How would he know that, unless either Snowden or his CIA masters mentioned it? And how would Snowden know it? Putin wouldn’t tell him.
Lends credence to the idea Snowden was CIA trying to damage NSA on behalf of the Deep State. Say what you will about Q, he does seem to predict some things, and tie up a lot of loose ends that I could never make fit.
In the style of 4Chan:
TFW (The Face When) You’ve betrayed the nation and attacked the only Patriots out there for your Deep State Masters, and now you find out they are all dead and the only country you can hide in is shipping you back home to the God Emperor:
Tell your friends about r/K Theory, because everything may be changing
Top kek.
Also, I found a pretty awesome blog I think people should give a read:
http://www.thisblogisdangerous.com/democracy-and-demographics-in-the-future/
Snowden was always perplexing. Prism and few other programs, fine that’s whistleblowing, but the million other top secret documents? That’s just not defensible. There’s no way a human could be familiar with that many programs. Snowden should be looking at a 50 year prison term for that- minimum.
Fukked wording/punctuation in jpb tweet. Already suffering brain damage from previous cardiac events?
Barlow was there in the beginning. From his earliest days working for Dick Cheney – the Darth Vader of the modern neocon movement – to his transition into the counterculture movement where he was heavily involved in the acid scene and particularly close to Timothy Leary.. a known CIA secret operative. Without major Deep State connections and money – there is no way a man born into a modest ranching family, devoid of political connections and verging on bankruptcy – could he have ended up as a major power broker in all of the myriad of progressive left politically influential groups, NGO’s and companies that he did. We are also made to be believe that he pulled all of this off while remaining just a yeoman rancher- with a real passion for civil liberties and freedoms. This doesn’t even pass the laugh test.
To give one a better understanding of the dynamics behind the birthing of the counterculture check this book link out: https://the-eye.eu/public/concen.org/Weird%20Scenes%20Inside%20the%20Canyon%20-%20Laurel%20Canyon%2C%20Covert%20Ops%20%26%20the%20Dark%20Heart%20of%20the%20Hippie%20Dream%20%282014%29%20by%20David%20McGowan%20%26%20Nick%20Bryant.pdf
Despite the urban legend being presented to us that this was a spontaneous, grassroots movement quite the opposite is true. This was top down and carefully orchestrated event – where the leading actors of this traveling gong show were groomed and hand picked from the very start.
Modern history is like a house of mirrors. What is presented as the truth is nothing but a bent and distorted version of it. Only after going down the rabbit hole do you end discovering a very opaque understanding of what really went on.
Agreed. I think almost every influencer that blows up is either tolerated because they think they can be controlled, or they were elevated to that position expressly. If you know the name, it is more likely than not their were either put there, or helped there because they owe fealty to the machine. Small players have it incredibly hard when it comes to rising against those supported by the machine. I suspect it is why there are facebook pages and not Myspace pages, why we have Windows machines, and search on google, and use Twitter. None of those would have gone anywhere without media mentions, and publicity, and that is too easily controlled to arise spontaneously. Had any one not been willing to play with the machine according to its rules, it would have been expressly frozen out of the media, and another competitor would have been the talk of the town.
While I love “Deep State” as rhetoric, one downside is that the phrase smooths over the many competing factions that make up what we superficially observe as the Deep State.
E.g. CIA vs. NSA. If you view them as competing factions, the series of embarrassing NSA compromises in recent years starts to make sense. It wasn’t *that* long ago that the NSA was considered “No Such Agency,” the best-of-the-best, no one knew anything. But post-Snowden, they’ve been hit hard. Admiral Rogers is a patriot, but I think he was also looking to save his organization from further destruction by rogue CIA and FBI forces. Just look at which three-letter agencies sided with Obama vs. which ones didn’t. (The irony is that despite much Hollywood propaganda to the contrary, it was actually the military that stepped up behind the scenes to help Trump save the Republic.)
Also makes you reconsider other things, like the recent MSM stories about “low morale” at NSA. True, or Mockingbird psy-op from the CIA? What about the OPM breach? Were the NSA defenders kept at bay by the Obama Admin?
I get the impression there is some single entity, or maybe a coalition, that has control of them all at the top. My impression is whoever or whatever it is, will not tolerate competition, and was in a constant battle to consolidate and unify everything. They may have been a year or two from taking over NSA, or getting it subsumed under something else they control.
There is a lot we may never know, which is a shame. This will be an amazing story, able to grab amygdalae, piss people off, and maybe program people to see the risks of letting freedom slip away. I fear we will come away from it with the masses just as apathetic as before.