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CISA: The Spies Who Hate Us

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Brownstone Institute has been tracking a little-known federal agency for years. It is part of the Department of Homeland Security created after 9-11. It is called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA. It was created in 2018 out of a 2017 executive order that seemed to make sense. It was a mandate to secure American digital infrastructure against foreign attack and infiltration.

And yet during the Covid year, it assumed three huge jobs. It was the agency responsible for dividing the workforce between essential and nonessential. It led the way on censorship efforts. And it handled election security for 2020 and 2022, which, if you understand the implications of that, should make you spit out your coffee upon learning.

More than any other agency, it became the operationally relevant government during this period. It was the agency that worked through third parties and packet-switching networking to take down your Facebook group. It worked through all kinds of intermediaries to keep a lid on Twitter. It managed LinkedIn, Instagram, and most of the other mainstream platforms in a way that made you feel like your opinions were too crazy to see the light of day.

Comment: For the entire above document go here.

And more on the little known intelligence agency with extraordinary reach and a Totalitarian raison d'être:


Pistol

Suspect among 11 killed at education centre in Sweden's deadliest mass shooting

Multiple people dead in 'worst mass shooting' in Swedish history
Multiple people dead in 'worst mass shooting' in Swedish history
Sweden's worst mass shooting left at least 11 people dead, including the gunman, at an adult education center west of Stockholm as officials warned the death toll could rise.

The gunman's motive, as well as the number of wounded, had not been determined by early Wednesday as Sweden - where gun violence at schools is very rare - reeled from an attack with such bloodshed that police early on said it was difficult to count the number of dead among the carnage.

The school, called Campus Risbergska, offers primary and secondary educational classes for adults age 20 and older, Swedish-language classes for immigrants, vocational training and programs for people with intellectual disabilities. It is on the outskirts of Orebro, which is about 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Stockholm.

Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer called the shooting "an event that shakes our entire society to its core."


Control Panel

Nationalism revisited: Fascism, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Globalism are very different systems

Peace of Westphalia
Painting depicting the ratification of the Treaty of Münster, which played a key role in the “Peace of Westphalia” that ended the Thirty Years' War (1648)
"The Westphalian peace reflected a practical accommodation to reality, not a unique moral insight. It relied on a system of independent states refraining from interference in each other's domestic affairs and checking each other's ambitions through a general equilibrium of power. No single claim to truth or universal rule had prevailed in Europe's contests. Instead, each state was assigned the attribute of sovereign power over its territory. Each would acknowledge the domestic structures and religious vocations of its fellow states and refrain from challenging their existence."

Henry Kissinger (2014). World Order. Penguin Books.

Comment: Too bad Kissinger himself never seemed to follow the spirit of Westphalian peace when he was alive.


Words and their meaning matter. They help structure human consciousness and thought and are the basic units used to convey abstract concepts between human beings. One common PsyWar tactic is to distort and then weaponize politicized definitions of words intentionally. We have all seen this tactic deployed throughout the COVIDcrisis in a wide variety of ways. The redefinition of "vaccine" is one example. Another is the redefinition of the pejorative term "Anti-Vaxxer" to include any who disagree with policies involving mandated vaccine acceptance.

Current headlines support the hypothesis that center-right populist movements are rapidly disrupting current political alliances and consensus throughout the "Western" nation-states. But the language being used to resist these movements has been actively and intentionally distorted to advance the political interests of the current status quo. Of course the election of Republican Party candidate Donald Trump in the USA is particularly notable, but this was foreshadowed by the rise of the Brothers of Italy party and the election of Georgia Meloni, the election of Argentine President Javier Milei (an Austrian school Economist), the popularity of Marine le Pen and the French National Rally group, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Nigel Farage and the Reform party in the UK, Geert Wilders' Dutch Party for Freedom, and Viktor Orbán's Hungarian leadership (and impending EU Presidency). The list goes on and on, and the global momentum is undeniable.

Comment: The interview above clearly presents a very narrow and limited understanding of Globalism's (as it is actually conceived and practiced) destructive effects and Totalitarian nature. See the following:


Wolf

Prince Andrew messaged Jeffrey Epstein 2 months after he said contact ended: 'We'll play some more soon'

Prince Andrew
© APPrince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein that they would “play some more soon” in an email sent two months after he claimed their friendship had ended, it has been revealed.
Prince Andrew told his pal Jeffrey Epstein that they would "play some more soon" in an email sent two months after he claimed their friendship had ended, it has been revealed.

The disgraced Duke of York, 64, wrote to the late serial sex trafficker on the same day a photo of him with then-17-year-old Virginia Giuffre emerged, a court has heard.

Andrew initially claimed that he had cut ties with the late financier — who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and federal conspiracy charges — in December 2010, shortly after the duo was pictured taking a stroll through Central Park.

Comment: See also:


Handcuffs

Sean 'Diddy' Combs hit with new indictment expanding span of alarming sexual allegations to 20 years

Sean Combs
© REUTERSSean Combs remains behind bars at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after being denied bail
Sean "Diddy" Combs once dangled a victim over an apartment balcony, prosecutors alleged in a new indictment that added two more victims and an earlier start date to the disgraced star's alleged reign of sexual terror.

