The core theme is a critical analysis of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its perceived role as a CIA cutout, arguing that it serves to advance the economic interests of American corporations and the "blob" (establishment political and intelligence apparatus) rather than genuine democracy, and highlighting a recent congressional vote that failed to defund it.
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>> All right, welcome everyone. Thanks for
joining me tonight.
This is going to be
me just kind of venting and explaining
explaining
what happened today.
And you may see my face plastered with a scowl,
scowl, but
but
you might be surprised to know that I'm
actually heartened by what happened
today. in a certain way. And maybe I
should start with that for getting down
to brass tax. something
something
not unprecedented
but unprecedented
for the past 30 years.
which was that today
2/3 of the Republican party voted to
there's an obvious sadness because this
this
in some respects has been my white whale.
If there is a
if if I've 10 years ago
set off on a voyage to
as a mad Captain Ahab
and the little Moby Dick saga of this
whole thing
I would describe if I had to personify
a whale
I would call it a mixture of
the National Down for Democracy and the
Atlantic Council
and the chief censorship operative of
the Atlanta Council is now the president
CEO of the National Down for Democracy. So
the uh the two mutant
strains the mut strains of the white
whale have uh fused together in this episode.
episode.
Now, for those who were in outer space
today and don't know what all happened,
uh last week,
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
I'm sorry, the Senate Appropriations
Committee chaired by Susan Collins,
uh a never Trump Republican who is the
most important person in Congress on the budget.
budget.
We're going to go through tonight how
many layers the system is stacked
against us on this, but maybe that's as
good a place as any to start. Senate
there was a female face of the
Republican side of the blob.
This is it if any. I believe she even
voted to impeach Trump.
Collins vote to impeach Trump 2019.
I'm just going to grab a diet coke while
I do that as an homage to Senator Mike
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All right. So to Susan Collins's credit,
Senator Collins uh least during Chat GPT
did not vote to impeach Trump in 2019.
So maybe I'm confusing her with Marowski.
Marowski.
I don't know. But um
big-time Russia gator
intellig she's on the intelligence
committee and but she's the head of the
appropriations committee. A clause was
inserted into the emergency funding bill
that instated
full funding
at the 2024
Biden level for the national down for democracy.
democracy.
The worst NGO in the world. The laugh in
your face intelligence agency cut out. I
mean, cutout is is too gracious. It just
is the CIA. That's I I don't even I
mean, who who calls how can you call
I I mean I I just posted this earlier
today as one of I don't know 10 trillion
gazillion receipts. Take this alone. Okay.
Okay.
The House voted to defund Ned in 1984
by a large 50 vote margin.
Then Republican CIA director Bill Casey
made a back channel deal with Democrat
Senator Bill Proxmire to insert a
toothless non-binding agreement with
Senate oversight.
And the bill the Senate rejected the
House's amendment
and kept full funding for NE. That was
But the CIA literally personally lobbyed
for the national down for democracy
and that was only the sec second year in existence.
Do you even call it a cutout at that point?
point?
You know, you know what they said? Let
me pull up something while I'm on it.
Yeah, this is the one.
Here you go.
Do you even call this a CIA cutout? This
is CIA director Bill Casey writing to
attaches a packet on the national down
for democracy.
I'm persuaded that the attached proposal
significant merit
on creating an institute the council on
national endow or national endowment.
This is what they were initially calling
it when it was called project democracy
in 1982 before it was created in 1983.
Obviously we the CIA should not get out
in front of the development of such an organization
organization
nor do we wish to appear to be a sponsor
or advocate.
Nevertheless, the need appears real and
I believe our national fabric for
dealing with many issues and problems be
well served by the creation of NED.
So, the head of the CIA
writing that the that Ned should be
created and we're strongly telling you
on the inside to back the creation of
Ned, but publicly we can't appear
to be a sponsor or advocate or to be
even the everything about it, the CIA's
idea, then the CIA tries to hide its
advocacy for it. Meanwhile, and the head
of the organization
says we were created to do it would be
terrible for democratic groups around
the world to be seen as subsidized by
the CIA.
That was discontinued after the disaster
of the 60s. We've lost capacity and
that's why Ned was created
I don't mean to get stuck on this, you
know, cut out phenomena, but but if they
can get away with this,
It's so in your face. I'm trying to
think of what it is about because Ned,
if you if you think of it in terms of money,
money,
it's not as much money. For example,
like USA ID is 44 billion a year
and NE does get USID funding but less
than they get from state.
But the bang for the buck they get and
and the greater Ned family because Ned
is not just NED or its four cores or its
Ned is
it absorbs
the universities, it absorbs the unions,
it absorbs the business community,
it absorbs the politicians,
it absorbs the lawyers. It just it's
you're never more than a couple degrees
away from Ned. and
and
the fact that it's so in your face
and that you're forced to
call it an NGO.
I mean there are many other organizations
organizations
much uh
a much more concealed track record of
serving as CIA cutouts.
They're not usually so open about being,
being,
you know, the uh anal sphincter of an
intelligence agency just shooting out
But yet, here it is and it's in your
face. And today, the House of Representatives,
Representatives,
thanks to Representative Eli Crane,
who's phenomenal,
he proposed an amendment to the Senate
Appropriations Bill to zero out
And
you can see by the vote total,
every single Democrat
voted to give full funding to Ned.
Every single one, 210 to zero,
And 81 Republicans sided with the
Democrats. A full third of the
Republican party. Over a third of the
Republican party, let's just call it a third,
third,
voted with the Democrats
for an overwhelming majority to keep Ned
at full funding.
