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No wonder they don’t want us to know who the “whistleblower” is

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It is allegedly (and almost certainly) Eric Ciaramella, and he’s not exactly what you’d call an objective observer:

Former White House officials said Ciaramella worked on Ukrainian policy issues for Biden in 2015 and 2016, when the vice president was President Obama’s “point man” for Ukraine. A Yale graduate, Ciaramella is said to speak Russian and Ukrainian, as well as Arabic. He had been assigned to the NSC by Brennan.

He was held over into the Trump administration, and headed the Ukraine desk at the NSC, eventually transitioning into the West Wing, until June 2017.

“He was moved over to the front office” to temporarily fill a vacancy, said a former White House official, where he “saw everything, read everything.”

The official added that it soon became clear among NSC staff that Ciaramella opposed the new Republican president’s foreign policies. “My recollection of Eric is that he was very smart and very passionate, particularly about Ukraine and Russia. That was his thing – Ukraine,” he said. “He didn’t exactly hide his passion with respect to what he thought was the right thing to do with Ukraine and Russia, and his views were at odds with the president’s policies.”

“So I wouldn’t be surprised if he was the whistleblower,” the official said.

In May 2017, Ciaramella went “outside his chain of command,” according to a former NSC co-worker, to send an email alerting another agency that Trump happened to hold a meeting with Russian diplomats in the Oval Office the day after firing Comey, who led the Trump-Russia investigation. The email also noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had phoned the president a week earlier.

Contents of the email appear to have ended up in the media, which reported Trump boasted to the Russian officials about firing Comey, whom he allegedly called “crazy, a real nut job.”

In effect, Ciaramella helped generate the “Putin fired Comey” narrative, according to the research dossier making the rounds in Congress, a copy of which was obtained by RealClearInvestigations.

The guy’s been a busy little beaver, hasn’t he? He appears to be one of those Obama holdover moles I described in this post:

Right after the 2016 election, I read some articles describing people in government who had decided to stay put and secretly sabotage Trump. These articles weren’t exposes written by the right; they were proud confessions from the left, part of the righteous Resistance.

We are seeing the fruit of that today.

I hadn’t noted the links to any of those articles at the time, so recently I got curious to see whether I could find one. Here’s an excerpt from one typical article of the type, published in Vanity Fair on February 1, 2017, twelve days after Trump’s inauguration [emphasis mine]:

“Others, however, view resistance as a part of the job. ‘Policy dissent is in our culture,’ one diplomat in Africa, who signed the letter circulating among foreign diplomats, told The New York Times. ‘We even have awards for it,’ this person added, in reference to the State Department’s ‘Constructive Dissent’ award. One Justice Department employee told the Post, ‘You’re going to see the bureaucrats using time to their advantage,’ and added that ‘people here will resist and push back against orders they find unconscionable,’ by whistle-blowing, leaking to the press, and lodging internal complaints. Others are staying in contact with officials appointed by President Obama to learn more about how they can undermine Trump’s agenda and attending workshops on how to effectively engage in civil disobedience, the Post reports.”

…And then we have this, from the same article [emphasis added]:

“When asked how the opposition emerging at this stage compares to past administrations, Tom Malinow­ski, who served as Obama’s assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, sarcastically told the Post, ‘Is it unusual? There’s nothing unusual about the entire national security bureaucracy of the United States feeling like their commander in chief is a threat to U.S. national security. That happens all the time. It’s totally usual. Nothing to worry about.'”

The “nothing unusual” part was sarcasm, of course. But the rest was deadly serious. The plan was in place from the start, and it’s not some wild conspiracy-mongering to say so. This is a clandestine conspiracy, but not a completely secret one in the sense that we were told about its general thrust in advance by the proud perpetrators themselves. An interesting detail from those quotes is that “Obama officials” were apparently in charge of orchestrating this.

And although Russiagate failed, they orchestrated its successor Whistlegate, Ukrainian phonecallgate, impeachmentgate, call it what you will. We are now watching that theatrical production.

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No wonder they don’t want us to know who the “whistleblower” is — 43 Comments

  1. One of the many leftist villains in this sordid saga is Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American member of the Resistance. That she admires mad Maxine is sufficient proof of her lack of critical acumen and her aversion to facts and evidence. Furthermore, no-one on the left seems willing to recall the Obama administration’s extensive meddling in Ukrainian affairs.

  2. One would hope that his protector ends up in an Orange Jumpsuit, and he himself is relegated to a little hut in northern Alaska.

  3. Yes, Eric has been a busy little beaver. Not well known yet, but he also was the Pajama Boy for Obamacare. Remember him?

