Congressman to Help Chinese Sue CCP
Congressman Chris Smith attended a 32nd-anniversary event of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China, in Yermo, California. He blames the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its human rights abuses on the Chinese people and is proposing a resolution to help sue the CCP.
https://www.ntd.com/congressman-to-help-chinese-sue-ccp_624255.html
CIA (Dis)Information Operations Come Home To The US
Reporters joke the easiest job in Washington is CIA spokesman. You need only listen carefully to questions and say “No comment’ before heading to Happy Hour. The joke, however, is on us. The reporters pretend to see only one side of the CIA, the passive hiding of information about itself. They meanwhile choose to profit from the other side of the equation, active information operations designed to influence events in America. It is 2021 and the CIA is running an op against the American people.
Leon Panetta, the Director CIA from 2009 to 2011 explained bluntly his CIA did influence foreign media outlets ahead of elections in order to “change attitudes within the country.” The method, Panetta said, was to “acquire media within a country or within a region that could very well be used for being able to deliver a specific message or work to influence those that may own elements of the media to be able to cooperate, work with you in delivering that message.”
The CIA has been running such information ops to influence foreign elections since the end of WWII. Richard Bissell, who ran the agency’s operations during the Cold War, wrote of “exercising control over a newspaper or broadcasting station, or of securing the desired outcome in an election.” A report on the CIA in Chile boasts the Agency portrayed its favored candidate in one election as a “wise, sincere and high-minded statesman” while painting his leftist opponent as a “calculating schemer.” At one point in the 1980s foreign media insertions ran 80 a day.
The goal is to control information as a tool of influence. Sometimes the control is very direct, simply paying a reporter to run a story, or, as was done in Iraq, simply operating the media outlet yourself (known as the Orwellian Indigenous Media Project.) The problem is such direct action is easily exposed, destroying credibility.
A more effective strategy is to become a source for legitimate media such that your (dis)information inherits their credibility. The most effective is an operation so complex one CIA plant is the initial information source while a second CIA plant acts seemingly independently as a confirming source. At that point you can push information to the mainstream media, who can then “independently” confirm it, sometimes unknowingly, through your secondary agents. You can basically write tomorrow’s headlines.
Other techniques include exclusive true information mixed with disinformation to establish credibility, using official sources like Embassy spokesmen to appear to inadvertently confirm sub details, and covert funding of research and side gigs to promote academics and experts who discredit counter-narratives. The academics may never know where their money comes from, adding to their credibility.
https://wemeantwell.com/blog/2021/05/29/cia-disinformation-operations-come-home-to-the-us/
No passports for ‘anti-Semites’? German MP suggests barring those questioning ‘Israel’s existence’ from getting German citizenship
Those who committed ‘anti-Semitic’ acts should be barred from acquiring German citizenship, an interior policy spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party in the Bundestag said ahead of the voting on the issue.
“The Citizenship law should expressly prohibit naturalization of people who have committed anti-Semitic acts,” Mathias Middelberg, a lawmaker from Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), told the German NOZ newspaper ahead of the parliamentary debate on the amendments to the citizenship law that are to be voted on later this week.
The list of “anti-Semitic” crimes should particularly involve acts aimed against the State of Israel, the MP believes.
Anyone who incites the public against Jews, questions the existence of the State of Israel, or burns an Israeli flag must not become a German citizen.
In his speech, the MP also referred to Merkel’s own speech she delivered back in 2008 when she said that responsibility for Israel’s security is a part of Germany’s national interest. Such words should not be “left unattended,” he said.
Middelberg seeks to amend the existing law with a clause stating that “naturalization is excluded if a foreigner has committed an anti-Semitically motivated act.” He also argued that any anti-Semitic acts should be legally declared incompatible with the guarantees of human dignity enshrined in the constitution, called the Basic Law in Germany.
The MP already called on Merkel’s conservative bloc’s partners within the government coalition – the Social Democrats – to support the proposal during the upcoming parliamentary vote.
Last month, Germany saw a string of attacks on Jewish prayer houses that sparked outrage among Jews, Christians and German officials. The incidents, which mostly involved burning Israeli flags and pelting synagogues with stones, came amid a violent standoff between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza. Some of the perpetrators then told the German police their actions were provoked by the “current conflict in Israel.”
The developments drew sharp condemnation from top German politicians. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said at that time that hatred of Jews would not be tolerated in Germany in any form, while calling such acts “crimes that must be prosecuted.”
Merkel said in her weekly video podcast in late May that anyone who “takes the hatred of Jews onto our streets” violates the Basic Law. The German government’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, expressed Berlin’s support to Tel Aviv and condemned rocket attacks launched by Hamas militants against Israel by saying that there was “no justification for this violence.”
https://www.rt.com/news/525936-germany-citizenship-ban-anti-semites/
Scenarios for an early Trump return to power: the feasible, the far-fetched and the fantasy
With the former president reportedly discussing a return to office "sooner than you think," what are some of the theoretical pathways back to the White House?
The ever-churning rumor mill surrounding former President Donald Trump has, in recent days, produced a new genre — speculative scenarios that envision the 45th president making his way back to the White House sooner than expected.
Ever the showman — and never one to be upstaged by the media — Trump, who continues to maintain the election was stolen from him, has begun fueling these rumblings via a number of provocative comments.
For those confounded by the headlines and statements "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump" — but also wondering if there's any plausible basis for such scenarios — let's review the options.
Reinstatement: According to the New York Times' Maggie Haberman — and vouched for by National Review's Charles C.W. Cooke, among others — Donald Trump has been musing aloud within his inner circle about the possibility of being reinstated as commander-in-chief by August — yes, that means by August, 2021.
On June 1, Haberman tweeted: "Trump has been telling a number of people he's in contact with that he expects he will be reinstated by August (no that isn't how it works but simply sharing the information)."
Cooke confirmed Haberman's claims, adding that, according to his reporting, Trump expects that former Sens. David Perdue of Georgia, and Martha McSally of Arizona, will be marched back into the upper chamber.
Adding to the intrigue around Cooke and Haberman's reporting is Trump himself, who recently appeared in a video for the National Republican Senatorial Committee saying: "We're gonna take back the Senate, take back the House, we're gonna take back the White House and sooner than you think."
It is unclear just how Trump plans to effectuate an August return, but he has been closely monitoring the audit efforts underway in Maricopa County, Ariz., and Windham, N.H., as well as the developing audit efforts in Pennsylvania and Georgia.
From a legal standpoint, however, even those with close personal and professional ties to Trump doubt the Constitution leaves room to reinstate a president following the certification of his defeat by the Electoral College.
Regardless of the findings of any audit, "it is highly unlikely that any court will reverse the Electoral College votes," said Jenna Ellis, former Trump campaign senior legal adviser. "The constitutional and legally viable judicial options at this point, are to hold accountable the administrators, public officials, and secretaries of state who disregarded state law."
"The states allowed those certifications for the Electoral College delegates to be given to Congress, and the Electoral College is how we select a president in the United States," Ellis continued. "The Republican-led state legislatures who were too spineless to exercise their constitutional responsibility to ensure the correct slate of delegates were sent to Congress must now provide the American people with confidence that this lawlessness will never happen again and put reasonable election integrity safeguards in place, as President Trump outlined this weekend in his North Carolina speech."
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/hold-trump-teasing-his-return-oval-what-are-theories-fueling-such
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