Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The consistently insightful Branko Marcetic has a new article out with Jacobin titled "After the Ukraine Documents Leak, Mainstream Media Is Missing the Story" about the way imperial narrative managers have been manipulating the discourse about the information released in the Pentagon leaks by Jack Teixeira.
That the common trope, "If you have nothing to hide, you wouldn't object to surveillance" is only applied to the common folk, and never to the powerful, is just another jaw-dropping double-standard that has always defined imperial Western civilization. That today's commoners of every political stripe don't recognize double standards even when they're drowning in them is testament to the power of mass propaganda.
Yeah, ain't it funny how nobody in Epstein's black book was so much as questioned? How nobody asked any of the witnesses at Ghislane Maxwell's trial anything about anyone other than Epstein and La Ghislane? Nobody asked where Epstein's wealth came from, even though he was a college dropout of no particular family background, wasn't a registered investment advisor, nor was he licensed as a securities professional nor did he appear in any SEC filings. Nobody found that to be worth investigating? Nobody?
Why, it's almost as if everyone understood that they had best not touch these subjects, that they better not go there.
But we are duly assured that Finally Justice Has Been Done (so can we drop the subject already?)
In case you haven’t already seen it, Whitney Webb over at unlimitedhangout.com has an article linking Epstein to JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon (Obama’s favorite banker). The thot continues to plicken....
Wow—this is amazing journalism you’ve connected to. One of the commentors summarizes the article as showing how the security forces, the Zionist criminals and the Mob are all connected in our banking system. It explains a lot and is documented well but it is utterly overwhelming!
Indeed so. One wonders how many names in this report were party to the assassination of JFK. A guess would be a great many.
The more one reads on that period of American history, the more one can draw the conclusion that Johnson was well aware of the fact that he was due to be dropped by Kennedy at the next election.
One can't help thinking what a motivation that would be for so many at that time, the Zionists as well under instructions from Israel based on JFK 's clear indication that Israel should not be a nuclear power.
What one can see every day in government in the US today harks back to those times, in my opinion, the motivations being a realisation that you can get away with anything if you have the right connections.
This report by Whitney Webb, a remarkable effort by any measure, shows clearly that the connections to controlling the US are included in her writings. Thanks for that link, Jack.
Bull's-eye, Caitlin! . . . Abundant thanks to you and to Branko Marcetic. Thank you for sharing this with those of us who might have missed it otherwise.
The average American is so brainwashed they have no idea of the propaganda mind games the media is using.
The government jumps from one exclusive to the next I guess they must rather enjoy it.
However, there is one thing that the media and the 4th branch of government have absolutely no control over; they can misdirect, confuse and lie about it but they can’t stop the collapse.
The warmongers can start conflicts all over the globe as they loose control but the world will not be contained any longer by the petro dollar.
It's most unfortunate -- and embarrassing -- to realize that the best hope for the world (natural and fabricated) is the decline of one's own country. It's the powerful who always wreck their own empires (abroad and at home) through hubris and over-reach, and the shame should be theirs to own, but it's the nature of hubris to avoid honest reflection and accountability. So here we are.
Biden and the regime are in over their heads. They are naive. They have made many geopolitical blunders, like making enemies of their allies. They think they can work with China who controls the supply chain and has been building the Belt Road initiative along many countries for many years. China thinks long term and strategically. Our leaders are fools.
Over their heads? Placeholders for the military industrial complex are installed not elected.. The illusion they sold you is that voting has any meaning other than to placate you that you have a say and think your dutiful tax checks are the price you must pay for the civil contract they keep breaking over your skulls.
Hastening the demise would require facing fears of witholding your tax dollars.. But I have no doubt the subliminally mind control adherence to the farcical notion of maintaining this absured civil contract that has been squandered long ago by your slave masters out of these instilled fears of state and judicial violence against you has rendered your inability to stop mindlessly dutifully signing and dating those checks.
The one and only power you actually have and are compelled never to use it.
Funny how your conquering and enslavement was accomplished without firing a shot.
Democracy is founded on open government, and a government responsive to the public or "We The People". You can't call the US a democracy anymore. It is no longer open or responsible toward its US citizens. What exists now is inverted Totalitarianism.
What’s really bizarre is (if we’re to believe the narrative) that this dude - unlike snowden or manning - leaked information for social clout rather than out of the desire to be a whistleblower.
Right of course - lots of focus on the leaker and little focus on the content of the leaks. Like every other leak of any importance. Still I find it strange, if the narrative is to be believed, that he did this for clout. I guess this is the effect of gen z being raised on social media?
The focus on the leak as a leak will be used to usher in new and improved (now how much will you pay) draconian laws to chill any future thoughts of whistles blowing.
