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Nik Peachey
Nik Peachey

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Jan Oberg: The White Helmets Covert Operation Media Influence Scam — Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award Going to Con Artists

Corruption, IO Deeds of War, Non-Governmental
Jan Oberg
Jan Oberg

Just how grey are the White Helmets and their backers?

Phi Beta Iota: A superb analysis of what appears to be a covert action media influence scam created by a mercenary with the full support of the US, UK, and Arab governments, with the intent of dominating the media narrative about Syria toward the regime change desired by the neo-conservatives and paid for by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

See Also: Syria @ Phi Beta Iota

Stephen E. Arnold: Free Is Never Free — How Humans And Their Data Are Harvested for Slaughter

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

In Connected World, Users Are Getting Reared as Slaughter Animals

Yahoo, Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, Instagram and Microsoft all have one thing in common; for any service that they provide for free, they are harnessing your private data to be sold to advertisers.

Mirror UK recently published an Op-Ed titled Who Is Spying on You? What Yahoo Hack Taught Us About Facebook, Google, and WhatsApp in which the author says:

Think about this for a second. All those emails you’ve written and received with discussions about politics and people that were assumed to be private and meant as inside jokes for you and your friends were being filtered through CIA headquarters. Kind of makes you wonder what you’ve written in the past few years, doesn’t it?

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Patrick Tucker: Original Flynn – Open Source Flynn

Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military
Patrick Tucker
Patrick Tucker

The Other Michael Flynn

This new greater emphasis on open-source data aided by computational analysis discomfited older, less technically astute intelligence professionals at DIA and in the broader intelligence community, McCulloh said.

“What that does is it largely disqualifies a lot of old intel guys in favor of people who have more technical skills. That was not happy for them. They wanted to wait him out. Screw him over,” he said. “Anybody who would say that he’s crazy or wrong, that’s an intel person who should be fired.”

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Berto Jongman: Take the Blue Pill — John Pilger on Entrenched Western Media Propaganda — Mass Fabrication

Corruption, IO Deeds of War, Media
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Take the Blue Pill – Entrenched Western Media Propaganda Accepted As Truth

Sputnik Radio host Brian Becker of the Loud & Clear program is joined by prolific filmmaker and journalist John Pilger to discuss the “invisible government” pushing for a Hillary Clinton presidency, and the role Western media plays in the process.

“All pervasive fabrication” has become the cultural crisis of our time, Pilger suggested. Objective, fact-based journalism has ceased to exist in the mainstream Western press, and could even be referred to as ‘anti-journalism.'

Nafeez Ahmed: Militarizing Social Media

04 Education, 07 Other Atrocities, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Military
Nafeez Ahmed
Nafeez Ahmed

Your Government Wants to Militarize Social Media to Influence Your Beliefs

A global conference of senior military and intelligence officials taking place in London this week reveals how governments increasingly view social media as “a new front in warfare” and a tool for the Armed Forces.

The overriding theme of the event is the need to exploit social media as a source of intelligence on civilian populations and enemies; as well as a propaganda medium to influence public opinion.

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