Twitter Bans RT and Sputnik Ads - McCarthyist Assault on #AltMedia Continues
Can't say I'm surprised by this one bit.
Twitter Inc on Thursday banned advertisements from accounts owned by Russian media outlets Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, citing allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that the outlets tried to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election. [..]
Election-meddling is “not something we want on Twitter,” the San Francisco-based social network said in an unsigned statement.
“We did not come to this decision lightly, and are taking this step now as part of our ongoing commitment to help protect the integrity of the user experience on Twitter,” the company said.
What election meddling? Telling the truth is now election meddling? Reporting facts rather than mere suppositions and lies is now election meddling? Real Journalism is now election meddling? Are we all Russian agents now when we expose the lies and propaganda being spread in mainstream, major media outlets (e.g., NY TImes, Washington Post, Fox News, MsNBC, CNN, to name but a few) every damn day?
YouTube has already demonetized many popular RT programs, as well as many other progressive sites from The Sane Progressive (who has moved to bitchute as a result of having her videos removed by YouTube), to Secular Report to Tim Black, among countless others.
So to say I am surprised Twitter is moving toward censorship of alternative news sources is shocking would be a lie. But the fact they are doing it as a result of naked allegations by "US intelligence agencies" without any basis in fact is disturbing to say the least. We are quickly headed down a road where the only news outlets that will be allowed to broadcast will be owned by large multinational corporations doing the bidding of their corporate sponsors and advertisers, which includes the US military oh by the way, with an ad budget of over $1.4 Billion.
Anyone reporting stories that don't comply with the approved narratives of large corporations, or that threaten the agenda of the intelligence community and the US Military, are now squarely in the cross-hairs. They mean to take alternative media down by marginalizing its influence, making it too expensive for alternative news outlets to remain in business and by direct censorship where they deem it necessary. Those of us who frequent political sites are aware of this dangerous trend, but the vast majority of Americans who do not spend much time watching the news are often unaware how much "fake news" is being promoted by major media outlets. It's been going on for a while now, but Trump's election seems to have accelerated the process. The "New McCarthyism" is in full swing.
And whether you like Trump or despise him, as I do, this is not "good news" for the future of our country, and more importantly for the future of its people.
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And Patreon started banning artists...
who don't do nice, friendly censored work for a mainstream media audience.
Apparently there were rumors that an "Expose" on their enabling of pornography was imminent.
Honestly, it is now to the point where unless you toe EXACTLY the corporate line, they will take away your money.
And if you claim it's your livelihood, they claim that's not their problem.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
@detroitmechworks Oh fuck.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
The Same "People" Who Sponsor Our Politicians Sponsor Our
media.
And I know everybody "knows" that, but do they?
I've never heard it said like that before, and I've been an anti-corporate activist for decades.
We need to push that, HARD, expand upon it, and make it real live conventional wisdom.
Pretty scary stuff.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Do We Need to Ban Newspapers for Endorsements?
I mean, isn't that election meddling via the media?
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
@k9disc Only if you're opposing
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
OK, shit is getting real...or more real...
do we want to discuss what we want to do to secure our connections to each other--our ability to communicate?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Yes, but Not Here.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ystMcVC9JVI]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
@detroitmechworks Good point.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I've been suggesting this for a while.
Finding an alternate opt-in communication method.
But now that we have Adolph Twitler enthusiastically acting as the Thought Police of American minds, which is an historic moment of Constitutional failure, we might have to acknowledge the risk could be greater than the reward. Our success in influencing influencers in their own analysis and critical thinking puts the spotlight on us. That was fine when the plutocrats weren't panicking over their dead Petrodollar and worthless bonds and freaking out that their empire might actually be dead and the sun finally setting on dollar hegemony after yesterday's convertible gold-yuan debut. God only knows what they will do when the only "enemy" they can get their hands on is the domestic intelligentsia. The media and journalists folded like cheap suits, early on. We're swimming naked.
Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
Has anyone done an essay
About the gold/yuan debut yet? I'm not sure I fully understand the implications of it in relation to the U.S. Dollar, and I suspect I am not alone in my desire to understand the connection.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
I have one ready to go.
