The Rob Maness Show

We’ve been warning Americans about the risks being taken in the Department of Defense with this politically driven Gaza pier operation and of cours, our warnings are pretty accurate. Reporting by the Maritime Executive last week stated Shoreside construction operations for the U.S. maritime aid corridor to Gaza have come under mortar fire from Palestinian militants, Israeli sources told AP this week. Israeli outlet i24 reports that the pier came under attack Wednesday while UN personnel were on scene, and that several pieces of equipment were damaged. One person suffered minor injuries, the outlet said. My guest today in the first half of the show has quite a bit to discuss with us about this issue and more about the Gaza war. During the second half of the show today we will continue our discussion from last week exposing the damage DEI is doing to the US military.🇺🇸Colonel's Brief is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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The SECDEF’s Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (DACODAI) in-person Public Meeting was supposed to be today and tomorrow in Arlington VA. The members of this advisory group – mostly retired senior military officers — all have the same views (which are pro) about promoting and pushing the Marxist-based DEI agenda in the military. Over 17 people, including myself, a Board of Advisors member, from Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services (STARRS) and other organizations we work closely with made airline and hotel reservations to attend from all over the country and even fly in internationally. These groups represent all those who are concerned about the damaging effects the DEI agenda is having on the military, making it weak. We had early on requested that three STARRS leaders be able to make short oral statements (per what is stated in the Federal Register) during the public comments segment of the meeting, but on 18 April, we were informed by DACODAI that they were not allowing oral statements and did not give a reason why they contradicted what was stated in the Federal Register. But wait, that is not the only change DACODAI made to the meeting, this past Monday afternoon they notified us that the meeting would be virtual only. Denying us the opportunity to speak and to attend in-person as planned. After the last DACODAI meeting in December, DACODAI Chair Gen. Lester Lyles wanted to have an informal discussion via Zoom with members of his committee and STARRS. The DACODAI Federal Officer shut this down. It appears “diversity of thought” so often touted by DoD is actually not in fact valued and being “inclusive” to all actually means only to those who believe one side of the issue. The committee itself all has the same one-thought bias regarding pushing DEI in the military with no diverse thought. The Vice Chairman of STARRS retired MG Joe Arbuckle and President and CEO, retired Colonel Ron Scott, are my guests today.🇺🇸Colonel's Brief is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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It’s an intelligence operation in a war against America and freedom. That is what I see in that video. I also see an insurgent direct action operation planned and supported by a Marxist adversary hidden by multiple layers of useful idiots, ideologically aligned non-governmental organizations and their billionaire financial backers, underwritten by intelligence agencies, probably from our own side and our adversaries China, Russia, and Iran. From today’s guest’s book we read “Once upon a time, the FBI and the CIA fought America’s enemies at home and abroad. Now they are tools of a growing police state, attacking the left’s political enemies and spying on ordinary American citizens—even parents who push back against radical public schools. How did we get here? In this revealing and thoroughly documented book, a former operative for the CIA traces the origins of Big Intel to a loose network of Marxist academic agitators known as the Frankfurt School. Their ideology appealed to the Ivy League elites populating the CIA, but the subversion of the FBI took longer, impeded for a time by the bureau’s staunchly anti-Communist director, J. Edgar Hoover. Eventually both institutions succumbed, and today Big Intel is controlled by the cultural Marxists.” My guest today is Dr. J. Michael Waller. Professor Waller is a scholar-practitioner in strategic communication and unconventional conflict. He holds a Ph.D. in international security affairs from Boston University. He received his military training as an insurgent with the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (contras). A Senior Analyst for Strategy, Center for Security Policy and Author, his latest book is "Big Intel: How the CIA & FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains."🇺🇸Colonel's Brief is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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The war in Ukraine is not going well from the West’s perspective as former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s panicked presentation reveals. Sadly dead young men and women can’t tell us the long and sordid tale of how and why this war started but there are a few very knowledgeable individuals in the world who can and we have with us today, the author of  Ukraine – A Warning To The World, as my guest today. From America’s involvement in the so-called Orange revolution, through the CIA supported Maidan revolution and beyond into the intentions of the globalists as their final outcome, this book provides detailed analysis based on the facts on the ground and we should all read it, and heed its warning. The book follows the journey of French entrepreneur Thierry Laurent Pelet whose life became entangled with the crisis in Ukraine, prompting his deep exploration of the country's history and socio-political dynamics. Amidst the 2014 coup d'é tat in Ukraine, Pelet, a former speed skiing athlete and serial entrepreneur with a decade of living in the US and Ukraine, emerges as a valuable source of intelligence. His mission is to mediate and mitigate the escalating crisis globally. The book challenges mainstream narratives by revealing truths obscured by manipulations driven by cross-cutting interests. From the rise of Nazism and the Maidan protests to political assassinations, ethnic cleansing, the MH17 incident, and references to biological weapons (including COVID), it exposes the realities often overlooked, shedding light on governance's cowardice and hypocrisy.🇺🇸Colonel's Brief is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Our Republican House of Representatives has once again ignored the will of the majority of its voters by passing more than $60 billion dollars in more Ukraine aid, placing inappropriate priority over its border instead of protecting our own, paying its government employees and pensions while we have tens of thousands of homeless veterans on our streets, and throwing money down a rat hole in a war that is not only unwinnable, but not in America’s vital national interest. We are destroying our own and NATO’s credibility while the rest if the world is in flames, threatening our true vital national interests, Israel, and Taiwan. Congress’s power of the purse is only powerful, and it is, if it has the courage to use it to set national defense priorities and end strategies that damage our national defense, our economy, and our culture. Candidates are running in primaries around the country to challenge the big spending, pro endless war policy, out of control Republicans and none is a better example than what is happening in Nebraska’s second congressional district where Dan Frei is challenging Don Bacon. Dan is my guest today on this more war Monday because there is nothing more important than America’s national defense, both overseas and domestically.