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The UK is the West's most authoritarian country. Its elite culture is repressive. No free press guarantees.

They're imprisoning Assange (as most British journalists cheer). They forced the Guardian to destroy its computers. Now, redolent of what they did to my husband in 2013:
As part of the Snowden/NSA story, I did reporting in 2 dozen countries. The UK Govt, and its servile media, were by far the most authoritarian, threatening, and pro-spying.

The GCHQ was used to do the dirtiest work even NSA wouldn't. A small portion of what they did. ImageImageImageImage
Many mock their reverence for monarchy. They like to pretend it's just fun tradition, but it shows the authoritarianism at the heart of UK's elite culture.

This insane 2013 interview I did on BBC's flagship news show highlights its media's subservience:

The NYT just reported how the UK media - led by the Guardian - long protected Nick Cohen from widely known complaints of his harassment (stop calling him a "left-wing columnist").

Its media is the worst: the planet's most hive-minded, incestuous pack of homogenous herd animals. ImageImageImageImage
Here's the NYT article on how the British media united to shield Cohen from harassment allegations which - if it had been someone who challenges establishment pieties - they would have gleefully weaponized. Even now, most UK media refuses to mention it:

nytimes.com/2023/05/30/wor…
The Grayzone is anti-establishment and its reporting opposes the US/UK Security State, so the UK media will ignore what the UK did to this reporter (if not cheer it), the way they have fueled Assange's persecution.

Everything in the UK media is about one's in-group status.
How do you get yourself to do this? I guess it's all they have left. Image

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May 30
Tonight on @SystemUpdate_ , live at 7pm ET:

The war in Ukraine escalates again, with drones attacking residential buildings in Moscow.

Plus: one of the Kremlin's most terrifying weapons -- a whale trained to be a Russian spy -- resurfaces in Norway.

rumble.com/v2r0bui-system… Image
The drone strikes in Moscow targeted residential buildings.

Ukraine previously blew up a Russian blogger's car, killing his daughter. It exploded a bomb in a St. Petersburg café, killing a journalist, injuring 19.

Is this terrorism? Does the US support this type of targeting? ImageImageImage
Finally: what's the limiting principle for US involvement, if there is one?'

Biden has repeatedly reversed himself, now sending F-16s.

If we send F-16s, why not bigger bombs? Why not let them use the F-16s to bomb Moscow? Why not tactical nukes? Why not US boots on the ground?
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May 24
The Dems' new beloved Twitter star, Rep. @danielsgoldman (D-LeviStrauss), is one of Congress' 20 richest members, due entirely to the unearned wealth he got from his dad, also an heir.

As he venerates FBI, he has major holdings in Big Tech, Big Pharma and military contractors. Image
He won his seat for 2 reasons:

1) His billionaire family is close friends of the Sulzbeger Family, so the NYT endorsed him (gold for Manhattan voters).

2) He spent 3 times more than the Black incumbent, @MondaireJones, due to his own money and cash from his dad's rich friends. Image
Nobody can help how they're born. But if you're a billionaire heir; everything handed to you; you're always told you're better, surrounded by sycophants:

It's hard to avoid being a snide asshole with a superiority complex. This shows he never managed:

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May 23
Democrats revere the US Security State. Criticizing the FBI or CIA is taboo in liberal politics now. Polls show Dems regard these agencies with great trust.

We continue to get abundant evidence that FBI abuses its power. Yet for Dems, opposing FBI is a sign of bad character.
The FBI still works in the "J. Edgar Hoover Building" in DC. Numerous investigations over the last 3 years concluded FBI abused its power for political ends. They have repeatedly broken the law in how they spy.

Yet they abuse their power for Dems, and Dems thus revere them.
One can't conjure a more perfect avatar of authoritarian Dem politics than @danielsgoldman That's why liberals swoon as he speaks.

A billionaire heir from Manhattan who reeks of entitlement syndrome, he decrees that only those of bad character would criticize the sacred FBI. Image
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May 23
The 2001 Anthrax Attacks is one of the 5 most consequential events of the last 30 years (with 9/11, 2008 financial crisis, and COVID).

Despite the many unresolved mysteries - or because of them - it's been memory-holed.

We explored this last night, and its relevance to COVID:
Among other things:

* Within days, key political and media institutions falsely blamed Iraq for anthrax.

* Mueller's FBI took 7 years to claim it solved the case, blaming a dead man.

* Most mainstream outlets doubted FBI's story.

* FBI says anthrax came from a USG lab: ImageImageImageImage
This is why it's so vital to revisit the now-fogotten Anthrax Attacks:

Within days, top officials lied about tests performed on the anthrax to blame Iraq. The media knows who, but won't say.

FBI's case is full of evidentiary and scientific holes.

rumble.com/v2pcs3i-system… Image
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May 21
A newly released Harris-Harvard poll conclusively demonstrates how radically out of touch is liberal corporate media with the views of Americans.

It's not just that corporate media rejects Americans' views. They don't permit those views to be heard.

harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/upl…
To start:

Majorities of Americans say it's *false* that Trump colluded with Russia. The the Steele Dossier is also "false."

In other words, they view the story the US media aggressively centered for 3 years as a hoax and a fraud, yet NBC and CNN won't even air this view. Image
Americans also believe that the materials on the Hunter Biden laptop are real, and are not and never were "Russian disinformation."

So again, Americans view the claim that the US corporate media and CIA spread for weeks before the 2020 election - to help Biden win - as a fraud. 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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