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'Whistleblower' Haugen was part of Facebook team that spiked Hunter Biden laptop story

Nick Monroe
The Post Millennial
Thu, 07 Oct 2021 17:12 UTC
Haugen
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Facebook 'whistleblower' Frances Haugen hearing
The civic integrity department in October 2020 had Frances Haugen — a left-leaning activist who declared her own war against "misinformation."

The Facebook civic integrity team that leftist activist whistleblower Frances Haugen was a member of, worked to counter misinformation about the 2020 election.

Which in October of last year meant making the decision to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story and the New York Post's reporting on it.

Project Veritas whistleblowers haven't gotten the same mainstream media attention and praise as Frances Haugen has, after coming out publicly to 60 Minutes earlier this week.

Comment: Conservative podcaster Dan Bongino makes an interesting observation on Haugen's testimony (includes ads):



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The elites' battle for the Future America

Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:41 UTC
Elites at a Hampton party
No nation can produce less of lesser quality, and squander more on infinitely greedy and corrupt elites, all funded by issuing trillions of new units of currency, and imagine that this asymmetry will never have consequences.

As I have often noted, historian Michael Grant identified profound political disunity in the ruling class as a key cause of the dissolution of the Roman Empire. Grant described this dynamic in his excellent account The Fall of the Roman Empire, a book I have been recommending since 2009.

I've been writing about the fractures in America's ruling elites for many years, as well as the erosion of the foundations of society that lead to systemic collapse, for example, Collapse, Part 2: The Nine Dynamics of Decay (June 2015), Going to War with the Political Elite You Have (May 14, 2007) and The Conflict within the Deep State Just Broke into Open Warfare (March 10, 2017)
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Eye 1

Bringing Facebook to heel: A system-connected 'whistleblower' and a 'for the children' narrative mask a bid for political control

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:48 UTC
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Politicians always couch power grabs in talk of safety or protecting children. If something looks too good to be true, that's because it is. Both of those truisms apply to the case of Facebook 'whistleblower' Frances Haugen.

Haugen came seemingly out of nowhere to testify before the Senate on Tuesday, yet she revealed nothing besides well-rehearsed bromides about the Menlo Park behemoth putting "profits over people" and somehow endangering Our Democracy by refusing to police misinformation, or something. Stunning and brave!

She also landed a 60 Minutes interview over the weekend, got instantly verified on Twitter, and received praise from the extremely online Democrats (aka the 'Resistance' during the Trump era) for her stunning bravery. Her advice to the Senate wasn't to break up Facebook, either, but to turn it into an arm of the government - for the "common good," of course, and to protect the children.

Comment: Folks aren't buying it





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Brick Wall

COVID-19 detention camps: Are government round-ups of resistors in our future?

John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
covid camps
It's no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying its mandates but when.

This is what we know: the government has the means, the muscle and the motivation to detain individuals who resist its orders and do not comply with its mandates in a vast array of prisons, detention centers, and FEMA concentration camps paid for with taxpayer dollars.

It's just a matter of time.

It no longer matters what the hot-button issue might be (vaccine mandates, immigration, gun rights, abortion, same-sex marriage, healthcare, criticizing the government, protesting election results, etc.) or which party is wielding its power like a hammer.

The groundwork has already been laid.

Under the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the President and the military can detain and imprison American citizens with no access to friends, family or the courts if the government believes them to be a terrorist.

So it should come as no surprise that merely criticizing the government or objecting to a COVID-19 vaccine could get you labeled as a terrorist.
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Top Secret

CIA airlifted thousands of Afghan commandos accused of war crimes and serious abuses out of country during withdrawal - reports


RT
Wed, 06 Oct 2021 20:21 UTC
taliban troops
© AFP / Aamir Qureshi
Before the Taliban takeover in August, the CIA reportedly evacuated thousands of Afghan commandos belonging to its shadowy Zero units. These outfits conducted deadly night raids and have been accused of committing "war crimes."

The agency flew out more than 20,000 "Afghan partners" and their families, according to two unnamed former officers cited in a recent Washington Post editorial. The US is thought to have gotten between 60,000 and 120,000 Afghans out of the country.

The airlift of as many as 7,000 Zero unit members and their relatives was an agency priority, The Intercept reported. An unidentified former senior US intelligence official told the investigative news outlet that most of the commandos were flown to Qatar, where CIA officers helped get them sent to the US.
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The Amen Corner Strikes Again

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
AIPAC meeting
Once upon a time the Israel Lobby destroyed critics of the Jewish state and its behavior by stealth. If a Congressman or Senator were speaking honestly about the lopsided relationship with Israel which required suppressing, it was done by making sure that individual was not reelected. This was normally accomplished by vetting an attractive opposition primary candidate who would do Israel's bidding, funding him or her generously and providing unfavorable press coverage of the incumbent.