I agree. What I also read is that Russia is thinking this is a dup, deliberately put out there to mislead about Ukraine’s Spring plans. Wheels within wheels.
The Jacobin piece linked to a WaPo April 10 story that said:
"The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which appears to have produced the leaked document, declined to comment, as did the National Security Council."
That DNI origin and possible leak source has disappeared from the news.
I've watched videos of experts who claim that is is physically impossible for the alleged leaker to have access to some of the documents that were leaked, because they are internal CIA documents that are not accessible to Pentagon and others, except for DNI.
The best analysis I've seen of the leak source and motives is at Naked Capitalism:
The most plausible theory is that this is a US national security state leak designed to serve 2 purposes: 1) support passage of the RESTRICT Act, and 2) take down Biden.
This could be the second shoe dropping in the take down Biden campaign, the first being Sy Hersh's Nord Steam sabotage. The third could be Hersh's story of corruption.
Ooooo, I love it! The court intrigue. It never bodes well for the King and often leads to more freedom for the peasants! Bring on the internecine battle!
•“GENERAL! SHOULD NEW YORK TIMES REPORTERS JUST BE GIVEN BADGES AND SIDE ARMS, SO THEY CAN HANDLE THE ARREST WHILE POLICE AND FEDS FILM THEM IN FUTURE?"
• "GENERAL, GENERAL! SHOULD JOURNALISTS BE ALLOWED IN PRESS BRIEFINGS AT ALL, AND WHY HAVEN'T YOU ARRESTED US ALREADY!"
• "SIR, SIR, FOLLOW UP: WILL YOU BE ARRESTING US NOW, IF NOT WHY NOT AND WHAT STEPS ARE YOU TAKING TO ENSURE THE PUBLIC DOESNT GET IN THE WAY OF UNFETTERED CAPITAL AND GVT CORRUPTION GOING FWD?"
• "SIR, OVER HERE! COULDNT YOU MAKE A PROGRAM WHICH DELETES EACH LETTER AS WE TYPE IT, AND WHY HAVENT YOU? WHO IS TO BLAME? AND SHOULDNT I BE IMPRISIONED FOR REPORTING ON IT?" _JC
"The amount of power you have should be inversely proportional to the amount of secrecy you're allowed."
Yeah which makes it sort of weird that there are ~0 positive branding programs a la non-GMO food etc. for politicians. They could in theory sign binding non-compete contracts with arbitrators (like what big pharma requires of their employees) and the revolving door with e.g. the defense industry would shut immediately. But it doesn't happen, because there's no real political competition. https://rangevoting.org
I think you could safely say the US has the most draconian prison system on the planet, even if "prison system" is restricted to the domestic scene: the figures don't lie, or no one is challenging them: the highest rate of incarceration, and the highest absolute figures. But when you add on foreign policy, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and dozens of drop off centres where torture is outsourced, like the civilized country of Sweden, then there is no counter argument whatever. And competitors don't make pious claims about human rights, as does the US. As for leaking Top Secret Info, it's a matter of principle: "Here come da judge, here come da deciders- so don't fuck with us." It's a bizarre take on "freedom and democracy," all right.
The US has the highest proportion of its population in prison of any country in the world, more than in the Soviet Union under I. V. Stalin, yet Americans think that authoritarianism is something that only happens in other countries.
It's very strange, and it involves racism: they know a disproportionate number of African Americans make up the prison population. And they're OK with that.
The first casualty of war is the truth...and the US govt is *always* at war, so...deception is a feature, not a bug.
All but like 12 years or something since 1776!
Well said.
Note how the MSM now does the spooks' dirty work for them.
Pretend that the WaPo or NYT were to receive The Pentagon Papers today. How they would respond is left as an exercise for the reader.
NYT and WaPo are two pillars of American Pravda. And their master is evil as fuck.
Yep. That is the lethal final stroke. The messenger has now become the enemy.
"Muh Democracy Dies In Darkness (because we shut off the lights and stuffed the victim's head into a black hood)"
NPR bragged that they worked with Bellingcat - a CIA cutout - to track down the "digital breadcrumbs" to ID the leaker.
Involvement of Bellingcat should be a huge red flag.
I note that Vanity Fair just published a gushing piece on Aric Toler, the volunteer FBI agent from so-totally independent Bellingcat.
"Left as an exercise for the reader".
Do you read math books?
That the common trope, "If you have nothing to hide, you wouldn't object to surveillance" is only applied to the common folk, and never to the powerful, is just another jaw-dropping double-standard that has always defined imperial Western civilization. That today's commoners of every political stripe don't recognize double standards even when they're drowning in them is testament to the power of mass propaganda.
