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https://sharkhunters.com/product/hitler-in-argentina/
Hitler in Argentina

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-harris-police-2024/
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris' stances on police
By Melissa Quinn
October 29, 2024 / 1:32 PM EDT / CBS Ne

https://www.newarab.com/news/muslim-men ... -treatment
Muslim men on 'no-fly list' lose US appeal over treatment by FBI agents
Three Muslim men sued in 2013 after being put on the No Fly List for refusing to spy on US Muslim communities, despite no evidence of them posing threats.
The New Arab Staff & Agencies 29 October, 2024

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... aturestack
‘Can’t kill Trump can’t kill me’: South Boston man allegedly attacked by teens for carrying Trump flag
Brian Foley, 26, was wearing a neck brace in a Facebook post after the incident. The minors told police that Foley attacked first.
By Molly Farrar October 29, 2024

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/29/fon ... supremacy/
AN INSURRECTIONIST ONCE HELPED LEAD THIS POLICE DEPARTMENT. INSIDERS SPEAK OUT ABOUT ITS CULTURE OF WHITE SUPREMACY.
Veterans of California’s Fontana Police Department blow the whistle about the racism within its ranks.
Alice Speri, Stuart Harmon October 29 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... burn-video
Video shows Phoenix police burning man during arrest: ‘Like acid on my skin’
Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement in July, causing third-degree burns
Sam Levin in Los Angeles Tue 29 Oct 2024

CIA lawyer tells how Joe Biden handpicked and stole classified documents for 50 years and left them all over his house to use when he ghostwrote his memoirs for $
There is no evidence Trump deliberately took classified documents. Yet he has become a felon due to probably being set up.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/globa ... assessment
'Frightening': Over 1 in 3 of World's Tree Species Face Extinction
"Trees directly underpin the survival of a staggering array of species—including us," said one scientist.
BRETT WILKINS Oct 29, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... says-study
Climate crisis caused half of European heat deaths in 2022, says study
Researchers found 38,000 fewer people – 10 times number of murders – would have died if atmosphere was not clogged with greenhouse pollutants
Ajit Niranjan Tue 29 Oct 2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/merylnass ... medium=ios
TGA hides from questions about sudden infant deaths after vaccination
A string of sudden unexpected deaths in infants following the Infanrix Hexa® vaccine has forced the drug regulator to go to ground.
MARYANNE DEMASI, PHD

https://www.tga.gov.au/sites/default/fi ... dium=email
The “hexavalent” vaccine protects against six diseases (diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, hepatitis B and Hib) and is administered to infants at 2, 4 and 6 months of age. [All in one syringe each time—Nass]
Approved by the TGA in 2006, the vaccine lies at the heart of the National Immunisation Program, and has been administered to millions of babies across the country.
FOI request
A freedom of information (FOI) request for the number of deaths reported after use of the Infanrix-Hexa® vaccine has revealed some worrying data.
The Database of Adverse Event Notifications (DAEN) shows 17 reported deaths in infants. 
A further 26 reported deaths exist in the TGA’s ‘internal’ database, the Adverse Event Management System (AEMS), according to a recent FOI report.

https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/write?cc=US140
5 of 46 Presidents came into office after losing the nationwide popular vote

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/ ... cellations
Washington Post cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers
Reader backlash against decision not to make presidential endorsement rolls on despite Bezos defense of decision
Edward Helmore Tue 29 Oct 2024 15.08 EDT

https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/article ... _a_larceny
Detroit Cop Pleads Guilty To Lying To FBI About His Role In A Larceny
October 29, 2024
by  Allan Lengel

https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/new ... e_vignette
Cop charged with murder after shooting motorist who threw soup
October 29, 2024

https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/10/29 ... ay-afloat/
‘He Is Not Going to Make It!’: California Cops Sued for Tasering Black Man In Water and Watching Him Struggle to Stay Afloat for 40 Minutes While Doing Nothing to save him.
By Carlos Miller | Published on: October 29, 2024

https://www.reuters.com/legal/bidens-ju ... 024-10-29/
Biden's Justice Dept has yet to reach accords in police misconduct cases
By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward October 29, 2024
None of the 12 probes begun in Biden era have led to reform agreementsBiden administration slower than first Obama termTrump election win could complicate police reforms attempts
WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has opened 12 investigations into possible civil rights abuses by police departments since Democratic President Joe Biden took office, but has not secured even one binding settlement to implement reforms in any of them.
After winning office following a wave of mass protests in 2020 over police killings of

https://www.valleytimes.news/news/local ... e21ca.html
Sherwood's first-ever Halloween Hide & Seek with a Cop event canceled
Ray Pitz October 29, 2024

