Academic paper reveals Hong Kong student protesters were paid to be guinea pigs in bizarre experiment that may have gone wrong

Academic paper reveals Hong Kong student protesters were paid to be guinea pigs in bizarre experiment that may have gone wrong

It’s unclear how many, if any, of the students participating in these incendiary activities were initially roused to political action by being “randomly” selected for the academics’ numerous protest studies over the years, but HKUST’s attempted backpedaling suggests it’s a distinct possibility that at least some were.

DIVIDE, RULE AND PROFIT: THE INTERSECTIONAL IMPACT RACKET

DIVIDE, RULE AND PROFIT: THE INTERSECTIONAL IMPACT RACKET

“It is the sustainability goals that will open the door to smart city infrastructure with facial recognition, cashless economies, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence used to implement broad threat assessments; the threat of natural disasters as well as threats posed by individual dissidents and groups”.

I don’t think those things are necessarily bad, except that they’ll use them against ‘dissidents,’ such as antiwar or human rights activists (COINTELPRO comes to mind)! Plus, they’ve already been monitoring protests!

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The fact of the matter is that identity politics and reactionary ideologies such as intersectionality are not merely compatible with the needs of US imperialism and its institutions like the CIA; they are an essential tool utilized by the bourgeoisie to maintain its class domination over the working class by keeping workers divided along racial and gender lines.

“Humans of CIA” recruitment campaign sells youth “identity politics imperialism”

Is the US embassy in China recruiting ‘traitors’?

Is the US embassy in China recruiting ‘traitors’?

Of course they are: Origins of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1949-1950

Give me a hundred million dollars and a thousand dedicated people, and I will guarantee to generate such a wave of democratic unrest among the masses–yes, even among the soldiers–of Stalin’s own empire, that all his problems for a long period of time to come will be internal. I can find the people.

Sidney Hook, 1949

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Congress’s fixation with China’s ‘malign influence’ undermines Americans’ civil liberties and security

Section 136, which also is not included in the McCaul bill, would authorize appropriations totaling $500 million over FY22-26 not only to support U.S. state media such as Radio Free Asia, but also to fund training for “local media” and “independent media,” in efforts to “combat Chinese disinformation.” Funds would target coverage aimed at discrediting Chinese activities such as the Belt and Road Initiative.