Bit of an exaggeration but it is hard to call the man a liar:

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Former President Donald Trump told residents of East Palestine on Wednesday that “We’re like a third-world nation” with Pete Buttigieg as Transportation Secretary.

“We’re like a third-world nation, and this is an example of it, the breakdown. Our whole country is breaking down,” Trump said while hanging out with residents of East Palestine in a McDonald’s on Wednesday.

Exclusive — Trump: ‘We’re Like a Third-World Nation’ with Buttigieg as Transportation Secretary

^{Alana Mastrangelo (Breitbart)}

Some fabulous information on Zelenskyy's patron & one of the most corrupt men on earth:

Kolomoisky, who also holds Israeli and Cypriot citizenship, is probably one of the worst thieves to ever walk the earth, and there has been no greater parasite feeding on Ukrainians. Once named by the Center for Corruption and Organized Crime Research (OCCRP) as being in the top four most corrupt individuals on the planet, Kolomoisky used his ownership of PrivatBank to defraud customers of around $5.5 billion in deposits, which amounted to 40% of all private deposits in Ukraine. Although now banned from entering the United States, where he has numerous assets, Kolomoisky has never been arrested in Ukraine and Zelensky shows no indications of ever bringing him to justice. Regarded as criminal by almost anyone with a brain, Kolomoisky is a hero of the international Jewish community. In 2008 Kolomsoisky was elected President of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine, and in 2010 he was elected president of the European Jewish Council.

In keeping with centuries of the same historical pattern, large-scale Jewish financial crime perpetrated by small numbers key actors continues to benefit the general Jewish population. Jews internationally have benefited for years from Kolomoisky’s plundering of the Ukrainian people. In March 2021 it emerged that two Miami-based Jews, Mordechai Korf, 48, and Uri Laber, 49, were acting as Kolomoisky’s middlemen in the United States. As well as laundering his money in various assets, the pair donated more than $11 million to nearly 70 yeshivas and religious charities (Jewish Educational Media, Colel Chabad, among others) in Brooklyn and across the state of New York. Kolomoisky is also a listed donor for Yad Vashem. Both Korf and Laber also held shares in PrivatBank, and are reported by The Forward as having pumped “about $25 million into Jewish nonprofits between 2006 and 2018.” Kolomoisky is of course the patron of “Menorah,” the largest Jewish center in the world. Entirely appropriate given its existence is owed to international robber barons, the center is home to travel agencies and banks. The official website says that the building is something “every Dnipro resident can be proud of,” to which I can only reply that I’d hope so given that, willingly or not, some of the savings and deposits of every Dnipro resident went into its construction.

Jewish Corruption in Ukraine

“At the same time, fifty Jewish families own 80% of all wealth. Where do you see the Ukrainian oligarch? I don’t know any. They are all Jews.

^{The Unz Review}

In a new interview with one of Germany’s top newspapers, principal Norma Grube, who runs two schools in Chemnitz, describes increasingly chaotic conditions where many children have difficulty speaking German, assaults are commonplace, and parent-teacher meetings routinely require interpreters. In fact, there is little Grube tells Die Welt that backs the claims by pro-migration advocates that increasing diversity will bring a brighter future to Germany.

“Twenty-three different nations meet in the schoolyard, some of whom cannot understand each other at all and who sometimes come from hostile regions, such as Russia and Ukraine. We need a lot of parent-teacher talks, which mostly take place with interpreters. And that brings us to one of the reasons why the teaching profession has become less and less attractive: The psychological stress is enormous and it has increased significantly,” said Grube.

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Grube’s story is far from unusual as Germany undergoes a massive demographic transformation, with critics of what is happening referring to the Great Replacement, the phenomenon of Europeans being replaced by non-Europeans across the West. In Berlin, 40 percent of students do not speak German as their native language, and in cities like Hamburg, the majority of students have a migrant background. Overall, an astounding 38 percent of all children in elementary schools in Germany have migrant backgrounds.

