A 53-year-old woman in the UK has been jailed for 15 months after posting a Facebook comment in a community group that read “Blow the mosque up with the adults in it. She reportedly lived a “quiet, sheltered” life as the primary caretaker of her disabled husband. Julie Sweeney pleaded guilty to sending a communication…
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US Army Soldier Pleads Guilty After Selling Military Secrets To China
US Army Soldier Pleads Guilty After Selling Military Secrets To China
Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A U.S. Army intelligence analyst has pleaded guilty to charges accusing him of selling military secrets to China for a total of $42,000, according to the Department of Justice.
Sgt. Korbein Schultz was an army intelligence analyst with the First Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment at Fort Campbell, an army installation on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. He was arrested at the military base in March following an indictment by a federal grand jury.
On Aug. 13, Schultz pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, exporting technical data related to defense articles without a license, conspiracy to export defense articles without a license, and bribery of a public official, the Justice Department said in a press release.
“The defendant abused his access to restricted government systems to sell sensitive military information to a person he knew to be a foreign national,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division in a statement.
“By conspiring to transmit national defense information to a person living outside the United States, this defendant callously put our national security at risk to cash in on the trust our military placed in him.”
Schultz held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance in the Army.
He was recruited by an individual who lived in Hong Kong and identified only as “Conspirator A,” whom he suspected of being “associated with the Chinese government,” according to the Justice Department.
The conspiracy started in 2022 until the time of his arrest, the indictment said, and the two used “multiple-based encrypted methods” to communicate.
Schultz handed over dozens of sensitive and restricted, but unclassified, military documents, including information on the HH-60 helicopter, F-22A fighter aircraft, the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, intercontinental ballistic missiles, the B-52 aircraft, the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, according to the indictment.
Conspirator A also asked Schultz to provide information on hypersonic equipment, the indictment said, but it is unclear if Schultz had successfully complied with the request.
HIMARS, a long-range precision strike system, made headlines after Ukraine used U.S.-supplied rocket systems to destroy Russian ammunition depots.
Other documents supplied by Schultz included one discussing lessons learned by the U.S. Army from the Ukraine war that it would apply in a defense of Taiwan, a self-ruled island that China seeks to control.
Schultz also passed on several documents relating to military exercises and the U.S. military forces in South Korea and the Philippines, as well as a document related to U.S. military satellites.
Conspirator A also obtained from Schultz a document about China’s military tactics and another about China’s Liberation Army Rocket Force.
‘Corrupt Other Members’
The indictment also mentioned an individual identified as “U.S. Person 1,” a fellow U.S. Amy solider, whom Schultz had recruited to provide information. Conspirator A asked that U.S. Person 1 provide information related to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), such as documents on the command’s studies of the Ukraine war and Taiwan.
In November 2022, Conspirator A determined that a document titled “INDOPACOM Lessons Learned” provided by U.S. Person 1 was “too simple,” according to the indictment.
On Aug. 10, 2023, Schultz and Conspirator A discussed a case involving two U.S. Navy sailors, who were arrested two days prior for allegedly passing sensitive military information to China.
Following their discussion, Conspirator A told Schultz that “they must be more careful with security,” according to the indictment.
One of the two Navy sailors, Wenheng Zhao of Monterey Park, was sentenced to 27 months in prison in Los Angeles in January.
“This defendant sold national defense information to a foreign actor and conspired to corrupt other members of our military,” said U.S. Attorney Henry Leventis for the Middle District of Tennessee in a statement.
“In doing so, he violated his training and his oath as a member of the armed services and he compromised our national security. Today’s guilty plea to all of the charges in the indictment ensures that he will be held fully accountable for his crimes.”
Schultz is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 23 next year.
Schultz’s attorney Mary Kathryn Harcombe declined to comment
Tyler Durden
Thu, 08/15/2024 – 13:25
LIBBY EMMONS: The Jew haters who took out Minouche Shafik are coming for Kamala Harris
While Kamala is trying to keep the euphoria going, attempting to dance and sing her way into the White House, her base will be out in the street demanding answers.
Iranian mother paralyzed after being shot by police for hijab violation: report
An Iranian mother was left paralyzed after being shot by police in Iran for allegedly violating the country’s strict hijab regulations. The incident occurred when police attempted to pull over 31-year-old Arezoo Badri who was driving home with her sister. After she reportedly refused to stop, officers opened fire, ultimately leaving her severely injured. According…
Massachusetts Set For Record Number Of Deportations Despite Sanctuary State Status
Massachusetts Set For Record Number Of Deportations Despite Sanctuary State Status
Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness,
The state of Massachusetts, which considers itself to be a “sanctuary state” for illegal aliens, is set to carry out a record-high number of deportations of illegals.
As reported by the Daily Caller, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has filed over 44,000 deportation cases in Massachusetts in the first nine months of fiscal year 2024. If new cases continue at this pace, then the end of the fiscal year could see as many as 59,000 deportation cases. The previous record was 54,000 in fiscal year 2023, which previously set the record for the highest number of cases in about 25 years.
Despite previously voicing her support for open borders and vowing to keep the state a “sanctuary” for illegals, Governor Maura Healey (D-Mass.) declared in July that the state would limit the length of time that an illegal could stay at state-run overflow shelters, bringing it down to just five days per illegal.
This rule was implemented at all four overflow shelters, located in Cambridge, Chelsea, Lexington, and Norfolk. These shelters previously allowed illegals to stay for up to 30 days, with the option to simply re-apply for another 30 days indefinitely.
The governor’s office also pledged to pay for plane tickets and all travel expenses just to send illegals out of the state.