🇺🇸Colonel's Brief is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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We must act to ensure the people’s will is done in every election, including in 2024! “The United States of America is the greatest country in the world, and worth fighting for, and unless people take a stand right now, there is so much that will be lost... and once gone, it will never be restored. America, and the principles that make her great, are ultimately what this book is about. Patriotic citizens cannot sit idly by while the foundations of the country are being tampered with and gradually destroyed. It is every person's duty to pass liberty on to the next generation. To do so, citizens must get into the arena and be present. Now is the time. "We the people" must be heard before it's too late.” That is from today’s guest’s new book, SACRED TRUST: Election Integrity and the Will of the People. The author is former Congressman for Georgia’s 10th District and current President of FRC Action, the legislative affiliate of the Family Research Council. 🇺🇸Colonel's Brief is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Voter rolls are the foundational and critical data to successful election integrity efforts. As you just heard, our government is funding a illegal voter registration project with our tax dollars at this moment. If we are to succeed in our efforts, we citizens are going to have to act. Today we’ll be talking with a leader in voter integrity at the state level whose discovery of very large voter roll anomalies is making news even though the state is Mississippi, not a swing state, and solidly republican statewide. Mississippi citizens invited a quantum technology team called Fractal to audit the Mississippi voter rolls – and the results, as you will see today, are surprising. The reddest state, or one of them, has voter rolls with enough obvious aberrations – found with Fractal quantum compute in less than 45 minutes – to impact a statewide election. Alan Ramsay leads Mississippi’s Voter Integrity Project and joins me as my guest today to let us in on this surprising news.🇺🇸Colonel's Brief is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is the latest social movement being imbedded in our culture and imprinted on our corporate identity. DEI is viewed negatively by a significant majority of individuals across society, creates inequalities in the workforce, and has failed to deliver any measurable Return on Investment. In the military it is increasingly being viewed as an infection that destroys team cohesiveness, hurts recruiting, distracts from training for the combat mission and more important issues such as suicide rates and sexual assault prevention. Not surprisingly, organizations in the services are trying to mitigate the damage and find pathways back to a unit focus on the combat mission and addressing recruiting, suicide, and sexual assault among other concerns. One organization that assists organizations in understanding what is going on regarding DEI in their organizations is ENODO Global. A veteran owned company that uses technology to analyze today’s modern communication methods in real time to gain insight, assess the data, develop findings, and make recommendations to leaders for solutions. Jim Sisco, a Marine Corps and Navy veteran, the CEO of ENODO Global, Inc specializing in surveilling, analyzing, assessing, and messaging in the 21st century world we inhabit these days. Jim is here to talk to us about his company’s recent projects focusing on DEI and violence prevention in the military.🇺🇸Colonel's Brief is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Over the weekend we witnessed Republican Speaker Mike Johnson pass more than $60 billion in more aid to Ukraine without a majority of votes from his own party, even more than we spend every year on our entire Marine Corps, as Senator Paul said. What is the cause in Ukraine though? That is the driving question behind opposition to sending more billions from America to Ukraine. We have asked for and not been told what the desired end state is for the war effort. Is it Ukraine taking all of its lost territory? Does that include Crimea? Unfortunately, all you ever hear from the endless war politicians is that we’re degrading Russia on the cheap! Yes, as disgusting as that is, they actually say it. The other phrase we hear a lot, and did this weekend on the US House of Representatives floor is “we will defend Ukraine at all costs” and no one ever explains it because what that means is that we will fight until the last Ukrainian is dead, and then we’ll throw American kids into the meatgrinder in this totally unnecessary war. Hundreds of thousands dead and more to come now that the war will grind on for a few more months with this new aid package. My guest today is retired US Navy commander, author, college professor, and former senior DHS official Randy Arrington. 🇺🇸Colonel's Brief is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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We live in a time where average patriotic Americans are being labeled "domestic terrorists". The punishment for "wrongthink" varies from restriction of free speech on social media, businesses and people being censored or completely canceled, to being a political prisoner. Who is behind all of this madness? As they label anyone who dares to question the government's narrative a "domestic terrorist" the censorship police are primed to do much more to you than just not let you post your "wrongthink" on Facebook. The 2024 elections are definitely a target of the censorship cabal and yes, they’re even using artificial intelligence and we should expect massive increases in attempts to keep the American people from getting true information about that election. My guest today, Anrew Riddaugh, says "AI is already being used by the Censorship Industrial Complex to suppress search results, your emails, the news you see, your social media feeds, business directed to you, donations, and more. It's so easy for them to impact elections. A woke google employee could easily set the algorithm to auto spam conservative emails, or shut down your company email, altogether. This is happening and going to happen more often this election year." Andrew Riddaugh is CEO of Liberation Technology Services, a company at the forefront of the private cloud hosting industry, groundbreaking cybersecurity solutions and the pioneer of liquid-cooled edge data centers. Prior to building Liberation Tek, Riddaugh was with the Executive Office of the President of the United States in the Trump Administration.🇺🇸Colonel's Brief is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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