‘The psychological stress is enormous’ – Diversity not a strength in Germany’s troubled school system

Germany has accepted millions of migrants over the last few years, and in turn, the country’s school system has been transformed into a diversified, multicultural student body.

^{Remix News Staffer (Remix News)}

German tenants in the town of Lörrach in southern Germany, many of them elderly and barely surviving on pensions, have just learned that their apartment contracts are set to be terminated, and they will be forced out of their homes to make way for Ukrainian refugees.

The town’s housing association, which is operated by a municipal subsidiary, argued that it was terminating the contracts of approximately 40 tenants because the apartments were “particularly suitable” for refugees. The city is looking to rent the apartments directly to Ukrainians, according to the Focus media outlet.

However, there may be ulterior motives in place, as many of the residents have cheap rental agreements locked in and have been tenants for decades. New contracts with Ukrainian refugees would enable the housing association to create far more lucrative contracts, which Ukrainians could afford to pay because they are entitled to substantial sums of money through social welfare. Even for local governments, there can often be a motive to have tenants paying higher rents, as much of the money Ukrainians spend on rent would be federal money going into the town’s coffers.

‘It’s an early death notice’ – Poor and elderly tenants forced from apartments to house migrants in German town of Lörrach

German tenants in the town of Lörrach in southern Germany, many of them elderly and barely surviving on pensions, have just learned that their apartment contracts are set to be terminated, and they will be forced out of their homes to make way for Uk…

^{Remix News Staffer (Remix News)}

Hard to tell whether or not it is a troll anymore:

On Friday, The Post exclusively revealed how Lemieux emerged from her apartment clad in men’s clothing and without the breasts, makeup and wig she wore to school earlier in the day.

A neighbor also identified the person photographed by The Post as Lemieux.

During a follow-up interview, Lemieux told The Post that her breasts were “real” and that she’s “not a transgendered person” but was born “intersex.”

Lemieux blamed the size of her breasts on a rare condition known as “gigantomastia,” which she said was caused by hormone replacement therapy she began undergoing in 2021.
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Regardless... Keep it up.

Keep clowning em.

Kayla Lemieux's school suffers new threat days after she insisted size Z breasts are real

An email to parents and staff at Ontario’s Oakville Trafalgar High School said an anonymous, unspecified threat was made online.

^{Jack Morphet (New York Post)}

To assist illegal migrants, FEMA-funded charity workers literally meet the buses and begin distributing food, hotel rooms, rental assistance, legal counsel and health care — the very things the East Palestine victims also need. And the omnibus spending bill Biden signed in December gives FEMA a whopping $800 million expressly to pay for migrants’ needs as they arrive in US cities from the southern border.

Yet Biden is giving the people of this Ohio town — working-class, taxpaying citizens who are 98% white — the cold shoulder. Under Biden, FEMA apparently stands for First Embrace Migrants and Aliens. FEMA is the welcome wagon for illegal immigrants.

Biden's 'Migrants first, Americans last' policy on full display with Ohio train disaster

President Joe Biden’s “Put Americans Last” policy is on full display with the Ohio chemical-spill disaster.

^{Betsy McCaughey (New York Post)}

Imagine if these bureaucrats really did get to run our economy:

"The bargain-basement sales included nearly 3,000 mechanical ventilators that cost taxpayers $12 million but were unloaded as “non-functioning medical equipment for scrap metal” at a rock-bottom price of just $24,600 on Jan. 24, according to nonprofit news website The City."

NYC reportedly sells nearly $225M worth of COVID supplies for just $500K

The bargain-basement sales included nearly 3,000 ventilators that cost taxpayers $12 million but were unloaded as “non-functioning medical equipment for scrap metal.”

^{Bernadette Hogan (New York Post)}

People fake their heritage to get ahead.

So, where's the privilege, exactly?

Activist Raquel Evita Saraswati has faked her 'Arab and Latin' racial identity as far back as 2004: reports

Saraswati, 39, told Boston.com in 2004 saying she wanted to do something to respect her Arab and Latin culture when getting married.

