USA designates antifa tech infrastructure as terrorists | Hour 1

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Islamists, as well as some black pilling people on the right as well. And I don't really care about what the reason is for their demoralization, like their specific reasons, doesn't matter to me. Whether they really believe America is structurally, institutionally, inherently, you know, racist or homophobic or transphobic or Islamophobic or whatever. Like, I don't care what your rationale is. All I care about is that you are engaged in in a psychological operation against me and my fellow Americans to demoralize us and to make us think that our country is not worth protecting, saving, fixing, reforming, improving, right? It's just for us to give up and give you power so you can do the thing that you want to do. And like I said, there are different groups that have different ideas about what would come after, like what would. They like to implement. And they'll fight it out amongst each other, I'm sure, at some point if they're successful in the revolution. But I don't care to see the revolution, nor do I care to see what might follow. Because, again, I don't believe that any of those prescriptions are better than what we've got going for us now. That is not to say everything is perfect. It is not to say everything is even good. There are a lot of aspects in American governance and in American life that are not good. And we should we should work to fix those. And by work to fix them, I mean, you know, do something more than just complain on a Facebook post or tweet or on the radio. Right. So the idea is you identify a problem so then you can work to fix that problem. And if you're not interested in doing any of the work to address the problem, well, then. The value of your criticism is sort of limited. Right. In my view, and I recognize this about myself, too. Like I cover a lot of things here. I try to offer solutions because you know me, I am all about solutions. And so I try to offer solutions and whatnot. If I talk to people, I will ask them questions that maybe put something in their mind about a potential solution. I don't like, I'm not out there trying to organize rallies though. I don't feel like that's, that's my job to organize people. However, if stuff that I'm discussing is, is of interest to you and you would like to organize, I would definitely help you in your efforts. If it's something that I agree with, I'll definitely promote that effort. So I do these stories and these topics, a lot of them, to push back on the demoralization ops that we are getting from all different angles. And I always say and have been saying for a while that when you get online, you are in an informational battle space. It is warfare, the smokeless war, as the Chinese call it. This is propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, psychological warfare to make Americans think that what we have is not worth fighting for, not worth protecting. We should abandon it. We should surrender dominance or control or both to other countries that are far better at managing war their people and the world. And, you know, they got the right answers. And so just give it all over to them. Lay down our burden, everybody. All Americans, just lay down our burden and let somebody else take control. That's what they would like because they want the control. So if we just surrender it, then it's way less costly for them to achieve that control, that dominance, right? It's pretty obvious to me It's not obvious, apparently, to a not small part of the American public and a larger proportion of people online, apparently. So here is the latest story, latest example of what you get with a Republican government versus a. Democrat government, okay? Yesterday. the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, announced the designation of Autistici Inventati. They listed them, they designated them as a specially designated global terrorist. The name of the organization is called Autistici Slash Inventati. And I looked it up. So it's Italian, and if you translate it, it translates to autistic slash invented. That's what it stands for. A slash I. Autistici inventati. The AI collective, this is not artificial intelligence, it's autistic invented collective. AI, A slash I, collective. But I'm going to call it AI, but I don't want you to be confused here that I'm talking about artificial intelligence, okay? although I think they probably do use some AI because it's, well, you'll hear what they do. The AI Collective. It is an Italy-based extremist group that builds and operates the digital infrastructure for violent Antifa cells and other far-left militants across the world. So I'm going to take a beat here. Pause. Can you think of a single Democrat that would do this. Can you, I mean, I'm not even saying one that could be president. I'm just, I'm just thinking any Democrat. Can you think of a single Democrat politician or even a single Democrat voter that would support this? I like they've been telling us Antifa is just an idea, right? They've been denying the existence, the actual existence of this organization, saying it's not an organization. There's no structure. There are no officers. This is what you get when you have a Republican government, right? These are the things that Republican politicians would look to do, and Democrat politicians would not. So, ergo, if you think that this is something— that is worth having, you think this is something worthwhile for the government to do, to go after the tech bros that are helping to organize, propagandize militant actions of the far left across the globe, well, then I think there's a clear difference, right, between the Democrats and Republicans on this, on this issue. There is a difference. And it's just something you should probably keep in mind. 