🇺🇸🇮🇩NEW VIDEO: Anticipated US-Backed Protests in Indonesia Begin & How it fits into US Desire to Contain China
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this was done during:
korean war (1950)
mayan genocide in guatemala (1954)
vietnam war (1955)
idonesian genocide (1965)
contras in nicaragua (1980)
and countless other massacres across the world.
the US funds/arms/trains mercenaries to kill anyone in the way of their profits.
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
@MichaelTLester Michael, that Sazan Island graphic is from our report @21WIE by @freddie_ponton, the full story of Albania takeover can be found here…
https://t.co/jD4W19hn1U
@MichaelTLester Michael, that Sazan Island graphic is from our report @21WIE by @freddie_ponton, the full story of Albania takeover can be found here…
https://t.co/jD4W19hn1U
My post on Sazan Island went viral yesterday because the verifiable facts are shocking.
Here's what I left out: Sazan is just one piece of a much bigger operation.
Jared Kushner started Affinity Partners in July 2021. One day after leaving the White House.
Within weeks, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund wired him $2 billion. Senior Saudi officials objected. Mohammed bin Salman overruled them.
By the end of 2024, Affinity was managing $4.8 billion, almost entirely from foreign governments. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE. Today that number is $6.16 billion. 99% from foreign nationals.
The fee structure, disclosed to the Senate Finance Committee under investigation: Kushner charges the Saudis 1.25% annually on $2 billion in committed capital. Other investors pay closer to 2%. The Senate's own investigators called this "unusually high" for a firm with Kushner's experience level, or more correctly, complete lack of experience. As of mid-2024, Affinity had generated zero return on investment and had not distributed a penny of earnings back to any client.
He's charging governments tens of millions a year to have their money sit in a bank account.
In late 2024, Senator Wyden referred Kushner to the Department of Justice for possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The same law that put Paul Manafort in prison.
Now Kushner is back in government. Trump's "Special Envoy for Peace." Negotiating with Iran. Negotiating with Russia. Negotiating ceasefire terms in Gaza. On behalf of the United States. Not chosen by Americans. No experience running an investment firm. No training or experience in international relations. His sole credential is that he married the president's daughter. All while managing $6 billion from the governments he is negotiating with.
Before Trump's second term started, Kushner publicly promised he would not raise additional capital while serving. The New York Times then reported he was actively soliciting $5 billion more from foreign governments. His lawyers confirmed the conversations. They said he "does not intend" to take it.
He said the same thing before he took it the first time.
The Senate Finance Committee and the House Oversight Committee are both demanding answers. They've asked for every communication between Kushner and foreign governments. They've asked Affinity to preserve all documents. Any destruction of records, they said in writing, will be treated as obstruction.
Now look at the ownership chart below. It was produced as part of a corporate investigation published June 3rd titled "Exporting the Abraham Accords: The Hidden Network Converging on Albania's Shoreline." My follower @SlavicWoman777 flagged it in my replies.
Five unnamed Albanian shareholders. 24% combined stake. Structured deliberately just below the 25% threshold that would require public disclosure under Dutch law.
That is someone trying to hide who is behind the money.
This is what corruption looks like when it's wearing a suit and has a law firm on retainer.
What do you call it when your government's negotiator is on the payroll of the governments he's negotiating with?
"Douglas Valentine, American historian, on how the CIA recruited Nazi criminals, with millions of deaths on their hands, to pursue communists—literally the USA taking up Hitler's fight."
@cafreeland@MarkJCarney@nytimes@globeandmail#cdnpoli#Ukraine
🇧🇴 🇺🇸 | Civil war-type scenes are emerging from Bolivia.
The government passed a law authorising US-backed President Rodrigo Paz to deploy the military against protesters.
Bolivian police and military forces have launched a joint operation to clear strike blockades in San Julián, Santa Cruz department, as a five-week general strike against neoliberalism continues to grip the country.
The crackdown came with full government backing — multiple ministers arrived for what was intended as a photo opportunity declaring victory over the movement.
Instead, entire communities mobilised, forcing security forces to retreat after more than four hours of sustained resistance on the highway.
The mobilisations, demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz, have left at least ten people dead, 37 injured, and over a hundred facing prosecution, according to the Ombudsman's Office.
Meanwhile, in El Alto — the indigenous city encircling the capital — daily popular assemblies are being held where communities vote on strike strategy and assess the movement's progress. A new form of grass-roots democracy is taking shape on the streets.
The publics of western democracies have an unfavourable view of Israel, most at 70% or more.
Yet, in these same "democracies", such as the UK, the vast majority of politicians actively support aiding Israel's continuing genocidal slaughter in Gaza.
🇨🇱 Chile’s President José Antonio Kast is the son of a Nazi who entered the country through postwar ratlines — secret escape networks run by Anglo-American intelligence to recruit and protect fascist assets for the Cold War continuation of the British Empire’s global control.
Kast remains a vocal apologist for the Pinochet dictatorship, under which Chile was turned into a laboratory for the Chicago Boys’ shock doctrine — the IMF-World Bank model of forced deindustrialization, privatization of water and national patrimony, and destruction of sovereign economic development in service to London and Wall Street’s financier oligarchy.
He aligns with Netanyahu and the same Anglo-American strategic axis that deploys Zionism, “free market” austerity, and repression to block the rise of multipolar development, sovereign nation-states, and South-South cooperation — the very policies now advancing through BRICS and the New Silk Road paradigm led by Russia, China and Iran.
Now, students are flooding the streets of Santiago — met with tear gas, water cannons, and beatings — protesting Kast’s education cuts, austerity, and regressive assault on the common good.