^{Ben Kesslen (New York Post)}

I think it would be smart for the US to suspend its extradition of SBF.

Let the Bahamanians handle this.

40 years in a Bahamanian prison sounds about right.

SBF Changes Mind On Extradition To US After Four Days In Bahamian Jail

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

^{www.zerohedge.com}

Some mind-blowing history you never hear about:

That resolutely traditionalist country, basically all of southern Italy and Sicily, fascinated me. The Neapolitan kingdom was perhaps the most anti-liberal, traditionalist nation in all of Europe prior to it disappearance by conquest into the new centralized Italian state. Its capital, Naples, was an international center of culture and brilliance; musicians, composers, writers, and artists from all round Europe congregated there. All of that would end after Italian occupation. And southern Italy, “Due Sicilia,” would descend into an extended era of poverty, subjugation, and eventual neglect, much like that inflicted on the states of the Confederacy after the War Between the States.

But what was more intriguing for me was to learn that after the surrender of King Francis II and his small Neapolitan army at the fortress of Gaeta in late February 1861 (after an heroic four month siege), several thousand army regulars of the Royal Neapolitan Army clandestinely boarded ships, evaded a British cordon, and managed to sail for New Orleans to volunteer for the newly-formed Confederate Army. The first ships arrived from Naples with 884 former members of army of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies to take up arms for the Confederacy in early 1861. That number of Neapolitan volunteers soon rose to approximately 2000.

The Universality of the Southern Cause

The Confederacy and Naples

^{The Unz Review}

The analysis from Putin here is superior to what you get from the Western press, which is oddly uncritical of its governments geopolitical aspirations and heavy handed tactics in both crushing descent and forcing reform at home.

The Russian president said Moscow was not fighting the people of Ukraine, stressing that Ukraine “has become a hostage of the Kiev regime and its Western masters, which have effectively occupied the country.”
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Putin further said Western nations were trying to "distract people’s attention" from their domestic problems.

“They just tried to use these principles of democracy and freedom to defend their totalitarian values and they tried to distract people’s attention from corruption scandals … from economic-social problems," he noted.

He said the responsibility of the simmering crisis in Ukraine was "on the West and Ukrainian elite."

“The responsibility is on the West and the Ukrainian elite and government, which does not serve the national interest, but [rather serves the interest] of third countries [which] use Ukraine as a military base to fight Russia."

The Russian president was particularly scathing in his criticism of Washington, saying the country wants to control the whole world, adding that relations with the US have degraded completely.

Putin blames West for Ukraine war, suspends nuclear treaty with US

In a state-of-the-nation address in Moscow on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Western countries of fanning the flames of the war in Ukraine.

^PressTV

Ultimately, the real reason Turkey is dragging its feet is because they don't want to escalate discord with Russia...

Which makes Turkey the adult in the alliance.

Blinken presses Turkiye over NATO accession for Sweden, Finland

Blinken reiterated that the US strongly supported Finland and Sweden's entry into NATO 'as quickly as possible'

^thecradle.co

Everyone knows went the Americans are dragging their feet on this.

Especially Seymour Hirsch.

Nord Stream Bombing: Another Sloppy Response From the US After Russia Seeks UN Investigation

The US has so far chosen to downplay the gravity of the situation and basically ignored its obligation to offer substantive and credible explanations.

^{International Business Times, Singapore Edition}

Like Parag Agrawal, the former Twitter CEO who would have smashed free speech on that platform if Elon Musk hadn’t stopped him, YouTube’s new raja is no fan of unapproved speech. Two years ago, Mohan said opinionating from the “basement” had to be stopped. Be prepared for YouTube to hand control of its content to the anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-free speech, pro-Great Replacement Mainstream Media.

