A year after its censorship programs were exposed, the Global Engagement Center still insists the public has no right to know how it's spending taxpayer money
The movement into the Dept. of Homeland Security of some of these entities also gives them cover.
Tucker Carlson interview with Mike Benz on 2/16 : "The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. “What I’m describing is military rule,” says Mike Benz. “It’s the inversion of democracy.”"
It's really good, but I think it would be too much at once if I hadn't been on the Taibbi boards since MT released the Twitter Files. I felt smart as none of Benz' rapid-fire went over my head due to the patient careful delineation MT has laid out over months here at Racket News.
I felt the same way. Matt and Michael's strong work on the Twitter files was good prep for Benz. Largely a monologue with Tucker mostly silent. Tucker said he needed a nap at the end, as in was tired out by the scope of Benz's insights. It sure seems like World War III is upon us, not with kinetics, but an information world war. Freedom of Speech vs The Blob. And The Blob is global in scope.
I'm not shocked by the details of how the Borg operates. I've known most of the factual stuff he presented. I was shocked at what a cogent presentation he made (he doesn't seem to breathe, or stammer). This guy is out of the blue for me, and I thought I had a pretty good grasp on who's who in the Alt world. That said, Imma be careful and will look into him. Won't Get Fooled Again. Be careful Mr. Benz.
Yes his presentation was remarkable; smooth, coherent, logical. Part of me kept thinking it was A.I. generated. Maybe it was the weird shiny bluish hue that seemed to emanate off of him. Then I figured A.I. isn’t that good. Yet.
I listened to the one hour plus interview of Mike Benz, and if you haven’t, it is absolutely worth listening to! The man is deeply knowledgeable about the “deep state” and I’m amazed he’s still around to talk about it!!
Even though it mostly confirmed what I thought was happening, having Benz lay out the pure evil that is going on under our noses made me sick to my stomach. My father spent years working at one of the 3 letter agencies and if he had any idea what they have morphed into, he would be horrified.
That was one of the main reasons I voted for Obama. I believed he would repeal that act (Patriot) and he resigned it in shortly after he took office. In fact he did everything he said he wouldn't do.
The fact that you believed him is astonishing. He has always been one of those people where it is easy to detect he is lying: his lips are moving. Have you kept your own doctor and your old health plan? There are so many examples it is scary. One of the few people who is 100% lying 100% of the time.
When he was running for president I had no reason to not believe him. It's funny how on social media it always becomes a personal insult. This subject is Obama, not me. But I'm glad I was able to provide some astonishment for you this morning. You're welcome.
Did not mean it as an insult, personal or not. His track record long before he was running for president was just the same. It was more to illustrate how the media's representation of anyone is virtually always wrong. But it was easy to see if one looked. Sadly, most of us, especially 15 years ago, did not realize we needed to look.
Don't feel bad. Many of us were hoodwinked by Obama in 2008 but then woke up and did not vote for him again in 2012. Live and learn. Now, I don't believe our votes even matter anymore. I am sure that was always true to some extent, but I am more aware of the corrupt uniparty system that gives us the illusion of choice.
I must confess when I first heard about the Patriot Act and the close ties the Bushies had with CIA I dismissed it. It sounded like these are things being done to help, not hurt us. The intervening years have yanked me out of the Matrix so I have a much better understanding the true agenda behind it all. Of course, I'm more depressed than ever to learn what we're up against, but I'd never take ignorance over reality.
I agree, anyone who read his(Obama) books knew what “Fundamental Change “meant. To say you didn’t have any reason NOT TO BELIEVE HIM, did not look into him as a candidate. Citizen voters have gotten lazy when vetting potential candidates. Listen, learn and validate what you are being told! Doubt everything!Our country depends on it! 🇺🇸
Obama would joke about how he would get praised for saying empty platitudes. People wanted to believe him so they embellished his commented to mean whatever they wanted the comments to mean. He got away with this because most of the press adored him.
Obama got away with it because Americans were exhausted from the Bush-Cheney wild west rodeo and Republican rule in general, Obama appeared to be something fresh and not something out of a bad, unreleased John Ford horror movie, however politically anodyne was he, Obama, and he appealed to a large subsection of American voters---Democrats and Republicans alike---who are perpetual political neophytes and in general are suckers for pink ponies and greeting card slogans that promise both hope and salvation, preferably simultaneously.
Well said. I love Adolph Reed's take on Obama that he wrote in 1996:
“In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program — the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance. I suspect that his ilk is the wave of the future in U.S. black politics, as in Haiti and wherever else the International Monetary Fund has sway. So far the black activist response hasn’t been up to the challenge. We have to do better.”
They've owned every candidate in every presidential election except Trump since probably Reagan. And they own a lot of the congresscritters the same way...
No. This is wrong. The test of any good system is to hand it over to your enemies and if they cannot break it then it is a good system.
Our systems are corrupted. That's like having a computer that's been hacked. Changing the user of the computer won't fix the corruption. We need to fix the system itself.
Our systems are corrupted. We need to build new ones. Transparent ones. Decentralized ones. Trustworthy ones. Like this:
I'm a computer software engineer and that all sounded like nonsense to me. There is no such perfect system as that post wants to make out. Any system can be gamed and corrupted. The simplest systems are the best because they are simple: voting by paper ballot, hand counted is as perfect as you can get.
The rest is fully dependent on people of good faith working for the benefit of society. What we have now is "greed is good" and bad faith liars running everything into the ground. Until we reject greed and get back to basic decency and honesty no "system" will save us.
You are a software engineer? And you don't understand simple concepts like decentralization and transparency in systems?
The idea that a marker of a good system is that your enemies cannot corrupt it is made by Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan, two of the greatest thinkers in technology today.
Your idea to change culture to "people of good faith" is the real nonsense here. There will always be bad guys. Do you lock your doors? Have a password on your computer? Have a firewall? Hide your money in a bank?
You solve this with better systems, not better people.
Look at Bitcoin for example. Show where it has been corrupted or hacked or counterfeited. It hasn't because even when you turn it over to your enemies they have not been able to corrupt it. That is a good system.
Paper ballots were gamed in the last election. We need multiple transparent systems. Parallel systems.
Your are pretty afraid of technology for someone who claims to make a living off designing it.
"Your are pretty afraid of technology for someone who claims to make a living off designing it."
Perhaps instead of dismissing my thoughts you should consider them a bit more deeply then. There is no system more transparent than paper balloting but again, it depends on how it's implemented (mail-in ballots with no id verification is ripe for cheating, obviously). I'm in support of transparency. There is arguably nothing that man creates that is less transparent than computer code and systems.
"The idea that a marker of a good system is that your enemies cannot corrupt it is made by Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan, two of the greatest thinkers in technology today."
There isn't a system man can devise that can't be corrupted. Some are easier to corrupt and simple systems with transparent and clear incentives are more difficult to game. But there is nothing that can fully protect against bad faith actors and when the west started preaching that sins like greed are actually good, and that PR and marketing (manipulation and distortion) can be true solutions to problems, the fish started rotting from the head down.
The only thing stopping us from turning completely into a third-world shithole where you have to bribe the guy at the DMV to get your license or get your internet connection fixed is the basic moral good faith of the average American. The elites are, for many reasons and none, attempting to devalue and destroy our moral foundations. That is where the focus of dissident effort should be in my opinion: exposing the moral bankruptcy of the power elite and demanding a return to the basic moral virtues our society represented at its best in the past. Honesty. Forthrightness. Good faith and fair dealing. Virtue over cynicism. It's not that difficult. Of course you'll never rid society of all bad faith and immorality but that's not the goal. It's for the general trend of our principles to be moving in a good direction: a return to free speech values, equality, etc.
Our mainstream institutions have become thoroughly corrupted with hubristic utopian delusions and they justify lying, manipulating and misusing our legal and law enforcement institutions for partisan gain in service to those delusions. They freely lie to the people about vital facts constantly. They even lie to themselves in their fanatical zeal. Against such perversion the only response is to stand with integrity and honest opposition, and to call out this behavior as what it is and demand a return to the basic moral virtues.
The need to decentralize was recognized by our founders when they created "a Republic if you can keep it". We need to keep it. I'd settle for a few hundred successful prosecutions of existing senior civil servants from the ranks of the DoJ, EPA, and CDC, coupled with an elimination of the "Chevron" doctrine (government stooges bearing 2- and 3-letter credentials are presumed to be both honest and technically right;) the revocation of all federal grants to cities and counties; the elimination of the current double jeopardy where those found innocent of crimes are subsequently tried on "denial of civil rights" charges; personnel reductions of 30% across the constellation of federal agencies and commissions; and such other measures as needed to strengthen the states at the expense of the federal government thereby clarifying the responsibility for failures of local and state governments. Such measures could also include eliminating the extensive gulag of federal detention facilities. If the federal government needs jails, force it to use state and local facilities in the region in which the crime was committed.
Brilliant. I have been saying for years that we CAN accomplish this by the creation of COMPETING FEDERAL AGENCIES. The WINNER gets to survive. If we add this dynamic, that after a period of time, COMPETITION is introduced, we MAY be able to create an environment where Government is FORCED to behave a little more like the natural BUSINESS world.
They've been passing a lot of unconstitutional, lobbyist-written laws unjustly rewarding certain people or corporations that have to be scrubbed asap. Also, rules that are enforced as laws imposed by unelected bureaucrats infesting the EPA, CDC, and other three-letter agencies need to be reviewed by the legislature and formalized or tossed as warranted. Civil Asset Forfeiture policies (when a government seizes your property without charging you with a crime or providing due process) need to be COMPLETELY ELIMINATED.
After reading about some cases regarding CAF I’m dumbfounded by how a policy with this much overreaching power could have possibly been enacted without any oversight. My guess is that another group of unelected bureaucrats in the bowels of our government slowly rubbing their hands together deciding this would be awesome besides, no one is watching.
It's a grift introduced during the Reagan administration under the guise of seizing the ill-gotten gains of nefarious drug lords who evade court justice. Bullshit. They just want our stuff, and because they don't charge you with a crime, you don't get a criminal court hearing. You have to sue them in civil court, which is expensive and usually sides with the government. Some municipalities use it to steal your property. Say you mistakenly underpay your local taxes. Instead of notifying you of your mistake, they sell off your your home to the highest bidder (another evil industry) and keep ALL of the money--not just what you "owed." Happening all over the country, yet not much media coverage. Disgraceful.
I agree. But we're not going to vote our way out of this rot. Prepare for some serious turbulence, followed by a noticeably more austere (but fairer) societal experience.
Wrong question, Jenny Stokes, it's how are WE going to do this. It's not one man or woman, it's all of us (62-73% RCP) who feel the direction of this country is on the wrong track.
I think that horse has left the barn. The gov’t effectively already has turned on about half the citizens in our country. And are now giving us the middle finger when we start asking questions. Seems Obama did a whole lotta shady stuff on his way out. Kinda looks to me like he embedded a couple hundred poison pills to sabotage Trump and keep control of the bureaucracy after leaving office. He neuters Trump with fake scandals and then he gets the ‘Weekend at Bernie’s” mannequin and installs his cronies like Rice and Blinkin and Klain to keep legacy going. Diabolical and disgusting. His vision of transforming the country is playing out before our eyes. How’s that going?
Yes, but bear in mind that these problems stem from a deeply entrenched mafia-like leviathan organization comprised of numerous unelected bureaucratic officials and enormously wealthy private individuals and corporations. It's a big club -- and not only ain't we in it, but we have no means to dislodge or disrupt it through electoral or other "democratic" processes. People need to understand that our government is being used as simply the legitimizing arm of the real power structure that remains in control regardless of who we vote for.
If anyone doubts the depth of the corruption I highly recommend visiting the Marco Polo site where they have assembled a telephone size analysis of Hunter and the gang's crimes. I have given several to friends .
The site also has a downloadable pdf of the report in which there are seemingly thousands of clickable links to the source document, picture or email.
There is also a searchable collection of 130,000 emails although some correspondence between Hunter and his attorneys seems to have been removed. https://bidenlaptopemails.com/. In the first of the followup emails from Burisma they express an interest in "how you can use YOUR influence to benefit their objectives. Clearly YOUR influence refers to the Biden family.
Money flows in large amounts and the next thing we see is Joe Biden spiking the ball in the endzone on TV claiming credit for getting the prosecutor fired.
There's also the discussion of the spilt of the profits from one of the influence peddling operations. 10% Jim Biden, 20% Hunter Biden 10 % Held by Hunter for the "Big Guy.".......
I think 70% of the country understands that the Bidens are a crime family . However what people do not understand is the vast collection of attorney/lobbyists around DC. Names like Freeh, Boies and others with immense access into virtually ever agency.
