Being in California I have seen plaques from the native sons of the golden west and thought nothing about them at the Burlingame train station. They seemed like a benign fraternity but if you dig a little deeper into their history you realize they were like California's KKK chapter against the Japanese. They really hated the Japanese and wanted to expel them from California as if the Japanese were vermin in the early 20th century. Native sons of the golden west go way back into the 1800's and their anti-japanese stance existed at the moment it seems that Japanese immigrants arrived in the late 1800's. They wanted to end birth right citizenship for Japanese Americans who were born in America. This echoes today with Republicans questioning birth right citizenship and considering getting rid of it. The hostilities towards Japanese immigrants resonants today with the attack on the newly arrived Latinx immigrants. The zenophobia is always an old trope that seems to never end with the advent of white nativism. Things do not bode well with the possiblity of repatriation of children from immigrant families where whole families will be deported. It probably is best that the children go with their parents and are not separated but it is a drastic response rooted in xenophobia and the white replacement theory. During the 30's there was mass deportation of Mexican immigrants and their children. The deportation of Mexican-American citizens is strange. Repatriation is strange. The economy is not a zero sum game even though it may seem that way with the stock market at times that you have to make losers to make winners in a stock trade. The economy is a dynamic countervailing system with lots of inputs and seemingly chaotic in nature at times given of recent past with the unprecedented pandemic but the economy demands for immigrant labor and it is what keeps the whole system going. The waves of immigration from the 1800's of Chinese and Japanese and Latinx and Italian and Jewish and Irish make what America is, a nation of immigrants. And this seems counter to the vision of white nativist who want to create a white ethnostate eliminating minorities. That is what the native sons of the golden west wanted for California.
Knowing how to pivot is important in OSINT it seems and to go from a wide scope to a narrower scope. Pivot charts are useful to collect information of results from selectors, each pivot being a resultant node of information. Going from a wide search to a narrower search is like the goldilock's effect, a little too wide and you lose focus but too focused you can lose out on other wider details. All sources state that methdology trumps tools and the focus early on in an OSINT career is to develop your methodology like knowing how to pivot and knowing the intelligence cycle. Being nimble and flexible in your search queries is important to hone your searches using Google as a primary tool to locate information. You just have to Google it. You Google to find tools like websites that facilitate investigations. It seems that Rae Baker, the author of Deep Dive into OSINT, is adept at using Google to serve her needs though she stresses the importance of methodology. Cynthia Hetherington of ...
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