But I've been waiting for it to make the news in the US. That would give it relevance and speed the learning curve, and allow me to counter any specific misinformation.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world is having a conversation about it and making plans. Change is in bloom, one would think the US would want to participate. This, out of a think tank in the Netherlands, is not untypical:
The world knows what needs to be done. Ending the Dollar's reserve currency bullying will create an opportunity for Americans to take their country back. I wish they could be forewarned so they knew what to expect (and whom to blame).
Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
Good to hear
Especially since money is the ultimate driving force infecting the sociopaths running this country, it seems prudent to understand the bigger picture.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Question For You All:
I came to the conclusion a few days ago that there is a significant difference between a Sociopath and a Psychopath:
Sociopaths care if you know.
So if you know someone is a sociopath, or you have the goods on them, they WILL come for you with a complete lack of morality. Psychopaths? They don't care if you know.
Any thoughts on this?
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
I look forward to reading this essay
Heading out on a rather unexpected and serendipitous bucket list trip on Saturday, to New Zealand. Not taking any electronics save a camera. I may never come back ...
... but when I inevitably do (sigh), C99 is the first place I'm going to visit to get caught up.
Journal of New Eastern Outlook
Basically, if the Yuan moves ahead of the Euro as a reserve currency, the Dollar will be weakened as more counties along the OBOR adopt the Yuan.
Check the article, worth the read.
Stop These Fucking Wars
peace
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Thanks!
Have a great time
Hopefully you will post some of your photos on the Friday night photography essays.
This is on my bucket list.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Thanks, Dawg!
Whatz your take on what Max says?
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
I have become a fan in recent months
…of Max Keiser. I am quite comfortable with his style, even though he derails with some frequency. He has a certain kind of genius.
Thanks for the link. I agree with the facts on the ground as Max describes them. When he describe what is motivating the various players, what they are thinking… he's not going deep. He doesn't know how to read the Chinese, but neither do other Western economists. His insight into financial operations and geopolitical stakes are accurate, and he knows it.
Some of what he has said about US reactions is really interesting. The business about the US attacking a neighboring state to China is right out of the ME playbook. North Korea, in this case. Tens of millions of humans would die, but the the US Dollar would still be history. I don't think Americans would be safe anywhere but inside their colony. So, the Neocons who are running this operation would have little to gain. I know Israel has its heart set on having its own golem running the world, but it's not going to happen in this cosmos. Look at the mess they have made. They will be hunkered down for a thousand years.
The motivations Max states are correct, but incomplete. Certainly, the Saudis were pissed about being hung out for 9/11, but moreso for being accused at all. While he was still a Crown Prince, during a 2012 event with international student journalists, the Saudi involvement in 9/11 came up. An inexperienced Prince Salman blurted out defensively. "We didn't do it. It was Mossad." Who really knows? That aside, the reason the Saudis are willing to break the PetroDollar rule and accept the Yuan for Chinese oil purchases is not due to anger. It's a matter of simple economics. The US isn't a big customer for the Saudis, anymore. China, on the other hand, is huge and willing to build a pipeline to the Saudi's door. China can go elsewhere for oil if the Saudi's demur, but that would cut Saudi Arabia out of the rapidly expanding Asian market, one that it desperately needs. If the Saudi's go for the Yuan, that puts the trading currency in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Canada and Mexico are both eying the Yuan trade. The US made itself "energy independent."
As for China's motivation for the gold-Yuan, that didn't just happen. The West doesn't seem to have any concept of the way the Chinese think. China determined decades ago that they had to build a global banking system to pursue their own interests peacefully. They needed to established system of global banking, trade infrastructure, and communications, along with a strong currency with exchanges throughout the world — all while growing a vigorous, sustainable economy and establishing firm trading networks and infrastructure. This is what I wrote about it:
Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
@Pluto's Republic
Being hung out for 9/11? Er...most of the hijackers were Saudis and then we gave all the Saudi VIPs a plane out of town first thing we could. At what point did we ever pressure the Saudis about the fact that it was a lot of their nationals who committed that atrocity (and it was one, regardless of the fact that the people killed were living in a brutal empire. It's not like most of them had actual power in that empire. Some, yes; not most. And then there's the non-Americans who got killed as well. Wrong place, wrong time. Bad luck.)
