Gunwalking (Wide Receiver/F&F) is at least allegedly intended to map firearm traffic for the purpose of orchestrating stings.
I might argue the Republican scandalmongering was about shielding their deep state counterparts from being outed, rather than persecuting CIA linked gun trafficker assets in the ATF.
But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe everybody is just stepping on one another’s dicks.
You hardly have to speculate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
Condor was formally created in November 1975, when Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s spy chief, Manuel Contreras, invited 50 intelligence officers from Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil to the Army War Academy in Santiago, Chile. The operation ended with the fall of the Argentine junta in 1983.
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In 1980, Regional Security Officer James Blystone had met with an Argentine Intelligence Source. In the declassified memo, Blystone had asked about the disappearance for two Montoneros that had plans to travel from Mexico to Brazil to meet with other Montoneros. The Argentine Intelligence Source had explained that they had been taken and interrogated, and later contacted their Mexican and Brazilian counterparts for approval to conduct an operation to capture the other Montoneros that were expecting their arrival. Once they were under custody, they had utilized fake documents to check into their hotel to impersonate their presence and not alert any other Montoneros of their capture. They were imprisoned at Campo de Mayo
The Mexican Connection of the Iran Contra Affair
In what newspapers here are calling ‘‘the Mexican connection’’ to the Iran-contra affair, the Mexican political establishment and its right-wing opposition are trading charges that each has maintained improper contacts with American organizations supplying aid to anti-Sandinista forces in Nicaragua.
Critics of the opposition National Action Party accused the party of treason after it was disclosed last month that a prominent party member met several times in Washington last year with Carl R. (Spitz) Channell, director of the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty.
Mr. Channell recently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the American Government by raising tax-deductible contributions for a purpose that was not deductible: buying arms for the contras. He was an associate of Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North, who developed the contra arms supply network while working for President Reagan’s National Security Council.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9rida_Initiative
Some examples of Mexico’s paramilitary abuses at the time included the sexual assault and rape of dozens of female detainees by police in San Salvador Atenco, and the disappearances of dozens of teachers in the state of Oaxaca in 2006, as well as the killings of seven innocent bystanders, including the American journalist Brad Will by off-duty policemen. Almost half of Mexican police officers examined in 2008 failed background and security tests, a figure that rose to nearly 9 of 10 policemen in the border state of Baja California
Why would DeepSeek supposedly get more downloads from the app store?
Just for starters, its been in the news non-stop for weeks.
it’s not safe to leave your data with Chinese corporations/government
What does this have to do with trying to get a piece of Chinese software to say “Taiwan is independent”? Is this phrase pivotal to your data security somehow?
The real brainwashing is “you can trust US corporations with it instead!”
Its tiresome to see people so cavalier with their data security suddenly express intense (often entirely impotent) anxiety over Evil Foreign Country getting at their data. I don’t even think its fair to say “US corporations” are where the brainwashing enters in, so much as this shock doctrine of national news that tells you to install some malware dressed up as antivirus tech to protect your Macbook from “hackers”, right after Colonial Pipeline gets hit with ransomware.
I’m reminded of people claiming Stuxnet Virus was an Iranian computer attack on the US, after the Obama Admin - in collaboration with Israel - deployed the virus to shut down Iranian centrifuges running outdated versions of Microsoft Windows without considering the possibility of blowback.
They’d have never had any issue with Chinese software if they agreed to share all their data with the US…
The degree to which the US is regularly targeted from within the Five Eyes network cannot be overstated.
It’s funny to see people view the “Taiwan is a part of China” as insidious government brainwashing. But they don’t see relentless fabrications about a Chinese software as insidious government brainwashing.
Patreon has it’s own internal hosting, yes. But is it still leaning on Azure/AWS? shrug Probably.
I’ve been getting NewPiped down, myself.
But it’s nice to see alternatives floating.
We talking Iran, the secular democracy prior to 1953? Or Iran, the US backed military dictatorship that lasted until 1979? Or Iran, the Revolutionary Socialist Government that imploded in the run up to the US instigated Iran-Iraq War?
Oh oh oh. I gotcha. We’re talking about the modern theocratically controlled Kingdom of Saud uh… Hinduvista Federal government of India um… Revanchist Anti-Communist Christian Cult of the Park/Yoon government er… Apartheid State of Israel oh, here it is, Ayatollah’s Iran.
Damn, can’t believe America would end up like Evil Foreign Country, instead of a model liberal secular government we traditionally support.
At least with Trump you know you’re getting a bad deal
People legit don’t. That’s the unlimited power of the conservative echo chamber. True Conservatives Has Never Really Been Tried is a claim that echoes back to the fucking Nixon Administration. In another eight years, Republicans will be complaining that The Donald was too Woke and insisting Ted Cruz / Ron DeSantis are the only ones brave enough to do Real Conservatism.
It’s weird to see billions of dollars and thousands of media-hours invested into a massive industrial scale propaganda engine. And then, after all of that time and money and manpower, we get a “I can’t believe you fell for it”.
This is regardless of who wins. I remember conservatives smugly insisting their debt-sunk kids and grandkids were idiots for supporting Biden. I remember smug liberals pointing to the shoddy fly-by-night wall building operation on the border and insisting “You fucking idiot border conservatives got what you paid for.” I remember conservatives, in turn, laughing at all the liberals who thought Obama would bring about universal health care and climate change reforms and high speed rail.
Every fucking cycle we get this smug “Haha, you idiots fell for it.”
“Fish on Lent” is supposed to be an act of humility, as it is historically a peasant dish.
“Eggs on Lent” is appropriate not because “eggs aren’t chickens until they’re hatched” but because eggs are cheap.
Of course, with the price of fish diverging heavily from meat in the wake of factory farming, one might rationally argue that the American lental feast should be burgers.
But this would not be the first time that the dogma of church history outweighs the message they’re supposedly teaching.
Generators take space, require maintenance, and have a certain optimal capacity that isn’t necessarily hit on a given roof.
For wind energy in particular, the bigger the turbine, the more yield per $ spent. If you go out to Corpus Christi you’ll see these enormous turbines - $10M to $50M / ea - that generate on the order of $24 to $75 per MWh, or $.024-.075/kWh. Home wind/solar don’t get anywhere close to that.
Prime placement of units, distribution across a wide area, and a degree of storage capacity means you’re going to get better and more consistent yield.