Ronald Reagan once said on a bitter cold January morning outside the White House “if the Pilgrims had landed in the west coast, the east coast would still be uninhabited”.
- I wish we had more advance warning for these types of segments. 1 hour notice is tough to schedule around
- When you say at 6:00pm, I assume you mean EST? For some of us out here in the blue state of Ca., it’s not 100% obvious.
- Is there a place where all of these types of segments get posted and are easily accessed for subscribers? Example, about 6 months ago you had a 2 on 2 debate (in Michigan) where you guys wiped the floor versus the other two, but I had no idea where to access it, and I’m frankly not industrious enough to scour YouTube. If there was an easy place to access this stuff, it would be great.
- Peeps like me fly a lot. I live America this week. Is it download-able (Spotify, iTunes, Rumble) so I can download and listen on a plane, which is basically the one time I have downtime (aka right now).
That's a good point, there could be an archive. Tomorrow there's gonna be another Deep State thing and we'll forget what Matt Tabbi was explaining in the Tuesday Livestream.
Similar to in the mosh pit where you try to slam the guy who got you when he comes around again, but then someone else hits you into another quanta.
KFJC at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills records everything so it's available to download the following day. There's even a song list and it's all timed.
We'd be able to go back to the soup du jour and say, "see, this is what Walter Kern said was gonna happen, . . two years ago he was saying so".
That's interesting, I graduated from Monta Vista in Cupertino back when it was hard. My GPA was 1.9, which I reckon is equivalent to a 4-point-something nowadays. They go higher than 4 now, hahahaha!
Los Altos had a good tennis team, but that's about it. Fairly pedestrian from what I remember. jk lol
Somebody famous went to Los Altos. Was it Wozniak? Steve Jobs went to Homestead or maybe he transferred to Los Altos.
~ Matt: 5 years ago, when a fraternity brother, in response to a FB post of mine asking to 'release the memo' tagged me on an NPR story "Russian Bots Are Spreading False Information After The Florida Shooting", chiding me w/"Russian Bots are working to divide America". I started digging: a Medium story, datafordemocracy & the securingdemocracy.org site. This were my responses (pretty prescient I'd say)- "NPR cites a researcher (but doesn't name him, why not?) at New Knowledge. It's a start up that "defends online communities from social media manipulation". Interesting. Only 1846 followers on Twitter = weak audience, i.e. not influential. started around Nov 2017, cool charts, cites news stories. Their method is Community Discovery, Language Analysis, & Security. "help your team respond to disinformation campaigns". Probably could be used against truthful Memes as well, right? depends on your definition of disinformation. Morgan goes on to say that Trump's FB page, conservative Tweeters, and Breitbart's comment section shared top Words that were Novel "strongly suggests that the sentences were written by a single author, or a group of authors working from a shared messaging playbook." That's where his argument FAILS. Words that a group of political commenters share that gains weight & meaning among them helps define group identity & cohesion. To suggest that like-minded posters, tweeters, or commenters using the same Words in a political contest Ipso Facto means they came from the same place is a logical Fallacy. Morgan goes on to say "It is difficult to know exactly which accounts are bots and which are not, but there are some telltale signs, specifically that an account posts messages that are exact copies of messages that they, or other users, already published, or that are identical" This is called re-tweeting, ha! ANYWAY, here's he proof of BOTS: "Using these criteria (exact or identical copies of messages), there were at least several thousand bots operating in conservative Twitter communities in 2016. 1,314 of them posted at least one tweet that had exactly identical content to four or more other tweets (not including retweets) in the dataset." The article goes on for quite a while after that with lots of charts, graphs and assertions about BOTS and word propagation based on his "Word Algorithms". I call BS. He's guessing. He's using Word frequencies to claim nefarious association and claims he knows they were propagated by BOTS (automated accounts) without showing PROOF of the Vector (origination). I expected him to say that they found IP addresses where multiple Twitter accounts are based, commenters who were based from the same computer, or FB accounts traced to the same organization. I thought New Knowledge could "trace" similar posts back to the same point of origin, or Vector. I would find that type of information credible and believable. "Word Algorithms" I do not. Funny words shared by friends that crack us up are real. This is uneducated guesswork. I don't believe it."
~ Thanks, what's frustrating is that a number of my fraternity brothers from days gone by have stultified, tribal political views that are immune to proof. Scott Adams (who says some brilliant things & some kooky things) said once: Most people act on emotions when it comes to politics, not reason. But I'll keep presenting what I find out (especially about the first amendment) until the weight of evidence moves them. Or they block me. ~
Matt, our tax money is wasted all the time. But if they are going to waste it, at least let them produce more the animated show with "The Chairman." Hilarious!
I wish they'd spend all their time doing this for us to watch on YouTube than the more directly nefarious aspects of their jobs.
Do you think if we all start watching it over and over on autoplay it will convince them that it is popular?
Wow, I'm reading the graphic novel from CISA's website and The Chairman says "Relax. We're the good guys!"
Also, sorry to spoil the ending folks, but the last frame of the story our female heroine gets the award for "Best Newcomer" from the "National Journalism Awards".
Surreal. The graphic novel was so apropos to the bazaarness of it all. 6 views and all six are probably you 🤣Thank you Matt. Thank goodness there are still people like you and Michael and Alex and Elon doing this work. “Fuck them. Fuck them all”
Matt, don't worry too awful much about how good you are at this-- you seem to be on the right track. I can see it's hard to make clear sense out of complex subjects, especially when you're improvising. As someone who is an amateur jazz musician highly interested in improvisation, I can attest that practice is in fact, the path to take, especially when what you are practicing is improvisation.
Strzok and Page along with Clinesmith were part of this group getting the fisa warrant on Carter page. Clinesmith got a slap on the wrist for changing the fisa letter to make the Carter Page a spy, when in reality he had worked for the cia. The fbi wanted to spy on him and all he had contact with, since he had signed up to help with the Trump campaign. It was their way of spying on the Trump roundtable. Strzok went onto the Mueller investigation after this. What a joke since he and Page were reprimanded for their disparaging biased remarks about Trump. It was obvious that their bias would taint any investigation, but crickets. You are right about the elite kgb operation CTIL is another octopus arm to be reckoned with, especially because it’s a proxy game. The fantasy world of Russia, Russia, Russia was bad enough. Now the bots are real in their corner. Dang!
This Matias Desmond speech speaks directly to the subject of propaganda and public manipulation. I was tempted to abandon reading this about halfway through. But I found the second half to be revelatory in offering optimism, hope, and a practical way forward.
I'm tempted to put on my tinfoil hat and say the same actors created such a large number of these organizations in order to deliberately create confusion. (Side benefit: more sources to suck government money.)
I can see how someone coming on this video without being familiar with your prior work would be completely at sea.
We need a poster diagramming all these organizations and the people involved in them. If I had a spare wall, I would have one of those police-procedural arrangements with photos and strings and pushpins.
FLY FREE MATT, You are outstanding on your own in these video clips.
Please maybe connect with Whitney Webb whom wrote about CTI League few years ago on Unlimited Hangout. Also Ray McGovern calls it the MICIMAT--includes all under one umbrella. Military media etc re censorship
To those grumping about time location etc: rewind & replay work quite fine, I’m already subscribed to Racket News on YT so I saw it & easily wound it back to the beginning while live. It’s still available. Matt does need to set up a parallel account on Rumble etc as backup
Regarding your comment that staffers will not talk to journalists; it really is not a problem. I recall a story in Washington Post early in Trump administration about Russians hacking a Vermont power supplier. Story had two journalists on by-line. Turns out neither journalist called power supplier to see if story was true. A simple phone call would have killed story. How come the editors allowed such shoddy work into the publication? Apparently journalists are lazy and willing to make up shit as they go along. Why talk to an expert if they might contradict your propaganda? That story for me was storm clouds on horizon moment.
I subscribe to you Matt because your are a true journalist.
I am of firm belief that the Russia narrative started by Ms. Clinton is completely responsible for war in Ukraine. Diplomatic outreach would have prevented this war but Mr. Biden was trapped by the Democrats and media narrative of evil Russia. Blood is on their hands as well.
The warring HAS to continue though, because the entire economy is a Ponzi Scheme. The wars MUST expand, because more "money" needs to be created this year than what they printed last year. Next year they'll have to print $4 trillion dollars more than Revenue, because this year is $2 1/2 trillion dollars over "Budget".
As soon as they attempt to reign in the Deficit Spending, the "Economy" will throw a rod or the timing belt will break. When Trump reduced the Deficit Spending down to $700 billion dollars in 2019, the Overnight Reverse Repo Market froze up in October
What's scary to me is that once the fascism gets to the point we are now, the walls close in very quickly.
Usurp the Rule of Law is Step 10 of Naomi Wolf's '10 Steps To Fascism'. and here we are at the 1st Amendment all gone, Hell's bells.
Would you please add which time zone to your announcement. Thankfully not all of us live on the east coast.
Ronald Reagan once said on a bitter cold January morning outside the White House “if the Pilgrims had landed in the west coast, the east coast would still be uninhabited”.
You can pop on the link and see the countdown - and be notified by YT
Great! @matt a few comments, take FWIW.
