[SAGO Global] "You first have to evaluate the situation, then make a plan, apply some resources to that plan and then you need to stay flexible enough to execute the plan if the situation changes.", Will says, and adds that this mindset and confidence is something he is keen on passing on to his own children:
"It would be a success story if I could teach them that they can do anything that they put their mind to."
Will served in the military for 21 years, of which three years in the Irish Special Operations, the Army Ranger Wings, where he was a sniper. Will sees that his experiences in the military gave him lots of skills that translate to hunting:
"It gave me confidence in the mountains with navigation, how to sustain yourself over long periods of time, how to plan and prepare for a mission and understanding what are low and high probability situations.", Will tells and continues:
"I’ve learnt that even though things go wrong you just need to apply yourself and keep going. It’ll all work out in the end. And if it doesn’t, it's not the end. Just keep going, keep trying, stay flexible, don't be afraid to ask for help and don’t be shy of giving help to others."
[SteynOnline] ~Almost every story in the news boils down to the same story: Man is on the endangered species list.
A week ago, I wrote about the so-called "Montreal Massacre" - which happened on the scale it did because the "men" walked away and abandoned their female classmates to their fate. You can't discuss that - not honestly - in the Canadian press, but, over at American Thinker, Eric Utter commented:
Real men, marinating in their 'toxic masculinity,' will stand up for women and say "enough!" as regards 'trans women' in women's bathrooms and locker rooms. And real men, of the toxically masculine variety, would not ignore the gang rapes of innocent young girls that are being committed by 'immigrants.'
No sooner had he written it than a New York jury acquitted of murder 26-year-old Daniel Penny - referred to by the prosecutor throughout the trial as "the white guy". The non-white guy - one Jordan Neely - had entered the subway car and announced to its passengers that "I'm gonna kill everybody".
So Mr Penny acted, and prevented that. It is not for the distant authorities to second-guess his actions. The writ of the state does not run on New York public transit. Just this weekend some guy was shoved onto the southbound tracks at Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center Station in Brooklyn. The same day a 74-year-old man was shoved onto the tracks at the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station in the Bronx. The perp yelled "I didn't do it!" immediately after doing it. In Queens an 82-year-old woman was shoved onto the tracks...
It is pathetic that in a supposed First World city octogenarian ladies cannot ride public transit without wondering if they're going to wind up under the train, and that "Subway Shoves" is now a news category at The New York Post. But the reality is that you're on your own down there, and you shouldn't have to calculate whether the guy who announces that he's gonna kill everybody is just mouthing off or whether he means it. And, if you're an 82-year-old who was "assigned female at birth", it helps to have a Daniel Penny in the vicinity when what passes for civilisation in the contemporary west suddenly dissolves to nothing.
Mr Penny's acquittal is being hailed as some sort of great victory. But, as someone who's been through the New York courts, I wonder. Yes, he's survived and he may even have grounds for "malicious prosecution" - although, like finding any real justice, that's a toughie in New York. But it may well be that the net effect of what happened to the accused is that next time the situation arises there will be those who figure discretion is the better part of valour and maybe they'll sit this one out.
I note also that it is Daniel Penny's fellow 26-year-old who is a hero all over the Internet for assassinating a health-insurance CEO on the Sixth Avenue sidewalk. We are approaching the condition of those excitable Mohammedans: as we used to joke in the early years of the (lost) "war on terror" (and probably can't reprise in today's media), a "moderate Muslim" doesn't want to chop your head off, he just wants to watch and cheer the guy who does. In a society that has de-humanised half the population and incentivised violence against them, you're expected to act as that prosecutor asserted Mr Penny should have done: these guys are just blowing off steam.
For the most part. The CEO slayer is some valedictorian trustiefundie from a prominent family; c'mon, he's not gonna act upon his rhetoric, is he? Brian Thompson, whose impeccably progressive United Health Care covers both penectomies and phalloplasties (which may be why they've no money left for your cancer), will not be the last to discover too late that it's harder than you think to insulate yourself from the pathologies of the age.
To take the two examples of "toxic masculinity" Eric Utter cites above:
It is the official policy of almost all the key institutions throughout the United States and His Majesty's dominions that so pathetically mimic it that, as a practical and increasingly legal matter, there is no such thing as biological sex - that a "man" and "woman" are mere social constructs, and "gender" is just something that is "assigned at birth", and can be just as randomly un-assigned. This will not end well.
