Deepfake propaganda is not a real problem

We’ve spent the last year wringing our hands about a crisis that doesn’t exist

f you’ve been following tech news in the past year, you’ve probably heard about deepfakes, the widely available, machine-learning-powered system for swapping faces and doctoring videos. First reported by Motherboard at the end of 2017, the technology seemed like a scary omen after years of bewildering misinformation campaigns. Deepfake panic spread broader and broader in the months that followed, with alarm-raising articles from Buzzfeed (several times), The Washington Post (several times), and The New York Times (several more times). It’s not an exaggeration to say that many of journalism’s most prominent writers and publications spent 2018 telling us this technology was an imminent threat to public discourse, if not truth itself.

Most recently, that alarm has spread to Congress. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) is currently pushing a bill to outlaw use of the technology, describing it as “something that keeps the intelligence community up at night.” To hear Sasse tell it, this video-manipulation software is dangerous on a geopolitical scale, requiring swift and decisive action from Congress.

The predicted wave of political deepfakes hasn’t materialized

But more than a year after the first fakes started popping up on Reddit, that threat hasn’t materialized. We’ve seen lots of public demonstrations — most notably a Buzzfeed video in which Jordan Peele impersonated former President Obama — but journalists seem more adept with the technology than trolls. Twitter and Facebook have unmasked tens of thousands of fake accounts from troll campaigns, but so far, those fake accounts haven’t produced a single deepfake video. The closest we’ve seen is one short-lived anti-Trump video in Belgium, but it was more of a confusing political ad than a chaos campaign. (It was publicly sponsored by a known political group, for instance, and made using After Effects.) The predicted wave of political deepfakes hasn’t materialized, and increasingly, the panic around AI-assisted propaganda seems like a false alarm.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/5/18251736/deepfake-propaganda-misinformation-troll-video-hoax

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The silence is particularly damning because political trolls have never been more active. During the time deepfake tech has been available, misinformation campaigns have targeted the French elections, the Mueller investigation and, most recently, the Democratic primaries. Sectarian riots in Sri Lanka and Myanmar were fueled by fake stories and rumors, often deliberately fabricated to stoke hate against opposing groups. Troll campaigns from Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia have raged through Twitter, trying to silence opposition and confuse opponents.

In any of these cases, attackers had the motive and the resources to produce a deepfake video. The technology is cheap, easily available, and technically straightforward. But given the option of fabricating video evidence, each group seems to have decided it wasn’t worth the trouble. Instead we saw news articles made up from whole cloth, or videos edited to take on a sinister meaning.

It’s a good question why deepfakes haven’t taken off as a propaganda technique. Part of the issue is that they’re too easy to track. The existing deepfake architectures leave predictable artifacts on doctored video, which are easy for a machine learning algorithm to detect. Some detection algorithms are publicly available, and Facebook has been using its own proprietary system to filter for doctored video since September. Those systems aren’t perfect, and new filter-dodging architectures regularly pop up. (There’s also the serious policy problem of what to do when a video triggers the filter, since Facebook hasn’t been willing to impose a blanket ban.)

Deepfakes are being used for misogynist harassment, not geopolitical intrigue

But even with deepfake filters’ limitations, they could be enough to scare political trolls away from the tactic. Uploading an algorithmically doctored video is likely to attract attention from automated filters, while conventional film editing and obvious lies won’t. Why take the risk?

It’s also not clear how useful deepfakes are for this kind of troll campaign. Most operations we’ve seen so far have been more about muddying the water than producing convincing evidence for a claim. In 2016, one of the starkest examples of fake news was the Facebook-fueled report that Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump. It was widely shared and completely false, the perfect example of fake news run amok. But the fake story offered no real evidence for the claim, just a cursory article on an otherwise unknown website. It wasn’t damaging because it was convincing; people just wanted to believe it. If you already think that Donald Trump is leading America toward the path of Christ, it won’t take much to convince you that the Pope thinks so, too. If you’re skeptical, a doctored video of a papal address probably won’t change your mind.

