the world.
And the result was governance by groups with names the likes of The Four Hundred (Athens) and the Thirty Tyrants (also Athens).
But let us not forget that coups (generally speaking) HAVE occasionally produced good, long-term results.
For instance, it was a coup d’état which ended the Roman Kingdom and marked the beginning of the Roman Republic in 509 BC.
Friendly reminder–the USA is a republic.
But let’s get back to this sticky subject of military coups.
After 876 BC in Israel, it appears the next major MILITARY coup did not occur until 185 BC–nearly 700 years later.
The site was the Maurya Empire.
Its capital was Pataliputra: present day Patna (eastern India).
The Maurya Empire in 185 BC controlled much of what is present-day India.
The emperor was overthrown by General Pushyamitra Shunga.
We cannot possibly list every example of a military coup, but we must mention Julius Caesar.
Caesar was in a very similar position to that in which Donald Trump now finds himself in January 2023.
With the prospect of a “rigged election” before him (in which his win would almost certainly have not been ratified by Pompey and his allies), Caesar crossed the Rubicon with the Legio XIII Gemina and marched on Rome.
There is only one problem (if you will): it certainly APPEARS that Donald Trump (nor Bolsonaro in Brazil) no longer commands anything equivalent to a Roman legion.
He DID command it.
As Commander-in-Chief of the entire U.S. military.
But it APPEARS that he left office.
Why?
When Caesar marched on Rome, the Roman senate fled to Greece.
Pompey fled to Egypt (where he was murdered).
Did the Roman Republic end with the First Triumvirate?
Even if the First Triumvirate was a misnomer of sorts (involving a political alliance between Pompey and Caesar)?
The political alliance of the First Triumvirate began to disintegrate.
Political corruption and violence consumed Rome.
Let it be remembered that Pompey’s wife was Julia: daughter of Caesar.
She died in childbirth during this time.
But here is the key point: CAESAR CHOSE CIVIL WAR OVER LAYING DOWN HIS COMMAND.
Yes, that is a quote from Wikipedia.
This would have been akin to Trump refusing to leave the White House.
When did Trump find out that CJCS Milley had been in secret contact with the Chinese (according to The New York Post) and even guaranteed them that any attack on them ordered by Trump, in the final days of his Presidency, would be preceded by a WARNING to the Chinese FROM MILLEY HIMSELF?
His Friday statement comes days after the tell-all book “Peril,” by Washington Post staffers Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, revealed the general made several calls to counterpart Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army to assure him of US stability.
Milley reportedly first called Li on Oct. 30 to reassure him that the US military “are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.” Milley reportedly went so far as to tell Li that if President Donald Trump did order military action against China, “I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”
That sounds like the most clear-cut case of treason of which I have ever heard.
Milley has retained his role as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Biden.
Milley is, officially, head of the U.S. military.
His immediate boss (in the tradition of “civilian” control) is General Lloyd Austin: Secretary of Defense (who had to get special dispensation from Congress to hold this role [due to his previous experience as a U.S. Army general]).
It APPEARS there was no coup.
Trump publicly said he would never “do a coup” with the likes of Milley.
Trump’s last Secretary of Defense, Christopher Miller, stated explicitly that his goal in the final days of the Trump Presidency was to prevent a coup.
Adam Ciralsky wrote about Christopher Miller and Ezra Cohen (both of whom gave the journalist exclusive inside access during Trump’s final days) in Vanity Fair. Of Miller, he writes:
He had three goals. “No military coup, no major war, and no troops in the street,”
This is a significant article because it shows particularly Cohen IMMEDIATELY throwing Trump under the proverbial bus upon the transition to the Biden administration.
As Cohen strangely told Ciralsky,
“The president threw us under the bus. And when I say ‘us,’ I don’t mean only us political appointees or only us Republicans. He threw America under the bus. He caused a lot of damage to the fabric of this country. Did he go and storm the Capitol himself? No. But he, I believe, had an opportunity to tamp things down and he chose not to. And that’s really the fatal flaw. I mean, he’s in charge. And when you’re in charge, you’re responsible for what goes wrong.”
Why would a Defense Clandestine Service (Defense Intelligence Agency spy) be such a pussy when it comes to something as tame as January 6th?
Really: does Cohen spend his weekends playing croquet and knitting koozies?
Does he drink beer with his pinky in the air?
What the fuck?!?
This is the same bizarre, “righteous” indignation which characterizes CJCS Mark Milley as concerns January 6th.
The following meme has been fact-checked and the quote is a verbatim utterance of the Chairman:
What makes Milley particularly pathetic is his sycophantic thralldom to the Biden administration.
There was nothing racial about January 6th, yet Milley felt compelled to make it an issue of race.
Milley felt compelled to imply that Trump supporters were strictly white.
And that the violent parties on January 6th were, therefore, white Trump supporters.
But the most egregious aspect of his argument is that Trump supporters, concerned that the 2020 election was not free and fair, turned out at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 motivated by “WHITE RAGE” [emphasis mine].
Milley may have gone to Princeton, but it appears he never really learned how to research.
