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The Disinformation Fraud: How America's Most Powerful Institutions Joined Forces to Crush Speech & Silence Dissent, with Jacob Siegel

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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The Importance of Secrecy

I think millions of tens of millions of normal people did there are two answers one is that he seemed to play on these very these suppressed and and kind of deeply things that people were very uncomfortable with. He also sort of pointed the embarrassment back at those people by saying to them ah your niceties are foolish you're the fool so that was really difficult. The other part of it which became more significant over the years and really can't be discounted is that the secrecy regime that we're talking about has become a form of regulatory power as Daniel Patrick Moynihan pointed out many years ago.

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