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/ ... 914903007/
Macomb Co. prosecutor: DPD cop threatened to execute victim in domestic violence case
Christina Hall Detroit Free Press October 29,2024

https://www.nj.com/morris/2024/10/nj-po ... crash.html
N.J. police sergeant charged with drunken driving in fatal crash
Oct. 29, 2024

https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts ... e9927.html
Cop Aaron Goodwin accused of civil rights violations in assault outside Portsmouth diner
By Paul Feely Union Leader Staff Oct 29, 2024

https://wyofile.com/inadequately-traine ... rights-law
Inadequately trained Casper police violated a man’s rights, lawsuit alleges
The suit filed over a bloody arrest in 2022 accuses officers of unlawfully entering a man’s home and using unnecessary force.
by Madelyn Beck October 29,2024

https://www.fox19.com/2024/10/29/former ... nt-county/
Police officer indicted on gross sexual imposition charges in Clermont County
By Jessica Schmidt Published: Oct. 29, 2024

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation ... 33704.html
A key police veteran in Haiti’s gang wars, senior cop is now fighting for his freedom BY JACQUELINE CHARLES AND JAY WEAVER UPDATED OCTOBER 29, 2024
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation ... rylink=cpy

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2024/1 ... mn-k-team/
Jackson PBA Condemns Anti-Cop Political Rhetoric By Hannum’s Column K Team
Union condemnation signals support for Column L Republican Team

https://www.yahoo.com/news/brockton-sch ... 14285.html
Brockton school cop arraigned on charge he faked his timesheet. What happened in court
Chris Helms, The Enterprise Updated Tue, October 29, 2024

4 Cops no longer work for district after arrests
by Erika EsquivelTue, October 29th 2024

https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/new ... estigators
Detroit police officer pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators about being at the scene of robbery

https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/20 ... -students/
Madison Police looks to recruit NMU students
Dan Groeneveld Published: Oct. 29, 2024

https://www.mynbc5.com/article/burlingt ... e/62754873
Burlington residents to vote on whether to establish police oversight committee
Oct 29, 2024 Michael Cusanelli Digital Content Manager

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... ear-waste/
October 22, 2024
New Missouri House committee will investigate impact of St. Louis nuclear waste
Written by Allison Kite

https://www.peaceactioncleveland.org/wp ... oted-1.pdf
THE U.S. MUST TERMINATE DELIVERIES OF MILITARY MUNITIONS AND
WEAPONS TO ISRAEL BECAUSE ISRAEL HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND WILL
NOT SIGN ONTO THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY
Israel is presently violating, and has for at least 47 years actively violated U.S. fed

https://open.substack.com/pub/merylnass ... medium=ios

Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds

https://www.thenation.com/article/socie ... than-ever/
SOCIETY / OCTOBER 25, 2024
Why We Need Prison Journalism More Than Ever
If we lose incarcerated journalists, we lose a whole voice from the conversation.
CHRISTOPHER BLACKWELL and EMILY NONKO

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/1 ... -of-brics/
Cuba Becomes an Associate Member of BRICS
By Jeremy Kuzmarov - October 28, 2024

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/10/28/ ... est-cases/
Democrat-Donating FBI Agent Hunted Jan. 6 Protest Cases
Fred Lucas | Mike Howell | October 28, 2024

Whistleblower: James Comey had FBI ‘honey pot’ spies infiltrate Trump’s 2016 campaign
Alleged off-the-books investigation predated FBI's Russia collusion probe
By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times - Tuesday, October 29, 2024

https://chicago.suntimes.com/afternoon- ... er-28-2024
Black Panthers heritage trail sets record straight
By  Matt Moore   Oct 29, 2024

https://equalityalec.substack.com/p/how ... -the-truth
How to tell a lie with the truth
ALEC KARAKATSANIS
SEP 04, 2023
“What makes it news is its dissemination, not its objective reality.”
           - Jacques Ellul
Imagine two scenarios. A given city had 10,000 shoplifting incidents in 2023 and 15,000 shoplifting incidents in 2022. In 2023, a local tv news outlet ran a story every day about a different shoplifting incident. In 2022, the news ran only 15 stories all year on shoplifting incidents. In which city do you think the public is more likely to believe shoplifting is a greater problem, in the city with more shoplifting, or the city with 25 times more stories about shoplifting?
This exercise could apply for any type of crime. And it could apply for a wide variety of other things: A report each night on a train derailment spewing toxic chemicals might get people to think the train system had safety problems