  4. >>” …one of those Obama holdover moles…”

    Would that be a moldover?

    Sounds like just the person we would expect to be at the core of this. Time to blow the whistle on the whistleblower.

  5. Here’s what I call this guy’s actions: a betrayal of trust, treachery. Were he an honorable man he would have resigned in protest, publicly and loudly.

  6. And although Russiagate failed, they orchestrated its successor Whistlegate, Ukrainian phonecallgate, impeachmentgate, call it what you will. We are now watching that theatrical production.

    like the production that made the pope a nazi?
    or like we believe we know the reichstag and not the theatrical other trial?
    or the press from india that made the USA the creator of AIDs?

    how about this from the man who made many of your beliefs and you dont know it
    “These people have the belief they are actually doing this themselves. This belief must be preserved at any price.”

    and since theater is mostly visual..

    Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well.

    what a great term… Mental Indolence..

    “All news is lies and all propaganda is disguised as news.”

    same guy…

    here is a different one.. hopefully enlightening

    “Yet there is one experience which most sincere ex-Communists share, whether or not they go only part way to the end of the question it poses. The daughter of a former German diplomat in Moscow was trying to explain to me why her father, who, as an enlightened modern man, had been extremely pro-Communist, had become an implacable anti-Communist.

    It was hard for her because, as an enlightened modern girl, she shared the Communist vision without being a Communist.

    But she loved her father and the irrationality of his defection embarrassed her. ‘He was immensely pro-Soviet,’ she said,’ and then — you will laugh at me — but you must not laugh at my father — and then — one night — in Moscow — he heard screams. That’s all. Simply one night he heard screams.’

    A child of Reason and the 20th century, she knew that there is a logic of the mind. She did not know that the soul has a logic that may be more compelling than the mind’s. She did not know at all that she had swept away the logic of the mind, the logic of history, the logic of politics, the myth of the 20th century, with five annihilating words: one night he heard screams.”

    It was hard for her because, as an enlightened modern girl, she shared the feminist vision without being a feminist . might explain what i was trying to point out before… despite declaring otherwise.. the majority share the vision, without the title.. which moves their voting and acceptance and fuels their homogeneity.

    same thing… but we will avoid it… jokingly i am told..

    we all know the comedy 1984, and the “fairy tale” animal farm
    Do we know “we”?
    Jack London’s The Iron Heel?
    Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano?
    Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading
    Jerome K. Jerome The New Utopia

    does this sound like what is happening?
    The New Utopia (1891)

    describes a regimented future city, indeed world, of nightmarish egalitarianism, where men and women are barely distinguishable in their grey uniforms (Zamyatin’s “unifs”) and all have short black hair, natural or dyed. No one has a name: women wear even numbers on their tunics, and men wear odd, just as in We. Equality is taken to such lengths that people with well-developed physiques are liable to have lopped limbs.

    or as in Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron?

  7. Forty-Four Percent of Millennials Prefer Socialism. Do They Know What It Means?
    Why So Many Millennials Are Socialists

    Reason-Rupe survey: 53 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds view socialism favorably, compared to only a quarter of Americans over 55.

    YouGov survey: 43 percent of respondents younger than 30 viewed socialism favorably, compared to 32 percent thinking favorably of capitalism.

    I will make the assertion that given this, jokes of Orwell, or others, are lost on a population inviting the same, but have no idea… it helps them stay ignorant

    Millennials don’t seem to know what socialism is, and how it’s different from other styles of government.

    Orwell jokes are now inside jokes among the old..
    and so are the other references.. which makes whats written fall on deaf ears

    Times survey: only 16 percent of millennials could accurately define socialism, while 30 percent of Americans over 30 could.

    A 2014 Reason-Rupe survey asked respondents to use their own words to describe socialism and found millennials who viewed it favorably were more likely to think of it as just people being kind or “being together,” as one millennial put it. Others thought of socialism as just a more generous social safety net where “the government pays for our own needs,” as another explained it.

    so good luck on your ideas about the public thinking this or that
    we have hidden the past from them, now speaking obtusely, we hide the present

    i guess they didnt get the joke because they are ignorant of what is needed

    Millennials Are Clueless About Communism. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.
    https://www.dailysignal.com/2017/11/03/millennials-clueless-communism-heres-thats-problem/

    Millennials May Love Socialism, But Socialism Won’t Love Them Back
    https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/millennials-socialism/

    Millennials: Communism sounds pretty chill
    https://www.marketwatch.com/story/millennials-communism-sounds-pretty-chill-2017-11-01

    Why millennials are drawn to socialism – Chicago Tribune
    https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/steve-chapman/ct-perspec-chapman-young-socialism-capitalism-20180520-story.html

    Millennial socialism
    https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/02/14/millennial-socialism

    Poll: 7 in 10 Millennials likely to vote socialist; show increased support for communism
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/4/majority-millennials-want-live-socialist-fascist-o/

    Most millennials would vote for a socialist over a capitalist, poll finds
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/millennials-socialist-vote-capitalist-poll

    maybe a bit less on the jokes and a bit more on the honest easy to read?

