Independent journalist Matt Taibbi is looking for some additional research assistance [SEE HERE]. Specifically, after going a little deeper on the Twitter Files, Taibbi appears to be recognizing the visibility of the Fourth Branch of Government. He now needs to package the truth of it, in a way his former tribe will accept.
As a consequence, Taibbi is looking for (1) a reporter or academic with experience researching government contracts, and/or the funding of NGOs or academic research institutions; and (2) an infographics designer, preferably with experience in areas like ecosystem mapping.
Taibbi is a solid and inquisitive research journalist. However, he is still averse to recognizing Chicago Jesus as the originator of the modern issues he is outlining.
The issue of not accepting the Obama network as the structure that underpins the modern political surveillance state is common, even amid the tribe of walkaways from the progressive system.
Give him time, he’ll find see it.
From his current mission as expressed: […] “For decades, our government at least loosely complied with legislation like the Smith-Mundt Act, which prohibits aiming at the domestic population any official propaganda “intended for foreign audiences.” However, gloves came off in recent years.
In a remarkably short time since the end of the Obama presidency, the U.S. government has funded an elaborate network of NGOs and think-tanks whose researchers call themselves independent “disinformation experts.” They describe their posture as defensive — merely “tracking” or “countering” foreign disinformation — but in truth they aggressively court both the domestic news media and platforms like Twitter, often becoming both the sources for news stories and/or the referring authorities for censorship requests.
The end result has been relentless censorship of, and mountains of (often deceptive) state-sponsored propaganda about, legitimate American political activity. In the Twitter Files we see correspondence from state agencies and state-sponsored research entities describing everything from support of the Free Palestine movement to opposition to vaccine passports as illicit foreign propaganda. Some of this messaging devolves into outright smear campaigns, with efforts to denounce the organic #WalkAway hashtag as a Russian “psychological operation” serving as a particularly lurid example. The Hamilton 68 story (about which more is coming) hints at this dynamic.
The irony is the entire field of “disinformation studies” itself has the features of an inorganic astroturfing operation. Disinformation “labs” cast themselves as independent, objective, politically neutral resources, but in a shocking number of cases, their funding comes at least in part from government agencies like the Department of Defense. Far from being neutral, they often have clear mandates to play up foreign and domestic threats while arguing for digital censorship, de-platforming, and other forms of information control.
Worse, messages from these institutions are parroted more or less automatically by our corporate press, which has decided that instead of a network of independent/adversarial newspapers and TV stations, what the country needs is one giant Voice of America, bleating endlessly about “threats to democracy.” I’ve come to believe a sizable percentage of reporters don’t know that their sources are funded by the government, or that they’re repeating government messaging not just occasionally but all the time. The ones who don’t know this truth need to hear it, and the ones who knew all along need to be exposed. This project is about both of those things, too.
Foreign state media is labeled on platforms like Twitter.
I want to put labels on our own propaganda, and need your help to do it.”
If he keeps going…. he will see it.
[Understand Modern Fourth Branch of Govt Here]
President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; that system was created by President George W Bush and VP Dick Cheney. Instead, what they did was take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons only targeted one side of the political continuum.
The intelligence apparatus does not want their public-private partnership, between government and big tech social media, interfered with. President Obama steps forth in April 2022 to put an exclamation point in place, saying the public-private partnership he created must control the information. WATCH:
I cannot emphasize strongly enough; how close this collective demand is to a similar construct in Orwell’s 1984 prediction of “The Ministry of Truth.” Indeed, if you follow the need for government control of information its logical conclusion, these demands by the U.S. deep state architects are identical.
I also hope readers can see this speech for what it is. THIS is exactly what we were warning about when the shadows were moving feverously in the past several weeks {GO DEEP}. The catchphrases “disinformation”, “misinformation” and “malinformation” are being cited by President Obama in that speech. Where did that lingo come from? THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY {SEE HERE}
At the top of all critical issues we must understand, share and keep focus on, the issue surrounding the free flow of information is the most critical.
Free speech, social media platforming, user bans, censorship, demonetization, financial targeting of Canadian truckers, Elon Musk purchasing Twitter then reveals the Twitter files, our ability to communicate, the culture war, the digital identity issue, heck, even your ability to read this, all of it, surrounds the central component of information.