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... ngNewsVerp
Perceptions of crime improve in Gallup survey
Story by Tara Suter •

https://youarecurrent.com/2024/10/29/le ... h-program/
‘Lessons on leadership’: Carmel High School students complete intensive FBI National Academy youth program
BY TIRZAH ROWLAND ON OCTOBER 29, 2024

https://www.mlive.com/tv/2024/10/how-to ... ct-29.html
How to watch new episodes of ‘FBI,’ ‘FBI: International’ and ‘FBI: Most Wanted’ for free | Oct. 29
Oct. 29, 2024

https://wolfentertainment.com/news/spot ... s-janocko/

Wolf Entertainment
Spotlight: Malchus JanockoFBI is known for its intriguing stories and fast-paced action, and the show has a brand new playground for bringing…
FBI is known for its intriguing stories and fast-paced action, and the show has a brand new playground for bringing these stories to life — an innovative filming location called Gettywood. Production Designer Malchus Janocko has worked on FBI since Season Two, and played a key role in the creation of this new space. We talked with Malchus about what went into the design for Gettywood, what makes this space stand out, and what kind of scenes he’s most excited to shoot here. 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... -for-women
The world’s most feminist city: how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women
From snow-clearing to bus stops, civic furniture to football teams, women and men are considered and treated equally in this small city in Scandinavia – with the aim of making life happier for everyone
Viv Groskop Wed 30 Oct 2024

[TwochurchesOnly]

https://sharkhunters.com/product/hitler-in-argentina/
Hitler in Argentina

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-harris-police-2024/
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris' stances on police
By Melissa Quinn
October 29, 2024 / 1:32 PM EDT / CBS Ne

https://www.newarab.com/news/muslim-men ... -treatment
Muslim men on 'no-fly list' lose US appeal over treatment by FBI agents
Three Muslim men sued in 2013 after being put on the No Fly List for refusing to spy on US Muslim communities, despite no evidence of them posing threats.
The New Arab Staff & Agencies 29 October, 2024

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... aturestack
‘Can’t kill Trump can’t kill me’: South Boston man allegedly attacked by teens for carrying Trump flag
Brian Foley, 26, was wearing a neck brace in a Facebook post after the incident. The minors told police that Foley attacked first.
By Molly Farrar October 29, 2024

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/29/fon ... supremacy/
AN INSURRECTIONIST ONCE HELPED LEAD THIS POLICE DEPARTMENT. INSIDERS SPEAK OUT ABOUT ITS CULTURE OF WHITE SUPREMACY.
Veterans of California’s Fontana Police Department blow the whistle about the racism within its ranks.
Alice Speri, Stuart Harmon October 29 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... burn-video
Video shows Phoenix police burning man during arrest: ‘Like acid on my skin’
Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement in July, causing third-degree burns
Sam Levin in Los Angeles Tue 29 Oct 2024

CIA lawyer tells how Joe Biden handpicked and stole classified documents for 50 years and left them all over his house to use when he ghostwrote his memoirs for $
There is no evidence Trump deliberately took classified documents. Yet he has become a felon due to probably being set up.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/globa ... assessment
'Frightening': Over 1 in 3 of World's Tree Species Face Extinction
"Trees directly underpin the survival of a staggering array of species—including us," said one scientist.
BRETT WILKINS Oct 29, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... says-study
Climate crisis caused half of European heat deaths in 2022, says study
Researchers found 38,000 fewer people – 10 times number of murders – would have died if atmosphere was not clogged with greenhouse pollutants
Ajit Niranjan Tue 29 Oct 2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/merylnass ... medium=ios
TGA hides from questions about sudden infant deaths after vaccination
A string of sudden unexpected deaths in infants following the Infanrix Hexa® vaccine has forced the drug regulator to go to ground.
MARYANNE DEMASI, PHD

