Foreign Forces Are Sowing Discord on the Home Front

happening here in these United States. All that and much more Insdae's episode of The Josh Hammershew. Well, we've hit this drum beat before, and we're not going to shy away from We're going to keep on hammering it. No pun intended for the first suple future, at least as

long as it comes up. Where I'm talking about the extent of foreign influence operations that are currently having a ruinous, a ruinous effect when it comes to American politics more broadly, and above all, when it comes to sowing the seeds of discords on the America can write. Now, there's numerous data points, and we're going to hit all of them, But we will first talk about this bomb show report. And yes, I tried to use my verbiage a little

more carefully. I'm not one of those guys who goes on X and does like three siren emojis breaking news. You know, Donald Trump took a particularly good poop. No, I mean, that's not how we roll here. We say we try to save our verbiage for the actual big stuff. So when I say bombshell, I actually really mean it to bombshell. So this was a really interesting report that came out just on Monday from an organization that is known in the industry as NCRI. It stands for a

Network Contagion Research Institute. They are are loosely affiliated with Rutgers University in New Jersey, but they are an independent research organization. They specialize when it comes to to online extremism and social contagion, as the name would imply, and trends like that, misinformation, disinformation, a lot of psychology science, and information warfare. Fundamentally, what they're getting at here is

information warfare. They've done any number of amazing sites in the past when it comes to various other woke maladies. When it comes to DEI when it comes to the transgender phenomenon and things like that. So here is the report that just came out on Monday from the Network Contagion Research Industry, is titled America Last How FWENTS is coordinated raids and foreign fake speech networks inflate his influence. We're talking here about the extent of Nick Fundas's foreign influence,

social media boosting operations. All of this has been a source of speculation. Let me kind of back up there and just say it's been a source of speculation for a very, very very long time. There have been any number of debates. I've been privy to these debates. I've been a participant in these conversation debates. What is the extent of which all of the garbage that you're currently seeing from from some elements even of the so called right,

hold aside the left. For the second focus on the right, what is the extent of which some of the garbage that you're seeing when it comes to the Hitler apologia to the Joseph Stalin apologia, when it comes to just the the the grotesque racism, misogynism, anti semitism, and ultimately culminating in what we have repeatedly described as this sincere conscientious information operation, ultimately trying to distance Christians and Jews

and thereby destroy the modern American rights. So one of the questions all along has been how much of this actually is organic and how much of it actually is coming from foreign sources? No doubt some of it actually is organic. Let me let me say that first and foremost. I'm not going to just wave my hands here and say that all of this is just foreign that. I'm not gonna make that claim because it's simply not true. Some of it definitely is happening at an organic level,

and that certainly ought to be troubling. For instance, there have been some some recent turning point USA events. There was at one event that the Vice President Jaduvans Partition Paiden at Ole miss in Ox, Mississippi, and you had someone who certainly was sounding the talking points of a Nick Fuentes or a so called Krouber. So was that individual himself influenced by foreigner domestic sources? I don't know, But certainly some of this actually is happening on the

home front. That's a more complicated topic, and we're going to hold that aside for present purposes. But for now I want to talk a little bit more about this NCR study. So there's a lot of numbers potentially to break through here. But long story short. The reason that the Network Contagion Research Institute again, this independent organization based New Jersey studying online trends, information warfare, and misinformation disinformation.

The way that they are able to actually start to get some of this data is because of the recent spotlight that Elon Musk correctly and righteously shines talking about where the actual accounts on his platform X are basing. So, in case y all forgot, this was fairly recently, just a few weeks ago. Really, when Elon one must develop this new tool over at Twitter xor of whatever we're calling it. And by the way, as an aside, how crazy it is that we still say Twitter also XX

and it's been like three years since they rebranded. I mean, I'm not quite but almost three years since they rebranded, we're still calling it the old name. Probably a good sign. Frankly, Elon, you should have kept the old name in the first place.

