ZeroHedge got locked out of Twitter again for reporting on this press release from The Federation for American Immigration Reform. In these cases, they usually require that you delete the tweet to unblock your account.

Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan that Facebook algorithmically censored the Hunter Biden laptop story for 7 days based on a general request from the FBI to restrict "Russian propaganda" and election misinformation.

According to Zuckerberg, the FBI told Facebook there was about to be a news story from "some kind of dump" of information that might affect the election.

So now the official story is that the secret police told the big tech Information Restrictionists to hide leaked stories and data dumps harmful to the regime. That's what they're out there admitting now. When the official story makes them all look this bad, you have to wonder.

Doesn't it seem like there has been a prolonged campaign to destroy the reputation of the FBI from the inside out, perhaps by one of its more powerful intelligence agency rivals, at home or abroad. Long gone are the days of FBI agents in their big FBI jackets and hats raiding the offices of some corporate swindlers, carrying out boxes of paper, and coordinating with the press to get it on prime time news along with their press conference talking about justice. The FBI public relations people used to love those things. Now we see none of it, as if they just don't care about their reputation, or as if they are being made to destroy themselves. Something weird is definitely going on. It's a bit like when ex-CIA Edward Snowden went into the NSA and leaked everything and destroyed the NSA's reputation. Doesn't this whole thing just smell like CIA, the agency we hardly ever hear about. The creepily named.. Central Intelligence.

Regardless, we've still got Facebook admitting their own screwed up corruption, so that's a win for us.

NPR says the bad thing about the majority of Americans believing America is being invaded is that white nationalists have been believing it the longest. The pro-invasion lobbyists are afraid that supporting the invasion will result in violence against them, now that they are thoroughly outnumbered by the majority.

19% say it is completely false, America is not experiencing an invasion. 53% say yes it is, including 41% of Democrats.

So here, NPR is attempting to claw back some of those percents by trying to smear those who believe it as violent white nationalists. Only the weakest will fall for such tricks — the 27% of people who said "I don't know".

Google is rolling out a "pre-bunking" video advert agenda about disinformation tactics after a study testing it on millions of YouTube users.

They will "pre-bunk" conspiracy theories by showing people how to spot media tricks.

"The company is launching a pre-bunking video campaign in central and eastern Europe to counter anti-refugee narratives."

See.. it was never about educating people on misinformation tactics. It is just another tool to push establishment narratives.

Billions of ads teaching people to trust establishment media narratives by painting everyone else as liars, using "fake news" examples which will obviously attempt to discredit anti-establishment, populist, and nationalist movements.

Some of the tactics they will teach people to identify are "the use of emotional language, incoherence, false dichotomies, scapegoating and ad hominem attacks". Of course they won't use the many examples of the establishment media employing these tactics daily.

🔗 New Scientist

The creator of the study lists the following keywords to describe himself on his psychology department staff profile: Inoculation theory, Misinformation, Social media, vaccine hesitancy, online extremism

Google's power to roll out influence campaigns and carefully study the results is unprecedented. If you are on the internet, you are in a research lab. You are being closely studied on how best to control your thoughts, and how best to stop the spread of your ideas.

Clip from the 1980s BBC comedy Yes Minister, on how easy it is to rig opinion polls to get the answers you want.

In this article, USA Today tries to program their audience into not reading monkeypox news for emotional reasons by telling them their brains are too overloaded because of racism etc — why might they want to do that?

Because monkeypox is 99% gay homosexuals with multiple partners per week, 41% of whom also have HIV, 50% of whom refuse to curtail their promiscuity while monkeypox is ravaging their social networks. USA Today says just don't look into it it's too stressful, install a good news app and don't read bad news as much.

🔗 USA Today

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Article (2019)
"__Psy-Group, an Israeli private intelligence company. Psy-Group’s slogan was “Shape Reality,” and its techniques included the use of elaborate false identities to manipulate its targets. Psy-Group was part of a new wave of private intelligence firms that recruited from the ranks of Israel’s secret services—self-described “private Mossads.” The most aggressive of these firms seemed willing to do just about anything for their clients.

Psy-Group stood out from many of its rivals because it didn’t just gather intelligence; it specialized in covertly spreading messages to influence what people believed and how they behaved. Its operatives took advantage of technological innovations and lax governmental oversight. “Social media allows you to reach virtually anyone and to play with their minds,” Uzi Shaya, a former senior Israeli intelligence officer, said. “You can do whatever you want. You can be whoever you want. It’s a place where wars are fought, elections are won, and terror is promoted. There are no regulations. It is a no man’s land.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/private-mossad-for-hire

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SUPERHERO MOVIES AND THE POWERLESS AUDIENCE

A video essay by Rob Ager of the movie and character analysis youtube channel Collative Learning.

The Key Extract: "My present view is that the core appeal of today's superhero movies is that they are physical power fantasies which emotionally compensate for the lack of influential power that audiences feel in the real world. That's the function it serves for kids who feel powerless in the world compared to adults, and I think that core appeal remains for the adult audiences today.

The impossibility of superheroes renders them mostly pointless in terms of inspiration to action in the real world, because real people, audiences, could never perform the way these fiction characters do. I consider the genre to be raw escapism in the absence of realistic movie heroes. Escapism from the negativity and corruption that we perceive in the real world, negativity that is fed to us constantly by a news media that pushes fear and hopelessness for the most part, and at worst seeks to destroy the reputations of everyday individuals whose actions might otherwise inspire the masses to pursue greater control of their own destinies.

I consider superhero movies to hold the same kind of psychological function that musical movies used to provide during the misery of wartime and economic depression; a couple of hours of hope and happiness escapism. The fantasy of being able to easily influence the world through simple physical actions, with particular emphasis on physical damage resistance and, for some reason, acrobatics. Sometimes these action scenes are like watching the gymnastics competitions at the Olympics.

Now, what I would much rather see is the movie industry getting back to making movies about more convincing, reality-based heroes whose superpowers lie in their character and conviction, not in magical physical abilities or God-given intellect."

“The lowest depth to which people can sink before God is defined by the word “Journalist”. If I were a father and had a daughter who was seduced, I should not despair over her; I would hope for her salvation. But if I had a son who became a journalist and continued to be one for five years, I would give him up.” - Kierkegaard

Jean Raspail describes today's Twitterati in his 1973 book The Camp of the Saints:

"There was no lack of clever folk, willing, from the start, to spread endless layers of verbal cream, spurting thick and unctuous from the udders of their minds. The obliging bovines of contemporary Western thought, tails all aquiver, acquiesced with delight to the daily milking."