  8. This guy is a Yale alum, Dem and the son of a CT banker.

    If I ran State and the CIA it would be a rare day that I would hire an Ivy League alum from the coasts.

  9. conflict of interest doesn’t exist when democrats investigate republicans, only when republicans investigate democrats it becomes an impeachable offense.

  10. Malinowski is just a typical Democrat, misrepresenting facts miserably. Let’s just see how the “entire national security bureaucracy” stabbed Barack Hussein Obama in the back, shall we? Can you think of one such event, just one? No? I can’t either.
    There are many dirty names that can be used against Democrats, and they all fit.

  12. Lowell (4:58 pm), Limbaugh said he “looks like” the Pajama Boy in the Obamacare ad. I can’t find anything to say that he WAS in the ad.

  13. Cornhead, he speaks Russian, Ukrainian, and Arabic, which skills are surely why he was hired into CIA and posted to NSC. But to get into spook-land, being a leftist is a big help.

  14. Lowell (4:58 pm), Limbaugh said he “looks like” the Pajama Boy in the Obamacare ad. I can’t find anything to say that he WAS in the ad.

    IIRC, the chap in the ad was an employee of Obama for America named Ethan Krupp.

  15. Rachel Corrie’s big sister Mikie Sherrill who ran as “independent ” voted yes

    Rachel Corrie was a loosely-wired young woman whose parents regrettably permitted things which took her farther from practical life rather than nearer. She paid a heavy price.

  16. Rachel didn’t know enough not to play around where a D9 is working, much less a militarized version of a D9 (or something just as big). But that’s is how the Palestinians use human shields.

  18. When C.S. Lewis Predicted Our Doom.
    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/when-c-s-lewis-predicted-our-doom/

    Whose dystopia are we living in today? With Donald Trump as president and the world seemingly ablaze, answering that question can sometimes feel like gambling on a horse race. So bet big on George Orwell, as China’s terrifying social credit system makes his Nineteen Eighty-Four freshly relevant. Though the odds are still good on Aldous Huxley, whose Brave New World offers the timeless warning that sexual and chemical freedom can actually be tools of subjugation. And here comes Margaret Atwood, courtesy of feminists on Twitter who seem convinced they’re living in a word-for-word realization of The Handmaid’s Tale.

    Will it be one of these dark futures we end up inhabiting? Or that of a (slightly) less known author, Ray Bradbury, perhaps, or Yevgeny Zamyatin?

    it was Zamyatin who wrote “We”
    We comes from god, I comes from the devil — Yevgeny Zamyatin

    CS lewis being one of my favs, and yes, i like his christian apologetics.. clever man..

    but as the article above points out, perhaps we should stop references 1984… (or maybe figure out the sexual and drug revolution was seen as dystopian by Huxley but not by his brother Huxley (who helped create the league of nations, ie. later the UN))

    The interesting thing is how we believe the dystopian futures we were fed int he 1950s, 60s, etc..

    Soylent Green? Sol makes one statement about the Greenhouse effect… then the movie goes on to claim 22 million in nyc. if you watch the scene where Charlton Heston comes into the police office to report, you notice the lady being asked whether she wants ration card or cash… yes. guaranteed minimum wage (which they are now trying to implement)… and funny, moving us to veggies despite our intestines being the opposite of plant eating chimps, is like soylent red and yellow… but watch out for the green… 🙂 (the earliest mention i remember and so can find of humans being bad and animals being good, is the family favorite incredible mr limpet, starring don knots)

    The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength are CS Lewis contributions

    The first ticks off relativism..
    It’s a relativistic way of thinking and Lewis sees in it the road to ruin.

    Follow this logic to its conclusion and you destroy any sense of objectivity, and with it the common understandings that are needed for a civilization to function.

