FBI POLICE STATE 101 Welcome to the Machine

“Those who cannot represent themselves will be represented.”
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/yom-kippur- ... ypt-us-aid
Fifty Years After the Yom Kippur War, the US Should End Its Blank-Check Aid to Israel
Julian Sayarer
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/trumbo-fast ... -red-scare
How Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus Broke the Hollywood Blacklists
BY
TAYLOR DORRELL
Telling the story of a slave revolt in ancient Rome, the 1960 film Spartacus was penned by two blacklisted Communist writers. Its arrival in theaters was a middle finger to the FBI and McCarthyist witch hunt in Hollywood and publishing.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... cef-report
Extreme weather displaced 43m children in past six years, Unicef reports
Toll likely to worsen as floods, storms, droughts and wildfires intensify due to climate crisis, according to Unicef and IDMC study
Nina Lakhani climate justice reporter
Thu 5 Oct 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnVXuMfiHdI
This NEW European Wind Turbine for Home Outbeats PV Solar Panels in 2023?!
Global heat is now ‘gobsmackingly bananas’, but there’s hope humanity can limit the climate damage
Adam Morton
https://www.404media.co/ice-cbp-secret- ... tion-data/
ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data
JOSEPH COX
·OCT 5, 2023
THE FBI POLICE STATE 101
https://www.mylawquestions.com/what-is- ... %20Academy.
What is the FBI Citizens' Academy?
https://www.infragard.org/Application/G ... hapterList
CHAPTER LIST
With 79 chapters, InfraGard has a chapter for you. Chapters conduct local meetings pertinent to their area.
https://www.infragardnational.org
Welcome to the InfraGard National Members Alliance
InfraGard is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and members of the private sector for the protection of U.S. Critical Infrastructure. Through seamless collaboration, InfraGard connects owners and operators within critical infrastructure to the FBI, to provide education, information sharing, networking, and workshops on emerging technologies and threats. InfraGard’s vetted membership includes: business executives, entrepreneurs, lawyers, security personnel, military and government officials, IT professionals, academia and state and local law enforcement—all dedicated to contributing industry-specific insight and advancing national security.
https://www.abc4.com/news/wasatch-front ... n-academy/
Over 50 high schoolers attend Salt Lake City FBI Teen Academy
by: Aubree B. Jennings
Posted: Aug 4, 2023 / 10:31 PM MDT
Updated: Aug 4, 2023 / 10:31 PM MDT
https://fbisdcaaa.org/about-us/
About the FBI Citizens Academy Alumni Association
https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2021/ ... ect-match/
Merit Badge History: In Fingerprinting, the FBI and the BSA found the perfect match
By Bryan Wendell August 9, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/18/arch ... rmers.html
F.B.I. Said to Urge Use Of Boy Scouts as Informers
PHILADELPHIA, May 17—A document said to be among those stolen from the Federal Bureau of Investigation indicates that the agency encourages local police departments to recruit Boy Scouts as informers.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... e-support/
Boy Scouts FBI file reveals FBI Director Hoover’s fickle support, recent scrutiny
Documents outline fingerprinting partnership, alleged ‘ghost’ troops
Written by Jasper Craven and Shawn Musgrave
Edited by Tom Nash
As one of the oldest and largest youth organizations in the country, the Boy Scouts of America have been on the FBI’s radar since the Hoover era, when the Director helped the BSA develop a fingerprinting merit badge. The Bureau’s 500-page file spans 70 years, including recent allegations that BSA leaders manipulated enrollment numbers and even created “ghost” units to qualify for federal funding
https://www.thesunchronicle.com/local-l ... ba85e.html
Local lawyer wins MLK verdict
BY DAVID LINTON
It was attorney Pepper who convinced the King family that the assassination had been planned and executed by a government plot that included the FBI, CIA, President Lyndon Johnson's White House and the media.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/23/new-nypd- ... -massacre/
NYPD ousts over half a dozen public info cops in ‘massacre’ as new boss takes over
By Tina Moore
Published Sep. 23, 2023
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/25/nyp ... ttlements/
NYPD “TRANSPARENCY” SITE LEAVES OUT MISCONDUCT LAWSUITS SETTLED FOR MILLIONS
The New York Police Department touts the “transparency” of its officer database, but you’d never know about cops who rack up dozens of lawsuits and millions in payouts.
