The Twitter Files.

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TWITTER FILES: PART 8



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It sounds like an 'earnest voice' trying to be heard in the light!!

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It sounds like an 'earnest voice' trying to be heard in the light!!

YES, which reminds me of something else more recent, but I'll have to dig that bit up later. Anyways, on that note...

The psyop shenagians with CENTCOM using fake accounts was verified already by WaPo earlier this year, regards to a conspiracy theory that Iran was harvesting the organs of Afghan refugees...

Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations

Which makes that Newsweek story on the Pentagon's 60,000 clandestine army way more interesting now. 


The WaPo article framed examples like the CENTCOM organ-harvesting account as "oversights" but The Intercept has reported on eerily similar programs where the purpose was to spread disinformation to discredit adversaries, the goal of the CENTCOM account.


The “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket


DARPA also funded research into influence campaigns on Twitter so not much of a shock, although good to know. Here's a Guardian 2014 article on DARPA-funded influence studies coordinated under its Social Media in Strategic Communication initiative (itself first launched in 2011). Research in the DARPA studies was outsourced to universities.



This recalls suggestions put forth by people like Cass Sunstein, who argued for "cognitive infiltration" of conspiracy communities in a 2008 paper. Sunstein went as far as to recommend the use of "fake identities" by "government agents."

Conspiracy Theories by Cass Sunstein.

Obviously, the spreading of unusual, bizarre ideas as disinformation is not a new concept. In the early 1950s as part of a psychological warfare campaign in the Philippines, intelligence officer Edward Lansdale exploited folk beliefs in the asuang, or vampire, in one village.

Killing Hope-US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII-William Blum (page 41)

A few years later as part of Operation KUGOWN, the CIA's psywar campaign in Guatemala, the Agency asked its JMWAVE station in Miami to consider fabricating tabloid stories about "flying saucers" or "sextuplets" to dominant local news cycles.

89. Telegram From Operation PBSUCCESS Headquarters in Florida to the CIA Stations in Guatemala and [place not declassified]


Much later, the USAF, possibly (probably) working with intelligence agencies, spread disinformation in the UFO community. One of the sadder examples of this was a decade-long harassment campaign of a defense contractor named Paul Bennewitz.


The Guardian MIB

The Art of Deception is worth checking out if you never seen it. Bear in mind this is all from 2014.


If nothing else, consider that DARPA has a program devoted to exploring how to best exploit social media. Now place that in the context of American intelligence using spooky stories and conspiracy beliefs to wage psychological warfare. Havana Syndrome? UAPs? And on & on...Operation Obfuscation, a combined-effort task force exists only because there has to be a sub rosa factional initiative inside the "U.S. Military-Corporate-Intelligence-Complex."




These stories are largely online phenomena, driven by engagement on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Polling suggests that the vast majority of Americans have never even heard of Havana Syndrome. 

Source: YouGov (PDF)

When considering the spooky ideas that have seemingly manifested out of thin air within the last 5-6 years, remember that American intelligence agencies and the military have used these kinds of stories against people in other countries for decades. Why wouldn't they do it here?



The company running these Twitter ops on behalf of Centcom, is COLSA, in Huntsville, Alabama; a close partner with another prominent military contractor, Elon Musk's SpaceX. Among COLSA's clients are NASA, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Missile Defense Agency.



North Alabama

The Arsenal is a garrison for various tenants across the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and NASA.
...Redstone houses the Tactical UAV Project Office, Redstone Test Center (RTC), the Missile Defense Agency, the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, and other operations.

On 13 January 2021, it was announced that Redstone Arsenal is the preferred location for the headquarters of the United States Space Command.

I'd say Redstone Arsenal is an interesting target.


Here's the full Intercept write-up by the guy who posted TWITTER FILES Part 8:

Twitter Aided the Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign

Internal documents show Twitter whitelisted CENTCOM accounts that were then used to run its online influence campaign abroad.

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It sounds like an 'earnest voice' trying to be heard in the light!!

