Those are napkins, 'tard. You do realize napkins and flags aren't the same, right?
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No, your sorry ass side doesn't allow dissent. For example, I'd burn the face diaper off all you retards if I could, but that might be considered "dissent".
kickingandscreaming
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kickingandscreaming
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You take stupid to a whole new level sometimes.
Do you ever see anyone that loves this country burning the flag in anger?
https://x.com/TONYxTWO/status/1796011603252445690
HOLY SH*T!!!
Susan Talamantes walks away from the Democrat party in California after 12 years !!
“I’m done. I’m done with us protecting people who would buy and abuse our children.”
“I don’t want people buying little girls anymore. And I’m tired of saying it’s okay and that we have to protect the men who do it.”
MUST WATCH & SHARE!!
Listen up espola and Husker Du.
Hüsker Dü
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Yes, the people that love this countries promise occasionally need to wake people up in order to unite. The ones that hate this country constantly bad mouth fellow Americans in order to divide. The side you favor is obvious.
kickingandscreaming
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espola "switched" sides to vote for a man who takes showers with his dd. espola defended the lies from the 51 liars saying the laptop from hell is Russian Misinformation. espola also called me a liar for saying Uncle James owns an Island. I mispoke and should have said he share an Island with Epstein. Why does this dirty old man support this life style
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"re*lieve
- verb:
1. cause pain, distress or difficulty to become less severe (for the irresponsible people that caused it).
2. release someone from duty by taking their place (or in JoeTato's case, dumping debt on innocent taxpayers).
"bad mouth fellow Americans in order to divide." Do you EVER think before posting your inane drivel?
At a Democratic National Committee meeting in Maryland Thursday night, Biden said, “Extreme MAGA Republicans just don’t threaten our personal and economic rights, they embrace political violence,” referencing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
“They refuse to accept the will of the people,” he said. “They threaten our very democracy.”
kickingandscreaming
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The attack on democracy has been ongoing for some time and has nothing to do with Trump.
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Counterpopulism Behind CIA Role In Social Media Censorship
We need a bipartisan Blue Ribbon commission to reform America’s Intelligence Community
ALEX GUTENTAG AND MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER
MAY 29
The idea that the US intelligence community (IC), which is comprised of 18 government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), carries out influence operations in the United States is a conspiracy theory, say journalists and anti-disinformation researchers. There is no evidence in the Twitter Files or elsewhere that the CIA and other intelligence agencies have improperly interfered in domestic politics, they say.
But the Twitter Files - CIA reveals that they did. The Twitter Files - CIA showed how the main investor in a censorship consulting firm, “Alethea Group,” which tried to take over Twitter’s content moderation and subjugate it to the IC, is on the board of the CIA’s venture fund. The mission of the CIA’s fund, In-Q-Tel, is not to make money but rather to support the CIA’s mission, which it is “to gather and share intelligence to protect our Nation from threats.” Alethea Group’s top analyst came right from the CIA and its other top analyst was an intelligence analyst for the Department of Defense (DOD).
And the two individuals within Twitter who advocated and arranged for the hiring of the Alethea Group were the former General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and a longtime DOD Research and Development (DARPA) executive. The latter “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,” according to Twitter executives.
It’s true that we have not shown direct CIA funding for Alethea Group, direct CIA control of Alethea Group, or other CIA contractors of Alethea Group. The money for Alethea Group came not from In-Q-Tel, according to its principal investor, Ted Schlein, but rather from his firm, Ballistic Ventures. The ostensible leader of Alethea Group is Lisa Kaplan, a former State Department contractor and Democratic Party election operative. And the most famous Alethea Group contractor, Nina Jankowicz, says that she does have a relationship with the IC, and was not part of Alethea Group’s attempt to take over Twitter’s content moderation.
But we have shown that Alethea Group operates identically to other CIA front groups and “cut-outs” in other nations and is refusing to reveal crucial details about what seems to have been a clandestine operation similar to the kinds of infiltration and cooptation efforts that the CIA has carried out abroad since World War II.
None of this should shock anyone who has bothered to read or watch anything about the history of the CIA and IC and how they operate through “front groups” and intermediaries known as “cut-outs,” which can be investors, businessmen, labor leaders, journalists, and NGO workers. A front group is “an organization that acts as the face of another organization or group, for example, a crime group or intelligence agency, to conceal the activities of that organization or group.” A cut-out is “an agent who functions as an intermediary between a spymaster and other subagents.”
There is “a network of overt operatives who during the last 10 years have quietly been changing the rules of international politics,” wrote the Washington Post in 1991. “They have been doing in public what the CIA used to do in private – providing money and moral support for pro-democracy groups, training resistance fighters, working to subvert communist rule."