Akela Lacy
September 25 2023
https://equalityalec.substack.com/p/the ... paign=post
The Big Deception
Maybe the most important form of copaganda
1) Introduction: What is “The Big Deception”?
The crux of the Big Deception is this: the collective effect of a variety of news media practices is to give people the wrong impressions about why consequential things happen in our society. Most people—including and especially progressive people who think of themselves as well-informed news consumers—are made ignorant about the real forces determining things that matter to their lives. As a result, many smart people who care about making our world better have a poor understanding of the kinds of things they should get involved in or support because their theory of political change is naïve and premised on misinformation. To put it crudely, the news media misleads people about how politics and power work.
One illustration of The Big Deception is that reporting on the punishment bureaucracy makes people think that “law enforcement” and punishment policies are the result of some reasonable weighing of good policy arguments as opposed to the product of organized interests asserting their power. On this view, further investments in police, prosecutors, and prisons are the natural, good faith response to “crime” (or to short term fluctuations in crime) and not, say, pursued because such investments produce profit, provide the ruling class with tools of surveillance and control, and further racial and economic objectives, etc.
We see this assumption that punishment policies are pursued for good faith safety reasons in virtually every aspect of contemporary crime reporting: from the phrases used within news stories to suggest that officials are pursuing such policies out of genuine concern for addressing safety, to when officials are quoted about their “public safety” motivations without skepticism or fact-checking, to the focus on the intentions of individual officials in the first place, to the absence in most articles of critical perspectives that posit different reasons for the growth of the punishment bureaucracy other than a genuine pursuit of safety for all, to the daily editorial decisions that juxtapose things like drug use, homicide, youth violence, or homelessness with police/prosecutor/prison policies and not, say, reporting on housing, public health infrastructure, early childhood education, toxic masculinity, or the isolation/alienation inherent in contemporary monopoly capitalism. The very choice to center police, prosecutors, and prisons in many discussions about various policy responses to social harms is a subtle but powerful form of deception.
2) Why Does The Big Deception Matter?
Copaganda
https://coloradocommunitymedia.com/2023 ... er-coffee/
Colorado Community Media
Brighton Police seek community over coffee - Brighton Standard BladeMcDoninvited cops and the community to have coffee and get to know the men and women behind the badge in observance of National Coffee with
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2023 ... 0926cbs01/
CBS Announces October Episodes of "FBI True," A Docuseries That Takes Viewers Deep Into Some of the Most Impactful Cases in FBI History, Debuting on the Network Tuesday, Oct. 3
The docuseries takes viewers into some of the most significant and astonishing cases in FBI history through the eyes of the agents who were there
https://qz.com/1872176/half-of-us-netwo ... about-cops
Half of US broadcast network dramas are about cops
Not only are there dozens of cop shows across US networks, but several of them are among the most-watched series each year. Cop shows accounted for four of the top 10 and 17 of the top 50 most popular TV series last year, according to Nielsen. NCIS, which has aired on CBS since 2003, averaged 15.3 million viewers each episode—more than ESPN’s weekly National Football League games.
https://colorofchange.org/press_release ... ce-system/
NORMALIZING INJUSTICE: NEW LANDMARK STUDY BY COLOR OF CHANGE REVEALS HOW CRIME TV SHOWS DISTORT UNDERSTANDING OF RACE AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
https://hollywood.colorofchange.org/cri ... OC4wLjAuMA..