Now, if you add up the abstains,
cuz not only did 81 say no, 13 were too
cowardly to even cast a vote.
Didn't want to piss off the base by voting
voting
to defund it. Didn't want to piss off
the establishment. Sorry. Uh I'm sorry.
Didn't want to piss off the base by
voting to fund it. Didn't want to piss
off the establishment
by voting to defund it. But if you add
up the abstains with the nays, if
Republicans had voted in a block like
Democrats, they have the majority after
all, Republicans, Ned funding will be killed.
killed.
But instead, like I tweeted here, I
don't know how to say it better than this.
this.
100% Democrats and 38% Republicans voted
to fund NID. This is why winning a
simple a presidency and a simple
majority in Congress isn't enough. You
need America first super majority to
overcome what you saw today, which is
the exact shape and topography of the
uniarty blob. Now,
Now,
I never expected this to pass. And even
if it did pass, I did not expect it to
clear the Senate.
Twice the House of Representatives in US
history. Once in 1984 and once in 1993,
this the House passed an amendment just
like the one proposed here. And it did
pass unlike today where it didn't even pass.
pass.
But both times the Senate voted to
So even if we had cleared this hurdle,
it's very unlikely that the Senate,
which is even more blobbed up than the House,
House,
would have kept the amendment.
This was long shot doesn't even begin to
describe it. I thought it would lose by
somewhere between 20 and 100 votes. That
was that was what I thought in the back
of my head. Now, obviously, I don't want
to come out and say that prevote because
because
in to the extent that there's a chance,
you you got to
rally people and that's what I did my
best to do today. But
But
if there's one thing, we are now at 117
If there's one theme that I've impressed
more than any other across all of our
streams, I think it has been this.
But the blocker, as I've said so many
times, is not Democrats. If that's all
it was, all these things could be fixed.
It's the blob side of the GOP. Sorry,
it's a typo. I meant to say if that's
It's the fact that the blob side of the
GOP can team up with the Democrats to
create a congressional majority
which then has the check and balance
against the executive branch.
That's why we've spent so much time on
the history of the Bush dynasty. That's
why we spent so much time on Iran
Contra, which happened with a Republican
president, a Republican CIA director, a
Republican National Security Council.
That's why we've spent so much time on
the IRI,
the Republican wing of the National Down
for Democracy.
That's why we've spent so much time
talking about the Chamber of Commerce
and big oil.
and the military-industrial complex
which forms the major support system of
establishment GOP.
It's been because this is
Otherwise,
we could have fixed all this back in
It was the Republican FBI
who's who put the special prosecutor
on uh on Trump.
It was the Republican GOP,
GOP,
John McCain and David Kramer
who did the Christopher Steel dossier leaking.
I mean, I could go on and on forever on this.
to be achieved by Congress
anytime soon.
Uh
there are other ways to go about this
and those are the ones that I'd been
intending to pursue together with
before representative Eli Crane floated
this amendment and that will now proceed.
proceed.
But it was instructive to see, you know,
the list of who the 81 were. If you're interested,
it's
a lot of the usual suspects, but a lot
of people that you might be surprised by.
part of the issue
that we run into in trying to get rid of Ned
Ned
is that people don't when they see
everything awful that Ned has done.
Internet censorship,
Russia gate, lawfare, rigging elections,
rent riots, all manner of hell.
If if there is,
you know, uh a reversed last supper and
the devil is having his last meal and
he's surrounded by his
favorite demons,
some Ned family
group or project could take the face of
And for all of the
hellfire I have tried to raise about
Ned's dirty deeds,
the thing that
has frustrated me about folks on the
inside, inside our Congress, inside our
executive branch who are trying to take
on the problem of Ned's corruption,
is that
their starting point of strategy She
fails to appreciate,
I don't want to say the good things Ned
does, but the value Ned provides to
to
House and Senate Republicans and their donors.
donors.
You can't throw up your hands and say,
"H, okay,
darn it.
Do you want to try to solve this or not?"
not?"
Why does the blob side of the GOP
and
Victoria Nuland
Is it because they're secretly
I don't think Mitt Romney is a secret Democrat.
Democrat.
And that internationalism
requires blob craft to pry open markets,
stabilize them,
make them vassels
so that the resources can be exploited,
the supply and logistics change uh uh
chains can be established and the hedge
funds can bet on the on the proper
direction of the market.
to earn billions for their family and friends
NED doesn't just have the IR and the NDI
NED has
one of its core force the center for
international private enterprise
this is the chamber of commerce branch
Ned Bellerus
>> and we have four institutes and I think
um all of them are active in Belerus.
two of them I think you know well
because they work very very closely with
you and your team and
>> so this is Carl Gershman meeting with
who he thinks is the
opposition folks in Barus
but the lynch pin of it as we've talked
about we went over in the Venezuela
commerce in the United States business
in I know that they're working with you
and your team um very very closely
And we also have um a business institute
that's associated with our chamber of
commerce in the United States, the
center for international private
enterprise uh that we have funded to um
to work with the uh private sector uh in
Belarus to set a vision and a a
framework for a post Luca Shanka uh
private uh economic recovery.
how does big business
exploit a coup after it backs it?
We went over the Pepsi coup in Chile in
1973 and how the head of Pepsi, its
chairman and CEO, Donald Kendall, met
with the head of the CIA, Richard Helms,
as well as Henry Kissinger to plot the
overthrow of the Chilean government to
save Pepsi's
bottling operations there.
We went over the 2019 Venezuelan
uh attempt to cap to kidnap Maduro the
first time under Trump won.
And as we saw that was
back channelneled
Republican Trump. Did I spell science correctly?
correctly?
was the Nester coordinated democratic
program initiatives for Latin America at
the National Democratic Institute NDI.
