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15 Dec, 8 tweets, 4 min read
In May -- after Trump said there'd be a COVID vaccine by year's end -- MSNBC put on its medical expert, @IrwinRedlenerMD, to assure viewers that it was *impossible* -- not unlikely, but "impossible" -- for there to be a safe and effective vaccine ready before 2021.
CNN's @JessicaHuseman (of @propublica) also confidently assured everyone Trump was wrong & there could not be any vaccine by year's end.

Obviously, all they cared about was telling anti-Trump partisans what they wanted to hear, not the truth.

So both MSNBC and CNN analysts spread extreme mistrust about the impossibility of the COVID vaccine that has now arrived -- purely for their own selfish ends. They spent 4 years saying *anything*, without regard if it was true, just to feed anti-Trump fanatics what they wanted.
Now with the election over, MSNBC's @IrwinRedlenerMD is pronouncing the vaccine safe & encouraging everyone to take it: what he said six months ago was *impossible*. Is @JessicaHuseman going to take this vaccine?

In a separate tweet, Dr. Redlener claims he was "wrong" about this. He wasn't "wrong." That implies a good faith effort to get it right.

His job, like everyone on MSNBC, was so to spread disinformation to help Dems & keep the MSNBC audience addicted to endorphins & fear. 👇
There is no reasonable debate about this: the greatest and most destructive source of "disinformation" are not the random citizens on 4Chan & Facebook that NBC's "disinformation team" so bravely doxes.

It's these corporate media outlets. Disinformation is their function.
Speaking of rampant disinformation: look at what this WSJ reporter is saying. He's 100% right: there's never been *any* evidence that Snowden gave information to Russia or China.

So why can compulsive liars like @JohnBrennan & @Liz_Cheney keep saying it?

It's because people like Brennan & Cheney know that -- with rare exceptions (such as Volz here) -- disinformation that comes from official sources & power centers is amplified, not debunked, by corporate media outlets.

*That* - not QAnon - is the greatest disinformation threat.

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17 Dec
I know it doesn't matter. I know it's wrong to ask the question. I know asking the question raises grave doubts about one's loyalties and patriotism.

But has there been *any* evidence publicly presented, let alone dispositive proof, that Russia is responsible for this hack?
Of course Russia, like the US and every other major power, engages in cyber-warfare. But given that Democrats like Dick Durbin are calling this a "virtual act of war," shouldn't we see some evidence Russia did it? Yes, Russia could have done it. But that's not proof they did.
I read at least 20 articles in mainstream papers over the last 24 hours about this hack -- mostly NYT & WPost. They assert definitively -- no caveats -- that Russia did it. None has evidence. This is the only thing I could find:

washingtonpost.com/national-secur… Image
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16 Dec
3 facts about WikiLeaks which those who want Assange to rot in jail have buried:

1) WL redacted documents when publishing Iraq & Afghanistan War Logs & diplomatic cables to protect the innocent; 2) WL requested Hillary's State Dept to help in redacting: they refused; 3) This:
The chances are very high that if Trump doesn't pardon Assange and put a stop to the insane attempt to extradite him to the US, then he will die in a UK prison, convicted of nothing, with a very dangerous precedent pending.

That arouses liberals, but it's profoundly unjust.
NBC News: "Release WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, say current and former world leaders"

Signatories of an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson included the president of Argentina and two former presidents of Brazil.

nbcnews.com/news/world/rel…
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16 Dec
Good @washingtonpost article on how and why the popularity of Bolsonaro -- despite insane levels of ineptitude and corruption -- is remaining reasonably stable. Among other things, he tried to stop or limit direct payments, but then took credit for them when they passed.
Most of Brazil's corporate media is 100% unified against Bolsonaro, denouncing him in increasingly virulent ways. But it doesn't matter. Once the establishment loses the population's trust, they'll support anyone they view as its enemy. This lesson needs to be learned everywhere.
As I've written before, we personally know many who are gay, black/brown, from favelas, etc. who voted for Bolsonaro. They did it not because of but despite his ugly rhetoric. They lost all faith in the ruling class & turned to someone promising to destroy it. A powerful formula.
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16 Dec
That we're on Day 5 of the astoundingly moronic Dr. Jill Biden debate seems to indicate that Orange Hitler has been defeated, fascism vanquished, the second Civil War finally diffused, and freedom and democracy restored to the American Republic, so that's good news at least
I started to write an article on how Yale's @TimothyDSnyder has been the most consistently and embarrassingly wrong prominent intellectual in the Trump era - endless predictions of coups, tyranny, and civil war -- but his analysis is so superficial and facile I couldn't bother.
Reading Snyder's writings -- sorry, Dr. Snyder's -- is like listening to any random MSNBC panel of Dem strategists talking about Trump, but with a pompous, inch-deep veneer of scholarship. If you want to see why credentials are irrelevant & meritocracy a fraud, start with him.
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14 Dec
The Case For a Pardon of Edward Snowden by President Trump

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-case-for…
The real criminals are those @Snowden exposed: the security state officials like James Clapper and John Brennan who illegally and unconstitutionally spied on innocent people by the millions, and who still seek to do so. And they lied about it to the public.
"A US appellate court in September unanimously ruled the NSA’s program mass domestic surveillance program was illegal, as well as likely a violation of the 4th Amendment. The court, and the broader public, knew about this illegal surveillance by NSA only because of Snowden."
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14 Dec
Mediocre journalists with no reporting accomplishments or record of bravery always hate most those who actually bring transparency to the world's most powerful factions and enable the most important scoops.

They're a mirror held up to these journalists, showing their failures:
If you know deep in your soul that you've never broken any major stories, and never took any risks to challenge powerful factions, and never will, is it really hard to understand why you would hate those -- such as Snowden and Assange -- who have done exactly that?
Also: it's pretty odd to declare everyone now agrees with you about Snowden as @ACLU, @RandPaul, @TulsiGabbard, press freedom & human rights groups all over the world, Lula, Dilma, and @nytimes declare him a heroic whistleblower who deserves a pardon.

Inventing your own reality.
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