THE DANGEROUS MISREPRESENTATIONS THAT DEFINE TELEVISION’S SCRIPTED CRIME GENRE
A Comprehensive Study of How Television’s Most Popular Genre Excludes Writers of Color, Miseducates People about the Criminal Justice System and Makes Racial Injustice Acceptable
A REPORT BY COLOR OF CHANGE AND THE USC ANNENBERG NORMAN LEAR CENTER JANUARY 2020
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/most-p ... 234612885/
100 Most-Watched TV Shows of 2019-20: Winners and Losers
By Michael Schneider
https://coloradocommunitymedia.com/2023 ... side-view/
Elizabeth police offer inside view
Student Academy runs for 11 weeks with teens, adults in attendance
by Nicky Quinby
https://thewire.in/rights/meitei-leepun ... nda-babloo
For ‘Defaming Meiteis,’ Vigilante Groups Force Apology From Former Cop, Vandalise Activist’s House
The United Nations Human Rights office has said it is alarmed by the threats.
https://www.thehour.com/capitalregion/a ... 410395.php
Hartford police officer accused of falsifying nearly 200 traffic tickets arrested
Christine Dempsey
Oct. 6, 2023
Updated: Oct. 6, 2023
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/prosec ... IUIlPlHB7y
Troopers who fatally shot a 'Cop City' activist near Atlanta won't be charged, prosecutor says
KATE BRUMBACK and R.J. RICO
Fri, 6 October 2023
https://coloradocommunitymedia.com/2023 ... side-view/
Elizabeth police offer inside view
Student Academy runs for 11 weeks with teens, adults in attendance
by Nicky Quinby
October 5, 2023
https://ticklethewire.com/doj-blasts-ho ... testimony/
DOJ Blasts House Republicans for ‘Needless Escalation’ in Standoff over FBI Witness Testimony
Steve1 Day Ago
The Justice Department has instructed an FBI special agent to not testify before the House Judiciary Committee after Republicans insisted he could not be accompanied by both a personal lawyer and a bureau lawyer.
Republicans subpoenaed Elvis Chan after alleging he was involved with the Justice Department’s effort to censor conservative voices on social media.
The committee, however, insisted he could not be accompanied by both a FBI lawyer and a personal lawyer.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/06/breaking- ... g-sources/
‘Breaking Bad’ grandma Joanne Segovia could be snitching on alleged fentanyl ring accomplices: sources
By Marjorie Hernandez
Published Oct. 6, 2023
Joanne Segovia (center) was the executive director of the San Jose Police Officers Association. She is accused of importing massive amounts of fentanyl and other illicit prescription drugs into the US, even using her organization’s official UPS account as part of the alleged scheme, according to investigators.
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/yom-kippur- ... ypt-us-aid
Fifty Years After the Yom Kippur War, the US Should End Its Blank-Check Aid to Israel
Julian Sayarer
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/trumbo-fast ... -red-scare
How Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus Broke the Hollywood Blacklists
BY
TAYLOR DORRELL
Telling the story of a slave revolt in ancient Rome, the 1960 film Spartacus was penned by two blacklisted Communist writers. Its arrival in theaters was a middle finger to the FBI and McCarthyist witch hunt in Hollywood and publishing.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... cef-report
Extreme weather displaced 43m children in past six years, Unicef reports
Toll likely to worsen as floods, storms, droughts and wildfires intensify due to climate crisis, according to Unicef and IDMC study
Nina Lakhani climate justice reporter
Thu 5 Oct 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnVXuMfiHdI
This NEW European Wind Turbine for Home Outbeats PV Solar Panels in 2023?!
Global heat is now ‘gobsmackingly bananas’, but there’s hope humanity can limit the climate damage
Adam Morton
https://www.404media.co/ice-cbp-secret- ... tion-data/
ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data
JOSEPH COX
·OCT 5, 2023
THE FBI POLICE STATE 101
https://www.mylawquestions.com/what-is- ... %20Academy.
What is the FBI Citizens' Academy?
https://www.infragard.org/Application/G ... hapterList
CHAPTER LIST
With 79 chapters, InfraGard has a chapter for you. Chapters conduct local meetings pertinent to their area.
https://www.infragardnational.org
Welcome to the InfraGard National Members Alliance
InfraGard is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and members of the private sector for the protection of U.S. Critical Infrastructure. Through seamless collaboration, InfraGard connects owners and operators within critical infrastructure to the FBI, to provide education, information sharing, networking, and workshops on emerging technologies and threats. InfraGard’s vetted membership includes: business executives, entrepreneurs, lawyers, security personnel, military and government officials, IT professionals, academia and state and local law enforcement—all dedicated to contributing industry-specific insight and advancing national security.