It will be a cold day in hell before I shed tears for the Saudi nobles and royalty--we kiss their asses on a regular basis while many of them do things like fund the Islamic State and lead groups that do suicide bombings of civilians on our own soil.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Do you have a link for that quote?
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Here you go, Bisbonian:
You'll find this paper at the Planck Foundation. It's translated from the Dutch, so it can be awkward in places.
Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
What is happening with the possibility of the US dollar
losing its influence and Trump giving countries the excuse to pull away from our influence is the scene from the movie V for vendetta. The newsman is showing scenes of the riots in this country and him asking if anyone cares that this country has collapsed because of its violent goals for global hegemony? The audience shouts "NO".
The next thing I want to see is our war criminals on trial.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Think of Zoebear as a country
it then makes a deal to get it out of the ground and to
buy it in Dollars, Zoebear agree's and then want's to buy
good's from the US that sell's it's goods in Dollars but
Zoebear buys way more than the money from the oil allows
with help from the US allowing Zoebear to go into debt, that's
when the US says no more Dollars for you but we will take
your country and oil for the pleasure of letting the US
lend you worthless paper dollars for your precious black oil.
I think that's about right, excuse any punctuation please.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
@Pluto's Republic
Lol, we're fucked anyway and our best hope is to speak out while we can, rather than rolling up like cheap, disposable socks on top of the cheap suits of which you speak.
If nobody even tries to counter the propaganda in even a small way, we're just knuckling under to ease the way for the fascists.
What exactly would you term denying access by nationality, if not bigotry, if not prejudice?
If Twitter denied access based on skin colour, sexual orientation or gender, wouldn't a boycott be organized?
Personally, if I'd ever joined FB or Twitter, I'd be quitting 'in droves'. It's the users that drive these things and the corporate ads directed at the users that provides the income that gives the wealthy the ability to exert political power by proxy over the public.
In order to target, 'other' and make vulnerable to attack any population group, you first isolate them, prevent them from communicating their shared humanity with the general population, and pour out propaganda against them.
The Psychopaths and Parasites That Be are having a tough time trying to revive that long-debunked 'Commie' scare over what's now a crony-capitalist state, having a hard time trying to scare people over Russians as a people to be bombed, as a country to be invaded. And they think we're stupid and easily manipulated - but this does work on some of the less-well-informed who are limited to corporate propaganda media.
And they're doing the same to us. If we shut up and go undercover, they can normalize McCarthism and fascism that much more easily to the point of creating acceptance of eliminating pacific citizens who speak out. Is that really the way we want to go, cowering silenced and cowed, in a corner until they start coming for internet commenters en masse anyway, based on previous comments?
Maybe, and that would be each person's free choice. But as stated, in any such event, we're fucked already - and we're actually less likely to be disposed of if enough groups like us are standing together, letting it be known that we are some of the many who are not fooled, no matter how many times they make annoying fools of themselves endlessly repeating already debunked Big Lies.
Just had a late dinner while watching this. Man, Jimmy's got it together...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waGnHlRIsWM
If you haven't watched this, and not just the first part about the search engine, then you might really want to learn about the next phase that FB is shifting into, to further reduce exposure to alternate news sources, starting with separating them into a separate section that you have to go to search through and explore. The isolation and 'othering' begins, and will not stop unless protested strongly enough by users, perhaps at the level that would have stopped internet censorship in its tracks, had it been tackled when Google first started censoring Youtube videos by demonetization.
What is the point of running ads if the people intended to see them aren't there anymore, having gone elsewhere due to censorship having been initiated by corporate demand - thereby losing itself the customers they hoped to manipulate and dumb down with uninterrupted propaganda? Their leverage depended upon the sheep submitting to being herded as well as fleeced, and having driven away the sheep, they've lost their peeps - and any hope of sales.
Advertising is kinda like the ticks going to where the sheep hang out to climb on and start sucking their blood - it only works if the sheep keep coming to feed the ticks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E13lh2khU6M
Horribly tired and can only hope that this makes sense, lol. That'd make a nice change if it did.