In another deal Hunter and gang are called upon to support an insider deal to allow JP Morgan to obtain a $2.4 BILLION dollar tax credit by getting a lot of folks from Barney Frank to IRS and others . It's the perfect bank robbery in that there is no cash missing from the vault. Only $2.4 BILLION that will never arrive. The source information is a number of emails on Hunter's computer
I don't think not voting accomplishes anything. Not voting for Democrats or Republicans might not accomplish anything either, but that's my choice. I refuse to just not show up.
It's time to expunge the rot that is festering deep within, and add a regulation that those found not upholding their oath of office will be punished with a long-term prison sentence. That pretty much would eradicate 80% of the evil doers.
Just like everyone else Jenny. You invest time, effort and money getting conservatives elected to Congress. You stay on their tail, hounding them to hold the fort. You threaten withdrawal if they don’t; and you watch as most turn into puppets of the leaders for their next campaign funds. This may not stop the assault, but it adds a backstop that impedes their momentum. Congress may hold the purse strings but the Pres has the institutions, the regulations, the power of imposition and muscle to control all aspects of commerce. You submit comments on each FR notice of proposed rulemaking, support opposition organizations and friendly press. You work your state legislature the same way. You call out bills meant to appease their donor, join or support the groups that hold them on course. You understand that the lesser magistrates need to know they have the power. They control the cities and counties. They can stop sustainable development and rampant crime. They need to hear from you.
You maintain a 'never relent and never give in' attitude. Thus, you hold your head high during the collapse because you acted to the best of your ability while others stood by and ‘hoped’.
HOW? I'm going with Kennedy. A) He's a fighter B) He's not your typical politician C) He's intelligent D) He's knowledgeable about the very thing we're discussing here. Read his books to corroborate.
Let me get this straight. You want to shackle Israel because of "crimes"?
There is a horrible cancer descending on humanity in the form of Islam. If you don't think they are coming for every non-muslim sooner or later, you are not paying attention. Israel understands the cancer and is willing to confront and defeat it. It's not going to be pretty and they are not going to be saints about it, but they will ward off the evil for everyone's benefit. If you don't let that happen, Israel's "crimes" will be the least of anyone's worries. Mohammed wants you dead. He says so openly and regularly. Pay attention.
I dunno. I hate his fervent unilateral defense of Israeli crimes. But nobody will get elected this cycle by bashing Israel. I'm sorry that's just a fact. I'm down with him on most others issues. We never get the President we want and need for a 1000 reasons.
I favor an immediate cease fire BTW. You can call me NUTZ, swear at me, insult me, whatever floats your boat. That doesn't mean I'm not going to vote for him.
I’ll agree w ur points and add a few. He’s been a big government democrat who’s seen the answers to most problems in government being more government and the chances of a 3rd party candidate actually being elected are remote. Having said this, he inspires hope and I’ll vote for him. I don’t expect any politician to make promises that he’ll always keep and I don’t have to agree w all his positions to vote for him.
RFK Jr is a big-government democrat (which is not a recommendation to me) and he is arrogantly anti-nuclear, which is a huge mistake. I agree with some of his views--Ukraine, the takeover of government by agencies and lobbyists--but on balance, no.
Probably Rand Paul, but he's not running and wouldn't have a chance. So I'll end up voting against the worst choice, whoever the Dems put up--that is, against whoever the Dems put up. How about you?
We need to fix our systems. We need a trustworthy place to go and debate, problem solve, and error correct. These systems of government and 3 letter agencies are all captured.
Our systems are corrupted. We need to build new ones. Transparent ones. Decentralized ones. Trustworthy ones. Like this:
Americans are a somewhat 'bland' people BUT having seen this and other happenings in US History I would not like to be a Senator of Congressperson when the US has had enough.
02/17/24: We're now in the THIRD DECADE of people robo-parroting the accusative (character-assassinating) phrase, "conspiracy theorist."
Highly recommended: "How I Accidentally Joined The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy," Harry Stein [1948- ]; Delacorte Press [Random House] (2000 hardcover).
(Imagine trying to get Random House --- or whatever sliver of corporate sh*t title that it is now today as some publishing Goliath's "Jawoh!" subsidiary ---to publish this same book today.)
The CIA invented the term to attack Warren Report disbelievers. You're just plain nuts if you don't believe sanctified government explanations. But we know they always lie, obfuscate, omit and cover up. George Carlin was so right.
I'm tempted to go through the whole exposition on C.T., but the short form: it's a substitute for actual argument, and really amounts, almost always, to "I've got nothing but name-calling."
Makes me nuts.
Exception: Greenwald has used it for Russiagate, where it actually makes sense: an elaborate fiction about a non-existent conspiracy. And he doesn't stop with name-calling, but makes a case.
The CIA operation Mongoose was a disinformation/propaganda operation formed in 1960 to counter the same from the Soviets. This was outed in 1975 by the Church Committee. The following year, newly installed CIA director George Bush, admitted to paying reporters to place government propaganda pieces in various media outlets. He said the CIA would stop paying them, but hoped the partnership would continue. It did.
And Obama made it legal just prior to leaving office by signing the Smith-Mund Act which for the first time ? first time since? allowed for government propaganda to be used on the citizens of the USA.
Buy/read this one first, which is superior to the title above: "I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next To A Republican," A Survival Guide... Harry Stein [1948- ]; Encounter Books (2009 hardcover)
02/18/24: Buy/read this one first, which is superior to the title above: "I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next To A Republican," A Survival Guide... Harry Stein [1948- ]; Encounter Books (2009 hardcover)
BLINKEN is turning out to be one of the biggest skunks in the Biden Administration....everything from thwarting the Hunter Biden laptop investigation - putting together the letter of 51 former CIA officials who lied about the veracity of the laptop's ownership (51 more skunks)...to his double-dealing in the Ukraine.....That said, BRENNAN is outright evil...
Actually, Blinken was one i knew was bad news when Biden first nominated him for SOS. (And Sullivan.) Once i saw those two it was like, oh fuck, he's got the warhawks in there. And if there was any doubt, all you had to do was look at where they were slumming in between Democrats during the Trump years.
This line from the letter struck me especially: "...the Department had determined that public release of this information could jeopardize the GEC's programs and/or *cause harm to the Department's implementing partners*."
I assume by "implementing partners" they're talking about these NGOs in the burgeoning disinformation industry?
For the most part I don't see why government money paid to outside agencies should not be transparent.
Democracy is dying in plain sight and in the light of day. The darkness is in the hearts of those who believe they are "the chosen people' with a right to rule over us as they see fit.
