Those of us with more than a passing interest in espionage have long known that entities like USAID, The Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, etc. are fronts for the CIA. The CIA's own documents confirm the fact: https://espionage.substack.com/p/cia-ford-foundation-and-political
agreed as to USAID, NED, NDI (National Democratic Institute), amongst others, but not as to Ford and Rockefeller Foundations which began before the CIA existed. Rockefeller funded the Nazi Institute for Racial Science in the 1930s, for example... see https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis-the-California-2549771.php "The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz." Ibid.
The media, most especially over the last 16-20 years, has literally gone off the rails in terms of bias, and, most importantly, has had a virtual monopoly on what would be considered news, or, even more pointedly, “truth”.
Musk’s purchase of Twitter, now “X”, opened the first breakthrough of that “cordone sanitaire” the mass media had built up around themselves, enabling, for the first time, alternative media and even everyday citizens to counter the falsities and propaganda being dished out daily by the wholly Left-captured legacy media.
While it is assuredly somewhat of an unruly schoolyard compromised of all sorts of opinion, commentary and lots of nonsense, it’s liberating effect has been a place, not just enabling even the “Everyman” in society to feel they have some kind of a voice, but also for others in positions of actual power and authority to counter the false narratives being churned out daily by the mostly mendacious media.
The effects of that outlet for “contrary opinion and facts” has at the very least, put mass media on the backfoot, and highlighted the desperate need for greater scrutiny and guideposts for those organs entrusted with duty to report the news, not make it up to fit an agenda.
Sen. John Kennedy’s break down of money spent by the Biden administration along with the analysis of his “Democratic colleagues and the tofu-eating wokerati of USAID are screaming like this is a prison riot” is an unforgettable tour de force.
The John Robb X post, describing the psychological effect that Trump and Co. have on the "establishment", exposes them as just exactly the kind of people who should NOT be in charge of anything; the kind of people one would NOT want to be in a foxhole with.
"However one feels about that conflict, understanding it requires some distance from the digital frenzy, i.e., mediation. And while media may be a dirty word—and that may be for good reason—we haven’t found a workable replacement yet."
When legacy media show themselves to be as reliable as the Soviet Komsomolskaya Pravda - " in which there is no news" or Izvestiya "in which there is no truth", you end up with the equivalent of samizdat - which the various weblogs and websites you refer to are. And they definitely have their agendas, there is no "objective journalism", not even a pretense of it, as was the case with our Mighty Wurlitzer of legacy media, who told the same story with often the same words. Eventually truth comes out and the legacy structures collapse like a house of cards.
Social media is unlikely to be the answer, especially algorithmically driven social media which uses amygdala hijack to capture attention:
"Anger, aggression, fear, and stress are all common emotional triggers. They can cause sudden, illogical, and even irrational reactions. ... The amygdala hijack occurs when your amygdala responds to stress and disables your frontal lobes. That activates the fight-or-flight response and disables rational, reasoned responses. In other words, the amygdala “hijacks” control of your brain and your responses." https://neurohacker.com/how-social-media-and-ai-hijack-your-brain
Having constant fight or flight responses, chronic shots of adrenaline to your system, is without doubt bad for your health, especially your cardiovascular system, they may destroy immunity or put it in check as well. And social media is dependent on inducing the fight or flight response to get and keep your attention - because your attention is what the social media corporations harvest and sell. Thus, people may become addicted to regular shots of adrenaline - become "adrenaline junkies" - and thus become addicted to the use of social media, suffer its deleterious effects on their physical, mental, and spiritual health, and be seemingly unable to tear themselves away from it, much like the sailors in the Odyssey were unable to tear themselves from the song of the Sirens, and be wrecked on the rocks of Scylla and Charybdis." https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/fear-outrage-amygdala-hijack-social
That's what I think is happening. I'm not sure of the solution - perhaps it's people coming together face to face and simply talking about things, and the hope that common sense takes over - in such a way that has been proven impossible online. My bet is that most people aren't listened to - and know it - and are terribly frustrated and angered by it. And I'll also bet that most people are reasonable - there are very few loud crazies out in real life, unlike online where they seem to predominate. So perhaps there's an answer in that process.
