Hearsay & Playing Telephone

A version of the game for children called "telephone" is played in most countries in our world at some point in school, or in communities.  It serves the purpose of demonstrating how easy it is to "mis hear",  "mis interpret" and "mis understand" each other.  It is also a game that usually ends in laughter when the original phrase is told to all the players.   Listening through a wall, on the other side of a closed door or straining to discern words in a conversation across a crowded room achieves similar results to the game of "telephone"- the message perceived is usually not complete or accurate, and certainly cannot be trusted as "evidence" in any courtroom in nations with a comprehensive rule of law.   Yet, corporate/main stream news and social media have leapt up and grabbed onto snatches of conversation "He said he overheard him say the President of the United States of America was supposed to have said or asked..."  Sadly, this is not a joke. This is no laughing matter.

When the technology exists to record audio and video of a conversation, transcribe the conversation to written text and document any significant discussion, decision or conversation-why is "hearsay" and third hand information even permitted anymore in a public legislative forum?   All these snippets of "hearsay" simply waste time, money and add to the mountain of untrustworthy RUMINT...yes, there is an acronym for "rumor intel"...the most unreliable source to use unless one is deliberately creating a false narrative and inserting "dis-information". This is the realm of Psyops missions.   Innuendo based on hearsay has been used in politics and war globally - since the genesis of politics, politicians and the competition for power.  "Show trials" have been used since the Greeks...remember Socrates ordeal?  This man generated/created what we know as the Socratic method.  He laid the foundation for Western systems of logic and philosophy. When the political climate of Greece turned against him,  he was brought to a public "trial".  Socrates was then sentenced to death by hemlock poisoning in 399 B.C.

What do you think the intention of "the squirt squad", the "never trumpers" and the main players in the Democratic party are?  What are they social engineering?  Do you think they earnestly want the American and international public to know the truth about US policies in Ukraine-US citizens involved in Ukrainian gas/energy deals and pay to play...the whole story?

Personal opinions, parking lot and neighborhood gossip will probably always exist but should they be given a serious international platform, given time and "news analysis" in the same way actual evidence is presented?   By doing so a society descends into a morass of inference and suppositions making targeting easy against anyone on the basis of prejudice, bias and suspicion.   In that type of world there is no necessity for facts, proven beyond a doubt, documented, verified and triangulated.  One's neighbor, colleague, competitor, family member or ex-spouse/outlaw, can whisper or call in a "charge" and this is taken as bona fide, as grounds for further action.  The proposal under consideration of "Red Flag Laws" could implement similar procedures based on information from a phone call-be advised.

Examples of societies which were run like this in the not too distant past include the Soviet Union,  Pol Pot in Cambodia, Pinochet's Chile, the Nazi Reich in Germany- lessons should be learned from history, and should be cautionary to us.  

Yet, a number of American, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and UK government departments already incorporate "hearsay" in determining actions against children and families. For instance, CPS/CYS can be called anonymously and action take on the basis on a single call.   It is often up to the family to engage and pay for legal counsel and go through the court systems to actually retrieve their own children.

Read the numerous situations where a phone call about someone "possessing weapons"  (whether verified or not) even in states which have 2nd amendment rights, resulted in a SWAT response and in a number of cases, the wrongful death of the person whose home was due to be searched.  A home owner just asking to see a warrant and know the reason for law enforcement to pay a visit, has ended in tragedy for many families and businesses-often based on an "anonymous phone call" and "suspicion" of having weapons or drugs or even "non-approved home food products"  in a home or place of business.

The boundaries of what is evidence have been extended with AI and other tech surveillance tools in the 21st century.   Combined with "hearsay" programmed as "documented" by either a human analyst or through a "program", are link up diagrams to display "guilt by association".   This data is used as the basis for arrests and incarceration as well as for positive recognition and promotion.

The American company designed "social credit" system (another psyops just in the name which was originally part of the "Skynet" Google project) which is currently implemented in China and soon to be running in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, rates and berates individuals based on financial/credit history, purchasing records, political postings, medical records, occupation, family status, professed religion, travel patterns, "contributions to the State", and a host of other categories selected and approved by the President for Life (i.e. supreme leader/dictator) and his agenda for control. 

​Huawei is a Chinese government owned company and produces the spy phones which become part of the collection gathering instruments utilized by the regime to harvest metadata for each citizen's personal "file".   It has already been proven that "smart"  i.e. spy phones can record you and listen to your conversations www.komando.com/security-privacy/youre-not-paranoid-your-phone-really-is-listening-to-everything-you-say/464613/ as well as track your movements as long as the battery is in your phone-even if your phone is turned off.

The newer phones make it very difficult to take your battery out. This is for all "smart/spy" phones not just Huawei FYI.    ​www.techdirt.com/articles/20130723/12395923907/even-powering-down-cell-phone-cant-keep-nsa-tracking-its-location.shtml

Yes,  "playing telephone" is no longer just a game.   It's become a science for tech companies, military/political intelligence and corporate espionage.   In addition, they can use "deep fakes",  U2 voice reproduction, deep skull voice interference and morph porn to add dimension to narratives they desire to fabricate.   Haven't heard of these tools?   
See my post from February of 2019:  www.jopatti.com/blog/deepfakes-morphporn-boars

For all of you who do not know about the band "Credence Clearwater Revival"  I am including one of their most famous songs:  "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" appropo of my subject matter this week-going from the political to the personal but both apply.   www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCCfc2vAuDU

Be discerning...always...wherever you are and whatever you read/see and hear.

Cheers to you,

​Jo