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May 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Tonight on @SystemUpdate_, live at 7pm ET: We'll examine the RFK, Jr's candidacy and his vaccine skepticism, looking at his interview with @krystalball.

What determines when a disagreement becomes a "red line," disqualifying someone from consideration?

rumble.com/v2oje24-system…
We'll also dissect the new law signed by Montana's GOP Gov. Greg Gianforte, which bans the use of TikTok -- even by adult Montanas -- in that state.

The lesson of 9/11 was that all new powers demanded in the name of a foreign threat require critical scrutiny. We'll provide that.
As for RFK and vaccines: how politicians get called "crazy," or are deemed off-limits, was one I first noticed in 2012, when Obama sought re-election and Ron Paul was a GOP candidate.

Establishment views - even when utterly deranged - are never deemed "crazy." #SystemUpdateLive Image
A key point we'll examine is raised by Taibbi's tweet.

Establishment figures spent years spreading the most deranged conspiracy: the Kremlin seized control of the US through sexual blackmail.

But they're never called "crazy": that term is only for anti-establishment dissidents: Image

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May 19
Tonight on @SystemUpdate_, live at 7pm ET:

Why do the US and EU's key propaganda arms fund Bellingcat? And why is Bellingcat so vocally protected by NBC and CNN?

Plus: Biden kills more innocents with drones, and the media again lies for him:

rumble.com/v2or48g-system…
After Elon Musk accurately said Bellingcat exists to spread "psy ops" for the US and EU Security State, multiple NBC and CNN personalities rose to their defense.

Neither network disclosed they are official partners of Bellingcat, nor disclosed Bellingcat's funding sources: ImageImage
MSBNC's @chrislhayes - one of Biden's most devoted TV loyalists - purported to refute these claims by inviting a Bellingcat operative on: so 2 people, as usual, in full agreement.

Never once did he mention this partnership or Bellingcat's US/EU funding.

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May 17
That @bellingcat is funded by the US Govt's CIA-adjacent arms (the National Endowment for Democracy) and EU government agencies is well-documented (including in its own financial forms).

Of course its biggest fans are those whose views fully align with US Govt foreign policy.
Few things are more revealing than the fact that the outfit funded by the CIA's propaganda arms and EU government agencies (and Soros) is not only considered a "news outlet" by Western "journalists," but the one they most revere.

It's full alignment, an all-but explicit axis. ImageImageImage
Oh, wow - judging by replies, @bellingcat propagandists have convinced their followers that it's "Russian propaganda" to believe their funder, NED, is an arm of the US Govt and CIA. Propaganda is enabled by historical ignorance.

From the well-known Kremlin outlet @propublica: Image
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May 17
This is exactly what has been happening for years. Governments tell Big Tech: censor who we hate or you'll be banned from our country. And they comply.

Brazil has been doing this for months. But this NYT tech reporter doesn't know or care because the targets were conservatives.
The NYT even published two separate articles about this: how one Brazilian judge has become the super-censor. He forced multiple Big Tech companies to censor leading right-wing candidates before the election, and censor the top vote-getter in Congress.

nytimes.com/2022/10/21/wor…
In January -- after this power was supposed to expire -- we obtained a secret censorship order from this judge. It ordered Twitter, FB, Google and others to censor right-wing Congress members, with massive penalties for failure to obey. They all obeyed.

rumble.com/v25depn-exclus…
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May 17
Two weeks ago, we learned it was CIA itself -- not just 51 "former intelligence officials" -- which engineered the lie that the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation."

This means we know for sure the US Security State directly manipulated 2 consecutive national elections.
There was indeed illegal and corrupt interference in the 2016 and 2020 elections.

But it didn't come from Trump/Russia collusion. It came from the US Security State.

And it's so telling that the self-anointed "defenders of democracy" cheer rather than condemn this despotism.
And the willingness of the media to flagrantly re-write history in the most Orwellian way possible is stunning.

For decades, John Durham was heralded as one of the nation's most apolitical federal prosecutors. See NYT, 2009. Now, he's a right-wing hack:

nytimes.com/2008/01/13/us/… Image
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May 17
To understand why most of corporate media has deservedly lost all public trust, look at how they are minimizing the Durham Report.

For decades in DC, John Durham was heralded as one of the US's most apolitical, trustworthy federal prosecutors. NYT, 2009:

nytimes.com/2008/01/13/us/… Image
Just read the report for yourself. There is no denying how devastating it is.

It makes clear that the "scandal" that strangled our politics for years was a fraud, concocted by FBI's abuse of power for political ends. Only @jaketapper acknowledges it:

We know for sure the US Security State directly and deliberately interfered in and manipulated 2 consecutive national elections: 2016 with Russiagate, and 2020 with the Biden laptop "Russian disinformation" fraud.

Few things are more anti-democratic.

wsj.com/articles/biden…
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May 16
This is the living, breathing embodiment of the worst kind of unearned entitlement -- someone born into a billionaire family, who has lived his life off his dad's wealth, who bought his seat because his family are close friends of the Sulzbergers, so the NYT endorsed him:
The patronizing snideness of @danielsgoldman is so much worse given @Julio_Rosas11 is the best kind of a working-class journalist: unlike Goldman, he built everything he has with hard and courageous work.

Note Goldman's main Dem-like complaint: Rosas dares to disagree with FBI.
This is why @danielgoldman is too much of a coward to allow those whom he publicly maligns to respond -- not only because that's the standard behavior of a little boy whose billionaire daddy coddled him, but because this is what he'll always hear:

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