In 2020, Protocol’s editor-at-large David Pierce asked whether YouTube is “slightly behind” when it comes to moderating content” because of the China Virus masking debate, Tom Parker reported at Reclaim The Net [YouTube: creators “espousing” opinions “in their basement” can’t provide context on the news, April 27, 2020]:

Only “authoritative voices” must be heard on YouTube, Mohan replied, because they, not someone in the “basement,” can provide the “context” viewers need to understand news and information. In this case, it was information about masks.

Indian CEO Virus Infects YouTube. New CEO: No More ‘Espousing Opinions’ From ‘The Basement’ | Blog Posts

Yet again, an Indian is now in control of a majo...

^VDARE.com

Some very important information about Khan:

[L]ike all Leftists, Khan wants to go after Big Tech for not censoring enough. She has written about the plague of “disinformation and inflammatory content” on social media. She helped aid an investigation by the House antitrust subcommittee that alleged social media were bad because they allowed conservative news stories to go viral on its platforms [Democrat Led Antitrust Bills Are a Massive Gamble, by Allum Bokhari, Breitbart, June 17, 2021]. Khan has worked closely with Sandeep Vaheesan, another South Asian legal scholar, who argues that the FTC must be used as a “progressive secret weapon” that tackles “structural racism.” Khan has the power to act on that crazy recommendation [FTC Chair Lina Khan’s Co-Author: Use Antitrust to Address ‘Structural Racism,’ by Allum Bokhari, Breitbart, June 22, 2021].

Indian CEO Virus Infects Federal Trade Commission—Does U.S. Really Need These People?

See also: Indian CEO Virus Infects YouTube. New CEO: No More ‘Espousing Opinions’ From ‘The Basement’ Recently, the invaluable ZeroHedge posted Last Republican Federal Trade Commissioner Resigns, Slams Chair Over Abuse Of Power [February 15, 2023].

^{The Unz Review}

>A statement, issued on Monday morning on behalf of a dozen Primates connected to the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA), says that the Church of England has “chosen to break communion with those provinces who remain faithful to the historic biblical faith” by allowing blessings for same-sex couples (News, 9 February).
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>“As the Church of England has departed from the historic faith passed down from the Apostles by this innovation in the liturgies of the Church and her pastoral practice . . . she has disqualified herself from leading the Communion as the historic ‘Mother’ Church,” the statement says.

Well done, GSFA.

Archbishop of Canterbury no longer our leader after Synod vote, say GSFA Primates

A GROUP of conservative Primates declared on Monday that they no longer recognised the current Archb...

^{www.churchtimes.co.uk}

How bad American schools really are:

It didn’t take Yana long to realize that real life in her eighth grade classes at Marina Middle School was nothing like the scenes that played out on her [television] screen.

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Students interrupted classes, jumped on desks, cursed at teachers. At first, Yana wondered what was going on, but then, “nothing happened.” Students were not disciplined or prevented from repeat behavior.

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Yana just wants to go back to her hometown in central Ukraine, back to the only school she knew before the war, even as her mom and aunt have started to research camps and other programs in San Francisco to occupy the summer months.

Ukrainian Refugee Girl Finds San Francisco Schools So Violent She Wants to Go Back

A Ukrainian refugee girl who settled in San Francisco with her mother is finding public school in the city so violent that she longs to return to her war-torn country, where she feels children are less cruel to one another.

^{Joel B. Pollak (Breitbart)}

Pay attention to what is going on India - they are attempting to undercut Modi and to blunt the development of the Indian economy.

They don't want to see India rise, since India is a truly neutral state that will work for its own interests and not be incorporated into the Western oligarch's geopolitical ambitions.

Adani turmoil to ‘weaken’ Modi, ‘revive democracy’ in India: US billionaire

Soros said the crisis engulfing Gautam Adani’s business empire could ‘open the door to push for much-needed institutional reforms’.