Indeed - unlike disputing, say, the divinity of Jesus - it is increasingly difficult to voice any dissent from this official narrative. In May this year, my old friends at The Spectator published a piece by Gareth Roberts on an appearance by Nicola Sturgeon at some literary festival. The former First Minister of Scotland was, in Mr Roberts' words, "interviewed by writer Juno Dawson, a man who claims to be a woman, and so the conversation naturally turned to gender". IPSO, the UK press regulator, ruled that the words were not "inaccurate" but that nevertheless they should not have been published, and required The Spectator to print their decision. You can't say Juno Dawson "claims to be a woman"; she is a woman - as much a woman, as 100 per cent all-woman as, oh, Jane Russell or Gina Lollobrigida.
Nine months after an Army four-star general was reported to have repeatedly interfered with a command selection board to favor his apparent mistress, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth has forced General Charles Hamilton into retirement.
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth -- in a dramatic and rare move -- on Tuesday fired one of the service's top generals following an Army inspector general investigation that concluded he improperly intervened in the process for selecting senior commanders.
Gen. Charles Hamilton, who had been the head of Army Materiel Command, was removed after what officials described as a flagrant abuse of authority aimed at securing a leadership role for a subordinate officer who was found unfit for command and had an inappropriate relationship with the general, according to the IG report.
The move marks the first time in nearly 20 years an Army four-star general has been outright fired and comes after a Military.com investigation in March detailed how he attempted to intervene on behalf of the subordinate officer. The publication's report earlier this year immediately triggered both his suspension from the command leadership position and the inspector general probe.
They call it "dramatic," I call it pathetically inadequate and long overdue.
I've covered this story previously; see Four-Star General Suspended and Under IG Investigation for Tampering With Command Selection Board and Go Big or Go Home: Army General Blasts 'Racist' Promotion System as Reason He Meddled to Help a Favorite.
All the details at the link
But now we have more information.
General Randy George, the Army Chief of Staff, knew what Hamilton was doing and abetted it. George was Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's senior military assistant before his meteoric rise to the Army's chief of staff.
The officer Hamilton pushed onto the command list was in the bottom 1% of the 811 officers considered for battalion command.
This officer's second shot at command selection was the first time anyone had been given a second shot.
General George inserted this officer on the command list despite her having been twice declared unqualified.
Hamilton was banging the officer he was trying to get promoted.
WHY IS GENERAL GEORGE STILL EMPLOYED?
While I find Hamilton's actions reprehensible and profoundly stupid, I understand them. Burning down a career and trashing a marriage wouldn't even make it into the top tier of stupid stuff men have done in pursuit of sex. He was blatant, he got caught, and he paid a yet undetermined price.
On the other hand, General George sacrificed his integrity; he forced weaker men to sacrifice theirs, and he damaged the entire Army by meddling in the command selection process and calling into question the fairness of future selection boards. And to what end? Did he owe Hamilton a favor? I think that unlikely with two men of such disparate careers. Did he really think the selection process was racist? If so, why intervene on behalf of a single woman officer when there were undoubtedly other black women not selected? Why not order the system changed rather than convening a clean-team to tidy up her sudden insertion on the command list? Or did he simply obey the Army's DEI regime in the best tradition of Mark "White Rage" Milley and strike a blow against racism and the patriarchy?
It doesn't really matter. When the man at the top of the Army is so utterly corrupt, the system has to act. It can either toss him out in a very public way, “pour encourager les autres," as Voltaire would have said, or it can embrace the corruption. Right now, it looks like corruption is winning.
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...I'm wondering if this would have happened had the election turned out differently. Too many people involved in this would have still been there on January 20th, and I think this is them saying, "Seem we threw the guy out the window - we cool?"
Do you detect the conspicuous lack of conviction in DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the Jan 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol building, which has been the central device for defeating the populist revolt against the treasonous DC blob? And did you notice that it took him four years to report on the event? Weird, a little bit, ya think?
I’ll tell you why: because when investigators genuinely interested in the truth come on the scene, soon to happen, a very different story will be revealed. The Horowitz report is a last ditch attempt, at the very last moment, to get ahead of that true story — which is that the FBI and its parent, the DOJ, have been lawlessly and in bad faith acting against their oaths to defend constitutional government.