One of the CIA’s main cut-outs appears to be the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), funded by Congress. “The National Endowment for Democracy,” acknowledged the New York Times in 1997, was “created 15 years ago to do in the open what the Central Intelligence Agency has done surreptitiously for decades,” and “spends $30 million a year to support things like political parties, labor unions, dissident movements and the news media in dozens of countries, including China.”
NED seems to have played a major role in overthrowing governments during the Arab Spring and the Color Revolutions of Eastern Europe. This is not a conspiracy theory but something acknowledged by the New York Times and other mainstream media publications.
The NED has a Democratic and Republican wing, the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute. Their staff ostensibly train political parties in foreign countries how to engage in liberal democratic politics. But Arab Spring and the Color Revolutions show that the CIA’s NED is likely involved in the illegal overthrow of governments.
And nobody doubts that the CIA has been overthrowing governments since World War II. In 1953, the CIA helped overthrow the democratically-elected president of Iran, which the CIA last year officially acknowledged was undemocratic and illegal. In 1954 the CIA used what the US military calls “hybrid warfare,” which is the use of both conventional military and information warfare, to overthrow Guatemala’s democratically-elected president. And in 1965, the CIA gave support, training, and names of alleged communists to the Indonesian military to overthrow the country’s president and kill hundreds of thousands of civilians. The CIA admits to having overthrown seven nations since World War II, while others say it has interfered in 72 governments.
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Public
Counterpopulism Behind CIA Role In Social Media Censorship
We need a bipartisan Blue Ribbon commission to reform America’s Intelligence Community
ALEX GUTENTAG AND MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER
MAY 29
The idea that the US intelligence community (IC), which is comprised of 18 government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), carries out influence operations in the United States is a conspiracy theory, say journalists and anti-disinformation researchers. There is no evidence in the Twitter Files or elsewhere that the CIA and other intelligence agencies have improperly interfered in domestic politics, they say.
But the Twitter Files - CIA reveals that they did. The Twitter Files - CIA showed how the main investor in a censorship consulting firm, “Alethea Group,” which tried to take over Twitter’s content moderation and subjugate it to the IC, is on the board of the CIA’s venture fund. The mission of the CIA’s fund, In-Q-Tel, is not to make money but rather to support the CIA’s mission, which it is “to gather and share intelligence to protect our Nation from threats.” Alethea Group’s top analyst came right from the CIA and its other top analyst was an intelligence analyst for the Department of Defense (DOD).
And the two individuals within Twitter who advocated and arranged for the hiring of the Alethea Group were the former General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and a longtime DOD Research and Development (DARPA) executive. The latter “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,” according to Twitter executives.
It’s true that we have not shown direct CIA funding for Alethea Group, direct CIA control of Alethea Group, or other CIA contractors of Alethea Group. The money for Alethea Group came not from In-Q-Tel, according to its principal investor, Ted Schlein, but rather from his firm, Ballistic Ventures. The ostensible leader of Alethea Group is Lisa Kaplan, a former State Department contractor and Democratic Party election operative. And the most famous Alethea Group contractor, Nina Jankowicz, says that she does have a relationship with the IC, and was not part of Alethea Group’s attempt to take over Twitter’s content moderation.
But we have shown that Alethea Group operates identically to other CIA front groups and “cut-outs” in other nations and is refusing to reveal crucial details about what seems to have been a clandestine operation similar to the kinds of infiltration and cooptation efforts that the CIA has carried out abroad since World War II.
None of this should shock anyone who has bothered to read or watch anything about the history of the CIA and IC and how they operate through “front groups” and intermediaries known as “cut-outs,” which can be investors, businessmen, labor leaders, journalists, and NGO workers. A front group is “an organization that acts as the face of another organization or group, for example, a crime group or intelligence agency, to conceal the activities of that organization or group.” A cut-out is “an agent who functions as an intermediary between a spymaster and other subagents.”
There is “a network of overt operatives who during the last 10 years have quietly been changing the rules of international politics,” wrote the Washington Post in 1991. “They have been doing in public what the CIA used to do in private – providing money and moral support for pro-democracy groups, training resistance fighters, working to subvert communist rule."
One of the CIA’s main cut-outs appears to be the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), funded by Congress. “The National Endowment for Democracy,” acknowledged the New York Times in 1997, was “created 15 years ago to do in the open what the Central Intelligence Agency has done surreptitiously for decades,” and “spends $30 million a year to support things like political parties, labor unions, dissident movements and the news media in dozens of countries, including China.”
NED seems to have played a major role in overthrowing governments during the Arab Spring and the Color Revolutions of Eastern Europe. This is not a conspiracy theory but something acknowledged by the New York Times and other mainstream media publications.
The NED has a Democratic and Republican wing, the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute. Their staff ostensibly train political parties in foreign countries how to engage in liberal democratic politics. But Arab Spring and the Color Revolutions show that the CIA’s NED is likely involved in the illegal overthrow of governments.
