… And if he does, the outlook is worse.
According to both the Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI), via Chairman Mark Warner, and the House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) via Mike Turner, the Chinese social media platform TikTok represents a “national security risk” to the United States. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, soon to be the vice-presidential candidate for the DeSantis-Noem 2024 ticket, has also called TikTok a national security threat and banned it in the state. Now, think about that carefully.
What is it about a social media app allowing short video sharing that would constitute a national security risk? The answer is not about dog and cat videos, or dancing diatribes or funny, weird or goofy content; nor is the national security risk attached to any data of the app users or content providers. The national security risk is found in the ability to influence public opinion that is not under the control of the United States government, or more specifically the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS).
The need for control is a reaction to fear. TikTok, as a social media platform, is not considered a national security threat because the Chinese government can control it. TikTok is considered a national security threat because the United States government does not control it.
For several years CTH has been outlining the relationship between DHS and social media. Currently, the headlines are filled with stories about Twitter and revelations of censorship and government influence coming from the purchase of the platform by Elon Musk. I promise you things are not what they seem.
Let me put some context to the dynamic that will hopefully clarify what is going on, and perhaps the context will help explain what you are seeing and what you are not seeing as this unfolds. There are going to be a lot of citations to fill in the details and understanding the modern Fourth Branch of Government is critical. The bigger picture also explains why SSCI Chairman Mark Warner said “people will die” if the seized Trump Mar-a-Lago documents become public.
♦ Elevator Speech: Twitter is to the U.S. government as TikTok is to China. The overarching dynamic is the need to control public perceptions and opinions. DHS has been in ever increasing control of Twitter since the public-private partnership was formed in 2011/2012. Jack Dorsey lost control and became owner emeritus; arguably, Elon Musk has no idea (you’ll see proof toward the end).
To explain the background activity of Twitter in a way that readers could understand, I used the metaphor of Twitter as Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop.
…”The metaphorical Jack had a great idea, open a coffee shop where the beverages were free and use internal advertising as the income subsidy to operate the business. Crowds came for the free coffee, comfy couches, fellowship, conversation and enjoyment.
It didn’t matter where Jack got the coffee, how he paid for it, or didn’t, or what product advertising the customers would be exposed to while there. Few people thought about such things. Curiously, it didn’t matter what size the crowd was; in the backroom of Jack’s Coffee Shop they were able to generate massive amounts of never-ending free coffee at extreme scales.
Over time, using the justification of parking lot capacity and township regulations, not everyone would be able to park and enter. Guards were placed at the entrance to pre-screen customers. Some were denied. A debate began.”…
Here’s what happened….
In/around 2011 and 2012 the U.S. Government, Obama administration and the U.S. State Dept., came into Jack’s Coffee Shop and asked him for help.
The govt officials needed to deliver massive amounts of coffee to their allies in Egypt, Libya and the middle east to support the Arab Spring party. Jack told the officials he was willing to help but didn’t have the capacity to deliver on that scale. The officials told Jack not to worry, they would handle that aspect – he just needed to agree to the partnership and let them utilize his business. Jack agreed.
[Note, the timing here is not accidental. The operational agreement happened at the same time DHS was fine tuning the domestic surveillance systems to monitor social media platforms and target political opposition. See The Fourth Branch.]
Over the next several weeks, months and eventually years, Jack watched as hundreds of new employees flooded into the business to facilitate the rapid expansion. Along with a myriad of new faces, new equipment was delivered and soon Jack found himself looking at heavy industrial equipment erecting large buildings in the back lots of the property. Coffee urns were replaced with massive industrial coffee delivery systems that far exceeded anything Jack ever imagined.
Business was booming, but slowly Jack realized he had lost control. Jack was riding a dragon.
As the years progressed, thousands of new employees moved into the offices of the new buildings and massive pipelines were producing incredible scales of coffee. Jack noted offices of the United Nations Human Rights Commission were now creating unique blends of coffee for international distribution, and the European Commission had an entire suite of specially trained coffee production engineers creating alternate combinations and flavors.
By 2018 Jack had essentially become an “owner emeritus,” his name was on the shingle, but the day-to-day operation of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop had turned into an industrial park complex.
Jack saw his personal wealth attached to the success of the business, but operationally his only responsibility was traveling to symposiums and venues where he would stand on stage and wax philosophically about the future of a coffee delivery organization he no longer controlled. Day-to-day operations were now controlled by experts in the scale of massive industrial coffee. Those experts came from the Dept of Homeland Security.
[The Intercept] – […] Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S. government has used its power to try to shape online discourse. According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading information.
“Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director, in February.
In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government. Dehmlow, according to notes of the discussion attended by senior executives from Twitter and JPMorgan Chase, stressed that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.” (read more)
To streamline the operational efficiencies as the industrial coffee system grew, direct portals between the Washington DC government offices and Jack’s Magic Coffee shop were created. Officials no longer needed to travel to the location of Jack’s Coffee Shop in order to operate the valves, mixers, grinders and systems to generate the scale of blends being produced.
Experts could now use direct portals to the facility to operate the coffee production systems remotely, with a limited number of specially trained (FBI) coffee engineers doing the laborious tasks and maintenance at the facility.
The badges were intimidating to Jack who went to sleep every night under the realization he no longer had any clue about how the coffee shop communication business was operating.
