FREEDOMIST INTELLIGENCE ADVISOR
FIA WEEKDAY – FRIDAY August 11, 2023
ED.NOTE: Non-Freedomist shared links are NOT endorsements
TOP STORIES
COALITION OF WESTERN AFRICAN NATIONS COMMIT TO FORMING FORCE TO RESTORE NIGER’S PM – A coalition of Western African Nations called the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has met and confirmed plans to activate troops to confront the junta of Niger that overthrew their duly elected Prime Minister. The full details of the military intervention force were not given, but, tellingly, Nigeria, a member of the coalition, reversed its course, stating it is now committed to sending troops to deal with the Niger crisis.
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tunubu, who is the current head of the coalition, said in the meeting “It is crucial that we prioritize diplomatic negotiations and dialogue as the bedrock of our approach.” He also added that leaders must act with a “sense of urgency.” The mixed signals from the coalition make it uncertain that troops will be deployed and then used to invade the junta-led Nigeran state.
ED.NOTE: See more special links on Niger News at the end of the World section of this report.
FBI EFFORTS TO SPY ON CATHOLICS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT – House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is claiming the original claim by the FBI that preparing to spy on Catholics was an isolated incident is false. In fact, Jordan claims, the FBI was coordinating with multiple offices, all of which seemed to be on board to spy on Americans for their religious beliefs alone.
The original memo had redacted information that Jordan now has access to that refutes that initial claim. Jordan, along with Congressman Mike Johnson (R-LA) sent a letter to the DNC operative Christopher Wray demanding to know why such key information was withheld from the House committee. They didn’t accuse them of lying under oath, but that is what appears to have happened.
They wrote, “[T]he newly produced version of the document explicitly states that FBI Richmond ‘coordinated with’ FBI Portland in preparing the assessment. Thus, it appears that both FBI Portland and FBI Los Angeles field offices were involved in or contributed to the creation of the FBI’s assessment of traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.”
ELON MUSK, SAVIOR OF FREE SPEECH PARTNERS WITH COMPANY THAT NUKES CONSERVATIVE FREE SPEECH – Elon Musk has signed an exclusive deal with Integral Ad Science to help it track “misinformation” on its site. The company “helps” advertisers identify which sites should be sponsored and which should be not, with conservatives being blacklisted for ad rejection. The move leaves little doubt that Musk is more like controlled opposition than an actual free speech defender. The government-funded private group has a definition of “misinformation” that wholly aligns with the DNC-CCP’s version of “truth,” meaning Conservative outlets have been targeted for reduction in ad revenue.
AMERICAN TECH WANTS TO SAVE TIKTOK – If you don’t understand that most major American corporations, especially those in Silicon Valley, are against us and not for us, then all you have to do is observe the efforts they are making to lobby the government to halt its trend towards banning TikTok. Two pro-CCP anti-American tech coalitions are attempting to reverse Montana’s statewide ban of TikTok from government-owned devices. The tech groups claim, “If allowed to take effect, the ban will usher in a Balkanized internet where information available to users becomes regionally divided based on local politicians’ whims or preferences… the internet, as a whole, will become fragmented and its value to humanity diminished”.
China does not allow foreign nations the same access to its youth through social media that these treasonous organizations wish to allow them to have to our youth.
ECUADOR IN STATE OF EMERGENCY AFTER OPPOSITION CANDIDATE ASSASSINATED – 59-Year-Old Presidential Candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated Wednesday, August 9 at a campaign event in the capital of Ecuador, Quito. Since the assassination, the current President, Guillermo Lasso, declared a 60-day state of emergency. Six suspects have been arrested, all who were identified as being Columbian nationals and members of a drug cartel. The candidate was pledging to clamp down on the drug trade and drug cartel power before he was assassinated. The suspected police shooter was injured during a shoot-out that followed the assassination. He later died.