He was he was at NDI,
the NE DNC CIA branch. Holy [ __ ] man.
But then he's helping the Trump
government overthrow the government of
Venezuela. This is what I mean.
Venezuela is so bipartisan. Is literally
the DNC branch of the CIA. The DNC
branch of Ned to being the Republican government's
government's
state the the Trump administration state
department. Trump administration CIA
Trump administration Pentagon. Well,
anyway, we we we went over here how
Nester Science was the guy who was used
to contract Jordan Gudro
to attempt to kidnap Maduro. Who was
Nester Science? Even though it was a
Republican president, Donald Trump, it
was Republican private mercenaries,
uh, Jordan Gudro, it was Republican
donors, the Tboon Pickins money, uh, bundler.
bundler.
The guy hering the cats, hurting the sheep,
sheep,
was a guy who spent
like 20 years of his career between the
State Department, NDI, the Democrat wing
to organize
to set up the business contracts to
pre-arrange them with Venezuelan
opposition leaders so that big business
in our chamber of Commerce would get the
rights to the hydrocarbons, the rights
to the metals and mines, the rights to
the port construction,
the reg the regulatory changes,
And this is
this is what Ned does for Republican businesses.
When when you see Carl Gershman meeting
with what he thinks are the heads of the
opposition in a coup Ned is technically
implementing on the ground
about how the post coup government will
have all these
laws selling off its assets and giving
fat contracts to these big businesses.
That is what we typically that is what
leftists typically consider capitalist plunder.
What you are looking at right here
Private markets. Private markets.
Private markets.
And look,
I used to love Milton Friedman. In my
heart of hearts, I I have a soft spot,
but I know the game too well at this
point. I know the tricks
the trick of dangling Milton Freriedman
to get Republican buy in and not just
Republican buyin, Republic bribes to the
Republican party to keep the system in
place because they're all getting rich
This is not a private market. This is
the other part. They don't tell you in
free to choose the 10-p part Milton
It pre it presupposes
that there's a free market here. Where's
the free market? This is a back channel
deal between the postc coup government
who are a part of Cipe, Ned's Chamber of
This is a club of chamber of commerce companies
companies
and you are in the club in which case
you you can participate in that market
or you are out of the club in which case
Colombia, Ecuador, Malawi,
Latin America.
I mean, didn't I I mean, I told you guys
Venezuela, Iran, these will make more
funding than ever for Ned and USAD.
they do is is they they work with
with
the CI the CIA assets cultivated by Ned
to rig the business and investment
client in a in a country to make George
Soros and Paul Singer
and the whole spillover hedge fund
network from New York to London rich and
and the people in the country will stay
poor and the American taxpayers get very
little trickle down from it.
They're going to argue free markets.
Ain't nothing free about that market.
It's free money to them. Maybe that's
Free money to their donors
and a career, a lucrative career when
you're done with Congress.
Damon Wilson, the head of NED, makes
makes
twice the salary of the Secretary of State,
State,
even though it's funded by the the State
Department. The State Department is who
funds Ned,
but the head of NED makes twice as much
as the head of the State Department.
Make that make [ __ ] sense.
Of course, you know the answer.
This is part of what keeps the State Department
Department
and Republicans in the State Department
doing favors for Ned is because when
they're done with the State Department,
they want to be able to afford private
school for the kids. They can go join
Ned because they were good to Ned while
they were at state. And they know people
on the inside at state who can keep
The president of the United States has a
400k a year salary.
which is funded
in majority
by the US government.
The president Ned has a higher salary
than the president of the United States.
Both are funded by our tax dollars. for
spending more tax dollars, paying the
salary of this
then we're paying the president of the
And by the way, there are no restrictions.
restrictions.
Unlike the president of the United
States, there's no you're not a
government employee, so there's no
ethics conflict. To be the president of
the United States, you need to liquidate
all your ongoing investments, hand over
all your businesses.
You can go out and have board seats. You
can go out and have a private consulting company.
company.
You can raise corporate money to give
private briefings as we saw with Ned's
only fans, the corporate donor section
where they give private briefings and
introduce uh
introduce corporate heads who pay them
enough money to heads of state and
foreign dignitaries and regulators and
give in incountry specific investment
briefings to help them navigate the
business climate. All that stuff helps
Exxon Mobile, who's one of the donors
when they contribute to Republicans. You
just saw it right here. Venezuela oil roundt.
roundt.
Remember this. The biggest, most
powerful companies in the world.
how we're going to get a hundred billion dollars
dollars
of investment into post coup Venezuela
soon as Ned gets in there and makes it investable.
Well,
just pull a random receipt that I
remember offh hand dead while friaking
Randy Weinearten
was on the board of it.
pay to get inside favors from the CIA?
Chevron
special advantage. Venezuela.
Why Chevron could reap the biggest
Well,
Chevron pays Ned, Ned's DNC branch, NDI,
in its platinum tier,
to have conference call briefings with
NDI's chairman. That's our taxpayer
money paying NDI chairman's time
and president
on pressing issues in in politics and
business. So Ned takes our money and
instead of serving the US national interest,
interest,
invitations to world affairs briefings
and targeted countryspecific
briefings at ND at NED NDI is the DNC
branch of NED's Washington office
invitations to briefings and small
events with visiting dignitaries and
ambassadors all you do is just pay the
and everything we give the CIA as a tool
the power of the embassies in the State
Department, the backing of USAD and its
and its family of thousands of NOS's,
private intelligence gathered by tens of
thousands of assets on the ground are
all now suddenly available
to the shareholders of Chevron
You want to you want to sell blood
diamonds in Sierra Leone?
