The Suppression Game

Dissidents are bad for business

The exposé I reprinted below got my attention for several reasons, so I’m publishing the information in its entirety.

Recently an artist of Iranian descent spoke with me about healing and the terrible oppression of women still going on in Iran today. I met another Iranian woman(a documentary filmmaker in fact) in 2009, and she also schooled me on the reasons she and her family had left Iran. This morning I was following money-trail breadcrumbs and came upon the article entitled: “Iran opposes US by joining Shanghai Cooperation Organization.”[original intel source is-Iran and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization]

Background:

“The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an intergovernmental organization founded in Shanghai on 15 June 2001. The SCO currently comprises eight Member States (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), four Observer States interested in acceding to full membership (Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongolia) and six “Dialogue Partners” (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Turkey). In 2021, the decision was made to start the accession process of Iran to the SCO as a full member, and Egypt, Qatar as well as Saudi Arabia became dialogue partners." —Source, UN: https://dppa.un.org/en/shanghai-cooperation-organization

In consideration of the oppression we are increasingly aware of in China, and the oppression we are aware of in Iran, the idea of these two countries aligning in economic solidarity raises a few notable points worthy of consideration. On the one hand, as the US Corporation and its DC minions(i.e., the anti-constitution cronies) continue to support the totalitarian agenda of the WEF/WHO/UN—how is this nation’s federal government not supporting oppression and censorship here on US soil? …and therefore, contributing to oppression around the world? And on the other hand, when two nations with a poor track record re human rights form a financial alliance, we can see the writing on the wall. Money usurps human rights yet again.

The Carnegie article is looking at the alliance between Iran and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) from the perspective of a competitive economic strategy as well as the political coordinates involving strategic sanctions:

“By 2021, trade between Iran and SCO countries surpassed 651 billion USD, and once Iran formally becomes a member of the SCO, considerable leverage will be created for Tehran, as the country will be better positioned to neutralize Western sanctions without making concessions to the states that imposed them…”

And yet—in the background(as all central banks are bankrupt) the WEF remains an influence in global economic affairs—and supports a New World Order program that would render the idea of national sovereignty null and void. Meaning: The economic narrative presented in the Carnegie article’s analysis isn’t truly about competition between China and the US as two distinct economic engines on the planet, rather it’s really about how the Asian finance hub (SCO) will govern the BRICs/Asia sector of the planet’s financial sphere. [I’m aware that China owns water rights in Australia and has also been acquiring farmland in the US.] And, in accord with the stats I’ve seen, the Eurasian economic sector represents 2/3rds of the global population. Easy to do the math and see what kind of monetary gains are in the SCO’s future. Then there are the mineral assets within the African continent to consider! Chi-Ching.

This raises a profound question: If the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) may be poised to act as the eco-financial hub for the Next World Order (sans WEF influence?) then, of what value is the US—especially if the American Constitution remains a disabled specter of its former self? I am doubtful that the world’s 20th-century economy will return to its former US dollar-prominance— pre BANK collapse in 2008.

We are at a historic precipice that suggests a time of fantastic re-invention, and redefining how a functional eco-financial sphere might be created. The coordinates of freedom and human sovereignty represent values that are in bold opposition to the AI/SMART Digi-hub proposed by Corporate Oligarchs and NGOs run by the Controllers.

Local Economies of Scale need to be considered seriously, especially as the global-corporate power brokers(aka ‘pirates’) discuss the geographic-demographic coordinates of the Next World Order. The pirate game hasn’t changed much—it’s still about who will manage various global financial sectors and control their portion of the Grid.

pax

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China, Iran use private investigators to spy on, oppress US dissidents

China and Iran have a history of setting up espionage networks in the US, often focusing on national security targets or on individual dissidents. 

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Published: NOVEMBER 14, 2022 09:49

(photo credit: PEXELS)

Authoritarian regimes like Iran and China have found a new way to spy on dissidents living abroad in Western democracies like the US: Hiring private detectives.

This information, first reported in The New York Times, builds off several previous instances and reports on how Tehran and Beijing have used private investigators to reach across the world and have access to dissident voices against their regimes.

China and Iran have a history of setting up espionage networks in the US, often focusing on national security targets or on individual dissidents. 

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How China has used private investigators to spy on, silence, and repatriate dissidents in the US

China in particular has been accused of trying to access American technology and push Chinese interests in the US.

However, there is also an apparent concerted effort to try and silence dissenting voices, even in the US.

In one example from July 2022, Department of Homeland Security employee Craig Miller and retired DHS agent turned private investigator Derrick Taylor were arrested and charged by the US Justice Department for their role in a Chinese plot of "transnational repression" to silence dissidents.

This was made possible by Taylor allegedly spying on dissidents and gathering and disseminating negative information gained from law enforcement databases.

"As alleged, this case involves a multifaceted campaign to silence, harass, discredit and spy on US residents for exercising their freedom of speech – aided by a current federal law enforcement officer and a private investigator who provided confidential information about US residents from a restricted law enforcement database, and when confronted about their improper conduct, lied and destroyed evidence," United States Attorney Breon Peace said in a statement. 

For many dissidents, the fear of spies from their home country finding ways to monitor them even in the US is a real fear. 

"We operate under the assumption that no secret can be kept from the Chinese Communist Party, except maybe very sensitive ones," explained Queens-based Chinese American dissident and pro-democracy activist Chuangchuang Chen, according to ProPublica.

This isn't even the first time China would try to make use of locally-sourced private investigators for their espionage, whether these PIs knew about it or not.

In fact, this is part of Beijing's Operation Fox Hunt, ostensibly an anti-corruption initiative but which has been alleged for nearly seven years to be a scheme to target Chinese dissidents overseas and even force them to return to China.

How Iran used private investigators to spy on, attempt to kidnap US dissidents

In another case from July 2021, Iranian nationals were indicted on a plot to try and kidnap Iranian dissident journalist and human rights activist Masih Alinejad living in Brooklyn. This was also done with the help of private investigators, who gathered information that they would use for their planned kidnapping.

In this case, one of the private investigators hired by Iranian intelligence, 71-year-old Michael McKeever, was simply told that he was to monitor a woman identified as a missing person from Dubai who fled to avoid paying back debt, as described by The New York Times.

However, upon being contacted by the FBI, McKeever cooperated with US law enforcement, which helped lead to the Iranian operatives involved being arrested and the kidnapping thwarted, according to The New York Times.

But these cases are just the ones we know about. In fact, it is fairly easy for authoritarian regimes to use private investigators as a cheap and low-risk option for their actions. Making this worse is that with how much of the job is done over computers rather than face-to-face and an emphasis on discretion, investigators may find it hard to know exactly who their clients are. As private investigator Wes Bearden explained to The New York Times, "If you’ve got somebody on the other side – an intelligence professional who can lie and create smoke and mirrors – sometimes it’s hard to vet those clients correctly."