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      The New Jersey Regional Operations and Intelligence Center, one of the so-called fusion centers that serve as intelligence clearinghouses for cops, warned in a bulletin earlier this year that disaffected Americans were increasingly blaming society’s ills on rich people and corporate bigwigs… A 2023 report by Rutgers Law School’s Center for Security, Race, and Rights warns of the potential for abuse in the New Jersey fusion center. The report cited the fusion center’s practice of drafting dossiers on “known troublemakers” and its reliance on so-called “intelligence-led policing,” a practice of surveilling and data collection that the American Civil Liberties Union has cited as a potential violation of the right to due process.

      The Quarterly Executive Threat Watch, the bulletin that included the warning for CEOs, appears to be internally categorized as terrorism-related intelligence and was later disseminated by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer to recipients across the country. (CBP did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

      Then there is the issue of the center’s shadowy public-private partnership. The New Jersey fusion center does not make public which private agencies or organizations it partners with, or to whom it disseminates reports.

      “It’s very ambiguous who is actually in charge and who is responsible.”

      The January report drew heavily on the work of SITE Intelligence, a for-profit firm that has come in for criticism because of its labeling Islamic charities as terror fronts and mistakenly identifying video game footage as terror propaganda.

      Like its counterparts across the country, the New Jersey fusion center feeds its reports into a national network of public and private agencies dedicated to the gathering and dissemination of information about potential threats — a practice that frequently crosses the line into surveillance of political speech, according to German and other critics of fusion centers.

      “There is a lack of public accountability here,” German said. “Because they’re joint enterprises, it’s very ambiguous who is actually in charge and who is responsible for ensuring that the participants within these centers are acting in accordance with the law.”

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        Not exactly the right picture[1], but it will do.


        1. The “bugs” are us or the Palestinians in that movie,
          after a Dutch director decided to read up on an Usonian author
          and decided that they haven’t gotten the memo on what fascism looks like. ↩︎

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    Oh good.

    At first I thought they said Luigi was sick with a fever.

    Carry on with the good news…

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      I think, and I’m basing this off of the vibe that underpins every interaction I have with strangers, that people are stuck in a limbo state, waiting for either a miracle or for the other shoe to drop. I think most people are holding out hope that this can be resolved in a way that doesn’t fuck up their whole daily life, but that hope is fading.

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      Wait until the poor harvests next year due to the looming fertilizer crisis. Historically people who are eating regularly are much less likely to revolt. But that will not be the case for the US working class in a another year or so.

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    “…warned in a bulletin earlier this year that disaffected Americans were increasingly blaming society’s ills on rich people and corporate bigwigs”

    As they should and there’s not even a group left to fake blame.
    Usonian immigrants are in jail.
    The Usonian poor and un(der)employed is what most Usonians have become.

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    It’s simple: work like the rest of us, you freeloading scum. Don’t want to work? Want to extort and exploit? We need more lifters, not leaners, grifters and remote exploitation. Get out of the way. You’re ruining it for everyone. Fuck off. Gun the CEOs and the remote owners that deprive others for… what? Why? Why spread poverty and misery. Have you met the owners of your company? No, not your boss who’s a lackey for capital. Your owners? You’ve never met them. You have no clue who they are. They hide in secrecy whilst they surveil you, your whole neighborhood and your entire nation. Fight back. Destroy their property. Kill their children. Kill them. Find some names. Fight back.

    Tax the rich. Imprison the disorderly. Execute those that can’t be reformed.

    Like, lmao. The state is literally working overtime to try and protect them. It’s entirely pathetic. Israel is a genocidal, illegitimate-nation that is a tumor on the United States of America. Bleed America dry to finance genocide.

    Start local: tell your landlord to get a fucking job.

    I’m legitimately interested in organizing a death-squad for obscene landlords. PM me.

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      I agree except we can reeducate the young children. I like how you go from that right back to tax the rich first 😂😅 they’ll get what’s coming. No kids tho

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        No you have to eliminate their legacy. They can keep their lives and loved ones, OR their money but not both.

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          I agree that you need to destroy their legacy but disagree that that’s what it takes to do it. The revolutionaries in China took the last emperor and made him a gardener. I understand that things happen in these situations and sometimes the quick solution is chosen, but overall I think it’s better to eliminate their power by scattering their wealth and converting their children.

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          Nah kids can be reeducated. This ain’t tsarist Russia buddy Have some sanctity. Adults are fair but saying kids does make u seem like a fed

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          Ya those kids need to be saved and protected not killed. That guy is way wrong for that. The rest of the message wasn’t that bad tho

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          What does glowie mean? Also yeah this comes across as a bit of an unhinged rant to the point that I have to wonder what type of person they are to justify some of the violent things they said.