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My assumption is that this has been going on forever. The fact that it's revealed now doesn't mean that it started now. Part of me thinks this is how the worl

• nonrandomstring 3y ago
  With more public information about these things I think we're seeing the fault lines and friction between orgs that were previously less pronounced or hidden. Throughout Europe and the US we have rogue agencies, supreme courts telling governments to desist from actions and that they are illegal, governments ignoring those courts, unelected commissions drafting laws that go entirely against policies and other laws made by their parliaments, private surveillance firms being given a free hand to spy on governments, while the instigating governments officially sanction those actors.... John Le Carre would have considered it all too far fetched for his novels. Just one thought; this is exactly the sort of disharmony that I would be rubbing my hands in glee over if I were a "non-Western" superpower running psyops and disruption programmes.
  • nonrandomstring 3y ago
    One downvoter has yet to read Yuri Bezmenov's on "active measures", and never saw how in the 1960s Oxford University, MI5 and GHCQ became a giant KGB party.