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The highlighted text in your own past speculation is frighteningly prescient.

You're either perceptive as hell or haven't yet been outed in the Twitter files as a "former" FBI agent and are just enjoying the party until the guillotine finally drops in Round 18 or so. ;o)

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I still want to know why 45 had a change of “heart” regarding declassifying and releasing the files on JFKs death. That’s the exact truth bomb we need to reveal the FBI and CIA for what they really are. I’ve never heard Tucker discuss who killed JFK, but I lived in Dallas from 2012 to 2015. One, spend a few hours in the Book Depository , you’ll leave unsettled with the narrative. Two, discuss the event with anyone over 75 and they all concur that “we” killed him.

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Irony: talking in code about meetings with acronym agencies in internal channels while accusing a sitting president of talking in code about violence.

I know I should do better than that, but I just got up and haven't had my coffee.

And, yes, you're right. The bigger story here is that Twitter is just the very tip of a very bottom heavy iceberg. This is why the only corporate media I look at is Fox and that's only to kind of get a quick idea of whether or not Russia has bombed us yet (not that it would matter; I don't have a bunker, but I would definitely eat a last very large piece of chocolate cake with extra ice cream).

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Don't really now what to say - that media censors, often colludes with the governement-in-office, that the bigger legacy media is virtually the propaganda arm of political parties and/or thecorporate state itself, and that dissenters are silenced, censored, shunned and banned?

That's... that's Tuesday, if you see what I mean.

That's the way it's always has been - in the US too.

But confirmation is of course sometimes also validation, and that's something to buil momentum from. Am I wrong in thinking that the powers behind these FBI-agents are some of the former presidential clans within the DNC?

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They got the guns. They got the terrorism laws. They got the judges. They got the secret backdoor channels to social media. They got the MSM. They got millions of useful idiots. They got the Representatives, check out Ted Lieu's act on Twitter.

We've got righteous indignation. We've got the Constitution

Not sure how this plays out.

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We've known for decades that Hoover kept secret files of info on almost every prominent American (and even some who were not Americans like John Lennon).

We've known for decades that the FBI infiltrated dissident groups. It was a standing joke that most members of the American Communist Party were undercover FBI agents.

We've known for decades that Hoover denied the existence of organized crime and tried to protect crime bosses from investigation.

We've known for decades about Hoover's personal proclivities.

And yet no alarm bells were raised. Everybody knew that was just Hoover after all, no reason to look any closer.

Every one of our institutions has been slowly compromised over decades, and somehow we just laughed at the snowflakes and looked the other way.

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Arguably the most revealing court case about government laundered censorship.

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Holy Corruption! Just skimmed this..no time. One would think this should be the proverbial “straw..” Matt Taibbi, take good care!

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> There’s something deeply ironic about how one of the only people to speak up against censorship is from China.

Not particularly. Most Twitter employees have been raised in a complete fucking bubble, but that guy saw what's up as a kid.

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Gotta love a paraphrased Green quote!

I’m in need of one of those cat vests. But in 50 lb dog size please.

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All I can say is--if I could grow up adoring Robert Stack in The Untouchables and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in The F.B.I. and *still* distrust all feds, anybody could. I had no trouble recognizing fiction.

What name do you think of first when you hear "FBI?" Should be J. Edgar Hoover. That didn't tell everyone everything they still need to know? Culture is a tenacious thing.

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I love racing. Some day I'd like to open the J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Dragstrip.

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Well, we've all got our own little strange dreams...

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It comes from having driven a truck in 2020 and 2021 and discovering that some chunk of I-80 in Iowa is the "Herbert Hoover Memorial Freeway", and, well, the joke is just too good to resist.

Though I'm not sure I want to host *that* sort of drag strip... ;)

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Yes, I was running so long I couldn't even get into the "War on Terror" malfeasance of the FBI, nor any that went on before it. (Which really continues to this day -- think of the Whitmer "kidnapping")

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What I'd like someone with a repressed death wish to get into is how deeply the FBI and the CIA have embedded their cats' paws into Hollywood, to shape our perceptions.

The Thomas Harris books were far more subtle than the films.

