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21 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
This is trivial theater to stimulate the liberal thirst for vengeance (which is dying after watching Mueller charge *nobody* with criminally conspiring with Russia and Biden DOJ charge *nobody* with insurrection or sedition), and to give CNN & MSNBC something to feed viewers:
FBI is telling news outlets it has searched and searched and found no evidence of centralized planning let alone insurrection on Jan 6. The NYT admitted FBI had informants at the Capitol it was talking to.

This spectacle is just for Adam Schiff & Liz Cheney to emote and distract
The lack of anger at Biden DOJ from those claiming to believe Jan. 6 was an insurrection is bizarre.

The only rational action for those who really believe this is marching outside in anger that nobody is charged with insurrection, sedition, trying to kill Pence, or kidnap AOC.
Is the instigator starring in this video one of the more than 600 people who have been charged in connection with January 6?

It's not uncommon for people to defy or ignore Congressional subpoenas when they believe they're legally invalid. In 2012, the House voted overwhelmingly to hold Eric Holder in criminal contempt for doing so (17 Dems joined). He won in court:

politico.com/story/2012/06/…
In that case, the judge ordered Holder to turn over numerous documents which the House had demanded but which he refused to provide. But she nonetheless concluded that criminal contempt was unwarranted even though Holder just ignored the subpoena:

politico.com/blogs/under-th…

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23 Oct
Facebook engaged in one of the most extraordinary pre-election censorship campaigns seen in modern US history: they sent out a life-long Dem operative, @andymstone, to announce they would algorithmically suppress the NY Post's reporting of authentic docs about the Bidens.
Even with Facebook - through a Democratic Party functionary - censoring a major story just two weeks before the election that raised serious questions about Biden, Dems & the corporate media (same thing) *still* think FB didn't censor enough to help Dems:

The most amazing part is this FB executive, in that tweet announcing the censorship of the Biden docs, said they'd block the story pending a third-party "fact-check."

FB never released that fact-check. Why? Because everything, including a new book, proves the docs were real.
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23 Oct
EXACTLY. This statement is not only 100% true but vital to comprehend:
The leaders of the movement in the US to impose more corporate and state censorship on the internet - to make the internet less free and more subject to centralized control - are employees of media corporations who have been given the job title "journalist."

Surreal and twisted.
The subtext and often explicit message of virtually every article in the corporate media about anger over Facebook is that Facebook's principal sin is that they have not censored more political speech, and their salvation lies only in censoring more content that offends liberals.
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22 Oct
This viral tweet, promoting an article he wrote for the Intercept, is a lie. The article is a fraud. It claims two student journalists were censored by administrators over a pro-union article, yet Bernard *never even tried to speak with the students*, both of whom say he's lying:
The story itself, like most in the Intercept, is trivial. The key point is this:

These news outlets boast of their editorial and fact-checking rigor but that's only for articles that undercut their ideology. For stories that promote it, *anything* goes:

mtracey.substack.com/p/to-suit-its-…
I watched this over and over not just at TI but most pro-DNC, anti-Trump outlets.

If you wanted to write an article challenging DNC orthodoxy, it's put through the ringer, sandpapered down to nothing or blocked. But for any anti-Trump/GOP article, it's all waved through. ImageImageImageImage
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21 Oct
Exactly. They are. And this is why there is no need for Congress to exceed their Constitutional powers by dragging private citizens in for interrogation to investigate the same crimes, except that Adam Schiff & Liz Cheney know the DOJ won't charge the crimes they want to allege:
The DOJ and FBI are conducting one of the largest and most aggressive criminal investigations in history of everything 1/6. They are inventing new crimes and felonies to charge.

That's why it's a total lie to say opposing the 1/6 Committee means trying to hide what happened.
Last week, I wrote about the unconstitutionality and grave civil liberties abuses of Congress' 1/6 Committee. I'm unlocking the last section on the real reason Dems need this Committee: DOJ is charging nobody with insurrection, sedition, kidnapping, etc.:

greenwald.substack.com/p/feeding-the-…
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20 Oct
CNN's expectation that every other outlet should adopt its view of what is worth discussing and what isn't is hilarious.

Nobody watches CNN. They are widely despised. The outlets and journalists that are thriving are the ones who reject, not copy, CNN's view of the world.
CNN expressing surprise that other outlets aren't copying their way of covering news would be like Enron executives sitting around shocked that other corporations haven't followed their ethical guidelines.

CNN is a failure on every level (except profit from cable fees).
CNN let its anchor interview his own brother repeatedly, then ignore his own brother's scandals. They just got caught red-handed lying so flagrantly about Joe Rogan that even their own correspondent admitted it, then refused to retract it.

Why would anyone copy CNN?
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20 Oct
The CIA told me that Russia invented a 24th Century super-sophisticated sonic weapon that allows them to roam the world injuring people's brains without detection and now I'm spreading this without the slightest evidence and demanding retaliation because I'm a journalist.
A huge portion of US corporate "journalism" is nothing more than this. They do it over and over and over with zero shame.

In fact, if you're someone who *doesn't* parrot what the CIA tells you to say, they'll accuse you of not doing "real reporting":

I spoke yesterday to @megynkelly about the tidal wave of lies, fabrications and bizarre conspiracies about the "Havana Syndrome" the CIA disseminated through their standard puppets in corporate media, complete, as always, with the effort to blame Russia:

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