https://www.tga.gov.au/sites/default/fi ... dium=email
The “hexavalent” vaccine protects against six diseases (diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, hepatitis B and Hib) and is administered to infants at 2, 4 and 6 months of age. [All in one syringe each time—Nass]
Approved by the TGA in 2006, the vaccine lies at the heart of the National Immunisation Program, and has been administered to millions of babies across the country.
FOI request
A freedom of information (FOI) request for the number of deaths reported after use of the Infanrix-Hexa® vaccine has revealed some worrying data.
The Database of Adverse Event Notifications (DAEN) shows 17 reported deaths in infants. 
A further 26 reported deaths exist in the TGA’s ‘internal’ database, the Adverse Event Management System (AEMS), according to a recent FOI report.

https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/write?cc=US140
5 of 46 Presidents came into office after losing the nationwide popular vote

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/ ... cellations
Washington Post cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers
Reader backlash against decision not to make presidential endorsement rolls on despite Bezos defense of decision
Edward Helmore Tue 29 Oct 2024 15.08 EDT

https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/article ... _a_larceny
Detroit Cop Pleads Guilty To Lying To FBI About His Role In A Larceny
October 29, 2024
by  Allan Lengel

https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/new ... e_vignette
Cop charged with murder after shooting motorist who threw soup
October 29, 2024

https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/10/29 ... ay-afloat/
‘He Is Not Going to Make It!’: California Cops Sued for Tasering Black Man In Water and Watching Him Struggle to Stay Afloat for 40 Minutes While Doing Nothing to save him.
By Carlos Miller | Published on: October 29, 2024

https://www.reuters.com/legal/bidens-ju ... 024-10-29/
Biden's Justice Dept has yet to reach accords in police misconduct cases
By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward October 29, 2024
None of the 12 probes begun in Biden era have led to reform agreementsBiden administration slower than first Obama termTrump election win could complicate police reforms attempts
WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has opened 12 investigations into possible civil rights abuses by police departments since Democratic President Joe Biden took office, but has not secured even one binding settlement to implement reforms in any of them.
After winning office following a wave of mass protests in 2020 over police killings of

https://www.valleytimes.news/news/local ... e21ca.html
Sherwood's first-ever Halloween Hide & Seek with a Cop event canceled
Ray Pitz October 29, 2024

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/ ... 914903007/
Macomb Co. prosecutor: DPD cop threatened to execute victim in domestic violence case
Christina Hall Detroit Free Press October 29,2024

https://www.nj.com/morris/2024/10/nj-po ... crash.html
N.J. police sergeant charged with drunken driving in fatal crash
Oct. 29, 2024

https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts ... e9927.html
Cop Aaron Goodwin accused of civil rights violations in assault outside Portsmouth diner
By Paul Feely Union Leader Staff Oct 29, 2024

https://wyofile.com/inadequately-traine ... rights-law
Inadequately trained Casper police violated a man’s rights, lawsuit alleges
The suit filed over a bloody arrest in 2022 accuses officers of unlawfully entering a man’s home and using unnecessary force.
by Madelyn Beck October 29,2024

https://www.fox19.com/2024/10/29/former ... nt-county/
Police officer indicted on gross sexual imposition charges in Clermont County
By Jessica Schmidt Published: Oct. 29, 2024

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation ... 33704.html
A key police veteran in Haiti’s gang wars, senior cop is now fighting for his freedom BY JACQUELINE CHARLES AND JAY WEAVER UPDATED OCTOBER 29, 2024
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation ... rylink=cpy

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2024/1 ... mn-k-team/
Jackson PBA Condemns Anti-Cop Political Rhetoric By Hannum’s Column K Team
Union condemnation signals support for Column L Republican Team

https://www.yahoo.com/news/brockton-sch ... 14285.html
Brockton school cop arraigned on charge he faked his timesheet. What happened in court
Chris Helms, The Enterprise Updated Tue, October 29, 2024

4 Cops no longer work for district after arrests
by Erika EsquivelTue, October 29th 2024

https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/new ... estigators
Detroit police officer pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators about being at the scene of robbery

https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/20 ... -students/
Madison Police looks to recruit NMU students
Dan Groeneveld Published: Oct. 29, 2024

https://www.mynbc5.com/article/burlingt ... e/62754873
Burlington residents to vote on whether to establish police oversight committee
Oct 29, 2024 Michael Cusanelli Digital Content Manager

