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Home Front: Politix

They Endorsed Hamas Terrorism. Then They Hosted a Big-Ticket Fundraiser for Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush.

2024-02-08

[WFB, h/t Insty] These POS need to be constantly exposed as pariahs
As Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.) and Cori Bush (D., Mo.) face difficult primary challenges, the progressive lawmakers are teaming up—by holding a swanky joint fundraiser alongside anti-Israel activists who have endorsed Hamas terrorism and defended notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.

Bowman and Bush attended the Saturday fundraiser at the Los Angeles home of Sylvia Aroth and Dante Cacace, with attendees paying as much as $13,200 to attend. The fundraiser's host committee included a slew of anti-Israel activists who have defended Hamas in the wake of the terror group's Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish state.

Melina Abdullah, for example, serves as executive director of BLM Grassroots, which said that "resistance must not be condemned" and praised the attack as "a desperate act of self-defense." Another host, Jodie Evans,

...she’s married to Neville Roy Singham, the Sri Lankan-American entrepreneur who sold his IT consulting firm, Thoughtworks, for $785 million in 2017. He’s been a Maoist Black Nationalist from childhood— which is some trick considering he is half Asian and half white...

serves as cofounder of Code Pink, a left-wing group that argued on Oct. 7 that Hamas had "every right to resist" Israel's "apartheid regime." Estee Chandler

... a moderately successful movie actress when she was younger, but since the 2000 election she’s joined various anti-Republican and anti-Israel causes to keep her name in the headlines...

also served as a fundraiser host—Chandler, who leads Jewish Voice for Peace's Los Angeles chapter, blamed Israel for provoking Hamas's attack, citing the Jewish state's "constant ethnic cleansing."

The fundraiser comes as both Bowman and Bush face serious primary challenges driven in large part by their anti-Israel views. The left-wing lawmakers have emerged as Israel's top opponents in the wake of Oct. 7, with both accusing the Jewish state of "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing." Those remarks prompted condemnation from Jewish leaders in Bowman's and Bush's districts.

Twenty-six rabbis in Bowman's New York City district wrote a letter in October denouncing Bowman's "anti-Israel policy positions and messaging." In Bush's St. Louis district, a coalition of Jewish organizations accused the congresswoman of "fanning the flames of antisemitism."

"Representative Bush has shown little outrage against the horrendous attacks by an organization whose very charter calls for the killing of all Jewish people," the coalition said in a November letter.

"To the contrary, in private discussions she has stated repeatedly that she supports the Jewish community, is listening to our fears and concerns, and stands against antisemitism," the coalition continued. "She then issues public statements that directly contradict what she told us in private."

That criticism helped drive a pair of pro-Israel Democrats to challenge Bowman and Bush. Westchester County executive George Latimer launched his campaign against Bowman in December and has since criticized the congressman for voting against a resolution that condemned Hamas. St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, meanwhile, is challenging Bush, a run that has seen him condemn those who accuse Israel of genocide.

"It is offensive to me that you would say that Israel defending itself is genocide," Bell told a self-described "anti-Zionist" attendee during a November campaign event. "Israel was attacked by a terrorist organization, who in their charter says that the destruction of Israel is their goal. They stated after this attack that they were going to do it again and again."

Both challengers have outraised their incumbent opponents in recent months. Latimer raised $1.4 million in the last quarter of 2023, while Bowman raised just $724,000. Bell during that period raised $490,000 and holds most of that cash—$409,000—on hand. Bush raised $487,000 in the last quarter of 2023 and holds just $216,000 on hand.

While Bowman and Bush's Los Angeles fundraiser may help them close that money gap, it is also prompting pushback. In addition to BLM Grassroots' embrace of Hamas, Abdullah defended Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan after he was banned from Instagram and Facebook. Farrakhan, an unabashed anti-Semite, has called Jews "termites" and praised Adolf Hitler as a "very great man."

"We should all be outraged by the banning of Minister @LouisFarrakhan from Instagram and Facebook," Abdullah wrote in 2019. "In a country built on our backs there can be no 'Black supremacy.'"