This is the big war. Controlling, labeling, emphasizing, downplaying, removing, information; everything else is downstream from this fight.
While President Obama talked about the dangers of misinformation and disinformation, it was only a week prior when the White House officially admitted to creating misinformation, disinformation and malinformation as part of their strategic campaign against Russia in Ukraine. NBC news gleefully embraced the strategy {SEE HERE}.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has an official agency mission {SEE HERE} to “help the American people understand the scope and scale of Mal, Dis, and Misinformation activities,” and Google/DuckDuckGo/Big Tech have officially aligned with both U.S. government interests promising to target, remove and penalize any entity engaged in Mal, Dis and Misinformation activities.
Putting aside the creation of lies to advance a strategic geopolitical objective, the bigger admission in the U.S. government is that much of the information coming to the American public – from them – is manufactured, false, fabricated and wrong.
Simultaneous to this admission of manufactured lies, the platforms of Big Tech and social media are saying they will target, remove and block any content that contradicts the official government position. The govt boldly admits they lie, and social media states they will block anyone who refutes those lies.
In the case of Google, the dominating search engine for information over the internet, they state it is an infraction against their policy to espouse a claim “that contradicts official government records.” Yet, the U.S. government is officially admitting the information they are creating for the government records, is self-admittedly false….. and now in comes DuckDuckGo with the assist.
Not wanting to overinflate the CTH position, but this admitted reality is exactly why we have taken the following position.
…”There is no such thing as “disinformation” or “misinformation”. There is only information you accept and information you do not accept. You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.”…
There are only two elements within the public discussion of information, truth and not truth.
In an era filled with “fact-checkers” and institutional guardians at the gates of Big Tech, let me explain exactly why it is important not to accept the speech rules of the guards.
When you accept the terms “disinformation”, “misinformation” or the newest lingo, “malinformation,” you are beginning to categorize truth and lies in various shades. You are merging black and white, right and wrong, into various shades of grey.
When your mind works in the grey zone, you are, by direct and factual consequence, saying there is a problem. You are correct; however, this is where people may make a mistake. That problem is supposed to be there.
It is not a solution to the problem to try and remove the grey simply because it takes too much work to separate the white pixels from the black ones.
You were born with a gift, the greatest gift a loving God could provide. You were born with a brain and set of natural instincts that are tools to do this pixel separation, use them.
If you define the grey work as a problem you cannot solve on your own, you open the door for others to solve that problem for you. You begin to abdicate the work, and that’s when trouble can enter. The sliding scale of Pinocchios is one of the most familiar yet goofy outcomes.
Put more clearly, when you accept the terminology “disinformation”, you accept a problem. The problem is then the tool by which authorities will step in to make judgements. Speech, in its most consequential form, is then qualified by others to whom you have sub-contracted your thinking.
When you willingly sub-contract information filters to others, you have lost connection with the raw information. CTH was founded upon the belief that truth has no agenda, nor does it care about you, your feelings, or your opinion of it. It just sits there, empirically existing as evidence of information in its most pure form.
The search for truth, in all things, is the mission objective of this assembly. Often, we don’t like the truth; often, the truth is bitter, cold, challenging and even painful to accept. However, the truth doesn’t care. Information in its most raw form is ambivalent to your opinion. If you struggle to accept these things, that’s when you need grey. The New York Times is not called the “grey lady” accidentally.
Personally, I am an absorber of information – perhaps on a scale that is unusual. But I do not discount information from any form until I can put context to it and see if the information makes sense given all the variables present. When something doesn’t feel right, it’s almost always because it isn’t right.
Often, I find myself struggling in the grey and complex. It is not unusual to spend days researching, digging, clarifying a situation, only to discover the path to finding the truth is in another direction entirely. Erasing everything and starting over is frustrating, but it is genuinely the only approach that works; and often finding truth is supposed to be difficult, that’s why it is rewarding.
In the digital information age, we are bombarded with information. It is easy to be overwhelmed and need to find something or someone who has better skills at separating the black grains from the white ones. All opinions in this quest should be considered; thus, it is important to allow the free flow of information.
I am not necessarily a speech absolutist. There is some language that needs to be constrained if we are to participate in a respectful society, with grandma’s rules and knowing the audience. The CTH has guidelines for comments for this exact reason. However, those constraints need to be based on a set of inherent values. When it comes to information it is important to draw a distinction from speech.