And nobody doubts that the CIA has been overthrowing governments since World War II. In 1953, the CIA helped overthrow the democratically-elected president of Iran, which the CIA last year officially acknowledged was undemocratic and illegal. In 1954 the CIA used what the US military calls “hybrid warfare,” which is the use of both conventional military and information warfare, to overthrow Guatemala’s democratically-elected president. And in 1965, the CIA gave support, training, and names of alleged communists to the Indonesian military to overthrow the country’s president and kill hundreds of thousands of civilians. The CIA admits to having overthrown seven nations since World War II, while others say it has interfered in 72 governments.
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But if the CIA’s history of overthrowing foreign governments isn’t a surprise, its apparent attempt to subjugate Twitter to the IC is. The CIA is not supposed to interfere in the United States, either directly or through cut-outs like Alethea Group. Nor is the Defense Department nor any of the 18 agencies that are part of the IC allowed to interfere in US politics or media. Doing so is a direct violation of the law, their missions, and the intent of Congress in creating those entities and continuing to fund them.
And yet, that is precisely what is happening.
Starting in 2017, a US Defense Department employee named Pablo Breuer and a UK Ministry of Defense employee named Sara-Jaye Terp ran an operation eerily similar to the one that Alethea Group ran against Twitter. Breuer and Terp created a front group called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL). Its purpose was to hide a mass censorship advocate effort within an ostensibly voluntary cybersecurity organization. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) partnered with CTIL.
DHS was heavily focused on narrative control for censorship. In 2020, DHS created another mass censorship initiative called the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), run by “former” CIA Fellow Renee DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory and three other organizations. EIP successfully censored thousands of tweets including by sitting members of Congress, constituting election interference. In 2021, the same group of cut-outs successfully achieved mass censorship of disfavored views of Covid expressed on social media.
Looking back over the last eight years, it’s obvious what happened. After Brexit and the election of Donald Trump in 2016, US and UK defense operatives repurposed counterterrorism techniques for counterpopulism, including for entrapment, domestic surveillance, and online censorship. What’s more, efforts to prevent Donald Trump from taking office again appear to have their origin in “color revolution” regime change tactics.
This is sometimes referred to as “blowback,” which is when US government military and intelligence operations abroad result in negative consequences for the American people. After 2016, government agencies, cut-outs, and their operatives appear to have used the same tools they had used to overthrow governments in the Middle East and Eastern Europe against the American people. Many of the people and institutions who had been concerned with preventing terrorism, or with securing American interests abroad, now have positions fighting “disinformation” and preserving “democracy” at home.
These efforts are continuing. US government agencies have resumed talks with social media companies about disinformation, said chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), at the RSA Conference earlier this month. These agencies, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI, restarted their communications with social media platforms after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden). During the arguments, multiple justices seemed to agree with the federal government’s position.
Warner’s comments indicate that the IC, the “deep state,” which refers to federal security agencies like CIA, DHS, and FBI, its cut-outs, and the “foreign policy blob,” of think tanks are not giving up their collective efforts to censor and control social media. In the US, in addition to “talks” between the IC and social media companies, members of Congress are actively seeking to regulate social media platform to increase social media censorship. Social media regulators in Europe, Australia, and Brazil are openly trying to regulate the whole Internet, not just in their countries. There is abundant evidence that the “Five Eyes” English-speaking nations that have shared intelligence since World War II are working together to demand greater censorship.
The US government’s intelligence community and its blob cut-outs are out of control and must be reined in. We need a bipartisan and blue-ribbon commission on the abuses of power by the US IC. While this may sound like wishful thinking, there is now bipartisan support in the Senate for such a panel on Covid’s origins after more evidence emerged.
It wasn’t very long ago that it was Democrats and the Left who were most concerned with abuses of power by the IC, and many on the Left still are concerned. While support among Democrats for government involvement in “fighting misinformation” online rose from 40 to 70% between 2018 and 2023, those numbers could come back down. Already, some prominent liberal voices have expressed concern about government censorship, with Republican demands for the censorship of pro-Palestinian voices reminding some on the Left of the importance of free speech.
In truth, with the accumulation of evidence and the passage of time, fewer and fewer Americans will find it shocking to learn that the IC carries out influence operations in the United States. But they should still find it troubling and demand reform. While there is a debate to be had about the role of the CIA, IC, and their cut-outs in foreign nations, there should be no debate over their role here. They must never engage in politics or elections. And their efforts to engage in mass censorship must be recognized, accounted for, and prohibited from ever happening again.
But if the CIA’s history of overthrowing foreign governments isn’t a surprise, its apparent attempt to subjugate Twitter to the IC is. The CIA is not supposed to interfere in the United States, either directly or through cut-outs like Alethea Group. Nor is the Defense Department nor any of the 18 agencies that are part of the IC allowed to interfere in US politics or media. Doing so is a direct violation of the law, their missions, and the intent of Congress in creating those entities and continuing to fund them.