    And the ONE thing all these dystopian ideas from utopos “the place that can never be” never ever have as part of their story… an other state that does not fundamentally make themselves that weak, and so, can show how naturally they cant defend themselves any more… (1984 solves this by making it two states or one state pretending two, we never actually know). That these ideas are their own, and not given to them, or as Willi said “they must never know these ideas are not their own”

    Jettisoning traditional morality might feel like a liberation, but it’s actually, as Lewis sees it, the beginning of the most awful tyranny imaginable. Because if man loses that which makes him human, then he can be molded into something else, and it is other men who will do the molding. “From this point of view,” Lewis writes, “what we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” These architects Lewis foresees as scientists, or at least informed by science, armed with cutting-edge technology and all the tinkering capabilities of the modern state.

    Women allowed themselves to be remolded…

    they will have nothing to inform their decisions except instinct and desire, thus making them slaves to nature rather than the other way around. It is nature, then, that will have the last laugh, abolishing the very species that seeks to rise above it.

    kind of makes it easier for the new residents to take up living..

    Who among us gets to do the subduing and overcoming? In his novel That Hideous Strength, Lewis imagines an answer: the National Institute for Coordinated Experiments, or N.I.C.E., a scientific think tank that gradually and coercively takes control of Britain. Populated by a diverse cast of villains with hilariously unsubtle names (Augustus Frost, Fairy Hardcastle), the N.I.C.E. genuinely believe they can create a better humanity, starting with an executed prisoner whose head they’ve managed to reanimate and make talk again

    The ending of That Hideous Strength is almost unnecessarily violent, as the scientists are slaughtered by their hellish controllers. But there’s a scene just before that in which Lewis explores how exactly man might be abolished. Mark Studdock, a naïve N.I.C.E. initiate, is taken by Frost into several rooms where he’s shown things that ought to repulse his sensibilities—distorted furniture, for instance, and obscene art on the walls.

    Piss christ anyone? How about performance art of some? anyone for a full blown Maplethorpe showing? forget Hanson, he is as close as you get to pedophile in the modern era, while ignoring paintings such as “aurora” in the museum of art..

    This raises the question: just how malleable is our humanity?

    i dont know… why not ask the Weiss Angel? Joseph mengele, who tried to help children change to fit into the future they saw, which is no different than the left and what they do to children today… anyone want puberty blockers? we wont tell your parents? you are pregnant under statutory rape? ok, you get birth control in junior high..

    the regnant culture is waging war on a number of things once considered fundamentally human: the family, the two genders, the need to communicate honestly (some would say politically incorrectly), the desire for a national identity and flag. Could it be that the Frosts of the world have already begun their work? Certainly we’ve seen shades of the N.I.C.E. before, in early progressive advocates of scientific governance like Herbert Croly……

    maybe Stuart Chase?
    does it matter?
    will anyone read enough to know enough any more..
    will they find it boring and not bother, or exciting as Aldous huxley described?

    sadly..
    we already know the answer we as a society wont face till forced to..
    and its getting to be a bit late in the day, and long in the tooth..

  19. If I’m not mistaken, the room where Studdock is shown the repulsive and disorienting things is called the Objective Room. The purpose was to reinforce the idea that “values” have nothing to do with objective reality (a big theme in The Abolition of Man, that your natural repulsion from certain things has nothing to do with reality and is no different from preferring one color over another. Increasingly we are living in it.

  21. “Millennials don’t seem to know what socialism is, and how it’s different from other styles of government.

    Orwell jokes are now inside jokes among the old..
    and so are the other references.. which makes whats written fall on deaf ears” – Artfldgr

    This is so very true.
    I was thinking the same thing recently, although not in regard to impeachment, because our own generation has to work at understanding what our grandparents simply knew about the cues and memes and inside jokes of their culture.
    Even so, I think we are closer to them than our grandchildren are to us

  22. “This raises the question: just how malleable is our humanity?” – Artfldgr

    The Left is trying to find out how far we will go in accepting the obscene and ridiculous as normal.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/10/30/win-for-lgbtqs-school-district-approves-sex-ed-curriculum-that-teaches-3rd-graders-about-anal-sex/

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/accomplished-charter-school-leader-fired-for-publicly-worrying-about-academic-excellence/

    Many more could be listed, of course.
    So far, they aren’t coming up with many people standing athwart history and yelling Stop!
    Here is one person who is “inclined to do so” – to finish Buckley’s quote.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/rachel-mckinnon-is-a-cheat-and-a-bully/

  24. Kelly O’Donnell (twitter) posts a screen capture of a document released by Eric Ciaramella’s lawyers titled “Statement on Speculation of Whistleblower’s Identity“, stating in part:

    Our client is legally entitled to anonymity. Disclosure of the name of any person who may be suspected to be the whistleblower places that individual and their family in great physical danger. Any physical harm the individual and/or their family suffers as a result of disclosure means that the individuals and publications reporting such names will be personally liable for that harm. Such behavior is at the pinnacle of irresponsibility and is intentionally reckless.”

