John R. Houk, Blog Editor
May 26, 2024
Hopefully you are aware it is illegal for the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct any operations on American soil against
American citizens. AND it is reprehensible when any Federal, State or Local
government service has a program to brainwash American citizens that Documented
Facts are Mis-Mal-Dis-INFORMATION. OR WORSE: Spreading Mal-Mis-Dis-INFORMATION
as if it were Documented Facts.
That BRAINWASHING agenda has been the goal against Americans committed illegally by the
CIA and insidiously by other government services since Trump won in 2016 and
since Biden was installed in 2020. The ZeroHedge has the documented details
on the post, “Exposing
The CIA's Secret Effort To Seize Control Of Social Media”.
And I have a problem of the ascendance of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) as a problem solving tool being used in all aspects of human
life. Frankly, I don’t care who says AI sentience is not possible. Whatever
programmed Intelligence can become self-taught can become sentient. AND
whatever can become sentient can become a threat to human existence. THE EXPOSÉ reports Catherine
Austin Fitts and Whitney Webb musing on AI under the title, “Artificial
Intelligence: The consumer is the prey”.
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Exposing The CIA's Secret Effort To Seize Control Of
Social Media
By TYLER DURDEN
MAY 24, 2024 - 11:00 AM
While the CIA is strictly prohibited from spying on or
running clandestine operations against American citizens on US soil, a
bombshell new "Twitter Files" report reveals that a member of
the Board of Trustees of InQtel - the CIA's mission-driving venture
capital firm, along with "former" intelligence community (IC)
and CIA analysts, were involved in a massive effort in 2021-2022 to
take over Twitter's content management system, as Michael Shellenberger,
Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag report over at Shellenberger's Public (subscribers
can check out the extensive 6,800 word report here).
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Mudge (ZeroHedge Photo)
According to "thousands of pages of Twitter Files and
documents," these efforts were part of a broader strategy to
manage how information is disseminated and consumed on social media under
the guise of combating 'misinformation' and foreign propaganda efforts - as
this complex of government-linked individuals and organizations has gone to
great lengths to suggest that narrative control is a national security issue.
According to the report, the effort also involved;
·
a long-time IC contractor and senior
Department of Defense R&D official who spent years developing
technologies to detect whistleblowers (“insider threats”) like Edward Snowden
and Wikileaks’ leakers;
·
the proposed head of the DHS’ aborted
Disinformation Governance Board, Nina Jankowicz, who aided US
military and NATO “hybrid war” operations in Europe;
·
Jim Baker, who, as FBI General Counsel,
helped start the Russiagate hoax, and, as Twitter’s Deputy General
Counsel, urged Twitter
executives to censor The New York Post story about Hunter Biden.
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Nina Jankowicz (aka Scary Poppins – ZeroHedge Photo)
Jankowicz (aka 'Scary Poppins'), previously tipped to lead
the DHS’s now-aborted Disinformation Governance Board, has been a vocal
advocate for more stringent regulation of online speech to counteract 'rampant
disinformation.' Jim Baker, in his capacity as FBI General Counsel
and later as Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, advocated for and
implemented policies that would restrict certain types of speech on the
platform, including decisions that affected the visibility of politically
sensitive content.
Furthermore, companies like PayPal, Amazon Web
Services, and GoDaddy were mentioned as part of a concerted
effort to de-platform and financially de-incentivize individuals and
organizations deemed threats by the IC. This approach represents a
significant escalation in the use of corporate cooperation to achieve what
might essentially be considered censorship under the guise of national
security.
Nina Jankowicz And The Alethea
Group
Remember Nina? A huge
fan of Christopher Steele - architect of the infamous
Clinton-funded Dossier which underpinned the Trump-Russia hoax, and who
joined the chorus
of disinformation agents that downplayed the Hunter Biden
laptop bombshell, Jankowicz previously served as a disinformation fellow at the
Wilson Center, and advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry as
part of the Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. She also oversaw the
Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute.
Jankowicz compares the lack
of regulation of speech on social media to the lack of government regulation of
automobiles in the 1960s. She calls for a “cross-platform” and
public-private approach, so whatever actions are taken are taken by Google,
Facebook, and Twitter, simultaneously.
Jankowicz points to Europe as
the model for regulating speech. “Germany’s NetzDG law requires
social media companies and other content hosts to remove ‘obviously illegal’
speech within twenty-four hours,” she says, “or face a fine of up to $50
million.”