There needs to be an open venue for all information. Unfortunately, when we begin to apply labels or categorization to information, there’s an opportunity for information to be manipulated – even weaponized. Saul Alinsky spent decades pondering the best techniques to weaponize information and speech. Alinsky’s intentions, in the endeavor to change society by changing how language and information was used, were not good. He devoted his completed rulebook book to Lucifer.
Be careful about anyone saying we need to label or categorize information in order to control or remove speech from the discussion.
You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a God-given brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.
Unfortunately, the collectively aligned group of U.S. Govt, the Intelligence Community and now Big Tech, are saying they will put every roadblock they can muster in your way as you attempt to navigate through the misinformation they control.
Team Obama built the system, and now Team Obama are defending the system.
This also happened in April, 2022, the day before Obama’s speech….
It’s nice to see people like Matt be open to the idea that our government is ramming propoganda and censorship down everyone’s eyes & ears. Gives me hope for others in the middle left.
He will eventually makes the Obozo connection (aka Chicago Jesus)
“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.” Sundance
Was this the day (July 6, 2011) the infamous day? Or was this day Jack’s reward for working with the Chicago Jesus on the Arab Spring?
But will he exploit the ‘Chicago Jesus’ connection; I doubt it, exposing their fellow travelers, particularly ‘Chicago Jesus,’ is just not in their DNA.
That, unfortunately, is a VERY ACCURATE meme.
a BOLSHEVIK IS A BOLSHEVIK IS A …
They are all selling equality of outcome….the impossible dream of utopia.
Classic Sundance:
“CTH was founded upon the belief that truth has no agenda, nor does it care about you, your feelings, or your opinion of it. It just sits there, empirically existing as evidence of information in its most pure form.
The search for truth, in all things, is the mission objective of this assembly.
Often, we don’t like the truth; often, the truth is bitter, cold, challenging and even painful to accept. However, the truth doesn’t care. Information in its most raw form is ambivalent to your opinion.”
I especially admire to watch our host Sundance slice and dice with the great sword of fact/truth on twitter.
Well Sundance, here is your chance to be Mark Twain, and help the poor guy.
Sundance is too busy to juggle with another spiked ball..
All Matt Taibbi needs to do, is to read Sundance’s Blog Posts here!
Well, can, or has someone posted SD’s excellent research/info online to this gentleman?
Sundance has tagged him many times.
Though I do hope Treepers who Twit are passing this on too.
l think too many people do not appreciate the volume of Twitter data that must be combed through.
Sundance would be of more use once the needles have been pulled out the haystack, tho these researchers would benefit from Sundance’s thoughts on what sort of needles they s/b on the lookout for
You give him far more grace than I do Sundance. At this point, it is willful ignorance.
I think Taibbi has finally realized that he was willfully blind because it is easier to live there than to accept that you were being lied to by people you trusted, admired, and supported BUT I think he is now honestly looking to discover, and report on, the truth so that others will also be able to be “set free” from the Matrix of lies!
He’ll get there. Once seen, can’t be unseen. Many who have preceded him had their Damascene moment.
Think Thomas Sowell and Justice Thomas.
Yes!!! Great examples of brilliant men who “get it” because they were humble enough to admit that they too had been wrong and took their experiences as a springboard to helping others to see the light!
Agreed vikingmom and Betsy! I am encouraged that Taibbi is seeking assistance with very defined skill sets in mind suggesting an interest in cutting through the rhetorical window dressing and getting to the most salient facts.
Glenn Grenwald has some interesting questions about Ron DeSantis too. Very similar with Sundance’s observations and the uni-party.
I have a hunch that gg may read Sundance?
Andrew Breitbart
If only….sigh…
And yes. He did have his moment. Wish he were here to help.
And Betsy, look at the wrong turns breitbatyonline is taking. At least the European version.
Having just finished rereading 1984, Sundance is uncanny.
And many of us treepers here.
Amen, amen.
Two EXCELLENT examples!
And both freely admit they were wrong. The most powerful attribute about each. I admire them both tremendously doubly for their strength of character in the face of utter hatred.