[…] The extent to which the DHS initiatives affect Americans’ daily social feeds is unclear. During the 2020 election, the government flagged numerous posts as suspicious, many of which were then taken down, documents cited in the Missouri attorney general’s lawsuit disclosed. And a 2021 report by the Election Integrity Partnership at Stanford University found that of nearly 4,800 flagged items, technology platforms took action on 35 percent — either removing, labeling, or soft-blocking speech, meaning the users were only able to view content after bypassing a warning screen. The research was done “in consultation with CISA,” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Prior to the 2020 election, tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Verizon Media met on a monthly basis with the FBI, CISA, and other government representatives. According to NBC News, the meetings were part of an initiative, still ongoing, between the private sector and government to discuss how firms would handle misinformation during the election. (keep reading)
After several years of increasing distance from the Coffee Shop operation he initially started, eventually Jack decided it was silly to own an industrial coffee delivery system that he didn’t control. So, Jack decided to sell his shingle to someone else.
Enter, Elon Musk.
Billionaire Elon Musk, a man intimately familiar with large industrial systems and government, had been watching the disgruntled visitors to Jack’s Coffee Shop who were no longer permitted to enter. Musk saw an inequity between the amount of coffee that was available, and the scarcity of the coffee amid a community blacklisted by the operational executives and managers of the shop.
With expressions of both interest and fellowship, Mr. Elon Musk told Mr. Jack Dorsey he would take ownership of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop and remove any discriminatory guards that were now controlling permitted entry. Jack had no aversion to Elon and eventually a deal was brokered.
After the transfer of sale was complete, Mr. Musk fired many of the guards and then set about checking the payroll to identify which group of shop employees were actually involved in the generation of coffee, and which employees were involved in promotion of the industrial coffee delivery system that were no longer needed.
Within this process Elon Musk begins to discover the complex nature of what, at least at the surface, appeared to be an uncomplicated coffee shop. Why is there a 500-room glass walled office building on the backside of the coffee shop? What is going on in that building that has anything to do with selling coffee?
If you’ve read this far, you might think my metaphor is a little over the top. Perhaps you thought that when I originally started saying there was much more to Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop a long time ago.
Well, thankfully, someone of reasonably intelligent curiosity finally asked Elon Musk the right question about this direct portal from DHS into the coffee shop. How Mr. Musk replied might surprise you. You see, the Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop metaphor is evidenced in the Musk response.
Twitter owner Elon Musk has no idea what the DHS portal into the coffee shop is for. WATCH:
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To put it in brutally honest terms, The United States Dept of Homeland Security is the operating system running in the background of Twitter.
You can debate whether Elon Musk honestly didn’t know all this before purchasing Twitter from his good friend Jack Dorsey, and/or what the scenario of owner/operator motive actually is. Decide for yourself.
For me, I feel confident that all of the conflicting and odd datapoints only reconcile in one direction. DHS, via CISA, controls Twitter.
Wittingly or unwittingly (you decide) Elon Musk is now the face of that govt controlled enterprise.
If you concur with my researched assessment, then what you see being released by Elon Musk in the Twitter Files is actually a filtered outcome as a result of this new ownership dynamic.
Put simply, DHS stakeholders, to include the DOJ, FBI and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), are mitigating any consequential public exposure of their domestic surveillance activity by controlling and feeding Mr. Musk selected information about their prior Twitter operations.
If TikTok is a national security threat, then TikTok is to Beijing as Twitter is to Washington DC.
The larger objective of U.S. involvement in social media has always been monitoring and surveillance of the public conversation, and then ultimately controlling and influencing public opinion.
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Resources:
Large Numbers of FBI Agents Work Inside Twitter
Govt Structured Cloud Computing is Social Media operating System
Tech Platforms Connected to DHS Portals
Examples of Govt Influence of Social Media Content
[…] “Intelligence agencies backed new startups designed to monitor the vast flow of information across social networks to better understand emerging narratives and risks.” [HERE]
Understanding Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop
Leaked DHS Documents Showing Connections
New release
Musk fired the traitor! (James Baker) 👍🏻👍🏻👏🏼👏🏼
According to Matt Taibbi, it was Bari Weiss who discovered who James Baker was.
This is what lack of fear looks like. What’s missing? Input from timid and self-serving White House lawyers.
“Was he asked to explain himself first?”
His resumé explains everything.
I hope Musk used email or twitter to fire him.
Was just about to post that thread as well. This makes me inclined to believe the former option, that Musk has no idea what he’s gotten himself into.
Maybe just an inkling.
He’s still that other Jack, climbing the beanstalk, and it seems like fun.
Hasn’t met the giant yet.
6 degrees of James Baker
James Baker is fast becoming the Kevin Bacon of the Russian collusion scandals.
Sorry, didn’t realize this was already posted.
Looks like Elon Musk found his “precious”.
The Entire Nat/Sec Apparatus is itself a National Security Threat, as it exists to secure itself, not the Nation.
Sauron.
Yes, indeedy!
I think DHS is running Reddit as well, and will likely push for Reddit to replace Twitter as the #1 sphere of their influence if Musk continues down his path.
Reddit is very heavy handed with their sitewide bans. I myself am completely and totally banned, they have issued IP/Device level bans on me, and I even think they use machine learning AI to issue out bans when I use other computers with VPNs or Proxies to connect to the site. No matter what I do, they always nuke the new accounts I make there. And I think the censoring done at Reddit is on par with Twitter’s – they banned an entire community dedicated to Donald Trump.
Some clever people outed Ghislaine Maxwell as a high-level moderator on Reddit for years and years after her arrest. Tells me large swaths of corporate social media with any widespread footprint are likely run top-down and curated by various Intelligence operations.
I think there is solid evidence to support the notion the Federal Government/UniParty finally clamped down on larger social networks in the wake of Trump’s surprise 2016 presidential victory. That was the point of dragging Zuckerberg and others into DC before the Senate. It’s pretty clear to me Google, Facebook, Twitter et al were all government-seeded companies which used the network effect to effectively centralize the Internet. I imagine none of them organically became the top dog in the marketplace without quiet Federal assistance.