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I mean, it makes sense, them being named autistic, that they would provide a spectrum of services. But anyway, including encrypted chats and e-mails, web hosting, secure video conferencing and streaming, anonymity shields, and a suite of other technological tools. And they provide all of this to Marxist, anarchist, and other left-wing extremist groups in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere. These tools are specifically designed to support the operations of far-left terrorist networks built to enable them to organize, recruit, communicate, disseminate propaganda, share targeting information and tactics, carry out violent attacks, you know, all the peaceful stuff, all while remaining anonymous, untraceable, and beyond the reach of the law. The AI Collective exclusively offers its tools and services to radical left-wing actors and manually vets all potential users for ideological affinity before granting them access to its infrastructure. although I'm starting to suspect that their vetting process might not have been 100%, considering that the. State Department knows of what they do, right? The group has become a key node in a transnational campaign by violent and criminal far-left networks to destabilize the United States and its partners across Europe, the Western Hemisphere, and beyond. It currently claims to host roughly 16,000 mailboxes, 1,500 websites, 5,500 mailing lists, and 10,000 blogs on its custom-built platform, which militants frequently use to disseminate target information, tactical manuals and techniques, as well as communiques about recent attacks. That's a word we should bring back, by the way. I feel like we should be using the word communique more often, right? It just sounds classier. As a result of today's actions, the State Department announced all property and interests in the property of, or sorry, interests in property of the designated entity are subject to U.S. Jurisdiction. Those are now blocked, and all U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with them. Think about what that means. All of these Antifa groups, all these leftist organizations, and not a small number of radical Islamic ones, any of these groups that are using AI collective tools, you are now prohibited from doing so. And if you do so, well, then you open yourself up to civil and criminal penalties. fines, imprisonment, depending on the nature of what you're doing. So there was a bit of a hilarious downstream effect of this. Anybody who spends any time on Twitter, formerly known as X, I think they're also maybe on the TikTok. I am not on the TikTok because that is ChaiCom propaganda channel. And data collection, data mining. And for the life of me, I still do not understand why Trump is ignoring the law that Congress passed to make TikTok divest, but it's a different issue. Kind of related, but every time I mention TikTok, I feel the need to point that out. He should follow the law. Congress should make him follow the law. Somebody should make him follow the law here. But anyway, there's a couple of left-wing Bernie bros named the Krasensteins. There's Brian Krasenstein, and then there's another one, I forget his name, I don't really care, but there are two of these guys, they're brothers, and when this story was, or when the press release first went out yesterday afternoon about this action against the AI Collective, Brian Krasenstein tweeted out, hey everybody, make sure you donate to help them fight this, you gotta donate to them, which then a a government official inside the U.S. State Department posted in response to him saying, dude, basically that's a federal crime. You should not be telling people to get themselves in trouble for donating money. When that guy posted, alerted krassenstein this is a federal crime you know you should talk to a lawyer not this moron and krassenstein then responded just donated and for some reason he then deleted the tweets i guess a lawyer did get in touch with him or he spoke with one and said who would have advised him you are advocating for people to give material support to a terrorist organization That is a big-time no-no. Like, you can go to federal prison for quite a while. So he deleted the tweets, but the internet is forever. So if we get nothing else out of this, a Krasenstein being arrested, once again, something that would not happen under a Democrat administration, right? Not that that's my only barometer for success here, but it is one of them to see a Krasenstein arrested. Arrested. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. But, I mean, look, if you're going to tell people to donate to a designated terrorist organization, then, yeah, like you should. And you're doing it on social media. We all saw you do it. Maybe he'll claim, oh, it was just a joke. I was just having a laugh. Yeah, no. No, we know why you were doing it. You wanted to rally support for this collective that's participating in the revolution. And you are of the revolution. So you want them to be successful. It's going to hurt you. It's going to hurt your organizations. And they've listed some in the State Department press release. You'll never guess. You'll never guess who's using the AI collective infrastructure and tools. Okay, you probably will guess. The Portland Rose City Antifa. They're big users. Jane's Revenge. Remember the pro-abortion crowd that, like, firebombed a pregnancy crisis center. Those folks, they're using it. And some, quote, media outlets that work with Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, you know, usual suspects there. I know, who would have. It's always the people you most suspect, you know? And yes, in case anybody was interested... this is what I voted for. Going after Antifa, labeling them global terrorists because they are, that is something that I very much supported. Didn't think I'd ever see it. The designation is part of a broader U.S. government effort to address the threat of transnational far-left terrorism. And if you've been listening to this show, you knew that Marco Rubio convened world leaders from Western countries to talk about the threat of left-wing violence. And that was, what, a month or so ago? And so this is part of the measures being taken by the Trump administration to combat the rise of left-wing violence. And the AI Collective provides encrypted tools and services to various violent far-left extremist groups operating in America, but also around the world. Many of them have relied on the AI collective's digital infrastructure to plot or incite violent attacks. Also, to recruit others to engage in criminal activity, publish official communiques by U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations, as well as disseminate maps of critical infrastructure, along with instructions for building IEDs. All routed through a network of foreign servers intended to conceal criminal activity from law enforcement. So some of the groups associated with the AI collective, the anarchist cells responsible for sabotaging rail systems across France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands this year. The anarchist cell responsible for sabotaging... the Transalpine Pipeline in March, which temporarily halted crude oil flows to Austria, Germany, and Czech Republic. The far-left extremist network responsible for multiple arson attacks and acts of sabotage against Germany's rail and energy infrastructure between 2011 and 2026. including this year's attack on Berlin's power grid that cut power to 45,000 households and left one person dead. So this is a 15-year campaign in Germany from these far-left groups. And then there's a far-left extremist media group that's unnamed here, but it relies on AI collective tools. and services to publish official communiques and calls to action for U.S. designated foreign terrorist organizations such as Armed Proletarian Justice, Informal Anarchist Federation and International Revolutionary Front, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, yeah, the IRGC, Hamas, Hezbollah, National Liberation Army, New People's Army, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense. Also, Oregon-based Rose City Antifa. And they used it to plan and carry out an attack on Customs and Border Patrol helicopters with lasers. That led to a federal indictment. They've also used the platform to disseminate doxing lists to release illegally obtained personal information of ICE officers, along with calls for targeted attacks on ICE agents in the streets and in their homes. Remember when they published the doxing list and everybody was outraged? Well, most rational, sane people were outraged And I heard from a lot of people who were like, when are the arrests? Where are the arrests, right? And I understand the demand for action. However, in our system, right, you have to build the case in order to make the charges stick. And so building the case, and now they've designated them as a terrorist organization, and that now means they can't fundraise. They can't do business. They can't bank. They cannot do any banking because those banks then would get sanctioned or people imprisoned. So these things do take some bit of time, particularly the legal proceedings. Also affiliated with the AI Collective Tools, the anarchist cell responsible for waging a violent campaign to prevent the construction of a law enforcement training center in Atlanta, Georgia. This was Cop City. Remember that? AI Collective, they provided the infrastructure, the tech tools for Cop City protesters, the Antifa crowd, to do that. Also, as I mentioned, Jane's Revenge. who waged a firebombing campaign against crisis pregnancy centers across America. They relied on AI collective tools and services to publish propaganda and the like. Four members of that group were charged for violating federal law and engaging in a conspiracy against rights through threats of force and intimidation. That is all from the State Department's press release. Now, but wait, there's more. The United States also. Designated Palestine Action as a terrorist group. The action comes after Marco Rubio last month told officials from 60 countries that Washington would look to refocus international counterterrorism efforts on what he called far-left terror. The conference sparked Democrat concerns that the Trump administration is politicizing counterterrorism efforts and diverting resources from other extremist threats. See, again, You would not be seeing any of this that I have covered. You would not be seeing this in a Democrat administration of any kind. Democrats do not believe this is even a thing. They don't even acknowledge that this is real. They don't believe Antifa is real. You can show them videos of people dressed in black block in coordinated fashion