Want an accidentally great documentary about the Houston energy mafia?
Watch “Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room” with an eye to the deep city politics of Houston, Ken Lay’s business w/ George W Bush & George H W Bush, & the energy industry intrigues
Thank you @EricRWeinstein for the shout-out! Below in this thread, I’ll post the USAID Blob Guide to censoring the Internet. Also, it’s this exact network everyone will learn a whoooole lot more about on Sunday-Monday when the thing I’ve been working on all month finally drops…
Below is USAID, which was set up to be a State Dept foreign policy funnel for overt US gov’t initiatives & CIA funding conduit to rush cash to US gov’t covert initiatives, proposing 31 times to financially bankrupt anyone who speaks or hosts online speech that challenges them
Here is USAID plotting to get the 1000s (yes, 1000s) of media organizations it works with to "Agree policies on strategic silence" to collectively censor media coverage of social media narratives.
I’m escaping to a small farm in the remote jungles of Costa Rica for the next few days while I plot next moves
Will continue to semi-inappropriately use 𝕏 as an Instagram / TikTok travelogue cannibalizer but hey when I see the world u come with me
Just adding here so I can keep my travelogue confined to this thread. Update / good news: after a 3-hour flight, a 4-hour taxi, & a 1.5-hour 4x4 ride, I have finally arrived in what appears to be inner-most armpit tuck of the Costa Rican jungle
Costa Rica deep politics history: John Hull’s Ranch, the CIA’s Costa Rica base of operations for the Iran-Contra affair, where the GOP CIA side of the Blob was running a drugs-for-cash-for-guns operation to overthrow the government of its northern neighbor. Must-watch vid below:
As the CDC now says Covid is just the flu, here is a social media censorship instructional video produced by DHS telling children to report their family members for disinformation if they posted “Covid is no more fatal than the flu.”
A lot of people are asking how to support my work. Honestly, the best way is just subscribe to me here on 𝕏. It's $5/month, & the value is I do a weekly research stream annotating my work live as I do it, plus a weekly 2-hour Q&A AMA.
Sunday Office Hours today are 3-5pm ET 🙏
The vibe is deliberately a lot of fun. A kind of private party for people interested in going deep. The cinematic universe of the censorship industry is a pretty dark place, so during subscriber streams I try to let my hair down (pretend w/ me 😂) & make everything relatable
So it's basically 4 hours of private time for $5/month, which I'm striving to make the best value to help me while not costing more than a coffee. Hopefully we just get a lot of people. Here's a 🧵of clips from past subscription streams so u see the vibe