Epoch Times Executive Accused of Laundering $67 Million
Weidong Guan was charged with three counts in a scheme that the Justice Department said caused revenue to surge for the company, which has promoted Donald Trump and conspiracy theories.
Weidong "Bill" Guan, CFO of far-right Epoch Times, arrested in the US for his part in conspiracy to launder a massive $67 million in fraudulent proceeds.
Curiously, no reports currently on Epoch Times outlets. 😂
This trial exposed how much David Pecker helped Trump by constantly putting fake negative news about his opponents on every grocery store aisle in America. Pecker freely admitted it. I wonder if that exposure has done anything to change the minds of people who believed those stories. Or whether these people might view future tabloid headlines with a more skeptical eye. Probably not.
US State Department official resigns, says US report on #Gaza inaccurate
A U.S. State Department official who quit this week said on Thursday her resignation was precipitated by an administration report to #Congress that she said falsely stated #Israel was not blocking #humanitarian aid to Gaza, prompting her to resign in protest of President Joe #Biden's Israel policy.
Stacy Gilbert, who served in the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, was a subject matter expert working on the report.
"There is so clearly a right and wrong, and what is in that report is wrong," Gilbert said in an interview.
#OpenAI removed accounts associated w/well-known #propaganda ops in #Russia, #China & #Iran; an #Israeli political campaign firm; & a previously unknown group originating in Russia that the company’s researchers dubbed “#BadGrammar.” The groups used OpenAI’s #tech to write posts, translate them into various languages & build software that helped them automatically post to #SocialMedia.
Each page yesterday took him just a little more than a minute, so this will take >30 mins.
Between that & the testimony readbacks, also expected to take >30 mins, there will likely be >1 hour this morning w/the jury in the courtroom, not actively deliberating.
#Trump leaves for his waiting room (an empty courtroom w/security), w/his entourage.
Trump, in the hallway outside the courtroom, falsely blames the #GagOrder as he refuses to answer reporters, telling them “I’d like to answer all of your questions, they’re very easy to answer.”
The questions shouted at him — including whether he worried about potential prison time — have nothing to do w/issues covered by the order.
From the title you wouldn’t guess South Korea sends balloons with propaganda pendrives encouraging people to take down their government and this was a trolling reply.
Sure they join TV shows to look cool, food and medicine to imply the other ones are starving which isn’t really the case since the 90s when the Soviet Union fell and left the country totally isolated with the same western embargo as Cuba for decades.
A judge who swore to uphold the law is instead deliberately destroying the law. She is a loyal soldier in a violent insurrection, and a deliberate accomplice in the worst crimes committed against the United States since our first civil war.
The New York Times describes her as "industrious but inexperienced and often insecure."
This is why democracy is dying: Because the New York Times is killing it.
Russia may launch psychological operation about opening new front from Belarus
Defense Council Center for Countering #Disinformation forecast launch of a new #Russian#psychological operation about opening a new front aiming to stir up mass panic in Ukrainian society
We expect a series of provocative statements by the top leadership of Russia and #Belarus#threatening#Ukraine soon
It is like clock work, always the same lies: The Israeli military suspects that munitions or some other combustible substance caused a secondary explosion and subsequent fire at a complex housing displaced Gazans in Rafah, following an airstrike aimed at two top Hamas assets.
The incident resulted in the deaths of Palestinian civilians, and an investigation is ongoing.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had been tracking Hamas commanders Yassin Rabia and Khaled Najjar prior to the strike on the compound in the Tel Sultan neighborhood in western Rafah on Sunday night. According to #IDF intelligence, the area had been utilized for Hamas activities, including a nearby rocket launcher.
The military clarified that the strike occurred outside the designated “humanitarian zone” in the al-Mawasi region, which is over a kilometer away from the targeted compound. Steps were taken to ensure no civilians, particularly women and children, were present in the Hamas compound at the time of the attack.
Israeli fighter jets employed two small munitions, each carrying a 17-kilogram warhead, to minimize the risk of civilian casualties due to the proximity to the camp for displaced Palestinians.
Initial investigations by the IDF indicate that the two small missiles alone would not have been sufficient to ignite the fire. The probe suggests that ammunition, weapons, or other materials stored in the vicinity may have caused a secondary explosion and the resulting fire. #Rafah algemeiner.com/2024/05/28/idf-…
"Jewish Zionists are like “Excuse me, it’s actually against my religion for you to oppose genocide. You need to stop religiously persecuting me with peace activism.”"
"...the narratives about what’s happening in Gaza are at a whole other level. It’s just a nonstop assault on people’s sense of reality"
Active measures is a term used to describe political #warfare conducted by the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The term, which dates back to the 1920s, includes operations such as espionage, propaganda, sabotage and assassination, based on foreign policy objectives of the Soviet and Russian governments against the United States and democratic western countries. Active measures have continued to be used by Vladimir Putin to control US politics through disinformation that enable controlling the Republican party.
Republican and russian disinformation warfare or active measures.
Disinformation, psychological warfare "PsyOp" will continue to increase for the next six months to influence the #2024election.
It's literally impossible to contend with all the stupid. These propagandists won't stop. It's about volume. Every second of every day it will be some new conspiracy theory.. Their goal is to shred the judiciary and elevate the unitary executive. They're fascists. Vote for democrats.
"Jinping's political ideology
China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by"
#ElonMusk has steadily ramped up his criticism of #Biden…. Musk has posted about Biden ≥7X a month since Jan, attacking the president for everything from his age to his policies on immigration & health. Before that, he posted about Biden twice in Dec & not at all in Nov. In all, #Musk had posted nearly 40X about Biden this year, compared w/about 30X for all of last year.
Abgesehen davon, dass ich TikTok nicht mag weil ich deren Zweck nicht einsehe, nutzen es sehr viele und vor allem sehr junge Menschen und dies auch kommerziell. Wie eben YouTube & Co. und eigentlich nicht viel anders aber auch als politische Propaganda eine Konkurenz zusätzlich.
🧵 …deswegen macht es TikTok in der USA nicht besser oder gar sicherer. Es bleibt auch wenn verändert, keine wahre Kommunikation, sondern plumpe Propaganda vorallem an Kindern und Jugendlichen (siehe oben).
»Netzpolitik – TikTok bereitet US-Kopie von Algorithmus vor:
Mögliches Verbot des Video-Service in den USA zwingt den chinesischen Mutterkonzern Bytedance erfinderisch zu werden«
This is your reminder that the Epoch Times is a trash Chinese rag written by far right, pro-Trump freakshows so vehemently against the PRC govt, that they've decided American fascists are superior to Chinese fascists & advocate for them.
Oh, and they want you to go see their affiliated human circus, Shen Yun, which they want you to know presents free market capitalism, originating from before Communists took over China because MAGA.