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DUPING DELIGHT OF EVIL BILL GATES
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ke44XPXf4AUS
EarthNewspaper.com All The Honest News Fit To Publish
Duping Delight! June 3rd, 2021
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DUPING DELIGHT JUSTIN TRUDEAU GIVES $10 MILLION TO TERRORIST
https://www.bitchute.com/video/UiRk3z1Wtf8
I realize this is a digression but here are two good articles on controlled opposition that are worth quoting.
How To Tell If Someone Is Controlled Opposition
phttps://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/02/11/how-to-tell-if-someone-is-controlled-opposition/
EXCERPT
So since I know that infiltration and manipulation happens, but I don’t find other people’s whisperings about “controlled opposition” useful, how do I figure out who’s trustworthy and who isn’t? How do I figure out who it’s safe to cite in my work and who to avoid? How do I separate the fool’s gold from the genuine article? The shit from the Shinola?
Here is my answer: I don’t.
I spend no mental energy whatsoever concerning myself with who may or may not be a secret pro-establishment influencer, and for good reason. There’s no way to know for sure if an individual is secretly scheming to sheep dog the populace into support for the status quo, and as long as government agencies remain opaque and unaccountable there will never be a way to know who might be secretly working for them. What I can know is (A) what I’ve learned about the world, (B) the ways the political/media class is lying about what I know about the world, and (C) when someone says something which highlights those lies. I therefore pay attention solely to the message, and no attention to what may or may not be the hidden underlying agenda of the messenger.
In other words, if someone says something which disrupts establishment narratives I help elevate what they’re saying in that specific instance. I do this not because I know that the speaker is legit and uncorrupted, but because their message in that moment is worthy of elevation. You can navigate the entire political/media landscape in this way.
Aria Persei
Filtering ❣ On the way to Remembrance
EXCERPTS
Those who manipulate the unseen mechanisms of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
Final words
At the end of the day, the less energy we give to people we don’t know by focusing on them or entangling our thought-forms with theirs, the more progress we will make and the less grip the control system will have on us. As we can not often or always be sure someone is a conscious or an unconscious deceiver, compassion is a good reminder. Staying connected to our hearts feels fundamental, not in a weak and horizontal way but in a strong and firm verticality. Most of these agents are used by the big system as puppets and their life paths have been altered and manipulated, usually way beyond their free will. By standing tall and learning from all the lessons we have crossed path with, the space is held for opening up to Alchemical Magic in a world coping with a lot of suffering and distorsion. Every day we can work on opening our hearts more, because there lies the treasures of Eternal Freedom.
More examples of duping delight. The first one is really obvious.
ILLINOIS HEALTH DIR. NOTHING BUT A CRISIS ACTRESS DUPING IN DELIGHT BEFORE THE MASSES
https://www.bitchute.com/video/m22SfKrJmuu7
Zack Greevey 1420 subscribers
Original Upload By U.K. Critical Thinker – No matter what event occurs, look out for those smiles and wonder, would someone be smiling under those circumstances?
Daily Dose Of Duping Delight
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February 21st, 2021
Art, Music, Drama & Truth Seeking ChristopherKennethBowser
DUPING DELIGHT: A COMMON THEME
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GMwFZYrZprrV
First published at 05:04 UTC on April 19th, 2018.
Original Upload By U.K. Critical Thinker – No matter what event occurs, look out for those smiles and wonder, would someone be smiling under those circumstances?
I saved the best for last. There lots of videos of duping delight on this channel. Check them out.
“How did we do-you guys?” Cloonan PsyOp IN YOUR FACE Crisis Actor
https://www.bitchute.com/video/CrwPRwKope5H
Uncle says to news crew at the end of press conference that he mistakenly doesn’t realize is LIVE “How did we do, you guys?”
Thanks Uncle!! Making my job easier.
Duper’s Delite: Exposing PsyOps, One Dry Eye at a Time
Excerpts from https://thenarrowgateweb.com/newsbythenumbers/
It might come as a surprise to some, but the news media as a whole is not there to provide the public with an unbiased view of what is going on in the world. (* shock horror *)
Rather, the mainstream media is a big business, and the product they are selling is fear.
“News” stories are mostly fabricated to push agenda’s that instill a mindset of “fear” in the public, thereby making the masses more willing to give up freedoms.
This is what is known as the Hegelian Dialectic (thesis, antithesis, synthesis); or put more simply: Problem > Reaction > Solution.
You may be wondering how attacks can be staged (which is a reasonable thing to do), but to understand that you will need to familiarize yourself with what crisis actors are.
The simple fact is that there are numerous companies offering the services of actors for real-life events, such as crisiscast.com…
Below are a few notable examples of crisis actors playing different roles across different false flag events:
Once one has researched how the news media operate – including being familiar with crisis actors, it becomes very easy to see right through the lies and their agendas.