One great victory for Israel using that technique was the 1992 defeat of George H. W. Bush by Bill Clinton. Bush had dared to withhold guarantees on loans sought to fund Israel's expansion of its settlements, clearly a genuine American interest as the settlements were a violation of international law. Going into the election, he appeared to be the much stronger candidate, but then the captive media starting to write about how the economy was in bad shape, which was not true, and switched over to deeply negative coverage of his campaign. The Lobby also heavily contributed financially to the Clinton campaign. George H.W. subsequently privately blamed the Israel Lobby for his defeat, a lesson his son George W. clearly absorbed in that he took pains to never anger Israel. He went rather the other way, surrounding himself with Jewish neocons as his national security policy team, which in turn produced Afghanistan and, quite plausibly, was the driving force behind the catastrophic attack on Iraq.
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Bad Guys

NATO to expel eight Russian diplomats, allegedly over claims of 'undisclosed killings & espionage' at military bloc's Brussel headquarters


RT
Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:06 UTC
NATO
© Sean Gallup / Getty Images
Officials from NATO have reportedly decided to slash the size of the permanent Russian delegation working to build ties with the US-led military bloc at its headquarters in Brussels, revoking the credentials of eight envoys.

Writing on Twitter on Wednesday, Sky News security editor Deborah Haynes wrote that "NATO has decided to halve the size of Russia's mission to the alliance."

According to Haynes, the move is "in response to suspected malign Russian activities, including killings & espionage."

Comment: Unsurprisingly these allegations aren't presented with any supporting facts. That's because it's likely that there aren't any - at least none that wouldn't also apply to Western diplomats. Since Russia has made it clear that it doesn't take too kindly to the breaching of diplomatic protocol, and particularly because in this instance these are serious criminal accusations, it's likely that there will be an interesting response from Moscow.

It's notable that such allegations would appear as the situation on the globe heats up with protests raging against vaccine mandates, lockdowns, with whistleblowers and undercover investigations revealing these crimes against humanity by governments and industry, in addition to the looming shortages of all kinds - including energy, products and food - that threaten to throw the lives of billions into unimaginable turmoil: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Climate Disaster Plans and Vaccine War Games: Government to the Rescue!



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Eye 1

Dubai ruler hacked ex-wife & friends using Israeli Pegasus spyware amidst custody battle, high court judge finds

Haroon Siddique
The Guardian
Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:00 UTC
Mohammed Haya
© Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images
Sheikh Mohammed and Princess Haya at Royal Ascot in 2010.
The ruler of Dubai hacked the phone of his ex-wife Princess Haya using NSO Group's controversial Pegasus spyware in an unlawful abuse of power and trust, a senior high court judge has ruled.

The president of the family division found that agents acting on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who is also prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, a close Gulf ally of Britain, hacked Haya and five of her associates while the couple were locked in court proceedings in London concerning the welfare of their two children.

Those hacked included two of Haya's lawyers, one of whom, Fiona Shackleton, sits in the House of Lords and was tipped off about the hacking by Cherie Blair, who works with the Israeli NSO Group.

Comment: Unless it's somehow expedient to the British establishment, we can expect the Sheikh's criminality to continue unpunished. After all, the UK has no qualms working with the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and their partner in crime, Israel, despite their relentless crimes against humanity:

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Control Panel

Greenwald: Democrats and media do not want to weaken Facebook, just commandeer its power to censor

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
Frances Haugen
© Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen testifies at the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing entitled 'Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower' on Capitol Hill October 5, 2021 in Washington,
"Whistleblower" Frances Haugen is a vital media and political asset because she advances their quest for greater control over online political discourse.

Much is revealed by who is bestowed hero status by the corporate media. This week's anointed avatar of stunning courage is Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager being widely hailed as a "whistleblower" for providing internal corporate documents to the Wall Street Journal relating to the various harms which Facebook and its other platforms (Instagram and WhatsApp) are allegedly causing.

The social media giant hurts America and the world, this narrative maintains, by permitting misinformation to spread (presumably more so than cable outlets and mainstream newspapers do virtually every week); fostering body image neurosis in young girls through Instagram (presumably more so than fashion magazines, Hollywood and the music industry do with their glorification of young and perfectly-sculpted bodies); promoting polarizing political content in order to keep the citizenry enraged, balkanized and resentful and therefore more eager to stay engaged (presumably in contrast to corporate media outlets, which would never do such a thing); and, worst of all, by failing to sufficiently censor political content that contradicts liberal orthodoxies and diverges from decreed liberal Truth. On Tuesday, Haugen's star turn took her to Washington, where she spent the day testifying before the Senate about Facebook's dangerous refusal to censor even more content and ban even more users than they already do.
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No Entry

Here is the web of technocrat propagandists who silence truth

Dr. Joseph Mercola
mercola.com
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
publicis group
Any strategy that successfully manipulates public opinion is bound to be repeated, and we can now clearly see how the tobacco industry's playbook is being used to shape the public narrative about COVID-19 and the projected post-COVID era.

In 2011, after many years of raising awareness regarding genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and industrial agriculture, we decided we needed a new game plan. Educating people through our newsletter was great, but we realized the best way to expose Monsanto — a leading GMO advocate and patented seed owner at the time — was to get them to engage directly and ensure national attention.

To that end, Mercola.com funded the signature gathering in California that initiated Proposition 37, the right to know what's in your food by ensuring proper GMO labeling. We spent more than $1 million for the Prop 37 initiative, plus several million dollars more for GMO labeling initiatives in other U.S. states in the following years.

This initiative forced Monsanto to engage with the public directly to defend their toxic products and dangerous business practices, all while receiving national coverage in the process.

The Monsanto Case

Monsanto spent tens of millions of dollars attacking anyone in their way, but they did so indirectly, just like the tobacco industry did before them. This is the core take-home of what I'm about to describe next.
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