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Sep 16

President Biden just appointed the multi-billionaire heiress Penny Pritzker – Obama's chief mega-donor – to oversee the profiteering plans in Ukraine of BlackRock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs: to "rebuild" the country with US funds once Raytheon and Boeing are done profiteering from its destruction.

As the Ukraine war rages on and thousands of Ukranians’ lives are ruined and displaced, while Americans and Europeans endure economic harm, a select group of Americans continues profiting off the continued conflict: Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and the rest of the military industrial complex.

@GGreenwald “I would submit you have to either be very naive or someone drowning in either hearing propaganda or disseminating it to believe that it's a gigantic coincidence that the companies who wield the most power in Washington happen to be greatly profiting from the number one policy priority of the US security state, which is the war in Ukraine.”

It must be a simple coincidence that Biden’s Secretary of Defense and steadfast supporter of the Ukraine war, Lloyd Austin, was once on Raytheon’s Board of Directors.

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Sep 15

As US public support for the war erodes, Zelensky and his spokespeople are now overtly threatening both the West and war critics. Zelensky has moved to full-on extortion, making threats about what might just happen if aid to Ukraine were cut off.

.@GGreenwald “He's essentially saying: “I have terror cells embedded in your country. And if you give into your population's growing hesitance to keep sending all of this money to our war and keep enduring higher energy prices in the risk of escalation, nuclear war, if you stop that, I'm not saying I would tell them to do it, but no telling what they might start to do to you, these millions of Ukrainian refugees that you now have embedded in your country.’”

Besides Zelenky’s outright shakedown on the West, Ukraine ramped up its threats through propagandist outlets with a new and obviously unwell official American spokesperson for their Territorial Defense Forces who promises that all “Kremlin agents” will “pay for their crimes.”

.@GGreenwald “They're threatening specifically a Russian propagandist, what they're calling a Russian propagandist, which as we know from that quote I just referenced from President Zelensky and the Economist, means anybody who questions the war, anybody who questions the accuracy of the claims of the Ukrainian government or who questions the war effort itself.”

These threats coincide with the ongoing imprisonment of Gonzalo Lira, an American blogger arrested for expressing anti-war sentiments — which as the Ukrainian government has made abundantly clear, is tantamount to working for the Kremlin

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Sep 15

Polls show that Americans’ confidence in the Biden administration is steadily declining — in part due to concerns over Biden's age but especially due to anger and fear over the economy — which wealthy Democratic pundits chide and lecture them for, saying they need to realize how good they have it.

Instead of empathizing with most Americans about their warranted economic anxieties, Democrats instead patronize their constituents by insisting that their economic perceptions are just misinformed. On top of this, they’ve chosen multimillionaires as their economic spokespeople, as an act of further condescension.

.@GGreenwald “Their strategy is basically to attack the validity of their perceptions, to tell them that they might wake up and think the economy is doing poorly for them in their own lives, but they don't understand their own lives. They're misguided about their own views of their experiences every day.”

.@GGreenwald “Instead of trying to understand what those problems are and how to address them, they're basically sitting here saying: ‘I'm looking at the data and these people are mystifying to me. What do they want, these people? We're getting them an economy where they get to take their kids out to dinner once in a while. They want more than that?’”

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Sep 10

Elon Musk is under fire, again, this time from neocons and corporate journalists insisting that his refusal to turn on Starlink satellites to enable an escalation of Ukraine's military actions amounts to a form of treason.

From where does this obligation come? Do we care that this attack may have caused a major escalation of this war?

It’s never been easier to be a “Russian propagandist” or “Kremlin agent” now (just don’t expect a paycheck) — all it takes is voicing any view oppositional to the prevailing media view on our involvement in Ukraine.

.@GGreenwald “The reason why Elon Musk is being targeted by the ADL as an anti-Semite and now being depicted as a traitor to his country, the United States… is not because necessarily they're angry about what he did in Ukraine, although they are, but more so because it's punishment for his refusal to censor on demand.”

The media continues its relentless attacks on Elon Musk because he poses an existential threat to what they hold most dear –– their ability to silence any opposition.

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Sep 7

The Washington Post’s latest “disinformation study” – sponsored by the EU with an Omidyar-funded group that accuses Twitter of failing to censor "Russian propaganda" – is another in a long line of fraudulent attempts to justify censorship with pro-censorship demands.

Looking at the underlying study makes the fraud here manifest: the same type of fraud on which the newly emerged "disinformation industry" depends.

The EU-led study insisted that Elon Musk’s new Twitter policies, and those of other Big Tech platforms, help spread Russian propaganda –– by which they mean that Musk's reduction of political censorship on the site, and the "failure" of Big Tech generally to censor upon command, is "dangerous."

.@ggreenwald “I know we're all trying to think of the EU as these nice, soft Democrats with a small D, but in the name of prosecuting this war, in the name of their powers on COVID and just in general, they are really aggressively seeking to prevent dissent on the internet in exactly the kind of authoritarian and totalitarian way we are always trained to believe is done by our enemies.”

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Sep 6

.@ggreenwald “They are attempting to seize the power to dictate what you can and cannot say, which political opinions you may and may not express, over virtually every consequential online platform, with very severe real-world consequences if you violate their decrees.”

The ADL has fully and openly abandoned its original aim of defending free speech and fighting bigotry, and now instead uses its decades of goodwill to assist the Democratic party in its censoring any perceived opposition.

.@ggreenwald “Exploitation of anti-Semitism has weakened the term because people realize it no longer means what it originally was supposed to mean, which was harboring animus for Jewish people based on simply who they are. But instead, it's a club, a tool, a weapon, to attack people who don't agree with you on a particular issue. And the more those terms are weaponized that way, transparently, the more of the sting they lose, the more trivialized they become.”

@ggreenwald The ADL’s reach goes beyond just social media, they’ve also been working with PayPal to “censor” extremists — as in, ensuring people they don’t agree with have no access to their finances.

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