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What Other "Working Groups" Are Working Away?

They can be incredibly effective in shaping fake narratives on events which can start wars, start riots, topple governments, or tip elections. Charles Burris remembers one of the best-organized, the “Hack-and-Dump Working Group:”

"Michael Shellenberger reported in a #TwitterFiles thread that the Aspen Institute hosted an exercise in the summer of 2020 titled, “Burisma Leak,” which predicted with uncanny accuracy an upcoming derogatory story in the New York Post about Hunter Biden’s lost laptop.

"The documents Shellenberger published showed how at least five media figures, including David Sanger and David McCraw of the New York Times, Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post, then-Daily Beast and future Rolling Stone editor Noah Schactman, and Rick Baker of CNN worked alongside Twitter and Facebook’s chief moderation officers, Yoel Roth and Nathaniel Gleicher, to plan a response to a hypothetical damaging exposé about Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

The “Burisma Leak” exercise predicted many elements of the real response to the New York Post’s coming Hunter Biden story, including complaints from influential Democratic congressman Adam Schiff about its “source and veracity,” and public statements from “former senior intelligence officials” falsely raising the specter of a “Russian operation.”

Top Biden campaign official Tony Blinken (now Secretary of State) then worked with the Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell to implement this scenario before the 2020 presidential election."

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When Did America Stumble Into Destructive Pluralism?

The “Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom” was a law passed by the Virginia General Assembly in 1786 that protected the rights of its citizens to worship as they chose.

The bill was originally drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1779. Some years after the passage of the Statute, Jefferson wrote that during the earlier debate in the General Assembly there had been an effort to limit the protection to Christians. However, this effort was defeated, showing that, as Jefferson noted, “it’s protection of opinion was meant to be universal.” He wrote:

Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word “Jesus Christ,” so that it should read “a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion” the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of it’s [sic] protection, the Jew and the ...

The Ukraine media narrative is something beyond stupid...

In the face of reality, and in the presence of those who know the details of the destructive proxy war, the narrative of the media is worse than ludicrous:

Ukraine can win the war with just a little more American money and a few more guns.

Trump: “So I asked Orbán if Ukraine could defeat Russia.

"He looked at me as if I had said something very stupid. And he said that Russia is a huge country. They fight, that’s what they do. China beats you with trade; Russia beats you with war." 

Having read the writings and speeches of Orban, I would imagine there was much more to Orban's answer.  I think Orban would have reminded Trump of Putin's historic intent: defend Russian national security interests in way that would prove to Zelensky that an offensive and provocative war could never succeed.  Ukraine had provoked and invaded Russia. Russia was determined to defend herself.

This Zelensky realized by day five, and was eager to get to the negotiating table to stop the ...

Republican Sloth Majorities in House and Senate

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

PJ O'Rourke

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