I digress. So he imfluenced this new feature a few weeks ago talking about or showing that an an individual account is based in the United States, Canada, UK, Nigeria, Pakistan, Who's Beckistan, Japan, India, whatever, And it's because of this tool that the NCRI is able to get some of this data. So let's actually get into some of the data that the good social scientists at NCRI were able to look at when it comes to who was actually boosting Nick Flentes and just as important, how is he

being boost relative to similar or larger scale accounts. So the data that they poured over shows that Flentes is receiving more retweets than Elon Musk, despite Elon Musk being literally one hundred times the audience. So in the first thirty minutes posting a tweet, Nick Flentes dominates what are known as of velocity charts, which are just the sheer

amount of retweets seemingly done in coorinated fashion. When you normalize this for a number of followers, you will see that when Does's account is getting dozens of note hundreds of times more Twitter velocity, more rapid fire, clearly coronated retweets done than accounts that are just drastically drastically larger. Again, Elon Musk being just one particularly example, sixty one percent of all of when does his retweets in the first thirty minutes of him posting something on X come from

accounts that did this repeatedly across various posts. Ninety two percent of the accounts that are actually doing this for Nick flent days are actually fully anonymous. Ninety two percent are fully nonymous. And if you spend as much time in the shall we say, darker places of X as I do and have done recently, you will see that the these folks all kind of have the same basic look. They all have the Pepe the frog. They all have

the name Gwiper in their name. They have a few things there in their in their bio that give it away. But there's no photo, there's no location, there's no contact folks. A lot of these are bots. A lot of these are bots, by the way, instantally a many of funds his most viral posts are indeed heavily retweeted by accounts that we now see are actually based in specific countries. Those countries are primarily, above all, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Malaysia,

and Indonesia. These countries by definition have no link whatsoever to the US political conversation. They are simply foreign bot forms that are attempting to influence the American rights and the American political conversation more generally. Overall, when you look at at Nick Funds's tweets over the past year or two, you will see that the total number of retweets from Western countries more broadly is roughly fifty one percent compared

to forty nine percent for non Western countries. There's a lot more where this came from. There are twenty Funds posts, for instance, that were examined by NCRI. Just over sixty percent came, as I said, from these same repeated accounts.

platform metrics, and manipulate recommendation systems. So, taken together, the evidence points to a deliberate, foreign influenced campaign relying on anonymous and possibly automated accounts to artificially inflate Nick Fundus's reach. Gaming the platform's algorithm in a systematic effort to elevate his influence far beyond what genuine grassroots supports could would achieve.

So it's coordinated foreign bot farms from places like India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Nigeria above all that are essentially engage in coordinated retweeting of this guy into much greater, far greater relevance than his organic metrics would otherwise entail or would otherwise necessitate. And then you have US based organizations that buy the hype, that see these one hundred thousand views on a reply and they're like, oh my god, this

guy's got a huge following. Oh yeah, let's go ahead and do a New York Times puff beast making out Nick flent Is to look like the next James Dean. There was that photo of The Times that I think was a Michelle Goldberg opinion columnies guy like the James Deans slip back hair. Disgusting, disgusting stuff, folks. This is

all done for a very very simple, insidious reason. This is coming from hostile sources, These Pakistani bot farms, the Pakistanis, the Nigerian Muslims, have whoever do doing this there they do not have the American best interest at heart. They do not have maga's best interest at heart. They are trying to make the right go crazy, and they're all

sorts of folks who are obviously falling for it. There are all sorts of folks who are mistaking online bot farm for an engagement driven activity and then saying, oh my god, there's really an organic trend in this country towards Nazism or Hitlerism.

that much of this is coming from online. Again, not all of it, but a d amount of it is currently coming from online. Now again, Elon Musk has done the world really a huge favor by shining this botolne and allowing us to see which accounts are actually based the United States, which are foreign there. I can't help but openly wonder as to whether or not there is an even more clariant way for Elon Musk to go

about doing this. There is there a way, for instance, when you click on someone's bio like right, there may one click away from the bio page to show what percentage of that account's followers are American or non American? What percentage are in this country that country, that country?