    Clutch your pearls quailing ladies. Big scary lawyers mean to shut you up.

  25. It would seem that Eric Ciaramella’s actions and background would preclude him from any Whistle-blower protections. With his ties to Biden, Obama, Clinton, Brennan and several in the DOJ and FBI wouldn’t it be a stretch to classify him as a whistle-blower?

  26. Cornhead @ 7:16:

    When I joined the Foreign Service in 1968, the upper ranks were predominantly Ivy League, and CIA’s ranks were largely Yalies. Someone in the mid-sixties had made the conscious decision to look for applicants who were NOT Ivy League (hence they accepted me), but it was a slow progress. My class was notably more “diverse” in its educational background, and the process would grow as time passed.

    Other features that were being phased out: wives were “graded” during the annual evaluation process, and women FSOs who married were drummed out of the service unless they married another FSO.

    Things have changed mightily. And I agree with your assessment: don’t hire any Ivy League grads, and no one from the coasts.

  27. A stretch? Ha ! He’s no whistleblower at all. He’s a political hack. He’s a whinyblower. He’s a fraud.

  28. I hope no harm comes to Eric the rat, other than that expected loss of freedom for criminals convicted in fair trials in the USA.

    But I doubt he will even be accused of any crimes.

    He’s a disgrace to America.

    We need term limits on bureaucrats – much higher turnover. Let them leave national gov’t and go work for some other organizations, and get experienced managers NOT from gov’t who know how to motivate teams.

  29. Thanks for the interesting comments… its greatly appreciated…
    🙂

    It is sad we have been so selective, weeding out anything that threatens the status quo of the past, such as my beef with the public only knowing anne frank…

    not only did they miss out on books of historical significance, they also missed out on knowing the real world vs the one that is constructed by selecting things and ignoring others.

    This means they did NOT learn what Russia actually did, they did not learn that the difference between Hitler and Stalin was one of process and method not really ideology!!!!!

    by being a refusnick, they helped paint us into this position whether they believe that or not, have a reason or not, or anything that would be a mental construct over the outcome of an actual action or inaction!

    it also paints them as uncaring… on many levels…
    which doesnt help either..

    on the eve of Hong Kong revolution, it seems that they are much more educated than the people here, who decided what they would learn and not learn and so build themselves a mind with holes in it!!!!!!!!!! missing is missing, reasons dont change that.

    While the Germans were using camps… the Russians were taking the men, and sending women and children to Siberia (Taiga). while the Germans made artificial surroundings, the Russians used nature as a weapon.

    It was worse and even more perverse (than the Germans) in that it served absolutely no purpose!!!

    The Germans had the reasons of Engels in the Magyar struggle as Hitler took up the Magyar goal and had his struggle… They would use them for labor, they would use them for their abilities… In many cases, this is what kept them alive!

    but now, the kids dont know that the cattle cars were used by both! so they dont fear the side that they now WANT for not knowing its nature underneath. Where the Germans had purpose (as disagreeable as it was), the Russians were capricious, brutal, and dished out punishments at random and for little purpose or reason…

    Ruta U. was fourteen, her sisters twelve and nine years old, when they and their mother, as well as their grandmother, were taken by the Russian secret police from their home in Riga, Latvia, and sent on a journey in cattle cars across the Soviet Union to the far reaches of Siberia.

    What was the point? The people back home would not know what happened other than they disappeared, and death would have been the same. They weren’t used for any kind of actual meaningful labor… the men were conscripted, so this offered no promise or knowledge to them… there weren’t even guards to be paid in sadistic pleasure to be loyal, and have a place.

    none of this now informs anyone of the nature of what they are dealing with! they try to relate it, but they have nothing to do so given this has been Stalinistically erased!!

    and no one had to do anything as they did it to themselves
    just as the women exterminated their family lines and such for an empty promise too

    It is written in a simple yet beautiful way, and tells an incredible story of tragedy, suffering and survival.

    so what? who cares? obviously no one need know… obviously Neo has deemed there is nothing useful there… as has everyone else..

    what price will they pay for that creation of ignorance in others by the decision to excise that from existence? Will they suffer that? probably because we are afraid of what the Germans did, and we are embracing what the Russians are unknown of doing..

    even worse… Germany is not that Germany, but Russia IS that same Russia..

    how can you prevent a history you erased from happening again?
    you cant.. and so we didnt!!!!!!

