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Not only is corporate media like @AP predictably running hit pieces on Rumble for its crime of not obeying censorship orders of the neoliberal establishment, but British media outlets are explicitly threatening that Rumble will be banned from the UK under its repressive new law:
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I can't emphasize this enough:

The top priority of western elites is internet control: the Snowden story was about online surveillance; since 2016, it is about censorship.

Ane platform defying this regime will not just be maligned, but threatened with *nationwide* banning.
The British press is now invoking the new and repressive "Online Safety Bill" not only to argue that Rumble can and should be banned entirely from the UK, but tabloids are also insinuating its executives could be subject to *arrest* when entering the UK.

thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2…
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We watched the western press completely reverse itself when it came to @ElonMusk, turning him into public enemy number one for merely suggesting he'd refuse their censorship commands. He now faces all sorts of reprisals.

What's being done to Rumble is a new major escalation. Image

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Sep 26
It's obviously shocking that Trudeau, Zelensky and the entire Canadian Parliament gave a standing ovation to a Nazi SS soldier.

But it's not surprising. The last decade, Western political and media circles warned Nazism was dominant in Ukraine, especially among its fighters.
I've never seen a sudden Orwellian revision of history the way Western media re-wrote everything on Ukraine soon as Russia invaded:

It went from calling Azov "Nazis" to calling them heroes; from warning of neo-Nazism in Ukraine to maligning such warnings as Russian propaganda.


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This media revisionism should disturb you no matter your views on Ukraine.

If you want argue it's worth it to arm Nazis and Banderites with sophisticated weaponry, argue that.

But pretending Ukrainian neo-Nazism is fake will keep producing embarrassments like the Canadian one.


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Sep 25
In 2016, the top priority of CIA and its media allies was regime change against Assad. Obama's restraints on CIA was the only time they turned against him some, and it was Trump's far more explicit and steadfast opposition that first triggered CIA and neocon hatred of him:
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Since Feb. 2022, the top priority of CIA and its media allies has been arming Ukraine and fueling that war. Nothing compares.

Look at what has happened to anyone in the West who has questioned let alone opposed that war policy. The attacks are multi-pronged and limitless.
The Dem-loyal left always searches for ways to prove their radicalism despite loyalty to Biden/Dems. One way: they denounce CIA's *past* abuses - so brave - but never present ones.

They imply abuses are of the past. Yet CIA's propaganda war over Ukraine has been unparalleled.
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Sep 25
It's now happened so often -- efforts to honor Ukrainians have led Westerners to cheer Nazis and SS adherents -- that one can create a Favorites list.

Mine is when Mark Hamill proudly showed off his lovely chat with Azov fighters, only to learn they had a Nazi flag behind them.
The point - obviously - isn't that all or most Ukrainians are Nazis. Of course they're not.

It's that the western press and US elites spent a decade warning that neo-Nazis fighters were dominant in Ukraine, and we're now funding and arming them.

Yes, @ADL has been notably silent about the standing ovation given by Zelensky and Canada's parliament to an SS fighter, just like environmental activists are about the destruction of Nord Stream 2, one of the worst environmental disasters in years.

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Sep 24
Zelensky begged Westerners to get offline and go to Ukraine to fight, knowing lack of soldiers would be a key liability.

I'm sure there are good reasons most didn't - in his case👇: love of streaming about video games - but sending conscripts to die isn't evidence of courage.
It's hard to overstate what a major factor this delusion has played in US/EU wars over 2 decades: Western men with no strength or courage who decide cheerleading wars - ones they send others to fight - will prove their bravery and give them purpose.

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None of this proves the right position on Ukraine.

But I have seen way too many neocon pundits and their neoliberal allies prance around as brave Churchillian warriors merely for sending *others* to fight in wars they cheerlead, while branding as cowards those who don't. Image
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Sep 23
Once again: the liberal-left conceit that one must "move right" in order to self-enrich is the biggest joke.

By far the easiest and most guaranteed way to become rich in media is plant yourself in the Dem Party, then speak and write on how the US Right are evil crazy fascists.
The actual left in the US (meaning the ones having nothing to do with the Dem Party) remains marginalized or worse.

But in every sector, the quickest, easiest route to media wealth since 2016 is to brand as pro-Dem, anti-Trump alarmists. Even the Lincoln Project knows this.👇


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The reason this strain of the pro-Dem liberal-left insists one must "move right" to become rich is they need to believe they are threats to power centers (😂).

But all these examples show what a farce that is. Those motivated by wealth follow the obvious media Trump script.
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Sep 20
Ukraine's military has long been employing a disturbed American, @SarahAshtonLV, as its English spokesperson.

We covered last week their insane, deranged threats to hunt down and punish all "Russian propagandists," meaning anyone (including Americans) critical of Ukraine:
Before the war, Zelensky closed opposition media. Under martial law, they now abducted a US citizen/journalist critical of Zelensky: Gonzalo Lira, who this person helped arrest.

Kudos to @JDVance1 for denouncing this repression against Americans:

@JDVance1 While Ukraine demands more and more money and weapons from US citizens, they have repeatedly put US journalists and politicians on dangerous official "Russian propagandist" lists for questioning the US role.

What odd behavior for a "democracy":

unherd.com/thepost/ukrain…
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