Linux-fueled Thoughts Unhinged

Ok, I'll take a different approach to this post: I'll go as fast but steady as I can — just like in sketching.

In this post, I'll travel internationally from Voice of America in Washington D.C. and return to the Greater Boston Region. (Let's face it — there isn't enough land in Boston proper to conduct proper conspiracy practices like there is in NYC. Thanks, Mr. Robot.)

Here We Go, Voice of America!

(“Voice of America” literally sounds like a line ripped out of BioShock Infinite and not real life...)

Voice of America (or simply VOA) is described as being under the charge of the:

U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent agency of the U.S. government.

on Wikipedia.

Yet at the very end of the introductory fold, the article says:

While some foreign audiences have a positive view of VOA, others consider it to be a form of propaganda. [Omitting footnotes]

So much for “”“neutrality”“”.

I think I first came across VOA and started to look into it when VOA was a news source for the Intelsat 708 crash from Nick Crowley.

Additionally, I may have come across VOA previously when reading about Abdolmalek Rigi. I thought that maybe Rigi was killed using surveillance metadata, though his arrest and execution was in the year 2010 in Iran. Due to this, I doubt this was the case and Iran used more conventional and legal/air jurisdiction means to arrest and execute Rigi.

I won't comment on Rigi, because I know nothing on him and I won't trust anything I see on matters of terrorism because it is usually all twisted up and crap. (Look at Bush's War on Terror — how did that turn out? The exiting of Afghanistan is a tragedy that should have been prevented. Anyways, before I get distracted by another matter I also don't know much about...)

But the one detail of interest is that Rigi was allegedly captured by Pakistani officials, who allegedly claimed the U.S. assisted with intelligence or something like that; meanwhile, the U.S. denies this in typical Glomar response.

Ouch.

Anyways (for the second time), VOA has a lot of questionable phenomena that has manifested during its existence. Without going into an actual history lesson, here are the picks that are most interesting to me:

• VOA interviewed Abdolmalek Rigi in 2007. Apparently this was controversial (for probably very obvious reasons, but probably for other nonobvious reasons).
• According to a China Central Television documentary (I'm not sure how much I trust the state run news media in China), a Tibetan self-immolator who failed to kill himself was allegedly inspired to do so by VOA, which allegedly reported on “people who committed suicide in political self-immolation” in a positive manner in February 2013. I know the situation with Tibet and China is bad, but this is next level — in a very bad way.
• An extremely long subsection that is obviously long, because it is titled “Trump presidency politicization efforts” and deals with Trump. Enough said.

Does anyone remember the Frank Cody political “crazy” show running in the background of Mr. Robot? Also, do you remember the scene in S3E4 where whiterose personally tapped Frank Cody on her personal island to boost public morale on Tyrell Wellick, attribute fsociety's origins in Iran — thus setting Mobley and Trenton as the fall people — and support Donald Trump for president? I'm not making this up, look at the Mr. Robot Wikia article on Frank Cody.) (Also, whiterose and China are both about to become much more relevant in the next bullet. (Uh... no pun intended? Also, spoilers for S3E8.)

• This weird live VOI interview debacle with Guo Wengui in 2017. (Don't worry, we'll get to Wengui in a moment — we could be here for days on end talking about Wengui alone.) Basically Wengui is an exiled billionaire from China... which implicitly and naturally means Wengui has lots of beef with the mainstream Chinese government. Wengui was scheduled to give a 3 hour interview regarding China's corruption. (Not like Guo Wengui's any upstanding person either, if you take more than 1 minute looking at any part of his Wikipedia article.) The interview was cut after one hour and 17 minutes when Wengui claimed to have documents to prove corruption among the top dogs of the CCP. (I mean, hardly groundbreaking on the fundamental expectation level, but having alleged concrete proof is another — kind of like the 2013 Snowden revelations.) Basically, some part of the U.S. government said on the official record that VOA did this due to journalism decisions and not because China pressured backdoored VOA but IRL to do so. But, as you know from Mr. Robot, you know how this bullcrap goes down. Apparently a second investigation was conducted through the University of Maryland, College Park, which basically concluded that VOA had bad journalism practices for the Wengui interview.
• A VOA relay station in Thailand was used as a CIA black site. That basically says it all.

I mean, I could've just used the CIA black site in a VOA relay station and could've been done with discrediting VOA as a credible and reliable source of news, but I just wanted to show my audience (of 1, at most... sadly) how badly the VOA is backdoored, based on its Wikipedia article.

Let's move on to Wengui: I was interested by his name because of the interview situation. I basically discovered that Wengui is basically just a Chinese version of Trump, but only the business tycoon aspect and probably in a more successful yet bad way. Wengui basically runs a shell news company with Steven Bannon, is a member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago, and uses some other shell news company to promote COVID-19 misinformation.

Wengui would definitely be part of the Deus Group, though just a mere lowly puppet for someone like whiterose.