^SCMP

A Meditation for the beginning of Lent

“Each of us must come to the evening of life. Each of us must enter on eternity. Each of us must come to that quiet, awful time, when we will appear before the Lord of the vineyard and answer for the deeds done in the body, whether they be good or bad. That, my dear brethren, you will have to undergo. … It will be the dread moment of expectation when your fate for eternity is in the balance and when you are about to be sent forth as the companion of either saints or devils, without possibility of change. There can be no change; there can be no reversal. As that judgment decides it, so it will be for ever and ever. Such is the particular judgment. … when we find ourselves by ourselves, one by one, in His presence and have brought before us most vividly all the thoughts, words and deeds of this past life. Who will be able to bear the sight of himself? And yet we shall be obliged steadily to confront ourselves and to see ourselves. In this life we shrink from knowing our real selves. We do not like to know how sinful we are. We love those who prophecy smooth things to us and we are angry with those who tell us of our faults. But on that day, not one fault only but all the secret, as well as evident, defects of our character will be clearly brought out. We shall see what we feared to see here and much more. And then, when the full sight of ourselves comes to us, who will not wish that he had known more of himself here, rather than leaving it for the inevitable day to reveal it all to him! …………………….We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”

St. John Henry Newman

It is also absolutely the case that the 9/11 lawyers would know all about this having dealt extensively with issues pertaining to the lung health of firefighters and other first responders - the lawyer stating even that that clients of his “are dying every single day from 9/11 toxic dust."

Very damning lines:

Comparing the EPA’s assurances following the 2001 terror attacks with its recent ones, Barasch, a longtime legal advocate for first responders to the 9/11 attacks and others harmed by resulting toxic dust, argued that “21 years ago, the government at least had a reason: they wanted to reopen Wall Street.”

“They should have just been honest with people then and said, ‘Look, if you don’t have to be downtown in your office, stay away until the fires go out,’” he said. “And that’s what they should have done here.”

Exclusive: Top 9/11 Lawyer Says EPA Claim Ohio Air ‘Safe’ Sent ‘Shivers Up My Spine’ – ‘Stay Away, Don’t Believe EPA’

Following the fiery derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals along the Ohio-Pennsylvania line, renowned 9/11 attorney Michael Barasch

^{Joshua Klein (Breitbart)}

Remarkable:

"With California’s porous southern border, soaring taxes, and ongoing flow of overbearing and occasionally bizarre regulations (one law targets cow flatulence, for example), state residents could use a break from bad news. Unfortunately, that doesn’t appear to be happening anytime soon. According to a recent report, California now leads the country in illiteracy. In fact, 23.1 percent of Californians over age 15 cannot read this sentence."

California Public Schools Are Failing | City Journal

And parents are opting out of the system altogether.

^{City Journal}

Every time they try to create oversight of agencies not explicitly for combating corruption as we understand it, it is truly just an effort at increasing the power of the government and, in this case, of their ideology.

"The order is supposed to level the racial playing field by “addressing systemic racism in our Nation’s policies and programs”, but it does nothing of the kind. In truth, the order represents a massive and disturbing restructuring of the federal government in a way that fundamentally changes the manner in which the agencies operate. The new system will feature “equity” commissars who will have nothing to do with “systemic racism”, but will be appointees designated to enforce the edicts of the state. The senior agency official (in these agency equity teams) will then coordinate with the “Gender Policy Council” which is directly linked to the executive branch of government. In short, the administration is methodically building the basic scaffolding for a centrally-controlled police state masquerading as social justice operation."

...

"Just as the Vaccine narrative was crafted by big pharma, Madison Avenue and an accommodating media, we expect that senior agency officials will generate propaganda that aligns with the Party Doctrine while advancing the agenda of elites."

Of course the policies will be sold & spoon-fed to Americans who will then think that without the government fulfilling these important tasks it'll fall apart.

Biden’s Power Grab: Executive Order Installs “Equity” Commissars to Rule the Bureaucracy and Centralize Power

On February 16, President Joe Biden issued an executive order titled “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through The Federal Government”.