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Pelosi faces backlash for demanding swarming protesters 'go back to China': 'Slanderous accusations'

2024-01-31

[FoxNews] Has she changed?
Was she always like this?
Is the media finally reporting her fall from grace?
The former House speaker told Code Pink activists outside her home in October to "go back to China" where their "headquarters" are.

October. Why are we seeing this now?

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.,

...she’s been Speaker Emerita since January, 2023...

D-Calif., was blasted on social media after a video surfaced from October in which she told pro-Palestinian protesters from Code Pink to "go back to China" where their "headquarters is."

Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans is the wife of Sri-Lankan-American centi-millionaire Neville Roy Singham. The founder of LinkedIn is politically Maoist Black Nationalist — which is some trick considering he is half Asian and half white. The conclusion that Code Pink takes orders from the CCP is understandable.

"In October, Pelosi told our members calling for a ceasefire to ‘go back to China,’ Code Pink posted on X on Monday along with a video of Pelosi interacting with protesters.

"These same women have been protesting for peace at her house for 17 years.

Seriously? Do they have nothing better to do?

“Pelosi takes thousands of dollars from AIPAC every year. Who’s the foreign agent here?"

Social media users criticized Pelosi, including Trending Politics co-owner Collin Rugg, who posted on X that Pelosi has "lost it."

Pelosi was presumably referring to a New York Times report tying Code Pink to a Chinese propaganda network.

This week, Pelosi suggested that protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza are "connected to Russia."

"They are in front of my house all the time," Pelosi told CNN. "I have a feeling for what feelings they have. But we have to think about what we’re doing. And what we have to do is try to stop the suffering in Gaza. This is women and children, people who don’t have a place to go, so let’s address that. But for them to call for a cease-fire is Mr. Putin’s message, Mr. Putin’s message."

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Home Front: WoT

Left-Wing ‘Dark Money’ Powerhouse Funded Group Linked to Holocaust Museum Protestors

2024-01-10

Not pro-Paleostine or even anti-Israel, they’re straightforward Jew-haters

[CapitalResearch] The Tides Foundation, a left-wing organization known for its "dark money," has provided funding to an organization linked to the protestors who planned to disrupt the Holocaust Museum in order to protest Israel’s military operations against Hamas
Hamas

...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

Doctors Against Genocide (DAG), an anti-Israel group formed in November, planned to launch the protest at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, on December 28. DAG apparently went so far as to plot to disrupt the facility from the inside. The protest was cancelled after an immense backlash.

DAG claims the controversy is due to a "misunderstanding" caused by its own "lack of clarity." It claims they didn’t plan to protest "inside or outside" the museum, but the text of the protest’s announcement leaves no room for a credible denial. It clearly instructs attendees to assemble at the museum and to "please obtain free entry tickets."

DOCTORS AGAINST SOME GENOCIDES
DAG’s name infers that it actively opposes all forms of genocide. In actuality, the group’s activities have focused almost solely on Israel’s alleged "genocide" in the Gaza Strip. The only deviation is a brief statement on its website against the genocide of Rohingya Moslems in Burma. Tellingly absent is any denunciation of the genocidal actions and intentions of Hamas.

The organization has previously organized protests with the anti-Israel groups Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow and Code Pink
... a U.S. anti-war group. The group describes itself as a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. It was founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin and of the other usual antiwar suspects. Its website lists hysterical allegations of US war crimes, and states that thousands of civilians were killed in Fallujah in 2004. Maybe it was millions. Benjamin was a 2000 candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Green Party ticket. She lost...
According to its website, DAG is a "program" of a nonprofit 501(c)(3) named Jetpac, which says its purpose is to increase the political influence of the Moslem American community.

