Tag: Bannon

Sinophobia Inc: Understanding the Anti-China Industrial Complex

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Sinophobia Inc: Understanding the Anti-China Industrial Complex

The revolving door of the military-industrial complex crosses party lines. Take Randall Schriver, a China hawk hand-picked by Steve Bannon to serve as the Trump Administration’s Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs. Schriver was the founding president of the Project 2049 Institute, a hardline security think tank funded by weapons giants like Lockheed Martin and General Atomics and government entities including the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense and the National Endowment for Democracy. Predictably, under Schriver’s leadership, Project 2049 called for increased arms sales to Japan and Taiwan while sounding the alarm on the supposed threat of a “flash invasion” of Taiwan or a “sharp war” with Japan.

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Peter Thiel Met With The Racist Fringe As He Went All In On Trump

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Peter Thiel Met With The Racist Fringe As He Went All In On Trump

Thiel’s ideas continue to find their way into policies. He pushed for the Trump administration to ramp up its trade war with China and, according to the Wall Street Journal, accompanied Zuckerberg to a White House dinner with Trump and Jared Kushner, where the Facebook CEO raised concerns about rival TikTok. (Zuckerberg has since told employees that he doesn’t think TikTok came up as a discussion topic at the meal.)

Thiel’s line of thinking that American companies doing business in China amounts to providing technology to the Chinese Communist Party has also been parroted by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. This January, ahead of a speech at Stanford University in which Pompeo railed on China for its human rights abuses, he met privately with Thiel, according to two people familiar with the event.

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Did Melania Trump Use Personal Email for Government Business?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Did Melania Trump Use Personal Email for Government Business?

The government’s failure to preserve its emails dates all the way back to January 1989 – beginning with an attempt by the outgoing Reagan White House to destroy its email backup tapes. This destruction was only thwarted by the National Security Archive’s lawsuit, which first established emails as federal records. Read more about the Archive’s decades-long battle to preserve White House email here.

Steve Bannon, the War of the Chinese Billionaires, and the FBI

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Steve Bannon, the War of the Chinese Billionaires, and the FBI (Archived).

The Central Cast Of Guo’s $100 Million The Rule Of Law Foundation (Source).

It was Bannon who introduced Guo to hedge fund millionaire Kyle Bass, who is currently under SEC investigation for making false and misleading statements about United Development Funding (13), one of the companies Bass has a made a fortune from short selling. Bass went on to join the boards of the Rule of Law Foundation, GNews and G-TV, where quack theories like the COVID-19 virus being created in a Chinese laboratory were promoted (14).

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How Steve Bannon used Indian TV channels to shape anti-China rhetoric even before Ladakh

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

How Steve Bannon used Indian TV channels to shape anti-China rhetoric even before Ladakh

But less than a week ago, Steve Bannon, seen to be the unseen hand guiding right-wing demagogues across the world, was grandstanding on WION, the ‘World Is ONe” news channel launched by Subhash Chandra, the Zee founder who became a Rajya Sabha member with the help of the BJP (and invisible ink)—and whose autobiography Narendra Modi released at his home in 2016 (above).

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Steve Bannon’s Effort to Export His Fiery Popularism to Europe Is Failing

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Steve Bannon’s Effort to Export His Fiery Popularism to Europe Is Failing

After Bannon was charged with fraud for his role in an effort to raise money to help build Trump’s wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, two people working with him said an effort to found an academy for right-wing Roman Catholic activists in Italy faces a criminal inquiry by the Rome criminal court and a project aimed at ending the European Union has closed up shop.