And I bet Putin could trounce him in ice hockey (to boot!).
His logic is so thoroughly-shoddy that he implies Trump supporters were racist for wanting Trump (a white man) instead of Biden (also a white man) as President in 2020.
It APPEARS Trump missed his Julius Caesar moment.
Is this good for America?
Perhaps.
Is this bad for America?
Perhaps.
It is true that Caesar declared himself “dictator in perpetuity”.
But when exactly did the Roman Republic end?
The truth is far more rich.
The Roman senate backed Caesar into a corner.
They “telegraphed” that they would not allow him to win the coming election in which he sought to run.
The Roman senate sought to castrate Julius Caesar’s power.
Just as Mark Milley unconstitutionally castrated Trump’s power as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. armed forces.
Trump was Milley’s boss.
Milley went behind his boss’s back and called our biggest adversary (the People’s Republic of China) to ASSURE them that he would give them a “heads up” were his boss to move towards kinetic military action against them.
That is treason.
There is no good excuse for that.
Milley, like James Comey, only PRETENDS to be an honorable man.
But let us pause for a second.
Who, in the American political landscape, most corresponds to Pompey (if Trump was Julius Caesar)?
The emotional pick might be Mike Pence.
And I can understand why Republicans loathe Pence.
Indeed, I would not piss on Pence were he on fire.
But I think the best analogy to Pompey was Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi is now politically finished.
It took a long time.
It was messy.
But it involved no crossing of the Rubicon.
The problem remains, however: will the 2024 election be clean enough of corruption to be truly characterized as “free and fair”?
I liken Biden’s “victory” to that of Lukashenko in Belarus.
The Western establishment does not recognize the 2020 election in Belarus as having been “free and fair”.
They consider Lukashenko to be a “pretender” President.
Fine.
Then, as my song goes, we can say, “Lukashenko won fair and square just like Joe Biden” [and vice versa]:
N.B. Probably the only country and western song ever written about a Belarusian leader.
Nancy Pelosi initially won.
She and her cronies got away with the rigged election of 2020 in the USA.
But she was LEGALLY defeated in 2022.
She’s done.
She is no longer the Speaker.
I am not a fan of Kevin McCarthy.
But let’s be honest: is the pendulum about to swing back the other direction BIGLY?
Yes.
Kevin McCarthy is no Trump.
He’s not even a Jim Jordan.
But let’s be honest.
He’s not Pelosi.
Few Democrats are as nasty and corrupt as Pelosi.
And she is gone.
Out the door.
No more power.
No more power to preside over kangaroo courts.
We endured two years of it.
Enough!
There was a civil war in Rome.
Caesar vs. Pompey.
That is exactly what would have happened in the USA had Trump been allowed to win (he did win!) the 2020 election.
Antifa and Black Lives Matter would have destroyed the country.
Trump would have had to use the American military ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
This would have been tragic.
Let it be remembered, by the way, how forgiving Mark Milley was of the George Floyd protests (riots):
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley dismissed the George Floyd riots as “penny packet protests” — insisting they weren’t an insurrection because the mobs only “used spray paint,” according to a new book.
The USA would have become very much like Russia had Trump staged a military coup (assuming a coup could have even been mustered and coordinated).
Trump would have become very much a Putin sort of character.
Or a Julius Caesar sort of character.
“Caesar held both the dictatorship and the tribunate, and alternated between the consulship and the proconsulship,” to quote that estimable source that is never wrong (Wikipedia).
Sound like anyone?
Sounds like Putin to me.
And I love Putin.
I really do.
I think he is a great leader for Russia.
But that is not what happened in America.
That is not the path Trump CHOSE.
APPARENTLY.
Will Trump look like a genius if he can manage to return to power PEACEFULLY (unlike Julius Caesar)?
Yes.
Trump will look like a genius if that happens.
But it appears we have to wait two more years for that.
My only complaint about Trump is that he is (how shall I put this kindly?) a #VaccineMoron .
This CURRENT article (which I am writing at the moment [and you are reading {are you still reading?}]) is dedicated to Dr. Steve Pieczenik–without whom my ability to understand complex dynamics would not exist.
The link which I just posted is dedicated to Alex Jones (who agrees that Trump has made [and continues to make] a very grave mistake in pissing on the backs of Americans and telling them it’s raining).
Trump’s weak spot is this: the vaccines.
It is my opinion that this could be rectified in a matter of moments.
HOWEVER, every day that Trump waits to tell the TRUTH about the COVID vaccines (that he RUSHED to market!) is going to make it that much harder for him to WIN BACK the TRUST of the American people.
Trump has been selling the same load of shit on the vaccines as Anthony Fauci.
That is a VERY bad look.
And it will become exponentially more so by the day.
GOOD advisors tell their bosses the truth.
I have heard that Trump doesn’t particularly like people who kiss his ass.
Good.
Mr. President, please disavow the COVID vaccines ASAP.
Most astonishingly, Dickopf was the head of INTERPOL from 1968-1972.
So here is one Nazi (an SS member) that the CIA paid.
