-- "President Zelenskyy? This is Joe Biden. I have some good news and bad news. Which do you want first?"
-- "The bad news, Mr. President"
-- "The bad news is most Americans think it's lunacy to go to war with Russia. The good news is a Media Matters battalion is on the way."
By the way, is it at all notable that Crimea became part of Russia during the Obama administration, and now Russia is supposedly preparing to invade Ukraine during the Biden administration, but never did either when they had their blackmail-controlled puppet in the White House?
At some point, the US media should stop and spend a few weeks reflecting on how absolutely fucking deranged, insane and demented it was that they spent years spreading a lunatic conspiracy theory that the Kremlin had seized control of the US Govt through clandestine blackmail.
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One of the major revelations of our investigative exposés in Brazil -- which the left cheered -- was how prosecutors illegally leaked investigations to corporate media, which published them without knowing if they were true, destroying reputations. Often, no charges were brought:
This is exactly the same thing as the NYT did in the Matt Gaetz case. *Nine months ago*, the paper published an article announcing the DOJ was "investigating" Gaetz to see "whether" he paid a 17-year-old girl for sex. Still no charges, while the cloud hangs over his head.
As I detailed in the video report I did on the Gaetz case yesterday for Rumble, a Brazilian paper apologized for what NYT did here: trumpet leaked allegations before charges were even brought. Often charges never were. It's journalistically reckless:
Julian Assange -- the most persecuted journalist in the west -- is still in a high-security prison in the UK because the Biden DOJ appealed the British judge's rejection of the US extradition request, demanding he be imprisoned while the appeal pends. The ruling will be tomorrow:
While the US and UK keep Julian Assange in a cage for the crime of reporting accurately about the crimes of those governments, every sermon issued by US and British officials about the sanctity of press freedom and attacks by other countries is and should be regarded as a joke.
Julian Assange is the real embodiment of an actual dissident, a brave warrior against corrupt power centers, the hero which so many online posers pretend to be.
That's the difference between posers and real threats to power: the latter are attacked, prosecuted and targeted.
It's been 8 months since the NYT claimed the DOJ was investigating "whether" @MattGaetz committed crimes. He's still not been charged with anything, and thus has no chance to contest the innuendo, yet millions believe he's guilty. That's why prosecutorial leaks are so abusive.
Leave aside what you think about Gaetz or his politics. It's unethical and often even illegal for prosecutors to leak accusations to the media precisely because it destroys people's reputations without having to prove their guilt.
A bizarre and abrupt reversal by scientists regarding COVID's origins, along with clear conflicts of interest, create serious doubts about their integrity. Yet major outlets keep relying on them: Peter Daszak, desperate to deny a "lab leak," but others who are highly compromised.
One of the most bizarre and still-unexplained episodes in the COVID pandemic was the group of scientists who told Fauci in late January they concluded COVID came from a lab. Within days, they publicly recanted, then received millions in grants from NIAID, controlled by Fauci.
Foi uma honra poder passar alguns dias com uma mulher, Luisa Mell, que dedicou tanto de sua vida à proteção dos animais, uma causa central para mim e David.
It was an honor to be able to spend a few days with Luisa Mell, who has devoted her life to the protection of animals.
Se você está em São Paulo e está pensando em adotar um cachorro ou um gato, o instituto dela é inspirador - e tem lindos animais. E se você está no Rio (Maricá), nosso abrigo, @abrigo_hope, tb tem.