Running Time: 56:35
Description:COINTELPRO is alive and well in the technetronic era as governments around the world hire agents to infiltrate groups, post comments and hack blogs in the name of maintaining the social order. The question, as always, is can we learn from history or are we doomed to repeat it?
Documentation
| Documentation – AltBib mirror of Corbett Report podcast | |
| Time Reference: | 02:12 |
| Description: | Please take a look at this mirror of The Corbett Report podcast and be sure to bookmark it in case you ever have problems reaching The Corbett Report server. |
| Link To: | AltBib.com |
| Documentation – Naked Truth, Fluoride Poison, 9/11 Responders Strike Back – Sunday Update | |
| Time Reference: | 03:22 |
| Description: | Make sure to see the video information bar for documentation. |
| Link To: | YouTube.com |
| Documentation – Electronic text of the Church Committee report | |
| Time Reference: | 17:17 |
| Description: | aka “The Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect To Intelligence Activities” |
| Link To: | icdc.com |
| Documentation – Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans | |
| Time Reference: | 21:35 |
| Description: | C-SPAN retrospective on the Church Committee including frank admissions of illegal government actions. |
| Link To: | Representative Press |
| Documentation – Church Committee Hearing on MLK Jr. | |
| Time Reference: | 25:36 |
| Description: | From the documentary “Decade of COINTELPRO” |
| Link To: | YouTube.com |
| Documentation – Military Proposes Hacking Blogs to Discredit Bloggers The Gov Doesn’t Like | |
| Time Reference: | 31:31 |
| Description: | Yes, the government has actually proposed hacking into blogs and changing words and phrases to discredit bloggers they don’t like. |
| Link To: | Democracy Now |
| Documentation – Harper government pays organization to patrol political chat forums | |
| Time Reference: | 32:33 |
| Description: | Ahh, the government loves us so much it wants to spend our own money hiring companies to put its point of view out on blogs and forums. |
| Link To: | Examiner.com |
| Documentation – Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal | |
| Time Reference: | 34:18 |
| Description: | Sunstein wants to ban conspiracy theorizing and infiltrate groups who peacefully use their first amendment rights to propagate alternative information. |
| Link To: | Salon.com |
| Documentation – Cass Sunstein paper on Conspiracy Theories | |
| Time Reference: | 35:27 |
| Description: | You have to read it to believe it. |
| Link To: | SSRN |
| Documentation – Alan Watt on Cass Sunstein | |
| Time Reference: | 40:34 |
| Description: | Watt breaks down the Sunstein story. |
| Link To: | CuttingThroughTheMatrix.com |
| Documentation – William Pepper | |
| Time Reference: | 47:41 |
| Description: | Home page of legendary barrister and MLK assasination researcher William Pepper. |
| Link To: | WilliamPepper.com |
| Documentation – Dr William F. Pepper on MLK Jr and the 9/11 Truth Movement | |
| Time Reference: | 48:18 |
| Description: | Pepper warns that the 9/11 skeptic community has undoubtedly already been infiltrated by agents bent on dividing, and not uniting. |
| Link To: | YouTube.com |
THE BUTTON: Reddit’s social experiment on how to divide a population is over.
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2015/06/11-reddit-end-button
James, check this out…it’s pretty fascinating. Reddit’s social experiment has ended. Creating tribalism in a population. Divide and Conquer. Cass Sunstein. Libertarian Paternalism. How to create a religion.
http://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/wiki/index
Thanks for the tip. That really is a creepy story, and the fact that Brookings is salivating over it and name dropping Sunstein in the process makes it all the more creepy. Just another sign of what reddit has become.