By contrast, in the US, she
laments, “Congress has yet to pass a bill imposing even the most basic of
regulations related to social media and election advertising.” -Public
In a 2020 book, How to Lose the Information War:
Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict, Jankowicz praises a
NATO cyber security expert for having created a "Center of
Excellence," a concept promoted by Renée
Diresta of the Stanford Internet Observatory, in which she made the case for
the (now failed) Disinformation Governance Board that
Jankowicz would briefly head up.
One year later, Jankowicz began working with
'anti-disinformation' consulting firm, Alethea Group, staffed by
"former" IC analysts.
Alethea notably came after ZeroHedge at
one point, shopping a 'dossier' around which suggested we were allegedly
contributing to "increased online panic" amid the monumental collapse
of Silicon Valley Bank.
The outlets they peddled said dossier to included Bloomberg -
which elected to exclude ZeroHedge from
their report following a brief email exchange. Eventually, one
of their operatives dropped
the dossier on Twitter, only to be mocked as a propagandist.
[Blog Editor: ZeroHedge embedded an X/Twitter post below.
In my browser when I clicked the link for the embed code a bunch of “This
Post is unavailable” came up. So HERE’S
The Link, but a screengrab is below. Maybe the link will for you.]
Nicole Perlroth - Reason and analytics in Dallas X-Twitter screengrab
Their SVB thesis was debunked by a Federal Reserve report which
admitted that its own regulatory failures contributed to the bank's collapse.
We can only imagine what else they've cooked up about us behind closed doors.
Alethea notably secured $20 million in Series B financing
led by Google Ventures.
Google directly funding censorship orgs https://t.co/DNfWjUowYR
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 9, 2024
Another Alethea Group operative until July 2021 was
former CIA analyst, Cindy Otis, who wrote a book called "True or
False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News" - in which she
thanks Pieter "Mudge" Zatko - a notorious hacker who was
hired by Twitter to "tackle everything from engineering missteps to
misinformation," Reuters wrote at the time.
Cindy Otis book CIA Guide Fake News (ZeroHedge Photo)
According to Jankowicz, "My full time employment with
Alethea began September 13, 2021. Ms. Otis left Alethea prior to that period.
To my knowledge, she has not been employed with Alethea since that time."
"My work with Alethea Group as a consultant (summer
2021) was narrowly focused on my subject matter expertise related to
Russia," she continued. "I conducted Russian language translation and
provided cultural analysis. When I joined Alethea as an employee (fall 2021) my
work was entirely focused on public products: Changes to Alethea’s website,
editing public reports, liaising with media, etc."
Is Nina lying?
According to Shellenberger et. al, "that claim
contradicts Alethea’s Statement of Work contract with Twitter, which lists her
as “Technical Research Director” for work relating to Twitter’s management of
misinformation during the 2020 election, and specifically a “retrospective
analysis of how then President Trump or other key figures may have violated
Twitters [sic] policies, or otherwise leveraged the platform in a way that may
have contributed to key events…"
Alethea Group founder, Lisa
Kaplan, told us that Jankowicz “was never given the title Technical Research
Director, that is a reference to a labor category for a contract.” Added
Kaplan, “We respect client confidentiality and do not discuss relationships
with our customers. In reviewing Nina’s timesheets she did provide support to
one client that I cannot disclose, however I can confirm that while she was
employed as the Director for External Affairs, Nina never conducted work at
Alethea on behalf of Twitter.”
When shown the Statement of Work
listing her as “Supplier Personnel,” Jankowicz said, “I have never
seen this document before. A statement of work is generally a
speculative document that informs clients of potential staffing and work plans.
They are usually crafted to allow contractors a degree of flexibility in
implementation by listing staff even if they are not assigned to a particular
project in case they might do future work for that project. I assume
this is what happened in this case.”
In fact, the Statement of
Work between Alethea and Twitter was a formal contract between the two firms, signed
by Alethea’s Founder and CEO and Twitter’s Senior Director and Associate
General Counsel, and the contract specifies, “Any changes to the above
listed Personnel must be approved by Twitter in writing.” There is no
record in the Twitter Files of any change to the project’s personnel. -Public
Jankowicz defended herself, telling Public:
"Ms. Otis and I were friends and colleagues prior to my short stint there
and remain friends and colleagues. Yes, I knew Ms. Otis had worked — emphasis
on the past tense — at the CIA. That does not constitute a
‘relationship’ with the intelligence community."