TRENDING
SCORES DEAD AND COUNTING AFTER MAUI WILDFIRES SWEEP THE ISLAND – So far, 55 people are counted among the dead, with that figure expected to rise as the Maui wildfires continue to burn and more people remain unaccounted for. The wildfire has all but destroyed the historic town of Lahaina, the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
BIDEN AIMS TO REIN IN CCP FRENEMY BY HALF-BLOCKING THEM FROM TECH – The Mass Mailer President Joe Biden Committee, aka President Biden, issued an executive order to limit the technologies American firms can share with the Chinese Communist Party. The measures have a limited scope and appears, to this writer, to be aimed at 1) feigning real opposition to the CCP, and 2) limiting China’s power to compete against the DNC when their common enemy, the American republic, is eliminated.
more:
‘King Of The Hill’ Star Dies At 64 – Hollywood Life – hollywoodlife.com
Virginia implements stronger penalties for making fake emergency calls – wtop.com
WORLD
POLAND EXPANDS TROOP DEPLOYMENT TO BELARUSIAN BORDER FROM 2K TO 10K – Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak has announced plans to send not 2,0000 troops to the border with Belarus, but 10,000 as tensions between the NATO satellite, Poland, and the Putin satellite, Russia, continue to escalate.
75,000 HOMES LOST IN MYANMAR JUNTA’S ARSON WAR – The Myanmar Junta is using arson to target the homes of rebel-held areas, with 75,000 homes burned so far.
“The burning of whole villages across upper Myanmar regions and in ethnic states is a systematic and widespread scorched earth operation,” Khin Ohmar, Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the Progressive Voice (quoted by newsweek)
more:
Opposition MPs Walk Out Of Modi Speech In Indian Parliament – www.barrons.com
India’s Modi angles for third term with drastic action on inflation – asia.nikkei.com
Cambodia’s incoming gov’t members unveiled-Xinhua – english.news.cn
More on Niger:
Niger junta cuts food and water supplies to ousted leader | Ap – www.thederrick.com
At Least Five Members of Niger Junta Were Trained by U.S. – theintercept.com
US expresses ‘growing concern’ for safety of Niger’s president amid apparent coup – abcnews.go.com
War or dialogue as ECOWAS meets on Niger – businessday.ng
Few Options on Niger Crisis for West African Leaders – www.nytimes.com
DC
DEMOCRAT JOE MANCHIN CONSIDERS GOING INDEPENDENT – As Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) faces a tough re-election campaign in a state that leans conservative, he is considering changing his party affiliation to independent, though he doesn’t seem to express any interest in not caucusing with the Democratic Party in the Senate. Were he to do so, the balance of power would shift to the Republicans. The move is expected to be more about alienating himself from the hated Democratic Patty cosmetically, to win re-election, but not substantively.
TRUMP TWITTER WARRANT ISSUED IN SECRET BECAUSE TRUMP WAS DEEMED A “FLIGHT RISK” – Jack Smith, the DNC-CCP hitman looking to eliminate opposition to the party he serves over the nation, is using every dirty trick possible to invade the private rights of former President Donald Trump, setting a dangerous precedence that will directly affect every citizens’ rights when the law comes for them. Smith, in collusion with the district court, used the implausible claim that Trump was a flight risk if he found out about the warrant to investigate his Twitter account. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, made the insane ruling.
Jonathan Turley, a Georgetown Law Professor, observed, “…[T]he two most surprising, and concerning, elements were that the subpoena was secret and Howell justified it, in part, on Trump being a flight risk. Neither seems warranted in this case even assuming that the subpoena was in other respects warranted.”
more:
Trump polls today: Trump and Biden tied in hypothetical rematch – www.independent.co.uk
Biden pushes for $13B to support Ukraine, $12B for disaster fund – www.ctvnews.ca
Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Law Forbidding Gun Ownership by Drug Users – RedState – redstate.com
RNC Intervenes To Stop Dem Lawfare Against Wisconsin Elections – thefederalist.com
EDITOR’S CHOICE
MIT HELPED THE CCP SPY ON, PERSECUTE UYGHURS – It appears the now completely captured far left MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) helped the Chinese Communist Party develop technologies that were developed to help the Chinese spy on the persecuted ethnic group, the Uyghurs. The Uyghurs were the prominent ethnic group in the far western province of Xinjiang, a key territory in keeping the Belt and Road routes connected to China proper.
