And that’s just the media. We also see this flaunting behavior exhibited in the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a propaganda operation geared at sabotaging foreign governments not aligned with the US, which, according to its own founding officials, was set up to do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly.
The late author and commentator WILLIAM BLUM makes this clear: “n 1983, the National Endowment for Democracy was set up to ‘support democratic institutions throughout the world through private, nongovernmental efforts’. Notice the ‘nongovernmental’ – part of the image, part of the myth. In actuality, virtually every penny of its funding comes from the federal government, as is clearly indicated in the financial statement in each issue of its annual report. NED likes to refer to itself as an NGO (non-governmental organization) because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official US government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a GO.
“‘We should not have to do this kind of work covertly,’ said Carl Gershman in 1986, while he was president of the Endowment. ‘It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the C.I.A. We saw that in the ‘60s, and that’s why it has been discontinued. We have not had the capability of doing this, and that’s why the endowment was created.’
“And Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, declared in 1991: ‘A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.’
“In effect, the CIA has been laundering money through NED.”
We see NED’s fingerprints all over pretty much any situation where the Western power alliance needs to manage public perception about a CIA-targeted government, from Russia to Hong Kong to Xinjiang to the imperial propaganda operation known as Bellingcat.
"The U.S. had financed some of the protester groups through the CIA aligned NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY and the OPEN TECHNOLOGY FUND. If the U.S. wants to continue instigating unrest in Hong Kong it must now move those programs to the CIA and distribute the money secretly."
To further #humanrights & human dignity for all people in China, the National Endowment for Democracy has funded Uyghur groups since 2004.
Hell, intelligence insiders are just openly running for office now. In an article titled ‘The CIA Democrats in the 2020 elections’, World Socialist Website documented the many veterans of the US intelligence cartel who ran in elections across America in 2018 and 2020: “In the course of the 2018 elections, a large group of former military-intelligence operatives entered capitalist politics as candidates seeking the Democratic Party nomination in 50 congressional seats—nearly half the seats where the Democrats were targeting Republican incumbents or open seats created by Republican retirements. Some 30 of these candidates won primary contests and became the Democratic candidates in the November 2018 election, and 11 of them won the general election, more than one quarter of the 40 previously Republican-held seats captured by the Democrats as they took control of the House of Representatives. In 2020, the intervention of the CIA Democrats continues on what is arguably an equally significant scale.”
So they’re just getting more and more brazen the more confident they feel about how propaganda-addled and submissive the population has become. They’re laying more and more of their cards on the table. Soon the CIA will just be openly selling narcotics door to door like Girl Scout cookies.
Or maybe not. I said my ex got more and more overt about his abuses in the later years of our relationship because those were the later years. I did eventually expand my own consciousness of my own inner workings enough to clear the fears and unexamined beliefs I had that he was using as hooks to manipulate me. Maybe, as humanity’s consciousness continues to expand, the same will happen for the people and their abusive relationship with the CIA.
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The late author and commentator WILLIAM BLUM makes this clear: “n 1983, the National Endowment for Democracy was set up to ‘support democratic institutions throughout the world through private, nongovernmental efforts’. Notice the ‘nongovernmental’ – part of the image, part of the myth. In actuality, virtually every penny of its funding comes from the federal government, as is clearly indicated in the financial statement in each issue of its annual report. NED likes to refer to itself as an NGO (non-governmental organization) because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official US government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a GO.
“‘We should not have to do this kind of work covertly,’ said Carl Gershman in 1986, while he was president of the Endowment. ‘It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the C.I.A. We saw that in the ‘60s, and that’s why it has been discontinued. We have not had the capability of doing this, and that’s why the endowment was created.’
“And Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, declared in 1991: ‘A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.’
“In effect, the CIA has been laundering money through NED.”
We see NED’s fingerprints all over pretty much any situation where the Western power alliance needs to manage public perception about a CIA-targeted government, from Russia to Hong Kong to Xinjiang to the imperial propaganda operation known as Bellingcat.
"The U.S. had financed some of the protester groups through the CIA aligned NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY and the OPEN TECHNOLOGY FUND. If the U.S. wants to continue instigating unrest in Hong Kong it must now move those programs to the CIA and distribute the money secretly."
To further #humanrights & human dignity for all people in China, the National Endowment for Democracy has funded Uyghur groups since 2004.
Hell, intelligence insiders are just openly running for office now. In an article titled ‘The CIA Democrats in the 2020 elections’, World Socialist Website documented the many veterans of the US intelligence cartel who ran in elections across America in 2018 and 2020: “In the course of the 2018 elections, a large group of former military-intelligence operatives entered capitalist politics as candidates seeking the Democratic Party nomination in 50 congressional seats—nearly half the seats where the Democrats were targeting Republican incumbents or open seats created by Republican retirements. Some 30 of these candidates won primary contests and became the Democratic candidates in the November 2018 election, and 11 of them won the general election, more than one quarter of the 40 previously Republican-held seats captured by the Democrats as they took control of the House of Representatives. In 2020, the intervention of the CIA Democrats continues on what is arguably an equally significant scale.”
So they’re just getting more and more brazen the more confident they feel about how propaganda-addled and submissive the population has become. They’re laying more and more of their cards on the table. Soon the CIA will just be openly selling narcotics door to door like Girl Scout cookies.
Or maybe not. I said my ex got more and more overt about his abuses in the later years of our relationship because those were the later years. I did eventually expand my own consciousness of my own inner workings enough to clear the fears and unexamined beliefs I had that he was using as hooks to manipulate me. Maybe, as humanity’s consciousness continues to expand, the same will happen for the people and their abusive relationship with the CIA.
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