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→ How I Went Undercover to Expose America’s Nazis
thewalrus.ca/how-i-went-underc

“I think #accelerationism is the most dangerous and overlooked threat facing us today. […] [I]t has never had such a widespread following in the white #supremacist community. […] What they do believe is #society will eventually #collapse, either on its own or from a man-made event, and their goal is to speed that up by sowing #chaos and #political tensions. To accelerate it.”

The Walrus · How I Went Undercover to Expose America’s Nazis | The WalrusAccelerationist groups are in overdrive to establish a white ethno-state. As an FBI special agent, I infiltrated one

This is so wrong: undercover police officer forms relationship under false pretences with peaceful campaigner and obtains private legal advice for a *civil* case they are fighting with a large multinational. The police then share this with the multinational to aid them in their *civil* case (ultimately lost). Twist: legal advice provided by current Prime Minister. Both the methods *and* the goals are not something police should be going anywhere near. theguardian.com/politics/2024/ #Police #Undercover

The Guardian · Undercover police officer admits spying on Keir Starmer when he was a barristerBy Rob Evans

Three investigators for the Heritage Foundation have
➡️ deluged federal agencies with thousands of
Freedom of Information Act requests over the past year,

🆘 requesting a wide range of information on government employees,
including communications that could be seen as a political liability by conservatives.

⚠️ Among the documents they’ve sought are lists of agency personnel and messages sent by individual government workers that mention, among other things,
“climate equity,” “voting” or “SOGIE,” an acronym for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

The Heritage team filed these requests even as the think tank’s #Project2025 was promoting a controversial 💥plan to remove job protections for tens of thousands of career civil servants 👉so they could be identified and fired if Donald Trump wins the presidential election.👈

All three men who filed the requests
— Mike Howell, Colin Aamot and Roman Jankowski
— did so on behalf of the Heritage Foundation’s #Oversight #Project, an arm of the conservative group that uses @FOIA, #lawsuits and #undercover #videos to investigate government activities.

In recent months, the group has used information gleaned from the requests to call attention to efforts by the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency to teach staff about gender diversity,
which Fox News characterized as the “Biden administration’s ‘woke’ policies within the Department of Defense.”

Heritage also used material gathered from a FOIA search to claim that a listening session the Justice Department held with voting rights activists constituted an attempt to “rig” the presidential election because no Republicans were present.

propublica.org/article/have-go

ProPublicaHeritage Foundation Staffers Flood Federal Agencies With Thousands of Information Requests
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“It is business as usual now for #China, but that is dramatically stepped up from where it used to be. It is an order of magnitude worse,” said Brandon Wales, who until earlier this month was executive director of the #Cybersecurity & Infrastructure #Security Agency, #CISA.

The #hacks raise concern because their targets are believed to include #government & #military personnel working #undercover & groups of strategic interest to China.

Undercover als moderator van Google-advertenties: wat bijblijft, is de hypocrisie
volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/202

Echt ingrijpen bij 'foute advertenties' zou ongetwijfeld ten koste gaan van de omzet. Vandaar dat niemand verder mag kijken dan de 'landingspagina' van een advertentie en elke kwaadwillende adverteerder weet hoe hij de moderatie moet omzeilen.