This is the latest chapter in the familiar imperial playbook: enforced backwardness, extractive dependency, denial of national sovereignty, and brutal suppression of resistance.
The same networks that installed and protected Pinochet are now operating through Kast. The British Empire never died — it merely rebranded. The only answer is sovereign industrial development, a New Bretton Woods, and full rejection of this oligarchical system.
💥 Jared Kushner and the hidden 24% that controls Albania’s Adriatic future
🟠 Exporting the Abraham Accords: The Hidden Network Converging on Albania’s Shoreline - READ MORE: https://t.co/DGZsNt4VZZ
COPS ARREST A MAN FOR ORGANIZING A PROTEST AGAINST A DATA CENTER:
Video shows Illinois police arresting Harley Delander for organizing a protest against a data center in his town.
He explains to police that he did nothing wrong and they’re violating his First Amendment rights.
The police don’t care and arrest him anyway. This is the current state of America.
Our government and both parties are completely owned by the tech billionaires who are rewiring our entire economy to usher in their AI techno-capitalist dystopia.
This is why you are seeing the government do whatever it can to silence any and all opposition to the dystopian nightmare their tech billionaire owners are pushing onto us.
From labeling anti-data center protesters “extremists” to now arresting people for planning protests, the US government is actively attacking and jailing its own people to protect the Tech oligarchs it serves.
Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.
The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.
It had fewer than 50 employees.
And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.
Here is the part the administration tried to bury.
Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.
One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.
Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.
A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.
This is public money. Your money.
Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.
And there is more coming.
A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.
This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.
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Netanyahu and Lindsey say its fine to shut down the $3.8B a year in military aid to Israel. They don't tell you how they will make it up— by "partnering" with the US military directly.
It begins here.
This is an alarming read by @BenFreemanDC
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BREAKING: The Louisiana Senate passed a disturbing anti-homeless bill that pushes homeless people into jails, forced treatment, and unpaid labor. Hours earlier, the same lawmakers voted to give themselves $1,000 to cover housing expenses, recognizing housing is too expensive.
🚨 5 Reasons Anyone with a Brain Should Be Skeptical of the Rapid Expansion of Data Centers
1. Cronyism as "innovation:"
Massive tax breaks, sweetheart land deals, and utility subsidies, all funneled to the same tech giants already worth trillions. It’s state backed infrastructure capture dressed up as progress.
2. 5K more than any other country:
The U.S. has roughly 5k more data centers than any other country. (Yes, even China.) Nobody seems to know why or is even asking why. That level of centralization has obvious long term political risk.
3. Community pushback gets overridden:
Residents who raise concerns about zoning, water use, noise, or power demand are often dismissed by city officials aligned with powerful industry interests. Some have even been arrested at city council meetings or for social media posts.
4. Surveillance Infrastructure:
Data centers increasingly support AI training, mass data processing, and surveillance adjacent systems. It’s distributed digital infrastructure makes large scale monitoring cheap and scalable, worrying privacy advocates who can see the writing on the wall.
5. Environmental and resource strain:
These facilities are extremely energy-intensive, loud and water-hungry, often placing heavy demand on local grids and cooling systems. They create "heat islands", pollute the air, and the cost is externalized to communities while profits are centralized.
Concerns about data centers are NOT a left/right issue (even though they are now trying to make it political.) This isn’t about opposing innovation or capitalism, it’s about accountability, surveillance infrastructure, concentrated power, and externalized costs.
The American education system does not teach empire.
This is not an accident.
It teaches the Revolution. It teaches the Constitution. It teaches the Civil War in a way that frames it primarily as a story of "national healing" rather than unfinished reckoning.
It teaches World War II as the definitive American story: the sleeping giant awakened, the "arsenal of democracy," the liberation of Europe, the moral clarity of that specific conflict deployed as a permanent filter through which all subsequent American violence can be viewed as basically continuous with defeating Hitler.
It does not teach the Philippines, where the U.S. military killed somewhere between 200,000 and 1,000,000 people between 1899 and 1913 during the Philippine-American War, a war most Americans have never heard of.
It does not teach the Banana Wars, where the U.S. military intervened repeatedly in Central America and the Caribbean to protect the commercial interests of American corporations.
It does not teach the full history of Iran: the 1953 coup that removed a democratically elected prime minister and installed a Shah who ran a torture state, because the elected prime minister wanted to nationalize Iranian oil.
It does not honestly teach Korea, 1945-53. Guatemala, 1954. Vietnam, 1954-75. Lebanon, 1958 and 1982-84. The Congo, 1960-65. Cuba, 1961. Brazil, 1964. Dominican Republic, 1965. Haiti, across the 20th century. Indonesia, 1965. Greece, 1947-49 and 1967-74. Laos, 1964-73. Cambodia, 1969-75. Chile, 1973. Angola, 1975-1991. Argentina, 1976-1983. Nicaragua, the 1980s. El Salvador, the 1980s. Grenada, 1983. Panama, 1989. Afghanistan, 1979-92 and 2001–21. Iraq, 1991-2003 and 2003-11. Somalia, 1992-95. Sudan, 1998. Yugoslavia, 1999. Yemen, 2002-25. Venezuela, 2002 and 2014-present. Honduras, 2009. Libya, 2011. Syria, 2012-26. Ukraine, 2014-present.
It does not teach these things honestly because a population that understood them would have a very different relationship to the word "freedom" when its government uses it to justify intervention.
The ignorance is load-bearing.
Remove it, and the entire moral architecture of American exceptionalism becomes uninhabitable.
They know this.
The curriculum is not an oversight.
The curriculum is a choice, made deliberately, renewed continuously, defended furiously whenever teachers try to expand it.
The most powerful weapon American empire has ever deployed is not the aircraft carrier.
It is the history class.