If you’re still having a hard time believing that the mainstream media lies about everything, please watch this insightful 15min video:
How can we spot duping delight? Are dupers psychopaths? Let’s hear what some pyschologists have to say about duping delight.
Psychopaths and Duping Delight
Written by admin in Psychopathy
Duping delight is an expression many people interested in psychology will have heard of, but what exactly is it and how can we spot it?
Duping delight is a particular micro expression a person will display that betrays a sense of enjoyment they are getting out of controlling and deceiving another person. It is a very important expression to watch out for in catching dishonesty in a person. In fact it is a form of body language pretty much exclusively reserved for pathological character types such as psychopaths.
The phrase was coined by the psychologist and body language expert Dr Paul Ekman and was defined by him as “the pleasure we get over having someone else in our control and being able to manipulate them”.
Duping delight most often manifests as a grin or a smirk which will flash across a person’s face, and is usually completely inappropriate to the situation or the topic that is being spoken about. The psychopath is either about to lie, or is lying to someone and they are believing it, and the smirk is a leaked expression of pleasure that they are getting away with it.
Dr Pamela Meyer on Duping Delight and the body language of lying
Control as The Key Factor
As the quote by Dr Ekman emphasizes, duping delight is all about control, and since psychopaths are by their very nature obsessed with control and power over others, they will often display duping delight when lying to others.
The video above contains some excellent examples of this from people in the public eye. It is often expressed for example in psychopathic serial killers who cannot contain their delight at deceiving someone about their crimes and getting away with it.
This relates to another article we recently posted about psychopaths hiding in plain sight. Psychopaths often see their whole life as one big exercise in getting away with things in plain sight, and there is a twisted kind of pleasure they get in being able to get away with so much outrageous behavior and lying.
They know how easily influenced and taken in by glib charm and superficiality most people are, and derive satisfaction out of the sense of control this gives them. It gives them a kick to know that most of the time with most people, they can lie their way out of a situation and get away with it, such is their ability to lie without flinching and break rules without a second thought.
An example of duping delight from psychopathic killer Diane Downs – getting a kick out of deceiving a gullible interviewer
See also:
More Examples of Duping Delight
The body language of Lance Armstrong decoded
We have embedded another brilliant video analyzing the very revealing body language of disgraced former cyclist Lance Armstrong during various interviews, most notably his “confessional” interview on Oprah in 2013 where he finally admitted to doping after years of denial.
The video is put together by a body language expert and is well worth watching for anyone looking to know more about dishonest body language and speech patterns. The video is absolutely chock full of cues and signs from Armstrong that he isn’t telling the truth and and will be instructive for anyone who has to deal with psychopaths and other manipulative personalities.
The micro expression most common in the videos and most relevant to this article is the “duping delight” smirk, evident on many occasions. Numerous times just before or as Armstrong is making a statement, a smirk will come across his face, often when talking about something that is a serious subject and should not be a source of humor or joking.
David Walsh summed this micro expression from Armstrong up as such, in a 2013 interview where he gave his thoughts on Armstrong’s Oprah appearance:
“Oprah would ask him a question, and the answer that he was going to give was going to diminish him in the eyes (of others) because he was making an admission of something…..and just before he gave the answer you could see a smirk just flash across his face and you thought ‘did that guy smirk there?’. And he did.
And he didn’t want to do that. It was like an involuntary reaction, a tick, and obviously the guy has got personality issues”.
David Walsh
The motifs here are, as always with the psychopath, control and contempt of others. The smirk can be seen as a leaking out of the fact that despite an appearance of being remorseful, they have no remorse whatsoever . It is a sign of what they actually think or feel, not what they are saying.
As Ekman says in the quote we embedded at the top, the psychopath is taking pleasure in the fact that they have another person under their control, pretending to be sincere or honest when in fact they are not.
They cannot contain their glee that they are deceiving someone and the smirk of duping delight is this glee leaking out despite their best intentions to keep it concealed.They often can’t help themselves. They get off on controlling and deceiving others. It gives them a kick inside, particularly when done in plain sight for others to see.
The video contains evidence of many other micro expression often displayed by psychopaths and other toxic personality types. Some of the more common ones include:
- A clear contrast between clear and fluid body language (telling the truth) vs stiff and rigid body language (lying)
- Using validating statements to back up an answer that just needs to be yes or no (absolutely not, 100% no etc.)
- Body language contradicting with speech – most commonly verbally saying yes while head is shaking no.
- Using distancing language to separate themselves psychologically from something they’re ashamed of
- Obfuscation, misdirection and diversion of questions
- Micro expression such as contempt and stress also leaking out, along with the ever present smirking
These are all things to look out for when trying to decipher honesty or dishonesty in what a person is telling you. Being able to read body language can be a very valuable skill in dealing with psychopaths, given their relentless tendency towards dishonesty in relationships.
