Things to Keep an Eye On
Drugs on Facebook?, Isabella DeLuca charged, spyware in Poland, Eylon Levy canned, the Israeli real estate mafia, Jonathan Winer, Chris Lehane
Some of these items are a little late, but just so everybody’s clear what’s going on. Next week, besides being Holy Week for Western Christians, will be very interesting in Congress, with Israel begging for more weapons and a motion to vacate on the table. Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the Republican Party, addressed his rank-and-file senators this week in a closed-door meeting, and they are contemplating a formal invitation for him to speak to Congress so they can demonstrate their fealty to a foreign potentate.
Is Facebook facilitating the sale of illegal drugs?
Federal authorities are investigating Meta Platforms for its role in the illicit sale of drugs, according to documents and people familiar with the matter.
U.S. prosecutors in Virginia have been sending subpoenas and asking questions as part of a criminal grand jury probe looking into whether the company’s social-media platforms are facilitating and profiting from the illegal sale of drugs, the people familiar with the matter said. Meta is the owner of Instagram and Facebook.
Poland and the spyware
It was a week ago that the former Polish prime minister addressed the spyware, and he said he bought it and didn’t think too hard about it:
“As far as Pegasus (spyware) goes, I was aware that it’s a tool for breaking into communication devices, and that Poland needs it, and that other countries also have it,” Kaczyński said. But he stressed that he was “not directly interested in the operational activity of the (security) services.”
However, he later said the “use of Pegasus was in accordance with the law, there were no shortcomings, and in 99% it was used against criminals.”
I’ve heard through the grapevine that there is an arrest warrant out for Matthew Tyrmand in Poland, which is not too surprising because it seems wherever he goes, the spyware follows. One of his other partners was the Bolsonaro government, and Bolsonaro himself has just been accused of falsifying COVID records, with potential pending charges.
Eylon Levy sacked
Notorious liar and propagandist Eylon Levy, a dual citizen of the UK and Israel, has been suspended. From Turkish media:
British-educated Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy, a prominent figure in UK media since October 7, has been suspended after reports of an alleged spat with the British Foreign Office.
Described as a "consummate liar and Israeli propaganda merchant," the suspended official has courted controversy over his comments relating to thenow debunked and false allegations of rape by Hamas resistance fighters during the October 7 cross-border operations.
Levy, a dual British citizen, had regularly provided defence of Israel’s onslaught that has largely killed Palestinian women and children in the besieged enclave, on prominent UK media outlets, including Sky News and Piers Morgan’s show, to offer his spin on the assault on Palestinians in Gaza.
Since the October 7 Hamas attack, Israel’s brutal bombardment and ground invasion in Gaza has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians, displacing 85 per cent of the population and damaging or destroying 60 per cent of the local infrastructure.
Isabella DeLuca charged
Fair maiden Isabella may be going to the tower, for getting behind the Likud-backed 1/6 assault on the Capitol, and then going to work for Eli Gold’s institute for strategic misgovernment. She worked for Lee Zeldin also. The basics:
In the three years since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Isabella DeLuca gained a right-wing following and burnished her résumé with two internships in the offices of GOP members of Congress.
On Monday, the political social media influencer was criminally charged for storming the Capitol and helping to force the evacuation of the very chamber from which she would later draw a modest salary. Prosecutors say that she planted herself in the middle of one of the most chaotic scenes of the violent day and helped remove a wooden table from a Capitol office that other rioters would later break apart and hurl at police.
The Israeli real estate mafia
We learned this week that it’s actually perfectly OK to call for ethnic cleansing at Harvard, if you’re calling for it on the Israeli side. Americans were rightly disgusted by Jared Kushner’s suggestion that the damn-near-total destruction of Gaza is a remarkable waterfront real estate development opportunity. In the Trump administration these sorts of people were also in charge of the custodianship of American culture. And of course, if Kushner feels that way about Gaza, why wouldn’t he feel the same way about burning down Minneapolis?
Jared Kushner has praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property” and suggested Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the strip.
The former property dealer, married to Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, made the comments in an interview at Harvard University on 15 February. The interview was posted on the YouTube channel of the Middle East Initiative, a program of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, earlier this month.
This is the Likud plan for America too! Kushner is also getting involved in projects in Albania and Serbia, countries known for their probity and respect for the rule of law.
We also learned that Angela Chao’s last call before she drowned to death in one of Elon Musk’s Chinese assassination machines was to Amber Keinan, wife of Tal Keinan, the airport developer. Keinan is a central figure in Dan Senor’s book Start-Up Nation, and the concept itself is a sort of ideological and marketing cover for their rampant and unchecked technology theft.
Boeing
The situation with Boeing is complicated, but we’ve had the whistleblower die recently, a plane forced down with a glitch, and now CUFI is promoting a cybersecurity deal for the Israelis to protect aviation infrastructure. Seems dumb!
US defense giant Boeing and Israel have signed a deal to cooperate on a wide basis for providing security to the aircraft industry from cyberattacks.
“The civilian aircraft sector could be characterized by its many technological developments which create new complexities and cyber challenges,” Boeing and the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) said in a statement.
Canada to continue to freeze arms exports to Israel
This is good:
Canada has not approved new arms export permits to Israel since Jan. 8 and the freeze will continue until Ottawa can ensure the weapons are used in accordance with Canadian law, the government said on Wednesday.
Export permits that were approved before Jan. 8 remain in effect, the office of Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said in an emailed statement.
The political survival of Canada's minority Liberal government depends on support from the left-leaning New Democrats, who are calling for a tougher line with Israel over the Gaza conflict.
The U.S. will have similar choices to make soon. Because Israel is run by a crime syndicate, they want the entire Western world to break the law for them. Everybody, including the entire Israeli press, knows what it’s going to take is for the Biden administration to force Bibi to take a deal.
Chris Lehane to join OpenAI?
Chris Lehane is a deeply sinister figure, involved with crypto and AirBNB, which both massively distort the American economy. So of course he’s about to join OpenAI:
Chris Lehane, a former policy chief for Airbnb and member of the Clinton White House, is nearing a deal to join ChatGPT-maker OpenAI as a senior executive, The Information reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Lehane has been consulting for CEO Sam Altman for more than a year, including handling his temporary ouster in November, the report said, adding that the discussions to bring him on board have not been finalized and “could fall apart.”
The Steele Dossier people are really having a hard time
The terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall in Moscow is of course tragic. It’s also the place where the Miss Universe pageant was that Trump was involved with, which is what connects it to the Steele Dossier.
Among the other peddlers of the Steele Dossier is the John Kerry aide Jonathan Winer, one of these sinister types running around who has been involved with the MEK, the Marxo-Islamist cult that no serious Iranian dissident has any time for. He’s connected to Sidney Blumenthal, and himself worked for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Can you explain the whole Chao affair? why was she supposedly murdered?
Thank you for the news.