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Pieter ‘Mudge’ Zatko (Getty Images Source – ZeroHedge Photo)
Following a phishing attack on Twitter employees in July
of 2020 which resulted in Joe Biden's account tweeting "I am
giving back to the community. All Bitcoin sent to the address below will be
sent back doubled! If you send $1,000, I will send back $2,000," along
with a crypto wallet address (similar fake tweets were sent from the accounts
of Barack Obama, Michael Bloomberg and Elon Musk," 17-year-old
Graham Ivan Clark was arrested.
Three months later, Jack Dorsey wrote in an email: "Mudge
signed."
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Mudge Email (Redacted) to Jack Dorsey (ZeroHedge Photo)
Less than three months later, Zatko made his first
big recommendation to Twitter execs: "hire the Alethea Group."
"I feel an external investigation may be quite
valuable," he said over the company's Slack channel. "I'd recommend
Alethea group for the disinformation angle."
Mudge Recommends Alethea Group (ZeroHedge Photo)
Twitter authorized the move. Several weeks later,
Zatko suggested that Twitter's legal team hire Alethea for a report focusing on
Jan. 6.
“We can draw a straight line… between the initial ‘Stop the Steal’ narratives and organizing to what ended up happening on the 6th.”
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) May 23, 2024
Alethea’s assessment of Twitter reflects the view of its CEO, Kaplan, that online misinformation leads to violence.
On March 11, 2021, the same… pic.twitter.com/h0UunuhUGX
"As folks can understand," he wrote on Feb. 4,
2021, "there's a lot still going on around Jan 6th and the 2020 election
in general. Alethea is a boutique consultancy that specializes on
disinformation and counter-messaging operations. They have been
working with myself and Yoel [Roth]."
Meanwhile, on March 24, 2021, Zatko emailed a 12-page
report pushing for more government-linked censorship -
suggesting that "The organizations and people behind this
recommendation have the connection [sic] to get this in front of the right
people in the administration."
Mudge Recommendations Social Media to Biden (ZeroHedge Photo)
The report is co-authored by
Aspen Institute’s Vivian Schiller, who led the
"pre-bunking" of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and Hamilton68 hoax author
Clint Watts, and is published by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at the
Harvard Kennedy School and NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.
-Public
Then it came out that Zatko, who pushed Alethea,
"had engaged with members of US intelligence agencies..."
As Public notes, "Attitudes toward Zatko would be quite
different two years later."
Zatko turned whistleblower, sued
the company, and settled for $7.75 million. He then filed a complaint
with the Justice Department, SEC, and FTC, alleging Twitter executives
had misled the government, been negligent in protecting user data, and had
violated a 2011 consent decree with the FTC.
Somebody leaked Zatko’s
complaint to the Washington Post, which reached out to Twitter for comment
on August 19, 2022.
In a shared Google Doc, dated
August 21, 2022, called “Comms Statements/Tracking,” Twitter executives
fine-tuned the language for responding to the news media about Zatko’s
allegations.
Buried deep within that discussion
was this revelatory sentence:
“Without the knowledge or
support of management or the Board, Twitter learned that Zatko had engaged with
members of US intelligence agencies and sought to enter a formal
agreement that would allow him to work with them and provide information to
them.”
Zatko had engaged with members of US intelligence agencies (ZeroHedge Photo)
CIA, In-Q-Tel, And Alethea
In late 2022, Alethea received $10
million from Ballistic Ventures, whose general partner is Ted
Schlein. Ted "provides counsel to the U.S. intelligence community, serves
on the Board of Trustees at InQTel [the CIA's mission-driven venture
capital firm] and was recently named as a board member of the CISA
Cybersecurity Advisory Committee."
Ted Schlein (ZeroHedge Photo)
Is this the same Alethea whose board member Ted Schlein "provides counsel to the US intelligence community" and serves on the Board of CIA's Venture Capital firm InQTel?https://t.co/JbmnsW3F9jhttps://t.co/DVUip7QEWs https://t.co/hW1qUH4IK1
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 17, 2023
In 2022, IQT published a report describing its
"Disinformation Workshop," which recommended several
activities similar to those Alethea has offered, including "Track the
confluence of bad narratives."
iqt - Truth-Bad Narratives (ZeroHedge Photo)
Schlein can neither confirm nor deny...
