[WIRE] On the eve of Thanksgiving, MSNBC’s Joy Reid went on a tirade against the cherished holiday in which she called it a holiday that erases the "genocide" committed by white Americans.
The comments came in a segment of Reid’s show "The Reidout" that focused in on two recent mass shootings. One of the shootings involved a self-described "non-binary" individual who allegedly attacked a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, leaving five people dead. In the other, a black man allegedly murdered six co-workers, including a 16-year-old boy, at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia.
"For millions of Americans it’s a cherished tradition. And as Americans we certainly value those traditions," Reid said of Thanksgiving.
"But it’s also important to unpack the myth of Thanksgiving. It is a holiday riddled with inaccuracies, built on this myth that the indigenous welcomed their colonizers with open arms and ears of corn; a simplistic fairytale interpretation of a 1621 encounter between indigenous tribes and English settlers that erases the genocide that followed," she added.
Reid then accused Republicans of conspiratorially erasing American violence.
"It’s the truth that Republicans want banned from our textbooks, because here’s the secret they want so desperately to keep: We are a country founded on violence," she said.
[American Thinker] The biggest deception China has successfully perpetuated in the West is that it would rise peacefully, gradually liberalize and present enormous business opportunities. Behind that veneer of reform, Beijing has played a masterful influence game, ensnaring governments, academia, think tanks, cultural groups, and businesses in the West to further its goal of global preeminence. "Fooled" some of the world. Everyone else was simply forced to shop at Walmart, Depot, or Target.
Analyst Alex Joske’s revealing book, Spies and Lies: How China’s Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World, explains how China’s intelligence apparatus, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), revamped espionage from cloak-and-dagger ops alone to a sophisticated collection of innocent-seeming front groups. He shows how these groups, speaking the language of transparency, globalism, and cultural, academic, and business exchanges, influenced key persons in every sphere of endeavor in the West, masking China’s quest for world dominance, its military build-up, its stealing of technology, its human rights violations, and its territorial expansionism. Appearing eager for cultural and business reciprocity, China presented intelligence operatives as journalists, scholars, and trade and tourism representatives. The U.S. — and other western governments — engaged with China, mistaking it for a useful partner, and often acting under pressure from businesses that sought lucrative deals with Beijing. Insert your favorite tech mogul, Henry Kissinger, or Biden crime family graphic here.
According to the book, billionaire George Soros, who is still in quixotic and dangerous pursuit of his flawed notion of an ’open society,’ was one of China’s earliest dupes. Chinese intelligence and its numerous fronts used Soros and his funds as an entrée to the West, creating what has grown into a omnipresent cloud of influence, ubiquitous yet impossible to pinpoint and hence combat or dislodge. But more on Soros later.
The focus of MSS’s elite influence operations is on inveigling targets into promoting narratives of China’s choice, often making them believe they are being welcomed into the inner sanctum of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — a route to proprietary access and mutually beneficial networks. In this the MSS draws on the party’s united front work tradition, which harks to the revolution. At that time, the party’s United Front Work Department (UFWD) sought to gain influence beyond party members, using networks to suppress dissent, indoctrinate those sympathetic to the cause, find and train leaders, and so on. Later, the same methods were deployed abroad, providing networks, covers, and institutions for furthering the party’s purposes. Pandemics, cures, phony test kits, masks, etc.
Lulled into a false sense of security, many elites chose to cooperate with Beijing, underplaying all its atrocities, espionage, and aggression, and hoping perhaps that China, welcomed into the sphere of western nations, would reform. But the Chinese leadership, especially current president Xi Jinping, has always been clear on what it wants: global dominance, utter loyalty to the CCP, military victory, and weakening of rivals.
Joske’s book is based on open-source documentation and interviews with former intelligence operatives and experts. He himself has been at the receiving end of intimidatory united front activity. When his articles critical of China started appearing, he was followed around by Chinese student groups that accused him of racism. Indeed, a university alumni association is among the many fronts he names, with documentary proof, as being controlled by the MSS. Here's a partial list: four publishing houses, a Japanese magazine, a well-known think tank, an arts troupe, an international travel agency, a film production company, a California bookstore, a calligraphy competition, and countless international conferences.
After the Tiananmen Square massacre and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the CCP decided to both check the entry of western ideals into China and infiltrate foreign powers. The MSS began small, by monitoring and mobilizing Chinese communities abroad. But by 2000, it understood how the U.S. foreign policy system worked, and realized the benefit of focusing on targets who would escape the concern of the intelligence community – scholars, policy wonks, retired officials, business leaders and the like. So, MSS agents took on these very roles to mingle with American counterparts and influence them, and through them up-and-coming American politicians. Using this cadre, posing in the West as liberal reformists, Chinese intelligence struck at unprotected parts of the U.S. democratic system. "Unprotected" or like-minded fellow travelers, those within accademia and the Washington D.C. beltway.