Edited to add forgotten block-quotes and two letter-typos. Going to try to sleep lying down, lol. And again for a missed letter... they sure do stand out while you're waiting for something to post...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
The problem with getting people to boycott twitter or any other
website that starts censoring websites is that they started to a Russian website first. Too many people have bought the propaganda that Russia interfered with the election which caused Hillary the election. These types of people are going to cheer this action and not see it for the slippery slope it is.
This same thing happened when the TSA was created after 9/11. Whether it was a real attack or not, the government played on people's fears about being on a plane that will crash into buildings. Then they kept increasing their restrictions on what people can take on planes. Next they made people take their shoes off and......
Next thing you know is that people now have to go through security for ballgames, concerts and other public gatherings. But I'm sure you noticed that people who go to operas and other events that rich people attend don't have to play this game. This is only for the rubes who bought the propaganda.
Then we found out that the government was spying on everyone without a warrant or no probable cause. And again, instead of people being upset about this, they gave them their permission to do it by saying that they had nothing to hide. Look where we are now with all our freedoms nullified without a whimper.
Over 800 private companies are now taking our money to spy on us. Apparently our government isn't sufficient to do this themselves. Billions that should be spent on this country are being transferred to private companies and again without our consent. Then when Snowden went public about this, instead of people being outraged at our government, they were outraged at him for telling us what they were doing. Figure this out.
What should have happened when the TSA was first created was that people should have boycotted flying until their freedoms were restored.
People should have boycotted every event that they had to go through security for.
Our government has been invading countries on the false pretenses that they were doing it to keep us safe. If they didn't do a full scale invasion, they illegally sent drones into countries again on false pretenses and started murdering innocent civilians.
Obama's invasion of Libya on false pretenses destroyed a country that had been its ally on the bogus war of terror. This act has made the world much more dangerous because Gaddafi's weapons are being found in countless countries and in the hands of terrorists groups.
This article explains this better than I can.
How the West’s war on Libya aided these Islamists.
So even though I agree with you that people should boycott twitter, I don't see it happening.
Good idea though.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Thanks! “Spiked-online.com” looks like a great website!
I see articles pointing out that both sides’ narratives, Trump’s and the Hillary-loyal Democrats’, are lies (as is the Western-E.U.-NATO, U.S. exceptionalist narrative in general).
Looks as if it’s right up our c99 alley.
Jimmy Dore has the right to gloat!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Great. As if I had any free time left....
Seriously though, looks funny and I will have to check it out.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
What election meddling?
What election meddling? Telling the truth is now election meddling? Reporting facts rather than mere suppositions and lies is now election meddling? Real Journalism is now election meddling? Are we all Russian agents now when we expose the lies and propaganda being spread in mainstream, major media outlets (e.g., NY TImes, Washington Post, Fox News, MsNBC, CNN, to name but a few) every damn day?
In order:
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
And also, campaigning against a candidate the establishment wants is "election meddling."
In fact, anything that affects the outcome of an election could be called "election meddling;" what they're really saying is that no one except those backed by establishment power have the right to influence an election outcome.
The only thing they're saying that's untrue is that we are all Russian agents, which is typical nonsense endemic to those who follow in the footsteps of Joe McCarthy.
However, the fact is that "election meddling" could also be called "a free and open democracy." In other words, it's the business of the people to engage in "election meddling." It's also the business of the press to do so, but only in the context of pursuing their primary function: telling the truth. If telling the truth "meddles" in an election outcome, the press can't be concerned with that. They are supposed to do their job and tell the truth regardless of the outcome, unless the outcome would specifically and immediately result in a threat to people's lives. So if a given truth is inconvenient to a politician's electoral campaign, it's the press' duty to "meddle" in that election because it is their duty to tell the truth.
It is not, however, the duty of the press to meddle in an election by giving one candidate massive amounts of coverage and other candidates none. Or to meddle in an election by engaging in character assassination or lies.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
The money quote
."