Our intelligence community has had a firm grasp over corporate broadcast news and cable news for decades and decades, carefully managing the Overton Window for the Deep State’s benefit and long-range plans. That was shattered by the emergence of social media in the wake of Apple introducing the iPhone to the masses in the late 2000s.
The Republican wing of the UniParty carefully avoiding typical anti-trust maneuvers against pure Democrat aids like Google and others tell me the same people behind the RINOs are behind the social media firms’ quick rise to market dominance.
When Al Gore boasted he “invented the internet” he was probably talking about the surveillance state.
Reddit is unviewable
Good point. Judging from the content allowed and not allowed on Reddit, it is heavily controlled by the uniparty.
REDDIT is a complete cesspool…
…you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
At some point we may need to go back to the early days of the BHO administration to revisit the strange, sad tale of Reddit founder Aaron Swartz.
Sundance: It’s theater. Baker had completed his mission. He’ll take a few months off, and then, on to the next government assignment. Musk “firing” Baker is the perfect way for Baker to exit.
The whole darn thing is an op.
Baker is now about to be subpoenaed by every pissed off voice out there, from James Woods to Alex Berenson. He had better clear his calendar and put down some hefty legal retainers.
Not everything has to be black pilled.
Alex1689: Perhaps, but, other than pissing off people, which of Baker’s alleged actions would actually be illegal? Even if he had engaged in “suppression of information,” he was just working for a “private” company (wink wink), right?
Nope. Riddle me who, working with or in government has served any meaningful time in the pokey in the last 6 years defending democrats?
Answer: no one.
Who in or out of government subpoenaed by Congress defended themselves with “I cannot recall or asserted their 5th amendment right in defense of democrats?
Answer: EVERYONE.
Civil actions by private citizens are not blocked.
Every civil action requires a lawyer to appear in that local trial court on Baker’s behalf, respond to discovery requests, and very likely show up for depositions. Possibly, be called to testify as a key witness. Every case.
Multiply even one case in one state or federal court by the universe of plaintiffs – 100, 500, 1,000 cases?
Even moving for summary judgment on 1,000 cases in 1,000 jurisdictions, each one requiring local counsel = millions of dollars.
Which he probably has, okay?
But if he has to consult with legal counsel 1,000 times, and appear for depositions even 100 times, his life is not going to be his own.
Think of what the OJ Simpson victim’s father did to OJ. A relentless grind for justice, year after year after year, ending in a bankrupting civil verdict.
And that was just one angry father.
Imagine 1,000.
I’m curious to know if Baker was paid as much by the fbi while working at Twitter as he was paid by Twitter for working at Twitter.
Or was he paid more?
If he was no longer affiliated with the fbi…..why censor the info going to the reporters about Twitter censorship?
If his boss wanted the Twitter files released, why oppose/thwart/CENSOR his boss?
Unless…….he’s always had another boss with another organization?
And he did the bidding of a bigger boss than his Twitter boss?
People like him go back and forth between government and big companies. They make their money at private companies and conduct their affairs in accordance with government interests. It’s a corrupt cesspool. Though who has control appears to differ by industry. The government controls social media companies, whereas drug companies and defense contractors appear to be the ones in control of their government counterparts. That difference might be because social media companies are relatively new. In all cases, the public is harmed.
HAH. Jonathan Turdley coming to Baker’s defense is par for the course. Anyone surprised? Shouldn’t be – at least not any Treepers.
And what will become of all of it? Sadly, the usual. Nothing.
Exactly right.
IT HAS BEEN ONE MONTH!!! God works on God’s timing. I love the slow, torturous pace that these demons must endure while sunlight is being pointed at their evil deeds. I do not want them to have a quick, painless exit. I want their suffering to be slow and constant.
Yes. Always enjoy the schadenfreude.
Elon said today,
“In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today.”
Jim Baker has been feverishly shredding and disappearing documents, emails, for the past few weeks. Elon should have fired his FBI ass on day one.
Musk should read CTH to keep current on the multitude of swamp rats.
They’ll try the same thing on Musk as they did to Donald Trump. Demonize.
No future tense needed; already happening.
Maybe Musk wanted to surveille him doing his dirty work, and identify his direct handlers.
Current conduct and methods would be a good backward map for how to find out what shredding and funneling of files and information Baker was up to for the whole last year.
There’s these things called backups…
Shredding and disappearing? At least on that score, I’m not worried.
I don’t think an attempt to disappear data from under the eyes of Musk’s Tesla engineers is a likely success for a swamp bureaucrat.
With Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the growth of Trump’s Truth Social and the big tech destruction of Parler, the deep state has trapped itself.
The destruction of Twitter would just drive people to TRUMP’s Truth Social. LOL – And, if they then go after and destroy Truth Social, then what? Pretty soon there won’t be any social media apps in either Apple or Google’s stores, and that might be a rather revealing situation.
I also doubt the Constitutionality of the Government shutting down a tech business, without due process. Especially with hot air notions of national security, which rarely means anything other than “we can’t control it” – as you said.
Do people, a majority of people, use Twitter, Parler, Truth Social, etc routinely?
I nor my family do not and we are not missing out on much with respect to current events/news.
The only one I have ever used is Truth Social. It is interesting but it is consumed with ads, bots and spam. For me it is not that enjoyable. That said, I am older and do not have anything else to compare it to.
I’ve tried them all in the last few years. Gab and Twitter are super easy to use. I enjoy both. Truth and Reddit are more difficult. Twitter is infiltrated with some nasty people and you must ban the idiots. On Truth, the Qanon crap drives you crazy. I have to ban it to read my feed. GETTR is just ok….