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That reveals some uncomfortable truths about the media, and why the US was so susceptible to this kind of manipulation in the first place. We sometimes think of these troll campaigns as the informational equivalent of food poisoning: bad inputs into a credulous but basically rational system. But politics is more tribal than that, and news does much more than just convey information. Most troll campaigns focused on affiliations rather than information, driving audiences into ever more factional camps. Video doesn’t help with that; if anything, it hurts by grounding the conversation in disprovable facts.

There’s still real damage being done by deepfake techniques, but it’s happening in pornography, not politics. That’s where the technology started: Motherboard’s initial story on deepfakes was about a Reddit user pasting Gal Gadot’s face on a porn actress’s body. Ever since, the seedier corners of the web have continued inserting women into sex footage without consent. It’s an ugly, harmful thing, particularly for everyday women targeted by harassment campaigns. But most deepfake coverage has treated pornography as an embarrassing sideshow to protecting the political discourse. If the problem is non-consensual porn, then the solution is more focused on individual harassers and targets, rather than the blanket ban proposed by Sasse. It also suggests the deepfake story is about misogynist harassment rather than geopolitical intrigue, with less obvious implications for national politics.

Some might argue that the deepfake revolution just hasn’t happened yet. Like any tech, video doctoring programs get a little more sophisticated every year. The next version could always solve whatever problems are holding it back. As long as there are bad actors and available tools, advocates say, eventually the two will overlap. The underlying logic is so compelling; it’s only a matter of time before reality catches up.

They may be right. A new wave of political deepfakes could pop up tomorrow to prove me wrong — but I’m skeptical. We’ve had the tools to fabricate videos and photos for a long time. It’s even been used in political campaigns before, most notably in a forged John Kerry photo circulated during the 2004 campaign. AI tools can make that process easier and more accessible, but it’s easy and accessible already. As the countless demos showed, deepfakes are already in reach for anyone who wants to cause trouble on the internet. It’s not that the tech isn’t ready yet. It just isn’t useful.

The Verge is really going after "Conspiracy Theorists"

Conspiracy theories are dusted amid the violent videos, racist comments, and death threats that Facebook moderators face every day. That putrid flood of information can be traumatic, as The Verge’s Casey Newton found when he reported on the working conditions endured by moderators in Phoenix, Arizona. Some of the workers bombarded with conspiracy theories told Newton that they were starting to believe the ideas they were seeing.

What makes people start believing that the Earth is flat, or that 9/11 wasn’t a terrorist attack? And, in this case, did the stressful working conditions have anything to do with it? To answer some of those questions, we turned to Mike Wood. Wood, a psychologist at the University of Winchester, studies conspiracy theories, and how they spread from the fringes to the mainstream. The Verge spoke to Wood about the current research into conspiracy theories, and whether there’s anything people can do to make themselves less susceptible to them. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.

You’ve done quite a bit of research into conspiracy theories. Can we start with the basics? What exactly is a ‘conspiracy theory’?

I’m not going to look into whether it’s true or not that everybody in the government is a lizard person

We’re going to start off real complicated right off the bat — nobody can agree on this. If you ask different people in different academic fields, they’re going to give you different answers. As a psychologist, I’m not going to look into whether it’s true or not that everybody in the government is a lizard person, I’m just interested in why people would accept or reject that idea. So, for me, a conspiracy theory is a secret plot by powerful people or organizations working together to advance some kind of sinister goal through deception.

If you ask other people they’ll give you other definitions, like a philosopher would say that a conspiracy theory is any theory about a conspiracy. Which I think is probably too broad, and doesn’t fit how most people would use the term.

In The Verge’s recent article on Facebook moderators, the fact that these workers started believing in the conspiracy theory videos that they were being asked to moderate really stood out to readers. Is that propagation by exposure something that you’ve seen before in your conspiracy theory research? How do these things spread?