It’s interesting that many actors later became politicians. Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Springer, Zelenskyy, Franken, Eastwood, Ventura and Carfagna were all actors on TV or the movies. Justin Trudeau was a high school drama teacher. It appears that to be a successful puppet politician all you need is the ability to follow a script and deliver a line with the appropriate emotion.
But why are we taken in by these psychopaths again and again? What can we do about it? Lisa Renee has some ideas on this topic.
Time Shift Blog
Cultivation of Gullibility
The intended goal of Social Engineering is to exploit the subconscious and to shift emotional dependence onto those who have accumulated the most wealth and power. This makes them the dominant authorities with full control over allocating all resources available in this world, while creating many different subclasses of marginalized and oppressed people. Those that are poverty stricken and feel socially excluded are especially vulnerable to emotional exploitation, keeping them polarized on insignificant topics, and feeding into the promotion of lies due to the intentional Cultivation of Gullibility.
Until we have developed the capacity to profoundly know ourselves it is difficult to see the deeper and hidden motivations of others. When we lack self-awareness along with social awareness, it makes us much more gullible to others deceptions. Gullibility makes us pliable to reality hijack, believing the deceptions and lies that we have been told by those we perceive as an authority, with the covert agenda to hold onto the most wealth and power possible, at any cost. No one can remain unbiased when they can be bought and sold for a price. This lack of awareness about the nature of this 3D reality, further leads us into becoming cogs in divisive and harmful agendas, becoming the proponents that are being mind controlled to actually support the Controllers nefarious plans.
In the current terrain of masterful deceptions and lies being propagated by those desperate to hang onto the status quo and global power, the issue of gullibility in the masses is being heightened and exploited. It is the tendency to automatically believe that imposters and actors are telling us the truth at face value, that makes us easily persuaded into believing something that is entirely false. Many unethical and traumatized people on the world stage are addicted to power, and continue to role play a manufactured persona. However, it is the Live Action Role Player’s or LARP’s that are being used by the NAA-Controllers to reinforce our 3D belief systems or worldview by feeding us lies. Many people tend to believe these actors on the world stage as telling the truth or being trustworthy, irrespective of the long list of facts and hard evidence to the contrary. Most people are refusing to dig deeper into hard topics and ask the difficult questions that challenge their belief systems, following through to investigate the larger picture that connects all of the pieces in this vast puzzle. Yet, this dedication to finding the truth within the taboo and hard topics is exactly what is needed, now more than ever.
The Controllers are master manipulators that scope out the emotional characteristics and hidden subconscious desires in order to exploit the known vulnerabilities in their victims, through the spreading of vicious lies that are presented as facts. Tyrannical despots and authoritarian globalist leaders hide behind the strawman faces of a puppet-democracy, when they actually seek to simultaneously destroy its core humanitarian principles. By collecting massive amounts of personal data to profile their global audience, they are using surveillance along with a host of masterful deceptions to exploit the public emotionally. As difficult as it may be, we have to actually see that through targeted mind control, they have been successful in manipulating many people to believe outright lies.
Their goal is to continually distract by inciting violence and destructive conflicts within high profile interest groups, influencing gullibility in the masses. From behind the scenes they polarize and confuse, shaping narratives to assign their blame upon those groups of people who they see as threats, and who remain faultless in those specific issues. Directing disinformation as its reported through the mainstream media prompts even more divide and conquer tactics to incite anger and sow hatred among the vulnerable populations. This is psychological warfare plain and simple, much of which is based upon the spreading of lies and deliberate disinformation to keep the public massively confused and warring with each other.
The imperative of these times is to be willing to open compassionate dialogues on challenging topics, to commit to be mentally flexible in order to seek the higher truth in the matter, and to do the research that backs up one’s own opinions, whether or not it is popular or profitable. To sincerely seek the truth and put forth the effort to find it, is the only way to gain the clarity that is required to discern the many harmful agendas at play, finding the hidden motivations behind the intentional spreading of disinformation and lies. When we perceive the motivations behind the inverted façade, we can ask to seek the larger truth that is found in who or what actually benefits from those lies, and then we can begin to see what cost these lies actually extract from the human race.
- Who is benefiting from the current agendas?
- Who is making decisions about what is being implemented now?
- Who is most directly affected by the policies being put in place?
- Who is this agenda most harmful to?
(Source: ES News – Banishing the Lies)
I love it when I can end a post with an appropriate song.
I know better than that – Acoustic Live Mar 28, 2022
Update June 2, 2022
Subway Shooting Hoax April 14th, 2022
More Proof of the Texas Shooting Hoax
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June 1st, 2022
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Update January 19, 2023
I recently found out that James Corbett has been bestowing fake news awards for the last six years. Here are the winners for 2021 and 2022.
THE 5TH ANNUAL FAKE NEWS AWARDS!
