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Feb 7 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Sleazy Edit By Canadian State Media Frames Video Blogger As An Agent Of Beijing

"The state-funded @CBCNews has committed an absolutely jaw-dropping act of journalistic malpractice amid the west's mad scramble to whip up public hysteria about China."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/sleazy-edit-…
@CBCNews You need to watch two clips to grasp how bad this is. First, watch how the CBC frames @DanielDumbrill's remark about a "marketing campaign" as a comment about himself, like he's admitting to being part of an influence operation:
@CBCNews @DanielDumbrill Now watch this footage posted by Dumbrill. Notice his explicit denial of D'Souza's accusation that he is part of any campaign and pay attention to the context in which he makes the "marketing campaign" comment:
@CBCNews @DanielDumbrill .@cbcsteve knew this. He sat there with the CBC editors and knowingly put together a deceitful propaganda piece falsely framing someone else as admitting to being a government propagandist. All with the funding of Canadian taxpayers. Image
@CBCNews @DanielDumbrill @cbcsteve A war machine-funded think tanker appearing on a brazenly propagandistic show on western state media to explain the dark mechanics of Chinese propaganda is so twisted it's actually delicious.
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@CBCNews @DanielDumbrill @cbcsteve Somehow I doubt we'll be seeing this.

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Feb 9
Wanting Peace With Russia To Focus Aggressions On China Is Just Being An Imperialist Warmonger

Propagandists work to keep us debating the details of HOW empire agendas should be advanced rather than IF they should and IF there should be an empire at all.
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The Monroe Doctrine essentially told Europe, "Everything south of the Mexican border is our Africa. It's ours to dominate in the same way you dominate the Global South in the Eastern Hemisphere. Those are your brown people, these are our brown people."
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Feb 5
The trouble with Twitter hate mobs is they don't work on the people you want them to work on. Being subjected to them can ruin your day if you have empathy and care how people feel about you, but if you're a sociopathic politician, pundit or celebrity it'll just be funny to you.
So if you're a healthy empathic person you can be easily silenced and shut down by a few aggressive social media accounts, while if your brain has a missing or malfunctioning empathy center you're guaranteed to keep your voice. One of the many ways our setup uplifts sociopaths.
So many aspects of our society are tilted to the advantage of people with no empathy, like the way capitalism rewards anyone who's willing to do whatever it takes to out-compete everyone else and climb to the top. In a sense it's the source of all our major problems.
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Feb 4
Sources Say

Sources say the system's working great,
and the government is your friend.
Commerce is the same as freedom
and wealth is the same as happiness,
according to sources familiar with the matter.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/sources-say
Sources say you should hate the Russians,
and also you should hate the Chinese,
and also you should hate Iran,
and also you should hate anti-vaxxers,
and also you should hate disobedient podcasters,
and really just hate anyone but your owners.
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We've been speaking to you since you were young.
You can trust us with your mind.
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Feb 4
US Again Tries To Pass Off Government Assertions As Evidence

"This is the kind of evidence you can't see. The evidence is invisible."
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"This is not the sort of behavior anyone would accept from anyone else, except perhaps a televangelist or a cult leader."
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Feb 4
I'm declassifying evidence that Nigeria is planning a false flag operation in Switzerland. Are you ready? Here it is:

Nigeria is planning a false flag operation in Switzerland.

The evidence is me asserting it. If you doubt this evidence, you're a propagandist for Nigeria.
What? You want proof? I just gave you the proof. I gave you my declassified intelligence assessment.
I mean obviously I can't give you the raw intelligence you're asking me for without revealing sources and methods and compromising intelligence officers in the field. Is that what you want? For me to compromise intelligence officers in the field? Do you work for the Kremlin?
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Free speech matters because dissent from the status quo is how the status quo gets changed. If voices which opposes the status quo are always denied access to mainstream platforms and algorithmically suppressed online, they're unable to change the status quo. They have no voice.
If the only way to get your voice heard is to support the status quo, as far as the reason free speech matters is concerned it's functionally the same as having no speech at all. It's like saying "You have free speech; you can say anything you want into this hole in the ground!"
It doesn't matter what you're free to say if nobody hears you say it. If those who support the status quo are loudly amplified on all media while those who oppose it are denied platforms and algorithmically censored, dissenting views have no effect. They effectively don't exist.
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