Don't worry, Ned will clear market for
you. If you pay enough money,
we'll take money from the taxpayers to
insights from NDI specialists and
partners on how to navigate trends in in
political landscapes in countries around
the world.
So we give them $315 million so that
they can go out and make money for
Fizer, J&J, Eli Liy, Exxon Mobile, uh
Dameler, the Beers, Bill Gates and
Microsoft, uh the [ __ ] DNC law firm,
Perkins Koi. Oh, and not and and even
not American companies. Shell, formerly
Royal Dutch Shell, a foreign country,
a foreign country's national champion
can just bribe our CIA. So our CIA is
by the way,
is British. Shell, by the way, has uh
like I don't know for a hundred years
been completely intertangled with
mly crew ass looking
Dr. Strange Love Tabled
board of directors of British Petroleum
in 1960.
Shell and BP financed Britain's cold
war, bankrolling covert propaganda
operations to secure British access to
key oil supplies.
So this was the British information
research development cold war propaganda
arm where it's the equivalent of 1.2
to do propaganda to tilt different
countries markets and governments,
get secret oil subsidies.
The the British intelligence firms bent
over backwards to make sure that the oil
companies were getting money for the
value that they were donating into this
covert propaganda project for the
British state.
and now they're just paying our they're
a foreign I mean the incentive this
creates is the CIA protects and moves
through Ned Ned takes our money to pay
itself and to pay for all these
operations and then goes out and clears
markets and affects regime change to
With the assistance of the World Bank,
Revenue Watch and Shell, NDI produced a
One-on ones, private dinners,
But here's the thing, and this is where
the calculations get tough.
You can point at the corruption
all you like,
but the fact is money talks. When we get
back to the to this 81
81
these 81 people Republicans who voted
with with the Democrats who voted in
block to fund this,
And if it hits a certain pitch point,
things could change.
The rep the vote tally for Epstein was
426 to1 to pass the Epstein files
disclosure bill. 426 to1 because that
issue had become so toxified that nobody
could have a political career. They felt
if they stood on the other side of it.
That has not yet been done with Ned.
in a very real way
where I thought to myself,
you know, as I just found out about this
yesterday basically
and I scrambled to think, what can I
post in the next 3 hours here that will
And the story is so big and there's so
It's clear that much more storytelling
and much more intensive publishing on
Ned's inner workings is necessary before
this gets to the Epstein level of you
And I see that now reflected in these 81
votes. Again, we got two we got two/3s
of Republicans,
But one way is is through that. The
other is by recognizing
the things
that are seen as valuable to the donors
which is that Republicans
do not have. If you were to take away Ned
Ned
and you are a Republican funded by Exxon
how do you provide some offset in value
to that Republican donors
that is equal to, better than, or at
least a close substitute to the value
What would happen, for example, if you
kept Ned going,
I guess he's I don't see him in the
chat, but what would happen if Spiral
Bewilder, for example, was made the head
What would be h what would happen if
there was a regime change of debt itself?
itself?
Just like in a regime change, there's a
government that keeps going. There's
infrastructure that's still standing.
There's
there is no equivalent currently organization
organization
with the Rolodex,
Rolodex, the
the connections,
connections,
the special
intelligence, quasi intelligence ops
expert. ertise
to be able to run something at the scale
of Ned that achieves these results for
as Ned. And that is a political reality
that Republicans in Congress have to confront.
In my view, unless you can achieve an
Epstein level of disgrace,
it may be the case that what's settled
on I would be okay for example
if NED got half of its funding
and had a
If you could just finger all the
different initiatives, if you were to
condition the funding
on a on certain programs being cut and
certain personnel being forced to resign
because of their documented record of
This is like what happened with the US
Institute of Peace.
If you remember the US Institute of
Peace, which we did 15 hours worth of
streams on,
Now the board is Marco Rubio,
there's something happening here.
But what it is ain't [music] exactly clear.
clear.
There's a [singing] man with a gun over there.
there.
>> Notice it's bipartisan just like Ned,
>> I think it's time we stop. Children,
what's [music] that sound? Everybody
look what's going down. [music]
>> I've never seen a government building. [music]
>> No, wait, hold on a sec. I wanted to get
to the donor wall.
Uh, did I put it there? The donor wall
is like every military-industrial
complex. When you walk in, it's says,
you know, funded by uh, you know, with
with the the charity by the charity and
grace of the US Department of State,
Rathon, Loheed Martin, Boeing,
uh, Exxon Mobile, Chevron, Shell,
British Petroleum,
Fizer. It's like the exact same list
from the NDI only fans, you know, the
the corporate sponsors of the CIA. It's
the same thing.
The point is is
the economic utility of the blob
for American economic interests.
And I recognize the need
within limits of certain forms of covert action
action
to maintain or secure American global leadership.
leadership.
But it can't be that dirty. And if
you're caught being that dirty, you got
So the thing that has shaped me today
is not losing the vote over funding.
Like I said, I did not expect to win
this vote. I'm happy we got twothirds of
Republicans. That's huge. Remember, NE
was created by Republicans in 1983. Um,
Um,
what chafes me is that there were no
strings attached
No conditioning
Damon Wilson, you on the funding on a
change in leadership. No conditioning
the funding on a change in NE programming.
But this and like I said, even if we had
won this, we would have lost it in the
and not just in the air, but I'll say
that for another time. Um,
one thing that thought I'd point out
real quick. Here you go. Remember this?
I play this on Joe Rogan.
