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15 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
By now it’s obvious that the byline of anarcho-neocon fabulist @areidross is a grave threat to the integrity of any journalistic institution.

But for a network of spooks, cops, and Kochs, Ross’ zealous smearing of leftists makes him a valuable asset.
thegrayzone.com/2021/03/14/ana…
This smarmy, cop adjacent snitch has entertained a Travis Bickle-like obsession with me for years. He’s falsely accused me of causing a neo-Nazi shooting spree, and cites the ADL to brand me as an anti-Semite. He’s not the victim and no amount of contempt is enough for this punk.
The facts in our article speak for themselves. @areidross collaborates openly with DHS officials, a GOP politician, ex-NYPD intel & former CIA spooks while conjuring “red-brown” conspiracies. He also works with the ADL, which has spied on leftists & Palestinians for decades.
Having established these facts, two questions linger:

Why don’t the “counter-disinformation” hustlers who awarded @areidross’ fellowship care about his record of retractions, errors and editorial disaster?

Why do Portland anarchists tolerate a guy who works w/ feds & spooks?

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12 Mar
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Here's Zenz on the show of anti-gay, Islamophobic @FRCdc Pres. Tony Perkins: "I was actually being prepared by God for this work." tonyperkins.com/get.cfm?i=LR19…
.@adrianzenz and Perkins are part of the same movement.

Zenz sees gender equality as satanic, calls homosexuality "one of the four empires of the beast" & equates socialism w/the Antichrist.

These views drive their campaign for regime change in China. thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-…
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6 Mar
Eliot Higgins attacks me for giving an interview to CGTN.

So here's a document from the British intelligence contractor Zinc Network claiming his Bellingcat was dispatched by the UK Foreign Office to meddle in North Macedonia's 2019 election on behalf of the pro-NATO candidate.
Bellingcat was listed by the Zinc Network as part of a UK FCO "network of NGO's" that happened to have included the NATO-sponsored DFR Lab and the Institute for Statecraft, which was the front for the covert FCO-backed Integrity Initiative troll farm. thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reu…
While Higgins attacks me for merely giving an interview to CGTN, he seems to forget how the UK FCO-backed BBC helped launch Bellingcat.

At the time, Higgins was working with Allen Vanguard, a Canadian private intel firm that relied on gov't contracts. newyorker.com/magazine/2013/…
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23 Feb
Twitter's introduction of warning labels to specifically apply to my factual reporting on covert UK info ops builds off of the policy it introduced in October to block links to a NY Post story on Hunter Biden's corruption, which was also based in fact mashable.com/article/twitte…
One of those exposed in leaks of UK FCO files was @gordonmacmillan, a captain in the UK's 77th Brigade psychological warfare division, which recruits hundreds of "Facebook warriors" to infiltrate social media.

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20 Feb
Pompeo's State Dept relied on End Times extremist @adrianzenz to accuse China of genocide.

Our review of Zenz's paper shows wanton data abuse, absurd manipulation of source material & huge errors.

There's so much wrong w/ his work we ran out of room. thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-…
Throughout his paper, Zenz framed public healthcare expansion that cut maternal and infant mortality rates in half in Xinjiang as genocidal.

He also manipulated data to give readers the sense that 80% of new IUD insertions took place in Xinjiang, when the real number was 8.7%.
Zenz displayed a photo of an elderly couple receiving a free health check up at a medical clinic as evidence of "the thorough implementation of increasingly intrusive birth control methods." Not only is the couple too old to have children, Zenz omitted the photo's actual context.
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5 Feb
Good to see the Senate #BlueAnon committee getting back to the business of propagandizing the American public about phony Russia meddling threats and padding the budget of the “intelligence community” that failed to detect any problems ahead of January 6.
Federal enforcement saw no threats to the Capitol on January 5, as MAGA planned to storm it openly on Facebook.

As the storming of the Capitol took place the next day, the FBI told DOJ there was no threat.

We better find the Russians who did this. nytimes.com/2021/02/05/us/…
The Senate doesn’t want to investigate the well-established links between US/EU white nationalists and the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion - likely because the US armed Azov to turn up the heat on Russia.

In fact, the Senate wants to send more arms to Ukraine. thegrayzone.com/2018/11/15/blo…
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4 Feb
The author of multiple malicious, false and retracted screeds about me, @areidross, emailed me about his plan to smear me again in the Daily Beast.

I wrote DB editor, @NoahShachtman, about ARR's record of disgrace & his current Koch-funded work w/ police spies & right-wingers.
Here's @areidross's email pitch to @TheGrayzoneNews, which I edit. He wrote as "Lilac" from Earth First, which was shady. Months after I rejected his incoherent proposal, he began accusing me of controlling a secret commie-fascist alliance with Kremlin space lasers.
I wonder if ARR's Earth First buddies find it odd that he now works with the Koch-funded "Network Contagion Research Institute," collaborating with a NYPD intelligence veteran, a Tea Party Republican, and DHS officials who call Antifa domestic terrorists. networkcontagion.us/about/
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