THE BIG STORY: The Twitter Files have lifted the lid on a secret alliance between Silicon Valley, intelligence agencies and the political establishment
In December 2021, Denmark’s highest-ranking intelligence chiefs warned Danish media executives that publishing “state secrets” was a crime under the country’s criminal code. Officials insisted journalists who “pass on classified information” may be prosecuted.
The “chilling effect” of the warnings troubled the World Association of News Publishers, which is a trade association of news media organizations based in Frankfurt, Germany.
Mads Brandstrup, the chief executive officer of the Danish Media Association, responded, “The intelligence services must subject themselves to public scrutiny just as any other part of government. I find this kind of approach deeply concerning, and it should have no place in a democratic society."
If you really appreciated the revelation of this article, you will value a book called 'Unsettling Truths' by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah. The seriousness highlighted in Jonathan's article requires deeper understanding and change in thinking of individuals in power at all levels in all key areas.
This is the best explanation and summation of this whole tangled mess I've seen. It can be unbearably difficult to keep straight who said what to whom, when they said it, about exactly what any of it suggested or claimed, and what it all might mean from one confusing day to the next. Cook has done an extraordinary job of sorting through the entanglements, as Taibbi and others have teased out thread after thread to help reveal a picture of this major effort undertaken by multiple national "security" agencies to transform this country into neo-con/neoliberal lockdown state where all dissent and challenge from meddlesome "populists" of either the right or the left can be silenced once and for all.
That way, the establishment's long-term project of securing Full Spectrum Dominance over the Earth can proceed unimpeded from within. If it inevitably leads directly to nuclear war and species extinction--c'est la vie. Better dead than failing to own and control every inch of the planet.
I'd never read the Narnia books but did read several of Lewis' other works years ago, when I struggled heavily with Christianity. So I looked into Jadis and the Deplorable Word, from Lewis' "The Magician's Nephew."
It strikes me now that the Deplorable Word might be the atomic bomb, a device that's never been "off the table" since the CIA and the Pentagon killed JFK. He wanted desperately to dismantle that nihilistic project and the powers around him were having none of it. They've been trying like hell since 1963, and really well before that, to utter the Deplorable Word. Thanks for pointing this out.
I just love the FBI's response owning up to having been committing the same crimes for a long time! This is so disgusting it really is depravity at its worst. Every time the victim is the guilty party. Every time no matter how criminal the act it is always "look over here don't look at that" and how many people actually do just that is astonishing!
but that said, he confirmed what we already knew for a long time, now.
2. Anyone who thinks that the problem is limited to Twitter is willfully naive.
3. Those goodthink liberals who defend the FBI because they were only "making suggestions" should apply that same logic to sexual harassment. After all, the boss is merely making a suggestion having sex with him might further his underlings career.
4. Note how those same goodthinkers now insist that censorship is somehow necessary.
Last week, Burrell claimed that censorship was needed to "protect freedom of speech". Not only is that 1984-level "war is peace! Freedom is slavery!" bullshit, his remark passed without comment. The PMC is in lockstep on these issues.
From the DIssenter newsletter today:
"Denmark Justice Minister Approves Secret Charges Against Former Defense Minister Who Discussed NSA Spying With The Press"
https://thedissenter.org/denmark-justice-minister-approves-secret-charges-against-former-defense-minister-for-discussing-nsa-spying-with-the-press/?ref=the-dissenter-newsletter
In December 2021, Denmark’s highest-ranking intelligence chiefs warned Danish media executives that publishing “state secrets” was a crime under the country’s criminal code. Officials insisted journalists who “pass on classified information” may be prosecuted.
The “chilling effect” of the warnings troubled the World Association of News Publishers, which is a trade association of news media organizations based in Frankfurt, Germany.
Mads Brandstrup, the chief executive officer of the Danish Media Association, responded, “The intelligence services must subject themselves to public scrutiny just as any other part of government. I find this kind of approach deeply concerning, and it should have no place in a democratic society."
Excellent summary on the twitter files and related propaganda efforts underway. Thank you!
We all knew it Jonathan and it goes way back. Larger than this essay discusses.
Check - Panoptic Society . . . https://les7eb.substack.com/p/washingtons-war-part-viii-narrative
If you really appreciated the revelation of this article, you will value a book called 'Unsettling Truths' by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah. The seriousness highlighted in Jonathan's article requires deeper understanding and change in thinking of individuals in power at all levels in all key areas.
This is the best explanation and summation of this whole tangled mess I've seen. It can be unbearably difficult to keep straight who said what to whom, when they said it, about exactly what any of it suggested or claimed, and what it all might mean from one confusing day to the next. Cook has done an extraordinary job of sorting through the entanglements, as Taibbi and others have teased out thread after thread to help reveal a picture of this major effort undertaken by multiple national "security" agencies to transform this country into neo-con/neoliberal lockdown state where all dissent and challenge from meddlesome "populists" of either the right or the left can be silenced once and for all.
That way, the establishment's long-term project of securing Full Spectrum Dominance over the Earth can proceed unimpeded from within. If it inevitably leads directly to nuclear war and species extinction--c'est la vie. Better dead than failing to own and control every inch of the planet.
That last sentence pretty much nails the level of sociopathy we're up against.
Seems that C.S. Lewis may have been onto something when he described Jadis and The Deplorable Word.
I'd never read the Narnia books but did read several of Lewis' other works years ago, when I struggled heavily with Christianity. So I looked into Jadis and the Deplorable Word, from Lewis' "The Magician's Nephew."
It strikes me now that the Deplorable Word might be the atomic bomb, a device that's never been "off the table" since the CIA and the Pentagon killed JFK. He wanted desperately to dismantle that nihilistic project and the powers around him were having none of it. They've been trying like hell since 1963, and really well before that, to utter the Deplorable Word. Thanks for pointing this out.
n. b. C.S. Lewis considered dropping the atomic bomb on Japan to be the height of barbarism.
FWIW, "The Magicians Nephew" is by far the best of the Narnia series, IMHO.
I just love the FBI's response owning up to having been committing the same crimes for a long time! This is so disgusting it really is depravity at its worst. Every time the victim is the guilty party. Every time no matter how criminal the act it is always "look over here don't look at that" and how many people actually do just that is astonishing!
Outstanding drawstring commentary. Can’t thank you enough.
1. Taibbi performed a signal service,
but that said, he confirmed what we already knew for a long time, now.
2. Anyone who thinks that the problem is limited to Twitter is willfully naive.
3. Those goodthink liberals who defend the FBI because they were only "making suggestions" should apply that same logic to sexual harassment. After all, the boss is merely making a suggestion having sex with him might further his underlings career.
4. Note how those same goodthinkers now insist that censorship is somehow necessary.
Last week, Burrell claimed that censorship was needed to "protect freedom of speech". Not only is that 1984-level "war is peace! Freedom is slavery!" bullshit, his remark passed without comment. The PMC is in lockstep on these issues.
We don’t need to “discredit the services.” They’ve already done that to themselves.