Things to Keep an Eye On
The debate, Tim Pool, attracting the interest of Neal Rauhauser, more illegal Israeli information operations, Assange's plea deal and freedom, Hell's Angels swept, Silva eats the feds' lunch
The Experts Discover President Biden is Very Old
The presidential debate Thursday night went more or less how everyone expected. Everyone, seemingly, except the herd animals of the progressive commentariat, where it is impolite to speak one’s mind until given permission. They got it, and the New York Times deployed an apparently prewritten Nick Kristof op-ed calling on him to be replaced. The mechanics of a top-of-the-ticket switcheroo are difficult to say the least. Nobody wants Kamala Harris to be president, but if a more suitable relief pitcher were put in instead, Harris becomes a black icon. If she’s elevated, she becomes Indo-Jamaican, as a commenter on Twitter joked. At a high enough level, everyone is transracial.
For the time being what we’re finding out is most of these people’s idea of “democracy” has little to do with elections, procedure or party discipline, but the volonte generale of a few hundred members of the liberal intelligentsia.
My Appearance on Tim Pool
I don’t watch clips of myself, and can only assume the perception of the viewers at home is somewhat different from being in the room. But the Timcast folks are great, even if Pool and I got into it a little bit Wednesday night. As far as how he’s playing the Israel-Palestine issue, if I were in his shoes, I’d probably be doing what he’s doing. But someone needed to stake out more or less the view I’ve been articulating on this blog for his audience, so I did.
Neal Rauhauser Reads This Blog
Hi Neal! This odd character, last seen in the 2010s blogosphere, has reemerged from his bubbling tar pit to rebrand himself as a disinformation researcher, who, like New Knowledge, has been very actively involved in propagating disinformation himself. How about that! This blog is more or less the sole subject of this very long post, in which he shows how to scrape content from yours truly. Please do not do this. I have not paywalled anything, and do not intend to. I am but a humble beggar and pilgrim.
Anyway, part of the mainstreaming of a truly slimy character like Rauhauser has been provided by none other than the Washington Post’s resident cack-handed boob, Joe Menn, who cited him in a post calling him an “activist disinformation researcher.” That’s one way to put an associate of the Indiana Speedway bomber.
Rauhauser represents, to me, the underbelly of the DNC. He’s been cited by Anne Nelson among others, and what he’s been up to lately is labeling his enemies as conspiracy theorists. The Dems like to keep him in a perpetual state of indebtedness and thereby force him to do things for them. Debt peonage may not be literal slavery, but it would be better to be rid of both.
One of the things Rauhauser has written in the past is:
We’re dealing with people who have likely had no interaction with the court system beyond a traffic ticket; the potential for a pro se litigant to force them into expensive, long distance, lengthy, discovery laden litigation doesn’t seem to cross their minds. The reality of travel, or frightful expenses, or summary judgments needs to be made real. We probably need to make a very visible example of at least one of them before the rest understand.
Sounds a little like the lawsuit I just won, no? It has been suggested that the plaintiff against me may have been receiving tasking—a grand jury in DC, I’m told, asked about Mr. Rosenblatt. Now, based on Rauhauser’s own blog, I appear to be a target of his. Very interesting. I would be kicked off this platform if I wrote what I thought he deserves.
More Illegal Israeli Information Operations
Great story by Lee Fang and Jack Poulson in The Guardian this week, worth reading the whole thing. All of this is illegal—it violates FARA—but in DC, Israel is above the law:
Last November, just weeks into the war in Gaza, Amichai Chikli, a brash, 42-year-old Likud minister in the Israeli government, was called into the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to brief lawmakers on what could be done about rising anti-war protests from young people across the United States, especially at elite universities.
“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again now, that I think we should, especially in the United States, be on the offensive,” argued Chikli.
Chikli has since led a targeted push to counter critics of Israel. The Guardian has uncovered evidence showing how Israel has relaunched a controversial entity as part of a broader public relations campaign to target US college campuses and redefine antisemitism in US law.
Seconds after a smoke alarm subsided during the hearing, Chikli assured the lawmakers that there was new money in the budget for a pushback campaign, which was separate from more traditional public relations and paid advertising content produced by the government. It included 80 programs already under way for advocacy efforts “to be done in the ‘Concert’ way”, he said.
Bakersfield Hell’s Angels Arrested
The entire chapter, it seems, by the Kern County Sheriff’s Department in coordination with the ATF:
Ricardo Alvarez, age 42, of Bakersfield, Armando Villasenor, 55, of Bakersfield, Joseph Soto Sr., 57, of Bakersfield, Joseph Soto Jr., 33, of Bakersfield, Joshua Zavala, 31, of Bakersfield, and John Seeger, 57, of Bakersfield, were all arrested early this morning. Joshua Vaughn, 37, of Bakersfield, was already in custody on other charges. In addition, eight search warrants were executed at various locations throughout Bakersfield.
More than 150 law enforcement personnel seized approximately 25 firearms, ammunition, multiple high-capacity magazines, and gang affiliate paraphernalia.