02/17/24: "Democracy" is Fani Willis's "justification" (on the witness stand no less!) for looting the public state treasury of Georgia and spending it on her Eunuch-Lawyer Lover and their all-expenses-paid trips to vacation resorts, etc.
If you enable one party rule in the cities, as the Ds have essentially done, it’s not shocking that lackey’s without opposition-Willis-will use even the lawfare machinations of said party as an opportunity for self enrichment. This is the first time I have seen actual D politicians ( as opposed to media lackeys like MSNBC, Maddow, Scarborough, etc. ) use TDS as an excuse for petty personal corruption. The Deep State has gone beyond Orwellian, it has come to an HL Mencken criticism worthy level of pettiness and embarrassment .
Fani Willis is merely the first one to publicly admit it (and only under pointless panic/duress, when it's too late for her to yak her way out of the fix she put herself in). Ask $20,000,000/year CNN media whore Anderson Cooper what happens to his salary when the looting ends.
Thank you--this is such an important article!!! My father worked at the Pentagon with Fritz Kraemer and also admired him. My mother told me that in a conversation with Kraemer he indicated she was right to have doubts about the Vietnam War (this was 1968 - 1970). Significantly he broke with Kissinger and never spoke to him again.
And yet Congress controls the purse strings. Why not just threaten to cut off the related funding for the State Department? The answer is clear... Congress is filled full of hacks that like the spending... because it goes into the pockets of them and their friends. Can we all agree that sweeping these hacks out of office is the only remedy?
That seems a bit antidermatitic to me. I do agree that money seems to be the motivating factor for most of our national politicians. That and power... which of course they want to convert to money.
I keep using the example of Lizard Cheney having a net worth of $6 million when elected, and $46 million eight years later when Trump fired her.
I'm not sure that's an accurate statement. It's not that they've never been audited. It's that they can't pass one. The Pentagon has failed to pass an audit for the sixth year in a row. But sure, let's keep borrowing money to fund it all.
Matt, as I read this, I was shaking my head. Then I got to the end and had a ruefull laugh that you did the same thing. Jesus! What next?? The balls these people have!
I had to look it up (SMH). Assumed at first that it was just another one of those mind-numbing acronyms whose purpose is to keep us ordinary Americans befuddled and cowed. Like Social Mystification Hub or something.
Honestly, as far as I can see, America was really terrified on 911. I know that it was a terrifying and beyond heartbreaking day to me. To get a little poetical I would say, History decided that it would let me know, and people all over the world, that we had misjudge Her and that she was going to let us know they we were misguided. Seriously taking our reality for granted. In a way it took me 2 years to recover emotionally and my sheltered view of humanity has never been and will never be restored. With this admission I also have to say that we Americans over-reacted. The patriot act was the start of all these problems we are facing today. We the people need to take back some of our rights and protections from our own government, especially the secrecy obsessed people that are no longer so well meaning, but have become self-serving. God Lord, it won’t be easy, not an easy struggle at all, but we have no one to blame but ourselves for over-reacting. Time to work hard and restore American citizens to their rightful place in the LAW.
The movement into the Dept. of Homeland Security of some of these entities also gives them cover.
Tucker Carlson interview with Mike Benz on 2/16 : "The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. “What I’m describing is military rule,” says Mike Benz. “It’s the inversion of democracy.”"
Posted a link. Seemed more important than the Putin interview, but will be roundly ignored by State Media.
See Mike Benz's: foundationforfreedomonline.com
Yep, have wrestled putting together isolated facts. Knew it but didn't KNOW it. Now I do.
Link please.
https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-the-national-security-state-the-inversion-of-democracy/
If that’s behind a pay wall go to Sasha Stone’s Substack. She posts all his twitter links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRYSKaS-XtQ
Just about to listen to that one next..
It's really good, but I think it would be too much at once if I hadn't been on the Taibbi boards since MT released the Twitter Files. I felt smart as none of Benz' rapid-fire went over my head due to the patient careful delineation MT has laid out over months here at Racket News.
I felt the same way. Matt and Michael's strong work on the Twitter files was good prep for Benz. Largely a monologue with Tucker mostly silent. Tucker said he needed a nap at the end, as in was tired out by the scope of Benz's insights. It sure seems like World War III is upon us, not with kinetics, but an information world war. Freedom of Speech vs The Blob. And The Blob is global in scope.
I'm not shocked by the details of how the Borg operates. I've known most of the factual stuff he presented. I was shocked at what a cogent presentation he made (he doesn't seem to breathe, or stammer). This guy is out of the blue for me, and I thought I had a pretty good grasp on who's who in the Alt world. That said, Imma be careful and will look into him. Won't Get Fooled Again. Be careful Mr. Benz.
Yes his presentation was remarkable; smooth, coherent, logical. Part of me kept thinking it was A.I. generated. Maybe it was the weird shiny bluish hue that seemed to emanate off of him. Then I figured A.I. isn’t that good. Yet.
You know this guy is working at a different altitude when he says things like "The fundamental nature of war has changed....."
Bingo. This interview lays it all out
I listened to the one hour plus interview of Mike Benz, and if you haven’t, it is absolutely worth listening to! The man is deeply knowledgeable about the “deep state” and I’m amazed he’s still around to talk about it!!
Even though it mostly confirmed what I thought was happening, having Benz lay out the pure evil that is going on under our noses made me sick to my stomach. My father spent years working at one of the 3 letter agencies and if he had any idea what they have morphed into, he would be horrified.
When the government turns on it's own citizens, its time to change the government
Let me rephrase your comment: "When the government turns on it's own citizens, its time to change out the people who run our government."
That won't be enough. Unconstitutional laws like the Patriot Act and FISA have to go, as does most of the gigantic bureaucracy in Washington.
That was one of the main reasons I voted for Obama. I believed he would repeal that act (Patriot) and he resigned it in shortly after he took office. In fact he did everything he said he wouldn't do.
The fact that you believed him is astonishing. He has always been one of those people where it is easy to detect he is lying: his lips are moving. Have you kept your own doctor and your old health plan? There are so many examples it is scary. One of the few people who is 100% lying 100% of the time.
When he was running for president I had no reason to not believe him. It's funny how on social media it always becomes a personal insult. This subject is Obama, not me. But I'm glad I was able to provide some astonishment for you this morning. You're welcome.
Did not mean it as an insult, personal or not. His track record long before he was running for president was just the same. It was more to illustrate how the media's representation of anyone is virtually always wrong. But it was easy to see if one looked. Sadly, most of us, especially 15 years ago, did not realize we needed to look.