Because DAG uses Jetpac as a fiscal sponsor, it is impossible for the public to know practically anything about DAG. Under such an arrangement, a registered nonprofit handles the donations of a group that does not have its own entity. Therefore, an unregistered group like DAG avoids the burden of complying with mandatory public disclosures. Donations are sent to Jetpac, and Jetpac decides what to reveal, if anything, about the funding funneled to DAG.

JETPAC’S DONORS AND LEADERSHIP
Jetpac itself has received funding from left-wing "dark money" powerhouses. It received $10,000 from the Tides Foundation in 2020. Proteus Fund provided $8,000 to Jetpac in 2018 for the purpose of "democracy." reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Community Trust also provided $17,500 in 2018.

Another interesting donor to Jetpac is the Barzinji Family Foundation, which gave $5,000 in 2018. It is operated by the family of Jamal Barzinji, one of the most influential Moslem American leaders until his death in 2015. At the time of his death, he was listed as the president of the Barzinji Family Foundation.

Barzinji has a long history of holding senior positions in organizations with origins in the Moslem Brüderbund, the Islamist parent organization of Hamas. For example, he was a co-founder and bigwig of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, which had its offices searched by federal law enforcement as part of a counterterrorism investigation in 2002. The sworn affidavit of U.S. Customs Service Special Agent David Kane explicitly named Barzinji as "not only closely affiliated with PIJ [Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
] . . . but also with Hamas."

Jetpac’s founder and chairman, Nadeem Mazen, was elected to the Cambridge City Council in 2013 and 2015, the year he created Jetpac. He opted against running for re-election in 2017, instead deciding to run for a Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
congressional nomination, characterizing himself as President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s "worst nightmare."

While he ran for Congress, he was simultaneously leading Jetpac, which should raise questions about the organization’s compliance with regulations prohibiting nonprofits from acting on behalf of political candidates. Jetpac’s website states that it was formed by Mazen’s campaign staff, boasting that they increased the number of Moslem voters by 300 percent.

Left-wing funders like the Tides Foundation will be enticed by the potential political dividends of Jetpac’s proclaimed ability to increase Moslem turnout, but it comes with a price. By acting as DAG’s fiscal sponsor, Jetpac helps alienate voters (especially Jewish voters) who don’t look fondly upon disrupting the Holocaust Museum for the purpose of appropriating the institution’s message for an anti-Israel cause.

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Home Front: WoT

Pro-Palestinian protesters chant 'Christmas is canceled'

2023-12-26

[NYPOST] Hundreds of pro-Paleostinian protesters converged on Midtown Monday, lugging a blood-red mock Nativity scene and chanting "Christmas is canceled here."

"Long live the intifada," the crowd of about 500 demonstrators yelled, using the Arabic word for "rebellion" or "uprising," as they mobbed the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree where revelers were enjoying the holiday.

"While Ur Shopping Bombs are Dropping," read one of the signs carried by the protesters.

"No Joy In Genocide," said another, written atop the faux Nativity scene, which was splattered in what appeared to be fake blood and which several of the demonstrators carried on their shoulders.

A few scuffles broke out in the crowd after nightfall, including outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral, which sent cops running through the mob.

Arrests were later reported near Grand Central Station and Union Square, as protesters and police clashed.

The protest was just the latest anti-Israel march to take place in the Big Apple in the wake of Hamas
Hamas

...always the voice of sweet reason...
’ Oct. 7 sneak attack, which sparked the Jewish state’s subsequent retaliatory strike in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

It followed a pro-Paleostinian car caravan that disrupted Christmas carolers at Washington Square Park Sunday night, blaring music to douse the holiday spirit in the neighborhood.

The Christmas Day demonstration targeting the Manhattan area popular with holiday revelers and tourists prompted cops to go on alert outside the News Corp headquarters on Sixth Avenue.

Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail weighs in:

NYC moves to 'level three' police mobilization as pro-Palestine supporters chanting 'Long live the intifada' and 'Christmas is canceled' storm Manhattan while mob surrounds Pentagon and NSA chiefs' homes amid nation-wide anti-Israel protests

The protests appear to have been organized by The People's Forum, which shared at around 11am on Christmas morning that it was celebrating a 'morning wake-up in Lloyd Austin's neighborhood.'