And INTERPOL was headed by a Nazi.
And that particular Nazi, Dickopf, was also on the CIA payroll while he was head of INTERPOL.
What if there were Ukrainian Nazis that shared this kind of cozy relationship with the CIA?
There were.
You may know Operation Paperclip.
You probably think scientists.
But there was more (and less) to it.
People avoided Nuremberg merely because the CIA found them useful.
And what this movie points out is important.
How did the CIA control former-Nazis?
By threatening to reveal their past Nazi actions.
Such was the case with Dickopf.
His Nazi activities only came to public attention after his death.
After his usefulness had been gleaned by the CIA.
Of course the Soviets had an analogous program.
Operation Osoaviakhim.
You probably know of Wernher von Braun.
SS.
1937-1945.
A Major in the SS.
Major von Braun.
I believe my father crossed paths with von Braun at Redstone Arsenal.
They did not meet.
But they were there at the same time.
Strange, isn’t it?
Nazi Wernher von Braun worked with Walt Disney (the man) on a series of films about space travel.
1955-1957.
Let me repeat, Disney worked with a Nazi.
For two years.
Von Braun took music composition as a boy from Paul Hindemith.
One of my texts as a music theory and composition undergraduate was by Hindemith.
There is solid testimony that Von Braun picked slave laborers from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.
There is solid testimony that this Nazi SS Major did nothing to help those who were being tortured and worked to death.
But to Von Braun’s credit, he was (supposedly) arrested by the Gestapo for “not being Nazi enough”.
He was considered a defeatist who knew the war wasn’t going well.
He complained that he wasn’t working on a spaceship.
And POOF, a young female dentist reported him.
Himmler, who was trying to angle in on the production of V-2 rockets, had him charged as a communist sympathizer.
There was also fear that Von Braun, who piloted his own plane, might defect to England.
There were 14 tons of paper (!) documents on the V-2 rocket which Von Braun hid in the Harz mountains.
These were located by Army Counterintelligence (who blocked and have me blocked on Twitter).
Wernher von Braun and his brother Magnus turned over the V-2 rocket technology to the USA (and not the Soviet Union) because they ostensibly perceived the Americans to be “guided not by the laws of materialism but by Christianity”.
Hmmm.
SOUNDS good.
To flesh out the story, I should mention that Wernher von Braun conspired to be captured by the Americans (and not by the Soviets).
Von Braun and his team were housed at Fort Bliss (near El Paso, TX).
Von Braun and team then spent the next 20 years in Hunstville, Alabama.
Redstone Arsenal.
The war we are currently facing is a face-off between two nuclear powers (USA and Russia).
The USA owes its development of rocketry in a large part to a Nazi.
There are American satellites in space because of a Nazi (beginning in 1958 [Explorer 1]).
The idea and dream of traveling to Mars can largely be attributed to this same Nazi.
In 1946, this Nazi had become an Evangelical Christian after attending church in El Paso.
Pretty amazing, eh?
Makes for a good story, doesn’t it?
But is it true???
But let’s get another Nazi into the picture, shall we?
What about Kurt Debus?
The first director of Kennedy Space Center.
A NASA Nazi.
SS.
Debus joined the SA (Brownshirts) in 1933 and the SS in 1940.
By the way, Von Braun signed an affidavit where he erroneously said that he joined the SS in 1939.
He actually joined in 1937.
Hmmm.
Debus was with Von Braun at Fort Bliss.
He was also with him at Redstone.
This roving band of merry Nazis.
In the summer of 1966-67 (southern hemisphere), Von Braun went to Antarctica.
Hmmm.
And guess who came up with Space Camp for kids?
You guessed it.
A Nazi!
[Von Braun]
Jawohl!
So America (and the Soviet Union) took credit for “defeating” the Nazis.
But both countries pilfered important (and not-so-important) Nazis for various purposes.
And now Putin says he is fighting Naziism in Ukraine (which I believe).
Gerald Ford (a 33rd-degree Freemason) awarded the National Medal of Science in Engineering to Wernher von Braun in 1977.
The highest science honor that can be bestowed by the American government.
Good job, Nazi!
Von Braun is buried in Alexandria, Virginia.
Nazis like Von Braun were given American citizenship.
The U.S. Navy took Herbert Wagner.
The U.S. Army took 127 rocket scientists (including Von Braun).
The Bureau of Mines (pre- Department of Energy) took seven synthetic fuel specialists.
The USAF really liked the imported Nazis.
They took 260 of them.
Did Operation Paperclip continue until 1990?
If so, continue in what sense?
Paperclip wasn’t CIA per se.
It was run by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency.
So we could start by calling it an OSS (CIA’s predecessor agency) and Army CIC (counterintelligence corps) program.
Only problem is, the CIA came into existence in 1947.
So in what way was Paperclip NOT a CIA program?
Hmmm.
Paperclip appears to have been overseen by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
So you would have:
Army Intelligence
Naval Intelligence
Air Force Intelligence
and
State Department?!?
For instance, Magnus von Braun (Wernher’s brother) had an INSCOM dossier.
