Private Carlton Barrett was possibly the smallest man in his regiment.
5 feet 4 inches tall. 125 pounds.
On the morning of June 6, 1944, he landed at Omaha Beach in neck-deep water, machine gun fire cutting the surface all around him. He made it to shore.
Then he turned around and went back in.
A soldier was drowning. Barrett pulled him out. Then another. Then another. For hours, under constant fire, this 125-pound man waded back into the surf again and again, pulling drowning men to safety and physically carrying the wounded to evacuation boats offshore.
But he didn't stop there.
He ran dispatches the full length of the fire-swept beach. He found soldiers paralyzed by shock and calmed them back into action. He appeared wherever the crisis was worst, doing whatever needed doing, treating rank and personal safety as irrelevant details.
He did this for hours without stopping.
His Medal of Honor citation says his courage had "an inestimable effect on his comrades." That is military understatement for: this small, anonymous man held that section of beach together through sheer force of will.
He survived the war.
His comrades later said his life darkened after he came home. He lived quietly and died in 1986 in California, largely unknown outside of military history circles.
5 feet 4 inches. 125 pounds. He went back in.
Remember him.
Multiculturalism means embracing every other culture over the West’s.
Under the guise of “inclusion,” it acts as a Trojan horse that delivers the total erasure of Western culture in practice.
Every person and organization promoting it is an enemy of the West.
Colonel Douglas Macgregor discusses the risk Trump ends up impeached like Nixon in 74…
“The Israeli lobby and their billionaires are not a nice group of people… if they see you as more of a liability than an asset, they will replace you with the next puppet in line. I suspect that’s why we are seeing so much of a push that JD Vance was “always” against the Iran war… I can’t confirm that at all from my sources, in fact it’s the opposite.”
John Kiriakou: "It doesn't matter if a Democrat or Republican is in the White House. We don't stand up to Israel.
Reagan prosecuted Pollard (Israel spy who stole US secrets) - And when he released. Sheldon Adelson husband of Miriam Adelson sent his private jet to take Pollard to Israel.
Netanyahu met him at the airport. Then Huckabee - the US ambassador to Israel - welcomed Pollard into the American Embassy.
@Handre 💯well said. God bless Andrew Jackson & to hell with the banks & all their political minions.
“The bank is trying to kill me, Sir, but I shall kill it!”
“You are a den of vipers & thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out!”
-AJ‘Ole Hickory
@Handre 💯well said. God bless Andrew Jackson & to hell with the banks & all their political minions.
“The bank is trying to kill me, Sir, but I shall kill it!”
“You are a den of vipers & thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out!”
-AJ‘Ole Hickory
Andrew Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, delivering the single greatest blow to financial tyranny in American history. You won't hear this story told correctly in any economics textbook, because it reveals how central banking works: as a government-sponsored cartel that redistributes wealth from productive citizens to politically connected bankers.
The Second Bank held a 20-year federal charter starting in 1816. It controlled the money supply, issued currency, and held government deposits. Sound familiar? Nicholas Biddle, the bank's president, wielded more economic power than any elected official. He could trigger financial panics at will by restricting credit. He bought newspapers and bribed congressmen. When Jackson opposed recharter in 1832, Biddle deliberately crashed the economy to punish him.
Jackson called it "a hydra of corruption" and he was right. The bank created artificial booms through credit expansion, then triggered busts when politically convenient. Biddle openly bragged about manipulating markets. Free market economists and Jackson both recognized the core insight: this was legalized counterfeiting with government backing, not free market banking.
The political establishment united against Jackson. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and the entire Whig Party defended the bank. Biddle spent millions buying influence. The press attacked Jackson as an economic ignoramus. Every "respectable" voice supported recharter. Jackson stood alone with the American people.
After Jackson killed the bank, the country experienced the strongest economic growth in its history. From 1837 to 1862, America operated without a central bank. Industry flourished. Wages rose. Innovation exploded. This wasn't coincidence. When you stop subsidizing financial speculation and let productive capital find its natural home, prosperity follows.
Central banks don't stabilize economies: they destabilize them for private gain.
🚨🚨Just in case you missed it. Here is Benjamin Netanyahu in his own words, thanking Congress for implementing “his plan” to take over the US military and intelligence services..🚨🚨
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 The Pentagon espionage bombshell just got worse...
New reporting confirms Israel has been eavesdropping on the American peace negotiators themselves.
The targets named: Steve Witkoff, Trump's top negotiator with Iran. Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's policy chief.
And Michael DiMino, who runs Middle East policy.
Israel wasn't just collecting on America generally.
It was listening to the specific men writing the deal Netanyahu opposes.
What's wild is the documented incidents read like operations against an enemy state.
American defense personnel in Israel discovered spyware surreptitiously installed on their phones.
In 2021, Israeli military intelligence officers were caught planting listening devices at DIA headquarters.
Last year, Shin Bet officers were discovered trying to bug a Secret Service vehicle.
A SECRET SERVICE VEHICLE.
One senior official described the Israeli collection effort against top U.S. officials as "unhinged."
And the rating in context: Israel's counterintelligence threat level is now higher than any other American ally and EVEN HIGHER than some adversaries.
Notice who got targeted.
Colby is the most prominent advocate of foreign policy restraint in the government.
DiMino runs Mideast policy. Witkoff writes the deal.
Israel's espionage maps perfectly onto the people standing between Netanyahu and the war he wants to continue. They bugged the peace.
All of this while Israeli officers sit inside CENTCOM with unprecedented access, while Congress moves Section 224 to link the two militaries' systems and data permanently, and while Huckabee negotiates the framework.