You’ve been waiting for it all year. So stop waiting. It’s here! The 5th Annual Fake News Awards! Bringing you the worst in dinosaur media lies, smears and outright fiction from the past year. Join your host Bent Krockman for a whirlwind tour of fake photos, fake fact checks, fake politicians and of course the fake story of the year. Also, stay tuned for a musical performance by the new pop hit supergroup, KABAAL . . . and a word from our corporate sponsor!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/X3hW6VD18AGw
The Sixth Annual Fake News Awards
And now, from an undisclosed location deep beneath the Earth’s surface, it’s the 6th Annual Fake News Awards! Shining the spotlight of ridicule on the dumbest disinformation, the silliest smears and the most ludicrous lies of the mainstream media dinosaurs of the past year! Which presstitutes will walk away with a dino of shame? What mendacious government mouthpiece will commit seppuku after being exposed as a deceiving sack of excrement ? And who will walk away with the greatest dishonour of them all: the Fake News Story of the Year? Find out in this year’s exciting Award Show Extravaganza…
https://www.bitchute.com/video/sLcqAVhgVvfd
Elon Musk is a total fake so he deserves to added to this post.
Failing Upwards: The Story of Elon Musk
by Daniel Xie on December 8, 2022
Elon Musk is perhaps one of the most discussed figures in the world right now following his acquisition of the social media platform Twitter. Born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, Elon Reeve Musk was immediately no stranger to privilege. The son of a model and a rich businessman, Musk was well accustomed to a lavish lifestyle, and his family’s fortunes only grew when his father decided to sell the family’s private jet in exchange for a significant stake in a Zambian emerald mine. The family was so wealthy that the Musk family went to school in a Rolls-Royce, a stark contrast to most South Africans living during the apartheid era. His family’s connections then allowed Musk to move to Canada as a teenager, after which he would attain a Canadian visa and subsequently move to the United States.
In the U.S., Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania from Queen’s University in Ontario, graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Economics, and then moved to the West Coast in hopes of getting a PhD at Stanford University. There are claims and evidence in court rulings that Musk didn’t actually graduate from UPenn, and was only given a degree two years after dropping out by investors, a move that also made him an illegal immigrant for a brief period as he could not apply for the H1-B visa, which requires a degree, and even that he did not even apply to Stanford. Though these issues may not be that significant in the grand scheme of things, they provide an interesting insight into Musk’s mind and, ultimately where his history of deceit and pretending to be what he isn’t comes from. However, it was true that Musk moved to California, where he became enamored with the world of computers and the internet.
Having watched the internet application Netscape be valued at $3 billion, Musk quickly saw the opportunity that the still young consumer internet market had to offer, and Elon Musk partnered with his brother Kimbal to found Zip2, a quite simple service that acted as a sort of digital Yellowpages. However, the program was so simple that Musk had created a large, fake casing around the Zip2 computer to make it seem like an extremely advanced supercomputer to investors, a move that only further reflects the trends from his alleged college lies. His deceit paid off, and Zip2 acquired $3 million in funding on the one condition that Elon would step down as the CEO to allow someone more experienced to take his place. However, Elon’s evidently self-taught code was soon exposed to be so scrambled that a majority of the program had to be rewritten by more advanced programmers. His woes at the company did not stop there, however, as Musk was also a poor manager, being upset when his employees did not keep working until 9 pm, a trend that would be interestingly reflected in his management of Tesla, as well as his takeover of Twitter, years later. However, after staging a coup to be reinstated as CEO, Elon finally got paid when Zip2sold to COMPAQ in 1999, winning $22 million from his 7% share.
With this newfound wealth, Musk bought a new supercar (which he later totaled) and showed it off on CNN. Though perhaps not evident at the time, Musk did not only want to get rich; he wanted to be famous, a motive that would become even more apparent in his subsequent business ventures. Following the sale of Zip2, Musk moved on to X.com, where he tried to revolutionize the banking industry by creating an “internet bank.” However, many incorrectly assume that Musk also founded PayPal, when in fact, he only merged X.com with another company that had already founded PayPal almost a year earlier. X.com itself was, unsurprisingly, a mess, with glaring issues and security flaws. Thus, amidst a flock of resignations (including the service’s co-founder), Musk merged with his competitor Confinity, PayPal’s parent company. At PayPal, Musk was appointed CEO after the merger in April of 2000. He was ousted in October of that same year, as under Musk’s poor management, the company was steadily losing money, to the point where if Musk had been CEO for just six more months, the company likely would have been killed. However, Musk retained his shares and, just like with Zip2, received a huge payday when PayPal was sold to eBay in 2002, making $180 million despite his minimal positive contributions.