    IF we did learn this, would our children want what it offers? would they have learned that this was an empty promise as proven by the actual history, just as the nazi promise was undone by the truth?

    if the truth sets you free, does the lie and emptiness imprison you?

    Do the women know that THEY are the victims of this regime, and its ways?
    why should they? how could they?

    With the parents dead, and no longer anyone alive to be afraid of reprisals, the children of the refugees like me, are writing more books.. to be ignored, then erased once things change!

    This book was smuggled out much like Gulag Archepeligo was
    but unlike the Gulag Archepeligo, this struck too close to home

    this threatened the pedestal that anne sexuality and the lefts love of that!!!
    Anne became not only a Jewish icon, but a feminist one of sexual awakening
    What use was ruta? she would have diluted the message of feminism..

    and whether we realize it or not, we are trained to respond… resist.. and avoid
    why would the left and its socialists want the world to know that lenins feminism didnt include little girls and old women and pubescent children?

    Wasnt Stalin the friend of all children?
    preserving anne is preserving the lefts ideals.. cryptically

    And this is not by far the only book now..

    Ruta Sepetys a totally different flower (what Ruta means), from Lithuania, a different country…
    In the country of her ancestors, the American Lithuanian from Tennessee questioned a generation of Soviet deportation survivors about the most terrifying part of their history.

    She wanted to exhume the secrets they had kept for 50 years.

    why? the people presented with it wont read and learn
    they will hold onto the past and what they been shown and comfortable
    they will NOT threaten the socialist sexual ideal of anne…
    and they wont really have reasons that would stand up to the actual history

    It wasn’t until a year after she published her novel “Between Shades of Gray” — the New York Times bestseller that has been selected as this year’s Nashville Reads novel — that a curator in Chicago would call.

    He uncovered a trunk containing a folder marked with her last name. On it were the words “Not for publication.”

    at least she has a website
    http://www.betweenshadesofgray.com/index.php

    In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina is preparing for art school, first dates, and all that summer has to offer. But one night, the Soviet secret police barge violently into her home, deporting her along with her mother and younger brother. They are being sent to Siberia. Lina’s father has been separated from the family and sentenced to death in a prison camp. All is lost.

    Lina fights for her life, fearless, vowing that if she survives she will honor her family, and the thousands like hers, by documenting their experience in her art and writing. She risks everything to use her art as messages, hoping they will make their way to her father’s prison camp to let him know they are still alive.

    of course… all of us living freedom fighters cant give up opposing the persons that would rather have it disappear and not read these things.

    but again.. anne was one… this was thousands of annes..
    and anne was protected… these were left to rot and be ignored..

    what was the point of sending a 15 year old out into some of the harshest lands on the planet, where it was so hard, there was no way to live or survive without rations?

    i dont know… we cant discuss it… neo wont – and i have tried for more than 10 years
    now there are more books and even movies.

    Thinking back, the signs were there—family photos burned in the ?replace, Mother sewing her best silver and jewelry into the lining of her coat late at night, and Papa not returning from work. My younger brother, Jonas, was asking questions. I asked questions, too, but perhaps I refused to acknowledge the signs. Only later did I realize that Mother and Father intended we escape.

    We did not escape. We were taken.

    if you have netscape… you can watch for free
    “Chronicles of Melanie”
    Mel?nija and her son are forcefully moved from their home in Latvia to a slave camp in Siberia as part of the June deportation in 1941. For the next 16 years, she retains her will to live by writing letters to her husband, whose destiny she knows nothing about.

    Wendy Ide of Screen Daily:
    “The distorted sound creates a sense of delirium; the painfully slow movements of the malnourished women gives the film a nightmarish quality. Time slows down, both for the exiled Latvian women and also, at times, for the audience. It all amounts to a challenging viewing experience.”

    She believes that when we are young, we process what we read with “a sense of emotional truth.” While adults may be too busy and jaded to retain and truly internalize what we read, books read in adolescence sit with us longer — just as “James and the Giant Peach” did for her.

    So writing to this audience, she says, provides a chance to illuminate a part of history often overlooked.

    “Maybe we have a chance to bring that history out of the dark,” she says.