From your link:

Fifty static IP addresses to enable government agencies to "manage their persistent online personas," with identities of government and enterprise organizations protected which will allow for different state agents to use the same sockpuppet, and easily switch between different sockpuppets to "look like ordinary users as opposed to one organization."

Recall the story from April 2021: The Mystery of AS8003 where the DOD activated 175 million unique IP addresses, 3 minutes before Biden was sworn-in.

Just coincidence that these large scale cyberattacks on supply chains that were happening with greater frequency in the lead-up to a WEF’s Cyber Polygon simulation from last year? Is it a beta test for a disaster that is planned for the near future? Else, just another cog toward the Great Reset. The WEF is openly comparing future cyber attacks to Covid outbreaks:



Cyber Polygon in 2019 simulated DDoS attacks, web application attacks, and ransomware attacks. The 2020 theme for the event was addressing a digital pandemic and for 2021...which the WEF deleted...

Cyber Polygon in 2021

During the technical exercise, participants will hone their practical skills in mitigating a targeted supply chain attack on a corporate ecosystem in real time.

Something further I found which surprise, Next Gen Internet Routing Protocol coupled to the Climate Change narrative...

WEF: Footprints on the path: how routing data could reduce the internet's carbon toll (12 Mar 2021)

Unfortunately, today’s internet architecture is ill-equipped to accommodate such user preferences. The path-discovery mechanism that is used nowadays (a protocol called BGP) provides only a single path between any two points in the internet, offering neither transparency nor choice to users.

To resolve these drawbacks, researchers have been working for over a decade to create a viable alternative. This alternative, the SCION next-generation internet architecture, allows service providers (ISPs) to offer multiple paths to their customers, to augment these paths with valuable information (such as the carbon footprint of the path), and to forward traffic based on their customers’ path choice.

Also, from SwiSSyland...

WEF: Our current internet architecture was conceived for the 1980s. It's time for an upgrade (01 Jun 2021)

At ETH Zurich, we have been working on a modern replacement to the ageing BGP. The next generation SCION Internet is designed to be provably stable in the face of major disruptions and even hackers. By “provably” we mean that our researchers, aided by state-of-the-art software, applied “formal verification” to devise mathematical proofs of SCION’s stability.

Does SCION make it easier to censor the Internet?

No, SCION makes it strictly harder for a government to censor networks. We are not aware of an attack that a government could perform on SCION that could not be performed on today's Internet. On the other hand, many attacks that are possible in today's Internet, do not work in SCION, for example route hijacking attacks — a SCION path cannot be diverted due to the separation of control and data planes.
SCION FAQ

Surely, they would not lie to us.

Flashback...

For two hours on June 6, 2019 a large portion of mobile device traffic in Europe was diverted through systems controlled by China Telecom. According to ZDNet, the technical error was caused after the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which reroutes traffic at the internet service provider level, at Swiss data center company Safe Host leaked more than 70,000 routes to the Chinese internet service provider.

China Telecom May Have Revealed a New Hacking Method (June 11, 2019)

Flashback 2007:

The New PSYOP Payload: Bird Flu and the Collapse of the Internet

“We don’t believe that the Internet will be compromised within a matter of hours or days,” said Brent Woodworth, worldwide manager for IBM’s Crisis Response Team, which does consulting on disaster preparedness. “Most Internet traffic is reroutable, and as different areas are affected at different rates by a pandemic, the networks could anticipate increased traffic and adjust accordingly — with the caveat that critical components will be maintained.”

BONUS::

Tom Clancy's The Division - Story Trailer - 2013:



"The System is built on a global supply chain, that gets things where they're needed "just in time"...."We've created a house of cards. Remove just one and everything falls apart..And what's fueling this system...MONEY.” Some of these 'game' scenario narratives have uncanny prophetic realism.


“Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does. Banks do not loan money, governments are not empowered to protect you, the police department is not there to serve you, institutions of higher learning, colleges and educational institutes, are not there to educate you. The entire superstructure of civilization in the Western world is a combination of brilliantly put together and planned, well-planned, schemes to direct the minds of the people in such a way as to serve their masters.”
― Jordan Maxwell, Matrix of Power: How the World Has Been Controlled by Powerful People Without Your Knowledge (Youtube)

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The Twitter Files [but for adhd tiktok addicts] PART 1

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Merry TWITTER FILES Part 9



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Merry Christmas from a metacosmic Klaus.

