Posted on 10/20/2019 12:40:44 PM PDT by ransomnote
Shaken not Stirred:
White House kicks infosec team to curb in IT office shakeup
“It is my express opinion that the remaining incumbent OCISO staff is being systematically targeted for removal from the Office of Administration,” departing White House network defense branch chief Dimitrios Vastakis wrote in the memo. The security team had seen incentive pay revoked, scope of duties cut, and access to systems and facilities reduced, Vastakis noted. Staffers’ “positions with strategic and tactical decision making authorities” had also been revoked. “In addition, habitually being hostile to incumbent OCISO staff has become a staple tactic for the new leadership... it has forced the majority of [senior civil servant] OCSIO staff to resign.”
ROFL ;)
Why would schiff let a republican into his hearing? Has to be fake news.
Story of this site. I catch up everybody is gone. OK off to Twitter.
Loved this song when it was released. Still turn it up on the radio. Hadn’t thought of it in this context but it sure fits.
I thought this vid, 14 min, was incredible re: WB
Valenti is said to have told her mother, ‘It’s all a game, it’s a thought experiment: we’re in the Matrix
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after hanging around this place for 2 years, each of us could say that talking to anyone, lol...
The casket containing the room temperature remains of Elijah Cummings have just arrived on Capitol Hill.
Silly question, but have you tried Chrome or Firefox? You don’t have to use Edge..
The question is...will there be more envelopes handed out at this funeral.
Love this, thanks, brought a huge smile to my face!
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Shaken not Stirred:
White House kicks infosec team to curb in IT office shakeup
“It is my express opinion that the remaining incumbent OCISO staff is being systematically targeted for removal from the Office of Administration,” departing White House network defense branch chief Dimitrios Vastakis wrote in the memo. The security team had seen incentive pay revoked, scope of duties cut, and access to systems and facilities reduced, Vastakis noted. Staffers’ “positions with strategic and tactical decision making authorities” had also been revoked. “In addition, habitually being hostile to incumbent OCISO staff has become a staple tactic for the new leadership... it has forced the majority of [senior civil servant] OCSIO staff to resign.”
The Matrix (mostly a reponse to SW, pinging reed, because you replaed to SW too)
Are we living in the Matrix?
The first question - what is reality, that we are not living in it?
Is it perhaps best described in the Bible, or perhaps in Kiplings “Gods of the Copybook Headings”?
Or perhaps the Declaration of Independence?
Or maybe Thucydides?
Is the world a place where you can only really have what you can earn (and protect) or a place where you dream a dream and poof, live a life of comparative wealth and luxury without any visible means of support?
How many people, boomers, millennials, x-ers, live a comfy life without any real life skills?
How does this exist?
How many people’s view of reality comes directly from their TV set, or the internet?
Compare our lifestyles to other countries, especially in the third world, where suffering and starvation are common?
What do we do, day to day that makes us different and deserving of the luxury that we experience?
Are we living in a Matrix?
I think that we are, of sort, but not necessarily the kind that she thought we did.
I would point to four major things:
One, our lifestyle of comparative luxury is based on the backs of cheap Asian labor, allowing us to buy tremendous quantities of consumer “stuff” at such low prices that we are drowning in tech toys and distractions.
Two, thanks in large part to one, food is so cheap that even our poor people are fat. ‘nuff said.
Three, thanks to the modern welfare state, in “modern first-world countries”, the poor live like kings compared to even half a century ago. How many “poor” people have you seen with a big screen TV, fancy car and a cart, I mean scooter full of groceries?
And fourth, finally, thanks to our lovely edutainment industrial complex, our eyes, ears and minds are so filled with lovely distractions, they tell us how to live, how to think, what to buy, how to style our hair. Truly, we lack for nothing?
Or do we? Are our lives really, in the end, empty?
And just think, it’s all (in the end) made possible by fiat currency and deficit spending.
What happens when the bill comes due?
Are we living in the Matrix? Or are we living in “a matrix”.
I think it’s quite possible.
But if it’s not our machine overlords harvesting our life energy, what’s really going on?
What do you do to your farm animals as autumn & harvest time approaches?
You fatten them up for slaughter.
What do you do with a society that is so strong that you cannot take it down directly?
Perhaps you feed its gluttony to the point where it collapses under the weight of its own flesh.
All the while keeping it distracted with shinies so that it doesn’t realize what is happening to it.
Hmm.
Nah, that wouldn’t ever happen, now would it?
(see also congressional record of 1963 goals thingie)
Just a thought...
This came true
Trump conspirator will die.
will it sink in today?
Prophecy from 2018 about Elijah Cummings
Was that Elijah Cummings? Begin watching at the 9 minute mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKO5o_61OvU&feature=youtu.be&t=529
As seen on Twitter
DEMS ARE NOW USING A ROBOCALL SERVICE TO INUNDATE GOP REPS WITH 1000’s OF CALLS DAILY CALLING FOR @POTUS IMPEACHMENT
That’s over two hours & some of us lack the time now. What was fascinating to you, please?
I think it is deeper than this...
FB and social media has created narcissist (NPD...please search it) world of youngsters. Many articles have discussed the psych disorders arising out of heavy social media use. It is a dopamine addicting cycle, as is smoking, drugs, gambling, porn, gaming etc. It directly affects the brain function.
Heavy social media users are less likely to adapt to cognitive reasoning to new ideas. A new generation is getting brainwashed into a thought experiment. Couple this with these same tech companies steering and directing the narrative and mindless drones are created.
If you’ve ever tried to reason new thoughts with a social media freak, it’s like trying to teach a pig to sing- you just waste your time and frustrate the pig.
Social media is a thought control experiment. Recall, lifelog, a C_A DARPA project ended the exact day FB was created. FB is the DARPA project.
Erin’s last words are in the present tense “it IS all a game. It IS a thought experiment. We ARE in the matrix”
Coupling her comments with her husband’s work, with her connections, there seems to be the hint that it IS going on now. Not just fake news, but social media conditioning users to not think for themselves. Narcissits all lack one key feature...empathy/sympathy. This brain is unable to process thoughts outside of their own selfish desires. When the media they follow tells then “reality” it is to them real.
I think the matrix/thought experiment is social media altering reality. Combine the manipulation of Google and YouTube to filter what is seen and not seen, these people view the works through what they are told to believe, but it is all centred around serving their media created NPD.
A casual search of social media and dopamine addicting cycles reveals the level to which manipulating can occur.
No throw in Hollywood producing propaganda movies to reinforce the ideals that SM promotes and the stacking of mind control is strengthened.
I’ve found that the heavier one is into social media the less flexible the person is to red pill. They are asleep in The matrix.
...just my thoughts
How he came into his position. How he made the decision to do what he did. I think Russia is going to kick him out. He would come back to face a fair trial but has no confidence it will be fair based on the trials of other “whistle blowers”.
He has had no contact with the Trump admin and said the last time the Obama administration talked to him was in 2016.
#1301 Perhaps at their next job they will learn to keep their mouths shut!
Wiki says he is the VPs older bro.
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