#foreign agents

Americans seeking to influence a possible Alberta referendum on separating from Canada could have to register as foreign agents, says Canada's new foreign influence watchdog. Testifying before members of the Senate on Thursday, Anton Boegman said his mandate isn't restricted to federal politics. "The law would be applicable in provincial and territorial processes, in municipal processes," said Boegman, who has been nominated as Canada's first foreign influence transparency commissioner.

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THIS WEEK, WASHINGTON’S top Israel lobby is rallying its supporters to go to Capitol Hill and falsely claim to lawmakers that people aren’t starving in Gaza and Israel isn’t blocking aid shipments, according to talking points obtained by the American Prospect.

Israel has led a brutal siege on Gaza since Oct. 7, when Hamas killed 1,139 Israelis and kidnapped more than 200. More than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed, 2 million have been internally displaced, and hundreds of thousands are at imminent risk of famine, according to the United Nations.

The powerful lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, is working to maintain support for Israel’s war, amid increased protests and public outcry. This week, AIPAC convened in Maryland for its annual policy conference, which it uses to marshal its donors and supporters to serve as a grassroots lobbying army in the halls of Congress.

The Prospect obtained a copy of AIPAC’s talking points for supporters heading to the Hill — and they are extreme, to say the least. The documents instruct supporters to claim that “reports that people are starving in Gaza are false,” and say that “Israel is not blocking the delivery of aid to Gaza.”

The AIPAC talking points additionally claim that Hamas wants people to believe Gazans are starving in order to “exert pressure” on Israel, and argues the “United States must not fall into Hamas’ trap.”

These claims from AIPAC are false. Gazans are starving on a massive, unprecedented scale. According to the United Nations, 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza — almost the entire population of the region — are facing “crisis or worse levels of food insecurity.” Half a million of those included in that figure face “catastrophic” levels of food insecurity.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) — a leading food security analysis and advocacy group — classifies the Gaza Strip as being in Phase 4 “Emergency” status food insecurity, with a high risk of imminent famine conditions.

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From mzbat (socially distant, mask wearing bat)

My heart goes out to the unsung IT heroes at the Capitol tonight. My guess is they’ve never had to run asset inventory before - a daunting, stressful task in a tabletop exercise - and they’re running one (prob w/o a playbook) following a full on assault of the Capitol.

Response thread from @jacobian (jacobian):

Just to give folks who aren’t in the field an idea of what we’re talking about: - we must assume that foreign agents were among the rioters - snooping devices can be implanted into anything with a power cord - so every device in the capitol is now a potential foreign asset.

So, just for starters: - all computers need to be inventoried, inspected inside and out, and the OS paved/rebuilt - keyboards, mice, &c might now have implants, they probably should be tossed (see eg keelog.com/forensic-keylo... which looks like a usb cable but it in fact a logger)

Then everything with a power source needs to be audited. This means lamps. Thermostats. Those cute little portrait lights on top of photos. The vacuum cleaner in the storage closet. Even outlets - a fav trick of one Red Team I know is a fake outlet cover that hides a mic.

I’m probably missing about a dozen things. This is off the top of my head and I suck at physical security.

Oof, via a friend who’d like to remain anon, a huge one I missed: rioters were inside the capitol long enough to re-flash the firmware on any device with writeable firmware - which these days is almost everything. Anything with a mic of camera probably needs to be tossed.

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Demonize your enemies.

Make up "information" and disseminate it to stir up your "subjects"..... Russia Probes BBC, Radio Liberty and Meduza for ‘Drug Propaganda’ ...