And because a not insignificant amount of it is make-work for elite failchildren and nineteen year old plucked from elitist university societies. A lot of it's not even paid, but in promise of getting the right introductions after uni to bag a think tank gig etc.
It's definitely a win for those campaigners/unions/worker groups, and a blow to Israel, but it's also worth mentioning that it's a bit of a fudge from Microsoft so let's not give them too much credit.
They're pulling data hosting from Unit8200, which is the secretive military data unit that was storing and surveilling every phone call in Gaza. But it's also a massive tech incubator so a lot of Israeli spy/digital genocide tech is privatised through Unit8200 linked companies, which Microsoft will undoubtedly still support.
The Trump admin are going after him for leaking false or misleading statements to the press as an anonymous source, which is highly likely to have happened as it's something basically all FBI Directors do but usually everyone just allows it.
The bigger reason is his involvement with the Clinton private email server investigation, which is at least somewhat dodgy. Clinton almost definitely broke the law, because even Comey's final investigation report specifically said that it amounted to "gross negligence" which the Justice Department then stepped in and asked him / made him change to something like "extremely careless" because gross negligence is an actual crime and they didn't want to have to prosecute a potential president with a crime or announce charges during an election.
In more general ghoul activities that I'm aware of I know he was a pretty hardline anti-privacy, anti-encryption guy. He very publicly went after Apple for not giving the FBI and law enforcement an easy backdoor into their products and data. Even the NSA/CIA director at the time at the time came out and said the request went too far and was attempting to end privacy to make 'his job easier'. Admittedly, this is probably because they could do it anyway, but they didn't want to share with the FBI.
Whilst the CIA/NSA were certainly the main culprits (and suggested the most extreme action like kidnapping and assassination) of the Wikileaks prosecution/criminalisation, Comey's FBI were enthusiastic participants too. I believe he tried to argue for designating various Wikileaks members and even related journalists like Laura Poitras not as journalists but as "information brokers" in order to investigate/prosecute them not as journalists but as potential foreign assets.
Pretty much anything the FBI got up to between 2013-2017 was on Comey's watch, including breaking it's own rules and (already extremely liberal and invasive) guidance on spying on activist networks like Occupy Wall Street who were still going, the Keystone XL pipeline protestors, environmental campaigners, and of course people associated with BLM.
He's always been a ghoul though. He was a rare FBI director I was aware of as a Brit before he got the position, as from 2008 onwards the HSBC bank was in a constant state of scandals here (financial crisis, bailout fraud, fixing Libor rates, tax avoidance & dodgy slushfunds) and they brought Comey in to be their top lawyer during perhaps the most obviously egregious one which was when they were caught actively facilitating global drug cartels (probably at least some CIA linked) and international organised crime more generally. I remember reading about that and discovering that his previous gig had also been at Lockheed Martin.
The two other comments here are spot on, but there was also a lot of movement of even former dedicated communists from the East to the West after the wall came down as I once talked about through the lens of my German family in this post.
But it's a combination of left defeat, lots of the former Eastern left dispersing across the more prosperous West of the country, and the fact the state spent many years enjoying putting the boot in to the East both politically and culturally (although the fash sometimes overstate that aspect as opportunism too).
It was already popular in Germanic nationalist movements and with certain wealthy elites by the end of the 1800s is my understanding. And they certainly co-opted it from the fashion for orientalist mysticism and creating repurposed esoteric symbolism for their private societies.
The Nazis took it from there in the twenties with the formation of the party, using the colours (red, black, white) from the flag of the old German empire, and then Hitler fiddled with it a bit.
I can't remember where it's from, but there's a piece of writing by Hitler where he's doing a very 'graphic design is my passion' thing about what a genius he is for changing the thickness of the swastika and finding just the right size of circle. That paragraph or two are far more embarrassing than all the rest of the failed painter stuff.
Remember on September 10th 2001 when Rumsfeld held a mandatory meeting of the Pentagon & DOD to announce a 'radical new reorganization' of state defense, meaning more contracting, less transparency, a change in the roles it played, more internal surveillance.
This feels like that, just done even more incompetent and egotistically.
Whether they just use the recent years of lead stuff or seal the deal shortly after with something new, I'd put money on massive further mercenarification of the military (Palantir for surveillance, digital repression, mercs on the streets), deployment into new more repressive roles within the US, and either an explicit or implicit loyalty demand. Shortly followed by some of the most repressive executive orders and legislation to date.
Pete Davidson's dad, Scott, was a firefighter who died in World Trade Centre during 9/11.
Jefferies: Right? They haven't asked what we're going to do. And let's be fair, they have picked some fucking edgy-ass comedians.
Von: Some seriously edgy ones.
Yes, all the edgiest, most rebellious, public enemy comedians have the President of the USA on their massive media company backed corporate megabucks sponsored podcasts and get special invites to play comedy gigs in some of the worlds most repressive countries as a tourism gimmick.
Shitlib former comedian turned boring comedy interviewer Richard Herring literally did this well over a decade ago, for a year, for an Edinburgh show and wrote a bunch of right-bait articles in newspapers about how it proved liberal hypocrisies about race.
It was an embarrassing and tired idea then, never mind now.
It's a minor point but the phrasing of this really gives the game away...
Everything YOU'RE doing for Palestine would be a million times easier and more effective under Harris.
Not what "I'm" doing. Not what "we're" doing. Even in the scolding premise they're admitting that they're doing fuck all and don't care. It's an explicit admission that they wouldn't do anything under Harris either that detonates their "I told you so" before it even makes contact with the reader.
Love Chat Pile. Im not even the biggest metal guy but God's Country was my favourite album that year. I love that the band take all their own album photographs too.
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And because a not insignificant amount of it is make-work for elite failchildren and nineteen year old plucked from elitist university societies. A lot of it's not even paid, but in promise of getting the right introductions after uni to bag a think tank gig etc.