^{The Unz Review}

"Engineers has estimated that fixing the country’s surface transportation infrastructure would require an investment of at least $155 billion per year, which amounts to roughly 23 percent of the government’s $666 billion budget deficit in 2017.90"

"Maritime Administrator and retired rear admiral Mark H. Buzby testified that “over the last few decades, the U.S. maritime industry has suffered losses as companies, ships, and jobs moved overseas.” The Jones Act fleet is not only shrinking, but rapidly aging. The typical economically useful life of a ship is 20 years.24 Yet three of every four U.S. container ships are more than 20 years old, and 65 percent are more than 30 years old. Excluding tankers, the ships in the Jones Act fleet currently average 30 years old, fully 11 years older than the average age of a ship in the world merchant fleet of other developed countries."

https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/jones-act-burden-america-can-no-longer-bear#infrastructure-costs

Love him or hate him, Stryker is doing a good job confronting politicians here.

Far right or far left, it doesn't matter, hold the clowns accountable.

It's certainly interesting how the Holocaust narrative stays relevant even into 21st century American immigration politics.

Also you should always remember when these people start talking about their family as victims, it's the signal for you to turn your brain off and view them as exceptional moral authorities on everything that is happening.

They can't be questioned. Especially when it's the Holocaust - you aren't allowed to say anything until you then pay your respects and then circle back...

And this is how American politics is still hlbeing done in America.

Mayorkas: ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narrative Is More Important than Congress’s Law

The 1950s “Nation of Immigrants” narrative is more important than Congress’ laws, according to Alexandro Mayorkas, who is President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief.

^{Neil Munro (Breitbart)}

Absolutely resonates with me.

You can't ever give up your set position and cede the framework of society to your ideological opponents.

Especially when they have no plan to tolerate anything about you.

Didn't expect to see this again but I welcome it. Anyone who is going to do something different and shake stuff up which... She does.

But that's about all you can say about her.

Marianne Williamson May Launch Primary Challenge to Joe Biden This Weekend in New Hampshire

Marianne Williamson, a former 2020 Democrat presidential candidate, is set to travel to New Hampshire this weekend, where she is expected to a primary challenge against President Joe Biden’s expected 2024 reelection campaign, according to Politico.

^{Jordan Dixon-Hamilton (Breitbart)}

I am installing two different apps for Friendica - hopefully they go off without a hitch and I can determine what is the best (or which is just the better one for which tasks) and invest some time this weekend in between all of the busy stuff there is to do.

Would love to be able to use this more on the fly.

Wish me luck.

The kpop industry is apparently megacorrupt - this is also really amateur hour over at SM Entertainment:

Lee Soo Man thus drew up a plan to increase capital by issuing new stocks. He took approximately 900 million KRW from SM Entertainment's funds, and approximately 250 million KRW from SM Enterprise. This money was used to pay for new stocks, thus "increasing" the capital owned by SM Entertainment with its own funds.

In March of 2000, Lee Soo Man owned 66.99% of SM Entertainment's stocks. His father owned 4%, his mother owned 3.3%. In April of 2000, SM Entertainment made its public offering. By June of 2000, SM Entertainment had a market cap of 180 billion KRW (~ $139 million USD). In just one year, Lee Soo Man took 1.15 billion KRW (~ $888,000 USD) of SM Entertainment's funds and transformed it into about 90 billion KRW (~ $70 million USD).

In January of 2003, Lee Soo Man was listed as a wanted criminal on Interpol. In May of the same year, Lee Soo Man was tried and found guilty of embezzlement, receiving 2 years in prison, deferred by a probationary period of 3 years.

During the trial, the court concluded, "Lee Soo Man embezzled 1.15 billion KRW in his company's funds and used it to acquire stocks. With no evidence of any real capital, Lee Soo Man used fake capital to purchase stocks and pretended as if the company's capital had increased. Due to the seriousness of this crime, the defendant must face punishment." Lee Soo Man's legal representative attempted to defend the producer by claiming that the decision to invest company funds in new stocks was agreed upon by the board of directors, and that Lee Soo Man directly returned the borrowed funds.

