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The Weekly Watch

Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 06/27/2021 - 7:16am

Manipulated Science and Journalism

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Oligarchs and their corporations have been cleverly misleading people for decades (perhaps forever). How can they manipulate science you may ask, well they fund research which they design for certain outcomes. They are even capturing University departments by funding them. We know the for profit news outlets will not critically report on their advertisers, after all, big pharma, the MIC, and insurance companies are all primary clients. So as a result we have a misled public that thinks they live in a democracy, rather than an oligarchy.

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How the War Against Dissent will be carried out.

Submitted by Battle of Blair... on Thu, 12/13/2018 - 4:02am

It began with Trump giving brand name status to the meme "Fake News". The War Against Dissent is the elite's reaction to social media. This is how the war will be carried out:

Step One: define the truth. Establish what is an acceptable narrative and then brand anything else as disinformation.

Liberal Politicians hide in moneyed bunkers and move phantom armies

Submitted by arendt on Mon, 10/22/2018 - 5:17pm

Like Hitler in the last days under Berlin, neoliberal/neocon Democrats have completely lost touch with reality. They are convinced that one more try with Russiagate (or now Khasshogi-gate) will bring victory over the hated Trump. They fantasize that "we're not Trump" is going to raise a voter army from people who were screwed over by Obama, demonized by Hillary, and shut out by the Democratic Party insiders.

The Internet is so much easier to control than radio

Submitted by arendt on Sat, 04/14/2018 - 11:29am

Anyone who thinks the internet is going to allow non-approved actors to organize opposition to our increasingly dysfunctional Deep State is completely unaware of the history of mass media in wartime, specifically in WW2. I'm going to first review that history, and then talk about the Internet.

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'Sup NSA

Submitted by Daenerys on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 9:06pm

So, I got this email last night:

(Subject: Update on Russian-linked activity on Tumblr)

Dear (my Tumblr name),

As part of our commitment to transparency, we want you to know that we uncovered and terminated 84 accounts linked to Internet Research Agency or IRA (a group closely tied to the the Russian government) posing as members of the Tumblr community.

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