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00:23:48 Let's talk about some aspects of idea suppression. The two stories that I'm following most closely—and we can date this particular episode by talking about current events—that I can gets fine the two stories. I'm following most closely with interest from the perspective of understanding the disc are the story of Andrew Yang and the media and the story of Jeffrey Epstein and his recent demise.

00:24:20 Neither of these cases is my principal interest the ostensible subject matter in the case of Andrew. Yang. Andrew is going through a weird ritual that I've noted repeatedly election cycle after election cycle, perhaps the most recent versions of the situation have been with Ron Paul and his run for president with Bernie Sanders and his Run for the presidency and now with Andrew Yang.

00:24:52 In all of these cases, we see a very bizarre behavior inside of the news media. That is that when the candidate starts to gain traction with the public. They become left off of lists. They become misreported very often a reporter will stand in front of the graphic that has that particular candidate alongside others, and we don't really know why this is occurring. We don't know how these instructions are going out but in the case of Andrew Yang because this is taking place in a highly connected internet. We have people chronicling all of the Myriad ways in which Andrew Yang's candidacies distorted in particular there appears to be a different level of distortion taking place at one particular news media outlet.

00:25:44 We need to better understand exactly what is the political economy of the news.  

00:26:14 It doesn't make logical sense. If you believe that the principal reason for reporting on the election is to make sure that the voters have an early opportunity to your all voices and begin to make their decisions rather than immediately trying to pick a narrative about FrontRunner who are always taken to be inevitable. That's a conserved feature of this bizarre election coverage cycle after cycle. So the first thing I want to do is recommend that you Google MSNBC and Andrew Yang and yang media blackout and look at the impressive data set that has been collected which shows a singular Focus that can be inferred from the data on Andrew Yang now to an extent. This is also happened with Tulsi gabbard to an extent. This is there's been some carryover from Bernie Sanders, but Bernie Sanders showing in 2016 was so strong the same games that were applied to Sanders then cannot easily be a play.

00:27:14 Right now but the key question we have is why is the news media spending so much on one candidate who doesn't appear to be that large to keep that candidate from growing. I think this is an interesting topic and what it has to do with is making maps of Silence now through the efforts of danah Boyd and the data and Society group. We learned about a Doctrine called strategic silence and that is that there are certain things that the media may not want to happen and therefore rather than simply reporting the facts of the matter. They make editorial decisions. So as not to give fodder or fuel for some undesirable outcome now, we can partially understand that in the case of CopyCat killings out of after let's say gun massacres, but it's much harder to understand why somebody coming from outside of the political system would be treated to something like strategic silence or strategic distortion.

00:28:14 What we need to do is to have a better understanding of the maps of silence and maps of distortion that take place in our press and what Andrew has done that is special and unique is it he's given us a very large in for a dataset. We now have enough and different incidents of this that we can begin to piece together what make might be inferred from this very bizarre behavior.

00:29:06 Around this untimely exit from our world. Now, Jeffrey Epstein was accused of trafficking and had a very bizarre life that is difficult for many of us understand where you got a slap on the wrist in Florida and appeared to operate with impunity even after his conviction in Florida as a sex offender.

00:29:32 What's fascinating is that if anyone remembers the Watergate era the news media used to go to federal agencies and ask whether or not something was true or false and this gave us the phrase a non-denial denial.

00:29:52 When is the question arises?

00:29:55 Let's say in this case does Jeffrey Epstein have any ties to any known intelligence community that question can be asked let's say to the CIA to the state department to the NSA and you might expect that you get an answer. Absolutely. This person had no ties because the the idea of the intelligence agencies being connected to a known sex trafficker seems Preposterous at one level, but you can also imagine that they'd get no comment. Now, we don't even have that in the situation. You can go I think I did this fairly recently with the New York Times and try to Simply use their own search engine. Have you asked the question whether Jeffrey Epstein had ties to the intelligence agencies the other questions that arise in this case our winner is the last known recording of gullane Maxwell's passport crossing the border. This is a simple factual question a reporter would be dispatched it would call if somebody like Interpol. They would try to find out whether people would speak about it or not speak about it under any circumstances. They would be able to print an interesting story. For example, Interpol has no comment or Interpol says that the last recorded border where gullane Maxwell's passport showed up. Was you no border crossing in New York City.

00:31:22 Under any circumstances. It is very bizarre to see the Map of Silence around these questions. Another such question is if Jeffrey Epstein's Fortune came from currency trading, where are the records from his office in Villard house in Manhattan.

00:31:41 He had a very large office in a trophy property on the island of Manhattan and to the best of my knowledge. I have seen no printed discussion of where the supposed trading records of this person who seemed to a mass of Fortune. Another weird thing about this Fortune is this that he seemed to live life as a high 11 figure individual owning islands and incredible properties in multiple Jets and yet all of the assets I've seen accounted for puts him instead in nine-figure territory. Now that's two orders of magnitude different and I don't think that there are many nine-figure Rich who would live anything like Jeffrey Epstein's lifestyle. It appears that most of the assets were put towards the kind of front if you want.

00:32:32 So we don't have any idea about where the records are of his trading. We don't have any idea where the passport of his partner was seen last and we also have no confirmation that any of our major government agencies have denied the Jeffrey Epstein the accused sex trafficker was tied to any and intelligence committee community in all of those situations what you can map with honesty and without having to go anywhere near tinfoil-hat territory is that there's something broken with our sense making apparatus because of the Watergate era you could have assigned this to a cub reporter and they would have known exactly what to do. Where are no comments on the record. No one knows.

00:33:22 All right, in those two circumstances that gives you an idea about how the disc the distributed idea suppression complex Works inside of Journalism. There is some sort of editorial function that is keeping us from learning certain things because certain stories do not run.

00:33:44 With a little bit of poetic Liberty this seems to be what something Paul Simon was talking about in Sounds of Silence when we're listening for now are the silences where else are we confronted with Silo? What are the other things we would expect where we don't hear particular ideas. Now, obviously you have a situation where I've been talking for quite some time about the idea that there are many reasons that one might ask to restrict immigration the Sierra Club used to support a restriction of immigration Farm Workers unions used to support restrictions on immigration, but sometime in the fairly recent past it became a an easy fix of the elite that the only reason for supporting a restriction in Immigration. The only possible reason could be that you were is that a phobic and probably racist

00:34:34 Now I don't exactly know where these ideas came from. But I know that these ideas are prime Aphasia and Preposterous. they make no sense. And so I've been talking for some time about where are the media willing to discuss all of the reasons that one might want to restrict immigration having nothing to do with xenophobia. The so-called xenophilic restriction is perspective. This is another place where there is no public discussion. We have no idea why so once you begin to look for these silences these gaps you start to become your other terrified that somehow the world is not behaving properly and that's one of the reasons that people are flocking to this podcast.