#Foreign Agent

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: Even by Red team standards, the scene in front of Wash makes no sense. Or, Wash learns of one of the lesser known responsibilities of Blue Team Leader.

Author: @wordsysayswords

Note from submitter: Wash needs sleep. Let the poor man rest.

[cavalierzee]

America Under Occupation

AIPAC ORDERED CONGRESS TO SAY :

“Reports that people are starving in Gaza are false”

“Israel is not blocking the delivery of aid to Gaza”

“The United States must not fall into Hamas trap”

“There is no genocide in Gaza”

“HAMAS beaded babies”

“HAMAS raped Israeli hostages”

America is occupied by a foreign power.

AIPAC is a foreign agent that serves Israeli interests and not America’s.

AIPAC and israel pose a clear and present danger to America and Americans.

[wat3rm370n]

The indirect funding of promoting products, politics, and propaganda against public health.

On The Majority Report they mentioned how the guys on The Vanguard Podcast said when the pandemic hit they were getting a few thousand dollars on their Patreon, but that dried up for them when they came out and supported a public health response to the pandemic. I’ve heard several stories like this before. The big money, the dark money has always been against public health, right from the get go. And content creators are very sensitive to their stats. All these platforms have ways that track things, and you get feedback. This obviously sometimes leads to audience capture, and a feedback loop. There is money pulling strings, and often people don’t even know who they’re working for, I notice this lots. 

The recent news of how Tim Poole and Dave Rubin have made large sums of money for their shows that have been found to come from Russian sources. I recommend listening to the entire segment on The Majority Report on the Tim Poole story, not because anyone cares about Tim Poole, but because Matt Binder, Brandon Sutton, Emma Vigeland, and Matt Lech, do a good job there talking about the reality of how this economic media landscape works, and there’s plenty of evidence. How and why people aren’t fully aware of who’s paying for what, and even requiring people to disclose conflicts of interest, while very important, doesn’t completely fix it even if it were better enforced. Because many people who just wouldn’t be put in a position to have a microphone or a platform to reach a lot of people if they didn’t already have particular interests. A lot that people have a hard time grasping the idea that a lot of popular pundits and influencers themselves don’t truly understand why they’re popular. Most people in such a position will assume they must be great and people like them, who wouldn’t be tempted to believe that? But there’s a lot of money sloshing around to boost people indirectly, it’s inauthentic. Often people just hit upon saying the right things, and in comes the money.

One thing Matt Binder keeps bringing up is how the report says that someone was issuing invoices via a discord server. Nothing’s really too petty or halfass to be part of a well funded operation in the gig economy.

The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War by Mark Galeotti - Feb 2023  Outsourcing goes beyond direct warfare and into non-kinetic contests. This century has also seen the explosion of the gig economy. Individual freelancers and temporary workers sometimes recruited directly, sometimes through online platforms or third party matchmakers. It may seem ridiculous to draw comparisons with the cycle courier that brings you your pizza. But this is less fanciful than might appear in an age when conflicts may be fought through the medium of carefully curated newspaper articles highlighting a grievance or attacking a government. And when online influencers can pivot from hyping a hair product to pushing a political cause.  This may be the age of multinational corporations, mass social movements, and powerful governments, but a coincidence of technological, social, and political change means that it is also the age of the individual, and many of them are for hire. Suddenly the world is full of people who seem to be doing the work of states. Yet not as direct employees, nor even out of ideological commitment or patriotic passion. Journalists hired to write hit pieces. Scholars saying the right things for a grant. Think tanks producing recommendations to order. There may be no geopolitical equivalent of Uber yet, but lobbying, strategic communications - were I a cynic I would suggest this is what we call propaganda when we do it ourselves - and similar consultancy and service companies often act as the middlemen. 

[pettypendagrass]

👀

[higherentity]

[kindwarrior]

The first amendment articulates the rights of Citizens

…not foreign students here on educational visas.

How did you miss this? How are you so stupid, So gullible, That you missed this key, essential, detail?

Foreign students who participate in protests against the policies of the United States are, by definition, foreign agitators. Their educational visas should be revoked. Universities who harbor foreign agitators will have their federal funding pulled. Period. Everything else you’ve blathered above is nonsense, utter BS — delusional left wing lies… again.

🙄

[accurate-alignment]

Trump stumbles as Musk’s fraud claims come up empty

[gwydionmisha]

Open wholesale corruption.

US prosecutor agrees to seek dismissal of Adams charges under pressure, sources say

He's close to career end and decided to do this shameful thing so the others wouldn't have to resign.

[mylionheart2]

[fashionfotorecccluse]

Opinion obsoleted

[odinsblog]

THIS WEEK, WASHINGTON’S top Israel lobby is rallying its supporters to go to Capitol Hill and falsely claim to lawmakers that people aren’t starving in Gaza and Israel isn’t blocking aid shipments, according to talking points obtained by the American Prospect.