Another common misconception about Musk’s history is that he helped to found Tesla. Elon Musk did not found Tesla, despite the official Tesla website even claiming so. Tesla Motors was actually founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Musk didn’t even get involved until the next year, when he invested $6.5 million into the company, becoming the largest shareholder. However, Musk did not play a significant role in Tesla until becoming the CEO, and even when in charge, to date, he only has a couple of patents, one of which makes Tesla chargers exclusive to Tesla cars. In fact, Musk even pushed for his unique chargers to be produced as much as possible. This move then forced some people looking to buy electric cars to purchase Tesla vehicles, effectively being able to then gain a monopoly over the market and thus stopping any more affordable electric car companies from being able to survive and thrive. It is here where Musk’s above-described desire to become famous came into full view, as he then strove to become the face of Tesla, a desire that led him to then drive out the co-founder Eberhard from the company in 2007, a move that led to an onslaught of lawsuits covering everything from denying severance to rewriting history.
Musk’s failures as a leader are even more apparent in the Tesla vehicles themselves, as though they seek to make electric cars mainstream (perhaps the only venture they have been successful in), the cars start at around $50k themselves, and they don’t even do much to help the environment given the mining of lithium required for the production of their batteries, a move that can lead to soil degradation, water shortages, and, ironically, increases in global warming. The safety risks of Tesla vehicles were also papered over by Musk when he knowingly sold cars with dangerous batteries in 2012 and when over 90% of cars manufactured in 2017 had some sort of defect. The problems get worse when looking at failures in autopilot tech, spontaneous bursting into flames, and braking, as Tesla has been slammed by class-action lawsuits and investigations by the NHTSA. His woes only continue into the workplace, as the company has had countless OSHA violations for workplace safety, lost cases concerning racial abuse and discrimination, and has even left hundreds of employee injuries off the books. Even recently, Musk’s decision to have the forced return of employees to Tesla factories during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic led to numerous outbreaks within the company. Furthermore, a lawsuit by the State of California from this year alleged that black Tesla employees were not only discriminated against but literally forced to wipe the factory floor on their hands and knees. And despite all of this, Tesla isn’t even profitable, relying on the selling of carbon credits to make any money, effectively taking advantage of a government program designed to help support more sustainable innovation in order to have any profitable quarters at all, eliminating any potential environmental benefit that Teslas could have. Furthermore, Tesla’s value in the stock market is predicted to be one of the most overvalued, as tends to happen with tech companies.
From these significant examples of Elon’s history, it is immediately clear that not only is he incredibly poor at anything business-related, but he relies heavily on empty promises to drive investment. From his promise of revolutionizing the banking industry to having a million robot taxis by 2020, his failure to deliver on, well, anything, has landed him in hot water in terms of both lawsuits and just running successful businesses in general. Evidently, anyone should approach business with Musk with caution, inevitably leading us to his recent takeover of Twitter.
On April 5th, 2022, Elon announced that he had purchased over 9% of Twitter’s stock. Fearing that Musk might move further to potentially take over the company, Twitter decided to use a poison-pill strategy. In response, Musk put out an offer to buy the company for $54.20 per share, or around $44 billion in total, significantly more than the stock price at the time. Twitter, acting in the interests of its shareholders as a public company, accepted the offer on April 25th. On May 13th, Musk tweeted that the deal would be put on hold as he requested that the company disclose how many bot users it had, likely out of getting cold feet from the potential repercussions of such a consequential spur-of-the-moment decision. On June 6th, Musk threatened to withdraw his agreement, accusing Twitter of refusing to help with identifying the number of bot accounts. On July 8th, Musk announced his intention to cancel his buyout of Twitter, after which Twitter’s chairman, Bret Taylor, announced the Twitter board’s decision to sue Musk in the Delaware Court of Chancery. The lawsuit was launched on July 12th. In order to avoid an almost certain failure in court on October 28th, Musk agreed to complete his buyout on October 4th. On October 27th, Musk walked into the Twitter headquarters carrying a sink, tweeting a photo of himself with the caption, “Let that sink in.”
Almost immediately, the unraveling began. Musk immediately fired the CEO, CFO, the head of legal policy, trust, and safety, as well as the general council of Twitter, all while attempting to find a probable cause in order to not pay out their bonuses (which he will fail at). The next day, October 28th, Musk announced his intention to fire a large portion of the Twitter staff, preferably before the November bonuses, in order to save money. His swift, unforeseen actions led to significant disruption for Twitter, and, coupled with his free speech absolutist ideas, Musk began to drive away major advertisers from the site. For context, advertisers make up about 90% of Twitter’s annual revenue. In a frantic attempt to make any money, Musk announced on November 1st that users would be able to buy Twitter Blue, and thus the Verified blue checkmark, for $8 per month. The short-sightedness of this announcement is immediately apparent, as allowing anonymous users to appear verified and to impersonate formerly officially verified users could have disastrous consequences, and thus Musk also announced that actual public figures would have an “Official” badge. In a turn that everyone saw coming, people immediately began impersonating companies, politicians, and celebrities. On November 4th, Musk announced that up to 3,700 employees, or about 50% of the company, would be laid off, after which he immediately asked some of the fired workers to return. Twitter was then swiftly hit with a class-action lawsuit and was dropped by some of its biggest advertisers, including Volkswagen, Pfizer, and General Mills. On November 11th, Musk suspended his Twitter Blue verification system. Amidst the layoffs, the app has descended into chaos, with Elon Musk at the head. His poor management, childlike tendencies, and lack of self-accountability, paired with his abysmal memes, have made witnessing Twitter’s collapse quite the spectacle.
