Cointelpro Continues

On March 8, 1971, a cab driver, a day care provider, and two professors broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole more than 1,000 classified documents that they then mailed anonymously to several U.S. papers. They were members of the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI. They selected the night of the “Fight of the Century,” the boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, when most people would be glued to their radios. The documents revealed the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program — COINTELPRO — which was a series of covert, and often illegal, activity. The FBI conducted surveillance, infiltration, discreditation, and the disruption of domestic political organizations — including actions that led to murder.

The FBI began COINTELPRO—short for Counterintelligence Program—in 1956 to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party of the United States. In the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Black Panther Party.
Recently we've had the revelations of the Twitter files and the role of the FBI, CIA, etc in the Censorship Industrial Complex, the Durham report which makes clear the collusion between the DNC and FBI, and now the testimony of FBI whistleblowers in Congress describing FBI involvement in the Jan. 6 incident (and more). Sure seems to me Cointelpro 2.0 is alive and well.

Let's start by looking at the Censorship Industrial Complex...
U.S. Government Support For Domestic Censorship And Disinformation Campaigns, 2016 - 2022
Testimony by Michael Shellenberger to The House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, March 9, 2023

Today, American taxpayers are unwittingly financing the growth and power of a censorship-industrial complex run by America’s scientific and technological elite, which endangers our liberties and democracy...
The Twitter Files, state attorneys general lawsuits, and investigative reporters have revealed a large and growing network of government agencies, academic institutions, and nongovernmental organizations that are actively censoring American citizens, often without their knowledge, on a range of issues, including on the origins of COVID, COVID vaccines , emails relating to Hunter Biden’s business dealings, climate change, renewable energy, fossil fuels, and many other issues.

So basically we have the government deciding what speech is allowed and what speech must be suppressed.

... we know that the U.S. government has funded organizations that pressure advertisers to boycott news media organizations and social media platforms that a) refuse to censor and/or b) spread disinformation, including alleged conspiracy theories.
The Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, and Graphika all have inadequately-disclosed ties to the Department of Defense, the C.I.A., and other intelligence agencies. They work with multiple U.S. government agencies to institutionalize censorship research and advocacy within dozens of other universities and think tanks.
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The censorship industrial complex combines established methods of psychological manipulation, some developed by the U.S. Military during the Global War on Terror, with highly sophisticated tools from computer science, including artificial intelligence. The complex’s leaders are driven by the fear
that the Internet and social media platforms empower populist, alternative, and fringe personalities and views, which they regard as destabilizing. Federal government officials, agencies, and contractors have gone from fighting ISIS recruiters and Russian bots to censoring and deplatforming ordinary Americans
and disfavored public figures.
Importantly, the bar for bringing in military-grade government monitoring and speech-countering techniques has moved from “countering terrorism” to “countering extremism” to countering simple misinformation. The government no longer needs a predicate of calling you a terrorist or extremist to deploy government resources to counter your political activity. The only predicate it needs is simply the assertion that the opinion you expressed on social media is wrong.

Bottom line...you will be silenced if "we" don't like your message. I knew when TPTB took Trump off twitter that anyone can be silenced. Or, when a journalist like Julian can be imprisoned for revealing US war crimes it becomes obvious that we're in a globalized police state.

(18 min) Alexander suggests Julian will get more justice here in the states than in Britain. We'll see.

The Durham Report...

The report largely confirmed our worst fears that the FBI flouted the law, ignored basic human rights, and worked to overthrow President Donald Trump. It is only a misfortune that the report took four years to complete.
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The report said disgraced FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith "committed a criminal offense by fabricating language in an email that was material to the FBI obtaining a FISA surveillance order."
"In other instances, FBI personnel working on that same FISA application displayed, at best, a cavalier attitude towards accuracy and completeness," it said. It continued: "FBI personnel also repeatedly disregarded important requirements when they continued to seek renewals of that FISA surveillance while acknowledging – both then and in hindsight – that they did not genuinely believe there was probable cause to believe that the target was knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of a foreign power, or knowingly helping another person in such activities."
"And certain personnel disregarded significant exculpatory information that should have prompted investigative restraint and re-examination."
And the herald US intelligence network – 13 different agencies who can’t seem to communicate except when they get the story wrong – knew all about the real collusion in the 2016 presidential contest, the one between Hillary Clinton and the mainstream media who eagerly reported her lies about Trump working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin to steal the election.
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the media should be shouting in uniform outrage over the cesspool that Durham has revealed at FBI headquarters. This is not a few bad apples, a collection of motivated ideologues who believe America is better off being ruled by Democrats. The FBI and the DOJ are both seriously off the rails of sanity and democratic safety. They actively worked to overthrow one president – whom they continued to persecute by raiding his Florida home, searching for the secret files they never sought in Hillary Clinton’s hard drive.
The FBI and DOJ have remained criminally indifferent to the outrages committed by Hunter Biden and the rampant corruption that increasingly defines President Joe Biden and his entire sullied political career.

This whole affair led to the creation of the false Russiagate narrative which helped propel US anti-Russian sentiment and the proxy war with Russia...and nary a word of the $hill's illegal activities creating the situation.