'Dispatch' claims Lee Soo Man earned over $570 million USD through embezzlement and manipulative contracts in the past 23 years, while SM executives knowingly watched | allkpop

On February 17 KST, 'Dispatch' accused Lee Soo Man of embezzlement, manipulation, and unethical profiting.In 1999, SM Entertainment began…

^{Susan-Han (allkpop)}

Are rumors bad?

Yes. I don't believe in putting too much stock into them.

Nonetheless, the idea that you can just sue random people talking on the internet and speculating seems a bit off. If no reputable news site is covering these, there is no need to pretend that they actually affect you.

Kim Yuna's agency announces they will take legal action against the YouTubers and individuals spreading false information | allkpop

Kim Yuna's agency, All That Sports, announced recently that they will be taking legal action against the YouTubers and individuals who sprea…

^{Sophie-Ha (allkpop)}

This is all fascinating:

Percepto International, which is owned by media consultant Lior Chorev and Royi Burstien (a retired lieutenant colonel from the Israeli army’s intelligence corps), is in large measure a continuation of Psy Group – the business Burstien used to run. Among other activities, Burstien’s previous business ran a sophisticated mass-deception system on social media and came to public attention mainly over an FBI investigation, after which it shut down.

Psy Group, its founder Joel Zamel and CEO Burstien were investigated by the U.S. bureau on suspicion of offering their services to Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters on his first run for the presidency in 2016. The suspicion was that a foreign player, and not Trump, had offered to pay for the services. The investigation did not result in indictments, but did lead to the demise of Psy Group – which had been facing financial difficulties even before the investigation.

A 2020 report from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on foreign involvement in the 2016 election contained quotes from internal company emails regarding negotiations between people from the firm and Trump’s people. It included remarks by a company employee, Arnon Epstein, regarding “intel on the Lady and her team” – a reference to Hillary Clinton. It noted that intelligence gathering regarding 10 targets associated with Clinton would cost about $250,000. In another email, an offer was made to deploy avatars (complex fake digital personae with a presence across social media platforms) in support of Trump’s election campaign.

Following the collapse of Psy Group, Burstien and Epstein established a new deception enterprise based less on technology and more on target-oriented influence operations. The organization, which was initially called Athiri, worked in collaboration with Chorev. In 2021, the team that was running it began operating under a new name: Percepto International. Burstien is Percepto’s CEO, Chorev is company chairman and Epstein acts as a senior salesperson. One of the new mudslinging enterprise’s biggest initial wins was against the ICRC.

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Burstien, the company CEO who coordinated Percepto’s presentations, revealed his company’s arsenal to us. It included creating defamatory articles; the use of the services of an antisemitic social media influencer whom the U.S. State Department has identified as a long arm of the Kremlin; the establishment of fake nonprofit organizations; and a “news agency” that was actually a covert propaganda tool.

To top it off, it boasted of having an investigative journalist in Paris who was actually an avatar run by company staffers in Ramat Gan.

In one of Burstien’s presentations, the Percepto CEO showed a screenshot of a report linking the ICRC to terrorist organizations in the Sahel region. The photo was pixilated to keep the details confidential, but it was not blurred that well.

“Our client had a real problem with a specific NGO that really was not really objective,” Burstien explained in English. “So the question is, how do you get this NGO out of the ball game? … First thing is [to] obtain intelligence. … We obtained really good intelligence. We understood that if we published this information in [the] local media, it [wouldn’t] resonate. We worked with tier-one French media. … The process took over a month for them to validate the information.

“Immediately after they published it … we took it and published it within our assets,” Burstien said, using a phrase he repeated several times during our conversations to describe the avatar network and outlets controlled by Percepto that were purportedly news websites.

“It went viral in the country, but also it was picked up by a lot of European media. This is a very well-known NGO,” he said.

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All fabulously interesting content.

Especially titillating is the fact that they will work with essentially anybody.

