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Feb 21 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
NEW VIDEO: Banishment from the Financial System: the War on Dissent

The tactics used to choke the finances of Canadian tuckers and other dissidents has been a decade in the making.

rumble.com/vvgyol-banishm…
Many have forgotten that the reason @FreedomofPress was created -- by @DanielEllsberg, Laura Poitras, transparency activists, myself -- was neocons like Joe Lieberman pressured financial companies and Amazon to choke off WikiLeaks and terminate their access with no due process.
In 2010, when the Obama DOJ tried but failed to find evidence of criminality against WikiLeaks, neocons like Lieberman opted for *extra-legal punishment* - pressuring companies to ban them like Dems do now to demand adversaries be censored by Big Tech.
Anyone tempted to cheer these extra-legal punishments against dissidents -- such as pressuring financial services companies to banish them from the financial system -- should realize it isn't confined to left or right. PayPal banned Proud Boys & Antifa:

theguardian.com/technology/201…
After this tactic of banishing dissidents from the financial system through extra-legal punishment was pioneered against WikiLeaks in 2010, and before it was used by Trudeau, PayPal announced a partnership with the liberal group @ADL to identify and ban "extremists":
This PayPal/ADL partnership to ban "extremists" from the financial system -- meaning people with ideologies that diverge from neoliberal orthodoxy -- was so glaringly dangerous that PayPal's original COO, @DavidSacks, sounded the alarm about how menacing to dissent it is:
This new Rumble video report about the banishment of dissidents from the financial system with no due process is a companion to our new Substack article today on the broader war on dissent. I'll discuss both tonight at 7:00 pm EST on my @GetCallin show:

callin.com/link/CgwhiLgIBN
(Note that Callin is now available as an app on both iPhones and Androids, so downloading it enables you to attend and participate live in numerous podcast shows from a wide range of voices there, with Q&A, comments and live discussion. It's becoming a great platform).

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Feb 22
I thought in 2012 that Obama was right about Russia and Romney was wrong, and I still think so: the idea that Russia is the greatest threat to the US is absurd.

But everything about Dem politics and rhetoric requires Dems to do what @PaulBegala did:

There's a major irony when it comes to partisan politics and Russia: Obama was everything Trump was accused of being. Obama was eager to avoid confrontation with Putin. He resisted sending lethal arms to Ukraine (Trump did) and denied they were a grave threat (even after Crimea). ImageImage
There's no way to overstate the utter insanity of the US media and the Democratic Party spending 5 years affirming a completely deranged conspiracy theory -- that Trump was controlled by and captive to the Kremlin through blackmail -- when everything negated that demented tale. Image
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Feb 21
This is the moment when US journalists really get to shine. They put on their toughest war rhetoric. Tell Americans about the virtues of sacrifice. And summon the courage to all unite to denounce Putin and assure everyone all the blame lies with him and him alone. It's inspiring.
Under Obama, Russia annexed Crimea.

Under Biden, Russia recognized the sovereignty and independence of two territories of Ukraine.

Under Trump, he did none of this.

Should this cause any reevaluation of whether Trump was, in fact, a blackmail-controlled puppet of the Kremlin?
Please be advised that any questioning of US policy or. the prevailing US narrative during this sensitive time constitutes the crime of treason, according to Harvard Law Professor @tribelaw. Treason is punishable by death, so it's probably best to tread *very* carefully. Image
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Feb 21
NEW: The Neoliberal War on Dissent in the West

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-neoliber…
Those who most flamboyantly proclaim that they are fighting fascists continue to embrace and wield the defining weapons of despotism.

The tactics Trudeau is employing are a decade in the making, and are part of a much broader plan to criminalize and then crush dissent.
Episodes like this demonstrate just how propaganda functions. We're so well-trained to instantly recognize these tyrannical attacks on dissent as autocratic and tyrannical when used by enemies of the West, but barred from seeing them the same way when used by our own governments.
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Feb 18
How can it be "unlawful" to protest at "sites"? Obviously, certain conduct undertaken in advance of a protest -- violence, obstruction, intimidation -- can be unlawful. But how can protest itself be deemed inherently unlawful as is being done here?
Yet again we find that the people in the west who most vocally and flamboyantly claim they're fighting fascism are the ones who seize and wield the defining weapons of fascists: censorship, punishment without due process, criminalizing of protests, imprisoning journalists.
This is absolutely true. And it would be the same reaction if Trudeau were doing this against protesters whose ideology western elites liked instead of hated:

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Feb 17
Uau! Era tão raro que as pessoas durante o debate sobre a liberdade de expressão tivessem a capacidade ou a honestidade de compreender esse ponto básico sobre meu argumento que, ouvir isso de uma pessoa que discorda de mim era como encontrar água depois de semanas no deserto:
Aqui está o vídeo que ele citou onde expliquei meu raciocínio: que dar o poder de censura ao estado é *mais provável levar ao fascismo. Em quase 20 anos de jornalismo, nunca tive um argumento distorcido como o que aconteceu há 2 semanas no Brasil:

E uma última vez: a liberdade de expressão que defendo *não* é só um valor americano (muitos nos EUA a rejeitam e há muito defendem a censura). Vem do esquerdismo internacional e da tradição intelectual judaica, tornando ainda mais repelente ser chamado de nazista por defendê-lo.
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Feb 17
They're not even hiding it this time. The vast, vast majority of "reporting" from corporate media outlets on Russia/Ukraine consists of nothing other than "anonymous intelligence officials tell us..." No verification, questioning or doubt. They just go and prosthelytize as told.
In these two tweets, @juliaioffe -- long one of the most fanatical and deranged Russiagaters -- comes out and explicitly says *not only* that the US media is being used to spread propaganda by the US Govt about Ukraine but that it's noble that they're being used this way.
If the corporate media had any minimal standards of ethics or even dignity, this would cause an immediate expulsion of Ioffe from any venues of credibility, but most of them not only know that it's true but also see it as virtuous. As with Trump, all is justified to stop Putin.
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