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6 February 2013; The following information was provided to me by my DHS contact on two different occasions. Information from my first contact was previously published in two parts (here and here). I was asked to withhold the final portion of the information that was provided to me at that time until after the inauguration. The following resumes where part II left off. At the request of this source and for the sake of continuity, the following combines the information withheld and the information from our most recent contact on 4 February 2013.
RB: First of all, two days after the inauguration, at exactly 7:00 a.m. on January 23, something called “the Cyber-Warriors for Obama Project” was activated. I heard about this the week after the election, but only saw a hardcopy draft in late December. From what I was told, I believe this is a project that is being paid for through funds from Obama’s political corporation, the 501(c)4 Organizing for Obama, I believe it’s called. I can’t be sure, but that’s what I was told.
At that time, I was shown a white, three-ring binder with Obama’s circular campaign logo imprinted on the outside of the binder with the name “Cyber-Warriors for Obama” printed in blue across the top. Inside were the names and e-mail addresses of 3,575 “cyber assets,” or “warriors,” listed in alphabetical order under about a dozen or so “team leaders.” From a separate sheet I was shown, most of these “assets” are being paid just over minimum wage, but as I understand it, they work from home and have no overhead. I believe there are about two dozen supervisors who make substantially more.
Now I only had the binder for a minute, and could not take it from the room I was in, so this is strictly from memory.
It was tabbed, and one section with the word “targets” had a list of religious web sites, web sites I recognized as Christian. Another section was a listing of conservative Internet sites. There was another tab with the label “problem sites” that seemed quite extensive. I looked at that section, and it was broken down further into “birther” sites, “pro-gun” sites, “anti-abortion” sites, just to name a few.
There was also a section of the usual news sites, like CNN, ABC, you know. Numerous e-mail addresses were conspicuous under each news organization, which also included Fox… [unintelligible]. I figured you were going to ask.
The first page of the binder had bullet points labeled “objectives” and instructions for the cyber-assets. There was also a very detailed non-disclosure agreement with the word “DRAFT” typed in big, light grey letters across the body of the two-page agreement. The agreement and the instructions were typed on white paper with a warning, printed in red on each page, that the document was not to be copied or disseminated.
RB: Well, this is perhaps the most important issue people need to understand. There will be, and was, talk of a recovery and a stronger economy, but it’s all propaganda. As you heard me say in the recording you just played, the complete inaugural address will be a “Baghdad Bob” moment, and it was. Many economists will use false figures and statistics to deceive the American people. People must not downplay the importance of the economic aspect of this address. The sudden collapse of the U.S. dollar (however it actually plays out) and everything that goes with it (such as social chaos and riots) will be one part of a plan that was set in motion a long time ago.
Originally posted by Destinyone
reply to post by jude11
I remember him Jude. I got into it with him on several threads. He came back under a new name later, but was outed again soon after. Some people even thought he had a sock puppet account to play off of.
Yep...said pretty much the same thing as this post. He also, had posted his *message* in a lot of forums. Google found them easily.
He had a thread in the Survival Forum...I'll see if I can find it here, if it's still here.
Des
Originally posted by Speckle
And maybe something a bit less convoluted, is a sock puppet the new term for troll?
Originally posted by Mr Tranny
Originally posted by Speckle
And maybe something a bit less convoluted, is a sock puppet the new term for troll?
The two terms are not interchangeable.
A troll is someone that post on the internet to stir up the people there. The troll is the actual person doing the trolling. If he creates one account and that account reflects his real self, then it is not a sock puppet in any way shape or form.
A sock puppet is an account with an identity that is created by a person's sheer imagination that does not reflect his real life in any way shape or form.
A troll can create sock puppets, but a sock puppet isn’t always used for trolling.
A sock puppet is a fake identity that someone creates so they can use it to argue with their main identity on the forum, or argue with others in place of themselves, or use it to push their agenda the forum, only to be thrown away when he gets tired of it. A person can only have one main identity at a time, all the others he creates on the same forum are “sock puppets” The main identity is referred to as “the troll” the alternate identifies are referred to as “his sock puppets” A person may just create sock puppets on a forum, and never create a main identity that he will stick with over the years.
It comes from the thing children will do when they put a sock on their hand and pretend to talk to it as a second person. Or use the sock puppet to talk in the place of themselves.
They can use several sock puppets in one discussion to try to give the people they are interacting with on the forum the idea that they are the majority opinion, and the person they are interacting with is the minority. They use it to leverage for force of “popular opinion” on a person they disagree with.
They also use puppets to allow them to argue both sides of an opinion, so they can get people pulled into an ongoing discussion, even though there is only one person that is truly in the discussion at that point. The main identity, and a couple of his sock puppets.
That is why I use the term “sock puppet” when a large group has people, or computers to create fake identities across the net and use those identities to push a subject. No one identity actually reflects a real person. The identity is just something dreamed up to fill a place holder on that forum, along with several other sock puppets that person maintains on that same forum to allow them to leverage popular opinion.
They do it to give the “appearance” of a general underlying popular opinion on the internet. Someone that hasn’t made up his mind will look across several websites and see the same general opinion across all of them, so he thinks that that opinion is probably the most reasonable and will adjust his opinion to match. Even though all the people across all those sites that he looked at are just sock puppets for the same person that is pushing a specified agenda.
They don’t come out and say “We are a representative of X organization” They say “I am just a normal joe and I agree with what X organization is doing”
If people see that X organization has an account on every website pushing their agenda, then they will just tune it out. But if they see what they think is countless independent people all across the net saying they agree with X organization, then they pay more attention. It influences their opinion a lot more because they want to fit in with “the majority”
One person can control hundreds of identities.
A few weeks back, I thought about posting a post talking about the chronic problem with sock puppets across the net that I have been seeing, but I decided not to.edit on 23-2-2013 by Mr Tranny because: (no reason given)
I have run into a couple of these people myself.
Originally posted by Lil Drummerboy
every time someone has claimed to be an insider,. it has come to pass as hearsay.
another radio host Mr moore Whom im sure is solely looking for ratings,. has had guests on his
bla bla program,. stated his insider was ligit. also turned out to be nonsense.
I dont trust Olama.. but i also dont trust many "Insiders" eiher