    And that is an opportunity for all of us.

    i guess its an opportunity lost…
    if we knew what was coming, maybe we would fight harder..

    this will either be cut down
    or a new thread that will take the viewers away will be started in a short time.. while that will be denied… its happened too much

  30. The race (in any given lifetime) is not always to the swift, Nor the battle to the strong, Nor bread to the wise, Nor riches to men of understanding, Nor favor to men of skill; But time and chance (karma) happen to them all.
    Truth, honesty, and diligence are unseen above, but at some point they win the day.
    The impeachment production swiftly proceeds attended with sound and fury.
    Meanwhile, Durham…

  31. Artfldgr:

    You write: “It is sad we have been so selective, weeding out anything that threatens the status quo of the past, such as my beef with the public only knowing anne frank… ”

    You could not be more wrong – because actually, you have fully aired that topic you accuse me of censoring. Just to take one single thread in the past as an example (and there are others), here are your some of your comments in that thread alone (and there are more; I quit counting after a while – and about 6700 words of yours in that thread alone – because it was too time-consuming). :

    this

    this

    this

    this

    this

    this

    this

    this

    this

    this

    this

    this

    If you look at the thread you will see many people responding to you. Among them are my replies:

    this

    this

    this

    this.

    Much later on, I decided to sometimes cut short some of your longer comments in later threads, after years of allowing you to comment virtually at will. I only did that when your comments were so lengthy and repetitive they dominated many threads, and many were also highly insulting and repetitive or off-topic and repetitive. But I have always kept the bulk of what you have said, regardless of all that.

  33. LeClerc: That Kunstler link is a surprise to me.

    Once upon a time — the early 2000s — his book, “The Long Emergency,” was a bible to the Peak Oil progressives. I was fighting off the progs hand-to-hand with shale oil and fracking, but they were having none of it.

    I won that war but lost the battle. I was eventually forced off that venue. Heh.

  34. You write: “It is sad we have been so selective, weeding out anything that threatens the status quo of the past, such as my beef with the public only knowing anne frank… ”

    WE meaning a society… the united states and western civ
    not your blog..

    You could not be more wrong – because actually, you have fully aired that topic you accuse me of censoring.

    you cant be more wrong by thinking i was talking about you when i wasn’t..

    its like saying something that obviously doesnt apply to the other person, and they think it applis to them until you mention your talking about eskimos and they arent an eskimo

    you missed the part where i thanked them for their responses at the start..

    Thanks for the interesting comments… its greatly appreciated…
    🙂

    so i did read what they said..

    but still plinking away for 10 years waiting to have a common conversation on the ACTUAL subject matter. The point of the post is to get the book read or the subject read
    was it read? did ALL those posts mean anything to get you and others to read it?

    sure it didnt… no one read or saw it or could talk about it
    hard to compare and contrast when only one item was seen..

    and while you address having to shorten long posts, you ignore the start of a new thread after i post within a few hours… sometimes the thread is up for over a day, and when i post, a new one starts… that is a form of changing the subject knowing that people dont go back to the prior threads once a new one starts (though some do)…

    this will either be cut down
    or a new thread that will take the viewers away will be started in a short time..
    while that will be denied… its happened too much

    Artfldgr on November 1, 2019 at 2:33 pm [my comment]
    Dwaz on November 1, 2019 at 4:27 PM [first comment in new article]

    you addressed cutting it down… which wasn’t done [making OR apply]
    and ignored the timing… which happened in a short time… [less than two hours]
    and then had to post that it wasn’t so… a denial

    what did i miss?

    sorry that someone who notices patterns notices patterns..

    Autistic Brain Excels at Recognizing Patterns
    https://www.livescience.com/35586-autism-brain-activity-regions-perception.html

    if you go to ALL the posts at the end… you confuse commenting on my comment
    with talking about the actual subject matter in the book, and what it means and so on

    this 1: was all about my getting anne frank wrong.. and you commenting on that.. and more.. but not one iota on the other book, that subject matter or what it can be compared or contrasted to… you took up my frustration at the book not being read, and ignored that to focus on my attempting to understand why its so famous (the sexuality of anne) and why other things having to do with russia are avoided…

    this 2: again was a comment on how the knesset and my comments again trying to make sense of why such a small thing wont ever be read and russias behavior wont be seen in detail.. your closest comment was: And yes, the Gulag was terrible as well. As I said, it’s not a contest. but one is known in detail, there are photos… we assume the Gulag was MEN… we do not know they did this mostly to women and young girls… again, no ability to actually address the actual subject of the forced deportations. no one said it was a contest, but if it was, which one is unheard of and lost?

    this 3: quoting you “the Jews were the canaries in the coal mines regarding the Nazis’ targeting ethnic groups or nations.” but where is the discussion about what the book is about? what happened there? what it was like.. again, you missed the whole point of all of the posts.. to read the history that could not be known because it had to be smuggled out. and later for the elderly to die so it could be written..