Don't feel bad. Many of us were hoodwinked by Obama in 2008 but then woke up and did not vote for him again in 2012. Live and learn. Now, I don't believe our votes even matter anymore. I am sure that was always true to some extent, but I am more aware of the corrupt uniparty system that gives us the illusion of choice.
I must confess when I first heard about the Patriot Act and the close ties the Bushies had with CIA I dismissed it. It sounded like these are things being done to help, not hurt us. The intervening years have yanked me out of the Matrix so I have a much better understanding the true agenda behind it all. Of course, I'm more depressed than ever to learn what we're up against, but I'd never take ignorance over reality.
I agree, anyone who read his(Obama) books knew what “Fundamental Change “meant. To say you didn’t have any reason NOT TO BELIEVE HIM, did not look into him as a candidate. Citizen voters have gotten lazy when vetting potential candidates. Listen, learn and validate what you are being told! Doubt everything!Our country depends on it! 🇺🇸
Obama would joke about how he would get praised for saying empty platitudes. People wanted to believe him so they embellished his commented to mean whatever they wanted the comments to mean. He got away with this because most of the press adored him.
Obama got away with it because Americans were exhausted from the Bush-Cheney wild west rodeo and Republican rule in general, Obama appeared to be something fresh and not something out of a bad, unreleased John Ford horror movie, however politically anodyne was he, Obama, and he appealed to a large subsection of American voters---Democrats and Republicans alike---who are perpetual political neophytes and in general are suckers for pink ponies and greeting card slogans that promise both hope and salvation, preferably simultaneously.
Well said. I love Adolph Reed's take on Obama that he wrote in 1996:
“In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program — the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance. I suspect that his ilk is the wave of the future in U.S. black politics, as in Haiti and wherever else the International Monetary Fund has sway. So far the black activist response hasn’t been up to the challenge. We have to do better.”
The alternative was McStain and he would have strengthened the unpatriot act. The cia owned both the candidates in that election
They've owned every candidate in every presidential election except Trump since probably Reagan. And they own a lot of the congresscritters the same way...
I called his presidency "Bush's third term".
No. This is wrong. The test of any good system is to hand it over to your enemies and if they cannot break it then it is a good system.
Our systems are corrupted. That's like having a computer that's been hacked. Changing the user of the computer won't fix the corruption. We need to fix the system itself.
Our systems are corrupted. We need to build new ones. Transparent ones. Decentralized ones. Trustworthy ones. Like this:
https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/how-to-fix-corrupt-government-in?r=7oa9d&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
I went on this site today because some other person had commented.
I am 75yrs old and could understand nothing except for the 'anonymous' bit.
I would like to say that a huge number of us are of an older age. BUT we are being seriously overlooked in this age of computers.
Many of us would like to have a 'say in things' because ultimately it is our grandkids that are going to deal with the fallout.
I'm a computer software engineer and that all sounded like nonsense to me. There is no such perfect system as that post wants to make out. Any system can be gamed and corrupted. The simplest systems are the best because they are simple: voting by paper ballot, hand counted is as perfect as you can get.
The rest is fully dependent on people of good faith working for the benefit of society. What we have now is "greed is good" and bad faith liars running everything into the ground. Until we reject greed and get back to basic decency and honesty no "system" will save us.
You are a software engineer? And you don't understand simple concepts like decentralization and transparency in systems?
The idea that a marker of a good system is that your enemies cannot corrupt it is made by Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan, two of the greatest thinkers in technology today.
Your idea to change culture to "people of good faith" is the real nonsense here. There will always be bad guys. Do you lock your doors? Have a password on your computer? Have a firewall? Hide your money in a bank?
You solve this with better systems, not better people.
Look at Bitcoin for example. Show where it has been corrupted or hacked or counterfeited. It hasn't because even when you turn it over to your enemies they have not been able to corrupt it. That is a good system.
Paper ballots were gamed in the last election. We need multiple transparent systems. Parallel systems.
Your are pretty afraid of technology for someone who claims to make a living off designing it.
"Your are pretty afraid of technology for someone who claims to make a living off designing it."
Perhaps instead of dismissing my thoughts you should consider them a bit more deeply then. There is no system more transparent than paper balloting but again, it depends on how it's implemented (mail-in ballots with no id verification is ripe for cheating, obviously). I'm in support of transparency. There is arguably nothing that man creates that is less transparent than computer code and systems.
"The idea that a marker of a good system is that your enemies cannot corrupt it is made by Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan, two of the greatest thinkers in technology today."
There isn't a system man can devise that can't be corrupted. Some are easier to corrupt and simple systems with transparent and clear incentives are more difficult to game. But there is nothing that can fully protect against bad faith actors and when the west started preaching that sins like greed are actually good, and that PR and marketing (manipulation and distortion) can be true solutions to problems, the fish started rotting from the head down.
The only thing stopping us from turning completely into a third-world shithole where you have to bribe the guy at the DMV to get your license or get your internet connection fixed is the basic moral good faith of the average American. The elites are, for many reasons and none, attempting to devalue and destroy our moral foundations. That is where the focus of dissident effort should be in my opinion: exposing the moral bankruptcy of the power elite and demanding a return to the basic moral virtues our society represented at its best in the past. Honesty. Forthrightness. Good faith and fair dealing. Virtue over cynicism. It's not that difficult. Of course you'll never rid society of all bad faith and immorality but that's not the goal. It's for the general trend of our principles to be moving in a good direction: a return to free speech values, equality, etc.
Our mainstream institutions have become thoroughly corrupted with hubristic utopian delusions and they justify lying, manipulating and misusing our legal and law enforcement institutions for partisan gain in service to those delusions. They freely lie to the people about vital facts constantly. They even lie to themselves in their fanatical zeal. Against such perversion the only response is to stand with integrity and honest opposition, and to call out this behavior as what it is and demand a return to the basic moral virtues.
Jenny, the bad people are using technology to control us. We can use it to free ourselves.
Yes I understand.
The need to decentralize was recognized by our founders when they created "a Republic if you can keep it". We need to keep it. I'd settle for a few hundred successful prosecutions of existing senior civil servants from the ranks of the DoJ, EPA, and CDC, coupled with an elimination of the "Chevron" doctrine (government stooges bearing 2- and 3-letter credentials are presumed to be both honest and technically right;) the revocation of all federal grants to cities and counties; the elimination of the current double jeopardy where those found innocent of crimes are subsequently tried on "denial of civil rights" charges; personnel reductions of 30% across the constellation of federal agencies and commissions; and such other measures as needed to strengthen the states at the expense of the federal government thereby clarifying the responsibility for failures of local and state governments. Such measures could also include eliminating the extensive gulag of federal detention facilities. If the federal government needs jails, force it to use state and local facilities in the region in which the crime was committed.