FBI Whistleblower Revelations

The report builds on earlier whistleblower accounts describing the FBI’s Washington hierarchy as “rotted at its core” with a “systemic culture of unaccountability.” One whistleblower characterized the current state of the FBI as “cancerous” as the Bureau has “let itself become enveloped in this politicization and weaponization.” The report also highlights how the FBI’s metric-based bonus structure leads to the improper and unnecessary use of law enforcement tools, how FBI leadership has pressured agents to reclassify cases as domestic violent extremism (DVE) to create the perception that DVE is organically rising across the country, and how the FBI suspended whistleblowers after making good-faith, protected disclosures about agency wrongdoing.

Furthermore, the report details how the FBI seemingly worked with a major financial institution to receive, without legal process, financial records of Americans who used credit or debit cards in the Washington, D.C. area around January 6, 2021. This invasion of the privacy of United States citizens is deeply disturbing and should concern every American. Additionally, the report exposes how FBI’s Washington Field Office pressured the Boston Field Office to open investigations into 138 individuals who simply traveled to Washington, D.C., to exercise their First Amendment rights on January 6, 2021, with no specific indication that these people were involved in any way in criminal activity.

The report also highlights the retaliatory conduct that these whistleblowers have faced since coming forward. One whistleblower testified that he transferred across the country only to be suspended on the first day of his new assignment. The FBI’s actions forced his family to beg and borrow warm coats for their children and warm clothes for their baby because the family’s belongings were locked in an FBI-controlled storage facility.
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Primary Conclusions
A. The FBI’s Cash Bonus System Creates Perverse Incentives to Use Law Enforcement Tools for Leadership’s Financial Benefit and Not Legitimate Law Enforcement Needs.
B. The FBI Is Reclassifying and Manufacturing Domestic Violent Extremism Cases to Advance a Political Narrative that These Cases Are on the Rise.
C. The FBI’s Washington Field Office Pressured the Boston Field Office to Investigate Americans Solely for Traveling to Washington, D.C. on January 6.
D. The FBI Gathered Conservatives’ Financial Records from Bank of America Without Any Legal Process Following January 6.
E. Line Agents Opposed Attorney General Garland’s Memorandum Directing Federal Law Enforcement Resources Against Parents.
1. Special Agent O’Boyle Was “Stunned” to Learn that Attorney General Garland Intended to Pursue Concerned Parents for Investigation.
2. Field Agents Viewed Attorney General Garland’s Pursuit of Concerned Parents as a Chill on Parents’ Protected First Amendment Activity.

FBI Leaders Weaponized the Security Clearance Adjudication Process Against Whistleblowers in Retaliation for Blowing the Whistle.
Whistleblowers Have Described How the FBI’s Politicization Has Crowded Out its Traditional Law Enforcement Function.
Committee Democrats Attacked and Defamed FBI Whistleblowers to Advance a Political Agenda. Democrats Deployed the Same Abusive Tactics to Attempt to Discredit Journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger
The Actions of Committee Democrats Discourage Whistleblowing and Facilitate Citizens’ Fear of Government

Conclusion
The FBI, under Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, is broken. The leadership at the FBI and Justice Department have weaponized federal law enforcement against everyday Americans, seeking to silence those who dare to have a different viewpoint. Whistleblowers play a vital role in identifying and rooting out waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the federal government. When they speak out against such abuses, federal law protects them from retaliation.240 If you are an FBI whistleblower, however, this is not the case. As detailed above, the brave agents who have testified to the Committee and Subcommittee have faced devastating retaliation from the agency for their protected disclosures, with such retaliation taking the form of indefinite suspensions without pay and being left homeless and without income by the country’s once-preeminent law enforcement agency.

The FBI, CIA, NSA, DOJ, etc have run amok and are complicit in crime rather than solving crimes. The brief look at the Jan.6 tapes which Tucker aired make it plain that the affair was purposely ginned up for political purposes.

(22 min) It wasn't just Ray Epps, FBI Had 'At Least 40' Undercover Informants Instigating Trouble on January 6th

...the FBI plotted to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and suckered a few people into this scheme to build a sham domestic terror case that was weaponized to attack Donald Trump. The feds thought they had a slam-dunk case. It wasn't. There were no convictions after all that theater. Everyone saw it was an entrapment game.

Surprise, surprise...

And we've not even touched on all the lies we're told to promote war. Perhaps we should pause and remember Daniel Ellsberg and the pentagon papers.

Daniel Ellsberg, the U.S. military analyst whose change of heart on the Vietnam War led him to leak the classified "Pentagon Papers," revealing U.S. government deception about the war and setting off a major freedom-of-the-press battle, died on Friday at the age of 92, his family said in a statement.

