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27 Sep, 7 tweets, 3 min read
CIA and Mike Pompeo were stopped by WH lawyers from carrying out their plot to kidnap or assassinate Assange, but the US Govt continues to slowly kill him instead. In 2019 - 2 years ago - doctors warned that what they were doing to him was killing him:

nytimes.com/2019/11/25/wor…
In January, a UK judge rejected the US request to extradite Assange solely on the grounds that his health could not withstand it. Despite this, the Biden DOJ ignored all press freedom groups, appealed that, and demanded he stay in prison pending appeal.

nytimes.com/2021/02/08/us/…
The US Government is slowly suffocating, silencing and killing someone solely for the crime of reporting documents that every major media outlet in the world determined were newsworthy, and few in the US corporate press care because he's never been in their clique.
The only factions which support the ongoing imprisonment of Assange are CIA and their allies in the US and UK corporate media. Support for him is global and spans the ideological spectrum. Listen to what ex Brazilian President @LulaOficial said in 2020:

In full agreement with Lula -- not just in outcome but rationale -- is the most-watched conservative in US media, Tucker Carlson, who repeatedly advocated for Assange's pardon and gave airtime to his family and supporters to do so.

Only security state servants support this.
For any MAGA people who continue to doubt it was Mike Pompeo who drove the obsessive fixation on destroying WikiLeaks and Assange under Trump (along with Jeff Sessions), here was Assange in a 2017 WPost op-ed laying out this fact very clearly.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/julia…
In 2017, Pompeo - when he was Trump's CIA Director - gave a completely deranged speech, at CIA Headquarters, vowing to destroy WL and Assange. He and Sessions were the key drivers. Pompeo is pure Deep State - always was - and fooled many:

theintercept.com/2017/04/14/tru…

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27 Sep
It's been 6 days since POLITICO reporter @SchreckReports published a new book verifying the key emails from Hunter's laptop, including Joe's role in the China deal.

Not one outlet that spread the CIA lie that it was Russian disinformation (except POLITICO) has even mentioned it.
That means that CNN, NBC News, MSNBC, PBS, @HuffPost, @theintercept and so many others spent weeks before the 2020 election spreading what they know is a lie from CIA.

And now that there's new proof from a mainstream reporter that they lied, they won't even mention that.
The most damaging and aggressive agents of disinformation in the United States are large corporate media outlets.

All journalists make mistakes. The way to know that they're deliberate disinformation agents is when they ignore evidence that they lied. That shows it's purposeful.
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27 Sep
Oh my. 😬

Regardless of anything else, it's completely obnoxious and manipulative to suggest that only anti-Semitism could explain opposition to funding Israel's military. There's nothing anti-Semitic about saying: let Israel fund their own military, not US taxpayers.
There are parts of the right very steadfast about objecting to attempts to convert every political disagreement into accusations of racism, misogyny, etc, yet then do precisely that by weaponizing "anti-Semitism" accusations against their adversaries in the Israel debate.
Some police defenders and immigration opponents are racist but not most or all.

Some critics of #MeToo are misogynistic but not most or all.

Some critics of Israel are anti-Semitic but not most or all.

Etc. etc.
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27 Sep
For many Democrats, there is one political issue and only one: Trump. He is the beginning, the middle and end. They demand every discussion of everything place him at the center. And the outcome is demented behavior like support for Liz Cheney:
So many liberal media stars are in full-on propaganda mode to generate affection and sympathy for Liz Cheney. @Yamiche makes no mention of her defense of torture or other things that would enrage liberals (abortion opposition) but highlights this shtick:

Which of these national politicians was the first to publicly advocate marriage equality for gay men and lesbians?
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26 Sep
Great and very important report by three @YahooNews journalist on how CIA spent years plotting against WikiLeaks, including with plans to kidnap or even kill Assange. Mike Pompeo was the key driver. He has snowed many MAGA people: he's pure Deep State.

news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-ass…
The reporting also uncovers a CIA plot under Obama -- during the height of the Snowden reporting -- to classify myself, Laura Poitras and Assange as "information brokers" rather than journalists to justify surveillance of us and even imprisonment, rejected by the Obama DOJ.
Note that the theory the CIA at the highest levels invoked to justify spying on and even prosecuting Laura Poitras, myself and Assange -- we're something other than "journalists" -- is the one Brazil used to try to imprison me in 2020 and Biden DOJ is using against Assange now.
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25 Sep
NYT: Among Those Who Marched Into the Capitol on Jan. 6: An FBI Informant

"Federal law enforcement had a far greater visibility into the assault on the Capitol, even as it was taking place, than was previously known."

nytimes.com/2021/09/25/us/…
In June, the always-wrong herd animals employed by liberal media corporations mocked those, begun by @DarrenJBeattie, who reported the FBI's role in Jan 6 -- just as they mocked those who said the same about the Gov. Whitmer plot (confirmed by BuzzFeed):

greenwald.substack.com/p/questions-ab…
Throughout the first War on Terror, the FBI was at the center of many if not most of the scary domestic terror plots it accused young US Muslims of fomenting (it was FBI that created and directed those to keep fear levels high), just as they're doing now:

greenwald.substack.com/p/fbi-using-th…
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24 Sep
AOC just posted a 4-page statement where she purports to explain why she voted PRESENT instead of NO on US funding for Israel.

If anyone could find the part where she actually explains why she voted PRESENT instead of NO, please flag it for me. I genuinely can't find it.
AOC's statement is barely comprehensible in the English language. It's like a parody of the worst excesses of modern left-wing discourse: social justice phrases and self-aggrandizing grievances randomly strewn together amidst classic AOC self-victimization about trauma and pain.
I mean, seriously: what the fuck is this and what does it mean?
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