>> And this was a training session that
they did for journalists and fact
checkers in June 2019. You'll see this
session is called is an interactive
session. It's called I call [ __ ]
You know, actually let me let me get a
higher res version. It's this group the
the Atlantic Council which has uh which
gets annual funding over over a million
dollars a year from the Pentagon, over a
million dollars a year from the State
Department. It also gets annual funding
from the CIA cutout national down for
democracy. It gets annual funding from
US A. Basically, every web of US cloak
and dagger intelligence and and
diplomatic funding funds the Atlantic
Council every year. The Atlantic Council
has seven CIA directors on its on its
board of directors. A [snorts] lot of
people don't know seven former number
one heads of the CIA are still alive,
let alone all. Here they are for anyone
who wants to follow. Here are the seven
CIA directors on the board of the
CIA director
Mike Morurell, who organized the 51
spies who lie, CIA director David Petraeus,
Petraeus,
who uh basically destroyed us in Afghanistan,
Afghanistan,
CIA director William Webster, CIA
Director Robert Gates,
CI Director Leon Panetta,
Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Do we ever
interfere in other count's elections?
Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Only in the
Locally clustered on the exact
organization which is the premier
heavyweight in internet censorship
around the world together with the
Atlantic Council and they're one thing.
Ned funds the Atlantic Council now
together with with Ned. And in fact,
Ned has only had two presidents in its
entire term. Carl Gershman, who as we
saw earlier,
the guy on the Bellarus call
about how to uh divide the spoils of the
post government. And Carl Gershman is
told the Washington Post,
"It would be terrible for Democratic
groups around the world to be seen as
subsidized by the CIA. That's why the
Well, they've only had two presidents,
who personally transformed the Atlantic Council
Council
as its executive VP,
Damon Wilson. Damon Wilson went straight
from this Atlantic Council to running NE
just two years after this very conference.
conference.
And so the Atlantic Council and I can
show you some wild clips of that by the
way, including them training journalists
on what to censor. Uh No, I need to see that.
that.
>> Yeah. Okay. So, if you pull up um if you
can find this also if you look for on
Rumble, NATO training journalists.
>> All right. So, I'm going to pull this up
real quick.
Remember this? Like I my whole life has
been 24/7, morning, noon, night. 25
years of free speech. We'll show you this.
this.
>> Oh, if you I think
>> who works in this space will I think
acknowledge that in any information
operation let me let me just play the
>> And now for the most interestingly named
session of this entire event.
>> It wasn't lies it was just [ __ ]
>> So the event this session is called I
call [ __ ] This is the Atlantic
Council's annual censorship Super Bowl.
Ben NMO was a former NATO propaganda
officer, literally at the NATO press
office. Then he went on to the Atlantic
Council, then Graphica,
um at that perfect nexus between
military intelligence and
USAD development NOS's
uh doing dirty work for profiteers off
of war and regime change. This was
called I call [ __ ] And they held up
they had journalists hold up placards
that say [ __ ]
[ __ ]
to come up with with a reason to get a
tweet or narrative censored
as being one of the four Ds of disinformation.
Noticed none of these are dishonest.
If you dismiss a blob point,
This is this these are all malin things.
If you dismay, if you create dismay,
if you say the CO shots don't work, but
they don't work, well, it's still
disinformation because you're dismaying
the public about it,
creating a
get out of First Amendment free card
for blob operatives everywhere. And so
the Atlantic Council under Damon Wilson,
the current president and CEO
of Ned
is who organized this conference you're
about to see
while he was the head of the Atlantic
Council just two years earlier.
>> We see time and again, don't look on
another table and steal one that's not
being used. Uh because these are going
to help get our attention. We
We
>> that says [ __ ]
>> We are going to go through a set of
slides showing quotes from different
organizations and individuals who are
using certain rhetorical devices to make
their argument. And so
if you go through all of them, at least
one of these four will apply. Again, dismiss
dismiss
>> at least. So he's telling them this is
disinformation to be flagged. Come up
with one of four different reasons to
justify taking it down from Twitter.
>> Distort, distract, dismay. Everyone say
it with me. Dismiss,
>> distort, distract, dismay. Excellent.
>> You're welcome to scream. I call
[ __ ] too, if you're comfortable,
but it's not a requirement. So, with that,
that,
This is the very first exercise
Damon Wilson, the now head
had put up on the screen to train hundreds of journalists to justify
hundreds of journalists to justify censoring. Mind you, this is June 2020,
censoring. Mind you, this is June 2020, just one month before the Mueller report
just one month before the Mueller report would drop.
would drop. So they were trying to justify
So they were trying to justify pre-ensoring
pre-ensoring the sitting president's defense against
the sitting president's defense against the special prosecutor so that he'd be
the special prosecutor so that he'd be muzzled on social media when Mueller
muzzled on social media when Mueller indicted him. So he couldn't make his
indicted him. So he couldn't make his own defense because his own tweets would
own defense because his own tweets would be censored.
This is the guy who's the head of NED. You want to see it?
You want to see it? I watched this live in 2019 when this
I watched this live in 2019 when this all went down. Damon Wilson 2019
all went down. Damon Wilson 2019 Atlantic Council DFR Lab the exact same
Atlantic Council DFR Lab the exact same thing.
thing. >> The the 360OS
>> The the 360OS literally the exact same thing. Notice
literally the exact same thing. Notice the same hashtag. I just it's a 9-hour
the same hashtag. I just it's a 9-hour video. So just
video. So just >> going to the time stamp of it is uh
>> going to the time stamp of it is uh because this is a two-day concert. But
because this is a two-day concert. But we'll see it is
we'll see it is same event,
same event, but who introduces it? Who's MCing the
but who introduces it? Who's MCing the entire event? Why? It's the now
entire event? Why? It's the now president and CEO
president and CEO of the National Down for Democracy.
of the National Down for Democracy. >> Good morning everyone.