Can we get like a country by country breakdown, mister Musk, of a given accounts followers one tweet away, similar to how you can now get one click away to actually see where the account is based in the first place. Something like that I think would be deeply helpful and deeply productive, an unambiguous good. It would be beneficial for

our contemporary American political conversation. This is a very old tactic, by the way, a very very very old tactic when it comes to hostile foreign governments and foreign influencers who try to meddle in American politics and try to rile people up, to drive wedges and to ultimately sick certain Americans on each other, to make them attack each other, to try to make them hate each other. It is

a very, very very old tactic. These Soviets were infamous for this during the nineteen sixties, at the heart of the Cold War, at the heights of the Civil Rights era. Martin Luther King Junior and all that the Soviets were infamous.

They're having their useful idiot Communist Party USA stooges in the United States to go into, for instance, heavily black neighborhoods and to try to prop up radicals like Malcolm X and to discredit moderates like Martin Luther King Jr. Because they were trying to empower the crazies thereby sowing the seeds of discord and trying to make Americans hate one another. In that particular contest, they were trying to

incite racial animus. Now they're currently trying to undermine Mecca, trying to undermine the American Right, which is the only force for good in American politics, by extension, for America's role on the world stage. The're trying to undermine that. They're trying to undermine the Jewish Christian Alliance, trying to undermine US support for Israel.

the organization from AFAR. They are not a Soros organization. They've done incredible work on totally unrelated issues in the past when it comes to DEI, transgenders and various of the wokes up there, they do a lot of good work. Go ahead and give them a follow check out the reports,

because this is really really quite damning stuff. When it comes to Flint Days, I guess the natural follow up question would be, I would like to see the information not just for Nick Flint Days, but for a lot of these other toxic influencers on the American Rife Center as well. I would love, would absolutely love to see a country by country breakdown of Candice Owens's followers. I have a sneaky suspicion that she has a massive, massive, massive following right now if I had to guess when

it comes to places like Pakistan. I mean, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm not, and I would love to see that there. So elon Moska, there's a way to do that. Let's go ahead and make that happen. By the way, around the same time that the NCRI was releasing this, so just over this past weekend, actually, there was a conference in Doha, Qatar that you might

have seen. This was the Doha Forum. It is It is a major conference every year you get you typically get various elites from American industry, from media, from technology, from hollywo They all go over to Doha to kiss the ring of the Altani family, which is the ruling family in Qatar, which is a modern day Islamist slave state essentially. And there's been a lot of speculations, speaking

of speculations, speaking of foreign influence. Has been in a lot of speculation as to the extent of Tucker Carlson's personal involvement with Katar. Mark Levin has been calling Tucker Carlson Kat Charlson, Tucker Cartarlson for months and months now on his very powerful radio broadcast, Tucker Carlson, we know interviewed the Amir of Katar, the premiere Alton. He interviewed

him earlier this year in twenty and twenty five. And we actually also know, as a result of some very very innovative investigator reporting from the Washington Examiner and others, that there is a very sketchy mom and pop consulting firm located in northern Virginia called Lumin eight Advisors, which you never heard of. They fired a FARA registration aw so thereby registering as a foreign age and on behalf of the Embassy of Katar, they were making an obscene

amount of money. It was like close to two hundred thousand dollars a month or something like that. And on their far registration paperwork Illuminated Advisors. Their one principal source of business that they publicly listed in the US government registration document, their principal place of business that they listed for doing their work on behalf of the Embassy of