The event poster, with a long list of the usual suspects announcing themselves as joining in the fun, can be seen among the usual Daily Mail photos.

The People's Forum has been behind a number of protests in America since the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out, frequently calling to 'shut it down for Palestine' by disrupting public events.

Last month, it was revealed that the group is being financed by a Connecticut tech investor and his wife, who have reportedly funneled at least $20 million into the group's activities.

That’d be Neville Roy Singham, the Sri Lankan-American entrepreneur who sold his IT consulting firm, Thoughtworks, for $785 million in 2017. He’s been a Maoist Black Nationalist from childhood— which is some trick considering he is half Asian and half white. His wife is Jodie Evans, co-founder of left-wing “anti-war” group Code Pink.

After its Christmas Day protests, the organization announced it is staging another round of demonstrations on New Years Eve.

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Fifth Column

American multimillionaire couple fund Marxist group coordinating anti-Israel protests

2023-11-16

Prob time for some serious estate planning.

[Fox] The People's Forum has been primarily funded by a left-wing multimillionaire tech mogul and his activist wife who co-founded Code Pink.

A multimillionaire tech mogul and his wife are helping to bankroll groups behind pro-Palestinian protests that have occurred in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas on Israel.

Neville Roy Singham, a U.S.-born entrepreneur who made millions after founding and selling an IT consulting firm called Thoughtworks,

...the Sri Lankan-American sold out for $785 million in 2017. Since his youth he’s been of the Left, starting out a Maoist Black Nationalist — which is some trick considering he is half Asian and half white...

and his wife Jodie Evans, the co-founder of left-wing anti-war group Code Pink, have been the primary funders of a group called The People’s Forum since 2017, according to a report by The Free Press’s Francesca Block. The group bills itself as a "movement incubator for working class and marginalized communities" and "nurtures the next generation of visionaries and organizers who believe that through collective action a new world is possible."

The People’s Forum has played a role in organizing several pro-Palestine protests since Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7 in which the terror group’s members killed at least 1,200 Israelis and took over 200 hostages from Southern Israel into Gaza.

On the day of Hamas’ attack, the group appeared to offer no condemnation of the terror group’s actions and called for an end to "US aid to the Zionist occupation" and tweeted images of posters stating, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" — a slogan that has been criticized as being antisemitic and was cited in the House’s censure of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.

One such protest occurred in New York City’s Times Square the day after the attack on Oct. 8. A social media profile belonging to The People’s Forum on X, formerly Twitter, encouraged New Yorkers to go "all out for Palestine!" It also urged supporters to "stand with the people of Palestine, who have the right to resist apartheid, occupation & oppression."

It also organized "Shut It Down for Palestine" protests on Nov. 4 to call for an end to U.S. support for Israel and Nov. 9. At the latter protest, activists entered the lobby of the NYC headquarters of asset management giant BlackRock, which The People’s Forum claimed "shut down" the company’s office.

The People’s Forum executive director Manolo De Los Sar criticized the March for Israel, which was held Tuesday in Washington, D.C., calling it a "Pro-Genocide March" and saying in a post on X, "This anti-Palestinian march, helped by the US govt, expects to gather a large crowd in support of 75 years of apartheid & occupation." He also accused speakers at the March for Israel of being "racists" and "fake progressives."

Another pro-Palestine protest organized in part by The People’s Forum is scheduled for Friday. The "Shut It Down for Palestine" protest calls for walkouts, sit-ins, direct action and marches "directed at the political offices, businesses, and workplaces that fund, invest, and collaborate with Israeli genocide and occupation."

The People’s Forum did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Singham and The People’s Forum have also been accused of having links to Chinese propaganda outlets, including Dongsheng News, which The New York Times reported shares an address with The People’s Forum.

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Ugly scenes outside White House as anti-Israel protesters smear entrance with red paint

2023-11-05

Serves him right. Next time don’t coddle them, Mr. President.

