Open Records Should be the Real Life Default. Time to Revamp FOIA

Elon Musk:

I think the strong bias with respect to government information should be to make it available to the public, like it should be, as transparent as possible. Fully transparent, unless it's a massive risk to the country, you know, we don't want to give, say, exact instructions on how to make a nuclear bomb or something like that. But unless there's a genuine risk to the country, all information in the government should be public.

Anyone who has dealt with FOIA knows how readily the U.S. government obstructs the production of government information. Therefore, I completely agree with Musk. All government information should be presumptively open and available online, with only necessary and compelling exceptions. This includes all government efforts to censor Americans, either directly or through U.S. security state cutouts. Government are our employees who work for us. We the People are their bosses.

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Why the U.S. Has Ukrainian Blood on its Hands: Jeffrey Sachs Offers this Primer

So many people I know proudly ignore the indisputable history of US meddling in Ukraine. Because they are ignorant, they deny that the US is responsible for the needless deaths of 600,000 Ukrainians and 70,000 Russians (and the squandering of the U.S. treasury). The Neocons in the Biden-Harris cabinet (including Biden and Harris) have blood on their hands, but you wouldn't know it because the corporate media has been covering it up and lying to you. The history of Ukraine did not begin in 2022. Please consider listening to Jeffrey Sachs for 10 minutes. These facts are not disputed by anyone who has been paying attention.

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The Color Revolution Playbook. What is the Blob’s Strategy During/After this Election

Start at Min 5 . . . then see below.

Excellent Summary of Mike Benz by Robert Randanon (@Randanon5):

Step 1: Delay, prevent certification, buy time to execute a color revolution regime change at the point of maximum vulnerability

Here's the formula to prevent Trump from taking office, per @MikeBenzCyber, keying off "Transitions from Postcommunism" by fmr Amb to Russia, CIA #colorrevoluion coordinator, Michael McFaul:

Following this, we'll talk a bit about the key Blob vulnerabilities and how to counter it.

The Playbook:

    1. De-legitimize the Trump win -- must happen quickly and delay any certification

    2. Prevent certification via chaos, threats to key congress people, immense media pressure, and massive public protests and street riots (rent-a-mobs + useful idiots), etc. (The mob is crucial. The mob muscle is the most important pressure mechanism.)

    3. Move the decision to SCOTUS, and pile on the pressure to void Trump's win.

    4. Media surround-sound lionizes the mob as freedom fighters, fighting for "democracy" and it's non-stop. The country is "on fire."

    5. The SCOTUS justices are intimidated, as they were in 2020... install Trump in office and "the whole country will burn down." Redo the election? Can't! The country will burn!

    6. SCOTUS acquiesces, to "save the country," and appoints Harris and the Blob maintains control via their color revolution. (Once they're in power, I would expect the political prisoner count to go through the roof.)

    7. Per Benz, the final "arrangement" is a compromise, a split between the guys with guns (often feds vs more local law enforcement). They stand down.

How Do you Stop a Color Revolution? What is the Achilles heel? Well, we have examples of it. Several of them in different areas of the world have in fact been intercepted and stopped, but it takes some strong action. There are three key vulnerabilities. They are:

      Media Control

      Rent-a-mob generation, and

      Corporate Extortion Funding

    1. Absolute control of the media -- The Blob has to control the narrative. They must portray the plight of "poor demonstrators" as highly moral, a fight for "freedom" against "tyranny." The rioters are saints, fighting against a clearly "stolen election." The rioters are the "saviors of democracy."
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Lifelong Democrat Jimmy Dore Discusses How the Democratic Party has Changed for the Worse

Excerpt:

Americans are the most propagandized people in the entire world, and they don't have any idea that they are. You know, at least people in China know they're being propaganda. The people in the old Soviet Union knew it was propaganda. People in America turn on Anderson Cooper, turn on Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, they think they're getting the truth. They really do. Don't you think it's a little weird when Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow are saying the exact same thing about Ukraine? Don't you think that's weird? ...

They don't fire you for lying about wars. They don't, they fire you for telling the truth about the wars. And that's just same reason why Julian Assan was in prison. He wasn't in prison because he lied about the war machine. He was in prison because he told the truth. And that's what people need to realize. When I have these conversations with my own liberal friends from Hollywood, the ones who still talk to me, and I'll say, is there anything you hear on cable news that you don't believe is there anything? And you know what? They never say anything back. They never say, Well, I don't believe that. They never say anything. They just change the subject or move on to something else.

You really think they're just accepting the whole sandwich, yes, just swallowing without chewing.

The beginning of the end for me, was when I wouldn't go along with Hillary Clinton because I've always been a liberal progressive and I supported Bernie Sanders. I thought we were really close to doing something at that convention in 2016 and Philadelphia. I was there, and you walked into the convention hall, and half the people in there wanted to overthrow the Democratic establishment. Half the people there wanted to get corporate money out of politics. And there was lots of friction. ...It really felt like we were about to do something right. And then I went to the last convention, just this year in Chicago, and it was like a Stepford's Wives convention. It was brainwashed, brain dead, go alongs. Nobody had a thought in their head. There's cheering on billionaires and cheering on the war machine. And it was gross. CIA director, billionaires on stage. You had, you know, Pritzker, come on stage. "I'm a real billionaire." And people are cheering. Is this the Democratic Party? The Democratic Party?

It, honestly, it depressed me to the point of almost tears. And I would go up to people, I would go up to delegates, and I would say, Does it bother you that the party who is putting democracy on the ballot threw out 14 million ballots and installed Kamala Harris? And to a person, they would all say, there was a process. She followed the process. They didn't care. Nobody cared. They didn't care that she didn't get a vote. They don't care that they threw out the guy who did get a vote. They didn't care that they were lied to about his mental, his dementia for years. ..

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