Israel has led a brutal siege on Gaza since Oct. 7, when Hamas killed 1,139 Israelis and kidnapped more than 200. More than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed, 2 million have been internally displaced, and hundreds of thousands are at imminent risk of famine, according to the United Nations.

The powerful lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, is working to maintain support for Israel’s war, amid increased protests and public outcry. This week, AIPAC convened in Maryland for its annual policy conference, which it uses to marshal its donors and supporters to serve as a grassroots lobbying army in the halls of Congress.

The Prospect obtained a copy of AIPAC’s talking points for supporters heading to the Hill — and they are extreme, to say the least. The documents instruct supporters to claim that “reports that people are starving in Gaza are false,” and say that “Israel is not blocking the delivery of aid to Gaza.”

The AIPAC talking points additionally claim that Hamas wants people to believe Gazans are starving in order to “exert pressure” on Israel, and argues the “United States must not fall into Hamas’ trap.”

These claims from AIPAC are false. Gazans are starving on a massive, unprecedented scale. According to the United Nations, 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza — almost the entire population of the region — are facing “crisis or worse levels of food insecurity.” Half a million of those included in that figure face “catastrophic” levels of food insecurity.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) — a leading food security analysis and advocacy group — classifies the Gaza Strip as being in Phase 4 “Emergency” status food insecurity, with a high risk of imminent famine conditions.

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Olga Lautman at Unmasking Russia:

In just over two weeks, Trump has crippled U.S. national security, delivering massive wins to Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. One radical move after another, he has dismantled America’s defenses against foreign interference, corruption, and election meddling—deliberately exposing the U.S. to attack—while simultaneously waging war on our law enforcement and national security agencies. By unraveling critical national security protections, Trump has signaled to adversaries that the U.S. will no longer actively counter their influence. These moves not only endanger America’s electoral integrity but also open the door for authoritarian regimes to expand their control and further infiltrate key institutions with impunity.

Dismantling America’s Defenses: A Direct Gift to Russia

One of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s first acts was to disband the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, a unit dedicated to countering adversarial interference in U.S. politics. Created after Russia’s attack on the 2016 election, the task force investigated foreign hacking, cyberattacks, election infrastructure breaches, and influence operations—including on social media. Now? Russia, China, and Iran have free rein to attack U.S. elections with barely any FBI oversight. Bondi also gutted enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)—ensuring that foreign political operatives can work in America without disclosure or consequence. This means that lobbyists, political influencers, and even disinformation agents working on behalf of foreign governments can now operate freely within the U.S. without fear of repercussions. The removal of these enforcement mechanisms effectively greenlights covert foreign influence on U.S. lawmakers, policies, and political campaigns.

[...]

If You Think It Stops There—Nope.

Bondi also shifted enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), a key tool for targeting bribery and illicit financial networks. By deprioritizing white-collar crime and corruption cases, her office has effectively signaled to foreign entities that violations will no longer be aggressively prosecuted. This move will embolden corrupt officials, business figures, and oligarchs to engage in unchecked financial manipulation, further entrenching foreign influence in critical sectors of the U.S. economy. [...]

USAID Shutdown: Our Adversarie Dream

And all of this while Trump has also shuttered USAID, one of the U.S.’s strongest tools for countering authoritarian influence abroad. USAID has been essential in stabilizing fragile states, promoting democracy, providing life-saving humanitarian aid, and blocking Russian and Chinese expansionism. By shutting it down, Trump has given autocratic regimes free rein to dominate vulnerable nations. Without USAID, U.S. allies will be defenseless against foreign influence. Russia and China will expand unchecked, filling the void with economic coercion and military partnerships. Countries in Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe will lose resources to resist foreign domination, making them easy targets for authoritarian control, corruption, and manipulation. [...]

Trump’s National Security Purge

All this is happening as Trump continues an further assault on America’s intelligence infrastructure and is pushing buyout offers to the FBI, CIA, NSA, and other national security agencies, aiming to purge career officials and replace them with loyalists. These potentially illegal forced exits will cripple intelligence operations at a time of heightened global threats.

Great column by Olga Lautman on how Donald Trump’s two-plus weeks of his 2nd term has been a gift to America’s enemies.

[otpadsis]

Hi!! i see that you keep mentioning a Lamento zine and I was wondering where I can also preorder one! ♡

hiiii im sorry but you probably wont be able to 😭😭😭 Im from russia and due to the sanctions I cant accept payments from abroad. so only if you have someone to help you buy it but its veryyyy inconvenient

here, have a konoe as an apology

[trexalicious]

Has the majority of the Sussex's money and funding come from USAid?