[Washington Examiner] Thousands of protesters descended on Washington D.C. on Saturday, converging outside the White House and demanding a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

Protesters, which were estimated to be over 10,000, carried Palestinian flags and signs demanding a free Palestine. After the scheduled march reached the White House, protesters sprayed red paint on the northwestern gate of the residence, even prying it open at one point.

Secret Service reported that it was able to stop any trespass beyond the gate "without incident." There were still protesters on the premises at the time of its report.

The protest was partially sponsored by by far-left advocacy group Code Pink, which recently organized a sit-in at the offices of numerous Democrats to demand Congress attempt to enforce a ceasefire. It ultimately led to the arrest of 52 demonstrators.

A vigil is also expected to place across the street from the presidential residence, in honor of those who have died. More than 9,400 Palestinians have died since Oct. 7, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza which is run by Hamas, while more than 1,400 Israelis have died. Among the signs was a banner several feet long that listed the names of Palestinian victims.

President Joe Biden has thus far rebuffed calls for a ceasefire, including from members of his own party. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has been particularly vocal in his criticism of Israel, as well as the Biden administration, accusing the president of backing "ethnic cleansing."

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In the United States, a 66-year-old activist began a hunger strike in support of the people of Gaza

2023-10-20

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Looking a lot like time for a cookout.
[Regnum] American 66-year-old activist of the Code Pink anti-war movement Leslie Angelin began a hunger strike demanding an end to hostilities in the Gaza Strip.

Nobody actually cares.

This is reported on the website of this international organization.

The woman took part in a protest in Washington, where she arrived from California.

“The situation in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic, and I simply cannot sit and watch as the Palestinian civilian population is bombed, starved to death, deprived of clean water, food and electricity,” the activist said .

It is planned that other Code Pink members may join Angeline.
OK
It is noted that in 2007 she went 23 days without food in protest against the idea of declaring war on Iran and in support of the Iran nuclear deal.

As Regnum reported , on October 3, police arrested 89-year-old activist Joan Nicholson , who participated in a rally in the Capitol against aid to Ukraine. Along with her, 10 other picketers were arrested.

The protesters demanded that the US authorities refuse to transfer weapons to Ukraine, which inflames the Ukrainian conflict even more. On October 4, Member of the US House of Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene met with Code Pink activists who were holding a rally against aid to Kiev .

The parliamentarian wrote on her microblog that she and activists agreed that Congress “must stop inciting” hostilities in Ukraine. On October 18, protesters against the fighting in the Gaza Strip entered the US Congress building. They were later forced out of the complex by Capitol Police. About 300 people were detained.

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Home Front: Politix

Report: U.S. Socialist Millionaire Used Vast Activist Network to Push Chinese Communist Propaganda

2023-08-09

[Breitbart] The far-left New York Times (NYT) on Saturday published an exposé on Neville Roy Singham,

...Sri Lankan-American founder of ThoughtWorks, an IT consulting company which he sold for $785 million in 2017, and since his youth of the Left, starting out a Maoist Black Nationalist — which is some trick considering he is half Asian and half white...

an American millionaire socialist activist who, the newspaper claimed, “works closely with the Chinese government media machine” and finances Chinese Communist Party propaganda operations around the world.

“From a think tank in Massachusetts to an event space in Manhattan, from a political party in South Africa to news organizations in India and Brazil, The Times tracked hundreds of millions of dollars to groups linked to Mr. Singham that mix progressive advocacy with Chinese government talking points,” the NYT reported.

One example spotlighted in the report is a group called “No Cold War,” which is ostensibly a “loose collective” of American and British activists who believe the Western world is picking a fight with China to distract the public from “issues like climate change and racial injustice.”

No Cold War is allegedly a fuzzy outgrowth of Singham’s “web of charities and shell companies,” and its activities receive wildly disproportionate attention from Chinese state media organizations – which, unlike the general Chinese population, are allowed to use Western social media platforms like Twitter to push Beijing’s propaganda.

