I know some have forgotten about the 2017 hoax called "Hamilton68," but it's vital: it was the first attempt to launch this fraudulent "disinformation expertise," and the first clear sign of the new political union: Dems, neocons (Bill Kristol) and CIA.

theintercept.com/2017/07/17/wit…
Using the Twitter Files, @mtaibbi yesterday unearthed all-new proof it was a knowing fraud. Twitter knew it was a fraud.

But media outlets refuse to report what he showed because *they used it mindlessly. We covered this and talked to Taibbi last night:

rumble.com/v27doi6--syste…
Again, this is why I say that no matter how much you hate large media corporations, **it's not enough.**

When they get caught lying, they never admit it, all while they lecture you on the evils "disinformation." It comes most *from* them. They used this fraud again and again:
Even Twitter execs like Yoel Roth -- as much of a left-liberal ideologue as it gets -- recognized Hamilton68 as an *obvious* fraud.

But the idiots and liars populating corporate media -- I'm sorry: they are -- treated it like Gospel to accuse people of being Kremlin agents.👇
What's so insidious about how corporate media overnight invented new and fake fields of expertise - "disinformation experts," "anti-extremist experts," "online safety experts" - is it disguises politicized propaganda as science. One of the best articles:

harpers.org/archive/2021/0…
From 2000-2012, the single most hated figure in US politics and media among the US liberal-left was Bill Kristol. Perhaps only Dick Cheney competed.

I've never seen one of them ponder what it means that he is now a major thought leader and operative for their political faction.
This reporting from @mtaibbi contains irrefutable proof that Hamilton68 was a hoax.

Just as was true of the media outlets that spread the CIA lie that the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation," not one outlet that spread this hoax has mentioned this:

Do you see what media outlets do?

When caught red-handed lying, they won't go back and admit it happened or even discuss the unearthed evidence that proves it. *They lie on purpose.*

When they lecture you about "disinformation," scornful laughter is the only rational response.

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Jan 30
This is so well-deserved and good for the country.

CNN turned itself into a fanatical political PAC during the Trump era, got a few quick sugar highs, hired an army of US Security State operatives, and ratified one lie after the next with no retractions or accountability:
Just look at this alone:

Everyone who works at CNN knows it spread an outright lie before the 2020 election: the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation."

Not one ever told their audience it was false or they spread it, let alone apologized for it:

A major reason employees of media corporations basically declared war on me and a few others is we saw the frauds they were spreading in real-time and objected.

Taibbi just proved Hamilton68 was a hoax. They all used it. It was easy to see at the time:

Read 6 tweets
Jan 28
A few interesting political ironies to the 2023 Australian Open tennis Grand Slam to finish Sunday with the men's finals.

In sum: UK warmongers and bigots and their now-disgraced Wimbledon just got more humiliated 🇬🇧, while the idiocy of Australia's COVID extremism is clearer.🇦🇺
The women's champion is the powerful Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka. She was banned in 2022 from Wimbledon with all Russians/Belarusians: the only Grand Slam to do that.

Wimbledon not only lost all ranking points and got fined, but it demeaned its own winners by banning top players. Image
Sabalenka today defeated 2022 Wimbledon champ Elena Rybakina: a Russian woman allowed to play in Wimbledon only because she started playing for Kazakhstan for financial reasons.

Wimbledon disgraced itself by banning many top players due to nationality, and that was the result.😂 Image
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Jan 27
BREAKING: Brazil's left-wing President, @LulaOficial, rejected a request from Germany to provide arms for German tanks in Ukraine.

Lula said Brazil intends to remain neutral in the war. He previously argued NATO/US/Ukraine bears 50% of fault for the war.

theguardian.com/world/2022/may…
That opposition to the NATO/CIA/EU position on the war in Ukraine makes you a far-right fascist is one of the most laughably stupid narrative fairy tales yet disseminated.

Much of the international left shares Lula's views on the war because, there, the "left" isn't "Bernie/AOC"
The war in Ukraine was one of the very few areas where Lula and Bolsonaro basically agreed: that Brazil should stay out.

Zelensky lambasted Bolsonaro in an interview but Ukraine then put Lula on a list of "Russian propagandists" (along with me, @TulsiGabbard, @RandPaul, etc.).
Read 6 tweets
Jan 27
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) accuses the Biden Admin of not doing enough for Ukraine. Says tanks are not enough, that Biden waited too long to give them, implies he's soft on Russia.

Cotton demands US give everything to Ukraine it needs to win. 🇺🇦🇺🇦

foxnews.com/opinion/bidens…
They first got Americans to believe Russia blew up its own pipeline -- sometimes I think they purposely disseminate the most laughable disinformation possible just as a show of power -- and now Biden's goon is laughing with Ted Cruz about its destruction.
How do American continue to believe that the two parties hate each other, that they have nothing in common, that they can't get along, when - on the most consequential issues by far -- they are in full agreement? 80% of the GOP caucus voted for Biden's war policy in Ukraine.
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Jan 26
The ability of India to force Twitter and YouTube to ban a documentary - upon threat of blocking the platforms from the country - is a huge threat.

But it's happening everywhere.

Rumble is blocked in France because it refuses to censor RT. Brazil is about to block Telegram.
On last night's @SystemUpdate_, we examined exactly this question:

Who pretends to oppose Big Tech censorship for their own aggrandizement, and who actually opposes it?

At some point, a *genuine cause* requires sacrifice of self-interest to defend it:

rumble.com/v273orq-everyo…
To examine this problem -- some people and companies posing as Big Tech opponents while doing nothing -- we examined several new events:

* DOJ suit against Google
* Crowder/Shapiro conflict
* Twitter/FB/YT buckling to Brazil's censorship demands
* Rumble's conflict with France.
Read 6 tweets
Jan 25
Glad to see more and more international media attention now paid to the extraordinary dangers posed by the powers wielded by Brazilian Judge Alexandre de Moraes.

Today from the @AP: "Crusading judge tests boundaries of free speech in Brazil"

sports.yahoo.com/crusading-judg…
As this @AP article notes, many Brazilian legal specialists -- including some who began as his defenders -- are increasingly concerned about the limitless powers he wields and the willingness of the left - which once hated him - and the media to cheer anything he does.
It's hard not to notice that there is much more debate and reporting about the dangers of Moraes' powers from the international press than Brazil's. One of the AP reporters is Brazilian. More experts are speaking out.

But the fear is real. Please read:

sports.yahoo.com/crusading-judg…
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