Thank goodness most of these apps got rid of the “trains”. Super irritating when you are just looking for the news. Telegram is confusing to me and I have never spent much time there.. I’m not on SM to have a million likes as you can see. I just enjoy reading about the nefarious people in politics in hopes to get them OUT of our lives and hopefully punished. Last Refuge has been more enlightening than ANY of them tho!
Yes, no question CTH is a far better source than any of the apps.
I was enjoying Truth Social until somehow my login got so screwed up I can’t get back in – I keep hoping to get some time to work on that issue…
Still not on Twitter, never have been.
Gettr hardly ever has any news I don’t already know from here and citizenfreepress, not to mention the various substacks and podcasts to which I’m subscribed. But I do like scrolling there for the occasional amusing meme.
One odd thing about Gettr – I was gaining followers rapidly (which seemed silly and irrelevant to me, because I wasn’t doing anything to do so, just commenting here and there). But shortly after 500, the gain stopped pretty much dead a couple months ago, though I comment exactly as often as before – that is, sometimes, when I think of it, and especially when I want to share a good CTH article.
My suspicious cat is now wondering whether they use algorithms too, to keep people hooked? Just a random thought…
Truth Social is not fun. Twitter is the most fun social media by far. I miss it and look forward to returning to twitter in the near future.
Exactly. I’ve always considered those sites to be a yearbook for losers.
Isn’t Gettr a bigger player than all the others?
By what standard are you measuring?
I had the same question. Gettr’s pretty small.
Not even close. No social media app that conservatives like even makes the top 20. Facebook is #1. TikTok is #5. Twitter is 15th. This is worldwide…I couldn’t find a ranking for U.S. only.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/
Your frame of reference is still morality, law, courts and Constitutionality of actions which are perhaps the concern of perhaps 150,000,000 US citizens. Includes no one in DC. Think harder.
i Believe You are Correct.
Magic words – national security concerns… and poof!
With the three Ukrainian drone attacks on military targets inside Russia, Twitter may be the least of our worries…Putin has called an emergency meeting of the Security Council…
I’m hopeful that if we succeed in starting WWIII as is clearly our goal, that they find out that Russia is a not Iraq but rather a nuclear power. And further, that our woke and jabbed army is a lot of bark with no actual bite.
Has happened before………emergency Security meeting called.
I do expect that the grid attacks on Ukraine may be increased even more. Belogrod has been hit quite a few times…and now with increased attacks of Donetsk civilian centers and increased civilians being killed there……
Then….and I believe even more of a reason……
Seems there was a hack –not sure how successful…on Russia State Bank.
I thought this morning…I think it would be a good idea if I pulled out a little cash from my bank…you never know 😉
Jack Posobeic mentioned last night that Russia has already moved to take out most of Ukraine’s energy sources, just in time for winter.
Xiden has so much blood on his hands now that Lady MacBeth would be jealous.
Maybe Elon has missed some very good work here at CTH recently.
Elon is just another con
The fact that he could buy Twitter in the first place gives it away
It’s a crime scene
That our corrupt government will never lose control of!
Are you sure? How do you know?
Good point.
When making such a statement, I prefer to add the disclaimer: In My Humble Opinion.
AOSHQ just posted this update from Taibbi:
“Reporters resumed searches through Twitter Files material — a lot of it — today.
The next installment of “The Twitter Files” will appear @bariweiss. Stay tuned.”
Constant war since WW1.
Have to turn the American citizens into enemies of the GAE for disagreeing since everyone else has knelt or pretending to kneel.
That’s why we get social media weapons, man created viruses, importation of various foreigners, great reset bs, fake elections…
Almost like something is attack the American people.
Stephen K. Bannon:
“Musk bought a crime scene”
Doesn’t this mean the first release only contains the part of the files that Baker approved and therefore, Matt didn’t get all the files that really exist? Most likeely the files showing DIRECT government portal files proving government operating heavily with Twitter?
Doesn’t this mean the first release only contains the part of the files that Baker approved and therefore, Matt didn’t get all the files that really exist?
Probably.
The files showing the government portal have probably already been heavily redacted or destroyed.
Nothing digital is ever fully wiped. If Musk put spyware in during those first few days on whatever Bsker was doing, then Musk has an extremely good idea of the most incriminating stuff – because Baker would have led him right to it.
On the contrary – I don’t think Musk’s engineers miss much.
trusting matt and bari is a huge mistake
Elon was the perfect man for the Twitter clean up job. The government knew it.
Sort of like the FBI having office space in Perkins Coie…
Same “business” plan.
…or does Perkins Coie have office space at the FBI?
That’s Perkins on the left.
I think.
I’m sure I’ll be forgiven if I got it the wrong way round…
Potato/potahto
Same/same
Thank you, Gipper…
Difficult to know. Same genus however…
Slitherus Corruptus
Yet the government is in control of Zoom? NOt a security risk?
Sensitive/confidential corporate and government information is discussed every minute of every day and the stored, compressed and analyzed in searchable data bases on communist Chinese servers
Zoom is owned by Eric Yuan, a Chinese-American billionaire:
https://dispatch.m.io/eric-yuan-zoom/
Q discusses this.
I don’t believe any of it!
They control it, they could just make the twitty bird so unusable (through the backdoor) no one what us it and just leave.
That’s the last thing they want. They want kids on their playground. That’s why they spend large sums of Gumment Monopoly Money on each new Twitter “customer”. Losing Money to Gain Control is their Bidness Model.
Some key items Sundance left off.
1. Elon Mush has publicly stated HE IS NOT SUICIDAL. Think about that.
2. There has been a big delay in the release of Twitter Dump #2. Tom Fitton has suggested a cloud source release.
3. I’ve been surprised that Sundance hasn’t recently dug into the Dr. Shiva lawsuit and treasure trove of documents that were unearthed about 2 tears ago.