MIT Graduate and Chinese citizen Xiao-ou Tang started a company called SenseTime, a facial recognition software company, that is being used to track, monitor, arrest, harvest the organs of, and kill Uyghurs. That technology was developed while he was a student at MIT in part thanks to contributions by the CCP to the treasonous institution.
GOP SENATORS WARN YELLEN NOT TO ALLOW CCP COMPANY TO BUY FORBES – Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Mark Rubio (R-FL) have sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warning her not to approve of a sale of the media company Forbes to Sun Group, a CCP-dependent company. The Senators told Yellen, “The implications of allowing entities close to the Russian government and the CCP to own and operate an influential American media outlet are grave. Forbes reportedly holds a significant market share among younger Americans, with tens of millions of monthly users.”
More:
Uganda president condemns World Bank loans suspension over anti-LGBTQ law – punchng.com
All About ‘Sponge Cities’ And Why Aren’t They Stopping Floods In China – www.ndtv.com
Military recruiters failed to screen enlistees for ‘extremism’ – americanmilitarynews.com
Fake AI-produced books appearing on Amazon – www.fudzilla.com
Ford Shuts Brazil Electric-Car Factory as Lula Turns to China’s – Bloomberg.com
Taxpayer-Funded Research Seeks to Devise New Stealth Censorship Technology – American Greatness
AI is starting to affect elections and Wisconsin has yet to take action – pbswisconsin.org
SCI-TECH WATCH
UTAH THE SITE OF EXPERIMENTAL GAME-CHANGING GEOTHERMAL ENERGY PROJECT – The Department of Energy is investing in a developing technology that takes geothermal energy to the next level. The project will involve drilling down further than one mile to try to capture the heat source that can be used for a reliable, clean source of energy for the whole of Utah. If successful, it could kick off similar new power stations across much of the United States.
CYBERNETIC GANG TARGETING HEALTHCARE IT INFRASTRUCTURE – The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a warning to healthcare providers about a criminal cybernetic gang called Rhysida that has been attacking other government IT infrastructure vulnerabilities since May. The group is alleged to be looking to target major healthcare providers next. The group takes control of your data and demands payment to unlock it. They use programs called ransomware.
more:
Biden administration launches AI cybersecurity challenge to ‘protect Americans’ – cointelegraph.com
Meta, Alphabet and Other Tech Firms Face New Data Rules in India – www.wsj.com
Israeli-led Team Crushes Antibiotic-resistant Disease With Virus … – Haaretz – www.haaretz.com
The Role of Plant Microbial Fuel Cells in Advancing Internet Technology – energyportal.eu
Quantum leap: How quantum sensors are revolutionizing robotics – venturebeat.com
For A Billion Years, A Day On Earth Was Only 19 Hours Long – www.discovermagazine.com
Nova Graphene to develop graphene-enhanced armor for service animals – www.graphene-info.com
CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles To Game Google Search – news.slashdot.org
Strange Ecosystem Found Thriving below Seafloor Hydrothermal Vents – www.scientificamerican.com
Massive Solar Eruption Felt on Earth, Moon, and Mars – scitechdaily.com
‘Demon’ particle found in superconductor could explain how they work – www.newscientist.com
Terrifying ‘deep learning attack’ can steal your passwords by listening to you type – bgr.com
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Paul Collier
Paul Collier is the editor of The Freedomist newsite, our Weekday Reports, and our Monthly Publication, Freedomist Intelligence Advisor (previously McAlvany Intelligence Advisor). He has been involved in news publishing since 2003.
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