Ellsberg had deep knowledge of Vietnam, having served in the Pentagon's International Security Affairs (ISA) division from 1964–65 then as an analyst in South Vietnam for two years. After returning to the United States to work for the RAND Corporation, he became a member of Gelb's task force. The work confirmed what he already suspected: US involvement in Vietnam was based on systematic deception by the government. As the Nixon administration pursued its own policy in Vietnam, Ellsberg became increasingly frustrated, seeing a continuing pattern of deceit and escalation, and he began to consider leaking the study.
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Initially Ellsberg turned to members of Congress such as Senator J. William Fulbright [D-AR], Senator Charles Mathias Jr. [R-MD], Senator George McGovern [D-SD], and Congressman Paul (Pete) McCloskey Jr. [R-CA] in the hope that one of them would be willing to enter the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record. All four declined. But Ellsberg’s efforts were not entirely fruitless. McGovern suggested he provide his copies to either the New York Times or the Washington Post. In March 1971, Ellsberg showed the study to Times reporter Neil Sheehan. The Times knew the story was big. Sheehan and a few select colleagues sequestered themselves in the New York Hilton to sort through thousands of photocopied pages while Times management decided whether to risk publishing highly classified material.
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Taking legal action against the Times was not Nixon’s first instinct. Nixon focused on attacking Ellsberg, concluding that the White House would have to do its own investigation using any means necessary.
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President Nixon: This is a very bad situation. This guy is a radical that did it. A radical, we think. Radical left-wing—
H. R. “Bob” Haldeman: [Daniel] Ellsberg? [Unclear.]
President Nixon: [Unclear.] No, we don’t know who the hell he is. But maybe it’s him. Or maybe it’s [former Director of Policy Planning and Arms Control for International Security Affairs Leslie H.] Gelb. One of the two. Either is a radical. So he takes out papers and does it—now goddamn it, [pounding desk] somebody’s got to go to jail on that. Somebody’s got to go to jail for it. That’s all there is to it. Our people here just can’t, however they think about the war, can’t go saying, “Well, we’re doing this and that.” We’ve got to fight it just like hell.
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The ultimate manifestation of this drive was the White House Special Investigations Unit, informally referred to as the Plumbers, whose first assignment was to raid the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Later, members of the group carried out one final mission, the Watergate break-in, which ultimately cost Nixon the very thing he had sought to defend: his presidency. There’s an absolutely clear line, if it hadn’t been for the Pentagon Papers, maybe Watergate would have occurred later, maybe it would have been different, but the abuses would not have been so great.

What a government cess pool then and today! At least 50 years ago we had newspapers which would report government misdeeds. Today the MSM are stenographers of the FBI, CIA, et al.

Let's look at a couple of other stories which are not being widely reported...
The US minions like Blinky and General Raytheon continue to lie to Americans saying that Ukraine's counter offensive is gaining ground. Far from it.

The long-awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive has finally begun. After months of handwringing and speculation, the western investment in Ukrainian military might has been put on display for the whole world to see—billions of dollars of advanced weaponry, drawn from NATO stocks, manned by Ukrainian soldiers who have been trained by NATO instructors, and whose actions have been shaped by NATO intelligence and directed by NATO planners. Let there be no doubt—this is a NATO offensive, a sad reflection on the reality that what was once called a simple proxy conflict has morphed into so much more—direct force-on-force combat between the collective west and Russia.
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The imagery of destroyed Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles belies the reality that the charred bodies trapped inside these wrecked vehicles and scattered in the fields surrounding the scene of their collective demise, are Ukrainian.
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Yes, the great Ukrainian counteroffensive has finally begun. The Ukrainian bull has been prodded into the arena by the collective west. The Ukrainian bull, weakened by the provision of inadequate weaponry and filled with the false promise of western support, does not comprehend that he is merely a pawn in a greater game, Eastern European manpower to be married up with NATO technology in a bid to weaken Russia. Maddened by the pain, blinded with fury, the Ukrainian bull sees the red cape…

Finally the bull charged…

This proxy war is based on lies..ever since we conducted the coup in 2014 which removed the duly elected president, and "Cookies" Nuland selected their new government leaders. There's a leaked phone call laying it out.
Nuland: [Breaks in] I think Yats is the guy who's got the economic experience, the governing experience. He's the... what he needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside. He needs to be talking to them four times a week, you know. I just think Klitsch going in... he's going to be at that level working for Yatseniuk, it's just not going to work.

More at the link...

TPTB are lying about more than war. They are lying to us about our health, and the drugs we should take... Very few people are discussing the excess deaths around the world especially among young folks.

(13 min) He goes through all the age groups. The primary agent appears to be heart disease.

Yet TPTB want ever more power...

(12 min) Dr Malone has courageously placed himself in the spotlight and under the most intense scrutiny imaginable for expressing his concerns over the US government’s vaccine agenda. As an internationally recognised virologist, immunologist, physician, biochemist and author, credited as the original inventor of mRNA delivery and vaccination technology, he has dedicated much of the past 40 years of his life to vaccine development and drug repurposing for infectious disease outbreaks.
Full interview here

How can they do that? Simple they buy their way.

You Won’t Believe How Much Pfizer Has Paid Anderson Cooper (9 min)

So in conclusion, our government agencies are co-opted, partisan, and corrupt. Our media has been bought by big pharma, the MIC, and fossil fuel. We fight endless wars to fill the corporate coffers and anyone who objects is silenced. Welcome to the new world, same as the old world.

I look forward to your thoughts and comments below.