This - I hate to be the person that always posts the same thing, but read about Operation Gladio ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation Gladio ) for a clear view of how NATO encouraged and enabled far right groups to operate militias across Europe. If that is what they did in Europe, I wonder what they were supporting in America?
According to article, this militia is so powerful you can stay in leader’s house and go through his files while he is asleep, because the leader of such a powerful group would keep a filing cabinet at his house with all sorts of incriminating records.
Only someone smart enough to climb the ranks over many years could pull this off.
This is the single most important news event of the century. Certainly a book and movie will soon follow. Hopefully if there is still a representative government after the midterms, we can have public hearings before the Senate broadcast on all the networks as we root out these treasonous thugs.
> the leader of such a powerful group would keep a filing cabinet at his house with all sorts of incriminating records
I’m 95% sure your comment is alluding to the President of the U.S. keeping classified documents (after leaving office) in stacks of cardboard boxes in a Mar a Lago resort bathroom, with Mar a Lago being the 126-room resort (and Trump's home) where others are constantly coming and going, including even representatives of foreign adversaries and the foreign security teams, etc.?
But is the GP comment also designed to allude to the US President doing something very similar? If not, I don't understand why it seems to have a sarcastic tone acting like obviously an important militia leader would never store documents like that, when we already have a case of the US President doing something similar (well, technically worse since there are laws against taking and insecurely storing classified/secret/top secret government documents).
Same with the GP suggesting "public hearings before the Senate" about it - I don't understand why they'd suggest that for the militia case unless it was actually an allusion to public hearings before the Senate digging into Trump taking/storing the documents?
This article could do with an serious edit; it seems to be an odd mix of actual information, imagined colour and emotion to the point where it is a little difficult to follow and hard to work out the credibility of any individual assertion. I get the strong impression here that Williams is a bit paranoid and spent a lot of time fearing for his skin in the company of people who thought we was a good mate and would probably just kick him out of the club if they figured out he was conspiring against them. I thought this passage summed the vibe up best:
> They spotted the dog at the same time. The bug was attached to a charging device. The animal was running around with it like it was a tennis ball. As Kinch went to retrieve it, Williams felt panic grip his chest. Could anyone talk their way out of this? He’d learned enough about Kinch to be terrified of his rage. Looking around, Williams eyed his host’s handgun on the kitchen counter.
> If he even starts to examine it, I’ll grab the gun, [Williams] thought. Then I’ll shoot him and flee into the woods.
> Kinch took the bug from the dog’s mouth. Then he handed it right to Williams and started to apologize.
The lede isn’t just buried, it is submerged in a swamp under a pile of human interest rocks.
The article mentions several relatively minor/local public figures, including a prosecutor, apparently caught on mic saying they’ve influenced policy in favour of the group. Political lobbying is one thing, but an undeclared interest, another entirely.
As best I can tell this was published, talked about for a few days, and sank under its own mass. Their most read piece of 25, apparently, and it went precisely nowhere.
It’s propublica, what did you expect. The Atlantic and New Yorker do a much better job, and their biases don’t seems to affect their overall factual discussion.
It's not to everyone's taste (I often find it frustrating, like how confident is the reporter that the characters felt the way they are describing at various points in the story), but it has a long history, especially in US media.
I have a suspicion that it's less common in the UK and Europe.
I’ve learned to skip several paragraphs of writing once I recognize the pattern. These types of articles turn into long essays where the writer is trying to create a work of art more so than convey important information.
It’s also the important warning illustrated by the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: journalists are not experts in the fields they report on so the stories they tell about them are often grossly incorrect and misconstrued but you need some expertise or experience in the field to sort the bullshit from the facts.
Crafting a narrative out of a handful of facts about a domain you don’t fully understand is a perfect recipe for bullshit.
Hard to believe there are actually some unhinged people out there who fire a few shots down range with the boys, sink a few cold ones, and say less-scandalous edgy political crap than you'd find on the typical lefty's public social media. Lock em up! This is a democracy!
"His voice had the high-pitched rasp of a lifelong smoker"
That is one of the dumbest, most prejudicial things I've ever heard about smoking. Where do these ideas come from?
This article reminded me that there might be people in my country who see me as a person they are in community with instead of an object to be managed or moved. People who see me as human and act accordingly are rare these days. So much so, that even this feels like a gift. So thank you John Williams, your work is much appreciated.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 35.0 ms ] threadAnd as I’m sure you know, the answer to your second question is Operation Condor, at least if you take “America” to mean South America as well.
Only someone smart enough to climb the ranks over many years could pull this off.
This is the single most important news event of the century. Certainly a book and movie will soon follow. Hopefully if there is still a representative government after the midterms, we can have public hearings before the Senate broadcast on all the networks as we root out these treasonous thugs.
I’m 95% sure your comment is alluding to the President of the U.S. keeping classified documents (after leaving office) in stacks of cardboard boxes in a Mar a Lago resort bathroom, with Mar a Lago being the 126-room resort (and Trump's home) where others are constantly coming and going, including even representatives of foreign adversaries and the foreign security teams, etc.?
>He’d slept in the home of the man who claims to be the new head of the Oath Keepers, rifling through his files in the middle of the night.
Same with the GP suggesting "public hearings before the Senate" about it - I don't understand why they'd suggest that for the militia case unless it was actually an allusion to public hearings before the Senate digging into Trump taking/storing the documents?
> They spotted the dog at the same time. The bug was attached to a charging device. The animal was running around with it like it was a tennis ball. As Kinch went to retrieve it, Williams felt panic grip his chest. Could anyone talk their way out of this? He’d learned enough about Kinch to be terrified of his rage. Looking around, Williams eyed his host’s handgun on the kitchen counter.
> If he even starts to examine it, I’ll grab the gun, [Williams] thought. Then I’ll shoot him and flee into the woods.
> Kinch took the bug from the dog’s mouth. Then he handed it right to Williams and started to apologize.
The article mentions several relatively minor/local public figures, including a prosecutor, apparently caught on mic saying they’ve influenced policy in favour of the group. Political lobbying is one thing, but an undeclared interest, another entirely.
As best I can tell this was published, talked about for a few days, and sank under its own mass. Their most read piece of 25, apparently, and it went precisely nowhere.
It's not to everyone's taste (I often find it frustrating, like how confident is the reporter that the characters felt the way they are describing at various points in the story), but it has a long history, especially in US media.
I have a suspicion that it's less common in the UK and Europe.
Crafting a narrative out of a handful of facts about a domain you don’t fully understand is a perfect recipe for bullshit.
Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42594766
> Worth noting, Patriot Front had a huge leak of data in 2022 (400GB).
> [Patriot Front Fascist Leak Exposes Nationwide Racist Campaigns](https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/patriot-front-fascist-leak-ex...)
> You can download it at the following torrent address:
> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2c87816e4c81990fb25bbca43dd8d578eaa55886&dn=patriotfront&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2920&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969
> I'm seeding this on a permanent basis. I have gigabit uplink. Please leach and share. Expose these nazi fucks.