Just recently, Musk delivered an ultimatum to all Twitter staff, saying that workers could either work “hardcore” or leave with three months of severance pay, stating, “This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.” This intensity again mirrors his management of Zip2, but on a much larger scale, by forcing remaining employees to pick up the workload of the thousands that have been fired or resigned. The worst part of Musk’s takeover, however, is for workers on visas, as they don’t have the luxury of just leaving their jobs. Given that their living in the United States is reliant on their employment, Musk is effectively exploiting their compromising situation. The layoffs have had significant technological implications as well, with two-factor authentication being temporarily broken and services in various countries, like India, being interrupted. The Twitter debacle has certainly been unstable, as now even services like the App Store are threatening to pull Twitter. Only time will tell if Elon Musk is able to recover from his disaster, but given his track record, a miracle would likely only come in the form of some acquisition. For now, though, we can only watch from the sidelines as the future of Twitter, Elon Musk, and information as a whole hangs in the balance.
Update November 30, 2023.
Yesterday Henry Kissinger finally died at age 100. He’s a perfect example of a lying megomaniac and a treacherous psychopath and so richly deserves to be included in this post.
Henry Kissinger, Top U.S. Diplomat Responsible for Millions of Deaths, Dies at 100
“Few people … have had a hand in as much death and destruction, as much human suffering, in so many places around the world as Henry Kissinger.”
November 29 2023, 9:49 p.m.
Henry Kissinger, national security adviser and secretary of state under two presidents and longtime éminence grise of the U.S. foreign policy establishment, died on November 29 at his home in Connecticut. He was 100 years old.
Kissinger helped prolong the Vietnam War and expand that conflict into neutral Cambodia; facilitated genocides in Cambodia, East Timor, and Bangladesh; accelerated civil wars in southern Africa; and supported coups and death squads throughout Latin America. He had the blood of at least 3 million people on his hands, according to his biographer Greg Grandin.
There were “few people who have had a hand in as much death and destruction, as much human suffering, in so many places around the world as Henry Kissinger,” said veteran war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody.
A 2023 investigation by The Intercept found that Kissinger — perhaps the most powerful national security adviser in American history and the chief architect of U.S. war policy in Southeast Asia from 1969 to 1975 — was responsible for more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known, according to an exclusive archive of U.S. military documents and interviews with Cambodian survivors and American witnesses.
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Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings
The Intercept disclosed previously unpublished, unreported, and under-appreciated evidence of hundreds of civilian casualties that were kept secret during the war and remained almost entirely unknown to the American people. Kissinger bore significant responsibility for attacks in Cambodia that killed as many as 150,000 civilians — up to six times more noncombatants than the United States has killed in airstrikes since 9/11, according to experts.
Born Heinz Alfred Kissinger in Fürth, Germany, on May 27, 1923, he immigrated to the United States in 1938, among a wave of Jews fleeing Nazi oppression. Kissinger became a U.S. citizen in 1943 and served in the U.S. Army’s Counter Intelligence Corps during World War II. After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1950, he earned an M.A. in 1952 and a Ph.D. two years later. He then joined the Harvard faculty, with appointments in the Department of Government and at the Center for International Affairs. While teaching at Harvard, he was a consultant for the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson before serving as national security adviser from 1969 to 1975 and secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. A proponent of realpolitik, Kissinger greatly influenced U.S. foreign policy while serving in government and, in the decades that followed, counseled U.S. presidents and sat on numerous corporate and government advisory boards while authoring a small library of bestselling books on history and diplomacy.
Kissinger married Ann Fleischer in 1949; the two were divorced in 1964. In 1974, he married Nancy Maginnes. He is survived by his wife, two children from his first marriage, Elizabeth and David, and five grandchildren.
As National Security Adviser, Kissinger played a key role in prolonging the U.S. wars in Southeast Asia, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands of Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese. During his tenure, the United States dropped 9 billion pounds of munitions on Indochina.
In 1973, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Kissinger and his North Vietnamese counterpart Le Duc Tho “for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973.”
“There is no other comparable honor,” Kissinger would later write of the prize he received for an agreement to end a war he encouraged and extended, a pact that not only failed to stop that conflict but also was almost immediately violated by all parties. Documents released in 2023 show that the prize — among the most controversial in the award’s history — was given despite the understanding that the war was unlikely to end due to the truce.