Having learned of the role and status of American think tanks – particularly the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Rand Corporation – and how they can provide connections to government, the bureaucracy, civil society, and academia, the MSS used them as a fertile arena of its influence operations. Many Chinese agents have held positions as visiting scholars and policy experts and used those positions to open doors, make introductions, gather intelligence in diverse venues, and push exactly the narrative the CCP chooses.
The MSS is keen on getting involved with politicians early in their careers for the advantages this will offer when they advance to higher office. Bribery and honeypot operations are par for the course. For example, California Congressman Eric Swalwell was targeted for an affair by Christine Fang, an attractive young MSS operative, when he was a city councilor. When he bid for a Congress seat, winning against a well-established incumbent, he received significant fundraising assistance from Fang. She also funded his re-election campaign. She arranged for an associate to intern at his office, and advantageously for the MSS, Swalwell was in 2015 appointed to the House Intelligence Committee that oversees the CIA. Yes, Eric would have obviously been and possibly remains an MSS high priority target.
The turning of Soros, however, is perhaps the most interesting example of the MSS’s early successes, hinging on a fortuitous act of the billionaire. This was in 1984, when China was cash-strapped and desperately needed foreign investment even for basic development. Its intelligence operations then were poorly funded. (Now, they are run by some of China’s largest business empires.) Soros happened to read Liang Heng’s Son of the Revolution, a bestselling account of China’s reopening to the West. Inspired by a vision of a liberalized China, he contacted Liang and ventured forth with a China Fund, aimed at transforming the country along the lines of his ‘open society’ philosophy. Liang set up an office in Beijing for the new entity, seemingly with the support of CCP officials who had liberal, reformist ideas.
But the MSS was there right from the beginning. Liang was sidelined, and eventually, the fund was directed to work with the China International Culture Exchange Center (CICEC). Its head Yu Enguang was made the fund’s co-chair. Far from being a cultural institution, the CICEC was a division of the MSS and meant to gain the trust of people like Soros while posing as liberals within the party. There were artists, poets, scientists, a future CCP leader, a clergyman, victims of the Cultural Revolution and so on. In fact, these were trusted MSS assets, adept at projecting the image of an open, reforming China, to attract foreign interest and investments.
And Yu Enguang was in fact a high-ranking operative of the MSS’s 12th Bureau, a special spy unit whose official mission was to protect China from external threats and lay the groundwork for influence ops worldwide. The book claims that a secretive vice-minister in the MSS called Yu Fang looks exactly like Yu Enguang, who, through the 1970s and 1980s had posed as a journalist, heading Xinhua bureaus in London and Washington D.C. All the while he had run an entire bureau of MSS spies. Fang/Enguang had framed laws codifying the MSS’s powers and overseeing propaganda, censorship, and the rewriting of history. He also established the practice of direct engagement with targets like Soros, a practice that has since grown into a huge, well-funded worldwide operation – one that free democracies, including the U.S., are unfortunately blind to. Blind to, or openly embraced ?
Joske ends his book warning the West to recognize united front activity for what it. He says it’s also important to stop viewing “open source” intelligence gathering, that is, the kind obtained through interaction with scholars, policy experts, business leaders, etc., as inconsequential as compared to blatant stealing of classified information. The MSS is everywhere now, and the earlier free democracies wake up, the better. "Open source" intelligence gathering is certainly not "inconsequential." At least 95% (possibly more) of all raw intelligence collection is open source and unclassified. The analysis and assessments assembled from open sources then become classified.
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The CCP isn't hiding very far behind the scenes anymore, and their influence is everywhere. The degradation of our academic institutions has been a particular success, and their infiltration of the demokrat party has become one of nearly-overt policy guidance for the Puppet Show in energy and trade policy.
Nope. Everyone else has just become incredibly stupid over the years. Socialist appeasement, appointment of useless cronies, corruption, progressive humanist laws, half-baked experimentation with socioeconomic relationships... and a complete abandonment of prudence.
[American Thinker via Breitbart] Remember Nina Jankowicz, Joe Biden's would-be nominee to lead his now defunct Disinformation Governance Board? It's alright, we're all cousins.
Sure you do, she did the Mary Poppins imitation for us. She was all about 'informing' us about the national security threat of MAGA ... from her China-controlled TikTok account.
Be hard to forget that one. Remember this?
Jankowicz, who was executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board, was at the center of controversy over the Biden administration’s attempt to censor opposing views.