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“Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does. Banks do not loan money, governments are not empowered to protect you, the police department is not there to serve you, institutions of higher learning, colleges and educational institutes, are not there to educate you. The entire superstructure of civilization in the Western world is a combination of brilliantly put together and planned, well-planned, schemes to direct the minds of the people in such a way as to serve their masters.”
― Jordan Maxwell, Matrix of Power: How the World Has Been Controlled by Powerful People Without Your Knowledge (Youtube)

I witnessed this on my last tour in Korea. People ... smart like you are ... controlling other people, cutting them to fit their mold. They pretty much own the world and plan to keep owning it.

I opened my mouth one time ... just one time. I was shut-up with such finesse (and instantly), that I actually realized what my place in the room was. An actual epiphany.

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Word...





It just goes on and on forever.

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TWITTER FILES Round 10


https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/16...6338340867

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Be sure to read with an "abundance of caution".


So they put everyone in a false reality not based on the data or what was actually happening, but what they wanted people to see and believe was happening...full afterburner gaslighting. Then they suspended & shadow banned those who didn’t go along with the narrative while leaving those who did active even if what they said was also false.

MSM Doublespeak:


If some national security officials had been worrying about a new virus in China & Italy since fall of 2019, how could they have possibly believed China's two-month lockdown of Wuhan eliminated the virus several months later?



What a real inquiry into the Covid response would look like:

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Kickin off the New Year with TWITTER FILES Round 11



https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1610374789759205380



11. The GEC report appeared based on DHS data circulated earlier that week, and included accounts that followed “two or more” Chinese diplomatic accounts. They reportedly ended up with a list “nearly 250,000” names long, and included Canadian officials + military and a CNN account.

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It seems everyone was involved!

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The Twitter Files haven illustrated to us all exactly what Orwell was talkin about.



Beyond Censorship: Destroying Free Thought Online" - from March 2019, only gets more relevant by the day.

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To many Nazi idiots in government when Freedom is an illusion, Logic is an enemy, and truth is a menace.

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2023 is the Year of the Suddenlies.






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Since I missed Parts 12-13 here's Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, with a Glossary

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Here's a good Op-ed by CJ Hopkins:

The Mother of All Limited Hangouts has begun. Yes, I’m talking about the “Covid Twitter Files,” which are finally being released to the public, in almost textbook limited-hangout fashion. I’ll get into that in just a minute, but first, let’s review what a “limited hangout” is, for those who are not familiar with the term.

The way a limited hangout works is, if you’re an intelligence agency, or a global corporation, or a government, or a non-governmental organization, and you have been doing things you need to hide from the public, and those things are starting to come to light such that you can’t just deny that you are doing them anymore, what you do is, you release a limited part of the story (i.e., the story of whatever it is you’re doing) to distract people’s attention from the rest of the story. The part you release is the “limited hangout.” It’s not a lie. It’s just not the whole story. You “hang it out” so that it will become the whole story, and thus stop people from pursuing the whole story.

Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA who went on to become a critic of the Intelligence Community, described the tactic this way in 1978 …

“… a favorite and frequently used gimmick of clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting, sometimes even volunteering, some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further.”

All right, so, you’re probably asking, if the “Covid Twitter Files” are a limited hangout, what’s the whole story that they’re distracting us from?

Let me try to refresh your memory.


In March and April of 2020, in the course of roughly five to six weeks, the majority of societies throughout the world were transformed into pathologized-totalitarian police states. A global “shock-and-awe” campaign was conducted. Constitutional rights were suspended. The masses were locked down inside their homes, where they were subjected to the most massive official propaganda blitzkrieg in human history. Goon squads roamed the streets of Europe, the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, Asia, the Americas, and elsewhere, beating and arresting people for being outdoors without permission and not wearing medical-looking masks. Corporate media around the world informed us that life as we knew it was over … a “new normal” was coming, and we needed to get used to it.