Brilliant. I have been saying for years that we CAN accomplish this by the creation of COMPETING FEDERAL AGENCIES. The WINNER gets to survive. If we add this dynamic, that after a period of time, COMPETITION is introduced, we MAY be able to create an environment where Government is FORCED to behave a little more like the natural BUSINESS world.
What's the "natural" business world?
Pimpin your Substack
They've been passing a lot of unconstitutional, lobbyist-written laws unjustly rewarding certain people or corporations that have to be scrubbed asap. Also, rules that are enforced as laws imposed by unelected bureaucrats infesting the EPA, CDC, and other three-letter agencies need to be reviewed by the legislature and formalized or tossed as warranted. Civil Asset Forfeiture policies (when a government seizes your property without charging you with a crime or providing due process) need to be COMPLETELY ELIMINATED.
After reading about some cases regarding CAF I’m dumbfounded by how a policy with this much overreaching power could have possibly been enacted without any oversight. My guess is that another group of unelected bureaucrats in the bowels of our government slowly rubbing their hands together deciding this would be awesome besides, no one is watching.
It's a grift introduced during the Reagan administration under the guise of seizing the ill-gotten gains of nefarious drug lords who evade court justice. Bullshit. They just want our stuff, and because they don't charge you with a crime, you don't get a criminal court hearing. You have to sue them in civil court, which is expensive and usually sides with the government. Some municipalities use it to steal your property. Say you mistakenly underpay your local taxes. Instead of notifying you of your mistake, they sell off your your home to the highest bidder (another evil industry) and keep ALL of the money--not just what you "owed." Happening all over the country, yet not much media coverage. Disgraceful.
The list of 3 and 4 letter acronym’s is so long and growing CDC, FDA, CISA, EIP, lmnop…….the IRS
I agree. But we're not going to vote our way out of this rot. Prepare for some serious turbulence, followed by a noticeably more austere (but fairer) societal experience.
Cosmo. THIS IS PATENTLY obvious.
How are YOU going to do this?
Wrong question, Jenny Stokes, it's how are WE going to do this. It's not one man or woman, it's all of us (62-73% RCP) who feel the direction of this country is on the wrong track.
I was talking to YOU.
Keep posting how YOU feel without doing anything!
I'm talking to You. What are you doing?
Just whining about what others do while doing nothing yourself?
Cosmo. I am sick of hearing comments like yours. What are you going to do?
I'm doing it, what are you doing Jenny?
Fighting bureaucracy here in France.
A great observation
I think that horse has left the barn. The gov’t effectively already has turned on about half the citizens in our country. And are now giving us the middle finger when we start asking questions. Seems Obama did a whole lotta shady stuff on his way out. Kinda looks to me like he embedded a couple hundred poison pills to sabotage Trump and keep control of the bureaucracy after leaving office. He neuters Trump with fake scandals and then he gets the ‘Weekend at Bernie’s” mannequin and installs his cronies like Rice and Blinkin and Klain to keep legacy going. Diabolical and disgusting. His vision of transforming the country is playing out before our eyes. How’s that going?
now we see clearly what he meant when he said, "yes we can"...
Nice Lefty!
It kooks to me like it's going pretty much the way the Dulles posse planned, as I read in The Devil's Chessboard.
Looks, I meant, but kooks makes some sense, too.
Yes, but bear in mind that these problems stem from a deeply entrenched mafia-like leviathan organization comprised of numerous unelected bureaucratic officials and enormously wealthy private individuals and corporations. It's a big club -- and not only ain't we in it, but we have no means to dislodge or disrupt it through electoral or other "democratic" processes. People need to understand that our government is being used as simply the legitimizing arm of the real power structure that remains in control regardless of who we vote for.
If anyone doubts the depth of the corruption I highly recommend visiting the Marco Polo site where they have assembled a telephone size analysis of Hunter and the gang's crimes. I have given several to friends .
The site also has a downloadable pdf of the report in which there are seemingly thousands of clickable links to the source document, picture or email.
There is also a searchable collection of 130,000 emails although some correspondence between Hunter and his attorneys seems to have been removed. https://bidenlaptopemails.com/. In the first of the followup emails from Burisma they express an interest in "how you can use YOUR influence to benefit their objectives. Clearly YOUR influence refers to the Biden family.
Money flows in large amounts and the next thing we see is Joe Biden spiking the ball in the endzone on TV claiming credit for getting the prosecutor fired.
There's also the discussion of the spilt of the profits from one of the influence peddling operations. 10% Jim Biden, 20% Hunter Biden 10 % Held by Hunter for the "Big Guy.".......
I think 70% of the country understands that the Bidens are a crime family . However what people do not understand is the vast collection of attorney/lobbyists around DC. Names like Freeh, Boies and others with immense access into virtually ever agency.
In another deal Hunter and gang are called upon to support an insider deal to allow JP Morgan to obtain a $2.4 BILLION dollar tax credit by getting a lot of folks from Barney Frank to IRS and others . It's the perfect bank robbery in that there is no cash missing from the vault. Only $2.4 BILLION that will never arrive. The source information is a number of emails on Hunter's computer
The new Maffia.
Big difference, there was some honor among the mafia
IN my opinion: Instead of voting you go to the 'source.'
Which means you come out on voting day and sit in front of the Capitol and do not vote!
I like it!
I don't think not voting accomplishes anything. Not voting for Democrats or Republicans might not accomplish anything either, but that's my choice. I refuse to just not show up.
It's time to expunge the rot that is festering deep within, and add a regulation that those found not upholding their oath of office will be punished with a long-term prison sentence. That pretty much would eradicate 80% of the evil doers.
Shelley. It's easy to come up with comments like yours and I read them all the time.
HOW are you going to do this?
Just like everyone else Jenny. You invest time, effort and money getting conservatives elected to Congress. You stay on their tail, hounding them to hold the fort. You threaten withdrawal if they don’t; and you watch as most turn into puppets of the leaders for their next campaign funds. This may not stop the assault, but it adds a backstop that impedes their momentum. Congress may hold the purse strings but the Pres has the institutions, the regulations, the power of imposition and muscle to control all aspects of commerce. You submit comments on each FR notice of proposed rulemaking, support opposition organizations and friendly press. You work your state legislature the same way. You call out bills meant to appease their donor, join or support the groups that hold them on course. You understand that the lesser magistrates need to know they have the power. They control the cities and counties. They can stop sustainable development and rampant crime. They need to hear from you.
