Utopia Talk / Politics / US spy agencies targeting Greenland

Rugian Member	Wed May 07 08:59:24 US spy agencies have been ordered to accelerate intelligence-gathering efforts on Greenland’s independence movements and attitudes towards President Trump’s ambition for American sovereignty over the territory. In an order last week Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s director of national intelligence, also told spy chiefs to find out about people in Greenland and Denmark — which has sovereignty over the island at present — who are sympathetic to American interests, including mineral exploration. The directive, which could lead to the deployment of satellite surveillance, communications intercepts and even agents on the ground, would result in America’s various spy agencies being used to support Trump’s repeated aim of controlling Greenland. He has made similar statements about Canada and the Panama Canal. Gabbard’s intervention came in the form of a “collection emphasis message” to intelligence-agency heads. The classified message demanded that agencies including the CIA, Defence Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency find those who support US objectives for the island. In a statement addressing the report, Gabbard said: “The Wall Street Journal should be ashamed of aiding deep state actors who seek to undermine the president by politicising and leaking classified information. They are breaking the law and undermining our nation’s security and democracy.” http://www...nland-trump-spy-owns-96k3b85t7
williamthebastard Member	Wed May 07 09:12:52 In a time of ceaseless peril, openly supremacist movements in these countries are positioning their relatively wealthy states as armed bunkers. These bunkers are brutal in their determination to expel and imprison unwanted humans and equally ruthless in their willingness to violently claim the land and resources (water, energy, critical minerals) they deem necessary to weather the coming shocks. Reflecting on his childhood under Mussolini, the novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco observed in a celebrated essay that fascism typically has an “Armageddon complex” – a fixation on vanquishing enemies in a grand final battle. But European fascism of the 1930s and 1940s also had a horizon: a vision for a future golden age after the bloodbath that, for its in-group, would be peaceful, pastoral and purified. Not today. Alive to our era of genuine existential danger – from climate breakdown to nuclear war to sky-rocketing inequality and unregulated AI – but financially and ideologically committed to deepening those threats, contemporary far-right movements lack any credible vision for a hopeful future. The average voter is offered only remixes of a bygone past, alongside the sadistic pleasures of dominance over an ever-expanding assemblage of dehumanized others. And so we have the Trump administration’s dedication to releasing its steady stream of real and AI-generated propaganda designed solely for these pornographic purposes. Footage of shackled immigrants being loaded on to deportation flights, set to the sounds of clanking chains and locking cuffs, which the official White House X account labeled “ASMR”, a reference to audio designed to calm the nervous system. Or the same account sharing news of the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a US permanent resident who was active in Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian encampment, with the gloating words: “SHALOM, MAHMOUD.” Or any number of homeland security secretary Kristi Noem’s sadism-chic photo ops (atop a horse at the US-Mexican border, in front of a crowded prison cell in El Salvador, slinging a machine gun while arresting immigrants in Arizona …). The governing ideology of the far right in our age of escalating disasters has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. It is terrifying in its wickedness This is a belief system that is genocidal at its core and treasonous to the wonder and beauty of this world. We are convinced that the more people understand the extent to which the right has succumbed to the Armageddon complex, the more they will be willing to fight back, realizing that absolutely everything is now on the line. The bunkered nation lies at the heart of the Maga agenda, and of end times fascism. If policing the boundaries of the bunkered nation is end times fascism’s job one, equally important is job two: for the US government to lay claim to whatever resources its protected citizens might need to get through the tough times ahead. Maybe it’s Panama’s canal. Or Greenland’s fast-melting shipping routes. Or Ukraine’s critical minerals. Or Canada’s fresh water. We should think of this less as old-school imperialism than super-sized prepping, at the level of the national state. Gone are the old colonial fig leaves of spreading democracy or God’s word – when Trump covetously scans the globe, he is stockpiling for civilizational collapse. http://www...s-fascism-far-right-trump-musk
obaminated Member	Wed May 07 09:53:11 I see absolutely no down side to use prospecting the idea of undermining a democratically elected government.
williamthebastard Member	Wed May 07 12:21:18 Denmark summoning the US ambassador for an explanation. Would be great if one country kicked out the US ambassador to increasingly normalize the recognition that the USA is no longer a friend of the West.
williamthebastard Member	Wed May 07 12:24:51 And so is Norway. Things heating up http://www...-over-spying-claims/a-57769737
williamthebastard Member	Wed May 07 12:25:18 Oh, the Norway thing is old
Average Ameriacn Member	Wed May 07 13:42:48 MAGA!
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