- I wish we had more advance warning for these types of segments. 1 hour notice is tough to schedule around
- When you say at 6:00pm, I assume you mean EST? For some of us out here in the blue state of Ca., it’s not 100% obvious.
- Is there a place where all of these types of segments get posted and are easily accessed for subscribers? Example, about 6 months ago you had a 2 on 2 debate (in Michigan) where you guys wiped the floor versus the other two, but I had no idea where to access it, and I’m frankly not industrious enough to scour YouTube. If there was an easy place to access this stuff, it would be great.
- Peeps like me fly a lot. I live America this week. Is it download-able (Spotify, iTunes, Rumble) so I can download and listen on a plane, which is basically the one time I have downtime (aka right now).
That's a good point, there could be an archive. Tomorrow there's gonna be another Deep State thing and we'll forget what Matt Tabbi was explaining in the Tuesday Livestream.
Similar to in the mosh pit where you try to slam the guy who got you when he comes around again, but then someone else hits you into another quanta.
KFJC at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills records everything so it's available to download the following day. There's even a song list and it's all timed.
We'd be able to go back to the soup du jour and say, "see, this is what Walter Kern said was gonna happen, . . two years ago he was saying so".
KFJC - small world, I’m a Los Altos High grad.
That's interesting, I graduated from Monta Vista in Cupertino back when it was hard. My GPA was 1.9, which I reckon is equivalent to a 4-point-something nowadays. They go higher than 4 now, hahahaha!
Los Altos had a good tennis team, but that's about it. Fairly pedestrian from what I remember. jk lol
Somebody famous went to Los Altos. Was it Wozniak? Steve Jobs went to Homestead or maybe he transferred to Los Altos.
For what it's worth, if you miss the livestream, it's still accessible (taped) at the same link.
Yeah, I always watch them after the fact. I don't really see the big whoop in watching it live.
Thank you Matt for your courage and your generosity for the human race.
Thanks Matt, You are a guiding light in the World. ❤️🙏❤️
~ Matt: 5 years ago, when a fraternity brother, in response to a FB post of mine asking to 'release the memo' tagged me on an NPR story "Russian Bots Are Spreading False Information After The Florida Shooting", chiding me w/"Russian Bots are working to divide America". I started digging: a Medium story, datafordemocracy & the securingdemocracy.org site. This were my responses (pretty prescient I'd say)- "NPR cites a researcher (but doesn't name him, why not?) at New Knowledge. It's a start up that "defends online communities from social media manipulation". Interesting. Only 1846 followers on Twitter = weak audience, i.e. not influential. started around Nov 2017, cool charts, cites news stories. Their method is Community Discovery, Language Analysis, & Security. "help your team respond to disinformation campaigns". Probably could be used against truthful Memes as well, right? depends on your definition of disinformation. Morgan goes on to say that Trump's FB page, conservative Tweeters, and Breitbart's comment section shared top Words that were Novel "strongly suggests that the sentences were written by a single author, or a group of authors working from a shared messaging playbook." That's where his argument FAILS. Words that a group of political commenters share that gains weight & meaning among them helps define group identity & cohesion. To suggest that like-minded posters, tweeters, or commenters using the same Words in a political contest Ipso Facto means they came from the same place is a logical Fallacy. Morgan goes on to say "It is difficult to know exactly which accounts are bots and which are not, but there are some telltale signs, specifically that an account posts messages that are exact copies of messages that they, or other users, already published, or that are identical" This is called re-tweeting, ha! ANYWAY, here's he proof of BOTS: "Using these criteria (exact or identical copies of messages), there were at least several thousand bots operating in conservative Twitter communities in 2016. 1,314 of them posted at least one tweet that had exactly identical content to four or more other tweets (not including retweets) in the dataset." The article goes on for quite a while after that with lots of charts, graphs and assertions about BOTS and word propagation based on his "Word Algorithms". I call BS. He's guessing. He's using Word frequencies to claim nefarious association and claims he knows they were propagated by BOTS (automated accounts) without showing PROOF of the Vector (origination). I expected him to say that they found IP addresses where multiple Twitter accounts are based, commenters who were based from the same computer, or FB accounts traced to the same organization. I thought New Knowledge could "trace" similar posts back to the same point of origin, or Vector. I would find that type of information credible and believable. "Word Algorithms" I do not. Funny words shared by friends that crack us up are real. This is uneducated guesswork. I don't believe it."
Pretty good analysis.
~ Thanks, what's frustrating is that a number of my fraternity brothers from days gone by have stultified, tribal political views that are immune to proof. Scott Adams (who says some brilliant things & some kooky things) said once: Most people act on emotions when it comes to politics, not reason. But I'll keep presenting what I find out (especially about the first amendment) until the weight of evidence moves them. Or they block me. ~
Matt, our tax money is wasted all the time. But if they are going to waste it, at least let them produce more the animated show with "The Chairman." Hilarious!