When push comes to shove, as it literally did during a November 2021 brawl in the streets of London’s Chinatown, groups like No Cold War are conspicuously willing to prioritize the Chinese government’s interests over their own agendas. In the case of the 2021 brawl, violence erupted after Hong Kong democracy activists confronted No Cold War’s street legions.

The NYT also paid some attention to Code Pink, the “anti-war” group that suddenly decided concentration camps and forced labor for the Uyghur Muslims were peachy keen after Chinese money began seeping into its funding stream. Singham’s wife Jodie Evans is a co-founder of Code Pink.

The UK Daily Mail on Saturday remembered Code Pink activists disrupting U.S. congressional hearings on the rising threat of China, chanting and waving signs with slogans such as “China Is Not Our Enemy” and “Stop Asian Hate.”

Some of Singham’s other groups work quite openly with Chinese state media and even share office space with Chinese propaganda operations.

The NYT somewhat petulantly described the Singham network as a good example of what a “disinformation” network “looks like on the left” – as though the left was not positively brimming with them:

Mr. Singham’s groups have produced YouTube videos that, together, racked up millions of views. They also seek to influence real-world politics by meeting with congressional aides, training politicians in Africa, running candidates in South African elections and organizing protests like the one in London that erupted into violence.

The result is a seemingly organic bloom of far-left groups that echo Chinese government talking points, echo one another, and are echoed in turn by the Chinese state media.

Because the network is built on the back of American nonprofit groups, tax experts said, Mr. Singham may have been eligible for tax deductions for his donations.

Later in the article, the NYT admitted the major reason it decided to start wading through the incredibly complex paperwork jungle surrounding Singham’s influence network is that “self-described anti-fascists” were complaining about the Chinese government muscling in on their movement.

The Indian government in 2021 raided an operation called NewsClick that was financed by Singham because Indian officials accused the site of money laundering and pushing Chinese propaganda. Indian media responded to the NYT’s report with a hearty “Welcome to the party, pal.”

The Times of India (TOI) gently chided the NYT for not spending more time on the Singham network’s support for Russian imperialism as well as Chinese fascism.

TOI noted, seeming in part to echo the NYT:

Singham’s collectives have produced YouTube videos that, collectively, have garnered millions of views. Their endeavors also extend to exerting influence in real-world politics through interactions with congressional aides, training political figures in Africa, fielding candidates in South African elections, and orchestrating demonstrations.

The NYT mentioned that networks like Singham’s fit neatly into Chinese dictator Xi Jinping’s strategy for winning a “smokeless war,” a concept that broadly includes defeating the West through information warfare and economic leverage rather than military force.

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-Land of the Free

‘Pink Beret' Husband Charged With J6 Crimes Having Fled the US

2023-07-18

[Epoch Times] More than two months after his wife was charged with four Jan. 6-related misdemeanors, Spencer Sidney Geller has been charged by federal prosecutors with five counts, including helping to push over the first police barricades on the U.S. Capitol’s west front. On May 9, his wife, Jennifer Inzunza Vargas Geller, was charged in a criminal complaint
At least she got charged before Ray Epps.

Ms. Vargas Geller has drawn widespread attention both for her alleged behavior on Jan. 6 and her distinctive outfit, topped by a stylish pink beret. For more than two years, she was not listed as wanted by the FBI. In February, Ms. Vargas Geller was mentioned in a motion by defense attorney Kira West as an alleged provocateur who lured her client, Darrell Neely, into the Capitol on Jan. 6.
A real police force would have arrested the provocateurs before the shaman.
On April 27, the FBI listed the still-unidentified Pink Beret on its Jan. 6 most-wanted page as No. 537. According to independent journalist Steve Baker, the Gellers both left the United States and are living in Thailand with their 9-month-old daughter.