>> Good morning everyone. >> Damon Wilson.
This was how he was transforming the Atlantic Council before he became
Atlantic Council before he became president and CEO
president and CEO of Ned.
of Ned. So this uh this
So this uh this targeting targeting Trump tweets
targeting targeting Trump tweets find a find a way to justify that this
find a find a way to justify that this statement is disinformation because he
statement is disinformation because he called Russia a witch hunt. Well, here's
called Russia a witch hunt. Well, here's the MC of the event, the head of the
the MC of the event, the head of the National Down for Democracy, Damon
National Down for Democracy, Damon Wilson. I'm Damon Wilson. It is
Wilson. I'm Damon Wilson. It is fantastic to be here with you in London
fantastic to be here with you in London in the Roundhouse Theater. I want to
in the Roundhouse Theater. I want to thank you. I want to welcome all of you
thank you. I want to welcome all of you here, the both the current and the
here, the both the current and the soontobe digital Sherlocks. Um, this is
soontobe digital Sherlocks. Um, this is our largest edition. And let me just ask
our largest edition. And let me just ask how many of you are with us at the O
how many of you are with us at the O 360OS summit for the first time. Raise
360OS summit for the first time. Raise your hands if you're here for the first
your hands if you're here for the first time.
time. So he's the MC and organizer of this
So he's the MC and organizer of this event
event and today you
and today you Republican voter
Republican voter who had to get censored because Ned is
who had to get censored because Ned is training journalists
training journalists to call you a Russian disinformation bot
to call you a Russian disinformation bot and to prop up the special prosecutor's
and to prop up the special prosecutor's [ __ ]
[ __ ] roll up of Trump world
roll up of Trump world by the FBI during Term one, you are now
by the FBI during Term one, you are now paying this fat cat's
$469,000 salary.
salary. You are paying
You are paying this [ __ ]
this [ __ ] who organized these [ __ ]
who organized these [ __ ] more than you are paying this president.
We see profound doubts about the future of democracy and open markets and this
of democracy and open markets and this strange sense of confidence among the
strange sense of confidence among the authoritarians.
authoritarians. We feel around us the breakdown of this
We feel around us the breakdown of this rules-based liberal international order
rules-based liberal international order that our founders literally helped
that our founders literally helped create.
create. And we look, we sit in Washington and we
And we look, we sit in Washington and we look around and we see an incredible
look around and we see an incredible debate about America's role in the
debate about America's role in the world. For the first time since World
world. For the first time since World War II, the relationship of the United
War II, the relationship of the United States to the rest of the world is in
States to the rest of the world is in play. It's a jump ball. A way that our
play. It's a jump ball. A way that our longest serving board member, Henry
longest serving board member, Henry Kissinger, has framed that challenge.
Kissinger, has framed that challenge. And then you overlay that with your
And then you overlay that with your world, a pace of change, a pace of
world, a pace of change, a pace of technological change that has been quite
technological change that has been quite disruptive to our societies, that's
disruptive to our societies, that's enabled disinformation to divide our own
enabled disinformation to divide our own societies.
disinformation tactics. Who does he introduce next? Well, one of
Who does he introduce next? Well, one of the architects of the EU censorship law.
the architects of the EU censorship law. A perfect introduction and segue for me
A perfect introduction and segue for me to introduce to you a remarkable person,
to introduce to you a remarkable person, Sir Julian King, the European
Sir Julian King, the European Commissioner for the Security Union.
Commissioner for the Security Union. This man has forged a new path within
This man has forged a new path within the European Union. He's helped be the
the European Union. He's helped be the architect of how the European Union
architect of how the European Union deals and combats disinformation.
deals and combats disinformation. This is the head of the National
This is the head of the National Endowment for Democracy today who we
Endowment for Democracy today who we just gave a no strings attached $315
just gave a no strings attached $315 million war chest to
promoting the architect of the EU censorship law that just put
of the EU censorship law that just put $140 million fine on X for not censoring
It's incredible, right? And mapped out a way ahead on
And mapped out a way ahead on disinformation for all the EU member
disinformation for all the EU member states.
states. And not only that, so he's bringing this
And not only that, so he's bringing this first person at this conference which
first person at this conference which explicitly targets Donald Trump and
explicitly targets Donald Trump and Donald Trump's tweets
Donald Trump's tweets is the guy who created the EU code of
is the guy who created the EU code of practice on disinformation,
practice on disinformation, which is what they just find Elon Musk
which is what they just find Elon Musk and X for violating per the EU code of
and X for violating per the EU code of practice on disinformation.
practice on disinformation. the architect.
the architect. >> He's helped be the architect of how the
>> He's helped be the architect of how the European Union deals and combats
European Union deals and combats disinformation
disinformation and has mapped out a way ahead for our
and has mapped out a way ahead for our member states, for the societies.
member states, for the societies. Sir Julian is a remarkable leader,
Sir Julian is a remarkable leader, someone who's brought a sense of clarity
someone who's brought a sense of clarity to the mission, but a capability to
to the mission, but a capability to execute in a very complicated
execute in a very complicated bureaucratic and political environment.
bureaucratic and political environment. I think he's brought courage and
I think he's brought courage and consistency to a pretty tough topic that
consistency to a pretty tough topic that some people didn't understand and some
some people didn't understand and some people didn't want to face. He's helped
people didn't want to face. He's helped establish a code of practice which we'll
establish a code of practice which we'll talk about. This is the EU code of
talk about. This is the EU code of practice on disinformation
practice on disinformation way before it became mandatory.