She also advised the British Parliament to set standards for speech on the Internet, telling it that the British government could find ways to suppress undesirable speech, ignoring "freedom of expression and fairy dust."
Jankowicz also became infamous for her enthusiasm for musical theater as a means of expressing her left-wing political ideas. She also referred to herself as the "Mary Poppins of disinformation" in a singsong TikTok post.
However, Jankowicz was herself a font of disinformation, spreading the notorious "Alfa Bank hoax" before the 2016 election, which falsely claimed that then-candidate Donald Trump had financial ties to a Russian bank.
She has now registered as a foreign representative under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), on behalf of the Centre for Information Resilience, a British organization devoted to countering disinformation online.
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A 'Foreign Agent Registration' drop-off box should be located in the vicinity of Dupont Circle. Joe, Hunter, and many in the Congress might find it convenient.
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I've run into a couple of people in such a fashion as to think there are a lot more out there.
Each said, yes, they know but they prefer to believe the hands-up narrative and would prefer not to be corrected about such things in the future..
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Liberal daughter rationalizes a lot of political lies as necessary because people won’t do the right thing otherwise.
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Friend of mine believed that Trump Russia collusion was about Russian hacking of voting machines. Despite years of headlines and impeachment about direct collusion. MSNBC changed the narrative as things were debunked and my friend went along with it rather than admit he'd been played the fool for years. Really sad.
[PJ] Poor Christopher Wray. He may have been a star at Phillips Exeter Academy. He may have graduated cum laude from Yale University. He may have been pulling in $9 million a year at King & Spalding, defending people like Gov. Chris Christie in Bridgegate. But now that he is head of the FBI, he has Joe Biden disease.
It seems he can’t remember the answer to the simplest of questions at congressional hearings. Have a question for the smartest man in law enforcement? Whether it is complicated or simple, he’ll get back to you. Once the cameras are off, and the information the public has a right to know is as stale as a hobo’s breath, then he’ll let you in on the secret — maybe.
Msgr. Ronald Knox once wrote a book titled Enthusiasm. It is a long study of various religious movements that have periodically burst onto the scene in the last 2,000 years. A frequent common denominator is the backing of very wealthy people. Throw in charismatic and even mystical leaders and enthused followers, and the movement is off to the races, often with very unhappy consequences.
Facts are irrelevant to many of these leaders. They have the Inner Light. They and the Perfect who follow them are the vanguards leading the way out of the dead letter of the past. Breaking the 10 Commandments is often no obstacle since being among the Perfect means what they do is, by definition, perfect.
The Deep State in Washington has all the signs of being a secular version of these religious enthusiasms. And Christopher Wray has the makings of one of its mystical acolytes. Consider his testimony before Republican Sen. Rand Paul, KY. Sen. Paul asked these questions.
1. "Is Facebook or any other social media company supplying private messages or data on American users that is not compelled by the government or the FBI? No warrant, no subpoena,
they’re just supplying you information on their users?"
2. "Is the FBI obtaining anonymous social media data and then using technical methods to pierce the anonymous nature of the data?"
3. "Are you getting tips and leads from social media
companies?"
Feel free to mix and match his responses, all of which don’t answer any of the questions. Included is a possible guess at a translation.
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"Is Facebook or any other social media company supplying private messages or data on American users that is not compelled by the government or the FBI? No warrant, no subpoena, they’re just supplying you information on their users?"
Of course the correct answer is already known. A "Mouthpiece" denial appears to be the goal.
In response to a comment on the tweet saying that Twitter “should be clear and consistent about it’s rules and penalties for breaking them,” he indicated that as he learns more about the inner workings of the company, he is discovering some troubling information. He wrote:
The more I learn, the worse it gets. The world should know the truth of what has been happening at Twitter.
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/\ Standard Polygraph frequently used 'Big Five.'
1. Do you plan to tell the truth today ?
2. Have you ever stolen from your employer ?
3. Have you ever lied to your employer ?
4. Have you every passed classified data to an unauthorized source ?
5. Have you ever used drugs or controlled substances ?
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Something in the DC water? Hillary could never recall things either. And then there’s the issue when you do remember but the FBI ‘remembers’ differently.
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[WIRE] On the eve of Thanksgiving, MSNBC’s 
[American Thinker] The biggest deception China has successfully perpetuated in the West is that it would rise peacefully, gradually liberalize and present enormous business opportunities. Behind that veneer of reform, Beijing has played a masterful influence game, ensnaring governments, academia, think tanks, cultural groups, and businesses in the West to further its goal of global preeminence.
[American Thinker via Breitbart] Remember 
A 'Foreign Agent Registration' drop-off box should be located in the vicinity of Dupont Circle. Joe, Hunter, and many in the Congress might find it convenient.
[PJ] Poor 