The exposure aspect is interesting in this case. We’ve got some data on this from 9/11 conspiracy theories showing that one of the big predictors of whether or not somebody will believe a particular conspiracy theory is how much they’ve been exposed to it.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/4/18250292/facebook-moderation-conspiracy-theory-mike-wood-psychology-interview

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The problem is that this is all cross-sectional data. We just have one point in time, and we know that the people who believe these theories have more exposure to them than the people that don’t. We don’t know if that’s because they believe them and then they seek them out because they want to know more, or if they saw this stuff and then that convinced them of it. It sounds like this might be a case where people were exposed to it for long periods of time and that actually induced them to believe in it. So there’s a causal aspect to this that we haven’t had in the research before.

But there are other studies where people do these experiments where you get people to read a conspiracy theory passage — a little passage about how Princess Diana was secretly killed by Queen Elizabeth — and you can see that that has some influence on people. It changes how they think about the issue. In the short term at least, we certainly see those effects but this is an interesting sort of long-term exposure effect that we saw in these moderators.

Other research has shown that being exposed to facts doesn’t seem to change people’s minds. Do we know why people being exposed to conspiracy theories in particular makes people believe them?

Exposing people to information is going to affect them in some way or another. We all like to think that we’re immune to this stuff, but it does have an effect. I don’t know that conspiracy theories have a uniquely powerful effect to them. Where conspiracy theories can seduce people is when you have a conspiracy theory that is very appealing to you on the basis of other things that you believe.

We all like to think that we’re immune to this stuff

Let’s say that you’re a huge supporter of Donald Trump, and you come across a conspiracy theory that says “all of the people who are his rivals — his political enemies, people that he doesn’t like — are all super evil and are working together to engage in Satanic child sacrifice.” This is something that perhaps would appeal to you because of the other things that you believe. It wouldn’t appeal to somebody who doesn’t like Donald Trump at all and is probably quite OK with his enemies just being normal people.

It has to be congruent to some extent with the other things you already believe. But conspiracy theories can be appealing to people for a lot of reasons. It could be because it makes sense of something that they had trouble to coming to grips with before. It could be a way of dealing with some type of uncertainty, feeling like they have lost control with what’s happening to them, or a rationalization of some failure they’ve had, or some defeat their side has suffered in an election.

The other aspect of this story was the mental health effects of watching horrific videos all the time. Would stress play a role in this kind of thing, if they’re being exposed to stressful videos and then have conspiracy videos thrown in?

Yeah, there is some work on this. Conspiracy theories do associate with stress. Basically, there’s been some research that’s showed that when people undergo a stressful life event — something like death of a family member, divorce, major disruption to their lives — conspiracy theories are more likely in that circumstance. So there is some indication that psychological stress can put people in this place where they’re looking around for new answers or they’re possibly trying to come to grips with the world in a new way.

We’ve got other research showing that when someone doesn’t feel in control of their life or in control of what’s happening to them, conspiracy theories seem more plausible, and that might have been what’s happening with these people. I’m not sure what their subjective psychological experience was at the time, but there is some data that suggests that can happen.

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Conspiracy theories have been around for a long time, but social media is a relatively new invention in the span of human history. How has it changed the way conspiracy theories spread?

It’s made them a lot more visible for sure. If you would read the local newspaper 30 years ago, you wouldn’t have the comment section at the bottom saying “this is all lies” and “that’s what they want you to think.” But if you read a lot of local news now, or you go to social media or your Twitter feed, you’ll see that. That’s a big change I think. The information doesn’t spread in such a top-down way as it did before. There’s always going to be a hierarchy of how information gets out there, but to an extent it’s more democratized now.

Given that we are online constantly, whether for jobs, or social life, is there any way to combat or insulate yourself from these kinds of misinformation or conspiracy theories? Or is it just part of the ecosystem now?

It’s hard to not come across it at all, I would say. There are steps that you can take to make sure that the information that you’re getting is as good as it can be. A lot of that is just finding reliable sources of information and making sure that you’re not classifying it as reliable just because it flatters what you already believe. Because, again, that’s where a lot of conspiracy theories come from. They play off preconceptions that people have and make them more vivid.

There are studies showing that if you get people to think carefully about things, and not just go with their gut, they’re going to be less convinced of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories tend to have a much easier time finding purchase in your mind if you have a very intuitive approach to something. If you just say “ah, that sounds right, that feels right to me,” that’s when conspiracy theories are going to be most convincing to you.

It’s really easy to believe crap because crap is appealing

People can go with their gut feeling because they are distracted or preoccupied or don’t have time to look into everything. Nobody has enough time to look into everything. You just have to find people who are good thinkers and figure stuff out, and try to do it yourself as much as you can and put in the effort.

How much effort does it take for our brains to push back on our gut?

It takes effort for sure. It’s really easy to believe crap because crap is appealing in a lot of ways. You can get into this default mode where you settle on your ideology or you settle on you beliefs and you don’t critically reflect on it. And that’s very easy to do. Fighting against that is difficult and it feels terrible sometimes, but it’s what you have to do in order to make sense of the world and make good decisions in terms of what’s true and what’s not.

Google employees aren’t convinced that Dragonfly is dead

Some Google employees believe they found evidence that Google’s plans to launch a censored search engine — codenamed “Dragonfly” — in China are still ongoing, according to a new report from The Intercept. Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai told US regulators last year that Google had “no plans” to launch the censored search engine “right now.” But some Google employees, unsatisfied and suspicious, have found internal evidence that suggests development has continued.

Employees spotted around 500 changes to Dragonfly-related code in December. Another 400 changes were made to the code in January, indicating to the employees that the project was still ongoing. They also investigated the company budgeting plans and saw that about 100 workers were still grouped under the budget associated with Project Dragonfly.

Reached for comment, Google denied that work had continued on Dragonfly. “This speculation is wholly inaccurate. Quite simply: there’s no work happening on Dragonfly,” a Google representative told The Verge. “As we’ve said for many months, we have no plans to launch Search in China and there is no work being undertaken on such a project. Team members have moved to new projects.”

The search engine would have censored sensitive political topics

The censored search project would have offered China a search engine that blocked results for sensitive topics. Those topics would likely have included Xinjiang, Tibet, and the Tiananmen Square massacre, based on what is already censored for existing search engines that operate in China.

It’s possible that the code changes were just the finishing touches to bring the project to an end. But it’s possible that the code changes mean the project hasn’t halted, despite Pichai’s claims. One Google software engineer told The Intercept he suspected that Pichai might be waiting for the outrage over the project to taper off before starting the plans again under a new codename.

Google is currently blocked in China. According to The Intercept’s initial reporting, Dragonfly was meant to give Google a way back into the country, giving it access to a large user base, and giving Chinese internet users access to more information. Over a thousand Google employees have protested the project by signing an open letter highlighting the human rights abuses Google would become complicit in if Dragonfly were to launch. Several Google employees have also quit partly over the lack of transparency surrounding Project Dragonfly. Google publicly backed off on the project in December.

Update March 4th, 2:44PM ET: This article was updated with comment from Google

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/4/18250285/google-dragonfly-censored-search-engine-code-dead-employees-doubt

Facebook, Twitter, and Google still aren’t doing enough about disinformation, EU says

Facebook, Twitter, and Google still aren’t doing enough to battle disinformation on their platforms, European Union officials said in a statement released this week.

As part of a plan to fight disinformation on social media, the companies signed on to a voluntary proposal to crack down on the problem last year, which included making plans to increase transparency and fight fake accounts. The European Commission is now publicizing monthly progress reports on the topic, and has released the first, covering January.

“We need to see more progress”

In the statement, the officials criticized the companies’ responses, saying “we need to see more progress.”

“Platforms have not provided enough details showing that new policies and tools are being deployed in a timely manner and with sufficient resources across all EU Member States,” the statement said. “The reports provide too little information on the actual results of the measures already taken.”

Facebook, Twitter, and Google were each singled out for not providing enough information in their reports to officials, who said in today’s statement that they remain “concerned by the situation.” The statement pressed the platforms to move faster ahead of European Parliament elections in May.

Officials in the EU and United States have continued to question what role fake news and foreign interference have played in influencing democratic elections. In an accompanying op-ed in The Guardian this week, EU commissioners said, “if we do not see sufficient long-term progress, we reserve the right to reconsider our policy options – including possible regulation.”

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/1/18246526/facebook-twitter-google-social-media-disinformation-europe

How measles snuck into California despite strict vaccination push

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Even after California banned non-medical exemptions for vaccines, an unvaccinated teenage boy in the state still spread measles to a half dozen people in an outbreak last year, a new study reports. The findings show that while tightening legislative loopholes is key to stopping the spread of measles, it’s not enough.

The outbreak investigation, published today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, follows a 15-year-old boy who came back from England at the end of February 2018 with measles. Soon after, he infected a second boy at a Boy Scout event, a third at school, and a fourth at a tutoring center. All were unvaccinated. And the outbreak doesn’t stop there — it continued in a complicated web of contacts.

The third boy, infected at school, was put under quarantine, so he didn’t spread it to anyone. But public health officials weren’t told that the fourth boy, infected at the tutoring center, was unvaccinated. So he stayed un-quarantined and infected his 33-year-old unvaccinated uncle and his four-year-old unvaccinated brother.

The second boy, the one infected at the Boy Scout event, went on to infect a vaccinated 21-year-old man at a different Boy Scout event. In this particular chain, the measles stopped with the vaccinated 21-year-old. He suffered a less severe infection known as modified measles — when measles infects someone who is incompletely protected by a vaccine. It’s possible he didn’t spread it to anyone else because people with modified measles tend to shed less virus, according to George Han, deputy health officer with the County of Santa Clara public health department and lead author on the study.

“We should not be lulled into a false sense of security.”

The measles vaccine protects around 97 percent of people who receive both doses, so it doesn’t protect everyone. People who aren’t fully immune and people who are too young or too sick to get the vaccine rely on everyone else to be vaccinated to keep the virus at bay. That’s why these webs of contagion between unvaccinated people are so worrying. “We should not be lulled into a false sense of security that the new vaccine law will totally prevent all outbreaks in California,” Han says. “It’s a reminder that we should continue to vaccinate — because there are folks who can’t be vaccinated.”

Fighting the return of measles is going to take a multi-pronged strategy, according to Peter Hotez, who is dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and was not involved in the study. “It has a policy solution, which is continuing to shut down the non-medical exemptions,” Hotez says. “But that by itself will not be adequate.” He thinks anti-vaccination propaganda should also be curbed, and federal agencies will need to amp up advocacy for vaccines.

“It has a policy solution … but that by itself will not be adequate.”

It’s not surprising that the measles spread so readily from this one boy in 2018 — the virus is incredibly infectious. It’s also dangerous. In addition to causing a rash and a fever, it can cause pneumonia, brain damage, and death. Before the measles vaccine, measles hospitalized around 48,000 people and killed roughly 400 to 500 people in the US every year, according to the CDC. In 2000, thanks to widespread use of the safe and effective measles, mumps, and rubella (or MMR) vaccine, public health officials announced the virus had been eliminated in the US.

But the virus can still come in with people traveling from regions where measles is still endemic, and it can spread through unvaccinated pockets of people across the US, like in New York, New Jersey, Washington state, and Texas. Texas and Washington are among the 17 states with legislative loopholes that allow parents to skip their kids’ vaccinations because of their personal beliefs, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. But California isn’t one of those states: after an outbreak linked to Disneyland sickened 147 people in late 2014 and early 2015, California eliminated personal belief exemptions for vaccines. That means only kids with medical exemptions from a doctor could enter kindergarten (or, if they were already in school, seventh grade) without their vaccines after 2016.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18245084/measles-california-cdc-outbreak-vaccination-legislation

More on Google & Forced Arbitration

Google organizers join lawmakers in forced arbitration fight

A group of democratic lawmakers today announced a bill to end the practice of forced arbitration, an issue that was recently pressed by Google employee organizers, who appeared alongside lawmakers during the announcement.

Mandatory arbitration clauses, frequently inserted into contracts, require employees and others to waive their right to sue. Instead, complaints are funneled through a private system. The practice, critics of the widespread system say, gives employers the upper hand in disputes.

Calling the practice “fundamentally unfair and un-American,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act, or FAIR Act, was about “guaranteeing every individual their day in court.” The bill, which has been introduced previously, was re-introduced in the House of Representatives.

Senator calls it “fundamentally unfair and un-American”

Last week, after protests from workers, Google announced that it would end forced arbitration for all disputes, a decision expanding on a previous announcement that it would halt the practice in cases of sexual harassment and assault. Organizers said at the time that, after the victory, they would be meeting with lawmakers to discuss legislation on the issue.

The bill announced today does not apply specifically to any one industry, but Google workers appeared alongside the lawmakers as part of the announcement, along with others affected by forced arbitration. Tanuja Gupta, a Google worker who has organized employee protests, said at the conference that the “the time has come to end forced arbitration,” and noted that some tech companies had “slowly” relented on forced arbitration policies.

“We come here today not as employees at the same company, or as even colleagues in tech, but as six of the 60 million workers in America that are denied access to justice,” she said.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18244752/google-organizers-fair-act-bill-forced-arbitration

Theresa May allowed GCHQ spy chief to resign for 'family reasons' after he helped PAEDOPHILE Catholic priest avoid jail - despite media being told he would be 'caring for a sick relative'

Robert Hannigan helped a paedophile priest avoid jail, Mail on Sunday reveals

He stunned Whitehall with his exit after just two years in charge of GCHQ

The MoS learned he stepped down after the NCA discovered he helped a family friend avoid a custodial sentence for possessing 174 child pornography images

Mr Hannigan provided a reference for Father Edmund Higgins at his 2013 trial

One of Britain’s top spy chiefs quit after it emerged that he helped a paedophile Catholic priest avoid jail, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Prime Minister Theresa May was last night accused of a cover-up over the scandal as she knew of GCHQ director Robert Hannigan’s connection to the child sex offender when he stood down in 2017.

At the time, Mr Hannigan had cited ‘family reasons’, with this crucial link kept secret.

The high-flying civil servant, who was lauded for his role in striking peace in Northern Ireland, stunned Whitehall with his exit after just two years in charge of GCHQ.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6738081/GCHQ-spy-chief-quit-helped-paedophile-Catholic-priest-avoid-jail.html

Venezuelan Mass Power Outage, Goverment Claims Sabotage

https://apnews.com/f2e9b0c5347f41e7a525be1c7a15420f

China Chat Log Leak Shows Scale of Big Brother Surveillance in China

A leak of around 364 million online records in a Chinese database, including private messages and ID numbers, has again highlighted the size and scope of Beijing's mass surveillance system.

The files show a wealth of information linked to online accounts, including GPS locations, file transfers, and chat logs, according to the database discovered by Victor Gevers, a security researcher at Dutch non-profit GDI Foundation.

The data collection appears indiscriminate – some conversations are simply banter between teenagers, like one commenting on someone's weight and clothing size.

"They know exactly who, when, where and what," Gevers told AFP, explaining that thousands of records were piped daily to different databases for local law enforcement to review.

Government procurement documents and database records shared by Gevers show that the database is linked to an "internet cafe management system" developed by HeadBond.com, a tech firm based in eastern Shandong province.

In 2017, the public security bureau in Yancheng city, eastern Jiangsu province – where at least one internet cafe named in the database is based – contracted HeadBond for a system that monitors online activity at internet cafes.

On its website, the company calls its internet cafe management system "the best solution" for identifying online users for police on its website.

HeadBond declined to comment, and the Yancheng city government and public security bureau did not respond to AFP's request for comment.

https://www.france24.com/en/20190307-china-chat-log-leak-shows-scope-surveillance

Theresa May, to be gone by May?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8406610/theresa-may-resign-summer-block-boris-johnson-pm/

>>5572214

BAKER

Please use Autumn to May or Sunsets on May in May for the title

>>5572220

Of course if you and other anons think it's notable enough.

Jimmy Carter offers to visit North Korea to try to stem escalating rhetoric from the regime following the summit

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/07/jimmy-carter-north-korea-1210723

WARNER BROS CEO INVESTIGATE FOR CHILD SEX

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/i-need-be-careful-texts-reveal-warner-bros-ceo-promoted-actress-apparent-sexual-relationship-1192660

HUGE!!!!!!

Pushing Nuclear Weapon Fear Porn with NEWLY RESTORED 4K VIDEO from 1953 NEVADA TEST SITES

They really want us scared don't they…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6780303/Incredible-newly-restored-footage-shows-terrifying-power-1953-nuclear-bomb-tests.html

>>5572524

Was using a work VPN, then switched it off because I finished work. So sue me!

>>5572531

Arizona

>>5572531

Sorry to hear that. I made 4.50 at Albertsons in 2001 (probably was too young to work at the time). Then got a 5.25 an hour job a few years later. Wendy's worked until I made about 6.25 an hour. Job hopped a bunch making 50 center to a 1.00 more an hour until I made about 10 an hour. Then you know part of the rest of the story.

>>5572531

I'd see a shrink so I could somewhat turn my life around. Depression can be a self fulfilling prophecy for many. You think you're worthless and you keep pushing that in your head, and you never go anywhere. The best thing I ever did was see a shrink.

>>5572531

Anyhow, Anon, I pray and wish the best for you and your future. Keep your head up and keep struggling because once you give up, it's nearly impossible to get out. I've been there, I know how bad it gets. I've been very close to offing myself in the past too. I had a pretty bad childhood with a father in jail and mom struggled to put food on the table.

>>5572580

Noted. Yeah it was pretty easy to find, but thought people might want to see these headlines as they're notable for our Awakening movement.

>>5572592

Tulsi Gabbard right? I don't see anyone else that has a lot of support. Harris is just too slutty for the feminazis.

>>5572597

To anyone feeling depressed or down on your luck, there is hope. You can make it into happier pastures. All you need to do is work with a therapist and start taking charge of things in your life one step at a time. Once I did that, I finally got out of my dad's house and was able to dig myself out of debt and depression. May God bless you all and keep you.

>>5572603

I'm like Owen Benjamin. Instead of movies, I watch some documentaries and try my best to spread the great awakening.

>>5572597

Once you realize that most people aren't looking at you or judging you, you start to come out of your shell. I had a lot of self esteem issues myself growing up and was heavily bullied.

>>5572597

Now I don't give much of a crap of what people think of me these days. I'm still reserved, but I can still make friends and chat with coworkers. Also helped me develop my side biz so I could make some extra money once I wasn't so shy.

We all have some Jew in us. Our families slept around in the past and most people don't stick to a particular local or culture when intermarrying. At least in the past 200-300 years. Jews married a lot of Gentiles.

>>5572630

Says an anti-Jew shill. Are you Omar's brother coming in for the rescue? LMAO.