I wish they'd spend all their time doing this for us to watch on YouTube than the more directly nefarious aspects of their jobs.
Do you think if we all start watching it over and over on autoplay it will convince them that it is popular?
Wow, I'm reading the graphic novel from CISA's website and The Chairman says "Relax. We're the good guys!"
Also, sorry to spoil the ending folks, but the last frame of the story our female heroine gets the award for "Best Newcomer" from the "National Journalism Awards".
Ha! What a punchline.
Surreal. The graphic novel was so apropos to the bazaarness of it all. 6 views and all six are probably you 🤣Thank you Matt. Thank goodness there are still people like you and Michael and Alex and Elon doing this work. “Fuck them. Fuck them all”
Matt, don't worry too awful much about how good you are at this-- you seem to be on the right track. I can see it's hard to make clear sense out of complex subjects, especially when you're improvising. As someone who is an amateur jazz musician highly interested in improvisation, I can attest that practice is in fact, the path to take, especially when what you are practicing is improvisation.
Strzok and Page along with Clinesmith were part of this group getting the fisa warrant on Carter page. Clinesmith got a slap on the wrist for changing the fisa letter to make the Carter Page a spy, when in reality he had worked for the cia. The fbi wanted to spy on him and all he had contact with, since he had signed up to help with the Trump campaign. It was their way of spying on the Trump roundtable. Strzok went onto the Mueller investigation after this. What a joke since he and Page were reprimanded for their disparaging biased remarks about Trump. It was obvious that their bias would taint any investigation, but crickets. You are right about the elite kgb operation CTIL is another octopus arm to be reckoned with, especially because it’s a proxy game. The fantasy world of Russia, Russia, Russia was bad enough. Now the bots are real in their corner. Dang!
This Matias Desmond speech speaks directly to the subject of propaganda and public manipulation. I was tempted to abandon reading this about halfway through. But I found the second half to be revelatory in offering optimism, hope, and a practical way forward.
https://mattiasdesmet.substack.com/p/my-speech-in-the-parliament-of-romania
I'm tempted to put on my tinfoil hat and say the same actors created such a large number of these organizations in order to deliberately create confusion. (Side benefit: more sources to suck government money.)
I can see how someone coming on this video without being familiar with your prior work would be completely at sea.
We need a poster diagramming all these organizations and the people involved in them. If I had a spare wall, I would have one of those police-procedural arrangements with photos and strings and pushpins.
FLY FREE MATT, You are outstanding on your own in these video clips.
Please maybe connect with Whitney Webb whom wrote about CTI League few years ago on Unlimited Hangout. Also Ray McGovern calls it the MICIMAT--includes all under one umbrella. Military media etc re censorship
To those grumping about time location etc: rewind & replay work quite fine, I’m already subscribed to Racket News on YT so I saw it & easily wound it back to the beginning while live. It’s still available. Matt does need to set up a parallel account on Rumble etc as backup
Regarding your comment that staffers will not talk to journalists; it really is not a problem. I recall a story in Washington Post early in Trump administration about Russians hacking a Vermont power supplier. Story had two journalists on by-line. Turns out neither journalist called power supplier to see if story was true. A simple phone call would have killed story. How come the editors allowed such shoddy work into the publication? Apparently journalists are lazy and willing to make up shit as they go along. Why talk to an expert if they might contradict your propaganda? That story for me was storm clouds on horizon moment.
I subscribe to you Matt because your are a true journalist.
Jim
I am of firm belief that the Russia narrative started by Ms. Clinton is completely responsible for war in Ukraine. Diplomatic outreach would have prevented this war but Mr. Biden was trapped by the Democrats and media narrative of evil Russia. Blood is on their hands as well.
Jim
The warring HAS to continue though, because the entire economy is a Ponzi Scheme. The wars MUST expand, because more "money" needs to be created this year than what they printed last year. Next year they'll have to print $4 trillion dollars more than Revenue, because this year is $2 1/2 trillion dollars over "Budget".
As soon as they attempt to reign in the Deficit Spending, the "Economy" will throw a rod or the timing belt will break. When Trump reduced the Deficit Spending down to $700 billion dollars in 2019, the Overnight Reverse Repo Market froze up in October
What's scary to me is that once the fascism gets to the point we are now, the walls close in very quickly.
Usurp the Rule of Law is Step 10 of Naomi Wolf's '10 Steps To Fascism'. and here we are at the 1st Amendment all gone, Hell's bells.