https://www.abc4.com/news/wasatch-front ... n-academy/
Over 50 high schoolers attend Salt Lake City FBI Teen Academy
by: Aubree B. Jennings
Posted: Aug 4, 2023 / 10:31 PM MDT
Updated: Aug 4, 2023 / 10:31 PM MDT
https://fbisdcaaa.org/about-us/
About the FBI Citizens Academy Alumni Association
https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2021/ ... ect-match/
Merit Badge History: In Fingerprinting, the FBI and the BSA found the perfect match
By Bryan Wendell August 9, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/18/arch ... rmers.html
F.B.I. Said to Urge Use Of Boy Scouts as Informers
PHILADELPHIA, May 17—A document said to be among those stolen from the Federal Bureau of Investigation indicates that the agency encourages local police departments to recruit Boy Scouts as informers.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... e-support/
Boy Scouts FBI file reveals FBI Director Hoover’s fickle support, recent scrutiny
Documents outline fingerprinting partnership, alleged ‘ghost’ troops
Written by Jasper Craven and Shawn Musgrave
Edited by Tom Nash
As one of the oldest and largest youth organizations in the country, the Boy Scouts of America have been on the FBI’s radar since the Hoover era, when the Director helped the BSA develop a fingerprinting merit badge. The Bureau’s 500-page file spans 70 years, including recent allegations that BSA leaders manipulated enrollment numbers and even created “ghost” units to qualify for federal funding
https://www.thesunchronicle.com/local-l ... ba85e.html
Local lawyer wins MLK verdict
BY DAVID LINTON
It was attorney Pepper who convinced the King family that the assassination had been planned and executed by a government plot that included the FBI, CIA, President Lyndon Johnson's White House and the media.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/23/new-nypd- ... -massacre/
NYPD ousts over half a dozen public info cops in ‘massacre’ as new boss takes over
By Tina Moore
Published Sep. 23, 2023
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/25/nyp ... ttlements/
NYPD “TRANSPARENCY” SITE LEAVES OUT MISCONDUCT LAWSUITS SETTLED FOR MILLIONS
The New York Police Department touts the “transparency” of its officer database, but you’d never know about cops who rack up dozens of lawsuits and millions in payouts.
Akela Lacy
September 25 2023
https://equalityalec.substack.com/p/the ... paign=post
The Big Deception
Maybe the most important form of copaganda
1) Introduction: What is “The Big Deception”?
The crux of the Big Deception is this: the collective effect of a variety of news media practices is to give people the wrong impressions about why consequential things happen in our society. Most people—including and especially progressive people who think of themselves as well-informed news consumers—are made ignorant about the real forces determining things that matter to their lives. As a result, many smart people who care about making our world better have a poor understanding of the kinds of things they should get involved in or support because their theory of political change is naïve and premised on misinformation. To put it crudely, the news media misleads people about how politics and power work.
One illustration of The Big Deception is that reporting on the punishment bureaucracy makes people think that “law enforcement” and punishment policies are the result of some reasonable weighing of good policy arguments as opposed to the product of organized interests asserting their power. On this view, further investments in police, prosecutors, and prisons are the natural, good faith response to “crime” (or to short term fluctuations in crime) and not, say, pursued because such investments produce profit, provide the ruling class with tools of surveillance and control, and further racial and economic objectives, etc.
We see this assumption that punishment policies are pursued for good faith safety reasons in virtually every aspect of contemporary crime reporting: from the phrases used within news stories to suggest that officials are pursuing such policies out of genuine concern for addressing safety, to when officials are quoted about their “public safety” motivations without skepticism or fact-checking, to the focus on the intentions of individual officials in the first place, to the absence in most articles of critical perspectives that posit different reasons for the growth of the punishment bureaucracy other than a genuine pursuit of safety for all, to the daily editorial decisions that juxtapose things like drug use, homicide, youth violence, or homelessness with police/prosecutor/prison policies and not, say, reporting on housing, public health infrastructure, early childhood education, toxic masculinity, or the isolation/alienation inherent in contemporary monopoly capitalism. The very choice to center police, prosecutors, and prisons in many discussions about various policy responses to social harms is a subtle but powerful form of deception.