way before it became mandatory. This is the EU code of practice on
This is the EU code of practice on disinformation
3 years before it even became voted. This was when it was still in its
This was when it was still in its primordial soup. And it was Damon
primordial soup. And it was Damon Wilson,
Wilson, the the president and CEO currently of
the the president and CEO currently of NED who helped establish this ring
NED who helped establish this ring bringing together Sir Julian King from
bringing together Sir Julian King from the UK with all the different
the UK with all the different stakeholders through the Atlantic
stakeholders through the Atlantic Council and NATO.
every step of the way. Damon Wilson was shephering this
Damon Wilson was shephering this specifically to stop any sort of
specifically to stop any sort of information or narrative online which
information or narrative online which could help people like Donald Trump so
could help people like Donald Trump so that e- regulators could hold up a
that e- regulators could hold up a little placard
little placard that says [ __ ]
>> Keep keep them in the air if you think you know the answer.
you know the answer. >> You got to keep it in the air.
>> You got to keep it in the air. >> Keep it in the So we can
>> Keep it in the So we can >> Yes.
>> Yes. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. >> And stand up and speak loudly and or
>> And stand up and speak loudly and or actually even better wait for the mic to
actually even better wait for the mic to come.
come. >> Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Well, it's obviously it can be any
>> Well, it's obviously it can be any number of the D's. It can you can say
number of the D's. It can you can say it's distorting what they're saying or
it's distorting what they're saying or distracting them from whatever the issue
distracting them from whatever the issue is saying. The issue isn't real. They're
is saying. The issue isn't real. They're just after me because as they're witches
just after me because as they're witches and it's e evil. I'm the injured party
and it's e evil. I'm the injured party here. So it could be a whole lot of lot
here. So it could be a whole lot of lot of them. Trump's got a nice range for
of them. Trump's got a nice range for >> this is what the EU code of practice was
>> this is what the EU code of practice was designed to allow justify the censorship
designed to allow justify the censorship of both Trump in the US but then anyone
of both Trump in the US but then anyone in the EU or Europe who challenges the
in the EU or Europe who challenges the blob Nigel Farage Marine Le Pen Matteo
blob Nigel Farage Marine Le Pen Matteo Salvini
Salvini but this is this is part of why what I'm
but this is this is part of why what I'm saying here when I said anyone who votes
saying here when I said anyone who votes for this bill today is is voting with
for this bill today is is voting with the EU. A Republican who votes yes for
the EU. A Republican who votes yes for Ned funding today is a Republican siding
Ned funding today is a Republican siding with the EU to find Elon Musk's X40
with the EU to find Elon Musk's X40 million for not letting you the EU
million for not letting you the EU censoring you. And that's just for
censoring you. And that's just for starters. This is going to be billions
starters. This is going to be billions of dollars in the aggregate.
of dollars in the aggregate. They're going to try to to bankrupt X
They're going to try to to bankrupt X over the next several years or steal all
over the next several years or steal all of Elon's wealth.
This whole Ned network works with Rebecca Trombllay, former head of toxic
Rebecca Trombllay, former head of toxic conversations at Twitter.
conversations at Twitter. >> If it weren't for Europe right now, I
>> If it weren't for Europe right now, I think that I would feel pretty defeated.
think that I would feel pretty defeated. And
And >> this this video that I've said is like
>> this this video that I've said is like was the most important video of the in
was the most important video of the in the world uh coming into, you know, this
the world uh coming into, you know, this year pretty much. And that the EU DSA
year pretty much. And that the EU DSA will lead to restaffing the fired trust
will lead to restaffing the fired trust and safety team.
Um, I do think that we still have some uh options for leverage to continue the
uh options for leverage to continue the work that we've been doing and hopefully
work that we've been doing and hopefully ultimately that leads to a sort of
ultimately that leads to a sort of restaffing of some of these positions,
restaffing of some of these positions, increased focus again um as the DSA
increased focus again um as the DSA begins to come into force and the
begins to come into force and the platforms feel the real pressure of
platforms feel the real pressure of actual enforcement action. And that is
actual enforcement action. And that is now the pressure X is facing under
now the pressure X is facing under hundreds of millions of dollars of
hundreds of millions of dollars of fines.
Ned explicitly promotes this group. These five people are part
this group. These five people are part of this CDT group, Center for Democracy
of this CDT group, Center for Democracy and Technology. NED specifically
and Technology. NED specifically promotes it. This is as a partnered
promotes it. This is as a partnered advocacy organization of NED.
She herself works directly with the EU. So when
works directly with the EU. So when she's saying, "I would feel depressed if
she's saying, "I would feel depressed if it weren't for the EU, but fortunately
it weren't for the EU, but fortunately EU censorship laws are going to force X
EU censorship laws are going to force X to censor American voices."
to censor American voices." Well, she would know because she's
Well, she would know because she's working directly with the EU digital
working directly with the EU digital commission
commission on getting censorship flagger data
on getting censorship flagger data access inside X. And of course, that's
access inside X. And of course, that's the very thing they find X for not
the very thing they find X for not providing.
