Twitter Files: The world's biggest spook playground—run by an insecure newbie?

41:00 Elusive Jack Dorsey’s mea culpa in light of his successor Elon Musk’s releases, the Twitter Files: admits that Twitter fails to meet his founding principles Patrick Henningsen analysis: Unwelcome to the US Government because its argument that Twitter is a private platform that can ban free speech no longer stacks up in light of these revelations as to what the Government has been coordinating with Twitter Patrick Henningsen commentary: A hollow mea culpa because Dorsey did nothing while at the helm to correct the course or rid Twitter of its staff's rife political activism—this is one of the most egregious censorship scandals in the history of the Internet and is being covered up by mainstream media, with a couple of conservative US exceptions

44:00 Real News Network: Twitter is hiring an alarming number of FBI agents Patrick Henningsen commentary: American and British spooks even become heads of department at Twitter The Post Millennial: Former Twitter employee details admins' extensive access to user data and personal messages Patrick Henningsen analysis: This data pool is rich in journalists communicating with sources, political campaign managers communicating with each other—and now it is confirmed that department heads had the ability to read DMs (private messages on Twitter) all the while—Twitter is an intelligence-gathering tool, and not just for the Five Eyes

46:51 Iran protests—Time: Twitter, the Medium of the Movement (2009) Patrick Henningsen commentary: There was much excitement in the run-up to the Arab Spring about the use of Twitter as a régime-change tool; no wonder the spooks loved it

47:44 CNBC: Former Twitter employee sentenced to more than three years in prison for spying for Saudi Arabia Patrick Henningsen analysis: The dissidents thus targeted will have met nasty ends

52:06 Wired: Twitter needs to start exposing the UK's murky online propaganda (2019)—when the phenomenon of the spook sock puppet was becoming more widely known Middle East Eye: Twitter executive for Middle East is British Army 'psyops' soldier (2019); the 77th Brigade uses social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook

AP News: Twitter users will no longer be able to link to certain rival social media websites Patrick Henningsen analysis: This shutdown of core functionality might be preparation to port Twitter users en masse to a new reservation; suggests insecurity on Elon Musk's part 53:16 Reuters: Twitter suspends several journalists, Musk cites 'doxxing' of his jet Patrick Henningsen analysis: Yet some of the big names banned for jeopardising the Musk family's safety were then let back on to Twitter 53:58 Elon Musk poll: Should I step down as head of Twitter?— 43% of 13.6 million poll respondents said no Patrick Henningsen commentary: Silicon Valley is abuzz with Musk's quest to replace himself with a new Twitter CEO, who might go in a different direction and rule with more of an iron fist

World finance: Silence is golden as nobody wants Uncle Sam's debt and the EU institutes carbon credits

56:53 St Louis Fed chart—Liabilities: Earnings Remittances Due to the U.S. Treasury (2010–present) David Scott analysis: $14.3 billion weekly hole; the Fed will create notes promising to fill this hole in later 59:32 Global Times (China): China and Japan again sell US debt; China's holdings hit 12-year low 1:00:08 iMedia: Japan sells U.S. Treasuries at record pace David Scott commentary: The value of US debt, and of the whole world bond market, is under threat—and the entire banking system is leveraged off the bond market

1:01:44 Middle East Eye—Egypt: Gold-buying mania as national currency loses value David Scott commentary: As often, the journalistic turns of phrase seek to dissuade plebs from buying gold 1:02:52 Reuters: Inflation and uncertainty fuel new gold rush at ancient Austrian Mint David Scott analysis: The runaway sales of bullion indicate that the price of gold is much too low and will soon spike

1:03:33 Prominent Dutch dissident Eva Vlaardingerbroek: The European Union just introduced the first step of a personal carbon credit system 1:04:25 EurActiv: EU agrees carbon market overhaul in bid to hit 2030 climate goal David Scott commentary: More pressure on desperate European industry

WEF cities: An obviously above-the-nation-state agenda to make cities grow together

1:06:45 Clip—WEF: We are entering the era of the megalopolis—one of which spans the coast of five West African countries and is forecast to become a half-a-billion conurbation Mark Anderson analysis: The WEF's West African case study exemplifies its disregard for national sovereignty; any apparent local government will be optical only, or "glocalism"

1:11:25 Chicago Council on Global Affairs (formerly Chicago CFR): Participatory Governance in Local Care Programs Mark Anderson analysis: Branding the global cities and making their participatory governance more central to politics by portraying urban dwellers as the downtrodden of the earth in Covid response

Although both cases [Bogotá and Chicago] are situated within the context of Covid–19, their policy implications and impact on the community extend beyond the pandeic

Participatory Governance in Local Care Programs (Chicago Council on Global Affairs) "Care blocks" (manzanas del cuidado) the latest Colombian wheeze to contain people within their assigned neighbourhood

1:16:33 Another Chicago Council on Global Affairs paper—Transatlantic Learning Exchange: Economic Renewal and Democracy Mark Anderson commentary: This project is sponsored by the European Commission and expressly aims to "blunt" wrongthink by "economic renewal in industrial heartland regions", bringing together transnationally the metro mayors beloved of the globalist apparatus

1:18:17 Global Affairs (Council on Foreign Relations' house journal)—Transforming Industrial Regions of North America and Europe: Opportunity and Imperative Mark Anderson commentary: A frank admission here that "we" are "very worried about politics" because of "anti-democratic" trends and "the [wrong] kinds of politicians and parties [being] voted for", with specific reference to national immigration policy

The CFR's bogeymen named in the above-linked article:

populist messages of nativism, nationalism, isolationism, and economic nostalgia

Mark Anderson analysis: All this is being written off as reactionary anger, as if populism were not a distinct, decades-old political philosophy with its own nuances regarding regulation and financial policy

1:23:45 EU Committee of the Regions: Industrial Transition and Democracy Mark Anderson commentary: Mayors, US congressmen and think tank wonks collaborate to bring about such policies in Europe

1:25:55 And Finally—Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's slogan: Equipping leaders and making change