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... ear-waste/
October 22, 2024
New Missouri House committee will investigate impact of St. Louis nuclear waste
Written by Allison Kite

https://www.peaceactioncleveland.org/wp ... oted-1.pdf
THE U.S. MUST TERMINATE DELIVERIES OF MILITARY MUNITIONS AND
WEAPONS TO ISRAEL BECAUSE ISRAEL HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND WILL
NOT SIGN ONTO THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY
Israel is presently violating, and has for at least 47 years actively violated U.S. fed

https://open.substack.com/pub/merylnass ... medium=ios

Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds

https://www.thenation.com/article/socie ... than-ever/
SOCIETY / OCTOBER 25, 2024
Why We Need Prison Journalism More Than Ever
If we lose incarcerated journalists, we lose a whole voice from the conversation.
CHRISTOPHER BLACKWELL and EMILY NONKO

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/1 ... -of-brics/
Cuba Becomes an Associate Member of BRICS
By Jeremy Kuzmarov - October 28, 2024

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/10/28/ ... est-cases/
Democrat-Donating FBI Agent Hunted Jan. 6 Protest Cases
Fred Lucas | Mike Howell | October 28, 2024

Whistleblower: James Comey had FBI ‘honey pot’ spies infiltrate Trump’s 2016 campaign
Alleged off-the-books investigation predated FBI's Russia collusion probe
By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times - Tuesday, October 29, 2024

https://chicago.suntimes.com/afternoon- ... er-28-2024
Black Panthers heritage trail sets record straight
By  Matt Moore   Oct 29, 2024

https://equalityalec.substack.com/p/how ... -the-truth
How to tell a lie with the truth
ALEC KARAKATSANIS
SEP 04, 2023
“What makes it news is its dissemination, not its objective reality.”
           - Jacques Ellul
Imagine two scenarios. A given city had 10,000 shoplifting incidents in 2023 and 15,000 shoplifting incidents in 2022. In 2023, a local tv news outlet ran a story every day about a different shoplifting incident. In 2022, the news ran only 15 stories all year on shoplifting incidents. In which city do you think the public is more likely to believe shoplifting is a greater problem, in the city with more shoplifting, or the city with 25 times more stories about shoplifting?
This exercise could apply for any type of crime. And it could apply for a wide variety of other things: A report each night on a train derailment spewing toxic chemicals might get people to think the train system had safety problems

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... ngNewsVerp
Perceptions of crime improve in Gallup survey
Story by Tara Suter •

https://youarecurrent.com/2024/10/29/le ... h-program/
‘Lessons on leadership’: Carmel High School students complete intensive FBI National Academy youth program
BY TIRZAH ROWLAND ON OCTOBER 29, 2024

https://www.mlive.com/tv/2024/10/how-to ... ct-29.html
How to watch new episodes of ‘FBI,’ ‘FBI: International’ and ‘FBI: Most Wanted’ for free | Oct. 29
Oct. 29, 2024

https://wolfentertainment.com/news/spot ... s-janocko/

Wolf Entertainment
Spotlight: Malchus JanockoFBI is known for its intriguing stories and fast-paced action, and the show has a brand new playground for bringing…
FBI is known for its intriguing stories and fast-paced action, and the show has a brand new playground for bringing these stories to life — an innovative filming location called Gettywood. Production Designer Malchus Janocko has worked on FBI since Season Two, and played a key role in the creation of this new space. We talked with Malchus about what went into the design for Gettywood, what makes this space stand out, and what kind of scenes he’s most excited to shoot here. 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... -for-women
The world’s most feminist city: how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women
From snow-clearing to bus stops, civic furniture to football teams, women and men are considered and treated equally in this small city in Scandinavia – with the aim of making life happier for everyone
Viv Groskop Wed 30 Oct 2024

Damn

[msfreeh]

by TwochurchesOnly » Wed Oct 30, 2024 12:10 pm


Sir:
Please watch it with those cuss words!

[Niemand]

Damn

It's a data dump, almost certainly from a bot.

[msfreeh]

https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/governm ... net-forum/

How Trolls Control an Internet Forum
What to Watch Out For
WHOWHATWHY STAFF 07/27/18
The dirty tricks of trolls have been polluting the internet for years, but young people may not be aware of these techniques. Study them, and you can build immunity to this form of deception and intimidation.