For eight years — including the four when Mr. Trump was president — the FBI and DOJ worked tirelessly to run him out of office and make sure he could never return. The effort was prodigious and, astoundingly, it failed. It was launched initially to conceal the crimes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, especially their moneygrubbing in Russia around the Skolkovo project — Russia’s Silicon Valley — and the Uranium One scandal — which involved the sale of US nuclear assets to Russia’s state-owned Rosatom company. The Clintons’ problems became especially acute in the summer of 2016 when Hillary’s private (outside government) email server came to light with its thousands of potentially incriminating memos. Looked like trouble.
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Units of the regiment, and then the special forces division "Brandenburg", were guilty of the extermination of many civilians in Belarus and Russia.
Report from the Chief of the SMERSH R&D Department of the 61st Army, Colonel V.I. Budarev, to the Chief of the SMERSH R&D Department of the 1st Belorussian Front, Lieutenant General A.A. Vadis, “On units of the German Brandenburg-800 Regiment operating in front of the 61st Army.” June 14, 1944.
Report from the Chief of the SMERSH R&D Department of the 61st Army, Colonel V.I. Budarev, to the Chief of the SMERSH R&D Department of the 1st Belorussian Front, Lieutenant General A.A. Vadis, “On units of the German Brandenburg-800 Regiment operating in front of the 61st Army.” June 14, 1944.
The Public Relations Center of the FSB of Russia has posted digital copies of previously unpublished declassified archival documents on the criminal activities of a special purpose unit of German military intelligence in the territory of the Byelorussian SSR on the official website of the agency in the "History" section. In punitive operations to combat Soviet partisans, units of the regiment, and from April 1943, the "Brandenburg-800" division, cruelly dealt with civilians - they shot women, old people and children, carried out "scorched earth" tactics in various areas of Belarus and Bryansk.
"By order of Sergeant Major Leimpfuhl, the entire civilian population was collected and placed in two houses. In one of the houses there were approximately 50 civilians, in the other about 25. I personally received an unpleasant order - to shoot 50 civilians. One of the soldiers helped me with this. Corporal Dusche was brought in to shoot the civilians placed in the other house. The shooting was carried out with machine guns. At the same time, others shot the cattle. After this, by order of the platoon commander, all the houses were set on fire. I myself set fire to the house in which I shot the villagers after I was sure that they were all dead."
This testimony was given by Sergeant Major Hubert Kerstges, a former assistant commander of the 1st Platoon of the 9th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the Brandenburg Division, who was captured and dressed as a Red Army soldier. He was the former assistant commander of the 1st Platoon of the 9th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the Brandenburg Division, about the execution of an order received on April 29–30, 1944, from the battalion command to “wipe off the field map,” that is, to completely destroy the village of Povchen, northwest of the city of Turov in occupied Belarus.
The 1st Platoon of the “Brandenburgers” carried out the barbaric order: all the inhabitants were shot, the village was burned, and the property was plundered.
Here is another fragment from the testimony of the same Sergeant Major, about how he, as part of his unit, participated in the destruction of the village of Maloye Kovalyovo, located near the city of Surazh, in August 1942.
“The 2nd Platoon received an order from Oberleutnant Boettcher to gather the entire population together and shoot those who refused to leave their homes. In addition, the 2nd platoon received an order to gather all the cattle. About 8-10 women, 10-12 children, 4-5 old people were shot. The population was evacuated and handed over to the local commandant's office of the city of Surazh. My group and I set fire to about 15 houses, and in one of the houses there was a shot woman with three children. The collected cattle was handed over to Surazh."
Another episode from Kerstges's testimony is about the atrocities in the village of Novaya Bolocha (a district of Babruisk, Byelorussian SSR), committed by punitive forces in early December 1943. After the Germans were fired upon by partisans on their approach to the village, they lay down and did not stick their noses out until reinforcements arrived and an anti-aircraft gun was brought up. Only after several shots from the gun were fired at the village did the "Brandenburgers" company go on the attack. No one was shooting at them anymore - "... the partisans apparently fled into the forest and the village was almost empty, if you don't count a few civilians.
By order of the company commander, all civilians, as well as livestock, were gathered together and the houses were set on fire. While carrying out this order, I was forced to shoot one man, aged 50-55, because he refused to leave his house. In addition to this man, an old woman was shot there, because due to her old age she could not march."
This is how this degenerate explained the reason for shooting the old woman: "she could not march."