Apparently our overlords are handing out special permission slips to exercise our freedom of democracy. As they define it.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Well, in fairness to Our Overlords
…no one knows better they they how easily Americans can be bamboozled. RussiaGate took the cake. Now that they know how truly guileless Americans are, they don't want Russia getting a piece of the action.
Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
@Anja Geitz Count Olaf: "Do you
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Exactly
We might as well go back to castles with moats. At least back then you only had the Black Plague and starvation to worry about.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
@Anja Geitz
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal For some reason
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Well, yes there's that too, lol :)
Reminds me of something one of my history professors said about living in New York City in the 19th century.
Each horse. A day. Oh, how lovely that must've smelled in the summer.
Of course, if we went back further, there were some palpable benefits to being wealthy, aromas aside. They definitely ate better. I don't know how many of us are aware of how bland your food would've been if you didn't have the gold to purchase ships and a crew to go get salt, sugar, and other spices to season your food. Personally I like a dash of cinnamon in my morning gruel.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
@Anja Geitz
As we know, it was they who have always hated humanity for our freedom from their absolute control and unrestrained abuses; they always accuse others of what they do themselves.
Psychopathic personalities have to be kept out of positions where they can exert power over others to their detriment; the defining qualities of psychopaths in lacking empathy, ethics and their accompanying inability to recognize the intrinsic value of human lives and happiness or to see beyond their own egos and the achievement of their desires at whatever cost to others is an absolute disqualification for any public office or other position where they can inflict harm upon others, whether intentionally or 'expediently' in pursuit of their goals.
There needs to be independent testing, with oversight, using publicly live-streamed brain scans conducted during empathy testing and remaining accessible on the public record during any run for public office and during the time of holding any such office, to determine whether human capacities of empathy are engaging and registering at reasonable and reasoning human levels prior to any run for public office.
We do not allow vehicles to be run on the public roads when the systems already glitch out of control to create a public hazard and it's commonsense to ensure that they are inspected and verified as being stable and capable of running properly and safely before sale, and where this has been neglected, the unsafe vehicles are recalled. (Not re-issued as 'legal' public hazards under false pretenses, especially not with no reasonable option actually permitted the public, suspicious test results or with blatant test cheating.)
We cannot any longer allow politicians in public office who have not been safety-checked as having the associated human qualities of empathy, ethics and a conscience because we have seen and are seeing what the results can be, and that they include far worse than routine criminal behaviour they 'normalize', enabling such as their massive personal theft and despoiling of public property, programs and resources, of public and environmental health, (resulting in premature human death and the extinction of species forming the interdependent global life support system,) ultimately destroying economies, social structure and the very concept of democracy, encompassing the destruction of individual lives, ecosystems and planetary life altogether.
We cannot afford to continue allow those most ruthless - the psychopathic - to drain and poison the rest of us, to use their often-stolen wealth in clawing their way into power where they can do so more freely to destroy all we hold most dear and most require for a decent life, all that is most necessary, all that we are and could be, because they are psychopaths and hold normal humans and all human survival capacities of compassion, caring and integrity in contempt.
Because they are psychopaths and take what they want from those they see as a world of prey animals who should have nothing because they feel that all rights, all property and wealth, should be theirs alone.
This issue is too important to humanity and too desperately essential to human survival not to prevent such hazards inherent in anyone lacking the capacity for the essential qualities of humanity from gaining the ability to exert their agendas over others or over policy of any kind.
Psychopathic personalities and those conditioned to the ongoing 'normalization' of pathology within various societies will, of course, object to the very idea of this protection for all of humanity and of life on the planet, which they see as the rightful prey of those ruthless enough to gain power over them, but it is evident that allowing them to do so is not survivable by anyone.
If we know that scorpions will sting those carrying it anywhere, even if this causes their own deaths, we have to identify them and stop letting them swarm up onto our backs.
This is not a war between political ideologies, but a war of the psychopathic against the world. Best defense is: 'no (let them) be there' anymore.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
We certainly do have a very
Strange system.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
*Startles the neighbours with an abrupt burst of prolonged applause*
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@Ellen North Thank you; thank you; I
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Does this part sound familiar to anyone?
Link.