    this 4: neo “Why are Nazi atrocities better known than Stalin’s? It’s a good question, and I’ll make an attempt at an answer.” wow… and they are unknown cause once again, you dont know what happened there… no one does… and again, the book or any of them was not read… none of your comments could point out certain facts because till you read the subject, you wont know those facts, you only know the one side facts!!!!

    so again..
    where was i wrong that the information in the books and the subject is unknown
    you still cant talk about the differences or the similarities..
    you cant reduce the differences to process because half the story is missing.

    whats the point of telling all of us over and over the story we all know?
    what about the story we dont know? should it die and be erased as the kids embrace the soviet style creating antifa? the hatred for the system that the germans created is there, where is the dislike for the one that even you have not yet read?

    i give up
    you win…
    no one will read it

  35. John on November 1, 2019 at 10:13 am said:
    It would seem that Eric Ciaramella’s actions and background would preclude him from any Whistle-blower protections. With his ties to Biden, Obama, Clinton, Brennan and several in the DOJ and FBI wouldn’t it be a stretch to classify him as a whistle-blower?

    ————–

    Of course it is. He’s only being classified as a “whistleblower” to hide the fact that he is a partisan hack making unfounded allegations.

    The Democrats are portraying him as some sort of patriotic dutiful employee of the intelligence community who has no political proclivities who just happened to hear of grave wrongdoing being done to America on the part of Trump. At great peril to his well-being, he had the bravery to come forth and report what he heard.

  36. Artfldgr:

    In that very same comment you explicitly mentioned me and my blog as among the culprits.

    These are your words:

    so what? who cares? obviously no one need know… obviously Neo has deemed there is nothing useful there… as has everyone else..

    ….this will either be cut down
    or a new thread that will take the viewers away will be started in a short time.. while that will be denied… its happened too much

    So I am not imagining that you were referring to me.

    You have been given ample opportunity – AMPLE – to discuss these things here, and people have indeed read your comments and responded to you. Some have even agreed with you and some haven’t. Some have agreed in part and disagreed in part (me, for example).

  37. Artfldgr:

    And I have previously addressed your comments about timing.

    You are not the focus of this blog. I don’t pay a particle of attention to timing in connection with your comments. Sometimes my posts are pre-scheduled, example. But even when they are published at the exact moment I finish them (which is ordinarily the case), the only reason I publish them when I do has to do with my own schedule and my own life. It has zero to do with you – or any other commenter here, for that matter.

  38. i give up you win…no one will read it

    If you want your comment read, keep it to two short paragraphs. Properly punctuated.

  39. If you want your comment read, keep it to two short paragraphs. Properly punctuated.

    Agreed, although I will go for four or even five paragraphs, properly capitalized and punctuated, so I can read it. I prefer concise writing. It should be responsive to the original post. If it’s off in some other direction, especially at length, it’s something that belongs on some other blog.

  40. This article, via PowerLine Picks, covers some of the complaints Artfldgr made about people being unwilling to learn about the horrors of Communism and European socialism, e.g. here:

    Artfldgr on October 31, 2019 at 6:10 pm said:
    Forty-Four Percent of Millennials Prefer Socialism. Do They Know What It Means?
    Why So Many Millennials Are Socialists

    …AND with paragraphing and punctuation!

    https://www.lawliberty.org/liberty-forum/beyond-the-ideological-lie-the-revolution-of-1989-thirty-years-later/

    Still, by the beginning of 1990, Communism had clearly lost its legitimacy and could no longer serve as a plausible basis of political or national life anywhere in the east of Europe. It unequivocally stood for violence, mendacity, shortages, corruption, and national humiliation. I would go further: the events of 1989 were the end of a two hundred year cycle of “total revolution” inaugurated by the French Revolution and ‘perfected’ by Bolshevism and its offspring (Maoism, Castroism, Pol Potism) in the twentieth century. The revolution of 1989 was a decisive repudiation of the ideological poisons that had deformed modernity. It is a decisive repudiation that many on the militant Left would like to erase today. There is no reason today for “socialism,” and even Communism, to have the prestige it has with many young Americans. Crucial lessons about the twentieth century have sadly not been passed on to young people in any serious or significant way.

  41. IMO it has been the most important task of the intellectuals in higher education as well as the media to deconstruct by postmodernism the understanding of what socialism/communism is and what it caused. The plain facts must not be allowed to be understood. That task appears to have succeeded; they have created a new generation of useful idiots primed and ready to be slaughtered/starved/destroyed.

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