in rallies around the country on the same day, same time, same messaging. printed signs, engaging in obvious coordinated militant activities, and they still deny the reality. And when Rubio held this conference, Democrats were like. Oh, let's not overreach here. You're going to, oh my gosh, we have free speech and all of this. Yeah, when you're providing the technological infrastructure for far left groups, organizations and some Islamist ones to wage war and to target people and facilities, right? To engage in terrorism. Like, yeah, no, you've crossed the line then. Democrats would not do this. All right, so what if I got an idea? Because again, all about solutions. What if you're running an organization that and you just happen to be engaging in some light treason, let's say, or maybe some terrorism. Maybe you're helping some terrorist organizations, right? And all of a sudden, boom, out of nowhere, the State Department and Treasury Department, they label you as a special global, you're designated as a global terrorist organization now too. Darn it. Now you got to shut down, right? Or, or hear me out. I'm just, just spitballing here. If you are Palestine action that just got designated as a terrorist organization, you change your name. Huh? Hmm. Now you're not Palestine action anymore, right? So you're like a whole different organization. Now you're not a terrorist organization anymore. Isn't that amazing? Although Wikipedia immediately updated their page. Like I saw the press release come down and I typed it in. I was like, Palestine Action, what is this group? And pulls up the Wikipedia page and it says, Unity of Fields. That's their new name. Unity of Fields. Unity of Fields. The co-founder of Palestine Action— oh, by the way, just not for nothing, Palestine Action has already been banned in Britain for being a terrorist organization. Okay? So now the U.S. Has done the same, and the founder, co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Amori— said the group's activities, quote, have always been about saving lives by disrupting the Israeli war machine. It's about saving lives, don't you see? The U.S. Treasury Department also imposed sanctions on the transnational group Masar Badil, saying that it operates as a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or the PFLP, or as I call it, the PFLP. The latter group had already been designated by the U.S. as a foreign terrorist organization. So, Palestine Action, they're going to rename themselves, a bit of a rebrand, refresh, if you will. That should totally do the trick. But also, now we're going to transition, so we're going to rename ourselves, and we're going to transition to militancy. Because that's how you save lives, don't you know? So like October 7th, that was about saving lives, right? Palestine Action, this is what they posted, now under the new name of Unity of Fields. Palestine Action, U.S., is not over, but our platforms are transforming into Unity of Fields, an anti-imperialist propaganda front. So just in case you were wondering, are they really propagandists? Yes, they say so. Right there. An anti-imperialist propaganda front. They're acknowledging that they are engaging in propaganda and that they are a front group. Look out for our original reporting and propaganda coming soon. I almost wonder, you keep using that word, propaganda, but I don't think you know what it means. In the meantime, you can submit actions, reports, and analysis to this email. And then they give the email address. Capitalist platforms will always censor revolutionary ideas. We must build our own means of media production. We have already been censored by X, Meta, and expect to be again soon. Follow our Telegram channel and save our email to stay in touch. And then they posted. as part of their toolkit, Unity of Fields opening up a new front. We are transitioning Palestine Action U.S. into what it has become through necessity, a militant front against the U.S.-NATO-Zionist axis of imperialism. There's another word, I'm not sure you know what that means, the imperialism. I'm not aware, like, do you know how many times, like, we have, like, America has gone into other nations and fought wars? It's been a lot, right? America's been to a lot of wars since our founding, right? We generally, like, for the most part, like, we didn't colonize Europe. Did we like, we didn't take all of the land. We were like, we're going to set up some bases here to protect you guys. Cause you can't protect yourself. So we're going to set up some bases here, but like, we're not running your countries. If we were like, do you think Spain would be doing what it's doing right now? Do you think the UK? I mean like, anyway, like, so this idea that we are like that the U S is going everywhere and colonizing everywhere. And that we're some Imperial power. Like, We would prefer you guys just run your own shop, you know? And just don't be crazy. Just engage in trade. Be peaceful with your neighbors and us, right? Just be normal. Just be normal. And that's always been the offer to Iran in all of this. If you guys would just not act crazy, right? But they can't because they are actually imperialists. And this is one of the tricks that the left does is they invert imperialism. They reverse victim and offender. That's part of Darvo. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them, too, and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to the Pete Kaliner show dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening and don't break anything while I'm gone.