This is what that clown did to Facebook. After Facebook repeatedly failed to offer up any dirty Reds for the Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner flew out to Silicon Valley to
make direct threatsmeet with their executives. Suddenly, Facebook "found" about 3000 ads. The message couldn't be more clear. Toe the neocon line, or you'll get called before HUAC 2.0.But the internet, of course, is international. Someone in Hong Kong can log on and talk directly with someone in Mexico City. Ideas flow freely across borders to the point that online, there are no borders. The irony is that just about everyone considered this a good thing until November 8th, 2016, when Her Heinous lost an election that was supposed to be a shoe-in. Now the internet's greatest strength is being turned against it. And they won't stop with algorithms--I think things will get a lot more blatant. Before long, expect that when you do a Google search, you will see a little checkmark next to any site that has been officially approved as being "propaganda free." And all "serious journalists" will be expected only to link to those approved sites. That day is coming, and we'll have the likes of putrid capitalist tools like Mark Warner to thank for it.
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." --Noam Chomsky
Along with Shillary, Bill, Barack
Boycott ALL social media, I say. I know, a useful tool up until now, but just how useful will any of those tools be in the future? I am so glad I have never set up one account on any of those sites.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
@lizzyh7
I couldn't agree more! Why actively support those acting/being used against you, to encourage more and worse? why do we keep doing that?!
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@movie buff That's one disgusting
I'd rather have John Warner, even though he was a Republican.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
We're already entering an era of Soviet journalism in the US
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
This is all being done in revenge for
the Clinton Creature’s loss. The place should just rename itself ‘Twatter’ and use her a picture of her face in it’s masthead.
Her corporate media-owning buddies are mad that they spent all that money and gave her all that support and she still blew it. Now they’re going to attempt to make certain we never get anymore uppity ideas in our heads, like thinking that our vote is ours or that we have a right to the truth and a different way of seeing things.
I do believe we are at war with our ‘betters’. They are blockading our access to the truth.
EDIT: usually auto fill gets’Creature’ right. Not today.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Do you hear that sound?
@WaterLily Have a great time in NZ
BTW are the Eagles in your name the Philadelphia Eagles? If so, I was once a fan as well.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Thanks, CSTMS!
@WaterLily God, do I know what
We've mostly fled to the British Premier League.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
If Twitter really cared
they might think about banning international threats of violence. I understand they do ban threats of violence from individuals. When Trump or any other insane world leader who plays dangerous brinkmanship games that could initiate nuclear war, they are not banned. I think they should be.
To thine own self be true.
Not to mention
ISIS. Have they banned ISIS yet from advocating and videoing beheading?
Money & fear says they'd never ban Trump
Half the US Twitter accounts would leave. It'll never happen. Plus, can you imagine the threats the nut bags would make against Twitter? Hell, Trump wouldn't have to break the law to retaliate - a nutter would blow up HQ within a week.
@Deja It's not just that.
Ironic, since they didn't want him to win, but all it's really done is make them extend the campaign indefinitely.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Exactly ! I thought about Trump as well.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
@divineorder
Comment from posted Twitter link on their censorship of Russian news ads:
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/923558409865170944
Damn, I don't do Twitter and they lack room there anyway, so my rant is landing here.
If the US PTB don't want to allow actual on-the-ground war reporting which Americans can see on war crimes routinely committed at the orders of TPTB, just target and kill off the reporters - and lock up the whistleblowers.
Now, THAT's censorship! at home and abroad. Just have to block the reporting from other countries - spreading to that at home - that reveals what's actually going on...
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-facing-court-challenges-killer-dron...
And the agenda continues, under the same grasping hands, irrespective of which wing of the Corporate Party technically heads the mess.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/31/journalists-sue-trump-over-...
Yet they'll claim that they don't deliberately target those letting the American public know what they're up to...
https://www.rt.com/usa/361459-secretary-clinton-drone-assange/
This is from 2000, making it plain that brutal police suppression of protesters is not to be reported - or else.
https://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news/reporters-arrested-...
You report, we deride. And much, much more.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/st-louis-protests-journ...
(must-see, very short video, including multiple police officers in riot gear wandering around, pepper-spraying prone protesters as though spraying roses for fungus...)
http://www.firstpost.com/world/us-journalists-covering-protests-against-...
Can anyone explain to me how the authoritarian Putin is worse and how repressing the news reporting of other countries which counters US PTB propaganda makes for 'a better deal' for Americans?
Well, anyone here could...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@MarilynW
Isn't ISIS one of a sort of part-time public/private partnership between the US PTB and the terrorists?
When Bush-2 said they wouldn't negotiate with terrorists, I expect that he meant that they simply got whatever training and arms they demanded in order to weaken the world for that delayed fascist global takeover which components of the last several administrations still seem to be remarkably actively involved in, as with Dick Cheney 'advising' the Trump Admin and mentoring his acolyte Vice President Pence, next in line for the Porcelain Throne there's so much talk of levering Trump off of, to give someone more reliably Old Boys Gunners Club a chance to shit freely on the population.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Interesting
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Is Twitter
going to ban Trump? He thinks the Russia meme is a hoax. Is he tweeting fake news? If Twitter and Facebook ban everything that disagrees with the Democratic leadership about Russia, does that mean we'll all read Trump's tweets for our news, or will Trump be banned?
But he’s good for ratings!
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
These media outlets will be increasingly
restricted, and eventually banned outright. We'll ban the press in the name of freedom.
What's funny here is that as usual, they won't be banned for falsehoods, they'll be banned for telling the truth.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Right to lie, NO right to the truth—that’s precedent in U.S. law
http://projectcensored.org/11-the-media-can-legally-lie/
Indeed, there is no remedy
to mitigate the wrenching twist in the American brain once it is exposed via the media to such lies.
There once was an effective remedy, but we revoked the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, after the Deep State took their permanent positions in government under the addled Ronald Reagan.
Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
What about “Correct the Record?”
Or does the fact that Her lost negate their influence on the election.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
@Dr. John Carpenter There is no equality of
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
And I will forever remember
... that it is the Democratic party that is leading this [latest] assault on civil liberties.
It astonishes me that they are all so short-sighted or just plain authoritarian that they can get behind this.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
The end goal of any McCarthyism is censorship of dissent.
Looks like a two level campaign. First is financial like demonetizing content on youtube and denying revenue sources. In maybe one of the most extreme forms was against Wikileaks where credit card companies refused to process volunteer donations.
The second is informational by denying access to major media outlets. It will also go to hosting services denying users and organizations access to the general internet. Also, blanking out alternative media and dissenters in searches. I swear it is harder to find Secular Talk on youtube.
One of tactics seems be the development of "informational gatekeepers". Basically methods to black list when outright denial of access to the internet does not work.
But regardless, the proverbial full court press is on. So-called liberals and progressives who support this shit will see it come back on them.
@MrWebster I really think we need
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I Have Been Thinking That Someone Needs to Assemble the
progressive press. Like a variety show of Leftist News, preferably podcasts and video.
Local talent and local chapters, there are many of us. A good curated collection of video and podcasts could be of interest to people seeking non-corporate information.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
@k9disc I like this idea.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Me Too. I've Fleshed It Out in Several Different Genres.
I like the idea of a variety show type thing... local/regional chapters and then a curated main portal.
I pitched it on dKos back in the day, never understood why there were not RSS feeds all over the Progressive Blogosphere... until Obama won, and then I realized that it was not a progressive effort, but a profit based one.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
I guess this will force us all
To better maneuver around government censorship on the Internet like the Chinese people do. And then in our free time we can ridicule Americans who delude themselves into thinking that our government is any better.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
A couple of links that glide into the topic
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171023/18275838465/doj-subpoenas-twi...
https://www.newsbud.com/2017/10/11/newsbud-exclusive-cfr-article-calls-f...
Meanwhile the prosecution of protestors is only beginning.
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/25/trump-inauguration-protest-j20-trial/
https://shadowproof.com/2017/10/24/us-lawmakers-urge-attorney-general-lo...
EDIT: added link
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/26/cowardly-new-world-alternative-m...
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Election meddling is not something we want on twitter.
Then ban the state department, CIA, and NSA from your platform as well.
Solidarity forever
@Akze
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver