Could widespread blackmail be keeping the media along with most of our politicians and other leaders in line?
I strongly suspect the government, or a faction within some government agency, has been engaging in large scale spying for decades. Courts ruled against them doing that kind of unconstitutional surveilling of the citizenry, but they had no way to make them stop, really. The FBI has been caught breaking warrantless wiretapping laws, for example. I see no reason to believe they meant it, really this time, when they promised to stop.
Digressing a little: J. Edgar Hoover was known to collect blackmail on those in power as well as celebrities. It's the reason he was able to stay in office until the day he died. They even passed a law to make an exception to the rule requiring retirement at a certain age. This wasn't because he was so widely loved and respected. LOL.
Imagine what an intelligence agency could manage to do in the blackmail collecting department in these times, with the technology available. An agency, or a faction inside the agency, could gain enormous influence that way.
I think it's also possible a big tech company, or a faction within, could accomplish something similar. Most people, including world leaders and celebrities, carry around a phone that's networked and equipped with microphone and camera.
Bringing this around to Israel, they have perhaps the best intelligence gathering apparatus in the world (despite their shocking failure to let Israel's leadership know about the October 2023 Hamas attack that started the current Israel-Palestine war). Many have speculated that Jeffery Epstein was an operative of Mossad who was compromising powerful men in the US. But he may have been the tip of the iceberg. If they managed to coopt people in one of those intelligence agencies, they'd have access to all everything...not just dirt on the leadership, but all of us ordinary citizens.
I've had experiences that made me wonder whether I'm being watched, for fuck's sake. Things popping up in Amazon or Facebook feeds that don't make much sense unless they were doing more than just watching my Facebook posts.
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