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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
"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
Loitering munitions is an interesting advancement but someone needs to pick up Gerald Bull's mantle. Nothing says king of battle like a 1,322 pound payload going 600 miles using 9 metric tons of propellant.
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Loitering munitions is an interesting advancement but someone needs to pick up Gerald Bull's mantle. Nothing says king of battle like a 1,322 pound payload going 600 miles using 9 metric tons of propellant.
J'aimerais faire nettoyer la montre de poche de mon grand-père par un professionnel, mais elle garde encore parfaitement l'heure
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
J'aimerais faire nettoyer la montre de poche de mon grand-père par un professionnel, mais elle garde encore parfaitement l'heure
Negatives from the the CIA Cuba raid variously called Operation Tilt or the Bayo Pawley affair. Sponsored by Life magazine and the Mafia and was designed to provide a source for the Cubans Johnny Roselli would claim were turned by Castro and set on jfk. Some pics nab Pawley's yacht Flying Tiger II
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Negatives from the the CIA Cuba raid variously called Operation Tilt or the Bayo Pawley affair. Sponsored by Life magazine and the Mafia and was designed to provide a source for the Cubans Johnny Roselli would claim were turned by Castro and set on jfk. Some pics nab Pawley's yacht Flying Tiger II
Not only did they keep it on forever, they documented the horrific behind the scenes thinking that colored their decisions.
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Not only did they keep it on forever, they documented the horrific behind the scenes thinking that colored their decisions.
archive.org/details/amer... Land Sales fraud was the back bone of most media in the late 60s through the mid 70s and we are all poorer for it.
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
archive.org/details/amer... Land Sales fraud was the back bone of most media in the late 60s through the mid 70s and we are all poorer for it.
It looks a b t like the Robert Dietrich novels were designed to create a cover for Hunt to get into the publishing business as he ran domestic propaganda operations.
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
It looks a b t like the Robert Dietrich novels were designed to create a cover for Hunt to get into the publishing business as he ran domestic propaganda operations.
Boldest institutional in joke in Cold War publishing history? Evidence of systematic covert signaling to operatives who would recognize the code? Propaganda ?
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Boldest institutional in joke in Cold War publishing history? Evidence of systematic covert signaling to operatives who would recognize the code? Propaganda ?
The Novels's of E Howard Hunt as a Roman à clef for covert funding mechanisms. Dietrich novels encode proprietary funding as villain plots matching real covert structures: layering, shells, covers. Near-total across the series. #booksky @zachsdorfman.bsky.social @wylienewmark.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The Novels's of E Howard Hunt as a Roman à clef for covert funding mechanisms. Dietrich novels encode proprietary funding as villain plots matching real covert structures: layering, shells, covers. Near-total across the series. #booksky @zachsdorfman.bsky.social @wylienewmark.bsky.social
When the FBI investigates a CIA front (proprietary) you get weirdness in the meta data. Curtis at the time was engaged in a covert economic warfare operation involving the Canadian land and Mr. Semenenko and it was to the detriment of Curtis. Lots here despite the brush off of the complainant 1/
October 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
When the FBI investigates a CIA front (proprietary) you get weirdness in the meta data. Curtis at the time was engaged in a covert economic warfare operation involving the Canadian land and Mr. Semenenko and it was to the detriment of Curtis. Lots here despite the brush off of the complainant 1/
Cultures that promote looking down on someone for not knowing something you just learned yesterday are full of this type of trivia focused nonsense pivoting around one or two facts divorced from context.The ME 262 Sturmvogel was a cool plane, doesn't make a horse drawn army a tech marvel.
October 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Cultures that promote looking down on someone for not knowing something you just learned yesterday are full of this type of trivia focused nonsense pivoting around one or two facts divorced from context.The ME 262 Sturmvogel was a cool plane, doesn't make a horse drawn army a tech marvel.
Perplexity.ai explaining why it its unethical to and wont provide TATP explosive synthesis instructions and then lying about ever having done so. Dangerous chemistry instructions are NBD but 🔥🚒 on the failure of LLM guardrails. It really was not supposed to give me the synthesis in pic 3, but... 1/2
October 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Perplexity.ai explaining why it its unethical to and wont provide TATP explosive synthesis instructions and then lying about ever having done so. Dangerous chemistry instructions are NBD but 🔥🚒 on the failure of LLM guardrails. It really was not supposed to give me the synthesis in pic 3, but... 1/2
America has fallen into the hands of autocrats.
October 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
America has fallen into the hands of autocrats.
America I mean. I don't know what comes next but America has fallen. We are a corrupt mafia state and the US military is the enemy of the citizen in the street.
September 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
America I mean. I don't know what comes next but America has fallen. We are a corrupt mafia state and the US military is the enemy of the citizen in the street.
Prager U will "ceftifiy" Oklahoma's teacher bias test.
September 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Prager U will "ceftifiy" Oklahoma's teacher bias test.