Fascinating.
Wernher von Braun’s dossier has never been made public.
Hmmm.
The U.S. military helped Kurt Blome escape to Argentina to avoid trial for human experiments conducted at Ravensbruck.
Ravensbrück.
But the CIA wanted assets.
And access.
We’re not talking about the commonly-known scientists like Wernher von Braun.
We’re talking more about people such as Paul Dickopf.
Let me reiterate, the head of INTERPOL (Dickopf) from 1968-1972 was on the CIA payroll.
We’re not talking about Camp Ashcan and the 86 Nazi leaders in Luxembourg.
But it falls somewhere in the realm of Safehaven, doesn’t it?
Let’s talk about Klaus Barbie.
U.S. “intelligence services” (CIA?) employed Klaus Barbie and helped him escape to Bolivia.
Barbie was a master of torture (as disgusting as that sounds).
This was applied in Bolivia.
Why would the United States support such a thing?
In an effort to “fight communism”, of course.
I agree that communism is bad.
And should be fought.
Indeed, capitalism and communism ought to fight each other (as ideological concepts) on the “battlefield” of economics.
But torture is unacceptable.
It is evil.
To what extent did the “U.S. intelligence services” simply (and cynically) “look the other way” in regards to Barbie torturing people in Bolivia?
We are talking about 1980.
The “Cocaine Coup”.
But you gotta go back to 1973.
And Kissinger.
In Chile.
Pinochet.
To what extent were Italian Fascists allowed to set up camp in Chile by their “intelligence services” (DINA)?
To what extent were Italian Fascists (supported by the Kissinger State Department) responsible for the overthrow of democratically-elected socialist Salvador Allende?
Pinochet.
To what extent did this 1973 coup rely upon Italian Fascists?
Where were these fascists coming from?
Were there any Nazis involved in Chile?
Where had these people been since the end of WWII?
In Francisco Franco’s Spain, perhaps?
When did Franco die?
1980s?
What role did Italian Fascists (who fought on the same side as the Nazis in WWII) play in the Operation Gladio false-flag bombings in Italy?
When did this start?
If Gladio was a stay-behind network (and it was), when was it formed?
Immediately after WWII?
Yes.
But the communists lost the first elections in postwar Italy.
Gladio didn’t really get kicking with their false-flag bombings (blamed on communists) until the 1970s.
And this is just one country’s (Argentina’s) commander for Operation Condor.
Same thing in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
Now you see why Uruguay called for Kissinger’s arrest.
Because Kissinger oversaw this program (apparently).
What time period are we talking about?
1968-1989.
We are talking about 60,000-80,000 deaths under Operation Condor.
Who was targeted?
The left-wing.
Communists.
Socialists.
But also right-wingers who “weren’t right-wing enough”.
It seems the CIA had a big role in this.
U.S. government operation.
Support often “routed” through CIA.
The U.S. military was concerned about “perceived threats” and “subversives” in Latin America.
Similar to Operation Gladio.
The end justifies the means.
A brute-force way of preventing communist takeovers.
Dirty.
Clumsy.
Evil.
Fighting one evil (communism) with another (murder/torture).
But what brought Operation Condor into being?
It was a series of coups.
Paraguay (1954).
Brazil (1964).
Bolivia (1971).
Uruguay (June 1973).
Chile (September 11, 1973).
Peru (1975).
Argentina (1976).
Wow.
That is SEVEN coups in 22 years.
And FIVE coups in FIVE years.
In five DIFFERENT Latin American countries.
How the fuck did that happen?
Did they all just spontaneously get infected with anti-communist fervor???
It seems our CIA was “watching” dissidents in Argentina and Uruguay.
And don’t forget about the Brazilian “death squads”.
With whom the CIA worked.
This communism thing must be really powerful.
Granted, it’s a fucked-up, inefficient system.
A perverted, perverse system.
But was it really necessary to “disappear” and murder all these people over???
Why not just let capitalism show its merits?
Capitalism is a value-creating juggernaut (it is!).
Why did the U.S. government feel so threatened by communism?
One reason was the USSR (which no longer exists).
All those Soviet Republics.
That giant monolithic block.
Let’s name ’em:
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Estonia
Georgia (Tbilisi, not Atlanta)
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova (Moldavian SSR)
Russia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan.
Wow.
How many is that?
15.
The U.S. has 50 states.
So we are more impressive, right?
The USSR covered about 8.6 million square miles.
The USA covers about 3.7 million square miles.
The Soviet Union was twice as big as America.
And it was (WAS!) communist.
And it had (and HAS!) nuclear weapons.
ICBMs.
Intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Hell, they even have hypersonic missiles now.
And the USA doesn’t.
So Russia (the main successor) could definitely fuck us up (WIPE US OUT).
But that’s not what they wanna do.
They just want us to get the fuck off their doorstep.
Because if they wipe us out, they know we will also (simultaneously) wipe them out.
And we should understand this equation too.
But apparently we don’t.
Because we have led a NATO (Now A Terrorist Organization) that has continuously gobbled up former Soviet territories for the past 30 years (since the fall of the USSR in 1991).
