god_from_celegans
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True his autobiography is likely lots of lies/spin. But it also sounds like a politician the CIA can hardly rein in, who is desperate for attention. Some of it is backed up by court documents, although this is spotty, and some of it second hand.
A side note, Pompeo is not the only politician who seems to be influenced by the CIA. Mike Johnson, The Speaker of the House went from one of the biggest opponent of the CIA one year ago to the [biggest proponent because "they took him to a room and showed him something"](source: https://rumble.com/v4siucc-system-update-263.html#)
What kind of world model fits all these facts? It seems like a barely incompetent CIA, is cheaply buying and influencing politicians on both sides, including the outsider candidate: Trump.
P.S. a previous popular Motte Thread What did you learn from leaked documents?
Does anyone have the whole story on Mike Pompeo? This is what I've gathered so far:
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He's threatening me. He's in my car. I'll never with my dog sitting next to him, I'll never forget this. And I said, are you really saying that to reveal that the US government had a role in the murder of a democratically elected president, to say that out loud, that's the crime? Mike Pompeo was plotting to murder Julian Assange, who's never even been charged with a crime in the United States as CIA director. That's illegal. You're not allowed. Federal employees are not allowed to just kill people they don't like. Okay.
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on the all in pod Trump heavily implies that Mike Pompeo told him not to fulfil his campaign promise of releasing the JFK files, because "we are not ready"
Chamath: I'm sorry I have to ask I have to ask one question sir, when you got elected in 20 in the 2016 election you said the first thing or one of the things you wanted to do was release the JFK file, and then you said later "I saw it and I just I wasn't really ready to do it" and then I saw a clip where you changed your mind and you said "I think we're ready to see this file" and I'm just curious what's in it
Trump: I actually did do it, uh, I released a lot, as you know, but when it came to the whole thing, I was hit by some people that worked for me, that are great people, that you would respect, and they asked me not to do it, and I'm saying "why, tell me why" and they said "sir I think it needs a little more time" and I released a lot but I said if they feel so strongly, I respect the people, and would would have done that again, but this time I'm just going to do it
Jason: RFK says the CIA killed his his um uncle do you believe that
Trump: well this wasn't CIA that asked me but I think CIA was probably behind it [editor: clarification, by "behind it" they mean the guy who told Trump "we are not ready" - probobly Pompeo , this is not Trump admitting the CIA killed JFK] but they didn't, they would have preferred that I not release the rest of it, so we we did give quite a bit, uh, it's going to be done early on a lot of people people want to see that and whatever it may say I won't say, I sort I have an idea, but uh whatever it is it'll be very interesting for people to see and we're going to have to learn from it
Jason: promise US you'll come back again Mr
Trump: you know there are other things we're going to release too, we're going to release
Jason: really like what what else do you got
Trump: we'll talk to you about it off camera [editor: it's a rolodex of dick picks of world leaders from epsteins island ]
Jason: aliens?
Trump: by the way I generally speaking, and there are reasons not to release certain things obviously, but I generly you know it's transparency and I think it's important that we release that, and there are other things too ,there are other things that you know about, but people more than anything else they want the JFK files we're going to release that immediately
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it is now a matter of public record that under pompeo's explicit Direction the CIA Drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and authorized going after my European colleagues subjecting us to theft hacking attacks and the planting of false information my wife and my infant son were also targeted a CIA asset was permanently assigned to track my wife and instructions were given to obtain DNA from my six month-old son's nappy
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Pompeo not shutting door on joining a second Trump administration
So what's up with this guy? Is there other facts I've missed. Is he just Trump's handler? Why is he spilling secrets in this autobiography?
god_from_celegans
6mo ago
Yeah it's obvious this is one of Trumps "red lines", and he struggles with the truth vs his boss
god_from_celegans
6mo ago
That seems like a silly thing to do. Politicians usually say what polls well, not what they will do.
god_from_celegans
6mo ago
Your logic is sound
Trump is obviously one of the greatest Americans to ever live.
Come on! He's clearly one of the greatest of the WORLD if not the greatest.
He casually reinvents the language every time he speaks.
Soon we will all be talking trumps english
god_from_celegans
6mo ago
True, I guess it shows the USA can still "just build" when it decides to.
god_from_celegans
6mo ago
I'm a physicist who's always loved it. I'm surprised. But I'll note that this is not an USA phenomenon. Worldwide attitudes have changed in multiple countries first, UWA is just jumping on the bandwagon.
Personally I think the impetus was Europe getting slapped in the face with the reality of energy shortages. The German Green disastrous shutdown of the German nuclear plant. Following by a European debate (https://www.ft.com/video/864a8145-0862-48a8-a7a9-d3e338d3177e) and an Australian debate (https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-power-in-australia).
god_from_celegans
6mo ago
Is it representative of the population? Possibly. Is it representative of their workforce? Possibly. It's hard to tell
god_from_celegans
6mo ago
It's interesting to see that Assange slams the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations for their appointment of CIA directors that repressed free speech. He has a lot to say about Trump
However, in February 2017, the landscape changed dramatically. President Trump had been elected, and he appointed two wolves in MAGA hats, Mike Pompeo, a Kansas congressman and former arms industry executive, as CIA director, and William Bar, a former CIA officer, as US Attorney General. By March 2017, WikiLeaks had exposed the CIA's infiltration of French political parties, spying on French and German leaders, spying on the European Central Bank, European economics Ministries, and its standing orders to spy on French industry as a whole. We also revealed the CIA's vast production of malware and viruses, its subversion of supply chains, its subversion of antivirus software, Cars, Smart TVs, and iPhones.
