Nov 13: I exposed opaque funding and Matze’s Russia ties
Nov 14: WSJ exposes Rebekah Mercer as funder and co-founder
Jan 6: Parler used to organize and amplify insurrection
Jan 8-9: Google and Apple remove app from stores
Jan 11: Amazon AWS terminates hosting; researchers harvest data
Jan 17: Parler puts up static page on Epik/DDOS Guard/Russian IP
Jan 21: House Oversight Chairwoman Maloney asks FBI to investigate Parler, its funding, and Matze’s Russia ties
Jan 29: Mercer + board fire Matze
Feb 3: Matze reveals he has been fired; Bongino denies, incorrectly
Even if it can somehow get back online, it will never be a viable company without implementing real moderation practices. Mercer seems intent not to do so. Parler is, without a serious upheaval, over.
What no one is asking now is WHY Gabbard was being run by a cult? For decades, Russia has worked to inject itself into spiritual cults (Maharishi, ISKCON, SIF) to 1) get people staring at their navels instead of taking political or practical action, 2) bring about “world peace” by capturing and dismantling US capabilities.
The “antiwar” movement is a left-right capture play and has been on display at recent events such as “Rage Against the War Machine” and “Rally to Rescue the Republic” which are run by the Libertarian Party, the Schiller Institute, the Ron Paul network, and the RFK Jr network — as well as the full menagerie of RU/CN proxies. Gabbard is fully part of that network and has spoken at those events.
This network goes back decades in various forms and has been at the heart of the anti-war and anti-nuclear “movements” which have been fluffed by Russia, and more recently by China.
Gabbard isn’t some one-off whack-job proxy of a rogue cult leader: this is an assault by our adversaries in a long game of information warfare and state capture, and those adversaries now have every state secret she cared to locate and share. We are less secure now. Congrats.
I’m not telling you anything here that wasn’t known during her confirmation hearings. Which means the Senate was derelict of duty, and complicit.
Some will also remember when Tulsi was briefly chair of the DNC, a Sanders Institute fellow, and a darling of the left cheering on Julian Assange. She was always a snake and her goal was to infiltrate and destroy the Democratic Party.
Next time maybe more people will pay attention to those doing closer reads of the signals instead of flitting from scandal to scandal.
1/Based on information from our sources, we have now compiled a list of 410 known Dialog participants spanning the last ~15 years. This is by far the most complete list. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
2/It also underscores another point: Dialog is large, and not particularly secret. Invitations (such as the one seen in the Epstein files) include long lists of participants and are sent without expectation of secrecy. Indeed, this is how we have been able to build this list.
3/The thing that has been keeping Dialog's participant list hidden is inertia and overall lack of interest — until now. Had anybody cared to research this, it would not have been difficult to do so. While the new leak cited by WIRED has added some new knowledge of their processes, Dialog's participant list has never been a closely guarded secret — indeed, they sent it to every new prospect. But it wasn't widely shared or posted publicly, either.
One of the main things people are getting wrong about the “Dialog” group (and there are several misconceptions) is that it was Thiel’s only or most important convening. “Hereticon” is where things get much stranger; it’s a tiered network.
You’ll recognize names from the Dialog network, as well as a healthy dose of UFO promoters and Founders Fund portfolio companies. Dialog (scouting), retreats (recruitment), Hereticon (sanctum sanctorum) — students of cult dynamics will recognize that this is How to Build a Cult.
1/I know it seems hard to believe, but ~70% of the American public is fed up with all of this and just wants to have a job, raise their kids, and be able to retire.
All of the trouble is coming from the wingnuts on both sides.
2/Facts: 1. Only 50% of people vote in midterms. 2. Only 66% of people vote in presidential years. 2. >45% of voters identify as independent (and rising).
So with only about 58% of people voting, and about half of them being Independent, that's around 30% who identify as Democratic or Republican.
3/Of that 30% who are party-affiliated and who vote, we are roughly evenly divided (on average) — so around 15% per party. Not all of those are happy with their party.
So while it's popular to say that "one half the country hates the other half," the math simply doesn't hold up.
The reality is that 70% of the country is exhausted by the drama being caused by the other 30%.
These are the DSA geniuses that built Platner in a lab but failed to observe his Nazi tendencies and misogynistic worldview. Professional malpractice, and these two should not be allowed within a hundred mile radius of a Democratic race ever again.
At this point the most likely outcome is that Platner wins by a few points, then Dems have to carry him to term to November, where he will be pronounced dead; cause of death: Susan Collins and a modest ad budget. RIP. 🪦
Meanwhile they’re trying to take down Talarico and keep finding he’s had normal, respectful relationships with cute women. If you want to do him a solid, vote for Janet Mills and not Platner, because GOP snakes will try to smear Talarico with Platner’s sins.
1/Not sure who needs to hear it but the Oslo Freedom Forum and its parent org Human Rights Foundation is a hive of antidemocratic Libertarian ideologues and goldbug/crypto zealots laundering their extreme positions through human rights activists.
2/Founded with funding from Peter Thiel, the group’s chair Kasparov lets his name be used to legitimize the organization with mainstream liberals, with whom he has cultivated an audience. He has disowned Thiel since then, but his imprint remains.
3/Meet Justin Moon, who is “going to live like a redneck until the FED [sic] collapses,” referring to the longtime fetish of Ron Paul / Thomas Massie acolytes of “Ending the Fed.” And he’s using AI to 10x “activists” (i.e. crypto supporters.)