And my propaganda meter went off the scale when "Saving Private Ryan" came out. Anytime they make a WWI or WWII film, I feel those mind-conditioning vibes heading our way. The great enduring films of those eras have already been made and they are indelible.

Who's paying to distract us from *this* era?

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Try watching european-made films about the world wars. You'll spot the difference in tone and message immediately I think.

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Its not war movies, but I have noticed for years that the European ripoffs of the Nuclear Holocaust/Mad Max genre are far grittier and in some ways more realistic than their Hollywood model, if a bit low budget. I always chalked that up to the fact that many Europeans living at the time had actually lived through catastrophic events and knew what happened when shit hit the fan.

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It's not really a fair comparison though, is it? The experiences of people who were in such terrible peril regardless of being combatants or civilians; the knowledge that soldiers on the front couldn't protect their families; the horribleness of fearing your neighbors and friends and even relatives because they might betray you.

We could never know in our bones what that felt like.

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I'm aiming at the propaganda-angle more than anything. European films tend to emphasise the human - good and bad - in war films, more than any notion of Good vs. Evil, jingoism or things like that (actual intentional propaganda-films not counted of course).

And movies like The Misfit Brigade (very loosely based on Sven Hassel's novels set in a german penal battallion duing the war) or Peckinpah's Cross of Iron are american but not propagandistic in any direction other than that war is Hell on Earth and makes beasts of us.

Maybe there was a shift in sensibilities in Hollywood during the early 1990s, regarding WW1/2-films, where a Good vs. Evil-narrative structure was felt more necessary or desireable to emphasise, since the wars the US initiated or participated in after WW2 were anything as clear-cut as that one could be made out as?

I certainly got a vibe from US war/action movies duing the 1980s that they were either very self-aware and self-critical (aftermath of Vietnam-trauma no doubt) or overtly jingoistic to the point that you can almost watch Hot Shots and Commando or Rambo II side by side and wonder which one is the parody.

No-one make good war-movies like the finns though.

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When I was a kid I read a children's novel about a Finnish girl--probably around toddler age--evacuated to Sweden during the war to live with a comfortable middle-class family, and at the war's end she was returned--very reluctantly--to her mother.

The girl was of course extremely resentful; the Finnish family was living in considerable privation; the older children had remained with the mother so this girl was in every way an outsider to people whose language she couldn't speak and whose circumstances were fairly dreadful.

I don't remember exactly what the scene was where the girl finally understood the suffering of her mother, how desperately the mother loved her and what the separation had cost her and the extent of parental devotion to send away a beloved child in hopes of saving it, and the anguish of having that child return as a stranger full of resentment.

I have never forgotten that (obvious statement). Wish I could track down that book. The plot seems very close to a famous work by a Finnish author but his story was about a boy; perhaps this was an adaptation (or ripoff?).

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I mean, my death wish isn't particularly repressed, so I'd do it, but I don't have the data, unfortunately. ;)

And hell, who'd even listen, anyway? The Fibbers wouldn't have to bother putting me in a shallow unmarked grave, they'd just unperson me from the economy.

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The Prisoner was a heck of a prescient show.

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"Who is Number One?!"

"You are... Number Six."

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I loved that show so much. And the predecessor Secret Agent (Danger Man in the UK).

Perhaps everything about me can be understood in that I had zero interest in Elvis Presley ever but thought Patrick McGoohan was the ideal male form. This from prepubescence.

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On that note--or a bit aside--Are people talking about Tucker Carlson asserting that a source told him that the CIA was involved in JFK's assassination?

Again, I don't get much "news".

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I watch Tucker but with considerable skepticism, and his source for that was the guy who was involved with Oliver Stone's JFK, and who said that "he believed" the CIA was involved.

I think it's important to remember that the CIA has always been filled with a bunch of hotshots with too much faux testosterone and not enough patience for the boring details of keeping track of unstable people they use and misuse.

Most bad things that happen come from absolute fuck-up incompetence rather than cunning malevolence.

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Thanks. That jibes with my personal fed gov experience.

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Answer: Scully and Mulder. And I was born in '61!

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Well, they are a unique sub-category that must be kept, you know, unsullied.

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Unscully'd?

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No no! We want them eternally Scullied!