Tho refused the award. He said that the U.S. had breached the agreement and aided and encouraged its South Vietnamese allies to do the same, while also casting the deal as an American capitulation. “During the last 18 years, the United States undertook a war of aggression against Vietnam,” he wrote. “American imperialism has been defeated.”
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North Vietnam and its revolutionary allies in South Vietnam would topple the U.S.-backed government in Saigon two years later, in 1975. That same year, due in large part to Nixon and Kissinger’s expansion of the war into the tiny, neutral nation of Cambodia, the American-backed military regime there fell to the genocidal Khmer Rouge, whose campaign of overwork, torture, and murder then killed 2 million people, roughly 20 percent of the population. Kissinger almost immediately sought to make common cause with the génocidaires. “You should also tell the Cambodians that we will be friends with them. They are murderous thugs, but we won’t let that stand in our way. We are prepared to improve relations with them,” he told Thailand’s foreign minister.
As secretary of state and national security adviser, Kissinger spearheaded efforts to improve relations with the former Soviet Union and “opened” the People’s Republic of China to the West for the first time since Mao Zedong came to power in 1949. Kissinger also supported genocidal militaries in Pakistan and Indonesia. In the former, Nixon and his national security adviser backed a dictator who — according to CIA estimates — slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians; in the latter, Ford and Kissinger gave President Suharto the go-ahead for an invasion of East Timor that resulted in about 200,000 deaths — around a quarter of the entire population.
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In Latin America, Nixon and Kissinger plotted to overturn the democratic election of Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende. This included Kissinger’s supervision of covert operations — such as the botched kidnapping of Chilean Gen. René Schneider that ended in Schneider’s murder — to destabilize Chile and prompt a military coup. “You did a great service to the West in overthrowing Allende,” Kissinger later told Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the leader of the military junta that went on to kill thousands of Chileans. In Argentina, Kissinger gave another green light, this time to a terror campaign of torture, forced disappearances, and murder by a military junta that overthrew President Isabel Perón. During a June 1976 meeting, Kissinger told the junta’s foreign minister, César Augusto Guzzetti: “If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly.” The so-called Dirty War that followed would claim the lives of an estimated 30,000 Argentine civilians.
Kissinger’s diplomacy also stoked a war in Angola and prolonged apartheid in South Africa. In the Middle East, he sold out the Kurds in Iraq and, wrote Grandin, “left that region in chaos, setting the stage for crises that continue to afflict humanity.”
Through a combination of raw ambition, media manipulation, and an uncanny ability to obscure the truth and avoid scandal, Kissinger transformed himself from a college professor and bureaucrat into the most celebrated American diplomat of the 20th century and a bona fide celebrity. Hailed as the “Playboy of the Western Wing” and the “sex symbol of the Nixon administration,” he was photographed with starlets and became a fodder for the gossip columns. While dozens of his White House colleagues were laid low by myriad Watergate crimes, which cost Nixon his job in 1974, Kissinger skirted the scandal and emerged a media darling.
“We were half-convinced that nothing was beyond the capacity of this remarkable man,” ABC News’s Ted Koppel said in a 1974 documentary, describing Kissinger as “the most admired man in America.” There was, however, another side to the public figure often praised for his wit and geniality, according to Carolyn Eisenberg, author of “Never Lose: Nixon, Kissinger and the Illusion of National Security,” who spent a decade reading Kissinger’s White House telephone transcripts and listening to tapes of his unvarnished conversations. “He had a disturbed personality and was unbelievably adolescent. He admitted he was egotistical, but he was far beyond that,” she told The Intercept. “He was, in many respects, very much stuck at age 14. His opportunism was boundless. His need to be important, to be a celebrity, was gigantic.”
“He was, in many respects, very much stuck at age 14. His opportunism was boundless. His need to be important, to be a celebrity, was gigantic.”
Kissinger was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — America’s highest civilian award — in 1977. In 1982, he founded Kissinger Associates, an international consulting group that became a revolving door refuge for top national security officials looking to cash in on their government service. The firm leveraged their and Kissinger’s reputations and contacts to help huge multinational corporations, banks, and financial institutions — including American Express, Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Heinz, Fiat, Volvo, Ericsson, and Daewoo — broker deals with governments. “A big part of Henry Kissinger’s legacy is the corruption of American foreign policymaking,” Matt Duss, a former adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders, told Vox in 2023. “It is blurring the line, if not outright erasing the line, between the making of foreign policy and corporate interests.”
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Kissinger counseled every U.S. president from Nixon through Donald Trump and served as a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1984 to 1990 and the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board from 2001 to 2016. After being tapped to head the 9/11 Commission, families of victims raised questions about potential conflicts of interest due to Kissinger’s financial ties with governments that could be implicated in the commission’s work. Kissinger quit rather than hand over a list of his consultancy’s clients.