GOVERNMENT INTEGRITY
How Trolls Control an Internet Forum
What to Watch Out For
WHOWHATWHY STAFF 07/27/18
The dirty tricks of trolls have been polluting the internet for years, but young people may not be aware of these techniques. Study them, and you can build immunity to this form of deception and intimidation.

Disinformation is alive and well. Despite all the inconvenient truth in circulation, the trolls are keeping up with it. If you want to know how they do it, read on — and immunize yourself against this deception and, worse yet, intimidation.

We originally published this three-part series in 2016, but the subject never grows old, as is evidenced by the “troll factory” Russia allegedly employed to influence the US presidential election. Expect more of the same this year with control of Congress hanging in the balance.

You may well wonder about the material we have chosen to present below. For one thing, it has been around for a while, though mostly on obscure websites. For another, its authors are unknown. More important, we cannot say how accurate, overall, is the analysis offered in it.

Nonetheless, it is tantalizing — and raises some important issues, no matter its provenance.

The document claims to reveal the techniques — dirty tricks, really — that are practiced by trolls, saboteurs, provocateurs, disinformants, spies, and other practitioners of the dark arts.

One thing is certain: we’ve all experienced the frustration of dealing with this phenomenon. We just don’t always recognize it for what it is.

Without even knowing it, you may have witnessed these techniques in action. Perhaps in a political forum that feels somehow manipulated to suppress certain facts and points of view. Or in the deceptive comments that often follow a controversial article. Or in the disruptive behavior at a town hall meeting that seems oddly choreographed. Or at a meeting of activists where the “wrong” people seem to be taking over.

Like toxic mushrooms, the words and actions of these operatives can look harmless. That is why they can so easily poison the well of information.

You may be tempted to write off trolls as harmless nuts, but that may not be the case at all. We know from experience that some of the less harmful techniques described here are a cousin of a PR tactic called “astroturfing,” a tried and true method of some of the most powerful corporations and private interests in America. It is a classic control technique, wielded by those on top to prevent “inconvenient” facts from reaching the public, and to neutralize any action the public may want to take should they learn of these facts.

You are most likely to see these techniques at work where discussion centers on such high-stakes issues as political assassinations, the destruction of land and lives by oil companies and other corporations, the man-made causes of climate change, and so on.

Before we get to the tricks themselves, we should take a quick look at their origins.

Origins
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Treachery is as old as mankind, but let’s start with the late J. Edgar Hoover, the old trickster behind the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program, also known as COINTELPRO.

According to www.publiceye.org, Cointelpro was designed to “increase factionalism, cause disruption and win defections” inside the Communist Party U.S.A…. disruption of the Socialist Workers Party (1961), the Ku Klux Klan (1964), Black nationalist groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam (1967), and the entire New Left, including community and religious groups (1968).”

The US Senate’s so-called Church Committee (chaired by Sen. Frank Church of Idaho), which investigated Cointelpro, reported, “Bureau witnesses admit that many of the targets were nonviolent and most had no connections with a foreign power.” Such targets included nonviolent citizens against the war in Vietnam, the nonviolent Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and prominent civil rights workers.

The FBI claims Cointelpro operations ended in 1971.

Did they? The internet did not exist during the period the FBI admits Cointelpro was active, but the author labels the methods described below as “Cointelpro Techniques.” Wherever they came from, they are still clearly in use. (As many of our readers probably know, other alphabet agencies use these techniques, and have greatly expanded upon them.)

Part 1 is about methods for taking control of a news group. These instructions were presumably written by a Cointelpro operative to be used by other operatives — and not the general public, so they are not always clear. We have therefore rewritten some of these passages, and we offer explanations parenthetically when we think they are needed. Wherever possible, we try to preserve the style of the original document.

If you have a better explanation for any of the actions described below, or if you want to add your own observations to this ongoing collection, please let us know. We would love to hear from you.

The bottom line: Our purpose here is to inform you about some of the “dirty tricks” that may be shaping and distorting what you read online. Far from endorsing these attempts to hijack free and open discourse, we believe that exposing them can help blunt their power to confuse and control. Forewarned is forearmed.

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Note to readers: The following is the text found on the internet, as discussed above. The source and background are unknown.
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Cointelpro Techniques for Control of an Internet Forum
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There are several techniques for the control and manipulation of an internet forum. Most involve dilution and misdirection. We will go over each technique and demonstrate

https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/governm ... net-forum/