The Pentagon says the ally is spying at a critical level.
Washington's answer is to hand them the keys to the network. Please make it make sense...
Source: NYT
General Omar Bradley called it the most dangerous mission of D-Day. He was not wrong.
At 6:30am on June 6, 1944, 225 Army Rangers approached a 100-foot sheer cliff face on the Normandy coast called Pointe du Hoc.
Their mission: climb it.
The cliff was vertical. The Germans were at the top with full visibility of everyone below. As the Rangers fired grappling hooks upward, the Germans cut the ropes. Shot the men hanging on them. Dropped grenades over the edge onto the climbers beneath.
The Rangers kept climbing.
It took roughly 40 minutes. Men fell. Men were shot off the ropes. The ones behind them grabbed the ropes and kept going.
They reached the top.
Then came the gut punch: the massive 155mm artillery guns they had been sent to destroy were gone. The Germans had moved them inland before the invasion. The entire mission had been sent to destroy guns that weren't there.
Most commanders would have regrouped and called it done.
The Rangers fanned out. Two miles inland, they found the guns, hidden in an orchard, already aimed at Utah Beach and loaded to fire. They destroyed every one with thermite grenades.
Then they dug in. Cut off, with almost no ammunition, no reinforcements, and no resupply, 225 men held Pointe du Hoc against relentless German counterattacks for two full days.
When relief finally arrived, only 90 Rangers could still stand and fight.
Their names are carved on a memorial in Normandy. Most Americans today cannot name a single one.
NBC News is reporting that the Pentagon has now listed Israel as a TOP national security threat facing the United States!
This is a HUGE development of historic proportions. For the Pentagon, Netanyahu‘s attempt to take over the US military/intelligence systems, via the 2027 NDAA was the straw that broke the camels back.
Bottom line, the Trump administration is filled with Israeli operatives and our nation is in grave danger..
🚨🇮🇱🇺🇸 BOMBSHELL: The Pentagon raised Israel's counterintelligence threat level to "critical," the highest possible designation, over concerns Israel is aggressively spying on top U.S. officials.
According to U.S. officials, the Defense Intelligence Agency issued the assessment in recent weeks because Israel is making "a particular effort to surveil top U.S. officials to get information on the Trump administration's internal deliberations and decision-making" on Iran and Lebanon.
Yep, read that again.
America's "closest ally" is now rated a critical counterintelligence threat, the same tier as hostile foreign powers, because it's spying on the President's inner circle to find out whether he'll resume bombing Iran or sign the deal.
The details are stunning.
U.S. officials already use burner phones and avoid speaking in hotel rooms when visiting Israel.
A CSIS expert calls Israeli intelligence "hyper-aggressive" and "exceedingly interested in what we are up to."
Now stack the timeline.
Trump screams at Netanyahu, "you're f***ing crazy."
The Axios leak that enraged Levin.
Netanyahu's letter designing permanent military integration.
Section 224 linking the two countries' military systems and data.
And now the Pentagon formally designating Israel a critical espionage threat, in the same weeks Congress moves to wire Israel directly into America's defense industrial base.
The two stories are happening simultaneously and almost nobody has connected them.
The Pentagon says Israel is spying on America at a critical level.
Congress is responding by giving Israel deeper access to American military systems than ever before.
At what point does Washington admit this relationship is not what Americans were told it is?
Source: NBC
@AnaKasparian I don’t care if you’re a Republican, Democrat, or Independent. I don’t care if you call yourself conservative, progressive, or libertarian. If you tell Netanyahu and Israel to go to hell, I support you.
This is a simple question. Do we do more for Israel now or less? I introduced an amendment to strike 224 because I am for the American people calling the shots, not Netanyahu. I am for Team America.
Matt Brooks bragging that the Republican Jewish Coalition spent millions to buy a congressional seat in Kentucky… but if you observe the same thing, you’re antisemitic.
Every single time I see poor people criticize @saylor I realize how every cycle rhymes. "He is down 10B" "Where is he liquidation"
The same thing happened in Dec 2022 when Bitcoin was worth 16,000 USD.
On March 9, 1916, Pancho Villa crossed the border and raided Columbus, New Mexico. His men burned the town and killed 18 Americans. It was the first armed invasion of the US mainland in over a century.
America's response exposed a humiliating secret.
The United States, an industrial giant about to inherit the 20th century, had an army of barely 100,000 men. Smaller than Portugal's. Wilson sent 10,000 troops under General Pershing into Mexico to hunt Villa, and the expedition revealed an army with broken logistics, obsolete equipment and almost no trained officers.
They chased Villa for 11 months. They never caught him.
(One bright spot: a young lieutenant named George S. Patton ran down three of Villa's men in a shootout and drove back to camp with the bodies strapped to the hood of his car. Pershing called him his "bandit." Remember the name.)
Congress panicked, and on June 3, 1916, Wilson signed the National Defense Act. It more than doubled the authorized Army, federalized the National Guard as the nation's permanent reserve, and created a brand new program for training college kids to be officers.
They called it the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. ROTC.
Ten months later, America entered World War I and needed officers by the tens of thousands. The timing was almost absurd.
Since that day, ROTC has commissioned over 600,000 officers. Seven Army chiefs of staff. Two chairmen of the Joint Chiefs. Cabinet secretaries. A Supreme Court justice. Colin Powell came out of CCNY's program.
So here's the chain of events: one Mexican revolutionary raided one border town, embarrassed one unprepared army, and accidentally created the machine that has produced American military leadership for 110 years.