Katar was the Tucker Carlson Show. So the interview that Tuck Carlson did, what I'm saying with Al Tani, the Amir of Katar earlier this year was a literal boughtom paid for interview. How do I know that because the illuminated advisors people who arranged the interview, literally wrote it on their far Registration Act form. They got paid oodles and ools of money to arrange the interview. Tucker, of course,

has been downplaying the extent of Shria law. He has been making light of Shria law, saying, oh my god, look at these beautiful cities in the Middle Least. They have these beautiful skyline and there's no crime, and there's this and that, there's real law. How bad can it be? So I think a lot of people started paying attention when this past weekend it came out that Tucker actually was going to go to Doha for the Doha Forum as part of this total boondoggle, this junk kets. Oh wait,

but it actually wasn't just Tucker Carlson. It was actually also his business partner, Neil Patel, his co founder of The Daily Caller from way way back in the day, and unbelievably, unbelievably over the weekend, it was actually on Sunday, Neil Patel tweets out this photo of him and Tucker Carlson standing next to each other, and they both have what looks like a cocktail in their hands, which is itself a little odd because last I checked, Tucker Carlston

had publicly said that he had gone sober after having an alcohol problem in past years, So maybe he's back on the sauce, which itself would explain some of his recent behavior, at least to an extent.

And then Neille Tell's tweet, so who they're actually flipping off is directed at Mark Levin, Ted Cruz and Laura Lumer. By the way, in the other photo in this Neebletael tweet, it shows Tucker just laughing with Donald Trump Junior in Doha at the Doha Forum, which is itself somewhat disturbing, to put them mildly. And there are all sorts of other questions when it comes to the extent of the Witcoff business enterprises, when it comes to the extent of

the Trump Organization's dealings with Katar. But for present purposes, let's just say that the single leading vector, the single leading vector when it comes to doing what Fun is doing when it comes to trying to sow the seeds of discord on the American right and implode MAGA from within. The single most important arrow in this quiver of information operation arrows is Tucker Carlson, and he is there drinking in cocktail, flipping off Americans from Katar after having done

a bottom paid interview with the premiere. But wait, it actually gets worse. It literally gets worse, because Tucker interviewed the Amir of Qatar again, the second interview he's done now in less than half a year or something like that, with the leader of Katar. He did it the Doha Forum, and he said this utterly utterly shocking thing. Go ahead and watch this.

one patrons of. This is a terrorist state, a terrorist state involved, as we've discussed in the show, in deep, deep rooted sprawling, an intricate duplicity when it comes to their hosting of value, date air.

the West. Their goal is to spread these seeds of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the West. Why do you think the trumpministration finally signed this water down milk toast Muslim Brotherhood baned recently because there are more reports coming out about the extent of the Brotherhood's information operations and the extent to which they are trying to disseminate their propaganda When it comes to American higher education, media boondoggles parties.

Qatar is the number one vector of foreign influence in the United States, whether it's Tucker Carlson, whether it's Nick flent As, there is all sorts, all sorts of foreign influence happening right now in the United States, many many, many other as well. Again, I call on Elon Musk to show us a country by country breakdown as to where exactly a given users followers are located. That should not be that difficult, That should be easy enough to do. Make it one click away from your biome and then

let's see it. Because I don't want to stop a front desk, don't stop a candae own's either. I want to see where Tucker's followers are. Surely that's not too much to ask for. By the way, I was just talking about the extent to which the Trump administrations and executive order defining certain chapters of the muzzlem Brotherhood was watered down. They basically said that they are declaring the Muzzle Brotherhood a terrorist organization in the Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt.

I mean, okay, I mean that's fine as far as goes. They're already declared a terrorist organization there. For what it's worth, the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the US House has already passed out a bill. It's pending in this House for action. Per Mike Johnson passed it bill to recommend to designate the entire Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, something that clearly should happen. Most recently, a few weeks ago, it was Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, who did that.

In the Lone Star State, declared that the Muslim Brotherhood and CARE the accounts American Islamic Relations, which was founded as a Hamas Muslin Brotherhood front group in the United States. It was Greg Abbot who went ahead and declared that the Brotherhood and CARE were terrorist organizations. Were purposes of Texas law and therefore there will be no bank loans

prosecutions as as appropriate things like that. So finally, finally, yesterday, on Monday December eighth, Ron DeSantis here in the state of Florida doing the exact same thing.