In his 2001 book-length indictment, “The Trial of Henry Kissinger,” Christopher Hitchens called for Kissinger’s prosecution “for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offenses against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture” from Argentina, Bangladesh, Chile and East Timor to Cambodia, Laos, Uruguay, and Vietnam.
Kissinger ducked questions about the bombing of Cambodia, muddied the truth in public comments, and spent half his life lying about his role in the killings there. In the early 2000s, Kissinger was sought for questioning in connection with human rights abuses by former South American military dictatorships, but he evaded investigators, once declining to appear before a court in France and bolting from Paris after receiving a summons. He was never charged or prosecuted for deaths for which he bore responsibility.
“Much of the world considered Kissinger to be a war criminal, but who would have dared put the handcuffs on an American secretary of state?” asked Brody, who brought historic legal cases against Pinochet, Chadian dictator Hissène Habré, and others. “Kissinger was not once even questioned by a court about any of his alleged crimes, much less prosecuted.”
Kissinger continued to win coveted awards, and hobnobbed with the rich and famous at black-tie White House dinners, Hamptons galas, and other invitation-only events. By the 2010s, the Republican diplomat had become a darling of mainstream Democrats and remained so until his death. Hillary Clinton called Kissinger “a friend” and said she “relied on his counsel” while serving as secretary of state under President Barack Obama. Samantha Power, who built her reputation and career on human rights advocacy and went on to serve as the Obama administration’s ambassador to the U.N. and the Biden administration’s head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, befriended Kissinger before receiving the American Academy of Berlin’s Henry A. Kissinger Prize from Kissinger himself. Biden’s secretary of state, Antony Blinken, also had a long, cordial relationship with his distant predecessor.
Kissinger was repeatedly feted for his 100th birthday in May 2023. A black-tie gala at the New York Public Library was attended by Blinken; Power; Biden’s CIA director, William J. Burns; disgraced former CIA director and four-star Gen. David Petraeus; fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg; New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft; former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg; former Google CEO Eric Schmidt; and the Catholic Archbishop of New York Timothy M. Dolan, among other luminaries.
To mark Kissinger’s centenary, Koppel — who became Kissinger’s friend following the 1974 documentary — conducted a sympathetic interview for CBS News that nonetheless broached the charges that dogged Kissinger for decades. “There are people at our broadcast who are questioning the legitimacy of even doing an interview with you. They feel that strongly about what they consider, I’ll put it in language they would use, your criminality,” said Koppel.
“That’s a reflection of their ignorance,” Kissinger replied.
When Koppel brought up the bombing of Cambodia, Kissinger got angry. “Come on. We have been bombing with drones and all kinds of weapons every guerilla unit that we were opposing,” he shot back. “It’s been the same in every administration that I’ve been part of.”
“The consequences in Cambodia were particularly —”
“Come on now.”
“No, no, no, were particularly —”
“This is a program you’re doing because I’m gonna be 100 years old,” Kissinger growled. “And you’re picking a topic of something that happened 60 years ago. You have to know that it was a necessary step. Now, the younger generation feels that if they can raise their emotions, they don’t have to think. If they think, they won’t ask that question.”
When The Intercept asked that question about Cambodia — in a more pointed manner — 13 years earlier, Kissinger offered the same dismissive retorts and flashed the same fury. “Oh, come on!” he exclaimed. “What are you trying to prove?” Pressed on the mass deaths of Cambodians resulting from his policies, the senior statesman long praised for his charm, intellect, and erudition told this reporter to “play with it.”
“The covert justifications for illegally bombing Cambodia became the framework for the justifications of drone strikes and forever war.”
Kissinger’s legacy extends beyond the corpses, trauma, and suffering of the victims he left behind. His policies, Grandin told The Intercept, set the stage for the civilian carnage of the U.S. war on terror from Afghanistan to Iraq, Syria to Somalia, and beyond. “You can trace a line from the bombing of Cambodia to the present,” said Grandin, author of “Kissinger’s Shadow.” “The covert justifications for illegally bombing Cambodia became the framework for the justifications of drone strikes and forever war. It’s a perfect expression of American militarism’s unbroken circle.”
Brody, the war crimes prosecutor, says that even with Kissinger’s death, some measure of justice is still possible.
“It’s too late, of course, to put Kissinger in the dock now, but we can still have a reckoning [with] his role in atrocities abroad,” Brody told The Intercept. “Indeed, his death ought to trigger a full airing of U.S. support for abuses around the world during the Cold War and since, maybe even a truth commission, to establish an historical record, promote a measure of accountability, and if the United States were ready to apologize or acknowledge our misdeeds — as we have done in places like Guatemala and Iran — to foster a kind of reconciliation with the countries whose people suffered the abuses.”
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