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Feb 24 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Tonight on @SystemUpdate_, live at 7pm ET:

One year into the war, Biden has utterly failed to unite the world behind Ukraine and against Russia. We'll examine why.

Plus: Our Week in Review, with @mtracey reporting from Munich:

rumble.com/v2at85u-system…
In addition to how and why the world is divided on Ukraine, we'll review:

- The joint CNN/CIA attempt to fortify GOP support for war in Ukraine by linking Russia and China;

- The growing "snitch" systems on college campuses;

- @MTracey's reporting on the Munich Conference.
We'll devote a full show to it next week because it merits it, but we'll also touch tonight on Brazil's plan, under Lula's new government, to implement the democratic world's first law banning and punishing "Fake News" online, detailed in this thread:

"Nearly half of African countries abstained or were absent from the vote to condemn Russia, suggesting a growing reluctance in many nations to accept an American narrative....

In South Africa, ties to Russia go back to Soviet support to end apartheid."

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
We'll also review this op-ed published by Brazil's largest paper, @Folha, on how Biden can't rally support for the US role in Ukraine because most of the world, knowing US history and the role of the CIA, disbelieves propaganda about its love of democracy and human rights.
And finally, we'll examine the central role that Victoria Nuland and her sprawling neocon family has played in so many of America's wars, including her fixation on Ukraine and how she manages to run it across all administrations (except Trump's): 👇

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Feb 25
So will this be the policy going forward from now on? When a newspaper like the NYT or the WPost get an exclusive sent to them by a government source, or when CNN and NBC get told what to say by the CIA, will they immediately share it all with every other news organization?
Remember when Rachel Maddow announced she had been given exclusive copies of Trump's tax returns (which she then spent 35 minutes introducing because it revealed nothing)?

I don't remember a single person demanding she share it with all news outlets to ensure proper coverage.
Nancy Pelosi's daughter - who isn't a journalist or a security expert or anything: just Nancy's daughter - was given security footage of Fort McNair- the secure space on 1/6 - in order to make a film about her mom, and nobody objected that this compromised security.
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Feb 24
George W. Bush invaded Iraq -- not a neighboring country but one of the other side of the world. He instituted a worldwide torture regime. He spied on Americans without warrants. He created CIA dark sites.

And Nancy Pelosi can't heap enough praise on his Goodness and nobility.
When Bush and Cheney did all that, Pelosi was the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, was brief on it and approved of it.

The value of Donald Trump was that these shitty, criminal elites united to obtain absolution by pretending Trump was unprecedented evil.
If you believe *these people* are morally offended by what Russia is doing in Ukraine; that they believe in the "rules-based international order"; that they hate illegal invasions and war crimes; that the 2 parties are radically different, than your gullibility is off the charts.
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Feb 24
Brazil, under Lula's new government, is poised to become the first democratic country (unless you count Singapore and Malaysia) to restrict, govern and ban what it and various officials regard as "fake news" and "disinformation" online. Brazil's left and its media largely united.
There are now countries with laws banning and punishing "fake news": Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Qatar (where those guilty of "fake news" can be jailed for 5 years). The results are exactly what you'd expect: dissent is deemed "false" or dangerous. Turkey:

theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…
The core advancement of the Enlightenment was we can't trust human institutions to decree Truth and Falsity and punish those who spread "false" ideas. This is now being abandoned. My first @Folha column is on this and will soon be online in English.

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One of the most decent people on this site talks in a very candid and empathetic way about a sudden brain cancer diagnosis he got. Best wishes to @DrewHolden360 for the best and fastest recovery possible, and his thread is highly recommended:
Our family has had to navigate our own horrific health crisis over the last 7 months. @Davidmirandario is finally starting to improve and rehabilitate, but, like Drew, I've thought often about how people who don't have all the immense benefits, privileges and care David has had.
I'll write about this soon and I hope David, once he's able, will, too. Beyond what it teaches you about life's fragility (👇), grave inequality in health care is a moral crime. I've thought a lot about what people must endure who don't have what we did.

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Feb 23
From the start of the war in Ukraine, the US media continuously claimed "the international community" is united behind the US (that phrase always means: W. Europe and whatever countries happen to side with the US).

Today, the NYT recognizes the truth:

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
A couple of key paragraphs from the NYT story that deflates and debunks the inspiring and from-the-start obviously false fairy tale that "the international community" was united with the US in support of Ukraine:
The WashPost has a very similar concession this morning. While all the usual DC militarism advocates -- people like @BillKristol, @DavidFrum and @Mattduss -- pen homages to the diplomatic genius of Biden, the headline of the Post article tells a far different story:
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I personally wish alcohol abuse were far higher on the list of health concerns. It ravages a huge number of families, debilitates millions, and causes so many wrecked lives and premature deaths. Its glorification makes it hard to stigmatize it. But the CDC data is clear: Image
The vast, vast majority of "Unintentional injury" deaths -- the leading cause of deaths for all Americans 45 and under -- are from "poisoning" (65-70%), and the vast, vast majority of those (85-90% ) are drug overdoses. It's completely rational to see opioids/fentanyl this way. ImageImage
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