This is a lecture Mike Benz gave on the history of what he calls "the blob." Much of this I wasn't aware of like rigging an Italian election in 1948 was the CIA's first mission or that the government legalized propagandizing its own citizens during the Obama administration.
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163 sats \ 1 reply \ @konstantin21 26 Sep
great share! i didnt even realize it but he was at bitcoin 2024 and did a talk with preston pysh.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 26 Sep
Yep, it was back in the lounge though. And Marty didn’t show. And they cut it short.
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152 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 26 Sep
I just started listening, but this seems like a great history. Sort of a more measured version of Whitney Webb's book.
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64 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b OP 26 Sep
I might be the wrong judge, but he seems super lucid to me. It's not like he's no one either - he worked in the state department and cites the government's own public documents for nearly everything. Still, it all feels too crazy to be true, public, and underreported.
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121 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 26 Sep
I kept listening after my initial reaction. He seems very lucid, which is scary. I don't know whether or not you have checked out Whitney Webb's book One Nation Under Blackmail https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-Blackmail-Intelligence/dp/1634243013
but she covers a lot of this stuff, along with a lot more. Her book is abundantly referenced. I'm pretty sure what he says here is mostly accurate.
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64 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b OP 26 Sep
I haven’t read it. She tends to make me more paranoid than I want. Benz doesn’t for some reason. But maybe in t written word she’s more comforting.
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121 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 26 Sep
I know what you mean. Even the book got to be too much at times.
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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 28 Oct
does she have inside information?
I can't dispute anything she says but I can't prove it either
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 26 Sep
k00b, you have been on a role today.
Youre posting a bunch of content lately!
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 28 Oct
CIA was created in 1947
The predecessor to CIA and NSA was OSS
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 11 Oct
That was a great lecture. He laid out the history very carefully from a point of view that I like to hear. They, the IC, are a dastardly collection of psychopaths that are unconcerned with life at all, especially ours. What advice would give to a new administration to correct this problem?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE 26 Sep
It's great to have people like him. All his takes on free speech are worth listening and reading.
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