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And Peter, would you like to just, thanks for coming along, would you like to tell of you

a little bit about yourself first and how you've got into this work?

Sure, I'm kind of an auto-dyedact polymath and I was a computer science major in college and I dropped out of college

and became a fashion photographer and I did that for quite a few years and wound up building a lot of the first generation internet websites including the first

entertainment website on the internet on the World Wide Web, the X files.com. And then I went on to work for Stephen Spielberg at a company called

Game Works and then Virgin Richard Branson I ran e-commerce there for a while and

around 19 around Branson, I ran e-commerce there for a while. And around 2010 I ran into Andrew Brightbart, who was chanting his politics is downstream from culture mantra and having been an ex-f photographer I

started paying more attention to the way that media was shaping people's

perceptions and that led me into kind of a journalism

track which I did for a few years where I really started to understand that what we know as the discipline of journalism is really just kind of a mind control mechanism, which led me to this point where I have been researching a book that I call Reframing Reality and I'm playing

on the idea that photographers, you know, take a camera and they move it from one frame to another in order to change the idea that people who are looking at the

photograph have about whatever it is that they're looking at and realize that the news and media and things like that are also being used to do that.

Which led me to an author named Douglas Reed who wrote a book called The Controversy of Zion.

And Reed was referencing a book called

the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,

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