But I understand why America was concerned.
I understand the concept of fighting communism in Vietnam.
I respect those soldiers who went.
Maybe that war needed to happen.
Maybe the United States was right for fighting.
But let’s be frank: what’s the strategic significance of Vietnam?
There is none.
Unless you’re in the heroin business.
Which may be the main reason we were ACTUALLY there.
Same with Afghanistan.
Heroin.
Poppies.
Oil?
The pipeline across Afghanistan?
Sure, maybe.
But that never materialized.
And why were we in Bolivia?
And Peru?
Cocaine.
Perhaps.
The “Cocaine coup” in Bolivia.
1980.
When the mafia took over the country.
With the help of Klaus Barbie.
Who worked for American intelligence (CIA?).
By the way, Russia is still the biggest country on Earth.
6.6 million square miles.
But they didn’t come to Mexico.
They don’t have a mutual-defense treaty with Canada.
They don’t have troops and military bases on our border.
Hell, they don’t even have nukes in Cuba anymore (Havana being 230 miles from Miami).
Tallinn (Estonia [part of NATO]) is 230 miles from Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Are there nukes in Tallinn?
Probably not.
But there are NATO troops in Estonia.
Right on Russia’s fucking border.
And same with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Norway.
NATO was not content to border Russia with merely Norway for 50 years (since 1949).
NATO saw fit to add Poland in 1999 and the Baltic countries in 2004.
FIVE NATO members border Russia.
That is unacceptable.
USAoutofNATO.
Now!
NoMoreNATO!
America first!
Who founded Operation Condor?
Pinochet?
Hmmm.
Don’t forget about Orlando Letelier.
Car bomb.
D.C.
Pinochet.
Operation Condor.
30,000 dead in Argentina alone.
Nuns.
Anyone even tangentially-Marxist.
I hate Marxism as much as the next capitalist (I am a proud capitalist!), BUT YOU DON’T FUCKING KILL MARXISTS JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE ADOPTED AN INEFFICIENT ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHY!!!
Violent Marxists are another thing.
I have no tolerance for violent Marxists.
Whether they be BLM or Antifa.
But there should be a proportionate riposte.
If somebody commits and arson, YOU ARREST THEM.
You don’t just indiscriminately kill people.
Rule of law is the best way.
Rule of man is a pitfall.
There is, however, a problem.
The 2020 election was stolen.
And I believe Trump left office.
I believe he threw us to the wolves.
I believe our military leaders are pussies.
But Vladimir Putin, who was presented with an immediate threat on his doorstep (a creeping invasion by NATO that he personally oversaw and had patience for FOR 30 YEARS), actually did something.
So I respect Putin more than I respect Trump.
Putin, at this rate, is going to save Russia.
Trump, at this rate, will have no America left to save.
I respect Putin more than I respect the American military’s top leaders.
The American military, at this rate (if they ever decide to actually PROTECT the country), will have no America left to protect.
Death flights.
Taking dissidents out to sea by plane or helicopter and dropping them in the water.
Argentina.
Chile.
Disgusting.
Something the French also apparently did in Algeria.
Bodies washing up in Buenos Aires.
1977.
Kidnapped babies.
Illegal adoptions.
Babies taken to punish mothers who are in jail.
Don’t have a different economic philosophy.
Or we will kidnap your children.
Disgusting.
Latin America as one big network of torture and psychological warfare.
DINA in Chile (Pinochet) and SIDE in Argentina.
Propaganda.
Counter criticism.
Cultivate national pride.
I love America!
I really do.
But the best thing for America to do right now is to get the fuck out of NATO.
America first!
Operation Condor was going to murder a Uruguayan opposition politician.
And leaders of Amnesty International.
That’s pretty fucked-up!
Operation Condor really had a “if you see something, say something” mentality.
A big police state across the entirety of Latin America.
Number of dead as a result of Operation Condor:
Paraguay: 2,000
Chile: 3,196
Uruguay: 297
Brazil: 366
Argentina: 30,000
Archives of Terror.
Archivos del Terror (Spanish).
Arquivos do Terror (Portuguese).
Found in a police station in Paraguay.
4 tons of documents.
[14 tons for V-2]
Operation Condor: 50,000-90,000 people killed in South America
Condor ended in 1983 after Argentina’s defeat in the Falklands War.
The military dictatorship was ousted and democracy restored.
Desaparecidos.
The disappeared.
Perpetrators of Operation Condor who were executed:
General Carlos Prats (Chile)
Uruguayan MP Zelmar Michelini
Uruguayan MR Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz
former Bolivian President Juan José Torres
Argentina was involved with the Cocaine Coup of Klaus Barbie in Bolivia.
1980.
Italian fascists in South America.
December 1977.
Two French nuns and several founders of Madres de la Plaza de Mayo disappeared.
Put on death flights.
Dropped in the ocean.
Remains washed up on beaches south of Buenos Aires in December 1977.
Remains identified.
A commission.
COVID.
Forced disappearances.
Crimes against humanity.