But it is Justice Thomas, who faced the worst. The absolute worst. And he held to his beliefs and called out the ones who slandered him mercilessly. I doubt Biden or Kennedy even understood what he was doing..to them.
Head held high, eye balled the two degenerates, and never showed the anger he must have felt.
My gosh I admire that man!
And look at the attacks on his wife! Well said as usual Bet.
When I think of him, I think of her also, Colkitto. With the same level of admiration.
The interview she did with him, she questioning and he answering, was one I will never ever forget.
Where can I see this interview Betsy?
Hope your good my dear friend. I feel like I let you down the other day. Though you handled yourself like the wise highroad traveling Silmaril you are
I have two questions if anyone can help.
You can copy it to notepad, word and upload to this site and wala PDF.
https://docupub.com/pdfconvert/
Thank you for this info.
On a Mac, if you are using one:
Go to: Safari header at top of screen.
Mouse on “File” then scroll down to “Export as PDF.”
Or google for instructions.
If you are not on mobile, you should be able to go to the File menu, scroll down to Print, and see an option to save as a pdf. Not sure what browser you are using, but I use Brave, and have made a lot of pdfs easily. Before you actually ‘save’ you can put in which pages as well if you don’t want entire article. It also depends upon your operating system: apple or other, including linex, with which not very familiar.
Linux (not Linex!!!)…otherwise….this is the best/easiest path. Piece of cake with OS X.
Thanks so much.
peace:
To me, this is a blog/thread hijacking.
You may not be aware of our loving and gracious host’s Guidelines for Comments, which he referenced in his blog above.
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2) Post the second question in the daily Presidential thread.
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There is a ALWAYS a daily open thread available for any subject you feel should get attention. Never place unrelated, “O/T”, or “Off Topic” comments on a thread unrelated to the topic.
It is not ok to say: “sorry, O/T but”… or any iteration therein, it is actually quite rude.
The Treehouse operates on the ‘old school‘ standards and practices of civil discourse amid the original blogging community.
To me, this is a blog/thread hijacking. And a long one too.
I read what you wrote and made note of the fact that you are way off topic. Please read the guidelines for posting.
Peace, your question:
“Whatever happened to Bari Weiss and her involvement with the twitter files?” is most definitely on topic with the release of twitter files and I too would like an answer to this.
I have not yet seen a response to this question which is a good one.
When I print, I have an option to print to a .pdf. I do that and then save it.
Most browsers now support a Print/Export to PDF.
If you’re using Windows, Microsoft’s pdf printer should have been installed by default.
I usually read from my iPhone and when I want to save a CTH post as a PDF, I do it this way….
I will scroll down so that the browser address window, Bookmark and new web page window icons appear at the bottom of the screen.
There will also be an icon that is a square with an upward arrow in the middle of it (Export icon).
I’ll hit the export icon in the bar that pops-up at the bottom of the page (the pop-up menu is activated by scrolling up/down in the post if it is not otherwise already showing).
Then I will scroll down the export menu that appears and choose Print.
At this point the print window populates and at the the bottom of that window you will see squares, snapshots, panes, of sections the CTH post in sequential order from left to right.
You can scroll left to right and back again between panes.
If there are panes you don’t want to print in the classic sense of printing or as a PDF (usually panes containing adds), tap on the pane and the check in mark on the pane in the blue circle will be removed designating that pane will not be in your PDF (or printed if you choose the print option).
How do you do the PDF creation at this point???
With the finger press-and-stretch.
On any of the panes that populated, press on one of them with your thumb and forefinger pressed together.
Now simultaneously separate your thumb and forefinger, again while pressing against the pane.
A new window will populate and at the lower left of the screen you will see the Export icon again.
Click on it and another window will populate.
Scroll that window and click on the iCloud file or what ever File location you choose to save the CTH PDF file.
Now a new window appears.
At the upper portion of this window will be a box where the title of the article will have auto populated — file name (you can change the file name if you want).
Last step, at the upper right of this page you will see Save.
Press Save and the article will be saved as a PDF in the file you designated.
I could go to jail for stating my preference of a future for our Chicago Jesus
Don’t waste your time.
Alinsky wrote for Lucifer, Moses and the prophets and the apostles wrote for the Lord of Hosts. That is where the battle is. “If you continue in my word, you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” Curious that the CIA refers only to the second part of that quote, pretending they have an alternate source of truth. There is a cosmic spiritual struggle going on, and the result has been determined. Go with the winner.
Plus, the winner, Jesus Christ, prayed, “sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” for any who put their faith in him.
I’ll stand right there.
Ha, waiting for Taibbi’s come to Jesus moment. This putz and his fellow propagandist putzes are responsible for the mess we are in. He’s a day late and way too many dollars short.
May God have mercy on these elitist Janus faced writers who are blinded by the belief in their moral superiority to us common rubes.
Taibbi may indeed be a putz, but WE are responsible for the mess that we are in. God commands each of us to do some serious soul searching to change our *own* hearts and minds. Then, we can safely leave the rest up to Him.
Chicago Jesus alway looks like he smells of BO, cigarettes and cheap cologne
Don’t insult BO, cigarettes, or cheap cologne.
That being said, I do agree with you.
Blessed to have found CTH
Your attitude Sundance is that of a fellow traveler , I know plenty exist but we tend to travel alone -you putting such simple common sense powerful principals to words that lead / teach others is Brilliant and beyond comforting-
Thank You
Marty its why we are all hear pull up a branch and make your self comfortable be well stay strong blessings
R.D.
I wish President Trump had implemented the emergency broadcast system and I wish he had thrown all these media outlets Out onto the street. He could have ordered the military to start telling the American people the truth. The media keeps this country ignorant and stupid and complacent. If the American people knew the truth about how horrible our government is , the government would collapse as it should.
I believe DJT is a student of history, and I think he would rather we all woke up, helping our friends and acquaintances as opposed to having the government do it. Don’t think that would be as effective.
See Matt Taibbi as an example.
Well all be dead by the time that happens if it ever does. And now we are faced with unimaginable destruction of this country which could have all been avoided. God only knows what is going to happen with all these evil people controlling everything. The majority of people don’t believe something is real unless it’s on the six o’clock news. Everything else is a “conspiracy “. I was trying to talk to my neighbor once and that’s exactly what she said. Have another friend who basically accuses me of lying because what I’m saying is not on the six o’clock news. In my humble opinion, President Trimp blew the opportunity of a lifetime. He’s never going to get back in office with all the voter fraud. I don’t know why he’s even bothering to run. I used to be what they call red pilled and now I’m black pilled. Even when I see a glimmer of good news I come here and realize that even that glimmer is unwarranted. The mockingbird media controls all.
So we have a ‘god’ in DeSantis and a ‘jesus’ in Obama.
I nominate all #IRegretTrump people as Brutus or Peter.
Could someone nominate the #IamSmarterThanTrump people as ??
how about just naming them fools?
Anyone unwilling to foist much of this problem on Obama is a politics driven liar. You can’t land anywhere else without going around the barn so far as to leave the area code.
Do not leave Holder out of the discussion.
He’s been engaged in agitprop since his university days. One of AG Reno’s favorite gunslingers during the Clinton years, and self-proclaimed Obama wing man.
The CTH is one of the very few sites that is not pushing any agenda, that is what makes it real. Being a regular here and reading most comments on most topic seems to be a filtering all its own. Regardless of private funding from users, seems this site will become an even bigger target of the information pushers. From my perspective, there isn’t any other place to see issues unfiltered.
CTH’s agenda is exposure, more exposure and then still more exposure.
I also noticed Matt’s comment about how things started going bad “since the end of the obama presidency.” I would give his coverage of russiagate a solid B. He sensed trump didn’t collude with the russians much earlier than most, but he never made the connection that it was a planned hit job by obama and hillary.
I subscribe to his substack and in his comments section I actually recommended that he seek out the proprietor of this site. I wonder if he will (a) actually do so and (b) come to the same conclusion as CTH.
TY for doing that!
Did Sundance leave out one of the bigger quotes?
Didn’t some in government state that managing the message was going to be more important, even in military engagements??
Matt if youre reading this- youre a friggen phoney ok? The research has already been done …By Sundance and its all here. But thats not what your trying to do is it?
I think it would be a great idea to let Sundance see the twitter files. Hear me Elon?
huh, If Taibbi was born with a shred of common sense, how could he not see it by now being a so called “research journalist” Say His Name. If it werent for Obama I probably wouldnt even be typing this right now.