Those of us with more than a passing interest in espionage have long known that entities like USAID, The Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, etc. are fronts for the CIA. The CIA's own documents confirm the fact: https://espionage.substack.com/p/cia-ford-foundation-and-political
agreed as to USAID, NED, NDI (National Democratic Institute), amongst others, but not as to Ford and Rockefeller Foundations which began before the CIA existed. Rockefeller funded the Nazi Institute for Racial Science in the 1930s, for example... see https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis-the-California-2549771.php "The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz." Ibid.
The Ford and Rockefeller Foundations were coopted sometime in the 1950s.
The media, most especially over the last 16-20 years, has literally gone off the rails in terms of bias, and, most importantly, has had a virtual monopoly on what would be considered news, or, even more pointedly, “truth”.
Musk’s purchase of Twitter, now “X”, opened the first breakthrough of that “cordone sanitaire” the mass media had built up around themselves, enabling, for the first time, alternative media and even everyday citizens to counter the falsities and propaganda being dished out daily by the wholly Left-captured legacy media.
While it is assuredly somewhat of an unruly schoolyard compromised of all sorts of opinion, commentary and lots of nonsense, it’s liberating effect has been a place, not just enabling even the “Everyman” in society to feel they have some kind of a voice, but also for others in positions of actual power and authority to counter the false narratives being churned out daily by the mostly mendacious media.
The effects of that outlet for “contrary opinion and facts” has at the very least, put mass media on the backfoot, and highlighted the desperate need for greater scrutiny and guideposts for those organs entrusted with duty to report the news, not make it up to fit an agenda.
Sen. John Kennedy’s break down of money spent by the Biden administration along with the analysis of his “Democratic colleagues and the tofu-eating wokerati of USAID are screaming like this is a prison riot” is an unforgettable tour de force.
The John Robb X post, describing the psychological effect that Trump and Co. have on the "establishment", exposes them as just exactly the kind of people who should NOT be in charge of anything; the kind of people one would NOT want to be in a foxhole with.
It’s fun to watch the cries from political wilderness as Trump digs deeper into the some Deep State
"However one feels about that conflict, understanding it requires some distance from the digital frenzy, i.e., mediation. And while media may be a dirty word—and that may be for good reason—we haven’t found a workable replacement yet."
When legacy media show themselves to be as reliable as the Soviet Komsomolskaya Pravda - " in which there is no news" or Izvestiya "in which there is no truth", you end up with the equivalent of samizdat - which the various weblogs and websites you refer to are. And they definitely have their agendas, there is no "objective journalism", not even a pretense of it, as was the case with our Mighty Wurlitzer of legacy media, who told the same story with often the same words. Eventually truth comes out and the legacy structures collapse like a house of cards.
Social media is unlikely to be the answer, especially algorithmically driven social media which uses amygdala hijack to capture attention:
"Anger, aggression, fear, and stress are all common emotional triggers. They can cause sudden, illogical, and even irrational reactions. ... The amygdala hijack occurs when your amygdala responds to stress and disables your frontal lobes. That activates the fight-or-flight response and disables rational, reasoned responses. In other words, the amygdala “hijacks” control of your brain and your responses." https://neurohacker.com/how-social-media-and-ai-hijack-your-brain
Having constant fight or flight responses, chronic shots of adrenaline to your system, is without doubt bad for your health, especially your cardiovascular system, they may destroy immunity or put it in check as well. And social media is dependent on inducing the fight or flight response to get and keep your attention - because your attention is what the social media corporations harvest and sell. Thus, people may become addicted to regular shots of adrenaline - become "adrenaline junkies" - and thus become addicted to the use of social media, suffer its deleterious effects on their physical, mental, and spiritual health, and be seemingly unable to tear themselves away from it, much like the sailors in the Odyssey were unable to tear themselves from the song of the Sirens, and be wrecked on the rocks of Scylla and Charybdis." https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/fear-outrage-amygdala-hijack-social
That's what I think is happening. I'm not sure of the solution - perhaps it's people coming together face to face and simply talking about things, and the hope that common sense takes over - in such a way that has been proven impossible online. My bet is that most people aren't listened to - and know it - and are terribly frustrated and angered by it. And I'll also bet that most people are reasonable - there are very few loud crazies out in real life, unlike online where they seem to predominate. So perhaps there's an answer in that process.
Highly recommended read for Americans
https://ffrf.org/other-2/is-america-a-christian-nation-4/