The entire official pandemic narrative was rolled out during those first few weeks. Everything. Masks. Mandatory “vaccines.” “Vaccination” passports. The segregation of “the Unvaccinated.” The censorship and demonization of dissent. Everything. The whole “New Normal” package. It was rolled out all at once, globally.

If your memory of what happened is a little hazy … well, have a look at this 257-tweet Twitter thread of corporate-media articles compiled in March and April of 2020, documenting the initial “shock-and-awe” campaign …

That is the story. How that happened. Why that happened. And who or what made it happen. It isn’t a story about a virus, or our governments’ reactions to a virus. It is the story of the radical restructuring of society based on lies and official propaganda, executed, globally, through sheer brute force and systematic psychological conditioning. It is the story of the implementation of our new totalitarian global-capitalist “reality” … the “New Normal” that was announced in the Spring of 2020. It is not a story the global-capitalist ruling classes can permit to be told, except by “crazy conspiracy theorists,” “science deniers,” and other “crackpots” and “extremists.”


All right, so … the “Covid Twitter Files,” or the “Fauci Files,” or whatever we’re calling them. If you wanted to bury the actual story (i.e., the story I just outlined above) with a limited hangout and discredit those of us who have been trying to report it for nearly three years, you couldn’t do any better than Elon Musk is doing. Instead of a story about how the entire global-capitalist power apparatus coordinated with global IT corporations like Twitter, Facebook, Google, et al., to conduct a global Gleichschaltung op the scale of which Goebbels could have never dreamed of, censoring and visibility-filtering dissent and enforcing the official pandemic narrative, not just in the USA, but in countries all throughout the world … instead of that monumental story, we are getting The Alex Berenson Show!, starring Alex Berenson as Alex Berenson, with a special guest appearance by Alex Berenson, written and directed by Alex Berenson, and so on.

Seriously, though, who better to handle the “Covid Twitter Files” than Alex Berenson, in whose opinion the events of the last three years were simply due to mass hysteria (or Pandemia, $14.99 on Amazon), and certainly not to any kind of coordinated radical restructuring of society by the global-capitalist power apparatus, or any other wild conspiracy theories. Forget about that 257-tweet thread I compiled in March and April of 2020. What actually happened, according to Alex Berenson, was that people just went kind of crazy, and overreacted, and “mistakes were made.” Mistakes like Twitter suspending Alex Berenson, and other very important people! Or, wait, no, it wasn’t just mass hysteria … it was also Pfizer and Dr. Scott Gottlieb, and the White House, and someone named Andrew Slavitt, all of whom conspired with “Old Evil Twitter” to suspend Alex Berenson from the platform, all of whom Alex will be suing forthwith!

The Alex Berenson Show is just getting started, so definitely stay tuned to “Free-Speech Twitter” to follow all of Alex Berenson’s exploits as he leads “Team Reality” to its ultimate victory over “Team Apocalypse” and exposes the crimes of the usual assortment of official “bad apples,” or whatever cartoonish fairy tales Alex Berenson and Elon Musk have in store for us! It promises to be quite the spectacle!

I’ll be covering the show in my columns, of course — I still have a few subscribers and readers who I haven’t totally alienated yet — and discussing “The Art of the Limited Hangout” for the benefit of anyone still paying attention in the weeks and months and possibly years ahead. If you are one of the many people who now appear to seriously believe that military-contractor oligarchs like Elon Musk and narcissistic ass clowns like Alex Berenson are going to deliver us from the New Normal Reich, and “prosecute Fauci,” and end corporate censorship, or in any way meaningfully bite the hand of the global-capitalist system that feeds them, you may want to give those columns a miss.

For the rest of you, I will do my best to point out how this phase of the PSYOP works, because it’s going to last for quite a while. The “Covid Twitter Files” are not The Mother of All Limited Hangouts; they’re just one part of it. There are many more limited hangouts to come. The New Normal having been successfully implemented, the history of its implementation is now being written (or, rather, rewritten) to conform to the official Covid narrative, a process which will likely continue for years.