How dumb you gotta be to investigate shite for a living and still be a dumb arss. I think he knows but can only dream of Andrew Breitbarts balls. Maybe hes employed by the coffee shop to push the shiny thing agenda until the 2024 installations are complete.
Admiral Mike Rogers signature – – the same guy who warned Trump about being listened to in Trump Tower? Trump packed up and went to his place in New Jersey if I remember correctly
Yes, one and the same…. Admiral Rogers’ signature on that letter has been troubling me since the day the letter was published….
I’ve not heard any reasonable explanation for it and, knowing Admiral Rogers a little from past business dealings, it makes no sense….
Especially in light of the warning he gave to PDJT as you point out….
Same here…Rogers exposed the NSA “about query” abuses. Why is he part of that charade?
Puzzling…. I really don’t know, Rosco… If he is not one of the ‘good guys’, I give up… Because he has always been a good guy.
Thx for sharing your thoughts. I really appreciate the way he’s been low profile after retiring from the Navy. No Sunday news shows or op eds that I’m aware of. This is why I’m so puzzled by his signature on the letter (besides his warning to Trump).
A real mystery… I hope it has a good ending… He is a good man.
l have seen it suggested that the Rogers warning Trump story is just that…..a story. Trump was already planning on moving his ops to Bedord
Gee, why such a long story Sundance? I might miss the Black National Anthem!
Ugh! Don’t make me puke!
But you’ll be back in time for the halftime show.
From what Matt wrote, he has all the needed pieces. Eventually he will put them together. Like a jigsaw puzzle, he seems to still be working on the border.
Perhaps Mr. Taibbi will reach out to Sharyl Attkisson and see if she can guide him to the people he is looking for that will do the job and be equally “acceptable” to the goal post moving crowd.
Welcome to the party, Taibbi. You’re late. But better late than never.
Hey Matt…read SD’s CTH blog.
Welp, I guess he better watch out for the Clintons, Oblamers, Jarrett, and the rest of those criminals.
Too much digging could cost you your life.
These people are so narcissistic that they will do their best to ruin your life for their personal gains.
Instead of being sorry, they would rather be happy about it.
Seems like Taibbi is walking down the rabbit hole. Give him time and he will meet the “Chicago Jesus”. Can’t avoid him because he reside at the bottom.
Has Taibi been sent any of Sundance’s excellent explanations and facts on how all this came about?
I am not on Twitter, but I do plan to try to locate him on Truth or any of the other platforms and send a couple of them to him.
EVERYTHING they accuse us of doing, THEY ACTUALLY DO!
I thought we knew that for what, decades now?
Psychological Projection. “The Babylonian Talmud (500 AD) notes the human tendency toward projection and warns against it: “Do not taunt your neighbour with the blemish you yourself have.”[10] Religious people of the Christian faith believe that in the New Testament, Jesus also warned against projection: “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
(Cited by WikiDevil)
So for a “few” more than a decade or so 🧐
As Matt peels the layers off of this rotten core and makes public his findings, he may want to announce to the world that he is not suicidal.
Yup
It’s still mainstream media/social media that reaches the vast majority of people. Most just turn on their TV and read the familiar legacy sources for ‘the news.’ As well the Google/Twitter/Facebook type dominant online outlets.
Instructive too that the Hersh story got some traction and an official reaction because it came from a major mainstream source. If it was published in an alternative form it would have been ignored or dismissed from the start. At the least it produced a small ripple of discomfort.
The real information war is the alignment of governments with these majority mainstream propaganda machines.
At least in the U.S. there is a vibrant, fighting literate alternative ‘underground.’ Sadly, in other western countries there is a fraction of that. In Canada in particular information is overwhelmingly censored and controlled by intimidation and draconian new laws as bad as any country in history.
And the UK, unfortunately, as well.
“The irony is the entire field of “disinformation studies” itself has the features of an inorganic astroturfing operation. ”
Bingo.
We are through the looking glass now, into a surreal gaslit world.
Gaslighting everywhere.
Nothing can be taken at face value. Least of all anything emitted by government.
This is paid for by us, the taxpayers.
If I remember since 2008 before obama was installed, we stopped using budgets and have had a sustaining resolution ever since. Our Congress has given up on budgets that could control the DOJ, FBI, etc., but instead just keep whatever was done in 2008 plus an annual increase. This is how the deepstate took over. Congress lost control.