According to
the Wall Street Journal, a full one-third of IQT investments were secret as of
2016. The Journal also reported that Schlein had at least one connection to a
firm in which IQT invested, and that was over seven years ago.
“I do not know Zatko,
Jankowicz or Otis. Lisa is the CEO of Alethea and I serve on her
board of directors,” Schlein told us. He added that he is not aware of any
relationship between Alethea and the IC and that he has no operational role in
the firm.
“I get the feeling that
Alethea is a byproduct of Ted Schlein,” a high-tech entrepreneur told us,
“and the CEO is merely a titular head….Without meaningful experience, it's not
clear to me how [Lisa Kaplan] received $10m in a series A round.”
In March 2022, the Department of
Homeland Security made Schlein a member of
its advisory council. -Public
Here's Kaplan on promoting aggressive censorship:
“We have to trust the rules and the systems that are governing us.”
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) May 23, 2024
On February 21, 2022, at Colby College, Alethea’s Kaplan again promotes an aggressive censorship vision, including punishments for people who spread misinformation, and says “we have to trust” election rules.… pic.twitter.com/F3JaQNU5vG
We are now approximately halfway through Public's
report. As X user Sean Michael Murray accurately
observes: "It’s such a well sourced report… and there’s so
much context to summarize in this post, it’s best to read it.."
So, click here and subscribe to Public if
you haven't already to read the rest - including:
· The
effort to infiltrate PayPal, GoDaddy and Amazon Web Services
· Zatko's
engagement with the CIA
· Who
is Zatko, really?
· Alethea
in, Zatko out
· Kaplan's
"aggressive censorship vision"
· "The
Big Boss"
· First
Amendment vs. “Information War”
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Artificial Intelligence: The consumer is the prey
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Catherine Austin Fitts and Whitney Webb (THE EXPOSÉ Photo)
By RHODA WILSON
May 25, 2024
The concept of an “AI Revolution” has gained significant
attention in recent years, with many experts and enthusiasts predicting a
transformative impact on various aspects of society. However, some experts,
like Catherine Austin Fitts, have raised concerns
about the potential consequences of this revolution. But how many of us
understand what artificial intelligence (“AI”) actually is?
In December 2023, investigative journalist Whitney Webb
joined Austin Fitts to discuss her view that the “AI Revolution” is the
final coup d’état. Below is a clip from the interview where
Austin Fitts and Webb discuss what AI is and how it will be used.
The full
interview is only available to The Solari Report subscribers.
In short, AI is part of the technology package that delivers
control to the mob.
“I call it the final coup because of the big push to put AI
in charge of governments sooner rather than later,” Webb said.
“There are going to be two classes of people: people that
run and programme and tweak the AI; and, the people that AI acts upon,” she
explained.
The people that AI acts upon translate to you and me.
“Looking at the people that AI acts upon,” Austin Fitts
said, “it’s basically an extraction tool – extracting data, extracting value
[and] it’s using that information to take more out of the FEE flow, the
financial extraction exchange.”
Financial
extraction refers to the process by which wealth is taken out
of the real economy and concentrated in the hands of a few powerful individuals
or entities.
“It’s basically making one portion wealthier while it’s
destroying the wealth of the others,” Austin Fitts explained.
“It’s important to understand that Big Tech did not grow up
around the consumer,” Austin Fitts said, “[Big Tech’s] customer was the
intelligence agencies and the military … [Big Tech] are being paid to build a
surveillance and control machinery and money is no object. It doesn’t
have to be economically relevant to the consumer because the consumer is not
really the consumer, the consumer is the prey.”
Rumble VIDEO: 3rd Quarter 2023 Wrap Up: The “AI Revolution”: The Final Coup d’Etat? with Whitney Webb
[Posted by solarireport
Published December 7, 2023
If you are unable to watch the video above on Rumble, you
can watch it on BitChute HERE.
Earlier this month, The Solari Report released
a report titled ‘“AI
Revolution”: The Final Coup d’Etat?’ which, unfortunately, is
also only available to The Solari Report subscribers. The
report contains contributions from Whitney Webb, Swedish author and researcher
Jacob Nordangård and Catherine Austin Fitts.
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