Those of you who are old enough might recall this phase from “The War on Terror.” It started around April 2004, when the Abu Ghraib torture photos were released, and continued until the Summer of 2016, when The War on Terror was abruptly cancelled and replaced by The War on Populism, which prepared us for the implementation of the New Normal in the Spring of 2020. All of which is part of an even larger story, i.e., the story of the evolution of the first globally-hegemonic power system in history, which, lacking any external adversary, has nothing to do but go totalitarian, eliminating all internal resistance and establishing ideological uniformity throughout the territory it occupies, which, in this case, means the entire planet.

Sorry … I know, history is boring, and complicated, and not nearly as fun (and cathartic) as the shit-slinging circus that Musk is making of the Twitter Files. Personally, I can’t wait to find out which official “bad apple” they’re going to offer us in today’s edition of the Two Minutes Hate, and who’s going to be released from “Old Twitter Prison,” and, whatever, anyway, don’t worry about all that evolution-of-global-capitalism stuff. It’s probably just a bunch of fancy-sounding nonsense I made up to try to sell you my books, or to make myself sound smart, or something.

Forget that I even mentioned that stuff. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!

The Mother of All Limited Hangouts

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If anyone cares...



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The funny bit is I pointed out the little known GEC agency & it's connections back in August 2020 in another forum, but fell on deaf ears. It's twitter acct went dead silent back in March 2019. They also ran the @DisinfoCloud.



Dept of State Disinfo Cloud

Like so many other Gov 'projects' they just change the name and continue.

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Here we go again...Aside from some names & nefarious NGOs nothing really new that most of us already knew or suspected for a while now. And the selected "Censorship-Industrial Complex" nuggets edge close to the much darker side of it all that is probably coming in very near future.




https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1633830002742657027

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The good ole public-private partnerships with an army of outside technocrat contractors & ML bots.


Well, well, are we not surprised.





Renée DiResta is a writer and research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory. DiResta has written about pseudoscience, conspiracies, terrorism, and state-sponsored information warfare. She has also served as in advisor to the U.S. Congress on ongoing efforts to prevent online and social media disinformation. AND she previously "worked for the CIA" before getting her disinfo job at the Stanford Internet Observatory in 2019. She is a huge proponent of vaccines & Internet censorship.

In 2015, Renée DiResta co-founded Vaccinate California, an organization designed to promote vaccination in California.


Democrats are having a meltdown over "Twitter Files", again. LOL.

Chaos erupts during the House (of clowns) Weaponization Committee hearing as unhinged Democrats try to coerce Twitter Files journalists to reveal their sources.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/...9048613904


Matt Taibbi opening statement today on the Twitter Files:

"...Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government, from the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, Global Engagement Center... even the CIA."





Twitter meltdown hysteria

On the flip-side it seems that Elon is operating Twitter like an early-stage startup or more precisely a restart/Reset or as in my corporate days it was called a Re-Org which ALWAYS instills anxiety, fear, uncertainty among the worker bees and several can happen within a 12-18 month period across departments & divisions. Draining the swamp to restructure the business. Very few of the existing employees have any startup experience and as a result, they are in absolute state of shock, only the strong will survive as the late Intel CEO Andy Grove use to say and even wrote a book about it. This is corporate tech industry 101 tactics. Been there, done that numerous times and also a victim of it.


In the world of 1984, "thinking for yourself" is considered neuro-divergent.

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"...Yeah, the family had a lotta buffers!"

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"...Yeah, the family had a lotta buffers!"

That screenshot looked familiar but I was missing the context. Till I found the reference to refresh my memory. Yes, good one and so true!

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The Information Cartel and the Betrayal of Civil Society and other stuff not new under the sun and nothin will be done brings you another round.


https://twitter.com/NAffects/status/1650954036009398277

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I'll have another...

DEMOCRATS & TWITTER: The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!

TWITTER FILES 21 - How to Find Russians Anywhere including elusive Russian trolls - Make Red Scare stories great again and we all know where TOR originated, right?.


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Here's a good compilation that'll make your head spin: MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes:




Stay tune for Twitter Files 22...dis merry-go-round never ends.