A few days after Ms. Vargas Geller’s photos were released by the FBI in April, a tipster who identified himself as a former boyfriend provided her name, age, telephone number, and home address, prosecutors said.
Interesting that her photo was released two years after Ray Epps' photo.
Based on a review of open-source video, the FBI said Mr. Geller was among the protesters who pushed over the bicycle-rack barricades that served as the police line near the Peace Monument at around 12:50 p.m. on Jan. 6. Ms. Vargas Geller is seen on open source and CCTV video near the first breach point. After the barricades were breached, she sprinted in high heels across the west lawn to get to the Capitol.
I guess nobody asked Director Wray about The Pink Beret.

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-Short Attention Span Theater-

Moment Joe Biden is harassed by anti-war protester as he eats dinner...just hours before jetting off on surprise trip to meet Zelensky in Ukraine

2023-02-22

Red on red.

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Guess the Secret Service had the night off.

President Biden and his wife were dining at a Washington D.C. restaurant when an unidentified left-wing activist from the group Code Pink harassed him about the Ukraine war

'We need to end this war in Ukraine. We need to push through negotiations! Take Cuba off the terrorism list!’ the protester yelled days before Biden made a surprise visit to the country

The United States' military support for Ukraine in their conflict with Russia has faced criticism from both conservatives and progressives in recent months

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-Great Cultural Revolution

Protester storms stage during foreign policy speech by Sen. Josh Hawley

2023-02-17

There is an amusing C-Span video of the incident at the link, and a freeze-frame image of the lady — dressed in classic Millennial garb of dark leggings, pink T, soft blazer, and Vans slip-ons — carrying a hand-panted sign signed off Code Pink in the same shade as her shirt.

[NYPOST] A female protester invaded the stage during Sen. Josh Hawley’s speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Thursday — forcing security to drag her away as she started shouting about the "climate crisis."
If you're a protester you're allowed to do that.
The unidentified woman was seated in the front row at the influential conservative think tank’s event as the Missouri Republican delivered prepared remarks regarding China and Ukraine.

Hawley, 43, had just started to touch on the prospect of China invading Taiwan when a live stream of the event captured the woman suddenly standing up and making her way on stage.

The senator — who appeared to be amused by the interruption — looked on calmly as the protester unfolded a sign and started rambling about military spending.
"Natter natter natter give all that money to me natter natter."
Her sign referenced "war and aggression" and the name "Code Pink
... a U.S. anti-war group. The group describes itself as a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. It was founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin and of the other usual antiwar suspects. Its website lists hysterical allegations of US war crimes, and states that thousands of civilians were killed in Fallujah in 2004. Maybe it was millions. Benjamin was a 2000 candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Green Party ticket. She lost...
," which is a reference to the female-led organization that aims to end US wars and militarism.

According to the first Related article below, Code Pink is part of the same incestuous ecosystem of anarcho-communist/Black Bloc groups funded by the usual incestuous Progressive centi-millionaires and multi-billionaires that includes George Soros. But this particular sample was able to clean up well enough to slip into her Normie costume.

"I think you’re forgetting we have the largest military in the world, we spend over $1 trillion every year, and your state of Missouri, over half the people are in poverty," the woman told Hawley on stage.

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Who’s Paying Protesters to Harass Justices and Churches?

2022-05-13

[FrontPage] It’s not an "insurrection" when leftists do it.

Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
justices have faced harassment and intimidation after a pro-~~child sacrifice~~ abortion group calling itself Ruth Sent Us posted a map to their homes.

Justice Alito and his family, who wrote the draft opinion on ~~child sacrifice~~ abortion that had been leaked by leftists, have had to go into hiding at an undisclosed location.

Just to add bigoted intimidation of houses of worship, Ruth Sent Us also called for protests at Catholic churches. "Stand at or in a local Catholic Church," it urged on its Twitter account.

While over the past two years, Big Tech companies have suspended or deplatformed conservative groups over the encouragement of political protests, including against lockdowns, Twitter has no problem with leftists encouraging the harassment of houses of worship.

Abortion activists dressed like characters from the faltering Hulu TV show The Handmaid's Tale disrupted prayer services while chanting their support for the murder of babies.