Apparently all of these people are ready to stab each other in the back, since the Interpol has a warrant out for Wengui and Steve Wynn personally delivered a letter from China, which requested the U.S. to deport Wengui. This is literally worse than Mean Girls, and that bar's already set extremely low.

So, I have a “personal” gripe with Steve Wynn, because of the entire way that the Encore Casino in Everett was created was totally sus, weird, and only benefits the gentrifiers of the Greater Boston Region — as if gentrification wasn't already happening.

For the Greater Boston natives: if you know, you know.

Also, as a native, this whole Encore Casino situation is garishly distasteful. It looks like a mini Las Vegas — if Las Vegas was only allowed to exist in a lot of a former very large supermall. One of my family members says that it looks extremely weird.

Just wait till it snows, and then even passing by that area will be a nightmare.

It looks... very odd.

If you were trying to import Las Vegas culture, then you could've also at least imported DEF CON. I know it's a yearly conference (ignoring Black Hat, sorry but not sorry), but Las Vegas still has better Eric S. Raymond tier hackers, but all we have right now is an inactive hacker collective/think tank L0pht and a list of rather random looking places that probably just have lots of soldering irons and 3-D printers to qualify as a hackerspace.

(Oh gosh, did L0pht and a few others try to recruit more members by creating Cicada 3301? It didn't really work and the Liber Primus is way too fricken hard... not everyone owns an NSA data center cluster to brute force cryptography.)

Anyways, for some reason, the alt-right social media site Gettr was mentioned on the very bottom of the Wikipedia article for Wengui.

It turns out that Wengui most likely fiances Gettr via many shell companies, foundations, and other shell-like organizations.

Anyways, Gettr isn't that different from Parler or Gab. (By the way, I only recently learned that Spinster is another sort of alt-right offshot, except geared towards women who are TERFs — this naturally draws a lot of intersection from the pro-MAGA crowd.)

Unpopular opinion: if you really wanted to Make America Great Again, then you maybe the U.S. shouldn't allow objectively immorally gross people into the U.S. (such as Guo Wengui), U.S. citizens who voluntarily become foreign agents (such as Steve Wynn basically voluntarily becoming a Dark Army agent through his business dealings), and foreign companies entering the U.S. for oil (such as Embridge trying to build the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota). How about investing in hyperlocal causes, such as mutual aid or your local community, to actually achieve “Make America Great Again”? Just a demonstration of how I can “hack” anything to make it work the way the way it should be. (In case you were wondering, I am pro Stop Line 3. Now screw off, FBI terrorist prevention unit or whatever bullcrap pretense yet legal abuses you conduct every second of the year.)

Anyways, So I opened up Gettr and explored some public posts from this cesspool. (Why the frick did I do this? Is this the pornographic quality of a car accident or a hyperviolent video game that Susan Sontag talked about?)

I only need to see 3 words to have a bad emotional trip (don't worry, I don't take drugs): The Epoch Times.

I remember being in one of my college's building while in university with an acquaintance. On the table, there were papers that were trying to show the truth to what China does to practitioners of Falun Gong: organ harvesting of prisoners. Though organ harvesting is real in China, my acquaintance was also right to question the agenda of such people distributing these leaflets. (Dang, spoiler alert: the organ harvesting in Dirty Pretty Things looks like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood in comparison to China's organ harvesting operation.)

Although there's probably some truth to the situation, I'm pretty sure there's something up with the Falun Gong movement. Although Falun Gong is very much against the mainland Chinese government, it is also pushing very hard to ingratiate itself with the far alt-right in the U.S., Germany, and France.

Steven Bannon even said he doesn't know very much about New Tang Dynasty Television — at least on the public record.

Jeez, Frank Cody looks like nothing in comparison. Dang, whiterose be out here making a literal media company!

The Epoch Times is pro-Trump, COVID-19 misinformation-izer, and general conspiracy theory spreader. (The low quality ones, not the high quality ones that are more true than science fiction itself, such as Mr. Robot or Utopia.)

Oh, also The Epoch Times heavily advertises Shen Yun, which I probably watched a performance in Boston a long time ago.

Conclusion

Lastly, I'm reminded of why these people, who are just like the Dark Army, are good at putting up a front but horrible at defending their respective backends — both online and IRL.

At least I won't be doing stupid things, like Trump's technical team trying to make Truth Social based on Mastodon yet not releasing its source code in accordance with whatever open source license Mastodon uses until the creator of Mastodon threatens with legal action.

Being Asian American means the FBI will mark you as a spy for China or whatever, but at least requiring to register as a foreign agent of China for the DOJ, like Steve Wynn, is a completely orthogonal matter.

I guess there's no point to apply for jobs requiring Top Secret with Sensitive Compartmented Information as an Asian American... so much for ever getting into Equation Group.

With the legend of Mr. Rabbit from Utopia being based in China and being such a deadly force that saying the name will get you killed faster than looking upon unleaked TS/SCI documents from the U.S. IC agencies without the correct clearance. By the way, Mr. Robot was right to base the Dark Army in China.

I'll be taking notes from the experts.