🐁 #PardonMcBride. 🐝🐝🐝🐝

I stand for justice, truth, respect.

"We have got to the stage where the governments are more concerned about secrecy than they are about crime." David McBride

[🐁 #PardonMcBride. 🐝🐝🐝🐝 @BeeDemocracy]

#auspol we must fix the #PIDact. Government whistleblowers like @MurdochCadell @Richard_D_Boyle are not protected by the current legislation and are gaoled instead.

[Pirate Party Australia @piratepartyau]

Our press release here:
https://t.co/OaBzmJJwv1

[Tilo Jung @TiloJung]

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[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

To give you an analogy, in the security world Qubes is essentially GrapheneOS but for computers.

(Connoisseurs will recognize it running in the background here).

Volume 2 will cover Mac & Windows, but main focus is Qubes and Tails.

It will release after Volume 1 drops.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

GrapheneOS saved me twice, once during the Heathrow arrest, and when I was raided.

I spoke to @SMaurizi at Computer Weekly about what happened, and the details of the auto-reboot feature:

https://t.co/inQ4Ks8fWW

[The Information Rights Project @theinforights]

Andrew Wilkie was the only serving intelligence official in Australia, the UK or the US to resign publicly before the Iraq invasion. He read the intelligence and knew the case for war did not hold. He was right.

Whistleblower Diaries #5. Tuesday 4 August, 6:30pm AEST, online.

[The Information Rights Project @theinforights]

Take action 👇
https://t.co/YPu2IGZqTF

[The Information Rights Project @theinforights]

The Royal Commission invited Marcus, a former ASIO source with direct knowledge relevant to its inquiry, to speak.

He cannot enter Australia to do it.

One person can change that. @Tony_Burke , approve the visa.

[The Information Rights Project @theinforights]

Gabriel Shipton speaks to ABC AM about Marcus, a former ASIO source whose visa has been rejected.
Marcus says he warned ASIO years before the Bondi attack.
His evidence should be tested by the Royal Commission, not blocked by a visa process.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Did you see this? Home Affairs has denied a visa to the ex-ASIO source who tried to warn about the Bondi gunmen. This is a deeply political decision, and now the Royal Commission may never hear his evidence.

It looks like a stitch up by those who don't want this on the record.

[KATY PERRY @katyperry]

I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it.

I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for.

My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Piers Morgan invited Max Blumenthal on to discuss his Iran reporting and the illegal seizure of his devices by the US govt, but spent much of his time questioning Blumenthal's "impartiality"

"I'm absolutely not impartial," Blumenthal explained. "I am not objective, and the concept of objectivity, as we understand it, is set out by the corporate media according to the parameters devised for them by their militant Zionist ruling class owners, who literally own the networks that you appear on."

Blumenthal then illustrated how Morgan manufactured consent for the US-Israeli war on Iran by promoting inflated death tolls and a false narrative of the Israeli and US-sponsored regime change riots that rocked Iran in January

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal reports back from Iran before a packed house at DC’s Busboys and Poets

After presenting his view of the next escalatory phase of the US-imposed war, he took questions from the audience, which included many Iranian Americans https://t.co/p4RaxYYSJy

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

'No, we are not Nazis.'

Zelensky, sitting with the chronically unhinged pro-Israeli genocide propagandist Laura Loomer, laughs off the idea that Ukraine is full of Nazis.

Under Zelensky's rule, the OUN militia and its leadership, which allied with Nazi Germany during WW2, have been rehabilitated and made national heroes of Ukraine.

The OUN and allied Ukrainian nationalists assisted the Nazis in mass murdering Jews and Poles in Ukraine.

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

'There are no Nazis in Ukraine'

Ukraine:

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Imagine if we were spying on China like China spies on us…

Oh, Pine Gap
And NW Cape
Jindalee Radar
Shoal Bay radio station
Cocos Islands spy station

Should I go on…?
Ok, every RAN ship close to China
And, every RAAF plane buzzing around Taiwan
And.. https://t.co/X3RtuzNhct

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

👏 Now at 48%! But I know this would’ve hit 100% much faster at the start of the genocide. People in Gaza need our support just as much now. Please help if you can and thank you to all who have 🙏❤️ https://t.co/cTs5LRjCze

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Trump administration has announced a renewed crusade against “far-left terrorism,” which sounds okay if you don’t know that the word “terrorism” only ever means “behavior which goes against the agendas of the western empire.”