And don’t forget that Obama gave each federal dept./agency a 25% raise in budget.
Comrades, Anyone caught spreading dispropaganda will have their social credit scores cancelled, anf their social credit history erased.
The Truth is Never Told, It is Learned. Maybe Matt will learn sooner than later about barry, it would be to his advantage, hopefully that light bulb will turn on soon. I have to say it is rather gross seeing so much barry, makes me shudder. Great article though.
One of the best videos I have ever seen on NGO’s. It is well worth 12 minutes of time.
Sounds like more transparency is needed on NGO’s, in advance of their operation(s):
Or, eliminate their existence if transparency is not provided.
Were there NGO’s at:
-‘mostly peaceful protests’ summer of 2020 ?
-Congress building, 1/5/21, 1/6/21?
The most famous one here in the US was called ACORN, don’t know what their name is now. James O’Keefe busted them.
The State Dept and CIA will not put any transparency on these groups, they have been using them for years, they are quite effective.
Putting the pieces of this puzzle together to create a picture is a fine goal. What comes next?
You are competing with a government that has accepted the so called black national anthem to be presented prior to our national anthem…do you get the picture? The NFL will today make a statement, much like the recent Grammy’s where so called “artists” made their statements. Hillary walks about, Comey and Mueller dine at their country clubs, while Barr dons a Scott’s kilt: Are they worried? Biden intends to drive his Corvette while Hunter smiles with his new teeth as Jill looks for another set of lips to smack. Are they worried?
Mr. Musk has stuck his neck out with Twitter: Where are the soldiers ready to die for his leadership? Are there some in our Congress? Did you notice how smug former Twitter lawyer Baker recently of the FBI looked before Congress? Do you think Garland and Wray will answer any probing questions before Congress as they have been called to come testify?
It is going to come down to your votes. Do you see Republicans clamoring for an honest election, challenging these mail in votes, those electronic machines, the counters of votes:? Here comes the fight for illegals to vote in coming elections via their honest friends the democrats…see anybody trying to stop this game?
Folks, I don’t see any organized, serious pushback from the independents nor the Republicans. Serious pushback, stand your ground pushback, do or die pushback…so it comes down to the vote count, doesn’t it?
And who has proven they can rig an election–both in the suppression of information and in the counting of votes?
We know our enemy, it is within our borders, it is not a balloon, nor is it foreign. Our enemy is staring us right in the face, smirking and whispering “we dare you!” over and over again. The big dog is that guy with the sweeping handshake and toothy smile, presently hiding behind his Biden curtain. Behind him trying to overtake his play are the Clintons.
Donald Trump will try to beat the crap out of DeSantis prior to the election in the primaries. If he is successful, I would expect him to pick DeSantis (unless he fears a bullet to the head!) as his Vice President. Ain’t gonna be another chance for Pence, he should get a hair cream commercial and just fade away.
The really dark horse, in more ways than one is you know who…Michelle. That would create a real male versus female fight, way beyond Miss Hillary who needs to stay close to her wine cellar.
If voters are willing to elect a seriously impaired Fetterman, nothing is out of the question–even a ham sandwich could get elected!
What is this “voting” you speak of? Is that the same thing as “cheating”?
One more time: You will NEVER vote your way out from under tyranny!
George W Bush and Dick Cheney designed a fascist state and then Barack Obama and Eric Holder implemented it.
They picked up where GHW Bush and Bill Clinton left off.
For decades, our government at least loosely complied with legislation like the Smith-Mundt Act, which prohibits aiming at the domestic population any official propaganda “intended for foreign audiences.” However, gloves came off in recent years.
Matt Taibbi can start by researching who was in charge in 2012 when the Smith–Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 was passed and allowed propaganda to be directed at the domestic population.
I have kept this link open for over a year. I do not want to close it yet.
Read when you can.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2013/01/10/john-brennan-the-cia-zibgnew-brezinski-columbia-university-and-obama/
Crazy talk. Seems they’re suggesting Brennan might be a piece of human trash and Obama is less than honest when he claims to be a citizen. Can’t be true.
LOL!