2) Why Does The Big Deception Matter?
Copaganda
https://coloradocommunitymedia.com/2023 ... er-coffee/
Colorado Community Media
Brighton Police seek community over coffee - Brighton Standard BladeMcDoninvited cops and the community to have coffee and get to know the men and women behind the badge in observance of National Coffee with
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2023 ... 0926cbs01/
CBS Announces October Episodes of "FBI True," A Docuseries That Takes Viewers Deep Into Some of the Most Impactful Cases in FBI History, Debuting on the Network Tuesday, Oct. 3
The docuseries takes viewers into some of the most significant and astonishing cases in FBI history through the eyes of the agents who were there
https://qz.com/1872176/half-of-us-netwo ... about-cops
Half of US broadcast network dramas are about cops
Not only are there dozens of cop shows across US networks, but several of them are among the most-watched series each year. Cop shows accounted for four of the top 10 and 17 of the top 50 most popular TV series last year, according to Nielsen. NCIS, which has aired on CBS since 2003, averaged 15.3 million viewers each episode—more than ESPN’s weekly National Football League games.
https://colorofchange.org/press_release ... ce-system/
NORMALIZING INJUSTICE: NEW LANDMARK STUDY BY COLOR OF CHANGE REVEALS HOW CRIME TV SHOWS DISTORT UNDERSTANDING OF RACE AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
https://hollywood.colorofchange.org/cri ... OC4wLjAuMA..
THE DANGEROUS MISREPRESENTATIONS THAT DEFINE TELEVISION’S SCRIPTED CRIME GENRE
A Comprehensive Study of How Television’s Most Popular Genre Excludes Writers of Color, Miseducates People about the Criminal Justice System and Makes Racial Injustice Acceptable
A REPORT BY COLOR OF CHANGE AND THE USC ANNENBERG NORMAN LEAR CENTER JANUARY 2020
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/most-p ... 234612885/
100 Most-Watched TV Shows of 2019-20: Winners and Losers
By Michael Schneider
https://coloradocommunitymedia.com/2023 ... side-view/
Elizabeth police offer inside view
Student Academy runs for 11 weeks with teens, adults in attendance
by Nicky Quinby
https://thewire.in/rights/meitei-leepun ... nda-babloo
For ‘Defaming Meiteis,’ Vigilante Groups Force Apology From Former Cop, Vandalise Activist’s House
The United Nations Human Rights office has said it is alarmed by the threats.
https://www.thehour.com/capitalregion/a ... 410395.php
Hartford police officer accused of falsifying nearly 200 traffic tickets arrested
Christine Dempsey
Oct. 6, 2023
Updated: Oct. 6, 2023
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/prosec ... IUIlPlHB7y
Troopers who fatally shot a 'Cop City' activist near Atlanta won't be charged, prosecutor says
KATE BRUMBACK and R.J. RICO
Fri, 6 October 2023
https://coloradocommunitymedia.com/2023 ... side-view/
Elizabeth police offer inside view
Student Academy runs for 11 weeks with teens, adults in attendance
by Nicky Quinby
October 5, 2023
https://ticklethewire.com/doj-blasts-ho ... testimony/
DOJ Blasts House Republicans for ‘Needless Escalation’ in Standoff over FBI Witness Testimony
Steve1 Day Ago
The Justice Department has instructed an FBI special agent to not testify before the House Judiciary Committee after Republicans insisted he could not be accompanied by both a personal lawyer and a bureau lawyer.
Republicans subpoenaed Elvis Chan after alleging he was involved with the Justice Department’s effort to censor conservative voices on social media.
The committee, however, insisted he could not be accompanied by both a FBI lawyer and a personal lawyer.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/06/breaking- ... g-sources/
‘Breaking Bad’ grandma Joanne Segovia could be snitching on alleged fentanyl ring accomplices: sources
By Marjorie Hernandez
Published Oct. 6, 2023
Joanne Segovia (center) was the executive director of the San Jose Police Officers Association. She is accused of importing massive amounts of fentanyl and other illicit prescription drugs into the US, even using her organization’s official UPS account as part of the alleged scheme, according to investigators.