Antisemitic influencers, fake journalists: Inside an Israeli factory for online deception

For Israeli-owned Percepto International, slandering the International Red Cross and recruiting an antisemitic internet influencer are legitimate tactics ■ The company has run a fake investigative journalism site, rigged the reputation of a Netanyahu…

^{Gur Megiddo (Haaretz)}

I could hear Jared Taylor's voice in my head the whole time, lol:

" Nearly 38 percent of women — twice the percentage of men — think a point of view can be like a punch in the face. Moving to the right, the pink and gray lines, more than 40 percent of the non-cissies and non-heteros take the same nutty position, with lower numbers for normal people. Moving over to the green bars, whites, as expected, are not as nutty as non-whites, but even non-whites are slightly less nutty than women: 37.2 percent for them versus 37.7 percent for women. In yellow, we have levels of craziness by academic discipline, with people in humanities and social sciences most likely to think an opinion might as well be violence, and more good sense in science and business. On the right in purple, we have what would you’d expect: Very liberal students are the nuttiest of all, but even 10 percent of the “very conservatives” over on the end think the wrong opinion “can be seen as violence.”"

The kids are most certainly not OK.

Women Are the New Thought Police

And they dominate college campuses. Video Link This video is available on Rumble, BitChute, and Odysee. Thumbnail credit: YouTube screengrab.

^{The Unz Review}

You know the policy worked when you see this happening:

Mexico’s top diplomats are openly fighting and calling each other liars over who flinched before their U.S. counterparts during the Trump era. The issue centers around “secret” meetings that led to the Remain in Mexico policy which effectively forced the country to stem the flow of migrants.

The diplomatic fight exploded this week when Mexico’s Foreign Relations Minister and Presidential hopeful Marcelo Ebrard said during a news conference that his former ambassador to the U.S., Martha Barcena (2018-2021), was out to tarnish his reputation. Ebrard charges that she was the one who accepted Remain in Mexico and a safe third country agreement that would invalidate most of the asylum claims at the time. Ebrard said that he was the one who fixed everything and stopped the third-country agreement.

Mexico’s Top Diplomats Fight Over Who Flinched to Trump’s Immigration Policies

^Breitbart

Very slightly lost more - not enough to really blast them on or anything - but it's still impressive how this was not something that anyone was talking about anywhere.

Just by choosing to keep their demographic numbers more under wraps, they were able to preserve their reputation.

I doubt this was even really by design or anything.

Imagine how much more sinister it could be if they wanted it to..?

New York Lost More Population than California over 2 Years of Pandemic

California lost more than 500,000 people over the period from April 2020 to July 2022, coinciding with the depths of the coronavirus pandemic, but New York lost even more, according to new data from the U.S. Census.

^{Joel B. Pollak (Breitbart)}

Very interesting series of comments concerning the Indian attitudes, caste as it scales out, etc.

Of course, this is from a non-Indian, and I have every intention of discussing this with Indian friends down the line, but I think there's surely something to it.

검찰이 '위례·대장동 사업' 과정에서 4천895억원 배임을 저지른 혐의로 이재명 더불어민주당 대표에 대해 사전구속영장을 청구했다.

16일 서울중앙지검 반부패수사부는 지난 2013년부터 2014년 위례 신도시 개발, 대장동 개발사업 중 민간업자들에게 직무상 비밀을 알려줘 성남시에 4천895억원의 손해를 끼친 혐의로 이 대표에 대한 구속영장을 청구했다,

검찰은 이 대표가 성남시와 관련한 기업들의 민원을 해결하는 대가로 성남FC에 후원금을 받은 혐의도 있는 것으로 보고 있다.

검찰 `대장동 4895억 배임 혐의` 이재명 구속영장 청구

검찰이 `위례·대장동 사업` 과정에서 4천895억원 배임을 저지른 혐의로 이재명 더불어민주당 대표에 대해 사전구속영장을 청구했다.16일 서울중앙지검 반부패수사부는 지난 2013년부..

^경인일보