Despite the harassment of justices and churches, Ruth Sent Us retains all of its social media accounts. Neither Facebook, TikTok nor Twitter have deplatformed the hate group.

WHO IS BEHIND RUTH SENT US?
It certainly isn't Ruth Bader Ginsburg, after whom the group is named, who would have been disgusted by the harassment of her colleagues. Ginsburg had been a good friend of the late Antonin Scalia and had been critical of Roe v. Wade's unsustainable expansiveness. Alito’s leaked draft even quotes her. While Ruth Sent Us falsely claims that Gingsberg believed that, "black lives matter", the former justice was actually harshly critical of anthem protests.

She would have been even less fond of harassing justices in their homes.

Ruth Sent Us is meant to appear grassroots. In reality, it’s interlinked with a much larger network of leftist organizations. The site was registered by Sam Spiegel, the director of digital media at an anti-Trump PAC known as Unseat whose email contact is listed as Vigil for Democracy.

Unseat and Vigil for Democracy also appear to share a post office box in Palo Alto, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.

Vigil for Democracy, another anti-Trump group, had organized previous Supreme Court rallies.

Ruth Sent Us promotes activism through something called Strike for Choice which its Twitter account describes as "one of the national strikes under the Vigil For Democracy umbrella."

Strike for Choice solicits donations to pay protesters, asking potential donors "would you commit to donating $58 [$7.25], $80 [$10] or $120 [$15] to support a person giving up paid work?"

The protest fundraising is being conducted through Open Collective, a leftist financial sponsor, which had previously partnered with the Digital Infrastructure Fund backed by $605,000 from the Ford Foundation, $50,000 from leftist Persian billionaire Pierre Omidyar, and $100,000 from George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
' Open Society Foundation.

Most early Vigil for Democracy events took place in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
and the group still appears to be centered around the Bay Area. Vigil appears to be obsessed with "desegregating Foothills Park", also the particular fixation of Vara Ramakrishnan, a tech CEO's wife and a member of Raging Grannies who had organized previous protests, and has been described as a Vigil for Democracy "volunteer". While her husband only made a single political donation to Kámala Harris

Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
, Vara is a frequent donor to Democrats including Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
and Obama.

Ruth Sent Us are not the only leftists promoting the harassment of churches and justices.

A protest at Justice Alito’s house for example was promoted by Shut Down D.C., a group linked to environmentalists and unions.

It’s unclear exactly who is behind Ruth Sent Us and the network of organizations around it, but that network is able to utilize the tools of left-wing groups and is fundraising to pay protesters.

What is clear is that like so much of the leftist radicalism in this country, the attacks on justices and churches are being organized out of the Bay Area. And the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us...
has repeatedly refused to condemn the harassment and intimidation by its political backers.

PJ Media adds:

The funding network is difficult to unravel. But it’s even harder to determine who the hell is in charge. The website offers no clues about the leadership, but the domain name is registered to “Sam Spiegel.” Mr. Spiegel’s name appears on other websites as well.

The Federalist:

According to 2018 filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Spiegel is named as treasurer of the political action committee, Unseat. Spiegel’s name is used for the Unseat PAC’s Twitter page, amplifying videos from MeidasTouch.com going after conservative justices for their potential reversal of the decision in Roe v. Wade. Unseat’s pinned post is an attack on Justice Kavanaugh claiming without evidence that his seat on the high bench was purchased. The group hasn’t filed with the FEC for years.

The FEC statement for the Unseat PAC lists Spiegel with the same P. O. box that the domain tool yielded for RuthSent.us. The statement also revealed another name, Vara Ramakrishnan, whose apparent Facebook page includes references to #StrikeForChoice and links to RefuseFascism.org. The “Ruth Sent Us” website links to Strike For Choice, which shows “connections to groups including Black Lives Matter, Code Pink, Women’s March SF, Kavanaugh Off Our Court, and Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights,” as Judicial Network’s Carrie Severino noted.

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