In the documents declassified and published today on the website of the Russian FSB, there are more than enough examples of such bloody atrocities committed by the Brandenburg soldiers. So this formation, which for most of the Great Patriotic War was directly subordinate to the Abwehr II department (sabotage and subversion), proved itself not only in carrying out special-purpose tasks, for which it was originally created.
Those readers who are interested in the history of special forces in different countries probably know that Brandenburg of German military intelligence is one of the most famous special forces formations of the Second World War. Formed in 1939 as a special purpose construction and training company, by the summer of 1940 it had been expanded into the 800th Special Purpose Training Regiment Brandenburg (German: Lehr-Regiment Brandenburg zb V. 800), which was directly subordinate to the Abwehr II Directorate (sabotage and diversion) (German: Amt Ausland/Abwehr II).
In early April 1943, the Brandenburg Division was formed, which was then removed from Abwehr control and transferred to the Supreme Command of the Ground Forces (OKH). In September 1944, the division was reformed into a motorized division (German: Panzer-Grenadier-Division Brandenburg).
Initially, Brandenburg was staffed by ethnic Germans who knew foreign languages and had good physical fitness.
They participated in the Polish, Belgian, French campaigns and others, as well as in the attack on the Soviet Union. The list of tasks of the "Brandenburgers" included the capture of important strategic objects behind enemy lines, conducting other sabotage operations, conducting reconnaissance, capturing languages, and the like.
On the Soviet-German front, to carry out tasks, the "Brandenburgers" often dressed up as Soviet military personnel, armed themselves with Soviet weapons, supplied themselves with fictitious documents and acted under the guise of Red Army units.
From the beginning of 1943, the "Brandenburg" units began to be increasingly used, along with counterintelligence formations of the German military intelligence, in punitive operations to combat partisans and carry out "scorched earth" tactics, brutally killing civilians.
The Soviet special services meticulously collected information about the enemy's sabotage and reconnaissance units, their structure, tactics, command staff, etc.
On June 14, 1944, the head of the counterintelligence department (OKR) "Smersh" of the 61st Army, Colonel V.I. Budarev, sent a report to the head of the counterintelligence department (UKR) "Smersh" of the 1st Belorussian Front, Lieutenant General A.A. Vadis "On units of the German regiment "Brandenburg-800" operating in front of the 61st Army."
The document, in particular, reported:
"In the period from October 18 to November 29, 1943, in the Bobruisk-Bykhov-Rogachev area, by order of the 9th Army's rear department, a large punitive expedition was carried out against the partisans by security units, in which the 3rd battalion of the Brandenburg division took part.
Each soldier was informed of the battalion commander's order to burn down all populated areas in the area, and to shoot on the spot any civilians encountered in the forests, regardless of age...
According to incomplete data, the 3rd battalion of the Brandenburg division burned down about eight villages and shot over 200 Soviet citizens in the Chechevichi village area alone."
The 3rd regiment of the Brandenburg division, which took part in punitive operations against civilians and partisans, was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Franz Jacobi during the period specified in the document.
...The author of these lines, while serving in Georgia in the early 2000s, knew one of the bearers of this surname - then a youngish German employee of the OSCE mission in Georgia. He was very proud of his origin, emphasizing that this surname belongs to an old German family. I wonder if he knew what his namesake did on the territory of our country during the war? Unlikely.
Maybe he will find out after this publication. Although it is not a fact - in the "free" countries of the European Union, the site of "Red Star" is currently blocked. However, let us return to the topic to complete it.
Based on the received reports of the OKR "SMERSH" of the armies, in early July 1944, the head of the UKR "SMERSH" of the 1st Belorussian Front sent a detailed report to the Military Council of the Front "On the actions of a unit of the Brandenburg-800 division in the sector of the 1st Belorussian Front." The document emphasized that the captured punitive forces of the 3rd Brandenburg Regiment would be court-martialed. So Kerstges and his accomplices have paid in full for what they did.
We must remember their crimes. And do everything in our power to ensure that such things do not happen again.
The spelling and punctuation of the document have been preserved.
While the militants who have seized power make promises that delight Western journalists, the country is drowning in blood
Since the start of the large-scale offensive by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied opposition groups, the HTS-led Syrian Salvation Government has issued a series of loud statements.