And I know what I need to do on this on multiple fronts.
multiple fronts. Part of this is going to involve a lot
Part of this is going to involve a lot more world building. If you think I've
more world building. If you think I've talked, if I built out this cinematic
talked, if I built out this cinematic universe of uh Ned's CIA Wonderland,
universe of uh Ned's CIA Wonderland, you think I've built it out already,
you think I've built it out already, um,
um, strap in because we're going to be going
strap in because we're going to be going much, much deeper down the rabbit hole.
much, much deeper down the rabbit hole. Uh, I want to do some focus
Uh, I want to do some focus presentations on this. It's about 2:30
presentations on this. It's about 2:30 a.m. here. We've been going for an hour
a.m. here. We've been going for an hour and a half. I kind of want to keep it on
and a half. I kind of want to keep it on the shorter side tonight cuz I have an
the shorter side tonight cuz I have an early morning.
early morning. But those are my those are my initial
But those are my those are my initial thoughts and reaction to this
thoughts and reaction to this chin up.
chin up. This was the expected result
This was the expected result we got. Let me let me actually check
we got. Let me let me actually check something real quick. So both times
something real quick. So both times that Ned was defunded by the House
that Ned was defunded by the House before the Senate reversed it, there was
before the Senate reversed it, there was a Democrat majority both in 1984 and in
a Democrat majority both in 1984 and in 1993. This is the first time the
1993. This is the first time the Republican party which created Ned
voted as a majority to defund Ned.
to defund Ned. take some care in like take hold your
take some care in like take hold your head up about that.
There are things the the fact is is they have now allocated $315 million to the
have now allocated $315 million to the state department
state department to earmark for NED, but the State
to earmark for NED, but the State Department
Department still has oversight
still has oversight of what Ned does with the money.
of what Ned does with the money. This battle is far from over.
This battle is far from over. So while Damon Wilson and
So while Damon Wilson and his
his censorship industrial complex buddies
censorship industrial complex buddies both in the US, EU, Brazil, UK, Canada,
both in the US, EU, Brazil, UK, Canada, Australia,
Australia, they may be able to buy $469,000
they may be able to buy $469,000 worth of expensive champagne tonight.
We will have accountability for what happened.
It may take a long time because this is a tall task and you are
because this is a tall task and you are going up against the dead center of the
going up against the dead center of the blob.
But like a mountain is eroded by an ocean,
like a mountain is eroded by an ocean, so too is evil eroded
so too is evil eroded by just the drip drip drip of
by just the drip drip drip of incontrovertible evidence. So I am
incontrovertible evidence. So I am completely undeterred.
completely undeterred. Would have been nice to have had a home
Would have been nice to have had a home run swing out of nowhere, but even so
run swing out of nowhere, but even so that wouldn't have been the end of the
that wouldn't have been the end of the game. The Senate would have killed it.
game. The Senate would have killed it. So,
So, it's good that we got 81 people to come
it's good that we got 81 people to come out and formally put their name on it
out and formally put their name on it from the Republican party. It's
from the Republican party. It's instructive
instructive and helpful, frankly. If nothing else,
and helpful, frankly. If nothing else, it's a talking point that all that a
it's a talking point that all that a 100% of Democrats voted for it.
That it was a partisan Democrat issue. 100% not a single person broke.
100% not a single person broke. and 30 and a full third of Republicans
and 30 and a full third of Republicans if they want to try to beat the Rhino
if they want to try to beat the Rhino charge during the primary. I can't think
charge during the primary. I can't think of
of can't think of I can't think of anything
can't think of I can't think of anything off the top of my head. It's tough to
off the top of my head. It's tough to beat the charge of Rhino now when you're
beat the charge of Rhino now when you're doing something like this. But anyway,
doing something like this. But anyway, there are multiple lines of effort. I'm
there are multiple lines of effort. I'm completely undeterred.
completely undeterred. We escalate from here. This is not this
We escalate from here. This is not this is not uh not something to get down
is not uh not something to get down about. It is something to get mad about.
about. It is something to get mad about. but not something to get down about.
but not something to get down about. So, let me let me call it there and
So, let me let me call it there and let's just uh let's just outro on this.
Where are those happy [music and singing] days? They seem so
[music and singing] days? They seem so hard to find.
hard to find. I tried to [music and singing] reach for
I tried to [music and singing] reach for you, but you have closed your mind.
you, but you have closed your mind. Whatever [music and singing]
Whatever [music and singing] happened to our love?
happened to our love? I wish I understood. [music]
It just a face so nice. It just a face so good.
so good. >> [music]
>> So when you hear me [singing] darling, you hear me?
[music] You gave me nothing to say. [singing]
Though I try, how can I carry [music] on?
You seem so far [music and singing] away, though. You're standing near me.
away, though. You're standing near me. You make me feel [singing] alive, but
You make me feel [singing] alive, but something I feel.
something I feel. I really [music and singing] try to make
I really [music and singing] try to make it out.
it out. I wish I unerstood. [music]
What happened to our love? It used to be so good.
[music] >> So when you hear me darling,
>> thank you. I am Dane. >> Fun contribution towards NE regime
>> Fun contribution towards NE regime change efforts. America first common
change efforts. America first common constitutional. We are going to regime
constitutional. We are going to regime change Ned.
>> They will have >> by the end of my time here,
>> by the end of my time here, >> they will have smelt [music]
>> they will have smelt [music] what they have dealt.
>> Wow. 100 from Rodney Saba. Back to Rogan. Let's [ __ ] go. [music]
Rogan. Let's [ __ ] go. [music] >> Yes. Say you get
>> Yes. Say you get Stay tuned on that. Broadone.
Stay tuned on that. Broadone. [music]
[music] How can I [singing] carry on?
When you're gone, how can I [music]
how can I [music] even try to go on?
When [music] you're done, how can I carry on?
I look forward to seeing you in battle
in battle as these months move forward.
as these months move forward. There will be exciting things to come.
There will be exciting things to come. In the meantime, good night. Godspeed. I
In the meantime, good night. Godspeed. I will see you on the
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