4. Dr. Shiva unearthed this gov’t-Twitter connection, including operational “Playbooks” for use. The details and minutia are important. The Ivy League helped design the system, and Dr. Shiva found specific individuals in charge of designing and running it. (His recent videos include a lot of ocer-the-top cursing and emotions as he’s fought multiple demons, and entities. He also likely won an election, but had it stolen. He has the receipts.
5. Dr. Shiva is a data expert with 3 or 4 degrees from MIT. But he recently gets over his skiis with emotion, now wants to create a “movement”, and understandably is looking for acknowledgment.
Very interesting.
I now realize that makes two credible sources of MAGA truth that Howie Carr worked to derail in the blueMA elections: Shiva, and Diehl.
The handful of true MAGA people I’ve met, and they’re out here, all agree that Howie was dead to them as soon as he deserted Diehl for the RINO in the primary “because he can win.” We didn’t need yet another Charlie Baker/Romney type.
Shiva was shivved.
So anyone still on Twitter should get off the platform?
Or should they try to post truth until they are removed?
Quit the government controlled platforms. Use Trump’s Truth Social.
We go to war for free speech wit the Musk we have.
Listened to Dr. Huff on Bannon this morning. He mentioned a CIA faction connected to germ war fare. Perhaps this is why people like Dazak and Fauci are so smug. The rest of us don’t know who we are really messing with.
“The need for control is a reaction to fear.”
I don’t think this fits well enough.
I think it is more about — Domination.
From the individual psychotic Serial Killer to the Social Engineering Elites – I think it is more about a compulsion to Dominate Others that explains them.
We have often called it a craving for — Power – but power in itself is neutral. It can be used for good or bad or in between.
But there is a clear track record – in both the studies of Serial Killers + the recurrence of tyrants + authoritarian governments — across the span of Time + Geography —- that demonstrates —- some humans are driven by a need to achieve — domination.
It’s what Yuval Harari is talking about. The Social Engineers have been talking about it for decades: How advances in data collection + processing would soon expose “Free Will” to be a fiction. That humans + human society is so — knowable — they are ultimately — controllable…. They can be Dominated — if you just understand them well enough to know which buttons to press…
They are so frustrated they haven’t been able to obtain that level of domination yet —- they have added —- brain chips + other digital/mechanical augmentation — as well as drugs/chemical inputs — to turn people into the “no Free Will” beings they can dominate.
That’s why Mega Elite $$$$ is never satisfied… That’s why they talk about advances in Technology making them into gods… Eternal Life + Total Control
““The need for control is a reaction to fear.”
I don’t think this fits well enough.”
I don’t think it fits at all.
It has + does in certain contexts. In some nations, the Government does Fear being toppled one day – so – they create CIA-type orgs which by their nature breed paranoia + demand for more + more Information + means of Control.
Some of the Wealthy do Fear an implosion of society is coming + worry about losing what they have.
But others are more simply — Psychotic… and want to cause the implosion in the hope of coming out on top in a far superior position to dominate the masses…
I tried to start the book Mindhunter that the US TV series was based on. A non-fiction memoire about the creation of the FBI Behavior Psychology Unit, because I wanted to see if the Academic Expert they began with had really come from research on major corporate CEOs — because on the TV Show, she says they fit the profile of Psychotics…
Come to think of it — how odd is it that institutions/governments used to control/dominate people – like the Intel Agencies – are often highly compartmentalized — so that the Good Germans just following orders — don’t control or know how their effort fits into a larger picture + future outcome…?
Sundance has taught us well about the silos.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/why-east-africa-is-facing-its-worst-famine-in-decades/2022/11/30/cffafed6-70c8-11ed-867c-8ec695e4afcd_story.html
https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/12/1131222
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/outsiders/war-against-humanity-netherlands-to-shut-down-3000-farms/video/f6c080d89b415ba95fd6f1ce02ceb5a0
https://menafn.com/1105269376/Germans-are-prohibited-from-using-efficient-fertilizers-as-part-of-shift-toward-green%E2%80%AFfarming
https://www.politico.eu/article/fertilizer-rescue-plan-no-relief-europe-farmer-industry/
Recall the Stanford Prison Experiment. This is what the Libs found as prison guards in charge of the tech media censorship. They won’t let it go. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Exactly.
For some of the Elites – they reached a level of Wealth + Influence + Luxury — boredom + other factors led them to treat the world —– like a PC Game…
They have no more qualms about — or feelings for — using their Power in the world as I would playing Sim City or Civilization or Total War — pc strategy games…
We don’t really exist as beings in some of their minds….
Another area is the video below on how people who do not crave Power + Control or a need to be The Leader —- can be used by those in Authority to do extreme things
The Club of Rome-type Elites came up with a Trolley Problem called Global Warming as the Common Enemy to unite enough of the world —- into doing things + allowing things to be done —- crimes against humanity —– they would not have accepted or participated in otherwise…
“Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst and corrupts the best…Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themself to pick it up.” Ragnar Lothbrok in THC Vikings
You are exactly correct. Power must serve control, or it’s worthless and impotent. To have the power of life and death is to control who lives and who dies. At whose whim.
It is good to be king! It’s even better to be a god! Ruling others is the point.
Ray Kurzweil has explained it in a cotton candy version — trying to sell it as a good, Utopian thing.
But it still boils down to — All Knowing + All Powerful as well as Eternal.
You can’t be All Knowing if the other beings continue to do things you didn’t define for them. — if they continue to do things you didn’t expect they would do or didn’t want them to do…
They can’t be All Powerful either if the other beings have Free Will…
In this film, Conan’s village is massacred in a Quest for Steel when he was young. Now, the power-craving Elite has moved onto a higher understanding of it:
Can someone help my recollection, please?