Kudos to writer Ernesto Sabato.
Argentina.
Getting to the bottom of the 30,000 dead/missing/disappeared.
Life in prison:
Jorge Rafael Videla (Argentina [d. 2013])
Emilio Eduardo Massera (Argentina [d. 2010]) P2 Masonic lodge member
Roberto Eduardo Viola (Argentina [d. 1994])
Armando Lambruschini (Argentina [d. 2004])
Orlando Ramón Agosti (Argentina [d. 1997])
Omar Graffigna (Argentina [d. 2019])
Leopoldo Galtieri (Argentina [d. 2003])
Jorge Anaya (Argentina [d. 2008])
Basilio Lami Dozo (Argentina [d. 2017])
In 1986 and 1987, amnesty laws were passed to protect military officers involved in human rights abuses.
What?!?
No more prosecutions of the Dirty War.
In 1989-90, the leaders of the junta were pardoned.
An attempt at “healing”…
FUCK THAT!!!
Massera was pardoned in 1990 and lived to be 85 (d. 2010).
Massera imprisoned again in 1998.
Viola was pardoned in 1990 and died four years later.
Viola served a mere seven years in prison.
Lambruschini pardoned in 1990.
Later came under house arrest (2003).
Died 2004.
But here’s an interesting fact.
Lambruschini’s 15-year-old daughter was murdered in 1978 when a bomb was placed under her bed by an Argentine left-wing guerrilla organization.
Equally disgusting.
All because one side loves communism and the other side hates communism.
Fucking idiots!
But Operation Condor started in 1975.
So was this payback?
Either way, it’s disgusting.
Murdering children is the lowest of the low.
Total insanity.
Total EVIL!
Agosti.
Convicted of eight counts of torture.
Served a mere three years and nine months.
Was accused of 88 murders.
11 abductions of minors.
Was pardoned in 1990.
Graffigna was initially acquitted.
2003 arrested again.
Was not sentenced until 2016.
Was found responsible for the abduction, torture, and murder of a married couple in 1978.
The woman was eight-months-pregnant.
The child was born and given to an Air Force Intelligence operative.
Galtieri was sentenced in 1986 to 12 years in prison for human rights violations during the Dirty War.
He was pardoned in 1989.
Still received an Army pension for the rest of his life.
Invited to military parade in 2002.
New charges of kidnapping of children and disappearance of 18 people brought against him in 2002.
Because of his poor health, he was allowed to remain at home.
Bullshit!
Anaya was acquitted in 1985.
Spain intervened in 1997 because some of their citizens had disappeared during the Dirty War.
Extradition requested.
Request denied.
Criteria amended.
Proceedings proceed.
Extradition ceased.
Overturned.
Extraditions continue.
Heart attack.
House arrest.
Dozo was acquitted in 1985.
1989 sentenced to eight years.
Pardoned in 1990.
Didn’t even lose his rank.
Came under same extradition request from Spain.
What happened?
Lived until 2017.
Brazil’s military dictatorship lasted 21 years.
1964-1985.
Brazil also had a bullshit amnesty law that protected the human rights abuses of the military leaders.
In 1978, the Uruguayan Army crossed into Brazil and kidnapped two activists and their children: ages five and three.
The Uruguayan Army made the mistake of capturing two Brazilian journalists during this operation.
This probably saved the lives of the couple and their children.
Otherwise they would have been tortured and dropped in the ocean on a death flight.
But the couple was tortured and imprisoned for five years.
The children were sent to live with grandparents in Montevideo because the whole operation had been fucked up by the presence and arrest of the Brazilian journalists (and the ensuing international attention of this particular case).
In the case of the Brazilian reporters, they were actually kidnapped by the Brazilian military regime.
Uruguay also passed a bullshit amnesty law.
No one ever got in trouble for torturing the couple.
It is likely that two ex-Presidents of Brazil were assassinated as part of Operation Condor.
João Goulart (“heart attack” )and Juscelino Kubitschek (“car accident”).
Goulart was likely poisoned.
Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998.
The “big wedding” was Franco’s funeral in Spain.
That’s when Pinochet met Italian fascist Stefano Delle Chiaie.
It is quite possible that Pablo Neruda was murdered by the Pinochet regime.
Reagan finally withdrew support for Pinochet after the Chilean Army set two protestors on fire.
We’ll end with this.
Colonia Dignidad.
Chile.
Germans.
Nazis.
Internment, torture, and murder of dissidents in the underground tunnels of a farm known as the Dignity Colony (Colonia Dignidad).
1970s.
During Pinochet regime.
Leader of Colonia Dignidad: Paul Schäfer.
German fugitive.
Colonia Dignidad later changed its name to Villa Baviera.
This facility existed about 200 miles south of Santiago from 1961-2005.
Sexual abuse and torture of young children were committed there.
Torture and execution of political dissidents (under Pinochet) were committed there.
Schäfer spent a mere five years in prison at the end of his life.
He had been a rumored child molester (in Germany) since 1945.
He lost his job as an Evangelical preacher on account of this.
In 1959, he was charged with sexually abusing two boys.