Yeah, ain't it funny how nobody in Epstein's black book was so much as questioned? How nobody asked any of the witnesses at Ghislane Maxwell's trial anything about anyone other than Epstein and La Ghislane? Nobody asked where Epstein's wealth came from, even though he was a college dropout of no particular family background, wasn't a registered investment advisor, nor was he licensed as a securities professional nor did he appear in any SEC filings. Nobody found that to be worth investigating? Nobody?
Why, it's almost as if everyone understood that they had best not touch these subjects, that they better not go there.
But we are duly assured that Finally Justice Has Been Done (so can we drop the subject already?)
In case you haven’t already seen it, Whitney Webb over at unlimitedhangout.com has an article linking Epstein to JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon (Obama’s favorite banker). The thot continues to plicken....
Link not work for me.
This might work better: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/03/investigative-series/the-rise-of-jamie-dimon/
Wow—this is amazing journalism you’ve connected to. One of the commentors summarizes the article as showing how the security forces, the Zionist criminals and the Mob are all connected in our banking system. It explains a lot and is documented well but it is utterly overwhelming!
The link from JackSirius
Indeed so. One wonders how many names in this report were party to the assassination of JFK. A guess would be a great many.
The more one reads on that period of American history, the more one can draw the conclusion that Johnson was well aware of the fact that he was due to be dropped by Kennedy at the next election.
One can't help thinking what a motivation that would be for so many at that time, the Zionists as well under instructions from Israel based on JFK 's clear indication that Israel should not be a nuclear power.
What one can see every day in government in the US today harks back to those times, in my opinion, the motivations being a realisation that you can get away with anything if you have the right connections.
This report by Whitney Webb, a remarkable effort by any measure, shows clearly that the connections to controlling the US are included in her writings. Thanks for that link, Jack.
Interesting, no ........frightening reading.
"Slashing government secrecy" is core to getting ourselves out of this massive black hole we are continuously being sucked further into.
Yes, unaccountable secrecy and I would add, legalized bribery.
Agreed.
Bull's-eye, Caitlin! . . . Abundant thanks to you and to Branko Marcetic. Thank you for sharing this with those of us who might have missed it otherwise.
Sun-Tzu’s maxim about deceiving the enemy shows who the US thinks one of its enemies is--its own citizens!
To an abusive relationship the victims of its abuse's are taught to believe it is all their own fault.
Don't forget to sign and date those checks though...like good little frightened serfs.
They primarily print the money used for their crimes.
Yep, you got it... all true.
And as the water circles the drain
The average American is so brainwashed they have no idea of the propaganda mind games the media is using.
The government jumps from one exclusive to the next I guess they must rather enjoy it.
However, there is one thing that the media and the 4th branch of government have absolutely no control over; they can misdirect, confuse and lie about it but they can’t stop the collapse.
The warmongers can start conflicts all over the globe as they loose control but the world will not be contained any longer by the petro dollar.
It's most unfortunate -- and embarrassing -- to realize that the best hope for the world (natural and fabricated) is the decline of one's own country. It's the powerful who always wreck their own empires (abroad and at home) through hubris and over-reach, and the shame should be theirs to own, but it's the nature of hubris to avoid honest reflection and accountability. So here we are.
None of this will end well.
It never does for any abusive relationship,, and I have news for you all,,you are in one with your own government's.
Why do you make them beat you?
Biden and the regime are in over their heads. They are naive. They have made many geopolitical blunders, like making enemies of their allies. They think they can work with China who controls the supply chain and has been building the Belt Road initiative along many countries for many years. China thinks long term and strategically. Our leaders are fools.
Over their heads? Placeholders for the military industrial complex are installed not elected.. The illusion they sold you is that voting has any meaning other than to placate you that you have a say and think your dutiful tax checks are the price you must pay for the civil contract they keep breaking over your skulls.
Biden doesn't run anything. His bosse$ do.
Supposedly, Biden is the Big Guy. None of this could or would have happened without him.
Hastening the demise would require facing fears of witholding your tax dollars.. But I have no doubt the subliminally mind control adherence to the farcical notion of maintaining this absured civil contract that has been squandered long ago by your slave masters out of these instilled fears of state and judicial violence against you has rendered your inability to stop mindlessly dutifully signing and dating those checks.
The one and only power you actually have and are compelled never to use it.
Funny how your conquering and enslavement was accomplished without firing a shot.
Democracy is founded on open government, and a government responsive to the public or "We The People". You can't call the US a democracy anymore. It is no longer open or responsible toward its US citizens. What exists now is inverted Totalitarianism.
When was the usa ever a democracy?
💯 “Transparency for the powerful, privacy for the powerless” ought to be the way of things—so how do we make it a reality?
just stop voting.
