Open Thread WE 5 FEB 25 ~ Transparency

Submitted by QMS on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 6:00am

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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

-- Julian Assange

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The unredacted truth of government actions are buried under the blanket of
'national security' within a black box in some dusky room of the national archives.
Protecting spooks, crooks and liars from the exposure of their nefarious deeds is
presented to us as keeping us (in a) safe. If national interests preclude the general
population, then it makes sense.

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The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve obfuscate shared problems scams.
-- Hillary Clinton

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Open Thread aka transparent knowledge base. Open your books, show your hands.

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Submitted by Lookout on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 6:51am
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Redacted transparency is like the USAID site...dark.

It isn't Snowden who is a traitor, but the $hill is.

What Tulsi Gabbard Should Have Told Senator Bennet About Ed Snowden

Have a good day and thanks for the OT!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Submitted by QMS on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 7:40am
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@Lookout

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Found this statement earlier:

USAID needs a full and transparent audit. Americans deserve to know
exactly what is being done in their name overseas.

-- Ron Paul (former U.S. Representative from Texas)

Wonder who determines which budgets are secret?
Would think congress has some oversight on this.

Enjoy your day in the holler!

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Submitted by on the cusp on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 8:31am

According to my sources in the CIA,
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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by QMS on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 8:52am
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@on the cusp
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at least about one thing. Activities are just plain seekret.
Apparently, we can't be trusted with the truth.
Hmm. Is it legal to disagree?

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Submitted by usefewersyllables on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 9:18am
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@QMS

but the day is young.

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

Submitted by QMS on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 9:40am
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@usefewersyllables
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in yesterday's OT

https://caucus99percent.com/comment/631568#comment-631568

https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1887031981965238560?mx=2

Quite revealing about the depth of depravity which USAID and NED
operate in. Perhaps not as seekret as they prefer. Clear things up?

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Submitted by soryang on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 10:02am
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In fact, I think the attack on USAID is a distraction. The attack is really on all domestic institutions that in any way, shape or form, divert government funding from the objectives sought by the techno-feudalists. So everyone knows what the CIA, and NED do, and now that stigma is readily extended to USAID, which provides cover for penetration of US foreign objectives. The attack on treasury is the macro attack on all Americans, and all government agencies. The narrow focus on USAID is a distraction. In a sense, it is a false flag attack, to hide a much broader domestic agenda. There is really an attack on US privacy rights and the traditional government structures as they operate domestically. The objective as always is to commodify life and all private data and wealth distribution in the US and transfer it to people like Musk.

Edited to add the false flag comment.

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語必忠信 行必正直

Submitted by QMS on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 10:29am
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@soryang
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No doubt the FED has a shady agenda,
beyond printing debt money.
Would prefer to see this effort by the technocrats as transparency
in nature, rather than an attack against foundational institutions.
But I may very well be naive.

Thanks for bringing up this issue.

钱 - qián - money

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 9:57am
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Gold prices hit all-time high.
Fear of global trade "war"
have spooked investors.

Apparently the price spike is being
attributed to a shortage of gold in
London.

Experts have linked the shortage to a significant movement of gold to the US,
where inventories on the New York Comex, a major commodities exchange,
have soared by 88% since the presidential election in November 2024.

Smells fishy.

https://www.rt.com/business/612233-gold-price-record-high/

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Submitted by humphrey on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 10:38am

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5127666-google-ai-ethical-rules-up...

Google has updated its ethical policies on artificial intelligence, eliminating a pledge to not use AI technology for weapons development and surveillance.?

According to a now-archived version of Google’s AI principles seen on the Wayback Machine, the section titled “Applications we will not pursue” included weapons and other technology aimed at injuring people, along with technologies that “gather or use information for surveillance.”

As of Tuesday, the section was no longer listed on Google’s AI principles page.

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 10:35am
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@humphrey
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or an admission to prevent liability?
That cat escaped the bag awhile ago.

Cheers!

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Submitted by humphrey on Wed, 02/05/2025 - 10:45am

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