Managing the narrative

[F2d5thCav]

@"Ninurta"#2 's mention of censorship by Wordpress ties in with this February article posted on Sentinel Network substack.

https://thesentinel.network/p/the-suppre...nt-why-the

Great description of how internet censorship works.  Some tidbits--

We shared sourced, measured analysis to relevant subreddits. Standard posts. No rule violations. No inflammatory language. These posts were not downvoted into obscurity — they were removed. Silently. No notification. No rule citation. No moderator message. You post. You check back an hour later. The post does not exist.

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Within minutes — not hours — of a post going live, the comments section would fill with personal attacks.


These were not substantive disagreements. Nobody said “here’s why your orbital mechanics are wrong.” The comments attacked the act of posting:

“Why are you spreading this garbage.” “Another conspiracy nutjob.” “People like you are the problem.”


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The accounts posting them shared common hallmarks of inauthentic behavior: sparse post histories, sudden activity spikes on this single topic, and near-identical rhetorical structures across supposedly independent users.

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THE SENTINEL ASSESSMENT: The academic layer operates differently than the platform layer. Reddit uses blunt force — removals, bans, floods. The academic firewall uses procedural legitimacy. A single gatekeeper with the right title can strangle a paper in the crib by calling it “limited interest.” The result is the same: the anomalous data never reaches the discourse.

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Greenewald has filed thousands of FOIA requests across three decades. He has documented that the CIA does not always deploy Glomar. A request about a potential terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Colombia received a straightforward “no records” reply. An inquiry about an Iranian F-14 incident near a nuclear facility — same. The Defense Intelligence Agency released an actual intelligence report on Comet Hale-Bopp in 1999.

Terrorism. Nuclear threats. Previous comets. All received direct answers.

The third interstellar object in human history received a classified wall. . . .


THE SENTINEL ASSESSMENT: The Glomar response is the capstone of the suppression gradient. At the platform level, the operation is crude — bots, bans, brigades. At the academic level, it is procedural — editorial gatekeeping, silent database edits. At the government level, it is legal — statutory classification authority invoked to seal records on an object that has been publicly declared harmless. Three layers. One objective. Narrative containment.

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The Glomar response isn’t protecting methodology. It’s protecting a conclusion.

The academic gatekeeping isn’t maintaining standards. It’s maintaining a narrative.

And the platform suppression isn’t organic backlash. It’s the outermost ring of a containment operation that originates at Langley and radiates outward through every institution that touches this topic.

Sentinel Network comments banned on various subreddits--





Wouldn't want to disturb the gatekeepers.

[Ninurta]

Yeah, the Gatekeepers get all manner of bent out of shape and out of sorts when you say things they don't like... especially if those things are true, and they can't legitimately come up with a counter-argument.

In my case, when WordPress banned our blog and memory-holed it, I fought back... but not on their turf. That would have been picking a losing battle. Instead, what I did was write an entire book about the incidents surrounding the WordPress blog, throwing the information out into the public sphere anyhow. I released the book for free as a download at several different venues so that if one got taken down, the rest would still be available.

Some of those venues HAVE gone down in the interim, but for other reasons. No one ever got it successfully taken down on account of the book. It was available at ATS until ATS went down. It's still available at ScribD. There was also a torrent for it if everything else failed, but I've not checked to see if the torrent was still alive in several years now.

The title of the book is "The Hoax Heard Round the World".

An interesting turn of events was that the miscreants accused us of "Google bombing" them after the book release, and in their efforts to explain "Google bombs", actually Google-bombed themselves, which actually promoted the book they were trying to bury, and shot themselves right in the foot thereby. Some folks are just too damned dumb to live.

"You can't stop the signal, Mal"... especially if you piss the wrong person off. They'll release it anyway, but just move the release to venues beyond your control.

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[F2d5thCav]

Couldn't download it from scribd (don't want to register on yet another internet site), but I read a bit of it.  What a piece of work those characters were.  Manipulators all the way down the line.

[Ninurta]

Couldn't download it from scribd (don't want to register on yet another internet site), but I read a bit of it.  What a piece of work those characters were.  Manipulators all the way down the line.

Here ya go.

It's also archived at the old RN3 archive site There is a link to download it in the first post of this thread.

I've not gotten around to posting a copy of it here at the new site. I probably ought to get on that.

ETA: Never mind. That link requires one to be logged in to download the book, and it wouldn't let me log in. So, I'll hunt down a copy I have locally and post it here.



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[Ninurta]

I don't think I've ever posted a PDF on this site before, so this may be an adventure in learning.

I hunted down a pristine copy of the book I have stored here, and then had to change browsers because the one I was using has issues with uploads and downloads. I think I'm ready now, so here goes:

Nope. File was too large. Back in a bit - I've got to hunt down some settings to change.

Round 2. I doubled the max PDF upload size to see if it works now:


  The_Hoax_Heard_Round_the_World.pdf (Size: 3.14 MB / Downloads: 8)

Now to see if it works. So far, so good.

Success. Clicking the link will open the book in a new tab. From there, you can either read it in the browser or download it to your machine via the download button in the upper right corner.

My work here is done.

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[sahgwa]

I don't think I've ever posted a PDF on this site before, so this may be an adventure in learning.

I hunted down a pristine copy of the book I have stored here, and then had to change browsers because the one I was using has issues with uploads and downloads. I think I'm ready now, so here goes:

Nope. File was too large. Back in a bit - I've got to hunt down some settings to change.

Round 2. I doubled the max PDF upload size to see if it works now:



Now to see if it works. So far, so good.

Success. Clicking the link will open the book in a new tab. From there, you can either read it in the browser or download it to your machine via the download button in the upper right corner.

My work here is done.

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That is real dumb. UV light with radio? The EM spectrum invovles many things but I thought radio was it's own band, he said facetiously. heh
I downloaded the book thanks for sharing it!





The Internet used to be so fun and free, up until maybe 2010s or so.  

Now the web searches you do just repeat the same corporate crap over and over and over and over. 

Now with AI on top of it, you can hardly tell who is really commenting or who is just a bot that is flaming.

BUT speaking of gatekeepers and narrative management, the smart phone may be a stupid leash and tracking device, BUT the PTB really shot themselves in the foot giving everyone a way to video in real time all across the world. 
But yes it is really easy to censor it. But if you get it out on telegram or something real fast and have people mirror it.....It often contradicts 'the news' in real time.

[Freija]

ETA: Never mind. That link requires one to be logged in to download the book, and it wouldn't let me log in. So, I'll hunt down a copy I have locally and post it here..

FYI, I can log into RN3 with no problem. I even double-checked just now.

[Ninurta]

ETA: Never mind. That link requires one to be logged in to download the book, and it wouldn't let me log in. So, I'll hunt down a copy I have locally and post it here..

FYI, I can log into RN3 with no problem. I even double-checked just now.

I had just repaired the database over there (again!) and could get in to the main site, but every time I tried to log in, it kept taking me to the "SQL Screen of Death"... but then I could get back to any site page other than that just fine. I've not tried to log in since then, so the problem may have sorted itself out in the interim. Maybe some weird delay in updating the database repair or something like that. I dunno.

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[F2d5thCav]

So Sentinel Network released another article yesterday that examines the "origins" and employment of Luis Elzondo re: the whole "disclosure" narrative.  I think they'll make some unpleasant enemies with that one.  Hope they stay on the 'net, their material is interesting to consider.