Mike Jensen

Balkan Training Camps Reflect Moscow’s Expanding Definition of War Executive Summary: A recent joint investigation by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and Moldovan outlet CU SENS confirmed that Moscow had established secret paramilitary camps in the ...

There are reports that Russia has training camps preparing individuals to carry out sabotage operations targeting Moldova
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With Sharepoint attack attributed to the PRC, PRC influence operations try to deflect blame onto the US instead
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Russian strategic aims are incompatible with the continued existence of Ukraine -- nothing has changed Putin's ambitions of erasing Ukraine

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James Madison:
“No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value … than that the proportion of representation ought to bear some relation to the population.”
And
“The right of the people to choose their representatives is the primary basis of our republicanism”

Chinese woman becomes third person charged under Australia's foreign interference laws A Chinese citizen has been charged under Australia’s foreign interference laws for allegedly collecting information about an Australian Buddhist association

Chinese woman becomes third person charged under Australia's foreign interference laws for allegedly collecting information on Buddhists in Australia

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

3/ Russian intelligence services appear to be reassessing and possibly innovating their sabotage operations in Europe.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Lieutenant General Anatoliy Kryvonozhko as the Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force on August 3.

Espionage costs Australia more than $12.5 billion a year: ASIO shows us the receipts | The Strategist Spying by nation states is not new, and despite our geography, Australia has never been immune. This was made abundantly clear in a unique study, released last night by Director-General of Security Mi...

Espionage costs Australia $12.5 billion a year
www.aspistrategist.org.au/espionage-co...

Jutel argues that Disinfo Studies is rooted in a NatSec-administrative paradigm and reflects a broader historical struggle in communications theory. That framing may be worth examining, but flattening the entire field into a proxy for state power skips a lot of nuance.

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

Clinton was under investigation by the FBI for using a private email server and the DNC didn't trust the FBI with their servers after the hack. As Durham's appendix notes (p. 15), it isn't remotely credible that the Clinton campaign would have sought to enlist the help of the FBI to launder a story

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Russian and PRC coordinated influence operations don't just undermine American soft power, they threaten societal cohesion and America's alliances -- which have indirect and direct consequences for the projection of hard power
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Trump fires labor statistics chief after large revision to jobs report Trump orders firing of Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after release of large revisions to employment data

There's a risk now that businesses might start to doubt economic reports which could cause systemic caution, further slowing economic growth. Political authorities have political motives to represent economic data favorably, independent civil servants do not. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The TL/DR from a 2020 report: "To manage escalation
during crises, stop tweeting."
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FBI Helped Clinton Campaign Orchestrate Russia Collusion Hoax To Distract From Email Investigation, Newly Declassified Intelligence Suggests Appendix to Durham Report reveals that intelligence on "Clinton Plan" to frame Trump as controlled by Russia was deemed credible by CIA

The FBI, who was investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails, helped Hillary orchestrate a collusion hoax to distract from their investigation.

That’s what Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag (twitter handle “galexybrane”) want you to believe.

Ostensibly, someone has done some analysis on what it would take to deprive Russia of resources sufficient for their war effort and what it would take for Europe and the US to become sufficiently reliable partners to offset Russia's partners.

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds.

Then the harassment began.

Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.

Six credible threats to his life.

More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:

Rather disappointing to see QAnonAnonymous hosting Olivier Jutel, who seriously cites Kit Klarenberg, Max Blumenthal, and Alan MacLeod's nonsense about Bellingcat in his academic work on counter-disinformation.
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The United States and China are in a race. Who is winning? The US is at risk of losing the race mainly because it is shooting itself not just in the foot, but in the head.

The US is at risk of losing the competition with China — mainly because of what it is doing to itself. On science, technology, research, and immigration, the Trump administration is shooting itself not just in the foot, but in the head. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...

ASIO disrupted 24 'major' espionage operations in three years, spy chief reveals Australia's top domestic spy chief Mike Burgess has used a speech to give his most detailed account yet of the scale of the threat of foreign interference.

Foreign interference and espionage on the rise in Australia, costing the country over $12 billion a year.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Britain ready to fight over Taiwan says Defence Secretary Britain's Defence Secretary has stated that the UK is prepared to fight in the Indo-Pacific if necessary.

UK willing to defend Taiwan in the event of war and fight alongside Australia

ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-read...

North Korean hackers target open-source repositories in new espionage campaign In its latest operation, Lazarus took advantage of major gaps in the open-source software supply chain — like developers depending on unvetted packages and the lack of oversight for popular tools that...

North Korean hackers who have traditionally been linked to financial crimes like cryptocurrency heists have seemingly added espionage and obtaining covert access to critical infrastructure as a priority therecord.media/north-korean...

Safety of JN.1-Updated mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines This cohort study investigates the association between booster vaccinations containing the JN.1 lineage and 29 serious adverse events in Denmark.

Here you go Vinay.

"In this nationwide cohort study, no increased risk of 29 adverse events was observed after vaccination with the updated COVID-19 mRNA vaccine containing the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron JN.1 lineage in approximately 1 million adults. "

This is one way of bringing the war home to ordinary Russians

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Trump will allow Ukrainian refugees to stay in the US until the war is over, — AP

Apparently there was a huge earthquake in Russia tomorrow that may cause a tsunami in Hawaii today.

1. Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel want everyone to think the so-called Steele Dossier was a major source for the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. No, it wasn’t — an assessment of the “dossier” was included as an annex, which they haven’t released. Why?

This is what democracy looks like

Starmer is thinking what we are thinking and what most of the world is thinking.