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Matt Taibbi: Understanding Trump — How He Schlonged the Media to Gain an Unexpected Victory
Cultural Intelligence
Best book review: Manufacturing Fear and Loathing, Maximizing Corporate Profits! A Review of Matt Taibbi’s Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
Best quote (Chapter 7): Trump turned the Washington Post and the New York Times into what the wrestling world calls “dirt sheets.”
Good interview: Journalist Matt Taibbi Explains How Following The News Can Be Hazardous To Your Health
Free Chapter 1: Ten Rules of Hate
Penguin: #GoogleGestapo Web 3.0 Thoughts from Bradley Stephenson UPDATE Anon AR Comments
Autonomous Internet
Alert Reader Brad Stepheson writes in:
I'm writing to provide some of my industry perspective from within an open source community project focused on foundational elements of Web 3.0. You are very much keyed-in on the importance of Web 3.0 decentralization, re “…G Gestapo”, censorship, etc.. I recall you've broached this during many of your appearances at least over the past year or two, the latest I've watched being X22 Spotlight posted 2019-12-21. Your consistency with this has led me to contact you.
Anthony Judge: Climate Change – Let’s Pretend …
Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Ed Jewett: Whitney Webb in Unz Review on CIA, Epstein, Cohn, Trump, and the Red Mafiya (Russia, Israel, US Criminal Network that Buys and Sells and Murders Presidents)
Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement
In this four-part series, “The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail,” MintPress has revealed that Epstein’s activities — a sexual blackmail operation involving minors and connected to intelligence agencies — was one of many such operations that have taken place for decades, developing from the nexus forged between the CIA, organized crime and Israeli intelligence shortly after World War II.
Far from being the work of a single intelligence agency or a single country, the power structure revealed by this network connected to Epstein is nothing less than a criminal enterprise that transcends nationality and is willing to use and abuse children in the pursuit of ever more power, wealth and control. Existing for decades and willing to use any means necessary to cover its tracks, this criminal racket has become so integrated into the levers of power, in the United States and well beyond, that it is truly too big to fail.
Robert Steele: Obama Weaponized CIA, DoJ, FBI Against Mike Flynn – Gulen Appears to be a Terrorist Supported by US Taxpayers Still Laundering Cash Back to the Clintons
09 Justice, 09 Terrorism, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement
While I have no direct knowledge I find the below write-up from Joe Holt at Gateway Pundit to be compelling.
Five points in the article, which draws heavily on Sibel Edmonds whom I trust, jump out for me:
01 Gulen is a self-avowed terrorist able to order violence in Turkey at will
