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lance arrowood's avatar

Mr. Levine's work is top notch and often groundbreaking. I believe he is one of the best and most courageous journalists not working in a war/genocide zone. He no doubt has some very powerful people annoyed with him.

He is also one hell of a documentary creator. I hope everyone who can support the development of the surveillance valley documentary will do so.

It only cost about 2 cups of coffee/month to support his work, so if its not a financial burden, please,please support his work.

Lar Mul's avatar

I'm sure all the tech was needed to rain a few missiles down on Chavez's mausoleum.

But to extract Maduro and his wife by chopper in Caracas? That took cooperation with the Venezuelan military.

Tom's avatar

Indeed. One wonders if the $50M (or did Trump double it to $100M) bounty will be collected, and by whom.

Tom's avatar

Everyone should buy and read Surveillance Valley.

As far as the Venezuela/Maduro situation goes, after initially being very angry about it, I have read enough to be convinced that this was in large part a stage managed, pre-arranged operation and that Maduro himself likely anticipated it. Reporting is foggy/vague on how many people were actually killed (too many, regardless) and whether there was a Russian element involved. Another interesting aspect of the thing is how the major media/newspaper outlets apparently were pre-informed and agreed not to "break" the news until it was over. Talk about "state sponsored/captured media."

To the general theme of this article, I stumbled on this recent video yesterday and I think this guy has done a good job of making his case about 'Pax Judaica' and the massive infiltration of the Internet and "defense" tech sector by "former" Israeli spies and cyber-operations specialists, and other relevant topics, without going so far as to touch the dreaded third rail of "anti-semitism." I found it enlightening, if a little hyperbolic, anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOjMgpVCY_Q