Remember, when a Russian spy was a vip at the inauguration? Here is convicted Russian spy Maria Butina at the inauguration of the criminal, fraud, rapist with Paul Erickson. Now. she is back in Russia working for war criminal Putin.
In South Dakota, Erickson stole one million dollars from investors. Trump pardoned him before leaving office.
Spacex is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a #classified contract w/a US intelligence agency, 5 sources familiar w/the program said, demonstrating deepening ties between billionaire entrepreneur #ElonMusk's space company & #NationalSecurity agencies.
Reuters reporting discloses for the first time that the #SpaceX contract is for a powerful new #spy system w/hundreds of #satellites bearing Earth-imaging capabilities that can operate as a swarm in low orbits, & that the spy agency that Musk's company is working w/is the #NRO.
Reuters was unable to determine when the new network of satellites would come online & could not establish what other companies are part of the program w/their own contracts.
I'm finally digging into Kipling's "Kim" via the audiobook narrated by Simon Vance. It's a delight, as long as you keep firmly in mind that it's a product of its cultural time.
It's billed in Everand as a "coming of age tale," but given that teenaged Kim has a scarily accurate understanding of the way the "adult" world works from the outset of the story, I don't think it's a bildungsroman at all. It's more like a hyperrealistic pilgrimage novel.
Yesterday I learned that infamous double agent "Kim" Philby apparently got his nickname from the novel, which made me think immediately of another novel that contains a bildungsroman AND like "Kim" is a #Spy story: Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Whenever I get discouraged, I remember this woman and her struggles, courage and triumphs as not only a rescuer of slaves trapped in the South but also as a Union spy: Harriet Tubman. I look at this small woman and it’s hard to believe that she a huge human being. #harriettubman#spy#blackhistory@blackmastodon@BlackMastodon
Allan Pinkerton, creator of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, the private cops that murdered dozens of labor organizers and activists, that tried to frame Big Bill Haywood for murder, that provided the perjured testimony and bogus evidence that got 20 innocent Irish American miners executed as Molly Maguires only immigrated to the U.S. to avoid a stiff prison term in Britain, where he was wanted for armed insurrection. Yes, America’s first celebrity cop had been an arsonist, vandal and violent soldier in the radical Chartist movement, before fleeing to the U.S. with his 15-year-old wife.
If you think the were just a nightmare from America’s labor and activist history, think again. They are still at it today, undermining labor organizing at Amazon, Apple and Google, among other.