CIA Director Pompeo launched a campaign of retribution. It is now a matter of public record that, under Pompeo's explicit direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and authorized going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks, and the planning of false information. My wife and my infant son were also targeted. A CIA asset was permanently assigned to track my wife, and instructions were given to obtain DNA from a six-month-old son's nappy. This is the testimony of more than 30 current and former US intelligence officials speaking to the US press, which has been corroborated by records seized in a prosecution brought against some of the CIA agents involved. The CIA's targeting of myself, my family, and my associates through
And this is him limiting himself to only the public records: e.g court records and Pomeo's bragging in his book. You can only imagine what else is going on. We obviously can't trust any politician, but we can look at their past actions, and Trumps past actions are terrible. He doesn't even express any regrets for breaking campaign promises and siding with the CIA over the promised JFK files. He only says, "next time I will, you can be sure". Right....
Months after being freed from 14 years in confinement, Assange is back in the spotlight, criticising the government.
This man is simply irrepressible! I have high hopes that Australians will be able to vote him into Senate soon.
Here is his hour long address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE): https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mq85IZMeigc&t=2120s
Some juicy extracts from the transcript (I used ChatGPTBox to summarise but it was reluctant to talk about politics)
"I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration I pleaded guilty to journalism. I pleaded guilty to seeking information from a source, and I pleaded guilty to informing the public what that information was."
On CIA activities: "We exposed the CIA's infiltration of French political parties, the European Central Bank, European economics ministries, its production of malware and viruses, its hacking of iPhones."
Regarding alleged CIA plans against him: "CIA director Pompeo launched a secret war against WikiLeaks, including plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the United Kingdom."
On surveillance: "The CIA had agents permanently assigned to track my wife and newborn child."
About former CIA officer Joshua Schulte: "Former CIA officer Joshua Schulte was convicted for providing information to WikiLeaks and is now held in isolation. A radio and a white noise machine plays 24 hours a day to disorient him."
On potential CIA actions in Europe: "Europe is vulnerable to having its sovereignty violated by CIA operations on European soil, violating human rights and European law."
Regarding Michael Pompeo's memoirs: "Europe in Michael Pompeo's memoirs, which were published this year, brags about how the CIA reopened the investigation against me in Sweden."
On the broader implications of his case: "The criminalization of journalists in the United States for asking for, receiving, or publishing classified information prevents Russia or indeed any other state from doing the same thing."
"In 2017 the landscape changed dramatically. President Trump had been elected. He appointed two wolves in MAGA hats: Mike Pompeo, a Kansas congressman and former arms industry executive as CIA director, and William Barr, a former CIA officer as [Attorney General]."
god_from_celegans
6mo ago
Ya, I'm not disagreeing, just adding data to the discussion
god_from_celegans
6mo ago
god_from_celegans
6mo ago
I think the main problem actually is the government and advertisers enforces a certain level of censorship. Just look at the "shots fired" at the Telegram founder when he refued to play ball. So unless someone can answer how they will fund it, and how it will stay independent of government demand for "enough censorship"
god_from_celegans
6mo ago
what about a giant with a giant dick vs a human with a human dick, how does that change the calculus?
god_from_celegans
7mo ago
It depends on how technical you want lilianweng.github.io it is very technical lit reviews, a lot of the best stuff is in papers and research updates not blogs. And if you want an into, there are "transformer illustrated" type posts that are good at introductions.
god_from_celegans
7mo ago
EpochAI can see another 25x https://x.com/Simeon_Cps/status/1826134542857499005
god_from_celegans
7mo ago
- searching other lists of policy proposals, 2) searching for unique terms in the list like psudo-futarchy. I presume they are both by you under different accounts, and that's why you ask this. But don't worry both accounts are anon, and it's not like there's anything to be ashamed of, it's excellent thinking. imo someone should give you a few million to turn them into policy proposals
god_from_celegans
8mo ago
god_from_celegans
10mo ago
One thing I learnt is: no reads all these damn documents.
Which is why it will be interesting when someone gets an LLM to read through them for us. The CIA is building its own LLM to read the people's messages. It's only fitting that the people have an LLM to read the leaked documents and provide some transparency.
god_from_celegans
1yr ago
Interesting, that is different from what I was imagining. I didn't realise it was on CIA premises either.
god_from_celegans
1yr ago
Plus it filled in some of the details of "how" which was nice
Woah, I haven't stayed up to date with Ukraine, partly due to the high signal to noise ratio on most of the discourse. But this is great, it facts. It's especially fascinating that the Pentagon could do nothing about.
I think the reason the governments are scared of leaks is that it shows their incompetence and lack of control. That's a threat.
It's mostly raw YouTube machine generated unfortunately, with few edits, and a couple of jokes :p
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