The first concerned Russia and its support of the Syrian authorities. Russian troops were the only ones to oppose the advancing opposition forces, and the rebels urged them to end the strikes on terrorist positions, claiming that such actions would only result in civilian casualties. The Syrian Salvation Government said that its actions were aimed against the Syrian authorities, not Moscow, with which the militants intend to establish mutually beneficial cooperation.
Next, the Salvation Government released statements concerning neighboring countries. It called on Iraq to close its borders and prevent pro-Iranian groups from entering Syria to help exiled President Bashar Assad. Additionally, the rebels proclaimed that they would protect all foreign embassies, humanitarian organizations, and journalists.
A separate statement was issued regarding chemical weapons, their production facilities and storage sites. The Salvation Government assured media that these weapons would never be used and would not fall into irresponsible hands, and invited relevant international organizations to monitor them.
Some of the rebels’ most notable promises were made to ethnic and religious minorities in Syria, including Kurds, Alawites, Christians, and Shiites. The Salvation Government declared that no minority would face genocide or persecution for their views and beliefs, since they are an integral part of the Syrian nation. It also said that inclusivity is the strength, not the weakness, of the future Syria.
In addressing the Kurds, the rebels condemned the barbaric practices of ISIS, such as murder, slavery, and other brutal actions committed against the Kurdish population by jihadists. They also guaranteed the safety of Syrian soldiers who laid down their arms and surrendered.
These statements by the Salvation Government and the HTS leader, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, were met with enthusiasm by prominent experts of Islamic radicalism and fundamentalism. They praised al-Julani’s professionalism, transparency, and moderate views, and the fact that he distanced himself from his jihadist roots.
Western media picked up this narrative and, in an attempt to whitewash the rebel leader, CNN released an exclusive interview with him. In this interview, al-Julani repeated the above-mentioned statements made by the Syrian Salvation Government and noted that the ambitions of HTS and its allies are confined to Syria, which should reassure potential adversaries and key regional players. The goals of HTS, he claimed, were to overthrow Bashar Assad and then to start “building Syria” – and the rebels had already achieved the first goal.
However, as often happens, the statements issued by the rebels were far from the truth. HTS terrorists and allied opposition groups have already released dozens of videos demonstrating executions of members of Arab-Kurdish forces, Syrian soldiers (even those who surrendered voluntarily), Alawites, and Shiites. In several video clips, militants are seen slitting the throats of their captives.
Additionally, there are videos of the rebels hunting down former soldiers, which they refer to as “patrolling” or “clearing” an area. Mostly, their targets are shot on the spot. In addition, the rebels have published dozens of video messages threatening various minorities and neighboring countries. Some of them claim that the coup in Syria gives them the freedom to destroy Israel and liberate Palestinian territories.
Russian-speaking terrorists from the Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar and Ajnad al-Kavkaz jihadist militant groups, whose former leader and certain members are currently fighting in the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the side of Ukraine, have threatened that their next target will be Russia.
The actions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and affiliated opposition groups have nothing in common with the rebels’ public statements. They stand in stark contrast to the promises of a measured and moderate stance when it comes to the future of Syria and the status of its minorities.
Since the Syrian Salvation Government was established in 2017, we have closely monitored the rebels’ statements and propaganda. The militants claim that peace and stability reign in the areas under their control in Syria’s Idlib governorate, where all problems are resolved effortlessly; and al-Julani, they say, would have no trouble applying his “invaluable experience” of governing Idlib to the rest of Syria.
In reality, the population was facing immense economic and social hardships. Even significant financial support from Türkiye failed to make a difference. The funds were simply embezzled by the leadership of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. Abu Mohammad al-Julani established an absolute totalitarian regime where torture, abduction of dissenters, and extrajudicial killings thrived. In Idlib province, weekly protests against HTS and its leadership took place. Al-Julani even resorted to orchestrating terrorist attacks, human trafficking, and a drugs trade. This was confirmed by Abu Ahmed Zakura, the former chief financier and head of security for the group, who fled Idlib in December 2023.
By the Directorate 4 team, an analytical and monitoring center researching Islamic radicalism and fundamentalism
[X] New HTS Justice Minister: Sharia Law yes, women judges no
Female judges now excluded from courts in Syria.
The first step taken by Syria's new justice minister, Shadi Alwaisi, is to decree that female judges will be banned from courts that are now reserved exclusively for men. All pending cases handled by women will have to be… pic.twitter.com/D0VAZxmcGn
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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