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Mar 18, 2022 12 tweets 8 min read Read on X
It's been 24 hours since the NYT acknowledged the reported emails from the Biden laptop were authentic, as was the NY Post's story on how they obtained it.

*None* of the media outlets that spread the CIA's "Russian disinformation" lie has admitted what they did or retracted it👇
Besides Jen Psaki, one of the most aggressive spreaders of this CIA lie -- unsurprisingly -- former Obama national security aide @brhodes. He just emphatically asserted this lie over and over with no caveats:
Below, @tomselliott collects many - nowhere near all - of the media and political elites who spread the CIA lie over and over. Not a single one has acknowledged error let alone wrongdoing. They know they don't need to: liberal readers *want* them to lie.

The most amazing part of all this -- besides how many corporate journalists *cheered* Big Tech's censorship of the reporting -- is how even the trained career liars of the CIA acknowledged they had no evidence for this: a caveat media outlets *omitted* to make it seem proven.
Look at this amazing example: NBC's @HeidiNBC said the Biden laptop was "disinformation" just like the 2016 WikiLeaks release was -- where *every* doc was authentic!

For these media corporation, "disinformation" means: authentic facts that undermine Democratic Party leaders.
One key point: we should avoid treating yesterday's NYT admission that the laptop is authentic as the first time this was proven. @SchreckReports's book last year proved it. Most importantly, the proof that the archive was real was known from the start:

And never forget what Facebook did. It sent out a career Dem Party operative -- @AndyMStone -- to announce that FB was suppressing discussion of the Biden story pending "third-party fact checking." That never came because, of course, the docs were real:

For those asking: the link to the NYT article on the FBI investigation into Hunter Biden and their statement that they confirmed the authenticity of the documents on the laptop:

nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/…
Now that we know "dozens" of former intelligence operatives invented the lie that the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation" -- led by standard liars @JohnBrennan, James Clapper, @GenMhayden -- I'm sure media outlets will no longer rely on them to tell them what to say?

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The lead spreader of CIA's "Russian disinformation" lie was Joe Biden. He'll never be asked to account for it. In fact, what proved the media's corrupt intent from the start was neither Biden denied their authenticity, yet media still claimed it was fake:

Wikipedia is more unreliable than ever: its editors are almost all liberals and you can watch any page change over time to adapt to liberal sensibilities. Look at this shit. Just one lie after the next:
I'll be on Fox News in the 8 pm hour to discuss why the corporate media outlets that spread the CIA's pre-election lie that the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation" won't retract that lie, or even acknowledge the NYT's announcement that it authenticated the documents.

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Feb 21
Critique of the US Security State is not part of the mainstream DNC left's agenda.

Bernie and AOC rarely condemn the CIA, NSA, FBI, NED because they (correctly) see them as political allies.

Also, it's usually good in politics when a faction adopts one's long-standing beliefs. Image
You can read the NYT's hilarious article for free, as a gift from me.

The long-time US foreign policy and CIA/NSA critique of, say, Chomsky isn't found in the mainstream DNC left: only on the populist right.

nytimes.com/2025/02/19/us/…
For a long-time, harsh critiques of US foreign policy and interventionism were found on the populist right. Listen to Pat Buchanan (who worked for Nixon and Reagan) as well as Ron Paul on US policy toward Israel. Very, very few Dems now speak this way:

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Feb 20
In February 2021 -- more than a year before Russian troops entered Ukraine en masse -- the inspiring democrat, President Zelensky, banned 3 popular opposition TV networks by accusing them of spreading Russian disinformation.

It'd be as if Biden banned Fox or Trump banned CNN:🇺🇦 Image
In 2014 -- after Victoria Nuland, @ChrisMurphyCT, John McCain etc. used NED to fund protests in Kiev to remove the democratically elected leader and replace him with an unelected pro-US puppet -- Kiev began bombing ethnic Russian civilians in Donbas:

@ChrisMurphyCT It's bizarre to watch history re-written in real time to serve war propaganda: how Azov Battalion was described as neo-Nazi by western elites, only to be turned into heroic warriors the minute we armed them.

Read @seanmdav buried history on Ukraine:

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Feb 19
EXCLUSIVE: Trump's media company and Rumble jointly sue Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes in a U.S. federal court in Florida, arguing that his most recent censorship orders require a global ban, thus violating US sovereignty and US law:

greenwald.locals.com/post/6679550/e…
The latent rage of Trump associates toward Moraes was just waiting for the moment to explode.

The joint Rumble/Trump lawsuit emerges from that.

In August, after Moraes banned X from all of Brazil, Elon Musk vowed that he'd see Moraes in prison:

This comes in the wake of yesterday's indictment of former President Jair Bolsonaro, accusing him of plotting a violent coup (that never happened) against Lula and Moraes.

That indictment follows polls showing a collapse in Lula's popularity, with only Bolsonaro beating him.
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Jan 27
A residual guardian of GOP establishment foreign policy - @RichLowry - urges rejection of Tulsi by denouncing her support for Snowden.

To do so, Lowrey falsely claims Snowden "handed [NSA docs] over to Julian Assange’s Wikileaks."

Snowden never gave a single doc to WikiLeaks. Image
This isn't a small error, nor is it an excusable one. Anyone who knows even the most basic facts of the Snowden story -- which should be a requirement for opining so didactically about it -- knows he only gave docs to the Guardian (through me) and WPost (through Laura Poitras). Image
Lowry also repeats the standard establishment smear against Snowden -- totally false -- that he "defected to Russia."

Even if he had, it'd be understandable - Obama DOJ tried to imprison him for life -- but Ben Rhodes admitted Snowden tried to leave Russia and they trapped him.

greenwald.substack.com/p/ben-rhodes-b…Image
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Jan 24
Pigs are as intelligent and socially complex -- if not more so -- than dogs. Morally despicable factory farms keep pigs in cases so small they can never turn around, step on their babies, and go insane. The whole industry is a menace to public health, and destroys family farms.
You don't have to be vegan to be disgusted by industrialized abuse of animals. Animals are among the most majestic and beautiful things on earth. They feel pain, suffering and joy from connection.

Most people can't bear to look at what happens inside these monstrous facilities.
Under the past several presidents - including Biden and Trump - the agencies required to regulate factory farms, including to stop abuse, have been run by industry cretins who ignore the law and then get rewarded after.

Here's what this supports. Look:

theintercept.com/2017/10/05/fac…
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Jan 23
John Brennan, whined on MSNBC about the revocation of his security clearance for lying, and lied again (see video below).

He denied he and CIA goons said the Hunter laptop was "Russian disinformation."

Here's what POLITICO said after they fed the story to @NatashaBertrand. Image
Beyond that, the letter itself that they fed to their puppet Bertrand (now promoted to CNN as a reward for her service) explicitly referenced claims in the last part of the letter that the materials on the laptop were "Russian disinformation": exactly what Brennan denies. Image
Indeed, this pre-election lie from CIA goons had only purpose: to protect Biden by deceiving key institutions to believe the materials were unreliable because they were "Russian disinformation."

That's how people like Jen Psaki promoted it, and it's why Big Tech censored it. Image
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