What’s really bizarre is (if we’re to believe the narrative) that this dude - unlike snowden or manning - leaked information for social clout rather than out of the desire to be a whistleblower.
Not flattering of him, but a distraction away from the information itself.
And maybe an instance of loose lips hopefully saving our ship. Where leadership is corrupt, loose-lipped lieutenants are heaven-sent.
Right of course - lots of focus on the leaker and little focus on the content of the leaks. Like every other leak of any importance. Still I find it strange, if the narrative is to be believed, that he did this for clout. I guess this is the effect of gen z being raised on social media?
The focus on the leak as a leak will be used to usher in new and improved (now how much will you pay) draconian laws to chill any future thoughts of whistles blowing.
I agree. What I also read is that Russia is thinking this is a dup, deliberately put out there to mislead about Ukraine’s Spring plans. Wheels within wheels.
The Jacobin piece linked to a WaPo April 10 story that said:
"The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which appears to have produced the leaked document, declined to comment, as did the National Security Council."
That DNI origin and possible leak source has disappeared from the news.
I've watched videos of experts who claim that is is physically impossible for the alleged leaker to have access to some of the documents that were leaked, because they are internal CIA documents that are not accessible to Pentagon and others, except for DNI.
The best analysis I've seen of the leak source and motives is at Naked Capitalism:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/04/larry-johnson-and-other-former-insiders-debunk-air-guardsman-as-pentagon-leaker-story-as-press-cheers-arrest.html#comment-3875630
The most plausible theory is that this is a US national security state leak designed to serve 2 purposes: 1) support passage of the RESTRICT Act, and 2) take down Biden.
This could be the second shoe dropping in the take down Biden campaign, the first being Sy Hersh's Nord Steam sabotage. The third could be Hersh's story of corruption.
Ooooo, I love it! The court intrigue. It never bodes well for the King and often leads to more freedom for the peasants! Bring on the internecine battle!
Who knows, with Robert Kennedy making noise about a presidential run, we could see a '68 replay: with Biden pulling an LBJ.
But the security state no longer needs to assassinate Kennedy, they can just destroy and cancel him digitally.
You are far more noble than I Caitlin because if I found that Genie there would be a whole slew of people who would just disappear!
•“GENERAL! SHOULD NEW YORK TIMES REPORTERS JUST BE GIVEN BADGES AND SIDE ARMS, SO THEY CAN HANDLE THE ARREST WHILE POLICE AND FEDS FILM THEM IN FUTURE?"
• "GENERAL, GENERAL! SHOULD JOURNALISTS BE ALLOWED IN PRESS BRIEFINGS AT ALL, AND WHY HAVEN'T YOU ARRESTED US ALREADY!"
• "SIR, SIR, FOLLOW UP: WILL YOU BE ARRESTING US NOW, IF NOT WHY NOT AND WHAT STEPS ARE YOU TAKING TO ENSURE THE PUBLIC DOESNT GET IN THE WAY OF UNFETTERED CAPITAL AND GVT CORRUPTION GOING FWD?"
• "SIR, OVER HERE! COULDNT YOU MAKE A PROGRAM WHICH DELETES EACH LETTER AS WE TYPE IT, AND WHY HAVENT YOU? WHO IS TO BLAME? AND SHOULDNT I BE IMPRISIONED FOR REPORTING ON IT?" _JC
"The amount of power you have should be inversely proportional to the amount of secrecy you're allowed."
Yeah which makes it sort of weird that there are ~0 positive branding programs a la non-GMO food etc. for politicians. They could in theory sign binding non-compete contracts with arbitrators (like what big pharma requires of their employees) and the revolving door with e.g. the defense industry would shut immediately. But it doesn't happen, because there's no real political competition. https://rangevoting.org
Christ it’s another absolutely beautiful bit of writing Caitlin. Bravo.
I think you could safely say the US has the most draconian prison system on the planet, even if "prison system" is restricted to the domestic scene: the figures don't lie, or no one is challenging them: the highest rate of incarceration, and the highest absolute figures. But when you add on foreign policy, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and dozens of drop off centres where torture is outsourced, like the civilized country of Sweden, then there is no counter argument whatever. And competitors don't make pious claims about human rights, as does the US. As for leaking Top Secret Info, it's a matter of principle: "Here come da judge, here come da deciders- so don't fuck with us." It's a bizarre take on "freedom and democracy," all right.
The US has the highest proportion of its population in prison of any country in the world, more than in the Soviet Union under I. V. Stalin, yet Americans think that authoritarianism is something that only happens in other countries.
It's very strange, and it involves racism: they know a disproportionate number of African Americans make up the prison population. And they're OK with that.