The United States of Spooks

Editor's note: As the US is forced to retreat from the world, the Pentagon, US intelligence agencies along with its big tech appendages are going to cynically turn on the American people. The distinction between private and public has collapsed and Americans are being increasingly and unjustifiably victimized by the private sector especially big tech. Just like the central banks create money out of thin air, so will this expanding secret government (privatized) create "domestic terrorism" out of thin air to justify its existence. It is likely related to these spirit-crushing singularity technologies where everyone will be forced into one singular coordinated whole where any dissent (now called "content moderation") whatsoever will be considered "domestic terrorism." The entire concept of a "secret government" with thousands of spooks crawling around everywhere in the dark like cockroaches is hideous. And then Joseph Stolen has the temerity to suggest "democracy is threatened." None of this is tenable. It is all going to come crashing down when you have lunatics and psychopaths running the systems.

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Source: Great Game India

America's Secret Government By Proxy

September 2, 2022

Security state agencies must justify their existence.

There are 1,271 counterterrorist, homeland security, and intelligence organizations; 1,931 private sector analogues; 10,000 locations of these organizations; and ~854,000 people with top-secret security clearances as of 2010. To make matters worse, the line between private and public is obscure in this industry.

This massive effort requires massive tax collection. Since government endeavors do not compete and do not participate in reciprocal exchanges, then they have no profit-and-loss test to determine if their efforts are worth the money taken from citizens. Additionally, since only the free market can determine prices, government endeavors must continually disseminate propaganda to convince citizens that the endeavor is useful.

Interestingly, officials in this industry have explicitly admitted that reports from government agencies are not trusted by the public, so the tactful solution is to hire someone to produce those reports that would have otherwise been produced by the government agency itself. Since security state agencies cannot produce evidence that their services are needed, they hire private businesses and nonprofits to disseminate their propaganda for them.

Naturally, the need to justify the existence of government—propaganda—evolves into techniques to disseminate that propaganda in addition to censoring opposition to it. Therefore, a proxy government is established—a front for the actual government to do what it wants to do but otherwise cannot. This also sets the stage for information control:

How to control Information:

1. Stop ideas (censorship)

2. Force other ideas (redirection)

3, Justify this control (propaganda)

The US government has incentivized a group of organizations to do just that. "Big tech censorship" and other control measures were not the result of free-market phenomena.

The think tanks that refer to themselves as "counter-violent extremists" (CVEs) are America's proxy government responsible for censoring, shadow banning, ad feed tampering, search result manipulation, and "racism/extremism" deception.

Our Proxy Government

The suppression of dissent is not new for American regimes, but in the modern era it is referred to as "content moderation." The dissemination of propaganda is not new either, but modern techniques have adapted and are referred to as "redirection" or "CounterSpeech initiatives."

Both are defended by the intelligence agency conglomerate USAID (United States Agency for International Development) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS):

The School of Communication at American University will define and describe the growing threat of violent white supremacist extremist disinformation, evaluate attitudinal inoculation as a strategy for communication to combat the threat, and develop a suite of operational tools for use by practitioners and stakeholders. With commitment and support from Google Jigsaw, American University will develop evidence-based methods for undermining the persuasive appeal of disinformation-based messaging and facilitate on- and offline inoculation campaigns. (DHS)

American University partnered with the pioneer of modern censorship software—Google's Jigsaw—to tamper with ad feeds so that American University content was placed in front of targeted users. The intention was for the content to appear organic (a paid advertisement or legitimate search result). The state-funded American University cites the Center for Strategic and International Studies to support its claims, despite the fact that the center has a record of making claims without datasets or transparent methodologies. The justifications for much of it, the arbitrarily defined "white supremacy" has a statistically zero threat level.

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