Tag: Dannielle Blumenthal
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The Terrifying Implications of “Human-Machine Teaming”
Terminator: Rise of the Machines (2003) movie poster In 2015, the U.S. Department of Defense called for “human-machine teaming” as essential to national security. This is the future, regardless of which political party is in charge, and it is both powerful and terrifying. We need to block abusers of this power. To rephrase then-Deputy Defense…
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Combating Disinformation: An Essential Role For The Civil Service
We should use government funds for government-funded broadcasts, clearly attributed, that offer the official stance on matters of public interest or areas of misinformation or disinformation. Did you know that the U.S. government has an anti-disinformation service, that it’s called Polygraph, or that this website operates jointly with a Russian-language site called Factograph? Polygraph is…
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Notes on: “Bridging the Gap: Working with the Media”: A Federal Communicators Network/Partnership for Public Service Even
Privileged to attend and learn straight from the media about what federal agencies can do to help them do a better job reporting the facts. Federal Communicators Network/Partnership for Public Service event. Panel introduced by Virginia Hyer, FCN training coordinator. From left: Samantha Donaldson, PPS Director of Communications; Joe Davidson, The Washington Post; Alex Thompson,…
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QAnon and the Sociology of Knowledge: Lessons from An Interview Segment On C-SPAN
Here’s a neat partisan hat trick: present your power-enhancing ideology as the default, while portraying anyone who questions you critically as a dangerous political extremist by default. On August 10, 2018, C-SPAN featured a segment in which host Pedro Echeverría interviewed Ohio State University Assistant Professor Thomas Wood about the so-called “‘QAnon conspiracy theory and…
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The 85 Theses of #QAnon (All Quoted)
Fed/Banking: The US Federal Reserve is a privately-owned company, sitting on its very own patch of land, immune to the US laws. The Fed was formed under the direction of powerful banking families e.g., (Morgan, Rockefeller, Rothschild, more…) and works on their behalf. 9–11 / Bin Laden: Truth about the 9/11 terrorist attack on the…
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We Are Living In Surreal Times
The other day—after someone decapitated an animal and dumped it on an employee’s front porch—the media reported that @DHSgov sent out a memo warning its employees to keep a low profile. We also learned that @PressSec went home after being expelled from a restaurant, but her in-laws did not and the proprietor of the first…
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Ben Szemkus: Guests At A 2007 NXIVM "Mixer" Allegedly Included Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, James Alefantis, Eric Schneiderman, & Stormy Daniels
If you don’t have patience to read all this: See interview #1 here, posted May 29, 2018 and interview #2 here, posted June 9, 2018. May 15, 2018 This is the date that Szemkus recalls attending “a strange party” (the NXIVM mixer) in 2007. May 21, 2018: Blog Post & Comment “I recently spoke to…
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Border Wars: Notes From The Third Civil War, 6/20/2018
2014 photos of Border Patrol detention facilities, via The Daily Caller “Photos of border detention facilities from the Obama-era, taken during 2014, look nearly identical to the ones taken during the Trump era.” — Benny Johnson, “Here Are The Photos Of Obama’s Illegal Immigrant Detention Facilities The Media Won’t Show You,” The Daily Caller, 6/19/2018 A friend…
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A Father’s Day Warning: Kids Interpret Involvement As Love
Happy Father’s Day Weekend. On Sunday mornings in DC there are various radio programs dedicated to sermons. This morning on 94.7 FM, at about 6:50 AM EST, there was a pastor speaking about the importance of being involved with your kids at the play-on-the-floor-with-toys “boring” level (this got a laugh from me and his audience.)…
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All The Things That Interfere With An Investigation
Let’s start by diagramming knowledge. This circle represents all the things you could potentially know — if you knew everything. But there’s a catch. For many reasons, what we think we know is usually fairly limited as compared with the potential evidence. The truth is, only God truly knows everything. To be concise about it, here is…
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