“I want to be clear, particularly to people outside of Massachusetts who may have gotten word that this is a place to come, that we do not have room here in Massachusetts,” said Healey during her press conference last month.
In a separate press release around the same time, Healey declared that “Massachusetts is out of shelter space, and we simply cannot afford the current size of this system.”
“That’s why we are making changes to [Emergency Assistance] prioritization and transitioning our safety-net sites to five-day temporary respite centers,” she added.
Healey’s stunning reversal on immigration reflects a broader trend of prominent Democrats who once supported mass migration, asylum, and amnesty for illegals, but who have since flip-flopped and now favor crackdowns on such hordes of illegals flooding into the country.
Other examples including New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D-N.Y.), who has been facing an onslaught of illegals pouring into his city due to it being the single most popular destination for illegals who come into the United States.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 08/15/2024 – 06:30
Who Owns America? Oligarchs Have Bought Up the American Dream
Who Owns America Oligarchs Have Bought Up the American Dream
Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear… They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else… It’s called the American Dream, ’cause you have to be asleep to believe it.”
– George Carlin
Who owns America
Is it the government? The politicians? The corporations? The foreign investors? The American people?
While the Deep State keeps the nation divided and distracted by a presidential election whose outcome is foregone (the police state’s stranglehold on power will ensure the continuation of endless wars and out-of-control spending, while disregarding the citizenry’s fundamental rights and the rule of law), America is literally being bought and sold right out from under us.
Consider the facts.
We’re losing more and more of our land every year to corporations and foreign interests. Foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land has increased by 66% since 2010. In 2021, it was reported that foreign investors owned approximately 40 million acres of U.S. agricultural land, which is more than the entire state of Iowa. By 2022 that number had grown to 43.4 million acres. The rate at which U.S. farmland is being bought up by foreign interests grew by 2.2 million acres per year from 2015 to 2021. The number of U.S. farm acres owned by foreign entities grew more than 8% (3.4 million acres) in 2022.
We’re losing more and more of our businesses every year to foreign corporations and interests. Although China owns a small fraction of foreign-owned U.S. land at 380,000 acres (less than the state of Rhode Island), Chinese companies and investors are also buying up major food companies, commercial and residential real estate, and other businesses. As RetailWire explains, “Currently, many brands started by early American pioneers now wave international flags. This revolution is a direct result of globalization.” The growing list of once-notable American brands that have been sold to foreign corporations includes: U.S. Steel (now Japanese-owned); General Electric (Chinese-owned); Budweiser (Belgium); Burger King (Canada); 7-Eleven (Japan); Jeep, Chrysler, and Dodge (Netherlands); and IBM (China).
We’re digging ourselves deeper and deeper into debt, both as a nation and as a populace. Basically, the U.S. government is funding its existence with a credit card, spending money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford. The bulk of that debt has been amassed over the past two decades, thanks in large part to the fiscal shenanigans of four presidents, 10 sessions of Congress and two wars. The national debt (the amount the federal government has borrowed over the years and must pay back) is more than $34 trillion and will grow another $19 trillion by 2033. Foreign ownership makes up 29% of the U.S. debt held by the public. Of that amount, reports the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, “52 percent was held by private foreign investors while foreign governments held the remaining 48 percent.”
The Fourth Estate has been taken over by media conglomerates that prioritize profit over principle. Independent news agencies, which were supposed to act as bulwarks against government propaganda, have been subsumed by a global corporate takeover of newspapers, television and radio. Consequently, a handful of corporations now control most of the media industry and, thus, the information dished out to the public. Likewise, with Facebook and Google having appointed themselves the arbiters of disinformation, we now find ourselves grappling with new levels of corporate censorship by entities with a history of colluding with the government to keep the citizenry mindless, muzzled and in the dark.
Most critically of all, however, the U.S. government, long ago sold to the highest bidders, has become little more than a shell company, a front for corporate interests. Nowhere is this state of affairs more evident than in the manufactured spectacle that is the presidential election. As for members of Congress, long before they’re elected, they are trained to dance to the tune of their wealthy benefactors, so much so that they spend two-thirds of their time in office raising money. As Reuters reports, “It also means that lawmakers often spend more time listening to the concerns of the wealthy than anyone else.”
In the oligarchy that is the American police state, it clearly doesn’t matter who wins the White House, because they all work for the same boss: a Corporate State that has gone global.
So much for living the American dream.
“We the people” have become the new, permanent underclass in America.
We’re being forced to shell out money for endless wars that are bleeding us dry; money for surveillance systems to track our movements; money to further militarize our already militarized police; money to allow the government to raid our homes and bank accounts; money to fund schools where our kids learn nothing about freedom and everything about how to comply; and on and on.
This is no way of life.
It’s tempting to say that there’s little we can do about it, except that’s not quite accurate.
There are a few things we can do (demand transparency, reject cronyism and graft, insist on fair pricing and honest accounting methods, call a halt to incentive-driven government programs that prioritize profits over people), but it will require that “we the people” stop playing politics and stand united against the politicians and corporate interests who have turned our government and economy into a pay-to-play exercise in fascism.
Unfortunately, we’ve become so invested in identity politics that label us based on our political leanings that we’ve lost sight of the one label that unites us: we’re all Americans.
The powers-that-be want us to adopt an “us versus them” mindset that keeps us powerless and divided. Yet as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, the only “us versus them” that matters is “we the people” against the Deep State.
Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/14/2024 – 23:25
EXCLUSIVE: Jack Posobiec joined by ‘J6 praying grandma’: ‘I will not let my grandchildren be brought into a country with Marxist ideology’
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