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Apr 26 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I'm currently in a conservative enclave in the US. There are far more Ukrainian flags -- on home rooftops, in store entrances -- than US flags.

Virtually every powerful media and state institution in the West have been united in lockstep messaging and the results are stunning
Whatever your views on the moral dimensions of this war, it's hard to deny this is the most dangerous moment in US foreign policy in two decades. Every week, US/NATO involvement in the war intensifies, as Russia explicitly warns of nuclear war. For what?

reuters.com/business/aeros…
Virtually every week, Biden announces new massive aid of cash and weapons to Ukraine. Every week, US/NATO announce greater involvement that, weeks earlier, was deemed unthinkable. It's a full-on proxy war. The risks are mind-boggling. What is being achieved that warrants this?
Secretary of State Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin visited Kyiv yesterday to meet with their proxy war partners. Russian missiles landed not all that far. What would have happened had a wayward one struck where they were? So many of the worst wars happened unintentionally.

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Apr 27
The Twitter official Musk criticized, in the mildest of tones, makes $17 million/year, as @neontaster says.

Over and over, the largest media corporations try to place the most powerful people *off-limits from criticism* by claiming any criticisms of them generates "harassment."
The same WashPost just doxed a private citizen, dragging her into the spotlight because they disliked her politics, publishing her address as they did it. That generated immense "harassment."

How can one criticize powerful people without being accused of generating "harassment"?
Please read this thread from @esaagar -- about the WashPost's attempt to blame him for "harassment" received by a mega-rich Twitter official because he criticized her -- to see how corrupt corporate journalism is when it comes to its enemies. Please read:

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Apr 26
It was completely predictable -- and indeed, many predicted -- that the Only Real Victim™ of the doxing of @libsoftiktok by @TaylorLorenz and @washingtonpost would be... Taylor Lorenz.

The outcome is always that this wealthy, powerful media figure who ruins lives is the victim. ImageImage
The rules:

-- Splashing a private citizen's name, work address, and religion all over the Bezos-owned Washington Post, and banging on the doors of their relatives: heroic.

-- Splashing the name of a powerful media figure on a billboard or a cable show: evil, vile murderous.
Corporate journalists can do anything they want to private citizens: unveil their identities, dig up and publish dirt about their lives, stalk their relatives, ruin their reputations.

But nobody can publicly criticize corporate journalists for doing that.

That's the game here.
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Apr 25
I'm not really sure how or why it happened -- and at some point it should be studied with the perspective of some temporal distance - but the neediest, most ardent, and most passionate censorship crusaders are the tattletale-employees of media corporations like this:
There are so many amusing aspects to the utter panic and meltdown of corporate media employees at the prospect of Musk's control of Twitter.

Perhaps the funniest are ones who work at huge corporations owned by Bezos other billionaires are lamenting billionaire control of media.
Hi, I work at CNN, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, and I'm really worried about billionaire control of media.

Hi, I liked the way things were before: with Soros, Omidyar, Google and Zuckerberg running everything - not a billionaire!

This was in the Bezos-owned WP 2 weeks ago!
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Apr 23
Solomon Islands, a sovereign nation with largely democratic governance, voluntarily entered into a security agreement with China to help preserve civil order. The US threatened it with punishment if it leads to a Chinese military base in the Pacific.

theguardian.com/world/2022/apr…
It appears that the sacred principle that a sovereign country has the right to do whatever it wants -- enter into military alliances, invite foreign troops onto their soil, etc. -- is not a universal principle but rather one that is applied quite selectively.
Remember the thing about how sovereign countries have the right to joint whatever military alliances they want and invite onto their soil whatever foreign soldiers they want?

Surprise! Seems that does not apply to everyone:

abc.net.au/news/2022-04-2…
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Apr 21
CNN+ had a short life -- if you blinked, you missed it -- but the light it cast upon the world was dull, banal and pointless, like a wisp of wind that you're not even sure blew by.

By next Wednesday, nobody will remember it existed, and that's sad.😢 What will Chris Wallace do?
How could *this* have possibly failed?

Who even wants to live in a world where millions of people didn't step up to a computer screen with their credit cards in their hand ready to pay for this, even though nobody wants to watch it for free?

I don't want to do this for the rest of the afternoon but I'm not sure I possess the self-discipline to stop:

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Apr 20
NEW: Former Intelligence Officials, Citing Russia, Insist That Big Tech's Monopoly Power is Vital to U.S. National Security

greenwald.substack.com/p/former-intel…
When the U.S. Security State announces that Big Tech's centralized censorship power must be preserved, this reveals much about whom this regime serves.

And note: the letter's signers spread the pre-election disinformation scam about Biden's emails, while others are paid shills.
This letter reflects desperation on the part of Big Tech and their Deep State allies. Bills to rein in Big Tech have attracted broad bipartisan support because public animosity is now pervasive.

This letter tries to exploit anger toward Russia into a full defense of Big Tech: Image
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