He fled.
The Chilean ambassador to Germany invited him to Chile.
He set up a cult near Parral, Chile (the Colonia Dignidad).
Schäfer had a bit of David Koresh about him.
A coup against Salvador Allende was organized at Colonia Dignidad by Germans including Roberto Thieme.
Schäfer began punishing children in his cult by electric shocks to their genitalia.
After the coup, Colonia Dignidad became a secret detention, torture, and execution center for DINA (the National Intelligence Directorate under Pinochet’s military government).
Then the biological weapons production began.
#biolabs
Nazis in Ukraine.
CIA Nazis.
CIA protecting Ukrainian Nazis after WWII who should have been subject to Nuremberg.
Schäfer used sedatives on children and then raped them.
The farm contained “subterranean living containers”.
Tunnels.
Schäfer was charged with all matter of crimes.
He fled.
He was found in 2005 in Buenos Aires.
There was a plethora of military weaponry buried at Colonia Dignidad.
2006: Schäfer sentenced to 20 years for abusing 25 children.
He was found guilty on five counts of child rape.
The compound was surrounded by barbed wire and had searchlights and a watchtower.
There were underground prisons.
There may have been cooperation between the BND (Klaus Barbie’s employer from 1965 onwards) and Colonia Dignidad.
Only German was spoken inside the colony.
Children were “imported” from German.
Schäfer first arrived in the early-1960s with kidnapped children.
Illegal adoptions.
Torture in the tunnels.
Torture specifically tailored to their personality.
At least 100 murders at Colonia Dignidad.
A Soviet-born math professor from Penn State disappeared while hiking near Colonia Dignidad in 1985.
Escapees of the colony claim that the facility housed former Nazis.
But who did Chilean secret police operative Michael Townley report to about the DINA/Colonia Dignidad links?
Fucking INTERPOL!!!
Was the head of INTERPOL in 2005 also on the CIA payroll (as the head of INTERPOL from 1968-1972 had been)???
What Townley seems to have done right is expose Colonia Dignidad as a LABORATORY ON BIOLOGICAL WARFARE!!!
Biological experiments were done on political prisoners at Colonia Dignidad.
Now here is the fucking kicker.
The CIA and Simon Wiesenthal have both proven that Josef Mengele was at Colonia Dignidad.
This South American network for escaped Nazis was partially supported by Juan Perón in Argentina.
Was Klaus Barbie at Colonia Dignidad?
I would not doubt it.
Former SS and Gestapo TAUGHT torture methods at Colonia Dignidad to the Chilean secret police.
Just as Barbie would later do in Bolivia–teaching the Bolivian military.
Hartmut Hopp was Schäfer’s “right hand man” at Colonia Dignidad.
He went with Schäfer at age 17 to Chile in 1961.
Michael Townley, an American-born former agent of Chile’s DINA (wait…what?!? how the fuck did he get that job???) pled guilty to the 1976 car-bombing murders of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt.
There was a plea bargain.
He was not extradited to Argentina (where he was wanted for the 1974 murders of Chilean General Carlos Prats and his wife).
He was convicted in absentia in Italy for the 1975 murder attempt on Bernardo Leighton.
What was Townley’s specialty (apart from being a prolific assassin)?
Chemical and biological weapons.
And who did he develop these for?
For his employer DINA.
With the help of Colonel Gerardo Huber and DINA biochemist Eugenio Berríos.
Townley moved to Chile in 1957 at the age of 15.
His dad worked for Ford.
In Chile.
Townley came back to Miami.
Hooked up with anti-Castro Cubans.
Prats and his wife were killed with a radio controlled car bomb.
Enter Italian fascists again.
Townley was the go-between for DINA and Avanguardia Nazionale.
Enter Stefano Delle Chiaie again.
Connection to DINA.
Townley got a mere five years and two months in jail for the murders of Letelier and Moffitt.
Whether truthful or not, DINA’s now-deceased chief Manuel Contreras claims that Townley was partially working for the CIA when he murdered Letelier and Moffitt.
This was around the time that Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters was Deputy Directory of Central Intelligence (CIA).
Walters proposed an American military intervention in Italy in 1961 if the Socialist Party had won.
Townley give us the goods on the Laboratorio de Guerra Bacteriológica de Ejército (Bacteriological Warfare Laboratory of the Army) that was located at Colonia Dignidad.
Carmelo Soria (a Spanish diplomat) was assassinated in 1992 with sarin gas produced at Colonia Dignidad.
It is thought that Pablo Neruda was assassinated with an injection of Staphylococcus aureus.
The sarin gas was produced with the expertise of biochemist Eugenio Berríos.
Other bioweapons Berríos produced were anthrax and botulism.
Berríos also produced cocaine for Pinochet.
There is a suspicion that he worked for both drug traffickers and the DEA.
Former Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva was likely killed with a poison devoloped by Berríos.
Did Operation Condor continue as La Cofradia?
Don’t underestimate Chile’s role in Haiti.
MINUSTAH.
Eduardo Aldunate Hermann.
Berríos producing “black cocaine”.