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Maybe I am the only person who cannot stand trying to read twitter threads. I much prefer a coherent write through.

As random aside: My last assignment at my network news job was the super bowl between the Patriots and the Giants in Indy 2012. I was excoriated for not including in my report (supposedly about the game) random twitter comments on Madonna’s half time show.

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Thank you for refraining. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Wasn't that the Super Bowl the Giants won when a guy caught a pass off his head, thus beating the 18-0 Patriots? Preventing Tom Brady's Patriots from becoming the 2nd undefeated team in NFL history? And they were worried about tweets about a has-been Madonna?

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Did I not catch a glimpse of Tom Brady playing TODAY? That guy must be... 104 years old.

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What a great moniker you have!

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Fangks! I've been a cartoon dog for about 40 years now, which is a long freakin' time in dog years. ;)

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Lol. No the Patriots had lost a couple… but the Giants were 8-7 and won.

But yes Madonna was more important than the game.

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I had to look that up! All I can remember now is Madonna….and another thing!

Jason Pierre Paul a defender for the Giants had his family at the game— including his blind father. After the presentation of the Lombardi Trophy, Jason, his son, carefully walked his dad up the wooden steps of the impromptu bright yellow stage at midfield.

Our photographer noticed this and we got video of the poignant moment. I tried to talk to the Pierre Pauls, but alas they either spoke only Haitian Creole or pretended to. (I remember a cringe worthy scene where an elderly female relative in a wheelchair rolled herself furiously to get away from me and my well meant but apparently intrusive questions.)

Even so I ended my story with video of this beautiful father and son moment and my audio track explained how Pierre Paul’s dad had never been able seen his son play.

The senior producer HATED it, called it maudlin, and cut it from my story. I fought tooth and nail saying this moment was better than the game, to no avail! He refused to let me include this. (But Madonna? Included!)

Next day I get a call from my agent saying the president of CBS News was furious with me because I had refused to include the Pierre Paul family in my story. WTH!?? Yes. The senior producer who cut the scene lied and said I refused to include it and he got away with it.

Lots of other crazy things were happening simultaneously but in two weeks I was informed I was done.

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Yes.

One of the many things that served me as justification for my 2014 decision to abandon NPR and other "news" outlets for good, was when in later years I would hear "journalists" citing something that someone had tweeted and passing that off as reporting the news.

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Totally get that.

Half of news stories today are embedded tweets.

I was at the event and my observations weren’t good enough!? (Even tho they are paying me for my observations!). My bosses wanted the input in the form of twitter of famous name people at home watching the halftime show on tv over their own employee on the field? It is ridiculous.

Grateful that event put an end to my career well ahead of all this total BS!

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It's very ironic that as part of being able to break the story, they had to do it on Twitter, which really showcased what a terrible platform Twitter is for actual longform journalism.

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That seems to be something that is fading from the ability of many younger people...

And that is waaaay sad.

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Bless you for understanding my sentiments. I love words, fluidity, a well constructed sentence. Like you write.

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Me, too. Can you do a Stack page? I will sign up.

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Thank you. I have been thinking about it.

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Go for it! Just don't count on making money... ;)

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I am so grateful to have found writers who can distill the mash into a fine bourbon, to be sipped and appreciated. A well deserved victory lap indeed.

I doubt I will read all the "T-files" though, as time does not support further confirmation of already suspected (known?) tactics of the corrupt government/media "partnership".

It will be entertaining to read after they are sentenced for the crimes they have committed, assuming that actually happens.

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If only we could get "the Google Files" too! I have a feeling the Twitter Files would pale in comparison. Dr. Robert Epstein and researchers at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology preserved more than 13,000 election-related search results on Google, Yahoo!, and Bing from the 2016 election. Epstein and his researchers discovered “significant bias” in Google results in favor of Hillary Clinton in “all 10 positions on the first page of search results in both blue states and red states.” Based on his research, Epstein believes this pro–Hillary Clinton bias shifted at least 2.6 million votes in her favor in 2016. And there's no doubt the FBI has contacts there.

https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/googlegov-part-2

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Yes. There's nothing about any of these programs that suggest it was Twitter-only.

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