I remember that story. Thx for putting it up. I remember people not wanting to believe any of it, or that beloved barry was not who he claimed. Most people I know just want to live their lives, and these people plot and scheme for decades, amazing how they can make their plans come to fruition.
Only 67 comments on that post.
The signs were all there even then.
The Media did everything but vet Obama.
Conservative sites were digging but the 4th branch did an amazing job of covering it all up.
In light of the secrecy of Obama those who could see were floored by the audacity,, the blatant crime that is the 2020 election.
I remember that Sundance article. Isn’t that Mika Scarborough Brzezinski’s father? Real small world, isn’t it?
I meant Mika Brzezinski Scarborough.
Sundance, guess you’re busy?
SD, Why doesn’t Matt just come here?
WSB- check out paragraph 2 in the article. I don’t think he can get what he needs from this site or any news or blog / commentary site. He needs specific government contracts to be researched and an infographics designer who has experience in areas like ecosystem mapping.
I see. Understood. Yet there must be someone here who can assist?
Yes that’s probably likely, I’d agree. But I don’t know the skillsets of most Treepers. Even if someone did, they’d be well advised to keep their actions private. And Sundance’s time is still consumed with recovery – his own property and assisting others – from Hurricane Ian.
Wink.
If you can control what someone thinks,you can control who and what they are. I think back to two things in the 1991 gulf war.
I now have been convinced that obama was a plant. God has a way of giving people the best descriptive names….obamanation!
Thanks for the cameo of my favorite player Lance “Bambi” Alworth!!
See my post upthread.
Yes, Obama is a front but the question is for who. I am thinking he is the front for the intelligence community.
Don’t know who, but he is DEFINITELY a front for somebody because he’s done one fine job of destroying this country. I was never taken in by his glib speeches and certainly not Michelle’s. I’m not susceptible to psy-ops.
PsyWars: Fifth Generation Warfare and Sovereignty
Molding, controlling, and capturing your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs are the objectives.
Robert W Malone MD, MS
Feb 3, 2023
“The video above [at the link below] is from the the Pandemic Strategies Conference in Stockholm, Sweden on January 21, 2023. The text below is a transcript of that speech.”
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/psywars-fifth-generation-warfare
That’s a MUST WATCH, BTW.
Very informative.
I’ve thought that from early in the Twitter Files releases. Elon and Sundance!
ps ~ love the meme
He should get help. I’ve known people to have mental breakdowns when they finally see truth.
Taibbi knows full well how bad this gets (child sacrifice, pedophilia, etc.). He’s no neophyte to this battle. But the current task is focused on evidence of what is likely illegal government coercion and illegal use of private entities to get around constitutionally defined and mandated limitations.
Matt sees the truth regularly. He’s good at unveiling it. But, he’s caught up in the machinations of the internal leftist hammer and sickle.
I really never know which direction he will go, but over the years, I’ve seen a pattern of him standing tall for the truth. He’s unique and always intriguing with a deeper perspective on things.
I wonder who he could team with? Maybe somebody we all know???
Well…if not, then I hear there is an opening at Project Veritas.
The Chicago Jesus ?
I’ve always felt he was the most insidious man in America…right from the start… when he first showed up.
It was always clear to me his intent was Evil.
He has eyes of Darkness.
A Dark Angel ?
There are such things.
While we talk about Angels of Light we rarely talk about Angels of Darkness, or acknowledge them.
Unfortunately, the collectively aligned group of U.S. Govt, the Intelligence Community and now Big Tech, are saying they will put every roadblock they can muster in your way as you attempt to navigate through the misinformation they control.
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In war, the object is to win. That’s most often done by dispatching the enemy.
Thanks for shining that sunlight disinfectant Sundance! Matt has found the help he needs: https://www.racket.news/p/thank-you/comments?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1042&post_id=102488634&utm_medium=email&isFreemail=true&comments=true.
Thank YouMATT TAIBBI
6 HR AGO
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“Just wanted to thank the overwhelming number of people who responded to the call for freelance help yesterday.
I’ve reached out to some already, others will be hearing from us in the next days, but in general, the breadth and intensity of the response is humbling. It seems a lot of people are feeling the same frustrations, and want to lend a hand.
Thanks again, and we’ll try to respond to as many letters as we can in the next week or so, before getting to work, hopefully with your help.”