Thread by @DanielDumbrill

If you've stumbled across my Twitter after seeing my response to Al Jazeera, welcome.

I'd like to take this opportunity to further quantify my comments about ASPI, a US gov't + millltary equipment manufacture org with influence over government, media & now social media.

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1466712521973190656

ASPI is funded by the only real winners of armed conflict, the millltary industrial complex. ASPI's sponsors don't only benefit if they successfully sell you the next war, they profit now from China Threat Prevention spending encouraged by their own China Threat Inflation reports

The US gov't funding of ASPI accompanies a billion dollar+ propaganda (or counter-influence as they call it) initiative. It helps deflect issues away from home, like with the ironic push on China forced labour stories, funded w/US forced labour profits.

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1315442947173670913?t=GQat4eQ81UolxhZTLY6F8g&s=19

If you'd like to read more about the wider coordinated forced labour narrative, which has resulted in damaging industries ethnic minorities in China heavily rely on, leaving them unemployed, see this thread below.

https://twitter.com/ajitxsingh/status/1243184214033358851?t=09mNbpw8-D2V6Ayd4e913Q&s=19

Brian Berletic and I did a reaction video to a CBC presentation that was based on these alligations. You can find highlight clips in the thread below and a link to our full reaction video.

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1455119428207603719?t=LBAlaponvrDQHInXn-uw8Q&s=19

Here is another thread that looks more specifically at ASPI's forced labour claims.

https://twitter.com/GFPhilosophy/status/1415976139479162880?t=mnv-klsidwwVVPfckGKV-A&s=19

ASPI also pushes Chinese foreign influence stories, while ironically being an American foreign influence operation that has totally infultrated Australian politics & policy making, while not always being eagerly forthcoming about their affiliations.

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1387028491732848645?t=GQat4eQ81UolxhZTLY6F8g&s=19

Critics of ASPI's reports are usually ignored or attacked for questioning their work, much like you saw with their new piece. People are disincentivised from calling them out, but some of us are out here. Biostatistics professor Dr Gilmour is one of them.

https://twitter.com/drStuartGilmour/status/1393834261577302021?t=GQat4eQ81UolxhZTLY6F8g&s=19

In regards to intimidating people, one of the authors of the report I was included in, joked about using the name of terrorist org ETIM, responsible for killing people all over China & Syria (under the TIP banner), to silence his critics.

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1424318865043906561?t=5OBBUux3lIT3agS64n0GQg&s=19

Nathan Ruser of ASPI and one of the authors of the new report on me has had it out for me for a while. This tweet is the exact moment he blocked me. I simply pointed out his conclusion was formed in part by clearly fabricated/faulty information.

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1278698810747703296?t=j_IJx3QAyVy2xfwj2ONxpA&s=19

If you'd like to see more of Nathan Ruser's faceplants, see this thread below. Had Nathan been able to do the same to me, he would have certainly done so by now, but he can't address any of my arguments so he has to reduce himself to superficial theories.

https://twitter.com/abovetheclouds/status/1363274643403071488?s=20

Another ASPI staffer actually went to uni with an ethnic minority from Xinjiang. He totally wrote him off, because he knows that he's involved in a disinformation campaign that directly impacts his old friend. He threw him under the bus for his career.

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1393807517239549956?t=XahTawp6EL68PdxXzrw51Q&s=19

Back onto actual content, here is another thread from GreyFox on one of their more recent reports.

https://twitter.com/gfphilosophy/status/1469700378342334467?s=21

By this point, I'm convinced you'll appreciate, even if you don't agree with all my points, that there are counter arguments out there you haven't been exposed to. This is intentional. Ideas like these would never be explored in traditional western media.

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1451476682993328131?t=qoydy_IN1coCcxbcEVBHxw&s=19

Now for a bit more about me. The HK riots were the catalyst for me to first start asking more questions, then eventually to speak out. I do NOT profit from what I do, on the contrary, I go through great personal expense to do this, financially & time wise

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1470741639312203781?t=qoydy_IN1coCcxbcEVBHxw&s=19

If you'd like to hear me discussing my ideas in more depth, you can watch this video of me debating/discussing China with a mainstream media journalist who was banned from China:

You can also check out my interview with the amazing @RaniaKhalek here where I discuss Hong Kong and Xinjiang.

If you're looking for something a bit shorter, check out my 12 video/excerpt where I talk about the military industrial complex and war propaganda.

I'm fascinated by "human rights" activists, or worse, politicians focusing on alleged human rights abuses overseas when there supposed to have power to fix them home, but don't & still suggest others adopt their supposedly more accountable political system

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1469894491650035713?t=0qjvPJfORK6LwOYRpkmzHw&s=19

You're literally drone striking the crap out of overseas kids running to greet their father returning home while the guy who told you this is what always happens is in prison and you're busy searching satellite images to find Chinese human rights abuses.

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1439867934227120130?t=gNHSH9LRYWzs7UYM8CDFkw&s=19

And your crappy journalists who keep pushing lies or half truths that excuse interventions that kill millions of people just laughed it off when they're ready to say "oopsies" yet again, over and over, without ever introducing honesty the next time around

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1462963999335612417?t=AVMNuDOfMyokz7bDvVMafA&s=19

I have much more I could say about ASPI, but I'll leave it here. This thread is long enough and I have a big dedicated ASPI piece coming soon. I'll finish by attaching my old pinned thread which is full of historical lessons we're failing to learn from.

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1305258661292306433?t=DABFs4yo-Vz7V7kgkwnh2g&s=19

Here's a new response I provided to a China outlet asking for my opinion on the NYT article that seems to have been coordinated with ASPI, on the ironic topic of coordinated propaganda. I was likely dropped for the same reasons Sketchers has long been.

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1470650129006809088?t=9wICUpvs9_32a3E13XJkeQ&s=19

I'm not surprised by the coordination between ASPI and the NYT. ASPI regularly colludes with MSM. In a slip up, ASPI's Uyghurs for Sale report was released on Feb 28, 2020 and referred to a WAPO article that wasn't even published until the next day, as discovered by @cowestpro.

Most of the dishonest behaviour ASPI engages in is convoluted in layers of ambiguity, however their damage control, after messing up their coordination with WAPO (likely a timezone oversight), provides a clear as day example of fraud. They changed/now lie about the published date