Open Thread WE 5 FEB 25 ~ Transparency
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
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.
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
Credits ~
Local seascape photo by Sarah Gardner
Open Thread aka transparent knowledge base. Open your books, show your hands.
Comments
Good morning...
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!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Top of the day your way
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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!
question everything
Good morning, Cap'n!
According to my sources in the CIA,
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------."
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Yup, the spooks are being transparent
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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?
question everything
So far,
but the day is young.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
A big hat tip to Ovals for sharing this link
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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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USAID is low hanging fruit
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.
語必忠信 行必正直
Interesting perspective
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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
question everything
In other gnus ..
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.
Smells fishy.
https://www.rt.com/business/612233-gold-price-record-high/
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Get a load of this!
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5127666-google-ai-ethical-rules-up...
A change in policy
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or an admission to prevent liability?
That cat escaped the bag awhile ago.
Cheers!
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Now you see it now you don't.
It showcases the erratic policy initiatives coming from the big Cheeto.
And the USPS is still headed by DeJoy?
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While DeJoy planned for USPS to break even by 2023, it lost $9.5 billion in fiscal 2024.
What, me worry?
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But there is one policy that he is consistent with.
Thanks to Bibi and Miriam Adelson
To be fair.
And so it begins...
Archived article from Zerohedge. Apparently there are large-scale ICE/DEA/FBI raids taking place only a couple of miles to my north today, up in Aurora. This could get interesting, at least for proper definitions of the word "interesting"....
https://archive.ph/9b5KC
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
the immigrants are being jerked around
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from one administration to the next
Biden: bring them in
Trump: get rid of them
helluvaway to plan ones' future
welcome to 'murica, now leave
Lotsa' room in Gitmo or El Salvador (for a slight fee).
Sheesh
question everything
Biden deported more immigrants than Trump does
Just like Obama deported more than Trump last time too.
Shitlibs are laughing at immigrants being deported because they voted for Trump.
One said that if he knew where he lived he’d call in his location.
And they’re blaming everyone who didn’t vote for Kamala for T ethnically cleansing Gaza, yet they gave Biden a pass for genociding them. GD disgusting people!
Neither actions are lawful.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Well, at least part
of the reason given is that these raids supposedly are targeting the Tren de Aragua gang, who have been very active in making life hell for some of the residents of a couple of apartment complexes up off of Leetsdale. That has made national news once or twice, so I'm not surprised if it starts there- nor will I be surprised when it doesn't *end* there.
It'll be interesting to see if there are shootouts as the day goes on. I drive right past a DEA building on my way to work, and there certainly was more than the usual activity there, so there may be some actual good that comes from this one (to accompany the inevitable bad that is part and parcel with any government activity). One hopes, at least, that they don't SWAT too many wrong addresses, or blow away too many innocent folks. That has been a specialty of drug raids around these parts over the past decade or so.
In any case, it is not a good day to be brown in Denver.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Good morning Cap'n Q - nice topic. Recallling that
Mr. Obama promised beaucoups transparency and then proceeded to attack whistleblowers right and left and to use state secrets privilege to prevent people from getting fair trials even though no actual sekrets were actually at risk. True to its first usage, btw, which was to prevent the victims of military malfeasance that caused an airplane crash from being able to sue.
We have always over-classified acts and policies of all branches of our government and all admin departments, not to keep information from alleged enemies, but to keep it from the US populace. In some cases this rises to the level of secret law, of which there is not supposed to be any.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --