The CIA and other financial institutions already read books from leftist authors to find stats that they need to conceal -
Super Imperialism — Michael Hudson
"Politicians in charge of national statistics encourage popular misunderstanding, but my statistical analysis tells a different story from what is widely believed. A few years ago I sought to update my calculations on the impact of U.S. military spending and foreign aid on the balance of payments. But the Commerce Department had changed Table 5 of its balance-of-payments report, dealing with foreign aid and other government programs, in a way that no longer reveals the extent to which foreign aid programs generate a transfer of dollars from foreign countries to the United States. I phoned the statistical division responsible for collecting these statistics, and in due course reached the technician responsible for the numbers. “We used to publish that data,” he explained, “but some joker published a report showing that the United States actually made money off the countries we were aiding. It caused such a stir that we changed the accounting format so that nobody can embarrass us like that again.”
I realized that I was the joker who was responsible for the present-day statistical concealment."
"Well, I thought that this was going to be a warning to other countries. And indeed, there was a very quick Spanish translation and Japanese translation. But the main purchases, as we’ve talked about a year ago, were the CIA and the Defense Department.
Immediately Herman Kahn hired me to the Hudson Institute and gave a very large grant for me to explain to the government how imperialism was working. And the U.S. government used this as a how-to-do-it book."
Lol, I’m convinced a similar thing happened in my city. The local police department used to share the raw data from their “Community Survey”, including the age of people who responded to their survey. Someone posted the police’s official report to reddit a few years ago, and I shared a few comments pointing out that the raw data showed that less than 20% of their responses came from people 30 years or younger. There were literally more responses from people 70 years and older than people 30 years or younger. The average age of respondents was in the 60’s,… And that’s not to mention the survey gets sent out to homeowners. Of course, this survey showed that people wanted more police, that they feel safe around police, and that they see crime on the rise, but the pigs didn’t want people to know this opinion survey was filled out overwhelmingly by geriatric landowners. The years since I pointed it that out on reddit (which people in my city know the police browse), they don’t make that raw data available.
The CIA and other financial institutions already read books from leftist authors to find stats that they need to conceal - Super Imperialism — Michael Hudson
"Politicians in charge of national statistics encourage popular misunderstanding, but my statistical analysis tells a different story from what is widely believed. A few years ago I sought to update my calculations on the impact of U.S. military spending and foreign aid on the balance of payments. But the Commerce Department had changed Table 5 of its balance-of-payments report, dealing with foreign aid and other government programs, in a way that no longer reveals the extent to which foreign aid programs generate a transfer of dollars from foreign countries to the United States. I phoned the statistical division responsible for collecting these statistics, and in due course reached the technician responsible for the numbers. “We used to publish that data,” he explained, “but some joker published a report showing that the United States actually made money off the countries we were aiding. It caused such a stir that we changed the accounting format so that nobody can embarrass us like that again.”
I realized that I was the joker who was responsible for the present-day statistical concealment."
https://medium.com/@davi./super-imperialism-f7e92ba1f4f0
And:
"Well, I thought that this was going to be a warning to other countries. And indeed, there was a very quick Spanish translation and Japanese translation. But the main purchases, as we’ve talked about a year ago, were the CIA and the Defense Department.
Immediately Herman Kahn hired me to the Hudson Institute and gave a very large grant for me to explain to the government how imperialism was working. And the U.S. government used this as a how-to-do-it book."
https://michael-hudson.com/2021/10/we-make-the-rules/
Jesus fucking christ
Lol, I’m convinced a similar thing happened in my city. The local police department used to share the raw data from their “Community Survey”, including the age of people who responded to their survey. Someone posted the police’s official report to reddit a few years ago, and I shared a few comments pointing out that the raw data showed that less than 20% of their responses came from people 30 years or younger. There were literally more responses from people 70 years and older than people 30 years or younger. The average age of respondents was in the 60’s,… And that’s not to mention the survey gets sent out to homeowners. Of course, this survey showed that people wanted more police, that they feel safe around police, and that they see crime on the rise, but the pigs didn’t want people to know this opinion survey was filled out overwhelmingly by geriatric landowners. The years since I pointed it that out on reddit (which people in my city know the police browse), they don’t make that raw data available.