CARE as foreign terrorist organizations. Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support. CARE for what it's worth, was previously designated a terrorist organization by the notably Arab United Arab Emirates. The UAE it declared CARE a terrorist organization back in

twenty fourteen, over a decade ago. The Brotherhood itself has been declared a terrorist organization by any number of Arab countries. I just named three, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, how about Saudi Arabia, how about the UAE itself there it's basically katar in Turkey. Okay, the two leading sponsors of radical Sunni Islamism. Those are two countries that are that are currently playing footsie, playing

super nice with the Brotherhood. But the santist doesn't really care for him that He is not saying that CARE and the Brotherhood are terrorist orgizations and will be treated as such here in the state of Florida. Just a little brief history for you about CARE in case you don't really know the full history here. So CARE was initially incorporated in the US in nine ninety four by Omar achenlet Rafik Javert and Nihad Awad. Awad is still

intimately involved with CARE. He infamously after October seventh praised the Hamas assault.

founding director. Left his position as the public relations director for the Islamic Association for Palestine, which has been described by the FBI's counter Terrorism chief as a quote front organization for HAMAS that engages in propaganda for Islamic militants. The US government itself has described its organization related to

CARE called the Islamic Association of Palestine. The government itself had described them as a founding mender a founding member of the Muslim Brotherhood's so called Palestine Committee, which is a Brotherhood offshoot here in the United States. Within a month after its formation, CARE received a five thousand dollars check, followed just weeks later by another five thousand dollars wire

transfer from a group called the Holy Land Foundation. The Holy Land Foundation was convicted into the in North Texas in the Dallas for Worth area, providing over twelve million dollars to Hamas. Okay this is This ends up becoming the largest terror financi prosecution in the entire history of the DOJ. It shut down the Holy Land Foundation in North Texas. During the last year or two of the Bushministration, CARE What'sworth was named an unindicted co conspirator in that

particular case. So why is every Red state not doing this? Why is every Red state not listing the Brotherhood not listing care as terrorist oranizations. There is no conceivable reason not to do this when we're talking here about the main themistate show, which is foreign influence in the United States, foreign influence on the American right, foreign influence trying to sow the seeds of discord and try to rile us up.

In general, there just anti American bull crap. There is no more important starting place than Katar and their Islamus lackeys in the muz Brotherhood. That is ground zero unless you're willing to get your hands dirty and to crack

down the brothod. Unless you want to give your hands dirty and to shine a spotlighte if you on Musk on the extent to which these are Brotherhood afiliated accounts boosting Funtees and Tucker and all this stuff, unless you're willing to get your hands dirty and to call out frauds like Rob Smith for copying and pasting Katari supplied pr press releases for your all expenses and probably a

nice check as well, boondoggle Doha. Unless you want to get your hands a ready there, this problem will continue. You have to understand when your civilization is to know

you're up against. If you understand properly that Western civilization is the biblical inheritance of the two biblical religions Christianitian Judaism, then you understand that Islam is incompatible and that radical Islam, the types of the types of the like switch which are peddled and propagated by Katar and the Muslim brotherhood Lackeys, that is definitely incompatible, period, full stop, end of story.

So don't be afraid to call out the frauds, and don't be afraid to shine a spotlight on the influence operations on the frauds.

she kind of fizzled out. Jasmine Crockett thinking a very strong play to be the backbencher of the idiot caucus there in the far left of the House Democratic Caucus. And this is her latest bits. Go ahead and check out this dooozy.

you should even seriously engage these arguments. You know, some of these folks in the left have a modicum of intellectual seriousness. I mean, I don't think Bill and Hillary Clinton are dumb people. I don't think Rokahanna is a dumb person. I don't even think Gavin Newsom is probably a particularly dumb person. But that Jasmine Crockett, I mean, she probably got one too many swirly back in elementary school. Her brain food is getting flushed down the toilets on that.

I I mean, how dumb can you be? First of all, the case against reparations. I can't believe we even having this discussion still. You know, years after Black Lives Matter was ousted as a horrifically grifting Marxist subjugationist organization.

down through some generations. But even in the Bible it says that past a few generations, you will not hold anyone responsible for their grandfather's since So, even taking that at face value, we are now one hundred and sixty years since General Lee's surrender to General Grant and Atmas Courthouse in Virginia and warrinked about reparations.