Alvarez, Villasenor, Soto Sr., Soto Jr., and Zavala are active, patched members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, Bakersfield Chapter. Vaughn and Seeger are members of the Sons Of Hell Motorcycle Club. This sub-affiliate Motorcycle Club takes orders and direction from the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.
Infowars Bankruptcy Trustee Says The Plan is to Liquidate
A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets to help pay the $1.5 billion in lawsuit judgments Jones owes for repeatedly calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.
In an “emergency” motion filed Sunday in Houston, trustee Christopher Murray indicated publicly for the first time that he intends to “conduct an orderly wind-down” of the operations of Infowars’ parent company and “liquidate its inventory.” Murray, who was appointed by a federal judge to oversee the assets in Jones’ personal bankruptcy case, did not give a timetable for the liquidation.
Wikipedia Holds Firm Against the ADL
Whatever my issues with Wikipedia editors, it’s gratifying to see this. It’s certainly true that the ADL is not a trustworthy source on Israel or Zionism, as they say:
The charitable foundation that owns Wikipedia said it respects the decisions of its volunteer editors after receiving a letter from a broad coalition of Jewish groups calling on the foundation to override a move by editors to declare the Anti-Defamation League an untrustworthy source on Israel and Zionism.
Star Israeli FBI Cooperator Continued To Run Enormous Fraud Ring
There have been tremendous consequences for the feds being unwilling to draw a line with the Israelis, and we found out some more of them this week in Bloomberg:
On Nov. 10, 2015, Preet Bharara, then the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, stepped behind a podium in the lobby of 1 Saint Andrew’s Plaza in Manhattan and made a stunning announcement. Flanked by agents from the FBI and the US Secret Service, he trumpeted the takedown of “one of the largest cyberhacking schemes ever uncovered.” JPMorgan Chase & Co., a pillar of the global financial system, had been hacked the year before by a gang that also infiltrated other marquee financial companies, including Dow Jones & Co. and ETrade Financial Corp.After months of patient investigation, Bharara said, agents had connected those breaches to a uniquely sophisticated criminal organization, the leaders of which were now in custody.
As Bharara went on to explain that day, the mastermind of the hacks was a 31-year-old Israeli named Gery Shalon. Shalon, who speaks Hebrew, Russian, Georgian and English, had created a global operation that reached across the world of high-level cybercrime. He ran online gambling websites and an illegal cryptocurrency exchange; he laundered money for hackers and sellers of fake pharmaceuticals.
The Wall Street hacks were part of an entirely separate scheme to inflate the value of worthless stocks, generating huge profits for Shalon and his gang before prices fell back to earth. “The charged crimes showcase a brave new world of hacking for profit,” Bharara said. “It is no longer hacking merely for a quick payout, but hacking to support a diversified criminal conglomerate.”
SCOTUS Rulings
There are many people better qualified to comment on this stuff than I, but one fairly simple one did not escape my notice: they denied Steve “Beijing” Bannon’s petition, meaning he reports to prison in two days, and Justice Brown Jackson joined the conservatives to say the obstruction charges against Jan 6 defendants were overbroad. The other two worth noticing are SEC v. Jarkesy and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, two rulings having to do with the administrative state. They’re more limited than both liberal catastrophists and triumphalist conservatives would have you believe, but the effect of both will be to rein in the professional regulatory compliance classes that spring up around agencies which are very prone to capture.
Robert Mueller Was Involved in Organizing Fake Neo-Nazi Rallies in Orlando
This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read, it confirms all of my suspicions, has a tie to the Russiagate hoax, and has been accompanied by an interview with informant David Gletty, whose book has been cited here. Ken Silva is just running the table on this stuff:
Thanks to a trove of previously unpublicized law enforcement records and interviews with several players involved, Headline USA can reveal that the Orlando neo-Nazi rally was indeed organized by the FBI. The Orlando event also seems to have been part of a larger program to hold Nazi rallies across the country. And according to FBI records, the bureau sponsored those events despite knowing they led to an increase in the number of card-carrying Nazis in America.
Moreover, the FBI’s Nazi rallies led to a much larger operation to target right-wing groups. Dubbed “Primitive Affliction,” the operation featured a motorcycle front group, rogue undercover agents, Outlaw bikers, Satanists, bomb-makers and a fugitive on the lam in Mexico.
To top it off, the FBI’s Nazi operation was briefed to the highest levels of the bureau, including to then-Director Robert Mueller, according to at least one record unearthed by this publication.
Little has been written about Primitive Affliction outside of the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center—biased groups that trained agents in the case, according to the newly revealed records.
The way to think of this is neo-Nazism in America is being operated as more or less a multilevel marketing scheme, with the key recruiters being run by the FBI.
Julian Assange Finally Freed
Julian Assange’s plea deal was also released from jail this week after being granted a plea deal for time served, and it was formalized in Saipan. He is now home. It’s a shame that he had to cop to anything, but a relief that this awful ordeal is over. A reckoning will have to come for the Israel-worshipping neocons who wanted to kill him.
The comments on Tim’s video make you seem to be the most left leaning person he’s had! Loved the appearance as I only have read your written work, thank you for better perspectives!