Limited Hangout Week re Epstein “Disclosures”

If the phrase "limited hangout" is not yet part of your vocabulary, it's time to add it to your repertoire. Grok offers this definition:

A limited hangout is a strategy, often used in espionage, politics, or public relations, where a partial truth or selected information is disclosed to the public or investigators to prevent the discovery of more damaging or sensitive facts, effectively acting as a form of damage control when a full cover-up is no longer viable. The term originates from CIA jargon, as described by former official Victor Marchetti, who explained it as admitting "some of the truth when tight lips have slipped" but withholding the key details to mislead further inquiry.

Here is the only thing you can do to make sure you are not a victim of limited hangouts: Repeatedly ask: "What else have you not yet told me?" Ask this repeatedly, especially when dealing with people, government officials and corporate news outlets you have previously trusted. Consider these recent examples:

DOJ under Pam Bondi redacted a photo of Benjamin Netanyahu with Jeffrey Epstein from the files.

Redactions are admittedly an imperfect way of engaging in limited hangouts, but they work well enough often enough, given the limitations of human attention and memory.

DNC mega-donor Reid Hoffman was mentioned 2,600 times in the Epstein files. David Sachs: "The NYT story on Epstein & Silicon Valley has paragraphs on Elon, Peter Thiel … Reid Hoffman barely gets mentioned despite having the deepest Epstein relationship and having lied about it."

New York Times forgot to mention that one of its own reporters worked closely with Epstein well after Epstein was a known child sex trafficker. And see here.

The DOJ briefly uploaded — then removed — an 86-page document titled “Investigation into Potential Jeffrey Epstein Co-Conspirators.”

Amidst all the chaos, Rep Thomas Massie emerges: with some common sense:

Rep. Thomas Massie says he’s ready to use the nuclear option if the DOJ refuses to un-redact the names of Epstein’s clients. He warns he will simply start reading Epstein’s client names publicly if Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice does not release them. “If the victims want to give them to me, I’ve expressed that I’m willing to do that.” See also here.

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Iran NOT in the News . . .

This is a collection of some posts I made on X today:

I'll start with John Cleese:

It would be simple if US corporate media would simply tell us what's going on, but that's not what they consider their job to be. They have gone almost completely silent because they're trying to figure out how to spend this because the inconvenient to their ideology.

Tonight in Iran:

Elon Musk comes to the rescue with Starlink

How the Corporate media has covered past revolutions:

And all of a sudden this happens. The DNC must have sent out the memo that it's now a good thing for Democrats to criticize Hamas. Incredible lock-step obedience in one of the least organic 180s I've ever witnessed.

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The Underlying Cause of the Immigrant Crisis: Attempted Election Rigging

What are we to do with the many millions of people who poured over the border during the Biden Administration, while the Biden Administration denied that it was happening and then denied that it could do anything to stop the flow of unvetted people over American borders?

I know this is a complex issue at this point, but it has been more and more clear to me that this movement of migrants across our borders was orchestrated by the Biden Administration for the purpose of electing Democrats in swing states. What to do with millions of people who are illegally here now? Especially given the negative impact mass unvetted immigration has had on many parts of the US, including increased crime. It's a big mess, but it's important to understand what happened and why. Joe Rogan sums it up well when discussing the possibility that Kamala Harris might run for president in 2028:

I'll ask [Harris] controversial things, man. It's all I have to do is ask you, Why [was] the border open?" We can talk about that for three hours. Oh my gosh. What are you trying to do? Right? You could close that border. Trump closed that border in a day. Amazing. In a day. You could say I hate what's going on with ice, and I don't like it either. I don't like this thing of like taking people.

And here's the thing, well, they should have done it the right way. But if you're poor and you live in a third world country, that's not an available option. Okay? What is an available option is this one administration over four years was encouraging people to go through, not only encouraging you to go through. There's Red Cross stops along the way. They give you maps. They tell you how to do it. People are being, they're funding people getting in. They're paying for air flights. They're flying people in. They're moving people into swing states. They're getting them on Medicare. They're getting them on Social Security.

We talked about this one lady who did an interview. She was being told to try to get people on permanent disability. So she was told to ask them, "Do you have back problems?" They're like, yes, okay, great, personal disability. Now that she she said I was told to view them as a client now, And so you're trying, essentially to bribe people to Now, once you get them in to move to swing state. Then they count on the census. Once they count on the census, it adds congressional seats. So it's like you're rigging elections by bringing in immigrants, and then you're giving them money.

And all these people that live in these poor communities, they're like, "Hey, where was all this money for us? Where was all this money for the people in Chicago? In Chicago? Where was all this money the people in Baltimore?" No, no, they're doing it because they're trying to manipulate the election. It didn't work. You know, it didn't work. Like, I got into an argument someone about it. But, yeah, it didn't work, though. I go, Yeah, but they tried to do it. It didn't work.

But they did move people to swing states. They did leave the border open for four years. They did let in millions of people. They don't even know how many. They don't know how many people got through. That's crazy. Once they got them here, they did give them EBT cards. They did give them cell phones. They did. They moved them into the fucking hotel, that Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, this luxury hotel filled with migrants. They paid for their food. They did do this. They encouraged people. They did have sanctuary cities where they weren't going to arrest them. They let them come in.

Every bit of the above is easily substantiated by searching first hand accounts on X. Almost none of it can be found in corporate media outlets. Therefore, there's no way to discuss it civilly with people "across the aisle" since, factually speaking, we come from two almost non-overlapping informational ecosystems.

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Julian Assange Discusses Trump and Russia; Hillary Clinton and Russia

Julian Assange has proven himself highly principled and courageous. He has broken more meaningful stories in the past 20 years than all corporate media combined. in this video he discusses his findings regarding Donald Trump and Russia, as well as Hillary Clinton and Russia.

As summarized by RealRobert:

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton accepted a $3 million bribe from the Kremlin. Simultaneously, her top advisor and campaign chairman, Pizzaman John Podesta, received a $35 million bribe through Rusnano—a company widely known as “Putin’s Child.”

The price? Control over twenty percent of the United States’ uranium supply, surrendered to foreign interests.

Uranium—the critical element for nuclear weapons.

The cost? Treason at the highest level.

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The Gymnastics many “News” Providers Do with Verifiable Facts

Journalism is not merely about providing the facts. There are so many ways to manipulate, censor and palter even though one is using verifiable facts. This is an excellent post by Michael Nayna:

There are three information filters that allow journalists to bend reality using verifiable facts.

#1 – Story selection. Each day offers thousands of stories, and editors typically highlight those that align with an ideological perspective. Politically inconvenient events can be ignored or buried with minimal coverage.

#2 – Fact selection within stories. The amount of details within a particular event is massive, and a journalist needs to choose which ones are relevant. I once worked with a journalist who had been covering a series of attacks on Indian students on public transport. The outlet’s interest was in the racial angle, but an interviewee mentioned other victims. She asked about their nationality, then chose not to pursue those attacks in detail because the victims were Australian. A single vague line made the final cut, and the piece implied racial motive when it couldn’t have been.

#3 – Framing facts with emotive conjugation. For instance, if I’m covering someone I don’t like, he’s cheap; if I’m neutral, he’s frugal; if I like him, he’s thrifty. Someone can be passionate, emotional, or hysterical; careful, hesitant, or cowardly; they can glisten, perspire, or sweat. This is subtle, but once you notice it, you’ll find that even though there’s better and worse news, none of it is purely objective.

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