His failing wasn't here. His failing was not here back during the Civil War or the slavery period that preceded it. So there's no practical way to do this. It's also morally egregious. It is morally egregious to try to racially divide in this horrific fashion. In the year twenty twenty five, America did pay its debt in the form of eradicating slavery. That debt took the form of the United States Civil War. It took the form of a conflict that was baked

in from the start. It was bound to happen. The framers probably frankly knew this was bound to happen, if you ask all of them with some truth serum. The conflict happened a few generations after the founding generation, and it was ugly, It was brutal, it was terrible, Well over six hundred thousand slain brother fighting against brother, horrific, awful stuff. That is the reparation, That is the toll that was paid to eradicate the horrific moral evil of

chattel slavery in this country. To start divving up by race now in the year twenty five, to start trying to tax certain people according to a certain way based on your skin color, is egregious. It's morally offensive. And again it is a talking point of hacks and morons, which frankly is what Jasmine Crockett is, you know, on a recent epsiode of the show, we're talking a little bit about how there are some green shoots, some early signs that the left might be sobering a little bit

when it comes to the climate change catastrophism conversation. Well, if this is any indication, I mean Krockett trying to run for state with office in a red state and she's doubling down on the race obsession. If this is any indication, then they are going the wrong wrong way really really quickly. Yet again when it comes to race. So even even Republicans lose a politically beneficial winning issue on the climate change stuff, they're still going to be

able to have the correct position on race. And the correct position on race just means that you actually believe that all men are created equal, that you actually believe in equal protection, that you actually believe, as Martin Luther King Junior famously said, that you judge all of us not by the color of our skin, but by the

content of our character. It's not radical claims. They are the basic moral intuitions that can be formed about our fellow humanity, rooted in the biblical truth of Genesis, Chapter one, verse twenty seven, that we are all made in the divine image of God. But for now, Desmon Crockett is just a total Looney Tunes nutbag. She is not going to win. Stay wet, Austin, Texas. I can pretty much guarantee you that. So we had this orgament yesterday at

the Uspreme Court as well. Final note for today's show. This argument that we talked about a great length on yesterday's show, Trump versus Slaughter, pertains to whether or not the president has the ability to fire for cause or not for a cause commissioners of what are known as so called independent agencies. This case pertains to the FTC

the Federal Trade Commission. There have been similar legalist peach thus far in the first year of the Trump administration when it comes to the National Labor Relations Board and

various other agencies as well. On yesterday's show, I argued that this is going to be a pretty straightforward victory for the Trump administration when it comes to the bread and butter assertion that the executive power of Article two of the Constitution clearly vests the ability to make all personal decisions, all hiring and firing decisions within the executive branch, and the corollary the similar claim to that is that when it comes to so called independent agencies, that that

is an oxymoron. There's actually no such thing. You're either in Article one the Congress. You're either in Article two the Executive Branch. You're either in Article three the Digital Branch, or you're not anywhere.

totally unconstitutional. You can't do it enough. Looking at the tea leaves of yesterday's orl or arguments, it does seem to me that this is going to end up being a resounding victory for the trominstration. You had all the usual suspects you had Katanji Brown, Jackson, Sonya semyor the usual liberal ladies who are questioning about whether or not we're going to junk this nine year old president known as Humphrey Executor.

full stop, end of story. There are the civil service statues from the late nineteenth century that's a little more complicated, but at least when it comes to the top ranking commissioner administrative brass, there will be no for cause removals that are constitutionally permissible. It is the president's call. Some folks say that you're in power, worrying the president. It's a tyranny.

and we elect the presidents, not them. Again, the good news is that the justices seem to very much agree with my legal analysis, which you would have heard essay on Josh amershow, and that's also a failiar mind to folks to make sure to like and subscribe to our show if you have not already done so, We appreciate that five so review, drop a comment, let us know how we're doing. Make sure to watch the show on YouTube if you're not already doing so, over on Newsweek's

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