You maintain a 'never relent and never give in' attitude. Thus, you hold your head high during the collapse because you acted to the best of your ability while others stood by and ‘hoped’.
HOW? I'm going with Kennedy. A) He's a fighter B) He's not your typical politician C) He's intelligent D) He's knowledgeable about the very thing we're discussing here. Read his books to corroborate.
I am sorry but he supports Israel..............you are NUTZ
Let me get this straight. You want to shackle Israel because of "crimes"?
There is a horrible cancer descending on humanity in the form of Islam. If you don't think they are coming for every non-muslim sooner or later, you are not paying attention. Israel understands the cancer and is willing to confront and defeat it. It's not going to be pretty and they are not going to be saints about it, but they will ward off the evil for everyone's benefit. If you don't let that happen, Israel's "crimes" will be the least of anyone's worries. Mohammed wants you dead. He says so openly and regularly. Pay attention.
I dunno. I hate his fervent unilateral defense of Israeli crimes. But nobody will get elected this cycle by bashing Israel. I'm sorry that's just a fact. I'm down with him on most others issues. We never get the President we want and need for a 1000 reasons.
Mish mash..claptrap!
I favor an immediate cease fire BTW. You can call me NUTZ, swear at me, insult me, whatever floats your boat. That doesn't mean I'm not going to vote for him.
IF you vote for him.......good luck.
I’ll agree w ur points and add a few. He’s been a big government democrat who’s seen the answers to most problems in government being more government and the chances of a 3rd party candidate actually being elected are remote. Having said this, he inspires hope and I’ll vote for him. I don’t expect any politician to make promises that he’ll always keep and I don’t have to agree w all his positions to vote for him.
He's also crazy.
To change the country you first have to be crazy enough to think you can do it. Time for a change.
A few hundred million on the same page AND crazy enough ought to do it.
RFK Jr is a big-government democrat (which is not a recommendation to me) and he is arrogantly anti-nuclear, which is a huge mistake. I agree with some of his views--Ukraine, the takeover of government by agencies and lobbyists--but on balance, no.
Who do your values align more with on balance?
Probably Rand Paul, but he's not running and wouldn't have a chance. So I'll end up voting against the worst choice, whoever the Dems put up--that is, against whoever the Dems put up. How about you?
How Frank?
We need to fix our systems. We need a trustworthy place to go and debate, problem solve, and error correct. These systems of government and 3 letter agencies are all captured.
Our systems are corrupted. We need to build new ones. Transparent ones. Decentralized ones. Trustworthy ones. Like this:
https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/how-to-fix-corrupt-government-in?r=7oa9d&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
As I said above............make it easier instead of continual repetition.
I don't know if US kids were ever taught precis? This means cutting through the crap!
Good luck with that. They've already taken over with a vengeance. Bbbbbbbbut Trump is bad!.
Frank......this is obvious.!
OH. What a wonderful comment>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>!
The point is how are you going to do this??
https://sfmuseum.org/hist1/vigil51.html
Is this the way?
Americans are a somewhat 'bland' people BUT having seen this and other happenings in US History I would not like to be a Senator of Congressperson when the US has had enough.
Hey Matt; maybe that’s because the entire federal entity HAS BECOME an arm of the IC.
But, ya know, maybe I’m just a conspiracy theorist. 😂
I call it a "conspiracy realist", and I've been one going on 5 years now.
02/17/24: We're now in the THIRD DECADE of people robo-parroting the accusative (character-assassinating) phrase, "conspiracy theorist."
Highly recommended: "How I Accidentally Joined The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy," Harry Stein [1948- ]; Delacorte Press [Random House] (2000 hardcover).
(Imagine trying to get Random House --- or whatever sliver of corporate sh*t title that it is now today as some publishing Goliath's "Jawoh!" subsidiary ---to publish this same book today.)
It's a good thing the people running things are arrogant, incompetent and out-of-touch, or else we'd be in real trouble.
Good point. They have no "brakes" in their (what the doctors insist upon calling) brains.
The CIA invented the term to attack Warren Report disbelievers. You're just plain nuts if you don't believe sanctified government explanations. But we know they always lie, obfuscate, omit and cover up. George Carlin was so right.
I'm tempted to go through the whole exposition on C.T., but the short form: it's a substitute for actual argument, and really amounts, almost always, to "I've got nothing but name-calling."
Makes me nuts.
Exception: Greenwald has used it for Russiagate, where it actually makes sense: an elaborate fiction about a non-existent conspiracy. And he doesn't stop with name-calling, but makes a case.
The CIA operation Mongoose was a disinformation/propaganda operation formed in 1960 to counter the same from the Soviets. This was outed in 1975 by the Church Committee. The following year, newly installed CIA director George Bush, admitted to paying reporters to place government propaganda pieces in various media outlets. He said the CIA would stop paying them, but hoped the partnership would continue. It did.
And Obama made it legal just prior to leaving office by signing the Smith-Mund Act which for the first time ? first time since? allowed for government propaganda to be used on the citizens of the USA.
Thanks, gonna look that title up!
Buy/read this one first, which is superior to the title above: "I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next To A Republican," A Survival Guide... Harry Stein [1948- ]; Encounter Books (2009 hardcover)
Thanks, I saw that title while looking up the forner.
I'll start with that one...
02/18/24: Buy/read this one first, which is superior to the title above: "I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next To A Republican," A Survival Guide... Harry Stein [1948- ]; Encounter Books (2009 hardcover)
I've been at it 36 yrs now. I haven't been wrong yet.
Oh, and we're losing badly, in case you're keeping score
Worse than that even, probably a white supremacist tranny-hater.
BLINKEN is turning out to be one of the biggest skunks in the Biden Administration....everything from thwarting the Hunter Biden laptop investigation - putting together the letter of 51 former CIA officials who lied about the veracity of the laptop's ownership (51 more skunks)...to his double-dealing in the Ukraine.....That said, BRENNAN is outright evil...
Gotta say McCain seems prescient and appears entirely vindicated in his opposition to Obama's nomination of Blinken to deputy secretary of state.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?323344-6/senator-john-mccain-tony-blinken-nomination
Wow - that video says it all. Blinken is more than a dud, he’s dangerous.
Is "Lord of the Flies" covered in literature classes anymore? Beware of children making the rules, meting out justice.
Coincidentally, we are ruled by children.
Actually, Blinken was one i knew was bad news when Biden first nominated him for SOS. (And Sullivan.) Once i saw those two it was like, oh fuck, he's got the warhawks in there. And if there was any doubt, all you had to do was look at where they were slumming in between Democrats during the Trump years.
This line from the letter struck me especially: "...the Department had determined that public release of this information could jeopardize the GEC's programs and/or *cause harm to the Department's implementing partners*."
I assume by "implementing partners" they're talking about these NGOs in the burgeoning disinformation industry?
For the most part I don't see why government money paid to outside agencies should not be transparent.
Democracy dies in the darkness!
Democracy is dying in plain sight and in the light of day. The darkness is in the hearts of those who believe they are "the chosen people' with a right to rule over us as they see fit.
02/17/24: "Democracy" is Fani Willis's "justification" (on the witness stand no less!) for looting the public state treasury of Georgia and spending it on her Eunuch-Lawyer Lover and their all-expenses-paid trips to vacation resorts, etc.
If you enable one party rule in the cities, as the Ds have essentially done, it’s not shocking that lackey’s without opposition-Willis-will use even the lawfare machinations of said party as an opportunity for self enrichment. This is the first time I have seen actual D politicians ( as opposed to media lackeys like MSNBC, Maddow, Scarborough, etc. ) use TDS as an excuse for petty personal corruption. The Deep State has gone beyond Orwellian, it has come to an HL Mencken criticism worthy level of pettiness and embarrassment .
Fani Willis is merely the first one to publicly admit it (and only under pointless panic/duress, when it's too late for her to yak her way out of the fix she put herself in). Ask $20,000,000/year CNN media whore Anderson Cooper what happens to his salary when the looting ends.
😂😁😂
The CIA is ruling the world. They just haven’t told you yet.
Have you not seen the "signs of the times?" It's all open for all to see.
Others have though.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/03/investigative-reports/dr-klaus-schwab-or-how-the-cfr-taught-me-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/
Great insight. Thanks!
Thank you--this is such an important article!!! My father worked at the Pentagon with Fritz Kraemer and also admired him. My mother told me that in a conversation with Kraemer he indicated she was right to have doubts about the Vietnam War (this was 1968 - 1970). Significantly he broke with Kissinger and never spoke to him again.
Inside stories abound, but we never hear about them. Thanks!
Once again Matt T. exposes censorship and dishonesty.
He Walter K, Sasha S. ,Michael S. and other members of the alt media are working hard to save our country from 1984…..and worse.
See Tuckers new interview on YouTube titled: Everything You Need to Know about the Governments Mass Censorship Campaign
It is mind blowing.
I just watched it this morning. Mind totally blown.
Link?
I watched it on Rumble https://rumble.com/v4dtxtu-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-governments-mass-censorship-campaign.html
You may want to have a stiff drink before watching it...
Unfortunately I can't get Rumble here in France. Do you know if there was a transcript?
Seems strange that we can get transcripts!
Thanks so much.
This is it on YouTube
https://youtu.be/jpGU2NzVwgg?si=nNc3n7f84HGZJ8ck
I'll look for a transcript as well.
You angel. Thanks so much.
And yet Congress controls the purse strings. Why not just threaten to cut off the related funding for the State Department? The answer is clear... Congress is filled full of hacks that like the spending... because it goes into the pockets of them and their friends. Can we all agree that sweeping these hacks out of office is the only remedy?
Congress is completely controlled by the Israel Lobby. They do what they are told or the money spigot is turned off and their lives are ruined.
That seems a bit antidermatitic to me. I do agree that money seems to be the motivating factor for most of our national politicians. That and power... which of course they want to convert to money.
I keep using the example of Lizard Cheney having a net worth of $6 million when elected, and $46 million eight years later when Trump fired her.
Wow, is that right? Where did it come from?
JUST Congress? Hello!!
Yes, "One Nation Under Blackmail"(Whitney Webb) and manipulation by the real foreign influencer... which I thought was supposed to be illegal.
No one will dare say Zionist, the newly deemed antisemitic term to be gagged.
What has been revealed so far by Matt, Benz & others are the marching orders for the soldiers in the hierarchy... it's a start, though.
I wish that were the case. They would just be replaced with other hostile, greedy zombies that do the bidding the shadow government.
DO not vote. Head to the Capitol/sit down and refuse to pay taxes!
Frank. To my knowledge the Pentagon has NOT been audited for years?
Why?
I'm not sure that's an accurate statement. It's not that they've never been audited. It's that they can't pass one. The Pentagon has failed to pass an audit for the sixth year in a row. But sure, let's keep borrowing money to fund it all.
True.
Matt, take a meeting with Mike Benz! You guys are hunting the same forest, and good luck to you both.
Matt, as I read this, I was shaking my head. Then I got to the end and had a ruefull laugh that you did the same thing. Jesus! What next?? The balls these people have!
I had to look it up (SMH). Assumed at first that it was just another one of those mind-numbing acronyms whose purpose is to keep us ordinary Americans befuddled and cowed. Like Social Mystification Hub or something.
I have been speaking out about Acronyms for years.
I wrote to Matt about this and he has since (mostly) spelled acronyms out.
To me Acronyms mean the dumbing down of people.
!. You think I SHOULD know this
2. You think I am stupid because I don't know this/
IF you use an acronym do not be lazy and spell it out in each and every paragraph.
so what does SMH mean?
Shake my head. Disappointment/frustration. I had to look it up too. I think it's an age thing - oldsters don't text much.
No idea.
The arrogance of these people is amazing.
turds all the way down
Honestly, as far as I can see, America was really terrified on 911. I know that it was a terrifying and beyond heartbreaking day to me. To get a little poetical I would say, History decided that it would let me know, and people all over the world, that we had misjudge Her and that she was going to let us know they we were misguided. Seriously taking our reality for granted. In a way it took me 2 years to recover emotionally and my sheltered view of humanity has never been and will never be restored. With this admission I also have to say that we Americans over-reacted. The patriot act was the start of all these problems we are facing today. We the people need to take back some of our rights and protections from our own government, especially the secrecy obsessed people that are no longer so well meaning, but have become self-serving. God Lord, it won’t be easy, not an easy struggle at all, but we have no one to blame but ourselves for over-reacting. Time to work hard and restore American citizens to their rightful place in the LAW.
I'd say stunned, not terrified. The terror came with the reaction to the event.
Both.
Yep. I was a New Yorker at the time.
I’d like the blue pill, please. I don’t want to live in this America anymore.