@theduran This has been coming for at least ten years. In 2013, I was warned off signing up to use social media by several friends who held inside positions at Twitter, Facebook, and UTube, who reported senior intelligence officials were quietly appearing in the management of these companies.
Then, as a federal attorney-investigator, I was shocked to read later that same year, and after the Snowden revelations, an anonymous email from the Office of the Secretary of Labor threatening that anyone accessing Wikileaks from either their government equipment (the use of which for personal purposes is prohibited by regulation), or their personal computers (a breach of privacy and First Amendment rights) would be summarily fired.
This last part raised very troubling questions about how they would know what someone did on their personal computer, which we should all recognize as the powers of a totalitarian state.
But as I became informed about the creation of a Shadow Government within the U.S. administrative state, I learned that a pathway had been created for the exchange within the federal government of “preferred” officials between private corporations and government management positions, known as the “Senior Executive Service”.
Thus, senior intelligence officials could be assigned to Silicon Valley companies and/or senior corporate officials could assume management control over government agencies, or in the case of the Office of Personnel Management, take control over all the 2.1 [million] employees of the federal government. From at least 2008, if not much earlier, this has facilitated intimate corporate control over the institutions of the U.S. federal government and acted to protect the growing corruption that is now visible to everyone.
As several people have already commented, the current acceleration of censorship can be read as an expression of the growing anxiety of corrupt corporate and government officials that they are losing control of the narrative.
As I can add, this view is also held by those within the U.S. government who remain faithful Constitutionalists and public servants. An accounting is going to come, and to quote from Jim Morrison, “They have the guns, but we have the numbers.”
@theduran, @Whistleblower2 Thank you. Excellent – and disturbing, although it’s been plain for years that this is accelerating. These characters are inhuman and weird. I find it hard to credit their assumption of entitlement. Technology is making us slaves and it’s got completely out of hand. Come on, Luddites!
@theduran, @Whistleblower2 Excellent post and thank you for it and for your American courage.
But I do question your stat here: “all the 2.1 employees of the federal government.” I actually thought it was more than that. 😉
I know — it was a typo. 🙂
Btw, I spent 18 years in Wash DC — the pedo inferno. If WWIII happens, hey, at least Putie will have nuked it off the map.
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You don’t think the politicians you see in the media run a country ? They all have advisors, consultants, researchers.These people have links to security and the elites to guide their politicians on the right course. The voters have no say!
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This is why politicians make such ridiculous decisions.
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They get the job because they are corruptible and malleable.
Reminds me of a quote I read awhile back somewhere during the 60’s alluding to the thin facade of American freedom that, if you just slightly scratch under the surface, you’ll realize America is a complete Totalitarian regime and all our freedoms are just a thin veneer of the reality. An illusion, if you will, for those unwilling to see the truth.