In Washington D.C., “Everyone has interests with the Qataris.”
"Qatar [has invested] heavily in Western knowledge production and narrative control."
At $6.25bil, Qatar is top five in foreign contributions to academic institutions in the U.S., with sources in Burmuda, Canada, Germany, and Japan filling out the other four.
Think tanks and policymakers have taken in over $9.1mil since 2019.
Since 2016, Qatar has spent nearly $250 million on 88 FARA–registered lobbying and public relations firms, 33 of those were retained in a single year.
Between January 2021 June of this year, agents of Qatar had racked up 627 in-person meetings with U.S. political contacts. 100+ more meetings than Ukraine or German and hundreds more than any other country.
Such reach, influence, and investment provides Qatar a lot of cover and the soft silencing of opponents.
Who in media or in the think tank world wants to publish a piece critical of Qatar when the country is preparing to hand you millions to be their "friend."
Or already has.
Qatar’s US influence model is media-centric. It combines state and non-state media actors, including FARA-registered PR and booking firms, as well as audience-targeted outreach to shape interviews, op-ed placement, and talking points."
"AJ+, which the Department of Justice directed in 2020 to register under FARA, was built to speak fluent campus and creator culture, mastering the vocabulary of democracy and turning a religious forever-war into a social-justice narrative palatable to Western audiences."
"In August 2015, AJ+ appointed Dima Khatib as managing director and charged her with scaling the “red–green” alliance between leftist radicals and Islamists."
The "red-green" alliance, the joining of radical Islamists and Marxists together for the purpose of undermining and destroying Western civilization, is the threat Rich Higgins warned about years ago in his infamous memo.
And this threat, the red-green alliance, which Qatar is bankrolling, is the "man behind the curtain" for the Free Palestine movements, the Woke Right, the anti-Israel conspiracy junkies, and the morally bankrupt influencers.
🧵There have been a few interesting developments recently in the case of DOW Contractor Perez-Lugones, who stole classified intel, and WaPo's Hannah Natanson who published excerpts of that intel.
I'm going to detail them in this thread and in a new video.
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For background, here is my previous thread on this case.
AG Pam Bondi has empowered the US Attorney for Eastern Missouri, Thomas Albus, as a Special Prosecutor for DOJ under 28 USC 515 and directed him to conduct voter fraud probes in all 94 US Districts.
His first overt move was to convince a magistrate judge in Fulton County to authorize a search warrant for their 2020 election records. The FBI executed that search warrant last week under the supervision of FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey and DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
Why would the DNI be there? Well, according to the WSJ, she's been given a task: investigate foreign interference in recent elections—including 2020.
This means that components of both the DOJ and the ODNI are working on election fraud and foreign interference inquiries right now. Interesting!
🧵As we expected, or at least hoped for, Don Lemon and several others have been indicted for conspiring to and engaging in a disruption of a church service in St Paul, MN, back on January 18.
Clear violations of the clergy, staff, and parishioners 1A Rights and of the FACE Act
🧵Meet the special prosecutor @AGPamBondi has empowered to investigate election integrity cases nationwide.
Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Thomas C. Albus
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@AGPamBondi Albus was CONFIRMED to the post on Dec 18 by a vote of 53-43, so pss pss @USAO_EDMO ya'll need to update the boss's bio.
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@AGPamBondi @USAO_EDMO According to a report in Bloomberg, @AGPamBondi used 28 USC 515 to give Albus the "authority to conduct voter fraud probes anywhere in the US"
He can "coordinate civil and criminal cases, including grand jury proceedings, in all 94 US attorney districts."
Indycar teams, services, safety crews, Marshall’s, transport teams, mechanics, parts suppliers, etc etc etc… all the thousands of people who are required in order to make an Indycar race safely and professionally take place made their plans for 2026 a year ago. Such an upheaval of those plans and a scramble to cram in a race to a calendar that was set many months ago is going to a) piss people off, b) give people severe headaches, c) increase expenditures, and d) set up the race for embarrassment and disarray.
And that’s before we even consider the track, driver and spectator safety, tv coverage plans, radio and timing setup up, the pit setup, hospitality, bathrooms, get approvals from the governing bodies and utilities, etc etc etc.
Indycar doing a race on the east coast, in or near DC?
That’s a fantastic idea!
Forcing a race to happen with only like seven months to plan it all out, get the budgets for it, build the paddock and track, account for all the safety concerns, etc etc.