Combs, 55, sexually abused his victims for at least two decades from 2004 to 2024, federal prosecutors said in a superseding indictment filed Thursday. Previously, the earliest allegations dated to 2008.

The new indictment adds new accusations against the music mogul and expands the timeline of the alleged abuse — but does not include any new charges.

The two new anonymous victims were allegedly subjected to pre-arranged sexual encounters that often lasted multiple days, were sometimes recorded and regularly involved sex workers.

Combs "abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires," the indictment read, accusing him of using such tactics to force three unnamed women "to engage in commercial sex acts."

Comment: Previously:


Attention

'Epidemic' of violence against women and girls in UK is getting worse - report

Demonstrators on the London Women’s March
© Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty ImagesDemonstrators on the London Women’s March earlier this month, protesting over VAWG and the erosion of reproductive rights in the US.
National Audit Office says government attempts to tackle misogynistic violence are hampered by poor coordination.

An "epidemic of violence against women and girls" in the UK is getting worse despite years of government promises and strategies, a highly critical report from Whitehall's spending watchdog has said.

The National Audit Office report comes four years after a major government response to violence against women and girls (VAWG) was launched after the murders of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard.

The watchdog found "disjointed" efforts meant VAWG was a "significant and growing problem" affecting one in 12 women in England and Wales and causing physical, mental, social and financial harm to survivors.

A review of the previous government's 2021 strategy to tackle VAWG found it had not helped victims or delivered long-term societal change. The review said the departments tasked with making progress lacked a clear picture of how money was being spent and what policies actually worked.

Comment: See also:


Brain

Ukraine drafting schizophrenics

Ukraine recruits
© NurPhoto/file/getty ImagesUkraine recruits
The military's medical commission is a mere "formality" in many cases, a recruitment officer has told an investigative outlet.

The Ukrainian military is enlisting men diagnosed with schizophrenia amid the struggling mobilization campaign, a recruitment office employee has told local media.

Individuals diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and deemed permanently disabled are being sent to the army without much deliberation, the outlet Slidstvo.info reported on Friday, citing a Ukrainian recruitment office employee. The Ukrainian outlet describes itself as team of independent investigative journalists.

The employee, who identified himself as Vladimir, recalled the case of a man with schizophrenia being mobilized after passing a military medical commission. He explained that many potential conscripts who don't have the necessary papers, or who have been put on a wanted list, undergo a medical examination in a "maximally simplified manner." "The commission is a formality," he claimed.
Those diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia can suffer from delusions and hallucinations and struggle with impulse control and judgment, which could lead them to shoot civilians or fellow soldiers.

Schizophrenics are also more susceptible to high-stress situations, resulting in an increased likelihood of suicide in dire circumstances.

Comment: No one wants this war except Zelensky and his overlords continents away. Ukraine and its people are fodder, not prize.


Bulb

Ivanpah solar plant: The flaming failure that's finally being put out of our misery

Ivanpah Solar Plant
It's finally happening. The Ivanpah Solar Power Plant, the behemoth of bureaucratic blundering and incinerated wildlife, is circling the drain. Once celebrated as a game-changer for renewable energy, it's now being quietly escorted off the stage with a "nothing to see here, folks" attitude. After just 11 years of struggling to justify its own existence, Ivanpah is headed for closure. Good riddance​.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — What was once the world's largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening, under pressure from cheaper green energy sources. Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises.

https://apnews.com/article/california-solar-energy-ivanpah-birds-tortoises-mojave-6d91c36a1ff608861d5620e715e1141c

Red Flag

Crime 'spiralling out of control' in stores, warns British Retail Consortium

uk shoplifting co-op
© Ashok Saxena/AlamyThe Co-op recorded a 44% rise in retail crime last year, its public affairs director said, with people coming ‘to steal the entire confectionery section or spirits or meat section’
UK retailers are warning that crime in their stores is "spiralling out of control" with 55,000 thefts a day and violent and abusive incidents rising by 50% last year.

More than 70 incidents a day involved a weapon, according to the annual crime survey from the British Retail Consortium (BRC).

Verbal and physical attacks, violent threats, and sexual and racial abuse in shops soared to more than 2,000 incidents a day in the year to the end of last August, up from 1,300 the previous year and more than three times the 2020 level.

The trade body's report, based on a sample from retailers representing more than 1.1 million employees, found theft had reached an all-time high with more than 20m incidents during the year, 25% more than the year before. It said this had cost retailers £2.2bn with many more incidents linked to organised crime as gangs systematically targeted stores across the country.

Arrow Down

Nationwide test shows US kids' reading levels plummeted to lowest level in 32-year history — and Republicans are blaming 'woke' education

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© AP
Read it and weep — if you can.

American schools got a big fat F on their report card this week — with reading proficiency for eighth graders hitting the lowest level in the 32 years that the federal government has been tracking it.

Results from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test - administered to fourth and eighth graders — showed at least a third of America's students failed to demonstrate "basic" reading skills expected for their age group.

With 51.5 million students enrolled in public school across America, that represents potentially tens of millions of kids failing to make the grade.

Just 67% of eighth-graders were able to meet or exceed basic skills on the 2024 test, 2% fewer than in 1992 when NAEP testing began.