The United States has for example placed sanctions on UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for calling attention to Israeli atrocities in Gaza, justifying the move by claiming the human rights expert has “expressed support for terrorism”. In the UK, police have been arresting people on terrorism charges just for holding signs which say “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”.

The designation has nothing to do with actual acts of terrorism as the average westerner conceives of that notion. In 2024 the US government removed its $10 million bounty on former Al Qaeda leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (AKA Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) because he facilitated Washington’s regime change agendas in Syria, where he is now the sitting president. You can literally be a leader in the most notorious terrorist network on earth and still see that designation disappear into thin air as soon as you start assisting the geostrategic ambitions of the empire.

The White House announced on Thursday that it has launched “an unprecedented global offensive against the transnational threat of Radical Left terrorism,” under which “far-left extremism will be treated with the same seriousness and ferocity the world has long reserved for jihadist terrorism.”

Journalist Ken Klippenstein reports that according to leaked documents from Marco Rubio’s State Department, groups to be targeted under the new marching orders will include “violent far-left and anarchist networks and other violent extremist actors,” as well as “violent pro-Iranian and antisemitic networks” and “militant anti-tech and eco-terrorist movements.”

The move is premised on a White House memo known as NSPM-7, a directive that critics have been warning about for months due to its dangerously authoritarian implications and lack of congressional approval. In the words of Trump advisor Stephen Miller, NSPM-7 “directs, for the first time in American history, all of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies to work together to disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest, and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.”

This line strongly echoes the language of a 1967 FBI memo describing the goals of the J Edgar Hoover program COINTELPRO to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist hate-type organizations and groupings.”

Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI conducted covert operations under COINTELPRO to infiltrate and subvert Black civil rights groups, the Communist Party USA, Vietnam War protester organizations, and feminist groups with the goal of stomping out all meaningful leftward political movement in the United States. The feds never fully stopped running such programs of course — groups like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter were known to have been targeted by police surveillance and infiltration. But it’s clear the rightists in the White House are aiming for something far more aggressive, and FBI Director Kash Patel sounds super stoked about the chance to become a 21st century J Edgar Hoover.

“Secretary Rubio hosted the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism — under President Trump’s leadership this FBI has been proud to support this important work through National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) 7, focusing federal law enforcement to investigate and disrupt organizations engaging in political violence and terrorism,” Patel said on Twitter regarding the latest escalation.

So it seems the United States is looking at a reinvigorated COINTELPRO for the 2020s, this time with police drones and AI-assisted mass surveillance. As Americans become more and more hostile toward US warmongering, more and more fed up with the state of Israel, more and more convinced that their government doesn’t care about them, and more and more discontented with what unbridled capitalism is doing to their bank accounts, their society, and their world, their rulers are responding with the iron fist of tyranny.

And what makes all this especially threatening is that you know whatever measures they roll out while the Republicans are running things will remain in place when the Democrats are in power, because as we have discussed here many times before, it is the Democratic Party’s job to prevent leftward movement in the United States. This will be one of those many, many times the Republicans did something evil and the Democrats just quietly kept it running in the background to protect the interests of the capitalist empire. Because that is their job.

But the fact that this is happening in the first place should inspire hope, not despair. The empire managers aren’t ramping up authoritarianism because it’s easy and fun; they’re doing it because they need to. They know they’re losing their grip, and they know that they are vastly outnumbered by the ordinary human beings who just want a better world for their children.

They are afraid. And they are afraid because they are losing.

Keep pushing.

[Ruby Redshoes @Ruby__Redshoes]

@MichaelWestBiz @sstephanietrann "Sure Hitler was a bad guy but the media didn't talk enough about his painting skills"

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

This guy “Arsen Ostrovsky” got to complain to the Australian government about “antisemitism”.

He also said “There are no civilians in Gaza”.

The royal commission is a joke. This is making a mockery of australia.

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

I asked Govt a simple question: Where will #AUKUS ☢️ waste be put? They refused me access to that info so I challenged them in a Tribunal, and won. They’ve now appealed to a court and threatened me ($150K) costs if I fight them. #NewSecrecyTactic #auspol https://t.co/VvKewMS9ej

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇪🇺Tomorrow 12:00 PM: Final vote on reinstating #ChatControl 1.0
A simple majority is no longer enough for rejection.
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