And yet, that is precisely what is happening.
Starting in 2017, a US Defense Department employee named Pablo Breuer and a UK Ministry of Defense employee named Sara-Jaye Terp ran an operation eerily similar to the one that Alethea Group ran against Twitter. Breuer and Terp created a front group called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL). Its purpose was to hide a mass censorship advocate effort within an ostensibly voluntary cybersecurity organization. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) partnered with CTIL.
DHS was heavily focused on narrative control for censorship. In 2020, DHS created another mass censorship initiative called the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), run by “former” CIA Fellow Renee DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory and three other organizations. EIP successfully censored thousands of tweets including by sitting members of Congress, constituting election interference. In 2021, the same group of cut-outs successfully achieved mass censorship of disfavored views of Covid expressed on social media.
Looking back over the last eight years, it’s obvious what happened. After Brexit and the election of Donald Trump in 2016, US and UK defense operatives repurposed counterterrorism techniques for counterpopulism, including for entrapment, domestic surveillance, and online censorship. What’s more, efforts to prevent Donald Trump from taking office again appear to have their origin in “color revolution” regime change tactics.
This is sometimes referred to as “blowback,” which is when US government military and intelligence operations abroad result in negative consequences for the American people. After 2016, government agencies, cut-outs, and their operatives appear to have used the same tools they had used to overthrow governments in the Middle East and Eastern Europe against the American people. Many of the people and institutions who had been concerned with preventing terrorism, or with securing American interests abroad, now have positions fighting “disinformation” and preserving “democracy” at home.
These efforts are continuing. US government agencies have resumed talks with social media companies about disinformation, said chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), at the RSA Conference earlier this month. These agencies, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI, restarted their communications with social media platforms after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden). During the arguments, multiple justices seemed to agree with the federal government’s position.
Warner’s comments indicate that the IC, the “deep state,” which refers to federal security agencies like CIA, DHS, and FBI, its cut-outs, and the “foreign policy blob,” of think tanks are not giving up their collective efforts to censor and control social media. In the US, in addition to “talks” between the IC and social media companies, members of Congress are actively seeking to regulate social media platform to increase social media censorship. Social media regulators in Europe, Australia, and Brazil are openly trying to regulate the whole Internet, not just in their countries. There is abundant evidence that the “Five Eyes” English-speaking nations that have shared intelligence since World War II are working together to demand greater censorship.
The US government’s intelligence community and its blob cut-outs are out of control and must be reined in. We need a bipartisan and blue-ribbon commission on the abuses of power by the US IC. While this may sound like wishful thinking, there is now bipartisan support in the Senate for such a panel on Covid’s origins after more evidence emerged.
It wasn’t very long ago that it was Democrats and the Left who were most concerned with abuses of power by the IC, and many on the Left still are concerned. While support among Democrats for government involvement in “fighting misinformation” online rose from 40 to 70% between 2018 and 2023, those numbers could come back down. Already, some prominent liberal voices have expressed concern about government censorship, with Republican demands for the censorship of pro-Palestinian voices reminding some on the Left of the importance of free speech.
In truth, with the accumulation of evidence and the passage of time, fewer and fewer Americans will find it shocking to learn that the IC carries out influence operations in the United States. But they should still find it troubling and demand reform. While there is a debate to be had about the role of the CIA, IC, and their cut-outs in foreign nations, there should be no debate over their role here. They must never engage in politics or elections. And their efforts to engage in mass censorship must be recognized, accounted for, and prohibited from ever happening again.
You might want to look up the legal definition of a US flag especially Section 8 paragraph i --
§8. Respect for flag
No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.(a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
(b) The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.
(c) The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.
(e) The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.
(f) The flag should never be used as a covering for a ceiling.
(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.
(h) The flag should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.
(i) The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.
(j) No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations. The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing. Therefore, the lapel flag pin being a replica, should be worn on the left lapel near the heart.
(k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
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The flag shall never be burned!!!
"I never pushed the #DeathJab I warned all my family, children friends about the dangers and even supplied links in emails to them, they ALL laughed at me in one way or another, did not believe the Gov, would actually do something this evil to the population and I lost my 20-year-old daughter because of the #DeathJab, I had an autopsy done and Taylor's entire body was riddled with blood clots.
I want the people who gave the approval order to release this con and culling of the population of the World, I want them to be held accountable without relying on their wealth to buy their way out of trouble again." Sammy
I want the people who gave the approval order to release this con and culling of the population of the World, I want them to be held accountable without relying on their wealth to buy their way out of trouble again." Sammy
You seriously need a hobby. It's probably WAY too late for therapy.