Saturday Sundries
"Malinformation is speech that is factually accurate, but is deemed wrongthink by the censors because it presents an oppositional narrative."
We are fortunate to have this site to fight for "oppositional narrative". There are many links
the resident scribes post here to expose corporate and governmental censorship efforts.
Recently came across this article by Mike Benz at the Foundation For Freedom Online
regarding USAID's 2021 publication "Disinformation Primer".
Some of the Orwellian concepts therein --
- “prebunking” (i.e., psychological inoculation)
- pushing the need to censor their formation of “interpretations of the world that differ from ‘mainstream’ sources” and interrupting the process by which “individuals contribute their own ‘research'” to collectively form their own “populist expertise.”
- USAID targets citizens who engage in “casting doubt on media”
- Because traditional information systems are failing, some opinion leaders are casting doubt on media, which, in turn, impacts USAID programming and funding choices.
- “Media literacy” is the idea of psychologically training citizens not to trust or access certain types of establishment-disfavored media.
- ... in schools in an effort to pre-bias children against certain information sources.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1727101742309937533
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Hiya, good morning
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A beautiful early spring day here. 50's with sunshine and little wind.
I know we are a small political blog, but it is still an effective salve to
counter the malformation pandemic being orchestrated by the big
players. Forget psychological inoculation. Regular doses of vitamin T
(truth) is more effective.
cheers
Good morning...
Benz has been throwing some truth bombs around. He better watch his back.
An inch of rain yesterday. Clouds are due to break and temps climb to 70F.
Trade day was sparse, but saw some old friends browsing around.
Thanks for handling the OT and a reminder this job could be yours...many of us can help if anyone has an interest!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Does it even matter?
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Seriously I’ve long thought that the president was just the CEO of the country, but the
oligarchsboard members are the ones who decide what happens.Kids these days know that the corporate media are just stenographers for the government and intelligence agencies and so they turned to tik tok and that’s why congress wants it put under control of someone who can change the message.
Yes our little blog has seen through the many psyops the government has run on us…sadly the last one was very decisive and we lost some good folks. I keep hoping that they will return some day.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Related to the psyop called Covid
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
We gotta go grocery
shopping, I will watch the movie this afternoon. It looks very interesting.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I learned quite a few things
in that film. I was really shocked that withholding quinine shipments to the south during the Civil War was an order signed by Lincoln.
We are far away from the 100 Years War with native Americans, but Lincoln, not so much. He was aware about smallpox infected blankets getting rid of the natives.
Maybe he was not the nice guy I imagined.
Our government doesn't have a great legacy on bioweapons.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
You have to be careful with blanket :-) statements like that,
because, while the "smallpox blankets" legend has been widely disseminated and believed, there is no primary evidence for their use as a deliberate policy by the United States government.
There is anecdotal evidence for their possible use by soldiers of His Majesty's Colonial Government at Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh) in 1763, but the issue is clouded by records that show smallpox was already endemic across the region, as well as by the absence of any direct order from or to anyone. (The idea was certainly contemplated in an exchange of letters between Colonel Henry Bouquet and his superior, Sir Jeffery Amherst, but there is no evidence that any orders ensued. And neither Bouquet nor Amherst was actually at Fort Pitt.)
The most devastating smallpox epidemic, in 1837-38, has been widely mythologized as an example of deliberate US government policy...but almost all the "evidence" for this claim has been disproved and debunked. The responsibility has been fixed on one pigheaded and/or greedy riverboat captain, who refused to delay or turn back once smallpox had broken out aboard ship (possibly contracted in St. Louis, where there was a local outbreak about that time). And far from "spreading" the disease, the local government officials attempted an aggressive vaccination program intended to halt the epidemic (with, sad to say, limited success).
(Lincoln, at the time, was serving in the Illinois House of Representatives and had nothing to do with the situation - may not have heard about it until much later. There are no reliable reports of "smallpox blankets" from the Dakota War of 1862, though its ruthless suppression does not resound to anyone's credit.)
Andy Jackson didn't need any "smallpox blankets" to order the uprooting and deportation of the Cherokee and related tribes from the Southeastern US to Oklahoma Territory. The Supreme Court advised him not to, but he blew them off. (What's worse, his successor, Martin Van Buren, continued the policy of "Indian removal" even though it was within his power to delay or reverse it.)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
The more I learn about Lincoln
the less impressed I am. He committed many war crimes and crimes against humanity. Withholding drugs to the south was just the tip of the iceberg. Letting Sherman burn out families that were mostly women and children. And what happened to the confederate soldiers after the war ended compared to how the north was treated?
But the biggest takeaway from the video is how Fauci and world leaders lied about HCQ and how they deliberately let people die so the numbers would go up and scare people into getting jabbed. The ivermectin trials were just as bogus as are the studies on long Covid. Unless they detail who was jabbed and who wasn’t I dismiss any study on it.