I saw the name Bari Weiss as one of the two reporters given access to Twitter info.
For some reason I thought Sundance had written of Weiss being used by the fbi during one of the Trump investigations.
Am I recalling this accurately?
I hope and Pray Elon has the balls to release “ALL” evidence of government involvement in Twitter, all the way back to 2012 [ie. Russia gate/Covid/etc.]
& Climate change….The list is endless!
john dallas: You can’t have electric vehicles (and Tesla) without climate change. Besides, climate change is a sacred religion.
Actually….
He once weeted out that the grids are not prepared for every one to own an EV.
Of course he knows this.
Nice to hear he was willing to say it.
One can only wonder how much stuff Baker permanently got rid of before being “exited” from Twitter.
And how many helpers he had.
And how many more are still there helping.
I’m sure the shredder was working overtime when EM first expressed “interest” in purchasing the entity…
What is this “shredder” people keep talking of?
None of that stuff is on paper.
It’s all digital data. And Musk’s Tesla engineers know how to mine that.
The only correction I would make is JACK never had any control over the shop. It did get put on Steriods with Obama.
You are saying Musk is being controlled and manipulated.
You are saying he isn’t smart enough to know what dhs does with its direct connection portal to twitter.
Or is Musk playing dumb about the portal like a possum?
I think Musk knows for sure about the dhs portal and should know much about what the biden regime is doing with twitter.
Is musk wirking for dhs?
😳
Captain Convey: It’s not even a question. Of course, Musk is “working” for DHS. His company, SpaceX, launches secret military payloads, and has spawned a new division, Starshield, to provide secure communications to the the Department of Defense, and probably other government players.
And yet…
We know that PDJT spent years hanging in the global oligarchy, quietly learning all their secrets, until he made his move to de-throne them.
It’s possible Musk is at least trying to be a version of that in the tech world… He’s certainly behaving like one where free speech is concerned.
There are, though, many areas where he seems dangerously naive – especially NeuraLink.
At the very least, we’re getting some sunlight from his latest endeavor.
Read the origin stories for twitter, google, amazon, facebook – they are all created by intel agencies.
“The need for control is a reaction to fear.”
So if evil bad sadistic us just stopped doing such scary things, like I suppose insurrections and domestic terrorism and not using the right pronouns, these dear sweet people, who are by nature and nurture Jeffersonian Democrats and Mother Theresas, would not have turned into Hitlarian monsters.
Yes, it’s all our fault and we should eternally be ashamed of ourselves as we burn in hell for what we have caused.
I think Trump already knows or suspects this, which is why he won’t be going back on Twitter and is focusing on Truth Social. Maybe Musk means well and expose all this to the public but at the end of the day if DHS pulls the plug that leaves a void to be filled, which can be filled by Trump’s platform.
My working theory (and please add or correct)
Elon Musk is made wealthy via taxpayer subsidies whether it’s solar, electric cars, renting his rockets for government use, etc. He does contribute as he is undoubtedly intelligent, but the meat of his wealth really is just a wealth transfer from taxpayers. Therefore it likely had strings attached that weren’t necessarily clearly delineated say back in 2007.
Now he’s the richest man alive. DS comes calling that if he wants to keep up with his pursuits that share a common goal with .gov, they need him to “purchase” Twitter. They then need to him to do XYZ in order to throw shade on deepstate Jack Dorsey. All the while Jack is working on his new and improved social media company called BlueSky. Now Vijaya and all the other woke expendables get thrown under the bus under the guise of “new revelations of things occurring behind Jack’s back” (with the exception of guys like James Baker).
And more less, just like that Elon looks like a free speech savior to the right, a heathen to the left, the DS in actuality still runs Twitter while BlueSky captures the woketards that ditch Twitter. All the truly culpable people walk away while doing just enough to quench some of the simmering anger as to prevent further legal or extra legal action. AND, definitely not least, the illegal actions of the uniparty, SES, DS continue unobstructed….
Okie Cat Backer: I agree with your comment.
Or, he’s a high tech cowboy, ala Ross Perot.
We are winning! For now, anyway. Have to form a Populist Party w/ Trump and Arizona Kate at the helm. The R party can’t be reformed. It’s Deep State Mic faction crushed the Tea Party, and has been working against similar populists since at least 2015. The Deep State MIC. and RINO (#Resistance #NeverTrumpers) and the MIC bureaucrats forged a hasty joint venture with the Socialist Democrats to eliminate Trump as a factor. We are led by morons. So time to go 3P with Trump!
That would be Kari Lake, sir, not ‘Arizona Kate’. Show enuf respect and do enought background to at least get her name right.
Oh. No wonder I got banned from Twitter for pointing out Balenciaga broke, Twitter was ablaze with it, and then Elon conveniently let out a little bit of truth and now no one is talking about it. Kanye showing up in a black sackcloth and saying a bunch of crazy didn’t turn the ship enough. Well they did drop however that celebrities have access to the “Trusted Partnership”, too, and Chrissy Teigen’s pizza tweets and many others magically vanished when wikileaks broke. I called the Friday night thing a distraction and I’m banned.
Liz Conkin did a story equating Balenciaga and Pizzagate – what do you all make of her?
I think Liz Crokin is the real deal. She has been painted as a crazy conspiracy theorist, but her data all checks out.
General Flynn just endorsed her work, so that is good enough to seal it for me.
Just a side note: There is a very real hurdle to overcome in accepting the reality of what this international group of psychopaths has been doing to children. Everything in human psychological defense construction wants to dismiss it as fiction. It is normalcy bias on steroids.
That is why, in order to even discuss it, to bring it into the Overton window, it requires a process of revelation, not a head on unveiling of the truth.
We are still all absorbing the psychological body blows of a shift of our reality to a world in which elections have been rigged for years, our government wants to force poison shots on us for profit, and our media is nothing but a mind control operation.
That’s a lot.
It may be that it is precisely that shift in our “reality ” – and the necessary questioning of everything we thought we knew – that allows us to jump the normalcy bias hurdle and to consider the distinct possibility – even probability – that the Demna and Harold Ford and Podesta “art” is nothing less than a true depiction of ongoing depravity and murder.
The longer I read here, the more nimbly I’m able to jump those normalcy-bias hurdles.
A lifetime of reading science fiction helps. So many of the outrages we are experiencing popped up decades ago in that fiction.
For example: There’s an Isaac Asimov story in which voting is finally reduced to computer choice of a single voter, whose vital signs are studied by a team of white-coat technicians, and the result announced without even asking that single person for an opinion.
No longer far-fetched!
Keep spreading the Treehouse as far as possible.
With all his savvy he’s still hopelessly naive. Unless it’s some form of 5 D chess. Which I doubt.
The Gates, Bezos, Zuckerbergs and the like are the oligarchs either deluded by thinking they are benefactors to humanity or else just pure amoral facilitators of the evil reset.
And I would think it’s the latter. Maybe somewhat out of fear of the repercussions of going against the machine. But more from their gigantic egos and greed.
It seems the Baker firing (a multi year goobermint stooge) is what would be done to 99% of DC gobberment workers if in the private sector. Fired quickly like any new hire that didn’t make it thru the 60 day probationary period. Fraudci wouldn’t make it a week in the private sector.
NO, I’m sure he knows EXACTLY what he purchased and counting on TikTok being banned was probably part of his claim about turning Twitter massively profitable.
And, BTW, the TEST by Kanye West of Musk’s absolute free speech pledge which includes anything not specifically illegal gave him a failed grade which is to be fully expected on any platform that depends on ad revenue.
Watch this from a self-made man, an Iranian expat and US patriot. Musk replacing TikTok is probably part of the plan:
How Twitter Will Turn Into A Trillion Dollar Company – Patrick Bet-David Makes A Prediction
Nov 9, 2022 – 337,299 views
Valuetainment – 3.72M subscribers
It’s beyond stunning that with everything “our” government does and is in control of that they have the audacity to refer to Russia, or any other country for that matter, an autocracy or dictatorship.
The Cabal deserves to fall.
The lecturing US Government has less moral authority than a house fly.
Isn’t that in the Alinsky-Rules?
Accuse others of what you are doing…….
Projection. The Evil Ones tell us exactly what they are doing by what they accuse others of doing. Fundamental truth of the world today; everything is both a lie and the truth, concurrently. This has been Satan’s modus operandi for all time.
Take nothing for Truth, nothing for granted. Question Everything. Flip the lies you hear and pin them back on the teller. They are advertising their malice with every word, and telling us exactly what they are up to. Use this to see clearly.
The need for control is a reaction to fear
Alternate view:
The need for control is a pathological need to control.
Your “alternate view” is the correct view.
Why wasn’t Baker exited on day one!
I would like to think that he was set up, logged, and burned, along with his tracks back into Leviathan. Elon is not only just the richest guy in the world…
Yes, the DHS still probably has a portal, and I believe that before the programmer geeks left the building (or were escorted out), they put the censorship engine on auto-pilot. So, if any email comes in with a specific format through that ‘[email protected]’ email address, just do what it says. Fill out a form and the job is done automatically.
I think Elon should be following @TheLastResort !
@TheLastRefuge2 even 😉
We need to get rid of ALL of DC.
I doubt there is much on paper at Twitter. Any place where records are digital would presumably have regular back-up (my old law firm backed up its digital files every night.)
Baker would have to have access to the backed-up archives and be able to delete without the deletions being recoverable or even without leaving a digital trail of his deletions. It’s possible, but one hopes Elon has the techies who can retrieve anything Baker tried to destroy.
Excellent post.
I’d be surprised if Baker does not have at his disposal better experts than Twitter has when it comes to the Twitter/dhs/fbi systems.
Baker not being there may not be the solved problem it appears to be.
“ ….DHS controls Twitter.
…Elon Musk is now the face of that enterprise.”
Whatever Elon Musk does is exactly what the shadow government instructed. Musk is exactly who they want, they already have worked with him for years on classified projects. Things are working out exactly as they planned. Forget the “appearances” of ideologies, parties and politics, which are all red herrings and distractions; they are beyond those facades.
Since everyone in a position of power these days seems to be in the Pretending Game…
My guess is Musk is probably pretending to not know a whole slew of things so as not to tip off his new found frienemies in government of some intentions he has that they wouldn’t exactly approve of.
All the more reason to quit twitter and Facebook.
It never made sense that the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk would be allowed to occur if DHS control of the operating system could be yanked. But, surely, the sale had to have been an ‘as is’ deal with the government portals included. Musk had to have been made aware of that and is now allowing the government to drip out selected files to appease the aggrieved.
Plausible.
No. That would be blatant illegality. Too blatant. So I just think TPTB thought they could control Musk into acquiescing to whatever they want, with either enticements or threats.
We will see.
SD Gov Noem banning Tik Tok certainly burnishes her swamp credentials
Well ,that is helpful in explaining why I’m locked out of my account nearly every other week.
Happened again today after just being let back in last Friday. I’m not breaking any of the stated rules . I just say …stuff. Not hateful,not inviting violence not racist. Just pointing out things I observe. For example today I pointed out how it was interesting how Elon was used,in an article, as the one celebrity by name,among the MANY celebrities who allegedly are using a particular Diabetes 2 drug to lose weight.This celebrity weight loss fad is attributed to the difficulty in obtaining the drug now.
To reiterate ..Elon was the the only celebrity named/villianized.
I know a retired person who is playing a lot of money per year for Trulicity. I had not heard that Elon said he uses it.
Always learn something here…
Breaking News, Elon Musk just fired twitter lawyer Jim Baker, saying Baker was refusing to let Musk see the documents he wants.
Former (fired) DOJ/FBI counsel James Baker; corrupt to the core.
A small but significant step for Elon. Many more to go.
And shows that claims that Musk is under the command of the deep state are foolish.
Musk knows how to make money. Period. And while his claim about absolute freedom of speech for any speech that is not specifically illegal has been tested by Kanye West and failed, which is to be expected for any service that depends on ad revenue, Musk’s Trump-like trolling of woke snowflakes shows that Twitter will not be a leftist filter of the narrative.
More on Musk NOT being deep state from way back in May:
Musk may not yet fully appreciate exactly how much control the Deep State actually can exert over the coffee shop operation……
If DHS has direct portals to the coffee distribution machinery, then they can covertly control which flavors are offered and who can get them….. Musk can fire coffee shop employees but has no control over DHS employees.
Yep.
“Musk can fire coffee shop employees but has no control over DHS employees.”
Portals have two “ends”……… close one end and the DHS employees at the other end become unproductive very fast………..therefore, Mr. Musk just needs to close his end to the portal, DHS be damned.
Maybe….if he knows where it is located….in the code….
OTOH, if his entire back end is dependent upon government-provided-and-maintained server farms, Musk has what is possibly an insurmountable problem gaining “full control.”
Someone shown the door,
may have ‘left’ a computer behind ? [ and people know…. ]
hmmm…
My thouhts also. In fact I can’t fathom that they will allow him access to all the info needed to full be transparent. “I can’t let you do that.”
“You’re fired”, or disconnected, is a good start
lots of hardwired ports and bugs I’m sure
Elon is going to have to do some serious rip and replace to reduce access
Ah, but he can disable those portals …if the code is actually under Twitter’s control.
“if he knows…”
“if the code….”
“The terrible ‘IFs’ accumulate.” (original quote by Sir Winston Churchill)
Don’t make these government crooks out to be geniuses ………………..
“0”s and “1”s…….. there are many, many, many smart MAGA Americans who know their way around “o”s and “1”s to find and close Mr. Musk’s portal end.
I’m sure many illegal accesses will be numerous and previously for convenience
Do not overlook this man. Foolish I am not. Elon is a Control. W.E.F. as it gets. His hobbies are theirs dreams.
Making money is not what the people against Musk do. They print all the fiat they need with CTRL+P. Elon Musk is disrupting their power and control over the hearts and minds of ordinary people. What we’re seeing is the real-life, real-time drama of evil people under the control of spiritual wickedness in high places making their penultimate stand. All that supernatural stuff we laughed at in Sunday school is coming true.
One small step for Musk. One giant step for mankind.
Love that! 🙂 I needed a good laugh; thank you! 🙂
I guess Musk isn’t so clueless after all.
That is a heap big rat tossed out of the central DHS cocoon.
My personal questions arise around the information flow / directives / protocol to and from Baker as part of his duties at Twitter.
I said many months ago that Musk would be countered by an army of Fifth Column fascist operatives if they were allowed to remain in the company.
Hopefully, removing the human excrement named Jim Baker gives Musk the idea that he should review the employment history of EVERY REMAINING TWITTER EMPLOYEE and fire anyone with DOJ, FBI, Biden Regime, or IC credentials.
And just shut down the portals as well. That would be earthquake epic. Probably won’t happen but I can dream, right?
If he did that, would he have the server capacity to handle the requests?
I posted the full list of the 7000 employees here last week, but it got deleted. It would have been interesting to see who had legal/FBI/Military backgrounds etc
Do you have a link? I can’t find any articles that say Baker refused to let Musk see some documents.
The news reports I’ve found all say simply that Musk fired Jim Baker because he was involved in the Hunter laptop censorship.
Never mind, TL — I found your news source, the best. Per Matt Taibbi, Jim Baker was scrubbing the files before letting anyone see them.
Oddly enough about a dozen news outlets I checked chose not to share that particular detail when covering Baker’s firing. Wow.
Time for some serious file recovery.
The larger question which I hope Musk has considered before the firing is the preservation of documents before Deep State Lawfare Superstar James Baker could steal or destroy.Ooops it appears Baker was able to protect scrub documents to protect his IC buddies. Damn…
Or, use Lawfare to go after him.
I am convinced Seth Rich was utilized for ballot harvesting and fraudulent votes. They didn’t cheat enough for Hilary
But fired only after the most damning evidence had been destroyed
we’ll see if delete is permanent
Jim Baker must have felt invincible mistaking Elon Musk and thinking he still worked for President Donald Trump at the FBI!
Yay, Elon!
Then Musk needs to release those documents forthwith. I’m probably being a little naive here but Musk should expose the DHS portal to the general public so the government can be held accountable. Next congress can be forced to get rid of Sec. 230 exemptions.
I want to se this unravel so normal “we the people” see how corrupt our government is and respond accordingly. Then we can talk about major reforms to re-establish our Constitutional Bill of Rights.
If indeed Musk did not have a clue about the DHS portal and extensive government funding, he should be able to get his money back from Jack and the government. Next, go after facebook. Expose, Expose, Expose. Pull the string and watch it unravel. Let’s hope Musk’s intentions are pure and patriotic. I have my doubts but would like to be surprised.