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10 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Although this article on the foreign assassins of the Haitian President doesn’t explicitly say so, I note that Colombian ex-military guns for hire (sicarios) have been a mainstay of Erik Prince’s operations, including in the Middle East (a theater mentioned in the article).
I’m not alleging any involvement by Prince in the Haitian assassination. I’m calling attention again (I’ve tweeted about this before) to the fact that he resorts to contract gun slingers of the sort used in Port au Prince (not all Colombian ex-mil, of course).
Here’s the article: amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
One things’s clear: the op was either poorly planned or it got derailed. What was the exfiltration plan ? To have guys hiding in bushes on main thoroughfares, grabbed by crowds, isn’t the hallmark of a tidy plan. There’s a ‘cowboy’ element to this, which may tell us something.

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11 Jul
We’ll see what the Select Committee is able to do in uncovering the leadership and funding of Jan. 6, and its GOP collaborators. It must not, however, serve as a substitute for criminal investigations of senior officials.
Have senior military officers been called for interviews on their interactions with civilian counterparts that day ? Uniformed personnel will cooperate, if questioned directly. Their info should be productive.
The DOJ investigations of Jan. 6 are centered in the U.S Attorney’s office for D.C. and the FBI’s Washington, D.C. field office. From published DOJ statements thus far, there’s no reason to believe they are investigating senior political figures’ involvement.
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26 Jun
With all the furore over Fetullah Gulen over the years, it’s curious that few top investigative journalists have examined the current Turkish govt.’s allegation that the U.S. harbors Gulen because he is an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. That he is, in fact, a U.S. agent.
They adduce: Gulen’s permanent residency was sponsored by at least one retired CIA operative (true); Gulen’s global network is sustained by cash flow from his U.S. schools; Gulen schools and facilities in other countries (e.g., East Africa) have provided cover for the U.S. IC.
Most importantly, they say USG plays Gulen against Erdogan, with the ever present threat of Gulen’s return (like Khomeini returning from Paris) somehow constraining Erdogan.
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29 May
Two conversations with NYC friends yesterday offered contrasting impressions of NY’s current recovery. One, a high end realtor, said “I think we’re back. My artsy friends have resumed their normal routines of screenings, gallery shows and the rest. Life is returning to normal.”
The other, a businessman who went for a meeting y’day at the Paramount Building on Broadway, said the lobby security man told him that, in normal times, the security desk processed 8,000 visitors/ day. Now 800. Entire floors stand vacant.
Both are valid indicators. Cultural life is rebounding but office-based commercial life is not. The City’s economy, as now configured, cannot sustain prolonged absence of the latter. Same is true in other cities (downtown Boston still a ghost town, according to a lawyer there).
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16 May
A lasting solution to the Israel-Palestine problem has eluded us for more than 40 years. Here is my father in 1979 casting the U.S. vote against a UN resolution (which passed) calling for PLO representation in all talks touching on Palestine.
britishpathe.com/video/VLVA86KU…
Another of my father's votes (on Israel-Lebanon), from NYT June 15, 1979: nytimes.com/1979/06/15/arc…
This was the Carter administration. As is true of all Ambassadors, my father spoke as instructed by his government. My point is not that these, or other, votes were right or wrong. It is that this issue has eluded a solution, despite immense efforts, for a very long time.
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17 Jan
Thread. Watching many videos of the insurrectionist strike at the Capitol, I’m struck by the frequency of bellowed cries of “This is *our* country !” and “This is *our* house !” A distinctly proprietorial refrain.
Also, a real sense of panic, of being at the last ditch: “This is our *last chance* to save our country !” What unites a full spectrum of white people in feeling that way ? What is the source of that panic ? It can only be one thing: race and multi-culturalism.
Trump welded himself to these people by overt appeals to racism and xenophobia. He appeared as a messiah to them because, for the first time, a President preached the racist gospel from our highest pulpit. Trump will live in their hearts as long as they remain racists.
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16 Jan
Re. “Extreme lengths.” Trump is in checkmate. He doesn’t have a move. If he incites more insurrection (at state level, most likely, given strength of force now in D.C.), and uses that to invoke the Insurrection Act, as My Pillow guy urges, what’s the upshot ?
The Act would enable him to deploy the state’s National Guard to quell the disturbance. A disturbance caused by his own people, incited by him, but let that pass for the moment. What would the situation then be ?
We’d have NG facing off w/ pro-Trump rioters. That’s it. The Act gives no further powers to install military government, oust elected officials or ‘pause’ the Constitution in any other way. It’s simply a riot control measure (last used in LA riots after Rodney King beating).
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