And let’s not forget that about a year ago we were told all the dangerous things that could cause heart attacks. Gardening. Watching tv. A scary movie. Too hot of showers…you know things that never caused them before.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
"Civil" wars aren't.
They're usually the worst of the worst because they become two gangs fighting over the same territory.
You do have to remember, though, that the Geneva Conventions are fundamentally a mid-20th century innovation, and the only earlier constraints upon warfare were the consciences (if they had any) of the leaders and, occasionally, declarations from the Pope.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Yeah snoop
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the cyclops are divisive.
So many contributors have left here.
Not sure why, is what it is.
Guess we will get away with being focused on
alternative interpretations since we are small?
The word still needs to get around.
Hey to Sam.
Kunstler nails a
Monday is opening arguments in the trial against Biden’s censorship and whether the 1st amendment is still law of the land. One court already ruled against Biden, but another one gutted the court’s decision and so it’s up to the Supremes to rule on this vital amendment. They already screwed the pooch when they okayed citizens united. As Carter said, it made America an oligarchy.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Sam…
Sam is grounded inside again. I let her out this morning and she went right to the fence and hopped over it. She got a good hollering at and she acted like she was sorry, but I’m not buying it.
I like to drive around a bit after our walk and I saw the damn dawg that keeps coming into the yard and I talked to the neighbors about it. They said they will tell me owner, but I’m pretty sure she knows that her dawg keeps getting out. How can she not?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
good luck with the dog runs
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Sam probably knows better than to make
you angry? Playing doggie games.
I’m rarely angry with her
She is a good dawg most of the time and I don’t remember what made me angry last time it’s been so long. Until I can get the fence fixed I thought of putting her on a rope. But the backyard is such a mess right now because of a week of bad winds there are sticks and limbs everywhere and she’d get tangled up in them. We have a few more days of east winds and then I can call someone to clean it up…damn it’s always something ain’t it?
She knows that I’m ticked off because she has brought me 8 toys. Lol…she is such a card.
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I don’t know why I feel like the bad guy in this
Lots of moping and heavy sighs because someone’s butt in stuck in the house. Plus lots of back and forth to see if the door is still closed. And the couch is piled high with toys that she keeps bringing me.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Dawgs are so good at “social engineering,” aren’t they?
Equipped with emotional intelligence, they can play Homo sapiens’ heart strings like a fiddle.
Yep…
You nailed them. The damn dawg is running loose again and Sam thinks nothing about just going to play with it.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
media control
Thanks for the OT QMS!
Ya know, he said preaching to choir...
If ones acts were pure of intent, and truly righteous, it would not dawn on one for a need to control the media, or what was said about you and your actions. It is only being nefarious, deceptive, and dishonest, that requires control of the media.
What they call media literacy is really 100% succumbed to propaganda without critical thought.
The Tik Tok bill criminalizes using VPN's to access black-listed websites, as chosen by an unelected body of ministers of truth.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Yeah you right
Munchkin wanting to buy tickey tocky
indicates they need to control the content
fed to the USians. Not sure China is down with it.
In spite of congressional pressure.
Did you read Ian's article posted last night
He hopes that China not only refuses to sell it, but cuts America off from using it and lets the rest of the world continue. If not and they do sell it America will be able to propagandize the message.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
That would be a good outcome
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once again the exceptional US dildos
mess up in the name of freedom or democracy.
Think the ROW is beginning to despise
the hegemony at his point. Won't stop
gathering more enemies with stuff like this.
Internal distrust grows at similar rates.
Let the ptb blow themselves up but not take
us down with them is my hope.
Since Tik Tok
would be used by the US to demonize China, China would be stupid to sell it to us.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Yep
I don’t see how we can force them to sell. And if Biden pulls the app there are plenty of other options for people to use the site. But nothing like pissing off the age group you are depending on voting for you. Especially when they are already pissed off because you are supporting genocide.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
The Chinese are not stupid
If Munchkin or some other group goes to bu it, the version they buy will not nil
previous back doors. Another pipe dream to monetize
platforms and get goody points from the ptb. They will
add some algorithms to suit their data collectors.
Attendance will drop off. Another losing proposition.
The US added the data scooping to TikTok
...in order to Max profits in western markets. The US then turns around and smears China, accusing China of spying on Americans. China responded mildly, telling the US that their their constant lying and breaking promises is harming the US' reputation throughout the world.
Those who keep up recall that China wanted to use Google in their own internet, but Google refused to disconnect the modules that scrape personal data from users (which is ubiquitous in the US). So, Google departed China, and China had to build their own search tool from scratch, which it did. The People's Republic does not allow data exploitation of the Chinese people by businesses. Such exploitation is also highly restricted in the EU.
In other news, China just broke the speed record for human looking robots. I guess that's a 'thing.'
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