Gerardo Huber also worked on the DINA biochem program.
Stepan Bandera.
2010.
Awarded title Hero of Ukraine.
By Viktor Yushchenko.
Banderites.
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).
And here’s the magic bullet, you fuckers:
Mykola Lebed.
Leader of OUN-B.
Responsible for the genocide of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Died in 1998 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (aged 89).
Why?
Because he had “a relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War”.
His Prolog (or Prologue) Research Organization in New York (where he emigrated) was funded by the CIA.
Lebed gathered intel on the Soviet Union.
The CIA paid him for this.
The CIA shielded Lebed (as late as 1991) from prosecution for war crimes (aka “his wartime connections to the Nazis”).
How many people did Lebed massacre?
50,000-100,000.
And the CIA hired him.
Yes.
Putin is right.
Ukrainian Nazis exist.
And they have for a long time.
And we’re not just talking about the Azov Battalion.
Lebed was the chief of a Nazi Abwehr school for espionage and sabotage in 1939-1940.
Lebed took over Stepan Bandera’s faction in western Ukraine.
During AND AFTER the Cold War, the CIA supported the OUN.
What groups are we talking about?
Svoboda.
Right Sector.
Ukrainian National Assembly — Ukrainian National Self Defense.
Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.
Babi Yar/Babyn Yar.
Ukrainian Auxiliary Police.
Made up of people from Ukrainian People’s Militia.
Svoboda. 2014. Euromaidan. Major role.
Yatsenyuk (installed by U.S./Soros coup) had three Svoboda ministers.
Sich Battalion formed by Svoboda for war in Donbass.
Why is billionaire Ukrainian Jew Ihor Kolomoyskyi an apologist for Svoboda?
He’s the second or third richest person in Ukraine.
Kolomoysky has triple citizenship: Ukraine, Israel, and Cyprus.
When I clicked on this film on Hulu (translated as Sidewalls), I just expected it to be another film that I would stop watching after 30 seconds.
It vaguely looked like it had Eva Green in it.
Or Natalie Portman.
Thank God it doesn’t.
Instead, it stars Pilar López de Ayala as Mariana and Javier Drolas as Martin.
Indeed, this is the second Argentine film I’ve found which borders on sheer perfection.
The other is El Crítico (which followed two years later in 2013).
It’s true.
Both these films are introspective and self-reflective.
In Medianeras, this is more subtle.
Martin carries around three Tati films in his backpack (the topmost [visible] one being Playtime).
But all of this is academic.
What is important to say is that Medianeras is a cosmic, transcendent romance for the 21st century.
The composition is taut.
The cinematography is deft.
The montage is formidable.
But equally, the writing by director Gustavo Taretto is pristine.
You can look him up.
He’s a big, bushy-bearded 53-year-old.
But I highly admire the mind which came up with this film.
And the eye which brought it to life.
Pilar López de Ayala is magical here.
So many beautiful touches of storytelling.
Sure.
Taretto owes a small debt to Jeunet’s Amélie, but it is ever so small.
Indeed, it is mostly the music (the precious, tick-tock minimalism of the harp) and a pair of sequences involving humorous litanies.
The latter is achieved through copious edits of visual images to match the speaker’s rather cumbersome list(s).
It makes sense.
Amélie was a huge hit on the international stage just ten years prior to Medianeras.
And it too was an excellent film.
So Taretto has borrowed from a source which also indicates his good taste.
But our director has gone much further than merely borrowing.
He has created his own coherent language.
There are amazing sequences with Pilar López de Ayala in her apartment as her next-door neighbor wades through Beethoven and Chopin on a hoisted piano.
It is such that Mariana’s isolated life becomes a sort of postmodern ballet.
Sans dancing.
More brooding than anything.
Playing.
But, above all, being lonely.
And that is what drives this home.
We have a lonely man.
And a lonely woman (Ornette).
And paths which cross.
It’s not just sexual tension, but philosophical tension.
We really don’t know if these two perfect lovers will ever meet.
They are so dangerously close to colliding.
Like electrons.
We want these characters to live forever.
And they do.
In that they are composed of real life foibles.
As both watch Woody Allen in the dark.
And cry.
[as I cry watching them]
And both turn up Daniel Johnston singing “True Love Will Find You in the End”.
As I live with my parents.
[as the late-Daniel Johnston lived with his]
I think.
But I do know this.
That the sidewall in Austin has said, “Hi, how are you?” for so long.
And I am stuck in San Antonio.
Probably a much shittier city than Buenos Aires.
No doubt.
But so achingly-close to my old haunts in Austin.
And I don’t know if I will ever see them again.
Because life is hard.
And my life is generally shit.
“Working” at Starbucks.
Soon enough.
Again.
Not sure.
If my fiancée is dying.
And I am weeping.
Because I can relate to Martin and Mariana.
I can’t sleep.
It is 5 a.m. and I am writing a movie review which probably no one will read.
But I am happy in a strange way.
Because I found a film that reflects my life and makes me feel like all of my romantic longings and eccentricities are not for nothing.
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